We Live in Dragon's Peak

"Lyla, are you nervous?

"I'm not nervous. I've traveled solo all my life, so I'm used to night camping."

No, no, that's not what I heard.

By the lake. We decided to camp at night in a few open spaces between us and the Dragon Forest.

Mistral and I mostly went to start a fire and prepare dinner. Everyone looked tired besides their thoughts, so this is the role of a healthy person.

But I can't just say that night watches are sweet. Alarm, relaxation of chi leads directly to a crisis in life. We have survived the Dragon Warrior Trial at Dragon Peak, and we understand it.

So after dinner, I decided to keep an eye on the night camp in order.

The rest of you, who skipped the toddlers, do a pair of watch duty.

And me and Lyla became the first watchmen.

After finishing your meal and having a mild collusion, go to bed immediately. I'm not playing this time, so I can't even just enjoy the beautiful scenery and the cool natural sounds late.

The toddler girls fell asleep as soon as they were full, due to tired play. Everyone else was caught by it and fell asleep.

Honestly, there can't be some kind of raid at a time when Master Yugra and the tyrants are around. But for once, you can't fail to watch, can you?

I can stand guard, but everyone who gets safely to sleep in a thoughtful place, pinched by Master Yugra and tyrants. It would be safest for me to lie in the shade of a tree or a rock.

I'm not sure if you're on guard or not, it's a night camp.

After everyone has calmed down. He spoke to Lyla, who sat quietly next to him, twisting the branches so as not to keep the flames of the burning fire going.

The splitting of the combination was decided by the coexistence of Mistral, but I somehow understand what Lyla and I intend to do together.

"Lyla's not afraid to go back to the castle?

"Hey, I don't know what you're talking about. For the first time, I'm going to the castle of Yortenitos."

Yes, I was. That was the setting.

Lyla doesn't stubbornly talk about her birth. The princess of the kingdom of Yortenitos is someone I don't know, not Lyla. Lyla herself is trying to pierce this position. And we, too, have an implicit understanding that Lyla is an important family that is Lyla and nothing else, and we don't know a princess.

This is not about turning away from the past even now.

Lyla has been everything since she met us, and the past is nothing more necessary to her now.

We also think that Lyla's past is not important, and that Lyla, who is healthy and bright today, is important.

So, no matter what anyone says, Lyla is Lyla, not some princess or a girl who's supposed to be dead.

"Right. I've only been to the Royal Castle of the Kingdom of Arms once, but that was a really brilliant place. So I was wondering if Lyla wouldn't be nervous about going somewhere like that,"

"I have nothing to be afraid of if Lord Ernea stays by my side."

"Yeah. It's not just me. Everyone's on Lyla's side. So I don't think you have to be afraid of anything. If anything happens, we'll all protect Lila."

"... Yes. Thank you very much. But if I may, Master Ernea, I'd like you to protect me."

"Haha, I'll take care of it...... Ouch"

There were only a few tears seeping into Lyla's eyes lit by the slight lights of the bonfire next door. And when I tried to put my shoulder against such a lila, the stone somehow flew from behind me.

Is it my fault?

I'll look back, but behind me, Mistral and Louiseine are just sleeping together.

It's your fault, isn't it?

I think we should get a little closer and have an intimate conversation or something to make Lyla feel more courageous.

Restore your mind. Sit back close enough to touch Lyla's shoulder.

"Ouch."

Now a tree branch flew in from the back of my right hand.

Over there, the twin princesses are cuddling and sleeping somehow.

Mm-hmm. This camp could be dangerous. Maybe someone is launching a malicious attack.

This place is to protect Lyla, but closer...

"Naughty."

Suddenly, Ares appeared on my lap.

Grunt.

To Ares the Spirit, sleep is unimportant.

Ares, who held a fluffy potato in both hands, can play on her knees so as to disturb me and Lyla.

"There are many enemies..."

Lila was just smiling bitterly, too.

Let's all go to sleep! Tomorrow morning is early!

I drop my shoulders disappointingly. And somehow, from all directions, there was a leak of laughter when I dull.

"Fools."

The tyrant's groaning throat melts into the darkness of the night. And me and Lyla's watch quickly passed after this, with all the interference.

"Mr. Ernea, please wake up. If you don't wake up soon, I'll leave you."

"Yeah, that's troublesome..."

The next morning. I am gently woken up by Louiseine. She was still early in the morning, so the watch was also in charge with Mistral before dawn.

Luiseine wakes me up and I go washing my face to the lake with my sleeping eyes. When you wash your face with cold, cold water even though it's summer, your desire to be a little more sleepy disappears, and instead you get tempered.

"All right, we'll do our best today"

"Oh well. What will you do? [M] We will only accompany His Highness Philelle to greet the king."

"Yes, it is."

My face on the surface of the lake had a complicated grin.

And look at what I look like on the water and know my head is exploding.

"You have no choice."

Louiseine takes out the gag and starts fixing my sleeping habits. I sat down and asked Louiseine for my head. [M]

Mistral follows the night before and is starting to prepare breakfast and Lyla is helping.

It seems the twin princesses are already ready to leave, and they were baking care of Priscia and Niemia opponents who still haven't slept enough.

Philelle and the three of you are still in the care of Master Yugra.

Fiorina and Reem are flying around in the morning. You're fine.

It was breakfast after everyone had each prepared and dropped one step.

"I will now announce today's itinerary"

And when you finish your meal, Filrell takes everyone's attention.

Master Yugra has roughly decided on the air route to Wang Capital, but it's not on its own like it used to be. Detailed modifications and precautions on the path were to be taken by the philleles.

"Going forward, along the shores of the lake, they say there is a river that leads to the Suranel Grand River. Follow it all the way to the Great River and then head north along the Great River for Fort Cad in the Kingdom of Yortenitos"

"Fort Cad?

Philelle nods to my question.

"Yes. That's like a border inspection post on the side of the Kingdom of Yortenitos. There resides the Knights of the Water Dragon and the Flying Dragon."

I've never heard of the Knights of the Water Dragon.

I guess we'll guard the Suranel Grand River.

"We will stop at Fort Cad and go for the King's Capital by regular air"

If we stay away from Dragon Peak, the origin of our line will be unknown. Even if he continues to fly to the King's Capital without knowing his affiliation, he can do something about it because he has a phillele and a twin princess. But this is a peaceful place. First stop at Fort Cad and get a regular pass. And it seems best to dispel the suspicion of futility by proceeding on the same air route as the Feilong Knights.

We don't know much about it, so we honestly followed Philelle. [M]

After cleaning up after breakfast, I ride split between Master Yugra and the tyrant.

Results of last night's draw. Me and Lyla, just like yesterday, to the tyrant. And today, Mistral and Luiseine came together in the first half.

Thanks. Me and Lyla seem fixed. As an omission of why that happened, later in the afternoon, the twin princesses are scheduled to ride instead of Mistral and Louiseine.

Priscia wants to play with Fiorina and Reem, so it's like riding Yugra-sama all day with Niemia.

When everyone finishes riding, Master Yugra and the tyrant fly out of the night camp.

Master Yugra is graceful. Tyrants are rough.

"Come on."

Luiseine screams at a deliberate rough flight.

"Here. Fly quieter."

"Huh. Why should I take care of you?"

The tyrant growls and rises altitude at once.

Lyla and Louiseine are hugging each other and screaming, but something looks fun.

The Mistral sitting beside me seems satisfied with the tyrant's powerful feathers, even as he smiles bitterly at the way things are going.

Since the tyrant is rampaged, Master Yugra has followed him in such a way that he has no choice.

Looking back, Philelle and the twin princesses waved at me and responded. What do you care? The three of you are waving with pleasure.

The weather looks good today, and the flowing scenic sky feels blue everywhere. Sometimes thick clouds appear, but that instantly turns into a distant view.

Tyrant, it's too tense.

At a faster rate than planned, we reached the landmark Great River.

"Wow, that's amazing."

"That's true. Is this what you can call a river?"

Me and Louiseine leak a sigh of admiration.

That should be it, too. The Suranel Grand River. It's unimaginably wide to call it a river.

When the tyrants reached their limit altitude, they could finally see the east and west opposite shores at the same time.

If I hadn't been taught this was the Great River earlier, I might have thought it would be a lake or sea here too.

There are also several rivers in the kingdom of Armuad. Some rivers flow through the king's capital, but the scale is too different from that.

This is the Great River, right?

"The shore to the west is the kingdom of Arms and the shore to the east is the kingdom of Jortenitos."

"We're flying over the border now."

Filel briefly explained that he was going north along the Great River, but this is going to lose sight of Fort Cad if he doesn't stop by the side of the Kingdom of Yortenitos and fly.

Ask the tyrant to fly the eastern side of the Great River.

"The water in the river is flowing north."

"That's right. If you go all the way north, you'll be out in the ocean north of the continent."

"Mr. Lyla knows everything."

"Yes, I had a lot of time when I was little, so I used to read all kinds of adventure tans."

Lila.

Among the adventure tans Lyla had read, she had a story about a boy and a girl building a raft of her own and going for the North Sea.

What's that? I'm so interested. I want to read it too!

Other stories of warcraft and water dragon knights flooding the Great River, as well as love stories of village daughters and aristocratic boys living on both banks of the kingdoms of Armuad and Yortenitos, go north, listening to Lyla.

Then before noon. Suddenly Master Yugra jumped out in front of the tyrant.

When I look at Philelle for something, she sends some signals.

"I hear Fort Cad is close."

Dragon-hearted is convenient.

I can read the will of a distant dragon if I have a dragon heart, even at a distance that I shout out or don't reach.

Read Master Yugra's will and tell everyone.

"Let's slow down a bit. We can't get close at high speeds and give them weird alerts."

Master Yugra and the tyrant slowing down at my suggestion.

But my consideration made no sense.

Suddenly, many columns of water rise from the waters of the Great River, surrounding Master Yugra and the tyrant.

The first time I was prevented from proceeding, I was surrounded by a cage of water up, down, left and right the moment I suddenly stopped in the sky.

"Fool of the lawless sky, tell me where to go"

What emerged from the depths of the water was the Knights of the Water Dragon, who crossed twenty horsemen.

And one of them rings with a high voice, touching the dragon heart.

"Beyond this, north is the domain of man's reign. Useless intrusion only creates boring strife. If you don't need me, leave early. Otherwise... '

More than twenty water dragons appearing on the surface of the Great River cry out by chance.

And a dragon knight riding on its back sounds like a horn, resonating with the sound of a water dragon.

The four eyes of the Giragi and Tyrant glowed sharply at the warning actions of the Knights of the Water Dragon.