Suicide Island 7

SUICIDE ISLAND #7

tl by molokidan

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Chapter 7 - The Have-Not

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1: How is it?
2: Fine, it's cooked.
3: Pass some over here, too!
4: ...doesn't taste like anything.
5: I'm happy just being able to eat fish!
6: Yeah, they're looking great!
7: How are the remaining ones?
8: I put them in a pretty big tide pool*. They should stay a live for a bit.
* Line: A place where seawater remains after the tide draws out.
9: Oh really...looks like we'll be able to keep eating for a while, then.

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1: It was really lucky that we found those nets...
2: Without them, we wouldn't have been able to get any. We'll have to take good care of those...
3: The masks and fins too...
4: Without those, we wouldn't have been able to chase the fish.
5: Yeah--
6: The fishing hut...nets...masks...fins...swimsuits...
7: Banana trees...warm southern island...
8: What are you going on about...? A memory game?!
9: No...just thinking about how well-equipped...
10: this island just happened to be...you know?
11: ...yeah.

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1: I thought things would end up being worse at the beginning...and thought it'd be absolutely impossible.
2: But...well, I don't know what will happen in the future, but for now, it looks like we can make it.
3: You're right, if this wasn't a southern island and without equipment...over half of us wouldn't have survived...
4: Why...a southern island...? Just what are the intentions of the government...?
5(2b): Just what is this place anyway?

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1: We won't know the answer to that no matter how much we think...it's useless.
2: It will be better for us to learn more about this island, though. Like what else we can use---
3: Also...salt...
4: I want some salt.
5: Yeah! Me too!! I can't eat this tasteless fish forever.
6: We need some salt! Wouldn't saltwater work?
7: I think...if you take in salt from saltwater...you'll ruin your liver.*
*It apparently causes liver and kidney failure.
8: I think that's what I heard...
9: Wow...you're well-informed.

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1(2b): Taste is also important, but...the main thing is preserving our food. We may not always be able to gather fish.
2: If we're able to dry them out and preserve them, then we can get a stable stock.
3: All we need to do is boil some saltwater then, right?
4: There was a place near my house that made natural salt like that.
5: It's probably possible...but it'll use up a lot of firewood.
6: What about a saltpan?
7: Saltpan?
8: All we need to do is separate it from the water...So we lay down those vinyl sheets from the fishing hut and pour saltwater on.
9: Since the sun is strong here, it'll evaporate. Once the water goes down, we add more...and if we repeat this, we should gradually end up with some thick saltwater.

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1: I see! Then we can get salt at the end.
2: Then we just boil the thick saltwater.
3: You're pretty smart!
4: I, I'm pretty sure you're--
5: I haven't told you my name yet...it's Sugimura.
6: Just call me Sugi.
7: Alright, so tomorrow is salt...shall we split up into a group to work on the saltpan and a group to explore the island?
8: Yeah.
9: OK, so tomorrow, at the bottom of the hill...
10: Wait a minute! ...before we sleep,
11: there's something I want to ask...!

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1: Among these people here...there have been a number of men...who have...come at us demanding things...
2: And trying to force us to do it...especially when night comes.
3: I won't say who it is here...but,
4: if you can't guarantee our safety, then we won't cooperate!
5: Goddammit...! This is ridiculous, there are still idiots out there trying to do stuff like that?!
6: What should we do?

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1: It...
2: doesn't matter.
3: What!??
4: Hey...wait...
5: That's horrible...what's your problem?!
6: Kai...kun...!??

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1: What do you mean...?
2(2b): That's something personal, completely unrelated to lie or death...additionally,
3(2b): if you really don't want to, you should just stab and kill your attacker. There are no laws on this island.
4: That's...!! Y...you...
5: Are you being serious?
6: Of course.
7: If we create rules, we will then have to employ a system in order to enforce them...
8: And we don't have any time to do that right now. The ones involved should solve the problem for themselves.

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1(2b): Hmmm...smart people really are tough to death with...alright, but I--
2: personally cannot forgive anyone who does that, and do not intend to in the future!!
3: If I receive any reports, then I'll personally deal with them.
4: You're creating a rule...does this mean you're going to enforce it?
5: No...this isn't something that difficult...
6: It's just personal emotion!

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1: Ah
2: That's...!
3: Smoke...

149)
1: There are people...who have survived on that side, too...
2: I was nervous.
3: I wonder how many there are...
4: Who knows...
5: Those two have already become the pillars of our group.
6: I wanted to avoid having them go against each other, by all means...
7: Everyone else understood.
8: It has to be absolutely avoided...
9: Absolutely...

150)
1: Haah...my body aches! We should probably go look for some futons.
2(2b): Yeah...ah! It's Ryou-kun.
3: Yo.
4: You guys are the exploration team today, right? Think you can go search for some razors for us? We keep messing up with this knife.
5: Yeah! And if you can find some soap, that'd be great too.
6: Things like that aren't just gonna conveniently pop up somewhere. (So selfish!)
7: You two are gonna work on the saltpan, right?
8: Yeah, we're gonna dig out a pretty big space and them put the sheet there...it's brute work.
9: The girls will be doing it, so we gotta help.

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1: Alright then, time to go get today's share of bananas.
2: Yeah.
3: Ah, I'll go too.
4: Me too...
5: Three people will be enough, there's no reason for you to come too.
6: Ah...haha...
7: Good morning...today, are you...
8: You don't need to push yourself.
9: No...I...
10: Like I said...don't push yourself
11: when you're around me.
12: Eh?

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1(2b): It makes you tired, doesn't it? Being around people like that...I understand.
2: What...?
3: What do you mean?
4: Guys who are tall, with power.
5: Smart guys, guys with cool faces.
6: Slender and beautiful girls.
7(2b): Those people...have something...and yet they attempted suicide. Makes me wanna laugh.
8: Makes me disgusted...

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1: What!!? I...never...
2: Heh heh...what's wrong? Just quit already.
3: I know, man.
4: You're just like me...that's right--
5: You have nothing.
6: What...what are you...
7: Didn't you notice yourself? Heh heh...
8: Or maybe you just didn't want to notice...which is it?

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1(2b): Alright then, I'll explain it for you. Have you ever won at something, even once? Ever took a prize at a sports festival? Or in studies?
2(2b): How about this one: Have you ever confessed to a girl you like?
3(2b): Those who have something just keep on getting more and more...while we lost everything.
4: Even the strength to compete, too.
5: We're the Have-Nots.
6: Let's work together.

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1: Ah
2: Well, it's fine either way.
3: I just wanted you to know that we're different from those people, that's all.
4: In the end, this place really is the same as the outside world.
5: No matter what you expect,
6: you'll just end up getting hurt in the end.

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1: ...N...
2: No...
3: I'm...
4: differe...!
5(2b): I...uu...uuu
6: Uuuuuuuu

[Chapter 7 End]