1/2 Prince – Volume 2 – Chapter 3 (Part 4)
August 20, 2009
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Tags: 1/2, chapter 3, half, Novel, prince, summaries, translations, volume 2
In short, the circumstances right now is rocks flying all over the place, water have merged with fire overtaking the arena. Great! What a great man-made prison!* The spectators around me have long gone running away for their lives. The referee was clinging on to the only pillar that the Inferno Dragon hasn’t KOed. Announcer Xiao Li’s broadcasts made listeners think that the world was coming to an end! But Spirit Spirit Team…but I still couldn’t figure out whether or not Spirit Spirit Team still has a fighter left. They should have one right? Or else the match will end very soon.
Wolf-dage who still had a little bit of sense in him finally stopped. He looked around howling. “Enough! Enough! Everyone stop now! We have already helped Prince get his revenge. I think Prince in Heaven* will rest easy now.”
Hearing her husband’s voice, Yu Lian-dasao also stopped. She looked at the ruined arena and whimpered out, “Prince, you can rest in peace now…”
“Prince-gege! Wahhhh!” Tears welled up in Doll’s eyes again.
“Prince! I have avenged your death!” Gui shouted at the sky, tears overflowing. “Prince are you listening?! We finally helped you get your revenge~~”
I swallowed a melon seed, drank some coke and dodged another fireball. “I heard you.” But Gui you’re yelling at the wrong place. I’m not in the sky; I’m at your left hand side.
Wolf-dage titled his head and looked up at the pillar where the referee was and asked, “Referee, why aren’t you declaring that we are the winners? Unless you still want us to continue to wreak havoc. I must let you know, my team member’s patience isn’t very good.”
Sniffling, the referee almost cried and hurriedly began to explain. “But Spirit Spirit team still has one member left. The rules say that all members have to be dead or have surrendered to be able to announce a winner.”
“Surrender! Surrender!” Wolf-dage didn’t even have the chance to open his mouth when a sharp voice cried out from under a pile of rocks. Wolf-dage walked over there and shifted the rocks away to see a flower with only one petal left lying miserably under it.
The referee shouted to the crowds. “Odd Squad wins! Odd Squad wins and successfully entered the finals!”
I happily ran to the arena hugging with my teammates. Awesome! We got in!
Sometime later…I heard a strange rumor about me. Some people say that I’m more scary dead than alive. What do they mean by that? Meatbun and I could only blink our innocent eyes not understanding.
*现在的状况是飞石与白光齐飞,火焰共洪水一色,好!好一个人间炼狱啊!
1/2 Prince – Volume 2 – Chapter 3 (Part 3)
August 14, 2009
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Tags: 1/2, chapter 3, half, Novel, prince, summaries, translations, volume 2
Wind Demon and Rock Demon seeing what’s happening immediately charged towards Odd Squad deciding to quickly get rid of these 3 threats. Lolidragon appeared in front of the Wind Demon stopping him. “Some people say that competing speed against wind is a stupid idea, I will now prove to you, competing speed with me is the even more stupid.” Right after Lolidragon uttered these words, the two draggers in her hands began to spin quickly, hacking, chopping and thrusting forcing the Wind Demon into a hasty retreat.
Ugly Wolf waved around his stick*, persistently fighting against the Rock Demon. When it comes to strength and physique Ugly Wolf obviously don’t stand a chance against the rock-hard Rock Demon. But Ugly Wolf snorted and his heart suffering. Even a 3 year old kid knows how to defeat a rock. All you have to do is hit him repeated with both heat and ice and he’ll shatter right?
“Gui! Get Fire Phoenix to spit fire at the Rock Demon!” Ugly Wolf PMed* Gui and Gui responded instantly.
“You think fire will have an effect on me?” the Rock Demon was being burned by the fire but he seemed very nonchalant.
Ugly Wolf grinned icily. What happens if we add water? Okay, watch me make your shatter into pieces….water, should I go get Yu Lian? No, Yu Lian only has fire and earth spells, Doll can’t be used, Gui won’t be much help and Lolidragon is a thief. Damn it! No water…Ugly Wolf stood frozen in place. Now what are we supposed to do? There’s no way I’m going up to the Water Demon and say, ‘Hey! Lend me some water so I can kill the Rock Demon!”
“Wahh~~Mama!” Meatbun was on the side crying violently. The arena was practically being flooded by tears.
Ugly Wolf’s ugly face broke out into a smile. How amazing, Prince is already dead but he didn’t forget to leave us with this important “orphan” Ugly Wolf quickly scooped up Meatbun and began to talk. “Meatbun, that rock other there was the reason why your Mama died. Do you want to get revenge for her?”
“Wah~ what’s revenge?” Meatbun looked up with huge innocent eyes.
Ugly Wolf scratched his head a bit. “Just…go other to that Rock Demon and cry and your Mama will be very happy!” Ugly Wolf said in his best comforting voice*.
“Then Mama will come back? Meat-bunbun misses Mama.”
“Yup…probably!”
“Okay!” Meatbun’s face filled with resolve began to jump and bounce towards the Rock Demon.
Ugly Wolf wiped away a cold sweat; thankful that Meat buns don’t have brains.
Rock Demon began to stare at the Meat bun that’s hopping towards him. Meatbun jumped onto his shoulder and two water pillars immediately came on. Rock Demon began to hear himself start to crack. His face in alarm began to frantically trying to grab Meatbun. “What are you doing? Get off!” However Meatbun is small and very active. In a second he was on his head, his shoulders, and his arms…the two water taps running destroying Rock Demon’s body.
The whole situation did a 180 turn!
I just got back from the rebirth point, passed the after-death vomiting stage and began to look around me bored.
“Now what am I supposed to do?” I mumbled to myself before remembering. “That right! I should go and see how the match is faring.”
So that I would get to the match on time, I quickly grabbed a bag of melon seeds, brought a plate of fried rice and a bottle of coke and hurried on to the stadium. I got there just in time to see Gui in his maniacal state. I found a seat and began to look at my teammates who turned crazy because of my death.
“Wow~ if I knew Gui could control Fire Phoenix just like that then I should have committed suicide so that we could have delicious barbeque meat!”
“What a scary Inferno Dragon…”
“Yu Lian-dasao is really ferocious…”
I signed for the countless time, but my crazy teammates are continuously being mad. By the time I finished eating my fried rice the whole arena turned into a disaster. “Flaming floods” and “fallen sky and cracked earth…” *
Floods.
“Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! Mama didn’t come back! Mama~!!” Meatbun’s two water taps have now evolved into two full fledged waterfalls! The flowing water overtook the whole arena flooding it. Meatbun must have set a new record for flooding the stadium.
Flames.
“Fire Phoenix, quickly! Burn all of the arrogant demons into hell! Ahahaha~” Gui have already entered in a semi-mad state and Fire Phoenix have begun to get addicted to burning. Aside from the small number of Odd Squad members, Fire Phoenix spit out fire at anyone and anyplace.
Fallen sky.
“Bump” the overflow sky sounded. Doll’s Horrifying Underworld Inferno Dragon “once again” rammed into the stadium pillars.* Pieces of rock that’s the size of human heads flew all over the arena. Even the spectators over at the stands suffered from the attack of the flying rocks. I dodged. Wow, almost hit me. *
Cracked earth.
When Yu Lian-dasao’s terrifying earthquake spell is used for the 11th time, the ground of the arena already turned into 6 uneven pieces and it seems like her goal is to split the ground until its barely recognizable.
*挥着光耀之杖 – uh I think it means he’s waving his stick but I’m not sure exactly what to call it! >___<
*队伍频道 – I think this means to PM someone but I not really sure
*丑狼尽量用着哄小孩的语气 – for this sentence here I’m not really sure if it be translated literally into English!
*场上已经是一片“水深火热”、“天崩地裂” – I translated it pretty literally…it might need some changes.
*“碰”的滔天巨响,娃娃的恐怖地狱火焰骨龙“又”撞上了会场旁边的柱子 – completely don’t understand how to put this in the proper English format!
*至于祸主娃娃则偏着头无辜的站在一旁 – kind of confusing…not sure how to translate this.
1/2 Prince – Volume 2 – Chapter 3 (Part 2)
August 11, 2009
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Tags: 1/2, chapter 3, half, Novel, prince, summaries, translations, volume 2
“Eugh.” My entire body was entwined with grass, unable to move an inch.
“Prince!” Odd Squad members looked shocked. Wolf-nii ran up to me grabbing at the grass while Doll directed her flaming skeletons to cover us. Lolidragon who was originally running towards the opponents ran back, hurriedly cutting the grass with her dagger.
I began struggling, and looking up saw that the Rock Demon was charging towards us. I quickly turned ashen, loudly shouting. “Forget about me! Defend yourselves!”
“Skeletons hurry over and defend!” Doll came to our side summoning her skeletons to guard against the Rock Demon. However, the Tree Demon swung one of its mighty branches and scattered the skeletons with ease. Although it wasn’t enough to kill of the skeletons, it caused them enough damage to take a long time crawling back up. As the Tree Demon surged forward, Yu Lian set out a ranging fireball which sent him back scurrying back to the Demon Demon Team. The Rock Demon was unaffected and raised his arm to swap Doll away. Noticing just in time, Ugly Wolf quickly pushed her out of the way and took the heavy blow himself. Towering over 200 centimeters even Wolf-nii was sent flying.
“Wolf…!” Yu Lian-dasao cried out.
“Flaming Skeletons! Hurry and come protect everyone!” Doll was sent into a panic, calling her skeletons to defend against the offense of the Rock Demon.
“GUI! Ferocious Spell hurry up and use the Ferocious Spell!” I roared.
“Right…” Gui immediately used his Ferocious Spell on me.
I felt more power surge inside of me and started struggling. In a while I freed out my right arm. “Continuous Blade!” Cut, Slice, Slash, Hack, Nick, Chop, I used every type of cutting known to man to get rid of the grass on my body. After freeing myself, I jumped up and ran to help against the fight with the Rock Demon.
Suddenly a large water pillar appeared in front of me, shocked, I hurriedly took a step back. Unfortunately I don’t have eyes on the back of my head, so I didn’t see that behind me there was another large water pillar. On top of which the one behind me was even stronger than the one in front, I was trapped.
“Ahh…” I was being washed up along with the strong currents which were pulling me off the arena. Panicked I grabbed my Black Sabre and stabbed it into the ground griping it tightly. Thankfully I wasn’t washed off the stage but once the water receded I found myself once again tied up by the grass. How irritating!
I cut away the grass, got hit by two water pillars, when the water finally pulled away; I got tangled up in grass again! At this time, I turned to look at Doll and everyone else worried about how they were faring. Thankfully Doll teamed up with Yu Lian-dasao so they were on par with the Rock Demon. Gui grabbed his instrument and began was using Ghost Chase Super Sonic Arrow to distract the enemy. Wolf-nii is fighting by himself?! I finally remembered that there was a demon that you can’t see – Wind Demon! The Wind Demon is fighting with Wolf-nii. Not good! Where’s Lolidragon? I turned around to look at the other members of Demon Demon Team and as expected I saw Lolidragon crouching sneakily behind the Water Demon ready to take it down by surprise…but…”Lolidragon, run!”
The Tree Demon, unhurt, was planning his assassin of the female thief. Once Lolidragon showed up his huge tree branches came throttling out of nowhere.
“Ahh…!” Lolidragon who was never good with ducking was hit directly by the branch causing her to lose a lot of blood. She stood up again quickly returned back to Odd Squad. Noticing that Wolf-nii was having a lot of trouble, she immediately rushed to aid him in battle. Invisible people although really hard to see with the naked eye, however, it is hard to conceal itself against the trained eyes of a thief. Along with Gui’s assistance, the Wind Demon was sent scurrying back to Demon Demon Team’s corner.
Suddenly, the demon that hadn’t moved once since the beginning of the fight started to chant a healing spell. Flower petals flew over to the Wind Demon’s head and almost immediately he began to heal.
“Looks like Flower Demon is a priest!” Ugly Wolf uttered in surprise.
Tree Demon seeing what was happening ran to help out the Wind Demon. After adding the strong and merciless Tree Demon, Wolf-nii, Lolidragon and Gui could only fight evenly. Doll and Yu Lian could only stop the Rock Demons offensive – which against the rock (excuse the pun) hard Rock Demon had absolutely no effect. And me? I am still obviously trapped between the Grass and Water Demon unable to do anything.
At this rate, we’re going to be finished! I once again struggled wildly against the grass and pulled out Meatbun.
“Mama? Are you playing water? Meatbun also wants to play!” Meatbun looked up at me – being washed up almost disfigured because of the Water Demon – with his big round eyes.
After all this? I never want to play with water again! With no strength left the Grass Demon bound me again. “Meatbun wait until I’m being washed up with the current again. I want you to use technique XXX to get me out of here. Do you understand?”
“Yup~ I understand.”
I began to hack at the grass of the N time. Jumping up the pillar of water began to surge at me again.
“Meatbun, use Bamboo Dragonfly!” I cried out.
Meatbun’s head suddenly grew a Bamboo Dragonfly. The Bamboo Dragonfly twirled to life, slowly spinning upwards carrying Meatbun up with it. And me using my left hand grabbing tightly to Meatbun rose with them. “Keep away from that water current Meatbun.” Meatbun automatically went to the left missing the Water Demon who was coming right at us.
I had no choice but to reply on a meatbun flying back and forth, searching for opponents. I decided first to get rid of the Grass and Water Demon since if I didn’t then I wouldn’t be able to walk on the ground at all anymore! “Meatbun, slowly approach the enemy.”
“What’s an ‘enemy’?”
I face palmed. “Go towards the people gathered over there.” I pulled out my Black Sabre and pointed in the direction of Demon Demon Team.
“Okay~ Mama!” Meatbun obediently began to advance on Demon Demon Team.
“Dragon. Roll. Chop.” I bypassed a water pillar and turned into a dragon charging at the Water Demon. That hateful Water Demon immediately received a large gaping hole in his stomach thanks to me. I was jump about to give him another trust of my sword and send the Demon to the rebirth point my body was tangled up by grass again. But the worst thing was…
“Ice Pillar.” The seriously hurt Water Demon smiled sinisterly, hands holding onto more than 10 ice poles.
“(prince’s attack)” I hurriedly cut of the grass on my body but it was too late to duck, 5 pillars pierced me. My face turned white…eugh! It really hurt, the pain was worst on my left leg where a pillar and penetrated through. The rest merely hit the front of the body. Although I still have more than half of my life I was once again bound by the Grass Demon. In front of me suddenly appeared N number of ice pillars! Looks like Demon Demon Team is about to complete their hideous goal – to turn me into an ice kabob.
“Even if I have to die, I’m taking one with me. Meatbun, dog chase attack!” I ordered Meatbun to attack the Water Demon.
“Ah…” I was continuously hit by ice pillars, in my left hand, waist, shoulder and one even passed by my forehead. On the other side the Water Demon was hit continuously by Meatbun’s attack but alas the Flower Demon reacted fast enough to heal him. I lay on the ground and looked at my life stats. Looks like I couldn’t even bring down one of them with me, damn it.
“Prince, let’s go!” Lolidragon appeared suddenly behind me and began pulling me away. Grass Demon didn’t give up; he quickly bound both of us cutting off our escape. But a light arrow prevented him from doing so. Gui extremely angry began to use Full Sky Raining Arrows on the Grass Demon giving him no choice but to release me and use grass to protect himself, Flower Demon and the Water Demon.
“Almost there Prince!” Lolidragon was pulling as hard as she can trying to get me Wolf-nii in time to be healed. Ugly Wolf himself wanted to come and heal me but with Lolidragon gone and Gui going berserk it was all he can do not to be killed by the Wind and Tree Demon. Extremely busy he couldn’t pull some time to come heal me.
I considered the circumstances and opened my mouth to yell at Lolidragon. “Go help Wolf-nii! He can’t keep fighting by himself!”
Lolidragon looked at Wolf-nii then looked at me. “Damn it, if I don’t help Wolf-nii get rid of those too then we wouldn’t have a chance to help Prince!”
Lolidragon bit her lip and left me hurrying back to help Ugly Wolf to defend against the two. “You have to hang in here, do you hear me Prince?!” Lolidragon yelled over her shoulder.
At this time I could only weakly nod my head a bit, hang in there? This stupid 99% reality! The wound is constantly making my life drop, how am I supposed to hang in there? You’re not allowed to bring blood into the contest either…crap. I’m getting dizzy and things are turning fuzzy…I quickly shoke my head.
At this time the Water Demon’s wounds are completely healed and he sent a furry of ice pillars towards me – who was still woozy in a dream like state.
“Prince~” Gui, Lolidragon, Ugly Wolf, Yu Lian and Doll cried out in despair.
“Prince!” Gui leaped over holding on to the now unconscious me. At that moment the water current immediately washed both of us away. Gui tired to shield me with his body but no avail the tiny amount of blood in my body stained the water red…
Suddenly my head cleared and I understood perfectly. I am just one drop away from dying. “Gui, you must fight!”
Gui looked at me frightened. “Prince, no…no you can’t die!”
I smiled lightly my body becoming hazy turning bright like starlight. Gui looked sorrowful at me as I turned into a pillar of light flying into the sky.
“Prince.” Gui looked at his hand who was just momentarily holding on to me and pounded the ground. His voice was also chocking.
“Prince.” Lolidragon looked white.
“Why…” Yu Lian covered her mouth, eyes sparkling with tears.
“No, Prince!” Wolf-nii roared in sadness.
“Wahhhh….wahhh, Prince-nii!” Doll began to cry.
“Mama? Where did Mama go? Wahhhh.” Meatbun’s super watery fountain reappeared creating a river.
At the arena the whole area seemed to be at a standstill. The feeling of sorrow spread throughout the spectators, even member of Demon Demon Team seemed to be at a loss of what to do. The minutes passed one by one, until finally Demon Demon Team decided to move again. But at that time flames of fury was coming off of Gui.
“Fire Phoenix. As you master I command you: Burn! Send all those ignorant bastards that dared to hurt my true love into the fiery depths of hell.” Gui eyes burned with the desire to revenge. Even the ever disobedient Fire Phoenix knows that right now isn’t the time to disobey. He sqacked once and flew up high, flames spilling out of his mouth at Demon Demon Team. Grass Demon was originally going to set up a barricade but what can grass do to fire? Water Demon immediately went to help using water to block the life-threatening flames.
Grass Demon knowing things are good wanted to use its binding attack against Gui. Long grass suddenly appeared on the ground beneath Gui’s feet.
“Earthquake Spell!” Yu Lian crouched on the ground her right hand touching it slightly. At that second the ground underneath the Grass Demon immediately spilt into two. The Grass Demon lost his footing and was about to fall into the hole but thankfully the Grass Demon was nearby and caught him in time. However Yu Lian only smiled lightly finishing her second incantation. The ground began to split going straight towards both the Grass Demon and the Tree Demon.
“You used this trick to kill Prince, you really think I’m going to let you kill Gui too?! In your dreams!” Yu Lian lightly spat out these words.
“Hell’s wrath from the darkest depth of your abyss. I call upon the remains of the undead fire dragon. Heed my call and appear before me! Obey your master and clear the path before me of all the ignorant barbarians.” Doll’s normally cheerfully face was dark and tinted with danger. Even summoning the Underworld’s Inferno Dragon couldn’t satisfy her need to revenge Prince. And so, Demon Demon team now has not only to fight the divine flames of the Fire Phoenix but now also the raging fire-spitting Inferno Dragon. No doubt for the Demon Demon Team it was like adding frost to ice…no fire to oil.
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**note in general I have no idea what to call some of the moves so I’ll use the names that I translate it literally to be. >____< Please change it after if I’m wrong, which is like 99.9% likely.
1/2 Prince – Volume 2 – Chapter 3
June 14, 2009
Filed under 1/2 Prince, Novel
Tags: 1/2, chapter 3, half, Novel, prince, summaries, translations, volume 2
½ Prince Volume 2: Reality and Fantasy
Original novel in Chinese by: 御我 (Yu Wo)
Chapter 3: Odd Squad Strikes Back – translated by xosugarhighox
“Hahaha…” I laughed coldly. “Hahahaha, I’m not scared. I’m not scared! Hahaha.”
“Looks like Prince is really scared….” Ugly Wolf resentfully looked in the corner at me who hasn’t stopped laughing like a maniac.
“Well, it was always Prince who slaughtered everyone in his path. Now that they come for payback, obviously he’d be scared!” Lolidragon responded indifferently.
“But now what? At this rate, how are we going to be able to go compete?” Yu Lian asked worried. “You’re not saying that we’re going to forfeit, are you?”
“Haha, don’t worry about him! He’s always like this! Prince is constantly scared half to death before the fight, but once it actually starts, he is the one person who gets into the fight the most. No worries, no worries!” Lolidragon laughed heartily as she replied.
“Really….?”
“It’s time.” Wolf-dage calmly said.
Hearing that, I stood up and turned. My left hand grabbed my Black Sabre. “It’s time to kill.” I muttered unenthusiastically.
Not really sure why, no matter how scared I has before the fight, every time I walk in the stadium and feel the eyes of the spectators I can always somehow manage to clam myself down. Although I still don’t want to use Meatbun and the obedient Fire Phoenix to win against the two dragons, however, I didn’t have a plan when Meatbun fought Fire Phoenix, and we still won! Ahahaha, this is called lucky people have Heaven behind them….(actually it’s more like foolish people have foolish luck!).*
Like every other time, I was first to jump on the stage. Yet Hell’s Murderers has only passed through the tunnel. The first person to come out of the tunnel and also the leader was wearing a blood red mage coat. “Blood-soaked Demon King, Ice Mage, most favorite technique is to skewer people with ice poles. The number one most terrifying and strongest in Hell’s Murderers.” Lolidragon explained.
“Skewer? That means the worst I can get is a hole through my stomach? That’s great! It scared me for a second there, I thought that my intestines XXX will be forced in and out of my mouth, and pull my XXX bloody heart off my chest while cracking open my brain. Then sticky white XXX brain will splatter all over the ground…” I relaxed quite a bit. What did they mean by the most scariest team? Heck, I was even scared half to death by them.*
“Lord Prince! I beg of you not to say any more!” Pale and stricken faced, Lolidragon who was listening to my rant about XXX begged me to stop. “If you say anymore, I’ll puke up my breakfast!”
“Haha…sorry about that! I’ve been watching too many scary movies lately!” Remembering last night’s horror movie the homicidal crazy killer killed the same tacit to kill people. I laughed foolishly.
At this time, the mage wearing the blood red cloak suddenly spoke up. His voice was terrible and ragged and spoke very slowly. “Today, I am going to consider Odd Squad as a meat skewer. I’m going to pierce each of you one by one and then you’ll be burned to death slowly and painfully by my lovely dragon here. I am going to show you what real terror is~~”
I merely smiled. “Start then.”
The said Blood-soaked Demon King seemed to be boiling in anger by my indifferent attitude, several veins popped on his forehead.
“What are you so mad about?” I smiled gently. “Once I slice up your stomach XXX and pull out your intestines XXX. I’ll take the intestines and make it a rope to tie you up with and then cut up your brain XXX. I’ll take out the brain and get Fire Phoenix to burn it into a crisp. Then I’ll stuff it in your mouth, not before making a wonderful fresh seasoning with your own blood! Now if you’re mad, it’s not too late!”
Whahaha, just like the movie I saw from yesterday. After watching it with my bro, I even went and made some new recipes. Using high quality tofu that looked like brain XXX, and fresh red beans that looked like fresh blood, I made red bean tofu soup for him. That was the first time my bro ever skipped dinner. Was I a bit too harsh? But who asked him to breath down my shoulder for 3 days straight?! And Dark Emperor Team has already made it passed the preliminaries. Now they can participate in the finals! Stupid bro does he know how much pressure this puts on me?!
The Blood-soaked Demon King’s face that was so red in anger lost all blood and turned green then after that passed his face became white as a sheet, hands shaking nonstop. He’s probably imagining himself having his intestines pulled out and tied around his neck, having his own brain being fried to a crisp and stuffed down his throat XXX and having his own blood poured on him… (By that time, aren’t you dead already…?)
Wait…isn’t this plagiarizing the movie then? I thought for a while, would I be turned in for using anther’s work without notifying them first?! Why don’t we….
“I’ll gorge out your eyeballs and stuff them up your ass?” Wait no! That’s what happened in the horror film from last week.
“I’ll bury you alive and then pull off your skin off piece by piece?” This is one of the torture devices of the Qing Dynasty.
“Cut off all four limbs and put it in a cesspit?” Where would I find a cesspit here?
“Slice his body up into edible pieces?” That sounds barbaric!*
“Castration?” I don’t think he can die from that. According to the game, that place is probably where you ask for vital replacements!
“Stuff my blade up his ass? No, no! How dirty!” My darling Dark Sabre cannot become dirty!
I let out a sigh. “Never knew thinking out new fashions of torture and killing would be so hard! Never mind, I’ll just pick one out of those and use it. Let’s start! Judge…eh? What happened to everyone?” I looked around me, strange, I’m the only one left in the whole arena.
“What happened to that Blood-soaked Demon King?” I looked at the empty arena. My opponents disappeared so I turned to look at my teammates. “Lolidragon? Wolf-nii? Gui? Dasao? Doll? Why did they all disappear?”
At this time, the announcements came up. Vomiting sounds could be heard in the background. “Everyone…I am commentator Xiao Li. Because of one of the competitor Prince’s gruesome descriptions, it has caused all of the people to flee the arena, (barf)* probably to the washrooms…vomiting. There are still 5 more minutes before the match must start. If not one member of Hell’s Murders can return to the area before the 5 minutes is up, then it will be automatic disqualification and Odd Squad wins by default! (barf)”
At this moment…in the washroom.
Odd Squad members started yelling. “Prince you’re dead! (barf)”
The members of Hell’s Murders are on the side weeping with grief. “I won’t go back even if I have to die! (barf)”
“(barf) Odd Squad, victory!” The judge announced.
I twirled my fingers around guiltily, and muttered in a sad voice. “I didn’t do it on purpose!”
I just walked off from the stage when Lolidragon approached me with a fierce angry aura. “Prince you’re DEAD!”
“You even made up puke up last nights dinner!” Yu Lian-Dasao smiled. Her fearsome shadow reappeared again.
“Prince-nii! Doll is very scared~” Scared? But Doll, why does your expression look like a starving dragon that just saw fresh meat?
“Ai….Prince I think you already know this. From the beginning I have always thought of you as a younger brother.” Then don’t swing around your 2 meter cane and do warm up exercises! Wolf-nii don’t you know? For a warrior to be defeated by a priest in terms of physical strength is a very humiliating thing?!
“Lord Prince…” Gui looked worried.
A dagger, two large canes and a skeleton hand was inches from from hitting me and all I could do was watch. Miserably I called out. “Gui, save me~~”
Gui immediately rushed in front of me. “Don’t attack Lord Prince~~”
A small brawl commenced in which fists and feet, slippers and knives were used to attack. I hid behind Gui safely escaping from torture. Thankfully I looked at Gui who now has no resemblance of a human. (Strange, why didn’t he die? Look like Wolf-nii’s cure had Gui’s help in leveling up.) Swearing to myself, I promised to not to hit Gui too much next time.
“Prince! You’re so sly.” Lolidragon yelled.
“How is that true? You are now happy after beating someone into a pulp, yet I in turn am not hurt. Also it even completed my desire of beating up Gui. Everything is falling into place. Hahaha.” I really am ice cold. Haha.
“Wonder why they asked for Nii-san for? I’m starving.” Just before, the announcements came up asking for our team leader to go see them, saying something about that they need to consult. Hope it’s not that our victory wasn’t counted! Would we have to fight again? No way…I already suffered so much, to have out victory annulled. Then I will actually use Qing Dynasty’s 10 Torture Techniques on the game operators.
“You really eat a lot…makes me wonder if you really are female.” Lolidragon suddenly realized she said the wrong thing. My face suddenly turned pale and looked at Dasao and Doll to see if they realized anything. “…*bishounen.
“…” Good thinking Lolidragon! I let out a sigh.
“Wolf is back!’ Yu Lian-dasao grinned excited.
“Ai…everyone, I have some bad news.” Ugly Wolf-nii furrowed his brows together. “We have to fight one more time.”
“Now? Already?” But I’m hungry….
“Technically we still have 20 more minutes.”
“Gui…” we all turned to look at Gui who seemed to turn into a pile of discarded clay.
“I’ll heal him. Don’t worry.” Wolf-nii replied noting everyone’s gaze. “This is 10 times lighter than what Prince did to Gui before.”
…I pretended I never heard that.
“Demon Demon Team is our next opponent. And another thing, the reason why we are fighting twice in a row is because we’re one of the last teams who haven’t finished yet. They want to complete all the groupings today therefore everyone must fight.” Wolf-nii said frustrated. “The stupid thing is, there’s no time for us to find any information regarding the opponent. Yet the other team after watching our fights know exactly what they’re up against. It’s very unfavorable against us.”
“*” I muttered vaguely while nibbling on a piece of steamed bun.
“That’s not for certain. Thankfully, the fight just then didn’t actually show any of our skills. All they would know is our professions.” Yu Lian-dasao smiled cheerfully.
“Hope that’s true…”
At the arena. I broke out a cold sweat and managed to force my mouth to ask, “That’s our opponents?”
“Looks like it.” Wolf-nii’s brows furrowed even more tightly if that was even possible.
“Are you serious?! I’m talking about the flower, a blade of grass, a pool of water, a tree, a piece of rock and something that no one can see is our opponents?” My mouth dropped open, that’s a bit…exaggerated.
“No wonder they’re called Demon Demon Team. It’s made up of a Tree Demon, Flower Demon, Water Demon, Rock Demon, Wind Demon and Grass Demon. This isn’t good. Demons are classified in complicated categories and they’re skills are constantly changing. Plus players choosing to become a Demon are minimal therefore we never fought against a Demon team before. Our knowledge of them is too little. This fight is going to be tough.” Lolidragon explained worriedly.
“Ai…And I was going to try out the things I said at the last fight…but now…” I let out a sigh. “Lolidragon, do you think it/he/she/her/him/they will have intestines for me to pull?”
“No clue.”
“No matter, we still have to fight anyways.” I don’t care who my opponent is, I just want to stretch out my arms and legs and start the fight.
“Prince is right, let’s get them!” Wolf-nii roared.
I began to laugh wildly and pulled out my Black Sabre. The last preliminary grouping fight, start.
Once the competition started, I immediately started rushing forward. Might was well start by eliminating two of them. But just then I realized my foot was bound together by something. My whole body ended up sprawled on the ground, I tuned to look at my foot…grass? Why does the arena have grass to trip me? I quickly used my Sabre to cut the grass and moved to crawl back up when even more long strands of grass popped up beside me.
* 这叫吉人自有天相……(是傻人有傻福吧!)- This is one of those Chinese phrases that just looks horribly wrong in English….not sure if this is right.
* 什么最恐怖的队伍,害我怕得要死。- It sounded like Prince is saying like ‘Ha, they’re not that scary after all…’ but I didn’t know how to write it AND still keep the original words intact.
* 恶 – It’s the onomatopoeia for barfing but I don’t know how to put it in the story and STILL have it sound right so I put it in (barf) where the word is.
* 人心目中的美男子 – I have no idea what this means. So I only left the bishounen part on.
* 速粉不離 – Once again, not sure.
Detective Conan – Chapter 1: Teitan Elementary’s 7 Mysteries
June 11, 2009
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Detective Conan Volume 1
Original novel in Japanese by: 青山刚昌 & 平良隆久 (Aoyama Gosho)
Chapter 1: Teitan Elementary’s 7 Mysteries
Horror stories softly circulated throughout all of Teitan Elementary Year 1 Class B.
Everyone was busy reading. Genta however, gabbed hold of Conan’s ear and started whispering to him about the scary events that happened at school in the past few days. He said it with such vigor and excitement that saliva splashed all over Conan’s face.
Conan didn’t seem to care very much about the events, in a bored voice Conan asked Genta “You say that our school is haunted?”
“Exactly! There’s no mistaking it!”
Mitsuhiko who was beside them also decided to stick his head in. He whispered in a soft spooky voice, “Right now, the whole school is circulating this rumor!”
“Looks like to me, this is nothing but another rumor like our schools 7 mysteries, right? If it isn’t the piano playing by itself at night when there’s no one there, or the number on the stairwell is different…” Conan has no interest in these kind of things.
“This isn’t another one of those kiddy rumors!” Mitsuhiko’s face was turning pale just thinking about the rumor. “A week ago in the morning, a student went to the Art Class. She really likes the big portrait hung there, therefore she goes to see it every morning. That student saw with her own eyes the the 8 cast statues in the Art Class turn and stare at her at the same time. Not only that, the eyes were filled with a strange light! Think about it, this rumor is really scary isn’t it?” While he was talking, Mitsuhiko’s voice went up a pitch.
“Don’t get scared, this is only a coincidence!” Conan muttered lightly.
“Not only that, it isn’t just her! Don’t you think that the number of students in our school has decreased a lot?” Mitsuhiko lowered his voice. Like a thief, he slunk down and put his head closer to his body staring at the students in the class.
“But I heard that right now there’s a flu being passed around.” Conan stared at Mitsuhiko strangely.
“This could have something to do with the curse of the cast statues!” Mitsuhiko seemed like an expert reminding Conan of the rumor.
“Humph. The rumor I heard is 10 times more scary than the statues!” Genta said from behind them.
“Hm?” Conan turned around to look at him.
“Doesn’t the Health Room have a really scary looking fake person?”
“Don’t you mean the human anatomy model?” Conan sighed and started explaining it to Genta. Jeez.
“Yup, it’s that one! Four days ago at night, he was running in the hallway!” Genta started to break out into a cold sweat. “And his speed was amazing too, really fast!” Genta’s teeth was clattering now.
“That can’t be possible.” Conan rolled his eyes.
Detective Conan – Character Introduction
June 11, 2009
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Detective Conan
Original novel in Japanese by: 青山刚昌 & 平良隆久 (Aoyama Gosho)
Character Introduction
工藤新一(Shinichi Kudou)

Catch Phrase: There is only 1 truth!
17 years old, Teitan High School 2nd Year, high deduction skills, hailed as the savior of the Japanese police into the era of peace as Heisei Holmes. He, himself, looks up to Holmes more than any other detective. Born May 4th (the date when Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty fought over Reichenbach Falls) in Tokyo, likes to watch detective related shows and novels, home is filled with many detective novels, lives alone. Has perfect pitch and plays the violin but unable to sing. Was part of the soccer team in high school but quit after 1 year when it conflicted with his detective work. He likes Ran but will never admit it.
江户川柯南(Conan Edogawa)

Catch Phrase: There is only 1 truth!
Shinichi was force-fed a poison APTX4869 (4869 stands for “shiyaroku”, 4 = shi, 8 = ya, 6 = ro, 9 = ku, or “Sherlock”) by the Men is Black and his body shrunk. 6 years old, is currently staying at the Mouri Detective Agency. Enrolled in Teitan Elementary 1st Year B Class. Classmates includes: Ayumi, Mitsuhiko and Genta who makes up Detective Boys. He hates grapes. His biggest desire is to return back to Shinichi as soon as possible. Even after been shrunk, his deduction skills did not drop. Using Professor Agasa’s inventions, he can still become a detective. However, since no one will listen to a kid, he uses the help of Kogoro. Ran really likes Conan, and she often brings him with her to bathe. The people who know Conan’s real identity is his mother, father, Professor Agasa and Heiji Hattori. Conan Edogawa, is derived from Sir Arthur CONAN Doyle as well as EDOGAWA Rampo.
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Earl and Fairy – Chapter 1: That Man, Is He a Gentleman or a Villain?
June 7, 2009
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Earl and Fairy Volume 1: He’s a Refined Villain
Original novel in Japanese by: 谷瑞惠 (Tani Mizue)
Chapter 1: That Man, Is He a Gentleman or a Villain?
“Now see here Mr. Gotham, for a long time now I’m been mooching off your help. I really need to thank you for everything you’ve done.” A thin, bony young man smiled almost bewitchingly at the male in front of him, his pistol still pressed against the head of the pompous, arrogant man with his perfectly combed mustached.
Earl and Fairy – Character Introduction
June 7, 2009
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Earl and Fairy
Original novel in Japanese by: 谷瑞惠 (Tani Mizue)
Character Introduction
Lydia Carlton (莉迪雅)

The daughter of Professor Carlton, is a 17 year old fairy doctor. She has the rare power to see fairies, an ability she inherited from her mother. Lydia also possesses green eyes, a trait of those with the gift to see fairies. She is independent and kind, Lydia doesn’t hesitate to help others. She loves her father dearly and will do anything for him. She ends up working for Edgar as his consultant on fairy-related matters after helping him retrieve the Merrow’s Sword (key to him being recognized as the Blue Knight Earl by the Queen of England). Because of past difficulties, Lydia dislikes the idea of falling in love and even seems to be afraid of it. When she was a child, she was given a love letter by a boy who – as it turns out later – was dared to do so by his friends, crushing her. She also cast a spell on Kelpie so that he would not come near her, as his aggressive advances were troublesome to her. She doesn’t believe Edgar when he reveals his love for her, and only believes he is just being his usual playboy self. Her goal is to become a full-fledged fairy doctor, and frequently places herself in danger willingly when it comes to anything to do with problems between humans and fairies. She appears to have some self-esteem issues, referring to her own hair as “rust-colored” and comparing herself to her mother, who was apparently a woman of considerable beauty; everyone who knew her mother before she passed away says that they don’t look anything alike. Lydia currently is considered Edgar’s fiancee, a status she vehemently denies, despite Edgar’s courtship of her and multiple fairies calling her that.
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