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220 – Let’s Make a Video

220 – Let’s Make a Video

“There was a Dragon?”

Yuris had clearly said there was nothing.

Only traces disguised as being made by Trolls remained.

Of course, I had thought she was hiding something on purpose.

‘It was actually Dragon traces?’

I thought she was hiding something insignificant on purpose.

Just hiding one minor element.

But there were Dragon traces.

I looked at Yuris.

She winked and smiled awkwardly.

“You deceived me.”

“Not deceived, but…”

Yuris smiled shyly.

Her reaction narrowed the eyes of the other companions.

“Yuris, you don’t mean…”

Nikki reacted particularly strongly.

Yuris shook her head at her words.

“Hehe, it’s not fair to monopolize Nikki alone.”

“…”

Nikki closed her mouth at Yuris’s words.

Nikki’s eyes turned to me this time.

It was then.

“Can we stop talking about that? Don’t we have more important things ahead of us right now? You’re too intense for Inferior species.”

Reina blocked Nikki and opened her mouth.

Everyone at the scene nodded at Reina’s words.

“Ahem.”

“That’s right. I’m sorry, everyone. I got unnecessarily excited.”

Yuris and Nikki looked at each other and smiled awkwardly.

“So, what’s the definite reason for the Dragon’s presence?”

Reina asked Yuris.

At her question, Yuris took out a sharp, white fragment from her bosom.

The palm-sized, glittering fragment looked like the scale of a creature to anyone.

Somewhere between leather and scale.

Too hard to be leather, and flexible enough to be a scale, it held a white light.

Everyone’s expression turned grim at the sight of the glittering fragment.

That was because of the unusual energy felt from the sharp, white fragment.

“Even though it’s a scale cut so small, I can feel its power.”

“It’s a Dragon’s scale.”

“If it’s that size, it’s an adult… right?”

Aurora answered Eileen’s question.

“It looks like a Dragon that hasn’t been an adult for very long. Books say that the scale size of an adult Dragon is about this big.”

Aurora, who measured the size with her hand, touched the fragment Yuris held out and estimated its size.

A Dragon that has just become an adult.

Everyone’s expression became serious as they confirmed the fact that Dragons actually exist.

“It’s a White Dragon.”

I also examined the scale.

White Dragon.

Unlike other Dragons, many of them had particularly reclusive personalities, and they spent a lot of time alone in their Lair.

Although smaller in size compared to other Dragons, it is one of the most difficult Dragons to subdue due to its graceful flying skills and excellent Magic skills.

That’s what was written in the ancient Dragon documents.

The one who wrote the ancient Dragon documents was the first Hero, so the reliability of this information was certain.

“Now that we’ve confirmed that Dragons appear, and what kind of Dragon appears, we need to prepare countermeasures.”

Nikki said.

Looking at her, I got up from my seat.

“According to this book written by the first Hero about hunting methods, it is necessary to secure a narrow terrain to catch a Dragon. Because if a Dragon that can fly rampages in a wide plain, it can’t be stopped.”

“That doesn’t mean we can just charge into its Lair.”

That’s true.

Who knows what’s in the Lair.

Rather, it was necessary to induce it to come out of the Lair.

And hunt the one that comes out.

The problem is.

“How are you going to lure it out?”

“…”

“Since it’s an impatient one, wouldn’t it come out if we provoke it? Considering that it chased away those who lived nearby, I think it hates anything entering its territory.”

I agreed to some extent with Eileen’s words.

However.

“With the intelligence of a White Dragon, it will know that it’s a provocation for luring it out and won’t come out. It might hide even more. Then the attack itself becomes impossible.”

Everyone closed their mouths at my words.

“It’s difficult.”

“It’s not easy. It’s different from ordinary monsters… And we can’t pressure it with divine power like the Demon King.”

“Let’s find a way first. We’ve found out that there’s a Dragon and what kind of species it is, so let’s report this and get support from His Majesty the Emperor if possible.”

Nikki said.

The jealous look from just now had completely disappeared, and she calmly led the meeting.

“First of all, let’s install defensive Magic and strengthen our defenses so that the Dragon doesn’t come to Helm Castle.”

In the end, they concluded the meeting with the decision to take their time and look for a way to catch the Dragon at the next meeting.

“I want to be alone.”

I was the first to jump up as soon as the meeting ended.

In case there were any more guests trying to approach me because of this incident.

“I’m telling you clearly, I’m not doing business today. I’m tired from the expedition, and I need a day off.”

It was thanks to the instinctive sense of danger that I might really be squeezed dry.

“Tch.”

“Okay.”

“Do as you wish, brother.”

The expedition team immediately backed down at my words.

That’s a relief.

I was able to protect my chastity again today.

Apart from that, I had a lot of worries.

‘If the expedition gets too long, it will be difficult to run the store.’

Frelia is temporarily in charge now, but that can’t continue.

The Succubus’s Illusion magic and my illusion are clearly different.

“I’m worried.”

What should I do?

I was about to return to my room thinking that when.

‘What is it?’

I felt a gaze from somewhere.

This was a feeling similar to the gaze I felt in the forest for the first time.

A feeling like someone was secretly watching me from somewhere.

I felt goosebumps on my spine, as if a stalker was secretly following me.

“Who is it?”

Nikki? Eileen?

I clearly said that I wouldn’t do Illusion magic today.

I turned my head.

But there was no one in the place where I felt the gaze.

“That’s strange.”

Not only Nikki but also Yuris was gone.

They had each returned to their rooms.

Nikki and Eileen stayed behind separately, saying they would have an additional meeting.

There’s no way they would follow me.

Something felt uneasy.

“It’s the gaze I felt from the forest.”

Nikki and Eileen didn’t realize what had happened between me and Yuris until Yuris took out the Dragon scale and said that I had lied.

But this gaze was the gaze I had felt from the forest of the Ice Mountain Range.

A secretive and shy gaze.

The presence was so subtle that I could feel the will to not be caught in any way.

I looked around here and there, but I couldn’t find the owner of the gaze.

“What was it?”

As I looked around and guarded to some extent, the gaze that had made my spine tingle had disappeared.

“It can’t be a ghost…”

I couldn’t easily shake off the anxiety that this gaze gave me.

And I looked out the window where I felt the gaze.

“Huh?”

I saw a Snowflake Bird staring at me intently.

“Why is that bird looking at me…?”

And the Snowflake Bird that made eye contact with me quickly disappeared.

That’s strange?

Monica, who had secretly observed Max and Yuris’s outdoor sex, followed Max and Yuris as they left.

It wasn’t that she followed them directly, but she followed Max while connected to the familiar she mainly used.

A very small Snowflake Bird that lives in the Ice Mountain Range.

Because its eyesight is better than any animal nearby, it was a bird that Monica raised directly as a familiar to monitor the surroundings.

She followed Max through the vision of the familiar, called Snowflake Bird because it looked like a snowflake.

From the time he entered Helm Castle to the time she saw him sitting inside with other women.

She stared at Max intently.

“He really looks like Brave.”

He was a carbon copy.

To the point where she would believe that Brave himself was reincarnated.

She blankly looked at Max.

Every time she saw him, she was reminded of Max’s muscular naked body that he had shown outdoors.

Her face turned red and she became breathless every time that scene came to mind.

Her heart was pounding and she couldn’t stay still.

That was strange.

It had been like this since the moment she saw the act of the two people intertwined naked.

The woman’s appearance as she took off her clothes and rubbed a man’s thing on her crotch.

Similarly, the man’s appearance as he enjoyed it together.

She couldn’t forget the image of the two people exchanging breaths while kissing each other.

Because of that, she followed Max through her familiar instead of going straight home.

Max, after returning, didn’t do anything special.

She wanted to watch more, but in the end, all Max did in the castle was talk to other people normally.

She couldn’t even hear the sound, so she didn’t know what they were saying.

But one thing she could guess was.

‘Those humans, could they all be the humans who came to find me?’

She had revealed herself a while ago and kicked out another human.

She remembered hearing a long time ago that humans are very collective animals, and once an opportunity arises, they stick together.

No way, right?

It was just that she had chased away an uninvited guest who had come to her yard.

But they’re actually coming to argue?

Then she saw her scale being held in the hand of the woman who had rolled around naked.

“Huh? That’s the scale I left to mark my territory?”

Don’t tell me they took that?

Those really rude humans.

They came into her front yard and made a fuss, and now they’ve even taken the marker that marked the front yard.

They had short lifespans, so they had no manners.

But she had no intention of doing anything.

If they didn’t interfere with her house any more, she could tolerate this level of rudeness.

“I, I’m merciful, um um.”

It wasn’t that she was afraid to talk at all.

Monica, who had shaken off her distractions, followed Max.

‘Brave.’

She continued to follow him using her familiar, hoping to see him change his clothes when he was alone.

But was it because she had followed him for too long?

Max, who felt something strange, made eye contact with her.

“Hiccup!”

Monica unknowingly disconnected from her familiar, and the Snowflake Bird flew away as if running away.

“I, I thought I was going to get caught.”

Thump, thump.

Her heart was beating so fast.

It was a very tense and trembling moment, but even in that situation, in her head.

“His eyes are really deep.”

She was reminded of Max’s appearance, which resembled Brave.

She wanted to go and see him more directly, but she didn’t have the courage to do so.

How could Monica, who doesn’t even talk to other members of her own species, go and find a man she’s meeting for the first time?

Then a brilliant idea came to her mind.

“L, let’s make a video! I can make a video with the memories I saw.”

Because that was what she was best at.

“I’m a genius after all.”

She smiled triumphantly.

She didn’t know if she could use the word genius in this situation.