76.Individual Pressures_2

"Roar..."

The young dragon let out a plaintive, disheartened whine, until a pair of gentle hands lifted her up.

"There, there, don't feel bad. Your cat sister is only so great because she was born before you. Fafnir, you're a Great Dragon, cats can't beat dragons. When you grow up, she won't be able to beat you," she said.

Dorothy cradled the hefty young dragon, who was as heavy as a solid iron ball, and softly soothed the little one.

Special familiars like those from the Spirit race or Armored Beasts often have their shape and character influenced by their master. Fafnir, as the child of Sophia's Angel Armored Beast, Angela, hatched not as an angel but as a Great Dragon due to Dorothy's identity as the Dragon Witch.

To better match her master, Fafnir instinctively chose Great Dragon from the gene pool inherited from the Mother of All Beasts.

As a newly formed consciousness, the two little ones' personalities were also unconsciously shaped by the Familiar Contract with Dorothy.