Kokou no Hito 90

Revival of a dead dream.

[Kokou no Hito 90 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Title: 90th Climb Challenger to the K2 East-Face
SFX: PIH
[Mori's moved up from water bottles to rocks. That's a step up, right?]

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Title: 90th Climb Challenger to the K2 East-Face
日本最高峰富士山剣峰
Sign: The Highest Peak in Japan, Mount Fuji Kengamine

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Mori: This isn't good at all.
I need to cut off another 4 minutes...
It's decided.
Tomorrow will be over there.
SFX: JYAH

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Takemura: You're too late, senpai.
ガンタ飯
Cold *ganta food isn't something you can eat.
低温で芯まで炊けていないごはんのこと。標高の高い場所は沸点が低いためこうなりやすい
Asterisk: *A meal at a low temperature not cooked all the way to the center. At high elevations the boiling point is low, so it's easy to cook this way.
Takemura: ...It couldn't happen to senpai.
He couldn't have fallen...
[Of course not, stupid.]

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[He's STIIIIIIIIIIIIIiLL single, ladies.]

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[Suit up!]

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SFX: BASAAAA

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[And now he's sleeping on the mountain...]

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Mori: Right now, I'm in the middle of a snowstorm, right in the center of an 8000m high wall, bivouacking on a tiny terrace.
The temperature is -30°C, it's been 5 hours and I still can't move because of the strong wind...

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[This page is supposed to be vertical. See, Mori's sitting there in the middle of the left page?]

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Mori: There's only 600m left until the summit.
Right now, it's only---
SFX: KARI
朝まで行動食だけで体力の温存に務めるって訳ですか？
Takemura: Do you think you can preserve your stamina with just travel food until morning?
I'll bivouac, too.
Give you some company.

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Takemura: Honestly, to try and spend the night at a place like this...
You really are "Mori Buntarou". I'm moved.
SFX: Zah

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...先日 下では総選挙で保守党が歴史的大敗を喫し
Takemura: Yesterday, below, the Conservative Party received a historical crushing defeat.
政権がひっくり返りました...
The political power's been turned upside-down...
環境省の猪熊大巨も落選し
The Minister of the Environment, Minister Inokuma also lost.
翌日政界からの引退を表明しましたよ
The following day, he retired from the political world.
[In case you were hung up on the conclusion to that subplot. Yes, Ninomiya basically screwed up everything for no reason.]
Mori: Eh?
ご存知の通り猪熊は
Takemura: as you know, Inokuma,
公認事業
was strongly recommending it 14 Mountain's K2 East-Face Project
強力に推薦していた人物です
as an official Environmental Ministry project.
Mori: ...So then...

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Takemura: Having lost his backing, Ninomiya
活動休止を発表しました
yesterday announced the putting of the activities of the 4th K2 East Face Attack Team out of commission.
The 2nd and 3rd teams have already been eliminated, so in actuality, you could say this is a declaration of a pullout...!!
[Ninomiya doesn't appear anymore after this page.]

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[Remember those dudes?]

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Takemura: This is our chance, senpai!!!
登山許可
I heard that so you wouldn't get permission to climb it, senpai,
パキスタン観光省に要請していたそうじゃないですか！！
Ninomiya had requested the Pakistani Sightseeing Ministry, right!!?
その呪縛が解けたんです
That curse is broken!!!
Let's do it!
The K2 East-Face!!!

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Takemura: Even you haven't given up on K2, right, senpai?
Bivouacking at a place like this is high-ground training, isn't it!!!?
Who cares about work or whatever!!!
Nabbing the untrodden mountain is a hundred times cooler, ain't it!!!?

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[Can't dude. I've got a pregnant chick at home...]

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Kokou no Hito
The Climber