Chapter 9 (1/2)

Chapter 9

It’s been a while since I posted something . Sorry for the lack of updates last week . I’ve been busy because I recently became unemployed and I was also helping out at home because my mom just got her cataract removed . I feel like I just casually said something that made me depressed me for a bit there… ( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°) Oh well .

Anyway, I’m sure there are a lot of mistakes in this chapter but I think it’s probably fine . And also, since the author apparently calls this series MaouMuji for short so I’m using that from now on .

Here’s chapter 9, enjoy .

Disclaimer: I don't guarantee that my translations are 100% accurate . Please let me know if there are any mistakes in my translations .

Chapter 09: That time when we held the end of the year festival

The end of the year…… That is another way of calling the 12th month in j.a.pan . I remember times where I was quite busy during that time in my previous life . I don’t know if that exists in this world but the village is currently noisy and hectic for an entirely different reason .

Snow has piled up . Everybody is busy removing the piled up snow from the roofs of their animal sheds so there are no particular tasks to be done indoors . Before the snow fell, we were repairing our own animal shed . As for preparing preserved food, we made salty dried meat before the harvest festival . [TN: Animal shed? pen? barn? I don’t know] The wheat like plant we produced was taken as tax but since the amount that was taken was small, we would not have to worry about being hungry during winter . But if in case there is actually a person who is starving, because this is a small village, there is an unspoken agreement between everyone that we would help each other out . And since everyone in the village is friendly, they are even kind to strangers .

The school would also have a days-off when there is snowfall but when it stops, a teacher is going to announce at the village square that “there will be school tomorrow” . I was able to kill time but also earn some extra money while doing side jobs during winter .

I bought sc.r.a.p cloths with bright colors and made bear and rabbit plus.h.i.+es, rolled roses and knitted mats . This was my mother’s hobby in my past life so I remembered it . c.r.a.p . A few tears came out when I remembered it . I haven’t thought about what happened after my death that much . I probably troubled my family . Since the actual cause of my death was choking on a mochi, I wonder how they would explain this to the neighbors . I’m sorry Tou-san Kaa-san Nee-san .

Next, I took some dried-up wood from the forest and carved it using a knife . That’s right, I was thinking of making those that you can usually find in the houses of ojii-chans and obaa-chans . I can imagine it and I know its shape but because I don’t have the skill, it just became wood sc.r.a.ps . Famous artists are pretty amazing . And sculptors too .

I also bought some cheap broken gla.s.s and tried to make accessories . Since the gla.s.s manufacturing technology hasn’t really been established yet, I just tried to recall a video I saw on TV about making gla.s.s beads . I used fire magic to so that I could properly melt it then use a rod-shaped metal to twirl it around . I was having difficulty slowly cooling it at first but I used a pot that I picked up and filled it with sand as a subst.i.tute for an annealing agent .

By the way, I also earned money by hunting prey . I sold the excess meat and skin at the butcher’s and a tanning* shop and it has been steadily acc.u.mulating . [*TN: As in leather if that wasn’t obvious enough] The the second-hand knife that I bought started to become rusty so I picked up a small clay-like stone on a dry river bed and polished it . I tried making an obsidian knife using magic but I noticed that it disappears after an hour . It seems like stuff made with magic would disappear when magic power is depleted so I can’t sell gold, silver, gems and the like that I made using magic . That’s a shame .

I tried out various thing when I went out hunting but I couldn’t come up with anything . We have been dependant on those tools that we usually use in modern society even though there are a lot of these amazing techniques, huh… Well, I may be able to use various kinds of magic but it’s a different story when it comes to making things .

As I was thinking about that, snow started to fall and a month slowly pa.s.sed by . It seems like we have enough to feed our livestock and we have still have those vegetables that grew healthily during spring . We don’t have anything to worry about .

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I just stayed with my family last year but this year it’s going to be different because I became an adult and am already able to drink .

「Caam, you should go to the a.s.sembly hall tonight . Since it’s the end of the year festival, we are going to hold an overnight drinking festival . It’s okay to be late but you must absolutely come . 」

Just as I was thinking about how I did not want to spend every year relaxing, they said that so I didn’t think about it for a long time .

Until last year, we just spent our time leisurely at home eating a slightly luxurious meal . That didn’t change this year but, it seems like my parents would usually go drinking at the village’s a.s.sembly hall . I’m also required to partic.i.p.ate this year…… My head hurts when I think about what happened during the harvest festival . Instead of my head aching because of pain, it’s because I’ve got a lot of things I’m anxious about [TN: Another wordplay that I most probably messed up…むしろ頭痛が痛いと言いたいくらい不安要素が多い。]

「Caam! Over here!」 Wurst’s voice echoed throughout the place . Now that I look closely, almost all of the boys in our cla.s.s is here . Or rather, they are already wasted . The girls are also here and they are also drinking . 「Oh, you guys are quick . You weren’t here last year, right?」 「Isn’t it quite early for your old man to bring along some kids who grew big and became a couple but didn’t get married?」 Okay, okay, I’ve somehow figured it out . There is a possibility that these guys probably prepared this end of the year festival . That’s just my a.s.sumptions so I just gave a vague reply . Speck brought over some beer after that and everyone started to shout ‘kanpai’ . How many times are these guys going to do that? *gulp gulp gulp!* “Ahhh~~~bitter!” It’s bitter this time, huh . Well, I’m not going to stop drinking it though! You should drink if you can get sake for free! 「Hey, Caam…… Have you been hunting since that time?」 Sc.h.i.n.ken sat in front of me and started being aggressive . It seems like he gets bolder when he drinks . He is normally easy to get along with but it gets bad as soon as he starts drinking . Is this a gap moe? It’s okay for a guy to become a gap moe whenever he drinks but as long as he doesn’t become a guy who is only good when he is not drinking . Oh well . He’s the child of those two so he would probably be fine . Violence is bad, okay? 「Aa, I’m starting to get used to it somehow . I’m really thankful for that」 「I see . That’s good, that’s good . Next time let’s go to the forest together」 He nonchalantly replied while drinking . If they are sober, can’t let them accompany those who are drunk .

「Caam, my sake cup is empty! Bring more!」 Speck’s still the same as ever, huh…… Is that how he is when he’s drunk? As I was bringing over the sake, I skillfully balanced on one leg without spilling the sake and turned around while laughing . The people nearby saw were in a higher spirits than usual and asked me, “You’re already drunk aren’t you?” . And I replied, “Well, it’s because of Speck”, cleaned up and left .

In addition to that, my cla.s.smates who I don’t usually see suddenly turned up on one side of the table…… Sake is scaryー . [TN: I’m not sure if he has cla.s.smates who are usually invisible or if they are like those loners in cla.s.s who you don’t really notice . ]

Speaking of scary, there’s Suzuran . When I tried to look at the girls’ group, they were quiet like usual and drinking while eating meat . They have not gone wild yet .

*Thud!* As I heard that sound, I casually turned around and look and saw that Miiru who was slightly well dressed had fallen down . Her skirt was completely flipped and I did a spit take as expected when I saw her underwear . She immediately fixed her appearance but the people who saw me spit out my drink were glaring at me . Even Suzuran who was chewing on some meat was also scowling at me . Isn’t that a bit unreasonable?

After that, Kuchinas.h.i.+-san(クチナシ) who’s a ghoul sat next to me and embraced me while saying “Cold feels good” . I was troubled because her chest kept on rubbing on me . The cyclops Granaade-san(グラナーデ) kept saying “It’s hot!” in a manly way as she vanished into the snowy night . As you can imagine, everyone is already quite drunk .