Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 980

Chapter 980: Chapter 980 - Taming the Ceremony - 8

Your family didn’t destroy thousands of civilian lives in your own territory to politically bury a brother.

Family didn’t use the crystallized essence of a brother’s woman as a negotiating instrument. Family didn’t look at a niece as a tool from across a ceremonial hall with the filthy look of someone who believed they had already won because they had bought enough pressure and threatened enough targets.

She stopped herself from the rage before the thought moved to her father.

Interrupted one problem but by something that will take you somewhere you cannot go right now. If she let her mind go where it wanted to go, she wouldn’t be able to keep the face she had to keep in this hall.

Her father was crystallized somewhere outside, in a place nobody had told her precisely, having tried to obtain the third nucleus to open the door that might have given back at least the other part of her mother that was missing.

He had been that way for over a year... The not-knowing where was the part that was hardest to manage, because she couldn’t go looking for him if she didn’t know where to look.

That was also something to resolve.

But first the crystal.

’Focus.’

The recognition phase was approaching. Julius and Arturo had managed the debate well, better than Luna had expected given the pressure Orion had been applying.

But Orion hadn’t used everything he had yet, not on Luna’s specific situation, since his priority was the genetic key. He was likely waiting for his moment to even attack if needed... Calculating, perhaps, the point when he had gotten enough talking, and when the room would be warm enough for the threat of aggression to cost more to use it as an advantage.

Selphira’s signal hadn’t come.

Ren’s mana signature hadn’t changed in any perceptible way.

Which meant that neither Selphira nor Victor were recovered, and Ren was still in the state they had left him in.

Which meant that if anything was going to happen here, it was going to happen without any of the three of them.

’Fine... So you do it alone, like you always knew you were going to.’

Luna had become this version of herself somewhere between the ages of seven and nine, right? Before that she had been someone else, more like her mother, more like the kind of person who trusted that the world would give her what she needed if she asked for it the right way. But at seven the world had shown her that wasn’t how it worked...

Then at nine she had decided that if the world wasn’t going to give her anything, she was going to take it herself, right?

So this was not the moment for surrender or for regret.

Ren had been a happy parenthesis. (The delusion of being some princess in distress from some romance book.

A precious parenthesis, more precious than she had expected when it started, but a parenthesis nonetheless.

Parentheses ended...)

’Don’t worry,’ she told him somewhere he couldn’t hear her. ’You already did your part. Protecting everyone from that terrible corruption. Giving us more power than we ever would have found on our own... You already did too much.’

The image of him coming apart in the embrace returned without asking permission. The weight of that body giving way because there was nothing left in it to stay standing. The face of someone who had been carrying too much for too long and had finally found a place where they could put it down for a moment.

Luna set her back teeth together, quietly.

’I’ll handle it from here.’

The master of ceremonies the first recognition.

Ren’s name.

The door didn’t open.

So he announced the start of the representation-in-absence procedure.

’He’s not coming.’

’It’s fine. It’s fine. Whatever has to happen is going to happen either way.’

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