7 - Chapter 7
Ch7
The Baby Dragon Revives the Duke's Family, Episode 7
In the meantime, the food began to arrive.
"Bbi-hya."
As soon as Ashil discovered the plate piled high with strawberries, he cleared his mind completely.
The fragrant smell made his mouth water.
On the other hand, Elkai, who hadn't touched the food and was only watching Ashil intently, opened his mouth again.
"Certainly, it's a trivially-looking booger, but it seems necessary to confirm."
"Bbit?!"
Ashil was so surprised that he raised his tail sharply. A trivially-looking booger?!
He'd rather be called a monster.
Calling him a booger to a Beast-man who worships power, how could he say such a bad thing? Mom was right that he wouldn't like Ashil!
Ashil, who had forgotten that he had called himself a booger first, retorted primly.
"Bbi-ya bbi!" (Ashil is not a trivially-looking booger!)
"Don't talk about dirty boogers while eating."
Then he turned his head as if he had said all he wanted to say, but this couldn't be.
'Grandfather was the one who started the booger talk!'
Feeling wronged, Ashil glared fiercely at Elkai.
'Grandfather is looking down on Ashil.'
Humans are said to be strong against the weak, this was a big problem.
He had to quickly become the ferocious Dragon beast-man from the book and suppress his spirit.
Ashil shouted even more fiercely than before.
"Bbi-yaa bbi!" (Ashil is not a trivial booo-ger!)
At the same time, he softened it with the least dirty word possible.
'No, this is not enough. I have to become more ferocious!'
It was then that Ashil's eyes, which were looking around, caught sight of the table.
'Yes, this is it!'
Ashil slipped off the chair and lay half down. Then he put his hind legs on the table with a thud.
Elkai made an absurd expression.
"Are you protesting?"
"Bbi-ya!" (Ashil always eats like this!)
Ashil, who spoke as arrogantly as possible, reached out his front paw towards the strawberry in front of him.
Just you wait, I'm going to eat all of Grandfather's strawberries!
But…….
"……Bbit."
Due to his body structure, his front paw couldn't reach the strawberry.
He curled his body into a ball like a ball and groaned, but it was right in front of him, almost touching.
'No, if this happens, Grandfather will really look down on Ashil!'
In his anxiety and frustration, Ashil began to wave his front paws as if swimming.
Then Elkai, who couldn't stand it any longer, said something.
"Take your feet off the table."
"Bbit?!"
Ashil, who was trying to pick up the food with his front paws, stopped. No, how could he say such harsh words?
Ashil looked at Elkai with a look of a lost nation.
Realizing his mistake belatedly, he muttered to himself as if groaning.
"Just a booger with only feet……."
Gurgle.
It was then that Ashil's stomach clock rang loudly.
'Ashil can't eat anything anymore.'
As Ashil's eyes became tearful, Elkai tried to avoid his gaze.
"Hmm, you can put your feet up as much as you want."
"Bbi……."
He got permission to eat, but he failed to become a ferocious Dragon beast-man.
Ashil, who was feeling dejected, took his hind legs off the table and began to eat the strawberries.
He had to eat and gain strength to become a ferocious Dragon beast-man or whatever.
Chop chop chop. For a while, only the sound of Ashil eating strawberries dejectedly could be heard in the dining room.
After finishing his meal without energy.
As soon as Ashil saw the rabbit eating grass alone in the room, he suddenly shouted.
"Bbi-yaaaaa! Bbi bbi-ya-yaaaa!" (Kuaaaaang! Ashil is a ferocious Dragon beast-man!)
"Kkyu."
As if he had been waiting for this moment, the rabbit, pretending to be fainted, chewed on a mouthful of grass.
Ashil, who didn't see that, fell into serious thought.
'The rabbit friend is so scared, but why is it not effective on humans?'
He even put his feet on the table and glared fiercely, but all that was left was the nickname booger.
If this situation continues to repeat, her husband might order her to catch and eat that trivial and tiny child quickly.
'No way.'
I can't be eaten by humans like this.
As it was a matter of life and death, Ashil crossed his arms, which didn't work well, and worked hard to think.
However, even after thinking for several days, a good idea didn't come to mind.
Eventually, Ashil took out a fairy tale book for young Beast-man that was rolling around in the Subspace and began to read it.
'They say you get smarter if you read books.'
Maybe he could find out how to become ferocious.
It was while reading the fairy tale "The Black Dragon Who Became a Guardian God."
"A black dragon and his family lived in a small village.
One day, when everything was peaceful, humans invaded.
The black dragon, who hated killing, tried to solve it through dialogue, but unfortunately, they couldn't communicate.
So he flew to the human world, kidnapped the king, and punished him.
The king, surprised by the black dragon's power, immediately surrendered and was forever revered as a guardian god."
Ashil's eyes widened. Yes, this is it!
Just like the black dragon in the fairy tale, Ashil decided to kidnap Elkai and punish him.
'Then not only Grandfather but all humans will be afraid of Ashil, right?'
In Ashil's innocent mind, the image of Elkai trembling appeared.
'I'm sorry. I will never call you a booger again.'
'Bbi-yat!' (From now on, Grandfather is the booger!)
'Yes, yes. I am a booger. It's all my fault…….'
Just thinking about it made him feel good.
When he thought about Elkai calling himself a booger, he laughed, "Bbi-hya-hya-hya."
'Alright, this time I'm going to become a ferocious dragon!'
With a determined expression, Ashil clenched his front paws and rushed out of the room to kidnap Elkai.
Elkai was taking a walk in the garden with his aide.
The Munrepe Duke, his son, hadn't smiled much since he received the Divine Beast's wrath, so the aide spoke to Elkai, who had been looking cheerful lately.
"You look good."
"Good."
He cut it short and became serious. But soon he smiled brightly as if nothing had happened.
"That guy. At first, I thought it was a Wyvern chick, but when I looked closely, it looked like a mutant lizard chick."
In fact, he was a dragon, but his body was so small that no one could think of Ashil as a dragon.
He recalled Ashil, who was upset by the word booger and was chirping, and nodded to himself.
"I have to admit, he's cheeky."
Elkai was a man of fiery temper who used his sword before his words.
So much so that his grown-up sons still found it difficult to deal with their father.
That's why he found Ashil, who was talking back to him, refreshing.
Unlike his grandson Edenber, who always called him 'Elkai-nim,' it was also amazing that he called him 'Grandfather!' without any pretense.
"He munches his mouth when he eats strawberries. He munches with a face smaller than my hand. But how cheeky he is."
"Is that so."
"I knew it from the moment I was told to take him as my daughter-in-law. And how he dangles eggshells on his head. I wonder if he's going to save them to use when making soup. Anyway, he's a funny guy."
"Hahaha."
When did you say where such a guy popped out from, and now you've become so attached to him?
It was hard to get used to, but the aide diligently agreed.
Then he realized one thing.
Elkai had spent more than half of his life on the battlefield, so he wasn't close to his children.
His only grandson had also matured too early to see his cuteness.
That means.
'He has no immunity to cuteness.'
He was just evaluating him as funny, but from the aide's point of view, he seemed to be completely in love with Ashil.
Elkai, who was laughing heartily without knowing that, suddenly hardened his face and changed the subject.
"By the way, is Biante still not here yet?"
Biante was the name of his second son and Edenber's uncle.
