Dragon Queen and Dragon Slayer

"I am not Little Light! Aurora has already fallen asleep, and now this body belongs to me!"

"..."

Such familiar lines.

What now, little sister, do you also have a great dragon hero living in your head?

"Don't talk nonsense, Little Light."

"Who's talking nonsense?"

The little pink-haired girl had quite an overbearing stance, raising her arms, curling her little forearms upward, pressing on her non-existent biceps, "I'm Aurora's hidden personality! Unlike the weak her, I'm stronger! Full of power!"

This strange speech didn't fool Noah in the slightest.

She just kept a cold face, reached out her hand, and pressed it against Little Light's forehead.

"No fever. Then why are you talking nonsense?"

Little Light shook her head, brushing away Noah's hand, "I told you, I'm Aurora's hidden personality! Cool, right?"

Noah crossed her arms, face calm, "Oh, then what's your name?"

The little pink-haired girl froze, "W-What name?"

"Didn't you just say you're different from the weak Aurora? Then in that case, you should have your own name, right?"

"Uh... emmmm..."

"What, don't tell me you don't have one?"

"Wh-Who says that! Of course I have a name! I'm called... I'm called—"

Little Light's brain ran at full speed.

'Damn, why is big sis always picking out the weirdest points to focus on?'

But if she didn't make up a name now, her plan couldn't move forward.

The little pink-haired girl racked her brain and finally stammered, "My name is... Hi-Hikari! Right, Hikari!"

"Oh, you really do have a name huh," Noah said blandly.

"What about you?"

Noah shrugged, "What about me?"

"Stop pretending! Since we all have mysterious second personalities, of course I can sense yours too, Noah K. Melkvei. Let your other side come out and have a chat!"

If Little Light's brain hadn't been scrambled by a fall just now, then this behavior of hers was probably... chunibyo?

But she wasn't old enough to be having a chunibyo phase, was she?

'Mommy said, only people like Daddy would catch chunibyo regardless of age.'

'Could it be...'

'I inherited Daddy's competitiveness;'

'Luna inherited Daddy's talent;'

'Little Light inherited Daddy's chunibyo?'

"I don't have a second personality, Little Light. Don't fool around."

She still thought this little pink ball was just clowning around and didn't take it seriously.

"I am not fooling around! Come on, let yours come out too! I've been waiting to meet a new friend!"

Noah sighed helplessly.

She understood now.

Little Light wasn't suffering from chunibyo, nor had her head been damaged from a fall.

She was still hung up on that "ghost-hunting" incident from a few days ago.

Noah should've known. Her second sister might be ditzy, but her little sister was not so easy to fool.

But Noah couldn't just come clean to Little Light either, otherwise the old ancestor in the consciousness space would start nagging her again.

In that case...

A lightbulb went off in Noah's head, she had an idea.

"Ah... since you've discovered it, I won't hide it anymore," Noah put on a serious face, solemn and sincere.

Hearing this, Little Light's eyes lit up.

'I knew it!'

'I totally baited her into revealing it!'

Little Light suppressed her excitement and asked in a calm tone, "Very well. What's her name?"

"Noah."

"I wasn't asking you. I meant the name of your second personality."

"Mm, Noah."

"Get it straight! Not your name, but the name of your second personality!"

Noah shrugged, "Don't believe me then."

'I'm telling the truth, it's your own fault you don't believe it.'

Little Light was slightly frustrated.

'Why did big sis immediately start going off script just when I got somewhere?'

Looking at big sis's ice-cold expression that resembled their Mommy's to an uncanny degree, Little Light vaguely realized, this trick probably wouldn't work anymore.

That whole performance from big sis just now was probably fake cooperation.

Little Light sighed inwardly. Then today's show would have to end here.

"Sigh, time spent together is always short. Soon I'll have to say goodbye to this free world."

She acted heartbroken and reluctant.

Noah said nothing, just silently watched her little sister go full drama queen.

"If the heavens had not birthed me, Hikari, second personalities would be an eternal night! Farewell, world!"

As the words fell, the little pink-haired girl leaned backward and collapsed onto the floor.

A few seconds later, she slowly opened her eyes, scratched her messy hair, stood up from the ground, looked left and right in confusion, and finally locked eyes with Noah.

"Big sis? Just now... what happened to me?"

Noah smiled, "Nothing much."

"Oh... then if there's nothing else, I'll go to the backyard and play with second sis."

With that, Little Light was about to run off.

But before she could take a step, Noah called her back, "Hey, wait."

"What is it, big sis?"

Noah's eyes flickered slightly, then she said, "Actually... just now, you awakened your second personality."

Little Light blinked, pretending to know nothing, "Eh? What's that?"

"I don't know either."

Noah stepped forward and took her little sister's hand, "But your second personality is super scary. It might be a kind of illness. Let's go find Mommy. Maybe she can cure you."

'Go find Mommy? No way! Absolutely not!'

The move was originally meant to draw out the snake from its hole, she must not end up sacrificing herself instead.

Little Light immediately slammed on the brakes with both feet, even her little tail tense behind her, "Don't go to Mommy, big sis!"

"But your second personality is really scary. Over time, I'm afraid your mental health will be affected."

"Emmmm... a-actually, I was just faking it...", Big sis didn't seem like she was joking, so Little Light had no choice but to come clean.

"Faking? That realistic? I don't buy it, Little Light. Sis is doing this for your own good. Let's go."

"No, big sis! If Mommy finds out, she'll think I'm a weird kid!"

Seeing that the little pink-haired girl was finally scared, Noah was satisfied and let go of her hand.

"Will you dare to act like a psycho and scare me again?"

Little Light shook her head furiously like a rattle drum, "I won't! I won't!"

"Hmph, go play then."

"Thanks for showing mercy, big sis!"

Once released, Little Light zipped away like a streak of light.

Noah snorted with a chuckle, "Little rascal, backfired on you, huh."

But although she managed to fool Little Light this time, next time... what method would she use to probe again?

———

"The plan against Constantine that was passed in the secret Dragon King meeting half a month ago has already begun implementation."

"Each clan has dispatched some personnel to be stationed near the Red Flame Dragon Clan's territory, monitoring Constantine around the clock."

"I plan to send Shirley. What do you think?"

After dinner, Leon and Rossweise were taking a stroll side-by-side along the running track of the backyard training field.

Their feet stepped on the afterglow of the sunset, and in their ears was the cheerful laughter of their daughters.

Leon had both hands in his pockets, walking leisurely, but the serious and grim look on his face revealed that he was deep in thought.

After thinking for a moment, Leon nodded, "Alright. But I have a request."

"What is it?"

"I want to go along too."

Rossweise paused her steps, her brows slightly furrowed, "You want to go too? For what?"

"There are some things... I want to ask Constantine face-to-face."

Rossweise could tell that Leon's tone didn't sound like he was joking.

Of course, it didn't sound like a whim either.

If he wanted to do this, he must have thought it over carefully.

"The dragons cooperating with the Empire must have very tight lips. They would never reveal any information about the Empire."

Leon explained, "But Constantine is different. He used to work with the Empire, but was then subjected to inhumane torture by them. He barely escaped with his life. Now he must hate the Empire, so I figure, maybe I can get something out of him."

Leon and his mentor had planned from the start to gather information from within the Dragon Clan.

So much time had passed, and Leon had already done everything he could. His resources were long used up, the plan had hit a bottleneck, and progress on intelligence-gathering had drastically slowed.

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