Ashes and Kingdoms

Immediately, they were led by Utier into one house - or room, into a wheelchair. Walk on a cradle-knitted rug and receive fresh water and hospitality for nuts and fruits. Sestas remembered that after biting a ripe apricot out of season, there was talk of a human being who couldn't go home with his mouth full of things from different worlds.

(But if you've been hiding here for the rest of your life, do you mind?)

Drink fruit with bitter emotions. Utier just stared at how he would eat.

Taz drank the water and laughed happily "I'm going to come back to life" after breathing so much. When Utier turned his blue eyes, he said, a little reluctantly, almost at the same pace as usual.

"It was a treat. So... uh. I need to ask you a few questions."

So for a moment, I turn my attention to Nella and Sestas. A flair that wonders if we should give the initiative of the conversation to the people we were aiming for here. Sestas, who guessed, shook his head, "Fine."

"I'm still a little bit, because my head doesn't work. Taz asked me a question first."

"Really? So, Master Utier... Wasn't it? The dragon is with you. Could it be that you took a family and hid in the woods a long time ago?

"Nari" Utier responded quietly. "My bonding companion is Orgenadius, the dragon of Org, the god of hidden power. So a little, I can manipulate time. Your time and ours are not the same. I do live a long time, but I'm not old enough for history outside."

……

Taz couldn't keep up with his understanding and let his eyes squeeze. From the side Sestas embarks on himself in a way that intrigues him.

"What did they do that for? After the war, Diatius had peace in less than a hundred years, if only to survive the chaos of the outside world."

"It was meant to be at first. To feed the land damaged by war green, to do great storms of swords...... But the world of men repeats strife when it appears that it has settled. If we show up, we'll be a new spark. That's why we decided to take another time. It was a good choice to feed the forest."

So Utier looked out. Seeing a splendidly grown giant tree is a satisfying charity.

"Growing trees takes decades, hundreds of years. We have grown forests with as few uncertain generations as possible. The rest of me, of course, are already fifth or sixth generations."

To the astonishment of being spoken pale, the listeners were just extinguished.

- And Cestas accidentally shouted in dismay.

"So no way, the moon is flowing many times faster in the outside world while we're here!?

My voice trembled. While I was grabbing the relaxing fruit, outside the woods, the leaves of the trees fell, it snowed, it broke, the little young leaves sprouted...... will everything flow away dizzily?

Fear runs up my back. The first thing that came to mind was what his mother looked like.

(won't be able to see you)

When I decided to hide myself, I was ready for that. But I never imagined this would happen. In the blink of an eye, my mother, my father, left me to grow old, to grow old, etc.

(I hate it!

I didn't want that!

Cestas stood up blue. Utier gently stopped him from leaving immediately.

"It's because of you, who's out there? I have nothing to fear. Even now that you're inside us, your time is still the same as outside.... confused? Don't think too deeply. Unless you bond with Org's dragon, you'll never see the mystery of time"

Hehe, and for the first time Utier spilled a laugh. On that soft look and voice, Taz raises the loose voice between "ahhh" and "ahh". Gathering everyone's gaze, Taz scratched his head in the blindfold.

"Master Utier, could it have been a woman's person? Sorry, I heard I was the king..."

"Eh."

Unexpectedly, Cestas also looks at Utier with his eyes round. The king of the Fidae tribe nodded casually after blinking several times.

"Oh, I totally forgot about that already... sure, I'm a woman. Well, you don't have to pick the flowers. Beautiful things are full of these woods."

In a merciful tone, she stroked the dragon's neck with a natural trick. And stand up slowly.

"Guests, they're free to use this room, but it's good. Food and water will soon be found there. If you don't have what you want, call me who you want. I don't care what the dragon's daughter will do without relying on us."

"Master Utier!

Nella screamed small. But Utier didn't pay attention at all, leaving the three of them in confusion and walking away like slippery.

Surprise, confusion and confusion drifting indoors sink cursorily. The silent silence that remained also, let alone Nella's sigh, blew away.

"... ha... no way, in this way..."

Blurry with a whisper, then she looked at them both in turn and said:

"Please don't look like that. Mr. Taz, you don't have to run."

Taz, who was retreating on the wall of his heart, rushed back to his body.

"Shh, excuse me! No, I wasn't scared of that, this is just a surprise. Really. 'Cause I don't care what Nella says... Hey, Cestas, you can sit down too."

Grabbing and pulling Cestas' hand in a hurry. Cestas lowered his hips without resisting, still keeping his eyes black and white. There seems to be too much at once to exceed the capacity of the head.

Nella showed her troubled face to the grumpy Sestas.

First of all, I'm not a dragon.

"- Huh?" Cestas finally leaked his voice. "No?

"No. It's not a dragon, it's a dragon's daughter, what is it? If we trace our ancestors, we can only say that they are connected to dragons and dragon marquises… they are not like that Organadius."

"A dragon and a dragon marquis, then, Mr. Nella, no way"

Taz opens his mouth gently. Continuing, he was cancelled by the cry of Cestas.

"You mean we're relatives?

After one breath, now Taz raised his bare voice.

"Huh!? Oh, what, wait a minute! Whoa, relatives... I mean, you too? Huh?"

Nella reaches out softly and slaps him on the back, feeling completely confused, poor Taz.

"Please calm down, Mr. Taz. I'll explain it right - take your breath slowly. Do you mind?... You know that the first Lord Nakte was the dragon marquis of the earth dragon. He was welcoming a human wife, but actually he had a baby with a dragon."

"Can you do that?

"Looks like you made it, because you have offspring now."

Nella stepped aside and clapped her shoulders, looking back at Cestas and continuing.

"Of course, most people seemed to say it was blasphemy. Besides, even if not, Dragon Marquis is a long life... and there were many relatives in need of perseverance in our Lord's throne. Dragon Hou, that person didn't mean to be the main one until he killed his blood ties, but he doesn't carry things in peace... I hear there was an ugly dispute. Dragon Marquis was killed, a child drawing dragon blood was connected to prison, and the dragon, who had taken the child, disappeared.

This has not been told to the Austra family man. It's only natural that Senato doesn't know. "

Cestas was out of line and Taz lost his voice to another surprise again. I thought you were the orphan's sister and brother, but I can't believe my sister was actually a dragon descendant and my brother was a noble descendant.

While they were silent, Nella continued ahead.

"Let's leave aside what has been done to our clan. Because there is no definite evidence of the past. Anyway, now me and my family aren't much different from normal people either. You think you can tell if it's cheap to stay away by making a small bond with a particular opponent, like a good idea or a little longer to live? That's about it. And we have dedicated this power... to the Mistress of Austra."

"The mistress? I mean, to your mother?

Sestas' voice, finally heard back, was faint and trembling. Nella takes his hand and wraps it up gently with both hands.

"Yes, because it was some of the wives, including the Yerg family, who saved the children when the first Dragon Marquis was killed. So we've served to protect our mistress's children for generations. Whether or not, Austra Gate was born with only daughters, and she could be taken lightly from other nobles, such as a woman's gate... In fact, many of them were fine, like Senato's great-grandmother.

That's why, when you were born, your grandfather made many gifts with great pleasure that he was the heir of a boy. But there would have been nothing less than the affection of Master Fernena. Master Fernena made me your maid of honor. more valuable than silk production, as a lifelong gift "

…………

Cestas - Senato closed his eyes with a small exhale. The warmth of wrapping my hands reminds me of my mother's kindness. A calm silence softly melted the resolve a year ago and turned it into tears.

From under the closed lid, Shizuku spills and communicates his cheeks. Senato leaked a fine voice.

"I want to see my mother."

What I put into words filled me with feelings of admiration like I cut a weir. I tried to chew my lips and whimper, but I didn't.

When Nella held him with her arms wide open, he did not resist, clung to him all the time, and finally raised his voice and cried out.

Senato cried awfully for a while, and at the end of the day she was exhausted and fell asleep with Nera's knee on her pillow. In the meantime, Taz was out of place without any skill, but when Senato finally started to take a nap, he breathed in relief and reached for the rest of the fruit.

"I'm surprised. I can't believe this guy was the missing little Senato. I wish you'd told me."

"I'm sorry, but I have to be careful"

"Oh, no, I know I couldn't. That makes sense. I was too kind. I didn't know you were suspicious."

"Master Senato did that?

"Yeah, well. But... why are you running away? I wish I could go home to Nakte. Is there a reason why you shouldn't go home?

I was reluctant to ask the last question, but even let the certainty drift that the people I dated so far had the right to listen.

Nella stared at Taz and then spoke quietly to keep Senato awake. That he's afraid of war, that he doesn't want to go back to Nakte because he doesn't want to be flagged for war at his grandfather's hands.

Taz, knowing the circumstances, was hammering him as he was convinced at first, but when Nella clasped her mouth, she reluctantly said in a complicated voice, "But".

"That's not going to solve anything after all, is it?

"Yeah, right. Master Senato too, you know that thinly. But to just twelve or three year olds, what do you think you can do? To my grandfather, who is mightier than my parents, to the emperor, who is also the empire itself, just to stand alone on his own?

"It's... hmm"

Taz scratches his head. Then he looked down at Senato's sleeping face and lowered his mouth.

"You're such a lame bastard because an adult wanted to stop by and use it. Sleep tight, and you'll never be cute."

Nella grinned at the loose ends, reaching out and gently pulling Taz's hair.

"It's rude, Mr. Taz. Master Senato is adorable enough."

"I would be angry if I heard that in person. Even if it's tiny, it's a man."

To Taz, who smiled bitterly, Nella didn't say back just clapping her shoulders.

The boy sleeping on her knees is still unusual and far from “man”. That's fine now, if you can sleep well as a toddler...... Nella whispered in her heart and kept gently stroking her honey-colored hair.