Natsu no Kusari (夏ノ鎖) Review

“The world is big, but everyone is equal. Picking up girls isn’t the exclusive right of rich, handsome guys. Even a total loser with nothing can have the right to pick up girls.”

“There are two ways to pick up girls. One is to win her favor, fight for the position of boyfriend, and finally round the bases.”

“The other… is to become a girl-hunting hunter. Or, to put it simply, a girl hunter.”

“Being a hunter isn’t that simple. A hunter without preparation can’t catch prey. First, you need a target.”

“The value of the target is the object of your actions. You yourself must like her first, find her worth hunting. At the same time, you also need to gather intel on the target.”

“The value of intel is extremely important. The target’s daily habits are all worth recording carefully, including the target’s routes, the target’s surrounding relationships, and the target’s interests and hobbies. As the saying goes, know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be in peril. Keeping a diary is a good method.”

“When searching for target information, necessary work also needs to be done, such as constructing traps and preparing the rearing environment after the hunt.”

“Rearing wasn’t originally part of hunting, but because we’re hunting girls, not food—they’re spiritual sustenance and companions, not something to fill the stomach—ensuring the prey’s comfort and survival is still very necessary. People who’ve raised turtles might understand: creating a small ecosystem can reduce your own trouble as much as possible and ensure the prey’s survival.”

“A girl’s survival itself falls within the scope of human survival. Human ’living’ may be troublesome, but ‘surviving’ is much simpler.”

“Air, food, water, excretion—these are enough to ensure a person’s long-term survival.”

“Rearing a girl is mostly not understood by others, so rearing has a certain special nature. As much as possible, choose remote wilderness or underground locations unknown to others. For underground air supply, you can use air conditioning and necessary ventilation pipes connected to the surroundings, while food and water can be supplied separately.”

“The biggest headache is nothing but defecation. Underground sewage systems are indeed hard to handle, especially for an individual—after all, you don’t have the ability to dig sewers. If it really comes down to it, you can only use a chamber pot as a manual solution.”

“Once the observation of the prey and the prey’s rearing environment—these preparatory works—are ready, you can look for an opportunity to hunt.”

“After all, the prey is a girl. Being hunted out of nowhere will cause panic and retaliation from her protectors, so hunting requires finding a suitable reason, place, and time to ensure you suffer minimal harm after the hunt.”

“Common ways for people to go missing are natural disasters. A suburban rainstorm, a landslide, or a wild animal attack are all good reasons. The best reason here is being swept away by a mudslide or river—under those circumstances, the missing person is very hard to find again, and even if found, death is already confirmed.”

“So, on a rainy night, confirm the prey’s route, brave the danger of mudslides and cave-ins, and strike proactively.”

“The method of striking doesn’t need to be complicated. You just need to knock the prey unconscious and carry her away. For a slender girl, the hunter has this ability. The only issue is the method of knocking her out.”

“Because a loser hunts girls to cherish them and obtain them, roughness is not allowed. Drugging her unconscious is a good method.”

“The best way to carry the girl away is mostly over the shoulder and run. The main goal is speed, accuracy, and ruthlessness—you can’t stay at the hunting site for too long.”

“Take the girl directly to the prey rearing location, and you can begin the real rearing right there.”

“Rearing isn’t just keeping a pet; it requires cultivating affection. There are two ways to cultivate affection: one is to show your reliable side, and the other is to force submission. However, at this point, the first method can basically only be done after the prey has had her bad impression of you worn away over a long period… So, let’s use the forced method first.”

“Forcing means applying pressure. Ordinary physical attacks are not allowed; you need to crush her from the inside. So… forcing sexual relations is the fastest. Of course, for most hunters, that’s one of the goals too.”

“After that, handling becomes much simpler. Just ensure the prey’s safety, survival, and that she isn’t discovered. What seems simple but is actually troublesome is whether the prey will try to escape.”

“To prevent the prey from escaping, you can take proactive measures. In the rearing area, use recordings to simulate human voices, ensuring the prey hears them and gains hope. Then, when the prey tries to escape, catch her again and tell her that the voices were all recordings you played and that no one is coming to save her. Give the prey despair. In this alternation between hope and despair, the prey will naturally lose the will to escape—even if she hears real human voices in the future, she won’t believe them anymore.”

“Naturally, giving punishment is also necessary, just don’t overdo it. If you overdo it and the prey dies, as a hunter you’ve not only failed, but you’ll have nowhere to run. You’ll have no choice but to kill yourself to end it all, and your actions will be laughed at by later generations.”

“Ensuring the prey’s survival while applying pressure and blows is essential content for a hunter’s rearing.”

“You can appropriately look through the items on the prey to find traces of her. On one hand, you can learn more about the prey; on the other hand, you can find effective conditions to continue applying pressure.”

“For example, the prey likes the violin? There’s a photo of her with her violin teacher?”

“Yeah, the violin teacher is male. Since he’s teaching her violin, they’ll definitely be alone together. And since they’re alone together, naturally something might be going on.”

“You don’t mind the prey having relationships with others, because the prey is an excellent girl. Being popular is only natural; not being popular would be abnormal.”

“But why does the prey deny having a relationship with that so-called violin teacher? Why lie?”

“By the way, when the prey lies, you must give punishment. Steal a needle as a child, steal gold as an adult—honesty is the greatest and most precious virtue.”

“After some time, the prey disappears, and the prey’s protectors will also believe the prey is dead. At this point, you can appropriately begin training the prey.”

“A high school uniform is a treasure granted by God. The prey is also at her most beautiful when wearing the uniform. However, uniforms aren’t that easy to obtain, so you can only go find one yourself. Actually, it’s not troublesome—when the prey’s nest is off guard, you can go hunt for the uniform again.”

“Composure and calmness are the only things to pay attention to when hunting uniforms. After all, uniforms don’t talk, but there’s still danger. For example, the prey’s nest situation doesn’t match the investigation, causing the hunting trail to be discovered.”

“After being discovered, don’t blindly give up and break everything. Although you could suddenly turn back and the prey might develop affection for you because of it, you still can’t escape legal punishment. An 8-year prison sentence is truly too heavy for a loser. After the sentence ends, you’ll definitely regret having given up and broken everything. Even if you have a chance to meet the prey again…”

“All you’ll get is regret and guilt. Besides, the prey still won’t recognize who you are.”

“Everything is a tragedy.”

“So even if you’re about to be discovered, you can’t give up. In for a penny, in for a pound—better to increase the intensity, let things flow naturally, stabilize the final stage, and ensure you’re not discovered.”

“It’s hard… but you must not be discovered…”

“Hold on… not being discovered is victory.”

“If you truly win, you can use information about the prey’s protectors to deliver the final blow to the prey. Tell the prey that her protectors no longer care about her, that she’s already a dead person, that she already… has no one willing to take care of her, except the hunter in front of her…”

“Next, it just takes a little time. Soon, the prey will submit to you and become your slave…”

“And the day of victory arrives just like that.”

“Hunting girls is like ordinary hunting—it requires patience, confidence, and action.”

“As long as you do these things, you’ll surely welcome the day of victory that belongs to you.”

“A loser has no other way. Hunting isn’t the path we wanted to take either.”

“But if we don’t do this, in the end, no girl would ever look at me.”

“Even one glance…”

“One glance…”

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“What did I just read…”

Su Momo couldn’t believe her eyes. Rather than some “Girl Hunting Manual,” this was completely the diary of a pervert’s kidnapping and imprisonment. As a woman, she felt a chill down her back.

She’d seen this manual on the social media space of a man she’d just met. She never imagined that a man who seemed so normal on the surface would write something so twisted.

In any place under the rule of law, imprisoning women, rape, and gang rape all come at a devastating price. To make a woman look at him, notice him—why do such horrifying things?

As a woman, Su Momo knows what women need. They need someone to help them when they’re in trouble. When they face danger, they need someone to hold up the sky for them.

“Even… just giving a woman an umbrella in the rain—any woman with a conscience will remember it. She’ll look at you for more than just a glance.”

“Maybe for the person who wrote this manual, if he could give up these actions and turn a rainy-day crime into a chance encounter, it’s just a matter of a single thought.”

“After that, maybe you’ll run into the person you helped, or maybe you won’t. But beautiful things always ferment, and at some moment they become sweet wine.”

“You’ll realize that even as a hunter hunting the one you love, it doesn’t have to be such a twisted path. There’s still a bright road we can take.”

Su Momo wanted to leave a message for this gentleman, but after commenting, nothing appeared on his space. Maybe she was blocked, or maybe it was deleted.

Whatever. Su Momo thought for a long time, then picked up her phone.

“110? I’d like to report a crime.”

(The End)