-Lester's POV-

"Ahh! B-but that doesn't make any sense!" Incredulous of my finding she glances at the dragon from the corner of her eyes without turning the head. "...He was behaving all this time, and you said that it did everything you told him, then how is he not Tamed?" Sister whispers while half-kneeling next to me on the gray dirt.

"Shhh! Don't make sudden movements since it can probably smell agitation and I'm trying to recover, but it will take some time before I can stand up again...so dizzy ugh." I notice the beast tensing up as if noticed something was wrong. "There was no magic or elementals in the core as what you would expect from a baby dragon, but his Spirit was far stronger than it should, and the collar has increased restriction to stop him from practicing magic, but I'm not sure if it was an amateur Tamer or the guild doing it on purpose to get rid of us since I bought other pets there before." I tell her my conjecture about the Beast's dubious origins and the reason why it looks so weak compared to other dragons.

"None of that makes any sense! Why would a wild dragon behave and follow you if it's not tamed then?" We look at the dragon watching our reactions on his right side with Shaila horizontal facing up. "What are we going to do about her? I don't think she noticed." Liana signals with her eyes at the white-haired girl covering her eyes from the sun with the left hand while holding onto a horn with the left and pretending to sleep.

"Go to the opposite side of the dragon and tell her to stop gripping, though she probably won't let go..." I recall her happy smile that will be destroyed when I tell her and imagine how mad she'll be while ignoring anything we say. "Use that whip to startle it into dropping Shaila then grab her while I bind the dragon legs with earth magic and immediately shout for the guards to surround it." I clench my fists gripping the sand concentrating on casting magic while still being dizzy.

"You don't look too good... try not to bind me instead..." Liana said after watching my pale face then got up. "Huf...here I go!" She resolves herself and turns around to face the beast. "Hey sweetie, do you mind letting go of your grip for a second?" After asking Shaila, she walks right and circles around the dragon's front going to its left side while the beast also follows turning his neck slowly.

Good, make it look away from me, so it won't see the earth unnaturally moving around his legs to bind him then I'll move in to stab the heart or the neck until it drops Shaila... if I don't trip and fall with my dizziness. Having doubts about not calling the guards already, I decided to do what we can before spooking the beast into a rampage.

"Nu uh… I'll fall since he's moving around." Shaila disagrees while Liana opens up her whip to follow the plan.

"GRRRRR." The dragon growls at Liana who's ready to strike with her whip.

"Hihihi that tickles! I felt his growl in my whole body!" Shaila squirms giggling on top of the dragon while he glares at Liana with hostility.

Meanwhile, Liana got scared in front of the dragon and stopped getting closer. "Umm Lester, I don't think this is working...it feels as if I will lose my hand if I lift it..." She said a few steps from the dragon's raised head while her face becomes shiny with sweat. "Shaila, dear...please get down from there..." She makes a last effort to get the stubborn little girl to listen.

"Uh, sister, he doesn't like whatever it is, you are doing..." Shaila commented while I waste a lot of magic to do a simple earth bind because of my mind is still not recovered.

"Ugh, I think...I got it!" I squeezed what little magic was possible to control in my chaotic state and sent elementals to order the earth into binding the dragon's legs closer to me. "Jump to Shaila now!" I yell at Liana while sinking his right side paws in the dirt and solidifying it over a big area enough to hold him in place.

"GHUO?" The dragon made a surprise sound but stopped looking at Liana for a blink of an eye.

Liana's feet sink into the ground under the muscle force of an Auramancer Rank 3 before propelling towards Shaila on top of the dragon head, but he raised his left foreleg that was free of my binding and intercepted the jumping human in the stomach with a paw. "Ack..." Liana's body arched in mid-air then fell with her back to the ground raising a cloud of dust, but he was not done yet and stepped over her chest without so much as moving his body from my binding or the head where Shaila is sitting on. "Ghu..." Losing all the air in her lungs, she made the last sound while struggling with her hands to get the claws off her chest before they tear the flesh or to try and to breathe again looking my direction through the beast's legs.

Damn! She got caught too quickly, and if I attack now from this side then it will step on that leg getting her splattered... we have failed. I decided to yell at the top of my lungs even if it makes my mental state worse.

"GUARDS!" The shout made my head ache and had to let go of the earth binding while the guards rush out from all directions surrounding the beast.

"GRRRRR." The dragon growls at me this time while Liana under his claws is kicking dirt around resisting.

I hear the sound of metal clanking as close to thirty guards come out from the walls, towers and the barracks behind me to surround the beast in a few short breaths.

"I told you, he doesn't like it... woah!" Shaila commented holding on to the dragon that was moving his head around nervously looking at the guards surrounding him in heavy equipments.

-Alphonse POV-

After hearing a shout, all guards from all over their posts inside the estate...were confused, but rushed to our boss anyway and surrounded the only thing that could be a threat around however tamed it looks since it is holding miss Liana to the ground while the little miss is on the head. Being the last to arrive after putting on my clothes unlike some guards who rush without theirs in the armors, and having my bed the furthest to the back, I realize my bed, despite being cozy there it's too far for emergencies...which we haven't had in a long time. I need to move my bed close to the window facing the courtyard, even if its more noisy, but what kind of situation is this, though?

"Sir Lester! What's happened here? Why are we surrounding a...supposed tamed dragon?" I raised my voice a little ask for details on the origins of the problem while working on the overview of the situation.

So, we have Sir Lester on the ground with no visible injuries but unable to get up, Miss Liana is gonna need a bath, but she's not dying for now since all it would take, is a little more pressure on that leg to make her chest cave in, and Miss Shaila is having fun, I think. My shout caught the attention of the dragon, and it turned slowly to look at me behind the ring of guards formed just a few paces away from it. Oh? Why of all people are you looking at me so surprised when I'm not holding visible weapons or steel armors like the rest of the guards and why aren't you killing anyone already?

"Alphonse what took you so long!? We've been tricked since the dragon wasn't really tamed, it's not letting go of Shaila and Liana is hurt under his claws!" Sir Lester summarize while crouching a few paces away from the beast with his back turned to me.

"I'm okay~" Miss Shaila raises a hand while lying down over the beast.

Why are you lying over the head of a beast? I wished to admonish the thin little girl that would get hurt if she falls, but will probably just ignore me as usual.

"Ooph..." Miss Liana is not that good struggling to lift the dragon's paw.

Not tamed? I tilt my head puzzled. Then what is it still doing here when the gates are wide open back there? I look towards the big iron gates opened around forty steps behind the dragon. What's your deal Dragon, what do you want? I look once more at the struggling woman in light brown clothes with her chest grabbed, Miss Shaila wearing a black dress on top of the beast and Sir Lester recovering from something in a kneeling position. For now, let us appease it and watch its reactions since this thing is too smart for its apparent age and an intelligent creature can be reasoned with.

"Everyone, relax and lose your tension, think happy thoughts... the beast can smell agitation but is not running away or fighting, take one step back and don't move a muscle even if the dragon bites your head off, or the guard next to you." They took one step back to increase the encirclement zone, and the dragon looked around startled then back at me.

Well, I cannot say out loud to think about sex to relax since everyone here will become depressed and I'll get fired, but so far so good since it didn't turn violent. I looked towards my boss who went out earlier to buy the creature. The dragon bought for the miss huh? I appraise the animal from head to tail. It probably didn't intend to turn violent until it was subjected to hostility and it has already glanced at everything in the courtyard, including the towers holding archers aimed at him. I look at the eyes of the beast holding the little miss without dropping her. He's not acting like a wild beast failed to be Tamed because they run around as soon as they become aware of their free will or rampage killing everyone they can, but this one here is apparently aware of holding someone yet being careful not to throw her.

"GHAURO WUeh?" The dragon looked at me saying with a questioning tone.

"Yes, I'm in charge of the soldiers, and my name is Alphonse." I nod to the dragon after saying.

"Alphonse, This is no time to jokes! What do we do!?" Sir Lester seems to be losing patience already and firmly ordered without turning back to me in case it could alarm the dragon further.

"But it sounded like he was asking that...I think I know what he is and we should attempt communication, but it will be difficult since you lost his trust a little..." I tell him looking at Miss Liana still struggling under a foot. "We gotta play it on his own terms now...here watch this." I go a little closer slowly towards the dragon and bring my hands closer in front of it. "Clap, clap..." I clapped my hands to call everyone to attention, including the dragon then opened my arms. "Disperse!" I send everyone away while I stayed behind and closer to my boss, Sir Lester.

"Huh? Alphonse?" My boss questions my motives while I slowly make my way to his side. "Are you sure about that? Of course, you are, you are paid to be, so what now? I'm not in the best shape to manipulate magic since my Spirit clashed with his." He said lifting his head to point at the dragon. "What about you Shaila?" He raises his voice for Miss Shaila to hear and tries to get up slowly while wobbling, but I'm not near to support him.

"I'm dry~" Shaila says lifting her right hand up and not taking the situation seriously.

I watch the dragon relax after noticing the improvement in the atmosphere from dispersing the guards at my commands. Sir Lester doesn't realize baby dragons are not supposed to be this smart, tamed or not, and it's probably an Ancient's child or an excellent bloodline, but I'll need him to do something about about person under his foot now...

"GRRRRR." The dragon growls at me trying to get closer to his front where Miss Liana is being held.

It seems it won't trust me enough to me get closer since I'm a stranger or he can smell the weapons and blood on me... I start taking our my eighteen knives throwing them behind me while he stares with wide eyes. Well, I still have some more hidden but I rather not pull those out in front of people since the guards are still watching how this will play out. Gaining a little of his trust by dispersing the guards and throwing most of my weapons away, I make hand signals pointing out to the person being held to be released, and he complied lifting his foot.

"Ghuho... uh huh?" Miss Liana coughs sitting on the spot, but can't move because the dragon is holding her left leg now.

"Miss Liana, it shouldn't be hard for you to assume a submissive position then use your bracelet to communicate, and don't worry since he knows you won't do harm like that, but if you run out of magic, then I'll give it a turn..." I tell the woman that is sitting on the ground with the legs extended, and clothes ripped in the chest area, showing her ample breasts with bloody cuts.

"Damn you, Alphonse!" Miss Liana angrily looks at me who hinted how she acts with other men. "And Shaila, that was mean! How can you be like that when your sister was almost killed!" She shouts upset while raising her head to look at the little girl on top of the dragon who ignored her sister on the ground.

"...Uh, I told you he didn't like that, but I twisted his ear and patted his head when he grabbed you..." Miss Shaila responds meekly insinuating she stopped the dragon from crushing her sister.

The little miss couldn't be happier with her new pet despite all the commotion, and they seem to have bonded already since the beast trusts her, but how can he not when she doesn't trust people either... especially after receiving the malice from those monsters a year ago that don't even compare to a wild beast. I recall the turmoil around the little miss from a year ago that changed this town and its inhabitants with a snowball-like effect until it became more ruined than it already was.

"Ugh... I need ice." Sir Lester protested holding his head and staggering on the spot.

"...I'm an Auramancer with little magic left from converting all into Aura, and these devices are not compatible with that, but I'll try." She sighs in defeat and starts repeating a sentence over the bracelet.

"GRRRR..." The Dragon growls as if telling Miss Liana not to try anything funny but suddenly opened his eyes wide as if understanding what was going on, and closes them to concentrate on interpreting what the collar is transmitting.

The collar sends waves that affect specific parts of the brain until a thought starts to take shape, less aggressive compared to the brainwashing, but still somewhat uncomfortable having ideas implanted on you artificially. Who knows how many times he has been bathed in harmful levels of mana waves trying to wipe his thoughts completely, but that only works on low-rankers or regular creatures since it uses ambient mana in a way that is no different from making sounds with air and a High-Rank can block it unless it's at a place where ambient mana is far denser like a mana vein.

"Excellent work Alphonse, it seems he understood we can't tame it at this point and is focusing on analyzing the signals, but he will need to let them have an effect, or the thoughts won't form..." Sir Lester praises my efforts and breathes a sigh of relief watching the unmoving dragon with his eyes closed. "But how did you know he would behave?" He asks in disbelief while turning right to face me.

"Since you said he wasn't tamed, then that means he could resist the collar which even humans would find hard to do and apparently was pretending to obey, but it's impossible for a dragon just one season old to be this smart when they take even a hundred years to mature because their brains are smaller than ours, despite this size." I say pointing at the dragon in front of me. "Besides...the gate back there is still open." I point behind the dragon, and Sir Lester turns left to look at the big open gates.

"Agh...we never closed the door since the noise bothered the dragon so much." He facepalms after saying then turn back to me. "Do you mean the dragon wants to be here? Why?" Asks while switching his gaze between the dragon, Shaila on top and me.

"Well, for starters if he's smart then will want the collar off and after that..." I grab my chin with my right hand pondering. "Hmm, free-loading with us, I guess..." I arrived at a conclusion with the highest probability given my experience.

"..." Sir Lester raises his eyebrows not amused one bit to have a dragon leeching off provisions on his own accord.

"Ah, Brother!" Shaila suddenly raises her body into a sitting position exclaiming.

"""What!?""" The three of us were startled and tensed up looing at her asking what was wrong.

"I forgot to name him..." Shaila said rubbing her hand over the scales on the head she's sitting.

"""...""" We were dumbfounded for a bit then relaxed once more, resuming our assignments.

"Do that later when we can communicate to see which name he likes." Sir Lester say to her then she nodded.

"Can you hear me? Shake your head vertically if so" Liana repeated nonstop until the dragon finally nods shaking the girl on top while lifting his left paw, then she breathes a sigh of relief and sprawls on the sandy courtyard. "I'm mentally exhausted...good night~" She closed her eyes facing upwards under the shadow of the dragon then he scoops dirt with his left paw and throws it over her body.