Is It Too Late to Leave the Chat Group? Book 01 Chapter 026: The Invitation Letters Are for Under-the-Table Transactions?

[TL Note: The Thirty-Six Stratagems is a famous Chinese essay illustrating a series of stratagems used in politics, war, and civil interaction. Here is the Wikipedia entry on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-Six_Stratagems. The “In order to capture, one must let loose” stratagem is the fourth one in Chapter 3.]

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“How frustrating!” Yakumo Yukari was so frustrated that she rolled around on the ground in her home in Mayohiga.

[TL Note: Mayohiga is a lost village near the Great Hakurei Barrier. You can read more about it and other related information here: https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Mayohiga.]

“What’s wrong, Master?” a beauty with nine bushy tails asked. This was Yakumo Yukari’s shikigami, Yakumo Ran.

[TL Note: A shikigami is a summoned spirit, similar to a familiar. Here is Yakumo Ran’s profile: https://touhou.fandom.com/wiki/Ran_Yakumo. As before, the arrangement of the name in my translation is different from the profile, as I choose to follow the arrangement of names in the name’s original language. In this case, Japanese, the family name comes before the given name. From henceforth, if the arrangement of any name is different from any references, just know that it is due to me following the original language of the names.]

“Is it that Dimension Administrators Association again?” When Yakumo Yukari first started giggling at nothing, Yakumo Ran had thought that her master had finally gone mad from sleeping. She even planned to bring Yakumo Yukari to Eientei.

[TL Note: Eientei is where humans and youkai go for medical services. It me

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