This chapter heavily uses the terms 寄り親 and 寄り子 which would be “Yori oya” and “Yori mi/ko” in Romaji. I wasn’t able to find any appropriate English translation for these terms as they express a special Japanese relationship (at least that how it seems).
I dug around in the Internet for a while to try and find you guys a dictionary definition, so you can better understand the meaning of those words as they are crucial in this chapter. Since they were also used in the previous chapter, I will also be updating it later for consistency.
Definition:
1.) The relation of master and servant, binding a person closely to a master so to speak imitating the way of parent-child relationship. Especially the daimyo’s in the Warring States period bound powerful military commanders to them acting as “oya”, making their local powerful clans in the countryside as their “mi” (yori ko) in order to form military structures.
2.) Edo period, the guarantor of an employee.
Using patron for yori oya and vassal for yori mi.
“Haa… I’m tired…” (Wendelin)
It was now evening and Erich-nii-san’s marriage announcement party had safely ended.
Including the bride, Erich-nii-san had received various words of congratulations and blessings from his friends and co-workers from the town hall. Erwin, Ina and Luise busied themselves with having a good time while mixing with the crowd.
“You had it rough. Viscount Mongérard was quite persistent, huh?” (Erwin)
“No, that person went around suppressing them. Thanks to that, it actually was not that bad.” (Wendelin)
If one were to speak of trouble, then certainly it would be about the fact of I was continuously, without a break, being surrounded by many participants during the ceremony.
At this time I finally understood the meaning behind Erich-nii-san’s apology…
The story of Burkhart-san and me defeating the ancient dragon took merely hours to spread a roughly accurate tale within the royal capital.
Burkhart-san, being aware that his own magic couldn’t defeat the ancient dragon, exerted himself to see to the matter of the defense of the magic airship while remaining on the ship himself. Having the ancient dragon be put to rest by cleansing it with my Holy magic, that could be called a fact up till there.
Sadly, people kept omitting different parts in order to save time with the argument 『The story was different』when recounting it with others who had also heard the story. As such, I kept getting handled like a new toy by the party participants in the end.
Certainly, they didn’t expect the one in the rumor about defeating an ancient dragon to be participating today in the marriage party they attended.
Furthermore, I was actually the bridegroom’s own little brother!
Some of the sharp-sighted fellows noticed it, and apparently quite a few nobles and merchants were scheming in order to try participate in the party just to contact me. Skilfully, without raising any strife, Rüdiger-san, Burkhart-san, and the patron of the Brandt family, Viscount Mongérard, took care of refusing their unreasonable petitions.
With a height of about 190 centimeters and a slender body with a white skin, Viscount Mongérard, who appeared to be about 40 years old, indeed had the countenance of a typical bureaucrat. Although it turned out that I took the leading part of the marriage announcement party of his precious vassal, which also caused me to feel as if I was being quite impolite, he periodically came and dispersed the latest group of people hanging onto me for longer than was polite.
Indeed, such attentive concern could be also seen as appropriate for a household serving as bureaucrats for generations.
“I am thankful towards Viscount Mongérard.” (Wendelin)
During the ceremony, the cruel fellows didn’t even turn their gaze towards the appearance of Erich-nii-san in his uniform and the bride in her dress they had painstakingly prepared for this occasion.
They continued to singularly talk to me.
Apart from retainer and servant candidates, there were children introduced to me in order to make an acquaintance, daughters were introduced to me where it was even fine for them to just be a concubine, and it turned even more extreme when they talked about suspicious investments and proposed loans.
Owing it to them, I was beginning to feel full of guilt towards Erich-nii-san.
However, while my side was troubled, Erwin’s group fully enjoyed blending in the crowd at that time, too. Seeing this, my guilt lessened quite a lot.
“You lot apparently had quite the fun.” (Wendelin)
“Well, yea.” (Erwin)
After the party concluded without any problems, I lay sprawled on top of the bed in the guest room that the Brandt household had prepared for me while talking with Erwin.
Erich-nii-san had arranged it for us so that we could stay in this room during our visit in the royal capital. Erwin and myself, as well as Ina and Luise, were each assigned a double room.
“Although you are theoretically a retainer, you didn’t come to help me either.” (Wendelin)
“As of yet it’s only on paper, and I haven’t receive any wages yet either.” (Erwin)
“Since that is a sound argument, there is nothing I can retort to.” (Wendelin)
Erwin’s group had become retainers in name. This was all in order to avoid having annoying job seekers swarm me.
For now there was no one but my party members, who shared the same ambition as me to become adventurers.
After we retired from being adventurers, the plan was that they would become true retainers accompanying me.
“However, it will become difficult for you from here on, Wend.” (Erwin)
“Leaving the royal capital…” (Wendelin)
“Since you can’t do anything about that, how about you have your fill of sightseeing of the capital during your summer vacation?” (Burkhart)
Suddenly there was a knock on the door and it was opened. Burkhart-san stood there. Most likely he had heard our conversation about the various topics.
Unexpectedly this kind of statement was said.
“Eh? We can’t do anything about that?” (Wendelin)
“Ah, after this, the struggling of the boy will begin. Thanks to that, I will be taking care of you while in the capital as well. Though it’s fine as it is an easy job.” (Burkhart)
Suddenly subjugating an ancient dragon, receiving a medal in a conferring of decorations, which hadn’t been rewarded for more than 200 years, honoring this achievement and being appointed to the rank of associate baron as a young man.
Moreover, this young man attained an enormous wealth by selling the bones and the magic core of the ancient dragon he had defeated.
In such case, there could be only one thing that the nobles of this kingdom, who only cared about wealth and the authority to rule, would think of.
“Them striving to become your retainers, wives, or concubines is only the beginning of it all. To start with, this case will become a competition.” (Burkhart)
“Who will make him their vassal, isn’t it?” (Erwin)
“Ohh! Erwin-bou’s unexpected wisdom has come around.” (Burkhart)
“I am slightly hurt here…” (Erwin)
“Sorry, sorry. With this you should understand the reason why I will stay at the boy’s1 side, right?” (Burkhart)
Patron and vassal.
Summarizing this system in a single comment, this was the real aim of the aristocratic community.
From the knight peerage to the dukes, as they were all appointed to their peerage by the royal family, they likewise serve the royal family.
If we assume that this is the official stance, the economic strength of a single village stems from the collected taxes and the military strength comes from the dozens who can be mobilized in a knight peerage. Such a territory can be compared to a small country in regards to its economic strength, but the earls and dukes at the border, which can mobilize over 10’000 soldiers, are in no way the same situation though.
This might be part of the real intention.
Even so, there are too many knight peerages, associate barons and etcetera, for the kingdom to control. Thus the central government leaves the management to the local high-ranking nobles.
With the kingdom having such a motive, this system has continued its function since the establishment of the kingdom.
The patron of my home, the Baumeister household, naturally is the margrave of Breithilde.
The reason is that the margrave household of Breithilde gathered in the southern part of the kingdom, and thus for such reason many normal nobles, governing over their own territories from nearby places, gathered around them. It was also normal for the nobles in office at the central government to gather since the official positions were inheritable.
Actually, there are many like the Brandt family, which has inherited the job related to financial affairs for many generations. Viscount Mongérard was the vassal of Finance Minister Rückner and thus served as his trusted retainer.
“But, it’s strange. In case of Wend’s patron, wouldn’t the margrave of Breithilde have priority?” (Erwin)
“If you consider things normally, that is true, but there are people who don’t think so . Furthermore, by their own conclusion, this way of thinking is not wrong.” (Burkhart)
Simply put, I am a vassal to the margrave of Breithilde as I am coming from the Baumeister household. At the present time I am aiming to become an adventurer and thus attending the prep school that is also located in the territory of the margraviate of Breithilde.
After graduation, the southern area, which contains the territory of the margraviate, will become my area of activity. Thus, thinking about it normally, the margrave of Breithilde naturally has the privilege to take me in as their vassal.
“In reality, my master had decided to employ the boy before he was swarmed. Due to the interference by that shrewd king, the boy was raised to a direct retainer instead.” (Burkhart)
Thus, since I am a noble of the kingdom as associate baron, in the same way as the margrave of Breithilde, it would not be possible for me to become a retainer of the margrave.
However, if we assume that His Majesty made me a noble with such a hidden agenda, then His Majesty apparently is an extremely shrewd person after all.
“Even if the boy became a vassal of someone, His Majesty wouldn’t say anything in particular. However, in the off chance that an emergency occurs, at that time the royal family would have the priority in ordering him.” (Burkhart)
Other than following the orders of the patron, I would also have to follow the orders of the royal family as they are my masters.
Well, I guess that is just natural.
“Well then, given that situation, has margrave-sama of Breithilde decided to become his patron?” (Erwin)
“On the contrary, there is no reason for such a conclusion.” (Burkhart)
First of all, it seems there will be difficulties in dealing with the nobles in office as I have no territory of my own.
“In the same way as the boy, there have been many examples of people obtaining achievements and getting a similar conferring of decoration in the past.” (Burkhart)
Because their achievements were great, they received the annual salary of nobles and were bestowed the right of succession for their descendants.
But, there was no territory handed over alongside and neither were they given any kind of official position.
Although it was necessary to visit the royal capital once a year in order to receive their annual salary, they were basically free to do whatever they wanted for the rest of the time.
They were in the same position as I am now. As a matter of fact, it seems that quite a number of such people actually exist.
“If there is territory, there will be an intermediate-ranked noble with big influence in the local area, just like the margrave-sama of Breithilde. Those are important nobles who gather the smaller nobles under their control with no means for them to escape, as there is hardly any other choice left for those smaller nobles.” (Burkhart)
There was a knock on the door. This time it was Erich-nii-san, who had changed into casual wear after the party ended, appeared in the doorway.
“However, doesn’t this narrow down his options?” (Erwin)
“If I were to tell my position on this, wouldn’t you want to become the vassal of Marquis Rückner if it was possible?” (Erich)
“Huh? You mean like Viscount Mongérard?” (Wendelin)
“The patron of Viscount Mongérard is Marquis Rückner, isn’t he?” (Erwin)
This is the complicated part of the patron/vassal system. Viscount Mongérard is the patron of the Brandt household and at the same time he is the vassal of Marquis Rückner.
Thus it might be easier to understand if one were to call the Brandt household the vassal’s vassal(T/N: yori mago, see explanation at beginning of page to understand) of Marquis Rückner. As one would expect though, there is no such designation such as “yori mago.”
“It’s Marquis Rückner, isn’t it?” (Wendelin)
“Wend ought to have met him during the audience with His Majesty, the person who holds the position of Finance Minister.” (Erich)
“Ah, the guy who tried to be stingy with the sales of the bones and magic core… Oops, that was a slip of tongue.” (Wendelin)
“Maa, that gentleman is… However, the Finance Minister certainly has a variety of difficulties to deal with.” (Erich)
“After all the budget isn’t inexhaustible. If His Majesty would mention these stingy words, his popularity with the people and nobles would also drop. Thus, it is sometimes the Finance Minister’s job to say those disagreeable things instead of His Majesty.” (Burkhart)
The outcry to bargain on the price of those bones during the audience had such an ulterior motive, Burkhart-san explained.
Because the Finance Minister tried to lower the price of the bones, he was disliked by me. And there, His Majesty intervenes in order to salvage the situation in my favor. (ED: Yes, you were played by the King, Wend.)
As thanks from His Majesty, the excess budget from the cost of the magic core was given to the Finance Minister for circulating it to other projects that were suffering a budget shortage.
It seems to be a complete give-and-take relationship.
“The Marquis is an outstanding statesman as he doesn’t abuse his authority, nor does he increase his own fortune illegally. He also has the deep trust of His Majesty.”
“Although this is quite wonderful to learn, I am quite full of all the politic matters these past days.2 ” (Wendelin) (T/N: We are too, you know?) (ED: Politics are evil.)
Honestly, no matter how much magic you use, it’s still not possible to make all these troublesome matters go away.
Just like in my previous life where there was this troublesome matter called human relationships.
“And thus the talk has returned to its beginning. Boy, do you want to become the vassal of my master?” (Burkhart)
“In the present situation, there is no other choice.” (Wendelin)
Currently I am a scholarship student at the adventurer prep school managed by the margrave of Breithilde located in Breitburg.
After graduation I had planned to operate in the vicinity of Breitburg using the city as base of operations. It doesn’t make sense to become the vassal of another noble at this point.
“Although it isn’t favorable for Erich-nii-san…” (Wendelin)
I told him that I wouldn’t become the vassal of Marquis Rückner.
“There is no particular need to worry about that. The idea was only to the degree that he’d have been lucky if he was to get you, so Marquis Rückner won’t mind it either.” (Erich)
Even if the Marquis Rückner household held the position of Finance Minister as heritage, I wasn’t going to risk such foolery as making an enemy out of the Breithilde margraviate household that managed the entire southern part of the kingdom.
Moreover I am the biological little brother of Erich-nii-san who is a vassal himself.
That is already more than sufficient as connecting relationship. Any more than that might very likely be considered to be greedy as well.
“Really, you can’t help but get a stomach ache2 with that noble’s behavior…” (Wendelin)
“The seed of rice has been already planted for several thousand years.3 I have the same degree of difficulties as I stand at the entrance to this world as well. Being pushed like this, haven’t you already entered this world a little bit as well, Wend?” (Erich)
As the new head of the Brandt household, Erich-nii-san has the position of vassal of the vassal to Marquis Rückner. Luckily he has left a big impression on Marquis Rückner in this matter during this time.
Furthermore, Erich-nii-san is frighteningly clever.
Perhaps he will be appointed to a responsible and trusted post by Marquis Rückner in the future.
“If Erich-dono has a successful career, the impression of his close little brother will improve as well. When this happens, Erich-dono will very likely be able to request various things of the boy.” (Burkhart)
“Huh? What would he want to request of me?” (Wendelin)
“I don’t know if it will be in ten years or even later, but that fellow Armstrong (T/N: >> Amusutorongo <<) might become aware of your circumstances and the Palkenia (T/N: >> Parukenia <<) Grasslands problem might start to move, I guess …” (Burkhart)
I wasn’t aware of that person who is called Armstrong. If he is a noble, it won’t probably be any decent experience, I began to think in the end. (ED: Who else is stuck with the image of a blond, blue-eyed guy who likes showing his over-sized pecs?)
If possible, I didn’t want to get involved with him.
“I have no clue where the Palkenia Grasslands can be found, but I am a minor. Lately, although I guess it shouldn’t really be a surprise, I have been dragged into weird power struggles between nobles which usually invites misfortune. For the remaining vacation I plan to enjoy myself with normal activities such as sightseeing of the capital, shopping, and indulging myself in eating high-quality food.” (Wendelin)
“But, boy. These things are things that cannot be done without companions. Moreover, sightseeing and shopping, are matters naturally reserved for only girlfriends for some odd reason so to speak.” (Burkhart)
“Ina and Lusie aren’t really my lovers or wives though…” (Wendelin)
For the remainder of my vacation, I want to go sightseeing famous places in this vast capital, choose some goods to purchase, and go around eating delicious things…
But by no means did I want to hear complaints from Ina and Luise such as 『You have neglected me for several days!』since I wouldn’t be able to think of an apology for that. I am pretty confident that I can enjoy sightseeing by only myself just fine.
“Because I will keep them company with my wife…” (Erich)
As one would expect, Erich-nii-san, who will already be 23 years old this year and has also married, apparently stopped using “boku” to address himself. (T/N: Erich used “watashi” when he just spoke.)
And yet, will he still return to his old way when he is talking with me?
Once in a while there is a “boku” mixed in.
“Eh? Is it fine?” (Wendelin)
“I took three days off. I will guide them so they can enjoy themselves.” (Erich)
At last the marriage party has finished without any incidents. I decided, with solid determination, that from tomorrow onwards I will fully enjoy my regular summer vacation!
Translation Notes
1 The author writes the plural of Boy aka meaning all 4 of them, but the one needing the protection is Wendelin alone, so I opted for singular here.
2 “The stomach is full” is what’s written here. I guess that’s an idiom saying that he had enough of the topic.
3 Another idiom, basically saying it’s a behavior pattern that has established itself over a long time.
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Yes, when I read Armstrong, I think Full Metal Alchemist’s Alex Louis Armstrong.
I thought about the Neo Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstrong Cannon from Gintama for some reason.
When i heard armstrong i imagine muscle.
Damn fullmetal alchemist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpsezVsd0No
THIS is what I think of, which is after relating to FMA…
Strong-arm politics has been passed down the Armstrong family line for generations!
this! this was what i was thinking when reading!
I understand your intent to keep the words as close to the actual Japanese as possible, but in this case, with its frequent usage and the fact that this is essentially a Western-style feudal society rather than a samurai one, wouldn’t it be easier and more readable to use vassal and master?
I think retainer would fit better, but that is just my opinion.
Retainer = servant, soldier, etc. working for someone else. (which, in a way, also includes vassals)
Vassal = very similar to what is described this chapter.
A similar terminology to the ‘yori oya/mi’ would then be vassal/lord or vassal/patron.
Well the problem is that vassal/retainer seems to be something else or used in a different way in this novel. The author does mention vassals/retainers after all (see in regard to Erwin’s group being vassals of Wendelin)
It’s not like I enjoy using the original terminology as I actually looked for a proper English translation of that, but I didn’t find any, which is why I used the original term to stress the importance of a different kind of relationship there.
Of course I could have used master/vassal here but that would have meant losing out on that information.
If you got any other better way to explain it in English, I am more than open for suggestions. 🙂
In this case, Erwin and co. are Wend’s retainers, not vassals. They get paid wages and everything, but doesn’t have feudal homeage from Wend.
And as for the term vassal, aside from the fact that yori mis arent given land by yori oyas, its almost the same.
Mm okay, that makes the distinction easy then. Fixed it~
maybe you should use the Suzerain for Yori oya and Vassal for Yori mi as it sound more medievalish and mean the same thing.
Actually, the society seems more Japanese then western. It’s just the names of the titles that are western.
Well, that was what I was referring to, since we’re talking about the terms. Japan’s Shogun > Daimyo > Samurai > Peasants has some similarities to Western feudalism but a key difference is that samurai (knights in this story) did not own land but earned salary from their daimyo. They also had a strong sense of loyalty toward their lord that seems absent in our only example (the Baumeisters).
I hereby bow humbly before you as a translation god. I tried reading this fiction via Machine Translations and was utterly defeated during these past few chapters. All this wacky terminology needs skillful parsing and even this it is damn confusing (though you do a great job of clarifying it!).
Thanks again for all your hard work. Also many thanks to the patrons who support you.
Hm when u got 30 chaps to gread the explenations of politics are slightly annoying but when u need to wait for a chap every week or so you notice that 99% of the fucking chapter can be summed up as ppl trying to use you.
Become this persons adopted son or something (oya mi or oya 4ss) no need to even use this term when its basicly saying that a person gets semi adopted into their family funny part is the mc can just say i dont want to or i dont want to be a baron you can buy the fucking bones but i dont want to fuckin serve you!
As they explained that the king can get upset if he didnt sell it to them but the king getting upset because he doesnt want to be a baron is crazy shit all the more when the king told the mc that he can do whatever so why can he just not say NO to any and all faggits that he doesnt want to be adopted into any family i am a free lancer.
Even if you make a political party in current society you do not have to do what other political partys do you can preach about using condoms as baloons for kid partys for all they care.
I think that it depends how some people will take Wendelin’s refusal.
There not going to be many people who’ll think on the same “wave length” as the King. Some people will see Wendelin as a business opportunity of sorts; since he’s young (12), that means that the possibility of him getting stronger in magic is high. Based on the earlier chapters of what magic can do (causing damage, processing different metals, creating different things like a magic bag), magic is really looked upon as great; and since Wendelin’s magic power is still growing, there’s a lot of potential he can bring when it comes to finances in different areas. This will make a lot of people (both nobles and commoners) try to enlist him in their aid.
However, not all nobles will be really to enlist him. There are some nobles who might see Wendelin as a potential threat to their title/finances (especially if he is enlisted under someone else). Thanks to this, they might try to get rid of him early so that they won’t have to worry about him.
While it’s true that he can turn down the nobles, the problem with that is that it’ll earn him a bad reputation (and some trouble). While it’s true the King did made a comment about Wendelin can turn down the invitation, the problem is that that’ll earn Wendelin an extremely bad reputation; especially since not only is he turning down something offered by the king itself (and the words the King said might be looked upon as “merciful” to others), but he’s also turning down a title (associate baron) that most people could only dream of (and they might look at Wendelin as a complete idiot for turning down a great reward). Based on this chapter, the nobles did everything they could to even talk to Wendelin (some, if not most, not paying heed to Erich’s wedding). If the nobles went this far, then it’s certain that they’ll continue to pester Wendelin to try to enter their ranks. There might be even some nobles who’ll try to make Wendelin’s life harder if he keeps on refusing; along with not having a prospering life since earning the nobles’ ire just brings trouble.
That sounds plausible. I mean when I think about Helmut Kingdom right now, they have not been at war for a long time. So, the only thing causing issues in the kingdom are the nobles themselves due to their pride or other stupid political things.
Anyway, if Wend really wanted to be safe. His best bet would be to follow after the Finance Minister guy but we all we know that Wendelin just wants to be free. Although I think the biggest problem for Wendelin politically would be the fact that he is not married.
Truth be told, I don’t think it’s a good idea to follow the Finance minister at the moment. The reason I say this is because we don’t exactly have clue regarding his personality. I know this chapter talked about the King’s personality, but not about his (at least in depth). Until we have any evidence pertaining to who he is, I feel that it’s best for Wendelin to stay away from (It a too cautious move, be Wendelin has to be); and the only people Wendelin should trust at the moment are those he already know (at least through talk).
As for Wendelin’s weakness, I feel that it’s the fact that he’s entirely new to the whole “nobles” thing, since he has become a noble for only a very, short time. Which means (as much as some people don’t like the many details of rules), he’s not as knowledgeable as those who were nobles way longer than him (and probably know all of the rules). This will probably lead to someone of high stature to somehow pull a use one of those rules to somehow get Wendelin more involve. I wouldn’t be stating this if it wasn’t for that things Burkhart stated in this chapter. According to him, his master was going to employ Wendelin first (which would lead to have a rank lower than Burkhart’s master) and quick in the first place so that Wendelin wouldn’t be swarmed (like he was in these couple of chapters), along with not taking orders from other nobles. However, the King got in the way and gave Wendelin a title (that makes him the same rank as Burkhart’s master), which leads to Wendelin now not being able to refuse certain orders now. The king made his move before Margrave interfered.
can you explain what a yori mi/ yori yo means? or could you just translate it and paste it in
i mean paste the explanation next to the yori mi/yori yo in the chapter.
so it would be yori mi(be servant)
Erich is already aiming to three time his wife with the 2 girls. Oh you…
WTF is the yori mi thing lol
And now I should ask myself, why I bothered to explain it at the top of the chapter, huh? :p
When I heard the name “Armstrong”, the image of that a certain muscle builder (who shows of his muscles and make speeches of certain things being passed down through his family line) did instantly popped up in my mind.
Can’t believe that I didn’t caught on that the King used a bit “word play” with the Financer to trick Wendelin. As much as it pains me to say it, the King was sly/slick to get Wendelin into that position.
My head is really hurting from the amount of rules that comes with being nobles, but at least more information is being provided. With this many rules, it’s obvious that they were created to try to make sure that becoming a noble (or at least getting a high rank)isn’t very easy to obtain (in other words, not something people can too easily use to gain money). It seems that some degree of effort is used (with it mostly using their heads). While at the same time, the kingdom can receive money for the economy. To stay in the game of nobles, they have to try (if they have some) to at least use their heads to make sure they stay in position. However, I feel like that with this many rules, there’s bound to be some people (probably the King again) that’ll use those same rules (of a noble) to their advantage (or at least use a loophole to gain the advantage of using Wendelin somehow).
Can’t believe that Wendelin plans on taking a walk in the city considering his circumstances. I hope that he has some kind of “invisible spell” to make him undetected by people so he won’t be dragged into another mess (unless this chapter is hinting that it’s going to happen).
Thx
I’m not sure what the author was thinking. Several chapters of politics in a row is pretty bad ._.
It must have been pretty terrible to translate all of this political mumbo jumbo too
Thanks for the chapter
maybe you should use the Suzerain for Yori oya and Vassal for Yori mi as it sound more medievalish and mean the same thing.
Oh god those long comments above me…
Hopefully the plot will start to move in a more exciting direction now~
I thank the entire staff that made this chapter possible! Its really nice to have real translators and editors instead of machine translations!
Hey Translator(s), thanks for the chapter!
Hey Editors, could you please be like everyone else and keep your personal comments out of the story and at the bottom of the page
Thanks again! It’s finally moving a bit faster YES! And…are they his wife’s now or what? lol He did not deny or anything…Love is a cruel mistress.
Thank you for the chapter 🙂
Armstrong… the narcistic blond, blue-eyed guy who likes showing his over-sized pecs.. yes that does ring a bell..
although i like Hachinan, i have to wonder is the whole arc going to be about politics.. and make my brain overheat for the whole series.. T_T *sob* i guess i have to level up my Brain Freeze tolerance.. or was it brain over-heat tolerance.. oh well.. i’m going to eat ice cream anyway.. go brain freeze!
now i imagine what has the translator been going through while translating this series …
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE CHAPTER!
wife tagged mwahahaha at wrost concubines.
That information about vassal/patron is really useful, thanks for the hardwork !
and thanks for the chapter !
Patron? EVERYONE GET IN HERE
Thanks for the chapter!!!
you people might think of the muscle guy but i thought of this one
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/fma/images/a/a8/000scxhw.png/revision/latest?cb=20120807151452
Greetings and thank you for the translation. None of my dictionaries have an entry for yori-oya or yori-ko, but the relationship described here does not seem to have any of the special connotations i deciphered from the wikipedia article but rather seems to be the bog standard european-style vassal-liege relationship. Thus I agree with translating yori-ko as vassal.
However I am not so sure about translating yori-oya as patron; I have never heard the lord of a vassal be called patron anywhere. Terms I have come across are lord, liege and liege lord in lighter literature and sometimes suzerain in more academic texts. Personally I’d probably switch between the first three as seems appropriate.
I hope I don’t annoy you with my nitpicking 😉
No you don’t.
But since the term “patron” has no historical connotations in regards to the relationship between a liege and a vassal, I prefer to keep using it then.
But only for the reason that this relationship expressed in the novel is kind of a special typical Japanese relationship (which doesn’t actually fit with a western-styled aristocracy theme) and thus can’t properly be compared to the standard medieval western noble relationships (same kind of situation as with associate baron vs. baronet).
Well I think the term gets the meaning across either way. So I won’t change it for the time being unless the author re-defines the term at some other point in a different way.
Personally I would have kept the Japanese terms as the patron/vassal already includes an information loss, but oh well. ^^
Wend just wanna relax
I feel like there will be a destined encounter next chapter?
Thanks so much for all your hard work!!! Really like this one!!!
Sorry, it is a bit late, but the lines translated as
“Wend, I will keep your wives company.” (Erich)
are 「ヴェル、奥さんと一緒に私も付き合うから」it says “Wel, okusan to issho ni watashi mo tsukiau kara” . from the not so obvious nuances most likely Erich refers to his own wife as “okusan” here. which makes the meaning “Because I will keep them company with my wife…”
Umu, makes more sense in that context, so will fix it that way. Thanks~
This story is good but those detailed explains are boring ~~
Thanks for translating this story :3
Thank ya very much for the translation, translator! Many thanks towards the Author!
Thanks for doing this Chapter ?
I don’t want to nag, but i am utterly disappointed by this…
It started out really good, but lost it’s drive after the first few chapters. And since its just boring blablabla, not to mention all this political-trivia in the last 15 or so chapters. Even that dragon fight was boring.
Please drop this and pick up something new with more substance, this is a drag -.-
On a different note, thanks for the translational-work though, its nice to read new stuff even if it turns out to be boring, keep it up!
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Thanks for the chapter!
Your wedding must suck when all your guest think of it as a political gathering instead, and the bride doesn’t even get to say anything! This is the first time I’ve ever feel so much pity for a side character.
First Hohenhiem(MAJOR SP) now Armstrong, the FMA is strong in this one.
Agreed
Regarding the use of “watashi” in this context, it’s supposed to be a polite way of addressing oneself in keigo, especially for courtiers and similar.
All about his magic, the talking corpse and the battle agains the bone dragon didn’t really impres me, but the degree of deep of the inherent problems, noblesse vassal/patron relationships really impress me and keep me reading.
Carrot and Stick, Double Play Edition.
Armstrong? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5ac3a253227b4d7588fc1a95bf47a9af41b771c5cfa59774d3acaadeeb9140c5.jpg