Otoyomegatari - Vol. 13 Ch. 87 - Wood Carving

[Oysterwhite]

It isn't a big chapter, not even a very important one story wise... But goddamn, it made happy.
My hat off and my most sincere thanks to the translators, it's because of you that i can be if a little more happy in this life of mine.
Keep doing the good work, and feel proud, for you do it proper and you do it out of the goodness of your heart, you beautiful, honorable bastards.

 

[Liar]

@Carmichael, true, but it could've been just a one-off then too. Focusing on this twice makes it a pattern and makes it seem more likely.

 

[ESCrowe]

Rostem is gonna get into serious trouble down the line

 

[Apero]

@Kazuraki By whom? In that context there isn't anybody to "whoop" the kid's ass anywhere nearby. He's not in official apprenticeship, so he's not the master's responsibility. He's just a village boy who visits an old man from time to time. Somebody else's child... Yeah, try raising your hand at somebody else's child in that kind of village and see what happens... If his mother was nearby, I'd understand the possibility. But the carver does not have that kind of authority over this kid. Raising his voice and taking the knife away was as far as he could go. And to the boy's credit, that was enough for him to understand.

 

[Kazuraki]

@Apero I forgot they weren't related, my bad. But if they were family, he would've disciplined him. That's what households do in MENA and Central Asia.

 

[BanditHadron]

Cuuuute stuff

 

[gronkle]

Man, I'm glad kids that age grow up. "NO, I WANT TO DO IT" was a frequent phrase and usually ended in tears.

 

[u2cyute]

Need more of this dynamic asap.

 

[gmkgoat]

Rostem will make a great wood carver some day.

 

[eyhon]

thanks for the chapter! rostem is the cutest

 

[Apero]

@Kazuraki Personally I wouldn't generalize. Nor localize it to just MENA.

 

[Kazuraki]

@Apero I know the characters are from Central Asia, which is why I mentioned "Central Asia" in my previous comment. And Central Asian culture is similar to that of MENA one. I know because I have ancestry from both regions.

 

[Apero]

@Kazuraki I figured that much. I'm from Caucasus myself. But they beat children everywhere. It depends on the parents really. Not local culture.

 

[Kazuraki]

I guess you're right, but nowadays you don't see Western parents (North America, Europe, etc) beat/discipline their children since they deem it as "Child abuse".

Interesting. Are you from North or South Caucasus? And what's your ethnicity?

 

[Apero]

@Kazuraki it's still very much a thing in the West, too. It never stopped. Plus physical punishment isn't exactly the only way to be cruel to a child.

I'm from North Caucasus. I'm of Kabardin ethnicity. Caucasus is a hodge podge of conservative tradition and secularity.

 

[Zakuzelo]

We haven't seen this characters in a little less than a year.

 

[AlmostFabulousFox]

flippin adorable

 

[Pachka84]

They're a volatile pair, aren't they?

 

[doorken]

I'm not trying to deffend anything bad, but he wasn't being bad with the child, he was TERRIFIED about the child using alone such dangerous tools

he shouted in panic, not as punishment

 

[scripted]

I miss my grandpa who's a wood artisan he gave me a whole chess set with a carry-able board as a graduation present.

Thank you for the chapter.