"Your Majesty, why are the two of us...?" Fenglin Xilan timidly looked at Roland while holding Fenglin Shulan's hand.
"Be good! Just wait obediently in the castle!" Roland patted the two little girls on the head.
"Knight Captain Lavien, can I trust you?" Roland turned to him afterward.
"..." Lavien tightened his grip on his sword, then glanced at Nyx and forcibly swallowed his anger.
"Very good, it seems I can trust you! While Nyx and I are away, please keep an eye on these two children. If anything happens to them, I'm sorry to say the MacDougall Family will probably beat you to death!" Roland said regretfully.
"..." Lavien ground his molars, feeling utterly powerless to retort.
"Alright, you two follow him and don't run around. We're heading to the Grey Mountains these next few days. Be good and wait for us to come back!" Roland instructed the girls.
"Alright, Your Majesty, but our dragons..." Fenglin Shulan timidly looked toward Roland's shoulder. There, the miniature Golden Dragon Dos was suppressing the equally miniature Purple Blazing Thunder Dragon Zi Lian, while a miniature Twilight Dragon, Chasing Light, hovered nearby and watched the show.
"Them? Oh! Right! I'm only borrowing them for a little while. I'll return them to you soon!" Roland pointed at the two dragons separated from their riders.
"Then you must be careful!" The two innocent little girls waved at Roland, unaware that he had already committed a major taboo among Dragon Knights—separating dragons from their riders.
Chasing Light, who had long regarded his rider as little more than a decorative vase, was completely unconcerned. As the MacDougall Family's Guardian Dragon for a thousand years, he knew perfectly well that the King would never harm his rider. Zi Lian was different. Accepting Fenglin Shulan did not mean he