A Stay-at-home Dad’s Restaurant In An Alternate World

“A drop of my blood?” Yabemiya was a little perplexed by that request.

“I want to verify something. If you don’t want to, I won’t force you.” Elizabeth nodded in response.

Yabemiya looked at Elizabeth, and hesitated momentarily before mustering up her courage, and asking, “You’re a dragon; are you trying to help me find my father?”

Elizabeth nodded before shaking her head. “I am, in a way. However, my main objective is to verify something for myself. I can’t guarantee that I’ll find the person that you’re looking for.”

“Alright, you can take anything you need from me.” Yabemiya nodded, and extended her hand.

Sally had been silent for a long while, but at that moment, she positioned herself between Yabemiya and Elizabeth, and asked, “I don’t know why you came to seek out Miya, but I still want to ask; why have you come to her?”

Elizabeth looked at Sally with an earnest expression, and replied, “I can’t tell you that, but I can guarantee you that I bear no ill will toward her.”

Sally looked into Elizabeth’s eyes for a short while before stepping away to the side. Dragons were very proud creatures, and they wouldn’t lie easily.

Elizabeth strode forward, and an extremely thin ice pin appeared on the tip of her finger. She looked into Yabemiya’s nervous eyes, and pricked her fingertip with the ice pin.

“Ngh~”

A faint moan escaped Yabemiya’s lips, but she forced herself to suppress the reflexive urge to wrench her hand away. She looked on as a drop of golden blood hovered in the air after leaking from her fingertip, and her eyes widened with incredulity.

The blood droplet was enshrouded in translucent snow and ice; it rose slowly into the air until it was at Elizabeth’s eye level.

A golden bloodline, and an unexpectedly pure one as well. The Golden Dragon bloodline is also golden in color, but if it were the Golden Dragon bloodline, the power imbued within her blood should be more potent, not as gentle as this. Elizabeth looked at the droplet of blood, and a hint of confusion appeared on her face. She gently swiped her left hand over the ring on her right hand, and a silver crystal that was about the size of a palm fell into her hand. She then tossed it forward, and it hovered in midair, just below that droplet of blood.

The blood that was encapsulated in the ice crystal suddenly began to plummet, exploding upon making contact with the silver crystal. Golden blood splattered in all directions before being absorbed in its entirety by the silver crystal.

“Whoosh~”

The silver crystal was only emanating a faint light, but that light suddenly brightened significantly, and the crystal itself began to rotate at a high speed.

A beam of light was projected by the crystal like a projector, and an image appeared in the air.

The image slowly became clearer, and was revealed to be a woman with gentle features, who appeared to be around 30 years of age. She wore an old floral dress, and even though her face was a little pale, her delicate beauty was still very apparent to any onlooker.

“Mother!”

Yabemiya looked at the woman in the projected image, and she couldn’t help but step forward. There was an enraptured expression on her face, and tears were already flowing uncontrollably from her eyes.

“How could this be?” A hint of surprise also appeared in Elizabeth’s eyes upon seeing that. The projection stone was an item that she had brought with her from dragon island, and it could reveal one’s bloodline through their blood. That was why she had asked Yabemiya for a drop of her blood.

However, the projection stone had only revealed the image of a woman, and that was not a normal occurrence.

Still, her expression gradually softened when she saw Yabemiya’s reaction. If the woman in the image was her mother, she had to be really happy. Elizabeth had already forgotten what her mother looked like, and the projection stone couldn’t display the image of her mother.

The projection only lingered in the air for a short while before slowly fading away. In the end, the shadow of a dragon suddenly appeared, but it was only there for a fleeting moment before disappearing. They could only faintly make out a silhouette of the dragon, but it was impossible to tell what kind of dragon it was.

“Sorry, it looks like my bloodline isn’t pure enough, so the bloodline can’t be displayed.” Yabemiya only came to her senses a few seconds after the projection had disappeared, and she turned to Elizabeth with an apologetic expression. There were still two trails of tears running down her face, evoking a sympathetic response.

“That’s alright, perhaps you’re a very special being. We might meet again someday.” Elizabeth shook her head, and even though her voice was still as cold as ever, she wasn’t blaming Yabemiya for what had happened. However, there was a hint of disappointment in her eyes as she stowed away the projection stone, turning to leave. A large snowflake suddenly appeared beneath her feet, and she disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Yabemiya stared blankly at the spot where Elizabeth had just disappeared before breaking down into sobs.

Sally hesitated momentarily before patting Yabemiya on the shoulder, and consoling her in a gentle voice. “It’s ok, Miya, your father will definitely come to find you.”

“Aisha, I’m really useless, right? I don’t even know what my father looks like, where he is right now, or even what kind of person he is.” Yabemiya turned to Sally, and sobbed.

Sally shook her head, and looked at Yabemiya with an earnest expression as she said, “Of course not. None of that is your fault. He’s the one who never showed himself to you, and he’s the one who never told you anything about himself. You’re not the useless one. If you meet him someday, you can ask him whose fault this is.”

“Aisha, you’re so good to me.” Yabemiya dove into Sally’s arms, and trembled with sobs as she said, “I saw Mother. It’s been so many years, and I’ve almost forgotten what she looked like…”

Sally had her arms wide open, and her expression was a little stiff, but it gradually softened as she heard Yabemiya’s words. She wrapped her arms around Yabemiya, and patted her on the back. She didn’t say anything; all she did was listen.

“A dragon bloodline that is being dominated by a human bloodline is definitely not a Golden Dragon bloodline. The Golden Dragon is not inferior to the Frost Dragon bloodline, so it can’t be her… What a pity…” Elizabeth murmured to herself as she walked down a long alley. She suddenly turned to look beside her, and a translucent frost scimitar appeared in her hand as she pushed open the door next to her.

…

“The final rankings for the Aden Square food competition are going to be announced today. I wonder if there will be some big changes.”

“Tch, what changes could there be? It’s definitely going to be identical to what it was yesterday. No new restaurant is going to be able to make it into the top 30 on the final day.”

Many people were gathered in front of the magic screens in the Aden Square, awaiting the food competition results.

“It’s a shame that Mamy Restaurant was removed from the rankings. All five of their dishes deserve to be in the top 100, but they were disqualified for no reason. I don’t think there’s any reason for this food competition to exist any longer.” Harrison looked on with a wistful expression.

“Indeed.” Gjerj nodded.

“This is great, Boss; our restaurant has the 29th ranking in the bag! Business will only continue to improve next month!” The Ricky’s Rotisserie employee looked at his boss with an excited expression.

“I knew that our rotisserie would be able to claim the 29th spot this month.” Ricky was also very excited as he stared at the magic screens with shimmering eyes.

“Mamy Restaurant is on the rankings board again!”

The screens were updated, and a loud cry immediately rang out among the crowd!