RuriDragon - Ch. 33 - Turf

[Serenata]

Do you want a shitty explanation dump where nothing is expected or discovered, or do you want an interesting and fun narrative where we discover things at the same time ruri does so we can enjoy each ability as they come instead of rushing to get through them all?
This complaint is dumb stupid pointless dumb dumb dumb stupid. Purge it from your brain and never speak of it again lest you combust in an oil field.

I forgot kids had access to the internet, sorry, I will do it again

 

[TheWisestofWolfies]

I really hope they eventually tell us WHY he can't disclose all the powers later on cause like you said it is annoying

My theory is that if he discloses all the powers then maybe they will all manifest aka if your aware of it you will get it like I think I'm sick = your brain makes it so your sick.

He literally just explained why. Not every obstacle to having things neatly explained needs to be a literal physical barrier that supernaturally compels them not to. Realistically it's going to be "I'd like to keep my job, so things will be need to know only". That should be good enough.

 

[TheWisestofWolfies]

I forgot kids had access to the internet, sorry, I will do it again

Do you want a story or a databook?

 

[Durianmasam]

A walking AC 😭

 

[dokidoki]

He literally just explained why. Not every obstacle to having things neatly explained needs to be a literal physical barrier that supernaturally compels them not to. Realistically it's going to be "I'd like to keep my job, so things will be need to know only". That should be good enough.

Oh man thats hilarious if the reason he hasn't explained it all is because he would have no job if he just went ahead and spoiled everything, thats fucking hilarious

 

[Insignis]

And kind of a third that came to mind when I was writing... maybe fertility between dragons isn't particularly high, losing a few even if the others can retaliate, it puts strain on their numbers, so a treaty is better for them.

Or they are like goblins in some stories? No females so they need to rape other race females, just that dragons aren't forcing shit?

 

[kraize]

Think of how rich Yuri could become she could sell "Shaved ice from real highschool girl dragon" She would roll in cash.

 

[fight2live]

ice ice baby~

 

[mudkipslaps]

🥶🥶🥶

 

[TheWisestofWolfies]

Oh man thats hilarious if the reason he hasn't explained it all is because he would have no job if he just went ahead and spoiled everything, thats fucking hilarious

I mean its pretty explicit hexs prevented from just dumping everything on her because of government red tape. If he could he would, but its apparent that some of these abilities are like discussing nuclear launch codes. I don't see why this is a problem when it gives the story room to experience each power at a steady pace. This would be a far less enjoyable manga if we just infodumped literally everything at the start. Makes it more difficult to explore the whimsy and wonder of each new ability and learn them as Ruri does. If she already knows whats coming like 90% of that drama and intrigue is lost.

Really the main conceit and Suspension of Disbelief has more to do with the fact she wasn't locked in a box and shipped to dragon land the moment her powers started manifesting. In a 100% realistic setting the government would not let her just waltz around school day-to-day, cause if dragon powers are too dangerous to freely disclose, frankly she's too dangerous to even go to school. However, that would make for a rather uninteresting story. Not many of these stories take the slow and mundane approach of just living with the special powers among regular society. Most use it as a jumping off point to spiral into some sort of action adventure with secret societies and criminal syndicates. Could Ruri do the same at some point? Sure, but its nice having a story that takes itself slow in a mundane environment with a fantastical wild card. This is peak YA fiction and I struggle to see why people keep demanding a list of her abilities as if they're desperate to powerscale and analyze everything. Some stories you're meant to relax with, this is one of them.

 

[volodyuka]

humans are smart enough and persistent enough to observe and learn, give it enough time and them developing a few ways to hunting dragons isnt far-fetched, even if the resources for that were really big.

Weeeell, humans might be smart but thing is, the concept of dragons is, well, old. very old. if you imagine the world there they are real, they must've been real for all that very long time, maybe ever in human terms. so humans could've been wiped out in early ancient times by just a couple of natural disasters. even in early medieval times human civilisations were nearly wiped out by nature, like ancestors of norsemen were almost wiped out because a massive volcano blow out half the world away from them and produced several years of poor harvests and famine. plagues sometime wipe out more than half the people living in said areas there plague hit. it's not that rare to read the simple observations of few who survive simply stating there were no one who would dig the graves and bury the dead.

now, flying natural disasters. they do not need to do a lot to wipe out the majority of humans in early times.

 

[volodyuka]

In a 100% realistic setting

weeell, in 100% realistic setting you cannot really hide existence of anything, so dragons would've been an open secret, rarely talked about, but widely known. like how your smartphones and other smart devices spy on you for corpos and states. not really talked, not really secret.

 

[Takuma_Aki]

That is a good question, i have been asking that, i have two guesses... first, just like Ruri's mother somehow rizzed a dragon (yes, she rizzed him, not the other way, that dragon is lucky she even payed attention to him), some dragons simply loved humanity enough to make a stand for them.

Second... despite some incredible abilities, dragons here do seem to have limits, the eletrict ability as example, it was said it is something that can take months even years to charge enough to really go wild, still strong even at a low output i have no doubt but the thing is... humans are smart enough and persistent enough to observe and learn, give it enough time and them developing a few ways to hunting dragons isnt far-fetched, even if the resources for that were really big.

And kind of a third that came to mind when I was writing... maybe fertility between dragons isn't particularly high, losing a few even if the others can retaliate, it puts strain on their numbers, so a treaty is better for them.

These are a few scenarios, and pretty superficially said too, these can have many more details going on, which could explain things, or there can be other explanations.

But i do think Shindou-sensei has thought of it, he just hadnt had the chance to explore that, there is a chance that he even just mentions it en passant in the story, as the focus may stay of Ruri just growing up, but i still think we will have more details... it seems there is a lot of surprises even between the ryus about how many abilities Ruri seems to have inherited, they may want to keep a close why on her too.

I think those scenarios are likely.

We can assume from the fact that Dragons existence aren't common knowledge means there aren't that many in number; otherwise sighting will be more often than any government can cover up. And so far, all their abilities, even though are very devastating for humans, none are able to wipe us all out in the blink of an eye, so this will likely end up to be a war of attrition. In that scenario, human will have number advantage to persist after all dragons been eradicated. Like, worst case scenario, 75% of humans might dies, but dragons will be eradicated and we can thrive back in no times. Records from after the plague or similar disaster wiped large portion of human indicated that the remaining population will thrive during the period after since now there are a lot of surplus resource left from less mouth to feed. This is nothing like nuclear disaster where the environment will become hostile for a long while the survival becomes problem. Though this doesn't mean we'll take no hit at all. Society will be set back, some technology and knowledge might be lost. So, treaty is probably the best outcome for every side

 

[ShyGuy-096]

Believe it or not... i kinda understand why in this series... bureaucracy, it does not like to reveal things unless STRICTLY necessary... even when revealing it would have prevented more problems.

He is a white collar slave of his bureaucrat masters... and maybe the Ryus have been putting pressure on things too, by what was said, the whole situation is less of a peaceful coexistence and more of a tense treaty between sides.

Honestly I'm surprised that the powers that be haven't taken the SCP approach of just covering everything up and putting Ruri into hiding.

 

[radstylix]

Fighting (and causing) climate change with the power of dragon girls is certainly an idea...

She's already controlling storms. All of that had to go somewhere.

Speaking of, Tohru from Dragon Maid fire breathed some clouds away IIRC.

 

[ShallowContrarian]

why the fuck did the translators used fahrenheit instead of celsius?

"Guy who redraws celcius into fahrenheit for the official translation" just rose to the top of the list as fakest job in the world

 

[ProfessorHitori413]

as an american who now uses celsius due to speaking to international friends... fuck this chapter for using farenheit

also, 6C being "winter" is fuckin weaksauce. the Japanese can't handle the cold it seems.

 

[alacaelum]

Honestly I'm surprised that the powers that be haven't taken the SCP approach of just covering everything up and putting Ruri into hiding.

That is a sign that this isn't exactly coexistence, and is a treaty.

Humans must have a way to deal with ryus, and ryus themselves feel that conflict simply won't benefit them, but the two sides are still looking at each other.

With such tense peace, both sides get more cautious to not no anything that could serve as provocation.

And considering that despite dragons existing, this clearly is a very normal modern society... there isn't much reason to start a war with a race of almost divine beings.

If Ruri, a little half dragonling, can do everything she can and still is growing up, just imagine what a full-grown adult can do... he may have stayed away, but I doubt her dad would stay quiet if his pup was being poked by some Dr Bright wannabe.

 

[huntercheco]

Hopefully this puts to rest those "Teacher is Ruri's dad but is hiding it" comments

 

[iririuuu]

why the fuck did the translators used fahrenheit instead of celsius?

true i don't even know how cold that is and i'm too lazy to search for it