Reincarnated as a Dragon and Raised by a Demon

We walked around the large mansion and made our decision.

“I think we can go up using this.”

Ririan pointed to the bars on the windows and was the first to test it.

“Ririan, follow me slowly.”

The two of them quickly climbed up to the second floor of the mansion.

They hurriedly grabbed the iron bars and started climbing, but soon faced a difficult situation.

Aila and Ririan jumped between the floors, but I couldn’t reach the upper floor.

Before long, the two were on the fourth floor.

I thought of a way and summoned a dagger.

“Thank you for calling me. Who will you stab?”

“You, can you break through the wall?”

“I’ve never tried it before.”

I first stabbed the dagger into the wall with all my strength.

The gap between the sturdy bricks opened up, and the dagger was firmly lodged.

“Wait! Ugh!”

The dagger screamed, but I didn’t care and climbed up to the next floor.

“You’re quite useful.”

“…….”

After that, I stabbed the dagger into the wall repeatedly and safely arrived at the fifth floor of the mansion.

“Is this the room?”

“It’s over there. Magic Stone.”

Looking through the window, I saw glass cases filled inside the room.

Ririan quietly pried the glass off the window and opened the door.

As we entered the room, we could hear a murmur from outside, but no one paid attention.

“The mayor has some decent jewels besides the Magic Stone.”

“Just take a few. Don’t take everything.”

Ririan put a few jewels from the display case into his pocket, and Aila quickly grabbed the Magic Stone.

“Let’s go now.”

We went back outside through the window we had just entered.

Ririan put his hand into the gap where the glass was missing, locked the window from the inside, and skillfully restored the glass.

“How did you do that?”

“It’s a secret. Let’s hurry down.”

Unlike going up, going down was incredibly easy.

We had entered through the front door, but now we exited through a small back door of the mansion.

“Now that we got the Magic Stone, all that’s left is to break through.”

“Don’t we have a strategy?”

“Nope. Just go straight ahead.”

We returned to the warehouse where Jema and Catherine were waiting and got ready to leave.

Ririan left behind unnecessary items inside and only took a few essential supplies.

The supplies consisted of just a backpack and a magic sword wrapped thickly on his back.

“We’re going to escape from Nekon now. When the fight breaks out, Ririan, stand behind me.”

“I can fight too.”

“That’s why I want you to guard my back.”

“The fact that a knight trusts someone else to guard their back is proof of confidence in them.”

From Ririan’s words, I could tell a little how much Aila trusted me.

We dashed straight to the city gate, crossing through the streets of Nekon.

Sure enough, soldiers were standing guard at the checkpoint, armed.

Looking at the armed soldiers, I doubted whether these weapons could take me on.

Seeing the weapons in their hands made me doubt my eyes.

A long black body. A modern gun equipped with a large sword at its end.

Is there anything as foolish as using a sword against a gun?

For now, I tried to blend in with the crowd to avoid causing a commotion.

While trying to pass through the city gate, one of the soldiers pointed to the sword Ririan was carrying on his back.

“What is that?”

“It’s a family heirloom sword of ours.”

“Is that so?”

Surprisingly, the soldiers’ inspection wasn’t a big deal.

Jema and Catherine wore cloaks over the armor they were in.

We successfully passed through one checkpoint and managed to leave the city of Nekon.

“From now on, let’s move as fast as we can on foot.”

“Don’t we have a vehicle?”

“Sorry. The car I used in the city wasn’t mine.”

Ririan said the car he came in to meet us was borrowed for a short time.

Our goal was to escape as far as possible by tomorrow.

We robbed the mayor’s house, and there’s a possibility the guards at the main gate saw our faces.

Even as the sun set, our movement did not stop.

I moved from time to time, leaning on Aila or Jema, so I didn’t feel too tired.

The remaining time of the transformation potion was three days.

Of course, Aila had more spare potions, so that period could be extended.

“If we walk a bit further, we will reach a village. Let’s rest there for a day and move again in the evening.”

Hurrying on foot, we arrived at the village and immediately rented a room.

“Are we walking to Serreb from here?”

“No, we’ll need to take a carriage halfway.”

“Then I’ll try to rent a carriage tomorrow.”

After going to bed early and waking up in the morning, Ririan was not in the room.

Even by the time we finished preparing to depart, Ririan still hadn’t returned to the room.

When we stepped outside the inn, Ririan was conversing with someone in front of a blue carriage.

I thought there was a place to rent carriages.

“So, I’ll borrow it for a while and return it. I’ll come pick it up in Serreb later.”

“No, but….”

“Thanks for lending it to me~”

No matter how I thought about it, it didn’t seem like a normal borrowing situation at all.

“The people here are really kind.”

“Weren’t you just forcibly taking it?”

“I didn’t take it; I ‘borrowed’ it.”

The carriage was speeding down the road, getting farther away from the city.

“It’ll take a day to get to Serreb by carriage.”

“We’ll arrive tomorrow then.”

It was Catherine who broke the silence in the quiet carriage.

“Why are you all going to Serreb?”

“We’re going to cross the Latnia border from there.”

“What?”

“Oh, I didn’t tell you. We’re all demons.”

When Aila said that, Catherine showed no sign of surprise.

“I already knew that much. But why are you going to Serreb to cross the border?”

“Because that’s the easiest place.”

“But there’s the Ratnia Knights there, isn’t there?”

If Catherine, who had been living as a slave, knew about it, then this must be common knowledge in Latnia.

“They’re the weakest unit among the border knight orders.”

“But they are still knights of the empire, right? How can just two of you handle that?”

“Why just two? You and Jema will be working with us too.”

At those words, Catherine’s eyes widened.

After a while in silence, she looked as if she had made up her mind and was about to speak.

“Don’t say it with a look that says you’ve made up your mind.”

“But….”

“We’re not going to die. We’re going to live.”

Creeeak!

Ririan abruptly stopped the carriage, jumped out, surveyed the situation, and quickly altered direction.

“There’s a checkpoint ahead. And there are whites too.”

“Did they expect us to come this way?”

“No way. They probably just issued orders across the entire border region.”

Three carriages followed us as we fled.

They were riding real carriages pulled by live horses.

“There really are real carriages.”

“That’s not a real horse, Ririan.”

Upon hearing that it wasn’t a real horse, I looked again and found the horse looked a little strange.

I couldn’t see under its legs properly.

“That’s a ghost carriage.”

“Then the horse pulling the carriage….”

“It’s not alive, so it moves at an incredible speed…. They’ve caught up already.”

In the end, we had no choice but to stop the carriage.

People in white armor surrounded the carriage.

Crash!

Without a word, they began to smash the carriage’s windows with swords.

Once the carriage had turned into a rag, we came out.

“Oh no, it was borrowed, and now it’s broken, so I can’t return it!”

Ririan kicked a soldier in front of him hard in the stomach.

With a great noise, the flying soldier crashed into a tree nearby.

“Now, who’s next?”

Among what appeared to be over twenty soldiers, a guy in ornate armor gave orders.

“Attack all at once!”

As Jema swept her sword, a brilliant beam of yellow light extended out with a sizzling sound.

Bang!

With a loud explosion, dust rose. We seized that opportunity to hide our bodies and flee.

We hid in an abandoned village in the direction we fled, but they eventually found us.

“We can’t run anymore. Are you the guy called Ririan who’s wanted?”

Ignoring everyone else, they only targeted me.

I tried to move forward, but Aila held me back and stopped me.

“I told you to stay behind me.”

Aila marched forward and revealed herself before the enemies.

“Who are you!”

“Seeing that you don’t know me, you must be a low-ranking soldier.”

A few soldiers tried to block Aila’s path, but it was futile.

In an instant, the heads of several soldiers fell to the ground.

Clang!

One soldier overwhelmed by Aila’s presence dropped his sword.

What followed wasn’t just a simple slaughter.

It was one-sided violence.

The last remaining commander sat on the ground, staring blankly at Aila.

After a moment, Aila returned with a blue Magic Stone in her hand.

“It’s something too good for someone who doesn’t even know how to use it. This is for Ririan.”

“How do I use it? I don’t even have armor!”

“Stick it into the dagger.”

There wasn’t really a space in the dagger to stick the jewel.

Thinking I was being fooled, I brought the Magic Stone close to the dagger, and it shrank and created a groove in the dagger.

“Thank you for inserting the Magic Stone. Now, at any moment, I can return to you, my brother.”

“What do you mean by that?”

“Try throwing it as a test.”

Following the dagger’s words, I lightly threw it toward the building wall.

At that moment, I finally understood what the dagger meant.

The Magic Stone embedded in the dagger functioned like the Mana thread I had attached to my wooden sword before.

Using Mana to gently pull, the dagger came out of the wall and returned to my hand.

“That’s convenient.”

We acquired three carriages.

The ghost carriages, as they were called, ran on their own without needing mana to be supplied.

Ririan and Aila pulled one each, while the remaining one was assigned to Catherine.

Jema and I rode in the carriage that Catherine was handling.

“Have you really ever driven a horse?”

“Yes. Don’t worry.”

The advantage of the ghost carriage was that it could pass checkpoints with a simple disguise.

We stripped the white armor off the fallen soldiers, using it for our disguise.

This way, we could relatively easily pass through nearby checkpoints for a while.

The ghost carriage was roughly twice as fast as the carriage we had ridden before.

In the direction the sun was setting, a city engulfed in dusk stood tall.

It was Serreb.

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