No. 207 At the Outer Walls 外壁への到達
Sunset | Tsuwabuki Bypass | Motorway
ウ01
Yuki Takamiya:
How’d I agree to this shit…?
Shu Amiguchi:
Huh? You say something?
Yuki Takamiya:
You ever think anything through, Amiguchi?
Shu Amiguchi:
Hey, I can get us back within two hours.
Home before sundown, easy.
Don’t worry about it.
How about you tell me a little about your grandma?
Yuki Takamiya:
She's out in the boondocks. Nothing but rice paddies.
Shu Amiguchi:
Yeah?
Yuki Takamiya:
Used to go to her place every summer.
Walkin’ between the fields in the mornings to do radio gymnastics with everyone…
Shu Amiguchi:
No kidding! I did the same thing in the countryside when I was a kid.
Yuki Takamiya:
In the afternoons, grandmawould give us some watermelon…
We’d swim in the river, and catch fish with our bare hands.
And we’d go catch cicadas off the old zelkova tree, up on the hill behind the house…
Shu Amiguchi:
…That’s weird…
Yuki Takamiya:
What?
Shu Amiguchi:
My grandpa had a zelkova o the hill behind his house, too.
And we’d go catch cicadas off it.
Yuki Takamiya:
Oh yeah?
Shu Amiguchi:
And the river, the watermelon…
It sounds exactly like what I remember.
Yuki Takamiya:
Not that weird. Doesn’t everyone remember the same stuff from vacations in the country?
Shu Amiguchi:
No, but that’s exactly what is weird here…
Well, we’re almost 15 kilometers from the middle of the city.
This tunnel should end around the prefecture line, so…
Whoa!
Yuki Takamiya:
What the hell is this place…?
What’s going on?
Shu Amiguchi:
…
ウ02
Shu Amiguchi:
This is what she was talking about…
Yuki Takamiya:
This sure doesn’t look like a construction site…
It just… goes on forever. Above and below.
I can't even see the end.
ウ03
×Yuki Takamiya
Yuki Takamiya:
Yo, uh…
Where the hell are we?
ウ04
△Outer Walls→Yuki Takamiya
Shu Amiguchi:
The outer walls…
Yuki Takamiya:
But what the hell is it?
How do we get through?
Shu Amiguchi:
I don’t know if there is a way through.
…What if…
All our memories from outside town are fake?
What if everyone’s been convinced that an “outside” even exists?
Yuki Takamiya:
…No way.
Shu Amiguchi:
I can't believe it, either.
How could I?
It’d mean this 30-kilometer enclosure…
…this isolated city…
…is the only world we’ve ever known.
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