The Day My Ex Said He Was a Dragon Chapter 12

The last time Ethan disappeared, I was powerless.

And now, even knowing he'd gone back to the ocean, I still couldn't find a way.

The dragon-people's deep ocean—that was a realm human technology hadn't yet explored.

After asking Sebastian several times without getting answers or results, I finally couldn't help having someone "invite" him to my office.

The tied-up Sebastian trembled: "Don't you humans have rule of law?"

"We do."

I pointed out the most brutal fact: "But you're a dragon-person."

To escape being made into dragon jerky, Sebastian tearfully agreed to prepare some medicine for humans to temporarily enter the ocean depths, and to become a guide dragon.

Sebastian, who'd reluctantly given me his last remaining medicine, gratefully grasped my hand after receiving a large payment: "Next time something like this comes up, definitely call me again, Miss Ashford!"

I followed the dragon Sebastian arranged into the dragon-people's deep ocean. The pitch-black ocean floor suddenly transformed completely.

Though not as bright as natural light, it was enough to clearly see this shocking and beautiful underwater world.

The dragon guiding me turned in place, then with a "swoosh" flicked its tail and fled.

"..."

That unreliable Sebastian.

How was I supposed to find Ethan alone in such a vast ocean?

I bumbled around aimlessly for a while when a thin voice emerged from a corner: "What are you looking for?"

In a gap between coral, a tiny blue-tailed dragon-person looked at me somewhat timidly.

"I'm looking for someone."

I asked her: "Do you know someone named Ethan?"

The little dragon-person's eyes like black grapes blinked: "What do you want with him?"

Apparently she knew him.

I immediately relaxed: "I hurt his feelings. I came to apologize."

"Oh."

The little dragon-person approached me and grabbed my finger: "Then I'll take you to him."

Her small hand was soft. Though we were in the cold ocean depths, it held a strange warmth.

A certain indescribable sense of kinship suddenly rose in my heart.

I thought of the child Ethan had borne—would she be this adorable one day in the future?

The little dragon-person led me by the hand for quite a while before stopping, pointing at a dragon silhouette with its back to us: "That's Ethan."

Ethan seemed to sense something. He turned around and looked quite surprised to see me: "How did you get here?"

I smiled: "Since you hid from me all the way here, I had to come find you."

Surprise flashed in his eyes: "I was just..."

Ethan paused, clenching and unclenching his fist: "You should go back."

"I'm not going."

Sebastian had charged me dearly—these medicines couldn't go to waste.

"Daddy."

The little dragon-person who'd been holding my hand spoke crisply: "Is this Mommy?"

Hearing that title, my heart skipped a beat. I looked down at the little dragon-person floating beside me in disbelief: "This is..."

Mine and Ethan's baby?

"Mm."

Ethan knew what I wanted to ask.

No wonder I felt that inexplicable familiarity when I saw her.

The little dragon-person's face was pale and adorable, seventy-eighty percent similar to my childhood photos.

She circled around me twice, then suddenly threw herself into my arms.

"Mommy."

Her cheeks were red, her shy little manner identical to Ethan's.

This was mine and Ethan's baby, such an adorable little dragon-person.

I could hardly imagine what would have happened if Ethan hadn't discovered it in time back then.

"I'm sorry."

I gently hugged the little dragon-person: "Mommy came late."

Under these circumstances, I couldn't possibly leave.

Ethan was helpless, and the baby was especially attached to me.

The dragon-people's deep ocean received no daylight, but remained perpetually bright, with no day or night.

Having taken the medicine, I could adapt.

I played with the baby during the day, and when drowsy, I'd sleep anywhere with soft seaweed.

Half-asleep, a pair of strong arms lifted my body and placed me on a gauze bed.

I instinctively grabbed his hand: "Ethan, don't go."

The little dragon-person stood quietly beside me until I fell deeply asleep again.

Sebastian's medicine quickly ran low. Even though I wanted to stay, I had to leave.

When the baby learned I was leaving, she was so unhappy she wouldn't even eat her shrimp.

I patted her shoulder: "I'll come visit you next time."

Though Sebastian had no more medicine, there were other dragon-folk.

I could search.

There had to be another way.

Only then did the baby brighten: "Then I'll wait for Mommy."

The journey from the surface to the dragon-people's deep ocean took less than half a day, so I spent extra time with her, only reluctantly leaving while the medicine still had effect.

The little dragon-person who brought me waited dutifully outside the deep ocean to guide me back.

Its tail glowed pale yellow, barely illuminating a corner of the dark ocean.

I was calculating how to gather more medicine when the usually calm ocean suddenly trembled.

Not far away, a vague whirlpool spun, seeming to expand.

Ocean creatures scattered in all directions. The glowing little dragon-person was quickly lost in the chaos.

The whole world went pitch black. I swam away by instinct.

I didn't know how long I swam or where I ended up. I could feel the medicine's effects gradually fading.

An ordinary human couldn't survive three minutes in these depths.

My consciousness gradually blurred, my body slowly sinking. In the haze, many images flashed through my mind.

Family, friends, the baby, and... Ethan, whom I hadn't gotten to hold one more time.