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Arche: Volume 1 Chapter 9
Hi everyone,
Thanks for all of your support so far I had a lot of fun translating this teaser, but as expected, I’ve becoretful, but there’s no helping it
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-Lei
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Translated by Lei
Proofread by Masadeer
My Name is Kyre!
”Phew!’
”You’re truly impressive!”
”Ohhh! We finished the work easily thanks to you, Kyre”
‘Pant pant! The side effects of h!’
Greatly uplifted by the everyone’s surprised faces, I had upturned the field like a crazy filly And thus came the state of hten,maintained The result was that I exhausted th to pick up chopsticks
‘I don’t have enough mana I have to expand my circle to the utmost and increase the mana’
According to the Law of Mana Drainage, differences in the amount of mana in the circle were very subtle at first, but as soon as you becae, the differences were like heaven and hell I was able to fill my circle with mana farht me, but I couldn’t fill the 4th Circle all the way yet
”But Hans, why don’t you cultivate the land over there? It’s a pretty large area”
About a kiloe, fairly expansive plains stretched out unused The slope was decent, and frorass, the plains definitely had good soil as well
”Our harvest last year was small, so we can’t cultivate it”
”Huh? What does the harvest have to do with cultivation?”
‘What in the world is he saying?’
”Where are you from, lad? Are you not a person of this continent? Or did you come from an island where there aren’t any monsters?”
”Ha, haha! I don’t remember, so I don’t knohere I lived”
When so was hard to say, the best excuse was amnesia
”I see So that’s why you say such things” Even as he spoke, Hans gazed at the expansive land with eyes of regret
‘I’m not some kind of fortune teller, so I’ll only know if you say it”
Having upturned the field with the plow, the women carefully stored the potatoes Hans and I were able to rest a bit on the grass
”There was a drought last year, so the crop harvest, including the potatoes, weren’t good We couldn’t catch fish, so ere depending on the field crops…”
‘Why can’t you catch fish? The sea looks perfectly fine’ I still couldn’t understand Hans’ words
”Do you see the Zarre Mountains over there?”
”Yes”
A number of mountaintops were clustered side by side in the Zarre Mountain range The range boasted an exceptional appearance that was reminiscent of a man’s spirit
”There are e, as well And… the monsters and dee”
[T/N: Demons refer to demonic beasts ]
‘Wait, so what do demons and monsters have to do with the harvest?’
Instead of explaining with ease and clarity, Hans sighed regretfully as he spoke ”Besides the taxes we must pay to the lord, we must also acquire potions from the temple”
”Potions?”
”That’s right Blessed by the sacred God, potions aren’t just for healing wounds– it’s also precious holy water that greatly repels monsters, especially demons”
‘Ohh, I see’
”But usually, a potion only re our taxes, we acquire potions with the rees like us that don’t receive the lord’s protection, potions are even more necessary If we don’t put a potion on the land we’re cultivating or on the boat we use to catch fish, there’s no knohen a dehter us”
‘That’s ridiculous!’
Hans was saying that far fish were only possible if potions were acquired with the ood, like it had been last year, then there was lessable to cultivate the land right in front of you
”But aren’t there the villagers standing guard over there? Can’t they win against a demon?”
”Lad… so you’ve really lost your memory How could you think that far Aura Blade? The people over there are just for blocking monsters like Orcs”
‘Aura Blade!’
No exact knowledge of demons came to my mind
”Hans, but this is the Kallian Continent, right?’
”… Have you forgotten even that?”
Past being dumbfounded, the hairy Hans looked at me with an expression of pity
‘Argh I’ve become a birdbrain’
The one and only Kang Hyuk, the reckless kid who lived with pride, had been reduced to an ignorant amnesiac who only knew his own name
”Then the potion I drank was…”
”Th-that was a potion we bought the year before last The chief was holding onto it because it was a waste to throw it away…”
”Geh!”
‘W-what the hell! Doesn’t that mean I drank a potion that was past the expiration date! Uwaahh!’
”Thanks to you, a potion past its prio to waste Thanks”
Hans, who had briefly turnedexperiments, bowed his head
‘If… it hadn’t been effective…’
It was a gruesoht
”Dad! Come eat lunch~!”
”Let’s go Our work thiswas quickly finished thanks to you, lad”
”Yes…”
”I’ll leave the afternoon to you as well Ahem”
”…”
Hans spoke as rose, dusting his hefty bottom
While getting up, ht then and there
”Maybe it’ll rain tomorrow…” Hans sloalked towards Cecile and the villagers without looking at me
‘I’m not just a birdbrain, I’ve totally become a cow today’
The potato field, which had become wider than before
”Siiigh!”
I breathed out a long sigh
I had consumed a potion past its expiration date, but I had to be thankful that I lived after drinking it It couldn’t be helped that I had consumed it, after all
‘I can’t live like this! I want to eat meat!’
Coe livestock, I’d been forced to due ploork for the past three days Even so, it was fine After all, I was usingmy life debt to the people
But the problem was food I didn’t kno liht not even be able to subsist with grain for meals, much less potatoes
And so, I decided on an ambitious plan
It was the grand ‘I’ve gotta eat , I could die of malnutrition before I left this world
‘So the thing is, in the past, before there was the big threat of reens in the forest and caught fish in the sea all year round’
Since I’d worked hard to upturn the field for three days, the villagers were friendly to me, and I was able to hear a lot froe was quite a well-off in the territory At one point, it was a village that had a population of over a thousand people But ten years ago, on Luena’s Moon, a day when res appeared and attacked the village
Because they had always been prepared, the village watch was able to drive away the monsters, but they suffered a ly appeared like wolves after that The denorant Orcs had laid waste to the bottle holding the potion Thus the village was brought to near destruction, and the survivors were noorking hard to cling to life
‘So they can’t hunt if they can’t buy potions, yeah? Huhuhu’
They didn’t know, but I was a kind Mage who had conore the village’s crisis?
Flop flop!
‘Ah! Th-that is!’
I was on a seaside cliff, where I could see the village in one glance I had discovered it today, and it was quite a nice place I could see the blue horizon extending endlessly, and upon seeing a huge object suddenly jump up above the horizon, my jaw dropped
”TU-TUNA! Oh my God! It’s tuna!”
Very rarely, when ood mood, I was able to taste tuna sashi+ht in the Pacific Ocean, but I still remembered the taste
The tuna’s fatty belly meat, streaked hite stripes, called the supreme tuna belly
That incredible, unforgettable taste of thein your mouth
The huge fish that was ju up from afar by the horizon was definitely called a tuna So me to confirm it with my own eyes
”One! Two! Ohhh! This is a sea of tuna!”
Tuna, the luxury fish whose more expensive individuals could reach prices of over 1island nation known as japan!
Starved for ht of the tuna drove me crazy
”With one… all the villagers could throw a party”
The feelings of the villagers, who couldn’t go catch the tuna despite seeing theht I could understand why the vitality in their eyes had disappeared Not only did land monsters exist, but there were underwater monsters in the water, too Because they were a nu ones, you could only catch fish if you had a few potions
”GRAAAAAAAHH! You’re all dead!”
I had never craved for meat this much in my life Notheir offspring, they gave me meat at least once every three days
”This is no ti around!”
The tuna, appearing like a e– I couldn’t miss them!
”The freedom of mana shall soon be the freedom of the wind! Fly!”
Today, after finishi+ng the potato harvest, the villagers had all gone out to the field to soheat Atop the cliff, away froic
Swoosh!+ My body floated into the air
Flap flap!
Having become a bird, I fleards the sea In iven me for ‘self-protection’
”Have you found him?”
”No! He’s nowhere to be found in the village…”
”Hrgh, this lad, where did he go? Tomorrow, Luena’s Moon will rise”
Thanks to the black-haired young ers had been able to finish the potato harvest early and even sow the wheat Though they had planned on returning ho, when Hans cried out that Kyre had disappeared, everyone set about to co man named Kyre was nowhere to be found
”S-surely he didn’t go into the forest, right?”
”Surely not We seriously warned hierous”
”He didn’t run away, did he?”
”Whaddya mean, run away… it’s not like he racked up a debt with us or anything…”
The two hundred or so villagers were gathered and whispering ae square, where the chief’s house was The sun had dropped at soht was about to fall It was too o outside and look for him now
”Kyre…”
When the villagers were talking aether and was praying to the Goddess of Mercy while thinking of Kyre Kyre, a boy with uncorown fond of Kyre– he made a smile that refreshed her heart whenever she looked at hi the plow in the place of her father, Kyre was a rateful to Kyre, who did the hard work instead of her father, whose strength had waned because there was little to eat these days
‘Dear God… please let nothing bad happen’
Closing her eyes, Cecile prayed to Neran
”H-he’s here! Kyre has appeared!”
”He’s walking from the beach!”
Just then, the nauards standing on the village palisade
”The beach? Why froerous place!”
All the villagers swarmed towards the part of the palisade where the door to the beach was Since the people of Luna Village thought of other people’s problems as their own, everyone was sincerely worried about Kyre
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Cecile’s eyes flashed open fro Deron’s hand (he’d been standing at her side) she ran towards the door facing the beach as the villagers swarmed to it
”Hng, hng…!”
‘Argghh! So hard, tch’
My hunger had driven randpa main character in ‘The Old Man and the Sea,’ I underwent a desperate struggle to catch tuna Soabout that the ocean one kiloe was half water, half tuna
But the problem was that the only weapon in ed into a sturdy wooden shaft Moreover, I wasn’t securely in a boat, buttuna– it was as hard as a blinda pheasant with a stone