Smoke rose from the fire dragon’s charred body.
I grabbed one of the blackened scales, swallowed a groan, and pulled it away.
The pain from the searing heat aside, the dragon’s body was still so sturdy that there was nothing I could do with my strength alone.
“Lieutenant Colonel Je! Captains!”
I looked back.
“Help me! We have to cut open his belly. The twins were eaten earlier…!”
My vision was blurred by the blood flowing from my eyes.
I could not tell what expressions everyone wore as they looked at me.
I could only see that they were approaching.
“Move aside.”
Mo Haein grabbed my shoulder and pushed me away, then planted one foot on the fire dragon’s belly.
She drove the Black Moon Blade into the lower abdomen where she had removed the scales earlier and cut the opening wider.
The dragon’s flesh split apart.
But his body was so enormous that even if we crawled inside, finding the twins looked as though it would take a very long time.
How could we rescue them more quickly?
I tortured myself searching for an answer and was about to widen the gap further when
a hand reached out from inside the belly.
It was not a child’s hand, but an…