Suicide Island 18

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tl by molokidan

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Chapter 18 - Taking Life

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1: The sun has really risen.
2: It's hot.
3: Maybe it'd be a good idea to take my cloak off...no, if they come now...
4: I need to hydrate myself with the few fern leaves I have left.
5: I want to drink water.
6: Are they...really coming?
7: Doubt rises in me.
8: It's not like they appeared here every day.
9: The sun is strong today.
10: And on this knoll,
11: which gets much more sun than the forest...
12: maybe I should go make preparations and then come back...then I'd have food...
13: ...no.

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1: I just want to escape from this painful situation...
2: That's so like me.
3: I was always good at that...
4: I could think up as many as I needed.
5: Get it together!
6: No one will listen to my excuses here.
7: I wait.
8: I'm good at waiting.
9: Aren't I?
10: I waited so long for something to happen...no, for it to end.
11: That's how I feel.
12: After a while, wind came up from the ocean.
13: What a big help!
14: This'll make things easier.
15: But if they come from the forest behind me...they'd smell me and turn around.
16: What should I do...
17: That place is a little sunken in...
18: Should I move over there...?

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1: There they are!!!
2: Since when...oh yeah!! They're avoiding the sun.
3: If they came up from the beach...then I should be on the windward side...
4: They're far...should I wait for them to come out to the meadow?
5: Or...
6: No, I should move over there.
7: It should be OK if I stay low...
8: Conveniently enough--
9: the ocean wind snubbed out both Sei's smell and sounds.
10: Fate was currently on Sei's side.
11: Alright...
12: I made it over.

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1: Where are they?
2: They're in the meadow!!
3: Oh...so this knoll is a pasture.
4: They're eating as they climb...calm down.
5: Move slowly.
6: Breathe quietly..I'll use my longest arrow.
7: It's alright...they haven't noticed me.
8: Good.
9: Slowly...
10: Slowly
11: There aren't too many.
12: It's a weak group.
13: Is that parent and child...?
14: They aren't being cautious at all.
15: ....ah...
16: But...how

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1: How free
2: and beautiful...
3: they look.
4: Is it alright?
5: to take the life
6: of such a beautiful thing...?
7: Do you have the right, the worth..
8: to do something like that?
9: It's not about right or worth!
10: It's just in order to purely...
11: to purely...live...
12: Without you, this place would be paradise.
13: And you're going to soil it?
14: I have to...to live...
15: No...! It's in order...to live!!

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1: Even though you tried to die?
2: Because you had no worth
3: or purpose...
4: Which has more worth?
5: Do you really not understand?
6: Seriously?
7: No...!
8: Think carefully.
9: You see the answer, don't you?
10: I hesitated.
11: I was absorbed in myself when I shot my first deer...but---
12: What am I doing...
13: Close..
14: I need to shoot!!
15: They're...close.
16: You
17: sure?
18: No...
19: At that moment--

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1: Our eyes met.
2: How many seconds...maybe not even one passed...
3: Everything stopped.
4: Those pure,
5: entrancing eyes...
6: I let go.
7: Wai...
8: And it was like the whole world was moving in slow motion.
9: Slowly--
10: The arrow slid into the side
11: behind the deer's front legs.

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1: It won't fall!!
2: The forest...
3: It went into the forest...!!
4-6: Hah

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all bubble sfx: hah
1: Did I lose it...?!
2: I--
3: hah
4: The right
5: to take life
6: the amount of worth
7: that makes one exalted
8: what should
9: or should not be done...
10: I don't know about any of that...

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1: hah
2: I just know--
3-4: hah
5: that today
6: I took a single life.
[Chapter 18 - Taking Life END]