Mushoku Tensei – Old Dragon's Tale

8. Anomalies

A house in Ryu Naruto Mountain, without any kind of weird philosophy.

There, the girl was still carrying something today.

Water or meat?

If you think so and take a look, you'll find yourself carrying something different than usual.

"Shh... shh"

A book.

She takes the books in her study to another room and arranges them in turn.

Is it a joke?

No, you're not.

Shade dry.

Because the paper used in Laplace is made from dragon skin, it is highly durable.

No matter what you do, you'll have tens of thousands of years.

However, if you continue to be exposed to moisture and insects, you will also deteriorate more slowly.

Therefore, shade drying is carried out regularly.

"Hmm, is that all for today?

Nevertheless, the book in the study is a massive word.

Yeah, well, it doesn't dry all the books in a day.

Once a month, for one bookshelf, I have to do things like that.

"Huh! Tired......"

Rosterina grossly stretched, whilst slapping her hips tonnes.

Currently, in front of Rosterina, a book for one bookshelf is arranged.

They're all old books.

Today, some of the old bookshelves in the study came out.

……

And so Fuji Rosterina was interested in having it.

"What does this say?

To the best of Rosterina's knowledge, LaPlath's actions are threefold.

He's out, he's talking to Rosterina, he's writing something.

Rostellina doesn't always talk about it either.

If so, it will mean I'm writing almost something while I'm at home.

As far as Rosterina knows, LaPlath keeps writing something.

I don't eat rice, I don't get any sleep, I keep writing.

So I'm sure that's very, very important.

"Hmm."

Rosterina hasn't been told not to read a book that's at home.

Instead, they even told me to read it on my own if I could promise not to soil it, throw it away or bake it.

"... but you can't read it"

But the letters Laplace wrote were very different from the letters Rostellina knew.

The letters Rosterina knows are human.

It is a language widely spoken on the continent and is also used by the Rosterina race.

But this old book is written, no.

Sure, it's ancient dragon divine language, LaPlath said.

Therefore, I can't read it.

If it's a recent book, I can read it.

Because LaPlath writes books in human language these days.

Probably because I thought it would be easier for people to understand this book later than to write in a language that has already been lost.

Nevertheless, why not rewrite this early book into human language?

Is it hard?

"... ah"

Where she thought so, Rostellina discovered that a book was placed on the edge of the book she had arranged.

The only thing written in human language. It said:

"Ancient Dragon Divine Language, Translation Guide…"

If you were as wise as LaPlath, you would have figured it would take less effort to create a dictionary than to fix every book you've ever written.

"I wonder if you can read this to me too!

Rostellina also had a rough nose, thought of the instructions and perhaps the first one written, and got one in poor condition.

And I read the title of the book one by one while still indexing the guidebook.

"Ma... ri. Dragon, General. Yeah, Dragon General's... Mission, Part 32"

After a dozen minutes of fighting, Rosterina succeeded in understanding the book's contents.

"The Mission of the Dragon General Part 32".

The cover of the book turned out to be so written.

With regard to the word Dragon General, it was also in Rosterina's knowledge.

Instead, it came out in the story of LaPlath.

It's about the five dragon kings, the belly of the dragon god.

LaPlath should have worked under one of them, Dora the Dragon King.

"Is that it?"

But there, one question arose behind Rosterina's brain.

LaPlath was one of Dora's men.

How could that Laplace have written a book called Mission, etc.?

Did they give that kind of order?

Maybe "Part 1," which would be somewhere, says why......

"Ha... but now the sun will be down by the time I find it"

Nevertheless, it took me quite a while just to read out the title.

Using all this effort, about 10 characters can be read.

What spreads right in front of you is more than a hundred books.

Instead of reading, it was difficult to find.

"... ah!

and so Rosterina's ears perceived the sound of a loud wing.

When it comes to the feathers approaching this house, there is only one.

Yes, it's a Red Dragon Saleyacht with a nest hole in the back of the house.

And I went out on him, he's Rosterina's beloved master.

Rosterina popped out of the shaded room like she was bounced.

Running to the front door, LaPlath was just about to come into the house.

"Welcome back! Your husband!

"I'm home, Rosterina. Have you finished shading the book?

"Yes!"

"Well, well done, great."

"Eh heh!

Rostellina stroked her head and delighted.

But, uh, she remembered an earlier question.

"Hey, hey, mister, earlier, I had my doubts"

"Yeah? What?

Rostellina told LaPlath about her neck.

"All the books in the bookcase were written by your husband, right?

"Oh, yeah."

"Your husband was under Master Dora's command, how is it that General Ryu's mission, what a book, is written? Was that Dora's order?

"Oh, isn't that amazing, Rosterina? I can't believe you can read ancient dragon gods."

"Eh, Rosterina is still, growing every day!

As she lay low about the instructions, Rostellina said so with a thin chest.

"Heh, but if you can read, you know what I mean? It's all in the book."

But a shallow lie is something that quickly peels off your skin.

"Uh... Um, I'm sorry. Actually, it was a translation guide, and I could just read the title."

"Ha, I thought so."

LaPlath laughed and walked out to the back of the house.

I sat in a chair with something messy on the floor that I would have brought from the lower realm.

And I'm also going to encourage Rosterina to sit in a nearby chair.

"Let's have dinner together once in a while. Long time ago, I was hungry, too."

"Yes, I'll take care of it, sir!

Rostellina began to prepare meals with joy and courage.

It was one of Rostellina's secret pleasures to cook on La Plus, where she only occasionally eats.

Anyway, Laplace always makes me hungry when I eat, so it looks very tasty.

From behind Rostellina, who turned to Kamado with more pressure on his arm, he heard LaPlath.

"I'll answer your questions while you eat"

That was a voice that reminded me of a long time ago.

A voice full of joy, regret, and nastiness.

Proud and proud, but somewhere with a shadowy voice, LaPlath said.

"I write books because I'm one of the dragon generals."

And the old story of LaPlath began.

Far away, there's a mythical age story.

■ ■ ■

Now, where should we talk from?

Again, from there?

"La Place"

One day, when everything was well carried, I was called by Master Dora.

She's busy flying around every day, so it's rare to come to the Tutorial Grounds in Ryukyama Caios.

But if you came here, you would have summoned me to be sure and trained in combat.

One of the reasons he said he would see if I missed training from day to day... etc., but not so many who could have been her training partner.

Fortunately, I had as much strength as her opponent could serve.

"Even today?

"Even today. I'm sorry to keep you attached."

On that day, I entrust my men with my work and go with Master Dora to the garrison.

And she beats me to death.

They always wore me out.

... Even if they can, it's not enough to beat General Wu Long.

It's just that by fighting Master Dora from day to day, I was glaring and raising my arms.

I may be complacent, but I should no longer have been able to fathom you with those dragon warriors.

"... I need to talk to you a little"

Usually, by the time I was beaten, the training was over.

But that day was unusual, and Lady Dora said so with a strange look.

No matter, there's no reason to say no to me.

The two of us went all the way to the flight training ground and decided to talk.

I moved that far, somehow.

When it came to where me and Dora would have a conversation, I had a strong image of either Dragon God's mansion or here.

I guess I chose this place because this is the place with a panoramic view of the town of Caios.

"For your recent leap forward, just keep your eyes open."

"Dora taught me that."

"No, you're doing something I'm not teaching you. Maxwell told me you did a great job the other day.

"It's an honor."

"If you continue with your current work, you will be able to fulfil your responsibilities."

Responsibility in this case is two of three reasons, namely what the Dragon God said.

That is, the decrease in hostility towards the mixed blood of the Dragons and their appeal to the Demons.

Indeed, the task of re-tutoring was becoming very important.

It was even said that the method of discipline would progress and that in time the word 're-discipline' itself would disappear.

That's all I meant by what I did.

"I have one favor for you."

I was surprised by the word "please".

Anyway, she never asked me for anything.

"Whatever."

Of course, here's what I said.

I live for Dragon God, but I am also looked after by Dora.

And there's no way that Dora's wishes won't benefit Dragon God.

So asking for a wish wasn't a bluff.

"I want you to leave your current job for a while and take my place"

"Instead, is it?

"That's right. I mean, I want you to supervise all the tunnels currently in the dragon kingdom."

"Why, even if I ask?

"Soon the breeding season will come to me. Lay eggs."

The Dragons have a long life span.

That's enough to live tens of thousands of years.

It was long enough to be considered immortal.

But instead, the breeding season was short, only once every few thousand years.

Therefore, the Dragon tribe, whose breeding season had come, was required to take the initiative to do it.

"It's... congratulations"

"Thanks"

"Who are you dealing with?

There are opponents for humans to have children.

Hehe, that might be an exciting story for Rosterina.

"It's General Wu Long's crystal. The breeding season just overlaps... even the Dragon God expects us to have a strong child."

They say there are several children of the Dragon General, but unfortunately I didn't know them.

In the Dragons, the concept of family was weak.

The eggs laid are hatched and raised at the hands of the laying woman in the spawning yard without the parents warming up.

Regardless, they know who their parents are, but they don't treat them specially because they're Dragon General's children.

He also said that Master Dora had already had several children, but that they were all adults and had already died fighting as dragon warriors, working in a correctional facility, or fighting dragons.

But this seems to be the first time that the dragon generals have ever had children with each other.

If parents are more capable, they are more likely to have strong children.

Children between dragon generals.

I guess this is expected.

"So during the spawning season, I want to leave the tutoring area to you. Will you take it on?

I represent the work entrusted to the Dragon God by General Wu Long.

I've never been more honored.

I almost burst into tears on the spot.

I was wondering if Dora valued me that much.

"I'm honored you chose me,"

Regardless, I gave the most salute on the spot and received the assignment.

■

Then about thirty years have passed?

Dear Dora was brilliantly pregnant and moved to the spawning grounds, about a few dozen kilometers south of Caios.

I accompanied him on the move, but it was quite an interesting place.

I wonder if it looked like a hive.

There are several private rooms lined up, where pregnant women lay eggs.

The private rooms are kept constant in temperature and humidity, and the eggs born hatch almost at will.

And that private room will remain the children's room.

However, the period of pregnancy of the Dragons is very long.

A race that lives hundreds of thousands of years at any rate.

Fifty years for an egg in your stomach and fifty years for that egg to hatch.

And it's common to all races, but pregnant women are really naïve.

Dragon women are particularly susceptible to becoming violent during pregnancy.

That's why they create a dedicated facility away from normal residential areas, where they get you to focus on giving birth.

Especially for fertilized eggs.

By the time Dora entered the facility, she had become completely violent.

I don't know everything I see... but I get angry with the trivial things and scatter them around me.

It's not uncommon for me to be hurt by Dora, but it's my first experience to see Dora so ferocious as to be unreasonable.

There have been constant injuries over the past thirty years.

Nevertheless, I was able to successfully inherit Lord Dora's work.

It's a job to look around and manage all the tunnels in the dragon kingdom.

On that journey I rode Saleyakt.

That difficult red dragon was all I missed until the end.

Even for me, it wasn't a bad story to take Saleyacht around the correctional ground.

Saleyakt talks to other dragons.

He's the one who can convince a good dragon not to listen.

So wherever you go to the tutorial, it works great.

To be honest, it must be because of him that I was in charge of the correctional facility.

Being in charge spread my name to the dragon kingdom every now and then.

He said he was a genius at raising quality dragons.

The spread of the name has reduced the number of people who admire me.

On the way back to the house of the Dragon God, the one who salutes me most also came out.

Regardless, there would have been people who didn't like the idea of a half with the Demons.

But everybody acknowledge my strength. I was beginning.

Wake up in the morning and fly to the gym.

Look around the venue with Saleyacht and take care of the dragon that doesn't ask.

Sometimes he jumps on Saleyakt and travels to other towns.

It's the same thing we do when we go to other towns.

But my face changes and my presence becomes more well known.

If you go back to the mansion, there will be Lunaria, and the squire will serve you a warm meal.

Sometimes the Dragon God too.

I report to them what happened that day.

There was a gang, as I now say.

Those thirty years were indeed calm days.

It's such a slow time, like not fighting, not training, not even rushing, just waiting to die while doing what you have to do.

Okay, but such calm times don't last long.

A turning point in everything comes.

Few people can walk the same path everywhere.

To me too... no, to the whole dragon world, I guess.

Such a turning point came.

It's a big turning point.

Was that around the time Dora received a report that spawning was close?

An obituary attacked the dragon kingdom.

It is the death of one of the five dragon generals, King Kong Crystal.

■

Dragon General Crystal is the northern end of the dragon kingdom.

Near the Gold Dragon's nest, he was found unbroken limbs and sucked out of his brain.

No matter how strong the Dragons say they are, they cannot live in such a state.

By the time they were discovered, they were already desperate.

Around him were the dragon warriors of the escort and the body of the Gold Dragon.

At first glance, he fights the Gold Dragon, strikes or even looks defeated.

But Dragon General Crystal is not as vulnerable as losing to the Gold Dragon degree in case.

The case was riddled with mysteries.

The death of General Wu Long.

It's hard to explain how important this was to the dragon kingdom.

The Five Dragons are the strongest dragon warriors with the same power as the Dragon God.

Its power is incalculable compared to the normal Dragon clan.

If they were serious, they had the power to easily collapse one or two of the mountains.

I should have had quite a bit of power at the time, too, but still I'm no match for it.

I was often used as Dora's training partner, but if she meant it, it would have been a worn rag in an instant.

General Wu Long so strong.

One of them, Crystal, is dead.

Everybody thought so.

To whom? How?

That is not the case with those who can kill General Wu Long.

If you say only to the dragon kingdom, there are only other Five Dragon generals or Dragon gods.

Or there was a line called the mutant demon...

No matter how vicious and powerful the demons are, I don't think they can kill that Five Dragons General.

First of all, if that's all there are vicious demons, it's also a strange story not to have that kind of information in it.

Demons want to go to places with a lot of organisms for some reason.

Anyway, such an important thing happened, and Dragon God held a meeting.

The rest of the Five Dragons were summoned by the Dragon God.

I felt a little uncommon when I heard it.

In my eyes, Dragon God seemed to decide everything by himself.

But when something important happened in the dragon kingdom, it was decided for a long time to hold a meeting like this.

The meeting took place at the residence of the Dragon God.

I was on the spot, too.

I was acting for Dora, who was weighty while laying eggs.

I knew there was a giant stone desk and six chairs in one of the mansions of the Dragon God... it was just spectacular to have General Wu Long there all aligned.

Even so, there were no two of them.

Dragon General Shirad with green silver scales and stubborn eyes.

Dragon General Chaos with black silver scales and deep eyes.

Dragon General Maxwell with blue and silver scales and strong eyes.

And he's a great dragon god, with silver scales that don't stain any colors and eyes that enclose everything.

It was just out of place for me to be sitting there.

……

They watched only one empty seat until the Dragon God opened his mouth.

The chair that was supposed to sit on the crystal.

"I didn't know that crystal was going to die... I can't believe it"

It was Chaos who opened the fire.

I'm a barely faceless person, but I heard I was a bigoted man.

He was, by the life of the Dragon God, making the weapons handled by the Dragon Clan.

Weapons at the time were basically crude.

Armor made from scraped blade swords and spears over dragon fangs with dragon scales on them.

That I don't think it's crude?

Yeah, in this world, it certainly could be.

But I relied more on my own nails and scales with dragon chi than that.

"I don't think the Gold Dragon will kill him. Demons, too. Don't feel like there's something behind it."

That's what Maxwell said.

Little and light.

Many things make such a first impression on Maxwell.

In fact, Maxwell has a slightly smaller body, even compared to the common Dragon clan.

On top of that, he always laughs hella and talks in a coarse tone.

Why is such a man a Five Dragons General?

What a few pussy slappers also existed, Master Dora said.

At least what you know about him, you don't mock him.

Because unlike his appearance, he is competent, diligent, hard-working, and full of loyalty.

He was responsible for exterminating demons that were occurring throughout the dragon kingdom.

The fact that the common dragon tribe has barely died from demonic damage is due in large part to his accomplishments.

Maxwell was the one who actually went to the location of the body and tested it.

It seems that Maxwell was the only one who kept shaking his head as the rest of the crew said it was the work of the demons.

I guess I didn't think he would be killed by demons because I know the power of General Wu Long.

"If so, are you still a demon clan"

The last time I opened my mouth was Shillard.

The head of General Wu Long is like a summariser of the entire Dragon clan.

His work is diverse, but it's mainly about the whole town.

In essence, when there was no Dragon God, he was the one who was putting the dragon kingdom together on his behalf.

It was no exaggeration that he was the number two in the dragon kingdom.

Shillard was always calm and settled and highly judgmental.

It is also his role to summarise the opinions of General Wu Long at times and to present the optimal solution to the Dragon God.

"Stupid!

"Yes!

But this time it was silent.

Maxwell soared sharply at Shillard's words and Chaos revealed his discomfort.

But Shillard had nothing to panic about, looked over at the two of them and calmly continued his words.

"Gold dragons are unlikely.

If there's a demon who can kill Crystal, he should have already represented himself and expanded the damage.

Only Dragon God or our Five Dragons can kill Crystals in the Dragon Realm. "

Shillard looked at the dragon god.

I didn't give it to you, but in case Dragon God killed Crystal for any reason, whatever the reason, we will follow that decision and action. It's a gaze with the intent.

The Dragon God shook his head with a difficult face.

There's no way Dragon God is going to kill Crystal, who is also my son.

No matter how long General Wu Long's long shillard was, if he spoke of it, Chaos or Maxwell would have been disrespectful.

Regardless, I'm not going to shut up either, but unfortunately I didn't have a say in that meeting.

It was my job to speak on my behalf and tell Dora that without leaking word for word.

I couldn't do anything to scratch around with irresponsible remarks in Dora's honor.

"The rest is our General Wu Long, but there is no way to betray the trust of our Dragon God.

If we, the Five Dragons, did such a thing, we should tear our own limbs off on this occasion, crush our hearts and apologize to the Dragon God.

If so, then it is reasonable to assume that the rest are bad people "

"So you say you're a demon?

"The Demons have been hostile to us from day to day. What's wrong with thinking that they killed Crystal with some kind of strategy?"

"Is it something that our Five Dragon Generals can do when we are Demons!

"It's Chaos. We, the Five Dragons, are certainly proud to be the strongest. But the eight great demon kings are also tough and strong. There can be our defeat if we are proud. Or can't you even see the power of your opponent?

With that said, Chaos also shut up.

The eight great demon kings are places such as the demonic version of General Wu Long.

By the way, it was one of these guys who once wore me out and got rid of me.

The Demons do not possess as much power as the Dragons.

Compared to the Dragon tribe, the movement is dull and heavy, and it does not have a hard scale.

But it has endurance, which can be called immortality, and uses magic better than we do.

It's the second most powerful creature in the six worlds.

Those demons would have no hands or feet on the crystal.

But if the eight great demon kings, none of them, even the Five Dragons, would be bound to an unharmed victory.

And it was thought.

"But if it did, the Demons would have completed the technique of crossing boundaries and used it without authorization."

……

Boundary is what separates the world from the world… like a wall.

Crossing boundaries means moving to another world.

I didn't know what it was about back then......

At the time, in the world, people were doing research in the face of a hidden case.

Yes, a study of metastatic magic.

... Regardless, metamagic had not yet been completed anywhere.

If it had been completed, its use would have necessarily required the permission of the gods.

The world to go, the world to come, both of them.

"If they got the art of crossing boundaries, that's a wild thing. But at the moment, there's no way to be sure of that, and we can retaliate by looking for whoever killed Crystal..."

That's what Shillard said, he looked bitter.

Anyway, he killed a thousand Five Dragons.

Demons, Demons, but where we organized a half-breed search party, it would be the right place to return the favor.

"Crystal's revenge, I'll leave you to this chaos."

"If that's what you do, it's my turn."

The two dragon generals exhaled pneumonia, but it's up to them to decide. And it's not Shillard.

One man always has the right to decide this meeting.

"Dear Dragon God, how about you? Regardless, if you leave it to me, I will always look for the bad guys and show the glory of our dragon clan..."

So Shillard looked at me.

Until then, keep quiet and keep making minutes for me.

"Why don't we let Laplace take a look at this?"

To the words, the conference room turned.

"Stupid! If Dora still wants us to mix it up with the Demons!?

It was Chaos who raised his anger.

Staring at me with those deep eyes, I stumbled out my fangs and yelled at Shillard.

Chaos, somehow... was a bigoted man.

Once you think the Demons are the bad guys, so much so that you will continue to have bad feelings for the Demons from now on.

"Make a joke out of it! How can a man like this be used to find the bad guy to kill General Wu Long, even though he is the adopted son of the Dragon God!

"Let me do that. I don't know unless I see it."

Shillard took the fury like a cool breeze.

It must have been a routine tea meal, such as getting yelled at by chaos.

I was horrible, though.

The Mad Dragon King Chaos was a terrible man.

"Dora told me that this man is still immature and will have the same power as our Five Dragons General. It's more reasonable to send someone with the same powers than to waste time in the search for the Goryu, the Dragon God himself, who doesn't even know if it still exists."

Comparable to General Wu Long would be just overrated, I thought.

At the time, I still wasn't sure about myself.

"Even if we find it, it's our turn to die for nothing!

"Even so, this guy is also a member of the Dragon Clan, at least I'll bring home one of the info"

"Yes, Raragana! Maxwell! Say something, too!

Chaos was angry with all the fire blowing out of his mouth and spoke to Maxwell.

Perhaps you thought Maxwell would disagree with you as well.

But Maxwell kept a floating look.

"... no, isn't that okay? Let me do it."

That's the word I put in my mouth.

"Behold! What are you talking about, not even like you!

Maxwell was more militant than Chaos.

When this happens, it's his role to jump out first and cut the vanguard.

That's why I didn't think I could give up that role.

The vanguard is an honor.

"You know how serious this is!? Our Wu Long General, who accompanied us more than ancient times, is missing!?

"Oh yeah. Chaos, who do you think is missing next?

"Next...?

"I've been thinking about why Shillard mentioned this. If the killer moved systematically and it was aimed at General Wu Long, you'd have to crush him one by one."

That's it, and Chaos also figured out what Maxwell was trying to say again.

Chaos is also a militant, but he's not retarded.

If the killer's aim is the total annihilation of General Wu Long, the crystal killer will put up even one of the traps.

It's a trap that can kill Wu Long General Crystal.

I don't know what kind of trap it is, but it must be valid for other Wu Long generals.

"If General Wu Long moves, it is desirable for two or more of us to move.

But now that Dora's away, there's no way we can both get out.

Let the dragon god stand on the arrow. "

Maxwell showed off his reasoning well.

Whether that was the right fit or not is obvious if you look at Shillard's bitter smile.

So I don't mind if I die.

No, I already had quite a job at the time, so is it okay?