"…What is this?"
I heard something cracking in front of me. My eyes widened, and I looked at the egg that was breaking.
Is it real? Is a real dragon hatching in front of me now?
I unknowingly squeezed Dominic's hand tightly. After the light leaked through the shell, a small human-shaped baby appeared in front of us. Pale blue downy hair, plump cheeks, and even bluish eyes.
Is this baby a dragon?
No matter how you look at it, it looks like a two-year-old baby.
Humans cannot be born from eggs. I don't have it…
While I was panicking, the dragon baby bit the bouncy ball on the table and made a fuss. I stroked the dragon's head.
"Is it a baby?"
"…Meow!"
The fragile dragon that came out of the egg, or rather, the baby, took its body into my hand and giggled.
Ugh, you're so cute.
I fell in love with this child on my own.
But how do you raise dragons?
As I stroked the child who was clinging to my hand, I was lost in thought.
Even though I am cursed by a dragon, if I raise it well, I may be blessed.
But suddenly, the newborn dragon cub glanced at the three men around him, and then pointed to the door of the stationery store and smiled.
"Papa!"
"Huh…"
Dad?
I followed the child's hand and looked towards the door of the stationery store. And…
"I had a strange feeling, so I came in. You were finally born."
Isaac magically appeared.
"Papa!"
…Hey, Isaac is being called "Papa" now, right?
I thought that perhaps he injected mana when hatching dragon eggs and felt familiar with it. But wasn't this a bit embarrassing? I felt a fever rise in the tips of my ears.
"Hey, little worm." Dominic frowned and spoke to the child.
No, what does it mean to call such a cute child a "little worm"?
"Hmph!" However, the child, who seemed to be already a couple of years old, replied with a slap at Dominic. Dominic's expression became even more frowning.
"You got on the wrong side."
"Child?"
For what? Are you asking?
The sight of the child asking while tilting his head was so cute that I wanted to bite him. However, Dominic seemed to have a tremendous immunity to cuteness. He frowned when he saw the cute baby-shaped dragon.
"That child's father. You must have rotten eyes. Anyone can see that Meldenik is a lot more worthwhile."
"Hmph!"
The dragon baby looked angry at Dominic as if he was angry at the fact that his eyes were "rotten." That's how the thousand-year-old sword and the one-day dragon began to bicker at each other.
Do you two get along quite well?
Seeing the two of them dealing with each other seriously, I thought so to myself. However, their confrontation was only for a while.
"…Uh."
"Back to the egg!"
The dragon hid in the egg again. Then, the shell of the broken egg was put back together.
"What is this?"
The four of us exchanged embarrassed glances with each other. I was going to ask you specifically about meeting a dragon, its blessings, and its side effects!
"Something… I think there are conditions that we don't know?"
At this point, it came to mind again. My difficult past days when I tried to summon the Winter Moon Devil.
"There are really a lot of summoning conditions…"
Still, dragons are really cute, so let's keep it.
"Anyway, we need to learn more about the blessing of dragons for our blood relatives." I bit my lip seriously and said, "Let's think about dragons later."
I carefully wrapped the egg and placed it on the shelf. Tomorrow was the day of the ceremony to confer the title of Marquis of Kinnoa. And… It was also the day of the engagement ceremony of Sheria and the Duke of Hesmann.
I don't know how it feels to have the worst day of the engagement ceremony.
First of all, I can't stand seeing cheating people being happy. I looked at the remaining Basil, Isaac, and Dominic around me. It was finally the tomorrow I was looking forward to.
"We have something to do tomorrow."
"What is it?" Dominic asked back with the most grim face.
I grinned and handed him a leaflet that I had handwritten.
"Punishing a man and a woman who have an affair?"
"Yes."
The operation that would start tomorrow was as follows: The so-called Great Operation to Become the Marquis of Kinnoa, with the subtitle: "To Punish a Man and Woman Who Have an Affair."
In fact, that day, Henry had gone to Meldenik's stationery store. And Henry, a little wizard who had secretly hidden to see Meldenik, witnessed a strange sight. He couldn't hear the voices inside in great detail because he was hiding by the window outside, but it was clear.
The baby was walking around!
And the baby called Isaac 'Papa'!
Henry's big eyes grew so wide that he couldn't open them any wider.
Uh, how could this happen!
Meldenik and Isaac looked really happy. Besides, look at that little baby. He could never squeeze through the gaps.
Henry, who returned to the Mage Tower, shrugged his shoulders and poked Carat in the side as she was doing her homework.
"Hey, Carat."
"…What, bother." Carat frowned slightly. He was very busy doing his backlog of diary homework.
"I'm busy."
"Why are you busy? Are you studying?"
"Yes. And tomorrow is Mel's title ceremony."
Naturally, Carat was invited to Meldenik's title ceremony and reception. That's why he was planning to do his homework quickly today and work hard to dress up his face. He tried to pack properly and go to bed early! A very troublesome thing happened. It was the attack of little Henry.
"It's this. Look here. Isaac, Mel, and a baby."
"What do you mean by that?" Inside the Mage Tower, two boys and a girl who were doing academy homework together raised their heads. They were Prince Axion and Princess Mirisa, who were close friends at the academy.
"How do you know, you?"
"Is it real?"
The children's expressions were distorted with embarrassment. Mirisa frowned as much as she could.
"Is he a good person?" Mirisa was not sure whether the Master of the Magic Tower was a good person or not.
If he's a good person, he'll comfort a good sister who must have been hurt by an adulterous man.
But if not, very…
While Mirisa gritted her teeth grimly, Axion continued. "I'll have to check it out first. If it's a bad person, let's punish him." Axion's eyes flashed at Mirisa's words.
"It must be." Axion felt that there were a lot of bad people around Meldenik. Isn't it natural for flies to get tangled near cool people?
However, Carat smiled and shook her head and opened her mouth. "No, he's really good!"
But unfortunately for the three of them, who were slightly shocked, Henry's words did not end.
"It's true, and the problem is this." At Henry's words, the children's eyes were once again focused on him.
And finally, Henry dropped a bomb on everyone.
"Mel and Isaac have a baby."
"…What?"
Carat wasn't the only one who was taken aback by Henry's words. Mirisa's face turned white.
"What on earth is that?" Axion jumped up and looked at Henry.
"Don't lie!" Axion frowned, his hands clenched tightly.
"It's true. I'll change it." When Henry heard this, Axion's mouth opened. Then he immediately knelt down with a frustrated face.
"Then my brother! Let's ask at the title ceremony tomorrow!"
Tomorrow morning was the day of the title ceremony. The four children looked at each other provocatively and clenched their fists.
With each of us misunderstanding, the night passed quickly. The day has finally come to change the fate of Meldenik and Sheria. Meldenik's title ceremony. And the morning of the long-awaited adulterous man and woman's engagement ceremony dawned.