Kokou no Hito 129

The call comes... and the heart wants what it wants...

[Kokou no Hito 129 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Title 129th Climb Mountains or Family

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[The old methods are sometimes the best ones.]

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[Still... heavy.]

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Katou: I'm back...
Hana: Welcome back.
Eh?
Wh... What's going on!?
coming home wearing a rucksack like that...?
Katou: I gained a little weight over new years, so I'm dieting...
And it doesn't feel like enough just walking normal...

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Katou: Did... someone come?
Hana: Yes, to celebrate Rokka.
He said he's your friend, Bun-chan.
Katou: My friend?
[I don' need no friends!]
Takemura: She sure is light...

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Takemura: Ah... Senpai.
[That sign in the back still says the same thing.]

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Someone: Going already?
Takemura: I don't want to stay over long and trouble you,
so I'll be taking me leave.
So long m'am, sorry for the intrusion.
Hana: Come back any time.
Katou: I'm just going to go see him down.

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[More dramatic stairs!]

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Katou: ......Just what is it you're intending?
Intruding into my house without even calling?
Takemura: What's the problem?
I just came to celebrate my climbing senpai's child.
Isn't that pretty normal?
Katou: ......That's not what this is about.

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Takemura: ...I was thinking since then.
For a solo climb of K2, your tactics certainly make sense, senpai.
With my methods the success rate would probably only be around 20~30%.
But there's one way I can raise that all the way to 50%.
And that way is unsuitable to going solo.
For the large amount of stamina needed to clear the very long continuing a snow path on the K2 East-Face,
and to have enough to make a V-thread during the dangerous climb down----...
...Senpai.

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Takemura: Won't you go with me
to the K2 East-Face?
Mori: Don't talk nonsense.
You're all hyped up about going alone, aren't you?
And right now, I don't feel doing something like that.

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Takemura: ......Well, as one last thing, will you take a look at this?

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[That looks like it'd hurt...]

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[Hallways are dramatic!]

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[She's so damn cute...]

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Takemura: A super-light-weight titanium axe----...
Titanium has low thermal conductivity, so it lowers risk of frostbite.
Mizou titanium axes have a straight shaft, but
for difficult climbs, they have a special order bent shaft version.
Especially for this K2 East-Face climb,
this is a specially made prototype.
What do you think, senpai?
[Oh man, it's fucking BEAUTIFUL.]

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Takemura: Even if I don't like it, your pulse quickens, doesn't it-----...

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[That sign is still the same. Climb the number one mountain in the world.]

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Kokou no Hito
The Climber