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しかも初陣があのドラゴン退治!

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しかも 初陣 あの どらごん 退治

English Translation

What's more our first battle is to defeat that dragon!

Furigana

しかも初陣(ういじん)があのドラゴン退治(たいじ)

Romanji

Shikamo uijin ga ano doragon taiji!

Words

然も (しかも)
moreover; furthermore; nevertheless; and yet
初陣 (ういじん)
first campaign; one's first battle
()
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and
彼の (あの、かの)
that (someone or something distant from both speaker and listener, or situation unfamiliar to both speaker and listener)
ドラゴン (ドラゴン)
dragon (as depicted in Western myths)
退治 (たいじ)
extermination (e.g. of pests, demons, bandits); elimination; eradication; suppression; making someone renounce worldly desires in order to concentrate on Buddha's teachings; curing illness

Kanji

Readings: ショ、 はじ.め、 はじ.めて、 はつ、 はつ-、 うい-、 -そ.める、 -ぞ.め
Meanings: first time, beginning
Reading: ジン
Meanings: camp, battle array, ranks, position, sudden, brief time
退
Readings: タイ、 しりぞ.く、 しりぞ.ける、 ひ.く、 の.く、 の.ける、 ど.く
Meanings: retreat, withdraw, retire, resign, repel, expel, reject
Readings: ジ、 チ、 おさ.める、 おさ.まる、 なお.る、 なお.す
Meanings: reign, be at peace, calm down, subdue, quell, govt, cure, heal, rule, conserve