Shut up, malevolent dragon! I don’t want to have any more children with you V2C67

Chapter 67: The Power of Twenty Years of Sleep

Oh no.

Family.

He woke up to find a pink-haired beauty about his age claiming to be his little daughter.

If that’s the case, did Little Light give birth when he was just one or two years old?

Although General Leon was impressive enough to single-handedly take down the neighbor’s vicious dog at five years old, he certainly wasn’t impressive enough to have made a woman pregnant at such a young age.

Next to him, the campfire crackled, illuminating Leon’s bewildered face.

Seeing his expression, Aurora knew he couldn’t accept this fact, so she temporarily suppressed her excitement about reuniting with her father and said,

“If you don’t believe me, you can ask me anything about the Melkwai family.”

Her tone was calm, carrying a certain chill; the way she spoke was quite similar to how Leon first met Rosvitha.

However, the pink-haired beauty’s tone, besides being cool, also conveyed a ‘mechanical sense’ unique to a “researcher,” as if everything was under her control.

Even though her heart was turbulent at that moment, her rationality allowed her to calm down and think.

In the current situation, Aurora needed to earn Leon’s trust first and then gradually help him accept this world, which was both familiar and strange to him.

Leon slowly recovered from his shock. He truly couldn’t believe that the person before him was Little Light, but her suggestion wasn’t unreasonable.

So, he decided to ask a few questions to probe into this girl’s background.

After thinking for a moment, Leon asked, “What’s Rosvitha’s birthday?”

“October 25th, Scorpio.”

“And Noa’s birthday?”

“February 16th, Aquarius.”

“Mune’s—”

“They are twins, so their birthdays are the same.”

After smoothly answering these questions, Aurora began a rapid-fire round.

“You, Leon Casmod, were born on August 5th, Leo, 186 cm tall, weighing 77 kg. You don’t have a favorite food, but you dislike eggplant and carrots the most.”

“Mom likes oranges, but of course, her favorite is still that orange-flavored ice cream you bought her a long time ago at the Sky City Theater. She said it was the best ice cream she ever had.”

“On her 218th birthday, you prepared a huge cake for her, topped with 218 candles.”

“You also have an older sister named Isha, who is our aunt, the queen of the Red Dragon tribe. The first word I said when I could talk was ‘Aunt Isha’ because I found it amusing to watch you and Mom bicker every day, so I just never spoke up.”

“Constantine is the only dragon king you remember killing because it was on that day that I was born.”

“If you want to hear more, I can continue.”

General Leon was once again stunned by her answers, which flowed as smoothly as if she were reading a menu.

He swallowed hard, suddenly exclaiming, “You… you investigated me!”

Aurora was taken aback for a moment, then sighed helplessly, “I already told you I’m Little Light; these are all family matters to me. Why would I investigate you? And besides, this information can’t be uncovered just by following someone, right?”

“……That’s true.”

Despite finding it hard to accept, it seemed she was Little Light.

What also helped Leon let go of his suspicions was the inherent warmth between family members.

This was an inexplicable bond; when family comes together, it’s easy to build trust with one another.

Even someone as cautious as General Leon couldn’t find it in himself to doubt the girl before him.

But—

“No, no, no, that’s not right! When I entered the spatial rift,* Little Light was only four or five months old.”

[*” Spatial Rift (空间裂缝, kōng jiān liè fèng)”: A phenomenon that represents a break or tear in the fabric of space, usually leading to unexpected consequences in fantasy narratives.]

As he spoke, Leon stretched out his hand to measure the size of Little Light as he remembered, then opened his arms to compare with the pink-haired beauty before him, “How did you grow up so much after just one sleep?”

The dragon genes are impressive; Noa could manipulate thousands of birds at two years old.

But even with such impressive genes, it shouldn’t have allowed an adorable little dragon girl to become a 1.7-meter tall bespectacled beauty overnight.

Aurora raised her beautiful eyebrows, “One sleep? Then you must have slept for quite a long time.”

“Long? How long……?”

Aurora propped her chin on one hand, extending two fingers toward her father.

“Two days?”

Shaking her head.

“Two years?”

Still shaking her head.

Leon’s mouth twitched slightly, “Twenty years……”

“Correct~”

Aurora brought her hands together, squinting with a smile as if celebrating her father’s correct guess, but her tone remained icy, “To be precise, it’s twenty years, four months, and eight days.”

Dragons have incredibly long lifespans, so they don’t bother calculating time.

But Aurora had remembered this exact duration of twenty years, even down to the specific day.

Looking at her still bewildered father, Aurora continued,

“To be honest, I’m also feeling quite mixed up inside right now and don’t know how to face this situation.”

“For you, the battle with the Starlight Dragon King and stopping the spatial rift happened just yesterday.”

“But for me, it’s truly been twenty years.”

Aurora let out a long breath, closed her eyes, and rubbed her temples, “So, so I…… tsk.”

After a brief exchange with Leon, the emotions Aurora had been suppressing could no longer be contained.

After all, for her, her father had disappeared into the spatial rift for a full twenty years, and now suddenly reappearing left her unsure how to face him.

Her heart was filled with mixed feelings, but the most evident sensation was that she finally had something to lean on.

When Leon had stopped the spatial rift, she had only been a few months old.

Yet Leon had left a deep impression on her: Gentle, powerful, with a strong sense of responsibility.

It felt like as long as he was around, all troubles would be easily resolved.

So even after all this time, the moment Aurora saw Leon, the heart she had kept in suspense for twenty years finally eased slightly.

But after that moment of relief, a silence of helplessness followed.

Aurora knew she should explain to Leon why all this had happened.

But she didn’t know where to begin.

There was so much she wanted to say to her father, so many grievances she wanted to share.

She took off her glasses, hastily wiped the corners of her eyes, sniffled, and then put her glasses back on.

Leon pressed his lips together. He could tell that Aurora was struggling and feeling lost.

So even though he was eager to understand what this so-called “twenty years” was about, he decided to first soothe his daughter’s emotions.

He glanced at Aurora’s black-framed glasses and asked, “You… are nearsighted?”

As a father, he naturally cared about his daughter’s health.

Aurora nodded, “Yeah, I’ve been nearsighted for a long time. I read a lot.”

Leon hummed thoughtfully, glancing at the white lab coat Aurora was wearing, recalling what she had once told him about her dreams.

“When you were little, you said you wanted to become a scholar or a scientist, so now… have you achieved your dream?”

“Sort of… I guess.”

“Sort of?”

“Yeah, because what I study can’t be made public, and I’ll never get academic recognition from the dragon tribe.”

Leon blinked, “So what are you researching?”

Aurora didn’t answer but asked an unrelated question, “When did you regain consciousness?”

“Today.”

Aurora lowered her gaze, whispering,

“Today… then that means there are still six months left.”