Chapter 532 – Side Story – Passing the Wedding Invitation (11)

Arrived at the Jarnshad territory as if running away.

As soon as Rokhan saw us, she must have already heard the legend of Dragon Rider Fei Fei from the capital, and she sighed with a resigned expression on her face.

“… Start preparing for retirement starting today. “Take care of the rest.”

“Oh, no! My father has to work for a long time instead of me… !”

“…”

Lorcan, perhaps moved by Fei’s fire attribute and filial piety, didn’t say anything and just closed his eyes tightly and raised his head.

I knew that the two reconciled and did something similar. But this is the first time I’ve known that we’ve become this close.

The last time I saw him, he looked pretty dazed.

As I was quietly looking at Fei, he scratched the back of his head with a slightly embarrassed smile.

“Lol… First of all, you risked your life for me and my junior. And we communicated often.”

“I didn’t say anything. “If Senior Fei is good, I am good too.”

In the first place, she knew that Faye’s intentional disregard and neglect of her was to save herself, so instead of resenting her, didn’t she just wish she could be a stranger?

Afterwards, Rokhan created a giant golem at his request and burned her life.

Fay asked for her help, even though she knew the weakened Rokhan would be in danger, and Rokhan agreed, even though she knew she would die.

In fact, if the clashing steel hadn’t intervened, Rokhan wouldn’t have been of this world by now.

Although the father and daughter were twisted from the beginning, does it mean that it is possible to break things off once and build them up again from the beginning?

You may not be able to have a family like others, but there is still no need to be enemies. It will be possible to somehow maintain loyalty and live.

This form isn’t bad either.

There is a sense of distance between them as father and daughter, and she nods her head inwardly at the sight of the two being so close to each other that they are strangers.

Rokhan, who could no longer hold the hammer but was completely healed, straightened his back and continued speaking.

“So? What brought you here this time? If she had defeated a noble ruler, she would have already congratulated her with a crystal ball… I wonder if he really wants to inherit the Jarnshad territory… !”

“Oh, that’s not it.”

“… Tsk.”

Rokhan clicks his tongue at the sword-like Fei’s answer.

I understand. Lorcan lost both his wife and son due to a previous betrayal. She knew that Fay was her only blood relative, so she wanted to pass on her successor to Fay, but…

Actually, Fei wasn’t very reluctant. Of course, she didn’t say no, but it felt like she was withholding?

For now, I will accept the position of successor, but since I have a more important task to do right now, which is to subdue evil spirits, the successor class will be self-study.

Now that the evil spirit is over, we will have to decide on pay. Will he succeed Rokhan and become Jarl of Jarnshad, or will he give up and hand over his rights to someone else?

Because Fei was still hesitating, Rokhan was also waiting quietly, but if he made up his mind, Rokhan would make his move right now.

Whether it was introducing Fei to her vassals or finding a useful person among her collaterals to adopt.

Fae smiled at the disappointed Lorcan and opened her mouth.

“There is good news though… !”

“What’s wrong with that?”

An eager expression. Fay took out her wedding invitation to Lorcan, who did not hide his expectations.

“I don’t know if I will be the next Jarl… “Wouldn’t the more candidates there be, the better?”

“Invitation… Candidate… Lots of grandchildren…”

For a moment, Lorcan’s eyes widened in a daze. As a dwarf, he has a blunt and stubborn face by default, but at this moment, he looks like he is dreaming.

“Keuhum!”

He quickly came to his senses and calmed down his expression, but no one here would have noticed the change in Rokhan.

Fei crossed my arms with a sinister expression.

It wasn’t the aggressive posture of putting my arms between my chest like usual, but the normal leaning posture.

“Are you going to attend, Dad?”

“Of course! Of course it’s a palanquin. The future of the Jarnshad territory depends on it, and marriage is not only a union of individuals, but also a union of families…”

Faye’s smile deepens at the sight of her speaking gibberish, which is uncharacteristic of her. What on earth are you aiming for? ?

“All right, is it really okay for me to go?”

“As long as you bring a gift, you can!”

“… Senior Fei?”

Are you telling Lorcan that if she wants to attend her wedding, she should bring a nice gift?

The moment I tried to stop Fei because I thought it was a bit too much. Lorcan nodded her head faster than I could poke her shoulder.

“It is a gift. Okay. Anyway, I am a blood relative of the Jarnshad family, so I can’t prepare something half-baked. “I can no longer swing a hammer, but that doesn’t mean the things I made in the past have disappeared, so don’t worry about that.”

“Uh, um… Rokan Jarl? Is it okay if I don’t have a gift or something? So don’t be too burdened…”

“Stop saying such miserable things! It’s the wedding of a hero who saved the continent like no other! “If you send someone to such an event empty-handed, everyone will laugh at the Jarnshad family!”

Rokan gets upset and begins to worry about what gift he should give so that he will be known as a good gift.

Fay laughs at that and raises a peace sign towards me.

It’s absurd, but Rokan is satisfied, Fei is satisfied, and I get to receive a gift, so isn’t it a win-win for everyone?

He smiled and patted the back of her fae’s nose and opened her mouth.

“Then Rokhan Jarl. “I gave you a wedding invitation, so let’s go.”

“Hmm? Are you going already? “I don’t mind staying longer.”

“I have work to do. … And if you think about the future, you will feel more comfortable without us.”

“Later… ? Ah.”

Only then did Rokhan realize what we had done in the capital. His face darkened rapidly.

“How should I resolve this…” .”

“First of all, have you prepared a wedding invitation to the King? “Please speak carefully while taking this out.”

“… “If you had intended to invite Your Highness, why did you make such a fuss?”

“Dragon’s instinct. “Would you believe me if I said this?”

“Really?”

“Really.”

It was only possible to tolerate it, but I didn’t know it when I was still human. But after becoming a real dragon, I understood.

When you find a cool place that is high, sharp, and looks like it has something to it, you want to climb it.

There is a reason why dragons are depicted sitting on top of a cliff or on a tall castle on a fictional day and looking at the ground in stories and paintings that still exist.

When I explained this, Lorcan, who thought it was a joke at first and laughed out loud, became slightly more serious.

“Then the current dwarven-style building is probably designed to stimulate dragons.”

“It seemed like that.”

In the past, steep spires or sharp decorations were often installed to prevent dragon attacks.

This continued even today, when dragon attacks have almost disappeared. It has become a style and culture.

I don’t know if that actually stimulates the dragon…

“Thank you for letting me know. In the past and now, most dragons think of dwarves as slaves or piggy banks, so there was no way to know about this situation.”

“Well, I told you this for a reason.”

“Hmm? Why? “But what on earth is it?”

“You may have heard the news, but… “There are five more dragons besides me.”

“Ah, you mean the people who helped at Lindelheit Territory?”

“Yes. When it got to the Black Iron Castle, it was difficult for me to control my instincts, but those young ones will also react to other dwarven castles.”

For reference, the architectural design of the Imperial Capital of the Levantine Empire was outsourced to dwarves. That’s why my instincts were slightly affected.

“I roughly understand. “Are you asking me not to misunderstand that if another dragon lands later, it’s an attack?”

“That’s right. “If you say my name, he will calm down again, so I hope we can resolve it through conversation then.”

Although I am taking care of them as their godfather now, they won’t be mites forever.

Ultimately, at some point, you have to let it stand on its own.

I may not be able to save the rares and fill them with some content, but at least I should make sure they don’t get treated like evil dragons due to unnecessary misunderstandings.

Rokan nodded at my words with a serious expression.

“I understand. “I will tell the current story properly so that all the dwarves in Nidavalir will know.”

“Yes, I would appreciate it if you could.”

It is difficult to erase the fear that is imprinted in our genes. But if we understand each other’s habits, wouldn’t we be able to get a little closer?

The dragons of the past wouldn’t have even thought of that. Because they were arrogant and deserved it.

But what is the result? It is the annihilation of a species.

No one tried to understand dragons, and dragons also did not try to understand other races.

Their noblesse oblige was noble, but it was one-sided and no one recognized it.

The dragons, unable to blend in anywhere, wandered around the alliance and went about among themselves… As a result, they were destroyed one by one by the evil spirits’ concentrated fire.

The hatchlings at the academy are children who have lived in caves without learning anything about dragon culture or ways of thinking.

This means that they do not receive the heritage of a race from the distant past, but it also means that they can make better choices than their ancestors.

At least I believe so.

Someday, there may be another alien invasion, or even if not, the world will develop and a world completely different from the present will come.

A world where technology and knowledge have developed as much as the power of superhumans.

As was the case in the world of evil gods, we live in an era where even gods are viewed as oppressors rather than leaders of mankind and are subjugated. Is there anything different about dragons?

I hope that dragons will not be an ordeal to overcome as rulers of the old world, but will be companions that we all live together with, no different from other races.

… It may be a very distant future, but we should do what we can little by little from now on.

With that promise, I exchanged greetings with Rokan again.

“Anyway, I’m really going to go now.”

“Hmm. Sure. Seeing that they are in such a hurry, there must be something urgent going on. “It would be rude to hold him back.”

“Ahaha. “That’s roughly it.”

I smiled awkwardly at Rokhan and prepared to teleport from the open space of Jarnshad Manor.

The destination is the Academy.

It’s time to go crazy.