“What?!”
Ganix, who had been lounging leisurely on a luxurious sofa that a common fantasy world laborer couldn’t afford even with a lifetime of work, jumped up in alarm.
“Are you sure? How did you find out about that?”
[Uh, how I found out isn’t important… it’s already famous in the Great Forest! A human noble who joined hands with the Third Princess tamed a Black Flame Dragon…]
[Apparently, 80% of the elves living in the Great Forest saw it with their own eyes, so it must be true.]
“Haa… hold on, just wait a moment.”
As Asir continued her report, Ganix involuntarily covered his face with his hand and sighed.
“……”
‘Black Flame Dragon. That crazy lizard… with those bitches?’
Tenebrix Nox.
Anyone who has seen the ending of [Starlight of Dawn] knows what kind of being he is.
In the latter part of the original story, during the war with the demons, when the protagonist gained the upper hand and gradually led the weakening war to humanity’s victory.
At that moment, filled with hope, when the hero’s biography was about to come to an end.
The dragon appeared.
With a single flap of its wings, thousands of imperial soldiers were torn apart.
With a single breath, the supporting characters were swept away.
It was an overwhelming existence that showed what cosmic horror truly was.
In the original story, Tenebrix Nox was the most powerful being, even more so than the final boss.
The cursed Black Flame Dragon who cried out for the destruction of humanity, Tenebrix Nox.
“Shit, it’s a possession.”
Ganix immediately understood why the dragon was sticking with the Evergarden family.
“…But, why?”
‘That person’ was also flustered by the unexpected event, but Ganix tried to calm down and analyze the situation.
Tenebrix Nox is, simply put, a nuclear bomb.
To put it even more simply, it’s a being that indiscriminately fires nuclear bombs every second, yet remains completely unharmed even when directly hit by that level of power, a being that transcends species.
If someone possessed such a being, why hadn’t Ganix and the others noticed until now?
Here, we can formulate hypotheses.
The being possessing Tenebrix Nox possessed him relatively recently.
This is incorrect, as combining information with other possessors revealed that they all arrived around the same time.
The Evergarden family somehow managed to acquire Tenebrix Nox.
This is also incorrect.
No matter how much he thought about it, it didn’t seem like they had the means to win over the being possessing that ultimate body.
Then, the last one.
“They knew each other before the possession… or a naive kid who’s never killed anyone. That’s it.”
The possessor has a weaker personality compared to the original story.
This is the hypothesis that Ganix strongly leaned towards.
It had already been well over half a year since the possession of Tenebrix Nox.
The fact that they had been hiding their identity without causing a single incident in such a situation indicated that they either didn’t want to show off or had a very weak personality.
A dragon, a dragon.
A being that no one could easily confront, not even the empire.
If one became such a being, most would move to satisfy their own selfish desires.
However, the person inside Tenebrix Nox did not.
No matter how much this place was a fantasy world, the soul inside that dragon’s body was a modern person.
Even if such a modern person gained great power, if they were someone who insisted on ethics and morality that were no longer useful, Ganix understood why he hadn’t heard any news about Tenebrix Nox until now.
“If that’s the case,
then it’ll be alright for a while. If they were going to do something, they would have done it already.”
If Freya of Evergarden and the Black Flame Dragon were completely on the same side, and if that Black Flame Dragon was someone who had no qualms about killing people, he would have already been dead the moment he held out a vial of poison to Freya.
The Black Flame Dragon was capable of doing so, and it wouldn’t have been a problem if he had.
But, he was alive.
Although they had only met briefly, Freya’s personality was ruthless.
She was someone who would kill him immediately if she had the power to do so on the spot, and someone with the intelligence to cleverly escape.
The fact that she hadn’t ordered the Black Flame Dragon to assassinate him, even though she was traveling with him, revealed a lot about the relationship between the two and the dragon’s personality.
But, a dragon is a dragon.
Only then did Ganix realize that he could have died on the spot, and he felt a chill run down his spine.
“Hey, are you listening?”
[What, what is it? You suddenly told me to wait and then-]
“That dragon is only half-baked. For now, pay attention to him, but don’t cross the line and just maintain the status quo.”
[No, it’s Tenebrix Nox!! That dragon could turn me into mincemeat with a single wave of his hand—]
“Then I’m hanging up~”
[You son of a bi-]
Click.
Ganix then immediately cut off contact after instructing Asir to stay put and not cross the line.
“…Huu, still, this is a big deal.”
Although he had spoken loudly to Asir, the current situation was a mess.
Ganix’s head became complicated by the fact that the opponent he had underestimated actually had a tremendous secret weapon.
He still had to continue to pressure the Evergarden family, but he couldn’t accurately grasp the line he had to maintain for that pressure.
If he accidentally crossed that line… the thought of his head and body being separated made him break out in a cold sweat.
But.
“Still… secret weapons aren’t only on their side, you know.”
Ganix regained his smile and manipulated the crystal ball.
“Uh… it’s me, uh, please connect me right away. Uh, directly.”
[Ganix Obina. Confirmed.]
“…Yes, it’s me. Yes. I’m afraid I have some bad news to deliver.”
“Still… you can handle it, right?”
Ganix was relaying the news that Asir had delivered to someone connected through the crystal ball.
“…Damn it! That unlucky blonde bastard! He’s talking so easily because it’s not his problem!”
Squeeze-
At that moment.
Asir, who had been unilaterally cut off by Ganix, clenched the crystal ball in her hand as if she would grind it into powder.
“…Haa, this is really tough…!”
However, she couldn’t bring herself to break the crystal ball and simply placed it on the table, letting out a deep sigh.
Celebrian Asir.
Her true identity was Kim Hansik, a 28-year-old freelancer.
The moment she first came to this world was still vivid.
Kim Hansik, who had finished his late-night part-time job at a PC cafe and was staggering like a zombie, exhausted from the rising morning sun, regretted that he should have worked at the convenience store on the first floor across the street when he fell down the stairs.
His neck and cervical vertebrae collided with the railing of the stairs, resulting in a fracture.
Followed by a blow to the back of the head.
Kim Hansik was forced to despair in the face of the ever-tightening fear of death for about 45 minutes and 25 seconds, unable to move his entire body.
Then, his consciousness was cut off, and just when he thought he was dead.
Kim Hansik was possessed into another world.
Moreover, he was possessed as Celebrian Asir, a sub-heroine who appears in the web novel [Starlight of Dawn], which he used to read for fun while working part-time.
To be precise, she was one of the main characters because the protagonist was a heroine and it wasn’t a yuri story.
Kim Hansik liked his second life very much.
Compared to Kim Hansik’s short, unattractive body, Asir’s body was perfect.
A solid figure, a sculpted face.
He felt despair at the fact that he, a man, had become a woman, but so what?
Asir’s life as the Second Princess of the Elven Kingdom was a hundred, a thousand times better than his modern life as a freelancer, moving from
one studio apartment to another without being able to find a job even after graduating from university.
But the problem came soon after.
The point in time when he, or rather, she, changed was before the original story began.
In other words, it meant that Asir had not yet arrived in the imperial capital and entered the academy.
And Asir was currently living in another forest, away from the Great Forest.
Forest here, trees there.
Even though she was a nature-loving elf, she, who had lived her entire life in a forest of concrete, couldn’t find her way at all.
Once she was possessed, she kept moving forward.
Fortunately, the elven body was able to move comfortably in the forest as if by instinct.
However, the problem came soon after.
The elves of the Great Forest could live their entire lives by eating only dew and fruit inside, thanks to the mercy of the World Tree.
But where was Asir now? She was outside the boundaries of the Great Forest.
While some dragon was pathetically living a homeless life that didn’t suit his size, she, a woman with long ears, was filming Elf VS Wild.