And from that day on, I finally became perfect.

With Yongyong’s help, as my lacking strength and power grew stronger, and I gained beauty as well, I came to stand above all living beings, second only to God.

Honestly, I thought something bad might happen later because Yongyong became a deficient being, but God’s favor remained unchanged and the enormous power did not disappear. Although the number of humans who were dissatisfied with me increased compared to before, there were still far more who liked and cherished me.

Above all, when I showed my newly acquired power to most humans on earth, they praised me as an even greater being than before and devoted themselves to worship with enthusiasm. So I didn’t feel like anything was particularly lacking.

I was always with my friend Yongyong who stayed by my side, the second humanity who served me, the primordial human, and the ever-growing mountain of gold and silver treasures.

Thump, thump, thump-!

Then one day, an uninvited guest came during nap time.

Thump, thump-!!

“Who on earth is it? I said not to come during nap time.”

I woke up grumpily and got annoyed.

Because after gaining power through the deal with Yongyong, I had set times and dates for the people of earth to come see me, and we agreed they would only come then.

Of course, I occasionally went down to earth myself, but as it became more and more troublesome, I thought there was no better way than this and even reached an agreement…

“Let’s see the face of whoever it is.”

Grumbling enormously in my mind, I barely got up, and when the knocking on the front door wouldn’t stop, I decided to quickly wash up and go out.

I was going to stubbornly give no response until the end, but if I endured to see who would win, my head felt like it would burst from that thumping sound.

“You’ve come out!”

“Angel~.”

Oh, my. I felt a headache coming on from the unexpectedly large crowd.

And the ones who flocked here now were the residents of a village that worshipped me most devoutly, but their village was far away. As if things weren’t annoying enough these days, visiting had become even more bothersome, so I had stopped going, which led to this commotion.

“What’s all this fuss about?”

Clearly thinking they had come to express dissatisfaction, I was already tired, but I asked calmly for now.

“We’ve come to find out why you haven’t been visiting our village lately.”

“We camped for a whole day to get here, please listen to us!”

How annoying. I yawned loudly and unknowingly blurted out the thought in my head.

“Y-You’re too much!”

“How can you say such things so casually…”

“You weren’t like this before!”

“That’s right! You’ve become too cold!”

It seems they were quite anxious since I hadn’t interacted with those villagers for a few months.

“You dare complain to me?”

But I’m more displeased that they came on their own. I wonder what they expect me to do. I had been quiet, but then burst out in anger at how presumptuous they were.

“This is really irritating. I don’t want to talk anymore, so go back!”

So I ordered them to leave and raged furiously, and the humans expressed their anger and disappointment in various ways as they returned to earth.

“Lately, more and more are becoming dissatisfied with you, my friend.”

Some time later, while making flower crowns with Yongyong in the field in front of the house, he suddenly said.

“Would it be difficult to care for others as you did before?”

Unlike the humans who rushed at me recklessly, he carefully spoke while watching my reaction, so I wasn’t annoyed.

“Why should I? Everyone’s living well on their own.”

So I just continued the conversation more comfortably, but didn’t agree with his opinion.

Because now, helping and giving to others wasn’t enjoyable or pleasant, and I couldn’t empathize with others being sad or angry.

“But my friend, isn’t the influence you’ve had too great to simply ignore?”

Yongyong had been quietly listening to what I was saying, then leaned his head forward slightly. The dragon’s bright yellow eyes were full of worry as he looked at me carelessly plucking flower petals.

“It may be fine now… But if you continue to not look around you, the day will come when even God will have something to say.”

Oh, always with these useless thoughts! I grumbled inwardly that if it was going to be like this, he shouldn’t have offered to grant my wish in the first place.

“Are you really going to keep nagging too?”

“I’m sorry, my friend.”

When I glared at him fiercely with haughty eyes, Yongyong lay down with his head to the ground and made a whimpering sound.

“Yongyong, you worry too much. What does it matter if some people start to see me negatively?”

Really, what is there to be afraid of? I lifted my chin slightly and laughed with a hoo hoo sound.

“There are more humans who cheer and like seeing me become perfect.”

As I said proudly with my arms crossed, Yongyong hesitated for a moment, then soon said he wouldn’t say anything more if that was what I thought.

Flutter-.

As the sun set, I sent Yongyong back to his habitat and waved goodbye as usual with one hand raised high.

“Why does great power come with responsibility?”

No one has ever said I was doing wrong.

As Yongyong disappeared from view, suddenly his words and the cries of the humans who were dissatisfied with me and even caused a disturbance crossed my mind.

I had lived as I pleased all this time, and God the Creator simply adored me. No one had ever told me to do this or that. It was right to just do whatever I wanted, and even if I just breathed and blinked, they said I was wonderful.

Pop-!

“Oh my, you’ve come again.”

While I was momentarily lost in contemplation, fairies appeared, fluttering around and giggling. It seemed they had been hiding earlier, scared of the big Yongyong, and came out after confirming he was gone.

“I’m in the middle of serious thoughts now, so don’t disturb me and go quickly.”

The antics of these small and cute creatures lifted my mood a bit from its heavy sinking.

I played with the fairies for a while after that and then went home, and soon the complicated thoughts that had been tangled up were blown away as I neatly collected the love of humans in boxes.

The price Yongyong spoke of seemed to be nothing.

However, not long after, humans fought fiercely over me, and I became trapped in the shackles of eternal life.

* * *

“You seem quite surprised to see a dragon for the first time.”

When I came to my senses, I realized I had been keeping my hand on Yongyong’s body the whole time.

“Yes…”

I was startled and quickly removed my hand.

‘Too many memories flashed by all at once.’

I didn’t expect this to happen.

Who would have thought that just trying to pet a dragon a little would lead to revisiting the primordial life?

‘And yet only a few seconds had passed in reality.’

I repeatedly clenched and unclenched my hand, feeling dazed.

“Let’s go back now. I think I’ve seen enough.”

As soon as I returned to reality, I shivered from the cold penetrating my skin and quickly told Jeff we should leave the underground space.

“Let’s do that.”

Meanwhile, Jeff, worried that I was feeling cold, pulled me tightly into his embrace.

“Our daughter seems quite cold, so I’ll take her to her room quickly.”

Saying I might catch a cold and telling me to cling tightly to daddy’s arms, Jeff exchanged glances with Asian and walked at a brisk pace.

Thump, thump-.

Just before Jeff started climbing the stairs, I took one last look at Yongyong sleeping on the altar. Seeing the creature that had seemed about to spread its huge wings and roar now sleeping so quietly, all kinds of thoughts came to mind.

Then I decided to find out why that fellow ended up like that.

In fact, the mysterious beings disappeared along with God when I couldn’t provide answers to questions, and as a result, earthly beings haven’t seen mysterious creatures for hundreds of years already.

But I’m itching to know why it came down to the human world in such a state instead of living peacefully in its habitat.

I immediately had my maids bring related books.

“Your Highness, where should we place the books you requested?”

“Stack them right beside me where I can easily reach them.”

I read books indiscriminately. Perhaps a maid reported this sight, as Jeff later gifted me dolls and toys resembling Yongyong, which was quite absurd.

Anyway, as a result of my research, there were many stories about blue dragons, perhaps because I often rode Yongyong to the divine lands and came down to earth when I was the primordial human.

‘Perhaps the dragon’s breath applied to bruises before was also made from Yongyong’s energy?’

Why did that rare ointment, of which only a handful remained in the world, suddenly come to mind? I couldn’t understand.

‘It wasn’t only Yongyong who came down to earth, so it’s hard to be certain.’

I decided to focus on finding the information I wanted for now.

Rustle rustle-.

A lot of time passed like that, but there were no particular results.

‘Why is everything so abstract?’

The only reliable information was what I already knew, and thinking I had come up empty-handed again today, I got angry and threw the book in frustration.

“I’ve read enough books, so take them all back to the library.”

“Yes, Your Highness.”

I blurted out to the maid and went out to the balcony, feeling stifled. Poppy, who had been dozing the whole time while I was obsessed with books, belatedly came to his senses and hurriedly followed.

‘That Yongyong fellow…’

I thought as I crossed my arms and breathed in the cool outside air.

Now that Jeff had even made special devices to extract its power, Yongyong would continue to remain like that underground.

‘The latter days of the great dragon are quite tragic indeed.’

Clicking my tongue involuntarily with a tsk sound, I returned to the room a while later when a maid called.

* * *

“Let’s go to the southern garden today. None of you have been there before, right?”

A few days later, Fleur reunited with the children.

“Yes~”

“Yes, Princess.”

After pondering what new thing we could do, I decided we should at least go on an outing to the garden in a slightly distant direction today.

“It would be fun to explore the surroundings too.”

When Carlyle suggested this, Ronowe and Berith’s eyes immediately lit up.

“Wow, then are we an exploration team?”

“Let’s pretend we’re on a train ride going on an adventure!”

Why are these kids deciding things on their own? I sighed inwardly but went along with it.

“You guys run ahead and play first. My legs hurt so I’m going to rest a bit.”

After pretending to be a train all the way until we arrived at the southern garden, I was exhausted and made an excuse to head towards the table where desserts and drinks were prepared.

“Poppy! Come here!”

Perhaps because I said I was in pain, Berith didn’t dare ask me to play and instead took Poppy, then rolled around with him on the grass, causing the maids to be alarmed and say they shouldn’t do that.

‘It’s nice that he’s not pestering me to play.’

Still, since he’s a child, I decided to watch the mood in case his mind suddenly changed and he caused a fuss.

Rustle-!

As I was watching the oddballs play for a while as if viewing a performance, I tensed up hearing a sound from behind.

“Huh?”

However, contrary to my expectation that it might be a spy or assassin peeking, a squirrel raised its head that had been buried among the desserts.

“……”

“……”

Afterwards, the squirrel and I stared at each other for a long time, and the squirrel made an expression as if asking what I was looking at, then grabbed my favorite biscuit in its mouth and jumped off the table in a flash.

‘No!’

In that moment, I chased after the squirrel without thinking, overcome by emotion.

‘But where am I?’

I ran as fast as I could, but because of my weak body, I couldn’t catch up to the squirrel, and to make matters worse, I ended up getting lost.