Kidnapped Dragons

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Even Gyeoul gave a little nod despite having a displeased look on her face, and the baby dragon that was born with the smallest body twitched its shoulders.
“Kuhahahak!” She laughed in a very good mood.

Yu Jitae, however, still felt uncomfortable.
He could not look at the innocently rejoicing child with a comfortable gaze.
It’s not like the burden was immense to an unbearable degree, but there was something that constantly irritated him like a piece of pebble stuck in the shoes.

What is it? Is there a problem with Yeorum?

He contemplated deeply, looking for an answer.

“By the way, Yeorum.”

“Hung?”

“Is this okay?”

“Which?”

Bom stopped the video, and went through Yeorum’s abnormal actions.

“Your hands were shivering here.
And… here.
You lifted your foot after Simon collapsed and… ah, here as well.
Ahjussi was in front of you but you were still clenching on your sword.”

“Huhh? Uh… Yeah?”

“Isn’t this, because you were angry?”

“Hmm… Yeah.”

“It is?”

Yeorum awkwardly scratched her head.

“Umm, like, a side effect of the core? Something like that…”

“What?”

She glanced at the kids and scratched her cheeks before opening her mouth as if it was nothing serious.

“It’s nothing much.
Apparently when using a high quality onion core, it’s difficult to control your emotions.”

“…Is that okay? That sounds extremely dangerous.”

“How is it any dangerous? It’s just getting a little heated up.”

Is that so? Kaeul tilted her head, but Bom had a different perspective despite hearing the same words.

“That sounds way too dangerous…”

“Uun? Why why?”

“There’s no limit to the action or magic but it’s affecting your emotions instead.
What’s the point in getting stronger, if you can’t control your mood and do something wrong?”

“Uun? I, is that so?”

“Kaeul.
Think of it as a mind-related magic.”

“Aht, oh wow…”

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A dark cloud appeared on Kaeul’s expression after realising the seriousness of the matter but Yeorum scoffed instead.

“Aye.
You guys are overreacting.
There is zero problem.”

“Why, why? Why do you think so?”

“Yu Jitae said it, okay? He said he knows how to deal with all~ of that.”

The kids turned their eyes to Yu Jitae.

“Right? Teacher?”

Yeorum asked with a bright smile on her face.

Closing his mouth, he pondered for a bit.
There was not a sliver of doubt in her words.
She was trusting him because of the bond that had been built up over a long period of time through bickering and working together.

However, he felt slightly more uncomfortable at this moment for some reason and still could not clearly tell what the reason was, so he fell deeper into thought.

“Huh? Wait, can you not?”

“…”

“Ehng? Didn’t you say you can? I thought there was a way to deal with anger problems.”

“…Yeah.
There is.”

“Are you sure it will work? You’re looking quite dubious.”

“It’ll definitely work.”

That much was certain, because it was the method he came up with in the 5+ iterations through experiments.

“Really? I’m curious.
How do you teach how to deal with anger management?”

“Rightt! For none other than the… uhh… red dragon… race’s…”

Kaeul slurred her words, pondering how much she should say to make sure it wouldn’t be a racist comment. 

Meanwhile, Yu Jitae slowly began to realise the identity of this emotion that was making him feel uncomfortable.

His chin turned tense.

Bom asked Yeorum.

“Do you know the method?”

“Nope.”

“What’s with that? Why did you say it wouldn’t be a problem when you don’t even know how to fix it?”

“C’mon~ fuck it.
What about it? Whatever it is, Yu Jitae will do something.
He always comes up with the right answer whenever there’s a problem.”

“Is that so…?”

“Of course it is.
Don’t you think so? It’s not the first time this has happened.”

Yeorum said with a grin.

“I don’t doubt anymore.”

Again, it was a voice overflowing with infinite trust.

“Hmm.
But it does make me quite curious.
Even though I look like this, I have a fairly dirty personality.
How do you even fix this? I asked before and it looked like my parents didn’t even fix theirs.”

Turning towards him, she asked.

“So, how does it work?”

*

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5th iteration.

At the end of a long imprisonment.

It happened while the man was away.

A poor hatchling of the red dragon burned its own heart as fuel for power.

The entity broke out of the underground labyrinth that had kept it locked for close to 20 years, and unable to control its fury, it flew around destroying everything.
It breathed out flames by sacrificing its own life.
Through fury, it expressed its frustration and pain.

The entity caused wars and endlessly wreaked havoc to later become the enemy of all of humanity.
By the time he returned after belatedly hearing the news to stop it, the hatchling’s body was already ripped to pieces, broken and crushed beyond repair. 

That entity, who had never once complained about pain during imprisonment, looked at the Regressor with one remaining eye,

– It hurts.

– My chest, hurts.

It moved its broken chin to ask him for a favour.

– Please, kill me…

Back then, the man thought this red entity would continue holding him back in the future.
Unlike the gold entity that caused trouble due to dying from every trivial stuff like an ocean sunfish, the red entity could not control its own anger.

Even though it first became a problem in the 5th iteration, similar problems would inevitably be brought to surface with more iterations.

Until then, there was an unwritten principle that he had applied to himself.

It was that he should not kill the entities.

– It hurts.
It hurts…

But seeing those tears mixed with blood travelling down the cheeks, he changed his mind.

The Regressor snapped the entity by its neck.

For the first and last time, he had killed a baby dragon with his own hands.
Afterwards, he immediately killed himself to preserve the information inside the Vintage Clock.

Thus, information on the red entity became a fragment that resided within the extensive history of the Regressor.

Thus, the Regressor learned the red race’s way of breathing, their martial arts and their mana pulsation.

And due to that, in the following 5+ iterations, the Regressor experimented on how to restrict the red dragon.

27 experiments.

The process of the red entity’s fury had a fundamental difference to that of a human’s.
Their anger was a reflex action to outside pressure, and happened even in their unconsciousness.
Rather than some sort of emotion, he realised that it was a reflex action that was similar to a hereditary disease.

For example, they could have fun slapping each other on the back of their hand but then suddenly hurl a fist if the shock was to exceed a certain level.
It was a fury beyond their control so the end result did resemble a human with an intermittent explosive disorder.

However, there was a difference.
Upon a close inspection to the dragon’s mana composition, funnily enough he discovered a formula for ‘submission’ alongside others and this meant that repetitive training could significantly lower the chance of a reflex action.

That was why he experimented and at the end of several failures, he finally found the answer.
He was certain after 27 experiments.

The method was rather simple.

It was something like this:

“Nn? What is it?”

Wedge it down so that it can’t move a single inch.

“What’s wrong huh? And what’s with that look on your face?”

Make the entity recognise its powerlessness,

“Why do you suddenly look so serious?”

And hitting it.

“Ahh c’mon, why aren’t you saying anything~!”

Until the ‘anger reflex action’ disappears from the entity.