Chapter 373: Scary Mountain Climb – Bonus
Translated by Zzonkedd
Edited by Gumihou
After breakfast, we made our way to the mountain top.
[8] At first, it was just a gradual upwards slope. Which was not too bad, quite pleasant actually especially with my increased stamina and strength due to the level-ups.
[8] Eventually though…
“How are we supposed to climb this?”
[8] The thing before us was a sheer rock cliff with exposed jagged rocks that were just short of a 90 degree vertical. I never did any mountain climbing before in my life, unless you count hiking up Mount Takao [9].
I really don’t want to climb that.
“Humph, there’s nothing to it. Just climb on my back,”
“Well, I guess…”
Fer sounded confident, so I got onto his back. Sui was tucked safely inside my leather bag as usual.
““Well, see you up there!”” [3] Dora-chan said before turning around and zipping upwards.
“I’m going to move now.” After dropping that single warning, [8] Fer leapt forward, bounding up the nearly vertical cliff face as though it was flat ground.
“Eh, w-wait- gyaaaaa!!!!” [5]
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“I-I thought I was gonna die …”
[8] Fer only stopped when we reached a small shelf-like hollow on the cliff face.
“Sheesh, you sure are loud,” [5]
“If you don’t want me to scream, you should have given me a warning, or go slower!”
“Humph, pathetic,”
Sorry for being pathetic. [1] Scary things are scary… It was just like an upward zooming roller coaster, [8] the G-force alone was nauseating!
I want an apology! How could you force someone who had never been on an extreme ride to experience something like a vertical roller coaster?!
[10]
“Well, from now on, you can climb up with your own power.”
“Eh?”
“We made good time just now, but from here on you can climb on your own.”
“B-but why?”
“You’re too noisy, you keep asking me to stop. Well, we’ve stopped. So, you can climb the rest on your own.”
“Me? Climb?” I stared at the rock cliff.
[8] Height did not improve my view of the mountainside. If anything, it had worsened. Where the cliffside had been jagged and dangerous looking, the rest of the way up now was… smooth.
“You expect me to climb this?!” I shrieked, flailing at the smooth surface.
““Oi! What are you guys doing? Hurry up!”” [5]
“Umu, I’m coming,”
“Wait, wait, wait! What do you mean? I can’t climb this?!”
““Eh? You don’t want to? Guess I’m fine either way, I’m not interested in human treasures,”” said Dora-chan.
“No! I mean, yes, I’m interested in the treasure but I can’t climb this!”
“What are you talking about, there are plenty of ridges you can dig your hands into. It’s a pretty easy climb.” [5]
“…what ridges?” [5]
“Are your eyes for decorations?”
““Hey! So, are we going on or going home?””
“I-”
“We can’t, we’re here due to an oracle from the god. So we need to explore the mountain properly.”
“But I can’t climb that!”
“Hahhh…. how troublesome, just climb on my back,”
“Eh? What? No!?”
“Just get on,”
Before I could protest further, Fer grabbed me by my shirt and tossed me onto his back. I reflexively grabbed on when Fer suddenly moved forward. [5]
“#$〇&♪×¥▲◎!!!!!”
[10]
A weird screech escaped me each time Fer leapt forward again and again…
““You’re finally here! I was getting bored!”” [3] Dora-chan snickered as he swooped around my head.
“…uurrggghh…”
““Hey, what’s with this guy?”” [5]
“He has no guts,”
“..urgh… guh…” I really wanted to protest but was too tapped out to do anything but groan. “Bler-”
“Hey! No dirtying my fur!”
Fer shook himself and I fell to the floor, “-aaarrrghhh…” [5]
““Yeesh,””
[6] ““Master~?”
[6] Sui’s cool body oozed closer to my head. Her cool body made me feel a little better.
[6] “Don’t worry, Sui will clean up~!!”
[6] Urrggghh… T_T
[5] [5] [5]
““Heey~ heeyy~~””
[11] Quit nudging me with your paw, Dora-chan. “Blergh.”
““Oh, ew, guess we have to wait for this guy to recover first.””
“Humph, pathetic.”
““All clean~~!””
[11]
Thank you, Sui. Sui is the best. I wish the others would treat me as nicely as you do…
It took me a long time to recover enough to sit up. At least my familiars did not try to force me to get up before I was ready. Especially not after I nearly threw up on Dora-chan.
“Haahh, I feel a bit better now.”
“Good, you can feed us first,”
“What?”
““I know, right? I was surprised too! We hung around so long that lunchtime had come and gone.””
“I feel like throwing up again.”
““Sui is hungry too…””
“…ah, Sui-tan… of course, I must feed my familiars~”
“Tch,”
““Discrimination!””
[11]
Ignoring the ‘gunununu’ from my other two mean and thoughtless familiars, I prepared some standard rice bowl dishes with stir-fried meat and vegetables.
“Well, here you go,”
““Uhoh, I like these since they’re fast.””
““Yay~~””
“Hey! Why does my serving have less meat?”
“…that’s just your imagination,”
Fer: It was not my imagination! There was less meat than usual in my bowl!
Gumi: …lol, this has nothing to do with me
Fer: Gunununu
[1] Structural Change: Combine 2 paragraphs
[2] Structural Change: Combine 3 paragraphs
[3] Structural Change: Combine paragraph & dialogue
[4] Structural Change: Change passive sentence to dialogue
[5] Delete Repetitive or Pointless Information.
[6] Additional Information for Aesthetic Purpose
[7] Add Dialogue Tag
[8] Creative Licence Taken – Realistic mountain climbing experience, sheer rock cliff or no.
[9] Mt. Takao – is the closest natural recreation area to central Tokyo. Nearly everyone who was there would have climbed it. Gumi did too.
https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e3029.html
This information is added by Gumi.
[10] Kind of pointless dialogue that appeared to have been slapped on to extend the chapter. Gave Fer a reason to stop and start at least.
[11] Also, Gumi made Mukouda throw up.