Beast Taming? Nah, Dragon Herding is Way Better! - Chapter 44

Chapter 44: An Elven Beauty
“This is quite the surprise…” seeing the young lady who seems to be about the same age as him appearing to be really thin and deprived of possibly even basic human treatment, combined with the fact that her limbs are all restrained not only by a normal, but with a mana suppressing shackles, along with the ruined dress that seems to be of someone of high standing for the elven kind, Diluc said to himself before he opens the cage up.

Seeing the sudden movement, as well as the fact that what made this movement appears to be a human as well, the caged elven beauty looks menacingly towards him, appearing as if there is still something she can do that will threaten the young man despite her current state.

“I’m warning you, I can take my life anytime I want, don’t even try to do anything to me…” looking at the tall figure now climbing the cage that she is imprisoned in, the elven beauty warns as she grabs a short dagger that appears out of nowhere, threatening the young man of her own life, a decision which seems to be something that is counterintuitive, yet given what she thinks the young man is, she is fairly certain that this threat of hers will work.

Hearing her words however, the young man couldn’t help but smile as he takes even closer step towards this elven lady, the beauty trying her best to stay further away from him until she eventually gets driven into the other side of the cage, her eyes already reddened as she really starts preparing to take her own life way just to avoid experiencing what she thought she will in the hands of what is in her mind, is a vile human.

Before she can plunge the small dagger deeper in her own neck though, she got stopped by a sudden force as the young man who is still a few meters away from her previously now holding her hands wielding this hidden weapon she had used to threaten all the other humans who tries to do things with her during her time on this place, causing her to feel despair as never was there anyone who has the strength to completely suppress her among the human who came to the cage before.

“Say little miss elf, do you perhaps mistake me for someone else?” seeing the terror on the elven beauty’s eyes, Diluc couldn’t help but ask, showing an amiable smile on his face in an attempt to make this beauty more comfortable when talking with him.

“Mistake you for someone? How could I be mistaken, you’re with the group who brought me here, you… you kidnapper!!!” the blond elf screamed towards the young man despite all his attempt to make himself appear more approachable, this alone enough to make him think that this beauty is still not in the proper mind due to what happened to her.

However, despite this fact, being someone who starts getting used to being treated with at least a basic respect for fellow sentient being by most of the people he had encountered so far, he just couldn’t help but feel a bit displeased with how this lady acts.

This doesn’t hinder him from trying to help her though as he decided to just let go of the hands preventing her from stabbing herself, then using his martial arts cultivation in order to instantaneously move away to a distance comfortable to her.

“I told you, I have no single connection towards whoever it is that take you away, I’m just a passerby that comes across this caravan, and eventually, comes across you, miss, didn’t you hear all the commotion outside?” Diluc starts explaining before he eventually ends up asking, before pointing at the blood-stained pathway where the caravan is situated, the lady struggling to look around eventually finding the pits that seem to burn intensely, making her wonder just what is it that is being burned there.

“What happened here?” the lady asked with her weak voice as she feels terror at the implication of all this spilled blood, and all this along with this young man who seems to be the only one who is still alive after what seems to be a big commotion makes her senses scream that there is something wrong with him.

“You really don’t know?” seeing the genuine expression of confusion on the elven beauty’s face, Diluc couldn’t help but ask again now due to pure curiosity, the beauty then pouting her mouth for him not answering her question first yet still complies to answer his question as she feels like angering this young man will only cause her now hard life to become even harder.

“That thing prevents anyone inside from detecting what is happening outside, it also prevents anyone outside from spying in the content of the inside” the elven beauty explains as she points her fingers to the heavy cloth that covers the trailer containing her previously, causing the young man now standing beside her to nod in acknowledgement.

“Perhaps that’s the reason why it is quite heavy” Diluc mutters more to himself rather than anyone else as he starts taking interest to this cloth, deciding to keep it for himself instead of selling it to the Dragon Herding System’s shop just for the sake of studying it, only selling it after he completely comprehend it.

“Happy now? Answer my question then, make it simple, I don’t really need much detail of how these… things died” with a miniscule bit of friendliness now apparent from her voice seeing that this young man really means no harm, the elven lady reminded that she asks a question as well, causing the young man to snap out of his curious gaze and look at her, pausing for a while to think of what to reply before deciding on something.

“Caravan, bandit, then me” to ease the still somehow tense atmosphere between the two of them, the young man said with the intention of taking the explanation not too seriously and mixing some jokes on it, motioning his hands on his neck as a sign of the words he mentioned killing the others, causing the elven beauty to snicker as she hears his crass, yet somehow still easily comprehendible explanation.

“Pfft… not that simple~” she said as a smile finally appears on her completely thin, yet still beautiful face, before she starts falling on her knees as she finally let down of her tense guard, feeling like she can let her guard, constantly up since she got kidnapped by the caravan, down when she’s with this young man.

Seeing that the elven beauty is falling, Diluc immediately moves to catch her, preventing her from completely falling into the cold metallic floor where she is imprisoned, his touch causing the beauty to shiver a bit in terror but her body stops doing so eventually in a few moments as she realizes that he just wants to help.

“Would you prefer it if I don’t touch you, little elven missy?” seeing that they are a bit more comfortable with each other now, Diluc addresses her as he lets her down after efficiently setting up a cloth from his spatial pouch using his wind elemental mana, his way of addressing her causing the elven beauty to pout in annoyance as never in her life did she expect someone, not to mention a human, to call her like that.

“I’m not a little elven missy, and it’s fine, you’ve done it now anyway” the elven beauty replied with the pout still on her face before she averts her gaze, as now that she is looking at this young man and seeing his face properly, she couldn’t help but think that he is really handsome for a human, and even elven standard.

“You need help with those chains?” seeing that the circulation of mana around her body is completely hindered by the shackles on her limbs, Diluc asked just for courtesy, but each of his hands are already on two of them, the one chained on her wrist, his hands around hers causing the elven beauty to feel something weird inside her but not something repugnant like the one she felt when those previous humans try to do something with her.

“This might surprise or even hurt you for a bit, brace yourself” Diluc politely reminded the elven beauty as he starts exerting strength into his hands, using his martial arts cultivation in order to destroy the mana suppressing shackles currently binding her.

“Don’t trouble yourself too much, after all, you’ve helped me enough already, just cut the chains and help me reach this kingdom’s capital” the beauty said knowing that the young man is also just a mage like hers given how masterfully he controls wind elemental mana in order to set the cloth that is currently underneath the two of them, her words merely causing the young man to shake his head as he continues doing whatever it is that he is attempting to do.