Cooking With Wild Game - Romance Spoilers
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I'm trying to figure out the stuff that hasn't been translated yet.
As of now, we are 8/10 through the English LN 21.
And there are 29 LNs to date.
I can't find any Japanese forum that shares pictures or discusses what happens between LN 21 to 29.
But I'm curious if anyone has found it.
If so, anyone know if Asuta's and Ai Fa's relationship has developed yet? Becos it would be nuts if they didn't at least start a relationship by LN 29 and hold off on the baby making until much later. Or have some big development.
- A bit of a rant below on how their romance has been handled so far.
I'm glad someone knocked some sense in Asuta's thick skull in the 17th LN and that he was finally able to confess his feelings to Ai Fa, then have her to do the same.
But one thing bothers me greatly.
Bartha - A hunter from Masara who used to be married to the leader of a bandit group known as the Red Beards.
In LN 15/16 - Both Ai Fa and Asuta were both shaken when they heard how Bartha decided to become a woman and give birth to a son. How she didn't want to give up her path as a hunter, so as soon as she was able to after giving birth, she built her strength back up to hunt again.
So when Asuta and Ai Fa are both confessing to each other, why are they both under the impression that Ai Fa has to completely give up being a hunter once she marries and bears a child?
It's impossible for them both to have forgotten Bartha's story during that moment.
Bartha is also living very close by to them and could easily give Ai Fa knowledge about how and when to get back into shape ASAP after childbirth.
It just makes no sense at all.
Ai Fa doesn't have to give up being a hunter at all.
She just has to temporarily pause it. (Bartha's example is so obvious and freshly imprinted in their minds that it's not possible for them to not have thought of it and point it out.)
Let's say Ai Fa notices it when she misses a period (it's odd that there is no mention of Ai Fa being more emotional during that time of the month or how that might affect her hunting abilities etc)
She only needs to sit out for 9 months.
Then wait 2 months after childbirth to engage in super serious exercise.
2 months of full training.
That's 13 months total from getting pregnant to going hunting in the forest again at a minimum. It could be longer etc.
Asuta can look after the child and also ask for help from the women from another clan since he has no experience or knowledge etc. Plus Ai Fa has none too.
If the author wrote that Ai Fa wasn't ready to pause her lifestyle as a hunter for that long yet, because she was afraid she'd die of boredom then that would be believable.
Being afraid of becoming too weak after childbirth to become a hunter would also be a valid concern, but Asuta could easily counter it by asking Ai Fa to go speak with Bartha.
Ai Fa could also mention that she's not ready to go down the route of a woman yet, because once she has a child, she might want to spend time raising it and could end up leaving/neglecting her hunting duties aside.
In short, she's afraid that becoming a mother might convince her to give up being a hunter forever and that scares her. Especially when that would mean their clan has no hunter to hunt giba. (They could easily solve that with the fortune they've amassed, but Ai Fa might not like that.)
So she wants to spend a few more years focusing solely as a hunter first.
They could still go through with the marriage, but hold back on the kids for now. Unless there's a forest law that you gotta have kids asap once you're married.
Even if they didn't verbalise their issues, we never got to see the things I mentioned in their heads. If the author showed that they at least considered what I mentioned, I'd be okay with it.
Any one of these options would have made sense and far more believable than what the author wrote without disrupting the rest of the story.
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I think the author has hinted that their relationship is going to get to the point of getting married and having children, but many years in the future (I imagine late twenties or early thirties. This is due to Asuta's mentality ( modern world) together with the personality of Aifa.
I understand that in volume 29 they make progress in their relationship, but I don't think it was too important.