After landing again, Xiluo headed toward the second-floor bedroom with the lady lord.
As they walked, Xiluo said with feigned casualness:
"Oh, Alice, I returned Eternal Love to those merfolk."
"!"
At his words, the lady lord stopped short. A trace of complicated emotion crossed her face before she sighed.
"You returned it? That's fine, too. It was their people's sacred relic to begin with. Keeping it here forever wasn't a solution. It's good that you returned it.
"In that case, the hidden danger you mentioned before should be gone now, right?
"Those merfolk probably won't keep watching us anymore."
"Doesn't it upset you?"
"No~ Having you is enough. We have to look forward in life."
Alice smiled, then subconsciously stroked her belly.
Xiluo glanced at it and blinked. Keenly sensing something unusual, he asked:
"Your belly... has it gotten bigger?"
"You noticed already? Hehe... I have some good news!
"I'm pregnant!
"Only about three months along. I only found out today myself."
Alice spoke with a chuckle.
Her face was full of happiness.
At those words,
Xiluo was utterly stunned.
Pregnant?
He was going to be a father?
At that moment, Xiluo's feelings were somewhat complicated.
Perhaps it was because male chromatic dragons felt little for their offspring, or perhaps he had always been like this.
Xiluo felt little excitement.
It merely felt rather sudden.
This was a first across his life as a human and his life as a dragon.
To him, having a child simply meant another person in his life from now on? Or another dragon?
It really wasn't such a big deal.
Still, to soothe the lady lord's feelings, he grinned and pretended to be delighted.
"Oh! What a surprise for a dragon! To think that I, Xiluo Utrasis, would have a child so early.