Walter was dissatisfied, but Liszt had already made up his mind and even gave it a batch of potions as payment. It could only accept the fact that it had to keep company with the little pest, Pike.
"Little cutie, I'll take good care of you. Handsome Pike will like you as much as he likes himself." The Giant Kelp Great Elf bared a mouthful of sharp teeth, smiling in a way that sent shivers down one's spine.
"Roar!" Walter glared, trying to intimidate Pike.
If not for the elf contract, Pike, a handsome Great Elf who did not even think much of Liszt, would never have taken Walter's glare seriously. Cheerfully flying onto Walter's body, he stroked Walter's scales and freely savored the Water Dragon aura upon them.
"What an adorable Water Dragon. Walter, handsome Pike likes you!"
"Roar!" The little Water Dragon lifted its head, looking both furiously enraged and utterly despairing. In truth, it could not sense Pike's existence at all—the Great Elf was simply too small to it.
Yet whenever it closed its eyes, Pike's smug face filled its mind, driving it into hysterics.
So it could only distract itself by gulping down potions. "Roar!" it told Liszt, who was watching from the side, that the potion supply had to be doubled, or it would rebel.
Liszt kept smiling and ignored the little Water Dragon.
"Your Majesty, you truly are a great human king favored by fortune. Is this a Water Dragon? What a marvelous creature—I can feel the powerful, oppressive super-magic emanating from it." After hurrying over, the mermaid Marquis of Saltwater, Bluposi, exclaimed in admiration.
"Dragons are, after all, the embodiment of power at its pinnacle. Little Water Dragon Walter will use Mermaid City as its dragon lair from now on. Bluposi, I'll leave