Kyui!
“Hey, Light. This is”
I point at the Baby Dragon that’s been put inside the cage. It has scales that are silver-shining on its entire body; beautiful scales with no dullness at all. It has an elegant face, I guess it’s probably a female, and she has gorgeous facial features. She’s looking alternately at Light and me with her golden-shining eyes.
“It is Dragon huh”
It’s not a self-evident fact like that that I want to ask though. As I’m waiting for the words after that
“It is probably, a relative of the Light Dragon. Even amongst them, when it comes to possessing silver scales, there is none other than the Light Dragon Ruler. It appears that magic power has become difficult to recognise due to this cage. Since it is to the extent that I finally recognise it after getting this close”
It’d turned into something more severe than I’d thought. Why is a Dragon like that in the mansion of a bandit like this? Furthermore, she’s sleeping carefreely. It’s too mysterious.
“I guess I’ll let her out for now. I can’t be keeping her inside like this either after all”
I say that and Light also nods. I then break the cage’s lock with Lightning Magic. In that instant, because there’s the sound, ‘Bachi!’, it surprised the Baby Dragon. I apologetically opened the cage and
“Kyururu!”
, she flew over while chirruping! Where she flew over was
“Guhee!”
my face. The Baby Dragon that flew at my face holds my head firmly with her short legs and wriggles. And then, she climbs on top of my head and lets up there for some reason. She sluggishly spreads her four legs out and relaxes. It’s not particularly heavy, so it’s alright though. ……Is it alright?
“She has taken a liking to Lei-sama huh”
Light says and laughs. I’m happy that she’s taken a liking to me, but more than that, it probably carries various problems.
“Can you talk or something?”
I don’t know her name, so I tried asking for now. I ask while stroking the Baby Dragon’s head and, the Baby Dragon bites my finger while chirruping pleasurefully. Because she didn’t put much force into it, not only is it not painful, it’s ticklish instead.
Furthermore, her scales are extremely pleasant to touch. It’s slightly cooling and has a velvety feel. It’s a softness that I’d like to keep on touching.
When I say that to the Baby Dragon, the Baby Dragon
“Kyururu~”
and shakes her head. She understood that right now through the atmosphere. I get slightly annoyed at the, ‘It’s no good at all huh~’ feeling, but more than that, she’s adorable, so I end up overlooking it.
“Hah, we’ll make no progress at this rate. Let’s return to where everybody is for once, shall we”
“I agree”
And then, when we left the bandit head’s mansion
“Lei, are you okay!?”
and Alexia ran over. Dargris and Cait are behind her as well.
“Aah, Alexia. I’m alright”
“I’m glad. Good grief, right when I thought that Lei and Aerith are nowhere to be seen, Aerith brought a considerable number of women over, and from her story, you actually attacked the bandits’ hideout. At least say a word……ah……eh?”
Alexia says various things to me, but she sees a certain something and becomes lost for words. Dargris and Cait, who were behind, also opened their mouths in astonishment.
“Le, Lei. Um, the child that’s riding on your head is, um……”
It’s rare for that Alexia to be this shaken up. However, it’d be weirder to see this and not be surprised huh. And perhaps the Baby Dragon that’s riding on top also understood that Alexia and others are comrades
“Kyui!”
she raises her short right leg and greets them. Alexia squirms at that adorable figure.
“Adorable~~! How adorable, this child is!”
And then, Alexia carries the Baby Dragon that’s riding on my head in her arms. The Baby Dragon as well, perhaps happy at Alexia’s soft breasts, snuggles up to it while chirruping, ‘Kyuu, Kyuu’. ……I felt a little bit jealous but I won’t say it.
As we relaxed in that manner for a bit
“Eclat! Here you are!”
a bolt of lightning fell, and a brawny golden-haired man with a sweep-back hairstyle was standing there.
“Was it you guys! The ones who kidnapped Eclat!”
In that instant, the entire area as far as the eyes can see was covered by killing intent. This is bad! We immediately take out our weapons and ready up, but there’s quite a delay. And then, the instant the brawny golden-haired man was about to rush out,
“Calm down, you stupid husband!”
beside the man shined, and at the same time, a beauty with long silver-shining hair that’s being bunch up at the back came and slapped the man. The man took that slap right in the face and was blown away. ……What’s this?
Amid our dumbfoundedness, that beauty looks in our direction
“Eclat, come over here”
and says. Immediately after, the Baby Dragon that’s being carried in Alexia’s arms goes, ‘Kyui Kyui~’, and happily flies towards the beauty.
“There, there, good grief, you just disappear all of a sudden. It’s no good, isn’t it?”
“Kyururun”
“Even if there’s a cute butterfly, you mustn’t chase after it. Understand?”
“Kyuuu~”
We’re watching the 2 people? having a conversation for a while, and the beauty starts walking over to our side. We ready ourselves but
“Aah, please lower your weapons. I have no intention of fighting. I simply want to express my gratitude”
“Gratitude?”
“Eeh. Before that, let us first introduce ourselves. My name is Hilde the Light Dragon Ruler. I am this child’s mother. The one collapsed over there is this child’s father, Lightning Dragon Ruler, Levine. And this our child, she’s called Eclat. Thank you very much for saving this child”
Hilde-san who says and bows. Eclat chirrups, ‘Kyui’, and raises her right hand, but Hilde-san gets angry at her.
From what we hear, it appears that Hilde-san and the others had come to the mountain in these parts for a picnic by chance today. In human form. It seems that Eclat can’t turn into it yet, but it’s a location where people don’t really come, so it seems they brought her along.
And then, when Hilde-san and Levine-san were flirting and took their eyes off her, Eclat chased after a butterfly and went missing.
It appears that Eclat chased the butterfly too far and right when she’s hungry, there’s a pleasant smell, so she went in that direction and arrived in this village. It seems there were bandits when she went towards the direction of the scent, and she was captured there……in other words, it seems she was baited.
It appears that by the time she realised, amidst chasing after the delicious food, she’d entered the cage and couldn’t get out. It seems that that cage was originally used on the women, in addition to magic becoming difficult to use on the inside, magic power becomes difficult to distinguish from the outside as well. Hence, it looks like Eclat was unable to escape, and Hilde-san and Levine-san were unable to find her.
Over there, because we coincidentally came, broke the cage, and let Eclat out of the cage, they recognised the magic power and Levine-san came over right away, and thus ended up with that spectacle just now.
“Kyui kyui! Kyururun kyui!”
“My my, well well!”
As we’re listening to the story from Hilde-san, Eclat suddenly started to chirrup. Hilde-san hears those chirrups and exclaims happily. While looking in my direction.
“If I am not wrong, your name is Lei-san, right?”
“Eeh, that’s right”
When I reply, Hilde-san comes close to me. Wh, what?
“It appears that Eclat fell in love with you at first sight”
Hilde-san, who looks at me with a bright smile. But, my thoughts can’t keep up.
“……Huh?”
I then look at Eclat, that Hilde-san is carrying. Immediately after, Eclat
“Kyu~i~”
and twists her body in embarrassment.
“Eclat says,『Lei is the Prince-sama who rescued me from the cage! I fell in love at first sight with such him! May I follow him, Okaa-sama!』. Although I’m surprised by the sudden events, I also think it’ll be alright if it’s with your capabilities so I said I don’t mind”
Hilde-san who says and laughs, ‘Ufufu’. Er, the conversation is progressing without my knowledge but, on top of that,
“I won’t acknowledge ittttt!”
Levine-san, who had been blown away until now, shows himself.
“I’ll be the one to measure your capabilities so bring it on「Kyuiin!」why are you saying such sad things, Eclat-chan!”
Levine-san was about to head towards me, but the moment Eclat said something, he crumbles. What?
“Eclat said,『If, you hurt my precious Lei, I won’t talk to Otou-sama ever again』”
Hilde-san says and laughs. ……Just do as you like. By the time I realised, the sun has started rising in the sky.
