Chapter 186

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Rebecca instantly pulled a pistol from her waist and pressed it against Leon's temple.

"Dad, step aside for a moment. I'll clean house for you and shoot this traitor who's been colluding with foreign enemies!" 9.

Tiger remained calm; he knew Rebecca was joking. The gun in her hand wasn't even on safety, and her index finger was far from the trigger.

Despite her seemingly crazy nature, this girl is still quite sensible.

"Before you shoot him, let's hear what he has to say first."

Tiger said, "When the Silver Dragon King found me a year ago, he didn't tell me the details of your relationship."

"Master... can we finish talking about Constantine first before we talk about me and Losweiser..."

"Constantine's dead, why talk about him? You and the Silver Dragon King are still going strong, tell me, how did you get together? Who pursued whom first?"

When Tiger first met Losweiser, in order to maintain his composure and imposing presence, Tiger suppressed his curiosity and didn't ask Losweiser about her relationship with Leon.

But now that my beloved student is back, we're all family, so there's no need to pretend anymore. (3)

Let's begin the interrogation!

Leon glanced at his master, then at Rebecca, who outwardly seemed to be cleaning house but was actually eager to watch the drama unfold, and sighed inwardly.

It seems that if he doesn't expose his "unpleasant" past with Losweiser today, these two won't let him off easily.

"I guess you could say... she pursued me first," Leon said.

"Oh? My apprentice has that kind of charm? Tell me, how did he win you over?"

Leon replied bluntly, "Imprison me."

Rebecca was overjoyed. "Exciting!"

However, the master was old and naturally did not understand what "imprisonment" meant in the love of young people.

But thinking about it, it should be... pretty wonderful, right?

The Dragon King fell in love with a human and, fearing the loss of him, "imprisoned" him.

Hmm... that's how it should be understood, Tiger thought to himself.

"When the Silver Dragon King met me before, he left a photo with me."

As he spoke, Tiger took a folded photograph out of his pocket, unfolded it, and revealed a family portrait of Leon's family.

Rebecca curiously leaned closer.

She was also very curious to know just how beautiful the Dragon King was, that he could make her silly, straight-laced captain fall for him.

Upon closer inspection, Rebecca exclaimed, "Wow, she really is a stunning beauty!"

Leon raised an eyebrow. "She actually gave you the photos."

"Yes. At first, I just thought it was good enough that you were alive. No matter if you were missing an arm or a leg or suffered some inhuman torture, as long as you were alive, that was better than anything else."

Tiger looked at Leon in the photo, then his gaze fell on the two Dragon girl. A smile of satisfaction appeared on his lips. "I never expected you to live such a carefree life. Not only did you marry the Silver Dragon King, but you also had two such adorable daughters."

After a pause, the master muttered softly, "It seems there really is no reproductive barrier between humans and dragons..."

"But Captain, this little girl without a cowlick seems to have a bit of a temper." Rebecca pointed to Noa in the photo.

"Ah... Noa had a misunderstanding about me back then, but the misunderstanding was cleared up later, and she still likes me very much."

"Is her name Noa? And this one?" Tiger has kept this photo for a year, but he still doesn't know the names of his two lovely granddaughters.

"Mu En means moon."

"Oh, okay, good name."

Leon pursed his lips, rubbed his hands together, and asked, "Master, can I see the photos?"

"Okay, here you go."

Tiger handed over the photo.

Leon reached out and took it.

He held the corner of the photo, lowered his eyes, and looked at it intently.

In the photo, he and Losweiser are making heart shapes with their hands; he uses his hands, and Losweiser uses her tail—a very romantic gesture, in the photographer's opinion.

But at the time they just felt awkward and embarrassed.

Looking back now, it really is... very romantic.

The combination of humans and dragons, each forming a heart shape in their own way, is so romantic!

At that time, Losweiser and Leon's relationship was not very harmonious. She tried every means to make Leon uncomfortable.

Noa also misunderstood him, and always kept a cold face, ignoring him.

Only Mu En would follow him around, sweetly calling him "Daddy."

Even though it happened a year ago, the scenes are still very clear when I think back on them.

This photograph marks the beginning of this "fake" family, and it holds one of Leon's most precious memories.

Of course, he doesn't want those days to just be a memory in the future.

If possible, let it continue; what's wrong with that?

Leon's fingertips gently brushed across the faces of his two daughters in the photo, and finally, slowly slid down to Losweiser's face.

With silver hair and silver eyes, and an exquisite face, she was so beautiful, as if she had stepped out of a painting.

After gazing at him for a long time, Leon smiled.

Seeing the captain's strange behavior, Rebecca quietly moved closer to Tiger and whispered, "What's wrong with him?"

"Don't you understand? You're reminded of someone by seeing this object."

The master is indeed a master; he can be seen as someone who has been through a lot and has experience.

After a brief moment of reminiscing, Leon returned the family photo to his mentor.

Even when his master was risking his life to cause trouble in the empire, he never forgot to carry this photo with him, which must mean that the old man really liked his two granddaughters whom he had never met.

Unfortunately, Leon had only been born a short time before returning to the Empire to help his master. Otherwise, he could have shown his little daughter to his master.

When people reach a certain age, they no longer think about themselves or the next generation, but about the generation after that.

It's that kind of grandparental affection.

Tiger carefully put the photos away and returned to the main topic, "You just said Constantine invaded the Silver Dragon Clan?"

Leon nodded. "Well, I don't know if Constantine's choice to attack the Silver Dragon Clan when Losweiser was at her weakest was a coincidence or something else. I don't have much information, so I dare not speculate too much. But there is one thing Losweiser reminded me of."

What is it?

"Constantine began his extensive activities within the Dragon Race, instigating wars and conflicts about a year ago, and you, Master, also returned to the Empire a year ago."

Leon looked serious. In fact, he had already made the connection when Losweiser reminded him.

However... he was somewhat hesitant to continue investigating based on this deduction.

Because the final result of the investigation might be unacceptable to Leon.

Seeing Leon's expression, Tiger vaguely guessed what his apprentice wanted to say. "You mean... there's a cooperative relationship between the Empire and Constantine?"

Rebecca raised her hand. "Wait, wait, wait! You two jumped too far from the clues to the conclusion. Was there no reasoning process? I don't understand. What does Tiger Dad's return to the Empire a year ago have to do with Constantine causing trouble among the Dragon Race?"

Leon looked at Rebecca and patiently explained,

"Constantine created wars and conflicts merely as a cover. His true purpose was not to annex other Dragon Race. From the beginning, he was targeting the Silver Dragon Clan. Even before the formal attack on the Silver Dragon Clan, he deployed a portion of his forces among the Silver Dragons' relatives, the Red Dragons, feigning to cause trouble for them."

"When everyone thought Constantine was causing trouble everywhere like a mad male dragon, he suddenly gathered the elite forces of the Crimson Flame Dragon Clan and launched a lightning attack on the Silver Dragons. He even went to the battlefield himself, all for the sake of taking down the Silver Dragon Clan one hundred percent."

"When I fought him, he recognized my human identity. But among all the Dragon Race, only Losweiser knows I am human. It makes no sense that she would tell Constantine this."

"Since no one in the Dragon Race except Losweiser knows this secret, then it can only be... the Empire."

"Three years ago, Silver Dragon War, I was framed by an insider and seriously injured. Everyone had no choice but to leave me there. After the war, everyone must have thought I was not going to make it. Even my master and mistress, and even myself, thought so."

"But who could have imagined that I not only survived, but also managed to contact my master two years later."

"After my master learned of my situation, he returned to the Empire to clear my name of the false accusation of treason. However, the Empire insisted that 'the dead should keep quiet and take the blame.' As a result, they even framed my master as a murderer."

"So, just as Master said, he has been putting pressure on the Empire for the past year, trying to force them to make concessions. But the people of the Empire are not fools. An old man who had already seen through the world and lived in seclusion in the mountains would not suddenly develop an obsession with clearing his disciple's name."

"So, they probably guessed that I, who was abandoned by the Silver Dragon Clan three years ago, might not have died. So they sent Constantine to create chaos in the Dragon Race and then launch a surprise attack on the Silver Dragons, wanting to completely eliminate me."

"After I killed Constantine, the Empire had to get nervous. They had to get rid of Master as soon as possible, even at the cost of releasing the dangerous creatures they had been raising. They knew that once I returned to the Empire and found Master, I might uncover their dirty secrets."

So, to summarize:

"First, the Empire has a cooperative relationship with the Dragon Race, and Constantine is one of them, but it cannot be confirmed whether he is the Only One."

"Second, the traitor who framed me back then was most likely instigated by the Empire. The reason of 'using a dead person as a scapegoat' alone is not enough to make them go to such lengths to kill me."

Leon sorted out the whole story of the past three years, and Rebecca slowly digested and understood it.

The master looked somber, silently gazing at the fire, deep in thought.

Leon slowly let out a sigh of relief. He thought that speaking out would make him feel better, but that wasn't the case at all.

These are conclusions drawn based solely on existing clues.

It's just the tip of the iceberg.

There are still countless unanswered questions behind this.

For example, why did the Empire cooperate with the Dragon Race? What were their goals? And why did they have to kill Leon?

So many questions weighed on Leon's mind like a mountain.

He adjusted his mindset, looked at Rebecca, then at his master, and then said,

"So, my next plan is to find the traitor who framed me back then and see if I can get any clues about the inner workings of the empire from him."

Tiger naturally had no objection. "Sure, whatever you want to do, I will support you."

"Oh, I thought you were going to say that from now on, you're no longer my master, and I'm no longer your disciple, and if I get into trouble in the future, I shouldn't mention your name—oh my god!"

Tiger kicked over the stool Leon was sitting on, laughing and cursing, "You think I'm helping you? I'm helping myself. If anything happens to you, your master's wife will tear me to pieces. And most importantly—"

Leon sat on the floor, raising an eyebrow. "The most important thing?"

"If you die, who will nail the donkey's hooves?"

"..."

Okay, so this is how Leon's human side's family status is on the human side: neighbor

Master's wife > Donkey > Master > Leon Wu

The father and son at the bottom of the food chain are a henpecked husband and a long-distance couple, a rather amusingly abstract situation.

After the little joke, Leon looked at Rebecca.

The master could help him because the two were as close as father and son; ranking up in the Empire duo queue was a given, a matter of course. (Chess)

But Rebecca was only Leon's former teammate.

Although she has faced death many times and defeated countless monsters and Dragon Race, Shan...

But this time, they are facing an even darker abyss.

Once you fall in, it's an irreversible end.

Responding to Leon's gaze, Rebecca guessed what he was going to say.

Before he could even speak, the twin-tailed girl interrupted,

"Captain, I already told you during the day that I abandoned you three years ago, but I will never abandon you again three years later. So don't even think about kicking me away this time you're courting death."

Leon smiled helplessly. "But this is really dangerous, far more dangerous than any battle we've ever faced before."

He could tell that this crazy girl still felt guilty about leaving him at the Silver Dragon Sanctuary three years ago, and she still remembered it.

So now that Leon is back, she wants to do everything she can to make up for the guilt she feels towards Leon.

This has nothing to do with what Leon thinks. Don't let Rebecca's neurotic tendencies fool you; once she makes a decision, nothing can change her mind.

"No, Captain, I think the most dangerous thing is just loafing around in the patrol team every day."