We Live in Dragon’s Peak

Cloudy water and bubbles dominate vision.

Desperately, Luilala grabbed me and didn't let me go, dragging me deep in the water relentlessly.

"And you're dead."

Move your hands to pieces. But the waters overflowing with light are distant in an instant, turning into darkness. I don't even know if it's cloudy anymore or if it just doesn't reach the light.

"Hey, help!

I can't swim!

And you can't even breathe in the water!

I'm not drowning in Lyla or Yufi or Nina's chest, I'm killed by Luilala's demon hand...

"Mr. Elnea. If it's too rampant, there's gonna be a collection of water dragons who feel your heart, right?

"That's it!

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

"But if you don't, I'll drown!

"I don't think you're drowning, though?

"What are you talking about? I was dragged into the water by Louis Lara, and I'm dying."

"Which neighborhood?

"Something about not being able to breathe or swim"

"... breathe, I think I am. I don't even think I need to swim."

……

Speaking of which, it seems like we're having a normal conversation from earlier.

I decided to restore myself to a state of calm, where I was barely violent, and to see exactly what was going on.

Sure, I'm underwater. There is no light, and the darkness that rocks in all its intensity continues everywhere. The way bubbles dance in the darkness and ascend to the top is so beautiful, contrary to the situation.

But there wasn't a drop of water around me. Clothes and hair are not wet.

Luilara grabbed my body, and I was wrapped in giant bubbles.

As always, I breathe without consciousness.

It's not painful.

"... why?

"It's terrible. I'm Ernea, and I'm acting for you."

"Ugh, sorry"

Apparently, it's protected by Louis Lara's magic.

Luilara grabbed me gently with both hands so that I could breathe and create a space with bubbles.

But why was I abducted by Louis Lara?

Huge creature, Louis Lara, you. Holding me in his chest, I stared at Luilala's face way ahead.

But I can't even worship Luirala's face in the darkness where bubbles and cloudy water make it.

"Hey, does it have anything to do with this behavior of Luirala with a senior demon named Gilrad?

"Apparently, Ernea, you've been targeted by a troublesome opponent."

"Eh!

Somehow I expected it, but I figured you got caught up in some weird commotion.

"But well, you deserve it..."

"What do you mean?

That's right, when Louis Lara tried to say something.

From the dark end, I could hear the cucumber, sounding.

"Look, I knew you'd come."

I don't have to ask what came of it.

Even if we don't explore the signs, their presence is with us everywhere.

Lords of cute ringing noises at first glance. But who it was, the water dragons.

I feel a number of signs of a water dragon right around the corner.

Apparently, because of the noise I made in the water, it was passed on to the water dragon by the dragon heart.

"I'm sorry. Nothing."

"Come to think of something, you've seen a lot of hateful demons lately"

"Shit. Let's miss him this time"

"I think it's this way to miss it."

"Luilara, no fighting with the water dragons."

"That's what I wanted you to say in the early days."

"... after the fight."

"O dragon-hearted man. Not much noise around here. '

"I'm sorry. I'll be careful"

"Beh, I'm not here for you."

When I looked closely at him, I saw the figure of a water dragon swimming forcefully behind the water.

The face is exactly that of the Dragon Clan. Sharp, glowing eyes. An ambitious horn. From the long neck down, it feels like Fei Long has a little more torso length. However, the wings were sharp and long shaped like cutting water, and the tip of the long tail resembled the tail of a fish.

I guess it's a water dragon that ropes around here.

It's a different species from the Knights of the Water Dragon.

The water dragon was swimming freely around in the water, as if flying through the sky.

I look good when I came close to provoking Luirala a few times.

The water dragons were swimming around us for a while. And you were satisfied, and then you went away with the cucumber and the cute squeal again.

Uhm, that ambitious figure doesn't match the cute squeal.

And now I realize.

Apparently, Louis Lara is swimming and moving, too.

The cloudy water in the Suranel River is hard to get through the light, so I barely knew it because I could see it. Because it's wrapped in bubbles, you don't feel the flow of water in your body.

Luilara continued to swim unchanged, even after the water dragons were gone.

"Hey, Luilara"

"What is it, Herneau?"

In Luilara's hands, as always. I looked underwater and said what I thought. [M]

"You know what? I miss something because I'm underwater because I don't have a good vision.... uuuuuuuuu"

When I mouthed the request, Luilara tightened me up.

I'm sorry.

Oh, boy, Louis Lara sighs. But Luilara never went out on the water.

"If we don't get underwater as far as we can, it's gonna be important."

"Right. Because Louis Lara will stand out."

"There's that too..."

"But I can't believe the Demonic Luilara cares about people's society!

"I don't care what happens to people. The trouble is, Elnea, you're the one, right?

"Ugh..."

People are nothing but a good race for Louis Lara. I still have to thank him for caring about me. [M]

Luilala eventually kept swimming underwater holding onto me.

When I say, my irreplaceable sight invites me to drowsiness, and I follow. [M] But it would be rude for me to fall asleep when you're carrying me.

... No, why, in the first place, did you think I was being carried?

I must have been kidnapped!

"Hey, Luilara. Why was I abducted? What do you mean, you deserve it?

When I asked the question again, Luilara finally put her torso out on the water.

It was already evening on the water and the sky was stained red.

I've been in the water for a long time. [M]

Luirala leaves the upper body of the Suranel River and swims for a while, lowering me to affordable land.

"It's a wild place around here today."

"... I can't go home."

"I don't have a choice. You don't want to get your family into a commotion, do you?

"But you're caught up in a different commotion, aren't you?

"I don't know what's going on around there. When you're in battle with the Demons, Elnea, can you contain the damage you've done to your surroundings?

"It sounds like I'm going to destroy everything."

"That's what I said."

"Hardly."

"Leave the joke alone. If you care, you don't care about the Demons."

"Right. There are dragons and dragon people staying at my parents' house, and if I'm not there, I won't bother trying to get my hands on them."

"That sort of thing. Besides."

When did Luirala catch him, he let go of his affordable fish to me.

Supper, apparently.

Light a fire and throw the fish into the flames in a luxurious manner.

Cooking?

Unfortunately, the fish cannot be swallowed. Like cooking, I don't even have a dagger that cuts me apart or seasoning for seasoning. I didn't get dressed, and clearly, I wasn't ready to go wild at all.

Wrapped in flames, the fish rumbles.

Shit. You should have just dropped your head, strangled it, and then burned it. I thought it was a later festival. Flame-burned fish quickly stopped moving.

I'm sorry. It was a little too brutal. I think this is all part of the Ruirala influence of the Demons.

"That's fancy. Look at you, Ernea, and I think you can overcome the difficulties that lie ahead."

"... you're experiencing difficulties."

"I guess it's up to you."

The fish removed from the midst of the buoyant fire was round-burned. I peeled the scaled skin, but it was burnt.

"Hey, Luilara"

"I don't have a choice."

Luilala laughs at my failure and once it sinks into the water. And soon, he brought me a new fish.

"Thanks!"

This time it won't fail.

He dropped his head with a white sword, stabbed it in an affordable branch and burned it to the fire.

The fat fish boils down to a delicious grill.

But on the way, the branches burn and the fish falls in the fire again. When I rushed it out, it was just affordable baking addition and subtraction.

"Want some Louis Lara, too?

"I'm not going to talk about bad food. For once, it's noble."

"Terrible!"

Ruirala plunges me and I have no choice but to hit the fish on my own.

……

Unfortunately, as Luilala put it, it wasn't delicious. It was a luxurious diet these days, so my tongue may have been a waste of luxury too. My soft white body spreads in my mouth, but I only felt a little sweet.

You wanted about salt.

Still hungry, so I cheek the fish until I'm full.

"Mr. Ernea, by the way."

"What is it?

"I think it's time we continued our conversation"

"... it was"

Nothing, I wasn't avoiding the topic.

I shouldn't because I'm going to give you all the stuff that Luilara's going to see in front of you. And I'm still using Ruirala as an excuse here.

Uhm, you shouldn't.

Just because Luilara is a demon tribe makes it rude to use it conveniently for excuses, doesn't it?

"Well, shall we talk serious? Can you tell me about Gilrad and the disturbances I'm involved in?

"Pleasure."

Luilala was facing me with only her upper body out of the water, without even coming up to the ground at night camp.

"Ernea, as you know. Last year's disturbance caused the demon king of the north to chase his territory."

"But even in the demonic areas, they moved us west."

There was the supreme ruler of all demons, and those near them intervened. She looked like a deep-red toddler, but she seemed to be an opponent that wouldn't be rivaled if that giant demon king or old Sleighsta or Mr. Ashel bundled up.

By the young girl, the ruler's command was conveyed. The disturbed demon king Kushalila was stripped of the country he had around the northwest of Dragon Peak and transferred instead to a far west country.

Anything, you think another demon king has been defeated in the west?

"Since the departure of the Demon King of the North, His Majesty has occupied it temporarily."

"You were looting..."

"I don't have a choice. The weak, the losers, are taken away. Because it's a demonic society."

I know, but this is how I get told by the Demons themselves, I still think the Demons are horrible races, brutal beings that people don't understand.

"But His Majesty is not the kind to expand his country in vain, nor was he ordered to take his hand away from the center. What do you think will happen when you do that?

"Hmmm...... The fact that there will be no rulers. Look, like the land Mistral got, will it be a centrally controlled embargo?

"Correct, but that's a long time from now."

"So, until then?

"Of course, it'll be a lawless zone."

I'm afraid of Luilara, who says it with a rumbling colour.

Or what's a lawless zone!

Areas that were controlled as a country become land without law and order!?

Is that okay?

You felt my anxiety, says Luilala with a smile.

"The Demons have a demonic society," I said earlier. I'll give you a little more details. What happens when the Demon King is reduced and a lawless zone without a ruler is created? A powerful demon clan, everyone would think. The next demon king says it's him. "

Full season of the Demon Nation. There were twelve demon kings under the ruler, says Luilala. But a long time went by, and one more and the demon king went down.

The one who loses the fight. Those whose life expectancy has run out. He who has returned the Demon Throne.

Normally, if one demon king disappears, a new powerful man will take his place. But lately, no new demon king has been born.

And finally, the number of those who reached the throne of the Demon King has been reduced to six.

I don't know what the ruler who is supposed to give the Demon Throne is thinking. However, there is a constant demon clan aimed at the throne of the Empty Demon King.

There we have a lawless zone with neither a ban nor a ruler. The demons with ambitions were now about to gather in the country where Kushalillah ruled.

"That's clearly deliberately creating a lawless zone, isn't it, its ruler?"

To my words, Luilala smiled back without responding directly.

"But does it have anything to do with the current state of that demon clan and the way I was targeted by Gilrad?

"Ernea, let's be conscious."

"Eh."

"What have you done in the kingdom of the demons of the north?

"Uh..."

"Blow up the upper levels of Demon King Castle and wipe out the Necromancers of the Necromancer City. How many demon generals have you defeated?

……

"There's an easy way to sink this commotion, Your Majesty would say."

"I don't want to hear it!

"Elnea, I wish you could be the Demon King!

"Because it's an absolute rejection!

Whatever happens to me, I will not be king of demons.

"Too bad, Ernea, when you become the Demon King, I'll be in your stomach."

"I refuse to allow my belly to attack if there is a gap."

"Well, solicitation isn't my job, so I don't care about the neighborhood. Anyway, you're quite a celebrity in the Demon Nation. Proper strength is also appreciated. Because the Demon General is not weak enough to defeat him with luck or misfortune. So... More than a demon general, if I may say so, what happens when I defeat you, the Demon King?

"... I don't know"

"I mean, I can prove I'm just comparable to the Demon King, too!

Luilara is happy to talk when she gives me a look I don't want to hear. [M] You're definitely playing with me, aren't you?

"So, but. Besides me, Mistral and the other dragon kings were active, right?

"That's the Dragon Nation..."

"Wow. I feel so cowardly even though my goals are high!

I mean, I want to prove my strength, but I don't really want to fight Dragon Men stronger than Demons in the first place. It has been decided that it is more affordable to target me as a human being.

"Gilrad is quite powerful among the demons who are after the Demon Throne. Good luck!"

"No, no, what are you trying to do?

"Of course, all you have to do is go to the Demon Nation and destroy all the opponents you're after."

"If I do that, I'll be truly festived by the Demon King."

"Shit. Did you notice that?"

"You're tongue-in-cheek now! You're trying to make me king of demons!

It's horrible. If I thought of it as advice and swallowed Louis Lara's words, I would definitely be fitted.

"So, Elnea, what do you think you should do?

"Now, if we go home to everyone, there will be extra damage around us. Louis Lara took that into account and made me go missing, didn't she? The way to solve it is to go to the Demonic Nation and take out the target. But if I do, I could be tailored by the Demon King myself..."

"Over time, I think the battle for the Demon Throne will settle. And the mighty shall be crushed, and if from among them emerge a man worthy of the demon king, he shall reign. If we don't get the right people no matter how much we fight, we'll give up the people we were fighting over."

"Well, if you want to get through it without difficulty..."

"It's best if you're under the embargo and you're lurking your breath until the commotion subsides. There's no way Gilrad or any of the other superior demons can break in."

Luirala's face was floating in the darkness lit by the flames of a burning tree.