218. grumble, but caring
An awkward silence subsided in the trust chairman. Since it is a building reminiscent of a dragon, if we were to use an analogy, would it be said that something was caught in the neck?
In any case, the gaze of the elders was raw.
What it meant was that they were ready to drive their sharp teeth into me at any moment.
If I hadn’t snatched it, a dagger named Dragon’s Wrath might have flew towards my forehead this time.
“I mean, what do you mean?”
Among the people sitting at the round table, the dragon goddess, who could not even understand the truth of what I said, asked with a trembling voice.
“I heard that it is a pirate led by a pirate monarch. Are you saying they are not human?”
“The pirate lord is human. But the question was whether pirates were really made up of only humans.”
“I understand,” the dragon goddess muttered a little.
“It means that there may be dragons among the pirates.”
Then the elder immediately shouts as if making an excuse.
“The so-called pirate lord is a human born and raised in the land of the kingdom. I heard that those who follow him are also people who have been with him for a long time.”
“They are outlaws that roam the continent. It is not strange to put any companion or slave on a ship anywhere.”
“Hmm,” said one of the elders, coughing in vain.
“What does that matter? Anyway, we told the pirates to pay compensation for the damage.”
“Your words have changed. You used to refer to them as ‘humans’ before, but this time they’re ‘pirates’.”
Perhaps because these people are lizards, they subtly changed their word choice like a snake. The elder who had spoken looked away, clearing his throat as if he had phlegm stuck in his throat.
“We will compensate for damage caused by humans, but it is different for damage caused by pirates. It is their fault.”
If it was made up of only humans, it could be called ‘human’, but if it was a pirate mixed with dragons and other races, we cannot be held responsible.
As far as I know, pirates were well mixed with other races as well as humans. Humans were the most, but starting with Yongin, Elves, Dwarves, Beasts, etc.
According to their logic, it was no different than asking all races for the damage suffered by the pirates now.
It’s not only absurd, it’s absolutely unacceptable for the self-respecting dragons.
“He was human.”
At that moment, a voice that was deeply ingrained in my mind.
The elder who was conducting the oracle interlocked his fingers and placed it on the round table.
It felt like a sign of resolute adherence to their position.
“You were human?”
“Yeah, he was definitely human. That’s how we saw it.”
“Well then. We will do a minimum on-site inspection and prepare compensation right away.”
Can’t you just go away like this?
It’s a situation where you can see clearly as if you were looking at the palm of your hand that you were lying on the other side.
His eyebrows twitched slightly, and he shut his mouth for a moment, but there were still 11 other elders left. Among them, one of the elders with a rather charismatic personality questioned and listened.
“No, you mean we are lying now!”
“You are asking for a substantial amount of compensation. It’s no wonder that we can’t give you that amount of money simply by listening to what you say.”
“No, can you say that in front of dragons who were killed without any guilt? In front of the graves of those who were brutally murdered by your pirates!”
“So we need to be more specific. for the victims. To quench their spirits.”
I told him to shut up now, and when I let out a subtle anger, the elder who had been arguing with me swallowed in vain and pulled his body back. The chair almost fell backwards.
“Okay, I will allow you.”
Is it because I clearly expressed my position that I will not step back beyond this point? Eventually, the moderator slowly reached for his gavel.
“However, you will need an escort, so let Cardinal Theosender accompany you.”
“I will accept it.”
Cardinal Theosander bows his head with his fists on his chest. Eve and Sen behind them looked disliked, but this wasn’t something we could say no to.
“I will accompany you!”
The elder’s wand, who was about to announce the abolition, stops as if blocked by the sharp cry of the dragon goddess.
The Elder let out a quiet chorus, as if contemplating for a moment, but Cardinal Theosender’s eyes lit up and shouted.
“I have nothing to worry about. The mission of escorting the bride-to-be is my original job.”
“If that’s what the cardinal means, then I know. Let the dragon goddess also accompany you.”
land land land
The doctor’s stick is struck, and the oracle is abolished.
The elders got up all at once, turned around and left as they were trying to express that they didn’t want to see the dragon goddess’ face anymore.
“……”
The Dragon Goddess, who remained for a while, also glanced at Cardinal Theosender’s face and turned around violently, saying that she did not want to be a servant.
*
The day after the 729th oracle ends.
We moved towards the sea area that was damaged, along with the dragon goddess and her escort, the cardinal, and several escorts.
It would have been nice to be able to go through the warp, but I heard that the warp markers in both areas were horribly broken through the raids of pirates, so I decided to just ride a wagon.
Sen, who was looking forward to riding the Wyvern again, was quickly disappointed, but the moment she saw that the horse pulling the carriage was not a horse, her eyes lit up again.
To be called a horse, the appearance was sharp, and instead of hooves, it had three thick toes like a Wyvern.
It just feels like a small wingless wyvern.
“The Demon Dragon is a special species created by intermingling a horse and a Wyvern. It is a rare animal that can only be seen in the land of Yongin.”
“A horse and a wyvern?”
When I asked with a bizarre imagination, Eve looked at the demon dragon as if pitifully and nodded.
“Of course, he wouldn’t have had a direct relationship with him… but he probably wasn’t born out of desire. Compared to a horse, the speed itself is slower, but the power is much better.”
“Do you really need to? Isn’t it enough to just raise a horse and make it drag?”
When asked if there was any need to stubbornly create a strange special species called Demon Dragon, Eve also whispered with a small nod of her head.
“After the dragon god Shakalim fell asleep, the dragons made an obsessive effort to differentiate themselves from other races. In particular, it extended to topics related to dragons. Dragon-like structures and demon dragons are the traces of that.”
“……okay.”
Lynn in the second play already told me that Shakalim was pretending to be asleep. Even the fact that he was disappointed in the dragons and turned his eyes away.
along with it.
“Please load this.”
“Yes, Dragon Goddess.”
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Jane, the Dragon Goddess, calmly unloading her luggage in the distance, actually knows that the Dragon God is awake.
The first priority was to talk to her separately so that she could have a private meeting with Shakalim.
“Are you going down?”
“I am the priestess’s escort. You cannot fall.”
Cardinal Theosender clung to the side as if to show off that he was the Dragon Goddess’ escort.
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Just now, I asked another escort for my luggage, but he snatched it right next to me and saw me load it myself.
Eve, who was watching it with me, muttered in a dejected voice.
“I read a lot of books with couples in that combination, right?”
“Combination……?”
I wondered what kind of nonsense it was, but Eve continued to say that if you didn’t understand, just listen.
“A country’s princess and bodyguard, saint and holy knight, actor and guard, etc. I’ve seen stories that have been split in many ways, but the reality is colder than I thought.”
“Well, I understand that Theosander is passionately courting.”
“Is that right? In fact, the royal road is the opposite. The escort is grumbling and blunt, but in fact, she is kind and shakes the princess’ heart! I wanted that kind of atmosphere…”
Eve puts her arms around her arms in regret and stands still for a while, then looks at me in amazement.
“What, isn’t this about Daniel?”
“What?”
what are you talking about all of a sudden
“She grumbles and pretends to be blunt, but in reality she is kind and shakes her heart…? This is the perfect Daniel trick!”
“Don’t be weird! What is the method?”
Eve who says that I intentionally flirt with women. I thought I was going to make a counter-argument, so I shook my head, but there was no answer I could come up with.
Eve, looking up at me, warned me with a bit of vicious spirit.
“Don’t give the Dragon Goddess anything strange. Did you know? I was going home after finishing all my work, and suddenly he said, ‘I want to go with you too!’ Don’t make me say the same thing!”
“No, say something that makes sense!”
“Be careful! Try flirting with another woman when you already thought it was your turn!”
“Ha, that will never happen.”
“Really?”
“really.”
“Even if you want to believe it, you have to be insecure.”
Eve sighed and extended her middle and index fingers and pointed at my eyes.
“I’ll be watching.”
“It will never happen.”
“If you break your promise, you get 100 punches. It’s not a pardon punch, it’s just a punch! It means you won’t forgive me!”
“Ha ha, do as you like.”
Eve’s puffy cheeks were filled with distrust toward me.