Chapter 523 Relocation Effort

Chapter 523 Relocation Effort

In a nice, medium-sized family home, a single dragon man was preparing to go to work first thing in the morning.

He patted down his pockets to search for his keys, and frowned when he couldn't find them.

"Damn it... why do I even bother locking up the restaurant anyway..? Now I'm going to be late..."

He scoured his kitchen table for the keys to his shop, and frowned when he found two unfamiliar pieces of parchment sitting there instead.

With only a single glance, he was able to confirm that these were official documents from the royal family.

Just before he had a chance to start reading, the phone inside of his pocket began to vibrate.

Pulling it out, he saw that it was his adult daughter calling and he answered without a second thought.

"Dad! Do you have some papers on your desk from the emperor too??!"

"Gubba!"

"Ah, Jae-woo says hi." The man's daughter held up a hatchling dragon with bright yellow scales and tiny wings.

He appeared to be only a few days old, as the baby teeth in his muzzle were still the size of pennies.

The old man chuckled as he held up the notice. "Hello, you two. Yes, I just found them. What's all this abo-"

"Read it, read it!!"

"Rara!!"

Finally, the old man chuckled as he began looking over the letter, which seemed to have been written by their god himself.

Not two seconds after reading, he felt his brow lift up on its own.

One document was labeled 'Relocation Consent Form.'

The other said 'Genetic Alteration Consent Form.'

"Oh..? Isn't this interesting..."

The first form basically asked if he was satisfied with his current abode, or if he would like to move to the new world where the emperor himself would be spending the rest of his days.

According to the Uma-Sarru, his fourth wife had done her best to improve upon every architectural aspect of their current lives and was waiting for them to see.

The old man wasn't really sure how that would be possible, but he trusted goddess Valerie nonetheless.

The second form was something he didn't quite understand.

It asked if he consented to be changed into something called an 'Abyss Dragon'.

The paper explained that he would have the opportunity to have a very old and eldritch power fused into his DNA, but it listed stipulations as well.

The man was a bit older, so he didn't understand all of that writing about alternate reality restrictions and stuff like that, so he didn't spend too much time looking over it.Updated from novelb(i)n.c(o)m

"I'm gonna sign it."

"Me too! Think we'll be neighbors?"

"It'd sure be nice... that is if you were-"

"I'm not getting a divorce, dad!"

"Then no, I do not wish to be neighbors."

"Philip and Marco are good men!"

"Uh-huh."

"God, it's been five years, stop being like this!"

Ignoring his daughter, the old man grabbed a pen from the counter and sighed his name on the DNA consent form.

Not a second after he signed it, two vials appeared in place of the paper.

The first vial contained a colorless, odorless, and tasteless liquid.

The king's own poison.

lightsΝοvεl ƈοm The second vial contained a thicker, golden liquid with an oddly pleasant smell.

The king's own blood.

"Eh..? Which do I drink first?" He wondered as he scratched his cheek.

"Mmph?"

Once the old man saw that his daughter had downed the venom, then the blood in quick succession like she was taking shots of alcohol.

'I knew I shouldn't have let her hang around those loose party girls when she was young...'

Leaving his regrets aside, the man followed his daughter's example to the letter.

A total of two seconds went by before both of them collapsed in unison; their metamorphosis already underway.

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The father and daughter woke up at around the same time, still on the phone with each other.

They didn't yet realize it, but their auras had literally exploded in their sleep and blew giant holes in the roof of their homes.

"Ugh..."

"I feel all tingly..."

At this, Abaddon and Eris smiled proudly.

"What you breathe in is the miasma produced by the trees, and the aether and nether I circulate throughout the realm. Dangerous to outsiders, but to those with my blood, it's just a refreshing chilly wind."

"Father-in-law helped me use my divinity to recreate the tree that once loomed over our home." Eris explained. "Besides a bit of nostalgia.. I hope that they will strengthen this place, and all of the lives within it."

The group nodded in awe and understanding, while Mira suddenly started to spin her head around rapidly.

Her eyes settled on a building that seemed taller than most and stood a few kilometers away.

It was particularly bright and shiny.

"Is that our new home?? It has to be, right!?"

"Nope, that's an entertainment studio, sweet pea." Lailah said as she patted her hair. "The industry has been booming since Queresha made her debut."

Unanimously, Belloc and Stheno blushed and tried to look away from everyone.

"Awh! Then where is our house? I wanna see it!" Mira said excitedly.

"Alright, alright. But it's a little ways away though. In a corner of the world that is all our own."

Lailah pointed off into the far distance, where there was a forest with trees so large that they could have easily been mistaken for buildings.

"...I will race you all there."Abaddon murmured.

Immediately, it was like a bolt of lightning shot through the air.

Abaddon's children, in-laws, and even his pets stared at him with an unbelievable fire in their eyes.

Apophis: "You don't want this work for real."

Hajun: "You think because I'm old, I'm slow? I got something for you, bitch boy. "

Thea: "Loser makes dinner!"

Lusamine: "AND does dishes with no powers!"

All : "AND NO INSTANT MOVEMENT, ABADDON!"

"Tch.."

In an instant, the sky was filled with large dragons of several different colors.

Of course, Abaddon was the largest of them, even though he had chosen to remain in his one headed form for greater speed and mobility.

A countdown was held by Yara and Imani, who were entirely uninterested in this silly game.

As soon as they reached the count of three, the group took off like bullets towards the forest in the distance.

But as they were flying, Abaddon felt Valerie rub the scales on his back as she lay on her stomach.

'You don't have to pretend, you know..? The others may not be able to tell when you are forcing yourself to be normal, but we certainly can.'

As he stole the lead right out from underneath Asmodeus' nose, his eyes suddenly became a lot sadder.

'...It hurts.' he admitted. 'After everything we have tried to do, and after all of the love we have given to her, why would she ever think that we would take that away? Dream or otherwise.'

Valerie wracked her brain for the words needed to make her husband understand.

'Honey, I love you, but you are taking this far too personally. You are forgetting how we found Thea in the first place, the condition she was in.

She lost her mother before she ever knew her, and her father was an abysmal shell of himself because of it. Then a few years later, the first woman she ever loved left her too.

Can you understand why she fears losing us now?

Trauma like that... takes time and patience to get over and an abundance of it.

You know that she is your daughter, and she knows that as well. Just continue to love her as you have been, and be there for her at every turn, big or small, comfortable or uncomfortable.

Eventually, she will no longer remember what she was afraid of, but she will know that she has a family that will never abandon her. There is no greater remedy for her heart than that, my love.'

Abaddon listened to every word.

The musical sound of Valerie's voice in his brain comforted him, but also held up a mirror.

He felt like he had been so self-centered.

He took Thea's fears as a negative commentary on his parenting, and as such allowed it to bruise his ego.

Typically he was above such things, but his children... his wives... he loved them so much that he wanted to be perfect for them.

And in the moments where he inevitably faltered, he sometimes didn't know how to handle it.

But perhaps... this was also because he felt threatened by the mention of Thea's birth mother.

The one who was supposedly long dead.

It brought up no small amount of questions that he felt only one person could answer.

'Valerie, my love... I think I am going to go on a trip once we get our family settled. Will you accompany me?'

'O-Oh, I don't mind it, but..'

'We're going to have sex first.'

'Then hell yea, let's go!'

Abaddon found himself laughing out loud like roaring thunder as he closed in on first place.

Though he admittedly started this day while faking, his current smile was anything but a facade.