“Yes, try to stick as close as possible.”
Alba was on my right shoulder and hit my shoulder with his cane. Following those words, I raised Jaja carefully with Yuri-san"s help.
“Au, ah.”
Jaja, who didn"t know what he"s doing, happily clapped my face.
My body now easily gets knocked off balance even with Jaja"s weak strength due to the reduced gravity.
Every time I was clapped, my head was shaken from right to left, and I felt sick.
“Oh, oh. Ja, Jaja! Stop, stop!”
“Ah! Dah!”
It seems that the expression changes I made every time I get shaken is interesting and Jaja"s hands are gradually using more strength.
“Yes, princess. Papa hurts.”
Yuri-san stopped Jaja"s right hand with her own.
“Woah… ohhhh.”
Air came back up from the lungs due to the swaying view, and at the same time the rising gastric juice left a bitter taste in my mouth.
I have to swallow. Wow bitter…
“Are you okay?”
“S-somehow.”
This naughty princess really doesn"t know how to hold back.
Same with her biting habit, what"s the best way to teach her to control it?
The things I have to think about is increasing one after another.
Let"s talk to Aoi today.
With Yule, both of them were caught up in their own thoughts and it came to the end without much discussion.
I recently noticed that communication is very important.
“That"s one of the tests. How to detect a spirit. When you saw the spirits in Tusk Crag, you were closer to a dragon because you ingested an eggsh.e.l.l. By no means did you obtain the full power of a dragon, but I thought in that state you could see the spirits.”
Yup. That"s for sure.
I, with the horns, tail, and wings, was certainly not human at that time.
I could clearly see the heavenly spirits that Aoi and Yule manipulated.
“At the ranch, you held Nana the whole time, right? Then that contact would have given you a dragon factor from Nana, meaning that you would have been in the state as you were at Tusk Crag. You can only match the Spirit Channel when you are in contact with the twins.”
“Is it fine just to touch them?”
“To be more certain, you should probably have direct contact with their head? Since the area around their horns is delicate, so it"s best to touch the forehead.”
“Well then, Jaja? I"m going to touch your forehead?”
I asked for permission and pressed my forehead on hers.
“Uwah”
Jaja looked straight at me with her gla.s.s marble-like eyes with a curious expression.
It"s beautiful. Nana usually has sleepy eyes, but her eyes are also beautiful.
There are many differences, but these twins" eyes are similar to their mother, Aoi"s.
Aoi"s is similar to Yule, the Dragoline family is a family of beautiful women. It was really good that they didn"t have villain-like eyes like me.
“Just close your eyes like that and feel the air. Concentrate on the heat of Jaja"s forehead.”
I closed my eyes as Alba told me.
The warmth of Jaja, whose body temperature is high, is really comfortable.
When I put her to sleep, I feel like I"m going to fall asleep first.
Nana"s like that too, but she grumbles when I try to put her to sleep. Since she"s a mamcon, she doesn"t like it unless it"s Aoi.
While thinking of such sadness, I felt the heat from Jaja"s small forehead.
The area I"m in contact with is small, but the warmth that"s being transmitted to my forehead is very pleasant.
At this rate, I"m going to take a nap, Nana too.
“You saw them pretty easily with Nana, right? Then it shouldn"t be too difficult. Please open your eyes.”
Oops.
Now is not the time to be falling asleep.
I removed my face from Jaja"s forehead and slowly opened my eyes.
“Woah…”
Amazing.
What"s amazing is how tightly packed they were.
Green b.u.t.terflies were crammed into the dining room.
They didn"t even have room to spread their wings, it was a bit pitiful.
The b.u.t.terflies were flying around Jaja as the center.
A part of the group, dozens of them were clinging around the floating toys.
“Ah, I see. Does it only affect where the b.u.t.terflies are?”
I shifted my line of sight and look at the corridor.
There were no b.u.t.terflies in the corridor that could be seen from the opening.
Is that why there is none by the landline?
“Wow, what is this?”
Yuri looked around and sighed with exclamation.
Huh? Can Yuri-san also see them?
“It was the same as when you were at Tusk Crag, but it seems that your perception is not synchronized with the spirit, it seems that the spirit is adjusting to this side"s channel.”
“Which means?”
“… It means that others can also see it when you can.”
Please don"t make that kind of face.
I"m trying my best, okay?
“But, the amount is amazing. It"s a lot more than Nana"s.”
“I guess it"s an ability that needs a lot of spirits. Jaja is excited now so she seems fine, but it seems the fatigue is acc.u.mulating.”
“Eh?”
I looked at Jaja in a hurry.
Ah, isn"t her face kind of flushed?
Was the reason her forehead was so hot was because she was getting a fever?
“Say that earlier! Yuri-san, could you please bring me a cold towel from the freezer?”
“So it wasn"t just my imagination that her body temperature felt really high earlier high. Wait a minute, okay?”
She laughs really easily, so her face flushes right away.
Speaking of which, Nana slept better than usual on the way back from the ranch.
Guh, I should have noticed.
“Sorry Jaja.”
“Ah! Dah!”
Jaja cackled with laughter, breathing excitedly.
Now that you mention it, she"s sweating and her eyes are a little red.
I"m so useless.
“So let"s quickly do it. Do you remember what happened at Tusk Crag?”
Yuri-san wrapped the towel she brought with baby gauze and gently held it to Jaja"s forehead.
She disliked it a little, but eventually narrowed her eyes in comfort.
“Um, it"s vague.”
My memory is a bit fuzzy before and after Yule"s thunder ball.
I faintly remember of the strong light inside my body, and Jaja and Nana"s roar.
It was cute.
“You brought forth this spirit, the spirit of life, from inside your body. I don"t know exactly what the principle is, so let"s leave it for now. This time it"s the exact opposite, you have to take it into your body from Jaja. ”
“Take in?”
“That"s right. I think it"s going to burden you, but now the load on Jaja is too heavy. That"s something you won"t allow, right?”
…Of course, that"s the case, it"s only natural for me to take Jaja"s place if she"s in pain.
I feel that my feelings and actions are being driven towards the most favorable results for Alba.
But there is no other choice. For now, I"ll turn a blind eye. I will ask if there is no result.
“…What should I do?”
Calm down and take deep breaths.
I made eye contact with Jaja, and urged Alba.
“First, take a deep breath, calm down and focus on the spirits, even just a single one.”
With that said, I looked at one of the b.u.t.terflies floating in a group in front of me.
It noticed my gaze and suddenly stopped its flapping wings.
I took deep breaths without moving my eyes.
Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale.
“Just like that, continue to focus on the spirit.”
The green b.u.t.terfly was looking at me.
I don"t know where its eyes are, I can"t distinguish between the front and the back because it"s a ma.s.s of light.
But I could tell that it was watching me.
“If you are in the process of using the dragons" spirits, you should be able to move them with your gaze soon.”
With my gaze?
“Try it, try looking to the right with just your eyes.”
Like this?
I shifted my eyes to the right, then the b.u.t.terfly followed along at exactly the same speed.
The b.u.t.terfly always stayed in the center of my field of view.
“Okay, your spirit organs are working. Next, try extending your consciousness from the spirit to its surroundings.”
From the spirit.
Okay.
Then, next is the surroundings…
Oh, it moved.
Then how about the group above it.
Okay, how about the one behind me?
Reach… alright!
“… amazing. Nearly all of the spirits are under his control.”
“Shhh. Just a bit more… how about that?”
I interrupted Alba"s voice and put the last group under my control.
“As expected…”
“Hm? What?”
Alba"s voice was unusually quiet. I couldn"t hear it because I was concentrated.
“No, nothing. I just thought you are really reliable.”
Really?
“For some reason, I get a bad feeling when you praise me.”
“That"s terrible. I"m the one who acknowledges you. So let"s go to the last step. I"ll have to do Nana once Jaja is done.”
Wait, please? Let"s finish it immediately and take a nap with papa!
Looking at Jaja in my arms and Nana sitting at my feet once again fired me up.