Co?ercion - Minor
Co?ercion - Minor
The room they were shown into was spacious.
It was crowded with all sorts of furnishings and devices, but there was still plenty of open space to move around.
- Fwoom...!
A greatsword cleaved the air.
The weight settling into her hand was just right. Letting out a heated breath, Lee Seo-yul swung the greatsword again.
She still hadn't fully adjusted to the body that had grown so much from Lee Ha-yul's blessing.
She'd made progress during the war, but not to a satisfactory degree.
So whenever she had time, she moved her body and worked on adapting.
'It's not just the body.'
No matter how outstanding your physical ability is, without technique, you're nothing but a half-wit. Her skills had to grow to match her rapidly enlarged body.
A fairy knight had many advantages in that area.
The techniques and knowledge inherited from her predecessors elevated her skills to match the body of a rapidly developing fairy knight.
'Has it not manifested yet?'
'Lee Seo-yul' held an overwhelmingly superior edge.
She was the very first fairy born of Lee Ha-yul and his first knight—the fairy most deeply influenced by him.
And influence, naturally, meant innate talent.
- Crash!
Mana cascaded from her hand and coiled around the blade.
The same pure-white mana as Lee Ha-yul's. It transformed into aura, densely coating the blade. Lee Seo-yul stared fixedly at the aura.
The intricately woven structure of mana resembled Lee Ha-yul's body reinforcement technique.
It wasn't entirely identical.
Of course it wasn't. Lee Ha-yul's aura was a structure woven from All-Rounder and Mana Affinity.
But she had succeeded in imitating it to some extent.
It was inferior to the source record, but compared to the rest of the world, there would be few auras its equal.
- Whuum...!
"Ah."
At the signal reaching her mind, Lee Seo-yul's eyes lit up. She scattered the aura and immediately headed for the bed.
"Koo..."
Soon space wavered, and something appeared on the bed.
It was Lee Ha-yul, lying flat on his stomach, asleep. Lee Seo-yul's formerly rigid expression melted into a slack, doting smile.
"Heh, so cute..."
A blasphemous thing to say about her king, but she didn't care. Giggling, Lee Seo-yul removed her helmet.
Lee Seo-yul had kept her armor on even inside the room.
"Phew... That's better."
Her sweat-damp hair rippled.
She then dismissed her armor. The mana scattered and coalesced into a bracelet around her wrist.
The body hidden beneath the armor was just as soaked with sweat. Warmth rose in faint wisps from her heated skin.
"Mm..."
After a quick glance over her own body, Lee Seo-yul settled onto the bed.
"Dad, come here..."
With her body still radiating warmth, Lee Seo-yul gathered Lee Ha-yul into her arms.
By normal standards, this would be a rude thing to do, but...
[Feels nice and warm.]
[Softness.]
"Yes, yes, that's a relief..."
Lee Ha-yul liked it instead and snuggled into her embrace. Smiling with relief, Lee Seo-yul gently stroked his hair.
Lee Ha-yul liked warmth.
Anyone who spent even a little time with him could learn that preference.
'...Originally he hated fire.'
Abruptly, Lee Seo-yul furrowed her brows.
Originally, Lee Ha-yul had hated and feared fire. But that changed because of Hong Yeon-hwa's influence.
He'd also come to like the color red.
Before, he didn't really have a favorite color, but after meeting Hong Yeon-hwa, he started liking red.
It was the same with the others.
Yellow, green, blue, light green, and so on...
Lee Ha-yul showed a tendency to take on the colors his cherished people liked.
"Tsk."
Now Lee Ha-yul liked blue, too.
Probably after today, he'd like it even more.
'...Anyway, since Dad grows accustomed to the people he loves...'
If she held him snugly like this, then later, once united, Lee Ha-yul would find Lee Seo-yul's embrace more comfortable and familiar.
And once that happened, he'd accept her hugs more readily.
Her five-colored wings unfurled and tenderly enveloped Lee Ha-yul.