>be me
>see a new fantranslator in the tags
>oh wow that's great it's basically just me and one other person in this corner!
>forget about it for a few days
>finally get around to checking the blog
>think it's really cool if there's another non m"tl" translator out there
>sudden Doubt
>check translator's bio page
>"i use mtls and edit them!"
>close page
>stare tiredly into the distance
Hi! This was a surprisingly interesting oprec for Muelsyse (where I almost feared they would go the plat route and it wouldn't really give us anything worthwhile, but it's actually nice!) There might be some characters that are only from Lone Trail but there really isn't any major spoiler outside of character stuff related to Muelsyse.
Biology researcher A: Kaili, how is it?
Biology researcher B: I just finished recording the data of the plants from the arctic. 53 new species entering the garden, most of them are doing well, managing to survive the initial observation period. However, as you can see…
Biology researcher A: O these two sheath leaf zelkova trees had these weird spiral patterns, this means they are dehydrated.
Those icefield cotton plants, it is clearly still in its growing period, but it’s not growing more cotton balls, and their fluffiness is less than normal.
Biology researcher B: That one is the one that shows it the most obvious. Square sunflowers should always be facing their petals towards the sun, but it’s drooping so much it’s almost touching the ground.
Biology researcher A: It’s within expectations. After all, this entire extreme habitat ecological garden has only just begun planning, our data and experience is just not enough.
Let’s go ask Director Muelsyse, she must know where our problem lies.
Biology researcher B: (Speaking of, Director Muelsyse is quite mysterious, she understands plants too well. Everyone under her thinks perhaps… Director Muelsyse may or may not be able to talk with plants.)
Biology Researcher A: (Stop making up rumours)
Muelsyse: Kaili, try this new configuration for this area’s habitat’s data collection cycle, taking care to use fungus so we can use mycorrhiza to help boost the water and nutrient absorption.
Biology Researchers A & B: Director Muelsyse!
Researcher B: …but I was very carefully following the data that miss Magallan gave us to take care of the plants.
Muelsyse: These plants were the ones that Maggie brought back, but Maggie is a scientific researcher, she doesn’t quite fully understand plant biology.
Muelsyse: It’s just that when these plants were in Sami, the data she collected was correct.
Muelsyse: The ecological garden is “too warm” for them.
Muelsyse: Try turning the temperature and moisture down a bit.
Biology Researcher B: Okay, Director Muelsyse.
Muelsyse: Next let's take a look at the plateau section, come with me.
…
Sheath leaf Zellkova: …
Icefield cotton: …
Square Sunflower: …
Sheath leaf Zellkova: (happy finger movements)
Icefield cotton: (forcefully stretching oneself)
Icefield cotton: Sheath leaf zellkova, be careful, your fingers were curled, stretching them like that, be careful of straining your leaf veins.
Sheath leaf Zellkova: I haven’t said anything about you yet, moving so much, your cotton was flying onto my face.
Icefield cotton: What did that person just say? Going to the plateau section? If I let my cotton wool fly a bit further, who knows maybe I could have a chat with the legendary stipa capillata.
Sheath leaf zellkova: You just left Sami, everything is so fresh.
Oi, square sunflower, how come you’re not talking?
Square Sunflower: I’m so withered, no energy at all. Probably not used to the new environment.
Sheath leaf zellkova: No I saw them not eating and not drinking, guessing they’re depressed.
Square sunflower: …..
???: So they were depressed huh.
Sheath leaf zellkova: Who is talking?
Square sunflower: ….it’s raining.
Icefield cotton: IT can rain indoors? Is this the so-called cyclic system?
Sheath leaf zellkova: What kind of rain is this? The water droplets stuck on my branches, I can’t even shake them off?
Square sunflower: …..
Muelsyse: Hello everyone, I’ll reintroduce myself. I am Muelsyse.
Sheath leaf zellkova: Oh you’ve come again, Muelsyse.
Muelsyse: sorry sorry, I just went to find Nastja to change some of the setup, that bastard is so hard to get talking, it took a bit of time to get everything sorted.
You’re condition today is much better than before oh.
Sheath leaf zellkova: I’m getting by.
Muelsyse: Sheath leaf zellkova, you didn’t happen to curl up your leaves on purpose right?
Sheath leaf zellkova: ….
Muelsyse: For the next month before the second batch of plants arrive, the arctic section is my personal responsibility.
In the afternoon I will change your culture media, the new one is a reconfiguration based off of the dirt in Sami.
It has all the nutrients you would need, I will also control the “rain” and “fog” to replenish randomly, it won’t be as “rigid” of a schedule.
If there is anything you need just let me know. Landform, air, dirt, water, the air…whatever conditions is most suited for you to survive? No matter how bizarre, the ecological garden can take care of it.
Icefield cotton: You’re really patient, Muelsyse.
Muelsyse: Actually, ever since I started planning the ecological garden, I was going to build the arctic section, but nobody from ecological had gone to Sami, so this kept on getting pushed back
These past years at Rhinie directing ecological experiments, I thought I already was stable enough, just thinking….
Icefield cotton: Why sami?
In many people's eyes, it is merely an inaccessible and cold place, sealed by its geography, mysterious and dangerous.
Muelsyse: It actually isn’t just Sami. I am interested in the lifeforms in every habitat of Terra…
Sami is also pretty special. Flarks, forests, and icefields are all arranged together, these bizarre landforms together is a bit… how do you say it, has some “force”
Additionally, while the core circle is indeed very harsh and cold, but Sami’s plants species are strangely very varied and full, this does not follow the intuitive knowledge of biology.
So I’m guessing, Sami should be very “clean.”
Icefield Cotton: “Clean?”
Muelsyse: I took a sample from you guys… in your roots, the orginium particles is much lower than average.
Icefield cotton: I don’t understand what you are talking about
Muelsyse: Up until now, Sami was my ideal experiment environment.
Sheath leaf zellkova: So, you want to create a “Sami” in this huge glass room?
Muelsyse: glass room…yes.
Sheath leaf zellkova: Muelsyse, why?
Muelsyse: because I am Rhine Lab ecology’s youngest most capable ecological researcher.
I have the power, and the responsibility to turn this large glass room into the cleanest place of all of Terra. It will have the cleanest air, the most habitable weather, the most nutrient filled dirt…
It will also have a vibrant habitat, every fragile lifeform can live freely in this dwelling.
This was what I have been chasing for… how to say it, goal.
Icefield cotton: (Using all its powers to shed its wool)
Sheath leaf zellkova: (cheerfully waving its branches)
Muelsyse: haha, thank you
Square sunflower: ….
Was that really worth clapping for?
Muelsyse: a…
Square sunflower! You weren’t talking this whole time, suddenly opening your mouth surprised me.
Sheath leaf zellkova: Been here for half a month, he’s always been like this
Ah man, this guy, always a bit depressing.
Icefield cotton: From Sami’s forest getting moved into this weird city, he’s still brooding about that.
We’re already here, look a bit. I had a ball of wool float into the neighbouring water habitat, even managed to feel the “saltiness of ocean water.”
Staying in Sami, you would have turned into scat already. Your flower disc’s seeds have so many special attributes, birds will treat you as food, those big appetite carnivores will use you to help digest…
Square sunflower: Just focus on shedding your wool, where does all this wordiness come from.
Icefield cotton: sigh.
Square sunflower: Muelsyse, aren’t you curious as to why after coming here I’ve withered so much?
Square sunflower’s flower disc will always search for the sun. In your habitat there was indeed a light source system, and can even mimic the various light of the sun throughout the day.
Using your words, it’s very “advanced.”
…but it still isn’t the real sun.
Muelsyse: mm….
Square sunflower: The sun is outside of this glass room. But tearing apart the glass, the room’s dirt, air, temperature, moisture, microorganism colonies are not up to par.
Even if you 100% replicate Sami’s every grain of dirt, every gust of wind, every chunk of ice, this place wouldn’t be much different from the specimen box I was transferred into.
Muelsyse: Oh, your phototaxis is too special, I truly don’t have any way of compensating.
Square Sunflower: I didn’t mean that.
Muelsye: No, I already know.
The coast, mudflats, forest, desert, black forest…every veil you pull back on nature, there will be more surprises.
No matter if it is the temperament of the four seasons, warm and inviting, cold and bitter, extreme conditions, no matter what kind of life, they are all the product of thousands of years of evolution…
It’s not a matter of not having a badly set up “experimental environment”.
Square Sunflower: This place will not be “Sami.”
Muelsyse: Ah, I really wanted to take you out of this environment, let you see the Rhine Lab headquarters, see the entirety of Trimounts.
To me, Sami is mysterious. To you at the same time, science is the mysterious one.
Science can help us defeat the natural boundaries of nature, shape a new environment, science can help us…search for new answers.
Square Sunflower: You are deluding yourself, Muelsyse.
Muelsyse: hm?
???: There is a technology company’s exploration platform in Columbia’s northern mountainous region found the last light fir species…
Muelsyse: What does this have to do with you?
???: There is a village nearby, but the records of the relevant people are already expired…as though there is an overlap with the missing people cases in Trimounts.
Muelsyse: I think it is Director Yara, she wouldn’t really care about what her employees do after work.
With your behaviour, it’s not as though you can claim the moral high ground, little Justin.
Justin: Aye, don’t mind me. I didn’t have other meaning, I also don’t have any clue what you are chasing.
I have just seen with my own two eyes the process of talking business cooperation, I thought that if I had something Director Muelsyse was interested in, maybe she would answer my request to meet.
Muelsyse: ……
The cunning business Director is really this much of a coward? Ecology’s work, it’s actually not that busy.
I’ll come find you. You’re at HQ?
Justin: I’m downstairs at the cafe. Director Muelsyse complained about my office’s decorative style, standing at the entryway not even stepping a single foot in.
Muelsyse: Then I’ll see you at your office.
Sheath leaf zellkova: You’re back. You suddenly left for half a month right?
Muelsyse: um. Ah.
Sheath leaf zellkova: Icefield cotton. She…
Muelsyse: I saw it already.
……
It’s raining in the ecological garden.
Raindrops enter the leaf veins of the Zellkova, raindrops wet the petals of the sunflower, raindrops land on the already withered plant rhizome.
The rain isn’t big, it’s not pouring, but there is no intention to stop.
Sheath leaf zellkova: Muelsyse, are you crying?
Muelsyse: ……
Sheath leaf zellkova: I’m not blaming you
That employee named Kaili already gave it her all to take care of the cotton……
Muelsyse: I know.
No matter refilling the nutrient solution, using better growth mediums, in the end it just cannot compete with Sami’s habitat. But it’s as though all of the Arctic plant groups haven’t developed fully…
I was thinking, the next shipment of Sami plants, should we delay planting them in the ecological garden.
Square sunflower: hm, are you someone so easily swayed?
Muelsyse: Oh, scientific discovery is hard, occasionally hitting dead ends is fairly normal.
Square sunflower: then why are you crying?
Muelsyse: ……
Muelsyse: After talking to Justin, I went to visit Columbia’s northern mountainous district.
Square sunflower: Is that really far?
Muelsyse: not really, three to four days to get there… I was just there for a week.
Square sunflower: If it’s not far, then why did you just now go?
Muelsyse: Because it was really hard to find, I had to look for so long.
Square sunflower: ……
Muelsyse: From all of the orphanages, going to the empty old houses I used to live in, to the Trimount’s Universty, then to Rhine Lab’s laboratories….
From the shelves lined full of old records, to nameless plaques, then to Mumu’s laboratory to report – Yes, I even used my own biological product to experiment.
I looked for so long.
I finally found it there. I thought there would be the answers I needed, regarding my parents, regarding my people, regarding myself.
Square sunflower: ……
Muelsyse: I must turn this large glass building into the cleanest place on Terra, it must have the cleanest air, the most habitable weather, the most nutrient filled dirt…
It must have the richest habitat, every fragile being must be able to live in here.
….including myself.
So, I must find these answers, I must know why my own life is so fragile, why I am so sensitive to originium.
I don’t need to know what I am, what “elves” are, I need to know how to give birth, whether or not there are still other elves out there, where my future…is.
Square sunflower: ….You didn’t find the answer, so you returned empty handed.
Muelsyse: there was only a broken village, a dying tree species, humble cemetery…. Time buried everything.
There was nothing to learn, whether or not those elves buried there were those who could answer my questions, or are the same as me; searching for the answers to the same questions without an end in sight.
Sheath leaf zellkova: Muelsyse, are you okay?
You look really tired, you can rest against my tree trunk for a bit.
Muelsyse: Square sunflower, you are right.
The ecological garden’s snowy mountain isn’t a snowy mountain, the icefield isn’t an icefield, I will never be able to recreate a “Sami”......
Because I myself am not sure, what I am looking for, what kind of place that is.
Square sunflower:......
The rain is still falling
The rootless water droplets in the ecological garden forms a curtain of drizzle.
Square sunflower: Stop crying, Muelsyse.
Sami never rained like this, your crying is destroying the arctic section’s life forms, when the plants get sick, you will have more problems.
Muelsyse: …..
Square sunflower: Actually…
Icefield cotton itself doesn’t live for very long, when the icefield’s winter wind blows strongly, there isn’t a single strand of cotton able to stay on the plant.
The past two days, the icefield cotton’s cotton balls was everywhere, there was a moment where I really thought this was Sami’s icefields.
Muelsyse: ….thank you.
Square sunflower: It was also the cotton’s fault for being so curious. When you weren’t here she let her cotton fly all over the arctic area, highlands, the coastal area. She managed to sate her curiosity.
She went through the entire ecological garden…. Close to a thousand species, there were a lot among them that were the kind that wouldn’t appear again.
Even though you said you wanted to build your ideal habitat, but what you’re doing, it’s not just that…. Hm, put it like this, you are pretty similar to that person.
Muelsyse: hm?
Square sunflower: I said I have seen someone quite similar to you.
From the beginning I already knew, just not quite as clear…..you can all “feel” us, you are all doing similar things, though you are in the lab, they are in the forest.
Plants are their bandages, raindew is their analgesic….as they should, they are stitching Sami’s injury.
Muelsyse: ….!
Square sunflower, are you sure?
Square sunflower: Of course, I was even helped by them.
The rain stops
Muelsyse stands in the center of the garden, looking at the plants in front of her deep in thought.
Muelsyse: I already did two comparative experiments, the answer were all the same. That is to say, the theories we got from your anatomy and selection results are basically correct.
Square sunflower: ….
Muelsyse: Your flower plate contains a lot of chemicals that we don’t yet know of, they brought a certainty to my theory’s results.
You really are a special plant. You have a sort of “healing” capability, just that the healing is for a sort of yet to be discovered natural species.
Square sunflower:....
Muelsyse: But the plant’s main body doesn’t have any sort of automatic healing ability.
That is to say, there is someone using you. Those people’s bodies, are a crucial part of Sami’s habitat’s mechanism.
Sami, are there my people there?
Sunlight pours through the glass, the square sunflower wiggled a bit.
Muelsyse: Thank you, my imaginary friend.
Ecological researcher: Director Muelsyse…..
Muelsyse: oh….
Ecological researcher: That, you….. Sorry for your loss!
Muelsyse: ah?
Ecological researcher: Aren’t you able to talk to plants? Icefield cotton… I….
Muelsyse: Kaili, this is more ridiculous than the rumour of the old mountain goat turning themselves into a superhuman, and then sparring with Saria at night…..
Ecological researcher: ….right, I’m sorry
Oh, I was here to send you a letter.
This is the “Trimounts institute of Technology School Report”, “Ecological survey” “Natural Exchange” these three leading publications inviting to publish, they are all super interested in your latest results.
Your plant communication laboratory, in plant studies and plant system studies have all been proven to work. For biological studies, this is a huge milestone.
Muelsyse: It was all thanks to the help of everyone.
Ecological researcher: Then for the journals?
Muelsyse: Let’s accept them all, but please reply to them, there might be a while before I submit a paper.
Ecological researcher: Do you need to rest for a bit? Ah right, you did just travel back from far away only to throw yourself back to work.
Liberal fan translation of Youki no Otomurai by Mareni, with a primary aim of capturing the beauty of the prose. Summary: Dedicated to all g
A liberal translation of the light novel Youki no Otomurai by Mareni, with a primary aim of capturing the beauty of the prose.
Currently, only the prologue has been translated.
Summary:
Dedicated to all good gourmands, a fantastical banquet for your savour.
Forwith, the story of a certain youth
Who, in midjourney, had found himself lost.
Forsooth, this Nakaba Hirasawa
In a weird new locale had by sheer chance
Well met with a pale and lustrous spirit
And came to know by her mysterious tongue
Of varied and wondrous delicacies
Of enigmatic provenance; they both,
On journeying’s wind, hither and thither,
To new destinations and horizons
(A sudden penchant for going astray)
Shall, with places, faces, and foodstuffs, meet,
In locales that seem to appeal to one
Wisted of nostalgia’s many contours,
Dreaming of ancient flavours, though not quite;
For example: encountering youkai
Spoken of in ancient texts, being lost
Within a suspicious receptacle
No larger than a kitten’s warm forehead,
Finding villages deep in the mountains
And getting wrapped up in their strange rituals;
And in the midst of all this, the spirit,
Kasanui, saving hapless Nakaba
(or sometimes not) on their misadventures,
While Nakaba himself suffers of an
Abnormal affliction, a hungerwant
For her flesh. . .
Thus, a fantastical journey awaits;
Exotica for an offbeat palate!
Curious but what’s the laws about translating things like manga? Like,,, I’d love to do it(I have the language ability) but idw get sued gkakcka plus OFC I wanna support the original work/author ><
I’ve only tl’d unofficially for friends before ... Considering changing this but gkakcla it’s a big step...
