Father, I Won’t Do Anything - Chapter 33

“Oh, the father stabbed his daughter with a knife and set the building on fire to escape!”

“I heard only the little brother managed to escape.”

Rosian looked around with an anxious face.

“At this rate, this will turn into something disastrous— Miss Jayna? Miss Jayna!”

Jayna jumps into the fire at once. Rosian’s loud voice was heard from behind, but she didn’t care.

“Miss Jayna!”

Inside the burning building, black smoke covered the front, and it’s even hard to refrain from coughing. However, Jayna did not enter into the building thoughtlessly.

As soon as she entered the building, Jayna began to cover the fire with a curtain of darkness. After oxygen was cut off, the flames gradually died down.

“Uh…”

After doing this a few times, her body began to feel heavy little by little.

Jayna, who tightly closed her eyes and reopened them again while inwardly chanting.

‘It’s okay. I’m a dragon.’

Although she hypnotized herself with that belief, Jayna was still just a young dragon who could not awaken her power and is currently in her human form right now.

Although her life was in danger, Jayna still tried hard to deny that fact.

‘Even if it was dangerous, I still couldn’t help it.’

This wasn’t what my head is telling me to do.

It’s just.

-Oh, the father stabbed his daughter with a knife and set the building on fire to escape!

Why the fire broke out. And who’s the victim.

The moment she heard the whole story of the incident, her body just moved on its own without her realizing.

It reminds her of her past when she was still Min Bo Bae.

Destined to die, a while after, being shunned by her own biological father.

“Sa-save me…”

No one can be seen on the first floor, but as she went upstairs, she could feel that there is a presence of people.

Crash!!

However, the moment she tried to climb the stairs, the flames soared. The wooden stairs seems unstable and also looks precarious.

As soon as I stepped my foot on it, I heard the sound of the stair case parsing. The wooden staircase were in danger of collapsing at any moment.

After thinking for a while, Jayna pulled up her mana to reduce her weight as much as possible and then carefully climbed up.

When she arrived at the top floor. Jayna was able to meet people who were not able to escape yet from the burning building.

“Everyone, wake up!”

But no matter how much she shook them, they showed no sign of waking up .

‘Everyone’s lost their consciousness.’

Everyone seemed to had inhale too much smoke.

‘I’m in a hurry.’

She looked around, but there was no clear answer.

Except for this area where people  poured water and were wet, the whole place was on fire.

‘Not by magic…’

It was all thanks to magic that Jayna had not lost her consciousness until now. But her magic could not save these people.

The healing power can only be used by borrowing the power of God, unless it is a special case.

“…..”

At that moment, Jayna’s sight caught a figure of a girl bleeding to death.

kwaaang!

At the same time, the pillar collapsed and blocked the entrance.

‘There’s no way out.’

Jayna nibbled her lips. Now, there was only one way.

Jayna took out the relic that had been placed in a small space pocket and put her hands on it.

And when mana was injected, the energy of the artifact, which responded to her mana, flowed out of the jar.

Jayna, who had been touching the jar for so long with her eyes closed, stood up as soon as she felt full of energy.

Then, she approached the unconscious people and began to instill energy.

‘Is this the right way…?’

Jayna didn’t know what to do because the power of healing is only used by the gods.

However, the relic which originated from numerous dragon tribes made it possible for her to mimic the power, albeit vaguely.

Perhaps thanks to the energy of the holy relic, words that could not be used even by an adult without awakening, came out of her mouth.

Paaaaah!

Then, a bright light emanated from Jayna’s body and began to wrap around the burning house.

‘It’s my first healing spell, but I’m glad it’s working.’

She doesn’t know in detail what happened, but the treatment seemed to be successful.

However, due to the lack of mana control, the mana consumption was greater than expected. Borrowing the power of the holy relics, her mana became exhausted at once.

‘I don’t have time, we need to get out of here before I run out of mana.’

Jayna tightly bit her lips.

Jayna, who was in her human form, began to grow. It was a transformation after a long time.

Whoo-woo-ooh!

The dragon scales were strong and hard, so they were not affected by the flames.

Jayna hugged the people with her big body and flew up into the sky, destroying the building.

****

The building was burnt away, but the people in front of it were full of vitality.

“Melissa, you’re back safely!”

“I thought you were dead…”

They welcomed their family and friends who they thought would never come back. And one of them was a girl who was thought to have been stabbed to death.

“Oh my, I felt bad for you, but you came back alive!”

“I’m glad I’m back alive anyway because I’ve got the wrong father.”

Izren, who was watching Jayna from a distance, watch them one by one.

‘I didn’t expect that little girl was a dragon.’

With his keen sense, he was soon able to find fragments of relics that had a little bit  trace of a dragon’s energy.

‘Healing magic.’

The power of healing was only granted to the gods. But the young dragon, who could not even awaken her strength, clearly used healing magic before his eyes.

‘It’s all thanks to that artifact that made this nonsense happen.’

As soon as Izren had finished grasping the situation, he returned to the tower and reported to Diamide.

It was Izren who didn’t know the Imperial language, but Diamide was fluent in many languages and could understand his words.

-Prince Rosian and I have known each other from a long time. After going to the palace, it became difficult to trace them. But as soon they were outside the palace, I was able to find them with the help of the tool Towerlord gave me.

Izren handed out a piece of relic he had brought.

-After a fire broke out, Jayna, who went to the market with the prince, saved and treated people in the burning building using a relic.

“Save and treated people? Are you sure?”

Diamide was confused. The holy relics were obviously rare and important for dragons. But she gave up hard-earned artifacts and saved people?

-Yes.

Of course, Izren, who reported the turn of events, was embarrassed.

A little kid who looks younger than his age jumped into the fire to save people.

A dragon is still a little stronger than an adult human even though it hasn’t awakened.

She had no hesitation in a situation where she could lose her own life at any rate.

She must have been scared, too.

“…..”

Diamide remained silent.

On the surface, there was no change in his facial expression, but deep inside, he was very surprised.

As far as he knew, Jayna was a spy sent by the Dragon clan, and that she had come to him for some purpose.

But clearly, she gave up the relics that were helpful to the dragon and saved the lives of others. Even when she have to jumped into the flames with her bare body.

Diamide was confused.

All the dragons he has seen so far treated humans as if they were ants. But the child, called ‘Jayna,’ seemed a little different from ordinary dragons.

-Whether it’s a dragon or a human, I don’t think there’s a difference in life. Everyone wants to live the same way.

It wasn’t long before Diamide was able to find the lover he loved a long time ago.

Soon after, Diamide was able to recalled his lover, he loved a long time ago.

Bezriche… She also cherished human lives unlike other dragons until she betrayed him.

She had been at the forefront of saving human beings, more enthusiastically than a human being

-Bezriche, why did you come to kill the evil king on behalf of the dragon clan?

-It’s my choice. I thought it wouldn’t matter if I died.

Furthermore, Bezriche was always a woman who seemed to have fled the world.

Like that kid, Jayna.

-But when I met you, it was a waste to die.

-but I feel sorry to die because I met you.

That day, Bezriche laughs.

Of course, that would have been a lie, because Bezriche only played him thoroughly.

But… but… According to her logic, isn’t a dragon life more important than other people’s lives?

Now that it has been revealed that she is not a dragon’s spy, Diamide is confused on how to treat Bezriche’s daughter.

“If you’re not a spy for the dragon clan, why did you come to the tower?’

Why did she leave her relatives and come here if she knew that she would not be recognized?

After a long time of contemplation, Diamide soon open his mouth.

“Izren, I have an order for you.”

****

“Why did you do that!”

When Michael heard the whole story from Rosian, he burst into rage.

“I can’t take your side this time. Jump into the flames just to save a few people!?”

“…….”

“Are you out of your mind? Don’t you know that it’s dangerous even for a dragon to jumped in the fire with only your bare body?”

“I did it because I knew it was dangerous.”

“What?”

“Many people were trapped inside that burning building.”

Jayna answered quietly.

“Wouldn’t it be efficient if I could save several people even if I put myself in danger?”

“How can you say that? You leave the danger to others, you’re just a little kid!”

“But among them, I was the strongest.”

“However, you’re the most important thing! Why are you sacrificing yourself to save someone else?”

“…Why?”

“What?”

Jayna dropped her head.

She’s trying to choose a place to die on her own, rather than being torn by a dragon. Is that not possible?

I don’t think it’s a bad idea to save lives rather than to die miserably.

Jayna was not convinced of Michael’s words, but soon changed her expression and answered back.

“I’m sorry, I was too rash.”

It was because she was grateful to him for taking care of her no matter what.

“Really, you…”

But just because she accepted her mistakes, doesn’t mean Michael would just let her go like that.

“You just said you knew your mistakes, didn’t you? But I know you didn’t reflect not one tad bit!”

Michael’s anger was unlikely to go away soon.

“Jay, what I heard isn’t true, is it?”

And in the meantime, even Hilvenzia joined.

But Rosian neither pressed Jayna like Michael and Hilvenzia, nor did he stop Michael and Hilvenzia by taking Jayna’s side.

“……”

He was just staring at Jayna’s quiet profile, with a precarious look.

It was because he remembered the pledge he had made in front of his mother.