From the bonus paper included with the Melon Books special edition of Volume 2. Corresponds to roughly chapters 66–68 of the main series.
Maya’s appearance could be summarized in a single word: girl.
If she were human, she’d be a low-teener. She wasn’t quite an adult, but calling her a child felt wrong; she was at that age like a bud just beginning to open.
Still, according to the stories, her actual age exceeded mine, surpassing even that of my generation’s parents. Apparently, she was already past sixty.
Despite her age, she matched her looks in both emotion and knowledge, making it easy to treat her like a much younger little sister… but when you got to thinking about it, the real question on my mind was: how far did this actually go?
I mean, Jean had been around too. If anything, Jean’s appearance made things even worse for me.
No matter how much I justified it by saying we’d contracted for “lewd purposes,” dragon common sense operated on a different cultural logic. She wielded immense power herself, and her family—wielding equal or greater strength—was still alive and well. I didn’t want to overstep boundaries that couldn’t be crossed lightly.
Right. Judgment based on “common sense” only works when both parties share the same values. It wasn’t rare for something trivial in my eyes to be considered a major violation of someone else’s norms.
And so.
“Maya. I need you to be honest with me.”
“?”
The inn at Polka.
I slapped my knee and pressed her again.
She tilted her head, looking puzzled.
“I’ve heard that dragons will do anything for their Riders. But I want your true thoughts. I need to know your limit—where you’d actually say, ‘I hate this,’ or ‘Please don’t go any further.’”
“Lewd stuff?”
She asked with a deadpan expression.
Beautiful again.
Transparent and delicate, pure and serene.
The very personification of the concepts of “winter” and “ice.”
I’d felt an aura that felt untouchable from some girls in the past, but combined with Maya’s slightly precarious demeanor, it gave me a strong sense that I might not even be allowed to touch her.
I stared for a few seconds at that over-polished beauty, which almost felt artificial, then nodded vigorously.
“Yeah. Well, everyone needs boundaries… but I know absolutely nothing about dragon common sense.”
“…Probably, anything you can imagine is something I can accept, I think.”
“A man’s imagination isn’t exactly tame. Don’t underestimate me just because I look like a weak boy.”
I clenched my fist and threatened her forcefully.
Sure, I didn’t have bulky muscles or a manly beard or chest hair, but don’t assume that just because I don’t look tough means you’ve figured out what’s buried deep in my gut. No matter how weak a man looks on the outside, he keeps a wild beast in his heart.
Maya made a slightly troubled face and continued.
“…Um, for example… getting ○○’d with an axe during ○○, or ○○○ while ejaculating inside…”
“Hold on a second.”
I cut off Maya, who had suddenly started describing a horror-suspense scenario with a straight face.
“Can you please not just launch into tales of hellish madness out of the blue?”
“…? I was just saying that there are Riders who actually did things like that…”
“Excuse me. Please ease up a bit.”
“…Dragon bodies can regenerate injuries at will, just as Lady Lyra demonstrated, so even that kind of thing can be a form of love. If you enjoy that kind of lewdness, I’d be happy if you gave in to your true feelings, even if it looks a bit painful…”
“That’s not the kind of thing you can summarize with the word ‘lewd.’”
To put it another way, what the hell was that historical dark side? Just because they said I could do whatever I wanted, why did some fool actually go in that direction? This wasn’t about wild beasts; this was something else entirely. Why choose something like that?
“At worst, I might just order you to get naked suddenly, or tell everyone to line up and bare your asses.”
“…? You prefer being naked? If that’s better for you, Master Andy, I can stay naked all the time if you want.”
Maya had originally been a naked tribe anyway.
“N-no, I mean, it’s only when the feeling comes on all at once. If it were like that all the time, I’d actually get into trouble.”
“Rather, if you’re in the mood, feel free to be ‘usable’ every single day. You can stay on your hands and knees right here by my side, waiting whenever you like.”
Transparent and delicate, pure and serene.
With an image so defined, she said it as if it were the most natural thing in the world, climbing onto her lap to look up at him.
“So I want you to pamper me a lot. If you’ll pamper me, I won’t care about anyone else’s eyes. That’s just how a dragon is.”
”…I will certainly pamper you, but still…”
“I’ll do anything for you. Whether it’s in front or behind, with my hands or my mouth, I’m here to serve… You tell me to fight and I’ll fight. If killing is allowed, I’ll kill. No matter who the opponent is. Even Lady Lyra?”
”…Since you’re so cute, please stop saying things like that. I think the best use of a cute girl is to just look at her, kiss her, touch her, and cum inside.”
”…Ehehe. Yeah.”
Even by his own standards, it was a harsh thing to say. And yet, Maya looked happy.
As pathetic a master as he was, he wanted to be the one to make her feel that way.