LSK V8C4

[lucathia]

I'm kind of feeling a little down, so I amused myself by translating some more of Legend of Sun Knight. All of volume 7 has been translated and is awaiting proofreading (it'll take a long time...), so PR! is starting on the translations for volume 8 now. I'm kind of jumping around though, since I want to translate all the Adair sections first. XD; But omg, Adair is so, so, so, awesome in volume 8.

(All completely unedited, of course, as no proofreader has gone through this translation yet. I just finished translating the chapter. Here are some snippets from it that made me squeal.)

I was so shocked I jumped up. This person shouldn't be appearing in this place at all, and he even claimed to be my former butler. I truly did not have any room to retort because he had even prepared my breakfasts in the past–

Adair.

I literally closed my book and squealed when I read this the first time. Omg, omg, Adaaaaaair. And he even claimed to be Grisia's butler, hahahahahahahaha.

Adair lowered his head slightly, and with a tone that was laden with grief, whispered, "Captain, I have been loyal and devoted to you in the past. As long as you give me an order, no matter how difficult or how absurd the order, Adair would complete the mission even if it means dying! Yet now, do I not even have the right to exchange a few words with you? Captain, oh Captain..."

Stop 'Captaining' me! Adair's acting skills were truly more than a hundred times superior to Illu's. He was undoubtedly a sincere fellow, which logically meant that he should be very honest, yet he had always held full marks for his acting skills. In addition, with his superb swordsmanship and his ability to handle matters that was even more superb, I often wondered if Adair would have been even more suited to be the Sun Knight than I was.

*rolls around some more* Full marks for his acting skills, yesssssss. Though of course I believe that Adair is feeling sad that his captain doesn't even wish to speak to him, but he is probably exaggerating. XD; Aaaand Grisia actually feels that Adair could have been the Sun Knight!

Adair was taken aback for a bit, but he matter-of-factly said, "Captain... I mean, Your Majesty, of course I am here to defect. Otherwise, why would I be here?"

What do you mean, of course? As the vice-captain of the Sun Knight Platoon, when the Sun Knight runs off to be the Demon King, you can rightfully and properly take over the position of the Sun Knight. Yet you actually came here to defect to the Demon King. How is any of this natural?

Incredulous, I said, "I thought you came to persuade me to return to the Holy Temple."

"Since Your Majesty has already made a decision, your underling would of course listen to your command." Adair smiled and said, "Hasn't that always been the case?"

Hahahaha! No one in their right mind would defect just like that, Adair... Grisia is the Demon King! And you could have become the Sun Knight yourself! I love Adair's smile at the end there... And yes, it has always been so. Whatever ridiculous command Grisia gives, Adair follows through.

"I have you, don't I?" I purposely asked.

"I am only one person." Adair shook his head and said, "From now onwards, you must continuously gather guards who will never betray you. This way, when the time comes that you lose the power of the Demon King, you will not be defenseless against the people who will crusade against you."

Hearing this, I looked at Adair. He still had on a sincere face. Even though he was my vice-captain, there were times when I really didn't know what he was thinking. At first, I had thought that Adair might have come as a mole or to prevent me from killing people, yet he was telling me to "make a few exclusive guards." The materials for making exclusive guards weren't live humans but rather humans that were dead beyond dead.

*rolls around some more* Yes, what is Adair thinking, hm?

"I am no longer the captain you know, and I won't return with you to the Holy Temple. If you wish to be the vice-captain of the Sun Knight, I urge you to dispel such a notion. Before I end up wanting to kill you, you better return to the Holy Temple to fill the vacant position of the Sun Knight."

"Captain! No, Your Majesty!" Adair suddenly knelt down on one knee and yelled resolutely, "No matter if you are the captain or the Demon King, you are still you, just that your position has changed. The person I swore my loyalty to is you, not the title of the 'Sun Knight.' Since you have become the Demon King, then I am merely the Demon King's subordinate. I would never become the Sun Knight!"

Adair used an unwavering expression to gaze at me, and the matter that he would never waver about was actually being my subordinate, being loyal to me, no matter if I were the Sun Knight or the Demon King.

Haha! I couldn't help but laugh. "Adair, has anyone ever told you that you are very obstinate?"

"Everyone who knows me and also knows that you are my captain has told me this." Adair replied, somewhat embarrassed.

"Ha ha ha!" I laughed loudly. "Rise, Adair, and remember the words I'm about to say. 'Only you will never have to kneel before me.'"

This scene. THIS SCENE. Adair, oh, Adair, you are so eloquent with your speech. And your loyalty, hnnnng. And Grisia's mentioning of Adair being obstinate/stubborn. 8D As well as Adair's reply to that! How everyone who knows him and knows that he serves Grisia thinks he is obstinate. I suppose he would have to be so to serve someone like Grisia, hahahahaha. And then, and then Grisia's words about how Adair would never have to kneel to him, aaaahhhhhhh.

I want to write an Adaaaaaaair fic. Maybe named something like Mr. Obstinate, pffffft. Or "The One Who Never Has to Kneel" pfffft.

"At first, I thought of going to the Demon King's Castle to look for you, but halfway there, I met a teammate of yours from the time when you lost your memories. I was merely exchanging pleasantries with them when one of them, the one called Woodrow, started acting and looking strange."

Adair smiled as he said, "So, I interrogated him a bit, and he confessed in full detail that he had seen you among this adventure team."

Adair, so you already resembled a demon king's subordinate even before you defected?

Come to think of it, in the past, I always sent him off to do tasks like "ganging up on someone," "secretly investigating," and "sneakily adding laxatives as revenge," so instead of being a subordinate of the Sun Knight, all along, Adair might actually be more suited to be a subordinate of the Demon King...

Now you've realized it, Grisia. XDDDD

Volume 8 is seriously a very good volume for Adair lovers. XDDDD

Flipping around the volume again reminds me why I like Adair so much. <3333 Now I feel like rereading the volume again, OTL. XDD;; I might just go through the volume and pick out relevant Adair parts to amuse myself, haha...