Young Master Eren Dragonborn Overwhelmed By Work

When Young Master Naiye returned to his estate.

He found that no one had come to greet him.

This time Young Master Naiye had returned without sending a message, so the two female knights didn’t know when Naiye would be back.

The Dark Knight Weiluxika should be at the Church of the Three Moons, and Naiye was very surprised that the Silver Knight Eir wasn’t here!

She actually went out alone?! Although he didn’t know whether she went to play or for some other reason, at least her mindset seemed to have improved a lot.

Naiye had originally thought she would be withdrawn for a long time, avoiding going out except for necessary tasks.

Naiye stood alone in the courtyard, looking at his magical dragon-shaped knight.

Although only the head was dragon-shaped, the other parts remained as they originally were.

“Hm, it seems Eir learns quickly—she didn’t toss things around and didn’t fiddle with my parts.”

After a careful inspection, Young Master Naiye found that all the materials and parts around the magical dragon-shaped knight were left exactly where they had been.

At most Eir had wiped them, so there wasn’t much dust.

She wasn’t that clumsy—she hadn’t touched even the smallest parts she didn’t understand.

What a good maid, and a dragon maid at that.

Naiye felt excited imagining her tall, ample figure dressed in a maid outfit.

This maid outfit was something Naiye had specially prepared for her.

“I’ll go back to my room and rest for a bit; tomorrow I’ll continue modifying the dragon-shaped knight.”

Young Master Naiye, feeling idle, returned to his room.

There were no plans for today; although it was still morning, he was bored and went back to sleep.

The other two weren’t around either; there was nothing special he wanted to do, so he’d start working on the magical dragon-shaped knight tomorrow.

The Dark Knight Weiluxika’s return time was unknown, and Young Master Naiye was waiting for news from her.

—Although he roughly suspected that Weiluxika would choose the Dark Moon Knight.

Young Master Naiye knew her; her heart likely craved power even more than she did outwardly.

But she herself was completely unaware of this—a bad habit.

Plop.

Naiye lay bored on his bed; the room had been cleaned very thoroughly.

It seemed Eir had cleaned diligently; Naiye even noticed that because she didn’t go out much, she had more time on her hands.

So she cleaned several extra times.

With nothing planned for today, Naiye, bored, wanted to sleep.

“Zzzzzzz!”

Naiye shouted zzz loudly and pretended to be asleep.

But how could he possibly sleep this early! And there was no one else in the room…

“…..”

Naiye got up and quietly stood by the window, looking at the scenery while thinking.

“Forget it, I’ll go see how Eren Dragonborn is doing.”

Ever since Eren formally took office last time, he hadn’t been seen.

Because he finally had work to do—being the commander of the Dragon Knight Order, he wanted to personally handle the work.

At first, Eren complained that he couldn’t stand the mountain of paperwork, whining to Naiye like a child.

Young Master Naiye replied to him bluntly.

“I went through the same thing, you brat—work harder!”

He answered in an overly mature, pretentious tone, which Eren disliked greatly.

Afterwards Eren was buried in paperwork again because he was unaccustomed and needed time to adapt.

Eiru had him busy to give the grandson some work experience and train him.

It had been a while; in any case, Naiye was bored and decided to go see how he was doing.

After some time, Naiye saw a couple he remembered in the Dragon Knights’ area.

A Dragon Knight girlfriend and an ordinary trainee boyfriend.

The Dragon Knight girlfriend was nearly two meters tall, tall and sturdy, while the boyfriend wore glasses, refined and gentle—a scholar.

The boyfriend’s height barely reached his girlfriend’s chest; the height difference made them look like a large-age-gap sibling pair.

Normally the girlfriend led their dates, but this pair was shy: the tall, blushing Dragon Knight girlfriend was led by the skinny boyfriend, hand in hand, on a shopping trip.

Whatever the boyfriend did, the girlfriend responded quietly and adorably.

This young man was truly promising—he was the dominant one in the relationship, and his girlfriend was a physically formidable Dragon Knight.

And Young Master Naiye vaguely remembered that it was this boyfriend who had once taken the Dragon Knight girlfriend to a couple’s inn.

They seemed to be doing quite well.

Young Master Naiye stopped and hailed a dragon carriage pulled by a docile Direhorn to head to the Dragon Knight Order’s base.

The Direhorn was very gentle and detected the distinctive aura on Young Master Naiye.

It quietly obeyed orders and pulled the carriage toward the Dragon Knight Order.

Because the core of the Dragon Knight Family lay outside the Academy, there weren’t actually many Dragon Knights within the Academy.

Especially the stronghold, which was more like a small dragon palace.

But compared to the Sky Wing Knights’ Golden Castle, it lagged far behind in both appearance and scale.

The biggest difference from the family seat’s dragon palace was that there was no giant stone dragon above the main gate.

Instead, there were two stone dragon beasts sculpted in front of the gate.

Young Master Naiye walked up to the gate and was naturally stopped by two Dragon Knights guarding it.

This wasn’t a public street; outsiders couldn’t come and go at will.

“This is the Dragon Knight Order; outsiders may not enter at will. Do you have any identification?”

The two tall Dragon Knights with dragon horns lowered their heads slightly and scrutinized Naiye.

They of course didn’t recognize him, but they could sense a familiar, amiable aura about the boy.

But they didn’t know what it was, and by duty they couldn’t just let others in.

Young Master Naiye had originally intended to give his name, but he suddenly felt like playing a bit, so after tidying himself a little.

He answered calmly in a solemn, earnest tone and manner.

“I’m sorry, I don’t, but I’m here to see Eren Dragonborn. I have urgent private matters to discuss with him.”

“Young Master Eren is busy right now and still in his office. If you don’t have identification or notification, please leave…”

Naiye’s earnest tone and demeanor indeed appeased the two Dragon Knights; they answered hesitantly but with a hint of respect.

Especially because he carried Eiru’s lingering aura, which naturally made all the Dragon Knights—and even the Dragon Beasts—feel close to Young Master Naiye.

At the very least, they wouldn’t kick him out as a street charlatan.

“Then could you notify him? At least leave a message.”

“Very well… I’ll notify him. Please wait here.”

This was against the rules, but Young Master Naiye’s words made them involuntarily agree.

One Dragon Knight’s dragon-like eye hesitated under her helmet, then immediately ran inside to inform them.

The Dragon Knight who remained glanced around, confirmed there was no one nearby, set down her weapon, and approached Naiye.

She bent slightly, hands on her knees, and in a baby-talking voice looked at Naiye’s crimson eyes.

“Little brother, you’re so young and adorable—could you tell big sister who you are~?”

“I’m Eren’s… friend.”

Actually Young Master Naiye wanted to say he was their grandfather’s, arrogantly taking advantage.

But after thinking it over, he decided it was better not to blurt that out.

Unexpected yet unsurprising, the tall Dragon Knight accepted Naiye’s words.

And when she heard that, she made the elder-like expression of surprise that Eren had actually made a friend.

“Alright, I’ll go with that. Also, your aura smells nice—I’m quite fond of it.”

Her tone was gentle and respectful—because of Young Master Naiye’s aura and the residue of Eiru’s presence.

That made her approve so readily.

If he had been an ordinary person, they would have kicked him out without a word.

Soon, the guard who had gone in to report returned.

They invited Naiye inside!

After being granted permission to enter, Naiye refused to be led, tidied his appearance once more, squared his chest, and strode in.

This made the two gatekeeping Dragon Knights even more curious about who this slim, handsome little brother was.

Having successfully entered the dragon palace, he first took a look around the place.

Compared to the outside streets, the interior was far more solemn and dignified.

On the training ground, numerous tall Dragon Knights were training or working out, sweating profusely.

Guards at key points were also fully prepared, standing proud and upright.

Dragon Knights handling affairs were all deeply focused on their tasks.

In the central arena several pairs of knights were dueling fiercely and passionately.

After all, this was the stronghold of a knight order, and it looked very imposing.

In other respects the environment was similar, only much smaller in scale.

Young Master Naiye looked up and around, and with practiced eyes immediately spotted Eren’s office.

Then he headed toward his target.

Knock, knock knock!

He rudely opened the door and went in without waiting for Eren’s reply.

Because Naiye knew Eren wouldn’t be able to respond.

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Eren looked as if life was worse than death, exhaustedly collapsed over his desk.

There were piles and piles of documents on the desk that needed his attention.

But the countless files and work had already overwhelmed him……..

“Hey, it’s me. Don’t pretend—get up.”

“Ah… it’s you. Sigh, it’s so tiring…”

Eren staggered to his feet, and the surrounding papers nearly fell to the floor.

Young Master Naiye glanced and saw that these had accumulated over time.

It was impossible that so much work had suddenly appeared all at once for Eren to handle.

The reason was that Eren processed things too slowly, and over days and months they had piled up like this.

“…………”

Eren saw Naiye remain silent and felt a bit embarrassed; the office fell into silence.

Fortunately, it didn’t last long before Eren took the initiative to seek a solution.

“Naiye, if you become the boss, do you have to deal with this many documents every day?”

At first Naiye wanted to say it was mainly because Eren was too slow, but he quickly changed his mind.

“Just this much? You already think it’s too much! What are you going to do when you have the entire Dragon Knight Family to manage?”

Naiye decided to scare him.

“Ah! Ah, thi-this…”

Eren was truly frightened into silence; his heart leapt hard!

“I suddenly regret suggesting to Grandma that I take this on………”

“Wah wah.”

Eren began to fake cry—these weren’t things he had to handle before.

But since the last meeting, Eren wanted to take on some responsibilities himself.

So he formally took up the duties of the Dragon Knight Order.

The result was like just entering society: originally ambitious and full of confidence.

But reality slapped him hard in the face.

“That’s not fair! Naiye, you’re Duke Lycoris—how come you have such a large estate like Grandma and don’t have to manage it! You’re clearly here doing nothing yourself!”

But Eren wasn’t stupid—he quickly noticed something off.

Grandma, as the matriarch of the Dragon Knights, spent her free time drinking and reading novels in her little room every day.

A stranger might think she was a carefree homebody with no work to do!

“So you never knew? Have you forgotten that it was Eiru who suggested I cultivate the Lycoris Three Flower Pillars? Do you think they really just sit at home as vases? You should’ve realized that long ago.”

Young Master Naiye lay back arrogantly in his chair, proudly showing Eren the importance of his core subordinates.

Now each of them was very useful, and Naiye had deliberately trained them to specialize in three major directions.

Dark Elf maid Cassia—Politics

Dark Knight Weiluxika—Military

Dr. Emira—Economy

Is there really any fool who thinks Naiye trained them just because they’re sexy, pretty women to populate a harem?

What use would that be, only to satisfy one’s own desires.

Now the fourth is the Silver Knight Eir; because she arrived suddenly, she didn’t have any particularly major duties.

For the time being she served as Young Master Naiye’s maid-knight, both caregiver and guard.

“Uh, Grandma mentioned it, I forgot… and also—”

“Don’t you have any men under you? Although our country does have relatively few men.”

Naiye waggled a finger—it’s not like that.

“There are some, but only a few are my trusted aides, and there’s a reason they’re all women.”

“What reason?”

“Of course it’s about feelings. When you interact sincerely, those bonds become firmer—almost impossible to betray.”

Naiye was indeed a smooth talker; Eren caught the meaning behind the word ‘almost.’

Young Master Naiye wasn’t foolish or arrogant enough to think he was truly invulnerable.

“What about you—haven’t you properly cultivated some deputies? Do you think other commanders really handle everything alone?”

—It seemed the previous Eir really was like that.

“Uh………”

Eren lowered his head and thought carefully.

He actually had quite a few women around him—after all, he was Grandmother Eiru’s direct bloodline, the only young master in the Dragon Knight family.

But after careful thought, Eren realized—few of them had a genuine emotional foundation.

And aside from feelings, whether they could be trusted was another matter entirely.

Because almost all of them pursued him specifically because of his lineage and bloodline……

Eren himself didn’t believe their feelings were sincere.

“None…..”

“See? I told you—the Lycoris Three Flower Pillars were cultivated over time to deepen emotions; after all, there are real feelings involved, it’s not that easy.”

Though Young Master Naiye said this, he still arrogantly displayed it.

But he had to admit, Eren was very envious now…….

“Sigh, forget it. Let’s get practical. Naiye, how do you usually handle this stuff? Can I process it faster?”

Eren pointed to the mountain of accumulated work piled on the desk.

“Either burn it, or get through it quickly.”

Responsible Eren of course wouldn’t choose the first option, so he asked how to process it faster.

“You’re slow because you’re unfamiliar. You need to form a habit—scan through quickly, identify the key points, then handle them!”

After hearing this, Eren realized it was the purest and most practiced method.

There was no shortcut to it.

Unless he wanted to slack off—in which case not only would his face be ruined, but Grandmother Eiru would spank him again!

For the sake of his responsibility and dignity, he absolutely couldn’t do that!

But he was still very glad Naiye came by to visit and cheer him up.

Of course, he wouldn’t be foolish enough to ask what Naiye had been doing over at the Skywing Knight Family these past few days.