In Roswaal's mansion,
"-And so~, Master Orsted and miss Zarestia will be staying in the mansion as guest, I hope you three can treat them the same as you would to me, the lord of the mansion, am I understood~?"
"Yes, Lord Roswaal." Frederica responded immediately to Roswaal's sing-song voice with a bow.
The young twin beside Frederica bowed in understanding after a pause. Their curious eyes glanced at Orsted and quickly turned away. Even without [Dragon tribe's curse], his appearance was very daunting in their eyes.
'I don't see Clind, so Roswaal must have taken over the house of Miload already at this point. I remember that he stationed both Frederica and Clind to take care of Annerose and train new demihumans that he took under his rule.'
Orsted was able to dig out such small information from his mind easily - with his modified thought processing. If he focused enough, he could even cast tens of magic simultaneously now.
Frederica stayed behind to train Rem and Ram before transferring to Miload's mansion.
Orsted was somewhat interested in Clind, as he was a dragon-kin after all. And he wielded the authority of melancholy too, though only provisionally. Beside arc 9, he had appeared in the greed if route as an antagonist.
"So, we'll be staying in this house from now on?" Zarestia asked curiously while Frederica led them towards the guest room.
"Yeah, for a long time." Orsted answered while staring out of the windows passing by him. It was already night, hence the lamps of the corridor illuminated their way.
"Lord Orsted and Miss Zarestia, both of your rooms are ready." Frederica smiled, exposing her menacing fangs. She appeared to be 13 or 14 years old, but her professionalism already had a striking resemblance to her future self.
"One room is enough, beast girl." Zarestia showed her dislike to beast demihumans by glaring at Frederica. Rather, it seemed like she had some personal beef against all demihumans.
Zarestia usually called demihumans as mutt, lizard or fox too.
Orsted's eyes acutely found discomfort flowing through Frederica, when exposed to Zarestia's sharp gaze.
'....I remember that Frederica had a slight inferior-complex due to her demihuman traits....Well, she is just a kid, she will recover... probably.'
As usual, Orsted turned his eyes away from things related to strangers. He might know Frederica from his past life knowledge, but they were still strangers in this life.
Arriving at his new room, Orsted took a glance around and turned towards Frederica.
"For today, you can deliver our dinner to the room."
"Understood, then a good night for the both of you." Frederica bowed professionally and left.
"Say, are all the servants of this house a demihuman?" Zarestia asked while laying flat on the bed comfortably. Her expression had a grumpy pout.
"I suppose. Why? Are you not comfortable with demihumans?" Orsted grew curious, he didn't remember such information from the novel.
"No? I just don't like smelling animal odor while sleeping." Zarestia answered while crawling into Orsted's lap: "Now it's more comfortable~..."
'.....I see, so it's just a preference...'
"Get used to it." Orsted commanded while patting her soft hair slowly.
"Hmm~"
In the past three months, their relationship had already passed the level of a couple. Surprisingly, Orsted was the first to make a move on Zarestia in the bed and she accepted without resistance.
'Having sex can be very good for the mind, but when she is so accommodating....I actually let my guard down fully for the first time after arriving in this world. Losing myself in warmth isn't bad, but I shouldn't lose my prudence, sigh....'
If talking about how accommodating Zarestia was? Any position was okay with her.
Orsted looked at Zarestia's pale cheek and caressed it without noticing it.
"What is it? You want to do it again?" Zarestia's cheek grew slightly rosy, as her golden eyes probed Orsted.
"....Later." Orsted felt it was too early and postponed it further into the night.
'System, distribute the quest rewards.'
[Ding! You have obtained +3% of template progress and 400 years of lifespan.]
[Chain quest: locked]
[Requirement: Complete your dragonification and hit the 25% milestone of your template.]
Orsted felt a wave of heat pass through his body, enhancing his physique slightly.
Looking at the requirements of the new chain quest, Orsted felt this quest would be very important intuitively.
[Dragon points: 13, 778]
Seeing his dragon points, Orsted decided to wait shockingly. It was [paranormal intuition], it was apparently a bad idea to hit his next milestone before completing his dragonification.
'What's with it? Is my next template milestone connected to the new chain quest?' Orsted tried focusing and his intuition gave a positive signal to his hypothesis.
After thinking for a second, Orsted added only 11,000 dragon points into his template.
[Orsted template: 24%]
Orsted had to focus this time to not startle Zarestia by letting out a groan. The blistering heating slowly subsided throughout his body.
Going through the new knowledge, he surprisingly found an interesting magic.
[Non-attribute magic - gravity.]
'My intuition tells me it would be hard for my current dragon slayer magic to absorb gravity. I will have to wait for complete dragonification. Even so, Gravity magic can come in very handy if used properly.' Orsted felt his mood improve.
He took a look at his basic stats:
[Physique: 28.9]
[Mana gate: 29.1]
[Spirit affinity: 33.7]
[Physical and magical resistance: 46.1]
'.... Only true monsters like dragons might be able to match my physical strength. Even people like Cecilus and Reinhard would have a hard time matching my raw strength.' Orsted took a deep breath in.
Though Cecilus was known for his lightning speed, his physical feats were not low. He could split a castle in half with a single karate chop, even steel castle might not be able to stop him according to the narrator.
'If I use my dragon battle aura, I will be able to surpass him easily. If we fought, it would be just a matter of skills and experience.'
Soon, Frederica brought them their dinner. Which Zarestia ate with keen interest, seeing it was a new dish.
As it got deeper into the night, Zarestia looked at Orsted with visible heat in her eyes.
'Well, we won't be able to enjoy ourselves while I go through dragonification. So, I should go all out tonight.'