I’m The Only Multilingual Master a Russian Transfer Girl Student Who Can’t Speak Japanese Can Rely On

Chapter 56: Prologue – Peaceful Daily Life

Translated By BunnyByun

Edited By ArroganceComplex

I was troubled – fiercely troubled.

Seriously, I was so worried that I thought my brain would wear out and wrinkles would start to appear..

So what am I worried about? It is…

Whether to make a good morning surprise to Cheena or not.

The reason for that is – of course, not just to say good morning.

I have to use a duplicate key to get into Cheena’s room and gently shake her awake with a ‘good morning’.

The time was 6:20 a.m., so now was the time to do it.

But for some reason, I am hesitant to take action…

I have decided to make Cheena fall in love with me.

But of course, I have never tried to make a woman fall in love with me before. I’ve pushed the matter aside during the water in training, but I don’t think I’ve ever had a woman flirt with me.

In short, I wanted to make her fall in love with me, but I don’t know how to..

So, for now, I came up with the idea of doing something back that has thrilled me when Cheena had done it to me in the past…

Will my good morning surprise work on her?

Yes, this is exactly what I’m struggling with right now. Will seeing my face first thing in the morning make her happy for the rest of the day?

Wouldn’t she be rather pissed off?

Isn’t it humiliating for a girl of her age to be seen with her face when she wakes up from her sleep?

But that doesn’t mean we should just go along and do nothing.

D**n! I don’t know what to do!

“What do you want me to do…”

“Yori, do you want harumaki [1] or korokke [2] for lunch?”

“Both, please.”

“It should be one or the other.”

What on earth is the right answer? Harumaki or korokke…?

　…………………………

“Since when have you been here?! ahhhh!”

“I’ve been here for a little while now, okay? Yori’s face was contorted, that’s why I didn’t say anything.”

“Aren’t you up a bit too early!?”

“What are you talking about? It’s already past seven.”

Oh, my God, it’s true!

How worried was I?

But still, it was indeed a surprise attack.

While I was worrying like an idiot, she seemed to have taken over the kitchen facing me at home and was hurriedly cooking something.

She was wearing a uniform apron.. and that was very destructive…(E/N:If you know what he means.)

“I’ve wasted a lot of precious time in the morning…. By the way, what are you doing?”

“I’m thinking of making a bento lunch from today on, and I also want to prepare breakfast, so I thought I’d make it here.”

Throb, Iori had a heart attack for a split second….

My commuter wife [3], I am defeated by you….

“Eh, why are you crying?”

“Because Cheena’s making lunch.”

“Are those tears of joy? Or sadness?”

“It’s a blend of the two.”

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Our school has a relatively late cultural festival.

Usually it is held in the latter half of November, but this year it was further delayed due to various troubles.

Yes, about half of the troubles are my fault.

So the postponed festival will be held on Saturday and Sunday of this week, and the day after tomorrow.

The work is in full swing as it is the last minute.

Even now, after school, everyone is still working in the classroom.

“Our class is going to make a haunted house,” said one student, “That’s safe.”

“You were absent for most of the preparation period, so I took the liberty of casting you. Don’t complain.”

“I know. I will accept it.”

I’ve been out of school for the past three weeks, so of course I’ve been out of touch during those weeks.

So It looks like I was put in the role of the ghost for the show, but I was never told what ghost I was, which is an important thing to know.

Today, the costume was finally completed, and everyone is about to try it on.

Some students have already tried their own costumes. Rokurokubi [4] and kappa and the others, were practicing astonishingly by parading around the classroom.

The girls are going to change in another room and then come here.

I’m probably going to play a weird role anyway, but that’s okay. It looks like fun.

“Well then, here’s for Kaga- for Cox.”

(T/N: Just reminding you that Iori was now Cox because he was now adopted)(E/N: Basically he is now Iori Cox, and yeah, he was almost about to be called by his previous last name which is kagami.)

“Haiyo.”

I receive my costume from Hosoi, the casting supervisor, and I unfold it.

The costume is…

“White attire? It’s awfully normal, isn’t it? Am I a normal ghost?”

“Well, wait a minute, just put it on and sit here.”

“Ehh? Alright.”

At any rate, I do as I’m told, I put on the white costume over my uniform, and take the battered chair and table indicated.

“Then, take these two dice.”

“Like this?”

“Jiggle those dice and follow me.”

“Okay.”

Jara, jara, jara. (sfx of dice being jiggled inside your hand)

“Not enough… not enough…”

Jara, jara

“Not enough… skill values!”

“… Isn’t it ‘not enough yokai [6]’! Who the hell knows how this stuff works!”

“That’s a punishment because you didn’t participate in the preparations! At their ate you’re gonna get a slip up in the show!”

Is that so…?

It’s true that haunted houses always have a few not-so-scary rest stop ghosts.

“By the way, you’re lost because you’re missing one Cthulhu Mythos Skill [7].”

“Ooooh, sad!”

Sure, it’s going to be haunted…

“Hey everyone!”

As I was doing this, a haunted group of girls came in after they finished getting dressed.

Leading them is Akimoto. She is dressed in the same orthodox white costume as me.

She is in charge of holding a sign and calling out to the crowd on the day of the event, so she is not really playing the role of a ghost.

There are various other ghosts, such as a cat lady, but the most important one, Cheena, is …

“A fox.”

She was dressed in a fox possession costume.

Damn, it looks so good on her.

The Cheena cat I saw before was cute, but this one also has a nice Japanese feel to it.

Pure white fluffy fox ears and tail. Her kimono is white based with a light purple fabric.

I think that was a garment from the Heian period [8].

However, unlike my memory, the hem of her hakama [9] was only up to the knees, and it seems to be surprisingly light.

“What’s up, Yori?”

Cheena came to ask for my opinion, tooting in her unfamiliar clogs.

The sleeves are long enough to cover half of her hands, but it looks like she’s a little bothered by them.

I see, so these are moe sleeves.(E/N: Moe okay? MOEEE!!! Ahem, its not a misspell, you prob know what it is,)

“I wouldn’t mind being possessed by a fox like you.”

“What?”

Cheena must have been lost by my honest compliment…There’s a question mark hanging on her head.

Her head-tilted pose, as usual, is like that of a small animal.

No, it’s a fox as it should be…(E/N:Uhh, am I the only one who noticed it? idk myself but can anyone enlighten what small animal Iori was thinking?)

“Chris, you look great!”

“That outfit you’re wearing is called a kariginu [10], right? You look good in the kimono too.”

“Oh, thank you.”

As our conversation winds down, the rest of the class began to pay their compliments to her.

Oddly dressed people surrounding a fox-dressed girl while admiring her – it was indeed a surreal scene.

“Of all the kariginu, this one is called a suikan [11]. Since we’re talking about a fox, I thought you should have a juunihitoe in reference to Tamamo-no-Mae [12]. ……”

While everyone was loving Cheena, a male student who seemed to be in charge of costumes began to explain.

He doesn’t look like a yankee despite the fact that his ears are pierced badly.

Was there ever such a guy in our class?

“Um, sorry, who are you again?”

“I’m Yatsuki Ichijo. We’re classmates, remember?”

…Who is he again?

He looks like a hero of some kind, with a thin, happy face and seems to know a lot about witchcraft and the like, but I don’t remember him.

Whatever.

Forgetting about him for the moment, I decided to return to the topic of the costume.

“By the way, why didn’t you wear a juunihitoe? Is it because suikan is prettier?”

“Hosoi told me to dress her in a costume that showed off her healthy legs…”(E/N:Holy- THIGHS. Uh sorry ‘bout that, also if you’re confused, the “her” is cheena.)

“Hosoi-kun did? What do you think you’re doing to my Cheena?”

“Idadadada! Don’t crush my shoulder, Cox! He says it’s normal because it only goes below the knees! The twelve-layered kimono wasn’t in the budget, you know.”

“…I see.”

I was about to scold her for having inferiority complexes toward Cheena, but decided to forgive her if that’s what she meant.

She’s actually cute, and with that much exposure, it’s not that different from a school uniform.

Well, I would have beaten them up if they had any funny feelings about her costu,e.

We talked about it for a while.

Come to think of it, this was probably the first time we were chatting and laughing as classmates like this.

This is a normal part of youth, a time that is spent as a matter of course.

But for me, it’s a special and precious time.

Shiori has stolen this happiness from me, and I’m going to do everything I can to take it back.

However, I noticed that there was one person who seemed to be dissatisfied with the situation.

It was Miyamoto.

Away from the class circle for a bit, her cheeks puffed out like a squirrel and bulged.

What’s wrong with her?

“Hey, what’s the matter, Miyamoto? You got a tummy ache?”

“Why… am I a Zashiki-warashi!” [13]

It’s true! It was so natural I didn’t notice.

A/N: Tamamomae is a papa-yokko who disguised herself as an immensely beautiful woman called Kesho-mae and stole the life force of the Emperor Toba while gaining the Emperor’s favor.

In the end, she was unmasked in the famous Taizanpu-kun Festival.

※The author is a witchcraft geek

T/N: Here are some notes about this chapter (because they are hella many)

1. 1. 1. Harumaki – a crispy, Japanese spring roll wrapped with a delicious filling of pork, chicken, shiitake mushroom, carrots and vermicelli. It’s a good appetizer or finger food, and also oftentimes called as egg rolls. [source: justonecookbook.com]

1. 1. 1. Korokke – Japanese style croquettes, classically made with mashed potatoes mixed with sauteed ground beef and onion [source: justonecookbook.com]

1. 1. 1. Commuter wife/marriage – a marriage between spouses who lived apart, and regularly travel together [source: dictionary.com]

1. 1. 1. Rokurokubi – a type of Japanese apparition (yokai), and looked almost completely like humans with some slight differences. It directly translates into ‘long neck’, because they can stretch their necks to great lengths as they desired when they assume their ordinary to demonic human form. [source: wikipedia.org; and ceylontoday.lk]

1. 1. 1. Kappa – (from Japanese folklore) they are a type of vampirelike lecherous creatures that is more intelligent… and less malevolent towards men. [source: britannica.com]

1. 1. 1. Yokai – they are a class of supernatural entities and spirits in Japanese folklore e.g rokurokubi [source: wikipedia.org]

1. 1. 1. Cthulhu Mythos Skill – now about this, I don’t know what this is and how to explain it so, kindly search on google hehe [runs away]

1. 1. 1. Heian Period (from 794-1185) – the last division of the Japanese classical history; a well-known clothing in this period is called the juunihitoe or ‘twelve-layered robe’ worn by highest ranking ladies of the Imperial Court [source: wikipedia.org]

1. 1. 1. Hakama – type of Japanese traditional clothing [source: wikipedia.org]

1. 1. 1. Kariginu – hunting robe that was worn by nobles during the feudal era; one version of it was also worn at both Shinto and Buddhist rituals.

1. 1. 1. Suikan – slightly more formal piece of Japanese clothing, a sort of over-robe [source: ee0r.com]

1. 1. 1. Tamama-no-Mae – a legendary figure in the Japanese mythology, famous for being a legendary fox spirit [source: wikipedia.org]

1. 1. 1. Zashiki-warashi – ‘parlor child’, are spirit-like beings that live in parlors or storage rooms, performing pranks, and that people who would see one would be visited with good fortune [source: wikipedia.org]

The amount of headache I had in this chapter T_T

E/N: Sup lolic- Ahem! Anyway, its been a while, right? Sorry for the late upload, I have been quite busy these past few days, projects, assignments, practicals, and picture takings. Anyway enjoy this a little bit longer chapter than normal. Ciao!