Regressor Instruction Manual (PART 1)

Chapter 179: The Result of the Hostage Crisis (2)

When I saw her vomiting blood, I hurriedly began to shout.

"Hands... Hands off, you bastards!"

I had no choice but to put on a furious expression. Dialugia looked as if she would die on the spot if someone were to touch her. The soldiers around me looked disconcerted, wondering what this was about. However, I didn't have the time to explain.

"You need to return to the front line. I will detain her, myself."

"Yes... Yes!"

There was nothing they could do but follow my orders at this point.

Meanwhile, I didn't know if Dialugia would recover with the potion I had, but this was the only one that could heal her. Currently, she continued to mourn over her child with what little energy she had. As I approached her with the baby in one arm, she reached out.

I worried about her attacking me, but I knew she wouldn't dare try upon checking her status window.

'I was completely fooled.'

The fact that she could transform into a human form was less important than the fact that she tied my life and hers together; I had been lured into a complete checkmate.

The only explanation was that Dialugia had really used her brain. She knew that, if she died, her baby was likely to die as well. Thus, she tried to conserve her life by choosing me, the one who had held her baby hostage, and the one who commanded the enemy forces, as her spouse.

I didn't know if she had realized that I was the type of person who wouldn't sacrifice my life for the sake of mankind, but her gamble proved to be successful.

As she had expected, I didn't want to make any sublime sacrifices.

She understood that saving herself was the way to save her baby; and that holding my life would be the most reasonable way to survive.

'There was too little information about her in the first place.'

What I missed was the ecology of a race classified as a dragon.

I at least learned four facts about them with the day's events. Of course, I didn't know if this was applicable for all dragons, but it was at least applicable to Dialugia.

- A female dragon can produce children on her own. In the first place, their sex might be meaningless to them. Considering their sparse population, this was probably the case.

- Dragons had a way to transform into a human form. It was not magic. It would be correct to call it their race's unique ability.

- Though the means were unclear, a dragon has the right to choose their spouse. I didn't know if I'd be able to resist it or not, but it was meaningless to try, as my resistance was comparable to that of an automatic door.

- A dragon's spouse shares its life with the dragon.

'My body is evidently the biggest evidence.'

Though I did not understand them, I knew they were not simple creatures. They lived a life that had evolved in a different direction from humans.

'In a way, they should be called high-ranking individuals.'

I had a lot to research about this, but for now, I had to save Dialugia.

As I poured the potion over her wounds, she started to recover, albeit very slowly.

In the end, it didn't seem effective at all.

As her original body was enormous, recovering in human form had massive drawbacks. If an actual human needed one potion to recover, this one would need at least a few hundred.