Chapter 2

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Alex and Rhett had moved in together.

Well, it was called moved in together, but the two dragons just connected their floating island together. They still had their own separate caves. To be fair, they placed their caves together, and in the middle, creating a mountain, then dug out a public area to form a 「One living room with two bedrooms」 layout. Slair’s cabin was located at the very center of the public area, neither closer to Alex nor closer to Rhett.

『Come here, Baby, call me 「Daddy」~~ you must be calling me daddy, right? You could call that no-male-temperament blue dragon 「Mommy」 !』 Rhett lying in front of Slair; his giant body has taken over all the space near the little cabin.

Alex walked over, picked up his tail by the mouth, and pulled him back: 『Stupid fire dragon, Slair must be calling you「Mommy」! I heard that humans think blue is a more masculine color; Without a doubt, he thinks you are a female! If he did not call you Mommy, Do you think I will allow you to stay this close to me ?』

『You are not him; how did you know he does not call me Daddy?』 Rhett bit back angrily; his mouth was sparking with flame again.

Slair was baffled. He looked at the two dragons, then looked at himself:『So you are both males? Then who is my daddy, and where is my mommy? Why do I look different from you?』

Alex and Rhett were shocked.

Dragonmaw could sound out the Draconic syllables. Humans were brilliant, but there was still a vast difference between the dragons and humans. Dragons were able to pronounce human language without magic transformation. Still, there were only a few of the dragons able to pass Human Language 4. Dragons often speak broken human language. In Draconic, a word was usually composed of multiple simultaneous syllables. A simple change in frequency or loudness of the syllables meant another word. This made the dragons have a hard time understanding how humans talk. Of course, it was harder for humans to understand Dragonic. It was challenging to humans’ ears and brains when they listened to Dragonic. Most humans can not even tell the difference among words, even if they were a Dragonmaw -「They all sound like howls 」, as he might say. Therefore, for a Dragonmaw, it was outstanding if he could imitate the dragon’s voice to say a few words. Until this day, there had not been a single human able to fully understand the weird language of Dragonic.

『Oh God, Slair, you can understand! You can understand what we were saying?!』

『Of course, I could. My inherited memory told me that every baby dragon was able to talk when they broke out of the shell. However, I seem to be very weak…』Slair stared down at his hand, then turned around trying to reach his back, 『Don’t have wings, color is strange too… am I an abandoned egg? Is it because I am bound to be a dragon with a disability? Are you the ones who found me?』

Alex and Rhett exchanged a look; both of them seemed surprised.

『Babe,』Alex carefully crouched down and stretched out his foreclaws to gently stroke Slair’s head, remembering that this could be used to comfort humans 『You are very healthy and wonderful, why would you think that?』

Slair’s eyes started to tear up:『Don’t lie to me.』

Rhett also pushed his head in: 『But Slair, you are a human! You are not a dragon; naturally, you don’t have wings!』

Slair looked even sadder. He opened his mouth wide in surprise, and all the tears started dripping from his eyes and wet his soft and fair face. He did not make a sound, but the despairing look on his face broke Alex’s heart. The blue dragon was full of rage, dragging the red dragon all the way outside the cave by his tail.

『 What are you doing, Alex! It’s the second time you touched my tail today. I swore that only female dragons could touch it!』

『You stupid dragon! Have you read the human cultivation manual at all? Did you really get a permit to raise a human?!

Humans are very sensitive and intelligent creatures. They’re not like the rocky breasts you could chew like a teething stone! We are fortunate to own a Dragonmaw, not to mention that even the Dragon Emperor doesn’t have the honor of owning a Dragonmaw that understands Draconic. Now he sees himself as a young dragon- we need to guide him rationally and carefully, channeling his thoughts and preventing him from developing psychological problems. Telling him, 『Hey, you are a human!』is not the way to go. Look what you’ve done, you idiot!』

Hearing the phase『psychological problem』 made Rhett nervous:『Oh no! I have forgotten everything! Help, Alex, what should we do? He is just a kid, and psychological problems could easily affect his life! Ah, god, what if he suicides?! I heard that if humans with a severe psychological problems, they would… 』

Alex could not hold his anger anymore and slapped Rhett with his claw, ordered him to stay outside, and then went back to check on their poor little human.

Slair sits in the beautiful crystal cabin blankly. He touched the stone hanging on his neck and saw the beautiful world of dragons again. When he opened his mouth, there were no flames; When he said the familiar spells, nothing happened– he thought by memorizing all the fascinating spells in his mind, he would be able to use them once he got out of the 'shell” …

However, he was just a human, and humans could not use magic.

The great despair had crushed Slair’s heart, and he felt like his life was a death sentence right from the beginning. He walked back into his crystal cabin and hid under the quilt. Tears gradually wet the pillow, and finally, the child howled loudly.

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Alex walked outside the cabin anxiously. He took out delicious cupcakes, shiny gold coins, exquisite toys, and beautiful clothes, but none of them could lure Slair out of his cabin. While trying to cheer Slair up, he used his tail to prevent Rhett from rushing in. How exhausting. Ultimately, the helpless blue dragon used the magical rune to call Gilt. However, when Gilt heard 『My child can speak Dragonic』, he let out a loud laugh and asked Alex to call him back after he woke up or sobered up, then cut off the magic connection.

『Praise the Dragon Emperor, it is so hard to raise a human, and I was complaining about the human cultivation permit exam being too hard. In my opinion, the test should be twice as hard. 』 The blue dragon felt soon he would cry with Slair,『Daring Slair, please stop crying, if anything happens to you, my heart will break into pieces and dead with you.』

Just then, Rhett broke in once again.

『What do you want to do now ?!』 Alex stared at him furiously,『LISTEN! Slayer is crying so heartbreakingly!』

『I come back with a solution!』 Rhett raised his front claw and waved at Alex『Look, the Wild Human Documentary- The Klein Empire . Although I don’t understand why the little guy cries when he finds out he is a human, maybe this will be beneficial for him to see how humans live?』

Alex thought this might be a solution, so he agreed. Placing the image crystal in front of the crystal cabin, as the melodious music started, Slair gradually stopped crying.

Kids were curious. Slair crawled out of the quilt and peeked out the door. He found his cabin surrounded by gorgeous lights. Everything was marvelous like magic — No, it was magic. The scenes quickly switched from the dragons’ house to the land. He saw the entire continent as he was sitting on the back of a dragon. The land moved closer and closer, and the scene took him to the ground. This was a human kingdom– it was a happy little country. Their King was wearing a golden crown and holding his Queen in his arms.

Then they began to undress. The dragon narrator’s voice started at the right time :

『Human, a fascinating petite creature, uses two legs to walk upright. They are fragile yet steady, acting a leading role in many parts of the land. Many dragons have asked me in amazement. How can humans live independently without the dragons– all I want to say is that humans are stronger than we think. Here is the Kingdom of Klein, where the King and his Queen are mating. Unlike the dragons, humans have a higher reproductive rate, and our protagonist of the film, the lovely little Prince Grieve, is conserved during this mating…』

The camera pulls towards the queen’s abdomen. The author of the documentary used some unknown method to film the whole development process of the child inside the mother’s womb. Slair was fascinated by the process, watching the little embryo divide and grow, spitting into the heart, growing a head, arms, and legs, gradually taking shape. With a loud cry, the Queen gently held the cute little prince in her arms, crooned lullabies to him, nursed him, and the King was standing right behind her, thinking of a name for his child.

『Human females are amazing. They have to go through a painful nine-month pregnancy. Their abdomen will bulge at the later stage of pregnancy, affecting their daily lives. Childbirth is even more dangerous, the baby is relatively large for the mother, and wild human females have a high mortality rate because of it. It is almost unthinkable for our dragons. After all these hardships, the baby is born. Follow us to see how this fragile life overcomes one difficulty after another as he grows up … 』

The magic of life overwhelmed Slair. He was immersed in the wild human documentary and forgot all his troubles. Alex happily patted Rhett’s shoulder and was surprised to find that the red dragon was not totally useless.