In another world, one or two strange things are destined to happen. However, no matter how strange it is, if it happened, there must be a reason for it.
Reasons and consequences—cause and effect, beginning and end.
In other words, how the heck did the dragon’s corpse disappear?
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Standing in front of the gate. The devastation can clearly be seen, evidence that what happened yesterday was neither a dream nor an illusion. The branches of trees were bent and the ground was discolored reddish black.
What remains is a trace of something big that’s been dragged away,
「It goes to the depth of the forest……」
The dragon did not just disappear.
Something had taken it away during the night.
「Bark!」
「What’s wrong?」
Chocola runs out of the gate and runs for about 5 meters.
He stopped by a big tree and backed as if calling me.
「bark, bark!」
「You want me to follow you?」
I was afraid to go out of the gate but I slowly walked up to Chocola with my hand on the hilt of my sword, cautious of my surroundings.
「Bark!」
「That’s……」
What lies there is the decapitated head of the dragon.
Honestly speaking, it was grotesque. The smell of blood is so terrible that I feel like I’m going to vomit. In addition, when I looked it up closely and asked myself, “There’s no way it’s fake, right?”, I couldn’t help but be amazed. It’s as big as Chocola but it’s a head of a lizard(Not exactly a lizard but like a dragon! Wait, it is a dragon).
However, I persevere and observe it. The sharp cross section is proof of my dog’s flash yesterday. I wonder how on earth he did it even though his fangs couldn’t have done this.
Well, it doesn’t really matter.
Let me recap the situation first.
Someone took the dragon’s corpse during the night.
It was dragged roughly on the ground that it left dragged marks.
In addition, it left the head and only took the body.
「If it’s human……or anything that can reason and with intelligence, it should be more concerned of this house than a corpse.」
There was no sign of any attempt to break into the house or even visit it.
Did the barrier that repelled the dragon work while I was sleeping?
「Even so, they wouldn’t take the corpse away, wouldn’t they?」
If it was a native—someone with wisdom and is civilized, he wouldn’t do that.
The dragon may have been prey hunted by the occupants of this house and the condition of the corpse is evidence to the occupants’ capability. Touching it without permission is nothing but provocation. Whether you are trying to establish friendship with them or trying to eliminate them, you should at least wait until morning and try to contact them or hide and watch them.
「Which means a beast……an animal did it. And perhaps there’s only one of it?」
It did not devour the corpse on the spot and even left the head behind.
This means a solitary creature must have brought only the body back to its burrow and it will devour it there.
I crouched down and looked at the ground. I couldn’t find anything that looks like the footprint of a beast. In fact, I don’t know if I’ll be able to recognize it even if there are. As someone who has never even hiked in the mountains, there was no way that I could read any information from these dragged marks on the ground.
The awareness that an unknown threat might be lurking around sent a chill down my spine. However, I can’t just take my hands off it like this. If it comes back, I can’t just stand there shivering like I did yesterday.
「…..let’s bury this head first.」
「Bark」
I quickly returned to the warehouse and took the shovel. I looked for a spot where there seemed to be no tree roots and thrust the shovel into the ground with all my power. The soil seemed hard but the shovel buried itself easier than expected.
「If anything happens, bark and let me know.」
「Kun」
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