Even If I'm Reborn as a Cute Dragon Girl, I Will Still Make a Harem-Chapter 75Book 6: : Clown

“Hello again, Dragon Eater.”

In the dark expanse of consciousness, Lilith greeted the teenage girl, who sat calmly sipping tea with an expressionless face.

“It felt like an eternity.”

“Does it?” The Dragon Eater set down her teacup and chuckled. “For me, it’s just a blink of an eye, and you’re back again.”

“You’re awfully laid back.”

“When you’ve been locked in this miserable place for nine million years, I can only learn to take things slow.”

She raised her teacup again, sipping delicately.

Lilith knew well there was no flavor to that “tea”—it tasted just like plain water. Yet the Dragon Eater still savored each sip as though it were the finest black tea.

Perhaps, during those nine million years, she had been chasing the memory of that long-lost flavor, while counting the endless passage of time.

“Aren’t you angry?”

The question slipped from Lilith before she could stop herself.

“Angry? Why would I be?” The Dragon Eater smiled as she set the cup down. “If anything, I’m happy someone is here to talk to me at all.”

Lilith fell silent, not knowing how to continue the conversation.

The Dragon Eater was smiling, but there was no warmth in it. Facing her was like staring into a void, a bottomless hollow where only pain and emptiness dwelled.

After a long silence, Lilith finally gathered her courage.

“I have to ask this just to be sure… you’re not…”

“I’m neither your split personality nor a figment of your imagination,” the Dragon Eater cut her off without hesitation, as if reading her thoughts.

“I am who I am. I am Dragon Eater. And you are who you are—Lilith. It’s that simple.”

“Is that… so…?”

The gentlest hope Lilith had clung to was crushed so mercilessly by the Dragon Eater.

All that was left was the cruel truth.

“I see… So I’m the Outsider…”

The invader who had stolen someone else’s body.

Lilith didn’t even know what expression to make. She tilted her head back, staring up at the fading golden light above, and found the whole thing almost laughable.

From the very beginning, she had been so wary of Dragon Eater. She had been so guarded and afraid to relax for even a moment.

She even used her power sparingly, fearing that there was some hidden conspiracy behind such a generous gift.

But now, at the end of it all, she realized just how ridiculous, how pitiful, how… pathetic she had been.

It was like an audience laughing at a clown on stage—mocking, sneering, warning one another never to become that kind of person.

And then, when the show ended and the lights went out, she realized that the face beneath the clown’s painted smile… was her own.

She had feared, guarded, even despised the Dragon Eater.

But in the end, she learned that she was the one who had invaded someone else’s body.

She was the despicable Outsider.

She had used someone else’s body, enjoyed their power, and lived a blissful life that wasn’t her own.

And even then, standing before the Dragon Eater who had already lost everything, she had still recoiled like she was looking at a filthy beggar, yelling, “Don’t come any closer.”

How ugly.

“I’m sorry.”

Lilith covered her face, not wanting the Dragon Eater to see her in such a pitiful state. Her shoulders trembled as she sincerely apologized again.

“I’m sorry… I’m truly, truly sorry…”

Spirit bodies couldn’t weep, and so Lilith could only contort her face into a hollow mask of grief.

There was a long silence.

No response.

Of course… she thought bitterly.

*What did I expect? Dragon Eater must be furious. She must want to strangle me and take back the body that’s rightfully hers…*

“What did you just… say?”

Instead of rage, an incredulous voice broke the silence.

Lilith looked up in surprise.

There was no anger, just a beautiful face staring at her with genuine confusion.

“What did you just say? Say it again.”

“…I said… I’m sorry…”

“I’m sorry… That’s an apology, right?” 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

The Dragon Eater suddenly strode toward Lilith, gripping her shoulders with both hands and staring straight into her eyes as she shook her.

“You’re apologizing, right?!”

“Well… yes… I’m apologizing,” Lilith said, nodding.

“Ah… is that so…? I see… So, that’s what an apology is… ha…”

The Dragon Eater’s vacant eyes wandered aimlessly, unfocused. Then, suddenly, she burst into wild, unrestrained laughter.

“Hahahahahaha… that’s such a…”

Lilith had never seen her laugh this way. She was laughing so wildly as if she might actually die from it.

“That’s… such a strange feeling… haha… An apology, huh…? After all this time… No one… no one has ever apologized to me… not once… not ever…”

And then, just as abruptly, the Dragon Eater began to weep—swinging from one extreme to the other. Her tears fell hard and fast, laden with a sorrow so immense it felt as though it could crush the world itself.

Lilith had never seen anyone cried so sorrowfully.

Red tears slid from the corners of the Dragon Eater’s eyes.

Lilith was stunned.

*So even a soul… can cry too?*

“Nine million years… and you’re the first to apologize to me, Lilith.”

She had no idea how long the Dragon Eater wept, only that she eventually collapsed into an ungainly heap on the ground, limbs splayed wide as she stared up at the dim light above.

It was the only light she had seen in nine million years… and it came from the one person she hated most.

Yet she had still looked at that light, again and again, forcing herself to hold on to her hatred so it wouldn’t dissolve into nothingness in the slow, grinding erosion of time.

“But you… you’re the one who needs to apologize to me the least. You’re no more at fault than I am,” the Dragon Eater murmured.

Then, as if realizing something absurd, she burst out laughing.

“You’re pathetic too, Lilith.”

“Do you really have to laugh about something like that?”

Lilith let out a breath and simply flopped down beside her, staring up at the same annoying source of light.

Before Lilith could speak, the Dragon Eater’s voice cut softly through the silence.

“I know what you want to ask, Lilith. You want to know about me… about the Dragon Eater… about the invasion of the Great World nine million years ago. And more importantly, you want to know about yourself and the Dragon Queen.”

“In that case…”

“Don’t be in such a hurry, Lilith. The curtain has already been drawn; the bell has already rung. The truth will come soon enough. All you need to do is wait.”

“But waiting like that is…”

“Boring? Indeed. Waiting is unbearably dull. So, I’ll tell you a story…”

For the first time, real emotions filled the Dragon Eater’s voice. Her longing and sorrow were so profound that they could fill the entire void.

Without waiting for Lilith’s response, she simply began to speak.

“A long, long time ago… in the endless void… there was a race…”