Chapter 108 - Sorry for the Worry (3) (1/2)

“W-w-w-what are you talking about, furball? Isn’t that stupid, really? Kah! What a nasty thing to say yah. What the heck. What’s wrong with you. How could you say that? I was so surprised. Nirindo-ya!”

“Calm down, what’s with the dialect?”

This is bad.

This is bad, this is bad!

I made a mistake! This is my fault! I let my guard down a little too much!

It’s not surprising.

It was over as soon as Aoi showed up in front of these guys.

What to do?

What should we do?

What can I do!

Help me, Mikuma-san! Shouhei-kun!

I don’t have a clue what to do because the brain of our household is away!

“I-I-I-I-I don’t know what you’re talking about, Kunpei doesnt get it!”

“You’re not very good at lying, are you?”

Shut up!

Don’t look at me like I’m pitiful!

“Wah! Oh! Nah! Hey! What? That’s not it!”

“Calm down, okay? Let me finish.”

Gasara grabbed me by my shoulders to calm me down.

“Kunpei-san! What’s wrong? Is that criminal lion bullying you!?”

“Kunpei, what’s wrong?”

“Hii!”

Aoi and Rouge, who had been watching me from afar, ran up to me.

As soon as Gassara saw the two of them, he let out a short scream and backed away from me.

”Hmm. Kunpei, take a deep breath. Inhale, exhale.”

Suuu, haaa.

“What did he do? It’s okay! I’m here for you!”

Rouge grabbed me by the shoulders from behind and held me in place.

Aoi grabbed my hands from the front and pulled them up to her chest.

“No, uh Gasara, you see, so…”

“Kazamachi! Really, calm down! I’m not going to do anything!”

Gasara raised his voice frantically from a distance.

Huh?

What’s he panicking for?

“I just wanted to check! We weren’t really into this job to begin with! We decided from the beginning to just kill time and get the hell out of here! If we find a dragon, we’re not going to touch it, we’re going to leave it alone!”

“Eh?”

Seeing Gasara like that, I calmed down somewhat.

What do you mean?

Didn’t he and his siblings come back for the dragon?

At the very least, the Western Treasure Hunters Association planned a major survey for Aoi, right?

“Ah, um, Gasara. Sorry, I calmed down. Can I hear more?”

That’s right. Calm down. Think and act.

Be cool, Kunpei.

What I should do now is to gather information.

To make sure that Mikuma, Shouhei, and my father who’s in charge of the brain can make a clear decision.

I pulled off Aoi and Rouge and approached Gasara.

Gasara seems somewhat frightened by the two of them, and he’ll only be able to talk without any hesitation if it’s just me.

After working together for the past few hours, I know that this lion is not such a bad guy.

Leaving out the fact that he’s a treasure hunter, there’s no reason to be wary of this guy.

Just because our first meeting was the worst, I shouldn’t identify him as an enemy from the start.

Let’s talk about it.

Dialogue is important.

“Sorry, I think I understand why you’re so wary of us treasure hunters and why you’re hostile to us. It all makes sense now that I’ve seen the girl.”

“I’m the one who’s sorry. I’d like to hear it for now and I’ll decide after that.”

Finally slumping to the ground, Gasara looked up at me with an apologetic look.

Gasara continuously glanced at Aoi with vigilance.

Well that would be, when I saw him for the first time, he was running away while crying, and even though he didn’t die, he was hit by a pretty powerful thunderball.

“I’ve decided that we, the Paradise siblings, will no longer have anything to do with the dragon. In the first place, it was from an anonymous tip, and it was mainly the result of me being in high spirits, but Aniki wasn’t enthusiastic about it from the start. It was also the first time that that battle junkie sister said she didn’t feel like she could win.”

“Hmm? Is that about the egg kidnapping?”

Come to think of it, Aoi beat Nanairo-san, didn’t she?

According to what Alba told me, it seems that a dragon is weakened before and after laying eggs. But even in such a state, Aoi was still able to compete with Nanairo-san.

Seijitsu-san is apparently a person with a lot of ability and judgment, so he wouldn’t make the decision to become an enemy again with a creature with such a difference in ability.

”Yeah, there was suspicious information sent to the Hunter’s Association several times over the past few years. We and the other hunters didn’t take it seriously either. We were just bored after a big job, so we went to check it out casually, and we really freaked out when the dragon was there.”

“Information?”

Who else knew that Aoi and Yule were atop Tusk Crag?

And from quite a while ago?