We're finally starting to get somewhere. Thank the close family member for helping to change the mood towards leaking details.
Alves figures that Nunnaly doesn't think much of him (he counts himself among the "worthless things" that messed up the teleport) and probably understands how he looks...
I've read other series that have made passing remarks on the impracticality of hunting dragons for their valuable resources. This was a neat take on it, probably because of its real-life inspiration from whale hunting enterprises.
It's good timing now to drop this series anyway. The story felt like it was stagnating in these last few chapters.
No idea how removing the chapters from MD while they stay up on aggregators helps anyone, but I don't have to care anymore~~~