Otoburi

CLEANUP – CHAPTER 16改二

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Chapter 16：Experiments and Preparations – Q of Hearts (Part 2)

HEEEY, TEITO-, I mean, adMIRal. E-Eh? Wrong game?
Jokes aside, let’s start the Otoburi revival project!

Basically, Este dropped Otoburi because he’s a lazy ass loser, so I’m picking it back up. Also Este fucking sucks and originally linked me the wrong chapter, then ended up having a rough tl of this chapter already done that wasn’t listed on ToC, so I ended up (re)doing this chapter. Este says this is a better tl and it was good practice for getting a better feel for the writing, so I guess it’s ok. So, enjoy Cleaning 16 Kai2.

Also, have some skype logs.
[3:35:40 AM] estomiya-kun: is otoburi finally going to be revived
[3:35:46 AM] estomiya-kun: amazing
[3:35:51 AM] estomiya-kun: the most amazing part is that i dont have to do it
[3:42:40 AM] Toki: I’d be excited
[3:42:42 AM] Toki: but I’m translating
[3:42:43 AM] Toki: so I’m not

… It’s freezing.
Though it could be said it was due to the season being winter, no matter when I visited this place, it always felt dim and cold.
It was the castle’s dungeon.
Though it was still daytime, not even a single ray of light shone in here.

“Ah, Achille… about the experiment on the tattoo, though you said it was fine, over here is…”

At the stone staircase that was illuminated by the glow of a magic torch, I descended step by step while being pulled along by Achille.
Inside the dungeon, the temperature was regulated with flame magic so that prisoners did not freeze to death.
At any rate, the reason it feels a little chilly might be because it’s only warmed to the bare minimum.

Yesterday in the room, I talked to Achille about experimenting on “Forbidden Magic Defense Tattoos,” and as a result, it seems that he made preparations for the experiments this morning for my sake. As expected of Achille… he’s a fast worker.

“This is the place where the person who, out of the kindness of their heart, volunteered to help out with Camille’s experiments resides.”
“Is there really someone like that?”

This is suspicious, isn’t it?
After all, helping out with the experiments meant having forbidden magic cast on them, y’know?
These are the experiments with forbidden magic that Achille forbade me from performing on myself, the ones that I also hesitated to perform on Achille.
A person who would voluntarily offer themselves up to such danger…
What an extreme masochist!

While continuing to pull me along by my hand, we proceeded further into the depths of the dungeon.
On the way, we passed by the cells of Miss Claire and Count Tito.
Ahead of them were the commoner extremists who had been arrested; their imprisonment had caused the prison to reach max capacity.
As we approached the deepest depths of the dungeon, the dark atmosphere strengthened, and even the torch’s light slowly dimmed.

“Is it even further in?”
“Yes, that’s right.”

Uu… was that so.
Even though I’m so not good with dark places like this.
Loud dripping noises from droplets of some kind falling down echoed loudly.
The damp odor overpowered my nose.
If I were to be imprisoned in a place like this, I reaaally don’t think I could remain sane…

“Achille, we’re at a dead end, y’know?”
“This place will be it.”
“Eh…?”

At a dead end in the deepest area of the dungeon, Achille hung his hand on an enormous iron door.
The door was rusty in several places, and I could feel the dungeon’s history.
Achille took out an old-fashioned key from his breast pocket and put it into the keyhole.
With a loud, unpleasant creak, the door slowly opened.

“Come in.”

Though I hesitated a little bit after seeing the pitch black interior of the iron door, after strengthening my resolve, I took a single step forward.
As if he realized that I was a little bit scared… Achille immediately came to my side and wrapped his arm around my back.
Though it was natural for him to do so, I couldn’t calm down at all since in this stance, we were glued surprisingly close to each other.

Using magic to illuminate the darkness with our fingertips, we walked through the darkness, and after a few minutes, we arrived in front of a big iron fence.

“We’re here.”
“I-It’s here?”

It was even further inside of the strictly maintained dungeon than I expected.
So such a peculiar person was inside a cell in this pitch black place, huh.
If I was detained in a place like this for several days, I’d go mad… maybe, that’s what they were aiming for with this room.
W-Was it a torture room?
When I looked at Achille as if asking him that, he smiled at me as if telling me not to worry.
I’m not comforted in the least.

※

“Yo, if it isn’t Camille Rhodolite.”

All of a sudden, a male voice resounded from inside the cell. It was a voice I was familiar with.
The throaty voice of a hateful man who had caused a major incident a little while ago, the one who who had given me a hard time.

“Achille… I was wondering if maybe this was the case, but the kind-hearted person who volunteered to help out with the experiment was really…”
“… Though he was previously the leader of the commoner extremists who occupied the town.”
“W-W-Why Galaf Sharohm?”

Because it was too much, my voice went shrill.
Why did the enemy, Galaf, want to help out with the experiments?
Moreover, Achille said that it was voluntary. H… How strange!
When I timidly approached the cell, I could make out his figure inside.
Though his arms and legs were shackled in chains, in addition to this kind of environment, he hadn’t broken. Instead, he was full of vigor.
The Jack of Clovers… was the owner of this tenacious force of will.

“Ah…”

The chains that were restraining him were magic items specially designed to seal prisoners’ magical powers.
Ironically, these were made from the same materials used for the tiger traps that Galaf had used to trap me.
Because he was an opponent who used forbidden magic as if without a care, I think these were natural measures.

“Hey, the heartless person standing there! I’ll do my part of the bargain, but will you keep your promise?”

Galaf shouted as he faced Achille, who was standing behind me.
Achille scowled unhappily.

“… Isn’t that obvious.”
“I can’t believe you!”
“So you’re saying that it’d be fine to pretend this conversation had never happened… it’s fine if I interpret this situation like that, right?”
“…!”

At that moment, Galaf sunk into silence.
I wonder what the deal was…
Of all the people, picking Galaf as the target for experimentation, just what in the world was Achille thinking?
I was fixedly staring at him.

“Don’t worry about it Camille. I’ve gotten permission from the higher-ups, and he agreed to it too.”
“… But is it really alright?”
“It’s alright to do it to your heart’s content. And if by any chance you fail, it’ll be okay, rather, what if you failed on purpose once or twice?”
“Hey! Are you still carrying a grudge against me! Hey, Camille. Stop dating this vindictive boyfriend, how about swapping him with me?”
“Please don’t act too familiar with Camille. Also, I’m her husband.”

How was he not affected in the least by this…
Galaf Sharohm, who could leisurely converse even in a situation like this, was a guy you couldn’t make light of.
His massive nerves were impudent, and his spirit held steady.

“Achille, can we just start the experiment already?”

If the higher-ups gave the A-ok, there shouldn’t be any problems, right.
I was reluctant to use someone else as the subject for an experiment, but right now, I was determined to perfect the tattoo that would reliably defend against forbidden magic.
After Achille opened the lock, I entered the cell, went up to Galaf, who was bound and unable to move, and ran my finger down his right wrist as I used magic to draw a chain pattern..

“Heh, skillful aren’t you. So you used this kind of thing to invalidate my forbidden magic that time, didn’t you?”

Galaf, who was looking out of the side of his eye, raised his voice, amused.
Even though my tattoos caused his plans to fail back when we went to exterminate them, he didn’t harbor a grudge against this kind of thing, huh.
What in the world could be his objective in supporting the extremists…

The chains were instantly completed. After that, all I had to do was to cast forbidden magic to test the efficacy.

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121 thoughts on “CLEANUP – CHAPTER 16改二”

  4. bakarina is back?

    lel, and i was starting to mix bakarina with reika-sama…………

    will re read all again!

    so long after i stop playing fallout 4………….wish me luck

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      1. ooooooh…………..so i wasn’t mixing bakarina with reika, i was mixing barakina & bakamille with reika-sama…………..

        that……my gosh……..so many otoburikko mcs…………

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  24. Did someone strike lightning into this project, cuz it’s rising and alive! Thanks for the revival~ and hope the chapters are easy to translate? I know translating is a super hard job, so best of luck from a leecher~

    Lol, that skype convo. Este is totally rubbing it in that he doesn’t have to translate, and is pushing the job to someone else (no offense este, I know you’re busy~). Sounds like my brother when he foists my technology-clueless parents on me.

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  26. Woooooo!!!!!!! I love you Bakamille!!! Amuse me with your bakaness!!!! I was just thinking about reading all the chapters from the beginning again…. And also had a dream about Bakamille… But… sleep is so delicious… I sleep now!!!!

    Thanks so much for picking up the project, Toki-san~~~~~~~~~

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  30. woohoo !
    Bakamille is back !
    Thanks a lot sir Toki (If you said you need healing, why don’t you use Hokuto Ujo Ken ? After all it goes with your pseudonyme ;o) )
    …

    But now I have to read all of Otome Buriko again ! :oD !
    Let’s seek some epubs then, it’s always more comfy to binge read on my ebook reader than on my computer screen ;o)

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  39. Thanks for the chapter!

    Tbh, I lost a bit of my hype for this series after Este dropped it, I kinda understood the reason as it kinda lost a lot of its initial charm after the first volumes.

    Regardless, even if I don’t like it as much as I did when I started it, I still like it a lot, so I’m really happy to see it revived!!!

    So, thank you very much Tony, hoping to see even more coming from you!

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  41. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I really love this story Thank you for translating it again 😀

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  48. Somehow I feel like I’m the only one thinking “I’ve read this already”…… welp, maybe I went ahead? Forgot already, lol, whether I read ahead or not.

    Anyways, thanks.

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  49. Thanks for return to bakamile again
    but….
    because again Chapter 16
    good no matter
    bakamile is back
    !!! bansayyyy … ”

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  50. Ou, thank you for the chapter… Rereading this, then I find a whole year of no chapters. Thank you very much! 90° bow

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  52. OH. MY. DEAR KAMISAMA. OTO. BURI. IS BACK. I have been desperatly waiting for the future revival of Otoburi from Onii-sama! And my even though I knew Onii-sama’s will for reinvigorating this novel was at the utmost low. Someoen else has finally decided to take the mantle and translte this! Kyaaa, I humbly thank you Toki-sama! And.. Onii-sama isnt that lazy. Just a little bit. A little bit. :D

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  53. Waaaaah I’m so happy it’s been picked up again😭😭 thank yooooou so much🙇🙇🙇 Toki-sama arigatougozaimasu!! For the revival of OtoBuri😆
    And the skype log btw you and Este was hilarious😂

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  55. Thanks for continuing this series!!! Didn’t know it was dropped before starting this. Looking forward for more!

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    1. Unfortunately, waiting on the Holy Sheeprabbit-kun to finish dying from school. Hang tight, we’re almost at the end of the storm.

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  58. I usually never comment but I wanna say this, after ur semester is over…how fast will the update rates be?

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  60. I only started reading this translation recently so haven’t had the lengthy wait of earlier fans.
    Just reading through all the excited comments & knowing it’s been1/2year since last update was troubling. Sigh.
    At least the cliff is limited to whether tattoo works &/or what unpleasant effects the forbidden magic test might have.
    Hope to see more in the near future.
    Thx for the teaser, er, chapter 😉

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  65. can I pick this up? since you guys have been nonexistent for a few months now, i mean it’s already march 2017, it’s been eight months, im asking for permission since you guys have quite the background on being a pain…

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    2. That was as rude as it can get… :o/
      Don’t you know that you don’t ask stuff like this ?

      Imagine that you are walking on the streets and somebody you don’t know come to you and says : “Hello, what time is it ? I know you have quite the background on being a bad mannered prick but I forgot my watch this morning…”
      Would you answer him nicely ?

      It wouldn’t had cost you much to abstain adding this crass comment at the end of your question. Unless you are a friend of Este pushing him around or he is some sort of masochisitic tsundere fan, I don’t think you’ll be welcomed with such an attitude.

      Is there somedy else nicer who would want to take over bakamille adventures (or is Sir Toki still carying Ryuuga around) ?

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  67. Is this project dropped????? That’s not true, right?
    I truly love this novel and am truly grateful for your hard work in bringing us this amazing story in English!
    This novel has 8 Web Volumes (Ongoing), and you guys have already translated up to the 6th Volume so… I guess, you’ll not abandon us readers, right? Please?

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  68. Im super confused right now. Is this light novel on giatus? Did you drop it? Is someome else picking it up? R u not the translator anymore like your comment said??? Im really confused but please dont drop it, i love this light novel i even bought it but i dont understand it tho lol!!

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  69. This novel is amazing and I reread it all the time!! So please!!! Translate more!!!!!! I’m begging you 😢

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  70. Is it ended here…. Its a rare novel when the main chara get a story to marry and after that and all of that is the story is good… Please cont the trans…..

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  73. buenos dias, I love this history, I don’t speak English, I’m from Colombia, but, I just love so much this history that I read in english but don I don’t nothing of his original languaje, so please continuing at least in english.

    Me gusta mucho la historia y que cada uno tenga su pareja, no que todos anden detras de la prota o villana rencarnada, tambien me gusta mucho la historia de bakarina en (Katarina Claes) pero no me gusta que todos anden detras de ella, al final un monton de corazones quedaran rotos, aunque las dos son igualmente un par de densas idiotas.

    Amo completamente a Achille, so please……… I’m just crying

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  78. Sooo… This was everyting?

    Well, thanks a lot for the translation. I truly appreciate all the work you do to translate all this great stories for us. Thank you very much Oniichanyamete staff. ~<3

    But now I'm wondering, are the web RAWs still available?

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  80. Finally done binge reading.. T.T THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS!! ALL HAIL AUTHOR-SAMA! TRANSLATOR-SAMA!! FIGHTOOO!!~

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  82. Translator seems to be dead, last activity december 2016. Author also seems to be dead, WN discontined and the last LN volume released was also 2 years ago

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  83. Read it, I say. There’s enough content to love it and keep you immersed in its world. Although it’s discontinued, I think it’s fine to satisfy yourself with what it has to offer so far.

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  86. Sooooooo it’s been 3 years… Is there no update in the original work, or has the project just been dropped and I have to suffer from depression?

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  88. Please come back to translate this work, I really enjoyed it, it is completely different from all I read.

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  91. weeeeell

    it’s been a while now I really hope someone end up picking it up one day even if it’s been 4 years now ….

    I really want to know what will happens next after all

    If only I knew Japanese :'(

    Anyway it was a great job so thanks

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