TAPGB - Chapter 28
The Abandoned Prince's Ghost Bride
Meanwhile, Julius, who had left the Emerald Hall, quietly cast off the mask of a benevolent grandfather with his golden eyes flashing.
"He's my younger brother..."
I wonder if Leopold would be happy if he had a younger brother just like me.
"How is our abandoned grandchild?"
"Yes, his life is still preserved."
"Hmm, he'll have to be on his own at a young age, but he seems to be holding up pretty well."
"It appears that the Emperor is supplying supplies once a month."
"He is unusually warm. My brothers were dealt with mercilessly."
Julius chuckled. It was like the laughter of an innocent child inappropriate for his age. However, the laughter stopped midway and Julius' face became expressionless.
"It's shameful that I deceived my eyes and saved the twins, but...Let's make good use of what has come to this."
Anyway, seeing as sending the child to that mansion is almost like leaving the child to die, so it doesn't matter how you use the child.
"I guess we can proceed with the work when it looks appetizing."
Julius let out a meaningful laughand left the hallway accompanied by the priests.
***
About a week has passed since Lucian's birthday. In the meantime, the three returned to their daily lives and spent ordinary days with nothing special. After finishing his day's work, the time until he went to bed was unclear, and the man, Lucian, hugged the cushion and kicked his feet on the sofa.
"Isn't there something fun to play?"
As Lucian stared at Caesar with bright eyes, his face darkened. Even the letter 'L' in 'Let's play' was enough to make him run away.
"Brother. No, no, I won't do it."
"I didn't say anything?"
"I don't know what it is, but I don't do it."
"I played with you as much as I could today."
Lucian pouted his lips.
"Then tell me something interesting."
"Something fun?"
"Yeah, it was fun to talk about dragons the other day. Is there anything else?"
"Hmm, let's talk..."
"Now that I think about it, how did you get to know Leah? She said she's known you for a long time."
At Lucian's words, Leah and Caesar made eye contact.
"I've known you for quite some time. Has it been almost 250 years?"
[I saw you when you were a nosebleed.]
"What a nosy dog! There's nothing you can't say to a dragon!"
[It's a nosebleed. Were you 50 years old at that time?]
"Hmm, that's right. I came here not long after I first succeeded in polymorph."
If you had a bit of a nose pout back then, you'd say it was adult. I felt that time was passing quickly again.
"Well, before I meet Leah, I have to explain how I came here."
When Caesar started talking, Lucian's eyes lit up and he hugged the cushion tightly.
"I told you before, right? When I first played Polymorph, I went to the human world to play."
Usually, dragons can polymorph around 100 years old. Considering that Caesar was a fairly quick learner. His parents were very happy and took him to the human world to play.
The first place we arrived at was this place, the Oddrian Empire.
"That was the first time I saw people I had only heard about. Unlike our dragons, who are few in number, they were as numerous as a swarm of ants."
Anyway, I remember his parents buying him a lot of jewelry and other things to celebrate his first success with Polymorph.
"I used Polymorph a few times after that, and now that I'm 50, I can use it with my eyes closed."
So, with the consent of my parents, I came down to the human world alone. Of course, the time given was only one day, and if anything happened, I made sure to send a signal to my parents right away.
"As for dragons, when you become an adult, you create your own rare. I also have a rare that my parents prepared for me, but I haven't become an adult yet, right? So I needed my own villa."
Even though I had little space, I wanted to display the treasures I had collected little by little, and sometimes I needed a place to take shelter when I had a fight with my parents.
"At first, I thought about buying a human mansion, but I thought that would be a hassle, so I gave up. At that moment, I discovered this place."
A two-story mansion with an old-fashioned, uninhabited location that is somewhat far from the village. It was the only place that had all the conditions he wanted.
"Just by looking at it, it looks like no one has lived in it for a long time. So I immediately marked it as mine."
[Ah, I remember. How absurd it was back then. Some kid was walking around the mansion saying this mansion was mine.]
'Hahaha! Now this mansion belongs to this Caesar.'
"At that time, I didn't know you existed, Leah."
Caesar chuckled and recalled the past.
"But isn't this your brother's villa?"
"No. There's a fierce ghost somewhere."
"What happened?"
"Not at all. About an hour after I entered the mansion? Suddenly strange things start happening all over the house."
Objects would fall in the windless hallway, lights would suddenly go out, and even the neck of the armor on display would move.
Lucian snuggled into Leah's arms as the story suddenly turned into a horror story.
"Ghost, ghost...... ?"
"Yes, it's all the work of that damned ghost."
Lucian was dumbfounded when Caesar's finger pointed at Leah. For a moment, Leah felt unfair that he was afraid of her.
[Don't look at me like that. Some kid appears and runs around saying he's going to build my house. I have to kick him out, so just stay still?]
"Is that all? You suddenly set my ass on fire."
[Suddenly? You said something well. Did I do that for no reason? Don't you remember how you destroyed part of the mansion to catch the criminal? I worked so hard to fix that.]
"Keu, keuhm! I was young back then! "How surprised I must have been!"
Well, Caesar was startled by the sight of the armor and suddenly his polymorph was released. In the end, he escaped in his dragon state, damaging windows and walls.
I was so angry at him that I used the fire in the fireplace to throw him out of the mansion. It was just that his butt was on fire in the process.
"Lucian, imagine. Not only was the armor moving, but the fire was floating and chasing me around? If I were human, I would have died of shock."
That's all. When he came out of the mansion, the door that had been wide open was slammed shut. As if to warn him never to enter the mansion again.
"At that time, my parents were so surprised that they summoned me because I was crying so hard.”
When they saw that the tail was singed, there was an uproar for a while, wondering who did it.
"My parents told me never to go to that mansion again."
[But you managed to find it again.]
"Of course. I'm the type of person who can never live without something happening."
[Lucian, he is that kind of guy. Usually, once you get screwed, you don't come back, right? But he came again a week later.]
And that too in the form of a majestic dragon. How absurd it was to see a little dragon flapping its wings.
"No matter how much you think about it, it's unfair. I ran away because I was scared of a ghost I didn't know existed. I can never tolerate something like that in my life."
Caesar came back fully prepared. As if preparing for his battlefield.
"I studied my own way to exorcise ghosts."
He prepared a variety of things that were widely known as expulsion methods, such as salt, garlic, and holy water.
"But nothing worked. When I sprinkled holy water, black smoke rose, but I couldn't get rid of Leah. Did it actually work at that time?"
[Well. I didn't mind, but it seemed to be effective for other ghosts. There were already a couple of ghosts trying to invade my mansion. Thanks to you, I got rid of it.]
" I only did good things to others."
[But isn't that why we're sitting next to each other and talking now?]
"Heng, isn't it all because this Caesar isn't afraid of you?"
[Hmm......?]
As Leah smiled meaningfully, Caesar winked at Lucian and silently pressured him to be quiet. Was it when Caesar tried for the fourth time? There was a time when he was polymorphing like he was now and shed tears and snot.
Wow! If only he could speak with this body! This is the great red dragon, Caesar! You vicious evil spirit! When he says nice things, he means, get out of my mansion!
He was crying so desperately that Leah forgot to try to kick him out and just looked at him with a dumbfounded look on her face.
Eventually, when he stopped crying, I sent him out again.
Leah decided to keep his secret for Caesar, who was itching to show his cool side to Lucian.
"But how did we become friends?"
"Is it when we came here almost 20 times that we became friends?"
[I also want you to give me the mansion! I thought he would do it, but for some reason, he came with a depressed expression.]
Nose-trickling, who had been coming into the mansion every week for a month and shouting, 'I challenge you to a fight!', was looking depressed that day, unlike usual.
"What happened?"
"There was a dragon 50 years older than me, and I fought him and lost. I lost for the first time and my self-esteem hit rock bottom."
[If you think about it, didn't you lose to me too? You were kicked out of the mansion every time.]
"No...! That's a separate thing! You are a mysterious invisible being, and you had a fair competition with him! Besides, that guy started the fight first!"
Caesar puffs out his cheeks and stomps! stamped his foot Leah raised her hands and made a gesture indicating she had not said anything. Caesar told me to be careful with my words, pointing alternately with two fingers at his eyes and at Leah.
"Bad people... No, it's a dragon!"
"Right? He's a very personable bastard. If you happen to see a black dragon, just get out of the way. Because he's someone you shouldn't interact with."
[What. I thought you got into an argument and got into trouble.]
"What did you hear from me! He first told me that I was part of the class that couldn't even own a mansion!"
I flinched at the violent reaction.
'Did I tease him too much? Well, even back then, he broke down in sad tears.'
[... So that was the first time we talked. And he also taught me how to beat my opponent.]
I didn't dare to kick out the guy who seemed unusually depressed. Just like Lucian, Caesar was someone who brought something new to me at the time.
I still remember it. He called himself into the air with a dissatisfied face.
'Hey, evil spirit. Why are you quiet today? Come out quickly! If you disappeared on your own without my permission, I will never forgive you! I'm not weak, but are you ridiculously strong? Right?!"
Even though I was taken aback by the sudden remark, he started crying so sadly that I didn't know what to do.
Finally, at that time, I brought a stone tablet from the mansion and spoke to him for the first time.
What's the matter?
"'What's the matter?' That was the first thing Leah said to me.
"You were so shocked that you stopped crying?"
Caesar, who had flashbacks to the past just like Leah, chuckled and said it was funny when he thought about it.
[What is stopping? When I said a few more words, you cried sadly.]
"Hmm! I don't remember anything like that!”
[... Well, I'll say yes.]
Caesar, who was looking at Leah, exclaimed! He continued.
"It was amazing to think that I could talk to a ghost, which I thought was a strong evil spirit at best. So that was the first time we talked. I think we talked about all kinds of things."
[He asked a lot of questions about whether I was an evil spirit, why I was in the mansion, why I kept chasing him out, etc.]
"I didn't know that I was in a situation where I couldn't escape from the mansion."
As Leah and Caesar chuckled recalling that time, Lucian's eyes sparkled. It seems like old stories are fun.
"What do you mean by telling me how to win in the middle? Did you fight the evil black dragon again?"
[Oh, that? He suddenly asked me how he could become strong like me. So I told them to let down their guard first. And I taught him some magic.]
"At the time, I was just a kid who knew how to use Polymorph and a few fire spells. When I think about it now, it's natural to lose. The other person is at least twice as old as me. There was no way that a hatchling who was barely 50 years old could beat a guy who was over 100 years old. Lucian, did you say you would learn magic later?"
"Huh!"
"Then learn well. To be honest, I have never seen anyone who can use magic as freely as Leah."
[Why are you praising me?]
"Because it's true. Until now, I thought that no one could match a dragon with magic, right? But you were the one who broke it."
Leah scratched her cheek in embarrassment at Caesar's serious words.
"Is Leah that good at magic?"
"Huh. The best after the dragon."
"Didn't you say that Leah is better than dragons?"
It seems that Caesar is confused because he said it in a meaningful way.
[That's according to hatchling standards. You can't beat an adult dragon.]
"Still, if you're looking at magical talent, I honestly think Leah is better at it. Look at this guy. You're using natural mana on something that doesn't have a body. I didn't even know that was possible in the first place."
Lucian's eyes changed as he looked at Leah. The bright eyes were truly burdensome.
"Honestly, dragons are lazy and have a habit of trying to solve anything with just one verb. I understand magic naturally, but I don't explore it. But after meeting her, I realized that I shouldn't neglect my studies."
Certainly, dragons have greater pride than any other living creature. However, Caesar put aside his pride and learned magic from Leah.
"Hehe, doesn't that mean I broke that bastard's nose? I became a hot topic among the elders because I won a complete victory less than a month after losing to the Black Dragon."
Caesar looked relieved, saying it was something he would be proud of for the rest of his life.
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