"You know the dragons we get are divided by size."
"Oh, sure."
"There are three types of big dragons, medium dragons, and small dragons, and this year, no students are said to get large dragons"
"Really? Guess who doesn't know what kind of dragon they're gonna get? No matter how few big dragons there are, can you be sure?
"You normally think so, don't you? But in the years that a big dragon gets, there's a certain trait.... The administrator told me how many freshmen there are this year. Twenty-seven men and women. Thirty-one last year, by the way. What do you think of this?
"They say there are about thirty people getting dragons every year, and I think it's a reasonable number,"
"Yes, it's a mediocre number. There are three active dragon jockeys who use large dragons, but records show that there were extremely few classmates that year. It's about ten people."
"A third."
"There will be a dragon reception ritual in the New Year. After about fifty days, the next dragon print starts to appear. They say it takes about six months for all the dragon prints to show up."
I know that too.
Dragon prints start to pop out of people's normal lives.
"It was in July that my dragon print appeared. They told me it was too late."
"I was at the end of April, not sooner or later. So the dragons mark us with dragon prints, but I wonder why every year, that number is just as high."
I don't know, but I always thought it was something like that, so I never thought about it again.
"I guess there's a limit to the number of people who can come out with a dragon pick-up device."
"You'd be close to that. So here's what I'm thinking. It is the venue that has the Dragon Pickup Ritual. There is a large athletic field waiting to enter there in order, and I wonder if dragons gather there every year. Of course, it's an image."
I imagined a dragon aligned on the athletic field.
"That's another novel image."
"So when the Dragon Pickup Ceremony is over, the gathered dragons come out into this world. And that's where it's free, right?
"Right."
"There comes the next dragons on the field. Only a dragon who finds his opponent can get inside that athletic field"
"The sooner the better, the better."
"It could be. I don't want to compromise because I'm looking for my own partner. Late, however, the athletic field will be filled with capacity for the following year"
"Interesting idea."
"Back to the big dragon story here, there's finite space on the athletic field. That means if a big dragon comes in, there's no place for other dragons to go in."
"You think that's why fewer dragon prints show up in the year you get a big dragon?
"Actually, I don't know, but I'm talking about explaining it in that way. Then medium-sized dragons still take up space compared to smaller dragons"
"Right. There were thirty-one last year, right? How many medium-sized dragons?
"I hear there are four people who got a medium-sized dragon. Medium-sized dragons are as usual because they are 10% or 20% of smaller dragons."
"You said twenty-seven freshmen this year. With that in mind, it's a calculation that more people will get medium-sized dragons."
"I'd say yes, but taking the annual stats doesn't entirely make it right. Some correlation is acceptable. So I can't say for sure."
Pull me this far, that's it.
"Then why don't we talk about that athletic field? Wouldn't it make sense to just pull it out and interpret it?
"Well, I don't know about that. I'm thinking it's because I haven't investigated all of them."
Haven't you investigated everything? I don't know what that means.
"What do you mean?
"I'll be doing a dragon pick-up ritual in the New Year, but I wonder if that's really all I'm getting dragons for"
……
"The Dragon Welcome Rite is a ritual that calls for dragons from the Dragon's Sacred Gate. And only the specially forgiven can approach the Dragon's Holy Gate"
"Naturally. There's no such thing as an elephant coming up."
"Yes. In other words, the Dragon Valley (Ryukaikoku), where the Dragon's Sacred Gate is located, is hidden from the eyes of the people. Even if we secretly get dragons, no one will know."
"That's an absurd story. I don't know what that means."
"I guess. The number of dragon jockeys in Dragon Nation is 2,000. There are thirty more dragon jockeys every year, so it fits as a number. Because dragon jockeys are tough and long lived."
"I hear the injuries are healing fast or hard to get sick, but do you live long?
"There are many active dragon jockeys after eighty. If you're not related to injury and illness, you'll live longer."
"Well, maybe so"
"I'm from Hewler, but there's a no-go place north of there. Do you know where it is?
Because there is a path of the yin moon, people would not originally go north from there.
Oh, well.
"Old King's Capital."
"Yeah. So I've seen it a couple of times. A bunch of flying dragons headed to the old king's capital."
"Didn't that go to defeat the Moon Warcraft (Tsumaju) that fell on the path of the Shadow Moon?
"I think it's possible. A few times I've seen it, I guess. But it's strange that they're always heading the same way."
"I mean, you said there was a dragon jockey in the old king's capital? So dangerous?
"The Old King's Capital can't come near you to prevent burglaries. Well, what do you think?"
"But why hide it from people's eyes?
"I guess it's not from the Moon Warcraft threat. I can only think of one reason to hide my power."
Ark laughed deeply.
Even I can only think of one thing.
If I were to hide it, I'd be an intelligent opponent.
Wrong is not the Moon Warcraft opponent.
Speaking of intelligent opponents on this continent......
"War......"
"I don't know."
To my crush, Ark made no affirmation or denial.