As Ed and Narya begin to pack their bags and prepare to return to Visa, the camp of the Benlu Tribe welcomes unexpected guests. Barrow, the chief of the Blackmane tribe, sent his son Delga as an emissary to discuss with Dutton to unite to completely eradicate the necromancers and undead under the Giant's Spine.

It was the expected good news, and almost everyone in the camp was talking about it, and Bump was sent back to Castle Forest by Scott to inquire about Tulum's intentions. Even if he already has a place to live in the forest, after all, the ice field is the real home of the barbarians, and if there is a chance to take it back, Tulum should be more than happy.

Scott met Shack among the messengers, but when he nodded to Sark, the barbarian turned his head stiffly, as if he hadn't seen it, and Scott was a little suspicious of Delmar's true intentions.

Ed, however, saw another face he knew among the visitors.

"That's the father of the twin girls!" he told Is, pointing to the man, "Matilda is his ......"

He didn't know how to describe it.

"Slaves. Isis said coldly.

"Hmm......" Ed didn't like this either, but it wasn't something he could change.

Matilda said he was okay with her. He could only comfort himself with this, "We should go and ask him how Matilda is!"

Iss was reluctant, but Ed dragged him to the man.

"Hey, remember me?" he greeted with a smile on his face, but the man just looked at him with a gloomy expression.

"I heard your daughters are back, right? Like I said, the ice dragon won't eat them. Ed was a little smug, not noticing that the man's face was getting more ugly a little, "Did Matilda tell you ......?"

"The woman is dead!" the man interrupted him impatiently.

“...... What are you talking about?" Ed asked, stunned, as if he had been slammed into a blow.

"She's dead. That stupid woman, she's crazy, she's either cursed. She said that the ice dragon was not evil at all, and she asked my daughter to say the same! I had to kill her......

Ed stared blankly at him, his mind instinctively rejecting what he heard. Even as Iss pounced in his rage and knocked the man to the ground, choking the other man's throat tightly. He just stared in amazement, as if he was in a nightmare, unable to move no matter how hard he struggled.

The unprepared savage tried to resist, but was completely powerless by the little boy's roar.

"Is!" Scott rushed over and dragged Iss away, "Let go!

"He killed Matilda. Ed told him in a trance-like voice that he had never intended to kill anyone—but at this moment he genuinely felt that the barbarian was dead.

"Matilda?" Scott was stunned for a moment before remembering the name, Ed had mentioned the woman and the children who had been taken and sent back by Is, he didn't know what was going on, but no matter what, he couldn't let Iss strangle a barbarian in public.

"Is!!!" he roared. Trying to snap Is's fingers off, "Don't do that! Think about what you're doing!"

Isis jerked his head to look at him, his eyes burning golden in near-mad rage, white scales beginning to spread across his face, sharp claws piercing the savage's throat. Blood poured out, but Is's hand didn't let go in the slightest.

"I know what I'm doing. He replied with a blank face, his voice as cold as ice.

“...... Stand back!" Scott yelled at the growing crowd behind him, realizing that something wasn't quite right.

When he turned back, his eyes were already silvery white, and the dragon's wings suddenly stretched out easily slapped him aside. He quickly rolled over and got up, and the little boy was gone. Only a giant ice dragon hovered above the snow, letting out a low roar that slammed fear into everyone's hearts.

Voices and movements froze instantly, and there was a dead silence around them, before a moment later a panicked cry erupted. Onlookers scattered and fled, but more began to look for weapons.

Scott screamed loudly and fell to the ground as well. Ed, who looked a little more awake when he got up.

"Go find Karen and the elves!" he yelled at him, "and Dutton!

Ed nodded, staring at his friend who had turned into an ice dragon, still looking a little dazed, but quickly turned and ran away. Just keep looking back.

The ice dragon lowered its head, and the barbarian under its claws was motionless, his eyes stray with disbelief in horror.

He's dead.

It knows what it did, but it doesn't regret it.

It regretted not sending Matilda home - the Castle Forest, her real home, and perhaps her loved ones, even if she was really stupid enough to tell everyone that she had encountered an ice dragon that was not evil, at least she would not be killed. She could be locked up like a madman...... But at least to live.

That naïve stupid woman. It almost killed her, and it scared her so long that she didn't even remember saying a mild word to her...... But she died because of it.

Even if she's telling the truth.

It didn't mind that she lied, she smiled and said to it, "I'll tell my children that I met an ice dragon that is a little fierce but not bad at all," and then turned to complain about how terrible it was. It is able to accept those.

But it couldn't accept her death, not in any way.

The short, illusory illusion of ten days was so easily shattered, and after despair it calmed down - how could it become as ridiculously innocent as Ed? Or does the change of body really change the mind? It didn't work...... No matter what it does or doesn't do, it doesn't work, people don't intend to know about a dragon at all, it's always just a symbol of evil, and it will always be feared and hated.

"Is!"

It heard Naria's cry, but tried not to look at her. It could also hear Scott roaring to stop the barbarians who wanted to attack it, even though it knew that the attacks wouldn't hurt it at all.

The dragon has no tears, but it can hear the sound of its own heart breaking.

That's what it has always wanted to avoid—to make the people it cares about, to bring trouble and danger to them. But it still can't do it.

Everything was meant to be.

The ice dragon flapped its wings and flew up. It had to leave—far away, with memories that it would cherish forever, to a place where no one could ever find it again.

It should have done so a long time ago.

The ice dragon rushed into the sky without looking back once. Under the blue sky. Its white body flew farther and farther away, eventually disappearing above the clouds.

"It's a mess. Mock shook his head at Norvi, "It's a complete mess. ”

Nori could only smile bitterly.

Iss turned into an ice dragon at the most inopportune time and place, and killed a barbarian in full view of everyone, which Scott tried in desperation countless times. Until the half-elf stopped him, he couldn't save it.

The whole thing was simply out of order, and it caused Dutton a great deal of trouble, and the barbarian tribe that seemed to be about to unite was facing an even greater crisis.

Scott didn't help at all, and instead made things worse. It was as if his whole being had turned into a burning rage, and he didn't need to get close to feel the scorching temperature. He also seemed to care that the barbarians' respect for him turned into suspicion and fear, believing that he was in fact a dragon.

Had it not been for Celebrian slamming his staff on the head and knocking him unconscious, he would have almost pounced on it and snapped the neck of Delmar, who claimed that Iss was an enemy of the barbarians like the necromancer and should be destroyed, and before that he had already broken Delmar's jaw with a single punch.

"I thought Scott was a mature guy. Mock sighed, "At least that's what it seemed before." He didn't know Scott well, but he still kind of admired what the human had done. Whether it's facing hundreds of undead alone, or quickly uniting two young people from tribes who originally didn't like each other, doing exactly what he planned, and, calmly admitting to Dutton and Sio that his brother is a dragon. And emphasized that "I will not allow anyone to hurt him"...... Well, maybe not mature, but at least reliable. But now......

Impulsively, he almost used a spell on Celebrian, and in a fit of rage from the half-elves, he was locked in a tent with an apparently magical chain, which Akan watched and told him to "calm down".

"Keller Brian said he was 'arrogant, impulsive, brainless, and outrageously naïve...... I think he knows Scott better than we do. Norway recalls the rare scene when the half-elf scolded Scott with a cold face, when Norway was embarrassed and wanted to leave. was dragged by Tess, who insisted on eavesdropping to the end. And Scott didn't argue a word.

"How terrible is it for Ellen Caver to be able to hold these guys down and make them all obedient?" Tess patted her chest with a reluctance after that, and even looked at Naria with a little more respect.

Ed lost his soul for a moment, but surprisingly calmed down and regained his senses more quickly. Although he was convinced that everything was his fault - Matilda's death was his fault, he should not have instigated her to tell everyone that Iss was not evil, and that it was his fault that Iss had transformed and killed people at the worst possible time. He shouldn't have dragged him to the barbarian in a smug manner...... But holding your head and curling in the corner and scolding yourself for damning it won't solve anything.

He was now willing to let Mork take him to introduce everyone to "this is the young man in the necromancer's cave who helped the barbarians rescue dozens of children", and he didn't hold on to everyone like a madman, as Tess had predicted, telling them that "the other young man is the ice dragon" or "the ice dragon killed the barbarian because the barbarian killed his friend".

"They won't believe me. "Before I become more trustworthy." ”

This sentence made Tess stare at him suspiciously for a long time. I almost thought he had swapped souls with Scott.

Even the "more trustworthy" dwarf Mock told the barbarians the same truth, and not many believed him. Dutton and Sao had long known the truth and restored stability to the camp, but there was nothing they could do to change Delmar's decision - the angry barbarian led the men out of the camp almost immediately, and some people from other tribes chose to leave with him. The alliance that could have been reached was ruined.

Although Sio seemed to say indifferently, "Barrow was not sincere", Dutton's face was still not good-looking. It was good that he hadn't kicked out all the non-barbarians in the camp.

Naria was planning to go after Is, and she wouldn't let Iss leave this way anyway, and she wasn't going to let Iss leave in this way anyway.

But looking at Celebryan's expressionless face, Norway knew that Iss was probably not out of his grasp at all.

For the first time in his life, he was afraid of a half-elf.