Chapter 100
The condition of Heros and Nike was not ordinary.
They were literally covered in blood, and their eyes were dazed, somehow looking as if their souls had left them.
So Rache, approaching them closely, involuntarily hesitated. It was because fear was instinctively felt.
“A, are you okay? Is there anywhere you’re hurt?”
At that moment, Nike creaked her neck to look at Rache.
“My body…… is okay…….”
Nike began to speak, spacing his words.
“Only my heart is hurt…….”
“……Yes?”
“The warrior is really a crazy bastard……. Not in his right mind…….”
“Yeees?!”
Rache was truly flustered, but since Nike being strange like that wasn’t a matter of one or two days, he quickly regained his composure.
Two persons covered in blood. Since they had just gone through a fierce battle, there must surely be injured places. Rache quickly made a judgment.
“F, first, I’ll call Teiti nim. Treatment first…….”
“No need for that.”
But Heros cut off his words.
Heros said while brushing back his blood-matted hair.
“It’s not our blood.”
What on earth is this talk.
The situation is one where nothing is understood. Rache’s head spun rapidly.
“What happened? What on earth occurred?”
“…….”
A brief silence flowed in response to his question. That quiet was momentary.
“Nothing happened.”
Heros, who was flicking off the blood, answered casually,
“I had too many things happen, I’m really tired.”
Nike answered while dropping her head.
No, so what happened.
***
Clank, clank.
The carriage going down the mountain slope shakes in all directions.
Daphne, who couldn’t steady her body with the carriage’s movement and was bumping here and there, sighed “Ehew” and readjusted her posture once more.
She had tried to practice mana operation on the way to the villa, but with it shaking like this, what could she do.
Daphne, giving up on mana operation, turned her gaze to Heros sitting opposite.
Heros was already cleanly washed, so he wasn’t covered in blood like when he returned earlier, but still, the lingering blood smell was quite strong. Daphne frowned while touching her forehead.
“I only told you to roughly destroy the chimera laboratory.”
Heros slightly averted his gaze.
“But warrior you seem to have completely wrecked it.”
There’s nothing to say in response.
He couldn’t say that thanks to facing the dragon he had been searching for so desperately, they had a fierce fight.
“……There was someone I had to fight.”
Heros slightly lowered his eyes and looked at his palm. It’s cleanly washed now, but in his eyes, it still looks like a blood-stained palm.
Heros gently closed his eyes. As soon as he did, the blue dragon he had been fighting until earlier was drawn in his mind.
Even before going down to the basement, an immense energy was felt, so Heros could immediately recognize that he was a dragon. And it was the blue dragon he had been desperately searching for.
So Heros knocked out Nike and faced the blue dragon alone.
Something like mental preparation wasn’t needed. If there’s an enemy in front, kill them. That belief was engraved in Heros’s heart.
So Heros faced the blue dragon without much difficulty.
-How dare a mere human……!
-Die! I said die!
He was strong.
But compared to the black dragon he fought right before…… well.
-Damn it! How dare you touch me!
Something like the difference between an adult man and a child. The words he said while fighting were also quite low-level.
-Get lost! I said get lost! Aack! This bastard is weak, Lani! You lied to me!
Heros frowned while pressing his stiff forehead hard.
“Hmm. So?”
Daphne, who had been watching such Heros, said.
“So, did you kill him?”
Heros’s face crumpled even more.
“No. I let him escape.”
This time Daphne was surprised. She could say that Daphne, who had directly fought him, knows the warrior’s skills better than anyone.
So the words that he let the opponent escape were hard to believe easily. Was it carelessness? Daphne tilted her head.
“If Nike hadn’t woken up then, I could have surely taken him down.”
Heros added as if making an excuse. Because he didn’t want to honestly admit being shaken by the blue dragon’s words.
-You know nothing. You know nothing and don’t even try to know! That ignorance will catch your ankle!
-You will die by your child’s hand! I definitely curse you!
Heros let out a “Huu” sigh and clicked his tongue.
“I inflicted a major injury, so next time I catch him, I can easily kill him.”
“Well, that’ll be so.”
Daphne answered while scratching the back of her head.
“That aside, how did the blood happen?”
Heros’s gaze landed on Daphne. Blink, blink, the pupils in the slowly blinking eyes tremble slightly.
He couldn’t say it was because blood splashed while cutting off the tail to finish him…….
“There was such a thing.”
“Tcheung. Why do all these guys and those guys have so many secrets.”
“That’s because you don’t particularly need to know.”
“Okay. Got it. I guess I’ll just live as a stupid child who knows nothing and finds out nothing and then get fucked. That can be. I understand.”
“……Are you being sarcastic.”
“Hmph.”
Daphne, who snorted, crossed her arms and leaned her side head against the window. Then stared intently at Heros.
“I won’t dig out what you’re trying to hide. Instead, I have a request.”
“A request?”
“That’s right.”
Daphne said while widening her eyes.
“Now teach me the 2nd form of the Galaxy Sword.”
“…….”
Heros did not answer immediately. No, he could not answer.
-You will die by your child’s hand! I definitely curse you!
Because the blue dragon’s words were lingering in his ears.
Of course, he thinks it’s nonsense, and he knows it’s not a true curse, but…… a strange uneasiness remains in his heart.
Heros shook his head a couple of times. And focused on Daphne again. He observes Daphne’s face, which looks much healthier than before.
“Can you do it?”
Daphne raised her fist with a resolute expression.
“I must do it.”
Heros slowly closed and opened his eyes again. He tries to erase the curse-like words of the blue dragon from his mind and focus only on the current Daphne.
“……Okay.”
He finally made his resolve.
Even if the blue dragon’s curse were true,
“Alright.”
If he is to die by the child’s hand, he decides to willingly accept it.
***
“Aaaack! It huuuurts!”
Artson rolled around on the bed screaming. It hurts. It really hurts!
“My tail hurts the most!”
He recalls the warrior who treated his tail like minced meat. As soon as he does, goosebumps rose all over his body. Fear has been engraved.
“Lani! Laaaniiii! How could you tell such a lie!”
Artson screamed “Aack” and ground his teeth.
-Warrior?
-Weak. No need to worry much.
-You can handle it sufficiently. Right?
Lani always spoke sweetly. And made the opponent easily fall for it.
Artson had always firmly believed Lani’s words, and this time was the same.
So he was even angrier. How could she tell such a lie about something where my life was at stake!
“I won’t endure it. Really won’t endure! I’m really angry!”
Artson jumped up and shouted.
But even if he decides not to endure, he cannot overcome Lani. In the first place, Lani was overwhelmingly stronger than him.
Therefore,
“Kalid. I’ll go find Kalid!”
Red dragon, Kalid.
He judged that he must find his only ally.
“He’s surely in human form!”
In fact, Kalid was living in the empire in human polymorph form.
And not far from Daphne.
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