Ep 154. I’m Sure We’ll Meet Again. (7)
“YOU’RE HER HUSBAND?!”
Light and Ilias screamed back at the pretender in unison, their voices eg throughout the cavern walls.
Meanwhile, the pretender returned a hearty chuckle at the two girls’ shocked reas.
“…That would be correct! Quite the rea, I must say.”
Light’s lips immediately sealed shut at the revetion. She suddenly found herself at a loss of what to say – or to be specific, there were too many things to say, and she didly know which to begin. Or if they were even appropriate.
Oher hand, Ilias’ expression lit up in enlighte as the youngling came to a small realization.
“Right, Lord Serenis could never expin why she woke in a human boy’s body…so that wasn’t a ce then?”
“As fate would have it, I’m ined to say it wasn’t. Even ating for the remaining dragonkin, it’s quite likely that I am the soul most attuo Serenis. Others may find our dragonlord a bit…daunting, to carry.”
“Daunting?”
Ilias tilted her head with a puzzled expression. She’d merely made the e from their retionship, but Adam’s answer was fusing her further.
Fortunately, Light soon chimed in to crify for the red dragon.
“…I think he means they’ll go crazy. Like Aymeia did.”
“Ohh…”
Giving an affirming nod, the pseudonlord then turheir gaze to face the unscious steel dragon once more.
“Now, with that said…there’s something else I o tell you two about Raizel. And this, you do o tell Serenis when she awakes.”
At the mention of Raizel’s name, both Light and Ilias quickly silehemselves, looking atteowards the speaker before them.
“I’ve done what I could, but there’s only so much that be doh magic alone – burn wounds especially so. The rest will require proper treatment at the hrough medie and the like; the quicker, the better.”
This time, Ilias was the first to nod.
“I take us right now!”
“Mm…hm. And while I appreciate the enthusiasm, there’s still one more obstacle to overe. Even if Raizel were to make a full recovery, I’m afraid it won’t help help open her eyes.”
“Huh?...Why not?”
“At the moment, she’s…ay husk. That is to say, Raizel’s body isn’t in possession of her soul at the moment.”
“…”
The hope in Ilias’ eyes were quickly snuffed out by Adam’s st remark. She bnkly stared back for a while lohen towards her friend in silence.
And this time, it was Light who’d respond first.
“…Reaper?”
“I’m afraid so.”
“…”
“…Hence why you must inform Serenis when she awakes. Making sure Raizel’s body remains alive is important, yes – but without the soul to occupy it, there’s little point.”
The two listeners brooded over the st ent. Ilias gripped her hands into a tight fist, while Light’s faze sunk to the floor.
Another minute of silence had to slip past before the half would break it again.
“…One more question.”
“Of course. Go ahead.”
“I still don’t uand why you don’t want Serenis to know who you are. Shouldn’t she know whose body she’s in?”
“Well…”
Adam beamed back a bittersweet grin at the half girl’s question. He briefly gowards Ilias, then proceeded to answer Light’s question.
“Light. If you were to die and be reborn in Ilias’ body, would you steal her freedom to cim the body as yours?”
“What? Of course not!”
“Mhm. And I’m sure that’s how Serenis would feel.”
“…”
As his reply effectively silehe cat half, Adam beamed a soft smile back at Light.
“I don’t mean to say that Serenis robbed me of my freedom. As much as she’d disagree, having her with me has done good for the both of us. Had she not occupied this body, I wouldn’t have remembered who I am: I would’ve lived out this life as a human boy named Zion, oblivious to who I once was. So, in a way, her presence is allowing me a sed life as well.”
“Couldn’t you just tell her all that? If you tell her that you want her with you, I’m sure she’ll resider…”
“Perhaps one day. But for now, I’d rather she remain oblivious to the truth.”
“…Because she’d flip out if she knew?”
“Flip out…haha. In a way, yes! She’d flip out.”
Light crossed her arms, closing her eyes as she sidered the implications of Adam’s ruse.
As far as she’d seen, Serenis hadn’t seemed so inded as to ighose around her – it seemed reasoo think that the dragonlord would remain calm, even after knowing her lover was wishing for her to occupy their body. Keeping the dragonlord oblivious seemed nothing short of making a small problem grow aer.
Logically, it made sense.
‘…But if I were her…’
As Adam had exemplified, Light would ake someone’s freedom away to live a sed life for herself – especially not when it was someone important to her like Ilias.
And that was final.
It wouldn’t matter what the other wahe very premise was out of the question. If Light were to learn that she’d been robbing her family of their freedom to so she could tinue living, the guilt would kill her on the spot.
So, in a way, the current arra also made sense.
Perhaps not in the most logical manner, but heless in a sensible way.
“…Okay, st question. Just one more.”
“Hm?”
“…How DID Serenis e back to life? She didn’t seem to know the answer herself…do you?”
“How, you ask?...”
Oddly enough, Adam had always known that Serenis would return to life.
He’d always known that the dragonlord would require his presence. Hence his endless cycle of rebirth.
But if someoo ask how he’d known, he couldn’t possibly provide them with a crete answer.
‘I just knew. Somehow, I just…knew.’
It’s not that anybody had told him – he’d died years before Serenis had. The piece of knowledge had somehow beeing in his soul, as if he’d been pnted with the information from some unknown source.
In the end, Adam grinned back at Light, petting her on the fluff of her ears.
“Perhaps some things are just meant to be.”
“Huh?”
Light stared back at the pseudonlord with a quizzical stare, more fused than before he’d returned an answer. But all Adam could muster was another series of chug, followed by petting the half on her head.
“I’m afraid that’s all I tell you. Sorry, Light.”
“So you don’t know, either…”
“Haha. No, that I don’t.”
“…And you’re okay like this? You don’t want to…talk to her or anything?”
“I’m alright as we are right now. I’m…”
Adam briefly closed his eyes, imagining how their reunion would seem.
‘…It’d be awkward, to say the least. Perhaps absurd is the better word…’
Meeting Serenis, being dragonkin, having Eden, aing in this era were all events that he would’ve sidered absurd in the past.
Yet now, they all seemed perfectly natural – as if they were iable from the start.
So, maybe a reunion wouldn’t be so absurd after all.
“…”
In a barely audible voice, he whispered into the air.
“…I’m sure we’ll meet again.”
“Huh? Us?”
Realizing that the Light’s perking ears had picked up on his whispered words, Adam beamed bae final time at the half, returning an affirming nod.
“…Of course, Light. And Ilias too.”
This was where he belohis was where he’d stay. Regardless of where Serenis would go, he’d forever remain at her side.
Aually, when the long-awaited family reunion es…
‘We’ll be right here to wele you bae.’
