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The hugging dragon wants a bath so they go to a lake. The strange dragon helps lead the way happy until he isn't upon seeing land dragons. Our heroine and the hugging dragon tell each other their here, and some small talk of qualities later they're at the lake where humans and dragons are already bathing. This is the evidence the hugging dragon needed to prove the humans have a population. Those used to the world take off their clothes, it gets silently awkward for those new to this world, and they get in the water. The water is just right. They discuss the clothes thing. The lost girl can't tell more of her story; the strange dragon wants to play. The women discuss how happy she is. Our heroine wants to play too, with the hugging dragon. After the bath in the forest that's better than a desert, mostly unseen, the strange dragon flies and plays too much for the hugging dragon, and they decide to crash at the lost girl's place. The wooden house looks sewn together, creepy, and beautiful. What's for dinner? Meat fruit! The lost girl shows them how to cook it. After preparation the strange dragon starts the fire with a snap. Put the fruit on a plate and cook it; it goes great on a stick. Once served the journalist takes pictures, but it's not about the cult, and the strange dragon is amused. The cooked meat fruit is like steak, not human, and tastes like chicken. Our heroine and the hugging dragon are welcome to stay, and the hugging dragon is embarrassed for stalking THE land dragon while our heroine was in his heart. Everyone is happy and the strange dragon is belchy. The hugging dragon is about to talk about his father.
That was indeed a calm moment, or hours I suppose. It's our cast bathing together and eating together with clear world-building about this forest.
This chapter shows what Minako is like in terms of how accustomed she is to this world now especially compared to the others.
A new question pops up of Aki's shyness towards the land dragons. Aki also continues to be the 'antagonist of revelations' in this (by which I mean he gets in the way of revelations with his child-like demeanor, which I think he did last chapter) so Minako's survival story will have to wait. Then the chapter ends on a cliffhanger on the revelations side.
Fun side note: My concerns are growing for the battery life of the phone...
Favorite Part: The fact that Aki can light a fire by snapping his fingers.
6Viewer27ManThe hugging dragon wants a bath so they go to a lake. The strange dragon helps lead the way happy until he isn't upon seeing land dragons. Our heroine and the hugging dragon tell each other their here, and some small talk of qualities later they're at the lake where humans and dragons are already bathing. This is the evidence the hugging dragon needed to prove the humans have a population. Those used to the world take off their clothes, it gets silently awkward for those new to this world, and they get in the water. The water is just right. They discuss the clothes thing. The lost girl can't tell more of her story; the strange dragon wants to play. The women discuss how happy she is. Our heroine wants to play too, with the hugging dragon. After the bath in the forest that's better than a desert, mostly unseen, the strange dragon flies and plays too much for the hugging dragon, and they decide to crash at the lost girl's place. The wooden house looks sewn together, creepy, and beautiful. What's for dinner? Meat fruit! The lost girl shows them how to cook it. After preparation the strange dragon starts the fire with a snap. Put the fruit on a plate and cook it; it goes great on a stick. Once served the journalist takes pictures, but it's not about the cult, and the strange dragon is amused. The cooked meat fruit is like steak, not human, and tastes like chicken. Our heroine and the hugging dragon are welcome to stay, and the hugging dragon is embarrassed for stalking THE land dragon while our heroine was in his heart. Everyone is happy and the strange dragon is belchy. The hugging dragon is about to talk about his father.
That was indeed a calm moment, or hours I suppose. It's our cast bathing together and eating together with clear world-building about this forest.
This chapter shows what Minako is like in terms of how accustomed she is to this world now especially compared to the others.
A new question pops up of Aki's shyness towards the land dragons. Aki also continues to be the 'antagonist of revelations' in this (by which I mean he gets in the way of revelations with his child-like demeanor, which I think he did last chapter) so Minako's survival story will have to wait. Then the chapter ends on a cliffhanger on the revelations side.
Fun side note: My concerns are growing for the battery life of the phone...
Favorite Part: The fact that Aki can light a fire by snapping his fingers.
7/16/2024 c18 Viewer27Man
Our heroine is still in THE land dragon's heart. She's fine when he rips his chest open so the hugging dragon can see her in his heart and he feels this. Then a distasteful joke ruins the mood. She's ready to leave with no questions about being in a heart and the hugging dragon phases through and pulls her out. They comment on THE land dragon's gentleness and deny the hugging dragon's father who turns out to be the cosmic dragon, name confirmed. The hugging dragon doesn't want to talk about it further, but he is welcome to stay, and wants another hug. Once his tears dry he and our heroine go to find the teacher, the journalist, and the lost girl, and they don't know what to say so they hug instead. The lost girl doesn't need her glasses anymore, and the teacher explains how she got there. The lost girl then tells the story of 5 years ago: she witnessed the cult sacrifice a girl to the cosmic dragon and had to boldly burn the place down, the cosmic dragon's idea, to stop this. The cult leader confronted her with a gun when she started the fire and the cosmic dragon pulls her into the ground for fun. The cosmic dragon got bored with chants and wanted fire and a game instead. Not all humans here are in the game. Before our heroine can tell her story the strange dragon gets bored and the lost girl offers them a bath. The hugging dragon may explain more tonight if he can... And they all live happily ever after or at least for a chapter or 2...
This was a major revelations chapter. They found Minako who explained the fire and her disappearance. We learn the Cosmic Dragon is Astral's father and has Lunar as a name, though he performs actions that seem to oppose himself, likely playing both sides, sometimes apparently for a game of some kind. The main question left about the Cosmic Dragon/Lunar is why was Lunar nice to Alice and Astral when she first met him? (I think I recall the cosmic dragon's portrayal in Astral's dream sequence being different from Lunar's as well.)
Astral has more to add, but keeps putting it off. Aki's interruption seemed to be coincidentally timed.
Favorite Part: The revelations. These are mysteries I had been waiting to read the answers to. There also still details missing to be revealed later related to the revelations.
Our heroine is still in THE land dragon's heart. She's fine when he rips his chest open so the hugging dragon can see her in his heart and he feels this. Then a distasteful joke ruins the mood. She's ready to leave with no questions about being in a heart and the hugging dragon phases through and pulls her out. They comment on THE land dragon's gentleness and deny the hugging dragon's father who turns out to be the cosmic dragon, name confirmed. The hugging dragon doesn't want to talk about it further, but he is welcome to stay, and wants another hug. Once his tears dry he and our heroine go to find the teacher, the journalist, and the lost girl, and they don't know what to say so they hug instead. The lost girl doesn't need her glasses anymore, and the teacher explains how she got there. The lost girl then tells the story of 5 years ago: she witnessed the cult sacrifice a girl to the cosmic dragon and had to boldly burn the place down, the cosmic dragon's idea, to stop this. The cult leader confronted her with a gun when she started the fire and the cosmic dragon pulls her into the ground for fun. The cosmic dragon got bored with chants and wanted fire and a game instead. Not all humans here are in the game. Before our heroine can tell her story the strange dragon gets bored and the lost girl offers them a bath. The hugging dragon may explain more tonight if he can... And they all live happily ever after or at least for a chapter or 2...
This was a major revelations chapter. They found Minako who explained the fire and her disappearance. We learn the Cosmic Dragon is Astral's father and has Lunar as a name, though he performs actions that seem to oppose himself, likely playing both sides, sometimes apparently for a game of some kind. The main question left about the Cosmic Dragon/Lunar is why was Lunar nice to Alice and Astral when she first met him? (I think I recall the cosmic dragon's portrayal in Astral's dream sequence being different from Lunar's as well.)
Astral has more to add, but keeps putting it off. Aki's interruption seemed to be coincidentally timed.
Favorite Part: The revelations. These are mysteries I had been waiting to read the answers to. There also still details missing to be revealed later related to the revelations.
7/2/2024 c17 Viewer27Man
Our heroine wakes up, but it's still nighttime and goes back to bed. She then realizes she doesn't know where she is when she sees a big blue unknown planet in the sky. Then the dragon dad says hi while appreciating the view and says they're on the moon. Neither of them know what happened, but the ground is warm. He then explains the blue planet is earth, she questions this, but it feels like earth kind of. She then remembers she was in a forest with others. After the dragon dad asks about his son there are 2 booms. The dragon dad heard it too, but insists on his question. He's okay, and that's good, but our heroine still has a lot of reasonable questions in her head about the setting. She suggests the dragon dad can talk to his son and that he believes in change indirectly inferring to the dad that he wasn't able to hear despite watching them. She asks why she's on the moon again, but only gets another boom, and then remembers the hugging dragon calling out her name desperately but forgets why, but then she remembers the cut, pain, and darkness. She questions the moon thing and is questioned how she's feeling, and the questions are exchanged twice. She then questions if he's real and if she's dead. He says she should breathe because of her nervousness. She considers what she knows when the heartbeat booms again. She can't be dead she was so close to finding the lost girl the dragon dad doesn't know. She denies what she sees and gets another boom and bold text, a new voice, that it's time to leave. She explains the short version of who the lost girl is to the dragon dad and after saying she isn't dead there's more bold talk to wake up and he slaps her awake. Our heroine wakes up to darkness and liquid that she can breathe in. She's not in a stomach; she's in the heart of THE land dragon. She questions this.
We get another crazy dream (likely a dream) of likely a near death experience for Alice this time where she's on the moon talking to Lunar while sleeping in a heart apparently.
It's (probably) a dream; it's not clear how much of this dream are real beyond Alice's feelings (at least some of the intel from her conversation with Lunar is likely real at least to her and being on the moon, seeing the 'Earth' and talking to Lunar must all mean something).
I wonder if it's important if Lunar couldn't hear them while watching them, if that's a quick explanation, or if being a dream makes that matter at all.
Favorite Part: The twist statements of bizarre places to suddenly be: "You're on the moon." "You're in my heart." Because being in the heart is 'clearly' less alarming than being in the stomach...
Our heroine wakes up, but it's still nighttime and goes back to bed. She then realizes she doesn't know where she is when she sees a big blue unknown planet in the sky. Then the dragon dad says hi while appreciating the view and says they're on the moon. Neither of them know what happened, but the ground is warm. He then explains the blue planet is earth, she questions this, but it feels like earth kind of. She then remembers she was in a forest with others. After the dragon dad asks about his son there are 2 booms. The dragon dad heard it too, but insists on his question. He's okay, and that's good, but our heroine still has a lot of reasonable questions in her head about the setting. She suggests the dragon dad can talk to his son and that he believes in change indirectly inferring to the dad that he wasn't able to hear despite watching them. She asks why she's on the moon again, but only gets another boom, and then remembers the hugging dragon calling out her name desperately but forgets why, but then she remembers the cut, pain, and darkness. She questions the moon thing and is questioned how she's feeling, and the questions are exchanged twice. She then questions if he's real and if she's dead. He says she should breathe because of her nervousness. She considers what she knows when the heartbeat booms again. She can't be dead she was so close to finding the lost girl the dragon dad doesn't know. She denies what she sees and gets another boom and bold text, a new voice, that it's time to leave. She explains the short version of who the lost girl is to the dragon dad and after saying she isn't dead there's more bold talk to wake up and he slaps her awake. Our heroine wakes up to darkness and liquid that she can breathe in. She's not in a stomach; she's in the heart of THE land dragon. She questions this.
We get another crazy dream (likely a dream) of likely a near death experience for Alice this time where she's on the moon talking to Lunar while sleeping in a heart apparently.
It's (probably) a dream; it's not clear how much of this dream are real beyond Alice's feelings (at least some of the intel from her conversation with Lunar is likely real at least to her and being on the moon, seeing the 'Earth' and talking to Lunar must all mean something).
I wonder if it's important if Lunar couldn't hear them while watching them, if that's a quick explanation, or if being a dream makes that matter at all.
Favorite Part: The twist statements of bizarre places to suddenly be: "You're on the moon." "You're in my heart." Because being in the heart is 'clearly' less alarming than being in the stomach...
6/28/2024 c16 Viewer27Man
It begins with the searching buddy fleeing 3 bone-headed dragons who don't like lunch to go that doesn't give up. It's a close call, but feathered dragons ambush and restrain the pursuers. The searching buddy has to sit down. The bone heads are interrogated and would rather die than be taken to the judgement dragon. The searching buddy doesn't peek until he hears the flaps of flying away and finds them headless. He feels bad for being weak, and wants more power! Meanwhile the brother confronts the angry punchy woman. He won't let her get away so she pushes him away. He's upset about her past bullying claiming she couldn't have changed and bone head dragons overhear their drama, too many. A new dragon appears saying they won't be eaten yet because of the cosmic dragon's plans. The new dragon puts his tail down and has his own weird plans for them. There is a struggle, but someone doesn't succeed. Meanwhile the teacher reached the forest with relief though realized she should've gone with them. She likes the grass and trees so much she considers taking her shoes off. She sees a tower, but it isn't a priority. She has hope the lost girl and others are right there in the forest.
This is indeed a side chapter of what the others are up to. Augustine is just fleeing dragons in the city area as he overhears things. Taichi confronts Isabelle only for both to be confronted by dragons. Sanako heads for the forest.
The biggest takeaways to me are some of the things the dragons do and say. That the feathered dragons just fly in and kill the underworld dragons, and that said underworld dragons prefer death to meeting Luminous. We also learn that the Cosmic Dragon's plans are enough to convince the group of dragons to not eat the named humans.
Augustine wanting power literally worded that way seems a bit weird.
I wonder how Sanako waiting to go is going to affect things. The only thing it changed so far is that Sanako did not meet the people of the following encounters yet.
I thought the last sentence of the Taichi and Isabelle part 'They struggled a bit to no success' was potentially slightly confusing because of the pronoun and that Isabelle has demonstrated super strength. I've concluded it has to mean that Taichi and Isabelle's struggling was ineffective because if Isabelle's super strength put up an effective struggle it would be more complicated.
Favorite Part: Overhearing what the dragons, who are shown to be more than eager to eat human before, have to say about Luminous or the Cosmic Dragon and how other dragons respond to and fear them.
It begins with the searching buddy fleeing 3 bone-headed dragons who don't like lunch to go that doesn't give up. It's a close call, but feathered dragons ambush and restrain the pursuers. The searching buddy has to sit down. The bone heads are interrogated and would rather die than be taken to the judgement dragon. The searching buddy doesn't peek until he hears the flaps of flying away and finds them headless. He feels bad for being weak, and wants more power! Meanwhile the brother confronts the angry punchy woman. He won't let her get away so she pushes him away. He's upset about her past bullying claiming she couldn't have changed and bone head dragons overhear their drama, too many. A new dragon appears saying they won't be eaten yet because of the cosmic dragon's plans. The new dragon puts his tail down and has his own weird plans for them. There is a struggle, but someone doesn't succeed. Meanwhile the teacher reached the forest with relief though realized she should've gone with them. She likes the grass and trees so much she considers taking her shoes off. She sees a tower, but it isn't a priority. She has hope the lost girl and others are right there in the forest.
This is indeed a side chapter of what the others are up to. Augustine is just fleeing dragons in the city area as he overhears things. Taichi confronts Isabelle only for both to be confronted by dragons. Sanako heads for the forest.
The biggest takeaways to me are some of the things the dragons do and say. That the feathered dragons just fly in and kill the underworld dragons, and that said underworld dragons prefer death to meeting Luminous. We also learn that the Cosmic Dragon's plans are enough to convince the group of dragons to not eat the named humans.
Augustine wanting power literally worded that way seems a bit weird.
I wonder how Sanako waiting to go is going to affect things. The only thing it changed so far is that Sanako did not meet the people of the following encounters yet.
I thought the last sentence of the Taichi and Isabelle part 'They struggled a bit to no success' was potentially slightly confusing because of the pronoun and that Isabelle has demonstrated super strength. I've concluded it has to mean that Taichi and Isabelle's struggling was ineffective because if Isabelle's super strength put up an effective struggle it would be more complicated.
Favorite Part: Overhearing what the dragons, who are shown to be more than eager to eat human before, have to say about Luminous or the Cosmic Dragon and how other dragons respond to and fear them.
6/24/2024 c15 Viewer27Man
The trio walks past more trees. The hugging dragon is grumpy with nothing to say to the girl talk, but he still gets his hugs when they rest. The desert ends with more trees and grass and flowers too. The sun doesn't shine where the trees are big. 1 tree is exceptionally big, except it's not a tree, it's the land dragon who knows they're there. It's a simple forest-like forest, but oddly the hugging dragon warns the women that the forest may try to separate them. He talks about the land dragon regarding his turf, investment in security, and fatherliness. The women shouldn't be in danger when they all stop and hide. The voice of a strange dragon can't find some kind of gift. The hugging dragon shows himself scaring the strange dragon while trying to be reassuring. Our heroine shows herself making the strange dragon ask a question and for her to answer that the tailless hugging dragon saved her. Our heroes say they're good, not evil, introduce themselves, and get the strange dragon's name and that this is the land dragon's address. Our heroine shows the strange dragon a picture of the lost girl and he's her friend too. They ask to go to her, but he says no, he needs to find a gift for her birthday. He settles on red petals, but the hugging dragon warns there wasn't a flower there before. The strange dragon says 2 can come and the land dragon is watching so all 3 follow. They talk about the lost girl, but the strange dragon's grammar makes it difficult to understand what he's saying other than he likes her touch. Then with a shriek from the sky a large dragon with bony wings stomps down. The strange dragon calls the large dragon bad, and then a bigger presence makes them all pause before the hugging dragon charges on the large one. The strange dragon will fight too, with electric claws, unfortunately the large dragon can spit tree-melting acid and is too durable to be simply cut. The strange dragon declares protection and chanting while the hugging dragon distracts the large dragon. The hugging dragon avoids everything, including the tail this time, and the strange dragon shocks the large dragon with an electric beam. The large dragon charges on our heroine anyway. She avoids getting eaten, but not the tail. Then our heroine blacks out as the hugging dragon yells out her name.
Well that chapter went from hopeful to tense. Finding a forest of green and then Aki who knows Minako personally. Then it ends on the biggest cliffhanger yet since the monster wasn't defeated yet.
I also guess I forgot they were in a desert before the true forest with trees being around since trees aren't normal to deserts.
There are some noticeable grammar issues, most notably at the beginning with 'many girls talk'. (Not to be confused with Aki's 'caveman' speaking that is meant to be misunderstood of course.)
The good dragons fight a large underworld dragon and Astral has learned to dodge the tail, but Alice isn't fast enough. Don't worry about being nearly dead, Alice, you'll just have to wait 2 more chapters to be fine...
Favorite Part: Aki. The fact that he knows Minako personally, his cheery demeanor, and of course lightning magic!
The trio walks past more trees. The hugging dragon is grumpy with nothing to say to the girl talk, but he still gets his hugs when they rest. The desert ends with more trees and grass and flowers too. The sun doesn't shine where the trees are big. 1 tree is exceptionally big, except it's not a tree, it's the land dragon who knows they're there. It's a simple forest-like forest, but oddly the hugging dragon warns the women that the forest may try to separate them. He talks about the land dragon regarding his turf, investment in security, and fatherliness. The women shouldn't be in danger when they all stop and hide. The voice of a strange dragon can't find some kind of gift. The hugging dragon shows himself scaring the strange dragon while trying to be reassuring. Our heroine shows herself making the strange dragon ask a question and for her to answer that the tailless hugging dragon saved her. Our heroes say they're good, not evil, introduce themselves, and get the strange dragon's name and that this is the land dragon's address. Our heroine shows the strange dragon a picture of the lost girl and he's her friend too. They ask to go to her, but he says no, he needs to find a gift for her birthday. He settles on red petals, but the hugging dragon warns there wasn't a flower there before. The strange dragon says 2 can come and the land dragon is watching so all 3 follow. They talk about the lost girl, but the strange dragon's grammar makes it difficult to understand what he's saying other than he likes her touch. Then with a shriek from the sky a large dragon with bony wings stomps down. The strange dragon calls the large dragon bad, and then a bigger presence makes them all pause before the hugging dragon charges on the large one. The strange dragon will fight too, with electric claws, unfortunately the large dragon can spit tree-melting acid and is too durable to be simply cut. The strange dragon declares protection and chanting while the hugging dragon distracts the large dragon. The hugging dragon avoids everything, including the tail this time, and the strange dragon shocks the large dragon with an electric beam. The large dragon charges on our heroine anyway. She avoids getting eaten, but not the tail. Then our heroine blacks out as the hugging dragon yells out her name.
Well that chapter went from hopeful to tense. Finding a forest of green and then Aki who knows Minako personally. Then it ends on the biggest cliffhanger yet since the monster wasn't defeated yet.
I also guess I forgot they were in a desert before the true forest with trees being around since trees aren't normal to deserts.
There are some noticeable grammar issues, most notably at the beginning with 'many girls talk'. (Not to be confused with Aki's 'caveman' speaking that is meant to be misunderstood of course.)
The good dragons fight a large underworld dragon and Astral has learned to dodge the tail, but Alice isn't fast enough. Don't worry about being nearly dead, Alice, you'll just have to wait 2 more chapters to be fine...
Favorite Part: Aki. The fact that he knows Minako personally, his cheery demeanor, and of course lightning magic!
6/19/2024 c14 Viewer27Man
The hugging dragon is unhappy about the women's secret, but the journalist is thankful for being rescued. They chat a bit about words, the cloak story, an unpleasant memory, the encounters with the others, fighting faceless dragons, and drinking something weird due to hunger that made the journalist pass out earlier. When she woke up she could jump, and our heroine wonders if she should drink some since she feels guilty about the hugging dragon getting hurt protecting her. The hugging dragon thinks about the power up liquid and blames the cosmic dragon. Then the dragon asks about the lost girl and the journalist gives her take of scared silent about the bullying she got and vowed to not be silent about the human-sacrificing cult after the fire. Our heroine asks about the cult, but the journalist says she already said everything: that the cult does human sacrifices and has major influence even on a governmental level, and she plans to bring a dragon back as proof to bring them down. The hugging dragon is confused, mostly by the modern terms so the women define them for him. The journalist shows them the pictures of sigils on her phone that the hugging dragon does not recognize. The journalist then asks the hugging dragon his history and he says he was lonely and chose to be alone then the moon got big because of the cosmic dragon so he had to stop it. The trio considers that when the women leave he'll be alone again.
With a new character traveling with them group gets each other up to speed, and they reveal some new things in the process.
We learn more about the cult: mostly that they've infiltrated the governments (this implies more than 1 has), which makes it crazier than a cult, especially a sacrificial one, normally would seem. We also learn at least a vague version of Astral's past: that he was mostly alone.
The Asuka's plan to show a dragon to their world mainly to expose the cult seems kind of crazy to me. Those listening would have to understand that the cult is tied to the portal to another world where the dragon came from.
Favorite Part: Learning the gist of Astral's past of being alone. We finally have something and it seems like a believable answer that also adds something to the companionship that's been going on in the story.
The hugging dragon is unhappy about the women's secret, but the journalist is thankful for being rescued. They chat a bit about words, the cloak story, an unpleasant memory, the encounters with the others, fighting faceless dragons, and drinking something weird due to hunger that made the journalist pass out earlier. When she woke up she could jump, and our heroine wonders if she should drink some since she feels guilty about the hugging dragon getting hurt protecting her. The hugging dragon thinks about the power up liquid and blames the cosmic dragon. Then the dragon asks about the lost girl and the journalist gives her take of scared silent about the bullying she got and vowed to not be silent about the human-sacrificing cult after the fire. Our heroine asks about the cult, but the journalist says she already said everything: that the cult does human sacrifices and has major influence even on a governmental level, and she plans to bring a dragon back as proof to bring them down. The hugging dragon is confused, mostly by the modern terms so the women define them for him. The journalist shows them the pictures of sigils on her phone that the hugging dragon does not recognize. The journalist then asks the hugging dragon his history and he says he was lonely and chose to be alone then the moon got big because of the cosmic dragon so he had to stop it. The trio considers that when the women leave he'll be alone again.
With a new character traveling with them group gets each other up to speed, and they reveal some new things in the process.
We learn more about the cult: mostly that they've infiltrated the governments (this implies more than 1 has), which makes it crazier than a cult, especially a sacrificial one, normally would seem. We also learn at least a vague version of Astral's past: that he was mostly alone.
The Asuka's plan to show a dragon to their world mainly to expose the cult seems kind of crazy to me. Those listening would have to understand that the cult is tied to the portal to another world where the dragon came from.
Favorite Part: Learning the gist of Astral's past of being alone. We finally have something and it seems like a believable answer that also adds something to the companionship that's been going on in the story.
6/2/2024 c13 Viewer27Man
Our duo sees another building. The hugging dragon has binoculars as an organ to look at the building and see stars. It's a temple of the cosmic dragon, all of which are out of use, though they used to be used for human sacrifices, which disgusts our heroine, for his favor. The hugging dragon suggests to ignore it, then brings up that 2 people entered, and our heroine wants to check. At the door of the place he kind of wants to mess up he smells a man and a woman. After wondering who they could be they see writing in the monarch language and can't fully read. The inside is impressive and in bad shape. Our heroine can read the normalness from the emotion of the architecture. There's also an altar with old human blood on it according to the hugging dragon's nose. Seeing a sculpture of a heart being ripped out of a person grosses him out. Our heroine sees them, and they're arguing, and the hugging dragon suggests splitting up to scare them, but he proceeds to go with the scaring without splitting up. The argument ends, but the exclamations begin. The journalist takes notes about the dragon vs demon correction before speaking of the architecture of the big dragon to research the cult. The hugging dragon's repeat his view on the cosmic dragon is worth a note too. The brother of the lost girl just wants to find his sister. The journalist just wants to expose the cult somehow. Without making eye contact she goes over the world politics more formally than the hugging dragon has before, and that a weird dragon said the lost girl is alive, with land dragons, and good. The punchy girl gets brought up and the brother accuses our heroine of defending her. The journalist brings up the unfriendly underworld dragon and the hugging dragon confirms these statements. The journalist brings up the need to escape because of a narrow escape earlier. After the hugging dragon asks the women an embarrassing topic before they question why he's friendly, which is because he hates the cosmic dragon and wants to mess up his game. On the human diet topic the journalist questions what would happen if a human ate dragon, but the hugging dragon thinks nothing. The brother brings up his sister again and our heroine says she knows her location and he's eager to go. He agrees to go with them, until he doesn't to not be with our heroine. He leaves on his own against the hugging dragon's insistence prompting the hugging dragon to order the ceiling to stop. The journalist assures them he'll be fine then questions the spacing out. The hugging dragon suspects the hugging dragon of making people think they are thinking of things for the sake of the plot. The journalist thinks that would be breaking the game, but the hugging dragon still wants to blame him. The journalist looks around more and astounds the duo by jumping 10 feet. It's fine she's been like this for 2 days after being hungry and unconscious. She still wants to end the cult with the info here. The hugging dragon regrets seeing a lonely young dragon picture for probably personal reasons. The hugging dragon insists they leave together and only the bold text in our heroine's head says no before she starts to. The dragon's further insistence talks her out of it and the journalist agrees. The duo sets out as a trio and with the only question remaining why the journalist said so much and what the women are talking about about the dragon.
Two chapters of searcher encounters in a row and 2 encounters in a single chapter this time. We get a lot of possible implied or suspected answers to questions here as well as more questions of course, but no 100% direct confirmation.
The encounters are of Taichi and Asuka who had notable details of who they were even then: Taichi is Minako's brother and Asuka was the journalist who knew of the cult. They are acting weird as with all the other encounters. The sudden mind changes (usually with bold text) that cause the split ups against common sense are finally called out here. Asuka has super strength too, but she doesn't seem to exactly know how and was unconscious and hungry before that. The super strength does explain how they could've survived here and gotten away, (so it's probably how all/most of them survived) but... it makes you wonder how it happened since Alice can't do this when they can...
Asuka acknowledging the mind-changing voice practically crosses out any imposter theories I imagined (but doubted) for why the people were acting weird. The cosmic dragon from all description is probably responsible somehow though if directly is too easy of an answer there's plenty of ways to delegate something like this... The power of the rational mind and a friendly suggestion is enough to conquer this for now.
Though joining our heroes something about Asuka is still weird. Taichi was weird in the way I've gotten used to that split the people up. Asuka seems too knowledgeable on dragon lore (that's apparently hard to read here) given the understood time frame and too obsessed with nailing the cult right now...when that doesn't seem like it would really matter until they find a way back to the original world. She reminds me a bit of Sanako wanting to stay at the observatory.
The architecture seems to be giving vague history lessons.
Favorite Part: Following up on mysteries of earlier. Particularly the bold voice, sudden mind changes, and the super strength.
Our duo sees another building. The hugging dragon has binoculars as an organ to look at the building and see stars. It's a temple of the cosmic dragon, all of which are out of use, though they used to be used for human sacrifices, which disgusts our heroine, for his favor. The hugging dragon suggests to ignore it, then brings up that 2 people entered, and our heroine wants to check. At the door of the place he kind of wants to mess up he smells a man and a woman. After wondering who they could be they see writing in the monarch language and can't fully read. The inside is impressive and in bad shape. Our heroine can read the normalness from the emotion of the architecture. There's also an altar with old human blood on it according to the hugging dragon's nose. Seeing a sculpture of a heart being ripped out of a person grosses him out. Our heroine sees them, and they're arguing, and the hugging dragon suggests splitting up to scare them, but he proceeds to go with the scaring without splitting up. The argument ends, but the exclamations begin. The journalist takes notes about the dragon vs demon correction before speaking of the architecture of the big dragon to research the cult. The hugging dragon's repeat his view on the cosmic dragon is worth a note too. The brother of the lost girl just wants to find his sister. The journalist just wants to expose the cult somehow. Without making eye contact she goes over the world politics more formally than the hugging dragon has before, and that a weird dragon said the lost girl is alive, with land dragons, and good. The punchy girl gets brought up and the brother accuses our heroine of defending her. The journalist brings up the unfriendly underworld dragon and the hugging dragon confirms these statements. The journalist brings up the need to escape because of a narrow escape earlier. After the hugging dragon asks the women an embarrassing topic before they question why he's friendly, which is because he hates the cosmic dragon and wants to mess up his game. On the human diet topic the journalist questions what would happen if a human ate dragon, but the hugging dragon thinks nothing. The brother brings up his sister again and our heroine says she knows her location and he's eager to go. He agrees to go with them, until he doesn't to not be with our heroine. He leaves on his own against the hugging dragon's insistence prompting the hugging dragon to order the ceiling to stop. The journalist assures them he'll be fine then questions the spacing out. The hugging dragon suspects the hugging dragon of making people think they are thinking of things for the sake of the plot. The journalist thinks that would be breaking the game, but the hugging dragon still wants to blame him. The journalist looks around more and astounds the duo by jumping 10 feet. It's fine she's been like this for 2 days after being hungry and unconscious. She still wants to end the cult with the info here. The hugging dragon regrets seeing a lonely young dragon picture for probably personal reasons. The hugging dragon insists they leave together and only the bold text in our heroine's head says no before she starts to. The dragon's further insistence talks her out of it and the journalist agrees. The duo sets out as a trio and with the only question remaining why the journalist said so much and what the women are talking about about the dragon.
Two chapters of searcher encounters in a row and 2 encounters in a single chapter this time. We get a lot of possible implied or suspected answers to questions here as well as more questions of course, but no 100% direct confirmation.
The encounters are of Taichi and Asuka who had notable details of who they were even then: Taichi is Minako's brother and Asuka was the journalist who knew of the cult. They are acting weird as with all the other encounters. The sudden mind changes (usually with bold text) that cause the split ups against common sense are finally called out here. Asuka has super strength too, but she doesn't seem to exactly know how and was unconscious and hungry before that. The super strength does explain how they could've survived here and gotten away, (so it's probably how all/most of them survived) but... it makes you wonder how it happened since Alice can't do this when they can...
Asuka acknowledging the mind-changing voice practically crosses out any imposter theories I imagined (but doubted) for why the people were acting weird. The cosmic dragon from all description is probably responsible somehow though if directly is too easy of an answer there's plenty of ways to delegate something like this... The power of the rational mind and a friendly suggestion is enough to conquer this for now.
Though joining our heroes something about Asuka is still weird. Taichi was weird in the way I've gotten used to that split the people up. Asuka seems too knowledgeable on dragon lore (that's apparently hard to read here) given the understood time frame and too obsessed with nailing the cult right now...when that doesn't seem like it would really matter until they find a way back to the original world. She reminds me a bit of Sanako wanting to stay at the observatory.
The architecture seems to be giving vague history lessons.
Favorite Part: Following up on mysteries of earlier. Particularly the bold voice, sudden mind changes, and the super strength.
5/20/2024 c12 Viewer27Man
This morning the hugging dragon gets up first. He knows the judgement dragon of his dream is big. Our heroine wakes up with a smile followed by a fruity breakfast. Want some meat? Just cook a fruit and it tastes like chicken. When she asks about how that's possible he tells to not question that or why eating humans changes dragons...magic! While holding hands he asks her about the other dragon thinking it might be him. As plant life increases the hugging dragon worries about the monarch ahead before they discuss if the lost girl is here and dragon society's rule: survival of the non-weak. After discussing the sun and moon that are visible at the same time they meet a woman from the search party. She then punches away the hugging dragon. The hugging dragon wants our heroine to run, but she wants to know what's going on, but the punchy woman says the dragon will eat her, but our heroine has trust issues with the punchy woman. The hugging dragon gets mad, yells that he doesn't eat people, and drops his pants to show his lack of tail, and makes the punchy woman angrier. After a short scuffle the hugging dragon pins her down while he's a bit snarky and asks why she's so strong. After our heroine explains the hugging dragon protected her the punchy woman calms down. They talk as hugging dragon corrects her on his name. Our heroine questions the attempt to help from punchy woman as out of character, and doubts she changed after years. Then the hugging dragon identifies her as the tormentor from the flashback he saw and exposits on what he saw...in his terms. The punchy woman is upset at being compared to some skull-heads while our heroine joins in on accusing her. The upset punchy woman admits she was bad, but calls our heroine cowardly which she does not take well. The hugging dragon breaks up the brewing fight before it can start. Our heroine says that the lost girl refused help and brings up the punchy woman's nonstop bullying of her again. The punchy woman admits feeling guilt over the disappearance. Our heroine requests to leave while the hugging dragon suggests they go together which the women promptly shoot down. The hugging dragon tells the punchy woman where they heard the lost girl is. Upon questioning this our heroine and the hugging dragon discuss the possibility of change which is something he believes in. She asks the hugging dragon if she was bad for listening to the lost girl, but the he replies with a lot of no. The hugging dragon declares that our heroine is his best and only friend and they walk on happily.
This makes encounter #3. We get some character from Isabelle who got distrust among the searchers since she bullied Minako in their youth, and she has here shown guilt over that in the years past. Even if Alice doesn't I buy the guilt; it's a reasonable reaction given the events so far.
Alice wasn't this aggressive towards her during the search mission if I remember right (other searchers were), but this is probably part of the pattern of people acting weirder than normal. Though this time I didn't see any special text that provoked a sudden shift here.
Isabelle's introduction was punching the wind out of Astral, which he acknowledged as a superhuman feat. He tried to question her on it at first, but never got an answer, and seemed to forget with having to break up her and Alice.
Maybe I'm overthinking this: From a positional standpoint even if Isabelle goes off to the side first, I'm not exactly sure how they'd both head south from here and not be relatively close. (At least close enough that if a fight broke out the other party would notice). I suppose the vegetation is increasing though.
I also thought it was kind of odd that when Alice questioned how the fruits could be like meat when cooked Astral says to not question why dragons eating people changes them like they're related topics. The fact that they're heart-shaped makes the imagination go that way, but the conversation wasn't a revelation either.
Favorite Part: The fact that Isabelle could punch Astral so hard. I'm curious to find out why and what it could mean.
This morning the hugging dragon gets up first. He knows the judgement dragon of his dream is big. Our heroine wakes up with a smile followed by a fruity breakfast. Want some meat? Just cook a fruit and it tastes like chicken. When she asks about how that's possible he tells to not question that or why eating humans changes dragons...magic! While holding hands he asks her about the other dragon thinking it might be him. As plant life increases the hugging dragon worries about the monarch ahead before they discuss if the lost girl is here and dragon society's rule: survival of the non-weak. After discussing the sun and moon that are visible at the same time they meet a woman from the search party. She then punches away the hugging dragon. The hugging dragon wants our heroine to run, but she wants to know what's going on, but the punchy woman says the dragon will eat her, but our heroine has trust issues with the punchy woman. The hugging dragon gets mad, yells that he doesn't eat people, and drops his pants to show his lack of tail, and makes the punchy woman angrier. After a short scuffle the hugging dragon pins her down while he's a bit snarky and asks why she's so strong. After our heroine explains the hugging dragon protected her the punchy woman calms down. They talk as hugging dragon corrects her on his name. Our heroine questions the attempt to help from punchy woman as out of character, and doubts she changed after years. Then the hugging dragon identifies her as the tormentor from the flashback he saw and exposits on what he saw...in his terms. The punchy woman is upset at being compared to some skull-heads while our heroine joins in on accusing her. The upset punchy woman admits she was bad, but calls our heroine cowardly which she does not take well. The hugging dragon breaks up the brewing fight before it can start. Our heroine says that the lost girl refused help and brings up the punchy woman's nonstop bullying of her again. The punchy woman admits feeling guilt over the disappearance. Our heroine requests to leave while the hugging dragon suggests they go together which the women promptly shoot down. The hugging dragon tells the punchy woman where they heard the lost girl is. Upon questioning this our heroine and the hugging dragon discuss the possibility of change which is something he believes in. She asks the hugging dragon if she was bad for listening to the lost girl, but the he replies with a lot of no. The hugging dragon declares that our heroine is his best and only friend and they walk on happily.
This makes encounter #3. We get some character from Isabelle who got distrust among the searchers since she bullied Minako in their youth, and she has here shown guilt over that in the years past. Even if Alice doesn't I buy the guilt; it's a reasonable reaction given the events so far.
Alice wasn't this aggressive towards her during the search mission if I remember right (other searchers were), but this is probably part of the pattern of people acting weirder than normal. Though this time I didn't see any special text that provoked a sudden shift here.
Isabelle's introduction was punching the wind out of Astral, which he acknowledged as a superhuman feat. He tried to question her on it at first, but never got an answer, and seemed to forget with having to break up her and Alice.
Maybe I'm overthinking this: From a positional standpoint even if Isabelle goes off to the side first, I'm not exactly sure how they'd both head south from here and not be relatively close. (At least close enough that if a fight broke out the other party would notice). I suppose the vegetation is increasing though.
I also thought it was kind of odd that when Alice questioned how the fruits could be like meat when cooked Astral says to not question why dragons eating people changes them like they're related topics. The fact that they're heart-shaped makes the imagination go that way, but the conversation wasn't a revelation either.
Favorite Part: The fact that Isabelle could punch Astral so hard. I'm curious to find out why and what it could mean.
5/5/2024 c11 Viewer27Man
The hugging dragon has to find our heroine. He can smell her, but it's dark and italic, and he can see a dragon instead. He wants to leave but gets loud advice not to and offers no resistance to his judgement. They argue about if he participated in war and that he killed his own kind. The judgement dragon denies his request to have our heroine taken care of even though the hugging dragon is sure he's doomed. Then he sees blood on his hands as ordered when a silhouette of the cosmic dragon's hand and then a blood storm that starts a flood. The skeleton dragon victims of war jury reach a guilty verdict. Then he is angry to see the cosmic dragon's face. He's about to accept drowning in the blood when our heroine's hand reaches for him and he takes it. After he wakes up from the italic dream he asks what happened to him and our heroine explains he killed the beast, but he almost died, and that she gave him her blood to save him. The hugging dragon smells the dragon from last chapter so our heroine has to explain that she promised not to tell who 'he' was. She insists he rest and the two hug before looking for shelter.
This chapter was mostly just a dream and as such we get to see into the inner psyche of Astral and potential foreshadowing. Astral seems to have some guilt in the back of his mind about the dragons he's wasted (I'd assume at least the ones he killed protecting Alice).
Astral argued about what was a lie with Luminous when questioned if he's involved in a war. The closest implication is with things he's said about the Cosmic Dragon. Of course without a clear context there's definitive answer to how accurate these claims are yet, but it seems at least on the back of Astral's mind so it's probably at least debatable.
I wonder if Lunar figured Astral would smell his scent and I also wonder if Astral suspects it's him by scent.
Favorite Part: The crazy imagery in the dream. I like crazy dream imagery.
The hugging dragon has to find our heroine. He can smell her, but it's dark and italic, and he can see a dragon instead. He wants to leave but gets loud advice not to and offers no resistance to his judgement. They argue about if he participated in war and that he killed his own kind. The judgement dragon denies his request to have our heroine taken care of even though the hugging dragon is sure he's doomed. Then he sees blood on his hands as ordered when a silhouette of the cosmic dragon's hand and then a blood storm that starts a flood. The skeleton dragon victims of war jury reach a guilty verdict. Then he is angry to see the cosmic dragon's face. He's about to accept drowning in the blood when our heroine's hand reaches for him and he takes it. After he wakes up from the italic dream he asks what happened to him and our heroine explains he killed the beast, but he almost died, and that she gave him her blood to save him. The hugging dragon smells the dragon from last chapter so our heroine has to explain that she promised not to tell who 'he' was. She insists he rest and the two hug before looking for shelter.
This chapter was mostly just a dream and as such we get to see into the inner psyche of Astral and potential foreshadowing. Astral seems to have some guilt in the back of his mind about the dragons he's wasted (I'd assume at least the ones he killed protecting Alice).
Astral argued about what was a lie with Luminous when questioned if he's involved in a war. The closest implication is with things he's said about the Cosmic Dragon. Of course without a clear context there's definitive answer to how accurate these claims are yet, but it seems at least on the back of Astral's mind so it's probably at least debatable.
I wonder if Lunar figured Astral would smell his scent and I also wonder if Astral suspects it's him by scent.
Favorite Part: The crazy imagery in the dream. I like crazy dream imagery.
4/26/2024 c10 Viewer27Man
Our heroine donates blood to the hugging dragon's mouth through a cut and it heals him though he's still unconscious. While he's unconscious she acts as lookout and food gatherer. On the way back from gathering food she stops upon seeing another dragon patting the hugging dragon who then thanks her for giving blood. You can call him the hugging dragon's father so sitting by him is okay, but the hugging dragon wouldn't accept his help. The dragon dad gives lessons on drinking blood vs full-body consumption and how to massage his son. The dad adds further exposition to the hugging dragon rebelling against the cosmic dragon by protecting our heroine, that he's been watching them for a while except looking away for Chapter 5, that explaining his son's mother passed away, and that he used to eat humans. He leaves after getting our heroine's name and insisting on her secrecy of the chat, and she accepts it. She continues to watch the hugging dragon, but he still doesn't get up.
We get a chapter of trying to get Astral healed with Alice's blood and his dad, Lunar, conveniently appears to give exposition on certain subjects and that's the chapter; Astral doesn't even awaken yet. The exposition included that Astral helping Alice is to rebel against the Cosmic Dragon, that Astral's mother died, and that Lunar has been following them this whole time. Since Lunar already ate people that's likely the reason Astral wants nothing to do with him and makes sense. We haven't heard Astral's word on any of this, but I'll trust Lunar until I read otherwise.
Favorite Part: Lunar being an ex-human eater that gives a strong implied explanation for why he's been watching but not helping until Astral's unconscious now. Lunar providing the small detail that helping Alice is rebelling against the Cosmic Dragon, since why/how he suddenly found her is still a mystery.
Our heroine donates blood to the hugging dragon's mouth through a cut and it heals him though he's still unconscious. While he's unconscious she acts as lookout and food gatherer. On the way back from gathering food she stops upon seeing another dragon patting the hugging dragon who then thanks her for giving blood. You can call him the hugging dragon's father so sitting by him is okay, but the hugging dragon wouldn't accept his help. The dragon dad gives lessons on drinking blood vs full-body consumption and how to massage his son. The dad adds further exposition to the hugging dragon rebelling against the cosmic dragon by protecting our heroine, that he's been watching them for a while except looking away for Chapter 5, that explaining his son's mother passed away, and that he used to eat humans. He leaves after getting our heroine's name and insisting on her secrecy of the chat, and she accepts it. She continues to watch the hugging dragon, but he still doesn't get up.
We get a chapter of trying to get Astral healed with Alice's blood and his dad, Lunar, conveniently appears to give exposition on certain subjects and that's the chapter; Astral doesn't even awaken yet. The exposition included that Astral helping Alice is to rebel against the Cosmic Dragon, that Astral's mother died, and that Lunar has been following them this whole time. Since Lunar already ate people that's likely the reason Astral wants nothing to do with him and makes sense. We haven't heard Astral's word on any of this, but I'll trust Lunar until I read otherwise.
Favorite Part: Lunar being an ex-human eater that gives a strong implied explanation for why he's been watching but not helping until Astral's unconscious now. Lunar providing the small detail that helping Alice is rebelling against the Cosmic Dragon, since why/how he suddenly found her is still a mystery.
4/17/2024 c9 Viewer27Man
Our heroes ponder the previous chapter and look to the night sky. They discuss the our heroine's world in vision and the drama with the lost girl. Our heroine then reads the hugging dragon the letter that started the story and realize the lost girl forgot to give a date for the meetup. Then after signs of its approach a 4-legged beast dragon attacks by belching a fireball. The hugging dragon moves to evade that and becoming lunch, but his slashes aren't effective on this thing even against its throat and neck. The hugging dragon does a chant to triple his wingspan with constellations on them. The stars from the wings explode on the beast dragon. Then he chants to trade bigger wings for bigger blades and muscles. Then continuing the starry special effects he charges on the beast dragon, dodges the next bite, and manages to cut the dragon's head off, but the tail is still able to get him and it does. The injured hugging dragon loses his wings and bounces to the ground. Our heroine is upset and in holding his clawed hand lightly bleeds as he passes out.
This chapter starts with our 2 main characters giving a recap of what just happened and how things began then Astral fights a powerful beast dragon with a particularly dangerous and sneaky tail. Astral has to bust out some kind of magic special upgrades to deal with this stronger foe that have a twinkling star theme in appearance. Given the description of the next chapter I'm guessing Alice bleeding is what might help, but we'll see.
Favorite Part: Astral having newly-seen special magic to bust out. Also the starry effects to his new moves.
Our heroes ponder the previous chapter and look to the night sky. They discuss the our heroine's world in vision and the drama with the lost girl. Our heroine then reads the hugging dragon the letter that started the story and realize the lost girl forgot to give a date for the meetup. Then after signs of its approach a 4-legged beast dragon attacks by belching a fireball. The hugging dragon moves to evade that and becoming lunch, but his slashes aren't effective on this thing even against its throat and neck. The hugging dragon does a chant to triple his wingspan with constellations on them. The stars from the wings explode on the beast dragon. Then he chants to trade bigger wings for bigger blades and muscles. Then continuing the starry special effects he charges on the beast dragon, dodges the next bite, and manages to cut the dragon's head off, but the tail is still able to get him and it does. The injured hugging dragon loses his wings and bounces to the ground. Our heroine is upset and in holding his clawed hand lightly bleeds as he passes out.
This chapter starts with our 2 main characters giving a recap of what just happened and how things began then Astral fights a powerful beast dragon with a particularly dangerous and sneaky tail. Astral has to bust out some kind of magic special upgrades to deal with this stronger foe that have a twinkling star theme in appearance. Given the description of the next chapter I'm guessing Alice bleeding is what might help, but we'll see.
Favorite Part: Astral having newly-seen special magic to bust out. Also the starry effects to his new moves.
4/10/2024 c8 Viewer27Man
Our heroine and the hugging dragon try and partially succeed to discuss the specifics of the mate excuse on the 3rd day of travel and then go to a tower that is on the way. At the entrance they find a woman that turns out to be the teacher from the prologue who is afraid of the hugging dragon. After our heroine introduces her rescuer/escort the teacher says she found the tower running from a dragon and is living off the fruit of the forest. The teacher thanks the hugging dragon for protecting our heroine though is still a bit cautious of if he's a man-eater. The women discuss not knowing how to get back, the searchers they may have seen, and the hint of the girl they were trying to find. The teacher seems happy the lost girl is fine then breathes funny before saying she figured the lost girl wound up in this world she names the lost world. On the questioning of the 5 year silence on this the teacher says she couldn't do anything because of a cult that controls the city and she's not a member but has to do as they say. The hugging dragon can smell the teacher's honesty. They conclude that the lost girl sent the letters herself somehow. The hugging dragon blames a cosmic dragon who starts wars and games for fun and the teacher seconds his theory. After the lost world name is questioned there is a bold suggestion to touch the tower. The hugging dragon didn't get the memo but touches it with them anyway. They then see a flashback of the lost girl walking into class hurt from a girl with a mocking tone's perspective that also questions who did this to her, gets accusatory stares from a few younger searchers, including our heroine and the teacher, sees the lost girl doesn't trust the teacher, and the rude searcher threaten and scare the perspective girl. Flashback over the women bring up this was the day of the school fire. The hugging dragon blames the cosmic dragon again and the women question who that is. Our heroine and the hugging dragon suggest the teacher go with them, but she insists on staying to study the tower. They go their separate ways but on better terms than the previous encounter.
Strange yet revealing chapter. We get the second encounter with a prologue character and this one, while technically weirder in terms of what happens, makes much more sense, but raises more questions. Now the story is making me question the nature of the 'normal' world in the prologue because of the cult and cosmic dragon talk.
Sanako being so willing to live in the forest and interest the tower would be extra weird if she didn't know stuff in advance, though it is still a bit weird and is probably supposed to be. I suppose when you're supposed to go to the moon to leave the 'moon tower' would be a good place to look, but of course we'll need a big enough explanation of what's going on before that'll work.
This is the first notable follow up on the prologue. The encounter with Augustine felt more about showing the searchers are 'around' and acting weird. This one reveals things that relate to the mystery.
Favorite Part: The revelations in this chapter. After several world-building chapters of wandering we finally develop the mysteries of the prologue the story started by getting us curious about.
Our heroine and the hugging dragon try and partially succeed to discuss the specifics of the mate excuse on the 3rd day of travel and then go to a tower that is on the way. At the entrance they find a woman that turns out to be the teacher from the prologue who is afraid of the hugging dragon. After our heroine introduces her rescuer/escort the teacher says she found the tower running from a dragon and is living off the fruit of the forest. The teacher thanks the hugging dragon for protecting our heroine though is still a bit cautious of if he's a man-eater. The women discuss not knowing how to get back, the searchers they may have seen, and the hint of the girl they were trying to find. The teacher seems happy the lost girl is fine then breathes funny before saying she figured the lost girl wound up in this world she names the lost world. On the questioning of the 5 year silence on this the teacher says she couldn't do anything because of a cult that controls the city and she's not a member but has to do as they say. The hugging dragon can smell the teacher's honesty. They conclude that the lost girl sent the letters herself somehow. The hugging dragon blames a cosmic dragon who starts wars and games for fun and the teacher seconds his theory. After the lost world name is questioned there is a bold suggestion to touch the tower. The hugging dragon didn't get the memo but touches it with them anyway. They then see a flashback of the lost girl walking into class hurt from a girl with a mocking tone's perspective that also questions who did this to her, gets accusatory stares from a few younger searchers, including our heroine and the teacher, sees the lost girl doesn't trust the teacher, and the rude searcher threaten and scare the perspective girl. Flashback over the women bring up this was the day of the school fire. The hugging dragon blames the cosmic dragon again and the women question who that is. Our heroine and the hugging dragon suggest the teacher go with them, but she insists on staying to study the tower. They go their separate ways but on better terms than the previous encounter.
Strange yet revealing chapter. We get the second encounter with a prologue character and this one, while technically weirder in terms of what happens, makes much more sense, but raises more questions. Now the story is making me question the nature of the 'normal' world in the prologue because of the cult and cosmic dragon talk.
Sanako being so willing to live in the forest and interest the tower would be extra weird if she didn't know stuff in advance, though it is still a bit weird and is probably supposed to be. I suppose when you're supposed to go to the moon to leave the 'moon tower' would be a good place to look, but of course we'll need a big enough explanation of what's going on before that'll work.
This is the first notable follow up on the prologue. The encounter with Augustine felt more about showing the searchers are 'around' and acting weird. This one reveals things that relate to the mystery.
Favorite Part: The revelations in this chapter. After several world-building chapters of wandering we finally develop the mysteries of the prologue the story started by getting us curious about.
4/10/2024 c1 11Madcinder
There's some good and some bad here, but thankfully the bad is easy to fix. The good, on the other hand, is the more core parts of the story, the actual idea. I don't have the full picture, not even close, from just the first chapter, but it does its job by getting me to ask what the full picture is.
So it could definitely use some grammar touch-ups, and I'm not so keen on the continuous use of race to identify characters whose names have already been revealed clearly. Those aren't problems nearly big enough to make it unreadable, though, and while the approach is a bit wooden it does make it rather simple to understand what is happening.
The cast so far is mostly characters made to fill up the cast. As the story goes, I expect they'll be developed more and I'll get to learning more about them so that I can be invested in them, but that hasn't happened for the most part. So basically, what I would want to see but don't see in chapter one is mostly stuff that chapter one isn't meant to do, so that's fine.
That said, I don't actually trust Sanako.
11MadcinderThere's some good and some bad here, but thankfully the bad is easy to fix. The good, on the other hand, is the more core parts of the story, the actual idea. I don't have the full picture, not even close, from just the first chapter, but it does its job by getting me to ask what the full picture is.
So it could definitely use some grammar touch-ups, and I'm not so keen on the continuous use of race to identify characters whose names have already been revealed clearly. Those aren't problems nearly big enough to make it unreadable, though, and while the approach is a bit wooden it does make it rather simple to understand what is happening.
The cast so far is mostly characters made to fill up the cast. As the story goes, I expect they'll be developed more and I'll get to learning more about them so that I can be invested in them, but that hasn't happened for the most part. So basically, what I would want to see but don't see in chapter one is mostly stuff that chapter one isn't meant to do, so that's fine.
That said, I don't actually trust Sanako.
4/4/2024 c7 6Viewer27Man
The hugging dragon gets his rest as he wishes for more money and our heroine agrees to not talk about the last chapter. After saying he stretches like a cat, and remembering he doesn't know animals, they decide to head to the forest while she gets her magic cloak ready. After a drink of water she describes her world to him, losing him at every description, and then dragons fly above prompting her to put on the cloak. They are skull dragons and they fly down to hit on her since she looks like a white dragon while the hugging dragon tries gets protective. The skull dragons threaten that something will happen if they die, and the hugging dragon endures their provocation only arguing and posturing back. After contact is made and our heroine's punch is unsuccessful the hugging dragon attacks beating them up with punches, kicks, and his magic blades. They beg for mercy, he threatens them if they try any more mischief, and they bail. Our heroine takes off the cloak and questions the mate excuse he gave them and questions if they'll have to use that again, and they probably will.
Our pair travels and has a confrontation with more dragons this time, I think the second fight scene so far. We definitively learn the cloak makes Alice look like an attractive female dragon. We learn the skull dragons are from a group that seems to embolden their behavior and that would be provoked by killing them.
The fight scene makes sense. It naturally follows that Astral overwhelms them with his proven prowess in the first fight, and they didn't have the 'air of competence' to match that either.
We also confirm that there are a ton of normal things that just aren't in this world from the conversation before the fight including animals and flowers.
Favorite Part: The concept that Astral can't kill these guys without a bad consequence so he roughs them up into fleeing instead.
6Viewer27ManThe hugging dragon gets his rest as he wishes for more money and our heroine agrees to not talk about the last chapter. After saying he stretches like a cat, and remembering he doesn't know animals, they decide to head to the forest while she gets her magic cloak ready. After a drink of water she describes her world to him, losing him at every description, and then dragons fly above prompting her to put on the cloak. They are skull dragons and they fly down to hit on her since she looks like a white dragon while the hugging dragon tries gets protective. The skull dragons threaten that something will happen if they die, and the hugging dragon endures their provocation only arguing and posturing back. After contact is made and our heroine's punch is unsuccessful the hugging dragon attacks beating them up with punches, kicks, and his magic blades. They beg for mercy, he threatens them if they try any more mischief, and they bail. Our heroine takes off the cloak and questions the mate excuse he gave them and questions if they'll have to use that again, and they probably will.
Our pair travels and has a confrontation with more dragons this time, I think the second fight scene so far. We definitively learn the cloak makes Alice look like an attractive female dragon. We learn the skull dragons are from a group that seems to embolden their behavior and that would be provoked by killing them.
The fight scene makes sense. It naturally follows that Astral overwhelms them with his proven prowess in the first fight, and they didn't have the 'air of competence' to match that either.
We also confirm that there are a ton of normal things that just aren't in this world from the conversation before the fight including animals and flowers.
Favorite Part: The concept that Astral can't kill these guys without a bad consequence so he roughs them up into fleeing instead.
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The triple-sized dragon crashes down before the hugging dragon. She's the female dragon he mentioned who sells clothes. After brief catching up she offers them three cloaks in ascending price order, one that is basically just a cloak, one that gives a magical illusion that makes our heroine seem like a dragon, and one that makes her appear like a really scary dragon even to our hugging dragon. We the get a lesson about the 3 monarchs and a cosmic dragon that can see through illusions, rule territories, and, most importantly, are really big. Then payment is discussed and the hugging dragon doesn't have enough so has to make up the difference by a...different means... Then there's the payment scene with a large side of innuendos. Our heroine witnesses something of the payment and gets a scaring sight. Then in the following conversation the girl our heroine was looking for in the prologue comes up in the conversation and is in a forest. The clothes seller dragon flies away and our heroine requests to go to the forest. Even though it will be a long trip the hugging dragon complies and eats a fruit to regain his strength after the payment.
Welp... I see why it's rated M now. It's not for gore reasons... I will note this chapter has the biggest reveal yet: a clue about Minako, the one Alice was looking for in the first place. Though the weight of that revelation is kind of over-shadowed by the dragon sex scene before it that takes up many detailed lines in the chapter... Like Alice I don't really have anything to add on that...
That being said we do get an actual non-antagonistic character this chapter who gives something useful, can actually be talked to, and gives some very useful information. I was wrong about my stealth forecast. It looks like the stealth points just went up, but it looks like while it might fool it might draw attention.
Favorite Part: How the cloaks work by just making a dragon literally think they're seeing a dragon. I think it's neat way to hide in plain sight.
The triple-sized dragon crashes down before the hugging dragon. She's the female dragon he mentioned who sells clothes. After brief catching up she offers them three cloaks in ascending price order, one that is basically just a cloak, one that gives a magical illusion that makes our heroine seem like a dragon, and one that makes her appear like a really scary dragon even to our hugging dragon. We the get a lesson about the 3 monarchs and a cosmic dragon that can see through illusions, rule territories, and, most importantly, are really big. Then payment is discussed and the hugging dragon doesn't have enough so has to make up the difference by a...different means... Then there's the payment scene with a large side of innuendos. Our heroine witnesses something of the payment and gets a scaring sight. Then in the following conversation the girl our heroine was looking for in the prologue comes up in the conversation and is in a forest. The clothes seller dragon flies away and our heroine requests to go to the forest. Even though it will be a long trip the hugging dragon complies and eats a fruit to regain his strength after the payment.
Welp... I see why it's rated M now. It's not for gore reasons... I will note this chapter has the biggest reveal yet: a clue about Minako, the one Alice was looking for in the first place. Though the weight of that revelation is kind of over-shadowed by the dragon sex scene before it that takes up many detailed lines in the chapter... Like Alice I don't really have anything to add on that...
That being said we do get an actual non-antagonistic character this chapter who gives something useful, can actually be talked to, and gives some very useful information. I was wrong about my stealth forecast. It looks like the stealth points just went up, but it looks like while it might fool it might draw attention.
Favorite Part: How the cloaks work by just making a dragon literally think they're seeing a dragon. I think it's neat way to hide in plain sight.