Translator: NetBlazer
Editor: XCrossJ
Hey. XCrossJ here.
So I hacked into NetBlazer graciously provided me with a spot to place entries on this blog, so I’m just here to say welcome. I hope I can be useful to this Translation Project and am enjoying it thoroughly so far.
Also, I probably shouldn’t be doing this (and I feel like I’ll get scolded later), but I finished editing this chapter and since NetBlazer’s probably asleep, I’ve decided to preemptively post this up. Enjoy~
(PS. NetBlazer, please don’t be too mad?)
Edit 1 (10/3/15): Fixed typos.
Edit 2 (10/3/15): Altered Ability names (based on ideas by Epithetic)
Edit 3 (11/3/15): Fixed typo (brought to attention by commentors Vidal and Shadowmail)
Chapter 43: Rarashik’s Ability
“That aside, what did you really want to talk to me about?” (Rarashik)
Rarashik said as she tilted her head and looked at the three of them while she settled into a chair.
“You guys came here to hear about the war. However, that’s not all you’re here for, right?” (Rarashik)
“Aa. Actually, I have favor to ask.” (Arnold)
“Favor? What is it?” (Rarashik)
“It’s about this girl here…” (Arnold)
Arnold placed his hand on top of Muir’s head.
“Her name is Muir, right? What’s on your mind?” (Rarashik)
“I want you to be her mentor.” (Arnold)
“Eh-?” (Muir)
Muir exclaimed her surprise. This was not because she was opposed to the idea, but because she never even dreamed that she would be taught by Arnold’s master.
“Nah, it looks like a pain.” (Rarashi)
Muir’s shoulders drooped the moment Rarashik rejected it.
“How could you, master!? I’m begging you! We struggled so much to get you the honey. The honey that you love. The honey to make your alcohol…”
“Well. This and that are completely unrelated. First of all, you ignored my orders and left. Then you suddenly come back with a child in tow. And now, you want me to take care of that child!? You’ve gotta be kidding me!?” (Rarashik)
Arnorld was unable to refute her argument. Everything she said was undeniably true. Nonetheless, with her ability and guidance, it was clear that Muir would grow up to be strong under her care.
“I was young and adventurous then… I mainly wanted to test my strength.” (Arnold)
“That’s what I expected you to say. You’re still a greenhorn, afterall.” (Rarashik)
“E-even if I look like this, I’ve become a bit stronger, you know! Go ahead and see for yourself!” (Arnold)
“Hou~?” (Rarashik)
Rarashik’s eyes lit up instantly. Feeling an uncomfortable atmosphere coming from her, Arnold started panicking.
“I’ll accept under one condition.” (Rarashik)
“C-condition…you say?” (Arnold)
“Aa. Spar with me. If you can touch me during the spar, even if it’s just a graze, then I’ll take up your request.”
“Just…a graze?” (Arnold)
“Aa, of course, it goes without saying that I’ll be given a handicap.” (Rarashik)
Hearing that, Arnold thought that if he tried his best, he believed that he could honestly touch her. However, his hopes were betrayed when Rarashik continued her explanation.
“However, the one who’ll be participating will only be Muir.” (Rarashik)
“…pardon?” (Muir)
“You got it? She gets 3 days. I’ll give the little miss the right to spar against me for 3 days. I don’t care about the method. If her fingertips can even graze me, she will be declared the victor.” (Rarashik)
“Y-yes!” Muir
At the moment, they were currently in a room within the basement. A basement where monsters and creatures of all kinds were brought in for experimentation. It clearly had more than enough space and durability to withstand a simple spar.
(The space closely resembles that of a small gym, huh…To top it off, it’s a basement. To be able to make something like this, that chibi-usagi really has a lot of free time on her hands…)
Hiiro folded his arms as he examined the room with admiration. He determined that it must have taken a very long time to build something like this.
“Uu, do you think Muir’s gonna be ok…?” (Arnold)
It seemed that Arnold was the most worried about the situation. When Rarashik presented her condition, Arnold was puzzled and unsure what to do. The person who responded immediately to the challenge, however, was Muir.
It went without saying that Muir’s response was “Please let me do it!” Obviously, Arnold was surprised, but Rarashik seemed to also be taken aback. Seeing the weak and frail Muir displaying such bold determination would surprise anybody.
Rarashik, however, simply smirked at her response as she motioned everyone to follow her.
Rarashik’s strength was overwhelmingly clear. Even with a handicap, it seemed unfathomable for Muir, who just became a novice fighter, to be able to even scratch an SSS ranker.
Imagining a tattered Muir breaking down and bawling her eyes out, Arnold could not help but be concerned.
In contrast to Arnold, Hiiro thought that such a turn of events was quite interesting. Even though he had just been screwed around with by Rarashik, he was now able to slowly and carefully observe her movements. Objectively speaking, this would be a great opportunity observe her ability to see just what she is truly capable of.
“Well, little miss. In regards to the handicap, I will be deprived of any means of attacking. This means that I won’t be using my hands and my <<Binding>> skill will be restricted. Feel free to attack me all you want.” (Rarashik)
With this kind of a handicap, Arnold or Hiiro might have been able to do something. However, for Muir, the level gap was despairingly large. And even without taking level into consideration, the difference in their combat experience would be like the measuring the distance between the ground and the sky.
“Muir…” (Arnold)
“Well, all we can do is just see how this plays out.” (Hiiro)
As the two were watching, the game known as sparring had begun between Muir and Rarashik.
“Eei!” (Muir)
Muir honestly rushed towards Rarashik. However, as expected, she had missed. The moment Muir drew close enough to hit, Rarashik immediately vanished. Reappearing behind her without anyone noticing, she laughed.
“Ha ha ha, little miss, you’re gonna make me sweat at least a little bit, right?” (Rarashik)
Those words seemed to flip a switch within Muir. She also had the blood of the Gabranth running through her veins. She was not one who would simply accept being made fun of on the battlefield.
“I’ll definitely get you!” (Muir)
However, no matter how much Muir dived towards Rarashik, it seemed pointless. Rarashik seemed to purposely wait until Muir drew close, waiting for the point where she would almost touch her. Immediately following, before that moment would classify as a ‘touch’, Rarashik would vanish and reappear in a completely different place.
This spectacle continued itself over and over. Muir rushed in countless number of time but each time Rarashik would do the same thing as if she was just playing with her. Eventually, Muir’s shoulders drooped.
“Hah, hah, hah…” (Muir) (E: Panting.)
“What, you done already?” (Rarashik)
Muir continued intently, as if she was trying to grab onto a cloud. Muir was sweating profusely, her entire body being drenched in sweat, The climate of the basement may have partly contributed to her unfortunate state.
“Poor Muir…” (Arnold)
Arnold stared anxiously.
(As expected of the chibi-usagi. Even while moving around to such an extent, she’s not even breaking a sweat. On the contrary, her smile has never faltered even once.)
The fact that Rarashik was enjoying herself so thoroughly that she was grinning wholeheartedly meant that she had a substantial margin for error. Being unable to even wipe that smile off of her face, it seemed that Muir’s chance of winning was nonexistent.
(Hn? Actually, this is great timing. Now would be the perfect opportunity to investigate her stats…)
Thinking this, Hiiro wrote the word <<Pry>> and activated it. He didn’t have a chance to try it before, however, now he was free to do so.
Thus, Hiiro opened Rarashik’s <<Status>> screen. The moment it appeared, he was startled by what he saw.
Rarashik Fan’naru
Lv 123
HP: 7065/7065
MP: 696/696
EXP: 1884421
Next: 74980
ATK: 1211 ()
DEF: 1178 ()
AGL: 1119 ()
HIT (DEX?): 989 ()
INT: 800 ()
<<Binding Type>> Ice
(TL: I’ll need help here to come up with viable names)
<<Binding Techniques>> Ice Fang | Assault of the Absolute Ice Beast | Roar of the Ice Beast | Absolute-Zero | Ice Prison | Final Fang |
(E: Here’s my interpretation on the list of the techniques with their corresponding Japanese.
(氷の牙) – Frozen Fang
(絶氷獣撃 – ぜっひょうじゅうげき) – Assault of the Oppresive Ice Beast
(氷結転化 – ひゅうけつてんか) – Frost Conversion
(天世の凍波 – てんぜのとうは) – Divine Frost Surge
(現象の儀) – The Ritual of Phenomenon
(終の牙 – ついのきば) – Final Fang
If anyone has any better suggestions, they’re welcome to say them. Frankly, I’ve almost given up.)
<<Titles>> Companion of Ice | Little Girl | Binge Drinker | Blade of the Wild | Researcher | Demon Slayer | A Weirdo born from a Weirdo | The Creator of the <<Binding>> technique | Gabranth Fighter | One who can influence Phenomenon | A Determined Person |
(E: The last title can also be interpreted as an arrogant or unusual person. If anyone has any suggestions, feel free to make them. Jap: 極めた者)
Hiiro was dumbfounded. The level difference was clearly overwhelming. Lining up all of the numbers of her stats, it was easy to see that she had optimized her stats to be fairly balanced.
(Her stats exceed mine by over 100, huh…so these are the stats of an SSS ranker…it certainly is one heck of a surprise.)
He wasn’t expecting her level to be this high. However, looking at those numbers, Hiiro took comfort in the fact that he was overwhelmed by her earlier.
(However…I kind of expected her to have it, the title of “Little Girl”…)
Although he was aware that Rarashik hated being called that, no matter how he looked at her, the title of “Little Girl” was the one that seemed the most fitting.
(But looking at these numbers, isn’t this a bit too harsh for the chibi…)
(E: Hiiro’s referring to Muir. He uses chibi when referring to her. If you don’t know what chibi means, go Google it?)
Contemplating such thoughts in his mind, Hiiro continued to watch the two sparring. With this difference of ability, unless something unexpected occurred, Muir had no chance of winning.
Muir herself had started to take notice of the lack of progress. Needless to say, it was taking its toll on her spirit.
(S-she’s fast…compared to Ojisan or Hiiro, she’s faster…)
Muir could somehow follow her movements, however, her body was unable to react quickly enough. Even though she had suddenly leveled up substantially, she felt that she was unable to grasp to what extent her physical ability had grown.
(She’ll keep avoiding me if I just rush in blindly..if I could just use the <<Binding>> skill from that time…)
After seeing the images from Hiiro’s <<Projection>> she was able to see what had occurred at that time. She saw herself using that skill. She was sure that she would be able to do something if she could freely use that skill. However, after looking at the <<Projection>> of herself using the ability, she still didn’t believe that she was that the one that triggered the skill. This prevented her from activating that ability.
(Ojisan told me about it before. That <<Binding>> is actually the power of belief…however, do I really have that kind of power inside of me?)
She tried to use <<Binding>> skill several times before, yet, each time was devoid of any response. In the first place, since Muir had not been told how in any great detail how to invoke the skill, she had absolutely no idea how to apply it, let alone use it.
“C’mon, hurry up and catch me. Or what, are you giving up?” (Rarashik)
At those words, Muir forced strength into her gaze.
“I-I won’t give up!” (Muir)
Placing strength into her legs once more, she rushed towards Rarashik.
“That’s the way! Come at me! If you don’t even reach out your hands, you’ll never be able to grasp at what you’re trying to catch!” (Rarashik)
“Taaaaaaaa~” (Muir)
plusikplus said:
first!!!!
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plusikplus said:
now that he write two words, he can add an adjective like “Super”. so instead of being fast, he will be super fast xD
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Aloo said:
I wonder what will happen if he used something like “Super Saiyan” haha
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potatis said:
He can write level up
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potatis said:
or level hundred, as two words
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Hendri Susanto said:
or write invincible (無敵)
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Skurai said:
If it makes any difference… Im not mad for the early post, in fact thank you very much ^_^
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xcrossj said:
I appreciate the sentiment. I just haven’t really obtained permission from NetBlazer to be doing this. Of course, I doubt he’d be too upset considering he gave me the authority to post here but…we’ll see.
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hehaaw said:
well thanks anyway
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jbjhova said:
Thank you for the translation Blazing team and those with permission to post on his site.
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a fan said:
thanks for the chapter
the little girl have some strange stuff on her status, the phenomenon skill e title i’m curios to what it is. also, why no one see that hiiro is strong but don’t have a bracelet to be able to use binding(if he is disfarced as grabanth he should need a fake one, but he don’t have not even it)
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tangahiro said:
I’m wondering as well
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Kami Ryuu said:
Hiiro also has a bracelet if I am not wrong, the fairy bracelet, and I think that make up for the fake one. Now I want him has one nameless bracelet to use binding skill, Hiiro can see fairy so he should be able to use binding skill. I wonder what attribute he will has, should make a contract with the spirit king thought. I think the spirit king is the fortune teller that he met at the castle
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Aldorith said:
But its not a braclet, its a ring. Plus when he met the black panther person the panther assumed he had thunder/ lighting braclete, but wouldent him speeding up be considered wind. So shouldn’t that panther be super confused. Also I don’t think they can get more than one type of binding
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Kami Ryuu said:
In chap 35 they translate it as Fairy Bracelet not a ring so maybe it is a bracelet. And about the thunder and the speed up can be by Hiiro can utilize his body not about his binding skill or maybe thunder also have some effect on speed ( like Killua )
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Aldorith said:
Oh thanks for telling me. I didn’t realize that they changed the name.
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georgealmeida42 said:
Finally rewarded for working at night, usually have to wait for the time I normally go to sleep at. 😛
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Epithetic said:
Thanks for the edit and the post, now to wait for NetBlazer… huhuhu…
My ideas for the skill names:
(氷の牙) – Ice Fang
(絶氷獣撃 – ぜっひょうじゅうげき) – Oppressive Ice Beast Assault
(氷結転化 – ひゅうけつてんか) – Frost Cover Transformation
(天世の凍波 – てんぜのとうは) – Divine Frost Swell
(現象の儀) – Absolute Phenomenon
(終の牙 – ついのきば) – Final Fang
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XCrossJ said:
Thanks for the suggestions.
I’m sorry, but do you think you could explain why you chose Absolute Phenomenon?
I’m pretty sure the 儀 stands for ritual, but I’m interested as to why you chose that translation.
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Epithetic said:
儀 can definitely mean ceremony (or ritual), but may also refer to a rule, matter, or affair, in other words, it refers to doing something in order to control something. 現象の儀 thus likely refers to somehow controlling what is allowed to happen within the environment. I chose ‘absolute’ to refer to that control.
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XCrossJ said:
I see. Thanks for your explanation. I kinda like it. I think I’ll stick with it until someone proposes something better.
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moneng85 said:
thanks for the chap!
@XCrossJ: you shall be remembered as a great troller
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silky1351 said:
Thank you, this was an unexpected surprise before this morning 🙌😁😂, now I’m off to slave the day away 😥😥😥😥😟😔
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yuedari said:
Thanks.
Isnt it 1000 stat above instead of 100
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XCrossJ said:
No worries.
I’m aware that the stats are over 1000, however, the Japanese for this (百越え) seems to suggest that Hiiro states that the stat difference is over 100, which it indeed is. Thus, to keep it as close to the original as possible, I opted for ‘exceed mine by over 100’.)
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Some guy said:
Umm, perhaps it means 100% ? I’m pretty sure that hiiro’s stats are around that level…
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XCrossJ said:
Well, from what I’ve notice, Japanese writers will often explicitly use % or state percent when they mean it (i.e 100% or 100 パーセント). While I don’t have a firm grasp on this author’s writing style (cause I’m new to this project and all), I believe that he intentionally wanted to convey that the stats have a difference greater than 100. Also, for those that don’t know his current stats, look here: https://yoraikun.wordpress.com/2015/02/22/konjiki-no-wordmaster-chapter-35/
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Rannie said:
Alternatively, this could be interpreted as ‘hundreds’ instead of a precise number of 100
So ‘exceeds mine by hundreds’ would also work. Even though literally it would need to be “数百”.
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XCrossJ said:
Oh, I see. I agree, that may work. Although, I don’t see what’s wrong with over 100. It is right, because the lvl difference is indeed over 100 (even if it should be more in the range of 1000). Let me sleep on it and see if I can think of something better.
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al said:
Hiiro’s stats are
HP: 228/770
MP: 150/1500
….
Rarashik’s stats are
HP: 7065/7065
MP: 696/696
….
I think the meaning must be x100
“her stats are 100 times Hiiro’s”
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XCrossJ said:
Um…I don’t mean to sound condescending, but 770 * 100 = 77, 000.
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XCrossJ said:
Also, I appreciate the feed back, but I feel like it’s gotten to the point of being nit picky. While, true, it doesn’t really feel fluid or consistent with the numbers when you make a comparison, I aim to keep my translations as close to the source material as possible. Also, I believe that if you actually look at the meaning of the words, it makes sense and I don’t think it should matter if you guys actually understand the point of the message the author’s trying to convey(which you clearly do, else you wouldn’t be making suggestions for it). If you really want me to change it to something that would 100% suit your tastes, you would essentially be asking me to rewrite this novel, not caring at all about what happens in the actual story (worst case scenario which I hope never, ever happens as a translator).
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al said:
Yea, that was my error.
Maybe the author made the same mistake as me?
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zbrosdivz said:
thanks for the chapter !
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fuew12 said:
Lol that chibi-usagi just to imba :v , well if compared with certain white haired eye-patched synergist this not that strong :v
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AsianOtakuGuy said:
Lol the (chuunibyou :P) reference XD
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goblinrou said:
Rarashik has bee grinding item world in Disgaea…
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Kami Ryuu said:
Thanks for the chapter
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TheFrostDude said:
Thanks for the chapter!
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kirindas said:
Thanks for the release!
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Ariki Rastavara said:
Thank you for the chapter!
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Vidal said:
(As expected of the chibi-usagi. Even while moving around to such an extent, she’s not even breaking a sweat. On the contrary, her smile has never faltered even once.” <– once.)
thanks you o/
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XCrossJ said:
Welcome. Sorry, but I don’t really see a problem with it. I hope it doesn’t offend you, but I’m gonna keep it as is.
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Shadowmail said:
He is only mentioning that you used a bracket at the start of the sentence and closed it off with quotation marks instead of a closing bracket. Not a big deal really.
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XCrossJ said:
Whoops. Thanks for that. I was under the impression that he was criticizing my use of once (because he used ‘<-' which seemed to mean 'replace with'). It's really the little things that slip by me.
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capsusingshift said:
Here it is.
My bad. The tabs were right next to each other lol
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fuzor100 said:
thank you ver much
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Demi said:
Thank you for the release. Also, i’m surprised hiiro was able to pry on to that op usagi.
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Silverstar said:
thank you very much!
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VesperOz (@Dark_Howler) said:
Thank you for your hard work!
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killerwakka said:
the skill of Absolute-Zero is probalby what keeps herself from aging since she could stop her own zells from moving and dying.
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Kami Ryuu said:
I doubt that because if that is the case then she should had that skill pretty early, about 5-6 years old when it seem that is the skill of a high-tier and if that is right then all ice user will have possibility of having it. I think the possibility of her modify her own body or something like that is much higher
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Val said:
I suspect it’s the title. The title ‘little girl’ prevented her from aging!!
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neenan01 said:
You half expect the little bunny girl to launch a kamahama wave with those stats.
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sherlockbelmont said:
Thanks for the chapter!!!
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WhiteOwl said:
TY 4 the chapter.
By the way, the girl in the image of the link is the Demon Lord (Evean?)?
http://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/1945437?tags=konjiki_no_moji_tsukai
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XCrossJ said:
Not sure. I always thought she looked like this:
http://knw.wikia.com/wiki/Eveam
Then again, I’m not sure if it’s a credible source.
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vedacool said:
Reblogged this on Novel Translation Reblog.
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ryuketsu said:
Thank ya very much for the translation translators! Many thanks towards the Author!
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k said:
thank for the update
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