Dragon-san Wants a Friend Chapter 73

Translator: Kurehashi Aiko

Volume 3 Chapter 6: Dragon-san Prepares For Action

Seeing Kyle, I raise my hand in greeting gesture.

Being given his new responsibilities by the dragon, Kyle was out of the country for a while now, travelling around the world and seeing it with his own eyes.

His physical abilities being significantly boosted right now, it seems that during a single month he was able to travel over a vast distance, not to even mention that he was able to use Teleportation magic as he saw fit in his current form.

So I tried to send him a message through the leyline to see if it reaches him or not, shortly summarizing the story of our duel and our resulting punishment.

And when we talked about it for a little while, Kyle said that he would come over and gather as much information as he could.

Kyle said that with a happy expression and a handsome smile on his face.

While smiling back at Kyle, I took him to the other room and introduced him to both Ligurila and Senjiro.

For a short moment Kyle was eyeing Senjiro with suspicion, but then he immediately extended his hand towards him.

Senjiro also reached out his hand towards Kyle and both of them shook their hands in a greeting.

Next, Kyle turned towards Ligurila, and just like with Senjiro, he was staring at her face for a moment or two.

Hearing Ligurila say that, Kyle didn’t know how to react, so he just shrugged his shoulders.

Then Kyle looked at Ligurila’s face again, noticing her golden hair and her eyes, and then his face turned into that of a surprise, as if he just realized something.

Kyle looked stunned by Ligurila’s words, and then he looked back at me while coking his head.

While Kyle was trying to say something, Ligurila stopped him with an astonished sigh, but soon enough Senjiro raised his voice.

It was an obvious question, but at the same time it was the one that was difficult to explain.

Kyle and I were connected by bonds of deep friendship, but the situation was tad a little bit different when it comes to Ligurila.

After hearing that, Ligurila squint his eyes and looks at Senjiro with a funny expression on his face.

Senjiro seemed embarrassed by his own words, while Ligurila’s expression was quite emotionless.

Then, Kyle asked me discreetly while looking kind of strange.

For me the nature of their relationship was quite obvious, but for Kyle it must have been rather confusing.

Kyle coughed a few times, and then turned towards Senjiro again.

Kyle seemed to be extremely puzzled by Senjiro who bowed down his head to him, so I hurried to explain it to him.

Kyle nodded to himself, just in time to see Senjiro raise his head.

Senjiro nods his head, and both he and Kyle smile at the same time, huge grins appearing on their faces. While I was still feeling kind of embarrassed about Senjiro’s words somehow, I said to Kyle:

Kyle began to talk about the fruits of his labor, at the same time taking a pen and a piece of paper in his hands, drawing something as he spoke.

He was tracing the areas on paper which I haven’t visited yet.

I was honestly surprised just how thorough Kyle was about inspecting the leylines alongside Ballow’s borders.

I can totally see that.

Even if other Hunters Guilds had skilled Hunters like Senjiro, Kyle was able to move extraordinarily fast both horizontally and vertically, so they would pose little to no threat to him.

Out of all of us, Ligurila with her outstanding beauty would have a hard time to keep a low profile needed for an infiltration like that, and Senjiro as a beast man from overseas would arouse even more suspicion and attention. As for me, even with my Rank 5 licence from the Guild, information gathering would be pretty much impossible.

While I was thinking that, Kyle suddenly looked as if he has remembered something important and his eyes lit up.

Asked Ligurila, and in response to that Kyle took a bunch of notes out of his pocket and started to flip through them.

They were all well-written notes, describing the countries and towns that Kyle managed to travel to thus far. They were also rich in details.

I see this was yet another talent of his, so much different from those of Nectar’s.

Seeing how the list was organized by the order in which Kyle visited the other countries, it took him some time to actually find what he was looking for.

Kyle pointed to the notes describing one of the towns right next to Hezart’s capital city.

Kyle shook his head hearing Ligurila’s question. She looked to be quite bored of this topic.

Apparently that was enough to shut Ligurila up, and Kyle proceeded to take a color pencil from his pocket and write with it on the map.

Finally, Kyle surrounds a certain area with a big circle.

At the first glance, it looked just like a piece of land in the middle of Hezart, but upon closer inspection I immediately realized what it was.

It looks like Senjiro also managed to notice that.

The area that was encircled contained a large portion of the Flume River, which flowed through both Ballow and Hezart.

With the exception of the capital city, most of the places where the stone’s prices were cheap were concentrated near the river, on in cities through which the river flowed.

Senjiro said that to Ligurila, who looked like she was wondering about something.

The rivers are vital parts of magic circulation, after all.

They carry not only water, but magic particles as well.

Because of the water’s flow, the nature of magic inside of it tended to be extremely unstable. Up until now it was not a matter of concern, but now it may be a whole different matter.

In the end, I thought it was necessary to go there and investigate the area properly.

Said Ligurila while pointing her slender finger at a certain point on the map, a town located in the upper stream of the Flume River.

Said Ligurila right into Kyle’s face, who looked as if he was considering her words for a moment or two.

Right, it’s all good that we managed to settle our course of action.

I contact Nectar and relay all the information to him.

Kyle is going to share a room together with Senjiro, and the rest of us is going to find the lodgings for ourselves once we get there.

And because I was thinking to myself all this time, I failed to notice some rather disturbing signs in Ligurila’s behavior.

When I turned my face towards her, for the first time in a while I saw a terrifying smile blooming on Ligurila’s lips. A smile full of joy, but still terrifying.

Suddenly, Kyle said something with a funny expression.

Why Kyle was getting visibly confused, Ligurila started to move her hands around while looking at me with a satisfied expression.

By the time Senjiro noticed what was going on, magic circles already began to form under their feet.

The moment Ligurila waved her hand, the magic light swallowed them whole and they disappeared.