How to Live as a Half-Dragon

089. last training

Realizing why Lugrand had proposed 5 years, Xian let out a noise.

“Everything was to buy time? But wouldn’t it be difficult for me to go back after three years?”

Lugrant’s plan was simple.

It was a calculation that, as long as the composition of the family head’s successor was properly organized, it would not matter whether Xian or Sarah returned after a while.

But at most, when the fire is about to go out, no one will like it if the arsonist suddenly returns and pours more oil on it.

“… ha… .”

It seemed to me that now I know why Stein didn’t tell me.

Stein was clearly aware of this fact.

The purpose of Lugrant, and the fact that the period was five years instead of three.

However, it was clear that he was concerned that if he told this to himself, he would distort himself, who was offended by the blatant coldness at the time.

‘But I’m not so angry anymore.’

Things were different back then.

Because I know and understand that Lugrant also has his own position.

I’m just a little out of breath.

“By the way, I have a question, can I ask you?”

“Tell me.”

Xian was dumbfounded, but asked because there was something strange.

“I heard you said you would actually accept it if you cleared the northern forest within 5 years?”

“okay.”

“Why did you say that?”

If you think about it carefully, there is one big loophole in Lugrant’s plan.

That would also be the situation in which Xian would return to his family within 5 years, so in about 3 years like now, he would reach the stage of clearing the northern forest.

Actually, now, since Stain and Drake knew the intention, it’s a shame, and if they didn’t know, they wouldn’t have gone back and frowned.

“Why such a deal? how?”

Thinking about it again, Xian pointed out that it was too absurd, and Drake looked at it in silence.

Looking to the side, Stein felt the same way.

“… … .”

“why? what did i do wrong? If that’s the case, I’ll be careful.”

As I cringed as I did not know what cyan was, Drake spoke in a spirited manner.

“I didn’t do anything wrong.”

That’s reassuring, but I want to hear more.

“Then why did you do that?”

“I did it because I thought you didn’t know you very well.”

“hmm… . ah!”

The youngest age to pass through the Northern Forest.

Xi’an had heard of it before.

Sarah passed the ordeal at the age of 15, none other than Sarah.

“I never imagined I would pass through the Northern Woods before I was 15?”

“okay.”

For reference, Drake added an editorial, saying that Sarah’s existence at the time was beyond the pride of Alteon and was considered the second coming of Fennir from the outside.

Her record is that she is 15 years old.

“What about Stein?”

“I am 16 years old. That was about five years ago.”

Come to think of it, he was also quite a genius…

Thinking like that, Stain’s appearance is somewhat unnatural.

As if you have something to say.

“why? You can tell me.”

“no. just.”

what’s cool

In any case, it was said that the talents at the level of being revered as the future of the 10th family were around the age of 15.

Now I understand the reaction.

‘It was all about me being a goddamn genius.’

There was no point in blaming the maternal grandfather.

Isn’t it his fault that he was born coldly and brilliantly?

“So don’t be too upset. If you simply don’t like Semain, you can move and stay somewhere else. The arena no longer has any meaning anyway.”

Drake soothed himself, but Sian felt good inside.

Rather, it was judged that it was impossible for a 10-year-old to conquer within 15 years of taking it in 5 years.

That meant that Xi’an was assuming that it was impossible to grow to the current level within that time.

‘But I actually got stronger.’

It was evidence of rapid growth outside of common sense, so I couldn’t help but feel good…

‘also… Had I failed, would my grandfather have kicked me out?’

Xian thought it wouldn’t be like that.

He felt implicitly that he still cared for Sara to the end, and if he had intended to expel her, he would have just finished it clearly, even if he was prepared for a brief backlash from his vassals.

“No, am I okay?”

“hmm… Is that so?”

“Yes, and above all, Cecily is here. It will be troublesome if Semain leaves.”

They say that he left it with Ophelia and now he can’t even see her face, but when it’s time to leave, he should make it clear.

If I had to come back anyway, there was no reason to bother leaving here.

“So what are you doing now?”

I achieved my primary goal, so I was able to afford it, but I didn’t try to be strong by asking my maternal grandfather to be pretty anyway.

Later, when the fact that he is a Dragonian is discovered, he is trying to become stronger in order to survive from those who rush to kill him.

In that sense, there was nothing good about being too relaxed.

It was better to be guided and strengthened by a sure mentor named Drake than to waste time.

“That’s something I’ve already thought of.”

also…

Unlike himself, he expected that he would have to train for 5 years or more from the beginning.

Of course, the process after that is also prepared.

“What is it?”

Drake turned his head to look at Stain, who was standing absent-mindedly next to Xian.

“Beat this guy.”

* * *

Xian was startled.

“yes?”

“He said defeating this guy was his last training.”

Stain was a great wall for Xian, a dependable escort, and an unlucky teacher.

Xian remembers what happened three years ago.

bitter defeat.

He looked up at Stein, who was still half a head taller.

Suddenly, I saw a face that had become affectionate.

“I wonder if you brought this guy from the beginning… .”

“okay. Of course I was brought here for this.”

Well, even if you can’t stick together all the time, Xian isn’t at the level where you can easily get hit anywhere.

Even at the time, I finally understood the question of why I wanted to take Stein with me.

“why? Aren’t you confident?”

“I am not confident.”

“Is that so?”

“But I’m curious, just how much the gap has been narrowed.”

It ran without a break for 3 years.

Would I be able to step on his shadow now?

I thought I had to defeat him and looked at him, and I felt the greatness of Stain.

I could see why people praised him.

I just took a look at each one, and as a warrior, I saw several ideal conditions.

A tall man with a height of just over 185 cm.

Not only was it flexible and agile enough to be ideal, but it also had long arms and legs, and a natural fighting sense.

As Xian looked at Stain as if searching for it, he said a word.

“There’s no way the Bocchan will defeat me anyway.”

Well, if you’re quiet, it’s not stain…

Xian laughed when he saw the guy spitting out similar words from three years ago.

“Why, but this time, don’t you say you’ll do it in moderation?”

At that time, he had put restrictions on himself that he would only use about 10% of his mana.

In the end, though, he shamefully broke that promise.

“… … .”

“Because I’m not the type to make the same mistake twice.”

“Are you ready?”

“Are you sure you were talking to me?”

As the two started a war of nerves as if they were going to rush at any moment, Drake dissuaded them.

“It’s good to be full of blood, but are you going to fight here?”

This is near the arena.

In other words, it was in the middle of Semain.

There wasn’t one or two people who would get involved in a rampage here.

“… Let’s move.”

“I see.”

They are two people at the Slayer level.

Arguably, we agreed to find a place where we could run amok to our heart’s content.

Drake looked at the two and turned around with a smile.

“Do it tomorrow, start tomorrow. Isn’t today the only day?”

There is a lot of time. A whopping 2 years.

* * *

Alteon is a huge city.

Since it is a place that can be called the heart of the duchy, there are many residents and a lot of floating population.

The lively city of Alteon, of course, has many shops.

Clothing stores, flower shops, inns, restaurants, and even bars. There are too many to count.

And it’s not like there’s just one of these stores.

There were about five smithies, dozens of clothing stores and inns, and even three or four times as many bars and restaurants.

And it was the general store as well.

There were also quite a few general stores inside Alteon. There were not as many of them as I thought because I needed basic knowledge such as herbal medicine, but there were quite a few compared to other places.

Among them, a general store that had no customers until just three years ago.

The humblest general store in Alteon has grown into the best general store in three years.

It was Hughes’ general store.

Although it was Yorba that operated it.

“Boss, the herbs have run out? Bring me some.”

“Yes, wait.”

At the words of the woman making potions in the corner of the studio, Yorba took a box of herbs from the warehouse.

Yorba sighed heavily.

‘I didn’t mean to do this from the beginning… .’

Now that I think about it, it was completely unplanned for the general store to be this big.

It was the next day when they decided to wait until the owner came.

A few more guests came because of the word of mouth of the first guest who visited yesterday, and a few days later, others came to the place because of the word of mouth they had spread.

As cheap potions compared to their decent performance spread throughout Alteon, they soon became regulars.

And there the first crisis arose.

Now that I think about it, maybe if I had made a different choice there, the general store would never have been this big.

All the potions the owner had made had run out.

‘What if… ?’

Yorba was really worried at that time.

He accidentally started a business instead, but strictly speaking, it was not his own store.

However, the request was to help with the work here, and to continue operating the general store, the problem was that he did not know how to make potions, embarrassingly.

‘Do not close… ?’

Yorba’s choice after really thinking about it was to continue running the store.

I didn’t know how to make potions myself, but a few people who knew how to make potions knew.

Still, it was Yorba who worked as an S-class adventurer.

I contacted all my colleagues I knew.

Don’t you have the heart to open a grocery store with yourself?

‘As expected.’

And a few days later, as if it was natural, there were a lot of cold replies saying, “Don’t talk bullsh*t.”

In a way, that was realistic.

For an S-class mercenary, the level is quite high.

Ordinary knights working in noble families receive about 1 gold a year, so if you are an S-class mercenary, you need five times that amount to make ends meet.

Of course, the money that Xian gave him could have been given, but he made an unconventional offer of 10 gold, but people are not all about money.

If only he had quit being an S-class mercenary during his active duty and offered to open a general store where he would give you 10 gold, he would have been cursing…

“under… It’s f*cking right, really.”

It was when Yorba closed the shop door and sighed deeply.

A guest has arrived.

Yorba, who was trying to send the customer away saying that the business will not be open for the time being, was greatly surprised.

It was because he knew the woman standing at the door.

Didn’t even send a reply of rejection…

“Vera?”

“What, what are you so surprised about? After he seduced me to partner with him.”

“Are you really going to do it?”

Three years of running a general store with Vera, another S-class adventurer who joined in that way.

Somehow, I had a daughter who could not walk, and the size of the general store was now undergoing a refurbishment after several expansions.

“here. medicinal herbs.”

“Thank you, put it there and play with Remi, you keep begging me that you’re bored?”

The way Vera speaks while wearing her hair tie is very pretty.

The birth of her daughter was also caused by her crush on that figure.

“uh… uh. My princess, do you want to play with Daddy?”

It’s true that people don’t know, but while working as a mercenary, I fell into abyss at once, and then came to my senses before I knew it, and I knew that I was starting a family and running a general store.

But suddenly I had a thought.

“But isn’t this my store?”

Yorba was a little uneasy.