Fourteen 89

FOURTEEN #89

tl by molokidan

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Chapter Three
The Blood of Immortality[37]

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1: Snow!!

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1: Kyaa, so cold!!
2: Look Takeshi, it's snow.
3: Eh?
4: N-no way!!
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5: Uwahhh!!
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6: I-is this for real?!

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1: THE SNOW ON WAIKIKI BEACH
2: Grateful!!

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1: Kyaaa, it's so nice!!
2: So pretty!!
3: Kyaa, kyaa!!
4: How romantic for snow to fall on Waikiki Beach.
5: Ahhh, it's over already?!

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1: Ehh, it's over already?
2: Awwww!!
3: It's hot!!
4: Summer in Hawaii really is hot.
5: Well, yeah. It's summer all year 'round here.
6: But recently because of global warming, it's gotten way hotter.
7: And plus, right now it's August, the middle of summer. Obviously it's going to be hot.
8: But we were just presented with a moment of cool, so be thankful.

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1: That's right, it's unbelievable to think that snow would fall here.
2: Yeah, we got lucky.
3: But I can't believe it. Why would snow fall all of a sudden?
4: Maybe a plane dropped down dry ice from the air.
5: Oh my!!
6: That could be possible!!

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1: But why would a plane drop down dry ice?
2: That's because...
3: Huh?
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4: Kyaaa!!
5: Wh-what are you doing?!
6: Nnnnn!
7: Oh my?
8: You pervert, I'm gonna get you!!
9: Sorry, sorry!!

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1: Snow on Waikiki Beach?!
2: Yes, sir!!
3: And the investigation team has not discovered the reason for it yet.
4: Just like those youngsters just said, our earth is experiencing global warming.
5: Snow in Hawaii is unthinkable.
6: And those palm trees we just saw now were all replacements planted there.
7: There are many jet airplanes flying over Hawaii right now, however, so the snow may have been produced by the heat control of their engines.
8: The heat control of their engines?!
9: Yes, they use heavy-duty cooling in order to control the temperature.

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1: Cooling...
2: Is that really all there is to it?
3: That's it. In times like these, we should ask America's cactus, Bobby!!
4: What?
5: What did you just say, Mr. President?
6: Ahh!
7: N-nothing!!
8: I just got caught up in my imagination for a moment.

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1: Bobby said farewell and went somewhere, anyway.
2: What?!
3: Mr. President!!
4: Aren't you being a bit too rude here?!
5: Ahh. Vice-President!!
6: Don't try and act surprised!!
7: Now hurry up and turn off that stupid Hawaii coverage!!

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1: Just like that young person said, what happened there was just a transient accident.
2: No one's even thinking deeply about it.
3: The drama following the hotel rescue is much more important right now!!
4: Now hurry up and change the screen back. Put on the mummy of Jesus that I was just proposing to you!!
5: If I may say one thing, Vice-President.
6: The snow on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu may seem trivial and easy to accept, but...
7: Don't you think it could also be connected to some distortion in the earth that we have yet to realize?
8: For example, this is just my idea, but what if global warming is something happening not only on the surface, but also secretly building up a massive cold front?

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1: Mr. President, you are overthinking things here.
2: That cannot be possible!! All of the scientists in the world will prove that for you.
3: Can't you believe a little more in the future of the human race? We humans have overcome numerous calamities up until now, preserving our existence to a terrible degree.
4: Don't you know that positive thinking is connected to progress?
5: Now, more importantly, the problem we are facing now is how to keep the people occupied now that the earth's plants are gone.
6: Please change the screen to the mummy of Jesus at once.
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7: Listen carefully. This story about the mummy of Jesus was written by a Japanese comics artist.
8: It's quite possible that he is the greatest one in the world. After all, he is currently 180 years old, and still working on the same series.
9: Here's the story he has thought up this time.

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1: Somewhere in the middle east, the mummy of Jesus is suddenly discovered.
2: Then, by some mysterious turn of events, the people who see his body come to have their wishes granted one after another.
3: However, while they're overjoyed at having their wishes granted...in return, they suddenly grow very old. Then we find out the truth: the mummy that was said to be Jesus was actually that of a demon.
4: W-what did you say!?