My Wife is an Evil Dragon-Chapter 2

Chapter 2: The Evil Dragon Suffers an Epic Nerf
Xia Li tentatively called out the other person’s name.
Even if he got it wrong, it wouldn’t be any more embarrassing than her failed attempt to steal bread.
“Huh…??”
Lucia, whose name was called, stood up while rubbing her reddened forehead.
The moment she looked up and saw Xia Li, her surprise was no less than his when he saw her.
Lucia instinctively took half a step back. She raised what should have been sharp dragon claws, but what she saw within her field of vision were the fair arms of a human girl.
“Third Tier!”
“Dragon Flame!”
Lucia attempted to mobilize all the magic power in her body to launch a powerful flame attack.
Her somewhat childish, chuunibyou-like shout directly stunned the young lady at the cash register.
Xia Li’s toes curled in embarrassment on her behalf.
He wanted to laugh.
But he couldn’t.
Because Xia Li had made the same gesture back at home.
He had tried repeatedly before coming to the conclusion—
There was simply no magic power on Earth.
Without magic power, magic could not be used.
Clearly, this chuunibyou girl in front of him had no idea about this.
There was no doubt that this person was the Silver Dragon Queen who had engaged in a final battle with Xia Li just half a day ago.
However, she was different from the valiant, aloof, and proud dragon woman in Xia Li’s memory.
How did this Queen shrink?
Not only had her hair color faded from silver-white to jet black, her eyes had also turned into a common dark brown, and her skeletal structure, overall form… as well as the contours of her chest.
It could be said that the Silver Dragon Queen who had crossed over to Earth had suffered an epic nerf.
Probably from a D to an A.
“Xia…”
At this point, Lucia also realized that the magic she was most proficient in simply couldn’t be used.
But, it didn’t matter.
Xia Li wasn’t wearing the Demon Repelling Sword.
A Brave Hero without the Demon Repelling Sword was like a tiger with its teeth pulled out.
The advantage was hers!
“Do you two know each other?”
The convenience store clerk curiously approached the two of them.
From the surprised looks they exchanged, it wasn’t hard to see that they probably knew each other.
Lucia hugged the bread tightly and turned her head, saying in a firm tone,
“Yes.”
“No.”
Xia Li gave the clerk a negative answer.
The two spoke in unison. Shopkeeper Xu found it strange, but still locked the automatic doors of the store first.
Stealing something, regardless of the amount, as long as it constituted robbery, was no small matter.
However, as long as she didn’t leave the store, the girl wouldn’t be considered a robber, and there was still a chance for her to come to her senses.
Presumably, this girl who only stole bread couldn’t be that bad.
She was probably really hungry.
“Please ring me up.”
Xia Li carried six cups of instant noodles and turned to pay at the cash register.
He didn’t want to get involved with this Silver Dragon Queen from another world.
Xia Li had checked the time.
Three years had passed since he crossed over to the other world, and a week had passed on Earth.
The flow of time in the two worlds was different, and Xia Li had therefore disappeared for a week.
Xia Li on Earth was currently still a social outcast who had graduated and become unemployed.
In his current state, he couldn’t afford to feed another mouth.
Rather than fulfilling his duty as a Brave Hero and battling Lucia for three hundred rounds, it was better to leave her alone.
This evil dragon, who had lost her magic and shapeshifting abilities, was a weakling and couldn’t even step out of the convenience store.
She would soon be able to enjoy the re-education-through-labor life of three meals a day in modern society.
There would be a more comprehensive legal system to teach her how to survive in society.
“Let me pay for this young lady first, she came first after all.”
Shopkeeper Xu smiled kindly, and after saying that, she beckoned Lucia to come over.
Lucia, not understanding the situation, glanced at Xia Li warily, then hugged the bread and shuffled over to the cash register.
Seeing this, Xia Li frowned.
Don’t act in a way that’s easily misunderstood…
Being so wary of me, it’s as if I’ve bullied you before.
What we did, at most, could be considered a brawl!
“That’ll be five yuan.”
Shopkeeper Xu scanned the bread with the scanner and gently stated the price.
Lucia frowned and glanced at the closed automatic doors, then warily at Xia Li beside her.
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Xia Li held back his laughter.
Going through so much trouble to steal a five yuan loaf of bread and getting caught…
If the people of Azure Continent found out about this, they would probably laugh their teeth out.
A disgrace to the dragon race!
“Silver Dragons never pay.”
Lucia said matter-of-factly with a cold expression.
Shopkeeper Xu was very patient, and she said in a tone that was like admonishing a lost child,
“If you don’t pay, the police uncle will arrest you.”
Shopkeeper Xu thought that this all-purpose method of dealing with children would scare the girl.
But this girl didn’t seem afraid at all.
She wondered if the human jail in this place provided meals…
Lucia thought about it for a moment and decided she couldn’t be so degenerate.
The defensive magic at the door was too strong, she couldn’t break through.
And the Brave Hero Xia Li behind her was also quite troublesome.
Lucia weighed her current combat strength.
In the end, she chose to compromise.
She didn’t have money, but she could barter.
She reached into her pocket and felt around.
After a while, Lucia pulled out a shiny, flat piece of metal.
“Little girl, you can’t use toys as money…”
Shopkeeper Xu was now basically certain that this girl had some intellectual disability.
She was really pitiful.
In her five years working at the convenience store, this was the first time she had encountered such a situation.
Just as Shopkeeper Xu was struggling with whether to call the police or pay for the girl’s meal herself, the young man who had been watching the show from the side suddenly stepped forward.
“Five yuan, right?”
Lucia turned her head slightly and felt a shadow looming over her.
“WeChat Pay.”
The Brave Hero Xia Li generously paid for her bread.
Lucia didn’t react for a moment.
Why had this Brave Hero become a good Samaritan?
Shouldn’t he be holding a sword to her neck in this situation? After all, they were so close.
Oh, right.
The Brave Hero didn’t have a sword.
He was now a tiger without teeth.
“Huh?”
Just as Lucia was wondering what Xia Li was up to, the hand that belonged to the young man reached out to her.
Xia Li opened his palm, and Lucia curiously stood on tiptoe, glancing at his hand.
“What are you doing?” Lucia asked, looking up.
“Gold coin…” Xia Li paused and corrected himself,
“Give me the metal in your hand.”
To be honest, Lucia didn’t want to give him the metal.
Although it was useless to her, handing it over to the Brave Hero made her instinctively resistant.
She was a rebellious evil dragon by nature…
Wouldn’t it be a loss of face if she obediently handed over the metal?
“Give it to me, and you can choose five more things from inside.”
Seeing the silly dragon hesitate, Xia Li increased his offer.
“Okay.”
Lucia had some backbone, but not much.
Appetite was one of the most primal desires of all species.
Lucia decided to obey her desires, obediently handing over the metal, then hurriedly went to the shelves to continue shopping.
Xia Li’s palm felt heavy.
Good heavens.
This was real gold.
Setting aside everything else, Xia Li highly recognized the dragon race’s ability to identify precious metals.
Although the forging techniques on Azure Continent weren’t that great, and the gold content of this coin was probably less than 90%, it was still pretty good.
It must be around thirty or forty grams, right?
Wouldn’t that be worth ten or twenty thousand?
For a recent college graduate, this was no small sum.
At least it could ease Xia Li’s hand-to-mouth lifestyle a bit, and it seemed that even finding a job wasn’t so urgent anymore.
Anyway, he had done so many years of unpaid work in the other world, this little deception… this little bit of earned money could be considered his reward.