Chapter 3

## Chapter Chronology

**The Beginning of the Story** (物語の始まり, *Monogatari no hajimari*?) is the 3rd chapter of the Ragna Crimson manga series.

## Summary

It's March 1st, Ragna is still trying to convince Eliza while they're walking with no precise destination. Eliza questions Ragna on why she isn't burning under the sunlight if she is a dragon and he replies it's because she has sealed her power, now she isn't as strong as before but she also has no correlated weaknesses. Eliza also adds that she's a woman but Ragna replies back that she can physically change to her will but the reply enrages her. Eliza in her thoughts is interested in Ragna's silver aura and his story but she finds it hard to believe. She's interrupted by her servant which advises to not trust the human but she's too interested on how his silver aura works and its possible applications, in the case he proves to be worthless she can simply trick him into dying. She's gets a shock when she realizes how close Ragna is to her face while she was in deep thought. Ragna tries to convince Eliza with his experience of taking care of the personal needs of Leonica but she just refuse finding him creepy. Then as last resort Ragna tries to convince Eliza with his Silver Battle Arts but just shortly after he fall unconscious because of the toll on his body.

Ragna dreams of when his future-self met Crimson for the first time, the moment she declared to be the Winged Monarch Ragna didn't hesitate a second to kill her but it didn't work as more bodies just showed up. She was interested into him and wanted to make an alliance to exterminate all dragons and she could make Ragna stronger.

Ragna wakes up in the evening, lying nearby a campfire with Eliza. Eliza while examining Ragna unconscious body realized that Ragna doesn't simply cover his body in silver aura but he produces it making his potential even higher making him even more interesting for her and can't wait to test him against a higher ranked dragon. Shortly after their rest is interrupted when Ragna perceives a nearby village attacked by the dragons. He asks to Eliza what she wants him to do to prove his worth and she asks him kill all the dragons with an overwhelming show of his power.

Meanwhile in the village several dragon hunters are trying to protect the civilians when a superior dragon shows up from underground and eats all the civilians with one bite. The long body of the dragon easily crushes all buildings of village while the dragon hunters fall in despair because they're powerless. At the last second Ragna arrives and saves the head hunter before he was going to be eaten by a smaller dragon. The superior dragon is toasting for that night slaughter of humans when some hunters try to attack him but their effort is useless because how thick his armor is but Ragna with only one hit with a sword created from his silver aura easily slices the dragon thick armor. Ragna creates a barrage of swords made of his silver aura which kill easily the superior dragon. Eliza catches one of the swords falling from the body of the dead dragon and test it against a wall discovering to her surprise the excellent edge of the sword would make even second rate hunters into first rate. Crimson releases her servant, Evil Slime which is able to dissolve dragons easily. Crimson then reveals herself to Ragna but she still doesn't trust him so she gives him a poison which will trigger only in the moment he would dare to betray her. To their disappointment Ragna wastes no time into drinking the poison. After hearing the reason why Ragna wants to kill all the dragons she gets even more disappointed by his boring reason of killing the dragons before they can hurt him or who he cares about. But to her the reason has no importance as long Ragna is a useful tool for the extermination of dragons. Ragna then proceeds to pledge to exterminate all the dragons and after that to kill Crimson as she demands.

## Characters

* Ragna
* Eliza Yorkshire/Crimson
* Evil Slime
* Michael
* Baron Sierra

## Timeline

* March 1st: Baron Sierra was killed by Ragna, Crimson reveled herself and allied with Ragna.