Raon was clapping while Mila was calmly focusing on her task at hand. Cale was lying on the bed, looking toward the window and snickering.
Lock just blankly looked out the terrace window.
"H, he's acting, right? It's fake?"
His voice was shaking.
The fallen Eruhaben.... The sight was too shocking to call it an act.
'My heart is beating wildly even though I know it's fake.'
Lock tightly clenched his fists.
"Lock, don't worry! Gramps wasn't hurt by the Lion Dragon's attack!"
Cale looked at Raon with an odd gaze for a moment.
'...He shouldn't be able to see anything because it's so far away. How is he so sure Eruhaben-nim wasn't hit?'
Cale questioned Raon's response, but Raon just smiled brightly, as if he didn't question anything at all.
Lock couldn't help but smile after seeing Raon's bright smile.
"Lock, you start moving according to the plan as well."
"Yes, young master-nim!"
Lock watched Cale, who was reaching the final stages of Connect Together, as he responded vigorously.
"I'm okay."
"...Yes, sir, I understand."
Lock barely managed to lift his feet and left the office after hearing Cale say that he was okay.
Cale watched Lock leave for a bit before looking back out the window.
The fallen Dragon's large body...
A portion of a building was unfortunately destroyed because of the Dragon's fall. Dust and smoke rose up like clouds because of the aftershock.
This sight brought shock to everybody except the few who knew the truth.
"...Ah."
Some of the mages plopped down on the ground.
The shield they had cast to block the aftershock of the Dragon and monster's fight was long gone, and all that the mages could see was the fallen Dragon...an existence that was said to be the king of magic.
"I, I can't believe that he...so futilely-"
Although the battle had been fierce and intense, it oddly felt as if it had all been futile.
The reason behind it was simple.
"...It really is a monster."
The Dragon had fallen, but the monster was fine.
The monster was quietly observing the fallen Dragon without a single scratch on its shield.
The Dragon had not managed to harm the enemy even a little.
That fact was making the others feel as if it had been futile.
"...Something that even a Dragon couldn't do-"
'We have to do it now?'
The mages could not get themselves to say that part.
But there were others who were feeling even more scared than they were feeling.
"W, what just happened? Did the Dragon really fall to the ground?"
"I don't know! I can't see anything!"
