I Can't Resist the Divine Dragon's Chubby Tail!
Divine Dragon-nim…
Divine Dragon-nim…
In the peaceful city of Seoul, beyond its strikingly modern skyline, lies an ancient forest that somehow still breathes with the exact same scenery from several hundred years ago. Deep within that faraway woodland—known to people as the Great Cavity—lives the Divine Dragon and her utterly devoted servant, Niyu.
This is the story of Niyu, the loyal attendant who has the strongest, greatest Divine Dragon completely wrapped around her finger and turns her into an absolute mess.
Ever since yesterday, Divine Dragon-nim hasn’t let me see her face at all…
Whether it’s when I’m cleaning the corridors, managing the annex, or any other moment, she refuses to speak with me or even meet my eyes…
What should I do? Was I too mischievous with her yesterday after all?
Even when I was wiping away the overflowing semen, her eyes had been brimming with affection—affection that spilled over along with the cum I cleaned up. This really is troubling.
“Hmm…”
What should I do? How can I bring it up in a way that easily clears the air? Should I ask what she’d like for dinner? Or suggest an outing this afternoon? Mm… No, no, that’s all wrong. Every single one is a failure.
The more I approach her, the more our homebody Divine Dragon will pull away. She hates going out so much that she practically shudders at the mere suggestion. So what could possibly help our homebody Divine Dragon relax?
Games. That’s it—games!
Board games would be nice, or even those internet games that humans enjoy so much lately! That… what was it called? League… of something. If I suggest one of those, surely she’ll open up and talk to me again.
She’s always shown quite a bit of interest in such things, so the chances are good.
With that in mind, I first slipped out into town, bought several board games at the mart, and returned home. After all, our shrine still doesn’t have internet installed, so playing online games was out of the question.
I began my reconciliation preparations as stealthily as possible, stealing glances in her direction. Today, just like yesterday, Divine Dragon-nim had placed a cushion in the hallway and sat in formal meditation. Her eyes were gently closed beneath the soft sunlight filtering in.
She didn’t look particularly upset. Her thick tail was curled around her waist and hanging limply, but that much was normal. When she was truly angry, her tail would shoot straight up and start thumping wildly against the floor.
So I quietly waited until her meditation ended, then busied myself arranging the board games I’d brought. Marvin’s Time looked especially fun, but… it seemed to need more players. I’d have to return it tomorrow. As for the others…
Ah, darn it. I’d been in such a rush that I’d only grabbed games that required at least four people. I could borrow Divine Dragon-nim’s divine power and create clones of myself to play, but… that would just be me splitting into multiple versions of the same person. It wouldn’t be particularly entertaining.
Still, I had bought one game that two people could enjoy.
Chess.
While browsing the board games at the mart, it suddenly occurred to me that she might enjoy chess. Normally, when she wasn’t reading, she spent her time alone playing traditional strategy games like Go or other complex tactical battles… Those were all far too difficult for me to join in, so I could never play with her. But chess? I actually know how to play chess!
The pawn is the one that protects the center even from the very back, right? …Wait, is that wrong?
Um… Actually, the only “pawn” I know is a cell phone… The thing all the young humans carry around these days. I want one too, you know. They say you can talk to people far away with it and look up all kinds of knowledge on the internet.
Of course, I can do those simple things easily by borrowing Divine Dragon-nim’s divine power… but there’s nothing strange about wanting to experience the wonders of human civilization for myself.
That was when it happened.
“…I shall step out for a while.”
“Pardon?”
Divine Dragon-nim opened the door and informed me in that authoritative tone before walking straight toward the entrance. She left me with nothing but the single word “outing” and strode outside without further explanation. Bewildered, I followed after her.
“It is nothing serious. I will return by tomorrow morning… I shall be back shortly.”
When we reached the entrance, her usually motionless tail gave a single, gentle flick. She glanced at me sideways while slipping on her shoes. I felt an enormous sense of unease at the sight of her willingly going outside and simply stared at her in silence.
“…Do not worry. An old friend is passing nearby after a long time and has asked to greet me. That is all.”
She spoke to me with her usual warmth, as if she hadn’t been avoiding me at all. Then she stood, straightened her plain robes, opened the sliding door, and stepped outside.
I had been a little worried about her, so without thinking I reached out to brush a strand of hair from her back. The moment my fingers touched her—
“Hii—!?”
Divine Dragon-nim suddenly stumbled, her whole body giving a violent twitch. She whipped around with wide eyes. I quickly pulled my hand back in surprise. Her face flushed faintly.
“I-I shall return…”
She slammed the sliding door shut and left.
I stood there in the empty entrance for a moment, staring fixedly at the right hand I had reached out with.
“……”
What on earth was that reaction? Was she avoiding me because she didn’t want me to see her like that?
I remained standing there, feeling only the rapid thump of my heart beating wildly in my chest. When would she be back? Would she really return soon?
My gaze stayed locked on the entrance where she had stood, boring into it.
“…I should have hugged her.”
Only a regretful murmur lingered in my throat, circling inside my mouth.
So it was that the Divine Dragon found herself alone on the streets. By now the sun had sunk low, the hour when it would soon dip beneath the horizon fast approaching. She was on her way to visit an old friend—the Fox Deity—who had built a shrine in the mortal world and lived among humans.
“So you ran away like you were fleeing for your life?”
“…Yes.”
The Fox Deity had taken the Divine Dragon to a large private room in a restaurant near her shrine. She poured sake into her own cup as she asked.
“Really?”
“……Yes.”
The Divine Dragon, who disliked alcohol, quietly nibbled at the skewered grilled meat she had ordered along with grape juice. But her expression was gloomy. In front of her longtime friend, she showed a vulnerability she never allowed her servant to see.
She had always wanted to remain strong and majestic in front of her attendant, yet lately she found it increasingly impossible. She confessed how difficult it had become.
“Hey, you idiot. If that’s what you wanted, shouldn’t you have just devoured her from the start~?”
With that signature sly tone and a seductive look, the Fox Deity began to tease her. She soon burst into laughter and shoved several skewers into her mouth at once.
“But well… yeah… kids these days are all so strong-willed. Even I’m having a hard time lately.”
Then the Fox Deity began telling her about what she had recently experienced.
“Kang Semin?”
“Yeah. That brat’s been hanging out with her friends and won’t play with me anymore…”
The Divine Dragon’s tail began to sway gently back and forth as she listened with interest.
“So I whined a little, and she suddenly acts like she’s the one in charge. She told me to stop whining and just do the housework.”
The Fox Deity, who had been speaking excitedly, suddenly closed her mouth. She stared off into the distance, lost in thought for a moment, then closed her eyes and let out a small chuckle.
“…I never thought you’d become someone so loved.”
She brought up a story from long ago.
“When the White Shaman and I first found you, you were just a little dragon consumed by nothing but vengeance… Now you’ve become a proper gatekeeper with a wonderful servant by your side.”
At the Fox Deity’s words, the Divine Dragon quietly recalled those old days. Before she had met her servant Niyu. Before she had settled in the forest known as the Great Cavity. Back when she had been nothing more than a wandering soul drifting through the nine heavens.
“Tsk, enough of that~ Don’t worry too much. It’s only because it’s your first time. Love is something that becomes even harder to grasp the more uncomfortably you think about it.”
Having finished reminiscing, the Fox Deity lifted her cup again and pushed more sake toward the Divine Dragon, proposing a toast. The Divine Dragon raised her glass of grape juice and clinked it against her friend’s. For a moment she gazed somewhere far away, her face deep in thought.
“Accept it honestly. If we’re being blunt, the root of that child’s feelings is none other than human malice.”
With those words, the Fox Deity emptied her cup in one clean gulp. The Divine Dragon slowly set down her grape juice.
She thought of her beloved servant Niyu, who was waiting alone at home right now.
Then, suddenly, she remembered the White Shaman—the one who had helped her regain herself when she had been lost as a wandering spirit. She asked the Fox Deity about her.
“…Is the White Shaman doing well?”
The Fox Deity, who had just popped the last skewer into her mouth and was chewing, looked at her with wide eyes for a second.
“Did you really have to bring up that woman?”
Her eyes quickly narrowed into a glare. Only after she had thoroughly chewed and swallowed the skewer did she slowly answer.
“That woman? She’s living just fine.”
She spoke of the woman she hadn’t been able to see often because of the Divine Dragon’s duties.
“With those absurd powers of hers, there’s nothing she can’t do. I heard she even rejuvenated herself recently.”
After telling her about the White Shaman, the Fox Deity drained the last of her cup in one refreshing swig. Suddenly her phone began ringing loudly from the pocket of her jeans.
“……Yes, Semin? Huh? Me?”
Before the Fox Deity could even prepare herself, a voice like raging flames poured out of the phone at full volume.
“Eh, uh, no, I’m just having a drink with a friend—”
Of course, that voice didn’t allow a single excuse. It declared that if the Fox Deity—who had run away without doing any of the chores she’d been asked to finish before leaving work—didn’t return within ten minutes, her precious game console would be smashed to pieces…
The moment the call ended without giving her a chance to respond, the Fox Deity stared blankly into space, frozen.
“Ugh, seriously… She always melts the second I hug her…”
She quickly began tidying up and stood, gathering her things.
“Sorry, but I have no choice but to leave first. Let’s meet again later, Shinryong.”
The Divine Dragon gave her a sympathetic look and waved gently, seeing her off as she left.
“……”
Accept all the negative emotions and cleanse them thoroughly, huh?
But if you accept them like that, won’t you end up like the Fox Deity right now? The Divine Dragon sat there for a long time with a puzzled expression.
Yet in the end, those things were also love. They happened because one cared for the other and wished for their happiness. Once she remembered that, the Divine Dragon closed her eyes for a moment, then slowly rose from her seat.
She fiddled with the hem of her robes as if straightening her heart, then began walking out of the bar.
“…Accept them all.”
As she slowly left the tavern, she thought of her beloved servant. The moment had come to honestly reveal these feelings that had been making her heart race nonstop. Thanks to the Fox Deity’s advice—that they both loved each other—she finally acknowledged that her feelings for the child she had only thought of as someone to cherish had grown beyond simple affection.
Her expression remained as blank as ever, but her tail swayed softly back and forth without her realizing it.
It was late at night when she headed home.
“Excuse me, miss?”
“…What is it?”
Just as she was about to leave the restaurant, a staff member stopped her.
“You’re from room number two, correct? You need to settle the bill…”
At those devastating words, the Divine Dragon remembered that she had only come out because the Fox Deity said she would pay.
“…Ah.”
But when she thought about it again, she recalled the countless times the Fox Deity had lured her out with similar words, only to run away and leave her to pay the bill.
“I apologize, but… my family will definitely return tomorrow to pay. Could you possibly put it on my tab for now…”
Unfortunately, she had rushed out so suddenly after last night’s events that she had forgotten her wallet. After pleading with the staff and promising to pay tomorrow, she wrote down only her name and barely managed to leave the restaurant.
A ridiculous wave of exhaustion and helplessness washed over her entire body.
“Sigh…”
Yes, this is exactly why I hate going outside… she thought once more from the bottom of her heart.
She fell into deep contemplation about what she should say to the servant waiting for her at home. She already had so much to talk about, damn that Fox Deity. That sly old fox.
With those thoughts, the Divine Dragon dragged her drooping tail behind her and somehow made her way through the dark night streets, wearily returning to her home deep within the Great Cavity forest.