[gong gong]

[gong gong]
[sneak]

[haaa]

Su: Like I said...
Su: Humans have a custom of visiting the shrine in the middle of the night like this at New Year's Eve.
[whoooosh]
Lu: My hands are freezing...
[brrr]

Su: There's this thing called "double-year visiting". It's when you go to the shrine just as the date is changing, so it counts as if you have visited the shrine in two different years.
Su: Seems like it would be very popular among the more lazy humans, doesn't it?

Lu: But being out here in the cold just so we can pull pranks on those lazy humans...
Su: Don't be silly, Luna. It's important to put on an steady effort for everything!

Star: But...
Star: Doesn't seem like anyone is coming, does it?

[whoooosh]

[gong gong]
Su: Erm...
Su: If they are too lazy, they might only arrive by morning, maybe.

[gong gong]

[chatter chatter chatter chatter]

[gong]
[chatter chatter]

[gong gong]
[chatter chatter]

[kachan]

Pa: Remi...
Pa: So there you were.

Re: Hm?
Re: Patchy?

The Girl of Knowlwdge and Shadow
Patchouli Knowledge

Pa: Aren't you cold?
Re: Heh...

Re: I am one of the ones who freeze the humans' hearts in fear every night.
Re: For the likes of us, the night darkness is but a gloomy warmth.
Re: It's as if it is the sun itself that has an unique way of cooling us with its light.

Pa: Well, Sakuya asked me if it would be better to have the soba noodles hot or cold, but I guess it's definitely some cold ones for you.
Pa: I would definitely prefer them hot myself.
Re: I want hot!
[pull]

[chatter]
Sa: Is that so?
[chatter]

Sa: Thank you for your trouble, Miss Patchouli.
[chatter]
Sa: I will do so.
[chatter]
Pa: Thank you, Sakuya.

Sa: Hm?

[chatter chatter]

Sa: [Hahh]
Sa: (Can't be helped, I guess.)

Lu: So, are those lazy humans going to appear...
Lu: And then...?
[brrr]
Su: Hmmm...
Su: Maybe we got here too early. There's still some time until the date changes.
[sip]

[gong]
Su: I'm sure someone will come before dawn...
[gong]
Su: No matter how few worshipers this shrine usually gets,
Su: at least some should come for New Year.

Lu: You could say that WE came, for all that's worth...
[brrr brrr]
Lu: Ahh... It's so cold, I feel like giving up...
Su: Hmph...

Su: What's that now?!
Su: I'm the one working harder here!
Su: I'm keeping watch here all this time, away form the light of day! There's only the moon and the stars in the night sky, you know!?
[gong gong ]
Lu: But it was you who came up with this prank in the first place, wasn't it...?
Su: Well, yeah, but...

Lu: ...hey.
Lu: What's that you've been drinking for a while now, Star?
Star: Hm?

Star: Fufu... It's a magic beverage that prevents your body and mind from getting chilled.

Sa: Here.
Sa: Sorry for the wait.
[steamy steamy]
Sa: Here is your hot soba.

Re: Ahhhh~ Looks so good!
[excited excited]
Re: I'm digging in.
Sa: Ah! Be careful, it's really hot!

Re: Fu fu, who do you think I am? The flames of hell themselves could not burn me!

[slurp slurp]
Sa: Ufufu...
Pa: Don't complain to me if you burn your tongue.
[fuuu]
Puts it in a smaller dish first.

Re: Hmmm, but you see...
Re: These soba noodles are great, but this wine really doesn't go well with them.
Re: I wonder if there's a wine that goes well with soba?

Sa: I don' think that wine as a drink goes well with soba...
Sa: There might be another liquor better for that.

Re: It would be nice to have so drink to keep warm waiting for Venus' first appearance.
Sa: Hmm...

Sa: Of course.

Sa: Just wait a moment please.
Re: I'm counting on you.

Re: Hey...
Re: Isn't yours cool already, Patchy?
Re: You'd better eat your noodled before they go stretched and stale...
[fuuu]

Pa: When you eat soba before New Year's dawn, you are asking for a long life.
Pa: So it's better to let them stretch.

Pa: I hope Venus shines bright this New Year.

Re: It's called the Devil's Star, because it shines against the sun until the very last moment.
[slurp]
Re: I hope we get to live until Lucifer takes his place as true ruler.

Re: So it's not a stretch to say that our luck this year is linked to how bright his star shines.
[gong gong]
Re: We should fervently hope for it, then.

[chatter]
Ma: Uh?
Ma: A liquor that goes well with soba noodles?

Ma: Definitely not the kind of request I would associate with the SDM.

Sa: And, not being something one would associate with this household, it follows that we don't know anything about it. That's why I'm asking you.
Sa: Don't you know of anything?
[chatter chatter chatter]

Ma: Well, there's a lot, but...
Ma: Ah! But there's one that's the absolute best to go along with soba.

Ma: ...and that's about it.
Ma: Oops.
Ma: It's this time already?

Ma: Well then, I'm taking my leave now.
Sa: It's not like anyone invited you in the first place...
Sa: But anyway... That was some good information about liquors.

Ma: Hum...

Faeries: Ahhahaha!

Su: So that was it?
Su: Your magical beverage was sake, huh?
[ahahahaha]
Star: Ufufu
Lu: And a really string one, at that.
[warm warm]

Su: It seems that outside world humans have a custom of drinking this sake in cold days, and then falling asleep outside and freezing to death.
Su: Sounds peaceful, doesn't it?
Su: We sure seem to be doing our best to get frozen before New Year's dawn.
Star: That's true.

[step]

Lu: Hm?
[glance]
Su: Someone is coming!
[glance]

Getting started. I do know that U MAD has released their own version but... I'll still produce my own version.

It's Patchy!

I'll say it again, drunken fairies are extremely cute.

And done. If you're still willing to provide translations even after U MAD has its own releases, then I'll still gladly continue editing these.

http://www.mediafire.com/?6r3wu6r3s47dij5

>>40112
I for one intend to keep translating them. Not that I have anything against U MAD's works, it's just that I got too attached to this series to just drop it.

Also, archived this one.
http://touhou.wikia.com/wiki/Strange_and_Bright_Nature_Deity#SaBND_Chapter_Fifteen

Chapter 15 to 18 have been posted on mangafox
>>39661

>>40127
It's all good, we have our own links on TouhouWiki linking to U MAD's translations too. We can probably transition them out with our own gradually.

Glad to hear it Nietz, looking forward to more translations.