Chapter 691 – Raid and Reward (Some Modifications)

000

Diora, who somehow managed to shake off Selena’s request to speak again while wearing his armor, entered his tent inside the kingdom’s military camp and sat down on the bed.

To be honest, I thought it would be okay to reveal my true identity to her, but I decided that if she didn’t notice, it didn’t matter.

That way, it’s easier to move around in many ways, and I thought it was better than just increasing the number of people I know.

There is a saying that if you block information, you should protect your allies before your enemies.

‘Well, it doesn’t exist. That means…’

When you think for yourself, tackle yourself, take off your stuffy armor and let go, your skin that barely touches the air is exposed, and a cool sensation surrounds your body.

No matter when you look at it, it is an armor with a design that is not cute.

A body with a shiny, jagged, angular design resembling a crustacean or an insect, and several iron plates that resemble dragon scales.

Likewise, a helmet that seems to have a living creature motif, covers the entire face even when covered, and makes it difficult to lie down or lie down because horns or something like that is annoying.

The design and performance completely hides the Diora inside and makes you question whether the person you are dealing with really belongs to the human category.

Well, it cannot be denied that it is effective in scaring the other person.

‘It would be nice if we could at least paint it in a bright color. For example, if you make it a color that girls like, like pink, wouldn’t it be a dream to be surrounded by girls even while wearing armor-‘

Diora spontaneously bursts out laughing while thinking unpleasant thoughts.

How many people know that the image of living in a delusion and wiping the drool from the corner of one’s mouth is really the truth of the knight of the strongest kingdom on the continent?

If you make an ‘uhehe’ sound and smile for a moment while making a face that you can never show to others.

Next moment.

Suddenly, Diora stopped laughing and quickly turned around – there was someone standing at the entrance of the tent, where she had normally ordered no one to enter.

The light was blocked by the body, a shadow was created inside the tent, and the person’s appearance was confirmed with the eyes.

It was a woman with long, unkempt silver hair that was close to her messy hair, and wearing a worn-out green leather robe and cloth clothes.

Her front hair was completely covered, and she was carrying a dagger on either side of her waist, and a huge bow as tall as she was on her back.

Her unique faint presence, and the eerie sound flowing from her body.

No, more than that, no matter how you look at it, it was strange that she, her outsider, was in Diora’s tent at the very end of her kingdom’s military garrison.

＂Who?＂

When Diora smiles shyly and says that in a wary manner, she ‘sniffs’ and wrinkles her nose from a little distance away.

Then, Diora automatically made a disgusted face and frowned at the sudden visitor.

Even though she belongs to her category as a woman, isn’t it rude for her to come into her own space and immediately turn her nose up?

Moreover, looking at her not answering her own question, Diora sighed.

From the looks of it, Diora thinks he’s crazy.

‘It’s natural that people like this are everywhere, but they also exist in Asteris.’

Although she was a Diora who did not hate people living with mental illness, she still found it a bit annoying when she got involved with them directly.

“First, this place is treated like a military base. I’m sorry, but I want you to leave like this.”

As Diora spoke to her with her most friendly smile, her unexpected visitor spoke while looking directly at her.

“Dragon Knight Drake. You now possess the presence of the strongest dragon in Asteris. It’s much darker than the two sensitized people, including the dark demon’s clan. And- disgusting.”

＂… The clan of the dark horse… Is it Cleon?＂

As she continued speaking, Diora’s expression froze, and she looked at her with her smile frozen. She just said nothing.

＂Why?＂

And only then did she see her eyes staring coldly from between her bangs.

You can tell that she is an elf, not a human, from the ears that are much pointed and longer than those of a human covered by her head.

“Well? “Your mother is a dragon?”

When Diora responds like that without erasing her smile, the elf closes her mouth for a moment and then lets out a sigh.

“There is no such thing as a mixed blood between a dragon and a human. Dragons can only reproduce through humans, and the beings that emerge are not mixed race, but only dragons. “You don’t even know that?”

“It was meant as a joke, but I never thought it would be taken so seriously… Well, either way, I have no intention of telling the truth.”

After Diora finished speaking, there was silence in the tent for a moment.

A situation where everyone is wary and watching each other, waiting for someone to make the first move.

It was the elves who moved first.

“Doesn’t care. Whether you tell a story or not.”

When I thought her body had become translucent, it seemed as if her body had been stretched in two right then and there.

‘Illusion magic?’

Diora frowns at the magical phenomenon that seems to have been activated without any preliminary movement on her part, but sees her gliding towards her left and right sides.

The distance wasn’t that wide, but the approaching speed wasn’t that fast either.

“If you have any questions, you can find out by asking the body.”

And the elves on both sides of her reached out their hands toward her diora at the same time, trying to grab her.

What is this doing?

Diora then quickly plunged her fist into the abdomen of each of the elves approaching from either side of her, then turned around and stretched out her hand, grabbing the hand of the ‘another elf’ who was trying to grab her. It was her role to hold on.

＂It was quite a passionate statement, but unfortunately, it is slightly outside my range of defense. I wish I was 10 years younger… No, is 10 years too young for an elf?”

What Diora caught while saying that was an elf that appeared to be real, unlike the illusion of two collapsing elves.

＂I never thought I would use illusion magic to create an alter ego and at the same time turn myself invisible. The presence became so faint that I only noticed it when the invisibility was turned off behind me.”

In a way, it was Diora’s attempt to outwit her, but Diora is still an elf holding on with a relaxed attitude.

I felt like the hairs on her skin were standing up from her slightly unpleasant presence.

But, one way or another.

The elf, holding her hand, pushes his face closer to her and pretends to sniff her again.

＂That’s rude…＂

Diora looked like she was at her worst and tried to use her strength to knock her over with her hold.

However-

“… As expected, the smell of an unpleasant lizard is the strongest. Even more than the two responders. For you… There is a weak but certain dragon. However… The dragon is screaming. Did you gain that power by killing a dragon like me?”

＂…＂

When she asks him if he’s her partner, Diora frowns and looks at her, who doesn’t move at all despite the force she put into her arm.

Although it had such thin limbs, its body never moved from the spot, as if it were an insect fixed to a specimen frame.

‘I’m not holding on with my strength. You used magic to fix your body in space…!’

Diora, who figured out the identity of the magic she was using that was holding on somehow awkwardly, twisted the corners of her mouth as if she was amused, releasing the magic flowing within her body to cover her own body.

And then, as it was, that magic flowed into the skin of the elf holding her wrist, wrapping it like that-

Whick! Then, with a single flip, he threw her body down onto the ground in the same way as before.

Thud! When her voice comes out, the elf looks at her with a pained expression on her face, almost letting out her breath, but the elf is lying on the ground with an expressionless expression – no, maybe her expression has subtly changed a little.

I look up at Diora with a slightly surprised face.

＂Because the title of Dragon Knight is not earned just by having armor.＂

Diora smiles and loosens her hands.

When a crackling sound rang out from her hand, that was the moment when she climbed on top of the elf and tried to mount it.

While lying down, the elf reached out to the handle of the dagger at her waist and pulled it out.

However, even Dio is ready to block any weapon that comes out.

However, what sticks out is a flashy object that is more like an ornament rather than a dagger for practical use-

The moment I was about to be disappointed when I saw that the sword body had several jewels embedded in it.

With an eerie sensation running down my back, I felt like something was strangling my neck.

She thought that it was dangerous to stay close to her, so she thought that she had to take that dagger by force and-

Instinctively, the thought of breaking away from that dagger struck her, and at that moment there was a slight gap.

The elf who was crushed by her swung her dagger, wounding Diora’s arm.

＂Kk…!＂

Of course, she escaped serious injury because she came to her senses and pulled her arm back just before, but even so, feeling the magic flow from the injured part of her must have been the power of that dagger.

‘What the hell is that…’

She herself did not know why on earth she was being neutralized by her dagger, but somehow, when her suppressing power weakened, her elf, who had been crushed, pushed her away and attacked her.
Stood up from his seat.

＂As expected, the fact that this dagger works means that you have to drink the blood of a dragon species- ＂

Then, when Diora realizes that what she used was a tool to kill her dragon, the corners of her mouth automatically turn downward.

＇When I came to the Eastern country, something like this suddenly appeared… ＇

I wonder where she usually hides, as I look at her with her shoulders slumped and feel the sweat running down her forehead.

“… Sinful dragon. Pay for the mistakes of your race with your life.”

An elf approaches her with her dagger, full of her hatred for her dragon.

But─

Keying! If you think you can hear the sound made when magic power is concentrated, Diora suddenly has a spear wrapped in flames in her hand.

She succeeded in knocking her dagger out of the hand of the elf who was approaching her.

＂!＂

The elf steps back and retrieves her dagger.

＂… You can move like that even under the influence of a dagger…＂

＂Honestly, it’s incredibly difficult, but… I’m not becoming the strongest knight on the continent for nothing, right?”

The elf frowned as she looked at Diora, who was sweating coldly but still showing off that she had not lost all of her strength.

At that time.

“I heard something coming from Lord Drake’s tent! It may be a surprise attack by the enemy!”

Hearing the shouts of soldiers and the sound of boots rushing in, the elf glanced outside.

＂If we continue like this, we will almost 100% get caught. What are we going to do?’

＂… Are you saying you will send it to me? ＂

“I don’t really want the soldiers to discover my identity here… I don’t think there will be any problem even if they let me go. Just remember that they are targeting me.”

As Diora spoke, the elf looked at her for a moment and disappeared as quickly as she had appeared.

After a while, the soldiers gathered in front of the tent raised their voices.

“Lord Drake! Are you okay!? “

＇Oh my… When it’s all over…’

Although she was the one who sent it away, Diora clicked her tongue at the laxity of the kingdom’s military, put her armor on her body, and went outside the tent to settle the situation.

001

“That’s what happened~”

Diora complains to Cleon.

“That must have been a big deal.”

Cleon said the same thing, but because she had something in mind, she couldn’t say anything more and just listened to her story quietly.

He sent Herti and Calia to her mansion, and from the elf’s story, he was worried that he might have gone after Diora.

However, it is not possible to go directly to the kingdom’s military garrison.

While I was worried about what to do with her, I heard that she came to play casually, and that she even counterattacked the elf with her own power.
She is indeed the strongest knight of the kingdom.

However, from what I’ve heard, it seems undeniable that she has her dragon powers, so should she be asked about that…

She was thinking about that, but first, Cleon talks to her.

“… Thank you for not killing that elf.”

＂Huh? Do you know each other? Now that I think about it, he was also a member of the dark demon family.”

Watching Cleon worry about the elf’s life, Cleon shakes his head when Diora looks surprised.

“No. Not sure, but when she looked into her eyes. She looked similar somehow… She was like that guy-“

Thinking like that, Cleon quietly recalled the image of her reclusive brother, the loner elf.

＂Hmm… It seems like something is complicated☆＂

As Diora spoke with a smile, she quickly turned on her car in front of her.

“So? What are you going to do? If it appears in front of me like this again, I plan to suppress it again… But since I know that I won’t be able to do it with just that dagger, I will come out stronger next time. If you repeat that… It might be a little annoying?

“Then I guess I’ll have to help next time. He may appear again today, so let him be with you. I need to talk and listen to the self-inflicted designation. About the reason I came to hate dragons.”

When Cleon said that, Diora blinked her eyes and then-

＂Then we should stay together for a day today?☆＂

“Huh? No, if you are attacked, you will be contacted using the ear cuff you used yesterday…”

When Cleon said that, Diora smiled and got up from her seat.

“Ah~ What if I can’t react and die on the spot? You are lending it to me for today. Now that I think about it, I thought I was still rewarded for my hard work yesterday~☆”

“No… I worked hard too…”

When Cleon looked troubled, Diora wrapped her arms around Cleon’s arm and spoke.

“Huh! So dating me is also a reward, right?”

＂…＂

When Cleon looked at Diora with a slightly suspicious expression, she smiled and waved her hand.

“Don’t worry. I won’t tell you to take on the form of a boy or a girl. I just want to take a look around Asteris☆”

“… Ha. Either way, there is nothing we can do…”

Cleon shook her head, and she had no choice but to comply with her request.