<h4>Volume 10, Chapter 2: Direct Knight</h4>


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    Jasmine held the little guy in her hand while feeling helpless and distressed. Ever since the day Li had his Knight examination, Baolilong had been curling its little body into a ball. It spent most of its time curled up next to the door, and it would asionally peek outside, waiting for a certain someone to arrive. This would continue until the night, and the little figure would walk sadly with its head lowered, back to Jasmine’s room, and then continue to curl up in a ball on the bed, quietly letting its tears flow on the sheets.


    Jasmine’s heart ached in seeing the situation but, there was nothing she could do. This all started on the day of the Knight examination…


    Baolilong transformed into arge dragon and carried Li to kick-off the test against Cappino and Little Fireball. Although Li’s strength had far surpassed Cappino, things were a different when Little Fireball came into the picture. The tacit cooperation between Cappino and Little Fireball had unexpectedly caused Li and Baolilong some struggles.


    Because Li had been too strong, they had always been able to defeat their opponents with Li’s strength alone, so Baolilong’s mission was, at most, carry Li into the sky. Therefore, theirbat coordination was practically non-existent. This had never hurt them much before, but now during aerialbat, and running into Cappino and Little Fireball, who had countless battle experiences, theirck of coordination was a fatal weakness.


    During one of the confrontations, not only did Baolilong’s lightning not able to put a scathe on Cappino’s dragon, Little Fireball, it was burnt by it. Baolilong fell to the ground, and returned to its human shape, hoping to run back into papa’s arms to cry, but it was tossed away.


    “Useless thing, scat!”


    The papa in Baolilong’s heart was looking at it with emotionless eyes, and spoke with a cold tone.


    “Papa, papa…” Baolilong cried as if it had been maligned. Every time it had done something wrong, as long as it cried, Li would always walk over it quietly and carry it in his arms.


    Li did indeed walk over, but instead of carrying Baolilong, he swept with his feet, kicking the little figure out of the arena, so it wouldn’t obstruct him in his test.


    “What are you doing?!” Jasmine and Lanski, who had been watching from the side-lines, screamed in unison, then ran towards Baolilong.


    Baolilong struggled to sit up, stared at its papa, who was still in the arena, as thought it had no idea what happened. Tears still stained its cheek, but Baolilong didn’t dare to bawl now. Instead, it said timidly, “Papa?”


    Li slowly turned his head, and then said coldly, “You should call me ‘Master’.”


    Hearing Li’s cold tone of voice, Baolilong pouted and started crying. It still didn’t dare to bawl, so it sobbed and said desperately, “Don’t want master; papa is papa…”


    Practically at the same time, Li’s figure warped, and suddenly appeared in front of Baolilong, with his left hand raised high.


    “Stop!” Noticing he was about to do something, Lanski rushed up to protect Baolilong.


    A crisp p sound echoed in the arena, and Lanski practically flew off. When she turned her head around, half of her face swelled, with blood oozing out the side of her mouth. She tried to shake off the dizziness, but she couldn’t believe such a heavy p was originally aimed at Baolilong.


    “Li!” Jasmine yelled angrily, and she reached out her hand to p Li, but instead, Li grabbed ahold of her wrist.


    Li’s emotionless cold eyes stared back at her, and slowly bent her wrist backwards. Jasmine’s face suddenly turned pale, because she couldn’t believe the man in front of her would hurt her like this.


    “Stop!” Lanski stood up, and yelled with a refrained voice, “Sovereign brother, Jasmine is my friend, so you shouldn’t hurt her.”


    Li slowly let go of Jasmine’s arms, but she was already in so much pain that cold sweat ran down her back, however, didn’t dare to scream, so she gritted her teeth. She raised her head, trying to gaze into the eyes of man in front of her. Those pair of silver eyes that had once moved her, was now filled with a piercing cold, and his tone was even more heartless,


    “Unless you don’t want to live anymore, never, ever, attack me.”


    * * *


    Remembering what Li had said, Jasmine tightened her grasp on Baolilong. The little guy in her arms refused to adjust, and stubbornly called Li “papa” rather than “master”. Li’s response was even simpler: just a word, “Scat”.


    This was the result of Lanski and Cappino desperately stood in front of Baolilong. Otherwise Li… that man, might not have even said a word, but gave it the knuckle treatment, instead. Jasmine pouted.


    “Papa, papa… doesn’t want Baolilong anymore?” Baolilong curled up some more, and cried quietly.


    “Oh, no.” Jasmine felt bad. She put her face against Baolilong’s head, and kissed its hair, whileforting it, “Li would never abandon you. He cares deeply about you, even though he never says it, but he really does, right?’


    Baolilong cried, and then opened its big eyes to look at Jasmine, while answering assuredly, “Papa cares about Baolilong the most! He would touch Baolilong’s head every time. If Baolilong did something wrong, crying would immediately stop papa from being angry, and he would even hug Baolilong.”


    “Yes, I know. Even though he doesn’t speak much, and sometimes he even looks cold, but he is truly good to you. He is a gentle and good father.” Jasmine said with a hoarse voice. She wasn’t sure if she was telling those words to Baolilong or herself.


    Baolilong suddenly began to struggle, and then jumped out of Jasmine’s arms. It began to move its little feet towards the door.


    “Baolilong, where are you going?” Jasmine seemed hesitant.


    Baolilong answered while it continued walking, “To go find papa.”


    “No!” Jasmine panicked as she rushed to stop Baolilong, but Baolilong desperately struggled and yelled, “Baolilong wants papa! Papa…”


    “No, did you forget? If you aren’t willing to call him ‘master’, he will beat you.” Jasmine advised painstakingly, while holding her arms even tighter, fearing that it would begin to struggle once more.


    “Papa wouldn’t beat Baolilong!” Baolilong puffed its cheeks, and angrily refuted.


    Jasmine buried her face into Baolilong’s white hair, and her voice was iparably miserable, “Li wouldn’t beat you, he really wouldn’t. Then… who exactly is that man? Why does he have Li’s silver eyes, appearance, memory, but he’s definitely not him.”


    Baolilong seemed to have noticed the sadness of the person behind it. It stopped struggling, and clumsily turned around. It patted Jasmine’s head, then sincerelyforted, “Jasmine, don’t cry…”


    “Baolilong…” Jasmine hugged Baolilong’s little body tightly. She could no longer hold back her tears, “I’m scared, scared that Li may never change back. If he stays like this forever, what do we do?”


    Baolilong tilted its head, and its puffed cheek looked like it was thinking hard, but in a few seconds, Baolilong seemed to have given up; it said naturally, “Baolilong doesn’t know, but Kaiser knows. Baolilong waits for Kaiser.”


    “Kaiser…” Jasmine raised her head. Although teardrops marked her face, her eyes were filled with hope, “Right, hispanions would never abandon Li. Hmm, I think I know what I can do: I should try to find a way to contact Kaiser.”


    Baolilong nodded desperately in agreement, “Find Kaiser, find Kaiser!”


    (“Leave It to Kaiser Disease” had proved, through its symptoms, it was a contagious disease that could be spread among humans and dragons, and its epidemic continued to spread…)


    * * *


    “Little Fireball, I need to ask you a serious question.” Ever since that day, Cappino had been bored. There were only a handful of times when he was serious, but now, he was solemnly asking his own dragon a question.


    “No.” Little Fireball denied it without a second thought.


    “Hey… I haven’t even asked the question I wanted to ask?”


    Little Fireball shrugged, and apologized without being sorry in the slightest, “Sorry, it’s a habit I’ve developed from spending a long time with you. Continue, then.”


    Cappino looked afar, and he had the same look on his face as the first time he went to challenge a Dragon alone. When he saw the Dragon’s strong body, he fell into a trance, then into another trance, and finally asked the person next to him, “My mission is to defeat this Dragon? You’re joking. Is today April Fools, and you’re tricking me? Maybe my mission is just to take a picture of the Dragon?”


    But now, Cappino was more than willing to wrestle barehanded with three giant Dragons than… to speak with his own brother, who was a tenth the height of a dragon. Unfortunately, this the mission his baby sister gave him: to chat with Li, and to find out what exactly was wrong.


    Seeing Li walked while emitting a freezing presence, and thereby causing a whole road to be filled with Knight Ice statues, Cappino seriously thought wrestling with three Dragons wouldn’t be so bad. He took a deep breath and said, “Actually…”


    “Today isn’t April Fools.” Little Fireball rudely interrupted.


    “Or perhaps…”


    “Oh, Princess Lanski wouldn’t want a picture.” Little Fireball nced in disdain at his own Prince.


    Cappino’s lips trembled, and gestured at the magnificent Knight ice statues, then said painfully, “L-Little Fireball, I’m going to freeze to death.”


    “Don’t worry, master, your Dragon is a Fiery Dragon.” Little Fireball pointed at itself, “I’ll be in charge of melting you.”


    Remembering his baby sister’s pleads, then seeing the Knight ice statues his brother made, Cappino’s face warped. Finally, his sister’s tearful eyes barely won over his brother’s freezing presence. Cappino pitifully dragged Little Fireball’s clothes, “Thene with me!”


    Little Fireball’s mouth twitched, and then said with disdain, “You’re not a child anymore, go by yourself!”


    “It’s fine if you just apany me on the side.” Cappino blinked like a little child with tears in his eyes.


    Little Fireball’s shoulders twitched ufortably, then earnestly rejected, “No, go by yourself.”


    “H-How could you be so heartless, you cold blooded animal!” Cappino yelled emotionally.


    Little Fireball nodded, “Yup, or are you going to tell me you’ve heard of a warm blooded Dragon? Normally speaking, reptiles are cold blooded.”


    Hearing this, Cappino blinked, as though he realized something. He examined Little Fireball, “You actually admitted you’re a reptile? Don’t tell me you… are also afraid of my little brother? To the point you’re willing to admit you’re a reptile?”


    Little Fireball nced at the Fourth Prince from the distance, then decided right on the spot to use a tone that infuriated Cappino and admitted, “Yup, master, I have scales, so no matter how you categorize me, I belong in the reptile family. Even though you flunked Biology — and just about everything else for that matter — you should at least know that cold blooded animals couldn’t live in a too cold or too hot of a climate, right? So… you have to chat with the Fourth Prince by yourself.”


    “I… I am a reptile, too!” Cappino held his fist, and announced loudly and shamelessly.


    “You’re a mammal.” Little Fireball nced at his master. Clearly, even a Dragon learnt Biology better than Cappino.


    “I can’t breastfeed! So how could I be a mammal, but…” Cappino crouched, got on all four and crawled a bit. He then raised his head and said triumphantly, “Look, I can crawl; therefore, I must be a reptile!”


    But as soon as he raised his head, Cappino suddenly realized, while he was crawling on the ground, Little Fireball had actually backed up a dozen meters away, and continuously spitted out fireballs to warm his hands, while looking at his own Prince with sympathy.


    “Why is it so cold?” Cappino felt the hair on his back standing up. Unless….


    He turned his head only to find a pair of cold silver eyes staring at him. Cappino screamed on top of his lungs, “Ah~~~ I’m dead! I’m dead! I’m going to freeze to death!”


    “Sovereign brother, Father asked me to find you, so you could take me to pick some Knights.” Li stated coldly, as if he didn’t hear Cappino scream, nor did he see the strange sights of his own brother crawling around on the ground.


    “Pick Knights?” Cappino blinked, he then got up from all fours and stood in his two feet. He asked skeptically, “Why all the trouble? You’re already the sessor, does it really matter if you pick some or not?”


    “This is father’smand.” Li answered as such.


    Cappino paused a moment. He didn’t understand the intent of his father’smand, but he sighed. Why would he bother guessing? No matter what his intent was, could he really disobey it?


    “Let’s go. At this time, the Knights should still be practicing, so we will definitely find them on the training grounds.” Cappino shrugged, thinking this was also a chance for him to see if Blood Wolf was there. Having traveled the world, Blood Wolf had always been more knowledgeable, and perhaps he could immediately determine what the Dragon Emperor had done to Li.


    Thinking this, Cappino’s spirits had lifted and began to walk almost impatiently, to take his brother towards the training grounds. On the way, he didn’t forget his sister’s orders, and he kept talking.


    “I wonder what Kaiser and others are doing right now? They might even be confronting the ck Dragon King right now, and that would be bad. Rumor has it, there are countless Lesser Dragons under his control, and even Qiusi couldn’t formte a n… right, you still remember Kaiser and others, right? ” Cappino pretended to be rxed, and asked casually.


    “… Yes.” Li was quiet for a while, but still answered.


    What was up with the hesitation? Perhaps there’s hope… Cappino tried to suppress the excitement in his mind. He asked carelessly, “Where did Kaiser, Daylight, and you disappeared to? I don’t think you went to the Commerce Alliance. I heard Purity and Meinan looked for you non-stop for more than a year, and the only ce they didn’t look was the Dragon Continent.”


    Li stopped, and Cappino stopped with him, and looked with anticipation. Li said coldly, “Don’t mention them. Father doesn’t like to hear about them.”


    Hearing this, Cappino replied with a bit of disappointment, “Oh.” However, he thought that it was better he had gotten a response at all, which meant he still cared about hispanions.


    “Right.” Cappino suddenly thought of an actual question he actually wanted to ask. Seeing training grounds weren’t far away, he hurriedly asked, “Why did Father give you the title of Silver Moon?”


    Without waiting for Li’s answer, Cappino began to talk to himself and guessed, “Lancelot’s title is Pdin because he’s a Holy Knight, and he has always been honorable, so Father gave him that title, hoping him to be the idol for all the Holy Knights. Blood Wolf was the opposite. He is a Dark Knight, and his personality is quite weird, despite him being very strong. Father also gave him the title of Darkness. However, as for your ‘Silver Moon’, I don’t really understand it. ‘Silver’ makes a bit of sense, since your eyes are unique and they’re silver. ‘Moon’, on the other hand, is strange. I can’t fathom what ‘Silver Moon’ means.”


    Cappino was just far too curious; to the point that even Li’s frozen aura did not seem to damper his curiosity. He stared at his brother, hoping to get an answer, “Why exactly ‘Silver Moon’?”


    Li stopped. Because it was a question his sovereign brother had asked, he habitually thought it was something he should answer. Nevertheless, this question wasn’t so easily answered as it wasn’t a yes or no question, but Li knew the answer to it.


    Many memories pierced through Li’s thoughts, and he said as if he were reciting, “Silver Moon, a name of my past, a name of an emotionless top Assassin who would always obey orders.”


    Hearing this answer, Cappino’s pupils dted. “Emotionless, always obey orders, top Assassin” …Are these really what their own father want his child to turn into? So when he gave Li the title of Silver Moon, was his intention to turn Li back into the original Assassin?


    “Father, you are his and Susanna’s son…” Cappino’s face suddenly turned pale. When he saw Li’s still expressionless eyes, Cappino’s heart panicked even more.


    “Sovereign brother, the training ground?” Li couldn’t understand why Cappino’s face turned pale, but all he wanted to do was carry out Father’smands.


    Cappino took a few deep breaths, and decided in his mind. For his brother, for Lanski, and even for the dead Susanna, he would do everything in his power to help his brother escape, from this ce he should be calling home.


    “Training ground is ahead. How many Knights will you be choosing?” Cappino began to walk forward again, while advising him, “The problem isn’t really with how many you choose. More importantly, you have to choosepatible ones, especially since you are the sessor, so all the Knights must obey you. As long as you feelpatible with them, even their strength isn’t really an issue.”


    With Cappino’s nagging, the two stepped into the training grounds. The Dragon Empire’s training ground wasn’t something that can bepared to those in An Academy, since the majority of the Knights were Dragon Knights, and because therge size of Dragons, the training grounds were considerablyrger. At a nce, one can see many giant circr arenas on top of the ins, and many Knights were dueling on top of them.


    The training grounds were sorge that they looked like track fields circling the arenas, and one could not judge the length of the fields around each. There were many Knights wearing armors standing in formations, running uniformly on those tracks.


    What’s even more were Knights who were holding weapons, practicing how to pierce, stab, swing, etc. They all looked spirited, and their war cries pierced the skies.


    Cappino and Li stopped at the training grounds’ door. Technically speaking, the “door” was nothing more than an outpost made of stones, with guards standing on either side of it. As soon as the guards saw Cappino, they started smiling a bit indecently, as if to imply they had an idea of what Cappino usually did here. However, when they see Li’s silver eyes, they obviously panicked a little, then formally saluted and yelled, “Greetings, Fourth Prince, Your Highness… and also Third Prince.”


    “Hey…”


    Cappino didn’t know where to hide his shame, but this was already better than he expected. Had he been alone, not only would the guards not salute to him, they might even start warning this Prince that training grounds forbid alcohol, pic, flirting with female Knights, etc.


    Li returned the formality coldly, and then went in ahead. After all, he only asked Cappino to lead him to the training grounds. Since he was already here, there was no longer a need to follow Cappino.


    When Li walked into the training grounds, the two guards finally rxed. They looked at Cappino, who pretended to be solemn, and the two began to chatter, “Why are they so different when they’re both Princes?”


    Cappino pouted his mouth with dissatisfaction. Although one of the guards saw him, he didn’t seem to fear him, and began to shake his head, “Look! Look! That Fourth Prince, he is a sessor after all. He doesn’t even need to be angry to appear imposing, but look at our Third Prince… sigh!” The guard sighed exaggeratedly.


    “Oh, our Third Prince, he doesn’t seem imposing even if he’s angry.” Another guard knocked his head as though he was vexed by something. A momentter, they both burst intoughter.


    “Hey! You two, at least when I’m here for a pic, I did bring you two some drumsticks. Do you really have to make fun of me?” Cappino protested loudly.


    “Right, right.” The guard nodded, then added, “Afterwards, when Second Prince came and saw the pic baskets on the ground, who yelled, ‘I didn’te here for pic! It was the guards who ate it. Look, there’s still oil on their lips, and there are chicken bones on the ground’?”


    “Uh…” Cappino’s face suddenly changed, and smiled, “Well… Ah! My sovereign brother went in, I better go help them pick a Knight. You guys continue what you’re doing, I’m going in.”


    The guards refrained fromughing while they saw this unscrupulous Prince walk into the training grounds.


    As soon as Cappino walked into the training grounds, he saw the trail of ice statues Li left behind. Cappino thought it strange. In under normal circumstances, the Knights training in the training grounds could ignore inspecting Royal Members or High Ranking Knights, as this was an order from the Dragon Emperor, to prevent interference on the Knight’s training. However, this order clearly waspletely useless in Li’s presence.


    “Even without having to salute, such a cold creature would cause their skins to freeze, even if his eyes didn’tnd on him.” Cappino signed, not knowing whether this was evidence of the cruel nature of his brother, his qualifications to be a King, or perhaps even the mercilessness required to be a King?


    Seeing Li getting further and further away, Cappino panickedly jogged up to his brother. The Knights’ responses were also quite strange: when Fourth Prince walked by, everyone froze on the spot, but when the Third Prince yelled, “Brother, wait for me,” and then jogged by, everyone felt a warm breeze pass by and defrosted them. The Knights seemed to smile helplessly, shaking their heads at this indecent Prince.


    Cappino caught up to Li, and secretly observed him. He noticed his brother was continually walking forward emotionlessly, nor did he look at the Knights around him. Cappino scratched his head; how would he possibly find a suitable Knight like this?


    He knew suitable Knights weren’t an easy thing to find. Rumors had it, when their eldest brother was still a Knight, before he became a fortune teller, he only had two Knights following him, and they were both his friends growing up. Second brother Latte… Cappino frowned upon this brother of his. He had his own army of Knights, but he only paid attention to Lancelot and ignored all his other Knights.


    As for himself, Cappino scratched his face; he was on good terms with most of the Knights. However, the most loyal one was probably none other than Blood Wolf. That guy and him were practically… in others words, one was an indecent Prince, and the other was an indecent Knight; together their indecency endangered the world… Wait, how could he even include thatst thought from those guards?!


    Why wasn’t there a good example for his brother to follow? Cappino bitterly thought about the reality of it all. He couldn’t use himself as a role model, right? Could one… below freezing Prince plus one below freezing Knight end up creating a new ice age, and freeze the rest of the Dragon Empire’s reptiles to death?


    Cappino awoke from his daze, realizing his brother had gotten far again; he hurriedly caught up, and then asked, “Brother, what kind of Knight are you looking for?”


    Li stopped, and his eyes nced across the Knights, as if freezing rays had been swirled by. The sound of things freezing could be heard continuously. He went silent, and continued to walk forward.


    Seeing this, three ck lines fell down Cappino’s forehead. Heughed bitterly, “Looks like we’ll be looking for the Knight who doesn’t freeze…”


    Seeing Li walking away, and his quick footsteps seemed to indicate his intention to walk a full circle around the training ground, Cappino sighed at hisbored life, then followed him.


    “You… are Silver Mask?”


    A hesitating voice asked. Li stopped quickly, so fast that Cappino almost couldn’t brake in time and rear-ended him. Li turned his head, looking at the person who spoke. It was a Dark Knight. Li examined the person: he had deep purple hair and ck eyes, and somewhat cold expressions… he looked familiar, but that was it.


    “Do you know this Knight?” Cappino asked curiously.


    Li’s mind drew nk. He didn’t know who it was, but since this person called him Silver Mask, it should be someone who knew him.


    The purple-haired Knight seemed to have guessed what was going on, and he said directly, “I’m Yizhou.”


    ‘He even said his name, so now you should know who he is, right?’ Cappino looked back at Li with hope, but thetter, regardless of whether he recognized him, remained emotionless. Not being able to judge whether Li recognized the man, Cappino had no choice but to ask again, “Do you know him?”


    “…” Li continued to remain silent. It seemed like, regardless of whether he was Silver Moon or Li, his habit of forgetting would never change.


    Cappino scratched his face. His brother had probably forgotten the manpletely. He shrugged at the Knight, “Never Mind whether he knew you before, he forgot you now. Describe how you knew him, and perhaps he would remember.”


    Yizhou looked at Li strangely, as if he couldn’t believe how much Li had forgotten. He reminded Li, “I have a twin brother, his name is Yiyu, and he’s a Sorcerer.”


    “Violet Academy.” With such a reminder, Li finally remembered.


    Yizhou nodded, and Li didn’t say anything else. The two remained quiet, and they looked remarkably simr. The only difference was the degree to which they were frozen. At least Yizhou was within the tolerance of a normal person, while Li was the absolute zero, who was practically holding a sign that says, “Don’t get close, or else you have to be responsible for your own safety”.


    “Yizhou, ah, I’ve heard about you. Aren’t you the genius Silver Knight who just got here? You’ve already reached silver rank at such a young age, it’s quite something.” Cappino broke the endless silence, and asked excitedly.


    Yizhou nced at Cappino, as if he was thinking about how he should answer. He finally nodded, and rigidly thanked him, “Thank you, Third Prince, for yourpliments.”


    “Hahaha, no problem… hahaha…” Cappinoughed, but the two people in front of him sank into silence again, which made hisugh more and more awkward. He cursed in his mind, thinking that he jinxed it, and now there really was an icy Knight. No! He could never let his brother be matched up with this Knight; otherwise even Little Fireball couldn’t defrost him!


    “Brother, I say, let’s go find your Direct Knight. I know many talented Knights…” Cappino thought to himself, they have to at least find a Knight with a burning passion, so he could at least bring the temperature around his brother back to humanly tolerable levels.


    “He will do.”


    Who would have known Li would point his finger at Yizhou, who was standing in front of him,pletely stupefying Cappino.


    “Why pick me?” Yizhou was even more shocked than Cappino, and he was also confused. Anyone could see his situation with the Fourth Prince was terrible. In addition, they used to enemies; so theoretically, Li should have never picked him. In fact, in the silence just now, Yizhou had thought of the possibility of being kicked out of the Dragon Empire for angering Li in the past.


    Instead, he ended up being a Knight working under Li, which would make him the sessor’s Direct Knight, and also the future Dragon Emperor’s Direct Knight. This was practically the highest honor among Knights.


    Li nced at him, and said, “You’re very quiet.” Since he had chosen a Knight, he had also finished his Father’s order. Li walked away without turning his head and, towards the exit to the training grounds, without giving the Knight he had just chosen any instructions.


    Yizhou, who had won the highest honor for Knights by being “quiet”, was now even quieter. He didn’t know if he should be happy or…


    Cappino, on the other hand, began to panic, and he yelled loudly, “Wait, brother, let’s pick a few more. You want quiet ones, no problem, I know many mute Knights, and even if they aren’t, I’ll beat him until they are…”


    Lipletely ignored his brother, and continued his quick footsteps toward the exit. Cappino dropped his shoulder in a depressed manner. He covered his face with infinite sadness, “My God, my God. Two frozen guys were put together. My spring, summer, and autumn will now all be gone. Does it mean the only thing left is a never-ending winter?”


    “Don’t worry, master, I’ming!” Little Fireball, in his small Dragon form, used all of its power, shooting out a long stream of fire, then asked while trying to catch his breath, “Are you melted now?”


    A human-shaped charcoal spit out some ck smoke, and then fell to the ground.