@KimKowabunga The last page of this chapter indicates Thistle is confirmed male. If the official English volume releases call Thistle female, the best guess I can make is they took a stab at assuming without much information to go off of any got unlucky. Japanese is a language that makes it much easier to go about referring to someone without specifying information like gender, so it's not uncommon for this kind of thing to just never be brought up. You'd think the official English licensed version might have access to like, information the author has but hasn't ever publicly indicated, but that is sometimes too much to hope for.

Why is thistle male in the fan translation and female in the official translation? Is this a case of people not being able to let go of their wishful thinking with the scanlation or was the gender ever confirmed somewhere?

Laios tried to get Thistle to stop murdering people, and he only subverted it to death by food - oof. But he tried.
Up next: trying to make Thistle stop, part 2. 👀

i love thistle, he is so dumb it's adorable

Thistle you bastard

@daywithoutgames Saliva - yes, but venom for snakes' fangs in real life also requires a lot of preparation and storage. And this is understandable since saliva, as opposed to snake venom of dragon fuel is mostly secreted straight from blood.

Bruh.

Thistle.

Bruh.

I know that he's naive but wow that's some next tier stupidity. I change my mind, the guy shouldn't come close to those books and freeing the winged lion.

page 7 : laios is thinking about cumming logic , lol : 2 dragons had already used their breaths once = 2 dragons had already cummed once . and the breath would be a little weaker the 2nd time they used it = the 2nd time they cummed , the quantity would be less , and the "juices" would be less thick .

but sometimes , things dont follow the cumming logic , like a human can produce nearly unlimited quantity of saliva .

Thistle is a lost cause

God I love this series. Thanks for the update ❤️

Thistle male is illegal.

Encounter failed!

Smooth Brained move, Smooth Brain. Then again, maybe he is playing the long game on that sweet Thistle lovin'.

after all that hard work he just releases him and starts at square one again lok

Yeah kinda expected that. The series makes it pretty clear laius is pretty dense and naive when it comes to social interactions. No doubt the rest of his party wouldve expressed doubt in returning the grimoire. I expect the elves to show up in the next chapter.

@Alleycat
Oh, that's cool to know, I've been meaning to read Golden Kamuy and that's definitely a plus!

"i saw that going differently in my mind"...Laios, probably.

What kind of hentai plot is this...

thistle is such a snack wtf, when he's spooked when a hand is about to grab him and when he's free and about thanking laius for his knowledge, this should be illegal for making me feel feelings.