Limited Extra Time - Chapter 149

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“Carina, you’re awake…”

As always, Millaiyen Pestellio had just finished his morning training and returned to his room, but his expression hardened the moment he stepped through the door.

He contorted his face in annoyance, made a motion to draw his sword, then withdrew his trembling hand from the hilt upon seeing Carina’s bewildered expression.

“Is this your home?”

“Haha, you have quite the instinct. I was just about to kidnap my master, you see.”

A broad-shouldered man with bronzed skin. His reddish-brown hair was a face one could never forget no matter how hard one tried. It was Ajidahaka.

He scooped Carina up in his arms, set her down in a chair, and then seated himself across from her, crossing his legs.

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I sensed something strange in my master’s heartbeat, so I came back to check. But…… this has become quite interesting.

Ajidahaka spoke meaningfully as he licked his lower lip with his tongue.

His crimson tongue moved briefly before disappearing from view. Those still-imposing muscles were tiring to behold even now.

Get out.

Ah, now that I think about it, I agreed to become a godfather. Humans have such customs too. I’d forgotten about it after all this time.

…Carina?

Ah, they say that as a godfather, I can bestow blessings upon the child. Dragons have this custom as well, it seems.

At Carina’s words, Millaiyen trembled violently.

Both of them were making advances toward her right before his eyes, completely disregarding him. And of all things, that reptile was to be the godfather!

If I may offer one piece of advice…… it would be best to visit the Temple in the Capital.

What do you mean?

A human born with an excess of divine blessing and possessing a heart that harbors the Dragon’s mana.

And you too were born with far greater blessings than an ordinary human.

Ajidahaka’s thick finger pointed toward Millaiyen.

At the finger directed at his face, Millaiyen furrowed his brow and crossed his arms.

As Carina Leopold and Millaiyen stared at him in bewilderment, Ajidahaka stroked his chin.

It’s best that excessive things don’t meet under normal circumstances. When something that shouldn’t have been born—something excessively excessive—comes into existence.

Is something going to happen to Carina Leopold?

No, our master won’t face much trouble. Fortunately, the child seems to be quite filial.

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Ajidahaka slowly extended his hand and pressed gently against Carina Leopold’s abdomen. A magic circle faintly appeared at his fingertips before vanishing. At the same moment, Carina Leopold wrapped her arms around her belly with a startled expression.

“Carina Leopold?”

“…The child moved.”

“It reacted to my mana. Even with such faint mana, it responded—it seems the child is indeed quite sensitive to mana, just as I thought.”

Carina Leopold caressed her belly as if she couldn’t believe it. Ajidahaka, who had been watching the gesture quietly, leaned back against the chair and turned his gaze toward the window.

Carina Leopold was truly a special case. She had received excessive blessings from the God of Art and possessed Dragon mana for the extension of life.

And Millaiyen too was blessed by some god. He had likely never been injured or fallen ill throughout his growth. His keener senses than others, his insight, and his martial prowess—while his own effort played a role, the influence of divine blessing was undoubtedly a factor.

The man of the Northern Territory, one who loved combat—judging from the heat he exuded, the scent of blood in battle, and his nature during conflict, the god who blessed him was most likely the God of War.

Those loved by the gods fundamentally do not entangle with one another.

The relationship between gods was not particularly favorable, so typically those who received their blessings instinctively avoided each other.

Much less Art and War?

It was amusing, yet their natures were opposites—so fundamentally opposed that even witnessing the tangible proof before my eyes, I still struggled to believe it.

And yet, the two of them met as if by fate, loved each other, and even conceived a child together.

It was a child that should never have existed, but my magical power had undoubtedly prevented the collision between them.

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Dragon’s magical power had served as a breakwater.

If all of this were merely a coincidence layered upon coincidence, then one of them possessed extraordinarily good fortune.

Ajidahaka paused in contemplation.

Honestly, I had no way of predicting how the child in the womb would be born.

In my eons of existence, I had never once encountered such a situation.

“This child will likely need some time to adapt to the world.”

“…What do you mean by that?”

“Sensitivity to magical power means exceptional sensory perception. If they adapt from infancy, they’ll grow accustomed to it, but for a newborn human child, it will be agonizing.”

At Ajidahaka’s explanation, Carina’s brow furrowed.

Though I didn’t fully understand, I grasped that the child’s situation was far from ideal.

“Are you saying something will go wrong with the child?”

Millaiyen, who had been standing at a distance, strode forward and gently caressed Carina’s shoulder.

At his soothing touch, Carina took a shallow breath to calm herself.

“Explain it slowly. I can’t understand what you’re saying at all.”

Millaiyen pulled a nearby chair over and sat beside Carina as he spoke.

Ajidahaka exhaled a low sigh. With a troubled expression, he rubbed his head in frustration before snapping his fingers.

A golden chalice materialized in his hand, and soon wine began filling it to the brim.

When the wine had filled the chalice slightly more than halfway, Ajidahaka pushed it forward.

“This chalice represents an ordinary human body. Of course, the size of the chalice varies from person to person. Let’s call it… the capacity of the vessel.”

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“The capacity of the vessel…”

“And this chalice’s size can be innately large, but it can also grow larger through environmental circumstances acquired over time.”

Carina Leopold nodded, holding her breath.

The explanation was comprehensible. Yet I couldn’t quite grasp what he was trying to convey.

“And what’s contained within this… this wine represents what humans are born with.”

He began his explanation with measured calm.

A furrowed brow still betrayed slight frustration, but not toward his audience. It was frustration with himself for being unaccustomed to explaining such concepts.

“What humans are born with?”

“Ah, hearing, smell, touch. Then there’s taste, insight, mental acuity, athleticism—you understand. There are countless such things when you break it down.”

“So what about it?”

“Some are born receiving an excessive amount of these gifts.”

Before Ajidahaka could finish, wine began pouring into the chalice once more.

The wine surged forth with terrifying momentum, filling the chalice to the brim before finally stopping.

“Among them, there are those called geniuses, aren’t there?”

Ajidahaka scratched his head.

“They’re born possessing human abilities to their absolute limit. Whether it’s art, combat prowess, or intellect—it matters not.”

“Are they the type who perform miracles through art?”

“Well… you could say it’s similar. In your case, it’s because you possess far too much ability crammed into such a small vessel, and it overflows.”

Wine began filling the goblet once more to the brim.

With nowhere left to contain it, the wine spilled across the

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carpet beneath the table in helpless, gushing waves. Only after thoroughly soaking the carpet did the wine finally cease its flow.

“Well… your companion’s power is less than your own was, but compared to an ordinary human, the amount of wine is quite substantial. Fortunately, the goblet was large enough. A fortunate case where it didn’t overflow.”

Ajidahaka then emptied the entire contents of the goblet into his mouth before setting it down.

His golden gaze fixed precisely upon Carina Leopold.

“Both of your children will be the same. The vessel may be immensely large, but even that vessel will be unable to contain what the child is born with, and it will overflow.”

“….”

“They cannot bear such excessive power. As they grow, their strength will only intensify, and their vessel must expand accordingly.”

There was a reason Ajidahaka had taken this long detour.

Even from a considerable distance, the power of the unborn child had touched his senses.

Despite still dwelling in the mother’s womb, the vitality the child radiated was extraordinary.

If any great beings sensitive to magical force remained in this world, they would surely sense the moment this child drew breath.

“Why is that?”

Carina Leopold asked hesitantly after a long silence.

In his eyes, which had given her strength in that moment, she could feel a deep sadness. Ajidahaka simply smiled without saying a word.

“You and your companion were both of the excessive type… and that child was originally a being who could never have been conceived, nor could have been born.”

“What do you mean by that?”

“Did I not tell you? Excessive beings must never meet one another.”

The two swallowed hard, listening intently to Ajidahaka’s words. Still

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they could not comprehend. They could not fathom why they fell under the descriptor of “excessive beings.”

“Your master was a miracle-bearer powerful enough to survive breaking a taboo. You likely have no memory of ever being gravely ill throughout your growth. Wounds you sustained healed faster than those of ordinary people, did they not?”

“….”

“And you now carry even my magical essence….”

Ajidahaka’s words trailed off.

The one consolation was that the child would at least be born blessed by the divine.

“The five senses will develop abnormally. Even the faintest sound will be as loud as thunder. You will hear conversations from great distances, and your sense of smell will become acute.”

“Is there no way to prevent it?”

“Time is the answer. You will grow accustomed to it soon enough. You will learn to organize it of your own accord.”

It was something all Dragon experienced.

Particularly, the voices and movements of Dragon were so overwhelming that newly hatched Dragon often suffered from nervous exhaustion.

Yet all of them adapted. The child would adapt in the same way.

He had to become accustomed to living among humans. I was willing to aid him in that endeavor.

“The child isn’t in pain or anything like that…?”

“Not at all. If he grows well, he will likely be healthier than anyone else.”

He would not contract common illnesses and would grow as brilliant as any could be.

A child’s life depends on how their parents raise them, but these two people before me don’t seem like they’d raise the child poorly.

“Still, the Temple’s assistance will be necessary. The Temple is filled with people overflowing with divine power close to the child’s nature, so it would be somewhat better than other noise.”

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“…The Temple only exists in the Capital, though.”

“Precisely. It would be better to stay in the Capital for a while. So you can visit the Temple whenever you wish.”

At Ajidahaka’s words, Carina Leopold exhaled a sigh. Millaiyen Pestellio remained silent for a long moment, his hand pressed against his forehead.

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