Boku wa Konyaku Haki Nante Shimasen kara ne - Vol. 2 Ch. 9

[MangaDex]

 

[l0liconn]

Sorry for the wait, it's a dialogue heavy chapter, I was kinda overwhelmed lol.

Spoiler: My thought on chapter 9

Btw while translating the orphanage part, it makes me remember a journal about sensou koji (war orphan) in postwar Japan. Idk why I remember this particular journal. If you want to read the journal, here's the link The Origins and Plight of Sensō Koji (War Orphans) in Postwar Japan

 

[Kefrayba]

I have to ask whether that Taiyaki story was a "real" children story in Japan or not. 😅
I never heard of that myself. But then my knowledge of Japan culture mostly came from what I can glean from the mangas I read over the years.

 

[zz2000]

Given the manga ends at Chp 16, will it be able to cover the entire web/light novel story or does it end on a "go read the novels" note?

 

[Colomopri]

ahhh but competing with heroine in such a straight manner is awesome!! i love these not-so kids a lot!

 

[mgRdr]

Nine chapters in, and she can cross out "fixing an orphange" from her list of "things you must do when isekai'd into a medieval fantasy"

 

[pandatime]

Taiyaki .. I will always rember you

 

[af4zl]

question

Is there any school arc on later chapter?? or did this manga just skipped the entire otome game plot (which is in School obviously)

 

[Shrimperor]

They are 11 going 22

 

[lenovoaxioo]

Considering their economic development level. What they asked of everyone are enormous financial burden if widely applied. Other would first though about how to sustainablely finance it first by first lifting the economy.


If she sees their poorly thought out plan, they would definitely be scolded harshly.

 

[Kucai]

Their plan started at small scale first but will eventually become something that is ground breaking

Spoiler

Their overall goal is national health reorganization with vaccine being mandatory in the future. They begin with research of penicillin and once that is a success, they proceed to research cure for chicken pox (I think it is called something else, MTL was hard to understand some context)
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One of the key members involved in this research was actually one of the capture target named "Sparrow" (I assume that is the name because MTL translates his name as and I kid you not "Supahroots"). He was originally supposed to be a teacher at the Academy, but his involvement with the research of medicine means he does not become a teacher and he falls in love with another researcher "Jane" who later become his wife.

 

[BalrogDeMorgoth]

Thanks for the chapter

 

[Jrog54]

Thank you for continuing to translate this

 

[starartx]

Thank you for another fantastic scanlation! There definitely was a lot of dialogue to translate, you’ve worked hard 😊

 

[lenovoaxioo]

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[BlackElite]

Given the manga ends at Chp 16, will it be able to cover the entire web/light novel story or does it end on a "go read the novels" note?

Eh? Really? Only 16? Why have you forsaken us, Japanese Media Industry

 

[DeaObliDex]

I have caught up with the stories! but now I am sadge 😭😭😭😭😭

 

[bladahbla]

Given the manga ends at Chp 16, will it be able to cover the entire web/light novel story or does it end on a "go read the novels" note?

Is this for real? 😭

 

[blackLuna]

Considering their economic development level. What they asked of everyone are enormous financial burden if widely applied. Other would first though about how to sustainablely finance it first by first lifting the economy.

Worse yet, there are feasible ways of achieving the same ends.

First, focus on washing their clothing frequently (clothing absorbs a lot of the dirt and oil which otherwise accumulate on skin, especially clothing made of bast fibres, such as linen or hemp, which were the most common anyway). A clothing-historian (I forget the name) did an experiment to see what kept people cleaner, bathing or laundry. Wearing only traditional garb, she spent one month bathing every day but only wearing the same outfit and another month where she wore clean clothes every day but never bathed; clean clothes won hands down.

Second, daily washing/sponge baths (the author's evaluation of which is undeservedly poor). Compared to baths, washing requires significantly less in the resource department (both water and fuel) and gets you almost as clean (especially if you also wash your hair and scalp with something mild weekly or bi-weekly; something strong, like modern shampoo, will cause your body to overproduce oils there, resulting in needing to clean it more often).

Third, washing bed linens weekly or so. Blankets can be washed less often, but the sheets, which actually touch skin will get dirty like clothing, albeit somewhat more slowly.

Fourth, teaching essential life skills, such as basic sewing, cooking, cleaning, and carpentry. Literacy and arithmetic would not be essential at the point their society is at, and thus would be expensive to teach and not necessarily have a large enough job market to employ enough of the orphans. Basic life skills, on the other hand, all of the adults around them would be able to teach and would be necessary to life after leaving the orphanage (parents usually teach such skills anyway). Additionally, most essential life skills are also the primary or a major component of unskilled and semi-skilled labour, which would obviously provide a better option than begging after ageing out of the orphanage.

Fifth, avoiding opening windows when the weather is cold and keeping them open when the weather is hot. Oddly enough, the temperature of interiors is effected by that of the exterior, in other words the weather, which is a huge problem without climate control or even just central heat. Since humans need to keep their body heat within a certain range, anything which puts a strain on one's ability to do so increases the likelihood of illness or succumbing to illness. That is, if the temperature doesn't cause illness or injury in and of itself (heat stroke or hypothermia, for example).

Only the washing hands and brushing teeth thing has no problems, really.

Honestly, there are so many problems with the orphanage bit, it's not funny. Somehow there's no native system to support parentless children (all societies manage this in some way or other). The children are not allowed to play (as long as kids, or adults for that matter, have some spare time, chances are that at least some of it will be used for recreation of some kind, play included). The orphans are not taught anything (historically, most orphanages had policies of teaching necessary basic skills or introducing connections to jobs, since you need one or the other to raise a child and in order to prevent the children from becoming beggars — institutions which only provided room and board never lasted, and were frequently replaced with systems/institutions for assisting beggars and the homeless).

Then there's the bit afterward with the "church" which, since the author does no research, is not the primary provider of education and charity, the obscenely optimistic evaluation of the effect of mandatory or orphan education on employment, demand being the only barrier for getting books in a faux-premodern-European society with poor literacy rates… And so on.

The hospital bit is the only part that was well executed, honestly.