Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival - Ch. 35

[MangaDex]

 

[Kaarme]

Quite a bit of life left in these orcs still. You can only imagine how they would be in full health.

That being said, I somewhat expected Aria to prepare more during the long weeks. It's not like a bit of hunting and poisoning the water and food would have taken all of her time. But maybe she thought preparing traps would be useless if the terrain is such that she wouldn't have any idea which route the orcs would take when finally departing for the human town. She couldn't have placed traps too close to the orc camp either, lest the regular patrols spot them.

 

[FogChinatsu]

orc hunt time

 

[UdenEmpati]

haven't even finished the chapter, but I'm glad she put Kevin in his place.

Maybe he'll spend his time and energy on something worthwhile instead of acting like the most petulant child in the room.

But, the number of Rank 4s suddenly appearing at the end makes me wonder what the General's been doing. I'm guessing those three (and any others) represent a personal guard, and/or shock troops above the standard grunt ranks comprised of the 3s that Aria spent all her time taking out.

I'd imagine they've consumed the poisoned food and drink as well, and it's their overall ranking that's protected them/allowed them to be this strong. But hopefully there's a bit of edge here in her favor, and they have also imbibed the toxins she's sown through the Orc camp. Aria's dealt with stronger foes than herself before now, but she had way more time to plan when going after the Assassin Guild, and a powerful ally to boot.
Hopefully the General itself doesn't show up suddenly, and had stayed behind at the Orc camp and entrusted this excursion to the Rank 4s. If the General is there, this could get real bad, real fast.



Thanks for the TL.

 

[ArcueidLover2001]

this is probably gonna be our last chapter here since mangadex is going corpo, its been nice scanslating for you guys (maybe if you guys are lucky enough a new chapter will come out soon)

 

[CrimsonWarden]

this is probably gonna be our last chapter here since mangadex is going corpo, its been nice scanslating for you guys (maybe if you guys are lucky enough a new chapter will come out soon)

Such a shame. I guess I'm gonna scope out other sites soon.

 

[74HC595]

This is getting out of hand, now there are two of them!

 

[74HC595]

mangadex is going corpo

You mean with the recent removal of child-related content? Made in Abyss is our canary in the coal mine and it’s not dead yet. I assume they just removed NSFW titles, no? It certainly sets a bad precedent for future removals, but when you get this big either you bow to the law when it comes knocking, or become a blatant piracy site that ignores the law with all the personal liability and hosting and monetisation issues that comes with that.
At which point you’d be better with peer-to-peer, or at least some kind of eepsite or other alternative decentralised / privacy-focused world-wide-web analogue. Does such a thing exist for manga?

 

[hwjack]

You mean with the recent removal of child-related content? Made in Abyss is our canary in the coal mine and it’s not dead yet. I assume they just removed NSFW titles, no? It certainly sets a bad precedent for future removals, but when you get this big either you bow to the law when it comes knocking, or become a blatant piracy site that ignores the law with all the personal liability and hosting and monetisation issues that comes with that.
At which point you’d be better with peer-to-peer, or at least some kind of eepsite or other alternative decentralised / privacy-focused world-wide-web analogue. Does such a thing exist for manga?

They are now a registered company in the UK. It is pretty clear where things are going.

 

[KnewOne]

this is probably gonna be our last chapter here since mangadex is going corpo, its been nice scanslating for you guys (maybe if you guys are lucky enough a new chapter will come out soon)

Unfortunate. Thanks for your contributions so far!
Quitting here or everywhere ? Say some suspiciously similarly named site targeted at manga scanlators ?

 

[Maverun]

Good plan, well done on being patience, good hunt

 

[ArcueidLover2001]

Unfortunate. Thanks for your contributions so far!
Quitting here or everywhere ? Say some suspiciously similarly named site targeted at manga scanlators ?

not really sure on that tbh, maybe?

 

[coyote_vdb]

not really sure on that tbh, maybe?

Thanks for the translation.
For what it's worth, Project Vinland is going to WeebDex.

 

[elingp]

Thanks for the chapter! Glad to see some massacre again by Aria. Kevin also got straightened out a bit, so overall, it was a very nice chapter.

As others have said, if you (SL) still plan to work on this series but prefer not to post on MD, then WeebDex is a decent alternative. Cheers!

 

[Renan_Walheim]

Damn, she's brutal.
I love her.

 

[cryum]

Quite a bit of life left in these orcs still. You can only imagine how they would be in full health.

That being said, I somewhat expected Aria to prepare more during the long weeks. It's not like a bit of hunting and poisoning the water and food would have taken all of her time. But maybe she thought preparing traps would be useless if the terrain is such that she wouldn't have any idea which route the orcs would take when finally departing for the human town. She couldn't have placed traps too close to the orc camp either, lest the regular patrols spot them.

It's not just making the poison. She's sneaking around poisoning individual meals on the plate. You could conceivably do that MGS style, but for 3 weeks straight?

 

[Kireato]

Well, Aria did manage to slow them down, but it looks like the orcs have turned the tables on her by baiting her into attacking their force which is too much for her, with several high level orcs. That's another rough fight ahead and honestly I think she should flee, possibly away from the human village to see if she can bait them into thinking she came from another direction. I don't think she has much of a track record for fleeing from fights though... I don't have much hope for the general not showing up; there are too many orcs around and one is bound to run back and report, but I might be wrong and the general might have set himself up in a defensive position to protect the weakest orcs still in their village. Still, if a report comes in that Aria has managed to take down one of the higher level orc, the general is bound to move because he really can't afford to lose them so if she's a threat who can take them down he needs to face her. Well we'll see how it goes.

That being said, I somewhat expected Aria to prepare more during the long weeks. It's not like a bit of hunting and poisoning the water and food would have taken all of her time. But maybe she thought preparing traps would be useless if the terrain is such that she wouldn't have any idea which route the orcs would take when finally departing for the human town. She couldn't have placed traps too close to the orc camp either, lest the regular patrols spot them.

There are probably paths that the orcs prefer traveling in the forest, so she probably would have figured out where to set traps.

But, traps require a lot of time in a forest. You have to dig holes, or cut trees for spikes. So first I would say that she didn't have the manpower for such a plan, because she's not preparing traps for a few opponents but for an entire village of orcs. Maybe the best option, since she was able to infiltrate the village, was set up traps inside in order to set it on fire, but honestly that's probably not very realistic since a forest is generally humid and she would need to have some material that can easily light up like oil and dry wood set up. So yeah, procuring manpower and materials for traps is difficult; she had trouble getting the poison she wanted with what was available in the forest to start with.

The other problem is that her slow poison plan is incompatible with setting up traps. The whole point of the poisoning is that they would slowly accumulate it in their system, unaware that there is danger. If there are traps in the forest, in paths which they thread, then they will trigger them and be alerted that there is danger once they realise that orcs sent out stop returning or worse, return with information that there are traps. Traps also often use something enticing like food to lure the prey in and by the end they were starting to realise there was some issue with the food and that it was a poison trap.

I'd say that traps make more sense near the human village in a siege situation. There's some distance between the village taken over by the orcs and the human village, so once she was locked in to the plan of observing and poisoning them, to ensure she can react whenever they decide to attack the human village, there was no leeway to go back. Traps would have been the responsibility of the soldiers back at the village and they were busy just evacuating.

 

[kimchi_soup]

Thanks for the TL! I wasn't able to find a way to contact the scanlator anywhere, so if this is considered rude or against TOS I apologise!

Just wanted to share that there's a discord server for this series and would love to see more people join and discuss our favourite murder hobo there <3

https://discord.gg/ugCvFMwf

 

[UdenEmpati]

Well, Aria did manage to slow them down, but it looks like the orcs have turned the tables on her by baiting her into attacking their force which is too much for her, with several high level orcs. That's another rough fight ahead and honestly I think she should flee, possibly away from the human village to see if she can bait them into thinking she came from another direction. I don't think she has much of a track record for fleeing from fights though... I don't have much hope for the general not showing up; there are too many orcs around and one is bound to run back and report, but I might be wrong and the general might have set himself up in a defensive position to protect the weakest orcs still in their village. Still, if a report comes in that Aria has managed to take down one of the higher level orc, the general is bound to move because he really can't afford to lose them so if she's a threat who can take them down he needs to face her. Well we'll see how it goes.


There are probably paths that the orcs prefer traveling in the forest, so she probably would have figured out where to set traps.

But, traps require a lot of time in a forest. You have to dig holes, or cut trees for spikes. So first I would say that she didn't have the manpower for such a plan, because she's not preparing traps for a few opponents but for an entire village of orcs. Maybe the best option, since she was able to infiltrate the village, was set up traps inside in order to set it on fire, but honestly that's probably not very realistic since a forest is generally humid and she would need to have some material that can easily light up like oil and dry wood set up. So yeah, procuring manpower and materials for traps is difficult; she had trouble getting the poison she wanted with what was available in the forest to start with.

The other problem is that her slow poison plan is incompatible with setting up traps. The whole point of the poisoning is that they would slowly accumulate it in their system, unaware that there is danger. If there are traps in the forest, in paths which they thread, then they will trigger them and be alerted that there is danger once they realise that orcs sent out stop returning or worse, return with information that there are traps. Traps also often use something enticing like food to lure the prey in and by the end they were starting to realise there was some issue with the food and that it was a poison trap.

I'd say that traps make more sense near the human village in a siege situation. There's some distance between the village taken over by the orcs and the human village, so once she was locked in to the plan of observing and poisoning them, to ensure she can react whenever they decide to attack the human village, there was no leeway to go back. Traps would have been the responsibility of the soldiers back at the village and they were busy just evacuating.

she doesn't have a great track record of backing down, no - but that could be a point made toward her "maturing", in a tactical sense. Since sometimes retreating is the smart move that better ensures future success.
The issue being whether the orcs pursue her if she runs away from the human settlement, and if so...then she's gotta stay ahead of them, and hope they don't split their forces and send some after her and the rest toward the evacuating humans. And with the general still not in play, that's another wrinkle, as a sufficiently intelligent leader would pose a problem for her tactically, given the general has people under it, and she's by herself.

To your point about traps - I agree with most of what you said, except for the bit about using the village itself as a giant trap. Ostensibly, this orc force will be wiped out, and the humans who'd been forced out could return to their homes. Setting everything on fire might work in routing the orcs, but it'd also destroy any remaining chances of the villagers getting to come back, meaning all the survivors are entirely displaced (which has its own knock-on effects).

I do wonder how many orcs she took down, and how many total are left. The "level 3 grunts" might be sufficiently dealt with by the soldiers back evacuating villagers, but at least three level 4 fighters+the general makes me wonder if Aria's gonna get some surprise help, or if she'll actually have to make a tough call and try to distract/divert at least some of them, and hope the villagers make it out alive on their own.
Could see an actual "defeat" for her, in a sense, this time around. Though I've not read the source material so I'm entirely guessing.

 

[BoredTears]

Kind of weird the manga depicts her poisoning a plate of food, in the LN she was just poisoning the animal carcasses before putting them somewhere the orcs would notice, and the water source the orcs were using. Though the water source was in the middle of the ruined town the orcs were camping in, which iirc was a broken well. So the orcs also didn't just stop taking the meat she was giving them, they also stopped drinking from that well. Also though I think it was I don't remember if it was stated by this point but the poison she was using was a laxative, because it was something poison resistance didn't block, and it prompted them to drink more from the poisoned well.