Fantasy

Sakura Bullet – 14

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Chapter 13: Delicious Orc Meat

Author: Kurohitsuji
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n2086fk/14/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

Even with the knife I have, the ogre’s horn won’t take a nick; in the end I shave it off with a mana round from a handgun.
It’s big, looking again. The horn alone is more than half my height.
Incredibly hard, and it looks like it could be a weapon. Not that I could swing it with my arm strength.
I mean, dragging it all the way back to the capital was about all I could manage.

“So, this is the horn.”
“…You. You pull something every single day, don’t you.”

When I submit it to Glad, he gets a crease between his brows.

“What. You told me to report.”
“I didn’t think it’d be every day, normally.”
“It can’t be helped. I couldn’t just leave it.”

There are villages and towns around the capital too, and that forest is famous for medicinal herbs.
If I’d left it, who knows what would have happened.
…Well, I didn’t really think I could hunt it.
If you try hard, things work out. Yep.

“That’s true, but… well, fine. There weren’t any others?”
“Just this one. And a few goblins.”
“Don’t call a pack of seven ‘a few’…”

The guildmaster covers his forehead and groans. Sorry, I guess. Continue reading →

Demon King Wants to Go to School – 14

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A Small Rescue

Author: Unicoon
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n8138gc/14/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

“GROOAR!!”

“Kh…!”

The lesser dragon thrashed, swinging its claws.
Princess Charlotte fled, muddy and battered.

“Flame!”

Still running for her life, she raised her staff.

“Flame! Come forth, flame!!”

The tip of the staff flickered.
There was no sign of magic activating.

“Why? Why can’t I use magic!?”

Unable to cast as she wished, she ducked behind a tree.
Looking at the staff, Princess Charlotte lost her words in shock.

“What… is this…?”

A gem black and cloudy, goldwork warped and ugly.
The once-beautiful staff was ruined beyond recognition.
Lady Ulrika’s words crossed Princess Charlotte’s mind.

“Crude goods… it was true…?”

As she stood dazed, a shock ran through her back.

“GROAN!”

“Kyaa!”

The lesser dragon’s charge snapped the tree she had hidden behind.
It lunged at the fallen princess.
Then—

“Lady Charlotte, look out!”

With the voice, a small shadow dove in.

“Natasha! Why!?”

It was Natasha.
She drew her sword in a smooth motion and stood before the lesser dragon.

“I couldn’t run and leave Lady Charlotte behind!” Continue reading →

I Was Reincarnated Without Cheat and Sacrificed to the Demon King – 13

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A Contrary Heart

Author: Iwashi-zukushi
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n3388fm/13/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

“Well then, we’ll be off. Ah, I’ll let our people know.”

After a while of small talk, Nasti left.
For an instant, she glanced toward the workshop.
We waved her off, and once she was out of sight, I let a mutter slip.

“Nasti… was she perhaps keeping watch around this workshop?”
“Hm? Why did you think that?”

Gerda turned a puzzled face on my sudden murmur.
It was not as if I had grounds; it had only been a feeling.

“Just a feeling, but. The way she appeared, it was as if she had waited for the right moment after you and I arrived.”

And besides.
The profile she showed as she left, looking at the workshop, had been lonely, as if she were reluctant to part.

“I wondered if she was trying to protect it from people who might do it harm, or something.”
“That itself is not an impossible story.
Nasti and Granny Dia were quite close.” Continue reading →

Sakura Bullet – 13

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Chapter 12: The Giant

Author: Kurohitsuji
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n2086fk/13/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

Today’s lunch was a sandwich.
The kind packed with bacon and leafy greens.
Crisp-fried bacon and the crunch of the greens fit together well, and the mustard was working; it was very good.
Delicious food is justice. That’s the absolute standard in me.
I’m grateful to Liza all over again for recommending this inn.

But when I go to the guild, Liza isn’t there, of all times.
I was going to thank her for the good food, too.
That said, what isn’t there isn’t there, so I pick up the stack of request forms.
Yesterday I only looked at gathering; maybe I’ll look at subjugation too.
I have to earn lodging until the reply to the letter comes.

I flip through the not-very-thick stack.
Mixed in with goblins and orcs there are kobold and wyvern subjugation requests, but nearby it seems like only the standing goblin request.
I’ll memorize the proof parts written on them for now.
I might run into something while I’m killing goblins.
Goblins and kobolds are canines, orcs are the nose, wyverns are the hooked claws. I think I can manage those with the knife I have.

Ah. I kind of wish I’d kept some of the smoked orc I made on the way here, instead of giving it all away.
But I didn’t know you could sell it at the guild… the merchants were happy, so it’s fine.
Hmm. If I see more I’ll hunt them.
Anyway, to the forest, I guess.

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Demon King Wants to Go to School – 13

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The Demon King and Her Attendant

Author: Unicoon
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n8138gc/13/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

Meanwhile, Lady Ulrika and Olivia.
The two of them walked along through the forest.

“Hmm… not a single monster…”

“That’s strange… there should be quite a few living here.”

“It’s an exam, and it’s dull…”

Since the exam started, Lady Ulrika had not defeated a single monster.

In fact, sensing the Demon King’s presence, the monsters were running for their lives.
As a result, not one appeared before her.

Lady Ulrika, of course, had no way of knowing that.
The two kept walking, peering around.
They pushed deeper into the forest with nothing to show for it.

“We’ve come quite far in, but we still haven’t found any monsters.”

“There’s no end to this. It can’t be helped…”

Lady Ulrika’s patience ran out.
She pointed an index finger at the sky.

“Lady Ulrika, what are you doing?”

“I can’t find them no matter how I search, so I’ll find them by force.”

“By force?”

“Here we go… detection magic!” Continue reading →

I Was Reincarnated Without Cheat and Sacrificed to the Demon King – 12

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Granny Dia’s Workshop

Author: Iwashi-zukushi
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n3388fm/12/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

With the shopping done, we headed for the workshop in earnest this time.
Along the way, something occurred to me.

“Come to think of it… the streets in this town are awfully clean.
Could it be there’s sewerage?”
“Ah. Now that you mention it, that seems to be rare on the continent over there.
While we’re at it, there’s running water as well, you know?”
“I see. So those fountain-like things are the water supply.
That’s impressive… but in that case, it helps a great deal.”

I had thought this world had no such conveniences as plumbing.
At the very least, neither the village I had lived in nor even the royal capital had.

And yet this town had sewers and running water both.
Well, by the standards of modern Japan, one could not call it complete.
The water was not piped into each household; you drew it from public squares.

To be honest, drawing water from a well was fairly heavy labor.
You were hauling up a bucket reasonably full of water from several meters down.
If it sat at ground level, or a little above, you could scoop it easily, splash splash.
…Well, you still had to carry it to each house after that.

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Sakura Bullet – 12

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Chapter 11: First Sparring Match

Author: Kurohitsuji
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n2086fk/12/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

In the back courtyard of the Adventurer’s Guild.
Right now I’m facing guildmaster Glad.
Hmm. Fierce-faced muscleman with a practice sword and shield.
The intimidation is intense.

I mean, from the side, isn’t this a pretty bad look.
I’m pretty small. Glad is huge. His face is scary.
Having a sword pointed at me and getting glared at is pretty scary, actually.

“…If I screamed right now, I think you’d get arrested.”
“Funny. I was thinking something close.”
“Fuhe. You’re kind, but your face is scary.”

Why is that. The scarier the face, the kinder they all are.
He’s doing this for me right now, too.

“Drop it. All right, we doing this?”
“Uuh, for real… Ring, I’m counting on you.”
“—Yes, my master. Sakura-Drive Ready.”

“Ignition”

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Demon King Wants to Go to School – 12

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Princess Charlotte’s Scheme

Author: Unicoon
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n8138gc/12/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

Parateno Forest.
Woodland adjacent to Romulus Academy.

On that wide forest as a stage, the last of the entrance exam—the field exam—was underway.

“Haa… they’re making us walk quite a way…”

A group pushed through brush, heading deeper into the woods.
Princess Charlotte and her team.
Walking at the front was one of her entourage, a boy named Beppo.

“Beppo! Are we not at the destination yet?”

“I’m terribly sorry. We’re being extra careful and making preparations deeper in the forest.”

Forced to walk so long, Princess Charlotte’s irritation mounted.
Beppo kept guiding the team, bowing and scraping.

After a while they arrived at a small clearing.
A man was waiting there.

“Young master Beppo. I’ve been waiting.”

“Sorry. We’re a little late.”

“Not at all. We’re always in your debt. Don’t mention it.” Continue reading →

I Was Reincarnated Without Cheat and Sacrificed to the Demon King – 11

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And Then, the Spoils

Author: Iwashi-zukushi
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n3388fm/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

“Right then, let’s have Doctor Asha accept this as a welcome!”

What Elma brought out as she said it was a hot sandwich.
Butter spread between the bread, bacon in the middle, apparently fried in a pan.
Something like a panini, perhaps.

“Y-you went out of your way to make this!? Thank you!
This butter and bacon are domestic too, right? So there are cows as well.”
“Ah, on the outskirts of town. Water buffalo too.”
“Heh… ah, then, is there cheese and such as well?”
“Ah, of course. When it comes to food, this town doesn’t want for much.”

I answered Elma’s proud smile with a smile of my own, and putting together everything I had seen and heard so far—
the climate and what they could get seemed close to Italy.
Not identical, surely, but for now it seemed safe to think of it as quite close.
I had heard mozzarella was made from water buffalo milk, too.

Thinking that, I took a sip of the lemon water—and my eyes went wide despite myself.

“Eh, that’s sweet—is there sugar in this!?
W-wow, I never thought you’d have even that.”
“Heh. You know the taste of sugar, then? As expected.
I never put it in my mouth till I came to this town, sugar.”
“That figures, it’s precious…” Continue reading →

Sakura Bullet – 11

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Chapter 10: Two Letters

Author: Kurohitsuji
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n2086fk/11/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

The moment I get into my room at the inn, I lock the door, set down my things, and write a letter to the church at the desk provided.

Dear Sister Naria,

It has only been a few days since I left, but I hope you are well. I am well.
I came to the Adventurer’s Guild to hear the story, but I will be staying in the capital for a while, until I understand the details.
I will be late coming home, but please do not worry.

The capital is large in all sorts of ways, and I was surprised.
But everyone I have met is kind.
I have not been able to see the city at all yet, so I think I will take my time looking around another day.

I will buy souvenirs to bring home, so please look forward to that.

P.S. I became an adventurer.

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