"- Garnet!"

Felix's cry is quenched by a dragon roar.

About ten Wyburns emerge from across the forest, as if called to by that roar.

Am I even having a bad dream? I'm going to be dazzled by too many sights.

Wyburn - a subspecies of dragons with anterior legs turned into wings.

It is understated compared to a dragon with limbs and wings, and the flames (braces) are not powerful, but for an E-rank adventurer alone it is a demon with no winning eye.

"Wow!

"D, it's a dragon. Oh!

The adventurers scream and flee in panic.

It's bigger than the dragon we knocked down a month ago, and it's full of signs of killing.

If you're going to make that dragon a lean wild dog, this guy is like a big, well-trained hound.

"Bradford! Interception begins!"

Bradford flies forward at the same time as Felix instructs, and Sakura also runs with all his might.

"Binding Chains Invited!

Bradford screams no, or breaks through the surrounding ground and several polar chains appear, striking Wyburn in the air like a serpent.

Half of the Wyburn that emerged was instantly entangled and slammed to the ground with momentum as if to wave the hammer down.

Several bodies are breathless by the shock, and individuals who were not deadly are also chained to the ground.

"[shrinkage] Huh!

Sakura looks scratchy.

The next place I showed up was on Wyburn's back, which was swirling around the chain.

Shortly after the target screams at sudden weights, a high-fever hihihihi-irokane sashimi rounds off his long neck.

More kicking back and metastasis.

The 'Flying Slash' of the flame, which slashed off the wings of the next Wyburn and released with a knife to return, cleaves the third torso.

There is no time to breathe, and the fourth body is slashed and discarded by an unnoticed metastasis.

Even if the last one emits a fireball, it is extinguished so that it is sucked into its body, and vice versa, it is shot down with the slaughter of a flame shot back with its heat on it.

"- Eh!"

I was losing my word with my face up.

Too overwhelming.

A flock of Wyburns, which only seemed hopeless, didn't take a minute... no, it disappeared in a dozen seconds of things.

Few adventurers can do that, even if they are above the B-rank.

There's only a handful of people I've met in 15 years of experience.

"Lord Sakura!

Felix builds magic on both arms and develops a barrier of light between the falling Sakura and the dragon.

At the next moment, the flame unleashed by the dragon hit the barrier directly.

Sakura's [shrinkage] operation of kicking some kind of scaffold is the starting point for activation.

I can activate it if that would be Wyburn's torso, but I can't activate it during a complete drop.

Felix knew it, or he spotted it in an instant and turned to follow it.

"Damn, I can't prevent it......!

An intense dragon brace breaks through the magic barrier.

Sakura landed ahead of it, and in a flash she transferred in [shrinkage] to escape the brace range and rendezvous with us.

"Never mind, Lord Felix. I missed the opportunity to leave."

"That whole thing is clearly of a different character. I will stop moving with me and Bradford, so I would like to ask Lord Sakura for an attacker. Lord Luke, please leave in a safe place."

Felix flies the instructions in a calm voice with less haste.

It was an impeccable decision.

Perfect, including treating me as an out-of-combatant.

No matter how pitiful you seem, a human being like me doesn't become a force for war.

Instead, it just becomes a load that I have to protect and pull my legs off.

"Bad, I left it to you...!

The three of you will launch an impromptu coordinated attack, signaling that I ran off the scene.

Stopping the ramping dragon with a binary structure of chains and magic barriers, the sacra taps into the slaughter with a [shrinkage].

Pity. This is what happens when your skills evolve and you get into battle.

Even if the dragon is damaged by [disassembly], my physical abilities make it back to Sekiyama before I touch it.

Sylvia and Sakura might tell me it's my feat because they can fight thanks to the Hihirokane knife I built.

But that's not what my surroundings tell me, and whether or not I can convince myself.

"... Huh!

Running towards the woods blaming himself, I saw something move in the corner of my sight.

I wonder if it's Wyburn's survival.

"... Garnet...!

What was there was the appearance of Garnett, suffering as he lay on his back in bloody paint.

When the dragon struck him, he was blown up near the woods.

"Damn......!

I changed course reflexively and ran over to Garnett.

Honestly, there was absolutely no guarantee that Garnett was still alive.

Even if the flesh seemed to be moving, it might just be spasmodic (convulsions) like a frog with a crushed head.

I've never tried it on a boulder, and I think it's probably impossible, to [repair] a dead human being.

I peered into that bloody face, praying Garnett wasn't breathing.

"Ugh...!

Too miserably, I accidentally get stuck in words.

"(... Cool... my face is almost crushed...)"

Apparently, the dragon's nails passed from the right flank through the center right side of his chest, tearing his face vertically.

Instead of thin things like swords and axes, a thick thing called Dragon Claws was choosing armor helmets and flesh, engraving deep grooves into the flesh.

He seemed to have a hard time breathing, but so strange that he was still being breathed.

Serious injury - no, definitely fatal if normal.

Perhaps we should say that we are in the midst of death right now rather than that we are not.

"Are we still gonna make it...? Armor starts with your body later... Skill activated, [REPAIR] Start!

Start [restoring] the regeneration of the flesh as a top priority.

Felix told me to get away to a safe place, but this is a distance I still can't assure you is safe.

You abandon a guy like this and you run away.

It's a fool's job to risk it for someone who doesn't care.

It would be a lie to say I didn't come up with that idea.

But still, I chose to [repair] the damage to the garnet.

Some would have wanted to be of some use.

There will also be pity that I felt too sorry for the boulder.

But more than that...

"(Do you abandon this guy who's dying because I don't care that he doesn't eat because he's useless? Ha, that's a bad joke!

For reuniting with a brave man in some fateful prank, I only wanted to resolutely avoid acts that would make him laugh, 'You're doing something no different than me'.

It doesn't matter if someone else thinks' I'm not like a brave man '.

They admire me just third class - I didn't want to do anything I couldn't report with my chest up on Sylvia, for example, saying 'I did this'.

Pure self-satisfaction if I say so.

I save Garnett for myself.

"Speaking of which, you kicked the shit out of me earlier. I'll give you a straight head down later and make you apologize, so be prepared... give up and come back...!

The situation in the battle against the Dragon moved greatly when the [restoration] of the flesh was almost complete later.

While the dragon is slashed several times, it pulls the restraint off, breaks down the barrier and releases an awesome brace.

The three of them dodged a direct hit with Felix's multiple barriers, but the burning aftermath, which they couldn't prevent, pushed toward us as we scorched the meadows.

"At a time like this! Damn, it's one or eight......!

Pull out the silver knife with your right hand and stick it to the ground with the magic of [restoration] while continuing Garnet's [restoration] with your left hand.

That knife was [synthesized] with the fragments of the labyrinth just now.

I forgot to give it to Felix in the labyrinth, something I thought would be fine after I got back on the ground.

[Restoration] Subject is a labyrinth wall taken in by a knife.

And the [restoration] material is the ground itself -!

"Stop!

The dirt wall that emerged by gathering the surrounding soil prevents and stops the aftermath of the brace at one hair.

[Repair] cannot be in complete condition if there are few original parts.

But if you return the back, that it can be created if it is an extremely messy and incomplete substitute.

It can only be a level of clay craftsmanship in toddlers mimicking works of art, but rarely if still sufficient.

"... if it was a direct hit, you'd be killed..."

The dirt wall I was able to create was big enough to protect me and Garnett critically.

It was a complete bump production, a way I tried with a stubborn thought, but luckily it worked.

At the same time I breathe a sigh of relief, the [restoration] of the garnet, which I continued with my left hand, is completed.

"Okay, healed..."

I put my gaze back on Garnett, and I got instantly stiff.

Garnett has his helmet blown off and has been destroyed from the right flank of his armor to his neck.

I mean, my face and right chest are exposed.

"Wait a minute, dude... this is..."

A face that can be perceived as juvenile but 'not same-sex'.

A layer of discreet fat on top of thin chest muscles.

I've never dreamed of my head turning bright white in this way before.