Tracking.
Tracking.
‘killing!’
After parting with Soldos and leaving the store, my mother grumbled, as if she had been waiting for it, saying that it would be necessary to move early tomorrow morning to help the lizard princess.
I stopped the fight between the two Yongin brothers and sisters at the bar clerk and smiled as I waved the envelope containing the food I received as a token of gratitude.
“Anyway, we’ve gathered all the pieces of the key to Liberatorio’s lair, and we haven’t had anything else to do until the time is right, as Pearly said.”
‘Kill kill!’
One word that it is absolutely wrong to always think that you have to do something just because you have nothing to do.
At the same time, a faint dark green light flowed from my chest and coalesced into a human form before my eyes.
A half-way point between a woman and a girl, not belonging to either. She’s grown too much to be a girl, and she’s somewhat young and young to be a woman.
Even in the dark of the night looking up at me, her black eyes shone beautifully with dark green concentrate. Beauty as if the world’s most outstanding artisans carefully crafted one stitch at a time.
Late at night, on an empty street, my mother, who assumed human form, reached out and pulled my collar. And then, more than ever, he whispered softly to me with a full of sweetness.
‘killing!’
Before going back to the ship, could I sneak a few of the items in the bag and eat them first?
‘Kill and kill.’
He added that food should be eaten before it cools down to show courtesy to the person who cooked it.
As usual, I couldn’t help but smile.
“You have to eat well without showing off as much as possible?”
‘killing!’
That’s what I call my specialty. As soon as I handed over the bag of warm food, my mother quickly accepted it with both hands and began to think seriously about what to eat.
“Let’s take a little walk and decide. It is late at night.”
‘killing!’
So we walked across the quiet night street together with warm food.
***
“Priest Marnak!!! The food is something strange! It’s weird, but it’s very strange!!!”
Jamel, who woke up first, took food out of the food bag and placed it on a bowl and called me urgently. She opened her pale green eyes and pointed to the food she had prepared.
“There are sparse bite marks among the food!!! Not rats or other animals, but human bites!!!”
They were the marks of her mother biting into each bite, saying that she was curious about the taste of this and that.
“Someone must have been very curious about the taste of the food I brought.”
Jamel looked back and forth between my face and the food, and then he thought deeply about something. Then he opened his eyes and tugged at my collar.
“Priest Marnak, I think I know who the culprit is in this heinous incident!!!”
“Who are you like?”
“It’s him!”
‘killing…?’
The tip of Jamel’s outstretched finger pointed to her mother as she walked out of my room yawning and scratching her belly.
“No matter how much I think about it, there is no one like this except my mother! how is it? Am I right?”
‘killing?’
At Jamel’s cry, the mother tilted her head again with a small yawn. Jamel looked at his mother with narrow eyes.
“These foods! You ate alone first! It will be obvious with each bite!”
‘killing!’
Jamel’s mother snorted at Jamel’s bruise and boldly said, ‘What would you do if I ate it?’ Her mother’s voice did not reach Jamel, but her mother’s mean expression conveyed all of her meaning to Jamel.
Jamel puffed out his cheeks a little, then strode over and placed a small knife in his mother’s hand.
“Who gets mad about eating food? If you eat it, you have to clean up right away! So that the next person eating doesn’t get offended! I’ll help, so hurry up and help me heat up the food before the others wake up!”
‘Hat killed?!’
A small embarrassment spreading across the mother’s face. Jamel urged his mother, slicing off the part where her mother had been bitten with a small knife.
“Quickly!”
The mother looked back and forth between the small kitchen knife and the jamel in her hand, then sighed.
‘Hat killed…’
Mother grumbled a little, and soon followed Jamel and helped her by cutting off the marks she ate.
I couldn’t win against Jamel’s annoyance, but that mother was considerate of others and moved…
I almost shed tears because my eyes were slightly damp because I saw the great progress my mother made.
Lately, when I wasn’t there, my mother played with Jamel every day, and the fact that we became close enough to listen to Jamel’s words to some extent was influencing my mother in a good way.
In such a way that I can get along with others other than myself.
“oh?! Don’t eat the cuts alone!!! me too! I want to eat too!”
‘Say hat!’
Although the two quarreled over who would eat the cut pods.
Two red and blue women came down from the deck side with a squealing sound as the car was almost ready to prepare breakfast for the others.
Cardisho smiled, shaking her red hair in a ponytail.
“Smells good. Is it the food you bought for Marnak last night?”
She clasped the collar of her sweat-soaked clothes and added words.
“I’m going to eat it like this, so I’ll just wash off my sweat and come back.”
As she went to wash herself, Master Pridiya, who was smiling from behind, took a step closer to me.
“I’m going to train the cardi show again after eating, so why don’t you join Yeon?”
“I have something to eat breakfast and go out, so that would be difficult.”
“I see. If you are, there is nothing you can do.”
Master’s blue eyes narrowed.
“If you ever need my help, just let me know.”
“I will keep that in mind.”
Unlike the cardigan show, Master, who did not break a drop of sweat, went to the table after saying that and pulled out a chair and sat down.
“Haaam. There are a lot of dishes from this morning today.”
Giselle woke up at the sound of people coming and going, yawning softly and walking out stealthily, occupying a chair and sitting down.
“Good morning. Priest Marnak.”
“good! good morning!”
After a while, as Dakia and Pearly left the room for the last time and sat down, the quiet morning became busy with the sound of tableware rattling.
While everyone was talking about giving and receiving, Dakia opened her mouth slightly.
“Priest Marnak, are you busy today? If you’re not busy, would you like to take a look around the city together?”
“It looks like it will be difficult today.”
“What are you doing?”
“Princess Rusona asked me for help because she was in trouble.”
I briefly added an explanation of my experience yesterday. The story of Batis donating the dragon’s blood-scaled claws for money.
Letona hopes that few people know about this, but I didn’t feel the need to go to her aid, keeping it a secret even from my colleagues.
“Hmm! Hmm!”
Surprisingly, the first to react was Pearly. She smiled and snapped the fork in her hand.
“Isn’t it too late to get those blood and claw scales back already! Mmmmm! I think it’s already been a while! long time! Think it’s late!”
“I have the same opinion… But since you asked me to come today, I think it would be appropriate to go.”
Pearly smiled and nodded.
“that’s right! that’s right! That’s your heart!”
Dakia, who had been listening quietly, cautiously opened her mouth to me.
“Priest Marnak, then shall I accompany you on your way? I can help.”
I thought about taking her with me, but I decided that Lesona wouldn’t be very happy that more people knew about the Dragon Prince’s ugliness this time.
“Today, I will go alone. Rest today as I will contact you if I need help.”
“That’s fine.”
Giselle, who was wiping her lips, glanced at Dacia and continued.
“Jamel and I were thinking of going shopping in the capital city today, but we needed someone to protect us. Dacia, you can act as our escort. As a bonus, we go shopping together. how is it?”
Dacia glanced at me with eyes full of regret and nodded.
“is it so.”
Dakia agreed, and Jamel shouted while swinging the fork in his hand.
“Shopping with the girls! I’m so looking forward to it! Hi-Hi!”
***
‘Killed!’
I arrived at the Rose Palace with my mother, who insisted on going with me even if they were told to go play together, in the form of a hand, wrapped around my chest.
Following the guidance of the animal-eared maids with familiar faces, I headed to the drawing room, where Rusona and Batis were seated first and waiting for me.
“good morning.”
When I greeted her, Rusona responded with a small nod.
“I hope things go well and I hope you have a good morning.”
Batis, trying to keep an eye on Rusona, responded to my greetings and sat down uncharacteristically quietly. I asked, sitting with my butt on the chair that Lasona gestured for.
“So what are you going to do now?”
“My purpose is very simple. Recovery of dragon blood If you get that one thing back, there will be no problem.”
Rusona glared at Batis and continued talking.
“If I had given only the scales and claws, I would have returned the money Batis brother received and really gave them the scales and claws in the form of a ‘donation’, or I would have tried to buy scales and claws again with a higher amount…” He sighed briefly
. Exhaling, she shook her head.
“Since we gave up dragon blood, we must get it back.”
“Is it that important?”
“exactly.”
She looked at me with golden eyes.
“My father, the Demon Dragon King, will not pay much attention to claws and scales. However, the Demon Dragon King will show interest if he learns that Batis’ brother gave the dragon blood. And that interest certainly won’t end with a little fuss. Therefore, only dragon blood must be retrieved.”
Batis, who had been paying attention, suggested a sneaky suggestion.
“If I can’t get my blood back, can’t I just keep it a secret from my father? Anyway, if it’s just you and me, there’s nothing to get into my father’s ears…”
“And what if that dragon blood causes a big problem?”
After resolutely cutting off her words, Rusona glared at Batis with sincerity.
“Since my older brother has maintained that kind of irresponsible attitude, running around outside every day since he was little, and being educated as a member of the royal family, he did not even know the importance of dragon blood and handed it over to researchers in other countries like an idiot.”
Words like cold daggers. Batis, perhaps in tears, opened his mouth, which had been tightly shut.
“What do you know!!!”
“Okay. very well.”
“No, you don’t know anything about this ugly me! I don’t know! So don’t pretend you know! Since when the hell have you been so interested in me!!!”
Just before the flames of the sibling fight that barely extinguished last night flare up again. A man appeared miraculously.
“Sorry, but this is not the time for you two to be fighting.”
At that exquisite timing, Batis and Rusona had no choice but to stop arguing.
In the concentration of the two siblings, Soldos brushed his dull blond hair, looked at us with very troubled eyes, and opened his mouth slowly.
“According to what I personally found out, the ‘Imperial Tribal Research Institute’ that Prince Batis gave blood for scales and claws was already abolished 10 years ago.”
Rusona stared blankly at Soldos.
“That means…”
“Yes. In other words, that institution has long since disappeared, and that red-haired woman named Ferris is not an imperial researcher, but an unknown assailant who dared break into the imperial palace.”
