The Main Heroine Likes the Extra

102 – Substitution

Me. No, the bright yellow eyes looking down at us.

When I met those eyes directly, I really thought my heart stopped.

…Calm down.

Maybe they haven’t judged us as enemies yet.

As I stepped back little by little, I observed the dragon directly.

The dragon, wrapped in scales as white as snow, was looking straight ahead with bright yellow eyes.

The size is almost as big as a house.

No, this big guy lived in the snowy mountains, so why didn’t anyone know about it?

“Hey, are we in trouble?”

Lupia asked that from behind.

No, I wish I could have lowered my voice.

Look at that, Rosa, tied to the sleigh, is trembling with a pale face.

Perhaps they noticed that they were preparing to run away, Rush was carefully freeing Rosa from the sled.

Yes, it is better to carry it on your back and run away.

I checked my surroundings and looked at the dragon again.

Still watching us one by one, wriggling those big eyes.

But he seems to have a gentle look in his eyes…

Isn’t this a situation that can be solved with words?

Why, they say that dragons have enough intelligence to understand human speech…

So if it can be solved with words, there may be no better way than that.

This is the so-called perfect communication guy.

I slowly approached, watching the dragon’s eyes cautiously.

Very little, close the distance and look straight at the dragon.

The dragon was also watching me.

“Ah…Mm… How are you?”

A light greeting by slightly raising his hand.

The dragon’s eyes twitch, and its elongated snout slowly opens.

Hmm…Something feels good.

If the dragon accepts our greetings… And negotiates so that we can return safely…

Truly perfect communication…

“Quaaa!!”

A dragon that roars with his eyes wide open and his big snout wide open.

…Ooh.

Was it bad communication?

So, I am currently on the run.

Fortunately, the guy woke up and was chasing after bumping his big body here and there, so he managed to escape somehow.

The trees and rocks he bumped into mercilessly shattered and fragments flew, but the people here weren’t so weak that they couldn’t escape them.

“Whoaaah!! Follow me!! I’m right behind you!!”

Since Rush was holding it, Rosa, who was at least able to see behind her, shouted that.

“Wow!! This is the first time I’ve experienced this!!”

Le Pia shouted as she ran with her smile on her face.

Yes, this is my first experience.

But I don’t think it was a pleasant experience enough to make you laugh. Is he empty?

“Anyway, over there! Get away from people as much as possible!!”

Around the mountains, there are many places where people gather to form villages.

Once I knew the location of the surrounding villages, at least I ran away from the village so that the villagers wouldn’t be harmed.

By the way, that guy has big wings, so why doesn’t he fly through the sky?

“Brother! Dragon to the sky…!”

Looking back at Phyllis’s words, the dragon spread its wings and soared into the sky.

For a moment, I wondered if it was because I was talking nonsense in my heart, but I couldn’t believe it.

“Kooaaa!!”

As it flapped its wings, the snow blew away with a huge gust of wind.

Well, we could ride the wind and get some more speed.

“Ah!!”

“Ouch!! Breath!! Avoid!!”

Roza exclaimed in surprise.

After all, if it’s a dragon, that’s what I want to do, and I’m holding all of his heart…

Quaaang!!

The breath emitted by the dragon hit the ground directly.

To the wrong place.

“Huh?”

Involuntarily, a stupid sound came out of my mouth.

A dragon hit the wrong place, but that wasn’t the only thing.

“Aagh!!”

Boom!! Bang!! Kwak!!

The dragon started shooting its breath randomly here and there.

There were also some breaths that landed quite close to us, but most of them were at the level of missing.

“Anyway, if you go upstairs, you can’t see us very well, but you can see it.”

“Anyway, good job, let’s take this opportunity to move.”

Let’s run away at this opportunity while he misses the attack.

I ran with this in mind, but my thoughts were a bit off.

It was the moment when the guy who flew up into the sky landed on the floor.

Coo goo goo…

Really, I started to hear sounds I didn’t want to hear.

“What do you mean?”

Le Pia asked that while running, so she answered.

“It’s an avalanche.”

“Yes?”

“There’s an avalanche coming! Because of that ignorant big guy!!”

The avalanche was going up and down even if that guy ran rampant, but the mountain couldn’t stand it any longer as he fell to the ground with that huge body.

A white wave began to attack from above.

“Damn it! Run!”

Even if it is a small-scale avalanche, there is no answer if it is buried incorrectly.

While running hard to avoid the waves of white snow, I saw a small cliff layer in front of me.

“Get down there!!”

At my words, everyone ran towards it, and as soon as they jumped down, a white wave hit the spot.

Even in the Marquis of Brune, they were already aware that the unexplained continuous avalanche was unusual.

So, the Marquis of Bruen himself led an investigation team to explore the snowy mountains.

“Father!”

“What’s the matter, Liza?”

The daughter of the Marquis, Liza Brün passed through the soldiers and approached the Marquis Brün.

After graduating from the academy this time, she was dabbling in various things in her marquis’s domain in order to assist her brother, who would succeed the writer after her.

So, I volunteered to follow the search team this time.

“The avalanche is said to have occurred again. But…”

“…But?”

“That… Among the soldiers who witnessed it, they said they saw something huge flying in the sky…”

“Hmm?”

The Marquis of Brune listens to his daughter’s report with a firm expression.

He too was born and raised in the Marquis of Brune.

I knew the extent to which monsters inhabited this area.

“If it’s a gigantic monster that flies… Is it a Lightning Bird? If it doesn’t, they won’t come back until early summer…”

Lightning Bird. A bird-type demon beast boasting a large size, the only thing that came to mind was the Lightning Bird when it came to a giant demon beast flying in the sky around here.

However, they are monsters that move to a warm place in winter and return only in early summer.

There was no way he was there at this time.

“I must go there. Where is the soldier I saw?”

Just as we were about to head to the place where the avalanche occurred again, a soldier came running.

“My lord!”

“What’s going on?”

“Right now, the county of Wentos in the north is moving troops.”

“Really? They might be thinking of investigating this avalanche too.”

The place where the avalanche occurred is where the Marquis of Brune and the Earl of Wentos meet.

In that case, it wouldn’t be strange to send a unit to investigate from Count Wentos.

“That…It’s quite large for an investigation unit…”

“What?”

The expression of the Marquis of Brune hardened slightly.

“…Is everyone okay?”

There was also a thin snowdrift thanks to the cliff, so I managed to get out and look around.

“Brother!”

Phyllis, who had already gotten out of the snowdrift, found me and was rushing towards me.

“Ugh, it’s cold.”

From there, I could see Rush taking Le Pia out of her eyes, and Rosa stretching from behind.

Le Pia, who had been spitting snow out of her mouth, opened her mouth.

“Ugh, what about dragons?”

“I can’t see it.”

After taking out Lufia, Rush looked around.

Roza cautiously spoke to them.

“Ho…Couldn’t they have returned after seeing us caught in an avalanche?”

Well, there is a possibility.

Actually, the dragon’s purpose was to exclude us, and it may have gone back thinking that it had been pushed away by an avalanche.

But that doesn’t mean I’m still uneasy about wandering around aimlessly.

After suggesting that we move carefully, we started moving quietly.

How far did you travel?

Even if they were thin, due to the effect of being buried in the snow, everyone’s body temperature dropped and their stamina was consumed considerably.

Lupia, who had been making a lot of noise, was silently following me, so I said everything.

“…Hey, how long have you been here?”

Still, Le Pia opened her mouth as if she could not bear this silence any longer.

Well, it’s probably the right time to start wondering.

Looking around, look at the shape of the mountain range and the plants that inhabit it, and get a rough idea of the location.

“Now, it’s just around the border with the county. Let’s go down the mountain like this.”

If you go down the mountain from here, there is a small town in the county’s territory adjacent to the border with the marquis’s territory.

Abloom, a small town at the southern tip of the county.

It’s a small city that lives by hunting animals and monsters living in the mountains, or gathering minerals, but it’s a small town that lives by collecting minerals, but there are a lot of troops stationed there, so you should be able to get help.

Take a break there, replenish supplies lost in the avalanche…

And most of all, we must inform the soldiers that the dragon has appeared.

After announcing the target along with the location, Le Pia nodded and started moving again.

It doesn’t seem like he has enough stamina to talk again.

“Brother.”

“Phyllis, what’s up?”

Phyllis, who was leading the way, stopped and called for me.

Approaching Phyllis, she looks in the direction Phyllis is pointing.

They were soldiers.

Looking at the pattern on the armor, it must have been soldiers from the Marquis of Brunen.

“A soldier of the Marquis’ Territory? Are you here to investigate?”

“No, I’m quite armed for something like that.”

Actually, they are quite armed for having come to investigate the cause of the landslide.

As if they were about to go to the battlefield.

Could they be aware of the existence of the dragon on the mountain?

I needed to properly grasp the situation.

The direction of their progress is the boundary between the Marquis of Brune and the Earl of Wentos. This is where we were aiming for.

Let’s follow them…

“Huh?”

A strange situation was taking place in which the troops of the county and the troops of the Marquis of Brune were confronting each other.

…What the heck is this?

At the head of the county’s army, he saw his father standing with a puzzled look on his face.

“Father!!”

Perhaps he heard my voice, my father opened his eyes wide and looked in my direction.

The moment the father’s mouth was about to open.

“Kyou!!”

Before my father, I saw a girl with red hair running towards me calling my name.