WM – Chapter 39: Takatsuki Makoto meets a dragon

“Dragon…” (Lucy)

The mutter of Lucy passed by my ears.

Rugged stone-like scales.

Its whole body a dark brown with a tint of green like emerald. 

This must be an Earth Dragon.

That mouth that has giant fangs feel like they could swallow everything.

It had plenty enough pressure to be called the king of monsters.

The moment I saw that, what I felt was elation. 

“Wow…” (Makoto)

A dragon is here.

That dragon.

A shock that surpasses my coming to this parallel world ran through my whole body.

Aah, Isekais really are incredible…

I was probably watching in admiration for only around 2-3 seconds.

“Makoto!” (Lucy)

(Get a hold of yourself, Makoto!) (Noah)

The scream of Lucy and the rebuke of the Goddess overlapped.

I regain my senses. 

The adventurers who also regained their senses raised screams and began to run away.

Face the Dragon

Escape from the Dragon ←

I let out a smile at the options RPG Player gave me.

(Don’t ask for the impossible, man.) (Makoto)

Without hesitation, I hugged Lucy tightly and jumped off the waterfall.

“EEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHH?!” (Lucy)

We were swallowed inside the waterfall while listening to the screams of Lucy.

While we were swallowed by the violent water stream, I controlled the water in order to absorb the impact.

[Water Magic: Water Current].

The moment we crashed into the basin of the waterfall, I mitigated the impact into a soft hit.

The inside of the lake is deep, and we didn’t get slammed into the ground.

We advance through the water just like that.

It is dark inside the lake so I couldn’t see anything, but with [Night Vision] and [Detection], I search for monsters.

(There’s a lot of monsters.) (Makoto)

As expected of the Mid Floor.

Just a quick look with Detection, I could tell that there’s quite a lot of monsters.

(Let’s get out from the lake first.) (Makoto)

Lucy who I have in my arms is going *glub glub*, but I ignore her for now and return to the shore. 

◇◇

We got out to the shore, and hid ourselves in the shadow of a big rock.

Thanks to Stealth, monsters haven’t noticed us.

“Hey! I heard nothing about suddenly jumping down!” (Lucy)

“If I did tell you, those guys would know about it too. Or more like, are those guys okay?” (Makoto)

“Why are you worrying about them when you were about to be killed by them… In the first place, why did a dragon show up at a place like that?” (Lucy)

“Lucas-san told me that dragons are in the Lower Floor, so we should not go at any cost…” (Makoto)

“A dragon at the Upper Floor is unfair.” (Lucy)

“Right.” (Makoto)

We sighed.

“What should we do from now on?” (Makoto)

“We return to the Upper Floor, right?” (Lucy)

“Yeah, but we don’t know the path to return there.” (Makoto)

“Eh? Isn’t it okay to just return through the waterfall? With your magic.” (Lucy)

“I can’t go as far as climbing a waterfall…” (Makoto)

It took me my all just to mitigate the fall from the waterfall so that we won’t get injured.

“Could it be that we are in a disastrous situation?” (Lucy)

“It might be a bit of a bad situation, yeah. But first, let’s dry our clothes.” (Makoto)

I cast the evaporation magic on Lucy and I.

If our bodies get cold, our movements dull, and our stamina gets sapped out.

The food we have on hand will only last for around 2 days, huh.

I wasn’t planning on doing an expedition, so I didn’t bring much.

“Let’s search for a path that can lead us up.” (Makoto)

“Even if you say that, the waterfall is going as far as my eye can see, you know.” (Lucy)

“There’s parts here and there where the waterfall is divided, so let’s investigate while avoiding monsters.” (Makoto)

But no matter how far we go, we could only see cliffs and waterfalls.

Half a day has already passed.

The reason why it doesn’t feel so despairing is…

“Aah, it is quite the breathtaking sight.” (Makoto)

Most likely thanks to this superb view.

“You know…” (Lucy)

Lucy says with a voice of amazement.

“This is something I thought at that time with the dragon as well but, you are a bit weird, Makoto.” (Lucy)

“Really?” (Makoto)

“Yeah. Do you like dangerous things?” (Lucy)

Hmm, that’s…I am beginning to feel like I can’t deny that.

“You seem to be looking around restlessly and having fun even in a dungeon. You had your eyes glittering when facing that dragon from before.” (Lucy)

“…I am sorry for that time.” (Makoto)

“Also, in your world, there were a lot of rides that can fly in the sky, right? I heard about that from Fujiyan-san, you know. And yet, why were you so giddy with the Flying Ship?” (Lucy)

“That can’t be helped.” (Makoto)

You wouldn’t get it. **

The airplanes from my previous world, and the Flying Ships of this world are completely different.

In a fantasy world, flying rides are important.

“I don’t get it.” (Lucy)

She emphasized, but couldn’t manage to empathize, huh.

Well, I am an otherworldler.

While we were having harmless talk like that, we continued exploring.

But we couldn’t find a path to go to the Upper Floor at all.

◇◇

We got a bit tired, so we were taking a rest. At the time we were doing that, we met her.

“U-Uhm…are you adventurers?” 

We were suddenly spoken to.

We are in a space at the back of a waterfall in this underground area, and Lucy and I were sleeping in shifts.

It was at the time when we were thinking about resuming our exploration.

“Hm?” (Lucy)

“…”

I also turn around.

The one who spoke to us was a girl.

But she had quite the beautiful face.

Her clothes were in tatters, holes here and there, and her shoulders were exposed.

It looks like she had a bad time.

“Please help me… I will do anything you want to repay you…” 

That girl asks for our help with a feeble voice.

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50 thoughts on “WM – Chapter 39: Takatsuki Makoto meets a dragon”

  1. Okay I don’t know what I was thinking before. No way she was Calamity strong, yet anyway. This might be her though?

  4. “Or more like, are those guys okay”

    That line pisses me off a lot. Dudes were just about to kill you, and rape the woman you’re with. I still refuse to believe that the average Japanese person is a fucking Saint that thinks this way.

  7. Well, that’s always a side effect of living life like you’re playing a game, you genuinely can’t feel fear based on your natural instincts. All he has left to rely on is his honed gamer senses.

    Thanks for the chapter!

  9. Thanks for the chapter! ^^
    Elder sister or Sasaki not recognising him or wanting to hide it’s her and she is not human anymore?
    She must have change since she reincarnated.

  11. Thanks for the chapter. Will they follow her or escape the trap, and for some reason something tells me that Lucy is more prone to fall fro the trap that Makoto.

  15. The fateful encounter begins! Looks like this is a sister. That…might not make for the best first impression, but it’ll do.

    Luckily, Takki is mostly immune to the threat of sex appeal, to Lucy and Mary’s chagrin. [Clear Mind] and [RPG Player] should more or less keep his wits about him.
    Actually…what’s the bet that Takatsuki won’t fall for this trap, but Lucy will?

    On a separate note…hmm. I’m trying to figure out how he broke his fall with water magic. You can’t really have a soft landing unless you somehow cancel your falling momentum, so did he slow their fall with a geyser? There’s some degree of applied physics involved, at least.

    1. We can add the possibility that [Detection] can differenciate between peoples and monsters in addition to the presence and threat level, so it might help him to see through her right off the bat. And yay, we all see Lucy falling for it. ^^

      As for the fall, a way to alleviate the shock would be to move the water at the same speed and direction as their fall and then decelerate till a safe value with [Water Current].

  16. Thanks for the chapter. It’s here. Girl # 2 is getting ready to appear. This guy is probably another herbivore, do they even have Japanese MC that want to do the do?

  21. Thanks for the chapter~ Also I’m guessing that’s the eldest sister of the Lamia’s and that Makoto will see through her disguise and fight her and is about to kill her before Sasaki appears and then have their blood pumping reunion where Makoto is trying to slit her throat while she’s trying to strangle Makoto because both of them don’t realize who the other is

  22. That’s definitely a lamia but probably one of Ayaka’s sisters. Ayaka would be able to recognize Makoto and very likely Ayaka still looks like her original appearance except with a snake tail instead of legs.

    1. It’s not sure that she kept her original appearance. Since she reincarnated, she might look like her current mother. And she might not believe that’s him or want he knows that she became a monster maybe?
      But well, it’s more likely to be the Elder Sister or another one of them. Maybe Elder Sister will try to use Makoto to kill her Little Sister she envy and fail spectacularely because she recognise him or each other?

      1. I’m with you on her appearance being different. Her soul probably wouldn’t affect her appearance, which should be genetic.

        I’d say younger sister though. The Lamia seem to look down on humans, so if anything, it’ll be that dragon.

      2. I think Sa-san will retain a similar appearance with some snakelike changes such as slit eyes pupils. This is an isekai.
        Since this lamia has clothes prepared, she’s likely an elder sister who has hunted humans before.

  25. Wonder if his rpg skill would ever give him spoiler responses, like suddenly asking:
    >follow the disguised lamia/monster
    >don’t fall for this trap
    >play along with the serial killer, until you can escape

    1. I don’t think the choices would be in detail like that, most like they’re
      >follow/help her
      >don’t follow/help her
      Because choices in jrpg games are usually ambiguous at best, heck even in galgames, some of the choices are ambiguous (when one of the heroines’ names isn’t listed).

  28. Man, do guys really get tricked by that?🤨
    A lone girl without weapons or armour asks if people in the middle floor of the dungeon are adventurers, I know that there are a lot of men thinking with their lower region but still.😑

    1. Doesn’t have to be a guy to help her, she seems like she may have just escaped from danger, her clothes tattered, but that second line guarantees that guys will follow her into danger.

    2. Tricked or not, it would at the very least get you to pause and think which is more than enough to go in for the kill.

      1. And since she made the move when a female like Lucy was around, it’s probably a younger one. Men-woman pairs feel like they have higher failure rates, but that’s an extra risk more learned through experience.

    2. Oh yes, i would love to see a hentai version of this, some female monsters luring humans into a trap… only to be mindbroken by the D
      You know, like the orcs who are hunted by female knights, just the inverse

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