12.
Reincarnation God?
Isn't this a bit too much?
Forget fantasy, not even planets existing yet is just too much, no matter how you think about it.
I wondered if I had done something wrong and looked around more, but it's certain. Outside here is outer space, and proper planets haven't even been born yet. Of course, if I traveled through space, I might encounter something, but my guts aren't big enough to suddenly start space traveling.
First of all, even if this body is a dragon, I don't know if it can survive in outer space.
Then what on earth is this Dimensional Gap?
Should I see it as a perfect otherworldly space unrelated to planets?
13.
In the end, without gaining anything, I'm trudging around the Dimensional Gap again.
There's usually a challenge like enduring a year in a single room, but that challenge comes with the premise of having proper meals and electronic devices. Through TV or computers, you can know what's happening in the world and indirectly communicate and such.
Without even that, a solitary one-person life is surprisingly tough.
Simply put, my current life has gotten quite tough.
14.
I aimlessly rolled around the Dimensional Gap.
To be precise, I was lying on my back in a weightless state.
Having nothing to do, I even tried training like in manga.
100 claw swipes.
100 breath attacks after trying.
Using Dream authority 100 times.
Let's at least do some simple exercise to kill time.
But 100 times doesn't even show any sign of strain.
······I think I need to increase the number.
15.
After about 1,000 times, I showed a slight sign of strain.
But exercising alone only lasts a day or two; honestly, I got bored and quit midway. I'll keep exercising in the future, but I need to find something else to do. So what should I do from now on?
What I can do alone is extremely limited.
Turning it over in my head, I thought of something and went to find Ophis.
When you can't solve something alone, you should get help from others!
16.
"Me, be static."
When I went to Ophis and asked how to spend leisure time, that was the answer. What's static? Should I say quietness? After various conversations, I came to understand that what Ophis calls static is a nap.
So, sleep all day?
Is that okay?
Isn't that just a total NEET?
I thought that, but since fantasy dragons often sleep for hundreds or thousands of years, it somehow became convincing.
Should I try hibernating following Ophis's advice?
17.
Today's Dimensional Gap weather: clear.
I don't even know if the Dimensional Gap has weather, but since it looks sunny, let's say clear.
Following Ophis's advice, I entered hibernation and woke up.
But I don't know how long I slept. There's no date concept or anything, I just slept and woke up. But I could tell a considerable amount of time had passed.
Why?
Because planets appeared.
Yes!
Finally!
Planets have been born!
And dinosaurs are moving on the land of that planet!
·······But if enough time has passed for planets to form and dinosaurs to appear from a space with nothing, how long did I sleep?
18.
I think I need to be a bit careful about entering hibernation.
If I take a nap and wake up to find the era suddenly changed to SF or something, it wouldn't be a joke. Or maybe I should make an alarm clock or something next time to wake up according to time.
But looking at it this way, there isn't much difference between dinosaurs and me.
Just whether there are huge wings on the back or not?
To check more closely, I left the Dimensional Gap and faced the dinosaurs.
Since there are dragon-like ones, I had the expectation that maybe they are intelligent beings, different from the dinosaurs I know.
19.
Unfortunately, the dinosaurs were the ones I know.
Even trying to have a conversation was impossible.
To be precise, I can converse with my ability, but it's close to a one-sided conversation.
As a bonus, my size was quite large. Hmm, very large.
Until now, I only had Ophis for comparison, so I didn't know, but I was huge.
I know dinosaur sizes are at least several meters, with big ones reaching tens of meters.
I'm much larger than those dinosaurs.
Rough estimate, maybe about 100M?
Putting aside my disappointment, I returned to the Dimensional Gap.
20.
Occasionally coming out to watch the dinosaurs, I defeated a carnivorous dinosaur that attacked me.
Charging at a 100M-sized creature, what a bold fellow.
·····But what do dinosaurs taste like?
21.
Humans have undertaken countless adventures for the sake of meals.
They even conquered poisonous pufferfish, and ingredients considered garbage when first discovered were cooked to be edible somehow. So I think me cooking dinosaurs isn't bad.
I roast a dinosaur steak the size of my palm with a small breath.
The unfortunate point would be the lack of seasonings like salt, sugar, pepper, or soy sauce.
It's no exaggeration to say that more than half of food is determined by seasonings.
As I was thinking that, the seasonings I just thought of fell on my head.
"Huh?"
What's this?
22.
It seems my Dream authority can do this too.
Wow, this is all-purpose!
Especially since I don't know if it's fantasy or another world, but I had given up on modern meals. If it's like this, the story changes. I sprinkle a bit of salt on the dinosaur meat, roast it golden brown, and put it in my mouth.
First, one bite.
Yum.
·········Tastes bad.
I think I failed at controlling the heat.
23.
After numerous trials and errors, I can now eat dinosaur meat decently.
Personal impression: it's similar to chicken.
I've heard that lizards taste similar to chicken, but I didn't know dinosaurs taste similar to chicken.
Since then, I've been challenging new flavors using all sorts of seasonings.
I don't necessarily need to eat anything, but I can't resist delicious things.
24.
While running a cooking program in the Dimensional Gap, an unexpected guest arrived.
Ophis, who had been still except when I went to find it, came to visit.
And it looked at the dinosaur meat I was roasting golden brown and asked.
"That, what?"