🐱 Week 7 | 黒猫ニャンゴの冒険 ✨

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Week 7	July 5
Chapter	第二話 冒険者という生き方 (part 4/4)
End Percentage	32.99%
End Page	108
Read until	End of Chapter
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We’re reading this book as part of the Beginner’s Light Novel Book Club.

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「俺は、冒険者になれますかね？」
「片目の冒険者もいるが……正直に言って、かなり厳しいな」

And that’s the end of Nyango’s adventure. Thanks for coming, everyone.

「でも、諦める気は無いんだろう？」
「えっ……」
「俺が何年冒険者をやってきたと思っている。一体どれぐらいの冒険者を見てきたと思っている。そんな簡単に夢を諦められっかよ」

Nyango has a good mentor.

次に目が覚めたら、こちらの世界の母親に大泣きされてしまった。

You know, that’s the first time we’re actually seeing his parents.

「本当よ。もしニャンゴが死んでいたら、ミゲルをあの世に送ってたところよ」
いや、愛情を表に出してくれるのは良いけれど、ミゲルの祖父である村長や、ミゲル本人の前ではヒヤヒヤするから止めてくれ。
「ニャンゴ君、ミゲルを助けてくれてありがとう。 […]

Wait, at first I thought that sentence in the middle was more along the lines of “they’re not here right now, and I hope you won’t talk like this when you’re around those people”, but… those people are actually in the room while Nyango’s dad is saying this?!

「よ、良くやったな。爺ちゃんが、片目になったお前でもできる仕事をくれるって言ってるんだ、ありがたく思え……痛っ！」

Sigh.

愚か者のミゲル達なんか、見捨ててしまえば良かったのさ！

Woah!

She really doesn’t hold back.

これまでは、指を咥えて見ているだけだったが、空属性魔法を使えば捕まえられそうだ。

指を咥える is not something I would’ve connected to envy

「どうだ、ニャンゴ。思い知ったか！ 俺様の方が棒術の才能があるんだぞ！」
殴られた衝撃で前のめりに転び、這いつくばって振り向いた先には、棒を振り上げながら勝ち誇った表情を浮かべるミゲルがいた。

Exhibit A here is Miguel, who’s begging to be eaten by Kobolds instead of being saved next time he’s doing something stupid.

失明した左目の死角になる茂みに身を隠し、俺が通り過ぎた直後に飛び出して、背後から殴りつけるなんて卑怯なことをしても、まるで恥かしいと思わないようだ。

God, he’s such a disappointment.

四年前、ユキヒョウ人の冒険者が教えてくれた裏技は、魔物の心臓を食べるというものだ。

ダンジョン飯 crossover?!

I feel like the biggest problem with that approach would actually be to explain to the people who know him better how he got much more mana very quickly…

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You know, that’s the first time we’re actually seeing his parents.

I enjoyed that part, I wish we got a bit more character development of his family (doesn’t he have a few siblings too?) It almost feels like he’s an orphan kid at times; the family is only mentioned so we know that he provides them with food…

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but… those people are actually in the room while Nyango’s dad is saying this?!

That was a bit confusing, too.

I enjoyed the first part of the chapter, but the last part was so… disappointing? Do we really need to have Miguel and his cronies beat up Nyango every single chapter, without even an ounce of gratefulness for the fact that he saved their life and lost an eye because of that? Sure, I understand they are kids, but this feels like a bit too much. I really hope that we can get some more development soon and leave these repetitive patterns.

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Yeah. I was especially unamused by the fact that he used the blind space created by the eye Nyango lost for ambushing him. Like, what the actual f is wrong with you, Miguel? I would understand uneasy silence and refusal to acknowledge that he was saved, but “You know what? Let’s beat up my saviour. We should come from the left so he can’t see us with that eye he lost while saving me” is something else.

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moment.

To be honest though, if nearly dying and having his life saved doesn’t change him, I don’t think we can expect a change anytime soon. If it ever happens, it’s probably after Nyango leaves the village and doesn’t see him for at least for a couple of years.

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Do we really need to have Miguel and his cronies beat up Nyango every single chapter, without even an ounce of gratefulness for the fact that he saved their life and lost an eye because of that?

Agreed. I was like oh great, another scene of Miguel attacking Nyango for no reason.

Also, first we slaughter goblin camps starting with the children, now Nyango is talking about eating their hearts to get their magic… Kittyboy nyango is not beating the ‘atrocities towards goblinkind’ allegations.