@jonsmth
it's a complete unknown, no idea where it came from, but my understanding is that it shouldnt be possible period for one to ever grow to such a size
@jonsmth chapter 18 page 15, he saids that he blames himself since after he started taking care of the newbies he never went deep into the forest again and believes if he had he would have noticed evidence of it and been able to stop it sooner
also remember the spider was a freak never before...
@xRizo no i dont, i like to keep some buffer chapters so i can keep working entirely off volume raws, right now i have more than i need and ive already planned when im going to up the pace for a time to shed some of them
@jonsmth
im not really sure why you think the monsters around the town are relatively weak, but for the smug part he may not act confident but when asked which of them hed partner up with he picked Hitamuki because he was confident that he could hunt any monster on his own without ever getting...
@jonsmth weve seen him kill every animal in the forest, en mass, while lugging around dead weight, generally easily with a single shot
he didnt defend himself because hes got the self confidence of spun sugar
and he could have beaten the spider in a 1v1, the problem was that the spider had no...
@Nou im not a historian so i may get some details wrong but ive been googling it quite a bit
the Shimazu's goal was to unify Kyushu and fought the Itou at Kizaki as part of that, the Itou lost badly and the head ran away to Ootomo, Ootomo werent really pro shimazu from the start and the shimazu...
@jonsmth he didnt only hunt weak monsters, the guards were just shit talking him to look good, remember hes the ace with the most monster kills while only 20
@Qwaser5r generally no since i think it seems kinda weird and pointless in english to add a japanese honourific like that, only if its part of a nickname like if she called him yuu-sama id keep it like that
sometimes if its part of the convo, like someone talking about the specific honourific...
@Jaxcam because apparently i'm an idiot and managed to completely miss that and just took the spelling from ch 12 >< its fixed now
it is spelled a bit different though フェニザクス in the raws vs フェニックス