Troubled Damian

After the incident the whole castle got into a state of panic which was followed by a state of unrest amongst the citizens of the town as well as someone must have told them about what happened at the castle. At this point Damian had totally given up on keeping the news to themselves as somehow or the other the news found its way out of the castle. Besides he had more problems that he was currently facing, which could easily be explained by Irene was getting into deep shit.

Her draconic transformation didn't showed any signs of stopping, and Damian was unable to gather any of the test subjects showing a similar symptoms like that of his wife and was currently hoping that the man he just fought was not dead yet as he decided to experiment on him, though he knew that this was a recipie for trouble as when the people of Dragonof would come to know how 'the so called foreigner' was using one of the loyal and great soldiers of their kingdom(even though he turned into a mindless beast and tried to kill others), they will surely protest to let the man go.

Damian gave a tired sigh as he massaged his temples and looked at Irene who was covered in scales, looking out of the window with a sad expression on her face.

He then took a seat beside her and pulled her closer to him making her rest her head on his shoulder.

"...So how was it?" asked Irene.

"How was what?"

"The dragon turned human."

"A mindless beast who attacked anything on its path." said Damian as he felt Irene flinch.

He looked at her and saw her looking towards the ground and asked, "What happened?"

But no reply came.

Damian just let her be for a while as he stayed by her side and once she was done doing her deep thinking Irene looked at Damian with determined gaze and said, "Damian if....if I turn into a dragon as well then-"

"-then you will be the most beautiful dragon that I would have laid my eyes upon." said Damian as he interrupted her.

"Damian....please. I know that you know what I want to say but please let me sa-"

Damian just covered her mouth with his hand and said, "You will become such a beautiful dragon that I will tame you and soon find a way to turn you back." and looked directly into Irene's eyes.

Irene looked back at Damian but soon tears started coming out of her eyes as she held removed Damian's hand from her mouth and hugged him tightly and started crying while burying her face in Damian's chest.

Damian remained silent as he hugged her back and only had one thought in mind, 'If she doesn't loosen her hug soon then I will die. Damn, her strength has increased once again.'

Damian soon started using his magic to enhance his durability which immediately informed Irene and she soon realised what she was doing and broke the hug.

As soon as Irene let go of Damian, he immediately fell down on the ground and got onto his knees while hugging his body which was in extreme pain.

"I am sorry. I am sorry. I am sorry."

Irene apologised again and again and continued to do so until Damian used a potion on himself and was able to stand straight again.

"Don't worry, I was well prepared for this so I am not feeling that bad." said Damian.

"That means that you are still feeling bad, right?!" said Irene with a worried look on her face.

"Yeah, I am." said Damian.

"You don't have to accept that fact." complained Irene.

"Whatever, it's fine. Anyways, I will be going to the look at one of the battlefields invaded by this Acnologia thing. So take care." said Damian.

"Should I come with you as well?" asked Irene.

"Sorry. As much as I would like to go on a date with you, currently is not the best time for that. I need to look into some of the people who suffered from the same as you and would like to cure you as soon as possible. Not to mention that you are not alone. There is also the baby, you know. You due date is nearing, right?" asked Damian with a concerned tone.

"Ah, about that....." said Irene as she trailed off and averted her eyes.

Damian blinked his eyes in surprise as he looked at his wife. After thinking about it for a while Damian widend his eyes in shock and immediately held Irene by the shoulders and asked, "Irene? Don't tell me that you used your magic?"

Irene gulped her salvia as she was forced to look directly into Damian's eyes. After gathering up some courage and finally starting to feel pain from Damian's magic enhanced grip Irene said, "I don't know what side effects my current body transformation could have happened to this baby. So I decided to block the link in between us while keeping its body is a suspended state. It's safe but currently the bay is not growing."

"And when were you planning on telling me this?" asked Damian in a cold tone.

"Umm...."

Irene averted her eyes once again in response but Damian didn't stop and continued to glare at her making the red head feel uneasy under his cold glare.

"Y-Y-You were already so tensed and busy....so...."

"You were not planning on telling me till I asked you or mentioned it on my own, huh?" said Damian.

"It's not completely like that....I mean I was thinking of telling you about this once the war would have been over..... probably." said Irene.

Damian sighed and let go of Irene's shoulders and took a seat once again and facepalmed.

"Seriously, why the hell I am getting in all this mess. Even Irene has started giving me serious troubles and it is her second one in not so long ago." complained Damian as he started yelling and cursing whatever got onto his mind.

Seeing that she had clearly made her husband mad, Irene made a sound blocking barrier around them and sat there in front of him ready to get her scolding which really happened once Damian's gaze fell on her and it continued for hours.

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The next day in the morning Damian took his leave leaving behind a totally exhausted Irene who was scolded for the whole night for taking some reckless decions.

Damian informed Stella and Zena about him going to the Acnologia destroyed battlefields and left the castle soon after that.