Entering the Fairy Country…?Before heading to the Fairy Country, I dropped by the mine and wood harvesting area for just a bit.
As for wood, there aren’t any highest grade trees, but a somewhat good tree has sprung up, so I harvest just one tree.
It’s just a little bit, but I’ve got my hands on some, so this time I’m going to steadily walk carefreely on the path to the Fairy Country. When I think back to the first time I reached the Fairy Country, unsatisfactorily, I was unable to see much of the scenery, after all.
Although the trees grow thick together, the players investigated the trees here, and determined that there are no suitable trees for crafting, and so there was no opportunity to cut them down.
Tree therapy1 inside the game … it’s not like that, but even so, with this I can be refreshed. Of course I have activated; if a monster’s shadow drops in I will immediately prepare my weapon.
This time my objective is not fighting, so if they’re not definitely targeting this direction, then I’ve decided to ignore them.
This is good … or like, every single time, events occur until I can’t stand it, but the Fairy Country’s north gate is in site. Last time I came from the south, so this time let’s see how it goes with the west or east … just when I thought that.
『Kuo~n……kuo~n……』
That cry(?), I suppose it’s alright to call it that, a strange cry-like thing can be heard. I don’t have any memories of a monster that can produce that cry, so I stop and concentrate, searching for the direction the cry-like thing can be heard from.
『Kuo~n……』
I understand what direction it’s coming from, but no matter how I think about it, it’s in the middle of the forest, na…
Shuffle shuffle, that sound spread while I pushed through the gra.s.s as high as the trees with the direction of the sound as my goal.
In this situation, the difficulty of fighting jumps up, so, even with , I set my vigilance to its maximum.『Kuo……n……』
The cry is becoming more and more weak.
— I’m not making progress so I resolve myself, leap upwards with and land on the boughs of a tree.And after moving like that for about 3 minutes, I spot my objective.
“— Dragon?”
This one here is the western-style type with 4 legs with wings, that dragon that spits out dragon’s breath that’s often used in fantasy.
The
proportion is 4 humans and 6 animals … and, those corpses became particles of light, and then disappeared.
With the corpses gone, what was left there was just the hatchling dragon.
The dragon’s eye, that has lost a lot of its life, looked up this way, so I tried putting out raw rabbit meat, and when I did, a chomp came suddenly.
It ate it in an instant, so I added 3 slices, but that was also devoured immediately.
To be safe, I sprinkled a Rare Potion on the dragon’s body, and after that I tried taking it out of the egg sh.e.l.l.
Was it that the potion was effective, or was it that its hunger was diverted, I’m not sure which, but with a cry of 『Kuo-n, its vitality was back.
It’s size is that both hands is about enough to hold it … in real-life it would be about one size smaller all around than a rabbit.
Now then, helping it is good and all, but now what? Going to Faust and Nexia are definite nos. That situation where we’ll stand out also won’t let this child rest.
Not like I know if it exists, but temporarily a.s.suming that a dragon empire exists somewhere, would taking this child with me become a diplomatic issue?
On top of that, even though I said I helped it, those guys, the 4 people who got turned into corpses, I can’t exactly dismiss the possibility that they carried that dragon egg from somewhere after stealing it. Would dragons be able to have confidence in the same human race?
… Impossible, na, those 4, whether they stole the dragon intending to sell it somewhere, or intending to train it to be one of their strengths, right now I don’t know which it is, but from a dragon’s standpoint, there’s nothing other than (Mine darling child hath been stolen!) … Even if a human helped it out, there would probably only be wrath…
What I should do from now on is, for the present, leave the forest from the side … begging the dragon to “Please be good for a bit>, it gave 1『Kuon』cry and stilled its movements, so once again using to leap onto a branch, with I moved by jumping from branch to branch.
To be on the safe side, I only moved by jumping to branches that are a suitable thickness … and so finally I made it back to the open road.“Now then, it’s all good and well that I made it back, but what to do now … first it would be to secure this guy’s food.”
When I looked at the dragon while saying that, the dragon went 『Kuon』 and looked like a small animal as it tilted its head.
When it grows up, it will have the firepower to roast humans well-done with one shot of its breath, I bet… Maa, let’s leave that for now; it’s all pointless to think about it now.
There happens to be good prey around, so I prepare my bow; coming this way is an unwary Wardeer; to this deer-type monster, with as a combo to the attack, I commence hunting.
Half of the meat I had gotten from hunting I made into a meat and aromatic herb soup for myself, and the other half was for this small red dragon-sama to eat.“They often say that having compa.s.sion in life is as important as having a companion in travels2 … but will it become commonly used in this world as well~?”
With terrifying vigor it devoured the deer meat, and further more, although the soup was food that it had only seen now for the first time, the tiny dragon begged for it, and while giving a bitter laugh, I leaked out that kind of soliloquy.
Maa, this kind of time spent isn’t so bad either; this type of carefree time also exists.
SKILLS
[a.s.saulting Kick]Lv22
[Craftsmanship]Lv56
[Stealth]Lv41
[Chivalrous Thief]Lv26 ↑1UP
[Fairy Language]Lv99 (Forced Acquisition) (Unable to be moved to Reserved Skills)
Reserved Skills
[Blacksmithing]Lv40
[Advanced Cooking]Lv11
ExP 4
t.i.tles Possessed: The One who Charmed Even the Fairy Queen, The One who Defeated a Great Foe Alone, ???
Second Names: “Fairy King Candidate”(jealous), “Chef of the Battlefield-san”
A/n:The travels with chibi-dragon begins … I guess?
And, whether you ignore it or meddle in it is all freely up to you.
Aside from big events, the events are all made by the game itself.