Fourteen 72

FOURTEEN #72

tl by molokidan

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Chapter Three
The Blood of Immortality[20]

196)
1: Papa, help me!!
2: What's wrong, America?!
3: Help me!!
4: Calm down and speak to me!!

197)
1: Dandelion...
2: Eh, a dandelion?!
3: You mean that yellow flower that used to grow on roadsides?!
4: Killed!!
5: Be killed? By who?!
6: Who taught you that word?!
7: Dandelion get killed!! Uwaaaaannn!!
8: America!!
9: Aaaaan, aaaaan!!
10: Alright, show me the dandelion that's going to get killed...

198)
1: creak
2: These days, dandelions are rare flowers that can't be seen unless one goes to a
flower shop. They bloomed all over parks when I was young, though...
3: This is the basement storehouse!!

199)
1: Ahh!!
2-3: Auuuu!!
4: A dandelion is stuck in the door!!
5: So this is what you meant by killed?!
6: I'll help it now!!
7: click
8: creak

200)
1: I can't believe flowers managed to grow in a place like this! Especially
through the cracks of this concrete!!
2: creak
3: Auuuuuuu!!
4: Maybe there are more blooming deeper inside!!
5: It's so dark, I can't see anything!!
6: smush

201)
1: I stepped on something!!
2: Gotta turn the light on!!
3: click
4: bah
5: Uwahhh!!

202)
1: kekekeke
2: Kekeke
3: Kekeke
4: Kiki
5: Uwahhh!!
6: These must be test subjects that escaped from the lab!!
7-9: kekeke
10-11: rip

203)
1: Kyaaaaahh!!
2-3: rip
4: clang
5: shoop
6: shooooooo
7: Gyaaaahhh!!
8: Haa, haa!!
9-10: juuuuun

204)
1: Phew!!
2: Look, we saved the dandelion!!
3: Ahhh!!
4: The dandelion was saved...
5: The plants that were attacking it must have escaped from a lab somewhere.
6: But how did America know about what was going on down there?
7: Is this to say that Bobby heard the scream of the flower and then told America
about it?
8: That couldn't possibly be.
9: Right now, I have the dandelion planted in a vase in front of me.
10: Normally, I can retain my composure as a man who values reality and logic.

205)
1: As of now, however...
2: I am no longer able to stay so composed.
3: The formula for immortality was sent to Grand Master Rose.
4: And of course, Grand Master Rose bought it!!
5: I was against it, but I cannot win against that person.
6: As unfortunate as it may be.
7: And now, all of the earth's money has been sent over to Chicken George.
8: Now the earth's economy will utterly collapse!!
9: I have to somehow prevent that, at all costs!!

206)
1: Chicken George has begun construction on a rocket in the Nevada desert!!
2: Somehow, he keeps adding more and more to it!!
3: But Chicken George is nowhere to be seen!!
4: He must be controlling it all from somewhere else!!

207)
1: Just where could he be?!
2: And just who is he?!
3: Where was he born, where did he grow up, how old is he?
4: I don't know anything about him!!
5: He is the greatest mystery of our age!!
6: clang

208)
1: Oh no, I started writing something that has nothing to do with America!!
2: This is supposed to be a journal for chronicling America's growth!!
3: Forgive me!!
4: rip
5: I started writing down my own worries!!
6: crumple
7: toss
8: From now on, I have to write down only that which concerns America!!
9: And if possible, happy memories filled with hope...

209)
1: It has been one year since the dandelion incident, and America is now two years
old.
text: DISTURBANCE
2: America's mind has matured, and he's become a surprisingly smart child.
3: As his father, I have no criticisms to make about his growth this far. There is
still just one thing that bothers me.
4: His hair is still green, like always.
5: And his conversations with the cactus, Bobby, have increased.
6: Auuuuu
7: America has also begun to announce environmental problems to me!! I didn't take
them seriously, though.
8: However, something has happened that has overturned all I thought I knew. It
happened today.
9: The hand with which I hold this pen is still shaking.
10: Today, I took my family on a picnic for once in a long while.

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1: But America was frightened,
2: to an unusual degree.
3: He said that black clouds would come, and a black rain would fall.
4: But I forced him to come.
5: I wanted to take him to the underground forest in New York.
6: A place where, of course, no black clouds could gather, and no black rain could
possibly fall.