Volume 5 - CH 48

Act 5-48: Dissonance

――Ket Nya’s Conference Room.

「You have finally come before us huh…」

Hearing Chigi’s gloomy remark, everyone present in the conference room couldn’t help but grit their teeth. As if hunting us down. That giant azure dragon―― Cetus had been destroying the village in this region slowly as if enjoying despair and fear, and that guy had finally arrived in this village.

「Just when I’m wondering when will he come eh… So what are we going to do? This village going to be destroyed unless we do something about that guy.」

The woman of the tribe with head of bird―― Garuta tribe asked everyone in this place with vorlorn look on her face.

「This is a good village. I’ll fight till the last drop of my blood!」

Bhu claimed that he would bet on his life to protect this Ket Nya.

Bhu was one of the major figures behind the success of my plan to form the alliance. In short, he has an attachment to this village.

「I agree with your statement about this village being a good one. But it’ll be better if we can prevent that guy from destroying this village right?」

The youth with the lizard head, a lizard man, muttered while propping his cheeks. Everyone in this place agreed with his opinion. Thus, everyone started to brainstorm on their own.

『May I ask a question, Ruu-dono?』

The one who broke the silence was a giant man with one eye from the cyclops tribe, asked Ruu-san.

He, Cyclone, was the surviving member of cyclops who was rescued by Ruu-san who led the rescue team back then. This was his first time participating in this meeting but, he obviously had some displeasure about this situation. And I was vaguely aware of the reason.

「What’s matter?」

Ruu-san who closed his eyes replied so while opening one of his eyes. Everyone present in this conference room gulped as they rarely had the chance to see Ruu-san’s savage figure like this.

『Why there’s a human in this place? This should be Our, monster’s village right?』

『I want to know about that too! The likes of human are nothing more than our food. So why is this guy in this place, attending such important meeting on top of that?』

Following up Cyclon’s question was the statement from the man with the head of crocodile, Crocodas.

Suddenly, Bhu’s right fist hit the table,

「You bastards, how dare you newcomers say something like that?」

When Crocodas received the angry glare of Bhu, his face was obviously twitched.

『Y-You better not thinking about getting along with human, you hear me! Human has always been our enemy! That’s the never changing principle since the beginning of this world!』

And shouted to the top of his lungs.

「Sure enough, that might be true. The reason why those brutal and savage demon race marching to the south must be for the human race.」

The woman of Garuta tribe spoke absenmindedly while looking at me but,

「I don’t mind though. Gil-san understands us to the point that I think it doesn’t really matter even if he is a human.」

The young lizardman voiced different opinion.

「That might be true but, getting along with human is a bit…」

The woman of Garuta tribe spoke.

Whenever the new tribe joined our alliance, this sense of alienation kept getting in the way.

She was right, even the demon race who did as they pleases received the same treatment as human. It was no longer in the realm of suspicion toward human.

At this rate, we wouldn’t be able to start the conference. In short, we would be wasting our time on this pointless debate instead of discussing what matter the most. Not to mention that a huge threat called azure dragon coming at us.

「I will leave for a moment.」

After conveying my intention to the promotor of the meeting, Chigi, I left without even waiting for the reply.