I noticed you didn't deny liking the Dragon Maid.
"She" laughed lightly by Shade's ear. Unable to refute her, Shade still chose to pretend he had not heard.
Whether out of fear of Shade or because Flora had truly persuaded them, the two Dragonborn ladies answered all of Shade's questions, albeit haltingly, over the course of the following conversation.
First of all, Dragonkin Bloodline could not be passed on through intimate acts, so the two of them, both Dragonborn, really were relatives. The noblewoman Annie Dupont was the last generation of the vanished Kindel Family, while the maid Jessica shared a common great-grandfather with her.
Annie Dupont's Dragonkin Bloodline had appeared when she was very young, and the elders who had not yet passed away at the time taught her how to control this "cursed power."
As for the maid Jessica, she had been an entirely ordinary person when she applied to become a maid in Colonel Dupont's household. Only after beginning an affair with the colonel's wife around five years ago had these inhuman traits gradually appeared.
At first, neither of them understood anything. They thought Annie Dupont's curse had infected the maid with whom she had been intimate. Only later, after hiring a Detective and learning that they shared an ancestor, did they understand that Jessica also possessed the cursed bloodline of the Kindel Family.
"I need to correct that. This isn't a curse; it's the awakening of a Dragonkin Bloodline."
Shade spoke beside the fire. At that moment, the three high-ring young ladies hidden in the forest also came over to rest by the flames. Shade had called them over partly to warn Annie Dupont not to entertain any other ideas.
"As for this Miss's bloodline suddenly awakening, it really was related to the intimacy between you