“Astlan?! You know Astlan?!”
“Yes, a man with legendary abilities and quite a comical attitude.”
“Then you should already know about Fon-nii then?!”
“Of course. I was just feigning ignorance most of the time…”
“…I see… so you are saying that with the help of Astlan, you were able to defeat your brother?”
“Correct. Even at that time, my power was at its prime, I can’t take down my brother alone as he was able to harness too much power from wars that broke out millenniums ago.”
“So… you met Astlan and asked for his help.”
“Together with his party.”
“A party?!”
“Yes. He was surrounded by a lot of girls. What was he called them again? Hmm… Lo…Lo… lori?”
Loli…
“Anyway… Because of his help, we stopped Krothgir from declaring war against the fairy kin. I, without a doubt, was deeply indebted to him.”
“I see now. The roundabout way you try to help Fon-nii…”
“What are you thinking about?!”
Master tries to help Fon-nii in a real roundabout way because he knew already that he is Astlan’s descendent. To repay Astlan, who is not around anymore, he helps Fon-nii instead in a secretive manner, albeit, they don’t get along well with each other.
“After that, I never met with him again. His actions were told to me through lips. And then he completely disappeared after that incident…”
“Incident…?”
“Together with his disappearance, millions of soldiers by the human king were found dead in the place people called a center continent. And then multiple of kingdoms by human too were destroyed and burned to the ground.”
“Is it possible that… he was the one who did it?”
“Who knows? I do wonder too what happened to him…until I discovered something…”
“…”
“Graves…”
“Graves?”
“At the demon continent… by the border of fairy and demon land, there’s a small forest… deep in that forest, you can find six graves…”
“What does it have to do with anything?”
“Astlan… have six girls together with him... I wish what I am thinking was wrong but I am proven wrong…”
“Wait… please… stop…”
“?”
“I… I don’t want to dig deeper into this yet…”
“I see…”
“How did you know about Nivalis? That’s what I really want to know.”
“I can ask the same to you.”
“Eh…ah…”
“I have come to know Nivalis because of a certain chosen hero in this world.”
“Chosen Hero?! Summoned?”
“No, we are talking about a hero chose by a kingdom granted by the so-called gods, granted with a sword called Excelsior.”
“Wow… that sounds cool…”
“After a hundred of years since I met Astlan, this hero was trained by the new king after the fall of multiple kingdoms. On her journey, she met Astlan deep inside the fairy continent.”
“She?!”
“Ah yes. Remember when I told you I have a friend in the fairy continent?”
“Yes, you did tell us that we will meet that friend of yours, but never happened.”
“The friend of mine is that hero too. Her name is Senya. She met Astlan by chance and became his follower.”
“Follower? I thought… I just thought that… isn’t Astlan popular with girls?”
“Who knows… But when I met Senya, she told me that Astlan was the coldest most ruthless human she ever met. But Senya kept visiting Astlan there for a reason she can’t tell me. She didn’t like Astlan, she looks up to him because of strength.”
“Then this Hero Senya told you about Nivalis?”
“Correct… that was… a hundred years later since I met Senya…”
“Senya… was then really old?!”
“I granted Senya long life like how Astlan acquires it.”
“How?”
“Ancient Dragon Blood… It’s painful to say but yes… I am ancient…”
Is it really that painful to you to address yourself as ancient?!
Well… ancient means really old. It would be an insult to me too but what do I care now. Anyway, master’s blood can grant long life? That’s new to me.
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“Senya then met Nivalis… she told me that Nivalis is Astlan lover, that she was the only one who was able to thawed Astlan’s cold heart caused by deep-rooted grudge.”
“I know about that already… I mean… they had child descendants and such, right? And Fon-nii… is their last descendent.”
I already know some of it now. But I don’t want to dig into Astlan’s past as it sounds really painful to hear. I don’t want to keep hearing about how he suffered anymore… there are so many people who are suffering around me already. I can give my sympathy to Astlan but that won’t change anything… even though, he is supposed to be my… father…
“Then Asagao, how did you know about Nivalis? I’m interested.”
I told master everything…
What happened between us and Nivalis. What we talked about and everything.
“I see… Then Asagao, I won’t ask anything of you anymore regarding that. It will be your own problem as her daughter. Tell me Asagao, instead of telling the human king and Violetta of what happened, why tell it to me first?”
“Because… I figured that master must know something… regarding Astlan… regarding mother… and what happened in the past… you seem to be involved in a lot of events.”
“You are still implying that I am old. Then, would you tell them?”
“I will… after the visit… in the dragon capital to see that hero!”
“Asagao… you still don’t know that true purpose of this visit yet?”
“Eh?”
“It’s about a joint meeting. All of the continent leaders are having talks and business trades regarding militaristic resources. Not only that, they are also discussing the joint army that will be prepared to battle against the devils.”
“I… know that they don’t want me to be involved in that kind of thing… but it just reminded of the calamity this world is facing…”
I already know about it. But I don’t have any idea about the full details. About the joint army, we were already told about it so I am not surprised. Fon-nii and the others are strong, really strong, but, they still need a large amount of army… not because they are weak, but they cannot be in multiple places at the same time. In fact, on Nil’s side, there may be a lot of strong foes too.
“Asagao…”
“Master?”
“I am going to connect to Senya right now.”
“What?”
“Senya… can read fortunes of people. The same reason I knew my time is about to come. We will connect through magic.”
“That is so sudden… but… please do…”
“Please take a step back.”
As I step back, master begins to cast a magic and everything around us becomes stars and constellations. Master then glow radiantly and becomes a dragon…
Wait… this is larger than his usual dragon form… almost ten times the size!
“This is my real dragon form. I opened up a new space as to not destroy the castle.”
“M-m-master?!”
“Don’t be surprised now! My brother Krothgir is several times larger than me.”
If I can measure up how big Master is, I can say that I am just as big as his eyes. If something as large as this is flying in the sky, of course, people would be terrified.
Master then conjures up multiple sigils in the sky.
I can feel the overwhelming magic. The very reason master is called the White Dragon Sage.
An ancient one who is the only goal in life is the pursuit of knowledge. A power so brilliant that you will immediately know that this power is not for violence but accumulated knowledge in his dedicated part of his life.
This… is the man who is spending his few remaining fragment of life to train the last disciple, me.
“Standstill Asagao, I have already merged my power with Senya. We are now rearranging the starts, the moons, and the sun sigils.”
“Y-yes!”
Suddenly, dazzling light gathers around us in a form of shining orbs. They spin around us light and gently like they are just being swayed in the air. The light gathers around master, going inside of his body.
Master, after gathering lights, a pillar of light stands around us as crouches his head down towards me and opens his large jaw.
Ah…
It’s… so huge… the teeth are so sharp…
I just stand there in a daze as power accumulates in front of his mouth directed at me.
As he releases the power, I feel like I am bathed in the river of energy, a tsunami of life and existence and words slowly appeared in my mind…
…
As the light ceases to flow, I slowly open my eyes to see that everything is back to normal like everything is an illusion.
It was really quick…
“Asagao… your fortune is… astounding…”
“How… so…”
“Its heights breaches the realm of heavenly bodies… you are… someone whose existence… will be significant for this world…”
But… I just have one more question to ask. I want to hear master’s honest opinion about it.
“Master…”
“Yes?”
“Why… why have you chosen me? There… might be someone out there who are far more suitable for your guidance… the very last fragment of your life… you are spending it with someone like me…”
Master, who is in his human form, approaches me slowly while heaving a sigh. I can’t stop thinking about it too…
As he got close to me, he places his hand on my head and violently rubs it.
“Au…”
“It’s just a hunch… but… I feel like you are going to be in the middle of the storm… sooner or later.”
“That’s a bad hunch…”
“You think so? Asagao… I believe in you… Violetta, the human king and a lot more of people are still in pain, in despair and sad deep inside their hearts, but I believe… that you will be the one who will reach out to those people…”
“You… have such faith in me…?”
“You have received the fortune inside your head right? And also, I also chanted a spell for you, a spell of calmness, stillness and my blessing to you.”
“You’d… go that far… your expectations are rather heavy for the worst disciple…”
“That’s fine. I think what I have taught you are just fragments of what you will learn in the future. It will just be one thing you learned from an old man.”
“NO!”
I shouted.
I don’t want master to say something sad like that!
“Whatever happens, everything you have taught me will never be forgotten! Whatever I learned from you, I will always remember it! I won’t forget about you too master, whatever may come! Please do not say anything sad like it will just be forgotten or will just be a fragment or whatever!”
I shouted words at him because he thinks that he will just disappear and will be forgotten. No one wants that…
“Ahaha! You got the guts to shout at your master.”
“Ah…”
“But… I am happy that you care for me that much…”
Master kneels down in front of me and… he embraces me.
“I am… going to be hopeful for a great future that you will carve. I do not expect you to carry out any ideals or belief from me. I just want you to stay on the path you believe in.”
“Ah…t-thank you… master…”
“Hmhmm…”
As he let me go, he immediately turns around quivering.
“I-it’s rather cold tonight… we should head inside now and rest!”
“Yes!”
I happily followed Master back to the castle.
He does not expect me to do anything. I just have to follow my own path. That way, he would be happy.
We separated by the doorway and I headed to Fon-nii’s room again to sleep because I have nowhere else to sleep.
I just quietly slid into the bed as I am tired too.
.
.
.
Right now, we are going to the Dragon Capital!
We gathered at the hall where Violetta will open the warp that directly opens up at the entrance of the city.
I wore my latest equipment which is the dragon fibers under the loose white shirt I live wearing so much to show off of course!
I want to show them that I am doing my best to so I can help them!
I can finally meet with my friends…
“I will open the warp now so please calm down Princess Asagao!”
“Ehh? I-I am calm!”
“You look like you will jump in the warp anytime now if I open it suddenly. You will be bothering Milin too much.”
That’s right. I decided that Milin will go with us as the heroes know her well too.
“Then, I will open it now.”
Violetta opens the warp.
Master is just standing behind us as his dispute with Violetta wasn’t solved yet. Behind me is Fon-nii. In my side, Milin is standing quietly and Violetta is in front holding out her hand.
“Do you want to go first, Princess?”
“I-I do!”
“Well, then, just walk pass through here and you will see the entrance to the capital. Please watch your step.”
“I am not… a kid for you to say that…”
“I was just kidding.”
As I walk through the barrier happily, I can imagine now my reunion with them. I can see now how strong they’ve gotten.
And of course…I’ll be hearing more about what happened to Ichirou...
There were no any transition or any more places as I pass through the warp, I was there in an instant.
………
……
…
But what I saw in front of me…
Fire…
Mayhem…
Destruction…
Battle…
Dragon kin soldiers protecting the civilians from devils…
Yes…
Devils…
Are causing havoc…
Eh?
…
What’s… happening here?