Vol 1 Chapter 34 (1/2)

Chapter Three

The Decision

(Part 4)

“Dammit, dammit, dammit!”

After leaving the branch, the Head Royal Monster Laboratory, Effy Mansel staround of his coach er

Of course, the cause of his anger was a certain elf girl he met at the branch

(Her eyes, they just won’t stay away…!)

Constantly appearing in his mind were eyes like those that used to look at him when he was in the royal capital’s university

Looking down on him as inferior, full of contempt, people ould sometimes even look at him with pity

Although he wasn’t a noble, he was a reat effort to be accepted into the university That didn’t h

However, he lost in practical skills to beastkin, ain lost in pharmaceutics to beastkin

In front of their specialized talents, he tasted defeat many times

Mansel, who had put nothing but huge aht from the start, had his heart warp as the defeats continued to pile up, eventually beco distorted

(Dammit!)

Although the other people in the dining area were the ones to have eyes filled with contempt, he didn’t notice them and only looked at Ilya and Haku Still, even if Ilya’s appearance was such that one wouldn’t forget it if they saw her, that was trivial co that caused her to leave such a deep impression on him

He made two miscalculation

There was a noble that was acquainted with the king, and Haku was the child of the dragon God

(The way things are going…)

Despite his face distorting it anger, he paled at the thought of his future

Mansel desperately attee his current situation, but while his gaze swam every direction in attempt to find some sort of hint, he finally realized that the outside scenery hadn’t beenfor some time now

He knocked on the door of his coach, calling for someone

“What’s the matter?”

“It seee our route”

“Change routes? Tell hi so idiotic!”

“Y-yes!”

When the driver such the suard to convey Mansel’s command

“Every last one of the but hindrances…!”

A short tiuild lance opened the door to the coach

“It looks like some wyverns settled down e routes”

“Wyverns…?”

“Yes Veluun’s townspeople testified There’s no doubting it”

“Nn…”

Hearing that there yverns, Mansel hesitated

There was some research material discovered at his destination, Dotoke Plateau, and it was so time He wanted to obtain it as fast as possible However—

“Oi, that guy said wyvern settled down”

“Yeah It looks like there’s a clan of them”

“Then, isn’t there eggs too?”

When a youngto say, he furrowed his brows

“It’s impossible for us to beat them in our current state”

He had eighteen guards

Because it was declared that it was impossible with their current number, just how much of a threat was a clan of wyverns? Nonetheless, the phrase, “current war potential,” also had another , “current reward”

Whether or not he knew that, Mansel didn’t draw back

Far fro intimidated, he even smiled ominously

“It’s not like you’ll need to defeat any of the”

“But to take an egg without defeating any is a bit…”

“I’ll put out an additional reward How about three times as much?”

“…”

“It can’t be helped then Five times”

“… … If sodom”

“Of course”

Mansel s like that at all

Then, Mansel’s group, who teed their destination, reached the town of Veluun at last For Veluun, that was no e amounts of money rarely visited

Although the toallets were pleased with being temporarily favored by theuild youth felt uneasy

A little while after that, a short while after Mansel left for the royal capital

Athe fields noticed his son looking at so in the sky

“Hey! Move your hands, don’t just idle around!”

“Pop…”

“Eh?”

“What… are those?”

“Those…?”

Multiple black spots flew through the sky Although their altitudes and distances differed, they all circled round and round around the village

Before he realized it, his son’s hand was grasping his clothes tightly It was out of fear

The black spots gradually grew large, revealing themselves as part of the species that could be considered above all other living things, a species of dragon

“They’re…”

The father muttered

“… Wyverns”

As the faest existences were More than just for himself, his expression was stained with fear

On a certain day, soation visited

“Good , Charon-san”

“Ah, goodIlya-chan Sorry about the time”

Charon, who had left early in the , visited Ilya As he was in an unusually hurried mood, Ilya braced herself

“It’s an e to the royal capital”

“… A clan?”

“Yes Soes have already been attacked, counter prepared by the castle and association headquarters”

Wyverns… they had the least dragon eleon closer to a beast than to the lowest ranked wind dragon However, as part of the strongest species, if a clan of thenated level

Like other kinds of dragons, wyverns held a strong sense of territorial boundaries and wouldn’t leave their territories unless so major happened Their behavior was abnormal

“Do you know the cause?”

“… It sees”

Ilya was at a loss for words

“It seeates came across them en route to their destination”

“… Without… hunting the parents?”

“Yes, although their guards proposed hunting them, it seems that they wouldn’t hear it”

Although she had given Mansel her worst possible evaluations when he visited the other day, it looks as though he took yet another nosedive His speed was miraculous

As Ilya had been registered to the uild under an alias for some time now, due to the nature of the job’s instability, she could understood the guards’ judge to make money

However, they should have firh it would be hard

“So, why did you come to me?”

“I wanted to hear your opinion The king and headquarters chief nominated you directly”

“It’s nothing thatTo begin with, why did the delegation take the dragon egg?”

“For soation’s leader see, hePractically all of h he wouldn’t be executed if he clarifies so?”

(T-h-a-t-g-u-y…!)

That was just too stupid, the dragon species weren’t y it would have been faster to discuss with Mithledge Kingdom That wouldn’t cause problems to other people

Holding back her sier and dissatisfaction, she calhed

Incidentally, just as Mithledge Kingdo was born froon God before Jean

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