Suicide Island 11

*only for use by I-M.

tl by molokidan

1)
1: --I've heard of that...
2: ...there are a bunch of rumors spreading about it on the net.
3: The rising rate of suicidal people...
4: And how the country can no longer support their expenses.
5: That's why they've chosen to DISCARD them all...and banish them to an island.
6: I think...it was to a place called
7: --"Suicide Island"

2)
Suicide Island
Cast of Characters

Sei
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The main character. Attempted suicide by overdose, and was sent to Suicide Island.

Ryou
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A character currently acting like the leader of the group Ryou is in. He is very positive, an unusual characteristic for a suicidal person.

???
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A girl stopped from jumping off a roof by Sei on Suicide Island. Details unknown.

Tomo
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A person who moves around with Sei a lot. He lived in Okinawa.

Kai
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A person who can make very level, cool decisions. He seems to be drawing a line somewhere within the group.

Sugi
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A person who knew of Suicide Island before the fact. He is very well-informed.


Map top to bottom
First fishing spot
Inlet
Valley river
School
Hospital
Beach Rest Spot
Stores
Diving Shop
Port of Arrival
Fishing Hut

MAP
*The buildings are drawn larger than they actually are so that they are easier to see.

3)
11. Eiko-senpai
12. ~Nameless Graves~
13. Departure
14. Deer and the Island and Us
15. Darkness and Light
16. The Eve of a Vigil and Cloaks
17. To Live, To Kill
18. Taking Life
19. Above that Life
20. Former Occupants

4)
1: Hey! Do you wanna join the archery club?
2: Eh...wha?
3: You're always watching us from here in the library.
4: the archery club...
5: Huh...? Did I misunderstand...? (Whoops?)
6: Eh...ah...hh...
7: I'm the President of the Archery Club and Library Officer, Aoyama Eiko!
8: If you're interested, let me know anytime. (We only have a few members.)
9: Eiko-senpai...
10: What kind of fate did you suffer--

5)
1: Right now, I'm desperately crafting a bow.
2: Back then, the escapism I'd always had got even worse,
3: and I would constantly hang out in that place.
4: Things still had yet to get severe,
5: and that was a perfect place for me to escape from everything.
6: Afterwards, senpai started talking to me time to time.
7: A Japanese bow.
8: And that's a European hunting bow.
9: American native bows...African bows...
10: And it wasn't just to invite me to the archery club.
11: Strange, huh?
12: Yeah...
13(2b): I mean, none of these places were connected to each other, yet they all created the same "bow" tool, right? Humans did!
14: Aren't they amazing?
15: In archery club
16: I had no female friends, let alone friends at all--
17: you study that kind of stuff as well?
18: yet senpai was almost too good of a talking partner.

6)
1: Eh?
2: Nah, we don't.
3: But our advising teacher
4: likes that kinda stuff.
5: He sort of influenced me...this is second-hand knowledge.
6: Even if she wasn't necessarily talking with me
7: Oh...
8: because she was interested in me.
9: Ah!
10: Senseiii!
11: You bought something again?
12: Mmm.
13: A simple English hunting bow...
14: Are you going to bring it to the dojo?
15: But the fact that
16: No, I won't be bringing this to the club.
17: senpai was also unable to cope with something,
18: and was escaping.
19: was something I found out later.

7)
1: See ya!
2: Yeah!
3: Ahhh, look at those two, in their own little world again.
4: Tch! Stop it!
5: Are they like, seeing each other?
6: Didn't sensei just get married? I have to hand it to Eiko.
7: Ahhhhh! Maybe I should quit this club.
8: Ooooh, listen to all that jealousy!
9: It was only a little after that that this simple story began to change.
10: Senpai stopped trying to
11: run away from the problem.

8)
1: Is this fine here, senpai?
2: Yeah, thanks.
3: Sorry making you help!
4: It's fine. But why don't you do this with the archery club?
5: Mmmm...they don't want to...this isn't what they joined the club for.
6: It's just something I'm interested in.
7: There are so many different types.
8: Their sizes and strengths are all different depending on where they came from, the culture of the people, the makeup of the land, and their basic purposes.
9: For example, that luxurious one on the right may be weak at killing, but it uses poison arrows...
10: When one actually pulls back a bow...
11(small): Mmm...this one is strong...
12: One can guess as to how the bodies and cultures of the people who used it were like...
13: Wow...

9)
1: But...
2: That's also second-hand info...
3(2b): It must look...really ridiculous...from afar.
4: That's not true...
5(2b): You're amazing, senpai. You're creating your own story...
6: And you're not?
7: I don't know...
8: Eh?
9: How can you work so hard?
10: There might be something really bad waiting for you ahead.
11: How can you still make yourself move on despite that/
12(2b): The older we get...the number of annoying and troublesome things we have to face only increases--and wonderful things stop happening.
13: In the days ahead of us...we have to bear each painful thing one at a time, conquering them...overcoming them...
14: The power to do that just doesn't spring out of me.
15: The power to move ahead...

10)
1: Yeah, but there is hardly anything in this world that makes people fully satisfied.
2: That's why our curtains are still a long way ahead!
3(2b): So I'm just gonna keep crying, moaning, and struggling as much as I can until that time comes!
4: You should do the same.
5: Y...eah.
6: But that
7: was the last time
8: I saw senpai.
9: A few days later--...
10: senpai suddenly
11: dropped down
12: her own curtain.

11)
1: She jumped off the roof
2: and ended her life.
3: Afterwards, rumors spread
4: that she had gotten pregnant.
Letter: To you
5: Surprised?
6: I figured you'd be the only one curious enough to open this book, so I wrote this for you.
7: You may not believe it...
8: but something happened that completely satisfied me.
9: Therefore--

12)
1: I decided I'm going to drop the curtain.
2: Thanks for listening to what I had to say.
3: Farewell.
4: The autumn wind began blowing on the roof...
5: Senpai--...
6: ended her life
7: without having to feel this penetrating cold.
[Chapter 11 END]