Master, I Swear I Didn’t Mean To! - Chapter 59

Cassius also knew he wasn’t a good master. He was someone whose mouth produced abuse before praise, and who was more accustomed to throwing tantrums than being kind.

That’s probably why the Mage Association disgracefully calls him Cursius. Knowing how much he himself had acted like a dog, he didn’t bother to argue about it. In the first place, that nickname was probably given by Ikelid first. Cursius living in the Dog Tower.

“Phew…”

In any case, he had committed many wrongs against Eki as well. Among them, there were times when Eki brought insults upon herself, but most of the countless remarks that seemed to crush his young disciple’s spirit were his fault.

Sometimes he had felt regret and tried to gauge Eki’s mood. However, after encountering Eki getting caught swinging her fist the moment he turned around, he began to worry less about her.

Eki wasn’t a child whose spirit would be crushed by just a few harsh words. Amazingly, she tried to get the better of her master. Cassius found this fact absurd, yet his disciple started to seem rather cute, and he was impressed by Eki’s way of thinking, which was more positive than he had imagined.

‘This one will be able to work for a long time.’

He must have had that thought on a spring day when Eki had been staying here for her fourth year. At the time, Eki had become well-accustomed to the barren environment of the Thousand Dog Tower. She was drawing a magic circle when she suddenly shouted.

‘Master! Let’s plant flowers!’

‘What nonsense are you suddenly spouting.’

‘Let’s make even a small flower bed. Or bring in some potted plants. The tower is too empty, I don’t feel like coming to work!’

It was the first time she had made such a bold statement. To dare tell her superior she didn’t feel like coming to work.

Cassius opposed it first. He thought it would just increase the work needlessly. But Eki didn’t budge. She went through all kinds of flower types and even threatened that if she didn’t grow them, she probably wouldn’t be able to finish today’s work. So when he said if you’re going to grow them, do it yourself, she carefully selected seedlings and started making a flower bed.

But unfortunately, Eki had no talent for growing things. He didn’t know exactly what was wrong with her, but every single plant she touched died.

In the end, unable to bear watching the sniffling Eki, Cassius cast an automatic maintenance spell to grow the flower bed instead.

It’s probably still growing well now. He should go see it sometime, but recently he hadn’t been able to look at it because of the Association’s orders.

‘I should ask Eki to go see the flower bed.’

Cassius thought that, then suddenly came to his senses.

The important thing wasn’t the flower bed or anything like that. It was the fact that Eki had tried to copulate with him despite having not a single reason to like him.

‘Why on earth…’

This was different from the contact they had been having. Unlike men who just insert and e*******e and it’s over, women had to approach s****l intercourse with many risks and anxieties. Especially Eki would have to accept him with his ‘savage’ c**k to do that.

‘What if she gets hurt doing that.’

The rough scale-like protrusions weren’t sharp, but he didn’t know how they might threaten her v****a.

In the first place, Cassius had also searched through the library all night, but he couldn’t find any material saying dragons and humans could mate. If there had been any, he would have seen it first.

…No, why would I look at that?

“Damn it.”

In the end, Cassius got up from his seat. He couldn’t concentrate at all. Since the Association’s order quantity had decreased anyway, he felt he should take a walk or something.

Then Eki slyly asked him.

“Master who’s not busy but says he’s busy. Where are you going?”

“…To the flower bed.”

“Ah, because of the flowers? Oh my, come to think of it, we haven’t been able to maintain them lately!”

“The maintenance is done automatically by my magic, what do you have to do.”

“Still, we have to check on them from time to time. The flowers will miss me too.”

“I’m sure they will.”

Although he said that, Cassius grabbed the research lab door made of aged wood and gestured to Eki with his eyes. Eki hummed a tune at this legitimate work escape and quickly came outside.

‘She doesn’t seem to care at all about what happened yesterday.’

Cassius glanced at Eki like that and narrowed his brow.

‘I’m the only one who’s embarrassed every time.’

It was Eki whose dark intentions were revealed by the ultra-strong luck potion, Eki who touched his c**k without a care, and Eki who made the suggestion implying copulation. Yet she was no different from usual. This was too unfair.

‘Next time I should block her from entering my room.’

Of course, there’s no reason for Eki to come to his room in the middle of the night. Unless she makes a proposal like yesterday’s.

‘…But what was that about preparation?’

Hadn’t Eki said so. That she didn’t think she could accept his c**k, so she came prepared with another method to copulate?