The silver blonde elf said she will take this human, Rebethra to be exact. Having heard what she said, Riley lowered the sword he raised and asked,
“You are going to take him?”
Riley seemed to not like the idea. He looked up at the elf who was standing on top of the dragon’s corpse. His eyes were full of doubts when looking toward the elf. Not easing his gaze, Riley asked the elf,
“I don’t even know who you are. Why am I supposed to just let you have this bastard?”
Based on what the silver blonde elf mumbled earlier about being an elder, Riley figured she must be at the top of the dragon’s kind.
“Didn’t you just ask me why a dragon came all the way here?”
Silver blonde elf faced Riley’s gaze. It seemed she realized something late. She smiled lightly and lowered her head.
“Now that I think about it, this is the first time we actually met in person. I should have introduced myself in detail. It’s a pleasure meeting you. My name is Isilteru. We, the dragons, have a mission. It is maintaining the world’s balance and the wheel of fate. So… I’m here to take that man’s body.”
Isilteru said as she looked at Rebethra, who was in a gruesome state. Riley also casually glanced at Rebethra.
It seemed Isilteru and Rebethra were not allies. Facing Isilteru steadily looking at him, Rebethra glared at her and ground his teeth.
“Are you saying you are going to take him because doing so is going to make the world’s balance or whatever safe?”
With a question mark on his face, Riley asked about Isilteru’s explanation.
Isilteru thought the conversation was going to end well. She smiled lightly and said,
“Yes.”
Riley peeked a smile like Isilteru. He took a moment of pause and said,
“… I don’t want to. What are you going to do about that?”
Riley refused to cooperate. Before his response, Isilteru’s eyebrows were elevated gently. Now, having heard his response, she slightly furrowed her brows.
“… Pardon?”
“I would like to say no to more bothersome things. That’s why.”
Having finished talking, Riley swung his sword.
The target was Rebethra.
“Wait!”
Isilteru panicked in light of Riley’s sudden move. She hurriedly extended her hand and cast defensive magic to protect Rebethra’s neck.
Riley’s sword was swung. Leaving a trace of blue line, the sword rushed toward Rebethra’s neck.
However, Isilteru barely managed to protect Rebethra’s neck with her barrier spell.
“He can’t die yet. Killing him later after getting enough information out of him first is not going to be too late.”
Isilteru continued as she broke cold sweat from the sword strike she defended against just now.
‘This is a blow from a mere human?’
There was a long blue line drawn above the barrier. The sword that Riley was holding had grown even thinner. Also, there was the size of mana that Riley had. Having observed them all, Isilteru felt the chill. She continued in order to convince Riley.
“Of course. I understand very well that the current situation is not to your liking. However…”
Riley crumpled his face as if all this was such a bother to him. He raised his sword once again and cut off Isilteru’s words.
“… If you understand, then don’t butt in anymore.”
The sword he raised didn’t just get thin to the limit. It even had a long crack.
“This son of a bitch even brought back dead bastards. You want to keep him alive? What for? Are you just messing around? I had enough of your nonsense. Don’t make the problem any bigger than it already is.”
Riley clearly expressed that Isilteru should not meddle in any further. Isilteru cast yet another barrier and placed it on top of the one that was already there. She tried to persuade him again.
“If you kill him right now, it might make things easier for the next hundred years or so. However, I can’t guarantee that it will continue like that afterwards! For the sake of the future, it is best to keep him alive!”
Having heard what she just said, Riley stopped the sword he was about to swing at Rebethra. Riley casually moved his gaze and started to writhe his brows.
“… A hundred years later?”
It seemed Isilteru was relieved to hear Riley’s question. She sighed and nodded.
She was trying to convince Riley by asking him to think about the distant future instead of the present.
“Yes. Something like this had happened in the past. There is no guarantee that it won’t happen again for the third time, so… We need to stop this completely this time. If this man died right now, it will not be possible for us to prepare for what could happen in the distant future…”
As Isilteru continued her persuasion, she withdrew the barrier she cast to protect Rebethra. As soon as she did, Riley opened his eyes big without listening to the end of her speech.
“… Wait!”
Feeling his deadly aura, Isilteru flinched. She generated several dozens of light on her palm and weaved them into a chain. She used it to quickly restrain Riley who was about to swing his sword.
“You are just a lizard, yet...”
In response to Isilteru annoying him with her action, Riley genuinely seemed infuriated. He ground his teeth hard and glared at her.
“… Ugh?!”
Feeling Riley’s deadly aura, Isilteru flinched again. She had a confused look on her face. She gulped.
‘My body is?’
It was because she was not able to move her body.