Chapter 291
“Are some of your questions resolved?”
Lutan had an displeased expression, but nodded, indicating he didn’t have any more questions for now. Roina took a deep breath, like a sigh, and said,
“Then it’s my turn to ask questions now. What’s the deal with the Golden Dragon’s sacrifice?”
At Roina’s question, Lutan immediately looked annoyed. Slightly impatient, Roina added,
“You’re not actually eating humans, like people say, right?”
Of course, she couldn’t be certain. This was him from a thousand years ago. She already felt like she didn’t know much about him, and there was no way she could be sure she knew everything about him from a thousand years ago.
She was just believing that he wouldn’t do that.
Lutan was still staring at her with an unreadable gaze. Roina met his gaze and clenched her fists tightly.
“Phew-!”
Swimming with the child on his back was quite tiring even for Jason. Swimming to a small rocky island near Lutan’s island, this task was enough to exhaust him. The salty taste of the seawater was pungent.
“…Thank you.”
“Aoh, yeah. Be more grateful.”
The boy couldn’t swim at all and was just stiffening up in the water. It was clear that he hated water just from the way he hurriedly went up onto the rock as soon as they arrived at this rocky island and shook off the water from his body as if shuddering.
“Is it because you’re half cat-type beast person? Do you hate water?”
“You smell like dog, are you a dog-type beast person?”
The two people’s questions burst out almost simultaneously. Jason thought the two of them were quite incompatible. That brat probably thought the same thing.
“Half dog-type, half wolf. Does that answer your question?”
“Ah.”
The boy, who had cat ears and sheep horns and was somewhat wary, widened his eyes. Jason took off his top, squeezed it, and shook himself all over.
“What. I thought high-ranking beast people didn’t have mixed-bloods.”
“What, did you contribute anything to how I was born?”
The two people’s eyes clashed. It was a look of mutual incomprehension.
“I don’t know where or how you’ve been living, but living like that is why you ended up being sold off like this.”
“I wasn’t sold off, I was chosen as a sacrifice!”
“Isn’t coming to die even worse?”
The boy, with his cat ears lowered, glared at him with a growling expression. Jason was also making an annoyed face.
“Where did I pick up such a brash one… Hey, do you remember your home?”
“I don’t have such a thing.”
The boy snorted, turning his back completely on Jason. Of course, it was in the middle of a small rocky island, so it wasn’t a very far distance.
“What do you mean, you don’t have one? Even if you were a wanderer, there must be something you were attached to. You really don’t have anything like that?”
“……”
“What, did you get betrayed by the guys you were living with or something?”
“!!”
The boy was startled and turned to look at him. Jason chuckled meanly.
“Our lives are all similar in some ways. Did you think you were the only one who experienced misfortune?”
“……Tch.”
Jason threw his clothes down on the rock and lay down on top of them. The rock was too hot to lie on with bare skin, probably because of the hot sun.
“This hyung, you see, gave up being a beast person. I just ran away because I hated the beast person race.”
“……That’s good. You can pretend to be human.”
“Ah, that’s true.”
Jason chuckled. The boy avoided him with a disgusted expression.
“What’s your name? It looks like it’ll be hard to swim all the way to that uninhabited island right now anyway. Let’s at least get to know each other’s names.”
“……Nova.”
“Hmm, okay. So your name is Nova. I’m Jason.”
Jason said that and suddenly sat up, staring blankly at the island.
“Damn, he threw us pretty far. I wonder if Roina is okay. That bastard Lutan… Tch.”
“Will that noona from earlier be okay?”
“Well, she’ll probably be okay. She’s a strong noona, even if she doesn’t look like it.”
“……Really? Stronger than the Golden Dragon?”
“……Maybe?”
“What, even you don’t know for sure, mister.”
“Mis… Never mind, call me whatever you want.”
Jason tried to correct his title but felt like it made him look pathetic and flopped back down again.
“The Golden Dragon is really strong. That’s why they said we have to send sacrifices so he doesn’t get angry.”
The boy crouched down and hugged his knees. The boy, who was already small, looked even more frail like that. Jason glanced at him for a moment and clicked his tongue inwardly. How much did they starve this kid?
“They say being a sacrifice is an honor. They said I was chosen.”
“That’s b******t. Then why did you run away?”
“Just… Because if I go now, I can’t take care of my siblings. I said I didn’t want to be a sacrifice.”
“Siblings? But earlier you said you didn’t have a home.”
“……”
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