"What, you don't want to? I still haven't settled the score with you over that kiss at the entrance ceremony. Now you won't even help me put on a shoe?"
"Fine, fine, I'll do it."
Leon crouched down, lifting Losweiser's fair, delicate foot with one hand while holding the high heel in the other, trying to put it on for her.
"You're pretty quick with your hands."
"Of course. Putting shoes on you is much easier than shoeing a donkey."
Losweiser kicked Leon square in the face.
Leon: Dodge!
A few days later, in the evening, Leon, Losweiser, and Mu En stood in the sanctuary's front courtyard. Just as they had when they were with Noa a few days ago, they gazed up at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle, as though waiting for something.
"Does the academy really provide home delivery?" Leon asked, looking up at the sky.
"Really. Their service has always been very considerate," Losweiser said.
"Then how are they sending Noa back? Magic teleportation, or...?"
Losweiser raised a hand to shade her eyes and squinted at a tiny black dot in the distance. "No, nothing that advanced. They send the children back the same way we sent them there. Look, it's almost here."
Leon looked in the direction Losweiser was pointing.
Sure enough, a tiny black dot on the horizon was gradually drawing closer.
Yet a few minutes later, Leon's eyes widened in astonishment.
What tiny black dot?
From up close, it was actually an absurdly enormous dragon!
Leon made a rough estimate. This dragon was at least five times the size of Losweiser.
Throughout his Dragon Slayer career, he had never seen a dragon of such outrageous size.
"That's a Leviathan Dragon, the largest kind among the dragon race. But despite their immense size, they're