novelraw Chapter 29 : Chapter 29
Chapter 29 : Chapter 29
Chapter 29. Bruno (3)
To say it again, Anonymous.
That is, Anticus, was the type to fall in love easily.
But her love life wasn't easy.
Because she had lived alone for so long, no other dragon had ever confessed to her.
From the young dragons' perspective, they couldn't possibly say they liked a grandmother figure.
What good was great power?
Her age was just too great.
The first man to confess to her was Arus.
Despite being a mere human and not a dragon, he boldly confessed to her, and she gladly accepted.
Human and dragon. Dragon and human.
The forbidden love began like that.
However.
Aside from Arus being the first hero, he was, after all, a human.
No matter how long he lived, 100 years was the limit.
After Arus' death, she had to continue living alone for a very, very long time.
Because of her promise with him, she couldn't take a single step out of this place, the Elburz Mountains.
Could it be for that reason?
She didn't dislike Bruno's active interest.
Of course, it was also true that she had liked Frank for a brief moment before that.
‘But that was just my misunderstanding. He doesn't love me.’
Her patience wasn't deep enough to like someone who didn't even like her back.
She enjoyed all sorts of fantasies thinking about Bruno.
‘He seems foolish, but that also seems to be a charm.’
Then, she suddenly felt a presence outside the door.
“Who is it!”
Then, a man entered the room.
The master of this mansion.
It was Frank.
Was it like a thief being startled by their own conscience?
She flinched without realizing it.
‘What is it? Is he trying to persuade me now?’
Bruno too, but she might have also shown her feelings.
After all, they had been bickering back and forth outside the door for nearly an hour.
Tell me your name. No. Please tell me. I said no.
This kind of childish love drama had continued.
Anonymous feigned ignorance and opened her mouth.
“What brings you to my room at this hour?”
Though she said that, Anonymous was extremely nervous.
What if Frank tried to hold onto her?
What if he said Bruno was no match and asked her to marry him?
‘Oh, Goddess. Why do you give me such a trial.’
Anonymous, though feeling like she could die of happiness on the inside, tried her best to maintain a blank expression.
But only nonsensical words flowed from the other person's mouth.
“Alvarez has fled.”
“What? So what?”
“We have to catch him. The risk is great if he goes to the kingdom.”
Ha. I knew it.
This guy didn't have a shred of interest in her.
Yet, she hated herself for having had such foolish expectations of him.
‘He didn't even look at me. No, perhaps he wasn't even interested from the beginning. And yet, did I grow such feelings for him just because he was a hero?’
Her pride was hurt.
Anonymous, trying hard to hide her burning anger, spat out.
“Do I have to do something like that?”
Perhaps a normal human wouldn't have been able to say another word to that.
Because she was using the special skill of an ancient dragon, Intimidation.
Not to mention humans, even dragons or high-ranking Demon Tribe members would have no way of resisting this skill.
However, the opponent was a former hero.
He continued to say what he had to say, unfazed.
“You are the only one who can do this job here right now.”
Frank's face was more serious than ever, and that was enough to melt her hardened heart.
‘How can he. How can a mere human be so confident in front of me.’
Come to think of it, Arus also had this charm.
Even if she refused, saying it was absolutely impossible, if it was different from his own values or beliefs, he would never back down.
Anonymous had no choice but to admit it.
The fact that she was completely smitten with him.
She grumbled, but spoke as if she had no choice.
“Tsk. A fellow who can't do anything without me.”
Leaving the mansion, she transformed into a dragon without anyone knowing.
And soared high into the sky.
‘Find Alvarez, is what he’s saying. A problem that is all too easy for me.’
She clearly remembered his foul smell.
His stench was definitely coming from that direction.
***
Meanwhile, in the mind of Bruno, who had left Frank's mansion, there was only one person's face.
‘Haa. She was truly my perfect ideal type.’
A delicate body, but a sharp tone like an older sister.
A coercive and haughty gaze.
The air of a powerful being that she exuded without realizing it.
He could assert that no woman he had known until now could even come close to her feet.
In fact, the reason he had confessed to Adel in his childhood was because he was attracted to her sharp personality and the considerable gap it created with her delicate body.
But Adel, who had already grown into an adult's body, no longer appealed to him.
But what about the woman who wouldn't tell him her name?
‘Perfect. There can be no woman more perfect than her.’
To think that she wouldn't even tell him her name despite him, a Count, clinging to her so desperately.
It was only later that he learned from Alvarez that she was Frank's distant relative.
And the fact that her name was Anonymous, which made him like her even more.
‘Huhu. Frank must also cherish her greatly. If I marry her, tears of blood will pour from Frank's eyes.’
Wouldn't that be true revenge?
Even if he took away Frank's noble title, the fellow might not be much affected.
He was a commoner to begin with, after all.
But if he took away the niece he cherished, wouldn't he also be greatly shocked?
As he was thinking that, Alvarez, sitting in front of him, had been chattering nonstop since a while ago.
“My Lord Count! They are definitely fakes! The way they only smiled without saying a word was so different from the them I know. If we raid his mansion once more……”
“Alvarez. You are quite a shameless fellow.”
“What?”
The flustered fellow blinked his eyes.
“Why do you say that?”
“Isn't it because you didn't do your job properly that things turned out this way? What you're saying now sounds as if there's some magic tool that creates fakes that look real.”
“Th-that is!”
“Enough. I don't care what happens to Frank anymore. What's important to me is Anonymous.”
“My Lord Count!”
Just then.
Hee-hee-hing!!
The horses neighed like crazy and came to a halt.
“Wh-what! What's happening?”
Before long, the carriage shook.
It was a carriage that wouldn't budge even in a typhoon, so what in the world had happened?
Startled, Bruno ordered Alvarez to find out what was going on.
A moment later.
Alvarez returned to the carriage with the Anonymous he so longed for.
“How are you here?”
Was he seeing things?
Anonymous looking up at him with a chic expression.
His heart, which had barely calmed down, began to pound like crazy.
***
Alvarez found it hard to understand what situation he was in right now.
‘Why am I returning to Frank's house with this girl?’
It was a little while ago.
Amidst the strong winds and the stopped horses.
Anonymous suddenly appeared, not from behind, but from the front.
The knights, who already knew her face, were flustered, wondering what a young child was doing here so late at night.
But she just smiled gently.
Without a word, she trudged towards the carriage where Bruno was.
Bruno was the person they had to protect.
That.
The kingdom's knights just stared blankly.
They didn't restrain her at all.
It was because they were overwhelmed by the unidentified aura emanating from her.
The one who stepped forward then was Alvarez, who had gotten out of the carriage.
“You?”
A considerable amount of time had passed since they had come this far on horseback.
But she had come this far on foot?
And in this darkness, a young girl all by herself?
While he was contemplating what to say.
The girl uttered incomprehensible words.
“I'd like to drag you away right now, but I suppose it's best to get permission from the person in charge here first.”
Then she suddenly grabbed his hand and went towards the carriage.
Alvarez, who came to his senses with a start, tried to subdue her with force, but,
‘Wh-what strength!’
On the contrary, he was just being dragged towards the girl.
She didn't budge an inch.
Eventually, she entered the carriage, smiled brightly, and said this.
“I'd like to take this fellow with me, is that okay?”
Of course, that was out of the question.
He had come down with Bruno's group, taking advantage of the confusion, so why should he go back to his doom?
Frank was one thing, but he didn't have the confidence to face Adel again.
But what was this?
Bruno said he could grant such a request anytime and said this.
“If I grant that, will you tell me your name?”
Crazy!
Hadn't he just told him her name a while ago?
Oblivious to his feelings, Anonymous chuckled and nodded her head.
“Anonymous.”
“Anonymous. Truly a beautiful name.”
The two of them, giggling as if something was so funny, created a harmonious atmosphere.
That was already about 20 minutes ago.
‘To think he would give up on me so easily. Didn't he want to get revenge on Frank? Did I misjudge the person?’
In fact, the one who first approached Alvarez was not Frank, but Marquis Moltke.
He had secretly sent a letter, saying they should join forces to corner Frank.
The person he introduced then was Count Frank.
He didn't really care who it was, as long as he could get the help of a noble more powerful than Frank to corner Frank.
But he never thought that it would come back to bite him in the back like this.
‘This is not good. I have to get out of here right now.’
He didn't know the details about Anonymous, but she was Frank's distant relative.
It was unexpected that her strength was strangely strong, but he should be able to shake off a young girl and escape from here.
He deliberately slowed his pace and looked for a chance to escape.
‘I am the man who passed the knight examination with the second-highest score. A young girl is nothing.’
When the distance between them was about 10 meters.
Alvarez tried to slip away to the side.
Just then, not a single ray of moonlight entered the forest.
He took careful steps to kill the sound of his footsteps, but the sound of stepping on leaves constantly hit his ears.
Did she hear?
Hmph. So what if she did?
But that was just Alvarez's delusion.
“Huk!”
In the darkness, the small girl in front of him suddenly swelled to an enormous size, and soon became a giant dragon, covering the forest.
Sharp eyes pierced through Alvarez.
“You cannot escape from me.”
Her low voice resonated.
The earth vibrated with her steps, and the trees shook.
“A-Anticus?”
That's right.
Her true identity was an ancient dragon that no one born in Rarc Village could not know.
The very Anticus who was said to surpass even the Demon King.
Alvarez, with a bewildered face, just stood in his place and stared at her, not even realizing it himself.
The fact that the crotch of his pants was getting wet with a hot liquid.
Anticus frowned with a displeased look on her face.
***
Just how many times had water been splashed on his face, and he had lost and regained consciousness?
He didn't know where he was, and his sense of time had long since been lost.
The further he went inside, the narrower the walls seemed to become, and even breathing was difficult.
‘N-no, not like this. I'm going to die like this.’
Sage or not, even when water was splashed on his face, his mind was getting hazy.
Noemi's voice brought him to his senses with a jolt.
“Master! This is it! I finally found the item I wanted! Now Dad can face Master Anonymous without worry.”
Noemi's voice was very bright, but Rude wasn't even curious about what that item was.
‘It's finally over. Can I go outside now?’
That was all Rude could think of.
A way out of this hellish place had finally appeared.