Strongest Onmyouji's Isekai Adventure ~ The Monsters are too weak compared to my Youkai Servant's~

Episode 72: Unraveling the Ecology of the Dragon, the Strongest Yin and Yang Master

"I don't know what that means, Saika."

Yuki squeaks like she's confused.

It's obvious what it means.

This dragon was in the middle of parenting.

Perhaps you laid eggs during the last few days that you flew less frequently.

Things have been going wrong for a year now, too, to get ready to lay eggs. It was also attacking distant livestock because the magic of the land alone could not accumulate strength.

That explains everything.

The problem is.

Why is this dragon raising children......

"That monster is a male isn't it...? So is there still another individual who is the number one?"

"No, just won't have it"

There's no way anyone would notice with another dragon like that.

"Then why..."

I speak of one possibility.

"... it's a sexual change"

"Huh?"

"This dragon has become a female."

You don't understand. I'll explain it to Yuki.

"Many fish change their sexuality depending on the environment. Sometimes males become females, sometimes females become males."

In Rome, where it was once the status to have a survivor in the mansion and where fish rearing flourished, a well-known musicologist kept a detailed record.

"One of the conditions under which sexual conversion occurs was that there was no heterosexuality around. Perhaps this dragon changed sex somewhere between now and then. Maybe a hundred years ago, that was the reason for the change that the territory became narrower and more adult."

I don't hear any examples of beasts on land performing sexual conversions, but there are some that change the proportion of female males due to temperatures at birth, etc. The creature's sexuality is quite fluid in its fruit.

"So, Seika."

Yuki eats down.

"Even if you were a female, it wouldn't be the same without a number, would it? how do you leave your child"

"It's not unusual for a creature to reproduce only in a female."

I'll explain again.

"There are several examples of snakes and lizards that people had laying eggs despite the absence of a number (one), and it hatched. All that, or so many creatures without males."

"Oh, that kind of thing?

"Me, I would have swimmed a huna in the mansion pond. That's the one. I was alone at first."

It was a coincidence, but I was surprised when I realized it, too.

"Wasn't that to eat"

"I was going to do that at first. So it means no wonder the females alone reproduce. It is more advantageous to reproduce with a number, but depending on the environment, you may not be able to choose between them."

"Ho ho..."

Yuki hits a distracted connection.

"Seika's hobby has helped."

"Hobbies...... well fine though. Well, I don't know what to do."

Now I know why things were strange.

But it's hard to say that the problem has been solved.

We can also say that we should wait until the child is nested, but past records show that spawning was done in several parts.

How long will it take for every child to nest?

Plus, there's the problem with the nested kid.

Whatever it was a hundred and fifty years ago when it was independent, would the Empire let the dangerous dragon child nest intact now that it has become a nation?

Without trying, the prince's idea of crusading the dragon seems best...... I don't think I can do that with that mercenary regiment.

It's not the same thing that I do. [M]

Hmmm......

I was worried looking at the eggs... and I noticed the marks on the sand.

Apparently, the eggs are a rolling trail.

I can think of something.

"... the prince said there were no examples of people hatching dragon eggs... but now we know why."

"What is it?

"It's a rolling egg. Dragon eggs have to be rolled."

I'll explain again. [M]

"Chickens and all that, birds are more or less like that, but sometimes if you don't change the orientation of the eggs, the kid sticks to the inside of the egg shell and dies. On the other hand, I can't move lizards and turtle eggs... in the case of dragons who raise kids, eggs seem closer to birds than lizards. So here's the thing..."

I slowly roll my big eggs along the sand trail.

"I guess I roll regularly. The only reason dragon eggs don't hatch on the market must be because they neglected to do this. I don't care what you think. I'm not doing this in transit."

……

"The legend of Queen Astilia, who hatched and raised the dragon, has now become credible. I'm just glad I know how. Most of all, I probably can't just roll it properly, so the element of coincidence would have been huge..."

"Saika... I'm crazy about talking to you..."

"Shut up."

I say back to Yuki, who groans like a coward. [M]

You know what? Nothing. Talk to me obsessively!

"... Oh, yeah. And then…"

The Fire Phase - The Art of Hoorah

A flame blew out of several human rattles and began to heat the mountains of rock that were nesting.

The part exposed to the fire gradually becomes red-hot.

"Yes, Seika, are you going to steam eggs?

"No, look closely. I'm just warming the rocks. The eggs don't get so hot thanks to the sand laid. If you keep Rock Mountain heated in flames like this, you can keep the temperature for a while even if you leave the nest. This is the egg for the dragon."

"Hey, how do you know that?"

"There were stones that were brittle and cracked on some of them. Evidence of repeated red fever. I mean, it was still a little warm."

Besides, I had heard that far south islands in Khmer (* Cambodia) and Champa (* Vietnam) have birds that warm their eggs with the heat of the earth.

This is similar.

Second, I noticed the dragon was much quieter.

Looking at you unexpectedly, the dragon stares at me with his eyes behind a grim scale.

I can't feel any more hostility there.

I fly human rattles.

"Seika!? What..."

Return the asbestos net to the dust of information with the technique of cursing human rattles.

The unleashed dragon shook his body slightly, but there were no signs of rumbling or coming at him.

I'm just staring at you.

"... grrr!

"What?"

Suddenly I thought I roared, and the dragon spread its wings wide.

And use that barometric magic again, winging at the sky.

Me and Yuki stared at the dragon flying away.

"... what was it?

"Come on, I don't know..."

Somehow.

I thought they told me to take a good look at the eggs.