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She took a step closer to him, her expression intense. "That book changed my entire life, Asta. I went from a bored noble's daughter to completely obsessed with dragons. I read everything I could find and there wasn't much because most dragon-related texts were either destroyed during the war or locked away in restricted archives.”“But what I could find, I devoured. I memorized species characteristics, studied their behavioral patterns, learned about their magic systems, their social hierarchies, their mythologies.”Flora smiled, but it was tinged with old sadness. "My parents thought it was just a phase. A weird childhood obsession that I'd grow out of. They indulged it at first,bought me a few books, let me prattle on about dragon facts at dinner.”“ But when I was twelve and still completely fixated, when I was spending all my allowance on old books from shady dealers, when I was sneaking into restricted library sections to read forbidden texts, they started to worry."Her expre
Chapter 74
Asta stood frozen in the clinic reception area, his eyes so wide they felt like they might pop right out of his skull. His mouth was still hanging open from his half-finished question, his brain frantically trying to process what Flora had just casually dropped on him like it was the most normal thing in the world.Jabber is a dragon. I know.Those five words kept bouncing around his head, refusing to settle into anything that made sense. How could she know? He'd literally just learned this information himself minutes ago from Old Man Kael, and that had been presented as secret, dangerous, forbidden knowledge that needed to stay hidden or people would die.And Flora just... knew? She had figured it out? On her own?"Wait." Asta finally managed to say, his voice coming out higher and more strained than he'd intended. "Wait, wait, wait. How did you know? Were you…" He glanced around nervously, as if checking for eavesdroppers, then lowered his voice to an urgent whisper. "...were yo
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Asta wanted to argue. Wanted to say that keeping secrets from his guild mates felt wrong, felt like a betrayal of the trust they'd built. But looking at Kael's expression, at the genuine concern and fear there, he realized the old man was right. Some secrets were too dangerous to share."Alright." Asta said finally, his voice reluctant but accepting. "Alright, I won't tell them. I'll keep it a secret. But what do I say when they ask questions? Because they will ask questions. Flora especially,she's not going to just let this drop.""Tell them Jabber has a unique flame manifestation that's difficult to control." Kael said immediately, clearly having thought this through already. "Tell them he pushed himself too hard and lost control temporarily. Tell them it won't happen again because you'll all be watching for the warning signs. Keep it vague, keep it technical, make it sound boring and medical rather than mystical and terrifying.”Asta nodded slowly. He could do that. Probably.
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"Essentially, yes." Kael said with a dry smile. "I found out later that this particular dragon got lonely easily. It was a social creature by nature, enjoyed interaction and conversation and debate. But obviously it couldn't exactly walk into a human city and make friends. So when opportunities for interaction presented themselves, it took them. Even if the other party wasn't exactly willing.""That's..." Asta paused, trying to find the right word. "That's actually kind of sad?""It was sad." Kael agreed. "But also terrifying from my perspective. Because I didn't know if 'chat' was a euphemism for 'torture you for information' or 'eat you very slowly' or what. So I just sat there, trying not to move my broken leg, trying not to pass out from pain and waited to see what would happen."His fingers drummed on his walking stick again, the rhythm increasing slightly as he got to the meat of the story. "The dragon started talking. Just... talking about things. About how long it had b
Chapter 71
"I stepped on loose gravel. My foot slipped out from under me. And suddenly I was falling,not just stumbling, but actually falling down the side of a ravine I didn't know was there. Must have dropped twenty, thirty feet before I hit the bottom. Landed wrong.”“I heard something crack in my leg that definitely shouldn't crack. Everything went black."Kael's hand moved unconsciously to his left leg, rubbing at what was probably an old injury that still bothered him on cold days. "When I woke up and I had no idea how long I was out, it could have been minutes or hours. I wasn't in the ravine anymore. I was in a cave. Big cave, deep cave, with walls that glowed faintly purple like they were lined with some kind of luminescent crystal."His voice dropped lower, taking on an edge of remembered fear. "And there were eyes. Enormous eyes, each one bigger than my head, glowing bright purple with actual flames flickering in them. Dragon eyes. Right in my face, maybe two feet from my nose, sta
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The question hung in the air, and there was something almost challenging in it, like Kael was testing to see if Asta would figure it out on his own.Asta's mind raced, trying to remember anything from history class, from old stories, from legends he'd heard in passing. Dragons with purple flames. Dragons that served the Lord Emperor. Dragons that would call someone "master" and bow in absolute terror. Dragons that…Nothing. His mind came up completely blank. He didn't know. Hadn't even known dragons still existed until about ten minutes ago, and now he was supposed to identify specific types?He rubbed the back of his head, his hand moving through his hair in a nervous gesture he'd never quite managed to break. "Uhmm..." He let out an awkward laugh that was more like a nervous exhalation. "I don't... I don't actually have any idea. At all. I wasn't really paying attention during the dragon history lessons because, you know, they were supposedly all dead and it didn't seem relevant
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