The Low-Ranking Civil Servant Wants to Achieve Success - Chapter 130

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Chapter 130
“More, more. Spread your wings wider. No, you need to flap harder. Faster. More. You can’t get tired. You can do better.”
The Emperor carried Kiaros through the sky while swallowing curses internally.
It wasn’t just difficult—it was exhaustingly, extraordinarily difficult.
Kiaros muttered in an urgent voice.
“All that hesitation… and I couldn’t even confess…”
“Grrrowwwl! Grrr-grrr-grrr! (You’re making all this fuss because you couldn’t confess once in all that time?)”
Being in dragon form meant I couldn’t speak—an eternal regret.
No matter how much I roared, I couldn’t convey my meaning to Kiaros.
Of course, I was already exhausted from Kiaros monitoring the speed of my wing beats.
“That I like you so much… that I care for you so deeply… and I couldn’t even say those words…”
“Grrrrrowwwl! (Why couldn’t you do that back at the Imperial Palace, and why did you have to come all the way to the Southern Region to do it?)”
The Emperor felt like dying to say, “You pathetic fool.”
But there were things weighing on my mind.
Kiaros hadn’t explained in detail, but even the facts he had mentioned were shocking.
Namia was Aran’s daughter and the Tower Master’s granddaughter. So she was connected to the Gaejofa Faction.
When on earth had Namia covered such a vast distance in an instant?
“Please don’t let your mind wander and focus solely on flying faster.”
Kiaros’s words came like a whip. The Emperor let out a groan and put more force into his wing beats.
Normally, dragons flew with grace and leisure. It was unthinkable for wings to flutter like a hummingbird’s in a race like this.
“Grrrowww, grrr… (Raising a child is truly exhausting.)”
“Yes, you’re doing well.”
“Grrrrrowww. (So riding really is this difficult, as they say.)”
Of course, Kiaros’s constant urging wasn’t entirely well-intentioned either.
But organizing what I wanted to say to Namia was far more distressing.
[Seducing ordinary humans isn’t difficult. We have appearance, wealth, status, and power.]
Everyone said the same thing—that it would be so easy for a Dragon-kin to seduce a human.
In fact, I thought so too at first.
So I proposed with complacency, asking if she’d be willing to marry me if she desired it.
But thinking about it now, Namia never placed great significance in such things from the start.
[Actually, I personally… want to make my own decisions. Because I want to be the one noticed.]
What mattered to her was her own decisions and her own power.
So she must have pretended not to notice Kiaros’s subtle affection all along.
She never opened her heart to Victor Awin or to Kiaros Polariud.
And the person she chose was Kibon, who came from a foreign country as a new intern.
She showed genuine affection only to that secretary with unclear status and a crumbling, shabby home.
‘Even disappearing like that at the end is so like Namia.’
If Namia were someone who valued only personal safety, she would naturally have hidden being an experimental subject and fled.
But she revealed the truth even at the cost of exposing her abilities to Kiaros.
Expressing only one wish—to see Father one last time.
‘Please… Namia.’
Kiaros gripped the dragon’s scales, his thoughts churning.
‘Please give me a chance.’
His breath came in gasps, his chest tight with suffocation—he felt as though he might die. The anxiety of possibly never seeing her again made his head spin.
‘I want to choose what I desire now, not just what was given to me from birth.’
Namia was deeply mistaken about one thing.
‘I care more for you than the Empire’s future…’
Whether she was an experimental subject or something even worse…
Kiaros could not help but love her.
‘I want to be your future.’
Meanwhile, the dragon carrying Kiaros crossed the Continent with unprecedented speed, giving everything it had.
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Surprisingly, after crying my heart out, my spirits lifted considerably.
Now that I thought about it, I had never wept so freely before in my entire life.
“Oh dear, what shall we do with our little one? Hmm? Should I help you blow your nose? Oh my, but what if your nose gets sore? Hmm? I didn’t even bring the finest Arpobian tissues…”
The Tower Master fussed about beside me, making a great commotion over everything.
“Crying so much must make you dizzy… Our little one, can you open your eyes properly? Hmm?”
“Yes. My eyes are big and pretty, so they open well even after crying a lot.”
I blew my nose once, rather indifferently, and wiped away my tears.
Watching the Tower Master examine my face, my heart softened.
No one had ever comforted me like this when I cried before.
To be more honest, I had never cried in front of others. I had never even sought comfort in the first place.
“Little one, I’m sorry. Hmm? I’m sorry for being such a useless old grandfather…”
The Tower Master patted my shoulder as he spoke.
“In any case, you’re crying because of that fellow, so I’ll give him a proper thrashing later. So why don’t you go rest now? Hmm? This old man will handle everything…”
Even as he said this, he didn’t forget to grab an innocent bystander. It felt like I was indirectly experiencing the chaotic upbringing my mother had received.
I sighed and shook my head slowly.
“Actually, I’ve already told the Crown Prince everything.”
In a way, I had made a different choice from the Tower Master, who had kept silent until the very end.
But I harbored no regrets. It was the right thing to do.
The Gaejofa Faction was still kidnapping countless animals and people, conducting illegal experiments. I couldn’t simply wash my hands of it and concern myself only with my family’s safety.
“The Emperor will come. He’ll likely manifest as a dragon and destroy this entire place. We need to rescue Father before that happens.”
“What? The Dragon-kin found out?”
I had just revealed the secret the Tower Master had hidden for over twenty years to the Dragon-kin.
“Yes. There are records of dragon speed, so it should take about three to four days. It’s been just over a day since I left the Imperial Palace, so we have about two days.”
That was enough time to break in recklessly and retrieve Father.
I deliberately smashed through one of the maze walls as I spoke.
“With this much destruction, the Gaejofa Faction must have noticed by now. We have no choice. We need to move quickly too.”
However, I could no longer use teleportation scrolls freely.
To use a teleportation scroll, I needed to understand the space I was moving through, but I had no knowledge of the Grand Temple’s interior.
To use a teleportation scroll, I could only do what I’d done when first entering the maze—pass directly beyond the wall.
“Besides, I’m genuinely strong right now.”
“Namia, if the Dragon-kin find out, you need to leave immediately——”
I grabbed the Tower Master, who kept insisting I leave, and spoke with firm resolve.
“Please share all the information you have about what’s inside here, quickly.”
“No, you should leave safely first——”
Hmm.
After experiencing the chaos of my upbringing, I understood how to handle the Tower Master. I immediately cut off his words and threw a tantrum.
“I don’t want to, Grandfather. I’m going to do whatever I want.”
At my words, the Tower Master’s eyes lit up instantly.
“Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes—this old man will tell you anything. What does our precious child want to know? Hmm? Hmm?”
Just as I thought. This was the answer.
And my goal had always been singular.
“Where is Father?”
The Tower Master then startled again, waving his hands frantically.
“Why would our precious child dangerously seek to know that——”
“But Grandfather’s precious child wants to know! I’m incredibly strong, so I’ll destroy everything in my path—tell me right now!”
“Ah… our sweet little one suddenly gained strength and now runs wild without restraint. But if I tell you to be careful, our child’s spirit will break. That won’t do. Our child must live well and prosper alone in this world.”
The Tower Master spoke words that contradicted Father’s teachings about remembering we all live together in this world, and pulled a map from within his robes.

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