🐱 Week 6 | 黒猫ニャンゴの冒険 ✨

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Week 6 June 28
Chapter 第二話 冒険者という生き方 (part 3/4)
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Home Thread 黒猫ニャンゴの冒険

We’re reading this book as part of the Beginner’s Light Novel Book Club.

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Participation Poll

  • I’m reading along :cat2:
  • I have fallen behind and I’m planning to catch up later :dog2:
  • I’m reading this at my own pace :paw_prints:
  • I’m reading this book after the club has finished :spiral_calendar:
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Apologies for the slightly longer week. It couldn’t be avoided, really; it was either this week or next week, and I think it works better this way with a proper ◆◆◆◆ stopping point.

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Well now I’m glad I made sure to get caught up :grin:

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Thoughts while reading

秋になると、アツーカ村では村の男達による山狩りが行われる。

If that’s not a good beginning after all that dreadful training, I don’t know what is.

「ニャンゴ、明日は魔物を討伐するために山に入る。お前も同行しろ」

Yes! Very good. Proceed.

「お前に魔物を倒せなんて言わないが、伝令役として動いてもらうかもしれんから、心づもりはしておけよ」
「了解です」
戦闘には参加できないだろうが、実際の討伐を見学するのは勉強になるはずだ。

You know what? I’m not a fan of overly detailed long training sequences, but I can appreciate that Nyango slowly gets closer to becoming an adventurer. It kind of feels… realistic in a way? He’s not suddenly unexplicably able to go out on adventures and fight monsters, but it’s a step by step process.

Hopefully this step will be more exciting than the training sequence though :laughing:

つまり、次の討伐まで一週間の猶予があり、何か工夫を凝らす時間はある。

That’s my Nyango.

「肝に銘じておきます」

It’s interesting that it’s engraved into the liver of all things. I don’t think “liver” would make my “top things to metaphorically engrave something” list :laughing:

「ミゲルが帰って来ないんです」

Welp. So much for “it’s safer if he doesn’t join”… :smiling_face_with_tear:

Seems like someone wanted some adventure too.

五メートルぐらいの高さまで戻ったが、打ち身と出血のせいでかフラフラして落ちそうだ。

I’m actually surprised he managed to make it into the air at all!

せめて、せめてミゲル達だけでも助かってくれたら……。

Nyango… :cry:

Well, this week was certainly was a lot more action and more interesting to read about than that dreadful “we watch Nyango’s very slow training in real-time with detailed commentary”. First some internship-style monster suppression, and then Nyango gets to fight for real much, much sooner than he should’ve, with stakes so high that he cannot even run away!

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thoughts

It was definitely a more exciting read this week then the previous ones. I have to admit that with the long training sections, but also with the fighting in this week, that sometimes I struggle a bit with visualization. Maybe because it’s in Japanese… I just start feeling lazy at times and skim through it. Fortunately we occasionally have images :sweat_smile:

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As someone with aphantasia that’s normal for me. My favourite thing in books are usually dialogues and characters interacting with each other :sweat_smile:

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And it’s time to finish this chapter!

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I feel like I have hyperfantasia (2/10 don’t recommend) and I also prefer the dialogues… mostly bc they’re the easiest to read :sweat_smile:

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Can’t recommend mine either; let’s split the difference and average out on both of us arriving at normal phantasia?

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Ok this was a longer section than I expected so I kept getting stalled out.

Thoughts

Ummm… Maybe I’ve just read too many thinkpieces about how orcs and goblins are people too, because I was kind of like :fearful: about how they just slaughtered this whole goblin camp unprovoked, starting with the children!! And then were like cutting their bodies apart and ripping out their magic stones! :fearful: Kittyboy nyango assists with ethnic cleansing…??

Also, when the injury happened, I was like woah, woah!! Then I was like wait, he did have an eyepatch on in the cover of the book, didn’t he :joy: Totally forgot about that.

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Yeah, apologies for that! Unfortunately there was no way we could’ve stopped in the middle of that pretty exciting last section, so it was either “shorter than usual” or “longer than usual”.

At least the next one makes up for it by being shorter!

Yeah. That got pretty raw there.

At least they did have a reason, unprovoked or not: If they don’t do it, those goblins are gonna get hungry in winter… and then they’re gonna start killing and eating the more defenseless folk on the outer edge of the village.

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Well, they say that, but what else have we done to stop the goblins from starving? They don’t only eat people, because it says they fish and stuff. Maybe if we taught them to farm and preserve food or something they wouldn’t starve in the middle of the winter. Maybe this is systemic oppression of goblinkind!!!

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