How To Tame an Academy Dragon

15. As for me

Peleheim, the sky tower built at the southern end of the Dragon Empire. Or Mage Tower Peleheim.

Originally, it was a tower with a dungeon, but the great sage Hyman single-handedly purified the dungeon and made it his own beggar.

In this way, Sky Tower Peleheim came to be called Mage Tower Peleheim, and soon after, Peleheim’s wizards began to gain fame wherever they went.

Because they were a new elite group that was as good as the established wizards, people wondered what kind of person their teacher, the great sage, was.

Rumour after rumor grew that he was really the great wizard of the century, or whether he was a swindler hiding behind a veil.

As his disciples became famous, there were fierce debates about the value of the great sage’s name.

In the meantime, the war with the Demon World broke out.

The empire was on the defensive until it was about to lose its capital, and the dragon lord appeared just in time to save the empire.

Dion, the hero who awakened his strength through repeated battles, and Albert, the strongest dragon, fought hard on the side of the empire, but it was not easy to overturn the situation at once.

The time when the previous emperor, Gaiasgunt, was thinking about wrapping his head. There was someone who suddenly appeared in the emperor’s barracks, and that was the great sage Hyman.

After a long seclusion, Hyman appeared and formed a magic corps with his disciples to join the Allied Forces.

Afterwards, in the final battle, he defeated the demon king with the hero Dion and the dragon lord Albert, so no one dared to doubt the great sage’s reputation and skill.

After a week-long victory ceremony in the imperial capital Villa Aus, the hero Dion returned to the port city of Blake, and the Dragon Lord returned to the Erp Mountains with his troops.

Of course, people wondered if the owner of the Mage Tower would go into confinement again, and in fact, the great sage was preparing to return to the Mage Tower.

The day after the victory ceremony. Except for the great sage, the magicians of the Peleheim Mage Tower returned to their homes.

The night before the return of the great sage. Rumors of an audience with the emperor abounded, but no one knew the real reason.

In this way, the great sage lived in a separate room inside the imperial palace and went into seclusion again.

***

As the soft moonlight shines through the open window, the whole view of the simple room is revealed.

The walls, carpets, and chandeliers were rugged and could easily be found in the street market.

If you look for something unusual about the furniture, there were 4 large desks, 2 of which were attached in a straight line, and the other 2 were closely attached to the wall.

Innumerable documents and books were stacked like a tower on the desk, and where there were no books, a suspicious liquid was bubbling and boiling in a glass container.

The top of the desk placed in the center was clean, but the nameplate made of obsidian was shining brightly.

A plaque reading ‘Headmaster Hyman Albert’ indicated the owner of the room.

Over the nameplate, I could see the face of an old man with a benevolent impression. He could tell that he was thinking about something from the way he frowned once in a while.

The old man, sitting at his desk concentrating on what appeared to be official documents, put down his feather pen at the sound of approaching footsteps.

Smart smart.

Someone knocked on the door.

A reddish-brown heavy door made of luxurious wood, different from the atmosphere of the room.

Without answering from the owner of the room, the meaning of the knock was overshadowed, and it began to open slowly and without making a sound.

The door opened and what appeared was the princess of the dragon tribe with bobbed black hair. It was the Doha Prius.

“Grandpa! I’m here.”

The gray-haired old man with a long beard didn’t care at all even though she opened the door and came in.

With a rather warm smile, he smiled and approached her.

“You seem to be in a good mood today.”

“Today? Didn’t something special happen today?”

While saying that, Doha’s footsteps as she walked to the chair looked somewhat lively.

“That’s right. It didn’t matter.”

If he had had an accident, he would have heard the information long ago.

According to her words, she seems to have been very calm today.

“I fixed the canal that was broken the other day. But don’t break it next time and move it kindly.”

“Ah…Sorry…”

Apologizing to Hyman in a soft voice, Doha apologized to him.

“Are you going to eat bread today?”

“Yes. Grandpa doesn’t eat this.”

Always at this time, she visits the principal’s office of Cholae Cholae Academy with something called Choco Sora Bread.

It doesn’t matter if she spills crumbs here and there, but it was Hyman who sometimes worried that her health might deteriorate due to an overbalanced diet.

“You should definitely eat some food.”

“You know, you know, I ate dinner.”

Doha immediately makes an excuse for Hyman’s old age.

After fighting with the hero, before she is imprisoned in the Dragon Castle. Where did she get a loaf of bread?

Dragon Lord told him to throw it away immediately, but Doha, whose rebellious spirit had reached its peak, swallowed the bread in one bite in front of him.

Hyman still remembered her venom, chewing and swallowing her little bread with her eyes lit.

Even during her confinement, she persistently sent a letter asking her to secretly send the bread to Doha.

Unable to refuse her request, like her granddaughter, the great sage granted her request by using magic to deceive the eyes of the Dragon Lord.

[Grandpa!! Did I find something really good?]

After she entered the academy, she, who had been the face of her dying mother, suddenly shouted like that one day and brightened up to the fullest.

Hyman looked at the dragon princess with a worldly happy face while eating chocolate conch bread.

“And about the demons I told you about.”

“Oh! Kuk… Kek! Did you find the car?”

Do-ha coughs as if she heard a cough while answering without eating bread.

The great sage waited quietly for her cough to subside before continuing her speech.

“I couldn’t find it, but I was able to find traces. I’ve also spoken to His Majesty the Emperor.”

“What did you say?”

I heard some rude words and actions towards the emperor, but Hyman didn’t care.

“You were very enraged. An investigation team directly under the imperial family will soon launch a large-scale investigation. So be careful too. Okay?”

“Oh, yes. I’ll be careful.”

It was a consideration and warning from Hyman, who was already aware of Doha’s deviant behavior.

If it could be dried, it would have been dried long ago.

Even if they gave me extra pocket money, I refused to accept it, and when I asked them to work part-time on weekends near the academy, they hated that too.

Then, I started wandering around his back alleys, acting as a fixer.

The great sage, who was persuading her to stop her, fell for her tricks at some point and even made a mask to hide her identity.

“But~ Grandpa made it again, it’s so strong that it won’t break anymore! Thank you!”

Her innocent smile and gratitude that she doesn’t show to others easily.

“Then I’m glad.”

“I wanted to catch him. It must be difficult, right?”

“From now on, dangerous play will be difficult. So be careful.”

Once the investigative team begins an investigation, local organizations that have been playing around avoiding public power will be organized as soon as possible.

If that happens, rumors about the white mask solver will gradually spread.

The rumor that the dragon princess who was imprisoned will roam the back alleys as soon as she comes out will not have a good effect on everyone.

“Ugh~ It won’t be fun for a while.”

Doha often trusted and followed Hyman, who was like his paternal grandfather.

I thought to myself that wisdom and virtue that seemed to have lived thousands of years longer than I deserved to be imitated.

I woke up from the chair with my mouth open and yawning as if I was falling asleep because my stomach was full.

“I have to leave for today. See you tomorrow grandpa.”

“Get some rest.”

“Yes. Grandpa, don’t work late at night!”

World’s Doha How many people are worried about the Prius?

Hyman smiled at her concern and nodded at her.

After Doha closed and returned to his dormitory, Hyman got up and put on a cheap black robe sold at the market, having taken care of all his urgent paperwork.

***

Doha After the Prius plundered (?) Bread and returned to the dormitory.

I was working overtime longer than usual at the stationery store.

Since the construction of the damaged store cannot be postponed, I compared the quotations shown by each construction company and carefully examined them, and finally I was in a dilemma as to which of the two places to entrust it to.

One is affiliated with Sellus Firm. Another is a well-known construction company in the area.

The price was cheaper than the general construction company, but I was still looking forward to seeing if even the beans would fall off if I entrusted it to Sellus, an acquaintance.

“But it’s not like Sellus is putting a dump…”

The reason for the high price was literally because better materials were used.

Should I invest that much in stationery? Is it better to do what you already do?

At that time when you are in the middle of a dilemma. Someone knocked on the outside wall of the stationery.

“I’m not doing business today~ I’m sorry~”

Look at the door and politely decline the visitor.

Doha The Prius broke the door, leaving only the windshield fluttering.

I noticed a long robe hanging down from the waist over the windshield.

“Why don’t you take a look around? It reminds me of the old days. Heh heh heh.”

An old man’s voice.

Involuntarily, I got up from my seat and approached the entrance. It was to check with the eyes of the visiting guests.

As I walked through the windshield in front of the entrance, a gray-haired old man appeared in a shabby robe.

“I didn’t mean to force it. I’m sorry.”

“No. You can take your time and look around. Nothing else, the store is a bit cluttered.”

I stepped aside and showed him the inside of the store, which was still a mess.

“Is it an earthquake?”

“Ha ha. It’s similar.”

The fact that it was a disaster-level crisis is almost a resemblance.

The old man came into the store and I lowered the windshield again.

While I sat at the counter and reviewed the paperwork, the old man carefully inspected each and every item on display, occasionally exclaiming.

Anyway, that’s an old idea. Looks like there was a stationery here too.

With only a lot of gray hair, the old man was walking comfortably on his two feet with his back straight and straight.

You are not as old as you look, or you are healthy enough to be indistinguishable from your age. Or something unusual.

“Like Yonggary or Incubus…”

While I was talking to myself, an old man came to the counter with something in his hand.

“No, that’s it. These days, all my young friends eat this.”

“Ah. Choco conch bread. Yeah, right? No?”

It seems that the young friends didn’t eat all of them. In fact, our shop’s bread sales are entirely carried by the Doha Prius.

“How much?”

“That’s 5 gold.”

“It’s expensive.”

I thought about not accepting the money for the old man’s words, but I didn’t even think about doing this or that, because I was afraid that I would feel sympathy for that.

Fortunately, the old man took out 5 gold coins from his pocket and handed them to me.

“Anyway, your eyes are really good.”

“Me?”

I never thought I would hear the sounds I often heard when walking around the streets in my previous life here.

The old man smiled kindly and nodded his head.

“It’s money buried in the nose, but the academy students aren’t even at that level anyway. Heh heh heh”

“Ha ha ha.”

It’s not wrong, but I was stabbed and flinched at the moment.

“Yes, yes. Please take good care of me in the future.”

“Yes. Yes.”

Please take care of me?

After answering with a spinal cord reflex, I felt a strange sense of incongruity in the old man’s words.

“Bread. That’s why. Heh heh heh!”

The old man said something strange that he couldn’t understand and left his shop laughing alone.

“What…”

I thought that there are many strange people in the world.