“Twins, how rare? But it"s auspicious! Sky dragons have never increased by two before!”
Yule-san"s voice could be heard from my room.
I climbed the stairs while I experienced my creaking back pain.
When I peeked in from the crack of the door, Aoi and Yule-san were hugging the twins joyously.
“Look Nana, it"s grandma.”
“U?”
Nana hugged Yule-san"s arm with an even more incredulous look than usual.
“Nana, huh. Do you remember those legends?”
“Un. My favorite stories are about the two heroes.”
“Then is this one called Jaja? Look Jaja, it"s your grandma.”
“Ahー!”
“How lively! They"ll surely grow into fine children!”
Jaja, who was being held by Aoi, happily responded to Yule-san"s voice.
It"s a happy family circle no matter how you look.
Even though it was my room, I hesitated to take a step forward.
“Jaja is daddy"s girl, and Nana is a mommy"s girl. Nana won"t go to sleep if she"s not in my arms.”
“Ah, how nostalgic. It was also terible when I had you. There were times when I couldn"t sleep at all.”
“Wah, was I like that?”
“It hasn"t changed that you"re a spoiled child. When I thought you were asleep and removed my arm, you immediately woke up and started crying.”
Yule-san nostalgically talked about stories of Aoi which I didn"t know.
Aoi who was listening looked embarra.s.sed and was smiling.
Smiling with a face that I"ve never seen.
“Ah, Kunpei-san! Jaja is spreading her wings… Kunpei-san, why aren"t you coming in?”
“ah. It"s nothing.”
I don"t even know why.
For some reason it was difficult to go there.
However, I didn"t say that.
“Kunpei-san?”
“Ai, Nana is calling.”
“Eh? What"s wrong Nana? Is it the diaper?”
Nana was unsettled in Yule-san"s arms.
It was like a painting of a picturesque family that won"t allow any outsiders to intrude.
Even a speck of black won"t be allowed, and that black may be me.
“Kunpei-san, can you take Jaja for a bit?”
“O-ok.”
I received Jaja and embraced her.
She felt pleasantly warm and soft.
She looked straight at my face and laughed.
“Au. Daa.”
Jaja clapped my cheeks with both hands.
It didn"t hurt at all since there was no strength.
I continued to look at Jaja silently for a while.
Since I didn"t know where to look in the room.
“There you go, are you refreshed Nana?”
“Ahー”
Aoi who changed Nana"s diapers stood up and handed her over to Yule-san.
Then she turned around and came towards me.
“Kunpei-san, thank yo… Kunpei-san, aren"t you dirty?”
“Eh?”
Aoi looked at my clothes and felt strange.
“ah. I"ll change.”
“Your back wasn"t that dirty earlier, which reminds me, there was a loud sound earlier. What happened?”
“That was, uh…”
I was at a loss for words.
Mistaking Yule-san for a kidnapper and I was blown away twice, for some reason I didn"t feel like saying that to the current Aoi.
“Ah, that was the sound of me blowing this guy away. The dirt got there on the first time.”
“Eh?”
Yule-san replied like it was nothing.
Nana was yawning in her arms.
“He was getting in the way of meeting you. I took care to make sure he didn"t die, and I just shook his body with the wind to stun him without hitting him. I blew him away without it having effect, but I properly helped him with the landing, so he didn"t have any serious injuries, right?”
I realized after she said it.
I didn"t have many scratches for flying such a distance.
Just some on my knees and arms.
“W-why did you do something like that mother! Kunpei-san, where does it hurt? Is it your back?”
Aoi went behind me in a fl.u.s.ter and rolled up my shirt.
“Your back! It"s turning green! Mother!!”
Aoi raised her voice while ma.s.saging my back.
“Humans are such fragile creatures.”
“Mother, I"m mad! Apologize to Kunpei-san!”
Aoi shouted at Yule-san who was cackling in laughter.
“Why should I have to apologize to something like a human.”
“Mother!!!”
Aoi had an angry expression and pressed Yule-san for an answer with a red face.
“That reminds me Ai, did you not listen to what I told you?”
“What!? More importantly, Kunpei-s…”
“Why did you approach this human. I should have taught you since long ago that human contact should be kept to the bare minimum.”
“T-that"s…”
Yule-san glared at Aoi.
Aoi recoiled at her intensity and tightly gripped onto my clothes.
Once again, I"m being excluded.
Jaja gripped my cheeks with both her her hands.
“I should have told you. Humans and beastmen are indeed weak, but they"re unfair. You"ll suffer if they discover you.”
“Kunpei-san isn"t like that!”
“Well, there"s a good chance that this guy or his family are aiming for the babies.”
A switch flipped in me when she said those words.
“… My family and I won"t do something like that.”
For the first time since entering this room, I looked at Yule-san"s eyes.
Somehow I was certain that there was anger dwelling in those eyes that were glaring at me.
“I don"t trust you. There are many who approached dragons by saying that in the past and suddenly attacked. Well, they"ll usually have the tables turned on them and either have a painful experience or be killed.”
“You might know about those guys, but my family is different.”
I also resolutely glared back.
“K-kunpei-san?”
“I don"t know what you think of humans, but suddenly coming to visit and blowing me away, then complaining about my family. No matter how you put it, isn"t that very rude?”
That"s right, I was getting irritated.
“Heh, just when I thought you were a coward that could only endure, you can talk back, huh.”
Yule-san scornfully laughed at my words and approached while holding Nana.
“But look at your opponent before you bark brat. Standing in front of you is absolute strength, the top of the dragon species, a king who controls the sky, that"s me.”
Her face approached mine to the point where our noses were almost touching.
Her line of sight never parted from my eyes.
“Don"t get too carried away.”
“And what if I do?”
The intimidating sense she gave off made it feel like the air was trembling.
I felt like she could kill me with just her eyes.
However, I continued to stare at her resolutely.
“I"ll wipe out mankind.”
That beautiful woman revealed her fangs and smiled dangerously.