Chapter 5 – Dragon Girl (4)

“Tanks rou beryy masdu!”

I bought the ingredients at a mid-sized supermarket.

It’s good to be lively, but I had no idea what the cashier just said, I gave him a nod and left the store.

Frequently seen in the countryside, the supermarket along the big national highway had a parking lot even bigger than the store. I spent some time to find this place.

No need to guess, I can feel that I walked a lot. It would be tiresome to walk this distance everyday.

However, although our house is surrounded by a forest, there’s a residential area if you just walk for a bit. I’m sure that if I search a bit, I can find closer shops or supermarkets.

“Shall I return?”

I had a bad habit of speaking to myself. It’s surely because I don’t have conversations with anyone except at home. I shouldered the shopping bag and left the parking lot. The big national highway was in front of me.

I waited for the traffic light to turn in order to cross the national highway.

This road with 3 lanes of traffic on each side was heavy with traffic. If you go straight like this, you can go to Kanto. Though, there were also a lot of dump trucks and semi-trailers, so it felt like there were more cars than there actually was.

“It really is long…”

After I pushed the button, it seems like it’s the type where you have to wait for a fairly long time.

My stomach was almost empty. I’ve just noticed, but it’s already evening.

As I thought about how I wanted to return home soon, I looked towards the big boulder.

I could see the big boulder even from here, it was right under a few approaching clouds.

The scenery looked like it was from a fairy tale.

I was admiring the scenery for some time, a cat-eared woman accompanied by a cat-eared boy stood beside me. Looks like a parent and child. They were holding hands tightly and talking with a smile.

“Mom! What’s for dinner today?”

“Didn’t you just ask earlier? Are you that happy? We’re having curry today.”

“Yay! Hurray! I love curry!”

How peaceful. The corners of my eyes loosened and I looked at the boy. How pleasant. I like obedient kids like that.

There was also a time where Shouhei was like that. Now, he’s just cheeky and uses reason to argue, so he’s not adorable at all.

Well, he’s handsome, so it’ll be okay. I don’t know what exactly is okay, that younger brother.

While I was grieving over the cruelty of the flow of time, the cat-eared mother who noticed me, moved back as her complexion changed.

Damn.

I forgot about my mean expression.

It’s not like I was looking at them with wicked thoughts. This kind of thing happens often. I’m tall, have rough hair and I’m well-built because I work out. My eyes are slanted upwards which makes it seem like I’m looking down on others, so I’m often misunderstood.

I’m already used to it. I didn’t live17 years for show.

That’s why, I’m not shocked at all!

“W-what’s that!”

I hear a voice from afar. It was a rough voice of a middle-aged man.

I looked over my shoulder and saw a middle-aged man wearing a uselessly flashy jersey. He was pointing at something.

His face was flushed red and had fright plastered over it, he had a face like one out of a nightmare. It was more harsh than the tiger face embroidered on his jersey.

At his feet, there was a small-breed dog that was made to wear a fluffy sweater and was barking. That’s a corgi, isn’t it? Somehow, I thought it was pitiful. Even, though it was already fluffy without the sweater.

The cat-eared mother confirmed what was in the direction that the middle-aged man was pointing in before me, picked up the boy and began to run.

At that time, I finally became bothered by it and looked in the direction of where the middle-aged man was pointing at.

“Ah?”

There were black clouds.

The abnormally low black cloud approached with a staggering speed while spinning. It was also scattering thick lightning.

“Eh?”

There was a massive downpour of lightning that I thought it was raining. I pitifully froze at this unrealistic spectacle.

The surrounding customers got onto their cars one after another or ran inside the shop to escape.

Is this what pandemonium looks like?

I was startled by a shrill shriek that I would normally find unbecoming, I finally took a step backwards.

Then, I noticed it.

A huge silhouette was approaching with the same speed as the black cloud.

It was very long, horizontally. The middle part was very thick, but it became more narrow as it got to either end.

My curiosity got the best of me. I stopped walking and stared at the silhouette.

This may be the first time that my life is in danger. A thick bolt of lightning struck a utility pole 20 meters away from me.

The ground shook and tore to pieces, a high-pitched sound pierced through my body.

An impact directly drove through my stomach and made my body feel unsteady.

Even so, my idiot self was able to get a view of the mysterious silhouette. Immediately below it, I saw a figure at around the same place of the silhouette.

It was a human figure. Well, I guess it would be wrong to say it’s human?

Finally, I could start to see the approaching shadow, its appearance was completely reflected in my eye.

Wearing a crude golden down jacket furnished with grandiose red fur, a bipedal lion that I felt couldn’t really be called human.

“Hep, Hep, Helppppp!”

Running while shedding large drops of tears, it was the king of beasts. He didn’t have a shred of dignity left.

“Gueee! Oroh! That’s why I said I didn’t want to! There’s no way to win against that! There’s no way it would go that smoothly!”

The king of beasts (LOL) was weaving left and right while running this way and he was shouldering a big wrapping cloth.

“That’s right! I had that! That magic gun I spent lots money on! I forgot! Am I an idiot!”

He felt around for something inside his crude jacket with one hand and took out a stupidly big gun.

It’s huge, it was a bazooka. What the hell. Where did he put that?

He was around 50 meters away from me. I became interested and couldn’t turn my head away.

“E-eat this! A gravitational magic gun I bought with a loan! Goodbye, 12 months of payment!”

He turned aside adroitly and pulled the trigger of the bazooka, a thunderous roar resounded. A pitch-black lump flew out of the bazooka and directly hit the silhouette.

At that instant, the view was crushed for a moment.

“Gaaaaaa!” the silhouette roared and slammed into the ground, sending up a cloud of dust in its surroundings.

“Serves your right! Don’t underestimate Gasaraio-sama, you damn lizard!”

As the king of beasts (LOL) was loudly laughing as crude as his jacket, he passed by my side.

“…What an interesting existence.”

So that’s the lion tribe. It was the first time I’ve seen one.

After I ascertained with my own eyes the one called Gasaraio-sama, I looked at the silhouette that fell on the ground.

Even now, it was still concealed behind a cloud of dust and I couldn’t see it very well.

Before long, the cloud of dust cleared and I strained my eyes to look at it.

“Hm? Eh?”

I started to run instinctively. It was because the huge silhouette disappeared and there was a small shadow of a person.

“Are you serious? Isn’t that a human?”

Maybe it was someone who got swallowed up in the crash earlier. I have to help. I have to call an ambulance or something.

“Oi! Are you alright!?”

I cleared away the cloud of dust as I approached the figure.

“…Eh!?”

I was shocked again. I’ve been shocked a lot since earlier, huh.

There was a nude girl over there. The girl was unmistakably stark naked. I might be persistent, how that girl was lying down completely exposed everything. It was bad for the eyes.

I’m a healthy teenager, so I couldn’t help getting excited. However, this isn’t the time for that.

I halted for an instant, then I quickly rushed over and shook the girl’s body.

“O-oi! You’re alive, right! Should I call an ambulance?!”

I tried talking to her with a loud voice.

“Ah, what?”

At that moment, I realized I was an idiot after all.

The girl’s hair was a transparent blue. The considerably long hair coiled around the girl’s body, um, it was sexy. How the top of the modest chest was concealed and giving a glimpse into it brought forth more of it, but now wasn’t the time for such things.

The young man stopped worrying about the small bulge, more importantly, large wings sprout out from the girl’s back. Blue wings with bird-like feathers.

“A-angel?”

I’m an idiot, so my idiotic thoughts came out of my mouth.

If someone heard, they would immediately think I’m ignorant.

Of course, I immediately knew she wasn’t an angel. It was because splendid black horns grew on the left and right side of her forehead and a big tail covered with beautiful blue feathers was growing near her butt.

“W-what tribe is this?”

“U-uh”

While I was flustered, the girl got up and restrained her shoulder and staggered. If I looked closer, there was a large amount of blood flowing out of her right shoulder.

“O-oi! You’re badly hurt! I’m calling an ambulance, so stay still!”

I took out a seldom used smart phone from my pocket and pressed 110. After, I remembered it was supposed to be 119, I erased it and started over.

I’m at my wit’s end here! Forgive me!

“E-excuse me!” The girl clung to my waist and called out with a grim voice.

“Please help me! My children were kidnapped! Please!”

I was dragged into something.

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