Mushoku Tensei – Old Dragon’s Tale

In the first year, Master Dora taught me only words.

If I didn't, I wouldn't have been able to learn anything else.

In Dora's view, she saw that it would take about ten years to fully master the language.

When they teach the wild Red Dragons, it takes about that long for them to understand what the Dragons say.

I've lived in a world without words again, and it would take as long, I guess.

But behind Master Dora's standpoint, my ability to learn was high.

No, is it more about what you were originally willing to learn than about your ability to learn?

I tried to remember Lady Dora's words word by word, practice them repeatedly, and understand what they meant.

I absorbed knowledge like a sponge out of water and mastered the words of the Dragons less than a year later.

If so, the rest is early.

Dear Dora taught me the common sense that is common to the Dragons, such as letters, history, world, position, upward and downward relationships, manners, and industry.

"- There are mountains in heaven and sky on earth. Ground dragons nest at the foot of the mountain, and red and blue dragons nest near the top."

"Yes."

"The difference between the red and blue habitats is whether it's on or under the clouds. Blue flies lower. Once every few hundred years, it only comes down to the mountains during the breeding season. The Red Dragon is fiercer and more territorial. It is this red dragon that fights and preys on our Lord, who lives in the middle of the mountain."

"Yes, but that's an old story"

"That's right. The Red Dragon" was fighting "with the Dragons is a story of the past. Now the Red Dragon is only unilaterally preyed upon. Livestock is also on the way."

"And Lord Dora is taking command of livestock"

"That's right. You remembered it well. Do you have any questions so far?

"Yes. What's further down in the sky?

"There's a giant black snake in everything, and they're eating a falling corpse. I've never seen it either."

Master Dora told me everything if I asked.

I don't know what I don't know, I say I've never seen anything I've never seen, but be polite as far as I can tell.

Sometimes I don't even know myself, but he taught me what to teach until I learned it myself.

Normally, Master Dora would not have taught so enthusiastically either.

But she was the most loyal and thick of the five dragon generals.

It was unforgivable for her to lose her hand in what the Dragon God had commanded her to do directly.

As an educator, I don't have any more.

Even now, in retrospect, that's the only honorable thing to do, such as teach Master Dora something.

I guess the Dragon God expected me to.

Anyway, thanks to her like that, I was able to get no extra knowledge of the dragon kingdom.

What kind of knowledge did you get?

Right, there's a lot going on and it's hard to explain at once...

First, the current position.

The most gigantic mountain, in the middle of the dragon kingdom.

His name is Long Ming Shan.

Hmm? Same name as this mountain we live in?

I guess so, but I named this mountain.

Well, let's put that aside for now.

A town built through the middle belly of Mount Ryu. His name is Caius.

That is literally the main mountain of the Dragon clan.

Sometimes all clans live, the most populous.

Beginning in the mansion of the Dragon God, there are also many administrative agencies, postal services, libraries, laboratories, livestock houses, pantries, dragon warrior bases and important facilities.

Regardless, Ryu Mingshan is not the only place to live for the Ryu.

There are 122 towns around the world, each inhabited by a dragon clan.

Towns everywhere are all small settlements compared to Caios in Ryukyung Mountain.

Most of all, the concept of 'small settlement' does not exist in the flying dragon kingdom of dangerous dragons.

Every settlement possesses as much power as it can to exterminate the Red Dragon's nest.

Otherwise, you will perish with the Red Dragon's total attack.

Hmm?

Isn't that mythical?

Feels like you heard, it's not that different from the town right now?

That said, by the time I got here, it was already like this.

Because most of the way these towns are made is from people.

Even before the meeting of the gods took place, all the worlds would have been alike by this time.

Let's put that away.

The Dragon God is giving all the Dragon tribes an unblemished love and trying to protect them.

But with 122 towns, you can't protect all of them.

The Dragon God is a wonderful man, but he's not omniscient.

Sometimes it comes out of sight.

Therefore, the Dragon God appointed five Dragon Generals who were particularly powerful among the Dragon tribes, and entrusted them with the protection of the entire world.

This is General Wu Long.

Syllard, dragon general of the Holy Dragon clan.

Maxwell, dragon general of the Pluto tribe.

Dragon General Chaos of the Dragon Clan.

Dragon General Crystal of the Ganglong Nation.

Dora, dragon general of the Kolong clan.

They replaced the busy Dragon God and protected the Dragon Clan.

General Wu Long pledged his absolute loyalty to the Dragon God, who also trusted them and entrusted them with important tasks.

Even now that the Dragons have increased their numbers and their protection is no longer so necessary, that structure remains unchanged.

Rather, it would not be an exaggeration to say that, even more, ties were deepening.

Master Dora was said to be particularly loyal among such Wu Long generals.

Master Dora herself was proud to be told that.

She wished that her race, as well as all the Dragon tribes, would have the same level of loyalty as herself.

There is no reason.

It's just a push of my taste.

She just thought it was absolutely right.

"If you have also been saved by the Dragon God, then you must spend all of your life for the Dragon God."

So he taught me that too.

That's what I taught you every time.

"Yes, Master Dora. We are for the Dragon God."

Of course I honestly agreed.

The way I taught it might have been as close to brainwashing as it was, but I meant to be.

I still haven't forgotten how lonely I was in the demonic world and how desperate I was when I was dying, and the day I was saved from it.

"Hehe, you're the best student I've ever had."

Lady Dora was pleased to see the loyalty that abounded from me.

Most people get angry that Master Dora is this strong, and if she pushes it again and again, she will "know but don't repeat it again and again" somewhere.

Regardless, they are not scorning the Dragon God either.

Everyone of the Dragon Nation worshipped the Dragon God as a god and pledged allegiance.

But if you let Master Dora tell you, at the point where the word "don't repeat" comes out, you won't have enough loyalty.

If you are truly loyal, you can always show it in words.

Yeah, like me.

Yeah, well, that's when I was also taught about Master Lunaria.

"Master Lunaria is the wife of the Dragon God. I hear she is the daughter of a different world god, a human god. I don't know the details."

Master Lunaria is the woman brought by the Dragon God.

In years, about a thousand years ago?

For the Dora and the others, it wasn't that long ago.

Dragon God said he suddenly brought Lunaria one day and declared that he would be his own wife.

I don't know why the Dragon God took another race as his wife, not the Dragons.

Because I didn't explain it.

Regardless, some were unhappy.

I was wondering why you didn't choose between us.

Among the Dragon tribes, there were many women worthy of the Dragon God.

Even Master Dora would have been one of them.

But Lady Dora had no objection to her not being chosen.

Here's what she said.

"The Dragon God has some deep thoughts. The Dragon God is always thinking about our Dragon Clan, even if there are a few things I don't understand, it's for the future of the Dragon Clan. It's not prying."

You think I'm being paranoid?

That's because you don't know her loyalty.

Let's go back to Master Lunaria.

Regardless, it was a long time ago that Master Lunaria was neglected by the Dragons.

The dissatisfied voice said that Master Lunaria had lurked the ringing in about a hundred years of coming.

Because Lunaria was like a goddess, full of charity.

Strangely, when I spoke to her, everyone felt tender.

I kind of feel like I can forgive everything.

If you talk to her, she says everyone was convinced that she was the wife of the Dragon God.

I also liked Master Lunaria elsewhere than loyalty.

I didn't forget that Lunaria covered me a year ago.

She was certainly welcoming me.

It may have been by order of the Dragon God, and he had few words, but he didn't neglect me, and he took care of me.

I also wanted to protect the herd and this mansion where the herd lived because it was her house.

I couldn't follow you, and I disrespect you for saying it... she was my mother.

... That's how I absorbed more and more knowledge of the dragon kingdom.

By the time about five years went by, I guess there was nothing I didn't know.

Most of the time, I may not have been able to tell you that I really know because many of them I've never actually seen.

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When I learned the words and accumulated my knowledge, Master Dora began to take me outside.

The town where many dragons fly is busy and I let my heart dance.

I set foot in town because I dreamed so many times when I lived in the demonic world.

Large spaces, many houses, lively shops, squares where you are holding something.

They were all fresh.

Most of all, the Dragons who go on the road, even when they look at me, never welcomed me.

I frowned when I saw that disastrous hair, and it never came close.

But there was no hostility to me, no siege, no attempt to chase me out of town.

Sometimes the information had already penetrated that the child brought by the Dragon God, but most importantly because Dora had me.

When they found Lady Dora, they uniformly held her fist and made her cross in front of her chest.

I won't be kicked out.

Knowing that, I was greedy to stroll around.

I've just been taught what that big building that I see around me is and what's out there. So I have knowledge, but it's just stuff I don't know.

Curiosity was immeasurable.

I looked around in curiosity and asked this and questions.

"Dear Dora! What is that?

"Clothes shop."

"Dear Dora, what's that?

"East Square. Looks like you're playing a play today."

"Dear Dora, you're flying better with a weapon."

"It's a dragon warrior. The weapons are made by Chaos."

Master Dora answered them politely.

He replied to everything I found out.

If I were you, I'd shut you up on the way.

"Dear Dora, I'd like to take a look inside that building!

"I won't allow it now. Got it."

Lady Dora stopped the wing at one point and went down to the ground.

It was a huge square with a radius of more than 100 meters.

In the square, the big dragon tribes of the body became pairs, working together.

Some of them noticed Master Dora and gave him the most salute.

Master Dora answered it eagle fry, unloading me and facing each other.

"Dear Dora, this is a squad yard."

"Yes."

Practitioner's field.

A place where dragon soldiers work out their bodies.

"The Dragons must be strong. You, picked up by the Dragon God, must defeat the existence that harms the Dragon God. Didn't I?"

"It must be!

"Good reply! Then you know what you need to do here!

"Yes!"

The next step in my knowledge was training for battle.

Fighting was next to language for the Dragons, who were waiting for the vicious dragons if they even stepped out of town.

So the Dragons don't care about men or women, they learn how to fight at a certain age.

... No, to tell the truth, between language and battle, there's another important thing, and ordinary Dragon children learn that one first.

Let's put that aside for now.

"All right, then call me! I'll teach you how to fight the Dragons."

Master Dora took my place before me.

Drop your hips, become half-body, and place your piercing hand in a position that hides your hips and midline, with your wings aligned and squeezed in the direction of your back so that you can fly at any time.

Yes, I imitated the structure in appearance.

"The fool!

As soon as Dora jumped, I shook myself up.

"Who told me to set up! I told you to call me! If I tell you to call me, you will kill me!

Oh...... even now I remember, it was a harsh word.

She teaches battle first and foremost.

I would never teach you fine technology at first.

The most important thing in the fight is the feeling of killing your opponent… temper.

Most dragon tribes can't help but be confused if Master Dora tells them that.

You can't kill Master Dora.

But fortunately, I wasn't.

I untied myself with those words and crawled on all fours.

It's the same style as when you lived in the demonic world.

Those eyes put Master Dora, the instructor, in his sight and decided he was the one to kill and eat the person in front of him.

Didn't you have any questions?

There is no way. I knew what a fight was.

On top of that, Master Dora told me to do it.

Then I'll just follow it.

"That's it, come on"

Master Dora took my intent to kill directly from the front.

"Huh...... Huh!

I fluttered my limbs wide and jumped to Master Dora.

I aimed at Dora's neck in the shortest possible distance.

But between me and Dora's neck, there's Dora's arm.

If you stick straight in, Master Dora will stick a piercing hand at me.

My defeat is decisive.

That's why I moved my wings.

I bent at right angles to ignore the laws of inertia.

Feint.

What I've been fighting for is a vicious warcraft living in the demon kingdom.

I have continued to fight opponents who have no chance of winning just by sticking straight in.

So these movements were also yours.

Turning sharply towards Dora, I kicked the ground and hit Dora again.

Assault from the straight side.

He also sees the throat to be aimed at, and there is no shield named Arms.

My fangs will devour Master Dora's throat and end that life.

"Gah!"

But when I realized, I was honking and blowing like a dog.

Rolling down the ground and getting up instantly is a severe pain in the shoulder.

When I saw it, there was a hole in my shoulder and red blood was pouring out.

And Master Dora turned to me like that, and continued to set me up.

Turn to me.

I should have turned to the side, but I was facing straight ahead at some point.

Master Dora said away to me, not knowing what had happened, but just confused by a sore shoulder mouth.

"What's wrong?! It's over! Move! I'll kill you!"

I stuck my teeth out.

I didn't know what happened, but the fight wasn't over.

And he was suddenly shocked, blowing behind his back.

When I rolled and then raised my face, in the position where I was earlier, there was Lady Dora.

The moment I confirmed it, the sand at her feet buzzed up.

Master Dora moved at divine speed and thrust me.

To be honest, at this point I was aware that I had no chance of winning.

But I stood on all fours, without diminishing my will.

I had to attack from myself.

".................. ugh!

I held my breath and attacked silently.

There is no hanging up.

I've always been lonely, and I don't have the habit of intimidating them.

It just attacks silently, just eats and kills the other person silently.

That was all I had in mind.

"Gah!"

But that's the only thing I had in mind was that Dora was about to crush me.

She was pointing at me.

Still, he was pointing his finger at me without a structure or anything.

I didn't do anything.

It seemed that way to me.

But actually, no.

Master Dora responded to my movements and was moving.

He didn't hang on my feint, he used his wings to change direction in an instant, and he was piercing me with that piercing hand.

"What's wrong?! Come on, come on! Come till you die! I'll kill you!"

With a dirty curse, Lady Dora's attacks continued.

Every time I woke up, I was swept around somewhere in my limbs and my blood blew out.

"All right, come on! Dragon scales will only become stronger if they peel off! You have no scales, but the same thing! Be strong!

I didn't give up.

Every time he was pierced and blown away, he rose up and headed towards Master Dora.

Why would you do that?

Because Master Dora told me to.

I was just being foolish, listening to the instructor.

Such combat training took place until I passed out.

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The next thing I learned was about a few days after combat training started.

Even that day, I was knocked out and fainted as usual.

Usually, it's my own room, in the house of the Dragon God, that awakens.

"Wake up, hey, wake up!

But that day I woke up in a slightly different place.

"From today on, after training for battle, I'll have you do something else until nightfall"

That wasn't a circular squad yard with sand laid on the ground, or my own room with only a place to sleep.

A gentle slope.

There were several scaffolding on the slopes, like a jumping platform, where children, far smaller than me, jumped up with aid and flickered their wings, fell to the ground.

Four to five meters is falling from a likely height, but they are also dragon tribes.

Even as he suffered a scratch, he was immediately up and climbing the slope again.

"... What is this place?

It's a flight training ground.

When Master Dora said so, some of the children ran closer.

"Dear Dora!

"Master Dragon General Dora!

"I admire you! How to fly, tell me!

"Is that it! Weird hair!

When the children came before Master Dora, they crossed their fists and posed for the most salute.

One guy, some guy pointed at me without the most salute, but Master Dora doesn't even care.

It's common for children.

"I came to put on an audition today because this guy can't fly. I don't have time to teach you to fly. But flying is fundamental to the Dragons. Make sure you master it. That will do the Dragon God good!

"He can't fly yet!

"Don't do it! You're bigger than me!

"I could fly to the yellow line today!

"I'm Blue Line!

"Fool! Don't mock others!

"Yes," "Yes," "Yes."

Dora climbed to the top with me as she adored the children.

"Laplace. Where am I? Say it."

"Flight training ground. This is where Dragon children train to fly."

Yes, that was one of the many training facilities that existed in Long Ming Shan, where the children would train to fly.

I don't have an official name, but the kids called me Flying Square, I wonder what it was.

The Dragons have a long life span, but they only make children once every few thousand years.

As a result, the number of children is never high.

Therefore, the Dragon tribe considers the education of their children to be important.

Those who can become teachers will be taught firmly.

But there are no teachers in this flight training facility.

That means flying in the sky takes time.

The children spend a hundred years crashing and sooner or later flying.

What we need there is not a teacher.

It's a distracting repetitive exercise.

The first few times, of course, are taught by those who preside over education, but then the children learn voluntarily.

Until I can fly.

I keep crashing for ten years, hundreds of years, until I can fly.

That way, most of the Dragons will be able to fly.

The Dragons will always be able to fly so that there are no birds that cannot fly.

And I'm just saying, there's a fallout everywhere.

There are only a few Dragons who can't fly to the end.

What happens to those people?

Unfortunately, he will be branded a falling out and engaged in a job that everyone doesn't want to do.

The kids are desperate because they know that too, and those who can't fly look down relentlessly.

It doesn't make any difference that we're all under the Dragon God.

"What do you learn here?

"I fly in the sky"

"All right, try flying"

"Yes."

I followed Lady Dora's words and went up to the jump table.

It is the square that spreads beneath your eyes. And it's a dragon township.

Not so much from the bottom, but quite expensive from the top.

I saw it and spread my wings.

He moved his back muscles and ascertained the range of motion of the wings.

Then he sank his hips a long time and jumped up without getting his hair in between.

Wings winged twice, three times, diagonally upwards.

but he quickly stalled and fell down in stiffness.

Where I crashed out of my head, I turned cleverly in the air and landed on all fours.

I went up to the jump bench as if nothing had happened.

And he repeated several leaps and falls.

The landing was good, unlike the other children, and there were no injuries. You lived your experience when you lived in the demonic world.

But when I was in the demon world, I never flew.

I didn't even know I could fly.

Hence, I can't fly.

"Wait."

After several failures, Master Dora stopped me.

Do you know how to fly?

I shook my head.

Then Master Dora told me politely.

"Put" Dragon Qi "in your wings and generate a force field. Manipulate the force field to stay idle and use the wind to skip. Don't get it."

Even when they say pong, there's no way I know.

Maybe that's one of the reasons why you don't need a teacher for flight training.

The wings of the Dragons are not the wings of the birds.

It's an organ for flying, but it's not something for flying in the wind.

It generates a force field like antigravity, thereby flying through the sky.

Regardless, once up in the sky, you will also receive air resistance. In that case, we must tilt our wings, turn the wind received into lift, and fly to glide away.

But the dragon's flight is only due to the force field. Lifting power is only an aid.

By the way, the wings of red dragons and blue dragons are the same organ.

"Okay."

That's what I answered.

It's not like I can't get dragon chi into my wings.

When I was in the demon kingdom, I didn't have to go as far as flying, because I had a manoeuvre with wings.

It's just that flying is a little different.

It's hard to explain in words.

But that's the hardest thing the dragon kids have to spend a hundred years practicing.

"If you know what I mean. Repeat until you can fly."

"Yes."

"I'll be back."

When Lady Dora said that, she left me and flew away.

Master Dora's way of flying was as streamlined as an example.

There was no waste in the movement of the wings, the rise was smooth, and fast.

The children flew one after the other trying to chase Master Dora, but no one could fly and crashed.

When I dropped off Master Dora, I went up to the jump table.

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Thus, three training days continued: seating, combat, and flight.

Sitting and fighting went well.

Isn't there something special to say?

The fighters, at first, just hung up and got hit, but gradually they could teach me how to fight and how to set up.

By working with Master Dora like every day, the local power was also increasing slightly.

You just didn't fly well.

After combat training, hanging from noon to night, I repeatedly jumped and crashed.

Lady Dora came back at night and asked if she could fly.

When he found out he still couldn't fly, he snapped just one word, "Well," and took me back to the mansion.

Master Dora never gave a hand.

She was the one who declared not to be clueless, but I guess she had nothing to say when it comes to flight training.

A dragon tribe is something that flies alone after repetitive practice.

There was such common sense.

Of course I didn't complain either.

He silently went up to the jump table ten times the rest of the kids and fell ten times.

While I kept falling, some of the large number of children grabbed the hang of creating a force field out of their wings.

Some got the hang of controlling their posture in the air.

One can fly now.

I'm in a bit of a hurry, too.

I got the best teacher named Dora, but I couldn't make it.

To tell you the truth, I knew and could do both the trick of putting out a force field and the trick of controlling posture.

But that's only when you have feet on the ground.

With my feet on the ground, I move and flirt faster than the demon beast.

Even then, the dragon warriors there would be so light.

But I guess the habits of that time were interrupting my flight.

Walking on earth is fundamentally different from flying in the sky.

The body has to be perpendicular to gravity, and the orientation of putting out the force field is not the same direction I've ever assumed.

It wasn't something I could fly overnight.

That's why the rush got stronger, too.

Because you're supposed to be able to, but you can't.

But still, I didn't cry.

Because Master Dora forbade it.

No crying, no words you can't.

The day went on without any fruit.

Master Dora showed up like every day to see if I could fly.

I always replied, "Not yet," and Master Dora nodded and left.

Master Lunaria greeted me when the training was over and I came back to be a tatter.

The servants also began to acknowledge me as a proper companion when I began to unravel the Word and speak of my benevolence and gratitude to the Dragon God.

Most of all, they still didn't see me as the son of Dragon God.

I guess so. Even I thought I was a dog or something, but I didn't think I was an adopted child.

Oh, I guess so.

They hid and gave me food, especially on the day I came home worn out.

You can't do it except for a set amount of time, you know?

Now in retrospect, that's exactly what you did to the dog...

Ha, maybe they and I had one feeling at the time.

Good memories in retrospect.

Master Lunaria treated me as her mother, stroking her tummy, which grew slightly older every year.

Most of all, it was just a goddess to me because Master Lunaria had no experience with her mother, or because I didn't know what a mother was.

She is, I don't know, extraordinary.

Just be there, don't worry.

Now that I think about it, I guess that reassurance was a sign that I was a demigod.

It was the best environment.

A warm home for full training.

While I was wrapped up in such things, I spent decades becoming a one-man dragon clan.

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"Well, then I... oh?

Man - When LaPlath looked at the chair, the girl was nagging the boat in disdain.

I'm so bored, did I fall asleep?

No, apparently not.

"It's night already..."

When Laplace looked out the window, there was a starry sky.

Unlike the dragon kingdom, the starry sky exists directly above it.

LaPlath's sensation meant only a few hours or so.

But for Rosterina, it must have been an entire day.

"I miss him too much, and for a long time, we talked slowly. I didn't know you'd crush Rosterina's short day."

That's how I looked at the window, something huge blocked the window.

The Red Dragon.

When the red dragon admitted to LaPlath's appearance, he got used to the circle and throat demanding something.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I prolonged it. But if you give me the end of the dragon, you should go get one of the bait yourself."

"Golu......"

"Don't say that. I didn't think time would pass so fast either. People say time passes faster when they get older, but it seems the same to me, which is a mixed race of Demons and Dragons"

LaPlath said so, holding Rosterina's body back.

Walk out of the room without making any noise.

He walked down a narrow hallway and moved to the front of one door.

"Well, at least I wanted to hear one of your thoughts..."

Gently open the door.

Considering that there seemed to be a scattering of the whole house, there was such a tidy room that it was not an exaggeration to say that there was no thing.

LaPlath gently unloaded Rostellina on the bed that was in the room and hung her blanket.

There is no need to turn off the lights. I don't have that thing on me from the start.

Laplace's eyes can see everything, even in the dark.

"Good night, Rostellina. See you tomorrow."

LaPlath said so, closing the door and returning to his original room.