How to Live as a Half-Dragon

028. Reunion (1).

The next morning came quickly.

I don’t know why, but it felt that way to Xian.

Around dawn, people gathered at the entrance of the cave.

When I put it together, there were quite a few.

‘I’m sure 200 people will be able to do it?’

It was the same number as moving an entire small village.

Xian’s gaze, which had been scanning the group with new eyes, stopped.

I saw a young woman and a child her age holding hands.

Hughes came to mind.

‘I’m sure I’ll never see Hughes again… ?’

Even if he wished he would rather abandon himself than get entangled with the Dragonian and be poisoned like Leia, there is a bond that lasted for about three days or so.

I felt great regret.

It was unclear how to go to the Duke of Alteon after that.

“No… Let’s focus.”

Xian corrected his disturbed mind.

It was because I had to focus on the current situation.

Dragonians who don’t know when and where to attack are strong.

With a confused mind, you might be the first to die, not others.

It was when Xian made up his mind.

“Please take good care of me.”

The voice that came from behind him was a voice he had never heard before.

Leah, who had a pale complexion, entered Xian’s eyes as he turned around.

“Are you okay?”

“No, but there is no way.”

Of course, Leah’s condition was serious.

Before that, it was in need of special care, but now, two days later, there was nothing to say.

But nonetheless, like Xian today, Leah moves from the back of the procession.

It would be easy to deal with when Drake’s side was poisonous, but it was because Xian was too unreliable to do that.

It was said that he had grown into a monstrous learning ability in just two days, but the reason was that he was too anxious to leave the back row to one cyan.

“Anyway… If poison aura circulates… .”

“okay.”

Before Xian could finish speaking, Leah spoke firmly.

Anyway, I wondered where anyone would want to die in the world.

If the poison energy is about to rise, I will tell you even if I say not.

Xian looked at Drake in front of him.

Drake, who happened to meet Xian’s eyes, nodded.

‘Looks like you’re ready… .’

When Xian nodded along with Drake, the people began to move one by one, led by Drake.

Tension and fear are prevalent on the faces of people who take a step through the thick fog.

‘Wouldn’t it be difficult?’

Xian, who is relatively strong among them, is also so fearful.

Other people won’t say anything.

It was about 10 minutes after walking through the narrow valley.

A frightened woman’s voice was heard.

“Slayer.”

A voice calling Leah.

Sian looked at Leah in the seat next to him.

Maybe it was because I was concentrating on other things, so I couldn’t hear the sound, and there was no reaction.

“ostrich,”

“why.”

“I think you are calling me?”

Leah let out a small sigh and shook her head.

And the jaw that follows.

Xian, who was thinking about the meaning, spoke after a while.

“Me!?”

Leah nodded.

It was because Leah was saying that it was she who called her.

Xian asked the woman walking right in front of him.

“Is it me?”

“Aren’t you Slayer?”

“It’s similar, but… .”

You can gloss over it for now, but you have to point it out properly even if your conscience stings you.

Of course, even the identity of the trainee that they put forward is a fake identity.

“I am not a Slayer. I am just a trainee.”

“okay… Then trainee… Can we be safe?”

“Uh, maybe… .”

Sian stopped talking and closed his mouth.

To be honest, it’s probably right to say that it’s hard to be certain, but…

‘I don’t want to make you anxious by telling the truth.’

Drake and Leia would have a good chance of surviving no matter what, but in fact, it was a huge crisis for ordinary people like this.

I wanted to make it as easy as possible.

So, Xian gave the best answer he could.

“You will be able to live. Because that grandfather is there.”

Although it was a white lie, he sold Drake’s name to ease the burden when things went wrong.

Upon hearing Xian’s words, the woman’s expression brightened.

I was good at answering lies.

“yes… I’m relieved that Slayer-nim said that.”

“That’s why I’m not a Slayer… .”

Well, I wonder what it would be like if no one said anything.

* * *

The expression on the face of the dragonian man who watched the large-scale procession escaping from the rarity was stiff.

Because all his plans went awry.

The plan Drake had designed to kill Cyan and fight Hughes to the death was shattered.

For some reason, Xian was hanging out with Drake and helping them escape now.

‘Why!?’

It was Drake and Xian who met three days ago as planned.

The man thought everything was going well until then.

However, as time passed, the meeting brought about not very good results.

“I knew he was an eccentric for a Dragonian, but this is too much to do.”

If you have pride or the awareness that you are a Dragonian, you don’t even need to talk about hostility and hatred towards Slayers.

However, it was hard to believe that this was happening, even after seeing it with my own eyes.

When his own plan only improved his strength, the man was full of spirits.

“Now what? .”

The plan has been ruined, so now it’s time to come up with a new plan that fits the current situation.

I don’t like the current situation, but if I get angry, the result of the two Slayers leaving the valley might really come.

The man, who was lost in thought for a moment while watching the procession, opened his mouth.

“Look at me now… .”

Things weren’t too bad right now.

There was one particularly encouraging thing.

“I don’t know what happened in Rare for three days, but… .”

Drake, the most threatening being, had somehow become weak.

In the past, it was enough to shrink from the vast mana just by facing it, but now it was just insignificant.

But the man was not careless.

Drake has already been through men.

He is aware that the loss of his arm the other day came from an overwhelming difference in rank rather than a difference in mana.

“And the presence of that monster would help too.”

Ironically, there are not one monster that currently exists in the Valley, but two.

The man’s head turned to another monster.

Another monster is not in the procession.

Just like the man, he is staring at the procession from afar.

Hughes, the Dragonian with sky-blue hair, was his true identity.

The man clearly noticed Hughes’ presence when Drake and Xian met three days ago.

Awakening her wild nature, she was an extraordinary level of strength.

“That makes me even more sorry.”

If only his plan went through safely, one of the two would surely be destroyed, and the one who survived would have been wrecked.

But even if it was less than that, the current situation, as I said, wasn’t bad.

“In the current situation, it would be best not to touch that kid.”

Since he invaded his territory, he wanted to kill him because of his personality, but the man gave up on that idea.

Now, in this valley, complex interests are intertwined.

Touching a kid is to incur the anger of another monster.

It was a stupid act that had no positive effect on the man.

“Speaking of that b*tch’s purpose, it must be to get the youngster out safely.”

And in other words, that word is directly connected to the saying that the increased power of the opponent will decrease on its own.

Because of this, the man had no reason to do anything to stimulate her.

“Even in the process, you might end up hurting him again.”

If even a clash with Drake could happen, it would be the best ending.

This will make it easier to kill Drake.

“I don’t like it, but shall we move slowly?”

It’s honestly easier for the man to move first with Hughes, but the problem lies in her prudence.

Just looking at the situation without moving for the past three days, it was clear that she would not be the first to move.

In other words, what is needed in this situation is confusion.

If it came, it was clear that she, who had not moved because Drake was burdened, would move immediately.

“Let’s start with that guy… .”

Drake and Leah.

The man who looked at the two Slayers alternately smiled.

First of all, the target was Leah.

* * *

It was about an hour before the procession continued.

Leah complained of pain.

“draft… .”

Xian reacted immediately to Leah’s words.

Leah, covered in sweat, felt as if she had reached her limit.

Normally, he would have noticed this before it even happened, but as he focused only on the Dragonian’s surprise attack, he became indifferent to Leia’s change next to him.

“uh… Oh wait.”

Even if you say it right away…

One hour after leaving the cave, this is probably the reason Leah endured.

If you set up the procession too early, you will be caught in the ankle.

It was clear that he didn’t like it, so he endured as much as he could.

Xian took out the wooden whistle Drake had made for him and blew it.

Soon after, the procession stopped and Drake arrived at once.

It was an unusual move at any time.

“Then please don’t.”

“Ah yes… .”

Drake lifted Leia up and vanished into the fog.

The distance was placed in consideration of the poisonous energy that would erupt during the seizure.

“after… .”

As Drake’s presence disappeared, Xian, who moved to the center of the long procession, raised his senses.

It was the most vulnerable point that could lead to great damage if the attack continued.

Knowing that it was time to focus more than ever, Xi’an’s expression was serious as he approached it.

Xian maintained a tight tension with the determination not to tolerate even a single mistake.

And then it was.

“… … .”

Something felt in Xian’s senses.

It wasn’t a Dragonian.

What I feel is small, small.

Sian carefully opened his closed eyes.

“butterfly?”

It was a butterfly made of ice.

Xian had seen this butterfly before.

“Hughes?”

It was the butterfly that had been flying around when Hughes had frozen the entire goblin along with the forest the other day.