Jimoto no Ijimekko-tachi ni Shikaeshi Shiyou to Shitara, Betsu no Tatakai ga Hajimatta. - Ch. 36 - The spit battle has begun

[creeper6530]

My dude is slowly not becoming dense? Impossible…

The spit diluted him and made him less dense

 

[Evil_Geoff]

If I'm remembering correctly, "I put a little spit in there!" seems to be a variation on a rather old American slang term from baseball. Considering the popularity of baseball in Japanese culture, it's very possible that the phrase has become adapted/adopted by sports enthusiasts, which would be fairly appropriate for Akira.

Essentially, it would be like saying "I really put some extra on that!" or "I gave that some real 'Oomph'!". She put an enthusiastic jump-hug on the MC, rather over the top for her.

 

[baconcat]

phycological warfare

The hell do algae have to do with this?

 

[Outflanks10]

Holy shit did our boy just find his labido!

Thanks KappaBeast for the translation

 

[Arcverson]

In the context of things, Akira is just marking Kotaro as hers but our dense MC is focusing on the literal words (spit). https://jisho.org/search/唾を付ける and https://kano.ac/posts/2017-11-23_10-56.html for some information on its usage. I'm only a Genki Lvl 2 learner so that's my understanding of things.

Man "I've got my spit on you" is brazy LMAO, thanks for the explanation, it makes so much more sense now 👍

 

[wij123]

"i have spit on you"

i expecting him to immediately spit on her face.

guess i need holy water

No no no, you're onto something. That would raise my respect for the MC.

 

[JCVocke]

Honestly for all the (deserved) flack the MC is getting from both the other characters and even the narrator my dude is practically speedrunning the Dense MC to Harem Chad Pipeline having now had 2 realizations concerning 2 different girls in under 50 chapters. I think the only MC I've ever seen progress through a romance faster is Nasa but he is an outlier adn should not be counted.

 

[oldc00t]

If I'm remembering correctly, "I put a little spit in there!" seems to be a variation on a rather old American slang term from baseball. Considering the popularity of baseball in Japanese culture, it's very possible that the phrase has become adapted/adopted by sports enthusiasts, which would be fairly appropriate for Akira.

Essentially, it would be like saying "I really put some extra on that!" or "I gave that some real 'Oomph'!". She put an enthusiastic jump-hug on the MC, rather over the top for her.

Indeed the "spitball" is a (now illegal in american baseball) practice of wetting the ball with saliva or sweat to alter trajectory.

She put sweat on him like some of the oldtime baseball players used to do.

So was the phrase she used "tsubase tsuke toitakara"? 唾を付けといたから or close to it? "Because I put spit on it" or maybe "on you"

 

[CulR]

I dunno what's worse. Dense MC, Grade School Mental Level MC, or Mishearing MC.

 

[CulR]

Author is heavily leaning towards Akira I feel.

Did you forget about the girl with the glasses?

 

[Cumover]

So was the phrase she used "tsubase tsuke toitakara"? 唾を付けといたから or close to it? "Because I put spit on it" or maybe "on you"

https://imgur.com/a/p6RG5QG

She stutters while saying spit but, other than that, she basically is saying literally "Because I put [my] spit on you."

 

[Manchura]

The hell do algae have to do with this?

wait until this man learns about algae toxins

 

[SomeBoredGuy]

Kanae still best girl

 

[MiguelH224]

Akira is now causing misunderstandings on an international level.

You mean the spit thing?

 

[lesseffective]

You mean the spit thing?

That is what I was referring to, yes.

 

[Homuranagi]

Nah I do think that's the context of what she just said, to mark him as hers before anyone else

 

[CapitanTooTanned]

Me and my siblings when we "mark" foods that we don't want others to eat we exaggeratedly "spit" on it(not really, more like pretend). So Akira's line about how she has her spit on Kotaro immediately triggered nostalgic memories.

 

[Toshkotv]

He is beginning his cure treatment from the trauma that the 3 bitches inflicted on him in his past like finally he is healing

 

[MiguelH224]

That is what I was referring to, yes.

Then yes that is a misunderstanding, cause wtf does she mean by that? (Not asking you, I'm asking the author at this point)

 

[Swift]

I'm probably off on this, but the only thing I can think to point to is the story of Ishida Mitsunari and Ootani Yoshitsugu regarding a drink contaminated with the mucus of the latter that served as the plot point that led to Fuutarou and Miku becoming friends in Gotoubun.