Isekai Ryouridou - Vol. 2 Ch. 7

[KinGrove]

I'm really dissapointed with how this chapter turned out along with the manga so far. A lot of sentimentality and emotion conveyed in these scenes felt watered down when compared to [LN].
It all felt awkwardly paced and rushed along with many other things in the manga, which is a shame because I like this series and if many people's introduction to it is this then of course they won't like it.

 

[Talismaster]

Oh, yikes. They skipped all the character introductions, and how the Ruu family is split hard on Asuta's food. I'll sum stuff up that I can remember so non-LN readers don't miss much.

Spoiler

-The family. The girl that called out Asuta is the eldest daughter, Vena. She's about 22, unwed, and highly sought among the village men. Asuta offhandedly mentioned the girls in the family are attractive in an attempt to compliment the daughters of the Ruu Clan, and then their mother and grandmother rushed him, asking if he was planning on taking one of them as his wife, explaining that in their culture, women are only complimented if one intends to take a specific woman as a wife.

The second eldest daughter, Leina/Reina, is supposed to have been a wannabe chef, and had been experimenting to make the food more palatable, with no results. She is supposed to have a very obvious crush on Asuta, causing Ai Fa endless amounts of jealousy/envy.

The character they brought Asuta over to cook for is the Great Grandmother of the clan, and the oldest person in the settlement.

Spoiler

-The dinner. He taught them the finer points of mincing meat, and brought his own meat, since nobody here knows about exsanguination, or that bleeding out an animal makes the meat taste better. He then taught them how to turn the onion-look-alike into dough, and how to bake it into a rudimentary bread. The food was chosen as the Great Grandma character had no teeth left to chew food.

Hunters only eat hind legs, and throw the rest of the meat down a ravine for vultures and venomous(?) giant rats (munto) to eat, so that scavengers don't appear in their settlement. Feeding the family meat normally left aside to literal beasts was taken as a huge insult.

Spoiler

-The Split. Most of the men side with the clan chief, not satisfied with the mushy, soft meat, sweetened by the flavor of fruit wine, or fed meat not cut from the thigh, felt like they were fed what was widely considered trash. The women and the 2nd youngest son side with the grandma, thrilled with the amazing quality of food Asuta has introduced them to.

The great grandma hasn't been eating as of late, and Asuta's food reminded her of the joy of eating/living. She's been alive since they were forced to move here, and absolutely hates the flavor of kiba. Until Asuta got rid of the stench of the beast, anyway. The second the grandma and chief started arguing, everyone started taking sides, pouring blessings(payment) one after another onto Asuta.

Spoiler

-The culture. Their entire culture is somewhat rough, as they just went through a miniature Trial of Tears, and are basically the enslaved boar exterminators to the country that took them in. The giant boars are known to come down from the mountains to feed on the fields of farmers; their tribe was forced to be a wall between the nearby town and the mountain. Picking fruit and vegetables from the mountain is forbidden, as that would lead to more starved boars recklessly entering human territory in search of food, leading to injuries and death.

The tribe's population was roughly 1000 when they arrived, and has dropped to half since, as the settlement struggles to adapt. The boars breed so quickly, it's told they could hunt 50 a day and not dent their numbers. Because hunters kill so many of them, only larger families bother to bring back the whole beast, and the family would process the hides into leather. For years, people have mostly only chopped off the hind legs and brought those home, as the stench of wild beast was most weakest in that cut of meat.

The Forest's Edge Settlement technically has no problems acquiring meat, but since the crime of foraging anything giba eat is getting scalped, they are left with no choice but to come to town, exchange horns and tusks or leather for coins, which they use to buy veggies and the nasty cereal/grain onion-lookalike, and that's how they get their basic nutrition. Hunters take extreme pride in their prowess and are famous for their physical strength. Due to this, they consider it normal that weaker clans deserve to die out, but there are apparently mixed thoughts on this subject.

In the Forest's Edge Settlement, men hunt, and women cook. The roles are opposite in the Fa Clan household, so men constantly joke or insult Asuta about it until he gains their respect. Older women, parents and grandparents worry about when Ai Fa will settle down, as raising a kid means she won't be able to hunt for a long time, and they'd be without income. Men treat her like some brutish woman, trying to do a man's job, or that she should just hurry up and get married. Despite this, hunters that know how hard it is to hunt giba in a GROUP acknowledge her ability to hunt solo, and get more kills than other small-sized clans regardless.

Spoiler

-The Insult. When the last of Ai Fa's family died, the son of the strongest, most corrupt clan tried to rape her, so she threw him into the river. The would-be rapist got away with it, since rape didn't happen, and she got technically charged with assault. The corrupt clan forbid their branch families from interacting with her.

The 2nd strongest clan, the Ruu/Wu clan tried to support Ai Fa by taking her in via marrying her off to one of their sons. However, Ai Fa has a lot of complaints and emotional baggage about getting married I won't go into detail here, but the logical reason was that if she accepted, she could have potentially put the settlement into civil war, so she refused the marriage offer immediately. Her would-be husband is apparently very bitter about this, and constantly gives her and Asuta a cold glare.

So, she pissed off the strongest corrupt clan, and the strongest righteous clan, earning her the ire of the entire settlement. Nobody interacts with her, out of fear of pissing off people on their own side of this power struggle. For 2 years, she's lived as a solo hunter, subsisting on the trash she lazily cooks up, and fruit wine, until she met Asuta.

I've split them into topics, and though I put spoiler text, they shouldn't possess anything that actually ruins anything, as this is mostly information that was not expanded upon in the manga, or completely cut out. Feel free to correct me where I'm wrong, my memory sucks.

Edit: Added lots more details to each side, and I've added a little more spacing to be less wall-of-text on wordier subjects.

 

[Operatix]

@Talismaster
Awesome infos you gave, thanks for the effort~

 

[ZeonII]

So much was skipped. For confused people, better go read LN, it's easy to read and very entertaining. Also Ai Fa best girl.

 

[Santichai]

Thank you @Talismaster your summary help a lot.

 

[AMetroid]

Ya a "conversation" if you know what I mean.

Spoiler

I mean SEX damn it!

Also +1 for @Talismaster summery.

 

[Kyujyu]

@Talismaster Man with that much info skipped, they might as well skipped the annoying clan head all together.

 

[Weoooo]

who dat

 

[Nalin]

This is like a cliff-notes version of a novel.

 

[TomKeizer]

@Talismaster Is the novel translation good? I don't read much translations anymore since most are, let's just say, requiring some proofreading.

 

[Talismaster]

@TomKeizer
Translations are pretty good, with only minor hard to notice typos here or there. It's not to a point it hurts to read, and is pleasant when compared against machine translated drivel. It actually has actual paragraphs and is a little wordy, unlike simpler ones, like say, how Konosuba might be formatted.

 

[TomKeizer]

@Talismaster Thanks. I just checked novelupdates, I saw that every chapter is done by skythewood and I already know that the translation would be good. I'd try to give it a read.

 

[Master]

I enjoyed it a lot more thanks to @Talismaster, I would probably read the LN later, thanks for the extra info!

 

[art17]

"She wants the D"

Rene Descartes

 

[Olfyz]

@Talismaster thanks for the information. I plan to drop and give low rating after read this chapter. But you change my mind. But still I am pretty disappointed about this chapter.

 

[Qelix]

And another +1 for Talismaster

 

[Drifter]

As someone who didn't read the LN, the chapter was enjoyable enough. I would have been very disappointed knowing all of that information beforehand though.

So far the manga hasn't done a great job with the setting. That extra information answers the more glaring wheres and whys.

 

[yohane]

begone thot!

 

[KAFi]

Vegeta is that U!! BTW begone thot

 

[SSS26032002]

Daughter scolding her father... what a good scene.... and what poison?? Does it mean that people would not care about food now but about taste???