Became a Hatchling of the Grand Duke of the North

44 – Imperial Maiden (3)

Time passed quickly.

In this northern region, where demons once appeared, time now passed quietly without further disturbance, giving time again to recuperate.

I have heard that the soldiers of the territory suffered considerable casualties.

Perhaps because of that, Han didn’t have time to see Lucrezia, his contractor.

She was always busy going back and forth.

Fortunately, in the meantime.

Guardian Dragon Han was able to completely remove the baby food safely.

He was no longer just a baby dragon on a soft diet.

Sniff sniff.

Han the Guardian Dragon.

He smelled the baby food held out in front of him a couple of times, then shook his head.

Han slammed the bottle away with his front paw.

It was an expression of reluctance.

[Ha. I’m glad.]]

Seeing that, the head maid let out a sigh of relief.

[I was worried that the Guardian Dragon had a long period of time to drink the bottle, but I guess it was a mistake.]

[Is that so? Isn’t there something wrong?]

Lucia asked her maid Jean in a slightly uneasy tone.

But she smiled softly and shook her head.

[Guardian Dragon’s claws and teeth are healthy. It is growing smoothly.]

Around that time, some kind of change came to Han.

His teeth and claws had grown, albeit slightly.

[No matter how much it is, it would not be good in many ways to prepare baby food until entering the academy. There are always many phantom beasts there. There will be not enough manpower to prepare each quantity separately.]

Of course, even so, it was the one and only aspect of the continent, Guardian Dragon Han.

There was really no way the staff working at the academy would leave him alone.

However, the problem was that it couldn’t be done with very active interest and passionate management like here in the Northern Grand Duke’s family.

That was natural.

A considerable number of magical creatures would exist there, and no matter how much attention the staff of the academy paid, only a limited budget and limited number of people would be allocated.

It has to be different from here.

In the midst of all that, Han finally took off the baby food completely.

He couldn’t even figure it out himself.

This was instinctive.

He thought, glancing narrowly at the baby bottle rolling in front of him.

‘Somehow, I don’t feel like it anymore. I mean, I don’t like to eat.’

I think so.

Han made a low noise. Unlike usual, it was to express some dissatisfaction.

All the young things in the world eat milk while being protected as a matter of course.

However, it was only natural that such a law could not be forever.

From the moment the teeth grow a little bigger and the physique swells proportionally, the milk no longer fits the grown-up pups.

And from that time on, it was the same as the time when young puppies reveal their tendencies in earnest.

It is just a moment when each person’s unique nature, which was hidden in childhood, is revealed little by little.

From that point of view,

A creature called a dragon is probably not too different.

[Come on, lady. Take a good look.]

Saying so, the maid next to her lifted the ‘it’ on the tray that the maid brought to her, and she carefully put it all down in front of Han, then stepped back.

Slightly bloody raw meat.

As soon as it was placed in front of it, Han’s eyes turned to it.

[…]

Han was quiet for a while.

He just leaned on his chin and watched it silently.

But it didn’t mean there was no action.

The pupils of his pupils continued to contract and expand as he stared at the meat drained of blood.

It was an expression of interest in its own way as a hatchling.

Soon.

As if the search was over for a while, Han quietly stood up and slowly moved closer to the side of the raw meat.

Lucia’s eyes twinkled at that sight.

[Ah, stood up.]

[Lady. Shhh, you need to be quiet. Isn’t it the process of the guardian dragon completely removing baby food?]

[Hot…! Yes.]

But at the sight of her head maid carefully blocking her, she hurriedly blocked her mouth.

Sniff sniff.

Meanwhile, Han sniffed his nose and smelled the raw meat.

Most of the blood was neat as if it had already been cleaned up.

However, the faint smell of cut blood, unique to raw meat, still stimulated Han’s sense of smell.

‘The smell of blood is fishy…’

Han the Guardian Dragon.

He thought, blinking.

‘It doesn’t smell as bad as I thought. No, rather, it seemed to stimulate my appetite?’

The smell of raw meat slowly stung his nose. It seems to stimulate something inside.

In the end, dragons are creatures that eat meat.

Hatchling was no different.

Like a human baby feeds on its mother’s milk at first, but when it grows up, it eats the same things as an adult.

The offspring of dragons had a similar providence.

Because of that, Han Eun sniffed here and there as if searching for raw meat for a while.

Gasp.

With a cautious expression, he asked with a bite.

At that moment, the mushy texture of the meat leaking into his mouth and the fishy smell became more intense.

‘Oh.’

Somehow, the smell isn’t bad at all, it’s rather okay.

Han opened his eyes wide. He liked it quite a bit.

He was sitting on the bare floor with his immature body, hairy and not even fully grown toenails yet.

Han immediately started eating raw meat.

Crackle. Ugh.

The noise of flesh being torn is crueler than expected.

But within.

‘Oh, um. Surprisingly, it’s worth eating. Are you okay?’

Unexpectedly, there was no fishy taste peculiar to raw meat, which was expected.

Rather than that, it was closer to the feeling of eating fresh sashimi with plenty of gravy.

In addition to that, he felt something strange tickle his tongue.

‘Hmm. I don’t know what it tastes like, but it’s a bit disappointing anyway.’

Han, who timidly bit off the first bite with a bit of chewing, soon licked his lips with regret.

So then I ate a slightly larger piece.

He swallowed even that quickly and swallowed the next larger piece down his throat.

Oh. Surprisingly delicious.

No, maybe a little too much.

Then I felt a gaze from the side, so I glanced around,

I could see his contractor, Lucia, staring at him with a pleased smile.

Lucia, it wasn’t just her. It was the same with her maid chief and the other maids.

The maids, who had been busily strolling around the corridors in the middle of nowhere, stopped their work and huddled together through the cracks in the open door, staring at him.

[Kiyiyi.]

Looking at them like that, Han made a faint sound with the meaning of delicious.

I don’t know if it was conveyed properly. I was just thinking that I would like it to be conveyed.

There was no way they could understand Han’s words.

Soon, the maids as well as Lucia quickly dyed their faces red and let out a small exclamation.

[Kyaaah! Did everyone hear?]

[Guardian Dragon must have liked it!]

While they were in deep emotion with their hands together in the middle of it.

Han began to focus on the act of eating again.

Soon the meat, which was as large as his body, was exposed.

At first, he thought the meat was big, but when he ate it himself, it was smaller than he thought.

Han tasted the remaining meat in his mouth in regret.

Perhaps it meant that he ate so hard that he didn’t even realize it.

* * * *

After the first meal of the day was safely finished.

Han’s menu began to change.

His meals no longer come with a bottle of baby food as before.

Instead, raw meat with subtle bloody cuts began to appear.

Of course, the quality seemed excellent at a glance.

Even to Han, who is completely unfamiliar with meat, it must have been a fairly good looking piece of meat.

This meat looks so red and appetizing.

Han’s eyes sparkled at that, and at once opened his mouth wide and bit into the meat as if holding it.

Ugh. Ugh.

In the midst of that, the moment when Han, the guardian dragon, was devoting himself to eating.

After a few days recently, she, Grand Duke Lucrecia, appeared.

[Chief Maid. Was there anything wrong with the meal?]

She opened her mouth as she watched Han from a little further away in the hallway.

At that sound, the head maid politely bowed her back, greeted her, and replied.

[Yes. Grand Duke. I go out and check the quality of every meal. You will never have to think about the elements of it.]

[I see. Thank god.]

At that sound, Grand Duke Lucrezia gazed at Han with a small smile on his lips.

Recently, she hasn’t been able to find Han all along.

It was because the damage caused by the demons was so great at the time, the elements to manage the troubled territory increased like a mountain.

Especially.

It was even more so when it came to the slaughter of that small estate, Oberon.

Only yesterday, she had once again made a return visit to that dreadful arctic land.

To check the barrier in the north.

[Whoops. You seem to like it very much.]

Lucrecia stared at Han in silence for a while.

Jiik.

Han was excitedly filling her stomach, unaware that she had appeared.