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I cleared my throat loudly on purpose. Whatever it was, it was just to draw attention to me. Only the people who were surprised by my sudden behavior looked at me, but Viola did not turn her head to me and was rolling her eyes here and there, looking for who would open her mouth next.

It would be wrong to attract the attention of people who don’t want to see anyone, so I called her name specifically.

“Viola?”

The voice he spoke did not contain any tension or trembling. It was a good result that I would like to praise myself for, as I was able to successfully suppress the fear that was stimulated at the cell level.

You may ask what’s so important about managing your voice, but even if everyone in the world was afraid of her, I shouldn’t have shown that kind of sign. This fact can be seen from the fact that when I first began to feel the presence of Mana, Kaela, who used to be quiet, cried loudly.

In order to comfort Kaela, who was very sad at that time, we whispered our love for a while and mingled with each other. Kaela was like that, and it was obvious how much she would have to suffer if she showed signs like that in front of Viola, who always yearned for affection.

“Okay, just a moment. Just clean up all this trash♡”

Viola spits out scary words in a very lively tone. No, it’s because I have some business to attend to those scum…

“Hiik…!”

One by one, these people are unable to hold back their screams as their lives become more intense. Naturally, those people fell head over heels. It seemed like if I continued like this, I would kill everyone I was interrogating, so I hurriedly tried to dissuade Viola. In times like this, actions speak louder than words.

“Stop it.”

He grabbed Viola’s head with his hand and held her in his arms. Because she was a little taller than me, she seemed to hesitate a little, but there was no one to care about that at this moment when her life was at stake.

“Uh…? Uh…?”

And Viola, the person being hugged, couldn’t accept the momentary change in the situation and made a stupid noise. The vitality that was flowing out of him without paying any attention to his surroundings just fell into my arms when he was held in my arms. It wasn’t all gone, but there was still some life left, and this warlike personality seemed to be a characteristic of Viola compared to other personalities.

“You can’t kill them all.”

“Ugh, well… But…”

“You need to know where you came from and why you came so you can prevent the next one.”

I didn’t say this out of mercy for no reason. A person’s life was never light, but he made up his mind to voluntarily return here from Earth. The idea was to shake off as much of modern people’s way of thinking as possible and live in accordance with the values of Arjen, the dragon.

Accepting Arjen’s cannibalism was an extension of this mindset. This is because the fact that I keep restricting things to Arjen and making her concede based on human standards can be inconvenient for her.

The reason why Viola had been worried about killing them all was not because she felt sorry for their lives, but because she was curious about what King Quichera was thinking. If you need to know the exact intention, you can either end it with the people who came here, or go and negotiate in person.

“Well, I see. As expected, the owner is amazing… cool…♡”

It’s not like I said anything particularly great, and it’s not like Viola really didn’t even think about this. It is just a characteristic of Viola to paint her face with gold like this for something that is not a big deal. It’s no joke, she could somehow praise me for drinking water.

Anyway, since we succeeded in killing the fierce momentum from just a moment ago, it was now time to ask those people.

“Sniff…♡”

“It tickles.”

I wish you would stop sticking your nose into my collarbone and smelling it.

“Keuhm, anyway… I have a question for all of you who came this far and risked your lives. Is there a man wearing chain mail?”

I pointed out a person who seemed like he would be able to answer quickly and well, but his response was very clumsy. Even though he called me, he still seemed to be dazed, and unlike him, he seemed to have a dazed side.

“…Aha.”

I wondered why, but I felt something moving in my chest, and when I looked down, I saw Viola glaring at people with eyes that were not yet dead. Well, for a normal person, it would be impossible for a normal person to open their mouth just because someone is calling them, in a situation where everyone would be frowned upon if they opened their mouth just a moment ago.

“You can say anything. Because I’m holding on so tightly.”

As I said that, I hugged Viola even harder. Actually, people look at me with eyes that seem to ask what would happen if I just shake it off and go on a rampage, so it could be said to be a useless worry. I’m saying this repeatedly, but she and no one else would never leave my embrace of her own accord. Even though she is this aggressive, Viola is still Arjen’s personality.

“Sniff…♡”

Hello, look. He smells my body in earnest, saying he would like to hug me a little more, but there is no way he would have time to kill someone. The man, who knew nothing about the inside story, was still hesitating whether he could open his mouth, so he had no choice but to threaten.

“If you don’t open your mouth, we will all die. Do you think I can’t do it?”

As I conveyed my message to Sirocco in my heart, she blew the air around me with a pleasantly gloomy wind. Of course, I didn’t have the guts to really kill him. It’s because I’m not cool-headed enough to kill someone who wasn’t even trying to kill me yet. However, responding to fear with fear seemed to have some effect, as the man struggled to open his mouth.

“Yes, yes… What’s going on?”

“Let’s start with the full statement. My name is Eugene. I am the party who sent the letter to that country. What about you?”

“Well, my name is Belk. I am a white general belonging to the Kingdom Army.”

This means that a hundred commanders can command 100 troops under their command. Is this roughly equivalent to a company commander position?

“I know you came from Kichera because you said it loudly, but what on earth were you thinking? No, if you look at the reactions of everyone who came here, you can see that they didn’t come with anything in mind, but just came because they were ordered to do so. Let’s change the question a bit. Why did they send you here?”

Unless there are so many criminals that they are being processed for the purpose of executing them in droves, is it possible to send people to Arjen’s Lair? Considering that even 300 years ago, most of the people who came to Rare were tributes, their current visit was completely incomprehensible.

“Your Majesty, your Majesty would like to do business with you. If you need anything, we will accommodate you as much as possible, and we hope for your help in recovering our territory.”

I nodded after hearing that. I still didn’t understand. Of course, the direction has changed a bit.

“…No, why…?”

I certainly sent a letter. The letter clearly wrote about me and what I would do. I was really curious about how to accept that and come up with the option of ‘negotiating with me’.

It’s been a long time since I couldn’t understand someone else’s psychology like this. The King of Kichera is either an unfathomable genius or an idiot beyond imagination.

“…I guess we’ll have to meet in person and discuss this.”

I understood clearly this once. This means that the other person is someone with whom you will not be able to communicate at all through letters or speaking through someone else’s mouth. Originally, I had planned to visit the human country after plowing all of the fields, but it seemed like I would have to advance my plan a little.

Now, all that remains is the disposition of those in front of us. Unfortunately, it was not possible to return it safely.

There were many reasons for this, but in the first place, this is not a place where you can visit without a reason. Since this is Arjen’s rare and not mine, it is right to leave the treatment of intruders to Arjen’s will. First of all, ‘kill them all’ was the national rule among the dragons, so I couldn’t dissuade them from doing so.

Second, it is to raise awareness. Even though many people have already died, we dispatched people blindly anyway, and if there are people who return safely, the likelihood that more people will come back in the future increases. To be honest, the fact that I sent the humans who invaded last time alive probably accounts for quite a bit of the reason why this delegation came here.

In the first place, it was difficult to hope for a self-purifying effect of awareness among humans at a time when people were entering a place that had been a land of death with no living creatures left for the past 300 years, just because its appearance had changed.

Then, there is one method that works well. It will kill them all. Although grass and trees have grown luxuriantly, and dry rivers and lakes have overflowed again, this clearly shows that this is still a land where one must not set foot.

“……What happens to us?”

As if my thoughts were inadvertently revealed through his expression, a man named Velk asked in a very nervous voice. I expressed it as euphemistically as possible.

“I will give you time to pray.”