The journey of dragon transformation starting from Demon Slayer

"I'm afraid no one knows your gentleness better than me..."

"And even if there is, I will never admit defeat!"

The girl's declaration was so serious that Tatsumi's eyes gradually softened.

"Well, you like me so much... Then I know..."

"Actually, I like you too... Liang..."

After hearing these words completely, Liu quickly lowered his head.

She dared not say a word, for her ears were dyed red with shame.

"We've known each other for such a long time, yet you still say something so embarrassing..."

'It's so embarrassing...'

The girl's thoughts were in a mess, and she even had tears in her eyes as she lowered her head.

Tatsumi smiled and said, "Please give me your guidance in the future, Liang..."

Liu came back to his senses and responded in a whisper, "Hmm, hmm... Please give me your guidance..."

The elf girl blushed and nodded slightly, then threw herself into the arms of the man in front of her and buried her pretty face in his chest.

It seemed like a long time had passed, but it also seemed like only a dozen seconds had passed.

Such a voice suddenly sounded in the air.

"What does Liang want to be?"

Tilting his head, Tatsumi met the eyes of the elf who raised his head in his arms and asked with a chuckle.

He was asking about the chess piece. Because that was the original arrangement.

Hearing Tatsumi's question, Ryu directly confirmed "Knight" without any hesitation.

"I want to be a knight..."

"Just like the 'Guardian Belias' that is passed down among fairies... I want to be your guardian..."

"If you are the 'King'... then I should become a 'Knight'..."

Tatsumi was not surprised.

Liu is a pure fairy with mysophobia, and she has a noble chivalry spirit more than anyone else.

If she really became a "Knight", she would probably make a "vow" that she would never break.

She and the "King of Knights" were very similar in some aspects, but they were decisively different in their fine-grained differentiation.

It's better to say that all fairies are like this. Compared with humans, fairies are too straightforward.

"Fairy Knight..."

"You have a better choice, but you still choose this..."

Tatsumi muttered quietly.

At this moment, Ryu said, "By the way, Tatsumi...if it's okay..."

"I want to go back to 'that place'..."

Tatsumi gave him a puzzled look, "Olario?"

Liu shook his head, "No... it's the former fairy town..."

"If I were to become your 'Knight', I would like to bathe in the spring water there and pray there all night..."

"..."

Staring into the elf's ethereal eyes, Tatsumi was silent for a second, then nodded.

"I see..."

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Traveling through the world is not a difficult task for Tatsumi now.

He is not like those native gods who are imprisoned by faith. Instead, he is an ordinary mortal with a system.

Tatsumi thought that the two of them would stay in the Earth World for a few days, so he used the system's function to adjust the flow of time.

Just like that, Tatsumi and Ryu returned to the Earthly World together.

Unlike the summer over there, it is officially winter here and it is very cold.

Fortunately, neither of them are ordinary people and will not be affected by the cold.

The two flew in a direction completely opposite to Orario, and soon they saw a deep and quiet forest.

There is no snow here, and no trace of humans or monsters.

The absence of human scent might be understandable, but the absence of monster scent was a bit strange.

Monsters have been thriving on the earth for thousands of years, but this forest is completely silent.

It's as if someone is carefully maintaining this place so that it won't be disturbed by outsiders, making it a secret place.

Liu said that this place was once the hometown of all the fairies in the world, and the great sacred tree that the fairies believed in also once stood here.

However, due to a certain incident, the goblins' great sacred tree had already been shattered into pieces and returned to the earth.

Although the Fairy Garden is still expanding, it is still the home of all the fairies in the world.

There is a sea of ​​white flowers here. Tatsumi walks into the forest under Ryu's guidance.

The two of them walked on a white carpet made up of endless flowers, and soon they saw a clear fairy spring.

Tatsumi was admiring the surrounding scenery with great interest, while Ryu stood beside the clear pool in a daze.

After hesitating for a long time, Liu seemed to have made up his mind and spoke with a red face.

"Tatsumi... Actually, I've wanted to come here with you for a long time..."

Tatsumi came back to his senses, looked at the elf's profile and asked curiously, "Hmm? Why do you say that?"

"Because there's something I've always wanted to tell you..."

Liu's face turned even redder, and she murmured, "Even though the order is reversed... I still think I should make up for it..."

Make up for it!? Make up for what?

Tatsumi was even more confused.

Is there anything else to do here besides preparing for the ceremony?

Liu suddenly coughed and said with a red face, "I, what I want to talk about now is my... No, that's not right, it's the tradition of my village..."

"It is a custom that lovers who love each other swear their eternal love to the moon in an empty forest..."

In fact, just saying this sentence has exhausted all of Liu's strength.

This statement is not entirely true, because it is not a tradition in the village, but a small "wish" in the girl's heart.

This is what you should do if you swear to love each other. She thought so.

When she was with her friends before, she accidentally let slip that "before we swear to each other in the Forest of Elves, there is no need for so-called affection and love-making, not even holding hands." She also said something like "this is true love!"

However, her speech caused others to laugh at her, saying that she mistook her "cleanliness" for chastity. They laughed at her for being a "dreamer", a twisted monster living in a fairy tale world.

Well, anyway, not even being able to hold hands was a bit too much. Now she could more or less understand their thoughts, and also realized how distorted her previous view of love was.

She couldn't help but want to get closer to the person in front of her, want to hold his hand, want to hug him.

In fact, judging by her age, she is just a child among the elves.

However, now she wants to complete this little "tradition" in her heart so that she can graduate from the "past".

The reason why she said the order was reversed just now was mainly because the relationship between her and Tatsumi developed a little too fast. So fast that she was at a loss.

Moreover, Ryu thinks that if she doesn't hurry up, as more and more people gather around Tatsumi, she will slowly be tortured to madness by the strong emotions in her heart.

She used to feel quite comfortable with this sense of distance.

But now, the feeling of "I don't want to continue like this" suddenly came to my mind.

If possible, she would like to go further.

So I'll take this opportunity...

"I see. Is this a custom among fairies..."

“It’s very different from the customs I know…”

Tatsumi rubbed his chin, and his serious look almost made Liu faint from embarrassment.

"Can you please stop thinking so seriously?"

The elf girl cried out in her heart, and the temperature on her face rose sharply. As a girl, she was too modest to speak out and expose the lies that Tatsumi had woven.

After the clan grew stronger, Tatsumi and the fairies in the clan learned about the cultural customs of each village.

It was obvious that he had seen through it, but he was still willing to continue acting with her.

Tatsumi turned around to face Liang, and Liang also turned around and waited quietly for the boy to say something.

At this moment, the air seemed to be still, and Liu's heart was beating wildly.

However, the next second, looking at the eyes so close to him, Li Ang widened his eyes.

"Well..."

To be honest, this was a completely unexpected scene.

No matter how she rehearsed it in her mind, she had not expected this to happen.

At this moment, Liang's little mouth was blocked by another mouth.

Her fair cheeks quickly turned red, and her pointed ears even began to tremble slightly.

After a long time, the two finally separated slowly.

Looking at the shy elf in front of him, Tatsumi smiled, "Similar words have been said before, I think the action at this moment is the best expression..."

"I like you, Liang..."

Liu lowered his head shyly, and murmured in a voice that was almost gone, "How could this happen... It's completely different from what I imagined..."

"You are so cunning..."

Tatsumi's actions were neither dignified nor sacred, and they were completely different from the beautiful things described in the fairy bible.

But it was this undisguised emotion that accurately pierced her heart.

My chest feels hot and my body feels even hotter than before.

If he were to compare himself to firewood, Liu felt that he would burn completely in the next second.

But let her burn, because her feelings are also very passionate.

Liu slowly raised his head, his ethereal eyes covered with a thin layer of mist.

"I like you too..."

Recalling the past scenes, Liu confirmed his feelings.

"I like you more than anyone else..."

"..."

"I want your love... forever..."

The girl's voice was filled with longing, and she gently held the cheek of the person in front of her with her hands.

She stood on tiptoe with a red face and offered her sweet kiss.

For a long time, the lips are divided.

"Li Ang..."

"Tazmi..."

As if they were not satisfied, they closed their eyes and kissed each other once again.

Before they knew it, night fell and the two of them came from the shore into the cool spring water.

However, even so, the clear spring water still failed to extinguish the lust in the two people's hearts.

Tatsumi knew what Ryu was thinking, and Ryu had already made up his mind.

The two of them immersed themselves in the water. Their hair was soaked by the spring water, and their eyes reflected the starlight in the water.

Witnessed by the stars, the two figures finally slowly came together, leaving an important bright red seal on their vows.

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Unlike what they had expected, they stayed there for only three days before returning to the "Underworld".

For them, this was like a "ritual" that confirmed the future relationship between the two parties. It confirmed the "vow" they had made to each other.

On the first day, Ryu bathed, prayed, and performed various fairy rituals that Tatsumi couldn't understand.

The next day, Ryu accepted the identity and responsibility of a "knight" from Tatsumi, and swore an unbreakable "vow" before the "King".

The third day was the same as the first day. The two people who had tasted the forbidden fruit for the first time stayed together like a couple in love and did not want to be apart for a moment.

After returning to Gremory, Tatsumi and Ryu wandered around the Gremory territory, just like the two of them at the beginning, until nightfall.

That evening, Tatsumi formally met Rias's family and sat down to enjoy dinner together.

After that day, candidates who met the characteristics of each "chess piece" arrived one after another.

The other candidate for the "Knight" is Alisee Raphel.

If Ryu is compared to the "Knight of Wind", then Arise should be the "Knight of Fire".

She has a fiery and generous personality. Just as Liu commented on her, she is a beautiful girl like the sun.

Alisha is optimistic, cheerful, kind and full of energy.

He is a bit bold in his behavior, and he likes to talk about "justice" with others.

Of course, her boldness is still a bit reserved compared to Amazon.

It might not be quite right to say that she doesn't mind contact with the opposite sex, but at least she doesn't mind contact with men like a little girl. But she knows her limits and is aware of being a beautiful girl.

When she was talking excitedly, she would occasionally shake the other person's hand excitedly. Her overflowing energy easily made people like her.

Currently, the relationship between Tatsumi and Alishe should be more than friends.

When I was with her occasionally, we would often talk about topics related to "justice".

For a country, justice and fairness are necessary factors for maintaining social stability.

Whether it is the "justice" of the "country" or the "justice" of the "law", in short, "justice" is everywhere and involves all aspects of life.

However, the scope of this "justice" is too broad. For a girl whose mental age is still around 17 or 18 years old, these things can just be discussed.

Moreover, as early as five or six years ago, she and her companions had already blossomed with their own "justice".

Aside from the topic of "justice", Arise's favorite topic is probably what happened to Tatsumi and the story between him and Ryu.

Whether it's traveling across time and space to save companions, or sparking romance between each other.

For Alisha, whose mental age is still that of a young girl, this is definitely a perfect "heroic tale" that is no less than any "heroic biography" in history.

Especially as a party involved, she has inexplicable feelings about this matter.

She didn't know how to view Tatsumi, the main god who was completely different from Lady Astraea.

Is it the respect for the savior? Is it the admiration for the "hero"? Or is it the respect of the followers for the Lord God...

In short, Alisha couldn't explain why this strange feeling in her heart was so strange.

But the good news is that the youngest sister they have been watching over has finally grown up and can stand on her own.