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‘I can’t believe it… You’ve set up a small camp here…’
‘Ah, w-well, it’s warmer to sleep in the alley compared to outside of town…’ I explained. She pinched her brow and mumbled something I couldn’t hear.
Miss Irina was helping me collect my clothes from the makeshift clothesline I’d strung...
lol thanks. I encourage you to watch the anime because it's brilliant. Err, moar words. Recently I've gotten busier at work, so my free time is devoted to mindless stuff like Vermintide 2 and V Rising, but the next two chapters are about half done, so it shouldn't be an indefinite delay.
Thanks! I tried really hard to make her cute in a kind of pathetic way. My favourite thing about Bocchi is how pitiable she is, but the moment she finds even a little success, she immediately goes full throttle into cocky territory.
Money. I've mentioned before though, I characterise Bocchi as...
I had twenty thousand eris now! Tonight I was going to treat myself!
‘T-the vegetable stew with h-honey glazed roast meat, please… A-and the cheesy herb bread.’
‘One vegetable stew with honey glazed roast meat, and one cheesy herb bread,’ the waitress said. ‘What about you, Irina?’
I knew...
According to the flyer, I had already missed the scheduled ‘rumble’, so my new quest would have to start tomorrow. It was looking like today would be another lute practice day. I quickly made my way to the forest to stock up on edible grasses.
It used to take me about five hours to reach the...
It had taken about five hours to get to the mountain forest from the city gates.
Except for my feet feeling sore, I wasn’t having much trouble, only occasionally having to hop over fallen branches or duck beneath low-hanging branches. Apparently it was different deeper into the forest, closer...
She breaks literally all the time.
I've been reading the comics and you're greatly exaggerating both how much she's grown, and how quickly she does so.
You're also greatly underestimating the psychological impact of 'had no friends all her life, just made friends for a few weeks, and then had...
Maybe you could snatch her away from Kessoku Bando, but I could never...! Imagine doing that to her after she already knows the taste of friendship, and now has to do it all over again in a foreign world without the support structure of her family. That's positively sadistic.
‘T-t-t-t-thank you f-for l-l-lending me money, Madam…’
‘...Why did your stutter suddenly become so bad after eating?’
It was really too nice of her to lend money to a person like me…
‘A-a-and t-thank you for sharing your l-l-lunch with me…’
The stew might have been the most delicious...
In America? Yeah. Books written with this style of punctuation will be edited and republished under American English if they're to be sold within North America, and vice versa.
You'd have to have bought books while in Sydney or London or something to come across it.
Proper, huh?
I explained it on AO3, but I wanted to try using Australian punctuation for once. It's actually a bit improper that I usually use Commonwealth spelling with American double quotation marks, but usually I prefer it for visual clarity. Besides the double versus single quotation...
The sun set a few hours ago. My feet hurt too much to stand on.
Exhausted, I slowly staggered over to an empty alley and sat down on the floor. The cool cobblestone pried a small gasp from my lips.
I shivered and hugged myself, trying to draw warmth from my tracksuit. There was an empty...
Threadmarks: Chapter 1: A Bocchi in the Back Alley
No, it couldn’t be, right? Was that… pram moving?
I was probably just tired. I was commuting two hours each way to school, so recently I had been waking up earlier than usual. I wasn't getting any naps in either, because I was worried about my sleeping face.
I shook off the fatigue and...
A week after entering high school I fell into a coma and began my high fantasy adventures in another world.
H-huh? M-making friends? Recruiting party members? Hahaha... I hear nothing, I know nothing... Trees, water, planets, the Milky Way, true strength on the battlefield is being able to rely...