episode_0238

Asha and Adele were desperate to find their father. But unfortunately, Eugene was not in the rare.

The twins had no choice but to go outside and had to focus their efforts on finding Eugene for a while.

“Asha, can I really come this far?”

“But this is the only place left.”

“But… Dad told me not to come here.”

The place Asha and Adele hesitated to approach was the distillery. It was a place where Eugene had told the children not to come if possible.

Eugene, of course, made this decision with the intention of preventing his children from engaging in alcohol at least until they become adults.

However, since Asha and Adele had no way of knowing the inside story, they were just nervous about doing something their father told them not to do.

“Trigram, it’s okay. What could possibly happen?”

“Usually when you say something like that, something happens…”

“Don’t say anything sinister!”

In order to create optimal conditions for making whiskey, the distillery artificially manipulated the surrounding environment to adjust temperature and humidity.

That unnatural feeling of heterogeneity scared Asha and Adele even more.

“G, should I go back now?”

“No. There is no place for my father except here.”

“But, there’s no reason to meet your dad right now, right?”

“I have a question. Is it right to leave the solution and just sit there? Can you still call it a dragon?”

Since they were still young dragons, the two had a vague admiration for ‘dragon-ness’ and were unable to move from that spot and stayed still for a while.

“Joe, okay. Then let’s go!”

Just as I was about to gather courage and take a step forward, Eugene came out of the distillery.

“Huh? Asha, Adele. What brings you here?”

“Dad!”

Adele rushed over and hugged Eugene. All the feelings of fear from before had gone, and his face was very bright.

“Oh my, Adele. Dad said it’s dangerous to be hugged while carrying something heavy.”

Eugene was holding an oak barrel in each hand. Of course, Eugene wouldn’t lose his balance with that much weight, and Adele wouldn’t get hurt, but it was a father’s unique worry about his child.

“Ugh~”

“You always answer well…”

Even as he said that, the smile did not leave Eugene’s face. One way or another, he is a fool.

“It’s rare for Asha to come all the way here. Is there any problem with Rare?”

“No, no!”

Asha answered with a very nervous expression. It was like a model of a child hiding something, but Eugene didn’t care at all.

“Okay. So you came because you missed your dad?”

“Dad, I miss you all the time! But today… Wow!”

Adele, who was about to start talking excitedly, belatedly covered her mouth. She had already struck the candle in front of Arjen. So it was a natural step to keep a close eye on Asha.

“Hmm? It looks like there’s something there, right?”

Eugene easily put down the oak barrel in his hand and grabbed Adele’s waist, who was hanging on to his body. And then he started tickling me right away.

Tickle tickle tickle!

“Oh! Hahahahahaha!! Dad, stop! Don’t stop~!”

“Tell me what you are hiding and I will stop.”

“Haha! Hahaha! Ah, asha!”

“Well, so…!”

Asha explained the whole story to Eugene. It started from a question I had in the study, passed through Arjen, and ended up here.

Eugene, who heard the whole story, thought that he was really worried about everything. At the same time, I felt like I was asking an obvious question, which eased my worries.

‘I feel like I’m watching children asking when they will become adults.’

Even from the perspective of a human child, parents will seem like heroes who can do anything. Moreover, Eugene could understand why his admiration was extraordinary once he learned about the power of the adult dragon.

‘…It’s difficult.’

At the same time, Eugene broke into a cold sweat. To summarize what Asha and Adele said, Arjen and Eugene are asking what on earth they do to be so strong.

There is no need to explain Arjen’s strength. Anyway, since it is a dragon, you will be able to answer using common sense.

On the other hand, Eugene was not a dragon. And this was also the biggest secret Eugene was hiding from Asha and Adele.

‘I tried to hide it until the children grew up…’

Even though they were dragons, they were still young children, so it was a fact they hid for fear of confusion about their identity. The other is Arjen’s multiple personality.

It was possible to grit his teeth and brush it off, but Eugene didn’t want to lie even if it meant hiding the truth. Even more so for your own children.

In Eugene’s mind, the two reasons – protecting the children’s mental health and setting an example for them – conflicted.

“Hmm…….”

Asha looked at Eugene, who was sighing deeply, and for a moment she felt worried that she had asked an unnecessary question.

Nevertheless, it was also Asha’s wish to hear an answer somehow. On the contrary, even if I overlooked Arjen, the thought of wanting to hear a proper answer from Eugene arose.

The reason why Asha became so curious about Eugene was because of the special nature of Eugene’s current situation.

During the druid kidnapping incident, due to their magic, Eugene was temporarily disconnected from Sirocco and the contract was released, but the magic power in his body disappeared for a while.

This phenomenon somehow continued even when Sirocco returned and resumed the contract.

In fact, faith has continued to grow since then and has become incomparably stronger than before, but most people do not usually feel that faith either.

Therefore, in the eyes of Asha and Adele, Eugene is like a doll, feeling nothing like he did when he first entered this world.

Eugene has become something that cannot be defined at all. True to the saying that fear always comes from the unknown, Asha became more afraid of Eugene without any reason as the days passed.

And Eugene was also vaguely aware of that fact.

‘okay. I can’t keep misunderstandings going on, so let’s talk.’

In the end, Eugene decided to reveal his identity. This is because his greatest fear was that if he postponed it until later and missed the timing, he would become irreversibly distant from Asha.

“Asha, Adele. Listen to your dad carefully.”

“Yes!”

As Eugene lowered his voice and set the mood, Adele answered energetically, probably because she was expecting an answer, and Asha just nodded, looking completely frightened.

“Actually, my dad is not a dragon.”

“……Yes?”

Adele, who was hugged by Eugene, stiffened at Eugene’s choice of words, which told the truth as it was without any addition or subtraction.

“Dad is not a dragon, he is something else.”

Asha also looked shocked, but quickly came to her senses and argued back.

“Are you saying it’s a different entity? Then what are we?”

“You are dragons.”

“If dad is not a dragon, how can we be dragons!”

“Because my mom is a dragon.”

“Wait a minute… Are you really saying that my dad is not my real dad?”

Eugene was taken aback by Asha’s question this time.

“No no! Where did you learn that? No, more than that… no! You are both children of my blood.”

“Then how…!”

Eugene felt that things were getting more and more complicated, so he quickly corrected the conversation.

“Listen carefully. Dad is actually God…”

Eugene’s voice is gradually getting louder. For someone with a sound mental state, introducing himself as a god to young children was both awkward and awkward.

‘I feel like I’m not worth the night….’

A man who introduces himself as God. Of course, heaven and earth knew that Eugene was a god, but Eugene, who still had the mindset of a human being, was embarrassed by such an introduction.

“Shin…? Is that the God I know?”

Unlike Adele, who knew nothing, Asha knew about God because she read books in her spare time. Beings who exercise miraculous powers through faith. In the first place, it is a great being that is different from the creatures of the underworld.

“Eeh…? What is God?”

“To put it simply, it is something greater than a dragon.”

Eugene thought for a moment to stop Asha, who cut back and forth and expressed that she was amazing, but soon gave up on doing so. This was because no matter how he explained it, he had no confidence in properly conveying the meaning to the children.

“Awesome? Why is it so great?”

“Why is it so great?…”

Asha and Adele suddenly ignore Eugene and start a conversation alone. This was a process for both of them to expand and solidify their knowledge.

When the conversation ended, Adele’s eyes were filled with brilliance after hearing all the explanations.

“Wow! Dad is amazing!”

“Yeah, really?”

Eugene accepted his daughter’s compliment without hesitation. He had made up his mind to throw out these words, thinking that they might cause a bigger uproar, but things turned out better than he expected.

‘Well, I’m glad you took it lightly.’

If there had been any confusion about identity at a young age, it would have been very difficult to deal with it, so Eugene thought it was fortunate that the children did not take it seriously.

However, Adele thoughtlessly raised a topic that Eugene himself had to think seriously about.

“Wait! So, does that mean we also have God’s blood!?”

“That will happen…? Uh, then maybe we can use the power of God too?”

As soon as Asha finished speaking, anticipation rose on the faces of the two children.