Beast Taming? Nah, Dragon Herding is Way Better! - Chapter 39

Chapter 39: Dependence
Descending down the fields, Diluc immediately got attacked by the young hatchling the moment she saw him, causing him to turn around and pretend to escape her by running away, the two draconic beauties watching them couldn’t help but feel satisfaction in their hearts as they watch the young man play around with this new addition to their growing family.

This moment lasts for a while, with the Ruler of the Draconic Realm tiring the young fire dragon out until he eventually brought her to what is going to be her home from now on, the extreme heat that seems to be something that comes straight out of the fiery pits of hell being something that hardly effects anyone of them, with the fire dragon among them even starting to enjoy the ambience of this place.

“Do you like your new room?” treating the entire Draconic Realm as their home, Diluc then asked the young Seraphina causing the young dragoness currently on her draconic form to roar loudly to express her agreement to his questions, before jumping from his arms and plunging towards the boiling magma that seems to just flow out of the center of the island, taking a few minutes underneath all these hot rocks before her head surfaces once again.

“Seems like she really likes it~~~” seeing how the young one acts, the neon green-haired mature beauty points out before she giggles in amusement, causing the young man along with the platinum-haired taciturn beauty to agree with her words, the young man even planning to let this young one has her time alone as she seems to enjoy it, but not before he did something that he just remembers because of being so entertained playing around with these three dragonesses.

“Seraphina, eat this” taking out that purple colored Magic Fruit that he just harvests before the young fire dragon hatched out of her shell, Diluc successfully pulled her attention to him, or more precisely, to the fruit that emits an enchanting smell to the young hatching, effortlessly pulling her from enjoying herself on all that pit of warm comfortable magma.

Seeing the fruit descending from where what she recognizes as her liege and the one who receives her blessings, the fire dragon immediately jumps out from the magma pool as she flaps her wings, effortlessly managing to fly on her first try as if this is something already ingrained in her bones, all while easily maneuvering herself as she catches the purple Magic Fruit, the taste of it making her feel such delight all while the energy and mana she gained from it making her full enough for her to go with improving herself and keeping herself full for an entire day.

After this, she doesn’t immediately opt to go back to the comfortable magma pool but rather continues to fly towards the one that gave her the food she just ate, roaring joyfully as she eventually reaches in front of Diluc, not even slowing down for a bit causing her to directly ram into the young man that will definitely be thrown out of where he is currently standing on had it not been for his cultivation being significantly higher than hers.

After being caught by her liege, Seraphina then roars once again to express her gratitude before starting to caress his face with hers, rubbing her scaly, draconic yet still small head on his cheeks causing him to feel the immense temperature and hardness of her blood ruby-colored scales.

While it is a unique experience to him, this doesn’t mean that it hurt him, not even in the slightest as he feels like he can control the fire elemental mana in the surroundings even better than her, allowing him to manipulate the heat being in contact with him and warding off its negative effects.

“Don’t be too grateful little one, from now on, this will be your daily meal” he replies as she finally let loose of her massive physique on him, and hearing his words, the young fire dragon thought that she just couldn’t get any happier in residing inside this realm than this, unaware of the improvements that will eventually happen on the Draconic Realm, changes that will make her feel like this thought of hers is of some country bumpkin in the future.

After his words, she then dived towards the magma pool once again, swimming around it and seemingly exploring the depth of this land as well, and that with relative ease as even with the increased pressure and heat the lower within the deep magma pool she goes, her body can still easily handle everything and even her scales doesn’t even get affected by being subjected upon all those things enough to kill a human of the same level as her cultivation thousand times over.

Meanwhile, looking at the young Seraphina that seems to become way more busy with herself now, the Ruler of the Draconic Realm then looks towards the platinum-haired taciturn beauty on his left and the neon green-haired mature beauty on his right, making him wonder just what he did different when nourishing them when compared to nourishing Seraphina given how dependent these two are to him when they just came out of the world, and this young fire dragon appearing to be already mature enough to handle herself in any situation.

“That’s a fire dragon’s nature, husband, they are bold and really independent ones~~” seeing the gaze in her liege, her beloved eyes, the mature beauty explains based on her inherited memories, her words being backed by the taciturn beauty as she nods to it as well, making the young man think that this is truly the case since two dragonesses are already claiming this fact about dragons themselves.

“Though that might be the case, young Seraphina here seems to be quite dependent to you, my liege~~~” the neon green-haired Yggdrasil then added with such confidence in her eyes towards her claims, making her liege, Diluc, wonder whether that is truly the case given how easy going and carefree Seraphina appears to be.

[Fire dragons are well known for their unbending will and immense pride, they are that one specific part of the dragon race that would rather have themselves killed than to follow the order of a leader that they don’t respect, no matter the content of the order.]

Reading the words on the floating gray screen as well, the taciturn beauty speaks this time, her calming, seemingly lazy and timid voice echoing in the air as she gently speaks to her lover, who is also the liege she serves.

“T-the words written on the screen is right, liege, s-so tell me, isn’t junior sister Seraphina really close to you?” after starting her words, Argenta couldn’t help but smile as she reaches the words ‘junior sister’, taking great pride in the fact that she finally is a senior sister as well now, a pride that clearly shows with the glow in her eyes and the great wide smile after her words as she looks at the young fire dragon now swimming on the magma pool again now.

“She’s really close to me then” now knowing the deal about fire dragons, Diluc then concluded that despite the show of independence that Seraphina seems to be showing, she is still a fire dragon who has majority of her dependencies on him, this event just making him want to understand the entirety of the draconic culture and possibly even their history more and more.

This is something that will be saved for a later time though as he still needs to deal with these two draconic beauties currently in their extremely attractive human form, still wearing the very same clothes he gave them when they first acquired and assumed their human form despite him already buying them numerous other clothes that fits ladies like them even better, always refusing his offer for them to change into clean clothes claiming that these clothes of his handed to them is their most treasured possession no matter how many and how good the treasures they will find in the future are.

Even going as far as pointing to them the fact that they need to change clothes to clean this one failed as well as Diluc never expected them, majestic dragons, a regal and royal creature no matter what sort of form they assume, to be creatures who are well aware of the human’s art of washing clothes, the two of them bonding on doing this every near noon before they eat, with both of them taking all of their clothes off and washing said clothes butt naked on the rivers flowing through Yggdrasil’s floating habitat island.

This makes Diluc all the more helpless on making these two beauties change into more appropriate clothes, but he already has some plan to convince them to do what he wants, he just needs to wait until they arrive at the capital before enacting this plan of his for some reason known only to him.