楽園の飛空士ラフタⅠ:Grounded / スチールワークス

This is the first part of a reader-insert manga in which you—or your stand-in character—find yourself stranded on a remote island and spend your days enjoying a tropical paradise with Lafta, a dragonfolk pilot.

“I always wanted to be a pilot.
Not a dogfighter soaring through skies stained with blood…
but a pilot flying through a clear blue sky like this.”

The “Devil’s Sea”—a mysterious stretch of ocean notorious for the countless ships and aircraft that have vanished within it.

You are a member of an expedition sent to investigate the Devil’s Sea. After being washed ashore on one of its isolated islands, you encounter Lafta, a dragonfolk dogfighter.

A special-duty lieutenant serving in a naval aviation unit, Lafta tells you that he crash-landed on the island during a military operation. Unable to escape, he has been living there alone ever since.

As you spend your days together, investigating the island and gradually growing closer to Lafta, he begins to tell you about his “dream” and his “past.”

His dream had always been to fly.

But now that he is trapped on this island, it is a dream he believes he can no longer fulfill.

And yet, here on this island, Lafta discovers a new dream—

What could that dream be?

｜First released at Kemoket 17 on September 20, 2026
｜Creator: steelwire / 鉄線 — Circle: STEELWORKS
｜All Ages
｜96 pages