Absolutely Do Not Touch Eldmia Egga - Chapter 23

It doesn’t matter if you fall

Ragnis turned around faster than he thought so and looked at the owner of the voice.

The sunrise and the strong wind brought tears to my eyes, but it didn’t matter. Even if it wasn’t for that, he would have cried anyway.

An immature child who was still leading a happy life in the manor. Like other noble ladies, there was a time when I read a lot of novels, dreaming of romance in novels.

The fact that the war with the demon king’s army had broken out was just a stimulating material for the aristocrats of his age. In their heads, there was no such thing as a life of being defeated and devastated by the Demon King’s army and a hopeless future.

Rather, it felt that a mythical and heroic era had arrived that could be counted even in history. I was delighted to live in an age of glory and romance, when many heroes were born, knights were born, and love and honor were sung.

Looking back, it was an immature and funny childhood, but it was also true that he dreamed of meeting such a knight.

A knight who confesses his love and catches a dragon to prove it, a knight who fights for his honor and presents that glory with a flower, and so on. When some young ladies hired a painter to draw small versions of the knights or princes of their imaginations, they were even jealous of themselves because they wanted to have them for no reason.

That’s why I was sure.

At that time, even if all the knights he imagined and the knights other ladies imagined were brought, nothing could be cooler than seeing them falling from the sky like lightning, piercing the dragon’s head, and cutting down the kidnapper like a flash of light.

“Eldmia!”

In joy and ecstasy, Ragnis wept.

I wanted to believe that he would save me. It was not at all a situation where I could be sure that he would save me unconditionally, so I just wanted to believe. Even though he felt repulsive to the point of trembling at the sight of himself having to wait and believe without doing anything, he couldn’t let go of that trust.

“This works!”

Eldmia, bursting into laughter with a smile brighter than any smile she had ever seen, was falling. Of course, the flying dragon that died itself is also falling. Judging by his smile, the kidnapper, who was clearly dead, must be falling.

However, Eldmia just smiled as if she had nothing to worry about. Even in the midst of the fall, he put the sword he was holding calmly into the scabbard and even tied it so that it would not fall out, smiling more cheerfully and more confidently than ever.

That’s why Ragnis laughed together.

“Now let’s go home! Ragnis!”

“huh!”

She smiled widely because she believed in the light that illuminated her.

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I didn’t know that I would come to another world and do skydiving, which I hadn’t done in my previous life, but I couldn’t deny that it was a successful experience.

It was perfect, except for the creaking of the whole body due to the strengthening of the body that was used with all its might. Gieth really skillfully set the pace, took Ragnis without any pressure, and even drove me back stably.

“It’s a name I’ve never heard of. I wonder if it’s a pseudonym.”

After escaping death, we came down to the ground and lit a bonfire to take a break.

The flight that lasted all night gave us a lot of fatigue. To be honest, Giswa and the flying dragon were the most tiring.

Still, the situation was not comfortable enough to sleep, so they talked to overcome the drowsiness, but Ragnis could not guess Delt’s identity. Until I flew, I wanted to check my belongings if I was lucky enough to kill Delt, but I gave up now because there was no way the corpse and equipment that had fallen from that great height could be intact. Perhaps even if you do find it, you will find fragments of a corpse, not a corpse.

Geese said that at that height, it would be difficult for even the flying dragon to keep the body intact.

“As we flew earlier, we confirmed that there was a village that wasn’t small nearby. Let’s eat something there and leave. We have to fly for a while again.”

After we finished talking about Gieth during the break, Ragnis made it clear that he would protect him with his name. Even now, since he is not yet an adult, he cannot make a promise in the name of the Marquis, so after he becomes an adult, he assured him that he will promise protection and compensation once again through due process, thereby dispelling Gieth’s worries. In the process, I found out that Gieth was in his mid-twenties, but I decided not to obsess over it, as I had surpassed the age of 30.

It’s embarrassing to even call him older brother now.

Thanks to that, we were able to move toward the village without feeling too awkward.

“I have a clear identity as a flying dragon pilot, so I won’t be turned away at the door.”

“Yes. You will receive help like this again.”

“Isn’t it already a community of destiny? It’s embarrassing to even call this level of help.”

Since he was an identity guaranteed by the kingdom, when he actually entered the village, Gieth received not only a look of caution, but even a look of envy. I really can’t catch a species that is a human relationship.

It’s a matter of course, but the dragon’s meal cost more than the three of us. I was surprised when Gis calmly bought a whole pig, but after seeing the flying dragon eat it all by itself, I couldn’t help but understand it. Indeed, it had to be expensive to maintain.

After listening to it while eating, it was clear that the flying dragon was the property of someone from the aristocratic faction after all, but it was a common opinion between the two that it seemed difficult to claim ownership because the work was done in a disgraceful way in the first place. Thanks to this, Ragnis began to organize his thoughts with the intention of tying Geese and the flying dragon together and paying attention to their treatment. The fact that an aristocratic coolness was revealed on her troubled face was at the same time strange and very new.

It was just after lunch when we flew again for a long time and returned to Etis L. It would have been better if I had arrived late and avoided people’s eyes, but rather, I arrived when it was very noisy.

As if there was already an emergency in the city, the gate guards called the guards as soon as they saw us, and we were taken away, not taken, and we walked to Alicia’s inn while receiving a lot of attention.

“Levi!”

“Auntie!”

I never thought I would see Alicia’s crying face. It wasn’t hard to imagine how worried she was when she ran to Ragnis and hugged her, not just in tears. He was also the owner of a good heart that could not be hidden by disgust.

“Eldy.”

On the other side of it was Asillie, who was quietly looking at me. At that call, I had no choice but to approach her with the feeling of becoming a jjuguri, as the confidence I had overflowed just before flew away in an instant.

“How did you know this place?”

“Jin told me. How can you ignore him when he jumps on his own two feet and asks for help without riding a horse?”

“Did you ask for help?”

“Since the patrol has become that shape, the guards are also anxious and asked for help.”

He’s a great guy, really. One day, when I get a chance, I want to grab hold of him and ask him what the hell he was doing.

But now, since the meeting with Asilie came first, I decided to report it straight up, since it was better to get hit first anyway.

“I judged too complacently, and the situation got twisted and I ended up killing a person. I’m sorry.”

“I can’t believe that Eldi made a complacent decision.”

“I was sort of messing around with Ragnis… but he said he was reading just one more move ahead.”

If Delt had a perfect understanding of my skills, he would not have left anything in the camp, considering the adventurers to be discarded. If that were the case, Ragnis wouldn’t be here. It was pure luck.

There was still time for the interrogation by the guards, so when I explained the rough progress during that time, Asilie gave me a light smile and hugged me.

“Yes. If you can judge like that, then I don’t think it’s something to worry about.

“Thank you sister.”

“More than that, my sister is curious about how Eldy defeated such an opponent? Even if he rode a dragon and flew away, Eldy, who couldn’t use magic properly, would have been at a big disadvantage?”

“Oh that.”

Asilie’s thoughts weren’t wrong in the slightest. If I had fought Delt normally, even if his swordsmanship was poor, I would have been the one to fall.

Even if you say aura, it is a concept of reinforcement after all. Whether strengthening the body or the weapon being held, the role of the aura is to make it stronger in simple terms. Even though I’d heard legends and rumors about crazy people whose swordsmanship had reached the realm of magic, it wasn’t something I could copy.

How can a sword wielded by a true man cut through space? That is obviously a lie.

In the end, it is only natural to be beaten unilaterally by a magician in an air battle unless you can shoot the sword like an arrow like martial arts or make the sword fly on its own with sword swordsmanship. That’s why I cut off the start with such a hard line.

“Yeah. Even so, my heart was a bit chewy. Giess, that’s the name of the dragon pilot’s friend, and his excellent flight skills played a big part.”

“Hmm?”

“Yeah. I knew it as soon as I jumped. Oh? If I continue like this, I’ll be able to put a knife through the dragon’s head right away?”

“……huh?”

“I thought it was a pure lie that people feel the world feels slow when people are nervous, but it took only one second? Two seconds? It really felt like an eternity. Maybe Dell That guy, Tra, is similar to me…”

“Wait, Eldi? Jumping down? Aiming for the dragon’s head? Where?”

“Huh? Of course it’s from the flying dragon we were riding on.”

I stopped describing the situation and looked at Asilie,

wondering what she was talking about.

“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh sister?! Ra, Ragnis! Water! Water!”

“Eld…?

oh god damn it! don’t tell me!