"If that's what I need to do to regain your trust, then I should do it. Look closely, Raphael. Behold, my true form."
Everybody would be hesitant to expose their true selves, but Iris did not have a second thought, which ant that her feelings for were probably genuine.
After I told Iris to reveal her real identity, her body grew so bright that it was blinding. I had to look away and cover my eyes, but my radar was in full operation to sense any of her actions. Her body was fully covered in light, which ant that she was undergoing a transformation. From what I have observed so far, the brighter and bigger the light, the bigger the transformation.
Since hers was more than like Czarina's, her transformation would be going to be big, really big.
"You better take your distance, Raphael."
"Right."
Taking her words, I used Warp to teleport myself from her. A hundred ters should probably be a safe distance. From here, the blinding lights kept increasing their luminous intensity until they covered most of my vision.
A big, instantaneous transformation should be releasing a lot of energy, as it was sothing akin to a nuclear fusion where the body collected mana particles from the air to form a new mass. However, I had seen Czarina and Inari transform many tis, but they had not caused a nuke so far.
This is a magical world, so so principles of physics don't actually work. Also, mana was structurally different from atoms or other subatomic particles, so it usually did not follow physics.
Like all transformations, Iris's body started to morph at a rapid pace. It was not sothing grotesque like painfully growing bones and flesh; it was that her body parts were gaining opacity from the head to the tip, and then they beca tangible.
In a matter of seconds, her huge transformation ca to an end, and once the lights subsided, I looked back, and her true form finally unfolded before my eyes. Upon laying my eyes on her again, my eyes widened not out of terror but in awe.
In front of was the true form of Iris. The first thing that entered my mind was that her size had exponentially increased. In addition, not a single human feature could be seen on her. To be specific, a huge dragonlike being was standing before .
"Iris... you... you are actually a dragon?"
"YES, RAPHAEL. THIS IS MY TRUE FORM."
Even in her current form, Iris could still use her voice to talk to . But it was not her usual feminine, gentle voice; rather, it was like I was hearing multiple pitches of voices overlapping one another. It was different from Czarina's dragon form's voice, which was deep and kind of monstrous.
In terms of appearance, her dragon form was quite different from that of typical western dragons. Her body was so long and slim that she was more like a serpent than a dragon.
Her body was covered with obviously tough scales that glistened with a dark fuchsia hue. Also, the tip of her tail had multicolored feathers on it.
Notably, she was actually long, probably around two hundred ters from the snout to the tip of her tail, making her longer than Czarina's. But due to the difference in their body types, Czarina seed to be more massive despite being only half of Iris's length.
Iris's head was different from Czarina's either. The head was sowhat a combination of dragonic and avian, with a pair of horns like other dragons. If I were to compare it to modern culture, her head was similar to the King of the Skies of the Monstervere. Her eyes had the sa turquoise hue as her human form, but they had typical slit irises of the darker shade.
Apparently, Iris's dragon form was legless, but she had three pairs of multicolored feathered wings on her assud shoulder areas. Each wing was asured at around fifty ters in length, so she had approximately a hundred ters of wingspan.
She was like that of an Amphitere, but amphiteres only had a pair of bat wings. I guessed that she was like the final evolution of wyrm dragons or sothing. Now that I thought about it, it probably made sense since she had one as a pet that she sent to test .
Even though her true form was a dragon...
"NOW THAT YOU HAVE SEEN IT, WHAT DO YOU THINK OF , RAPHAEL."
"Iris... you are so majestic! I don't want to compare, but I think that yours is more beautiful than Czarina's dragon form."
"REALLY? YOU THINK SO? YOU DON'T SEE AS A MONSTER?"
"I really ant it, Iris. If I see you as a monster, I should have run away or even attacked you. Besides, if that were the case, I would not have engaged in a romantic relationship with my contracted monsters."
"RAPHAEL..."
When she uttered my na, I could sense the overflowing emotions running through her words. She sounded like she was overwheld by my acceptance. It was actually the first ti I saw her this emotional.
"If it's you, Iris, I would love you no matter who or what you are. All the ti I spent with you, whether they were your facade or your genuine actions, I know that you are caring for deep inside. You have shown the real you. That alone already made believe that you truly loved , and you definitely deserve to have your feelings reciprocated."
"RAPHAEL... THANK YOU SO MUCH."
After that, Iris gently moved her head in front of before I put my hands on her snout and caressed it. As I did, I could not help but press my forehead on her snout for additional affection.
A mont later, Iris's body shone again, and then I could not feel her scales. After a few seconds, Iris turned back to her human form again, and this ti, her arms were now wrapping around my body, and so did I.
"I never felt so happy in my entire life. Thank you for accepting who I am, Raphael. I love you."
"I love you, too, Iris. Let's seal our love with a kiss."
After a long ti, I finally overlapped my lips with hers for the first ti.
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