Chapter 348
A scholar once called the phenomenon of new information contradicting prior knowledge “dissonance.” People often laugh in such dissonant moments, when reality veers sharply from logical expectation. In other words, laughter arises from disbelief itself.
As Yong-Yong gestured and declared himself to be the Dragon Lord, with even his body language screaming his so-called identity, the class president couldn’t help but burst into laughter. He wiped away the tears welling up in his eyes from laughing so hard. The students’ only reaction was that Yong-Yong was quite adorable.
Yong-Yong, on the other hand, expected thunderous applause and a flood of handshakes. When the students brushed off his declaration as nothing more than a joke, he trembled with embarrassment and shame. That reaction didn’t sit well with him at all. At the very least, they could have pretended to be surprised! If they had, he would have let it slide.
“Hey! You think I’m lying?! Huh?!” Yong-Yong jumped up from his seat. “Karsiel! Don’t hold me back! I’m gonna teach these kids a lesson!”
“I was never holding you back, Lord Izaas.”
“O-oh.”
It was true. Karsiel hadn’t moved from Yoon-Hee’s side since she lay beside her. Feeling embarrassed, Yong-Yong cleared his throat and sat back down.
The students, including the class president, chuckled. Well, all except one: Hye-Jung, who had a rather serious look on her face.
So far, only three dragons had appeared on Earth. Number ten, nine, and finally, one. With the number ten dragon missing, and no one knowing if it was dead or alive, the only ones that had surfaced in the past year were numbers nine and one.
Could he actually be a dragon...? she wondered. Come to think of it... something isn’t right. A monster moving around freely and speaking without a Control Bracelet...? I didn’t think much of it before, but...
The Control Bracelet was an indispensable artifact for taming monsters. Even now, she was using a Control Bracelet to tame a B-rank monster, the Ice Tiger. Without it, a monster would go berserk, failing to recognize even its own master and becoming wildly aggressive.
“Here, have a cola and calm down,” someone offered to Yong-Yong.