The Magus of Genesis

"There it is, Mr. Nokia!

Cruse leads us in a light foothold, jumping pimply. The blonde hair glistens in the wind and glitters in the sun. In this light, I could well see that her hair was not pure gold, but a little mixed pink.

As she approached the big antler cage, a huge noise rang. A big horn deer in the eye of Cruse slams its horns against the fence.

"That's the big horn deer."

As soon as I did, I told Nokia so, stroking Cruse's head rushing towards me.

"Ho, aren't you really a wild cruel -!

Twice, three times, I slam the horn against the fence, and I realize that the big horn deer is useless, and I sound my nose and turn that way with a bull. I've been raising them for almost four hundred years, and I don't miss them.

"Yep... don't you run away, this"

"Sometimes."

Nina answers that lightly to Nokia, who says so with her face drawn to fear.

"Do you!?

"Well, because if you run away, you just have to catch him"

It's just an animal, so there's nothing compared to a runaway spirit. When I said that, Nokia looked at me like she saw something incredible.

"I mean... what is this fence made of? I can't believe it won't be destroyed with a blow on the corner of the Kruel."

"A pair of glasses."

Nina answers short to Nokia staring at the fence.

"It's a mixture of iron and a metal called Hiirokane."

"Hihiirokane......"

Hihirokane is rare, and it is extraordinarily stronger when mixed with iron. That's what Scarlet Gold is made of.

"Could that be a bright red colour like a flame, a little heavier than iron...... metal......?

"Maybe that's it"

Regardless of the reddish brown color, there is nothing else when it turns red like a flame.

"Isn't it Fire Dragon Steel!

Nokia exclaimed.

"Why, why are you using such a thing for a livestock cage!?

"Because it's sturdy... Could it have been a bad idea?

What I thought reflexively was poison. In ancient Rome, lead poisoning occurred because lead was used in water pipes. If such poison is also found in Hihirokane, it could be troublesome.

Anyway, the beacons are already used all over the village.

"Not a good idea… No, not a good idea… It's not the best metal if you think about it."

Comparing my face with the fence alternately, Nokia clouds her words.

"Well, aren't you going to be stolen……?

"Steal? For what?

I have no idea what it means to steal a livestock cage.

"Fire Dragon Steel is an extremely valuable metal. At least in Masiro, even the earlier amount of pinky fingers can play and live for ten years. I can't believe you put that in such a place, in such a massive, unmade way."

I tilted my neck. Indeed, hyirocane is a rare metal. But that's a lesser story than iron or copper, and less gold or silver. Making it gold and silver isn't worth it so much...

"Uh, so you're saying that the frying pan your father always uses is so expensive?

"Speaking of which, it's all made of Hiirokane."

"Were you being fed what I cooked with that stuff yesterday!?

Nokia peels her eyes when Cruse says as she hangs around my neck.

"No, it's sturdy, it's a good heat street, it's not burning, it's convenient."

"Wouldn't it!?

Nokia tries to hug her body and looks up at the sky.

"Fire Dragon Steel is... as its name suggests, a metal that can only be taken in the mountains where the Fire Dragon lives. That means there are so many firedragons living near here."

"Well, it was."

I see, that makes sense to take a lot. But what can be taken around the village of Hiiro is not the metal in the mountains that the Fire Dragon chooses, but the metal that springs naturally when the Fire Dragon lives there. I wonder how it works.

"Aren't you horrible............!? When it comes to fire dragons, it is the incarnation of doom, the very scourge of life that has destroyed so many nations......!

To Nokia, who preached, she blew it out like Nina had said it by accident. Cruse laughs as well as I laugh bitterly as they catch me.

"Hey, what's wrong............?

"I have nothing to worry about. The Fire Dragon who lives around here... well, he's a big guy."

How strange it was, Nina, wiping the tears that floated at the edge of her eyes with her fingertips. I hope you didn't laugh so much.

"Adult…… Fire Dragon………………?

I just heard the impossible word, Nokia.

I only know one firedragon other than myself, but I think my mother is quite dear too.

"I don't think there is such a thing as a bird that can't fly through the sky or a mermaid that can't swim..."

With the mermaid who can fly in the sky and drown in the bath, you were having dinner yesterday, what would she look like if I told you?

"But if it's really there by the Fire Dragon and it's still safe... I can understand that we can have a human city like this."

"What do you mean by this place?"

Slightly mushy voice, Nina.

"If even the Fire Dragon has zeroed your eyes, maybe you've never met him. There are countless fierce creatures living in this world… we humans are constantly threatened."

Nokia says with a serious look.

"The beast man with the lower body of the beast. A scaleman with four arms and a scale-covered body. Butterfly man who confuses and drives people crazy. And a giant with a giant body like a mountain and destroying everything. This city is surrounded by monsters like that."

Needless to say, me and Nina looked at each other unexpectedly.

It would be quicker to get a look at it than to explain it in words. Having so decided, I took Nokia to school. Ask Cruse to come and collect practical examples.

"Have you called, Doctor!

"J... werewolf!?

Nokia gave a screaming voice to Ala as she rushed over.

"Wait. Hey, Ala-kun."

"Even sheep!?

Seeing Mel running pompous after that, Nokia peels even more.

"Hello, Seisei."

"Suddenly you call me, what the hell is it for?

And I see Ruffle and Tia all the way out of the shadow of the school building. No, she plugs her hand under her wrapped cloak. It was retrieved in a flowing motion, I knew it.

"Don't shoot!

Nokia trembles at my short words, but stops moving.

"It's okay. They are not enemies, nor will they harm you. [M] So put it down."

I tell him slowly to calm Nokia down with a pressing expression. Everyone else was watching over it as Kyoton. That should be it, too. No one but me has ever seen it. I guess you don't even know it's a weapon.

A metal bow that arcs on a wooden body. On a squeezed string, a short arrow installed.

Though somewhat smaller than what I know, it was undoubtedly a weapon of the kind known as a crossbow.

"Su...... excuse me"

Nokia obeys my word and quietly fits it in. Under my cape, I could see a holster stowing a crossbow.

"No, it's our fault I didn't explain it to you in an attempt to surprise you"

I never thought you were hiding such a noisy thing. Well, I don't even think a little arrow like that could hurt Ruffle, protected by the power of the Titans.

"... just let me keep the arrows for once"

"Ah, Yes. Right."

When I asked him to do so, Nokia gave me a crossbow lightly for each holster.

"You can have the bow itself."

"No, you won't be comfortable with a person with a murder weapon in front of you. The fact is, I'm attacking you now..."

Besides, Nokia turned her gaze around.

"In this situation, it seems more likely that you will understand that there is no hostility to eagles than there is one tiny weapon like that."

Saying so, I let my hands go up with a crying smile on my face.