EDIT: Rovi Evangelista pointed out to me that website called dotnovel has already made an EPUB of MCM, so HERE is a link to the EPUB for anyone who wants it, and I’ve made a link on the main page.
Here’s the much delayed chapter from me. I’ll be getting out at least 2 more chapters during this next week (as long as life doesn’t get in the way, but I will say this in advance, I may be called in by my unit to set up our new arms room sometime during the week and have to delay 1 chapter a little further).
Extra little tidbit (not an advertisement), I’m sure I’m not the only one who reads on their computer or phone late at night when they should be going to sleep, but I was doing a little studying on that recently (I was bored). I know it’s well known that blue light causes you to wake up to a degree and interferes with your brains ability to produce melatonin (the chemical that puts you to sleep) and I recently found a cool app for computers and rooted androids or jailbroken apple products called f.lux that will automatically adjust your screen to warmer colors (red and yellow) from blue after sunset to make it easier for you to fall asleep. I know there’s a number of other apps out there, but finding something like this can be good for you and help you fall asleep at a better time, as well as reduce late night eye strain (although it does make whatever you’re looking at look more orange, so late night gaming with it on would look wrong, but you can turn it off if you want!)
Translated by Falinmer
05-14 Apologies and Dolls
Jin and Reinhardt had forgotten to eat lunch while they were making the distiller.
Unable to overlook this, Reiko dragged two maids into the dining room.
The two who hurried to finish making the lunch ran back to the workshop, and…
「By doing this here,」
「Yeah, shall we try this?」
They were still working on producing a distiller, working to give it as much efficiency as possible so they could produce more water in less time.
「Reiko, could you get some copper?」
「Yes, Father.」
「Reiko is so excellent, I’m jealous of you Jin.」
Reinhardt is impressed with how good of an assistant Reiko is and gets more raucous.
Because of Jin and Reinhardt’s natural inquisitiveness, they continued experimenting without compromise to make a breakthrough.
They had made two prototypes, then three, but all of them were rejected.
Neither Jin nor Reinhardt had gone into town that day, but a high-performance distiller was made as compensation.
「…………」
Later in the afternoon, Elsa who had been looking forward to going around the city of Borgia was really angry.
「E-Elsa, I’m sorry!」
「What do you mean?」
「Grrrr」
Elsa’s iron elbow beautifully entered the pit of Reinhardt’s stomach.
「……Are you okay?」
Jin who was watching and was worried asked Reinhardt.
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With his body bent like the く character, Reinhardt who let greasy sweat run down his pale face didn’t respond.
Jin was about to cast [cure] when Reinhardt finally came to and started breathing.
「G-ugh,…… that’s just like Elsa.」
As he said that, he quickly turned around to see Jin while Elsa was gone.
「Reinhardt, I think we messed up.」
「Yeah….. I guess. Whatever the reason, we’re the ones who broke the promise.」
「Let’s go apologize and-」
As Jin was saying so, Reinhardt…
「Y-yeah.」
He gave a crisp but awkward reply. When Jin asked why he was behaving strange, Reinhardt finally spoke up about the reason.
「When Elsa get’s angry, she won’t lend an ear to listen….」
He said.
As Reinhardt told Jin, the answer would be similar to what he saw earlier.
「Whenever she was angry in the past, she was out of control.」
Although Jin thinks it’s bad to break a promise, but he’s doubtful whether he or Reinhardt would stop the production of the distiller.
「But, I don’t know what’ll happen if Jin goes.」
「Why me?」
Reinhardt and Jin were slightly different in their understanding, and when Reinhardt noticed that he returned with
「Even if I go, what should I say to apologize?」
Jin thinks that Reinhardt is a bit of a pain.
Although he isn’t sure of Elsa’s age, when he was in the orphanage, he had to break a promise with a young girl and when he apologized…
「Alright, let’s do it. Reinhardt, please prepare some clean cloth, some thread, and some hardwood.」
「Eh? Oh, got it.」
After saying so, Reinhardt asked a maid and a butler of Marquis Firentsiano’s house to prepare the materials that Jin had asked for.
「Are you going to make something with these?」
「Well, just watch.」
Then, Jin used his engineering magic.
First, he prepared a mold from the wood with [Shaping]. Those were connected by [joint] and the shape was arranged.
The color was bleached by [safe treatment] and it was smoothly arranged.
Next, he took out a black thread and tied it together by [binding] and attached it with [joint].
「Ho, this is….」
He took a piece of clean cloth and handed it to Reiko while giving her instructions. One was sewn into an unfamiliar form with a different color of fabric.
「Finally, the tabi, huh.」(TLFalin: Tabi are a type of japanese sock, like you see on ninjas in a lot of movies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabi)
After pulling out a white cloth, he formed the tabi with [shaping].
He put a black stone in the eyes to and a rouge lipstick on it to finish it.
Yes, Jin was making a Japanese doll.
「Now we put on the kimono, and…」
Dolls are good for young children when they cry. From the structure of the kimono to a Hakata doll, a Kyoto doll, or an Ichimatsu doll had all been studied briefly.
「That’s a strange doll. Are the clothes a traditional thing?」
Reinhardt admired
「It also vaguely resembles miss Reiko somehow.」
Black eyed, black, bobbed hair. Although it’s not completely like Reiko, as the hair is a little longer.
「Oh well. I tried to make it look like an old doll I saw.」
The materials are different, but it’s tentatively a japanese doll. The Kimono was made with a western styled cloth, but it looked unexpectedly good.
Jin was about to go to Elsa’s room with the newly completed doll and then…
「Reinhardt, where is Elsa’s room?」
He said, so 3 people, Reinhardt, Jin, and Reiko went to Elsa’s room together.
First, Reinhardt knocked on the door.
「Yes.」
It was Mine, the nanny, who showed her face.
「Mr. Reinhardt, what happened? The young lady came running into her room, and no matter how much I call, she won’t answer.」
She said anxiously, and then noticed Jin.
「Mr. Jin, did you possibly….」
He seemed to have felt some antagonism from Mine.
Then Reiko stepped forward,
「Please stop the false accusation. I cannot let you get away with insulting father any further.」
「Hiii!」
As expected, in the face of someone of Reiko’s ability, Mine’s face went pale.
「Stop, Mine.」
「Stop it, Reiko.」
Reinhardt and Jin said respectively to Mine and Reiko.
「Well then, Jin, you go, we’ll wait here for you.」
Jin nodded in understanding and went into the room. Mine didn’t disturb them any further.
He knocked on the door, but there was no answer, so he knocked again.
「Elsa? It’s Jin, will you open up? I want to apologize.」
After knocking and saying that, the door opened and a subdued voice came.
「……What? ……I don’t want you to apologize.」
To Elsa who was speaking like that, Jin held out the doll.
「Yeah, this is also a part of the apology. Please accept it.」
For a moment, Elsa stared blankly at the doll in front of her and the door opened a little more. It didn’t look very good, and there were frays around the edges.
「Cute…… Is this for me?」
Elsa slowly stretched her hands out toward the doll, and Jin immediately handed it over.
「I’m sorry about today. I’ll definitely compensate you tomorrow. Ah! Reinhardt!」
Jin looked back as he remembered Reinhardt. Frantically, Reinhardt says…
「Y-yeah! That’s right!」
「You see, Reinhardt’s like that too, so cheer up. Please take care of the doll.」
Elsa pinched onto the hem of Jin’s outer jacket as he was about to return to detain him.
「Wait……. what’s the name of this child?」
「Eh? It’s name? Hmm, I wonder….」
Toshinobu Nishini (Humanity, justice, etiquette, intellect and sincerity). Jin was about to call it Nobuko, but it didn’t seem to match this world.
「The name is…. Non.」
Although a name like “Noriko” would normally be called non or non-non, you shouldn’t expect anything from Jin’s naming sense, but that’s another problem. (TLFalin: This is an actual line, not something I added in)
「Non….. thank you…. cute.」
Elsa said so as she was holding Non to her chest.
Please comment corrections here.
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「Reiko is so excellent, I’m jealous of you (JIn).」 the (JIn) part should be (Jin) right?
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It is, I must have typed too fast and didn’t let up on the shift key fast enough. Thanks for pointing that out.
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“The two who finished making the lunch in a hurry ran back to the workshop, and…”
Did they “eat the lunch in a hurry (and) ran back to the workshop” or did they “make the lunch in a hurry (and) ran back to the workshop” ?
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They made it in a hurry and ran back, the and…. at the end is to lead into the next line.
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I changed it to “The two who hurried to finish making the lunch ran back to the workshop, and…”
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what i confused about is “the two” in “The two who finished making the lunch in a hurry ran back to the workshop” are Jin and Reinhardt or two maids? if its Jin and Reinhardt then they just making the lunch and didn’t eat it because they ran back to workshop after making the lunch, if the two are two maids then it make (somewhat) sense since they only make the lunch for Jin and Reinhardt.
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Thanks for pointing that out, it was the maids and I made it more clear.
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Thanks for the chapter.
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Thanks for the chapter.
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That night mode thing is a built in feature of iOS 10
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Didn’t know that, the only iOS device I have is my Ipod, and I don’t use that for reading.
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HHIS I should have thuhgot of that!
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It’s also standard on the kindle fire 8
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Classic Jin naming skills… 😝
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Jin you sly dog~
Thanks for the chapter!
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Waifu Get!?
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Thanks 4 the chapter!
Maybe he should hire someone to name his creations. Then again, the people of that world wouldn’t know that his naming sense is skewed.
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Hey does someone know Oui-Oui because is name is the opposite of non-non in french.
~Thx for the chap~
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I don’t want to play with a Oui-Oui(doll).
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it’s hair part wont grew itself right???
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Considering Jin was the one who made it, who knows?
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hahaha… read the diary, and see the hair grew by it own… 😀
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Thank you for the chapter~
Lol, is that true, about that blue thingy prevent you sleep? Because i can sleep (or fallen asleep, unconsciously) when using my phone or computer at night, mostly after 12 o’clock, leaving my phone or computer turned on till morning.
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It doesn’t prevent you from sleeping, it interferes. Blue light is close to sunlight, and we have evolved to work during the day, and as a result, since our bodies can’t recognize the difference between the natural light and artificial, it tells us it’s daytime and we need to be up, although we can fall asleep with a little more effort, but the less effort the better in my opinion.
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He should call it “Nein” instead…
Well, reading in warm reddish screen would makes you sleepy
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No, it was Non, it’s supposed to be a play on Japanese nicknames and names, not some other language.
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Meatbun Delivery~
Thank you for the chapter ( ●w●)
aww.. i thought he’ll make the layered dolls..
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thanks :DD
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Suddenly Diebuster makes a lot more sense 😀
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How so? (I haven’t watched Diebuster, is it any good?)
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(I pressed the wrong Reply button, please see below :))
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There’s a Noriko in the buster series (Gunbuster, Diebuster) getting some background about hte origin of the name shed a whole new light on the meaning behind the anime. personally Nono from Diebuster is my 2nd most fav character (ever) (reason being she’s very much my type, tall, upbeat, determined, friendly, etc etc etc, OP as fuck) And as you may infer Nono may also come from ‘non-non’ that was mentioned at the end of the chapter. I’m quite biased, but I’d reccomend watching the buster series, especially if you liked Tengen Toppa Guren Lagann, you’ll see where the GAINAX legendary glasses 1st made an appearence 😀
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On a side note, the anime provides an alternative origin of the name (Nono) or at least I thought its something else, until I saw this chapter of MCM 😀 (as a japanese newbie I’m guessign the Nono comes from the the shortened version of Noriko to の (and then just doubled to sound better/cutter) But it turns out there’s quite a bit of ‘background’ behind the name Noriko too. Very informative. *thumbs up*)
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For the Noriko to Nono ones, you’re absolutely correct, and thanks for all of the information, it’s fun to learn new facts. About the name in this case, though, it’s spelled ノンノン with katakana, so it could be a reference to the french (or some other language) but thanks for the info on Noriko and the buster series, this was probably meant to be a reference to that.
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Its more likely that the stuff in the buster series werei n fact the same reference to Toshinobu Nishini. as for ノ or ノン they sound to me like difference readings of the same thing to me. (so the difference between them coming out from the language they were borrowed sounds quite likely :), but the meaning they carry should be pretty much identical)
tbh I think Reiko has a higher chance to be a reference to the buster series than this doll.
(I still strongly recommend the buster series, 1st season is classic and the 2nd one is kickass< what's more they're just 6 eps each, definitely worth it!) (btw do you have a reg on NU(F) (novel updates)?)
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Not sure what you mean by a reg on NU(F) (novel updates I get, is it a forum?) They always update properly, so I’ve never really paid attention to it except when I’m looking for a new novel to read.
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I was just wondering if we could chat over there if oyu had a reg(istration), but it seems less than likely, just so I don’t end up bloating the comments section with offtopic discussions about characters sharing not even identical names in other works 😀
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On yet another note:
in another production by the director of Diebuster and TTGL, namely Kill la Kill, there’s also a ‘Nonon’ so there’s also that.
and srsly, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyuki_Imaishi#Director this guy has put his finger in so many cool stuff…
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuya_Tsurumaki this one too.
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Thanks for the chapter. The last time I watch a guy give a doll as a gift was in the old cartoon movie “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”.
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thank for the update
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Found nice PDF links here:
http://www.vn-meido.com/k1/index.php/topic,2072.msg19338.html#msg19338
It all has the illustrations properly placed in each volume.
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Thanks for the link, I’ll add it to the front page.
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a oficial da Renault ao fim desse ano (Genii asumiria a equipe até nome) acha que Kubica vai se arriscar a ficar lá? Quais as alvnaeatitrs que ele teria?9 A Renault disse que pode fornecer motor para mais uma equipe. A Louts disse estar atrás de trabalhar com a Renault em 2011, bem como a Art Grand Prix (se entrar) e a Williams, que também tentaria a Mercedes. Como fica essa disputa?
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I just noticed… Elsa is actually a tsundere is she not…
thanks for the chapter… 🙂
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Thank you for your hard work!
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