Dragon's Awakening: The Duke's Son Is Changing The Plot-Chapter 147 - 146 - Graye Vaeleris Amarynth.

The soft hum of mana stones echoed faintly through the medical room’s quietude, casting a tranquil blue glow that shimmered across polished floors and glass potion cases.

The sterile scent of healing creams and herbs lingered in the air like a gentle reminder that there was a girl who had almost died lying there.

Raven sat on the central bench, his eyes fixed on the ceiling as he still wondered what had gotten over him.

On his right, Selena sat, arms crossed, expression unreadable, but her posture tilted subtly toward him.

On his left, Clara leaned slightly in, eyes narrowed as if squinting at a math problem that had insulted her family.

Behind Raven stood Siris—arms clasped behind her back, posture too casual, gaze too fixated.

In front of him sat Jessy, Rufus, Jake, and Lia, forming a semicircle that looked more like an impromptu intervention than a war council.

The room was silent.

Not the calm-before-the-storm kind of silence, but the brain.exe has stopped working kind.

Jessy finally broke it.

"...So let me get this straight," she began, her voice low and even, "Graye has divinity. As in, divine spark, holy blessing, blessed-by-the-celestials kind of divinity."

Raven blinked. "Yeah."

"And she also had Tales," Rufus added, his tone incredulous. "A thing gods use to shape destiny, rewrite rules, and define their mythos."

"Apparently." Raven rubbed his temple.

Jake, ever the man of few words, simply muttered, "...This is above my pay grade."

Lia nodded solemnly. "Mine too. And I’m technically royalty."

Clara looked at Raven, glancing at the tattooed form of Omni pulsing on his hand. "And since when was Omni a god-slaying sword?"

"He had always been. You guys just never asked." Raven lifted his arm, where the black tattoo of Omni pulsed with smug energy.

The tattoo shimmered slightly, and a familiar, street-honed voice rang out in everyone’s minds.

"Ay, that’s right, baby! I’ve always been a divine slayer!"

Then, Selena asked, "What about the divine stuff? You knew that as well?"

This time Raven shook his head. "Nope. I found out mid-battle."

Raven had already told them everything he found out about Graye since they had asked him why it took him so long to defeat this person and why he lost control at the end.

The things he told them, however, were too big to easily digest.

For a while, all of them stayed quiet, and like Raven, they were also staring at the ceiling now.

Clara and Selena kept glancing at Graye as they felt like they would be seeing her a lot, but that wasn’t something they could do anything about.

Raven was also occasionally glancing at her, wondering when she would wake up.

After all, she had been all healed up for some time.

Lia had healed her, or more like, tried to heal her before realizing that she wasn’t needed.

Graye’s body had a healing factor like the Vaise did.

She had healed on her own.

Raven sighed. ’What are you, Graye?’

He was sure she wasn’t normal. She had a backstory, and he wanted to know that.

He turned toward her—

Only to pause.

"...Siris," he said slowly, as he saw Siris crouched by Graye’s bedside, one hand reaching out with her usual bone dagger.

"Oh my gods—" Jessy started.

"Siris," Raven said louder.

She froze mid-stab, eyes innocently wide. "Yes, hubby?"

He stared. She stared back. The dagger hovered just inches above Graye’s temple.

"What... are you doing?" He asked, his voice calm. Too calm.

"Erasing a potential problem," she said sweetly, as if stating the weather. "She looks like someone who might become your... rival. Or worse." She tilted her head. "A girl rival."

There was a silence. A very different silence.

"Siris," Raven said, "she’s unconscious."

"I know! That’s the best time!"

"Damn girl, even I’m scared of you," Omni whispered out loud. "And I’m literally a weapon of divine murder."

Raven sighed. "Step away from the divinity-sleeping possible-god-reincarnation girl."

Siris blinked, then stood up obediently, slipping her dagger away like a disappointed kid returning a stolen cookie. "Okay, but if she wakes up and breathes in your direction, I’m legally required to stab her."

"That’s not a law," Clara sighed.

"It is in my heart," Siris replied with a grin.

"Raven," Lia said, voice unsteady, "can we go back to pretending the scariest thing we knew about was demon-summoning cults?"

"Nope," Raven replied grimly. "We’ve officially entered god-tier problems."

It was then that they heard a groan.

"Ugh..."

The groan echoed like a goddamn warhorn in the tension-thick silence of the room.

Graye’s eyes fluttered open, the soft blue glow of the mana stones reflecting off her lashes as she blinked blearily.

Her gaze drifted upward, then lazily scanned the room—Selena and Clara staring at her with curiosity, Jessy half-standing, Jake gripping his sword handle, Rufus frozen mid-sip of a potion he’d forgotten to drink, Lia with her lips already preparing a healing chant out of sheer reflex.

Then her gaze landed on Raven.

Her lips curled into a slow, sunny smile. "Hi, handsome~!"

"...And that’s the first thing she says," Rufus muttered.

"Hi," Raven replied dryly.

There was silence again. The kind where even the mana stones looked like they were holding their breath.

Graye, however, sat up like it was a normal Tuesday, stretching her arms with a yawn. "Wow, that was a good nap!"

"Whoa—!" She wobbled and would’ve toppled over if Raven hadn’t instinctively reached out to catch her. "Oh!"

She blinked up at him. "Ehehe~ soft and strong hands."

Raven cleared his throat and promptly placed her back upright like she was radioactive.

"Let’s start with the basics," he said. "Who... exactly... are you?"

Graye tilted her head, then beamed. "Oh! I’m Graye Vaeleris Amarynth! Eighteen! I like fighting, food, puppies, and long walks on the battlefield!"

The group collectively blinked.

"That’s... nice," Raven said, his voice tight. "But who are you really?"

Graye blinked again.

"Graye Vaeleris Amarynth!" She said proudly, giving a double thumbs-up.

There was a long pause.

"Is her name a boss title or a poem?" Jessy muttered.

Raven sighed, rubbing his temples. "No, I mean—divinity. Tales. The divine energy. What are you?"

Graye furrowed her brows, trying to understand the question.

She even squinted at the ceiling as if the answer might be written there.

"I’m me?" She offered uncertainly before her eyes lit up again. "But I’m strong! Really strong! Like, crack-mountains-with-my-elbow kind of strong if I get serious. It’s fun!"

"Girl, that’s not strength, that’s insurance fraud!" Omni piped up. "I mean, damn, you tanked my boy’s attack!"

"That was because of her divinity, though," Raven added with a cough as he felt the need to.

Jessy leaned forward. "So... you don’t know what divinity is?"

Graye shook her head, cheerful as ever. "Nope!"

"Tales?"

"Sounds like bedtime stories."

Clara, hearing that conversation, whispered to Raven. "She doesn’t even know what she is."

"I’m starting to feel that," Raven muttered.

Siris had been quietly edging closer to Raven during the exchange until she stood firmly behind him like a judgmental tower of yandere doom.

She didn’t say anything—just watched Graye with the subtle glare of someone mentally designing a new trap.

Selena leaned closer to Raven. "You think she’s faking it?"

"She’s too... simple to fake it," Clara murmured, raising an eyebrow. "No offense."

"None taken!" Graye chirped. "People say that a lot."

Raven sighed again and leaned forward. "Look. You fought like a divine warrior. You had something gods are supposed to have. Do you really not know anything about that?"

Graye put a finger to her chin, deep in "thought."

"Hmm... Well, there was that time a glowing chicken pecked me on the forehead during a lightning storm."

The entire room paused.

"That’s a metaphor, right?" Rufus asked carefully.

"Nope!"

"...Okay," Raven said with a slow nod, completely giving up on logic.

Suddenly, Graye scooted closer—way closer—to Raven until their knees touched and her face was within dangerously adorable proximity. Her hands gently latched onto his sleeve.

"Also, now that we’re talking," she said with a warm smile, "I think I like you." fгeewebnovёl.com

The air cracked.

Selena twitched.

Clara sighed, having seen this coming for some time.

Siris’s dagger shinged out.

Raven leaned back. "You think you like me?"

"Well," Graye said happily, "You are the only one who treated me like a warrior despite seeing that I was a woman, so I started dreaming about you, and as soon as I woke up, I saw your handsome face, and my heart went boom~ So I probably do!"

"You don’t even know me well."

"Doesn’t matter! It’s love at second sight!"

"That’s not a thing!"

Graye leaned in again. "Can it be~?"

Omni, audibly wheezing in the back of Raven’s mind, chimed in, "Oh bro, you’re done. That’s three girls with stabby potential and one battlemaniac. You call me Excalibro now, ’cause we entering a harem warzone."

"There won’t be a warzone," Raven muttered, glancing at Selena, Clara, and Siris.

They seemed to be taking it calmly...

"Oh, yeah?" Omni snickered, his voice laced with playful warning. "Leave that killer girl and this divinely dumb girl in the same room, and watch what happens, my guy."

Raven sighed, only to feel everyone staring at him.

He coughed and looked away.

Graye giggled and leaned against his arm. "I even like your voice when you yell, you know."

"I swear to gods," Raven muttered, "this is what I get for trying to be responsible."

Jessy clapped her hands once. "Okay! So! We have a cute disaster girl with divine powers she doesn’t understand, Tales she doesn’t know about, and a crush on Raven."

"She’s worse than Siris," Selena mumbled.

"We don’t need anyone worse," Siris replied, her cold eyes locked on Graye like a predator assessing another predator.

Clara, sensing Siris’s intentions, leaned closer to her, whispering, "Don’t try to kill her in her sleep, Siris. Raven won’t like it."

Siris merely huffed.

"Can someone find a manual on girls with god mode enabled?" Raven grumbled.

Graye looked around, confused but still chipper. "So! What now?"

Raven gave her a long, weary stare. "Will you leave me alone?"

"No can do!" She replied with a big smile.

It was then that Jessy frowned. "Guys, don’t you feel like it’s unusually quiet today?"

"This looks quiet to you?" Rufus turned to her with his eyes wide, but then he noticed that others were frowning.

"Yes, it is less rowdy than always..." Raven muttered before his eyes widened.

"Where are Alex and Nibbles?"

That question hung in the room as everyone finally realized the absence of the two entities who spoke the most.

They realized that the loudmouth and his squeaky companion were missing.

And this wasn’t normal.

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