Murabito Desu Ga Nani Ka?

After breakfast, Lilith and I made up our minds.

Travel costumes together.

From the time of the dragon zombie, carry a backpack for climbing that has become completely familiar when you go away.

The wealth accumulated in previous adventures - packed bags of extremely rare jewellery - is in the form of stitches to my and Lilith's skin clothes.

That's how Lilith and I looked around the mansion together.

The last few days, the two of us have cleaned all the time, so there is no dust left.

Mansion given by the Dragon King.

The neighborhood was already so well organized that it did not cloud after flying birds......

- Since I was twelve... four years...?

That's why I took care of you here. There is still something emotional to think about that.

"...... eh"

Lilith glanced at me, and I took it and nodded.

"Oh, let's go"

That's how we arrived at the front door and looked back emotionally.

Later, I opened the door.

And there I laughed bitterly.

Yesterday, everyone inside scattered in the castle of the Dragon King... the Great Banquet of the Sake Pond Flesh Forest - we were supposed to have a farewell party... because we found two disciplined figures.

One of them looks like a host... the Dragon King.

That's how the other one - the Red Dragon who brought me in here.

"Whoa, Ochan!

"Totally... you won't be able to heal your language for long... no, I feel like you were pretty good at the very beginning..."

I'm sorry about the communal disturbance.

No matter how angry you get, this hasn't healed since you were in Japan.

I can't wear a cat, but it won't last long.

Especially for characters like Ochan.

Ochan, with a ragged face, immediately wrinkled his expression and wept.

"............... come back"

"In the end... this is my second home..."

I shrugged my shoulders and I kept going like this.

"Yeah... I'll definitely... I'll be back"

Ochan held me in tears.

I hug Ochan mightily too.

And that's where the Dragon King spoke to me.

"... are you sure you want to go? At this time, I'll tell you..."

"Hmm? Because this is the time?

"The Brave Men of the North - even if Cordelia-Alston, your childhood tame, is useless and endangered by the catastrophe to which mankind should come..."

"Even if I'm on the verge?

"It has nothing to do with dragons like us... To be honest, I'd like to keep you in here as long as possible... because I'm never tired of watching you."

always made me laugh bitterly.

"You'd know best not to pull it off. The environment surrounding Cordelia...... impending catastrophe. If he's in a bad situation, then I have to go. Besides, for the second time in my life... I still have to go through the future... so I have to enroll in the School of Magic - and stay on Cordelia's side. To be able to respond immediately no matter what."

So the Dragon King shrugged his shoulders again and smiled bitterly.

"Must be...... sometimes...... Lilith?

Called upon, Lilith opened her eyes as surprised.

"... Dragon King... Dear Sir? Called me...? I am only Lute's companion... the Dragon King... but? Immediately… directly… voice…?

Cochri and the Nodding Dragon King said:

"You shouldn't look down on yourself so much, Lilith? You've grown stronger. Evidence suggests that there are currently five gold lines on the bracelet... and now you are well qualified to speak with me."

"… it is most appropriate in this case to respond with honor…"

To Lilith like that, King Ryu still said this with a bitter smile.

"Can't you just stay? You are an excellent scribe, a sorcerer, and a warrior of war. I'm looking for tea-drinking friends other than the Dragons."

"... a real honor. But......"

"But?"

Lilith said as she hung up.

"Of the thief cat... to the woman brave - you can't let Lute go alone"

So the Dragon King and Ochan started laughing.

Should I describe that as like cutting a weir, anyway, the two of them are laughing with their bellies in the way they say they can't afford it?

"Ha ha... Ku Ku... utterly, lute - you can't keep it in the middle of nowhere either"

All kinds of emotions swirled in my chest, just one word. Here's what I said.

"... blah blah blah, I'm having a lot of trouble handling Lilith"

"I guess. She has also become an important piece for fairy-related activation ceremonies and for breaking down the disadvantages of spells. Well, in many ways... you're sad."

"You have a strong personality for childhood taming."

"haha...... that's good"

The Dragon King has offered me his right hand, laughing joyfully.

Hold that hand and hold each other hard.

"... be sure to come home, Lute - I'd also like to see you tame your childhood"

I often thought, I still laughed bitterly.

"You said Cordelia would be good... and if Lilith would sign Cordelia's companion"

"Ha ha. It's funny how a man in the most powerful corner of the world is so weak on a woman."

"Oh, look after him."

So the Dragon King pushed silence, and so did I.

Everyone on the spot shut up, and a little wind blew there.

"Go, Lilith?

"...... eh"

As I took a step, Lilith pinched the hem of my jacket with her right hand.

Lilith has a good chance of walking behind me when she walks outside - on the sleeve of her jacket, or pinching her hem and following her back.

I give up half of it too because I don't quit no matter how many times I tell you...

That's how I told the two of them as I waved back.

"Dragon King or Ochan? My real final exam in here... keep your eye on the Dragon Gate, huh? You're not gonna launch a single fireworks."

Keep it up, I took Lilith without even turning around and kept it up - walking out the back.

Then about half an hour.

In the garden of Lute's mansion, the Red Dragon and the Dragon King were in tea time.

And Lute himself said to focus on the dragon climbing gate when he left... so there was no way he could keep dissolving the flow.

"Four years...? You showed up like the wind and ran away like a storm. King Dragon."

"He's a drifter... the degree of rootless grass has passed... and even the world he was in has popped up, so I guess that's no choice"

"Haha. It must be"

So Red Dragon, who is humanizing into a middle-aged man, tightened his expression and asked:

"- By the way, are you really willing to give up the next generation of Dragon King to Lute?

Often thought, the Dragon King mouths the herbal tea.

"Half of it, to make him a place...? Well, sometimes you mean come back as a tea-drinking friend."

"And you said?

"... if you had appointed him the next Dragon King, you'd have to go back and process it at the right time, either way, to take office, to solidify it?

"I see."

"But... the other half... if it's him, it's because you're convinced you actually have the qualities. Whatever - you beat me in the Dragon Nation's strongest tournament."

"Was it last year's tournament... but King Ryu... you didn't mean it, did you? I could tell from Hatha that I was out of my hands, so no one believes that the next Dragon King is Lute... you don't really mean that, do you?

Without evil, the Dragon King agreed.

"Yeah. That's right."

However, the Dragon King continued.

"- The 14-year-old... his opponent... but"

Red Dragon's middle-aged breath swallowed at the dragon king's serious expression.

"... then now... what do you think?

shrugged his shoulder. King Ryu said:

"Come on, what do you think? But, well, at least..."

"At least?"

"- He's only sixteen. From now on… there are infinite possibilities"

In response to that word, Red Dragon's middle-aged man said this with a frightened face.

"Speaking of which, the Dragon Climbing Gate... was set on the border with the lower realm - the Gate of Trial...?

"Oh, it's made up of Orihalcon... that's a tightly closed gate. By the way, that's a kind of au pair. Relics of an era when the Ancient Dragons were completely walled around the inside..."

"Now, the walls that should surround the gates are decayed and non-existent. But - the gates of Orihalcon don't decay, they just creep by the streets..."

The Dragon King laughed with pleasure.

"According to the information I've blown into Lute, it's a gateway to testing against people leaving this house. To open a tightly closed gate, the gate needs to be destroyed. And... if he could open the gates, he would have been qualified to get out of here by his own will in the true sense... Thus, the challenger is not bound to the outcome of that challenge. You can leave if you want to, and you can reflect on your own powerlessness and go back if you want to."

"The Dragon King?

"Hmm?"

"... Is it possible to crush the gates made of Orihalcon with the Dragon King?

"Hmmm... that's a tough question. Well, anyway, this is a matter for the Historic Dragon King."

"A send-off matter?

And the Dragon King laughed with heartfelt pleasure.

"There were about thirty people who left this place. About twenty of them were called heroes? Well, the servant... was blown in about the Dragon Climbing Gate and the challenge was"

"But... who, as one, has not succeeded...?

"Well, that's a blasted story. As a dragon tribe, I don't want people who accepted once to go outside. To the strong. We're hungry, and we're lonely. For once, it is distressing to leave those who have recognized themselves as strong as the Dragons as a whole"

"Yeah, I know how that feels"

"If you fail at trying to climb the dragon gate and come back inside, fool, honestly, that's good. Even if he fails and goes outside, he or she… feel a burden in this"

"Losses......?

"I didn't go outside following formal procedures..." If so, on his or her chest... the dragon will stay deep forever... so, if "

"So, if...?

"He or she will not forget this inside. One day, he or she is likely to come back. And then we can get drunk at the return welcome party."

"I see."

"Well, if you're a lute, you might be able to destroy the Orihalcon gate."

and that's when the flash ran across the dragon's interior.

The roaring noise that goes on, the explosion. Further on, shock waves.

A whirlwind similar to the sandstorm blew all around him, and - the Dragon King ceased.

hollow about two kilometers ahead of him.

That's just over the dragon gate - 200 meters.

- The shards of Orihalcon had been launched innumerably and extensively - toward the sky. No, I was dancing.

Ancient magic metals glow rainbow, illuminated by the cheerfulness of spring.

It's like fireworks shining in the sky at noon.

"That's brilliant. Instead, they blew out the gate itself."

"Yeah, it's an oversized - noon fireworks."

The Red Dragon and the Dragon King looked each other in the eye, and hoisted their niggards and mouths.

"Earlier Flash - Skill: Villager Wrath, huh? And the signs of the fighting fairy and the scourge of the ban - apparently he had to do everything in his power, too."

"If you do everything in your power... it's hard for me to believe that you can destroy and crush the Orihalcon with your bare hands."

"haha... yeah... looks like you really picked up a hell of a kirinko"

"It seems to be the most powerful villager in the world."

"The strongest villager in the world......? Yeah - thank you for bringing Lute-McClane to me..."

"- I have done nothing. Everything... that Lute did alone."

That's it.

The Dragon King and Red Dragon continued to wave for some time as the shards and powder of the Orihalcon drifted and turned to a brilliant direction in rainbow color.