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00:00In my first life, my fiancé Derek despised me for not being pure enough for the mixed colors in my
00:04flame.
00:05The day I gave birth, he couldn't even wait for me to get off the birthing bed before he burned
00:09me and my still crying baby to ash with a blast of black fire.
00:13As I died, I cursed him. In every life, may you die a miserable death.
00:18Then I was reborn from the ashes.
00:20In my second life, when I opened my eyes again, I was back to the day before my engagement.
00:24My fiancé Derek Cole was standing in my family's main tent, announcing in front of everyone that he was going
00:30to marry my sister Mia.
00:31He had been reborn too. In our last life, he was a rising star among the pure-blood dragons.
00:35He married me because my family and bloodline were just barely worthy of him.
00:39But later I gave birth to a child with markled scales and a dull, weak flame. A half-breed.
00:42He thought I had ruined him. He thought I had deceived him. So he killed us.
00:46Now he had come back to do it over, convinced that if he chose my pure-blood sister, he would
00:51get the perfect heir he wanted.
00:53What he didn't know was that the child Mia carried was a half-breed too.
00:59No! No, that's not right. Let him find out for himself.
01:02When I woke up, my chest still hurt. The feeling of fire burning straight through my ribs felt carved into
01:07my soul.
01:08It took me a full ten seconds to realize I was still alive. Still whole. Still had a heartbeat.
01:14The animal hide stretched over the tent roof was the one Mother had brought back from the Southern Tribe last
01:18year.
01:18A totem pole stood in the center of the tent, carved all over with the marks of our ancestors.
01:22The basket of nearly withered healing herbs in the corner was still right where it had been.
01:26Everything was exactly as I remembered.
01:28Then I saw Derek. His gaze swept over the main tent, over my parents, over the shamans and chiefs present.
01:34Then it landed on me.
01:36That look was not the tenderness he had worn before our wedding in my last life.
01:39It was disgust, contempt.
01:41He came back too.
01:43Uncle Auntie, I know this is wrong, but I can't form a bond with Olivia.
01:47The main tent fell silent for one second.
01:50Then whispers broke out, like a swarm of insects startled into flight.
01:56My father, Marcus, was one of the leaders of the Dragon Council.
02:01Say that again.
02:03Mia and I are together now.
02:05She's carrying my cub.
02:09Derek!
02:10You and Olivia have been promised to each other since childhood.
02:13Your blood compatibility is 92%.
02:15We tested it three times.
02:17You can't just break it off because you feel like it.
02:20Our parents arranged that engagement.
02:22I didn't choose it.
02:23He turned towards me.
02:25No.
02:26He walked towards me.
02:32In our last life, you humiliated me.
02:35This time, I won't make the same mistake.
02:38Olivia, I don't want to hurt you.
02:40I just can't marry someone who is...
02:42He paused.
02:43The entire main tent waited for him to say the word.
02:47I just can't take that risk.
02:49He didn't say it.
02:51But everyone understood.
02:53Bloodline.
02:54Blood.
02:54Purity.
02:55Those three words drifted through the family hall like ghosts.
02:57No one dared say them out loud.
02:59But everyone didn't knew exactly what they meant.
03:01Everyone in the family knew my flame was the wrong color and the pattern of my scales was wrong.
03:04Since childhood, the Elders had judged my bloodline as tainted.
03:07When I first awakened at seven, my flame was gold but streaked with red threads.
03:10That was not the color of a pure blood dragon.
03:12To my face, the Elders called it potential.
03:14A possible mutation.
03:15A special gift.
03:16But in private, the word they used was half-breed.
03:18They just didn't dare say it to my face.
03:20I agree.
03:21What did you say?
03:22I said I agree.
03:25Article 17 of the Dragon Code.
03:27The party whose engagement is broken has the right to choose a spouse independently within 30 days.
03:32I want to invoke it.
03:33Do you understand what Article 17 means?
03:36It means you give up all family protection over your marriage.
03:39It means the spouse you choose will not be screened, will not be verified, and there will be no bottom
03:44line.
03:44I understand.
03:47I choose him.
03:49No one had ever paid attention to him.
03:51His eyes were a dark gold that belonged to no pure blood dragon.
03:56A color mainstream society saw as the mark of a half-breed.
04:00Are you insane?
04:05You're choosing a...
04:06A what?
04:07A half-breed just like me?
04:09Is that the word you want to say, Derek?
04:11Say it!
04:11He didn't dare.
04:12He didn't dare say that word in front of a room full of elders because the moment he did,
04:17he would be admitting that the real reason he had broken off the engagement was not love.
04:22It was blood discrimination.
04:24In modern dragon society, it was an open secret, but no one dared say it in a formal setting.
04:29Everyone wore masks.
04:30Everyone spoke politely.
04:32Everyone stabbed each other in the back.
04:34No one was stupid enough to draw their blade on the battlefield.
04:39What are you still standing there for?
04:41Come here.
04:49What's your name?
04:52Luke.
04:53Luke and I formed a bond.
04:54The process was simple.
04:55Go to the Elder's Hall, register, and have both parties sign the contract.
04:58No ceremony, no blessing, not even friends needed to be present.
05:01The fire basin at the registration office burned bright.
05:04And the animal hide scroll of the dragon code hung on the wall, yellowed with age, its edges curling.
05:08When I signed, Mia stood in the doorway.
05:10Who do you think that half-breed of yours can give birth to?
05:13A lizard?
05:13Or a whole nest of snakes?
05:15My guess, yours will be much more interesting than mine.
05:18She didn't know what I knew, but she sensed it.
05:21After I signed, I set down the pen and walked past her without stopping.
05:25At the far end of the corridor, Derek stood to the side, staring hard at me.
05:31What do you know?
05:32I know you chose the wrong person.
05:34But don't worry, Derek.
05:36Your good days are far from over.
05:38It was only one phrase, but it carried so much.
05:40Last life.
05:41Killing intent.
05:42Fear.
05:42And something I didn't recognize.
05:45Maybe despair.
05:46You killed me in our last life.
05:48In this one, I'm still alive.
05:49I saw a flicker of fear in his eyes.
05:51Not fear of me.
05:52Not fear of power.
05:53It was fear of the fact that the woman knew everything.
05:55The fear that comes right before a secret is exposed.
05:58When I walked out of the Elder's Hall, Luke was leaning against a stone pillar in the corridor.
06:01Rolling an old silver coin was badly worn.
06:03The image on its face almost impossible to see.
06:06All sign?
06:07All sign.
06:08What were you saying to them out there?
06:10Nothing.
06:10Just saying hello.
06:17Your claws are shaking.
06:18No, they're not.
06:19Olivia.
06:20I said they're not.
06:22He simply took off his outer robe, carrying in the warmth of his fire and a scent I couldn't
06:25quite name.
06:26The robe was cold, metallic scent of pure-blood dragons.
06:28But something wilder.
06:30Something deeper.
06:30Like forest after rain.
06:32Or charred wood.
06:32That night, we went back to Luke's tent together.
06:34He was warming beast milk by the fire pit.
06:36He said the midwife told him and needed to be nourished.
06:38His tent was small, walls lied to him I was nearly bored.
06:40But everything was clean.
06:41Wooden bowls and anaple spoons were neatly stacked on the stone shelf, and there wasn't
06:44a speck of rust on his blade.
06:45Why were you willing to marry me?
06:46You want the truth?
06:48Hmm.
06:50Because you chose.
06:51You stood in the middle of the main tent with everyone watching, and you chose me.
06:57Just for that?
06:59Just for that.
07:06Not many dragons would choose one of their own in that moment.
07:10Most would choose themselves.
07:12That was choosing myself, too.
07:14I chose you because I needed to get away from Derek.
07:17I know.
07:19But you could have grabbed any dragon at the door to sign with you, then gone your separate
07:22ways.
07:23You didn't.
07:25How do you know I won't?
07:27Yeah.
07:31Because you're still sitting here, drinking my beast milk.
07:35I said nothing.
07:36He was right.
07:38I hadn't left.
07:39The days passed quietly like that.
07:42I found out I was pregnant two months later.
07:45In my last life.
07:47In my last life, at this very moment, I thought I was carrying Derek's cub.
07:51I had gone to tell him, full of joy.
07:58I hope you don't embarrass me again.
08:00His expression looked like he had already decided to throw it away before he even skinned
08:05it.
08:06Then I gave birth to a daughter with martled scales, and a flame so weak it was almost invisible.
08:19This isn't mine.
08:23She is yours.
08:25My seed could never turn out like that.
08:30He didn't even wait for me to explain.
08:44Olivia, you've been in the private tent for 20 minutes.
08:48Luke's expression changed.
08:50First confusion, then alertness, then something I didn't recognize.
08:55What's wrong?
08:58I handed him the pregnancy stone.
09:09Ours?
09:10Who else's would it be?
09:15Not Derek's?
09:17Not Derek's.
09:19100% yours.
09:32Are you happy?
09:34I don't know.
09:36But I'm thinking about something.
09:39What?
09:40Your last life.
09:43Why did Derek kill you?
09:45I froze.
09:46I hadn't told him.
09:47I had never told anyone about my last life.
09:50About that cub.
09:51About that fire.
09:52About the instant so sudden I didn't even have time to scream.
09:55The cub.
09:56Mottled scales.
09:58Unstable flame.
09:59He thought it wasn't his.
10:01It wasn't his?
10:03It was.
10:04But that cub really didn't look pure blood.
10:08Olivia, have you ever considered something?
10:10What?
10:10A cub born from two mixed bloods may not be a mixed blood.
10:14What does that mean?
10:15He didn't answer.
10:17He only placed his claws over my lower abdomen.
10:19Within the black tongues of flame was a strand of gold I had never seen before.
10:23That gold was not the cold gold of the pure blood dragons.
10:27It was warmer.
10:28More like sunrise.
10:29Your cub.
10:30It isn't the same as the cub from your last life.
10:33What are you talking about?
10:34I'm saying you were robbed.
10:38Robbed?
10:39By who?
10:42Mia's due date was three weeks before mine.
10:45The news spread through the entire dragon council.
10:49Derek Cole was holding a bloodline witnessing ceremony for his first child.
10:53And he had invited every elder and noble.
10:57To put it plainly, he was showing off.
11:00Showing off that he had chosen the right woman.
11:02That his heir would be pure blood.
11:03That abandoning me had been such a brilliant decision.
11:06He wanted everyone to see that Derek Cole had not been dragged down by that half-breed.
11:10That Derek Cole's bloodline would continue.
11:11That Derek Cole was the winner.
11:14On the day of the ceremony, Luke and I stood at the very back of the hall.
11:20No one noticed us.
11:22No one wanted to notice us.
11:25I knew what he was thinking.
11:26He was thinking this was only the first step.
11:29There was a longer road ahead.
11:31One child wasn't enough.
11:33He wanted an entire tribe.
11:35My parents sat in the front row.
11:37Their seats had been assigned.
11:39No one cared whether they wanted to be there.
11:41To miss an occasion like this would be to openly oppose the Cole family.
11:44And my father's place on the council still needed Marcus Cole's vote.
11:48What do you think it'll be?
11:50Do you want the truth or the polite version?
11:52The truth.
11:54A turkey.
11:56Or a lizard.
11:57Or something worse.
12:03The glory of pure-blood dragons.
12:07The future of the Cole family.
12:09The support of the clan.
12:11Every sentence was formulatical.
12:13Every gesture had been precisely calculated.
12:17Then the delivery room door opened.
12:22Marcus's smile froze on his face.
12:24The whole room went silent.
12:26Every eye fixed on the white cloth.
12:29Waiting for the midwife to uncover it.
12:31The baby's scales were grey-green.
12:33Uneven in shade.
12:34Its eyes opened a slit.
12:35And the color of its pupils was wrong.
12:37It was not the gold of pure-blood dragons.
12:39Nor the dark yellow ex-blood dragons.
12:40It was a murky sickly dark yellow.
12:43Like pos left too long.
12:44What is that?
12:45It's my child.
12:47Let me see.
12:48Even more terrifying were its dragon wings.
12:50The fleshy wing that should have unfolded at bear.
12:53The symbol of a dragon's identity.
12:55Had only grown halfway.
12:56The other half was a malformed, wrinkled lump of skin.
13:05it's my child.
13:16I don't know. I don't know why this happened, Derek. I really don't know.
13:20Do you know what your bloodline is?
13:24Do you know on your father's side?
13:27There is nothing wrong with my bloodline. It's you!
13:30You're the problem in our last life. You and...
13:34She suddenly shut her mouth.
13:37But it was too late.
13:39Last life.
13:40What last life?
13:41Derek's expression in that moment was the most spectacular thing I had ever seen.
13:45Fear, rage, shame, and the despair of knowing everything was over.
13:49Every emotion stretched out at once, crowding onto his handsome face until it twisted out of shape.
13:53It was you.
13:55You cursed me!
13:56He was fast, but Luke was faster.
14:10Don't touch her.
14:11The whole room went silent.
14:21That fire.
14:23Fear.
14:25Impossible.
14:26What is it? Marcus, do you know that fire?
14:29Marcus didn't answer.
14:31Marcus didn't answer.
14:33The way he looked at Luke changed.
14:36It wasn't the hostility from before.
14:38It wasn't irritation at having his speech interrupted.
14:42It was something older.
14:44More instinctive.
14:46Fear.
14:46Not fear of an enemy.
14:48Fear of something from the past.
14:50Mia and Derek's pure-blood air was half-lizard.
14:54The news spread through all of Dragon Society.
14:57Someone revealed the secret.
14:59It was sealed quickly.
15:01However, the message has already been leaked.
15:04The comments were unbearable to read.
15:07Some said Mia's bloodline was the problem.
15:09Some said Derek's bloodline was the problem.
15:11Some said both of them were the problem.
15:13The truth didn't matter.
15:15What mattered was that they were finished.
15:18But to Derek, there was one thing even more terrifying than social death.
15:23Me.
15:24That night we returned to our accommodation.
15:27Luke closed the door, leaned against it, and looked at me.
15:32You want to know the truth?
15:35What I used just now was the fire of the ancient dragons.
15:39When Marcus saw it, he recognized it.
15:41That wasn't the power of modern pure-blood dragons.
15:46Luke was silent for a long time.
15:50Do you know where pure-blood dragons come from?
15:53Since I was little, I was taught that pure-blood is innate.
15:57Natural selection.
15:58The peak of evolution.
16:00Then do you know where half-greeds come from?
16:04These scars, they aren't from fights.
16:10They're from rituals.
16:12What rituals?
16:14The Cole family.
16:15Marcus Cole, Derek's father.
16:17Or rather, every family that calls itself pure-blood.
16:20Their pure-blood wasn't natural.
16:22It was stolen.
16:24What do you mean?
16:25Every time a new life is born, they perform a ritual.
16:28They extract dragon crystals from dragons with impure bloodlines.
16:32He never talked about himself.
16:34I had known him for two months, and he had never said a word about his past.
16:39I knew what a dragon crystal was.
16:41Every dragon has one in their chest.
16:43It is the source of our power.
16:44The color and quality of a dragon crystal determines the form and strength of the flame.
16:49If the dragon crystal shatters, the dragon dies.
16:52No exceptions.
16:53A mixed-blood's dragon crystal is far more active than a pure-blood's.
16:56Because a mixed-blood's flame is unstable, the crystal has to keep adapting and adjusting.
17:01And that activity...
17:03It can be extracted.
17:05A pure-blood dragon's crystal is constant.
17:08Stable.
17:08It doesn't grow stronger or weaker.
17:10But a mixed-blood's crystal is different.
17:12It can be smelled, remade, and injected into another dragon's body.
17:16They use mixed-blood dragon crystals to strengthen their own bloodlines.
17:20Luke didn't speak.
17:22But his silence was the clearest confirmation.
17:27How do you know?
17:29Because I was one of the dragons they extracted from.
17:33When I was 15, Marcus Cole found me.
17:36He said he would help me awaken.
17:37You know the line.
17:38Every mixed-blood has heard it.
17:39Come with us, and we'll help remove the impurities from your bloodline.
17:43You went?
17:44I went.
17:44My mother had just died.
17:46I was living alone in a grass shed in the south.
17:48No herd, no kin.
17:49My flame would go out of control from time to time and burn every piece of prey I could find.
17:52Riving a beast car pulled by four Thestuils, he said he would come to help me.
17:56They locked me in a dungeon and extracted my dragon crystal for three days and three nights.
18:00They thought I was unconscious the whole time.
18:02But I wasn't.
18:03I was awake.
18:05I watched them melt the crystal they took from me into glowing liquid and injected into a cub's body.
18:10Who was that cub?
18:15You guessed right.
18:16It was Derek Cole.
18:19Derek's pure blood had not been maintained by the blood I donated.
18:23Not by that bottle of heart blood taken from my chest every year.
18:26The pain so bad I curled in on myself.
18:30It was maintained by my own kind.
18:33By the lives of every mixed blood dragon they had branded a half-street.
18:36In my last life.
18:40Every year I had to send their family a bottle of my heart blood.
18:45They said it was to build affection with Derek.
18:48I was pierced with needles from childhood until I nearly died from the pain.
18:52And I thought that was just my fate.
18:54Because I was mixed blood I was supposed to endure it.
18:58It was compensation.
18:59It was the price.
19:01It was what I owed them.
19:02That wasn't your fate.
19:04That was their lie.
19:05They used my blood.
19:07Our blood.
19:08To keep up Derek's disguise.
19:09To make everyone believe he was pure blood.
19:12To let him stand above us.
19:14Look down on us.
19:15Judge us.
19:15Kill us.
19:16Then he killed you.
19:18Killed your child.
19:19Because he couldn't let the truth come out.
19:22Your child.
19:23The one you gave birth to in your last life.
19:26If she had lived.
19:27If she had grown up.
19:28Her scales and flame would have proven one thing.
19:31What?
19:32A child born from two mixed bloods is not mixed blood.
19:36It is the source.
19:38The ancient dragons.
19:39The true dragons were never pure blood.
19:42They were mixed blood.
19:44Because mixed blood means adaptation.
19:47It means change.
19:48It means the power to devour everything.
19:51And bring everything back to life.
19:54But pure blood.
19:56Pure blood is a dead end.
19:58A self-deceiving lie.
20:01Destined for extinction.
20:03That night.
20:04Luke took me somewhere.
20:05Deep within the family territory.
20:07There was a forgotten ruin.
20:10I had gone there once as a child.
20:12But mother dragged me back.
20:14She said it was unlucky.
20:15And forbade me from going again.
20:18It was not an ordinary key.
20:21It was made of bone.
20:22White.
20:23And slightly yellowed.
20:29But I knew those words were not modern dragon writing.
20:33They weren't any dragon language I knew.
20:35The symbols curved and flowed like the shape of flames.
20:39Generations of dragon ancestors are buried here.
20:43At least that's what everyone says.
20:45No.
20:46They didn't die.
20:47They were exiled.
20:50The stone chamber was small.
20:52Only about two meters square.
20:53And every wall was covered in murals.
20:56No names.
20:57No dates.
20:59Only those ancient curving symbols and images.
21:02It was ten times the size of the other dragons.
21:05Its wingspan covering half the sky.
21:13Then the mural changed.
21:16They severed the dragon race's connection to its past.
21:21They killed the last mixed blood king of the ancient dragons.
21:24Stole its dragon crystal.
21:26Divided into thirteen pieces.
21:28And smelted those pieces into their own bodies.
21:30From then on.
21:31They called themselves pure blood.
21:34From then on mixed blood became a disgrace.
21:36From then on every few decades.
21:38They had to find a new group of mixed blood dragons.
21:41Extract their dragon crystals.
21:42And use them to extend their own lives.
21:45Do you know why they've always had their eyes on you?
21:48Because my flame is the wrong color.
21:50Because the pattern of my scales is wrong.
21:53Because I'm a half-breed.
21:54Because inside you is...
21:55Because you are the reincarnation of that ancient dragon.
22:01I am the...
22:03You are the king they killed three times.
22:05And stole from countless times.
22:07And yet every time...
22:10You are reborn from the ashes.
22:13In this life I will stand in front of you.
22:16Not because you need protection.
22:17But because since I was fifteen I have been waiting for one of my own.
22:21Someone willing to choose me.
22:22And you chose.
22:23His voice was trembling.
22:25It was the first time I had ever heard his voice tremble.
22:27I thought the story ended there.
22:29But I was wrong.
22:31On the third day after the ceremony...
22:33Mia disappeared.
22:35She hadn't run away from the nest.
22:37She hadn't gone to see a witch doctor about her body.
22:40She vanished from the Cole family territory out of thin air.
22:44The midwife said she got up in the middle of the night to feed the cub.
22:48And then she was gone.
22:54Derek was the first to messenger to me.
22:57Not because he cared about Mia.
23:00But because he knew I would.
23:03Strangely, it wasn't angry.
23:05It wasn't urgent.
23:07It was soft in a way I had never heard before.
23:10Almost pleading.
23:11Olivia.
23:12Mia is missing.
23:14What does that have to do with me?
23:16I heard him take a deep breath on the other end of the soundstone.
23:20If you're willing to help me find her, I'll show you something.
23:25What?
23:25The truth about that cub from your last life.
23:33Then I found Luke.
23:34Derek says he knows about what happened in the last life.
23:37He was cooking a pot of meat soup.
23:39In the stone pot were wild greens, roots and bones from some beast I didn't know where he had hunted.
23:48What does he know?
23:49He says he knows the truth about the cub.
23:56He's lying.
23:57But he may know something.
23:59Like what?
24:01Like who stole your cub.
24:04Luke and I went to the Cole family territory.
24:07Their land was on the mountain to the north, sprang wide.
24:11It was a long walk from the fortress gate to the main hall.
24:28Inside was a ritual refining room.
24:31No, not a ritual refining room.
24:32A slaughterhouse.
24:33It was not alive.
24:35What is this?
24:37What is this?
24:38Derek didn't answer.
24:40the bone scroll was very old its edges worn down my name was carved on it inside were branded
24:48animal hides many sheets the same cub rubbed from different angles behind them were notched tables
24:55rune data and blood pattern analysis scrolls derrick has never fathered a pureblood cub
25:01not once the cole family's bloodline was already polluted in the first generation
25:05their method of extracting mixed blood dragon crystals has a fatal side effect each generation
25:09is weaker than the last derrick is the final generation he cannot produce any healthy cub
25:14then what about mia's cub my father did that what do you mean my father he started cultivating
25:20ambrose five years ago with my essence blood with mixed blood dragon essence blood cultivated in the
25:24ritual refining room the one mia carried was never my cub it was a ritual thing they implanted in her
25:28body your wording changed you called her mia not my sister now you see her as a living being not
25:36your rival he said nothing for a long time mia disappeared she got up in the middle of the
25:42night and saw that stone trough saw the corpse of her cub the one she thought had died the one
25:47we told her died at birth then she disappeared what did you do to her we didn't do anything but
25:58she
25:58took that bone scroll that scroll contains all the evidence the cole family's bloodline fraud ritual
26:03cultivation mixed blood dragon crystal extraction everything is in there so you came to me not
26:07because she's missing but because she took your secrets
26:12my father doesn't want mia what does he want he wants that cub i did not go to rescue mia
26:20not
26:20because i didn't care but because i knew where she was our mother elena she had never accepted my
26:25father's seat on the council never accepted being forced to attend every cole family event never accepted
26:30her two daughters being treated as political bargaining chips she had been waiting all along waiting for a
26:36chance waiting for a blade sharp enough mia gave that bone scroll to her then elena did something
26:40no one expected she issued a bloodline proclamation in the front courtyard of the family estate before
26:45all the elders before all the council members before the watching dragons she released everything in
26:50the bone scroll piece by piece every item was perfectly clear the cole family's bloodline fraud
26:55the embrose melting authorization personally signed by marcus cole in dragon script the list of mixed
27:00blood dragons illegally imprisoned and stripped of their dragon crystals he didn't know someone had
27:05tampered with the voice prince stone derrick is not pure blood he never was but we had no other
27:11choice the council needed an heir the cole family needed a future we only did what had to be done
27:19the hall was deathly silent
27:28it was a blood pattern origin tracing scroll at first glance the entire blood pattern was dark gold
27:33with the purity index marked along the edge of the scroll at over 97 this was the mark of a
27:39pure
27:40blood dragon there was nothing wrong with it but at the imprint corresponding to the 12th heart scale
27:45a tiny section of the pattern was the wrong color the source of that pattern was written on the final
27:51line of the scroll it was the first time i had ever seen that blood pattern scroll
27:57you knew i knew you knew from the beginning i've always known you knew the dragon crystal inside him was
28:05part of you yes that's why i'm taking it back the conflict broke out the next day derrick struck first
28:14he had lost everything his fiancee his child his family's reputation his council seat he had nothing
28:20left a person with nothing left is the most dangerous because he has nothing left to lose either
28:27when he came to find me with that knife i was packing in the apartment mia was coming to stay
28:32for a few
28:32days she didn't dare go back to her own home and she didn't dare return to the coal estate she
28:37was
28:37staying with mother for the moment but mother said she needed time alone so mia had no choice but to
28:42come
28:42to me when the doorbell rang i thought it was her he knew i wouldn't die but he no longer
28:54cared
28:59put down the knife
29:04derrick did not put it down the thing you took that piece of dragon crystal inside your body it isn't
29:10yours
29:10it never was your life is fake your bloodline is fake your pure blood was stolen you are nothing
29:28this should hurt but i don't want to hurt you
29:33i don't want to become like you
29:38take it
29:40and never appear in front of us again
29:52i'll get the first aid kit
29:53no need
29:56i want a different ending
30:00what do you mean
30:02in your last life when you died i was on the other side of the city
30:07i felt it but i couldn't get there in time by the time i arrived you were already
30:12nothing but ash
30:14not this time
30:19after mia arrived she saw the blood on the floor of the nest and almost turned around and flew away
30:25again
30:36i'm sorry olivia i'm sorry
30:39i know i shouldn't have i know back then i shouldn't have treated you that way
30:45you don't need to apologize
30:48why are you never angry
30:50because i don't have time to be angry
30:53that was the truth
30:55i didn't have time to be angry
30:58there was still too much i had to do
31:00i had to give birth to my child
31:02i had to watch luke take back his dragon crystal
31:06i had to watch marcus cole stand trial
31:08i had to see every young dragon in that glass threat properly buried
31:16that night luke burned a calming leaf on the stargazing platform outside the nest
31:24he rarely touched things like that
31:26the night dew is heavy
31:27go inside
31:28are you cold
31:30no
31:31liar
31:39when i was 15
31:41in that dungeon i thought i was going to die there
31:45i know
31:47but not because of the pain
31:49because i thought no dragon would come looking for me
31:52no dragon knew i was there
31:54even if i died there i would only be treated as a missing half breed
31:58no dragon would ask
32:00no dragon would search
32:02no dragon would care
32:12but they were wrong
32:14who was wrong
32:16all dragons
32:20let's go back
32:21you need to sleep
32:22news of marcus cole's arrest came three days later
32:25he was not arrested by the dragon council
32:28he was arrested at the dragon enforcement unit
32:30the black dragon guard
32:32they had received an anonymous bone scroll sealed with dragon blood
32:36delivered with the bone scroll was a memory crystal
32:38the images from that memory crystal were projected onto the announcement stone tablets
32:42at the center of every dragon territory
32:44the next day
32:45the black dragon guard raided the cole family's nest
32:47on the third day
32:48when marcus cole was dragged out from the depths of the nest
32:51marcus cole did not struggle
32:53he showed no anger
32:54no fear
32:55in his vertical pupils was a kind of relief
32:58as if he finally no longer had to keep acting
33:01two days later
33:02the dragon council held an emergency session
33:05bloodline fraud
33:06illegal imprisonment
33:07abuse of minors
33:08murder
33:09every charge came with witness testimony
33:11and physical evidence
33:13he spent 40 minutes telling his story word by word
33:18from being taken at 15
33:20to three days and nights of crystal extraction
33:23to being abandoned at the entrance of the east district hospital
33:27the council's decision passed unanimously
33:29all noble titles held by families calling themselves pure blood were revoked
33:33every clause in the dragon code concerning bloodline hierarchy was abolished
33:37a compensation fund was established specifically for mixed blood dragons
33:41whose dragon crystals had been extracted
33:44marcus cole was sentenced to permanent imprisonment
33:47although derrick cole had not directly participated in his father's crimes
33:50he had known the truth and benefited from it
33:52he was stripped of his dragon status
33:54his dragon crystal was forcibly removed
33:56and he reverted to what he had originally been
33:58your child from the last life
34:00he didn't kill her
34:02what did you say?
34:03the child from your last life
34:04he didn't kill her
34:06he sent her away
34:07sent her to another world
34:08she's alive
34:10somewhere she's alive
34:12what's her name?
34:14i don't know
34:15i really don't
34:16i only know she was sent away
34:17since somewhere no one could find her
34:19that was the last thing my father said
34:22he said he couldn't kill a child
34:23that was the one thing he couldn't do
34:26derrick left
34:27i stood in the tent passage and did not move
34:30there was a cub inside
34:33and there was another cub
34:34somewhere in the world
34:35alive
34:37she was still alive
34:38i did not cry
34:40the crying came later
34:43that night
34:44in luke's tent
34:46while he was changing the herbs on the wound on his claw
34:54we'll find her
34:57how do you know?
34:58because you're the kind of dragon who finds her own
35:01you won't stop until you do
35:04i laughed
35:05but the laugh was part of the crying
35:06so it was ugly
35:07he didn't mind
35:08the cub was born one week later
35:11a daughter
35:14what's her name?
35:17iris
35:20why?
35:21because iris means rainbow
35:23because her flame is the colour of a rainbow
35:26because when she came
35:27all the colours came with her
35:32iris
35:36his smile was ugly
35:38because his eyes were too bright
35:40so bright his smile couldn't hide it
35:43his dragon crystal had returned
35:47you're back
35:49i didn't know who he was talking to
35:51maybe iris
35:52maybe another dragon
35:55maybe the king in the mural
35:56the one killed three times
35:58and reborn from the ashes every time
35:59but it didn't matter
36:01because this time
36:03no dragon would die
36:04this was my second life
36:05but there would not be a third
36:07outside the tent flap was night
36:10inside the tent flap was light
36:12and a cub
36:15and him
36:16for the Romans
36:16but we don't even know who they were
36:16and there were no need to go
36:16that were no need to go
36:16and there was no need to do
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