The 5000-year-old Herbivorous Dragon-Chapter 106 - Blood of the sacrifice

It happened so fast.

I think Raiotto was taken over at the moment when his fingertips had just touched it.

Even though he was so confident, I wanted him to at least show me that he could last 10 seconds. If he couldn’t at least do that, I won’t be able to rest in my grave.

「Hyahaha! It’s been- a long time since- I drank dragon blood!」

「Nooooooo—! I don’t want to die in a place like this! I’m begging you please return to your former self!」

With a “gachin” sound, the violent sword was blocked mid swing.

The sword that almost cut through my neck was gripped by the spirit’s teeth - it had apparently slid down from my head to stop the attack.

「Ahh? What, this small thing?」

「Fuhifuu」

The spirit said something unrecognizable with the sword in its mouth.

It probably said something like “return safely.” It was still obediently following Sheinas orders.

However, with the small body of the spirit, there was a limit to how long it could block the sword.

Raiotto also didn’t have a big frame either but he was powered by the curse of the sword so the power he could currently display was outside of what a child at his age could do.

Being pushed back by the sword, the spirit’s knees gradually buckled under the pressure and the sword’s tip reached the skin of my neck.

「Mi, Miss Spirit! I’m fine! At this rate, you’ll also be cut along with me!」

「Affirmative.」

「Wah, wait wait, I didn’t mean it! Don’t just agree without any hesitation!」

The spirits attitude was completely business-like.

It seems like it just did what it was told to do and it didn’t really have any feelings for me.

The result of releasing the sword for just a moment led the sword to finally reach my neck.

I was pierced just a tiny bit and a small trickle of blood flowed down.

「Uuuh… It’s over… This time, Miss Spirit, it’s okay to find a chance to escape… I’ve already prepared myself.」

「Affirmative.」

The chance had come way too fast. The spirit’s mouth let go of the sword and its swinging direction moved back to the side of my body.

With this, I’ll be cut down in one stroke and everything will be over.

-Or so I thought.

The moment the spirit let go of the sword it started to attack me again, but as I waited for the sword to hit, I waited even longer as the sword hadn’t swung down.

It was as if Raiotto was frozen there with the sword still just touching my neck and couldn’t move.

「Do, don’t tell me. You’ve finally released yourself from the curse? You’re

amazing Raiotto!」

「…Disgusting.」

Yes?

A voice with his tone dropped by a few notes… the same voice as Raiotto’s reached me, a me who was still expecting great things from Raiotto.

「Eeeeh… What, this? So bad… I thought I could, drink dragon blood again, but what the hell is this? Disgusting…」

「Uhhh, you are? Mr. Cursed Sword?」

「Ahh-… I understand. This flavour, is the flavour of a lizard… Not, dragon. You tricked me… What a, huge scam…」

Raiotto, who was still possessed, rolled on my back like he was sulking.

「Mr. Sword? Uuh, can I take this as you letting me go?」 𝐟𝚛e𝐞𝙬𝗲𝒃𝓷𝒐𝘃e𝒍.c𝑜m

「Like hell, I can eat this sh*t. Ahh—… I lost all motivation. Feel heavy.」

「Well isn’t this an listless cursed sword.」

Even looking from my point of view you could see his tension plummeting.

Even so, I thought it would be bad if I needlessly stimulated him and so continued to observe him but he just went from sulking to just having an afternoon nap.

He then started to snore until it gradually got louder and louder but at that moment-

「…I did it, I won! I’m holding the sword while retaining my sanity! I’ve won against the curse!」

Raiotto had awakened.

Rather than saying he won the mental war, it’s more accurate to say that the cursed sword let him win.

「Hah? But why was I laying down like this? Don’t tell me that it took over for just a moment…?」

「It wasn’t just a single moment you know? You lost splendidly, so firstly, let go of that sword because it’s dangerous. We don’t know when it will take over again.」

Listening to my advice, Raiotto unwillingly stored the sword back into his belt.

Letting out a sigh of relief at having struggled through the danger, I then started to kindly explain what had happened just now in order to avoid having Raiotto try again.

「Listen well, you were completely taken over and I was one step away from having my head chopped off. If my blood didn’t taste disgusting, it’ll all be over…」

「So that’s what happened.」

Raiotto nodded mysteriously.

「As expected of Revendia huh. Your blood is filled with terrifying poisons right? Strong enough to make the cursed sword powerless. I never thought that even though you’re currently weakened, you still hid such power…」

「It’s actually a problem with the taste. It’s not that my blood is poisoned but that the taste was disgusting… probably.」

One of my charm points is that in the summertime, mosquitos won’t approach me at all.

It’s definitely because my blood doesn’t taste good.

「So in other words, this sword died to poison right? 」

「I’m telling you it’s still alive. Don’t just pin more crimes on me.」

「Ahnn?」

The sword wrapped in his belt suddenly started talking.

Mine and Raiotto eyes peeled back and our bodies started shaking.

「You, you can speak by yourself?」

「Of, course I, can.」

「Before you took over my body, weren’t you just a normal sword?!」

「No one will, hold onto a sword, that talks. Think rationally, retards.」

「Ah, yes… that’s right.」

Raiotto and I started speaking politely as it logically pointed out common sense to us.

「Ahh-… Tired. Dragon blood. Can’t drink… Sh*t…」 𝑓𝔯𝑒e𝘸e𝘣𝓷𝘰ѵe𝚕.c૦𝙢

「Hey, you… Really want to drink dragon blood that badly?」

Suddenly, Raiotto started speaking to the sword.

「Ahh. I can hardly, drink it, it’s my favourite…」

「One of my acquaintances is a dragon. If you cooperate with us, then I can ask him to share some of his blood. Since his body is so big, you could at least drink a bucket or two.」

「Houu?」

I could see that the cursed sword was interested.

「You’re, not lying right? It’s not like, the trash I, had before right?」

「He probably won’t have poison in his blood. Since he’s always being aimed at by the adventurers to be used as materials. He didn’t really mention anything about poison.」

「Poison? Don’t know what, the hell you’re, talking about but— Brat, it’s true that I, can smell dragon from, your clothes…」

My eyes turned round in astonishment.

I never thought that Raiotto would know a dragon. Even though dragons don’t appear so often, how did he meet one?

Not to mention the fact that they get along enough for Raiotto to ask for his blood- I started to pray to all the gods that Raiotto doesn’t attack me with his dragon friend.

For a while, Raiotto and the cursed sword negotiated the reward in terms of buckets of blood for helping them.

Then, finally with the deal set, Raiotto grasped the hilt of the sword like he was sealing it with a handshake.

「Very well. Use my powers, as you please…」

「Ou! I owe you one!」

By the way, while they were negotiating, the spirit, who had nothing to do, started playing by sliding up and down my horn.