Like usual, the translation might be inaccurate. The section explaining about <Fool>s and the <Eclipse> was particularly hard for me to understand, so if a better translation pops up, I'll change it.
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We're up to ep10 in the series already. It is scheduled to begin in several weeks.
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Part 1:
Hello.
I wasn't sure how to begin writing, but I should start with a greeting.
Hello, world. Hello, Shiroe.
At the moment that I am writing this letter, I am in central Yamato, in the town of Sapphir's Inn. (TL: This is the town the younger group saves in volume 8/S2)
After I finish writing this, this letter will be entrusted to my acquaintance Minori.
I hear and read a lot about Shiroe of Log Horizon. I have a strange sensation when I hear that name. This is because your memories are still inside of me.
Just as you <Adventurer>s were brought to the world of Theldesia from a different world, we too are from a world other than Theldesia.
My name is Roe2.
We are <Traveler>s. From your perspective, we are parallel universe mental bodies. (TL: A body made up of thoughts; emotional body = made of emotions, physical body = made of matter)
I am also your younger sister.
You probably expected this, so I cannot apologize for this year, but we <Fool>s (kanji is read as "inspectors") and <Genius> (kanji is read as "gatherers" both belong to the <Traveler> race, so I was not able to explain anything about the <Eclipse> (kanji is read as "pact"), which you call the <Catastrophe>. I can explain the <Eclipse> accurately if I describe it precisely, but this is also only our understanding of it, and is neither a clear principle nor a solution.
Still, we are slightly ahead of you, although we are simply carrying out our duty. This is because, even though I am your younger sister, I made a promise as an older sister to Minori.
About that, why am I Roe2?
Why am I your younger sister?
I will describe it to you.
We <Traveler>s, like you guys, arrived in Theldesia because of the <Eclipse>. However, our world was much farther away from Theldesia, and we did not have a physical form to begin with.
That is why, when we arrived in this world, we borrowed bodies that already existed in this world.
If what Minori said is true, you are a very keen, intellectual person.
I think you'd understand if I explained it here, but I have been in this body for a month, but there has been no "connection to the soul," as it is called in this world.
I wanted you to forgive me for taking this form without permission.
Your thoughts and memories remain strongly in this body.
Because of rebuilding my vocabulary data, I was able to explain myself to you in this way. I owe you many thanks for giving me the ability to speak in the words of this world. Repaying you was one of my motivations for writing this letter.
I would like you to read this letter with an open mind.
You might feel like ripping it up at any moment.
