You are a dragon?　I can smell it.

　He spoke to the evil dragon.
　Although it was a fallen dragon, it seemed to have some intelligence left in it.

''Well I'm Liu Xin. I'm of the dragon race.''

Oh, you're a garbage man.

　I was a bit annoyed.
　Some of the colored dragons and attribute dragons look down on the dragon race.

　Evil dragons are former attribute dragons and I can be a black dragon, a color dragon.

　In other words, I'm a superior being.

　However, it's not often that a dragon race is born that can turn into a color dragon. So it's no wonder that the evil dragons think I'm inferior to the dragon race.

　I've heard that when you become an evil dragon, your intelligence becomes much stronger instead of diminished, but this guy in front of me doesn't seem like much of a big deal to me at all.


　No, it's no good.

　If you look down on your opponents as being inferior, you'll be on the same level as them.

　I'm sure you've learned the hard way.

　That it's not a good idea to overestimate your own strength.


　Even if the enemy looks weak, don't let your guard down.
　Even if they don't seem to have any hidden powers, it's possible that they are deceiving me about my abilities.

　A harmless looking monster in my class taught me that lesson to my core.

　So I won't let my guard down.

　In the first place, I'm not here to defeat the evil dragon.

　It seems that the evil dragon does not intend to attack me either.

Well, we are of the same dragon tribe. And I'm in a good mood. You are welcome to join us. Here's more for you.

　The evil dragon is entering the depths of the cave where it lives.

　I followed him, hoping that the gems he created before he turned into an evil dragon would fall out.

　Even if no gems had fallen, perhaps he still had the power to create gems even now that he had become an evil dragon.

　I thought it was worth trying to negotiate with the evil dragon.

　But I would soon regret this decision.


　It was because the worst scene was unfolding.

"──This, this!

　In the deepest part of the cave, human bones were piled up like a mountain. Probably they are all human bones.

　Even if you can see them, there were more than a hundred of them.

　I could smell the terrible smell of decay.


You've never eaten a human being before, have you?

''Oh, it can't be!''

　The evil dragon, looking down at me as I stifled my nausea, spoke to me with a sickening smile on his face.

　The dragon race eat the same diet as the human race.

　Many dragons don't eat because the dragon race can take in magical power from the air.

　However, since dragons are demons, some of them attack humans. But even so, there are few dragons that enjoy eating people.

　Basically, the dragon race is a lazy race.

　They can survive by sleeping all the time, so they don't need to move to eat.

　But this guy, the evil dragon, must be attacking humans to eat them.

　If that was the adventurer who attacked him, it would still be understandable.

　

　But....


Oh, my God, the sacrifice was an accident.

　The evil dragon picks up something that was lying on the ground.

It was a girl whose hands and feet were bound with chains.

　It was a girl with her hands and feet chained together.

"Uma-Daro?

　The chains tied to my hands were forcefully pulled up by the evil dragon, exposing the girl's body in front of me.

　Maybe she was being played with by the evil dragon.
　Her body had scars all over the place.

''.........''

　When she saw me in human form, her expression changed slightly, but the girl had eyes that had given up on life.


''........You, you don't think you're letting the villages in this vicinity send out a sacrifice?''

I eat these things once every five years. I used to eat them in the past, but when a powerful adventurer comes to me, I'm in trouble.

　This guy apparently controlled five villages around this cave and had them make sacrifices once every five years.

　He also placed his own family members in those five villages to prevent the villagers from escaping.

　In the past, there were eight villages in this vicinity, and the inhabitants of three of them had all been eaten by the evil dragon.


　The evil dragon spoke eloquently.

　Perhaps they were not just soaring to the first sacrifice in five years.

''........If you're being so polite to me, I'm going to kill you too, right?''

Oh, God, it's so embarrassing, isn't it? We've always hated you people. Bunch of losers, getting carried away.

　The evil dragon throws the girl at me.
　I take it as gently as possible.

　She smells terrible blood.

"You like humans, don't you?　You're not gonna kill me, Odessa. Well then ... show me your strength.


　...yeah.

　Apparently, he wants to play with me.

　I've been waiting five years for a sacrifice, and just eating it isn't interesting enough. That's why I've been hurting him so much.

　And when he couldn't get enough of it, he decided to come to the cave and play with me, so he brought me here.


　Oh, yeah.

　All right. I'll grant you your wish.

　But first...


You were the sacrifice, weren't you?　Now, I'm going to beat the crap out of him and save you, but when we get out of this cave, will you date me?

...what?

　This is your chance.

　If I save your life, you'll at least be able to do me a favor.

　I know you can't ask me to go out with you or marry you... but can you at least give me a date with you?

　The girl's body was terribly ragged, but she had a pretty style and a pretty face.

'I don't know.'
Well, I, uh...

　When the girl tried to answer me, the evil dragon tried to release his breath on us.

　My words made him angry.


"You're going to punch Odes in the face?　You're joking...

Shut up!　I'm negotiating with her right now, so shut up for a bit!

　In order to silence the evil dragon for a bit, I tried to restrain him with my flying fist by turning only my right hand into a dragon.

　It was meant to be a check.

　It was just going to pop a breath, blow up his body a bit and buy time to negotiate with the girl.


"Gaggah...

　My flying fist crushed the evil dragon's head.