Even After Turning Into a Trap Cat Girl I’ll Have to Work Hard to Survive in the End of the World.

Chapter 1 – Peaceful Life

♪ This is why you want to breakup…? ♪ Zhe Jiu Shi Ni Fen Shou De Jie Kou?
♪ If I asked you to try again ♪ Ru Guo Rang Ni Cong Xing Lai Guo
♪ Would you love me like before? ♪ Ni Hui Bu Hui Ai Wo.
♪ Love can let you be truly happy ♪ Ai Qing Rang Ren Yong You Kuai Le
♪ And no end of troubles too ♪ Ye Dai Lai le Zhe Mo 1

“Song Zhe! Can you turn that crap off?” Lin Feng covered his ears, showing he was reaching his limit having to listen to such brain numbing music.

“Aw come on, look man this vid is fire, want a peek?” Song Zhe turned his Nogia phone and shoved it into Lin Feng’s face.

Lin Feng was stunned into silence by the video of three people twisting about, this video truly was popular beyond comprehension.

“What, you think everyone is a bass boosted weirdo who likes otoMADs like you?” A girl’s clear voice cut in from the side.2

Lin Feng turned to look at Liu Meng Qi, his childhood friend. These few years she had grown up to be quite beautiful, time really had flown by. Seeing those two giant *** made him reminisce about when they used to take baths together. 3

When did it start he wondered, maybe in high school? The childhood friend slowly began to mature. Well, most of that was limited to just the chest area, she still had that childlike face and still liked to wear twin tails.

They had been neighbors since they were young, and their main relationship was the children of mothers who were very good friends. Their mothers had both worked at the same factory, and by chance became pregnant at nearly the same time, and so when the children were born they grew up together in the same baby carriage.

No really, definitely inseparable. Ever since elementary school all the way up to university now, the two had always been in the same class together. During high school there was no end of scandalous rumors surrounding the two, though Liu Meng Qi didn’t really seem bothered by those and so Lin Feng didn’t really care either. Well, everyone else eventually ended up pushing Lin Feng towards marrying Liu Meng Qi.

It even extended to her parents, who kept pushing their daughter into Lin Feng’s lap. He recalled the day when Liu Meng Qi’s mother and father forced the two of them into a room with only one set of bedding, and his face lit up with a blush.

“Lin Feng you’re thinking of H things again aren’t you.” Liu Meng Qi had a hand covering her chest, glaring at him with a suspicious eye.

Since they had grown up together, Lin Feng’s room had ended up pretty much as well traveled place for Liu Meng Qi. The lewd books under his bed were obviously always found by her.

“Eh? What? Liu Meng Qi how did you know recently I liked white tights?” Seeing such a thing so close to him, he couldn’t help but reach out for a feel. Softly stroking them, that is, until Liu Meng Qi slapped him away.

“Oi, can you two stop flirting in the classroom? Do you know as your sworn follower it makes me feels bad man.” 4 Suddenly the video playing in Song Zhe’s hands didn’t feel quite as interesting anymore. He shut off his Nogia and stared speechless at the two.

“We’re only bros” Lin Feng and Liu Meng Qi countered at the same time.

“Right, right, yeah. Just. being. bros~” Song Zhe accentuated each pause with a wave of his hand as he walked away. He had enough of being fed crap for the day. In his heart he secretly wanted to vent about these two who for two years now still called each other bros with not a hint of romance in the air. Ever since he became a diehard supporter for Lin Feng he’s had his fill of crap daily, to the point of being able to skip meals.

Suddenly, the door to the classroom slowly opened. A pair of legs wrapped in black tights followed along with the sound of steps sauntering into the room. With it was a soft fragrance of Jasmine Flowers. A head of crow dark hair with a face shining like jadestones, a posh yet warm countenance.

“Morning Lin Feng” the girl waved and smiled at Lin Feng as she walked past his desk towards her own.

“Morning Yan Ao Xue” Lin Feng stared stupidly at the retreating Yan Ao Xue, smelling the softly fading perfume that remained in the air.

“Oh stop staring, your idol is already gone. What’s so good about Yan Ao Xue anyway, she’s always acting like an ojou-sama” 5 Liu Meng Qi commented as she saw all the boys following Yan Ao Xue with their eyes.

“Oh what do you know, you see that? That’s called class. Besides, Yan Ao Xue actually is an Ojou-sama, her father is the head of the Yan corporation. She’s born with a golden spoon in her mouth, who wouldn’t like such a friendly and pretty ojou-sama?”

“Then am I not pretty enough?” Liu Meng Qi clasped her hands together, face a bit red. Thinking of how she had purposefully put on the type of clothes she found in the books underneath Lin Feng’s bed, and yet lost so easily to that ojou-sama, she was a bit hurt. Why could that person so easily grab Lin Feng’s attention? Such thoughts swirled around inside her head.

“You? Yeah yeah, pretty. It’s just that you aren’t in the same class. Her? She’s got class. You’re more of a moeblob.” 6

Lin Feng wasn’t looking at Liu Meng Qi, instead still staring stupidly at the Yan Ao Xue who was returning to her desk. Yan Ao Xue was the school flower 7; even though the school was supported by a heavy investment from the Yan corporation, she still held her own.

Liu Meng Qi was still pretty in her own regards, just that due to growing up together, even though there’s no blood relation, there was always a sense of wrongness. Lin Feng had long since treated Liu Meng Qi as family, and so these few years had always acted as such.

And since the rumors during high school caused neither of them to be able to try dating, they’ve decided to just pretend to be brother and sister in University. The only people who knew otherwise were their diehard supporters like Song Zhe and Liu Meng Qi’s friend Ruo Lian.

“Alright, everyone take a seat. Class is in session!” Following the teacher’s call, everyone settled down and returned to their seats.

Seeing the teacher start the class yet still wanting to talk, Liu Meng Qi could only huff coldly and walk back to her seat.
Of course to Lin Feng that sound was very moe.

“Today we’ll be covering standard jet thrust engines operations and maintenance.” The teacher, going on in years, struggled to shakily write the word aircraft onto the blackboard. Basically everyone in the school called him Old Man Liu, on the terms that no one really even knew what his original name was. He was the oldest teacher on record at the school, though Old Man Liu’s lessons were long and terrible, basically a free nap time for students.

Lin Feng was a Mechanical Engineering student, in the past his parents had complained that there was nobody around who could fix the lighting in the house, and so now he chose this degree.
Yet the result is now Lin Feng was still unable to fix much, he might even be sent to some random place to fix some stupid aircraft engines.
Lin Feng yawned, unsure if it was because he always slept in a class with this teacher, that even looking at him would induce yawns.
Maybe it was like a Pavlov’s effect, that conditioned reflex example.
As he grew increasingly sleepy, his head finally unknowingly collapsed onto the desk.

“Sssss~”
Sucking in a breath of cold air, Lin Feng suddenly woke up, almost forgetting the wound on his hand from a cat on the side of the road this morning. At that time he had thought the cat to be harmless, white fur and marble blue eyes, such a beautiful exterior had fully deceived his eyes.
And so he stupidly reached out with his hand, and the result was the two scratch marks on his hand. Of course Liu Meng Qi had used some of her spit to try and fix it, the fact that it did nothing was another matter.

“Ahem, Student Lin Feng, do you have a question about what I’ve said on the matter?” Old Man Liu with his small sunken eyes stared decidedly directly at the standing Lin Feng.

“Cough, no no.” Passing it off with a laugh, Lin Feng obediently sat down. Just then in his excitement he had actually stood up?
He took a look at his wound; though no longer bleeding it had still not fully closed up. It was in a strange state.

“Are you alright?” Seeing that Lin Feng had suddenly stood up, Liu Meng Qi called out in a soft voice from behind.

Lin Feng shook his head, it was just a small scratch, he didn’t really mind it.
Soon after he sat down Lin Feng suddenly felt something hitting his head. He swung about, yet was faced with students patiently listening to the lesson.
He ground his teeth. It must have been Deng Liang and Zhu Han Fang. Those two were the notorious assholes of their grade, drinking and smoking and fighting.
Actually the university didn’t prohibit smoking and drinking, but fighting was another matter.
Typically, everyone who attended university was a mature person, no longer resorting to force like in middle school or using concepts like might is right.
But these two were the exceptions. Zhu Han Fang came from a family belonging to the underworld, fighting was in his blood. He only came to study so he could get a degree. Truth to be told it very might well be he only got in to this school by resorting to force. This guy was pretty much the embodiment of as he came so he went.
Deng Liang was a little bro, the underling of Zhu Han Fang. Usually Deng Liang acted as the hands and feet of Zhu Han Feng. Lin Feng highly suspected that Deng Liang’s path was already well arranged by Zhu Han Fang after graduation, otherwise how would a kid from the countryside dare to cause so much trouble.
Staring at those two for a bit, Lin Feng turned back to face the front.
Lin Feng actually had nothing against them, you could say that they were in two completely different worlds. It’s just that those two typically would look for trouble, sometimes the entire class would be the targets, though they would never go overboard. Maybe it was because Yan Ao Xue who had connections to the school by investment was in the same class.
This was also one of the reasons why everyone held a degree of respect towards Yan Ao Xue. Even these two brutes were cowed by her existance. Yan Ao Xue was also a good negotiatior, never escalating.
Lin Feng not soon after sitting back down heard the snickering of two people.

“What are you two laughing about? Answer this next question.” Old Man Liu called out from the front.

The two of them unwillingly stood up and said they couldn’t answer and received a dressing down from Old Man Liu.

Speaking of him, Old Man Liu was also an investor in the school. His entire life he had been at this school, basically the oldest investor. He was also old friends with the headmaster, there’s even rumors that he takes all of his wages and puts it back into the school as investments. The school was basically his house at this point.

Lin Feng mouthed his thanks to Old Man Liu.
But
The lesson
Was
So
Boring.

Seeing other students enjoying sports and dancing, Lin Feng yawned again.

“Can something interesting happen already?”

While he was still gazing out the window, he saw a strange thing happening.
A student was spasming on the ground, slamming themselves against the ground as if they could feel no pain. Their blood flowed freely onto the ground as nurses rushed forwards with a stretcher.
Teachers and the school doctor together placed the student on and rushed off to the infirmary, leaving only the patch of blood.
Lin Feng rubbed his eyes, unsure if he was hallucinating or if he had already been carried into dreamland by the lesson.
He rubbed the wound on his hand, and felt the pain shoot through.
Seeing another pair of girls collapse on the ground spasming, unknowingly revealing what was usually hidden beneath their skirts, mouth full of white froth, Lin Feng felt a bit mad.
Was there an infection going around?



TN Notes:

Well I found this story and it felt decent, I’m surprised no one has tried to translate it. I’ll be translating it on the side. It uses a lot more meme language and is also a lot denser and harder to translate correctly, which is good practice for me I guess. Let me know what you all think of this~

TN 1: If you want to hear the original song it’s this one below. I tried my best to match the lyrics but I’m not sure exactly how it’s supposed to be. It’s probably a meme edit version that I’m too lazy to find.

TN2: The original meaning is more OtoMAD and remix style BGMs, think something like DesuDesu or Nico Nico Octagon Remix, U.N ronald was her, etc. I have an example or two here for you to consider. Basically it’s whenever you think to yourself “Ah yes I’m on the weird side of *video site* again”)

TN3: Original is 青梅竹马 which is a proverb based on a poem by Li Bai basically for a girl and a guy growing up together but never growing feelings for each other. I can’t think of a snappy english equivalent, if anyone can pls tell me.
Also, need a euphemism for boobs here

TN4: 蓝瘦,香菇 is the meme used here. Basically a accented version of 难受,想哭 meaning feels bad, want to cry.

TN5: AnimeComicGame term for rich/posh/snobbish girl archetype, borrowed from JP.

TN6: 萌物 ACG term again. Moe meaning cute in anime sense.

TN7: Basically most popular girl but not just because of looks. Pride of the school?

9 thoughts on “Even After Turning Into a Trap Cat Girl I’ll Have to Work Hard to Survive in the End of the World.

    1. Feel free to, I don’t own anything after all. You’re just translating an English fairy tale inspired by a Chinese fairy tale 🙂

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      1. Thank you 😊 May I have a way to contact you? Because I have questions about this novel.🥺

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  1. why is it “trap” cat girl? thats NOT what the original title says, i read this in the original chinese on sfacg. the word you are translating as “trap” 伪娘 is “psuedo-mother” which is chinese slang that sorta means transgender, and is often used to denote when a characters sex is changed from a magical mean, (药娘 aka drug mother would refer to a sex change via drugs, aka someone actually transitioning and not a magical change)

    the chinese slang that actually would translate as a trap would be 假娘 “false mother” aka, someone pretending to be a woman but isnt

    so I’m a little confused on the word choice usage here? its been a while since i read this novel so i don’t quite remember, but the MCs sex actually changes to female no? if so the word trap isnt used correctly here. granted as i said, its been awhile, and i have read novels where the MC is still male but changes to only appear female, if thats the case here then i blame the author for using the wrong slang.

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    1. It’s slang for crossdressing/feminine boys and an Anime Comic Game term hence the use of Trap. I wouldn’t say that 伪娘 should ever be translated as pseudo-mother contextually even though the words themselves literally mean that. For example “你真娘气” doesn’t mean “You’re so motherly” but rather “You’re quite a sissy”. 娘 itself isn’t specifically mother, but can also refer to acting feminine. In Japanese the kanji is used for Musume 娘 (daughter) rather than mother. The slang 伪娘 is also derived from Japanese Otokonoko 男の娘.

      Contextually in the story the MC’s sex is not female, and is definitely biologically male as indicated by chapters where he feels for his junk and his refusal when others call him a girl. Even the synopsis itself carries the hint, where the little girls call him big sis but he asks them to call him big bro. Hence why I decided to translate as Trap.

      Also 假娘 takes on a different connotation than 伪娘. Traps are simply perceived wrongly as females when they don’t want to be called female, no pretending to be female at all. 假娘 also doesn’t carry the same ACG context.

      Also, I took the title to mean 伪 pseudo 猫娘 catgirl. Because the term 猫娘 carries a specific context. Hence, Trap Cat Girl.

      Edit:
      As an additional note, what should the name be changed to instead? Pseudo Cat Girl doesn’t seem quite right, as that doesn’t give off the same connotations of genderbending which is a fixture throughout the story. Transgender Cat Girl isn’t accurate either as he is still male and wishes to be referred to that way. I could go with Cat Femboi but it doesn’t have the same Anime connotations as Trap does, and even if it does it sounds strange. Trap seems to straddle the line between slang and accepted term, not being too literal and not being a weird amalgamation that makes Germans curse that English inherited their language compounding.

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