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Ha.
Davian sighed.
"Was that what Mr. Insaneus told you?"
"Yeah. He said they're amazing for their age."
Davian shook his head and climbed the stairs again.
"Are you taking both of them to the bedroom? Two at once?"
Haa...
"I'm going to put them to sleep. Just wait a bit. I'll come back down."
"Am I interrupting?"
Haa.
These damn dragons.
"No, you're not."
"Dragons never fail."
"Ah, no."
Fail...
No.
Don't even think about it.
Davian laid Lathia and Bonita down on the bed in Sarah's room and came back down to the first floor.
Ignis was already sitting on the sofa, talking to Velum.
"Sister, your hair is so beautiful. Do you style your wavy hair like this every day? It must take so long."
"Huh? I don't need to style my hair every day."
"Come on, sis. Pretty people always say that."
"Do you think I'm pretty?"
"Yes! The prettiest person I've ever seen."
Ignis stroked Velum's hair.
"Such a cute human child."
Davian couldn't believe his eyes and ears.
Velum was sitting right next to Ignis, touching her hair and calling her "sister."
'Where does that sociability come from...?'
Velum was already highly sociable, but alcohol seemed like a sociability-enhancing potion to her.
Now it even works on dragons.
"Are you like relatives with Mr. Insaneus? I thought Mr. Insaneus had otherworldly looks for an old man... But you're on a whole different level of beauty. You're really beautiful."
"Relatives? Well... I guess you could say we're distant relatives if you really want to get into it."
"What an amazing bloodline, sister."
"We're not related by blood."
Davian asked.
"What brings you so far out here?"
"Just, I was bored."
She said she'd visit often.
And she came right away.
'Still, it's better than Insaneus, who bought a house in Elton City and settled down.'
"So, about that. Help me find a house, Davian."
"Yes?"
"Now that I'm out in the world, I thought I'd enjoy some entertainment."
Ignis smiled at Davian.
"Since I've met such an interesting human. But if I'm going to live as a human, I need a house."
Insaneus just did everything on his own.
Are all dragons just different in personality?
"You have so much money, you can just find one yourself."
"Ah, I don't like the middle of the city like where Insaneus lives. I want a mountain with lots of trees behind it, and a small stream in front of it. I want to be able to grow a small garden in the backyard, and there shouldn't be any noise from other humans nearby. Oh, I don't mind the heat, but I hate the cold."
"Those are... a lot of conditions?"
"Well, once I find a place, I'll be living there for decades."
Dragons are a race that cherishes their lairs.
That's why human adventurers who foolishly enter a dragon's lair to become dragon slayers never return alive.
Cherishing their lairs means cherishing their homes.
That's why Insaneus, who decided to enjoy life as a human, immediately bought a mansion.
The house where they live while enjoying life as a human is no different from a lair for this time.
Insaneus chose a bustling city life after being released from a 600-year seal.
Ignis seems to want a quiet country life.
"I came from another continent far away. I've been here a few times before, but I don't know much about the situation on this continent these days. Davian, can you help me?"
She suddenly came over and asked me to help her find a house.
I had a feeling something annoying was going to happen.
'I wonder what would happen if I refused. Would she burn me to death?'
Fortunately, Ignis was not as unreasonable a dragon as Davian thought.
"I'm not asking you to do it for free."
"I have more than enough money myself."
"I'll teach you the Dragon's Flame."
Karin's eyes sparkled, sitting on the opposite sofa.
If Lathia hadn't been drunk and asleep upstairs, her eyes would have been the same.
"You'll teach me the Dragon's Flame?"
"Yeah. If you help me find a house, I'll teach you how to ignite the Dragon's Flame every time you come to my house. You know? It's different from humans'."
I know.
I saw it clearly right in front of my eyes.
Even setting aside the size of the magic power and the temperature of the flames.
There was something completely different from the flames produced by fire elemental magic.
You could say it's closer to pure.
It's temptation enough to become a real estate agent.
"When would you like to start looking at houses, ma'am?"
"I'd like to start as soon as possible, but I'm not going to build a house just anywhere. Pick one out properly. You memorized all the conditions I said earlier, right?"
"Yes, ma'am. There's a mountain behind it, a stream in front of it, there shouldn't be any noise from other humans nearby, and you hate the cold. Is that correct?"
"Smart, Davian Na-o-ne."
Karin asked.
"Are you... a dragon?"
Ah.
The power of alcohol is so great.
Karin, who usually doesn't talk to strangers.
She's talking to a dragon she doesn't even know.
Even asking if she's a dragon.
"Oh? How did you know?"
Karin's pupils shook.
It seems like she didn't ask because she really thought she was a dragon.
She was offended by the Dragon's Flame thing and asked.
Davian looked at Karin's shaking pupils.
'Please watch your mouth, Karin. You'll get burned to death if you do that.'
Alcohol sometimes makes you forget the truth.
Sometimes, it makes you accept the truth more easily.
"I had a feeling. You're so pretty and haughty... And the feeling you give off is endlessly intense. You're really a dragon?"
"Yeah."
Davian shook his head.
When Insaneus blatantly declared that he would follow Davian, he told him to hide that he was a dragon first.
He hadn't said that to Ignis yet.
He lives on that far continent, and yet he suddenly comes to my house like this.
Especially when there are so many drunk friends.
"Ignis, sis."
"Yeah? Davian."
"Then maybe until you find a house..."
"I'll have to stay here. The house is pretty big."
Davian thought that he should carry out his duties as a real estate agent more faithfully.
"I'll start looking for land for a house right away starting tomorrow."
Smack.
Ignis stretched her face out to Davian and kissed him on the cheek.
"Then thank you, Davian Na-o-ne."
Crash!
Luna dropped the juice glass she was holding on the floor.
Bellus shrank his shoulders and turned his head away.
Somewhere in the south of the Alsas Forest.
A high mountain looms to the north.
A fairly wide stream flows to the south.
The area between the northern mountain and the southern stream is a plain covered with vegetation.
A site with a mountain behind and water in front.
One of the house site candidates that Davian diligently chose by looking at the map.
This is the third place to look around.
"What do you think?"
"Hmm... It's not bad. But there are humans living behind that."
"Behind that mountain? It's completely in the forest?"
Davian tilted his head and concentrated on the space behind the mountain.
Davian couldn't feel anything.
"Hmm... Judging from the bustling energy, they don't seem like good humans."
"Can you even tell that?"
"The sounds of their footsteps and the breaths they exhale are rough and crude. It's obvious that humans with that kind of feeling gather in such a place. It's a bandit gang."
Davian shook his head.
How far do the senses of a dragon go?
Well, they can't actually look inside your head, but they can roughly read your thoughts based on the subtle changes in humans.
"Anyway, then this place won't work."
"No. Let's go with this place."
"You said you don't like having humans nearby. Even a bandit gang."
I don't know where the bandit gang is at all.
But if a dragon says so, then so be it.
"That's why I'm saying let's go with this place. Something fun will definitely happen before the house is finished."
Ignis took out a red ruby from her arms.
The size is bigger than the palm of your hand.
"Can I ask you to take care of building the house too?"
"You want me to build it myself?"
"No. Take this and entrust it to an expert. Ah, here's a design."
This time, she handed over a neatly written sheet of paper.
It was a design with a fairly detailed drawing of the shape of the house she wanted.
Davian received the ruby and the design.
"You can keep the change."
"Thank you."
"Whatever."
Insaneus and Ignis are the same in that they don't know what "Thank you" means.
One month later.
"Is that so."
"Yes, sir. It's like they're building a palace."
"If they're building such a mansion, they must be very rich. What kind of person is it?"
"Well, sir, that's the thing."
Hehehe.
A man with his face covered in fur grinned.
"It's a young woman."
"Are you saying that the owner of the mansion being built over there is a young woman?"
"That's what I'm saying. Hehehe."
"This, this. I was wondering if we had set up our base in the wrong place, but it seems like prey is walking into our territory on its own."
"It seems like there are only workers today, will she come later when the mansion is completed?"
"Let's do that. Maybe we can regularly extort money from her. Let's visit when the mansion is completed."
"Yes, sir. Hehehe."
"The four main properties that encompass the human and spirit realms coincide with the essence of the four elemental magics that we deal with."
Sirims Andrian's Four Elemental Magic Theory class is in progress.
"As you all know, fire, water, wind, and earth. The four highest-ranking spirits are connected to these four ancient elements. Salamander, Undine, Sylph, and Gnome are the four highest-ranking spirits in the spirit realm. Their power comes from nature itself. Our human four elemental magic, which draws the power of nature using mana, is the same."
Up to this point, it's content that third-year students know well.
"Recently, I heard that a second-year student at our academy succeeded in contracting with the highest-ranking spirit, Sylph."
Murmuring erupted throughout the lecture hall.
"Sylph? He contracted with Sylph?"
"Is that the second-year student?"
"Ah! Is that the one who made Ellaime Bristin give up spirit magic?"
Sirims Andrian, the head of the magic department, nodded.
"It seems like you all already know. A student named Bellus in the second year succeeded in contracting with the highest-ranking spirit. It's the best achievement since Davian contracted with the ice spirit Glacie Nim. Ah, Davian. Is there still no news from Glacie Nim?"
"No, not yet."
"Well, she'll be back soon. Anyway. Today I'm not going to talk about spirits."
Sirims Andrian continued the explanation.
"However, there is magic that doesn't use the power of nature as it is, like spirits, and doesn't use the power of nature using a medium called mana, like humans."
Some students focused on the lecture with expressions of hearing it for the first time.
"That's the magic of dragons. It doesn't use the power of nature, and it doesn't use mana as a medium."
"Then what about the dragon's breath? Red dragons breathe fire and silver dragons breathe wind, right?"
"Then how would you explain the green dragon's poison breath and the gold dragon's lightning breath?"
"Ah..."
"The magic of dragons has completely different properties from the power of spirits and the magic of humans. The properties of the power contained in each dragon's heart are different, and that property is connected to the type of dragon's breath."
A student raised his hand.
"They're not using the power of nature, but purely sublimating the power they have into magic!"
"Smart. That's right. It's discharging the power they originally had by borrowing the form of magic. It's a completely different method from the magic we know. There have been many efforts to research this dragon magic since a long time ago, but we haven't seen any significant results yet. Because it's something that humans can't imitate at all."
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