Chapter 555: Charisma
He leaves the palace with a dozen or so volunteer silver dragons. Then I thought about it.
“……Dianne and the others would be worried if we all flew together”
The silver dragons could have possibly hit us at the beginning of the encounter.
“If we fly in formation with Maia-dono in the lead, there should be no problem, right?”
Lado suggested.
“……To an ordinary person, it looks like Maia is just being chased by the silver dragons, you know?”
“……I see. I would think that the dragons would be able to see the expressions on each other’s faces as they fly”
“It’s a bit tedious, but I’d like you to assign two or three representatives and have the other dragons follow us in their human bodies, holding onto them”
“I understand”
The other dragons are to be led by Lado, while I, Tetes and Naris take off ahead of the others on the dragonized Maia.
“Master is really scary when you only look at the results like this, isn’t he……?”
“……What?”
“Also, he’s made a hell of a lot more allies. I think people in power in a normal country would be horrified if they thought they were a legitimate force in a specific country”
“Eh, I mean, isn’t this guy from the Celesta Army……?”
Naris pointed at me and said so. By the way, about three people can fit in one hand of Maia, so I was holding on to one of Maia’s fingers and Naris was clinging to it like when she was riding a horse.
“He belongs to the extra unit of Celeste’s army, is a Trot man from the frontier, and is a hero of the forest who has received the trust of the elf territory. In reality, he is a dragon rider who is not subject to the ambitions of any particular power”
“……It’s a complicated position, isn’t it?”
“Laila-san and Misty Palace, as well as 100-man commander Dianne, Irina-sama and Anzeros-san’s mother, underwrite such a position. ……If they were not in that way and if they had taken a position to protect and expand their foothold as a local power somewhere……”
“……Ah, it’s certainly scary……the king of Trot in particular must be horrified. It’s as if he’s like a man named Rainer……ah”
“Yes. Both Rainer himself for this country and Master for Rainer. ……Each other, they have to see each other as a danger”
“A, Ah……ah, I see”
Naris sounds convinced.
“Charisma gets too many strong allies. One wrong move and Master would have had to act like Rainer”
“Can’t you tell me now that I’m not charismatic……?”
“Yes. No one can say now that a being who can persuade not only Laila-san alone, but also Maia-san, Misty Palace, Sahuk-san and Bauz-san in the south, and an unspecified number of dragons at the Crystal Palace……is not charismatic”
“I’m really starting to get scared now that I’m hearing that”
Naris mutters in a low voice. No, even if you say it while clinging tightly to me.
“The strategy taken by 100-man commander Dianne to keep Master’s existence hidden from the political forces of each country and to keep his position afloat is the right one so far……it’s so obvious that this is the only way to go”
“……Perhaps it’s also because Grand Knight Chief Buster and the King of Trot are so fond of 10-man captain Smithson”
“As long as you have a good relationship with Master, I think it’s because that trust gives you security that is generally invisible to the public. The warring factions of your country and other countries, plus the many dragons, all adore Master”
“……Now that you mention it, 10-man captain Smithson, how can you be so unconcerned in your position……?”
“I’m not okay with it……sometimes it gives me the creeps too”
However, if you continue to manage things according to each situation……that’s what happens before you know it. Basically, I was just trying to live a relaxing life while doing erotic things to girls. It might be a bit of a ghost story.
Then we flew for a while and tried to meet up with Dianne and the others at the royal palace……but I spotted a yellow dragon flying over the palace.
“Hey, isn’t that Bauz?”
“Yes. I saw Sahul too just now”
Chibi Maia said. Needless to say, Maia’s vision is better than those of us looking ahead through the gaps between her fingers and her visual acuity is incomparably higher.
“Why didn’t you just tell me?”
“Maybe this isn’t the time to say that. ……There’s a air battle going on”
“Eh”
“I, Isn’t that a bit of a problem? I think we should get off”
“Naris-chan, you’d better shut up for a minute. You’ll probably bite your tongue”
“Are you sure you want to go in there!?”
“Maia, stand back! Deploy everyone! Support everyone in the royal palace!”
“Perhaps Andy-sama’s voice is conveying it now. ……Yes, everyone has turned into a dragon”
I can’t see the rear because it’s blocked by Maia’s torso and legs, but Maia says that the silver dragon volunteers have also deployed their forces.
“No, it can’t be helped if we rush in, right!? I mean, we have to get 10-man captain Smithson down in a safe place, right!? Stop, stop, we’d be in trouble if we accidentally got up at this heighttttt”
It seems that she bit her tongue when Maia made a sharp turn and Naris was silent for a moment. Of course, Maia had no intention of getting into a fight. We landed in the backyard of the royal palace, dodging the airborne battle and gently lowered herself down on the ground as if to protect us with her wings.
“Tetes!”
“I know! You’re going to run like hell, aren’t you!?”
It’s the only way to reduce the amount of time we’re unprotected from Maia, but thank goodness she’s very perceptive.
“Naris, please let go of your hand too”
“A, Au……hold my hand!?”
I guess my fear gets the better of me when I’m in a situation where I might be attacked by a dragon right now and with a slightly uneasy look on my face, Naris unties her arm from around my waist while saying how cute she is.
“See, noo!”
And then she dashes from Maia’s shadow into the palace building. Of course, I run as fast as I can, but Tetes and Naris are much faster than me and soon I’m being dragged by a hand. Or rather, Naris dragged me along.
“Uwa!?”
“Hey! Please run seriously!?”
“I’m super serious!”
I always wondered how the knight class could be as fast as a beast or as strong as an ogre with such thin limbs…….
And as I look up at the sky from inside the door of the royal palace as if to roll in, Dianne calls out to me.
“Welcome back. How was it over there?”
‘”Ah……I convinced a dozen or so of them to come over to our side”
“……Really? I thought there weren’t that many Presbyterians”
“The Presbyterians worked too hard last time in the battle to let us go and now they’re useless as a fighting force. What we brought with us this time is something different”
“……?”
“No, it’s kind of complicated, but……it seems that dragons are surprisingly open to it.
As expected, Dianne-san has an unconvinced look on her face, but I’m also having trouble explaining it. I wondered if that was okay even during the persuasion process.
“Moreover, it’s an enemy attack”
“As you can see, we can’t fight in the air. So we’re leaving it to Laila and others”
“I see Bauz and Sahul are there, too”
“Just a while ago, Broll-san found me while I was flying around and called out to me with his voice. As a result, the enemy came as well……”
Diane-san makes a bitter face, but back combed hair, or rather Wrigley, who was nearby, uses this as an opportunity to start talking.
“We were also confused. We were told that it was roughly around here, but it was the first time for both Bauz-dono and Sahul-dono to come here”
“However, when it comes to a battle like this……it would have been a waste if we could at least knock them down to the ground and deploy in a state where we could intercept them”
Dianne sighs. As a tactical commander, does it bother you that there is so much waste of forces?
“Oh no, but I think we can win”
And then suddenly appeared 100-man special duty commander Becker. ……It was said he was supposed to come with Sahul and the others as a detachment, right?
“Maybe it’s because we had enough numbers”
“That’s also true. It’s all thanks to the big boys being more violent than I expected”
“……Big boys?”
I asked and special duty commander Becker, gave me a quick thumbs-up and invited me to join him.
When I arrived at the roof of the palace, Lantz and Keiron were holding crossbows.
“What do you think?”
“We don’t have a lot of chances. 10-man captain Keiron got one shot just now”
“I don’t know who the enemy is anymore”
……I was wondering what those guys were doing with the crossbows, but it was loaded with a special thick arrow.
“Does that work?”
“Oh, it’s been a long time, Smithson. Are you alive?”
“No, you’ll know it when you see it”
“This thing will have some effect. At this distance, a normal shot would be enough to knock you off your feet……”
If you hit it in the head, you can make it crash
“……No, you can’t hit a flying dragon in the head”
I thought it was impossible, but these guys seemed like they could do it.
“Besides, we’ve had enough of harassment. Look”
Keiron pointed to the sky. Broll-san and Bauz stood out in particular. Broll, an old dragon, was much larger than any of the blue dragons and Bauz was a different color. But more than anything else, there was an intimidating sense that these two were dominating the battlefield.
“……What? Those two are the only ones that the other dragons seem to be afraid of……”
“Look……it’s out”
A moment after Broll-san crossed paths with a silver dragon, the silver dragon suddenly had one wing severed and crashed.
“!?”
……No matter how sturdy the dragons are against each other, they should not be able to imitate each other like that easily because they are sturdy against each other. Then the next dragon chases after it from behind, but Broll-san drops it too without looking back……I mean, its head is cut in half from the front! How did he do that with his back turned?
“Is Broll-san that strong!?”
“No, he was on that one. Look, he fought you”
“……Eh?”
“What did you say? Emm, look, your sister’s brother”
Special duty commander Becker, says things that don’t get the point across with his old man-like subtle commands.
“I’m an only child”
“No, no, I made a mistake. Look, 10-man captain Aurora’s”
“……General Lucas?”
“That’s it”
“Eh, what!?”
Why is that guy here? I mean, he said he could fight dragons back then, but he’s really fighting dragons, that brother! Without a dragon slayer! ……In many ways, it’s too unexpected.
“At Captain Dianne’s request, Minister Ashton seems to have lightly negotiated with him. ……I’m surprised that he agreed”
I wonder if it’s something like that……where the martial arts skills cancel out the drawback of that incident. Anyway, that one trick of the original slashing wave is good enough for dragons. No, I knew that from the way Aurora fought. And the other one, Bauz, was chasing after the enemy……and with the help of other blue dragons, he hunted down a silver dragon and shot it down in another inexplicable way. The dragon fell as if it had gone rigid and fell headlong to the ground, impaled……. It remained impaled.
“……Eh, what’s that?”
It was upside down, rigid and instead of falling down, it was impaled head first, and it was motionless.
“It’s Demon Buster”
“…………Eh, petrification works on dragons, too!?”
“It seems to work. I heard he’s never tried it before, but he just said, 『Well, I guess it might work』 and he was right”
“No way……!?”
Dragon and human. The difference in combat power cannot be overturned. It may still exist on a one-to-one basis. If it can’t fly, there’s no point in talking about it. However, their skills were never ineffective against dragons.
“I’m glad we’re not enemies……”
“Maybe everyone is thinking that……about you”
“Eh?”
Becker laughed.
“That’s why they’re all on our side”
……Yeah. That’s what it comes down to. If you look at it from the side.