Chapter 324: You're My Wife.
Chapter 324: “You're My Wife.”
On that day, Jiltry was bursting with excitement.
How could it not?
Up above the man and two girls walking down the street while holding hands, the black dragon acted like the most loyal bodyguard. It flew by slowly flapping its wings while at the same time shadowing the three people on the ground. The appearance of it was more amazing than any other noble or even royal procession, so it instantly maxed out the awe meter.
The citizenry seemed to have already gotten the news from the knight, so although none dared to get close to the street that Shien’s group was going down, they did instead pop their heads out from the various buildings and side streets to look at the three of them. Although they were fearful, they were also excited at the same time.
“Is that how nobles from the Capital are?”
“That’s amazing… Way too amazing…!”
“He really does have a dragon as a mount…!”
“Are all nobles from the Capital this amazing?”
The citizenry quietly gossiped among each other to that effect as they looked up at Shien, who was holding the hands of Airi and Leisha, with awe.
At this moment, in those people’s eyes, Shien was unquestionably a person of vast greatness.
There were even many young ladies with good beauty and fairly decent status who came to observe while accompanied by guards. They looked at Shien with heated gazes, which made it all the more hard for others to accept this.
Even putting aside the fact that he was able to become a noble at such a young age and the fact that he has a true dragon as a mount, even the captain of the Second Knight Order who governed Jiltry had treated him so respectfully. Thus, wouldn’t such a man make simply the best spouse possible?
Add in the fact that he came from the Capital, meaning that he was able to establish a place for himself in the Capital, it meant that he was definitely a noble among nobles, so it’s only natural that those noble young ladies all fell for him.
This fact made Shien reminisce over it.
“It looks like there are advantages to being a noble after all.”
At the very yeast, it’s very much enough of a reputation booster. The treatment from others it invites is also pretty good, it’s basically the treatment of a winner.
Of course, the two beauties, one big and one small, next to Shien also got similar treatment.
“Look at that maid, quickly…”
“So beautiful…”
“How can there be such a beautiful maid?”
“If my family had such a beautiful maid, then how could I possibly bear to marry some baron’s daughter?”
“My family is the same. If they had even half her figure and looks, then I would have already gone up to them to propose marriage rather than waiting around for them to come force me to marry them.”
“A noble should have such a a beautiful maid if they want to actually show of.”
“Right?”
“That little girl is also really pretty as well.”
“She’s way too pretty.”
“If only my daughter was so adorable.”
“R-rather than that, I kind of want to adopt her as my daughter.”
“Yeah…”
“I really want that…”
Conversations like that continued to come. Many nobles and already married men all gathered together. They were practically drooling as they stared at the two beauties next to Shien.
Unfortunately for them, while Lasha can be put aside, Airi’s mood on the other hand was sinking with every moment.
“Daughter?”
Airi’s had a frosty look on her little face.
Again with the little sister and daughter talk. Just what is with thing now?
I’m the great Dragon Demon here! Am I really someone that can be taken as a little sister or daughter?
If you people wanted to consider me a big sister or mother, then I could at least reluctantly consider it complement. If I’m in a good mood, then maybe I might even act without thinking and allow you all a chance to forge some connections, yet you want to treat me as a little sister or daughter?
Do you only fear the dragon overhead and not me, the dragon king then?
Want to see me show a transformation here and now and scare you to deathh?
At that moment, all of you will beg to be my little brothers!
Airi was in a very bad mod, and she even started to dislike this city.
Thus, Airi begun making the following requests to Shien.
“You really want to rest here for the night? Why can’t we just head onward?”
Airi practically had the words “I don’t want to stay here” printed on her face.
Unfortunately for her, Shien wasn’t budging at all.
Well, alright. Not even Air really wanted to try to travel overnight.
As a sleep addicted dragon king, there’s no way that she can go the night without sleeping. That wasn’t something that can happen in her entire life.
It needs to be pointed out that, in the past, Airi had more than a few times slept 10-20 years every time she laid down for a nap. During this period of time by Shien’s side, she had basically been awake every single day. Although it’s not to the point of actual discomfort, she would still end up feeling sleepy all the time, so she really wanted to just lie down and sleep away the ages.
But if she really were to do that, then the next time she woke u, Shien may already be dead and buried.
Thus, Airi really didn’t dare to take such a deep slumber. She just had to maintain a daily routine of going to sleep early and getting up late, but that was already difficult enough for her.
“Then let’s at least switch to a different city to stay the night in.”
Airi brought up a different request.
However, this time, before Shien could speak up, it was Lasha who spoke up first.
“The closest city to Jiltry is over in the west, and even with lady Yulin’s speed, it would still take some amount of flying to reach. By the time we manage to get there, it would likely already be dark, and trying to find an inn to stay in at that time would probably be somewhat difficult.”
Lasha’s calm statement finally made Airi shut her mouth.
Although she was still showing some visible unhappiness, Shien knew that the girl in question has already given up on the idea of trying to leave.
“You really are to much.” Shien actually found it somewhat funny, “Isn’t it just being taken as a kid by other people? Is there really a need to object that much to it?”
“… Then allow me to ask you this.” Airi turned toward Shien and spoke with an utterly blank expression, “If, in the future, when you’ve already live up to 60 years old, yet everyone around you still continued to baby-talk at you and coaxing you about like you’re a little kid, call you by little Shien, telling you to remember to brush your teeth when you get up, and even buy you a pile of clothes suitable for 10 year old kids for you. Every day, they’d try to help you bathe, feed you by hand, and even force you to report where you are everywhere you go as well as make you bring a horde of people to protect and guard you. In that case, what will you do?”
In response to that, Shien just thought it over a little before he was unable to take it anymore.
If there really was some beautiful girls who would try to help him bathe and even feed him by hand, then that would actually be quite a pleasure, but from the way that Airi described it, Shien only ended up getting goosebumps all over.
It can’t be…
“You were living a life like that?”
Shien cautiously asked Airi.
“That’s right.” Airi continued to speak with an utterly blank expression, “Plus, it’s something that continued until now since the moment I was born, for an entire period of 10,000 years.”
10,000 years…
Shien’s gaze toward Airi was now filled with sympathy.
Even Lasha over at the side ended up given Airi a glance filled with some amount of pity.
It seems like this child had seriously experienced some shit.
No wonder she’s so addicted to sleeping. It’s probably not just because it’s something natural to dragons, but also because she wanted to escape from reality, right?
“Alright.” Shien thus spoke, “Then I won’t be announcing you as my little sister anymore.”
“Oh?” Airi immediately gained some interest as she turned toward Shien, “Then what kind of relationship with me do you plan on telling other people?”
“Cough…” Shien was struck then by indecision.
What should he announce her as?
A big sister?
Would other people even believe that?
A family elder?
There’s no way that would fly, right?
Given that little girl’s outer appearance, if he were to tell people that she’s older than him, then those other would probably think that he’s insulting their intelligence.
In that case then…
“I’ll say that you’re my wife.”
The words out of Shien’s mouth made Airi suddenly miss a step, almost tripping.
Even Lasha stopped moving and instead looked toward Shien. Shien even felt like he saw a hint of disdain from her eyes.
That was obviously the look one would give to a lolicon.
Hey now, girl, I’m just making a joke here. Please don’t take is so seriously, alright?
Just as Shien was faking a laugh, Airi looked at Shien with a rather speechless expression on her face.
“This is the first time I’ve ever seen someone who dared to claim me to be his wife.”
Airi used a single sentence to tell Shien just how insanely daring the words he just said were.
Taking the Dragon Demon as a wife?
There’s plenty of people who might be daring enough to think it, but there’s no one who would actually dare to try to say it out loud or actually do it.
However, what Shien rather wanted to say to that was…
“… Are you sure it isn’t that they can’t actually do it?”
Shien couldn’t hold himself back from taught fate again.
Airi didn’t say a word in response to that, she just started continuously putting more strength into the hand that was holding Shien’s, making “creak, crack” noises continuously come out.
“Owowowow…! It’s going to break, it’s breaking!”
Shien’s face warped, he cried out, and he grit his teeth in pain.
“Hmph!”
Only then did Airi finally toss Shien’s hand from her before then heading forward in an unhappy mood.
Shien hurriedly followed up after her before picking the girl in question up.
“I’m sorry oh great lady Airi.” Shien grinned, “It’s not that no one else would be able to do it, it’s that they lack the courage and ability, right?”
“Are you trying to coax a little kid here?” Airi still looked unhappy.
“Not at all.” Shien determinedly refused to admit it.
That said, there is one thing that he could admit to.
“I’ll go ahead and say it that way in the future then. You’re my wife, it’s decided then.”
Shien thus hugged the soft and warm little girl to him and one-sidedly decided on it.
“Hey!”
Airi seemed to want to object to it.
“Objections refused!”
Shien held his hand over the mouth of the little girl in his arms and shut her up.
“Mmmm…!”
Airi started struggling, but it had no effect at all.
The two of them simply continued to play fight while moving forward.
Lasha followed right behind them. She looked as calm as always, but every once in a while, the expression she had while gazing at Shien and Airi would turn a lot gentler.
Yulin was also following along. She was filled with awe and respect as she saw Shien hug and hold Airi’s mouth shut.
As expected of the master she recognized. He’s even able to subject such a powerful big sis dragon king. As expected, she had good judgment.
Thus, Yulin also seemed to have gotten in a good mood, which showed in her flying.
In this situation, Shien and the others didn’t discover that a group of people had poked their heads out from a certain building to watch them, and they seemed to also be discussing something.
Immediately after, they grabbed a large sack and started sneakily following after Shien and the others.