Episode 54 [All I need is me](4)
Lesta Empire.
Café in town, outside terrace.
At the round white table located at the very edge, three people were seated in a rare combination of different drinks.
In front of the boy with white hair is a sweet melon soda.
Hot coffee in front of a beauty with long black hair.
Finally, a cold orange juice was placed in front of the woman with short hair.
Soon, she politely bowed her head toward the gray-haired boy, while the medium-haired woman quietly pursed her lips.
“Ch, nice to meet you. My name is Shen. I’m a dragon of the Black clan, and I’m not good enough, but I’m in charge of Lord’s aide.”
“Ah…Yes, hello…I’m Dante. As you can see, I’m a Demon, and I’m currently working as Lady Olivia’s slave. Thank you very much.”
“Oops, that’s me.”
There is a saying that it is a relationship even if you just brush your collar, and it is basic etiquette and human nature to exchange greetings with a new relationship.
So, Dante awkwardly reached out to shake Shen’s hand, but
Gasp!
“This spoiled bastard… Won’t you put your hands away?”
“N-yes! Excuse me! I’m sorry Lord!”
Failed because Olivia, who couldn’t stand to see him, intervened in the middle of her and violently snatched Dante’s hand.
At the same time, Shen, who received a reproach from the demon dragon for killing her, hurriedly lowered her hand below her knee in a cold sweat.
I feel sorry for her trembling eyes.
In the chilly atmosphere, Dante recalled how he had gotten himself into this situation.
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“Huh, it’s Rodney…! Lord Lord please…!!”
“Uh huh, go back when you say nice things. You don’t want to change?”
All the eyes of the people in her library begin to focus on the central table at the mysterious sight of a beautiful woman hanging on her knees in front of her beautiful woman and clinging to her feet.
She could have been a little noisy, so I thought there would be one or two people scolding her, but maybe it was because she instinctively sensed the danger by not approaching her beauty.
Only Olivia was seated at that wide center table.
Since he couldn’t cause more trouble to the citizens, Dante had no choice but to intervene between the two.
I don’t know if it’s Olivia’s acquaintance or who, but first, let’s go outside and solve whatever it is.
Dante sighed deeply and stretched out his hands to the left and right and dug in between them.
“Come on, stop and calm down.”
Woah, waving her hand away from her.
“What do you say, I’m very calm right now?”
“Shouldn’t you hide your horns and fangs before talking?”
After roughly scolding Olivia, Dante spoke politely to the medium-haired beauty.
“Well, I don’t know who you are, but if you have something to say to him, can I ask you outside?”
“Hah? Don’t you dare go out to someone like an insignificant demon tribe–“
The moment when an unknown beauty, who crumpled her face with the feeling that she dared to bite her at Dante’s request, was about to spit out harsh words,
“─Shen.”
“Yes! Mr. Lord!”
Olivia, who normally would have already been angry with fire and had to destroy everything, this time, with a somewhat grumpy smile on her lips, she called out the beautiful woman’s name in a low voice.
A beauty called Shen responds to Olivia’s call by quickly changing her expression and responding with a clear voice like an obedient puppy, whether she knows the black dragon’s ulterior motives or not.
Strike!
“…..Woo, wow!?”
Dante widens her eyes in surprise at the arm that suddenly jumps out and wraps around my waist and pulls me at the same time.
He had been standing on the floor just a moment ago, his body half-folded and buried in Olivia’s arms.
“This is him.”
“…..Did I hear that wrong?”
“This is the guy I was talking about earlier.”
What kind of conversation was there while I was gone?
Gee, Olivia twisted the corner of her mouth up, and Shen’s face turned blue in an instant.
Putting a trembling palm toward Dante, she said in a nervous tone.
“That, so… This, this, this… L, Lord’s…?”
“Yes.”
As if in response, Olivia nodded her head leisurely.
“How about it, is that what I said? It’s so cute, isn’t it?”
A somewhat proud tone.
Shen looked at Dante once with fearful, desperate eyes, and without anyone telling him, Shen knelt down on the spot and began to lower his head to the floor.
“I’m sorry to see you, I don’t know!! I didn’t even know my subject and I was very rude to you! Please, please, save my life…!”
“Oh, no! Are you okay!? I’m fine, so please raise her head!”
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I’m going to die of embarrassment!? What kind of ugliness is this in a public place!??
He’s a complete library villain! Can’t you hear people whispering!?
No, really, what kind of conversation happened while I wasn’t there!!?
She hurriedly turned her head and glared at Olivia with her absurd lower face, but
“…Hmph!”
“Don’t snort with an elated expression!!”
Dante managed to get the two villains out of the library.
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─And the situation leads back to the present.
“That…Just a moment ago, I was really, really sorry…I apologize from the bottom of my heart…”
Shen politely bows her head and apologizes over and over again.
She was afraid that Olivia would harm her, so she was right.
Dante shook his hand with a bitter smile on his lips.
“Ahahahaha…No, it’s really okay. What’s wrong, the dragons must have felt that way in that situation.”
Besides, I was used to being discriminated against.
Since the title she called Olivia was ‘Lord’, she might be roughly the same dragon, though she did and she expected it.
Seeing you face to face like this, it feels strange…
Besides Olivia and Aquila, it was the first dragon of the Black Dragon clan.
Her shoulder-length jet-black hair, with a white bridge in the middle. Just like the black family who likes to wear suits, he wears a simple outfit with a white shirt, tie, and black pants.
A bandage was wrapped around his forearm, so he wondered if he was injured.
“…Why are you staring at me like that, plucking out your eyes?”
“It’s not like that?! Did you get hurt just because you were wearing a bandage, I was just thinking about it!?”
Dante took a sip of melon soda, responding angrily to Olivia who was arguing with her.
The sweet taste in my mouth made me feel calm again.
As he set the cantaloupe soda down on the table, Shen nodded as Dante patted his arm.
“…Yes, you’re hurt.”
…..What, is it real?
Dante widened his eyes and expressed his doubts.
“However, because of their scales, dragons usually do not get hurt, and even if they are injured, don’t they heal quickly thanks to their excellent resilience?”
“Yes, according to common sense, that’s true, but…”
“—There’s just one exception.”
Cutting Shen off, Olivia said in a rather serious tone.
“As you know, our bodies in our true form are covered with scales, so almost all physical attacks, such as knives, spears, and arrows, are impervious to it. The same goes for magic. But that doesn’t mean absolute, flawless defense. “
Olivia continued her words, jabbing her shen with her fingernails at the nape of her neck.
“In this way, I can’t completely block the claws or fangs of my own kind, poison inside the body, or celestial magic. In the case of poison, even with the finest potions, the treatment is slow.”
Poison… Poison, come to think of it, the book said that the black dragon’s horns and thorns contain deadly poison that is extremely effective… No way.
Shen nodded her head as Dante quietly winked.
“You’re probably right.”
She undid her bandage, frowning slightly to see if her pain was still going on.
“……!”
The moment he saw her wound, Dante unconsciously tightened her hand that gripped the hem of her dress.
Blood scabs and scars that have dried up.
The purple-colored flesh was being crushed beyond recognition.
To be honest, it was gross enough to turn her head the other way.
I managed to endure the vomit and catch my breath.
“I’d probably be dead if I wasn’t a member of the Black Clan.”
It is said that the venom of a black dragon can kill even a fully grown Jackie Chan in 10 minutes.
However, it was written that the same black dragon had resistance to poison to some extent, so it was not poisonous even though it could be poisoned.
But this is…Too bad…? It’s not at the level of addiction, this.
This is how you walked around with only a bandage wrapped around you, you black dragon…?!
….Is being tough a black dragon racial trait?
Hook his head at a 90-degree angle to Olivia, Shen said in a desperate voice.
“Lord… So, can you please reconsider just once more…? If we continue like this, the area will be cut in half, and it is certain that the number of people who lose rares will increase and the number of hatchlings will drastically decrease.. !”
“Oh well, isn’t that my problem? Being weeded out is proof of weakness after all, and I didn’t raise you to be so weak, so those of you who couldn’t deal with it properly aren’t my clan. Okay?”
“Ha, but Lord-sama’s strength is outside the standard—”
“Does the aide talk back to the boss?”
“Hee!? I’m sorry!!”
I don’t know the circumstances, so I can follow the story of the two at all He couldn’t, but once again, Dante was convinced that Olivia was the problem.
So, let’s start by figuring out how things are going.
I’m curious after hearing it.
Dante puffed out his cheeks and shook Olivia’s shoulders.
“Oh, why are you bullying me? I know what’s going on. I’m curious.”
“Hmm, huh? Hey Shen.”
“Yes… Rod.”
Olivia grinned, revealing her sharp fangs.
“Please explain the current situation in 3 lines or less so that I do not confuse you.”
“Yes!? But 3 lines is too short…”
“You want to be beaten behind you?”
“I will make it as short as possible!!”
Shen, stiffly in a salute pose, tugged at her hair trying to make her words.
‘This is the aide position you chose. Endure it with evil.’
I’m so familiar with that desolate figure, it overlaps with someone I know very well.
My heart hurts.
“Are you crying right now?”
“…..Crying….Someone is crying.”
That’s why it’s not my own tears that wet my cheeks right now, but the tears of my own heart.
Dante felt an unknown comradeship towards this black dragon named Shen, whom he met for the first time today.