“Then let’s at least switch to a different city to stay the night in.”
Airi brought up a different request.
However, this time, before Shien could speak up, it was Lasha who spoke up first.
“The closest city to Jiltry is over in the west, and even with lady Yulin’s speed, it would still take some amount of flying to reach. By the time we manage to get there, it would likely already be dark, and trying to find an inn to stay in at that time would probably be somewhat difficult.”
Lasha’s calm statement finally made Airi shut her mouth.
Although she was still showing some visible unhappiness, Shien knew that the girl in question has already given up on the idea of trying to leave.
“You really are to much.” Shien actually found it somewhat funny, “Isn’t it just being taken as a kid by other people? Is there really a need to object that much to it?”
“… Then allow me to ask you this.” Airi turned toward Shien and spoke with an utterly blank expression, “If, in the future, when you’ve already live up to 60 years old, yet everyone around you still continued to baby-talk at you and coaxing you about like you’re a little kid, call you by little Shien, telling you to remember to brush your teeth when you get up, and even buy you a pile of clothes suitable for 10 year old kids for you. Every day, they’d try to help you bathe, feed you by hand, and even force you to report where you are everywhere you go as well as make you bring a horde of people to protect and guard you. In that case, what will you do?”
In response to that, Shien just thought it over a little before he was unable to take it anymore.
If there really was some beautiful girls who would try to help him bathe and even feed him by hand, then that would actually be quite a pleasure, but from the way that Airi described it, Shien only ended up getting goosebumps all over.
It can’t be…
“You were living a life like that?”
Shien cautiously asked Airi.
“That’s right.” Airi continued to speak with an utterly blank expression, “Plus, it’s something that continued until now since the moment I was born, for an entire period of 10,000 years.”
10,000 years…
Shien’s gaze toward Airi was now filled with sympathy.
Even Lasha over at the side ended up given Airi a glance filled with some amount of pity.
It seems like this child had seriously experienced some shit.
No wonder she’s so addicted to sleeping. It’s probably not just because it’s something natural to dragons, but also because she wanted to escape from reality, right?
“Alright.” Shien thus spoke, “Then I won’t be announcing you as my little sister anymore.”
“Oh?” Airi immediately gained some interest as she turned toward Shien, “Then what kind of relationship with me do you plan on telling other people?”
“Cough…” Shien was struck then by indecision.
What should he announce her as?
A big sister?
Would other people even believe that?
A family elder?
There’s no way that would fly, right?
Given that little girl’s outer appearance, if he were to tell people that she’s older than him, then those other would probably think that he’s insulting their intelligence.
In that case then…
“I’ll say that you’re my wife.”
The words out of Shien’s mouth made Airi suddenly miss a step, almost tripping.
Even Lasha stopped moving and instead looked toward Shien. Shien even felt like he saw a hint of disdain from her eyes.
That was obviously the look one would give to a lolicon.
Hey now, girl, I’m just making a joke here. Please don’t take is so seriously, alright?
Just as Shien was faking a laugh, Airi looked at Shien with a rather speechless expression on her face.
“This is the first time I’ve ever seen someone who dared to claim me to be his wife.”
Airi used a single sentence to tell Shien just how insanely daring the words he just said were.
Taking the Dragon Demon as a wife?
There’s plenty of people who might be daring enough to think it, but there’s no one who would actually dare to try to say it out loud or actually do it.
However, what Shien rather wanted to say to that was…
“… Are you sure it isn’t that they can’t actually do it?”
Shien couldn’t hold himself back from taught fate again.
Airi didn’t say a word in response to that, she just started continuously putting more strength into the hand that was holding Shien’s, making “creak, crack” noises continuously come out.
“Owowowow…! It’s going to break, it’s breaking!”
Shien’s face warped, he cried out, and he grit his teeth in pain.
“Hmph!”
Only then did Airi finally toss Shien’s hand from her before then heading forward in an unhappy mood.
Shien hurriedly followed up after her before picking the girl in question up.
“I’m sorry oh great lady Airi.” Shien grinned, “It’s not that no one else would be able to do it, it’s that they lack the courage and ability, right?”
“Are you trying to coax a little kid here?” Airi still looked unhappy.
“Not at all.” Shien determinedly refused to admit it.
That said, there is one thing that he could admit to.
“I’ll go ahead and say it that way in the future then. You’re my wife, it’s decided then.”
Shien thus hugged the soft and warm little girl to him and one-sidedly decided on it.
“Hey!”
Airi seemed to want to object to it.
“Objections refused!”
Shien held his hand over the mouth of the little girl in his arms and shut her up.
“Mmmm…!”
Airi started struggling, but it had no effect at all.
The two of them simply continued to play fight while moving forward.
Lasha followed right behind them. She looked as calm as always, but every once in a while, the expression she had while gazing at Shien and Airi would turn a lot gentler.
Yulin was also following along. She was filled with awe and respect as she saw Shien hug and hold Airi’s mouth shut.
As expected of the master she recognized. He’s even able to subject such a powerful big sis dragon king. As expected, she had good judgment.
Thus, Yulin also seemed to have gotten in a good mood, which showed in her flying.
In this situation, Shien and the others didn’t discover that a group of people had poked their heads out from a certain building to watch them, and they seemed to also be discussing something.
Immediately after, they grabbed a large sack and started sneakily following after Shien and the others.