In the southern part of the British Isles, in the Kingdom of Wales, under Ector's domain.
It was already deep into the night, darkness enveloping the entire village. Along with the distant forests, it was serene and peaceful.
Only the moon hung in the sky, round and yellow, like a half-baked barley flatbread.
"Just a little longer, just a little longer."
In the stable, the golden-haired girl lying on the haystack lifted her head, gazing at the moon in the sky, calculating the time bit by bit.
About five or six minutes passed.
When the gradually rising moon had passed the window frame and disappeared from the girl's field of vision, this golden-haired girl, who always behaved very obediently in front of others, suddenly jumped up from the haystack with a "whoosh."
She reached out, took out the three flatbreads she had secretly hidden in the haystack during the day. Then, she gently pushed open the stable door, with a sneaky look, both tiptoeing and jubilant, she left the village that had already fallen into a deep sleep.
"Babydrago, I'm coming!"
The girl quietly left the village.
And in the moment she vaulted over the village wall and landed successfully, she immediately used her fastest speed, sprinting on the small path leading to the forest.
... Her speed was incredibly fast.
That was not a speed that a human should possess... To be precise, even among those beasts known for their agility, there were few that could match her current speed.
In the pitch-black night with poor visibility, her body had almost turned into a blur. Even the bright moonlight could not fully capture her trace, only able to see her gradually disappearing into the sky.
Finally, the girl's figure completely entered the forest.
This forest, which was already very dangerous during the day, was even more perilous at night... besides being careful of those fierce predators, one also had to be wary of the complex terrain, not knowing when a cliff or falling rocks might appear.
But the girl seemed not to care about these things.
She moved through the rugged mountain forest as if on flat ground, treating those dangerous fierce beasts as nothing... No, to be more precise, she was the strongest beast in this forest, coming here was like returning home.
"Arrived."
Finally, after nearly half an hour of rapid travel, the golden-haired girl arrived at a cliff.
The towering cliff was fifty to sixty meters high... a distance absolutely impossible for humans to cross, but the girl directly stepped onto the rock wall that was vertical to the ground and continued to run upwards.
Above the cliff was a relatively open platform and a quite hidden cave.
"Hey, Babydrago."
The golden-haired girl, holding the flatbread, called out towards the cave.
Five seconds later, a blue-white baby dragon, about fifty centimeters long, with a tiger-like head, poked its head out from the narrow cave.
"Roar?"
Looking at the flatbread in the girl's hand, the baby dragon immediately let out an excited cry.
"Roar roar... "
The excited baby dragon flew out from the cave... it didn't come empty-handed either; its two small claws were each holding a dead wild rabbit, each weighing three to four pounds.
"Huh, rabbits? You caught them?"
"Roar roar!"
"Really? Then you're really amazing!"
The baby dragon stood with its claws on its hips, looking very proud. The golden-haired girl didn't let the moment pass either, clapping her hands to praise the baby dragon's growth... Although for a pure-blooded dragon, killing two rabbits wasn't particularly difficult, but for this baby dragon, the girl was indeed genuinely happy about any bit of its growth.
There was no other way; who let this baby dragon be personally "hatched" by her?
...
That was three or four years ago.
At that time, the twelve-year-old girl followed the villagers up the mountain to dig for stones but accidentally discovered a pure white spherical stone in the stone mine.
Back then, she didn't think there was anything unusual about this stone; she just thought it was very pretty. So she brought it back to the stable and casually placed it in a corner.
But a month ago... when this white stone suddenly cracked open and a blue-white baby dragon crawled out from inside, the girl realized that it wasn't a stone at all.
That was clearly a dragon egg!
"Speaking of which... do dragon eggs really look like stones?"
Such a doubt arose in the girl's heart, but the pressing matter at hand was obviously how to handle this newly born, still very confused about everything, and currently in the stage of crying for food, baby dragon.
A cute but dangerous baby dragon!
She knew that raising a baby dragon was actually a very dangerous thing... The magus who had always been teaching her had also warned her that the remaining mysteries on this island were no longer sufficient to nurture a true giant dragon.
"It's like an unfledged chick; this world no longer has the nutritional substances to let it continue to develop."
But the girl couldn't bear to watch this baby dragon starve to death.
Additionally, when facing this baby dragon, the girl's heart would always flash with some strange feelings... intimacy, responsibility, affection, and a slight sense of loneliness.
The girl didn't know why such feelings arose, but she knew that she couldn't abandon this baby dragon.
Therefore, after careful consideration, the girl decided to hide this little dragon on this cliff far from the village and secretly feed it with the flatbread she saved every day.
But now, it seemed that this baby dragon no longer needed her "feeding."
"Huff... "
The girl gathered some dry branches and piled them together. The baby dragon, very skillfully, opened its mouth and spat out a blue flame as thick as a finger.
The bonfire burned fiercely, roasting the two pitiful rabbits until they sizzled with oil. The three flatbreads were also placed on the fire to heat up, and the simple fragrance of the food made the girl's stomach growl involuntarily.
"Roar... "
The baby dragon tilted its head and used its claw to push a slightly overcooked rabbit towards the girl.
"Huh? For me?"
The girl was stunned.
Obviously, she didn't expect that she could receive such high "treatment" from this baby dragon.
She herself was also a dragon, a red dragon concealed in human form, so she deeply understood how much dragons valued their food... especially when they were hungry.
But... it wasn't bad, was it?
Looking at the baby dragon's disdainful expression, as if saying, "Just one rabbit, I can catch another tomorrow." The golden-haired girl felt a bit amused, and at the same time, she picked up the roasted rabbit from the ground and took a big bite.
"Hmm."
"Indeed, not bad."
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