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  Tanya was happy. No, the right word was content. At least in this instance. She had her retirement, and got to safely live her life with people she had genuinely grown to like.

  Right now, her and her family along with a rather polite and levelheaded dwarve named Gondo, were walking to the supposed abandoned capital city of the Dwarven Kingdom. The path there had been rather simple, with all the help and magic spells from her father. The caves were dark, but she could see in the darkness without the need for light, so it was fine.

  Lady Aeskell walked in front of everyone, ready to get attacked at any minute. Although there was nothing here that could harm Aeskell, Ainz, Aura, or Shalltear; there were things that could harm her and her sisters along with Gondo.

  She could see some Quagoa as well. They were hiding along the cave walls that y beyond the path that they themselves were walking along. Tanyas gnced to the walls. Near the top of them, where she could barely see, were paths, along these paths were the demi-humans in question.

  While it rankled her that her father and Aeskell were taking the care to hide themselves. It simply meant that they didn’t fear the demi-humans at all. Of course, she could be wrong.

  It was then that she sensed something. Her mind clicked, and she felt a presence approach. She didn’t know why though. She hadn’t cast any spells at all. Yet, as she felt the presence approach, she could feel the thumping of the earth.

  She didn’t know what this was. Maybe it was one of those racial skills that her father had mentioned from time to time? That made the most amount of sense. After all, her race was apparently rather unique in the grand scheme of things.

  Aeskell held up her hand as the thing that Tanya had sensed walked to them. The earth rumbled as the presence made itself known. It was a dragon. A frost dragon of course, but a dragon none the less.

  Its frame was rge from bulk, as if it spent all its time inside. Part of Tanya told her that this dragon did in fact stay in his room all day. She frowned at that thought, she didn’t like shut-ins, Despite the fact that she was picking up some of their habits.

  Her father looked up at the dragon, who seemed to stare at him more than the rest. He looked frightened, not that Tanya herself knew the specifics of what dragons looked like in their facial expressions. She could tell that he was frightened and confused by the sheer weight and power rolling off of her father.

  “Step no further you lot!” the dragon hastily pushed out, “no one steps inside of my father’s domain without permission,” he said while faltering.

  The dragon was big, she would give it that. Yet no cowered of course. After all, they were much stronger than him.

  “Oh, so your father is the ruler of the capital city of the dwarven kingdom? That is truly interesting,” her father spoke, more to himself than anything, “I wonder how many of you are there?”

  The dragon was understandably creeped out by this and flinched. He then did something slightly Japanese, he prostrated himself before her father, Ainz Ooal Gown.

  “Oh please, great undead, don’t kill me! I don’t taste good!” the dragon said, “my name is Hejinmal, I don’t want to die!” he shouted out in submission.

  “Hm,” her father said.

  Tanya looked at him. Unsure of whether he was simply ignoring the dragon because he didn’t care, or because he found it funny and was making a strange joke. It could be both, for all she knew. Her father was strange, after all.

  “How many other dragons are there?” he asked, pointing a finger at the now named dragon.

  “There are about twenty counting me,” Hejinmal said with a shaking voice.

  Ainz then nodded his head. This was a conundrum. At least he thought so. Mainly because, he said he would trap al the other dragons while Shalltear and Aura dealt with the Quagoa.

  In the end, he has this dragon here, prostrating himself before him and swearing fealty. He sighed internally. He could just kill him, but then what kind of example would that make for his kids?

  He looked to them. Tanya was looking at the dragon as if she had just figured out what the concept of color was. Wictoria was looking at the beast as if he were a rge steak. Then finally, Erika was looking at the dragon like she wanted to be rid of it.

  “What do you kids want to do with it?” Aeskell asked the three of them, saving him from his pondering.

  The three girls looked at her as if the question had come out of nowhere. It had, in all honesty, yet one couldn’t help but ugh at their humorous faces. They all looked shocked, to say the least.

  “I want to eat him,” Wictoria said as she raised her hand.

  The others looked at her as if she had grown a second heads for a split second, then they remembered who she was the reincarnation of, and shook their heads in exasperation.

  “I wouldn’t mind having him as a pet. After all, it could be nice to have a flying mount for myself. I like flying on Aura’s dragon’s, I’d rather be able to fly at any time with the wind in my face,” Tanya said.

  Ainz and Aeskell nodded at this. Shalltear looked like she wanted to say something, yet didn’t. Alos, Aura looked slightly offended. After all, Tanya had just said that she would rather fly on her own. At least that was what it sounded like to her own ears.

  Tayna seemed to notice this, and made to apologize. She put her hands up and spoke. Her tone was serious. She had seen what it was like when an NPC doubted their own existence. This seemed like one of those times.

  “Sorry Aura. I simply enjoy the wind on my face and your busy a lot of the time. So, it would be easier to have a mount of my own,” she expined, and Aura looked convinced.

  “I would rather not keep him. he just pissed himself while you all were talking,” Erika mentioned, and the rest looked at Hejinmal.

  The dragon looked like he wanted to be anywhere else right now as he tried and failed to make himself look smaller while he attempted to clean himself. Gondo looked on with slight pity, he felt for the dragon. After all, his majesty, Ainz Ooal Gown could be rather scary.

  “So, you want him, Tanya?” Ainz asked and she nodded her head, “then let’s get him cleaned up and we can move on to killing the rest. We have stayed here for too long,” Ainz said with swiftness.

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