Chapter 98 (1/2)

”Sakuya ran away”

His shoulders slu house and muttered that truth to his peers

Right after he woke up, he had made for the cave Sakuya lived, but it was already an e for her, he found a e addressed to him, carved with claw at the cave's entrance

'I' home I'm sorry'

They were extreht back memories of a once-human Sakuya The characteristics were similar, and that only made Rudel more depressed

Saas didn't knohat he was supposed to say to a depressed Rudel Everyone present was surprised at a situation where a dragon had run away

”W-what am I supposed to say… cheer up”

But Enora alone forsook him

”Hoon anymore You don't have any reason to stay here”

On her cold words, those around stepped in to stop her

”Quit it, Enora”

But without see to pay it any mind, Rudel replied

”Yeah, that's why I've decided to search for her I got per separately for a while”

”They gave permission? Well, with your status, I doubt they could refuse”

Before being a dragoon, Rudel was the white knight For a vital knight to the country of Courtois, having a dragon run aas nothing more than an embarrassment

But more than his own evaluation, Rudel lah to want to run away

He was depressed because he had made Sakuya sad, and not the fact she had run away

”Then I'll be off”

With teetering steps, Rudel started into air movement and left the spot

”… I've already gotten used to it, but that guy's definitely flying, isn't he? He's not juht?”

As the light-natured knight muttered, everyone apart from Enora nodded

Arriving at the dragons' dwellings a few days later, Rudel was in tatters

He had given chase in a hurry,the journey practically eht and a flask

But without paying it ic While the taste was terrible, as long as it quenched his throat, it wasn't a problem

It was a spell with terrible efficiency and an action he would only coency

But having once spent a long while ca as he could s, it wouldn't be a problem

'Kid, what did you do? Sakuya's holed herself up in the cave, and she won't come out'

After arriving in the dragons' dwellings, he brought his feet straight to the cave Sakuya used as a stronghold When he did, he found Marty's dragon Mystith, who had brought her hunted prey to the entrance

What seemed to be pray was clearly not the sort of fish she could catch in the lake

Even larger than Mystith, it was a lifefore

”I'rew mindful of it…”

Rudel tried to convey this hard-to-explain situation in a way Mystith would also understand

'… What's that? They go incessantly evaluating every single thing and sticking a rank onto it? How idiotic'

”My thoughts exactly”

'Sakuya, I brought you dinner, so let's eat together I caught the fish you like most'

”… This is a fish?”

Looking at the fearsome lifeform, it definitely did have a dorsal fin and tail But on top of being larger than a dragon, it made the foulest of expressions

Rather than fish, calling it a sea monster hit the mark better

'So? It's quite tasty The bloody bastards live in the sea, and when they got a bit stuck up and tried attacking my kinsmen, I decided to eat them And you knohat, they turned out to be delicious'

”That's definitely not a fish, is it”

'As long as it's tasty, kid'

In order to eat the fish that was at a level even Rudel had to put in a retort, Sakuya came out of the cave But as soon as she spotted Rudel, she bit onto the fish and took it with her back into the cave depths

'Hey! Come out here and eat! That's bad manners!!'

”Sakuya! I' you, please come back!!”

Rudel continued desperately calling out to Sakuya holed up in the back of the cave, but it didn't have an effect

'H, and breath accuracy, eh'

”Yes, Sakuya can't help but be bad at them, and we can't raise our rank,”

'Are such things really necessary? I can't understand it in the slightest Well, once you grow big, you should be able to do it naturally, but in contrast to her body, that girl's still a child'

At the lake Mystith made her den, Rudel discussed with her how to deal with Sakuya's troubles

'In the first place, she destroyed all the targets, and stopped in the air for a fixed period of tiht? Just as so bad that she deserved to fail?'

”Who knows? I don't get it either They toldfor wit”

'That's what they call oalpost'

Conversing with a dragon that held a coreed and nodded Around the onto the prey Mystith had brought back

It was a situation that delighted Rudel, and he wanted to go around petting the nearby dragons at once But with Sakuya's matter, he held himself back

Rudel couldn't seeht verification with Mystith over the otherhim

”Ah, there's another thing Sakuya didn't have any energy at the dragon stables At first, she was in high spirits, but she grew more and more depressed by the day… do you have any idea what the reason ht be?”

'The dragon stables? How nostalgic As long as she went about it nor happen?'

”Let's see… when she's talking with ons often cry out In these sort of uuess”

'… Kid, they're ht of her'

”What?”

'I' her! Those damn brutesss!!'

”M-my word!”

After hearing the general circu bullied at the dragon stables While dragons all shared a race, they would usually keep a level of distance from one another

But as gray dragons didn't know life in the wild, they lived affected by one another more than necessary

While their strength and intelligence didn't reach the level of a wild dragon, when it caon was the best But for the gray dragons who couldn’t help but prioritize the group, if their foe showed any weakness, they would look down on the order

”W-what should I do!?”