Suicide Island 9

SUICIDE ISLAND #9

tl by molokidan

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Chapter 9 - That Which is Beautiful

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1: After a few days of fishing failures continued, our food conditions rapidly worsened.
2: And along with that--
3: Discontent among the group members heightened,
4: and instead of working together,
5: people splitting up to act on their own increased.
6: We're steadily being driven to a wall.
7: One might even say
8: that things had simply gone too well for our own good up until now.

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1: Midst all of that, I
2: had taken up a daily hobby.
3: There they are...!

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1: A group where the male is the leader.
2(2b): Every morning this group goes to drink water from the valley. At noon, I saw a group of all females along the mountain ridge.
3: And after that, on the hill behind the beach...
4(2b): So there is some regularity in their movement...if I can follow them well...I might be able to see them again...!!
5: I was entranced.
6: Ever since I felt that overwhelming vitality...
7: that energy...

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1: They're gone...
2: I felt like I wanted to touch it again.
3: Next is at night.
4: Before it's too late.
5: They'll come out on the hill by the beach...

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1: You're here often, aren't you...
2: on the rooftop.
3: Yeah...you too.
4: Is there...some reason?
5: It puts me at ease.
6: Ease?
7(2b): I can end this at any time. Feeling that way
8: puts me at ease a little.

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1: You too?
2: N...no, I...
3: Um...
4(2b): At the bottom of that valley, the upper-right ridge.
5: And...the hill near the beach.
6: You can see deer.
7: Since I'm following their movements...
8: You're going to hunt them?
9: Eh?
10(2b): No...there's no way I could...no way.

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1: It'd be good for us if we were able to, but...my interest
2: is different.
3: We...no, I...
4: no matter what I do,
5: I'm just going to end up dying in the end...
6: But before that...I want to touch that existence, bursting with vitality.
7: As long as I can do that, I...!

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1: I?
2(2b): N...no, er...I can't really explain it well...
3: Sounds nice.
4(2b): If something like that really exists,
5: then I want to touch it too...
6: Yeah...

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1: The wind's...started blowing.
2: Y...yeah...
3: What?! What's the meaning of this?
4: I don't know...

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1: Tomo!
2: Ah, Sei...
3: What's wrong?
4: Well...
5: Apparently our bananas are all gone.
6: Eh?!
7: We still had two or three big bunches left, right? ALL of them are gone?!
8: Yeah! They were all cut from the stalk!
9: I saw it too.
10: What'll we do? ...we can't even fish right now...

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1: No...more importantly,
2: who was it?!
3: Two bunches of 30 bananas each? No one could eat that much alone!
4(2b): I'll forgive you, so just be honest...c'mon!!!
5: What about you, with that weird attitude?
6: Huh?!
7: What'd you say just now?!
8: You're not the only one who's pissed off here!!

(*89-90 are duplicates)

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1: Uuuohhhhhh!!
2: Zahhh!!
3: Kyaaah
3: Gyahh!!
4: I have something important to tell you all.
5: If you're gonna fight then do it somewhere else.

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1: You're going to interrogate each and every person?
2: No. But in an atmosphere like this, there's no way the guilty party is going to come out. The timing is wrong.
3: more importantly,
4(2b): we need to fish. The real problem is that lately, there have been less and less people going out to fish!
5: What are we gonna do? This is seriously bad.

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1: I haven't eaten a thing, how do you expect me to have enough stamina to go fishing!
2: Even if we do try, we never catch anything...
3: Guess it really was too much for amateurs to handle...
4: There's no way it could be that easy.
5: You idiots! That's why we have to keep trying until we get something...
6: There's no other way to get any food!
7: I'll go look for some different food.
8: Me too...
9: Hey! We can't lay down the net unless we have enough people!!
10: Ryou-kun...

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1: Goddammit!
2: W-wait!
3: Just who...did that...?
4: Now everyone's going to start losing trust in each other...
5: And then maybe...we'll all start stealing each other's food...
6(2b): Yeah...well.
7: You never know...
8: Anyway, let's all look for some food as well.
9: Yeah...
10: You coming too? It'll be dangerous for a girl to stay alone.

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1: Instead of going to the ocean, we went to the opposite side of the beach that we hadn't been to before--
2: searching for wild plants.
3: Tomo said he had lived in Okinawa before,
4: and had some knowledge about southern plants.

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1: There are a lot of these growing here! If everyone knew...
small: Thatch Screwpine: Grows on beaches in the subtropics. Soft buds in the center of the leaves can be cut off and used as fruit. Surprisingly, the pineapple-looking fruit that sprouts out cannot be eaten. (*This is a mistake on Mori's part: it CAN be used as food, and is often eaten in Micronesia.)
2: Tomo?
3: I...
4: I'm not different from the banana thief...
5: No, I'm the same.
6: Wha? What's wrong...?
7: Do you know why I didn't tell anyone?
8: Because if I did, then my "share" would disappear--
9: That's what I thought...that it'd be stolen by a stronger person. The person who stole the bananas--...
10: must be weak, just like me...I'm sure of it.

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1: Tomo...
2: Ahhh!!
3: Wh...what?
4: Look! The hill on the left side...

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1: How beautiful...
2: Yeah...
3: Different
4: from us.
5: ...Tomo...
6: That's right...
7: We're living on this island too,
8: but only we
9: are not beautiful.

[Chapter 9 - That Which is Beautiful End]