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Death’s Daughter Chapter 203

“Author: FoodLovingPanda”

CHAPTER 203: THE SIDE HE CHOSE

“Go away, I don’t want to see you. Besides, I am super busy to deal with you.”

I can’t believe that Vitou called him, out of all the people, to come here. What does he want to do? Force me to leave? Well I have no such plans whatsoever.

“Come on is this the way you greet your big bro? Now come here and give me a hug. I see you’ve grown since I last saw you.”

“No thanks! You’re a nuisance!”

Vitou seemed to be enjoying all this. Stupid, spineless bastard, let me see you try to pull off anything. I will ensure that every single plan you come up with fails. I stormed inside the inn and decided to take a bath. I needed to relax, again. And I just woke up.

Seriously, I was certain that I can deal with Vitou during this journey and he goes and calls the only other person giving me trouble. I might as well try to grind skills since I wouldn’t be able to escape at all. Screw that. I just hope I get to collect at least some dragon scales and that the others wouldn’t snag it away from me.

“I really like what you did with this place. I never thought about bringing a whole house with me. This is brilliant. You really do think of some great stuff little sis.”

“What the heck dude? This is my bathroom! GET OUT!”

I launched all the water inside the bath in order to flush him out. Does he have no shame? What gives him the right to just waltz in and embarrass me like this? Sadly, despite my attack, he didn’t move an inch. I guess his stats are even higher than I expected since he was able to withstand that impact.

“Ouch that hurt. That item really gives you an edge whenever you are near water. I never imagined someone was able to create an item like that. Don’t look at me like that, I won’t take it away from you. You earned it yourself.”

Furious, I put on my clothes while still dripping wet. Since he doesn’t want to go, then I will be the one to leave. Before I could reach the door he grabbed my wrist and pulled me back to me room.

“What do you want? I thought you wouldn’t want to travel with us and only join for the trip to Vilikis. What made you change your mind?”

“I didn’t plan on coming, but I was bored and seeing that you were here at the Red Lake I thought, why not? Plus this place lies on a very strong dragon vein and strange things can happen in such places when there is a mana overload.”

As he said that, he winked at me. What the heck? Is he really thinking about something and hinting me about it? Why? Doesn’t he have some sort of a grudge against me and that is why he is so adamant on ruining my life? Now I am confused.

I decided to leave to room and prepare breakfast. What he said earlier was definitely a hint to me. I should think about his words and maybe test it out a bit. I will stay here for a week, so I might as well and try to create the mana overload that he is talking about. I can even ask others to help me out.

Everyone was up and awake by now. I served the food, since I let my mind wander while I prepared breakfast I ended up making too much, but luckily everything was eaten. At first everyone was surprised to see the Archduke, but none of them found it too weird. This man was too mysterious so if he decided he wanted to visit, there was nothing wrong about it.

“Daisuke, Taichi, while we are waiting here for dragons, do you want to spar for a while. I want to improve my magic. In return I will teach you more about space magic.”

“Wait, Nao-chan, you are still planning on staying here?”

“Of course, since the Archduke is here now I can earn more money. It a big win for me. Also the food is not a problem, I have enough to feed all of you for the next three months.”

“I’ll be imposing on you all.”

I saw Vitou’s disappointed and betrayed expression. He was about to complain about something, but it was interrupted by a roar and loud flapping of wings. I guess the party is starting early. I looked at Fulgy who got up and went outside.

“Stay inside if you are scared. I am going to take a look outside.”

As I went for the door everyone else followed. I guess even they couldn’t stop their curiosity. Dragons are uncommon and most likely they wanted to know what I was planning on doing with this dragon. I think I can trust them to not do anything rash.

“Greetings dragon, I mean you no harm. As you can see, one of your brethren is here with me.”

The dragon that arrived was much smaller than Fulgy and had brownish gray colored scales. He seemed wary of us, but in the end returned the greeting.

“Bride of my brother, I did not expect humans here. I shall hold you for your word. I will not be here for long. Brother do keep them in check.”

Fulgy nodded and stood behind me. Things were going exactly as I expected them to go. Hopefully every meeting will be as smooth as this one.

“Everyone let’s go back inside. There is nothing more to see outside.”

I moved back to the inn, but I prepared to sprint out as soon as that dragon is gone to collect those scales.

“Naoko, where did you learn draconic?”

“Hmm? I’ve known it from the very beginning. Can’t you understand it? I thought all heroes came here knowing the languages that are being spoken here. Were you really not able to understand what I said earlier?”

“No, I can only understand Common Dorean and ancient language. I think maybe some form of Elvish would be okay. Everything else is a blank.”

That is odd. I just shrugged and let it slide. There is no need to overthinking things too much. At least I was better at one thing than the rest of them from the start. It’s good to know that I can converse with Fulgy in draconic whenever I wanted to hide something from the rest.

“Naoko, how about playing some games while we’re here? I really want you to teach me your sword style, but since you are so unwilling to do it, I plan on betting things so I can learn it.”

I smiled at Ishikawa’s statement. I guess some games are good to kill some time. And if luck wills it I could probably do something more about the Archduke.