Wild Life 27

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Tessho: It's not true that having them alive has no meaning!
Tessho: I'll prove that to you!

Chapter 27: Nomu is Hideo, Noguchi is Hideyo

Ryoto: ...Tessho?

African: Interesting....
African: How will you prove that?

Tessho: Well...

Elder: Samuel!


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Elder: What do you think are you doing!!
Samuel: Elder!

Elder: Why are you fighting with these people from Japan!
Samuel: Bu...but...

Elder: How many times have I told you! Hideyo Noguchi died for the sake of Ghana!!
Tessho: !

Elder: Listen carefully! The Japanese~~~~...
Elder: are our ally!


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Samuel: ......!!

Samuel: Tss...

Elder: ...I apoligize for this... that guy is not a bad person...
Elder: ...he just holds a grudge againsts the hippos...

Ryoto: No, it's nothing.
Ryoto: Elder, please raise your head.

Ryoto: Just like what he said, protecting the hippos really brings a lot of troubles for the farmers.

Ryoto: Essentially, we preservers of hippos must work harder in polishing the policies concerning the preservation of hippos.

Ryoto: However, it's regretable that our strength is insufficient. The current budget and the capable individuals who do this job are also not enough.

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Ryoto: It should be us who should apologize.
Tessho: !

Elder: Th, that...! There's no need for you to apologize...
Tessho: Nope!

Tessho: Ryoto's right gramps!

Tessho: For that guy, his farm is everything to him, isn't it? // Therefore, it's natural for him to also hate us who protects the hippos that devastate the farms.
Tessho: I too will not forgive anyone who's a hindrace to my job.

Elder: ..........

Tessho: Anyway, we'll work harder for the sake of hippos! // Just you wait gramps!
Elder: Thank you... everyone....,


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Seno: But, it was really troublesome~~~~
Seno: Protecting the hippos is not that easy....

Seno: No matter how good the tourism industry becomes; it has nothing to do with the farmers like Samuel .
Tessho: Uhmm...
Ryoto: Indeed...

Seno: Ah, right!
Seno: You said "I'll prove the significance of hippos' lives"; though how will you do that?

Seno: Perhaps you know a good way to do it!?
Tessho: ...tss!

Tessho: No...well....

Ryoto: It was a bluff, wasn't it?

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Tessho: Well, I was gonna think about it later....

Seno: What's that...
Ryoto: Just as I thought.

Seno: Ahh~~~! What are you gonna do if the elder expects that from you!
Tessho: Ahmm well, that...you see?
Seno: See what!!

Tessho: Ahhh... By the way~~~~!!
Seno: What lies are you gonna say this time?

Tessho: *Nomo died in Ghana!
Tessho: That really supprised me! (I've just seen him in the news the other day~~~)

[T/N: * Hideo Nomo is a famous Japanese baseball player.]

Ryoto: ....Of course.... Hideo Nomo is not yet dead.

Ryoto: The one that the elder said before is **Hideyo Noguchi.

[T/N: ** Hideyo Noguchi is a Japanese doctor who died in Ghana while studying the cause of yellow fever.]


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Tessho: Who's that?

Ryoto: A great Japanese doctor... // A talented man who made a lot of contributions to the medical world. But in 1928, he died here in Ghana while doing his personal research on yellow fever.

Tessho: Hehh~~~! There was such a great person here in Ghana!

Ryoto: Well, yeah.
Ryoto: You didn't know Noguchi Hideyo. You really are an idiot.

Ryoto: .......anyway, until the locals do not accept the hippos, the real meaning of proctecting them cannot be established. // We better think of ideas ASAP.

Tessho: Yup!


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Infobox: One week later~~~~
SFX: SHHHHHHH

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Tessho: It's raining hard again~~~ // With this, we can't do any touring today too.


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Anan: Yeah, the tour today for the guests from Germany has to be cancelled too...
Guy on phone: We're sorry but the tour today....
Anan: Somehow, it's been like this for about 3 days already since the opening day.... (even today too...)

Ryoto: If I'm not mistaken, it's almost rainy season in this area, // though, it looks like it started earlier this year than the usual Anan.
Anan: You're right~~~

Tessho: I see~~~ when I finally get hold of being a guide~~~~

Tessho: Well, it can't be help. You can't go against nature. // Moreover, because of the rain lately, the hippos have not been approaching the farms...

Guy: Doctor!!

Ryoto: You are?

Guy: I, I'm the elder's messenger....

Guy: The village
Guy: The village is in danger!!


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SFX: GOODODO

SFX : GOOOOOOO

Ryoto: This is...
Seno: Ahh.... It will overflow anytime soon....

Tessho: Such tremendous increase of the river water.
SFX: GUKUN...


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SFX: DODODOOOOO

SFX: DODODODO
Tessho: It's my first time to see such a thing...!!

Elder: Oh, everyone!!

Tessho: Gramps, what's this...
Samuel: ........
Elder: Just as you see...
SFX: GOOOOOO...


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Elder: The rainy season came earlier this year making the water plants growth faster.
Elder: Because of that, the water volume in the river has increased.

Tessho: .......
Tessho: Unthinkable.... Water plants do not grow this much in Japan.......

Elder: In this area, the current of the river is a bit slow so water plants grow more in here. So, its likely that....
Elder: The river will collapse here!
White font with black background: Wharf
Text with arrow beside the river: Area with slow water current
Text on area with houses: Village
Text on the river: River

Elder: In any case..... help us out this instant, we don't want any heavy floods like 4 years ago...!!

* In 1999, 28 thousand people evacuated Ghana due to heavy floods.

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SFX: GOOOOOOO

Ryoto: I understand, let's pile up some sandbags on the riverbank first! // Please gather some people!
Ryoto: No matter what, we will not let the village get flooded...!!

Ryoto: Let's ask the help of the other guides. Please send someone to get them.
Elder: Uilson, I'll leave that to you!
Uilson: OK!

Elder: We're sorry.... for asking a doctor to do these things....
Ryoto: What are you saying, in times of trouble, we should be helping out each other. // Right Tessho....

Ryoto: ....tss, ehh?
Text beside ryoto: Gone

Seno: If it's Dr. Tessho, he's over there....


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Tessho: OK Next~~~
Ryoto: .......

Ryoto: ..... you're really such a guy....
Someone: Everyone, hurry, hurry!
Someone: OK, OK, just a minute....
Someone: Ok, Next~~~

Ryoto: Okay, let's help out too Seno!
Seno: OK!

Samuel: ........

SFX: SHHHHH....

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Samuel: Hmm, this Japanese eyesores! // I'm not easy to deceive unlike the elder!!
Samuel: Doing all these are just hypocrite acts to get the approval of protecting the hippos!!

SFX: GOOOO

Samuel: Tss....

Samuel: Nevertheless.... what hateful animals they are....
Samuel: To ridicule the people at such time when the village is about to be destroyed by the flood...

Samuel: All of you too....
Samuel: should just drown in the water and die....!!



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Infobox: A few hours later~~~~
SFX: GOOOOO

Elder: .........

Elder: Samuel....
Samuel: Elder....

Elder: Let's... Let's give up....
Samuel: !!

Elder: It's just a matter of time 'till the river overflows.... The life of these people should not be put to danger for the sake of the villae~~~~.
Elder: It's better to evacuate everyone to the neighboring village.....

Samuel: .........

Samuel: Tss...
Samuel: Damn it....

Samuel: ... this is...
Samuel: the fault of those hippos in the river.....


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Samuel: Hey Japanese!!

Tessho: Samuel....

Samuel: We will evacuate the village!!

Samuel: You should be happy! Thanks to you, the village will be left to the hippos for the taking!!
Samuel: All the farms that we risk our lives for will be left to them!!

Samuel: AHAHAHAHAHA!! You should be happy!
Seno: !

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Tessho: Shut up jerk!!
SFX: GOOOOO...

Samuel: ......tss!?

Tessho: It's too early to give up!

Samuel: Wh...what...?

Tessho: I who have the "Absolute Pitch" can distinguish it. // Since the hippos get in there, the sound of the river has slightly subtled...

Tessho: Right now, the current has started to flow slowly!

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Samuel: Wha...what... // what do you mean...?

Tessho: Just hold out a little bit,
Tessho: and let's save this village!!

SFX: KSSSS

Elder: You...
Guy: Is that really true....

Samuel: That's impossible...! With those overgrown water plants in the way, // the river current won't flow that easily....

Tessho: That has already changed.

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Tessho: Thanks to the hippos for eating those large quantity of water plants!!
SFX: DOON

Samuel: What did you say!?