I Was Adopted By A Dragon In Another World

CH 2

Default Dyslexic Roboto Lora

ed dragon wants you to get on.” The pig butcher looked at his pocket translator, and anxiously relayed the instructions.
He wished that the dragon would quickly take the livestock and leave, but he didn’t understand why the dragon was going through all this hassle.
For a dragon’s meal, this human obviously wasn’t even enough for a single mouthful.

Huh? It wasn’t going to eat her?

Luya froze.
She thought for a moment, and considered that maybe the dragon wanted to take her home as part of its food reserve.
Or perhaps it thought she was too skinny to eat, and wanted to fatten her up a bit.
Thinking about it further, this tiny body would be gone in a single bite, so perhaps it was saving her for later?

Regardless, anywhere was better than staying at this monster’s market.
Without hesitating, she shakily climbed up the red dragon’s wings and onto its back.
There, she reached out and hugged the scales on the back of its neck.

It was fine if the dragon took her away.

The red dragon’s body wasn’t as cold as she imagined.
In fact, it was warm.
The scales seemed to conduct heat, but it didn’t burn her.

“—— (Dragon Language).”

She didn’t understand what the red dragon said, although she figured it was probably something about holding on tight.
Suddenly, it unfurled its enormous wings.
Underneath the huge gust of air, the monsters in the market scattered and the pig butcher’s stall flipped over.
The dragon’s body slowly rose off the ground, and an instant later, Luya felt herself soaring.
Like riding a roller coaster, the red dragon swept up into the sky.

Ever since the Dark Age, the sky was red even in broad daylight, and the air currents were extremely tumultuous.
Just as the land was overrun with monsters, the skies were also dangerous.
There were huge man-eating birds all over the place, and their ear-piercing shrieks could be heard anywhere.
However, no monster dared to approach a dragon.

The turbulence in the dragon’s flight almost caused Luya to be blown off.
However, she clung for dear life to the dragon’s neck, not daring to open her eyes.
On the dragon’s back, flying for ten minutes felt like a century.
Eventually, the red dragon landed in a mountain cave, which seemed to be its lair.

The red dragon flattened himself down again.
Luya figured this meant that she should get off, so she slid off the dragon’s wings.
Afterwards, her eyes met with the massive eyes of the dragon, and they stared at each other.

How to put it…

It seemed like this dragon didn’t want to eat her.

There was no hostility or aggression in its eyes, and in fact it looked very calm.
Um… perhaps the dragon wasn’t hungry right now…?

Even though Luya was still terrified, she wondered what she should say to the red dragon.
However, her stomach interrupted them with a loud grumble.

“…”

She stiffened, but her stomach began to groan again.
It seemed that ever since the original inhabitant of her body was captured two days ago, she hadn’t drank anything, and certainly hadn’t eaten anything.
The fact that she had a bottle of water from the pig butcher earlier was thanks to the dragon’s intimidating threats… so this dragon probably wasn’t too evil.
At the very least he didn’t mistreat her when she was extremely thirsty.

Even if it was out of sympathy for a dying creature, it was still good.
For that matter, since when did humans treat chickens so nicely before killing them?

Luya lowered her head and sighed.
Perhaps she would starve to death before the dragon decided to eat her.

However, the red dragon seemed to think of something as it listened to her stomach rumbling.
It suddenly stood up and walked away two steps to a cliff some distance away from Luya.
It unfolded its massive wings, and suddenly launched into flight.

Huh?! It’s flying away?!

Luya was extremely surprised.
Where was the dragon going? And wait, didn’t it worry that she might run away?!

However, the truth was there didn’t seem to be any way to run away.
After Luya watched the silhouette of the dragon disappear into the clouds, she couldn’t help but examine the surrounding environment — this place seemed to be a volcano, and the air faintly smelled of sulfur.
There was very little plant life growing on the ground, and there were mushrooms growing in between the cracks of the rock that might be poisonous.

There was a lot of steaming hot water in the crevices around the volcanic rock.
However, based on her understanding, the milky white hot springs near volcanoes were generally sulfur springs, and couldn’t be used as a water source.

She looked around her surroundings worriedly.
Since the volcano was covered in clouds, the altitude was probably very high and the visibility was rather poor.
It was probably impossible to escape down the volcano by herself.
Moreover, where would she go? The entire world was filled with monsters, and even if she ran away from a dragon, she would surely be caught and eaten by some other beast.
No matter how she struggled in this post-apocalyptic world, she would surely die.
In her past life, working 80-hour weeks was already hard enough.
Perhaps she should just let the winds blow and trust in fate? Maybe the dragon wouldn’t eat her for the time being…

Holding onto the seductive idea that maybe she’d be able to return to her original world if she died, Luya curled up into a ball on the warm rock and slowly fell asleep.

Compared the frigid air in the outside world, at least it was still warm inside here.

Author’s notes:

New chapters every day at eight o’clock~

Translator’s notes:

Pronouns are difficult.
For a majority of this chapter, the dragon is referred to as an “it”, but sometimes it switches to “he/him” (usually in 3rd person narration or from the perspective of the pig butcher).

You can take this to mean that Luya sees the dragon as an “it” (for now), but clearly the dragon isn’t just a mindless animal.
He is the ML, after all…