Chapter 44: Elf-san Up a Tree
"Let’s keep going with summer fun."
Top Chat: Um, Elf-san…
Top Chat: Catching bugs is fine, but please don’t show us their undersides…
Top Chat: Seriously, don’t bring them too close… I might fall in love.
Top Chat: Uh-oh, someone’s still broken.
"Next target is a stag beetle."
Top Chat: Hear me out?
Top Chat: I’ve never felt such tension from an Elf-san stream before.
Top Chat: I’m watching with half-closed eyes just to blur the view.
Top Chat: Dude, same.
Top Chat: …She is reading chat, right?
The target was a tall tree with jagged-edged leaves. Near the top, I spotted a particularly large stag beetle.
"I’ll leave the laptop and camera here, just taking the mic."
Top Chat: You’re climbing!?
Top Chat: In clothes that thin, your skin’ll get all scratched up.
Top Chat: At least wear proper shoes.
"I’m wearing proper shoes today."
Top Chat: Oh, good girl… huh?
Top Chat: Wait, aren’t those men’s shoes?
Top Chat: They’ll slip right off!
"They’re old shoes, but I’m wearing double socks, so it’s fine."
Top Chat: You sure about that?
Top Chat: Sounds like a flag.
"Here I go."
Slip.
Top Chat: Yep.
Top Chat: Do you have anything you’d like to say?
"They’re old shoes, but I’m wearing double socks, so it’s fine."
Top Chat: She… she understands editing points!?
Top Chat: lol
Top Chat: That flag got cashed in fast!
Top Chat: Elf-san, saying it again doesn’t erase the fact that the shoe came off!
"Here I go."
Top Chat: Oh
Top Chat: Oooh!
Top Chat: She’s climbing so smoothly!
Top Chat: Isn’t she way too fast!?
Top Chat: That speed ain’t normal.
Top Chat: Looks like competitive bouldering.
Top Chat: That’s exactly it!
"Got it."
Top Chat: We can’t see a thing!
Top Chat: Totally clueless here!
Top Chat: Only thing we see is Elf-san raising one hand.
"Alright, coming back down."
Top Chat: Aaaaaaahhhh!!!
Top Chat: Waaaait aaaaaaahhhh!!!
Top Chat: Don’t jump onto a branch, stop stop stop!
Top Chat: Scary scary scary scary!
Top Chat: It’s dangerous! Dangerous! Dangerous!
"It’s fine."
Top Chat: Slowly! Come back down slowly!
Top Chat: We’ve got patience!
Top Chat: We’ll wait years if we have to, until you say you love us, Elf-san!
Top Chat: Weren’t you supposed to be back in sixty days?
Top Chat: …Oh yeah, that’s true.
Top Chat: Anyway—just be safe! Safety first!
"You’re all worrywarts."
Top Chat: No no no…
Top Chat: I thought my heart was gonna jump out of my mouth.
Top Chat: Watching with squinty eyes saved me—I only fell out of my chair.
Top Chat: I just knocked over my plastic model, so I got off easy.
Top Chat: She really is reading chat lol
Top Chat: Didn’t know Elf-san was good at climbing trees.
"Am I?"
Top Chat: Oooh?
Top Chat: Wait, is this the Elf buff?
Top Chat: An Elf specialist in the chat?
Top Chat: In legend, the land of the elves, Alfheim, is said to rest upon Yggdrasil. Yggdrasil is the great tree that supports the world in Norse mythology. In Japanese it’s usually translated as the World Tree.
Top Chat: Ahh, I’ve heard of that… kinda.
Top Chat: Wasn’t it that several worlds existed on Yggdrasil’s branches?
Top Chat: Norse mythology is seriously huge in scale.
"So the elves’ homeland is on top of a tree, which means elves are good at climbing trees?"
Top Chat: On a smaller scale, in Danish folklore, female elves are described as young and beautiful spirits of the elder tree. Looking at various myths and traditions, it’s true elves are closely tied to nature and trees. But—
Top Chat: But?
Top Chat: I’ve never seen any reference to them being good climbers.
Top Chat: That long setup totally gave it away lol
Top Chat: Elf specialist exposed!
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