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[RenĂ©e’s POV]
Maybe that’s why I asked her what wasn’t necessary to ask.
“But are there only four attributes? No, right?”
It’s definitely just an example. As an example, it would be a fictional person, and even if it is an example of a real case, it would be a person who had nothing to do with me.
I was somehow desperate. I wanted Horaisha to tell me that the child who said it couldn’t control its attributes could handle other attributes.
TL/N: If you’re confused, RenĂ©e is referring to the snowman and what Horaisha explained about one not having the four attributes in the last part of chapter 65.
But the words that came out of her mouth were nonsensical.
“Huhu, I can see why Anastasia is hanging on Miss RenĂ©e like that.”
“Yes? What are you saying all of a sudden
 
 Anastasia doesn’t hang on me.”
Horaisha just laughed again. Like a person with a smile on their face.
“First of all, yes. There are not just four properties. There are light and dark, and there are special properties in detail. However, most humans cannot handle that special property. More than four attributes.”
Ah.
Saying that makes me feel even worse, but I had a sudden thought.
“Human, what do you mean? Some other species? I hear they can handle it.”
“Really. You are smart too.”
Horaisha gestured. I can see now. It’s magic again.
Shyuk
“Argh!”
Since earlier, I had been surprised by Horaisha more than once, so I made up my mind that I wouldn’t be surprised no matter what magic she did.
I screamed as soon as I made up my mind.
This was because something flew from behind and passed by.
Something quickly passed by my ear and settled dully in Horaisha’s hand. It was an old-looking book.
“Wh, what is it?”
“Would you like to see this?”
Before even reading the title, Horaisha opened the book.
On the pages that had faded yellow, there were letters and pictures drawn in sharp handwriting.
Judging from the text underneath the palm-sized picture, it looked like a dictionary. But Horaisha flipped through it so quickly that I couldn’t tell what was written or drawn.
After a while, Horaisha stopped turning the pages and turned the book so I could see it right away.
Tilting my upper body and looking at the unfolded page.
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Even though it was only a picture, I noticed something that felt huge.
A huge mountain-like body with a sharp head, small scales, and vertically drawn pupils.
“Dragon?”
“Yes, it’s a dragon.”
‘Come to think of it, is it my first time seeing a dragon in person?’
All I ever met was the spirit of a dragon in a human body. Without realizing it, I touched the painting with my fingertips and asked as if possessed.
“Are you saying that dragons can handle special attributes? Unlike humans?”
“Exactly. Why, I’m sure you’ve only met them a few times, but you saw different and distinct characteristics among the half-dragons?”
There were two situations that flashed by at Horaisha’s words.
The pillar of fire that rose up and the fog that strangled me.
“I don’t know the first half-dragon I saw for the first time, but I remember the two of Horrenne House. One is fire, one is
 Fog?”
“Yes, that’s it. Fire is a basic attribute, but fog is not.”
“And most humans cannot handle special attributes such as fog, but dragons can?”
Horaisha nodded.
“But I guess very few humans can handle special attributes or something?”
When I asked because of a sudden thought, Horaisha laughed.
She just laughed, she didn’t say ‘no wait’.
But I could tell. She laughed because there’s someone who can handle special attributes.
And that it’s around me.
‘Anyway, it must be Anastasia, right?’
The memory of Anastasia making ice for me with magic came to mind. Anastasia said don’t worry about getting wet because it’s ice that doesn’t melt.
‘But I don’t know if it’s higher-ranking water magic or a special attribute classified into another branch.’
As I remained silent, Horaisha tilted her head and opened her mouth.
“Do you have any more questions?”
“Ah. uh, by the way. The fact that even dragons can use magic

 In a way, they’re also a wizard too, aren’t they?”
Horaisha widened her eyes. It was as if she hadn’t expected to think so.
“Eum

yes. Can they be considered a wizard?”
“Um
”
“But there is another difference from human wizards.”
Huh?
“Dragon can handle only the attributes that are inherently set. There’s a way to deal with other attributes in an expedient way, but that’s almost impossible, so let’s move on and humans

.”
“Are they the opposite? If you can handle it, all the attributes
.”
“That’s right. You’re really quick to understand.”
It’s not that, I don’t think it makes it easier to understand.
However, Horaisha even clapped her hands and praised me as if she intended to make me a genius student.
“Don’t do this.”
I was embarrassed and ashamed, and it was a library with only one person because of the location, so I really wanted to avoid being noticed.
That librarian would like to kick us out for being noisy. It would have been a great inconvenience.
“For example, there’s Mr. Reden. He can handle most of the attributes.”
“Wa, someone’s unlucky.”
TL/N: She’s saying this in a sarcastic way
“Oh my.”
“But you said that earlier, right? There are expedients for dragons to deal with other attributes.”
“I did.”
Horaisha replied, lowering her eyes. I could tell without looking that her eyes were on the open book, that is, the dragon picture.
“They can eat dragon bones.”
“What?”
A small murmur, I thought I heard it wrong, so I asked back, but soon realized that it was not, and I shut my mouth.
Horaisha quietly raised her head and looked at me.
“It is a dragon that only deals with one attribute, but it is difficult to kill the dragon because of the vast amount of mana it possesses. Sir Diwen and Sir Zion were not given the title of Dragon Slayer for no reason.”
They don’t call them Slayer just because they killed other monsters, right? Horaisha muttered behind her back and laughed in a low voice.
“It is natural that such dragons will be in big trouble if they eat each other’s bones and deal with different attributes. That’s why dragons can’t kill each other.”
“

Is it a rule they set among themselves that they can’t kill
?”
“I can explain it to you, but I’ll tell you briefly because RenĂ©e will be confused. Even if they kill each other, they can’t die or disappear. Anyone who can kill a dragon, to put it to the extreme

.”
Horaisha rubbed her chin.
“Only Sir Diwen and Sir Zion who have the title of Slayer, so far.”
“That’s why you said that expedient was almost impossible earlier.”
Because dragons can’t kill each other. Even though they have to kill to eat the bones.
But

.
“That dragon bone is now
 
.”
“Yes, that’s why it’s a big trouble. The person behind it, and the one who’s after Miss RenĂ©e. He who is probably a dragon has a dragon bone
”
Swallowing back words, she laughed again.
However, the difference is that it was not the fresh smile that she has shown so far.
For some reason, I feel sorry

?
“That’s why I’m worried. Mr. Reden said that he felt various mana attributes in the Heronimo Mountains.”
“
 
 Yes. Could it be that they have already finished eating it?”
“Well. in fact, dragons have such strong pride that I’m not sure if they’ll eat bones, which is tantamount to borrowing someone else’s power. In particular
”
She cut back again.
When I pressed her with her gaze, asking why she stopped talking, Horaisha shook her head.
“Nothing. What’s certain is that he probably hasn’t eaten it yet.”
“But you’re saying there’s even a little possibility, right? It’s too dangerous.
.”
I bit my lip. Although it is Diwen and Zion who killed the dragon, it is also dangerous if they* can handle other attributes.
TL/N: referring to the dragon/s
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What about Reden and Anastasia? Aiden who joined the expedition because of me?
Above all, why is that dragon targeting me?
“Now!”
I was nervously biting my lip at my serious thoughts, but Horaisha suddenly clapped her hands and drew my attention.
When I stopped biting my lip in surprise and looked at her, Horaisha returned to her fresh smile and smiled.
“You can’t move forward as long as you regret and suffer from what has already been decided. I’m sure Miss RenĂ©e doesn’t like staying where she is.”
“That is
”


Right. It’s not my personality to agonize and worry.
What has already been done, what has already been spilled.
What can I do? Stamp my feet and watch?
No. If you did something, you can fix it, and if it spilled, you can wipe it up.
Although I, as a non-combatant, honestly see little to no way to help them.
At least I shouldn’t be a nuisance.
It was at this moment when I wondered if I should go to the gymnasium in the royal palace and practice running right now.
Horaisha grabbed me by my wrist and gave me a book.
<The Dead Friend Returns>
It was the book the librarian recommended.
I was speechless and stared at it, but Horaisha shook the book again and showed it to me.
“You have to read it.”
Isn’t this book finally in my hands.
“No. It’s the book I chose to read, but what’s more important now is

.”
“You have to read it.”
“

.”
“Should I read it?“
Ah, yes.
Eventually, I sat back down and opened the book.
While thinking in vain that this time it’s a novel, I won’t fall asleep.
***
[Anastasia’s POV]
On a day when the sun is shining even though it is summer.
Anastasia jumped up at the familiar sensation of piercing her skin.
Not paying attention to whether Aiden, who was working nearby, looked at her strangely, she left the office and followed her senses.
The place where Anastasia arrived was the royal library.
As soon as she entered the library, she greeted the librarian and her eyes darted around quickly.
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At first glance, it seemed like no one was there, but Anastasia didn’t think so.
The sensation of clearly piercing the skin was still pulsating strongly here.
“Ah.”
Anastasia’s gaze stopped. It was the corner of the library where a huge window was located.
Two single sofas face each other and there is a low table between them. But no one was there.
Nevertheless, Anastasia headed to the corner.
I reached out my hand to the corner I reached in a short step.
Then, a wavelength bloomed from the fingertips and throbbed. It was as if a huge barrier had spread out.
“What are you doing, now

.”
Anastasia, who muttered a little, grabbed the starting point of the throbbing. And starting with that

.
“Omo Anastasia.”
As if a transparent curtain disappeared, Horaisha appeared on the sofa where there was no one there.
Anastasia sighed.
“What are you doing here? Time stopped just a while ago.
.”
Anastasia stopped talking. Her gaze rested on the sofa opposite Horaisha.
“What

Why

. Huh
?”
“Look at you being flustered.”
Kok, Horaisha stabbed Anastasia in the cheek. Anastasia gave a rare jump.
“Why
! Why are you with RenĂ©e?”
Across from Horaisha, a woman leaned over and leaned against the sofa, her arms stretched out.
To be exact, she was lying down.
The face was not visible because the book beginning with dead was opened and placed on top of the face.
But the coral-colored hair that hung down on the armrest of the sofa showed who she was.
TL/N: Loads of context and worldbuilding these past two chapters but we’re heading back to more interesting plot soon heheh!