Thrown Out of the Hero Summons for a Worthless Haggling Skill, He Struck a Deal With the Dragon novel · Chapter 21 of 24

Chapter 21: The Cinder Peak

The door into the Cinder Peak was a slab of black rock twice the height of a man, at the end of a shelf of cinders.

There was no handle, only a hand-sized hollow worn smooth at shoulder height.

Ryota stood in front of it at noon on the Day of Ash, with ash falling past him so thick it hissed.

Forty knights had ridden with them up the road and stopped at the tree line, where Corisande ordered them to wait.

She had walked the last mile beside him.

Tsubasa had walked behind them both, with the gold-hilted sword on his back, and nobody had ordered him to come at all.

"My leash came off at dawn," he'd said at the tree line. "It said until the Day of Ash. Well, here it is."

"You're off the roll, Mikami. You're free."

"So I can go where I like." He'd shrugged. "I like here."

Now Corisande was kneeling on the cinders a few paces from the door.

The black ground there had a dark shape burned into it, roughly the length of a man.

She put her bare hand flat in the middle of it and stayed there for a while.

Ryota and Tsubasa looked at the mountain and let her.

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