13. No Longer Human
This was definitely the best gift Reina had received since coming to this world.
She could already imagine herself putting the cute dragon egg into the dragon nest, holding it in her arms, nestled under the covers, and comfortably incubating the egg. Imagining her daughter’s cute sleeping face, her body began to twist happily, her tail extending from under the covers and gratefully wrapping around Calysia’s waist.
“I like it♡”
No, wait…
Reina realized her words might be ambiguous.
—She had almost made that dummy happy!
She said shyly, “I like the dragon nest, not you.”
But she quickly remembered… Wasn’t the dragon nest hand-woven by Calysia?
This would make Calysia ecstatic!
“As long as you like it~”
Calysia said with a smile.
Reina lowered her head, suddenly remembering the matter of the Goddess of Light.
“It’s certainly quite practical, but I don’t exactly like it. This is what you should be doing!”
“That’s right, this is what you should be doing. I’m your mate, weaving dragon nests is your duty!”
Calysia also used her tail to hook around Reina’s neck, her tail tip exploring Reina’s delicate skin, as if testing her, and then she reached out and touched Reina’s swollen belly.
“Mm-hmm~”
Seeing this, Reina felt she had gone too far.
To deny Calysia’s hard work like this made her seem like an ungrateful dragon girl.
“Thank you…”
She hugged a dragon nest, rubbed her scent all over it on her chest, and then placed it under her pillow… Only then did she realize that she had also hidden the “Dragon Tear Agate” Calysia had given her in the same place, along with the diamond ring Calysia had given her, and a scale that had fallen from Calysia’s own body, all tucked away in this narrow space under her pillow!
Having such precious, treasure-like items hidden where she often slept made Reina feel very secure. Every time she thought about her favorite things being within reach, it was simply too convenient.
—Even if the world were to end, this would be the safest harbor!!
Reina sat on the bed and straightened the sheets, nodding in satisfaction only after the pillow looked almost flat.
She would forgive Calysia this time.
Next time, she would lock her in a dark room and punish her severely.
What kind of subordinate would be subjected to extreme punishment for offering treasures?
But Reina quickly regretted it. She did a quick check and found that there were more than 30 dragon nests!
“Am I going to incubate more than 30 eggs at once?!”
Just when I was about to show her some kindness, she provokes me like this?
But before Reina could complain, Calysia interrupted her with a smile:
“Reina, shall we go on a date tomorrow?”
“What’s so special about a date? We already live together.”
“It’s not an ordinary date.”
“Don’t be so mysterious.”
Reina’s face darkened.
“And, the meeting is coming up. Are you prepared for your speech, you dummy?”
“Haven’t you already prepared it for me?”
Calysia said with a smile.
Reina was speechless.
—Because she had indeed prepared everything for Calysia, even the aftermath and contingency plans for emergencies.
Wasn’t it all her doing?
Why did it sound like it was something she was supposed to do?
But she couldn’t refute Calysia now.
Because she had just said that weaving dragon nests was Calysia’s duty.
To “retort” now would be ungraceful.
So, Reina sullenly burrowed under the covers. The next second, Calysia also slipped in, and the two were entangled. She had originally wanted to reject Calysia to show her anger, but thinking of the dragon nests hidden under her pillow, she still gave Calysia a chance.
In the past, she would have been afraid of Calysia’s “fooling around” leading to lasting regret, but now that she was already pregnant, she was no longer afraid.
She had nothing left to lose.
So…
Go with the flow?
“Tomorrow, Reina will know.”
“Let’s talk about tomorrow’s matters tomorrow!”
…
“Don’t touch my chest…”
“Mmph…”
Reina didn’t realize until late at night that she had never let go of Calysia’s tail, holding it tightly around her waist, refusing to let go.
It was only when Calysia was startled awake from a dream that she found Reina drooling, hugging her arm, her face pressed against her, murmuring in her sleep:
“My thing…”
…
The next day, Reina finally understood what Calysia meant by “date.”
After breakfast, the two flew to the highest mountain peak in the Dragon Realm, below the Silver Dragon Airspace. Violent winds raged, dark clouds filled the sky, and rolling black clouds, like a world-ending miasma, billowed upwards from the volcano’s crater. Stretching out her hand, it felt as if she could touch the chaotic sky.
However, the so-called volcanic ash and scorching lava couldn’t harm the dragon race. Reina stood at the crater’s edge, but she couldn’t feel any heat from the white, flocculent substance, which was hundreds or even thousands of degrees hot, like a normal drizzle.
This was the dragon race’s physique.
Even a low-level volcanic eruption site could be treated as their own backyard.
But the only thing that made Reina feel uncomfortable was,
—A date in this godforsaken place?
Did Calysia have some misunderstanding of the word “date”?
Reina stood at the top of the volcano, in front of her were steaming hot rocks and overflowing lava, behind her was a bottomless cliff.
She tidied her hair, patted the hem of her equally impressive maid uniform, and her swollen belly.
Calysia stood beside her.
“Reina~, although you’re already one hundred percent dragon, you’re not a real dragon yet.”
Reina felt a gust of wind, and the rapidly expanding magic power made her instinctively widen her eyes.
Turning her head, she found that Calysia had disappeared.
No…
Reina’s eyes widened in disbelief.
“This…”
Calysia was gone, replaced by a giant silver dragon.
Beautiful silver scales like armor, strong limbs, sharp dragon claws that effortlessly dug into the ground. Looking up, she could see the slender dragon eyes watching her.
Her beautiful wings were large enough to blot out the sky, her massive tail like a huge train, the scales at its tip gradually turning purple, exactly like Calysia’s tail in her memory.
The dragon’s body was estimated to be over 300 meters long. Suddenly, the entire volcano seemed insignificant, like a pathetic little toy in comparison, making Reina feel a primal fear.
The dragon flapped its wings, and the resulting gust of wind, like a small sandstorm, sent sand and stones flying, devastating the entire volcano.
But its gentle eyes and beautiful, elegant form gave Reina a sense of belonging that she herself wanted to resist. The feeling of having defeated a giant monster instantly vanished, replaced by a loyalty and vassal instinct that gradually took over her mind, urging her to follow her master and toy with this pathetic, small world.
…This dragon was Calysia.
She lowered her head, looking at the small dragon girl with a dragon head that could be considered a work of art by human standards:
“Reina’s reaction shouldn’t be so strong~”
“Come on, completely transform into a dragon and experience the body of a dragon~”
“You’re no longer human.”
