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70. The End of the Conflict with Magical Beasts #225 – The End of the Conflict with Magical Beasts #4
I shouted at the gazes fixated on me.
“That scaly-tailed lady is the Fire Dragon Azidahaka! She’s the witness of the fiery west sky with Jupiter and the key to this conflict!”
“Eeek…!?”
Azidahaka looked flustered.
And the crowd buzzed in surprise at my declaration.
When you think about it, the fact that the Fire Dragon Azidahaka is in this city, Cairo, sounds as absurd as saying the leader of an enemy nation is disguised as an ordinary civilian, right?
I waved my front paw at the thoroughly baffled Azidahaka, baring my pointy teeth.
“Come up here! Say something!”
“This wasn’t part of the deal, you know?!”
“Sure, but think about it. It’s a great opportunity to annoy Jupiter!”
“What on earth does that even mean…?”
Azidahaka shook her head, clearly not impressed. I hopped down from the rooftop and casually sauntered over to her side, whispering slyly.
“Don’t you want to snag Jupiter’s treasure, ambrosia? Not to mention all that nectar those beastly friends have?”
“Treasure…”
This lady’s obsession with riches and material goods is beyond my imagination! I excitedly described all the wealth we could get our hands on to Azidahaka, convincing her.
“Hmmm, so what do I have to do? Let’s hear it.”
A curt response that reeked of indifference, but her tail swayed beneath her robe, giving away her intrigue.
With a grin, I hugged her waist and leaped back up onto the rooftop.
“Simple. Just agree with what I say. Whether we actually reconcile with Jupiter or not doesn’t matter. What’s important is that it looks like we did.”
I took a breath.
“Look! This gal here is the head of dragons, Azidahaka! I, the White One, have subdued the beasts and persuaded the Fire Dragon who rules half of the western desert to return! For thousands of years, many have suffered from the feud between dragons and gryphons! I declare that I will become the mediator between gryphons and dragons right here!”
Whoosh!
As soon as I finished my declaration, a chilling wind swept over the heads of the crowd. They stood there, either with their mouths shut or half-open, staring at me with wide eyes, showing little reaction.
‘Hmm, not as effective as I thought.’
I guess saying that a war that had lasted for thousands of years is ending today doesn’t quite hit home, huh?
Just as I was pondering how to effectively rally the crowd, it happened.
“How can we trust that she’s a real Fire Dragon? She looks like a red-scaled fire lizard!”
“Right? How many council members from Cairo have gone on about reconciling dragons and gryphons? All they do is waste the budget and put on plays with lizards, and that was just a few years ago.”
“We’re not falling for it anymore! Even if Cairo is known as a place where you can buy anything, we’re sick of the war and peace gimmicks!”
“They just planted hopes and never delivered results…”
The crowd’s reactions grew increasingly heated.
From the sounds of it, there were quite a few con men in Cairo who promised reconciliation between dragons and gryphons just like me.
I stroked my chin thoughtfully and shook my head in exasperation.
“They don’t believe you’re the Fire Dragon.”
“Well, I guess so. If I had my wits about me, I wouldn’t think a Fire Dragon would come to Cairo.”
Azidahaka smiled slyly beneath her tiara, clearly enjoying the chaos.
“I think you’ll need to give them some proof.”
“Are you saying I have to prove I’m Azidahaka myself?”
“Exactly.”
“I think I know what you’re planning. You want to create a support base here in Cairo to snatch the city from Jupiter, don’t you?”
Her guess was almost spot on, so I raised an eyebrow and nodded approvingly.
“Well, yes.”
“And you’re trying to reconcile me with Jupiter, completely disregarding my wishes? Even you have crossed the line of meddling! But fine, if we have the chance to snatch treasure and the city from him…”
Suddenly, Azidahaka seemed to reconsider, and she pulled off the hood she was wearing.
Not only that, but it looked like she was going to strip off her clothes and show a bare body!?
Handing all her clothes to me, I received them in a daze and blinked.
“What are you doing? Why take off your clothes?”
“You said to prove myself.”
A succinct reply from Azidahaka.
At that moment, the noisy crowd fell silent, all eyes turning towards the rooftop.
“What, what’s happening? Why is she undressing?”
“I don’t know, but zip it! This seems like an important moment!”
Suddenly…
Azidahaka gazed down from under her tiara at the crowd. Then, she crouched on the rooftop floor and let out a long sigh like someone recovering from a hangover.
Crack, crack.
With the sound of bones shifting and twisting, her womanly form began to bulge and change.
Patterns appeared on her white skin, and soon enough, red scales erupted from her body, covering her like armor.
“Grrr…!”
With a painful expression on her face, Azidahaka arched her back and lifted her head to the sky, gaping her mouth wide as a thick pillar of fire surged out.
The clear sky over Cairo was engulfed in flames, creating red clouds and fog, just as Azidahaka leaped into the air with powerful grace, disappearing into those clouds.
“What’s going on?”
“The sky is on fire! Th-this is…!”
Boom!
Like a volcanic eruption, a tremendous roar shook the atmosphere, filling the red clouds with flashes of lightning. Down came the enormous body, crashing into the rooftops below.
BANG!
The ancient Fire Dragon landed, revealing its full form.
Woosh!
As those massive wings spread wide, a shadow was cast over the golden city of Cairo.
ROAR!!
With a roar erupting like thunder from its strong jaws, a storm was created, sending several crowd members flying.
“Th-the real Fire Dragon, the Wing of d*ath! We’re all doomed…!”
“The city of Cairo is going to be destroyed! The sky is on fire! The end of the city… no, the end of the world is nigh!”
“Mom! Mom!”
The massive, terrifying beast’s magnificent presence sent the crowd into a frenzy.
Thud, thud.
With their legs giving way, the beasts and stone dwarves simply collapsed to the ground.
Pssssss.
People were literally wetting their pants, and I frowned at the sight.
“Seriously? This is too extreme! If you scare them like this, it throws off my whole plan.”
Suddenly.
The enormous dragon’s gaze fell upon me.
Grroooaaar!
Even I, who had spent days with it, couldn’t help but feel a little intimidated by its dreadfully overwhelming presence.
“Yikes! Eek! Yikes!”
Our raccoon friend, Leaf, had gone as far as to dig a hole in the ground and stick only his head in to hide.
Woooosh.
Azidahaka soared back upwards with her wings spread wide. With a single flap, shopfronts in the city were blown away, and trash scattered everywhere.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Flying amidst the fiery sky of Cairo, Azidahaka shot flames while the giant dragon left a shadow that looked like a world-destroying evil dragon, just as her name—Azidahaka—suggests.
‘That creature seems to be having a blast.’
Perhaps it’s finally enjoying a chance to unleash its power without the constraints of its human form.
To me, it looked scary, but at the same time, it seemed like a child joyfully jumping around in a raincoat on a rainy day.
Of course, that was just my perspective of knowing the dragon well.
“Gryphon Guard! Do something! Cairo’s going to be destroyed!”
“Run! Go fetch Jupiter! No one but Jupiter can stop that dragon!”
“But I heard Jupiter went to the council!”
The Gryphon guards perched atop the spire were unable to do anything against the dragon that was setting the city’s sky ablaze; all they could do was tuck their wings in tightly.
Clap, clap.
I clapped my front paws and shouted loudly.
“Hey, that’s enough! That’s more than enough!”
Whether she heard me or not, Azidahaka, gliding through the sky like a fish in water, dove down towards me.
Whoosh!
As she approached, her body ignited like a meteor entering the atmosphere, and when she landed, the slender beauty stood before me, as always.
“Humph, I think that’ll do.”
“Yeah, that’s quite enough.”
I handed Azidahaka her robe back, clicking my tongue. It seems she was frustrated that I had taken charge of the storyline without regard for her intentions.
Putting on her clothes with a flourish, Azidahaka looked down at the nearly fainting crowd and shouted.
“I am the ancient Fire Dragon, the flame of the sky, the wing of d*ath, the disaster of all feathered beings, the mother of those who bear scales, Azidahaka! As said by this White One here, I stand here boldly to demand a parley with the head of Cairo, Jupiter!”
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Central Spire of Cairo.
The city council ‘Hawk and Pigeon’ was in complete upheaval after the past day’s show of dragons and beasts.
“d*mn!”
BAM.
Jupiter jumped up from his seat, slamming his fist down on the round table with tremendous force. The table splintered into pieces.
Without so much as a glance at the damage, he stomped on the broken bits until they were ground to dust.
Surrounding him were stone dwarves and human-like gryphons adorned with bright white feathers, all shaking their heads in gloomy agreement.
An elderly gryphon, Neptune, who wielded a fork-like trident, opened his mouth towards the fuming Jupiter.
“How could the Fire Dragon be the first to propose peace? The citizens are trembling in fear after witnessing its overwhelming flames. If we refuse its peace overture, there’s a real chance that war could break out.”
The citizens felt both the devastating power and fright of the beast they had encountered directly, viscerally recognizing their own fragility against such overwhelming threats.
Feeling themselves faced with a fate of destruction like mere dust, they became desperate to find a way to stop it.
Neptune continued, “What will you do, Jupiter? There are whispers everywhere that we must reconcile with the dragons. Some even say that our Gryphons’ struggles are a fabrication made by this council to line our own pockets.”
“Harumph, where do such absurd claims come from?”
“Those ignorant fools.”
Murmurs filled the room as council members glanced at each other, with the occasional “Harumph!” and “Ahem!” mixed in.
Jupiter clenched his teeth at the sight of their trivial antics.
‘All they know how to do is stuff their pockets and be completely useless. You’re not here just to flaunt around in fancy hats; you’re supposed to be doing something in times like this!’
Seeing the council members only waiting to see, licking their chops, Jupiter’s anger boiled over. But maintaining a smile, he calmly remarked, “I have my own thoughts on this as well. Peace is fine, but after thousands of years of conflict, do you think a few handshakes and hugs will be enough? First, let’s see what the hawks and pigeons think.”
The leader of the hawkish faction, the young gryphon Mars, abruptly stood up from his seat.
Decked out in metal armor like Jupiter, he was the epitome of a vigorous and fierce gryphon, the next generation of warriors.
“War! Absolutely no to peace! There’s no way to negotiate with those scaled beasts! We must oust not just the dragon that has come to the city but every last lizard! A city for gryphons and stone dwarves! That will make the historic city of Cairo even greater!”
His words earned enthusiastic nods and applause from the hawks backing him. The lone grumble came from the bespectacled female gryphon, Minerva.
“Always clamoring for war and fighting, but they themselves won’t shed a drop of bl**d.”
“What!? You little! You’ve been trying to sabotage me till today!?”
“Tch, it’s not sabotage, it’s a valid critique.”
As Minerva smirked, Mars clenched his fists as though he were ready to lunge at her.
“Wait a moment, let’s hear her out.”
Jupiter intervened to give Minerva the floor.
“Thank you. Many here must harbor hatred for dragons, that fearsome species. Some may have lost family to them, some may have lost lovers, and others have surely been hurt themselves. But if we can reconcile with them…”
“Reconcile? Reconcile what! Those dragons are all trash! Our stone dwarves have suffered enough under their claws!”
“Exactly!”
The council chamber erupted in chaos.
With a throbbing headache, Jupiter gritted his teeth. Just as he was about to raise his hand to silence the madness.
“Dragons, gryphons… that’s not what’s important right now. There’s a more pressing matter at hand.”
As Neptune spoke, the chamber fell silent.
The wise elder gryphon, Neptune, turned towards Jupiter with a smile. “So, what do you consider to be most important at this moment?”
“Have you heard of the king of beasts… the Behemoth?”
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