January 18 
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Achievement get: I read a whole chapter of 錆喰いビスコ in one sitting! I’m almost a fourth of the way through now which is absolutely wild; at this rate I might actually finish it by the end of the challenge 
I’m definitely noticing an increase in my reading stamina which helps a lot. I’m 
learning
I’m curious how other books will feel after this - maybe 風が強く吹いている won’t feel so unattainable 
It doesn’t have furigana though so kanji lookups would still be more of a barrier, but we shall see
Also chapter 4 was iconic, ビスコ and パウー are both just so powerful, that fight scene?? Absolutely wild, ビスコ really picked up her motorcycle like a baseball bat 
Cool words!
煮え滾る - to boil
寝覚めが悪い - to have an uneasy conscience
煙に巻く - to confuse someone, to throw up a smokescreen
かち割る - to hit and break open (it was talking about cracking someone’s head open like a watermelon (it didn’t actually happen though) lmao rough)
忍びない - cannot bring oneself (to do)
I ran into a couple phrases that took some digging, particularly this: 「白く飛んでゆく」. It was in the context of someone passing out from like blinding pain, and I think it’s derived from/inspired by/whatever from 白飛び. From what I understood, it’s when you’re taking a picture and it’s super bright so part of the photo just gets blown out with white light, which makes total sense as a description in that context! These are the sort of puzzles I end up with in 錆喰いビスコ 
That’s part of the fun though!