“Now! We will have a party next time, dung fly! We’re going to get the pretty girl out, so come without the old man!”
『 That’s just drivel. Can you summon Tiamat, the queen of the chromatic clan? Even our metal clan don’t know how-』
“Aah, you’re noisy. Won’t you know if you see? Huhut, let’s go, Faust.”
“Yes, Count-aak! -nim.”
Ttak-!
Bluebeard whirled his cane and struck Faust on the head with an exaggerated sound.
Just when Faust was seen stroking his head for a moment, the two had already disappeared.
『Can he really summon Tiamat…?』
Looking at the place they disappeared from, Bailephus murmured quietly.
They had caught Kuzgunak’sh’sh’sh’sh’sh’sh and retrieved his dragon heart, but he was uneasy. This was because he realized that this was only the ‘beginning’.
“It’s over now…… right?”
Leeha strained his eyes and looked around.
『I at least know that he won’t come back here as long as we use Lord Bahamut’s name.』
Even Bailephus could not detect their mana. And he believed that because he mentioned Bahamut’s name, they would not return.
“Cough, I wish I could see something…”
Bluebeard was as good as the red dragon Kuzgunak’sh’sh’sh’sh’sh’sh at hiding his mana. Leeha could not find Bluebeard’s mana earlier even with ‘Mana Clairvoyance’.
After staring at the sky for a while, the gold dragon turned its huge body towards Leeha and Hyein.
Hyein flinched for a moment, but Bailephus casually lowered his head toward the two.
The gold dragon’s long neck descended as if to touch the ground.
It was a dragon’s best manner to anyone, which Blaugrunn once showed to Leeha.
『Thank you, Ha Leeha. And magician who handles space.』
“D-don’t mention it. Thank you for including me in this plan, gold dragon.”
Unlike Leeha, who was calm, Hyein hurriedly lowered his head toward the gold dragon. Seeing that, Bailephus smiled lightly.
『At least in terms of space magic, you are stronger than an adult dragon. Maybe even stronger than ancient-class of our metal dragon clan. However, don’t go around bragging about using Complete Halt on Kuzgunak’sh’sh’sh’sh’sh’sh. The chromatic dragon clan will be looking out for you.』
“A feat like that- no, yes. I will be careful. Thank you, gold dragon.”
Listening to his words, Leeha was able to roughly guess what achievements he had.
An achievement of that kind, where the intimacy with the chromatic dragon clan became negative, must have appeared. There was something similar to one of the notifications that Leeha quickly swiped and closed.
『What is your name?』
“My name is Hyein.”
『Hyein. I will remember your name.』
When Bailephus finished speaking, Hyein flinched again.
‘If the gold dragon remembered his name – did he get another achievement?’
It was Leeha’s speculation. Hyein stared into space for a moment, smiled lightly, and bowed his head toward Bailephus once more.
“Thank you.”
Bailephus nodded and looked at Leeha.
『Hmm. Ha Leeha, are you ready?』
“Ready?”
『We will go meet lord Bahamut.』
“As, as expected. It must have been a bluff that he was coming. If he attacked, we would have been in big trouble.”
Leeha rubbed his chest as he recalled the situation just before. What if he fired at Bluebeard from there? He really didn’t want to imagine how things would turn out.
『Bluff?』
But it wasn’t the time to correct the slip of Leeha’s tongue. The gold dragon’s eyebrows tightened.
“No, that, uh, not a bluff. Strategy! I wanted to say strategy. I wanted to tell you that it was a brilliant strategy, Bailephus-nim.”
Leeha waved his hand and head at the same time, while Bailephus hummed and breathed out of his nose.
『Of course, it was a good strategy. Because in order to have guts to fight against a fragment of the demon king, one needs to be at least ancient-class.』
Leeha somehow imagined that this would be what Kidd would look like if he became an animal. And in the midst of that brief light commotion, Hyein, who had been laughing, patted Leeha on the shoulder.
“Thank you for calling me, Ha Leeha-ssi.”
The young man, who looked somewhat sickly, smiled and thanked Leeha. Thinking about it, Leeha didn’t even know Hyein’s age. How old was he? It probably didn’t differ much from his peers.
Hyein expressed his gratitude and Leeha received it. If this operation could be described as a national war, Hyein’s performance was close to a ‘first-class contributor’.
“I am really grateful. I worked harder than expected so my stomach hurt a bit. Did you get a lot of achievements?”
Hyein smiled and nodded at Leeha’s joke. At one point, they were trying to kill each other, but now, there were no such remnants to be found.
“Then, did I build trust with this?”
“Well. At least I can assume that there’s no ‘bad blood’ between Hyein-ssi and I.”
Leeha shrugged lightly as he looked at him. Hyein showed a slightly disappointed expression.
“I see. Trust can not be built in one go. However, that’s enough. Just by looking at my achievements…. I think I will see Leeha many more times in the future.”
“What is it? I haven’t seen the achievements yet…”
Hyein had no intention of directly answering Leeha’s questions. He held up his staff and drew a magic circle on the floor as he spoke.
“See for yourself later. Well then, I don’t think I was invited by Bahamut, so I will go. Till the next time we meet, gold dragon.”
『Hmm.』
“Goodbye, Hyein-ssi.”
When Hyein lifted his staff and put it in the middle of the magic circle, his body disappeared in an instant. Leeha opened the friend’s window and checked where he went.
‘Oh, why is he in such a hurry? I can’t even rest.’
It was a place he had never been before, but it was where Kijung, Tale, and Biyemi were. Probably somewhere around the city defending from Bluebeard’s demon nobles.
『Then shall we go?』
“Yes!”
Leeha smiled as he closed the friend’s window.
Byulcho’s members were doing their best while completing quests! Now it was his turn to be rewarded for his hard work over the past few days.
‘Uhhhh! How many replacement items can I get?’
Before he knew it, Leeha and Bailephus’ bodies moved to the lair of the dragon lord, Bahamut.
There were still dragons that polymorphed into humans in Bahamut’s lair.
A gigantic round table, the actual size of a dragon was rare enough to handle, so the place was too large to be in human form.
And the gold dragon that shone in that vast place had polymorphed in front of Bahamut.
‘It’s cool.’
When the scarred gold dragon polymorphed into a human, he also became the golden knight with scars everywhere.
Bahamut and other dragons seemed to already know.
That much speculation was natural in light of the fact that Bailephus was hurt, but he was with Leeha, and he was not hasty at all even when he came to Bahamut’s lair.
They had succeeded in killing Kuzgunak’sh’sh’sh’sh’sh’sh!
“Bailephus.”
“I have returned after finishing the mission, lord.”
Oooooohhh-!
Of course, that was just speculation. Even the dragons couldn’t help exclaiming for a while the moment their guess was confirmed.
“I can go back now!”
“I can’t believe it, Bailephus-nim-”
“I said it was impossible with Bailephus-nim alone! So, is it because of that human hero? That man was such a great person!”
There was no way he could not hear the dragons whispering. Leeha deliberately stretched his shoulders wider and pushed his chest out to take a confident posture.
‘Keu, praise me more, more!’
What did it mean to hear exclamations and praise in this place, where there were dragons that looked like children and dragons that look younger than his age?
He had done something that neither the hatchling nor the adult dragons had been able to do.
“Keulkeul, everone quiet.”
And at Bahamut’s one word, the dragon’s whispers stopped.
“The strength you said you needed was helpful, Bailephus.”
“Of course, lord.”
Bailephus nodded and took something from his chest.
Even the shape was unclear because it had already lost light, but Leeha knew what it was.
“D-dragon heart!”
“Kuzgunak’sh’sh’sh’sh’sh’sh?! Is that?”
“But- can you feel Blaugrunn’s mana?”
“Now, now, quiet, quiet.”
Boom, boom.
Bahamut tapped the table again and the dragons fell silent.
Because it was difficult for them to experience this kind of event, Leeha quietly shook his head.
“Indeed……. That did happen.”
“Yes. Lord.”
Until that situation was created, Bailephus’ efforts were even greater.
Not only Leeha but also Hyein’s achievement. But sometimes the person who gets the most attention is the one who scores the goals.
“Human Ha Leeha, you have accomplished Blaugrunn’s legacy. You have killed Kuzgunak’sh’sh’sh’sh’sh’sh.”
Bailephus gave all the credit to Leeha. Bahamut smiled and accepted Kuzgunak’sh’sh’sh’sh’sh’sh’s heart, which was studded with Blaugrunn’s dragon heart bullets.
“Ha Leeha.”
“Y-yes, lord Bahamut.”
“You have not only defeated the enemy who poses a threat to our clan… It is similar to saving a member of our group who couldn’t feel safe even in their rest area.”
“It was nothing. It’s something I can’t even say I did.”
Leeha, on the other hand, spoke humbly. It had already been said. More than anything, at this moment, being proud was actually not appropriate.
It was because he knew better than anyone else that he couldn’t do it alone, and that he could do it because everyone joined forces.
“What an unhuman-like humility. Golgol, but it’s true. Without you, it wouldn’t have been possible with the power of Bailephus or anyone else. Because you would be the only one who wouldn’t be detected by Kuzgunak’sh’sh’sh’sh’sh’sh and another hindrance.”
Bahamut stood up and approached Leeha.
He could feel the dignity of the only ‘Platinum Dragon’ in the metal dragon clan that Leeha hadn’t felt before when he was on the other side of the round table.
Leeha forcibly endured the loss of strength in his legs. It was as if someone was pressing down on the system from about.
“Thank you so much.”
“Yes.”
As Leeha lowered his head, Bailephus, who was next to him, stabbed in the side. He could make out Bailephus’s lips telling him to kneel.
As Leeha knelt down on one knee, Bailephus took a step aside. The other dragons showed the appearance of Bahamut and Leeha with pious expressions.
“Human Ha Leeha. I ask you.”
Gulp, Leeha was a point to point out to Leeha. It was simply the completion of the quest. Is this like an ordination ceremony between a king and a knight……?
“Yes, lord.”
“Do you have the heart to defend justice and do good?”
In the meantime, Leeha was worried
‘Should I answer this like Alexander? I’m not good at the concept!……
(To be continued…)