暁のヨナ | Volume 3 | Free to read through April 1st, 2026 (JST)

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Volume 3 discussion for the series currently available for free on manga platforms until April 1, 2026.

Volume 3:

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JP summary

高華王国の姫・ヨナは一人娘のため、優しい父王と幼なじみで護衛のハク達に囲まれ、大切に育てられていた。そして時はヨナ・16歳の誕生日、ヨナは想いを寄せていた従兄のスウォンから簪を贈られ、父へ自分の気持ちを伝えに行く。が、そこには思いも寄らぬ過酷な運命が!?

EN summary

As the only daughter of the Kingdom of Gohwa, Yona was carefully raised by her kind father, the king, and her childhood friend and guard, Hak. On Yona’s 16th birthday, she receives a hairpin from her cousin Suwon, whom she has been in love with, and goes to her father to express her feelings. However, she meets an unexpectedly harsh fate!

Almost identical difficulty-wise to volume 2, so it’s same old at this point~

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Finished the third volume.
So out of all main male leads (well, there is only one female) I can recognize with certainty only Hak.

Well, スウォン also is pretty easy to tell apart, i have a vendetta against him now xddd

第12話

Ah yes, the easiest way of getting him to materialize xddd

It’s really late today, so I just settled on one chapter today, but will try reading a bit more tomorrow ^^

第13話

At this point I’m not even surprised that ヨナ just responds to every kind of kindness directed towads her, it’s been a rough… couple of days ^^

第14話

I was convinced that this was something to eat, before Yomitan gave me a “straw sandals” and im like “CMON” :sob: xddd




please dont be lonely now you have ヨナ C:

第15話

damn he just took her like ヨナ was ハク’s property :sob:


well, ヨナ seems to be enjoying it ^^

第16話

peekaboo ユン C:

…trying to understand what the reverse circulation of blood is, but maybe the chapter will explain it in more detail :eyes:

第17話

ooo and now there’a queerplatonic tension C:



Love the reciprocation too xddd

Finished Volume 3!


Will try to power through Volume 4 as well ^^

Never occurred to me to call it that, but now that you mention it…

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(The images are broke, I do not know why, I’m sorry)

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落つる gets no results, so we’re gonna go ahead and assume that’s old grammar.
Darkness, fall, the land
Compared to dragon’s blood, another reincarnation (not) => により is “due to” so, because of the dragon’s blood.
Ancient time’s, according to oath => According to the ancient oath
4 dragons, gathering ??? time (why does せん not have kanji here?)
King, to protect, sword and shield wake (themselves) up
Finally, red dragon, compared to dawn (title drop!) will return and give

So. If I have understood correctly, ヨナ is one of four reincarnated dragons?
I am glad Haku also does not understand.

Red dragon god arrived in human form to rule the country.
The first king of this country was the green dragon (also in human form).
The green dragon was captured by people who wanted political power, and was almost destroyed.
Ah, this person in the images isn’t ヨナ, that’s the green dragon’s reincarnation who is saying they don’t want to go back to being a dragon god because they are human now.
Oh, 緋 is red, I was mistaking it for one of 翡翠 until it mentioned the 緑 dragon also existing, whoops.
So. Red dragon is human. Blue, Green, Yellow, and White dragons are still dragons. To protect the human red dragon, they gave some of their own blood to a human warrior (this will be ハク)
Okay, they each gave blood to a separate warrior, so there are four of them (the four tribes?), and each got a separate blessing.

Concerned that Red just died there. Why? Is ヨナ in danger of just dropping dead at any moment? Concerned.

Okay, it seems ヨナ hasn’t made the connection that she’s the reincarnation of the dragon. I don’t recall all four of the tribes, but it would make sense to be if Wind (Haku’s) was green, but then the obvious choice for Fire is red? Maybe they got yellow. It’ll be made clear in time.
Yeah the surviving that cliff thing really was kinda miraculous. He’s got a point.

Okay, they also haven’t made the connection that ハク is likely one of these four warriors. I mean, he might not be. But also, he likely is.
YES! ヨナ wants to learn how to fight! Let her be able to stand her ground!
She’s so confident and determined and capable and I love her.

面白い服 is such a weird comment.
Oh! Did not even consider ユン was gonna be one of our four!
Have to admit I lost focus a little towards the end here. They were talking about books? And ユン has just the one that the priest got for him? The request was to take him with them, but ヨナ doesn’t want to split up their family? Not completely sure how to interpret this last pose?

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:smiling_face_with_three_hearts: I like these two
「食うか食われるか」= good way of remembering the latter meaning
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HUG!
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CUTENESS!

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sorry the only thing i can think is, is yona in that bag over haku’s soldier? where is she?
lookit her long white cloak that’s totally her!
I WAS RIGHT!
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having the font change thickness half to show the both answer is cute
YES! Don’t drop that you need to learn how to fight!
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this is vibes
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i like she is needing to decide for herself about her father’s way of life and how she wants hers to be
i like that she gave him a scar

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Pretty cool that Yona’s dramatic haircut has people assuming she’s a guy now.
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Aw, she’s so happy they like her hair.
So this guy’s hand has literal scales, meaning Haku and Yun likely are not counted in the four dragon warriors.

pg145 (according to bookwalker for all these)

  • Reread this page because I don’t think we absorbed it last time
  • White Dragon guy is being mopey about his hand (which iirc is painful? so fair) and the old woman is telling that even if his power isn’t needed in this time that he needs to protect it for the next white dragon guy, or maybe the one after that, who will need it
    pg146&147 (147 has the page number of 145 for the physical version)
  • He’s thinking if his power isn’t needed now, he’d rather it had only manifested in his blood
  • Since he’s apparently needed, he’d rather than sooner than later
  • Wow. You’re twenty hurry up and get married already? 一人でよい indeed.
  • 主 will also save him from the horrors of dating
    pg148&149
  • 侵入者 ← finally looked up the word because assuming しん is related to 新 was. Not Right.
  • I recognise that め! 侵入者めの「め」をもう知っている!
  • ヨナ seems to be feeling guilty
  • やめとく? ← looks like it should mean like “do you wanna give up?” やめる is to stop / to give up. The とく on the stem is. ておく which is to do something in advance. So like, do you want to give up in advance, as in give up before you’ve had the chance to fail? Give up without trying? Gives it more nuance a bit.
    pg150&151
  • I like her smile. We might have to draw that. (We did. It looks terrible. Not sharing.)
  • She has decided she doesn’t want to go back, so if the White Dragon Guy (did he get a name? maybe i should use the kanji) says no, then she is going to train her sword skills better.
  • Oh no she has a sword, this can be a misunderstanding.
    pg152&153
  • They’re both so pretty.
  • Mate, I swear if her pretty is the reason you don’t rip her to shreds, then I will be disappointed in your defensive abilities.
    pg154&155
  • Red hair is a better reason, good. Also that looks painful. Ow.
  • Oh the White Dragon blood is like mind controlling him to love her or something. That’s fucked :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:
    pg156&157
  • He fainted? Also a good reason for not ripping her to shreds.
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  • キジャ = name?
  • His claws do look very snap-off-able it’s a little queasy
  • They give each other compliments :blush:
  • Oh he does not like the being compelled thing
  • A bribe? Oh dear.
  • YES! Yona gets to decide.
  • ![[Pasted image 20260506122509.png]] These little arrows! He’s Happy! Super Duper Happy! Adorable!
  • The absolute sass coming from 白龍 here XDXDXD
  • Yessssss they bickerrrrrr
  • Goodbyes were nice. The granny’s a little creepy (mostly because I can’t tell if the people holding her up are puppets or real people being forced to smile like that all the time), but it was sweet her promising to live long enough to welcome him home.
  • Aw, did Yun find the goodbyes sweet too?
  • I like the little group we’re gathering
  • Aha! キジャ was his name!

is good :+1: