The visitor reminded: “Brother Richard, I think compared to using fire to bathe cats, cats being dragon descendants already doesn’t deserve such surprise.”
Richard turned his head, his young face showing stubbornness beyond his age: “One is one, two is two. How could cats be dragon descendants? They have always accompanied humans, not a single dragon scale or any dragon feature on them.”
As soon as the words fell, the cats at Aurina’s feet seemed to understand human speech, all opening their mouths and hissing at Richard in unison.
“Little bugs are little bugs.”
Aurina raised her hand, taking down the fat fluffy orange cat from her head, the orange cat’s fat “overflowing” from her small hands, she said:
“See how fluffy and cute the kitty is, these little ones how cute, especially this one.”
She showed off the cat like treasure, raising it high towards Richard, Richard politely reached out to pet it.
Aurina suddenly pulled back: “Want to touch? No way. See how fat this cat is.”
“Isn’t this the cat you stole from the market?”
“It’s rescue, like you, anyway it agreed to go with this king.”
Aurina looked at the orange cat: “Right, the big orange dragon that caught four at once.”
“The name keeps changing?”
Richard said: “Called Orange Dragon? You like it because it looks like your dragon form?”
“What?”
Aurina said: “Because when hungry can eat it, see how fat this one is.”
Aurina opened her small mouth, burying it in the orange dragon’s fluffy fat fur.
The orange dragon flipped over, revealing a white fluffy belly, while making purring sounds, rubbing its head against Aurina’s cheek.
Richard said: “It definitely doesn’t understand human speech, and I shouldn’t try to guess dragon thinking.”
Aurina lifted her head, smiled: “Beautiful?”
Richard looked at her little face buried in warm cat fur, slightly stunned and said: “Beautiful.”
“So, such beautiful little ones must be this king’s descen… distant brothers and sisters!”
“I think I heard ‘descen’ something.”
“Did I? How strange.”
Aurina said: “Anyway, kitty these little things, are members of the dragon descendant family, definitely descendants of the Dragon of Terror.”
“How could they be descendants of the Dragon of Terror?”
Richard looked at these cute creatures, recalling the Dragon of Terror’s figure, cruel, cunning and massive, such evil and majestic creature, no matter how looked, no similarity to cats, “Not alike at all.”
“Because little bug you only look at appearance, can’t see the inner.”
Aurina placed the cat on the tabletop.
“From the inner, cats catch mice for humans, one of the great beneficial beasts, can be companion animals, without a bit of red dragon’s evil nature.”
Aurina looked at Richard, blinked her golden eyes, asked: “What strange things are you saying.”
The half-demon visitor lowly asked Richard: “You tell her these, does she understand?”
Richard said: “Try to talk anyway.”
Aurina on all fours on the table, said: “Haven’t you noticed cat movements very like dragons? Idiot Richard.”
Aurina rarely called Richard by name to scold.
“Cats stretching lazy very like true dragons.”
Aurina saying, stretched her arms long, raised her little butt, waist seeming to lengthen.
Her movement seemed to have magic, like yawning contagious, the cats beside all began stretching lazy.
“Lying down too.”
Aurina lay on the tabletop, hands tucked, the orange dragon beside also lay on the tabletop, two fluffy front paws disappearing in orange fur waves.
“Even squatting too.”
Aurina squatted on the tabletop, tail circling her feet once.
Over ten cats squatted together, tails also circling feet once, the scene somewhat spectacular.
The half-demon visitor stunned said: “Brother Richard, she makes good sense.”
“You serious?”
Richard said: “Think about it, since humans have recorded history, cats have always existed, and the Dragon of Terror’s age, said to be ten thousand years. Step back ten thousand steps, even if the Dragon of Terror lived longer than all records. Why Aurina’s movements similar to cats, cats are dragon descendants? Then women in some places acting as cats, wouldn’t they also be dragon descendants.”
“Yes, how could I have such absurd thought.” The half-demon visitor shook his head: “Really strange.”
“Richard!”
Aurina unhappily wrinkled her small brows: “I know, you’re jealous of the Dragon of Terror’s greatest bloodline. Besides the Dragon of Terror, who could fuck out such cute little things?”
“I felt it.”
The half-demon visitor said: “Even if this dragon is talking nonsense, her words always make me want to believe, her voice has a magic.”
“Meow.”
Aurina hugged her almost nonexistent chest, vowed: “Because this king is speaking truth.”
Richard lowered his head, gaze staring at the draft on the table, all additions if result greater than twenty-one, must be twenty-one.
All subtractions, if one number greater than twenty-one, result also must be twenty-one, he asked:
“You can now count to twenty-one?”
Aurina very happy said: “This king is glad you are the only one actively discovering this great breakthrough in mathematics field.”
Richard quickly asked: “Ten plus eleven equals how much?”
Aurina also quickly lowered head, glanced at hands feet and tail.
Richard noticed, her fingers, toes and tail, moving at extreme speed, Aurina raised head proudly: “Twenty-one! The largest number!”
“I see.” Richard held his chin: “You calculate math by fingers toes and tail, so largest number is twenty-one.”
The half-demon thought of Sophia, that despairing tone asking: “Is the largest number in mathematics twenty-one?”
At first thought joke, now thinking carefully, made hairs stand.
Anyone knows, largest number impossible twenty-one, why would Sophia ask such common sense?
Must be dragon magic influencing her.
She knows largest number impossible twenty-one, but dragon constantly influencing her thoughts, Sophia gradually believing largest is twenty-one, this contradicts her common sense, thus her face of collapse.
The visitor increasingly felt, raising Aurina not as simple beautiful as it seems.
He said in sympathetic tone: “Brother Richard, raising dragon and guiding her to good, really not easy.”
Richard inexplicably thought of life with Aurina after, “healing” frequency rising, sincerely sighed: “Indeed not easy.”
“Brother Richard, I’ll go first.”
“You not resting a night here?”
“No, I still need to return to the knight order soon.” The visitor said: “Storm approaching, Brother Richard.”
“Alright, careful on the road.”
The visitor walked to the door, thought of something turned back: “Actually there’s another reason.”
“What reason?”
“I don’t want to become someone who can only count within twenty-one.”
With that, the visitor quickly closed the door, leaving a puzzled Richard.
“You know what he’s thinking?”
“No doubt.”
Aurina hugged the cat again: “This king’s majesty deeply into his heart, scared him away. Gagaga….”
Richard lowly said: “Hope it’s not your stupidity that scared him.”
“Little bug slandering me in private, this king can hear.”
“Roast birds tonight still?”
“Of course.”
Richard said: “Hope the cats you command catch only Thousand-Crow Eye’s birds, and hope he really uses birds as eyes.”