SSS-Class Suicide Hunter Chapter 176

A good warrior keeps winning.

A really good warrior knows how to accept defeat when they somehow lose.

-I lost.

The musclehead was a really good warrior.

-I’m confident that I wouldn’t lose in terms of quantity of aura, but when it comes to usage of aura, the difference is like heaven and earth. Ugor. I feel like I’ve been treating aura too simply.

“Don’t blame yourself.”

I rubbed Uburka’s head.

“I also didn’t realize it on my own. Instead, I was taught martial arts by my teacher. No matter how talented an individual might be, it would be difficult for them to compare to the history of an entire faction. There are thousands of years of history behind the Demonic Path.”

-Kekerkker.

“Mm.”

-Dad.

“I don’t even want you to call me ‘Father’. Why don’t you call me ‘sire’(1)? My identity shakes when a big guy like you calls me dad.”

-Understood, daddy(1*).

“Uh… the sound is only slightly different, but the connotation is really unpleasant. No, if you absolutely must call me something, then call me whatever you want….”

-Daddy. I have a question. Why have you been sitting on my head all this while? (TL: *shivers*…)

“It’s because you’re huge, Uburka. Anyone who sees a giant like you would have the impulse to climb up. People have a natural desire to climb. It’s hard for me to resist.”

-I see. So there was such an impulse.

Uburka nodded. Shake, shake. As I was riding on this child’s head, I naturally experienced a sensation similar to the Viking ship ride at an amusement park.

It was kinda fun.

“Now that you’ve lost to me, listen to my advice carefully. Of course, after you listen to me, you can still decide whether to do what I say or not. You can even tell me if you have a better idea.”

-Ugor.

“Even if you were to force the peace negotiations, the chaos in the world would not end.”

I stroked Uburka’s head again.

“You have to carry out the negotiations so that all parties can be satisfied. Not only the snails, but the other five races should also benefit in some way.”

-How can we make them benefit?

“That’s simple. For now, put aside whatever you might think from your perspective. Instead, think about the perspectives of the other races. Then you will find an answer.”

I said.

“The snail race will welcome peace. That is because it will help them escape the fate of being destroyed. However, it would be difficult for them to accept [removing the source of the conflict by destroying Rimepolis]. Do you understand why?”

-Because it is the Holy Land?

“Tsk. If Rimepolis is destroyed, they won’t have a city to live in.”

I smacked the top of Uburka’s head.

“They would be happy that the crisis of being destroyed had been averted, but they would be anxious since their future was not guaranteed. In other words, if you can somehow relieve this anxiety, the snails will accept the peace negotiations.”

-A new city. A new place to live.

“Right. It would hurt to have their Holy Land destroyed. But as you said, you’d destroy the Holy Land [so no one can have it]. That is something they would be able to accept.”

-Understood.

Uburka nodded and my Viking ship returned.

-We will promise the snails that we will protect them as they make a new settlement to live in. They will probably be anxious if we were to put them in a place close to the other five races, so we’ll have to lead them to a place as far away as possible.

“Right. That’s it. The snails have good technical skills, don’t they? You can set the condition of them teaching a few of these skills to you. That way, the warriors of the goblin race will have fewer complaints.”

-Is that so?

“To be precise it should decrease the shibals a bit.”

So in those first few paragraphs alone, there were a total of four different ways to say ‘father’. 아버지-abeoji, 아빠-appa, 아비-abi, 애비-aebi.

2.This is an expression used as a measure of how many years someone has worked in a certain field. The word ‘jjambap’ originates from the military and literally means ‘military meal’ or army rations. Eating a lot of jjambap/military meals meant that your stay in the military is long so you have a lot of experience. The same was true if your rank is higher, it means that you have eaten a lot of jjambap and are now more experienced than those who have eaten less jjambap.

3. From now on, I’ll change ‘sprite’ to ‘oni’. It’s closer to what it should have been, just that at the time, I couldn’t think of a good way to translate it and settled for the second best. It had been bothering me for a while and I wasn’t sure whether to change it or not, but I decided to say ‘screw it’.)

Chapter end