Dear Broom Knight

Ruthkania said with a hint of regret, "I was really hoping they'd be useful to you!

Although I always tell Travis that you're more like a dragon, that's more in terms of your understanding of the world.

But in terms of identifying with your true self, you still prefer to accept yourself as human.

People with demon bloodlines, although it's not good for them, can quickly make those who observe them abandon their recognition of the human form.

If you could transform into a dragon, eating two of them would be even better.

It would immediately make you completely disillusioned with humans."

"Why?" Lowry actually understood a little, but still couldn't open the door in front of him.

"Demons are just a collection of desires!" Ruthkania replied crisply, "When you swallow the physical desires into your stomach, you'll know how disgusting and difficult to eat they are.

Although any intelligent creature has desires, human ones are particularly foul.

We dragons are indeed greedy, not only for wealth but also for lust, and our personalities aren't great, but we don't need to hide our desires.

So, when our desires are condensed together, the taste might be strange, a bit like sulfur, but it's not foul at all.

"You haven't even eaten them," Lowry interrupted her.

"I, the Chromatic Dragon Queen, have eaten them, it's in my inherited memories," Ruthkania said unconvincingly, "She ate all the demons in hell and then made that judgment.

Demons that devour human desires are the foulest!

Elves and dwarves are a little better… although they are also greedy and selfish, they don't want as much, and they don't change their desires all the time.

The taste of humans is a complex foulness, do you understand? Lowry.

Even if it's dung, each piece tastes different… but they all stink."

Lowry froze.

After a long while, he said decisively, "Ruthkania, please don't discuss this with me in the future, I don't want to know at all.

And, you'd better not tell this to others.

I don't think the Chromatic Dragon Queen would be happy."

Ruthkania said nonchalantly, "See, that's your human side.

Tiamat doesn't care if I say she eats dung.

As long as I don't covet her treasure hoard and don't have the intention to compete with her for power, then I can say anything.

It's not cursing if it's not face-to-face.

If you had this awareness, I wouldn't say you're more like a human in terms of cognition.

Non-face-to-face provocation is just the furious roar of the incompetent, why bother with it?"

"But I grew up as a human! Ruthkania," Lowry laughed, "Even if I become more and more like a dragon later, isn't my appearance still human?

Then it's not wrong for me to choose to live like a human!"

"That's not how it works," Ruthkania couldn't quite explain, "I can't explain it to you clearly.

After this world reopens, go and see the outside world!

Especially Toril.

That world is very treacherous, tricking people, gods, and dragons, but it is also the most terrible, craziest, and most beautiful place where humanity shines.

Many dragons like to hide among humans and experience that… strange state of humanity.

But, even if they're just a tailor, they're still different from humans."

Lowry actually guessed what she meant, but still insisted, "I'm also different from everyone else!"

"Different! No, it's not the same thing at all!" Ruthkania, realizing she didn't have a good mouth, broke down, "Your difference is in the direction of a mage, it's not the same thing as race!"

Lowry couldn't help but laugh, "Although I don't understand what you're saying, I understand what you mean, Ruthkania.

I will consider it carefully.

However, eating people, even if they are humanoid non-humans, is unacceptable to me, and never will be."

"It's not like I'm asking you to eat that thing directly," Ruthkania muttered, "When that thing dies, wisps of smoke will emerge from its body, and you can use magic to gather the smoke into a pellet.

Just eat that.

Eating people directly is just more convenient.

If it weren't for being so hungry that there's no other way, dragons, even evil dragons, wouldn't be interested in eating people.

Except to deter humans."

"But look, Ruthkania," Lowry calmly replied to his very dragon-like friend, "Even dragons have to eat a couple of people to show them when they want to deter humans.

Doesn't that prove that, for humans, cannibalism is a great terror?

Although there are few people who are not afraid of death, there is always one in ten thousand.

But when they see their own kind being eaten, even such a one-in-ten-thousand person will lose the courage to resist.

So, you have to understand that as long as I still have humanity, I can't do this."

Ruthkania was silent for a while before saying, "But Lowry, I've seen many people eating people in my inherited memories!

Those people don't all have their souls scattered, and some may even fall directly into the abyss and hell due to their extreme evil, becoming incomparably powerful demon lords.

Does your persistence have any meaning?"

"It has meaning for myself, that's enough!" Lowry was a little surprised, "Ruthkania, haven't you always known that I have a very dragon-like personality in this regard, only looking at myself and not others?

What does it matter to me what others do?

I just need to stick to my own heart, whether I change direction or not, it has to be my own choice.

What's wrong with you?

Did something stimulate you?"

Ruthkania hesitated for a moment before saying, "Ah ah… you're right, why am I suddenly so sentimental?

Hmm?

It seems like it's not my problem."

Lowry blinked, "Is His Majesty Travis unhappy these days?"

Ruthkania snorted, "He's just asking for trouble.

Raising children is not as meticulous as I am! He really took it to heart when I comforted him a couple of times!

Does Rosalind still have love for her own father?

It's because she realized that if she didn't leave, she wouldn't be able to leave!"

Lowry hesitated for a moment before asking, "Has that girl swallowed someone's luck yet?"

The inheritance on this aspect is very detailed on the dragon side.

Not because of anything else, but… although dragons won't have their luck taken away by someone because they feel emotional towards them, they can easily be swayed by taking favors.

Dragons already have very bad luck, and being able to gain a foothold in a certain world or even have a certain hegemony is all scratched out by their own claws!

Who can bear to lose everything just because of a moment of greed!

Moreover, if that little bit of luck is taken away, the fate of the dragons, who are already very prone to bad luck, is simply heartbreaking and tear-jerking.

Regardless of which type of dragon, there will be a red warning in the inheritance related to this aspect.

After all, dragons really have a hard time refusing a gem or a gold coin sent to their claws.

Therefore, dragons either do some cost-free business or do some extremely profitable business, and rarely accept gifts suddenly given by others for no reason.

Ruthkania was silent for a while before she moved again.

"Actually, Travis's sons and daughters are all well-trained," Ruthkania said irrelevantly, "Of course, it's not to say that they don't have ambition, or that their character is good enough… This is actually not within Travis's scope of concern.

Rather, they all understand their own father's bottom line and generally don't touch it.

Just like the prince who forced your mother away… if Count Gzallberk hadn't been pulling the strings, he would never have taken a fancy to your mother.

He was indeed wrong in this matter, but he was not the mastermind, nor was he the person who bore the greatest responsibility.

You understand what I mean, right? Lowry.

No matter what they do, they will always hide behind the scenes and not reveal their ambitions and desires.

What's the use of having great ambitions with a father like Travis?

You can only blame yourself for having bad luck and being born too early.

Just like they want to plot the border forces, they also do it through marriage. Although the Montes family was used very miserably, it can't be said that there is anything wrong with that method.

The royal family is actually quite willing to see the border earl and the inland nobles intermarry.

Otherwise, Travis wouldn't have agreed from the beginning.

He's not the kind of person who likes to cause trouble for himself.

Although in this world, the royal family occupies the moral high ground and has some advantages in the competition with the nobles, it doesn't mean that the nobles don't have the ability.

Isn't there an example next to us!

And the earliest power lost by the Icewind royal family was the control over the border.

So, no matter what your father did, his loyalty to Travis is still beyond doubt… he just chose the wrong person, not did the wrong thing.

However, ten years ago, do you remember when you first came to the palace? Lowry.

Several princes, whose relationships had never been very harmonious, had intense conflicts with each other.

The Icewind Palace hadn't been so lively in a long time. I remember you witnessed it with your own eyes at the time.

The first time I accompanied you out to find trouble was also related to their farce.

Originally, Travis only thought it was because they had been fighting for too long and the grudges had become too big.

Unexpectedly… someone was actually messing around in the middle."

"How did Rosalind do it? She was only a few years old at that time?" Lowry couldn't imagine it at all.

"Because Rosalind is weak enough and always likes to ask Travis for some help, she does have more opportunities to see Travis than ordinary princes," Ruthkania suddenly laughed, "Travis thought Rosalind's purse was too empty, so he didn't stop others from contacting her and asking this little princess to say a few good words.

However, Rosalind at that time was actually quite innocent.

No wonder Travis thought she was lovable."

"Have you already figured out how she managed to maintain two faces even in front of you guys?"