116. Have I Really Become a Fool?
Reina was woken up by Agnes’s movements in the morning.
This was quite rare. After all, her daughter usually woke up earlier than her, and even when she woke up, Reina wouldn’t wake up with her, so there was no such concern.
But today, Agnes was making “mmph, mmph” sounds. Reina discovered that upon hearing this sound, every cell in her body would instantly awaken—my daughter is in danger!
She quickly checked on the safety of the dragon egg… her main body and Calysia were holding the dragon egg, so it was fine!
Then, at the same time, she began to check if Agnes was injured…
Because she couldn’t see anything, she had to use the [Eye of Light] again. After discovering that nothing was wrong, she relaxed, closed the Eye of Light, and the world returned to “darkness.”
Reina touched Agnes’s back.
“Little Agnes, what’s wrong?”
“Mother?!”
Agnes’s voice was a mixture of surprise and delight, definitely not sadness.
“I… I have a tail!”
“Hehe…”
Reina recalled seeing Agnes’s tail when she woke up at three in the morning.
However, speaking of which, it was already 7 AM…
Agnes usually woke up at five. Had she overslept?
She released Agnes, and the latter poked her head out from the large dragon wings. Then, her tail also stretched out.
Agnes’s expression was one of unprecedented surprise and anticipation.
She wagged her tail, and after confirming that it was a part of her body, she hummed happily, and then, like a little dummy, lay back down in the cradle of Reina’s dragon wings.
“Agnes’s tail is so beautiful~”
“Thank you, Mama~”
Unlike what Reina had imagined, Agnes, after “falling” into the dragon race and growing a tail, wasn’t nervous at all… not even shy.
She was just excited to show her tail to her mother.
Isn’t this something to be nervous about?
Reina thought of her past self.
So, she pretended to be able to see and “stared intently” in the direction of Agnes’s tail.
She couldn’t believe it… but Agnes was calm and composed. No… rather than calm, she was happy and excited.
It was as if she were saying, “Mother, please look at my tail more~”
“What a beautiful tail… eh? Your hair…”
At some point, Calysia had also woken up.
She was sleepy-eyed, but also happy for Agnes… However, she still seemed to prefer Reina’s main body a little more.
Her tail was wrapped around Reina’s main body’s neck… In her sleep, she would unconsciously touch strange places.
Agnes picked up a small mirror from the bedside table and looked at her hair.
And this time, she blushed.
“This way, I won’t be able to hide my features…”
If it were just horns and a tail, it would be fine, but her hair, originally a basic feature of a human and now of a dragon, was as unchangeable as her fair skin.
“This way, won’t I be exposed…”
Agnes was a little worried, but she was more excited… Her only worry was actually just about causing trouble for Reina.
“It’s okay, Mama is here.”
Reina comforted her.
But her heart was actually filled with a bit of schadenfreude.
She had finally seen Agnes flustered!
It was just a little different from what she had imagined.
“Mmph, we can just kill all the humans to avoid this problem,” Agnes clenched her fists.
“Don’t just casually say such terrifying things—”
“Alright… then, just kill everyone who discovers my identity.”
“No!”
Reina’s two arms formed a cross, and her clone’s tail, like Calysia had done to her, wrapped around Agnes’s tail.
“I’ll announce that you’re a dragon princess. That way, you won’t have to bear the fate of a Saintess anymore.”
Although she said that, Agnes had long since stopped wanting to be a Saintess, at least not a human Saintess.
She was an existence that could kill any human without changing her expression.
Calysia smiled and nodded. She didn’t object to Reina’s proposal.
Not long after, Agnes got out of bed. She thought she could adapt to her body, but she experienced the exact same thing as Reina.
Including her walking posture, her method of maintaining balance, and even practicing flying in the future.
If Calysia wasn’t there to help, she would have fallen on the spot.
Only after learning to walk did Agnes say with a confident smile:
“I feel… so strong all over. Is this what it’s like to be a dragon?”
“The dragon race is countless times stronger than the frail human body… Agnes, try breathing out~”
“Ah~~”
Agnes didn’t originally know what “breathing out” meant. She just did as she was told.
And then, a large number of beautiful, diamond-like ice crystals condensed on the wall she was facing.
…
After helping Agnes adapt to her body, Reina’s clone returned to the bedchamber, intending to go to bed and incubate the egg.
She recalled Agnes’s efforts and thought about whether she should also go to the God Slaying Society to help…
But just as she was in a daze, Reina’s main body reached out and found that the dragon egg was gone!
Where the dragon egg should have been, there was only a patch of warmth.
Reina’s eyes widened in an instant, her perception fully open, no longer hiding her ferocious aura. A terrifying pressure swept out like a tsunami, and even the powerful Dragon Knight guards in the royal district almost fainted.
If it were an ordinary building, it would have been reduced to dust by Reina’s magic power outburst.
Her blindfold naturally fell off, and she opened her bluish-green pupils… The bottom of her left eye had a cross pattern, as if symbolizing some holy light.
[Eye of Light] fully activated.
The Dragon Mark under her azure hairband was faintly visible, and she had completely entered combat mode.
If she were to face an enemy of Phantom Dragon’s level again, she would probably be torn to shreds on the spot.
“Reina?!”
Calysia’s surprised and shocked voice came from behind.
She was quick-witted and quickly approached Reina, kissing her on the forehead the moment the latter turned around… because her hands were still holding the dragon egg.
Reina saw the dragon egg in Calysia’s arms, and her brain seemed to have crashed.
Her [Eye of Light] was forcefully closed, and her body collapsed on the bed…
“Sob, sob, sob…”
“My dragon egg…”
Reina realized that this was Calysia’s “prank” and burst into tears.
“Didn’t I say I was going to put a magic protection on the dragon egg? I was afraid of blowing up the bedchamber…”
Calysia placed the dragon egg back into Reina’s main body’s arms, not knowing which Reina to comfort.
And at this moment, Reina finally remembered that there was indeed such a thing… She was responsible for helping Agnes adapt to her body, and Calysia was going to a nearby place for a magic check.
But the moment she saw the dragon egg was gone, she still couldn’t control her emotions.
“I don’t care!”
Reina said aggrievedly, her voice choked with sobs.
“Sob, sob, sob…”
Thinking about it carefully, who else besides Calysia could have taken the dragon egg?
Could it be… that I’ve really become a fool?
Gosh, Reina is at least 116 chapters late to the realization