During the recovery period after Abys hatched, the villagers came every day to ask about her health.
"Madam Mae, we brought fresh fruit. Please eat to regain your strength!"
"Lord Mae, please don't worry about the farm work! We've already taken care of that!"
"Lord Mae! Lord Mae! Lord Mae!"
One after another, the villagers came to check on her health. She was indeed very happy, but things weren't that serious.
The chaos didn't stop there, every day an attractive female nurse came to bring recovery water to inject into her body, carefully checking her health so it was a bit complicated.
Grayce introduces the nurse to Mae as a vampire named Baity, an acquaintance of her daughter, Sophie. When told, Sophie knew Baity while exploring the land in the north, her race was in a state of serious "thirst", which is a type of disease that always appears in the bloodline of the race. blood. Sophie helped them create "a new source" to save them, so they all owed Sophie's favor.
"So Sophie nominated you to be my personal doctor?" - Mae
"That's right, Lady Sophie said that there wasn't a single specialized doctor in this village so she sent me to this place. What surprised me is, Lady Sophie has a wonderful mother like you!"- Baity
"What does that mean?" - Mae
"Lady Sophie is a person with a pure soul and a heart as vast as the ocean, I asked myself 'who raised that girl?'. I am honored to serve her." who raised Lady Sophie!" - Baity
The vampire girl happily hugged herself with joy. But then she immediately changed her look to a mean face.
"What's going on?" - Mae
"That thing"- Baity
Looking at the direction Baity's finger was pointing, on the right edge of the bed was a pair of sparkling eyes of an animal as big as a cat but a reptile staring at her.
"Is that...?"- Mae
"Grao!"- Abys
The little scream sounded so adorable that it made Mae hug her chest because it felt like an arrow of love had hit her heart. Abys tried to climb onto the bed with its plump body. After a few unsuccessful attempts, the baby dragon flapped its small wings behind its back to fly onto the bed.
Although he could only lift his body into the air only half of the bed, Abys still successfully climbed onto Mae's bed. It immediately rushed forward and continuously rubbed her body like a puppy.
"Okay, okay, calm down. Abys"- Mae
"Grao!"- Abys
"So cute, so plump~"- Mae
She rubbed the baby dragon's soft cheeks. Abys enjoyed being loved and pampered by his owner so he leaned his head even more towards her.
Suddenly Abys was lifted off Mae's body, Baity was the one who pulled it off her body, took it out of the room and closed the door.
"Do not come into contact with animals while recovering, because the animal's skin and fur can affect your health" - Baity
"Grao grao grao!!!"- Abys
"No, you're very smelly and dirty. Don't come in here!"- Baity
"GRAO!!!"- Abys
Abys screamed and spit out a large fire, startling Baity. Luckily, the robot maid Loya hugged the dragon in her arms, then used her hand to close the dragon's mouth, bowing her head and apologizing to the nurse. Baity puffed her cheeks in frustration and closed the door.
The baby dragon tried to struggle hard, but then his small body became tired. Loya saw that the baby dragon no longer had the strength to struggle, put him down and left to continue his work. Abys was helplessly kicked out and scratched repeatedly on the door with pitiful moans.
He knew he couldn't go in anymore, so he curled up next to the door and waited.
Back inside the room, Baity used the heartbeat tool. She placed the stethoscope on Mae's chest to listen to the sound of her beating heart. Then use magic to check the flow of magic power inside the walking mushroom's body.
Check for a while.
Baity's face turned worried after testing Mae's magic power.
"What's going on?" - Mae
"This...the flow of magical energy in your body seems to be seriously damaged. I will prescribe you prescriptions and lessons to recover" - Baity
It wasn't until the evening, after Baity finished her work, that she left and left prescriptions for the servants so they knew when to give Mae her medicine.
Mae looked at the nurse who had left before she could open the door to look for the baby dragon when she saw Abys curled up outside. Mae's body partially recovered so she was confident that she could lift this baby dragon.
As soon as she touched Abys' body, he opened his eyes and raised his head to look at Mae.
"Master!"- Abys
"Are you lying here all the time? Are you cold? Come into the room quickly" - Mae
"No, I'm fine. I want to go out, but I won't go without you"- Abys
"You want to go out? Hmm, then let's go out" - Mae
"Okay? But you're recovering" - Abys
"My current condition can be said to be okay, I just can't use magic for the time being" - Mae
Hearing that, Abys became sad because he remembered the time when he was still in the egg, his master continuously gave him magic power so that he could hatch smoothly.
But in exchange, his master's body was damaged to the point where she was temporarily unable to use magic.
Abys spent so many years in the egg that he didn't know how long, because he was a very special case that was difficult to hatch normally. Many of his kind almost died because he drained their lives to death.
When he fell into the hands of someone and was given to someone else, he finally came into contact with another creature that was not his own kind. Not only that, he was also given a lot of magic power to be able to see the outside world, the luckiest thing was to be given a love that he had never felt in his life.
Because Abys's small body was not big enough, he could only wrap his body around Mae's neck.
The two sat on the roof of the inn, while everyone else went to sleep. Mae and Abys looked up at the sky with many stars and moons shining in the night.
"The night sky is so beautiful. Look at those white clouds, they look like cotton candy, if you could swim in them..." - Mae
"Then one day I will carry you on my back, to fly in the sky, swim through the clouds and reach the stars" - Abys
"That's so sweet. Then I'll wait until that day"- Mae
"Just wait, I will become a huge dragon, so big that it covers the sun and moon!" - Abys
The baby dragon let out a roar while spitting out a small flame, making Mae giggle. Suddenly Mae coughed hard, startling Abys. She shook her head to reassure the baby dragon that it was just a minor complication during the recovery process.
While looking at the night sky until she fell asleep, Mae held the baby dragon in her arms and returned to her bedroom. Luckily, Grayce made her a bed for Abys, gently placed him in it, and then she got into bed to go to sleep.
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Outside, a group of people floating in the sky were looking at the village, or more accurately, looking towards the inn where the ancient dragon resided.
"Is the information accurate?"
"It can't be wrong, it's there"
"I can't believe that a poor guy would be lucky enough to have it."
"We should take action. We can't delay."
*Splash*
"Do you know it's illegal to sneak into a woman's room at night?"
A very clear cutting sound rang out. Before the rest could understand what had happened, their heads were all severed. The corpse fell from the air into the lake, an underwater creature opened its large mouth to swallow the corpse and then dived away.
There was a guy still alive, he was about to confront him, but then he realized that the other guy was not a normal person.
"You... you are...!"
"Tsk tsk, you're not allowed to take things that don't belong to you. Looks like things are getting more complicated. Is that right, Baity?"
A bat landed on the shoulder of a girl hiding in the forest, she turned her eyes towards the inn.
"What should we do next, Lady Invi?" - Baity
"It can't be helped, many people want it. So we should settle this matter quietly. My brother is busy on the front lines so he won't be able to return soon." - Invi
"It seems like you have to go far soon, right?" - Baity
"There's no other way, just hope the useless royals and the people from the church don't go too far. If they go beyond the limit..."- Invi
Seeing that the other guy in the group was about to run away, Invi held out her hand when inside her sleeve a monster opened its giant mouth, intending to devour the other person's life.
"Who knows what will happen" - Invi
Having finished speaking, the girl and the bat jumped into the lake and disappeared.