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――God, Buddha, Od Lagna. For as long as I live, I hereby vow to never invite another into my home.
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――In her defense, Felt had not initially accepted Roy’s conditions with the intention of immediately reneging on them.
The “insurance” he had imposed on her had certainly been “insurance”.
That threat was known to Felt, and if she were to act carelessly in any way, it was very likely that she would bring enormous harm to not only her own life as a matter of course, but also to her surroundings.
Therefore, despite how annoying it was, she intended to go along with Roy’s plan, playing the part of Filóre Lugunica and waiting for as large of an opening as possible from Aldebaran and the others. Of course, she intended on further outmaneuvering Roy as he tried to outmaneuver them.
However, that determination within Felt was soon forced to change course.
???: [――Felt!!]
Released from the sealed space, while feeling the frigidity of steel against the skin of her neck, Felt poured everything into getting a grasp on the situation. The first thing was the “insurance” that she would act as Filóre―― to prevent that which had a risk of being invoked, regardless of if Roy was watching or not. On top of that, she was seeking an opportunity to give any members of Aldebaran’s group a taste of their own medicine.
Such various determinations cracked the moment that familiar voice had called out to her.
Felt: [――――]
Pinned in a nelson hold, Felt raised her head slightly and looked.
At the edge of the battlefield, the loud voice that had called out for Felt was Rom-jii, whom she was already missing after only two or three days. She was overjoyed, but at the same time, she understood that she was a hostage for this purpose, and she forcefully fastened the mask of Filóre that was beginning to slip―― then, their eyes met.
With Rom-jii, it was not. Rather, it was with the pale blue eyes of the girl perched atop those shoulders with his.
――In that instant, information flooded into Felt’s head with a terrifying ferocity.
Felt: [――Ugh.]
Within the blinking red eyes of Felt, the muddy torrent raged like there was no time that could be spared.
Apparently the middle of a battle, Aldebaran and Yae and the Divine Dragon absent, all-out war with only Roy and Heinkel remaining, divide and conquer plus ambush tactics, my Rom-jii in command as expected, Reinhard continuing to engage the Witch, on top of that, on top of, on top, on――,
Felt: [――Rom-jii! Take Gaston and everyone else and fall back! That is coming!]
After wading through the unrelenting muddy torrent of information, Felt raised her voice with the belief that this was the optimal choice.
Even should she continue to act as Filóre for fear of the “insurance”, there was a high probability that Roy, who was caught in a predicament on the battlefield, would break his promise in order to overturn the situation. To begin with, he was a Sin Archbishop. It would be a mistake to place such faith in matters such as them keeping their promises.
After all, Roy had been lying from the start. ――Conspiring with Felt to escape after exploiting an opening made by Aldebaran and the others was an outright lie. From the onset, Roy had only ever thought of devouring everyone: Felt, Aldebaran, Yae, Volcanica, and Heinkel included.
As such――,
Felt: [――It’s coming out from my shadow!!]
In this act of forestalling Roy, she had harbored no hesitation or indecision whatsoever.
If there was but one thing, it was solely the fear that they would be unable to handle the “insurance”, but that fear had been dispelled by the presence of those here, and in particular, by Rom-jii.
――If Rom-jii was present, there was nothing that could not be accomplished.
The hope that many throughout the world held in the Sword Saint, Reinhard van Astrea, was something that Felt harbored in this elderly giant.
Therefore――,
Felt: [――The Black Serpent!!]
Even though a dreadful torrent of Death poured out from her own shadow, in Felt’s eyes, in her heart, there existed not a single shred of fear whatsoever.
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――God, Buddha, Od Lagna. For as long as I live, I hereby vow to never nurse the deathbed of another.
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――One of the Three Great Witchbeasts: the Witchbeast of Pestilence, the Black Serpent.
While blighting humanity was in the core nature of the species known as Witchbeasts, the reason why the Three Great Witchbeasts were considered to stand in a league of their own even among that genus, was simply because, in addition to embodying that base ecology of Witchbeasts, the scale of destruction they wrought was far too catastrophically vast.
――Surrounded many a time by the military campaigns of every nation, and enshrouded by a mist that entirely erased the majority of those forces: the White Whale.
――Leaving no scraps behind as it devoured countless livelihoods with a calamitous appetite, the ravenous bane that stripped even tragedy bare as it cleaned its plate: the Great Rabbit.
Enrolled alongside the Black Serpent, the dreadfulness of those extolled as the Three Great Witchbeasts went without saying. Yet, even beside the White Whale and Great Rabbit, the Black Serpent stood apart, an anomalous existence that defied all regularity.
As stated previously, the Three Great Witchbeasts were beings that wrought frighteningly more harm than any other Witchbeasts. ――If that condition were to have been strictly obeyed, then the Black Serpent, rather than having been listed among the Three Great Witchbeasts, would have instead been worthy of reigning as the Great Witchbeast, singular.
After all, the Black Serpent had bereaved a number of lives astronomically greater than that of either the White Whale or the Great Rabbit, what with it having delivered ruination unto a great country that had formerly existed, reducing what were once the Five Great Countries to the Four Great Countries.
Rom: [Nwahh――!?]
Apprised of the arrival of the Black Serpent, Rom-jii’s voice subsequently erupted in surprise.
That instant, burgeoning from the shadow at Felt’s feet was a dense conglomeration of Miasma so dark that its true state could be ascertained on sight―― appearing just as though the shadow itself had poked its head up, it was an utmost malefic menace made manifest, unparalleled in its ability to remind all living creatures of their instinctive aversion to Death.
And yet――,
Rom: [Hey, what in tarnation’s with them eyes…!]
Despite the fact that she would have been acutely feeling the dreadful aura of the Witchbeast up close, the fact that Felt’s eyes housed no fear as she looked at him, instead carrying only an unwavering faith, brought Rom-jii’s heart to a boil.
Suppressing the instincts of self-preservation that were all too superfluous for the elderly, a desire to meet her expectations was blazed within him.
Rom: [Petraaa!]
Petra: [Understood-!]
Forthwith, the young girl who had responded hopped down from Rom-jii’s shoulders. Drawing his chin back at the clever girl’s decision, Rom-jii fixed his gaze afore―― Compression was invoked.
Rom: [――――]
A sharp sensation, as if consigning his surroundings to oblivion, tremored through Rom-jii’s soul.
Supposing this power had been at play in the many battles that Rom-jii―― that Valga Cromwell had come to be involved with, then the tactics utilized, the outcomes begotten, even history itself would have likely undergone a massive upheaval.
By merely laying eyes upon the power of an Authority, by the mere sensation of a Witch Factor in close proximity, he could not help but conceive of such “what if” scenarios. Likely, that was the unmistakable genesis of what captivated those chosen by Witch Factors with prospects of power, leading them astray as they drowned in delusions of omnipotence, invariably degrading them into repulsive abominations.
Wielding such a thing――,
Petra: [――Hk!]
Firmly clenching her molars, it was with a brave heart that Petra endured.
A brief while though it might have been, there was no doubt that the Witch Factor was saddling her with a correspondent burden. Despite wishing to liberate her from it as soon as possible, reality betrayed his wishes, forcing her to exercise that power. The fact that Rom-jii too was naught more than a part of that odious reality, irritated him to no end.
It was precisely for that reason, precisely because it was being forced on her, that he would at least return home with the greatest results possible.
Rom: [Warrior ta Lightnin’ Eight. Soldier ta Flowers Eight.]
Concurrent to that vocalization from his thick lips, was the sensation of thoughts bursting asunder.
In accordance with Rom-jii’s commands, Petra passed brisk judgement, retrieving the trio of Flam, Grassis, and Gaston through Compression, and dropping them towards the rear of the battlefield.
Rom-jii, having advanced an equivalent distance forward to take their place, ripped Felt free from Heinkel’s continued hold, and planned to withdraw once again.
However――,
???: [How cruel~, didn’t we say that we’d run away toge~ther?]
For a moment, a voice lacquered with slimy unpleasantness overlaid the nasty resonance of flesh forcibly being pierced.
A scorching pain flashed belatedly, causing Rom-jii to let out a groan as he locked eyes with the owner of the spear hand that had impaled his right flank, with the bloodstained smile of Roy.
Roy, who ought to have sustained a fatal wound at the coordinated onslaught by Ram and the others a moment ago, continued to bare his fangs while his petite, wound-riddled body was stained red with blood.
Felt: [Bastard, doing that to Rom-jii is… hk.]
Roy: [We did warn you, no? These guys won’t even properly listen to what we have to say is what we’re saying!]
Gnashing his teeth as Felt flared up in anger, Roy gestured behind him with a jerk of his chin.
A befouling spire of black sprouted up on a grand scale, unveiling a genuine threat to gnaw away at one’s life, to eclipse it entirely were they to merely catch a glimpse, let alone lay hands upon it; a peril instinctually perceived by any and all that lived.
This was no empty threat or bluff, present there was indeed the baleful legend known as the Black Serpent.
Rom: [――Nhh.]
Enduring the pain of his flank being impaled, Rom-jii’s thoughts flared to the point of incandescence.
Attempting to do something about it here would be a bad idea even among the pantheon of piss poor plans. But, given that Roy would naturally interfere with their plans, escaping with Compression would be difficult. Did Roy possess a means of avoiding the Black Serpent’s cataclysmic malevolence, or was this perhaps a suicide tactic resolved to take them down along with himself? To devise the best possible course of action in order to prevent that, thinkthinkthinkthinkthinkthink――,
Rom: [――Protect the daughter of Ford!]
As for why his ardent thoughts had terminated upon such a conclusion, not even Rom-jii himself was aware. Only, with his thought process to arrive there condensed to the utmost extremity, he exclaimed.
And receiving that bloodcurdling outcry from Rom-jii, a lone man concorded.
???: [UGH, GAHHHHHHH――!]
The owner of that fearful, quavering voice reflexively brandished his sword, obliquely slashing at Roy, who was attempting to cling to Rom-jii’s giant body, blowing him away.
The mastery in that silver flash was something that astonished even the very man who had performed it, and thus, having been rescued by that, it delivered a shock onto Felt as if the heavens had come crashing down.
Felt: [You…]
Heinkel: [――Hk!]
Motionlessly looking back at Felt, whose eyes were opened wide, Heinkel grit his teeth and reached out his hand. Reaching straight ahead, not towards Felt, but towards the large body of Rom-jii who had pulled her close, he pushed. On the receiving end of that unimaginably vehement shove, Rom-jii’s body was sent flying by its vigor.
And then, in front of Rom-jii and Felt as they watched, having been thrust away――,
Heinkel: [Filóre-sama, I’m――]
That countenance, an amalgam of turmoil and regret and love and hate; just how could anyone have described it? The words spun by those lips, enigmatic and labyrinthine to the utmost, just what sort of sentiments had they been attempting to convey?
All was unknown. ――Before those words could take form, Heinkel Astrea was swallowed by the downpour of befoulment known as the Black Serpent, vanishing altogether.
Rom: [――――]
As befoulment cascaded like a waterfall, the land, steeped in baleful black, drew its final breath.
Arboreal watchers of wood and bark withered, flora festered in rot, and waters seethed with blight. Nary a hue of life was left behind by the Black Serpent’s foul tongue following its tarnish; instead, it engulfed aught in its path, extinguishing all embers of life without discrimination.
And of course, with that befoulment spilled all over his head, Heinkel was no exception.
Felt: [――Goddamn idiot!]
Roy: [A~h, what a waste-!]
Bearing witness to that sight, the bitter reactions of Felt and Roy ironically coincided.
But, as the other relevant party, Rom-jii possessed no right to lament that. After all, he was at least aware that it was his outcry just now that had spurred Heinkel to enact that deed with his life on the line.
But regardless of whether he was self-aware or not, his determination was immediately renewed by Roy’s appetite.
Roy: [Filóre Lugu―― Rom: [Hunter ta Wind Two!]]
Whilst befouling lethality gushed forth like spring water, the voice of Roy, prioritizing his appetite, was drowned out by Rom-jii’s.
As the small figure pounced at them, Rom-jii twisted his body to keep Felt at a distance; and to his clever companion, he issued an order, not to have them withdraw, but to break the deadlock.
???: [――AROOOOOO!!]
???: [This child, not even I have confidence in stopping i~t!]
Summoned by those commands, surfacing there were Meili and the sinister beast of large build to which she clung.
As a roar overlapped with the self-deprecating remark, and the beast’s claws seized Roy head-on, the Witchbeast Master pointed at the potpourri of befoulment, and yelled with all her might.
Meili: [SIT DOWN-!!]
The thunderclap that was Meili’s command struck the Witchbeast with an inexorable impulse.
Forthwith, as the befoulment had been attempting to bifurcate whilst slithering across the ground, within shadow, borne in its movements was a disturbance; and having shifted places with the sinister beast, Rom-jii and the others escaped the Black Serpent’s immediate range. Having fled, he resumed breathing, and turning only his neck, he finally caught sight of the befoulment in its entirety―― and failed to muster even a single word.
Rom: [――――]
This was no lifeform so cute as a Witchbeast, this was Death incarnate.
The befoulment that had overflowed from the forest’s shadows coalesced, taking form as a serpentine contour. However, that contour was not of flesh or scale, instead, ‘twas naught more than a festering den of pathology, pestilence, and plague innumerable, an endless helix of lesions, disease, and blight, brought together by malign coincidence to assume such a shape.
Its ulcerations, akin to the scales that clad a snake’s body, would swell and burst, releasing droplets of deep black to scatter like pus; a mere touch from a single drop enough to make anything rot and wither away with nary a sound. The tip of the contour, barely acceptable to even be called a head, began to bloom like a flower, and from within writhed countless slender, filamentous protuberances, akin to tongues or tentacles, or perhaps more aptly, an infestation of parasites.
Worthy of being crowned the Vilest of All Witchbeasts beyond any shadow of a doubt, that was a being whose very existence tolled the warning bells of life.
If the White Whale devoured history from the aether, and the Great Rabbit gorged on livelihoods upon the ground, then the Black Serpent was none other than the very calamity of ruin that diseased the world itself, blighting it with rot.
Roy: [That perception’s RIGHT- ON- THE- MONEY-――!]
Within Rom-jii’s vision as he shuddered, the loud voice of Roy cheered in jubilation upon the land befouled by the Black Serpent.
At the same time, the Witchbeast of large build was launched skyward by a palm strike from directly below, its blood arcing through the air like a crimson trail.
Meili: [Shadow Lion-chan―― hk!!]
An exclamation, Meili’s hand outstretched to no avail.
The Witchbeast that had been shot upwards, the Guiltilaw, plummeted to the ground that had been befouled by the Black Serpent in an unavoidable crash; its gargantuan build was licked by that foul tongue, violating it with terrible vigor. With the roar of its agonizing death screech as his backdrop, Roy too stood at the heart of the befoulment. ――Even so, manipulating the blood pouring from his gashed wounds, Roy had fashioned for himself legs akin to those of a crustacean, concocting a stance with his feet hovering above the ground.
Roy: [A~h, you don’t have to cry, Meili. That child will be reborn, just like this.]
Roy pronounced so and clicked his fingers, and that which used to be the Guiltilaw, tarnished to a clump of black matter after being swallowed by the befoulment, now began to distend, and the Witchbeast’s massive build metamorphosed into countless kaleidoscopic butterflies.
Butterflies of myriad proportions, hued in the spectra of rainbow, fluttered into a whirling dance whilst Roy wickedly gave an iniquitous smile within the enshrouding Miasma of the Black Serpent.
Rom: [The Black Serpent… Felt, you…]
Felt: [He did say he couldn’t steer it well by himself, but he was able to pull off something like concealing it in my shadow with some conditions attached. I don’t have any reason to honestly believe him.]
Roy: [How sad~! You couldn’t trust us and for that reason betrayed us or something, is that what it means? To do something so crooked as deceiving a Sin Archbishop, won’t your Royal-born blood cry and weep over thi~s?]
Felt: [Sorry, but my blood’s made of the water and bread from the slums. No matter who or what my parents are, I don’t need any meekness that’d have me crying over betraying a bastard like you.]
As Felt gallantly retorted Roy’s mockery, her gaze shifted towards the coiling befoulment known as the Black Serpent―― towards the location Heinkel had occupied, as he was engulfed by the torrent of black. Having witnessed the fate of the Guiltilaw a moment prior, it was not difficult to imagine the end Heinkel had met.
He was a man whom neither Rom-jii, nor anyone else in the Camp, would have harbored a good impression of. But, he was Reinhard’s father. With Felt as a hostage, they likely would have also had some conversations.
For him to meet his end as the Black Serpent’s prey, was far too cruel to be called recompense.
???: [――UL GOA!!]
That sentimentality of his was blazed to naught by a coarse voice.
Passing over Rom-jii’s head, hellfire brilliantly lit up the forest as it closed in on the Black Serpent. Plowing into it, the infernal explosion tempestuously perturbed the befoulment, and the hot, putrid malodor immediately asserted a sense of reality for the scene before them.
And, the one who had launched such a merciless offensive upon the Black Serpent, was an individual who had newly joined the fray――,
???: [Oi, Felt! If you’re back safe, then start giving us orders! Isn’t that your damn job!?]
Having fired off a flashy attack in place of a proper greeting, Rachins sparked a fire of determination within her.
Seemingly having exerted himself quite a bit, Rachins was already out of breath despite only just arriving at the battle. However, that determination went into effect immediately. Right after widening her eyes slightly, Felt valiantly braced her cheeks――,
Felt: [Rom-jii, let me win this.]
Rom: […Don’t’cha go bein’ rash now.]
Felt: [I wouldn’t be asking if there was no shot.]
Rom: [Didn’t say that there ain’t no shot. I’d said, don’t be rash.]
He was wounded on his flank, and it did not seem like he would be able to move with any haste. He ought to devote himself to the work he could perform, so with the blood that had rushed to his head coming back down, he cooled off to think rationally.
Supposing Gluttony were to lay his hand upon Felt, what might occur if the name Filóre Lugunica were used? ――Knowing the answer to that question, Rom-jii quelled his sentimentality, and began to work his thoughts.
And as if having found that demeanor of Rom-jii’s reliable, Felt smacked her cheeks with both her hands,
Felt: [Alright, time for orders, as requested. ――Let’s do this, you bastards!!]
Everyone: [YEAHHHHHH――!!]
Receiving Felt’s invigorating command, voices began to rise, with those of Rachins and Gaston being the first.
Facing a Sin Archbishop and the Black Serpent, foes truly worthy of being called threats to the world, whilst feeling proud of his comrades who roused their spirits instead of faltering, Rom-jii also smacked his cheeks with his hands.
Roy: [A~h――]
Indeed, basking in the gazes of hostility directed towards him, Roy embraced his own body,
Roy: [――It’s irresisti~ble. ――Everyone, all of you, to the greatest- level- possible-, love you-!]
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――God, Buddha, Od Lagna. For as long as I live, I hereby vow to never hold the hand of another.
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Harboring the aegis of delight, want to eat.
Harboring the aegis of gratitude, want to eat.
Harboring the aegis of affection, want to eat.
Bearing not rage, not sorrow, not fear, not animus, not diffidence, not repugnance, not hatred, not begrudgement, not grief, not scorn, not disdain, not malediction, not acrimony, want to eat.
――From the deepest depths of his heart, all of those present here did Roy Alphard of Bizarre Eating want to eat.
Roy: [But, there’s many obstacles to tha~t.]
Discarding his clothes, torn to shreds as they were, Roy bared his skin marred in wounds to the wind, licking his lips.
Requisitioning advantage on the misfire of Eclipsing, Ram and company’s hospitality had dealt him enormous damage, so the equanimity Roy was purporting to show was, in reality, equanimity of which he was bereft. He was reutilizing his copious volumes of blood through the magic of the Bloodweeping Oni, and the Witchbeasts and creatures of the forest that had perished due to the Black Serpent’s befoulment as rainbow-hued butterflies with the power of the Lord of Phantasmal Rainbows, but from Roy bearing the effects of Aldebaran’s curse mark, even the freedom to abscond from the battlefield was lost.
But then again, even should that not hold true, in the face of those treating him to such a feast, the option to run did not so much as even pass through the mind of Roy of Bizarre Eating.
Roy: [We’re different from Ley of Gourmet after a~ll.]
With myriads of likes and dislikes, Ley, who would be fastidious about the persons to be eaten, tended to be particular about the situation as well.
Befittingly, he would utilize desertion or postponement if necessary as a substitution for spice, but Roy was different. To not be fastidious, meant his appetite craved all persons equivalently.
Videlicet, Roy Alphard wanted to devour every last person in this world.
Thus, to abscond would be outrageous. Should he ever become unable to meet somebody again after meeting them once, no number of aprons doused in drools of vexing regret would likely ever suffice.
Roy: [For us who are like that~, this preliminary preparation of ingredients is a bi~t troublesome you see~.]
Through both “Ram” and “Ram Mathers”, he had foundered on eating Ram .
The alteration of the true name was unmistakable. However, for no cues to match even in the newest Memories of someone close to her meant that there were an interminable number of candidates for the true name post-alteration―― and likely, it was possible that not just Ram, but everyone in the vanguard had arranged the same preliminary preparation of ingredients.
Roy: [Even the name of the Witch of Tristitia, Petra Leyte, who knows for how much can that be truste~d.]
Even her act of having pronounced it as her name loud and clear, now this appeared to be an extensive trap.
Bearing that in mind, in the present situation, that which was in scope for Roy to outstretch his hand and reach for was only to the extent of Felt, who was almost certainly Filóre Lugunica, but even that was not fully definite.
In the one in ten-thousand chance that attempting such on Felt were to end with a swinging and a miss, triggering the vomiting recoil of Eclipsing with a “Blergh-”, then the opening Roy caused for himself would be taken advantage of and this time, with certitude, it would be the terminus.
Thus, with emotion of heartbreak, Roy made a determination verboten to Gluttony――,
Roy: [――Let’s put off eating, for now.]
At this very present moment, ascertaining the true names of these tasty treats in order to wolf every last one of them down would be impossible.
In order to clean them off the plate without leaving any scraps, what must be given foremost priority in this place was the stocking up of preserved foods. Providentially, the Black Serpent obeying Roy was the one head with that as its forte. ――To that end, he had idealized to manifest the Black Serpent at a spot with a greater multitude of people, but with that included, Felt’s decision to turn traitor was of an exquisitely unfavorable timing for Roy.
Roy: [But that’s precisely what-! Makes-! Eating-! Worth-! It-!]
The precipice of exsanguination, enormously damaged, hunger amongst hunger, the utmost sensation of starvation―― full force Bizarre Eating.
Joining his hands before his chest, he bulldozed the world from both ends of his field of vision to a convergence at its center.
Trees with roots entrenched deep were smashed, even the grounded earth trodden down in immense natural spontaneity got exhumed in the crossfire by the might of the Compactor, seeking to block the escape routes of the prey retreating back to safe turf.
Felt: [Gaston! Doltero!]
The two colossi sought to cease the fabrication of that firm wall of earth through brute force. The struggle only lasted for but a moment, the resistance towards the compaction rebounding to Roy’s closed hands, and forcing them to spread apart as fire billowed before his eyes.
Felt: [Rachins! Maid-neechan!]
The fireball of the sanpaku eyes coalesced with the wind brought forth by Ram, thus birthing a tornado of fire. Roy expended three of the whirl-dancing butterflies against it and countered it with a water spear of the Magia Manus Magister.
The butterflies that emerged from Mana leftover in carcasses exhibited destructive might despite being of simple chemical construct, but they were also capable of sequestrating magic as external tanks of Mana. For Roy, who wished to subsist the Flow Method in his dying body with his own Mana expense, they were automated reinforcements who would only be supplemented the more the Black Serpent slaughtered.
Felt: [Flam! Grassis!]
The tornado of fire and the iceberg collided, with his vision being engulfed by the consequent steam eruption.
Piercing through the world where the waxen white of the skies and the sable black of the grounds were repainted, the merciless sortie of the twins befell Roy, discounting his desire to take a breath.
Willfully devouring it with the sturdy skin of the Carnivorous Beast, he reciprocated the favor with a combined offensive onslaught, taking in his right hand the Fist King, and the Snow Vallum in his left, knocking off the twins together into the ground besmirched with befoulment.
But on the escarpment of the virulent foul tongue of blight swallowing the twins, a bone spear of the lunging Hungry Horse King collected the two, retrieving them from the span of lethality. Pulverizing the other bone spear, which had been thrust forth, alongside its arm through the song of the Blightlove Troubadour, the destitute fruits of battle made Roy’s stomach squirm with peristalses of starvation.
There――,
Roy: [BIIIIG WAAAAAVE!]
In Roy’s immediate rear, the Black Serpent stretched its body high up into the sky and slowly, like a felled tree, flopped down ahead―― where all of its prey had assembled.
A single touch being the harbinger of end; the clod of impulses far too ruinous to be construed with a classification as tepid as murder, the Black Serpent conducted its hunt in a manner that, whilst admittedly lacking in creativity, could be crudely connoted as cursory, a congenital conqueror. By just scattering its mass would its opponents perish, thus it did not requisite greater astuteness.
That was what callously descended upon Felt and the others head-on――,
Felt: [――Live!]
Everyone: [Strong――!!]
The roars that became one transfigured into strength, and the Black Serpent’s befoulment that would sleet down onto the ground was barged back.
The ones charged with physical labor exhumed the ground, the ones charged with magic reinforced that ground to act as a bulwark, the ones charged with techniques mortared it such that the Black Serpent would receive the blow, earning the singular second of the bulwark’s dissolution for them to retreat.
Every one of everyone, mobilized to the utmost with unfathomable harmony――,
Roy: [――――]
Resolute, intrepid, what gallantry.
Entering the visual percept of the Black Serpent scattering the menace of lethality, whilst combating Roy who transmutated the existences of formidable enemies (friends) fought so far into power, they who marched forward absent of dither possessed might that was inexplicable.
Roy: [Normally, you’d panic or be astonished or be shuddering or something, you kno~w!]
Chaos, fright, trepidation; their conduct elided over these appropriate impacts at which Roy vociferated.
Harmony greater than that between family or lovers, blended with resolution and grit resembling the apotheosis of aberrants. Unmistakable. They were finessed to completion. ――All of them together, were a singular, excessively extravagant platter.
The moment he contemplated so, before the lineup rich in variety and the abounding assortment of hues, his heart capered that none were the appetizer, the side dish, or the main course. All of them were equivalent, invaluable, deeply flavorful uniques.
As Roy’s eyes sparkled in such elation, Felt rolled through the plume of smoke and hoisted a middle finger at him. She flaunted her sharpened high canines,
Felt: [Don’t stand around drooling over yourself, you manic bastard!]
Roy: [You all are so exceedingly beloved that it’s impossible not to-!]
Towards Felt, who was acting as the nucleus and instructed directions of mobilization to her comrades, the affection exacerbated.
In the beginning he was indignant with rage for his plans being betrayed, but now he was thankful for her betrayal. To be served with hospitality so wonderful, this side must also return the favor or it would bring dishonor to the name Sin Archbishop.
Roy: [――――]
Upon glancing, he perceived the Black Serpent’s movements to be sluggish.
The Black Serpent was intrinsically a Witchbeast of ploddingly laggard movement that corroded the area, proliferating blight by befouling the ground leaving naught a crevice behind. As a hunter, its efficiency was by no means high. Being just one of its heads, it was unquestionably not operating at its normal condition, but even so, its movements being yet duller was due to――,
???: [Sit down, no~w… hk.]
Clinging to the Hungry Horse King with slender arms, Meili inhibited the Black Serpent’s movements with her quavering timbre.
Eyes bloodshot, she overexerted the Divine Protection she had been blessed with, and its recoil must have been bestowing upon her a sensation of her soul being seared, of her blood being smouldered.
Yet, her Divine Protection of Fiend Manipulation was interfering with even the Black Serpent, one of the Three Great Witchbeasts. ――Though in truth, the Black Serpent’s responses seemed slow even when taking that into account.
Roy: [After having gone so far-! Let us-! Compensate for that-! On this end~!]
Harboring the emotion to extol not the beleaguered Black Serpent but the beleaguering Meili, Roy joined his hands and jutted the ground upward, off of which the rainbow-hued butterflies blasted, scattering shrapnel of the befouling variety.
Befoulment of death that would eliminate upon touch. If the movements of the Black Serpent itself were slow, then all he must do was to take up charge for the task of spattering. Accruing two, three successive eruptions, a wide acreage was spritzed in black.
Roy: [Haha~, hahaha~, hahahaha~-!]
Naturally, being at the epicenter of the eruption, Roy’s life would also be in peril should he bathe in the befoul. Hence Roy coated himself in an armor of blood, braced to perfectly avoid basking in the spattering daub of befoulment.
Besides a select few exceptions, there was nobody capable of dodging rain. Furthermore, it was improbable for all members of the plates of treats to be such exceptions, thus the bombardment of the Black Serpent’s befoulment would ruthlessly lacquer the battlefield in black. There were limits to how much the prey could protect one another. Incapacitating Meili would be ideal, but――,
Roy: [Huh?]
A vacuous, doltish voice escaped Roy’s throat as he removed his faceguard of blood.
Before his sight, amidst the thickets felled to necrosis by the spattered daub of befoulment, was a gaping space that had eluded the blight―― therein were the forms of the treats assembled together, backs joined together, successfully safeguarding from the bombardment of death.
Roy: [Just no way.]
The insuperable scales of the kaleidoscope of rainbow-hued butterflies, were intercepted by the boisterous dance of the ground’s bombardment.
Roy: [There’s no way.]
The compaction which squashed his field of vision from edges to center, was curbed at its inception, thus thwarting its invocation.
Roy: [We’re saying there’s no way.]
His impediment, aiming to transpierce their eardrums through a strident song, was drowned out by the clangorous detonation kindled by gale and flame.
Roy: [There’s just no way, we’re telling you there’s no way, because there is no way-.]
Turning the Stomach of Souls inside out, wielding all within his grasp without restraint, using the might of the suprarational, with even the truth of their existences fostering terror having vanished, he had begotten successive cataclysms.
The Aldebusters, however, with Felt at the helm, responded to counter all of it with precision and optimum conduct, synchronously coordinating as though all of them together formed a singular organism.
――This was odd.
Roy: [――――]
Whilst repeating onslaughts which whittled the world and its common sense, without pause and unremitting, Roy was posed with a doubt.
No matter what, this was odd. It was certain that they were gallant. They placed trust in one another. Their purpose was one. They were superlative and adroit. They were strong.
――Even so, this was odd.
Humans were incapable of conduct optimized to this magnitude.
Yet notwithstanding, Felt and the others continued to play the utmost effective cards in their hand with the best possible timings against every possible kind of offensive.
Roy was acquainted with this sensation. Aldebaran, when he had fought him at the Prison Tower.
Upon unfastening the captive Roy’s seal, Aldebaran had battered Roy to demonstrate the difference in their strength. The inexplicability that had disabled his arms and legs alike, this was the same―― close, but different. That had ultimately only been the abnormal essence of Aldebaran standalone. However, this was an abnormal essence dwelling in every single enemy present.
――Something, was clearly wrong.
Roy: [――A~h, misjudged, haven’t we~?]
The unordinary that paralyzed common sense, the suprarational inexplicable through reason, the inscrutable that precluded debate.
These abnormal straits induced, his hungry stomach glutted with doubt, Roy arrived at an inordinately obvious truth and cursed himself.
Based on her authoritative commands, he had been set under the impression that the enemy’s nucleus had been Felt.
This guided direction of Roy’s rationale was also a part of their plan. The true person at the nucleus was not Felt, but the string-puller concealed behind her; with this conjecture, Roy shot a leer in that direction.
Just then, the string-puller blinked their eyes with an “Ah”――,
△▼△▼△▼△
――God, Buddha, Od Lagna. For as long as I live, I hereby vow to never desire reconciliation with another.
――God, Buddha, Od Lagna. For as long as I live, I hereby vow to never rage on the behalf of another.
――God, Buddha, Od Lagna. For as long as I live, I hereby vow to never divulge secrets to another.
――God, Buddha, Od Lagna. For as long as I live, I hereby vow to never to display weakness to another.
――God, Buddha, Od Lagna. For as long as I live, I hereby vow to never watch the morning sun in the company of another.
△▼△▼△▼△
???: [――Perhaps, you finally noticed?]
As she responded so, having Compressed all the thought processes of her allies present there, in addition to all the processes of discussion in order to share that information amongst themselves, the Witch of Tristitia closed a single eye and winked.
Absolute cinema
Peak!!
Arc 9 is probably the best
hell no, I like arc 9 but there’s no way im taking It over arc 6 or arc 4 wn
Arc 9 is arguably on the same level as Arc 7 and 8 simply because its been only shonen shit battles for 30 chapters and no substantial lore drops for the series, as well as having 0 subaru involvement not counting schizo loli petrabaru. Tappei is allergic to writing a good story with the main character present
“no substantial lore drops” btw
“no substantial lore drops” have you skipped the last few chapters?
Too many battles, and not enough of the rest. For me even not to 5.
*top
Even then, a lot of things happen in this arc due to contrived means
I agree. I wanted to add correct word. I said to 5 instead of top 5.
Thank you for your hard work as always
I am just waiting for it to adapt in anime.
Trust me guys it will require huge production amount !!
Coz every single chapter has peak fights.
It’ll get huge production amounts at the cost of the pacing being fucked like arc 5’s adaptation
Bold of you to assume the series wont die before fillerachia namek
Yeah. It will probably end in season 4
I think that in season 6. 2 seasons of Vollachia will be the end of the anime.
The Black Serpent destroyed one Great Country. On the official world map, there are 4 Great Countries, and beyond them is the edge of the world. It has been mentioned many times that Lugunica, Vollachia, and Gusteco have existed for over a thousand years, Kararagi was created by Alec Hoshin, and there used to be several other countries on its territory. Ram and Garfiel discussed that Hoshin was a ruthless conqueror. Then my theory is that the Great Country was destroyed by Hoshin during his wars of conquest. He secretly asked Daphne to do it because he couldn’t subjugate that country any other way. I believe that every important character from 400 years ago was evil.
that……. could be…. i mean the plot twist is def gonna be big … and it’s possible Echidna planned out history pretty much since the moment of her authority… but the question that i wanna know is why did they take the authority …the great witches i mean…that part bugs me a lot and holds a lot of answers
Witches did not take authories, unlike archbishops. When the carrier of the witch factor dies, the factor goes looking for the nearest owner with the highest possible compatibility. This can be a man – a sage candidate with compatibility with 7 witch factors. Get all = a sage. It can be a girl, then she became a witch. Witches lived their lives, and at one point realized that they had a superpower. Satella is not really a Witch of Envy. Echidna is an exception. She has had the witch factor since birth, it formed her personality. Echidna did not plan the entire history of the world. After arc 4 Omega thinks that she does not know what the world is like now and wants to explore it. Hector and Pandora are exceptions, who received individual factors that are fully compatible with them.
It has never been stated to my knowledge that sage candidates are capable with all authorities. The only thing we know for a fact is that they exist
No, but I’m 100% sure about it. Subaru is a sage candidate. Subaru didn’t die from the miasma when there were several witches nearby, and that’s almost impossible. A sage must rule over 7 witches. Subaru isn’t going crazy from 2 witch factors. Subaru will collect 7 witch factors. That’s what we know. I am sure that a sage candidate must collect 7 factors, become a sage, remove the factors from his body, and rule the witches. Why is another question.
Actually forgot the part about witches…still doesn’t answer how did the witches get to have the witch factors… Since when do witch factors exist why they are called that and what could they do originally? Did all of it belong to someone like the 1st sage?
That is true…… Omega did say that… That doesn’t deny what i said tho… She has a way of knowing how everyone and everything reacts acts thinks i honestly believe that even the fights, hell the whole anime/novel has been putbin potion by Echidna herself
She can’t know as a fact since ahe was dead eight
She is that abd far more capable
In the ReZero world, there are Observers, gods who treat the world like a fun game. The Sphinx’s actions in Vollachia and her defeat are their will. They wanted a spectacle. I think they created the witch factors because they find their game more interesting when there are villains. The witches have names from Earth, but Subaru is unaware of them, indicating that their names did not come from a human from Earth but from otherworldly entities.
Petra the goat
Petra the goat of the Mary Sue Olympics
True. A day or less and she is an expert using the witch factor or Tristitia something that should not be possible but i guess a lot of things should not be posible in this Arc.
Subaru was also able to use Greed quite effectively right as soon as he started using it.
So was Petelgeuse when he took in Sloth. This isn’t anything new.
Plus most of the time she’s just been following Rom’s commands so most of her focus (up to this point) has just in activation of the authority rather than anything else
Gets gold medals in everything. You know how it is. Most re zero women are mary sues anyway
As opposed to Reinhard, Celsius, The Admirer, Roswaal, or even Julius when looked at in Subaru’s eyes
I cant be the only one who thinks a 13 year old doing all this is crazy right? especially since next chapter
The Subaru’s book has changed Petra a lot. Not because Bookbaru talk with she. Pertabaru is more Subaru than Petra.
Hackpei’s Mary Sue can do anything and she always has a plan for everything and is now the protagonist of the Arc who can do everything better than everyone
You don’t know the meaning of the term “Mary Sue”. You are just using it because you want to hate despite having no logic backing you up.
This is really fucked up. I mean there’s not a single person in Emilia’s group (besides Meili, a reformed killer) who would oppose a child’s sacrifice to make up for their shortcomings.
She’s 13 ffs, possessed by a guy who habitually kills himself…
Oh, so there actually was a cheat trick to avoid lasting consequences. Well, good for Petra.
I have very mixed feelings about this plot twist…
Feels kind cheap, yes?
That’s not the word, I think. This is not a case where the author simply gives someone the victory, ignoring logic and canon. The author simply showed once again that the current ReZero is a shonen for children of early adolescence, except for Subaru. For Subaru, grimdark, of course. Although the unknown vows made to Clind in the previous volume may still be revealed and prove terrible.
Kind of? It is.
Yep. The power of love overcomes all or whatever cheesy bullshit that the series tends to use on numerous occasions. True love conquers logic
What novel are you reading
A shitty one
We makin’ it to Crunchyroll employment with this localisation effort.
With the fact that Petra has lost so many things about her, i can conclude three conjectures—–
(1) – Petra will Die
(2) – Subaru probably will get released and use his death no jutsu to revive everything she lost
(3) – Petra is going to live her life in the story as a miserable girl and might perhaps in the future will get back the things about her that she have lost… Somehow…..
——–
What i don’t get is why Subaru wasn’t in the crystal that Felt was also trapped in, if Felt came out why didn’t Subaru and Beatrice?? Are they trapped in some another crystal/box (whatever it was)
yeah they are, the sphere they’re in was swallowed by Aldebaran remember?
not gonna spoiler but next chapter we get a reveal that makes all you just said wrong
Subaru needs to crawl out of Aldebaran’s asshole before being able to escape his pokeball prison
First. I believe the hankerchief echidna took from subaru is the manifestation of her essence or personality. It is petra the maid. The petra up to the witch tea party that is. I believe she will sacrifice all she is or will ever be. Once subaru is released. Echidna will use said hankerchief and it will restore petra to a degree. She wont remember things maybe.
Either way. That hankerchief is explicitly stated to be the “cost” and “price” and most of all “favor” that echidna will do for subaru. Subarus deal with roswall explicitly dictates him losing whats precious. This would include all petra is.
P.s. AL ate subaru crystal so subaru will need to unkobaru out.
I understand that novels usually use words that are not normally in use…. BUT this chapter had wayyy to many words like that, it made this chapter less intresting for me than it should have been supposed to be
I saw two german words: verboten and spritzen
new tab. CTRL C. CTLR V. ENTER.
READ, click back.
15 seconds.
You know what takes longer than 15 seconds? Writing a whole comment to complain.
People back in the day travelled months to go from country to country to acquire knowledge and ya cant even spend 15 seconds,
Mr Lazy Mocker and respector of knowledge travelers, can I trouble you to Crtl C, Crtl V: George Orwell, Politics and the English Language? It’s not just about a word you don’t know. It’s about clarity and bad writing.
This is basically how Tappei does every WN chapter, flowery writing and verbose to fill his word quota. Havent you noticed the past 100+ chapters?
Japanese is not a particularly rich language. There are ways to forcefully complicate writing (watch “Hatoko rant” on YT for reference), but there’s no need to use countenance, or visage, or any other fancy word in your vast vocabulary when it says “face” in the original.
INDEED
This is hectic as hell….. man Petra is really influenced tooooooooooooooo muuuuuuuuuch by subaru…..what he has seen and how he lived is tooooooo strong for someone to distinguish from…. maybe Ezo sure but even him i think would break after experiencing death…. maybe only people like reinhard could read it and stay sane…. but petra seems dooooooooooooooooooomed dear god this is terrible……she’s freaking hollow HOLLOOOWED OUT FFS!
SUBARU IS NOT, I AM NO ACCEPTING THIS !! REPEAT THIS NOOOOOOOOOW!!
Petra will be daijobu, don’t worry
the wording in this chapter was considerably more flowery and pretentious than normal
Fits this trash arc well
Yeah, I’m tired of complaining about it. Somehow the first third of this chapter seems much easier to read than the rest. Probably different translators.
But hey, this is the only whell in the desert and here we are complaining the water smells of piss.
This along arc 3,4 and 6 is peak cinema omg
Arc 9 is sub par. Re zero fans will eat up shit and call it chef’s kiss
“Re:Zero fans” so you are not a fan of the series yet you read all the way till arc 9 just to complain.
Damn, the unemployment is crazy.
>unemployment is crazy
Ironic coming from the guy wasting his life responding to autistic anime fans
Takes me less than 2 minutes to write this comment I felt like writing. Never understood this line of thinking. If you reply to loser then you must also be a loser. It’s recursively retarded. I’m not hate reading entire arcs.
Lil buddy, I made less than 7 comments in this chapter. All incredibly short.
your crazy if you think this at the same level as arc 6 or arc 4
It’s honestly bugging me how they created Petra to be this “as relevant as THE Roswaal” in terms of genius tactic and everything, but to actually elevate her further needs balls, and how Tappei did it without overshadowing any of the cast is simply genius. I’m actually looking forward to how things will end, at the same time SCARED shitless. I hate this arc so much, HATE how scary I am about how things will turn out.
I want a grand reset to be true, please.
Literally everything has been going Petra Sue’s way this whole arc and the narration is bending to remind you every other paragraph how smart and cute and talented and a golden child she is. At this point just sideline every other character in favor of turning Petra into the protagonist since she can do it better than everyone else without problem
What’d you give up to Oh God, Buddha, Od Laguna?
Your reading literary?
You obviously gave up your grammar lmao
You obviously gave up your grammar.@
Anyway, don’t let me stop you from writing 5 comments to yourself about Petra and “hackpei.”
It’s like in arc 3 or arc 2. Where one female has to look good and teppei does it by everyone else looking bad, despite it being illogical and just outright stupid
This didn’t happen. Like there is no proof of this.
There has been a total of 4 lines in the last 5 chapters glazing Petra.
4 lines.
You are fighting imaginary enemies.
Petra is the smartest and cutest and bestest girl ever, and basically you’re fucking stupid if you think otherwise.
i do wonder, the disease reminds me of a curse somewhat, if it is a curse like the dragon blood and such it would be funny if subaru can just tank it and add another curse to the total
Perhaps dragon blood was an exception because he certainly didn’t tank the witchbeast curse in season 1.
He’s able to tank the dragon blood curse because of the witchbeast curse from season 1. It’s still spread throughout his body, it just won’t activate since it’s source is dead, and simultaneously it negates the effects of other curses.
I don’t recall there was an explanation like that. Black Dragon blood is not a curse. Otherwise Felix wouldn’t have trouble dispelling it.
Subaru remembers people eaten by Gluttony, sees invisible hands, resists Wrath for a little longer than others, so it would be logical to assume his resistance to authorities lets him benefit from Black blood without constant pain as side effect. His lost hand actually grew back thanks to it.
Subaru got cursed by the witchbeasts when bit by the dog, Beatrice wasn’t unable to undo it completly as it was too tangled. It was still there when he got the dragon blood. The two bloods fought it out over control, and it stabilized in Subaru’s leg. It’s been a while so I don’t remember if RBD helped stabilize it or something, but the two duking it out is a part of why Subaru can tank it.
There is 2 ways to dispell a curse from witchbeast, treat the wound or kill the witchbeast, roswal bombard the forest kill all the witchbeast so ofc subaru is fine now. Subaru can somewhat perceive the authorities but he is by no means op than normal ppl. The authorities and curse can still kill him like anyone else. And there is no saying that dragon blood is a curse or anything alike, even the owner dont have any clues at all
Killing the witchbeast does not remove the curse, it just can’t be -activated- and stays like a dormant virus. Subaru got cursed so many times Beatrice is unable to remove the curse completely because it’s tangled like a knot, which makes him different from the others who only got cursed once, which could be dispelled. In the web novel, after Capella puts blood on Subaru’s leg, he passes out shortly after. Coming to, there is a vague short description that the curse is fighting a tangled knot. The anime makes the clash explicit. The light novel idk. But it might be mentioned directly in arc 7 too.
“A curse mark befitting greed, which would not sell his life over to anyone, as if saying: “it has already been pledged.”
These begrudged curses, which should by all means have eaten away at his life, meddled with each other, detested each other, refused to hand him over to the other, opposed each other, and fought with each other. ――And as a result, they reached a conflicting answer.
The curses would have it so they would not let this vessel perish.
The vortex was swirling round and around, spinning fast, swallowing everything.
Smack-dab at the core of this vessel, which had been cursed by Beast and Dragon, swirling round and around” Arc 7
It’s alluded to without directly being stated. It was also alluded to in a more overt manner in the opening sequence of S3E6 before Subaru wakes up
Might need to add another proofreader among those 3 listed, one that only reads English to tell you folks that writing like a mid century translation of the old testament is not very enjoyable for light fiction.
Let me put it this way:
Viz, verily I doth protest, in accordance with the principles of accernment, of which namely, nay, viz! I cheekly with a hint, nay with a mote of playful subterfuge, ask, nay humbly ponder if thou’st could tone it down before you bring back words with ð in them’est.
I doth verily concur!
it took longer for you to write that comment than to google the THREE words.
WCT is bound to properly translate the Japanese words to the highest amount of accuracy they can, they did this with Tristitia.
Your acting like you needed to google every five seconds to understand one paragraph. Gotta hand it to rezero fans, they complain and exaggerate everything.
Brotha you misunderstand. Hes talking about the way Tappei is writing.
Which is crazy cause WCT has no control over that.
Bluds so good at reading he didnt even notice.
I don’t mind taking the time writing a cheeky comment to mention something that made the reading less fun for me.
I was poking fun of videlicet or viz, in particular because it pretty much means: namely, to wit, that is to say. Now riddle me this, if you’re a translator, how much sense does it make to use a latinized filler word you’d find in a legal library from the 1800s, but without its common abbreviation even? In reality, it’s probably just a quirk of being machine translated, which doesn’t mean it’s a more accurate semantic translation fyi. It literally is latin for “to see permitted.”
As for other complaint comments, I think it’s possible to not be toxic even if you make fun of something or complain.
This. Please make it hurt a little less.
Just admit you’re stupid or you don’t know english very well.
The experience shouldn’t be dumbed down to accommodate low reading levels, just look up the words if you don’t know them.
Go read beowolf
Even casual readers would hate having to put up with prose like this, to say nothing of how horrendous an experience this is for non-native speakers.
I was going to say it feels like Al’s team is up against RBD. So, does somebody have a fate altering authority on the Aldebuster team? Or is this just plot armor for the Aldebuster team? Evading death incarnate is highly doubtful. It’s beyond reason. Either fate is being manipulated, or the author wrote himself into a corner without Subaru’s RBD.
Or somebody repeatedly flagged by Roy as messing things up, has a time comprehension authority thingajig and it might not just mean teleporting people. Total plot armor, especially considering how when Hector had it, he annihilated early Roswall A. casually and how authorities tend to be broken.
At the end of the chapter it is CLEARLY stated that Petra compressed the time needed for discussions to occur. Imagine if you and your pals are fighting a battle against a giant but every time the giant does anything remotely threatening you get to pause your fight and have a deep discussion about what to do with your team. That’s basically what is happening minus the pause.
Petra should just compress to the end of this boring shonen shit arc
My brother in Od Laguna forgot he’s reading rezero with arc 7, 8 and 1000 side stories of exactly this shonen type sh**. It always gets like this with Bishops.
I kinda wished Tappei chilled on the poetic language, especially with fights, it’s nice but it makes it quite hard to read. Thanks for the translation!
Hopefully, Roy will deal with Petra.
I very much appreciate the effort it took to portray Roy’s inner monologue with this archaic speech. But as a non-native speaker it is honestly a bit hard to follow. Midway through I stopped looking up words I don’t understand and just read the rest in one go. I will have to try again when I have more time.
As a native speaker, you’re doing great. The purple prose doesn’t make 100, or even 70 percent sense in a lot of places. It’s always better to use a “small” word correctly or to simplify the poetic verbiage than to be “fancy” incorrectly and overextend yourself and fall flat on your butt. Of course there’s nuances that get lost in translations that make it difficult even if “simple.” But it’s not just the specific wording, the way its phrased together, it is very sloppy at times. I usually overlook it and am thankful for the translation, but I do find it really rough when you add random french loan words or lesser known latin words, medievalisms, and prefix every action with 2 overly complicated words for adjectives in extended sentences.
The experience doesn’t need to be reduced for native english readers just to accommodate you. I encourage you to keep looking up words, you will learn something new too.
The experience is AI translation tools, better than Google Translate but don’t know what you’re on about with the experience tm. It’s alright though cause we have something to read for free and the translators put effort into making it better. Doesn’t mean it can’t be better, doesn’t make WCT be less of a GOAT. Don’t be patronizing cause someone doesn’t speak your native language as well as you. Experiencer aaaah mf.
I agree with all of this except the GOAT part.
Ain’t nothing GOATed about these TLs or this arc.
How are y’all complaining when even as a non native I understand most of the chapter ?? And if you don’t understand a word just google it, it takes 5 seconds, if you’re on phone u just have to click on the word ??
TRUE.
But we are re zero fans remember, WE CANT READ!!!??
So we’re the new Jujutsu kaisen fans are we ?
Non-native here
I wasn’t complaining, just pointing out that I had to heavily use the dictionary for this particular chapter. I mostly had problems with some adjectives and adverbs, but those aren’t really essential to understand the flow of the story anyway. Actually I appreciate the extra work it took to deliver the chapter like this. I would take this “fancy” translation over a simplified version (which lost all nuance of the original) any day.
Yeah don’t worry vro I was talking about the first few comments that were complaining, if ur not a native speaker it’s of course normal that you don’t understand some words
Personal anecdotes don’t make for sound arguments.
what?
thanks for the translation.
Man, it’s hard to think about the rest of the chapter when you see these vows in between that are basically self mutalition by Petra 🙁
Yeah, those vows have escalated pretty badly
Albusters are draining the 13 year old child like a one-use AA battery. She’ll end up talking like Clind in the end, I guess.
I fancy a theory that Subaru’s self-mutilating mindset she picked up from the book is the reason she’s willing to turn into a living brick. Iirc the loop that ended with a handkerchief was way before Subaru was told to love himself.
Subaru loves himself less now than he did in 4 arc.
Figures. He didn’t have any positive reinforcement for what, three arcs now? Rem went full tsundere on him and Emilia… well, is being Emilia.
screw you
Petra Daijobu?
Very Daijobu
Amazing TL work bravo. The creative use of language to describe the black serpent was brilliant. Thankyou!
I miss the comments in chapters 34-36 a little. It was fun. One of the chapters would have had 500 comments if admins hadn’t intervened.
Jannies need to delete any opposing viewpoint. Also the series only has popularity thanks to Rem coming back. No one really reads this shounen show for 10 year olds
the fact you actually think the series has popularity because rem came back is so dumb especially when aside from a few TikTok posts literally nobody knows rem came back. Also I admit this arc isn’t really that good imo but saying the show is a shounen for ten year olds is just undermining all the lore and writing behind it.
This. Rem is extremely popular in Japan and that’ll stay the case for another decade.
Re:Zero only grabbed people’s attention during S1 and has dropped in popularity with each new season.
Maybe they need to stop the ai pornfanfics in the comments and the repeat Rem toxic hate crash out rants? I see complaints about lack of moderation then complaining about mild moderation when it happens. Not like the viewpoints haven’t been expressed very clearly repeatedly.
Nah if the commenters here want to become ghost writers for the archbishop of lust or descend into unbridled fury over Rem or whoever, they should feel free to do so. We should encourage the festering rot of the fanbase as much as we encourage the actual fans.
Nah if the commenters here want to become ghost writers for the archbishop of lust or descend into unbridled fury over Rem or whoever.
It would be much better than what were reading now
“It would be much better than what we are reading now”
Then don’t read it?
People Are allowed to read something and hate it
I am also allowed to call out how stupid and unemployed that sounds. Imagine reading just to hate, fucking pathetic.
I bet all my savings you are unemployed
I bet all my savings you are unemployed
So having a negative opinion means someone is unemployed? Wow. Idk what world you live in, but it must be an interesting one
Yeah! Only read if you think it’s peak! Like me, duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhh!!
patiently waiting for Subaru to enter the story again… : )
So Heinkel is just dead now?
gahhhh I hate being caught up! Cuz now ive gotta wait for each chapter to release, and for translations!!!!
I need something else to distract me, do you guys have any light novel recommendations?
Lord Of The Mysteries or Shadow Slave on Novel Fire (not Japanese, one is Chinese one is Russian but English speaking)
“This kid….HAS MADE HIMSELF THE AEGIS’ DRIIIIIVER!”
-Rom seething about Roy, probably
Is nobody going to mention the death of HEIKEL ??? I mean what ? Like srsly he has done nothing for his goals (for all I know).
His character arc is so incomplete it’s frustrating. Even though the character in itself is full of defaults, I think he deserved better.
But I also think he may have survived, since we are always remembered how unnaturally sturdy he is…
Or big reset is real, but I don’t think so.
Anyway, I think Heikel’s death will have a huge impact on the following events, it just has to. Otherwise… why does he exist ??
No one believed that he was dead.
he is probably gonna crawl out of the snake body later though.
SIX SEVENNN
Why don’t people understand after nine arms that Tabby always answers things in the coming chapters? I mean, something strange happened. People say it’s a cheap plot move or that Tabby broke the rules of the world, and in the next chapter, you’ll immediately find him answering why this happened logically. Also, the Petra thing, man, why don’t you want to understand that she’s no longer just a 13-year-old girl? She now has the mindset of an 18-year-old who has faced hell, has suicidal thoughts, and has experiences from another world.
Naah… They want all their questions answered in a single chapter. A bunch of ingrates lacking in basic comprehension. What exactly is so difficult in understanding that a 13yr old lived the life of an 18yr old and is now acting as such.
She does not have experiences from another world. Book of Death only cover the event in this world, the rest isn’t Od Lagma area
Look at the 5 star critiques who have shaped the world as we know it. Please invest that energy in something else and let the rest of us unrefined beasts enjoy the novel
I do get the whole flowery word thing tho… But it seems most of you complaining about that haven’t read any other book in your lives. Try reading Lord of The Mysteries for a start and watch the dictionary become your best friend. Compared to that it’s not even bad here.
Let’s all enjoy the story that’s unfolding please.
What? Have you read Lord of Mysteries? The translation is incomparablely better even with a million “lampoons.”
The LotM translation is so much better than witch cult’s Re:Zero.
I mean, come on, they are even using german words like “spritz,” “verboten”, etc.
I wanna fuck Heinkel