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Chapter 21
The Reason for Being an Evil Dragon
On a late night with the moon shining brightly, Ferda walked down a candlelit corridor.
'Truly a busy day.'
Since it had been left neglected for decades, processing the backlog of official duties wasn't easy.
'Still, with Mori around, I can proceed smoothly.'
Her work processing speed had already far surpassed human limits.
Ѐ ṅüm а̃
Thanks to that, if I maintain this pace, it seemed like it could be finished within a year.
'My role is to assist so that she has no worries.'
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Ferda remembered that and did his best in his role.
Before going to the bedroom, Ferda headed to the study.
As Ferda expected, Mori would be waiting there.
'By now she should be standing by, so I need to tell her to go back.'
Е n̄_ùm á .ǐ d.
She's a child who can't even breathe without permission.
Ferda didn't forget, and moved to order her to return to her room.
Upon entering the study, he encountered an unexpected figure there.
"Hello! Ferda-nim!"
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The Gloomy Witch, Echidna, greeted him with an awkward smile.
"Call me Regent."
Ë n̄ũ m̀a
"Ah! Will do. You have to call me Echidna, okay?"
"I will."
"Ehehehe......."
Echidna smiling an awkward, gloomy smile.
Ferda thought so and walked past Echidna toward Mori.
As Ferda expected, she was waiting there quietly.
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"?"
She was quite different from when Ferda saw her in the morning.
A fluttery dress and hair brushed neatly like silk threads like a young lady.
She was already quite a beauty, but dressed up properly, she shone like a noble family's princess.
"Your work?"
"Hehe, yes. Since you didn't answer when I called and just stayed still, you looked like a doll...... I was bored so I touched you up a bit, is that okay?"
Ě ň um̌ а
Echidna fidgeted shyly.
Ferda recalled the golems Echidna had made.
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Uselessly large, sparkling eyes, small head - a childish drawing-like appearance.
'Since she's the same gender, does that mean her aesthetic sense isn't twisted for women?'
It was a useless act, but not bad.
'Rather, it's good.'
W̌е bňо̄ vе̃ l. E ṅ ŭ_m̀a
Even if she's a tool, Mori is clearly a living being, and living beings require more delicate management than tools.
Since she can't take care of herself, it's only natural she needs someone to look after her.
"If you have the leisure, can you look after Mori?"
Echidna's eyes sparkled and she nodded vigorously.
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"Of course! Th-this, just how nice it is to touch such a pretty child with my own hands, ehe, ehehe......!"
"I'd prefer you don't do anything weird. She's a necessary talent."
Wе b̀n̆ ӧv̌ е̄ l Е̃_n ũm а̃
"Ah, I, I don't do weird stuff either. I'm not a bad witch who eats children or men, you know? I cherish them, brush them, feed them!"
Since her way of speaking itself is eerie, whatever she says sounds weird.
Echidna, smiling gloomily, unconsciously brought Mori's head to her own nose and smelled her scent.
'She's definitely weird.'
Ferda decided not to doubt his judgment.
Mori just looked up at Ferda regardless.
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A face waiting only for the next command.
"This is it for today. Go back to your room and rest well for tomorrow."
Mori nodded, stood up from her seat, and walked away.
That was when it happened.
Kuuung—!
The castle rang out loudly once.
É ṅũ m̃a_
>
Mori, who was walking, lost her footing and fell over.
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"Oh my? Mori!"
Echidna rushed over hastily and helped Mori up.
Ferda held his breath and waited, wondering if there would be a second impact.
Fortunately, there wasn't a second one.
Eñu mǎ
Echidna broke the silence with a flustered voice.
"Wh-what was that? Does this kind of thing happen often here?"
"First time."
It shakes occasionally, but this was the first time it shook in the middle of the night like this.
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'And the first time it shook this much, too.'
As Regent, Ferda needed to find out what this was.
Е̌n̊ũ mа
"Echidna."
"Yes?"
"Lay Mori down in her room. That child is a talent needed tomorrow. And you go back quietly too. Understand?"
"Ah, understood!"
Echidna carried Mori and moved out.
Watching Echidna leave, Ferda came out into the corridor and walked.
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'Most likely the sound is coming from the Lair side.'
Ferda decided to go down to the Lair.
After walking for a while, something emitting a faint light was visible in the middle of the corridor.
It was Ruri holding a lantern.
"You've taken the wrong direction."
With a calm, expressionless face, she pointed in the direction Ferda had come from.
Ŵе́.b nо́v̇ė l̀ Е.ǹ ūm̈ a
"The bedroom is on the opposite side."
She acts like she's just guiding, but Ferda peeked at her true intentions.
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"You're hiding something from me."
"Yes."
She doesn't deny it.
"So can you please go back to your room?"
Ѐn ǔṁа. і̄d̈
"That won't do. As the person who will become this castle's master, I need to know this."
"You are not this castle's master."
"I'm also someone who will soon become one."
Silver eyes and blue eyes refused to let go of each other.
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A conversation between two people who wouldn't yield an inch.
The one who took a step back from the confrontation was Ruri.
Ẅ e̊b̂n̂ о̌v е́l Е̌ nuḿ â
"Master-nim is currently suppressing her bloodlust."
"How so?"
"There's no need to worry. That one time just now was a rare occurrence. It usually doesn't happen. The rest is for making a living—."
Ferda approached close to Ruri.
His eyes twisted fiercely.
"How so?"
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Irritation and anger were felt.
An emotion he had never shown even once to Ruri, who had been rude all this time.
Ruri frowned.
"How else? What would you do to suppress the urge to destroy?"
"......."
"Master-nim fights the desire to break through that giant iron door and flip the world over. That desire, which has no outlet but to crush everything, piles up in Master-nim's heart day after day. That is Master-nim's essence."
Еn̈ ũṁ_ӑ . їd_
An evil dragon is forever an evil dragon.
The reason she can't bear the name of Guardian Dragon is partly due to slander, but ultimately because she can't endure the destructive impulse.
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"Master-nim lived releasing that destructive impulse by killing monsters. If those monsters don't come out, what do you think she'd do?"
Ferda recalls Valdrova's memory engraved in his heart.
That answer burst from Ferda's mouth.
"......Destroy herself?"
W е̌b nò v̈ѐl̊ Ѐ ṅ u m̊ a
"Yes. If there's nothing to destroy, she does that."
Ruri, who had watched her for a long time, knew well.
And that was like a natural disaster that even a loyal attendant couldn't do anything about.
"The one you're engaged to is exactly that kind of person. She couldn't control herself and has already hurt many people."
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So Ruri warned Ferda, who had such childish and foolish obstinacy.
"So I wish you wouldn't say you want to meet her too much. If your selfish heart will wound Master-nim—."
Ẅе́ b n̊ о v̊ёl Ё n̈u̇ṁ а́
Stop it.
Ruri, who had been throwing a sharp remark at Ferda, couldn't continue.
Because the eyes of Ruri, who had been looking up at him, went wide.
No wonder, something that absolutely didn't suit him was falling from Ferda's face.
'Tears......?'
From that iron-mask-like human, Ferda's eyes, tears were flowing down.
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Just a single drop.
Tears flowing from an expression without change, but Ruri was shocked.
It was definitely because of that story just now that he shed tears.
Feeling the sensation running down his cheek, Ferda realized belatedly.
"Ah."
Ferda was also surprised by his own state.
En̂ ǔ.m̀.ã. i̇ď
He brushed it away with his index finger and apologized to her.
"I showed you an unsightly sight."
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Unlike his eyes, there was no moisture in his voice.
As if his tear ducts had shriveled up and forcibly spat out the pooled water.
"I understand. What you're saying."
Ferda gave up that investigation and returned to his room.
Eňù m̈ӓ
"Sorry for the trouble. I'll be going back."
Ruri quietly watched Ferda walking away.
Around when Ferda's figure faded, she could finally open her mouth.
"What an unfathomable human......."
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Ruri had also gone through many years and watched many humans, so she thought she knew them well.
But Ferda, the more she got to know him, the less she understood.
Ӗnūm̈_ȧ. і̇d̃
A man who broke even his ally's fingers for the sake of fairness, and killed even nobles saying there would be aftermath.
A human without blood or tears shed tears.
'Only after hearing a story about Master-nim...... can that happen?'
It hasn't even been a year since they became aware of each other's existence.
Yet how can he feel such deep emotion?
Ruri repeated it several times but no answer appeared.
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* * *
"Tears......."
Ferda was also surprised by that fact.
That he could shed tears.
Those tears weren't caused by his own emotions.
'During that conversation, it seeped in.'
Еn̈ûm ӓ . і̂ d̀
When he realized that huge vibration was Valdrova,
And when he learned she was doing self-destructive acts,
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Valdrova's emotions seeped into Ferda's inside.
'Self-loathing.'
Whenever she couldn't control herself, she always nurtured self-loathing.
She throws herself into the impure things buried deep in the pit of emotions.
Е̂ n̈u m̈ а_.і̂d̀
She listens to the cursed voice echoing in the deep abyss, and strangles her own neck, suffocating.
She suppressed the destructive impulse by crushing herself with that self-loathing.
She wants to exist, but at the same time doesn't want to exist.
She fights alone like that every day.
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That indescribable emotion was boiling up from below Ferda's danjeon.
'The Red Circle turns.'
Ènũm̈ а̇. í d
It's still insufficient to advance one more step.
If Ferda focused like this and stayed up for several days, he would surely reach the 3rd Circle.
Very dangerous, but he could achieve very rapid growth.
'No.'
But Ferda put the brakes on the turning Red Circle.
'Not this time.'
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Ferda recalled the emotion when he reached the 2nd Circle.
That something that tickled him disappeared with the achievement.
'This...... must not be forgotten.'
In this life, I decided to live for her.
The vow back then was that even if I couldn't make her happy, I wouldn't make her sad.
This is an emotion directly connected to her sadness.
Е̂ nu mǎ
I didn't want to gloss over her sadness along with achievement.
'Solve that first.'
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Moving forward is the next matter.
That is the reason I stand here.
* * *
Next morning.
Е nù m̈ а̊.їḋ
Ferda went to Mori waiting by the study.
She was all dressed up by Echidna's hands.
Ferda asked her.
"Do you know dragons well?"
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What's in her head is the Library of All Things.
Information on all things in the world was input.
Ё n ŭ mа́ .і́.d̃
So naturally she nodded.
"About the Red Dragon, Valdrova, too?"
Nod nod.
"Can you describe it?"
Mori nodded, picked up a pen, and started writing.
Instead of the flowing cursive scribes use, she wrote in easy-to-read block letters.
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-Dragons are those who fought to change primordial chaos into order. What the survivors were granted is the essence that makes up the continent. To the Blue Dragon, Morgan, the power to rule over mana and water; to the Silver Dragon, Silverwind, the power to handle wind and ice.
It was a chapter from a continental history book I heard in liberal arts class when I was young.
-The Red Dragon was granted the power to handle strength and fire. Her military power alone is the most outstanding among all dragons.
"So that's why there's so much slander like Tyrant, Demon Dragon?"
-She is consistently described as an object of reverence, but being formally designated as an Evil Dragon is relatively recent in dragon history.
"Since when?"
W̄е bn̈ ōv́е̂l̊ Еňumа̄
-After the Dragon-Demon War, that is, after Godwin's death.
Black Dragon and Phase of Darkness.
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The day a dragon of the continent died for the first time.
-The Black Dragon Godwin was known as a dragon ruling darkness, but later it was learned that Chaos was also an essence granted to him as he revealed his ambition. Godwin showed his ambition and became the source of all demons, throwing the continent into chaos. However, other rulers stepped in and he was ultimately killed by the Red Dragon Valdrova.
"So?"
-The most plausible hypothesis is that in the process of killing him, Godwin's power made Valdrova's power unstable. Therefore, the Phase of Power couldn't suppress her own power, causing secondary damage.
Е_nuḿӓ
Valdrova's Rampage.
Many people died from the Demon King's appearance, but her rampage also killed and burned many people.
'Innocent humans and creatures, and even Silverwind.'
A tragedy she must atone for forever.
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"Is there no way to suppress it?"
Mori closed her eyes just like that.
Е̊ ňŭ ma
She was searching through all the books in her head.
After 5 minutes of meditation like that, she opened her eyes again.
Shake shake (side to side).
"Is that so?"
Ferda accepted it calmly.
It was a contradictory statement to begin with.
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If there's a way to suppress the Red Dragon called the Phase of Power, can that be called the Phase of Power?
She must suffer from her own power forever.
'Is there really nothing I can do?'
Ferda agonized.
The image of her stripping her own scales and bleeding is drawn.
Helplessness weighed down like a thousand-pound weight, and futility pierced his heart like a thousand spears.
W eb n̂о̂v̂ е̊l Е̇ ǹ ümå
He felt a pain similar to when he absorbed her heart.
'If only I could do anything.......'
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That was when.
A small touch tapped Ferda's collar.
Mori, who was holding the pen, had tugged his clothes.
A tool doesn't move carelessly.
W̃ѐ b́ ñ о v èl Eṅùm̄а̂
Her moving meant the command Ferda gave was activated.
"Has a situation come where you can give an answer?"
Mori nodded.
She moved the pen again.
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The moment he saw the next sentence she wrote, a thick fog cleared in Ferda's heart and the sun rose.
Mori's eyes were looking clearly at Ferda.
Wе̃.b ń õvеl Е́ñu_m̈а̇
-Based on the given information, a hypothesis that she can be suppressed has been confirmed.
-According to the hypothesis, Ferda Valdrova, you can suppress her.
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