Here Is Jobless Reincarnation

Asla Kingdom—Fitoia Territory—Roa City—Turan Town

Cui Ciyou and Dak stood at the entrance of the Adventurers' Guild in Turan Town.

Cui Ciyou saw some people dragging enormous monster materials inside, leaving with delighted expressions and pouches of clinking coins;

while others came out dejected, their clothes torn and even bearing injuries.

As he silently observed and speculated, louder voices drifted faintly from the Adventurers' Guild's open doors.

With hearing far sharper than any ordinary person's, Cui Ciyou clearly caught several conversations between adventurers.

"...Damn it, we took a huge loss on this job!... Who knew those damned goblins had a shaman who could use magic hiding among them... The mission failed, so forget the reward—we even have to pay compensation..."

"...The northern trade routes are getting harder and harder to travel. The frost wolf packs are expanding their range. Still, the purchase price for their pelts has risen again. Fortune favors the bold..."

"Did you hear? The Asla Kingdom seems to have issued another recruitment order for its knight orders. Wonder if something big is happening at the border again..."

"...Don't mention it. Last time I went to the Millis Holy Country, I nearly got into a conflict with a temple knight. Those people all look down their noses at everyone, arrogant as hell..."

"...Better stay away from the great forest lately. The Adventurers' Guild in the Fitoia Territory issued a warning, saying monster activity in the forests around Roa City is becoming more frequent. It might be a sign of a monster stampede!"

At first, Cui Ciyou merely treated this as information to help him understand the customs of this world.

However, when several specific terms reached his mind in combination, his entire body felt as if it had been struck by lightning.

[The Asla Kingdom?... The Millis Holy Country?... The Fitoia Territory?... Roa?]

As those four place names arranged themselves with crystal clarity in his mind, Cui Ciyou felt as though an invisible bolt of lightning had savagely split his brain apart.

With a buzz, the entire world seemed to fall silent, his mind instantly going blank!

Every confusion, speculation, and clue flooded wildly into Cui Ciyou's consciousness at that moment, converging into a single answer:

[It can't be wrong! It absolutely can't be wrong! Those four iconic place names!]

In that instant, Cui Ciyou remembered the forest he had arrived in after crossing over and the uniquely shaped monsters he had encountered.

[That thing I encountered in the forest before... was a Hobir Rabbit, a monster unique to Asla that appeared in Buena Village.]

[And that dog-like monster I killed with my own hands, which resembled an Earth poodle... wasn't that the Assault Hound from Jobless Reincarnation?]

He recalled the night the caravan had fought the Grey Wolf Bandit Group, the way everyone had battled, and the magician he had slain.

[That magician from the Grey Wolf Bandit Group whom I instantly killed used a fireball, and Carl had previously used "battle aura" on me.]

[And when Carl and the others were shocked by my fighting style, they mentioned the North God Style, Sword God Style, and Water God Style—unique swordsmanship schools that existed only in this setting!]

Every detail was like a puzzle piece scattered across the ground.

Once the core puzzle piece of the "Asla Kingdom" appeared, they fit together perfectly, without the slightest gap.

Together, they pointed to one single possibility—the only reasonable truth.

"I... I actually... came to the world of... Jobless Reincarnation?"

Cui Ciyou's heart filled with shock, confusion, and a trace of excitement he had not even noticed himself.

Jobless Reincarnation: I Will Seriously Try If I Go to Another World—the anime he had followed back on Earth and remembered vividly.

"Jobless Reincarnation... Roxy..."

Without thinking, he pictured that petite figure with long aqua-blue hair, gentle yet strong.

Just as the confirmation that he had crossed into Jobless Reincarnation left his mind reeling and countless thoughts racing through him—

"Bzzzz—bzzzz—"

A remarkably strange sound suddenly came from the sky, a deep and distant yet indescribably immense roar.

The sound came closer and closer, carrying an unnatural rhythm that blended machinery and magic.

Everyone on the street, along with Cui Ciyou, instinctively raised their heads toward the cloudless sky, blue as a freshly washed canvas.

At that moment, Cui Ciyou's pupils shrank to pinpoints, and even his breathing became disordered.

High in the distant heavens, he saw an unimaginably enormous, strangely shaped moving castle with a cold metallic texture.

Like an ancient sacred mountain, it slowly entered everyone's field of vision with incomparable oppressive force.

Its intricate structure, filled with steampunk and magical fantasy aesthetics, and its antigravity posture as it floated in the air perfectly overlapped with an image from Cui Ciyou's memories.

[The Armored Dragon King—Perugius Dola's moving castle—the aerial fortress Chaos Breaker.]

All the scenes from the Jobless Reincarnation anime involving that iconic structure flashed through Cui Ciyou's mind in an instant.

"Exactly the same. Not even the slightest difference."

That iconic city in the sky, which had existed only in two-dimensional media, now appeared before his eyes so real, so clear, and so overwhelming.

Its enormous shadow fell over the town, covering half of Turan Town.

[But I need one final confirmation!]

Cui Ciyou forcefully suppressed the storm raging in his heart and asked Dak beside him with feigned calmness.

"Dak, what is that huge floating castle in the sky?"

Dak gazed up at the sky, his eyes filled with awe and reverence.

"Lord Ciyou, that is the castle of the Armored Dragon King—Perugius."

"...Who is the Armored Dragon King?" Cui Ciyou asked.

"The Armored Dragon King, Perugius... is the legendary hero who won countless glorious victories, possesses twelve apostles, and led humanity against the demon race during the last war between humans and demons."

"And together with six heroes, he defeated the Demon God—Laplace. His deeds and legends are still sung by bards to this day."

[Looks like there can be no mistake.]

[The world of Jobless Reincarnation... I actually came here!]

Cui Ciyou instantly recalled everything he knew from the first two seasons of the Jobless Reincarnation anime:

The protagonist, Rudeus Greyrat, a thirty-four-year-old Japanese NEET reincarnator, possessed mana comparable to that of the Demon God Laplace...

The three mainstream schools of swordsmanship in this world: the North God Style, Sword God Style, and Water God Style...

The Seven Great Powers: the Technique God, Dragon God, Battle God, Demon God, Death God, Sword God, and North God.

And... the mysterious Human God, as well as the equally unfathomable Dragon God Orsted, who opposed him...

All this information churned through his mind.

Cui Ciyou took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down. An incomparably complicated light flickered in his eyes.

He raised his head and looked once more at the aerial fortress that blotted out the sky, murmuring softly:

"The legendary hero, the Armored Dragon King Perugius?"

Note:

NEET is a Taiwanese translation, originally from "Neet."

It refers to people who do not attend school, work, pursue further education, or receive employment guidance, and spend their days doing nothing.