7th Demon Prince Jilbagias’ Chronicle of Demon Kingdom Toppling - Chapter 86.2 - Spread Your Wings

86.2 Spread Your Wings

Garounya gave Lyla a pouch after they finished their wake up meal. It contained cookies and nuts coated with syrup.

「Eh. I can’t receive… This much…」

Garounya had always been sharing her in-between-meal snack to the point that Lyla felt bad about it. Moreover, today’s amount was clearly more than usual. And when she was about to refuse――

「Don’t meowry~! Master said 『This is your bonus for your diligent work.』 And increased the amount of meowy snack.」

Though Garounya was smiling happily, Lyla felt troubled instead.

「This cookie is delicious but, Mya(my) body got itchy when I ate too much of it… According to Sofia-sama, it’s something like a constitution of meowine.」

「Ah… I see…」

「And since Mya(I) can’t eat too much of it, I’ll give the rest to you, Lyla.」

“…Is that true? Maybe it’s just lip service so that I won’t hesitate to receive the sweets” That was what Lyla felt since she couldn’t get used to such kindness.

Garounya was purely kind to Lyla.

Lyla felt troubled by such action alas… Such kindness warmed Lyla’s heart.

「Thank you… I’ll eat it deliciously.」

「Yup! Let’s do our best today meo~w!」

Garounya stood up energetically with a tray of dishes in her hands.

…The Dark Dragons weren’t the kind of folk that love to talk. They’re looking down on the beastfolk who they regarded as a frail, lowly race.

Alas―― From Lyla’s perspective, the innocent Garounya was more noble and tolerant in spirit than those Dark Dragons jeering at beastfolk.

「Ah, right. Be very careful, I received mouthful of sermon from Vigne-san when she caught me having a snack in the middle of work before.」

Garounya then turned around and reminded Lyla as if she just remembered it.

「Ah… Er…」

「… Who gave you mouthful of sermon?」

Unfortunately for her, Vigne came right at that moment with a tray of food in her hands.

「Ah. Good morning!」

Garounya used her superior physical ability of the beastfolk and left like the wind.

「That girl, really…」

Vigne heaved a sigh, and then looked at Lyla with a troubled face.

Lyla’s body unconsciously stiffened when she received Vigne’s gaze. The dragon race employed many night elfs as their employee. Back when she still lived in the cave, the night elves didn’t participate in bullying her but they didn’t help her either.

They just treated Lyla coldly, wearing unbroken expressionless masks on their face ――

「I just tell her to not eat in front of His Highness and Madam.」

Alas, not knowing what Lyla felt inside, Vigne just shrugged her shoulders and explained as she placed her tray diagonally in front of Lyla.

「Well, that girl gets hungry faster than us since she’s a beastfolk. But, I wish she kept her habit in moderation. No matter how much our master cherished her, if she doesn’t maintain a proper attitude, she’ll embarrass Our Master if they suddenly get a visitor and they find her in the middle of snacking during the work.」

「Y-Yes…」

Vigne spoke quickly as she ate the potatoe salad on her plate with a spoon. Lyla had no choice but to nodded at her.

「… That’s why I tell her to eat her snack in secret. But, that girl keeps forgetting about it, which resulting in me having to remind her time and time again…」

「Ah, I see…」

「Moreover, there’s a little trick to keep yourself full during work hours.」

Vigne took out a pouch similar to the one given to Lyla from her maid pocket.

「Eat a lot of this with your wake up meal.」

Vigne let out a grin as she tossed the dried fruit into her mouth.

When I was still living in the dark cave, the image of the dark elf in my mind was a warrior race… Born to kill. I mean, laugh aside, I’ve never even seen them smile.

Though she was still scared of Verossa who was always glaring daggers at her, ready to cut her down at any moment and the other night elves… She noticed that her senior worker, Vigne, was different from the other night elfs, she had a warmer attitude compared to her peers.

（In fact, from Vigne’s perspective, I should be the daughter of the white dragon who burned her to a crisp and yet, she doesn’t seems to care about that, everything has already been ended when she woke up, compared to the way she treated the high-elf saint who she hated so much, she was more open and caring to the other people.）

「…………」

After that, I looked at the pouch of cookies on the table while sending a sidelong glance to Vigne who was completely focused on her meal.

I tried to take a bite of it. The sweet flavor, the fragrant nuts―― Were really delicious.

Lyla loves sweets the most after a bath in her human form.

Vigne glanced, and smiled slightly at Lyla who took a bite of her cookie with a blissful look on her face.

Once they finished their meal, it was time for work.

That being said, unlike normal employees, Lyla’s only job was ironing.

Even back in the dragon cave, Lyla’s only job was ironing the other dragon’s robe. Since they would bully her and would do other mean things if even a wrinkle was left on their robe, she ended up becoming an expert in ironing.

In fact, she never had a good memory of doing that job alas, the beastfolk auntie who worked for archduchess Platyfia praised her for her ironing skill, thus she couldn’t help but to feel really emotional.

Because when she was still living in the dark cave, no one ever praised her no matter how perfect she did her job…

And the rest of her job was to sit beside her master, Jilbagias, learning from the devil of knowledge, Sofia.

「Nugaaaaaaaaaa!!」

Jilbagias was in the middle of deadly combat, in the name of training, against his mother, archduchess Platyfia.

He desperately parried the storm of thrusts from Platyfia’s three spears who had a pair of semi-transparent arms growing from her back with his skull gauntlet and spear-sword.

「GAAAAAAAAAH!!」

The prince kept fighting back even when his body was covered in wounds and suffered from hexing that amplified his pain. The archduchess also had a blood curdling look on her face, she was sweating profusely.

... The evaluation of Dark Dragon about the demon race was 『Arrogant ruler who was kicking out the other race. They’re ignorant insects who rest on their laurel on top of the position that has been established by the First Demon King.』

But then, looking at the Demon Prince Jilbagias who trained to the point of dying as if he is in real combat, I have no choice but to admit that those evaluations are complete bu*ll sh*it.

Rather… Aren’t those words more appropriate for the dragon race who are born with inherent physical strength and magical power yet rest on their laurel?

「Okay! Let’s end it for today.」

Platyfia stopped her hands after seeing Jibagias kneeling on the ground, running out of power.

「It seems you made further progress to counter hexing. Good job Jilbagias, keep up your good spirit.」

「Yes… Mother…!」

「Woofwoof!」 Saint Liliana barked as she ran toward Jilbagias who collapsed while weakened so much after the combat training and taking over Platyfia’s wounds with transpose curse.

「… Thanks a lot…」

Jilbagias thanked Liliana while brushing the latter’s head.

His ―― Extremely compassionate expression―― Was definitely the exact opposite of the fiendish image about him that the Dark Dragon told to Lyla.

「… Oh right, Lyla.」

Suddenly, Jilbagias looked at Lyla.

「It’s about the time for your usual training right?」

「Eh… Yes!」

Lyla, wearing a maid uniform and ribbon, nodded readily.

She hadn’t adapted to her current status yet.

She hadn’t sorted out her feelings either.

But still… She could at least do something for him within the limit of her ability.

At least that was what Lyla felt after seeing how hardworking Jilbagias was.

And then, once she spread her wings and could fly freely――

Alas, she had yet to be able to imagine what lies ahead of that point.

Alas, she didn’t hesitate and completely focused on the things that she could do for now.

She took off her maid clothes, folded them and canceled her humanization.

Lyla looked up to the sky as her figure returned to that of a dragon.

（… Riight, Mom, Dad.）

She looked at the silver moon―― That somehow resembled the silver scale of her parents.

Lyla muttered so inside.

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