Reincarnated as a Dragon's Egg

The monster with a second face on its abdomen leaps down from the roof and dashes towards us. Its speed is terrifying. We definitely can’t hope to escape it by running.

“It’s the one that destroyed the northern church! It’s clearly targeting us! No choice; we’ll take it down!”

Meltia-san raises her sword as she yells. Now that this has happened, the monster heading towards us is way more threatening than the unmoving Jornes.

Radda-san extends an arm out towards the monster, holding his fingers at an angle.

“…Using the Maybel method to estimate its danger from its speed, it’s around upper B rank. We might have been better off using that arrow made from the fang of Ammit on this thing. If we got lucky and shot off its head with Sirius-sama’s [Dragonshot], we would probably have taken it out in one hit before it got close.”

I’ve heard of the Maybel method. By using fingers to ascertain the visual change in size of an approaching monster, you can deduce its speed after mentally counting down the seconds, and so gain a rough estimate of its stats.

You need to be able to accurately count down the seconds, compare a monster’s original size with the surroundings, and calmly make good use of those skills during a predicament to actually make the calculation. With such a high difficulty and the limitations of its use cases, it’s my first time seeing someone actually use it, despite its fame.

“Upper B rank…”

I ponder over Radda-san’s words.