Monster no Goshujin-sama

28. Dragon Mediator

28

With the advent of Sadias, the dragons conquered the spear.

That's just for now, though.

Our existence is not yet known to the clan.

I needed to talk to you from now on.

I've decided to leave you to Sadias.

At the same time, I asked the dragons to leave this place for now.

Because the haggling dragon was restless and showed a bare gesture that could burst out.

Through the pass, I found that the dragon was terribly frightened.

He was like a frightened child.

I had to lay my hands on the burnt body and calm the dragon down.

Because it hurt so much, it was impossible to react like this.

Conversely, if you look from the dragons, they are eating a pretty painful counterattack in an attempt to capture the haunted dragon.

Even they wouldn't have meant to hurt the dragon, but they couldn't help it.

It's better to pull the two apart for once, than the situation has gotten so far.

Sadias thought of something similar, and he responded to my request.

After an unshort persuasion, when Sadias, along with Fujitsu, took the dragons and disappeared, Hakuru showed a calm appearance.

So finally, I can start treatment.

"Bye, Lily. Can you do the restorative magic?"

"Ok"

Nod, Lily tries to get close.

And the haunted dragon stripped out her fangs and intimidated her.

"... your husband"

Lily laughs like she's in trouble, and she pulls her gaze over.

Apparently, I was seen doing fine by the side, and I did my hand to the big head of the dragon.

"Calm down. Lily's one of mine. You know that on the pass, don't you?

Eyes similar to lizards turned this way.

I squirt my nose out.

The atmosphere was somewhat unsatisfactory.

Not so strange if you recall the raging earlier, but apparently quite a bounce.

Again I stroked my head to forgive.

Clarala and I rang in the back of my throat, and the haunted dragon put his fangs away.

Get down on the ground and grow up.

When Lily approached me again, she showed obvious vigilance, but this time she didn't ramble out.

Lily let the White Magic Formation of Recovery Magic unfold.

"Hmm, I knew this was pretty bad"

"Doesn't that seem like a cure?

"Oh, yeah. That's not true, though. However, unlike sharp cuts and simple fractures, bites and scratches are difficult to heal. So is the burn, but it might leave a few marks."

Around it, it would mean the same as natural healing.

There are burn marks on my arm, too, and I had no choice but to some extent.

"And the wings are going to take some time to heal. This is a site defect. The more resilient Gabella is, the other thing... I don't like being weirdly healed, and I guess I'll have to wait for it to heal to temper."

"If it doesn't interfere with your life, you'll have to compromise around it. Whatever it is, wait for the Sadias to come home while we treat them."

And that was when I said it.

"Wow."

Lily, who had healing magic, raised a voice of surprise.

Because Hakuraku woke himself up.

"Restless, fool"

I couldn't get my hair in, and Gabella, who I was watching nearby, grabbed the root and held it against the ground I was on.

"It won't be cured yet. Make yourself comfortable."

Apparently, Gurudragon tried to escape, not being able to react to the early work in a moment, and blurted.

Exactly, they're no match for Gabella's power.

If the long tail moved, there could still have been resistance.

But there was nothing I could do about it if I hadn't already been treated.

"I mean, Lord, what do you hate so much?

"Hey. Spider"

Berta spoke to Gabella, who tilted her neck with a dust.

After chasing after our smell and bringing the Sadias so far, the double-headed wolf opened his mouth like a hawk while lying on the ground.

"Is he part of that family of dragons, too?

"Mm?"

"I have a self now. Like that dragon man, you just have to make people look and listen."

"Oh. So is that."

Berta lowered her lid as she snorted at Gabella, who showed her convinced face.

Around Berta's stomach, the refrain was round.

I guess I'm depressed by the way it looks like it's going to have a phonetic sound, because I was late for one earlier.

I couldn't afford to care that much then, but in retrospect, it seemed that Ayamu was trying to jump out with me, too, and it was on the edge of my sight until I was in a hurry to wake up and fall from Berta's head by myself.

Thank you. I think I overate.

Most of all, I didn't stop at the moment I popped up ahead of time.

I'll comfort you later.

"Now, quickly, do you want me to be a human being?"

As Gabella said, the Hakuru dragon turned this way only with his eyes.

"Mm-hmm? What's wrong?

"Kukuru......"

Seeing how the Hagurai dragon was, Gabella also turned her face to this one.

"Hey, Lord. This guy, can't he just, like, take a look at people?

"Gru......"

That was what Hakuru himself thought, or a short squeal.

The hitherto unselfish Hakuru should have remained a dragon figure for a long time.

I don't know if I can take a human figure or not, but I don't know...

"No, I'm fine"

I shook my clothes.

"If that's the trait of being a monster, then what Sadias can do can't be a monster of its kind, a dragon."

I was sure.

If I predict correctly, it's more like, "It's weirder if a haunted dragon can't take what people look like."

"You just have to calm him down"

And I knelt on the ground, and did my hand upon the head of the dragon.

Close your eyes.

Via the path, let your mind go through.

"Kru......"

The dragon's heart, which was solidified by tension, loosened slightly.

- And then the magic moved.

There are laws in this world in which certain phenomena occur by a determined stream of magic.

According to that law, dragons turn into people.

The body of a large dragon shrinks, and at the same time, the scab turns into a person.

Crushed crust assimilates to skin, fangs and nails pull in, and the silhouette approaches people's.

Burning redhead stretches and the back length shrinks in reverse.

Including to the tail, the body, which was about seven or eight meters, became as much as I did, and shrunk even further.

It's about the same as Lily, smaller than Kato or Kay.

"What?"

- There she was, about ten years old looking girl.

The bright red hair is long enough to likely reach the ground and the back length is tight.

There were a lot of injuries and scars that still couldn't be healed on his dozy body, with long tails on his back with torn cortical wings and a chunk of bone on his tip from his buttocks.

It was not only the wings and tails, but also the limbs and parts of the face, where the scales of the dragon remained, and it was apparently not as well taken as Sadias, that he could see the human figure.

Nevertheless, it had to be that she was a child.

The young face belonged to a pretty girl, albeit with a pretty bad eye.

I rounded my eyes to this, too.

It's unexpected... but speaking of which, I thought you had a small body in the dragon.

Apparently, Haguru Dragon was a dragon for a young child.

"Ah?"

A young voice, still indistinguishable between men and women, snapped in a blurry tone.

Looking somewhere flashy, he looks down at both hands that have become people's except that the scales remain by the way.

"No way, really, me, could I be like everyone else...?

Saying in a trembling voice, she turned her reddish brown eyes to this one.

At the end of his eyes, there were twitching and tear beads.

But when I realized what I was looking at, my gaze must have sharpened.

Even the bad eyesight wore a vicious color.

"What are you staring at?"

Again, it was a blurry tone.

"Ah, oh. Bad."

But I'm not right now.

Though young, girls are naked. It wasn't praiseworthy to look too closely.

I lost my sight.

Then the girl gave a small voice, "Ah."

"What's up?

"... nothing"

I tilted my inner neck, but I can't look back.

In the meantime, I needed to get him dressed.

We'll talk about it, then.

"You had some changed clothes in your luggage. Wait a minute. I'll bring it."

The luggage that I had left behind because of flying out of the campsite was brought to me by Shenzu while Sadias and the dragons of the clan were negotiating.

"Ah. Hey."

Lily spoke out as she panicked as I tried to see my clothes from inside my luggage.

I got a sign. Looking back.

Soon after, there was a naked dragon and Lily chasing after him and continuing to treat him.

A grumpy face looked up at this one.

"What the fuck?"

"No. That's my dialogue."

"You can't use healing magic while you're moving."

That's a good idea, but it hasn't been the reason you followed me.

However, pointing that out, I felt like I was going to be more upset.

I don't know what a child thinks.

I also had a brother, but the age was not so far apart, so the experience was unlikely to be harnessed when there was a difference in age.

Most importantly, there are stories about how much the experience of a human opponent can bring to life for her, who is a dragon in nature.

"Fair enough."

I decided not to care and I decided to fish my luggage.

Then, a detached dragon reached for his luggage.

"Oh, man."

"I like this."

"Those are my clothes. It's for men."

"Good."

I weaved a jacket of my clothes made by Gabella, and there I finally felt, just a little in a good mood.

Since the wings were released, they could not be worn normally, and the broken shoulders were like feathers woven with peeling off.

It would be a compelling atmosphere if it were around Lily, but a skinny kid wouldn't have done that either.

"... that? This makes me feel a little white over there."

"Because the concubine made it. And it's not white, it's gabella."

"Phew."

Haguru compared Gabella to me, and now Lily and I alternated our eyes.

And lean your neck.

Something may have bothered me.

But before I could pursue it, I had a story to tell.

I asked the girl who sat in the front when I settled my hips on the ground again.

"So, why were you trying to escape earlier?

Hagurai dragon was chased by his own dragons and resisted because he was about to be caught.

I didn't have the self, so I had no choice around it.

But now she has reason.

As much as the dragons weren't hostile to themselves, I should have understood.

"When we talked about 'when Sadias got back', you tried to escape. Why not?"

"It's..."

Haguru bent his mouth to the letter to.

"... because"

I was going to close my mouth when I urged ahead, so I'll wait a while.

Eventually, in a squeezing manner, the girl said.

"... Inside, I don't want to go home"

"Don't you want to go home?

"When Sadie gets here, they'll take you back inside. I'm sorry."

It was a somewhat unpredictable explanation, but it starts to pout.

I've been locked up forever.

……

"Ever. Ever since I was born. There was no freedom. Everyone's out there, and I'm the only one pushed into the cave. I don't like it... but there's nothing I can do..."

Speaking of which, it was a story of the clan trapped inside a haunted dragon that was unprepared for itself.

I never specifically imagined what that meant... but if I tried to shut the winged dragon inside, I would have to do the right thing.

The clan had trapped the Hakurakura in a closed place called a cave.

"But the dragon didn't have a self."

Lily tilted her neck as she worked her healing magic.

"Why did you think I didn't like it?

"Lord Lily. There it is. It would mean the same as a former concubine."

It was Gabella who returned the answer to this.

"With Gabella?

"Uhm, for even before I met the Lord, my concubine had something that seemed conscious. Though it was too thin to be called self"

That was also what once rampaged the white Arakune.

Haguru dragons were likewise willing, even thin ones.

Sometimes, for example, it was convincing.

It should have been quite some time since Haguru escaped from the inside, but no one else would have been attacked.

That was convincing if it wasn't just a coincidence, but because even the thin ones were conscious and avoided attacking people.

"The concubine lived for a long time, equal to a perpetual robbery, in the midst of a melancholy. Until I meet the Lord."

With her red eyes narrowed, Gabella opened her mouth.

"And in the case of this one..."

At the end of that gaze, the young girl bit her lip.

"... sorry to go back inside"

There was a dark resentment in the low voice, which should not be in a girl of this age.

"There was not a single good memory in that place..."

……

If you couldn't get me out of a locked cave once after I was born, I can only imagine how that feels.

That's why she escaped from the inside, and I guess she made desperate resistance when she was about to get caught.

That doesn't change when you get your self.

She's stubborn, and what's backing it is the fear of continuing to impose irrational conditions.

Somehow, I get it.

The red-haired girl in front of me is a giant dragon in nature, with a bad mouth and seemingly strong... but under those shells, she's ten years old as she looks. The girl there.

"Absolutely not. Who's going back to that place..."

"That's unacceptable."

Where the girl snapped with a voice containing a slight tremor, a voice was called.

With Sadias at the forefront, the dragons were coming back.

Nevertheless, the figure does not already belong to the dragon.

Their appearance in the same ethnic costume as Sadias is indistinguishable from human men and women.

One of them stepped forward and lined up in Sadias.

"You are not allowed to leave the interior without the permission of the chief. That's the code in the dragon abyss."

She was a red-haired woman, just like Haguru.

Some of those dragons were women, just like the dragons.

Three out of seven, with the exception of Sadias, were women.

A dragon shaking his shoulder all the time moved his mouth to pieces.

Apparently, he doesn't have a voice.

The expression was stiff and tense, and I could tell at a glance that I was frightened.

Like a small animal, his eyes wandered round about him, capturing me.

……

The girl who stood up hid in my shadow.

So, they're finally able to speak up.

"Yeah, but Sadias is out there."

Though it was a temperamental dialogue, the voice itself was weakly trembling.

"Sadias is a 'searcher'. With the permission of the chief."

Stunning such a girl with a strong gaze, the woman said.

"We must bring you back, who have jumped out of the inside without forgiveness."

This was no more a natural dialogue than she wasn't here to play either.

Maybe it sounds like some sort of emotion-suppressed voice, because it's not like she doesn't have anything to think about the dragon's condition either.

But those personal feelings are anointed before the sense of purpose.

"I don't want to imitate it. Listen up."

Said Pisces, the Hakuru Dragon leaned down.

"Still, I..."

The hand that grabbed the hem of my clothes was shaking fine.

I figured out what you were thinking, to take it in your hand.

Already Lily's healing magic has healed her wounds.

I just have to be a dragon figure again and run away in tears and tears.

That's how I must have thought of it.

That was a childish short-circuited thought, but that's also why it wasn't something you could fool around with.

To avoid the eyes and maintain the hiding place, the detached dragon had been locked away for a long time.

If I knew she was willing, maybe I could have done something else a little bit.

But it didn't.

Now, Hakuru should be able to spend time inside without being trapped.

But there was nothing I could do because already a place called Inside the Dragon Abyss itself - or the existence of a dragon that was supposed to be a compatriot - had become a nightmare itself for her.

Not to mention, she's just a kid.

I can't help but control my emotions.

It was painful.

I missed you.

It was hard.

Even to the dragons inside, there was nothing else I could do to trap her...... how hard it would be to judge rationally.

Not to mention that it's not something a girl of this age can do to convince herself of her situation after understanding the circumstances.

That is why the dragons of the clan will not be able to back down any more than they are on this occasion with their mission.

Cracking is more inevitable than not being able to give way to each other.

Just them.

"Can you give me a minute?"

So I opened my mouth.

"Can I have a moment?"

"... Yep. Fine. Dear Takahiro, I have heard about you from Sadias."

The woman, who seemed to be the leader of the Haguru dragon captivity, returned it in a polite tone.

Apparently Sadias said it well.

I'm sure he talked about his contract with Salvia.

I know how important 'Misty Temporary Inn' is to a clan in the Dragon Abyss.

You will have to thank Salvia. I can get people to listen to me because of you.

"It can't be without permission for Haguru to go out from the inside. That's what he said."

"Oh, yeah"

When I asked, Sadias answered.

"We forbid all members of the clan to go out from the inside just in case the existence of the hiding place is not revealed."

"But Sadias is allowed to go outside"

"Right. But that's..."

"So you're saying we should give permission to Hakuru, too?

Sadias gave me the look of being poked into the void.

"What do you think?

"That's true..."

Nothing. Even the dragons aren't hating and being mean to the dragons.

Frequent visits would certainly increase the risk of inside things being exposed.

But with proper risk management, there should be no problem going outside.

In fact, Sadias is getting mixed up in human society.

I lost my sight of Guru, who was clinging to me.

"You're right to ask. I won't be brought back if I have permission."

"Ah, ooh. Huh?"

The girl who seemed to be in narrow field of view had her eyes blackened and white because she couldn't keep her head on that I mouthed out of the side.

"Oh, no. I don't care what you say about permission, how..."

"We'll have to discuss it. If we keep this up, they'll be forced to bring us back. If you don't like that, you just have to convince him."

Mostly, no matter how I fell, I didn't see a bright future as it was.

Hagura just popped out of the inside, what are we going to do?

It would be impossible to jump into human society, for example, because there is nothing common sense.

Regardless, if you have the power as a dragon, you can live in a secluded place.

But as far as squeezing the hem of my clothes like this, living alone in the depths of the woods didn't seem like a good idea to her young.

In fact, as a matter of fact, the dragons would have a high official figure of getting caught before that, but the problem arises where they are brought back.

If they bring him back, the Hakuru dragon will be harder than it is now.

At this minute, Hakurakura must try to escape from the inside in a madness of death.

Over time, the wings will heal and it will be possible to fly away.

Even if you break your wings to prevent it, your limbs move. We have every chance to escape.

Then why don't you drop your leg next?

Or trap him in the cave again......

In the first place, this is a story about if they catch us, and now it's possible that the captivity play will develop into a killing.

What we needed was a discussion.

"Let me, you mean convince me to go back inside!?

With a slightly pale face, the haunted dragon shouted.

"Yes."

……

There was no voice, and the girl's face was attracted.

Maybe he thought he was betrayed.

I didn't mean it like that.

"Things just get worse, even if you're fleeing from the unpleasant to the dark clouds. You should talk to the chief properly. Because this is how we can talk."

"Oh, no! I don't know if you can listen to me! What's the difference between being forced to bring you back!

No, I'm not.

I assure you.

"If you're gonna do that, we're gonna follow you along."

"... Huh?

"That way, at least, it won't mean you won't be able to listen"

Otherwise, it's like a courier.

I myself am a contractor for the "Misty Temporary Inn" Salvia, which is special to my clan, and with the help of the Lillies, it would be possible to make them look away from being handed back.

Haguru's persuasion may succeed, or vice versa.

In this case, the wish of Hakurakura does not always have to come true.

Whatever the case, we need to find a compromise that will convince both of us.

I was willing to help if I needed to take care of it.

"What do you say?

Get down on your knees and peek into your face, which is low.

……

When the eyes met, the girl strayed from her gaze.

Pointed lips, bent over.

Again, my reddish brown eyes were pointed at me.

It was like a clumsy wild dog because I'm not used to facing it from the front this way.

She eventually pulled her jaw small as she stared at my face for a few seconds.

"... yeah"

"Okay."

And I rose up, and turned my face to the Thadias.

"So what do you say?

"Do you mean Takahiro will visit the Dragon Abyss?

To Sadias' inquiry, nod.

"Oh, I made a promise to Salvia when I did."

"With Master 'Misty Vault'...?

In the face of the clan, a quiet surprise spread.

"Well, I didn't expect it to be like this... of course, if you say so"

What do you say, Cass?

Sadias turned to the woman earlier.

"… let's get confirmation to the chief. Are you sure about that?

A woman asks this way. I snorted back.

"Okay. Until we hear back, however, we'll keep Hakurakura here."

"I don't mind. Just one favor, can you accompany Sadias? It's not that I don't trust the contractors of Misty Lodging, but I'd like to have a minimum guarantee."

"What do you say?

When I glanced, the red-haired girl shook her head.

"Good."

"That's right. Negotiations are in place."

And when I said unto him, the first woman of the clan, she put down her mouth.

It was a relieved grin.

Maybe that's what she meant.

Then the dragons left Sadias and left in a hurry.

He said he would go back inside immediately and get confirmation.

I laid my hands on the redhead of a girl who looked pompous somewhere.

So when she finally returned to me, the girl turned to me.

My mouth is tied.

My hands were paid off.

……

With that hand, she grabbed the hem of my clothes.

Turn that way with a grumpy face.

After all, I don't know what a child thinks.

However, I know you don't hate me, so I gave you a zero bitter smile.

"Whew!?

Shortly after, the red-haired girl gave a small scream.

"Well, good to see you again."

It was because Lily hugged her from behind.

"Hey, what are you. Let go!

"Here. I haven't finished my treatment yet, so I'm not going to freak out."

"Where do you need a hug?"

"That's a good thing. Well, we're gonna be together for a while, so why don't we just hang out?"

"Stupid foolish power! And let go!

"Hmm. When you look at it like this, it's cute too."

"I mean, I think I'm usually cute,"

"Kuh!

Lily hugged me, Gabella squeaked me in the head, and I jumped in there telling her not to let her stop being out of company, and she called me a red-haired girl.

"Takahiro"

"Hmm?"

Sadias, the only remaining member of the clan, called out.

"Thanks"

I shrug my shoulders.

Fun interactions lasted for a while without blockers.