Rewrite: Dragons' Land

Unknown Kingdom..

The man placed a cup of tea in front of his guest who accepted it thankfully.

Ryuu: " it seems that you had been through a lot, Ban."

The brunette merely sighed as he took a sip of his tea.

Ban: " you bet I did. Traveling ten kingdoms is very hard, especially ones that we don't know so much about."

Ryuu took the seat next to him.

Ryuu: " I would like to ask you about the three other kingdoms you visited, but seeing how tired you're, I think we better leave it for another day."

The brunette nodded in agreement. If anything else he would rather find a bed to collapse on right away.

Ryuu: " so, are you still going to travel around?"

Ban: " still I have to make sure of something."

He looked around the surprisingly calm library.

Ban: " by the way, where are Ruri and Ken?"

Ryuu: " they went with Tohru and Heidi to do some errands. Mizel is helping me with cleaning upstairs."

Ban: " I see."

He placed down his cup of tea and looked at Ryuu.

Ban: " I've went to the Ainsworth library in Arabista as you recommended."

Ryuu: " so?"

Ban sighed.

Ban: " there, I got my hands on some old books featuring a kingdom with flying creatures protecting it."

Ryuu rose an eyebrow.

Ban: " when I traveled around the continent for the whole years, it seems no one heard about such kingdom, yet."

Ban looked at Ryuu.

Ban: " from what I heard from Otacross, some of their neighbor kingdom's ships set off towards a place before coming back with a lot of jewels and gems."

Ryuu rubbed his chin in thoughts.

Ryuu: " that won't sound strange for a commoner, but for someone with much knowledge about the known kingdoms, there is no kingdom known for its mines."

Ban: " nor even the three other kingdoms I visited. What's more important is, thought Akihabara tried to convince them to share some information with them in hope to make some relationship with such kingdom, their neighbor kingdom turned them down and kept secret about the other kingdom."

He sighed as he looked down.

Ban: " not even that. The other two kingdoms I visited seem to have a relationship with this same kingdom. But for some reason, they're not willing to give any information about it. Not to mention that they wanted nothing to do with a relationship with the seven kingdoms."

Ryuu: " as far as I knew, although we weren't on close relationship with those three kingdoms, but they weren't distant like that when my grandfather was alive."

Ban: " then, do you want to say that something happened since the war that changed our relationship with them?"

He asked.

" Maybe an outside pressure."

They both snapped as they looked at the green haired boy who walked down the stairs.

Ryuu: " Mizel..."

Mizel: " I've finished cleaning."

Ban: " Mizel, what do you mean by pressure?"