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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.
6Viewer27ManThe 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.
3/13/2024 c5 Viewer27Man
The hugging dragon isn't used to company, but could get used to being a pillow. Then it's quiet, too quiet in the city in disrepair as the floating island floats in place above Tokyo. Our heroine follows the hugging dragon into a an empty building, aside from some plants, looking for a disguise with no luck. Our heroine suggests to try the skyscrapers and the hugging dragon suggests one without holes and they find one. She asks the hugging dragon about his clothes and he said the got them from a merchant and then brings up how there are dragons that preferably (though not approvingly) will graverob for human bodies only. Our heroine does not wish to discuss this either. They discover they're in a book store and then the ground shakes and it's bad; the city ruler is on his way with company. The scared hugging dragon hugs our heroine and says he'll protect her, as they hear really big dragons talk about the moon, a game, and not being pawns. The hugging dragon picks up our heroine and leaves the city. They fly around in the non-desolate sky until the hugging dragon gets hungry and they land for dragon fruit. The hugging dragon doesn't want to discuss the moon and they think the game might be about our heroine and her searching party as pawns. Then someone yells out the hugging dragon's name and it isn't human, it's a triple-sized dragon with a side of trouble.
So this chapter is Astral and Alice looking for a disguise in a few buildings, not finding any disguise, but overhearing some dragons talking generally about implied plot-important topics, and then being found by a huge dragon after they fly away. They are traveling along a broken environment with no encounters they can afford for most of the last 3 chapters. The next chapter looks like it could get vicious and the end of the pure stealth.
I'm going to question the title 'The Disguise' on this one, because I think the disguise (especially since they don't even find one) isn't as important as the conversation they overhear.
Favorite Part: That the buildings with holes are the ones where they'll find dragons. It's a visual detail that works and makes a lot of intuitive sense. I also liked learning that Astral doesn't know what books are. That detail is interesting and going to lead to something.
The hugging dragon isn't used to company, but could get used to being a pillow. Then it's quiet, too quiet in the city in disrepair as the floating island floats in place above Tokyo. Our heroine follows the hugging dragon into a an empty building, aside from some plants, looking for a disguise with no luck. Our heroine suggests to try the skyscrapers and the hugging dragon suggests one without holes and they find one. She asks the hugging dragon about his clothes and he said the got them from a merchant and then brings up how there are dragons that preferably (though not approvingly) will graverob for human bodies only. Our heroine does not wish to discuss this either. They discover they're in a book store and then the ground shakes and it's bad; the city ruler is on his way with company. The scared hugging dragon hugs our heroine and says he'll protect her, as they hear really big dragons talk about the moon, a game, and not being pawns. The hugging dragon picks up our heroine and leaves the city. They fly around in the non-desolate sky until the hugging dragon gets hungry and they land for dragon fruit. The hugging dragon doesn't want to discuss the moon and they think the game might be about our heroine and her searching party as pawns. Then someone yells out the hugging dragon's name and it isn't human, it's a triple-sized dragon with a side of trouble.
So this chapter is Astral and Alice looking for a disguise in a few buildings, not finding any disguise, but overhearing some dragons talking generally about implied plot-important topics, and then being found by a huge dragon after they fly away. They are traveling along a broken environment with no encounters they can afford for most of the last 3 chapters. The next chapter looks like it could get vicious and the end of the pure stealth.
I'm going to question the title 'The Disguise' on this one, because I think the disguise (especially since they don't even find one) isn't as important as the conversation they overhear.
Favorite Part: That the buildings with holes are the ones where they'll find dragons. It's a visual detail that works and makes a lot of intuitive sense. I also liked learning that Astral doesn't know what books are. That detail is interesting and going to lead to something.
3/5/2024 c4 Viewer27Man
Our heroine can walk but she can't hide. She and the hugging dragon move from hiding spot to hiding spot in the broken city, though not breaking anymore, unseen by any flying dragons. As our heroine's neck aches from looking up so much the hugging dragon warns her about a master of this city. They enter a tunnel as the hugging dragon informs her that Tokyo will be much safer and they should get there in a few hours. The hugging dragon is unhappy about the moon that he informs our heroine is much closer now that she's here and won't say why he dislikes the moon. They continue with nothing to eat and nowhere to sleep until the hugging dragon checks above and her first searching buddy shows up happy to see her and avoided being eaten. The dragons fear underground places and the searching buddy is baffled that the dragons are dragons. He asks where the others are, but our heroine doesn't know. He shows likely faked optimism, says she smells weird, and the word 'reach gets emphasized in the dream instruction topic. Our heroine starts to introduce the hugging dragon when he flies in. The searching buddy has initial fear and trust issues, but with a name instance and saved the heroine card he lightens up a little, though the dragon offers him no hugs. The searching buddy brings up how big the dragons who chased him were and the topic changes to the flying island. The searching buddy still doesn't trust the hugging dragon after this conversation while our heroine has complete faith in the hugging dragon and the searching buddy leaves on his own claiming the hugging dragon wants to eat them. The hugging dragon thinks something is up with why the searching buddy is acting this way. Our heroine and the hugging dragon continue on until they decide to stop for the night. The hugging dragon warns that she can't get away, though she doesn't want to, because he's alert and heavier before they sleep.
Strange things are going on in this chapter as the escort mission continues. The walk through the tunnel is a walk with world-building scenery of this city and some tidbits of information, but nothing major until she meets up with Augustin again after the school portal incident in the prologue.
Augustin appears, talks to Alice then Astral, and seems to start to get along, but ultimately distrusts Astral and leaves which Astral rightfully calls out as odd all things considered. In a new (and especially dangerous) environment it makes more sense to trust those who speak kindly especially if a friend vouches for them because what else are you going to do? With how stories go Augustin's reaction is likely based on some part of his past, some kind of magic, or suspicious motives. I'm curious why he didn't and I'll have to read on to learn why.
Augustin warned about trusting Astral right as Astral says he can't let Alice leave which seems a bit suspicious now, but might just be a bad choice of words on Astral's part in character with his clumsiness of etiquette.
Favorite Part: Astral calling out Augustin's genuinely strange distrust given the known context is weird in the narration.
Our heroine can walk but she can't hide. She and the hugging dragon move from hiding spot to hiding spot in the broken city, though not breaking anymore, unseen by any flying dragons. As our heroine's neck aches from looking up so much the hugging dragon warns her about a master of this city. They enter a tunnel as the hugging dragon informs her that Tokyo will be much safer and they should get there in a few hours. The hugging dragon is unhappy about the moon that he informs our heroine is much closer now that she's here and won't say why he dislikes the moon. They continue with nothing to eat and nowhere to sleep until the hugging dragon checks above and her first searching buddy shows up happy to see her and avoided being eaten. The dragons fear underground places and the searching buddy is baffled that the dragons are dragons. He asks where the others are, but our heroine doesn't know. He shows likely faked optimism, says she smells weird, and the word 'reach gets emphasized in the dream instruction topic. Our heroine starts to introduce the hugging dragon when he flies in. The searching buddy has initial fear and trust issues, but with a name instance and saved the heroine card he lightens up a little, though the dragon offers him no hugs. The searching buddy brings up how big the dragons who chased him were and the topic changes to the flying island. The searching buddy still doesn't trust the hugging dragon after this conversation while our heroine has complete faith in the hugging dragon and the searching buddy leaves on his own claiming the hugging dragon wants to eat them. The hugging dragon thinks something is up with why the searching buddy is acting this way. Our heroine and the hugging dragon continue on until they decide to stop for the night. The hugging dragon warns that she can't get away, though she doesn't want to, because he's alert and heavier before they sleep.
Strange things are going on in this chapter as the escort mission continues. The walk through the tunnel is a walk with world-building scenery of this city and some tidbits of information, but nothing major until she meets up with Augustin again after the school portal incident in the prologue.
Augustin appears, talks to Alice then Astral, and seems to start to get along, but ultimately distrusts Astral and leaves which Astral rightfully calls out as odd all things considered. In a new (and especially dangerous) environment it makes more sense to trust those who speak kindly especially if a friend vouches for them because what else are you going to do? With how stories go Augustin's reaction is likely based on some part of his past, some kind of magic, or suspicious motives. I'm curious why he didn't and I'll have to read on to learn why.
Augustin warned about trusting Astral right as Astral says he can't let Alice leave which seems a bit suspicious now, but might just be a bad choice of words on Astral's part in character with his clumsiness of etiquette.
Favorite Part: Astral calling out Augustin's genuinely strange distrust given the known context is weird in the narration.
2/23/2024 c3 Viewer27Man
The chapter begins with our heroine kicking the hugging dragon between the legs. The hugging dragon tries to reassure her, but only makes the conversation more awkward with his interjections until he tries simply speaking calmly. They exchange names and he describes some of what's going on and more on dragons. Our heroine brings up the tip to go to the moon and the hugging dragon decides to help her figure out what that means and do it. He then covers her with a liquid to hide her sent, and never says if it is urine. He gets her some food: energizing fruit shaped like a heart they call dragon fruit, not to be confused with dragon fruit. Then an island blocks out the sun as it floats over the city, named Stalingrad, and prompts the hugging dragon to keep our heroine quiet and sniff with nothing to find. The hugging dragon hugs her again, it's a bit less awkward this time, and explains that the island could've meant an attack though one didn't happen this time. The hugging dragon says it's dangerous for her to go alone and offers to take our heroine to the only safe place that's far away: Tokyo. Our heroine agrees to go with him through a longer distance, but less-risky tunnel.
This is an explanation chapter to cool down after the chaos the characters went through last chapter.
Astral means well, but doesn't seem to understand the concept of grossness. Alice seems to attack quickly when provoked, and isn't difficult to calm down with calm reasoning. Obvious to one seems to not be obvious to the other.
Astral's fear made floating island scene a bit ominous, though nothing happened. That island's going to be important in the story somehow and we'll have to wait and see how.
The strangest thing to me in this chapter is that Alice knows what a real dragon fruit is and even calls out that it shares the same name the dragon has for the heart-shaped fruit, but she doesn't make a callout to how the three cities mentioned have the names of cities in the real world. My general theory is that this new world is post-apocalyptic and somehow the humans live in the different though normal world in the prologue instead, but I'll have to read on to see.
Favorite Part: The floating island scene. It got a clear reaction from Astral that's got me curious about what it means.
The chapter begins with our heroine kicking the hugging dragon between the legs. The hugging dragon tries to reassure her, but only makes the conversation more awkward with his interjections until he tries simply speaking calmly. They exchange names and he describes some of what's going on and more on dragons. Our heroine brings up the tip to go to the moon and the hugging dragon decides to help her figure out what that means and do it. He then covers her with a liquid to hide her sent, and never says if it is urine. He gets her some food: energizing fruit shaped like a heart they call dragon fruit, not to be confused with dragon fruit. Then an island blocks out the sun as it floats over the city, named Stalingrad, and prompts the hugging dragon to keep our heroine quiet and sniff with nothing to find. The hugging dragon hugs her again, it's a bit less awkward this time, and explains that the island could've meant an attack though one didn't happen this time. The hugging dragon says it's dangerous for her to go alone and offers to take our heroine to the only safe place that's far away: Tokyo. Our heroine agrees to go with him through a longer distance, but less-risky tunnel.
This is an explanation chapter to cool down after the chaos the characters went through last chapter.
Astral means well, but doesn't seem to understand the concept of grossness. Alice seems to attack quickly when provoked, and isn't difficult to calm down with calm reasoning. Obvious to one seems to not be obvious to the other.
Astral's fear made floating island scene a bit ominous, though nothing happened. That island's going to be important in the story somehow and we'll have to wait and see how.
The strangest thing to me in this chapter is that Alice knows what a real dragon fruit is and even calls out that it shares the same name the dragon has for the heart-shaped fruit, but she doesn't make a callout to how the three cities mentioned have the names of cities in the real world. My general theory is that this new world is post-apocalyptic and somehow the humans live in the different though normal world in the prologue instead, but I'll have to read on to see.
Favorite Part: The floating island scene. It got a clear reaction from Astral that's got me curious about what it means.
2/23/2024 c1 JaveHarron
A few thoughts on this: While you open up with a bit of mystery, the story has a slow burn pace. While you describe the characters physically, there is less about their body language or the environments they are active in. What landmarks or structures rise around them? Are they excited or droll? It is often hard to interpret characters' actions from their speech alone. More expressive writing would definitely help set the place, as might metaphors and similes.
A few thoughts on this: While you open up with a bit of mystery, the story has a slow burn pace. While you describe the characters physically, there is less about their body language or the environments they are active in. What landmarks or structures rise around them? Are they excited or droll? It is often hard to interpret characters' actions from their speech alone. More expressive writing would definitely help set the place, as might metaphors and similes.
2/16/2024 c2 Viewer27Man
Our heroine is falling and she doesn't know where. She sees a big reptilian eye and a voice that takes pity on her for looking for the old friend and speaks of realities, that the old friend is waiting there, and that the exit door is on the moon. After dark our heroine stands up in a cabin in disrepair with an open fridge. She wonders where she is and upon looking around finds that the moon looks super huge above , red sand below, and trees with human-heart-shaped fruits she decides to not eat. Our heroine heads towards a city, but she is being watched. In the town she finds a sign welcoming her to New York City, which she does not recognize and large, broken buildings. She focused on what she could do, thinking of going to the moon, and getting food and water. Somethings fly in and she hides in a nearby building. They are reptilian beings that eat a human arm and casually look forward to eating humans in their conversation. They smell our heroine and find her looking forward to share her in a dream feast. Then a humanoid reptilian being swoops in to our heroine's rescue using a blade of purple light to kill one of the human-eaters. The rescuer dragon kills another, dodges acid spit, and reveals his wings in the ensuing fight. The fight concludes with the 2 surviving man-eaters flying away. The rescuer finds our heroine understandably very scared and gives her a big hug while trying to reassure her.
Okay. This actual 1st chapter is pretty crazy. Alice is dumped into a new world practically alone. The first creatures she finds are sentient dragons that like to eat humans apparently casually. Then she gets saved by another dragon with a purple 'energy?' sword and then hugged...
Alice doesn't seem to recognize New York City (one of the few cities famous enough to actually exist in anime...). This heavily implies that the world may be a actually a post-apocalyptic version of ours. There are other likely implications, but I'd have to wait and see how this develops. It would be interesting that the normal world is not a version of ours.
Alice seems to accept advice to go to the moon to escape very casually. I'd picture confusion, and how she would even get to the moon as the first responses to that, without confirmation from someone who can talk to her of course.
The fight scene shows us the rescuer dragon's likely primary weapon and makes him look competent as a fighter.
Favorite Part: The fact that the dragon hugs Alice to reassure her. His heart is in the right place, but I feel there's a likely etiquette misunderstanding on his part here.
Our heroine is falling and she doesn't know where. She sees a big reptilian eye and a voice that takes pity on her for looking for the old friend and speaks of realities, that the old friend is waiting there, and that the exit door is on the moon. After dark our heroine stands up in a cabin in disrepair with an open fridge. She wonders where she is and upon looking around finds that the moon looks super huge above , red sand below, and trees with human-heart-shaped fruits she decides to not eat. Our heroine heads towards a city, but she is being watched. In the town she finds a sign welcoming her to New York City, which she does not recognize and large, broken buildings. She focused on what she could do, thinking of going to the moon, and getting food and water. Somethings fly in and she hides in a nearby building. They are reptilian beings that eat a human arm and casually look forward to eating humans in their conversation. They smell our heroine and find her looking forward to share her in a dream feast. Then a humanoid reptilian being swoops in to our heroine's rescue using a blade of purple light to kill one of the human-eaters. The rescuer dragon kills another, dodges acid spit, and reveals his wings in the ensuing fight. The fight concludes with the 2 surviving man-eaters flying away. The rescuer finds our heroine understandably very scared and gives her a big hug while trying to reassure her.
Okay. This actual 1st chapter is pretty crazy. Alice is dumped into a new world practically alone. The first creatures she finds are sentient dragons that like to eat humans apparently casually. Then she gets saved by another dragon with a purple 'energy?' sword and then hugged...
Alice doesn't seem to recognize New York City (one of the few cities famous enough to actually exist in anime...). This heavily implies that the world may be a actually a post-apocalyptic version of ours. There are other likely implications, but I'd have to wait and see how this develops. It would be interesting that the normal world is not a version of ours.
Alice seems to accept advice to go to the moon to escape very casually. I'd picture confusion, and how she would even get to the moon as the first responses to that, without confirmation from someone who can talk to her of course.
The fight scene shows us the rescuer dragon's likely primary weapon and makes him look competent as a fighter.
Favorite Part: The fact that the dragon hugs Alice to reassure her. His heart is in the right place, but I feel there's a likely etiquette misunderstanding on his part here.
2/7/2024 c1 Viewer27Man
The story begins with our heroine having a strange dream about being missed by an old friend, a school, and a fire. She drives to her old, worn-down, abandoned, should probably be torn down, school as the voice in the dream and a mysterious letter she got told her. She sees another car there and checks out the school. She goes for the library and upon hearing footsteps pulls her gun. It turns out to be a man in black clothes she knew when she went to school there who also had a mysterious letter. They question why they're there, it's mentioned that the old friend's brother is there, and decide to work together to look for the old friend by splitting up. Our heroine finds an journalist woman that also used to go to the school also there because of a mysterious letter. The journalist brings up a cult of human sacrifice and then agrees to help with the search for the old friend. After more unsuccessful searching our heroine finds a scarred man and an old teacher who also were there because of a mysterious letter. They say another woman is there because of a mysterious letter. The teacher calls for everyone to come to the entrance then suggests searching the underground rooms. The searchers all meet up and there's a brief argument. The teacher then shows them the secret passage she knows about. After a walk into the underground they find a room with red symbols and canisters that presumably started the fire long ago. The journalist identifies the red symbols as the of the cult and after more questions and assumptions a red glowy light from the symbol consumes all.
That was certainly mysterious. We got a lot of characters right off the bat who are there to find Minako because of the letters and are reacting as would make sense in a search like this. The chapter as a whole seems meant to have them all be there when the red light goes off and give an air of mystery.
We've got a normal, modern world aside from the glowy symbols and red light at the end. The story description and next time say otherwise which means the red light probably transports them to some dangerous/fantastic place.
Favorite Part: The fact that the school has a secret passage. It's one of those fun detail combinations that makes me go wait what?
The story begins with our heroine having a strange dream about being missed by an old friend, a school, and a fire. She drives to her old, worn-down, abandoned, should probably be torn down, school as the voice in the dream and a mysterious letter she got told her. She sees another car there and checks out the school. She goes for the library and upon hearing footsteps pulls her gun. It turns out to be a man in black clothes she knew when she went to school there who also had a mysterious letter. They question why they're there, it's mentioned that the old friend's brother is there, and decide to work together to look for the old friend by splitting up. Our heroine finds an journalist woman that also used to go to the school also there because of a mysterious letter. The journalist brings up a cult of human sacrifice and then agrees to help with the search for the old friend. After more unsuccessful searching our heroine finds a scarred man and an old teacher who also were there because of a mysterious letter. They say another woman is there because of a mysterious letter. The teacher calls for everyone to come to the entrance then suggests searching the underground rooms. The searchers all meet up and there's a brief argument. The teacher then shows them the secret passage she knows about. After a walk into the underground they find a room with red symbols and canisters that presumably started the fire long ago. The journalist identifies the red symbols as the of the cult and after more questions and assumptions a red glowy light from the symbol consumes all.
That was certainly mysterious. We got a lot of characters right off the bat who are there to find Minako because of the letters and are reacting as would make sense in a search like this. The chapter as a whole seems meant to have them all be there when the red light goes off and give an air of mystery.
We've got a normal, modern world aside from the glowy symbols and red light at the end. The story description and next time say otherwise which means the red light probably transports them to some dangerous/fantastic place.
Favorite Part: The fact that the school has a secret passage. It's one of those fun detail combinations that makes me go wait what?