Eir's Fragile Heart, A Meeting Of Dragons

“Wuwu!! Uwaaah!!”

Eir’s fragile heart completely faced reality.

Her previous indifferent arrogance, her rational composure, the disdainful face that dared not yet had to approach Young Master Naiye.

It was all just a disguise.

Eir clung to Naiye and kept crying.

“…………….”

Naiye said nothing either, because there was nothing left to say.

What he said just now was deliberately harsh, to make her give up her fantasies outright.

After all, if it were really that bad, Eiru wouldn’t have looked after her.

The current Silver Dragon Knight—no—Silver Knight Eir needed to completely vent her emotions.

“Wuwuuuu………”

Eir’s emotions recovered faster than Naiye expected, and her cries soon stopped.

Naiye turned his head to look at her.

He found that she was looking at him too, just trying hard to hold back her tears.

Her small mouth pouted pitifully; the indifferent proud face had been ruined by tears.

But she didn’t seem to have completely let it out.

“………….”

Naiye laid her on the bed, intending to comfort her a little.

The result—of course, excited, Eir pinned Naiye to the bed instead! Then she began to oppress and vent recklessly.

But the words from her mouth lost even more rationality.

“Naiye! Naiye! Naiye! Naiye!

“Don’t leave me, don’t abandon me………. wuuwaaah!”

She cried again.

What Young Master Naiye said was somewhat directly cruel; its essence was to thoroughly dispel Eir’s illusions.

Grandmother Eiru, the matriarch of the Dragon Knights, entered an ancient stone chamber.

This stone chamber had a very ancient history and sense of age, and the stone throne above and the stone chairs below had never changed.

Even though hundreds of years had passed.

The Dragon Knight family rarely held family meetings because they determined status by bloodline.

In most cases they simply obeyed the matriarch’s orders.

This family meeting was also convened by Grandmother Eiru Long.

It was to announce the final result this time and the subsequent policy.

“Welcome, Matriarch Grandmother!!”

Eren and several other principal Dragon Knight members waited on the stone chairs for Grandmother’s arrival.

This kid Eren Long was here for the first time; he was probably the youngest member in the family’s history to enter the stone chamber.

Only that both Eren and Eiru were actually very young—Eren was sixteen and not yet an adult, and Eiru was still under a hundred years old.

The other members were all at least a hundred years old.

Although in appearance they were still young dragon maidens, the shapes of their horns varied.

But at this moment they all had to obey the current matriarch and address her as Grandmother.

This was the bloodline hierarchy of the Dragon Knight family.

“Hmm…….”

Grandmother Eiru casually took the stone throne; she hadn’t sat on this cold seat for a long time, and it was uncomfortable to sit on.

Then she told everyone to relax and sit properly.

“First, Eren is here for the first time; you don’t need to be nervous, just learn slowly. Later you may need to preside over meetings.”

Eren greeted everyone, and they silently nodded.

After all, they all knew each other, so there was no need to waste time.

Then came the presiding of the meeting, which was very rare; this time the matriarch herself, Grandmother Eiru, presided.

“The meeting now begins; I will announce the result.

“After more than sixty years of my efforts and exchanges, I have communicated with three generations of the Lycoris family and established friendly relations.

“Especially this generation’s Duke Lycoris Naiye, I have established a close… close allied relationship with him!”

When Grandmother Eiru spoke of Young Master Naiye, she even blushed a little, embarrassed.

But everyone below expressed support and happiness.

“The subsequent policy is simple: our Dragon Knight family will formally ally with the Lycoris family, establish trade routes, and let everyone properly come into contact with magical technology. How are things on your end?”

After Grandmother began to ask, a councilor immediately stood up to answer.

“According to most people’s statistics, due to Young Master Naiye and his father’s interactions, although people have both aversion and liking, overall the attitude is neutral and indifferent.”

Grandmother Eiru nodded.

“That’s enough; we don’t require everyone to fully accept the Lycoris family’s magical technology, and the most important thing is to have formal contact with the Lycoris family. The rest will come slowly.”

Then another councilor stood up; this Dragon Knight was nearly two hundred years old.

“Grandmother, do we need to actively and immediately make contact with the Lycoris family’s people?”

“No, don’t rush this, otherwise there will be backlash. Let the members who are willing go; let them be more casual, like holding an exchange meeting.”

Finally the third councilor asked the most serious question.

“Grandmother, our alliance with Young Master Naiye will surely attract the attention of other knight families. What should we do?”

“No need to worry. Naiye and I have already confirmed this: it’s only a familial and trade alliance. Our situation in the Academy will remain the same—do what you like, do not participate in wars!”

Everyone had finished speaking, except the newcomer Eren; he didn’t know what or how to respond.

“Alright, now listen to my orders: everyone except Eren is forbidden from disturbing Naiye!”

Eiru glanced at Eren below, who was looking at her with expectant eyes.

“This includes Eren Long! You all are also forbidden from bothering him anymore!”

“…!!”

The earlier order was fine, but the latter order surprised the other dragon maiden knights.

Because the whole family had been thinking of getting close to Eren!

“This is my order!! Those in the Academy, do not act rashly either! Do not approach under any pretext! Behave as usual!”

“…………..”

Under Grandmother’s terrifying and imposing dragon roar, everyone fell silent.

Except Eren—his heart was rejoicing!

He was so happy; those women would finally stop bothering him!

If so, being passive should be fine, right?

The other three seemingly young and pretty women secretly glanced at Eren with the same look and thought as they looked away.

Their minds were also fantasizing about Young Master Naiye.

“For… safety’s sake, notify the people on the other side, tell Naiye’s parents about this so they won’t deny it.”

Here Eiru was referring not just to the family but more to Naiye himself.

She, a dignified Dragon Mother Knight, had pursued three generations of men from a family with little combat power.

Looking back now, was it Naiye’s purity or Eiru’s purity?

A councilor stood up to answer.

“Um… there was an answer: the former head of the Lycoris family replied: ‘Naiye Lycoris is the current head; do as you please.’”

It sounded very casual, but it was indeed the fact.

“Alright, lastly… carve Eir Dragonborn’s name—inscribe it on the Dragon Knights’ obelisk!”

“Wait! Grandmother! She doesn’t deserve it!”

“Right, Eir is no longer one of the Dragon Knights!”

“Her bloodline is no good either!”

Except for Eren, the other three immediately stood up in opposition.

But they were immediately glared down by Grandmother’s pure white dragon eyes!

Grandmother Eiru took a deep breath and answered with words that were extremely cruel to Eir yet had to be accepted.

“Eir will become Eir Lycoris; she will be offered as the Dragon Knights’ token of sincerity to Young Master Naiye. In the future she will become a bridge between the two families. Whatever the specifics, the relationship between the two families will surely increase.”

A political sacrificial pawn of the family.

Eren frowned; he very much disliked those words.

But for Eir, staying in the family would only be painful; it would be better for her to leave with Naiye.

Only—no one cared about her feelings; even if they did, it would be the same.

“Eren, you go write it, to commemorate the previous Commander of the Knight Order.”

Eren went to one side of the stone chamber where there was an obelisk made from a large piece of dragon scale.

There were already quite a few names on the front.

The Dragon Knights whose names could remain on the obelisk were all illustrious figures.

But…

Eren wrote down the name [Eir Dragonborn].

Eir’s name was given a special commendation, as if honoring someone who had fallen on the battlefield…

Eir Dragonborn thus became a sacrifice within the Dragon Knight family.

This was also the last thing Grandmother did for her; Eir, to prove that her deeds had not vanished, at least had her name recorded.

At least it was recorded on the family’s obelisk.

“The matter of Eir Dragonborn ends here! She is now a knight on the obelisk! No one shall mention her anymore!”

It wasn’t Grandmother who said this; it was Eren who suddenly announced it to everyone.

Grandmother Eiru nodded with satisfaction; Eren had finally matured.

Seeing the matriarch approve, the others did not dare to object.

“Grandmother, what should we do next? People will probably know by tomorrow.”

After returning to his seat, Eren finally asked a question for the first time.

And it was a very important question because he was the captain of the Dragon Knights.

What came next might, no, would certainly attract attention.

“Don’t rush; just as usual. Eren, you don’t need to do anything special to dispel misunderstandings—this wasn’t a misunderstanding to begin with.”

Eiru, seated on the stone throne, crossed her ample thighs and told Eren.

“Tomorrow just do as you please; if you want to go find Naiye to play, go ahead—carry on as usual.

“Our focus remains here, not the Academy. We only need to maintain two zones within the academy.”

“What about Naiye’s side?”

Eren wondered how Naiye would explain it.

“Naiye’s side will be the same; he should directly admit it but won’t say much. To everyone it will look like our two families allied but are not involved in the Academy wars—just an alliance between families.”

Eren was still too young in this matter.

He simply understood that after the two families allied they would immediately start acting.

But in fact, this alliance was more because of the relationship between Grandmother and Naiye.

And there was no deeper purpose.

Everything Grandmother said earlier seemed more like future policy to him; this kind of meeting was actually a periodic confirmation.

Simply put, Eren still didn’t quite understand.

But one thing was certain: the alliance between Naiye and Eiru was indeed because of Eiru.

Young Master Naiye more or less knew why she did what she did, and some things he didn’t know but could guess.

He didn’t care because this was the Dragon Knight family’s matter and had nothing to do with him and the Lycoris family.

He had already obtained the important items gained from the alliance.

Afterwards, Young Master Naiye would get to work creating a new magical dragon-shaped knight.