Chapter 149 - Volume 8 (1/2)

Volume 8, Chapter 7: I met a Hero, Part 1

“…… Yuru-chan, is this “The Dragon’s Tendon”?”

“……Isn’t it?”

I replied Mizuki as we got off the carriage together.

At the foot of the mountain range that sat on the border of the Forces of Darkness, there were a group of five small nations called the [Northern Dragons].

Long story short, because the individual power of each country was too little, they formed an alliance of powers to repulse the forces of darkness, and to stand up to unreasonable demands from the larger powers like Gamble.

After a few weeks of travel, we arrived at Lucell, a country that was close to the front.

Nothing particular happened along the way. There were a few monster attacks, but the Knights defeated them handily, so I had no chance to make an appearance.

Although the monsters that appeared were different from those of Atra, according to Futa they were all common monsters in the Fantasy genre, I think this one was a g-goblin or something? It had quite the adorable name.

…… Isn’t it? The name felt like what you’d call an idol, some [XX-rin], so it’s probably quite cute.

Though, the fact of the matter is that we’ve arrived at Lucell, one of the five countries that made up the [Northern Dragon]. Telluza, the northernmost of them, had been destroyed by the forces of darkness.

According to the [Northern Dragon] nations, they were all nicknamed after parts of dragons, and Lucell was called [The Dragon’s Tendon].

…… Why did they choose such a specific part?

Give it a better name, darn you, like Dragon’s Tail, or Dragon’s Fang.

What. Was this country being teased for being plain? I thought so at first, but it turns out that the other countries had equally bad names, like [Dragon’s Adam’s Apple] and [Dragon’s Tongue] and [Dragon’s Tailbone].

Incidentally, Telluza was called [The Dragon’s Subcutaneous Fat].

I don’t know why.

“Welcome, Hero-sama, Saint-sama. On behalf of the Lucell Principality, we warmly welcome you!”

The slightly chubby king of Lucell welcomed us.

Well, even Lucell was called a Principality, it really only had a population of about 100,000, which was half of that that of even just the capital of Sail, so in my view, the King was really only something like the “chairman” of a city.

“Apologies for troubling you.”

And so Kyoji and the knights ignored the King, leaving the butler-looking fellow, who started following behind them on their mission to greet the king of Lucell.

““………””

My god, I almost can’t stand it anymore……!

“……King of Lucell, I am Yurushia. I hope we will get along.”

“…O…oOh, Lady Yurushia, I offer you all that I can give!”

I smiled as gently as I could and greeted him properly, and the King of Lucell seemed so moved. The people of the castle were also dabbing away their tears with their handkerchiefs. …… It must be tough being a small country.

King Lucell, whose mood seemed to have improved, told us about various things as he guided us in.

It seemed that the names of the kingdoms came from the body parts of an evil dragon defeated long ago. Several heroes had defeated the dragon, and taking its parts, they founded the kingdoms.

“In other words, my ancestor was one of the heroes that defeated that dragon.”

“Wow, that’s amazing.”

Well…… I guess I miscalculated.

It looks like they split up the parts quite finely, but where did the fangs, horns, and nails etc. go?

If the parts that they had received from fighting were these, then I think that those ancestors weren’t actually very useful at all……

I want to give up thinking about this for now, so please excuse my monotonous replies.

We’d come to Lucell so that we could use it as a forward base to take back Telluza.

It was difficult to assault with a large army, so it was rarely attacked, but was incredibly convenient for the dozens of us in the [Hero Party]to use.

As the armies sent forth by each country were bigger, they were gathering in a country that was better suited for large forces, and only the other heroes, including Sail’s, were gathering in this country.

“The Hero of Wind of Harko hasn’t arrived yet, but Suzark’s Hero of Flame has already come.”

“What about Kan-cha-… what about Kanzo-sama?”

“The Hero of Earth stopped by already and has already headed off.”

“I see.”

You’re not here, huh, Kan-chan…… Although it would get sultry if Kan-chan was here, but in its own way I like Kan-chan’s aesthetic desires.

But this is this and that is that, and I don’t intend to forgive Kan-chan either.

The Demon will lie and betray you, and only the “Contract” will be kept.

Well, the problem lies with the “Hero of Flame”, though.