[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-first-demonic-dragon":3,"chapter-first-demonic-dragon-first-demonic-dragon-chapter-1099":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","First Demonic Dragon",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1079403,1393,"Chapter 1099: We Build Again V","first-demonic-dragon-chapter-1099",1099,"\u003Cp>\"I’m going to pretend you’re about to start your period so you’re unnecessarily spouting bullshit. I’ve got some chocolate ice cream in the fridge, so eat that and don’t give me a headache.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Karliah turned back to her chest, but by the time her head was turned, Bekka was sitting on top of her chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She couldn’t say that she had ever seen her daughter overlook chocolate before...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ma, I’m serious about this. I’m trying to keep you safe-\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am not the child here, Bekka. Let’s not forget who pushed who out.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Technically, you didn’t push me out in this life...\" Bekka murmured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Flashes of hurt appeared deep within Karliah’s eyes. Even though her expression showed only anger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...So that’s what this is all about. You think you’re better than me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh come on...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In your mind, you’re just this great big perfect goddess who gets to tell everyone else how to live their lives while disregarding their wishes and-\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m not even going to dignify that with a response.\" Bekka rolled her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course you’re not, because why would you need to? Things are the way you say they are and there’s no room for deviation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s a big word for you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And now you’re calling me dumb too, fucking classic.\" Karliah growled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bekka sighed in exhaustion and leaned forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Begrudgingly, Karliah allowed her to take her face into her hands. However, she was clearly unhappy about it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Spare me all of this soft shit...\" she complained, but she didn’t move away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bekka pressed their foreheads together and ran her fingers through her mother’s hair. Something she had never really done before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I love you, Ma. For better or worse you’re the only mother I’ve ever had and the only one I want. And suddenly, the most unhinged man I have ever seen is after you and I don’t know how I am supposed to pretend like that doesn’t scare me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You can hate me. You can call me all the foul little names you want and try to make me seem like I don’t give a shit about anything but myself, but I won’t apologize for wanting you to stick around long enough to see all of your grandkids turn 20,000.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bekka may as well have dumped a smoking bomb into her mother’s lap. She was no less frozen now than if she were about to blow up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though Bekka and Karliah had a somewhat stable mother-daughter relationship, Karliah never really did the things that a motherly figure would be expected to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such as saying ’I love you’ or ’my grandbabies are cutie patooties’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That might have bothered some people, but Bekka never really took any issue with it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her mother just wasn’t wired the same way as everyone else. But that didn’t mean she didn’t care.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Physical and mental domination flowed through her veins and gave her purpose, but it wasn’t all she thought about.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>....It was just incredibly fucking difficult to get her to admit that out loud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Karliah wasn’t a heartless monster. She could be reached and reasoned with like anyone else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m asking you, as your child, please stay with me. Just so that I can have some semblance of peace of mind.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Karliah didn’t always understand her daughter. They were raised on two entirely different wavelengths, so Karliah usually let Bekka do pretty much whatever she wanted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s like watching a baby babble around the house and touch new stuff. You kind of just watch them in amusement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, Bekka was metaphorically walking up to her mother and asking for something that Karliah didn’t know how to give her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe she wanted to stay. But that felt a bit too much like weakness for her liking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...I’ll stay if you let me fuck your husband.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bekka’s picture-perfect smile threatened to crack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...You’ll stay because you love me and the kids.\" she insisted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I want Lisa too, because that is a thick woman and I bet she can really-\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"RAAHH!\" Bekka ripped free two fistfuls of her mother’s hair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"OW! Bitch!\" Karliah held her head. \"Why the fuck would you do that?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Because violence is the only thing you respond to, you dirty heifer! If I have to brutalize you to get my fucking points across then so be it!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You little sh-\" Karliah started to swing at her daughter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of a sudden she heard an audible rattling and felt something cold wrap around her arm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before she could stop herself, a black chain flung her clear across the room and planted her in the middle of the bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chains slithered around the length of her body and bound her tightly, triggering a panicked response.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was, of course, not the first time someone had been chained up in Karliah’s room. However, this was the first time it happened to her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A-Alright, I was kidding about the Lisa thing!\" (No she wasn’t.) \"Just let me out of this, Bekka!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I think maybe you need to sit here for some time and think about how much you love your family. And me, your favorite daughter.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’re my only daughter, nitwit! Now let me out of these chains before I fucking combust!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"God, you’re whiny.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bekka was all-powerful here. Her mother could struggle all she liked, but she was never breaking free.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mind scorching over a bit? Kidding.\" Bekka cackled as she crawled into bed beside her mom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I swear to god I should have treated you like I was a pregnant teenager and left you in a dumpster!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Well, you left me with Canis Osa, so...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bekka and Karliah looked at each other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"\"Same thing.\"\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bekka casually pulled out her phone and stopped paying her mother any mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Karliah, realizing that she wasn’t escaping, tried to make the best of a bad situation and watched her daughter’s screen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Got any porn?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mama, I’m not watching porn with you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Well you can just turn your head the other way or something but I wanna be entertained while I sit here in bondage!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t make this situation weird please.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Youlocked me up. And now you’re tellingmenot to make things weird...?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I locked you up cause I love you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ugh, stop saying that, you sound so soft.\" Karliah rolled her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Whatever.\" Bekka rotated her phone to the side and began watching reruns of ’Hell’s Kitchen’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Karliah felt her face get uncomfortably hot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She turned her head to the side and stared at her dresser so hard that it started to melt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...you too, or whatever...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bekka paused her show. Her ears rose to their full length. \"...What was that?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I said you too, or whatever. Take that how you will.\" Karliah snapped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is that your way of saying you love me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Please shut the fuck up.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That really means a lot, Mama. I’m glad to hear it even if it sounded kind of unnatural coming from you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Karliah whirled around. \"You know what, you little shi-\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A pair of lips gently crested against her cheek. Karliah froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bekka went back to watching her show like nothing happened. Her mother turned her head away once more and pretended that nothing had happened today.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Bitch.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Heifer.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Courtney was wandering about the hallway of her home, taking it all in for the last time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She knew her parents pretty well by now. They would never continue to stay in a place where an enemy had actually managed to break in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No doubt, they’d see the place as unclean. Tainted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They would want to build something new and untouched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was surprised they didn’t do it when Chaos invaded, but maybe it was because of the nature of their enemy that they just skipped over that step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after all the shit that’d happened today? Courtney knew there was no way she’d ever see this place again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her suspicions were confirmed when she passed by the living room on the first floor. Or what remained of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her mom was a bit of a perfectionist. If Valerie were planning to have them stay there, she would have fixed it by now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Courtney thought she saw Behemoth sitting beside Ziz’s enclosure, but she didn’t stop to take a longer look. She didn’t really think it was her business.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, if one of her brothers was in that kind of predicament, she probably wouldn’t have been easy to move either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Courtney kept walking until she arrived at one of the dining rooms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through the ceiling-high windows, Courtney could see her sister leaning against the banister all by her lonesome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Courtney went to her, maybe because she could sense they were both on the same sort of wavelength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She pushed open the doors to the balcony and stepped outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing her, Yemaja turned around without bothering to wipe her face. Courtney was stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rivers of glowing blue tears ran down her sister’s face without showing any signs of stopping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her pained eyes seemed to scream ’don’t ask’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Courtney knew just what that felt like.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Want some company...?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yemaja nodded slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Together, the two of them stood on the balcony and stared out into the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was thirty minutes before the two said so much as a single word to each other.\u003C\u002Fp>",1547,"2026-06-03T10:37:18.055Z","2026-06-03T10:37:20.671Z",1,"novelbin.me","347bf085ec8181a73fb3025bf6e2f1d48da10ed0ac888fa687b67725256cc701","first-demonic-dragon-chapter-1100","first-demonic-dragon-chapter-1098",1284,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Ffirst-demonic-dragon-cover.jpg"]