Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 988

Chapter 988: Chapter 988 - Taming Bargains - 4

Orion filed it and kept his expression easy. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

The energy around Ren had not moved in the way he expected from a lie, even a skilled one. It hadn’t jumped or pulsed or done any of the things energy did when someone was working to keep their face ahead of their intentions.

It was still, dense, sitting exactly where it had been when Ren started speaking. Quiet in the way that true things were quiet, without the slight defensive pressure of something being managed.

Orion laughed.

Not with cruelty. With the genuine amusement of someone who has just been surprised by something they hadn’t predicted and finds the surprise itself worth appreciating.

The walking experiment that Julius and the old woman had been protecting for years was in love with his niece. Had said "it wasn’t even a decision" in that dulled, barely-functional voice as though it were the most straightforward thing in the world, the kind of fact that didn’t require inflection because it had never been a question.

And all that ’youngster’s crush’ was doing was making something dangerous grow.

Orion felt it as a subtle, directional pressure, growing slowly, with that chaotic energy that answered to emotion rather than to craft.

It was perfect...

Orion had arrived at this session with a negotiation plan. Luna married to Seiya served multiple purposes, kept her occupied, layered obligation onto obligation, spread her attention across a hundred protocols that would consume her days.

But he was not a person who ignored better options when they materialized in front of him.

What Ren was offering wasn’t a small thing, and it came without the political friction the Seiya arrangement would have generated. He could work with this.

But he needed to take advantage of that energy first.

He studied it with more attention while he thought it through.

Dense... Close to something he recognized from extended study of sources most people found too uncomfortable to approach. And growing, not rapidly, not dramatically, but with that gradual growth that had no ceiling until whatever was feeding it stopped feeding it.

He needed to understand its range before he closed anything. Before he signed anything or surrendered anything.

The easiest way to expose original corruption was well known to anyone who had spent enough time watching it operate.

Feeding it...

"I’m sorry," said Orion, with a cordiality that wasn’t false exactly but was assembled from components, chosen, placed, delivered at the right temperature, "but my niece is extremely important to this family. I won’t have her mixing her regal blood with that of a nameless commoner who obtained what he has through experiments of questionable outcome."

A ’gentle’ pause, almost thoughtful.

"She deserves someone of appropriate lineage. I’ll ’make’ her understand that one way or another for her sake as much as anything."

Luna, furious, opened her mouth.

But the energy around Ren jumped instantly, so high it was palpable without the need of big sensitivity to mana, taking everyone’s attention.

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