One day as the dragon of the mountain is flying home after an unsucsessful hunt he finds the smell of a human coming from his cave. He hurries home to find a boy who wants a piece of his treasure in exchange for 20 deer. The boy needs it to please his family. He agrees feeling pity for the boy as he also had tried in vain to please his own family. After the boy leaves the dragon eats the meet and falls asleep, when he wakes up he realised that the boy must have returned after the dragon gave him a piece of treasure and had taken everything. In dismay the dragon finds that the boy had taken a very valuable and precious thing and now the is on an adventure to get it back.