Hakai no Miko

On that day, an urgent meeting of ten members of the Committee was held at the residence of the Merchant Guild in Jeboa. This meeting was held in response to a report that the son of destruction had caused the load of Judah's caravan to be destroyed in the city of Bornis the other day.

Whatever it is that has just been established, it is an unprecedented story, such as working so much outrage against a merchant guild that has grown to affect the economy of the entire western region. Therefore, the faces of the ten Commissioners, who had gathered in succession between meetings, were uniformly stiff and stiff.

Except for Jacob, who in it was intercepted by the Ethereal Horse in one of the bandits. He looked grumpy to see, such as going out of his way to greet Menahem at the Shapiro Chamber of Commerce, which he usually hated furiously.

Thus, finally, all ten Commissioners are at it, arrowheads who have finally tried to start a meeting. Olga, Marman's ambassador, visited the meeting.

"Suddenly, what is it, Lord Olga?"

The oldest, old man Kaiafa, asks Olga what he intends to visit.

"Don't you guys know?

But Olga frowns.

"I have been contacted by Harpuran that I am the user of Lord Soma Kisaki, who wants me to come to the meeting, and I have come to take what I take for the time being..."

To Olga, who looked baffled, the ten good commissioners smile at each other's faces.

Odd I guess the Son of Destruction is an abdominal desire to have himself summon a friendly Olga to defend him. But to that extent, Jeboah's merchants are not sweet enough to hold the spear, and Jacob and others laugh spirally in their bellies.

That's when I heard gay people making noise outside the room.

"Please wait! It's too rude, such as entering without even asking for guidance!

The door between the rendezvous, with its voice, was opened inside with momentum.

"… to the ten Commissioners, Mr. Olga seems to be there too"

It was a pale horse who ran horses from Bornis on insomnia rest and rushed to this meeting.

Jacob speaks to the Ethereal Horse, who stood in front of the door with Zoan and Dwarf and even the fierce Dinosaurians, dressed in a wind that was not even unfortunate.

"This is, Master Soma. It's been a big deal this time."

However, the Ethereal Horse of the day looked in order at the faces of each of the indoors, not in the eyes of Jacob and others. And if you find the person you're after, raise your anger.

"Judah!"

To the other ten Commissioners, it was a different sight. The Ethereal Horse, who was supposed to have to apologize for damaging his precious load, expressed his anger, and Judas, on the contrary, blued his face.

"Do you recognize her face?!"

Saying so, when the Ethereal Horse was half-baked, Jahangil advanced forward from behind, placing the large barrel he had on the floor.

"... Marman?

It was Marman's girl who was in that barrel. Wet silver hair stuck in the water, his face still leaving an unbearable appeared to be shavings and cheeks from fatigue.

If you look at the girl, you'll see more sweat on Judah's face.

The other ten members of the committee tend to wonder (a lot) what the hell happened to the merman.

"Adometae?!"

It was Olga who suddenly raised his voice there. She also forgets that she is in a bucket with water, tries to get near her daughter, and falls off the bucket. The water interspersed with the sound of spills, occasionally striking the body to the floor, but Olga carries her body to the girl she called Admété, trying to crawl with both arms, looking like she hadn't even noticed the pain.

"! Sister!

Admetate also uses both arms to pull his body out of the barrel and crawls desperately to Olga.

And Olga and Adomethae embraced each other's bodies without blindfolding the eyes of others.

"What the hell is this...?

Ten Commissioners who do not understand what is happening in front of them do not know how to react and look at each other.

He was a pale horse watching Olga and Admete's inspiring reunion, but when he noticed the teeming ten-member commissioners, he told him to make his expression rude and throw up and throw it away.

"She's the girl I found and let protect from Judah's caravan."

A voice of a pale horse, never loud, struck like a lightning strike among the ten commissioners.

The agitation of the ten-member commissioners, who had gathered to disprove the Ethereal Horse, was intense. The city of Bornis, a power zone of the Ethereal Horse, has declared the abolition of slavery. You just tried to smuggle slaves there, and if that turns out to be Merman's kid, it's a hell of a story.

"But where the hell? I didn't hear that."

Even when Judah's caravan leaves the city of Jeboa, a simple loading inspection is carried out. If there was a Merman figure there, the other ten Commissioners couldn't have been informed.

The Ethereal Horse tells him clearly, aware that the gaze of the Ten Commissioners gathers to themselves.

"In the belly of a dragon."

I don't understand the meaning of the words of the Ethereal Horse, "Huh?" Jacob and the others returned the missing words between them. Judah's despicable modus operandi and also his frustration with the ten-member commissioner who had previously left it alone, the Ethereal Horse smacks his tongue small and then tells them to figure it out too.

"The dragon that was towing the luggage was swallowing Merman's children and smuggling them."

It wasn't a barrel or a luggage car that kept Marman's children hidden. It was to the dragon who was towing them, stuffed them with Merman's children in a bag of sturdy skin found in that cave so that they could not be digested, swallowed whole and hidden.

"No, no, wait a minute. That's not true. It's too much lies."

Jacob desperately tries to resist.

Jacob was also well aware of the Great Dragon, an important force in transport. He was aware that he could be forced to swallow a whole calf as bait, and that he could easily throw up indigestible skins, bones, etc. But...

"In the stomach of a dragon, there's no way you can live that much!

If the words of the Ethereal Horse were true, in Jeboa, the children of Merman would be in the stomach of the Great Dragon the whole time until they had undergone a shipment inspection from inside the city and went out of the gate, and in the city of Bornis, after a shipment inspection, and further across the city and out into the opposite gate.

But if that's all it takes, there's no way you're safe just because you packed it in a bag of sturdy skin that can't be digested.

I have a breathing problem. Even if there was some air in the packed bag, I don't think I'd be able to breathe. Also, in the stomach trying to digest food even if there was enough air, they should be crushed by the stomach wall and die of breathlessness caused by chest compressions.

When it was pointed out, the Ethereal Horse called out to Olga, who still held each other and shared his emotions.

"Mr. Olga. How do you breathe in the sea?

"Are you breathing?

Olga answers the odd question of the Ethereal Horse with confusion.

"I'm not breathing or anything. I'm just holding my breath."

The ten members often fail to understand the meaning of Olga's words and make it proper. They just thought Marman was breathing in water, just like the fish.

"So how long can you hold your breath and swim?

"Right. You can swim underwater for half an hour (about an hour). If it's just drifting, we can stop it longer."

The Ethereal Horse nodded, as one convinced.

Initially, the Ethereal Horse also assumed that Marman was Ella breathing again.

But it was a casual assumption. Although the Mermans couldn't help but travel ashore, they didn't look like they were losing their breath. Besides, isn't it true that Merman's house was on the coast that when they rest, they are up on land, not in the sea?

These facts show that the Mermans are not Ella breathing.

I mean, Marman was breathing in his lungs.

If you think about it that way, you can also convince me of the story of the teeth that many of my fellow countrymen, who were tired of swimming when the Mermans were banished from the eastern sea, were immersed in the sea and never floated again.

And the Ethereal Horse knew an organism that could breathe in his lungs but live in the sea like a fish.

"After all, you were sea mammals..."

It is about sea dwelling mammals - i.e. mammals living in the sea, such as whales and seals.

Looking back, the tips were rolling as much as they could.

For example, it is its tail. The fish have a tail about vertical, and they use it to swim their bodies left and right. But the tail of a marine mammal is horizontal with the body, swinging it up and down.

This is because its skeleton adapted so that a mammal that ascended to land in the course of evolution could move the body up and down rather than left and right to walk on undulating land. Once it returned to the ocean, the changed skeleton did not return, and sea mammals began to swim with their feet and tails moving up and down the altered tail.

And Marman's tail was exactly the same shape as this marine mammal.

Furthermore, could there not have been simpler and clearer evidence in front of us than was due to such difficult reasoning?

That's the breast.

It is the breasts in the breasts of the women of Marman that are the evidence above all that they are mammals.

And it is not uncommon for some marine mammals to be able to swim for nearly an hour without breathing.

The secret to being able to do that lies in a protein called myoglobin. This myoglobin is a protein that serves to store oxygen, and marine mammals that contain it abundantly in their muscles can store oxygen instead of cylinders.

You can also empty your lungs by storing oxygen in your muscles, so you can act in the deep ocean where your lungs are crushed by high water pressure.

That's why McCowwwwwhales can dive into the deep sea and prey on Diowdolphins.

If Marman was equipped with the same abilities as such sea dwelling mammals, would he be able to survive for a long time in the stomach of a great dragon, compressed by the stomach wall and without a supply of air?

That was the guess of the Ethereal Horse.

Of course, in this continent of Cerdeas, the common sense of life on Earth does not necessarily apply. And there is a world called God. There was also the possibility that there was a law that the Ethereal Horse could not know.

But if, as you really speculate, there are Merman's children in the stomach of the Great Dragon, it's a big deal. Even if you don't have to take a long breath, that's a normal story. People also have an increased heart rate and faster breathing if they feel strong stress and fear.

There is no longer a moment of respite in a situation where I had already spent more than half an hour searching for loads.

So the Ethereal Horse, prepared also for the absence of Marman, broke the mouth of the great dragon, which was tied with a hard leather string, and made him throw up everything in his stomach.

"Each of the five great dragons spat out five children, including her. But in time, you were already dead."

To the words of the Ethereal Horse, Judah trembles her body in a vicious manner. But to that extent his anger did not subside. The Ethereal Horse barked with his fist slapped against his desk.

"How dare you come up with such a terrible way, Judah!

Judah, who soiled her face through the pale you no longer noticed, shook up rattled without even being able to get up from the chair.

It was Jacob who pleaded in place of that Judah.

"This is a terrible insult to the Merchant Alliance! It's a lie to put it in the belly of a dragon and smuggle it! That's right! Oh, you have proof that you and your Marman daughters are not keeping their mouths shut?!"

It was an ugly objection. But it is an outrageous scandal, such as the fact that one of the ten commissioners was smuggling Marman's children. In order to protect the Merchant Guild's honor, you could never admit it, whether that was a proposition or not.

But that is the logic of the Merchant Alliance.

In this ugly Jacob objection, the Ethereal Horse also found offense, but more offensive than that, he even learned anger.

"Are you saying this person is more lying?!"

It is Olga. She drops a further bomb among the ten commissioners, following the Ethereal Horse.

"This is Her Majesty Queen Tateus' third princess, Dometé!

Jacob's throat made a strange noise.