Chapter 68: Watch Carefully, Dad’s Magical Girl (Not!)

“Six months left? What… what does that mean? What’s going to happen in six months?” Leon asked somewhat frantically.
He had a vague sense of foreboding.
This bad feeling wasn’t just because of Aurora’s mention of ‘six months left,’ but also because since he had woken up, he hadn’t seen Rosvitha or Noia and Muen.
Especially concerning was the dilapidated Silver Dragon Temple behind them, which looked like it had been through a fierce battle.
“From now, in six months, I need to complete my research—or rather, I must complete it,” Aurora said. “But from the moment you disappeared, six months later… everything will change.”
Leon sat up straight, growing tense, and pressed further, “Does this have something to do with your mother and sisters? Where are they now? How are they—”
Are they still alive.
He couldn’t bring himself to ask this last question.
Compared to why he had been wandering outside of time for twenty years, he was more concerned about his wife and daughters.
Twenty years was enough time for anything unexpected to happen or change.
Aurora smiled slightly, “They’re all still alive.”
These simple four words immediately made Leon let out a long breath of relief.
His tense body finally relaxed.
“Then where are they now?” Leon quickly asked next.
“About that… it would be hard to understand just by explaining. So—”
Aurora stood up and walked to an empty space nearby.
Leon stared at her blankly, not knowing what she was about to do.
And in the next moment, Aurora’s actions directly stunned her old father.
She tilted her head back slightly, and instantly a pair of dragon wings spread from her back.
The wings folded, wrapping around Aurora’s body.
A moment later, when Aurora spread her wings, a massive silver dragon suddenly appeared before Leon.
The old father was completely dumbfounded, not even noticing when the grilled skewer fell from his hand.
He gazed at the silver dragon before him, and although Aurora’s dragon form was much smaller than Rosvitha’s, it still left Leon speechless with shock.
It was like leaving your daughter in your hometown while you go out to work;
Two years later you return, expecting to play games with your cute daughter like before, playing hide-and-seek, passing handkerchiefs and such, father and daughter having fun together, how wonderful and joyful.
But then your daughter pulls out an AK47 from behind her back and says: “Dad, let’s go plant the bomb at point A!”
emmmm—
Completely insane!
Thump—thump—
The dragon walked with elegant steps to her dumbfounded father and gently nudged him with her head.
“Why haven’t you transformed into a dragon yet?”
General Leon came to his senses, “Huh? Me?”
“Yes, hurry and transform, then we’ll go find Big Sister.”
Is this something you can just do on command?
What, taking your dad for a magical girl or something?
Leon scratched his temple awkwardly, thinking that Rosvitha really kept her word, not revealing his identity as promised, keeping it from their daughter for twenty years.
Since that was the case, he couldn’t slip up either; he had to keep the secret.
“Well, Dad just came out of the spatial rift… my body isn’t well, I can’t transform yet.”
“Oh~ So it’s because your body isn’t well~” Aurora deliberately dragged out her tone, as if implying something. “Alright, alright, then I’ll just have to carry you.”
“Mm, seems that’s our only option.”
In ancient times, crows returned their parents’ kindness; today, Little Light carries her father—the epitome of filial piety.
Aurora lowered herself, letting Leon climb onto her back.
“Are you seated firmly?”
“Mm.”
“Then—let’s go.”
The dragon’s wings beat, extinguishing the nearby campfire, and the silver figure shot straight into the sky, followed by a sonic boom as she vanished into the night.
“You just said we’re going to find Noia? Isn’t she with Mom and Muen?”
“No, she’s in a very distant place… waiting for you.”
“Waiting… for me?”
“Mm.”
Leon opened his mouth, wanting to ask more.
But seeing his daughter’s rather terse conversational style, he figured she probably didn’t want to say too much right now.
Leon read the atmosphere and didn’t press further.
He sat cross-legged on Aurora’s back, the feeling exactly like when he used to ride on Rosvitha.
The Silver Dragon clan’s unique super-high speed, the whistling airflow by his ears, everything felt so familiar.
To be honest, Leon hadn’t actually expected to survive after entering the spatial rift.
Although now that he was alive, a pile of questions lay before him that left him bewildered.
But that was still better than being separated from his family by death, wasn’t it?
Only—
Leon sighed heavily, leaning forward to look at the land below.
It just seemed like he… didn’t belong in this world twenty years later.
Was it the disparity between things past and present that made him feel this way?
Or something else…
Leon couldn’t quite figure it out.
Right now, he just wanted to see his wife and daughters as soon as possible.
“Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve ever seen what your dragon form looks like,” Aurora’s voice interrupted Leon’s thoughts.
He came back to his senses, clearing his throat twice, “Ah, well… when, when Dad’s body recovers, I’ll transform for you to see.”
“Alright. But… your body doesn’t seem to have ever been very well.”
Aurora said, “I remember when you got sick with a cold when I was little, I made you a Dragon Vigor potion, and after you took it, you were bouncing around the next day. So, would you like me to brew another one for you? Then you could recover quickly.”
“No no no, taking too much of that stuff would have the opposite effect, it’s not suitable for frequent use.”
Mainly because it was hard on the kidneys.
“Is that so? Well, alright then.”
Leon probably hadn’t realized that he had just made up random effects of Dragon Vigor potion in front of a dragon clan scholar who had spent twenty years studying all kinds of magic books.
The reason for this was that in his subconscious, he still saw the giant dragon beneath him as that little Light who used to follow behind him asking endless questions.
And Aurora actually played along without exposing his lie.
Whether this was because the youngest daughter was being considerate of her old dad’s face, or because of something else—
Hard to say, hard to say.
…
After several hours of flying, the father and daughter arrived at the border between dragon and human territories.
Leon recognized this place.
And he also guessed where Noia was waiting for him.
A cave behind a waterfall in the mountains.
However, before Leon could get excited about seeing his eldest daughter soon, he suddenly realized something else:
If Noia was really here, wouldn’t that mean they already knew their old man was human?
After all, only he, Rosvitha, his master, and Rebecca knew about that mountain cave.
Earlier, he had only asked Little Light about Rosvitha and the others, not mentioning his master and Rebecca at all, afraid of raising Little Light’s suspicions.
But then again, if Little Light and the others really knew Leon’s identity, why did she ask him to transform into dragon form earlier?
After much consideration, Leon decided to stay quiet for now.
As he had thought before, anything unexpected could happen in twenty years.
Before understanding the complete situation, silence was the best choice.