Suicide Island 12

*Only for use by I-M.

tl by molokidan

12)
Chapter 12 ~A Nameless Grave~

13)
1: Hooo.
2: Our first big catch in a while!
3: With this much...we should be able to do the you-know-what, right?
4: Oh yeah!
5: We can only do it right after they're caught!
6: We'll definitely need this...
7(2b): Alright! Then let's get started. Let's try to get it done while the sun's still in the sky!
8: They were talking about food preservation...making dried fish.
9: Since we can't always catch fish, keeping a preserved stock is a necessity.
10: There was also one other problem:
11: That...water sure was cold!
12: Are you OK? You're shivering.
13: we're running low on salt and water--...
14: Is...winter going to come? If so...
15: Eh? Isn't it always summer on this island?
16: I think...winter will come.
17: The water temperature in Okinawa always dropped around October, so no one can go into the ocean until Spring...

14)
1: That's bad...
2: If winter comes...
3: Yeah...
4: and we're unable to catch fish, what will happen?
5: Unrest
6: spreads.
7: How to make dried fish
8: Put gutted fish in salt water (15 min~30 min)
9: Take them out and dry them in the sun
10: The more you dry then and take the water out of them, the longer they'll keep. (Since the more water is removed, the less microbes can do their work)
11: We finished our meal.
12: Ooooh!
13: ...maybe he can eat this, then...since it's soup...
14: Will you go take it to him?
15: Yeah.
16: Sei! I'll go too.
17: I wonder how he is...
18: Apparently, not good.
19: There's a person who used to be a nurse waiting by his bed in the abandoned hospital, though...
20: How is he?
21: We brought food.
22: Well I don't know if he'll be able to eat it...

15)
1(2b): Sometimes he sleeps, sometimes he wakes up...he has a high fever, and I'm not sure how conscious he really is...
2: If we had antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs, I think we could get his fever down, though...
3: when wounds are this bad, the inflammation doesn't stop...this may be infectious, too...
4: He might...
5: H...hey...
6: Don't say...anything scary like that.
7: How could I die...from some stupid fight...
8: Sorry...I know I'm just adding to our problems...
9: Ahhh, n-no.
10: It's strange...
11: I had no place of my own back there,
12(2b): I just kept running and running...even running away from the act of living...itself...

16)
1: I was treated as a nuisance, attacked, cornered...
2: I thought that only death could be my...salvation.
3: And since I came here...I've just been scared, in pain, suffering.
4: But...how can I describe this...
5: Yeah...that's it.
6: Fishing...! Umm...with everyone...
7: Seeing all that...
8: was something I'd never experienced in my entire life.
9(2b): Fishing...is something...where everyone can play a part...help each other...
10: I...I...
11: Me...too.
12: I'm...the same...
13: I...I...!!!

17)
1: I want to live...!
2: I don't...want to die...!!!
3: gh guhoh cough cough
4: You don't need to force yourself to talk...OK?
5: That day...
6: I also...changed a lot.
7: I felt the same way...
8: Yeah.
9: Um...
10: Is it too late...to ask what your name is?
11: Oh yeah--

18)
1: !? ...his pulse...why...?!
2: N-no way!
3: He's dead...!!
4: Why...this can't be...why...
5: But...he was just talking...
6(2b): I...don't want to see...any more of this...that's why...that's why I stopped...being a nurse!
7: Ahhh...
8: He's...really
9: dead...?

19)
1(2b): Yo...did you go see him?
2: Don't you think he's making a big deal out of things? I just hit him a little harder than normal, that's all.
3: I can't believe that'd give him the right to lay in bed all day with his own private nurse and get food carried to him.
4: Must be nice...
5: Do you know...his name?
6: Do you know his name?
7: Huh?!
8 Hey...Sei?!
9: I still don't...know his name...!
10: He...passed away.

20)
1: No...way...
2: You're kidding?
3: If you go down the hill and head to the right
4: you'll see another hill going up...
5: and then a knoll overlooking the entrance to the estuary.
6: They say he stood there often in periods between work.
7: He went searching for water on the first day
8: and that's where he found the estuary.
9: We buried him
10: there.
11: Alright...
12: We don't know his name, so there's nothing to write...
13: But let's just stick this thing here...anyway.

21)
1: He...
2(2b) in the end...he said he wanted to live.
3: As I spoke...
4: I started crying...
5: He started feeling that ever since the day we went fishing...
6: Everyone...
7: also cried.
8: We saw death like a daily thing--
9: but now, for the first time
10: we mourned a man's death
11: and cried.
12: Because he truly was
13: a member of our group...
14: We didn't know his name,
15: but I'm sure he was.

22)
1: The evening wind changed,
2: and suddenly got very cold.
3: Something's...
4: beginning to change.
5: No
6: unless we change,
7: we'll...

[Chapter 12 ~A Nameless Grave~ END]