TN/ED: Happy Holidays! Enjoy the chapter!
“Kazamachi-kun! Perfect timing!”
A woman wearing a racing jacket and a full face helmet stopped me.
A showy body line stood out, I could not see the face, but it was kind of sexy.
It was when I went on the road to bypass the fence to enter the forest behind the house.
A large crimson sports-type motorcycle with an explosive sound that pierced through the body stopped in front of me.
“Hm?”
I just moved to this town, so I don’t have any acquaintances that would call out to me.
At the previous town, stupid people trying to get a part of my infamous reputation would call me out.
“Oh, sorry. It’s me.”
The woman took off the helmet while straddling the bike.
“Ah, hello.”
I did not immediately recognize her because she was not wearing her uniform or her hat, but I remember that shoulder length golden hair and those large dog ears that hang from the side of her face.
“Officer Doggy, are you on break today?”
It was the police officer from the golden retriever tribe.
Officer Doggy・Maggie.
“Yes, I just left the station a while ago and am off duty.”
Police officers have long working hours, she’s been working since yesterday, huh?
“Thanks for your work.”
“Hehe, thanks.”
Officer Doggy smiled with her long eyelashes and laughed.
What a beautiful person.
She hung the helmet on the handle, turned off the motorcycle engine, and kicked up the stand.
That series of actions is too cool.
I wonder if I should also get a motorcycle license.
“I was planning on letting Inoue contact you this evening, but it’s better to finish this earlier. It was a coincidence, but it was great that I met you. You checked out the neighborhood yesterday, right?”
Heh, we’re neighbors?
“Did you need me for something?”
In response to my question, Officer Doggy put on an awkward expression.
“A bit. It won’t be long, can I have a little time?”
“Well, just a bit is okay.”
Officer Doggy got off her bike and shook her head around to free her long hair that was coiled around in the helmet.
It was like a shampoo commercial, her hair glistened under the sunlight.
“It’s about the three kidnappers yesterday…”
Gasaraio, the bird tribe from the south, and the sloth?
“… they were arrested, but I couldn’t charge them with anything significant.”
“Eh?”
Wait, but those guys are child kidnappers.
I’m bothered, they should have been sentenced 10 years at the minimum.
“Why?”
I inadvertently frowned.
I am not good at concealing my emotions.
“I really do feel sorry. There’s a variety of reasons, but the main reason is…”
Officer Doggy looked at my house.
Because it was a large house, she had to look up. The sun made her squint her eyes, then she looked back at me.
That expression was very grim.
“…about the matters of Dragoline-san being a dragon.”
“Haaa!?”
Wait a moment!
“What are you saying! She was the victim from the start to the end!?”
Although I was not that shaken up, even though I got injured for the children, how is it logical for a kidnapper to not be judged because Aoi is a dragon!
“Calm down, please, afterwards I’ll apologize as much as you like. Now, I want you to listen to my story, because it concerns the safety of her and her babies.”
“…. okay, will you give me a second?”
I forcibly adjusted my rough breathing.
“Yes, I promise I will not make it bad if you listen carefully.”
I closed my eyes and relaxed.
I took a deep breath. Let’s do this calmly. Calmly.
“… please.”
After repeatedly taking several deep breaths, I finally calmed down.
I prompted Officer Doggy to continue the story I interrupted.
“Thank you, the problem is that a dragon is a legendary existence. I told you about the dragon bloodstone, a jewel that can only be obtained at a dragon nest.”
“Yes, when the egg doesn’t hatch, it gets dyed red and becomes that, right.”
“That stone is worth at least a few hundred million yen in perfect condition.”
A few hundred million yen!
What!
“Rare items related to dragons are traded at a higher price if it’s a legendary or rumor level object. They are a reclusive tribe and since dragons with powers that exceeds human knowledge seldom approach, it’s only known to a small portion of humans.”
So, the ones who stole the egg too.
“For example, it’s said that you would gain unparalleled power and longevity if you ate a dragon’s egg. Of course, the only people that have gotten their hands on a dragon’s egg have been written about in books and such. It’s dubious whether there was an actual person or it was just urban legend level gossip. ”
Eat… Jaja or Nana?
What is that…! How could you do something like that!
“Rather than this town, it’s something that concerns the city, or prefectures administration. No, it’s not even an exaggeration to say that it’s a state level secret.”
Country? Japan?
Officer Doggy looked at me with sorrowful eyes.
Being overpowered by her expression, I gulped.
“What do you think would happen if it was exposed that such a small town actually bears such a valuable existence?”
It was a topic that was enough to cool down me that was getting heated again.
Thanks
Thanks for the chapter, An easy solution would be to take the kidnappers to some remote warehouse, cap them in the back of the head, and roll out the the drums of acid and bags of quicklime. Then there you go problem solved in the most civil way possible. Alternatively the author could have just written them out of existence.
Since the kidnappers obviously know about the dragons, they’re the biggest potential source of the information leaking. Letting them go makes no sense.
Season’s Greetings! Thanks for the treat.
I see, so you just murdered the three kidnappers so the truth wouldn’t come out. Okay, that is also an acceptable solution
In any developed nation this would be a clear civil rights violation. They are openly discriminating against Dragoline by declaring that she has no rights to legal protection entirely by virtue of her birth. It is tantamount to stating that murdering her or her children is legal, thus implicating the government as complicit in the attacks against her.
Since that doesn’t appear to be the author’s intent, it’s just a plot hole.
If it is a issue of national security and even international security as the dragons will retaliate and could end the world then the government can do something. In reality , governments would do anything even bend their own laws in the name of national security.
Bruh. Thanks for the chapter.
Ty for the chapter.
Still doesn’t make sense.
Cover ups happen all the time, they could just cover up the fact that the kidnapped party were dragons or write up some other false charge on equal severity in order to stick them in Jail.
It might not be the most moral or legal thing to do but it would be better then letting those scum go Scot free.