A human with a face that falls within Seta’s aesthetic range was looking for Seta.
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Seta sensed it and tried to find the human, so he had no choice but to step his feet in the mountains.
Sure enough, he can only sense it. Still, it’s hard to pinpoint a person in this huge world! At first, he didn’t even know it was Olivia who was looking for him.
‘A human close to the human called Laritte, but not that female human!’
Seta’s aesthetic standards were slightly different from those of ordinary humans.
When a human feels that it fits their aesthetics, the face usually feels beautiful, too.
Seta, however, was more demanding and paid attention to subtle differences that humans could not tell apart. Even if the position of the eye was only 0.1 inches higher or lower, it was out of Seta’s standard.
Of course, Olivia and Laritte had differences in their faces, and Laritte was more suitable for Seta’s standards.
Still, it’s not just the more the better… The more beautiful faces, the better! He took out only the same red wings with red hair, and flew through the wind and floated in the sky. He didn’t seem to be cold, even though it was still winter.
He flew towards Olivia’s approximate location, to be precise, he went to the Duke’s residence.
It was a pity so he wanted to see Laritte one more time.
So, after half a day, Ian was finally able to meet Seta. It was the day when Ian’s long-awaited dream came true.
“This damn dragon…!”
Ian clenched his teeth as if to grab Seta by the collar, sitting on the hallway window.
Seta was bewildered and could not land down the hallway. He stopped, grotesquely caught in the frame of the open window.
“What? What, what?”
“I can’t afford to chat right now. If you have any dragon material, bring them all right away! Sell it!”
He had to find a permanent way for Laritte to escape from the magic in the air.
First of all, he ran out of dragon material, so it was urgent to replenish it. Seta gave Larit a dagger made from dragon ribs the other day. That said, there must be plenty of other things in his nest!
Seta poked his lips in anger.
“Do not order me! I am a dragon!”
“There is no time. Laritte may die soon… I will pay any price, please!”
The former Duchess’s dragon scale dress, worn by Larit, was the only thing left in the Duke’s residence.
Seta hung from the window sill in a tearful face. He can’t let that female human die, but it’s disgraceful for him to comply with a human’s favor.
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Dragons have a tendency to like jewelry or expensive things.
Anything in the Seta’s Rare is precious and uncommon. He actually contemplated the dagger that was given to Larit before giving it away.
Seta lowered his voice and shouted, even as his heart was shaking.
“I don’t follow the words of a human being!”
Looking at the flow of magic in the first place, even if he brings her a few, she won’t last long!
That was then.
Laritte saw Seta from afar in the hallway and approached her in a pleased mood.
She is always willing to people… or dragons that are kind to her.
“Seta? What’s going on here?”
Not knowing that Ian was threatening Seta, she smiled softly.
Seta’s red pupils shook violently like the earthquake that struck an uninhabited southern island a decade ago.
To turn down Ian’s request, he had no choice but to leave before seeing Larite’s face.
It’s already haywire.
Shit! Shit!
“I… I can never give away my precious rare treasures—!”
Of course, imitation of Laritte’s face is the greatest treasure!
“Not even after a thousand years!”
He resolutely drew an X with both arms, but after a while, his arms were filled with objects made from dragon remains.
“…Damn humans.”
Ian took the things. Seta trembled as the treasures in his arms disappeared one by one.
“Touch it carefully! That headdress was made from the sternum of my second-generation ancestors! Ah, that’s the 34th backbone of the Red Dragon leader who died two hundred years ago… This double-edged sword was bought from the human royal family six thousand years ago…”
It was a meaningless rant.
Laritte did not understand what was going on, but noticed the treasures Seta had brought and smiled brightly.
“Are you giving it to us? As expected, you’re so kind. Thank you very much.”
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At the same time, it hasn’t been long since she’s wearing the dress.
Let’s take off the dress right now!
The joy that the dress would be safe was greater than the joy that her own lifespan was slightly increased.
A fan of her face, Seta, unknowingly stopped getting angry after looking at Laritte’s smile.
Forgetting why he was angry, he came down the hallway with dirty feet covered in dirt from the foot of the mountain.
Laritte took an old sword from Ian.
“First of all, I will quickly change my clothes and come. Everyone, please wait for a moment.”
When Laritte left, Seta went back into his irritated state, recalling why he was angry. He murmured, moving his mouth non-stop.
“You robbers! Didn’t I say? It’s a short-term means to survive with things that have magical powers. It’s best to stay far away, but you dare ignore this dragon’s advice and even rob the dragon? Those who will be punished by God…wicked people…”
Ian understood all of Seta’s personality. Instead of begging for forgiveness, he asked urgent questions.
“How long can Laritte last with these?”
“It’s only a week! I did say short-term, right? The erroneous incident because you humans met will affect more and more over time.”
The attack of the magical power that has made the world was getting more and more severe.
Seta drew a picture in the air using magic. A crooked tree appeared along his index finger.
It is the same story that like how a tree grows, it prunes more and more branches.
“There is always one way for that female human to live within a fixed lifespan. You get away very far, forever.”
Those words sat down on Ian’s lungs like a death sentence. Before Laritte came back, he hurriedly asked in secret.
“But how is it? In one ancient book, it was said that there was another way besides getting away or dying.”
Seta clicked his tongue.
“That would be borrowing the power of an object with magical powers to become safe for a short period of time, human.”
It was actually a lie.
Ian and Laritte’s presence together interferes with the forward direction of the magic flow.
From that point of view, there is also a way by interfering with the world itself and changing the course of the magic flow altogether.
But Seta didn’t say anything. To do that, they needed the help of all the dragons.
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‘To dragons, humans are what humans see as ants are.’
It is something that arose from the meeting of two humans who should not have met. There is little possibility that dragons with strong individualism will join forces for the sake of humans.
As Ian kept silent, Seta scratched the back of his head as much as he could.
Soon after, Laritte changed into another dress and returned. Seta looked at her face and remembered why he was here.
“By the way, female human, is there anyone with similar facial features to you? I was searching for such a human being around here. Of course, it’s a bit inferior to your aesthetics than you, but…”
There was only one person who looked like Laritte. Olivia.
“My mother stays in the Duchy’s estate.”
“Where is that?!”
Laritte who was trying to tell the erratic Seta Olivia’s village and the house number, then said.
“Ah, you shouldn’t be bothering Mother.”
Seta preached how merciful a dragon was to humans by default. He said sincerely for ten minutes that especially if the human has a face befitting of their aesthetic, the compassion would multiply tremendously.
Laritte thought. It’s actually hurting my ears a bit…
Eventually, she gave Olivia’s address.
Laritte realized as she watched Seta flew out and left. Come to think of it, she had just called Olivia mother.
Well, it could be. She thought so.
* * *
Olivia was slicing vegetables in the kitchen of a small house.
Green and yellow vegetables were cut to length with a repeating sound. On the table is a simple loaf of bread worthy of a rustic basket.
It was Olivia’s modest lunch.
A pleasant smell filled the small house. Because it was small, even with a small fire, it was quite warm unlike the outside air.
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Just then, someone knocked on the door from outside.
“Who is it?”
No one should be coming.
Olivia opened the door with a cleaver in her hand.
A tall man was grinning against the backlight.
“That’s right. You are the person I sensed! Nice to meet you, human!”
“Oh… Young man, do you know me?”
“I am the great Red Dragon, Seta!”
Seta was satisfied.
Just because Olivia’s face is wrinkled and aged doesn’t mean she’s against his aesthetic. Of course, she wasn’t as good as Laritte. Only Seta knows Seta’s standards.
Olivia recognized Seta too. First, she politely bowed.
“It’s the dragon the Duke said about. Did you happen to meet the Ducal couple?”
“You know?”
“Then you must have told them a new way to keep Laritte safe!”
It was when Olivia was about to relax her heart.
Seta shook his head frankly.
“No? There is no such thing.”
Olivia looked at Seta silently.
The eyes that saw everything in the world pierced Seta’s lies. In fact, Seta had lived much longer than her.
She clenched the cleaver in her hand. Although she had gone out with the instincts of her dancer days, now Olivia was no longer concerned about the future.
Olivia spit out sullen remarks.
“Can’t you tell the truth?”
The cleaver stuck on the open door frame between Olivia and Seta.
Seta broke into a cold sweat. What?
It was the age of the dragon’s suffering.
A human with a face that falls within Seta’s aesthetic range was looking for Seta.
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Seta sensed it and tried to find the human, so he had no choice but to step his feet in the mountains.
Sure enough, he can only sense it. Still, it’s hard to pinpoint a person in this huge world! At first, he didn’t even know it was Olivia who was looking for him.
‘A human close to the human called Laritte, but not that female human!’
Seta’s aesthetic standards were slightly different from those of ordinary humans.
When a human feels that it fits their aesthetics, the face usually feels beautiful, too.
Seta, however, was more demanding and paid attention to subtle differences that humans could not tell apart. Even if the position of the eye was only 0.1 inches higher or lower, it was out of Seta’s standard.
Of course, Olivia and Laritte had differences in their faces, and Laritte was more suitable for Seta’s standards.
Still, it’s not just the more the better… The more beautiful faces, the better! He took out only the same red wings with red hair, and flew through the wind and floated in the sky. He didn’t seem to be cold, even though it was still winter.
He flew towards Olivia’s approximate location, to be precise, he went to the Duke’s residence.
It was a pity so he wanted to see Laritte one more time.
So, after half a day, Ian was finally able to meet Seta. It was the day when Ian’s long-awaited dream came true.
“This damn dragon…!”
Ian clenched his teeth as if to grab Seta by the collar, sitting on the hallway window.
Seta was bewildered and could not land down the hallway. He stopped, grotesquely caught in the frame of the open window.
“What? What, what?”
“I can’t afford to chat right now. If you have any dragon material, bring them all right away! Sell it!”
He had to find a permanent way for Laritte to escape from the magic in the air.
First of all, he ran out of dragon material, so it was urgent to replenish it. Seta gave Larit a dagger made from dragon ribs the other day. That said, there must be plenty of other things in his nest!
Seta poked his lips in anger.
“Do not order me! I am a dragon!”
“There is no time. Laritte may die soon… I will pay any price, please!”
The former Duchess’s dragon scale dress, worn by Larit, was the only thing left in the Duke’s residence.
Seta hung from the window sill in a tearful face. He can’t let that female human die, but it’s disgraceful for him to comply with a human’s favor.
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Dragons have a tendency to like jewelry or expensive things.
Anything in the Seta’s Rare is precious and uncommon. He actually contemplated the dagger that was given to Larit before giving it away.
Seta lowered his voice and shouted, even as his heart was shaking.
“I don’t follow the words of a human being!”
Looking at the flow of magic in the first place, even if he brings her a few, she won’t last long!
That was then.
Laritte saw Seta from afar in the hallway and approached her in a pleased mood.
She is always willing to people… or dragons that are kind to her.
“Seta? What’s going on here?”
Not knowing that Ian was threatening Seta, she smiled softly.
Seta’s red pupils shook violently like the earthquake that struck an uninhabited southern island a decade ago.
To turn down Ian’s request, he had no choice but to leave before seeing Larite’s face.
It’s already haywire.
Shit! Shit!
“I… I can never give away my precious rare treasures—!”
Of course, imitation of Laritte’s face is the greatest treasure!
“Not even after a thousand years!”
He resolutely drew an X with both arms, but after a while, his arms were filled with objects made from dragon remains.
“…Damn humans.”
Ian took the things. Seta trembled as the treasures in his arms disappeared one by one.
“Touch it carefully! That headdress was made from the sternum of my second-generation ancestors! Ah, that’s the 34th backbone of the Red Dragon leader who died two hundred years ago… This double-edged sword was bought from the human royal family six thousand years ago…”
It was a meaningless rant.
Laritte did not understand what was going on, but noticed the treasures Seta had brought and smiled brightly.
“Are you giving it to us? As expected, you’re so kind. Thank you very much.”
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At the same time, it hasn’t been long since she’s wearing the dress.
Let’s take off the dress right now!
The joy that the dress would be safe was greater than the joy that her own lifespan was slightly increased.
A fan of her face, Seta, unknowingly stopped getting angry after looking at Laritte’s smile.
Forgetting why he was angry, he came down the hallway with dirty feet covered in dirt from the foot of the mountain.
Laritte took an old sword from Ian.
“First of all, I will quickly change my clothes and come. Everyone, please wait for a moment.”
When Laritte left, Seta went back into his irritated state, recalling why he was angry. He murmured, moving his mouth non-stop.
“You robbers! Didn’t I say? It’s a short-term means to survive with things that have magical powers. It’s best to stay far away, but you dare ignore this dragon’s advice and even rob the dragon? Those who will be punished by God…wicked people…”
Ian understood all of Seta’s personality. Instead of begging for forgiveness, he asked urgent questions.
“How long can Laritte last with these?”
“It’s only a week! I did say short-term, right? The erroneous incident because you humans met will affect more and more over time.”
The attack of the magical power that has made the world was getting more and more severe.
Seta drew a picture in the air using magic. A crooked tree appeared along his index finger.
It is the same story that like how a tree grows, it prunes more and more branches.
“There is always one way for that female human to live within a fixed lifespan. You get away very far, forever.”
Those words sat down on Ian’s lungs like a death sentence. Before Laritte came back, he hurriedly asked in secret.
“But how is it? In one ancient book, it was said that there was another way besides getting away or dying.”
Seta clicked his tongue.
“That would be borrowing the power of an object with magical powers to become safe for a short period of time, human.”
It was actually a lie.
Ian and Laritte’s presence together interferes with the forward direction of the magic flow.
From that point of view, there is also a way by interfering with the world itself and changing the course of the magic flow altogether.
But Seta didn’t say anything. To do that, they needed the help of all the dragons.
Sponsored Content
‘To dragons, humans are what humans see as ants are.’
It is something that arose from the meeting of two humans who should not have met. There is little possibility that dragons with strong individualism will join forces for the sake of humans.
As Ian kept silent, Seta scratched the back of his head as much as he could.
Soon after, Laritte changed into another dress and returned. Seta looked at her face and remembered why he was here.
“By the way, female human, is there anyone with similar facial features to you? I was searching for such a human being around here. Of course, it’s a bit inferior to your aesthetics than you, but…”
There was only one person who looked like Laritte. Olivia.
“My mother stays in the Duchy’s estate.”
“Where is that?!”
Laritte who was trying to tell the erratic Seta Olivia’s village and the house number, then said.
“Ah, you shouldn’t be bothering Mother.”
Seta preached how merciful a dragon was to humans by default. He said sincerely for ten minutes that especially if the human has a face befitting of their aesthetic, the compassion would multiply tremendously.
Laritte thought. It’s actually hurting my ears a bit…
Eventually, she gave Olivia’s address.
Laritte realized as she watched Seta flew out and left. Come to think of it, she had just called Olivia mother.
Well, it could be. She thought so.
* * *
Olivia was slicing vegetables in the kitchen of a small house.
Green and yellow vegetables were cut to length with a repeating sound. On the table is a simple loaf of bread worthy of a rustic basket.
It was Olivia’s modest lunch.
A pleasant smell filled the small house. Because it was small, even with a small fire, it was quite warm unlike the outside air.
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Just then, someone knocked on the door from outside.
“Who is it?”
No one should be coming.
Olivia opened the door with a cleaver in her hand.
A tall man was grinning against the backlight.
“That’s right. You are the person I sensed! Nice to meet you, human!”
“Oh… Young man, do you know me?”
“I am the great Red Dragon, Seta!”
Seta was satisfied.
Just because Olivia’s face is wrinkled and aged doesn’t mean she’s against his aesthetic. Of course, she wasn’t as good as Laritte. Only Seta knows Seta’s standards.
Olivia recognized Seta too. First, she politely bowed.
“It’s the dragon the Duke said about. Did you happen to meet the Ducal couple?”
“You know?”
“Then you must have told them a new way to keep Laritte safe!”
It was when Olivia was about to relax her heart.
Seta shook his head frankly.
“No? There is no such thing.”
Olivia looked at Seta silently.
The eyes that saw everything in the world pierced Seta’s lies. In fact, Seta had lived much longer than her.
She clenched the cleaver in her hand. Although she had gone out with the instincts of her dancer days, now Olivia was no longer concerned about the future.
Olivia spit out sullen remarks.
“Can’t you tell the truth?”
The cleaver stuck on the open door frame between Olivia and Seta.
Seta broke into a cold sweat. What?
It was the age of the dragon’s suffering.
