Dragon Master: The SSS-Ranked School Belle Asked Me To Contract Her-Chapter 135: Friends

Finding Aurora wasn’t that difficult since they were the only distinct race in the town. In fact, she was the only elf, and even Aethryms looked at her in curiosity, so all it took was asking a young Aethrym her location.

As they followed the direction given by the Aethrym, they found Aurora arguing with Brando over something. But it was clear neither side could understand each other, which just created more problems.

Shaking his head, Veer went towards them and said in the Aethrym’s language, "She’s asking for a place where we can dine."

"Ah! And here I was wondering what happened to you all?" Brando pointed at one of the tunnels on the second floor and said, "Just go there and you can have the food. Though, I don’t know if it’ll suit you."

"We’ll see," Veer waved his hand, as the laughing man walked away. "Let’s go."

Aurora grumbled to herself and looked away, but still followed the group when her stomach protested. She had a feeling that Veer would pull out his cooking, and there was no way she was missing that.

As they entered the room, they found it pretty empty except for a short, lean Aethrym working on a raised platform. Seeing them enter, she nodded at them and brought the meal for them.

’I guess they were already ordered for that.’

The group finally sat down and looked at their meal, which was a strange piece of orange meat and a nasty looking purple soup. Veer wondered what kind of food was that, as it had to be grown in the caves.

’Hmm, Salmond leaves? That’s surprising!’

Veer took a spoonful of soup and tasted it, finding some familiar taste in it. As someone who had cooked for himself from childhood, he was familiar with lots of ingredients and knew what it was made of.

He raised his head and asked, "Where do you get the ingredients to make this soup?"

The short chef smiled at him and answered, "We usually get the meat from the monsters that attack us and, as for soup, we have a garden specially made by our Ancestor for us. It has special functions which let us change its insides, especially the environment. So we can pretty much grow anything we want, as long as we have its seeds."

’What an Ancestor you had. I don’t know whether to call him a great person or not.’

On one hand, he had trapped the whole civilization here underground for eternity, but on the other hand, he also made enough preparations so that they wouldn’t die.

Veer shook his head and asked, "Can we visit that garden?"

The chef looked a little disturbed as she said, "I honestly don’t have enough authority to decide that, so you will have to talk to the Chief."

It was a normal reaction, as the garden was their lifeline. If anything happened to that, the whole race would be doomed, and it would become extinct for sure this time.

"I see. Thanks for the meal and the information," Veer smiled at the chef, who looked away and ran off somewhere, while muttering something Veer didn’t want to understand.

"The Apex Predator makes his move even on alien races, yet again."

Aurora muttered, as she bit down on the meat. Somehow, it didn’t taste good for her.

Turning towards her, Veer smiled and said, "Why are you so grumpy?" Stay updated via novelbuddy

"Are you still asking for a reason?"

"Yeah, you should just ignore her," Elara scoffed, earning a deathly glare from Aurora. "I don’t even understand how she is together with you even after all the facade."

"Alright, can you two stop fighting for once?" Veer said, surprising the two with his serious tone.

Veer felt it was him overdoing it, but he was also getting annoyed with their bickering. Usually, he would let it slide for various reasons, but here they were dying and they were still fighting like kids.

He sighed and said, "Look, I don’t care if you want to rip each other apart, but that has to be done after we escape this Labyrinth. Till then, you should forget who the other is; if not, I’ll leave both of you."

"You can’t do that!"

"Don’t you dare, Veer!"

"Yes, I can do that and yes, I dare to do that. Seriously, what are you two? Kids?"

Hearing his scolding, the two women looked down, as they simultaneously said, "I’m sorry!"

They also understood the situation, but the way they viewed the other was so different that they automatically wanted to beat each other.

But they also understood that their feelings were making Veer hurt. After all, he liked both of them, and there was no way he could just abandon the other. They knew it very well, and if they were honest, that was one of the reasons they loved him.

’Why am I getting all this angry over a brute of a woman? Besides, if I need to be together with him, I need to share him with her,’ Aurora closed her eyes, thought. ’She isn’t that bad so maybe I can make an exception. Yeah, I’ll just settle it for now.’

While Aurora was mostly thinking of everything mentally, Elara was the exact opposite, "Aghh! Sorry for the trouble, V. I was just being a bitch, wasn’t I?"

She turned towards Aurora and said, "Let’s face reality, shall we? No matter what we do, we can’t throw the other from his life. He loves me and, even if he doesn’t admit it, he also loves you. Not to mention, he’s so grateful to you because of the shit you did for him."

She stretched her hand and said, "How about we call it a truce for now since we can’t do anything about each other? As for the love part, that’ll be decided later as I’ll have to discuss something with Lily."

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Aurora was dumbfounded, as she just looked at the stretched hand in hesitation. She always knew Elara was a straight-to-face person, but wasn’t she too simple?

She decided all of that so quickly and even acted on it. Aurora wondered if it was just pure idiotic to be like that or actually good.