“In the end, there’s no one among the dragonkin who has used the time regression magic. That means the culprit must be among the humans… There’s only one person who’s likely to be capable of that.”
In the dim council chamber, a heavy silence prevailed. Amidst the reticence, Siod stepped forward confidently.
“I will go.”
It was a somewhat impulsive decision. He could feel the weighty gazes of the lethargic dragons on him. Though they didn’t show it, they seemed relieved that someone had volunteered.
However, Lord, the leader, looked at him with suspicion.
“It’s strange for you to volunteer for such a task.”
“What’s strange about it?”
“You know what we want to achieve.”
Siod chuckled lightly.
“To find and eliminate the perpetrator of the time regression, isn’t it?”
“You have a connection with that human woman.”
It was Lord himself who had initially sent Siod to investigate Guinevere Lodante, the transcendent being. Lord leaned back in his chair, sighing deeply.
“Even if she’s the culprit, could you eliminate her?”
“Yes.”
“It seemed like you had a fondness for her.”
“For a brief moment in time, yes. That’s all the more reason I should go.”
‘He’s not one to speak falsely.’
While Lord still harbored doubts about Siod, he didn’t voice them.
“There’s a victim among our kind in this affair. If someone turns back time again, who knows how that child will turn out.”
“I understand.”
Lord’s daughter, Cassandra, was incubating an egg. Typically, hatchlings break free from their eggs after a century, but this time, the egg hadn’t hatched even after a hundred years had passed.
No dragon in the Valley of Dragons was affected by the time regression magic, as their magic protected them. So, while the regressions repeated, the dragons could afford to sleep leisurely.
But the egg was different. Cassandra had been fretting over waiting another 50 years.
“I hope the matter is smoothly resolved while Cassandra patiently incubates her egg.”
“It will be.”
Siod genuinely believed that. His feelings for Guinevere had been shallow. He had left before they deepened. He hadn’t seen her for a while and had been unaffected.
Moreover, though he hadn’t mentioned it, Siod knew Guinevere’s magical aura. He had suspected her during the repeated time regressions, having been close to her, but he knew.
Guinevere wasn’t the culprit. The magic felt similar, but different. Perhaps someone close to her, maybe her child.
‘I did hear she had a child.’
Siod was almost certain. That child was the perpetrator. A child of a woman he had briefly met, yet to him, a stranger. What would be difficult about it?
With Lord’s permission to leave the Valley’s barrier, Siod took a deep breath.
“The air feels different, doesn’t it?”
The air of the human world. He whistled leisurely as he descended the mountain. The weather was fine, and his steps light.
Unlike typical dragons who found the human form constraining and disliked leaving the barrier, Siod was different.
‘Guinevere Lodante, how much have you changed?’
The human world was always fascinating. While time moved slowly for dragons, it raced forward for humans, marked by rapid and radical changes.
So, Guinevere must have changed a lot too.
‘It’s been about… 60 years? No, for Guinevere, it would be around 15 years.’
If the time regression incidents hadn’t occurred one after another, Siod would have continued to slumber, thinking to wake up centuries later to find Guinevere reduced to a handful of dust.
Yet here he was, about to meet her again so soon.
‘Is it fate?’
He chuckled at the absurd thought. Nonetheless, it was thanks to this shallow connection that Guinevere’s life had been spared, and she owed him gratitude for that.
Other dragons would not have bothered to recognize her and would have killed Guinevere first.
‘Not that she would be grateful even if I explained that I saved her life…’
It didn’t matter. If he didn’t say anything, it was fine. After dealing with Guinevere’s child discreetly…
‘Would she cry?’
He had never seen her cry before. His steps halted as Siod was caught in a moment of conflict.
‘Do I really have to kill her?’
There might be a better way than killing. He had volunteered impulsively, not wanting Guinevere to die, but the more he thought about it, the less straightforward it seemed.
Resuming his walk, his steps were heavier this time. He then had an idea.
‘Ah, yes. I can make that child swear an oath as a mage.’
As long as the perpetrator doesn’t use time regression magic again, that’s all that matters. Then, the egg would hatch, and the dragons would return to their leisurely sleep without meddling in human affairs.
Siod strolled casually in the direction where he felt magical energy, his mood lightening again at the thought of exploring the human world.
Since there were still 11 years until Larissa became an adult, they decided to prepare for immediate matters.
An Indifferent Woman is the One Men Desire the Most
One-line summary: The female lead is actually cold-hearted and extremely rational. She has stage-by-stage relationships and won’t two-time, but there will always be someone who secretly likes her.
This novel has the following triggers, so if you’re sensitive to these, please don’t read:
1. The female lead has had many relationships, but she treated each one seriously and broke up properly.
It’s just that the men unilaterally pestered her incessantly. For the female lead, when she doesn’t like someone anymore, she simply doesn’t like them.
(This applies to her relationships with Male Lead 1, 2, 3, and 4 as well, but she’s loyal in each 1-on-1 relationship!)
2. In this novel, Male Lead 2 and the female lead kiss in a car, and Male Lead 1 sees it and beats up Male Lead 2.
The female lead calls the police and sends both Male Lead 1 and 2 to the police station! Male Lead 1 begs the female lead not to break up with him.
3. Male Lead 1 has a gentle appearance but an obsessive personality.
Male Lead 2 has a delicate and soft appearance, slightly green tea-like (two-faced).
Male Lead 3 is a youthful college student and a smart person who has secretly liked the female lead for a long time.
Male Lead 4 is the female lead’s father’s special assistant, a business elite with deep, hidden thoughts.
4. At the beginning of this novel, the female lead has already broken up with Male Lead 1 (Chapter 4) and gotten back together with Male Lead 2 (ex-boyfriend).
5. Enter with caution if you have triggers!!!
