Here’s Chapter 271,

What magic could Rei be thinking of I wonder……

Based on last week’s poll, Ara vs Arla……has basically gone to a 50/50 split.
As such, I will hold off any name changes for now.
On the other hand, one name change that is going through is ‘Imperial Capital’ -> ‘Royal Capital’.
I’ll be honest, it’s felt a bit weird to call a kingdom’s capital ‘Imperial’ rather than ‘Royal’.
I will be updating past chapters, but that may take some time.

Also based on comments last week, a lot of you seem to want me to move to at least 2 chapters per week. Well, I’ll give that a shot then. Chapters will now come out on Sundays and Mondays, at least, if I can sustain it. We’ll see, eh?

Here’s Chapter 270,

It’s rough third wheeling as Ara.
On a related note, some people have been asking about the translation of Ara’s name, so I thought I’d ask, Ara or Arla? https://www.strawpoll.me/20662865

Unrelated to this chapter, I’ve seen a few comments recently regarding how long it will take me to catch up to the raws which I thought I’d address in a longer post.

tldr; I will never catch up to the raws and, short of Legend getting an official translation, even if I gave it to a group to do, they probably wouldn’t catch up to the raws in 5 years.

Doing some basic math, if I translated 30 chapters a week, it would take two years to catch up to the raws if the story doesn’t end before then. That is an insane amount of translation to do per week, close to 8,500 translated words per day.

Because of that, some people have suggested to get more people to help out. In all honesty, I’ve talked about this to other translators as well, and the general consensus is that having more people doesn’t necessarily speed up translations due to the additional coordination, editing and communication required.

If you would like me to translate more chapters per week, it might be something I can work out. But if you are thinking of catching up with the raws, the honest truth is that that will never happen.

This isn’t meant to be a rant, if anyone took this as such, but more of an FYI since I know some people might not want to read a series if they know the translations will probably never be completed.

Here’s Chapter 269,

To the people who hoped that the last chapter wouldn’t end with meeting Elena……here is a second chapter!

Don’t ask how I got a second chapter out, I don’t know either.

Here’s Chapter 268,

No rewards for guessing who the person coming up the hill was.

Siminar was a nice guy, but you can’t hate on a nice noble, so we’ll have to fix that.

Lastly, to the people who hoped that the chapter wouldn’t end with meeting Elena……

Here’s Chapter 267,

The army is large, but is it enough?
Someone decides to pay Rei and visit.

This chapter is brought to you by a smarter me who decided to translate this chapter in the morning when I was still awake.
And then I forgot about it and almost went to sleep before scheduling the release at night……

Random news, got myself a mechanical keyboard which I’m enjoying greatly.

…This line is added just as I was about copy the chapter over, when I realised there are still 4 lines I haven’t translated…

Here’s Chapter 266,

Time goes by fast and they finally arrive at the Selemus Plains.

Deja vu, I feel like I’ve been in this place before……
Just like last week, I ended up playing Terraria with friends until midnight and only finished translating this chapter at 1:45am……

Hopefully this chapter properly posts tomorrow morning, unlike last week.
If not, I’ll try to fix it as soon as I can.
I’m heading out tomorrow morning so won’t be at my PC when this is supposed to post.

Here’s Chapter 265,

A quick stop by Sabrusta before heading onwards to Baar.

I hope there aren’t too many errors in this chapter as I finished translating this at 2am……
Got distracted playing League, then assisting a friend with a coding project and finally Terraria until past midnight……I have made some poor decisions.

EDIT: And of course the scheduled chapter failed to post. Should be fixed now, sorry about that.

Here’s Chapter 264,

Daska meets Egg and banter ensues.

For anyone interested, this chapter came with an additional author note:

I wrote this in an activity update, but Fujimi Shobo have decided to turn this into a book.
Thank you to all the readers who supported me.

The original chapter was posted on 8th May 2014 and volume 1 was officially published 5 months later on 18th October 2014.

Here’s Chapter 263,

Egg knows he doesn’t have a choice.
But some of the other Prairie Wolves might need a little……persuasion.

Here’s Chapter 262,

Rei goes in search of Egg.
Unfortunately, he doesn’t know where the Prairie Wolves are, so he’ll have to ask for directions nicely.