When will Ha-eun bring her back!!

When will Ha-eun bring her back!!

 

“Chae-a brought this!”

Chae-a, holding a frisbee bigger than her face.

She lifted the frisbee to its owner with sparkling eyes.

“Oh, uh? Thank you.”

The frisbee’s owner seems flustered by Chae-a’s actions and looks around, not knowing what to do.

Watching this, I thought I should take Chae-a away before it becomes a nuisance.

But before I could, Chae-a thrusts her head forward and shouts something.

“Chae-a too…!”

“Huh?”

“Here!”

Chae-a strongly appealed to have her head patted.

However, the woman, perhaps because a strange child suddenly came and thrust her head forward, couldn’t easily pat her and only smiled awkwardly.

At this reaction, Chae-a started to shrink back nervously, and soon lay face down on the floor, whimpering.

“Chae-a wants her head patted too…”

I looked at Chae-a with surprise at this behavior.

Usually, Chae-a would get shy and hide when strangers came.

This time, quite unusually, she was approaching directly and asking to have her head patted.

‘Did something change in her mind? Or is this person special?’

Not sure, but thinking it was a positive change regardless.

As I stood behind Chae-a, about to pick her up,

“Oh, so that’s what it was?”

The woman started patting Chae-a’s head and comforting her.

At this, Chae-a smiled brightly and said ‘Thank you’, crouching down as if bowing.

Then, with sparkling eyes, she thrust the disc towards me and Han A-rin, her eyes twinkling.

“Chae-a brought it!”

“Huh?”

“Chae-a can bring it well! Right, Puppy!?”

“Woof!”

It seems I’ve become friends with the doggy somehow.

I was giggling because it looked cute, when Han A-rin awkwardly smiled and spoke to the owner of the frisbee.

“I’m so sorry about this. How can I make it up to you? I’ll return the frisbee right away.”

“No, it’s okay. I have many of those at home… I’ll give you that one as a gift! Instead, could you give me an autograph?”

“Oh, sure.”

Han A-rin somewhat skillfully took out a pen and signed the new frisbee that the owner had brought out.

As I watched this, I thought it was kind of cool.

Suddenly, Han A-rin smiled playfully and put the frisbee on my head, saying.

“Ta-da! Angel ring complete.”

“……?”

I’m not sure what’s going on, but I don’t want to drop the frisbee from my head, so I’m standing still.

Han A-rin took a picture of me with her phone and said.

“Ha-eun and Chae-a, both of you make a V sign, V.”

“What’s a V? Chae-a can do baa-baa.”

“V is when you raise only your index and middle fingers, that’s called a V.”

“Okay. Like this?”

Chae-a seemed to have difficulty spreading her fingers and only raised her middle finger towards Han A-rin.

Seeing this, Han A-rin burst into laughter for a moment and shook her head.

“You need to raise the second finger too.”

“Okay…”

Chae-a struggled as her index finger wouldn’t extend well.

Ha-eun seemed to realize it wasn’t working, so she forcibly straightened her second finger with her other hand.

While admiring the perfect V-shape she made with her fingers, Han A-rin showed me a V-sign as if telling me to do it too.

Although I hadn’t done it much, I managed to do it without much difficulty.

Chae-a exclaimed, “Ha-eun is amazing…!” with sparkling eyes.

As I was thinking that being praised by Chae-a was somewhat embarrassing yet pleasing, I smiled broadly.

– Click

A camera shutter sound came from the front.

It seems they took a picture of me smiling.

Feeling a bit shy about it, I fumbled around and accidentally dropped the disc.

“Ah.”

As the disc fell, Chae-a quickly picked it up and looked up at me with expectant eyes.

Seeing Chae-a like that, I hesitated for a moment before gently patting her head.

As I continued patting her head for a while, Chae-a seemed to think she couldn’t be the only one enjoying this happiness, so she threw the disc forward and said.

“I’ll do it for you too…! Chae-a wants to praise Ha-eun too!”

“Okay. I understand.”

Although it’s a bit embarrassing, it’s not difficult to do this much for Chae-a.

Thinking that, I returned with the disc, and Chae-a hugged me and said.

“Ha-eun is amazing!”

Somehow, being praised by Chae-a makes me feel good.

Watching my tail wag faster and faster, I tried my best to control my emotions and decided to continue playing disc throwing, which Chae-a enjoys.

“Then shall I throw it this time?”

“Yes!”

Chae-a nodded and looked at me.

I threw the disc with all my might for Chae-a, but.

Thud.

It falls with a thud at a distance not much different from when I threw it lightly.

As I was blinking my eyes, a bit flustered by such a result.

Chae-a, seemingly not caring much about the distance, quickly runs to catch it and tells me.

“I caught it!”

She looks extremely proud.

That appearance was so incredibly cute that I found myself giggling without realizing it.

*

Disc throwing was more fun than I thought and more tiring than expected.

Usually, I wouldn’t get tired even if I ran around all day.

But with disc throwing, even though we only did it for 3 hours, all the strength in my body was completely drained.

‘Still, it was really fun.’

As I was feeling satisfied, thinking this was the most fun I’ve had since making the rare item (3 hours ago).

Han A-rin tidied my hair and asked.

“Ha-eun, we might need to go meet the Dragon Elders in a few days, would that be okay?”

“… Yes!”

“Really? That’s good then. But if there’s any dragon that bullies you or treats you badly, you must tell me, okay?”

Han A-rin extended her pinky finger, signaling me to make a promise.

I tried to hook my pinky finger with hers, but…

‘Too short…’

Due to my extremely short fingers, instead of hooking our fingers together, it ended up looking more like I was hanging from her finger.

Seeing this, I decided to train to make my fingers longer at night.

Chae-a clung to me and raised both hands, saying,

“Chae-a is strong, so I’ll protect Ha-eun…!”

It seems she wants to protect me after hearing about the bullying earlier.

I was so grateful to Chae-a that I patted her head vigorously.

* * * * *

Originally, dragons as a species were known for being stubborn and self-centered.

However, as they began to suffer from a severe shortage of dragon population due to low birth rates,

At some point, a culture of cooperation rather than competition, and caring for their own kind, became stronger.

In the past, most dragons would claim that those who weren’t pureblooded weren’t real dragons.

But as time passed, their numbers decreased rapidly.

Eventually, not only did dragons who spoke of pureblood disappear entirely…

Everyone was united in desperately pleading for hatchlings to be born.

Of course, just because they pleaded didn’t mean hatchlings would be born.

Contrary to the dragons’ wishes, a very long period passed without any hatchlings being born.

‘To solve this, numerous countermeasures and methods were proposed.’

However, unlike humans, for a hatchling to be born, countless strokes of luck were needed.

No matter how much they struggled, it was impossible to solve the problem they were facing.

Just as everyone was sinking into depression, thinking about the hatchlings that were no longer being born.

‘That’s when Ha-eun appeared.’

Cute, kind, pretty, smart, and diligent Ha-eun suddenly appeared.

This was so sudden that it could be described as ‘falling out of the sky’.

At first, everyone was stunned and didn’t know what to do… But after some time passed and everyone started to regain their senses.

—

Dragon group chat

(Perseus) – I bought Ha-eun a meal and gave her crystals too haha. Oh, and I patted her head as well 🙂

(Retna) – ? You’ve gone crazy. Why are you the only one doing such nice things?

(Heliac) – No, picture picture picture picture give me picture picture picture. Show me Ha-eun!!!!!

(Isily) – Everyone, please calm down.

(Heliac) – How how how can I calm down!!!!

(Isily) – If you keep this up, I’ll show Ha-eun your chat messages when we meet her later?

(Heliac) – I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry.

—

For beings who had lived for at least a thousand years, this conversation seemed rather foolish.

Surprisingly, they had been talking like this a thousand years ago too, so Perseus was just used to it.

Anyway, feeling like he had won(?), Perseus put down his phone with a smile and calmly looked ahead.

The conference room seemed to have been made excessively ornate, as if an emperor with absolute power had created it to show off his authority.

In this place that was beyond merely luxurious, so elegant it was almost excessive.

People reminiscent of emperors were gathered, looking at him.

From the primordial dragon Philips said to have existed since the beginning of time to the ancient dragons.

In this place where even the dragon considered the weakest among them is believed capable of destroying the world if it were to come out.

Perseus slowly opened his mouth.

“Elders, I beg you to please stop sending messages at dawn asking when we’ll bring Ha-eun.”

At that coldly delivered declaration, sighs of disappointment flow from all corners of the meeting hall.

Normally, for those with overwhelming power and authority, all the world’s problems would be dismissed as trivial matters, eliciting only interest rather than sighs.

But the news of Ha-eun’s late arrival seemed to be very sad news even for them.

Damn old geezers… no, the elders began to nag at him with great sighs.

 

“When elders want to see their granddaughter… Tsk, young people these days. Tsk tsk.”

“Back in my day, huh? When grandfather said he wanted to see me, I’d teleport and fly over from far away…”

“Perseus? I even changed your diapers, and this is how you treat your aunt?”

Subjectively and objectively, he was too old to be hearing such things.

But the elders nagging in front of him were so much older that he had no words to refute.

So he just nodded vaguely in agreement, trying to end the conversation quickly.

Then Philips, the primordial dragon, asked him one question.

“Child, have you found the main perpetrators of the experiment?”

To that unofficial statement that the dragons were not involved in the experiment at all, and the implicit order to never forgive them.

Perseus answered as if it were obvious.

“Yes. We found them.”