I translated this a while ago, after the official translation turned out poorly. Wanted to see if I could do better. Really tried to push myself and make it the best translation I could. Never released it because it was officially released, and even got reprinted. But it looks like Shaft might be doing an anime, and the novel's out of print, so maybe time to dust this off. I actually have a translation of the second one as well (but got stuck in the third novel; felt like I just wasn't getting the tone shift there working.) Never proof read it. If there's interest I could dust that one off, too.