Suicide Island 38

*Only for I-M.

tl by molokidan

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Chapter 38 - Isolation

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1: How's this spot?
2: Looks good.
3: We're fine...no one's following or watching us.
4: Alright.
5: Let's bury it here.
6: Be careful of rain. If it overflows with water it could get washed away.
7: Fearing that the meat would be stolen,
8: we hid the meat we butchered and salted
9: OK.
10: in a stream.
11: But if someone finds it they'll take it...
12: Yeah.
13: Geez...
14: It's hard enough to survive as it is.
15(small): I don't want to hear that from you.
16: But it isn't all bad news we have for you.
17: Oh yeah, that's right!
18(2b): There's something we want to show you. Let's go.
19: O...okay.

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1: Look.
2: This is...
3: a field...!
4(2b): Just like you said, Sei, there were a lot of crops left around here. They weren't in very good condition, though.
5: But potatoes are tough...that's what most of these are.
6: Kai!
7: Some people wanted to eat them immediately...but we decided to cultivate them.
8: There are some people here whose families were farmers.
9: Hi...I'm Minoru.
10: We mixed leaf mold with cut weeds to make compost.
11: Growing potatoes is pretty easy, so I think we'll be alright.
12: Wow...

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1: Ah...hi...
2: Let's go...
3: They're scared.
4: Scared...?
5: Everyone knows, man.
6: Why Yoshimura died...
7(2b): I once told you we were both "have-nots," but that was my mistake. Sorry.
8: I don't have the willpower you do.
9: The willpower to kill someone else in order to keep living, that is.
10: I'm jealous.

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1: Sei?
2: What's wrong? Did something happen...? (He says weird stuff time to time, you know.)
3: Nope.
4: It's fine...just stay calm.
5: Look...it happened again.
6: Who dug them up? Animals?
7: Close...it was "other people."
8(2b): There are other people out there who don't have crops. You know...it's the usual suspects!
9: "Agriculture" is something you do with hope toward the future.
10: For people who don't...or can't see a future, it's meaningless.
11: For us...all we have is "now."
12: There wasn't a person who couldn't understand Kai's words...
13: It isn't easy for us to look ahead.

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1: Hey...
2: What's Ryou been up to?
3: Mmm...
4: The same...
5: He's living alone in the diving shop on the beach.
6: He fishes and does everything else on his own. He hardly talks with anyone...
7: ...oh...
8: Ohh!!
2: Hey!
3: ...bastard
4: Ahh! Ken!!
5: What?!
6: S-stop it!!
7: S...Sei!

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1: Ken! ...a-are you alright?
2: Y...yeah.
3: What's going on?!
4: Getting wounded can lead to death here, you know?!
5: Wh...what are you thinking...
6: Give us the meat.
7: We just want to eat.
8: You hid it, didn't you? Hand it over.
9: ...I told you, I won't give any meat to those who do wrong.
10: No matter what...!
11: Are you saying killing isn't "wrong?"
12: It may have been Yoshimura's fault,
13: but you didn't have to kill him!

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1: So what, Aoki...?
2: If Sei had been serious, we'd be dead too!!
3: T-that's not true!!
4: Aoki!!
5: H-he ran after us with his bow and killed Yoshimura!!
6: He even sicced his dog on us in the dark...
7: He isn't suicidal, he's a murderer!!!
8: Y-Yoshimura said it himself...
9: A...Aoki.
10: You idiot...
11: Yoshimura never said such a thing.

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1: Y...Yoshimura never said anything like that.
2: I took care of him because you never came, Aoki.
3: But he didn't say anything like that.
4: What he told me before he died was--...
5: We were gonna kill Sei and steal his meat...
6: But it was at night, and I got scared and ran off.
7: I heard him call out stop, too.
8: I was so stupid...
9: He was just trying his hardest to survive...
10: Even to the end, I couldn't believe myself...
11: and I couldn't believe anyone else.
12(2b): He said that if he got better, he wanted to be friends with us and apologize to Sei...

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1: Y-you're just making stuff up...
2: Y...you're lying...!
3: You're wrong!
4: You're wrong...
5: Why...
6: Why...dammit...
7: What should I do?
8: Dammit...what should I...
9: You failed.
10: Y...you're...
11(2b): You tried to isolate your enemy, but now you're the one isolated.
12: And things are just going to get harder.
13: You've lost your standing both there and here...
14: Ah...
15: Ahhhhh...

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1: Don't you think...it's about time?
2: There's no reason to try so hard anymore...
3: You've done enough.
4: If you're too scared...
5: I'll help you out.
6: Oh...
7: Ohhhh...

[Chapter 38 - End]