Chapter 6: The Trio is Invincible

As soon as we got home, it was a chorus of how hungry everyone was. I was hungry too, but also tired, so I just used the fried foods I’d made that afternoon for a meal. I piled fried mackero, fried vermillion shrimp, fried yellow scallop, and fried big hard clams onto their dishes and served them out — with lots of my homemade tartar sauce on top, of course.

“Mm. This is good. Especially this one,” Fel said, while eating a fried vermillion shrimp whole, starting from the head.

《This white sauce goes great with stuff from the ocean, doesn’t it? They’re all great.》 Dora-chan said, chewing through some food with tartar sauce on it.

《This is delicious~. Sui can eat lo—ts of this.》

Looks like Sui loves the fried stuff. It’s great with tartar sauce, after all. Right, I should eat too.

Just like with the fried oyster, I had my meal with white rice and instant miso soup. First up, this fried mackero with lots of tartar sauce.

*Crssp*

Ohh! The plump and soft meat is amazing. And it’s great with my homemade tartar sauce. I quickly finished the whole thing.

Let’s try one more with Worcestershire sauce. For fried seafood I’m all in on the tartar sauce camp, but I do sometimes just want Worcestershire sauce.

I bit into the fried mackero with Worcestershire sauce on it. Mm, this is good, too.

“Mn? What is that brown stuff?” Fel asked, shrewdly noticing that I ate something with Worcestershire on it.

“This? This is Worcestershire sauce. It’s good on fried food. I love the white stuff, that tartar sauce, more, but the Worcestershire sauce is good sometimes too. Do you want to try some, Fel?”

“Yes. I will. Also, I want more. Put that ‘Worcester sauce’ or whatever it is on that.”

Ah, Fel’s already eaten all of it. I put a second helping of the fried food in a dish and smothered it with Worcestershire sauce before serving it to Fel.

“Mm? This ‘Worcester sauce’ or whatever is good, actually. It goes especially well with this fish and this shellfish,” Fel said, pointing out the mackero and the big hard clam.

To prefer tartar sauce or Worcestershire sauce depending on the fried food... Fel’s starting to act like a connoisseur, isn’t he?

《Ah, no fair! I want some food with that brown stuff on it too!》

《Sui wants some too—.》

Dora-chan and Sui both asked to try the Worcestershire sauce.

After piling up seconds for Dora-chan and Sui, I put on the Worcestershire sauce and served it to them.

《Ohh! This is great, too! They’re both delicious!》

Seems like Dora-chan can’t decide which one is better.

《This one is delicious too, but Sui likes the white one better—.》

And Sui’s in the tartar sauce camp, just like me, huh?

We had skipped lunch, so everyone was asking for more and more as they chowed down. Since everyone kept asking me to put on the white stuff or the brown stuff depending on their whims and preferences, it was pretty hard.

With all that happening, dinner ended, and I breathed a sigh of relief. I drank some cold tea, and served everyone else some cola. Seemed like everyone was satisfied, with their stomachs so full. All the stuff that I had fried, which had seemed like so much, was mostly gone now. I’ll have to start frying some more before we leave.

After taking a gulp of tea, I brought up what was on my mind. “So, how did you kill the red dragon?”

“At first, we were hunting normally. But......”

According to Fel, at first they were hunting normal prey in the forest. But apparently, while they were doing that, Fel sensed a powerful presence, or something. So, Fel told the other two, and everyone decided to chase after that presence.

“And the thing we found at the end of that chase was the red dragon. So we killed it.”

So you killed it just because you found it, you......

But Dora-chan was nodding proudly along with Fel’s story.

《You know, amongst us dragons, the red dragons are the proudest of all of us. I never liked them from the start.》

However, even if they decided to fight it, the red dragon was flying. So the three of them worked together to bring it down, apparently.

《And the one who landed a beautiful first strike was me. After all, I’m the only one who can fly,》 Dora-chan said proudly.

According to him, Dora-chan first flew close to the red dragon and annoyed it into heading towards Fel and Sui. Then, once the red dragon got low enough......

《Sui shot its Acid Bullet. Sui aimed at the red dragon’s wings, and opened a hole in them! Right, Sui?》

《Yeah! Sui went pew-pew at the red dragon, you know! And just like Uncle Fel taught Sui before, Sui aimed at the wings~.》

From what Dora-chan said, it seemed like dragons didn’t use their wings to fly like birds did, but rather, used magic. Of course, Dora-chan was the same way, and used magic to fly. But apparently, even though dragons use magic to fly, it wasn’t like their wings did nothing. It seemed that wings had their own important use; they were absolutely necessary to adjust things like speed, direction, and balance.

《So when Sui opened up a hole in its wings, of course it lost its balance and fell to the ground.》

“Indeed. At that point, I quickly finished it with my Lightning magic.”

I see. So Dora-chan flew and led the dragon to dropping its altitude where Sui could down it with an Acid Bullet. Then, Fel quickly finished off the fallen red dragon with lightning magic, huh?

This trio is just invincible, aren’t they? Seeing them attack all at once together was already something, but if they work together like that they can even bring down a red dragon with ease, huh? Ahhh, but......

“You know, next time you see a dragon, just leave it alone, okay?”

“Hm? Why?”

“You don’t have to fight it, wouldn’t it be fine to just leave it alone?”

“That is true, but dragons are delicious.”

You know... Don’t just call them delicious like that means something.

“Speaking truthfully, it’s just really troublesome to deal with whenever you hunt a dragon.”

After all, Elrand’s the only one guy I can ask to butcher them.

“Just think about it. Elrand’s the only one I can ask to take them apart, you know? So every time you kill one, we’ll have to go to Dolan, and the parts are so expensive I can’t sell them all off, either. Even the earth dragon’s materials are just sitting in my Item Box, and I’m having trouble getting rid of them. It’s a terrible time having to deal with this.”

I can’t even tell how long it’ll take for me to sell all of it off. I finally managed to sell just two bottles of the blood here in Berléand — and now there’s going to be red dragon parts added to my plate, too. Even assuming I get Elrand to butcher it, I already had them buy some earth dragon parts and a lot of stuff I got from the dungeon, so who knows if they’ll be able to buy red dragon parts as well. I could just leave it in my Item Box forever, but there’s already so many things like that in there...

“I think that not hunting dragons we don’t need is the best choice.”

“Grnnn...”

“Well, I don’t think we’ll be seeing dragons left and right like that anyway, though. At any rate, as long as they don’t attack us, please don’t bother them.”

“Hmph! Fine.”

It seemed like Fel was very unsatisfied with that, but he agreed in the end.

“That goes for you too, Dora-chan, Sui.”

《Tch! Oh fine.》

《Got it—!》

Dora-chan was also a little unsatisfied with that, but he agreed too. Looks like Sui doesn’t really care about dragons, though.

“Now, now, don’t look so depressed. We’re going to the dungeon city of Aveling anyway, so you’ll be fighting a lot no matter what.”

“Mn, oh right. After this place, we were going to go to another dungeon in a human city.”

《Ohh! That’s right! We’re going to another dungeon. I’m so excited!》

《Dungeon, dungeon! So excited~.》

I wonder how Aveling’s dungeon will be? I planned to try a little this time too, so I’ll have to be extra careful with my prep this time, won’t I?