Kokou no Hito 27

Somewhere below me humans quarrel over morals... lives are destroyed and built... But I can only think of going higher. Not all people see that world as beautiful.

[Kokou no Hito 27 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 123:
Title: 27th Climb To Flight
Oonishi: I don't believe it.
He could see that town so close by, but...
SFX: Zah

Page 124:
Title: 27th Climb To Flight

Page 125:
Oonishi: Why, Mori...!?
You should know that if you went down this path you'd be saved.
Anyhow, let's go, and hurry.
Kurosawa: Oonishi...
Even if you took your whole life trying, you wouldn't understand.
For you, who looks at those town lights
and feels completely relaxed...

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新堂礼子様 葬儀会場
Banner: Shindou Reiko-sama funeral ceremony hall
Reporters: Hey
There he is.
SFX: Zawa
SFX: Kah
[Gah, his coat's so shiny it's more white than black]

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SFX: Basha basha
Reporters: Kurosawa-kun!!
How do you feel about the fact that the person whose climbing rope you cut perished?
事情聴取では真実を告白
You told the truth in the police interview, correct?
Kurosawa-kun, just a word, please!!!
Guy: He can't just act like it's normal...
Other Guy: Yeah. In the general history of climbing, only a few example cases of cutting people's ropes.
There's no way that'll happen.
Oonishi: .........
Mother: Please go home!!!

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Mother: You murdered!
Give me my Reiko back!!!
Please stop, mother,
Reiko chose mountains herself!!!
SFX: Gyuh
SFX: Basha basha basha
[Words in bubbles are just ink blotches, if you can't tell for some stupid reason.]

Page 129:
Oonishi: Kurosawa-san.
I still haven't heard everything.
Please let me hear it directly from you. Why did you do a think like that...!?
Kurosawa: ..........Fine.
Anyhow, it's just what I told the police.
How many times you wanna hear it.
.........After I found her, we roped up and walked the East Ni No Sawa Ridge.
隊とはぐれた後10時間ほどビバークしていたにもかかわらず
After about 10 hours of being separated from the party, in spite that we had bivouacked,
彼女の足取りはしっかりしていた
her gait was steady.
SFX: HYUUUU

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Reiko: Sorryyyy.
I've caused trouble for everyone so we need to hurry.
Haa
Haa
Kurosawa: Don't push yourself too hard.
More than anything, be careful. This area is...
Eh.
!!!
SFX: Bashu
This is bad, she stepped onto an overhang of snow!!!
SFX: Guwah

Page 131:
SFX: Bofu
SFX: Gah
Kurosawa: Stop!!!
SFX: ZAZAZAZAZA
S...
STOOOOOOOOP!!!
SFX: ZAZAZAZAZAZA
SFX: Gahn
Kurosawa: GUOOOOOOoooooh

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SFX: GISHIII

Page 133:
SFX: Biki bikibiki
Kurosawa: Ku...
Kuku...
!!
SFX: GIGI
Kurosawa: I endured that situation for over 10 minutes.
Rather than being blamed, I think that's something to be praised for.
SFX: BYUUUU

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Kurosawa: And don't you know?
刑法第37条緊急避難の項目だ
The 37th article of the penal code, the item about emergency escape.
In order to insure your own safety, you can even cut your own climbing rope on a mountain and not be charged with a crime.
Oonishi: Wha
You... You don't mean, you...
knowing that, you cut the...
Kurosawa: I guess.
But if I didn't know that I might've wavered more.
Oonishi: Ku-Kurosawa-san..........
Y-You
SFX: Buru buruburu

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Oonishi: You couldn't be a worse rope partner!!!
If I were Reiko-san's partner, I wouldn't have let go of the rope even if it cost me my life!!!
Kurosawa: !!?
Oonishi: And even if the law allows it, I won't forgive you!!!
法律よりも山の倫理を
Over laws, the morals of mountains...
SFX: GOH

Page 136:
SFX: DOSAAA
ガキが温い事抜かしてんじゃね
Kurosawa: Don't a brat like you say such naive things!!!
A mountain isn't a place to entrust your life to others! It's a place where you give it!!!
足手まといになったらいつ死んでもいいくらいの覚悟が要るんだよ！！！
A place where you need to be prepared to die any time if you become a burden!!!
SFX: Biririririri

Page 137:
SFX: Pih
Kurosawa: Yes.
Yes.
Ok, thanks.
SFX: Pih
Kurosawa: Heh
内定取り消しだと
Seems my job offer was withdrawn.
就職のコネ欲しさに入った山岳部だったのに
And I entered the mountaineering club hoping for connections for employment.
これじゃあ骨折り損だぜ
Now it was all a for nothing.
I'm done with mountains, done!!!
Goodbye, Oonishi.
We won't be seeing each other again.
So long.
Oonishi: W-Wait!!!

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Kurosawa: ----From there, I had my character attacked by media and people connected to mountains, waving their flags of paper-thin senses of justice and morals.
次第に人目を避けるようになり陽のあたる場所に背を向けていった
So in order to stay out of the public gaze, I turned my back on the limelight.
Oonishi...
Oonishi: Haa
Haa
Kurosawa: The world you're in
and the one I'm in are the exact opposite.
Oonishi: Ah, look over there!!!
SFX: Zah

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[If you look closely, you'll see someone unrelated to the current substory.]

Page 140:
Oonishi: No... No way. That sharp a wall...
Doing that without an ice axe or climbing pins on his shoes... It's an act of suicide!!!
Kurosawa: Oonishi.
You may not understand it, but
not all humans would think the night view behind us is beautiful.

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下界にいると息が詰まる
Kurosawa: People who choke being in the world below,
and want to run away from annoying connections with humans,
there are many humans who think that way...
Oonishi,
we may not be able to catch up to that boy anymore...

Page 142:
Kokou no Hito
The Climber