Evil Dragon: The young dragon I picked up keeps planning on becoming an empress-Chapter 416 - 259: Tell the young dad in me, who dares to use the cub I’ll raise in the future as bait?

The Young Dragon got beat up.

Her bald head took a punch from the Dark Magic Dragonkin Lance, and it hurt so much that she rolled around on the ground with her head in her claws. She cared about the young Evil Dragon and feared he wouldn’t find a girlfriend, but why did she also get punched?

He was clearly a very outstanding Evil Dragon who only interacted with excellent individuals of the opposite gender, so why was he still alone after more than 3,400 years?

Was the problem with those of the opposite gender who knew the Evil Dragon?

No.

The Young Dragon felt the problem lay with the Evil Dragon himself.

The Evil Dragon had no interest in romance and didn’t care about his appearance. When he was with excellent individuals of the opposite gender, he did not hold back when beating them.

For instance, during [Familiar Summoning] class, when summoning the Great Vampire Princess Krastihela, he battled her fiercely, not letting up one bit, giving her shoulder throws, backdrops, punching her head...

Luckily, the Evil Dragon had some lines he wouldn’t cross, such as not hitting her face.

The Evil Dragon once told her that under normal circumstances, one shouldn’t hit the face.

Unless it’s an archenemy, in that case, you not only hit the face, but you also beat them to a pulp.

If the dragon’s head looks fierce, can’t we be a bit gentler?

But no, the way the Evil Dragon sees it, it doesn’t matter if they’re male or female, he treats everyone the same.

Gender equality.

Oh, according to the Evil Dragon, this is called respecting the opponent...

And because of that excessive respect for the opponent, he remains single after more than 3,400 years...

Not to go too far afield, let’s just talk about the three princesses of The Abyss, for example.

Normally, with a start like what Evil Dragon Lance has, the expected outcome would be having women on both arms.

However, the reality is... Demon Princess Christine aims to extract the Evil Dragon’s soul from his body and seal it in a glass bottle.

The Blood Clan Princess Kristy Hela wants to suck the Evil Dragon’s blood and turn him into her daughter through the First Embrace.

The Succubus Princess... presumably holds great animosity towards the Evil Dragon and probably wants to enslave him.

As for the other Abyssal princesses, she hasn’t met them yet and isn’t sure about their attitudes towards the Evil Dragon, but they’re definitely not fond of him.

If they liked the Evil Dragon, would they still issue a warrant for his arrest?

"You can say I can’t find a partner, but you can’t say I’m ugly. Which child despises their father’s looks?"

"???"

He’s not even your biological father, is he?

Why can’t you despise him for being ugly?

The Young Dragon sat squatted on the ground, rubbing her head with her Dragon Claw, unconvinced and staring at the Evil Dragon.

"What’s for dinner?"

"Boiled Fish Slices."

"Then later I’ll take you to buy fish... Nevermind... buying fish costs money, let’s go fishing instead; wild fish have a better taste and texture, making the Boiled Fish Slices even better."

"Yay, yay!"

She had only eaten Boiled Fish Slices made by the Evil Dragon two or three times, and each time she could wolf down several big bowls of rice.

She had tried roasted fish too but preferred Boiled Fish Slices, especially those from huge sea fish without many bones.

It’s just that when the Evil Dragon goes fishing, there are more misses than hits.

She still remembers the time she was used as bait, and no fish were caught, but they ended up reeling in the Whale Mother onto the shore instead.

Then, with a look of disgust, the Evil Dragon kicked the Whale Mother back into the sea and rinsed her dragon tail in the sea water because she got eaten by the Whale Mother...

The 3,456-year-old Evil Dragon wasn’t very skilled at fishing, perhaps because he was fishing in the deep sea.

The deep-sea fish are smart.

This here is The Abyss, and the fish from The Abyss are quite silly. Before entering the Eye of the Demon God, she could even catch the Demon Fish with her dragon tail.

Lance gathered the fishing gear and took the Young Dragon fishing.

Not far from the Demon Academy, there was a lake teeming with fish and rich in resources.

Most of the Demon Race in The Abyss don’t particularly like fish, so the fish resources in the reservoirs and lakes here are abundant.

The fish they catch are not only tasty but also save money.

Arriving at the lake shore, Lance found a good spot, took out a chair, fish protector, fishing rod, and bait, and began to fish.

His fishing rod, fifteen meters long, was equipped with a line setup for catching huge creatures; any fish weighing up to a hundred pounds that bit the hook would fly straight out of the water.

He also prepared a rod for the Young Dragon, a four-and-a-half-meter-long one for her to catch small fish. As for catching a big fish tonight, that depended on him.

"Don’t get too close to the edge of the lake."

"Why?"

"I’m afraid if a Demon Fish leaps out of the lake, it might swallow you, thinking you’re bait. Occasionally, the fish of The Abyss leap out to prey on the Demon Race or some large magical beasts drinking by the lakeside."

"Oh, got it."

The Young Dragon moved back. This was The Abyss, and should a fish actually eat her, the Evil Dragon might not be able to retrieve her.

It wasn’t the same on Black Dragon Island.

The seas around Black Dragon Island were also the Evil Dragon’s territory; if a big fish consumed her there, the Evil Dragon could quickly find her.

The bait was big bones with some meat on them.

The Young Dragon cast her line and then just let it be; such a short rod would surely not catch any big fish.

To catch a big fish, they would have to rely on the Evil Dragon.

The Evil Dragon, while fishing, was also reading a book...

This Evil Dragon’s zeal for studying at his age surpassed her imagination, and he read incredibly fast.

It didn’t take long for him to finish a book, and at this rate, the books in the Demon Academy Library... probably weren’t enough for him...

Time passed, and half an hour went by without a single twitch of his float.

Her float, on the other hand, kept bobbing up and down, but there was no fish when she pulled up the rod.

"If you want to catch a big fish, you need patience."

"Ooh, can you see your float move while reading your book?"

"I can."

"Oh."

After an hour, the Evil Dragon continued reading, his fishing rod’s float still hadn’t moved once.

"It’s getting dark; how about we just go buy a fish to eat? I have money."

The young dragon took out some Magic Gold from the Lucky Coin and showed it to Lance. The money, which he had won from playing mahjong, wasn’t painful for him to spend on fish.

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After all, it was won money.

"To catch a big fish, you need to have patience."

"Won’t I get hungry?"

"You won’t."

"Oh."

The young dragon believed it; for an Evil Dragon, snagging a big fish was just a moment’s work.

Two hours had passed, and the blood moon had emerged in the sky.

The young dragon looked at the underage Evil Dragon beside her, who had put away his book.

He had finished reading it.

"Looks like it’s going to be a no-catch today."

Lance lifted the rod, and a large chunk of the big bone that had been on the hook was gone.

Good news: a fish had taken the bait.

Bad news: the fish was clever, eating the bait without biting the hook.

"Let’s pack up, we’re heading back."

"Eh? Not fishing anymore?"

"It’s getting late. We’ll come back to fish some other day. For tonight, we’ll buy fish to eat."

The young dragon nodded, turned around to pack up the rod, but then seemed to remember something. She walked in front of Lance, "Why don’t we give it another try?"

"There’s no need."

"Let’s try a different bait."

"I didn’t prepare other baits on the spur of the moment."

"I think you should try the Young Dragon brand bait."

"???" Lance was confused, "What’s the Young Dragon brand bait?"

With a grin, the young dragon pointed at herself with a dragon claw, "Tie me to the fishing line and throw me into the lake, to catch big fish."

"!!!"

Lance was shocked; what had she experienced before being taken home by his future self that made her able to joke about using herself as fish bait?

Had her past been too tragic?

If anyone dared to bully the whelp he was raising, his future self surely wouldn’t let that person off easily.

Lance touched the young dragon’s head with pity, "It’s okay now. Once you meet the future me, no one will dare use you as fish bait again."

"???" The young dragon was confused, "What nonsense are you spouting? The one who uses me as fish bait is the future you, no one else has ever done that."

"......"

Disbelief shone in Lance Jin Hong’s vertical pupils; his future self... was actually using his own kin as fish bait?

Could it be... that the Young Dragon brand bait could indeed catch a big fish?

Well... why not give it a try?

After all, there was only so much space in the lake. If the young dragon really got dragged away by some big fish, with his current abilities, he could easily empty out all the fish monsters in the lake.

A few minutes later, the young dragon was flung into the lake by Lance.

Not long after the young dragon entered the lake, Lance felt a bite and without hesitation, he lifted the rod.

With a ’whoosh’, the young dragon, clutching a fish two to three times her size, flew towards Lance, flapping her dragon wings. Enjoy new stories from novelbuddy

"Caught it, caught it... quick, quick, quick, let’s go home and get the pot on the stove... heat the oil, its tail fin smacked my face sore..."

Seeing this, Lance’s dragon mouth stretched into a smile, looking at the young dragon with laughter.

The whelp his future self had raised might seem a bit naive but was inherently kind-hearted. Sometimes her words and actions could make him happy for quite a while.

"Throw it to me."

"No, no, no, what if it falls back into the lake?"

"Trust me."

"It’s not that I don’t trust you, I don’t trust myself... hurry, lift the rod... it’s about to fall into the lake..."

In the end, the big fish didn’t fall into the lake. Lance wouldn’t allow it, as he still had to make Boiled Fish Slices for the young dragon tonight.

Lance knocked the big fish out with a punch, froze it with magic, and stored it in the Spatial Ring. After packing up the fishing gear, he returned home with the young dragon.

On the way, he chatted with the young dragon sporadically.

"Does my future self often use you as bait for fishing?"

"Occasionally."

"So, what kind of fish has my future self caught using you, the Young Dragon brand bait?"

"Oh, there’s a lot. A squid mother larger than a city, whale mothers slightly smaller than the squid mother... Anyway, using me, the Young Dragon brand bait, the future you always catches big and impressive fish."

"My future self is really too much."

"Not at all... Knowing I wouldn’t be in danger, he let me be bait. No no... Actually, the initial purpose of the future you was not to use me as bait, but to improve my swimming skills and my ability to hold my breath.

I was super fast when being chased by big fish."

"I knew I wouldn’t possibly use my own kin as bait."

"But it’s true you often go home empty-handed."

"What does my future self going home empty-handed have to do with me now?"

"Fair point, awoo..."

They arrived home with laughter and conversation. Lance washed his hands, put on an apron, and began to prepare the big fish.

The young dragon went upstairs to take a bath.

Lance had made Boiled Fish Slices many times before; his movements while preparing the big fish were smooth and elegant, a sight to behold.

Thinking of the scene of the young dragon used as bait, Lance muttered to himself, "In the future, when slaughtering pigs and letting their blood, maybe I could trick the Great Vampire into sucking all the pig’s blood dry?

And the Demon Princess Meredith, she should be perfect as fish bait. The allure of the succubi... it’s faster than laying down bait...

It seems feasible to use succubi as bait. Next time I go fishing, I could catch a succubus and use her for bait...

What could Demon Princess Christine be good for? Doesn’t seem very useful. If used as bait, she might scare all the fish away."

After the young dragon finished her bath, the meal was not yet ready. With nothing else to do, she took out her Demon Language textbook and began to read aloud from it on the sofa.

Oh, it wasn’t the textbook, but a nursery rhyme.

The nursery rhyme’s name was: "Two Tigers."