Blue-Eyes White Dragon: Adopted by the King of Knights [18]

It was a grueling battle.

A drawn-out campaign that lasted several weeks.

It began with the devastating burst of white light underwater—followed by Bluey being swarmed by lake monsters and forced to retreat in a panic back to shore. After that came stealth attacks, carefully baiting the creatures to leave the water so he could get a clean shot.

It took Bluey an entire week to kill the first one.

It sounded pitiful—almost beneath the dignity of a self-proclaimed "white dragon god." But the young dragon didn’t care. All he knew was that this was a battle where lives were on the line—and in the end, he was the one still alive, gnawing at the flesh of his enemies on the shore.

Then came the second. Then the third.

As his hunting instincts sharpened and his techniques improved, Bluey’s pace picked up—what used to take seven days now took three. Then two.

On the final day, he took down three.

Admittedly, not alone. He'd found a temporary ally—a man who liked to wrestle lake monsters naked in the water.

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Kay had been in a strange mood lately.

Which, truthfully, made no sense for someone like him—a self-professed “third-rate knight” who normally thrived on idle distractions. Drinking at taverns, bragging to pretty girls—those were his special talents, and ones he always enjoyed.

But lately, none of that held any appeal.

“Brat! I'm taking Art with me for a while. You’re in charge of the house!”

“Don’t you dare burn the place down!”

His foul-tempered old man had taken his recently odd-behaving little sister with him—and left Kay alone at home. That, in itself, was unheard of.

Even if it’s knight training, shouldn’t I be going too?

Forgive his impudence.

But in Kay’s eyes, his aging father was long past retirement age. His strength and reflexes were barely above average anymore—what remained was only his veteran’s experience, a final scrap of dignity.

And in the face of overwhelming power, experience counted for very little.

Fine, go. Run off and chase your dreams.

I want to see just how far you’re willing to go for something that doesn’t even exist.

Kay wasn’t stupid.

Quite the opposite—he was sharp, the type who could extrapolate wildly from a few scraps of information. Even though no one had ever told him the truth, his natural instincts and observations had led him to some unsettling conclusions:

For example, that Artoria was likely the illegitimate daughter of some king.

And that she was hiding something deep in the forest.

And now, with Artoria gone for months… and her mysterious secret unattended…

Could it be…?

Thinking of the “secret” that even someone as straight-laced as Artoria had gone to great lengths to hide, the knight who just moments ago had been flopped on his bed, bored out of his mind, suddenly perked up with gleeful curiosity.

It was like a locked drawer in your sister’s room.

Who wouldn’t want to peek inside?

Right. Time for a little trip to the woods.

Kay was the type of knight who not only had wild ideas—but followed through on them with enthusiasm.

After a quick bit of packing, he headed alone into the forest—a place that was deadly to most, but felt as familiar to him as home.

That said, he never did find the hidden valley where Bluey made his lair.

That was thanks to his elemental affinity—Kay had a natural connection to water. So his search path followed the rivers and streams, thinking he’d eventually stumble upon the "treasure" his sister had stashed away.

And to be fair, it was a clever approach.

From Kay’s perspective, if his sister was hiding something alive in the forest, it made sense that it would stay close to a water source.

—He completely overlooked the possibility that she might’ve raised something that could fly, and built its nest on a cliff.

If it were just a falcon or an eagle or something, she wouldn’t need to hide it this carefully.

In fact, by now Kay had more or less guessed: his sister hadn’t rescued someone forbidden—but rather was raising something “unsuitable for human eyes,” something dangerous. That was why she hid it in an uninhabited forest and snuck food out to it every night.

He was mentally prepared to encounter a monster.

A faerie? A thunderbird? A unicorn?

He pictured all kinds of exotic creatures—but then shook his head. Rare, graceful beasts didn’t really seem to match his constantly-blundering sister.

No—her partner had to be something flashier, fiercer, more imposing.

If she doesn’t have one, maybe I’ll catch one for her. A gift to celebrate her coronation.

With that thought in mind, Kay scoured the forest for half a month.

Along the way, he killed plenty of magical beasts—fire-breathing boars, coyotes that fired wind blades, even a few Saxons that had wandered too deep into the wilds. But the creature he sought—that rare mix of cool, ferocious, and majestic—eluded him.

Then, on the morning of the seventeenth day, he broke through a dense patch of trees and arrived at a vast lakeshore.

A little tired, he stripped off his shirt, planning to take a quick dip in the lake—

—and stumbled into a sight he would never forget for the rest of his life.

A strange creature—blue-white in color, like a lizard with wings—was hovering just above the surface of the water, gliding along at a leisurely pace.

Beneath it, a long black shadow writhed in the depths.

“Watch out—!”

Kay instinctively reached out, trying to stop the disaster that was about to unfold.

But it was already too late.

The monster lurking in the water had found its perfect chance—and launched a deadly strike at the young dragon who had provoked it so many times.

Bluey, for all appearances, seemed completely unprepared. He didn’t react until the water monster’s long neck broke the surface—then scrambled upward in panic, as though trying to escape the attack.

No way.

There’s no way he dodges that.

Kay knew these lake monsters well. He understood exactly how fearsome their hunting instincts were.

Any prey caught in their sights… was as good as dead. Torn to shreds in the jaws of that fanged abyss.

“Raaagh—!”

The monster breached the water, jaws wide enough to swallow the dragon whole.

Kay watched, heart clenched, convinced the little creature was doomed.

But in the very next instant—

A beam of searing white light erupted from the baby dragon’s mouth, punching straight through the monster’s upper jaw and blowing a gaping hole the size of a bowl in its skull.

“Holy—!”

The dead beast crashed into the lake with a tremendous splash of white foam.

And only then did the young knight truly see the creature circling in the sky above—

That strange, winged, lizard-like animal…

It was a dragon.

A young dragon.

“Damn—this is… this is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen!”

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