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People who are not from this world can hardly understand the mentality of knights toward dragons, which is an emotion constantly reinforced from childhood in a cycle of brainwashing.
Even though Liszt himself was obsessed with dragons and admired their power and beauty, his reverence still fell short of that of the indigenous residents. Their feelings for dragons were a twisted, almost pathological mixture of emotions: part worshipful veneration as for a deity, and part destructive possessiveness if denied possession.
Decades ago, Marquis Merlin had once expressed during communication with the Sapphire Dragon that if he didn't get a contract with the Dragon Domain Landlord, he would slaughter it.
That might have been said in jest, or perhaps only dared to be said while the Sapphire Dragon was asleep.
Now, the aged Marquis Merlin could no longer utter those reckless words of his youth; he simply looked at Little Fire Dragon Leo and kept praising: "So beautiful!"
