How To Tame an Academy Dragon - Chapter 88



88. A woman who used to be an employee became my boss and went on a business trip to an island

“Oooooh!”

“Oh! It’s very real!”

Doha’s voice coming through the closed bathroom door.

I can’t help it even if I think it’s dirty. Because I still feel like my eyes are spinning round and round.

“Two! There’s Sipal and all that… Ugh…!”

It’s absurd even thinking about it. Does it make sense to collapse in one shot just because you drank one cup of that?

The moment she felt that her body was getting warm, she lost consciousness and fell down, but when she woke up, she was on the bed.

As soon as you open your eyes at dawn, isn’t the world jumbled and mixed like a black hole spreading out?

“Do you eat it and die?”

Isn’t it good that you didn’t look through it after eating it?

But without being able to respond to Doha, I had to put my head down again and vomit.

“Come down when you’re feeling better. I’m hungry, so let’s go eat first.”

A rough year.

The sound of a door opening and closing is heard, and the sight of people in Doha recedes.

“Woo-wook.”

My stomach turns again at the strong smell of alcohol rising from the horrible debris I vomited.

How the hell did you end up drinking alcohol?

It wasn’t until the gastric juice stopped coming up that I stumbled up from my seat, barely rinsed my mouth and came down to the first floor.

People… Not people.

The demon’s body was very mysterious, but once the hurdle was overcome, hunger came to surprise.

I vomited up everything I ate yesterday, so I didn’t have anything in my stomach, but even in the midst of this, my appetite didn’t die and I managed to survive.

“Are you here? How are you feeling?”

“I think I’m going to search. I’ll be quiet today, so leave me alone.”

“It’s cool. It makes a fuss.”

Does this seem like a fuss to you?

“Ugh…”

I was grumpy and glared at Doha, then quickly put my head down with a throbbing headache.

It seems that the brain has not fully awakened yet to receive a lot of information visually.

“You’re alive.”

I was forcibly pushing food into my stomach, concentrating only on my plate with my nose down, when the owner of the inn appeared.

“Drink. Then you will feel better.”

The president, who has an unsuitable strong body, put down a cup in front of me.

The cup containing the golden liquid was steaming up as if it had been warmed up.

“Thank you.”

Take a rough measurement of the temperature of the liquid by holding it to your lips. It’s not very hot.

The scent is nice. It’s a nice scent of plain tea.

I was also thirsty at the time, so I picked up a glass and drank.

“Ugh.”

It’s so damn good.

“Originally, what is used on the body is good. Be patient and drink it all.”

The boss coolly turned around and went back to the counter to put his cigarette in his mouth.

The bitter smell of cigarettes lingers in the hall, and you force yourself to swallow tea that is hundreds of times bitter than the smell of cigarettes.

“You are a lumber that will not be able to become a king.”

“Suddenly bullsh*t.”

While covering his nose and enduring the bitter taste, Doha, who had finished eating, rested his chin on his chin and suddenly made a strange noise.

“What. Don’t you know?”

“Just let me know.”

Doha raised and lowered his eyebrows.

“Not knowing is not a sin.”

“It’s proud, it’s shameless. The drink I had yesterday. A drink called Imperio. Do you remember that?”

“Uh.”

I lose my memory as soon as I eat it. Memories up to that point are fine.

It must have been a honey-colored wine bottle.

“That’s a drink from Saraha.”

“Sarah?”

I think I have heard of it. Where did you hear

“An old territory of the Empire beyond the northern part of the continent.”

The inn is quiet. Since there are only three people in the space, the president must be able to hear our conversation.

Turning a cigarette into an ashtray, the president only turned his head to look at us.

Did you hear our story? There was a glimpse of interest in his eyes.

“Because it has become a wasteland now. Neither people nor demons can live on it. It’s silk that was produced there, but the entire local population was annihilated in the war, so the recipe disappeared.”

Doha, leaning on the back of the chair, stared at the president with his hands behind his head.

“Guys with this. One of two things. Rich as f*ck.”

“The person who has been there.”

Inherit Doha’s words and answer instead.

“To recklessly take on other people’s private affairs. That’s rude.”

The bald president’s words themselves were close to pointing out, but his smiling expression created a contradictory atmosphere.

“But I’m not saying anything wrong. I managed to know that.”

The bald boss extinguished his cigarette in the ashtray, stood up, and approached us.

“Nice to meet you. Ivar Aison.”

I pretended to hold out Ivar’s hand.

Stone. It also broke randomly and touched a stone with a messy surface.

“Hello. I’m Raj. This is…”

“Doha Prius. It’s a light dragon.”

Ivar, who released his hand, interrupted me and held it out again to Doha.

Did you know the identity of this bald man, Doha?

“A cheeky bastard.”

Doha doesn’t like the title of Kwangryong very much.

As Ivar had done, the words he uttered were aggressive, but Doha held Ivar’s hand with a smile that looked amused.

“This bastard is famous. He broke two demons’ skulls with his fists.”

“Ha ha ha!”

Boom!

Ivar laughed heartily at Doha’s introduction and bumped his fists together, and the sound of exploding bombs erupted from his fists.

“What? If we knew each other, I’ll tell you earlier.”

Looks like I was the only one bullied.

“Huh? I know you? Ahahahaha!”

“hahahaha! You’re simpler than you look.”

Doha and Ibar burst into laughter at the same time. What is it, why do you keep playing with each other?

“If you say you didn’t see the distracted dragon rampage, that would be an even bigger lie. Even more so, Gwangryong’s beauty was famous among the soldiers.”

Ivar curls his left hand and pretends to insert and withdraw his right index finger.

“I had to cut all the bastards’ peppers.”

It must have been Doha, where there was no way he didn’t know what that meant, but he didn’t look upset at all.

“I caught all the guys who stole Imperio, but didn’t I manage to catch them?”

“Theft. It’s spoils. It’s mine that I took with my feet and with my two hands.”

Ivar’s twinkling eyes show even madness.

“They say that the northern races only have crazy bastards. So they all went after them.”

“Thanks to everyone, everyone went to a good place. hahahahaha!”

I thought

Had a very quiet and serious image with a bald head, but as soon as his identity was revealed, the image turned to the exact opposite.

“I asked if I remembered seeing it somewhere, and he took out a drink without hesitation.”

“Alcohol is only enjoyed by those who know its value.”

Ivar looked at me blankly, then put his hand on my shoulder and patted me.

“Well, when you’re older, you’ll be able to drink.”

Ivar comforts you with a gentle tone as if you were dealing with a child. He forced a smile because he seemed to lose if he was really upset even though he was crying.

“If you know how to drink that alcohol, you can become a head. Or something, you have to drink that much to become a head. There’s a story like that.”

Doha, who finished the last explanation, patted me on the shoulder.

So it’s Imperio? It seems that the reason why the word symbolizing the emperor came from such a background.

“So what did the dragon princess come to the remote village for?”

Ivar, who brought a chair and joined us, asked the reason directly as hotly as his personality.

“Can you solve it if I tell you?”

“It will help. Comrades help. That is Baibaran’s creed.”

Thrumping his left chest, Ivar came out with a serious face and looked at Doha alternately.

At Ivar’s attitude, Doha looked at me and asked me with her eyes. It sounds like you’re telling me to fix it.

I don’t think he’s a great person to eat. It’s better to lean on the favored side first than to head into the ground.

“Actually, there is banquet food to be used at the academy. As you know, it is difficult to procure from Kagera due to stormy weather. It is difficult to substitute it, so I brought it myself.”

“Indeed. A banquet is important. Especially if it’s something to eat.”

Ivar nodded his head.

“But it will be difficult. Right now, even in the village, we are busy with self-sufficiency. Even though support supplies are coming, the anxiety of people appears the fastest during food, clothing, shelter, and meals.”

“Isn’t it?”

As expected, Han, who expressed disapproval, touched his chin.

“But if you find a breakthrough, I can let you know.”

“Breakthrough?”

“What is it?”

As we asked at the same time, Ivar’s gums were in full bloom.

***

“Climb to the top of the mountain and find a log cabin built on the edge of a cliff?”

“Yes.”

“Let’s just fly away.”

Ignoring Doha who is talking nonsense, I look at the distant mountains.

“It’s still ugly, but what would happen if a dragon flew around?”

“How can you say it’s a flying dragon?”

“Let’s not talk.”

The information Ivar gave me was to find the old man on the cliff.

He opened the window and showed us the location of the cliff, which looked as high and dangerous as the cliff we had climbed the previous fireworks display.

It’s a cliff that looks steep at first glance, but there are people on it? Are you an old man too?

As soon as I heard Ivar’s words, the only old man that came to mind was the old man with dementia whom I saw yesterday.

Just from a feeling, it seems that the old man is the person involved. If it wasn’t for that old man, he wondered if there was a lunatic living in a place like that.

I left the shop behind Ivar’s happy expression, but… When will I go up to that?

“Hey. Hey! Hide!”

“Kek!”

I was thinking about when to go up the mountain, but Doha suddenly pulled me into an alleyway.

“That old man…!”

Doha, who blocked my mouth in advance, warned me with a scared expression.

She left her warning and started looking in one direction, but she followed her gaze and saw that the old man with dementia from yesterday was wandering her street.

The old man, who looked around as if looking for prey, eventually stood in front of the butcher shop he had bullied yesterday.

“Gunta! Give me some meat for the stew!”

“It’s Alberto.”

“Eh? This guy, Gunta, doesn’t come to visit me all the time!”

Alberto, the owner of the butcher shop, put the meat in a bag, ignoring the old man’s words.

“Tell Gunta to have a drink later! He has a golden son, Raemi, and he is handsome.”

“Ayu yes yes yes go in.”

The old man dangles an envelope containing her meat and she knocks on every door of her house just like yesterday, asking how she is doing.

However, his memory still lingers on Kagera Island from decades ago, so he only talked about the past.

“If it were me, I would have already kicked him in the ass.”

“Would you mind? You will be kicked out.”

The subject ran away because he was so scared.

“Grunt…”

At my point, Doha pouted her lips.

I wondered if there would be a fight if it was violent, but since it’s Kagera Island, which is a very small town, I guess I’m avoiding such incidents.

“Come, come! Squat down!”

As the old man gradually approached me, Doha was frightened and pressed me hard.

Thanks to Doha riding on top of me, the soft touch I felt on the back of my head made my heart flutter.

“Eh? Where does the smell of cayenne come from…”

I hear the sniffing of an old man who has stopped in front of an alleyway.

What is this?

“It can’t be… It can’t be… Ahh. Where do you dare to say this?”

You would think how much he would have put in if he had captured his life, but just hearing his voice makes his hair stand on end.

He had a heart attack but no physical evidence, so the old man went forward along the street again muttering to himself shortly after.

I was finally able to get away from Doha because of the memories of an old man who was getting farther and farther away.

“Dogs are scary, really.”

After the old man was almost out of sight, Doha, who was out of breath, rubbed his arms and said.

“So…”

“What are you doing here?”

I tried to sympathize with Doha’s words, but I was startled by the presence of people behind me and ran forward.

“Aagh!!”

“Oh f*ck! What a surprise!”

Doha, who jumped out with me while cursing thickly, looks back and prepares for battle.

“I’m sorry. I hope you’re hiding in the alley.”

“Cista-san?”

“What the florist fox… It was a woman.”

If you say everything and fix it, won’t your words disappear?

I glared at Doha, but Doha only shrugged.

“Ahahahaha yes what. Yes. That grandfather passed by.”

As I glanced in the direction where the old man had disappeared, Cista covered her mouth and laughed as if she had noticed the back of the old man who was disappearing in the distance.

“But you’re still scared. It’s okay. I’m sure if I went and talked to you, you’d have completely forgotten about it.”

I see. Judging from the bloody muttering in front of us earlier, I don’t think it’s any different from yesterday.

“Every day he comes out on the street and asks how the villagers are doing. He forgets it every day.”

“It must be old, isn’t it?”

“It’s been a long time. Since I was little, he came down to the village every day without missing a beat. You know what’s even more amazing?”

Cista’s laughter that arouses curiosity.

“Me too, my mother, my grandmother. Everyone is friends with my grandfather.”

“You come down often and become friends…?”

Sista shook her head at my words.

“No. Her grandfather was there when her grandmother was young and her mother was a bridesmaid. He’s probably the longest-living man on the entire continent?”

If Sista is in her 20s, her grandmother would be in her 80s. So she’s saying there’s a time gap of at least 50 years…

“You were also a grandfather then?”

“Yes yes. It’s very strange, right? That’s why the villagers think that the grandfather has been blessed by the guardian deity.”

“Guardian?”

When I expressed my question, it was Do, not Sistar, who answered.

“People’s beliefs. It should be said that it is a story related to this island. A long time ago, there was an existence that sealed the Great Demon King under this island, and in the process, a volcanic eruption caused the island to be called Kagera.”

“That’s right! You are very knowledgeable!”

“Thank you.”

Doha can’t even show that she likes it openly after Sistar’s praise.

“It was a very stormy place. It was an abandoned island because the sea never slept because of the great king’s wrath, but the guardian god came and blessed it and calmed the storm.”

Hoo? I was listening without much thought, but when you say that, it’s scary because it seems like a precursor to the revival of the Great Demon King.

“That’s why people think that the Guardian God has left. But I don’t think so.”

“Why? The storm is running rampant. You guys are suffering too.”

Doha seemed to have doubts about Sistar’s words. I was in the same position.

Sistar smiled as if she understood our thoughts, then rummaged through the basket and took out a flower she had never seen before.

A flower with red leaves. It also looks like a rose. The flowers in full bloom were the size of my palm and were beautifully profuse.

“It’s Dura. It’s a flower that blooms around this time, but he’s a very sensitive kid. Even the slightest bad weather will quickly kill him. But you know what?”

Sistar gave the Dura flower to Doha and did not lose her smile.

“Isn’t it really pretty? It’s more beautiful this year than ever before. So it’s clear that the Guardian God is still watching over us.”

We couldn’t help but stare at Sistar’s back as she brightly turned around and returned to the store.