Chapter 12 – Let’s Become Family (3)

“Well, then! Won’t you show me the lovely dragon child!?”

“Uwah, a r-rat!”

I was surprised! I was damn surprised!

When did this rat climb onto my shoulder!

Wearing a magician-like three-corned hat, carrying a wooden staff larger than its body that was densely covered in hair, now it was lying on its back on my right shoulder!

“Oops, I was rude! I’ve surprised you, haven’t I! Well, forgive me, I can’t see the dragon child’s face with my stature!”

“W-who the hell are you! Also, you’re loud!”

Can you lower your volume a bit!

“Hahaha! You’re going to go bald if you keep worrying about minor details!”

It’s not minor!

“Uncle rat!”

While still hugging the grumbling older sister, Aoinoun stood up.

“That’s right! I’m short but proud! It’s me from the fluffy long-haired rat race! The [Inquisitive] Alba Germain! Aoi!”

No, who are you.

“No way…”

Officer Doggy was looking at my right shoulder with her eyes wide open.

“T-the rat sage? He really existed…”

“Officer Doggy? Do you know him?”

Officer Inoue asked Officer Doggy with a curious expression.

“I think all the beastmen know him… he’s a fairy tale like existence… the story of the phantom rat beastman and sage. I’ve heard about them since I was little…”

“That’s right, I’m that rat sage! I have no intention of being wise, though!”

Is he that famous?

Shouhei who was standing next to me, was looking at the rat with sparkling eyes.

“Uwah, cute…”

If I remember correctly, this guy likes these mascot-like stuff.

When he was a child, he would watch a CG anime about a rat all day long without getting tired. That delicious restaurant one.

“More importantly, the dragon child! Aoi! Won’t you show me your child!?”

“Y-yes!”

Firmly hugging the older sister that still continued to cry, Aoinoun trotted in front of me.

The younger sister was also still cutely crying in my arms.

“Heeh.. how rare. Aoi, you had twins? Let’s see, please show your face to this Alba Germain.”

The rat looked at the twins from my right shoulder.

His voice was different to his earlier volume, it was more gentle.

“Yep. Strong children. They’re properly beloved by the sky. Is this child the older sister?”

“Y-yes. She was hatched first.”

“My methods… please excuse them”

He nimbly hopped off my shoulder and move to Aoinoun’s shoulder.

He skillfully walked along her arm and arrived next to the older sister’s face. With his small hands, he touched her cheek.

“Yep, exactly like Aoi. She’s clad in the aura of the thunder dragon, huh.”

He gently caressed her cheeks three times and then turned around and moved onto my arm.

He approached the younger sister in the same way and also touched her cheeks.

“Aah, this one is similar to you, huh.”

“Me?”

“Of course. Oh? Although she’s a sky dragon, she’s also beloved by the wind. Oh, how wonderful. As I thought, I’ll never get tired of looking at dragons”

Hey, why me?

“Are you curious? If you have something you want to ask, I’ll tell you. After all, there’s no one whose knowledge of dragons is deeper than mine.”

“Uncle rat, these children… they wouldn’t hatch for a whole month. I’m worried about that…”

Aoinoun asked a question before I could.

Well, she’s the mother, so she should have more things she wanted to ask about than me.

“Yep. Well then, let me explain. But, before that… it seems like they’re hungry. Please feed them some breast milk. After all, it’d be too pitiful to let them cry like this.”

I also agreed.

“U-Uncle. How do I give them breast milk…”

“Don’t worry. Dragons are a tribe with strong instincts. There’s various things you can naturally become capable of. Your breasts, didn’t they swell somewhat recently?”

I unintentionally looked at Aoinoun’s chest.

You couldn’t even call it big as flattery.

“Brother. You shouldn’t stare at a girl’s breasts.”

My younger brother lectured me on common sense.

“S-speaking of that, they did start to kind of hurt after I laid the eggs.”

“Yep. Your body can properly do it. Look, your children are hungry.”

“Ah, Dragoline-san. I’ll prepare a chair behind the partitioning screen there.”

“I’ll carry it over.”

Officer Doggy and Shouhei started to move.

“…Did you see, Kunpei? Consideration makes the difference between a popular and an unpopular man, you know?”

“…Old Man, don’t say such stuff right into my ear.”

I was also impressed just now.

“Hey, bring the younger sister too, will you?”

I looked between the frail and crying younger sister in my arms and Aoinoun.

“What are you talking about? You’re going too, no?”

Huh?

What kind of strange thing is this rat saying?

“You also have to breast feed.”

Like I said, what the hell are you talking about.

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