“You are Lord Mrothgir’s last disciple?! Good heavens!!”

“There are actually two of us but I am only one who studied Calm Dragon Tempest under him.”

“At such budding age? Lord Mrothgir must have seen something from you or you must be someone extremely special for him.”

“Nope! I don’t have any redeeming qualities or talents. I’m actually twenty years old now and as for someone extremely special for him? My training with him consists of constantly beating me black and blue while thrashing me around for no good reason.”

“Umm…”

“Oh, and also, he used my beloved maid to almost kill me, thank you.”

“You’re so edgy, little miss.”

“I’m sorry, I don’t hate master. In fact, I dearly admire him but, you just made me remember the time I trained under him.”

“Hahaha! I see… so, how was his last moment?”

“How did you know about his death?!”

“Every dragon should know about it. The death of their root, one of the men who lifted the glory and pride of the dragons and bestowed knowledge anywhere he goes.”

“Amazing… For Master’s last breath, he was happy. He said his farewell to this world with a smile plastered on his face as he bid goodbye to the one he dearly loves.”

“I see, thank you. Anyway, little whelpling, don’t just stand there, take a seat too as this grandpa will be telling a story.”

“Eh…?!”

“You must want to know more about Lord Mrothgir, no?”

“I want to but…right here…?! Well…you see…”

GRUMBLE

My stomach lets out an embarrassing sound.

Casablanca and Hibiscus immediately took a step back while holding their bellies in caution that theirs will also rumble like what mine did.

“We at least want to fill our tummy. Won’t you be so kind to give us something to eat?”

“Hmmm? Food is it? We dragons here just actually eat those crystals popping out from the ground. They are filled with magical energy after all.”

“You don’t expect us to eat that, right?”

“Hahaha! We have edible foods at the city that we use as a side dish for drinking. That may sate your hunger.”

“I hope so. Anyway, I’m going to say my thanks in advance.”

CLACK!

A sound of rock being crunched enters my ear.

When I turn around where the sound came from, I saw Ichirou who broke one of those crystals in the ground and chews it in his mouth with loud sound coming from it. He chews it like nothing!

“Ichirou-nii, what the hell are you thinking?!”

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“Oh? It’s actually quite tasty! It tastes like mint and it has a super crunchy texture like a candy! Asagao, you should probably try it too!”

“Hell no! I’d lose my teeth if I did!”

“Ahhh! Hibiscus!!!”

Casablanca’s shriek resounds the whole place.

I heave a sigh and put my palm on my face as I turn around. It seems that this is going to be a long day. As I turn towards the twins, my guts were on point and something unbelievable is happening right now.

An empty bottle of alcohol lies beneath the twins as Casablanca shakes Hibiscus.

“What happened?”

“Hibiscus felt thirsty and pick that up thinking it was water and drank it one chug!”

“The flying fuck…?”

Sorry.

I really didn’t expect so much trouble. I feel like my mood is not the merriest today or I could say, it is an extremely foul one.

That said, I couldn’t even believe that someone could mistake an alcohol as water. Indeed, we just woke up from a weird expedition from the center of the earth or something and we slept right off the bat when we arrive here and yearning for something to drink to quench your thirst is the correct thing but, to drink an alcohol like its water?!

No less, done by an underage.

How ridiculous is this situation?

And finding a willingly helpful old man who is drinking merrily with Ichirou, everything has become a bit convenient.

I hope karma won’t ask for anything in return.

I watch the twins struggle with each other as one tries to snap the one out and the other just simply stands there with a spinning head.

Like breaking a twig in half, Hibiscus suddenly fixes her posture and sits in one of the stone seats that I guess Ichirou prepared beforehand.

As she did she crosses her legs and speaks with Casablanca in a tone we’ve never heard before. Not even Casablanca knows about it.

“My cute foolish twin, your very body and soul belong to me.”

“H-H-Hibiscus?!”

“Come by my side and I shall show you how you should offer your body to me. I shall see to it that it is my and only.”

“Wait! What’s happening here?!”

“Oh, Casablanca, are you perhaps confused? I know every little piece of bits of your life and body, while you know little of mine.”

“This doesn’t sound right!”

As Casablanca said that while awkwardly backing away from Hibiscus who acquired a new personality, the person in question stands up and walks towards Casablanca and put his fingers on her chin.

“My poor dearest twin, when I said those, this is what I mean.”

“Eh--?”

Hibiscus kisses Casablanca on the lips…

Wait…

Hey!

That’s wrong!!

“Hnngnnhmm! Auuggggffff… H—H—iscus…hnngmmppffhh!”

“Hnnghhh! That’s right…hnngpphmmffhh…surrender thy lips to mine.”

“Stop!!”

As Ichirou stops from drinking and stares wonderfully at the scene in front of him and the old man raises his bottle and cheers, I am the only who can control this situation, because however I see it, Casablanca doesn’t even have the slightest motivation to stop Hibiscus.

I hold both of their faces and parted their smacking lips apart. As I did, I even see the thread that was formed from their saliva.

Casablanca instantly collapses and sat on the ground in a daze as her face becomes flushed and Hibiscus just stands there while sweetly looking at her twin’s facial reaction.

She then turns to me.

“Asagao, shall I take that as I sign of your jealousy towards I, who is the sublime symbol of greatness? It can’t be helped then, I shall also offer you what your heart wanted all along.”

“You…that is so narcissistic of you.”

“I, Hibiscus, protect my own image as someone meek because garnering attention is unpleasant. Low life cannot comprehend and understand the makings of the nature that I am deeply associated with. “

“There are various drunkards in this world and you’re not someone who should be given the liberty to drink.”

“You are a special exception from those low life Asagao and I shall exert effort to deliver you your desired intimate kiss from me.”

“You are getting out of control!”

Hibiscus grabs my waist and bends my back over while her body leans towards me. I wanted to know how does it feel seeing how Casablanca was so dazed that she looked like she melted.

But there are lines that I don’t want to cross so…

“Oryaa!”

“Auu!”

I deliver a really strong chop towards her cranium that instantly knocks her out. Her body loses its strength and she blacks out. I caught her body that was supposed to fall on the ground and carry her towards the tent.

“Geez, you two should be more mindful of where you put your bottles. Accidents like this aren’t fun at all, especially when someone underage is induced with alcohol.”

“Yeah, sorry Asagao…”

“Hahahaha! Sorry about that young lady, although, thanks for that awesome eye candy. To be honest, there aren’t any young children among us in the city anymore so it is quite refreshing to see one, and top of that, making out with each other like that! Gahahaha!!”

I begrudgingly walk away from them as I put Hibiscus on the tent. It seems it will take a while for her to wake up again.

Geez… Sleeping again after waking up…

This is going to be a troublesome hangover for her part so it is an extra trouble for me.

I don’t know what to do with Casablanca’s case…

As I exited the tent, the two are still drinking and Casablanca was walking around in a circle with swift pacing while muttering something inaudible.

I walk over towards the two guys.

“Hey…”

“Oh, what’s up? Is the other girl going to be okay?”

“Yeah, but, I think it would greatly delay our trip towards that city of yours.”

“Bah! I don’t mind! If you want to eat, I got some salted stir fried vegetables that I brought with me. Eat it because I really don’t need it.”

“Well, thanks.”

“Also, the blonde over there, she seemed troubled, though. Is there something between her and the other girl?”

“Huh?! Aren’t you listening?! They are twins!”

“Twins, huh? It seems this is going to be a bad omen.”

“Huh?!