Chapter 49

— I said it wasn’t me, that I had nothing to do with disasters, but nobody believed me. Will you believe me?

Her voice was shaking.

She had the look of an abandoned child wanting to find a loving person.

Kang Yu knew that look very well.

‘It’s the same as me.’ His parents had left him early on in his childhood.

He’d spent his entire childhood in an orphanage. He never even considered meeting his parents and being in their arms again.

But he wanted to be loved by someone. He wanted to be taken care of and valued. He wanted his existence to feel needed.

Echidna heavily reminded him of himself as a child.

‘We’re in reality, not a TV show.’ Kang Yu felt his chest tighten with pain and smiled bitterly.

The words he’d just said to Ronald sharply returned to Kang Yu like a boomerang.

Sad memories surfaced in his mind.

‘I have to answer her.’

Echidna was a creature whom he had tamed, so she was destined to spend her life with him.

But he wasn’t going to give the following answer just because of that.

— I believe you. Even if the whole world condemns you, at least I’ll be on your side.

Now Kang Yu was fully responsible for her.

And he wasn’t going to hide from this responsibility.

He was not going to throw his ‘pet’ out on the street and only use her for his benefit.

— You… — Echidna looked at Kang Yu in awe.

She lightly licked at her wound with Kang Yu’s blood dribbled over it. There was a cure in his blood that could help Echidna.

Beads of sweat ran down his forehead.

‘I think I’m a little overwhelmed today.’

A summon, a battle, and a cure.

No matter how strong he was, even with the 5th rank, today’s events were very tiring for Kang Yu.

‘I want to go back and get some rest.’ For the first time, Kang Yu was eager to get rest.

‘But…’ The guy looked at the large, 20 meters tall Echidna. ‘How do I get her out of here?’

Bringing Echidna out of here like this would cause chaos in the world.

In the worst case, Hwaran Squad will get involved and kill her.

‘Even if I explain everything, I still don’t think they’d let it pass.’

To present her as a ‘pet’ and get her out of the gate without any problems, she’d have to be at least as small as a human in height.

‘I’ve heard about some Players who tamed monsters.’

But even then, Echidna was too big.

She couldn’t exactly roam around unnoticed by the Hwaran people.

— Echidna, would you happen to know how to resize yourself?

— Resize?

— Yes, to the smallest possible size.

Kang Yu wondered if she, like many other dragons, could transform.

He looked at Echidna with anticipation.

— I know how to do that.

‘Excellent!’ When Kang Yu heard her answer, he nodded approvingly with a big smile.

— Change to the smallest size possible.

— Okay. — Echidna, with her wounds partially healed, nodded and started to whisper something in an incomprehensible language.

Glowing brightly, her size began to shrink more and more.

Kang Yu’s eyes shone as he watched her transform to about 30 centimeters.

‘Oh, what a cutie.’

A giant dragon in a small form gave off a very different impression.

Now she looked even more like a pet.

‘I wonder if she can turn into a human?’ While Kang Yu thought about it, he wrapped both arms around her small body to carry her.

— It’s okay, I can fly on my own.

— Don’t rush, your wounds haven’t completely healed yet. — Kang Yu hugged Echidna closer to him and headed for the exit.

Echidna raised her head and stared up at him. She murmured softly:

— You…

— Mm-hmm?

— Tell me your name.

— Oh, right, I completely forgot to introduce myself.

With the intense events that took place one after the other, he never got around to introducing himself.

— Oh Kang Yu. My name is Oh Kang Yu.

— Oh, Kang Yu… — Echidna, snuggled comfortably in his arms, whispered his name several times. — I’ll remember that. —

— Hm?

— Your name. I will remember it, — Echidna said confidently.

Kang Yu smiled a little and nodded his head.

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