The 5000-year-old Herbivorous Dragon

The rabbit doll- Sousou, gathered magic power into both its hands and stubbornly hit my body with its fists repeatedly.

Of course, it was while I couldn’t run or resist and could only fervently beg for mercy while crouched down.

「I can’t, any further and I won’t be able to take it…」

「How is it Revendia? You won’t ever say that you want to go outside again right? You’re always going be with me right…?」

「Uuuh, Stahp please. I beg you, please stahp it…」

「Can’t do~. If you don’t swear to stay here for eternity, then I won’t stop. Ei!」

「Ahh!」

With a “Pon” sound, everytime Sousou’s fists hit my body, it accurately hit a pressure point stimulating it, and I felt my fatigue leaking away.

From back when I met Rēko and set off from the village up until this day, I felt the built up fatigue melting away.

Just how skillful can she be? Even though I should try to escape the barrier as soon as possible, everytime I attempt to, I’m assaulted by an absurd amount of sleepiness.

「Look look, I’ll cook delicious food for you everyday and when you get tired, I’ll massage you just like this. If another strange enemy like that blonde brat comes then I’ll beat them up with a single punch. How is it? You no longer have any reason to leave right…?」

「Uuugh, I really want to. The truth is that it sounds really nice…」

Tears rolled down from my eyes.

To be honest, in regards to her proposal, I really didn’t have any rejection toward them. If they’ll take care of me while feeding me, then it’s the best treatment I could ever ask for.

If you only left out the pressure of her overbearing friendship then my life here would be twice as nice as when I lived in my cave.

Since even if I tried to resist here, I couldn’t escape with my own power anyway.

If that’s the case, then I can just listen to Sousou’s sweet words and live an easy and comfortable life here.

「Kuh… Not good. Don’t lose to temptation, me! Ah, Sousou, can you massage the base of my shoulders please?」

「Okay okay, do you want it strong? Or weak?」

「I want it slightly on the stronger side.」 𝒇𝙧𝚎𝐞𝙬𝒆𝑏𝑛𝑜v𝚎𝒍.c𝑜m

「Okay~」

A relaxing pleasant sensation spread around my shoulders as a “pokopoko” sound rang out and at last, I went from standing on all four legs to lying down on my side.

So this is the Demon King Commanders true power.

I tried to resist with my strong heart but she easily overcame it.

I’m sorry Rēko and everyone who’s helped me along the way. It seems like this is as far as I get.

「How regretful, to have suffered defeat, how regretful. But it can’t be helped that I lost to a Demon King Commander.」

「Ah, Revendia started drooling. How shabby, ufufufu.」

「I’m done for, it’s my complete defeat ahahah— Ngyah!!」

At that moment, I swung Sousou off my back and jumped up on the spot.

Within the blissful moment, I suddenly felt extreme pain from my tail.

「Owowow, Wha. what’s happening?」

“Crunch”.

The spirit, who had no presence and didn’t move and was forgotten about all this time, once again started to munch on my tail.

「Yo-you, can you let go? It hurts.」

「Leave safely.」

「Nnn? Ah, is that Sheina’s message? Well, you see, I also really want to but I can’t escape this place. I can only wait for help. So that’s why you need to stop biting my tail.」

As I pleaded with the spirit with all my heart, the spirit then released her teeth and sat down with a “petan” sound. As expected, after spending so much time together, it seems she’s gotten to a point where she will at least listen to me.

「Revendia…? What’s with that little thing- What’s this? Isn’t this the spirit that I trapped inside a doll?」

「Ah, that’s right. I want to ask you as a friend in waiting but is it possible to return this spirit to its former self?」

「The barrier seal in the dolls I make aren’t that durable. With the amount of magic power this spirit has then it can break the shell and escape by itself. It’s just that the individual in question doesn’t have the will to do it. Spirits are just like that.」

I silently turned towards the spirit.

「Is that true? If you want to, you can turn back into a mountain?」

「Affirmative.」

「If only you had said that from the start.」

If that’s the case then we wouldn’t have been so troubled.

We had the sense of crisis to return it to its original self but the spirit probably didn’t even care what its own body shape was turned into.

Now that I think about it carefully, from the very beginning it had the stance of not caring about anything.

— Wait a minute.

With the power of this spirit, I can escape the barrier?

It’s true that Sousou had said so.

Sousou probably thinks that the Evil Dragon can easily break the barrier, that’s why it didn’t realize the blunder in its words.

But wait, calm down. If I just forced my way then it won’t end so happily. Rather than using such a foolish plan, I’d rather pretend to appease Sousou and spend the rest of my days here peacefully—

「Now then Revendia. Let’s pick up from where I was massaging your shoulders…」

Sousou, who was talking in a peaceful tone of voice and started approaching me again, stopped at her first step.

「…What are you trying to do Revendia?」

I got the spirit to ride on my back and had it provide magic power to the Hunting God’s claws to activate it.

「I’ve escaped reality by staying in such a comfortable place, if Rēko is coming to save me then she would have come back immediately as soon as she left. The fact that she didn’t do so means… what’s happening outside can’t be anything good.」

For example, Rēko thinking that the me inside the barrier wasn’t just a spiritual body would explain why it’s possible that she decided there’s no need to rescue me.

It’s the same for Raiotto, it wasn’t strange for Raiotto to have a way to exit when he was able to get inside the barrier in the first place.

And with the mountain spirit… Rēko doesn’t really care about the mountain spirit.

Or even possibly, she ignored Sheinas advice to stop and headed off towards the real capital and there… I wonder just what kind of problems Rēko will cause over there.

Then when she finds that my real body isn’t at the base anymore- what will be her reaction when she realizes that I’m still disgracefully trapped inside of Sousou’s barrier?

「I see, it seems you’re going to fight with me Revendia.」

「I don’t have any intention of fighting. I only want to go outside.」

「Why? Are you so unsatisfied with what’s inside the barrier?」 ƒ𝑟𝙚e𝔀𝗲𝒃n𝒐𝘷𝗲Ɩ.c𝗼𝚖

「No, it’s the first time that I’ve been to such a comfortable place and from the bottom of my heart, I feel like I want to stay here forever.」

But… I continued on further.

「Even moreso, I’m worried about what Rēko will do. That girl is strong but as expected, she’s still a child.」

Saying that, I turned the black claws into the shape of hooves which were specialized in escape.

「Spirit! Pick up Raiotto and make me run at full speed!」

「Acknowledged.」

One of the claws reached out like a hook towards the unconscious Raiotto and pulled him onto my back.

At the same time I felt his weight on my back, my legs started moving with the power of the spirit and we ran out into the corridor of the state guesthouse.

「Miss Spirit! Can you tell me how to break out of the barrier?」

「Turn back, Mountain.」

Nnn?

I tilted my head as I ran.

「Excuse me but, what do you mean by turn back mountain? Are you going to turn back into the size of a real mountain?」

「Higher the mountain, shell will break」

「Isn’t that just brute force? How should I say this… You’re not going to attack like Rēko to destroy it but you’ll turn so big it’ll break?」

「Affirmative.」

What should I do? If the spirit turns into a mountain here, I’ll be crushed along with everything else. But with that being said, it’s impossible to just leave the spirit here and escape to a safe area first. Without the support of magic power, I’ll be caught in a matter of seconds.

I, who has decisively departed and quickly regretted it, pushed the brake pedal in my legs and raised my voice.

「Ms. So…Sousou! Can we pretend what I said before never happened? As expected I feel like I want to stay here and relax for a bit longer…」

As I started to sweat cold sweat, a voice carrying despair sounded from somewhere.

「Sure… Of course you can Revendia… I’ll forgive you, after all, we’re friends… But, this time, so that you won’t run away, I’ll have to pluck off your arms and legs okay…? It’s going to be alright. It won’t hurt…」