Vol 6. Chapter 142: Always With Our Sister

At the Youth Dragon Division, students were grouped under different teachers based on their traits.

Usually, one teacher was responsible for five students.

Helena’s teacher had been sent on a mission with the academy’s operations squad, which gave her time today to train alongside Noa.

Inside the training hall, Helena brought Noa her favorite treat—orange-flavored ice cream.

And of course, she didn’t forget to bring a portion for Safina, too.

The grilled-shellfish master from the Void had never even heard of pickled peppers before, much less eaten ice cream.

Safina cautiously held the cone, stared at the cream on top, observed it thoroughly, and then gingerly gave it a lick.

“So cold. So sweet.”

“Miss Safina, have you never had ice cream before?” Helena asked, unable to hold back her curiosity at Safina’s strange way of eating.

“Ah... no, I haven’t. My hometown... didn’t have this kind of thing,” Safina answered truthfully.

She expected a rich girl like Helena might use this chance to show off a little.

But to her surprise, the usually cool and aloof little blue dragon just blinked and smiled.

“Then I’ll bring more stuff in the future! That way, Miss Safina can try all the tasty things she’s never had before~”

Safina stared blankly at Helena’s smile.

It reminded her of someone—her best friend, Anita.

She and Kaiser had just talked about Anita during lunch on the rooftop.

She wasn’t sure if it was Helena’s smile being too similar to Anita’s, or if it was simply her own longing for that dear friend.

But the moment she met Helena’s eyes, something deep in Safina’s heart quietly stirred.

Before she could finish the ice cream, a little head poked through the doorway.

“Helena, your teacher got back early. We have to return to class.”

“Okay, coming!”

Helena stood up and turned to Noa and Safina to say goodbye.

“Guess I’ll stop bothering you two. See you tonight, Noa!”

“Mm.”

Waving, she turned and ran to the exit, following her classmates out.

Safina watched the doors swing slowly shut, then suddenly asked,

“When did you two meet?”

Noa blinked, not sure why Safina would ask such a question.

But out of courtesy, she still replied,

“We’ve known each other since we were in the Hatchling Division.”

“Mm. So it’s been years, then.”

She and Anita had also met when they were very young.

Hearing this, Noa could tell that Safina’s voice carried both wistfulness and nostalgia.

It was obvious this teacher from the Void had her own untold past.

But Noa had no plans to pry.

She and Safina weren’t close enough to discuss personal memories.

“I’ll continue training now.”

Finishing the last bite of her ice cream cone, Noa stood up and walked to the center of the hall to resume her afternoon practice.

Safina’s gaze followed Noa... but ultimately fell back to the half-melted ice cream in her own hand.

She thought, If Anita were still here, she probably would’ve liked something sweet and cold like this too.

...

As the sun set, Noa still hadn’t finished her lesson.

As usual, she was pushing herself with extra drills.

Moon and Helena had already made their way to the training hall’s bleachers early, waiting to pick her up.

The reason a whole group of uniformed students waited with them had nothing to do with the lesson—they just didn’t want that blue-haired senior stealing their most beloved sister.

Aurora and Muse always came along too.

Even after being reassured that Noa wouldn’t be taken away, Moon had developed the habit of waiting here every day—and couldn’t quit it.

So now, whenever school let out, she and Helena would appear here to wait for Noa to finish.

And recently, another person had joined them. Well, to be precise, not waiting for Noa, but waiting for Safina.

So now, the front row of the bleachers offered a rather odd sight.

The academy’s newly hired cold-faced medical officer, Ann, sat alongside students from the Hatchling and Youth Dragon Divisions—their age gap spanning at least five growth stages.

Just enough to fit a small dragon in between.

The atmosphere between the three was subtle, even awkward. Silent.

Moon glanced at Kaiser sitting a short distance away.

He sat with arms folded, back straight, hands on knees, like a model student seriously listening to a lecture.

Moon looked away, then quietly leaned toward Helena and whispered,

“Helena-unnie, why doesn’t he ever talk to us?”

Helena smiled and shook her head. “Maybe he’s just not the talkative type. Want to try saying hi first?”

Noa and Moon were twins, but their personalities were quite different—especially when it came to dealing with strangers.

Noa never avoided conversation, but she never offered emotion, either.

Moon, on the other hand, was endlessly curious about anyone she felt was “safe.”

She’d already been watching Kaiser for several days. Helena had told her he was a newly hired “security officer” and the younger brother of Noa’s new teacher, Miss Safina.

That should’ve meant they had things to talk about.

But even Moon didn’t get why, after all this time, not one word had been exchanged.

A major dilemma for little Moon.

So today, she decided to follow Helena’s advice and... Say something to this cold and quiet security guard.

After adjusting her mindset, Moon stood up and slowly walked over to Kaiser.

But she didn’t say anything—just stood there quietly, staring at him.

Kaiser noticed the little dragon girl watching him.

From those wide, curious eyes, he could tell she wanted to talk.

But he wasn’t good with words.

And even worse with kids.

So he said nothing.

Not even a glance.

Seeing that, Moon got a little annoyed.

“You’re not talking? Then I’m not talking either! I’ll just stare at you forever!”

——

Void warriors were extremely sensitive to being watched.

Even by tiny kids.

And now this little dragon girl sat less than a meter away, glaring at him with that soft, puffy face of hers.

Even the little cowlick on her head seemed full of stubborn pride.

As if she were saying: If you won’t speak to me, I’ll keep staring forever.

In the end, Kaiser let out a silent sigh—and relented.

He tried his best to soften his expression, then turned to Moon.

“Hello, little one.”

“Mom, he smiles so weird!!”

Moon shrieked on reflex and even stepped back half a pace.

But then she remembered—She’d finally gotten the silent blockhead to talk! She couldn’t give up now!

“Hi, I’m Moon.”

The little moon blinked her curious big eyes at Kaiser and asked, completely serious,

“Are you Miss Safina’s boyfriend?”

Kaiser: ?

“Hey! Kid! Don’t make incest jokes like that! And what do you even know about relationships at your age?! ...I’m her brother.”

Hearing that, Moon’s eyes lit up. She shook her little cowlick and tail excitedly.

“No way! What a coincidence!”

Kaiser stared at the suddenly excited dragon girl and blurted out without thinking,

“What—are you her brother too?”

“....”

There aren’t many people who can emotionally destroy Moon in one sentence.

Muse was the first.

Kaiser was the second.

“I mean—like your sister is Miss Safina, and my sister is her student,” Moon clarified.

Kaiser came back to his senses and nodded.

“I get it. You two are real siblings?”

“Yup. She’s a few years older than me...”

“Oh. My sister’s older by one minute. Mommy told me.”

“Mm, you two look alike. Twins.”

“Mm-hm!”

Having found a shared topic, Moon climbed up onto the seat beside Kaiser and kept chatting.

“So where are you and Miss Safina from? I saw her in the Empire before, but not ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) you.”

“Far away. I was handling other things back then, so I wasn’t in the Empire.”

“Ooh.”

A little girl and a grown man sat side by side, each looking at their own sister down in the arena.

Moon swayed her little cowlick and asked again.

“You really like Miss Safina, don’t you?”

“I already told you—don’t make jokes like that, you little punk!”

“Because the way you look at her—it’s just like the way I look at my sister!”

Moon squinted and smiled, gently swaying her upper body.

“I love my sister the most.”

That kind of love—was the love between family.

Children described love and affection in the purest ways.

It was Kaiser, as an adult, who instinctively twisted the meaning.

He lowered his eyes to look at the cowlicked little rascal beside him.

After a pause, Kaiser smiled—for real this time.

“Yeah. I love my sister the most too.”

Moon opened her eyes wide and looked up at him.

And this time, his smile was much more natural than before.

“Then let’s both stay with our sisters forever—how’s that?”

Looking into her brilliant blue eyes, filled with hope and sincerity, Kaiser’s thoughts were pulled back to long ago.

Back then, he’d once said the same thing to Safina, that they would always be together.

He smiled softly and nodded.

“Yeah. Together. Forever.”