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After the shocking performance of Arjen dusting off the red-hot dough that had been the ‘Sword Master’ just moments ago with both hands, everyone here became a polite audience. I said, “The traffic control is over.” I started talking lightly.

“Hmm. Everyone, have you calmed down?”

Looking at their faces, it seemed like they were calm, naive, scared, and out of their minds, but in any case, it was quite comforting to be in a situation where I could talk alone when there were so many people out there.

“Where you came from and what happened are actually not that important. After all, there is a separate owner of this land.”

Unless you’re an asshole, there’s no way anyone would know who I’m talking about. Even though this place looks so lush now, it was a land that Arjen had turned into ruins just a month ago.

And of course, this is also obvious, but most people would have noticed that the woman in front of them who just gave a spectacular performance was Arjen.

“My name is Eugene, and I have been entrusted with the management of this place directly by the two goddesses Stella and Prinia. Unfortunately, please understand that we cannot help you achieve your goal.”

The motive does not matter, whether it is one’s own greed or the order of the state. It would have been obvious that they came because they had their eyes set on this resurrected land anyway.

If you had come to investigate the ecosystem out of simple curiosity, you wouldn’t have been bothered or kicked out even if you had wandered around this land, but there is no reason to ask about that now.

From the first meeting, there is no need to give good treatment to those who make excuses by saying that they are descendants of Verfia, which was destroyed long ago, or who do not even try to talk to them and start sending arrows at them.

“Well, anyway, I understand that it comes from a country that is quite close. Are you still a religious person after seeing this? If you see something meaningless being said or said.”

If you think about it, there was no way Stella could have given the oracle to all of humanity at the same time, and since she couldn’t have done so, she would have delivered it to one of the members of the church as a representative. And of course the Pope would be the representative. Considering that the Vatican is located in Plane, located in the center of the continent, it was natural that people here in the southwest of the continent would approach it first rather than the speed at which the oracle spread.

“So, there are two options I can give you. One is to just keep going like this. The remaining thing is to experience how warm the dragon’s belly is. There are two like this.”

Of course, no one would choose the latter. Everyone hates dying, but even if they die, wouldn’t they want to leave a body behind? It is impossible to spend the last part of your life lying on a table rather than in a coffin.

Since my words were an expression of my willingness to tolerate Arjen preying on humans like me, Arjen also looked at me with a slightly surprised expression.

‘No, you need to keep a poker face to help set the mood…’

Of course, it’s not that I don’t understand her feelings. Because I am also a human being, I cannot say that the image of her preying on fellow human beings is good even with empty words.

But that was still a story from when my relationship with Arjen wasn’t that long ago. At that time, I was anxious that if Arjen continued to gain a taste for human flesh, one day I would also be eaten if I made a mistake.

I don’t have any worries about that now. In short, it also meant that the bond between me and Arjen had become so strong that there was no need to worry about such useless things. Now, if Arzen is going to eat one or two people, do I really need to worry about that?

Still, is there no such thing as a shared sense of ethics? That’s a bit of a wrong approach. In the first place, people are more indifferent to others than you can imagine. They are not my family or acquaintances. Since they are not even people from the same dimension, there is a high possibility that they are identical in appearance but different in substance.

Aside from everything else, what kind of mercy can I talk about when someone points a sword at me and shoots an arrow? If that were possible, I would have reached nirvana long ago.

“I will not accept any questions. Those who choose the former, please quietly return the way you came, and those who choose the latter, please do what you were trying to do to me earlier.”

Of course, I had no intention of being treated quietly like I just did. If I were aware, it would be no problem to prepare for their attack through Sirocco.

Despite my preparation, the people in front of me immediately got up and tried to run away. I belatedly had a good idea and caught their footsteps.

“Wait, try stopping again.”

“Why? Should I just kill them all?”

“Hee Iik!”

“Sorry, sorry! Please spare your life…!”

They stopped walking again in shock when they heard Arjen speak in a slightly mischievous manner, probably because they misunderstood my meaning. Still, he must have received mental training as a regular soldier of a country, but he looked very frightened. The Sword Master explosion show shown earlier certainly had that influence, but it seems that even humans cannot help the instincts of a creature facing a predator called a dragon.

“Don’t misunderstand. Because I have no intention of changing my words. I just have something to say to the leaders of your countries.”

If we just wait for Stella’s oracle, many more people besides these people will visit. To eliminate such a cumbersome process, it was necessary to spread the information here as well. I took out the pen and paper I had kept in my pocket.

“Hmm… I should write briefly.”

I wrote down the information about myself and the outline of how I would rule this land in the future twice and handed it to those who seemed to be representatives of each group. Even though the envelope wasn’t stamped with wax, as soon as he received the paper from me, he kept it in his arms as if it were an important letter.

“Then, please take care of yourselves, and I will leave now as I have more places to visit.”

The original purpose of going out was to see with my own eyes the area to be assigned. There was no time to waste time on events like this.

“Ah, it looks like the two camps aren’t getting along well, but I’m sure they won’t do anything foolish like start a fight in this forest just because I’m gone.”

In my life, I had never even owned a house in my name, let alone land, but once I had the mindset that this place was already my land, the words they would say naturally came out as if they were a rich person who owned a huge private land.

“, I will keep that in mind.”

“Then let’s just keep doing what we were doing, Arzen. I want to see it all from the sky again.”

After receiving a positive answer, I encouraged Arjen. There would be no problem if he left on foot like this, but he thought it would be better to clearly reveal his identity. People tend not to believe things they haven’t seen in person, but if word was passed in the form of a letter, there was a possibility that the heads of the two countries might not take my words at face value.

Flap!

As Arjen revealed his body and moved his wings once, the expressions of those around him quickly cooled. The expression on his face was so sad that I thought a person could express even more fear there. The more I looked at Arjen’s true appearance, which gave off a beautiful silver glow, the more amazed I was, so I was in no position to say anything.

“Let’s see….”

We flew into the sky and watched for a while as the two forces returned in the direction they came from. That’s what they said, but there was a high chance that they would really go crazy and do some harm to the forest. That didn’t happen, but now that I think about it, I feel angry that I almost died.

“Well, I don’t think Arjen will ever starve.”

Instead of providing free and unlimited food, serious criminals are taken in and used as food for Arjen. At first glance, it may seem like a very unethical thing to do, but from Argen’s perspective, it is a kind of trade activity. They exchange food for food. Isn’t this much more rational and gentlemanly than trading corn for diamonds?

“Even now, what you said earlier… were you sincere?”

Arjen still felt uncertain about whether he could eat humans. I answered, stroking the beautiful scales on Arjen’s back.

“Okay then. No matter what Arjen does, I will never hate Arjen.”

For you, I kicked away the opportunity to go back to the world I lived in and came back. I thought it would be embarrassing to say that out loud, so I swallowed it. However, Arjen seemed to have used ‘mind reading’, which he did not normally use on me, perhaps to understand my true intentions.

“Eujin!!”

Even as he returned to his human form in the air and was falling at an incredible speed, Arjen came into my arms, shedding tears. I called Sirocco and landed safely just before hitting the ground, then swept Arjen’s back in my arms.

It’s also a shame. I shouldn’t have even thought about it.