Chapter 2

## Chapter Chronology

**Parting and Reunion** (別離と邂逅, *Betsuri to kaigō*?) is the 2nd chapter of the Ragna Crimson manga series.

## Summary

Ragna wakes up from his nightmarish memories of Leonica dying and see her still alive sleeping next to him, this makes Ragna cry tears of joy in silence. Sykes enters the room explaining they're resting in his manor as the inn they were resting in before burned down. Ragna asks Sykes what happened after he fell asleep and Sykes explains that after the superior dragon died all the remaining dragons flew away leaving an half destroyed city and countless deaths. Sykes asks Ragna on what should they do now and Ragna simply answers that they should leave the country because the Dragon God stated only the destruction of the Kingdom of Lese so they'll not be followed if they leave the country and it'll be easy as they are near the border. This straightforward answer triggers Sykes making him doubt he's the real Ragna as the Ragna he knows isn't so skilled or knowledgeable and demands to known who he rally is. Shortly after Leonica wakes up interrupting both of them, Ragna seeing she's alive and moving makes him break down crying and falls asleep between her arms again.

With the sun rising all the survivors are relieved as now they'll be safe from the dragons but everyone gets surprised and confused to see a never seen before forest extending in the outskirts of the city. Two dragon hunters approach the forest to investigate it but one of them is grabbed by the trees root and killed revealing the threat of the forest who starts attacking the survivors. The owner of the forest, a superior dragon, is talking to himself and happy to known his forest found new ingredients for him revealing how by dragonizing the lower half of the trees he created the "Writhing Shade", a forest of dragon trees that act as his faithful hounds which protect him from sunlight while finding new ingredients for him. Shortly after he's served a dish by a human chef missing one leg followed by maids. The superior dragon recognizes the deliciousness of the dish but immediately after he eats the chef admitting that his leg was more delicious. He knows that the Dragon God enjoys human food but he also recognizes he can't do the same perhaps because he's at the bottom ranks of his bloodline.

Sykes counterattacks the trees and freezes some of them with his silver spear realizing they're dragons. The trees destroy Sykes Manor and grab the sleeping Ragna, Leonica tries to call Ragna desperately and he immediately wakes up freezing all the nearby trees. Ragna while sleeping remembered how in his journey the only ones who could come with him were those whose death didn't matter to him or those who couldn't die thus remembering his only and greatest ally, Crimson. He starts moving towards the center of the forest outrunning everything while reprimanding himself that he knows that the dangers haven't ended yet. Leonica unsuccessfully tries to follow him. The previous silver blast has already halted the superior dragon lunch with one maid and warns the unknown to him silver haired human that his action won't be tolerated but he gets drop kicked violently by Ragna. Ragna seeing the maid gets surprised to see her here. The superior dragon fully transformed now is enraged because half of his face is freezed and finds unacceptable his action towards him: Temruogtaf the 8th ranked dragon. The dragon demands that Ragna should immediately turn of his silver aura which he accepts and the dragon wastes no time to attack him but Ragna instead just makes him eating a silver aura bomb which instantly freezes and kills the dragon and the whole forest together.

Leonica reaches Ragna shortly after out of breath because of the running. She's happy for Ragna's successful hunt and remembers him how she was right with her intuition of him becoming stronger one day. Ragna asks a favor to Leonica to take the survivors and cross the border as he has works to do now but he'll soon return to her. She finds this unacceptable and she ends up in a childish tantrum. Only then Ragna realizes that Leonica even though she's a hunter prodigy she's still child, all this time because of his weakens he forced a child to be stronger than she needed. Ragna strengths his resolve and remembers to Leonica the first time they met and her discourse on weak and strong, she is now too weak for him and she would die if they stay together. Leonica still in a tantrum attacks Ragna but she's knocked out instantly but not before hearing Ragna's goodbye.

Sykes finds Leonica laying down and unconscious, he wakes her up asking what happened to her and where is Ragna. She replies that she knew he was strong enough and this is why she attacked him but she can't accept that he goes away leaving her behind so she breaks down crying. Ragna now far away is questioned by the maid he saved if he's sure of his goodbye and Ragna answers that those who can assist him are only those whose death doesn't matter to him or those who can't die but the answer confuses the maid. Ragna confused too by her reaction asks her if she really wasn't searching for him realizing their meeting could be a pure coincidence but that doesn't matter because now he saved time from searching her: Crimson. The maid is even more confused and tries to present herself but she's interrupted by Ragna who do it in her stead proving he already knows everything of her alter ego: Eliza Yorkshire, 14 years old, male, born in a farming village and while working in a mansion it was attacked by dragons and she went missing. The maid rebuts that her name is Elise but Ragna replies back that he knows she's Crimson, the previous Winged Monarch, and together they can exterminate all the dragons sooner than they did in the future. Elise slaps Ragna's face saying she's has enough of his rude behavior and she's neither a dragon and neither a male.

## Characters

* Ragna
* Leonica
* Saix Syaruruk
* Temruogtaf
* Eliza Yorkshire

## Locations

* Ronabera
* Writhing Shade

## Timeline

* February 28: Temruogtaf attacked Ronabera and then killed by Ragna.