chapter 8
8 – 8. Bolg’s Lies (2)
The opponent had his thumb in his mouth.
And it doesn’t move as it is.
In other words, he was as hard as a stone, just as he had been sucking his finger on one side like a child.
Would it be an appropriate expression to say that he is biting his thumb like a child?
Well, I don’t think so.
Because the other person didn’t actually look like a child, but looked like a real child.
Soft white skin that looks as if it would fit right in without any resistance when pressed with a finger.
A body that only children have.
In comparison, long silver hair that was unusually long and reached down to the heels.
Her silvery hair was so soft that even inside the cave, where there was barely any wind, it swayed little by little in the weak wind that she couldn’t even feel.
As soon as our eyes meet, the first thing we think of is beautiful, jewel-like pale sky-colored eyes.
The blue eyes were shining softly like mysterious magic crystals that were piled up on the ceiling of the cave.
And at the same time, those eyes looked up at me with my mouth wide open and my teeth bared, and I wondered if a person’s eyes could be that big, as if in great surprise.
“Heh, eh, eh.”
The stone-hard man slowly began to speak. Befitting her appearance, her voice sounded very young.
No, no matter how you look at it, he’s a kid. Why the hell did you come here?
“Huh, eh.”
The guy who was making strange noises repeatedly pulled his thumb out of his mouth and then let out a noise.
“aaang-!”
A small child who starts crying all of a sudden. I opened my mouth in embarrassment and slowly closed it, canceling the threatening posture I was taking to scare him away.
And first, in order to appease him, he starts talking about whatever comes to mind.
I’m so flustered that the words don’t come out properly.
“Oh, over there. baby therefore. Mmm.”
“It’s a red dragon! You will be eaten! hehehe!”
But she didn’t listen to me at all and turned around and ran away. However, even though she was desperately running away, her short legs and stride were not a very effective means of running away.
slow down
Even the guy was gasping for breath as soon as he ran a few steps, as if his stamina wasn’t that good, befitting the appearance of a child.
The opponent was clearly running with all his might, but unfortunately, after a fairly long time, he didn’t get too far.
As she ran away with steps appropriate for the word toddler, she soon fell from exhaustion. At first glance, he tripped over his abnormally long hair, which seemed uncomfortable to live with.
It seemed like something like that.
bean!
The guy, who hit his head on the ground with the same momentum as he was running, couldn’t get up from the fall and cried his legs trembling in fear.
“Don’t eat it! don’t eat it! Nineveh is not tasty! You wicked dragon!”
I don’t know what’s going on, but first I need to appease that Nineveh.
Seeing her crying recklessly resembled my nephew, and leaving a crying child alone stung my conscience.
“Nineve really sucks… Go away! “I’m telling you to go away.”
While pouring out a lot of tears and mucus, I slowly approached the crying child. as slowly as possible. So that opponents will not be afraid even if they see my huge body and ferocious appearance.
“Haaancastaaa!
However, despite my efforts, my intention to not be frightened was defeated. Well, there’s no way the opponent won’t be frightened just by approaching slowly.
How can you not be afraid of a monster approaching slowly?
Rather, it may be more frightening to see him approaching slowly. In a situation where you can’t escape, it will feel like your own death is approaching.
In this situation, no matter what I say, it seems to be of no use. There was a trick that passed through my head while despairing at the goddamn lookism that engulfed this world like Earth.
It flashed! If this is possible!
Now I had something that little kids would love.
Originally, children are like crows, and they like shiny objects. Did my nephew reach into my wallet and buy a bunch of pink beads? The desire for sparkling beads must have been greater than remorse.
“Hey, look at this.”
Quickly, he carefully lifted Lewis’s golden ring that had fallen nearby. The golden ring hanging on the tip of my sharp fingernails shimmered as if it was showing off its own color, reflecting the light of the magic crystal.
The attention of a young child, who had been crying all over the floor, was attracted by a sparkling ring that appeared in front of his eyes, and his crying quieted down for a moment.
“Nineve, if you stop, I’ll give you this. Are you going to do it?”
Thinking to herself that she has been caught, she whispers in a low voice as kindly as possible.
As I had many experiences of comforting my crying nephew, I could intuit that it was a success if I had come to this stage. If his interest shifted so openly to the ring, he was bound to get caught.
Nineb, who was staring at the golden ring with her mouth open, greedily sniffed.
“Wait, wicked dragon. lie. you’re gonna eat me They don’t give you anything shiny.”
Is your life and your ring the same value? This guy is a very greedy guy.
It’s like when I’m hungry, and the dragon’s instinct dominates my mind.
But children are cute when they are honest. A guy who hides what he wants and lies is less cute.
“Don’t eat it. Uh-huh, if you don’t stop, I won’t give you this. Come on.”
“… I did it. Nineveh, you never cried.”
Nineveh shamelessly lies with a tear-stained face. However, he is fooled by the generosity of adults.
“Are you really going to give me something shiny?”
“okay. Now take it.”
The ring hanging from the tip of her fingernail dropped right in front of Nineveh. If you try to give it yourself, you may touch the sharp claw and injure the delicate skin of a young child, so this is the best way to give it.
Nineveh hurriedly picked up the ring that had fallen on the ground and smiled as if she had cried.
“Wow… it’s sparkly! Like friends!”
While fiddling with the ring, she looked at me curiously, then raised her head and looked at me as if she had suddenly realized my existence.
“I heard from my friends that all dragons are mean. Aren’t you a bad dragon?”
“Yes, I am a good dragon… well, conditionally.”
I nod my head in agreement with the guy’s words, but then add an afterword.
Because at a time when hunger was at its peak, it was difficult to express myself as kind even with empty words. Now that he had both his appetite and his desire for sleep, he was thinking with a normal human mind, but if Nineve had entered this cave yesterday, there was no guarantee that he would have treated him kindly like he did today.
The result of the invaders who came in when they were evil dragons is that they are still lying in a corner of the cave.
“My friends said all dragons are bad. In particular, he said that if he met a red dragon, he would eat me in one bite. But there are good uses!”
Nineveh smiled brightly at what was so fun. Feeling that my heart was warmed by the innocence of a young child for the first time in a long time, I swiped my nose once.
“Okay, okay. Still, there’s no guarantee that this will happen if you meet a dragon other than me, so you have to be careful. But how did Nineve get here? Aren’t your parents around? You might be worried. I have to go back. You shouldn’t come to a place like this.”
“Nineve has no parents!”
After hearing my words, Nineveh smiled brightly and replied.
oh my. You touched something that shouldn’t be touched.
What do we do?
Concerned that I might have touched a sore corner, I frantically thought of another question while rolling my eyeballs.
“Yeah, well, um, maybe not. In fact, neither do I anymore. we are comrades to each other hahahaha, comrades without parents… No, what am I talking about? That’s not what’s important right now.”
“Nineve, you don’t have parents, but you have a lot of friends! dudes this size. It just glows brightly from the body. They don’t play with me, but…”
Nineveh, who didn’t care at all about the unintentional Tallulah, continued with a bright smile.
He raised his cute hand and described something the size of his palm, calling it his friend.
Then he smiled and stretched out his arms towards me. as if to wake up.
“The old man told me. Nineve is a fairy! A good fairy with many friends! Let’s play with me, dragon!”