Dragon Master

“Why are you following me?” Maximilian stopped to stare at Grace who had just called it even with him but came back to follow him. That was kind of funny and unexpected to him.

Grace was a bit embarrassed, “I...um...I’m homeless now.”

“Uh-huh.” Maximilian looked at her indifferently. He thought she was just playing the puppy-dog eyes trick which was too frequent to work for him.

Seeing how perfunctory Maximilian was, Grace felt upset. In fact, she came back to Maximilian in the hope of avenging her father. She didn’t know who the murderer was. But she had made up her mind that she wouldn’t leave until she caught the murderer.

“Can you provide shelter for me for a few days? I will do whatever you want during my stay,” said Grace bitterly after hesitating for a moment. She believed in Maximilian because she thought him to be a good guy. She wouldn’t have begged someone else to help her.

Maximilian was shocked to hear that. Seeing how pathetic she was, he couldn’t bear to turn her down. “Okay!” Maximilian finally agreed.

Before Grace could cheer up for that, Maximilian continued, “But you must tell me what happened.” He had been troubled by the fact that Grace had tried to assassinate him, which he hadn’t figured out. He wanted to hear the truth from her. It was not a big deal to Grace so she agreed.

On their way home, Grace told him what had happened and it turned out that he had been tricked. He didn’t expect those people to be so dirty. By “those people”, he meant people like Dragon Queen or Head of dragon lords and their company. In order to make Grace kill him, they kidnapped her father. Kind-hearted as she was, Grace wouldn’t have collaborated with them to assassinate Maximilian but for saving her father. Because those people went back on their word, she was so infuriated that she suddenly removed the Voodoo Lily from Maximilian.

On a second thought, Maximilian felt that Grace was just taken advantage of by those people. And he didn’t resent her all of a sudden. Instead, he pitied her.

“I’m gonna catch the murderer for sure!” said Grace determined while clenching her fists tightly.

loved to find quarrel in a straw. If he brought Grace home, she would make a big deal out of it. To avoid the troubles, he decided to rent a house for Grace with his own

was really grateful to him. She hesitated for a second and gave him her machete, “It’s for protecting

But I don’t need it,” said Maximilian waving his

and said, “It’s not a

a bell to Maximilian, which reminded him of the story that a master-hand licked his sword forgetting that it had

Maximilian didn’t resist it any more and took it. After all, it was

down everything for

the clothes for laundry. Suddenly Victoria said unhappily, “Did you go out with other

but he managed

I smell perfume on your clothes,” scorned Victoria and then she pinched

that he forgot about the special western style perfume on Grace.

said. When she learned about Grace’s painful experience, she was not angry with him. Instead,

He had thought that Victoria would have pinched him harder. Thank goodness Victoria

that way. Just bring her home. It’s between you

but called Grace

she became jealous. She pinched Maximilian