Chapter 284
“The Dragon Lord lives inside there. We were planning to throw that bastard inside and leave anyway. So, leave us out of this and disappear with this guy.”
Y-yeah! Voices agreeing echoed from here and there. Roina was dumbfounded and looked at them, but they hesitated, took a step back, and then ran away to a place where they couldn’t be seen in an instant. It was before Jason, who was furious, could do anything.
“Sneaky bastards. So they just don’t want to take responsibility?”
He grumbled, saying he didn’t see them as such. He seemed to be happy to see the beast people after a long time, but it ended up like this, which was a pity.
‘I am a hybrid of wolf and wild dog.’
In an instant, Roina remembered the words she had heard from him on their first night. Her eyes wavered. Is that why he’s so angry?
“Jason, you.”
“Hey, get up. Can you do it on your own?”
As if he didn’t hear Roina’s words, Jason knelt down on one knee and quickly took care of the child. The child seemed to be injured in various places, but fortunately, he didn’t seem to have any serious injuries, and he shook himself off. Looking closely, the child indeed had both sheep horns and cat ears.
“Let go of me. I can do it on my own.”
But those eyes were challenging and belligerent. The child rudely pushed Jason’s hand away. Unlike before, Jason laughed cheerfully.
“You little s**t, do you think you’ll get stronger by doing that? You’re so small and sassy.”
When the child seemed to have recovered to some extent, they shared some of the food and water they had bought before leaving and talked.
The child, as seen, was a hybrid of sheep and cat, and was abandoned as soon as he was born.
The people here seemed to think that the Golden Dragon actually ate people, and they offered a sacrifice once a year, and the target was usually an orphan like him who was a mixed-blood. It was strange that that group of beast people had come to this uninhabited island where no one lived, and it was to offer this child as a sacrifice to the Golden Dragon and leave. Tonight was the night they had to offer the sacrifice.
Roina was confused. The Golden Dragon she knew was Lutan, and the idea of Lutan demanding sacrifices and receiving them every year felt absurd.
“People were just as stupid a thousand years ago as they are now.”
Jason harshly criticized. Roina glanced at him. She didn’t know what had happened in his past, but it was probably a difficult one.
“So, what are you going to do now?”
Roina asked, looking at Jason. The boy was staring at the ground with a dark face. Jason scratched his cheek, looking troubled as he looked at him.
“Jason, Jason, you should take the child and go down.”
“What?”
“You know I’m quite strong. And I realized it when I came into the forest. This clear energy, it’s Lutan’s.”
The forest was filled with clear and blue energy. Roina could tell right away. The only thing she couldn’t understand was that it felt even colder and sharper than when she had first met him.
“Even so, I can’t send you alone…”
Kkwak- At that moment, a small hand grabbed Jason’s pants. It was the child. Unlike before, the child was trembling, trying his best to hold back his fear with a face full of it.
“G-go. I’m okay, so.”
He didn’t look okay at all. Jason ruffled his hair with an ao- sound. Even he found it hard to turn away from the child.
“You saw it, right? Beyond here… There’s only Lutan or weak beasts. I’ll go alone.”
At those words, Jason looked at her with an expression that seemed unusually conflicted. His wavering eyes met Roina’s. Roina only looked at him calmly. He probably wanted to say this.
‘Can’t we just go down together?’
But he probably couldn’t bring himself to say it. Because he had seen what Lutan meant to Roina.
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