Chapter 194

“You’re the one! You must be Aoinoun-chan’s husband!”

“Y-yes.”

The sea dragon king ────── Carolia Liselle closed in on me with a big smile and forced me to take both of her hands and buried them in her voluptuous breasts.

“I wanted to meet you! Yule,-chan was talking about you in a hateful way though! You see, she has a tendency to overreact when it comes to her own children! I knew I wouldn’t know anything until I saw you in person! A first for our dragon species! With a different species! Mating! No, it’s not quite right to call it mating, since we don’t actually need mating for our species to thrive, but look at those adorable, adorable, little guys there! Oh my gosh, they’re so cute! I’m Carolia-chan!”

“Dah!”

“Uh?”

Before I could enjoy ────── or even feel my hands sinking into that captivating mound, Carolia-san’s talk and gaze darted back and forth between me, Jaja, and Nana.

Her fluffy green hair danced as if it were floating in the air.

Jaja, in Aoi’s arms, raised her hands in the air when her name was called, while Nana, in Rouge’s arms, tilted her head curiously at that look and vigor in her eyes.

“Yes, hello! Oh my gosh, you can greet people! Great! So cute! And you! Hmmm… you look like an ordinary person, but I wonder if there is something different about you? Otherwise, how could you have a child with a sky dragon? Alba Germain says that the eggs laid by Aoinoun-chan were hatched by her blood, but I wonder if that is only true of the sky dragons. Is it the same for the other sky dragons? Or do the eggs of the Earth Dragons and Sea Dragons hatch in the same way? I think the strong feelings of longing in Aoinoun-chan’s part have something to do with it… hmmm! Interesting! Hah! Oh yes! This is worth a try! Hey, Teseara? Are there any sea dragons that are about to ────── no, when is my next egg-laying season?”

H-hah!?

I hurriedly untangled myself from Carolia-san’s hand and jumped backward.

It wasn’t my imagination that sent a chill of fear down my back.

“Carolia-san!?”

“Aunt Carolia!”

Aoi and I both called out her name at the same time, in a frenzied tone of voice.

“Eight generation-sama, please calm down. It is too pitiful to have more children for such a reason. You should stop.”

Rouge was unusually flustered as she responded.

She glanced sideways at Aoi, occasionally at me, wrinkled her brow, and finally at Nana and Jaja.

“Dragon King-sama! How improper! You are our chief! I have always told you to think carefully before you speak, and not to act only with curiosity, inquisitiveness, and vigor!”

“Yaa, I was just joking. You don’t have to get so mad.”

Teseara-san, her face bright red, headed towards Carolia-san.

Carolia-san, who was intimidated by the pressure, turned her head away and backed away with a wince, breaking out in a cold sweat.

“No, if no one stopped you, you were going to give Kunpei-sama a sea dragon’s daughter, weren’t you! If you were in the egg-laying season, you were going to impregnate the eggs, weren’t you?”

Stop it! Aoi and Mikuma alone are exhausting my spirit day in and day out, but if I have to be responsible for even more girls, I don’t know what I’m going to do!

“It’s obvious I was just joking, right? I, Carolia Liselle Dragulina, Queen of the Sea, who rules over the Sea Dragon tribe, would never do such a terrible thing, would I?”

No, even if you say that.

I can’t believe it at all, after seeing your excited and quick speech and your serious expression just now.

“Rather than that, look! I wonder if it was Jaja and Nana! Let Carolia-chan give you a hug! We haven’t seen a baby dragon since Aoinoun-chan. Give me baby!”

With a giddy expression changing seven times, Carolia-san approached Aoi and held out her hands toward Nana.

“Look, look, can you teach her my name…?”

“Oh, y-yes. See, Nana? It’s Aunt Carolia?”

“Nunyu?”

Tilting her head again, Nana looked alternately at Aoi and Carolia-san.

“… Ah!”

That’s so unusual!

That Nana! That shy, Aoi-loving Nana!

She just stretched her little arms back out to Carolia-san without a hint of reluctance or squirming!

“Aaaaahhhh! So cute! Nana-chan, right? Thanks! Let me hold you!”

Carolia-san, who had a slovenly smile, happily inserted her hands under Nana’s arms and picked her up.

She carefully placed Nana in the open bosom of her dress and rubbed her cheek against her hair.

“Ah, it smells so good! Why do babies smell so good? It brings back memories. Alice used to be this cute too.”

Sniff, sniff. Pant, pant.

Carolia-san inhaled the scent of Nana’s head into her nostrils and exhaled with an intoxicated breath.

I understand. I know how you feel and what you are saying.

Both Jaja and Nana smell so soft and sweet that I don’t know where they get their smell from.

If you ask me what exactly it smells like, I’m at a loss for an answer, but it smells so good.

I can seriously smell it all day long, and in a way, it may be a dangerous thing that ruins people (mainly me).

Aoi and Rouge even bury their faces in their plump bellies after taking a bath or changing a diaper and are entranced.

When my father and I do the same thing, Jaja and Nana don’t like the feel of my beard, so I’m actually very jealous of them.

It’s strange. Aside from my father, I shave every morning.

I feel like my beard is growing faster these days.

“Dah! Nya!”

“Hm, Jaja too, wants to go to eight generation-sama?”

Perhaps she became envious when she saw Nana playing with Carolia-san’s breasts.

Jaja began to jiggle and flail around in Rouge’s arms.

“Oh, dear, oh, dear! Good, good, good! Come here, Jaja-chan!”

As Carolia-san made one arm open for Jaja, Rouge slowly and gently removed her arm from Jaja’s body.

Jaja, with the small wings on her back taut and floating softly in the air, dexterously moved her arms and legs and flew to Carolia-san’s chest, bobbing up and down a little.

“Uh. Ada.”

Although she occasionally sways dangerously, Jaja’s recent flight has become smoother than before.

What’s amazing is that even if she accidentally takes a nap while floating, she won’t fall for a while.

Well, we who are watching her would feel uneasy, so we quietly take her and place her down on the futon after she has completely fallen asleep.

In other words, flying is becoming a very natural thing for the twins.

“Oh my gosh! Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow! You can fly so well already! I can’t believe that she can fly so fast, no matter how much she is the child of a sky dragon! Yaaaahhhh, she’s so cute! Yuriel-chan, it’s really unfair that you have such a lovely grandchild!”

Fidgeting her body, Carolia-san gently welcomed Jaja.

Ah, as I thought?

Although Alba Germain had given his endorsement, it seems that the twins are maturing much faster than the sky dragons.

Are they geniuses, after all?

“I can’t believe that Yuriel-chan, the youngest and most energetic of the Dragon Kings, would be the first to have grandchildren. Oh~ Jaja-chan’s hair is so smooth, isn’t it? It feels good and it smells good.”

“Did my mother tell you about Kunpei-san and Jaja and Nana?”

Aoi is usually shy of people, or in this case shy of dragons? But she approached Carolia-chan, who she seems to be meeting for the first time, without fear.

She doesn’t seem like a stranger at all.

She feels so close to her that she unintentionally called him Aunt.

“Yes, that girl. She even goes to the trouble of using this underwater island as a stopover point to show off her grandchildren and daughter, you know? She’s been flying all over the world for sky restoration work. Don’t you think Carolia-chan would be envious if she heard such lovey-dovey things? It looks like she also goes to Ruby’s place as well.”

“My mother?”

Rouge blinked in surprise.

Well, as I recall, Ruby is the Earth Dragon King, Rouge’s mother.

Rubynein-san, was it?

I hear the name often, but I still don’t know what kind of person she is.

I only understand that she is the same Dragon King as that Yule ────── Sky Dragon King Yuriel Dragoline, so she must be a very powerful dragon.

As I recall, earth dragons are said to excel in fighting ability among dragons, so perhaps they are so powerful that my lousy imagination can’t even conceive it.

I’m a little traumatized by Dragon Kings because of Yule, so I don’t really want to meet them.

“Yes, compared to the earth dragons who rarely move and the sea dragons who can never move, I envy the sky dragon king who’s free. Well, in return, she’s much busier than me and Ruby-chan. She seems to be under a lot of stress, so when she meets with me, she brags a lot, you know? How cute the twins are, how awesome the twins are, the daughter she’s proud of.”

“So mother’s doing well… I’m glad.”

Aoi smiled a little lonely, but happy when she heard Carolia-san’s story.

Well, we parted without hardly having a conversation.

I was in a comatose state, close to fainting because I had attempted dragonization for the first time, so in the end, I couldn’t even see Yule, let alone reconcile with her.

I could only tell from Yule’s condition, which was later explained to me by Alba, that she had at least flown away without any hard feelings.

As long as I’m living with Aoi and the twins, I’d like to have a proper discussion with her someday and get her to acknowledge me in some way, but I wonder when that will be.

“Oh, why don’t you just go see her? Since she’s here now.”

Carolia-san said something very serious in a matter-of-fact way.

“Eh?”

“Hah?”

Aoi and I were stunned almost simultaneously.

Eh?

She’s here?

Here?

Um, Yule-san… is?

You’re kidding, right? Tell me you’re joking?

I’m not ready to meet her!

Sorry Aoi, but I honestly don’t want to see her!

“Now my daughter ────── Oh, I never introduced you. I am talking about the next generation Dragon King, Aliceleia, the same as you guys. Oh, by the way, I never told you why I had you guys come all the way down here, did I?”

With Jaja and Nana under her arms, Carolia-san corrected her disheveled, sloppy appearance at once.

She relaxed her beautiful emerald green hair and looked at me, Aoi, and Rouge with a dignified and sharp gaze that was different from a moment ago.

Then she looked at the faces of the Dailan royalty, and finally smiled at Shouhei and Mikuma, who were not accustomed to the occasion, and Carolia-san slowly opened her mouth.

“Please, I want you guys to ────── save the life of my daughter, Aliceleia.”

Behind her, Teseara-san looked so sad that she was about to cry.