Even If I'm Reborn as a Cute Dragon Girl, I Will Still Make a Harem-Chapter 73Book 6: : Outcome

“These are bad for your health, so I’ll be kind and take care of them for you.”

With a wave of her hand and under Graybert’s horrified gaze, Lilith summoned black flames that consumed the sinful, naughty books.

“Nooooooooo!”

The captain collapsed to his knees with a wail, devastated by the loss of his treasured collection. Tears streamed freely down his face.

The sound was so heart-wrenching that even the watching crewmates turned away in silence, discreetly wiping at their eyes.

Not that any of them had been secretly flipping through those same books. Definitely not.

“Ugh,” Lilith muttered, covering her face with one hand.

All that emotional buildup, and this was what it led to?

Truly, only someone like Captain Graybert could trick her good.

“Maybe I was overthinking…”

She had half-expected Li Desheng to fake his death like last time, but it seemed this time, he was really gone.

Well, all that effort for nothing.

At that moment, her doppelgangers—identical monster girls crawling through every nook and cranny of the ship—dissolved into streams of black liquid and vanished.

She turned to the grieving captain, gave his shoulder a light pat, and sighed in resignation.

“Come on, stop crying. You’re a grown man. Try to be strong, will you?”

“Strong, my a̲s̲s̲! Don’t you know men only cry when it really matters?! Those were my treasures—twenty years’ worth! They’re heirlooms I was going to pass down to my grandson! And now they’re gone! Do you even know how much it hurts me? My ‘Lewd Elves’… My ‘Goblin and Princess’… My ‘Dairy Farm’…”

He beat his chest in grief, looking as though he wished he were gone with those naughty books.

The corner of Lilith’s mouth twitched as she wondered if the world might be better off if she just strangled this old pervert right now—before he had the chance to become a future hazard to public morality.

“Alright, alright,” she said at last. “I did cause you some trouble. Let me give you a little compensation.”

“Compensation? What kind of compensation?” Graybert immediately straightened up, the tears on his face already long dried.

He fixed Lilith with a serious look and said, “I won’t settle for anything less than a thousand gold coins.”

“…You are unbelievably shameless,” Lilith sighed.

“Haha! Pretty much. The skin of my face has thickened over decades, I know how to haggle!”

“No gold coins,” she said, waving her hand. “Only this. Take it or leave it.”

The scene shifted. Suddenly, they were all standing on the deck.

And then, light descended.

In front of the SS Behemoth, the endless wall of darkness peeled away. A circular tunnel slowly formed, revealing a wash of sunlight, warm sea breeze, and…

The faint outline of a continent, floating in the mist.

Graybert rubbed his eyes in disbelief. Then, like a starving ant catching the scent of sugar, he rushed to the railing and leaned far over it, eyes wide as he tried to make out more detail.

“That’s…”

“It’s probably the eastern coast of the Holy… Sky Empire,” Lilith said. “I don’t know where your home is, but if you start from here, it should be close enough to get wherever you want.”

“Holy Sky” still felt strange on her tongue.

“I know this place!”

One of the crewmates, finally snapping out of his daze, jumped up and pointed excitedly.

“This is the Holy Sky Empire’s east coast! See that lighthouse over there? My uncle works there!”

“So…” Graybert’s throat was dry. He gulped and asked hoarsely, “It’s not far from Port Waldo…?”

“Only three days by ship!” the crewman beamed. “If it’s the SS Behemoth, we could get there in less than two!”

The corners of Graybert’s eyes grew moist.

It felt like waking from a long nightmare, only to see the beautiful reality before his eyes.

The aroma of warm bread and hot coffee in the air greeted his nose. And in that moment, all he felt was gratitude.

Genuine this time.

“Miss Lilith, I…”

But as he turned to offer his thanks, eyes full of emotion, the girl was already gone. Only a soft whisper lingered in the wind.

“Go. That’s where you belong.”

The crew, who had moments ago been cheering in stunned disbelief, suddenly fell silent.

Then, after a long pause, Graybert slowly removed his captain’s hat. He pressed it to his chest and bowed deeply toward the darkness behind them.

“May the loving goddess watch over you always…”

For a man who had never once believed in deities, Graybert offered up the first sincere prayer of his life.

And so, amidst thunderous cheers, the SS Behemoth sailed slowly forward—out of the darkness and toward the light.

Somewhere deep within that same darkness, someone withdrew her gaze.

“That old b̲a̲s̲t̲a̲r̲d̲… He couldn’t even say thanks properly.”

The monster girl looked up at the void above.

“What kind of goddess would dare look at me kindly? More likely, there are goddesses out there just waiting for a chance to kill me,” she grumbled quietly.

And yet, the corners of her lips curled up unconsciously.

“Alright. Time to clean up the mess.”

She stretched, then turned, and walked alone toward the path that belonged to her.

The future was uncertain.

But at the very least… she had found the courage to face it.

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A beam of light shone down through the special transparent tiles of the ceiling, illuminating the freshly done nautical charts on the desk.

Dust motes danced in the sunlight happily.

Amidst the faint cheers from outside, something inside the massive clay jar began to stir. The lid slowly opened.

A cautious pair of eyes peeked out.

“Looks like… she’s gone.”

The sneaky gaze darted across the room before settling on the stream of sunlight.

“She even opened a path for us to leave? How thoughtful.”

As if there was nothing left to fear, the lid of the jar toppled open with a heavy thud.

A naked man rose to his feet like a primordial giant born at the dawn of creation—tall, majestic, and completely unbothered by the sticky rainbow jam clinging to his body.

Li Desheng, ten-year corporate slave, had returned to life in glorious resurrection!

“Damn, that was close.”

To be honest, when Lilith leaned over earlier and peered into the jar, he had nearly pissed himself in fear.

Fortunately she didn’t follow the script of some deranged villainess and mutter, “Hmm, there’s nothing hidden in here, right?” before casually whipping out a gun and firing a few rounds at the jar just to be sure.

If that had happened, he would’ve looked like a sieve right now.

“Good thing I won the gamble.”

He looked down at the strand of blonde hair still clutched in his hand… and broke into a wicked grin.

In truth, the hardest part of his escape had been the black flame barrier that even the Deity Lord’s power couldn’t shake.

As long as that barrier remained, it didn’t matter how hard he struggled—he would’ve been nothing more than an ant helplessly trapped inside a sealed bowl, doomed to die.

But then… when he escaped to the ship and spotted a single strand of Lilith’s blonde hair on the deck, he made the biggest gamble of his life.

He bet that Lilith had ties to the people on this ship. That she wouldn’t sink the vessel outright and would even let it go.

He had been right.

And he survived.

“How ironic.” 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

Li Desheng let the hair fall from his fingers and turned his gaze to the clear sky outside the cabin.

“In a game like this, the thing that saved me… was the humanity of a monster?” he murmured.

“Just what are you? Are you truly the Dragon Eater? Where does your heart actually stand? Can you answer me, old friend?”