How to Live as a Half-Dragon

077. Broken Slayer

‘The story I thought I should tell me… ?’

While Xian was thinking about what it could be, Drake said to Stain, who was eating next to him.

“Since it’s a story for just the two of us, I need to be there.”

“All right.”

Stein jumped up and left unresponsively.

Do you really listen to what Drake has to say?

I also thought that this is why people should have power.

As Stein went, Xian asked.

“Okay, what is it? Anything to talk about?”

“… … .”

Drake thought deeply before opening his mouth.

“What do you think of me?”

It was a little bit nonsensical, but… .

Sian just expressed his thoughts openly.

“I think he is a good person.”

“Is that all?”

“hmm… .”

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More to the point, there are several, but… .

“It’s a bit peculiar.”

He gave the strongest impression.

Drake chuckled.

“It’s unique… .”

I don’t know if I liked it or not, but it wasn’t unpleasant at all.

“That’s a pretty good evaluation… .”

Drake ponders for a moment.

Xian was curious.

What the hell does the current story have to do with the arena’s slayer?

And why would he even tell such a story?

“But why?”

“Didn’t you ask, why is the Slayer here?”

So why is that relevant… .

If it was Stein, I would have said it a long time ago, but I swallowed it again because I was afraid that honey chestnuts would fly in.

It was miraculous patience.

“Slayer is an honorary job. So even if you are a Slayer, not everyone is in Kadan.”

He spends an overwhelming amount of time in his manor.

Then it was time to say that the arena’s slayers were also here as a hobby.

“But nonetheless, everyone has a period of public service in Kadan. And when you do, a lot of things happen.”

Fortunately, that wasn’t the case.

“A lot of work? Which one?”

“That means I meet a lot of Dragonians.”

After answering Xian’s question, Drake immediately asked.

“Did you ever think that something was strange while you were with me?”

“It’s not like there’s nothing like that, but… .”

“Where did you feel it?”

Seeing Drake’s serious gaze, Xian shrank for a moment.

Because I wanted to be able to say this.

“Yeah… . You pretend not to know.”

Xian is a Dragonian.

Drake knows best.

But Drake is a Slayer.

Originally, I was in a position to catch and kill Xian… .

In other words, helping and cheering for training is a contradiction in behavior.

“Yeah, that’s right. It’s strange, for a Slayer to act like that.”

“… … .”

Drake said, not knowing what to say.

“However, Slayers are not the only ones who commit indiscriminate massacres.”

“I thought so.”

The first slayer Sian met after realizing that he was a half-dragon had the feeling of leading the eradication of dragons.

It was an image I was familiar with, and I acted that way too.

“I mean, everyone was like that at first, but being human, not everyone is like that. As I said before, he changes as he meets a lot of Dragonians.”

If a sword becomes dull after being used, it can be sharpened and polished to bring it back, but it is not a person.

Because they are more emotional animals than you think, they hesitate and wander when faced with contradictions.

“They, too, would meet someone like you.”

Guys who are more like humans than humans, who don’t know the world like idiots and just struggle to survive.

“Anyway, even Slayers end up hesitating when they see guys like you. Do not bell.”

Not everyone is like that, but sometimes there are people like that, Drake said.

“And after cutting like that, the dream spot is very ferocious for a while.”

Slayers know this well.

Well, as rumored by the public, not all Dragonians eat humans, commit evil, and commit anti-human acts… It is well known.

“And there are guys who hesitate and hesitate like that and then stop sooner or later.”

“Are those the Slayers here?”

Drake nodded.

“That’s what we call those guys. It’s broken.”

It might have been the right expression, since the Slayer can no longer slay Dragonians or Dragons, but somehow it sounded like sympathy.

It seems to be considered as a part of something.

“I don’t know what they were thinking when they left the church. They may have left because they thought they no longer had to regard the dragonians as evil, or they may have left because they thought that what they first thought and did was no longer justice.”

“It’s broken… .”

It was time for Xian to think deeply about it.

Drake’s voice was inaudible.

“Me too, maybe it’s breaking down.”

“yes?”

Sian looked at Drake.

His gaze, darker than usual, felt somehow burdensome.

“Isn’t it keeping you alive?”

right. In that sense, Drake is also broken.

It’s because I’m not fulfilling my duty as a Slayer.

“Surprisingly, among the Slayers who remain in the headquarters, there are not a few who have doubts even though they cannot leave. Of course.”

Even those who were just living quietly had to be dragged out and disposed of for no reason, but there was no way they would be happy with it forever.

“But making decisions isn’t easy.”

After thinking about it for a while, it was the story of broken Slayers.

If you leave the headquarters, go back to your hometown and live quietly or wander aimlessly here and there.

Or live a normal life under an aristocrat somewhere.

There are many roads, but it is never easy to drop everything and leave the church.

It was time to sympathize with Xi’an, saying that it was a very unfortunate fate.

Drake’s voice could not be heard.

“So you show me.”

“yes? What?”

“It wasn’t wrong to keep you alive. I mean prove it.”

so that’s what keeps me alive

* * *

How long had it passed since the conversation with Drake was over?

Stain ate quietly, probably feeling the atmosphere was strange.

Perhaps because the story was heavy, Drake, who had lost his appetite, stood up without eating much.

Drake said before going home.

“Oh and.”

“yes?”

“I am saying this because I am worried, but I am not saying that anyone should believe it. Because those who still haven’t forgotten their duty are overwhelming.”

Apparently, he seemed worried that he would reveal his identity to the Slayer because of what he had just said.

But this was too much of a worry.

It’s obvious, but Xian’s life is too precious.

I had no intention of doing such a stupid thing out of sympathy for the Slayers.

‘The answer is easy if you just think about it.’

If there were a majority of Slayers like Drake, there would be no way the group’s policy would be maintained.

If the mainstream changes, the direction of the group will change, but it was natural to see that indiscriminate massacres were still the basic policy.

“… … .”

As Drake left like that, Stain looked at him and said softly.

“What were you talking about? From what I’ve heard, it seems like it’s broken or something.”

“He’s just eavesdropping and has no manners.”

Xian also stood up from his seat.

I felt like I should stop eating today.

“Calculate with this.”

I put down a silver coin and went into the inn. As I lay on the bed, many thoughts rushed through me.

I remembered what Drake said.

That’s what I was told to prove.

Of course, Xian intends to live a good life.

I didn’t want to get out of sight and be killed, and I didn’t have many bad feelings towards humans, perhaps because I was naturally influenced by my mother.

but… .

‘It’s not just that… .’

I don’t know what to do to prove it.

I don’t remember.

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My head was complicated.

“under… .”

It seemed like I slept all day.

* * *

next day.

Xi’an woke up much earlier than the previous day.

Xian left the dorm before the sun had risen yet.

There was a reason I was concerned about what Drake had said the day before, and it was also because I wanted to put into action what I thought I needed to train in earnest.

Xian found an empty lot near the inn and grabbed the sword there.

“Did you do this?”

Whiik.

Xian started checking the techniques he had seen yesterday one by one.

There were plenty of chances to watch it in the future anyway, but I thought that if I input it into my body before it completely blows out of my head, I’ll get a little more when I watch the same person’s game in the future.

“Let’s see, next… .”

By the time all the games were reviewed, it was around dawn.

As Xian moved to the inn, he saw a familiar face on the corner.

“Why are you here?”

“Did you forget? That is my job.”

Stain was Xian’s watch, but at the same time he was also an escort.

Such was the mission Drake had given him.

“Sorry to bother you.”

“Rather than that, why are you doing that for Alteon?”

Stein doesn’t know the details, but he still knows the general situation.

If you are Xian… When he was treated like that by the family head, he must have looked for another way.

If it’s Xian’s level, he’s young, but his talent is superior.

This was something anyone could easily notice.

In other words, there is no need to cling to Alteon.

Unless I had no pride, I could hardly understand the current situation.

“just. Because it helps.”

Xian had once thought about this seriously.

However, Xian already had no reason to be an Alteon.

However, even so, Xi’an came to Semain to train.

It was because there were many people helping him.

Drake and Hughes, as well as Cecilina’s mother back home.

everyone helped themselves

“For some strange reason.”

“You might come again.”

“That makes a little bit of sense.”

Stain seemed to understand that point because it was not normal to be stubborn.

“Finally, it’s the same thing to be strong anyway.”

“It is true.”

Even if it’s not Alteon, the current training will definitely help.

I couldn’t tell Stein, but as a result, strength was essential to survival.

“So you should try.”

When Xian said that while moving his steps, Stain smiled and said.

“If that’s the case, let’s come together starting tomorrow. I have to be strong too.”

Xian laughed along.

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