TNZKMA 92

Explanation for the first conversation:

”inexperienced”

不束者 (futsutsukamono) – incompetent or inexperienced person

”(2)Two-dayer”

(2)二日(futsuka-two days)者(person-mono) – basically MC misremembered (futsutsukamono) and forgot 1 “tsu”

”(3)pickledvegetables”

(3)浅漬け – I don’t understand it well either

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[It’s “I may be inexperienced  but please take care of me.”]

[I see! That’s it! Uhh…… I may be a two-dayer but please take care of me.]

[You’re just a pickled vegetable then. It’s “inexperienced”.]

 

I practiced a lot while being taught by Haruka. I might bite my tongue.

 

[But since it’s a greeting that people here don’t understand, I think your words are fine.]

[You think so?]

[Of course. Even if you greet them in Japanese culture, it’ll just get ignored if they don’t know what it means.]

 

Does he have experience in this, too? But Haruka’s words are also reasonable, so I let the words I just learned slip away from my memory. Even if I say something in the language from over there that doesn’t exist here, Saine won’t be able to understand. I think greetings are the same. Even if I say, ‘I’m a two-dayer’, I don’t understand what it means either.

 

[Eat.]

 

A plate was placed in front of me who was being swayed to go for the simpler route. When I exclaimed and looked up in surprise, I saw the back of Haruka’s husband who returned to his store.

 

[Huh…… Uh……]

 

What should I do? On the table that the three of us surrounded, there was the green pig stew that Olphynn had bought, fried red beef, as well as a plentiful white ox bowl. A plate of stir-fried turnips and some kind of leaves is placed there. It doesn’t have a shred of meat in it.

 

[This is meant as an apology.]

 

When I looked at him, Haruka was smiling.

 

[You see, that’s my favorite dish. Among the things that person cooks, that’s the most delicious. Give it a taste.]

 

When I tried eating it, it truly was delicious. Even though there are only turnips and leaves, the umami spreads in my mouth.

 

[It’s amazingly delicious!]

[Isn’t that right? I always watched by the side while wondering how he made it but I couldn’t figure it out at all. It’s seasoned with just salt but it is very tasty.]

 

Haruka doesn’t like meat so he only touched the food that Olphynn bought a bit and ate the food his husband cooked after.

 

[Did you talk with your husband?]

[Yeah, I did. It was also like this in my past life, we were often fighting a lot when we were together but when we’re apart for a while, we’d end up becoming closer. I think it’s the same with that person. When I went to retrieve my things yesterday, that person bought me a new outfit. The last dispute ruined my old clothes after all.]

 

Dad and mom were also kind the next day every time they hit me. During the time we rode the roller coaster and that time she made the rice balls, they hit me really hard the day before those.

 

[Haruka, are you going back to your husband’s place?]

[……That’s not happening.]

 

He hesitated a little, yet Haruka said so and I breathed a sigh of relief. I think that everybody is different, however, his husband may have treated him kindly because of feelings of guilt but I don’t think that it will last long.

 

[That person is seriously looking for my next husband. It’s just…… the price is high.]

[Is he overcharging?]

[It doesn’t seem to be the case. I told him that. The truth about the male Reincarnators……]

 

Olphynn already knows why we went to the forest. Male Reincarnators can’t give birth. Olphynn had no knowledge about that. He didn’t know, however, he was angry. At the Priest who exposed it to us.

But he wasn’t angry because we were hurt but because he* talked as if something that wasn’t ascertained yet to be fact.

If it’s not recorded in the books, then male Reincarnators probably can’t conceive. That’s what I thought but Olphynn said that he must judge only after reading all the Priests’ books. That’s why Olphynn declared that he will become a Head Priest. Why is it that only women can give birth, why are there failures during the Ceremonies, why can’t male Reincarnators give birth? Saying that he wants to clarify the questions of the world.

If Olphynn says that he will become it, I believe that he really will. Olphynn didn’t say that he wants or aims to become  the Head Priest. He declared it. That’s why he will probably become the Head Priest. Because he will surely continue to work hard to fulfill that goal.

 

[Male Reincarnators don’t conceive. That’s why I have value as a Reincarnator. That’s what I told him, but that person said that he will not lower the price.]

 

Haruka smiled lightly.

 

[I misunderstood him. I wondered if he wanted money to this level. But you know, I was wrong.]

 

He chuckles.

 

[He said, ‘It will be a problem if a man like me steps up.’]

[What does he mean?]

[That person bought me for 1000 ales. He doesn’t have much savings because he drinks too much. his turn for the Ceremony won’t come, and he can’t take it even if it came. That’s why he got a male Reincarnator for 1000 ales cheap. That’s why he doesn’t want a similarly penniless alcoholic to be my next husband. He wants to find a man who is fine with having a male Reincarnator…… That’s such a hopeless goal, isn’t it……]

 

Haruka frowned as if he’s troubled, but he looked happy deep down.

 

[Haruka, how much is it?]

[I don’t know? I didn’t ask him directly but it’s probably around 1 million ales.]

 

I groaned involuntarily. No one will probably buy a male Reincarnator at the same price as taking the Ceremony.

 

[I tell him everyday to persuade him that I can’t possibly stay in the Priest-samas’ care forever so he should somehow make it reasonable.]

 

Haruka sighed.

 

 

 

 

TN: I hope the explanation for the misunderstanding in the first conversation makes sense.