Daphne's Diary

"I am Natsu Dragon Slayer from Fairy Tail!"

Natsu proudly pointed his thumb at his nose, taking his shamelessness to the extreme.

The room fell silent as soon as he said that, and everyone stared wide-eyed at the pink-haired brat.

"Pfft~"

With a whistling sound, everyone could no longer hold back and burst into laughter.

"Haha, this brat actually claims to be Dragon Slayer Mage?"

"Hehehe, slaying dragons, huh? Kid, has your own little dragon grown up yet?"

"Alright, kid, go home and get some milk from your mom. We don't have time for you."

A few drunken burly men laughed and shooed Natsu away like flies; they had completely regarded this kid as a lunatic.

"Damn it, I didn't lie to you!" Natsu was furious and shouted in protest.

But no matter how much he yelled, it was all in vain, because no one paid any attention to him anymore. The more agitated he became, the more people saw him as a teenager with delusions of grandeur.

However, Natsu is not one to swallow his anger. As a fire dragon, he will truly ignite when his rage reaches a certain level.

"You bunch of bastards, take this! Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!"

Natsu roared and charged at the group of drunkards with his flaming fist. The drunkards were startled, overturning tables and chairs, and the tavern instantly descended into chaos.

However, a woman with glasses, a cowboy hat, and long black hair in the corner of the tavern did not show any panic. Instead, she watched everything with great interest.

Ever since this woman learned Natsu's identity, her eyes have never left Natsu, watching his every move, and sometimes she would even unconsciously wipe away the drool that accidentally spilled out...

The tavern was in complete chaos because of Natsu's outburst. All the irrelevant people had run away, but this woman walked nonchalantly toward the center of the chaos.

"Come, come, little brother, please forgive them. I think they already know they were wrong. Let me treat you to something."

The black-haired woman grabbed Natsu, who was about to continue his attack, and skillfully stuffed a thick, lizard-shaped sausage into Natsu mouth.

"Ugh, what's this?" Natsu was also beaten black and blue, put down the half-dead drunkards and asked with a strange expression while chewing on a large sausage that tasted weird in his mouth.

"It's just a weight-loss food, let's not talk about that. Little brother, since you're Dragon Slayer, you must have seen dragons, right?" The woman looked at Natsu with shining eyes.

"Of course, but I've only ever seen Igneel. By the way, who are you, Auntie?" The mention of Natsu immediately piqued his interest, and he didn't mind the woman interrupting his fight.

"My name is Daphne, I'm the older sister~" Daphne always had a smile on her face, making it impossible to tell what she was thinking. "Igneel ~ Could you tell me more about this dragon? I'm very interested!"

"Oh, you want to see Igneel too?" Natsu immediately became excited.

Hehehe, who knows~

"Shh! Quiet!" Eleven gestured for silence to a monster he had just flattened, with a long trail of monster corpses of all sizes behind him.

Eleven had only come down to the basement to take a look, not to confront the monsters. However, there were simply too many monsters, densely packed and blocking all the paths, a sight that made one's scalp tingle. If they hadn't made way for him, a human of his size would have had no chance of sneaking through.

Reluctantly, after careful consideration, Eleven chose the path with the highest concentration of monsters, since the more monsters there were, the more important the places they guarded must be.

Fortunately, although these various reptilian monsters are numerous, they are not very powerful, averaging only the strength of two or three Grays. As long as Eleven pays attention to his positioning, he can deal with them quite easily.

After a series of fights and destructions, Eleven successfully broke into a place that looked like a laboratory.

The room contained all sorts of sophisticated instruments, as well as many enormous biological culture dishes, in which the embryos of those monsters outside were being cultured.

"Strange, aren't they born from eggs?"

Eleven looked around curiously, as this was the first time he had ever seen such a place. However, he didn't dare to touch anything carelessly, for fear of damaging something important due to his negligence.

As he walked, Eleven found an old notebook on the workbench at the far end of the room.

"Huh? This is a diary?" Eleven muttered to himself, casually flipping open the notebook.

Today I saw it! I saw a giant dragon, completely black! Its enormous size and overwhelming power were so beautiful; how could such a beautiful creature exist in the world!

Eleven gasped after reading just the first sentence and quickly turned the page to continue reading.

I told my family about seeing the dragon, but they didn't believe me. I decided I had to find evidence of the dragon's existence.

From that day on, I went there every day to wait, but why did it never appear again?

Nobody believed me; they all laughed at me for lying and for living in my own fantasy.

Such a beautiful creature should not be forgotten. I want everyone to know about its beauty, but no one believes me.

My father hit me today because I kept talking about dragons, which annoyed him. Did I do something wrong?

Everyone says I'm lying, everyone's tired of me. Maybe it really is just my imagination, Xu Zhen, I was really wrong.

Eleven paused here because large blank pages appeared after this point, and he had to flip through many more pages before finding new text.

Ha, how could a creature like a dragon possibly exist! How could such a perfect being, combining power and beauty, possibly exist!

Ah! I've got it! Since perfect creatures don't exist in nature, why don't I create them myself?

Dragons are creatures I've always imagined!

After that came a large amount of experimental data and notes, which Eleven skimmed through, pretending he understood them.

This must be the diary that the mayor Daphne.

Eleven frowned slightly as he looked at the diary. This Daphne seemed more troublesome and insane than he had imagined; she seemed to have actually seen a living dragon.

Eleven didn't think this was just a little girl's wild fantasy; after all, their guild also had a brat raised by a dragon.

I initially thought that Daphne's ability to control dragons was just a matter of dealing with those dragon-shaped monsters at the gate, which a few Grays could easily handle. But now it seems that things are not so simple.

Just then, Eleven caught a glimpse of some text out of the corner of his eye, and he immediately tensed up.

Tsk, these ordinary magic stones are completely incapable of replicating the dragon's magic power; they're all useless!

I've heard that there's a type of mage in this world called Dragon Slayer. They possess magical power comparable to that of dragons. If I could find a Dragon Slayer, perhaps I could finally create my dragon.

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