Hill soon welcomed his first guest.
But the first thing this guest did upon arriving was not greet Hill, but head straight for Telly, who was happily playing with Oak, and challenge him to a contest of strength.
Hill, summoned out of the training hall by Liszt, watched Aurelio bullying a child with an icy expression and a faint sneer on his lips.
How did he even have the nerve?
It would have been more reasonable to let Oriana and the other two come out... Telly could have tried fighting one against three.
So, seeing Telly about to lose, Hill shot into the sky at the critical moment and pressed down on that bear paw.
"Hill? What's wrong... I wasn't using my full strength!" Aurelio said with an 'honest' look.
"Telly has only just reached adulthood," Hill said expressionlessly. "He can only be considered a young adult.
Even if you held back, you still went overboard, Aurelio."
"This is still a young adult?" Aurelio raised his head and looked at the little Gold Dragon hanging silently from a massive branch, somewhat bewildered. "You're already hundreds of years old."
Telly had no desire to pay him any attention.
"Telly, Aurelio is tens of thousands of years old," Hill comforted his friend.
Telly abruptly stretched out his neck. "What?
What do you mean?
I can tell he hasn't been an adult for long either!"
Aurelio looked at the little Gold Dragon with complete confusion. "Hill got it wrong. I'm only a little over ten thousand years old, though I did become an adult a few hundred years ago."
He had genuinely thought Telly was about the same as him. After all, Telly had been the one who started getting ideas the moment he saw him.
Aurelio had assumed the other party challenged