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Arche: Volume 1 Chapter 1
Citizens of the Cat Empire,
You , ”Whaaat? A new project? When you haven’t even released X, X, and X?”
Well, first of all, this is a solo translation project, with proofreading kindly brought to you by Masadeer You can think of this series as h to host it My translation of this series has nothing to do with the translation of other series on japte translated on the site
Secondly, I picked up this series on a whi all 18 volumes of this series Honestly, even one volume would be an achievement It WILL be dropped at some point, and anyone else will be free to translate it Therefore, this project is being labeled as a ”teaser” series
Don’t read if you’re spoiled by those wuxia translators spewing releases every other minute I promise you quality, but I am a slow turd
Also, a warning: this series has a slow start
Finally,me to selfishly host this series on the site!
Noards! Put your cat ears on (and wait!)
Your Alpaca Queen / Cat Ear,
Lei
//Edited August 3rd for further clarification
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Meeting Gandalf the Arche
Translated by Lei
Proofread by Masadeer
”The Golden Lane was originally built as lodgings for the guards and gatekeepers of the Prague Castle Asthe 16th century with the development of commerce, it was formally named the ‘Golden Lane,’ just as it is no, let’s have everyone go in and freely look around! You have one hour! Be sure to gather here again within the time limit!”
The guide as leading the students shouted at the distracted kids
‘Hehehe, where else can I experience such extravagance? Afish after all Uhahahaha!’
Just two h School, the school known as Korea’s ious institution, I boarded an airplane for the first time in my life
Though er and my mother was a y They never failed to go on trips around the world for a month or two every year, but they were extremely cruel to their precious, precious, one and only son During my stormy period of adolescence, when I asked them why they treated me like someone they’d picked up off the street, hed at e
‘Maleshand in order to survive’ -- such was my father’s ridiculous opinion
Myright now are the blood and sweat of your father and mother Do you want to become a thankless child who carelessly wastes that blood and sweat?’
It wasn’t a safari wilderness si, yet my parents raised their only child with such severity
After that, I saw that there was no one in the world who I could trust, and spent every single day studying until
And then, the school I had chosen, Daehan High School It was the high school that the president of the Daehan Group, the biggest business in Korea and a the top in the world, was the director Froraduation, all the expenses and pocket money you needed for school life were provided by the Daehan Group
Therefore, it was said to be harder to be accepted into than Seoul University, but I was able to get into such a school
And as a benefit of that, I was currently able to enjoy a paradise-like 10 days 11 nights school excursion in eastern Europe
”Hyuk, let’s go sightsee Hehe”
While I was preoccupied with uy who looked as friendly as your next door neighbor, draggedwith his plump rump behind him
”Okay Huhuhu”
No matter how miserly my parents were, this was their one and only son’s school excursion I was generous enough to at least buy them a souvenir or two
‘Alchemists? Did they really live here?’
Upon entering the Golden Lane I saw charh the s Perhaps it was because the ancestors of this place had been gold metalworkers and alchemists, the h to catch my attention
”Wow, pretty!”
”Looks like it’s old”
”Hoho, it would suit me perfectly well if I wore it”
The clear fe Hyun
Seo Ye-rin
The representative of Daehan High School’s first years, she was the eht of 167 c eyes, and raceful disposition, a rare iteuy would want to call their own
Today as well, she was bloo the chattering weeds Her long black hair was neatly held back with a plain-looking blue headband, her sht in May
She was looking at a hairpin through a small ith some friends Her ebony eyes, which
”Is there soood? Hehe”
More friendly with the girls than the htlessly dragged irls
And then In that irls turned their heads and I happened to meet eyes with Ye-rin
Smile
With entle smile came onto Seo Ye-rin lips
‘Whoa? Is she s at me?’
I was a person who had graduated from the brutal wilderness hell that baby lions experienced, right at the age when kids graduated fro set aside woh School, this school was truly my dream school
Contrary to the idea that people who studied ere physically unattractive, the school had so women
The saying that accomplished children rose fro of the past These days, with the waters so dirtied from pollution, you could only raise an accoh quality environment A world that was truly heartless and specialized That was how the world where such high caliber children were raised was maintained
”Wow! So pretty!”
Having squeezed in between the girls, Joong Hyun was looking at the platinum hairpin, which was embedded with many blue jewels
”It’s well made”
The hairpin was so exquisite and vintage that my mother’s collection of jewel hairpins couldn’t even coh to uy like me desire it
”Whoa!”
However, I exclai
‘10,000… oh my God!’
The hairpin orth a fortune of ten thousand dollars I couldn’t closemouth
”It’s pretty, right, Hyuk?”
When I was gaping like that and being surprised, I heard what must surely be an auditory hallucination at my ear
A wo of amy name
”Huh?”
It was the voice of an elegant lily that had just started to bloo who possessed looks and intellectual beauty far htful than any of the ht had called my name
[T/N: Spoof of Girl’s Generation and Girl’s Day, popular Kpop girl groups]
”It’s worth looking at, I guess”
But I replied with a voice so apathetic that it surprised even me
”Really? I think it’s really pretty…”
As if hurt by my words, the lily looked worried
‘Kya, if you were to wear it, you’d be the ultimate Goddess of beauty’
Those who had looks and smarts like Ye-rin’s should be nationally protected
‘For it to be ten thousand dollars… tch’
If I could, I wanted to give one to her as a present But being the still young lion that I was, I hadn’t yet been raised to the level ofmoney
”Seo Ye-rin, should I buy you one as a souvenir?”
‘What’s with this rude voice?’
Near the sacred contact place where I was talking to Ye-rin for the first tiant, cocky voice A mean little lion had sauntered over here with two baby wolves by his side
‘Hwang Sung-taek’
Called the Crown Prince a to doroup He was still young in his years, yet the punk’s face was full of boredo aze
”No thanks”
At Hwang Sung-taek’s words, Seo Ye-rin transfor behind those cold words, she walked away
”Haha! Just let enerous heart” Hwang Sung-taek spat out a boorish line to the back of the leaving Seo Ye-rin
‘What a waste’
It had been a golden opportunity to get closer to Ye-rin, a strangely feeling encounter with Seo Ye-rin on this foreign land A nuisance had flown in before our et started properly
”Let’s go, Joong Hyun”
”Hm? O-okay”
There was no reason to stick around Hwang Sung-taek and his cronies
”Kang Hyuk, leive you some advice”
TheSung-taek’s cold voice
”What?”
There was no need for ree black belt and kumdo 3rd dan, to cower I turned my head and looked down on the 170 c-taek
[T/N: kumdo is the Korean version of Kendo]
”Seo Ye-rin is h school life peacefully, keep your head down”
E-taek was getting ahead of his I feared in this world were my parents and our family motto of ‘truth'”
With a s-taek’s shoulder
”Hwang Sung-taek You, do you knoho you owe for living so well?”
”…”
At -taek was briefly stunned
”If I were to say, I’d say that it’d be the ’s shares You owe your livelihood to them, so you shouldn’t live so recklessly”
Hwang Sung-taek made a dumbfounded expression at my words
”If you keep throwing your randpappy who nicely cultivated the stockholders will…”
Swish
Instead of using words, I drew a line over my neck
”Do your best, kiddo”
Tap, tap
I tapped Hwang Sung-taek’s ski around
”St-stop right there, you crappy piece of dog shi+t!”
But I didn’t stop, since I wasn’t a dog shi+t
Swooosh!+
Just then, I felt the energy of a fist flying towards my back
Bam!
I instinctively whirled around and kicked out
”Gaah!”
And, seeing the foot that had stopped right in front of his chin, the little wolf pup froze without even breathing In front of the dos
”I’ll only warn you once Next time… you’ll pay”
There was no need to say uys who couldn’t even be called bullies, it was a waste to use my fist
”Tch”
Hundreds of kids had been let loose into the Golden Lane Fro Hyun had also somehow disappeared in the press of people Always the devoted son, he had gone to pick out a present for his mom
‘Why is this alley so quiet?’
I had split away fro fun with the aotten fro around when I noticed a small alley It wasn’t very different from other alleys, but there were no people to be seen inside Actually, the others were busy passing by, as if they couldn’t even see the alley
‘Huhu, the good stuff is in places like this Those idiots’