Knights, Let’s Smash Them

29 – Kidnapping the Hatchling (2)

“The family of the dragon knight Orgius? As far as I know, the Dragon Knight has no offspring, right?”

“To be precise, I would say it is close to collateral… ….”

Xianne said, trailing her tongue.

“My last name is ‘Balleos’. This is Siane Valeos. Now, the lineage of the family is completely cut off, so there is only one left.”

“I’ve heard of the Baleos family. It was.”

Pirhak nodded. As much as he wanders around and enjoys adventures, he is well versed in issues between families and territories.

To me, who could hardly keep up with the story, he explained that Beleous was Orgius’ brother.

“Um.”

I was a bit curious as to why Xianne didn’t reveal her last name.

Apparently, in the personal information of the Knights, the name is Siane Valeos, but she seldom shared her family name.

Is that because you can reveal your last name, but you don’t want to?

Besides, if Firhaq reacted like that, it must have been a family that had its own reputation in the world.

There’s nothing good about revealing the names of once famous but now ruined families.

“The Elaine Sword I use is originally a degraded version of the Orgius Sky Sword. It’s a swordsmanship that Orgius-nim passed on to his brother, the first head of Valeos.”

“Aha, I see.”

“According to tradition, I heard that he wandered around without a loved one all his life and then disappeared. I never thought he was in a place like this.”

Xian Ne looked at the flashing sword and bowed her head solemnly.

I left Xi’anne behind as she paid her respects to her distant ancestors and looked around her golden dragon’s lair.

Enough space for one dragon and one egg. In particular, since there was no treasure chest, the nest was not spacious and empty.

‘What is that?’

As I was walking along the wall, I noticed a different material from the nest wall, which was simply carved out of stone.

A wooden door that is almost worn out. It seemed that it was impossible to see it from a distance because of the white dust.

When I grab her handle, the door crumbles and collapses without much effort.

The space that appeared before my eyes was a small bedroom. A bedroom that doesn’t fit at all in a giant dragon’s nest.

A bed large enough for two people to lie on, a desk, and a bookshelf with books were all the furniture.

The pleasant musty smell unique to a space that has been neglected for a long time is a bonus.

“…… At first glance, it appears to be the room where Orgius lived. It’s a bit difficult even for a dragon knight to spend several days on a bare stone floor.”

“Oh, surprise.”

Before I even reacted to the sudden presence, Pyrhak and Xianne came back behind me.

“I wonder if Orgius-sama lived here?”

“Don’t you see that? It was almost like living together.”

“That’s right, once you fall in love with dragons, you won’t notice anything else. The softness is really indescribable…….”

“You crazy bastard!”

I hit Pyrhak hard on the back before Xianne could hear it.

There are things to say and things not to say.

I didn’t even want to understand where the heck it was, but I was certain that it wasn’t something I would say in front of the knight commander who is looking for traces of my ancestors.

“Ah, why are you hitting me!!”

“Consider yourself fortunate that Pere is not by your side. Because of me, it ended with my back.”

“Damn it… …. It’s not fun.”

Look at me.

Actually, the gentle appearance you show in front of people is all a pretense.

This was the reason why I felt sick to my stomach when I saw the person who competed for the 1st and 2nd place in vulgarity among people I knew, cosplaying as a normal person in front of other people.

While I and Firhak were bickering, Xianne was carefully examining the bookshelf.

Anyway, as certain as the space Orgius used, I didn’t know if she might find something meaningful in her.

Of course, what Xianne found in that room was not a ‘meaningful’ item.

“…… !!!! Lou, Magistrate of Luvern!”

She takes out a book from her bookshelf and checks the contents. She is startled and drops her book on the floor.

f*ck! The dust that had accumulated inside the book rose upward in an instant.

After shaking the book off the floor, I checked to see what surprised me.

The first thing that caught my eye among the contents of the book was the elaborately drawn picture of the human body.

Thin lines drawn on a person holding a sword. Even I, who was not very knowledgeable in martial arts, could immediately understand what this painting meant.

This is the trail of the sword.

Not only that, but the text next to the picture was written in great detail on how the muscles should move and where the center should be held.

“Captain, this can’t be… ….”

“The Secret Book of the Orgius Heavenly Sword.”

Sianne added in a voice of disbelief.

“The essence is all written here.”

***

Books 1 through 5 were all left in the Golden Dragon’s Lair.

Cianne, who even quickly skimmed through the contents, said that it was a complete and up-to-date version written by Orgius right before his death.

‘It looks like some kind of martial arts novel.’

A secret book hidden in a cave, isn’t it a cliché you’ve seen a lot?

But she couldn’t joke like that, because she suddenly stopped reading her book and burst into tears.

“With this…… I may be able to complete the Eraine sword ceremony, which my father could not complete.”

Sianne was thrilled.

Her mother died early, and her father, her only surviving blood relative, never returned from a great expedition three years ago.

Yes, right in the canyon.

In the midst of that, the only thing left for Xianne is the family’s unfinished swordsmanship.

She must have suffered a lot in her own way.

Me, Pir Haq, and Persus Charon after she let her control her feelings for a while.

We started discussing the most important ‘Gold Dragon Egg’.

“Honey and I shouldn’t be living here and taking care of…” … ?”

“If you were me, would you like to live next to the corpses of your own people?”

Terrible. Firhak shrank as much as he could at the sharp stare in his eyes.

A great adventurer who serves freedom is an asshole.

It’s not enough that she is Yong Park, who took Hwa Ryong as her wife, and people should know that she saw her being caught and tortured every day.

“But we can’t just leave it here, can we?”

“…… That’s right.”

Persus Charon pondered for a moment, then raised two of her fingers in front of me and said.

“There are two ways.”

First, she takes her eggs to her nest.

However, in this case, it was impossible with a human body, so she had to take it in the form of a dragon.

A catastrophe could have happened if the egg had hatched in the middle.

The altitude at which dragons normally operate may be lethal to hatchlings that have just been born.

Oxygen is scarce and the temperature is very low.

The saying that a dragon can survive even in lava and the deep sea was a saying only applicable to adults.

And the second one is right.

“It’s just grown here. I want to take you to the village.”

“I think that’s not a bad method either, but there is one problem.”

“What is it?”

“Have you seen the situation in Tiffen Village? If anyone takes the suspicious golden egg, rumors will spread all over town.”

Elf, Dwarf, Beast, Lizardman, Human, Goblin.

Numerous merchants, adventurers visiting after stories, and even residents of neighboring villages.

Perhaps even at this moment, the population of Tiffen Village is increasing.

Right now, in the last week alone, two more houses have been built.

Originally, Tiffen Village was on the outskirts, but geographically it wasn’t that bad.

A few merchants and self-employed people sat down.

Just because it was a town living with goblins, it was well worth settling down in.

The story of the gold mine must have already spread to the capital, so a gold dragon egg appears here?

The situation will become endlessly complicated.

Still, just staying with the monsters would have attracted a lot of aggro between the capital’s Imperial Office and the imperial family.

The inspectorate might visit sooner or later, but if the dragon were added to it, Count Rupel’s situation could be really difficult.

Anyway, it’s a dragon.

Even if you don’t have such an intention, the dragon itself has tremendous power.

If you really assume the worst.

The moment Count Rupel is stigmatized, he may be entangled in the crime of treason, which is certain as hell.

If that happens, not only the lord, but also his vassals, knights, and citizens of the capital he was close to will all be executed.

That includes me, of course.

‘I can’t do that. But that doesn’t mean I can’t rebel against the real emperor.’

In the first place, I intended to make the Snow Leopard Knights the strongest in the North, but I did not come here to found a new country.

Would you do something crazy?

The Empire is doing well enough now. The emperor is also a good soldier.

I will never dare to scratch and make scabs, such an idiot that leads to my own destruction.

“Then first…… Let’s have our knights manage it here. The pretext of being sent to investigate an anomaly would suffice.”

I said, tapping the egg with the palm of my hand.

It’s scary to think that it’s rougher than I thought for a gold dragon Alchigo.

Wooddeuk.

A sound I shouldn’t have heard came from the egg.

“?????”

“Oh.”

Tutuk, tuk.

Awesome—.

“I’m tired.”

Obviously, the egg that was fine a while ago was cracking.

I hurriedly removed my hand from the shell, and the cracked part shattered helplessly and scattered downwards.

Only like this, it can’t be attached with bond.

No, there’s no bond to attach in the first place.

Cold sweat ran down my spine.

The shell just above my eye level was cracked, and the egg split in half.

Inside the exposed golden dragon egg, a naked girl wrapped in long flowing blonde hair sat quietly.

I was so flustered that I was staring blankly at it.

The girl’s closed eyes suddenly open and meet the eyes that sparkle like obsidian. The closed lips slowly opened.

“Dad?”

“???”

I wonder if I heard it wrong.

The girl finally looked straight at me, spread her arms wide and grinned.

“Dad!!!!!!”

Lubern Alroy, 25 years old.

Sympathy.

Become a father.