"So...... Do you know each other?"

Borena asked hesitantly.

"Of course!" Naria replied simply, "He's my brother!"

The muscles on Borena's face twitched uncontrollably, the expression so complex and wonderful that there were no words to describe it.

"Thank you...... Bring him back. Alan politely thanked Borena politely, "He's been away from home for a long time......

"Don't be so polite. Borena smiled and replied, "There's nothing more pleasant than seeing a family reunited." ”

The two men looked at each other suspiciously, guessing how much the other knew, but they both had smiles on their faces.

In the end, Borena handed the key he had just gotten to Allen: "It's a room for two people, just for your father and son." ”

He decided to get out of this strange situation as soon as possible and stop making trouble for himself.

Eren thanked him again, and Naria only cared about breaking Is's face to examine the wound, and the ice dragon - the young man looked resigned to fate, and had no intention of resisting.

After leaving the sight of the strange family, Borena shook his head involuntarily, and Ethan, who was walking out of his room, was finally aroused by his curiosity and asked, "Who is that kid?"

"A dragon. "And, his human father and sister have just been reunited with him. The dragon cried. ”

“...... I know you like to make up all that nonsense, but can you please stop messing with me with this!"

Ethan glared at him. walked away with a straight face.

Borena sighed sadly, knowing that no one would believe him.

He does love to make up stories...... But the reality is ten million times more wonderful than what he made up!.

"What the hell is going on!Who beat you like this!" Naria carefully wiped the blood from Is's face, heartache. “...... Did Baie and the mercenaries find you?"

That's all she can think of.

"Nope. Isis replied listlessly, unable to think of what he would have answered if Naria had asked, but fortunately, Naria was more worried about something else now.

"Ed!" she called out to the guy who was circling around them but couldn't help much, "don't you know how to heal!

"Will you heal?"

Iss and Alan asked in unison.

Ed smiled and rubbed his hands embarrassedly: "I don't know if it's okay...... Sometimes this thing doesn't work......"

Isis reacted: "That...... Crystal ball, do you know how to use it?"

"I don't know if it counts. Ed looked confused. Reach your hands to Ise's face.

Isis quickly dodged, almost twisting his neck.

"Don't!" he said exasperatedly. "I don't want to accept any help from God!"

It was only as he said that he remembered that Keller Brian had also healed his injuries...... He decided to forget about that.

Not only did he not want to accept the power from Ni'o, he didn't even want to accept Ed's help. There is an indescribable depression in my heart, and the reason is ...... He didn't want to think about it at all.

Ed was a little embarrassed, and said softly, "What about a friend's help?"

The smile on his lips looked a little hurtful. So that Iss couldn't refuse.

He watched in silence as Ed's lips opened and closed silently—he didn't even pronounce the incantation. A cool, watery sensation soaked his face, taking away all the pain.

"You're finally getting some use!" said Narya, complimenting with satisfaction as she watched Is's face regain its smooth, fair face.

Ed grinned, and actually blushed.

"But I guess you can't fix his hair. Naria sighed as she tugged at the tip of Is's hair.

“...... What's wrong with my hair?" asked Is, blankly.

"What's the problem?" Narya glared at him, "Why did the person you fought with cut your hair?!"

She had been the one who had taken care of Is's hair, and she had never made it so messy and jagged! it made her as angry as the wound on Is's face.

"It was Scott who cut the ......," replied Iss. Scott felt that he was being mistaken for a girl because his hair was too long, so he simply cut him short with his sword, and he didn't think there was anything wrong.

"I can gnaw neater with my teeth!" Naria exclaimed in displeasure, "He just let you go out like this! I need to find a pair of scissors to fix it for you!"

She ran out of the room like a wind. The rest of the men looked at each other with a little helplessness on their faces.

"You've been with Scott lately?" asked Allen, seemingly casually, "He's in Balach too?"

Is's face darkened: "The half-elf is gone again." Scott...... He's in town. ”

Alan frowned: "He just let you run around alone?"

- It sounds like he needs a rope to lead him to get out.

Iss felt a faint anger in his heart. He hung his head silently.

"Is...... What the hell is going on?Naria has told me who Scott is...... It's not very safe for him here, and it's not safe for you. Allen's voice looked a little tired. "I have some friends here who might be able to help, but I need to know what's going on. ”

“...... It's nothing, we just had a fight. Iss replied reluctantly.

"You're going to have a fight, too. Ed crouched in a chair to the side, sighing stupidly.

Iss glared at him angrily.

"The wound on your face...... Did Scott do it?" asked Allen, hesitantly.

"How could it be!" Eth didn't know how Eren could have such a strange thought. Although he and Scott have had a fight......

"Of course, of course ......," Alan muttered.

Iss looked at him quizzically. He felt that Alan's reaction didn't seem quite right. He was a friend of Scott's, and after spending nearly a decade looking for Scott after his disappearance, he now heard from Scott, but instead of being happy, he seemed suspicious.

"Where do you live?" asked Allen.

Iss lowered his eyes and did not answer. He even kindly regretted telling Alan that Scott was in town......

Alan seemed to see through him at a glance, and said with a wry smile: "He is my friend, Is, we were friends before you were born, do you think I will hurt him?"

He even self-deprecatingly raised his crutches: "Besides, I don't have that ability now." If you're not at ease, why don't you come with me......? There are things that must be asked of him. ”

Iss was a little embarrassed. He's been too suspicious lately...... Alan really has no reason to hurt Scott, and if Scott goes crazy again, Alan may be the only one here who can stop him.

Alan managed to get Naria to agree to wait at the hotel with Ed on the grounds that she "can't be too conspicuous", while he and Ise went to Scott together.

When walking side by side, Is's gaze always involuntarily drifted to Allen's snow-white hair. Alan was indeed much older than Scott, but he was not yet sixty years old, and he shouldn't have been so full of gray hair......

As if sensing Is's gaze, Alan touched his hair and smiled at Iss: "It's much better than the half-white and half-gray ones, isn't it?"

Isis could only barely tug at the corners of his mouth, not knowing what else to say.

He didn't think of Allen very often. Because he didn't want to blame the missing Scott, he put almost all the resentment and all the blame on Allen's head...... Now that I think about it, that was really unfair. Alan treated him no worse than Scott.

But Scott was the one who brought him life after all—if what Keller Brian told him was true. In fact, he couldn't think of any other reason.

Even his mother wanted to abandon him, and he had no chance of survival...... Even if it wasn't of his own volition, Scott kept him alive, the first person he saw in the world.

He's never the same.

When the shabby inn at the end of the alley came into view, Iss involuntarily quickened his pace, leaving Eren behind. He rushed into the hotel, ignoring the waitress who had greeted him, ran briskly up the stairs, and pushed the door open.

- The room was empty.

Empty and clean. The beds were apparently made up...... He looked around the room in a panic, looking for their meagre luggage—

Nothing.

The heart seems to fall straight into the abyss. Isis stood there dumbfounded, refusing to understand what that meant.

"Hey!"

Someone behind him slapped him hard.

He looked back blankly, and the plump waitress was glaring at him angrily: "Why don't you listen to people? Your brother is much more polite than you! Why didn't you learn!"

She shoved a bunch of things into his arms: "Your brother is gone, he asked me to give this to you - I didn't take anything!"

Iss gave her a blank look, then at the contents of his arms.

The waitress rolled her eyes and walked down the stairs in a whisper.

Isis sat down the stairs slowly with the pile of luggage in his arms.

He couldn't move, he didn't have any strength, he felt cold and hot, his brain seemed to freeze, he couldn't think of anything, he didn't want to think of anything. The whole world was far away from him, in the boundless darkness, and he was alone.

Scott is gone.

He said, "Let's go our separate ways," and then he did......

Grief and anger choked in his chest. He trembled uncontrollably until a hand gently rested on his shoulder.

"Is?" Alan half-crouched down and looked at him worriedly, "What's going on?"

It didn't take long for Iss to regain his voice—it was subtle and fragile, and it couldn't have been the voice of a dragon...... But he's not a dragon now, he's just ...... An abandoned child.

Abandoned again.

"He's gone. He stared blankly at Alan and repeated in a low voice.

"He's gone......".

(To be continued)