"Mr. Knight..."
"Don't say anything. I understand."
Back on the warship, Duanmu Huai silently sighed as he watched the Aether Dragon Hatchling bobbing around beside the fleet.
"I still have to ask, isn't this really a Demon that broke free from some kind of seal?"
Ann ruthlessly mocked him, while Duanmu Huai rolled his eyes.
"How could it be? Didn't you see it hatch from the egg yourself?"
"Can that thing really be called an egg...?"
At Duanmu Huai's answer, the other girls' expressions also became rather strange.
"Anyway, starting today, this is our pet. Just raise it like a cat or a dog."
"I think my cat is much cuter than that giant dragon."
Mary stroked the Warm Sun Wool Cat beside her and muttered softly.
"Does it really not need to eat?"
Gureiya was still hung up on that question.
"I'm worried it might get hungry and eat the entire fleet..."
"It feeds on stellar energy, so we don't need to worry about it. Of course, I've already told it not to touch the Inquisition's warships."
"You really plan to keep it, Uncle?"
Naruse Mio also looked incredulous as she stared at the Aether Dragon Hatchling floating outside the fleet.
"Of course. Otherwise, why would I go to all that trouble to hatch it? If I didn't want to keep it, wouldn't it have been better to make fried eggs with that Dragon Egg?"
"Uh... Lord Duanmu, I don't think we have a pan that big... Though I really would like to try it."
Maria, who was standing nearby, added that with a grin.
"Speaking of which, it really won't attack us? Isn't Sherry still studying the corpse of that Aether Dragon? What if it sees it... What if it goes berserk?"
Rumiere was more worried about another