When Lutega awoke, dizzy from the harsh sun, he found himself on the sand covered with soft white sand, and his mind was dizzy. Then again, this is the second time in a short period of time that I have experienced such a sense of confusion from coma to lucidity.

The beach was filled with the sound of rushing water, and a distinctive fishy smell in the air penetrated his nostrils. Lutga hurriedly slapped the fine sand off his hand, rubbed his eyes vigorously, and looked around warily.

I saw that I was surrounded by water all around, and I was actually in the ocean. The view is as far as the eye can see at sea level on one side and the snow-white cliffs on the other. And the place where I am is is some distance from the cliff, in the middle of the ocean, floating alone.

He struggled to recall the last memory he had before he fell unconscious, yes...... In the entertainment city of [Etania], in order to rescue a girl who was sold as a slave, he infiltrated a neighborhood called [Paradise], and then, many complicated things happened.

And in the end, Lutga was knocked unconscious by the girl who was supposed to rescue him. After that, his consciousness has never been fully awake, and he can only vaguely remember that he soared in the starry night sky in a half-dream, half-awake, and then ...... And then......

What happened in the meantime, why did he lie on the beach not far from the coast, and where was it...... Although Lutga's mind was full of questions, there was no time for him to think about it now, and he had to get out of here at once. Because, the water level is gradually rising, I am afraid that it will not last for a few minutes, and the place will be flooded by the salty water.

From afar, the only way out now is to swim in the direction of the cliff and try to reach the shore.

But just before he was about to jump into the sea, he suddenly found the figure of a girl not far from the beach.

Crystal blue hair, stunning appearance, and an otherworldly interracial girl-Raqi, half of her body was buried in the sand pit at this time, motionless. Like Rutega, she lost consciousness.

Judging from the lying position and state, I am afraid that I have suffered some violent impact, but despite this, I can't find the slightest external injury on my body. Of course, Lutga remembered the counterintuitive speeding recovery he had seen not long ago.

――What should I do...... Leave her behind?

Lutega thought to herself, because this girl's thinking logic is different from ordinary people, and she also has a powerful power that cannot be compared with human beings, to put it bluntly, she is a dangerous person. Rutga had no way of predicting what Raghi would do when she woke up.

She's too dangerous...... Maybe leaving her alone is a smart choice. The scene of those high-ranking officials and nobles being pierced by ice picks is still vivid. After that, she didn't agree with each other, and easily beat the strongest Stein and Lukka in the empire, so that Lutga couldn't tell whether she was friend or foe.

However, after pondering for a while, Lutga could only sigh helplessly and began to drag the girl out of the bunker. In any case, there was no way for him to leave this girl behind. Part of the reason may be because of her nostalgic appearance. And a larger part of the reason, as the maid in the family said, is that he is really a hopelessly rotten good person.

"Wake up, hey, wake up—"

Gently patting the girl's white and tender cheeks, she quickly regained consciousness. Raki's eyelids twitched slightly, and then slowly opened, revealing beautiful golden pupils, quietly staring at the young man's face.

To be honest, Raki didn't go berserk as soon as she woke up, which couldn't help but make Lutega secretly relieved.

"How's it going, can you stand up?"

"It doesn't seem to work...... I can't use my strength. But if you kiss me, you might be able to stand up. ”

"Hah......h I don't know what you mean. ”

Laki maintained an expressionless and cold expression, but bursting words that did not match his expression came out of his mouth unexpectedly, leaving Rutega at a loss.

"Isn't it human custom to wake up the opposite sex with kissing?"

"Who told you. ”

"It's Alice. ”

The unexpected answer, the initiator of this inexplicable knowledge is actually his own daughter. This made it difficult for Lutega to suppress the uneasiness in his heart - where did his cute baby learn about 'kissing', could it be that there was a bad boy who appeared out of nowhere and took Alice's ...... I can't bear it! I must break him to pieces!

"Don't you kiss?"

"No, no, no, at least in our country, there has never been such a custom. ”

"Yes......" was refused, but Ratchi's expression did not change, and she slowly sat up.

"Well, Miss Raghi, you can fly, can you? Can you take me to the cliff over there?"

"No...... Last night, with the ontology's ...... The magic link, severed. As she spoke, Ratchet pulled out a dim hedron that had lost its original brilliance.

Although Lutga didn't quite understand the meaning of the words, he really couldn't feel the heavy sense of oppression and majestic power like before from the girl's body.

At this time, Lutega suddenly realized that due to the waste of some time, the water level of the rising tide had reached his feet.

"Miss Lachi, can you swim?"

"......" Ratchet shook her head wordlessly.

"Huh...... Well, hold on to my shoulders anyway. ”

Ratchet obediently wrapped her arms around the young man's head and neck, placing her weight on the other's back.

The touch coming from behind him made Rutega's cheeks blush, but he quickly shook his head and waved away the distractions.

Now that he had no choice, Lutga jumped into the sea with the girl on his back and swam in the direction of the cliff.

Rutga was once a member of the 'Legendary Blade', and his physique was much better than that of ordinary people, and he could even use a vindictive membrane to wrap his body in order to effectively resist the impact of water waves.

But despite this, swimming in the sea for the first time was far more difficult than expected. The slight undulation of the irregular currents made the progress extremely slow, the mouth and nose were filled with salty and bitter taste, and the body temperature was quickly taken away by the sea, and soon the hands and feet became a little numb. Not only that, but he also has to be careful about his posture at all times so that Laqi behind him does not accidentally drown.

After a hard fight, when he swam to the bottom of the cliff, he encountered a new problem.

The vertical cliffs that could not be seen at the end could not be landed at all, and the rocks were smooth and covered with algae washed by the sea, and it was impossible for Lutega to climb such a slippery rock wall alone, but it was absolutely impossible to carry a young girl on his back.

Also, the closer you get to the cliffs, the more intense the backflow becomes. If you don't get to shore as soon as you still have the strength, I'm afraid you'll be swept farther and farther away in the near future.

"Phew...... Looks like there's no other way......"

Rutga sighed in resignation, muttered to himself, and then—"Holy Ghost blessed!"

At the moment when these words blurted out, the "time" around Lutga was forbidden. The waves no longer surge, the clouds no longer drift, and even gravity no longer plays a role.

In Rutega's eyes, the whole world is frozen. This allowed him to step on the spray and run vertically along the cliffs. It wasn't until he carried the girl on his back and climbed the cliff together that time began to flow again.

"Ha-ah-ha-ha......-ha Whew!!!"

At the top of the cliff, Lutga breathed sharply, and he hurriedly put down Laqi, rolled and crawled to this side, keeping his limbs on the ground, and vomited ugly.

"Is this the 'curse of the time elves'?"

"Hmmm...... Cursed...... Aha, hahaha...... That's a good way to put it...... It's just that we call this power 'the blessing of the Holy Spirit'......"

Lutga barely stood up, wiped the gastric juice from his mouth with his sleeve, and squeezed out a miserable smile with his pale and bloodless face.

"Elves are willful and selfish creatures, they will not make a contract with humans for free, they will definitely ask for a high price, I have seen many humans who have been swallowed by the power of elves and eventually died. Especially the elves of 'time', for humans with short lifespans, you may die soon......"

"Huh...... I know. ”

“......”

The conversation between the two came to an abrupt end.

With neither food nor equipment, there is a strange scene around her, and the monster-like girl has become weak for some reason. Now the condition of the two is undoubtedly killed.

Rutga looked east and west, looking for a gentle slope and trying to get down the cliff. Judging by the sun's point of view, I'm afraid it will soon be dark. He had to find dry wood to light before the sun went down to make a fire. Otherwise, tonight will have to be spent in danger and cold.

Raghi followed without saying a word, and a short time later, the two left the hillside and walked into a jungle at the foot of the mountain.

By the time Lutga had found enough dry wood to raise the fire, it was already night.

The night in the jungle is very dangerous, and you don't know where there will be monsters. So instead of falling asleep, Lutga sat quietly in front of the campfire and kept vigil, while Raqi leaned her body tightly on his side.

Rusta was a little embarrassed by his overly intimate gesture, and he suggested whether he should keep some distance, but Raqi insisted that it would be warmer and would not move away even a step.

Because Lutga's robe hadn't had time to dry yet. At this time, Raki's body was only worn in [Paradise], and the thin fabric that couldn't cover her skin at all.

You know, Lachi's familiar side face is almost the same as the woman she loves in her memory, Flora. And the flawless, reddened skin of the bonfire, and the lines of the body that are clearly visible through the tulle, are recklessly emitting a sexy halo......

It's not good, it's not good, and every second of this scene is testing the willpower of young people. But he really couldn't put his mind to push the girl away.

Because, the night here is indeed very cold, and you can feel Raghi's body shivering. Now she looks like an ordinary weak girl.

"That, Miss Raghi......"

"Hmm...... Just call it Wulaqi. ”

"Okay, then Ratche. ”

“...... Well. ”

"Can you tell us about you?"

In retrospect, he knew very little about this girl, and even in Lutega's eyes, Ratche's body was full of secrets.

"Hmm...... OK. ”

In this way, the girl began to describe herself in a steady tone.

Raki said that she was a race feared by everything in the world, and her original body was not what she is now.

In the eyes of the other races, she is both powerful and dangerous. For a very, very long time, she could only spend her lonely life quietly.

In the distant past, there seemed to be some humans who worshipped her as a god. It's just that human desires are getting more and more out of line, and finally betrays Raghi and kills himself.

After destroying the humans, the enraged Ratchei was also sealed, and it was only recently that she was able to return to the world.

However, even if she returned to this world, time passed and times changed, and her situation did not change in the slightest.

Just like in the past, no creature, even a mad monster, would never approach it on its own initiative. It is as if his existence is rejected by the whole world.

So, Ratch tells Rutega that even if the seal is lifted, she no longer wants to have anything to do with the things of the world, she just wants to stay where she is, waiting for the seal to be resealed, or the moment when her life will end.

Lachi's tone when recounting these is as if he is not talking about his own personal experience, and he is not shocked.

It was hard for Lutega to imagine how many years of loneliness she had experienced, and she couldn't understand how the girl saw the world.

It's just that he can't read any emotional fluctuations from the girl's words, probably because he is "used to loneliness", so Raghi does not have the slightest sadness.

But to the ears of the aristocratic youth, it was precisely the indifferent look that told him that he was "used to it" that was the deepest sadness.

Thankfully, the next topic changed the mood.

- Ratche, meeting Alice.

When mentioning her daughter Alice, Raghi's expression, which had always been cold, quietly melted, becoming soft and warm.

To be honest, the Alice that Raghi is talking about can't overlap with the figure of the daughter in Lutega's memory, and there is a big difference between the two, which even makes Lutega suspect that the "Alice" in the girl's mouth is a strange girl somewhere.

However, children may have very different attitudes in front of their parents and outsiders, and children are often more likely to show their sincerity to outsiders than to their parents - and he seems to have heard others talk about it, such as the deputy captain of the garrison in his own territory.

In Raghi's mouth, Alice is an incredible girl. She is also the only girl who can stand in front of her with a fearless look and praise herself as "beautiful" and "handsome" from the bottom of her heart. In short, it is a cheerful and optimistic image, but also very bold.

In front of herself, Alice is the most knowledgeable and gentle daughter among the three sisters. However, if this is just a mask that Alice puts on to show herself, then Ruttga, as a father, can't help but feel a little lonely.

Laki said that Alice told her many wonderful stories. But when it came to the content of those stories, even Lutga was completely unimpressed, and I don't remember telling a similar story for my daughter. Of course, it's also possible that Alice made it up out of whimsy. If that's the case, then his daughter is definitely a brilliant genius. In the future, he may become one of the most important playwrights in the empire.

Most of the love stories told by Alice are full of fantasy and fantasy love stories between aliens and humans. It is also very in line with the girl's feelings and beautiful longing for the story theme. The only fly in the ointment is that Lutga's personal concept of love is too early for his daughters......

But this was put aside for the first time, and in short, in the course of Raghi's conversation, many of the intractable mysteries that had been haunting Lutega's mind were gradually solved.

It turned out that Raki was deeply moved by the content of that story, and she also hoped to be like the characters in the story, and she could turn into a human form and fall in love...... However, when Lutga heard this, he secretly thought that Rachi's desire was not to be able to fall in love with humans, but to Lachi, she just wanted to be freed from loneliness and to be intimate with other creatures.

For her, the object she wants to be most intimate with is undoubtedly her daughter Alice. But in the end, because of Elize's pranks, there were a series of misunderstandings, which made her mistakenly think that she had to "defeat" Rutega as her father in order to be with Alice.

After that, various coincidences made the situation develop into the current situation.

Of course, there are many parts of it that Rutga can't understand, such as Rachi's mention of the fierce battle she had with Hilda, and she lost in the end. In Rutega's memory, Hilda is just an ordinary maid, and she will never have the ability to fight monsters like Ratzi.

Therefore, the 'fierce competition' in Raghi's mouth probably refers to other aspects of the competition - cooking skills and the like.

"Hmm...... But now I can't defeat Rutega, and it's a pity that I can't become Alice's mother. ”

"Well, you don't have to beat me about this. Human customs aren't as complicated as you might think, and if you want to meet Alice, you're always welcome to visit. ”

"Hmm...... really?"

"Of course. ”

Unconsciously, the two talked for a long time, and the originally soaked coat had been dried, and Lutga draped the hot coat over the pulled up, and said softly, "Sleep first, tomorrow is the real challenge from tomorrow, and save your strength first." ”

"Hmm...... Rutega. ”

"What?"

"Won't you attack me?"

"What do you mean by ......!?"

"From just now, you can smell the male estrus on you. These days, anyone who emits this smell will attack me. ”

"That, no, this! No, you're mistaken!"

Once again, Rathi dropped the bomb coldly, causing the aristocratic youth to blush, not knowing how to justify. As for the physiological phenomenon, it is something that he can't control, but once he sees through it, it will still be very embarrassing.

"Anyway, I won't attack you!"

"Obviously in heat?"

"No problem! Humans are animals that come into heat all year round!"

Lutga tried his best to argue, but the content was already incoherent.

"Hmm...... I see. I understand. ”

With that, Ratchet shrank her body into Rutega's arms again. He closed his eyes with peace of mind and exposed his defenseless figure in front of the young man.

"Ah, yes...... Rakhi, one last question. ”

"Hmm......?"

"What race are you?"

"Hmm...... Didn't you mention it?" the girl in her arms inadvertently put on an innocent look with her beautiful features, which were difficult to see the fluctuation of feelings, and then said in a beautiful voice.

"I am a dragon, Kukratio Gulakias, and the humans call me ...... Abyss Dragon. ”

"Huh-!?"