The 5000-year-old Herbivorous Dragon

A quick glance revealed that the armed priests surrounding us were only medium level in terms of strength. The one guy that Rēko knocked out—the Cardinal—is relatively strong, but he is no longer counted in the group.

「The Cardinal has been taken down!」

「Impossible. That personage has resistance to all attacks…!」

Even though he was giving a speech with momentum earlier, the cardinal had fainted with a happy face as Rēko grabbed his head and opened her mouth.

「Now, I can do whatever I want to him. If you people don’t want his head crushed, surrender now and fullfil every request tha—」

「Rēko. For the time being, leave him alone and come back here. I’ll just do my best to talk with him from now on.」

「Understood.」

Poi, Rēko let go of the Cardinal on the spot. Then she landed near me with a single jump.

The armed people panicked a little bit.

「The villain has let him go! Help the Cardinal!」

As soon as Rēko left, they gathered at the Cardinal and began to shake him. He should still be breathing. Maybe.

「Evil Dragon-sama. I think that cardinal person has quite the high position. If we take him hostage, our research on this country will definitely improve. I wholeheartedly think we should take this opportunity.」

「I agree. Contacting the shrine maiden will also be easier. There is no loss to catch him for the time being. It might be a hassle to carry him everywhere, so should I store him in my cloak?」

「Can both of you keep quiet for a bit?」

I put down those two people’s dangerous remarks as I looked up at the priests again.

It seems that their treatment was successful, as the Cardinal revived immediately.

「Cardinal! Are you okay!?」

「Kuh… I made a mistake. I never thought that I would be brought down and used as an escape card in a fight.」

「No, Cardinal. Those people were still here.」

Showed by his men, the Cardinal turned his sight on us. After he tilted his head several times to grasp the situation, his face changed to a convinced one as he touched his monocle that had a chain attached.

「I understand now. Even after you people managed to knock me down with a cowardly surprise attack, you cannot defeat this number of men after all. So you gave up and surrendered. Hahaha, it is a pretty wise decision for a villain. All right. I will make the meal in the prison a little bit better as you people cleverly—」

This time, Yoro-san ran up the wall, and knocked the Cardinal down with a knife hand strike.

The Cardinal had fainted once again, and was about to be stored in Yoro-san’s cloak, like a bottle of alcohol.

「Eeto, Yoro-san…? What are you doing?」

「Mu? You told me to keep quiet, so I captured him quietly. Was I wrong?」

「Quickly release him now.」

The Cardinal’s lower body part has already been sucked into the cloak. Since the space around the cloak is distorted, it may be connected to somewhere by transfer magic.Yoro-san did say that he is not good with tricks like these, so it’s probably the cloak that is a magic tool.

「E, everyone! Pull yourself together! The Cardinal has been kidnapped!」

The armed priests barely managed to pull back the Cardinal’s body from the cloak’s subspace.

Somehow, the scene reminds me of pulling out radishes and turnips.

「Kuh. To think that I was hit with a surprise attack twice…What a sneaky guy.」

「Ah, the recovery of his consciousness is getting faster.」

As expected of a Cardinal. He is highly adaptive.

Then, Yoro-san grabbed the Cardinal’s neck and jumped down to the ground with him.

「Whether we are fighting or discussing, he is still the representative of the enemy. And it is better to talk up close. We’ll also use him as arrow repellent.」

「You don’t need to say that last sentence, don’t you think?」 ƒ𝐫𝒆𝐞w𝗲𝚋𝗻૦𝘷e𝙡.c𝑜𝙢

「Listen here Cardinal. Choose your words carefully. If you dare to answer our request with something other than “yes”… you know what will happen to you, don’t you?」

「You too, Rēko. Don’t casually put in threats.」

Double negotiation pressure from both Rēko and Yoro-san.

If I am on the other side, I am confident I will vomit immediately; on both information and physically.

「I am not someone that will succumb to the wicked! If you want to do it, then do it! Otto, do you know that if a demon like you were to touch me; who is filled with magical power of the light, you will experience the pain of purification…?」

However, the Cardinal seems to be proud with a surprisingly strong mentality. There is no doubt that he is a big shot in a sense.

By the way, I will not mention that Rēko and Yoro-san knocked him down easily with a knife hand strike a bit ago. He seems unaware about it at the moment.

Fortunately, Yoro-san’s “Arrow repellent” actually worked. The armed priest above did not launch any attacks in fear that it would hit the Cardinal.

「Umm, I want you to calm down a bit and listen to me. We didn’t really want to kidnap the shrine maiden candidate. She was just bringing her out to buy her some food to eat for a bit. We sent her back to the church, you know?」

「…Isn’t that a lie? Can you swear that on God?」

「Of course. I only came to this country because I want to do some research, so I am not really interested in God’s matter. It was just Yoro-san over here that has some business. He just wants to talk to him a little.」

「Ahh. I want to schedule a duel with—」

「A, anyways! We have no evil intentions! Can you not treat us like such?」

The Cardinal takes a quick look at me, Rēko, and Yoro-san.

Then, he shook his head and said to me, “Can I ask just one question?”

「Yes, what is it?」 𝘧𝑟𝘦𝒆w𝚎𝙗nov𝘦𝗹.𝐜o𝓶

「A few days ago, The God of Thunder, the kin of The Main God of this country, was killed by someone. Do you happen to know anything about it?」

I turned my head to Yoro-san with great momentum.