I’m a humiliated, incompetent person, but I alone can talk to dragons, so I can choose all the SSS skills and loophole items I want to. I’m going to become famous and respected, so, to the people who humiliated me – Go die in a ditch - Chapter 74

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We relaxed at the tea house for quite some time.  

During the time, we kept a lookout for the men we tossed away to see if they had woken up but there was no sign of that.

 

I glanced at Jeanne. 

 

Jeanne who although her appearance changed during the mimicry, but elegantly drinking tea.

Previously, there was talk about her being exposed because of her elegance, but in the end, there was no change – it probably cannot be changed.

 

With the air of elegance around her, our eyes met and she tilted her head slightly.

“What is it, Master Cyril?” 

“No, it’s nothing.” 

“Is that so? Ah, may..maybe?” 

 

Jeanne started to panic. 

 

“Do I have a chunk of food on my face? No, what’s wrong with me to make such a common mistake in front of Master Cyril.”  

 

Jeanne hurriedly took out her handkerchief to wipe her face. 

 

“Ah, that’s totally okay. Your face is still beautiful.” 

 

“Huh?”

 

“Huh?”

 

Surprised, frozen up, she looked at me. 

 

“Wha… What did you say just now?” 

 

“Huh? Your face is beautiful?” 

 

“!!!”

 

Jeanne’s face turned red instantly. 

With a face that seemed to be a mixture of half joy and half embarrassment, she started to fluster. 

 

“Ah.”

 

I realized my mistake a little too late. 

The wording was a mistake – not really but it had caused a misunderstanding.

 

“Beautiful… Master Cyril said I’m beautiful..” 

 

I was thinking of clearing the misunderstanding, but Jeanne who was mumbling seemed happy so – I thought to just leave it at that.
It was not wrong that she was beautiful, I actually thought so too.
Above all, from Jeanne’s expression, the amount of joy slowly increased.

If it was like that, I thought it would be okay.  　

“Hahaha… You are a player, my true friend.” 

“No, no.” 

 

Not having words to reply to Chris’s teasing, I could only smile wryly. 

 

Now then.

I looked at the men. 

But they showed no sign of waking up. 

Jeanne did hit them quite hard, I realized again. 

I thought about waiting for them to wake up to properly collect the hate so that we won’t trouble the tea house, but we couldn’t wait much longer.

 

I stood up and headed to where the old man and the tea house girl were. 

 

“Thank you for the food. Bill, please.” 

 

“Yes. It’s 30 Reels.”

“Here it is.” 

 

After taking out the coins and paying the bill. 

 

“About those men…” 

“Ah, it’s okay.” 

 

As if knowing what I was about to say, she quickly said, almost cutting me off. 

 

“We know how to deal with people like them.”
“Is that so?” 

“Yes. Besides, Grandpa is strong.” 

 

Really? I looked at the old man with a face thinking like this. 

The old man smiled calmly and lightly. 

I thought that it made sense. 

He wasn’t even bothered by this – not being scared and not being excited either. 

It was just like him to totally maintain his composure, I thought. 

 

“Yes, I understand. Just in case, I’ll give this.”

I took a piece of card from my pocket. 

It was the size of a playing card; it was iron that had been stretched thinly. 

There was a mark on top of the card. 

 

I made it my reference, in reference to guild card.
Unlike a guild card, it was not practical at all. 

 

“This… Dragon First… That?” 

 

The tea house girl looked at the card I gave out and was surprised. 

 

“Yes, if they start complaining, tell them to come to us.” 

“I understand.” 

 

I smiled at the tea house girl and turned around. 

For the time being, it should be okay. 

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After leaving the tea house, we traveled another half-day worth of distance.

We came to a lake. 

 

The sunset reflecting on the surface of the lake was beautiful like an illusion, enough to feel that even for a simple trip, it would be worth it to come there.

 

“It’s beautiful.”

Jeanne seemed to think the same way, as she looked at the lake and was blown away. 

On the other side, I turned to look in Chris’s direction and asked.

 

“Is this the destination?” 

“Yes. This is In Induline.”

 

“Induline. If I remember correctly, there was another place name.” [Read this novel and other amazing translated novels from the original source at the “Novel Multiverse dot com” website @ novelmultiverse.com]

“It’s Thunder Mountain.” 

“Where is it?” 

“Hmm.”

 

Chris nodded but did not answer. 

Instead, she took a few steps forward and faced straight to the lake surface.

What was she doing – this was what I was thinking when. 

 

“!!!”

 

Chris looked up to the sky once and opened her mouth wide. 

And she spewed fire towards the lake’s surface. 

 

It was a scorching fire, like never before. 

The moment Chris looked up to the sky, “This is bad.” crossed my mind, and I immediately went in front of Jeanne and protected her.

“Kyaa!!” 

“Hey hey.” 

 

I said, half surprised and half dumbfounded. 

The fire Chris spewed completely evaporated the lake water in a blink.

 

When the water was gone, what was left there was a huge hole. 

 

“All set.”

“When you’re doing something like that, say something first. It’s dangerous.”

“Hahaha. My true friend, fire doesn’t work on you because of your contract with me, right?” 

“Jeanne is also here, isn’t it?”

“I don’t worry about that. I went through with it because I know my friend can easily protect her.” 

“Jeez.” 

 

I was even more dumbfounded. 

It didn’t feel bad to be trusted but I wondered if this was the way to do it. 

 

“Uh… uhm…” 

“Huh?”

“Thank you… Master Cyril.”

 

Jeanne happily thanked me while blushing. 

 

“Hahaha. How about it? Exactly like my intention, right? You can call me the cupid of love.”

“Hey hey.” 

“Might as well, to be liked by her even more. Rather than having her heart stolen by an unknown man, it would be happier for that girl to adore a man like my true friend.”

 

I was slightly dumbfounded. 

From Chris’s tone, I understood that she really believed that and it was her own way of kindness but nevertheless, I still wondered about the method.
　

But, even if I say something nothing will change, so I decided to just ignore it. 

 

“So, we just have to go down?”
“Yes. There, you can see a cave, right?”

 

Chris pointed out her chin. 

I approached the edge of the hole – which was originally the lakeshore and looked out at the bottom of the hole.

 

“A cave?” 

“Isn’t that there, Master Cyril.”   

Jeanne who came with me pointed her finger. 

I looked ahead where Jeanne was pointing. 

 

There, like she had said, there was a hole that looked like a cave. 

Water was trickling out from the hole. 

 

“Is that the one?” 

I asked Chris. 

 

“Yes, that’s Thunder Mountain.”

“Is that so? All right, shall we go?”

“Yes!”

 

I went down the hole with Jeanne who nodded. 

Because it was originally a lake, it was not a steep cliff but a gentle slope. 

Chris evaporated the water in an instant so the slope wasn’t muddy and was completely dry, and it was quite easy to go down. 

 

We headed to the cave when we reached the bottom but – 

 

“Something is coming out.” 

 

Jeanne shouted. 

 

The cave – from Thunder Mountain something swarmed out. 

 

“What is that?”

 

I said, straining my eyes.

 

“Dragon.. papercraft?”

 

Jeanne put into words, describing exactly what she saw. 

I agreed with her description. 

 

There was a handicraft that shapes three-dimensional objects by cutting or folding cardboard. 

It was also called papercraft and the appearance was as if a dragon was made. 

 

Each of the paper dragons was the same size as a human being. 

 

“What is that?” 

“It’s the gatekeeper. It’s a type of dragon tool as what humans would call it.”

“A type of dragon tool?” 

“Isn’t it a monster?” 

 

Jeanne asked. 

She did not understand Chris’s words but she associated with my response and joined the conversation. 

Recently, Jeanne seemed to be getting used to this. 

 

“Yes, it’s not a monster. And it’s also not a dragon.”

“Not a dragon.”

“Then I’ll beat it!”

 

Jeanne said that and bravely sprang out. 

 

On the way, she shouted “Transform”, and changed her appearance to the war goddess. 

 

Her appearance as the war goddess that she had transformed into bathed in the sunset and shone in gold, it was divine as if she had a halo. 

 

Jeanne fought well.

She definitely had the upper hand if it was one-on-one, but unfortunately, there was a large number of the paper dragons.

 

Jumping head first into it was also not good, and because of that she was quickly surrounded and outnumbered. 

 

“Hmm.” 

 

I nodded and took a few steps forward. 

While advancing, I held out both hands. 

 

Then – I flashed the fireball. 

Nine Finger Fireball.

 

The ball of fire that was unleashed from nine fingers hit the dragon one after another, setting it on fire. 

This wiped out the paper dragon that came out and saved Jeanne. 

 

“Are you okay?”

“Yes!”

 

Jeanne nodded, maybe it was due to the sunset, but she stared at me with even more sparkles than usual in her eyes. 

“As expected of Master Cyril. Even without transforming, you’re so much stronger than me.”

“Jeanne is strong too. But, don’t rush into things alone.”

“Y…Yes!”

 

I smiled at the obedient Jeanne and turned to the cave entrance again. 

 

The obstacle, there is no way that it’s only this one thing, I thought to myself.[Read this novel and other amazing translated novels from the original source at the “Novel Multiverse dot com” website @ novelmultiverse.com]