Silver Dragon Chronicles – Episode 35
“But why are you with those two….”
Why would a figure of the Righteous Faction travel together with someone from the Demonic Cult?
“There was some trouble at the Kunlun Sect, remember? That’s when I formed a connection with Great Hero Unwonnam. He asked me to travel together, so we’re moving as a group right now.”
When a man asked with a frown, Sawollin replied with an expression that said it was no big deal.
“…….”
After the meal, everyone was drinking tea.
The expressions of several young experts from the Righteous Faction were far from pleasant, and Sawollin was sneering at them. The young experts from the Righteous Faction had been talking and suddenly worked themselves up, but Sawollin had simply suppressed their momentum.
Having realized they could never defeat Sawollin in martial arts, they were now swallowing their anger inwardly.
Then, Jehwa, who had been maintaining his silence, suddenly opened his eyes wide and sprang up from his seat.
“Jehwa?”
As Sawollin made a slightly perplexed expression, Jehwa’s gaze turned to one side.
Following that gaze, everyone’s eyes turned that way…. Sawollin and Iseolhye were appalled.
“Ugh!”
“Wh-why is that girl here!”
There, a young girl was smiling brightly and waving her hand toward the group.
“Hello, has it been two months?”
Before they knew it, two months had passed since that incident.
The girl, Diadelin, looked at Jehwa, who was staring at her with a blank expression, with sparkling eyes.
And at Jehwa’s next words, her face contorted mercilessly.
“Why is that girl still alive?”
“You saved her.”
“Me?”
At Iseolhye’s words, Jehwa opened his eyes wide and pointed at himself with his finger.
Seeing Iseolhye nod without hesitation, Jehwa pondered for a moment and then approached Diadelin.
“Then I have to kill her this time.”
“…….”
At those words from Jehwa, the group—and even Diadelin—were at a loss for words.
“W-wait! Hold on!”
Diadelin, who had been making a blank expression, clenched her fist tightly and screamed in fright at the approaching Jehwa.
“I didn’t come here to fight today! You told me to come find you once my body fully recovered!”
“When did I?”
“Ah, not you. Your brother said that.”
“Brother? I don’t have a brother.”
“There is such a person. Anyway, I have no intention of fighting you, so please let’s just stay quiet, okay? Please!”
At Diadelin’s words, Jehwa frowned and looked at her.
And after a moment, judging that there was no hostility from her, he lowered his fist.
Diadelin let out a sigh of relief at that sight and spoke to Sawollin.
“Are you feeling better?”
“You’re the one who almost killed me.”
“I’m also the one who saved you. You look lively, so I suppose you’re fine.”
Diadelin smiled, filled with malice, and Sawollin frowned.
But because her opponent was who she was, she couldn’t recklessly attack.
Then, at that moment, Diadelin turned her head and smiled brightly at Jehwa.
It was the complete opposite of the smile she had directed at Sawollin.
“But why did you come?”
At Jehwa’s question, Diadelin’s face scrunched up.
“You told me to come find you once my condition improved!”
“When.”
“…….”
At Jehwa’s words, Diadelin looked at him blankly, and at that, Sawollin burst into laughter.
“Ahahahaha!”
Snap!
Seeing Sawollin bursting into laughter, a fuming Diadelin shouted.
“Don’t laugh!”
Rumble!
In the voice of the enraged Diadelin shouting at that moment, there was an enormous power.
The moment they heard that voice, everyone except Jehwa turned pale.
What in the world was this terrifying power! The entire group felt their stomachs churn.
Especially Sawollin, who received the force head-on, turned even paler.
Diadelin had been making a rather satisfied expression at that sight, but her face suddenly stiffened. It was because Jehwa was looking at her with a cold smile.
“Want to die?”
At those words, Diadelin felt the blood in her entire body run cold.
Eclipsed by Jehwa’s aura, she mumbled her reply.
“Ah, I won’t….”
As Jehwa’s aura vanished along with those words, Diadelin let out a sigh of relief.
“I never told you to come back.”
“You did.”
At Jehwa’s words, Diadelin spoke with an aggrieved expression.
“……?”
Looking at Diadelin like that, Jehwa tilted his head and furrowed his brow.
“You clearly said that you have to return to your homeland. I come from the same place as you.”
“Homeland?”
At Diadelin’s words, Jehwa opened his eyes wide.
He even made a slightly perplexed expression at the word “homeland,” which he had never once thought of.
Meanwhile, Sawollin also looked back and forth between Jehwa and Diadelin with a perplexed expression.
That girl knows Jehwa’s homeland?
“You know my homeland?”
“Of course I do.”
“Then were you born in the same place as me?”
“No. I was born somewhere else.”
“Hmm….”
At Diadelin’s words, Jehwa’s face scrunched up.
‘Homeland, huh….’
He was an orphan who could not remember his past.
That is why he had never once thought of the word “homeland” in his entire life.
But now that he had heard it, it felt unbearably nostalgic.
“I told you that I have to return to my homeland?”
“Yes.”
At Jehwa’s words, Diadelin smiled pleasantly and nodded.
He had to return to Mareujereun no matter what. Because there was family waiting for him there.
If that happened, it would be an eternal farewell to this place as well.
Two wills coexisted in Jehwa’s body. And the will that mainly used the body was an ignorant child.
Prince Eun Jehwa knew too much, but Diadelin judged that with this Eun Jehwa, simply taking him along would be easy.
She had taken quite a liking to Jehwa.
“Your family is waiting for you there.”
“Family?”
At Diadelin’s words, Jehwa opened his eyes wide.
“I have family? But I’m an orphan?”
“You simply fell into this place due to a temporary accident. Do you know how much your family is searching for you right now?”
Diadelin said, scrunching up her face.
Five hundred years ago by Mareujereun’s reckoning, the Silver Dragon King had flown into a rage, turning the Middle Realm into a wasteland and completely devastating the Heavenly Realm, all because the Silver Dragon Prince had suddenly disappeared due to them.
At that time, the world had fully experienced the terrifying power of the current Silver Dragon King, Eun Hwihwa, said to be the strongest Dragon King in history.
After that, even the Demon Kings generally avoided provoking the temperament of Silver Dragon King Eun Hwihwa.
Suddenly, Jehwa tilted his head and muttered.
“Then maybe I should go….”
At those words, Diadelin made a satisfied expression, while Sawollin’s face turned stiff.
“J-Jehwa?”
“Great! We’re leaving right away!”
Joy and sorrow intertwined.
But at the next words, joy and sorrow crossed once again.
“What bullshit! I have to kill all those Blood Cult bastards before we go.”
“Huh?”
At those words, Diadelin scrunched her face up and spoke.
“I’ll take care of them in one blow.”
“I’ll take my revenge with my own hands.”
As Jehwa muttered lowly, Diadelin flinched. The same went for those around them. The surrounding temperature had suddenly plummeted.
Then Diadelin looked at Jehwa with a disappointed expression.
***
Having separated from the Righteous Faction group, Jehwa’s party gathered in Jehwa’s room.
There, Diadelin was grinning.
“I’m going to be traveling with you for a while.”
At those words, Sawollin and Iseolhye’s faces contorted mercilessly.
“Who said you could!”
After Sawollin strongly protested, Diadelin sneered and spoke.
“My own accord.”
“What do you mean your own accord!”
At Diadelin’s words, Sawollin shouted in anger.
Iseolhye took Sawollin’s side as well.
“I don’t like it either.”
With two out of the three companions opposing, Diadelin’s face twisted fiercely.
By nature, she wanted to simply overturn everything and travel alone with Jehwa, but she couldn’t do so because she might end up in a life-or-death struggle with Jehwa.
Diadelin stealthily glanced at Jehwa.
“Can’t I travel with you?”
Diadelin’s pleading appearance was beautiful, but it didn’t work on Jehwa, who had no standards for beauty.
Jehwa said with an indifferent face.
“You guys sort it out among yourselves.”
At those words, Diadelin smirked and looked at the two.
The two’s expressions turned unpleasant. They didn’t have the strength to drive Diadelin away.
Jehwa had subtly been hoping they would chase her far away, but since he told them to sort it out themselves, Diadelin would surely stick to the group like glue.
Diadelin smiled in victory and began introducing herself.
“Since I’ve become a companion, let me introduce myself.”
“Who said you’re a companion!”
“Right, right! You just forced your way in.”
“You outsiders, shut up for a second!”
Diadelin mercilessly twisted her face at the two protesting women.
The two women flinched at that murderous aura.
Ignoring them, Diadelin stood before Jehwa, slightly lifted the hem of her skirt, and opened her mouth.
“Daughter of the Flame Demon King of the Demon Realm, Dellian de Diablo, the Flame Demon Princess of the Demon Realm, Diadelin de Diablo, offers her greetings to Silver Dragon Prince Eun Jehwa of the Dragon Realm.”
“…….”
Diadelin was satisfied that she had shown proper manners, but the three were simply speechless.
“Kikikik! Kikikik! Kuk! Kuhahahahaha!”
“Ahahahaha!”
After Diadelin’s greeting ended, a brief silence flowed. Then soon Sawollin and Iseolhye began laughing like mad.
At their laughter, Diadelin made an expression of not understanding why, and looking at her, Jehwa spoke with a serious face.
“Have you lost your mind? Why are you saying such crazy things?”
“…….”
“Are you really crazy….”
Seeing Jehwa looking at her with a deeply worried expression, Diadelin’s face turned red and blue.
Come to think of it, in this world, other dimensions such as the Demon Realm or the Dragon Realm did not exist.
It was a world without other races or magic, a world where the only intelligent beings were humans.
“She says she’s a princess~ She calls herself a princess!”
“Isn’t she insane?”