Chapter 75

Translated by boilpoil Edited by boilpoil

Bai Lianhua’s body is stiff. He is a bit scared by the antagonist who is raining teardrops.

After so many worlds, this is the first antagonist to actually cry…

Bai Lianhua pats the dragon on his paws to soothe him——Though he’s unsure if the antagonist could feel it. Maybe the force is too small after all.

So he raises his head, saying, “don’t cry… Sachston, can you turn into your human form for now?”

Then at least he could give him a hug? Not like now. Even if he tried his best, he could at best hug the tip of the dragon’s claw.

The dragon nods. After doing what he could to stop the flow of tears he moves his paws away from gently cupping Bai Lianhua——Though he’s definitely gargantuan in size, he’s so obedient that you’d want to rub him on his fuzzy head and praise him, telling him “what a good boy.”

Then the dragon, with bumbling movement, turns into his human form… He’s still a tall guy in his human form. Not only does he have black hair and iris that is scarcely seen on the continent, his whole attire is also black from the head to the toe. When he is standing quietly he has the ‘ ruthless; uncommunicative ‘ aura about him, but his reddened eyes have clearly sold him out now.

Bai Lianhua can clearly see that the antagonist still looked the same as ever, but he’s become a lot thinner.

The dragon-turned-human looks a bit awkward.

He really isn’t used to this. Before Bai Lianhua came along, he always had his dragon form out. He only diligently did his best to adapt to this form when he tried to interact with Bai Lianhua more intimately. After Bai Lianhua disappeared, he has never changed into his human form again.

In fact, Sachston thinks that even as a human, he’s still the greyest, least appealing dragon out there, and not pretty. He’s not like the other dragon that has bright hair colours and irises.

Still, when he was encouraged by Bai Lianhua and turned into his human form for the first time in front of him, the little merman praised him sincerely saying with dazzling eyes that he looked great.

He couldn’t help but feel cheerful then. As long as the little merman didn’t think of him as ugly, he wouldn’t care what others thought. He had to tell Bai Lianhua too, that, “I also have a name. You can stop calling me great dragon because it feels really distant. I named myself Sachston, and you can call me that…”

And only you can call me that.

The little merman was quite happy. He thought for a moment and uttered, “you like treasure, right? I can cry and make pearls. I will give that to you.”

He was sent into a panic and quickly shouts, “no no no, I don’t need presents… Don’t cry.”

The little merman looks saddened, “why not? My tears make really beautiful pearls. It definitely looks better than the collection you have.”

Of course Sachston believes that. The little merman’s tears must be of the topmost quality, but no matter what it can’t be more beautiful than the merman’s eyes, you know. It would be a tragedy if the clear silver-blue colour was drenched in tears.

When the little merman isn’t crying, he would already be worried all the time that he might scare him; if he does cry, then his heart would surely melt into a puddle.

So, the dragon lied. He says, different to what he thinks, “really, don’t cry. I don’t like pearls. They are not as shiny as gold and silver and gems.”

Then the little merman goes ‘oh’ and says with a depressed tone, “…but I can’t make gold or silver or gems when I cry. My tears can only make pearls.”

Different from him, the little merman seems to view humans positively. He will tell him with this serious face that not every human is bad.

His little guy liked to swim about in the waters. Sometimes he would meet fishermen that sigh and listen in on their conversations, then he will tell him with this worried look, “the King is not a good person, but the others are innocent. The King doesn’t want to let go of his own treasure pile for the sake of your shiny hobby, so the others have a bad time instead.”

“It’s almost time to pay tribute in jewellery to you again. I hear the fishermen say that they must put their livelihoods aside to dive for pearls… You don’t even like pearls that much.”

“I like the little kids in the fishermen’s family, they’re cute… I don’t want them to starve.”

Which was why Bai Lianhua would sometimes gift seafood to his ‘cuties’ discreetly. He even once thought about crying out pearls for them, but the dragon stopped him.

And Sachston was convinced, “if paying tribute in rare metals and jewels to me makes innocent people suffer, then I don’t want it anymore.”

——In any case, he’s already found his most treasured existence of all.

The dragon really did think Bai Lianhua was the most beautiful treasure ever, and he could just admire him his whole life. He didn’t dare say that out loud though, because the merman was such a small and easily embarrassed creature. He feared that if he said it the merman would feel scared and not want to approach him anymore.

This was the only treasure he couldn’t just extend his paws to take for himself.

But if the little merman could always just look at him with a smile… That was also good, good enough.

After informing the King he didn’t want the regular tribute anymore, the dragon couldn’t help but ask indirectly, “then am I the cutest one now?”

He must have been more appealing than the young offsprings of the humans in the fishermen’s, right?

The little merman blinked, and with a sweet tone and sweet expression, he said, “yes, you’re the best and cutest dragon in this world.”

The dragon couldn’t hold back from not only having a pleased expression but also, with his size, he could block the merman’s view of his back and so he starts wagging his tail in happiness… Of course, he couldn’t wag it too quickly or too forcefully, or the sound of air breaking would have revealed his dumb-dumb self.

That really was the most serene time he has had in his long dragon life.

He thought the days would continue like that forever, but…

What drags Sachston’s thoughts back is the warm, soft feeling on his face——It’s Bai Lianhua wiping the trails of tears from his face.

Clearly his little merman also recalls him turning into a human for the first time. The little merman says, “you’ve told me not to cry before, so you too… Don’t cry.”

Bai Lianhua extends his hand, covering up Sachston’s reddened eyes with his palm. Then he works his fish tail to approach him and give him a warm, soft hug.

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