Yaritsukai to, Kuroneko

Chapter 19

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Eighteenth Episode 〜 Final Test

It has been several months since my encounter with the strange spirit.

Fall is long gone and winter is meeting its end. Spring is now upon us.

Everyone is gathered around the table together, eating breakfast like usual. Noisy conversation and smiling faces highlight the meal.

I’ve adapted completely to this life.

Every day, the Goldiba family has started to feel more and more like my true family.

Seeing everyone’s smiling faces warms the stiffness in that corner of my heart. (TL: Remember, Shuya didn’t have much of a family back in j.a.pan after his parents died in the accident.) I feel like I’ve been learning about the happiness that comes from living together with your family.

“&h.e.l.lip;What’s wrong? Without even touching your food you have this confused look on your face. Today we’ll be testing how far you have come with your training.”

Shisho says to me.

I seem to have a distant look on my face.

“Yes, I’m fine.”

I refocus my gaze and answer with a smile.

“Shuya nii-chan, work hard!”

Refaa. She always cheers me up. Her smiling face is adorable.

She’s grown up a little and gotten a bit taller.

Her face is still a bit childish but she is beginning to look like her beautiful mother, Rabbi-san. Her chestnut hair is silky smooth. Her conspicuously long eyelashes stand out on her already large eyes too.

“&h.e.l.lip;Ah, I’ll work hard.”

Nodding lightly, I return a smile to Refaa.

“Are you all right, Shuya? Is that old man being too rough on you? Is the plan for today’s training different?”

Raguren smiles at me.

Shisho responds to Raguren after exchanging a look with me.

“Mou, I’m not so harsh? Besides, it was Shuya who said he enjoys ‘harsh training."” (TL: If ya know what I mean.)

Shisho looks at me as if to say “Isn’t that right?” I reply with a look of confirmation.

“Surely, I did say that&h.e.l.lip;”

“Hora? It’s spring going forward from today. It has been about one year now since Shuya came to us. I want to see the results of his conventional training. Think of today as a final test. I’m excited to see how much you have grown. I might be satisfied.”

“Hou, does that mean Shuya’s graduation is close? But I want you to be careulf, you two get too heated up when you’re together.” (TL: Sorry, he graduated last chapter.)

Raguren seems unusually worried.

“Haha, it will be fine, Raguren. Shisho has beaten me in every mock battle so far, but just once I want to beat him and graduate from being his student.”

“I see, I see, that’s fine then.”

Raguren says that with a smile on his face, and bringing a wooden spoon to his mouth he drinks it with a jerk.

Shisho also responds with laughter.

“Hahaha, you don’t say? I’m looking forward to this.”

“Hora hora, you two still haven’t touched your soup. Since Raguren complains that he doesn’t like it you two need to eat up.”

Rabbi-san tells us to eat. Breakfast is a river fish that resembles a sweetfish with tobucha. (TL: Rabbi-san actually says something else about what is in the soup but I’m not good at translating about fo
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od so I simplified it.) Rabbi-san’s homemade food is always delicious.

“Hai, itadakimasu.”

Like this breakfast is finished amongst a rowdy atmosphere.

I return to the hut and lie down for a little.

Using my arm as a subst.i.tute for a pillow I stare at the dirty ceiling.

There is a special training today.

A compilation of all my training over this past year.

I have grown and in this time have had various experiences.

Once again, my eyes become unfocused-

Memories of this past year flood my mind.

At the beginning I had to fight hard against the wooden 【Training Course】 and its logs and claws.

Then I had to chase around the magic beast Lunga cow, I caught it with a la.s.so&h.e.l.lip;I had to keep rubbing its body with ground up medical herbs.

I had a really hard time catching a wild popob.u.mu.

The natural slide Refaa took me to was fun.

The water spirit I met at the lake that only forms during autumn.

She was a beauty, but&h.e.l.lip;I would like to not remember this&h.e.l.lip;it is because I focused solely on my fierce training that my worldly desires built up.

I lightly shake my head to dismiss the memory, and look over at the odd room and the chair that has fallen over.

The chair isn’t only made from wood, it is made in a way similar to shogi pieces&h.e.l.lip;a bit of the degozabear I encountered while harvesting, the large perot b.u.t.terfly, I’m glad I was able to fight against the monsters on my own, but it was a hard fight. (TL: I don’t know why he talked about the chair.)

My spear handling has improved considerably thanks to many hunting trips and sparring with Achilles-shisho.

Every time I am cut, pierced, stabbed, kicked-

“-When I look back I’m trembling with excitement&h.e.l.lip;”

Thanks to my intense training my Spear Dancer battler occupation has cla.s.s upped to “Spear Officer” (TL: 槍武奏)

This seems to be a job that isn’t earned very often, Achilles-shisho hasn’t seen it before.

It was at that time that Shisho told me his battle occupation.

(TL: Forgive me for this. His occupation DOES NOT translate nicely.) His t.i.tle is “Wind G.o.d Spear and Sword of War.”

Having mastered both the spear and sword, and as a result of integrating his moji user and wind attribute, it naturally became such a name. He explained to me a proud air.

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