Chapter 402: The City of Brixt
Translated by Zzonkedd
Edited by Gumihou
Gumi: This is going to be one of those big delete chapters, Gumi could feel it. Out with the [5]!
[8]
“So that’s Brixt? As expected of a dungeon city, it’s quite huge.”
“We’re finally here, even though we could have been here earlier,” [7] grumbled Fer.
“Stop that, you have to take me into consideration when it comes to travelling time!”
[8]In fact, I’m pretty sure if Fer had gone faster, I’d most likely have peed on him out of fear and anxiety. [6] That would create a separate problem in and of itself.
In fact, we arrived here from Carelina in just 3 weeks. Normally, it would take a carriage two months to reach here.
[8] ““Enough about that, let’s go! The dungeon awaits us!”” [7] Dora-chan crowed. [8] “Mu, that’s right. We’re finally going to a high-difficulty dungeon. I plan to have great fun.” [3] Eyes glittering, Fer stepped forward, towards the walls of the city. [6] Away from the line that snaked out from the city entrance.“Hold it! Hold it! Hold it!” [7] I shouted at my two familiars.
They looked at me disgruntledly.
“What is it?”
“”Yeah, what is it? We’re finally going to the dungeon, right?””
“No, I mean, you two are ignoring the line and planning to jump right into the city, aren’t you? You can’t do that.”
“Gununu…”
[8]“”Tsch, must we really line up?”
“Yes, you know you should.”
“It takes too much time to line up just to enter a city. I had only been doing so because master ordered it. Otherwise, I, a great Fenrir, would never have done it.”
“So? You’re saying that as a Fenrir you can just come and go as you like?”
“Of course, it’s not like those puny humans could stop me,” [3] Fer just stood there, his expression proud, and very much in keeping with his identity as The Legendary Beast Fenrir.
I sighed.
[8] “Fer, do you want to go to war with this country? If you just jump in without following their procedures, the country will declare you an enemy of the state and never allow you access to the dungeon.”“Mumu…”
[8] ““Humph, it’s not like anyone could stop me if I want to sneak in, right?”” declared Dora-chan. “”I can just fly over the wall and be inside just like that!””I sighed again. [5]
Time to use logic to suppress these two.
[8] “Fer, Dora-chan, have you seen other beings that looked like you in any of the cities we have been to? You stand out too much, anyone would know you’ve entered illegally. Even if the soldiers can’t chase you out, they won’t let you into the dungeon. In fact, if you’re declared an enemy of the country, you wouldn’t be allowed inside the country, let alone the dungeon inside the country.”“Gu…”
“Therefore, it’s best to just line up properly. It will take a little time, but formal procedures are there for a reason. Once we’re in, we can explore the dungeon to your heart’s content.”
My two familiars grumbled, but they eventually made their way to the end of the line and lined up properly like good citizens.
[8] When others on the line saw them, there was a bit of fuss, but I managed to placate most of them by proclaiming, “Hello, hello, these are my familiars! Haha…”Anyway, there was a rather wide gap between my party and the others lining up for the gate. [1] When we finally arrived at the gate, a high-ranking soldier came up to greet us nervously, “Welcome to the City of Brixt. Please, enjoy your stay.”
Looks like word from the Royal Palace had reached here as well.
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“”Aruji~ dungeon~?”
Looks like my Sui-tan is also very excited about going to the dungeon.
“Hmm, it’s a bit too late today. Tomorrow, I’ll be busy cooking and making travel food for our trip. So, we’ll go the day after tomorrow.”
“Nanu?! Even if we can’t go today, why did it have to be two days from now?”
“”Yeah! Yeah! We’ve arrived, so let’s goo!!!”” [5] [4] “Well, it took us a long time to pick out a house and …”
[9] I rented a huge 15LDK house for 100 gold per week. It can’t be helped since the dungeon is said to be quite profitable, which resulted in many teams of Adventurers coming in to stay. I got the mansion because the price was too ridiculous for most people. I justify the rent by thinking of it as a way to revitalize the economy.“Tomorrow! Just go tomorrow!” [5]
“”Yeah! We’re already in the city, let’s just goo! [5]””
“”Sui wants to go to the dungeon soon~~””
[8]“Hmm, but, you know? Once we enter the dungeon, we can’t get out quickly. [5] So, what should we do about food? What should I do when you all complained about bad food?”
“Gu… that’s true, but… just make it in the dungeon! Don’t you have lots of meat?”
“”Yeah! Make it in the dungeon!!”” [5]
“I could, but I won’t be able to use [Net Super] without exposing myself in front of the other Adventurers. Unless you all are fine with food that isn’t as tasty, and don’t require the [Net Super]…” [5]
““Absolutely not! I want delicious food even in the dungeon!””
“”Sui too~!””
“[5] Humph, if you’re afraid of being seen, isn’t it a simple thing to just make food in a location with no other people? It’s a difficult dungeon, surely there are bound to be plenty of such places.”
“”Yeah! What Fer says! I can fly around and scout for a people-free place too!””
Sui suddenly bounced on top of Fer’s head and declared, “”Sui wants to go to the dungeon soon~!””
“Haahhh… yes, fine, alright. We’ll go to the dungeon tomorrow. Happy now?”
“Umu, of course.”
“”Ou! Yes!!””
“”Dungeon~ dungeon~””
My familiars were all expressing their joy [5] in their own way even as I sighed.
“Right, now that it’s been decided. Let’s eat something good. That’s right, feed us Other World food. I will become stronger from Other World food.”
“Rejected.”
“Whaat? Why?!”
“You are all overpowered already, I don’t want to think of a world with three overpowered battle maniacs running around.”
There was a series of awws, and pouting. However, I refused to give in. Sui, I won’t give in even if you tremble at me like that. [5a]
I sighed, “I can’t give you Other World food, but how about something meaty that will give you plenty of energy instead?”
Fortunately, I still have plenty of meat from Rosendal’s meat dungeon.
[Gumihou: Okay, so I took 400 words out. It was mostly from the obvious ‘add words to stretch chapter’ bits. So, nyeh, I’m sure no one will miss it.]
[1] Structural Change: Combine 2 paragraphs [2] Structural Change: Combine 3 paragraphs [3] Structural Change: Combine paragraph & dialogue [4] Structural Change: Change passive sentence to dialogue [5] Delete Repetitive or Pointless Information… starting to delete pointless scenes now [a] Deleted flat comedic scene of haha, we’re all overpowered, rawrr [6] Additional Information for Aesthetic Purpose [7] Add Dialogue Tag [8] Creative Licence Taken – More natural sounding dialogues [9] Summarise 292 words of ‘picking out house info’ to 62 words
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He could’ve baited them with food stalls, he keeps thinking of his money “problem”
Nah, he’s the problem
I’ve been mostly reading Chinese and Korean translated novels and I forgot how the Japanese like to repeat the same sentence or thought 100 different ways until I read an un-Gumihou-edited Japanese translated novel. I’m reminded of how much work you do to make this more enjoyable. Thank you very much!
The repeats are so tedious that I mostly skim them and then rewrite the whole thing.
Do you really read Chinese light novels? oh my god, for me Chinese light novels are the worst genre of trash, pirated stories with characters with nonsense personalities that contradict themselves…, if I had to rank it between 3 countries I will always put Japan and Korea light novels above China
There are trash, but there are gems too. In terms of ratio, so long as you avoid the CEO Trope, the Poison Doctor/Female Trope, the Cold ML Trope, what’s leftover tended to be good. Especially the BL since the standard copy cats haven’t damaged that side so much. Although I had the misfortune of encountering this suuuuper horrible-toxic-clingy-hot-n-cold BL omegaverse story that included, but not limited to betrayal, brainwashing, imprisonment, crying ML, multiple second male leads, amnesia trope, and naturally, the rich CEO who never seemed to work at all.
Frankly speaking, I rank Japanese novels last.
Sorry Japan, I love you, but too many writers tended to jump onto a successful trope ship and sink the damn thing to the bottom.
The Isekai into Otome Villainess Game is the best example. A whole lot of Bakarina copy cats cropped up after that.
*Cough* Dragon Ball *Cough*
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Thanks for the treat. 👍
I don’t remember the author explaining whether or not a magician’s familiars can legally wander a city or dungeon without the magician around.
Well, in Chapter 9, Mukouda was repeatedly warned that he would be responsible for Fer if anything happens to the city. So, I guess Mukouda interpreted it as ‘Do NOT ever let familiars out of sight or I’ll be responsible if they make trouble’.
Hmm, it’s a bit uncool how Mukoda keeps trying to delay the dungeon play. He really should let them go without him at least for a couple hours or one day, while he cooks some meals and later they can go together. He’s asking for some payback from a couple overpowered pets…
Thanks for the chapter! Awesome translation! May God bless you!
Very uncool, I wanted to see some action too!
His personality has changed a lot. Whining. So fearful that his relationship with Fenrir has become almost toxic. Trolling these poor companions by delaying the dungeon dive like what 5 times now. Even the ‘plot device’ handed by Kami-sama, he has negative interest in and hiding the fact.
Well, it’s in keeping with his whine, whine, whine, please nope, attitude.
So, toxic or not, it’s still in character.
I felt like the MC was actually starting to enjoy himself half way through, but that seems to have subsided :p