How to Live as a Half-Dragon



001. Half-dragons live only 5,000 years.

The top of a giant tree that is likely to be 500m tall.

There is a boy in a place that ordinary people would not even dare to climb.

Blazing red hair.

Beautiful features that are not envious of nobles.

The boy, who looks only about 10 years old, is calm even in a place where ordinary people would have numbness.

It was a calmness that could exist because he had climbed a tree on his own, not because he was put here by an unfortunate accident.

“… … .”

In the eyes of the boy Xian, there are images of all over the village.

Farmers work diligently.

Merchants carry heavy loads in carts

Children who like to run around for no reason run around town without a break.

“Are you playing in the back mountain today?”

Xian also once ran around the village, mixed in with those children.

But that stopped a few months ago.

It was because even though he was only 10 years old, he had long noticed that he was different from his peers.

Are you saying you don’t get along well with children?

To be honest, that’s not it either.

The children still thought of Xian as their friend, and Xian also loved their friends, no, the village.

Since I was born, I have already been a resident of this village.

It was decided by force majeure, but I just liked Xi’an as a town that was neither too secluded nor too crowded.

Even if he grew old, he had no intention of leaving the village.

“I need to go home soon.”

All Xian does these days is leave home in the morning and pass the time here all day.

It’s because if you go into a moderately shady place and lie down, the cool wind can’t be that good.

If grown-ups like to be meddlesome, they’d say a word or two, saying that a 10-year-old kid should run around and play, but… .

what is it

Anyway, no one knows what Xian is doing here.

And most of all, Xian himself is satisfied with this kind of life.

I don’t know why, but it was fun for Xian to just observe the villagers like an old man.

“Sssscha… .”

Xian stood up and began to stretch his body.

From the neck to the legs.

It followed meticulously and without omission.

After finishing the stretch, Xian looked down under the tree and jumped off.

Xian’s body instantly floated in the air.

However, that’s for a while.

Xian’s body fell toward the ground at a tremendous speed.

The red hair, which seemed to contain the color of Xian’s blood, stood tall towards the sky… .

Quaang.

It landed on the floor and was blown around by the wind that got up.

“Ugh… My feet go numb.”

For a fall from a height of over 500m, Xian was excessively fine.

There were no external problems, and if there were any abnormal symptoms, only numbness in the feet, that was the end.

Xian knew from experience that even the numbness in his feet would soon disappear.

“But from tomorrow, would it be better to just come down normally?”

There wasn’t a particularly great reason, but there was a problem when it came down like this.

“The traces are too big.”

Unlike Xian, the ground on which he landed was not intact.

On the ground where Xian fully received the shock he landed on, big footprints always remain.

Even if you collect the surrounding soil every time and cover it properly, it is unavoidable that traces remain.

Today’s footprints were created when Xi’an removed his foot, which had been submerged to the peach bone.

“If anyone sees this, they wouldn’t think he jumped from there, but… .”

There is only one thing.

Xian is satisfied with her current life.

There was nothing good about it because the village elders noticed it.

“Okay, let’s be careful from tomorrow.”

Xian, who collected the soil with his feet and covered the traces, turned around.

“What’s for dinner tonight?”

Cyan descended from the tree and headed straight for the house.

Xian’s house is extremely ordinary.

One of the common wooden plank houses located on the outskirts of town, that was Xi’an’s house.

“I’m home.”

The mother who usually smiled brightly when Xian returned home.

But for some reason, his expression was dark today.

Among the villagers, some of the bad-mouthed people made fun of her mother, calling her a widow, but nonetheless, she was very concerned about her mother, who never lost her smile while raising her alone.

‘Have you ever been so serious?’

Because of the unusual atmosphere of the mother and the cold atmosphere of the house, it is to the point where I feel as if I am suffocating.

“Sit here for a minute.”

He speaks with such a hard face, but I can’t help but listen.

After a month, I sat down on the chair across from the table.

“Sian, I have something to tell you today.”

“which… It’s… ?”

I asked with a nervous face, and the answer came.

“It’s about your father.”

Even now Xian is young, but when he was younger than now.

Xian had asked a lot about his father.

Do you wish you had a father?

no.

It was because she did not want to see her mother being insulted for being a widow sometimes.

Every time that happened, my mother responded by saying that she would tell me later when the time was right… .

‘But you’re going to tell me that right now?’

What kind of person are you to make your mother suffer like this?

what a great guy

As Xian was the one thing he wanted to hear at least once if he got a chance, Xian naturally focused on his mother’s continued words.

“Your father was a dragon.”

* * *

Dragon.

The strongest intelligence on earth.

master of magic.

disaster in motion.

There are countless modifiers that can be called, but one thing is certain.

It was that dragons were the enemies of mankind.

Because it is a race that has looked down on and exploited humans and other intelligent beings for tens of thousands of years, hatred towards dragons is deeply rooted in the continent of Grandia today.

At least Xian came in like that.

So Xian was shocked by her mother’s words.

‘Dragon?!’

Dragon’s blood runs through my body… ?

“Cyan also knows what a dragon is, right?”

“yes… Yes… .”

Dragons are the enemies of mankind.

Even Xian, who had only lived for about 10 years, was not unaware of this fact, so the hatred of the tribe that had been pierced to the bone was that strong.

‘But why, in this day and age… .’

Xian thought that at least it would have been better if he had been born a few thousand years ago.

That’s because, at this point, being born as a half-dragon was never a good thing.

Now, it was an era in which the difficulty of life increased by about 30,000 times just because of the dragon’s blood.

‘Dragon Slayer Fennil… .’

A name that no one knows comes to mind.

This was the reason why he was the one who reversed the food chain between dragons and humans that had been going on for tens of thousands of years.

The first dragon slayer that appeared about 3000 years ago.

Xian uttered the name of Fennir, which was somewhat bitter today, before opening his mouth.

That was the reason for a question.

“But aren’t pure-blooded dragons extinct?”

Anyway, 3000 years have passed since the appearance of Slayer Fennir.

The dragons that were subjugated one by one by the Slayers are now known to be extinct.

Xian had grown up hearing that all that was left was extinct except for half-dragons and other subspecies of dragon blood, that is, dragonians.

‘So I’m curious.’

Are you really a child of a dragon?

Did you misunderstand that you are a child of a dragonian?

‘If the words are true, it means that the dragon was alive until at least 10 years ago.’

Of course, the mother could be lying.

However, Xian quickly erased that option from his mind in the first place.

My body is already too far to dismiss my mother’s words as absurd.

by skin.

It was crucial to feel it through the senses.

‘no wonder… . So it was… .’

It was at this moment that Xi’an realized the difference between herself and the children in the village.

The difference between whether the dragon’s blood flows or not.

There was such a simple but by no means light difference.

It was at that time when I was in the middle of my thoughts that I heard the answer to Xian’s question that I had just spit out.

“extinction… I knew it. My mom knew that too. Until I met your father.”

“My father… Who were you?”

She always had a smile on her face, but her mother was not a lax person either.

He showed a sharp appearance when he was broken, and he was a well-informed person with a lot of basic knowledge.

Even in the village, he would ask his mother if something happened, so this would not be only Xi’an’s misunderstanding.

‘Such a mother is a marriage fraud… !’

I couldn’t believe that a person who seemed like he would never be scammed was a marriage scam and not another scam, so I suddenly became curious.

the story of two people.

“I ran into your father on the street.”

“yes? What is the road?”

Inside the carriage going to a social church as usual.

I lost my gaze to a man who stood out.

Red hair like lava.

Tall height and broad shoulders.

A sculpted face.

Now, Bonnie Xian’s red hair seemed to have been inherited from that side.

“Sian’s father… .”

“yes?”

“He was such a handsome man… .”

The expression on her mother’s face as she spoke as if she was reminiscing was ecstatic.

“ah… You did… .”

My mother was also a beautiful woman who was sensitive to beauty.

Anyway, the mother’s story continued.

‘But from what I’ve heard, he’s just a baby swallow?’

The mother who got off the carriage did the man a favor.

It was when the relationship between the two deepened that they revealed that their father was a dragon, and as a daughter of an aristocrat and as a member of humanity, her mother was greatly shocked… .

Unfortunately, it is said that the relationship with him did not go into ruin.

There was also trust in him after seeing him for the past time, and above all, it was because Xian was already in the womb.

Buy it and say…

I could be a completely dog.

“What I didn’t tell you earlier… .”

“I know.”

Dragon’s notoriety spreads like this even to the little ones, but he wouldn’t have been able to tell the truth to himself, who was bleeding his nose.

Whether you like it or not, it will be obvious.

“Did you know that the Dragon Slayer is staying in the village?”

“yes?”

“no… Just say you know.”

“No, that’s a completely unexpected profit?!”

Xian jumped up and sat down again.

I was a little fussy, but once I calmed down and thought about it slowly, there was no need to say it now if it was the reason I thought about a moment ago.

only 10 years old

Xian was still too young to accept the secret of his birth.

‘Anyway, the dragon slayer is in town… .’

It came with a completely different feeling than when he didn’t know he was a half-dragon a while ago.

In the past, if the name was like a strong support and a hero of mankind, now just hearing the name makes my saliva dry.

“Perhaps you can get away with it on your own if you go about it as usual.”

“Really?”

“Yes, if you are a little careful.”

Xian didn’t know.

In fact, it wasn’t once or twice that the Slayer stayed in the village.

Previously, Xian was so young that he couldn’t stand out even if he wasn’t paying attention, but as Xian grew older, his mother seemed to have judged that if he didn’t hide it, he could get into trouble.

And the idea was correct.

Xian had already become so strong that he could beat not only children but also bad bullies in the village.

How do you know?

The guys who insulted her mother from several years ago were well known since Xian secretly chased after them and beat them up.

“Does Xian hate your father?”

I want to say ‘yes’ right away… .

The bitter Sian’s mouth could hardly be opened.

It was the reason why I couldn’t forget my mother’s bright smile when I recalled the memories I had with my father earlier.

‘Would you like that?’

Xian knows how to make a face full of guilt and apologetic smile.

Be resolute in this case.

However, he did not lose the innocence of a child of his age.

You just have to say it naturally.

Like this.

“no. Rather good?”

“Good?”

Again, his expression brightened a little. Xian continued.

“That means I also have dragon blood.”

“yes.”

“Then can’t I live a long, long time too?”

The average lifespan of a dragon is known to be 10,000 years.

I’ve even heard that there are many dragons that live much longer than that average lifespan.

Xian is not yet old enough to worry about dying, but there is no one in the world who does not want to live a long and healthy life.

Because if it is life, there is a vague fear of death.

‘Really speaking, this might be a piece of cake?’

It was a moment when he suddenly thought that living at a level comparable to dragon blood flowed in it wasn’t so bad.

“Sorry Xian.”

I heard my mother’s voice.

“yes? What?”

My mother smiled brightly as usual and then opened her mouth.

Half-dragons live only 5,000 years.