Talk:Zero no Tsukaima:Volume2 Chapter8 - MTL

for "However, it is a mountain in the barrier in the dark cloud to brandish the sword (?)" It should be something along the lines of However, all I can do is just swing the sword around recklessly.

関の山 = Most one can do

para 2 line 10: Slowly, the Eagle rose towards the opening. It was followed closely by the pirates aboard the captured Marie Galante. Wardes nodded. "Just like pirates eh, your Highness." "Just like pirates, Vicomte" - Vorpal

para 4 line 44: "Your Highness, this is not my request! This is the Princess's request! Wasn't that what the Princess wrote in her letter? When I was young, I was Her Highness's playmate! Her Highness could never bear to watch the one she loves die and not do anything! Please tell me, Your Highness! The Princess, at the end of her letter, she must have urged you escape!"

Wales shook his head.

"Not a single line was written of this subject."

-Vorpal

para 4 line 50: "I am royalty. I cannot lie. Upon both the Princess's and my own honor, not even a single sentence mentions any talk of escape."

-Vorpal

para 5 line 20: "Your Majesty, we await one order alone! 'All units advance! All units advance! All units advance!' Tonight, our hearing's a little off from all the good wine we drank! Therefore, aside from that order alone, nothing else will enter our ears!"

Hearing these brave words, all gathered nodded nodded in agreement.

"Yeah! "Your Majesty, those words you said earlier seemed like mutterings from some other country!"

"It's still too early for you to turn senile, Your Majesty!"

The old king, touched, wept as he mumbled, "You fools..." He raised up his scepter.

"Very well! In that case, follow me! My Lords! Tonight is a good night! The light of the overlapping moons is the blessing of our ancestors! Drink to you hearts' content, eat, dance, be merry!"

All around was a cacophony of sound. At a time like this, visitors from Tristain were rare indeed. Royalist nobles gathered in droves around the three. There was no depreesing talk from the nobles. Rather, they joyfully encouraged the three to drink and eat, and joked.

-Vorpal (all my translations are from Chinese, please double check for errors.)

Pirates?

We are most definitely not the pirates, Viscount." <--(I added the "not" in here, does the prince say they are or aren't pirates? ~Dan)-->

Since Albion seems to be based on England (okay - The UK^_^), A little piece of history seems to be of help here. During the 17th century, the one of the French governers in the Caribbean described the Royal Navy as "The biggest bunch of Pirates at sea." The captains of the RN ships seem to have been quite pleased by this description.

Even now, a submarine that has engaged in battle will return to port flying the "Jolly Roger", aka skull and crossbones!

JBV^_^