Chapter 74: So You Too Practice—

Little Light’s proficiency with Nine Hell’s Gates was indeed very high.
With just a few simple sentences, she helped Leon understand some problems he had encountered during his own practice.
After teaching her father some techniques, the father-daughter pair had a practical sparring session.
As expected, the injured General Leon was easily defeated by his young daughter.
With this, the world’s second dragon to defeat Leon Cas(II)mode appeared.
What?
Who was the first one?
The first was Rosvitha.
This story tells us that the invincible family man can only be defeated by his family!
After sparring, Leon lay spread-eagled on the soft grass. Even this simple practice session put a great strain on his current weak and tired body.
Little Light walked to her father’s side with her hands in her white coat pockets,
“Mom said that if you can defeat you, you can walk sideways across this continent. Rounding it up, I, Aurora, am now invincible in the world too.”
Leon let out a snort of laughter and sat up.
Aurora bent down and sat beside her father.
Her sitting posture was the same as Rosvitha’s:
Slightly bent knees, arms wrapped around her legs, chin resting gently on her knees.
Looking just like an obedient cat.
After sitting down, Aurora took out the photograph she had shown Leon earlier from her white coat pocket.
In it, Claudia was teaching Noia illusion magic.
Leon’s gaze fell on the photo and asked, “When did Claudia leave?”
“About… five years ago.”
Aurora said, “When she left, it seemed… not pleasant.”
“Not pleasant? What do you mean?”
“That day she was teaching us new magic. According to the teaching schedule at that time, she should have stayed with us for at least another half month.”
Aurora lowered her eyes to the photograph, slowly recounting the memories of the past, “But during the lesson, she seemed to suddenly see someone and hurriedly walked over to that person. They hid behind some bushes, it seemed like they were arguing.”
“About ten minutes later, Claudia came back and said that her destiny as our teacher ended there. She said we already had the power to protect ourselves, and from then on, we were forbidden to tell anyone that Claudia Poseidon had been here.”
“After giving these instructions, she left.”
Leon’s thoughts stirred, “Saw someone… and had an argument?”
Aurora nodded, “Yes.”
“Did you see who it was?”
“No, I could only tell from the voice that it was also a woman, and not young, about the same age as Claudia.”
Leon scratched his cheek, completely clueless about this.
He didn’t understand anything about Claudia who had helped them without reason, and now there was another woman who argued with her, making Leon even more confused.
When Rosvitha first mentioned the Sea Dragon clan to him, her words indicated that the Silver Dragon clan had no diplomatic relations with the Sea Dragon clan.
But this Claudia not only helped them in their most desperate moment, according to Little Light, she even served as their teacher for a long time.
Why did she come? And what were her intentions?
Was her hasty departure due to some unspeakable difficulty? Or were there other problems?
Tch.
He couldn’t figure it out.
Really couldn’t figure it out.
Leon sighed, not wanting to dwell on these puzzling questions anymore.
“Dad.”
“Hmm?”
“I have a bold theory.”
Leon raised an eyebrow, “Oh? Let’s hear it.”
“Could it be that Claudia was attracted to dad’s handsome and dashing looks, secretly loving you for many years, and that’s why when she learned of your misfortune, she actively helped our family through difficult times?”
“After accomplishing her mission, she left quietly, hiding her merit and fame.”
“Ah! Such touching innocent love! When mom wakes up, I must tell her about this—Ouch! That hurts!”
Leon gave a sharp knock on the pink-haired troublemaker’s head.
“Regarding your bold theory, I have an immature suggestion. I suggest you check your old man’s record properly. I never even reached Sea Dragon territory back then, okay? Never even met this Claudia person, so where’s this secret love coming from?” Leon said.
Little Light rubbed her aching head, “So you’re completely denying everything I just said?”
Leon spread his hands, “What else?”
“Including the ‘handsome and dashing’ part?”
“That part we can keep.”
Leon took a breath and continued, “You also said Claudia wasn’t young. To be honest, even when your mom married me, it already seemed like an older cow eating young grass from a human perspective. Now you’re trying to set your old man up with someone even older?”
Rosvitha was over two hundred years old, while General Leon was in his twenties.
Putting it nicely, the queen was an older cow eating young grass;
Putting it bluntly, whoa, queen, you also prac—?!
Aurora said, “But I’m mixed-blood after all, and I spend every day in the basement researching ancient texts and documents, so nearsightedness is inevitable~”
When she said “I’m mixed-blood,” her tone and demeanor were very relaxed.
She seemed completely unbothered by her bloodline and racial identity.
Leon pressed his lips together, hesitated briefly, and still tentatively asked, “Little Light, when you first learned that you had half human blood in your body, how… did you feel?”
Aurora blinked, immediately catching the deeper meaning in her father’s words.
She curled her lips into a slight smile, “Dad, you want to ask if I can accept being mixed-blood, right?”
“…Mm.”
“Of course I can, why wouldn’t I?”
Aurora turned to look at Leon, her pink pupils showing rare seriousness and solemnity,
“I actually want to ask you in return, why would you think ‘my daughter might not be able to accept her identity’?”
Leon was taken aback, he hadn’t expected Aurora to ask him this, “Ah, well…”
“Well, I can’t blame you. After all, when Mom first told us about this, she had the same concerns as you.”
“She begged us not to hate you, and not to despise ourselves.”
“Mom told us so many things, wouldn’t even let us get a word in. She was really worried we would despise our origins because of our human blood.”
“In the end, it was Big Sis who put Mom’s mind at ease.”
“Big Sis said that perhaps in Dad’s impression, the first lesson he gave her was tutoring for Saint Hiss Academy’s entrance exam.”
“But in her view, the first lesson that gentle and learned man taught her was how to accept herself.”
“When you woke up from your two-year coma, you weren’t at all prepared to be a father.”
“But you still readily accepted your new identity, and accepted Big Sis and Second Sis.”
“For this, you worked hard to love them as a father.”
“At that time, you clearly knew your daughters were human-dragon mixed-bloods, not pure humans.”
“But you still loved her and Second Sis without hesitation.”
“Because they were first and foremost your daughters by birth, and only secondarily so-called ‘human-dragon mixed-bloods.'”
“Back then, I didn’t really understand what Big Sis was saying.”
“But now, I think I understand a little bit.”
Aurora spoke as she slowly stood up, standing on the sloping grassland, looking toward the horizon where emerald green and azure blue formed a clear boundary line in her pupils,
“Accepting oneself is a very difficult thing.”
“But Leon Casmode did it with such ease.”
“So, as his daughters, what can’t we do?”
“Moreover…”
Aurora lowered her head to look at her father, the solemnity gradually fading from her face, replaced by a mischievous smile,
“You, humanity’s strongest dragon slayer, yet you’re madly in love with my mom the Silver Dragon Queen, and here you are talking about race and whatnot.”