Mezase Gouka Kyakusen!!: Fune Shoukan Skill de Isekai Rich Life o Te ni Ireru - Ch. 53 - Spot Check and Information on the Wicked Woods

[MangaDex]

 

[Mist221322]

not seeing how there is ANY danger for MC's group, MC can summon boats that can't take damage and he can summon more then 1 of them at a time for free, so MC could place a raft walk onto it then from inside the raft place a new raft in front of it unsummon the 1st raft and do it all over again.

 

[Seetee]

Thank you for the translation!

Somehow that pepper looked strange to me. Too large, too square, too... wrong. Ah well, anyway, more dark elves? Sure, why not!

 

[Ricchie4321]

Thanks for the TL.

Considering it's a monthly manga, I just wish there was more content in each chapter.

 

[HaikenEdge]

not seeing how there is ANY danger for MC's group, MC can summon boats that can't take damage and he can summon more then 1 of them at a time for free, so MC could place a raft walk onto it then from inside the raft place a new raft in front of it unsummon the 1st raft and do it all over again.

Except he won't do this because he's kinda dumb.

 

[captain_crunch]

He don't like no bugs thouh. Like any law abiding red blooded terran citizen

 

[Kendrakirai]

Thank you for the translation!

Somehow that pepper looked strange to me. Too large, too square, too... wrong. Ah well, anyway, more dark elves? Sure, why not!

That's more or less what unground pepper - whole peppercorns - looks like.

 

[ciera]

Thanks for the chapter

 

[Lostartes]

And they were never heard from again...

 

[ShiitakeCat]

Thanks for the TL!

 

[popinloopy]

Thank you for the chapter!

 

[undeed]

not seeing how there is ANY danger for MC's group, MC can summon boats that can't take damage and he can summon more then 1 of them at a time for free, so MC could place a raft walk onto it then from inside the raft place a new raft in front of it unsummon the 1st raft and do it all over again.

That's the whole ex-machina thing in almost every fantasy, right?
where you have an awesome thing to show in one scene, and then you forget that it ever exists.
It's the "don't think about it" moment.


I mean, if you can summon things anywhere without any catch, conditions, requirements, or limitations ever specified,
then even if a monster appears, what's stopping you from summoning the boat at the exact location of the monster and make the monster explode?
Or drop the big ship above it?
Or 100 other creative things you could do with that simple summoning mechanics.

 

[Gudachiz]

babe, PEAK just dropped again

 

[Korvalus]

not seeing how there is ANY danger for MC's group, MC can summon boats that can't take damage and he can summon more then 1 of them at a time for free, so MC could place a raft walk onto it then from inside the raft place a new raft in front of it unsummon the 1st raft and do it all over again.

Well, the boats themselves are not immune to physics when summoned, also ship summoning is not instantaneous and would drop the travelling speed to a snail's pace.

It would be better to just summon a ship when needed, but the leader already suggested that.

That's the whole ex-machina thing in almost every fantasy, right?
where you have an awesome thing to show in one scene, and then you forget that it ever exists.

Deus-ex-machinas are rarely good, and should be managed carefully. LN authors are rarely careful or imaginative enough with them.

I mean, if you can summon things anywhere without any catch, conditions, requirements, or limitations ever specified,
then even if a monster appears, what's stopping you from summoning the boat at the exact location of the monster and make the monster explode?

He did something like that with the horned rabbits in the firsts chapters, right? But it doesn't appear he can summon boats where something else (save water) is, so no exploding from the inside.

Or drop the big ship above it?

Oh, sure. Let's drop a multi-kiloton behemoth in the middle of some-place-where-it-shouldn't-be. Surely the impact(s. The ferries would fall on their side afterwards) wouldn't be felt kilometers around and wouldn't be investigated.

Or 100 other creative things you could do with that simple summoning mechanics.

Well, they suggested one here: use the boats like mobile bases for safe camping, warehousing and generally make adventuring logistics a joke. That alone is important.

 

[Nemo2342]

Man, even the isekai translations run on slavery. It's just slavery all the way down

 

[ScryedParadox]

The lesson for next time? Have small "samples" of your goods, don't offer them up front so that you don't get perceived as offering a bribe. But if they have an interest in it, offer for them to take it as a sample with the excuse that since they seem so well dressed that they surely will be having conversation with other prospective customers, which will just serve your business as advertisement so that you can avoid them trying to charge you for bribing an official. You make it clear that your intent of benefit is publicity and not some sort of pass for the inspection and leave it to the inspector to decide whether or not they take your totally not a bribe marketing sample.

 

[finalm]

The lesson for next time? Have small "samples" of your goods, don't offer them up front so that you don't get perceived as offering a bribe. But if they have an interest in it, offer for them to take it as a sample with the excuse that since they seem so well dressed that they surely will be having conversation with other prospective customers, which will just serve your business as advertisement so that you can avoid them trying to charge you for bribing an official. You make it clear that your intent of benefit is publicity and not some sort of pass for the inspection and leave it to the inspector to decide whether or not they take your totally not a bribe marketing sample.

It's still just as conspicous as simply offering the bribe up front. Spices are ultra luxury goods for a civilization like that, IRL that little amount he gave would be worth a decade or more of the guy's wages. The excuse does not hold water either - these are soldiers, they will never be customers for such goods, nor would any people they could realistically be aquainted with. It's like handing a fast food worker several kilos of gold bullion and asking him to recommend your business to his coworkers based on that "sample".

 

[ScryedParadox]

It's still just as conspicous as simply offering the bribe up front. Spices are ultra luxury goods for a civilization like that, IRL that little amount he gave would be worth a decade or more of the guy's wages. The excuse does not hold water either - these are soldiers, they will never be customers for such goods, nor would any people they could realistically be aquainted with. It's like handing a fast food worker several kilos of gold bullion and asking him to recommend your business to his coworkers based on that "sample".

It gives you enough of a buffer to retreat mind you and you're not actively putting the good into someone's hands. You are effectively creating an excuse for someone corrupt to use it and seal the deal. And enough leeway for someone who is actually upright to then praise them for their righteousness afterwards and retreat from the offer.

Also your example is too much on the extreme side and fails to actually make your point due to how ludicrous it is and how off it is regarding the authority present in the person receiving the item and other factors regarding the good being transferred/utilized as a potential bribe item. Regarding the value of the good, you can just play it off as it not being a luxury good where you come from, which is often the case with international trade due to the simple nature of supply and demand, then you just question the more honest worker if this mundane item from where you come from is actually something of greater value or higher demand where they come from.

 

[finalm]

It gives you enough of a buffer to retreat mind you and you're not actively putting the good into someone's hands. You are effectively creating an excuse for someone corrupt to use it and seal the deal. And enough leeway for someone who is actually upright to then praise them for their righteousness afterwards and retreat from the offer.

Also your example is too much on the extreme side and fails to actually make your point due to how ludicrous it is and how off it is regarding the authority present in the person receiving the item and other factors regarding the good being transferred/utilized as a potential bribe item. Regarding the value of the good, you can just play it off as it not being a luxury good where you come from, which is often the case with international trade due to the simple nature of supply and demand, then you just question the more honest worker if this mundane item from where you come from is actually something of greater value or higher demand where they come from.

Dude, if there were a place where the spices weren't unimaginably expensive, the whole world would know of it. Historically, black pepper was still almost as much of a luxury in India (it's country of origin) as it was in Europe. Even if it weren't, the guy's is a merchant that came here specifically because it's worth it's weight in gold in this country - you think trying to claim he deals in it, but doesn't know it's value is going to fly? So no, you can't "play it off", it's hillarious you'd even consider such a brainless move.

Put yourself in the shoes of a corrupt petty official. Would you just accept a bribe that is far more than what you make in a year? You'd have to be denser than the gold mentioned or so inhumanely greedy that it eclipses your sense of self-preservation. It would look either like a set up, or an attempt to get you involved in some high-profile illegal activity (meaning fantastically dangerous). The most sensible thing to do is to arrest the guy on the spot and let the higherups sort it out. As for someone honest - pretty much the same applies. Your idea of making it seem like he was "testing" the inspector is nonsense as well, if you think I'm wrong - try it on a cop. You can swear you weren't serious all you want, it's still a crime and an honest one will haul you in.

 

[jctsoi]

Time for the rubber rafts to shine again!