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Minasan Oidemasu! This is Yukkuri demasu!
Let the Mystery Science Theatre begin again!
Also, due to credit card limit, I could only order half the LNs for now.The rest will be purchased at the end of the month.
The LNs are: Jui-san no Oshigoto in Isekai Volume 1-3, Takarakuji Vol.7,Hiki-NEET Vol. 4, and The Diary of a Raising Child Wiseman.
As always,
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Plus, if youwant to thank someone go to the guys at Ainushi Translation who give me the RAWfor this LN. They’re the real MVPs.
Author:
みのろう (Minorou)
Translator:
Yukkuri Oniisan!
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Prologue
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Part 2
Qua-ToynePrinc.i.p.ality. Trade City Maihark.
The Qua-Toyne Princ.i.p.ality was a country located at thenortheast of Rodenius Continent.
The region that was blessed by the G.o.ddess of theLand, in spite of being fertile, was a hard place for weeds to grow. Even ifthe edible herbs or grains were neglected and didn’t get any human’s attention,they would grow steadily. A country with food self-sufficiency rate far above 100%,where water and food are free, and where even the livestock could eat deliciousfood.
At the northeast of this agricultural nation lies the TradeCenter City, Maihark. The antiquated shops building lined up at the paved mainstreet at the center of the city where carriages and landbirds hustled andbustled with overflowing liveliness.
With a large bang, a door was opened, where a woman inher mid-20’s rushed out with alarmed expression. The woman was wearing anarmor, sword at her waist and bow at her back.
Behind the woman who began to run with such vigor, therewere people, who seemed to be her subordinates, following her.
In contrast with the peaceful city scenery, everymember was donning their armor and nervousness enveloped their expression.
They were running towards the top of the buildinglocated at the corner of Maihark Castle.
「Ha…Ha… Ha…」
These people, who rushed up to the top of the buildingwhile heavily clad in armor, started to look at the sky while regaining theirbreath.
The Captain of Maihark Defense Knight Corps, Ine[1],remembered the report from the 6th Flying Dragon Squadron and ordered hersubordinates.
「Before long, the unidentified object will arrive on Maihark’s airs.p.a.ce!According to the 6th Flying Dragon Squadron’s report, the unidentified objectwill come intruding with speed faster than a wyvern. All hands, take your position!」
Every member of the Knight Corps nocked an arrow at thebow held in their left hand and once again looked towards the sky.
Ine shifted her eyes between the watchtowers at thecity’s 4 directions as every Knight had a.s.sumed their position.
She began to rea.s.sess the situation. According to thereport, with its speed and alt.i.tude, the unidentified object had shaken off the6th Flying Dragon Squadron that this country proud of. Typically, the air toground attack method of a flying dragon was only by firing a breath from itsmouth. This was because the flying dragon was surprisingly couldn’t carry any heavyobjects. If it was only a single unit that came to this place, then even if itattacked, there wouldn’t be any major damage. She guessed that perhaps the enemy’sobjective was to conduct a reconnaissance.
However, what in the world is that object that evencouldn’t be pursued even by flying dragons?
To easily fly above the height ceiling of the flyingdragon, what a fearsome existence. Then before long, that object will appear inthe sky above Trade City Maihark.
Ine was observing the sky really carefully.
「It comes‼」
The Knight at the east building, who was watching theeastern direction, loudly yelled.
Everyone immediately turned towards that direction.
The sand grain like object, before long showed itstrue nature. While giving out a faint whirring sound that they never heardbefore, the flying object arrived at Maihark’s sky.
The object slowed down and circling around at thealt.i.tude that no bow could reach.
The whitish object was bigger than wyvern, then theunflapping wings were drawn with a red circle.
「So fast……」
The mysterious object that could fly even faster thanthe most proficient Wyvern-user Dragon Knights of Qua-Toyne Princ.i.p.ality. Thatobject was clearly had intruded at the city’s airs.p.a.ce, but it didn’t seem to performany attack.
It was possible to attack the object by using wyverns,but the 6th Flying Dragon Squadron had already sortied and was in the middle ofreturning. Since the object approached so rapidly, they also couldn’t prepareany additional equipment.
The only counterattack method they had at the presentpoint was only firing with bows from the ground. Even so, it was clear that thearrow won’t reach the object.
The object was circling around several times aboveMaihark as if aiming for a prey while giving out the eerie whirring sounds.
「W……what the h.e.l.l is that‼?」
「Waaaaaa, monster‼ A monster has come‼」
The citizens’ face was frozen with fear. The peopleinside the house was so overwhelmed by fear that they began to close windowsand doors one after another. It was a chaos as people on the road started torun around searching for a hiding place.
Even the pack animals like horse or landbird began torun of its own accord terrified by the sound from the object and ended causedaccidents at many locations.
The object, that had bestowed dread and terror to the peacefulcity, didn’t do anything, and after some moment, as if it had satisfied, itflew towards the north.
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Central CalendarYear 1639, Month 1, Day 27.
Qua-Toyne Princ.i.p.ality.A Port North of Trade City Maihark.
The port that was located north from the Trade City Maiharkwas somewhat apart from the city, but since it was affiliated with Maihark, itwas called 『Port Maihark』
At that Port Maihark, there was a base where the 2ndFleet of Qua-Toyne Princ.i.p.ality Navy was wrapped with a tension that was above theusual.
The origin of this tension was the event that happened3 days ago. A large unidentified object had easily crossed the air defensenetwork of the flying dragon squadron that the Princ.i.p.ality’s possessed andcircled above Maihark. Since it didn’t perform any attack, it was conjectured conductinga reconnaissance, but the problem was, the unit was clearly not something from LouriaKingdom. Moreover there was no report of the existence of that unit in the MajorPower of Three Great Civilized Land, Papardia Empire[2].In the first place, there is a possibility that it wasn’t affiliated to anycountry.
Even so, it was a fact that the Princ.i.p.ality had beenscouted out by an unidentified existence, which doubled the military’s air of tension.
Because the Qua-Toyne Princ.i.p.ality’s Military was in astate of high alert, every warship were all out for offsh.o.r.e patrol duty. The6th Flying Dragon Squadron too was tripling their vigilance of theirobservation network more than ever.
Patrol situation from every direction was routinely reportedto Maihark Defense Control Room .
There was no any particular abnormality and they didn’tdetect anything.
「What does Commander Nouka[3]think about the true form of the unidentified object?」
The young officer asked the Commander.
「Hmm…… Since I didn’t see it, I can’t say. It’s just, if it was only seen byone Dragon Knight, then that will end no more than an idle gossip. But everymember of 6th Flying Dragon Squadron had witnessed it, furthermore, there wereeyewitness reports from the Maihark citizen and the Knight Corps. At the very least,the unidentified object surely exist.」
Nouka continued his deduction as if he was putting histhoughts in order.
「There is no country in the east, and in the northeast, there are a group ofislands with settlements, however from the report, none possessed that kind ofunit. There is a possibility that it from Louria Kingdom or Papardia Empire in theThree Great Civilized Area on the north, but based on the armaments of bothcountries that had been recorded until now, there wasn’t anything that had thatcharacteristic. We couldn’t exclude the possibility that it was a newly developedunit, but its shape is radically unusual. My intuition says, it doesn’t belongto either one.」
「I see……」
The inexperienced young officer, couldn’t conceal hisuneasiness and dropped his shoulder.
As if instigated by that uneasiness, the communicationoperator yelled loudly.
「Commander‼ Commander‼」
The commander and the young officer’s expression was dyedwith tension and looked together at the communication operator.
「Report from warship Pima![4]『Detected unidentified large ship. Current location, 60km north from Port Maihark.Will approach the ship and perform on-ship inspection』. 」
「Large ship……?」
What they discovered was not the unidentified object, sothe commander made a doubtful expression. However, it’s a safe bet to say that thisparty had a connection to the aforementioned matter.
「If they only detected it, then it still isn’t clear what kind of ship it is……Warship Pima is the ship of Captain Midori, correct? Instruct them to report assoon as they distinguished the ship, put plenty attention when inspecting theship without any incident, any suspicious point must be thoroughlyinvestigated.」
「Yes, Sir!」
The order was then properly delivered to the warshipPima by the communication operator.
Qua-Toyne Princ.i.p.ality.60 km North from Port Maihark.
The warship Pima that belonged to Qua-Toyne Princ.i.p.alityNavy’s 2nd Fleet, was currently heading towards the strange large ship.
The sail was fully hoisted, the caught wind wastransformed into kinetic force, while the oars were thrust out from the shipand rowed according to the beat of the drum.
The warship already switched into combat readiness. Allcrew was wearing leather armor. The sword-armed crew already standing by on theupper deck and readied their bow. Wooden shields to ward arrow were lining up atthe upper deck, and large ballista was installed at its side. There were also severaloil jars placed nearby for fire arrow attack. They were ready to jump intocombat at any time.
While keeping this readiness, the ship’s captainMidori turned pale at the unidentified large ship as they drew closer. Perhapshe realized the reason why they hadn’t yet arrived even after they had beenapproaching it for quite some time.
「Captain, perhaps the unidentified ship noticed that we are approaching so itseemed that they suddenly decreased their speed.」
Midori began to address the Vice Captain who haven’trealized the situation yet.
「That’s true…… Vice Captain, I will lead the inspection party. If somethinghappened, I leave the command to you.」
「Yes, Captain…… Is there something you worried about?」
Since Midori’s stared at the large ship with unchangedexpression, the Vice Captain also stared at the large ship.
Before long, finally he too realized the truth why theyhaven’t arrived at the ship even though they had been approaching since sometime ago. Only the ship’s silhouette that gradually became bigger and bigger. Becauseof it was so big, they had miscalculated the distance between the ships.
「……Vice Captain. Doesn’t its size has crossed over a normal ship standard?」
「Yes…… I also couldn’t see it other than a floating small island.」
Midori and his vice captain were lost for words, but somehowthey able to wrung out words to talk.
「It seems that there is a flag of a red circle on plain white flown atop theship. Do you recognize that kind of flag?」
「No, I never saw or heard a red circle on white flag before.」
「Then, do you know any country that possesses a ship that big?」
「That is…… I had went to Papardia for training before, even compared to theEmpire’s 『100 Cannons-Cla.s.s Ship-of-the-Line』[5] which can be called as a superweapon, that unidentified ship is clearlybigger.」
All crew of warship Pima was overwhelmed by the giganticsize of that large ship as it drew closer.
Then, from the top of the large ship, dozens of peoplesend forth blinking lights towards Pima. The crew was putting their guardthinking that it was some kind of attack, but they looked that the people were wavingtheir hand to communicate that they don’t have any hostile intention.
Captain Midori turned his back to the bow and then addressthe crew without removing his stern expression.
「We will soon send an inspection party to board that ship. Unless there isan order from me, or the other ship attacked, never attack the other ship. Also,the affiliation of the other ship is still unknown, perhaps it belongs to a newemerging nation. Since it could become an international exchange, I forbid any carelessintimidating att.i.tude, do you understand!」
「Yes!」
Captain Midori then guided by the large ship’s crew,boarded the large ship.
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Let the cliff killing you. I purposefully cut the story at this paragraph…LoL.
In case you are wondering, next part will be the rare j.a.panese point ofview, as the rest of the novels will be from the native’s POV.
Also, I will release 2 chapter of Takarakuji in 6 hours or so I plan.