Chapter 199: The Sea and Makoto are doing well

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“I have been nailed down…”

The contact of Limia was as expected.

They unreservedly called me regarding the schedule.

Come as fast as possible(in the time that Senpai is at Lorel), and my thoughts were splendidly shot down.

They probably have a lot of things to prepare, so the date and times that were proposed were all reasonable.

The fastest one will probably have Senpai in Limia already.

In that case, I feel like I will have Mio stay.

Luckily, we have the sea, so she probably won’t get bored. That part is a saving.

“Well, it is good that a day has been decided. It will clear one pain after all.” (Makoto)

Deliberately voicing it out, I make myself think that something good has happened.

With this, the troublesome country visits will be over.

It seems like Rembrandt-san is doing his moves, so the Aion Kingdom isn’t calling me.

I have interest in Lorel Union, so I actually want to visit it once.

Maybe because the Goddess is being docile, the Church seems to be docile as well.

I just have to endure a bit more.

Even so, the talk finished faster than anticipated.

The reason was because I compromised fast though.

I am slightly interested in the details of the growth of Jin’s group, but returning to the Academy is just…

Yeah, let’s confirm the work in Asora.

I take out the documents I wanted from the desk.

Shiki puts together the documents that I should be seeing, so it is a great help.

“For now, it seems like the races that will be going to the sea have been decided.” (Makoto)

I turn over the documents.

This time, before having an interview with me, I had Tomoe and the others do a trial and have them do a survival for a set period of time.

It may sound excessive when calling it survival, but the point is, it is just to try living there.

Even if I say sea, the environment is varied, and we will test if the various races are actually able to live in the sea of Asora.

Tomoe is the one in charge of this trial and she is also the advisor.

So long as there’s no excessive actions in the period of time she is in charge, she doesn’t need to show herself.

“It would be ideal if there are races that can accommodate in land as well though.” (Makoto)

As expected, things won’t go so smoothly.

The large sized aquatic demonic beasts are far from being able to relate to land.

And the mermaids are fish at their lower half.

Even if they are hyuman-like, it is obvious at a glance that even trying to walk would be a difficulty.

In terms of race, the Lorelei that seem to be a variety of demons have hyuman shaped bodies, so instead of in the sea, they live close to the sea, which makes them able to adapt easily to land.

The reversed race that has hyuman limbs and fish body are able to run in land as well.

Because of that, the name of the race is Neptune Sea Lord. I feel like their very existence is a joke already.

There’s also a race called Sahuagin that is half hyuman-like, and even when it is not their specialty, they are able to move in land.

About them, what left the most impression was actually the plate that was shining at their head.

I thought they were kappa. Sea kappas.

And so, While having the races that can go in both land and water at the port, it would be ideal if they were to interact with the other races that are only able to live in the sea.

I thought that it would be nice if that port and my house were to interact with a certain town.

And so, I left the detailed parts to Tomoe and the others.

“Mermaids, Lorelei, Sahuagin, and Neptunes. Sea horses, Kelpie, Sea Serpents, Blue Moons…” (Makoto)

When I confirm them in order, I could tell that there were quite a lot.

There are more than 10 races.

It is not like they are competing for a spot in the migration, so as long as they are able to adapt to the sea of Asora, I don’t mind having them all migrate.

And as long as there’s no clear hostility between the races.

The sea is vast, so they are able to find a place to live anywhere.

If they are preyed upon, or are about to become prey by the living beings that were originally in that sea, I can just have them retire.

Will I have to do an interview with all the races, or are all the races going to retire?

…No, the latter would be problematic, so I want them to do their best.

◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆

A pleasant report came in.

Almost all the races that are trying to live in the sea are able to adapt to the lifestyle of Asora.

There were about two races that retired because they felt danger towards the sharks and giant octopuses that were originally there, but it seems like most of the races are able to safely live.

At this rate, we will be able to obtain residents for both the cold sea and the warm sea.

Asora has a lot of land compared to the population.

This also applies to the sea, so if they live in a lot of places and gather information, there’s nothing I would be more grateful for.

It would be incredibly troublesome if we were to investigate every nook and cranny by ourselves after all.

“And well, it seems like all in all, there’s no problem. There’s also people that are beginning to communicate with the pre-existing living beings there. The fear we had about quarrels between races has not occurred.”

With no real problem, Tomoe finishes her report.

“That’s great. It is regrettable for the races that retired, but tell them that if there’s a time when they need the Kuzunoha Company, we will cooperate.” (Makoto)

“I have already told them. If a problem were to occur at hyuman territory, we will hear them out.” (Tomoe)

“As expected. Is Sari doing well?” (Makoto)

“Because it is her first job, she is full of vigor. There’s no strange movements.” (Tomoe)

“I see.” (Makoto)

A few days have passed since my lecture at the Academy.

The migration test in Asora has been progressing smoothly.

It is peaceful like the calm of the sea.

“By the way Waka, I heard from Shiki that the students of Rotsgard have grown quite a lot.” (Tomoe)

“Hm, ah yeah. It is impressive. Every single one of them have become great. It feels like it would be overdoing it if we were to train them as we first planned, so…I think that it would be okay to let them be on the teaching side.” (Makoto)

“The teaching side, is it? They will probably come pestering that they want to become even stronger though.” (Tomoe)

“There’s growth in teaching as well. Also, even if they want to become stronger, they are already the strongest in the Academy, you know? If we are talking about the same year, they are easily the strongest. There’s no need to train them more than this and increase the difference, right? I think that they will be able to contribute plenty enough in a war between hyumans, or against most of any fight against other races.” (Makoto

“…I see. I am slightly interested, so do you mind if I have Shiki show me the information later?” (Tomoe)

“Of course it is fine. Just don’t go doing any weird interference with the students, okay? Because you trained Misura, he has learned some weird power after all.” (Makoto)

“I will be careful.” (Tomoe)

Seriously.

Tomoe training Misura became the trigger, and Jin and the others have grown an incredible lot.

Every one of them learned a special ability fit for them, and made their own trait more prominent, and the result was that they have gotten stronger.

When they were in Rotsgard Academy, they were originally kids with talent.

When someone aims high, in a sense, it is normal for them to grow.

When thinking that way, Shiki and I only helped out in it.

I will only have the new students increase their levels to where Jin’s group is, and after, I will just let them grow up on their own and they will most likely become plenty strong.

As a teacher, I have found a standard of how strong I will train my students and am doing well.

Truly good.

“Then Tomoe, do you have time now?” (Makoto)

“Again? I have to look after the races that want to migrate, so I think that it would be hard to accompany you today.” (Tomoe)

“…I see.” (Makoto)

Too bad.

“Reproducing the environment of Waka’s world tired me a lot after all. The next time I am available would be the day before Waka leaves for Limia. Sorry.” (Tomoe)

“Understood. I know that I am asking for too much when you are busy after all. It is fine.” (Makoto)

“…Ah, Waka, do you have time?” (Tomoe)

Tomoe?

Tomoe suddenly makes a bitter face as she asks me.

Ah, thought transmission huh.

I want to learn how to skillfully utilize thought transmission while speaking as well.

It is hard to concentrate in both of them.

If I am able to do something about it by practicing, I should try.

“What? Is it thought transmission?” (Makoto)

“Yes, it was from Lime.” (Tomoe)

“Heh~, he was together with Senpai and her group, right? What did he say?” (Makoto)

“…Yeah, it wasn’t anything big. It seems like that purple cloud didn’t disappear completely with what we did the other day.” (Tomoe)

“…As I thought. I felt like the resistance was way too thin. It hasn’t been that long since then. Is it already doing evil?” (Makoto)

“Yes. And it seems that Lime and Hibiki are currently dealing with it, but it seems like it is not going well.” (Tomoe)

“Even Hibiki-senpai?” (Makoto)

“Seems so.” (Tomoe)

I can’t believe it.

Even though it is Hibiki-senpai.

Even though she should be able to do something about an opponent of that level.

Is it because her methods of long ranged attacks are low?

She does use a sword after all.

“I said that I would be helping Lorel, and yet, it was so half-baked. That’s not cool. Troubling Senpai would be bad, so I will do something about it.” (Makoto)

“…Can I leave it to you?” (Tomoe)

“Yeah. Just that, I think it will be useless to deal with that group with the previous method. The response was thin after all. I do have something in mind, but I have to get relatively close or I feel like it won’t work.” (Makoto)

I would like to at least get an approximate location of it.

“Then how about using the strategy that the winged-kin utilized in last time’s mock battle with Waka? The one about sharing information with a third party from a faraway location.” (Tomoe)

“Ah, I see. It will definitely be useful. Let’s go with that. Then I will have to move to a location where I can aim.” (Makoto)

“There’s a mountain with good view. It has a bit of distance from the location, but if it’s Waka, there shouldn’t be any problems, right?” (Tomoe)

“I do have Azusa and magic after all. I actually don’t have to worry about range.” (Makoto)

“Well then, go ahead. I will send the winged-kin there, so while confirming with the information share, try to tackle it.” (Tomoe)

“Understood.” (Makoto)

“Waka.” (Tomoe)

“What?” (Makoto)

“Lime and the hero are floating close to that area, so I don’t mind if you gift them a few shots, you know? Especially to Lime.” (Tomoe)

“Why do I have to do something like that to Lime?” (Makoto)

Calling me to a stop when I was about to enter the created gate with Azusa in one hand, she said something strange.

“…That’s because he has slacking slightly you see, so I thought that it would help for discipline.” (Tomoe)

“You say some scary things.” (Makoto)

“It could serve as good motivation to Hibiki, you know?” (Tomoe)

“I don’t want to. If it gets discovered later, just how do you think we would be able to apologize? Seriously.” (Makoto)

“…Have a safe trip.” (Tomoe)

“Yeah, I will return soon.” (Makoto)

The other side of the gate was as stated, the summit of a mountain.

Truly a panorama of 360° degrees.

What a superb view.

And in the faraway sky, there’s one clearly visible thing.

I could tell that that purple stain was the problematic cloud.

“It has become quite big. It is not as big as before though.” (Makoto)

I prepare my bow.

I set an arrow.

The target cloud is quite a distance away, but maybe because I am using magic simultaneously since coming to this world, I don’t feel like I will miss.

I have stopped worrying about whether it will reach or not.

If I can see it, I can hit it.

I am beginning to naturally think in this way.

Just that, in the case of that cloud, it is a united form of many individuals, so I feel like I can’t consider it as just a single enemy.

It is something that I felt after reflecting on last time though.

“Now then, the link with the winged-kin…” (Makoto)

While I wait for the arrival of the winged-kin, I could tell that they appeared at a place a bit further away from the purple cloud.

Two huh.

A thought transmission soon came from them, and asked for confirmation if it’s okay to send information.

Of course, I said okay.

After finishing a short thought transmission and waiting for a bit, a strange scenery as if looking at the purple cloud from a closer place appeared in my mind.

What was in my eyes was the cloud far in the distance, and the gap between distances made me feel slightly nauseated.

It was as if looking at it from afar, and at the same time, looking at it from a monitor.

But if I get used to it, it might be convenient.

Thanks to it, I was able to clearly tell where Hibiki-senpai, her comrade magician, and Lime were floating.

‘I will give you the coordinates’, is the follow-up report that came from the winged-kin.

The scenery of where the cloud and Senpai’s group were, was shown to me like a grid, and several numbers appeared.

Hmph~.

So this is how the winged-kin exchange information with each other and getting their aim huh.

It is certainly easy to understand.

It is not that necessary for me who snipes by relying on my senses, but I think that it is an advantage to erase the measurement errors in the attack.

I give my thanks to the winged-kin and tell them to be in standby.

“I will pierce that purple cloud in my sight. At that scenery that’s in my mind, I only pierce the cloud.” (Makoto)

It was a mysterious feeling.

It was the same sensation as aiming straight.

But at the same time, it was as if I was placing my aim at the scenery in the monitor.

In my time at Japan, this would be an incredible stunt, and yet, I was able to lock the target.

No, not yet.

It is no good to just avoid Senpai’s group.

And it is also no good to just pierce through the part that seems to be the cloud’s core.

More, more, more, more…

Concentrating in each live that comprises the cloud, I target everything of it, all the links.

Not shooting vaguely.

And for that sake…

“…”

While maintaining my concentrated state, I lower the arrow I set up.

This time, I won’t use this one.

What I need right now is not an arrow, but a catalyst for my spell.

To pierce through several targets at once, I need both archery and magic.

From the variety of arrows that I had the Eldwas make, I choose an arrow that has the most ability to inject magic power in, and once again, I set it up.

An amber colored arrow.

“Avoiding Senpai’s group, I will pierce the core, and kill all the clouds in a chain.” (Makoto)

The cloud that appears in my mind is being filled with countless numbers of aims.

I can do it.

I silently release my arrow.

For a while, the arrow continued on as a normal arrow, but the amber arrow soon broke, and in exchange, it turned into a big mass of light that could take up the whole field of vision, and flew towards the purple cloud.

And then, after a while, the mass of light bursts.

Okay, I did it!

Avoiding Senpai’s group, it pierces through the core of the cloud, and at the same time, it pierced through the scattered portions that I placed my aim on. I could tell that it was effective.

I have killed it.

Different from last time, this time I actually felt it.

“Fuh~, I have defeated it.” (Makoto)

It seems like the winged-kin have witnessed it as well.

They face this way and are flying here.

Even though one is carrying the other, they are incredibly fast.

Thanks to their help, my possibilities with the arrow increased more.

I am happy.

I felt like I once again confirmed that the bow is something irreplaceable for me.

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  • This pace is really unreal now. I have to be checking everyday now to tell now confuse i'm becoming to the release. DON'T GET ME WRONG!! IT'S NOT LIKE I'M COMPLAINING OR ANYTHING BUT JUST CONCERN FOR OUR TRANSLATOR..... Unnecessary concerns right?

    • well you can also go to novelupdates.com for your novel update needs though it doesn't show any notes like patch 2.0 from reigokai.

  • Wow, you really read each of those 600 comments? That's a lot.

    Nothing much to say about this chapter per se. Since its just showing another POV (Makoto's) of the previous chapter.

    But that race, fish that is humanoid.... they remind me of the fishes in spongebob lol, the inhabitants of Bikini Bottom. I totally agree with Makoto, they really is like a joke, I giggled a bdit at that part.

    Thanks as always Reigokai. You're the man.

  • Thanks for the chapter Reigokai San.
    The chapter was great. The makoto arrow of light sound just like beam cannon from the animation vandread but more powerful and Super accurate.

  • 1) Thanks for the translation

    2) I was just thinking that Makoto could be called the Devil King Makoto b/c he has his own world that is filling up with non-hyumans that the Goddess and her followers would treat as a hellish place (not b/c of the training).
    3) I am waiting for a evil 3rd party God/Goddess to show up and Makoto saves the Bug-Goddess from the being. Not to mention an epic war where the heroes are force to serve under him.

    4) Finally, it has been bothering me, and nobody seems interested, about how there were demons that actually rather stay as slaves in the Goddess' world rather than fight for their lives. I mean it seems that they could actually win even with the two "heroes" being there. So anybody have any thoughts on the topic?

    • I don't really know what to say about those demons. Their leader seemed to be a noble, so maybe he wanted to hand the demon race over as slaves so long as he was able to be their leader? I just don't know.

    • Ooo...an invading, actual evil god could be a nice development.

      The goddess supporters isn't going to be a threat as far as we know though. Rona is practically the leader after anyone above her got killed in the incident. She's fanatically loyal to Zef (more so than to a demon king), so they'll be fine as long as Zef is in charge.

      • Elder gods/things are final boss material anything else are just bonus fights. Speaking of Elder gods Makoto is Similar to the Dreamer Azathoth. The moment Makoto wakes up from that certain maddening Dream, we all knew Bug was screwed in the near future(Kinda like when Azathoth wakes up everything ends).

        • I think the problem is that lovecraftian beings are by nature, irresistible and ridiculously powerful. Creating stories that feature them risk either turning the eldritch creatures into jokes, or unrelatable characters that we can't comprehend.

      • Though, Psychronia, I think that the "not being able to comprehend them" is an essential part of what lovecraftian cosmic horror is.

        You do however have a point. While it's awesome, not all narratives are fit to put cosmic horrors in them. After all, if the lovecraftian elements are done right, then it takes over almost everything else int he story if the author isn't careful enough. That, or it just ends up as lackluster.

        • The way I see it, there are only three ways to feature a creature of that nature without the writing suffering from it. The first option is to weaken the creature. Either by making it not entirely "present" other than through some smaller medium, or by putting it at a really weak stage of its life-reincarnation into the body of something weak, perhaps.

          The second option is to make the main character the creature and just leave the side effects unnoticed, much like Makoto and his out-flowing mana early on.

          Lastly, there's the Nyaruko route where you just make it no particularly big deal and play it for laughs.

          Huh...I'm suddenly reminded of a story I wrote as a kid that was my stab at the horror genre, where I made a MC that hunted horror story creatures because he was himself an immortal with a soul too horrifying to look at. It ended up leaning towards slice-of-life + philisophy.

          • I'm fairly certain that something I had in my Rebirth story on my site could be considered an eldritch creature. I never named it as such, just a being from a dead universe seeking to conquer ours. The only thing I used it for was the catalyst for a freak accident of nature that resulted in something unheard of.

      • By the way, what's your favorite lovecraftian entity(or entities) in video games?
        Mine is from the Elder Scrolls series. There are several choices within the lore, but I'd have to choose between either Sithis, Hermaeus Mora, and Sheogorath as my 3 favorites. Though, technically speaking, Lorkhan as well as all of the Aedras and Daedras fit the bill as well. Oh, and also the Hists primordial hive minded trees as well.

        • Kirby! :D

          ...Okay, okay. Without being cute about it, I honestly don't know many video games with those kinds of creature, since I'm really no good with horror. Anything I know would be the more mainstream ones like Mass Effect's villains, Chzo from the John Defoe Tetra-logy, and the Nameless God from Salt and Sanctuary are what come to mind.

          • Now that I think about it... I really wouldn't want to meet a being like Kirby... That's terrifying. I 100% consider his existence to be of an eldritch kind.

          • Oh, yeah. I realized after watching a streamer play Kirby for the first time.

            Facts about Kirby:
            1. It eats ANYTHING.
            2. Almost every final boss of its games is an eldritch creature in its own right. Which Kirby usually kills with stolen superpowers.
            3. Kirby is still just a baby...

          • Wait.. Kirby is still just a baby? Oh god... Here's a theory: An adult fully grown form of Kirby should be able to absorb a planet or a sun easily, and should be counted as a cosmic entity.

          • I mean... literally absorbing things far larger than himself... I've always jokingly thought of him have a black hole inside of him... but now I seriously think that his insides are similar to a black hole, and to a supermassive black hole when fully grown. (By the way, the center of our galaxy(Milky Way) is a gigantic supermassive black hole around which everything else in our galaxy orbit. Imagine that power possible to be used/released at will to absorb anything.)

          • Well, Kirby will never develop into an adult and we'll probably never see anyone of the same race other than Meta Knight, so we can just use our imaginations for that.

            I don't remember why, but I remember being under the impression that rather than a black hole, Kirby's stomach simply connected to a pocket dimension(I guess kinda like Asora).

          • Oh, and by the way, completely unrelated, but did you read all of the POV chapters? I just now read the Tsukiyomi POV chapter(also known as the 4th prologue chapter) again(the last time I read it was when there where only 70 translated chapters). I feel that I now understand much more of that chapter's content. And things get even more interesting when reading the newly translated Side Story 3, which is from the perspective of Susanoo.

            Here's the link for the new side story if you haven't read it yet:
            https://www.lightnovelbastion.com/release.php?p=394

            Both chapters are from the point of view of the gods, and they mostly take place on Earth.

      • Psychronia, about that pov and that side story, some of the things I really like in them are the following:

        -After reading the new side story, we can finally understand what the goddess meant in the Tsukiyomi pov(aka prologue 4) when she called him a "mere moon god".

        -I had completely forgotten something very important about the goddess. In the Tsukiyomi pov, it's stated by him that the Goddess is a goddess of creation(though she wasn't always one, it being more of a recent(from the perspective of gods) thing). Back when it was first translated, we had no way to understand how big of deal that is. But ever since the Root and creation magic incident with Makoto(plus the latest visit of Shiva), we now understand what it means. Since it has been such a long time sine I had read that pov, and since Shiva said that most gods don't even have creation magic, I had thought that the bug goddess was included among those who didn't have creation magic. I now know I was wrong and this now makes much more sense as to why such a bitch of goddess has so much influence.

        -Now I also realize that somehow, Tsukiyomi and Makoto are very similar to each other. Both grew up under two siblings more prominent than them, and with a similar relationship between all of them. Both are considered weird for their concentration and the amount of work they get done(kinda). Both are underestimated by the bug goddess(and other gods(since the goddess has allies and also because most gods made fun of Tsukiyomi being a moon god thinking his job to be an easy one when it in fact was one of the hardest one). And both of them hae very similar overall attitude.^^

  • Tomoe is still working hard to preserve Makoto's "purity" as always. Otsukaresama, Tomoe-san.. Good work for you..

  • Spoiler?
    From what I have gathered from reading the comments, 4th contract will be on lorel?

    Thanks for the chap reigokai-sama..
    I check the site 3 times a day everyday..lol

    • Daikokuten-sama already spoiled us of the existence of a 4th follower.. at least we haven't been spoiled of their identity ... yet..

      • the only ones that can qualify are root and zef, but if its true its in the Lorel Union it could be Chiya with her Mana larger than the heroes but that would be a long shot

      • hmm...that is kind of a strach how ever it do's not mean they don't meat the 4th there for they found Shiki at the tree onger village.
        so ether they bump in to the 4th or they had to fight 4th.

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