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After my father finished explaining what had happened back then, Ignatius nodded slowly. Over the years he had finally matured enough to become someone you could speak to normally, without him throwing a tantrum or acting overly prideful.
"…Hmm, I know," Ignatius sighed. "I… I regret what I did… there's really no justification for it. I was simply being a stupid lizard at the time. Maybe I was desperate to prove to my peers that I could take you on, so I followed you all the way from the demon continent and waited until the perfect moment to strike. It was mostly because my father had kicked me out of the dragon territory. My elder brother had argued against that decision and was taking care of me outside the territory for a while, but then I escaped on my own and… well, he couldn't find me again until that day in Eastgrain, when the Evil God Cultists somehow contacted him… or rather, when the Evil God of Dungeons himself did."
