The Mad Dog of the Dukes House - Chapter 130



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Episode 130 40. You have to take what you have to take (3)

5.

Five days after that.

The Temple of the World Tree located in Galad.

“… … That girl is Etaron’s hatchling.”

The regent looked at the cute girl, Aqua, in Charon’s arms and muttered softly.

Aqua was fast asleep, oblivious to the world around her.

Just looking at the sight of her smiling brightly while sleeping, as if she was in a good mood, warmed my heart.

“I was thinking of entrusting it to Your Majesty.”

“Can I touch it for a moment?”

“sure.”

The regent approached slowly and carefully placed a hand on Aqua’s head.

Woohoo.

Pure magical power formed from her fingertips and was instantly sucked into Aqua’s body.

And after a while.

The regent nodded and said.

“It has too pure a magical power to be called Etaron’s hatchling.”

“Does the elves still have the guilt by association system?”

“The fault of the parents is only the fault of the parents, and cannot be the sin of the child. We are different from humans.”

“That’s a relief.”

Charon slowly stroked Aqua’s back.

“He calls me dad.”

“I can sense your magic in this child’s dragon heart. In a way, that’s only natural.”

Aqua is seven years old.

If we were to roughly guess the timing, it was roughly around the same time that Caron himself entered Cheonghae Castle and broke the .

Could it be that this incident and Aqua’s birth are related?

“Do you happen to know why Aqua’s Dragon Heart contains my magic?”

The regent slowly shook his head in response to Charon’s question.

“Hatchling is not something that my mother had planned. She may know something, but it’s not in my head.”

“It seems like you’re not telling me on purpose.”

“……yes?”

“No, that could be true. If you want information, you can ask for the World Tree quickly. In that sense, you could intentionally not say anything… … .”

Then, Kerua, who was standing next to him, looked at Charon with a pitiful look.

“Do you think everyone in the world is like a manager?”

Currently, there were only people here who knew that Charon was reincarnated.

That’s why Kerua called Charon “Captain” comfortably.

“Have you forgotten the second rule of the Imperial Guard, Kerua? Trust no one but yourself.”

“… … Ah, yes. You are amazing, Captain. You died while sticking to your principles so well.”

Charon lightly ignored Kerua’s counterattack, then looked back at the regent.

“Kerua will stay here with us too. She’s Aqua’s nanny.”

“Please call me uncle.”

“No. That would mess up the family tree. You should just be a nanny. But it’s better to be here than stuck in the mountains. There’s also a fruit wine that the elves make.”

Kerua’s face brightened at the mention of fruit wine.

He was still a simpleton.

The regent smiled bitterly at the two men’s childish conversation.

“We would be grateful if you would stay here, Lord Kerua Act. We will provide you with a suitable place to stay, so please make yourself at home.”

“Oh, and now you can go around Etaron’s lair. I cleaned it up a bit on the way here.”

It was truly a spectacular sight to see the monsters swarming around the lair enter the lair at Aqua’s single word, “Enter.”

A rare from Etaron that has been banned for a long time.

With that threat gone, a shortcut from Galad to the village of Ear opened up.

Of course, it wasn’t done purely for the elves.

This is just a preparatory step for Caron’s ‘proposal’ that will follow.

“Your Majesty.”

“Please speak comfortably.”

“Now, the elves and I… … are practically brothers, even though we’re not related by blood, right?”

Charon’s tongue began to perform tricks.

“Even if the battle with the slaughtering fragments were like that, I could have avoided the battle with the Empress. But! With a righteous heart to save the elves, I willingly took up the sword… … .”

“Caron Reston.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

“Tell me what you want. Why are you making such a complicated explanation?”

Fortunately, the regent had become immune to Charon’s rhetoric due to the previous incident of ‘stealing the dew of the world tree’.

In response to the regent’s direct question, Caron smiled awkwardly and said.

“I almost died fighting the Empress. I still have some internal injuries. In that sense, I would be grateful if you could give me just one more drop of dew.”

The regent let out a small sigh at those words.

“……All right.”

Up to this point, it was as expected.

There’s no way that guy would pass by with his mouth open.

“Oh, thank you so much.”

“Is that the end?”

“Haha, that’s impossible.”

Just then, an unbelievable scene unfolded before the regent’s eyes.

Charon took out a long scroll from his bosom.

A scroll densely filled with something written on it.

The scroll was so long that it reached the floor.

“While coming to Galad, I envisioned a bright future that the Duke of Reston and the elves would create together. Whenever a good idea came to me, I wrote it down and looked at it… … . Haha, it turned out longer than I thought.”

What on earth is this guy trying to do?

While the regent looked at Caron with a puzzled expression, Caron continued speaking with a smile.

“Lokashi, the kingdom of the Nagas. The crown prince of Lokashi, a big shot, has chosen to become a hostage in order to secure the trust of the non-aggression pact. In other words, the path to the sea has opened.”

“Even if the seas open, nothing will change, Charon Reston. We have no immediate plans to interact with other races… … .”

“I’ve roughly written down the supplies that Galad is currently lacking. Starting with iron ore and spices… … Wow, there are a lot. Would you like to see for yourself? I asked Orion about various things in detail. There are more things that Galad is lacking than I thought.”

Charon smiled brightly as he read the scroll with exaggerated movements.

“I know you are reluctant to interact with humans. Your Majesty, what do you think about this?”

He waved the scroll toward the regent and said:

“You only need to relate to us, the Duke of Reston.”

The regent smiled subtly at those words and answered.

“I think the Duke wants more from us than we want from him. Am I wrong?”

“There’s no need to go to such lengths to calculate things between friends.”

“It sounds like you’re talking about forming an alliance. Normally, if you make things clear like this, there won’t be much talk.”

After all, a regent was a regent.

It doesn’t give you the opportunity to eat it raw easily.

But she didn’t reject it outright. That meant she would accept it if additional reasonable conditions were presented.

Caron said, gently raising the corners of his lips.

“I will make sure that no one, human or monster, can touch the elves.”

“Are you referring to military cooperation?”

“From there, it’s up to our lord to decide… … . But I can give you one thing for sure.”

Caron clenched his fists lightly and spoke with sincerity.

“Anyone who harms the elves will be the first to be bitten by my teeth.”

The regent nodded slowly at those words.

“That’s enough.”

It was the moment when the alliance between the elves and the Duke of Reston was decided.

6.

After the interview with the Regent, preparations for Caron’s party’s return were made immediately.

There was no reason to delay any time.

Starting with the survival report of Kerua Act, and the agenda for an alliance with the elves.

Because there were countless things to deal with in Cheonghae-seong.

“dad.”

In front of the western gate of Galad.

In front of Charon’s group, who had finished preparing to depart, stood Kerua, Aqua, and Orion.

Caron smiled as he hugged Aqua gently.

“You’re not telling me not to go?”

“Yeah! I can’t leave this forest yet! I don’t want to be a bother to Dad.”

“He’s smart too.”

The secret of Aqua’s birth will be revealed naturally after you save the World Tree.

Charon, the hatchling who calls himself father.

While Charon was hugging Aqua, Urtula and Leo’s stupid conversation could be heard from behind.

“If Aqua is the child of Charon and Etaron, does that mean Charon is Etaron’s husband?”

“That’s a plausible logic, isn’t it?”

“The husband of the evil dragon. How amazing.”

“I think it suits Caron well… … .”

Paaaaaaaah-!

It’s always Leon’s role to stop the two.

Leon said in annoyance as he struck the two of them on the head with his sword.

“There’s nothing you can’t say in front of a child.”

Aqua, who was watching the scene, smiled faintly.

“Sisters and uncles are really fun! Aren’t they, Dad?”

“Sorry. Next time I bring you, I’ll make sure to educate you properly.”

“I’ll definitely bring you. I promise!”

“promise.”

If only I had my way, I would have taken Aqua home too.

Because at first glance, I thought my parents would like it.

But I had no choice but to leave that regret behind.

Because Aqua still needed time in the forest.

“It’s not my time yet.”

Aqua smiled while holding Charon’s hand tightly.

“Don’t worry, I’ll be of help to you someday! But I’m really happy to see you, Dad. And I’m really good at waiting!”

“That’s great.”

It’s a brave voice.

That voice seemed to give me strength.

Charon patted Aqua’s head and then looked at Kerua, who was standing next to him.

“We. Aqua, please take good care of us.”

Then Kerua answered with her eyes wide open.

“Don’t worry about it, I’ll take care of it.”

“Oh, is there anything you would like to tell our grandfather?”

“Your grandfather is fine, just come here.”

Bam-!

Kerua smiled brightly and hugged Charon tightly.

“Turn on the noise function, kid.”

“I wish for a lot.”

Slurp.

Pluto, who had briefly revealed his head, enveloped Charon and Kerua in a shallow darkness.

“It was nice meeting you again, Captain.”

A few honest words from Kerua.

Charon pushed Kerua away with a sly smile.

“Is it because I’m getting older? You’re disgusting, you little punk.”

“They say that as you get older, you become more cunning?”

Kerua scratched her head with her fingers. Then she spoke in a soft voice.

“I’m bored, so please contact me often.”

“Take good care of Aquana.”

“Oh, and… …Can I ask you one favor?”

At those words, Caron nodded slowly.

“However much.”

“If you find Ugo and Beatrice, please tell them I said hello. When I see the captain, their faces suddenly come to mind.”

“I was planning on looking for traces as I went back anyway.”

Seeing as Kerua was still alive, there was a high chance that the other two were still alive as well.

Since I had to go around to save the World Tree anyway, it wouldn’t be difficult to look for it somewhere along the way.

There will be records of those two being tracked down in Cheonghae Castle.

“Don’t worry so much. Even if you throw them in the middle of the desert, they’ll survive, right?”

“Haven’t you ever actually been stranded in the desert while on a mission?”

“Hehe, was that so? My memory is a bit hazy now. When you get old, you have to die. Tsk.”

The two exchanged light jokes and looked at each other quietly.

“Let’s go, Captain.”

“Okay, let’s go.”

Swish-!

The darkness that had surrounded them cleared away, and Charon turned around to join the group.

Leo looked back and asked.

“What did you talk about with Kerua?”

“The next time you bring Leo, he told me to educate him properly. He said he was too arrogant.”

“Ugh.”

Charon briefly sorted out Leo’s ramblings, then looked at Orion, who was standing next to him.

“There’s no need to see me off this time either.”

Then Orion opened his eyes wide as if to ask what was going on.

“Haven’t you heard the story? I’m going to Cheonghae Castle with you.”

“……why?”

“I was tasked with personally delivering a letter from the Regent. I think it would be a good opportunity to check the mood on the continent. I also plan on bringing Neria with me. Poina-sama said she is with her.”

“ah.”

Neria, the elf that Charon saved in Leven.

In the end, it seems like things are going well with Poina.

“Why does it feel like every time I go somewhere, I get another bump?”

“Charon! I am not a mole.”

“I didn’t say that to you, Utula.”

“Keuhhhh.”

In this way, Orion joined the group heading to Cheonghae Castle.

Awww!

Charon and his party mounted the wolf that Orion had prepared in advance and slowly took hold of the wolf’s reins.

And then, Kerua took a salute towards Charon.

‘……young.’

Charon smiled and saluted Kerua. Then, a moment later, Aqua’s bright voice rang out.

“Dad! Sister Leon! Uncle Leo! Uncle Utula! You have to come see me again!”

The group waved and smiled brightly at Aqua.

“Cute is the best.”

“Can’t I just be the dad, Caron?”

“Am I going to be an uncle until the end? Next time… … I will definitely be called uncle.”

“Well, hatchlings are cute.”

They each left a comment, and Caron nodded with a smirk.

“Let’s go back.”

This concludes our journey through the Southern Great Forest.

“To Cheonghae Castle.”

The bomb, now grown in size, decided to return home.

There’s a mad dog living in the duke’s house