Isekai Shachuuhaku Monogatari - Outrunner PHEV - Vol. 3 Ch. 11 - I Thought We Had Met Again

[jvlg]

Its the time honored manga author tradition of severely looking down on our ancestors. Believing them to be stupid cave dwellers with lacking knowledge and no interest in tasty food.

Oh, I don't doubt it, but... I do hope the author learnt better eventually. There's still time for the author to canonize the more watsonian interpretation of things this early in the story.

Mm, I'm not a fan of the time-line shifting. I would have preferred time passing between world transfers rather than him jumping a day into the future one time and the next jumping five years into the future with no clue how many times he's already "interacted" with people at that point.

I don't know, I think it fits a chill story about isekai camping and self-growth fairly well.

For one, having a quick and simple "pre-made" friend group in the other world does allow one to jump right into chill mode, knowing anyone friendly you find is probably someone you've already befriended in the future, rather than having the story focus too much on that setup phase where the MC has to regain their footing in this new world (or fasttrack their way with silly overpowered skills). Not to mention there's that whole "gotta chill, enjoying the moment and every small interaction, because we don't know if we'll ever meet again" aspect to it.

And then there's the fact meeting all these strangers you've know you must have been able to befriend and get close with some time in the future is in itself a promise that "yes, MC-kun! you're going to manage to match your pace with others, develop your social skills and have some self-growth!". It does fit with the story's optimistic fairly well .
...Even if it means having to tackle the issue of fate and self-determination, and whether this self-growth was something you've accomplished tourself or something gifted to you by fate. But something that deep is probably expecting too much from this manga, more than I already am hoping for I suppose.

 

[jvlg]

As someone who once life in rural area of south east asia.

Even if charcoal technically available, many still rely on basic dry wood as fuel.
Easy to procure (just go out in the woods) and relatively easy to store.

Hell, when i was a kid, the local store still sell ash for washing kitchen tools.

Oh, that's a good point. I suppose charcoal was something relegated to specific purposes (like blacksmithing and whatnot) rather than something the average Joe's going to waste on cooking?
And it leaves enough wiggle room for the author to stroke his ego about wasting expensive fuel on banal things such as food too

 

[horsewithnoname]

Damn everybody is out to fuck this guy

 

[Goldenzeal]

How can you not pick up there is time skips?

To be fair, just because you can travel dimensions does not mean you instantly assume you are a time traveler with non lineal time traveling powers whenever you meet somebody who clearly knows you, but you have no idea who they are.
Especially if you are not into time traveling in literature.

Oh huh, the time skips may not be linear? That's actually interesting, far more interesting twist than just regular time skips if thats the case; it would mean this Kyara is probably already romantically entangled with a future MC.

A perfect doctor who moment.

are we going to get a "I'm standing on a million lives" moment

Well..... from what im told, not in the depressing way at least .... thank god...

My guess is that Truck-kun or something similar Isakaied her into this world

From earlier spoilers i have been told its time travel.
Also the "god" who made all this happened did mention he had power over both space AND time.

@skeleton637 See ?
Not everyone assumes time travel instantly.

 

[adrianojuniocunha]

Theyre cooking some interesting plot.

 

[KuroViLolitannia]

Wait wait wait the writing is this fire??

 

[thycondrius]

RUN MC!!! She's gonna suck you dry!

 

[havelmom]

don't... put time travel into the story...
it's just not gonna end well...

 

[anonymousthief]

It'll be epic if he actually pops his cherry there.

Clearly Mu is Kyara and there's some timeline mismatch because she acts like she's already been in a relationship with MC for years. I hope they explain it instead of leaving us in suspense.

 

[Kireato]

I don't think Kyara's daughter or niece would kiss him upon meeting him. I assume that this is a future version of Kyara who knows that she meets the MC again at this point in time (which is only a few days later from their first meeting for the MC) and has learned a lot more about his world and his tools.

Still, it's pretty confusing to have this introduced in this way. If she's not Kyara, I really wonder who she is. Perhaps Eta using magic since she seemed keen to marry him, thought disguising herself as Kyara and kissing him like that is very weird. Or maybe a figure like that monk who knew he was a shifter.

 

[Chizan]

I dont think its 3 day.... 23 year maybe?

I think she did meet him 3 days ago, ...how many years after the third time when the lizard fell. Who do you think told her to keep something a secret? Or conferred all that knowledge to her? Of course it must have been himself. See, it makes perfect sense. Just some buggy flux capacitor in the RV...

 

[phy_sanda]

Spoiler: Not Spoiler

so, apparently Mu is Kyara & she's already married. Probably as everyone had said.

 

[jrocker]

So he travels not only through space but time as well and not linearly. Presumably he has an adventure with Mu where she will fall for him in the future but in her past.

 

[MeganeR]

Spoiler: Not Spoiler

so, apparently Mu is Kyara & she's already married. Probably as everyone had said.

Hmm hopefully the MC will eventually learn how to control when he time travels to. If not it'd be messy lol.

 

[Ezlsnow]

I'm thankful for the comment analyses but I'll just wait for the next chapters to "explain" stuff because I hate time travel and theorycrafting. I also hate my curiosity eating at me because if she's really Kyara, I wanna know why she changed her name to μ

 

[DementisXYZ]

Oh hell no. Non-linear time travel can be really fun, but I hate when the people who know the main character lie and are cryptic to them for some BS reason. It was one of the things I liked least about the game Four Elements Trainer.
I'm ok with non-linear story telling, but I'll never understand why authors feel the need to gaslight the shit out of their MCs.

 

[popinloopy]

Thank you for the chapter! So is this a "River Song and The Doctor" situation, then?

 

[kaminomikan]

so is jumping forward and backward in time?

 

[skeleton637]

@skeleton637 See ?
Not everyone assumes time travel instantly.

My wife watched all of Outlander from start to finish above my office. So much hate for that series...

Waiting for her to start watching The Time Travers Wife with dread.

 

[Ironclad]

Based on what "Mu" said, she's probably time travelling as well. That or she lied when she said it's been 3 days since Out last saw Kyara. We know it's been longer than that from his pov, and that definitely isn't enough time get familiar with his camping equipment and food.