Meteor 28

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真実は、絶望のなかに
chapter 28 Truth lies within despair.

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Yatomi-senpai

Sannou-kun

How come
you’re also here---------
/ Why are you here-------

そっか！ 2人が隣県に
着いてこぅやって救助隊
呼んでくれたんだ！
Ah that’s right! You have gotten to
the next preffecture and brought
the rescue with you!!

right? Yeah you did, didn’t you!?

senpai

Yeah I will
tell them

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We have something ….
…. very important to tell you

人払い
ありがとう
ございます
thank you for
emptying this room

あなたが
村長ですか
So you’re the village
elder, is that right?

代理です
An substitute

村長は発病して
数日前亡くなりました
Original village elder has fallen sick and
died from the diesese few days ago.

お悔やみ
申し上げます
You have my
deepest condolences.

村長だけじゃ
ねえ!!
He wan’t
the only one !!!

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あんたがたが来るまで
一体どれだけ死んだと
思ってるんだ!!
Do you have any fucking idea just how
many people have died befere
you bothered to come here!?

stop it

医者もいないここで
出来る事なんて
何もねえのに…
we don’t even have a doctor
and couldn’t do a thing about it….

何でもっと早く
来てくれな
かったんだ。。。!
Why in the world you
didn’t come sooner….!!

…申し訳ない
…I’m really sorry for being so rude

but still

私ら みんな
同じ思いです
that’s precisely
what all of us think

救助に来て
くださつたの
感謝しますが
we really are greatefull
for your coming to help us

but why did it take you soo long
is what all of us wonder about.

協定で期日が
決まっていまして
well we were sure to
come here on the date specified in an contract*
(note: I used contract here – but the actual word is more like “agreement/ pact” – but that would bring confusion so I substitued it)
協定!?
An contract!?

こうなった以上
隠すのは無意味でしょう
I guess there is completely
no point in hiding it anymore

お話しします
so let me explain

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今回の災害は
人為的な災害です
This disaster
was artificial

未知数の細菌を
数種使った
兵器実験を行った
ために起きました
it was carried out in order to conduct wepons experiment
of unknown as of yet number of virus and bacteria speacies

wha…

実験国は他国でしたが
日本の領空域にも
影響があるのは
分かっていたのです
And even though it was different contry that this experiment was being carried out on, we knew that it at least might breach japan’s territorial airspace.

しかし
決してこの地を狙って
落ちた訳ではない
but be sure that by no means were
we ever aware that this area will be hit

それは
ご理解頂きたい
please try to understand this

理解出来るか！
落ちるのが分かって
あんたらは
黙ってたのか!!
No way in hell we would
understand this!!
You knew it might fall over
japan and kept silent about it, didn’t you!!

救助が遅れたのも
それが理由か!?
And how the hell does that explain
the fact that you delayed the rescue!?

公開しなかったの
行政の判断です
It was an administrative* decision
not to inform the public

(note: administration here – can be interpreted as government’s administration – but it doesn’t have to mean that – so it’s not specified if it’s government’s doing or some company)
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遅れたのは
この細菌兵器の
「サンプル」を収集する
時間が必要でしたから
and the reason for the delay was
the time needed for the gathering
of the samples of these biological weapons

S-Samples…!

人命救助より
そんなものを
優先して!?
That’s what matters more
then saving human lives!?

これでも迅速に
行動はしました
even though it might appear
this way we acted very promptly

but for someone else, right!?

実際に被害に
遭った訳でもない
あんたらが何を
You the ones that practicaly
didn’t suffer any demage
why the hell didn’t you…

以前から地方予算も
優先されていました
from the beginning the coast had priority
今後のケアについても
努力は惜しまない
and after all this time providing you with help
would require great effort and be futile in either case

行政は出来る
誠意は見せました
All the administration can do
right now is to show it’s devotion

誠意!?
Devotion!?
人が死んだん
だぞ!!
People are
dying here!!

この村を
どうして
くれるんだ!
But then why the hell
did you even come here!!

その件ですが
well regarding that….

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Eh……?

We can’t get out of here

Ca….

Can’t get out of here..? what do you mean…?

災害の被害が
予想以上に深刻で
元の町には戻れないんだ
The demage this disaster has
coused is much more serious then expected
and we can’t go back to the town we came from

その細菌が原因の
病気が発症するかも
しれないから
we might have become involutionary
carriers of dormant diesese, and start
spreading it around

and that’s supposedly why the rescuers
are going to be isolating us.

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救助されても
一生外に出れなくなる
。。。かもしれない
even though we were rescued…. It seems we might never get to leave this place

no way…

どこの誰が決めたか
分かんない協定のせいで
こんなになったのに…？
So all this has happened… becouse someone
somwhere we don’t even know of has simply
decided so… …?

元の暮らしに
戻れないって
… that we can never go back
to living like we used to?

しかもいつか
あんな風になって
死んじゃうかも
しれないって事？
and to top it off
we can kick the bucket in
that horrible way at any time, right?

What the hell is that!?

私達助かるんじゃ
ないの!?
So we weren’t saved
after all weren’t we!?

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Heey say somehting!!

I don’t wanna that!!

Neither do I!!

ただの高校生の俺に
何か出来ると
思ってんのかよ…！
I’m just an senior high schooler
and not some superman….!!

Does it all…

End here…?

Really?

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何のためにあんなに
必死だったの
then what did I fight so hard for all this time

I even killed people

見殺しにして。。。
結局これで終わり?
Letting others die….
And in the end it’s over?

------hey

what happened to Ayuchi-san?

Ayuchi-san…

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That’s it!
Ayuchi-san!

あの桜山くんが
突然現われて
That um… Sakurayama-kun suddenly apeared

And then….

Sakurayama!?

That kid did that!?
And why now and here…

I have no idea…

On the kid:
“You thought I was going to die so you abandoned me didn’t you!?”

…then Ayuchi-san
started to act strange….
….
桜山くんと
消えたの
and both he and Sakurayama-kun
suddenly disapeared…

….
So he said… that we’ve
abandoned him huh…

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senpai….

It wan’t like that…

Back then I thought we all were done for.

Yakuma-san has fallen into the river

And we were on the verge of
total exhoustion both in mind and body

俺だって
助けられるなら
助けたかったさ
。。。。!
But me to… if only there was an way
to help him I would have helpt….

That Is

pure hipocrism

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何自分のした事
美化してんの
You are simply just glorofieing your own actions

あの子にとったら
当然の言い分
じやない
It’s obvious we would take him with us if he was there, isn’t it.

YOU…!!

Kawana-san!

イヤな事言ってる
自覚はあるわよ
I’m perfectly aware that what I’m saying is unpleasant

But it doesn’t change the fact that it’s true

Then what the hell would
have you done better back then!!

結局
in the end
今言ってる
事は
the things I’m saying now…

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みんな私の事だ
It applies to everyone, like it does for me

美化しようとしたって
事実が変わる事なんて
no matter how much we try
to glorofy something
nothing changes

ない
the truth

Yamashita-sensei…..!

If only sensei was here

I’m sure he might have
done something….

T…..

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That kind of bastard is….

Kawana-san!

今そんな
いない人の事で
争うのはやめようよ
for now let’s refrain from arguing
about people that are apsent.

Eehh-------

Sfx: zawa ( zawa is an sfx describing “atmosphere of dread with anticipation”

今からヘリにての
避難所移動の説明を
始めます
We’ll now start an explenation regarding
your transfer to an shelter via helicopter.

体調の悪い人や
子供。お年寄りを
優先して移送しますので…
the priority have those that are of
weak health, the children and elderly….

There are no children here!!

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子供達…
みんなあの時
外にいて
The children…
All of them were
outside back then!!

何人かもう具合が
悪いみたいだったんです
And a lot of them seemed
to be veery sick!!

Koharu-san…

Please search for our children!!

了解しました
応援を呼んで
捜索します
Understood
We’ll call for reinforcements
and start the search.

しかしもう日暮れで
以降はヘリは動かせません
ので明朝…
but since it’s twilight already and
it will be impossible to fly with
helicopter, we shall start in the morning ….

Tomorrow is way to late!!

今すぐ捜して
保護しないと。。。
You have to start the
search imidietly and protect them…!!

I’m staying to search for the children!

Me too!

確かに子供達
様子変だったよ
心配だわ…
That’s true… these children acted really strange…it really worries me…

Expecially how Sakurayama-kun
looked and behaved….

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That’s right

Not yet…

Heeh / Hmmm

私も残るわ
子供だけじやなくて
I too will stay here, but not only becouse of the children…
阿由知さんと桜山くん
連れ戻さなきや
but also becouse I have to bring back Ayuchi-san and Sakurayama-kun

やらなきゃ
いけない事がある
There is still something that I have to do

これ以上
人が減るのは
もう嫌
I don’t want to
loose anyone any more

kawana…..

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