Chapter 40

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The sound of the mushroom hitting his forehead was so loud that I was flabbergasted. Izek sat on the floor, covering his face with his hands.

Huh?

There was a strange silence for a moment.

“I- I didn’t…”

“Un…”

“A-Are you okay?”

“Damn it…” He muttered with a low roar, terrifying the hell out of me.

Somebody, please tell me I didn’t just get a death flag.

“I-I’m sorry. I didn’t throw it hard on purpose….”

“Grrrrrrr!”

The dragon, who growled loudly while my husband got attacked, moved with a flash as if to eat the arrogant human being in front of him in one bite.

My hand grabbed his blue scales.

“No! Don’t do that!”

“Groooo…” The dragon looked back at me with a discontented look.

Ha, I really want to cry. I don’t know who the hell I’m worried about.

The whole area was slowly becoming noisy. The sound of humans approaching in a crowd… I looked around, biting my lower lip.

The dragon still had meat bits stuck around his mouth like a child. Popo was shaking like a scared bunny. Griffin was struggling to flap its wings while shaking its head…

It shouldn’t be like this.

There must be more Paladin reinforcements than before, and it would be too much for a dragon to hold against.

Popo and Griffin would really die at this rate.

I also didn’t know what kind of monsters they were to the general public or how intimidating they were. There was never an instance where poor wild monsters were left alone. But…

How could I just turn a blind eye to those who understood me and had been so kind to me? How could I just let them be slaughtered, injured, and kicked out of their homes? This was all because of me in the first place.

I had to save everything for now. We’d have to live to see each other again later.

I hesitated and looked at Izek. Izek had already lifted his face and was staring at me with his chest heaving.

Look at those wild eyes. Was he trying to figure out what to do with me?

“I…”

“…..”

“I’m sorry. I-I didn’t know. I really didn’t know it would be like this……”

“Then, how?”

My words weren’t working on him.

But I really didn’t know, you cold-blooded b*stard!

“It’s not what you think….”

How was I supposed to explain this? My head was throbbing and my stomach was urging me to throw up.

What should I tell him? I was invited to the temple, and I almost ran into Lorenzo, so I hid? And then I heard that b*stard talking about sh*t me, so I wandered around in a daze. While I was sick and walking outside the temple alone, I bumped into Popo? That I didn’t plan on running away, I just happened to be like that.

I knew it was no use talking about things like that.

He wouldn’t believe me anyway.

Throughout my life, I’d never had a good outcome lying, but…

“I have nothing to do with Lady Furiana.”

Words popped out of my mouth. Like it was enchanted, my tongue worked on its own accord.

“You won’t believe it anyway…. you might think I’m a witch, but I really don’t do anything….I didn’t do anything.”

The dragon snorted and came close to my face. I rubbed my eyes with my fist and tried to come to my senses. What was I doing? It was not the time to say this.

“I didn’t run away on purpose, hic. No, I fainted because of the pain, and they… hic, all they did was help me. The dragon woke up because of me. I mean, hic, I mean…You don’t have to trust me, I’ll do whatever you say, and I’ll take any punish-hic