Kokou no Hito 81

At death's door, you can only hope you don't look back on your life and feel you've been in error.
Like this guy's doing right now. But I don't plan to die here...

[Kokou no Hito 81 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Sign: Mount Tsurugi
SFX: GAH
81st Climb Niimi Taku's Loneliness

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Niimi: UoOOoOOOooooh
[Ooh, looks like he made it.]

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Niimi: I did it...
Alone, but I did it...

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Niimi: I'm number oooooooooooone!!!
[Good for him, Looks like everything worked out after all.]

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[What? No? He's really a dying wreck? WELL WHO COULD'VE GUESSED!?]
81st Climb Niimi Taku's Loneliness

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[Not the most lively party.]

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[They just recycled the same picture.]
Niimi: Doing pretty well... not dying...
GEHOH
GEHOH
Mori: Are you okay, Niimi...?

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Niimi: Uu...
My body's gotten rigid down the the core...
[So you are doing okay, then?]
Niimi: I knew it, I...
wasn't cut out... for mountains...
[And yet SOMEBODY said that about Mori like 45 chapters back.]

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Niimi: I was an idiot...
Even though the Vice Captain screamed at me to run...
and it was obvious a second avalanche was coming...
like an amateur, I ...
GOHOH
GOHO
Mori: Niimi...
Niimi: ...It's all my old man's fault...
No---
If back then,
I had only not found that thing...

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and heard the story about my old man summiting K2 from the South-Southwest Ridge...
But the truth is... all of the team members besides my old man were wiped out in an avalanche when descending the mountain.
And his camera drifted away, so the result was there was no proof left that he'd made it to the summit...
現地から登頂を報告し日本に帰ってきた親父を待っていたのは
With my old man returning to Japan reporting about what happened on site, what awaited him was
the media and society's cold looks...
Right Headline: False Climber [cut off]
Left headline: Dubious Summiting of K2 by the South-Southwest [cut off]
Niimi: There wouldn't be anyone who'd like to be a rope partner with a man called a "False Climber".
My old man was eventually ostracized from the world of mountains...
And finally he left behind his mountain equipment, and disappeared from in front of my mother and me, who had just been born.

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[You're better off dying pathetically. It would've been better than the shameful life of soccer.]

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Niimi: I had no time to play with everyone.
I became a climber.
If I climb the top mountain in the world,
everyone will definitely say Dad is great, too...!!!

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Niimi: After my old man climbed it, a Polish team officially accomplished the first climb.
And the K2 South Southwest Ridge lost its meaning...*
Asterisk: *The K2 South Southwest Ridge was first climbed by a Polish team in 1986.
Niimi: In order to clear my old man's dishonor,
I needed to climb the still untrodden East-Face of K2.
Having no money or achievements, when I found the application for 14 Mountains' K2 project...
I decided in my heart that this was the only way...
Countless times, I took tests and sent petitions,
and created real achievements for going to mountains-----...
And finally, I succeeded to summit Mount Tsurgi at the end of the Eight-Peak Solo Kurobe-Crossing in the dead of winter...
UOOooooooooh
[Ok, so yeah that did happen.]

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Top Card: Niimi Taku-sama [Everything in this is blurred out.]
Bottom Card: Date: Heisei Era Year --, Month of --, the --st (-) [Dashes are blurred out dates]
7PM Meeting
Location: Mikado Hotel - Phoenix Room
Tokyo Metropolitan Area - Chiyoda Ward[Rest is blurred]
Momo: Amaazing. A kickoff meeting at the Mikado Hotel.
You're really, really going to K2, aren't yoooooooou!!!
勘違いもいいところだ
It was an utter mistake.
そんな器でもねぇのにトップの仲間入りをしたと思って有頂天だったんだからよ...
Even though I wasn't of such caliber, I was ecstatic thinking I was joining the top ranks...

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Mori: ----...
Niimi: Nighthawk was
よだかは、実にみにくい鳥です
truly an ugly bird.
引用: 宮沢賢治「よだかの星」より
Side: Reference: From Miwazawa Kenji's "Yodaka no Hoshi" (The Nighthawk' Star).
[Ooh. I can actually find an official translation for this one, since it's an old poem. This makes it really easy for me because poetry is extremely difficult to translate with the intended effect.
Source: http://tonygonz.blogspot.com/2006/05/nighthawks-star-miyazawa-kenji.html]

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SFX: GAPOH GAPOH
SFX: GAPOH GAPOH
Niimi: His face was covered in splotches as if he had been splattered with miso,
and his beak was flat and split all the way back to his ears.
He was such a sight that just seeing him
made other birds uncomfortable.
[This poem sucks.]

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[Niimi's the Nighthawk by the way. They, they continue this metaphor into the next chapter. Really it'll make sense, I hope.]

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Niimi: "Sun-san, Sun-san,
Please bring me to you.
I don't care that I'll burn and die.
Even an ugly body like mine will shine as it burns. Please, take me."
[I would've translated it the same way anyhow, it's not actually poetic this thing. I read the whole thing and this is just made up of excerpts. It's like a kid's fairy tale.]

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Kokou no Hito
The Climber