Others Summon Dragons, I Summon Legendary Knights novel Chapter 470

Chapter 470: Centipede Eggs

"Hmm... where do I begin?" Ema thought, poking her chin with one finger. She pursed her lips in disappointment, then decided to just speak plainly.

"I grew up without parents, so I don’t have any family drama. I also don’t miss people I don’t know either. After my awakening, I decided to quit school and become a freelancer." She tilted her head and messed with her hair.

"I mean, it’s stupid for us to be in schools when there are pocket dimensions out there with different beasts, landscapes, and places without laws where anyone can be free. And besides..." she glanced at both of them.

"I doubt going to school did any remarkable thing in your lives. So... with Yoru by my side, I rose to prominence in open-world dungeons like Blue Gate dungeons because I’m the best tracker, not just in Japan but in Asia."

She chuckled.

"The authorities called me once. To track you down." She stared at Godfrey. "But I wasn’t interested in working with the government." She chuckled, then flipped her hair. "I love drinking and partying. I also want a man, but I’ll kill him before a month, so... here I am."

"Working for the authorities you said you do not want to work for," Godfrey responded with a skeptical tone.

Ken’s eyes also had questions. "It feels like you’re coping."

"I’m working for the authorities because I don’t want Japan to lose their spot in the Council of the Heads. I still want to preserve my bragging rights in bars. What’s wrong about that?"

Ken shrugged. Then both of them looked at Godfrey, who sighed.

"What do you want to know?"

"How did you bag Isolde Pendragon and Selyne Pendragon?!" Ema was so quick to ask that Ken was stunned. That was what she wanted to ask?!

Even Godfrey didn’t expect that question.

"I mean, I know you went to the same school with Isolde, but she was the daughter of the Pendragon Family Head. Do you know what that means? Let’s say I understand you somehow wove your way into her heart. How did you get Selyne?"

Ema leaned forward as if she wanted to see what Selyne saw. "Now, Selyne is something else when it comes to looks. That girl puts models to shame. Like, where in the world have you been all this while?! And there’s you, the youngest widower. How did you, a crumbled young man, get together with Selyne, a woman who was at the top of the world in literally every area?"

Godfrey blinked twice.

"I see now. You caught her attention with your strength. Reasonable. I heard you have a perfect knight body because of the number of knights you have." She blinked.

"You’re talking like a drunk person, and you haven’t even taken a drink yet," Ken scowled while Godfrey slowly shook his head.

"You need help."

Ema recoiled, hugging her knees and puffing her cheeks. "I know."

Ken turned to Godfrey. "She’s acting."

Ema’s eyes widened, and she dropped the innocent, cute-girl act. She flung her hair at Ken, then laid down.

"Goodnight."

After Ema stopped speaking, silence fell into the room. Both young men sat in the faint darkness, unable to say a word to each other.

"I had a brother..." Ken paused, his fists clenched. He felt embarrassed but still wanted to speak.

He took a deep breath. "He was a policeman. A High Tier. There was a time he was esteemed, but in three years, all of that fizzled away. New tiers were here, and he wasn’t up there anymore, but he was still patriotic. He made me love my nation."

Ken’s eyes swirled. "Don’t you know you’re a star, Ken? You’re special, and soon the world will know. He always told me that when I was depressed because I didn’t have a summon. A few times, I slammed the door in his face and blatantly yelled that he should stop feeding me lies, but deep within, those things I call lies are what kept me going."

He chuckled weakly. "I would feel so much rage, accuse him of giving me false hope, and even call him the cause of my never-ending pain. I can justify all that by saying I was just a teenager, but he was going through a lot. It was tough for him. He had people out there to handle and me at home. There was no rest for him. He always carried people’s burdens. Then one day, on my seventeenth birthday, the day the sky turned dark, I awakened."

Ken lifted up his head. Godfrey was staring at him while Ema, who was pretending to be asleep, was listening with her eyes swirling with soft light.

"While people ran for shelter, I went in search of my brother. The thrill I felt, I can still remember every bit of it. But when I found him, he was already wounded due to the rampant dungeon breaks that occurred because of the Mana Eclipse..."

"There were too many emergencies, and no doctor or healer could attend to him on time, so he died in my hands... soaked in his blood. His death changed me. I suddenly became more perceptive, calmer. More analytical. A change that I believe came after grief and the feeling of hopelessness."

Ken caressed the katana in his hands. "Then the authorities found me after I began hunting down monsters, clearing one dungeon break after another. In less than a month, my brother’s words came true. I was a star, one of the best, if not the best-known talent in Japan."

"You already know that I have a high Symbiotic percentage. It made me as strong as a Titled God, but in return, there’s this pain behind my right hip. It’s incurable, and once it flares up, my right leg weakens. It still doesn’t stop my dream to live as a star, as a being that will make his mark in the vast skies, and I shall shine brightest before I die... even for a brief moment..." he glanced at Godfrey.

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