Chapter 118 – The Omerta family’s paranoid conspiracy theories about the ice dragon

The relaxing atmosphere made breakfast time pass quickly and it was soon followed by dessert.

Rich, sweet cocoa with floating marshmallows along with a snow-white cream cake were desserts perfect for a snowy morning.

But it seemed that I was the only one who thought so.

Even Elenia seemed to be distracted by something.

“Are these desserts father’s taste?”

“What are you suddenly unhappy about? The daughter-in-law likes it.”

“Since when did you start liking them…”

“Didn’t I like them back then as well?”

“What are you talking about when you say ‘back then’?”

“I had the same taste back then but there are some desserts that I only recently started liking.”

The Duke, who responded slowly, sipped a glass of wine and gracefully gestured towards the attendants.

The pale faced attendants that had been actively moving about left their positions.

I was a little worried that Izek, who was staring at my cup of hot cocoa as if it was poisoned, might overturn the table as it is, but fortunately that didn’t happen.

However, the veins bulging from his forehead were unsettling.

“Are you enjoying this…?” (Izek)

“Am I the only one? Besides that, tell me why your superior has been making such a commotion since this morning.” (Duke)

“Do I need to report it to my father?” (Izek)

“Who told you not to do it?” (Duke)

What is this?

My eyes widened at the sight of the pair of siblings’ cold eyes and quietly took a bite of my cake.

“What happened?” (Duke)

“Rather than something happening…damn it. I was going to bring it up myself so why are you pestering me about this now?” (Izek)

“I don’t want to be involved but you have to tell me in detail so that I can relay the information to his majesty”. (Duke)

“You can find out from Sir Barons (knight commander). Actually, you probably already know about it.” (Izek)

“Your superior has a tendency to exaggerate since long ago so his words are unreliable. Fu… Lately, I’ve been hearing peculiar noises coming from the direction of Rom’s cave since last night, Ruby.” (Duke)

If it’s Rom’s cave, isn’t that where our dragon cub’s hiding place is?

(T/N: ‘Rom’ is supposed to be a place but I am not sure what it is since I don’t remember a location sounding similar to it when the novel talks about Erendil or the North and I’m sure it’s not referring to Romagna)

Izek rubbed his temples in annoyance then glanced at me with an imperturbable expression.

“I’ve been monitoring the area since the attack on the palace and I heard someone whining all of a sudden last night. Should I say that it sounds more like wailing? The commander is arguing that it clearly sounds more like wailing.” (Izek)

“Could the dragon be in ill health?” (Ruby)

“It could be the case but the timing of when they started wailing doesn’t coincide with when they sustained injuries from the incident····Anyway, the first thing to do is to figure out the next steps. I will first do a sweep of the area today and then escort you to the location. They’ve been acting out and you’re the only one who has entered their dwelling. (Izek)

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“Isn’t there a possibility that they’re purposely pretending to be unwell? Maybe they’re trying to make Ruby come to them.” (Elenia)

has ever clearly specified the gender of the dragon since Korean just frivolously switches between he/she whenever it’s MTL’d, so I’m using gender neutral pronouns

at Elenia for

rolled her eyes

than they seem. Don’t let this

clear that he’s feigning, but Sir Barons is concerned…What are your thoughts

that bast*rd

I feel comforted by the scene of a family

did they get along

tempered rascal is

it’s not unreasonable to be one of the few people concerned, after all, dragons are

matters worse, my beautiful sister-in-law

over them and the dragon cub

they’re rare. There are concerns

good point. But what the

they’re doing there, but two young, golden beasts from somewhere are guarding the entrance closely so it’s impossible to get near the dragon. In other words, they are preventing other beasts from looting the dragon’s vast pile of riches while they’re still out of

the location of where the “two young, golden beasts” came from is specified as ‘somewhere’ in the TL as the raws are unclear about

the entrance? It didn’t seem like that.”

maybe the three of them are conspiring with one another. I was going to give them a chance to make contact on their own even if I wasn’t monitoring the

“You know.” (Ruby)

strangely interested in the bizarre conversation, but when

only was my smug, arrogant husband smiling at me, but my poker-faced sister-in-law and stern father-in-law were also doing

least, it seemed like

I’m kidding.

course it was just a joke. Wasn’t it,

a bit troubled about

like they were being honest, but I pretended to not have

smiled at Izek, who appeared to

we going there today? Are you going to Rom’s cave with me?”

I am. It might be dangerous so I don’t want you to meet

still using they/them pronouns to refer

it’s like a married couple’s joint operation. I was internally worried that you would be going alone. Isn’t it likely that they’re on high alert at the moment?”

latest_epi_sodes are

he looked at me, but he didn’t

about that?’ Isn’t it similar

what’s with this

was at a loss for

tongue and shook his head while Izek, whose blood sugar had risen sharply, pounded

said anything yet?”

Oh, damn it….”

[cough]! Great…

you okay?”

of answering my question, Izek’s sullen figure suddenly jerked out of

large hands, he averted his eyes and groaned

going to go

palace now. I hope that thoughtless, stupid bast*rd is faking their illness. If that’s the

you say you’d

you want to

I stared at each other for a while and at the same time opened our mouths at the attractive, wide backs of

a safe trip.

“Have a safe trip.”

process of leaving, they caused a disturbance and coughed up a storm, leaving us wondering what else was wrong with

like

“What about you Ellen?”

ask him to bring me some other

like that, the first breakfast the family had gathered for ended

***

get new winter

By the way, does winter come this early for Erendil?”

year it came particularly fast. Come to think of it, how is winter

guess. I lived in the northern part, so I thought it snowed too early compared to the rest

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