Don’t Run Away My Lord

71 – She Came (9)

“What’s going on? Talk calmly.”

“The dragon has appeared!!”

A dragon appeared?

“Which dragon has been out for a long time?”

“It is said that a black dragon has appeared and is attacking the Marquis of Aiwar indiscriminately!”

“What? Do you have five wings?”

When Liana, who was next to him, asked, Wolfert shook his head.

“I’m not sure about that. But if it’s a black dragon and not another dragon, isn’t it serious?”

“It’s serious.”

Liana looked back at me.

“My lord. Isn’t that the engagement dragon?”

“I guess so.”

Our blood relatives can be seen as being gentler than other dragons.

There is no reason to suddenly appear and attack human cities.

If you think about it that way, what is currently in the Marquis of Aiwar is definitely Cilia Paris.

She would be able to do such crazy things without any hesitation.

But why?

Why did you attack Aiwar and not here?

I have no idea what your intention is…

* * * * *

The rumor that the Black Dragon devastated the Marquis of Aiwar spread quickly.

The atmosphere in our territory, where black dragons had appeared several times, was quite unusual.

The city center was shaken by the fear that the black dragon might attack again at any time.

Accordingly, we discussed with Liana and convened a countermeasures meeting.

We gathered all the vassals together and had a meeting, but nothing came of it.

At best, I, the lord, issued a proclamation saying not to worry as I am a legendary monster hunter who hunted two black dragons, etc.

But it wasn’t something I couldn’t understand.

Our vassals are not incompetent.

However, they were unable to come up with realistic measures to respond to the unrealistic situation in which a nearby territory was attacked by a black dragon.

Even if I were human, I probably wouldn’t have found any other way.

So in the end, I decided to write the proclamation that someone had suggested and post it within the territory.

The vassals put their heads together to create a draft, which Liana reviewed and I approved.

The writing style was elegant, perhaps because they were well-educated people, but…

“I have to make it again, Liana.”

Liana asked when I refused to sign.

“Where should I edit?”

“Everything.”

“Everything?”

“This is too difficult. Most of the people in the territory will not be able to understand.”

The proclamation was too wordy for ignorant citizens to read.

“Reduce it to a quarter here.”

“Ah, yes. I understand.”

Liana understood what I meant and took her proclamation with her, saying she would correct it herself.

An hour later, I personally signed the proclamation, which I was very satisfied with.

“As expected, you’re amazing, Liana.”

When I praised him, Liana said with a smile.

“What’s going on? Are you saying all the nice things?”

“A good thing is a good thing.”

“Oh… I see. Then I guess I should do better.”

“I’m still doing well enough. But…”

“Don’t cross the line.”

Liana smiled her eyes cutely and left her office.

As she looked at the closed office door, she remembered the great lord’s words.

Liana uses me as firewood to burn, but she is useful, so don’t extinguish it completely.

* * * * *

After the proclamation was posted throughout the territory, another bad news came.

“Lord. The County of Welson…”

Not even a few days after the Marquis of Aiwar was defeated, a black dragon presumed to be a cilia fly appeared in another adjacent territory.

As I was gathering the vassals, laying out maps, and listening to the situation reports, a strange thought suddenly occurred to me.

Could it be that Cilia Paris is trying to isolate and kill our territory by eliminating the surrounding territories?

Otherwise, since I am mistakenly thinking that I have become a lord of humans, I may be having crazy delusions such as ‘If I kill all humans, Ergaduk will come back because he has nothing to rule.’

It may be an absurd assumption based on common sense, but it was something that Cilia Paris could easily have done.

One way or another, in the end, it will inflict a huge blow to our territory.

We must go immediately and stop the cilia flies…

I was about to get up, but stopped and sat back down in the chair.

No way… Is this really what Cilia Paris intends…?

Are you trying to pull me out of the lord’s castle and make me talk to myself…?

“hahahaha…”

When I laughed lowly, all the retainers who were having a heated discussion turned to look at me.

“What’s wrong with you, my lord?”

I shook my head in response to Liana’s question.

“It’s just a bit funny.”

“Yes?”

“I have a place to visit for a while. The meeting will end here.”

“Where are you going? Ah…”

Liana, understanding my intention, trailed off her words.

“Keita. Follow me.”

Keita followed me out of the conference room.

“Is there anything you need, my lord?”

“Open the portal to Count Welson.”

“Huh?! That’s where the other black dragons are, right?”

“That’s right.”

Keita hesitated without opening the portal.

“My lord… I think it would be better for you not to go…”

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“We have to go. I have a rough idea of what that dragon was thinking when it went on a rampage recently. If we leave it alone, we will end up suffering in the end.”

“What are you going to do if you get seriously hurt while you’re gone this time?”

“That won’t happen. You don’t have to worry.”

Keita, who was hesitant, carefully opened her mouth.

“Then shall I go with you?”

“You can’t do that. It’s dangerous.”

“I can protect my body.”

She was about to refuse flatly, but then changed her mind.

Keita is currently training in magic, and it wouldn’t be a bad idea for her to practice against dragons.

Rather, it can be used as a good opportunity.

“Okay. Let’s go together.”

“Thank you!”

Keita smiled brightly and opened her portal.

* * * * *

Keita, who had landed in County Welson, covered her nose with her sleeve.

“Ugh… The smell…”

The place we left was believed to be the city center of the county.

Why did I say it was a presumed place?

“Wow… Oh my…”

Keita forgot to cover her nose and gaped at the horror unfolding before her eyes.

Everything I could see was a pile of ashes.

Nothing stood taller than a human being, and unknown smoke rose from everywhere.

The smell that made Keita uncomfortable came from there.

Acid Breath.

There is nothing that Black Dragon’s acid breath cannot dissolve.

It can even destroy magic.

When the actual breath is blown, a little flame is added to create extremely toxic vapor.

There will probably be no survivors.

“There’s a joke that says when the dragon gets angry, the cartographers get busy…”

“Is it because several cities have disappeared and the map needs to be recreated?”

“That’s right… Oh my…”

Keita and I used magic to summon wind and move forward, blowing out poisonous steam.

There are only traces of melting from the road. There was nothing else.

“Look at that, Keita.”

“Ha…”

He pointed to the remains of Qumo, which were somewhat larger than the others.

“It must have been Yeongju Castle…”

“Yes. It looks like they have already swept away this place and moved to another place.”

“What should I do…? I don’t know where he went. But if he moves after hearing the news that another territory was ruined, it will continue to be like this.”

“There is a way. Hold this for a moment.”

As they began to take off her clothes, Keita screamed and covered her eyes with both hands.

“Hold your clothes. We need to release the polymorph.”

“Ah, yes, yes…”

When Keita closed her eyes tightly and hugged her clothes, she immediately returned to her original body.

I fired a few detection spells roughly in the direction where the cilia flies would have moved.

A strong reaction was felt from one of five or six directions.

That way.

You can recognize what has been detected the moment it touches the magic, and you can also determine its location through reverse detection.

If you’re going to run away, you have to go right now because you can run away at any moment.

Celia It’s difficult for the fly to fly faster than me because one of her wings is damaged.

「Hold on tight, Keita」

“aaah!!”

She wrapped her front paws around Keita and spread her six wings.

An acceleration spell was cast on her body and she flew in the direction of the Cilia fly.

* * * * *

“Over there…! Over there…!”

Keita let out her suffocating scream in the strong wind that made her feel as if she would be blown away at any moment.

In front of me, something that looked like a black eagle was circling over the downtown area of an unknown territory.

Five wings. It was a cilia fly.

Ciliaflies sprayed green acidic breath into the city center.

As the breath passed by like drawing a line on the floor, a black and thick line was drawn in the city center.

All of the territory’s private soldiers came out and offered meaningless resistance by shooting crossbows into the sky, and the territory’s residents were desperately running away somewhere.

But where on earth are they running away?

「Cilia Paris!!」

Hearing my roar, Cilia Paris glanced back.

However, he turned away and unleashed his breath in an even more murderous manner, destroying the city.

Seeing that he continues to do that even after knowing that he was under a detection spell, I don’t think a moderate amount of words will work.

I brought Keita here for magic training, but instead of practicing, I have to evacuate him to a safe place.

「You can move through space, right?」

Keita paused slightly.

“Well… I don’t know…?! Are you really telling me to move from here to the ground?!”

「Otherwise, you will get involved in the fight between dragons.」

As soon as he finished speaking, Keita disappeared between his front paws with a flash of light.

Feeling much lighter, I rushed towards the Celiaflies that were slaughtering the humans.

He gathered all the magical power around his body and created a breath inside his mouth.

I don’t want to kill my blood relatives again, but I have no choice.

When the magically strengthened breath was released, Ciliapari twisted its body.

I narrowly avoided being hit directly by the breath, but the tip of the wing that lightly grazed me evaporated.

Siliafari avoided the breath’s orbit and approached me.

The moment when you are about to blow your breath again at the defenseless cilia fly, as if asking you to kill it.

When she felt a strange wave of magic power, she hurriedly lowered her breath.

At that sight, Celia Paris smiled, baring her fangs.