Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 1022

Chapter 1022: Chapter 1022 - Taming Impossible Puzzles - 6

Ren had been cursing himself for a while.

Not out loud... The internal kind, the kind one did when tracing the chain of decisions that had brought them to a specific point and finding at each step a previous version of themselves who had made a choice with good intentions and insufficient information about the consequences.

The Ren who had made a promise to Liora.

The he who had made a promise to Larissa.

The he who had assumed things would resolve themselves.

The Ren who had made a promise to Luna.

The Ren who had believed that being kind and not leaving anyone out was simply the right approach, and that the complications would come later, and that later was a future problem.

Okay... The future had arrived.

His parents were in the room collecting the last of their things. They had been at the castle since after the battle, first because neither of them had moved from Ren’s side while he was unconscious, which had been its own extended and difficult period, and then because the castle’s staff treated them as VIPs and neither of them had found sufficient reason to argue with that.

But the house in the noble district that Ren had bought for them had been sitting empty for weeks with employees who hadn’t been paid, and Ren was going to return to the academy soon, which meant the natural moment to leave was this one.

His mother folded clothes with the efficiency of someone who had done this in enough different spaces to have developed a system. His father checked that nothing had been left behind with the expression of someone who was actually thinking about something else entirely but needed his hands occupied while he did it.

The embraces arrived the way they always arrived, with the warmth of people who had known you before you were anyone and who therefore carried a version of you that no one else was ever going to have.

His mother took his face between her hands and looked at him the special way she checked that he was still the same person. His father gave him the kind of pat on the back that fathers gave when they had too much to say and didn’t know how to say any of it and the pat had to carry all of it.

But...

"Dad."

Reed stopped with the bag halfway lifted.

"Can you stay for a moment?"

Reed looked at Fern.

Fern looked at Reed.

Then she looked at Ren with the expression of someone who had understood exactly what this was about and had decided it could wait in the next room.

"Call me when you’re done," she said, and walked out with the bag Reed had left halfway and with the composure of someone who was ’not even’ slightly curious.

Reed sat down.

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