human
Garfiel:  Galek Thompson, the boy’s father and the head of the Thompson household, had not returned home.
gpt
Garfiel:  Galek had been transformed into a black dragon. Garfiel had confirmed that fact himself.
human
Garfiel:  Unlike the people who had been transformed into flies, it had been possible to communicate with Galek, so there was no mistaking it.
gpt
Garfiel:  But Garfiel was reluctant to accept it on face value as something fortunate.
human
Boy:  "Hey, Gorgeous Tiger, Dad will come back home, won’t he?"
gpt
Garfiel:  Garfiel couldn’t do anything but pat his uneasy brother’s head.
human
Garfiel:  He could have tried to comfort him with empty words. But he couldn’t bring himself to put any emotion behind something like that. Children were ignorant, not stupid. He would be able to see through Garfiel’s clumsy lie soon enough. So Garfiel didn’t want to hurt him, hurt his own younger brother, with false hope.