Was it species-recommended?

I immediately learned Draconic from the Catalog… Ah, so this is the kind of skill where I can talk to dragons while consuming mana.

I activated the skill and spoke to the dragon again.

"So. Why were you chasing that carriage? I learned Draconic, so you can just talk normally."

"Oh, Anego! You can speak dragon!? You learned it in such a short time? What an intelligent person, amazing!"

So he was calling me Anego, huh.

"Well, the thing is, I kinda went into heat… Getting punched by you knocked me back to my senses, you know? Normally I'm gentle and harmless. Well, unless someone attacks me first."

"I see. Hm? So you were chasing after that big iguana-like lizard to propose to it?"

"No no, that's ridiculous! That one's a male! Not him, but the white and lovely lady in the back! She had such a soft-looking body I couldn't resist wanting to embrace her!"

That's a carriage. A covered wagon.

"You don't have to give me that look, I know she's not a dragon? There's a reason for this, you know. I mean, dragons are basically the ultimate life form, right?"

"You're calling yourself the ultimate life form after getting one-punched by me? That's hilarious."

"You're just way too strong, Anego!! Anyway, the Dragon King issued a decree to prevent us from breeding too much. So carriages were recommended as a substitute for releasing our urges…"

"… I see?"

So it was species-recommended? That whole dragon-car thing.

"Still, you really were strong, Anego! I can't believe I got taken down in one hit… Ah, my fang's broken. That's depressing."

"Ah. Want me to reattach it? I can do stuff like that."

"Huh, despite having such a powerful body, you can even use Healing Magic, Anego. I appreciate the thought, but normal Healing Magic doesn't work on dragons. We've got high magic resistance too."

"Let's see?… Yep, reattached!"

"… … Whoa, seriously!? What are you, Anego!?"

I tried it and it just reattached normally. Well, it's not normal Healing Magic but the Goddess's magic, after all.

"Well, if you've come back to your senses, you should be fine now. Go on home."

"Huh, really?"

"I can't bring myself to kill someone I've chatted with so casually. I'm not that much of an ogre, you know?"

"You're a half-ogre, Anego!? No wonder you're so freakishly strong!"

"Correction: I'm not an ogre. My species is human… probably."

Aside from being able to use invincible Spatial Magic, I should just be an ordinary beautiful girl except for my mana capacity. On paper, anyway.

"There it is! The dragon!!"

"Hm?"

Looking toward the voice, I saw fully-armored dwarves charging toward us. They were standing imposingly on the backs of large turtles that walked on four legs, like giant flat Squirtles. Despite their appearance, the turtles were actually riding beasts that ran at explosive speeds, kicking up clouds of dust.

"Crap!? Oh no, dwarves! They found me! Help me, Anego!!"

"Hey, don't hide behind me! I have nothing to do with this!"

"Humans are such a pain! If you kill one, they swarm you relentlessly until you're exhausted! Ahh, they probably found that corpse. The adventurer I stomped on after he made me sniff an aphrodisiac…"

So it was an adventurer's doing. He brought it on himself, then.

Because we were leisurely bickering like that, the Thunder Dragon and I ended up surrounded by dwarves. That said, the sky was still wide open, so he could escape if he wanted to… Actually, just escape then. Why are you curling up behind me?

A dwarf with an impressive beard who seemed to be their leader spoke to us while standing imposingly atop his turtle.

"Lady over there. We are the Tessin Mobile Turtle Knight Corps. Why is the dragon behind you?"

"Help me, Anego! These guys are seriously trouble, hide me!"

… said the Thunder Dragon, clinging to me. How pathetic. Geez, can't be helped.

… Wait, so they're the Mobile Turtle Knight Corps, huh. Hm, they're called Dodai Turtles? That's literally "mobile platform." Wow, I can't believe things like this exist.