8 Aleyn Niel (Revised)
Roland still flies away above the woods. The thunderstorm, the view of the giant wall, the dark cloud, all of them are gone.
The atmosphere more calmness. Looks like they are already far away from the kingdom.
The girl tries to look Roland, but her head was on Roland's back, so she couldn't see what he feels.
in the depths of the forest who don't know where will take them to. Roland still manages to fly. She doesn't want to bother him to ask to stop because there was no longer anyone who chased them. She has just to bear where Roland takes them.
On the next moment, her patience gives her a view of the forest that seems to move away. Replaced with a view of the green field.
The greenfield looks very wide, as far as the eye can see.
Roland stops flying when she enjoying the view and the wind. He vanished his sword-fairy wings and stood on the ground. Then he put down the girl gently.
"Here you go."
At that time, she realizes Roland stop at a really beautiful place.
There is a river that mirroring a view of the cosmos in front of them. She looks at that with glowing eyes and even runs into it.
she squatted and enjoyed the river view. Her mouth remains open with her heart full of gratitude.
On her back, Roland drops a few branches in his left hand. He then stacks them up into one, and flick his two fingers, fire spark comes out from his thumb.
The girl hearing a snap in her back and see Roland doing some magic trick that starts firing a stack of branches in front of him.
The girl runs into Roland and the little bonfire. She squats in front of the bonfire with glowing eyes. Seeing that simple thing just like she sees them for the first time. Or that's she sees a bonfire for the first time, Roland thinks that possibility.
Roland let that thought for a moment, and his left hand that invents an arcana disk pulled something from the forest.
The girl attracted to that. At that time, a tree trunk began to float towards them. That quite surprising because an inanimate object is floating, plus, it flew approaching them.
When that trunk getting closer to them, the girl can see a sword was pierced in its body. So it was Roland's ability to control his sword that brings the tree trunk to them.
The tree trunk dropped near them. Roland dispels his arcana, walks into the tree trunk, sits on the turf lean back on the trunk.
"Come here"
Roland pats the ground next to him. Invite the girl to come along.
The girl stands up and runs beside him. She sat next to Roland right side and keeping their distance a little.
She sits just like other girls do. Pointing her two legs to the side.
Roland put his left hand into the girl's head. The girl quite surprised when he does that, but she enjoyed that feeling Roland give to her.
Roland looks at her with a grateful feeling. Because she can manage to save her life, and from now on, he will do his best to gain everything she needs. Protect her in every situation. Try to always be by her side. Won't disappointing her if he could.
"Ah, I forgot to think of your name"
Roland stops patting and made his head thinking of the girl's name.
Now that he thinks about it, he promises to give the girl a name when he comes back to her in the hut. But when he comes back, the hut was on fire and he had to save her from his mad ally.
"That's why I couldn't – no, I even can't thinking of that on that situation. Hm?"
Roland looks into his right. The girl looked at him with an expression of wonder, apology, and impatience.
"Weell~"
Roland tilts his head. Trying his best to think of any good name he knows.
"Oui!"
He made a quite surprising move. Even the girl surprise that.
"Aleyn!" Roland shouted at that one word, then continue to talk to the girl, "Listen and remember girl, from now on, your name is Aleyn, Aleyn Niel."
"A... Ali-eyn..."
The girl trying to spell her name. Even though the way she spelled it quite cute.
"Hey, follow me."
Roland made her look and focus on him. The girl looks at Roland with a serious-looking face.
"It's, A-L-E-Y-N."
"A-...L-...E-Y-N. Aleyn."
"Yes, that is, Aleyn."
Roland calls her with her name for the first time.
Aleyn Niel. From now on that is her name, and every person he meets will call her with that name. Aleyn smiled gratefully at that imagination.
"You like it?"
Roland looks at her with a gentle face. Ask her of her name.
Aleyn couldn't think anything that makes her don't like that name. However, that is the kindest thing she had ever have in her life, and she even couldn't think she will have a name.
"Un"
Aleyn smiled brightly, answered Roland's question with her beautiful expression.
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"Ughk-!"
Something wants to come out from Roland's mouth. Roland tried to push it back to his body, yet it still pressing to come out.
"Uogh!"
Something fluffy – a fur ball was coming out from Roland's mouth.
"Did I tell - !"
"Sihhh~"
Roland was really mad and almost shouted to the thing. A furball that transforms into a little black-white dragon. Her wings made by feathers and have a different color. Black in right and white in left, that also applies to her eyes.
The size is quite small and only as big as the size of two Roland hands. Four feet and long-neck dragon.
The little dragon was stopped Roland at the right time. Because on their bedside, the little red-haired girl is sleeping quietly.
"You don't want to wake up the girl, right?"
The black-white dragon speaking at Roland like it was common.
Roland agreed at her – who has the voice of an adult woman. His throat quite hurt but he held his anger even.
"So, why did you come out at this time?"
"Well, if I meet her while she's awake, she will remain open her eyes because of my beauty don't you think"
At first, she looked like a pretty wise dragon. But that impression was gone when she prides herself. Roland didn't give a da*n at her pride.
"You didn't agree with me?"
"-Nope"
"Aw that's rude"
The dragon act just like a woman who is very close to Roland, but in the dragon form.
In that every situation, Roland will just like, "yeah", "oh", "hm", if he just wants to play with him. However, this time she didn't look like want to play.
"Yeah, whatever. So, what brings you up here?"
"I feel an uncommon sense at this girl, Relative"
"Yeah, because she's not a common girl"
"You're not listening"
The dragon gives Roland a serious-looking face. Made Roland quiet surprise because she's very rare to act like that.
Roland changes his pattern and getting serious.
"I sense this girl would face a hard faith because you just changed the direction of this girl's red thread"
"Yeah, I do that because I want to save her life. is that as bad as it seems??"
The dragon let out a sigh hearing Roland's response. By inhaling and straighten up, she continues to talk.
"You know about the Vermilion's kin curse is, right?"
"It made them can't have a happy life. Nah, I don't trust that"
"You know that curse is coming through dragon bond and you still didn't trust that?"
The dragon furrowed her brows at Roland's response, while Roland looking at the other side dodging the dragon's gaze.
The dragon let out a sigh for the second time and continue.
"You know I have always loved you since you save my life. But I act like just because I didn't simply want to spare you with her"
"So what?"
"I'm afraid of losing you"
"Just because of here?!"
Roland returned a pitying gaze from the dragon with a quite angry expression. The dragon surprised at her relative gaze. Let out a sigh for the third time and continue.
"Did you want to live for her?"
"I do"
"So what about me?"
Now it's Roland's turn to let out a sigh at dragon's glazed gaze.
"You know you live through my life thread. So why ask from the start?"
"You said you want me to spare my love with this girl?"
"Y – yeah, why not?"
The dragon let out a sigh for the fourth time. At her face, there is a lonely feeling of a beautiful woman that always abandoned by her beloved one.
"I thought you had had enough of woman. But what now – "
"Hey-hey-hey-hey, stop that"
Roland stopped the dragon quickly before she said something taboo. He then fingering the dragon and start to talk seriously.
"She is not like what you think, and all I want from her is she to be happy with her life. Even more, to prove that the curse is sh*t"
"Language please"
"Sorry"
Roland has done with his statement and back to relax. The dragon let out a sigh for the fifth time and response.
"Okay I get it, so, any plan to what you wanna be for her?"
"What do you mean?"
"Are you stupid?"
"Yeah I think"
"Uughh"
The dragon touches her head of dizziness. I couldn't believe her beloved one somehow a man who come forward without thinking any further.
"To put it simply, she's what to you?
"What do you – "
Roland stopped in the middle. Realized something that puzzled him.
"Wait a minute – she is what to me? Of course – "
"Hm?"
"A daughter?"
"Pfft – "
The dragon holds her mouth before she laughs at Roland's statement.
"W – what so funny?"
Roland stammered because of his answer. Even there is a red trail on his two cheeks. The dragon can't hold her laugh at let it blow the moment.
"Hahaha, you, an adult man on his 40-years age, adopting a girl to be your daughter. I just can't, hahaha"
"Hey, stop it, you would wake her up"
Even though Roland tried to stop his dragon of her laugh, the girl he mentioned was smiled on her sleep.
"But, why is it, Aleyn? Moreover, you give Niel on the back"
"Well, it simply because Aleyn sounded beautiful, and I thought it fit perfectly to her. For the Niel, well let's just say that's our family name"
"I see"
