Chapter 13: The Dragon is Red
After Sakura ended her shopping spree, she kept the items in her inventory and came out to check on how the dragon was doing. To her Surprise the dragon had already cleaned the place spotless.
Strangely the dragon was acting more tamed for some reason.
Though it still didn't mean she had a good impression of him. The dragon had tried to propose a marriage to her. And that's while keeping in mind that her current appearance was that of a fifteen-year-old girl.
'This guy is clearly a pedo.'
< You can always kill him if you want, master. >
'Sigh, that would be too much of a punishment. I don't think I can kill someone that has sentience. That would be cruel. And besides this guy still has some use.'
"Hey dragon."
"Yes, mam?!?"
The dragon was startled.
"What's your name?"
Sakura asked the dragon.
"Smaug, it's Smaug there fire dragon king, miss." The dragon said with a prideful look on his face.
"Smug?"
"No, it's Smaug, you say it like sma-og."
"Urgh, whatever I'll just call you Red. Since you are literally red. Your name is too hard to pronounce."
The dragon king looked dejected. He was probably thinking Sakura would be impressed with his name. But Sakura couldn't care less about this guy's name.
"So, Red."
"Yes, mam."
"You can go home for now. But 360 days from now, you will come back here again. Do you understand?"
Sakura said in a stern manner.
Red didn't have the courage to retaliate or ask any question. He just nodded his head.
"Good, you can go now."
Sakura waved her hand as she walked away. Red also didn't dilly-dally any longer and took his dragon form and flew away. He was glad he made it out alive for now. He rejoiced in his mind as he flew over the sky.
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"That guy was pretty diligent wasn't he."
< Yes, he was. But why did you asked him to come back, master? >
"I plan to ride him to the nearest town next year. "
< I see, it's indeed a brilliant idea, master. Using him to fly to the nearest town will probably only take around a day. >
Sakura frowned when she heard it would still take a full day to reach the town even with flying on a dragon.
"Well let's just take it slow." She said as she brought out some things from her inventory. She had spent a total of five EP to buy various household items.
She then busied herself to place the furniture. It took her a while to perfectly decorate the house. In fact, it was evening when all her work was done.
"Hmm, hmm, looks good enough."
Sakura nodded in satisfaction as she looked over her bed room.
The style she chose was minimalist Japanese decoration. It goes well with the shrine and takes less effort to maintain. She also plans to add some paintings to the walls. But that has to wait till the next day.
After that she took a long bath session.
"It wasn't a really long day to be honest, but I kinda feel tired."
After the bath she bought some weird octopus' dish from the system shop as dinner.
After dinner she went to sleep.
< Good night, master. >
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"Hey Melissa where's my share of the meat steak!" Lilia shouted.
"Oh my! I forgot yours. Why don't you take mine."
"Yours is half eaten, damn it."
Lilia and Melissa kept on arguing. Not far away Venion and the others were having a serious talk.
"So, have you found anything about these strange trees?" Venion asked Jack.
"Not much. To begin with, I've never heard of trees with pink flowers like this. And they are not some kind of monster either since they don't seem to react when we were cutting them down or burning them." Jack was worried because they couldn't find anything strange with these trees.
"Though we did find some strange findings with their roots." Jakir interjected.
"Oh! Tell me about it."
"The roots of each tree are connected to one another."
Venion frowned when he heard this.
"What do you mean?" he asked for some more clarification.
"Well, you see, we had dug the ground with earth magic. We found that sometimes the roots of some trees end up in a different tree. And we are pretty sure that all the trees in this forest have this kind of roots."
"So, then what does it tells us?" Venion asked.
"it's a clonal forest. It's basically a forest of same type of trees that has a common origin point." Jack replied. He he didn't have much knowledge about this topic but he had some idea what a clonal forest is.
"Then is it related to the monster we are currently dealing with?"
"Possibly yes. It's very likely that the common origin of these trees is the monster. But we can't be really sure about that, unless we find the monster first."
The grimness in Venions face didn't fade but grew even darker.
"I hope that doesn't happen." He spoke.
With a monster of this calibre it's very likely their party is no are no match for it.
"Okay then proceed as we planned. We investigate the forest and then get out of here with minimal fighting required." Venion ordered and the other three nodded.
This problem was obviously something that can not be delt with by them.
"You damn, boob monster! Give me back my panties! "
Their serious atmosphere was broken by Lilia's shout.
Venion shook his head and sighed. Even though things were really serious these two are still at it.
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The next day, Sakura decided to stay home and enjoy a leisurely day of video games. With no visitors like the dragon to disturb her, she was free to laze around and indulge in her favourite pastime.
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