Tora wa Ryuu o Mada Tabenai. - Vol. 1 Ch. 7 - The Aftermath

[MangaDex]

 

[daonewhoisworthy]

Thanks for the TL man🫡

Damn I love the story so far. I find it interesting how they made dragons not as strong compared to other fictional stories. They’re usually overpowered and untouchable.

 

[cheslie]

Thank you for the chapter! I would have never understood the tail thing just from the raws! I didn’t know it would be that cute 🥹🥹🥹 thank you again for the translation!

 

[Pouco-chan]

This was so good that i could eat it with rice~🍙
Thks for the tl~

 

[Guyincognitus]

What kind of apex predator gets hunted into extinction?

 

[Unma]

What kind of apex predator gets hunted into extinction?

An apex predator that hunts itself into extinction.

 

[Guyincognitus]

An apex predator that hunts itself into extinction.

Yeah but only cause they got griefed out of their normal hunting grounds like a bunch of punks.

 

[Unma]

Yeah but only cause they got griefed out of their normal hunting grounds like a bunch of punks.

Tbf, if literally every single other animal would stop what they were doing to teammate up on a dragon and take it down for its delicious meat, it's not surprising that they eventually got hunted out of their hunting grounds. There's only so much you can do before numbers overwhelm you.

 

[adidas10]

God i wish it was me licking that belly

 

[LewynMartell]

Yeah but only cause they got griefed out of their normal hunting grounds like a bunch of punks.

i think dragons in this story are exceptional creatures (some otherworldly capabilities like being long-lived and having special blood), but overall pretty vulnerable. their human forms even seem to be all little kids. it's also a very apt representation of how bratty (haughty) they are described as being.

 

[LewynMartell]

i think it was in the forum of the last chapter or something that someone asked why he seems to like her so much. and i think this chapter is a very good indicator of it. the dragon carries a trauma of being seen as food to his parent that at the time being seems inherent to the position his species is(/was. rip.) in. and then he was found and taken in to be raised by the snake only to realize she(?) also wanted to eat him.

he seems to carry a chip on his shoulder or maybe a sorrow of sorts around the very concept of hunting/predation/eating. he does not seem to do much of it (even in this chapter, it's framed as a price he is paying) and was easily caught by the tiger. and once that happened and he appeared in his human body, he realized she saw him as someone vulnerable (a "kid": something he has never been truly seen as even if he is not exactly a kid anymore, probably) and refused to eat him. he even got immediately cocky because he quickly realized her heart isn't into the thought of eating him pretty much since the moment she saw him, and i think that is extremely validating and humanizing (ha) for him. someone who sees him as himself and a person and not simply food.

and that's what makes the premise so gripping because he was supposed to be her prey, and that is the excuse they use to stay around each other. but they're not predator and prey anymore. i think he truly wants someone that is protective and a bit nurturing towards him (which makes the fact this is a oneeshota even better) to heal his inner child that wasn't fully cared for. it even ties in with the way he always asks her for food when he's hungry (the aversion to being a predator - and more specifically, a dragon: i think he avoids turning into a dragon far more than any of the other animals - that i mentioned earlier.)