Chapter 171: Dragon Kin's Aura

Since coming to Barthlorn, Arthur discovered that he'd been attracting the attention of many around him almost inevitably.

'Is it the hair?' he'd wondered. Perhaps he needed a haircut… Or maybe a complete change in hair colour. White was far too bright… Maybe he could go for orange and become the Carrot Top's doppelganger… Only that he would have blue eyes instead of orange.

Arthur didn't mind the attention though. 

As someone who'd grown up in a castle, surrounded by phoenixes that loved him… once upon a time…

… and then later shunned by those same phoenixes over suspicions of treachery, he'd been the subject of both positive and negative attention and had experience in dealing with both.

Each of them had comprised everyone around, pouring out all their opinions onto him… asking why he couldn't be more like this or that… more like his brother or Colton… or even better, his father.