Kidnapped Dragons (KR Web Novel)

The reason was simple.

It was because the dragons had to be happy.

Since they dont forget, their memories remain forever including painful memories. Therefore, Yu Jitae had to act in a way that made them feel happy every single time.

Radically speaking, if Bom was a child that became happy for being rejected, Yu Jitae could deny every single word of hers. But in reality, Bom was not like that so he did not refuse her requests.

‘You always rejected me during the past year and I have never asked for the same thing more than once. This is the first time Im asking you like this

He could remember the Green Dragon of the fifth iteration. It was the only one that tried to communicate with Yu Jitae among the four dragons and asked him for a favour.

‘Cant you just, do it once…?

If he didnt refuse her request, would the fifth iteration have ended differently?

‘Even though Im asking you like this…

It probably wouldnt have been all that different, considering that he had gotten off on the wrong foot. However, the dragons of that iteration would have been slightly less unhappy at the very least.

He refused and thus the dragons became unhappy – such memories of the fifth and the sixth iterations became stuck in his head like a road sign. Despite being a forgetful human, those memories floated back up whenever he closed his eyes.

Of course, he couldnt say that out loud. How could he say that it was because they were like sunfish that died from every single thing in the world*?

He therefore gave up on replying.

“Nn?”

“…”

“Nnnn?”

“…”

“I want to know…”

“…”

“Youre not going to tell me?”

She was persistent for some reason today. He decided to move away from this place.

While carrying Gyeoul, Yu Jitae tried to carefully stand up but couldnt. After jumping down from the table, Bom sat down on his lap.

“Where are you running.”

After smiling, “Hihi”, she moved around until she was comfortable with her seating posture. Gyeoul was still soundly sleeping so Boms voice got softer after coming closer.

“Do you remember what my first request was, ahjussi?”

He didnt.

“It was on the day we first met when I was asking you to not kidnap me. I became fond of that place and was staying there for half a month so please leave me be, is what I said. But ahjussi rejected my first request. And I was kidnapped.”

“You said you werent kidnapped. You came with your own feet.”

“But thats the reality of it. An adult taking a child into custody. Thats a kidnap no matter what you say.”

“…”

“But you see, something strange happened. On the very next day, I asked the second request, to go shopping together. And ahjussi did not reject it.”

He vividly remembered that. It was when she suddenly said that she would cook a meal for him.

“It was strange – being nice after doing a bad thing. But I didnt hate it. On the first day, I was trying to hide my fear but my thoughts changed slightly after that.”