That's a dragon.
The voice of my father rises in Almark's head.
"Look closely."
My father then told Almark.
"With your own eyes."
Almark gently placed Mars' wand on the floor of the practice floor.
Leila glanced at Almark.
As he nodded little, Almark exhaled.
"Don't do it like a stone."
Leila peeks into Almark and advises.
"We have to be careful, considering that it is a wand that is much easier to pass through magic than stone."
"Yeah."
Almark nodded.
I'll give you a little image of a dragon.
"Okay."
Leila fell back gently. Tied black hair shakes like a tail.
Almark closed his eyes.
Then, slowly remember.
About the day I first saw a dragon.
Early summer in the north.
During the march with the mother, the Black Wolf Cavalry was on a large river.
The Great River of Quadrad.
It is a huge river that is so gloomy that you can't see the opposite shore.
"Half a day along the river, and it's a crossing."
Morgard says he's in charge of transportation and replenishment in general.
"I don't know how many ships are still moving."
This is the river.
That's what Captain Jerus said, looking far into the river.
"If we let them all cross to the Mother's Corps, it'll be two or three days."
"Don't be a camp on both shores."
Lieutenant Raise said.
"That's the most dangerous time."
Ah.
Jerus nods.
"Don't let your guard down. It's not just the enemy. He said," Don't watch out for monsters. "
Almark was listening to the conversation behind his father Raise.
By that time, I was going to be the other warrior.
Five times as a battle.
Since the battlefield changed five times in one battle, Almark, who had already experienced more than thirty battlefields, including minor skirmishes, was mixed up with adult mercenaries to fight, and rumored that a strong kid was in the Black Wolf Cavalry.
"Dad."
Almark shouted at his father's back.
"I'll be watching the back of the Mother Corps."
Morgard nodded as Raise frowned and stopped him from saying anything.
"Almark has good eyes. Try it."
Say that and close one eye.
"Let me know as soon as the shadow moves in the distance. Never try to do something by yourself."
"Okay."
Almark nodded.
Raise scratched her left flank silently.
Morgard laughs at it.
"Dad."
Almark called Raise again.
Ah.
Raise nods.
"All right, go. It's not a game, take it seriously."
"Yeah."
Almark rushed to return the horse's head.
Looking backwards, I saw Raise calling the ten captains Delac and saying something.
Almark rushes through the side of the mother carriage that follows the main unit and drives the horse to the rear.
"Almark!
A familiar voice stopped Almark.
Looking at you, a boy the same age as Almark came up with a horse.
Garba, son of Gaizac, the masterpiece of the axe, Black Battle Axe.
Where are you going?
Garba, who has not yet begun his career, envies Almark and wants to talk about what he does every time.
"Behind you."
Almark answers.
That's good. We're coming with you. "
"Us?
After hearing Garba's words, Almark shook his head in a hurry as he saw his sister Mary slightly face from behind Garba.
"No, no, no. It's not a game."
"I know that."
Garba replies.
"If you're on guard in the back, you'd better do it alone than by yourself."
Well, that's true.
I won't bother you.
Garba forced his horse to line up next to Almark's horse.
"Almark, oniichan"
Mary waved with a smile.
Put me on your horse.
"No."
Almark shakes his head.
I thought you said it wasn't a game.
That's right, Mary.
Garba looked back at Mary.
You stay behind me.
Er...
Mary sharpens her mouth with dissatisfaction.
"Almark, I thought I could ride oniichan's horse."
"Anyway, if you're both coming, take it seriously."
Almark had no choice but to say so and take the two of them to the rear of the base.
Until then, the bearded mercenaries who were engaged in rear vigilance smiled and said, "Oh, it's the boys who change."
"There's nothing on land."
The bearded mercenary slapped Almark on the shoulder.
"When I get out, it's on the river."
Squeeze the smoking river with your jaw and say so, the mercenaries go back forward.
It's a river, Almark.
That's what Garba says and laughs.
"Well then, me and Mary will be watching the river."
"If it comes from the river, it must be like a monster."
Almark answered.
"Be careful. I'll watch the land."
Then the three of them devoted themselves to the rear guard for a while.
However, as time passes, they gradually begin to feel it.
Garba wanted to hear about Almark on the battlefield, and Mary wanted to talk about Almark more than anything else, but Almark didn't agree with it.
"You're both saying it's not a game."
"I know. But I do."
Garba's laughing voice broke out unexpectedly.
Almark looks back at the unnaturalness.
What's the matter, Garba?
No, that one.
Garba points far beyond the river.
Oh, that one.
Mary was staring at you breathlessly.
Almark also turned his eyes towards the two of them.
Far beyond, the surface of the water swelled.
From there, something like fish appears.
A scale wet with water reflected the light of the sun.
It wasn't a fish.
It looked like a snake or a lizard.
But it's strange.
Whatever you think, the distance doesn't suit you.
You can't look so big even though you're so far away.
"Children"
Suddenly a voice turned around from behind, and the ten wartime captain Delac was there sometime.
"The vigilance is over. We need to get out of the river right now."
Delac, that's...
"I'll talk to you later. Come on."
That's what Delak said, leading the three of them away from the riverbank.
The giant body in the river seemed to have already been found in the mother army and the main army, and there was a pressing voice like a battlefield that said hurry and get off the shore.
A horse carriage swarm of Mother Corps hoisted up the stones of the river and left the river.
At that time, the water in the river began to bulge.
The water level rises suddenly, as if after a heavy rain.
The place where Almark and the others were running the horses just before disappeared into the river in no time.
"Almark"
Raise came running like an arrow.
Raise's husband.
Delac speaks up.
"You took care of me, Delac."
"No, about this."
Raise looks at Almark's three children and mutters that they're all safe.
Garba and Mary, go back to the base.
Garba looked frustrated for a moment, but nodded silently to Raise's harsh face and drove her horse back to the base.
Delac, I need you two.
Hee.
Delac nods and runs the horse from behind them.
"Dad."
Almark looked back at his father.
In the river, it bounced.
The momentum of the water increases like a storm.
"What is that?"
That's a dragon.
My father answered.
Dragon.
"That's it."
Almark murmured.
It's supposed to be all the way across the river, but it's like it's right in front of you.
The power.
The river is rolling.
Each of the sunlit scales shines like polished crystals.
Absolute personality differences as organisms.
There was something far beyond reason and common sense.
Almark swallows his spit.
Raise pushes Almark further away from the river.
"Look closely."
Raise said to his son who kept an eye on the dragon.
"What a dragon looks like in your own eyes."