Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka?

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Since that incident, Gülier began to use his thousand eyes to observe Sariel.

Dragon species are the supreme, and other species are equally inferior creatures.

That's what I've been taught, and I never believed and doubted that.

But Saliel overturned that common sense with only one encounter.

An overwhelming force over any dragon on this planet.

They showed off that one scale, and Gülier began to question the word that the dragon breed was the supreme.

Or if Gülier had ever met a superior dragon breed with the same or more power as Sariel, the idea might not have covered it.

But Gülier was born and raised on this planet, outside the stars, and has never been to space.

I never met a superior dragon in that universe again.

Therefore, the upper limit of the dragon species that Gülier perceived were the dragons on the same star, and Saliel had slightly exceeded them.

That's why I wondered.

Really, are dragon species supreme?

Normal dragon species do not first have such questions.

Because Gullier had young, flexible thoughts, or because Gullier had changed slightly without them?

Either way, he had doubts.

But that doesn't make it so easy to overturn what I've believed.

That's why Gülier decided to observe about Sariel, who inspired him to question it.

With anxiety and anticipation that if you are observing about Sariel, you may really know if the dragon is not the supreme being.

At this point, the question had already turned into certainty in Gülier, but I wanted to reassure him that by acknowledging it and managing to find Sariel's crude, "Look, the dragon was the supreme, after all".

Things Enemy Sariel when it comes to combat ability While turning away from the fact that dragons are no stranger to not being on this planet.

That's how Sariel's observation started.

Fortunately, Gülier had a heap of that time.

Dragons diverge from normal organisms in their very existence.

There is no such thing as life expectancy, and diet, sleep, etc. are very little different from normal organisms.

For this reason, the life of a dragon is surprisingly calm.

It's not uncommon for a day to last without doing anything.

All you have to do is focus your spare time on Sariel's observations.

I can observe it all day.

It was even puzzling that at the outset I tried to start observing it, occupying Gülier's mind.

That it's too small for what Sariel is doing.

Take doctors to areas where infectious diseases are endemic, for example.

The way you look after your patients is, I see, a treat for the Virgin Mary from a human perspective.

However, if you are a god, it is also easy to expel the virus that is the source of the infectious disease by witchcraft.

Sariel doesn't do it.

Put it in the hands of a doctor and try to make him solve the problem with human power.

As I continued to observe, I was shown many times a pattern that I shouldn't be able to do that.

It was frustrating that I began to feel it gradually.

How can you do such a roundabout?

There are as many better ways as there are to seek efficiency.

That's what you do when you say there are mountains of things you can solve with that if you wield the power of God, but you don't.

That Sariel's inefficient behavior was reflected as hypocrisy in Gürier's eyes.

If you really want to save people, you just have to use God's power without worrying about it.

Even so, Saliel hardly tries to use the power of God.

That gave me a life I couldn't save.

The child that Sariel nursed.

"Thank you, sister"

"No need to thank me. Because this is my mission."

"See you later."

"Yeah, again."

A casual conversation that was exchanged when I left the hospital.

That was Sariel's last conversation with his child.

By the time Sariel visited the hospital room the next day, the child had taken his breath away.

I should have saved you.

Why didn't you save him?

You didn't save me, why do you look so sad?

Thank you, what was that modest grin you had when you were told?

When he began to observe, Gülier thought that Saliel was like a machine with no human taste at all.

I've been taught that's what angels are for.

But when I observe it, I realize it's a mistake.

Sure, Sariel looks mechanically charitable.

But the slightly emotional things hide in the mundane moment.

Weren't you happy?

My child thanked me.

Wasn't it sad?

My child took my breath away.

Yet it mechanically moves into the next activity as if it were something that doesn't have that emotion.

From a person's point of view, Saliel's activities would appear to be a relief beyond degrees.

It is actually worshipped and appreciated as a goddess.

The answer to that is always with me.

"No need to thank me. Because this is my mission."

Does it seem humble to the human eye?

But it looks different in Gülier's eyes.

As if the hypocrite is nagging with guilt.

I can, but I won't.

If you don't, I'll be depressed if I can't save you.

I'm frustrated that I should have saved you if I was as depressed.

And mechanically move on to the next activity, as if to mislead depressing emotions.

Do you understand?

That you are acting emotionally, even as you speak of a mission.

That while the protection of native organisms is said to be a mission, the proportion of salvation is biased against humans.

Whenever I saw Saliel, who seemed unconscious, Gürier's frustration grew.

Neither does Gülier realize that he has forgotten his original purpose at this point.