Inside the dim interrogation room of the Edolas royal palace.
Selene sat in a chair, handcuffed, with a bright light shining on her face. Opposite her, Hope and Acnologia sat side-by-side behind a desk.
"Name?" Hope asked, having somehow obtained a Public Security Squad uniform, his voice carrying a hint of authority.
Selene's lip twitched. If she had known that surrendering meant playing house with this shameless human, she never would have surrendered without a fight...
Well, she still would have surrendered; after all, she really couldn't win.
"Selene," the Moon God Dragon answered obediently.
Hope nodded, making a show of taking notes before continuing, "Gender."
Selene looked down at her impressive figure that would make Wendy feel ashamed, then looked back up at Hope and replied helplessly, "Gender: Female."
Hope nodded. "Oh, a female."
"Don't you freaking know that already!"
Seeing Selene's chest heaving with rage—fuming but not daring to lash out—Acnologia, also dressed in a Public Security Squad uniform and acting as a silent NPC, suddenly felt a bit of sympathy for her.
Probably no one was better at messing with people's heads than Hope.
He suddenly found himself missing a snack called sunflower seeds.
Hope continued, "Do you have any other family members?"
Selene took a deep breath, trying to keep her tone as calm as possible. "A son. You were just using him to blackmail me earlier."
"Suspect Dragon, please watch your wording."
Hope said solemnly, "Sword Saint Dragon Kurnugi entered the fray himself to cooperate with us in your capture."
"Furthermore, as a mother who hasn't seen her son in decades, we have the right to prosecute you for abandonment."
Selene's vision went dark. Using human laws to judge a dragon—he certainly was putting on quite an air of authority.
If she weren't so outmatched, she would have charged forward long ago to pin Hope to the ground and have her way with him eight hundred times.
Unfortunately, she didn't have the guts.
Actually, besides avoiding Acnologia, there was another reason Selene had left the continent of Ishgar: the Black Wizard.
In terms of danger to the dragon race, the Black Wizard was no less a threat than the Black Dragon; his mysterious power of death left even the highest-tier magical creatures like dragons with no resistance.
Yet this human had confidently claimed he could string up the Black Wizard and give him a thrashing.
Selene didn't know if it was true or not, but she understood that Acnologia's unusual attitude toward Hope was enough to prove this man was anything but simple.
Dammit, he clearly has such immense power, yet he insists on humiliating me like this. Do powerful humans nowadays all have such twisted tastes?
I'm tired... just let it all be destroyed...
Selene leaned back against the chair with an expression that said, "Do whatever you want."
Seeing her like this, Hope understood the need for balance between tension and relaxation, so he ended the prank there. He dropped his pen and said, "Let's get down to business, Selene. Why do you want to eliminate the other Five Dragon Gods?"
Knowing full well that Faris had betrayed her plans, Selene didn't intend to keep hiding it. She confessed, "If I don't kill them, won't they come to kill me?"
The Five Dragon Gods didn't get along; Water God Dragon Melkobia had told Hope that long ago.
Melkobia had no desire for further civil war among dragons; he only wanted to look after his own small territory and coexist with humans.
But the other dragons didn't necessarily feel the same way.
According to Selene's confession, aside from the Water God Dragon and the missing Gold Dragon God, the Fire Dragon God, Wood Dragon God, and Earth God Dragon all sought to defeat the others.
Moreover, they shared one common trait: they looked down on humans.
"Even though they were scared witless by a human Dragon Slayer Mage 400 years ago and ended up fleeing to the Northern Continent, they still feel humans are beneath them."
Selene let out a self-mocking laugh. "Don't you think they're ridiculous?"
"And what about you?" Hope asked calmly. "Is there any difference between your actions and those of those three dragons?"
"Of course there's a difference."
Selene's expression was complex. "I don't look down on humans like the other warmongering dragons do. It's a bit funny to say... despite being a dragon, I like living like a human."
Selene was indeed cruel, but she wasn't irrational.
She and the other evil dragons all believed that most humans were foolish, constantly fighting during their short lives in an attempt to place themselves above others—some even killing their own kind, only to pass their grudges down to the next generation.
Yet these tiny humans radiated the vitality of life, building one prosperous settlement after another.
They were foolish but also loved others.
They hated but were also willing to share their joy.
The road ahead was long, yet they still dreamed of the future.
From this perspective, Selene believed that humans and dragons were fundamentally no different; both were magical creatures driven by desire, it was just that dragons were naturally stronger than humans.
In fact, over the years, Selene had grown accustomed to the human way of life. She grew to like these contradictory, weak creatures so much that she even wanted to become a true human.
Selene believed the era of dragons had long since ended. She viewed the other dragons as targets simply because they were different from her and had no interest in understanding humans.
After saying so much and putting on such a show, you're telling me you went after the Five Dragon Gods because of humans... Hope didn't know what to say about Selene.
Blackmailing Faris, attempting to control the Dragon Gods through 'White-Out Power'...
If she wanted to be close to humans, why couldn't she just do what the Water God Dragon did?
Hope didn't comment on the Moon God Dragon's twisted logic, instead asking about something else. "Is the expanding magic power in Erientia related to you?"
"You are indeed clever."
Selene sighed. "Years ago, while searching for a way to deal with the Five Dragon Gods, I accidentally entered Erientia. I took a liking to it and made Erientia my new home."
"But something unexpected happened. Because of my immense magic power, the magical balance of Erientia was disrupted, causing that world to start producing magic power at a frantic rate."
"It was precisely because of this anomaly that I discovered the Village of White-Out, a family that has passed down 'White Annihilation' magic for generations and can control magic power."
"You should know the rest of what happened after that."
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