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By the way, the one who’s acting as the host of this event is the mid-rank monster tamer who worked as my coach during the intensive training from before—Asakura Yuina-san. |
By the way, the one who’s acting as the host of this event is the mid-rank monster tamer who worked as my coach during the intensive training from before—Asakura Yuina-san. |
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| − | Yuina-san although she was sending to us who were waiting |
+ | Yuina-san although she was sending to us who were waiting backstage glances filled with animosity from time to time, skillfully kept acting as a host. |
By the way, that we ended up in the position of last performer in the order |
By the way, that we ended up in the position of last performer in the order |
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| − | is really just by chance? |
+ | is it really just by chance? |
That Yuina-san holds a grudge against us for shaming her has been clearly conveyed, but… I don’t feel that that has any relation. |
That Yuina-san holds a grudge against us for shaming her has been clearly conveyed, but… I don’t feel that that has any relation. |
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However, while it’s right that the contents were ‘monsters expressing their thankful feelings to the partners they are usually indebted to’, there was never the atmosphere of a monster confessing its love to a human. |
However, while it’s right that the contents were ‘monsters expressing their thankful feelings to the partners they are usually indebted to’, there was never the atmosphere of a monster confessing its love to a human. |
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| − | As I thought, is it that a human and a monster becoming lovers is made taboo by |
+ | As I thought, is it that a human and a monster becoming lovers is made taboo by society’s common sense? |
Such a thing… Makes me extremely worried. |
Such a thing… Makes me extremely worried. |
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“And it seems that the other two girls who will be coming later onstage hold the same feelings as me. |
“And it seems that the other two girls who will be coming later onstage hold the same feelings as me. |
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| − | As I don’t like being roundabout, I’ll tell it clearly now; the monster who |
+ | As I don’t like being roundabout, I’ll tell it clearly now; the monster who wins this contest from among the 3, me included, is arranged to marry our partner Chiharu.” |
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“I can’t believe it. For starters, such a thing as a human and a monster in a relationship… I’ve never heard of it!” |
“I can’t believe it. For starters, such a thing as a human and a monster in a relationship… I’ve never heard of it!” |
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| − | “Though, personally, it’s not like I want to act in such an emotion-garnering way… I’m already at a relationship level with |
+ | “Though, personally, it’s not like I want to act in such an emotion-garnering way… I’m already at a relationship level with Chiharu-kun of being both stark naked under the same blankets heating each other’s bodies… That’s why I absolutely can’t afford to lose this showdown.” |
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“Having shown once my naked body to a man is the same as if my body had been already sullied. |
“Having shown once my naked body to a man is the same as if my body had been already sullied. |
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| − | If I can’t make Chiharu |
+ | If I can’t make Chiharu take responsibility at any cost, I, in the future… I’ll possibly end up stranded on the roadside without being able to find any one to take me.” |
“…” |
“…” |
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I see. |
I see. |
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| − | This Zonmi chick… I don’t know if intentionally |
+ | This Zonmi chick… I don’t know if it's intentionally or by chance, she’s been saying clever things. |
That said, appealing to the feelings of the audience is better in garnering votes than saying outright “vote for me”. |
That said, appealing to the feelings of the audience is better in garnering votes than saying outright “vote for me”. |
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Contrary to my expectations, Zonmi’s strategy seemed to be extremely unpopular with the judges of the venue. |
Contrary to my expectations, Zonmi’s strategy seemed to be extremely unpopular with the judges of the venue. |
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| − | The love philosophy (?) that Zonmi has which was, to put it |
+ | The love philosophy (?) that Zonmi has which was, to put it nicely, modest, and to put it badly, old-fashioned, wasn’t understood by the children of modern times who were at the venue. |
“… This means, since we already have parental consent, that the only thing left now are Chiharu’s feelings! Everyone at the venue! Could you please vote righteously for my and Chiharu’s cheerful family!?” |
“… This means, since we already have parental consent, that the only thing left now are Chiharu’s feelings! Everyone at the venue! Could you please vote righteously for my and Chiharu’s cheerful family!?” |
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Revision as of 23:27, 18 September 2014
Status: Incomplete
14/41 pages completed
Chapter 3: Miss Monster girl contest
Thereafter.
Having totally finished all of the curriculum of the monster tamer training camp, we, with nothing else to do, engaged in inconsequential things like playing with the UNO that Kyouko had brought while we waited for the last day of the camp, when the MVP would be decided, to come.
Even so, UNO…
Quite the nostalgic item she has brought.
Calm down, calm down. When going on field trips there was always at least one person in the class who was the type to bring it.
I have the feeling that Kyouko is one of those.
“My turn. A direct attack to Kyouko with five draw two in a row[1]!”
“W-wait, Haru! Aren’t you being mean to me since a while ago!? You are only aiming your attacks at me!”
“Mm. Really? That’s not my intention, though.”
“… Is that so?”
Inquired Kyouko with reproachful eyes.
“Obviously! First, this is a game. Don’t get so heated up. Generally, haven’t you been a bit too self-conscious since long ago… Ack!”
“… Haru, could you perhaps be a do-M[2]? Do you wish so much to be kicked by me?”
“Moron. ‘S not. Like that.”
“…”
The reason why I’m provoking Kyouko is just one.
The short skirt-wearing Kyouko naturally has to raise her leg to kick me.
If I use the kinetic vision of the me who has awakened the power of the maou… Even if it’s just for a little instant, I can perfectly see with these eyes a glimpse of Kyouko’s panties.
Fufufu.
To lose a fly to catch a trout.[3]
To be caught by such a basic technique while being my childhood friend, quite the simple fellow.
Among them, just one person.
Only my sister Manami noticed my true intentions, but she made it to show me by herself glimpses of the contents of her skirt…
Since seeing my sister’s panties of course doesn’t make me happy, I’ll keep ignoring her.
With this and that… It happened when I was fully enjoying the camp with the girls.
Had I known that they’d hold the ‘Miss monster girl’ event on the last day of the camp…
“What I want to say is as I told you before. Since, currently, the ranking of the girls of the camp seems to be all first position with the same grades, if we go like this it may become the historical first occasion of three people being awarded the MVP at the same time~.
In my opinion, though everyone being first is a foul and I wouldn’t allow anyone to go out with my son, since I think that that’s not fair, hence if you participate in this contest I invite you to, I’ll allow it!”
“…”
The heck, when it comes to mom… Just when I think she’s shown up abruptly, she comes with this outrageous talk.
Summarizing mom’s talk.
Since, currently, Zonmi, Kyouko and Iris are tied together in first place with the exact same points, it seems there’s a possibility that like this the “who will become my lover?” won’t get settled at the end of the camp.
So this is why this suspicious miss monster girl contest that mom suggested.
The monsters confess various thing to the monster tamers they are grateful to and the spectators who act as judges rate the depth of their mutual trust… That seems to be the gist of it.
As this event is purely recreational and not tied to the main training, usually it has no effects on the camp grades.
Exceptionally, the monster selected as ‘miss monster’ this year will have their grade subtly increased.
In other words… If one among the girls became the victor, inevitably the line of the same points first place MVP will vanish.
“Mother. Let me participate in this event without fail!”
Her usual cool beauty atmosphere seems like a lie.
As if a fire was burning in her eyes, Zonmi entered hot-blooded mode.
The other two girls, same like Zonmi, looked unusually fired up.
Hmmmm. Well, then, so it’s come to that?
As there’s a high chance that they'll outwit the other rivals in this event, it’s not like the fighting spirit is not needed.
“Hey, hey. Kana-tan. By the way, can Manami also join that event? Manami is human, though!”
“Mmm. As expected, for this time only, do I have to be an itty-bitty strict? Mana-tan, house-sit like an adult.”
“Eeeh. I don’t wanna house-sit by myself. At least Kana-tan has to remain at the cottage with me! I’m tired of looking at miss titties’ titties.!
“Manami-sama. Could you please not say such mean things so nonchalantly?”
“Ahaha. Sorry, sorry. Mom has to now go meet an old acquaintance for work-related issues. Good grief… Even though this was a chance for my long awaited mother-daughter alone time, how disagreeable—”
Mom laughed out loud with her usual easygoing attitude.
However, why is it.
It may be because of all those long years as mother and child that I noticed.
Mom’s smile seemed just a bit somewhat forced.
Speaking of which, Manami had told me previously… That mom was hiding something from us.
I think that I at last understand those words.
However, naturally, it’s not like I can ask mom “what are you hiding?” based on such an intuitive hunch.
Only a murky feeling that I can’t vent out remains in my chest.
Finally the last day of the camp arrived.
“… Nephilim. And red dragon too. Finally the time has come for the decision dragged out for so long to be made.”
“Fufufufu. The one who will be laughing last will be me, the childhood friend… I’ll show you how I’ll definitely make Haru mine!”
“… Who will take the seat of the monster tamer’s wife? This endless battle… Will be decided at last?”
We are, currently, at the venue of the miss monster girl contest.
We were standing backstage.
“Eeeh. Then, entry number one! Newbie monster tamer Hongou Taichi-san and false slime Michelle-chan. You two, take the stage!”
“…”
Aah. That’s right.
By the way, the one who’s acting as the host of this event is the mid-rank monster tamer who worked as my coach during the intensive training from before—Asakura Yuina-san.
Yuina-san although she was sending to us who were waiting backstage glances filled with animosity from time to time, skillfully kept acting as a host.
By the way, that we ended up in the position of last performer in the order
- Zonmi
- Iris
- Kyouko (last)
is it really just by chance?
That Yuina-san holds a grudge against us for shaming her has been clearly conveyed, but… I don’t feel that that has any relation.
“Eeeh. The act that, as you see, the fake slime Michelle-chan can’t take human shape it’s because it seems that its little magic power is insufficient, but, for that, the affection for its master is especially strong. Isn’t it, Michelle-chan?”
“… Guchuguchu. Guchuguchu.”
“…”
What the heck.
Though it has been conveyed that it frantically wanted to convey something, since in the first place it can’t speak human language, it doesn’t look like communication can be stablished…
Looking at Michelle-chan’s grotesque shape, like a molten corpse of a living being, I really felt seriously that “could it be that my environment as a monster tamer is very blessed?”
Was it thanks to Yuina-san’s good hosting, having quickly gotten the knack?
After that, the miss monster girl contest proceeded all right.
However, while it’s right that the contents were ‘monsters expressing their thankful feelings to the partners they are usually indebted to’, there was never the atmosphere of a monster confessing its love to a human.
As I thought, is it that a human and a monster becoming lovers is made taboo by society’s common sense?
Such a thing… Makes me extremely worried.
“Eeeh. Now, what everyone was waiting for! Entry number 16.
Newbie monster tamer Kusumi Chiharu-san and the lovely pretty girl from the ghoul clan!
It’s Zonmi Ra McKenzie’s entry!
The couple who has caught the attention and become the talk of this camp, what kind of performance will they show us!? Everybody, anticipate it!”
“…!”
We’ve been had.
Even though I vaguely had a hunch, she’s nonchalantly raised the hurdle.
As instructed by Yuina-san, we stood in the middle of the stage.
“Uwaah…”
I reflexively leaked out a voice of admiration.
Before us, monster tamers and their partners… Both of them together accounted for nearly three hundred spectators sitting there and watching our every action.
“…”
Contrasting with me, who was stiff from the nervousness due to being unaccustomed to standing in public, Zonmi kept a cool countenance.
As expected, the word cool beauty, wrong… Ghoul beauty fits Zonmi to a T.
Like that, Zonmi took the mike prepared onstage and, without batting so much an eyelash, spouted shocking words.
“As I’ve been introduced, I am Zonmi Ra McKenzie.
… Well, going straight to the point, I hold romantic feelings for this man here called Kusumi Chiharu.
The trust as a monster tamer’s partner… Not in that sense, I love him as a man.”
“““!?”””
The instant after Zonmi voiced such shocking words.
I felt as if the flow of mood that had been drifting until then at the venue instantly changed.
“And it seems that the other two girls who will be coming later onstage hold the same feelings as me.
As I don’t like being roundabout, I’ll tell it clearly now; the monster who wins this contest from among the 3, me included, is arranged to marry our partner Chiharu.”
“““…”””
The people at the venue couldn’t hide their bewilderment because of Zonmi’s bombshell announcement that she had fired as if expecting an answer.
Well, to be fair, if we say that disclosing the news with the attitude of facing a duel is much like the overly serious Zonmi, it was Zonmi-like?
“Eeh!? That ghoul girl… Is she serious!?”
“I can’t believe it. For starters, such a thing as a human and a monster in a relationship… I’ve never heard of it!”
“Though, personally, it’s not like I want to act in such an emotion-garnering way… I’m already at a relationship level with Chiharu-kun of being both stark naked under the same blankets heating each other’s bodies… That’s why I absolutely can’t afford to lose this showdown.”
“““!?”””
“Having shown once my naked body to a man is the same as if my body had been already sullied.
If I can’t make Chiharu take responsibility at any cost, I, in the future… I’ll possibly end up stranded on the roadside without being able to find any one to take me.”
“…”
Zonmi kept pleading to the spectators with a tone filled with emotion.
I see.
This Zonmi chick… I don’t know if it's intentionally or by chance, she’s been saying clever things.
That said, appealing to the feelings of the audience is better in garnering votes than saying outright “vote for me”.
Nevertheless.
“That girlie… She’s heavy[4].. No matter how pretty she is, that’s a bit…”
“Calm down[check]. They’ve only slept together once, pretentious woman!”
“That’s right! Gross[5]
Contrary to my expectations, Zonmi’s strategy seemed to be extremely unpopular with the judges of the venue.
The love philosophy (?) that Zonmi has which was, to put it nicely, modest, and to put it badly, old-fashioned, wasn’t understood by the children of modern times who were at the venue.
“… This means, since we already have parental consent, that the only thing left now are Chiharu’s feelings! Everyone at the venue! Could you please vote righteously for my and Chiharu’s cheerful family!?”
“…”
Without noticing the completely chilled atmosphere of the venue, Zonmi kept pleading.
Erm, the people at the venue have been taken aback in quite a diligent way.
References and Translation Notes
- ↑ As you may or may not know, “draw” cards in UNO, which make the next player to draw two cards and lose their turn, can be fended off by playing one identical (color can change) card (draw two, wild draw four or any other special draw card the maze you are employing, if thematic, may have), and that makes the turn loss along with the cumulated draw, go to the next player (one person cannot play two draw cards in the same chain); this means Kyouko has to draw ten cards and loses a turn.
- ↑ Super masochist.
- ↑ The original line is "To let your flesh be cut to hack their bone." You can think of it in terms of "Losing a battle to win the war," but being applied to personal injury in exchange for victory, i.e., panties.
- ↑ A “heavy woman” is a widespread slang term to refer to a woman who makes a mountain out of a molehill when speaking of relationships, like taking any little thing you’ve made together to call herself your girlfriend or trying to force you to marry her for “defiling her purity” (it could have just been a kiss; on the cheek); also applied to girls who become an emotional load (check Haqua Berserker Braidfield from Gaworare and her “heavy woman” flag).
- ↑ This was DAL Mii’s “majihikuwa—”.
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