"Is she going through her rebellious phase?" Velian asked while looking at Aurora, who is training all alone in the garden without letting him personally train her.
Daphnia smiled hearing his words while looking at Sariya, who had the same reaction.
"You look like a heartbroken father Veli," Daphnia said and looked at Aurora through the window.
"She is growing a lot unlike a human, so it's natural she wants some space from her parents, after all, she is a dragon, so maybe she has some kind of pride,"
Velian then decided to visit her training, as he ignored Daphnia's words. She followed him with a knowing look because she knew how it felt to be ignored by her own daughter in the past when she was going through her rebellious phase.
But lucky for her, Velian never went through something like that, instead he got closer and closer to her, and at some point, they even went as far as to break the boundaries of their mother-and-son relationship.
"Aurora! That's enough training come here, let's eat," Velian shouted, but Aurora didn't get instead she just kept training like she was lost.
Noticing this, Velian got close to her and kept his hand on her sweaty shoulders and she suddenly twitched as she felt the touch.
"Who-" She turned around to blame if it was another maid but seeing who this hand belonged she quickly calmed down.
"Darling! Enough with practising, let's go," Daphnia also repeated to which she just nodded her head.
"Aurora! Why don't you let me train you anymore? Are you going through your rebellious phase?" Velian asked while hugging her from behind, but Aurora was thinking about something entirely different.
'Too close! Too close! He is too close,'
She was thinking while her whole face took a red hue.
"Veli, let her go, she is a girl, maybe she is embarrassed about her sweaty body, look at her face, it's all red," Daphnia couldn't believe her son would become a doting parent like this and it felt kind of weird for her to see this since he was not even older than twenty.
For others, it looked like he was hugging a girl of his relevant age, so it didn't look like father and daughter bonding at all.
And for Aurora, it felt the same because her feelings for Velian started to change when her body matured.
"Should I push him down? Maybe I will push him down," She muttered to herself and looked at his face only to see him looking like a hot mess.
"Daddy! Please let me go, I will let you teach me again," Without any option remaining, she said and touched Velian's face with her hand.
'Should I just eat him now like mothers? But what if they try to stop me because I'm a daughter to him? I should first beat the dragons and as a gift, I will also what I need'
Her whole idea was to train all alone, so nobody will tell her that she won because of Velian. She wanted to be an independent person in front of him rather than his daughter.
"Good! Very good! I'm happy," Veloan said and let her take a breath after he removed the tight hug.
"And also, I have something I want to give you, so let's wash you first, then eat something," He said and grabbed her hand and entered the bathhouse and started to remove her clothes, but in his eyes, there was no lust.
The same cannot be said for Aurora, as she was trying her best to hold herself from pouncing on Velian.
"Veli, I will do that, she is a young girl, maybe she doesn't want her father to wash her body like when she was kid," Daphnia said and tried to push some sense into her son's brain.
And also she knew since today is the day when all the ambassadors from the other nations are going to go back to their countries, she knew his presence is a must.
"Is that so? Then, please Mother," Velian left the bathhouse and went to meet Juno to see how she was doing.
He knew that the old man of Juno and other members of her tribe already knew about what happened, so he was interested to see their reaction.
On his way to the beastkin part of the city, he met Elyisa, the elven ambassador, who was an elegant and graceful woman playing the piano on her own.
It is something she took an interest in when she came into this city and Velian kept looking at her playing, then slowly went and corrected one of her notes that she kept doing wrong.
"You have become better at this, good improvement I would say,"
Elyisa laughed hearing his words with her graceful eyes showing thankfulness for the compliment.
"Oh my! Isn't this our alliance head, Lord Velian," She got up from her seat and greeted and looked at the Kelleros Kingdom through the windows.
"What a difference from the other human kingdom we visited, I won't say this a lot, but I think you're a good leader, maybe on the same level as our queen,"
Velian accepted the compliment.
He knew this wasn't just an exchange of compliments, but hidden behind that, both of them were trying to understand what each other is planning.
"Elyisa, I met some elven slaves when I attacked some of the human's kingdoms, I employed them since I couldn't enter the elven forest, but what do you say now? Do you want to take the back?"
Velian asked because he didn't want her to misunderstand why he had elven maids in the other part of his kingdom.
Hearing him mention the problem that she was worried about, Elyisa looked at him with grateful eyes for bringing that up.
"So you're against it, the main reason why we didn't want to interact with humans was because of this, they trick our little girls and make them slaves,"
She paused for a minute then look at Velian again.
"I will take them back, don't worry I won't misunderstand you, because I already found you were not the type of person to do cheap things like that, but-"
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