51 Can I Call You Master? - Part 1

Asura Ryuu woke up, finding himself once again in the same room. He didn't even know when he fell asleep before. Looking up, he saw the gentle contours of Lan Yao's face as her closed eyelashes slightly fluttered, feeling that he woke up.

Lan Yao's gentle voice resounded: "Awake?"

Asura Ryuu sat up and scratched his head awkwardly while thinking: "Why did I react like that, so childish... Godddd! Its embarrassing!!!"

Asura Ryuu nodded and avoided eye contact with Lan Yao because he was feeling far too awkward. Glancing at Asura Tenka, he noticed that her mind wasn't calm.

Asura Ryuu: "This girl... She woke up before me but was too embarrassed so she continued pretending to sleep..."

Asura Ryuu: "Umm... Elder, there's a thing troubling me..."

Lan Yao looked at his embarrassed expression and chuckled while asking curiously: "What is it? Tell your big sister what's troubling you."

Asura Ryuu: "I... need to pee..."

Lan Yao: "..."

Inside of Asura Ryuu's mind, the white dragon roared with laughter as his Divine World shook with every reverberation rebounding back from the edges of his Spirit World.

Chaos Dragon: "Ryuu, your acting is top-notch! Hahahahhaahha... I can't... hahhahhah--"

Even the corners of Asura Tenka's mouth twitched when she heard him say that.

Naturally, Asura Ryuu felt like jumping off a cliff that was below the window. He, who was older than this girl who called herself 'Big Sister', actually had to ask her to...

Asura Ryuu thought: "AAAAAHHHH! This is too embarrassing! I want to die!!!"

Lan Yao chuckled once more, seeing this cute fella's embarrassed face. It was only then she truly realized that all the twenty four children were still immature kids.

Lan Yao gave directions to Asura Ryuu, who immediately fled out of the room. He, however, didn't forget to pause in front of the door and glance to Asura Tenka, saying aloud: "Oh, you're awake, sister!"

Asura Tenka silently cursed in her mind: "Curse you, damnable rascal!"

She was forced to stop pretending now that Asura Ryuu called out her name. She hoped that Lan Yao didn't hear her brother, but alas; she did.

Lan Yao's deep azure eyes clearly looked at the petite girl in her lap as the girl's cheeks slightly turned rosy. Now she was embarrassed as well and finally opened her eyes. The thing Asura Ryuu previously missed was that Asura Tenka's eyes turned to blood red from a previous golden color. It seems summoning the Dragon God had affected the color of her eyes, but he didn't see his own transformation either.

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Asura Ryuu hurriedly closed the doors and ran for his life according to directions Lan Yao gave him. After turning a few corners, he finally arrived outside the bathroom door and when he opened the doors, he got shocked.

The bathroom before his eyes overturned his understanding of the word 'bathroom'. This was simply heaven compared to what he had previously called 'bathroom'!

A ten-meter big pond with bubbling hot water was situated on the opposite side of the room.

There was a female silhouette hidden by rising bluish mist, but because of the light coming from a transparent window that took up the size of an entire wall, the borders of her body were clearly visible. Asura Ryuu who ran in uninvited was stunned when he saw a beautiful pale skin with blue scales protruding here and there. The aura of the girl seemed familiar, but Asura Ryuu was completely taken aback by seeing something else.

At this moment, the girl turned around because she noticed Asura Ryuu's presence.

???: "Who's there?!"

Asura Ryuu: "E-eh... umm, I'm sorry!!!"

In the next instant, he found himself levitating off the floor as sapphire-blue mist converged around him and forced him to float closer to the figure in the mist. A few seconds later, he was already behind the mist and saw a scene that immediately caused a boom to go off in his mind.

Glowing deep-blue eyes, glittering sharp scales and sapphire-blue hair. This girl's features struck his mind as he felt a very familiar aura coming from her: "Where the hell did I meet her? Is she one of the elders?!"

At that moment, the girl's naked body completely occupied his field of vision. Twin towering peaks were visible, but luckily the highest points of the peaks were covered by deep-blue scales, as well as the other important region of her body. The scales extended along the sides of her body, leaving only the front and the back naked.

The girl's outstretched finger pointed to the side and Asura Ryuu's clothes came off by themselves. Actually, it was the deep-blue mist that stripped him naked, but the mist gave off a familiar feeling. Only now did Asura Ryuu remember where he met this girl as his black eyes became even blacker because his pupils shrunk.

Asura Ryuu forgot that he was being forcefully stripped and only returned to reality when the blue mist disappeared and he started falling. Just as he was about to fall into the pond, two slender arms caught him and his vision turned dark. The reason for this occurrence came from the two soft balls that sandwiched his head between them. A pair of arms restrained him while hugging him tightly yet gently.

???: "If it isn't the little adorable guy! What are you doing here? Did you come to peek at this sister bathing?"

Asura Ryuu: "E-eeh? N-no! I didn't! The Elder told me this is the bathroom, so I-I..."

???: "Hahaha. Little fella, do you even know what peeking means?"

Asura Ryuu: "Uhh... I'm sorry! I don't... I'm very sorry!"

???: "Why are you apologizing?"

Asura Ryuu scratched his face as he could finally extract his head from the girl's breasts reluctantly and looked to the side, his charming features of a little kid melting the last of the girl's defenses in the process.

Asura Ryuu: "I... U-um... I'm sowwy that I don't know what peeking means... Sister isn't angry?"

Now, one has to admit - Asura Ryuu is a master-level actor. Even the white dragon in his mind was awed by his abilities besides dying of laughter, not to mention the poor girl being deceived in the bath at the moment. Who would suspect such an adorable kid, after all?

The girl looked at Asura Ryuu's features up close and her heart started beating faster under the influence of the powerful yet mysterious look in the boy's eyes. She ruffled his white hair and brought him to the edge of the pond. Asura Ryuu's legs came in contact with water, which caused his legs to tense up immediately. The cause for that was a faint electricity inside the water. Because of the electricity, his legs reflexively shot back, and he fell butt-first on the edge of the pond.

???: "Oh dear, I'm sorry. I forgot the pond has a power of thunder within. Are you alright?"

Asura Ryuu didn't need to force a pained look on his face because his butt really hurt from hitting the hard surface: "I-it doesn't hurt. Not at all-ack."

Wanting to act as a child as much as he could apparently isn't a good thing when doing so in front of an elder sister who cares for you. At least it isn't good for Asura Ryuu's heart... and mind.

The brief period of freedom for his face once again disappeared as the girl hugged him once again, planting his head between the twin soft peaks... again...

???: "I'm sorry, the pain will go away soon. Bear with sister until then."

Asura Ryuu's mind filled with a feeling of satisfaction as he carefully felt the warm feeling and a slight pressure coming from his cheeks. He felt a ticklish sensation on his ear and looked up, only to see waterfall-like blue hair falling down and a pair of worried sapphire eyes looking at him.

From the girl's point of view, the little guy's head rose and his big round eyes captivated her mind once again as her tight embrace slightly relaxed, which gave Asura Ryuu a room to breathe.

Asura Ryuu said in meek child-like voice: "Sister, it doesn't hurt anymore!"

The girl's eyes twitched as she returned to reality from the abyss within Asura Ryuu's eyes as her heart sped up once again, just like before.

???: "Little fella, what's your name?"

The boy looked at her with innocent eyes and said: "I'm called Asura Ryuu. Sister, what's yours?"

???: "Asura Ryuu? Your name feels a bit unusual, yet has a power to it. I like it. I'm Xiao Lan."

Asura Ryuu: "Sister... Xiao? Sister Lan? Sister, how do I call you?"

???: "You can just call me Xiao Lan, no biggie."

???: "Hey - Little Ryuu. Mind if sister asks for something selfish?"

Asura Ryuu: "No, no! Sister can ask anything!"

???: "Can I... call you master?"

Asura Ryuu's mind exploded with a boom once again as his idea of who this might be strengthened once more.