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These goodie-two-shoes adventurers are getting annoying. I hope they’ll die again soon.
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Chapter 31
Could be that it happens again. Though they seem to be handling themselves pretty well!
By the way is it just us two reading with the club now?
Appreciating those that have already read hanging out and helping with questions, but thinking about who is reading, and if maybe we could discuss the pace again? I would be OK with 2 chapters a week.
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Let’s wait until the end of the week to see if others join but I wouldn’t mind upping the pace either.
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I’m watching you read. Always watching. 
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Wish you would post us some real life locations in this thread too!
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I think I’ll be ok with speeding up 
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Nice!
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Got some bad news for you, I’m afraid: it’s all fictional. 
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I just say you haven’t played Geoguessr enough!
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I’m still reading along, but haven’t had time to comment due to a bad case of too many bookclubs lol. I’m fine with the current pace, two chapters would be a bit much for me, however if everyone else wants to up it I will survive.
On chapter 31: Finally the other party doesn’t get jobbed lol. The cover seems to hint at a connection between Raios and the leader of this party, or is it just that they are both the leaders of their respective parties?
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I assumed the latter, but maybe there’s more to it.
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Chapter 32
Start Date: 2025-05-09T15:00:00Z
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I was getting hungry.
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That’s for starting Fata Morgana one day too early. Messed up the whole schedule.
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Sorry about that… Also I don’t know if it’s intentional or not that we didn’t talk again about the 2 chapters a week VS one chapter a week, but now I’m kind of glad we didn’t go to 2 chapters a week. With Fata Morgana it seems that I have suddenly lost all interest in reading anything else 
I’ll try to stay on schedule anyway but it’s haaaard… I think the house has cursed me or something…
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I’m also quite busy lately both with Japanese and other things so I decided to quietly sweep the 2chapter/week discussion under the rug for the time being. Plus at least one person said they preferred 1ch/week.
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Alright, I read chapter 32 yesterday but understood nothing..
I have re-read it today and I think I understood some things as I was writing them down… Hoping someone can help me and correct me if I’m wrong and help me with the other things!
Chapter 32, help pls
p.86: easy, they eat
p.87: I didn’t remember who was 島主, but found them in volume 4.
I don’t understand what they are discussing, I think am lost from the fourth sentence:
うまっ (ok)
いい物食べてんなぁ (ok)
死体拾いって儲かるんだね (ok)
自分たちで死体を作って持ち帰るんじゃあね．．． (???)
We could also ourselves create dead bodies and bring them back?
I understand this as meaning “It’s not something that 島主 would notice. The other parties are cooperating and just killing each other in turn to rip the rewards of coming with dead bodies. Should we warn 島主? Meh, he wouldn’t be able to think of a good solution. Only new comers like ドニ are suffering from it (didn’t know the expression 割を食う)”?
The last two sentences are giving me trouble.
そしたらエルフがすっ飛んでくるぞー
Why is he talking about an elf suddenly?
今はまだ防波堤として踏ん張ってもらわないと
??
Then they are talking about Laios’s party, and everyone that was or that is a member, not sure why. Do they want to find them (because they have an elf) and kill them (because of a reward)?
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Chapter 32 answers
More like “They’re bringing back dead bodies they make themselves huh…”
i.e. they’re commenting on how the 死体拾い are probably so well-off to afford this nice food because they’re supplementing they’re regular business of retrieving corpses from the dungeon for resurrection by murdering adventurers themselves and passing them off as retrieved corpses.
Getting this would probably clear up the next part, but yeah they’re talking about how the corruption of that practice is well-rooted since the 死体拾い are able to skirt the inspections ostensibly meant to catch this kind of thing, and speculatively a surprising amount of other adventuring parties cooperating with the scheme. And it’s unrealistic to think that the lord of the island would solve the problem when it’s just small fries who suffer from it.
The last two sentences are giving me trouble.
そしたらエルフがすっ飛んでくるぞー
Why is he talking about an elf suddenly?
今はまだ防波堤として踏ん張ってもらわないと
??
not “an elf” - “the elves”. The Elven government want control of the dungeon. If the lord of the island were taken out (like in the flippant hypothetical about him exploding) then the elves would swoop in and take over.
The second sentence is like - for now they still need (the lord of the island / someone in that position) to stand firm as a bulwark (to prevent that takeover from the elves).
Then they are talking about Laios’s party, and everyone that was or that is a member, not sure why. Do they want to find them (because they have an elf) and kill them (because of a reward)?
No, nothing like that. They’re mainly just chatting, because as Kabru says near the end of it, he’s interested in people and social connections, and he starts this conversation off by reflecting how there aren’t many parties with an elf in them, so if they rack their brains they could probably identify which party this one was (as they are indeed then able to do).
Kabru also talks about how he’s resented the Toudens (Laios and Falin) for a while because he noticed them get taken advantage of by former party members who they were giving earnings to when those party members had to be on the shelf to recover from sickness. The party members fully recovered but kept taking the money and pivoted to selling illicit goods instead of returning to adventuring. And to Kabru, who is super observant and interested in people, that’s not a feel-good story about the Toudens giving money to former companions, but an example of them being disinterested in people enough to not see what was going on. And Kabru feels that they would therefore be poor and ineffectual leaders like the lord of the island if they were to get the wealth and power said to come with defeating the master of the dungeon.
(So he’s got a little bit of a vested interest in Laois and company, and he doesn’t want to see them succeed - at least when it comes to clearing the dungeon, but it’s just curiosity on his part at this point, it’s not like they’re planning anything)
Basically it’s setting up a contrast between Kabru as someone interested explicitly in people and not monsters, and Laois, who may well be more interested in monsters than people when it comes down to it… (while providing the reader with fun looks at the main party through the eyes of less sympathetic third parties)
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Nice, thanks a lot 
that clears things up very nicely.Had totally forgotten about the war with the Elf part, it’s the same chapter as with 島主 which was so hard to understand and that I had almost blissfully forgotten, dungeon and monster stuff is easier to follow than politics. Feeling a bit bummed that I don’t understand this manga better, as I really like it!
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These lore building chapters are tedious because the Japanese difficulty spikes and also I have very little interest in the geopolitics of the island at this point (or this second team of adventurers for that matter).
The author is clearly building up to something so hopefully it’ll pay off.
Also haven’t we been told and shown that there were a huge number of adventurers in this dungeon? There is a full economy for just bringing corpses back after all. The guy immediately thinking it’s Raios because there’s an elf seems like a huge stretch, especially given all the discrepancies they then discuss (missing human, mysterious dwarf…).
I did like the quick callback to what senshi said all the way back at the start, that usually adventurers don’t eat a balanced diet. Indeed, too much fat here!
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