How To Tame an Academy Dragon

12. Iljin Dragon in the Back Alley

Underground Canal.

Another underground empire created through thorough urban planning since the capital was first built on this land.

Villa Aus, the capital city along the mighty Rubiu River, had the possibility of a water crisis at any time, and was built through extensive construction as it is a facility closely related to the sanitation and cleanliness of the city.

The Rubyu River, which divides the capital city in half, was built into two, the northern and southern aqueducts. With an underground aqueduct as huge and complex as the capital, even those who managed the facilities throughout their lives could easily become lost if they were not careful.

The lowest level of the southern aqueduct of the Empire.

In a deep place that even the caretakers couldn’t find, fierce battles were being waged by those wearing mysterious costumes.

Boom!

The light that came out with a huge explosion lit up the waterway.

In a narrow passage, such an explosion could have caused the collapse of the tunnel, but the underground aqueduct with a powerful maintenance enchantment only released dust that had accumulated between the bricks.

“Stop it, you assholes!”

Quang!

“aaah!!”

Just a fist. I can’t believe it even after seeing how such a sound can be made with just one punch.

Because of the movements that were so nimble that they couldn’t even follow with their eyes, the gang members collapsed without even realizing what they were being attacked.

There are now only 3 members who used to have more than 20 members. Those who couldn’t even buy time were scattered on the floor and didn’t show any movement.

“Where is that bastard!!”

“No, I don’t know! It disappeared as soon as I was attacked…”

“Damn it…”

Assailants attacked as soon as I handed over the goods.

I wondered if I had barely escaped the other day, but it was an assailant in a white mask who appeared like a ghost after finding out the trading place.

With both hands holding up the members’ collars, the white mask peeked at the baby as if to frighten them, then indifferently threw them aside as if throwing away garbage.

Jack Crow, who led his gang members, found a white mask waving towards him as if he had met an old friend from his old hometown.

“Hey~ It’s been a while~ I won’t be able to go far, so just stay there~”

“Crazy bastard…”

An assailant who even hums what makes him so happy.

An unpleasant, modulated sound rang out louder and more unpleasant as it hit the walls of the underground canal.

I thought I would stumble if hit by explosive magic, but I didn’t know that I would walk confidently after being hit head on.

“f*ck… Hey scatter. You run on your own and you run over there.”

“Yes?? It can’t be possible!”

“That’s f*cking!”

Ignoring the resistance of his subordinates, he first turns around and runs away. He survived over five years in a mean back alley because he puts his own comfort first.

To trade with Jack Crow, trade inside the prison.

This means running away well and betraying well. Instead, if there were no variables, he would have survived without being weeded out because he handled things more perfectly than anyone else.

But not too long ago, it was Jack Crow whose tail was stepped on for the first time and nearly ended his career.

“Come here~”

“Crazy bastard…!”

I was lucky enough to use a passer-by as a hostage and escaped, but I found the contact point and came back again.

I recall the 15 escape routes I had planned in advance.

It was possible because I had memorized all the mazes called underground sewers that were entangled like a spider’s web. Anyway, the men who fled in the other direction will rot here for the rest of their lives and become the rats’ food.

That wasn’t Jack Crow’s business. I thought it would be better if I could keep my mouth shut because it would make things easier.

aaah…

From far away, the screams of his men could be heard reflected off the walls.

Have you already been caught?

Jack Crow sped up even more and ran to the nearest entrance.

At the time I could hear the last subordinate’s scream. Jack Crow found a ladder attached to the wall.

If you just climb the ladder like this…!

If you succeed in escaping first, as soon as the deal is over, you will find the trader who betrayed you and ran away first.

He is Jack Crow who eats betrayal, but ironically, he hates being betrayed the most.

“f*ck you bastards!”

If you run a little further, you will reach the ladder.

Jack Crow exclaimed in anger, including the latest unresolved matter.

His voice rang out and spread. And someone answered his cry filled with emotion.

Kwaaang!!!

The wall the ladder was attached to explodes.

The wall, which had not been affected by the explosion magic, shattered like thin wooden boards and scattered in all directions.

“Kuh!”

Jack Crow, who was hit all over his body by shrapnel flying into his face, fell to the floor feeling pain all over his body, unable to escape.

A thick cloud of dust obscured his vision, and even though his eyes were jack crows as bright as crows, he couldn’t discern what was over him.

The dust slowly settled and a black figure cut through the dust and approached him.

“Did you find me? Nice to meet you?”

“Mi, crazy man…”

It was a white mask that splendidly smashed the wall and appeared.

In both of his hands, two unconscious subordinates were swaying with their necks held.

“Ugh. sh*t…”

There was no sound place as it was hit by rubble fragments.

Even if you get up and run away, you won’t go far and you’ll be caught.

No. He was a fool himself to think he could run away from it in the first place.

No matter how much I ran, there was no way I could get away with chasing him in such an ignorant way.

“Sah, just let me live.”

“Um~ don’t worry. The client told me to arrest him.”

Fortunately, the white mask said it would save itself.

Just go outside and see. Let me escape from prison too.

Grinding his teeth, Jack Crow leaned against the wall and staggered to his feet.

And the moment I woke up, I raised my hand to the burning pain in his neck.

Hard and soft. When he touched it with his finger and lifted it up, it was stained red with blood.

“Keep off…”

That was Jack Crow’s last memory.

***

“Hey man! What!”

Jack Crow, who had been fumbling around his neck, collapsed like a doll whose thread had snapped.

I put down the clowns I was holding and hurriedly ran to check the guy’s condition, but he was already dead.

A dagger that penetrates the neck very neatly without any superfluities. Doha put down the corpse and looked behind Jack Crow.

Something uncertain entered the dragon’s field of vision.

A whitish, black smoke-like form lingered, staring straight at Doha.

The scheming street that hides its identity with black smoke was very familiar to Doha.

“You. Are you a demon?”

The black magic seen in high-ranking demons.

He was a swordsman who suffered from headaches throughout the war because of the demons who covered his body with black smoke and ran away.

Of course, you can’t give Doha an effective blow, but ordinary soldiers can’t do that, so the damage was terrible.

“If my dad didn’t do anything stupid…”

Because the power was sealed, it was impossible to detect even the dark magic of the demons.

Originally, he would have already checked and twisted his neck before throwing the dagger, but he failed to do so, and in the end, the worst result was the death of Jack Crow.

For Doha, nothing else was needed. The most important thing right now is that I found a demon crawling on the bottom of the empire, rather than a petty thief.

If you catch a demon in Doha’s head and report it, wouldn’t his dad get points? Calculation was made.

“You really stay right there. If I catch you…”

The Doha, with his legs tightened up, growled ferociously at the enemy.

“Because the chocolate sora bread is unlimited!!”

The river, which was shot out like a cannonball, arrived in front of the black smoke in an instant.

Unexpectedly, the speed of Doha’s approach was rapid, and the black smoke spread rapidly, but Doha stabbed the regime in the middle, where mana was roughly concentrated.

The fist, which had been stretched out with the puncture mark, even tore through the air, came to a sharp stop, and the compressed air exploded as it was pushed out, and even the black smoke dispersed without a trace.

Even in a situation where not even smoke residue was visible, Doha clicked his tongue slightly as if he didn’t like it.

“It doesn’t look like a lot of sh*t.”

Retrieving the fist he had thrown out, Doha gazed at the black smoke beginning to merge again from an appropriate distance.

Watching the black smoke restore her original size, she corrected her posture again and began to carefully identify her opponent.

It just looks like smoke. It is not that there is no reality. Of course, if you get hit, you should take damage.

However, the black magic that erased the enemy’s presence was working without any problems, which meant that Doha’s attack went back to nothing.

“Don’t go anywhere? If you mess around today, you’ll be in big trouble.”

Seeing the black smoke billowing, Doha snapped her fingers as she prepared to counterattack.

At Doha’s cheap provocation, the black smoke immediately blew to the floor and rushed to a sticking level.

From the floor to the side walls to the ceiling. The smoke, which had been busy moving, tore left and right the moment it reached the front of Doha, perhaps with an intention to disturb Doha’s gaze.

Left.

Doha, who instinctively sensed the real position, attempted a round kick aimed at the top of her.

f*ck!

Like her fists, black smoke exploded from the kick she swung along with the bloody punch.

The smoke that exploded moved to the smoke on the other side, and for the first time, a fist flew toward the back of Doha’s head in the form of a person, not smoke.

“Wow!”

Thanks to the assailant coming out of the smoke and taking shape, Doha was able to recognize his presence more accurately.

Taking advantage of the inertia of her spinning kick, she rotated 180 degrees, lowered her stance, aimed for her opponent’s ankle, and tackled her forcefully.

“Ouch!”

The assailant, who failed to avoid the attack aimed at the ankle, eventually allowed Doha to strike, and Doha and the demon who floated in the air met eyes with a collapsed posture.

Irises dyed red like blood collided with cool blue eyes.

Doha, who is defenseless and stands up to give her Demon tribe a sure blow, whose posture has collapsed.

She squeezed her body together, gathering strength into her fists to slap her as hard as she could.

At that moment, an eye light burst from the enemy’s eyes.

Just a moment. Less than 1 second. Wandering thoughts seeped into my head, and I witnessed a huge mountain of chocolate conch bread piled up in front of my eyes.

A scene where her unconscious desires that were hidden beneath her seemed to materialize.

“Damn it. You fell behind today!!”

Even if it was a half-sealed dragon, there was no way that clumsy mental magic could work.

Doha, who destroyed the fascination with thick curse words, lit a twin wick.

It was a fleeting moment, but it was enough to open a gap in Doha, and she found a sparkling dagger flying towards her forehead.

Kwajik!

…Clink!

The dagger that killed Jack Crow fell to the floor, crushing her head. Tilting her head behind her, Doha brought her head forward, placing her hand on his forehead.

A throbbing pain and a strangely bulky forehead felt by the fingers. She wasn’t pierced by the dagger, but there was a small bump on her forehead.

Anger was bubbling inside her because she was allowed to strike not once, but twice, but she was controlling her anger with a bigger factor than anger.

Doha stood blankly and searched for memories of her past.

Enchanted.

What her demons spread to her was fascination.

The main specialty of the dream demons that corrupts the victim’s mind by drawing out and showing them their deep desires.

Aside from that, he does annoying things like going into the victim’s dreams and causing confusion through hallucinations or killing them by sucking their spirit.

What was more important than the runaway demon was that he experienced a similar sensation to someone who was not a demon.

Where did you go through this? Do-ha, who stood there for a long time with a sense of incongruity that persisted in her head, finally remembered a man with a smirk.

“I remembered.”

The man who dared to step into a dream and touch his unconscious.

Doha remembered the owner of the stationery store in front of the academy with a smirk.