STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP.

(In the background: Screaming, pleading, panicking)

The lunar base was shaky the first week.

The screams were shrill and we had to isolate some sections by emptying the air to prevent the noise from terrorizing the humans working in the research center.

In secret, I was studying the stupid questions that Anscrouf (Father Fouettard who punishes unwise children) was asking because I knew they would take revenge and do to me what I did to them. But as a fine strategist, you have to know how to anticipate.

Auberone shouts???

Ah, she probably cheated or helped someone cheat.

BOOOOMM

Big tremor!

Ah, I see, Auberone's put force spells on Razorback and Falkor and Volcano.

But Anscrouf pulverized them and now silence.

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

NAAAAAAANN

PITIE

STOOOOOOP

I KNOW THE ANSWER. I'LL TELL YOU WHAT, STOOOOOPP.

FALSE

BLAM

BLAM

BOOOM

The spanking and kicking ended with the school bell.

Infirmary and Study

My name is assaulted by my horns but I had to put aluminum foil soaked with mana stone powder to dampen the screams in my head.

I need to focus on my work.

After a week, the screams and boots have halved. Ten days later, I look around the classroom and all the dragons were concentrated. Some were crying because they didn't understand and human assistants comforted them and explained to them. You could hear the flies flying because they were so concentrated, but I could feel the hatred exuding against me.

But by the end of the week, they ALL knew how to count.

At the end of the month, English became drinkable and they were able to attend classes in English.

Then a giant screen appeared in the prison school.

"You can hear me, but I can't hear you."

I was in human form, in the form of a secretary with a document holder and a looong metal ruler and high heels.

TIC TIC TIC."I am happy with your latest tests. I see that my method was the right one. Now that you all know how to speak English and count, we're not going to stop there...

You'll have to be at least equal to humans. If you want to regain your dragon-like presence and aura, show them what you're made of.

Here, no one fears the wrestler anymore! But we do fear the magistrate! We distrust the programmer and respect the financial guy.

Here, power comes not from mana but from money! So you will learn to earn money.

You want a territory to rule over? Buy it and manage it!"

Complaints! "We are dragons! We are a superior species!

YES! We are strong and we will hunt them and keep our land."

CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP."

"And that's why you're here! In HELL!

Let's take the caveman as example. He was hunted by lions and predators.

Now, answer me this: Where are the lions?"

"Artemis..." (all the dragons)

"And if you do like the lion on the man, where will you end up???????"

"Artemis..." deafens the dragon class...

"WELL! So we're this close to being shipped off to Artemis for the next season..."

And how's your one that's been sold?????

Tell me--

"Cattle?"

"Yes!

And do we listen to the laments of the cattle????"

"No!"

"Ahhh, I'm glad to hear you say that...

But they don't kill them, not yet, because they're scarce and when they want more, how are they going to do it?"

"We..."

"THE ONES WITHOUT DIPLOMAS! CRETINS! I shouted!

This is Mr. Ramirez, your teacher of Industrial Design and General Mechanics.

He will teach you to make measurements, to read a plan and you will have to build objects according to dimensions and the plan.

You will start by making metal and wooden cubes to learn how to measure your strength and how to be precise."

"Here, Postula, electricity teacher"

"Of course, Mr Anscrouf will look after the safety of the staff and deal with questions and motivation.

The knowledge acquired here is essential for your safety as well as the safety of the staff.

Your training will continue in space.

While the humans are in cryo-freezing for the journey, you will use the time of the trip to be studying.

Your science and general knowledge will enable you to reconstruct our dispersed culture, to value our existence as essential to space exploration and terraforming.

After a number of years of service with World!, your personal knowledge and experience will allow you to discover hidden talents within yourself and to build a future for yourself and our race.

Make no mistake about it, you have much more in common with men than you suspect. Apart from longevity, being reptile-based and larger, the rest is almost identical. You have intelligence in common, language, senses, religion and emotions. Prove to them then that you are superior not by your genes but by your courage and your conquest and your work."

Meanwhile, against all odds, Ignar was getting pissed off... and he threw his game console and smashed it against the wall.

"I should have left..."

He went to school to find Fourreux, Splash and Bubble.

Fourreux was depressed, but Heater supported him. A special relationship developed between them to the point where she slept with him every day under his wings. She had fallen in love with him and a marriage would not be impossible. The worst part was that she fantasized about him every night. And he soon understood when she was sticking more and more against him every night.

His colleagues understood the next day when she spent a night with him! And that she was all red and limping.

Ignar sat in the back of the classroom and realized how stupid he was when he saw that his two classmates were doing better than he was.

It didn't suit him. He asked if there wasn't a learning machine, but when he was told that there was, he wanted to try, but when he saw a video of the Red Dragons getting the lesson in other ways than through his head, he begged Moccasin to give him remedial lessons.