episode_0015

two dragon hearts

Yuno focused on the hot mana he felt inside his body.

The energy grew hotter and hotter, gaining momentum as if a fireball was burning.

‘Uuuugh, I feel like my body is going to explode… I don’t think I can bear it.’

Yuno could no longer endure the hot mana energy emitted as the Dragon Heart melted from her body and opened her mouth to spit out the energy, but came to her senses when she heard Count Richtenauer’s voice coming from behind.

“Your Majesty! You must never open your mouth. What you are feeling right now is mana. You have to keep that mana in your body, so please concentrate all your attention”

Count Liechtenauer slowly guided the energy inside Juno’s body and continued to rotate his upper body in search of a vessel to contain the energy.

‘Hmm… I need to find the location of Your Highness’s mana hole as soon as possible… If it’s not the heart… If it’s not the stomach… Where on earth…’

The location of the mana hole where mana was stored was different for each person, but for most people it was near the heart, and so was Count Liechtenauer himself.

However, since Yuno’s mana hole was not near the heart, it was moved to the abdomen, another common mana hole location, but no matter how much mana was induced, no place was felt where it was stored.

“Ummmm…. Hmm!! Okay….”

Count Liechtenauer moved the Dragonheart’s mana around to look for the mana hole, but when he couldn’t find it in the ship, a faint moan began to flow from Juno’s mouth.

And because Juno was sweating profusely and in pain, Count Liechtenauer decided to take a step back and took his hand off Juno’s back.

‘Oh… the mana of the Dragon Heart that His Highness the Prince consumed…’

As soon as he released his hand, the mass of mana that the Count was inducing dispersed and spread throughout Yuno’s body. Then the pain that was bothering Yuno also disappeared, and Yuno’s eyes naturally opened.

“Hehe~ Hehe… Captain? What happened?”

“Hmm… Your Highness had no mana holes in both his heart and abdomen. Just in case, I tried to spread mana to both sides of the chest and neck, but since there was no movement to store the mana, I took a step back, and now the mana of the Dragon Heart has seeped into every part of His Highness’s body”

Count Liechtenauer adjusted his breathing and placed his hand on Juno’s back once again to concentrate his mind. Although Dragon Heart’s mana was asleep, the count tried hard to find the location of Yuno’s mana hole, but in the end, the count could not find the mana hole anywhere on Yuno’s upper body.

“Your Highness… I’m sorry. Couldn’t find the mana hole”

“Then what happened to me?”

“Unfortunately… there are definitely bodies without mana holes… so I don’t think your highness will be able to use mana”

Juno looked at Count Liechtenauer with an incredibly disappointed face. Currently, Yuno’s body, despite being 12 years old, has endured tremendous training and is stronger than the knights of the imperial palace guard.

Therefore, Yuno was confident that if he could only manipulate mana, he would be able to create more explosive power in combination with his strong body and become stronger, and the disappointment of the Count’s words that he would not be able to use mana was bound to be even greater.

“… I’m sorry. Your Majesty… First, let’s find a solution somehow”

“Hahaha it’s okay. Captain. What is the point of a solution if there is no mana hole? Thank you very much for taking the time to care for me until midnight”

Juno calmly greeted Count Liechtenauer and sent him out of the room, saying that he needed to spend some alone time.

The Count felt even more sorry to see Yuno like that.

“Whew~ You can control your mind even in such a bad situation… It’s such a pity that you have such a great body and mind, but you don’t have a mana hole… I’m sure Your Majesty will become a much stronger warrior than me. I did it…”

The Count muttered to himself and left Juno’s room. As soon as he left the room, he saw Empress Yuria walking towards him, so he quickly bowed and bowed.

“It’s okay. count. wake up. What about Yuno? What happened to Yuno?”

Empress Yuria, who raised Count Liechtenauer to show her respect, was in a hurry to inquire about her son’s well-being.

Seeing the Empress like that, Count Liechtenauer resented himself for having no choice but to convey the sad news, but he could not tell a lie to the Empress, so he reported the results in detail.

“…. I apologize. Empress Mama. It’s all because I’m not good enough”

“No. count. Rather, I should say that I am fortunate that Yuno can no longer go to dangerous places. However… I wonder how much of a sense of loss that child who has been training hard and waiting for today will feel…”

Yuria also knew that Yuno was obsessed with training, so her heart was extremely bitter.

“Still, His Majesty didn’t seem to care much about it. In fact, people without mana holes are quite common, and your body would be able to subdue even a low-level knight from a fairly noble family with just a little bit of skill with the sword”

‘But… Yuno trained so hard… there’s no way that kid wouldn’t care…’

Count Liechtenauer paid his respects to Yuria and withdrew. Empress Yuria opened the door with a sad face, and her heart was sorely touched by the crying coming from the room.

‘Ah… my son… I was looking forward to this day so much… I’m sorry mom… it’s your fault for giving birth to a body without a mana hole… I’m sorry Yuno… I’m really sorry mom. ‘

Yuria defeated the maids who were serving her and went into Yuno’s room alone.

Yuno, who had been lying on the bed and crying for a long time, had already fallen asleep. Yuria wiped Yuno’s tear-soaked face with a handkerchief and poured the elixir she had brought into a bowl.

“This is an elixir that my mother brought because I was worried that I might overwork myself with controlling my mana today… I don’t think it will help Yuno. Still, it might be of some help to my tired body… ”

The elixir that Yuria brought was an elixir of nourishing energy that revitalized a tired body, and she felt sorry for Yuno, who was tired from crying, so she tried to feed the elixir from the bowl to Yuno, who was sleeping, hoping that it would help her body a little.

At that moment, a box placed on the table caught her eye. Yuria put down the bowl for a moment and went to the box, where there was a glass bottle with a letter from the crown prince congratulating her on her birthday.

The glass bottle had the words Silver Dragon Heart Diluted Solution written on it, so Yuria mixed it with the elixir she had brought and poured it into Yuno’s mouth.

Yuria had no knowledge of medicinal herbs, but she had no idea that the gift from the crown prince, who always cared for Yuno immensely, would harm Yuno. She poured all the solution into Yuno’s mouth without hesitation.

“Son… drink this and cheer up a little. Although it may not be of much help… since it contains the mother’s sincerity and the crown prince’s sincerity, it will help my son cheer up”

As if the nourishing tonic elixir made by the imperial apothecaries had been effective, Yuno’s breathing suddenly became calm, and Yuria felt slightly at ease, so she put Yuno back on the bed and covered her with a blanket, then left the room and returned to the empress’ palace.

And as time passed, something strange began to happen inside Yuno’s body.

While half of Yuno’s body was hot and sweating profusely, the other half of her body was freezing and her skin was turning pale.

Yuno woke up from her sleep due to extreme pain, but Yuno had no choice but to endure the pain without knowing what to do.

‘Uuuu hot… and so cold… The left side is so hot I can’t stand it, but the right side feels like I’m freezing to death…’

The mana absorbed into the body from the dragon heart consumed earlier and the mana contained in the solution of the dragon heart consumed later collided with each other and fought over Yuno’s body.

The two manas that took turns occupying Yuno’s body continued to fight, going back and forth repeatedly, and each time, Yuno’s body had to experience burning pain and freezing pain alternately depending on which mana was dominant.

‘Oh my… I’m dying like this… You damn god!! what? That sounds like the best body in the human race! What kind of body can’t even handle mana… Ugh… It’s unfair. This cadet is like this…’

Finally, Yuno felt the two manas collide loudly inside his body and lost consciousness with the thought of dying.

And at that moment, the energy of the elixir given by Yuria moved and penetrated between the two huge chunks of mana. The two mana, hot and cold, rushed to eat the medicinal energy of the newly appeared nourishing tonic and began to mix with each other. The mana that gathered together in a huge amount through the medicinal energy wandered around Yuno’s body and opened the mana hole from the place where the elixir energy flowed. After discovering it, it settled down stably.

Thanks to Empress Yuria’s sincerity, Yuno’s mana practice ended in miraculous success.