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Saturday 19 September 2015

Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka? Chapter S27

S27.
The Remnants.


S27 The Remnants of the Nightmare

That is on the rock.
The eight red eyes watch me coldly.
The size is not very big.
But, the presence is larger than any other monsters that I have seen so far.

I can't move.
The others are the same too.
We can't move even an inch at all like we hardened.
It seems that our hearts have been tightly held by the figure of the white spider monster.

[Hero?]

Suddenly, a voice is heard.
It's not as a sound.
It was Telepathy.
It's not something turned to me.
I only tapped the Telepathy that's sent to someone.

[Hero]

And, that 'someone' was there before I know it.
It was all over the place.

[Ruler?]
[Ruler]
[Ruler]
[Impossible to appraise?]
[Impossible to appraise]
[Impossible to appraise]
[Ruler?]
[Ruler]
[Ruler]
[Reincarnated people?]
[Reincarnated people]
[Reincarnated people]
[But, weak?]
[Weak]
[Weak weak]

The voice of Telepathy that sounds here and there.
Before I know it, the floor, the wall, the ceiling, they were everywhere.
Countless red eyes.
As far as I can see, they are white.

My thought stops because of the overwhelmed scene.
No, think.
These guys make full use of the language with proper intention.
There is an inexcusable word in those words.

「Do you know about the reincarnators!?」

I make up my mind and speak.
Although I know that Basgas-san have his eyes opened wide, I must ask this by all means.

[I know it]
[I know it]
[There's no way that I don't know]

The answers came back.
Mutual understanding is possible.
These guys are not monsters without intelligence.

「Why do you know it?」

[Master]
[Master]
[Mother]
[Mother]

「Is the Master a reincarnated person?」

[You will know soon]
[You will know it soon]
[You will know it immediately]
[You will know at once]

「What do you mean?」

[Declaration]
[Sentence]
[The beginning of end]
[The world starts]
[The world ends]

The white shadows gradually disappear.

「Wait! What do you mean!?」

[There's no meaning to know it]
[You will die anyway]
[Everyone will die]
[Struggle and survive]

I felt that we were told so with the meaning of overlooking us till then.
And, the Remnants of the Nightmare disappeared in front of us.




「You fool!」

Basgas-san's fist catches my face.
I received the fist contentedly without resisting.
Hyrinth-san pinions Basgas-san who was going to strike me.

「I should have said it! That Lad's comrades might die by your thoughtless actions!」

Basgas-san shouts his anger while being pinioned.
It's the force that seems to break loose from Hyrinth-san at any moment.

「Now, now. Because it end up safe like this, isn't it fine?」

Sensei intercedes, and Basgas-san stops moving.
Although it seems that his anger still haven't settled down, it doesn't seem that he will act violently any further.

「I'm sorry. I have something that I must ask by all means」
「Even if everyone dies?」

I'm stared.
When it's said so, I can't say anything.

「It's fine if Lad dies by yourself. But, don't drag other people into it. If you want to suicide, do it yourself」
「Basgas-san, you're saying too much」

Although Sensei chided Basgas-san, Basgas-san is more right.
For the reasons that I want to know, I took an arbitrary action against the other party who's the dangerous Remnants of the Nightmare.

Basgas-san pushes Hyrinth-san aside.
Did he judge that he won't act violently anymore? Hyrinth-san released Basgas-san easily.
Basgas-san lean on the rock in a slightly remote place, and sat down.
If I see properly, his expression is bad.
Basgas-san said that he encountered the Nightmare in the old days.
The trauma might have been stimulated.

When I see the others again, Katia and Anna sit down, and Hyrinth-san has a slight pale face.
Only Sensei who looked calm.

「Are you all right?」

I talk to Katia and Anna who sat down.

「I can't stand up」
「I'm ashamed」

They look up at me with the face that seems to cry.
The goose bumps stood too, so they are very scared and it's unpleasant.
Even though they have a relatively small build as a monster, being surrounded by big spiders is of course unpleasant.
Even I felt unpleasant, so the woman group is all the more.

「How can Sensei keep calm?」
「No. I'm not calm, you know? Although the appearance is cute, the contents were slightly creepy」
「Cute....」

Ah, that was not a character making, but she really liked it.
After all, Sensei likes strange things since the previous existence.
Although I thought that it's a part of the character making, it seems that she seriously like something like spiders.
It's unexpected.

「By the way, what do you think about what those children said?」

Many mysterious words that the Remnants of the Nightmare said.

「I don't know. There's too little information」

In the first place, what on earth are those monsters called as the Remnants of the Nightmare?
Because they found out our information, it's certain that they have a high level "Appraisal" skill.
In addition, the intelligence that can understand human speech.
The stealth nature that gathered that much without being noticed by me.
The cooperation between comrades making full use of the Telepathy.
Even a fragment has such ability.
What if it becomes a fight....
I don't think that I can win.

「The beginning of end. Everyone will die, huh?」

The nightmarish ominous words.
Only that was stuck in my head and didn't leave.

81 comments:

  1. Thx, and nos ser if overlord is updated!!!

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  2. Mother is one of reincarnator.

    Why are they still calm?

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    1. the remnants didn't confirm through, they just said "you'll know soon enough"

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    2. i think it kinda confirm they just didn't paid much attention on search who mother really was or better wich classmate was her

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    3. actually what the spider said was a foreshadowing

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  3. ooooh, it was 4 chapters today~~~

    it was right?

    still....to think the remmanents where more sociable than kumoko xD

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    2. ah. well. those spider have sisters and brothers(?) to talk to. kumoko doesn't have anyone.

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    3. What's with these excellent brats.

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  4. Kumokochan your kids are damn fucking awesome! She spawned a super race of intelligent ninja deadly death doom psychic spiders.

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    1. LMAO that should be a title. XD XD XD

      Recieved new title:
      [Intelligent Ninja Deadly Death Doom Psychic Spider]

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    2. You forgot the word [cute]

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  5. the real question is.... how will she deal with them XD

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  6. Voices in one's head? Creepy. More so because they're short and repetitive.

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    1. No, that's just the cooperation thing. One says what it thinks, others confirm it or possibly give a different opinion. The short words are because very close cooperation doesn't need long explanations so the barest minimum is enough for everyone to understand.
      When they seem to add things like with the you'll know it soon or the declaration sequence it's that one spider gives an explanation and several others feel the need to expand and clarify what was said so the meaning becomes clearer.

      Like two women in the kitchen. One says 'Ratatuille'.
      The other says 'tomatoes', the first adds 'zucchini', then the second 'eggplant'. Then maybe the first 'Onions?' and the second 'Onions.'. Followed by all the spices, knifes, locations of pots and pans and whatever. (This happened when my friend and I were cooking and her bf stood nearby and didn't understand what the heck we were saying)

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    2. Nice analogy :) but it still makes it creepy since they are voices in your head.

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    3. They weren't exactly voices in the heros head, they communicated with each other and the hero tapped in

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  7. Dang the children became more OP than I thought.

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  8. Those brats really are too excellent...

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  9. A small part of my brain wants to rave about the fact that I want more chapters, but please just interpret it as a great level of appreciation for your work, Joshua. Thank you for translating this, and thank you for the chapters! xDD

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  10. hmm... what's this? what's with these excellent brats? they have high intelligence?

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  11. Psychic spiders...... where have I seen this before?

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    1. At mother of learning maybe?

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    2. nobody103 did mention his source of inspiration for spider: Avernum, DnD setting, Fullmetal Panic...

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    3. Ooh I love mother of learning as well! Great story

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    4. Just started reading MoL. Good stuff.

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  12. The babies steadily become more excellent?? XD XD XD

    Thanks so much for all your hard work!!!!

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  13. Basgas is a bit too harsh. They are ambushed by that Remnant Army, their chance to die right there is excellent. Thanks to his trying to converse that they get left alone.

    Although he's right in overall, in that particular situation he's wrong.

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    1. The man has a trauma for spiders

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    2. to be fair, they were just observing them to begin with. They didn't intend to attack in the first place. Shun didn't "talk them down or anything" they were just appraising them.

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    3. More like they didnt even feel the need to kill them since they saw he was a hero and that his status was really low they might of just looked seen him as garbage that can be left alone.

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  14. kumoko's Childs really badass....

    if they have a human girls appearance.... they like an army of Kuudere girls.... :v

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  15. Wow nice chapter ,the beginning voices like everywhere and the echo ;d imagination is working , goosebumps good work now that more like it ;)

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  16. Thanks, I'm starting to like the side characters pov more than the main ones nowadays. Haha looking forward to tomorrow

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  17. i doubt they are from the first 999 batch
    10 years have passed, they should have evolved into something even more ridiculous, lol

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  18. The babies are slightly younger than reincarnate person so they must be 10 something year old(assume they are the first gen).
    Their stat must be fu*king higher than Shun who just received Hero title for couple years.
    But if they can't peek into Shun's stat how do they know he's Hero and he's weak?
    This is not the same as when Kumoko got appraisaled before she can block appraisaled , Shun always use his ruler to block appraisal, didn't he?
    No way, they have Wisdom skill!!

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    1. Shun only hides taboo with his camouflage skill. So they could still appraise himl. Oka on the other hand is a ruler and considering shun was apraise skill was blocked before, we can guess she used her ruler's authority to block it just like our kumoko

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    2. Shun has the hide skill. He uses it to hide his taboo ans suspicious skills. It would be to obvious he was a ruler if he was constantly blocking appraisal. This way they can look at his stats and see the hero title and all his "good" skills and know who he is.

      I beleive it was stated earlier that sensei has the auto block on. Back when they didn't know who was controlled or not she turned her block off to prove she wasn't mind controlled.

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  19. 4 chapter today? Amazing! Thanks man!

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  20. Thanks for the chapter!

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  21. hmm from the way they talk about shun will know the truth are they able to bypass to see his Taboo skill?
    [You will know soon]
    [You will know it soon]
    [You will know it immediately]
    [You will know at once]

    「What do you mean?」

    [Declaration]
    [Sentence]
    [The beginning of end]
    [The world starts]
    [The world ends]

    The white shadows gradually disappear.

    「Wait! What do you mean!?」

    [There's no meaning to know it]
    [You will die anyway]
    [Everyone will die]
    [Struggle and survive]
    well this can be interpreted as he will meet with Kumoko sooner or latter

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  22. So all of her children have gained enough intelligence to communicate? Awesome! And it's interesting how some see her as their master and others see her as their mother. In any case besides the obvious things like high level appraisal and telepathy they also seem to have mastered shadow magic and sneaking skills.

    I wonder if any of them have reached arch rank yet? It would have been awesome if Shun had been just a bit more careless and appraised one of them so we'd get an idea of what the Kumoko armies stats are.

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  23. Sensei withholding information as usual I see.

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    1. Around elves watch yourself

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    2. Actually Sensei is probably not that bad. Judging from what we've seen of her and the other elf there is a good chance sensei herself is being manipulated by the other elves.

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    3. Actually Sensei is probably not that bad. Judging from what we've seen of her and the other elf there is a good chance sensei herself is being manipulated by the other elves.

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  24. i think it fun all chapter but it a connecting between kumojung and herokun it that fun i waiting war of elf(it not spoil like if this it spoil i am sorry sir)
    AND THANK YOU ALL THIS CHAPTER SIR

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  25. When i'm playing broodmother in dota 2, it reminds me of kumoko and i silently scream.
    "Come my children, kill my enemy" :D

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  26. i wonder if Oka's Taboo reached lv10 or not, it seems she doesn't know the real truth that made Kumoko wanted to massacre all humans, demons, elves,...

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    1. Well Taboo is actually pretty hard to level up. Remember Kumoko only got it from eating her sibling, evolving several times, and getting several ruler skills. If her Taboo was only gained from one or two ruler skills and she never did anything really bad then Taboo would only gain small proficiency through level up and it would take ages to reach level 10 on that alone.

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  27. ..... is it a stretch to ask for four chapters tomorrow?

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  28. All they need now is parallel will and thinking, they will create a super computer.

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    1. Then the Geth shall overthrow their creator.

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  29. this would be such a damn good anime :|

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    1. I WANT THIS TO BE AN ANIME
      also there's a manga adaptation already so we just have to wait

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  30. What excellent high-level brats they have grown too.

    Kumoko must be super jealous of them.

    I bet she prepared a batch of apples field with poison to kill them.

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  31. It would have been good to see what is the status of those spiders. I think they are all stronger than the hero.

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  32. [Hero]
    [Hero?]
    [Hero?]

    Damn, i agree with Oka-san. those remnants are cute!!

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  33. impossible to appraise.....cool how the author slipped that one in there

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  34. At this point, if Shun revives someone, he'll get Taboo lvl 10 and know the truth of the world.

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  35. Hmm 🤔 always find this chapter creepy. I mean really hundreds+ of albino spiderlings appear out of nowhere and talk directly into your mind, each the size of a Irish wolfhound or so later, maybe hungry or not maybe cute or not knowing more than you... Just imagining this in a anime for gives me the willies or heebie jeebies especially when I can imagine the high pitched childlike voices the animator's may use with maybe that vibrato shaking the voice up *shudders*

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  36. This has got to be one of my favourite Chapters.. I get so excited, I love all the ominous foreshadowing. As well as you can see into how strong kumo is as even her children could crush the hero party. The way the remnants speak was well done.

    I've not thought much about it before but, the pace of the chapters are magnificently done. The way the author has everything figured out from the start, so much so that with two separate starting points, she is able to match the pace.

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  37. Well, think about it. When someone appraises you, one feels repulsed. Now imagine getting appraised from multiple individuals surrounding you. I don't blame them reacting like this. Sensei is only fine because of her Ruler skill which blocks Appraisel.

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