"Hey, Nexivroh, was anything other than the two of us even alive in the previous timeline when created a pathway for us?"


    Strawberry asked curiously while watching the speck of green bing bigger and bigger as it undoubtedly was heading their way.


    "Unfortunately no, even my mate, Intran, didn''t survive and both of us were at the peak of how powerful a monster in that world could be... I simply cannot imagine another creature being able to withstand the...


    "HOW DARE YOU BULLY MY PAPA!?"


    *SHING* x657


    "..."


    *THUNK* x657


    A slender green dragon with disproportionallyrge wings howled furiously and unleashed a flurry of wind des all aimed at the vile dragon and the dragon princess – still, none of them had any effect as Strawberry simply jumped up in silence and intercepted every single one of them with her baseball bat.


    *whoosh*


    As she get back to the ground, Strawberry stepped aside and made Nexivroh do the same to make way for the new dragon tond – which the green dragon did, surprisingly softly too, by the way.


    "PAPA...! WHAT DID YOU DO TO PAPA, STUPID PRINCESS, AND STUPID NEXIVROH?!"


    The green dragon with massively oversized wings got over Aku defensively and roared furiously at the blue-skinned woman and the four-winged dragon.


    "PAPA! PAPA, ARE YOU OKAY?!"


    With the other two backing off the green dragon cried out and lowered its head, nudging the trembling body of the ck-haired boy with its snout.


    "...gh..."


    With his chest caved in and his organs crushed, it was still impressive that Aku managed to make a sound like that, although a lot of blood came out through his disfigured face.


    "PAPA! USE THAT THING, THE SCALE THING, AND THEN THE CONNECTION THING!"


    "Young Kaaraal..."


    Seeing the state of the human boy the green dragon''s voice grew desperate, in response to that Nexivroh bellowed trying to approach the younger creature but was stopped by a grim-looking Strawberry.


    "Princess...?"


    The four-winged dragon bellowed in confusion.


    "She''s telling him to use thew of Libra to gain ess to thew of Leo."


    "What would it even change?"


    Strawberry nced to the side and exined but her four-winged dragon seemed to be unable to figure out what exactly did she mean.


    "At a high enough level, thew of Leo would not only share power between the user and the target but also make the tamer peek into the mind of the tamed beast. This means that if Unbreakable would use it then he would gain ess to little Kaaraal memories which in turn could help recover the missing memories..."


    The blue-skinned woman rolled her eyes and reminded Nexivroh of something that it should honestly already know of...


    "Umm... princess, I am aware of the mechanics of thews, but... isn''t what you just said impossible for the Unbreakable as he is now? I mean... Hisw of Aries is clearly far below the supernova level he boasted previously..."


    "...ah... that''s what you meant..."


    The four-winged dragon bellowed awkwardly while pointing out and made the blue-skinned woman make a surprised expression.


    "Ha ha...! Well, wasn''t that a rotten brain moment, eh?"


    Strawberry let out a short, embarrassedugh and raised her hand moving it slightly back to pat the side of her dragon''s head.


    "...Leo..."


    "EH?!"


    Maybe because she stopped paying attention to the green dragon and the boy it was protecting, the barely audible whispering from the dying child made her let out a shocked gasp.


    "...?"


    Strawberry faced the other two again just to see the wounded boy raising his right hand to the green dragon''s head and gently patting it while the dragon closed its eyes.


    The two of them stayed like that sharing a touching-looking moment...


    "Fuuuck, what a touching moment. For a second I thought that he was capable to straight up using otherws without the crutches of thew of Libra!"<novelnext></novelnext>


    Strawberry breathed out in relief and smiled..."


    "...wait..."


    Suddenly she flinched and her expression clouded.


    "Why would I feel relieved about something like...?"


    She gulped down her saliva and looked at the dragon and the dying human.


    The ck-haired boy seemed to be losing all of his strength and his hand slipped down and fell to the ground...


    "...Cancer..."


    *BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*


    Right as his hand actually touched the ground the ck-haired boy managed to whisper and the already damaged mountain got even more broken as another explosion urred, engulfing both the human and the green dragon in a cloud of dust and smoke.


    "...hey... what the fuck is that supposed to be...?"


    The blue-skinned woman growled in extreme annoyance, lowering the baseball bat that she raised defensively.


    *WHOOOOSH*


    "Eh?! Papa?!"


    The dustcloud was dispersed with a single p of the massive wings of the green dragon that seemed to be the most surprised about the sight of the human beneath it.


    "..."


    The still very much wounded Aku was standing up straight with a hollow look in his eyes.


    But before anyone else said or did anything, a silver mist-like vapor raised from his damaged body and floated up above his head forming a moon-like sphere.


    As the miniature silver moon formedpletely...


    *CRACK*


    The crushed ribcage reformed itself with a chill-inducing sound making the boy''s torso look like it suddenly inted – and that wasn''t the end of the changes.


    The boy''s skin turned coarse until the soft tissue became rows upon rows of scales that darkened until they reached the same color as his hair.


    Within seconds the boy''s body transformed into something that could roughly be ssified as a draconid – not an actual dragonewt but instead, some failed dragon-human hybrid straight from the horror movie.


    Despite his face growing longer, the damaged right side did not recover so two rows of sharp fangs werepletely exposed, and his fingernails turned into massive obsidian ws gleaming in the starlight...


    He even grew a tail, but interestingly enough, it was just a rather cute baby-dragon tail instead of an actual one.


    Finally, his pupils turned vertical, erasing thest semnce of humanity from his monstrous appearance.


    "Ohhh... I think I get it... You got a blessing from the god in charge of this world but it took your memories in exchange for giving you more options! Did I get that..."


    *WHOOOOSH*


    Seeing the boy in such a creepy state made Strawberry snicker, but as she was speaking and happened to blink, the transformed human charged straight t her with truly monstrous speed!


    *BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM* *CRUNCH*


    Still, even mid-blink the blue-skinned woman reacted and countered the punch – the scaly arm met the baseball bat and ended up breaking in several ces to the point of the shattered bones ripping through the flesh.


    "Hmph, what do you think you''re...?"


    *throb*


    Strawberry scoffed in annoyance but she flinched and her eyes widened the moment she felt a sharp pain spread through her own arm.


    "Do truly believe that I would leave it at that, princess...?"


    *SQUELCH*


    "!!!"


    The left side of the monstrous boy''s face twisted in a grin that matched his horribly injured right side and at the same time, the muscles and tendons of his broken arm moved erratically as if they were boiling over and his limb ended up growing exponentially to a disproportional size.