Lin did not return from the Half-Dragon district until dinner. When she appeared before us, she wore a strange expression.
"Yo, Girl, what's wrong?" Viska leaned back in her chair and addressed Lin with her usual sloppy, half-assed attitude, a half-eaten rib she had just snatched from my bowl still dangling from her mouth. With table manners like that, if she attended a State Banquet, they would absolutely have to put up a ring of screens around her to avoid damaging the national image. Especially considering the second half of what she said: "Those little guys dissatisfied you? Did the dragons bully their kin, or are the Half-Dragons too clueless? Take your big sister's advice: when you run into disobedient children, in the name of the gods, beat the crap out of them."
I felt that one day, Viska would become the kind of person who could not show her face in public without censoring every other word...
"Nothing. I'm eating first, okay," Lin said weakly. She quickly shuffled over to her seat and sat down. Even when Saeko got up to serve her rice, she still seemed lost in thought. This honest girl, who usually seemed to barely use her brain, was actually wearing such an expression. It was truly surprising. Half the people at the table became interested and turned their attention toward her. I could not help asking, "Lin, what happened? Don't tell me the Half-Dragons really started fighting Cha Er right in front of you?"
I was just saying it casually. I knew the chances of that happening were basically zero. Sakina and Sona had already shown Cha Er their dragon souls, and he had accepted that the Half-Dragons were a branch of dragonkind. Lin had also previously delivered a revelation to the entire dragon royal