《A dragon familar》 Chapter 1 Currently, I sit in a giant metal cage that was adorned with fluffy pillows, contemplating life with my brother. Why am I doing there, you ask? Well, I suppose let''s begin from the very beginning. A normal dragon hatchling tends to spend their first 4-5 years in their eggs, I was a late champion that hatched the latest, my own mother assumed I was dead. Greeted by a fire breathing scaly thing that towered over me upon opening my eyes, I naturally released my first puddle of pee. After that horrifying greeting, I met my brothers and sisters, all of them not bothering to look at their youngest sibling. From then on, we learnt many things form mother, what we were, what we can do and what a cruel world this was. Dragons were once a mighty race, worshipped by some and feared by most, but our downfall came with a few reasons, two of which was by our vitality and greed. Dragons pillaged and raped, leaving deformed descendants that never lived long enough and received hatred from the very countries that we brought down with our claws and mighty breath. The other was caused by our ability to change our race, as the hatred grew from the other races, we had to go into hiding by transforming to other races to prevent them from chopping apart our scaly form, making ourselves indistinguishable by both our own race and others. The last reason was our strength and the magic of the other races, it was possible to enslave dragons with magic, since we had great power, countries in war would actively participate in dragon hunting hoping to change their situation. Strangely Inioth, our mother, was able to find one of her own kind and mate, creating us, probably the first brood of pure blooded dragon in a few hundred years. There was seven of us, a rather large brood was what mother said we were. After a year from my hatching, we were exposed to a world much bigger then the damp cave we hatched in, a place with a big blue sky. Upon leaving the cave, mother taught us how to fly and hunt from the nearby forest, our victims usually goblins or beasts. The next 6 years were spent happily, our own food came from our own hunting which benefited us as we gained experience in hunting and fighting, we had to move a few times though, since we were somehow tracked by a group of elfs. After crossing the 6 year mark, my five 7 year old siblings who had hatched a year earlier gained their first form they could take in sir young lives and left with the task mother had gave them, which was to finish an education properly in any country that they wished to go and in return of completing it, they would receive a name from mother. Stolen from its original source, this story is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. I was left with my last sibling, a blood red dragon with a great amount of brute strength with a hobby of hunting and a towering figure the size of a 2 cows, while I, a blue dragon 2 times smaller than my brother whose strength was average had a hobby of sleeping, Reaching the age of 7 a year later, mother sent us off with the same task, though by some cosmic coincidence, brother and I had the same race forms, beast men. Well, minus that "men" at the back for my case, despite the fact that I was a male as a dragon, I received the from of a fluffy white beast female child cat, which I did not really mind, since the fluffy tail was great for hugging to sleep. My brother, however, was much more scary looking, a tiger beast male child that was much stronger than I was, well although I wasn''t sure how the tiger part worked, but the look really fits a brute like my brother. Since we were of the same race in our first forms, we headed together towards the north, where the beast men''s kingdoms resided. But instead of safely reaching the beast men kingdom, we somehow directly walked to the human''s borders. Confused, we were caught was trespassers and sold as slaves, a interesting development if I say so myself. I did find out later that we actually had to walk around the human borders to reach the beast men kingdom. Well, during the process of using slave magic on us, we were found out to be dragons and the whole slave market was in an uproar. Excitedly, they dragged us in our dragon forms which we had take on as commanded by them with their slave magic to the king. And currently, we were just sold to the king, who by cosmic coincidence had recently summoned 2 heroes from another world. Despite my willingness to spend the rest of my days in that cage which I suppose I wasn''t really against, since they had those fluffy things called pillows that was similar to my tail in its plush texture and also great food, overall I give it a 11/10. I was dragged out and presented along with my brother to the king and the heroes. After a fight among the two heroes, I, the smaller dragon was given to the one that fought halfheartedly. Dragging me in front of the hero, who''s eyes were like those of the dead fishes I ate before, I became his familiar and was forced to change into my other form, which greatly changed the here''s eyes into one burning with desire and motivation while the other one looked slightly jealous back and forth my tiger beast men brother and me. I wonder why? Chapter 2 "I....I demand a rematch!" shouted the other hero, his eyes burning with anger and jealously as he grabbed at his sword sheath. "Hero Keith? Why? You already won!" the king said surprised, his previous smiling face disappearing. I don''t understand either....but king, you seem to like the other hero more.... "Fufufufu....I refuse! " A voice laced with glee sounded from behind me, turning around I saw a expression similar to one of the thieves that brother and I met during our journey, a man known as the hero has his eyes tilted downwards and his mouth curled in menace. Eh...? Didn''t he lose? I tilted my head and gave a confused expression, slightly hoping that he would tell me why he was so happy. Ooh, he reminds me of that thief, who was delighted upon seeing me and my brother, he even attempted to lure us with some sort of food, it was rather delicious though. Before I could thank him, brother killed him, mean. Well, I did take a few things from his sack of items though. The hero who spoke a dialogue so similar to a villain, suddenly grabbed his chest in pain. After a moment of convulsing along with a strange expression on his face, the hero squatted down to face me with a few dribbles of blood dripping from his nose, I wonder if he''s okay... Placing both of his large hands on both of my shoulders, he said with a smile "From today onwards, call me Onii-chan.". Eh? What does Onii-chan mean? As I silently thought to myself, I had unconsciously muttered to myself "Onii-chan, onii-chan......onii-chan?" repeatedly, however before I could even guess it''s meaning, I was disrupted with a ''Thud'' sound along with the sudden disappearance of the weight that rested on my shoulders and was brought back to reality. Ah, why is the hero lying on a pool of blood that originated from his nose? Ah....I''m jealous, I wanna sleep too..... Having that thought, I promptly laid down next to onii-chan and prepared to sleep, but instead of drifting into unconsciousness, I was roughly kicked aside by a guard who shouted with vigor to his fellow friends "Move! We need to get the hero to the healers! Quick!" Picking up Onii-chan, all of them charged to push open the door and left in a hurry. Ah! I think I need to follow them.....right? I should shouldn''t it....? Eh? Don''t leave without me! Jumping up from where I was kicked to, I gave one last glance to brother and the other hero who was trying not to cry. Stolen content warning: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences. "Bye bye." I muttered as I turned my head back, silently following Onii-chan who was being carried away..... <(-,-)< >(-,-)> "GAHHH!!" Ugh....whose screaming.....I''m tired....go away..... "Ahg......Sniff sniff..........guha...sniff." How noisy.....I wanna sleep........ .......eh? Who? I immediately sat up to see the weeping hero who was grasping onto some sort of cloth, eh....? Isn''t that the cloth the slave merchants covered me with? Why is it with the hero? Looking down, I saw my naked self....ah, did I move around too much while sleeping causing that cloth to drop? But why is it in Onii-Chan''s hands? Eh? There''s another cloth in his other hand, it looks different, I wonder what it is... "Umm, Onii-chan......cloth...." I softly muttered, the hero who heard my words looked up and softly muttered a short phrase "B-boku....N.no, pico..." What does that mean again? Stop using phrases I don''t know, Onii-chan... Jumping off the comfy thick thingy that Onii-Chan and I slept on, I tried to offer my assistance to the hero in standing up, but he backed away after giving a glance at the lower half of my body with wide eyes. "FORGAFT MEEEE AS I HAWE S-SINNED!" He screamed yet again, this time prostrating. What''s going on? He''s being weird.......is this a custom at his world or something, a greeting maybe? Before I could ask him, I was disrupted yet again, this time also by the armor wearing people wielding weapons who banged open the door, probably because of the screaming. "Esteemed hero! Are you alright?! Did someone enter the room? An enemy? Are you injured perhaps?" One of them said panicking, his voice laced with anxiousness. Suddenly, his gaze turned towards me and immediately turned back, with a shaking finger towards me, he asked the hero "Did the dragon attack you?" In response, Onii-chan pointed at me, well, the naked lower part with tears in his eyes. The guard blushed for a moment before turning and upon looking, he had the same terrified reaction "M...monster....." He mumbled as he fell down. "Haaaa...." I yawned, feeling fatigued after so many drama and thinking, turning around, I jumped back on the comfy thingy and went back to sleep without knowing the fact that I brutally scarred the prides of the men behind me. Chapter 3 "So, why didn''t you tell me you''re biologically male?!?" The hero shouted as he banged his hand on the table. "Mother say so." I replied indifferently. Ah, pardon me if my way of speaking is not up to standards, mother only taught us the basics of some languages, I don''t know how to speak like how I think. After the hero got over his panic attack, he woke me up and pulled me down onto a chair, sitting in another himself. "Young child, tell me how does dragons know what gender they belong to?" "Bone structure." "That''s not it!" He shouted again, but he then continued after a while "I''ll teach you, the skill of finding what gender you are." "I don''t think genders matter." "IT DOES!! Haa.....anyways, men they have a extra leg, hand if you wish to call it so, a useful tool in night battles." Oh? Battles? "Ah! Then teach me please!" For the next few hours, I learnt more than what I expected to. ------------------------- As sunlight entered the room through the window, a gentle tap on the door was heard, which of course, wasn''t able to awake me or the hero, who had stayed up all night teaching me the wonders of the world. "Kok kok." The sound was heard again, this time louder. "KOK KOK KOK." "I''m coming, I''m coming." Muttered the half awake hero as he sat up, rubbing the last signs of drowsiness from his face. "Kok kok." "Oh my god, stop. I''m coming you fucking impatient shit." Turning around and ignoring the background noises, I attempted to make myself comfortable on the single blanket and pillow Onii-Chan had gave me, refusing me access onto his bed. "Wake up, trap." Said a the hero as he gave me a little nudge with his foot. "Nnn~" "Jesus stop that, wake up lil shit." He said again, kicking harder. "Aaahh~" I yawned as I stretched "What is it?" "The royal king summons." "Ah~ it''s not my problem.....I''ll stay here and sleep on your bed~" I mumbled as I hugged my fluffy tail. "Brat, I expected you to be more dragony like." "What''s dragony." "Ya know, proud, fierce etcetera." "I''m up, I''m up~" I quickly sat up. Speedily, I followed Onii-chan to the washroom and washed my face, following his motions and headed to the court room. "Ah, hero I heard about the events yesterday night, are you alright now?" Asked the king. I was currently sitting on my butt as a dragon behind Onii-chan, as how the guards ordered me to. Glancing sneakily to my brother, who was doing the exact thing I was doing. He seemed to be okay. "I''m feeling fine, thank you for your concern." "That''s great, now.... Hero Keith, Hero Silas, I presume you are satisfied with the dragons? Truly it is out good luck to have captured 2 dragons right before the war." Ah? Onii-chan has two names? Silas and Onii-chan? How lucky. "Indeed." Replied the both Heroes at once. Now that I take a second look at the king, he looks rather plump and cruel, his squinty beady eyes darting around the room, his fingers fiddling, tracing the gems on his throne. "Then, I shall not hold the both of you back, since you two must be interested in training your dragons?" "Yes, then we shall take our leave, your majesty." Said the other hero. Turning around, Onii-chan tapped me lightly on my scaly head, signaling me to follow him. "So, how''s your dragon form in terms of fighting?" Onii-chan asked as he walked through the long hallway, the soles of his shoes clicking against the marble ground. If you spot this tale on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. Ah, how should I reply to him? Does he know I cannot speak human words in this form? Umm.... After a while of silence, he turned around and looked at me puzzled, not knowing why I did not reply. "Graww." I called out, hoping he''ll realize my predicament. Gradually the puzzled look on him disappeared and he turned around "Ah, okay." Ah~ I wonder why but, hasn''t the atmosphere for the hero changed? As I wondered why, I followed onii-chan to a weird room, it has human like figures made out of a cloth, which hung from the cellings, other weird stuff also filled this room. Looking carefully, I realized that these metal walls seemed to have been scratched multiple times over, slicing deep into the walls. There was also a pile of teared clothed human figures, the cuts in them all precise and deadly. This room seems as though rummaged by a terrifyingly intelligent beast. "As much as I want to take to the skies carried on those strong looking wings you have there, I''m not doing anything risky until I receive a saddle, so for now, lets teach you some things you for a bit, because a weak dragon is a useless dragon that can''t assist me in my picking up to girls." The serious atmosphere instantly collapsed near the ending didn''t it. Please wipe that smile off your face Onii-chan, you''re going down the road of a despicable thief. Although, what does picking up girls mean? Lifting them? Weights? Strength training? Humans are weird. "With your other form''s appearance, I will never recommend you to work on strength, magic perhaps? Change your form for a bit." Nodding my head, I did as I was told and stood on the floor without a single piece of cloth. "..." "We need to get you something similar to the collar in TnY." TnY? What''s that? Turning his head away, he took off his shirt and threw it over "At least cover yourself with this." "Ah, thank you." "Okay, how much do you know about magic?" "Nothing. Mother never teach, says to come to learn." "That is absolutely wonderful," he sighed, rubbing the bridge of his nose as he continued "I''ll give you a rundown of the basics and we''ll head outside to impress some ladies." "So, following the book of overused plots, magic is triggered by mana. Mana exists in every living being, and rarely in inanimate objects, the biggest mana core is the core of the earth." After a few moments, he continued "To fill your mana core, you take it from the world and when you use it, it returns to the world. I''d love to speak scientifically, but there isn''t a proven theory, which is why these people are following this thinking." "Most life forms have a special affinity to a small number of attributes, be it necromancy, life, mental or even fire, well, the list goes on and on but I don''t think we should really waste that much time on it." "There are tools for finding out what attributes you have a affinity, tools that I don''t have, so we''ll have to wait until we get some, and returning to the important parts, we are leaving for the city! We can''t really let me stay single and let you stay in rags for clothes right?" .....I have the small feeling that I''m merely a afterthought.... Before I could get a chance to speak, the hero was already dragging me out by the hand, his face wearing a suspicious smile. Chapter 4 Exiting the castle, we were greeted by walls that was heavily guarded. The stone walls towered over us, it''s height a bit over the castle''s. Following the hero who left the area of the walls with a mere nod to the guards, I entered a area with lost of buildings, occasionally carriages were seen but mostly the streets were rather calm. Then, surprisingly we left the area again by another wall, this time though, it was filled with bustling activities that ranged from shouts of bargaining to fights that were looked by the crowd. "Uwa." I covered my eyes, the loud sounds booming in my head. Though as we walked, shouts from burly men were heard "Rich little kid like you coming out to play eh? Be careful kid!" One guy even roughly pulled at my tail, dangling me off he ground "Whatcha got there rich boy, a cute little slave? Don''t mind if I take it, hahahaha." He laughed, elbowing his friends who laughed with him. This is uncomfortable, was what I thought. Without waiting for Onii chan to reply, I swung my body upwards and grabbed hold of the hand that painfully held onto my tail and scratched him with the extendable claw perk with my hand I received from having a Demi human form. .....it had no effect though, it did cause some bleeding but because these men were probably rather strong men, it didn''t hurt too much. "Take him if you want." Said the hero nonchalantly, after a while he continued "You''ll regret it though, trust me." ..!?!? "Threatenin'' me eh boy? Fuck off will ya." "No, on the contray, I''m warning you, trap, let go of yer shirt." Ah, I was holding my dress like rag that I wore, since I did not have an underwear it was the only thing covering me, although my upbringing payed no attention to nudity, the hero had instructed me to stay in clothes. So why is he asking me to...? Well, I''ll do it. Following the given orders, I immediately released my hold on my shirt, which had responded by falling back onto my face. "OH MY LO-" the guy holding my tail upon noticing what I have done, had let go as he shouted. From his hand, I fell onto the ground with a soft thud. "Told you." The hero said with a sigh as he turned around to leave. -------------------------- We left through another wall again, this time though, what greeted us was lots of planted vegetation and farmers, the land far and wide without any more walls constraining it''s size. "Isn''t this place nice? Look at the female farmers here~" He pointed to a nearby lady who had a rather firm body. "I love the farmer girls, look at those thighs and that chest~" His original overly proud attitude was instantly changed into one of bliss as he frolicked off to chat with the girls with me silently following him. If you encounter this tale on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. Somehow I feel that we are forgetting something, what is it? "How cute! Kyaaaaa." Unexpectedly, I was hugged and smothered by something soft. What is it? It''s suffocating me. Gently pushing the girl who meant no harm, I saw the jealous and lonely Onii chan standing behind sending killing intent towards my way. Though my view was rather obstructed as the girls were surrounding me and their chests were blocking parts of my view. Annoying, I wanna go back and sleep. BWAH! My bruised tail was grabbed again, this time gentler but the shock of the sudden contact scared me for a moment. Mutiple hands were caressing my tail, a rather nice feeling. Ah, one is even rubbing my tail~ That feels good~ "Purrrrrrrr~" !?!? What''s that noise? "Purrrrrrrrrrrrr~" It feels too good~ "It''s so soft! How cute." "Kyaaaa, She loves it!" I was hugged tightly as my face entered a land of softness. "It''s tail is so long!" "Can you move it at will?" Some vague sentences were heard but I made no sense of it as the comfortable feeling washed over me. Suddenly the hazy atmosphere was abruptly ended by a sulking hero. "I''m sorry, we have to go ladies." He said, pulling my hand. Guh? I was tricked! What kind of magic? To think I was so vulnerable for a second! "Bring him back next time!" A girl shouted as we left. Though, was it just me that heard the incoherent mumbling of Oniichan that seemed to be rather sinister? "Come on, we''re going back to the castle." He said curtly. As we were leaving, 4 weird humans came to us. There was a man carrying a baby in him arms while two children followed. It was weird as is two identical children of my size had black hair, I thought humans never had black hair? "Can I help you?" The hero asked with dead fish eyes. "Ah, is this place Casuwador?" The only adult asked, his eyes sunken. "Yes, this is." The hero replied. Hmm? The smell of the children is weird. I can''t put my finger on what''s wrong though, how strange. "Thanks." The guy said and left. "How strange *yawn*." I muttered and pulled at the hero''s shirt, my eyes signaling it was time to go back. We left after that I still have this itching feeling that we had forgotten something. ----------------- Message to the small amounts people that reads my other novel, Our little MC is hereeeeeeeeee Chapter 5 After a long walk, we reached home and I gladly placed myself onto the bed, slowly drifting off to dreamland. Though before I could fall asleep completely, the hero kicking me off his bed and said "Wake up, it''s still morning and you haven''t ate yet, let''s go eat, I''m hungry. " Oh, he''s right, looking out at the window, I realised that it was still rather early and that my stomach was empty. Eat? Eat what? Food? Human food?!?! Mother said human food was delicious! Delicious food! Devious food! I happily jumped up from the ground and rubbed my face in the hero''s hand in affection, a reaction generated by instinct. For a moment the hero was stunned but he quickly smacked me away while his other hand held his chest, an bewildered and shocked expression appeared on his face. Mmm? What''s with his reaction? Anyway, I''m hungry~ <><><><><><><><><> Ah........how disappointing.... It''s only slightly better than the food I ate in the mountains, meat. Sigh..... It is good, but lacking when compared to what I expected. However, my brother who sat next to the other hero who was glaring this way, was stuffing his cheeks with food, a mountain of plates next to him. In disappointment, my attention swayed from the food and looked around, we sat on a long table, the fat king seated on the end of the table, down the table was seated his children and wife and us, though we sat rather far from him. Other than him, there were about a dozen of other people. 4 guards, 2 cooks, 6 servants and also a woman who stood at the door silently looking at the hero as she drooled, her clothing was rather strange and and in tatters, making her a weird figure in the lavishly decorated dining room. Though I''m not one to say, my clothing which was even inferior to the cloth the king wiped his mouth with. Brother, had normal clothes that was probably provided by the other hero, but I and the woman was the sore thumbs sticking out in this environment. I found something strange though, why am I the only one stared at by the servants and royal children? What about that woman? As I scanned the area, one of the cooks saw my lack of attention for her food and a sad expression appeared on her face. Noticing this, oniichan immediately stood up and walked to her, placing both of his hands on her shoulders, he comforted her as he looked down onto her chest. The woman''s disgusting expression turned into one of jealously and walked to the cook, blowing cold air at her. Although the cook looked around as she slightly shivered from the sudden cold wind, she seemed to not have noticed the woman..... I wonder why? In curiousity, looked closely and realised the slightly transparent figure of the woman and tilted my head in confusion. How strange? Looking around, I noticed that some people looked rather displeased at oniichan''s actions or merely focused on their food, but none noticed the woman who were jealously rubbing herself onto the hero who paid no attention to her. I walked over and attempted to touch her, but my hands merely went through her. Noticing my attempt at touching her, the woman looked at me and pointed at herself, speaking rather dumbfoundedly "You can see me? " Eh? What did she mean? Isn''t it normal to be able to see her. This content has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.I nodded in reply. "Ah, it would have been wonderful if you were a girl though.... " she sighed. Ah, she knows I''m a male? How strange, I thought everyone assumed I was a girl. This woman is weird.... I asked "Who are you? " "Fufufu....lo and behold! I am the mighty magician of this country!....... That died 2 years ago........" she replied, her voice getting softer and softer at the end. Ah, she''s dead? Then why is she here? "Ah, I know what you are going to ask, ignorant dragon! I am a ghost who died in regret! Worry not as I am not seeking revenge but another thing! " Ghost? I never heard of that word. Looking up after thinking for a while I wanted to ask "What are you seeking? " but before I could, I noticed the bewildered expression of oniichan in front of me. "Who are you taking to? " he asked. As I was about to answer, the woman smiled and placed her finger on her lips. ? What does that mean? Anyway I replied to the Hero "I is talking to a Ghost!" Upon hearing my words, the faces of both the woman and oniichan changed greatly, oniichan''s turned into shock and slight terror while the woman''s expression turned into embarrassment. "Uwaaaaa! What are you telling him?!?" she shouted, covering her face in embarrassment, attempting hide the tinge of red in her face. "A-A ghost? " the hero shuddered, hugging his shoulders. While this went on, the surrounding people stopped what they were doing and looked at us with many variations in emotions, confusion, contempt, mockery or even sympathy. A servant with a sympathetic expression walked over and said "The both of you must be tired." and rather courteously brought us back to our rooms, ignoring the ghost woman. Despite that, the ghost woman followed us, silently. Pouncing on the bed, I ignored the rather shaken Oniichan and conversed with the ghost. "What you seeking for?" I asked again, this time heard by the ghost. "Hmmm," she placed her finger onto her cheek "how do I explain this..." ? "I am seeking for the lost of my virginity!" She proclaimed, "I''m a virgin ghost, a title etched into my restless soul, haaa." "Virgin? Virginity? What''s that." I asked with a tilted head. "My! Innocent one! What are you talking to?" The hero looked over, his face pale. "I''m talking to the ghost lady!" I shouted to him, annoyed that he had butted into my conversation again. Realizing the hero''s presence, she blushed and disappeared. "Uwa! Don''t go!" I shouted but to no avail. "Who are you talking to exactly!?!?" "I''m talking to the virgin ghost!" I shouted. "!?!?" <><><><><><><><><><><> "Hey hey, aim properly there." He positioned my arm, making it face the dummy he placed up. "Nn." I released the fireball in my hand, which exploded onto the dummy, severing it''s head and turning it into ash. "Ohh.......you did it!" Oniichan shouted excitedly. It''s been quite a while~ I learnt many magic but fire seems to be one of my weakest element, to Oniichan''s shock though... Was it a month that had passed? Occasionally the ghost, who said her name was Irika, would come over and drool all over Onii chan. "Mhmm~" I happily proclaimed, butting my head into his hand. "GAH!?!" Chapter 6 <><><><><><><><><><> "Huhuhuhuhu..." "Guhuhuhuhuhuhuhu....." "Bwahahahahahahahahahaha......" Shrouded in an unknown dark mist, the hero hugged a unknown package as he laughed manically. It''s been a few days, I think a week, to think so many things happened. I learnt magic, met with many different kinds of humans and a single ghost, occasionally I''ll see servants of other races but I never conversed with them cause Oniichan said not to, plus they''re servants. When it''s clear outside, occasionally Oniichan will bring me out to play, I met with human children and also lots of females with large chests, though they would mostly play around with me and ignore Oniichan. Oh and I also found out that Oniichan works as a instructor in a place where he teaches about magic and weapons to soldiers, but I''m not allowed to go so I stay in his room and learn some magic from the ghost when she visits. Her name is Nayomi, she said to me. So today, Oniichan and I was awoken to the knocking of the window, a large bird whose feathers contained metallic qualities was gently tapping the window with its beak, on it''s back was the said package. Looking behind the large bird I noticed that the not even a bit of the sun had crossed the horizon. Excitedly jumping out of his burrow consisting of a thick blanket and a few pillows, the hero ran to the window and immediately snatched the package from the back of the bird and in return placed another package he took out from under his bed on the way here. I lazily looked at him with half opened eyes, not moving from the comfortable bed the king''s servants had finally set up a few days ago. After a few moments of weird noises that tumbled out of Oniichan''s mouth as he hugged the package, he finally placed it down. "Huhuhuhu....." He softly laughed as he opened it, his grin so wide you''d think his lips would tear. Immediately throwing a small box labeled ''biology'' that took up a good amount of space in the package under his bed as fast as he can, he examined the rest whilst wearing a mask of innocence. What does biology mean? I suppose I''ll try to look at it when Oniichan isn''t here. Very quickly scanning the letter that was in the package, he threw it back into the box and looked at the other items in it. "It''s finally here...Huhu." He shook a small bottle with only three pills inside "How long have I waited...guehuehue." "What is it?" I curiously sniffed at it, but it only gave off a sweet flowery scent that was present on the entire package. "Psh, it''s sealed tight, you can''t smell it," He sneered as he gently placed the small bottle onto his pocket "you''ll find out it''s uses in the future~" Lastly, with the small box and bottle taken out, there was only a few slips of paper left, a certificate of residence and another of adventurer''s, both of them with the hero''s name ''Silas'' on it and also the letter he read in the beginning. Taking this two certificates, he hid them in between his clothes in the closet and turned around, and said "Hey, don''t tell anyone about these." With a rather serious tone. "Mm''kay." I nodded as I placed my head back onto the pillow, letting myself drift into dreamland, not really harping on the unusual things that had happened with the span of 5 minutes just now. <><><><><><><><><><> In the morning the hero promptly thrown his coat on and left, probably heading to the soldier''s training grounds I''m not allowed to visit. Not really bothering with his absence, I continued to sleep till noon only to wake up to absolutely nothing, strange. The tale has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. Normally without Oniichan or Nayomi waking me, I''ll be able to sleep to the next day, so...why? I suppose, I can dig around the messy area under his bed, he isn''t here anyways.... I shouldn''t..........but, there''s something shiny down there....I can almost see it. I guess..... Well I''ll have plenty of time to regret later, without thinking about it, I ran and squeezed into the small opening and reached my hand towards the shiny thing. Pulling it out, I sat on the floor with bits of dust covering my upper body, curiously examining the item in my hands. It was a heart shaped pendent hung on a silver chain, multiple words were carved onto it, but obscured by dust that gathered under the bed. As I was about to wipe the dust away, a knock was heard from the door and I had to quickly fling it under the bed and jump back into mine, these actions were done almost within 5 seconds, and as my head hit the pillow, the door was opened by a servant. "Please wake up, hero Silas wants you to dress and meet him outside." The young female servant said, in her arms was black clothing that she held out for me to see. Faking grogginess, I slowly made my way to her and picked up the bundle of clothing and attempted to put them on, but instead I failed miserably, not knowing where should my arms and head go. Without wasting time, she placed the clothing over me and ushered me out, reaching the outside of the castle, I noticed the hero who stood rather impatiently near the flower beds. "You took forever, come on, let''s go." He muttered as I walked towards him, his hand extended and his fingers waving as he invited me to walk alongside with him. "Where are we going?"I asked curiously, looking up at the hero who only gazed ahead of him. "I finally got the king to approve of this," he said after a short pause "I''m bringing you to an academy for rising warriors." "?" "I don''t have time to keep teaching you, the asshole king wants me to train his new soldier recruits and also teach the veteran soldiers simple magic." "Mm? Doesn''t he have magicians already?" I asked as I thought of Nayomi. "Used to." He said bitterly. After a while, he said, breaking the awkward atmosphere that surrounded us "Anyways, I helped you sign up for only sword classes, since I guess as dragons you don''t really have to learn that much skills for humans." Within half an hour or so, we reached the castle and he pushed me through he gates "You''re from the dragon house, by the way, though there''s no dragons other than you, it''s just a name for the competitive groups run by students." In a daze, we reached the Dean''s office where he introduced me and reminded the bearded man to make a speech about my attendance as a royal in the academy, to prevent unwanted incidents which would be detrimental to me. Not that I really care either ways, it seems my lack of sleep had suddenly caught up to me, and in response, I promptly yawned and also took the chance and stretched my body. "Oi." Oniichan said, his elbow nudging my side. "Bleh." I groaned, my eyelids dropping as it suddenly increased in weight. "Pardon us." The hero said with a stiff smile. Pulling me out of the office by my ear he muttered "You lil shit, remember to come every weekday, it took me so much effort to finally get approval for this." Although one might think of this sight as heartwarming whereas the hero helped a young beast men slave go to school, the hero had other motives behind his actions, in his mind was thoughts like ''He''ll bring back cute Lolis.'' Or ''I can get a chance to meet with the female instructors here.'' And also ''Now he''s outta the way I can make use of my stash in peace and quiet.'' <><><><><><><><><><><> <.....> Chapter 7 "Ufuu..." I mumbled as my body hit the ground. "W-w-wake u-up!" A small timid girl shouted. It''s been a while~ I think classes are starting, isn''t it? I''ve been sleeping peacefully for a good 3 days, without eating, too. "Food?" I mumbled, asking my roommate as I looked up her skirt from the ground I was still lying on. "U-um, y-yea I....its on th-the t-table." She stuttered, pointing to the table not far away. Pushing my body up with my hands, I slowly crawled to the table with slow motions. Walking is no good~ I''m hungry~ "Wha timfe?" I asked the girl that sat in front of me, my words muffled from the food that stuck in my mouth. "D-don''t wori..worry, t-there''s lo-lots of...of time left." Retrieving my uniform, she placed it in my hands "P-pico." Onii-chan gave me that name, although I said mother will give me one in the future, he insisted on doing so and thus termed me as ''pico''. Finishing my food, I took of my pajamas and stepped into the skirt, pulling it up as the girl buttoned my shirt, putting on various unnecessarily fancy black armor and stockings, I left with her to the yard for the sword classes. After escorting me off, she left. Walking over to the groups of students, it was evident to see the various groups that was formed through their houses, the small amount of black wearing students dispersed around the field while the other other houses were more united. Striding to a boy who had a book in his hand, I carefully examined him as I sniffed his scent, finding it familar. But before I could conclude on his identity, a muscular man appeared and started to instruct the children to gather. "Alright, I don''t care what house you all belong in, get into two equal lines now." He said and all the kids rushed to file up making sure that there were both equal amounts of children on each side as the man looked on. "Look at the person before you, I want you to beat him or her down throughly in the span of 5 minutes, those that lost will have matched among themselves, those with the last 10 positions will be whipped 5 times each." Turning to face my right, I looked indifferently at a guy, slightly unable to digest the burly man''s words. Taking a wooden sword form a muscular older child, it looked on as the first child of the row was taken into a space cordoned off by a white marking that formed a circular shape. However, there were even more circles then expected, pairs and pairs of children were brought to them and their spars were looked on by the seniors. After a short while, I walked to an empty circle with the confident and rather smug looking boy who belonged to the same house that I was in. The he, who looked on with indifference and the I who was yawning slightly, seemed rather mismatched. "Heh, here I come." He said with a smirk, brandishing his wooden sword, he charged my way, aiming at my sides. Royal Road is the home of this novel. Visit there to read the original and support the author. But before his dull wooden blade could reach my side, it found itself blocked by my own sword. Though I found strength in myself to parry, I did not bother on counter attacking out of indolence. "T-that was an accident!" He shouted unhappily, and then continued "I''ll go serious on you now!" ......how troublesome. He pounced my way with a annoyingly energetic shout and aimed at the side of my neck. Haaa, humans are boring. Well, except for Oniichan. Slightly moving to the right, I lethargically avoided his attack and used that moment to push him from behind, and the he who was dumbfounded from my movements could not stop midair and crashed magnificently on the dirt out of the ring. "Yaaawnn." I''m sleepy~ I don''t like it here, it''s too noisy and people here are too energetic. I want to go back to Oniichan. Thinking of such things, I slowly walked out of the ring and followed a senior to a group of students which I competed with. After several rounds, I was now against the weird child. After bowing in respect of his opponent, he who stood not the far side of the ring showed no intention of moving. Perhaps were it another opponent he would have been attacked within seconds, but for the languid me, we merely did nothing but have a staring contest. Without blinking, I looked at his bright blue eyes. But a few second passed and he still did nothing, slightly wearied, I sat down, my gaze still locked onto his eyes. After even more unblinking moments, he suddenly bursted out laughing. "Weirdo!" He shouted, clutching his sides, seemingly unable to stop guffawing. But unexpectedly in the next moment before I could react, he appeared in front of my eyes with a extremely cold look as his sword hit my gut, sending me flying backwards. Unable to process all that had happened, I could only look at him weirdly, trying to understand how the previously laughing boy could have suddenly created such a cold expression. With a charming smile, he walked over and pulled me up "I''m sorry, I seemed to have attacked with too much strength, forgive me." Yet again, his abrupt and drastic change completely destroyed my remaining sleepiness and I could only silently accept his hand. "I''m Theodore." He introduced, with a smile. Stumbling unsteadily from the first attack I have ever received in my life, I replied with "Pico." Time seemed to pass quickly as I attempted to subdue the confusion in my mind, before I knew it, it was already time for breakfast. Though she already prepared food for me at dawn after my exciting 3 days of sleep, I was still capable of eating, and so, I headed to the cafeteria, my originally confused mood converted to hunger and sleepiness. But still, what a weird human. Ah~ The thingy there looks delicious!~