135 Episode 135: Award Ceremony and the Truth to Be Revealed

◆ Audiences ◆

"Now we are going to have an award ceremony for the Dragon Emperor's Rite and the Dragon Princess's Rite!

The awards ceremony begins when the mayor of the town, standing in the middle of the game stage, speaks up.

The long-lasting story of the mayor is softly asking me as well as everyone else to finish the story quickly.

What we came to see was an award ceremony after this.

We were sure.

When something absolutely amazing happens at the award ceremony for this tournament.

There will be a great event in this country, once in a lifetime or not, about the resurrection of the legendary king we heard about in the old days.

"Winner, Tyran, and Liliera, before!

Coming!

The mayor's long story is finally over, and we turn to the aisle where the players come in every game.

We hear footsteps from the back of the aisle, as it hurries our expectations.

"" "That?

But we tilt our necks at what we saw there.

"Just Princess Ryu?

Yes, the only person who showed up on stage was Princess Ryu, and His Majesty the Dragon Emperor was nowhere to be found.

We don't see His Majesty the Dragon Emperor, the star of the award ceremony, and we're confused.

"Oh, that? What about Tyran...?

The mayors seem upset about the absence of His Majesty the Dragon Emperor.

I wonder what the hell happened to His Majesty the Dragon Emperor, that's when I thought so.

Suddenly the surroundings were dark and shady.

I thought you were covered in clouds too, but you weren't.

Because I heard countless wings from above the sky.

If you looked up at the sky, there was a huge flock of wings covering and hiding the sky.

"Oh, is that...!?"

We know. That horrible look.

If you're the one who lives in this dragonia, there's no one who doesn't know what that looks like.

"D, it's a dragon. Ah!

Yes, it was a herd of dragons that could not be counted as covering up the sky.

"Wow! They'll eat you. Uh-oh!

"Hih, no, no, no, no!?"

That's not what happened when the dragon that used to take Wyburn attacked me.

Everything in the sky was a dragon.

It is also the appearance of dragons of so many colors that green, blue, red, black and eyes tickle.

I've seen blue dragons along the streets, but I've never heard of black or gemstone dragons coming to people!

Just one of those heads will destroy the town 100 times!?

"" "Grrwwwwww!!" "

The dragons are as ambitious as they are.

"Hih!?"

"To, run away!

"No! Help me!

It wasn't just the venue, screaming from all over town when I heard the dragon roar.

But where am I supposed to run away in this situation?

No matter how desperate you run, if they chase you with those wings, they'll catch you in an instant.

And who's gonna help us?

They're dragons, aren't they? The Knights of the Nation will challenge you to defeat one of them?

In such a horde of monsters, we could only go in and out of fear.

"Quiet!!"

That was the time, I heard all over town.

The roar of the dragons, even the screams of the whole town.

"" "Ohhhhhh!!" "

Then the dragons that had previously flown apart suddenly turn into movements that were orderly.

As if they were knights marching according to the king.

"Oh hey what are you!?"

When someone points to the sky, two lights come down from directly above the match venue.

shining in the sunlight. It was winging gold and silver.

"Oh, that..."

We'll see.

The sky-dancing dragons paved the way to welcome those pairs of wings.

"It's the Golden Dragon and the Silver Dragon..."

"" Gwwwwww!! "

Just because someone says the leaked whine is the right answer, two dragons roar.

To be honest, I'm horrible and I want to escape.

But this body couldn't move much of the fear.

It's not just me, everyone in this room instinctively fears the legendary dragon.

Even if I'm the same person who helped us before...

And the Golden Dragon and Silver Dragon came down quietly to the game stage.

"Hih!? Ha, ha..."

A late escape mayor was just in the shape of being caught between two dragons.

And someone comes down from the back of the dragon.

We look at that, and our backs are lifted.

"It's Tyran..."

"It's His Majesty the Dragon Emperor..."

Yes, it was the man we were waiting for, His Majesty the Dragon Emperor, Tyran.

"" "" "" His Majesty the Dragon Emperor Ahhh!! "" "

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Uh, it was dangerous.

I never thought the dragons would make a fuss about showing up in town.

In previous lives, even if a flock of dragons crossed the town, it felt like a flock of migratory birds crossed if they weren't flying.

Is that it? Probably due to the enactment of dragon material protection laws and the decrease in the number of people familiar with dragons.

Whatever it was, I rushed to ask the Golden Dragon to quiet the dragons down because the town was in a mess.

And a little earlier than planned, but I got off on the game stage as Tyran.

As dragon emperors we all believe in, to tell you what's to come.

When I get off the Golden Dragon, the look on the faces of the townspeople turns to relief.

Yeah, it looks like you showed up as dragon emperors riding the golden dragon, and you all figured out the dragons weren't your enemies.

"" "His Majesty the Dragon Emperor!" "

I'm not used to this dragon emperor call though.

And even from the Silver Dragon, Mr. Lune comes down.

"Huh? Why would a human not Princess Ryu come down from the Silver Dragon?

And so the people at the venue lean their necks at the fact that Mr. Lune came down from the Silver Dragon.

"Surely that kid... yes, he's the Lune player who fought Princess Ryu in the finals!

"Yes, he's a Lune player!

"But why Lune?

Apparently you thought it was Mr. Liliera who was following the Silver Dragon.

But this is the operation to get Princess Ryune to acknowledge that she is the successor to Princess Ryu, who lost the final match of Princess Ryu's ritual.

"Quiet, everyone!

I pretend to be the Dragon Emperor and speak to everyone in the room.

"I've got something to tell everyone this time."

"His Majesty the Dragon Emperor told us...?"

"What the hell...?

"I'll talk to you later."

So, it was Mr. Lune who came forward.

From here forward, the Dragon Emperor discreetly concedes the lead role to Mr. Lune.

"My name is Lune Risel voor Dragonia... it draws the blood of the Dragonian royal family"

"" "... eh eh eh eh!?" "

Everyone in town is surprised to hear the shock confession.

Yeah, this conversation is ringing all over town because I also have some loud magic on Mr. Lune that just sounded all over town.

It would save me a lot of trouble if I put it together and explained it.

"Lew, Lune is royal!? Are you serious?!?"

"But if you think about it, you're also convinced why Lune showed up on the Silver Dragon."

"You must have all been surprised. But this is true. I am a descendant of a royal family who was chased through the country hundreds of years ago..."

With that said, Mr. Lune began to tell the people of town what had happened to his ancestors, as he had told us before.

"My ancestors, who were thus taken over by the Chancellor, descended into the field to take back the throne, to use their words in reverse, to become dragon knights and defeat dragons."

……

Looks like the people in town are confused about how to react to Mr. Lune's shocking confession.

In Dragonia, after the Dragon Emperor died in the war, the story that the Chancellor made a declaration that he would run the country as a surrogate until the day the Dragon Emperor returned would have surprised you even more because it sounded like we all knew it in old stories.

"The prime ministers did not rebuild a weakened country with the loss of the Knights of the Dragon Emperor. It is the greatest symbol of force that Dragonia could have shown against another country at the time!

Yeah, normally, it's impossible not to rebuild the strongest forces in the country, right?

"The Knights of the Dragon Emperor create a contradictory existence: knights serving the royal family, or knights serving the doomed royal family. But that's no reason to rely on rebuilding your power. Because a Dragon Knight who defeats a Dragon and dances in the sky with it is very powerful."

Dragon Knights have also been useful as powerful fighters in previous lives, and more importantly, being able to make a whole wild threat of Dragons an ally has the advantage of reducing the number of enemies and increasing the number of allies, even if you simply think about it.

So you don't have a choice not to do it, do you?

"The problem with the prime ministers was that our royal family was alive. Once the Knights of the Dragon Emperor are rebuilt, one of their missions will be to find the survival of the royal family to serve. But if the Knights knew and came into contact with the survival of our royal family, it would reveal the barbarism that the prime ministers' ancestors had once committed to the surviving royals."

That's right, once the royal family is found, they'll find out their treason, so there's no way the prime ministers can rebuild the Knights of the Dragon Emperor.

Well, that sounds like a choice I made because other countries were exhausted in the battle against demons at the time.

"Holy shit, we were floating around saying His Majesty the Dragon Emperor was back without even knowing that..."

"Lune, no, we don't even know how Lune feels..."

It is impossible to tell everyone who is a civilian to know how Mr. Lune feels.

But what Mr. Lune has fought so desperately for in that little body is for everyone who's watched the game to know.

No one is unmoved by the truth of the shock revealed by the beautiful princess who took the throne... Apparently.

Yeah, about the exposures around here, it's Megli and the others' idea, isn't it?

Buy everyone's sympathy and get allies.

"But you don't get sick. Because everything is caused by the barbarism of the Chancellors and the Anti-Dragon Emperors!

"" "Dear Lune...!?" "

"Master Lune will forgive us for living without knowing anything...!?"

"How sweet..."

They say they don't blame themselves, and the people in town are moved by Mr. Lune's kindness.

It's Mr. Norb's idea around here, isn't it?

The kindness of forgiveness is important.

"Rest assured, gentlemen. The prime ministers who had already privatized the country were captured by His Majesty's ministers."

"" Sa, get the Chancellors!? ""

"Seriously!? When the hell?!?"

"His Majesty the Dragon Emperor, Sugee!

No, you don't have to praise me there.

"And I showed strength! We followed the Silver Dragon and officially became Dragon Knights!

"Grrwwwwwwww!!"

When Mr. Lune raises his spear, the silver dragon he held back behind barks.

This is a performance to tell Mr. Lune that the Silver Dragon is following.

I had a hard time getting the Silver Dragon to understand, though.

"I hereby declare that I will succeed to the throne, rebuild the Knights of the Dragon Emperor, who was the mightiest knight, and resurrect true Dragonia!

"" "Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh" "

A voice of excitement rises from all over town in Mr. Lune's declaration of succession to the throne.

Mr. Lune, descendant of the Dragon Emperor, who was a legendary being, follows the Silver Dragon, takes the throne, and the Dragon Emperor Knights are revived.

We are all so excited about the sight of the legend as if it had become reality.

"His Majesty the Dragon Emperor..."

"Master Lune! Whoa! Princess Ryu was real!

"Princess Ryu!

"The legend of this country was real!

Everyone speaks with excitement in honor of the Dragon Emperor and Mr. Lune.

"Is that it? But if Master Lune is to succeed the throne, what will happen to His Majesty the Dragon Emperor?

And that's where someone talks about it with their neck tilted.

"Ah, if you ask me..."

Everyone will have that question, and they will turn their gaze to me to see what they do.

Yes, this is our operation.

"I have a mission to exchange. Therefore, the government shall leave it to Princess Ryu!

"The mission of His Majesty the Dragon Emperor!?"

"What exactly is the mission of His Majesty the Dragon Emperor to entrust the throne to!?"

I look here to see what a mission it is for everyone to abandon the throne.

... Well, there's no such mission!

If I tell you this, I'm not a real dragon emperor. Besides being able to reason why I don't have to take the throne, I can have the dual advantage that Mr. Lune can take the back shield to the throne with the dragon emperor's ink.

What's more, it's a dimension that the Dragon Emperor's recognition of Lune as the Dragon Princess will also dispel Liliera's suspicion of the Dragon Princess!

'I told him what to tell him. It's time for me to boil!

Even if I stay here any longer, I'm going to talk about something extra, and I'm just going to disappear.

Leaping wide into the sky, the Golden Dragon flies up and puts me on my back.

You didn't even instruct me to do that, but you're disciplined.

'Farewell!

With that said, we flew towards Dragon Peak.

Huh, now you're done with all the trouble.

... Hmm, I think I forgot something.

◆ Megli ◆

"Riu, the dragon emperor has flown away..."

The audience was stunned to see Lex fly with the Golden Dragon.

"Hey, what's going to happen to this? The dragon emperor flew away, and the dragon princess was not the dragon princess..."

"Oh, you know what I mean... but what are you really going to do?

It was not only the audience that was baffled, but also the town mayor and operations that were going through the closing ceremony.

"Uh... because the winner, Emperor Ryu, has flown away... uh, what shall we do, Princess Ryu?

The troubled mayor insists on what to do with Lune.

I mean, I don't know if the operation is a round throw.

"Right. Then Princess Ryu's ritual is to honor Ryu and Liliera."

"Huh? Are you sure?

Even though Lune, the dragon princess, is there, the mayor is confused as to whether it would be good to honor Liliera.

"I don't mind. It's only a ritual."

"Oh, thank you, Princess Ryu. So, we will now award the winner, Liliera. Liliera, before the players!

Thus, Liliera's award is concluded, and the consultation is then resumed as to what to do with the award of the Dragon Emperor's Rite.

"What shall I do, Princess Ryu?

"That's right...... yes! Why don't we roll up the semi-winning Norb player and give him an award?

"Oh, that's a good idea!

"Eh."

Norb, who perceived his danger, fled to the outside at first sight.

Quite a good response. Norb is just being worked out by Rex, too.

"Oh, Norb got away"

"You really don't like using physical enhancement magic."

"Norb, are you there?

In the end, we couldn't find the escaped knob, so Lune was to be awarded the honor on his behalf.

"I would now like to honor Princess Ryu as his deputy."

"Yes, I am honored to represent His Majesty the Dragon Emperor"

"" "Uh-oh! Princess Ryu!

"His Majesty the Dragon Emperor Banzai!

The award ceremony manages to be successfully concluded and everyone in the venue cheers.

Is this finally the end of the long game...

"Uh, by the way, I have another problem."

"Huh?"

I thought this was all over. That's when the mayor muttered about the potpourri.

"Huh? Did something happen?

"Come on?"

The people in town are also tilting their necks wondering if anything has happened.

"I think it's all over now, what the hell is wrong with you?

When Lune leans his neck and asks the question, the mayor answers with regret.

"Uh, Princess Ryu's ritual was a tournament to choose the role of Princess Ryu in the ritual that was originally held in town. And the Ritual of the Dragon Emperor was held for the same reason...... but His Majesty the Dragon Emperor flew away earlier. The role of Princess Ryu is good because there are Liliera players, but what about the role of His Majesty the Dragon Emperor?

"" "" "" … ah "" ""

That's when everyone at the venue remembered.

the real reason for this tournament.

Yeah, to be honest, I was obsessed with the game and forgot.

... Now it's time to bring Norb?