'There's a Dragon among the people my father hired?
And it's a Dragon pretending to be weak?
He has a delinquent-like smile while looking at us?'
"...I suddenly got the chills."
Dragons were highly likely to be their allies.
But Cale felt chills on his back for some reason. It felt as if he would have to carry on some extra baggage.
"Hmm? Cale, did you say something?"
"N, no, it was nothing."
"You must be tired. Let's go inside."
"Yes, father."
Cale looked as if he was grumbling as he walked behind Duke Deruth who was walking with his shoulders opened wide and each step full of his steadfast conviction.
Duke Deruth started to frown after seeing the way his son was walking.
'...There's no strength in his step. It makes sense, he must be really tired.'
Deruth made up his mind to quickly erase that terrible bastard called the White Star from this world as Violan and he discussed.
He needed even more strong individuals to do that.
'Hmm. Would it be difficult to hire the Whale tribe?'
Or...
'Are there any Dragons anywhere? I can give them as much money as they want.'
As Deruth was thinking hard about it...
"Father, are you certain about the identities of the people you've hired?"
He quickly stopped concentrating and happily responded to Cale's question.
"Of course! I used every information network our Duchy has available to select only those with verified identities! Don't worry! We at least know where they were born and how they grew up! We were so thorough that we would even find out if there were any Dragons!"
'...It doesn't seem that way. Father, there's a Dragon here.'
Cale put on an awkward smile because he could not tell his father the truth while Deruth looked sad after looking at Cale's smile.
'How tired must he be to force a smile like that?'
Duke Deruth was so upset that he wanted to choke the White Star and shake him around. He suppressed his sorrow at his son's condition and walked past the garden to the estate.
Cale observed the strong individuals in the garden as he walked past.
He wanted to know which of them was the Dragon. He could not ask Raon who the Dragon was because there were so many people there.
However...
'...All of their gazes look a bit odd.'
The numerous strong individuals' gazes were odd as they looked at Cale and Choi Han behind him. Cale then made eye contact with an old knight.
The knight who seemed to be in his eighties walked over to Cale and reached out his hand.
"Young master Cale-nim."
"Excuse me?"
The old man looked full of admiration as he kept his arm out.
"May I please shake your hand?"
"Ah."
"This is Sir Babala from the Breck Kingdom. He's been a central figure in the Breck Kingdom's monster clearing plan since about fifty years ago."
