episode_0246

Asha and Adele suddenly started eating salmon before washing their bodies. Eugene, who was watching the scene, wondered what he was doing, but in fact, it was a natural procedure.

Eugene didn’t know that he had been lying around with Arjen for nearly three weeks, but Asha and Adele hadn’t eaten anything since leaving Rare.

Asha and Adele did not starve because they lacked ability. The two clearly learned from Eugene how to catch animals.

Unfortunately, even as young dragons, they are the highest level predators in the ecosystem. And these two still didn’t know how to hide their presence.

Since they are unable to hide their extremely evil aura and are emitting a full-fledged aura, they are aware of whether they are carnivores or herbivores and have come to avoid going near them.

Therefore, fish, for which there was no such concept among land creatures, became the first meal they could put in their mouths.

“Um…! Drink it!”

“Adele. Don’t talk while eating. Debris is flying around like this.”

“Ehehehe!”

Only after filling their stomachs enough did the two settle down.

“Wow… The quality of life is improving because there is water. I want to stay here forever.”

“Because living things cannot survive without water in the first place. They say humans die in three days. No, more than that, if I stay here, I won’t be able to go back anyway.”

They had to gain something from this trip. It sounds obvious, but there was no way Arjen or Eugene would acknowledge the importance of water.

“So what are you going to do now? Are you going to go through all that trouble again by walking without any promises?”

“Originally, when I left home, I was in trouble.”

“I don’t want to suffer!”

” Just kidding… Even though I walked this far, there’s no way I’m still in a forest with nothing in it.”

“Are you sure?”

Asha remained silent in response to Adele’s question. Who can be sure of that? This is especially true of Asha’s personality, which values knowledge and information in everything.

“Hmm… Then let’s change our approach.”

Asha decided to change the way she had decided on direction. In fact, the distance they had traveled so far was not small.

Even an ordinary person can tour all kinds of villages with just one step in three weeks. Considering their physical strength as dragons, it is surprising that no humans have been found so far.

Asha didn’t know yet that she had been wandering along the rugged mountain ranges to places where no one had ever seen her, but three weeks were enough time for her to intuitively realize that she needed to change her ways.

“Good! Then I go my own way!”

“Uh…? That’s a bit…”

Asha looked at Adele, who looked as if she was about to go out in a rash manner, with a disgusted expression on her face, but because of the results that had come out so far, she was unable to give a clear rebuttal.

“Just follow me!”

Adele confidently took the first step. Asha had no choice but to follow Adele with weak steps.

And just like a lie, the two were able to find traces of people living in just one day.

“Look over there. Smoke is rising.”

“It’s true….”

Unless it was a forest fire, seeing smoke rising in the forest meant that a colony had been formed, so Asha had a confused expression.

I honestly didn’t know that Adele would find people all at once.

“Hehe, asha, you idiot.”

“…Talk about whatever you want.”

Adele, who usually didn’t have a chance to tease Asha, took this opportunity to have fun teasing her.

“Ehehe! Fool, fool!”

“Shh. Let’s stop talking and go quickly. If you approach after the sun has set, you might just raise your guard.”

“When I tell you to talk as much as you want, when will you stop talking…”

***

“Hmm… Well, I’m pretty good at taking care of that. Right?”

This is the impression I left after staring at the mirror until the sun went down. Wayne, who was watching the scene from the side, sighed and asked me.

“You tend to do things well on your own…? Eugene, how low are your expectations for your children?”

“It doesn’t matter what you do as long as you don’t get hurt.”

“Even if you weren’t hurt, it was dangerous. No matter how much a dragon is, if it doesn’t eat anything for a month during its growth period…”

“It’s okay, it’s okay. I won’t die.”

I was a little surprised by the toughness of raw salmon, but I quickly calmed down. The children appear to be young humans on the outside, but are actually dragons that have lived for nearly 100 years.

If you look closely, Wayne tends to ignore dragons too much. Is it because you and Arjen have been living side by side for a long time?

“Anyway, those kids have come into contact with humanity, so now it’s my turn to do the work.”

My job is to help children build their faith safely, as promised. In other words, it was to inform the world of the children’s origins and abilities.

In fact, there are some things that are easiest and simplest if you simply try to serve that purpose. This is why I personally come forward and announce that Asha and Adele are my children.

Since I am a god who can exist in the underworld with a body, this is possible because I am somewhat free from the ‘duty to be mysterious’ like Stella and Prinia.

This means that there is little concern that one’s faith will be damaged even when one appears in front of those who send one’s faith.

However, I know that faith built in someone else’s name is meaningless. In the end, making children worship me using my name is no different from faith in me.

Therefore, I planned to allow children to write their own myths.

Just as I was able to build my faith by taking advantage of the situation I found myself in and the glory of Arjen, I thought that indirect support was always possible.

“It’s your job… I’ve heard something vaguely, but is that really possible?”

“Of course. On the other hand, I ask you, what plan is more perfect than this?”

“It’s perfect… What’s perfect about giving children trials and telling them that if they overcome them, all of humanity will somehow know?”

“Because I gained faith in the same way? That’s a complete summary extract?”

“Yeah… If that’s you, then that’s the way it is.”

Wayne pretended to lower his tail as if he was tired of dealing with me.

Anyway, if I had to summarize it, that was it. This was the answer that Stella, Prinia, and I came up with together.

I wonder how Wayne, who has such a suspicious look on his face, will change his attitude if he finds out that Stella actively participated in the plan.

“Now, it’s time to use faith…ah?”

I looked in the mirror and realized things were going strange.

The original intention here was to use faith to create deterrence.

The most indirect yet most influential action that a god can perform on creatures of the underworld. God himself becomes the causal law and changes the fate of others.

If you just listen, it may seem like something very grand, but it was simpler than you think.

At the same time, it is said to be the most frequently used method of faith after Stella became a god.

There is nothing better than this when creating a hero with a strange fate called a warrior. Wayne also benefited from this.

Anyway, I haven’t exhausted my faith yet.

Stella and Prinia also didn’t have anything to do because I didn’t specifically tell them. Since it is for my children in the first place, it makes sense to use my faith first.

However, a big threat was already lurking for Asha and Adele.

***

“Huh? What is that?”

“Why are there so many people… they are not people.”

Unlike Adele, who tilted her head without knowing anything, Asha understood the situation from afar.

There was only one house in the village that they came to see with smoke coming out of the chimney. Considering that most people’s meal times are roughly similar, it may be a bit of a strange sight.

And this is especially true if the time zone is already past evening and past 21:00 at night.

“Well…”

“Keuuuu….”

From Adele’s perspective, the people gathered in the house, where smoke was coming out of the chimney, did not look like they had come to protest a late meal.

On the contrary, I couldn’t shake the feeling that I had come to get a meal.

“They say humans live by helping each other, but in general… is it something like that?”

“We didn’t gather to eat, we gathered to eat the householder who was cooking.”

“Oh, is that so?”

Asha recalled information about the things in front of her from a book.

Necromancy. Forcibly controlling a corpse using magic.

“Looking at the corpse that hasn’t completely rotted yet, is it a zombie?”

Of course, necromancy is magic that is forbidden among humans. I can’t shake the feeling that it was wrong from beginning to end, and above all, it is an act that insults the dead.

Therefore, those who use black magic, including necromancy, are subject to the death penalty. Among them, there were quite a few who were sacrificed to Arzen and eaten.

Of course, the categories such as black magic did not apply to the dragons Asha and Adele, so the emotion Asha felt was simply curiosity.

“This is my first time seeing it in person.”

“Really? Asha, is there some magic you haven’t seen? If you had asked mom, she would have shown you pretty much everything.”

“Ugh. Necromancy wasn’t shown. I don’t know why, but I seem to pay attention to my dad a lot.”

“Of course, dad is the best!”

“Why does this conversation end up like that…”

Asha and Adele could not talk more leisurely. This is because the zombies noticed that it was difficult to reach the meat inside the house and turned their attention to the two.