“Bouncy.”
Elkiesel answered her place.
“Not her nickna. The na that the honorable black dragon bestowed.”
“Bouncy.”
“No, I an…”
“Stop asking the sa thing. Bouncy is Bouncy.” Elkiesel shot back.
The dragons sneaking glances over at the two, suddenly stared at Bouncy. A an looking lizard man smiled showing off his sharp canines.
“Though it’s a sli, the weakest of all monsters, it is still a dragon’s familiar. How can this sli’s na be Bouncy? Kalgilm is too much. If naming it was too troubleso, he should have at least nad it Sli.”
What’s wrong with my na, Bouncy? It’s not a pretty na like Elizabeth Maria or Diana, but he properly took my characteristic into consideration while naming . The na is a little plain, but it’s irritating for others to look down on my na. It’s my na, what’s that got to do with them?
“Slis are only good for cleaning so it’s not necessary to bestow a grand na. It’s strange to na a rag Catalina or Androda. Do you consider this sli to be in the sa level as us? I don’t understand.”
A werewolf with smooth glossy fur said while observing the sli. He was looking down on the sli.
“Kalgilm is a bit strange. If not him, who else would want such a familiar like that thing? Even human magicians don’t have any consideration for them.”
I’m a scrubber sli, but I’m not a rag! It’s okay to say bad things to , but I won’t forgive them for saying bad things about master! There are not better scrubber slis than in this world! I’m amazing!
Suddenly she felt a bit sad.
It’s been 200 years since she was alive, but all that ti she remained in this lair and didn’t know anything about the outside world other than NeAffronti. NeAffronti treated her with kindness, so she assud all others would treat her the sa way. Anyway, a sli who doesn’t have legs or arms wouldn’t receive much admiration to begin with.
“Are you asking for a fight?”
Fearso mana flowed from Elkiesel’s body. She had forgotten about his true strength because he only showed his weak side in front of Kalgilm and the other dragons. Elkiesel was the strongest dark elf of the Oak Forest. He could easily suppress a werewolf with a snort.
The lizard man and werewolf shrunk in fear.
“Isn’t its na Bouncy because it’s a trivial existence?”
“Everything is trivial to the eyes of the dragon. It won’t even bother with such a thing like a na for the real tirival existences.”
Elkiesel hugged her tightly and went a bit further together with Harp. Today Elkiesel appeared very charismatic. Elkiesel stopped at a spot of fresh vegetation and let her down.
“Bouncy, don’t listen to them. Those were words from nobodies.”
“El. El.”
She bounced on top of Elkiesel’s knee and stuck herself against his stomach. Elkiesel used his large hands to gently hug. She rubbed herself against Elkiesel’s hand, and his expression appeared a degree happier. Seeing Elkiesel’s brighter appearance made her feel relaxed and her body flattened a bit.
Elkiesel placed his hand on the ground. Suddenly lots of —gypsophila—- flowers sprung and blood instantaneously. He braided the flowers into a crown and placed it on top of Bouncy’s head.
“The other dragons seem to have a lot of complaints toward Kalgilm.”
“It can’t be helped. He has his own territory which he should properly look over, but he has not been doing anything and pushing all his own work onto others for the last 3000 years. They were closing their eyes to his situation for the first thousand years because he was just a hatchling, but it’s been irritating to see him close himself off in his own lair for another 2000 years.”
Harporis sat next to Elkiesel and answered.
“He doesn’t even have such a big territory. He looks over the Adarune Mountain, Yuberune Kingdom for humans, the dwarves’ kingdom, and the fairies’ swamp is all.”
“To a dragon, 200 years is only a short nap, but to humans 200 years is enough for Kingdoms to fall and rise many tis over. The Yuberune Kingdom already fell 40 years ago. It’s now called Karuzak Empire.”
“Karuzak Empire? Not a Kingdom?”
“It was the Karuzak Kingdom about 30 or 40 years ago. You should forget all of your mories from 200 years ago. A fearso magic knight had been born in the Karuzak Empire. This person integrated all the neighboring Kingdoms and made it into an empire. There are rumors that the empire is the wings of the southern part of the continent, but who knows the reality of the situation now.”
“It’s a common sight to see humans fighting amongst themselves.”
“It’s a problem because they are starting to cause problems with the other races. The mages of the Karuzak Empire capture the elves and dwarves from the surrounding land and use them for live experints. We received an SOS letter from the Garam Dwarves and Master Raikalot and I just visited Karuzak Empire.”
Elkiesel’s brows furrowed.
“Are they planning to go against the guidance of dragons?”
They were speaking of words which Bouncy could not understand, so she bit onto Elkiesel’s shirt and pulled on it.
“Guidance. What?”
“It is a rule that the different races should not interfere or fight against one another. It seems they didn’t read of what happened to the Alkan Empire.”
“Alkan?”
“Long ago, the Alkan Empire borrowed the demon lord’s strength to persecute the various races of the world. The red dragon, Raikalot, breathed fire onto the land and it’s now nothing but ash. The empire fell into ruin fourteen thousand years ago, so it’s not strange for humans to have forgotten about it by now. This world has been created from the dragon’s blood and corpse. The demons and holy creatures are all but a small portion of this world.”
How about who was originally from Earth and traveled into this world? Am I also just an obsolete and insignificant life? Slis are monsters so that could be the case.
She looked a bit sad, so Elkiesel fed her a flower.
“El?”
“You’re different. You received a na. There are more than a billion slis in this world, but you’re the only sli with a na. Bouncy.”
Today Elkiesel was charismatic. Does that an I’m not just a foreign substance since I’m a sli who rembers my past life. She nibbled on the flower that Elkiesel gave her.
“Elkiesel. I will convey that I like this sli and that its na Bouncy, is very fitting.” Harporis said seriously.
“It is the world’s bias that slis are the lowest ranked creatures. Although Bouncy received its na from Kalgilm, others will look down on it because it is a sli. I feel they will only treat it with respect when Kalgilm decides to bestow a proper na to it. Don’t you also feel the na Bouncy was made with a light heart and on a whim?”
Elkiesel didn’t answer. This isn’t a na that had been thought of after a long period of thought. Elkiesel’s original na was Elkiesel, so our master bestowed him the na Elkiesel.
“It doesn’t need to be a grand na like Yecaterina. It will also be awkward for a sli to have a na like Napoleon. It just needs to be a na a degree nicer than Bouncy. I suggest you offer a good word to Kalgilm.”
***
Late afternoon when the sun was setting and cast an orange glow to the land.
A round sli sat on the green grassy plain enjoying the sunshine. A dark elf with short neat black hair happily watched the sli
The dark elf looked like an adventurer taking a short break, he was covered in black leather and his pointed ears had a silver ornant. He was a dark elf, but he was different because his skin was very pale white.
Dark elves used dark magic. They were different than other races living in this world because they used light magic. Their light magic caused their hair and skin to beco very dark.
There is a unique breed of dark elves who have pale skin. They were the dark elves in the Oak Forest.
Just like the beauty of light and darkness, dark elves had superior natural beauty. Elkiesel lived in the darkest area of the forest where the morning sun couldn’t reach.
He had a mysterious beauty to him with gentle-looking eyes, however behind them hid a fearso shadow. If the forest itself were to manifest into human form, it would probably turn into Elkiesel.
If a normal human girl were to see Elkiesel, they would be frozen in awe for several minutes in the presence of his beauty. Though to Bouncy, Elkiesel was just a weak and gentle, but tall giant.
‘A na, a na. Conveying this in a good way is not the problem, it’s just that Kalgilm didn’t listen to anyone to begin with. If he listened to others, the lair would not be in this state.’
Elkiesel watched the sli nibbling on a flower. The sun made the sli glisten in a gentle pastel pink light, it looked like a glass marble. Bouncy felt Elkiesel’s gaze and looked up while bouncing up and down like a puppy.
“Pu-ring. Pu-ring.”
Elkiesel patted Bouncy. Bouncy pounced against Elkiesel’s hand and rubbed her hand against him.
“Bouncy, do you like it?”
Bouncy didn’t answer and answered with a bright happy smile. Elkiesel thought her na, Bouncy, was very cute. Whenever he watched her bounce around, he thought there was no other more fitting na.
However, it was true that because of this na, the others viewed her in a very derogatory manner. Even if a dog were to hear that a dragon familiar’s na was Bouncy, it would roll around showing its belly and laugh.
From ti to ti, Elkiesel would think of different nas that Bouncy could have. Such as Eselita which ant ‘starlight’, or Manek which an ‘clarity.’ So humans referred to slis as water fairies, which sounded very pleasant.
He couldn’t override the na that a dragon bestowed upon Bouncy, so he had been calling her Bouncy all this ti.
Elkiesel thought of the house that Kalgilm wanted to build, and his brows automatically furrowed.
‘He doesn’t know the first thing about slis, I don’t understand how he feels he could properly build a sli house. If he really thought about Bouncy in his heart, he would bestow a new na. Everyone keeps laughing at her for her na, Bouncy.’
A dragon’s spiritual contract with a familiar had the strongest bond that could be created in this world. A familiar would receive powers simply by using their own na, so the na bestowed to them was very important.
‘He didn’t do anything for 200 years, and he’s trying to act like a master now.’
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