Reborn As A Villainous Cannon Fodder

“Could the witch have taken him away…”

For a moment, Nina seemed to recall something she had glimpsed during her dragon breath summoning.

She noticed that another witch had come to the rescue nearby.

But this one seemed to be an elf skilled in illusions. The elf threw something dark beneath the dragon breath, then activated illusion magic to hide herself and escape from beneath the dragon breath.

These strange actions still made no sense to Nina.

However, this wasn’t what Nina cared about. After all, her master had said that the Western Region was filled with various heretical cults, all remnants of the Evil Phoenix’s lineage from years ago. No matter how strange and bizarre their evil techniques were, they weren’t worth worrying about.

What truly puzzled Nina was where Yino had gone.

Could he have been burned to death by Nina’s dragon breath?

But that was impossible!

Nina had revealed her true form specifically to rescue Yino, so she had deliberately controlled the power of her dragon breath. Its main purpose was to disperse the demon abyss waves. Nina had worried that too much power might accidentally harm Yino within those waves, and she had no intention of actually killing the two witches from earlier.

But now… Not only had the witches escaped, but even Yino had disappeared. When Nina returned home, she would be scolded by her master… It was truly losing the wife and the troops!

“This shouldn’t have happened!!”

“Yino… a perfectly fine person, I just met him yesterday… we’ve been friends for less than one night…”

“How could he just disappear…”

Looking at the desolate Western Region desert, the dragongirl felt increasingly desperate. She fell to her knees, inexplicably feeling her own insignificance, pale and powerless.

But just as Nina was at her most distressed, a hand wearing a black lace glove pressed on her shoulder:

“Your Majesty, Yino will be fine.”

“…?”

Suddenly addressed as “Your Majesty,” Nina couldn’t help but shudder.

However, thinking about it carefully, she had just so obviously revealed her identity that it seemed reasonable for Yunmei to recognize her now.

“Your Majesty, I can still sense that both fate-bearers’ life forces are intact and well… So, as the prophecy said, Yino will be fine. He has simply gone to the place where he should be…”

At these words, the dragon girl immediately widened her eyes.

She stood up, looking at Yunmei’s eyes covered with black cloth, and couldn’t help wiping away a few large teardrops from the corners of her eyes: “Are you telling the truth?”

“Of course. I can sense Yino’s fate line, and I also want to thank Your Majesty on behalf of the countless citizens of Western Province City for stepping forward to save our city in this crisis!”

Yunmei said calmly, pressing her palms together at her chest in a blessing-like gesture of gratitude.

Suddenly, the dragon girl who had been immersed in sadness lit up with excitement in her eyes.

“Th-thank me…”

She had grown up hearing fairy tales in the dragon palace, but now she finally got to be a real hero in the human world!

“Of course, thank Your Majesty.”

“However…”

“Just now, several elders of the Immortal Alliance stationed in Western Province City have arrived at the front line. They seem to have some urgent business with Your Majesty.”

Saying this, Yunmei turned aside, gesturing toward several white-haired elders not far behind the city gate.

Each of these elders possessed extraordinary cultivation, at least with a thousand years of longevity, far from the Immortal Alliance elders in ordinary people’s imagination.

“Ah…”

At once, the dragon girl realized the seriousness of the situation, her eyebrows twitching slightly.

“You, all of you Immortal Masters stationed in Western Province City, why didn’t any of you come out to help when the demon abyss waves attacked?!”

“At this point, I’ve already intervened. What use is your hindsight now?”

Nina chose to stand with her hands behind her back, putting on an empress-like air, directly reprimanding them publicly.

But as her words fell, the elders still maintained their cold expressions, as if her words were mere wind passing by their ears.

Though they addressed her as “Your Majesty,” their eyes didn’t look at her as a Dragon Emperor at all. Instead, they looked at her as a princess who still smelled of milk, knew nothing of the world’s ways, and caused trouble in the human realm relying on her family background.

“Your Majesty, the National Preceptor sends a message commanding you to return to the palace immediately.”

Several elders bowed with cupped hands, ignoring Nina’s childish question, instead presenting a letter with a red feather attached with respectful bows.

Nina’s eyebrow twitched slightly as a familiar sense of déjà vu swept over her. The little rebelliousness of the dragon princess completely lost its momentum.

“I! I don’t want to go back!”

“I must at least wait until Yino returns safely before I go back to see Master!”

Before everyone, the dragon girl put her hands on her hips, her face—usually timid and cautious before imperial ministers—finally hardening with rebellion for once.

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“Holy shit, good thing I ran fast!”

“If I’d been any slower, I might have been annihilated to ashes by Nina’s dragon breath!”

On a cliff path ten miles outside Western Province City, Yino rode a small flying deer, panting heavily.

Behind him, the foxgirl also sat on the small flying deer’s back, her arms wrapped around Yino, quite exhausted from maintaining illusions throughout their escape and from the relief of surviving the disaster.

“Yino, I’m so tired, I want to suck your blood again…”

The foxgirl rested on Yino’s back, nuzzling her face and the small white tiger teeth beneath her lips against him.

Yino raised an eyebrow, feeling increasingly strange:

“Aren’t you a fox demon? Why are you acting like a vampire…”

“I don’t know either… it feels weird, like ever since I bit you once earlier on the road… I felt my energy suddenly restored after drinking your blood… After using illusions just now, you know… when I’m tired from using techniques, I naturally want to drink some more to replenish my energy…”

“Go ahead then. Without your illusions this time, we wouldn’t have been able to escape here during the demon abyss waves.”

Yino sighed, finally relaxing his shoulders with an indulgent tone.

Meanwhile, Jinyue sitting behind him beamed with a radiant smile, once again opening her cherry-small mouth with tiger fangs to bite down with a Awooo!

Honestly, Jinyue also found this very strange…

Now every time she bit Yino, she felt incredibly happy. She didn’t know if her bloodline had been mixed with vampire, or if Yino’s blood was simply too sweet and naturally attractive to demon kinds.

[Master, I’ve now retreated with Mei to the edge of the demon abyss cliff.]

[The Jianlan Sect’s Holy Son Zichen and Yuyan have now been lured to the edge of the cliff.]

—?

Yino had been leisurely riding his flying deer halfway when Liuli’s message suddenly sounded in his mind again.

For a moment, a large question mark appeared over Yino’s head:

“Wait, why did you lure Yuyan to the edge of the demon abyss cliff?”

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