Living My Fourth Life as the Dragon’s Daughter - Chapter 1

Chapter 1 – To the Dragon Who Wishes for Death

It came suddenly one day.

“Waah, waah!”
“…”

Small, white, soft hands.

Apart from being soft, they are so small it’s scary to even touch them.

“Waah, waah!”

The crimson eyes, which looked down at the child crying loudly, were filled with confusion.

“What… is this?”

To his question, a middle-aged man who had been wiping his sweat off with a handkerchief next to him quickly answered.

“Master, this is a human baby.”

That answer wrinkled the forehead of the man who was staring at the baby with crimson eyes.

His pitch-black hair ran down his shoulders.

“So why is this here?”
“That…”

The middle-aged man wiped the sweat off again.

“Ciel entrusted us with it, but…”
“That white haired…!”

A child came suddenly one day.

The continent’s black dragon only frowned.

* * *

‘How can you be so pretty?’

I thought I was loved.

‘Really, I have never seen such a pretty child.’

It was only the fourth life. I thought I received affection from my parents.

I thought so when I encountered a smile I had never seen before.

Sometimes it seemed that the negative emotions familiar to the eyes were swaying, but I decided it was my misunderstanding.

However, the child was abandoned again and was heading somewhere guided by the hand of an unfamiliar being.

“… Where are you taking me?”

The little child, who already looked very exhausted, asked calmly.
Like she didn’t care much about where she goes.

“To the northern land.”
“Northern?”

Meeting with crimson eyes, the child opened her eyes wide.

“Yes, if it’s him… He’ll be able to protect you from the curse.”
“Curse…”

It was a dry voice as if he were talking about someone else.

“… I shouldn’t have said that. I’ll hurry.”

That was the end of the voice ringing in her ears.

A dragon holding a child wrapped in a thick blanket.

If someone saw that strange appearance, they would have been worried about whether there was a problem with their own mind.

Coral hair fluttered in the wind, and sparkling amber eyes rapidly looked at the scenery outside of the blanket.

The giant white dragon glanced at such a child.

Then, to protect the child from the cold wind, he used his arm as a windshield.

The white dragon, who had been flying for a while, spoke again.

“… Isn’t this situation confusing?”

Of course, it is confusing. Why wouldn’t it be?

Until a while ago, I was in a horrible scene. A place where murderous intent poured out from all over and I took it with my whole body.

‘No, wasn’t it a little while ago?’

I felt like my sense of time was getting a little dull.

The long, torn dragon eyes looked at the child. There was no answer from the child, who had her expression hidden in the blanket.

She lived three more lives.

In the first, she was beaten to death by strangers. In the second, she died in a foreign land while running away with a weak body. In the third, she lost her footing in the mountains and died.

Even herself, she did not know why she kept reincarnating and had memories of her past lives.

‘Once I asked my parents about the memories of my previous life and they said, “The child can’t see, is she also out of her mind?”…’

It was in my third life. I was born with a body that couldn’t see the light.

“It’s not your fault.”

The child, lost in thought, lifted her head at the words of the dragon.

“… If you ask if it’s all their fault, I don’t know that either.”

The child stared up at the white dragon and, with an indifferent face, looked at the scenery again.

“I know, too. It’s not my fault.”

She did not think it was her fault.

How could it be her fault to have been subjected to such a thing?

The white dragon chuckled at the child’s answer.

“If you know, then it’s alright.”

The white dragon, Ciel, squinted his eyes at the outline of the castle, faintly visible in the distance.

“I am going to entrust you to the Dragon of Judgment.”
“What?”

The child, who had been looking down absent-mindedly with a calm expression, raised her head.

Contrary to the look of muttering a curse, her eyes were wide open.

Finally, a change in the childlike expression made Ciel flap his wings as if he were a little satisfied.

‘The Dragon of Judgement? That? That Dragon of Judgement?’

There was embarrassment in the golden eyes.

As if he had read her thoughts, Ciel said.

“That Dragon of Judgement, that’s correct.”
“…”
“If you are there… No one can harm you anymore, Hyazelki.”
“Why?”
“That’s…”

With a vague statement, Ciel smiled faintly as he stared at the castle, which was approaching at a frightening pace.

“Because that is your destiny.”

Hyazelki looked at the approaching castle, with only her eyes out of the blanket.

This huge, frigid castle, built in the middle of the barren northern land.

At the age of four, Hyazelki met him for the first time.

He who will truly be her protector.

* * *

Ciel, a giant white dragon who laid down a blanket wrapped Hyazelki in the castle lobby, hung his white hair mixed with silver to one side and disappeared alone, leaving only the words “Wait a moment.”.

The child left behind in the huge castle lobby looked around.

The ceiling was so high that Hyazelki, who leaned her head back to see it, fell to the floor with the blanket.

It was the first time seeing such a magnificent place.

Hyazelki, conscious of the silence as if no one were alive, got up again.

‘But what if you leave me here alone?’

With a sulky face and a pout on her lips she decided not to move, even though she wanted to go look for the white dragon.

If you wander around and miss each other…

‘… If this is the castle where the Dragon of Judgment lives, you can never leave me alone.’

She believed that if she stayed here, the white dragon would surely come this way again.

“…”

But she kept her place at the lobby for quite some time, and the white dragon did not appear again.

‘… Could it be he won’t come back?’

That cannot be.

Anxious, Hyazelki walked slowly while looking around.

Even though she was inside the castle, the cold air struck her, and she blew a warm breath on her hand.

Then, she wrapped the thick blanket tightly around her body and took cautious steps.

‘This is a castle, how can there be not one person?’

She read it in a book once.

It said that the Dragon of Judgement lives while being served by a few humans.

“Hmm…”

Hyazelki, with her cute little hands on her chin, wriggled her eyebrows.

In that book, there was something about the runaway of the Dragon of Judgement.

An incident in which the black dragon clearly established itself as a fearful being for humans.

It was an incident in which a whole region of the West was the receptor of his wrath.

‘A clear offense…’

“Oh?”

Hyazelki, who was walking around recalling the book, encountered a person for the first time after entering the castle.

“… There’s a baby…?”

The calm, brown, short-haired girl tilted her head while looking at her.

The light green eyes stared at the child, and she nodded her head as if she were convinced.

“… Pretty.”
“Yuri!”
“Hm?”

As if her name was Yuri, the short-haired girl turned her head.

Hyazelki, who had suddenly encountered a person and stiffened, ran away saying, ‘Now is my chance!”.

“Wait, she’s running away!”
“What? What is?”
“That child! Did Ciel bring her?”
“I don’t know. I just saw her for the first time?”
“That must be the child Ciel was talking about. There cannot be another child in the castle. The lobby is cold, so we should take her to the living room…”
“But Lisa…”
“Hm? What’s wrong?”
“She’s really pretty.”
“What if you’re the only one who saw it? Let’s go after her so I can see too.”
“Okay.”

The conversation seemed somehow strange, so Hyazelki looked back.
Then, the two people who had been chattering went after her at a tremendous speed.

“Aahh!”

Startled, Hyazelki screamed without realizing it and ran away.

As soon as the chase started, her heart pounded. The embarrassment caused her to twist her feet, and the child soon fell flat on the floor.

“Ugh!”

Hyazelki did not make that sound.

Yuri, who had been following her, was even more surprised than the child and covered her mouth with her hands.

“Oh no, she fell down!”
“Hurry and get up…”

She fell so violently that they had no doubt the child would cry.
But instead of crying, Hyazelki jumped to her feet and ran away again.

“… Lisa, I… I like that child.”
“That’s not important right now.”

Yuri went after her with a twinkle in her eyes. Seeing that, Hyazelki ran away even more frightened.

Of course, she knew very well that she couldn’t run away from the two people, as she was still too small.

‘White Dragon! Help me!’

Hyazelki, who was running around carelessly, staggered once again with her thick blanket dragging behind her.

“Oh-oh!”

Yuri, whose distance was a little narrower, ran as if she had been pushed on her back and caught Hyazelki as she was about to fall.

“Ah! Let go of me! Save me, Ciel! White Dragon!”
“Oh my! She speaks very well, Lisa!”

Yuri, shining even more, held the struggling child in her arms and spoke to the woman who had come with her.

“I guess so, they’ll say quite a few things at this age. Rather than that…”

Unlike Yuri, Lisa rubbed her chin with a calm face.

“Do you know it was Ciel who came with her?”

‘You said no one would hurt me here!’

“You looked so innocent, yet you lied to me”, Hyazelki cried on the inside.
“Yuri, first…”

When Lisa glanced, Yuri gently put the child down.

Hyazelki quickly tried to escape, but Lisa was one step faster.

“So… Did you come with Ciel?”
“…”

She unintentionally called the white dragon “Ciel” earlier, but she wasn’t sure.

But, speaking about the Dragon of Judgment… Among the dragons, Ciel was the only one with pure white color, so he called it so.

‘Ugh, besides, I just called it by its name…’

As Hyazelki stepped back without answering, Lisa smiled gently.

“The air here is cold. Shall we go to the living room? Ciel asked us to take you there.”

‘The White Dragon?’

Hyazelki stared at Lisa, smiling softly.

‘Ah… She smiles prettily…’