episode_0015

Ispi, the elf who requested transportation of tribute and an audience, could not help but be embarrassed.

I suppressed the rising fear and tried hard to request an audience, and it was true that I felt relieved until my request was accepted.

In any case, there was no such thing as an unreasonable thing to kill someone for talking to them.

However, when she brought up the topic of eradicating the human village to Arjen, she became very confused again.

This is because the answer that came back was not helpful at all. Not long after paying tribute, the village was destroyed. This is by no means something to be taken lightly.

“It was something I had to do. It has nothing to do with you guys.”

When I heard that it was irrelevant, I thought, ‘Oh, is that right? That’s a good thing.’ Elves and other elves were not insensitive to safety to the extent that it could be said.

‘If I make a mistake, I’ll definitely set the forest on fire…’

Even though I was thinking that, I didn’t actually open my mouth. It was natural. Who is the target in front of you? Isn’t it an evil being with no tolerance or compromise and a crazy dragon that kills even dragons like it without hesitation?

” That’s right! That’s because I said it wasn’t!”

Ispi was startled by Arjen’s sudden action of raising his voice, and his entire body stiffened. This is because they overlooked the fact that dragons can read the other person’s mind to some extent and continued to doubt it.

‘Die…!’

Ispi didn’t think that a dragon with such a vicious temper would spare the target of his anger. Just as the flash was about to pass by, the harsh energy emanating from Arjen subsided.

“Arjen. Are you angry?”

“Ah, no no! You’re not angry at all?”

The person who calmed Arjen’s anger was someone who looked like a young human male. The reason he described it this way was because he had Arjen sitting on his lap and was comforting her.

There was no way the being patting down the crazy dragon was human. But it didn’t seem to be a dragon either.

‘W-what is that person?’

Treating a dragon like a child like that would be impossible unless it was the same dragon. However, the man in front of me wasn’t using proverbs, and above all, I couldn’t feel any magical power.

‘omg! I-I see…!’

All living things have some form of mana. Nevertheless, there was no other way to explain the fact that I couldn’t feel it at all, other than that it was intentionally hidden. Ispi misunderstood that the man who sat Arjen on his lap was a much stronger dragon than her.

‘You’re making a ridiculous mistake… That elf seems to have a weird head, so you shouldn’t eat it.’

Arjen finished thinking about ISP in his own way. The reason for the conclusion is a bit strange, but it was fortunate for ESPI.

“Huh…!”

Ispi prostrated himself, chewing his lower lip so hard that it felt painful. All of my random thoughts were read by Arjen, so I didn’t want to think about anything useless.

Even if you responded obediently to audience requests and questions, there was no guarantee that you would be obediently sent back. So, ESP decided to use his words and actions as politely as possible.

“Thank you for accepting my request for an audience. If you don’t mind, I’ll just head back.”

“What is it? I came here to ask a question, and now that I’ve heard all the answers, I want to go? I think this is the place you come if you want to…”

Sure enough, as ISP expected, Arzen seemed quite uncomfortable. In the worst case scenario, I might have to say goodbye to an arm or a leg.

“I thought it was a place….”

However, Arjen stopped speaking and began to look at the man who had lent his knee to him. The man’s expression showed a feeling of regret.

“……Go quickly.”

‘also…!’

In response to Arjen’s order to congratulate the guests, Ispi kicked his seat with all his might and retreated as if running away. He had to somehow convey his conclusion to the village.

Next to the crazy dragon is a dragon who is presumed to be much stronger than her, and all of Arjen’s strange behavior recently is a result of that.

***

“It went.”

I looked at the back of the elf leaving the throne room as if he was running away for a moment, and then made eye contact with Arjen.

“Eujin… Are you angry?”

“No? Why should I be angry?”

“But aren’t you just disappointed that I treated the elf…?”

I snorted inwardly at that question. How can the elf I just met for the first time say that I’m angry at Arjen?

However, I couldn’t understand what the elf was saying, so I was concentrating on Arjen’s words, but Arjen suddenly raised his voice, so I just asked him if he was angry.

“Not at all. Did you think I was disappointed because you asked me if I was angry?”

“Ah, no… But I thought he looked sad because I tried to kill the elf without permission…”

I felt like this misunderstanding arose because Arjen had never read my thoughts since I learned to speak.

“Why be sad about something like that? It’s not like you need my permission. I was just mourning for a while because the elf seemed like he was going to die soon.”

I was aware that Arjen was trying to kill the elf. To be honest, asking him if he was angry was also an indirect signal to Arjen if he was really going to kill him.

Even though the little girl who was brought in with me in the first place was a little noisy, it was Argen who chewed, opened, tasted, and enjoyed it all at once.

If you think about it alone, wouldn’t it be safe to say that the elf’s survival just now literally used up all of her luck in her life?

‘Anyway, I followed Arjen to see if I could endure him eating an elf…’

Because it was such a short meeting, I couldn’t make any judgments. However, after looking at it for a long time, I felt that Arjen was clearly displeased, so I couldn’t say anything.

“Ehehe… I see…”

Arjen felt relieved and clung to me, kissing my neck and collarbone over and over again.

Grumble….

“Oh…!”

Suddenly, a growling sound came from Arjen’s stomach. Arjen, whose cheeks were bright red, belatedly covered my ears, but I had already heard enough. Meanwhile, looking at Arjen like that, I felt somewhat sorry.

‘I guess it won’t work.’

Next to me, Arjen is constantly suffering from hunger and is fidgeting while looking at me.

Just because I’m a human, I don’t even touch humans, and when I look at her fretting about whether or not she should eat elves, which are similar to humans, I once again wondered what qualifications I had to make her starve.

I thought I could just take turns with Kaela every meal, but Kaela said that eating for me was just a temporary solution and that if I didn’t eat properly in the first place, problems would arise someday.

The answer was fixed anyway. At some point, Arjen will have to cannibalize. In that case, I thought it would be right for me to at least give in to the sincerity she showed me.

“After eating, Arzen.”

“Hehe, I’m sorry, Eugene. Pretend I didn’t hear it…huh?”

Arjen belatedly made a dumb sound at my words. Arjen immediately realized what the phrase ‘come after eating’ meant.

“Ah…! no! I can endure more…!”

She waved her hand as if she thought I would bear it reluctantly and responded that it was okay. I spoke more clearly.

” Come after eating. Argen.”

“……Eat, come?”

“Yes.”

“If you eat elf… you won’t hate it, right?”

“Yes.”

“You hate me…”

“Never.”

Saliva ran down the corner of Arjen’s mouth. How long in the world did I have to endure to end up like that? I felt increasingly sorry for Arjen.

“I’m sorry… I tried to be patient… I really tried to be patient…”

“I should apologize. I think I’ve been thinking too much about myself.”

When I lightly kissed Arjen, she quickly ran out to the restaurant with a happy expression on her face. It was much faster than the elf that had just run away.

Watching that, I was worried about how hungry Arjen must have been.

To begin with, Arzen only ate humans, elves, and dwarves. If he was sticking by her side because he loved her, at least he shouldn’t have forced her to make a sacrifice.

If I couldn’t tolerate it, I should have left her from the beginning, or at least I shouldn’t have said things like I loved her.

It was my will to stay by Arjen’s side, and it was my will to love him until I die. In that case, I also had to accept Arjen’s eating of my own volition.

As I thought about it, I realized that although it is true that I would still be a bit reluctant if I were a human, I thought it would be okay if I were an elf.

It may be a bit discriminatory, but… well, it is said that elves also give tribute mainly to serious criminals, so let’s overlook that.

Even though they’re elves, if they don’t have enough people like humans, wouldn’t they have to fill them with innocent people?

“Eugene! I’m here!”

After I was lost in thought for a moment, Arjen quickly came back. Perhaps because I had done thorough aftercare, the room was no different from before I left, to the point where I couldn’t even remember that I had killed an elf.

“What kind of elf was it?”

The question I asked with the intention of at least praying for his soul to rest in peace received an unexpected answer.

“Yes! It was a half elf. Perhaps because half-elves were persecuted by elves, there are at least one or two of them included in the offerings.”

“…….”

The minimal level of favorability I had for the elf that I had been thinking about just a moment ago had completely disappeared.

I guess I had a very distorted prejudice about the elves of this world. what? ‘No matter what, I’m an elf’?

The thought that filled the place where preconceived notions were removed was, ‘There is no difference between humans and elves.’