Most of the time, under the glamorous appearance, there is always a bitter core. You can't look into the details of most beautiful fairy tales. Snow White had to live after marrying a prince, and even after thirty years, there would be a day when her fat would start to droop. Sleeping Beauty hadn't moved for hundreds of years, so how could she save her prince without first brushing off the dust? The frog prince had been turned into a frog for so many years, so what did he eat before he met his princess? The girl who wore red dancing shoes couldn't stop dancing and could only dance to her death. However, before she died of exhaustion, she had to think about how to go to the toilet. You see, our childhood was actually very fragile. I once went to Avalon to ask the Brothers Grimm and Andersen about the above questions. This caused the three of them to look at me as if I was their enemy for a long time …
I felt that the fairy tales could prove our current situation. After all, there was nothing more fairytale than a sparkling magic castle made of ice and snow. There were usually three types of people living in such a castle: the cold and noble Northern Witch (who might also be an evil witch), the pure and kind Snow Princess, and the mysterious and wise Winter Elf. I think that in the original fairy tales, the three types of tenants wouldn't have to worry about the door of their ice castle being frozen for three days, and they wouldn't have to smash the door on their way home to enter. I now deeply understood that fairy tales were all lies. In any case, my home's ice castle was a lie. There was no kitchen or other place to cook, so Icetis could only light a large bonfire in the center of the side hall. The dozen of us, including the two Dracon girls that were invited, surrounded the bonfire and roasted all kinds of strange things for dinner. There were no guest rooms in the ice castle. When Pandora built this castle, it wasn't as detailed as this, so the two Dracon girls could only set up tents to sleep. The spacious castle hall was dozens of meters high, and it was basically an empty shell. Staying here wouldn't be any different from sleeping outside. Thus, looking at her tent and the bonfire in front of her, Sakina asked me a very difficult question, "Is there any difference between this and us setting up tents outside?"
I raised my head to look at the roof that was a dozen meters away and scratched my head, "Sigh, you should just make do with sleeping here. How about I find another villa for you? Maybe someone has it in their Dimensional Pocket. "
Sayana looked at us as if we were monsters. In the end, her gaze fell on the pure white little girl who was leaning against the bonfire and looking at the flames curiously. "Forget it, I don't know what other problems you are planning to cause. Let's talk about this child. We were so shocked at that time. "
Sayana was referring to what happened half an hour ago in front of the castle porch. Sayana and Sona saw rows of little girl snow sculptures in the niches, and Mercury Lamp said "there are only souls left." These two points caused a huge misunderstanding between the two dracon girls. I still remembered Sayana's wild guess. "So you're an evil mage! You used young girls' souls for experiments, stuffed them into magic puppets, and even made them into these snow sculptures! "
At that time, her expression was filled with righteous indignation. She glared at me while pointing at Mercury Lamp and the snow sculptures in the niches. Before I could understand why she was so imaginative, the puppet on my shoulder had already stood up to protect her father. It pounced on Sayana and bit her arm, "You're the magic puppet!" Alright, maybe it wasn't to protect her father …
That was the scene that happened half an hour ago. But now, the misunderstanding had been resolved.
"Look after Little Seiko. Don't let her play in the fire. Be careful not to scatter the bonfire." I smiled at Sayana before turning to call out to Chestnut. I wasn't sure if she learned it from Anveena or Mei-sama, but Chestnut was quite good at taking care of children now. Little Seiko was overly curious and jumped into the bonfire several times to play. I had no choice but to get someone to hold her back.
At that time, in order to clear up the misunderstanding, I called out the soul of the Rose Maiden who was watching a movie in my mind (Pulling out some interesting memories of myself for Little Seiya to watch, this is something I discovered recently and that child likes to do). The soul of this little Dragon Maiden gave the two Dracon girls quite a fright, but very quickly, they realized that the Dragon Maiden didn't seem to be persecuted at all. On the contrary, she seemed to be extremely intimate with 'a certain evil Soul Wizard', so the misunderstanding was naturally cleared up.
"Are you really a mage?" Sayana fiddled with the bonfire in front of her and looked at me curiously. "I don't think so."
"I'll explain to you when I have the chance. We are currently on a trip. When we leave this place, I might tell you the truth. That is, if you can understand. Right now, you only need to know one thing. We aren't bad people. "
"What's going on with this little girl?" Sayana saw that I didn't have any intention of explaining, so she shifted the topic back to Little Seiko. The latter was currently reaching her hands into the burning flames, trying to pull out the embers. Chestnut was watching her closely by the side to prevent her from throwing the embers around. This kind of scene wasn't easy to understand under normal circumstances. I patted Little Seiko's head tenderly. The little lass immediately giggled and came over. "Her name is Yuehua Seiko, but you can just call her Little Seiko. This child was born with only a soul and is unable to grow in the real world. Thus, I have been raising her in my soul world. "
Sayana looked at me with an expression that was hard to understand. She hissed, "It's like listening to an old mage's fairy tale. If I didn't see it with my own eyes, I would definitely say that you are a liar. One of your daughters is a demon … puppet and the other is a soul. Both of them are so small. Are you really a human? How many more daughters do you have? "
Before I could say anything, Xiaoxue's shouts came from the other side of the bonfire, "There's one more here! There's one more here! I'm also his daughter! Don't you think I'm cute? My dad treats me like a treasure! "
The two dracon girls were dumbfounded. The way they looked at me was even more incomprehensible than before. At this moment, Bubble, who was sitting on the other side, pushed Little Bubble forward. "Let's get to know each other. This is the Royal Princess."
At that moment, I felt that something bad was about to happen. Before I could say anything, Bubble continued, "By the way, I'm the child's mother, which means that I'm the wife of the person over there." In the end, she suddenly gave me a thumbs up. "I'm working very hard to become a wife!"
Sakina and Sona hugged their chests and looked at me in horror. Sona didn't like to talk, but Sakina asked with an unprecedentedly serious expression, "Please tell me the truth. You won't lay your hands on women who aren't of your race, right?!"
Before I could say anything, I saw Icetis, the weirdo, looking around. Her gaze intentionally stopped on Sandora. Then, she cleared her throat and was about to speak. Fortunately, I reacted quickly and threw a piece of barbecued meat at her. "No one will think that you're a mute if you just eat your food!"
Sakina laughed dryly and pulled her companion to the side …
However, it seemed that there were some benefits to chatting like this. The two dracon girls didn't seem to reject us as strongly as they did at the beginning. I felt that it was time to ask a question that I didn't understand before. Thus, I carefully chose the appropriate words to ask, "Erm, let me ask you something. You don't seem to have a good impression of mages?"
Sakina frowned, but she didn't get angry. She glanced at me, as though she was weighing whether or not the half-stranger in front of her was worth befriending. Then, she nodded. "Of course we don't have a good impression of each other. Sona and I were once adopted by a mage."
"Erm, that should be the opposite. Why don't you have a good impression of him?" Shallow Shallow asked curiously.
Sona replied in a low voice, "We bought them from the slave market and used them as experimental subjects for potion research. Since draconians have strong bodies and high resistance to drugs, they also have great strength. Since we don't know any magic, most mages who have enough money and power like to raise a few draconians as laborers. Although the royal family forbids the trade of slaves in many places, they always have an excuse: Sect wars, capture on the battlefield, family slaves, there are many loopholes in the law. Sakina and I spent our days of adulthood in a poison testing cage. Because of this, Sakina is hostile towards all mages. Me? Although I feel that I shouldn't hate every mage, at least I don't have a good impression of you as a group. "
I never expected to hear such a story. I instantly felt that I shouldn't have asked such a question. Slavery, mages, experiments … these three words were actually combined in such a filthy way. Who would have thought that these two draconian girls would have experienced such a thing!
I felt really awkward. The two draconian girls kept paying attention to our expressions. Sona said thoughtfully, "It seems that you really haven't heard of such a thing before? I really don't know where you travelers came from. Could it be that you came from the other side of the Black Plains? I heard that there has never been slavery there. Also, there are many strange researchers who like to travel around. Some of them even cross the Black Plains. "
I realized that if I continued on this topic, I wouldn't be able to explain myself clearly. Thus, I decisively stopped and hesitantly asked the next question, "Then how did you two obtain your freedom? Were you released? "
"Released?" Sakina looked into my eyes with her golden vertical pupils. "How naive. A draconian slave is a valuable commodity. No matter how rich a mage is, they wouldn't easily waste it. We were used to death. As I mentioned earlier, Sona and I spent our birthdays of adulthood in a poison testing cage. According to a strange formula found in an ancient ruin, the mage created a few types of potions. In order to verify their effects, he fed us the potions as a birthday present. After that, he confirmed that the potions were all fatal poisons. Sona and I quickly collapsed from the poison and our bodies festered. Later, the mage probably thought that we were already dead, so he threw our corpses together with the cage into the wilderness. However, I don't know if we were lucky or something else happened, but the two of us managed to survive. Moreover, we recovered after shedding our skin. Until now, apart from some side effects, we are almost as good as when we were healthy. "
As Sakina said that, she looked at her arm in disbelief. There seemed to be scars left behind by the corrosion of the poison. "That was how we obtained our freedom. Later on, Sona and I escaped from the Duchy and started to wander around, stealing things. When we were in good health, we would work as labourers. In winter, we would break the windows of nobles so that we could be imprisoned. Anyway, no matter what we did, we could still make a living. To be honest, prison food was much better than garbage. Gradually, even the prison guards knew the two of us. They were more or less kind. As long as they saw the two of us come in, they knew that winter had arrived. The two lizards … draconians were looking for a safe place to hibernate, so they took good care of us. One of the young prison guards' father happened to have an adventure experience, so he mentioned it to us while chatting with us. He also brought a notebook left behind by his father, which recorded his experiences in various dangerous places. We found that being an explorer was the only profession that didn't require any professional skills, so we decided to become explorers. People of status like you may not know what the occupation of an explorer is. After all, in the eyes of ordinary people, an explorer is no different from a vagrant or a scavenger. Anyone can call themselves an explorer. As long as you have the strength and guts, can gather a few survival tools and self-defense items, and dare to pick up some strange things from the ruins to sell to alchemists and the like, you can be considered a qualified explorer. "
"That's why we stole the notebook from that young man and became adventurers …"
"Uh, stole it?" Shallow Shallow couldn't help but ask. I also looked at Sona and Sona in surprise.
Sona sighed and said in a low voice, "Yes, we stole it. At that time, we were used to stealing to get what we wanted, and that notebook was indeed very important. Without it, a reckless newbie would most likely die in the hands of the guardians of the ruins. Although we didn't have much experience, we still knew about it. If a newbie adventurer didn't have the guidance of a senior, it would be very dangerous. So, if it wasn't for the necessity of survival, not many people would be willing to do such a dishonorable job. That young man treasured the notebook very much. It was a relic of his father. He could show it to us, but he would never give it to us. Also, if we died with the notebook, it would be as good as lost forever. Sona was very smart. She thought of this from the beginning. So, on the day we decided to set out, we took the initiative to find the young man in the prison and … stole the notebook. This is the only equipment we had when we set out on our first journey. "
Sona said as she took out a somewhat tattered thick notebook from her backpack. It was obviously meticulously repaired many times. I couldn't understand the twisted characters on it, but I could see that it was carefully preserved by its owner.
"Actually, we had thought about it from the beginning. When we became experienced adventurers and didn't need it anymore, we would return it!" Sona said in a hurry. "But many things happened after that. The life of an adventurer is very dangerous. If we are unlucky, we won't even have food to eat. Due to the pressure of life, we didn't have time to return the notebook. After a few years, the matter was slowly delayed. Now, even if we want to return it, we don't have the courage to do so. That young man must still hate those two Dracon thieves. "
"After all, the Draconians have always been regarded as an uncultured race." Sona let out a long sigh and buried her head in her knees. After a moment of silence, she put the notebook away. "Besides, we've been following the ancient ruins that could appear at any time. We've traveled a long distance and crossed at least a dozen dukedoms. It's impossible for us to return to our original city. Besides, so many years have passed. I'm afraid that the warm-hearted young man from back then is no longer a prison guard. Even his appearance has changed. The lifespan of humans is shorter than that of the Draconians. We've wasted our time."
It was a very long story, but it couldn't be said to be earth-shattering. Compared to the storms that we had experienced, it couldn't even be counted as a small wave. But to these ordinary Dracon girls, this was the bitter journey of their lives. As the saying goes, small people also have their own magnificent stories. I don't know what happened to that warm-hearted young prison guard, but I hope that he is doing well. I also hope that these two Dracon girls can muster up the courage to return the notebook that they stole back then to its original owner.
Hearing my consolation, Sona only smiled faintly, indicating that she would eventually make a decision. On the other hand, Sona seemed to have shifted her attention away from this topic and focused on waiting for the meal.
Dinner was made by everyone using the ingredients that they brought with them. This was Shallow Shallow's suggestion. She said that she wanted to have a barbecue party. The ingredients that Sona took out were the dried meat that they had stored and a kind of hard, but not bad, noodle. These should be the food that explorers used to stave off hunger when they worked in the wilderness. The dried meat could be eaten directly, but it could also be boiled or roasted when the conditions were good. Shallow Shallow took out flour and vegetables from her dimensional pocket. But actually, we shouldn't be surprised if she brought anything with her. Sandora took out an overwhelming amount of snacks, stunning the two Dracon girls. In addition, there were all kinds of strange things that they brought with them, including Mercury Lamp's yogurt and Little Bubble's jelly beans. Most of the food was handed over to Monina. Now that my sister wasn't by my side and Anveena didn't come with us, the only cook was Monina. She was a chef, and besides Anveena, she was the best cook in the family.
When we were waiting for the meal, Shallow Shallow curiously took out a few pieces of dried meat, skewered them on iron skewers, and roasted them over the fire. I anxiously wondered if I would forcefully stuff the carbide into my mouth. Little Bubble threw her precious jelly beans into the fire, and they were instantly destroyed. She hugged Bubble and cried. Little Beautiful Crystal was still stubbornly roasting herself. She believed that she could pull out the flame. Mercury Lamp placed the yogurt in a metal container and warmed it up beside the fire. Then, she happily slurped on the side. The two Dracon girls were curiously researching how to open a can of fruit. Sandora was roasting two rocks, and a third of one of them had already been bitten off …
I was speechless. I was gratified to see that the two Dracon girls didn't express any opinion towards Sandora's recipe. They seemed to have finally become numb to it.
After dinner, we spent the night in this gorgeous fairytale castle. We made a bed on the floor, lit a bonfire, and even set up a tent next to us. I'll say it again, behind every ridiculous fairytale, there are details …
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