Chapter 761: Nine Heavens Mad Dragon (7)

At the jade-colored dragon’s words, I blinked, then came back to my senses.

'I did word that badly.'

I had suddenly told them I would let them be reborn and ordered them to take off their clothes first, so they could misunderstand.

After all, was a woman before knowing a man not practically reborn after she knew one?

The dragons had clearly interpreted my words in that sense.

That they would go from women to true women.

“No, that’s not what I—”

I realized my mistake and tried to explain, but Sua’s voice came a step faster.

“E-elder, even the waves of the great sea have their order, so how could you skip over me...”

“Hm?”

“I-I’m hurt.”

She had come along to command the other children.

No matter how much the other dragons had been offered to me, they might not obey me well, but Sua was the highest-ranking dragon among those living from the First Heaven to the Eighth Heaven.

She had confidently come along, saying that even if they did not listen to me, they would listen to her.

“Sua, you’re coming too?”

“Yes, elder. Dragon women are prideful, so even if they’ve been offered to you, they may not listen well to your words.

And even if they pretend to submit in front of you, they may harbor other thoughts behind your back.

But if this Sua is here, they will submit on their own. I am the strongest dragon in these Nine Heavens, after all.”

That same girl was now saying she should be first.

'You said you’d help make the other children submit, didn’t you?'

Remembering her confident voice, I pressed a hand to my forehead and said,

“No, that’s not it. I was trying to examine your bodies.”

I wanted to say something about what she had said before, but clearing up the misunderstanding came first.

So this was not some lecherous, obscene intention, but pure biological curiosity.

That was how I explained it, but once again my intention was transmitted incorrectly.

“Exactly. If you are going to examine our b-bare flesh, then me first.”

My intent of biological research was being completely confused with the intent of biological reproduction.

“No, I said that’s not—”

“I-it’s all right, elder. This Sua is fully prepared to serve you. I may be older than the other children, but my bare flesh is no less than theirs.

Cultivators’ bodies do not age according to their years.”

“Haah...”

While talking with her, I decided to just give up explaining.

As if possessed by some obscene devil, she kept driving me in a strange direction until the very end.

I spoke in a voice that had given up on everything.

“Fine, then let’s just start with you.”

“Th-thank you, elder.”

Sua ran happily in front of me.

I told the other children to enter the cave.

“All of you, wait inside the cave and come out one by one.”

“What? Not the opposite?”

“Opposite?”

“Yes, we should wait outside and enter the cave one by one... That way, one by one, the pleasures of cloud and rain...”

“Just go in for now.”

“Yes, e-elder.”

Were dragons originally such an obscene race?

Sighing, I pushed them all inside for now and lowered the leather covering the entrance.

When I lowered the leather and turned around, Sua flinched.

Holding her robe tie, Sua spoke with a slightly tense expression.

“A-an open space like this... E-everyone will be able to know that I have become yours, So-ryong.”

Sua blushed as she dropped her outer garment at her feet.

I told her not to do anything pointless and return to her dragon form.

“That’s enough, so return to your original form.”

“My original form?”

“Yes, your dragon form.”

“Ah... so that is your preference...”

Muttering words that grated on my nerves, Sua’s body, which had been human, slowly began to lengthen.

Conversely, her arms and legs shortened.

A short while later, after Sua finished transforming, shining horns and glittering scales sprouted from her, and the fin on her back rippled beautifully.

The eastern dragon was originally a kind of chimera.

Its body was long and resembled a snake, while its horns resembled a deer’s, and its claws resembled those of a bird of prey like an eagle.

Its face was like a camel’s, its whiskers like a catfish’s, and its nose like a pig’s, was it?

It was exactly the same as what I had heard in the past.

A blue spirit-creature that had taken a little from every living thing.

That was the azure dragon.

“Ooh!”

I had accepted her, but I had not seen her true form.

Because after accepting her, the nerve war with the dragons had continued nonstop.

When all my nerves were focused in that direction, how could I take her outside and tell her to transform into a dragon?

So I was admiring the dragon form that I was seeing for the first time too, and she lowered the body she had been floating in the air onto the clearing in front of the cave like a dog lying down.

Her Welsh corgi-like front paws wriggled in the air as she lay there.

Without any time to think of anything else, I quickly touched her.

Was this not my first moment touching something called a dragon?

As if by instinct, my hands reached toward her body.

'Wow, the scales are smooth. Just like the legends, they really are like snake scales. Females have whiskers too, huh? Oh, they’re like soft whips. The mane on her back feels like a cutlassfish.'

When the scales touched my fingertips, I felt a cool energy.

Perhaps because she was an azure dragon, Sua was filled with water energy among the Five Elements.

I was looking forward to the other dragons too, and just then, while touching her whiskers and checking the underside of her chin—

A bashful voice was heard.

“Th-then, quickly...”

Sua swished her tail toward me.

In that instant, I realized what she meant.

'No, what are you thinking with a body like this? Seriously!'

Her form was a dragon.

Her size was over ten meters.

She was not mountain-range-sized like in legends, but what was she going to do with a body like that and my human body?

Just as I wore an absurd expression, I felt something around the underside of her jaw, near the nape of her neck.

The instant it touched my fingertips, a moan followed.

“Haaang...”

Sua let out a moan, bent her waist violently, and her legs trembled.

“S-Sua?”

It felt as if she had been struck by electricity.

While I stood startled by her sudden reaction, the voices of the other dragons came from the cave entrance.

“Oh my. S-Sua, in one touch like that...”

“What incredible hand movements.”

“Such a pleased expression...”

Like people peeking through a door crack on the first night, the dragons seemed to have been watching us through a gap in the leather.

'No, I didn’t do anything.'

I had done nothing, so what was this?

Then I saw a single scale growing backward at one spot on the nape of her neck.

My fingertip was touching its tip.

In that instant, I realized what it was.

“Could this be a reverse scale?”

Apparently, this was the most famous thing mentioned when talking about dragons: the reverse scale.

The reverse scale was a scale on the nape of a dragon’s neck, and in my life before last, it had been known as a dragon’s seizure point or something.

It was known as a seizure button that made even the gentlest dragon suddenly go berserk if touched.

“But this is pretty different from what I heard?”

Apparently, however, the function of the reverse scale was a little different from what I had thought.

Judging by Sua’s reaction just now, this did not seem like a seizure button, but more like a climax button.

I waited a bit, and when Sua woke up, I turned her back into human form and asked.

“Sua, I think I accidentally touched your reverse scale. Are you all right? You aren’t suddenly furious or anything, are you?”

I asked things like whether something was wrong with her body, or whether she was in a rage-control-disorder state.

Sua, whose face was flushed red, nodded bashfully and answered.

“Yes, I-I’m all right, elder. It’s e-embarrassing. Y-you haven’t even done anything yet...”

Judging by her words and the energy I felt, it seemed nothing was wrong with her body.

With a cautious expression, I asked again.

“But isn’t the reverse scale a part that makes dragons angry if touched?”

At my question, Sua gently shook her head.

“N-no. It’s usually known that way, but it’s a little different.”

“Different?”

“Yes, elder. The reverse scale is like a heavenly source that amplifies a dragon’s emotions. If it is touched during a fight, rage boils up, but if it is touched while one is swept up in other emotions, l-like now, that emotion is amplified several times over.”

“Really?”

A button that amplified emotions?

The moment I heard Sua’s explanation, I had this thought.

'Then can’t I use the reverse scale as a ten-times or hundred-times sensitivity button?'

It was one of the clichés that appeared in dirty comics from my previous life.

The ten-times, hundred-times sensitivity button.

A reliable device used when punishing or subduing heroines who had tormented the protagonist.

A device that raised sensitivity and made their minds go blank. It could increase the sensitivity tenfold or a hundredfold when a human was feeling the greatest pleasure and make them lose their grip on sanity.

If this really was a sensitivity-increasing device, then this was a jackpot.

With this, dragon discipline would be no problem.

'Hmm. Looks like dragon discipline won’t be an issue.'

Sua had said they could pretend to obey in front of me while harboring other thoughts behind my back, but if the reverse scale existed, there seemed to be no problem at all.

'Dragons really were a pushover race after all.'

***

“Ahem. Your red scales are pretty too. Now then, that’s the end.”

“Th-thank you, eldor.”

After Sua, I examined every corner of the other dragons’ bodies.

Then I decided to proceed directly to registration.

Since I had checked the condition of all the individuals I had received, I was going to transfer ownership.

“Now then, shall we register you one by one?”

These girls were still in a state where ownership belonged to the other side.

I needed to sort out ownership first.

That was the reason I had been trying to register them in the first place.

Judging by the phenomenon that occurred when I registered Sua, these girls were in a state like slaves of some being up above, or something even greater than that, so I needed to cut it off.

I decided to register the jade-colored dragon first.

She was the calmest and most cooperative among the dragons brought here.

Sua had said they could pretend to submit in front of me while not truly submitting behind my back, but for now, none of the dragons showed any sign of that.

I did not know why, but the jade-colored dragon was simply more cooperative.

“First, listen carefully to my explanation.”

“Yes, elder.”

“The rest of you, listen carefully too, so you don’t make any mistakes.”

“Yes!”

After focusing their attention, I began explaining.

“First, I will perform a process called registration. It is the process of making you mine forever. Well, if I say it like that, you may feel afraid, but think of it as a contract that lets us communicate with our hearts and prevents us from harboring ill intent toward each other.”

“A contract...”

At the word contract, the dragons gave me slightly frightened looks.

They seemed worried whether what I said was truly accurate, so Sua helped explain.

“I can guarantee it. It is by no means a bad thing. It merely allows you to become aware that you are a sow being raised by him.”

But her explanation only increased the side effects.

The children stirred.

“A-a sow?”

“What in the world...”

Sua’s words were meant to explain that it would serve as an opportunity to realize they were bound to a higher existence, but the dragons seemed to take it the opposite way, as though they would become pigs raised by me.

Because Sua had explained it like garbage.

“No, Sua. Your explanation...”

“Yes? There was not a single lie in what I said.”

“No. Forget it.”

I simply continued the explanation.

“When my inner art begins, you will open your eyes in a mental-image space. Then fly quickly toward the direction where you sense my energy. You must not be late by even a moment. Understand?”

“Yes! Elder?”

“Keep in mind that if you are late, you may lose your life.”

“Yes? Yes...”

I called the jade-colored dragon and seated her in front of me.

When I immediately put my finger in her mouth, her eyes went round.

As I began the registration process with her saliva, my vision blurred and the mental-image space appeared at once.

The space was a stone mountain filled with jade-colored rocks.

I remembered the jade-colored dragon’s energy, and as soon as I came to my senses, I flew toward the place where I felt her energy.

On the other side, the jade-colored dragon, who had opened her eyes earlier than I had, was running toward me in human form.

The moment we met—

A voice rang out.

[Who dares attempt to break the great dragon’s covenant!]

I grinned and stole the jade-colored dragon’s lips.

“Yeah, you’re late.”

That was an existence like the dregs of a higher being.

It reacted like a program, so if we responded swiftly like this, it was nothing.