Suicide Island 9

Temporarily for use of Death Toll only...

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Chapter 09 Beauty

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数日の不漁が続き
僕らの食料事情は
急速に悪化していった
few days have passed with
continuous string of bad luck in fishing

//// For a few days now, we had continuous string of bad luck in fishing
//// which caused our food supply to shrink rapidly …

それにつれー
/Moreover..…
This caused our food
supply to shrink rapidly …

グループ内の
不満は高まり
Dissatisfactions within
our group has risen…

協力するよりも
バラバラに
行動する事が
多くなっていった
most actions we undertake
started ending up in tatters
because of poor coordination…

僕らは
追いつめられていた
We’ve been driven to the wall… ( cornered)

もっとも
And to tell the truth…

今までが
うまく運びすぎて
いたと言える
かも知れない
I think it’s a miracle that we
didn’t encounter this kind
of situation for such a
long time.

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そんな中で僕は
And in the midst
of all that…

ある事が
日課になっていた
I found myself a
daily routine…

いた。。!
Ah, There
they are…!

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[On his notebook:
[早朝 Early morning
[male female
[Clearing on the right side of the hill
[male female
[オスだけのグループgroup of (only)males

オスが
リーダーの
グループだ
This group is the one being
led by single male…

朝方は
このグループが
谷の水を飲みに
来てる
in the mornings they
come to this valley
to drink water

昼にはメスだけの
グループが上の
稜線に見えた
and near the noon,
atop this line of ridges,
another group consisting
only of females can be seen…

その後
海岸寄りの丘
and after that on
this hill near the beach….

やっぱり規則性が
ある…
うまく追えれば
また。。。
As I thought… they
are following a pattern…
If I do this correctly…
I even might …

まだ
会えるかも
…!
Might be able to
meet them again…!

夢中になつていた
I’ve become entranced ….
あの
圧倒的な生気に
出会ってから
ever since I met … this
overwhelming will to live…

あの生気
this pure energy…

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行った。。。
And there they went…

僕はまた
触れたいと思っていた
I wish to reach out to / feel it once more…

次はタ方
They should reappear…

手遅れに
なる前に
before it becomes too late… /it is too late…

海岸よりの
丘に出る。。。
in the evening near
that hill close to shore…

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最近。。。
よくいるのね
Lately you’ve been
hanging here a lot…

On this rooftop

Yeah… and so have you…

What… brings you here?

安心するの
To achieve peace of mind. / I come here to calm myself.
安心?
Peace of Mind? / Calm yourself?

いつでも
終われるんだ
そう思うと
If I think of how I
can end it at anytime…

少し
安心する
It calms me / I calm myself

A little

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あなたも?
You too?

い。。いや
僕は。。。
その。。。
W-.. Well..
I…
Umm....

あの谷の下
You see that valley?
右上の稜線
Right upper side of
that line of ridges...

そして。。。
あっちの海岸
近くの丘
and the hill next to that beach...?

鹿が
見れるんだ
You can see dears up there
群れの動きを
追えるから。。。
And I’m following movements of their herds…

You want to catch one?

Eeh??

No… that would rather be…
Impossible…
… definitely…
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そりやあ僕らには
獲れた方がいいんだ
ろうけど…とても
Well even through it would
definitely be nice for us to
achieve that… my reasons
are completely different.

僕ら。。。いや
僕が。。。
We are… no… I am…

Completely
worthless trash...

And if I’m fated
to die like that….

その前にもぅ一度
あの生気に満ちた
存在に…触れたい
I want to feel the presence
of being so full of life’s energy…
At least one more time…

そう出来れば
僕は。。。!
If I’m able to…
Even I…!

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Even you…?

w-…well.. um…
I can’t express
it too well…

It would be nice…

If it’s such a being…
Then I too…
would like to be
touched by it’s presence…. /feel it’s presence…

Y-… yeah

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The wind started
blowing…
Ye-
Yeah

何だよ!?
どういう事だ?
What the hell?! What is the meaning of this?!

Don’t ask me…

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Tomo!

Ah Sei…

What happened?

Well…

バナナが
無くなった
らしいんだ
It seems that bananas disappeared…

Eh!?

大きい束が
まだ2。3あった
よな?全部が!?
There were at least two
or three big clusters!
Did it all disappear!?

ああ!
クキからスッパリすっぱり
切られてたよ
Yeah! Someone cut them off
at the base and took it all!

Yeah he’s right

どうするの?
…魚も獲れて
ないのに。。。
What do we do now…?
…We even don’t
have any fish left…

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No….
Rather then that…

WHO WAS IT!?

2。30本はついてた
んだぜ? 一人じゃ
食いきれねぇだろ
There were about 60 bananas left right? One person
just can’t eat it alone now can he?

許してやれから
とっとと出せよ
。。。
We will forgive you, so come
on and give it back already….!

HEY!!!

そう言う
オマエは
どうなんだよ?
What the hell is with
this kind of talk?

Aah!?

What did you just
say you bastard?!

苛ついてんのは
オマエだけじゃ
ねぇんだよ!!
You aren’t the only one
that’s pissed off you know!?

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Ooooo!!

Wah…!!

Kyaaa

Guah…!!

大事な話が
あるんだ
We are discussing
important matters here.

やるなら
他でやれよ
If you want to do
it, go someplace else.

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一人一人
追及する?
Will you be carrying out
justice this time too?

いや この雰囲気じゃあ
出て来れねぇだろ
時間がおしい
Iya kono funiki jaa
Dete kitareneedaro
Jikan ga oshii
No... It’s regrettable but It would be
too hard in this kind of atmosphere…
and we don’t have much time.

それより
What’s more important now…

漁に出ねぇと
最近漁に出ない奴が
ふえてるのが問題だ!
Is the fact that we aren’t able to catch
any fish because some people
aren’t coming to help out!

どうなんだよ?
マジでまずいぜ
What is the meaning of this? If it goes
on like It does we’ll have a serious problem!
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何も食べてない
のに魚を追う
体力も残って
ねーよ!
We haven’t eaten in a while and you want us to chase fish?
We don’t have enough physical strength left for that…!

漁に出ても
魚が入らない
んじゃあ…
And even if we come
we can’t catch any…

やっぱり素人には
無理なんだ
よ。。。
As I thought… it’s
impossible for novices
like us…

そんなに
うまくいくはず
ない
There’s no way it would
be as easily as that…

バカなつ!
だから獲れるま
やらなきゃ。。。
You idiots!
That is exactly why we have
to do it as much as we can…!

他に食い物を
得る方法は
ねえんだよ!!
There’s no other way for
us to get that food!

オレは他に
食べ物を
探してみるよ
I’m going to look
for some other food…

私も。。
Me too…

オイー!!
人数がいなきや
網を入れられねぇん
だぞ!!
Heyy!!
If we don’t have enough people we
won’t be able to set up net properly!!

リョウ君。。
Ryou-kun…

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くそ~
Damn~~

まー
待ってよ
W-Wait

本当に。。。一体
誰が。。。
Really… who would
do such a thing…

これから皆
お互いを信用
出来なくなる
んじやあ…
With something like this… every
one will be suspecting one another…

食べ物を奪い
あうように
なるの。。。かな
but I wonder…
But still… someone who
would steal other’s food…
…I wonder who is he…

うん。。。いや
わからないよ。。。
Yeah… well..
I have no idea…

とにかく
僕らも食べ物
探そう
Either way, we too should
start looking for some food…

Yeah…

君も行く?
女の子一人じゃ
あぶないよ
Are you coming with us?
Small: It’s dangerous for girls to be alone you know?

Near her head: Small: *nod*

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僕らは海には出ず
まだ行った事のない
港の反対側にー

野草など求めて
探索する事に
した
Once again without even a word being mentioned, we avoided harbor,

And headed away from sea to commence our search on grass fields.

トモは沖縄に
住んでいた事が
あるらしく
It seems that Tomo used to
live In Okinawa….

いくらか
南方の野草について
知識を持っていたのだ
and has a quite wide spread of knowledge
about wild plants common in the south

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Pandanus tectorius (adan) - The plant Above – is eatable - the fruit can be eaten raw or cooked and is a major source of food in Micronesia, and is common in a lot of sunny hot places near sea. Size and eatable parts vary in sub-species… for more info wiki it.

これは けっこう
はえてるよね!
皆が知ってら
きっと。。。
It’s quite something, isn’t it!
I’m sure if people knew…

….

Tomo?

バナナ泥棒と
変わらないな
。。。
I’m not much different
From the banana thief…

いや
同じだよ
No… I’m just
like him…

な?
どうしたの。。。?
Huh? What are you
talking about…?

何で皆に
教えてなかったか
わかる?
Do you know why I didn’t tell
everyone about this earlier?

教えたら
僕の分がなく
なるって-
If I told about this… I wouldn’t get MY proper share….

そぅ思つたんだ。。。
強い人にとられて
しまうだろうつて
I thought that…. Stronger people would take it from me…

バナナをとって
人もーーー
The person that took bananas…

きっと僕と同じ
弱い人だ…
僕にはわかる
Is surely the same weak person as me…
And I completely understand him.

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Tomo…

Aaah!!
Wh- what?

Look !! On the left side
of that hill!

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Beautiful…

Yeah…

僕らとは
and yet…
違う
so different from us…

…Tomo…

そうなんだ。。。
So that was it….

この島に生きる
同じ生命のはず
なのに
There are many other living
things on this island… and yet…

僕らだけが
美しくない
Only we…

Don’t have any beauty in us…

chapter 09 fin

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Chapter 10 その 資格 The requirements