<Symbol of Victory (9)>
Rasheel munched on the walnut pie as he thought to himself. He then immediately shared that thought out loud.
“Ugh! I can only taste blood.”
He had coughed up so much blood that the inside of his mouth was full of it. Even eating the walnut pie made it impossible to taste the walnut at all.
Plop.
The walnut pie in Raon's front paw fell to the ground.
“!”
Rasheel's pupils started shaking in response.
‘W, why is he acting like this?’
He was wondering why Raon was acting like this. Rasheel suddenly felt an unexplainable feeling.
It was neither fear nor anxiety. It was an indescribable feeling that made him feel leery and uncomfortable.
‘...Is it because I only knocked that Dragon bastard unconscious instead of killing him?
Is that what's making me feel like this all of a sudden?’
Rasheel was trying to figure out the cause of this feeling when he heard Raon shout.
“Rasheel! Don’t die! You are extremely rude but I know you are good at heart!”
Rasheel's expression turned odd.
"What the fuck are you saying, you damn brat?! Why would I die?! I'm not dying! And why am I good at heart? I am not good!”
Archie, who was dragging the unconscious Kendall, sighed.
“...He’s annoyed at being called good and not being called extremely rude? What an odd Dragon.”
Of course, nobody paid any attention to Archie’s mumbling.
Raon flinched after hearing Rasheel shout. He then slowly peeked at Rasheel before nodding his head.
“It’s fine as long as you are not dying!”
He then picked the walnut pie up from the snow and placed it in Rasheel’s hand.
“Eat a lot! That’s how you get better faster!”
Rasheel wondered why this brat was acting like this but still chose to eat the walnut pie.
“... Delicious.”
“Hehe.”
Raon smiled brightly. It made Rasheel angry again that he subconsciously shouted.
“Don’t laugh, you damn brat! Also, I'm not good!”
“Hehe.”
Raon simply let Rasheel’s comments in one ear and out the other. Rasheel stared at Raon but decided that he couldn't get through Raon’s thick head and turned away.
‘Yeah, what can I really say to a seven year old brat?”
“Hey. I am not good.”
Instead, Rasheel spoke seriously to Cale, as if warning him.
Cale just nodded his head.
“Yes, yes, Rasheel-nim. But you are amazing enough to easily capture an enemy Dragon like this. I truly feel relieved that you are here, Rasheel-nim.”
“Ahem. Hem!”
Rasheel let out some fake coughs.
“Hmph.”
He then snorted before commenting.
“I'm heading home first.”
He then staggered.
“Ugh!”
Rasheel instantly noticed his body leaning to one side and scowled.
‘Shit!’
His right leg, the one with the large injury, went numb for a second, making him unable to step properly.
Honestly speaking, he was pretty aware of his current condition.
He still could not taste the walnut pie at all. That was how tired his body was and the severity of his injuries were quite severe.
‘Fuck! That is why I was trying to go back quickly!’
He did not want the young Dragon or Cale to see him like this.
‘It’s damn embarrassing!’
It embarrassed him.
Rasheel tried to put some strength into his leg again so that he would not let them see him fall to the side.
Pat.
However, his body ran into someone's hand and managed to not fall over.
"Are you okay sir?”
Clopeh Sekka looked at Rasheel with a gentle smile on his face.
Rasheel’s face instantly turned unsettled.
For some odd reason, this crazy bastard was making him feel uneasy.
‘Is it because he’s completely crazy?’
Rasheel brushed Clopeh's hand away and resumed walking.
"Damn it. Why the hell was a rock there?!”
Nobody reacted to Rasheel's comment despite seeing that the snowy ground was white and flat.
“I'm leaving.”
Ooooooooong.
There was a small amount of Dragon Fear as a teleportation magic circle appeared around Rasheel.
“One moment please.”
Rasheel flinched after hearing Cale's voice. He had turned his back toward Cale and had been unable to look at him since earlier. He was embarrassed to show his unsightly self.
“Archie. Go with him.”
"Well, sure.”
Rasheel frowned as he watched Archie step onto the teleportation magic circle. He looked at Archie with a gaze that seemed to be asking why Archie was getting onto it. Archie just shrugged his shoulders. Archie then addressed Cale.
"Should I leave this Dragon with Sheritt-nim?”
“Yeah. Please inform Sheritt-nim that I will wake him up to chat as soon as I get back.”
“Yes sir.”
Archie calmly answered before looking at Rasheel.
“Aren’t you going?”
Rasheel frowned even more.
He then sighed.
HE didn’t even have the strength to chat with this damn rude Whale.
Fatigue was coming in like the tide now that the battle was over.
‘...Tsk.’
He had a bitter taste in his mouth.
‘This is quite difficult.’
Based on his intuition, it felt as if the Dragon he pummeled today was on the weaker side of the enemy Dragons.
That meant that the Dragons they would meet from here on would be stronger.
‘It will not be easy.’
The battle against the enemy Dragon today was between ‘Victory’ and ‘Indomitability.’ It was a matter of which attribute was sturdier.
Furthermore, this Dragon was inexperienced as well.
However, if it was a properly grown Dragon with an attribute that caused no compatibility issues, and that Dragon had consumed the ‘Holy Water’...
‘Ha.’
Rasheel felt frustrated.
He thought that winning in Aipotu, this motherfucking world, would be harder than he had expected.
Rasheel's mind was in a complicated mess but the teleportation magic circle was quickly activated.
He wanted to return so that he had time to think.
Paaaat-
“Grrrrrr! Grrrrrrr-”
The intense growling of an animal continued.
Cale heard Gashan’s voice.
“That is the Wolf tribe leader, young master-nim.”
‘Wow.’
Cale barely held himself back from saying that.
Clank, clank!
“Grrrrrr-”
Inside the cave...
There was a figure that was as big as Lock when he went berserk.
This figure's finger and toenails were extremely sharp as well. Of course, those were all tied down.
Clang! Clang!
The thick chains looked as if they would break at any moment.
The Wolf tribe leader... This figure looked quite strong, befitting the position of tribe leader.
“Grrrrrr-!”
However, the figure looked extremely different from Lock.
Her whole body was covered in murky ash-colored fur, and...
“No consciousness.”
The way she was drooling and revealing her sharp fangs while clearly hostile toward everyone made it look as if she had no rationality at all.
“She definitely looks as violent as described.”
If Beast people went berserk and acted violently without any sense of rationality like this tribe leader, it made sense for regular people to get scared.
She looked extremely threatening.
“What happened?”
Gashan sighed and answered Cale’s question.
"She was already in this state when we arrived at the Wolf Village, young master-nim.”
An old Wolf who had been cautiously looking at Cale stepped forward.
"The tribe leader-nim wanted to protect our tribe no matter what and forced her berserk transformation. That’s how she ended up becoming so large-”
The tribe leader. They thought that her berserk transformation was going to succeed.
With the subjugation squad coming for them...her greatest desire, the Wolf tribe’s deepest wishes... They thought it was coming true.
However-
"She suddenly lost rationality and became violent. Koukan happened to arrive with Lock-nim and the others at that time and we were able to suppress the tribe leader-nim thanks to them.”
It was difficult for the Wolves who could not properly go berserk to handle the tribe leader in her current state.
The old Wolf looked at Lock.
“It was thanks to Lock-nim.”
‘Hmm?’
Cale felt some was weird and was about to look at Lock when...
“Grrrrrr-!”
The growling became intense and the Wolf tribe leader twisted her body.
She seemed to be trying anything to get out of this frustrating situation.
Clang! Clang!
The thick chains looked as if they would break at any moment.
Craaaaaaack-
No, they were starting to break.
As Cale was shocked at her formidable strength...
“Lock-nim!”
The old Wolf called out to Lock and Cale watched as Lock walked toward the Wolf tribe leader.
Lock was quite tall even without going berserk, but he looked quite feeble compared to the berserk tribe leader.
Lock stood in front of the tribe leader, and...
“Shh.”
He brought his index finger up to his mouth.
“Good girl.”
He then petted the tribe leader's head.
“Lock, that’s dangerous!”
As Raon subconsciously shouted... Cale's eyes opened wide.
"Groan. Whimper.”
The tribe leader suddenly stopped resisting.
She then groaned and curled up her body.
It was obvious that she was scared of Lock.
Lock was being nice to her, but the tribe leader even seemed scared of that as she curled up her large body and tried to make herself even smaller to avoid Lock's gaze.
“I knew it! As expected of the second coming of the Blue Wolf!”
The old Wolf’s voice of admiration reached Cale’s ears.
‘Blue Wolf.
Isn't that the existence that the Beast people here treat as a god?’
Lock awkwardly smiled toward Cale at that moment.
“Haha.”
"Whimper. Whimper.”
Behind him was an extremely scared Wolf tribe leader cautiously looking at Lock.
It was at that moment.
Shh.
Cale felt something cold before the small white snake that had been hiding in his clothes appeared.
The white snake tilted her head before speaking.
“Mom?”
To make it clear, it was not directed at Lock nor at Cale.
“...Me?”
She was looking at Witira, whose eyes were opened wide in shock.
“Human, I have no idea why this baby snake is like this! I guess it is her special trait!”
Raon huffed again.
The white snake continued to speak.
“You smell like mommy.”
She brought up the smell again.
Cale had thought that it was the smell of an imugi.
However, Witira was not an imugi.
‘She's a Whale.’
The baby snake continued to speak while Cale was confused.
“My mommy told me. She said that the mystical creatures with the qualifications to take the place of the Dragons smell like this.”
‘Mystical creatures?’
Cale’s eyes clouded over while the white snake continued to speak.
“Mommy said that the destroyed world was trying to ostracize the Dragons from here.”
‘Hooo.’
Cale's gaze remained on the white snake after hearing some interesting information.
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Translator's Comments
Is the snake's mommy not a snake? o.O
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