Strange Grief Wants to Retire ~ The Weakest Hunter Dreams of a Hero ~

Chapter118，Part1: 1 - Exciting Vacation ⑥?

Chapter 118 Exciting Vacation ⑥?

Part 1

The sunlight coming through the curtains woke me up in an unusually refreshed mood.

I made a big stretch and got rid of my drowsiness. As a deep sleeper, it was rare for me to wake up so refreshed.

After all, a vacation was a good idea. The chocolate parfait was part of it, but I think that it was also good to go outside and move my body. Always sitting in the Clan Master room will inevitably lead to a lack of exercise.

Yesterday, I was so tired that at the moment I got into my bed, I was already sound asleep before I noticed it.

I used the water jug to pour water and drank it. And then, I noticed a pair of eyes staring at me.

“Huh!?”

“Good, morning, Master……”

“Tino!? G-Good morning………… What’s up with your eyes?”

I completely forgot about her. On the other bed, which was a meter away from mine, was my Kouhai holding her knees and staring at me.

Tino wearing a long, loose, gray pajama, that Sytry had prepared for her, was a refreshing sight. But what bothers me the most was ―― The fact that her pair of eyes, which were right above her knees, swelled up and had darker circles than yesterday.

She looked terrible, even though I went out of my way to persuade Liz and Sytry, who were worried for some reason, so she could sleep in the bed next to mine in order to have a good night’s sleep.

“………… You couldn’t sleep?”

“…………….. I was a little nervous…… And Master immediately fell asleep……”

Tears started to accumulate in Tino’s eyes and she looked at me as if she was appealing something to me.

No, I was going to sleep. Of course, I was going to sleep. What else would you do other than sleeping in a bed? However…… How many days has Tino been sleep deprived now?

Tino was fidgeting her small, little white toes which were slightly sticking out of her pajamas.

Due to her gesture, I finally understood.

“…… Don’t tell me, you thought ―― That…… I will lay my hand on you?”

When I chose my words and asked her, Tino’s face was slowly turning red and her slender shoulders started to tremble slightly. I seeee, you were wary about me.

Yesterday, we made a lot of fuss over that matter with Liz and Sytry. I had intended to eliminate their anxiety, but apparently it wasn’t enough.

Even I have sexual desires, and sometimes I find Tino cute ―― But, I won’t lay a hand on my Kouhai…… In the first place, it was not uncommon for Hunters to sleep in the same place without regards to being male or female.

Isn’t she a little too prude? In the first place, Sytry and Liz were next door, so if I did something, they would immediately rush in.

When I was a little shocked, Tino was looking at me with upturned eyes when her white cheeks, ears, neck, and skin turned even redder and then quickly hid her face. I think she reap what she sowed, but I think that Tino doesn’t trust me way too much.

I had shown her my dimwit part many times, but I don’t remember showing her that I was someone who desired that kind of relationship with a woman……

“Goood morninnnng, Cry-chan! See, nothing happened! It is because Cry-chan is *meromero* head over hill over me ―― Ahahahahahah, what is that face, Ti! So funnyyy!”

“Good morning, Cry-san. There wasn’t any sound, but…… I believed in you. Let’s have breakfast. Ti-chan is …… She seems in a dangerous state, so I will give her some medicine later.”

The two people who may have been the root of all the evil came in.

Liz *banban* slapped Tino’s *furafura* wobbly back and Sytry pats her chest in relief.

Even though, if these Shisho?hadn’t said anything strange to make Tino aware of me yesterday, she would have slept soundly without any problem…… Now that it turned out like this, there was nothing that I could do. I hope she could at least get a wink of sleep inside the carriage……

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What had happened overnight? Gula had completely changed from yesterday, and there was now a strangely lively mood.

There were many Hunters covered in mud and blood, and many knights fully equiped with armor walking around. However, you couldn’t see any sign of tension in their expression.

Liz, who was walking next to me with a large baggage on her back said while being astonished. Apparently, she had overheard what they said while we were walking around like this.

“Eeeerh, it looks like the horde of Orcs had been destroyed. That’s boring.”

“With only one day ―― The knights of this town sure are fast………… If it was as effective as predicted, they should have been overexcited, but…… I need to make note of this.”

The subjugation of large swarms of Monsters are usually planned and carried out over multiple days.

Even though the troublesome condition of the Orcs being locked inside their fort was gone, it was still rare that everything was resolved after just a day. If it was going to be resolved anyway, it would have been nice if it had been resolved before we got here.

Liz, who had been *kyorokyoro* looking around, suddenly her eyes sparkled and grabbed my hand.

“Cry-chan, they are going to have a festival in three days to celebrate the end of the crisis! Let’s go?”

That is…… An appealing suggestion.

I like festivals. I also like auctions. I like to participate, but I also like to just watch. I enjoy the festive mood.

However, to extend our stay to three more days is…… Well. Luke and the others aren’t with us and I had already eaten the chocolate parfait.

My hesitation was only for a moment. I had been to many festivals already, and it was also a problem to stay for a long period of time under a false identity. And most importantly, there were people in this town who can guess who I am even if they are ordinary citizens.

TL notes:

Thanks for reading!

It isn’t a PG-18 novel, so of course nothing happened… But even Tino was expecting something XD

Looks like Cry can be classified as a dense protagonist.

In case you are wondering how Tino eyes could be right above her knees, she was probably lying down while holding her leg because Cry hurt her pride as a woman!

Tchao à plus!

Danmachi Episode 12 Review Corner:

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Final episode to conclude season 3 and Xenos arc, it was good. Asterios was epic from his arrival to the end. His animation during the fight was awesome!

Let’s start from the beginning

Asterios meeting Ottar made me laugh because Asterios was ignoring him and just kept going XD

In the novel he does want to fight him even though he knew he would be killed even if he was in his perfect form (Nani Cell!?) . Asterios also didn’t run like a madbull when Ottar showed where his destiny (rival) was, but that’s okay.

Bell VS Gros. There were not many things to comment on, it was good and the Bell’s flashback was good. Especially starting with that twilight wheat field, oh man how it made me remember the what IF story I translated in reddit, oh man I dream that it had showed Alfia and not Grandpa Zeus XD

And Hermes, his face looked so much like Apollo XD. Hermes wanted to control Bell, but Bell was like not today. I will be my own person and follow my conviction even if it killed me! Ah in your face! Hermes Hero 101 isn’t to be adored and admired by the people. This is just the byproduct of people seeing a Hero rise and stand up against absolute despair. When everyone gives up, when darkness is swallowing you, one man standing and facing the darkness is what makes people admire Heroes. And you see that really well in the novel when Bell is facing Asterios. But I will go into details later.

And then, and then Asterios showed up from the air! Wow you can feel that shit was going down. When he rushed at Bell, the graphic!!!!! It was so good you can feel Asterios strike on Bell. His rival was in front of him, how could he not rush! And those during the whole fight each time Bell is sent flying to the building like this it reminds me of Injustice God Among Us game and its stage transition XD.

When Asterios started talking I thought he was just talking in his mind and that’s the problem when you don’t make Xenos move their mouth when they talk, you don’t know if they are talking or thinking.

The whole fight was epic but I have 2 problems with it.

1 is that during the whole fight we got cut to see Hestia or Hermes or Freya talking making the immersion in the fight really hard. It’s like woooow Bell gets him but then you switched to Hermes and him being shocked (even if I did like seeing him being so angry because he failed so hard). It was the same in the novel, but I don’t know, the battle was longer and I could slow my reading speed so that’s why I was more immersed in the fight.

2 is that it couldn’t really convey that it was a fucking battle to the death between them, that they used all their strength and beyond to face off against each others. The fact that Asterios was at its death door and Bell used everything he could to evade all of Asterios blows as it could one shot him and attacked Asterios right side because he didn’t have an arm there. They didn’t show other adventurers trying to help Bell but couldn’t because they were too afraid of his Howl, but not Bell as he already overcame that.

They also didn’t portray Asterios as the absolute despair and death that the crowd around thought he was. When Bell was sent flying at one point, you had the point of view of a children, there were only normal citizens facing Asterios and when they saw him, they could only resign to their death, nothing can stop him, but that’s when Bell rushed out of the rubbles and went fighting against this symbol of death. Seeing Bell going on an adventure was the turning point.

That’s when despair turned into hope. Hope for a small adventure to face off against the absolute despair that could kill all, that’s why people started to cheer for Bell (Also how could they skipped Lefiya cheering for Bell and only animate Mord!! XD).

That’s why I loved that fight, the meaning it had. Despair tuning into Hope, and the renewal of Bell determination to get stronger, it wasn’t Lido telling him to not hesitate to kill monsters as he was still hesitating to kill monsters, the trigger was Wiene’s death, he sweared to never let it happened ever again, but what made him run again was this fight. The death fight between two warriors who had acknowledged each other. It’s true that it is hard to animate this but we can dream no?

So yeah the immersion was cut and the meaning of the fight was left out , too bad, but it isn’t like the fight was bad, it was even good. I watched a video where there was only the fight and it was epic!

So for the fight in itself it is pretty good, just 3 minor things I would have changed.

1 is Ottar, a great sword landing point. In the anime they made it land behind Asterios, I wanted it to land right in the middle of Bell and Asterios and Bell rushing and attacking without stopping.

2 is Bell kicking Asterios closed to the end, it came out of nowhere, I wanted to see Bell doing a horizontal flip and kicking him. But maybe they did it like that to show that even Asterios (and us couldn’t) see that kick.

3 is during the equipment break (which was awesome), was that they didn’t splashed blood on Bell!! They did it at every Minotaur Vs encounter so why not now!!

But the final attack was epic! Argonaut VS Minotaur rush. And damn bell lost but it was so beautiful. Bell being sent flying showed how strong that rush was. And when he punched Bell as he fell, just wow, even the rubbles flying was epic. This “stage transition” was so good! Bell hitting the bottom was another, wow!

Danmachi Memoria Freese backstory for Asterios desire/dream was good and they even put the promise between Argonaut and the minotaur 1000 year ago!

Too bad they didn’t animate Eina going to Bell when he was crying his MANLY tears! Those tears showed his renewed resolve to get stronger, to not lose the next time he is facing this worthy rival, that made him start running and we can see it at the end when he meets Aiz at the city wall. (And I am in the same opinion as most people, Hermes deserved more than just a kick from Hestia! Some people would think of this as a reward!)

Aaaah man what a nice ride it was! Season 3 was really good, but I have to say my favorite episode is still episode 8. That Wiene resurrection was perfect, it even topped the novel. As I didn’t really expect anything on her resurrection, episode 8 left me speechless. Then it will be followed by episode 12 and 7. They really should have made 13 episodes for this season! Bell VS Asterios deserved a whole episode!

And looks like there will be an OVA in April, but it’s going to be a fan service one… But well as it is over I will patiently wait for it and the future season 4 announcement! Fingers cross!

Footnotes

Shisho: In case you forgot shisho means teacher.