Fourteen 110

FOURTEEN #110

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Chapter Four
The Earth in Peril[17]

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1: The repentance continued on like that.
2: Moving from a national to a personal level.
3: And then, for the first time ever, we reached...
4: heartfelt rapprochement.

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1: Now that we think about it, all of our troubles up until now were only between people.
2: Then our repentance moved to the animals.
3: We humans have lived our lives trampling over the animal kingdom.

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1: After the repentance, we collected the genetic codes of every animal there is and decided to escape to outer space.
2: gulp

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1: Y-you mean the earth will become a place where humans cannot live?
2: Yes.
3: That's right.
4: The environment will change instantly. It will be a change so great we can't even predict how it will turn out.

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1: There's Hokkaido.
2: Once we get to Tokyo, we must begin work on a rocket,
3: and choose the children who are to escape!!

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1: Begin preparations at once!!
2: Yes...
3: Yes, sir!!
4: I-I understand.
5: By the way, Yamakawa.
6: Did I mention the requirements by which we're choosing the children?

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1: There are three!!
2: Just like how there are three necessities for a human society: law, economics, and aesthetics...when we go to choose the children,
3: intelligence and health are obvious requirements, but can you guess what the last one is?
4: N-no, sir...
5: The last one is luck!!
6: Luck?!
7: That's right. If someone has bad luck, then they're beyond help.
8: Do you understand? The reason we are here right now is because we, as living creatures, have survived through all the dangers that have befell us so far.
9: This is the same thing! You must choose children who have good luck.

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1: Children with good luck...
2: Incidentally, sir, you keep mentioning the word aesthetics...
3: And judging from the circumstances, I came across a realization.
4: By aesthetics...could you possibly be referring to balanced senses?
5: Exactly!!

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1: AESTHETICS
2: It was Einstein who unexpectedly mentioned beauty in one of his last words.
3: When I found out that the scientific genius Einstein had reached aesthetics in the end of all his research, I was moved!!
4: And I began to have confidence in that word!! Wouldn't you agree that this was truly the greatest contribution the father of modern science made?

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1: Y...yes, sir!!
2: I-if...
3: If all the people in the world had realized this, then maybe...
4: maybe the world wouldn't have turned out this way...?
5: That's right!!

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1: A completely different world would have been born!!
2: Yes, sir.
3: One more thing...
4: Do not let the people know about this at any cost. Even if we fail in our mission.

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1: Even if we fail...?!
2: That's right.
3: You see,
4: there is no way the world will come to a mutual agreement like we all have!!
5: Therefore, even if our plans end in failure, I want to have our people end their lives in the midst of pleasant dreams!!
6: These are the words of President Brougen, of the country of medicine, Germany.
7: Of course everyone agreed with him.

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1: And you should be able to imagine that President Young also had no choice but to agree. Then, we all agreed that it was necessary to create a narcotic capable of allowing our people to keep dreaming.
2: We had no choice but to accept that Dr. Chicken George had appeared with the perfect timing, and that his immortality theory was a miraculously perfect solution!!
3: Look, we can see the Tokyo Pyramid now.
4: Once we disembark, begin preparations at once.

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1: rumble