The 5000-year-old Herbivorous Dragon

"As far as a peek at the dining landscape so far, Leavendia eats all the vegetable dishes and gives the other dishes to the children of her family. In other words, the preference is vegetable-based. I think I like the flavour. Here we compete with dishes that blend the sweetness of vegetables into dashi..."

Bumps, but precisely whining about my tastes, the manipulators are doing meal support.

In the ice-watered tarai, the vegetables for the salad are cooled waiting for their turn, and in the garden, the soup full of flavoured vegetables is boiled over low heat.

The stone oven has already been warmed with charcoal and the main dish dish is still about to be thrown. This dish is filled with root vegetables and mushrooms stir-fried in garlic and vegetable oil and wrapped in a dough that combines flour and bean condensation. For Raco and Shayna, there is a good amount of ground beef in the utensils.

It is by far the most favorite dish I have ever served.

"Hehe. But you can't if you think it's the same as before and you're alarmed. This time, there are plenty of dried mushrooms and seaweed dipped in the water where the dough is condensed. If you taste this flavour, you won't be able to escape this bond."

Those who speak to themselves are indeed amused.

He releases countless threads of magic from his fingertips and freely manipulates cookware in the kitchen in parallel.

- I shut up and turned my heel back from the kitchen, carrying a medicine box with sleeping grass on my back.

And about enough later.

"Huh!? Sleeping pills, you couldn't mix them up!?

"Sorry...... I'm so sorry. I can't really mix with that dish..."

I cried and apologized to Shayna, who had entered the lobby of the hotel a foot late.

"I didn't think the Demon King's Army executives were cooking for themselves. I mean, that stuffed animal, he hadn't given up yet. I thought Leiko hit you and you dispersed."

"What do I do, Shayna? It's not important for Liot to be dressed up, but Laeko might notice some applause from the masterminds so close by. If they find out this is a tight juncture of manipulation, they'll be furious, and we need to keep them away from us somehow..."

"Right. We have to stop Leeko from going to the kitchen at all costs."

Shortly after we shared a sense of crisis and nodded at each other,

"Shayna. I'm going to go to the kitchen now that I have one more meal for my guests"

"Yika-ah!

And suddenly Laeko went to the kitchen, and I stuck to my feet, and stopped him. Shayna also becomes a bloody eye and eagles Leiko's shoulder with both hands.

"No, Laeko. Leiko is already a fine minister, so don't do that chore. Wait quietly for the food to be brought at the banquet hall table. Right?"

"Mm. Doesn't the minister do that...?

"Don't you? Yes, a minister is the job of sitting in a chair and being quiet. Okay?"

"I see. I learned"

"Well, go to the ballroom first. This kind of thing goes first for people of high stature. Because we'll be there later."

"Okay."

Once again, Laeko heads to the banquet hall.

When I saw the banquet hall door closed behind my back, I finally turned to Shayna with a breath of relief.

"Hey. Now we could have avoided the crisis where Leiko would go to the kitchen for now. Shayna?"

Ahead I looked back, there was Shayna and - a liot that was falling into the floor without being slight at its feet.

"... Shayna?

"I'm sorry, Master Evil Dragon. If you can't mix it with a meal, here's what you had to do."

Says Shayna with cold eyes like a professional military man.

"Lord, what the hell did you do? Is Liot safe?

"It's okay, because I just let him sniff a handkerchief stained with an extract of sleeping grass. No sequelae left."

"You've come a long way, Lord."

Did Liot try to leave a clue on the verge of losing consciousness, writing down a 'evil dragon' and a dieing message on the floor with an extract of sleeping grass attached to his hand?

I'd like you to change that thought circuit a little bit in order to ask me for the cause of every incident.

"Okay. Now you've cleaned up your brainwashing. Shall we just confiscate the sword and keep it closed?"

"How do you explain this to Leiko?

"You can say you're home."

"I think that's probably a trick, but if you think about it in common sense, Liot, what are you doing here?"

And we threw the sleeping liot into the proper empty room, and locked it firmly.

The only person who had witnessed the whole thing was the Spirit standing blurry in the lobby. Exactly not an exaggeration when it comes to complete crime.

Shayna shook her forfeited sword and looked at it,

"What shall we do with this sword? Dear Evil Dragon, do you want to sell it as an addition to your money?

"Don't think about bandits. It looks good, doesn't it? I'll give it back to you later."

"That's right... It doesn't feel like something good, does it? I'm sure there's nothing wrong with being strong."

"Well, I'll keep it for a while."

I can't even leave it around there, so I'll just hang it in the cloth and pack it in my luggage with you.

"Come on, let's wait for dinner in the ballroom. Why don't you run into the manipulators and bring the food?"

"Right. I mean, I don't know, but it's not poisoned or anything, is it?

"You've been fine in the last two weeks. You'll be fine."

Upon entering the ballroom, Laeko sat dignified as he was told and waited for the dish.

Me and Shayna each arrive in a fixed position (I am at the corner of the floor), and the supply-looking extras knock before bringing the food in.

Undoubtedly, they were made earlier by the manipulators with more weight on their arms.

The extras who finished the meal left quietly, but after a closer look, the banquet hall door was left half open.

And a bunny stuffed animal was sneaking a peek at this one from the gap in that door.

I didn't realize it until now, but I guess this is how I analyzed this preference every time.

Now that I realize it, it's clearly super awkward.

"Uh... well, I thought I'd have it. Let's thank those who made it right and eat it. Because I'm sure you worked hard to make it."

"Oh, yeah. Look, I'll have Laeko, too."

"Uhm."

Leiko and Shayna also complete their pre-meal rituals and go on to eat. Shayna was suspiciously sniffing dishes at first, but eventually starts eating normally if she loses out on the finest flavors.

But knowing the truth, I no longer had the difficulty of eating with my normal heart.

"No, it's delicious. It's delicious. This is seeping out the wonderful character of the person who made it. Come on, sweet, decent people cooked."

Even though I know it's purposeful, I get a series of flatteries floating around not to damage the mood of the manipulators.

Besides, at the end of the day, the flavor was actually unpleasant as one thing, so every time you go ahead with a bite, you get an infinite amount of praise.

"Well, Master Evil Dragon... that's a little too blatant..."

"Ugh. The pressure is amazing. I was just anxious that if I ate quietly, the manipulators would get in a bad mood. Look, I'm still looking at you."

Me and Shayna did not move their faces, they moved only their eyes and looked at the door.

There - oh, my God, the manipulations were falling on their backs across the gap.

With a satisfying look, like whenever I tried to ascend, "I can no longer remember".

……

After a long silence, I and Shayna turned to the door.

If you open the door and get into this view, the manipulators won't move. For some reason, the floor at hand is carved with an 'evil dragon' and a dining message. It is the second time today.

"He's dead..."

"I can't, you can't die here. If the Lord dies here..."

Gogogogogo, along with the disturbing grunt, a fierce earthquake struck the entire area of the junction.

As I rolled the floor to the vibration, I looked up out the window of the hotel, and I was sure of my anxiety.

Even now, if the junction could not collapse, there was a crack running like breaking glass in the sky.