Reincarnated as a Dragon’s Egg ~Lets Aim to Be the Strongest~
254. Guide to Escape
... After a while, the cave settled down.
I stopped leaving the cave and decided to stay here.
With how things are going right now, I think I can get MP back exactly in the cave.
By the time the watchman comes around at night, he can securely secure an MP to humanize.
I'm sure it would be easier for you to guide me as a sacrifice, and it should be easier to poke through the gaps in the manticore.
While we're searching for Manticore, we avoid being sensed and suspicious first, or being found by settlement humans and causing any more boredom.
This time it worked out because I'm a kid, but this isn't how I'm supposed to be an adult with a hardened mind.
The air in the cave is worse than it was when the other side was humanizing.
The children have just opened a little distance and are wary to ask how this is going.
Hardly, the earlier elderly child sits as close to me as possible.
It doesn't look like I'm threatening you at all, but it looked like I had to take responsibility before I said it.
MP is recovering just fine for the rest of the day.
At this rate, you'll recover in a few hours. We should make it to the battle against Manticore.
If the happenings don't keep happening, they can show us where he is.
"Dear Dragon God... what the hell are you doing in this cave? Anytime, they got away with it... and they still do..."
An elderly child calls out in horror and so on.
... I can use the technique of humanization to explain it by mouth again, but now I want to make sure the MP is well restored.
You'll see what I'm here for later.
Every time I answer, I use the technique of humanization, and if the technique of humanization is no longer available when the Keeper at heart comes, I can't even see it.
I stretch my forelegs and put my nails on the ground.
Float the figure of a manticore in the back of your brain.
Er... with a leopard body... my head feels like a lion mixed with a human...
As I remember, I paint a Manticore picture with my fingertips.
But the line got so cool, it turned out to be a childish picture.
... You used to make ceramics and stuff, but you got clumsy.
This is my forefoot, not my hand, after all, what choice do I have?
Well, as long as I use humanization, I can do it cleverly.
The girl didn't know what my painting was either, so she frowned and tilted her neck.
I add a tail to the painting and a needle to the tip of the tail.
So he finally figured it out, "Manticore......?," he muttered.
I knew that tail was distinctive.
I nodded carefully at the ceiling, then stuck my fingernails on my forefoot to the torso part of the manticore and decided on the ground.
The girl looks up softly and looks me in the eye.
"... defeat Manticore?
It was an exploratory way of saying it.
Half-heartedly, something like that.
"... Gwow"
As I roared and nodded, the girl breathed without breaking her expression as it was.
This kid didn't shelter me either, but he doesn't seem to trust me completely.
What they've been saying for a long time won't be so easy to break it off.
You just made me some air to stay over here.
Time went by in the somewhat uncomfortable air as it was.
I crawled to the ground and rested as much as I could and devoted myself to restoring my magic.
The other side was meditating on his eyes and asleep, opening his thin eyes and asking for the reaction of the other child.
... I was behaving with my temper, but that doesn't mean you don't care.
Because of this, the other kids are watching me and the older kids as they worry from the far-roll.
Eventually the sky stains into the sunset and the red light also plugs in from the gap in the ceiling.
The magic power is already fully healed.
All you have to do is wait for the Keeper to come and slap the Manticore guy all you can.
Next time, I'll never let you get away with it.
I can hear someone walking around the top of the cave.
Is the Keeper finally here?
Sounds like it's time to humanize it.
I'll ask you again for a while.
"... faster than usual"
The elderly child whispered and leaked.
Gatsun, I can hear Gatsun and knocking on the cave ceiling from overhead.
Looking up, something seemed to be swinging down into the gap that was empty in the cave ceiling.
Hey, what, what are you doing?
I thought you were here to help me.
Earlier that kid was always early, and he wasn't the keeper. It's possible.
No, the rocks that are preventing the entrance holes were retreating with Narg and Tatark on both sides.
Is someone trying to get in here alone?
Yes, no, that's fine, but make it another day!
She's about to be sacrificed. Girl, why don't you come in the cave to help?
But why do you come when I'm in a cave!
I don't know what to do! Manticore, let me knock you down!
What are you doing, Keeper? You're the keeper for times like this!
What is this, someone yarning behind me and trying to interrupt my actions?!?
I rush to use the technique of humanization.
Heat runs through your body and your body gets smaller.
Turning his consciousness to his own head, he naturally sank into his body without pushing it in.
Your vision darkens and you share it with the other person's gaze.
All right, all right, you've managed to control humanization, too.
Immediately the physical control stopped working and it turned out that the other party was moving.
The LV of [Normal Skill [Manipulation] has increased from 7 to 8.
Oh, I'm up. I'm up.
I used it all I could today.
The other person holds his head down, shakes his neck and checks his body.
When I returned to the dragon, I put on more messy clothes.
... You should have taken it off a little more politely.
No, I don't know what else to do because I was aggressive.
The ceiling part, which had been slapped from earlier, crumbles and the rock fragments fall into the cave.
The rift grew larger and the red light of the sunset plunged into the cave. Light the center red like a spotlight.
"Oh, hey, listen!
I heard voices from the top of the hole.
You know, this voice...
It was the watchman's tatark that made him peek at his neck through the hole.
Oh, it's you!
That shouldn't be the janitor working.
No, Tatark, you were told scattered that you were a leftover person or that your personality wasn't for you.
Weren't you a candidate mistake after all...?
"Important figures in the settlement, including the witch's blood, are now pulling into the back of the settlement at a conference! Even if you make some suspicious moves, it should be a long time before you realize it! In the meantime, get out of here!
Hear your voice, and all at once the cave makes a scene.
"So, but..."
"Run away, where..."
The girls leak confused voices.
"Go to the Dragon Divine settlement! I, I just heard! The dragon gods are back in that settlement over there!
Hear Tatark's voice and the girls look at each other simultaneously.
Yes, no, I know how that feels, but stop being suspicious.
"I'm sure the Dragon God got rid of Manticore! That's why Manticore came all the way over here on a small scale too! If you go over there, it'll help! It was me over there, I know! That's all I can think of Manticore moving this way with few people!
Remainder, is that what you mean?
Did you come this way through the Dragon Divine settlement?
"If you're an adult, you shouldn't be looking for a child! There may be resistance...... please, just trust me!
Originally, it should have been the suspicion of Dragon God's power that divided the settlement.
As Tatark says, returning to the original settlement under the protection of the Dragon God is probably the best way for the humans in this settlement to escape Manticore.
… but that's as far as the other settlement humans will allow.
In retrospect of the words and deeds of the witch in the Dragon Divine settlement, the hostility to this one felt quite something.
I guess that's why Tatark also says that adults are kids anyway.
I hear Tatark and the girls start making noise.
"Did you get rid of Manticore?
"Um, get a manticore...?
As I say, I can put my strength into the eyes that look at each other.
Even once you think about it from the fact that Dragon God gave up fighting Manticore, perhaps Dragon God is weaker than Manticore.
Maybe the first time I saw him, Manticore jumped instantly, too, he was going to set his moxibustion on Dragon God, who couldn't give up his minutes and wandered around his neighborhood.
The elderly child also looked at each other with a surprised face, but he dropped his gaze to the ground, as he had noticed, and he glanced at the graffiti of my earlier painted manticore.