132 – EP.28 Rasbir -1
After the end of the year, I naturally gained a year older and enjoyed a peaceful daily life.
I got caught up in accidents big and small because of my companion divine beasts, but none of them were too much of a problem.
The hostile divine beasts that I had seen so many times did not appear, and the days of clearing the terrorists intermittently.
After getting along well with the government agencies, which were not so good, the season of spring has arrived.
The flowers are in full bloom, and the weather is warm and cool.
It is the best season except for the fact that insects are rampant and pollen flies like crazy.
At a time of blessing for life in its own way, I received a sudden piece of news.
“Looking for me… ?”
“Wow! Grandpa is in a hurry, so hurry up and ask Yuu to come!”
Here, Tia’s grandfather was referring to the black dragon he met at the dragon’s tomb.
The spirit of a black dragon, as good as the High Priestess, was asking me to come because she had an urgent business.
Could it be that you’ve made a new f*cking game, so you want me to test it?
It was very embarrassing, but even if you were nominated by a noble dragon, you couldn’t refuse and go.
As before, I follow the smiling Tia while holding her hand.
This time Tia and I, just the two of us.
“Tia, but why aren’t you going outside and going to the bathroom on the first floor?”
“That’s because you can go there!”
“Ugh… ?”
A baby dragon confidently says that he will go to the dragon’s grave through the bathroom at my house.
I had no idea what Tia was talking about.
I don’t know if the bathroom on the 1st floor is like a space-time warp gate inside the desk drawer…….
Even if that’s the case, I hope it’s not the only way to go through the flushing toilet.
“Yap!”
After delusion about this and that, I arrived in front of the bathroom.
Without hesitation, Tia grabs the handle of her bathroom and she jumps open the door.
Then, what appeared in front of us was the pure white fog we had seen before.
‘Is it true….’
The shape is very different, but it was really a warp gate.
I was certain that it was the way to transfer to the dragon’s tomb after entering the alleyway.
For some reason, I couldn’t move my feet.
Unlike the alleyway, the bathroom is rather narrow, so it felt like I was going to bump into a wall if I went all the way like back then.
However, Tia, unaware of my feelings and brightly walking into the fog in the bathroom, forced me to enter before I even made up my mind.
As expected, Nopaku Tia, I think I should teach Tia how to control herself as soon as this job is over.
Anyway, I’d like to suggest a change to the way to the grave, even if it’s second to Tia.
A tomb that appears after passing through a space covered with bleak fog.
This is not to say that this effect is bad.
Because it is a tomb where the dead should be treated with respect.
However, in spring when it is getting warmer, this kind of chill feels strange.
The last time I went, I thought it would be because it was winter, but it’s the same in spring….
‘It feels like you’ve come to the underworld, doesn’t it?’
Even if you could go back to reality, who would like to go to the underworld?
If I had to judge it, it would be only our Tia.
“Installment payment! Bring me!!”
“Welcome, Tia. And Tia’s partner.”
Unlike last time, instead of Leusis, the gravekeeper dragon, a huge black dragon greeted us at the entrance of the tomb.
However, it seemed that there was a situation that was not good for his expression to show feelings of concern rather than welcome.
“I heard you found me, but did you have any serious problems with the tomb?”
“It is not. The dragon’s tomb is a space that no one can invade unless the dragon has given permission. There is no case where there is a problem with the grave.”
“Then what the heck… ?”
“There is a dragon soul that wants to ask you a favor. Would you like to follow me?”
With a pitiful lowering voice, the black dragon turns its back and leaves somewhere leisurely, as if telling it to follow him.
I don’t know what the hell happened or how he felt that way, but I grabbed Tia’s hand and followed him.
Even in the midst of going somewhere, the black dragon remained silent.
I wanted to say something out of frustration, but thinking about the current atmosphere, I can’t open my mouth lightly.
All I’m allowed to do is guess.
Who the hell is asking me for a favor, and why is the black dragon’s expression filled with pity?
Though it seemed to be agonizing dozens of times in my head, neither of the two questions came to a plausible conclusion.
‘The only dragons I know in detail are Tia and Grandpa Kirin.’
Excluding Tia, Grandpa Kirin would have asked me through my dream, not through the dragon’s grave.
In that case, there was a high possibility that a dragon or a dragon I did not know would ask for it.
“I have arrived.”
“Ah….”
Moist air and moss around tombstones.
I’ve been to this place countless times through games, and it was an area of ancient dragons that I couldn’t forget even if I tried.
In that case, the dragon I was trying to ask me was an ancient dragon who told me to surpass myself, so I felt cold.
At the place where the black dragon brought us, a human woman with light blue hair was standing with a sad expression on her face.
To be precise, a dragon that has turned into a human. The four-pronged horn on her head indicated.
“Aguera, I brought the human you were talking about.”
“Ah… ! Human… !!”
“Now, wait… ?!”
A woman suddenly rushes at me and grabs my hands tightly.
The tears that fall like the dew of dawn and the fragrant scent of flowers that emanate from her body make a woman considered beautiful.
If Miho had been there, it was needless to say that such an action would have been misunderstood.
‘No matter how hard it is, you won’t be able to know what I’m doing until the subspace… ?’
However, while she was careless, she had been beaten by Miho more than once, so I gently took the woman away from her body.
“This, please calm down! It’s embarrassing if you do this all of a sudden… !”
“Oh… ! Sorry! When I think that you are the only hope left for me, I can’t stop… !”
“Hope?”
I was taken aback by the sudden action, but I was even more taken aback by the dragon that suddenly saw me and called me hope.
Why am I, who has nothing except being the companion of divine beasts, her hope…… I don’t know.
“If you explain Agera’s current condition, I will explain it for you.”
“Please.”
“Her name, as already mentioned, is Agera. She is an ancient dragon who has lived for a long time and is called the guardian dragon of the West.”
“Guardian Dragon of the West… ?”
“Yes, it is a dragon that lives and protects a place far away to the west of where you live.”
“I see. So, for some reason, the Western Guardian Dragon came to me… ?”
“That is… ….”
“The elderly.”
“Um… ?”
“It’s okay now, from now on I will explain to him and ask him directly.”
Aguera wipes away the endless tears and erases her sorrowful expression and returns with a sad face.
She showed her will to the black dragon, so the black dragon nodded lightly and stepped back from him.
In place of the black dragon, Agera came forward and had a moment of silence before she slowly opened her mouth.
“Let me introduce myself again. I am Agera, the former guardian dragon of the West and the guardian dragon of Rasvir.”
“Ah! Me, I am Yoo Seonju! And this….”
“Tia!”
The surrounding atmosphere is calm and gloomy, but our dragon companion is as bright and courageous as ever.
If I was like that, I would have been slapped on the cheek for not being able to properly grasp the atmosphere.
Tia is pure itself.
It was my own pace, the trademark of pure children, so let’s look at it cutely.
“Whoops! I wish you well. Master of the ship, Tia-sama.”
Fortunately, Agera erased her sadness for a moment at Tia’s bold action and responded with a faint smile.
As if it’s really cute.
“Please take good care of me.”
“Jalbutakae!!”
“Sorry… ! I’m still young and I don’t know much about etiquette, so I hope you’ll be kind.”
“Gwa, it’s okay! Rather cute? My daughter was also…… Ah..”
The woman gave a benevolent smile, but she stopped talking halfway through, and then she put on a pitiful expression again.
As soon as she brought up the story of her daughter, seeing Agera’s expression change in an instant, it seems that her daughter is the cause of her sadness.
“Ah, ah!! Freesia! Freesia!! Whoa… !!”
“Hey…. I don’t know if I should say this, but please calm down first. I don’t know what’s wrong with your daughter, but I’m sure she’ll be fine.”
At the thought of her daughter, Eo Mi-soo’s soul cries mournfully as she embraces her body with both arms.
I comforted her by patting her on the back.
“Oops, sorry! Showing off my ugly side once more… !!”
“It’s okay, but more than that, what happened to your daughter?”
“Yes…. My daughter, Fricia, is currently in a terrible crisis. And in order to save my daughter, I called the owner of the ship to make such a shameless request.”
“As expected….”
Ah Gera guessed that her sorrowful story of her crying was related to the request she would make to me.
And when I realized that the cause was her daughter, I was convinced.
She asked me to come rescue her daughter.
“First of all, I want you to explain everything before I decide whether or not to accept the request. About you and your daughter, and what kind of crisis your daughter is currently facing.”
“Yes, I understand.”
A beautiful woman nodding her head softly.
She closed her eyes and took several deep breaths to calm her sorrow, but finally let out a deep sigh as if she had put her mind in order.
Then she immediately opened her mouth and entered the starting point of an epic story.
“Before talking about me and my daughter, do you know about Rasvir, whom we have been protecting?”
“No, this is a place I have never heard of….”
“Okay then, let me explain about Rasvir. Rasbir, one of the places in the vast west, and precisely, it is a place called Rasbir Kingdom.”
“The Kingdom of Rasvir… ?”
“Yes. A country inhabited by human races like the ship’s lord. And now it is the home of humans who are on the path of downfall due to a divine beast.”
“That, it can’t be… !”
I have thought that the country where humans live in the vast wilderness is the only place I belong to.
That’s also true, because historians and adventurers of all ages have said it in unison.
‘There were no humans outside of the country we live in’… ….
But now I came across a shocking story through a dragon in front of me.
The kingdom of Rasvir, the fact that there is one more place where humans live in this world.