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Caught Fish
I’m currently shaking and tugging my fishing rod up and down while staring at the water surface inside the snow hut. And after a while, I tug at it again. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
Then, there was something that felt like a slight tug at my fishing rod.
「Ah, I feel a little like there was a tug just now」
「That’s the pull」
「Eh!」
「It’s too late」
I hurriedly pull it up, but as Torr said the bait at the tip of the hook was already gone completely.
It seems like it was easily eaten by the warasabi.
「The tug is weaker than I thought」
「It’s a small fish after all」
「But, I remember the feeling of the pull just now」
I’ve lost my prey but I understood the feeling. I will pull it up immediately when I feel the tug.
I attach the bait to the hook again while feeling determined and drop it into the water.
I got the tug at the previous depth so it’s a challenge to not change the depth.
I hang down the string into the water and wait for the opportunity. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
「Ah! Caught it!」
「Congratulations, Eleonora-sama!」
「You caught a nicely sized fish～」
Sitting on the opposite side, Eleonora-neesan managed to skillfully catch a warasabi.
Noticing my gaze, Eleonora-neesan made a look as if saying ‘What do you think?’.
I’m a little annoyed at that, I also want to catch a warasabi.
I mean, there’s a possibility that my chance of avoiding practice will decrease considerably if I don’t catch a lot when this kind of occasion happens again in the future.
As I repeated the luring motion with such determination, I felt a slight tug on my rod.
Convinced that it was a strike, I immediately raised my fishing rod.
「Yosh, I also caught――Aaaaahー! It got stuck in ice!」
I could see the warasabi that was pulled up almost to the water’s surface. I could definitely see it, but maybe it got in the ice that it went off the hook.
The shock of having the fish escape even though I thought it was a certain strike was huge.
「The warasabi will also run so you have to move your rod」
I don’t understand what he meant by ‘run’ when Asmo gave me that advice with a kind tone.
「What do you mean ‘run’?」
「Struggling and swimming away」
「Aah, so you mean I have to raise the fishing rod according to the situation?」
Asmo nodded when I said that as it seemed to be the correct answer.
That’s true. Even warasabi will struggle desperately so it won’t caught. I also have to do my best to pull it up.
It means I could not get careless when pulling it up. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
I keep waiting for another warasabi while keeping that in mind.
「Here it is!」
In the meantime, Eleonora-neesan catches one warasabi after another.
Fishing warasabi seems to be a perfect match for Eleonora-neesan, with her wild intuition and reflexes.
And as I stared blankly waiting, I felt a pull coming from my fishing rod.
I feel like it’s heavier than the previous pull. This might be a larger fish.
While holding a little bit of hope inside, I move my rod around matching the struggling warasabi, and pull it up just like that.
「Caught it! And it’s two at the same time!」
2 of the 5 tips on the hook caught warasabis.
No wonder the pull was a little strong.
I may also have been careless previously and let two of them escape, but I was able to get them back in the end.
It’s nice to relax with fishing but catching something like this is also satisfying.
「You caught two at the same time, huh」
「That was a good pull up」
Torr and Asmo also honestly praised this result.
These two usually threw some hateful words at me when they opened their mouth, but it didn’t seem like they were going to pick on a beginner in warasabi fishing. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
「Eleonora-neesan only caught one at a time, right?」
「……just watch me. I will show you how I catch 5 at the same time」
When I provokingly said that to her, Eleonora-neesan clearly answered so with a twitch on her temple.
「Hee, I can’t lose to Al and the others! Let’s compete who can catch the most fish from now one!」
「That’s nice～」
With my conversation with Eleonora-neesan as the trigger, a match to compete who can catch the most warasabi begins.
We’ve mostly been fishing quietly until now, but I thought it wasn’t so bad to do this kind of fishing once in a while.
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「Boy, young miss, it’s time to return」
Bartolo's voice came as he peered into the snow hut signaling the end of our competition.
There was a somewhat air of relief inside the snow hut, maybe because our concentration had been broken.
「Everyone, how many did you catch?」
When I asked that, everyone started to count the warasabi they caught.
「I got eight」
「I caught nine」
「I’m seven～」
「Five here」
Torr, Ema-oneesama, Sheila, and Asmo reported the amount of fish they caught in order.
The only ones left are Eleonora-neesan and me.
Eleonora-neesan’s expression is calm. Meaning, the amount she caught - like me - was not less than Torr and the others.
In other words, it’s a match between me and Eleonora-neesan. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
「What about Al?」
After glaring at each other for a while, Eleonora-neesan asks.
「I got ten」
The moment I answered, Eleonora-neesan gave me a bold smile.
No way.....!
「Eleven」
While having a smile of satisfaction on her face, Eleonora-neesan’s answer gave rise to an exclamation of admiration from everyone except me.
「Ehー! I just lost by one fish!」
「It’s a shame but it’s Al’s loss」
Eleonora-neesan keeps repeating the fact I already know, which is annoying.
「Looking great just with one difference」
「That ‘one difference’ is important」
Gunununu, in a game world trivial differences meant nothing. Whether you win or lose matters, so Eleonora-neesan was making a sound argument.
It’s because I know of that that it feels even more frustrating.
Although I was able to more than one fish simultaneously to get back at her, the prey that escaped were still large.
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「We’re backー」
「Welcome back, did you catch a lot of warasabi?」
Elna-kaasan welcomed us after we parted ways with Torr and returned to the mansion. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
「Un, we caught enough for everyone to eat」
Eleonora-neesan and I caught 21 fish. Moreover, Bartolo single-handedly caught an astonishing number of 22 fish.
Even Eleonora-neesan and my result combined can’t match his. As expected from someone who came from a snowy country, he looked like he was good at fishing warasabi.
「That’s great then. I will tell Nord about it」
Knowing that we caught enough fish, Elna-kaasan smiles in satisfaction and returns to the living room.
Of course, as a wife Elna-kaasan knows about Nord-tousan’s favorite food and she seemed genuinely happy we could put a lot warasabi on the table.
As always, when it comes to Nord-tousan Elna-kaasan will become soft.
「Now then, let’s quickly prepare for dinner」
「Can I help too?」
「Ooh, sure. That will be great」
They were the fish I caught by myself after all. I also want to be involved in cooking them.
Catch them myself and cook them myself. That’s the real pleasure of fishing.
「I will take a bath first」
I guess Eleonora-neesan was not interested in cooking them at all, she disappeared to her room after saying that.
Well, it’s almost unheard of for Eleonora-neesan to help in cooking so that’s to be expected. It’s not particularly surprising. If anything, we’d be in trouble if she said she wanted to help.
Bartolo and I decided to move to the kitchen with the basket containing the warasabi. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
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