Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 737

Chapter 737: Chapter 737 - Taming the Fifth Year - Stars of the Past - Half Truths

They continued dancing for 5 days.

The music swelled. Their movements perfectly synchronized in ways that required trust and connection.

And Luna felt something shift inside her.

Not breaking. Not shattering.

Just... settling.

Like pieces that had been scattered finally finding their proper places. Like chaos organizing into something that made sense.

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PRESENT - FIFTH DAY OF PRACTICE

Luna and Ren danced in silence.

They’d been like this for almost an hour. Moving to the music’s rhythm while Luna spoke in whispers.

Telling.

Unloading.

Still sharing pieces of the story Sirius had told her bit by bit as she grew.

Each fragment coming with old pain. With weight and a careful delivery that suggested she’d rehearsed these words in her mind countless times but never spoken them aloud.

Ren still didn’t interrupt. Just listened. Nodded when appropriate and squeezed her hand when he felt Luna needed silent support.

"...The corrupt beasts arrived in waves and then the trap door activated, trapping Mother and Aunt. Father and Uncle both took the artifacts and left that secret tunnel whose door they couldn’t open and that for some reason my father believed I could open when I came of age," Luna murmured, her voice loaded with the memory’s weight. "Dad told me the mutants invaded the tunnel at the worst moment and despite his efforts, he couldn’t save my mother..."

She stopped, swallowing hard.

The pain visible despite years of practice hiding emotion. Despite all her training in maintaining composure.

"My mother couldn’t return with me that night of the attack."

Ren processed the words carefully, but his mind worked.

Something didn’t fit.

Luna wasn’t lying... That was obvious for him.

Every word she said was truth according to her mana. This was what she knew.

What she believed had happened based on information given to her by someone she trusted.

But there were... gaps. Too many vague details. Too many things that didn’t make complete sense.

Sirius had told her an edited version, Ren realized again. Enough for her to understand most of it... But not everything.

The story had been missing many parts of the true story told before.

Parts Ren knew from his own investigation. From what he’d seen in Sirius’s cave and from what Selphira had revealed in fragments.

Luna didn’t know anything about the statues. Had never seen them.

Never witnessed the crystallization results. Never understood that her mother may still be trapped in a crystal somewhere beneath the stone.

About the crystallized heart she only knew by word. Sirius had spoken of its existence as a vague result of the "trap door," but Luna had never seen it in person either.

Had never held it. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

Never touched the last physical remnant of the woman who’d loved her with embarrassing intensity.

"You really never saw the heart?" he asked softly when Luna finished. "In person?"

Luna shook her head. "Only by word. Dad described it but told me that removing it from its pedestal deactivates the barrier and could invite using it and spending it."

The explanation made sense on surface level. Protecting Luna from temptation. From the urge to retrieve something precious at the cost of its preservation.

"But he didn’t show it to me before leaving. And my uncles..." her expression darkened, anger breaking through careful neutrality, "obviously don’t let me see it either."

Everything was secondhand knowledge. Story told with embellishments by a shattered father to a small daughter.

And there was so much missing.

So much Sirius had clearly omitted.

Details that would have painted a completely different picture. That would have revealed depths of tragedy Luna couldn’t imagine because she’d never been given the full truth.

’Because he didn’t want Luna obsessing over dangerous ruins,’ Ren thought, remembering what he’d seen and heard yesterday and the days before. ’Didn’t want her attempting to go down.’

SELPHIRA’S TEMPORARY OFFICE

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