"Tie him up!" Fili shouted back. It's better to be careful with a guy who has lost his mind.

The young paladins looked at each other in silence, completely bewildered. They came to slay the dragon, full of thought they would return with glory...... Or at least die in glory, only to unexpectedly face a battle between two high-ranking paladins, and one of them, lost the blessing of the goddess in front of them.

Filly scratched his beard, realizing that what was happening in front of him was probably a big blow to these young and naïve lads.

"I said, I'll take all the blame. He sighed involuntarily, "Tie him up so that he doesn't hurt himself...... Let's go back to Collins first, and this will be resolved. ”

He had never been good at comforting people, and he didn't think it was convincing to say to himself, but at last two paladins came up and tied the hands of Beye, whom he had knocked unconscious, behind his back.

They didn't say a word, and the expressions on their faces were indescribably hasty, and they looked younger than their actual age.

Fili sighed again - how did he get to the point where he had to take care of a bunch of imps? Everyone said that the power of the Temple of Water was second to none in the entire temple of gods that Lutegar believed in, but he only felt that there were fewer and fewer reliable companions around him......

He staggered over to Tess and Naria, the girls trying to bandage the wound on Akhan's arm, left by Baie's sword.

The ice dragon stood aside, its front paws fidgeting at the snow on the ground.

"Let me try?" Fili leaned over flatteringly, and Tess squinted at him, snorting, pulling Naria back a little.

Fili stretched out his hand and put it over the wound of the big man. Akan felt a warm sensation, like warm water slowly flowing through his wound, gradually diminishing the pain. He watched in amazement as the wound shrank and shrinked, leaving only a small trace that looked like a bruise.

Then he lifted his leg to the paladin - he had a wound from a dwarven axe, and the blood had frozen on his leg.

Fili seemed to laugh, but healed the wound anyway.

"That's all I can do, but luckily it's not very serious. Fili couldn't help but pinch Akan's muscles: "...... That's good, how do you usually exercise? Natural?"

Akan grinned at him, classifying the man with tousled hair in front of him as a "friend."

Fili rubbed his hands together and walked over to the young ice dragon and raised his head in front of it.

"We won't attack you again...... At least not this time. When I get back to the temple, I'll tell Sean Fletsche about what I've seen. I can't guarantee anything, if ......" he paused, suddenly not knowing what to say. He always gets himself into a lot of trouble on the spur of the moment, and what he fears most is trouble.

He had promised Eren that he would take care of his daughter and the dark-haired silly boy, but to Is, Eren wisely did not make any requests. The former warrior knew very well that, as a paladin, Fili had to obey orders.

He had just intended to do his best to make the ice dragon's death less painful...... But since we have come to this point, we can only go with the flow. Leave the trouble in the future to the future.

"Anyway, it's nice to finally see you, Is. "Scott mentions you a lot...... I'm sorry, I don't really know where he is, but if you remember him...... Maybe he's still here. ”

He pointed to his chest, then waved to the girls, turned to join his companions, and walked down the hill.

As their figures faded away, a gust of wind blew through the snow that had suddenly quieted down, raising a thin layer of snow powder, and if it weren't for the messy footprints, Narya would have thought that everything was a dream.

Akan let out a big sneeze.

Naria seemed to wake up from that sound. She walked slowly towards the ice dragon, close enough to reach out and touch the dragon's lowered head.

The ice dragon raised its head restlessly, tilted its neck back, and stepped back a little.

The black-haired girl doesn't look quite like it remembers.

She grows up, and of course, humans always grow fast...... She was more mature and pretty, her originally round and healthy cheeks had lost much weight, and the familiar little freckles on the bridge of her nose had faded to the point that they were almost invisible.

Naria looked up at it, it had never seen such a mixture of joy and sorrow in her warm, vibrant brown eyes, and it made it panic.

It backed away again, and Nalya had no choice but to come any further.

"Is," she whispered, "I've found you at last." ”

She didn't want to cry anymore, but the tears fell on their own.

“...... You shouldn't be here. The ice dragon stiffened, "Go back, Naria, go home." ”

In the deep voice of another creature, Nalya could still hear the quiet, always smiling at her with a trance-like expression, and every time she thought of that smile made her feel distressed.

"And where are you going?" she asked, "do you have a place to go back?"

The ice dragon fell silent, and it didn't know where else to go.

"Why don't you come home with me?" Narya blurted out, "I know you can become human......"

That sentence easily angered the ice dragon.

"I'm a dragon!" it roared lowly, "and it will always be a dragon! Forget the weak human who used to call you sister, he's dead!"

It stretched its wings and flapped so hard that Naria was blown away from her eyes and retreated several steps.

"Wait! I'm not ......."

Her voice was torn apart by the wind. The ice dragon soared into the air, flew low across the snow, then turned a corner, over her head, and up against the peak, as if to fly into the full moon, and the white figure grew smaller and smaller, and finally disappeared.

“...... Goddamn little bastard!!" Naria finally got angry, and she yelled at the sky, "Didn't I teach you to listen to people to finish talking!!What if you're a dragon!!Wait until you spit out all the food I've cooked all these years before you're qualified to yell at me!

She kicked the snow on the ground with all her might.

“...... Sweetheart, if you had yelled at him like that, he would have gotten on the ground and let you touch his head. Tess said.

Akan nodded vigorously from the side.

"Next time!" Naria shook her fist, "Remind me to stop whispering to that bastard! I don't owe him anything! He'll either swallow me in one bite or just listen to me!"

"Of course, of course. Tess agreed, shivering in the cold wind, and Mochi was already back in her arms.

"Where are we going now?" she asked.

“...... Mine. "When we were caught and flew out, I saw Norvi, who was with Mork Brass. ”

"Okay, but where is the mine?" Tess looked around, completely unaware of the corner of the Silvertooth Mountains where they were.

Akan snorted twice and gestured for a while.

"Do you know the way?" said Tess.

The big man nodded confidently.

"Then we'll go with you. Narya decided dryly.

"Are you serious!" Tess cried.

"Of course, Tess, we don't know how he got into the dwarven mines, maybe he does know the way, and there's nothing else we can do. ”

After no longer worrying about her brother's sighs, Naria was quite a strong girl.

“...... All right. Tess tucked her frozen hands into her sleeves and said listlessly, "Hopefully we'll make it to dinner...... Oh no, breakfast!"

The moon showed its last pale smile, and the dawn was already faintly visible in the distant sky, beneath the dark purple flowing clouds.