Fourteen 18

FOURTEEN #18

tl by molokidan

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Chapter Two - The Green-Haired Boy

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Chapter Two
The Green-Haired Boy[1]

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P: Wh-what is this?!
G: We have received similar images from around the world!!

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G: This is one from Africa!
G: And here is one from China!!
G: Antartica!!

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G: But that's not all. As unbelievable as this may seem, it's happened within a surveillance rocket as well!!
sfx: gacha
sfx: bah
G: Japan, Germany, Russia, Australia, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Korea, Brazil, Saudi Arabia...we have received the same report from many other countries!!
sfx: gata
sfx: gata

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P: Wh-why is this happening...?!
G: We still have yet to receive reports detailing the cause!!
G: What should we do to counteract this, Mr. President?!
P: We can't let news of this get out!!
G: Y-yes sir!
G: I will respect your decision, Mr. President...
P: No one must speak of this to anyone outside,
P: in order to keep citizen unrest from developing!!

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G: Ladies and Gentlemen, it is exactly as you heard. Please keep this news secret!!
G: I imagine you are all worried about the situations in your respective countries!!
G: I also intend on going straight to the scene myself!!
G: Therefore, this meeting will be put to an immediate end!!
G: Hurry to the St. Marian Hospital, where my wife is!!
sfx: babah

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sfx: bababa
sfx: byuuuh
P: Will my son be alright?
P: He has to be!
P: There must be something we can do...
P: The hospital!

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sfx: bababa
sfx: gatan
P: Mr. President!!

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P: Carolus!
P: Is my son in good health?!
C: Y-yes, sir!
P: Really?!
P: That's right. He's MY son, there's no way anything could be wrong!!
P: I must go see him at once!!
P: Carolus, contact a flower shop and have a bouquet of roses delivered at once!!
P: I'm counting on you!

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P: That's right, I need to think of a name.
P: Jimmy...
P: Chris...
P: Or maybe I should name him Abraham after the 16th President, Abraham Lincoln...
P: No, I know!! I'll name him America!!
P: America Young, on whose shoulders the fate of America rests!!

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sfx: gih
P: Congratulations!!
W: Dear!!
W: Wahh!

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P: Susan!
W: Dear!
W: Wahhhh!
P: Susan, you did well.
P: Where is my son?
S: U-umm...
N: Would you mind coming this way, Mr. President...

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sfx: gih
N: We placed your baby inside this incubation tube.
sfx: batan
N: Right here...
sfx: gigi
sfx: ogyaaaaah
sfx: ogyaaah
P: Ohhh!
P: He looks like a healthy young boy.
sfx: ogyaaah

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sfx: ogyaah
P: Ahhh!!


(This chapter just reminded me why I love Umezu Kazuo so much. I mean, it wasn't enough for him to write a manga about a supermutant chicken, he had to include green babies and a President naming his son "America." XD And this is still only the first volume!)