Edric

The newly hatched baby dragon wasn't particularly heavy, but when it flew head-first crashing against his chest, Calle couldn't help but tell the little dragon to get off of his chest so that he would be able to breathe properly.

And now that the baby dragon only leaned his head against Calle's lap, Calle was able to get his upper body up and sat on the ground.

He then looked down towards the pure white dragon that closed its eyes and rested its head comfortably on his lap. Seeing how peaceful and comfy the little dragon looked, Calle couldn't help but to rub the little dragon's head gently as if it was only a little sleepy puppy.

However, the dragon's pure white scale that felt no less tough than the stone that they currently sat on clearly reminded him that the creature that currently looked very innocent and harmless was indeed a real dragon.

"Do you have a name, little dragon?" Calle asked while keeping his hands moving in a rubbing motion.

Hearing Calle's voice in its ear, the little dragon perked up its face and looked up at Calle before shaking its head left and right.

"Oh! You are able to understand me?"

This time, the little dragon nodded its head up and down as it replied to Calle's question.

Looking at the little creature bobbing its head up and down adorably, even Calle started to think that the dragons that he saw in the video games and movies were exaggerating and they were not actually that terrifying if you look at them from a different angle. Especially knowing how cute a baby dragon looked when they had just hatched from their eggs.

Shaking his own head to focus back on the fact that the newly hatched baby dragon was able to understand his words, Calle then began questioning the dragon with all sorts of questions.

"What is your favorite food?"

"Do you know what color your scales are?"

"Do you know my name?"

"How can you understand what I'm saying?"

"Can you fly again?"

With these series of questions, Calle then found out that the little dragon really did understand him. But it wasn't able to say anything out of its mouth or write, at least yet.

The dragon answered Calle's first question by shrugging its body as if telling him that it had never eaten anything yet so it didn't know. It then pointed at its scale when Calle asked the second question, telling Calle to use his own eyes to see it.

It then shook its head for the third question. Looked at Calle blankly, with confusion filled in its eyes for the fourth question. And just straight up flew once again when it heard the last question.

"Alright then, I understand you. At least we'll be able to somehow communicate with each other. Now, you said that you don't have a name yet?" Calle asked once again.

This time both of them were already standing, with Calle standing on his own two feet while the little dragon perched its body up in the middle of Calle's shoulders, and putting its front legs directly on top of Calle's head.

The little dragon then let out a squeaking sound and tried to answer Calle's question, but the squeak was all that Calle could hear, no comprehensible words came out of the dragon's mouth yet.

"Then let's think of a name for you first," Calle said while looking up at the creature on top of him.

"Alright first, you need to answer this important question to decide your name. Little dragon, are you a male or a female?"

The little dragon then tilted its head for a solid second before it finally pointed its claws towards Calle.

"Oh, you're a boy like me?"

It then nodded its head.

"That's nice! We can be best buds! I can teach you all kinds of things later on when you're older and we can do fun things together!"

The dragon tilted its head once again upon hearing Calle's statement, but Calle didn't care to elaborate further about what he meant and just continued asking questions to the little dragon.

"What do you want to be when you grow up, little one?"

It shook its head, telling Calle that it didn't know yet.

"Well, let me tell you something since I've been living a longer life compared to you. The world out there is cruel, you don't want to be weak! You need to have the strength to be able to protect yourself and the things that you care about. Be it another person or it's a belief that you want to protect, you need strength to be able to do it," Calle said with determined eyes. He remembered what Gilgamesh had told him, Calle thought that it would be best if he told the little dragon about the changing society first before anything else.

Although it was his first time ever meeting the little white dragon, Calle had seen it for himself that the dragon was born from his blood, which was not too far-fetched if he said the dragon was his son. And seeing the innocent act of the adorable little guy, Calle couldn't help but to care about the little dragon that was currently sitting on top of his shoulders.

He kept his eyes looking straight at the dragon's eyes as if a parent was trying to impart his wisdom to his child, and the dragon also looked back at Calle, ready to imprint any wisdom that Calle was trying to give to him. But even after telling the creature about how important strength was, Calle didn't break his eye contact yet and continued,

"And also don't forget about this, other than being strong, you also need something else that is very important. And that is… money! If you're rich then you essentially get a cheating ability. You can even use the money to supplement your lacking strength. With money, you will be able to enjoy your life to the fullest. You see it, you like it, you want it, you got it. That's mostly how money works. So other than being powerful, you also need money!"

"With strength and money, you will be able to do anything that you want!"

Calle actually didn't know how important money will be by the end of the power-ruling society that Gilgamesh talked about descended into the world. However, he knew that riches would be able to help you no matter what the circumstances were. Even if the credit currency that his country was currently using will become useless when the world changes, there must be another currency that would be valuable for everyone. Be it as simple as food, water, or any other necessities, if someone got a lot of it, then that someone will have a certain degree of power to control others.

But still, Calle prioritized the most important factor and that was power and strength, hence why he mentioned it first and the riches later. And the idea that he planted on the little dragon's head seemed to have already rooted deep on the dragon's little head as Calle's last sentence was the one that had really struck the roots of the dragon's newborn heart.

The little dragon had only just hatched a few minutes ago and it didn't have anything yet except for a certain degree of intelligence and the innate loyal feeling that he felt with Calle since he was born as Calle's familiar.

But one emotion that it knew was freedom. With the sense of freedom that it felt when it had finally gotten out of the white egg that confined its body, the dragon felt a surge of excitement in his heart, making it fly right towards Calle with full speed to channel the overwhelming happiness that it felt.

So when Calle told the little dragon that he could do anything that it wanted with strength and riches, it quickly released another squeal, telling Calle that he wanted to be powerful and rich.

This time, even though Calle still didn't hear any words coming out of the dragon's little mouth, just seeing how the little dragon's eyes sparkled and its body perked up, Calle knew that the dragon had agreed with him.

Calle then racked his brain as he tried to remember the hours of research that he had done before when he searched for a username to be used in a video game before. And after a whole minute, Calle finally found the name that he was looking for.

Calle then whispered the name to the dragon's ear and asked,

"Do you like it?"

The dragon then released another squeal as it nodded its head in approval.

"Well then, it's settled!" Calle exclaimed as he brought the dragon from the top of his head to the ground in front of him.

Calle then lowered his body and extended one of his hands forward.

"Nice to meet you Edric! I'm Maverick Calle, or you can just call me Calle!"