Vol 1 Chapter 19 (2/2)
“I am very sorry. For Jade-sama to have to act as the decoy.”
“I was prepared. I had faith in your skill.”
“Such words are too generous. However, now that I think about it, in the unlikely event that i missed, the results would not have been good.”
“You are forgetting who you are talking to, even if I somehow became a hostage, I would make a plan to escape. Besides, being captured might be entertaining.”
“That is honestly the reason we were troubled. I humbly beg for forgiveness.”
Grimacing, the frank old knight flashed a good-humoured smile at Jade.
“That being said, what was that explosion sound just now?”
“Judging by the compa.s.s, that was in the direction of the fourth group.”
“Tch…”
At that news, Jade clicked his tongue.
‘It seems those fools who started the coup d’état moved first.’
‘The fourth group is the one with the eyesore of a plebeian.’
‘I thought that I could use that plebeian who is close to the Brave to obtain her, but…’
When he received information about the plan, Jade immediately removed his underlings from the list of those partic.i.p.ating.
Furthermore, he gradually increased the amount of people at the fortress who served the Cliffdorf Marquis House.
Jade personally made it so that those knights were a.s.signed to the first group with him.
Then, Jade arranged for those who were the Cliffdorf house’s rivals to partic.i.p.ate on the mission, so he could deal with them.
Using this chance, after ma.s.sacring them, all the blame would be placed on the nincomp.o.o.ps who planned the coup.
For n.o.bles, losing the heir is a large blow to their standing.
It often leads to the extinction of the lineage.
Naturally, other than the eldest son, there were the second and third sons, but it would still deal a lot of damage to the House.
This would greatly benefit to the Cliffdorf house.
He was now unable to disregard the commoner to whom the Brave was close. [?3?]
Somebody reached Jade’s side, and tried to curry favor.
“Fumu, so things aren’t going completely as planned…” (Jade)
“It is good that we have taken care of the Reinhardt here.”
At his subordinate’s words, he nodded calmly.
Regin van Reinhardt was the eldest son of the Marquis Reinhardt’s house.
Since Jade was the eldest son of the Cliffdorf house, and he was also in the same year as Regin, they frequently competed with each other.
Certainly, he was a rival for the position of next generation’s Knight Order Captain, but Jade wouldn’t be troubled by his absence.
Though he was unable to obtain the Brave as his own, he still l.u.s.ted for this desire.
‘If that’s the case, let us modify the beginning of the plan.’
Jade moved his attention to the students, who stood still, s.h.i.+vering in fear.
‘You wouldn’t believe that these unsightly people are n.o.bles. I should also get rid of them.’
‘Either way, the blame will be placed on those guys.’
‘I’ll just take out the trash ahead of time.’
“What of Father and the rest?”
“They have already left the capital, and are headed towards our territory.”
“Alright then. Let us proceed with our plan!”
“”Yes sir!!””
At Jade’s order, raising their weapons into the sky, the hundred knights before him chanted.[?4?]
Then, they promptly moved to exterminate the isolated people there.
“Help us!”
“P-please don’t kill us….”
Pretending not to see the extermination of the students by his subordinates, Jade slowly walked towards Cornelia.
Motionless, she merely stared straight at Jade.
“Well then, if you don’t resist, we will not harm you. You will serve as our figurehead.”[?5?]
Originally, he would have that girl’s death blamed on the insurrectionists, but the situation changed.
After Jade’s subordinates finished ma.s.sacring the students, they gathered behind him, their leader.
Pompously, Jade slowly knelt down on one knee and bowed down towards Cornelia.
“If by chance you would like to join us, we of the Cliffdorf house will receive you in our territory. It is negotiable. Would you like to come with us? Your Highness.?
Cornelia Raul Lute Remuls.h.i.+l. [8]
Being the first princess of the empire, she was second in line to the throne. While superficially paying respects to her, Jade smiled coldly.
Translator notes
so Regin is the student who is jade’s rival, and Nigel is the knight, who might be dead… I get them mixed up…–back
like a hedgehog!–back
反逆: the same kanji as madoka movie 3!–back
Trivia (which comes from the same root as the word “trivial”): hero used here is Eiyuu. Yuusha, also commonly translated as hero, in this series is translated as Brave, due to precedent (Guro)–back
slight artistic license in structure… I like countdowns (in this case, count-ups…)–back
Don’t count your chickens before they hatch. Death flags will appear.–back
R.I.P. i guess…–back
katakana for the curious, and for future reference to Ch 20: コーネリア・ラウ・ルート・レムルシル。–back
Translator needs help
dbl check–back
ikas.h.i.+te…生かしておくとでも–back
Still not making complete sense…–back
diction? more military, less mystic of a connotation–back
貴女には我々の旗頭となっていただく–back
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Jade’s diabolical plans, as revealed in Chap 20 is really demotivating (which means I have a lot of translator snark in it…). Luckily, I got through that quarter of the chapter already, so I just have to cover Locke and Leticia’s POV. Wynn will reappear by the end of the chapter, it seems (not sure, just skimming the j.a.panese raw). In all, I have Ch 20 about 30% done out of almost 30 pages of the raw, when copy-pasted into a Google Doc…
I am feeling like translating another KuroKis.h.i.+ chapter to clean out Jade’s dirty plots, so expect it sometime soon…
Question of the week: I kinda feel like I should download the raws just in case weird things happen… But I don’t want to do it manually. Anybody know of a program or software that will let me do that? I did hear about wget, but I’m not sure how to use it. Tips/crash course on wget welcome, or alternative… I will be doing my own research too, but slowly…
P.S. Anybody know how to get rid of the slightly annoying pingback notification in WP whenever I link to other previous posts?
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