Eternal VIII

Aloz had not gone far before Brando called her back. They still needed to pry information from that fat dragon, Sta. Unfortunately, other than Aloz, the timid young dragon refused to see anyone else. Brando had no choice but to ask a certain Little Female Dragon to drag him out of his storeroom.

But the first question they asked after dragging him out immediately left Brando stunned.

"What! You're saying you traded a Star-shaped Stone for a Dragon Heart and let Anlek take it away!?" Brando stared, dumbfounded, at the bruised and swollen little fatty before him. For a moment, it was as though the boundless African savanna had appeared in his mind, with ten thousand wildebeests charging across it and bellowing wildly.

The little fatty nodded with an innocent look, as if what he had traded away had not been a Star-shaped Stone, but merely a pebble scooped from a river.

Vile, shameless, sinister, and treacherous. He summed it up in his mind, but still felt that was not enough, so he added: He's truly too sinister and too shameless.

"What is a Star-shaped Stone?" Veronica noticed that the expression on Brando's face looked as strange as if he had eaten a crab alive. She knew that this so-called Star-shaped Stone had to be problematic somehow, but she searched through her memories and could not find the slightest relevant information.

She assumed it was some kind of gemstone. There was indeed a variety called a star sapphire, but that was merely an ordinary luxury item and did not seem connected to the current situation. Besides, Veronica felt that even if Anlek had been swiped across the head by a dragon's tail, he still would not mistake a star sapphire for a Dragon Heart.

"Have you ever heard of the