The scene shifted back to the dining room inside Kabe's house.
After Irene sent out her message, everyone had set down their utensils and quietly waited.
"Irene, what happened that made you call for me so urgently?"
Before the person even appeared, her voice arrived first.
The moment the words fell, a pitch-black portal abruptly opened inside the restaurant. Wearing cool and revealing clothes, Selene casually stepped out from within as though entering her own home.
The instant everyone saw her outfit, Cana, Levy, Kabe, and even Brandish all blanked out for a moment.
Even Irene swallowed back the words she had originally planned to say.
"...Hm? Why's everyone staring at me without talking?"
Completely oblivious, Selene casually pulled over a chair and sat directly between Kabe and Irene.
Crossing her legs openly, the tip of her delicate foot slowly traced up and down against Kabe's calf beneath the table.
Looking down at her slender pale legs and beautifully shaped toes, Kabe stayed silent for a moment before finally bending down, grabbing her ankle, and gently setting her raised leg back down.
"Ahem... stop messing around for now. We actually need to ask you something serious."
"Hm? But don't you usually love this sort of thing? Or is it because I'm not wearing stockings today?"
Selene looked even more confused.
Based on her past experiences with him, there was no way Kabe should have stopped her from getting close.
In the end, as a dragon, Selene still lacked a proper sense of human shame.
Even though nearly everyone present was either currently or destined to become Kabe's woman, he still couldn't bring himself to openly flirt with Selene in front of everyone like this.
As for Irene, she already regretted summoning Selene so hastily. Her face had turned completely dark.
"I called you here because I have questions to ask, not so you can go into heat or expose some idiot brat's weird fetishes."
"Then ask already. If you don't say anything, of course I'll just flirt with my little Kabe."
Listening to Selene's shameless words while looking at her loose and half-transparent clothing, Cana and Levy both looked deeply aggrieved.
It genuinely felt like they were being NTR'd right in front of their faces.
Unable to deal with this self-indulgent dragon any longer, Irene held her forehead and hurriedly got to the main topic.
"Selene, let me ask you something. Do you have a sense of taste?"
Selene, who had just picked up Kabe's used chopsticks and was preparing to grab some food, suddenly paused mid-motion.
She didn't answer immediately.
Instead, she calmly picked up a piece of pan-fried monster meat and placed it into her mouth, carefully chewing for more than ten bites before tilting back her head and deliberately allowing Irene to watch the food slide down her throat.
Only after finishing all that did she finally put down the chopsticks and ask in return,
"What do you think?"
Irene: "..."
Looking at Irene's vacant eyes and speechless expression, Selene turned toward Kabe.
"What kind of illness is this woman suffering from? Calling me here just to ask such a stupid question."
Kabe clicked his tongue and poured Selene a glass of wine before briefly explaining the situation.
The moment Selene learned that Irene had genuinely believed dragons possessed no sense of taste and no desire for food whatsoever, she completely lost control.
Holding her stomach, she burst into loud, unrestrained laughter.
"Hahahaha! How... how can someone actually be this stupid?
The Mother of Dragon Slayer Magic. The woman who created the magic that nearly drove dragons to extinction.
And after all that, you don't even understand dragon habits? Irene, you're adorably dumb."
Being openly mocked like this in front of the younger girls caused the dignified image Irene had carefully maintained for centuries to shatter completely.
She slammed both hands onto the table and angrily stood up to point at Selene.
"Y-You shameless slut dragon, what are you laughing at?!
You're the strange one here! Dragons like you who indulge in human lifestyles and imitate humans are the minority!
None of the dragons I encountered ever loved drinking alcohol or enjoying extravagant meals like you do!"
"Oho? She's angry. Look, look, she's getting angry."
Despite having the appearance of a mature beauty, Selene used the teasing tone of a bratty little gremlin as she ruthlessly rubbed salt into Irene's wounds.
Irene clenched her fists so tightly that the veins on her forehead and neck bulged visibly. She looked moments away from transforming into a dragon and personally teaching this troublesome dragoness a lesson.
Seeing Irene's twisted expression, Kabe quickly pinched Selene's lips shut and forcibly muted her.
"Alright, alright, enough already.
Irene, sit down too. Since Selene's an authentic dragon, why don't you explain your Dragonification problem to her and see if she has any suggestions?"
Only after Kabe, Brandish, and the others repeatedly calmed her down did Irene finally sit back down reluctantly with a flushed face.
Selene irritably slapped Kabe's hand away and glared at him fiercely before finally beginning to properly examine Irene's condition.
She leaned in close and carefully inspected Irene from head to toe.
She even sniffed different parts of her body with her nose, fiddled with her posture, and grabbed her hands to carefully examine them.
Seeing Selene act so seriously, everyone at the table unconsciously held their breath.
"...Your body is very strange."
After finishing her examination, Selene frowned deeply before giving her conclusion.
"It's like someone forcibly twisted your original dragon body with magic and then violently stuffed it into this human shell."
Hearing that, Irene's eyes immediately lit up and she finally began actively cooperating.
"You're saying there's a problem with the magic itself?"
"There is. And it's a huge problem."
Selene nodded heavily before looking at her with blatant disdain.
"Did you create this magic yourself? Or did some idiot teach it to you?"
"I-Idiot...?"
Irene's lips twitched strangely as she looked back at Selene with a complicated expression.
"Sorry... but I spent hundreds of years researching the magic that allowed dragons to return to human form."
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