Dragon Raja 5; Chapter 341: For Your Majesty (156)

Dragon Raja 5

“Dragon Spiders have been observed in history; they should be a second-generation species. Infection with dragon blood shouldn’t be enough to cause this level of mutation. That serum is strange.” Finger muttered to himself in his pocket.

“Have we encountered anything auspicious?” Lu Mingfei sighed.

There was no need to whisper; with Christina’s hearing, she could clearly hear every whimper in the surrounding space. However, the newborn dragon didn’t care.

“That girl who pursues justice, Lu Mingfei, have you ever thought about why she pursues justice?” Christina said softly.

Lu Mingfei was taken aback, then overjoyed. Christina was willing to talk to him; perhaps there was a glimmer of hope. But he really couldn’t answer the question, because he hadn’t thought about it at all. He just thought that Christina at that time was both foolish and brave.

“Because her life was short, too short to see the future. Rather than die alone, she would rather be a moth drawn to a flame.” Christina didn’t wait for Lu Mingfei’s reply. “What a tragic life. She struggled desperately. She knew she was foolish in other people’s eyes, but the more others saw her that way, the braver she had to be. In the face of death, she had nothing but that courage.”

She consistently refers to her past self as “she,” seemingly indicating her decision to sever ties with the past.

“Everyone is left with nothing in the face of death,” Lu Mingfei said. “At least you still have your loving mother and father.”

But a slight thought crossed his mind: Christina’s courage stemmed from her fear of death, just as Genji’s courage stemmed from his regret for the past.

“When you talk about that poor woman, are you trying to awaken my human heart?” Christina’s voice remained calm. “Do you know how much I hate her? She gave birth to me, a deformed child, just as a gift to her man. And she herself was so foolish, believing until her death that she was loved.”

“She was indeed loved; your father loved her.”

“That’s not my father, that’s a pathetic clown, always wearing someone else’s mask.”

“For many people, it’s good enough to be loved, whether he’s a clown or a big shot. He loves you, so after handing you over to me, he can die without fear.” Lu Mingfei could see Bunin sitting in a pool of blood, staring blankly in their direction, completely dumbfounded.

“Love is your human compassion for each other, it’s the illusion you use to warm yourselves,” Christina said with a cold, mocking laugh.

Lu Mingfei glared fiercely at Chu Zihang. He had racked his brains to chat with this newborn dragon in order to wait for Chu Zihang to come to his senses so he could release his King Flame, but all Chu Zihang could do was roll his eyes.

Lu Mingfei then remembered that the bloodlust had aftereffects. Chu Zihang had already passed his peak, and his energy and physical strength were at their lowest point. Kings Blaze’s violent incantations were inherently high-consumption.

This time, he was truly at his wit’s end. He couldn’t just spend the whole night chatting idly with Christina while Chu Zihang recovered. Lu Mingfei gritted his teeth and made up his mind.

“That’s right, love is about human compassion for those in the same boat. But you are a patient that no one pities,” Lu Mingfei said slowly.

“What did you say?” Christina’s voice suddenly turned icy.

“Yes, you are perfect now. You no longer have ALS, and you are no longer afraid of anything. You can live longer than a tortoise. Wouldn’t it be better if you had no memories of the past? Then there would be nothing to bother you at all.”

“Yes, none of that matters at all,” Christina straightened her body, her bony wings unfurling behind her, haughty and ferocious.

“Then you’ll be completely new, without parents, without friends, no one cares where you came from, just wants you to die. You have power, so what? You can kill anyone who stands in your way, so what? What are you? Your existence is meaningless, a monster with no past and no future.” Lu Mingfei everyone laughed loudly. “You’re a monster, not because you look strange, but because you’re all alone, without any of your kind. Like the monster in Frankenstein, he burned himself to death. Why? Because he was a mistake, a lonely mistake, neither blessed nor expected. What’s the point of such an existence? Every day you live is torture.”

Suddenly, Christina’s furious scream rang out from above, “Shut up!” “That’s your human logic!”

This was exactly the result Lu Mingfei wanted. Christina had been denying any connection to her past, but when she spoke of hatred, Lu Mingfei still detected a subtle emotion. Dragons are not entirely emotionless creatures; even Xia Mi, the Dragon King, was confused, and Christina was no exception.

Lu Mingfei was determined to exploit this subtle confusion.

Lu Mingfei was quite surprised that he spoke so fluently and smoothly.

This is probably how he felt all along, like the monster in Frankenstein who trekked across the Arctic ice fields. The journey had no end, and when he learned that there was a place where he could die peacefully, it felt like he had been redeemed.

“Then try to convince this lowly human being,” Lu Mingfei said confidently. “Convince me that you’re happy to have been reborn and that you’re satisfied; convince me that you were happy to have killed your parents.”

The female snake suddenly drooped down, using the bone wings on her back to grab the tough netting, and tore the solidified slime off Lu Mingfei’s body with her bare hands, ripping off his skin as well, causing Lu Mingfei to go black in pain.

“I didn’t kill my parents!” Christina screamed.

Lu Mingfei smiled bitterly. “A bad guy once told me that a person dies three times. The first time is when he stops breathing, when he dies biologically; the second time is when he is buried, when his relatives and friends say goodbye, when he dies socially; the third time is when the last person who remembers him forgets him, when he is truly dead. Your parents are truly dead now, because you have forgotten them.”

Christina was enraged and let out a sharp screech. Her bone wings spread out like spider claws, and her scythe-like claws were all pointed at Lu Mingfei. A terrifying killing intent burst forth from her crimson-gold compound eyes.

Lu Mingfei thought to himself that this was exactly the effect he wanted. He seized upon that hint of confusion and shook Christina’s resolve. She kept talking to Lu Mingfei, trying to resolve the confusion caused by her memories.

The dragon’s heart and the human heart are subtly at odds. On the surface, she is trying to persuade Lu Mingfei, but in reality, she was trying to persuade her inner self.

Lu Mingfei wanted to press his advantage, but the enraged Christina suddenly looked up alertly. A bundle of sticky fluid shot out from the tip of her wing bone, instantly condensing into a filament that lifted her into the air, landing lightly on the steel cable. She looked up, and all the claws on her back pointed to the sky.

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