Chapter 507.1

Chapter 507.1

Side Story: A Close Couple

“Hehehe, Onii-san! I’m home!”

“Hey!”

Nell jumped into my arms and hugged me tightly.

“Mmm, Onii-san’s smell! Hehehe, I’m so happy!”

She rubbed her head against my chest, and I smiled as I stroked Nell’s head, which made her cheeks loose.

“Welcome back. You are usually so gallant and brave. But the way you currently act, you seem even younger than Illuna and the others.”

“My work time is over. I’m not a hero right now!”

“Oh, then, what are you now?” Fiind updated novels on no/v/elbin(.)co/m

“Of course, I’m your wife!”

Nell said with a bit of embarrassment.

Nell was really cute.

Nell could now come home more often than before. However, there were still days when she could not come home for a long time because she had to work somewhere.

And since the time she could spend at home was short, I let her do whatever she wanted when she came home like this.

This time, too, she had been on a military expedition and had not been back for about a week, so I guess she was happier than usual on her return.

Among my family members, Nell was especially good at spoiling me, or rather, she was honest with herself and indulged me.

She was relatively honest about what she wanted me to do, which made it easier for me to accommodate her.

“Oh, so it’s only for neighbors?”

“Yup!”

“I see. I think it’s a cute dream, but unfortunately our nearest neighbors live over the mountains.”

And they were dragons.

As long as our home base was in Demon Forest, surely we wouldn’t have neighbors that would show up even if it were a hundred years from now.

Nell said excitedly, “Okay, let’s go see them sometime and do that, Onii-san!”

“No, thanks. They’ll probably just smile bitterly and say hello to you, too.”

“True, I’m sure they’ll look at us like, ‘What’s the big deal all of a sudden?’ They are dragon people, right?”

Yes, they were.

Although they belonged to the dragon race, I saw them in the Demon Forest a few times a year, and I greeted them with a light wave of my hand.

Even if they had been living deep in the forest, they could sense our presence right away and would notice our approach.

Depending on the dragon, they may come close to us and chat with us, and I think we might be able to build a good relationship with them.

My name should have been known to most of the dragons living in the Demon Forest by now. I wondered if it was because I was Lefi’s husband, but they were all very warm and friendly to me.

What would be a good present when I visit them... Well, maybe some good liquor would do. I should prepare it by the kegs.

Now that I have connections, I should be able to have it prepared easily, you know?

Well, for the dragons, even if we had not seen each other in years, it would only feel like a little from their perspective, so thinking of them as proper neighbors might not be that bad.

After exchanging jokes, I listened to Nell’s stories about such-and-such, and I told her about my daily happenings.

But my day-to-day life was pretty uneventful, so I didn’t have much to tell her.

As for the latest topics... Oh, right, there was one big one.