A Fruit of the Loom

"Witcher didn't go on a mission to South County with the Holy Guns..."

Sister looked up from the telegram with shock on her face.

"After dropping the Holy Lance, he took the airship back to the North, took Gladstone's second son hostage, and took the Dragon Lady to someone else's territory to wreak havoc like never before!"

"Oh?" Qishi looked up and narrowed his eyes.

"Where did these two get the nerve?"

"The Gladstone family has admitted to scheming, the second son secretly became a wizard and joined the Osiris family only to hoodwink their daughter into returning to the territory to perform the alienation and eventually complete the sky ritual, and their heir apparent has confessed..."

"My God, they treat the sacred contract of marriage as if it were a power play, and disregard the ethics of a brother who willingly offers his wife as a mount for his brother!" The nun made a gesture to vomit.

"It's the only thing I think Witcher did right, oh, and the last campaign..."

Qishi's face didn't change much.

"So that was the plan, to rise and make the second son act crazy for years, I told you how they've become honest..."

"Your Highness, there is no need for such a disgusting family to exist!"

"Fools, the very nature of transcendence is incomprehensible and twisted common sense."

Qishi lifted her hand and waited for the nun to bring her head up for her to touch.

"Do you know about the Giant Pathway, their heritage is to let the next generation eat, the son eats the father, the daughter eats the mother, skipping right over the magic potion stage, and it's been passed down like that for thousands of years."

Frid's body physically stiffened at once.

"Unforgivable evil..."

"Fool, there's a lot of evil you don't know~"

Qishi gently stroked her head.

"Isn't it about time you got back to the Gladstone family side of the conversation?"

"Oooooh!"

The nun stood up straight in a hurry.

"The Gladstone family paid out all the material for the sky ceremony, and the second son was arrested as an illegal transcendent..."

"Well, there's also the fact that the arson-addicted dragon lady burned seven mountains in a row, spreading scorch marks for hundreds of miles, and the Bishop and Witcher chased each other for two hundred kilometers before they managed to knock out and subdue them..."

Qishi narrowed his eyes.

"Where are those two planning to go now?" The nun looked at the end of the report and returned, "They went back to South County to look for the Holy Guns."

Qishi leaned back and clasped his hands together faintly.

"Send a telegram to the Holy Gun and tell him to tell Witcher..."

"Tell the man that if he can't control his woman, the church will gladly do it for him."

...

...

In the stateroom of the airboat of the first class to leave for South County, Luna sat in her chair like a child who had done something wrong.

"I don't know why, but I just couldn't help it at the time anyway..."

Eleazar, over there inspecting the loot, casually tosses in a book.

Luna caught it a little handily, then flipped it open uncertainly.

"It's not like I can read transcendental writing..."

She lifted her head and bristled.

Eleazar froze for a moment, lifting a hand to knock himself on the head before coming to sit beside her and taking the book.

It's a journal of sorcerer's experiments on transcendentally active research, taken from that sorcerer's heritage.

And that family decided to implement alienation experiments based on a certain theory in there.

Eleazar turned to a certain page and read it to her slowly.

"Studies on the genetic characterization of ephemeral species ...

"There's nothing wrong with that theory, and if you go a little deeper, you can peer into the bloodline rituals of the warlocks."

"But ancient species is not a term they use loosely enough; to be precise, it should be fae!"

Eleazar said slowly as he looked into the pupils of those eyes that were as clear and bright as a lake:

"Fae, those of you who have the traits of transcendental creatures left in your bloodline, but still manage to remain normal!"

"But your kind is so sensitive that you awaken that trait once you come into contact with the thing in question, and even if you've re-lurked, some of the creature's habits remain..."

With that, he took out a bright and radiant ruby from his space crystal and casually tossed it to the side.

Luna didn't even think twice about lunging out to catch it.

"See, you can't resist shiny things now."

Eleazar glanced at the frozen girl, looked down at her book again, and continued:

"Well, that transcendental biological trait can subtly change your habits and thoughts, e.g., instinctively asking for a transcendental activity to maintain sustenance!"

"So, this loss of control was due to you ingesting too much Transcendent Activity, and that's why you let the Dragon Seed trait vent a good deal... well... Looks like we'll have to be a little more restrained with you from now on."

Luna looked up strangely, "But I haven't eaten anything like that?"

Eleazar smiled and looked up, "Think again?"

Luna thought long and hard again and grimaced gravely.

"No! I didn't steal the food!"

Eleazar suddenly found the silly dragon extraordinarily cute.

Then he pulled her into his arms as he did nothing but hold her silently like that.

It didn't take long for Luna to squirm with a slightly odd face.

Eleazar saw that the time seemed about right and stepped in to test that suspicion.

"Yikes!!!"

Facing his sneak attack, the dragon lady instantly tensed her body.

Then, looking at the incriminating hand placed in front of her eyes, Luna finally reacted, her face as red as dripping blood.

"So it's all your fault ....."

"I'll bite you to death!"

"Hey, I just said moderation."

"I don't care! I don't care!"

...

The Gladstone family plot was a complete failure.

A great deal of the rare material they had prepared under that alienation ritual was all confiscated.

Ice Crystal Stone, Emergency Freeze Liquid, and Star Powder, three cryogenic materials make up the Absolute Zero Boundary.

Shapeshifting Shackles, Thorns of Agony, and Magickalized Essence Gold Saddle, a taming trio that imprisons the flesh and scourges the spirit.

Finally, there is the important material that catalyzes alienation.

It was a metal-constructed cylindrical container with a dozen or so heat-emitting red crystals embedded on its exterior, and when it was opened, it could be seen to contain a light blue semi-solidified liquid.

It was a transcendental vessel that was constantly maintained at thousands of degrees of heat, only for the unspeakably precious dragon marrow inside to solidify and freeze and become inactive.

Each drop is highly condensed with the characteristics of the Dragon Seed.

Mythic quality...

"With something like this available, they chose the hardest path to advance, it's really stupid..."

Eleazar closes the container and ponders silently for a moment.

"Do they think that frost-speaking wizards can't make it to the stage? Or is the second son unqualified to use them?"

On the bed, Luna, who was infused with Transcendental Activity, twisted her head in immense satisfaction.

"What have they got for me?"

"Dragon marrow fluid, they want to turn you into the white dragon that will never succeed..."

Eleazar silently commented, "Bunch of idiots!"