Chapter 254
With no time to think further, the Holy Temple gates were right in front of him, and Leon dragged his extremely tired body forward.
However, when he arrived at the Holy Temple entrance, he was completely stunned by the sight before him.
The silver gate hung precariously on the stone wall, and weeds grew rampant at the entrance.
In the yard behind the gate, the flower beds were collapsed and broken, and the paving stones were covered with moss;
What surprised Leon the most was the Holy Temple itself; the walls were covered with charred marks, and the entire complex on the left had been destroyed.
It presents a scene of utter decay.
Leon's pupils dilated in shock, and ignoring the pain in his body, he rushed into the yard in a panic.
"Noa!"
"Mu En!"
"Xiao Guang!"
He called out his daughters' names.
But the only response he received was the sound of the wind rushing across the grass.
"Losweiser! Are you here?!"
Knock knock—
Several stones rolled down from the nearby ruins.
But still, there was no sign of anyone.
Fear exploded in Leon's heart.
Did he fail to stop the crack?
His wife and daughters are already...
In a daze, a pink figure quickly swept past.
Leon caught a glimpse of that afterimage out of the corner of his eye.
"Who? Who's there? Is it someone from the Silver Dragon Clan?"
He had no time to consider the other person's identity and ran straight towards that place.
"Hey, I see you! Stop hiding and tell me, where have all the Silver Dragon Clan gone?"
Leon went around to the back of the wall, but didn't see anyone.
He frowned, the flame of hope that had just ignited in his heart being extinguished once again.
"Did I see wrong...?"
He muttered in disappointment, about to turn around, when the pink figure appeared in front of him like a ghost.
Immediately afterwards, Leon felt a sharp pain in his chin.
Then, everything went black, and he lost consciousness.
After an unknown amount of time, Leon finally woke up.
It was already night, and a campfire was burning beside him.
Looking to the side, a girl was sitting on a rock.
She was very young, looking to be around twenty years old, with long pink hair and black-rimmed glasses perched on her nose, which made her skin appear even whiter and smoother.
The girl's profile was exquisite, like a finely crafted work of art—and she looked somewhat familiar.
She wore a worn-out white coat over a shirt and slim-fitting trousers.
The pants were also slightly torn, with several tears revealing the girl's thigh skin.
She was holding a skewer of grilled meat, which must have been her dinner for the day.
Leon slowly sat up and rubbed his still somewhat sore chin.
When the girl saw that he was awake, a hint of surprise flashed in her pink pupils, and her usually icy, beautiful face showed a slight change in expression.
The man before her seemed to have stirred up a heavy memory in her mind.
However, Leon didn't seem to notice her change in mood. He pursed his lips and tentatively asked, "You... knocked me out?"
The girl nodded blankly.
"Just one punch? And it knocked me out?" V
For the first time General Leon began to doubt his physical resistance.
Even the Dragon King couldn't knock him out with a single punch, but this girl could.
The girl looked at her right hand, clenched her fist, and, like Leon, wondered, "Yeah, I don't know why, but the moment I see you, I can't help but feel the urge to give you an uppercut."
Leon did not fight her after waking up, even though she had knocked him unconscious. 8.
Firstly, because he's currently extremely weak, he might suffer a loss if a real fight breaks out;
Secondly, if she were truly an enemy, she wouldn't be leisurely grilling skewers here. ⑦
So that uppercut was probably a misunderstanding. (6)
Leon glanced at the girl's appearance.
It looks familiar.
It looks so familiar.
It was practically a carbon copy of the Dragon Queen.
"Have I seen you somewhere before?" Leon approached the campfire.
The girl blinked, smiled faintly, and looked away from the campfire. The firelight reflected in her pink pupils, like magnificent jewels.
"What terrible pickup line skills! How did you even manage to win over your Mom?"
The sheer amount of information in that sentence nearly made General Leon's CPU explode.
His eyes widened, and he stammered, "You... you are—"
"My name is Aurorla, Aurorla K. Melkwy."
She handed the skewers to Leon, "Of course, if it's you, you can call me by another name, Xiao Guang."
Broken.
Family members.
He woke up to find a pink-haired beauty who looked about his age claiming to be his youngest daughter.
If that's the case, then Xiao Guang was born when he was one or two years old.
General Leon may have been incredibly skilled at killing his neighbor's vicious dog at the age of five, but he wasn't so skilled that he could impregnate a woman at a young age.
The campfire crackled nearby, illuminating Leon's bewildered face.
Seeing his expression, Aurorla knew he couldn't accept this fact, so she temporarily suppressed the excitement of reuniting with her father and instead said,
"If you don't believe me, you can ask me anything about the Melkwy family."
Her tone was indifferent, with a cool and aloof quality, much like how Leon had just met Losweiser.
However, besides being cold, the pink-haired beauty's tone also had a mechanical quality unique to 'researchers,' as if everything was under her control.
Even though her heart was in turmoil, reason still allowed her to calm down and think things through.
The current priority is to gain Leon's trust and then gradually accept this world that is both familiar and unfamiliar to him.
Leon recovered slightly from his surprise.
He couldn't immediately believe that the person in front of him was Xiaoguang, but the other party's suggestion wasn't unreasonable.
So let's ask a few questions first to find out more about this girl.
Leon thought for a moment and then asked, "What is Losweiser's birthday?"
October 25th, Scorpio.
"Noa's birthday?"
February 16th, Aquarius.
"Mu En's— "
"They are twins, and they share the same birthday."
After successfully answering these questions, Aurorla began the buzzer-round.
"You, Leon Casmod, born August 5th, Leo, 186cm tall, 77kg, do not have a favorite food, but your least favorite foods are eggplant and carrots."
"Mom likes oranges, but of course, her favorite is still the orange-flavored ice cream you bought for her a long time ago in front of the Sky City Theater. She said it was the best ice cream she had ever eaten."
"On her 218th birthday, you prepared a huge cake for her with 218 candles on it."
"You also have an older sister named Ischa, who is also our aunt. She is the Queen of the Red Dragon Clan. When I was little, the first thing I said was Aunt Ischa, because I found it interesting to watch you and Mom bicker and argue every day, so I never spoke to her."
"Constantine is the Only One dragon king you remember killing on which day, because that's the day I was born."
"If you want to hear more, I can say a lot more."
General Leon was startled once again by the answer, which sounded as familiar as reciting a menu.
He swallowed hard, then blurted out, "You... you investigated me!"
Aurorla paused for a moment, then sighed helplessly, "I've already told you I am Hikaru. These are all family matters to me. Why should I investigate you? Besides, these things can't be found out just by following and investigating, can they?"
"... Too."
Although it's hard to accept, judging from her appearance, she really is Hikari.
What made Leon let go of his resentment, besides the long list of dishes, was the deep-seated warmth between family members.
It's an inexplicable fate; when family members get together, it's easy for them to build trust with each other.
Even a cautious person like General Leon couldn't possibly doubt the girl in front of him.
Only--
"No, no, no, no, that's not right. When I entered the spatial rift, Xiao Guang was only four or five months old."
As he spoke, Leon stretched out his hand to measure the size of Xiao Guang in his memory, then opened his arms to measure the pink-haired beauty in front of him, "How did you grow so big in the time it takes to sleep?"
The Dragon Race gene is amazing; Noa could play with the Thousand Birds at the age of two.
Even with such a powerful transformation, it shouldn't be possible to turn the adorable Dragon girl into a 1.7-meter-tall, bespectacled mature woman overnight.
Aurorla raised her pretty eyebrows. "You slept? You slept for quite a long time."
"Long? How... long?"
Aurorla her chin on her hand, stretched out her hand towards her father, and held up two fingers.
Two days?
Shake head.
Two years?
He still shook his head.
Leon's lips twitched slightly. "Two, two, two, medical, two, Ling, three, two, Lin (seven), teacher, scar, ten years..."
"That's right~"
Aurorla clasped her hands together, smiling with narrowed eyes, as if celebrating her father's correct guess. But it was just an expression; her tone remained icy. "To be precise, it's twenty years, four months, and eight days."
Dragon Race have such long lifespans that they don't bother to calculate time at all.
But Aurorla remembered it for a full twenty years, down to a specific day.
Seeing her still bewildered father, Aurorla continued,
"To be honest, I'm also feeling very confused right now, and I don't know how to deal with this."
"For you, the battle against the Radiant Star Dragon King and stopping the spatial rift are like things that happened yesterday."