"Dude... Dragon Man (Draguns)!?"
"" What!?
My twin brothers and sisters raised their voices of surprise at my words.
Appearing in front of me was a girl with burning red hair in scarlet eyes, with an atmosphere very similar to that of a pram.
An almond-shaped eye in a round contour that has a wild flavour but leaves it unobtrusive. The brilliance of its eyes resides in a fall that makes it feel so intelligent that it doesn't seem the same age as Plum.
From the back of the body to the back of the neck and arms, a scaly skin tattoo emerges, with a hobby worthy of the name "dragonman" as a child.
Above all, it's the feathers that crawled on my back. From time to time, he moves "feathers" like a splendid dragon incomparable to a plum. It was undoubtedly the hallmark of the Dragon (Dragunian) tribe, which is said to be particularly rare among subhumans (Demihuman).
The autumn woods are limp and slightly chilly, but the Dragunese girl is only wearing a lightweight unfamiliar costume that covers part of her body, boldly exposing her heso and stomach.
You don't say a word about us being on guard out of the woods all of a sudden.
For some reason, I look at Pram and me alternately, and I'm blinking.
"This kid..." "Draguns?
To the unfamiliar subhuman who suddenly appeared, Iola and Riola gave a bewildered look and looked at each other.
We both know that the purpose of this journey is to obtain Dragon Man's Blood, which will make the medicine that will save Pram's life. The "dragon man" appeared in front of him in an unexpected way.
"It's Annemie -! That's where I met him -"
"Such an idiot..."
I was the one who was surprised.
Dragon Man (Draguns) rarely show up in public. Known for their human hatred, they are told that there are multiple illusory boundaries stretched out so that they cannot be found.
The place where they say there's a "Dragon Man's Inside" I found in the Search Magic (Ggol) Map Search (Mappa) should still be in the back of the woods where I have to walk about half a day from here.
"Come on, Plum! Let me show this girl to the village!
Hemperoza turns her gash and arms around Pram's shoulder and says great.
It's Annemie's house, isn't it? The dragon girl named 'Annemie' looks round her eyes as Pram punches her hand at 'Pong' while saying.
"Pram, where the hell did you get to know that kid?
"Um, I was looking for Cho, and there was Annemie -"
"……… companion"
When the girl called Anemi uttered a short word, she shrugged her nose and showed her how to smell the pram.
Apparently, both the dragon man's children away from the village due to stray or some circumstance, Plum met Batali in the woods.
Is there such a coincidence?... Dragonman's blood in Plum's body attracted you? Maybe I smelled "belonging" to a pram that could be described as a kind of human and dragon man half.
"Nice to meet you, Annemie. I'm Grecas the Wise. As you can see, I'm traveling."
I laid one knee on the ground in line with the sight of a dragon man named Anemi and told him in a calm voice. And in his gesture, he urges Iola and Riola, Hemperoza, to say hello as well.
"Mr. Grey is the old man of Plum."
"No, that's not..."
With Plum, who assumed he was "one of them", and me, who stroked his head with a bitter smile, Annemie apparently relieved me of her vigilance as well.
"............... Lost"
Boosh, and Annemie spilled it. Octagonal teeth, or fangs, are very similar to prams.
"Huh?"
"Sage, apparently this girl, she's lost."
Hemperoza tells Annemie to speak for herself when she finds something surprisingly detailed.
I'm still lost... so it's impossible to get a guide to the village.
"Holy shit..."
The sky, which looked up from the gap between the lush forest trees, is stained with orange, and birds and pterosaurs are rushing their way home. If the sun falls, the forest is rapidly engulfed in darkness. It's time for demons who don't let humans in.
It's reckless to travel as much as you want in the dark hours ahead.
Apparently, it was a "Nojuku" decision here today.
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Surrounded by a burning fire, we had dinner and had lots of stories and lots of time to talk about while we were bickering.
Plum on my right, and my new friend Annemie. Next to it sits Hemperoza.
He surrounds the fireworks, gathers the fallen trees and makes them impromptu chairs.
On the left is Lentomia, a beautiful boy with a slightly intimate half elf.
Next to it, Iola and Riola sit down side by side.
It is the monk Manuferno whose glasses are glowing with a flame of incendiary fire opposite him. That chest is glowing with an obsidian pendant that wasn't there until this morning.
Named "Tears of Decay (Pedos)", this gem is a drop item that I collected and crystallized by sucking away the decay of Manuferno.
The power of the curse that tormented Manu was now glowing as a necklace on Manu's chest.
We stopped the carriage a little open in the woods and decided to spend the night building a demonic junction.
Combined with the Lentomian junction and the blessing (fest) of Manuferno's repellence (swick), safety can be guaranteed.
A "beetle man" in the woods about twenty mertes away doesn't even notice us, he sucks the sap and eats while holding it in a tree.
Looks like a human Osan is stuck to a tree in a beetle outfit, which is quite a surreal sight.
In order to prevent the "raid from the underground" that caused today's failure, I put in many improvised "acoustic detection piles (beaconia)" built by bundling magic threads (magiwires) into the ground to detect demons traveling through the ground in an acoustic reaction.
Exactly the position of a wild boarding house on an iron wall.
"Ugh!
"Yeah, yum!
Iola and Riola gave a grinning smile. The two are drizzling spice sauce over dried meat broiled in a bonfire and cheeky sandwiches sandwiched with rye bread.
The dried meat burned in the fire has an exceptional flavour. This is one of the joys of traveling in the wild.
There is plenty of food purchased in the lodging town of Verse Clin, and there is no need to worry about drinks or fruits. At the very least, I want to have a fancy meal.
"Taste good? Plum" "Yes it is -!
Next to the pram eating the dust and rice, Anemi watches closely.
"Annemie, you should try it because it's okay"
".................. yeah"
Nodding small, he hesitates but cheeks "puffy". Round your eyes as soon as you can, look at me, and eat again. Apparently I liked it.
".................. yummy"
An emotionless expression, but the tail sounded so gorgeous.
Well, even though he's a dragon boy, he doesn't seem to be treated very differently than Plum or Hempero. I'm a little relieved. This will be open to discussion tomorrow, even if we go to the Dragon Man's Village.
- It seems like a reckless negotiation to split the blood.
And he was gambling to eat while Hemperoza stared at Sandwich.
"? What's up Hempero, don't you eat? Delicious."
"Ha!? If that's what a wise man is, I'll eat him!
smile happily ever after, hitting the bread pinched with meat
You were waiting for me to speak up? You don't even know him very well. While I sigh I laugh in vain at myself for treating my children better.
"Hey, Greg."
"What?
Lentomia turns her head and turns to me with her eyes filled with planned light.
"If you get the 'blood' in front of you, this journey is over, right?
Firewood blew up in the fire with Pakiri.
Lentomia continues to whisper to me as if I were a demon.
"Why don't you let her sleep with my magic, get a little blood, and treat her with Manu's magic?
- It is. I certainly haven't thought about it, so to speak, it's a lie.
But I didn't want to do that as a "wise man" who shrugged the world.
It may be a strange story for a wise man to say something like this about managing his life and twisting it, but there is a line that must not be crossed, something called pride.
"You know what? If Greg won't do it, I'll do it - better!
I held the back of Lentomia's head and stuffed him with bread in his mouth.
"Shut up, say no. Don't ever say that again."
"Ha-ha, Gre is weirdly serious, isn't he?!?
And late at night.
The kids put them to sleep in the carriage, and me, Lentomia and Manuferno, who are used to traveling, take a nap in their respective places. Manu makes some notes in his notebook in the carriage passenger seat.
Lentomia clung to my arm and watched the burning fire, but eventually - she fell asleep, breathing. The sleeping face of the half elf was as neat as a puppet made of orthodox.
If you sleep on the ground and catch a cold, I'll put my robe on you.
But I couldn't sleep when everyone was asleep. Keep your hands on the ground and close your eyes.
- That's crazy.
I had doubts about one sound captured by the Acoustic Detection Pile (Beaconia), which I punched into the ground. That was a large...... probably more than a four-headed armored carriage sound.
The sound of a carriage moving away from us beyond the detection range where the magic thread (Magiwire) cannot be reached.
They keep moving despite the middle of the night.
The other way around is the area we're headed to tomorrow, or "Inside the Dragon Man."
I had a bad feeling about it.
And the shadow coming out of the carriage lowered his hips beside me listening to the sound standing still in front of the burning fire.
Turning around, it was Riola.
Chestnut hair and eyes colored by long eyelashes are illuminated by a flame of burning light.
"Oh, um..., wise man"
"What, Riola, can't you sleep?
"No, wise man, today... thank you"
"? What is it?"
I didn't know what it was about for a moment.
"Sage helped me when I was about to be dragged into the demon hole"
"Oh, oh, that's nothing..."
When Riola was captured by the Planetian Arm Grass (Drucella) and nearly strangled with cheats? Iola struggled desperately to help, but that wasn't enough, when I managed to get in there.
"I was really scared then and Io tried desperately to help me... but no. I was scared to death... But the wise man taught me."
You remember that time, you round your body all the time, tears in your eyes, gaze at the burning fire, and Riola spins her words.
"I'm sorry. I told you I'd be safe, but I caught that eye."
Instead, I feel sorry for myself for putting Riola and the others in danger. Iola and Riola wanted to make sure they could afford to fight crisps.
"Oh no! Sage is... I knew it was amazing! Even when I helped Mr. Manu, I almost cried. Really, really, really great."
Riola praised me like that for the first time. You couldn't find a good word, stuck in words again and again, and yet you said it again and again with a serious eye. Still enough.
"Come on, it's too late, you should rest"
"Ah, ahhh... the"
When I get up, Riola gets up, too, dyeing her thighs and cheeks. I move my lips like I said something, but I get depressed.
Huh? What... no way.
I admire it, I respect it, I like it...... or something!? No, but Riola is a bit of a busy "sister" to me, and all of a sudden she's like that... but...
Riola, whose cheeks turned bright red, looks up and screams with tears.
"Take, follow me to the bathroom. Go!
"Ah......, yeah"
Right? I thought so.
Continued