Saying 5000 year-old-dragon has an impressive ring to it yet that dragon was an extremely harmless herbivorous being. However because of his uselessly giant figure and scary appearance he was mistaken for the Demon King’s executive and provided by the nearby village with a sacrificial maiden.
Fundamentally cowardly and timid dragon tried to send her away but the extremely enthusiastic sacrifice didn’t want to give up. Inevitably he lied: “Okay I just ate a small portion of your soul so you can go back already” but the maiden with outrageous assumptions has misunderstood that she became the dragon’s kin.
Then out of all things she began to manifest strange power on the basis of her wrong assumptions – in turn the helpless dragon by some mistake started a rebellion against the Demon King.
Rebellion or whatnot he wasn’t even his subordinate in the first place.