Chapter 57.2
Nymia looks at me with a pained expression . For someone as gentle as her who doesn’t even want to see her enemies suffer, the current appearance of the decaying dragon must be more than she can bare .
“Nevertheless, see this for yourself . If you don’t want to engage in fighting or suffer, then drown your opponents in overwhelming power so that they’ll prostrate themselves before you . ”
Asher-san’s tone is strict .
“If you sympathize with the decaying dragon, make yourself strong enough to obliterate it in an instant to keep it from suffering . ”
“Niaa . ”
Nymia releases a bitter purr . For a small child like her, this really is too harsh . However, if she doesn’t resolve herself and watch this fight, Asher-san will force her to return home .
Stay strong, Nymia .
“Niaa . ”
My, well, she really hates conflict . I hold Nymia in my arms at her lifeless purr and squeeze her small paw with my hand .
Do you best for Priscillchan and for me .
“Want to be together with Priscilla, nyan . ”
“Yeah, Priscillchan no doubt wants to be with you too . ”
I smile at Nymia and then turn back to the decaying dragon .
The decaying dragon is regenerating withing that pure white world .
Asher-san stops her relentless attack despite wanting to do otherwise . It’s really clear, but those dragon tribesmen are in the way .
…Dragon tribesmen are in the way; just what kind of terrifying world is this?
The dragon tribesmen frantically run from the falling rocks kicked up by Asher-san’s attack .
“Oooh, Oooh,” the decaying dragon pitifully groans out in pain . Seeing its anguished figure makes my chest tighten for some reason .
Why are its cries so sorrowful? The way its voice doesn’t match its ghastly appearance makes me uneasy .
“You find those cries sorrowful . You truly are a strange humanoid . ”
“Asher-san, you don’t hear it that way?”
“As a matter of fact . ”
“Although Nyan finds watching difficult, can’t hear it as sad, nyan . ”
Mumumu, maybe it’s a difference in sensitivity between humans and the dragon tribe?
From everything I’ve seen of the decaying dragon, it’s not just its cries that are sad but its expressions too .
“That has an expression?”
Asher-san has a point . It has no eyes and its skin is rotted . Half of its face is just bone . It’s unable to have anything like an expression . But still, somehow, I can read through that decaying dragon’s expression .
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Thinking about it, I’ve often been able to read Old Sleigstar’s expressions and feelings . Ever since I first met Old Sleigstar, I’ve somehow been able to read how he feels from the small movements of his mouth, the way he looks at others, and his tone .
“Fumu, a dragon’s heart?”
Asher-san seems to have understood something .
Hold up, I just also somehow understood its heart .
Although I’m curious about what a dragon’s heart is, the decaying dragon is the more important, so I look at it again .
The decaying dragon still seems to be in pain . Sorrowful groans escape it as it regenerates . No, it already finished . It has returned to the appearance it had back when we first encountered it . What incredible regenerative power .
The decaying dragon stares up at Asher-san in the sky . While the hollows of its eyes glow with a red light, I can only find sorrow within them . It doesn’t look hostile, just sad .
It seriously makes me uncomfortable . My intuition is telling me that something .
“Asher-san, can you stop exterminating that decaying dragon?”
“Haa, what are you saying? There’s no telling what sort of damage will arise if we leave it alone . Moreover, I cannot overlook that it raised its claws at me . ”
“But still, the goal this time was to show Nymia a fight . The decaying dragon can be exterminated next time . ”
“What’s come over you? Why are you defending the decaying dragon?”
“Somehow or another, it’s just somehow or another . ”
My words are all jumbled up . After all, I really don’t get it either .
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However, right now, all I see from the decaying dragon is sadness . I know that overlooking it here will bring suffering else where along with hundreds of other things, but still . For some reason, I just don’t want to defeat it .
“Good grief, you truly are a mysterious humanoid . Well whatever, fine . Shall I let it go and return?”
There’s no doubt that letting the decaying dragon go is easy . It can’t chase after Asher-san who is zipping through the sky .
Defeating the decaying dragon is difficult . Regardless of how destructive Asher-san’s attacks are, it not only resists them, its incredible regenerative ability won’t let it die . Continuing to attack until it stops will certainly bring about a major change to Dragon’s Peak .
So, what do we do?
I know .
“That, I want to talk to the decaying dragon . ”
Asher-san forces a laugh as her face twists with shock .
“A conversation with a decaying dragon, you say . Just how much of a dragon’s heart do you possess? Have you gone mad?”
“No, I didn’t go mad . Just, for some reason, I think I want to try talking with that decaying dragon . ”
“On what grounds?”
“…Intuition . ”
I know my words aren’t very persuasive, but it really is because of my intuition . My intuition is spot on every now and then like back at the ruins and that incident with the fake dragon tribesmen and not to mention with Old Sleigstar’s pranks . I was able to somehow figure everything out thanks to my intuition .
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Even though living by depending on my intuition is dangerous, I still want to trust in my intuition right now .
“Good grief, am I really entrusting my beloved daughter to such an absurd humanoid?”
Asher-san stares at me with a troubled expression . Still, she heeds my request by lowering herself as she circles around the decaying dragon . It hurls a fireball at her as she does so .
The decaying dragon is sad and in pain, yet it attacks the enemies before its eyes without mercy .
Asher-san, however, redirects the fireball towards the horizon with a flap of her wings . Then, as she lands, the deep piles of ash billow and scatter throughout the ravine .
A fireball is again hurled at Asher-san . Although I’m thinking it will be a direct hit, it explodes just before crashing against her . A heat wave washes over us, but it only feels a little hot .
“Mother’s wind barrier is strong, nyan . ”
I see, so there was a barrier . There was no need to avoid those attacks earlier . They wouldn’t have worked anyway .
“Come along now . Nymia and I will protect you, so hurry and have your conversation . ”
Asher-san presses me forward while directing a sharp glare at the decaying dragon .
I untangle myself from the fur on Asher-san’s lower back and climb down onto the ash covered ground . Nymia too climbs down . She returns to her original size and walks with me to the decaying dragon .
The decaying dragon threatens us with a growl but ends up shrinking back at Nymia’s roar .
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