Instead of me, Kagari-san was swallowed by the cold air breathed out by the ice dragon.
Kagari-san, because of my mistake.
A drunk little girl.
Someone who would fight alongside you even if it's dangerous.
Someone who gave advice when you were in trouble.
"Kagari-san!" (Yuna)
I was thrown and rolled to the ground, immediately looking for Kagari-san.
However, the ice dragon continued to breathe out cold air, and Kagari-san was nowhere to be seen.
If an ordinary person were to receive a direct hit from the ice dragon's cold...
It's my fault.
Because I said I would fight the ice dragon.
I had bear equipment, so I thought I could handle it.
I was happy when Kagari-san said she would come with me.
After all, I should have refused.
What should I say to Sakura?
The cold air exhaled by the ice dragon subsided.
"Kagari-san…" (Yuna)
Kagari-san was floating where the cold air had subsided.
"Kagari-san…?" (Yuna)
Kagari-san had become a fox, and steam was rising from her fox body.
Kagari-san's floating body slowly descended to the ground.
At the same time, she returned to her original appearance as a little girl.
I ran over and hold Kagari-san in my arms.
Kagari-san's eyes slowly opened.
"Don't touch my body. You'll get burned." (Kagari)
Steam was coming out of Kagari-san's body.
Apparently, she was able to withstand the cold by heating her body.
I'm really glad you're okay.
If something were to happen to Kagari-san because of me, I wouldn't be able to forgive myself.
"It's okay. My armor is special." (Yuna)
I held Kagari-san's body in my arms.
Kagari-san looked happy when I hugged her.
"So, are you okay?" (Kagari)
Even though Kagari-san was in danger, she still worried about me.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Is Kagari-san okay?" (Yuna)
Steam was still rising from her body.
The surrounding snow and ice was melting, probably due to the heat emanating from Kagari-san's body.
That's all, Kagari-san's body was hot.
That's why she was able to withstand the cold air that the ice dragon breathed out.
"I'm okay. But I don't think I can fight any longer. I'm sorry..." (Kagari)
"Well, leave the rest to me." (Yuna)
I summoned Kumayuru.
"Kumayuru, please take care Kagari-san." (Yuna)
"Kyuu~n" (Kumayuru)
Kumayuru approached Kagari-san worriedly.
"I am hot." (Kagari)
"Kyuu~n" (Kumayuru)
"It's okay." (Yuna)
I put Kagari-san on Kumayuru's back.
"Stay a little far away." (Yuna)
Kumayuru with Kagari-san on board left.
I never thought that there would be someone who would risk their life to protect me.
I wondered that.
The number of people in this world and helped me increased.
I wanted to protect them, and at the same time, I found myself feeling a little happy that there was someone who protected me.
But I couldn't bear it when the people I cared about got hurt because of me.
I would have to thank Kagari-san properly later.
To do that, I had to defeat the ice dragon.
I turned my attention to the ice dragon.
I had seen an ice dragon at the edge of my vision for a while, but it wasn't moving.
Perhaps the continuous blast of cold air was putting a heavy strain on its body.
I wondered if it wanted to kill me so recklessly.
The city was protected by the earth bear from the second cold blast.
Maybe I was able to endure it partly because the heat of Kagari-san dampened the cold air.
Kagari-san not only protected me, but also the city.
The ice dragon glared at me.
It raised its head and roared to the sky.
The sky was starting to darken.
I would settle it before it got dark.
I ran around the ice dragon.
If flame doesn't work, what about electricity?
The lower the temperature of ice, the more difficult it was for electricity to flow through it.
But ice dragons were living creatures.
You wouldn't know anything until you check it out.
Bear electric shock!
A bear-shaped electric shock flew toward the ice dragon's face.
The electric bear was blown away by the ice dragon's arm.
There's no sign of numbness.
The ice dragon's tail moved.
I dodged its tail, wrapped around its back, and used earth magic this time.
Countless spears with pointed tips attack the ice dragon.
However, it was blocked by the ice dragon's hard skin and was repelled.
Not a single bite.
Then wind magic.
"Bear's Wind Magic"
Countless wind spells that turned into bear blades attacked the ice dragon, hitting the ice dragon's body, but only leaving streaks of the blade.
How hard was it?
Fire, lightning, earth, wind.
No magic had any effect.
As I was thinking about what to do while looking at the ice dragon, I felt something strange about the ice dragon's petty actions.
Where Kagari-san received cold air.
It felt like the ice dragon was avoiding me.
Was it just my imagination?
Now that I thought about it, it didn't extend its tail that far.
I moved to where Kagari-san was.
Something like confusion arose in the ice dragon's movements.
Why?
The surrounding ice and snow had melted due to Kagari-san's heat, and the area was only flooded with water.
Cold air also turned into water due to heat.
Maybe you don't like water?
I looked at the ice dragon's feet.
It's covered in ice.
"……"
I thought back.
Even in previous battles, it had avoided areas where I had melted snow and ice with fire.
On the contrary, it breathed out cold air, freezing the water-soaked ground that had been melted by the flames.
Why didn't I notice?
The ice dragon was constantly cooling its body from the inside out.
I didn't know if this was due to mana or something unique to the Ice Dragon's body.
Just one thing.
As long as I knew that it was keeping its body cool, there was no problem.
In other words, if it bathed in water, it would freeze.
I had assumed that water had no effect on ice.
In fact, I didn't think water could damage the Ice Dragon.
But if I was not mistaken, I could defeat it.
I collected mana.
Then, I created a ball of water the size of a soccer ball.
The ice dragon's wings moved when it saw the water ball.
I won't let you escape.
A ball of water passed by the ice dragon and hit its wings.
The water freezed where it hit.
The ice dragon forcibly moved its wings and broke the ice, but I wouldn't let it do that.
Water balls hit one after another, froze its wings.
The wings stopped moving.
Furthermore, the feet, hands, and various other parts were hit with water beads were freezing.
The ice dragon forced its body to move, breaking the ice that had adhered to its body, but it was already too late.
My magic had already been completed.
Above the ice dragon, there was a big bear water tank.
"This is it." (Yuna)
I brought down the big bear water ball.
The bear water surrounding the ice dragon made a crunching sound as it froze. The ice dragon tried to escape, but it's not just water.
It was the bear water magic that I created.
There's no way it would miss.
I just moved the bear's water in the direction the ice dragon was moving.
It was frozen by the ice dragon's cold body. As if to add insult to injury, I froze the bear's water.
The ice dragon froze from the inside with its mana, and from the outside with my mana.
It tried to move its wings, but it froze and stopped moving. It tried to move its legs, but also froze.
It struggled to move its arms, but the ice dragon gradually became frozen and unable to move.
The ice dragon was frozen, it's no laughing matter.
But it's over now.
I couldn't say anything about how stupid I was for not realizing this.
If I had realized this earlier, I wouldn't have had so much trouble.
Kagari-san was not in any danger either.
"Girl, did you defeat it?" (Kagari)
Kagari-san came while riding on Kumayuru.
I was glad I didn't just collapse like that.
"Yes, as you can see." (Yuna)
The ice dragon was frozen and didn't move.
"But, to be precise, I just sealed it in ice." (Yuna)
I had been using the detection skill for a while now, but the ice dragon's reaction didn't go away.
In other words, it lived in ice.
The ice dragon simply froze.
In other words, once the ice melted and it was released, it would begin to move.
"...I can definitely feel his mana." (Kagari)
"What do you think should be done?" (Yuna)
"I don't know about that. I guess you froze him and caught him." (Kagari)
"I didn't mean to catch him. I just saw him freeze water and thought he might freeze himself with his own cold air." (Yuna)
I also froze it with my mana.
Maybe it couldn't break the ice as much as I thought.
"But we can't leave it like this." (Kagari)
I knew that if the ice melted, it would be a big problem.
However, it couldn't be frozen permanently.
Maybe the ice would melt if the ice dragon stopped emitting cold air from its body and stopped cooling itself from the outside.
"But just like Kagari-san has been watching over the seal of the serpent, I can't keep watching over the ice dragon's ice forever." (Yuna)
"I don’t like either." (Kagari)
"No one is going to ask Kagari-san for a favor." (Yuna)
Maybe I asked Mumloot-san to prepare a magic circle that will emit cold air semi-permanently?
I didn't know if such a magic circle existed.
"Do you want to cut a small hole in the ice toward your mouth and pour out some poison?" (Yuna)
"You can think of something scary." (Kagari)
Because I couldn't think of a way to defeat it.
"So, Kagari-san, do you have any ideas?" (Yuna)
"Drop it into the sea?" (Kagari)
"If the ice dragon stops the cold air, I think it will melt." (Yuna)
If only the ice dragon could freely regulate its body temperature.
Well, maybe it's possible if you thought about it normally.
"What should we really do?" (Yuna)
"If I can't solve the problem, I guess we'll have no choice but to leave it to that ice dragon." (Kagari)
Kagari-san looked toward where the sun was setting.
There was an ice dragon coming towards us.
Moreover, two of them were heading towards us.
"They're not fighting, are they?" (Yuna)
"It doesn't look like they're fighting." (Kagari)
"They’re not chasing us, are they?" (Yuna)
"It doesn't even look like they're chasing us." (Kagari)
They were fighting just now, right?
"Maybe it would be better if they didn’t end up becoming friends and defeat us." (Kagari)
"Don't say scary things" (Yuna)
I didn't want a second fight.
Moreover, two at the same time.
While we were talking about this, an ice dragon descended in front of us.
Author's Note
The battle with the ice dragon is over. Probably…….
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*Thank you to everyone who reports typos.
Please note that some kanji have been revised to match the book, so some may not have been revised.