Immortal Loyal Subjects (1)

From long, long ages ago—long enough that even dragons no longer remembered it—the continent had spoken a single language.

But of course, languages naturally take on regional and ethnic flavors, so their origins could hardly be the same.

Among them, the most alien was the demon language.

It could be read in the continental tongue, but its bizarre forms could never be interpreted as continental language.

A chaotic shape, as though a mischievous devil had cackled while searing a turtle shell with fire.

That was why demon language—maeo, a scholarly term with an awkward sound and little everyday use—was not a particularly popular field of study.

Yet there is always some fool who, upon seeing the blue traces in a riverbed dried to a brittle husk, runs off shouting that it's a blue ocean.

The Republic's foremost scholar of demon language, and an authority in demon linguistics.

That was precisely Sordinang.

Of course, he had no regrets about choosing his major...