Yajin Tensei: Karate Survivor in Another World - Vol. 10 Ch. 67 - Testing the New Equipment

[washaa]

Yeah, this is questionable at best as armor. Even if it can miraculously stop błades from penetrating, it does nothing for lessening the impact force. What is he even going to use this for, ballet?

Not getting cut is better than being naked, but a body suit offers less protection than just wearing several shirts. Several shirts stops blows from padding and also prevents cuts by sheer mass and also doesn't actually restrict movement. It's not invincible, but it's very cheap to make and offers substantial protection.

This is why gambeson was the most popular armor in the medieval period.

Emma did state that they hadn't added armour yet, so in this state it's more or less gambeson or an arming doublet, only with the durability of steel.

The mirage fox content is ambiguous (confused even the translator), but...

""It's a material that presents all sorts of risks, but the rewards from it would be huge! With it, it would be possible to imbue your armour with an enchantment of self healing.""

Rewards doesn't necessarily mean financial rewards, but this makes it sound like "With it" means "With the material." As in, "With the material, it would be possible to imbue your armor."

However this is relying on grammar cues in a translation from a language with different grammar. If "it" can refer to "rewards" despite "rewards" being plural and rewards means financial rewards, we could interpret their whole conversation as being about selling it. Not knowing any Japanese myself, I still find it more likely they are using some fox component.

This is probably where a lot of the confusion is stemming from. I got the impression they were referring to the fox pelt as having those attributes of itself.

Anyway...
Low-tier noble with middle manager blues, how sympathetic Yajin is. What luck, it created the perfect setup for... the Best Possible Outcome™

• new powerful ally
• get rid of dangerous item
• gain substantial sum of cash

Nice!

Sand lizard gloves was a cool touch. Yajin almost got bested by his new armour - everything in this world is out to get him.

See how the siblings are looking at Yajin on page 11, Emma with her hand hanging in the air? You can sense how they, at least her, are still surprised at the amount of thought Yajin is putting into this. Still, Yajin is going to have to keep some lard or oil on him for this setup huh. I wonder if his newly hightened sense of touch helped him conceptualize how to don the armour.

Yajin getting to show off for once - getting smiths of this class to drop their jaws, his movements must look absolutely unreal. A body honed into a weapon.
Funny that they'd have a basin and a mud pit for fitting purposes. Getting washed off by Emma huh... I'm not jealous...
They take it very serious, real combat test during initial fitting. Where did Ben get his training? Was he a squire? Noble blood?

Ahh the details of this manga, it's top-tier after all. One of the kind which engages you to the degree that you re-read each page a few times before moving on, visualizing yourself in the situations and trying to feel the moments, thinking of what you'd do etc.

Thank you for another sweet chapter! I hope Ben doesn't die!

 

[finalm]

Emma did state that they hadn't added armour yet, so in this state it's more or less gambeson or an arming doublet, only with the durability of steel.

A arming doublet was a style of gambeson, but there's no way this thing qualifies. The function of a gambeson is to provide some padding for distributing the force of reveived blows, it's why they were so thick. That thing is just a bodysuit. It might be resistant to tearing, but it's like wearing mail over everyday clothes, which is terrible for any sort of armed combat. People forget that weapons are force multipliers, since they act like mechanical levers. A solid hit from a sword, even if it can't penetrate the bodysuit is not going to be like a punch he can just shrug off.

 

[nathan67003]

Bro confirmed BRI'ISH

 

[The_Lamb]

I think the only thing we can say with certainty is that the fox hide itself does not have armor regen, because they got rid of it and are still doing the enchantment.

An ingredient doesn't have to have the end product's properties. For example, neither iron ore, coke, nor limestone have the properties of steel armor, but can be used to produce it. They could be using a different part of the fox.

Your money raising interpretation is still valid and complete, especially if Yajin is getting a good deal due to being friends with the producers. Despite that, you have not disproved the possibility that they will use a fox component.

My initial assumption had been that there was a magic crystal in the fox that could be used for enchantments not related to powers of it's originating monster. But now I do think it's purely about the money he can get from such an in-demand material. Unfortunately, I'm too poor of a translator to extract a definitive answer either way from the original text.

Thank you for another sweet chapter! I hope Ben doesn't die!

Ben is already a saint, even without martyring himself...