30 August 2016

10 nen goshi no HikiNEET o Yamete Gaishutsushitara Jitaku goto Isekai ni Ten’ishiteta. Chapter 6 Prologue

Translator Corner
This is Yukkuri demasu!

Our beloved bumbling protagonist returns!

DISCLAIMER: There is no guarantee that my translation is 100% correct. Please correct me if I was wrong.

Author:
坂東太郎 (Bandou Tarou)
Translator:
Yukkuri Oniisan
Editor, Proofreader:
So-Chintzy

Chapter 6: Yuuji Changing Jobs from “Pioneer” to “Farmer”.
Prologue

The flowers of the sakura tree in Yuuji’s house garden were in full bloom.

It was spring.

It has been 2 years since Yuuji came to this world.

This was his third spring.


Today, it seems that there was an offline camp going on at Yuuji’s former house site
It was on the same day that was presumed to be the day that Yuuji was transported to another world.
The first time that there will be a person on the former house site.

Perhaps, everyone might come here just like him.

Was it his hope? Was it his uneasiness?

Yuuji had this complex expression as he gazed at the sakura flowers illuminated by the light of the sunset.

Yuuji-nii, Sakura is beautiful!(Alice)

Sitting besides Yuuji on the porch was Alice, who had a big wide smile on her face.
Right beside her was Kotarou. She was wagging her tail back and forth, somehow she was in a good mood.[1]

Yuuji-nii, what’s wrong? Why are you making a sad face? Are you alright?(Alice)

Alice said, I will pat you, and approached Yuuji. Her small hand patted Yuuji’s head.
Alice will become 7 years old this autumn, so sometimes she gave off the air of an “onee-san”.
Kotarou was only watching over Yuuji, who made a somewhat lonely expression, with a gentle look.

Alice, thank you. Today, after eating the dinner and taking a bath, can you sleep together with Kotarou? I have something to do, so I will sleep outside tonight.(Yuuji)

Un, understand! Kotarou, today we will be together.(Alice)

Even when Alice made an expression that showed that she didn’t really understand, she nodded and greeted Kotarou. What a good child she is.
Kotarou was “woof-woof” and barked towards Alice and Yuuji with a different tone for each person . As if saying,

“Yes, it will be fun, Alice. Although I am worried for Yuuji, I will deal with it tomorrow.”

If it was the time for a retreat, then she will retreat. What a reliable woman. She is a dog, though.

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After teaching knowledge about preserved foods to the peddler Kevin in the summer, Kevin returned once more in the autumn. He supplied Yuji with goods and reported the progress.

Just like how I was taught, I have completed kneading oats, wheat, salt, water and honey into cylindrical shapes and then baked it. The storage life is shorter than we had thought, but since it has excellent taste and portability, it is popular among the peddlers and adventurers! Kevin said in enthusiastically excited mood.

Meanwhile, the smoked food met with some unexpected difficulties. Although it turned out well half-way in the smoking, the storage life and taste still left something to be desired. Since the selection of the firewood is important, Yuuji and the bulletin board’s residents couldn’t offer any advice for this.
Well, it was no wonder. After all, no one knew the traits and characteristics of the wood in this world. In any case, Kevin came to a decision to make a small prototype smoker unit. He was still experimenting with slow smoking and hot smoking methods, so the commercialization for this would need quite a time.
Kevin consumed the trial products together with wine, since he was a bit concerned about the fat in his stomach.[2]

While these two goods were reasonably doing well, canned food and bottled food were going disappointingly. As expected, creating the container were too difficult.
According to Kevin, although thin iron plates existed and could be bent, there was a need to think about a cheap way of binding them. They could do it by heating them and then striking time one by one, but ho’ muc’ th’ labor cost fer it wil’ be…… Kevin’s accent slipped out.

The glass bottle for the bottled food also had its share of troubles, the size of the bottles was not uniform and the price was also expensive. Just like what Yuuji and bulletin board’s residents expected, the hurdle for these goods was too high.

On the other hand, from autumn to winter, Yuuji smoothly made progress in opening the surrounding area around the house.
On the southern side, the 10 meters wide area from the house site to the marker rope had been cleared from trees, the eastern side also had a large amount of trees already cut down. Since the ground was covered by snow, the tree stumps still remained in the ground.

The potato-look-a-like tuber (called potato from now on), that was planted in the southern side, had already been harvested in the autumn without any problems.
With a face covered by soil, Alice was squealing delightfully, Kotarou was also unusually cheerful.
With her rear legs proudly removing the soil, helping out while not forgetting to have fun, sometimes, the tubers would come out with the soil and hit Yuuji. She didn’t do this with any ill will. Perhaps.

As a ‘Visitor’, he taught his knowledge and received food and goods as compensation.
As a pioneer, he cut the trees and cleared the land to create a farming field to procure the harvest.

Perhaps it could be said that Yuuji who had begin working spend his autumn and winter days productively.
As usual, no matter how much he practiced, he could only use Light Magic.

Then, the third year’s spring arrived.

After receiving a report about the offline meeting, Yuji spent the night in the garden without sleeping.

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Yuuji-nii, good morning!(Alice)

Alice cheerfully greeted Yuuji who was squatting in the garden.

Perhaps she had noticed something.
Kotorou was howling, “Wau-wau” while rushed over to Yuuji.

“Ah it’s morning? Morning, Alice”, Yuuji greeted feebly.

Yuuji-ni, what’s wrong!? Are you crying? Are you alright?(Alice)

Following Kotarou, Alice also rushed over to the squatting Yuuji and hugged his head in her hands.

Thank you Alice. That’s right, I am not alone. Kotarou is also here. I need to live properly. In this world.(Yuuji)

Yuuji spoke with a frail voice and hugged Alice and Kotarou.

Yes.
In the end, there was no one that came from Japan.
It’s not like he hadn’t expect this to happen, but this reality made him feel lonely.

Feeling the warmth from a little girl and dog inside his embrace, Yuuji had calmed down at last.

Alright! Then, let’s take a bath together and refresh ourselves!

“Eh? But it’s still in the morning, Yuuji-nii” although Alice said these words, she wasn’t completely dissatisfied as she made a big wide smile.
“Can’t be helped, right?” Kotaro also yielded while making a bark.


This was the first day of the third year since he came to this world.

Then, somehow or another, a man and his two female harem members entered the bath.

The females are just a little girl and a dog, though.

☾☽☾☽☾☽☾☽☾☽☾☽☾☽☾☽☾☽☾☽


Thus began Yuuji’s third turbulent year…




[1] The word is Gokigenご機嫌, the same word used for the standard Ojou-sama greeting. Kotarou is a Lady after all.
[2] Fun FACT: Eating red meat and wine together could reduce cholesterol and fat absorption in the intestine. But please remember to drink moderately, alright.

14 comments:

  1. thank you oniisan :) i love this slice of life novel the best

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  2. Will Yuuji turn into a real MC?!
    Find out next time in Dragonball Neet!

    Thnx for the chappy~ Nanodesu~

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  3. Manly tears. Stay strong Yuuji, for Alice and for Kotarou

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  5. I have expected this, but still feels disappointed desu!!

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  6. eh ? kotarou really a female ? oh my...

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    1. She is not a female but a GREAT female, with all her care for yuji and her inteligence she would be a great house wife. She is a dog though.

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  7. Goukigen'you, you say?
    https://youtu.be/nGHr_UvbfOU?t=9m

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  8. Thanks for the chapter. A nice read even if it ended on a melancholy note.

    Tests I would have Yuuji do:

    Put a small scratch in the built-in bathroom mirror to see if it repairs itself.

    Break a hole in the interior wall of the garage, take out 3 pieces of the wall. Place 1 piece on the table in front of the TV, give 1 to Alice and hold onto the 3rd piece. Have Alice stay on the property and walk off outside the shield with my piece. Check what happens.

    Does the mirror repair itself? Does the hole in the wall repair itself? Does it use the pieces taken away? Both the 1 not in someones possesion, the 1 held by someone on the property and the 1 held by someone outside the property.

    If the mirror repairs itself and pieces carried away are repaired by replacement then its possible to make an unlimited amount of mirrors. Chances of it working are kind of low though.

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    1. That's a really good test in my opinion. I think the key parts are how the repair works - whether or not it creates new material and whether the mirror is counted as part of the houses structure.

      I think it's unfortunately unlikely though. When he recorded the first hole being repaired people said it was as if the video was reversed. So I think it takes the old material and puts it back. Really, we would be able to tell the difference to a certain degree if we could see that video...

      The Internet is still the most interesting part for me. Normally a modem trying to connect through the Internet with nonsensical connection configurations will be blocked by the Internet Service Provider. Really his service should have been disconnected when he stopped paying the bill... Which I'm assuming he hasn't paid. Even then, they'd be able to tell his signals are coming from nowhere. The fact that he still has service is peculiar. It has to be that the magic is connecting him in such a way that the ISP can't tell anything is amiss.

      He can't see where his signal is going on his end... But there has to be an earth side origin somewhere. It'd be proof of magic if the signal origin is nonsensical yet functional.

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  9. 3rd year in another world without elf girl, beast girl or female knight. Of course he would cry.
    Even if he is in the middle of nowhere, then at least monster girl. It weird that there are no NEET ask about monster girl.

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