Mr. Dragon Knight, the dragon girls are chasing you!

"Luo Ye!"

Serafina's voice suddenly rose, interrupting Luo Ye's words. A look of panic finally appeared in her usually calm and composed silver-white vertical pupils.

The enormous silver-white dragon head quickly lowered, its massive head approaching Luo Ye's front, the warm moonlight dragon breath gently brushing against his cheek, its tone full of urgency.

"Don't do anything foolish. We can still fight. I won't allow you to do that!"

"You stupid dragon knight! Are you insane?!"

Elva's reaction was a hundred times more intense than Seraphina's!

The jet-black dragon instantly disintegrated and transformed into a petite figure, which became a dark purple streak of light and rushed to Luo Ye's side in an instant. Her small hands gripped his collar tightly, the force of which was urgent and panicked, and trembled slightly.

His gilded vertical pupils surged with overwhelming anger, fear, and panic, and his voice was trembling with obvious sobs.

"Are you stupid? Have you forgotten that we signed a dragon pact of mutual survival?!"

"If you die, I'll also be consumed by the contract and perish! Neither of us will survive!"

Her words stopped abruptly.

Because the moment she looked up, she met Luo Ye's gaze.

It was a gaze she knew all too well—gentle, frank, with a hint of irritation, yet somehow it softened her heart and prevented her from feeling any anger.

Luo Ye raised his hand and gently grasped her small hand that was clenched on his collar. With a slight force, he pried her hand off the collar and held it in his palm.

"I will voluntarily terminate the Dragon Knight contract before I pass away."

"...What?" Eluvia froze, her pupils contracted, and she was completely stunned.

"I said, I will break the contract before I die." Luo Ye's voice was soft, yet like a gentle knife, it slowly cut open the girl's heart.

"That way, you won't suffer the backlash from the contract and will be able to live a good life."

"You...how could you—" Eluvia's voice began to tremble, and her golden vertical pupils quickly filled with tears.

"How can you make decisions for me... I, I am the Dragon King! If anyone should break the contract, it should be me. In the thousands of years of history on the continent, there has never been a precedent of a dragon knight voluntarily breaking a dragon contract!"

"What gives you the right—"

"Because I don't want you to die," Luo Ye interrupted her.

Eluvia froze completely, staring blankly at him, her eyes growing increasingly sore.

Luo Ye gently released her hand, slowly turned around, and looked up at the silver-white dragon floating in mid-air behind him.

Serafina's enormous dragon eyes gazed silently at him, her silver eyes churning with a myriad of complex emotions, yet she uttered not a single word.

"Serafina," Luo Ye called her name, his tone solemn.

"Please take good care of Eluvia from now on."

"Although she can be a bit short-tempered at times, stubborn, prone to tears, and quick to anger, and she always likes to scare people with dragon breath, it's all just a pretense because she lacks a sense of security."

"She grew up alone and lacked love and security from a young age. The reason she agreed to enter into a contract with me was because it was the first time she had chosen to trust someone."

"I understand all of this."

"Stop talking! Who wants your pity!"

Eluvia stomped her feet angrily behind him, but the harsh words she was about to say turned into a pitiful nasal tone, and she couldn't bring herself to be fierce at all.

Luo Ye seemed not to hear, and continued to whisper her instructions, her tone gentle:

"She's not an adult yet, so she's not very good at taking care of herself."

"I like my barbecue cooked over a high heat, I only eat magic cores with a shadow attribute, and I like to curl up in a warm place when I sleep."

"You're not allowed to say that again!!"

Eluvia's voice changed completely, and crystal tears finally burst from her eyes, rolling down her fair and delicate cheeks, each drop hitting the dark crystalline ground.

She lunged forward, trying to grab Luo Ye's clothes, but found her hands trembling and unable to hold on tightly.

"Elvia".

Luo Ye slowly turned his head, his gaze as gentle as moonlight brushing across a lake, clear and affectionate.

"Don't always try to tough it out on your own. If anything happens, you can talk to Serafina. She may seem cold, but she's actually very reliable and kind."

"W-What kind of last words are you saying..." Eluvia's voice was already trembling, and tears welled up in her golden vertical pupils.

"I forbid you to say that! Do you hear me?!"

Luo Ye slowly turned around to face the ever-silent silver-white dragon.

"Seraphina, you have given me so much, yet you have never asked me what I could give you in return."

He smiled gently, his eyes filled with tender heartache: "You've lived for over ten thousand years, witnessed too many partings, and experienced too much loss. So you're used to giving, used to giving your best, but not used to taking."

"But I still want to tell you—"

He raised his hand and gently stroked Serafina's lowered, massive dragon head, his fingertips touching her cool scales, his voice as gentle as moonlight:

"I also wanted to give you something, to give you everything you wanted. But unfortunately, there wasn't enough time."

The next second, he secretly whispered something to Seraphina using a soul contract:

"I know you're bothered by this, so if there's a next life, I'll definitely make a contract with you first~"

Then, Luo Ye slowly took a step back, his gaze sweeping over the two women one by one, as if trying to etch their faces into his memory forever, before uttering his final words:

"You should prepare to leave quickly; I can't be a burden to you."

"As the kings of your respective dragon clans, you can't be trapped here. There are many of your clansmen waiting for you outside."

"Meeting you all is the luckiest thing that has ever happened to me."

After saying that, Luo Ye silently gave himself a thumbs up.

perfect.

A dragon knight who sacrifices himself to save his lover—if this story were in a niche game, it would definitely be an SSR-level tearjerker CG, right?

Elvia's favorability rating will definitely skyrocket, and Serafina will probably be incredibly touched.

That was a perfect move.

Sure enough, the next second, the system's crisp notification sound rang out in my mind right on time!

[Ding! Host's heartfelt confession detected, dealing a critical hit to Elvia!]

[System Notification: Eternal Night Wings - Eluvia's Affection +17, Current Affection: 78 → 95]

[System Evaluation: Holy crap! That heartfelt confession alone added 17 points to his favorability rating! Host, did you use all your flirting skills?!]

[System Notification: Moonlight Aria - Seraphina's Affection +10, Current Affection: 100 → 100 (Max)]

[System Evaluation: From the moment you looked up at her at the foot of Silvermoon Peak, from the moment you were willing to risk danger for her, she knew she hadn't misjudged him.]

Luo Ye looked at the numbers flashing on the system panel and a slight smile appeared on his lips.

The favorability rating has been maxed out.

Now, it's time to get down to business.

"Brother Tong, are you ready?"

The system's voice rang in his mind, as cheeky as ever:

[Of course. Rest assured, host, this system is always ready. The Fire Dragon King's Reverse Scale can be activated at your command.]

【But host, are you sure you want to do this? That's your last resort, and the process will be extremely painful. Are you really—】

"Stop talking nonsense."

Luo Ye silently retorted, his gaze growing increasingly resolute.

"Why should I be afraid of pain when I'm quitting the game? Besides, aren't trump cards meant to be used to flip the table?"

He slowly turned around, facing the overwhelming shadow chains that were pressing down from the sky, and the terrifying abyssal will in the void.

He slowly opened his arms, a frank and fearless smile on his face, and his voice landed clearly.

"bring it on."

"Take my life. I choose three—I die, they live."

PS: The plot hole about the Fire Dragon King has been filled in; the stolen dragon scales back then were more than just a joke.