Chapter 2: The dragon learns true kindness (2)

Chapter 2: The dragon learns true kindness (2)

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On the morning of the next day I started hunting at sunrise.

The stomach was indeed at its limit already.

To begin with I hadnt eaten anything for more than a week because of inheriting the knowledge.

Honestly, I could die from starving if I didnt fill my stomach with something today.

For my great purpose (Mating), I cant run out of energy in a place like this.

Spreading my wings, I ascend the sky.

The dragons fish-tank spread below my eyes. Easy prey here and there, I love it.

When 2 hours passed after I started hunting, 10 prey were lying in front of my eyes.

My first time hunting after being born was disappointing because it was so easy.

The prey was supplemented with those from the sky, where I approached with the speed of sound and shot my dragons roar. With that alone all prey fainted.

I didnt hunt much in this period of time because I had no interest in it besides sating my hunger, so I gathered only this many prey.

At the center of the island, I discovered a huge rocky mountain and it became a landmark and I placed my captured prey side by side at the foot of the mountain.

Ah, dont misunderstand what Im saying, I havent killed any prey before me yet.

I had arranged them like this, but I was unable to decide which prey to eat, because today commemorated my first meal in this world.

Of course the choice of eating all prey didnt exist.

Too much food fattened not only the body but also the mind. A dragon had a body like steel but the mind must also be like steel.

I looked for a special one, so I glared at the demon beast one by one, it was effective and one stirred.

The one that woke up first was from a race called chimera. A lion and a snake, it was known as a ferocious monster that was composed of various animals.

However, now the mane of the lion stood on ends in fear, the hind legs of a goat were trembling GakuGaku.

It was no wonder because compared to a dragon the chimera was only ordinary prey.

Well, about the problem of taste, I could tell from the inherited knowledge, the body of the goat was delicious but the lion head and the snake tail werent eaten very much.

The preceding dragon seemed to have only eaten the part of the goat when it preyed on chimeras.

. . . Fumu.

Miin (TL: Leave)

The chimera heard my voice and ran away at full speed while winding up its snake tail.

Why didnt I eat the chimera?

I had decided. I should not be impolite to the life I took and throw its body away after only eating part of it.

When taking the life of a creature, you had to hold gratitude for every drop of blood you ate. A meal was the act of eating a life.

Furthermore, though it was a little digression, in this world the demon beast race didnt have a language and the races that could speak language were phantom beast and demi-humans.

Originally it was impossible thing to hold a conversation with a monster such as the chimera, but it wasnt difficult for me who was a dragon.

Because the soul of language dwelled in the words of a dragon and even if the other party was deaf, the intention can be delivered directly.

The next one to wake up was a race called cerberus.

It had a black body like darkness and 3 heads, it was a brutal demon beast renowned as the gatekeeper of hell.

When the cerberus woke up it recognized my appearance,

Kuun kuun

and submitted by showing its belly.

. . . fumu, was it female . . . ?

Although I considered that it was waste, I decided to release the pitiful demon beast.

In the memory of the preceding dragon I knew that he didnt eat them either because they werent very delicious. Besides, it wasnt like that I had no other food and there was no reason to intentionally eat the dog which begged for its pitiful life.

When I told that it could leave, the Cerberus barked once and disappeared into the forest.

The next one to wake up was a race called harpy.

This was a race with limbs of a bird and the body of a woman, bird and human, the two of them added together was delicious.

It was the preceding dragons favorite dish, though he had to restrain himself to no hunt them completely, but it seemed that he had enjoyed the meat of a harpy once a month.

When the harpy woke up and saw me she raised a wordless scream.

Her family was the preceding ones favorite dish and it knew what would happen when carried away by a dragon. While her face paled her mouth moved PakuPaku.

However, while her wings shook noisily I could see that the harpy girl didnt utter a sound and a certain question floated in my head.

While she was so frightened by me I asked in a candid tone.

Miin min min min? (TL: By chance, are you unable to speak?)

The harpy girl shook her head up and down fearfully.

[Pitiful . . .] I muttered in my mind and stopped.

A harpy was originally a creature that that tempted its prey with its singing voice. A harpy who couldnt utter a sound, I didnt know if it could be called a harpy.

How on earth had she lived until now? She would have extraordinary hardships to grow up here.

And when I noticed, I no longer thought of eating this very weak creature.

I tell her to return to her village.

Though the harpy girl blinked repeatedly, but before I changed my mind, it flew away in the direction of its village.

While flying away she occasionally looked back with a fearful impression.

The next one to wake up was a race called lamia. A lamia had the upper body was of a human and the lower body was of a snake and this food seemed to be also a fair delicacy.

The lamia that woke up trembled from my appearance, crouched down to hide its belly with both hands and threatened in a low voice.

I felt a sense of incongruity in its figure.

When I observed carefully, the belly of the lamia seem had a bulge but not from obesity.

(This, possibly . . .)

No, it surely is. There was only one reason why a creature like a lamia could behave courageously in front of a dragon.

Miin min min min min (TL: The brave and gentle mother. I want you to forgive me, I didnt notice that you were pregnant. Be relieved. I do not intend to give you any more harm. . . . Now, go. And, give birth to a strong child.)

Were my spoken words so unexpected? The lamia stared at me with a blank expression. She bowed and left this place immediately.

I saw off the lamia with her dignified back.

Though the child was still in her belly, her back was already that of a mother.

Although the dragons roar may had given some bad influence on the child in her belly . . .

At the time of hunting, there was a reason why I didnt notice that the lamia was pregnant.

The husband of a married lamia never leaves the side of the female when she was pregnant.

In this case, when I found the lamia and had recognized a male figure who was her husband, I wouldnt have thought of hunting her as food.

However, when I found that lamia, there were no other creatures nearby. In other words . . .

For me, it was only possible to pray for that mother and child to live happily.

The next one to awaken was a race called lizardman.

It was a demi-human that looked like a lizard standing upright, it seemed like it was also one of the favorite dishes of the preceding dragon.

However, the lizardman was wearing unusual clothes. The knowledge of the dragon taught me that it was something called shrine maiden clothes. It also seemed to be a female, too.

Although the preceding dragon didnt fight humans to protect the world tree, rather he drove away the humans who entered his territory.

The world tree wasnt involved with the preceding dragon. He seemed to have recognized the huge tree at level of a big mark.

The world tree didnt produce fruits, so the preceding dragon had no interest.

The preceding dragon had no way to know. Inside the tree was a sweetness that existed in no fruit.

The sweet liquid tempted me.

I wonder what the taste of the sap of the world tree was like. I quietly scoop it with my nail and tasted it with a lick.

(TL: Buuuuuhyaaaaa! Unmeyaaaaaaaiii!)

Very high class sweetness! Very rich smell! And tender in the throat!

This was indeed a heavenly delicacy! Did such a food exist in this world?!

Compared to this sap I think even the sap of a fir tree was like muddy water.

In front of the best sap the impulse to eat could no longer be stopped. I bury my face into the crack of the tree and sip the sap with a JuruJuru sound.

My throat, my stomach and my cells, the sap of Yggdrasil gradually heals them.

The delicious liquid, while sunk in starvation and dehydration, the desire was further ignited.

More,

Much more.

More gushed out from the spring of life.

But with the large jaw of a dragon I could not face it while sipping sap.

The big nose was in the way and I couldnt reach the interior of the sap.

Ah, how mortifying.

At a time like during those days as a cicada, I would entered deep into the tree through the gap with my pipe and was able to suck sap as much as I desired . . . The body of a dragon was such an inconvenient one.

I was asking for things I couldnt have, so I clicked my tongue and suddenly I noticed.

Yes, it is! Didnt I have a long tongue? Even without the pipe of a cicada, shouldnt I be able to take it by licking it with the tongue of a dragon?

My tongue advance to the interior of the crack. I licked in order consume all sap that remained there.

When I did that, the more I moved my tongue the more new sap would seep from this honey pot.

If I strongly rubbed the inner walls, the earlier I moved the earlier thick sap would overflow one after another.

And I like a camel in the desert drinking the sky water, I kept licking the crack of the huge tree.

( . . . I wait . . . sleep, calm . . ly . . .)

Someone, I felt like someone was calling in my mind. Was that the person who called me some time ago?

But I hadnt finished. It had no relation anything right now.

The one that could disturb my moments of supremacy didnt exist in this world.

Because Im a dragon!

(. . Notice . . . No, . . . Fu . . .Oh, no more . . .)

My tongue didnt stop.

Unexpectedly the tongue of a dragon seemed to be quite dexterous.

I thought to leave, but no, more than I thought, I could freely and skillfully move it.

( . . . There, no . . . Haa . . . Oh . . . Ahhh . . .)

The unidentified voice could still be heard in my mind, rather than the mysterious voice, my head full of only the thought on how I could consume sap more efficiently by licking.

( . . Ha, haa, ha . . . ah . . . Ahhhh, . . . AHHHHHHHHH!)

Finally with someones cry the sap flowed into my mouth like a flood.

I drank up all the sap and at the same time my stomach was sated. And like the mothers breast that guessed that it finished breast-feeding, the sap suddenly stopped.

And now, through my previous life, I was happily filled with the euphoria that I had not tasted once before.

Power wells up from my body. The footsteps of death had already gone far away.

By Yggdrasils mercy I was tied to life.

I look up at the huge tree.

A big trunk that rose towards the skies to the other side of the clouds and from the ground I couldnt know its height.

This body of a dragon, I had the illusion as having returned to small cicada, I had a great life there.

No wonder, the greatest living thing in this world wasnt the dragon, wasnt it this big tree?

I put my left hand on my chest and stretched out my right to the huge tree and conveyed my sincere thanks.

. . . Haa . . . Haaa . . ., at last . . ., you have calmed down. Gentle dragon.

That time, through the right which was put on the huge tree, someones voice flowed into my brain.

It was the voice I heard a little while ago. But I couldnt find anyone except the huge tree in this place.

Was it possible, I wonder if this was the voice of Yggdrasil?

Even though the huge tree Yggdrasil was a plant it had a will?

Fufufu, I have been calling for a while. And like a newborn clinging to its mothers milk, it seemed to have no reached your ears that was desperately drinking sap.

When she said like a baby I was embarrassed, but it didnt feel unpleasant.

When compared to the primeval tree Yggdrasil, even though I had inherited the memories of tens of thousands years of a dragon, I might only be a baby.

I sincerely apologized for my own impoliteness.

The tree with a will, from the tree that was the mother of all creatures, I had shamelessly continued to sip the sap like a stray dog.

But when the huge tree heard my apology she said with affection like a mother.

Gentle child of dragon, I have seen your conduct for a while. I hope that you could possibly get accustomed to beast blood early.

Ahh, Yggdrasil seemed to have seen everything when I didnt eat the beast.

I who hesitated in front of the beasts wasnt laughed at by Yggdrasil, but instead called gentle.

Rather,

For the time being, please fill your stomach with my sap as much as you like

Her benevolence was deep, until I sip blood, until the day I could eat meat, she said that she would give me sap.

Like this wasnt I like a baby that couldnt become independent?

While being embarrassed I couldnt stand still, because the happiness from obtaining sap from the huge tree from now on and I didnt know what face to make.

The huge tree said to me [Dont feel embarrassed] while saying that remark.

. . . But, that . . ., please suck a little more gently next time.

And she added.

For me this was the first encounter with Yggdrasil.

The huge tree Yggdrasil that was deeply involved in my life as a dragon.

On that day, more than the sap she had, my heart was touched by her benevolence.

And suddenly I remembered the lizardman shrine maiden.

Indeed, she had presented herself to me and I would happily present myself if only for Yggdrasil.

Lets sing the finest praise to the merciful huge tree.

I praised her, the song only she could hear.