The sea demon Ysi's story was not earth-shattering, nor were her travels across the continent filled with much worth marveling at—at least, not enough to be woven into Dragons Battle in the Wild.
Most crucially, she had never ventured into the upper circles of Eagle Kingdom nobility, so the information she knew was quite limited.
Still, her experiences were not without value.
For instance, she had once studied piano under the master Czerny Windmill—Czerny was a renowned piano master of the Iron Ridge Kingdom. He had traveled through the Eagle Kingdom and met Ysi, telling her how he had created his famous piece, Euryale by the Water.
It was an autumn dusk. Czerny, traveling through various lands in search of inspiration, had reached the border between the Iron Ridge Kingdom and the Blast Furnace Kingdom and stopped in the countryside near a frontier town. After having his portable piano unloaded from the carriage, he was preparing to tune it and practice a piece.
Suddenly, an elk burst from the woods, and charged straight toward him. But with the river nearby, the elk had nowhere left to run and was just about to leap into the water and swim to the opposite bank.
Then a steel pitchfork flew in from afar, smashing the elk's head and killing it instantly. After that, Czerny saw a demoness emerge from the woods, her pale green hair writhing like snakes. Lowered eyelids, a slender figure, snow-white skin, and vivid red lips.
Czerny fell in love at first sight.
Yet when the demoness dragged away the dead elk, she merely lifted her eyelids and glanced at him. In that instant, he became as stiff as stone, unable to move—even his eyes could not turn. He could only watch her back vanish into the woods, dazed and