There is an image that comes to mind when you think of a dragon. Arrogant, self-righteous, and the strongest creature on earth who seems short-tempered even though he has lived hundreds and thousands of years.
I thought so sometimes. After living so long, you fall for the obvious and step on every trap in sight?
But if you look at it from another point of view, that’s it. If your body is too good, your head won’t work.
If there is a thorny road in front of me and there is something I want beyond it, I will usually check to see if there is no way back.
But if I’m wearing very sturdy shoes and it’s safe to walk the thorny path, I don’t have to go back.
Even if it seems crazy and stupid to others, if I know that the soles of my feet will be safe, I will cross the thorny road.
‘Rachel is like that too.’
In the first place, there was a play called ‘a martial artist who never uses magic’, so I’m playing along with it.
Anyone who has played the game knows that, but the concept quality is like that, so it’s scary.
Even if you know you’re obviously drawn into it, you’ll follow it for fun.
“young master… Someone keeps staring at me from behind.”
“are you okay. don’t mind.”
After entrusting Zero and Leaf with finding a house for lodging, I came to the request office with Luna and started reading the subjugation requests posted on the bulletin board one by one.
There is no large-scale subjugation yet. It was full of small subjugation requests due to the sporadic appearances of monsters in the border areas along the mountain range.
“It’s strange that there are so many requests and monsters keep appearing while people are subjugating them.”
“Anyway, humans have never pushed beyond the mountains.”
Even though human power is strong on the continent right now, it is too much to expand the territory by catching monsters on a large scale by crossing the vast mountain range.
Like Chavid, land that has not been used up yet remains here and there, and there are many mysteries such as ruins.
There is no driving force to advance beyond the mountain range.
Aside from the difficulty of management, there is no such advantage, so the only thing the country bordering the mountains does is to subdue monsters periodically so that they don’t come inland. That’s all.
“young master. The back of my head feels physically sore… … .”
“It’s okay, it’s okay.”
Me too. Let’s shoot with mana in the eyes. It feels like being pricked.
-you. How long will you ignore me? uh?
“How about a place where you can see the atmosphere and clearly understand the monsters?”
Circumstantially, in order to prevent further damage to the place where the monster appeared, Luna nodded her head as she said by tapping the detailed request document with the exact size, etc., rather than the subjugation request.
“great. Let’s start with something easy.”
I pushed Luna’s bashful smile on her back and filled out the application form. After an early warning, I quietly opened my mouth in a small voice in a corner so far away that even Luna couldn’t hear it.
“Why do you keep pretending you know?”
“Pretending to know? Do you know how?”
The words are shortened and the liver is protruding out of the stomach? When they argued in the same way, I calmly looked out the window and opened my mouth.
“Are you interested in me? why do you keep talking You really have eyes for me.”
“… What are you talking about, human kid?”
The long ponytail swayed like a red cloth at Rachel’s stuttering gesture.
“It’s not the first time Yu-Hee has appeared, isn’t that body a human now? If a human calls a human a human kid, it means that there is a hidden identity too openly.”
Rachel’s beautiful face crinkles at the words I click.
“If Yu-Gi comes out there, why don’t you follow the customs of the place where you came out? Who calls this old man a kid? You and I are about the same age on the outside now.”
“Ah, then it’s a kid, so we call it a kid, what do you call it?”
Anyway, it’s not a kid, and I guess who doesn’t have a brain. Making monster blood with my fists is the most fun. I don’t even wear a head.
“Call me Adelian.”
Rachel seemed to be stunned by the words I whispered with a smile. Huh and makes strange breathing noises.
“sir? Are you?”
“Or call me Adelian. Friends, what?”
When I unexpectedly reached out and grabbed Rachel’s hand and shook it, her red eyes widened.
“Are you really not afraid?”
“You say you don’t hold a grudge. Human Mutu treats her as Rachel, what’s so unfair about it? Do you really want to be treated by me?”
Do you just shake it off? Do you beg for mercy and beg for mercy from the dragon?
At my whisper, Rachel looked at me and laughed out loud.
Luna, who seems to have completed the subjugation request process, comes to me in surprise and looks at my hand and Rachel’s hand shaking hands, then secretly splits them with her blades like cutting a cake.
“young master. Who are you?”
“A friend I just met.”
yes? As I winked at her, Rachel grinned, looked down at Luna, and then changed her gaze to me.
“that’s right. A friend of the human Rachel.”
“But why were you glaring at our young master earlier?”
I patted Luna’s head and added words to what Luna said while quietly blocking my face without erasing her doubts at Rachel’s words.
“I saw it once because I was so handsome.”
“what?”
“yes? It’s not like I was watching because I wanted to hit the back of the head with my fist. yes?”
At my smirk, Rachel nodded shyly.
I wanted to punch him in the back of the head.
“Then what were you talking about?”
“Well, let’s help each other when we meet during subjugation in the future.”
I don’t know why, but I looked at Rachel and pulled my ear as if to comfort Luna who was too fat.
Originally, in the original work, Guardia had Luna as a handmaid, but when she and Guardia joined Kane’s party, the position itself became a maid, so I couldn’t see this kind of confrontation.
It has become much brighter and bolder.
In my heart, I wanted to check Luna’s traits, but Rachel was right next to me, so I pressed my heart and opened my mouth just in case.
“We’ll be chatting for a while, so find Zero and Leaf and bring them here, Luna.”
“… I’ll be back soon.”
Looking at Luna, who didn’t say no to my words even if she didn’t like it, I waved her hand and turned her head to Rachel with a strange expression.
“Why is that face like that?”
“On the outside, he looked like a very cheeky, stupid, and careless guy, but he surprisingly lives with trust?”
Pretending that it’s not anywhere, you’re going overboard with swearing.
“It’s all virtue. So I guess I can pretend to know you and stay here from now on, how about it?”
At my words, Rachel raised an eyebrow.
“Did I stop by the village for a while, because I was busy subjugating? You won’t see me in the future.”
“Ah really? Our party will also participate in the subjugation, so shouldn’t we see each other more often?”
When I pretended not to know something, Rachel snorted with excitement.
“You haven’t developed your skills enough to feel the difference in rank yet, have you? Even with all your parties together, you’re weaker than me. Subjugation quests themselves cannot overlap.”
“Ah really? But as I can see, our party is no joke. In the first place, when you catch one, we have a lot of people, so we can catch more.”
Rachel flinched when I deliberately didn’t suppress the arrogant trait and laughed as it was.
No matter how you think about it, this trait. Isn’t it 100% chance aggro for dragons?
From noble mtl dot com.
“I don’t know the subject, the subject. If you want to know the difference in rank, shall we bet?”
I tried to hold back the corner of my mouth that was about to rise and asked in an ignorant, stupid tone.
“bet?”
Rachel glances at me.
“You have money.”
“A lot.”
Unlike anyone who only likes to punch. In the first place, wasn’t the big reason why Rachel was called “brainless cell” in the gallery because of the lack of a plan and at the same time a lack of fundamental economic ideas?
Why would a strong person like Rachel have a bland beer at a shabby inn?
It’s because I was just spending money and blowing dust in my pocket.
“Should I bet who catches more in the subjugation quest? your party and me It’s just the two of us. 10 gold coins if I win. how is it?”
Rachel smiled triumphantly.
Look at that. That fool wants to mortgage his life, no, his life, with only 10 gold coins.
“Then what if I, not Rachel, win?”
“It can’t be.”
That shamelessness of not even thinking about listening to my conditions because he will win in the first place.
also a dragon
“If I win, how about making an oath?”
“… to do something weird I’m not going to make any nonsensical oaths. Should I think about at least a public contract that is used at the national level?”
be tough
I thought, how can I be more coddled? Then I grinned at the flashing thought.
“good. I’ll limit it to something that’s only used in the country. how is it?”
Usually, oaths to the state or contracts here are monotonous. How tight was the binding force of an oath made to a nobleman in the first place?
At best, it’s like protecting the territory well and being loyal to the imperial family, but what’s the point of making Rachel do that?
I thought it would be difficult to find an oath phrase that would benefit me personally from contracts or oath phrases used in the country, so I would have set conditions.
“As expected, you’re going to lose, so you’re making a rough decision?”
“No way. Instead, I don’t know the atmosphere of this place or the subjugation difficulty yet, so I’ll decide the subjugation to bet on. Is this okay?”
Rachel brushed her long hair outward with the back of her hand and turned around.
* * *
“I am against it.”
“It’s not like Kane-senpai has been gone for a while, so he doesn’t mean it right away.”
―If I am lacking, I will try harder. Manager, I just need to increase the output of my mana heart.
As Luna brought her, Luna explained, her lips were sticking out as if she were a duck instead of a rabbit, and even Zero, who is so docile, does the opposite.
Leaf also said that, knowing that increasing the output of the mana heart would shorten the spare operation time.
“Have I not said anything yet?”
Besides, the important thing is that I haven’t said a word about Rachel yet.
While I was on my way to check the house that Zero and Leaf had left, I laughed at these chubby guys.
He became attached to Kane and showed his dislike for someone else coming in, which made him look innocent like a child.
“What do you not like?”
When I asked Luna with her shoulder to shoulder, Luna rubbed her cheek with her ear and glanced at me with only her eyes moving.
“I think that woman treats you badly.”
“That’s right, I’m a young boy, employer, and manager to you guys. It has nothing to do with Rachel.”
Not yet.
“First of all, I think, Mr. Adelian. I think our power is strong enough even if senior Kane leaves. The avant-garde is also enough with senior rabbit and junior riff.”
―A goblin can’t hurt me unless I run out of mana.
you know, you know I know
‘I don’t know the exact time, but it’s time for a super-large monster to come down sooner or later.’
The commander-in-chief whom Kane met later when he came here. Reinhardt. He had a prosthetic leg and a prosthetic arm because of the monsters he had met in the past, and his personality had become eccentric.
‘That means he’s still fine.’
Even though a nobleman, even a count, has not lost in a factional fight, he is going to come to the border and help someone who has a personality enough to catch monsters by example, and in the meantime, I plan to take advantage of myself.
If I want to take care of Rachel when I’m aiming for that super-large monster, it’s easier to prepare now and put her in the party.
“It’s because I have thoughts. He has a bit of a personality, but he has good skills and is not someone to betray.”
“If you say so… all right. I will open my heart.”
“I understand for now.”
-yes.
I’m playing, so I can’t reveal that I’m a dragon first. First of all, it’s true that your skills are certain.
Gently soothing the children, I entered the pre-arranged dorm.
“Please check subjugation quests often from now on. So that I can know right away when the request I want comes out.”
“What kind of request?”
At Luna’s question, I let out a little laugh as if I was having fun.
“A request to find the cause of the laughter of children heard in the middle of the night.”