CH 485

“Kuoon ……”

“You’re able to transform properly now, Sarge!”

Sarge takes a breather while stroking Ash, and laughs while showing his teeth and claws to Aina who is approaching.

The emerald green hair of Sarge looked just like the royal dragon, giving the impression that they were father and son.

In the meantime, Tigre, battered and bruised from repeated battles, slumped down and opened his mouth.

“Well then, we’ve achieved our goal, let’s go back. It’s already ten days, so it isn’t strange if there’s any movement aboveground, let’s hurry up.”

Sarge’s face turns red and he pulls away, pulling Aina’s hand to go back to the dungeon, but the royal dragon stops him there.

“What’s wrong?”

“We’ll be back again, you know?”

“I wonder if we will …… Oh, Dragon Cat, come here.”

In response to the children’s innocent words, Jack scratched his head and muttered, and a white cat with dragon wings flew towards him.

Jack’s dragon cat had its body parts, which had been chipped off during this period, made more like a cat’s, and in the end, only the wings, fangs, and claws remained of the dragon, and its appearance has completely changed into a cat.

Miraculously, the Royal Dragon’s skill is called “Recreate”, which can be processed just by touching an object, so Jack collaborated with him to make it happen.

“It’s good you’re able to become small, Dra-chan.”

“Thank you, Sarge Papa!”

Seeing Tilia bow down with a smile, the royal dragon laughs with a troubled face and changes the subject to continue the conversation.

Sarge’s voice sounded dumb at the suddenness of it.

When Sarge’s head turns white at the sudden mention of death, Aina opens her mouth with concern. 

“Are you going to die ……? Even though we finally get to be friends ……”

“You can’t do anything about it? I’m not so cold that I can just say “yes” to someone who I owe a favor and go home.”

“Okay, I’ll be back with Tilia-chan and Trim-kun this time!”

“You can’t do that, Sarge, you have to listen to your father properly! I think it would be fine if we just ask Lars-niichan to make a transfer magic circle here?”

Aina told him to do so, and he made a difficult face with his mouth agape, but he couldn’t not listen to his father’s request, so he reluctantly nodded.

“Hmm, just a little lick is okay?”

“Ugh …… that looks like it hurts ……”

After cutting his thumb with his fingernail and making sure they both licked up the blood, the Royal Dragon snapped his fingers. He said that the high ceiling would open and they could exit through it.

“D-Don’t cry. All right, I’ll be back!”

“All of a sudden!? H-Hmmm, I think Lars is supposed to do this kind of thing ……”

“It’s okay, the women like you. She’s beautiful too, after all.”

“I didn’t say that I want you!? Verna will be angry with me …… No, she’ll definitely kill me!”

When Tigre was yelling at the Aquadragon, Jack, who had his hand on his chin and was thinking, answered the Aquadragon with a clap.

“Okay, how about Sharuru?”

“Y-Yeah, I’ll see you later. Sarge, let’s go!”

“See you later!”

As Sarge flew away with everyone on his hands, the humanized dragons below him waved him off.

“Now, I wonder if Verna and the others are okay ……”

“Fath-san and Makina is there, and Roza, the Burn Dragon will protect them.”

“You’re right.”

“Speaking of wondering, I’m wondering about Aquadragon and Jack too!”

“Oh, come on. Well, she’s beautiful. When she was a dragon, she was bigger than everyone else, though ……”

“Jack’s got a girlfriend!”

“She does have a tail, though ……”

“……”

–They flew into the open sky, talking about their training.

Tigre and Jack were working on optimizing their fighting techniques and developing special moves. Jack, in particular, had been away from fighting for some time and was working hard with the Aquadragon to regain his instincts.

And Sarge was now able to use [Skill], and he also gained powers related to fighting, such as humanization and breath types.

And there was Sephiro, looking at them with a stern face.

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When the Aquadragon asks anxiously, the royal dragon replies with a smile on his face.

The Royal Dragon was about to say something, but stopped himself by shaking his head, and looked up at the sky where Sarge and the others had ascended and smiled once more.