feed on dragons

Even after going through such strenuous exercise the night before, Julian woke up refreshed the next morning.Humming happily, he changed into his school uniform, adjusted his tie knot slowly in the mirror, and then fastened a brooch with vines encircling the moon on the dark red scarf.

He is no longer a general student of the Academy of Magic.

He is now a graduate student of the Elite Research Institute in the Academy of Magic.

Julian, who was already carrying a book and was about to go out, couldn't help but stop and take a second look when he passed by the full-length mirror.He stroked his hair and smiled shyly at himself in the mirror before stepping out of the room.

During the year, he did, as promised at the time, work hard towards his goal.With Haldang's regular food, Julian, who has supplemented the energy that should be supplemented, can be regarded as a real reborn. In the next year's semester, he won the excellent grades of SS in all subjects, and won the honor of Professor Anna and the dean for the first time. Agreed, broke the rules and took the elite academy graduate exam, which was only open to 17-year-old graduates, and passed it smoothly.The Elite Research Institute only admits 12 people each year, and they study for three years. After handing in the thesis, they have to pass a strict examination before they can graduate. One step further.

After all, the reason why this school is called the "Academician Training School" is because the probability of its elite graduate students being admitted to the national academician ranks first in the whole continent.

Julian still remembers the day he passed the exam, he ran back to the dragon's lair with his pass certificate, and when he saw Hal who just came out of it, he screamed happily and rushed over to the young man's arms. inside.

Usually he would not dare to do this at all.Hal has a dragon aura on his body, which is a sense of majesty naturally exuded by a strong man. Although the young man can be regarded as his guardian now, Julian still instinctively respects him.However, Julian was completely overwhelmed by joy that day. When he saw Hal, he jumped on it without thinking.

The red dragon caught him, frowned, and was about to ask him why he was nervous, but Julian raised his head and said to him with an excited and flushed face: "Master Hal! Lord Hal, I will start next semester. He is a student of the Elite Research Institute!"

"Oh?" Hal raised his eyebrows, took out the qualification certificate in his hand, looked at it, and then smiled slightly.

"Very good." He patted Julian's head as a reward. Looking at the smile, the boy felt an indescribable joy and numbness suddenly rising in his heart. Those emotions burst out like fireworks in his chest, flashing He was dazzled.

So happy.

Lord Hal seems to agree with my efforts.

So happy.

The joy flowed along the four bones, and even penetrated into the fingertips. The comfortable numbness made him feel a little weak like an electric shock.But the boy thought that he was too excited to be admitted to the Elite Research Institute, and he didn't notice anything unusual. He just kept telling Hal his gratitude until the red dragon couldn't stand it and drove him back to the room. .

"Master Hal, I'm going out."

Julian said at the door of Howl's room.It was his habit to say hello to the red dragon every morning before going out. Although Hal didn't care, he insisted on observing these small courtesy, which was out of his respect for Hal.The red dragon's reaction is not always, sometimes there is no response after waiting for a long time, and sometimes it will hum to express understanding.And if Hal was in a good mood, he might even accompany him out of the tunnel under the pretext of going up to bask in the sun.If the last item was gambled, then Julian would be in a high mood all day long as if he had taken a stimulant, and he was even happier than solving the complicated magic circle diagram.

Moreover, I don't know if it was Julian's illusion. As the days went by, the probability of the latter two incidents seemed to gradually increase.This made him greet Hal's room every morning with a lottery-like mood, and even secretly used "whether Hal responded" as a luck prediction for the whole day.

Of course, the person who is regarded as a fortune predictor does not know these things.

A muffled "Yeah." came from the door.

Julian couldn't help straightening his back, and his heartbeat began to speed up involuntarily.It didn't take long for the door to open, and Hal was standing behind it in his baggy nightgown.Julian couldn't tell whether he had just woken up or had been up for a while. The red dragon always looked like that, powerful and flawless, making it impossible to guess.

The man stretched out his hand to straighten his collar, and asked lightly, "How are you doing this morning?"

"Very...very good!" Julian knew that he was asking about last night, and his ears and cheeks turned red immediately.

"Won't your back hurt?"

"Won't!"

"..." Looking at Julian's radiant expression, Hal always felt that his male self-esteem was stabbed a little bit.But he quickly ignored this illusion, nodded, and said, "Well, go slowly then."

"what?"

Julian couldn't help but gasp.

walk slowly?

Hal responded, Hal opened the door, but had no intention of going out...

The little magician suddenly felt that his originally high mood suddenly fell down.

"?"

Hal, who was about to close the door, glanced at him suspiciously.

"Ah, no, that..." Julian knew that he should stop paying attention to this matter, and obediently walked out to go to class, but he couldn't help asking: "That...I thought...Master Hal would like to show off sun."

"A friend is coming today." Hal narrowed his eyes, and for some reason, his expression looked a little gloomy, "I will accompany you up next time."

"Eh?"

Julian froze, but before he could say anything more, the door of the Red Dragon's room was closed in front of him.

Go up with you next time?

Huh?

Really not basking in the sun?

It's not that I'm supercilious, Master Hal is really using the sun to accompany me on that section of the tunnel as an excuse?

Julian felt his usually flexible head suddenly jammed.He stood in a daze for several seconds before leaving the dragon's lair in a state of confusion.Julian, who was disturbed by Hal's words, didn't even notice that when he left the tunnel, a stranger who was obviously not from the school passed him and walked in the direction he just left; The man in the silver-gray hood stopped walking after he passed by, and looked back at the back of the young man leaving, showing a somewhat surprised and playful expression.

After Hal closed the door, he walked around the room a little irritably.He wasn't in the mood to think about Julian right now.

There is a dragon coming.

In the early hours of the morning, Hal, who had just fallen asleep, felt that some powerful existence had crossed the border and entered his territory.He frowned unhappily, and after a little in-depth investigation, the familiar magic fluctuations immediately came back through the perception network he released.

"Oh, Hal discovered me so quickly, I came to play with you~"

He even used magic wave to write Jackie Chan language to harass his perception network.

"..." Hal forcibly resisted the urge to convert the sensory web into an attack wave and overturn the uninvited guest.

There is only one person who would come here uninvited and still do such a boring thing... no, a dragon.Even though they each occupied one side and became the guardian dragons of the countries on each other's territory, the relationship that was formed more than a hundred years ago remained unchanged.

This fate is rare.After the appearance of human beings in this world, there is no natural condition for the heaven to conceive a dragon born from heaven and earth, so the number of ancient dragons is basically fixed.With such a small number, they are naturally familiar with each other's existence, but if you know it, you know it. Whether the relationship is good or not is another matter.

Every dragon has a different temper, most of them are not very good, and dragons have a strong sense of territory. It's true that they look down on human beings that can't even compare to a fingernail, but the same kind is different.It's okay to be close to other people's territory, if one is not done well, it will cause a fight.In ancient times, there were often such disputes, fighting over whether this mountain is yours or mine, fighting over whether that lake is yours or mine, and whether this forest is... the following is abbreviated.

It would be terrible if it were placed at this time, and human civilization will be wiped out every now and then.Fortunately, before the appearance of humans, the territory of dragons was roughly equal, and each other also developed a set of rules of telling the owner and expressing goodwill before entering other people's homes.

(This guy is probably the only one who can come in without saying a word and not be kicked out by me...)

Hal thought helplessly.

In any case, it was a fateful friendship, and a hundred years is a long time, but Hal always had mixed feelings about this rare friend.

If this guy can restrain himself a bit...

If you can stop being so cheap...

If only he could not use his powerful talent to do this kind of thing...

Just as he was thinking about the past deeds of the other party, the powerful and familiar magic wave had arrived at his door and stopped outside.

Hal sighed deeply.He opened a hole in the dragon's breath barrier that surrounded the vast underground cave, and sent out a message inviting him to enter.The visitor's dragon's breath immediately blended in and filled the gap. In dragon etiquette, it means paying respect to the host.

It seems that this kid is not really so bohemian, at least remember to "knock on the door" at the end...

...It's just that you can't just knock on this door when you enter the "gate"!In terms of dragon etiquette, when you approach someone's territory, you should first inform the other party of your intention!This feeling is like Da La La kicking open someone's door, breaking into someone's yard and walking all the way to the front of the bedroom before knocking on the door!

While thinking, Hal quickly changed his clothes, and then walked out of the living room to the library outside, and saw a person carefully flipping through books in front of a certain bookshelf in the library on the third floor.

"Dylan." The young man called up.The man turned his head and looked down, stuffed the book back on the shelf, and then jumped directly over the guardrail.The black wings with starlight flashed behind him and then disappeared. Dylan landed firmly on the ground and stood still, smiling at the red dragon.

"Long time no see, Hal."