Tsuki – Chapter 346: Two Wheels

The adventurers that had left Tsige were returning bit by bit.

Since the time this city had begun a war, their actions have changed drastically. 

In Koran and the neighboring settlements, the rate in which people cross the north gate for miscellaneous work around the Golden Highway, and the rate in which people crossed the grim south gate aiming for the wasteland, have been reversed greatly.

There’s people that are just close enough to the requirements to be allowed into the wasteland but are careful people, so they haven’t entered the wasteland yet.

There’s also people who would come to Tsige, hear about the tragedies of adventurers of the same level as them who went to the wasteland, and get scared. 

This city, where people come and go constantly, has quite a lot of those dangling adventurers that are in a pitiful state of trying to earn money with jobs that don’t fit their actual ability while shaving off their savings. 

That’s why the Adventurer Guild placed a request with a high reward for first class parties to work as instructors for the rookies, and tried to increase the amount of those kinds of adventurers entering the wasteland. 

Whether it is in the middle of war or not, the Adventurer Guild exists for the sake of the adventurers and the troubled requesters.

The merchants are also dropping war related requests that are close to the gray zone. 

Basically, they are doing what they can so that the adventurers with bright futures, and have the possibility of being able to perform wasteland requests, don’t die in the war. 

But there were quite a good number of executives who were thinking about having Tomoe and Mio as the instructors, and were troubled quite a lot in the safety of it and the matters of the rewards, and also brought upon the resentment of a number of people.

It is more of a fun story at present, but Tomoe and Mio raised mostly people that were interesting, and the reward was…honestly, I didn’t pay much attention to that either, but it was really low.

In the end, Root himself came recently, established a new tier called wasteland tier adventurers, and for now has readied four ranks from C to S.

Their ranks up to now will be the same.

And so, there’s a good amount of parties who are in the wasteland rank A and S, and quite a good number of them who left from the northern gate had begun to return. 

“They scattered extravagant bait and high class anglers, huh.” 

“It seems benefits with Tsige were prepared as well for the case where they would personally cooperate. A decent number of settlements consented with the sponsoring of the bait, and there were apparently pretty good results.” 

I was listening to Tomoe’s report in regards to what the adventurers, who are normally active in the wasteland, are doing in Aion.

They are doing a surprise attack on the enemy units.

However, it is on the pretext of protecting merchant wagons.

It is a tradition of the country to send mounted forces before a decisive battle, and announce that they will be subjugating rebels and bandits with a large army. 

Positioning adventurers in anticipation to those mounted forces; these are the anglers.

Positioning merchants prepared by Tsige or the cooperating settlements with a big amount of luggage that has a lot of openings; this is the bait.

Aion demanded money at the time of the announcement, and the mounted troops also have the duty to make the settlements provide supplies.

The former is apparently a side benefit, and the latter is a mission.

The merchant guild that got an eye on that tradition apparently thought ‘if they look like they are going to attack, it should be okay to use adventurers to fight back, right?’.

Those mounted forces are composed by elites that would actually be too strong for decent adventurers…but if it is first class wasteland adventurers with the element of surprise, it will just be a one-sided slaughter. 

Accurate results still haven’t shown, but the chances are high that the mounted forces won’t be able to regroup with the main force.

There were practically no parties who returned with a grim look on their faces.

“They actually attack merchants, huh.” 

“Even if left alone, they would get attacked by bandits or something. Then, they would go ‘if there’s going to be bandits ahead, we will be subjugating them, so cough out the money’. It is completely a pretext, but apparently strong bandits would come in less than half a day if they were to refuse.” (Tomoe)

“…Sounds like an end of the world scenario.” (Makoto)

“This time around, the sheeps were also wolves in disguise, so it equalizes.” (Tomoe)

“But I heard that quite a lot of top ranked adventurers were secured for this. Isn’t that putting too much firepower there? Toa is basically the ace of Tsige and all, right? I feel like that’s a waste.” (Makoto)

They have a home in Tsige. 

If the army were to push their way till the city, it wouldn’t just be someone else’s business.

Or maybe they plan on returning after the matters of Tsige calm down?

If it were on the assumption that Tsige will lose, you could say it is an intelligent choice though.

“Waka, top class adventurers are well known. They seem to have a mission in that part as well.” (Tomoe)

“As in?” (Makoto)

“The parties would move around prioritizing the places they have a deep connection with, and would request them to cooperate with Tsige or at least maintain a neutral stance.” (Tomoe)

“…To the settlements that are at the central parts of Aion?” (Makoto)

That’s nasty.

The successful adventurers that are like heroes to those places will return to their homeland and tell them stuff like ‘Tsige is a good place’ and ‘the Aion Kingdom is merciless’?

“Haha…there’s no way Rembrandt is that…” (Tomoe)

“Right.” (Makoto)

“Soft. He is paying all the costs, including the use of teleportation and the Golden Highway in the homecoming of the parties…and has spread them around the world. For the parties that are heading to places aside from Aion, this is basically a tour to return to their homes that has been sponsored to them. It is an extravagant travel expense that would make even Koumon-sama pale white.” (Tomoe) 

“…The world, huh.” (Makoto)

“Moreover, he thoroughly investigated the parties, avoiding the shady people, and choosing only the parties that have a bright personality and are the target of admiration when dropping the requests. He really goes all out, ahahaha.” (Tomoe)

Don’t laugh in monotone, Tomoe.

That’s scary. 

“Admired adventurers, huh… Toa is?” (Makoto)

“Alpine is already a party that’s basically given specifically designated requests in regards to the wasteland after all. They are comfortably going around all of Aion while using that as resting time. They are interacting with the settlements as they gather information.” (Tomoe)

“…Aion? They are not heading towards Lorel and the demi-human settlements?” (Makoto)

“They recently arrived at a settlement that is famous for their slime dishes which you taught them a long time ago, Waka.” (Tomoe)

“Ah, that place. A place that’s pretty close to the capital of Aion.” (Makoto)

“Yeah. There have been reports in the guild that there were surprising good finds there. They got magic bags and managed to acquire equipment.” (Tomoe)

“…New equipment, huh.” (Makoto)

Is it from Rokuya-san? 

He was crazy happy about this Tobikato business. 

He is moving at an incredibly fast pace.

I am surprised he even had the time to tease me with all he has been doing.

“What is it?” (Tomoe)

Oops. 

Tomoe must have felt hidden meaning behind my words, she is urging me to continue on.

“Rokuya-san must be the one involved with the new equipment.” (Makoto)

“Roku…aaah. That fake ninja.” (Tomoe)

“He seemed to be quite happy about the appearance of the first ever Tobikato. He even came to me to thank me.” (Makoto)

“Tobikato…?” (Tomoe)

“Hm? You don’t know? It is a famous person in the warring times of Japan. He led the Kato Group and is said to have been ninjas that use illusions. His nickname was Tobi Kato. For some reason, there’s apparently also jobs called Mugai and Yagyu in the Adventurer Guild.” (Makoto)

The game that served as the base of the joint skill. 

Seriously, what MMO was it?

“Ninjas?! Shinobis?!” (Tomoe)

“Yeah. There’s different types of ninjas, but instead of becoming a Hanzo or a Fuuma, Toa became a Tobikato, which you might have been an influence in, Tomoe, since you specialize in illusions.” (Makoto)

I don’t know if the Hanzo or the Fuuma jobs even exist though.

“…Waka…why…why didn’t you tell me sooner?!” (Tomoe)

Eh? 

Tomoe spins her fist and seems to be restless.

No well, talking about the job of Toa isn’t that much of a topic to have with Tomoe anyways.

And I can’t go to that shop for a while because of Rokuya-san.

Even at meals, or when bathing, or after that… I really didn’t find a good time to bring out that topic. 

“It was just Rokuya-san getting all excited about it, and I didn’t feel like there was any real need to share this.” (Makoto) 

“It is a matter of UTMOST importance!” (Tomoe) 

“As if.” (Makoto) 

“Also, Mugai and Yagyu? What’s with that mouth-watering information? This is supreme information that settles that the Asora residents will be registering in the Adventurer Guild as well! It really is!” (Tomoe) 

Mouth-watering and supreme, that’s exaggerating. 

It is true that it is interesting information, but I honestly think that learning that the rival of the Neptune King Tuna are the twins An and Chovy was more of a shocking piece of information for me.

At the time when I was told by them that they wanted to dispatch people there to protect Koran because they had business there, I was desperately trying to endure my laughter.

Also, the mountain of anchovies I was given as present. 

There may be a lot of fish dishes, but having that all the time as a full course for several days, you would have a bitter smile unless you were someone who likes that food a lot.

Quantity, quantity, quantity. 

The amount was astounding. 

Ah, by the way, the ones who liked it were the winged-kin.

They were happy as if everyday was their birthday.

Right right, the karaage hell is also continuing. 

It won’t go as far as being part of our three meals, but there’s no day where it doesn’t show up.

The children are super happy about that.

The demon, Sari, also seemed to like it quite a lot. She was indulging in them with such zeal that it felt like she was counting them as a luxury meal that could even be served as snacks.

I honestly regret having that karaage talk with Rokuya-san. 

“To that extent…?” (Makoto)

“Toa, huh. Muuh, meeting her now would be a bit bad. That damn Rokuya. Keeping such an auspicious event a secret…!” (Tomoe)

“Auspicious event, you say…” (Makoto)

She is already going crazy. 

“But to think the Tobikato originates from a ninja. Looks like I still lack study. Now that it has come to this, I will have to take good care of Toa…” (Tomoe)

“The fact that they are going around Aion must mean that Alpine have another mission aside from gathering good will and splitting.” (Makoto)

“? They want to pull out the Apostle or a subordinate of the king, right?” (Tomoe)

“With Toa?” (Makoto)

“Yeah, she would be the best choice.” (Tomoe)

“…Aah, that’s how it is, huh. Bringing down the “wheels” of the city, right?” (Makoto)

“And to the people who have power, political influence, and distance.” (Tomoe)

Tsige is a city of merchants and adventurers.

Adventurers don’t get involved in politics too much, so as a result, the ones who manage and move the city are the merchants. 

Also, there was a time when the dagger Lapis of Toa created trouble for the Kuzunoha Company. 

I see, so Aion hasn’t yet received the information regarding what happened after.

That’s why they can move them around so carefreely in Aion.

I get it now.

“And so, the moment they come, counter them.” (Makoto)

“Must be.” (Tomoe)

“Haah, both sides have really thought it thoroughly. It is a war, so that’s obvious, huh.” (Makoto)

“Teleporting your whole forces to the capital and rampaging is a plan that you normally can’t pull out after all.” (Tomoe)

We can though.

But only we can, huh.

“Whatever the case, I think that things are currently proceeding according to the plans of Tsige.” (Tomoe)

“Got it. Thanks… Hey, Tomoe…” (Makoto)

“?”

“When talking about Yagyu, who do you think was the origin of the job?” (Makoto)

I suddenly remembered the part that bothered me in the talk of Rokuya-san, and tried asking Tomoe.

“If it came from the master samurai, it would be Juubei. I personally think Toshikane is also a possibility, but there’s already a Mugai as well. If that’s the case, it should be a general or an instructor…Munenori?” (Tomoe)

“…”

“Waka?” (Tomoe)

“I think you have studied plenty well, Tomoe. You really do love your history.” (Makoto)

“It is my life pursuit!” (Tomoe)

Toshikane, huh. 

How to say it. This might be natural since she sees the period dramas and history from my memories, but…the likes of Tomoe and I sometimes overlap, and for someone like me who didn’t have many people who I could share period drama talks with, this feels ticklish and it makes me happy.

These kinds of moments are nice.

I would like things to stay like this forever. 

For the sake of Tomoe…I also want Toa to come back safely.

I think that with Rokuya-san and Tomoe having an eye on her, she should be okay. 

For some reason, I thought that.

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102 thoughts on “Tsuki – Chapter 346: Two Wheels”

  4. I think that with Rokuya-san and Tomoe having an eye on her, she should be okay.

    Toa: Well thanks for killing me I guess…

  5. Makoto! You are at war currently don’t bring up these flags. You should know from the anime, manga,&novels you read. SMH

  7. flag
    noun:
    1.a piece of cloth or similar material, typically oblong or square, attachable by one edge to a pole or rope and used as the symbol or emblem of a country or institution or as a decoration during public festivities.
    “the American flag”
    2.a small piece of cloth attached at one edge to a pole and used as a marker or signal in various sports.
    “the flag’s up”

    verb:
    1.mark (an item) for attention or treatment in a specified way.
    “the spellcheck program flags any words that are not in its dictionary”
    2.(of an official) raise a flag to draw the referee’s attention to a breach of the rules in soccer, rugby, and other sports.
    “the goalkeeper brought down Hendrie and a linesman immediately flagged”

    remember kids.. dictionary is a fucking lie. when flag appears.. it means shit going down

    1. Ah you probably know this, but, flag comes from programming, when you set a bool variable to true to check it later in an if clause, pretty simple in programming.
      VNs use a lot of flags to determine a route or if an event procs.

  8. Alright, so my own 2cents here…

    I hope MC makes it to teleportation to Earth and back again and can bring Mio, Tomoe, some Eldwas, Eris and Ema! Sari too would be a good one to bring. Shiki would probably be happy if brought along as well. But I would start with just Tomoe and Mio.

    Also be neat to see his parents reaction when he knocks on the house door
    “Im back!”
    Parents: ?!?!?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!!
    “I beat that Bug (Goddess) half to death before other Deities intervened to stop me from killing her. I have been promoted to Godhood and can now teleport around multiple worlds…as well as um…being a Creation God of my own world? >_> Oh and these are my two wives!”
    Parents: ?????????!!???????????????????????????????????????????????? *Explosions!*

      1. I never finished reading. But yeah was kinda hoping he could do something similar. I caught up to translations on this novel (Makoto’s) and just never picked it up.

  9. Tsuki – Chapter 346: Two Wheels

    Thats as far as I got and went “Oh fuck me, Eldwas saw a memory of a motorcycle, didnt they?”

    Back to see if its true or something.

    EDIT: FUCK! no motorcycles.

  15. “There’s also people who would come to Tsige, hear about the tragedies of adventurers of the same level as them who went to the wasteland, and get scared. ”

    Bunch of noobs

    Thanks for the chapter

  16. “There’s also people who would come to Tsige, hear about the tragedies of adventurers of the same level as them who went to the wasteland, and get scared. ”

    Bunch of noobs
    Thanks for the chapter

  17. “Also, Mugai and Yagyu? What’s with that mouth-watering information? This is supreme information that settles that the Asora residents will be registering in the Adventurer Guild as well! It really is!” (Tomoe)

    It’s gonna be a blast if suddenly hordes of demi-humans and mamonos with ridiculous levels start swarming the Adventurers Guild in Tsige to register LOL

    Leaving aside mamonos (not like they can freely go around the world), with ALL the advantages being registered as adventurer have, it should be a MUST to be registered as one.

  18. All this talks about jobs and skills make me want to read after Tsuki a novel with a deep and good level system but I already have read a few of them so I don’t know if there are still more translated that get my interest.

  19. Thanks for the chapter desu~

    The only significant detail I received from this chapter was that Asora will finally be registering into the Adventurer Guild.

    Looking forward to what the prominent members of Asora will acquire for their job.

  20. Why do I suddenly have this image in my head… of Tomoe rampaging through Aion if somehow they manage to kill Toa… by by country without needing to touch Tsige…

  21. Thanks for the chapter!
    I thought Tomoe would try something for her own class but nothing.

  27. This feels like a filler chapter, very little actually happened compared to chapters in earlier volumes. The only part that sticks out to me is that Tomoe genuinely shares Makoto’s interests, and she’s the only other person he’s ever known to get excited over feudal Japan. He couldn’t even share his passion with his other friends on Earth, they were only interested in games, bows, or the opposite sex.

    Tomoe’s tomboy interests and older brother personality are the only reason Makoto can cope with how he’s in a polygamous relationship. I don’t think Tomoe registers as a “wife” to him in the same way Mio does, as Tomoe is not overly concerned with acting feminine.

    She’s more a “friend with benefits”.

  29. I like this light novel in reading it from the beginning since you start translating it but now it kind of feel like the author is focusing too much on the side characters for the war the last couple chapters has been boring

  32. > Makoto: “…. rival of the Neptune King Tuna are the twins An and Chovy was more of a…..”
    Reading an Achovy here really makes my stomach growl… now im looking for food. Hope Mio will cook for me i hope….

    > “The demon, Sari, also seemed to like it quite a lot.”
    Ohhhh my, just how many chapters are there before Sari has been mentioned again.
    I hope there’s another interesting POV for Sari again about her perspective of Asora

    > If Makoto and Tomoe has been blessed with a son and daughter soon, that would be an awesome and Tomoe will surely applies all kinds of historical stuff in their offspring
    For a Girl: Tomoe will surely dress her daughter like a true princess, pure black hair, straight cut bangs, like the illustrastion of Kilua’s sister
    For a Boy: Its either she will tempered him to be a ninja or samurai. But i think it will inclined more to Ninja, thus they will name their son as Naruto

    1. Don’t have children. Makoto will later be sealed like Kaguya-Hime in Naruto because of good luck (bad) and the title of a friend of the Moon God even later Makoto is not allowed to die or is reincarnated only in an immortal seal by his descendants even resurrected for destruction or against crazy gods and goddesses Even if Makoto becomes a god what is that proper

  36. Thank you for the chapter! Finally back on track!
    1- If adventure groups make that much of a diference, Aion is truly hopeless!

    2- Tomoe, being an Edo freak as usual lol

    3- After that meeting with Root and Asnoval, I really wonder what the apostle’s response will be like? Her associate will definitely make a move as well.

  40. >All these flags
    Makoto could probably regret that, if not for Resurrection and Memory Wipe.

    I wonder when Alte will finally show up again.

  41. “Teleporting your whole forces to the capital and rampaging is a plan that you normally can’t pull out after all.” (Tomoe)

    We can though.

    But only we can, huh.

    Skill asora democracy kingdom : Dectruction all war

  45. First of all thanks for the chapter!
    Secondary, Tomoe seems to be the `first wife` of Makoto in this chapter!
    Thirdly, Toa? Hmmmmm, need more chapters to find out if she will become a love interest for Makoto, even if Rokuya plans to do so.

    3. Nice spoilers, man.

      Still not that surprising, as no hyuman would pick Makoto (expect gold diggers) anyway.
      Besides he still intends to leave that Bug’s world and never return, so he rather won’t stick it in anybody who wants to stay there.

  48. Thanks for chap
    so many dam flags
    “I hope things remain like this”, definitely it wont
    “toa will return safetly”, some kinda event will happen.
    “lets register everyone of asora as adventurers” ,bad move as its under control of root and maybe partially goddess too.
    Lol cheap soldiers looting merchants as protection.So here they refuse and that strong bandits group comes(totally not the army) and toa’s group slaughter them.

    As usual got nothing of the mugai,tobikato stuff,so a filler chap ,wish tl would explain….

  50. normally anything that happens to Makoto would end up really not good…for those involved…
    but now, with Toa being the “love child” of the fake ninja and Tomoe… things will end up nasty for anyone who dares to do anything to her…

  51. So asora residents will finally learn of adventurer skills?? And people of tsige will finally realize that everyone from asora/kuzunoha are most likely levels 500 above just like the open secret about mio and tomoe’s levels?? xDD
    wonder what levels do beren, hokuto and shii has. They were, after all, registered since the yaso-katsui exploration. I’m also interested in Shiki’s level.. 🙂

    Suddenly there are loads of ads in this website.. wonder if its related to translator-sama’s current predicament..?

    Thanks for the chapter~♡

    1. Ahh wait toa and her party are now above level 700 according to an extra chapter《Extra 30: The story of a certain adventurer》
      Definitely every fighters from asora are stronger than that. Levi and those asora residents who has alot of kills definitely wont lose since they came from wasteland with “survival of the fittest” as their daily life..

  56. “This is supreme information that settles that the Asora residents will be registering in the Adventurer Guild as well! It really is!”

    Adventurer’s Guild about to have a ton of ridiculously high level people registering.

    I can’t even guess at what their levels would be given how fast it seems everyone’s strength on Asora’s side increases. Probably lower than would be expected of their power given Makoto’s emphasis in finesse and skill, but should still be very high.

    1. They’ve never actually shown it. There was a chapter where Toa and her group do some things that are revealed to be set up by Tomoe to go on a sort of quest to get the dagger back that’s scripted since Makoto found out the dagger he’d been using was the one Toa has been searching for. So he ordered Tomoe to make up a questline for Toa to stumble upon that would end with her getting the dagger back since it seems Makoto thinks Toa wouldn’t have liked to just be given the dagger after everything practically with no effort. Anyways they only show the beginning of the questline but not the conclusion though Toa says later that it was super tough and she almost died multiple times during the quest. Root later tells Aznoval about how they directed the entire thing for Toa’s sake and that he shouldn’t tell Toa about it so it doesn’t drive a wedge between Toa and Makoto.

      1. I think it was Tomoe and Shiki who devised everything. Makoto was “please return the dagger to toa” and the two went mischievous with it LOLS 😀 《Extra 30: The story of a certain adventurer》

  62. Rembrandt is smart about using adventurers. Probably to be expected considering he’s the Don of a city full of them. Root being Root, that is, sneaky, likely helps. The Asora Adventurer Plan does seem to be doable, after all Adventurers can be from any race, even demon. Not a lot of change to incorporate (Highland) Orcs and such into that. Gotta be worried about the use of Golden Highway though, didn’t Bug abduct Makoto from one of its teleportation formation?

    I get the impression that Makoto increasingly thinks of Tomoe as his wife, I approve. It’s been celebrated by all of Asora anyways, just seems like it took some time for Makoto to really appreciate it.

    Thanks for the chapter!

  63. So I wonder how they are gonna work that out, will they train the adventurers that qualify to learn more from the main Asora communities, or will the demihyuman members come out in force to register at a Guild branch?

  64. That sort of ending has been bait before in Tsuki so I’m going to keep hope for Toa and the rest of her party, but that last sentence is pretty damning huh~ Thanks for the Tsuki! I hope site issues get resolved soon, and that you find a good place to host your translations.

  67. I just knew Tomoe would flip out once she learned about the Tobikato job.

    I feel like Makoto should go and watch out for Toa and her group. Who knows how powerful this Apostle that they are trying to lure out is and I’m not sure if Rokuya or Tomoe would be strong enough to deal with them. I mean it IS an Apostle of a goddess.

    1. l feel something really bad is going to happen, that last paragraph and also the fact that for stoping the apostle to reach tsige Asnoval and Root together had to fight her

  71. It’s September 24! You know what happens!
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      1. From where I’m currently at now, Christmas starts at the 1st of September and ends at the last day of January. (*＞ω＜*)

  72. Thx for the chapter ! !

    Didn’t expect an update when I refreshed my inbox. May be later Makoto can invite Rokuya to join him and Tomoe for ninja and historical stuff together hahahahaha

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