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Before this, I use Mazoku = Demon race and Hitozoku = Human race.
Because now it keeps using these two words, I decided to change it to Demon and Human.
Y2 And the war began
There’s movement in the Demon army.
It’s just this morning that I heard the report.
It’s the report brought by the spy who infiltrated into the Demon territory.
「So, it came at last」
「Yeah. I will be glad if it didn’t come」
「Julius, it won’t go that way. I know that you don’t prefer fighting, but Humans and Demons are arch-enemies. You should have understood that this will happen someday, right?」
「That’s right. After the previous Hero-sama died, the Demons became active, so I think that we are maintaining well」
Saint Yana, former adventurer Jiskan and Hawkin who’s a former thief which was reformed.
Just as my comrades said, after the previous Hero-sama died, the Demons act actively.
It didn’t escalate into a large-scale war and it ended with only a skirmish up until now, so we might be maintaining well.
「So, when will the Demon army reach here?」
「Hyrinth has went to confirm it now. Soon, ah, he returned」
When I turn around to Yana’s words, there was my childhood friend, Hyrinth who’s the second son of the Quoto Duke’s family walking towards us.
「Hyrinth. How is it?」
「Ah. Judging from the marching speed, it’s estimated that they will reach this fort tomorrow」
「I see. Finally」
War.
After I became the Hero, I have lived in the fight every day.
But, the fight of this scale is my first experience.
And that’s not only me.
There was no large-scale war in the previous Hero-sama’s era.
Therefore, those who know such a war of the scale is the generation that knows the Hero-sama of two generations ago hardly survived anymore now
When it’s that generation, unless the person is a race with long life, most of the people will probably have an old body that can’t fight.
In other words, the Humans who participate in this war have not experienced a large-scale war to this extent.
On the other hand, the Demons live longer than the Humans.
It’s not strange that there’s a Demon who’s as the same generation with the Hero-sama of two generations or even older generation.
How will the difference of experience appear?
In addition, the combat ability of the Demon is high.
The magical power that’s superior to the Human and the physical ability that’s superior to the Human.
And, the intelligence similar to the Human.
The power of skills and wisdom are large for Human who has inferior status to fight against monsters that have high status.
However, it won’t work against the Demon.
Because Demon can use skills and wisdom similar to the Human.
To be honest, I’m scared.
But, it’s not permitted that I who’s the Hero to bring out uneasiness.
If I who’s the hope of the Human do that, everyone will feel uneasy.
I grasp the muffler that wrapped my neck lightly to hide my uneasiness.
「Although this has been in my mind for some time, what’s that muffler? You wore it even when it’s hot, right?」
「This? This is Mother’s keepsake」
A plain pure white muffler.
「This is the thing knitted for me before Mother died after giving birth to Shun」
Mother fell sick immediately after giving birth to Shun and died just like that.
The Demons became active just then, and I became the Hero.
Father still worked as a king busily while shouldering the sadness of losing Mother.
Because of that, he neglected Shun and Sue.
Although I believe that the time when they will become a normal parent and child will come, those two should be attending the academy now.
I can’t do anything but to have Father to endure it until they graduate.
When those two graduate from the academy, I’m sure that they will become amazing.
「I see. Was it so?」
Yana comes to have found herself at a loss for words.
Oops.
She might thought that she asked an unnecessary thing.
「Yana, there’s no need to worry about it. I got over it already」
「But」
「That’s right. There’s no need to worry about it. Rather, it’s better to say “You mother complex!”」
「Hyrinth, isn’t that an exaggeration?」
I return Hyrinth’s joking tone with a laugh.
Laughter can be heard from the surroundings.
This is fine.
Dark atmosphere doesn’t suit the surroundings of the Hero.
It’s all thanks to Hyrinth who did a follow-up.
After all, the best person to have is a friend who’s an understanding person.
「Do you know what is this muffler made of?」
Hyrinth asks Yana.
Ah, isn’t it better to not tell her?
「It doesn’t seems to be a common cloth. Even though it’s worn every day, it doesn’t has even a scratch」
「That’s right. This thing is made from a quite special material. It’s a valuable thing that’s said to be impossible to obtain now」
「Eh, is it such a valuable thing?」
I wonder is it because Hawkin is a former thief, because his eye color changed.
「Ah. The correct answer is spider thread!」
「Spi-Spider thread!?」
Aaa.
Yana falls off from the chair.
Yana is not very good with insects.
And she especially don’t like spiders, so I remained silent about it so far.
「Un? Is that the spider thread of Elro Great Labyrinth?」
The one who entered the talk was unexpectedly Jiskan.
「Un. That’s right. You know it well, right?」
「Ah. Because it’s a famous story among the adventurers」
「A-Ah! The Phantom Spider of Elro Great Labyrinth! I remembered it! Hohou. So, this is the spider thread」
Hee.
It was quite famous.
「Eh, what’s that story?」
Yana asks in a timid state.
「Ah. Although this is a story when I was still a child, a certain party of adventurers that burned the nest of a spider-type monster called Taratect in the Elro Great Labyrinth. This monster is weak if you fight it normally, and it’s extremely rare that it will make a nest. That nest is troublesome in any case, and it’s the tacit consent of the adventurers to burn it right away if it’s found. And, there’s a large amount of threads found at the inner part of the burned nest. Surprisingly, it’s different from the common magic thread, it’s an amazing thread that has abnormally excellent magical power conductivity and physical resistance ability. (Adipex) The threads brought back were sold at an outrageous price and the adventurers that brought the threads back made a fortune at a single stroke. It’s quite a famous story as the adventurer’s success story」
「After that, it seems that it was popular to capture Taratect. After all, the individual that can make the same thread can’t be found, and it’s called as the Phantom Spider」
「Hee」
I’m sure that Mother used this thread to make it.
In the story that I heard, it seemed that a wealthy merchant with good judgment presented it to the royal family.
Leaving aside my comrades who still talks about it, Hyrinth sends me a “Telepathy”.
［Julius, the movement of the Demons this time is strange in any way］
［What’s strange?］
［The enemies scatter their forces and attack the Human territory all at once. However, I don’t understand why they scatter their forces］
［You mean there are some motives?］
［Ah. Even though it should be better to concentrate at one area, they purposely scatter their forces. I think that we should think that there’s something］
［Do you happen to know of that thing?］
［Well. As expected, I don’t know about that. However, it would be better to not be careless］
［Understood. Thank you］
I had an unpleasant premonition.
As if I fell into a huge trap before I knew.
But, as the Hero, I’m not allowed to escape here.
I grasped the muffler made from the spider thread again.
So the hero is wearing a scarf made from threads produced by kumoko. If like I am starting to suspect due to previous side story B1 that these side stories are set years in the future and the current demon king is in fact kumoko then that is a very funny coincidence that the hero has the demon king around his neck lol.
maybe the kuro and the shiro are body in charge and magic in charge
If she is the demon king it’s possible, but I think the 10puppits is probably each controlled by one.
I think she will Insta kill the hero since he’s so generously wrapped her thread around his neck.
I’m not willing to accept that Kumoko is that sort of a demon-king.
Heck, I’m not willing to accept that she has her own armies and subordinates. I pictured her as a nomad. The title of “Demon King” is just a title that haunts her here and there, but without any actual authority or the burden of responsibility.
What could the humans possibly do to her that she wants to kill everyone. I’m probably just assuming to much here, but that’s what the narrative said.
sigh, how annoying. She better not be a war-mongering brute.
They are
eeeh? what is this? I didn’t think out heroine has this much time underground. eh… does she have no sense of time?
well… that aside… she’s famous!
Wait, doesn’t this mean that Kumoko was active before the other reincarnates were born?
O_O
More like Kumoko is active while the other reincarnates are soiling their beds still. Unlike human toddlers that grow slowly in peaceful times, our spider hatchling was desperately surviving from day one of birth.
It’s also possible that the reincarnation starts from conception. So the human gestation of 40 weeks versus the spider gestation time of four weeks, that gives her some time to hole up, make a web, and then be chased out.
The Demon King is probably the mother. I don’t recall the author explaining the appearance. I could be wrong though.
the thread used for julius’ scarf was when kumoko was still a lesser taratect and by human standard it’s already amazing so does that mean that they are quite weak???
and by the way with the next chapters about the war so does that mean we won’t see kumoko for the next chapters?!?!?no!!!
I feel like i’m juste spoiling myself with thos side storys…
No, all the side stories start from when all the students reincarnate (they are all the same age) and speedily go to they grow up enough to get to academy (probably 12 years old or so I think is normal time for that in Japan), thus making the side story (with the students, demon king (queen?) and hero) all in the same time frame at least 12 years in the future. Kumoko is most likely only a few months old in the normal part of the story since none of her food rotted when she evolved and that is the only time-skip whatsoever in the entire part of the story to this point.
And even though none of us have (hopefully) read to the future it should still be safe to assume that Kumoko is the Demon Queen since duh, what else would be the point?
Kkkkkkkkkkk, it seems that I was right…
This was from a while back so i don’t know if it is still true, but i heard that even the untranslated chapters are only up to 130 right now. Although the side stories are definitely farther in the future at this point, and most people have probobly guessed that the demon king is the mc, we won’t know officially for quite some time.
Side stories are set far in the future, confirmed.
Since they all reincarnated at the exact same time, they should generally be within at least 1 year of each other. Since the characters in the side story are around middle school age, that must mean its set at least 10 years after the main story.
The character in this chapter said that it was a story from his childhood, (the even happened probably within 3 months of Kumoko’s birth), so it must have been long ago.
So we can only conclude that within those 10+ years, at the rate Kumoko went, would be more than enough time to gain even more godly powers. If she could become godly in magic within 1-2 years, she can probably do even more after 10 years.
Its either that, or its her mother. But most likely its future kumoko.
Honestly, unless the author is trying to mislead us, she gave us a bit too much info in these 2 side chapters.
Wow, I didn’t pay too much attention to the passing of time so I missed the demon king from these side chapters = kumoko connection until I read the comments. Thank you other readers for clearing things up for me!
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Saint Yana, former adventurer Jiskan and Hawkin who’s a former thief which was reformed.
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Saint Yana, former adventurer Jiskan and Hawkin, a former thief who was reformed.
After I became the Hero, I have lived in the fight every day.
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After I became the Hero, I have lived while fighting every day.
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After I became the Hero, I have lived on the battlefield every day.
Therefore, those who know such a war of the scale is the generation that knows the Hero-sama of two generations ago hardly survived anymore now
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Therefore, those who know a war of such scale, belong to the generation that knew the Hero-sama of two generations ago, and hardly any of them have survived till now.
It’s not strange that there’s a Demon who’s as the same generation with the Hero-sama of two generations or even older generation.
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It wouldn’t be strange if there was a Demon who belongs to the same generation as the Hero-sama of two generations ago or even older.
Error: “the Demon”, “the Human” are being used to refer to demon and human races
Fix (Highly Recommended): If you don’t want to use Demon Race or Human Race then use Demons and Humans (Plurals can be used in place of ________ race.)
But, it’s not permitted that I who’s the Hero to bring out uneasiness.
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But as the Hero, I am not permitted to display my uneasiness out in the open.
And she especially don’t like spiders, so I remained silent about it so far.
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「After that, it seems that it was popular to capture Taratect. After all, the individual that can make the same thread can’t be found, and it’s called as the Phantom Spider」
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「After that, it seems that capturing Taratects alive became popular. However, the individual that could make the same kind of thread couldn’t be found and it came to be known as the Phantom Spider」
［Julius, the movement of the Demons this time is strange in any way］
［The enemies scatter their forces and attack the Human territory all at once. However, I don’t understand why they scatter their forces］
［You mean there are some motives?］
［Ah. Even though it should be better to concentrate at one area, they purposely scatter their forces. I think that we should think that there’s something］
［Do you happen to know of that thing?］
［Well. As expected, I don’t know about that. However, it would be better to not be careless］
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［Julius, the movement of the Demons this time is rather strange.］
［The enemies are scattering their forces and attacking Human territories simultaneously. However, I don’t understand why they’re scattering their forces.］
［You mean there is a motive behind their actions?］
［Ah. Even though it should be better to concentrate on one area, they’re purposely scattering their forces. I think that we should consider something’s up.］
［Do you happen to know what their motive could be?］
［Well. As expected, I don’t know about that. However, it would be better not to be careless］
As if I fell into a huge trap before I knew.
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As if I had unknowingly fallen into a huge trap.
Dear Moonies, Thank you for the chapter my wonderful Author, Translator(s), (Editor), (donors)!
If that spider thread is the same the MC did in her first home then how long did it take to end in the queen’s hand?
Julius said his mother did the muffler before Shun was born (or around that time) so we must assume that the MC was already born by that time, and long before that time most likely.
So how is it? can it really be that the group’s reincarnation came to be for all at the same time and at the gestation point? so spiders have less gestation time that humans and in those few months of difference before the kids were born our MC was born, make her first home and those thread balls, the human took those thread balls, got them to civilization, a merchant gave it to the queen and the queen made the muffler… All that in less than 9 months…
I don’t know if that’s possible but sounds kind of rushed.
Someone explain it better for me, please.
It’s possible if all the adventurers had horses, or they managed to sell it to a trustworthy merchant who realised what it could do and skedaddled to the royal family.
Or, like in stories similar to this: ‘It’s magic. Don’t have to explain crap’.
Don’t forget that when the spider mc started, she was living in a part of the maze that was well visited by humans, not the magma zone she lives in now.