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「いやまて! 我輩はそんなの話聞いていててててて!!」こいつううううううう今度は思いっきり足の甲を踏みやがった! 「必ずや勇者デールと共に魔王を討ち滅ぼします!」「うむ、頼んだぞ、旅に必要なものや武器防具は用意させてある......デーヴァン、後は任せたぞ」ライリーは王座から立ち上がって広間の出入り口に向かって歩き始めた、騎士達も隊列を組みライリーのあとに続く。相変わらず統率が取れているな......ってベルトラの奴もその列に戻ろうとしているし、まだ聞きたいことがあるのにだ。「おい! まて! どいうことだ!?」ベルトラの両肩を掴み上下に揺さぶる、と両肩の手を弾いたと同時にくりっとした目月状につりあがり我輩を睨みつけてきた......う、なんか怖い。「どうもこうも私はあなに同行します、ものすごく不本意ではありますが!」不本意ならついてこなくてもいいのではないか、これだから人間の考えることはわからん......。あ、そうかこれを口実に3人での旅を取りやめにすればいいではないか。「いやなのなら別に――」「どうしても私はあなたについて行かねばならぬのです、ものすごく不本意ではありますが!」大事なことなので2回言われた。まずいこのままではたった3人で行くはめになってしまう、どうにかしないと!! あああ、考えている間にもライリーはもう出入り口付近まで歩いてしまっているし。「えーと......えーと......なにかなにか......そうだ! ――王様! 我輩は剣など触った事もありません! ど素人です! しかも我輩、体が弱く――」こんな弱い発言、自分で言っていて悲しくる......だがライリーの歩みを止めれることには成功したぞ。「何を言っているの? アブソーヘイズを触っているじゃん」 ――が横にいた精霊が首をかしげて天使の剣を指刺してくる。こいつはまたしても余計な事を言う!! 「持つほうの触れるではない! 剣を振るのほうだ! ほれこのとおり!」天使の剣を鞘から抜き適当に振り回す。子供が木の枝を振り回す様にめちゃくちゃに、あ~実にかっこ悪い。「あ~なるほど~けど大丈夫だと思うよ?」ポンっと手を叩くと精霊は光の粒状になり天使の剣の鍔にある虹色に光る丸石に吸い込まれるように入っていく。「は? 精霊?」『アブソーヘイズとデールは繋がっているって言ったでしょ? それはこうやってデールに魔力を送るためだよ、その魔力で身体能力を向上したり魔法が強化できたりできるし』天使の剣から精霊の声が聞こえてくる、確かに魔力が天使の剣から我輩に流れて込んでくる。『そしてなにより!』「なにより?」『このエリンちゃんがいるから一万光年力!!!』うん、こいつは馬鹿だ、断言できる。「......それ距離だ......」天使の剣にこんな余計な能力が付いているとは......。『ほへ? まぁ別にそんな細かい事――』天使の剣から光の粒状が飛び出して、人の形に集まり精霊の姿に戻った。どうでも良くないと思うが......ん? 今のやり取りを見てなのかライリーがものすごい不安な顔をしているぞ。これはチャンス! 「王様! 見てのとお――」『フハハハハハ!!』今度はなんだ! どうして我輩の邪魔ばかり入るのだ! 騎士達はライリーを囲みデーヴァンは鋭い目で辺りを見わたしている、あれでは話が進められんではないか。「忌々しい! 今のはなんなのだ!?」「なんか外から声きこえたねぇ~」広間に兵士が走りこんで来た、なんだかすごく慌てているな。「たっ大変です! 空を!」広間にいた者たちがベランダへと走り、空を見上げている。一体なにがあるという――。「なんだあれは!?」「はぁ!?」空には我輩が良く知るイケメンが映りだされている。漆黒のマントがより肉体美を上げ、チャームポイントのサメのようなギザギザの歯は、2本の角に腰くらいまで伸びたやっぱり気になるぼさぼさの黒髪......それこそ――。「なんで我輩が空に!?」『人間共よ、お初にお目にかかる余の名はデイルワッツ! 魔王デイルワッツである!』「あ、あれが魔王デイルワッツ!? 直接乗り込んできたのか!?」「ん~違うね、あれは魔法で作った幻で自分の姿を空に映しているんだよ、本体は遠くにいると思うよ」いやいやいやいやデイルワッツは我輩だ!! あれは一体誰なのだ!? 『天使の剣を抜いた者が現れたと聞いていな、我々には取るに足らない事だが......そうまでして抵抗するのであれば、これより本格的に総攻撃を仕掛ける!』「「なんだと!? 今までは本気ではなかったというのか!?」」ベルトラが我輩と同じ言葉を言ったから何でこんな奴と~って顔しとるが、意味がまったく違うぞ......アルフレドの報告では全力の様に侵攻しているとのことだったのにどういうことなのだ? 『人間共よ、恐れよ! 我が軍団の力に!! フハハハハハハ!!!』笑いとともにもう一人の我輩は消えていった。「我輩も言いたかったな~あんな台詞......」ポツリと独り言、幸い他の者達はあのデイルワッツ? の衝撃が大きかったのか我輩の独り言なぞ聞いている者なぞいなかった。「陛下、魔王軍も動き出すのなら我々も早々に動かなければ」あ、そうだ。3人旅という問題はまったく解決してないではないか! 「あ、いや! だから我輩は!」ベルトラは我輩の胸倉を掴みものすごい剣幕で囃し立ててくる、だからその目は怖いんだって。「奴らは今より攻撃をしてくるんですよ! そうなると少しでも守備に人手が必要になります、最初の予定通り少数精鋭として動きましょう! 大丈夫です、剣のことなら私が指南できますので!」我輩を投げ捨てベルトラはライリーの元へ駆け寄り進言を促す。「陛下! どうか!」髭をさすりながらライリーは目を瞑り考える、ほんの数秒の沈黙......頼む、少数なんてやめてくれ! ライリーは目を開け我が達3人を再度確認するように目を配らせた、答えが出たようだ。「いささか不安ではあるがベルトラがいれば問題なかろう、すぐに準備だ!」「――――――――――――」城の者は走って城の中に入っていく、ベランダには我輩と精霊だけ。「デール、だいじょうぶ?」ツンツンと精霊は我輩のほっぺをつっついてきたがショックが大きいせいか何も感じない......。	“No, wait! I haven’t heard anything abooooouuuch!!” That laaaaass, she stepped on my foot this time! “I will destroy the Demon Lord together with the hero Dale, by all means possible!” “Umu, please do so. We have prepared the things necessary for your journey as well as weapons and protective gear...... I’ll leave that to you Devan.” Riley got up from the throne and started to walk towards the entrance door with the knights following after him. As commanding as ever...... Rather, that Bertra was about to join their ranks again as well, but I still had something to say. “Oi! Wait! What’s the meaning of this?!” While I grabbed both of Bertra’s shoulders and shook her back and forth, she glared at me with her crescent shaped eyes......Uh, that’s kind of scary. “I shall accompany you, even though I’m extremely unwilling to do so!” If you’re unwilling, you don’t have to come. That’s why I don’t understand the way humans think....... Ah, I see, should I cancel this three person trip with that as an excuse? “If you find it that unpleasant you don’t particularly have–” “I have to go with you by all means, though I’m extremely unwilling!” It was important so she even said it twice. Crap, if it’s just us three going then the situation will get even worse. If I don’t do anything that’s what’s going to happen!! Aaah, while I was thinking Riley already walked close to the doorway. “Eehm......Eehm......Come on, something...... I got it! –King! I have never touched a sword before! I’m a bloody amateur! What’s more my, body is weak–” I feel embarrassed having to say such weak remarks...... However, I seemed to have succeeded in making Riley halt his steps. “What are you saying? You touched Absohaze, didn’t you?” However, the Spirit who was beside me, looked puzzled and pointed her finger at the Angel’s Sword. This fellow said some unnecessary things again!! “I haven’t used one before! I never swung a sword! See, that’s what I mean!” At that time, I pulled out the Angel’s Sword and swung it around. It looked like a child swing around a tree branch. Ah~ this is really uncool. “Ah~ I understand~ But I think it’ll be alright, you know?” After the Spirit hit her hand with her fist, making a pon sound, she turned into a grain of light and was sucked into the rainbow coloured stone located on the handle of the Angel’s Sword. “Hah? Spirit?” [Didn’t I tell you that Dale and Absohaze are connected? So it can send you its magical power to improve your physical abilities and it can also strengthen your magic] The Spirit’s voice came from the Angel’s Sword. Certainly, magic power is flowing inside of me from the Angel’s Sword. [And even better!] “Even better?” [Because this Erin-chan is there you’ll have the power of , light-years!!!” Yes, that lass is an idiot. That I can affirm. “......that’s for measuring distance......” For that Angel’s Sword to have such useless abilities...... A grain shaped light pops out of the Angel’s Sword and slowly gathered up to form the shape of the Spirit again. “–about such small details~” I don’t think that this isn’t something you shouldn’t care about though...... Hm? Probably having seen this interaction just now Riley had a really anxious face. That’s my chance! “King! Did you see–” 《 Fuhahahahaha!!》 What is it this time?! Why are you getting in my way! “What is it?!” Knights surrounded Riley and Devan looked around with his sharp eyes. With this the talks won’t progress, huh? “How annoying! What is it now?!” “I can hear some voices from outside~” A soldier hurried into the hall somewhat rushed. “I-it’s terrible! The sky!” Those who were in the hall ran to the veranda and looked up at the sky. Just what the hell is up there– “Haah!?” A good looking man whom I’m really familiar with was reflected in the sky. A black mantle raising his beauty, shark-like jagged teeth were his charm point, only those two horns and that unkempt raven-black hair nearly reaching his waist were concerning...... That was– “Why am I in the sky?!” 《Humans, tis our first meeting. My name is Dalewatts! Demon Lord Dalewatts!!》 “Tha, that’s the Demon Lord Dalewatts?! Did he come here personally?!” “Hm~ it’s different, it’s a phantom made with magical power reflecting his figure in the sky. I think his main body is somewhere faraway” No, no, no, no, I’m Dalewatts!! Who the hell is that?! 《I hear that someone able to pull out the Angel’s Sword appeared, but it’s insignificant to us...... If you decide to resist to this extent, then we will commence our full-on all-out attack this time!》 “”What did you say? The attacks until now weren’t serious?!”” Rather, the words are the same but the meaning is completely different......What does this mean, when Alfred told me they were invading to the best of our abilities? 《Humans, be afraid! Of the power of my army!! Fuhahahahahaha!!》 The other me disappeared while laughing. “I also wanted to say that~ Lines like that......” I muttered to myself. Fortunately the others were all too shocked by that Dalewatts (?) that they didn’t hear me muttering these enigmatic lines. “Your Majesty, if the Demon Lord’s forces also starts to move, we have to quickly make our move” Ah, right. The problem called the three man trip hasn’t been settled at all! “Ah, no! Like I said, I’m!” Bertra grabbed my collar and looked at me mockingly with a terribly angry glare. Like I said, those eyes are scary. “Those guys will attack from now on! If that’s the case we’ll need all the manpower we can get to defend against them, so let’s move out with just a selected few as planned! It’s fine, I can instruct you, if it’s the sword!” Bertra threw me down and rushed to Riley to appeal her advice. “Your Majesty! Please!” Riley closed his eyes and stroked his beard, there were a few seconds of silence...... I beg of you, please stop this! Riley opened his eyes again and put his gaze on us three as if to double check our existence. It seems like he came to a conclusion. “I’m a little uneasy, but as long as Bertra is with you three, it shouldn’t be a problem. Get ready immediately”! “――――――――――――” All of the castle’s people went back in, leaving only me and the spirit on the veranda. “Dale, are you alright?” The Spirit pulled my cheek but I didn’t feel anything, probably because the shock was too big......	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 2, "inserted_lines_src": 4, "inserted_lines_trg": 4 }
何がいけなかったのだろう? 何故いつもこうなるのか理解できず皆にどう思うか尋ねました皆にどう思うか尋ねましたいつもアドバイスをくれる祖母はこう言いましたいつもアドバイスをくれる祖母はこう言いました「えり好みは止めて色んな人とデートしてごらん真実の愛というものは全く期待していないときに見つかるんだよ」実は私はデータを重視する人間ですすぐにわかると思いますが常に統計やパターングラフを考えています私の家族はとても絆が固く妹とすごく仲が良いんですですから将来は自分の育ったような家庭を持つのが夢でしたひどい別れを経験した直後私は30歳でそこでこのように計算しました誰かと6か月もデートしたらきちんとお付き合いが始まりしばらく一緒に住んでから婚約して 35歳までに子供を持とうと考えたら 5年前には結婚に向けた準備を開始している必要があったわけですこれはもはや手遅れですもし予期せぬ真の愛に出会うのを待つのならどのくらいラッキーかで決まるわけですそこで理想の男性に出会う確率を把握しようと考えましたさて当時私はフィラデルフィアに住んでいました大きな街ですこの街中に可能性が溢れていると考えましたそこで再びちょっと計算をしてみましたフィラデルフィアの人口は 150万人その半分が男性と仮定すると 75万人まで減ります希望の相手は 30歳から36歳までの人なのでその数は人口の4% つまり可能性があるのは 3万人になりますまたユダヤ人に限ると -- ユダヤ人の私にとってそれはとても重要だったのですが -- 人口の2.3%になり魅力を感じるのはその10分の1程度で魅力を感じるのはその10分の1程度でゴルフに熱中する人とはやっていけないと考えると基本的には私が付き合える可能性のある男性はフィラデルフィア全体で 35人という結果になりましたところで私のユダヤ系の大家族はみんな既に結婚していて子供もどんどん生まれていて私も早くなんとかしなきゃと周囲からのとてつもなく大きなプレッシャーを感じていましたこの時点で選択肢は2つだと考えましたこの時点で選択肢は2つだと考えました祖母のアドバイスに従いフィラデルフィアの全人口 150万人中の可能性のある35人のうちのひとりに出くわすという予期できない偶然に懸けるかまたはオンラインデートを試してみるかオンラインデートの方が気に入りましたなぜならばオンラインデートはアルゴリズムに基づいていて問題に対してデータを使いシステムを使って答えを求めるというシステムを使って答えを求めるという簡単なものだからですいまやオンラインデートを利用した出会いは2番目に多くいまやオンラインデートを利用した出会いは2番目に多く実はアルゴリズムというものは様々な文化で何千年も使用されてきたものです実際にユダヤの文化では昔から縁組み屋さんがいて明確なアルゴリズムはありませんでしたがある決まったルールに従って考えたはずです例えばこの男性は好みのタイプか家族同士うまくいくかラビは承認するだろうか子供を作る準備は出来ているかこんな事項を検討して二人の人間を引き合わせていたはずですさて私のケースについて考えましたデータやアルゴリズムによって私の王子様に辿り着けるだろうか? 登録してみることにしましたちょとした問題は様々なオンラインデートサイトに登録していた頃とても忙しかったのですまたそれ以上に実は質問にいちいち回答するのが大嫌いで実は質問にいちいち回答するのが大嫌いで適性テストみたいな質問形式は特に嫌いなのですそこで私は履歴書をそのままそっくり写しました冒頭の自己紹介には受賞歴のあるジャーナリストで先見の明があることを書き趣味と理想のデートについては収益化と日本語の流暢さについて述べ JavaScript についていろいろ書きました女性らしさをアピールするには明らかに効果的とは言えませんでも本当の欠点はデートする男性がたくさん見つかったことでしたこのようなアルゴリズムはデートに誘ってくれる男性を山ほど見つけたのですそれもひどい相手ばかりでしたこのIT男スティーヴもそのひとりですアルゴリズムは私たちが合うと判断しましたふたりともガジェット好きで数学とデータと 80年代の音楽が好きだったからですそこで彼のデートの誘いにOKしましたさて IT男スティーヴはフィラデルフィアにあるとんでもなく高いおしゃれなレストランに私を連れて行きました最初から会話は全く弾みませんでしたが彼は料理をたくさん注文しました実のところ彼はメニューも見ずにいくつかの前菜とメインを注文し私にも同じように注文しました私たちのテーブルには山のような食べ物と何本ものワインが運ばれてきました会話が終わり夕食が終わるころ私は判断しました IT男スティーヴと私はまったくもって合わないと友人として別々の道を行くだろうと彼がトイレに立ったときお会計がきましたもちろん私は現代女性です割り勘には賛成ですところがIT男スティーブは戻ってこなかったのですひと月の家賃に相当する値段でした楽しいなんて程遠い経験でした家に飛んで帰り母と妹に電話しましたこのようなひどいデートに行く度に詳しく話して聞かせました母も妹も笑って聞いてこう言うんです「文句を言うんじゃないよ」「えり好みしすぎているだけじゃない」そこでこれからは Wi-Fiがある場所をデートに選びノートパソコンを持って行こうと決めましたカバンに押し込んで行って必要事項を埋められるように用意したメールの文書にデート中に記入しながら様々な情報を統計的に収集しどんなに最悪なデートであるかをデータで皆に証明するのですデータとして集めたのは考えの薄さ、ぎこちなさ、いやらしさ口の悪さハイタッチを強いた回数みたいなものですこんな数値から計算してある相関関係を見出しました明らかになったことはなぜかスコッチを飲む男性は変態趣味のセックスの話しをしたがるということどの人も悪い人ではなさそうだけれどただ私には合わなかっただけということですまた私たちを引き合わせたアルゴリズムも悪くはなかったのですこれらのアルゴリズムはユーザーが入力した情報に基づき設計されたとおりに作動していたのです私の場合は履歴書ですがそれに見合う人を探していたのです真の問題はアルゴリズムに問題があるのではなく私たちに問題があるのですオンラインで情報を入力する空白を目の前にしているときほんの一握りの人間しか真の自分を伝える事は出来ないのですこのようなウェブサイトのもう1つの問題は登録者に対する質問です「犬と猫とどちらが好きか?」「ホラー映画と恋愛映画どちらが好きか?」文通相手を探しているわけではありません結婚相手を探しているのですそうですよね? こういうデータからはうわべのことしかわかりませんそこである計画を思いつきましたこれらのオンラインデートサイトをデータベースとして使っていこうと考えたのですそしてアルゴリズムに相手を探してもらう代わりにこの仕組みを理解し利用することにしたのですうわべだけのデータで縁組をしているとわかったので自分に大切なことは何か自問し私が結婚相手に求める条件を全てリストアップすることにしました書いて書いて書きまくり最終的には 72の条件を考えつきましたユダヤ人・・・的であること自分の文化に対し同じ経験や考えを持っている人で自分の文化に対し同じ経験や考えを持っている人ででも毎週金・土曜日にシナゴークに行くのが必須ではないこと私にとって仕事はとても大切なので仕事に真面目な人でも働き過ぎではないこと私にとって趣味はちょうど立ち上げた仕事のプロジェクトでした子供が2人欲しいことまた同じ教育方針であることつまり 3歳でピアノのレッスンを始めることに賛成であることできればコンピューターサイエンスもやらせたいですとまあこんな感じですあとはエキゾチックな所への旅行を楽しむ人ぺトラとかヨルダンとかそれから私より常に体重が10キロ多いことどんなに私が太ってもですということで 72の条件が出揃いましたかなり多いことは分かっていますが次に私はその条件に優先順位をつけましたこれらを上下 2つのレベルに分け上のレベルは 100 点から 91 点までの項目ですそこに挙げた条件は例えば非常に頭が良く良い刺激を受ける相手であることこれを下のレベルの条件も考慮に入れ評価しましたこれらは大事ですが欠けていても致命的な問題とはならない条件です順位付けを一通り終えて次に採点システムを構築しました私がやりたかったことはオンラインで見つけた男性が私に合う相手かどうか何らかの数値で表すことでした私に合う相手かどうか何らかの数値で表すことでしたメールを送るかメールに返信するかの最低条件はメールを送るかメールに返信するかの最低条件は 700点に決めました 900点あればデートする 1500点を超えない限りどんな関係にも発展させないとしました実はこのシステムは結構うまく機能したんですオンラインに戻り Jewishdoc57 を見つけました信じられないほどハンサムでとても教養があり富士山に登ったことがあり万里の長城を歩いたこともありました船旅でなければ旅行が好きな人でしたついにきた! と思いました暗号を解読し親戚家族の夢であるユダヤ人の王子様を見つけたのです親戚家族の夢であるユダヤ人の王子様を見つけたのですただしひとつだけ問題がありました彼の方は私を好きになってくれなかったのです思うに私はライバルという変数を見落としていたのですオンラインデートサイトにどんな女性がいるのでしょうか SmileyGirl1978 という女性がいました明るくて社交的な楽しい女の子職業は教師でおバカで優しくてフレンドリーとも書いてありました人を笑わせるのが「大好き」なのだそうですたくさんのたくさんのこの類の自己紹介を見て私は悟りました市場調査が必要だとそこで架空の男性のプロフィールを 10個つくりましたあきれないで下さいね理解して欲しいのですがこれはあくまでもサイトに登録している人に関するデータ収集のためにしたことです私は誰とも不適切な関係を持っていはいません単なるデータ集めをしていたんです全員のデータが必要なわけではなく必要としていたのは私が本当に本当に結婚したいタイプの男性に惹かれる女性のデータでしたこの架空アカウントを戦場に放ったときいくつかルールを決め自分から女性に連絡はせずただこれらのプロフィールに集まる女性を待ちました私は主に 2種類のデータに注目していました質的なデータ例えばユーモアのセンス口調コミュニケーションのスタイルなどでそれらの女性で共通しているのは何か? それから量的なデータ例えばプロフィールの長さメッセージの間隔などはどうか? ここでの目的はオンライン上のプロフィールを作ることを学ぶことでした私のオンライン上のプロフィールを最強にする方法を知りたかったのですそして 1ヵ月後たくさんのデータが集まりまた別の分析をしてプロフィールの内容が非常に重要だとわかりました頭の良い人たちの書くものは長い傾向があります 3000語 4000語あるいは5000語くらいでどれもが非常におもしろいですしかしここで大切なのは人気のある男性または女性は平均で97語にとどめていて人気のある男性または女性は平均で97語にとどめていて必ずしもそう見えなくてもとてもよく書けているということなのです必ずしもそう見えなくてもとてもよく書けているということなのですうまくやっている人のもうひとつの特徴は曖昧な言葉を使うことです私の大好きな映画は『イングリッシュ・ペイシェント』ですが私の大好きな映画は『イングリッシュ・ペイシェント』ですがオンラインのプロフィールには不適ですうわべだけの情報ですし人によっては嫌いかもしれません 3時間もの長い映画に耐えられない人は私に興味は持たないでしょう前向きな言葉も重要ですこれは人気のある女性が非常に多く使っていた単語を集めたものです「楽しい」「女の子」「愛」などでも私のプロフィールのレベルを下げる必要はないようです私が書いたのは日本語が流暢で JavaScriptが得意というものでしたねそれはそのままで良いのですでも声をかけやすくすることが必要です心を通わせる手がかりを示すことが大切です更にはタイミングが本当に本当に大切です誰かの携帯電話の番号やインスタントメッセージのアカウントを知っていてもたまたま起きているのが夜中の2時だったらその人に連絡を取るタイミングとしては適切とはいえませんこの手のオンラインサイトで人気の女性はメッセージの間隔が平均 23 時間になっていますメッセージの間隔が平均 23 時間になっていますこれは私たちが普段交際するまでにしていることと同じですそれから最後に写真が重要です人気のある女性はみんなある程度肌を出していましたみんなとてもよく写っていて私が載せていた写真とはかなり対照的だということが明らかになりましたこれらの情報を基にスーパープロフィールが作れましたあくまでも私でありながらこの世界で最大限効果的なプロフィールですこれは大成功で私はオンラインデートサイトで大人気になりましたたくさんのデートの申し込みがありましたそこで私は母妹祖母に電話をかけこの素晴らしいニュースを伝えました皆「それは良かった」と喜びいつデートに行くのか聞きました「実は誰とも会う予定はない」と答えました私の採点システムを思い出してください最低ラインは700点でした 700点以上の人はひとりもいなかったのです「まだそんなえり好みしている」と言われましたそれから程なくしてこの人 Theveninに出会いました彼は本質的にはユダヤ人で職業は -- 北極でアザラシの赤ちゃんを捕まえていると書いてあったのでユーモアのセンスがあると思いました旅の詳しい紹介がありいろいろな文化の知識があり希望通りのルックスと文章ですぐに 850点を取りましたデートの条件を満たしました 3週間後私たちは直接会い 14時間も話が尽きませんでしたコーヒーショップからレストランに移動しまた別のコーヒーショップとレストランへ行きましたその夜彼が私を家まで送ってくれたとき彼の点数を付け直しましたきっとずっと今まで「えり好み」が足りなかったのですそれから1年半後船を使わずぺトラとヨルダンを旅しているとき船を使わずぺトラとヨルダンを旅しているとき彼が片ひざをついてプロポーズしてくれましたその1年後私たちは結婚しさらにその1年半後に私たちの娘ぺトラが生まれましたさらにその1年半後に私たちの娘ぺトラが生まれました言うまでもなく素晴らしい人生を送っていますこの話が皆さんにとってどんな意味をもつでしょうか恋愛にはアルゴリズムがあったんですただオンラインで提供されたものとは違っていて自分自身で書くものなのです結婚相手探しなりやりたい事探しなり事業の立ち上げなり何なり自分の構想を明らかにして自分のルールを決め好きなだけえり好みしてください結婚式の日また祖母と話をしました祖母は「私が間違っていたみたい本当にいい方法を見つけたみたいだね」と言いました「ただしマッツォボールはね固くなくフワフワに作らなきゃいけないよ」このアドバイスには従おうと思います	And I thought, what's wrong with me? I don't understand why this keeps happening. So I asked everybody in my life what they thought. I turned to my grandmother, who always had plenty of advice, and she said, "Stop being so picky. You've got to date around. And most importantly, true love will find you when you least expect it." Now as it turns out, I'm somebody who thinks a lot about data, as you'll soon find. I am constantly swimming in numbers, formulas and charts. I also have a very tight-knit family, and I'm very, very close with my sister, and as a result, I wanted to have the same type of family when I grew up. So I'm at the end of this bad breakup, I'm 30 years old, I figure I'm probably going to have to date somebody for about six months before I'm ready to get monogamous and before we can sort of cohabitate, and we have to do that for a while before we can get engaged. And if I want to start having children by the time I'm 35, that meant that I would have had to have been on my way to marriage five years ago. So that wasn't going to work. If my strategy was to least-expect my way into true love, then the variable that I had to deal with was serendipity. In short, I was trying to figure out what's the probability of my finding Mr. Right? Well, at the time I was living in the city of Philadelphia, and it's a big city, and I figured, in this entire place, there are lots of possibilities. So again, I started doing some math. Population of Philadelphia: it has 1.5 million people. I figure about half of that are men, so that takes the number down to 750,000. I'm looking for a guy between the ages of 30 and 36, which was only four percent of the population, so now I'm dealing with the possibility of 30,000 men. I was looking for somebody who was Jewish, because I am and that was important to me. That's only 2.3 percent of the population. I figure I'm attracted to maybe one out of 10 of those men, and there was no way I was going to deal with somebody who was an avid golfer. So that basically meant there were 35 men for me that I could possibly date in the entire city of Philadelphia. In the meantime, my very large Jewish family was already all married and well on their way to having lots and lots of children, and I felt like I was under tremendous peer pressure to get my life going already. So I have two possible strategies at this point One, I can take my grandmother's advice and sort of least-expect my way into maybe bumping into the one out of 35 possible men in the entire 1.5-million-person city of Philadelphia, or I could try online dating. Now, I like the idea of online dating, because it's predicated on an algorithm, and that's really just a simple way of saying I've got a problem, I'm going to use some data, run it through a system and get to a solution. So online dating is the second most popular way that people now meet each other, but as it turns out, algorithms have been around for thousands of years in almost every culture. In fact, in Judaism, there were matchmakers a long time ago, and though they didn't have an explicit algorithm per se, they definitely were running through formulas in their heads, like, is the girl going to like the boy? Are the families going to get along? What's the rabbi going to say? Are they going to start having children right away? The matchmaker would sort of think through all of this, put two people together, and that would be the end of it. So in my case, I thought, well, will data and an algorithm lead me to my Prince Charming? So I decided to sign on. Now, there was one small catch. As I'm signing on to the various dating websites, as it happens, I was really, really busy. But that actually wasn't the biggest problem. The biggest problem is that I hate filling out questionnaires of any kind, and I certainly don't like questionnaires that are like Cosmo quizzes. So I just copied and pasted from my résumé. So in the descriptive part up top, I said that I was an award-winning journalist and a future thinker. When I was asked about fun activities and my ideal date, I said monetization and fluency in Japanese. I talked a lot about JavaScript. So obviously this was not the best way to put my most sexy foot forward. But the real failure was that there were plenty of men for me to date. These algorithms had a sea full of men that wanted to take me out on lots of dates -- what turned out to be truly awful dates. There was this guy Steve, the I.T. guy. The algorithm matched us up because we share a love of gadgets, we share a love of math and data and '80s music, So Steve the I.T. guy invited me out to one of Philadelphia's white-table-cloth, extremely expensive restaurants. And we went in, and right off the bat, our conversation really wasn't taking flight, but he was ordering a lot of food. In fact, he didn't even bother looking at the menu. He was ordering multiple appetizers, multiple entrées, for me as well, and suddenly there are piles and piles of food on our table, also lots and lots of bottles of wine. So we're nearing the end of our conversation and the end of dinner, and I've decided Steve the I.T. guy and I are really just not meant for each other, but we'll part ways as friends, when he gets up to go to the bathroom, and in the meantime, the bill comes to our table. And listen, I'm a modern woman. I am totally down with splitting the bill. But then Steve the I.T. guy didn't come back. And that was my entire month's rent. So needless to say, I was not having a good night. So I run home, I call my mother, I call my sister, and as I do, at the end of each one of these terrible, terrible dates, I regale them with the details. And they say to me, "Stop complaining." "You're just being too picky." So I said, fine, from here on out I'm only going on dates where I know there's Wi-Fi, and I'm bringing my laptop. I'm going to shove it into my bag, I'm going to have this email template, and I'm going to fill it out and collect information on all these different data points during the date to prove to everybody that empirically, these dates really are terrible. So I started tracking things like really stupid, awkward, sexual remarks; bad vocabulary; the number of times a man forced me to high-five him. So I started to crunch some numbers, and that allowed me to make some correlations. So as it turns out, for some reason, men who drink Scotch reference kinky sex immediately. Well, it turns out that these probably weren't bad guys. There were just bad for me. And as it happens, the algorithms that were setting us up, they weren't bad either. These algorithms were doing exactly what they were designed to do, which was to take our user-generated information, in my case, my résumé, and match it up with other people's information. See, the real problem here is that, while the algorithms work just fine, you and I don't, when confronted with blank windows where we're supposed to input our information online. Very few of us have the ability to be totally and brutally honest with ourselves. The other problem is that these websites are asking us questions like, are you a dog person or a cat person? Do you like horror films or romance films? I'm not looking for a pen pal. I'm looking for a husband. Right? So there's a certain amount of superficiality in that data. So I said fine, I've got a new plan. I'm going to keep using these online dating sites, but I'm going to treat them as databases, and rather than waiting for an algorithm to set me up, I think I'm going to try reverse-engineering this entire system. So knowing that there was superficial data that was being used to match me up with other people, I decided instead to ask my own questions. What was every single possible thing that I could think of that I was looking for in a mate? So I started writing and writing and writing, and at the end, I had amassed 72 different data points. I wanted somebody was Jew-ish, so I was looking for somebody who had the same background and thoughts on our culture, but wasn't going to force me to go to shul every Friday and Saturday. I wanted somebody who worked hard, because work for me is extremely important, but not too hard. For me, the hobbies that I have are really just new work projects that I've launched. I also wanted somebody who not only wanted two children, but was going to have the same attitude toward parenting that I do, so somebody who was going to be totally okay with forcing our child to start taking piano lessons at age three, and also maybe computer science classes if we could wrangle it. So things like that, but I also wanted somebody who would go to far-flung, exotic places, like Petra, Jordan. I also wanted somebody who would weigh 20 pounds more than me at all times, regardless of what I weighed. So I now have these 72 different data points, which, to be fair, is a lot. So what I did was, I went through and I prioritized that list. I broke it into a top tier and a second tier of points, and I ranked everything starting at 100 and going all the way down to 91, and listing things like I was looking for somebody who was really smart, who would challenge and stimulate me, and balancing that with a second tier and a second set of points. These things were also important to me but not necessarily deal-breakers. So once I had all this done, I then built a scoring system, because what I wanted to do was to sort of mathematically calculate whether or not I thought the guy that I found online would be a match with me. I figured there would be a minimum of 700 points before I would agree to email somebody or respond to an email message. For 900 points, I'd agree to go out on a date, and I wouldn't even consider any kind of relationship Well, as it turns out, this worked pretty well. So I go back online now. I found Jewishdoc57 who's incredibly good-looking, incredibly well-spoken, he had hiked Mt. Fuji, he had walked along the Great Wall. He likes to travel as long as it doesn't involve a cruise ship. And I thought, I've done it! I've cracked the code. I have just found the Jewish Prince Charming of my family's dreams. There was only one problem: He didn't like me back. And I guess the one variable that I haven't considered is the competition. Who are all of the other women on these dating sites? I found SmileyGirl1978. She said she was a "Fun girl who is Happy and Outgoing." She listed her job as "teacher." She said she is "silly, nice and friendly." She likes to make people laugh "alot." At this moment I knew, clicking profile after profile that looked like this, that I needed to do some market research. So I created 10 fake male profiles. Now, before I lose all of you -- -- understand that I did this strictly to gather data about everybody else in the system. I didn't carry on crazy Catfish-style relationships with anybody. I really was just scraping their data. But I didn't want everybody's data. I only wanted data on the women who were going to be attracted to the type of man that I really, really wanted to marry. When I released these men into the wild, I did follow some rules. So I didn't reach out to any woman first. I just waited to see who these profiles were going to attract, and mainly what I was looking at was two different data sets. So I was looking at qualitative data, so what was the humor, the tone, the voice, the communication style that these women shared in common? And also quantitative data, so what was the average length of their profile, how much time was spent between messages? What I was trying to get at here was that I figured, in person, I would be just as competitive as a SmileyGirl1978. I wanted to figure out how to maximize my own profile online. Well, one month later, I had a lot of data, and I was able to do another analysis. And as it turns out, content matters a lot. So smart people tend to write a lot -- 3,000, 4,000, 5,000 words about themselves, which may all be very, very interesting. The challenge here, though, is that the popular men and women are sticking to 97 words on average that are written very, very well, even though it may not seem like it all the time. The other hallmark of the people who do this well is that they're using non-specific language. "The English Patient" is my most favorite movie ever, but it doesn't work to use that in a profile, because that's a superficial data point, and somebody may disagree and decide they don't want to go out because they didn't like sitting through the three-hour movie. Also, optimistic language matters a lot. So this is a word cloud highlighting the most popular words that were used by the most popular women, words like "fun" and "girl" and "love." And what I realized was not that I had to dumb down my own profile. Remember, I'm somebody who said that I speak fluent Japanese and I know JavaScript and I was okay with that. The difference is that it's about being more approachable and helping people understand the best way to reach out to you. And as it turns out, timing is also really, really important. Just because you have access to somebody's mobile phone number or their instant message account and it's 2 o'clock in the morning and you happen to be awake, doesn't mean that that's a good time to communicate with those people. The popular women on these online sites spend an average of 23 hours in between each communication. And that's what we would normally do in the usual process of courtship. And finally -- there were the photos. All of the women who were popular showed some skin. They all looked really great, which turned out to be in sharp contrast to what I had uploaded. Once I had all of this information, I was able to create a super profile, so it was still me, but it was me optimized now for this ecosystem. And as it turns out, I did a really good job. I was the most popular person online. And as it turns out, lots and lots of men wanted to date me. So I call my mom, I call my sister, I call my grandmother. I'm telling them about this fabulous news, and they say, "This is wonderful! How soon are you going out?" I said, "Actually, I'm not going to go out with anybody." Because remember, in my scoring system, they have to reach a minimum threshold of 700 points, and none of them have done that. They said, "What? You're still being too damn picky." Well, not too long after that, I found this guy, Thevenin, and he said that he was culturally Jewish, he said that his job was an arctic baby seal hunter, which I thought was very clever. He talked in detail about travel. He made a lot of really interesting cultural references. He looked and talked exactly like what I wanted, and immediately, he scored 850 points. It was enough for a date. Three weeks later, we met up in person for what turned out to be a 14-hour-long conversation that went from coffee shop to restaurant to another coffee shop to another restaurant, and when he dropped me back off at my house that night I re-scored him -- [1,050 points!] Thought, you know what, this entire time, I haven't been picky enough. Well, a year and a half after that, we were non-cruise ship traveling through Petra, Jordan, when he got down on his knee and proposed. A year after that, we were married, and about a year and a half after that, our daughter, Petra, was born. Audience: Oh! Obviously, I'm having a fabulous life, so -- The question is, what does all of this mean for you? Well, as it turns out, there is an algorithm for love. It's just not the ones that we're being presented with online. In fact, it's something that you write yourself. So whether you're looking for a husband or a wife or you're trying to find your passion or you're trying to start a business, all you have to really do is figure out your own framework and play by your own rules, and feel free to be as picky as you want. Well, on my wedding day, I had a conversation again with my grandmother, and she said, "All right, maybe I was wrong. It looks like you did come up with a really, really great system. Now, your matzah balls ... They should be fluffy, not hard." And I'll take her advice on that.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
多くの方がご存知ですね皆さん切実な問題だと認めるでしょう誰だって汚染された水を飲みたくないしアオコの湖で泳ぐのもごめんですそうでしょう? がっかりさせるつもりはありませんが今回はアオコではなく代わりにこの問題の根本にある代わりにこの問題の根本にあるリンの危機についてお話ししますこのテーマを選んだのは誰も取り上げないからですこのプレゼンが終わるころにはきっと関心を持ってくださると思いますそれではそもそもアオコはなぜ発生するのでしょうか? 実は農法に起因しています作物には化学肥料を用いますでは化学肥料を使うのは何故でしょうか? 作物の成長と収穫高を良くするためですしかし同時に先例のない環境問題も引き起こしていますまずは簡単に植物の生物学をご紹介しましょう植物の成長に必要なものは何でしょうか? 光、CO2ですがそれにもまして土壌からの栄養素が欠かせません土壌からの栄養素が欠かせませんこういった栄養素は必須元素ですリン、窒素、カルシウム植物は根を用いて土から抽出します今回はリンによる重大問題に焦点を当てます何故リンなのか? やっかいな化学物質だからですこのプレゼンが終わるころには問題点と現状をご理解いただけると思いますリンは生命に欠かせない物質ですここが一番重要な点ですですからリン問題をしっかりとご理解いただきたいと思いますリンは様々な分子の構成要素でもあります生命分子体の構成要素ですこの分野の専門家なら細胞コミュニケーションはリンをベースとした-- リン酸化脱リン化としてご存知でしょう細胞膜もリンをベースにしていてこれはリン脂質と呼ばれますあらゆる生物のエネルギー源である ATPもリンをベースにしていますなによりリンは重要なDNA構成物質ですこのイメージはおなじみだと思います DNAは遺伝を司ります繰り返しますがリンは重要な物質ですではリンをどこで人間はどうやって得ているのでしょう? 先にご説明したように植物はリンを水を通じて土壌から抽出します人間は食物としてリンを摂取します植物、野菜、果物タマゴ、肉、ミルク食生活は個人差があります恵まれた食生活を送る人とそうでない人がいますこちらをご覧ください現代農業です大規模農業と呼びましょうか化学肥料の使用が基本です肥料なしでは世界の人々に行き渡る十分な生産高は望めません現在地球上の人口は70億です 40年もたたないうちに 90億に達するでしょう次世代が食べていくのに十分なリンがあるのでしょうか? この課題を理解するためにどこにリンを見出せばよいのでしょうか? ご説明しますまず私たちが肥料に使用したリンの量を 100%とするとそのうちのたった15%しか植物には届きません残りは失われてしまいますつまり 85%は土壌に浸み込み最終的には湖に溜まりますこの過剰なリンがアオコを引き起こしますこれは問題ですね何だかばかげています使用したリンの15%しか植物に届かないなんて何と無駄だとおっしゃるでしょうその通りですさらにまずいことに高くつきます誰もお金を窓から捨てるようなことはしたくありませんでもそれが現実です 85%は失われます現代農業はリンに依存しています 15%しか植物に行き渡らないわけですから更に追加してやらなくてはなりませんそのリンはどこから入手するのでしょう? 主に鉱山から採掘していますこの素晴らしい記事は 2009年に『ネイチャー』で発表されリン危機についての論争を呼び起こしました生命に必須の栄養素であるリンが減少していることをそれまで誰も口にしなかったのですおかげでリン不足に直面していることを政治家も科学者も一様に認めましたご覧いただいているのは米国の露天掘り鉱山ですその規模がお分かりになると思います右上の隅にクレーンが小さく写っていますが実際にはもちろん巨大なものですこれで縮尺がわかると思いますリンは鉱山で採掘されます石油と比較してみましょう石油危機は話題になります地球温暖化も同様ですしかしリン危機はそうではありません石油には代替物がありますバイオ燃料太陽発電に水力電力リンはそうはいきませんリンは生命にとって掛け替えのないものですでは現行の世界のリン埋蔵量はどうでしょうか? このグラフで概要をご紹介します実線はリンの埋蔵量の予測で 2030年にピークを迎えますそして今世紀末までには消滅してしまいます点線は採掘量を表していますご覧のように2030年に埋蔵量に近づきますその前に私は引退しているでしょうしかしこの大問題を避けることはできません皆さんにこの問題を認識していただきたいのです解決法はあるのでしょうか? 何をなすべきでしょうか? パラドックスに直面しています入手できるリンは減少していきます一方 2050年までに人口は90億に達するでしょう国連食糧農業機構によると 2050年には現在の2倍の食料を生産しなくてはならないそうです手に入るリンは減るのに食物を増産しなくてはならないのですどう対処すべきか? 本当にパラドックス状態です効果的にリンを使用するための解決法や代替案はあるのでしょうか? 80%は失われる運命だという事を心に留めておいてくださいそこで解決法として紹介したいのは植物が地上に現れるよりもはるか昔から存在する目には見えないほど小さな菌ですとても神秘的で単純であると同時に複雑な存在ですこの小さな菌に16年以上魅了されてきましたその結果研究を重ね菌が研究調査のモデルになりましたこの菌は根と共生していますお互いに利益をもたらす関係です菌根とも呼ばれますこのスライドで菌根の構成を説明していきますこちらは小麦の根です重要な植物のひとつですね通常根は自力でリンを見つけますリンを探し求めますが根を取り巻く半径1ミリの範囲にしか届きません 1ミリを超えてしまうと根の手には負えないのですそれ以上は無理です今度はこの小さな菌と比べてみましょう菌の成長ははるかに早くリンを見つけるのも巧みです根の限界である1ミリの範囲をやすやすと越えて行きます私が発明をしたわけではありません 4億5000万年にわたり存在してきたバイオテクノロジーです時間をかけて菌は進化しどんなわずかなリンも逃さず植物に有用にできるのです自然界のニンジンの根を見ています菌の糸状体がありますね近づいて見るとこの菌がゆっくりと根に浸透し根の細胞間で増殖しやがて細胞に入り込みますそして樹木状の形になり植物と菌の間で交換インターフェースを増長させますこの構造を通じて相互交換が始まります両得の関係です菌はリンを供給し植物は菌を養います正に共生関係ですさて今度は菌根を先ほどの図に当てはめてみましょう今回は使えるリンを100%ではなく 25%まで減らしますこの25%は植物に有益ですその90%以上が植物に届くのですから土壌へ流れるリンはわずかなものでこれならば自然な状態ですリンを加える必要のないケースもあります先ほどのグラフを思い出してみて下さい 85%のリンは土壌に流れますが植物はこれにアクセスできません土壌に存在していても溶解性ではないからです植物はその状態のリンしか利用できません菌はリンを溶解性に変え植物が利用できるようにします私の説を裏付けるための写真を用意しましたソルガム畑で実験をしたのです左側は従来通りの農法でリンを100%使用しています右側はリンを50%まで減らしています生産高を見て下さいリンの使用量は半分ですが生産性は高いのですこの方法は上手くいっているでしょうキューバ、メキシコ、インドにおいては 25%まで減らすことができさらには全くリンを足す必要がないところもありましたなぜなら菌が効果的に土壌からリンを引き出したからですこちらはカナダの大豆畑の例です畑の片側に菌根を使っています青い部分は黄色い部分より生産性が高いのです黒い長方形の区画に菌根を加えました黒い長方形の区画に菌根を加えました申し上げた通り私が発明したわけではありません菌根は4億5000年前から存在し多様化した現代植物の種にも有効ですもはや実験段階などではありません菌根は存在し実際に機能しています産業規模で生産され世界中で商品化されていますが問題はそのことが認識されていないことです生産者や農家はこの問題に気づいていません既に技術は確立していますそして技術を正しく使用すればリン埋蔵量の懸念を緩和できます私は科学者で夢がありますこのトピックに情熱を持っています引退後の夢はと聞かれたらリンのピークを迎えた際に「菌根使用」ブランドを確立し私の子供や孫たちがそのブランドの製品を購入することを夢見ているのですご清聴ありがとうございました	Okay, so most of you are. I think we can all agree it's a serious issue. Nobody wants to drink blue algae-contaminated water, or swim in a blue algae-infested lake. Right? I hope you won't be disappointed, but today, I won't be talking about blue algae. Instead, I'll be talking about the main cause at the root of this issue, which I will be referring to as the phosphorus crisis. Why have I chosen to talk to you about the phosphorus crisis today? For the simple reason that nobody else is talking about it. And by the end of my presentation, I hope that the general public will be more aware of this crisis and this issue. Now, the problem is that if I ask, why do we find ourselves in this situation with blue algae? The answer is that it comes from how we farm. We use fertilizers in our farming, chemical fertilizers. Why do we use chemical fertilizers in agriculture? Basically, to help plants grow and to produce a better yield. The issue is that this is set to engender an environmental problem that is without precedent. Before going further, let me give you a crash course in plant biology. So, what does a plant need in order to grow? A plant, quite simply, needs light, it needs CO2, but even more importantly, it needs nutrients, which it draws from the soil. Several of these nutrients are essential chemical elements: phosphorus, nitrogen and calcium. So, the plant’s roots will extract these resources. Today I'll be focusing on a major problem that is linked to phosphorus. Why phosphorus in particular? Because it is the most problematic chemical element. By the end of my presentation, you will have seen what these problems are, and where we are today. Phosphorus is a chemical element that is essential to life. This is a very important point. I’d like everyone to understand precisely what the phosphorus issue is. Phosphorus is a key component in several molecules, in many of our molecules of life. Experts in the field will know that cellular communication is phosphorus-based -- phosphorylation, dephosphorylation. Cell membranes are phosphorus-based: These are called phospholipids. The energy in all living things, ATP, is phosphorus-based. And more importantly still, phosphorus is a key component of DNA, something everyone is familiar with, and which is shown in this image. DNA is our genetic heritage. It is extremely important, and once again, phosphorus is a key player. Now, where do we find this phosphorus? As humans, where do we find it? As I explained earlier, plants extract phosphorus from the soil, through water. So, we humans get it from the things we eat: plants, vegetables, fruits, and also from eggs, meat and milk. It’s true that some humans eat better than others. Some are happier than others. And now, looking at this picture, which speaks for itself, we see modern agriculture, which I also refer to as intensive agriculture. Intensive agriculture is based on the use of chemical fertilizers. Without them, we would not manage to produce enough to feed the world's population. Speaking of humans, there are currently 7 billion of us on Earth. In less than 40 years, there will be 9 billion of us. And the question is a simple one: Do we have enough phosphorus to feed our future generations? So, in order to understand these issues, where do we find our phosphorus? Let me explain. But first, let’s just suppose that we are using 100 percent of a given dose of phosphorus. Only 15 percent of this 100 percent goes to the plant. Eighty-five percent is lost. It goes into the soil, ending its journey in the lakes, resulting in lakes with extra phosphorus, which leads to the blue algae problem. So, you’ll see there’s a problem here, something that is illogical. A hundred percent of the phosphorus is used, but only 15 percent goes to the plant. You’re going to tell me it’s wasteful. Yes, it is. What is worse is that it is very expensive. Nobody wants to throw their money out the window, but unfortunately that's what is happening here. Eighty percent of each dose of phosphorus is lost. Modern agriculture depends on phosphorus. And because in order to get 15 percent of it to the plant, all the rest is lost, we have to add more and more. Now, where will we get this phosphorus from? Basically, we get it out of mines. This is the cover of an extraordinary article published in Nature in 2009, which really launched the discussion about the phosphorus crisis. Phosphorus, a nutrient essential to life, which is becoming increasingly scarce, yet nobody is talking about it. And everyone agrees: Politicians and scientists are in agreement that we are headed for a phosphorus crisis. What you are seeing here is an open-pit mine in the U.S., and to give you an idea of the dimensions of this mine, if you look in the top right-hand corner, the little crane you can see, that is a giant crane. So that really puts it into perspective. So, we get phosphorus from mines. And if I make a comparison with oil, there’s an oil crisis, we talk about it, we talk about global warming, yet we never mention the phosphorus crisis. To come back to the oil problem, oil is something we can replace. We can use biofuels, or solar power, or hydropower, but phosphorus is an essential element, indispensable to life, and we can’t replace it. What is the current state of the world's phosphorus reserves? This graph gives you a rough idea of where we are today. The black line represents predictions for phosphorus reserves. In 2030, we’ll reach the peak. By the end of this century, it will all be gone. The dotted line shows where we are today. As you can see, they meet in 2030, I’ll be retired by then. But we are indeed heading for a major crisis, and I’d like people to become aware of this problem. Do we have a solution? What are we to do? We are faced with a paradox. Less and less phosphorus will be available. By 2050 there will be 9 billion of us, and according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, we will need to produce twice as much food in 2050 than we do today. So, we will have less phosphorus, but we'll need to produce more food. What should we do? It truly is a paradoxical situation. Do we have a solution, or an alternative which will allow us to optimize phosphorus use? Remember that 80 percent is destined to be lost. The solution I'm offering today is one that has existed for a very long time, even before plants existed on Earth, and it's a microscopic mushroom that is very mysterious, very simple, and yet also extremely complex. I've been fascinated by this little mushroom for over 16 years now. It has led me to further my research and to use it as a model for my laboratory research. This mushroom exists in symbiosis with the roots. By symbiosis, I mean a bidirectional and mutually beneficial association which is also called mycorrhiza. This slide illustrates the elements of a mycorrhiza. You’re looking at the root of wheat, one of the world’s most important plants. Normally, a root will find phosphorus all by itself. It will go in search of phosphorus, but only within the one millimeter which surrounds it. Beyond one millimeter, the root is ineffective. It cannot go further in its search for phosphorus. Now, imagine this tiny, microscopic mushroom. It grows much faster, and is much better designed to seek out phosphorus. It can go beyond the root’s one-millimeter scope to seek out phosphorus. I haven’t invented anything at all; it's a biotechnology that has existed for 450 million years. And over time, this mushroom has evolved and adapted to seek out even the tiniest trace of phosphorus, and to put it to use, to make it available to the plant. What you’re seeing here, in the real world, is a carrot root, and the mushroom with its very fine filaments. Looking closer, we can see that this mushroom is very gentle in its penetration. It will proliferate between the root's cells, eventually penetrating a cell and starting to form a typical arbuscular structure, which will considerably increase the exchange interface And it is through this structure that mutual exchanges will occur. It’s a win-win trade: I give you phosphorus, and you feed me. True symbiosis. Now let's add a mycorrhiza plant into the diagram I used earlier. And instead of using a 100 percent dose, I’m going to reduce it to 25 percent. You’ll see that of this 25 percent, most will benefit the plant, more than 90 percent. A very small amount of phosphorus will remain in the soil. That's completely natural. What's more is that in certain cases, we don't even need to add phosphorus. If you recall the graphs I showed you earlier, 85 percent of phosphorus is lost in the soil, and the plants are unable to access it. Even though it is present in the soil, it is in insoluble form. The plant is only able to seek out soluble forms. The mushroom is capable of dissolving this insoluble form and making it available for the plant to use. To further support my argument, here is a picture that speaks for itself. These are trials in a field of sorghum. On the left side, you see the yield produced using conventional agriculture, with a 100 percent phosphorus dose. On the other side, the dose was reduced to 50 percent, and just look at the yield. With only a half-dose, we achieved a better yield. This is to show you that this method works. And in some cases, in Cuba, Mexico and India, the dose can be reduced to 25 percent, and in several other cases, there's no need to add any phosphorus at all, because the mushrooms are so well adapted to finding phosphorus and drawing it from the soil. This is an example of soy production in Canada. Mycorrhiza was used in one field but not in the other. And here, where blue indicates a better yield, and yellow a weaker yield. The black rectangle is the plot from which the mycorrhiza was added. In other words, as I already said, I have invented nothing. Mycorrhiza has existed for 450 million years, and it has even helped modern-day plant species to diversify. So, this it isn't something that is still undergoing lab tests. Mycorrhiza exists, it works, it's produced at an industrial scale and commercialized worldwide. The problem is that people are not aware of it. People like food producers and farmers are still not aware of this problem. We have a technology that works, and one that, if used correctly, will alleviate some of the pressure we are putting on the world's phosphorus reserves. In conclusion, I am a scientist and a dreamer. I'm passionate about this topic. So if you were to ask me what my retirement dream is, which will be at the moment we reach that phosphorus peak, it would be that we use one label, "Made with mycorrhiza," and that my children and grandchildren buy products bearing that label too. Thank you for your attention.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
その馬車から、ひとり、男性が急いでいる様子で降りてきて、こう言った。「おい、ラハンド! 今来たぞ。さぁ、早く馬車に乗り込めっ!」ラハンドさんは走るのをやめ、私達をそっと降ろし、その男の人の言う通りに馬車に乗り込んだ。馬車に乗り込んだ瞬間、ラハンドさんが呻き始める。かなり辛そうだ。これが重ねがけの副作用? マーゴちゃんが苦しそうにしているラハンドさんの背中をさすっている。男の人はラハンドさんに向かってこう言った。「おい、ラハンド。まさか同種補助魔法を連続で重ねがけしたんじゃないだろうな?」それに、ゴッグ君が答える。「はい、ガバイナさん。重ねがけしました......ラハンドさんが言うには、それしか方法がなかったみたいですから...」この人がガバイナっていう人なのね。ガバイナさんは話を続ける。「でも、まぁ。お前がいきなりメッセージで俺に『ヘルの森の入り口まで馬車を出せ』なんて言うから驚いた。......依頼主にはもう報告したのか?」ラハンドさんはまだ苦しそうだが、首をコクコクと縦にふる。「そうか。まぁ、やむをえんな。身体中が痛むかもしれんが少し我慢してろ。あの娘のもとに連れて行ったら、痛みを和らげてくれるかもしれん」ガバイナさんの言葉に対し、ゴッグさんはこう言った。「あの娘って...≪天の魔剣少女≫のことですか? あの娘に副作用が和らげられるんですか?」「あぁ、そうだゴッグ。あの娘はすごいぞ。いまから連絡する」 ≪天の魔剣少女≫っ!? しばらして、連絡が終わったのか、ガバイナさんはこう言った。「ふむ、彼女はどうやら了承してくれたようだが、いかんせん忙しいらしい。[ヒカリ]という宿屋の店主に物を渡しとくそうだからそこで受け取ってくれと。それまでの辛抱だぞ、ガバイナよ」私はゴッグ君に、≪天の魔剣少女≫って何者なのか聞いてみる。「武闘大会は前に教えたよね? 彼女最近にあった武闘大会Aランクの部の優勝者で、その時にSランクに上がったんだけど......。歳がまだ適正年齢以下、君と同じ12歳なんだよね。そして、その歳にして、極みの魔法、さらには魔剣まで扱っている。だから≪天の魔剣少女≫さ。しかもこの間、この国の姫様をSランクの魔物から庇ってね、しかもその魔物を一瞬で倒したというんだ。その場にラハンドさんも居て、王族の方達を庇ったらしくてね、その娘とラハンドさんは国から表彰されたんだよ。もはや生きる伝説だね」私と同じ12歳で...すでに伝説の人物...か。すごい娘もいたものね。天才ってやつかしら? そう考えてると、ガバイナさんがやっと私に気づいたようで、私に話しかけてきた。「ん? 娘子よ、ところでお前は一体?」その問いにもゴッグ君が答えた。「この娘は、俺たちが森で保護したんです。なぜか森の中で倒れてて......記憶もないらしくて」「......それはまた......不思議なことがあったものだな。ところで、娘子よ。名は何と言う? 名はわかるのだろう?」私は名前を答える。「ミカって言います...」「ほう、ミカか......ミカ? どこかで聞いたような...気のせいか? 歳はいくつなんだ?」なんか微妙な反応された。ミカって人が他にいるんだろうか? まぁ、多分、ガバイナさんの気のせいだよね。「歳は12です!」「そうか、ならばアリムと同い年だな」アリム......? あれ、どっかで聞いたことあるような...。どこだったかしら? ガバイナさんのがうつった? 「あの...アリムってだれですか?」「ん? あぁ≪天の魔法少女≫のことだ。俺は彼女と仕事を共にしたことがあってな。それから何回かやりとりしてるんだ」そうか、だからガバイナさん、その娘と連絡できたのね。ラハンドさん曰く、何度か話したことがある人でないと脳内メッセージは送れないらしいし。そんなこと思い出していると、ガバイナさんが驚きのことを話した。「そういえば、アリムも12歳にして記憶喪失だと言っていたな。森の中に居たところを助けて貰ったのだとか。12歳で、記憶が消えてしまって、森の中に放って置かれる...。偶然とは思えない共通点だな。ミカよ......ミカ?」そうだ、そうだ、そうだった! 私は今、今、思い出した! アリム......そう、アリムは、アイツのゲームの時のユーザーネーム...。私と同じ12歳で、森の中で記憶がない状態で見つかった......。記憶がないことは、私と同じ誤魔化しているだけだとしたら...。まさか、まさか、アリムって......有夢なんじゃっ......!? その答えに追い打ちをかけるように、ガバイナさんはさらに驚きのことを言う。「どうした? ミカ......そう、あとミカ、ミカだ。思い出した! アリムが、俺との仕事中、寝言で『ミカ』と、何度も言っていたんだ。あと、父と母と...カナタだったか? 相当うなされていたな......。とにかくそんな感じの名を呼んでたな。共通点が共通点だしな。もしかしたら、ミカよ。お前となにか過去にあったんじゃないか? 会ってみればわかると思うが」 .........カナタ!?......叶はアイツの弟......。アイツがこの世界にいる! 有夢が生きてる! ぁぁっ! 神様...。私は、有夢に、有夢にまた......! 私は大好きな人がこの世界で生きている喜びに震え、泣きそうになるも、涙をこらえる。「ん? ミカよ。どうした? 辛そうだな。......っと、もう少しで王都に着く。宿屋についたら、ロビーで一旦横になるといい」もう少しで有夢にあえるんだ。わたしは近づいてくるおおきな城壁に、アイツと再会できる喜びを感じていた。ラハンドさんも、楽になれるらしいし。早くこの時間が過ぎてしまえばいいのにな。	From the carriage, a man came down in a hurry and said, 「Hey, The Hand! I just got here. Now, get in the carriage! 」 The Hand-san stopped running, and gently let us down, then boarded the carriage. As soon as he gets in the carriage, The Hand-san begins to moan. It looks like he is in some pain. Is this the side effect of stacking? Margo-chan rubs the back of The Hand-san who is suffering. The man says to The Hand-san, 「Hey, The Hand. No way, did you stack the same auxiliary magic multiple times? 」 To this, Gog-kun replied, 「Yes, Gabaina-san. The magic was stacked... The Hand-san said there was no other way...」 Apparently this person is Gabaina. Gabaina-san continues, 「But, well. I was surprised to suddenly receive a message saying 『Bring a carriage to the entrance of Hell Forest』... have you reported to the client?」 The Hand-san still seems to be in pain. He jerkily shakes his head. 「I see. Well, can’t be helped. Endure for now. I will take you to that girl, she will be able to relieve your pain.」 In response to Gabaina-san, Gog-san asked, 「That girl... is she the ≪ Heavenly Sword Girl≫? Can she relieve side effects? 」「Oh, that’s right Gog. She is amazing. I will contact her now.」 ≪Heavenly Sword Girl≫!? After a while Gabaina-san said the contact was done, then said, 「Hmm, she has acknowledged me, but apparently she is busy right now. She will leave a potion with the owner of [Hikari] inn, so we will be going there. Be patient, The Hand」(source says Gabaina but it’s Gabaina speaking... I think it’s a typo and should be The Hand) I ask Gog-kun what sort of person the ≪Heavenly Sword Girl≫ is. 「Remember the battle tournament we talked of before? She was the winner of the A-ranked section, and was promoted to S-rank... She is below the age of maturity, only being twelve years old. And that girl excelled at extremely strong magic and used a magic sword. That’s why she’s called ≪Heavenly Sword Girl≫. Furthermore, recently she protected the princess form an S-ranked monster, apparently she took it down in an instant. The Hand-san was there and saw it, they protected the royal family and she and The Hand-san where commended by the country. Already a living legend.」 At the same twelve years age as me... and already a legendary person... huh. A really amazing girl is it. I guess a genius? While I had that on my mind, Gabaina-san finally noticed me and spoke to me, 「Hmm? You girl, by the way, who are you? 」 Gog-kun answered in my stead. 「We protected this girl in the forest. For some reason she had fainted in the middle of the forest.... and she didn’t have any memories...」「... yet again... something strange. By the way, girl, what is your name? Do you remember your name? 」 I replied with my name. 「I am called Mika...」「Oh, Mika.... Mika? I think I’ve heard that name before... or it is my imagination? How old are you?」 He had a questioning expression. Is there another person named Mika? Well, it’s probably in Gabaina-san’s imagination. 「I am years old!」「That so, then you’re the same age as Alim」 Alim...? Oh, I heard that name recently... where was it? Was it from Gabaina-san? 「Umm... who is Alim?」「Hmm? Ahh, she’s the one known as ≪Heavenly Sword Girl≫. We have worked together before. Since then we have talked a number of times.」 That so, so Gabaina-san can get in contact with her. The Hand-san said that sending a telepathic message only works with those you have spoken to a number of times. While I was recalling that, Gabaina-san seemed surprised and said, 「Speaking of which, Alim is also years old and has amnesia. She received help in the middle of the woods. Twelve years old, memory loss, lost in the woods... So many points in common that it coincidence seems unlikely. Mika... Mika?」 Yes, yes, that’s it! Right now, now, I remember! Alim... Yes, Alim was his game username... Same twelve years old, found in the woods without memory... Not being able to remember, the same deception as me... No way, no way, Alim... am I dreaming...!? Gabaina-san adds even more surprise as he answers his question. 「What’s wrong Mika? Mika... Oh yea, where I heard Mika. I remember! While working with Alim, she was sleep talking saying 『Mika』over and over. She also mentioned, mama and papa... and Kanata? It sounded like she was having a nightmare... Anyways, she was calling out like that... there is enough in common. And perhaps, Mika, you should go meet with her? Consider it.」 ....Kanata!? ...that’s the name of his brother... He is in this world! My dream came true! Aaaaa! God... My dream, my dream again...! I tremble with joy at living in this world, and want to cry, but I hold in my tears. 「Hmm? Mika, what’s wrong? Not feeling well? .... we are almost at the royal capital. When we arrive at the inn, you should lie down in the lobby.」 I feel like I am dreaming. As we approach the large walls, I feel joy at meeting him well up within me. The Hand-san seems to be anticipating as well. (???) I can’t wait to arrive.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 1, "inserted_lines_src": 2, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
お見せしたいと思いますこれが404ページですウェブ上で経験する残念な体験です特定のウェブページを要求して見つからなかった際にはデフォルトで404ページを応答として返す仕組みとなっていますこれを経験すると本質的に喪失感を味わいます皆さんも思い返してみてくださいこれにぶち当たった時はうっとうしさを感じますよねなぜならこれは関係が壊れた時の気持ちだからですしかし同時に興味深くもあります 404はどこから来たのか? 実はこれはエラーの一群の一種です関係に基づくエラーの集合でこれらを調べ始めてみるとまるでセックスセラピストや恋愛カウンセラーのチェックリストみたいに見えます下に行く程ヤバくなっていきますそうなんですでもこれはサイトの大小に関わらずどこにでも存在しますこれはグローバルな体験なんです 404ページはあなたの要求が無視されていることを教えてくれますこの経験に気を悪くするのは例えばこんな経験に慣れている方です Kinectを使ってユニコーン達を踊らせたり携帯電話から虹を出したりしている最中に 404ページは出て欲しくありませんよねこれが出た瞬間まるで頬を殴られたかのような感覚を味わいます 404がどんなものか例を挙げますねスターバックスに行ってみるとスキムミルクが切れてましたカウンター越しの男性店員に「スキムミルクをお願いします」と言うと出てきた彼はパンツを履いていません「うわそんなの見たくなかったのに」これこそ 404の感覚ですこれは実話だそうですよこれがどう関わってきてなぜ重要かなのですが私はテクノロジーインキュベーターを率いており 8社ものスタートアップを擁しています彼らはどうならないかよりどうあるべきかに重点を置いていますでもある日 Atheletepathというエクストリーム・アスリート向けのサービスに重点を置くウェブサイトがこの動画を発見しました男性:ジョウイ! 観客:ウワァァァ! レニー・グレッソン:彼は ... いや大丈夫じゃなさそうですねこのビデオを彼らの404ページに埋め込んだのですがそれを見て全員のもやもやが晴れましたなぜならようやく実際に 404に遭遇した時の気持ちを味わえるページが出来たからです (拍手) そしてこれはコンテストに発展しましたひらめきを提供するDailypathは彼らの404ページに刺激を加えましたソーシャルネットワーク内でペットシッター探しを支援するStayhoundは自分のペットの気の毒な姿を表示しますこんなのが見れます 24時間コンテストです翌日の4時04分に 404ドルもの賞金を渡しました彼らが学んだのはこういう小さい事も実は重要であり良質なデザインはブランドになるということです外の世界を見渡してみましょう楽しいことに実際に404はいじれます URLを入力後 404を追加するだけでこれが表示されますこれはあなたを哀れんでくれるページこれはあなたを責めるページこれは私のお気に入りですこれはエラーページですが同時にこのページがチャンスでもあったらどうでしょう? これらのスタートアップが立ち止まって考えその可能性に興奮した瞬間でしたなぜなら始めの関係性の問題の話題に戻りますが彼らがこの教訓から学んだのは小さなミスからそういう存在でないことを伝えてしまうよりも愛すべき関係を築ける可能性に気づけたということですありがとうございました	The 404 page is that. It's that broken experience on the Web. It's effectively the default page when you ask a website for something and it can't find it. And it serves you the 404 page. It's inherently a feeling of being broken when you go through it. And I just want you to think a little bit about, remember for yourself, it's annoying when you hit this thing. Because it's the feeling of a broken relationship. And that's where it's actually also interesting to think about, where does 404 come from? It's from a family of errors actually -- a whole set of relationship errors, which, when I started digging into them, it looks almost like a checklist for a sex therapist or a couples counselor. You sort of get down there to the bottom and things get really dicey. Yes. But these things are everywhere. They're on sites big, they're on sites small. This is a global experience. What a 404 page tells you is that you fell through the cracks. And that's not a good experience when you're used to experiences like this. You can get on your Kinect and you can have unicorns dancing and rainbows spraying out of your mobile phone. A 404 page is not what you're looking for. You get that, and it's like a slap in the face. Trying to think about how a 404 felt, and it would be like if you went to Starbucks and there's the guy behind the counter and you're over there and there's no skim milk. And you say, "Hey, could you bring the skim milk?" And they walk out from behind the counter and they've got no pants on. And you're like, "Oh, I didn't want to see that." That's the 404 feeling. I mean, I've heard about that. So where this comes into play and why this is important is I head up a technology incubator, and we had eight startups sitting around there. And those startups are focused on what they are, not what they're not, until one day Athletepath, which is a website that focuses on services for extreme athletes, found this video. Guy: Joey! Crowd: Whoa! Renny Gleeson: You just ... no, he's not okay. They took that video and they embedded it in their 404 page and it was like a light bulb went off for everybody in the place. Because finally there was a page that actually felt like what it felt like to hit a 404. So this turned into a contest. Dailypath that offers inspiration put inspiration on their 404 page. Stayhound, which helps you find pet sitters through your social network, commiserated with your pet. Each one of them found this. It turned into a 24-hour contest. At 4:04 the next day, we gave out $404 in cash. And what they learned was that those little things, done right, actually matter, and that well-designed moments can build brands. So you take a look out in the real world, and the fun thing is you can actually hack these yourself. You can type in an URL and put in a 404 and these will pop. This is one that commiserates with you. This is one that blames you. This is one that I loved. This is an error page, but what if this error page was also an opportunity? So it was a moment in time where all of these startups had to sit and think and got really excited about what they could be. Because back to the whole relationship issue, what they figured out through this exercise was that a simple mistake can tell me what you're not, or it can remind me of why I should love you. Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
長老に案内されてやってきたのは、風雲山の端っこだ。木製の柵を乗り越えた先は断崖絶壁。落ちれば引っかかるものはなく、はるか下の地面ま線だろう。はこの断崖絶壁を這い上ってくるのです。あなた様にはあやつがこの里にたどり着く前に討伐していただきたい」防衛ラインに達するまでに敵を倒せというクエストか。時間制限があるバトルって焦るんだよなぁ。特に敵がどんどん接近してくるタイプは圧迫感がある。それにこの地面に対して垂直な壁を登ってくる敵を山の上から攻撃するってキツくないか? 後衛職ならまだなんとかなるけど、前衛職とかほぼ攻撃不可能だと思う。「足場に関してはご安心ください。我ら里の者の秘術で特別な雲をご用意いたしました」なるほど、これなら戦える。里の雲は空を流れていくだけの雲と違い、重心移動で動きをコントロールできるのだ。右に重心を寄せれば右に、左なら左に。下に降りる時は腰を少し落とし、上昇する時はピンと背筋を伸ばす。非常に直感的な操作が可能だ。「まるで筋斗雲だ」雲に乗って木の柵を越え、風雲山の外側へ。敵はまだ出現していない。「それではご武運を!」スッと長老の姿が見えなくなる。不具合ではなく仕様だ。いま俺は『戦闘空間』に隔離されている。理由はこの戦闘がクエストの一部だからだ。フィールドに普段から存在するボス、例えばゴリラや風雲竜は戦ってもいいし、逃げてもいい。だが、クエストボスはそうもいかない。依頼を受けた以上、勝っても負けても結果に応じたイベントが起こる。『戦闘空間』は見えざる壁で囲まれていて、雲に乗って遠くへ逃げることも、里の中に逃げ込むことも許されない。勝つか、負けるか......どちらかの結末を迎えるまで戦い続けるしかないのだ。 ......なんだか血生臭い言い回しをしてしまった。他にもクエストを受けていない人を戦闘に関わらせないという効果もある。ともにクエストを進めているパーティメンバーならば問題ないが、完全な部外者にはそもそも戦闘シーンが見えない。クエストはストーリー要素が絡むのでネタバレ防止の意味もある。「ん? 急に空が暗く......」日が落ち、昇ってきた月すらも暗雲に覆い隠される。代わりに風雲山の周りには無数の赤ちょうちんが浮かび、山全体を照らす。空間が隔離されているから、こういう派手な演出も出来るんだな。ズ......ズズ......ズズズ...... 形容しがたい音が真っ暗な地上から聞こえる。どうやらお出ましのようだ。影のような黒い肌に無数の目を持つ怪異『ヒタヒタと断崖絶壁を這い登ってくる。同時に体中に赤い瞳が現れた。ここを狙ってくださいと言わんばかりに目立つ赤だ。しかし、目がたくさんある怪物って多いけど、VRで見るとすごい気持ち悪さだ。集合体恐怖症の人は絶対ダメだろうな。同時に爬虫類感もしっかり表現されているので、それ系の生き物が苦手な人もキツそうだ。本当にこのゲームってモンスターは倒さないといけない気にさせるデザインにしてあるよな。もちろん誉め言葉だ。「ロック! マルチショット!」キリリリリ......シュッ! 10個の瞳に矢がヒット。ダメージを負った目は閉じられる。これなら残っている目の数と位置が把握しやすいな。いま開いている目をすべて閉じさせれば、何か起こるはずだ。的がデカいし、動きはそこまで素早くない。今はこの攻撃を繰り返すだけでいい。連続で【マルチショット】を当て続けたことで、変化はすぐに起こった。ギュギギギギ......ギギギ......ギギ......ッ! トカゲがうめき声をあげ、よたよたと後退。そして、長い舌を天に向かって突き出した。舌にはひと際大きな目玉がある。「弱点が出た......!」目玉系ボスは目玉をすべて攻撃すると本当の弱点を見せる......。「風雲一陣!」ビュオオオオオオォォォォォォ.........ッ! 真下へ吹き降ろすように突風が吹く。トカゲはさらに下へと後退する。このスキルの効果はそれだけにとどまらない。矢は風に乗り、威力と射程をさらに増す! 「全力連射ッ! インファイトアロー!」『全力連射』というのは気持ちの問題で新スキルではない。とにかく弱点が表に出ているうちに撃つべし、撃つべし! しばらくするとトカゲは舌を引っ込め、また崖のぼりを再開した。さらに目玉にコウモリの羽が付いたような雑魚敵をばらまいてきた。数は30くらいいるかな? すべて【マルチショット】の餌食になった。再び開かれた全身の目を撃って、出てきた舌にも矢を撃つだけ。トカゲはロクに登ることも出来ずにずるずる後退。しまいには地面まで戻されてしまった。ただ、ここで攻撃パターンが増えた。風雲山の周りを浮遊しているちょうちんの火が一斉に消え、代わりにトカゲの目が赤々と発光する。俺はこの時点でピンと来て逃げる体勢を作る。目からビームだ。無数の真っ赤な光の線が空を切り裂く。危うく乗ってる雲もろとも真にされかけたが、コツを掴めば当たる攻撃ではない。トカゲの目玉と目が合うと、それは俺の頭にビームが飛んでくる証拠。しかし、どの目玉とも目が合わない位置に行けば、あとは動かずとも避けられる。新しい攻撃をやり過ごしたら、また同じ動作の繰り返し。流石にパターン繰り返すだけでは倒せなかった。そもそもこれは風雲竜を倒し、証を手に入れた者が受けるクエスト。トカゲもそれ相応にHPが多いはずだ。さらにMMOの強敵というのはパーティで戦うことを前提に設定されている。ソロなうえ、そもそも火力不足の俺は風を吹かせてブーストしても時間がかかる。知らず知らずのうちに修羅の道を歩んでるな、俺。「でも、このクエストはなんとかなったぞ」トカゲの影のような黒い体が白く染まり、光となって散った。空を覆っていた暗雲も消え去り、元の青空が戻ってきた。俺の......勝ちだ。パターン化できたので風雲竜よりはずっと楽だったが、やはり長期戦は疲れるな。長老に結果を伝えたら休憩を入れよう。それにしても、こんな奇怪なボスを倒したんだからドロップアイテムもレアな物が......出なかった。お金すら出なかった。クエストボスはそういう仕様なのか? 少し残念だな......。まあ、とにかく長老に報告してクエストを終わらせよう。「長老様、敵を倒すことが出来ました」「ええ知っておりますとも。見事に試練を乗り越えられました」「それはどうも......って、試練?」「騙すようなことをして、申し訳ありませぬ!」長老は頭を下げて、すべてを話してくれた。この里はそもそも立地が立地なので外の世界と隔絶されていた。ある時から他の街との交易を始めたのだが、それ以降『風雲竜伝説』を聞きつけた心無い人が『偽の風雲竜の証』を持ち、里のしきたりを利用してもてなしを受けようとしてきた。技術は発達していて、里の者では見分けがつかない。そこでとりあえず一日はもてなし、それ以降は怪異の退治を持ちかけるようになった。退治していただければ、これからもおもてなしをしますよ......と。その怪異とは里の術士が複数で操る大型の式神。つまり、モンスターではなかったのだ。道理でドロップアイテムもお金も出ないわけだ。人が作った物だから当然風雲竜より弱い。いろいろ納得した。「理由はよくわかりました。私は怒っていませんよ。むしろ、納得してスッキリした気分です。では、私はこれで......」「お待ちください!」「は、はい!」「真の証を持つお方に行うおもてなしは、何も宿の割引だけではございません!」試練を越えたらタダのままになるってわけじゃないんだな。「まずはこの二つの装備をお受け取り下さい!」「これは......風雲装備!」「はい、『羽織』と『袴』と『足袋』は風雲竜様から授けられたと思いますが、残りは我々が『証』を持つお方に合うものを選んでお渡しすることになっているのです」つまり、風雲竜のドロップ品は誰が倒しても共通だけど、里で貰える装備は人によって違うんだな。俺の場合は弓に合わせた装備だ。種類:両腕グローブ攻撃:35 防御:15 射程:50 武器スキル:なし種類:頭部マフラー HP:30 MP:70 は矢を引く指を守るものらしい。あまり柔軟性のないガチガチの革で三本の指を覆う。弓を引くのは問題ないが、それ以外の動作は少しやりにくいな。ゴリラの拳はああ見えて繊細な動きが出来る。また射程は変わらないが防御面とスキル面はあっちが勝る。こちらは攻撃が伸びるのは見逃せない。あと数値では表示されてないけどすごく軽い。ゴリラの拳はデカいから盾にもなるけど、その分重かったからなぁ。一長一短。場合によってはあちらと使い分けることになるだろう。襟巻はマフラーだ。それもかなり長くて風になびく。立っているだけで絵になってカッコいい。頭部防具はHPとかMPが伸びるんだな。 MPは頻繁に消費しては回復するので最大値が上がったのは大幅強化だ。「素晴らしい装備をありがとうございます。大事に使わせていただきます。では......」「お待ちください! 風雲装備は......まだございます」「えっ!?」「里の宝物庫にご案内いたします。そこで風雲装備、最後の一つをお渡しします」風雲装備の防具だけじゃないのか? 最後の一つ、一体どんな装備なんだ......。	The place that the elder led me to was the edge of the Windcloud Mountain. Once we passed a wooden fence, the steep cliff was all that was ahead. If you fell, there would be nothing to break your fall. It would be a straight journey to the bottom. “The “Hundred-Eyed Demon Lizard climbs up these cliffs. And I want you to kill it before it reaches us.” In other words, the quest was about defeating the enemy before it crossed the defense line. Battles with time limits made me nervous. You really felt the pressure as the enemy got closer and closer. Besides, how were you supposed to attack an enemy climbing up a straight wall, when you were up here? Perhaps it would be fine for the rear guard, but it would be nearly impossible for the vanguard. “Don’t worry about a place to stand. We have used a secret art in order to prepare a special cloud for you.” I see. I would be able to fight then. Unlike normal clouds that would drift away, the clouds here could be controlled by shifting your center of gravity. Lean to the right and you would move right. It was the same with the left. And if you wanted to go down, just squat a little. If you want to go up, stand straight with your back stretched. It was possible to control it quite intuitively. “It’s like a Kintoun.” And so I rode the cloud, crossed the wooden fence and moved away from Windcloud Mountain. The enemy had yet to appear. “Good luck!” The elder said before disappearing. It wasn’t a glitch. The area had now become isolated as a ‘battleground.’ This was because this battle was part of the quest. With the bosses that normally existed on the field, like the gorilla or Wincloud Dragon, you had the freedom of fighting or running whenever you wanted. But it was different with quest bosses. Once you accepted it, the event would continue, depending on the results of the fights. It didn’t matter if you won or lost. The ‘battle area’ was surrounded by an invisible wall, so you could not use the cloud to run far away or return to the settlement. You had to win or lose... The fight must continue until you reach either outcome. ...Well, that made things sound more gruesome than it was. It was also to prevent the involvement of people who were not part of the quest. That wouldn’t be a problem if they were party members who were doing the same quest, but if you were a complete outsider, you wouldn’t even be able to watch the fight. As these quests had story elements as well, this was a good way to avoid spoiling players. “Hmm? The sky has suddenly become darker...” The sun descended and the moon rose. However, it was covered by clouds. Instead, countless red paper lanterns appeared around the Windcloud Mountain, illuminating the entire place. As I was now isolated, they were able to make these kinds of dramatic changes. Zu...zuzu...zuzuzu... A sound that I found difficult to describe suddenly came from the darkness below me. Apparently, it had arrived. The Hundred-Eyed Demon Lizard. It was black as a shadow and had numerous eyes. It started to climb up the face of the cliff. At the same time, I saw the red eyes that covered its body. They were so eye-catching, it was like they were begging me to target them. However, while monsters with lots of eyes were hardly unusual, it was certainly much more unsettling to see on in VR. People who had trypophobia would not be able to handle it. Not only that, but it was a proper reptile as well, which could be rough for people who hated such creatures. The monsters in this game were really designed so that you felt like you had to kill them no matter what. And I meant that as a compliment. “Lock! Multi-shot!” Kiririri...shu! The arrows hit ten of the eyes. And the eyes closed after taking damage. Like this, it was easy to keep track of which eyes you had to shoot. The targets were large and its movements weren’t too fast. After spamming ‘Multi-shot’ for a while, the change occurred. Gyugigigi...gigigi...gigi...! The lizard let out a shriek, and then it started to stagger backwards. And then it thrust out its long tongue towards the sky. There was an especially large eyeball on the tip. “Its weakness...!” These eyeball type bosses showed their weakness after you attacked all of their eyes... “Windcloud Blast!” Byuuooooooo...! A blast of wind shot down as if to push something. The lizard retreated even farther. But that wasn’t the only effect of this skill. The arrows rode the wind, and their force and range increased! “All-out Rapid Fire! In Fight Arrow!” ‘All-out Rapid Fire’ wasn’t a new skill. I just felt like saying it. In any case, I had to keep shooting while its weakness was still exposed! After a while, the lizard pulled its tongue back in and returned to climbing up the cliff. Furthermore, smaller enemies that looked like eyeballs with bat wings had suddenly appeared everywhere. There were around thirty of them. However, they would all become victims of ‘Multi-shot.’ And so I just needed to repeat the same attacks. Shoot the eyes around the body that had opened again, and then shoot at the tongue that came out after that. The lizard continued to retreat, without being able to make any progress in its upward climb. Eventually, it went all the way back to the ground. However, at this point, its attack patterns changed. The lanterns that floated around the mountain suddenly disappeared all at once, and instead, the lizard’s eyes started to glow red. And so I prepared to escape. If the eyes were glowing, it was obvious what was going to happen. Eye beams. Numerous red lights cut through the sky. And so the cloud I was riding on was nearly cut in half. However, they were easy enough to dodge once you got the hang of it. Once the lizard’s eyes fixed on me, it was a signal that a beam would come shooting towards my head. However, if I was in a spot where our eyes wouldn’t meet, I could dodge the attacks easily. After surviving the new attacks, I just had to repeat the same actions. But repeating the pattern three times was not enough to defeat it. This was a quest that you could only accept after defeating the Windcloud Dragon and acquiring the proof. And so the lizard had a hefty amount of HP as well. Furthermore, most strong enemies in MMOs were supposed to be fought with a party. And since I was solo and lacked firepower, it would take some time, even when boosting my attacks with wind. Without realizing it, I was walking down the road of hardship. “Still, I somehow made it.” The black shape that looked like a lizard’s shadow started to turn white. Then it dispersed into light. The dark clouds in the sky faded away and the blue sky returned. I...win. As there was an obvious pattern, it was easier than the Windcloud Dragon. However, these long battles were tiring. I would have to get some rest after telling the elder about the results. That being said, it was such a strange boss, that I was sure it would drop a rare item...but it didn’t. I didn’t even earn any gold. Were all quest bosses like this? It was a little disappointing... Well, in any case, I had to go and tell the elder and finish up. “Elder. I was able to defeat the enemy.” “Yes, I know. I was quite impressed at how you handled the test.” “Thank you... Uh, test?” “I’m terribly sorry to have deceived you!” The elder bowed his head and explained everything. As this settlement was on such elevated land, it was isolated from the outside world. At some point they started to trade with other towns. However, villainous people who had heard of the legend of the Windcloud Dragon had come with ‘fake proofs’ and tried to take advantage of the settlement’s tradition. And the outside world had such high skills when it came to forgery. How were the people of the settlement supposed to tell them apart? And so they decided to treat the visitors as guests for a day and then have them defeat a terrible beast. And if they succeed, they would be accepted... This terrible creature was in fact a type of large familiar that was being controlled by the people of the settlement. In other words, it wasn’t an actual monster. So that’s why there weren’t any drop items or gold. And since it was made by people, it was weaker than the Windcloud Dragon. It all made sense. “I understand the reason now. And I’m not angry. I feel a lot better now that I know. Well, I’ll be leaving...” “Please wait!” “Ye-yes?” “We do more for those who have the true proof. It’s not just a discount at the inn!” It wasn’t like you could stay for free after the test. “First, please accept these two items!” “This...Windcloud equipment!” “Yes. I think you have already acquired the ‘Haori,’ ‘Hakama’ and ‘Tabi’ from the Lord Windcloud Dragon, and we are supposed to choose the rest and hand it to the person who has the ‘proof.’” In other words, the Windcloud Dragon dropped the same thing no matter who defeated it, but the equipment you received at the settlement was different depending on the person. In my case, it took into account that I was an archer. Attack: Defense: Range: Weapon Skill: None HP: MP: 70 Weapon Skill: None The Archer’s Glove was to protect your fingers when shooting. It was made of very tough leather and covered three of your fingers. While it would be comfortable enough when using the bow, any other movement would feel very restricting. In spite of appearances, the gorilla fists were quite comfortable for subtle movement. And while it didn’t affect range, it was also superior in terms of defense and skills. But I couldn’t ignore the increase in attack power here. There was also the fact that it was light, even though that part wasn’t included in its stats. The gorilla fists were so big that they could act as a shield, but that meant they were also quite heavy. Advantages and disadvantages. I would probably end up alternating between the two depending on the need. Then there was the scarf. It was long and flowed in the wind. Even just standing there, it looked very cool. And I hadn’t even known that head gear affected your HP and MP. As I used and recovered MP all of the time, it was pretty great to have it raised. “Thank you for the wonderful equipment. I will use it well. Now...” “One moment, please! There is still more...of the Windcloud equipment.” “What!?” “Allow me to take you to the treasure room. There, I will give the last item.” So it wasn’t just five items to complete the whole set? I wonder what the last item could be...	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 3, "inserted_lines_src": 9, "inserted_lines_trg": 9 }
癒されたのだか、痛めつけられたのだか、よくわからない入浴を終えて、俺達は自室に戻っていた。夕食は部屋に運んでもらうよう頼んであるので、時間まで俺達はそれぞれ好きなように暇をつぶして過ごしていた。夜営の寝袋とは違い、床の敷物にほのかに温かみがあるのが悪くない。草の香りが実にグッドだ。うつぶせに寝そべっていると、ミシェルちゃんとレティーナが俺の背に圧し掛かってきた。「ニコルちゃん、まだお疲れー?」「マッサージします? わたし、ちょっと目覚めてしまいましたわ」俺は背中に幼を載せながら、荷物の中からあるアイテムを取り出して眺めていた。俺もアイテムを識別する能力を持たないので、このアイテムに込められた効果がわからない。マジックアイテムである事だけはわかる。「こんな事なら、さっきの白いのに鑑定してもらえばよかったな」だが逃げ足だけは一級品の白いのは、それを話題に出す暇もない程の速度で逃げた。おかげで持て余しているといっていい。しかし、今日の俺はツイている。この町に来る途中で商人と知己を得たのだ。これを利用しない手はない。「確か、ビル・ウィースって言ったか。探し出して鑑定をしてもらうのも有りだよな」アイテムを鑑定するのは、識別系のギフトを持っているか、そう言った品に今、レイドの生まれ変わりの存在を疑っている連中に、出所不明のマジックアイテムを提示するなど、自殺行為でしかない。商人ならば、ギフトかスキルのどちらかを持っている可能性は高い。「そのためには......コイツ等をどうにかしないとなぁ」「んー?」「なにかいいまして?」レティーナの力はそれほど強くないので問題ないのだが、ミシェルちゃんがすごく痛い。「ミシェルちゃん、そこちがう。痛い」「え、そう? ここだと思ったのになぁ」「素人は下手に手を出しちゃダメだよ。ちゃんと監視してもらわないと」「ニコルちゃんも素人じゃない?」「わたしはフィニアに長年マッサージされているので、知識があるの」言わば、幼女の小山のような状態にフィニアとコルティナが微笑まし気な視線を向けてくる。「あれ、ニコルちゃん、なんかいい物持ってるわね?」「ん。家を出る時にこっそりくすねてきた」かつての冒険で手に入れたマジックアイテムが、結構無造作に置いてあったので、そういう事にしておいても問題はないだろう。ライエルとマリアの奴も、屋敷に何があるのか正確に覚えていない状態だったくらいだし。コルティナからマリアの方へ、具体的な話が流れない限りは、俺が怪しまれる事もないはず。「子供の手に届く所に短剣なんて......今度マリアに注意しなきゃ」「あ、だめ! それ言われると、わたしが叱られちゃう」と思ったら、速攻でコルティナは告げ口すると宣言しやがった。「これは護身用にこっそり持ち出したやつだから」「でもニコルちゃんはカタナを持ってるでしょ? 結構いい品」「あれは出発の直前にパパから贈られたものだから。それまではこれといった武器は持ってなかった。旅に出るならナイフくらいは必要だし」「あー、そういうことね。擦れ違っちゃったか」俺が自衛のために剣を得る。その後でライエルが武器を贈る。そんなすれ違いが発生したと、コルティナは理解してくれたようだ。「確かに旅に出るならナイフの一つも必要だものね。でも黙って持ち出すのはいけないわよ」「うん、それは知ってるけど」「まぁ、カタナまで扱える子に、短剣一つで目くじら立てる必要はないと思うけど......」「お願い見逃して。なんでもするから」「今なんでもって――いや、そうじゃなく。どこでそんな言葉使いを覚えてくるのかしら?」あえて場を茶化すように言葉を選んだ俺に、呆れたように頭を押さえるコルティナ。「ハァ、まあいいわ。ナイショにしておいてあげる。でも一つ貸しだからね?」「ン」いたずらっぽくウィンクを送ってくるコルティナに、俺は親指を立てて了承の意を返したのだった。	After finishing our bath—whether it healed or scarred me is another matter—we returned back to our room. It made me quite envious that everyone looked glossy while I alone was dead tired. We ordered the food to be delivered to our room, so we went and killed the time until then by doing what each of us wanted. I immediately spread the beddings on the grassy floor and sprawled on it. Unlike with the sleeping bags for encamping at night, the floor here had a faint warmth to it, which wasn’t bad at all. And the grassy scent felt really good, too. As I lay sprawled with my face down, Michelle and Letina came and leaned on my back. “Nicole, are you still tired?” “Should I massage you? I feel like I awakened to it.” While the two girls straddled me, I reached out to my luggage and took out a certain item to inspect. It was something I took from Matisse’s kidnappers’ hideout. Fortunately, there was no one with the ability to discern items in this room, so I could safely inspect it without minding if it was seen. I wasn’t able to discern items either, so I didn’t know what kind of effect it held. To find it out, I needed to request someone with appropriate skills to take a look at it for me. “In that case, I should’ve just asked that white thing to appraise it for me.” That was still a Goddess, so she should’ve been able to do something like that. But that white thing was unmatched when it came to running away, so she disappeared before I even had a chance to bring it up. Thanks to that, I didn’t know what to do with it now. Still, luck was on my side today. I was able to make an acquaintance with a merchant on the way here. I couldn’t let go of this chance. “Bill Wyss, was it? I suppose I could look for him and have him appraise it.” To appraise an item, one needed a Gift of the Distinction system, or they needed to be thoroughly knowledgeable about such items. Other than that, it was also possible by using distinction Magic. I could, of course, ask Maxwell to do it, but it would be too suspicious to show him something like this. It was a suicidal act to show an item with unknown origins to someone who was suspecting that Reid had reincarnated. As such, I decided to go with the merchant we met at noon. Given his occupation, there was a high chance he held some kind of Gift or Skill for it. If possible, I wanted to meet him once more during our stay and get him to appraise it. “For that... I need to do something about these two.” “Hmm?” “Is something the matter?” After getting a taste of massage with Finia, they were now straddling me as I lay limply and pushing their hands on my back. Letina wasn’t that strong so it was still fine, but Michelle’s hands hurt like hell. “Michelle, that’s the wrong place. It hurts.” “Eh, really? I was sure it was here.” “It’s not something an amateur should do. I have to monitor you properly.” “But aren’t you an amateur yourself, Nicole?” “Finia has been massaging me for years, so I have the knowledge for it.” Two girls were on top of my back as I lay sprawled. In other words, we were like a pile of girls, which Finia and Cortina looked at in smiles. That, however, made them notice what I was holding in my hand. “Oh, Nicole, that’s a nice thing you are holding there.” “Mhm. I secretly grabbed it when I was leaving home.” The mansion I lived in also belonged to Lyell and Maria. Many Magic Items that they gathered on their adventures were just lying everywhere, so there should’ve been no problems if I passed it off as one of them. It’s not like they remembered the exact items, anyway. As long as Cortina didn’t tell the specifics of today’s conversation to Maria, no one should suspect me. “They left a dagger where a child could reach... I should really talk to Maria about this.” “Ah, don’t! If you do that, I’ll be the one getting scolded for it.” Or so I thought, but Cortina suddenly declared that she would tell on it. Well, I should’ve seen that coming. “I just took this with me for self-defense.” “But don’t you already have a Katana, Nicole? And quite a fine one at that.” “Daddy gave that one to me just before departure. I didn’t have any special weapons before that, and since I was going on a trip, I needed to take a knife at least.” “Ah, that’s how it is. So he missed the timing, huh?” I obtained a sword to defend myself. But then Lyell gifted me a weapon. Cortina felt convinced that it was due to missed timing. Of course, the reality was different, but her misunderstanding was more convenient for me. “Indeed, you need a knife when going on a trip. But you shouldn’t take it without saying anything.” “Yeah, I know that.” “Well, I know I shouldn’t be nitpicking here over some dagger, given you use Katana like nothing, but...” “Please just let it slide. I’ll do anything.” “Did you just say anything... Wait, not that, where did you learn that phrase?” Cortina was amazed at my wording that I intentionally used to liven up the mood. But she realized that it was no longer a mood for lecturing and let the matter go. “Ah, well, fine. I’ll keep it a secret. But you owe me one, okay?” As she playfully winked at me, I responded back with a thumb of acknowledgment.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 2, "inserted_lines_src": 17, "inserted_lines_trg": 1 }
「このサラダ、美味しいですね」「フフ、お口に合ったようで何よりです」「スープも美味しいですよ、タクミさん!」「ワフワフ......ガフガフ!」サラダは青野菜のサラダのようだ。朝だからか、さっぱりしたドレッシングで食べやすく、パンに合わせて食べるとさらに美味しい。ティルラちゃんに勧められたスープの方も、肉が入ってるのにさっぱりとした味だ。朝からこんなに美味しい食事をしたのはいつ以来かな......。「レオ、ちょっとがっついて食べ過ぎだぞ。誰も取らないから落ち着いて食べなさい」「レオ様は良く食べますね」「ガフガフ......ワウ?」勢いよく食べてたレオが皆に見られてるのに気付いて顔を上げて首を傾げた。 ......ちょっとかわいいじゃないか......まぁ、クレアさんも気にしてないようだし、そのまま全部食べてればいいか。「あ、セバスチャンさん。ちょっといいですか?」食べてる最中にセバスチャンさんに声を掛けるのは行儀が悪いかもと思い、ササっと自分の分を食べ終わってから声を掛ける。急いで食べたけど、昨日の夕食に続いてこの朝食も美味しかった。手招きをして、近づいて来たセバスチャンさんの耳に口を近づけ小声で話しかける。「あの、すみませんが着替えとかってありますか? 何も持たずにこちらに来たもので......」「それは気付かず申し訳ありません。着替えですか......私と似たサイズでよろしければ準備出来ますよ」「お願いします。あと、髭を剃りたいのですが......」「そちらもご用意させて頂きます。後で部屋に持って参りますので」髭を剃るの部分からは特に小声になった。女性にあまり聞かせる話じゃないからな。まぁ、何となく恥ずかしかったからというのだけど。話し終えたセバスチャンさんはライラさんの元へ行き、耳打ちをしてライラさんが部屋を出て行く。 ......あ、ライラさんには伝わるんだな......。「タクミさん、セバスチャンと何の話を?」「いえ......ちょっと身だしなみに関して相談があったので」「そうですか。セバスチャンもライラも、優秀な執事とメイドです。何かありましたら使って下さいね」「はい。......ゲルダさんは違うんですか?」「ゲルダはまだ新人なので、これからに期待ですね。ふふふ」「粉骨砕身、頑張りたいと思います!」ゲルダさん、ちょっと肩に力が入り過ぎじゃないかな? 緊張しすぎると思わぬところでミスをしてしまいそうで怖い......。まぁその時はその時か。「姉様、食べ終わりました! これでレオ様と遊べますね!」「ティルラ、少しは落ち着きなさい」「......すみません」「ははは。ティルラちゃんごめんね、レオがまだ食べてる途中だからもう少し待ってくれるかな?」「はい、わかりました!」クレアさんに軽く怒られて、しょんぼりしそうだったティルラちゃんだが、俺が言うとおとなしく待つ事にしたようだ。レオの方を見て食べ終わるのをニコニコしながら待ってる。「......タクミさんはご兄弟とかおられるのですか?」「え? いえ、兄弟に憧れはしたりしましたが、いませんよ」「そうですか......子供の扱いに慣れてるように見えましたので」「ははは。それはレオのおかげですね」「レオ様の?」「はい。仕事で忙しくて......今まであまりレオに構ってやれなかったんですが、たまにレオを外に連れ出すとよく近所の子供が寄って来たんです」「成る程、それでなのですね」「近所の子供達とレオを遊ばせてるうちに慣れる事が出来ました。それにレオも子供が好きなようでしたし」たまに子供のパワーって凄いよな。でも、そんな子供のパワーに負けなかったレオ、俺の方は負けそうだったから扱いを覚えたと言った方が正しいのかもしれない。俺に向かいそうになった子供達をレオに向けたり、何とかおとなしくさせたりしてたもんだ。そういえば、集まって来てた子供達のうち特にレオを気に入ってた女の子は今どうしてるかな? 俺だけじゃなくレオもこっちに来たから寂しがってるかもしれない。確かその子、今のティルラちゃんと同じくらいだったっけ、レオと遊ぶ事で頭がいっぱいな所とかよく似てるな。「お、食べ終わったか?」「レオ様が食べ終わりました!」レオの前に、皿に積んであるという表現が正しい程盛ってあったソーセージが全部無くなっている。がっついて食べてたレオはソーセージが無くなると、一息とばかりに横に置いてあるバケツのような入れ物に入ってる牛乳を飲んで息を吐いた。 ......レオ、女の子がその仕草をするのはちょっとまずいんじゃないか? まぁ、狼とか犬の世界では良いのかもしれないけどな。「クレアさん、レオとティルラちゃんを遊ばせても良いですか?」「はい、構いませんよ。それじゃあティルラ、裏庭に行くわよ」「あ、クレアさん」「はい、何でしょう?」「しばらくの間、レオをお願いしても良いですか? 俺はさっきセバスチャンさんと話してた件で、部屋に一旦戻るので......」「わかりました。レオ様、タクミさんと離れますけど大丈夫ですか?」「ワフ?......ワウ!」満腹で満足そうにしてたレオがクレアさんに声を掛けられ、一瞬驚いたような表情をしたが、承諾するように頷いた。「それではタクミ様、また後で」「レオ様行こー!」「ワフワフ」客間からクレアさん、レオ、レオの背中に抱き着いて運ばれるティルラちゃんが出て行く。「あ、ゲルダさんちょっと待って下さい」「はい、何でしょうか?」「......すみませんが、部屋まで案内してもらえますか?」クレアさん達について部屋を出ようとしたゲルダさんを呼び止め、部屋への案内をお願いした。 ......まだ部屋までの行き方がわからないからな......迷子になるのは案内をお願いするより恥ずかしい。クレアさん達の方はセバスチャンさんがついて行き、俺はゲルダさんの案内で部屋へと戻った。	“This salad is very delicious.” “Hehe. I’m glad that you enjoy it.” “The soup is good too, Mr. Takumi!” It was a green vegetable salad. Because it was morning, the salad dressing was mild, and went well with bread as well. As for the soup that Tilura recommended, it contained meat but was also light and easy to eat. I couldn’t remember the last time I had eaten such a good breakfast... “Leo. I think you’re eating a little too quickly. No one is going to take it away, so slow down.” “Leo sure eats a lot.” “Guff-guff... Wou?” Leo realized that everyone was looking at her, and so she tilted her head questioningly. ...It was so cute... Well, it seemed like Ms. Claire didn’t mind, so I suppose she could continue eating like that. “Ah, Sebastian. Can I have a word with you?” “Yes. What is it?” I thought that it might be bad manners to talk to him while eating, and so I called out to him after I had finished. While I had eaten quickly, this breakfast was just as good as last night’s dinner. I gestured for Sebastian to come, and then whispered near his ear as he leaned forward. “Um, do you have any extra clothes that I can borrow? I came here without bringing anything...” “I’m terribly sorry for not noticing that earlier. A change of clothes... If you don’t mind it being the same size as me, I can prepare something.” “Thank you. Also, I would like to shave...” “That can be prepared as well. I will have everything brought to your room later.” “Thank you very much.” I was especially quiet when talking about shaving. It wasn’t something that you talked about in front of ladies. Well, it was mostly because I felt embarrassed about the whole thing. Once we were finished talking, Sebastian went over to Ms. Lyra, and whispered something to her. She then left the room. ...Ah, so now the information went to her... “Mr. Takumi. What were you and Sebastian talking about?” “Uh... I just had something to discuss with regards to my clothes.” “I see. Sebastian and Lyra are wonderful at what they do. So you must consult them if you ever need anything.” “Yes. ...Is Ms. Gelda any different?” “Gelda is still new here, so we’ll just say that I hope for the best. Hehe.” “I will exert myself to the utmost!” Ms. Gelda seemed almost a little too excited. Though, being so nervous could lead to making more mistakes... Well, there was no point in thinking about that right now. “Sister, I finished eating! Now I can play with Leo!” “Tilura, you really should calm down.” “...I’m sorry.” “Hahaha. Sorry, Tilura. But Leo is still eating. Could you wait just a little longer?” “Yes, I understand!” Tilura looked a little disappointed after she was scolded by her sister, but she waited patiently after I asked her to. She just watched Leo eating and grinned. “...Do you have any siblings, Mr. Takumi?” “Huh? Oh, I’ve always wanted brothers or sisters, but never had any.” “I see.. But you seem to be accustomed to dealing with children.” “Hahaha. That is probably because of Leo.” “Because of Leo?” “Yes. I was so busy with work...that I wasn’t able to pay her enough attention. But whenever I did take her out, children from the neighborhood would approach her.” “Indeed, so that is why.” “And so I got used to having them around while they played with Leo. And Leo always enjoyed playing with them.” Children could be so energetic. But Leo was always able to keep up with them. I had a little more trouble there, and so I suppose I had to learn how to deal with children. Like make them chase after Leo instead of me, or how to make them calm down. Now that I thought about it, there was one girl who had been especially fond of Leo. I wonder what she’s doing now? Perhaps it wasn’t just me, and Leo missed the people from our world. That girl had been a similar age to Tilura, and had been similarly obsessed with playing with Leo. “Guff-guff-guff...wuff!” “Oh, are you finished eating?” “Leo finished eating!” The plate that had been filled with sausages was now licked clean. As if to take a break after finishing the sausages, Leo drank from a bucket that was filled with milk and then let out a sigh. ...Leo, that’s not very lady-like, is it? Well, perhaps it was found in the world of wolves and dogs. “Ms. Claire. Will it be all right for Leo and Tilura to go out and play now?” “Yes, I don’t mind. Now, Tilura. Let’s go to the back garden.” “Yes!” “Ah, Ms. Claire.” “Yes, what is it?” “Could I leave Leo with you for a short while? I need to return to my room once. It concerns the matter I discussed with Sebastian...” “Very well. Leo. Do you mind being away from Mr. Takumi?” “Wuff? ...Wou!” Leo looked very satisfied after eating until she was full. She looked a little surprised that Ms. Claire was addressing her, but then she nodded as if in reply. “Well, see you later then, Mr. Takumi.” “Yes. I’ll go to the garden later.” “Let’s go, Leo!” “Wuff-wuff!” And so Ms. Claire, Leo, and Tilura, who was hanging onto Leo’s back, left the room. “Ah, Ms. Gelda, please wait.” “Yes, what is it?” “...I’m very sorry, but could you take me to my room?” “Very well.” I stopped Ms. Gelda as she made to follow the others, and asked her to take me back to my room. ...Because I still wasn’t confident that I could get back... And getting lost would be more embarrassing than anything. And so Sebastian went with Ms. Claire and the others while Ms. Gelda and I went to my room.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 1, "inserted_lines_src": 7, "inserted_lines_trg": 2 }
リグレス⋅オルブラントには、焦がれてやまない人がいる。長い黒髪、独善的な紫の瞳。存在そのものが貴族の有り様を体現しているような、まさに貴族中の貴族。筆頭公爵家の次男、レイディルーン⋅セントリクス。学院に入学してすぐ、同じように彼に憧れる同志を集めて親衛隊を結成した。あくまで離れた場所からレイディルーンの勇姿を眺め、彼の存在を損なうものがあれば直ぐ様排除する。それが親衛隊の規則だった。結して触れてはならない、不可侵の領域。ずっと遠くから見守っていられればいいと思っていたのに、状況は突然変わった。あのレイディルーンが、平民と馴れ合うようになったのだ。シェイラ⋅ダナウは初めからいけ好かなかった。華奢で身長も低いが顔立ちは整っているし、全体に均整が取れている。全身の筋肉がバネみたいにしなやかなで、ただ走るだけでも目を惹くものがあった。それでも、所詮は平民。そう思っていたのに、レイディルーンがその平民置いているのが気に食わなかった。「リグレス先輩っ」稽古場へ向かう途中。階段の踊り場に差し掛かっていたリグレスを無邪気に引き止めたのは、当のシェイラ⋅ダナウだった。「よかった、リグレス先輩に会いたいと思ってたところだったんです」シェイラがフワリと腑抜けた笑みを浮かべる。会いたいと言われて嬉しく感じたなんて、絶対認めたくない。「..................何?」薔薇色の髪に意志の強そうな黄燈色の瞳。平民の癖に、よくも図々しく話しかけられるものだと呆れる。「というか君、何なのその格好。この僕に話しかける時に、そんなくだけた服装でいいと思っているの?」シェイラはシャツに汚れた下履き、胸当てのみという非常に簡素な格好だった。校舎の中にいるのだから、胸当てを外してブレザーを着ろと言いたい。踊り場に射し込む強い日差しのせいで、シャツ越しに体の線が浮き出て見える。通りがかった男共の不躾な視線に気付かないのか。「えっと、ごめんなさい?」「語尾に疑問符を付けるな。そんな無防備な格好でうろつくなと言っているんだ」「はい。ごめんなさい」「で、何の用なの?」「えっと、実は僕、今度の月の日に料理を振る舞おうと思ってるんです。ぜひリグレス先輩にも食べてほしくて」「料理?君に料理なんてできるの?」「はい。村にいる時は普通にやってましたよ」シェイラが辺境の村育ちということは聞いたことがある。そのわりに肌が黒くないのは、村での装束が肌を露出しないものだったから、というのも風の噂で聞いていた。そういったどうでもいい個人情報が流れているのを、彼自身は知っているのだろうか。すぐには答えないリグレスに不安になったのか、シェイラが不安げに首を傾げた。「あの......やっぱり、平民の作ったものなんて食べたくないですよね。口にも合わないだろうし」彼は肩を落とし、あまりに分かりやすく落ち込んでいる。感情を隠すのが当たり前の貴族社会に身を置いていたから、こうも明け透けな人間は初めてだった。学院で接してきた庶民だって、こちらの流儀に合わせて無感情を貫いていたのに。色々な意味でここまで規格外な男は見たことがない。「別に予定はないから、気が向いたら行ってあげてもいいけど」「本当ですか?ありがとうございます」素っ気ない答えにも、シェイラは嬉しそうに笑った。黄燈色の瞳がキラキラしていて、顔が熱くなってくる。「――――馬鹿じゃない」頬の赤さに気付かれたくなくて、プイと顔を背けて歩きだす。社交界にいれば、感情の発露は秘すべきものだった。なのにシェイラが感情のままに表情を変えるから、リグレスまでつられてしまう。素直に、なってしまう。もしかしたら、こうやって振り回される自分自身が、一番腹立たしいのかもしれない。 ◇ ◆ ◇ 午後の穏やかな日差しが降り注ぐ階段の踊り場で、シェイラとリグレスが談笑していた。小柄が仲よくしている様子が微笑ましいのか、むくつけき筋肉ダルマ達が締まりのない表情で彼らを見守っている。デカイ図体が至るところで立ち止まっているから、はっきり言って通行の邪魔だ。レイディルーンは舌打ちを堪えながら人波を掻い潜って歩く。その時、話が終わったのかシェイラがこちらを振り返った。「あ、レイディルーン先輩っ」華やいだ笑顔を向けられ、レイディルーンは僅かに目を細めた。明るく元気だが、どこか淡々としている彼の笑顔は意外にも貴重だ。可愛い、と思ったことがばれないよう、表情筋を必死で律した。清廉潔白だとか高潔だとか勘違いされることが多々あるが、レイディルーンは自分の性格がそこそこ悪いという自覚がある。考えていることが表情に出にくいから勘違いをされるのだろうか。実力テストの時も、自分が不利益を被りたくないからとした質問が、なぜか平民にも公平だと尊敬を集めた。レイディルーンはいつだって、次男らしく利己的に自由に生きている。好ましいものや興味のあることしか考えていない。だが、勘違いしている相手は放置している。嫌われているよりはやりやすいからだ。シェイラ⋅ダナウは、レイディルーンの興味の対象だった。とぼけたところも、見た目に反して強いところも気に入っている。どんな不利な状況でも屈することなく立ち向かってきた時の瞳は、忘れがたいほど鮮烈だった。戦っている時と比べると、普段は腑抜けて見えるほどだ。正直、もっと親しくなれないものかと常々考えている。だが相手は平民ということで、周囲がそれを許さない。むしろシェイラを嫌っているとなぜか誤解されている。失礼などとは別に思っていない。睨んでもいない。周囲の勘違いもその点は煩わしかった。先日王都で偶然見かけた時は、仲よくなる好機だと思った。けれどレイディルーンを差し置いて、セイリュウとの仲をより深めていたように見えたのは気のせいか。呼び捨ての提案はかなり羨ましかった。今までは近付いてくる者を取捨選択する側だったので、仲よくなるための方法が分からない。身軽に駆け回るシェイラが、レイディルーンの元に辿り着いた。ご主人様を見つけた仔犬のようだ。「レイディルーン先輩、こんにちは。先日は本当にありがとうございました」「別に。大したことはしていない」訥々とした物言いは元来のものなので、矯正が難しい。シェイラが怖がらないでいてくれるのが救いだ。そういえば、彼もレイディルーンを勘違いする一人だ。けれど『高潔』や『英邁』という評価より、彼に『優しい』と表現される方が余程気分がいい。「今度の月の日、何か予定はありますか?」「予定............」次期公爵となる兄を支える立場になるレイディルーンに課せられた仕事は多い。休日は問答無用で領地経営の勉強をさせられているから、予定のない日などないようなものだった。「そんなもの聞いてどうする?」意図が分からずにいると、シェイラが理由を説明した。「実は、日頃お世話になってる人に手料理をご馳走したいと思っているんです。よかったら、レイディルーン先輩に食べてほしいなって」「――――手料理、だと?」「はい?」「む。何でもない」感情の発露は恥ずべきもの。レイディルーンは貴族の尊厳を突き崩そうとしてくるシェイラを前に、必死で取り繕った。シェイラの手料理。そんなもの、食べたいに決まっているではないか。政務があるなどとうっかり言わないで正解だった。「やらなければならないことが幾つかあるが、時間があれば行ってやろう」ぜひ行きたい、と思っているのに、口から出るのは横柄な言葉。素直になるのはなかなか難しい。そんな態度にもめげずにシェイラが笑うから、レイディルーンはようやくほんの僅かだけ微笑むことができた。	Regress Olbrandt had someone he yearned for. Long black hair, self-righteous purple eyes. He was an aristocrat among aristocrats, as if his very existence was the embodiment of aristocracy. The second son of Duke Centrix, Leidyrune Centrix. Soon after entering the academy, Regress gathered a group of people who also admired Leidyrune and formed a club together. They would watch Leidyrune’s heroic figure from a distance and immediately eliminate anything that would impair his presence. That was the rule of the club. Leidyrune Centrix was a sacred figure that mustn’t be touched. He thought it would be nice if he could keep watching from afar, but the situation suddenly changed. Leidyrune began to get friendly with a commoner. Regress didn’t like Sheila Danau in the beginning. She was slender and short, but her face was good-looking, and her body was well-proportioned. Her muscles were supple, and even just running was eye-catching. Even so, she was only a commoner. Regress thought so, but he didn’t like the fact that Leidyrune was giving that commoner attention. “Regress-senpai!” On the way to the training hall. Sheila Danau innocently stopped Regress as he was approaching the staircase landing. “Thank goodness, I was just about to search for Regress-senpai.” Sheila gave a soft smile. He would never admit that he was happy to hear that she wanted to meet him. “.... What is it?” Rose-colored hair and strong-willed light-yellow eyes. He was amazed at how Sheila could talk to him so brazenly, even though she was a commoner. “You, what’s with your outfit? Do you really think it’s okay to dress so casually when you’re talking to me?” Sheila was dressed very simply, wearing only a shirt, dirty pants, and a breastplate. He would like to tell her to take off her breastplate and put on a blazer since they were in a school building. The strong sunlight shining from the windows made the lines of her body stand out through her shirt. He wondered if she was unaware of the impudent stares of the men who passed by. “Um, I’m sorry?” “Don’t put a question mark at the end of the sentence. I’m telling you not to hang around looking defenseless like that.” “Yes, I’m sorry!” “So, what do you want?” “I’m actually planning to cook on the next lunar day. I’d really like to have Regress-senpai try it.” “Cooking? You can cook?” “Yes. When I was in the village, I usually cook.” He had heard that she was raised in a remote village. Regress also heard that the reason why her skin wasn’t dark was because her village attire didn’t expose her skin. He wondered if Sheila herself knew that such insignificant personal information was being passed on. Sheila tilted her head anxiously at Regress, who didn’t answer immediately. “Um... If you don’t want to, it’s okay. It wouldn’t suit your taste anyway.” She slumped her shoulders, looking depressed. Having lived in an aristocratic society where it was common to hide one’s emotions, that was the first time Regress had seen someone so open and transparent. Even the commoners he had come in contact with at the academy were emotionless, in line with their way of thinking. He had never seen someone so out of the ordinary. “I don’t have any plans, so if I’m up for it, I’ll go.” “Really?! Thank you!” Sheila smiled happily even at his blunt answer. When her yellow-colored eyes sparkled, his face heated up. “――You’re an idiot.” Not wanting his flushed cheeks to be noticed, he turned his head and started to walk away. In an aristocrat social circle, their emotions should be kept secret. However, Sheila’s facial expressions were so expressive that even Regress was taken in by them. She was too honest. Perhaps he was most annoyed at himself for being swayed around like this. ◇ ◆ ◇ On the landing of the stairs, where the afternoon sun was gently shining, Sheila and Regress could be seen chatting and laughing. Maybe the sight of the two people getting along seemed pleasant to others, but the face of the man watching over them was blank. Their figures were standing near the stairs, and to say the least, they were creating traffic. Leidyrune held his tongue as he walked through the crowd. At that moment, Sheila looked back at him as if she had finished her conversation. “Oh, Leidyrune-senpai!” Leidyrune’s eyes narrowed slightly as he was given a bright smile. Her smile was bright and cheerful. He tried his best to control his facial expressions so that it wouldn’t be revealed that he thought she was cute. He was often mistaken for being innocent or virtuous, but Leidyrune was aware that his character wasn’t that great. He wondered if he was misunderstood because it was hard to tell what he was thinking. Even during the competency test, the questions he asked because he didn’t want to be disadvantaged somehow gained respect as being fair to the commoners. Leidyrune had always lived selfishly and freely. He thought only of what he liked and what interests him. But he didn’t correct the misunderstanding. Because it was easier than being hated. Sheila Danau was the object of Leidyrune’s interest. He liked her playfulness and the fact that she was strong despite her appearance. Her eyes were unforgettable when she stood up against any obstacles. Compared to him, who usually looked so empty when he was fighting, she was different. Frankly, he had always wondered if they could be closer. However, since the other party was a commoner, the people around him couldn’t comprehend it. Instead, they somehow misunderstood that he hated Sheila. He didn’t think she was rude or anything. He didn’t even glare at her. The misunderstandings of the people around him were also bothersome in that aspect. When Leidyrune happened to meet her in the royal capital the other day, he thought it would be a good opportunity to get to know her. However, was it his imagination that she seemed to be getting along better with Seiryuu, instead of him? He was quite envious of Seiryuu’s proposal to call him by his name. Up until now, he had been the one to discard those who approached him, so he didn’t know how to get along with other people. Sheila, running to him lightly, reached Leidyrune. She looked like a puppy that had found its master. “Hello, Leidyrune-senpai. Thank you so much for the other day.” “It was nothing. I didn’t do much.” His manner of speaking was inherent, so it was difficult to correct. It was a relief that Sheila didn’t get scared. Come to think of it, she was also one of those who misunderstood him. However, it felt much better to be described as “kind” by her rather than being evaluated as “noble” or “wise.” “Do you have any plans for the upcoming lunar day?” “Plans....” As a supporter of his brother who would become the next duke, Leidyrune had a lot of work to do. On holidays, he was forced to study territory management without question, so it was like there was no such thing as a day without plans. “Why do you ask?” When he didn’t understand her intentions, Sheila explained why. “Actually, I want to treat the people who take care of me on a daily basis with some home-cooked meals. If you don’t mind, I want Leidyrune-senpai to try―” “――Home-cooked meals, you say?” “Yes?” “Mm. It’s nothing.” Emotional outbursts were shameful. Leidyrune tried his best to make things right in front of Sheila, who was trying to break down his aristocratic dignity. Sheila’s home-cooked meals. Of course, he wanted to eat such a dish. It was a good thing that he hadn’t inadvertently said that he had political affairs to attend to. “I have some things to do, but if I have time, I’ll go.” Leidyrune would love to go, but the only thing that came out of his mouth was arrogance. It was difficult for him to be honest. Sheila laughed, undeterred by such an attitude, so Leidyrune was finally able to smile just a little bit.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 1, "inserted_lines_src": 0, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
ただし、表通りに直接面してはいないため、周辺の道は少し汚れた感じがしている。教会の前は広めの庭のような広場になっていて、そこで炊き出しなどを行っているらしい。「炊き出しには半魔人の方もよく来るんですよ」「へぇ、そうなんだ。でも教皇様自らそれを作るのは、やっぱり変」「同じことを私もマリアによく言っていたわ。今になってあの時のマリアの気分が味わえるなんて、変な感じね」朗らかに笑って答える教皇。彼女がこっそり本神殿を抜け出してきたのは、ここで炊き出しを手伝うためだったらしい。「そういうマリア本人も、当時は次期教皇なんて噂されていたのに、こういう仕事を率先してやっていたのよ」「村でも孤児院の子供たちに差し入れとかしてますよ」「変わってないみたいで安心したわ。えっと、あなたの名前、まだ聞いてなかったのだけど?」「あ、ニコルです」「そう、私はアシェラっていうの。よろしくね」その手は意外に傷が多く、労働の痕跡が見て取れた。どうやら頻繁にこのようなことをしているらしい。そこは説法を行う際の控室らしく、小さなイスとテーブル、それに水差しなども用意されていた。「お茶菓子はないけど我慢してね」そういいつつ水差しからカップに水を注ぎ、俺の前にずいと差し出してくる。「そうそう、あなたの瞳のことを話さないといけないんだったわね」「ええ、この目のこと、何か知っているんですか?」「詳しいことはわからないわ。でも強い魅了の力が宿っていることは確かね」破戒神は確か、弱い魅了と言っていたはずだ。彼女の言うこととは、少し違う。「強い、ですか。そんなに?」「ええ、私が襲われたとき、あなたは『やめろ』と叫びましたね。その時に男が動きを止めたでしょう? それは、あなたの力に取り込まれ、行動を制限されてしまったからです」「制限するつもりなんて――」「あなたになくても、あなたの望みを叶えようと勝手に動いてしまう。そうさせてしまうほどの力を、弱いとはとてもいえません」だとすると、間違っているのは破戒神の方か。まあ、あの神様ならうっかりとかポカとかいろいろとやらかしてもおかしくないだろう。変なところで人間臭さを残している。それより、俺の目にそんな力が宿っていたとは......ハスタール神が力を封じる眼帯をよこすはずだ。「あ、そういえば、あなたにはお礼を言ってませんでしたね」「お礼、ですか?」「そうよ! 私の命を守ってくれたことと、半魔人たちの暴走を止めてくれたこと。彼らもれっきとした人間ですから」「半魔人を認めてくれるんですね?」この世界樹教において、半魔人は世界の異物である。その世界樹教の最高権力者が、このスタンスというのも奇妙な感じだ。だが彼女は、俺の言葉にきょとんと首を傾げた。「当り前じゃない。世界を救っ雄にすら半魔人はいたわ。差別する謂れなんてないもの」「マリ......母さんも昔はそうだったんですか?」俺と出会ったとき、マリアは冷酷、とは行かないが、かなり冷淡な視線を俺に向けていた。そんな経緯があるため、世界樹教イコール半魔人排外主義者という認識が俺にはできていた。「そうね、そういった気質がなかったとは言えないわ。でもそれは、彼女の周囲の教育に流された結果だもの。私のように長く生きていない彼女が、周囲の思惑に流されてしまったとしても仕方ない。恥ずかしながら、枢機卿にはそういう思想を持つ人が多くて......」「ふぅん」「今も彼らの方が力が強くてね。上手く行かないものだわ。それよりむしろ、あなたの方が驚きよ? あのマリアの娘が、率先して半魔人を護ろうと身を張って立ちふさがるなんて」「それは......えっと......六英雄の中に半魔人もいましたから」「ああ、レイド様ね!」どうやら前世の俺は教皇アシェラすら虜にしていたようだ。微妙に鼻が高い。「マリアから話を聞いていたわ。すっごいヘタレな子がいるって」「......おぃ」「仲間の子が好きなのに、自分でもそれに気付かないくらい鈍感で、それでいてカッコつけたがりで、世話ばっかり焼かせるドジっ子がいるっていってたわ」「マリアの野郎......」「かなりモテていたのに気付いてないから、『きっと一生独身よ』なんてこともいっていたかしら?」「あとで絶対泣かしちゃる」部外者になんて情報漏らしやがるのか。いや、否定できかねるところがないわけでもないが、それでも仲間を悪くいうなんて許せないぞ。そもそもお前だって、その腹黒さはなんだ。聖女なんて程遠いじゃないか。「でも手のかかる弟ができたみたいだって喜んでいたわ。私もマリアがあんなに楽しそうな顔したのは、初めて見たもの」「そうよ。だから彼が生きているうちに一度会ってみたかったわ」それからしんみりと、視線を落とすアシェラ。彼女としては妹分だったマリアが気にかけた存在というのは、どこか特別なものがあったのだろう。確か助けを求めるためにコルティナがメモを書いていた。もし、それを受け取っていたのなら、俺がいないことを心配するはずだ。「そうだ。その、あまりここに長居していたら、心配かけちゃうから......」「あ、確かにそうね。マリアってば心配症だから」「ごめんなさい。できればまたお話を聞かせてください」「もちろんよ。あなたならいつだって大歓迎」「あ、で後にはこの街を出るので......」「じゃ、それは却下で」「無茶苦茶だ!」だが彼女と知り合えただけで、今回の騒動は価値があった。	The church the Pope took me to was located near the main street of the seventh ward. However, it did not face the main street directly, so the roads around it were a little messier. The front of the church was a wide garden, and it seemed to be the place they were using to distribute emergency food. “Half-demons also come for emergency food quite often.” “Huh, is that so? Still, it’s weird for the Pope herself to make it.” “I often told the same to Maria too. But now I can understand what she felt then. It is a strange feeling.” The Pope answered with a cheerful laugh. Apparently, the reason she had slipped out of the main temple was to help out with the food distribution here. “Maria at the time had been called the next Pope, but she always did this kind of work on her own.” “She delivers food to the orphanage children even in our village.” “I am glad to hear that she has not changed. Err, I have not heard your name yet.” “Ah, I’m Nicole.” “I see, I am Ashella. Nice to meet you.” She extended her hand without erasing her smile. Her hand was surprisingly full of scratches, traces of manual labor. It seemed that she was doing such things quite frequently. After we exchanged a handshake, she pulled me by the hand as is, leading me to a room inside the church. It seemed to be a waiting room used for performing sermons, with small chairs and a table with a water jug on it. “We have no tea snacks, so please make do with this.” While saying it, she poured water from the jug and offered me the cup. It was as if she wanted me to drink it right away. Her aggressive nature seemed somewhat similar to Maria’s. “Ah yes, we had to talk about those eyes of yours.” “Yes, do you know something about them?” “I am not aware of the details. But I can tell that they have a strong charming power.” But the God of Destruction said it was a weak charm. It was different from that. “Strong, you say. That much?” “Yes. When I was attacked, you screamed, ‘stop’ and the man stopped, yes? That happened because he was taken over by your power and his movements were restrained.” “I didn’t plan to restrain—” “Even if you did not intend it, your power acted on its own to grant your wish. I cannot call a power capable of that weak.” If so, then the God of Destruction was the wrong one here. Well, it was not surprising for that goddess to make some slip-up or a blunder. She had the most annoying human traits. More importantly, to think my eyes held such power... No wonder God Hastur gave me this eyepatch. “Ah, that reminds me, I forgot to thank you.” “Thank me?” “Of course! For protecting me, and for stopping the riot of the half-demons. They are proper humans too, after all.” “So you accept their existence?” As far as the World Tree religion was concerned, half-demons were foreign substances for this world. Her stance was quite odd, given that she was the top authority of that very religion. But she tilted her head in puzzlement at my words. “Of course I do. There was a half-demon even among the Six Heroes that saved this world. What reason is there to discriminate.” “Was Ma... Was mother also like that in the past?” Back when we first met, Maria was, well not exactly cold, but quite indifferent towards me. I was quite used to such gazes, so I just ignored it... but my choice turned out to be correct and she gradually softened up towards me. Due to such experiences, I took the World Tree religion as exclusivist towards half-demons. However, I was surprised to find out that Maria of that time had a friend like her. I couldn’t help but think that Maria used to be discriminative. “Well, I can not deny that she had such a disposition. However, that was the result of the education of those around her. Since she had not lived as long as I, it was natural that she got influenced by other people’s opinions. I am ashamed to admit it, but there are many people among the cardinals who hold such beliefs...” “Hmm.” “And they are stronger even now. It is not going well. More importantly, I was surprised by you. To think Maria’s daughter of all people would stand up to protect the half-demons.” “That’s... uhh... There was a half-demon among the Six Heroes, so.” “Oh, yes, Lord Reid!” She clapped her hands with a bright smile. It seems that even Pope Ashella was infatuated by the past me. Makes me strangely proud. “I heard about him from Maria. He was apparently a really wussy boy.” “...Hey.” “There was a girl he liked among his comrades, but was dense enough to not even realize it. Yet he kept trying to show off and troubled people.” “Maria you...” “And he did not even realize the fact that he was quite popular, even saying things like he would be single forever?” “Oh, I’ll definitely make her cry for this.” She even leaked the information to outsiders. I mean, I guess there were irrefutable parts to it, but I’m not forgiving her for badmouthing her comrade. Besides, you’re pretty black-hearted yourself. Saint my a̲s̲s̲! “But she was happy that she gained a troublesome little brother. I had never seen her look so happy before.” “Really. So I also wanted to meet him while he was alive.” She lowered her gaze with those words. Perhaps someone precious to Maria, who was like a little sister to her, was also special to her too. Thinking that, I suddenly remembered about Maria. I remember Cortina wrote a memo for her, asking for help. If it had reached her, she was probably worried that I wasn’t around. “Oh right. I can’t stand for too long, she’s going to worry...” “Ah, you are right. Maria can be a worrywart.” “Sorry. Please let me hear more when an opportunity allows.” “Of course. I will welcome you with open arms anytime.” “Ah, well, I’ll be leaving this city in three days, so...” “Then, l will put a ban on that.” “Oh come on!” Even though I knew she was joking, she had enough authority to actually do it so I felt chills. Still, getting to know her was worth the current riot. Although getting rid of it was probably impossible, she would still mitigate the discrimination against half-demons one day. I was convinced of that now.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 1, "inserted_lines_src": 11, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
「エリン......だと......」この独特の魔力......こやつ精霊なのか? 辺りは静まり返っている、それはそうだ我輩ですら現状を把握ししきれてないのだからな。「そうだよ~お~すごいね~人がこんなにたくさん! やっほー!」空気が読めないのかこやつは、こんな状態で観客向かって手なんかを振ってやがる。「王様! あの者が剣を!!」「うむ、天使の剣が抜けたという事は間違いないな」ライリー共は何を言っているんだ? 剣が抜けたとか言っているが――え!? 我輩いつの間にか剣を握り締めておる!? いやそれよりも何故この剣が抜けてしまったのだ、目的は抜くのではなく破壊だったのに。しかしこの状況はまずいのでは......ああ、やっぱりライリーの奴がこっちに来てしまった。「......お主の名は?」「はい?」いきなり何を言っておるのだ。「おい、貴様! 王のお言葉に答えぬか! 無礼であろう!」デーヴァンの奴が鬼の形相で怒鳴ってきた、そんな大声で怒鳴らなくても......。「まぁまて、こんな状況だ......この者も混乱しておるのであろう。――お主の名前はと聞いている」「あ、我輩はデ......」言いかけてふと我に返る。名乗ったとこで体は人間、何よりも誇り高き魔王であるこの我輩がこんな姿でデイルワッツと名乗るのはプライドが許さない。「デ?」「デ......デ~......デイ......ル、デール......? そう! 我輩はデール、デールだ!」この瞬間デールという名の人間が生まれてしまった。「ふむ、デールか」「お~アタシのマスターはデールって言うのか!」先ほどまで観客に手を振っていた精霊がいつの間にかこっちに来て我輩とライリーの話の間に割り込んできた、ライリーも精霊が気になるのかそっちを向いた。何とか名前は誤魔化せたようだ。「アタシ? あれ? エリンって言ったよね?」精霊は不思議そうな顔で首を傾けた、何故そこで不思議そうな顔をする。名前ではなく自分自身が何者かを聞かれたのがこやつにはわからんのか? それに貴様の存在の事は我輩も聞きたい。「いや......そうではなくてだな、天使の剣から出現しその背中の羽みたいなものがあるということは、やはりお主は人間ではなく......」「ああ、なるほどなるほど! ――え~コホン」ポンと手を打った後に小さく咳払いか、なんて典型的な動きなんだ。「アタシは天使の剣【アブソーヘイズ】に宿る精霊エリン。この天使の剣【アブソーヘイズ】は、はるか昔に悪魔達が人間界に侵略してきた時の為にと天使様達が創造した悪魔を討つ為の剣です」なんてはた迷惑な物を作り出すかね、天使様達は......。「このアブソーヘイズには魔力を吸収する能力を持っています。人間の中で相当な魔力がある者が触れた時にそれを吸収し、その魔力を媒体にアタシが具現化されるのです」なるほど、この人間の魔力と我輩の魔力とで相当な量になっていたからな。それで魔力を吸われてしまってこの精霊がでて来たと......あれ? もしかして我輩とんでもない事をしてしまったのでは......? 「そして、その人間をマスターとし魔族を倒す。それが天使様から受けたアタシの使命になります。というわけで選ばれし者デール! アタシと一緒に魔族の討伐だよ!」ビシっと我輩に指を指して来た、やはりとんでもな事をしてしまったらしい。これは非常にまずい、まずすぎる! 何とかせねば! 「いやいやいや! 我輩には無理だ!」そう我輩は魔族でしかも魔王、むしろ討伐されてしまう側。同胞を討伐とかしゃれにならんぞ! 「無理だって? 大丈夫! アタシがデールのサポートをするから、そもそもアブソーヘイズが抜けてアタシが実体化したんだからその力に問題ないよ」精霊は笑顔で我輩の手を握ってきた、いや問題しかないんだが。「こ、これは何かの間違いで抜けてしまったのだ! 断じて我輩の力などではない!」慌てて剣を捨てその場を離れようとするが、振り向いた瞬間に鍛え抜かれた胸板が見える。前後左右に兵士達とデーヴァンに行く手を阻まれてしまった。「どこに行くつもりですかな? デール殿?」「え......え~と......その......」屈強な兵士達とデーヴァンに囲まれ、そこにライリーとエリンまでもが加わりこれではもう逃げるに逃げられない。「デール、色々あってお主も疲れたであろう、今日はここまでにし明日詳しく話すとしよう。ささやかだが宴を行うとしよう、今夜は城に泊まっていくがよい――すぐに準備を」「はっ!」ライリーの目がマジだ、このまま逃げたら殺されるかもしれない。ここはおとなしく従うしかないのかないようだ......。「......はい......」この日デールという名の勇者も生まれてしまったのだ。	“Erin......is it......” This unique magical power...... that fellow’s a spirit, huh? The area fell completely silent and even I can’t grasp the current situation. “That’s right~ Ooh~ Amazing~ There are so many people! Yoo-hoo!” Can’t you read the mood? How can you just wave your hand at the audience in this situation? “Your Majesty! That person pulled out the sword!!” “Umu, there’s no doubt about the Angel’s Sword coming loose” What are you saying, Riley? Though you said the sword came loose, but– eh!? Since when was I holding that sword?! No, rather why did I pull out the sword when my purpose was to destroy it. However, this situation is bad...... Aah, as I thought, that Riley guy is coming over. “......What is your name?” “Yes?” What are you saying so suddenly? “Oi, you *****! Aren’t you going to answer the King?! What rudeness!” That Devan guy shouted at me while looking like a Demon. Even if you don’t shout at me with such a loud voice...... “Well, this person...... seems to be confused about the current situation. — I’ve asked for your name.” “Ah, I’m D......” While I was speaking I pulled myself together again. Right now, I’m inside the body of a human and as much as I pride myself in being the Demon Lord with the name Dalewatts, this body won’t let me introduce myself as such. “D?” “D......D~......Da......le, Dale......? That’s right! I’m Dale, Dale!” At that moment, the human named Dale was born. “Fumu, Dale, is it?” “Ooh~ my master is called Dale, huh?” The spirit that waved to the audience until just now came over here unnoticed and interrupted my and Riley’s talk. Riley, too, turned to look at the spirit with interest. Looks like I could get away with that name somehow. “Me? Huh? Didn’t I say I was Erin?” The spirit tilted her head and looked puzzled. Why does she look so puzzled? Doesn’t she get that she was asked what she is, rather what her name is? I also want to hear about that, you *****. “No......that’s not what I mean, you came out of the Angel’s sword and you have something like wings on your back, as I thought you aren’t human......” “Aah, I see, I see! — Ehem” After hitting her hand with her fist, she cleared her small throat. What typical movements. “I am the spirit Erin who resides inside of the Angel’s Sword [Absohaze]. This Angel’s Sword [Absohaze] is a sword made by the angels in ancient times, able to defeat the demons, created for the occurrence of the demons invading the Human Realm.” What an annoying thing they created, those angels....... “This Absohaze has the ability to absorb magical power. When someone with considerable magical power among the humans touches it, it will absorb it and using the magical power as a medium I’ll materialize.” I see, this human’s and my magical power together is quite a considerable amount. That’s why this spirit appeared when my magical power got sucked out...... Huh? Did I perhaps do something pretty bad just now......? “Then, that human will become my master and use me to defeat the demons. That is the mission I’ve received from the angels. Therefore Dale got chosen! He’s to subjugate the demons together with me!” She pointed her finger at me. As I thought I did something terrible. This is very bad, too bad! I have to do something! “No, no, no! Something like that is impossible for me!” That’s right, I’m a demon and what’s more the Demon Lord, the one supposed to get subjugated. I can’t just subjugate my own countrymen! “Impossible, you say? It’s alright! Since I’ll support Dale, besides you were able to pull out Absohaze and I was able to materialize so there shouldn’t any problem.” The Spirit held my hand with a smile. No, there is a problem. “Thi, this must have fallen out by some mistake! It’s definitely not because of my power!” In a panic, I throw away the sword and tried to leave the place, but as soon as I turned around I saw a muscular chest. I was blocked from leaving by Devan’s hand and the soldiers surrounding me. “Where do you intend to go to? Dale-dono?” “Eh......Ehm......Well......” Riley and Erin join the strong soldiers surrounding me and Devan. I can’t escape anymore if it’s like this. “Dale, a lot of things happened today and you must be exhausted, let’s talk about the details tomorrow. Let’s hold a feast and why don’t you stay in the castle for the night? — Start the preparations immediately.” “Certainly!” Riley’s eyes look serious. If I try to run away now, I might get killed. Looks like I don’t have any other choice other than to obediently listen to them...... “......Yes......” On that day, the Hero Dale was born as well.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 1, "inserted_lines_src": 0, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
「ルティー! こっち終わったよー!」「じゃあこっち手伝って―!」なんで大掃除かというと、家を維持するための最低限な掃除は組合でしてたみたいなんだけど、念入りな拭き掃除やなんかはしてなかったみたいで、場所によっては埃が固着してたんだよね。それだったら、まだ家具も運び込んでないし今のうちに綺麗にしちゃおうってことでで雑巾とバケツをもってあちこち磨き上げることになったわけ。もうちょっと組合も掃除に力入れて欲しいかなぁなんて思ったけど、あんまり予算も組めるとも思えない上に、新築ってわけじゃないからこの辺はしょうがないのかな。「ふぅ、ようやく半分てところかな。ちょっと休憩にしよっか」「それじゃお茶でも入れるわね」まだテーブルも何もないので、野営セットを取り出して準備していく。「それにしても、見て回ってた時はそこまで感じなかったけれど、掃除してみたら結構広いわねぇ」「だよねぇ。どうしよう? 普段は二人で仕事なわけだし、お手伝いさんとか雇ってみる?」「んー......。毎日全部の部屋をピカピカにしないといけないわけでもないし、とりあえずは二人でやってみない? まだまだ何が必要かもわからないし、お手伝いさん雇ってやっぱりいりませんでした、ってなったりすると悪いし」確かに。人にお願いするんだから、本当に必要なのがわかってからのほうがいっか。「それに掃除だけじゃなくて、せっかくちゃんとした台所があるんだし私も料理しようと思ってるのよ。お手伝いさん雇ったらその辺も任せちゃうことになりそうじゃない?」「なるほど、それなら二人で頑張ってみよっか。そういえば最近野営してないからルティの料理は久しぶりだね」そもそも料理するのは野営の時のみ、しかも基本は僕が調理担当だから、ルティの料理を食べる機会はかなり少なかったりする。それとルティの作る料理は、故郷特有のものなのか、僕の知らない料理ばかりだから楽しみなんだよね。「そうだ、引っ越しして落ち着いたらさ、二人で料理作ってパーティーしようよ。みんなも呼んでさ」「いいわね。いい機会だし、普段お世話になってる人達に楽しんでもらいましょ」よし、みんなを呼ぶからには念入りに掃除しなくっちゃ。「長い間ご利用いただきありがとうございました。また機会があれば当店をご利用くださいませ」昨日は気合を入れすぎたせいか、日が落ちるまで掃除に没頭してしまった。今日は家具を搬入してもらって、そのまま引っ越しとなるので宿を利用するのは昨日が最後。少しばかり寂しさを覚えながら、鍵を返却し、お礼を言って新居へ向かった。新居に到着すると、すでに荷運びの人が待機していた。まだ割と早い時間なのに......待たせちゃったかな? 「おはようございます。ナツキ様でお間違いないでしょうか?」「はい。早くからありがとうございます。今開けますからちょっと待ってくださいね」門と玄関の鍵を開けて、早速搬入してもらう。位置やなんかは決めてあったので特に問題もなくササっと搬入終了。経験者だったのか、荷運びの人も手際よくやってくれたので、細々したことも含めて午前中には終わってしまった。「もうちょっとかかるかと思ってたけど、あっさり終わったね」「早くからやってもらえたのも大きいわね」真新しいカップでお茶を飲みつつゆったり休憩。絨毯にテーブル、食器棚等が運び込まれたにも関わらず、ダイニングは程よい広さ。これでもお手伝いさん用のスペースに作られたのか、もあるダイニングやリビングより小さめなんだけどね。二人で使うには十分な広さなので、人を招く時以外はここをよく使うことになりそう。「広いリビングを希望したのは私だけど、二人だとこのダイニングくらいでも十分だったわね......。ちょっと持て余しそうかも」まぁ狭いするよりかはいいかな。結構後で物が増えたりもするしね。「あ、ねぇ。時間も出来たことだし、お昼と夕飯二人で作ってみない?」新しい家に慣れるためにもルティの案でゆっくり過ごしてみるのもいいかな。「それじゃあまず食材買いに行こうか。でもさすがに帰ってきてからだと時間が微妙だろうし、お昼だけどこかで食べて作るのは夕飯だけにしようよ」「んー、確かに今から買い出しだとお昼遅くなっちゃうわね。そうしましょっか」生鮮はもちろん、保存食もダメにならないうちにって、おつまみやらなんやらで消費しちゃって、食材自体のストックがないからしょうがないね。そういえばもう一般街区じゃないから基本は貴族街区で買い物することになるんだよね。普段魔法士団への行き帰りでしか通ってないから、大通りのお店とかしか知らない。散歩でもしたりして開拓しないといけないや。いや、テレポートで一般街区のほう行ってもいいんだけどね? 最近出来るだけ歩くようにしてるんだよね。ほら、少しでも歩くようにしとかないとお腹周りが......ちょっと......。そういう意味では時間かけて一般街区まで歩いたほうがいいんだろうけど、そこまですると他の都合が悪くなるし。ちなみにお腹周りの件は何気なくルティのお腹ぷにぷにしてたらふと気付いた。お互い顔を合わせて青ざめたのはここだけの話。「そうねぇ、さすがに新しいお店探すのは時間的に次回ね。あそこも通りすがりに見た限りでは、良い品物置いてそうだったから問題ないと思うわよ」そんなこんなでお昼や買い物を済ませ、帰ってから早速二人で夕飯の準備。肝心のお店の方は予想通り質はよかった。お値段がそれなりだからコスパがいいわけではないけど、品揃えも良かったし、バランスが悪いわけではないから今後も利用することになりそう。「包丁なんて久しぶり」「ずっと爪で調理してたものね」ちゃんとした台所で調理するんだし、どうせだからと自分の包丁も用意した。「ううん、爪に慣れ過ぎたかなぁ? なんか力加減が難しい......っとぁ!?」いつもと勝手が違うせいで、力を入れすぎて結構な勢いでまな板に包丁を打ち付けちゃった。「ちょっと大丈夫? 切ったりしてない?」「大丈夫大丈夫。ちょっとやそっとじゃ僕の肌傷つかないし」「とは言っても切れるときは切れる......わよね? 気を付けてよ?」まぁ森を駆け回った時に枝で擦ったり、訓練で魔法が当たったりした時に僕の肌が丈夫で傷つかないのはわかってるんだけど、実際刃物で切り付けられたことはないからどこまで大丈夫かは未知数なんだよね......。うーん、いまさらだけど治癒系の魔法覚えとこうかなぁ。ルティは普通に怪我するだろうし、僕も絶対大丈夫ってわけじゃないだろうし。この世界、怪我は魔法で治療、病気は薬でって感じで発達してるから、練習して治せるようなればそのほうがいいんだけど、そもそも日常で怪我しないから優先度がどうしても低くなっちゃう。「ナツキ、沸いちゃってるけどいいの?」「っとと、危ない」考えながら作業してたらついスープを沸かしちゃった。ポトフだから味噌汁みたいに風味が飛ぶとかはないけど、ぐらぐら煮る必要もないからね。味噌汁......思い出したら久しぶりに飲みたくなってきた。でも味噌って調味料があるって聞いたことがないんだよね。他の国になら似たようなのあるのかな......なんてまたも考えながら調理しちゃって、ルティに呆れられた。しょぼん。その後は料理の練習も問題なく、新居での生活もある程度慣れてきたのでそろそろみんなを呼ぼうという事になった。本当は手紙とかで招待状を出すのがいいんだろうけど、全員の家を知ってるわけじゃないし、仕方ないので一人ずつ声をかけることにした。「昨日フィルとカイン、それとチル、リーズナーさんに声をかけたから今日は魔法士団関係の人達かな」フィルとカイン、チルは快諾してくれた。忙しいリーズナーさんも、パーティーの時間が夜ということもあって少し遅れるけれど参加できるみたい。「団長とネラさんは声かけるの決まってるけど、他のみんなはどうしよう?」「できるだけ呼びたいところだけれど、さすがに何十人も呼べるほど広くもないし......。それに大人数になるとチルが委縮しちゃいそうな気もするから、ケリーとジェフあたりに声かけるくらいが丁度いいかもしれないわね」確かに。みんな気さくとは言え、魔法士団は騎士爵をもってるわけだし、たくさん来たらチルあたりは気後れしちゃうかもしれない。やめといたほうが無難かな。「それじゃあまず団長とネラさんに話に行こう。ケリーとジェフが任務中かは団長に聞けばいいしね」「......ねぇ、団長自身が出張してる可能性はないの?」「あ......。ま、まぁ多分いるでしょ!大丈夫大丈夫」ルティの視線が若干痛いけれどキニシナイ。団長の部屋の前まできてノックをすると返事があったのでホッとする。「団長ちょっと話があるんだけど時間ある?」「ナツキ君達か。丁度休憩中だから大丈夫だが、どうした?」中に入ると、書類仕事に一区切りついたのか、団長がネラさんと向かい合ってお茶休憩してた。「あ、ネラさんも一緒なら丁度いいや。実は引っ越しも終わって落ち着いてきたから、お世話になってる人を呼んでパーティーでもしようと思って」「そういうことか。私に関しては明日明後日でもなければ予定を調整して時間はつくれると思う。予定はいつなんだ?」「一応余裕みて今日から丁度二週間後の夜なんだけれど、大丈夫?」「二週間あれば十分調整できるな。参加させてもらおう」「私も突発の案件でもなければ参加できますね。他には誰に声をかけるんですか?」「本当はみんなに声かけたいとこなんだけど、カフェの人達にも声かけてるし、それに二人で暮らす分には広いけれどさすがにみんな入れるほどじゃないからね。だから後はジェフとケリーの二人だけの予定」「ジェフとケリーか。今丁度任務で出張中だから定時連絡が来た時にでも伝えておこう」ありゃ、二人は出張中なのね。団長が気を利かせてくれて助かった。「ありがとう。それじゃあ僕達もう上がるね」「はい、お疲れさまでした。パーティー楽しみにしてますね」これで招待は大丈夫っと。さて、あと二週間。ルティと二人で当日に出す料理考えなくっちゃ。	「Ruti! I’m done with this place!」「Then help me with this spot!」 Now, what exactly are we doing? A major cleaning before we move into the new home. So, as for why we’re doing this, it’s because even though the union did the minimum maintenance to preserve the house, it seems like they haven’t done a thorough job with the scrubbing and stuff, so depending on the area, there is still some dust sticking around. So with that, we decided to tidy up the place while the furniture isn’t delivered yet. With rags and buckets in hand, the two of us are running around and polishing the house all over. I guess I wanted the union to put a bit more effort into the cleaning, but since we don’t have much money to spend and it’s not like we’re doing a big renovation here, I guess we don’t have much of a choice here. 「Fuu, we’re finally about halfway done, I think. Let’s rest for a while.」「Then I’ll prepare some tea.」 We still don’t have a table or anything, so we took out our camping kit and set it up. Indoor mini camping prep...... Yup, it’s a pretty rare experience. 「Nonetheless, it didn’t feel that spacious when we saw it before, but now that we’re cleaning it, it’s actually quite big.」「I know right? What should we do? I mean, we’re usually out working after all, should we hire a housekeeper or something?」「Hm....... Well, it’s not as if we need to keep every room shiny clean every day, so why don’t we do it ourselves for now? After all, we still can’t be sure about what we need and it’ll be awkward if we end up going, Good point. If we’re getting people for help, it’ll be best if we did it after knowing if we actually need them. 「Besides that, since we finally have a proper kitchen, I want to do some cooking as well. If we hire a housekeeper, don’t you think that we might end up leaving those kinds of things to them as well?」「I see. In that case, let’s do our best together. Come to think of it, we haven’t done any camping lately, so it’s been a while since we’ve had your cooking.」 In the first place, since I’m usually the one cooking when camping out, it’s been pretty rare to have a chance of eating Ruti’s cooking. Besides, the food Ruti makes always tasted new and unfamiliar to me, it might have been food from her hometown, so I’m really looking forward to it. 「I know, once we’re done with the moving, let’s have a party and cook some food together. Let’s invite everybody too.」「That sounds great. It’ll be a good opportunity as well, let’s treat everybody for all the help they’ve given to us.」 Alright. Since we’re calling everyone, we’ll have to get this place thoroughly cleaned. 「Thank you for your long stay. We hope that you would choose our inn again when you have the chance.」 We were super fired up yesterday that we ended up cleaning until sunset. Since we’re having the furniture moved in today and will be moving in ourselves, last night was our final stay in the inn. While feeling a bit melancholic, we returned the room key, said our thanks, and headed to our new home. As we arrived at the house, the movers were already waiting for us there. It’s still pretty early...... Did we keep them waiting? 「Good morning. Would you be Natsuki-sama?」「Yes. Thank you for coming in this early. I’ll open the locks right now, so please wait for a bit.」 I unlocked the gates and the front door and immediately had them move the things in. We already decided on the positioning and things, so we finished quickly with no particular issues. I guess the guys were experienced since the movers worked pretty fast, we managed to finish everything—including the miscellaneous stuff—before lunchtime. 「I expected it to take more time, but that was pretty quick.」「It really helped that they came quite early.」 While drinking tea from our brand new cups, we had a comfortable breaktime. Despite the fact that the carpet, table, and cupboards are arranged now, it seems the dining room has just the right size. Though this seems to be a room made for the housekeepers, it’s slightly smaller than the other dining room and the living room but it’s already good enough for the two of us to use, so we’ll probably be using this room a lot when we’re not having any guests around. 「I know that I’m the one that asked for a spacious living room, but even this dining room is enough for just the two of us...... The house might even be too big for us.」 Well, it’s still better than having space issues with a small house, I guess. We’re going to have much more stuff later after all. 「Ah, say. Since we have some time now, why don’t we cook together for lunch and dinner?」 We took yesterday and today off to make sure we have enough free time, and since we’re done setting up the furniture, we don’t have any particular plans for today. It might be nice to relax at home and go along with Ruti’s idea to help us get used to the new house too. 「Then first, let’s go out and buy the ingredients. Though, we’ll probably come home and finish cooking at an awkward time today, so let’s eat lunch outside and just cook for dinner.」「Hmm. That’s true, if we head to the market now, we’ll end up eating lunch late. Let’s go with that.」 Since we need to use up all the preserved food before it goes bad, the fresh stuff goes without saying, and the snacks run out before we know it. We don’t really stock up on food supplies, so we don’t have much of a choice. Come to think of it, since we’re not in the general district anymore, we’re generally going to do our shopping in the noble district, right? We usually only enter the district when going to the Order of Mages and back, so we only know the stores in the main street. We should walk around and map out the area. Well, sure, we could go and teleport to the general district, yeah? But recently, we’ve been walking as much as possible. See, the less you walk, the more your stomach area...... you know......In that sense, it’s probably better to take time to walk to the general district, but if we go that far, it’ll be inconvenient and all. By the way, I noticed the stomach issue while I was casually squishing around Ruti’s belly. Between you and me, we looked at each other and went absolutely pale at that time.「I guess we should try that store we always passed by at the main street for now.」「That’s true. Considering the time, we should leave the search for new stores for next time. From what I’ve seen when we pass by, they seem to have a high-quality of assortment there, so there should be no problems.」 With this and that, we got lunch, bought groceries, went back home, and immediately started preparing for dinner. As for the said store, their goods were as good as we expected. It was a bit expensive there, so it’s not really the best choice but since they had a good assortment and it’s not really that imbalanced, we’ll probably be visiting them again in the future. 「It’s been a while since I’ve used a knife.」「You’ve always been cooking with your claws after all.」 Since we’re cooking in a proper kitchen, I took the chance to ready my own kitchen knife. ......Well I did, but... were knives always this dull and unreliable? 「Hmmnn, am I just too used to claws? For some reason, it’s hard to control the-....... twa!?」 Because it was different from what I’m used to, I put too much strength and the knife went straight to the chopping board with a ton of force. 「Hey, are you alright? Did you cut yourself?」「I’m fine, I’m fine. Something like that wouldn’t really scratch my skin.」「You’re saying that, but things can cut when they cut...... alright? Be careful, okay?」 Well, I already know from running through branches in the forest and getting hit by magic during training that my skin is tough enough to go through those unscathed, but I haven’t actually been cut with something sharp before, so I can’t be sure how much my skin can endure, yeah...... Hmmm, it might be a bit late but maybe I should learn some healing-type magic. After all, Ruti probably still gets injured like everybody else and it’s not like I’m absolutely sure that I can’t get injured. Though, I’m not sure if I can use it since I have restrictions and all. This world developed in a way where injuries are healed with magic and diseases with medicine, it’ll probably be better to train in healing with magic but since we don’t get injured regularly, it ends up not being prioritized. 「Natsuki, it’s boiling hot but is that alright?」「-whoops, that was close.」 I got so distracted while I was working that the soup ended up getting too hot. It’s a pot-au-feu, so it won’t lose flavor like miso soup would but it doesn’t really need to boil that much, so yeah. Miso soup...... Now that I remember it, I feel like drinking some after so long. Still, I haven’t really heard of any miso-like seasoning here, you know? Other countries might have something similar though...... And as I was cooking, again, while preoccupied, Ruti was baffled and told me off. After that, our cooking practice continued without any issues. Since we’ve gotten somewhat used to our new home and life, we’ve decided that it’s about time to invite everybody. It would probably be better to just send them letters or invitations, but not everyone knows where our place is after all, so we had no other choice but to personally invite everyone, one by one. 「We’ve already talked to Firu, Cain, Chris, and Ryzna-san yesterday, so I guess we’ll go to the guys at the Order of Mages today.」 Firu, Cain, and Chris happily accepted. And since the party would be at night, even the busy Ryzna-san said that he would join us but be a bit late. 「Inviting the leader and Nera-san is already a given, but what about the others?」「It would be great if we can invite everyone, but the house isn’t really spacious enough to call several dozens of people after all...... Besides, Chris would likely feel uncomfortable if there’s too many people around, so perhaps inviting Jeff and Kerry should be good enough.」 Good point. Although everybody is really candid, every member of the order has the title of knight after all, so Chris and the others might feel nervous if there’s too many of the order people around. I guess it’ll be better this way. 「Well then, first, let’s go talk to the leader and Nera-san. After all, we can just ask the leader if Jeff and Kerry are out for work right now.」「......Say, isn’t there a possibility that the leader himself is also out for work?」「Ah...... W-well, he’s probably just there! Don’t worry, it’ll be fine!」 Ruti’s gaze is slightly piercing me but We headed to the leader’s office, knocked on the door, and felt relieved after hearing a reply. Come to think of it, I could’ve just checked if he’s here using telepathy, couldn’t I? It might be too late for me already...... 「Leader, we want to talk about something for a bit, do you have some time?」「Natsuki-kun and Ruti-kun, huh. Good timing, I was just in the middle of my break. So what is it?」 Entering the room, I see the leader and Nera-san, sitting in front of him, having tea together, so he’s probably found a good place to pause his paperwork. 「Ah, Nera-san’s here too, that’s perfect. The truth is, since we’ve finally finished moving and settling in, we were thinking of having a party with everybody that helped us since we came here.」「I see now. As for me, as long as it’s not in two days from now, I should be able to adjust my schedule and make some time. When would it be?」「For now, just to be sure, we were planning on having it at night in exactly two weeks from today, but is that okay?」「Two weeks is more than enough time. I’ll be joining in.」「I can go as well, as long as no unexpected incidents occur. Who else will you be inviting?」「We actually wanted to invite everybody but we also invited the others at the café. So, while the house is big for the two of us to live in, it’s not really big enough to have everybody in, you know? That’s why we’re thinking of inviting Jeff and Kerry too at most.」「Jeff and Kerry, is it? They’re currently out of the capital for a mission, I’ll tell them about it once they get in contact for the periodic report.」 Oh, so they were out for work. I’m glad for the leader’s consideration. 「Thanks. Well then, we’ll be leaving now.」「I see, much appreciated. I’m really looking forward to the party.」 And with this, we’re done with the invitations. Now then, we have two weeks to prepare. We need to think about what we should cook on that day.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 1, "inserted_lines_src": 7, "inserted_lines_trg": 4 }
戻って来たけれど、私はまたデュルキス国を出て行くだろう。次は簡単に出て行くことが出来るかどうか分からないけれど......。前回は罪人だったからすんなりラヴァール国に入ることが出来た。私がメルの質問に黙っていると、ジルが口を開いた。「その反応はまた行っちゃうんだね」何も言えず、私は苦笑した。「アリの国に収まる器じゃないもんな」アルバートお兄様の声が聞こえた。あら、この感じのアルバートお兄様久しぶりだわ。幼少期ぶりじゃないかしらってぐらい。この妹想いの瞳をもう死ぬまで見ることはないと思っていた。これも全部魅惑の魔法が解けたから......? なんだか複雑な気持ちになってしまう。前までの敵対心があるからこそ、私は悪女として輝けたのに......。「本当にすまなかった」彼はリズさん同様深く頭を下げた。まさかそんな行動をとるとは想像もしていなかった。私は固まったまま彼をじっと見つめる。え!? 何が!? お兄様は何に謝っているの? 私の立場忘れてない? 国外追放級の罪人なのよ。死ぬまで自慢できるような称号を手に入れることが出来たのだから。なんなら、私が頭を下げてお礼を言う立場なのだけど......。聖女も攻略対象者も悪役令嬢に頭を下げる必要なんてない。「アリを勘違いしていた。あの時は自分を見失っていたのかもしれない。守ってやれなくてすまなかった。償いは何でもする」私は思わず「その勘違いは正しいです!」と叫びそうになった。お兄様は私を守らなくていいのよ? リズさんを守って? 混乱する状況に心を落ち着かせる。償いを望んでいるわけじゃないけれど、ここは悪女になりきらないと! ここで挽回! このままだと私が「良い人」になってしまう。嫌だもの、そんな未来。「償い、ねぇ」と私は悪女っぽくアルバートお兄様を見下げるようにして呟いた。今の私は悪い笑顔として教科書に掲載されるんじゃないかしらってぐらい素晴らしい笑みを浮かべている。アルバートお兄様は私の言葉に反応して頭をゆっくりと上げた。彼の紫色の瞳に私が映っている。自分の左目が戻ったことを改めて確認する。少しだけ言葉に詰まる。私は悲しみを覆い隠し、彼にニコッと微笑んだ。「アルバートお兄様の尊厳を取り戻してください」彼は「え」ときょとんとした表情をする。一体どういう答えを望んでいたのだろう。私に対してもっと優しくしてください、とか言われると思っていたのだろうか。この私がそんなこと言うわけないでしょ。このままアルバートお兄様が嫌がるような言葉をどんどん言っていこう。「自分を見失うなんてウィリアムズ家の恥です。アルバートお兄様貴族ウィリアムズ家の長男なのよ? ご自分の立場を忘れないで。これから先、国を揺らがすような大きな決断をする時に『自分を見失っていた』なんて言い訳は通用しませんわ。ご自分の判断に責任を持って下さい。だから、リズさんの味方であり、私を敵だと認識していた過去を悔やみ、私に何か償いをしようと思う暇があれば、ウィリアムズ・アルバートとしての威厳を取り戻して」私は決して目を逸らさず、アルバートお兄様にそう言った。やっぱり私は可愛げのない妹だと思う。こういう時に「償いなんていりませんわ。そのお気持ちだけで充分です」って言えたら良かったのだろうけど......。私にはそんないい子ちゃんは向いていない。	I came back but I would leave Duelkis Kingdom once again. I did not know if it would be so easy to leave again... Last time I was able to enter Ravaal Kingdom easily because I was a sinner. When I remained silent at Mel’s question, Gilles interjected. “That’s the reaction you’re going to give me again, isn’t it?” Unable to say anything, I chuckled. “Ali is not a person who can fit in one country, is she?” I heard Big Brother Albert’s voice. Oh my, it had been a long time since I’d seen Big Brother Albert like this. It was the first time since I was a little girl. I thought I would never see these eyes of sisterly love again. Was it because the spell of charm was broken? I have mixed feelings about this. Because of the hostility that existed before, I was able to shine as Villainess... “I’m really sorry.” He bowed deeply as Liz-san did. I had never imagined he would act like this. I stared at him, frozen. What? What? What did big brother apologize for? Did you forget my position? I was an exiled sinner. A title I could brag about for the rest of my life. If you want, I should be the one to bow down and thank you... Neither the saint nor the capture target needed to bow down to the villainess. “I was wrong about Ali. Maybe I lost myself at that time. I’m sorry I couldn’t protect you. I’ll do whatever it takes to make amends.” I almost shouted, “You’re mistaken, what you did was correct!”. You didn’t have to protect me, you know. What about protecting Liz-san? I tried to compose myself in this confusing situation. Not that I was hoping for redemption, but I had to be a Villainess here! This was the place to make up for it! If I failed to do this, I would become the “good one”. I refuse that kind of future. “Atonement, huh?” I muttered to Big Brother Albert, looking down at him like a Villainess. I have such a wonderful smile on my face now that I think it will be written up in the textbooks as a bad smile. Big Brother Albert slowly raised his head in response to my words. I could see my reflection in his purple eyes. I confirmed once again that my left eye had returned to normal. I was a bit at a loss for words. I smiled at him, masking my sadness. “Is this to restore Big Brother Albert’s dignity?” He gave me a “huh?” look. What kind of answer did he want? Did he think I would tell him something like, “Please be nicer to me”? I would never say such a thing. Now, let’s keep on saying things that Big Brother Albert won’t like. “It is a disgrace to the House of Williams to lose sight of who you are, and Big Brother Albert is the eldest son of one of the five noble Williams families, remember? Don’t forget your position. You can’t make excuses like ‘I lost my mind’ when you are going to make a big decision that will shake the country. Please take responsibility for your decisions. So, if you have time to regret your past of being on Liz-san’s side and perceiving me as an enemy, and think about doing something to make amends to me, then regain your dignity as Williams Albert.” I said this to Big Brother Albert, never looking away. I was still the sister who was not very nice to him. It was at times like this that I would say to him, “I don’t need any atonement, or your kindness”. I was not cut out to be such a good girl.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 0, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
それはただの皿だ。それなりに高級な陶器製だが、ただの大皿だ。家庭にあれば、目立つだろうが、王宮にある分にはとても自然である。だが、その皿から異様な魔力を感じるのだ。「セルリス。この皿はいつからここにあった?」「さっき、メイドさんがおやつを入れて運んできてくれたものよ」俺はよく皿を観察する。皿の裏に魔法陣が刻まれている。転移魔法陣の一種だ。とても高度な魔法陣で、容易に作れるものではない。しかも、まだ魔法陣は生きている。させればどこかに行けるだろう。だが、どこに繋がっているかわからない間は怖くて使えない。「セルリス。そのメイドさんとやらに話が聞きたい」「わかったわ」走って駆けだそうとするセルリスを俺は止める。「シアもセルリスと一緒に頼む。眷属か魅了にかかっている可能性がある」シアとセルリスが駆けだしていった。セルリスはメイドの顔を知っている。それに戦闘力も充分だ。だが、ヴァンパイアの眷属や魅了されたものへの対応に不安が残る。ヴァンパイアの専門家であるシアが同行すれば、その点は大丈夫だ。「さて」俺はゴランが抑えているヴァンパイアを調べる。「レッサーだよな?」「そうだな。まあレッサーじゃないと王都内で活動するのは無理だろうしな」神の加護と呼ばれる結界により、上級魔物ほど王都内では力が抑えられるのだ。レッサーでも制限されているのだが、呪符やらを大量に使えば活動できる。レッサーヴァンパイアたちとも縄で拘束されている。アークヴァンパイアなら、霧への変化などで、逃げられる可能性があるだが、レッサーは霧に変化することができないので縄でも充分なのだ。ゴランが尋問をしているが、まったく答えない。「とりあえず、俺に任せてくれ」俺はレッサーヴァンパイア三体相手にまとめて、幻術を発動する。ルッチラからラーニングした幻術だ。見せる幻はヴァンパイアロードである。シアと一緒に討伐した奴だ。ロードが部屋に飛び込んできて。俺やゴランを叩きのめす。そんな幻をまず見せる。「むざむざと捕まりおって、恥を知れ」「も、申し訳ございません」ロードが王都にいることを疑問にすら思っていない。レッサーたちを幻術による認識阻害の術にかけることに成功したのだ。幻を見せるだけよりも、認識阻害状態にするほうがはるかに難しい。ルッチラもセルリスを認識阻害状態にした。だが、魔力の高い俺には幻を見せることしかできなかった。「誰の配下だ?」「階のロード閣下です」全く誰か知らないが、とりあえず、ロードの幻にはそう答えさせておく。「神の鶏をとらえに......」「俺は聞いておらぬ。ハイロードさまから俺が受けた重要な使命を邪魔しおって」怯えた様子で、レッサーが語る。「だ、第六位階さまが、ハイロードさま直々に命じられたとのことで」「ご存知の通り、第六位階さまは人間の眷属が多くおり、王宮にも多数侵入しておりますゆえ」重要な情報を知ることができたと思う。王宮にも侵入しているとは、恐ろしい話だ。「ハイロードさまが? ならばすれ違いがあったのやも知れぬな。第六位階に挨拶せねばならぬだろう。第六位階はどこにおる?」「はい。それは......」レッサーヴァンパイアは教えてくれる。王都から歩いて1時間足らずの村だった。「魔法陣を通れば、第六位階のもとに行けるのか?」「そうか。ところで......」俺はまだ情報を引き出そうとした。だが、「うぐうううがああはっ」レッサーヴァンパイア三体は、同時に苦しみだした。そして血を吐いて動かなくなり、魔石を残して体が灰へと変化していく。俺は幻術を解除した。「見事な幻術だったぞ。ヴァンパイアも見事にペラペラしゃべっていたな」感心した様子でゴランが言う。「ルッチラの幻術を真似させてもらった。勝手に真似してすまない」「いえ、全然かまいません! ラックさんに真似していただけるなんて光栄です。ぼくよりうまいかも」「コッコ!」ゲルベルガも興奮気味に鳴く。ルッチラが首をかしげる。「それにしても、どうして急に灰になったんでしょう?」「一定時間が経てば、死ぬ毒でもあらかじめ飲まされてたんだろうさ」灰を調べていたゴランが言う。恐らくゴランの見立ては間違っていない。「ゴラン。俺はちょっと、第六位階とやらを殺してくる」「なんだと?」「魔法陣を向こうからふさがれる前に飛び込んでおこうと思ってな」「俺もともに行こう」「いや、ゴランは王宮を頼む。まだ、第六位階の配下がいるらしいからな」俺が魔法陣に飛び込もうとしたとき、「捕まえて来たわ!」セルリスとシアが帰ってきた。メイドを一人捕まえている。メイドは、舌をかまないよう口に布をかまされ、腕は後ろでくくられていた。シアの判断だろう。「眷属ではないであります」眷属ならば、シアは見分けられるのだ。眷属ではないとすると恐らく魅了だ。魅了にかかった人間を外から見分けることは難しい。「魅了ならまだ助かるでありますよ」シアはほっとしたようだった。眷属にされていれば治すことは、ほとんど不可能だ。だが、魅了ならば治療可能だ。「治療するには、優秀な治癒術士が必要でありますから......」「急いで呼んできた方がいいわね」駆けだそうとするセルリスを止める。「少し待ってくれ。ヴァンパイアの影響下にあるものは、まだ沢山いるようだ」「そ、そうなの?」「ああ、だからゲルベルガさまの防衛に専念してくれ」「任せるであります」「俺はちょっと第六位階とやらを殺してくる」支配者たるヴァンパイアロードを倒せば、魅了は解け、眷属は灰になる。だから、ロードを倒すのが先決だ。俺は魔法陣に魔力を流して、励起させる。そして、転移魔法陣に飛び込んだ。	It was a plate. A somewhat luxurious ceramic plate, but still just a large plate nonetheless. The plate might have stood out in a normal household, but it looked quite natural within the palace. However, I sensed some unusual magic coming from it. “Serulis. How long has this plate been in here?” “Not long. A maid brought in some snacks on that plate.” I inspected the plate carefully. There was a magic circle carved into the back of it. It was of the teleportation variety. The magic circle was an incredibly advanced one and would have been difficult to make. Not only that, but it was still alive. If I allowed some magic to flow in now, I might be able to use it to go somewhere. However, I would not do such a thing while I had no idea where it would take me. “Serulis. I would like to talk to this maid.” “I understand.” Serulis was about to run from the room, but I stopped her. “Shia should go with you. She might be a thrall or infected.” Shia and Serulis ran out of the room. Serulis knew the maid’s face. And she could fight as well. However, I was worried about how she would handle someone who had been charmed or was one of them. It would be better for a vampire professional like Shia to go with her. “Now...” I turned to the vampire that Goran was holding. “A lesser?” “Looks like it. Well, I doubt anything but a lesser could move about within the city.” There was a barrier around the city that prevented stronger monsters from entering. Even lessers were restricted, but they could still be active if they used numerous charms and amulets. The three lesser vampires were now bound up by rope. Arch Vampires were able to transform into mist, which would have allowed them to escape. But lessers could not do that, and so ropes were enough to keep them from escaping. Goran was trying to question them, but they did not answer. “Let me try then.” I activated some illusion magic towards the three lesser vampires. It was an illusion I had learned from Luchila. The illusion was that of a Vampire Lord. The one that I had killed with Shia. The Lord jumped into the room we were in and beat Goran and me to the ground. That was the illusion that they saw. “You should feel ashamed for getting caught so easily.” “We-we are terribly sorry.” They didn’t even question how a Lord was inside of the royal capital. I had succeeded in putting them under a state of recognition obstruction. It was much more difficult than just showing an illusion. This was what Luchila had done to Serulis. However, my magic was too powerful, and so it did not work on me. “Who are you working under?” “The th ranking Lord officer.” I didn’t know who it was at all, but I made the Lord answer anyway. “We have come to get the God Fowl...” “I didn’t hear about this. The High Lord gave me an important task, and you lot have ruined it.” The illusory Lord said as he glared at them. “Bu-but the th ranking officer said that his orders were directly from the High Lord.” “As you know, the th ranking officer has many human thralls, and many of them have infiltrated this palace.” That was some very important information there. It was frightening to think that they had infiltrated the palace. “The High Lord gave the order? Then there must have been some mistake. I will have to go and talk with the th ranking officer. Where is he?” “Yes. Uh...” The lesser vampire told me. It was near a village that was an hours walk from the city. “Can I go and meet him if I use this magic circle?” “I see. By the way...” I attempted to get more information out of them. However, “UGHHAAGGHH!!” The three lesser vampires started screaming in pain at the same time. Then they coughed up blood before becoming completely still. At last, they turned into ash, with only the magic stones remaining. I deactivated the illusion. “That was an impressive illusion. Those vampires couldn’t stop talking.” Goran said with admiration. “I just copied Luchila’s illusion. Sorry for not telling you about it.” “No, I do not mind! It is an honor to have you copy my work. And you did it better than me.” “Cluck-cluck!” Gerberga seemed very excited. Luchila tilted his head to the side. “Still, why did they turn into ash all of a sudden?” “They had probably swallowed some poison that would kill them after a certain period.” Goran said as he inspected the ashes. I suspected that Goran was right about that. “Goran. I think I’m going to go and kill this th officer or whatever he’s called.” “You what?” “I’m going to teleport before the portal is closed.” “Then I will go with you.” “No, you have to protect the palace. It seems that there are other subordinates of this th ranking officer here as well.” Just as I was about to jump into the circle, “I caught her!” Serulis and Shia had returned. They had captured a single maid. They had put some cloth in her mouth so she could not bite her tongue, and her hands were tied behind her back. It must have been Shia’s idea. “She is not infected.” Shia was able to tell them apart. Then the maid was likely under the vampire’s charm. It was hard to tell from the outside whether or not that was the case. “If it is Charm, then she can be cured.” Shia seemed relieved. If it wasn’t Charm, then it would be nearly irreversible. But Charm could be treated. “Though, it will require an incredibly skilled healer...” “We should call one over at once.” Serulis was about to run out again, by I stopped her. “Wait a second. Apparently, there are many others who are under the vampire’s influence.” “Re-really?” “Yes. And so you two should focus on protected Lord Gerberga.” “Leave it to us.” “I’m going to go and kill this th ranking officer.” If you killed the Vampire Lord who was controlling them, then the Charm effect would die off and the servants would turn into ash. So it was best to just defeat the Lord. I poured my magic into the magic circle and activated it. And then I jumped into the teleportation circle.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 7, "inserted_lines_src": 2, "inserted_lines_trg": 1 }
蛸王襲来の報から2時間後の『白霧と黒沼の森』「いやー、さすがに寒いな。」俺はその襲来の規模を受けて急遽作成した巨大な塔の上に居た。第4階層の上に作ったそれはとにかく高く、高さはおおよそ1000m程。ダンジョンの構造物は破壊不可という特性があるからこそできる建造物であり、頂上の吹きさらしのステージから見えるその景色は素晴らしいものである。俺の護衛として時折空の彼方からやってくるモンスターを撃退しているイチコが自滅覚悟の特攻をしてきたモンスターを切り落としながらそう言う。「まあ、俺自身寒さには耐性あるし、今回はこれもあるしな。」俺はそう言いながら自分の着ているローブを引っ張る。このローブは靄大狼の毛皮を素材に作られており、そこに俺の解析と狐姫の技術を併用・試作したスキル付与が行われている。付与されているスキルの名は『霧魔法習熟I』。うん。その名前から分かる様に俺の使う≪霧爆≫などの霧属性のスキルを強化するスキルであり、俺の持つ『法析の瞳』の解析能力によって表には効果が出てこないパッシブスキルの構造も解析できるようになったからこそ作れた装備品である。尤もスキル付与を除いても、いつもの俺製ではなくきちんとした職人が作ったものなので、防寒性能や防御力が中々高いのであるが。なお、このローブに加えて今回は俺の右腕の骨と、模擬戦で報酬として勝ち取った竜君の鱗を組み合わせて作ってもらった特製の杖も用意してある。この杖も試作品なので特定の名称などは無いのだが、性能王の素材を使っているのでなかなかのものである。「それにしてもすごい数ですわね。ここからでも影は見えますわ。」そう。この塔の作成理由は蛸王の襲撃。だが、前回と同じ規模の襲撃ならこんなものは用意せずに配下たちに任せるだけだった。ならば何故作ったか。決まっている。「港町に派遣しておいた眷属たちからの報告でまさかとは思っていたが、前回の3倍の戦力で襲撃っていう話は本当だったというわけか。」今回の襲撃が前回とは比較にならない程大規模だからだ。だが、対策はある。「それで、本当にどうにかできますのね?」「計算上は問題なし。それに多少無茶でも既にうちの領域の主要な戦力は他の地域の援護に回しているんだ。やるしかない。」「護衛はしっかりやりますから安心してください。」「ああ、よろしく頼む。」この2年間。超長距離転移陣を作成するにあたって俺は転移系スキルは勿論の事すれば転移系スキルとは関係のないスキルも多く解析している。それらのスキルを解析したのは作成に当たって前提として求められる知識を得るためだったり、ノイズとして入ってくる解析結果の構文を除外するためだったりするが、そのおかげでスキルに関する知識もその知識を元に組み上げたオリジナルスキル、通称『魔術』の種類も大きく増している。「じゃあ、詠唱始めるし、後は頼んだわ。」「はい。」「分かりましたわ。」そして今回使うのはその内の一つ。「『Self is black mist king to spoil. (我は蝕む黒の霧王。)my asking 10,000 enemys were killed power. (我が求めるは万の敵討ち払いし力。)』」詠唱開始と同時に俺の周囲に巨大な魔法陣の巨大な魔源装置が現れる。「『It is a dreamy mist. (それは夢幻の霧。)Sweet fantasy. (甘美なる幻想。)』」詠唱が紡がれていくにつれてその輝きは強さを増していく。「『It is carried out and there is no truth in there, (されど、そこに真実は無く、)It is an evil spirit of the deep deep abyss which also merely catches and binds a soul and it invites to cold eternal sleep that it is. (あるのはただ魂をも捉え、縛り、永遠の冷たき眠りへと誘う深き深き深淵の悪魔)』」俺の高まる力に耐え切れていないのか杖にはヒビが入り、ローブは端から細切れになり始める。「『An evil spirit of the deep deep abyss. (さあ、悪魔よ。)As long as self allows, thou is given, it carries out and sacrifice is tasted fully, but it is good. (我が許す限り汝に与えられし贄を存分に味わうがいい。)』」俺の周りにある魔源装置にもヒビが入り始める。どうやら内包していた力が尽き始めているようだ。「『thirteen of a strange evil spirit ・ It carries out by being opened and is a mouth of mist demon (未知なる魔の十三・開かれし霧魔の口)!』」そして、詠唱完了と同時に杖もローブも魔源装置も勢いよく弾け飛び、魔法陣が周囲一帯へと展開され、それと共に水平線の彼方に僅かに見えている蛸王の部隊が居ると思しき場所に一寸先も見えないような濃い霧が展開されていく。「上手くいきましたの?」「どうだろうな。今は観測班からの連絡待ちだ。」と、噂をすれば港町に潜ませておいた霧人からの通信が入る。『霧王様。港町に接近していた蛸王の配下たちですが、霧に捲かれると同時にその動きを止め、やがて眠る様に崩れ落ち、これは≪生命感知≫で探った結果ですが、いずれも生命活動を停止させているようです。』どうやら想定通りの結果が出たみたいだな。良かった良かった。「ん。分かった。引き続き警戒をして霧が晴れたら回収できるものは回収しておいてくれ。」そうして、俺は通信を切った。「問題なしだそうだ。」「それは良かったですわ。」「では、一先ず中に戻りましょうか。」俺の知らせを受けて、安心したと言う顔を浮かべるリョウとイチコを連れて俺たちは塔の中に入り、それと同時に屋上への入り口を封鎖しておいた。パパラパッパー! そして久しぶりのレベルアップ音を俺は聞いた。 -------------- 「それにしても恐ろしい射程と威力ですわね。」「私もそう思います。」俺の戦果を聞いたリョウとイチコの第一声がこれであった。いやまあ気持ちはわかるけどな。『開かれし夢魔の口』。これは現状俺の所有する魔術の中では最も効果範囲と射程が長い魔術であり、俺の認識範囲内なら距離と範囲が増すにつれて激しくなる消費さえどうにかできればどこにでも撃ち込むことが出来る魔術であり、効果としては霧を発生させ、霧の内部に居る生物の精神を幻想空間に閉じ込めると共に肉体の生命活動を停止させると言うもので、これを打ち破るにはいかに素早く自分が幸せだと思う幻想を否定し、現実へと還ってこれるかが鍵になる。まあ、簡単に言うなら長距離広範囲殲滅魔術だな。ある意味かつてのミサイルなどに近いものだと思う。うん。エゲツナイな。「ただ、やはり消費が問題だな。まさか、HP,MP,SPを1000込めた魔源装置が三つとも吹っ飛んだ上に杖とローブまで弾け飛ぶとは思わなかった。俺自身の力も結構吸われているみたいだし。」「そうなると連発は出来ない。ということですか。」「そもそも連発するものでもないけどな。」俺のやれやれと言った姿に二人が呆れながらもついてくる。さて、後始末を済ませたらレベルアップ作業に移ろうか。	Two hours after the report that the Octopus King had attacked, at the “White Mist and Black Swamp Forest”. “It’s awfully freezing cold indeed.” Following the scale of the attack, I was on top of a massive pagoda that was hastily constructed. The pagoda, which reached around , meters tall, was erected at the top of the fourth level. Since the dungeon’s structure was indestructible, the view from the top of the exposed platform was breathtaking. “For someone who says so, you don’t seem to be feeling cold,” Ichiko, who served as my escort and occasionally repelled monsters from beyond the sky, remarked as she slashed down a monster that had launched a suicide attack. “Well, I can withstand the chill myself, and this time I’ve got this, too.” While saying this, I pulled on the robe I was donning. This robe was made from the fur of the Giant Mist Wolf, to which I had applied a skill through a combination of my analysis and the technology of the Fox Princess and a prototype. The name of the skill endowed was “Mist Magic Proficiency I”. Right. As the name implied, it was a skill that augmented the mist attribute skills I used, such as ≪Mist Plosion≫. It was a piece of equipment I was able to make owing to the analytical powers of my “Eye of Law Analysis,” which allowed me to analyze the structure of passive skills whose effects weren’t evident at first glance. Although even without the skill applied, this robe was not made by me in my customary fashion, but by a craftsman, therefore providing a high level of protection against the cold and offering excellent protection performance. On top of this robe, I had also prepared a special wand made from the bones of my right arm and the scales of Dragon Sovereign, which I earned as a reward in the sham battle. Since this wand was also a prototype, there was no specific name for it, but its performance was remarkable due to the fact that it was composed of materials from two Demon Kings. “Even so, the numbers are tremendous. I can see their shadows even from here,” Ryo said while observing the distant horizon through a telescope. Yeah, that was right. The onslaught of the Octopus King was what prompted the construction of this pagoda. However, if the present threat was of the same extent as the previous one, I would not have built this pagoda and instead delegated the duty to my subordinates. So, why was this pagoda established in the first place? Wasn’t it self-evident? “According to the report from the kin I had dispatched to the port city, I never imagined it would happen, yet it turned out to be true that the Octopus King’s army would storm with a force triple the size of the previous one.” This was because the scope of the invasion this time was unprecedented. But there were countermeasures for this. “So can you truly deal with the situation?” “My calculations are flawless. Besides, even if it is a bit reckless of me, I have already sent the main forces of my territory to support other areas. We have no choice but to do this.” “You can rest assured that as an escort, I’ll do my best to protect you.” “Ah, I’ll be counting on you.” For the past two years, I had been analyzing not only teleportation skills but also various skills which at first sight seemed irrelevant to teleportation skills in creating the Ultra-long-distance Transportation Formation. These skills were analyzed in order to grasp the knowledge demanded as a prerequisite for their creation and to eliminate the syntax of the analysis results that came in as noise, but thanks to this, both my knowledge of skills and the types of original skills, aka “magic,” that I had assembled based on this knowledge had significantly improved. “Then I’ll begin the chanting, so I’ll leave the rest to you.” “Yes.” “I understand.” And this time I will use one of these. 「『Self is black mist king to spoil. (我は蝕む黒の霧王。)my asking ,0 enemys were killed power. (我が求めるは万の敵討ち払いし力。)』」 [i] A gigantic magic circle arose around me as soon as the chanting began, accompanied by a tri-colored, massive magic source device. 「『It is a dreamy mist. (それは夢幻の霧。)Sweet fantasy. (甘美なる幻想。)』」 With each chant assembling, the brilliance of the magic circle grew in intensity. 「『It is carried out and there is no truth in there, (されど、そこに真実は無く、)It is an evil spirit of the deep deep abyss which also merely catches and binds a soul and it invites to cold eternal sleep that it is. (あるのはただ魂をも捉え、縛り、永遠の冷たき眠りへと誘う深き深き深淵の悪魔)』」 The wand was cracking and the robe began fraying at the edges as if it can’t sustain the increasing power that was being exerted. 「『An evil spirit of the deep deep abyss. (さあ、悪魔よ。)As long as self allows, thou is given, it carries out and sacrifice is tasted fully, but it is good. (我が許す限り汝に与えられし贄を存分に味わうがいい。)』」 Even the magic source device that surrounded me was starting to crumble. Apparently, the power contained within was starting to exhaust itself. 「『thirteen of a strange evil spirit ・ It carries out by being opened and is a mouth of mist demon (未知なる魔の十三・開かれし霧魔の口)!』」 With the completion of the chanting, the wand, robe, and magic source device all shot off vigorously, and a magic circle was deployed over the surrounding area, along with a dense mist that seemed to extend beyond an inch to the location where the Octopus King’s troops were thought to be, which can be faintly glimpsed in the distance on the horizon. “Was it successful?” “I wonder. At the moment, I am awaiting word from the observation team.” Speaking of the devil, a communication came in from the Kirijin, who had been hiding in the port city. [Mist King-sama. Although the Octopus King’s men were approaching the port city, their movements ceased immediately upon being engulfed by the mist, and they eventually collapsed as if they were asleep. This is the result of ≪Life Detection≫ probe, and it appeared that all of them have their biological activities stopped.] Looks like the outcome worked out as envisioned. What a breath of fresh air. “Okay. Continue to be on alert and retrieve what you can when the mist clears.” With that, I disconnected the transmission. “Everything’s going smoothly.” “That’s good to hear.” “Shall we head back inside for now?” After receiving the information, I entered the pagoda with Ryo and Ichiko, whose expressions reflected a sense of relief. At the same time, I sealed off the entrance to the rooftop. Papa-la-pappa! And for the first time in a long time, the sound of the level up hit my ears. ————– “But then again, the range and potency of that skill are astounding.” “I concur.” This was the first thing Ryo and Ichiko muttered when they heard the war report. Well, I can relate to how you feel. “Opening of the mouth of the Mist Demon [ii] “. Among the sorcery I now owned, this had the broadest scope and the greatest range. As long as I can manage to use it within the range of my recognition, it was a sorcery that can be shot anywhere provided that I can manage to consume it at a rate that intensified with the increase in distance and range. Its effect was to generate a mist that encased the living thing’s psyche in an illusory space and prevented the body’s biological activities. The key to breaking this illusion was how quickly one can deny the illusion of happiness and return to reality. Well, to put it simply, it is a long-range, wide-area annihilation sorcery. In a sense, it is similar to the missiles of the former world. Yeah, that’s very majestic. “But the consumption is still a problem. I didn’t expect all three of my HP, MP and SP to blow up as well as my wand and robe. My own strength seemed to have been drained too.” “Does that mean it can’t be fired in rapid succession?” “It’s not like I am going to fire off a series of shots in the first place, though.” The two of them followed me in amazement as I said. I should move on to the level-up process now that the mess had been resolved.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 1, "inserted_lines_src": 2, "inserted_lines_trg": 8 }
しばらく戦い、俺はやっと気配を感じた。『来たぞ!』『なにがであるか?』ケーテの問いに、まるで答えるかのように、「おおおらあああ!」上空からゴランが降ってきた。「ちぃいいいい」ゴランの魔法の剣が真祖の身体を肩から股にかけて切り裂いた。同時に斬り口が燃え上がる。「楽しそうなことしているじゃねーか」そう言ってゴランは真祖に追撃する。真祖はたまらず大きく飛んで距離を取る。「ああ、待たせた。ロック」そして巨大な竜の姿をしたモルスが降りてくる。モルスの背にはエリックが乗っていた。エリックは落ち着いた様子でゴランに言う。「いきなり飛び降りるな。危ない」「そうはいうがな。奇襲が成功したんだ。いいだろう」そういって、ゴランはにやりと笑った。「状況はわかっているな?」実は邪神の加護の存在に気付いたとき。真祖が上空から降りてくる前。俺は通話の腕輪を起動していた。そのため、エリック、ゴランたちには口に出して話したことはすべて伝わっているのだ。邪神の加護の存在。真祖の出現。戦況の大体の推移。それら全てをエリックたちは知っている。つまり、エリックは邪神の加護の効果を弱める魔道具も持ってきてくれているということだ。その魔道具はすでに発動済みのようだ。身体が徐々に楽になっていく。「やっときたか。猿たちの勇者」真祖の口ぶりからは余裕を感じる。だが、ゴランが斬り裂いた痕は再生していなかった。「俺たちのことを調べたみてーだな」「仮にも我に傷をつけたものたちゆえな。そうそう、お前らに言っておくべきことが――」そのまま直撃し胴体に大きな穴が空く。先ほど真祖が飲み込んだ邪神の加護のコアが内臓とともに地面に落ちた。「せっかちだな。もう少しゆるりと話そうではないか。我がせっかく――」俺は言葉を返さずに、魔神王の剣で真祖の首を斬り落し、同時に胴体に空いた穴に手を突っ込む。「消える前に魔力をよこせ。これから忙しくなりそうだからな」そして俺は真祖の心臓に直接触れて、ドレインタッチを発動させる。先ほど真祖の攻撃で肩の肉をえぐられてしまった。その傷を癒やすためにも、ドレインタッチしておきたかったのだ。真祖の胴体と、斬り離されて地面に落ちている頭が同時にしわくちゃになっていく。それに伴い、俺の肩の傷が治癒していった。だが、真祖の持つ魔力は思いのほか少なかった。失血を止めるのでだ。真祖は、まるで諦めたかのように抵抗しない。地面に転がる頭はにやりと微笑んだ。「......やはりわかったか? 猿どもに英雄ラックと言われるだけのことはある。だが、もう遅い。後悔せよ」真祖は勝ち誇っている。魔力が少なかった。つまり、こいつは本体ではない。倒したときは、分身体にドレインタッチすることで本体から魔力を吸えたのに、今は吸えなかった。つまりこいつは本体と魔力的につながってすらいないということだ。そのことから、わかることがいくつかある。「貴様。本体は......」俺の問いに答えず、真祖は身体を霧に変えようとした。「コケッコッコオオオオオオオオオオオ!」ゲルベルガさまの神々しい鳴き声が高らかに響く。同時に真祖は灰へと変わっていった。「......やはり無理か。まあよい。対したロスではない」笑顔のまま真祖は消えていく。「ゲルベルガさま、助かった」「時間が無い。話しは後だ。急いで王都に戻るぞ。ケーテ頼む」俺は素早くヴァンパイアどもの灰などの遺品を集めていく。「ロック、怪我は大丈夫か?」エリックが心配そうに尋ねてくる。「ああ、真祖の攻撃で肩をえぐられたが、ドレインタッチでいやしておいた。完治ではないが動ける。大丈夫だ」真祖から奪い取った魔力が少なすぎて、血を止めただけだ。完治からほど遠いし、今もとても痛い。右肩の肉を抉られたせいで、筋肉を使って右腕を動かすのが難しい。「......無理はするなよ」ゴランが心配そうに言う。エリックとゴランに、俺の怪我の状態を隠そうとしたのだが、どうやら完全にばれていたようだ。「わかってる。無理はしないさ。だが、魔法は使えるから支障は無いし、時間も無い」「ガウ!」そのとき、戻ってきたガルヴが俺のすぐ近くで吠えた。「ガルヴも置いていかないさ。アリオとジニーは......」戻ってきたアリオとジニーは、エリックに向かってひざまずいていた。「こ、国王陛下。お会いで来てうれしいです。いつもありがとうございます」アリオの敬語は国王に対するものとしてはふさわしくない。だが、農村出身で貴族との付き合いもないアリオにとっては精一杯なのだ。エリックは式典などで国民の前に顔を出すことがある。だからアリオとジニーも知っていたのだ。「......面を上げよ。非常事態ゆえな。事情は後でロックから聞くが良い」アリオもジニーも緊張しきっている。後で説明するのが大変だが、仕方が無い。「ヴァンパイアに遭遇したことも、我とここで会ったことも当分は内密にしてほしい」エリックがアリオとジニーに対応している間に、俺はモルスに呼びかける。「モルス。村の処理をした後、アリオとジニーを乗せて王都まで送ってくれないか?」モルスは素早く魔力探知をして内訳を正確に把握して見せた。「モルス。Aランクの冒険者パーティーを派遣済みだからな。安心してくれ」ゴランがそう言うと、モルスは力強く頷いた。「わかりました。到着次第、彼らに引き継ぎましょう」俺はモルスに後を任せると、ケーテの背に乗って王都に向かう。エリック、ゴラン、ガルヴ、ゲルベルガさまも一緒である。ケーテの背に飛び乗った瞬間、俺の右肩がひどく痛んだ。「ロック、どういうことだ? 王都に何がある?」そう尋ねたエリックは少し心配そうだ。俺の怪我の状態を案じてくれているのだろう。だが、非常時なので情報交換を優先してくれる。「わかった。簡単に言うとだな、真祖の襲撃はエリックとゴランをおびき寄せるためのものだ」真祖は攻撃を躱し続けた。あれは余裕を楽しんで居たわけではないだろう。なぜなら、真祖は最初の魔力弾とアリオたちに向けての攻撃以外、一切攻撃をしなかったからだ。「なぜ攻撃をしなかったんだ?」「魔力の節約だろう。邪神の加護のせいで魔力探知の精度が落ちていたからわからなかった」元々真祖は魔法による隠蔽が得意なのだ。加えて邪神の加護のせいで完全にだまされてしまった。俺たちが戦っていた真祖はただの実体のある幻。実体のある影のようなもの。前回倒したときに何体も出してきた分身体の一つだ。前回の戦いの反省を生かしたのか、遠距離過ぎて繋げられなかったのか、魔力的にはつながっていない。魔力吸収を警戒したのも、魔力を吸われたら簡単にやられてしまうからだろう。「役に立ったならばよかったが......。なぜ陽動だと思う?」「エリックたちが到着した途端、引き延ばしにかかったからな」引き延ばしするためにどうでもいいことを話し始めたのだ。「それにだな。最初は俺自身を殺し、魔神王の剣を奪おうとしていた節があったが......」途中から会話で引き延ばし、攻撃せずに時間稼ぎをし始めたように感じた。恐らくエリック、ゴランが動き出したから時間稼ぎの作戦に移ったのだろう。「ロック。ちょっと待てくれ。俺やエリックが動き出したことが、どうして真祖がわかるんだ?」「忘れたのか、ゴラン。王宮には内通者がいる。そしてまだ見つかっていない」	After fighting for a while, I finally felt their presence. ‘Here they come!’ ‘What do you mean?’ Kathe asked. And then as if to reply... “ARGHHHH!” Goran dropped down from the sky. “Tskkk!” Goran’s magic blade cut the true ancestor’s body, from shoulder to groin. At the same time, the wounds burst into flames. “You two seem to be having fun.” So saying, Goran continued his attacks. The true ancestor flew back in order to create some distance between them. “I was waiting for you.” “Ah, sorry that I was late, Locke.” And Mors, who was in the form of a great dragon, descended. Eric was riding on Mors’s back. Eric spoke to Goran in a calm voice. “You shouldn’t jump off so suddenly. It’s dangerous.” “You may say that, but the ambush succeeded. So it’s fine.” Goran said with a laugh. “Do you understand the situation?” “Aye, leave it to us.” It was when I realized the presence of the evil god protection. Before the true ancestor came down from the sky. I had activated the communications bracelet. Because of this, Eric and Goran had heard everything that was said. The existence of the evil god protection. The appearance of the true ancestor. How the battle was moving. They knew all. In other words, Eric would have also brought the magic tool that could weaken the effects of the evil god protection. In fact, he had already activated it. I could feel my body become lighter. “So you finally came. Heroic apes.” “The tide has turned now.” “I wouldn’t be so sure.” Judging by the way he talked, the true ancestor was still confident. However, he had not healed himself after Goran cut him. “It looks like he studied us beforehand.” “Even though you did manage to cut me. Oh, that’s right. There is something I should tell you...” As the true ancestor continued to talk, I shot a magic bullet into him. It hit him head on and a great hole opened up in his torso. And then the core that he had swallowed fell to the ground, along with his organs. “You are so impatient. We should talk more leisurely. After all, I went through the trouble of...” Without answering him, I used the Devil King Sword to cut off his head. At the same time, I thrust my hand into the hole in his body. “Give me your magic energy before you disappear. Because I think we’ll be quite busy after this.” And then I touched the true ancestor’s heart directly and activated Drain Touch. In a previous attack, the true ancestor had gouged out a chunk of my shoulder. And so I also wanted to use Drain Touch to heal that wound. At the same time, the head that was on the ground began to shrivel and dry up. And then my shoulder began to heal. However, the true ancestor had less magic energy than I expected. I could do little more than stop the bleeding. As for the true ancestor, he did not resist, as if he had already given up. The head on the ground just smiled. “...Do you understand now? Well, I guess that’s why the apes call you Ruck the Hero. But it’s too late. And you will feel regret.” The true ancestor was talking like he had won. He had little magic energy. In other words, this wasn’t his real body. When defeating him, I had been able to take his magic energy by using Drain Touch on his clones, but it didn’t work this time. In other words, this one wasn’t connected to the real body when it came to magic energy. That revealed several other things as well. “You bastard. The body is...” But without answering me, the true ancestor began to turn into mist. “Cock-a-doodle-dooo!!” Lord Gerberga’s godly cry echoed loudly. At the same time, the true ancestor turned into ashes. “...I guess it wasn’t possible. Oh, well. It’s not much of a loss.” He disappeared with a smile. “Thank you, Lord Gerberga.” “Cluck-cluck.” “Locke. What happened?” “Aye, it looked like he was trying to say something? Perhaps we should have listened first...” “There is no time. We can talk later. We must hurry back to the royal capital. Kathe, I’m counting on you.” “I don’t understand, but I’ll take you there.” And then Kathe returned to her dragon form. I quickly gathered the ashes and remains of the vampires. “Locke. Are you all right?” Eric asked me with a concerned voice. “Aye. The true ancestor took a piece of my shoulder, but I healed it with Drain Touch. It’s not completely healed, but I can move. So I’m fine.” I said with a laugh. And it wasn’t a lie. The true ancestor had so little magic energy, that I could only stop the bleeding. It was far from completely healed, and it hurt a lot. And since a piece had gouged out, it was difficult to use my muscles to move my right arm. “...Don’t push yourself too hard.” Goran said worriedly. I hadn’t wanted Eric and Goran to know the state I was in, but I was not able to hide it from them. “I know. And I won’t. However, I can still use magic. And we don’t have time.” “Gruff!” Just then, Grulf returned and barked at me. “We wouldn’t leave you behind, Grulf. As for Ario and Ginny...” When Ario and Ginny returned, they kneeled before Eric. “Yo-Your Majesty. It is an honor to meet you. Thank you for everything.” Ario’s attempt at speaking to the king was not considered proper at all. However, he was born in a farming village and had no prior contact with nobles, so this was the best that he could do. Eric would occasionally show his face to the people during public ceremonies. And so Ario and Ginny recognized him. “...Raise your heads. This is a state of emergency. I’m sure Locke will explain it to you later.” “Ye-yes, Your Majesty.” Both Ario and Ginny were very nervous. While it would be hard to explain it later, it could not be helped. “You must keep it a secret that you encountered vampires here, and that you met us. At least, for a while.” “Ye-yes, Your Majesty!” “Thank you.” While Eric spoke with Ario and Ginny, I called out to Mors. “Mors. After we are finished dealing with the village, can you take Ario and Ginny back to the city?” “Certainly. ...As for the village, there are thirty thralls and seventy who have been charmed.” Mors had used Magic Detection to quickly grasp the situation with accuracy. “That’s right. Thank you.” “Mors. I dispatched an A-Rank Adventurers party. So you don’t have to worry.” Goran said, and Mors nodded firmly. “I understand. I’ll leave things to them once they arrive.” I left the rest to Mors, and got onto Kathe’s back and we headed towards the royal capital. Eric, Goran, Grulf, and Lord Gerberga were with me. The moment that I jumped onto Kathe’s back, my right arm hurt terribly. “Locke? What is going on? What is in the capital?” Eric looked worried as he asked this. He was still concerned about my injury. However, as it was an emergency, he prioritized the exchanging of information. “The true ancestor, no, the shadow, was a feint.” “Tell me the details.” “Fine. To put it simply, the true ancestor attack was a way of luring you and Goran out.” The true ancestor had continued to dodge the attacks. But it wasn’t because he was toying with us for his own enjoyment. After all, aside from the first magic bullet he unleashed at Ario and Ginny, he hadn’t attacked us at all. “Why didn’t he attack?” “Probably to save magic energy. As the evil god protection lowered the accuracy or Magic Detection, I was unable to tell.” In the first place, the true ancestor was good at using concealment magic. And with the evil god protection on top of that, I had been fooled completely. What we were fighting was just a phantom. A shadow with a body. It was one of the clones we had fought when defeating him previously. Perhaps he had learned after losing the last fight, or he was too far away to connect to it. Regardless, there was no magic energy link. The reason that he had been afraid of my magic absorption was because one it was absorbed, he would be defeated easily. “I figured it out thanks to you bringing the tool that stopped the evil god protection. Thank you.” “I’m glad that it was useful... But why do you say it was a feint?” “Because the moment you and Goran arrived, it started to stall for time.” And in order to do that, he had started talking about things of no consequence. “Though, at first... It had been trying to kill me and take the Devil King Sword...” To me, it had felt like he suddenly started talking more, and was trying to buy time without attacking. My guess was now that Eric and Goran had moved, he changed strategy. “Locke. Wait a minute. How did he know that Eric and I started moving?” “Did you forget, Goran? There are spies in the palace. And they have not been found yet.” I said, and then Eric and Goran’s expressions turned grim.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 2, "inserted_lines_src": 19, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
「ありがとうな、レオ。これで少しは皆に怖がられる事も少なくなるはずだ!」レオにとっても人懐っこい性格から、人から恐れられるのは本意じゃないだろうしな。怖がられる事が多いとはいえ、俺としてもレオが誰かに恐怖されるのを見て気持ちの良いものじゃない。 ......こんなに可愛いのにな......。「ん? どうしたレオ?」それからしばらく、街道を辿るように移動してそろそろ道を離れる場所に来そうな頃、レオが速度を落としで何かを俺に伝えようとして鳴く。「んー、ここなら良いか」街道から少し離れた場所、木が数本立っていてレオを道行く人から隠せる場所で止まる。「ワフ。ワーフワフ」「成る程......そんな時間か......。もう少し進みたかったけど......仕方ないな」木陰でレオの背中から降りて、何を伝えようとしているのかを聞く。どうやらレオは、走り続けてお腹が減ったみたいだ。空を見ると、随分日が高くなっているな......懐中時計でも......ちょうど昼時か。お腹がすくのも当然だな。「それじゃ、ここで昼にするか」「ワフ! ワフ!」昼を食べる事を決めると、レオは尻尾を振って喜び始めた。よっぽどお腹がすいてるようだ......屋敷からラクトス、ラクトスからここまでと、走りっぱなしだからな。レオを労うように撫でながら、括り付けていた荷物を降ろす。「えーと、食料は......と」唐草模様の風呂敷をほどいて、セバスチャンさんが用意してくれた食料を見る。レオも、となりで覗き込むようにしている。昼にどんな物が出て来るのか期待してるようだな......携帯食とかそういう物だろうから、あまり期待しない方が良いと思うんだが......。携帯食とかって、美味しいイメージが無いからな。「お、これだな。......ふむ、セバスチャンさんには帰ったらお礼を言わないと」布に包まれた物をいくつか取り出し、中身を出す。パンと、結構な量のソーセージだ。それと、皮の水筒に入ったスープと水......か。これだけあれば、ちゃんとした食事が出来そうだ。携帯食じゃ無かったみたいだ......荷物の中には、干し肉のような物もあったから、移動が長引いたりもしもの時の携帯食も入っているんだろう。「レオ、木を集めるから手伝ってくれ」レオと一緒に、数本の木の周囲に落ちている小枝を集める。パンはまだしも、ソーセージはちょっと温めたいからな......鍋が無いから、スープは温められないが......。小枝をある程度集め、それを焚き火の形にする。温めるだけだから、枝の量は多くない。レオに頼んで、火を付けてもらい、ソーセージに枝を刺して近くに並べる。ソーセージが温まるのを、楽しそうにしながら待ってるレオを見ながらそんな事を考える。「よし、そろそろ良いだろう。食べて良いぞ」俺が許可を出すと、すぐに火の近くにあったソーセージを口で取り、食べ始めるレオ。俺もレオに遅れないようパンを食べる。パンには味付けや調理された野菜や肉が挟んであって、屋敷で食べる物と遜色のない味だ。「これはヘレーナさんが用意してくれたのかもな。帰ったらお礼を言わないと」パンを食べながら呟く俺に、レオも頷きながらソーセージを食べている。尻尾がブンブン振られてるから、さぞかし美味しいんだろう。木の陰に止まってから1時間程、スープとパン、ソーセージを食べた俺とレオは、荷物をまとめて準備を整える。 ......レオは、まだ少し食べ足りないみたいだったが......移動中だから満腹になるまで食べるのはちょっとな......。屋敷に帰ったら、ヘレーナさんに頼んでたらふく食べさせてやろうと考えながら、土を掛けて焚き火を消した。火がしっかり消えている事を確認した後、レオに乗り込み出発。「おっと、そこを左だ......街道から離れて行くぞ」少し進んだあたりで、地図に書いてある通り街道を外れて、ランジ村への道へ向かう。日本とは違って、小さな村には大きな街道は繋がってないみたいだ。道路が舗装される事の無い世界だから、仕方ない事だな。「結構、こっちは森に近いんだな......」街道から少し北に行ったあたりで、そこからまた東に向かって移動する。さらに北には森があり、フェンリルの森程じゃないが鬱蒼と生い茂った木々が見える。地図には詳細な地理が書き込まれてあるから、森が近い事はわかっていたが、ここまで近いとは思わなかった。ランジ村が森の近くにあるのなら、林業とかをやってる村なのかもしれないな。「ワフ!?」「どうした、レオ?」レオにしがみつきながら、走る速度に慣れて森の木々を眺める余裕が出来て来た辺りで、急に速度を落として止まった。どうしたんだろうか? 「ウゥゥゥゥゥ......」止まってすぐうなり始めるレオ。この反応は......フェンリルの森で見た事があるな......あの時はオークが出て来た時だったか......。「ウゥゥゥゥ......ワウワウ! ガウガウ!」「そうか、わかった」危険を知らせるレオの鳴き声、内容はトロルドが数体前方にいるようだ。「ウゥゥゥゥゥ」警戒して唸り続けるレオは、俺を乗せたままゆっくりと歩いて、トロルドがいる場所へと近づいて行く。「レオ、いつもの事になってしまうけど、任せても良いか?」トロルドの対処をレオに頼むと、任せろとばかりに頷く。そのまま少し先に進むと、俺もトロルドを確認出来た。「あれか......森にいた奴と一緒だな」棍棒を持った、3メートルを越えるほどの巨体。俺が見た時は、既にレオが倒していたから、生きて立っているのを見るのは初めてだ。シェリーをいたぶってたやつらとは違うんだろうが、その姿に俺は少しだけ敵対心を覚えた。「いつも任せっきりで済まないな、レオ」レオの気にするなとでも言うような声を聞きながら、トロルドが見える位置で止まってくれたレオの背中から降りる。俺が乗ったままだと、思いっきり戦えないかもしれないからな。邪魔になりそうな荷物もレオからほどいて俺が持つ。トロルドは、この場所にいるだけで、まだ俺達に気付いていないようだ。	“Thank you, Leo. Now we won’t scare as many people on the road!” “Wuff.” As Leo had a very friendly personality, scaring people would not have been her intention. And while people were often scared of her, I doubted she enjoyed being seen as an object of fear, and I didn’t want that either. ...Besides, just look at how cute she is... “Wuff. Wuff.” “Hmm? What is it, Leo?” “Wuff-wuff. Wouu!” After that, we continued to run parallel, but at a short distance, with the road. But then Leo suddenly started to slow down and bark as if to tell me something. “Hmm. I suppose it’s fine then.” Away from the main road, where there were trees that Leo could hide behind, we stopped. “I see... That time already... I wanted to go a little farther...but it cannot be helped.” Behind the trees, I got off of Leo’s back and listened to what she had to say. Apparently, due to running so much, Leo was hungry. I looked up and saw that the sun was high in the sky... As for my watch...it said that it was midday. So it was no surprise that she was hungry then. “All right. Let’s eat here.” “Wuff! Wuff!” After deciding this, Leo started to wag her tail happily. She must have been very hungry then... From the mansion to Ractos. From Ractos to here. She had been running a lot. I petted Leo appreciatively and then unstrapped the baggage from her back. “Uhh...food...” “Wuff?” I untied the cloth and looked at the food supplies that Sebastian had prepared. Leo peered from behind me as well. She was curious and hopeful over what we would eat for lunch... But considering it was stuff like portable rations, she really shouldn’t get her hopes up so high... Those things usually don’t taste very good. “Oh, here it is. ...Hmm. I’ll have to thank Sebastian when we return.” “Wuff. Wuff.” I took out a few different bundles and unwrapped them. There was bread, and quite a lot of sausages. Also, leather flasks that contained water and soup... With all of this, we could have something like a proper meal. So it wasn’t portable rations... Well, there was some dried meat. So there might also be portable rations, in case the journey was longer than expected. “Leo. Help me gather some wood.” “Wuff.” And so Leo and I gathered the fallen branches around the trees. The bread was one thing, but we wanted to cook the sausages... But as we didn’t have a pot, we wouldn’t be able to heat up the soup... After gathering enough branches, I stacked them together to make a bonfire. As it was just to heat some food, we didn’t need that many branches. I asked Leo to light the fire, and then I used some branches to skewer the sausages and place them nearby. I watched Leo, who waited happily as she watched the sausages cook. “All right, they look good now. Here, you can eat these.” “Wuff!” I gave her permission, and then Leo quickly picked up one of the sausages and ate it. I also started to eat some bread. There was meat and vegetables inside of the bread, and it was every bit as tasty as the food we ate in the mansion. “Maybe Ms. Helena cooked this. I’ll have to thank her when we get back.” “Wuff. Wuff.” I muttered as I ate. Leo nodded in agreement as she devoured her sausages. Her tail wagged busily, suggesting that they tasted very good. About an hour passed, and when we were finished with our soup, bread and sausages, I packed our things so we could continue our journey. ...Though, Leo looked like she was still hungry... But since we were still traveling, I didn’t think it would be good for her to eat until she was full... She will just have to wait until we returned to the mansion, and I could ask Ms. Helena to prepare something special for Leo. It was with such thoughts that I put out the fire. Once I was certain that the fire was properly extinguished, I climbed back onto Leo and set out once again. “Ah, turn left here...we need to move away from the main road.” After going a little farther, we left the main road, like the map suggested, and headed towards the road to Range village. Unlike in Japan, the main roads were not connected to small villages. The roads weren’t even paved in this world. “It’s quite close to the forest, huh...” After going west from the main road for a while, we then headed towards the east. Further on, there was a forest. And while it wasn’t to the same degree as the fenrir forest, it looked very dense. As the map showed detailed terrain, I knew that there was a forest nearby, but I didn’t realize it was this close. If Range village was this close, then perhaps they worked in forestry. “Wuff!?” “What is it, Leo?” I was clutching onto Leo and just starting to get used to the speed enough so that I could take in my surroundings, when Leo suddenly slowed down again. What happened? “Woooo...” Leo stopped and began to growl. This reaction... I had seen it in the fenrir forest... When we encountered the orc... “Wooo...wou. Wou! Grau! Grau!” “I see, I see.” Leo was telling me that there was danger. Apparently, there were a few trolls up ahead. “Wooo.” Leo continued to growl guardedly as she slowly advanced in the direction that the trolls were. “Leo, I know I’m always asking this, but can I leave this to you?” “Wuff!” I asked Leo to deal with the trolls, and Leo nodded assuringly. She then continued a little farther until I was able to see the trolls as well. “There they are...just like the ones we saw before.” Giants that were over three meters tall and wielded clubs. But as Leo had already defeated them by the time we arrived, this was the first time I was seeing them standing. While they weren’t the ones who had been tormenting Sherry, I still felt a sense of hostility towards them. “Sorry to rely on you every time, Leo.” “Wuff!” Leo barked as if to say that I shouldn’t worry about it, and then she stopped so that I could get off of her back. She wouldn’t be able to fight at her best if I was still riding her. I also unstrapped the baggage from her back. Then I waited. While the trolls were up ahead, they had not noticed our presence yet.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 2, "inserted_lines_src": 13, "inserted_lines_trg": 1 }
アーティストの方技術者の方弁護士の方ファンの方どの方の生活にも著作件の扱いは直接影響します著作権の管理はもはや単なる所有の問題ではないのです網の目のような複雑な関連があり私達の文化的シーンにあって重要な課題になっています YouTubeはコンテンツ所有者の権利にとても気を使っていますしかしコピーやマッシュアップといったことにどう対応するかの選択肢を与えるためにはまず著作権で保護された素材がアップされたときにそれを認識できる必要があります仕組みを理解するために具体例をご覧頂きましょう 2年前歌手のクリスブラウンは新曲“フォーエバー”のPVをリリースしましたあるファンがそれをテレビで観て携帯のカメラで録画し YouTubeにアップロードしましたソニーミュージックエンタテインメントはクリスブラウンのビデオを YouTubeのコンテンツIDシステムに登録しておりビデオをアップロードしようとすると瞬く間に検出されソニーはどう対処するか選択することができますではコピーであることはどうやって検出しているのでしょう? まずコンテンツの所有者が YouTubeのデータベースにコンテンツを登録しコピーが検出されたときにどうするか利用法に関する方針を設定します YouTubeはアップされるごとにデータベースにある参照ファイルと照合していますこのヒートマップはシステムの頭脳部分の働きを示していますこの様にオリジナルの参照ファイルがアップされたものと照合されますこのシステムはビデオの各時点を参照ファイルに照らしてチェックするのですつまりコピーされているのがオリジナルのほんの一部であろうとスロー再生されていようと音声や画像の質が落ちていようと検出できるのですそしてYouTubeはこれを動画がアップされる度に行っていますその量は1分間に20時間分以上になります一致を検出した場合権利者があらかじめ設定した方針に従って処理しますこのシステムの規模と速度は本当に驚異的です 2、3個の動画の話ではないのです新たにアップされる動画と定期的に行うサイト全体のコンテンツのスキャンを合わせると毎日100年分ものビデオをチェックすることになりますその100年分のビデオをデータベースにある何百万という参照ファイルと照合するのですそれはまるで3万6千人の人が日がな一日休みなく3万6千台のモニターを監視しているようなものです一致が確認されたらどうするのでしょう? 権利者の多くはブロックする代わりにコピーの公開を許可していますそれによる露出や広告やリンクした商品の売り上げで利益を得るのです先ほどのクリスブラウンの“フォーエバー”は流行った後ランク外になりましたそれで終わりに見えますが去年ある若いカップルが結婚してこのような挙式ビデオを作りましたご覧になったことがあるかもしれません入場だけでこんなに楽しいなら披露宴はどんなに楽しかったことでしょう! どんな人たちなのか興味を引かれますこんな結婚式なら是非行ってみたいものですこの小さな結婚式のビデオがアップされると 4千万回以上再生されましたソニーはこれをブロックせずアップを容認したのですそしてこの動画に対し広告を出し iTunesへのリンクを張りましたすると発売後1年半もたっているこの曲が iTunesのランキングで4位に返り咲いたのですソニーはそこで再び利益を得ることができました幸せなカップルのジルとケビンはハネムーンから帰ってきて自分たちのビデオがものすごい評判になっているのを知ったのですたくさんのトーク番組に出演することになりましたそしてこの機会を良いことに使いましたこのビデオによって家庭内暴力撲滅のための寄付を 2万6千ドルも集めたのです “JKの入場ダンス”のあまりの人気に NBCはドラマ“ジ・オフィス”のシーズン最終回でそのパロディをやりちょうど放送されるところです本当に文化のエコシステムが出来ているのですアマチュアが大手スタジオの作品をパクるだけでなく大手の方でもパクり返しているのですから選択を与えることで機会に満ちた文化を作り出せるのです変える必要があったのはただ著作権チェックに際して選択を与えることだけでしたではなぜこの問題はこれまで解決されずにいたのでしょう? それはこれが大きく複雑に絡み合った問題だからです 1つの動画に権利者が複数いるのは珍しくありません複数のレコード会社や音楽出版社が関わっています国によって会社が違う可能性もあります多くの場合1つのビデオに何曲も取り込まれていますだから1つのビデオに対してたくさんの権利を管理する必要があるのです YouTubeのコンテンツIDシステムはそういったあらゆる場合に対応していますしかしこのシステムは権利者の協力なくしては機能しません誰かがYouTubeにアップしているコンテンツをお持ちならコンテンツIDシステムに登録してくださいそうすればコンテンツの利用方法に対し選択肢を持つことができますコンテンツに対する方針は良く検討してください再利用を単に一切禁止するなら新たな形態の作品や新たな聴衆新たなチャネルそして新たな収入の機会を失ってしまいますしかしお金や露出がすべてではありません進歩的な権利管理と新技術によって広がる喜びに目を向けて欲しいのですそして喜びは間違いなく「広めるべきアイデア」だと同意していただけるでしょうご清聴ありがとうございました	Whether you're an artist, a technologist, a lawyer or a fan, the handling of copyright directly impacts your life. Rights management is no longer simply a question of ownership, it's a complex web of relationships and a critical part of our cultural landscape. YouTube cares deeply about the rights of content owners, but in order to give them choices about what they can do with copies, mashups and more, we need to first identify when copyrighted material is uploaded to our site. Let's look at a specific video so you can see how it works. Two years ago, recording artist Chris Brown released the official video of his single "Forever." A fan saw it on TV, recorded it with her camera phone, and uploaded it to YouTube. Because Sony Music had registered Chris Brown's video in our Content ID system, within seconds of attempting to upload the video, the copy was detected, giving Sony the choice of what to do next. But how do we know that the user's video was a copy? Well, it starts with content owners delivering assets into our database, along with a usage policy that tells us what to do when we find a match. We compare each upload against all of the reference files in our database. This heat map is going to show you how the brain of the system works. Here we can see the original reference file being compared to the user generated content. The system compares every moment of one to the other to see if there's a match. This means that we can identify a match even if the copy used is just a portion of the original file, plays it in slow motion and has degraded audio and video quality. And we do this every time that a video is uploaded to YouTube. And that's over 20 hours of video every minute. When we find a match, we apply the policy that the rights owner has set down. And the scale and the speed of this system is truly breathtaking. We're not just talking about a few videos, 100 years of video every day, between new uploads and the legacy scans we regularly do across all of the content on the site. When we compare those hundred years of video, we're comparing it against millions of reference files in our database. It would be like 36,000 people staring at 36,000 monitors each and every day, without so much as a coffee break. Now, what do we do when we find a match? Well, most rights owners, instead of blocking, will allow the copy to be published. And then they benefit through the exposure, advertising and linked sales. Remember Chris Brown's video "Forever"? Well, it had its day in the sun and then it dropped off the charts, and that looked like the end of the story, but sometime last year, a young couple got married. This is their wedding video. You may have seen it. What's amazing about this is, if the processional of the wedding was this much fun, can you imagine how much fun the reception must have been? I mean, who are these people? I totally want to go to that wedding. So their little wedding video went on to get over 40 million views. And instead of Sony blocking, they allowed the upload to occur. And they put advertising against it and linked from it to iTunes. And the song, 18 months old, went back to number four on the iTunes charts. So Sony is generating revenue from both of these. And Jill and Kevin, the happy couple, they came back from their honeymoon and found that their video had gone crazy viral. And they've ended up on a bunch of talk shows, and they've used it as an opportunity to make a difference. The video's inspired over 26,000 dollars in donations to end domestic violence. The "JK Wedding [Entrance] Dance" became so popular that NBC parodied it on the season finale of "The Office," which just goes to show, it's truly an ecosystem of culture. Because it's not just amateurs borrowing from big studios, but sometimes big studios borrowing back. By empowering choice, we can create a culture of opportunity. And all it took to change things around was to allow for choice through rights identification. So why has no one ever solved this problem before? It's because it's a big problem, and it's complicated and messy. It's not uncommon for a single video to have multiple rights owners. There's musical labels. There's multiple music publishers. And each of these can vary by country. There's lots of cases where we have more than one work mashed together. So we have to manage many claims to the same video. YouTube's Content ID system addresses all of these cases. But the system only works through the participation of rights owners. If you have content that others are uploading to YouTube, you should register in the Content ID system, and then you'll have the choice about how your content is used. And think carefully about the policies that you attach to that content. By simply blocking all reuse, you'll miss out on new art forms, new audiences, new distribution channels and new revenue streams. But it's not just about dollars and impressions. that was spread through progressive rights management and new technology. And I think we can all agree that joy is definitely an idea worth spreading. Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
迷宮の正体を、誰も知らない。古代に存在した文明が何らかの目的で作った遺跡、という認識的だ。その果てを知るものはおらず、もう数十年、冒険者と呼ばれる者たちが挑み続けている。迷宮の中には独自の生態系が築かれている。地上の生き物よりも凶悪であり、強靭であり、敵対している。それらを魔物と呼んでいる。その素材は実に有用で、迷宮ギルドはいくらでも買い取ってくれる。だから食うに困った人間は、必ず迷宮に挑む。幾らかの金を手に入れ、今日を生き抜くために、迷宮に入る。そして、死ぬ。それでも誰も構わない。今日誰が死のうと、明日にはまた誰かが来る。そうして迷宮は続いている。ミトロフは稽古着に着替え、レイピアだけを携え、迷宮に入っていた。幾らかの金により、今日の食事を得るために。地下へ地下へと深まる迷宮であるが、浅層はすでに探索し尽くされている。石造の床にも壁にも、所狭しと人の手が入っている。通路にはランタンが掲げられ、落書きが掘られている。ちょっとした広場には物売りが場所を取り、煌々と篝火が天井を照らしている。もはや夜の市場だった。魔物に会うこともなく、地へと降りる。講習会で指導員が言った言葉を、ミトロフは思い出していた。 ––––地下2階で初心者が死ぬ。そこは、ギャッ、という鳴き声。ミトロフは咄嗟に半歩下がり、腰からレイピアを抜いた。壁に掛かるランタンの灯りに、その姿が照らされた。濃緑の身体は細く、身長は小人のようである。それでいて目はギョロギョロと大きく、瞳孔は縦に裂けている。鼻は潰れ、黄ばんだ歯の隙間から涎が糸を引いている。手に持った錆ついた短剣をぶらりぶらりと振りながら、それは近づいてくる。「......ゴブリンの巣、か」ごくり、と唾を飲む。液体のはずのそれが、石のように固い粒のまま、喉を通る。柄を握る手が湿っていた。首筋の後ろが寒い。この生き物は、自分を殺そうとしている。その事実が、恐ろしい。息を吐くような鳴き声とともに、ゴブリンが駆けた。「っ、あ」思わず後ろに下がってしまった。だめだ、と理性が言う。しかし本能が恐れていた。飛び上がったゴブリンが短剣を頭上に振りかぶっている。隙だらけだ。と理性が言う。恐ろしい。と本能が叫んでいる。身体は動かず、ただ、眺めていた。そうか、初心者はこうして死ぬのか、とミトロフは理解した。 ––––トン、と。ゴブリンの眉間に矢が突き立った。次の瞬間、ゴブリンは跳ね飛ばされるように後ろに転がる。短剣が石畳を転がる金属音が響いた。ミトロフは呆気に取られて突っ立っている。「おぬし、無事かえ?」と背後からの声。ミトロフはゆっくりと振り返る。そこに、青い目の少女がいた。宝石のように美しい輝きだった。短弓を手に、背には矢筒。毛皮の服装は、冒険者というよりは森の狩人のようである。髪からは銀の耳飾りを揺らす長耳が見えている。森辺の民と呼ばれるエルフ族である。「......あ、ああ、ありがとう。すごく助かった」「なに、構わぬ。迷宮では助け合うものじゃろう」見目は若く、声も鈴を転がすように軽やかである。だというのに話し方ばかりは奇妙に婆くさく、ミトロフはいくらか戸惑うことになった。「本当に助けてくれる人は、たぶん、多くない。君は良い人だ」「そうとも、われは良きエルフじゃ。こんなところで死ぬのはつまらん。気をつけての」少女は慣れた様子でゴブリンに近づくと、矢を回収し、ナイフで左耳を削ぎ取った。ゴブリンの素材は利用価値がない。左耳を持ち帰れば討伐金だけがもらえる。少女が去っていく背中を、ミトロフはただ見送った。手に持っていたレイピアを鞘に収める。手が震えていた。床に、錆びた短剣が落ちている。あのゴブリンのものだ。それを拾い上げ、見つめ、壁に放り投げた。ここで死ぬのはつまらない。たしかに、あの子の言う通りだ、とミトロフは思った。	The true identity of the labyrinth is unknown to anyone. The general consensus is that it was a ruin that an ancient civilization constructed for some purpose. No one knows what lies at the end, and for decades, those called adventurers have continued to challenge it. The labyrinth has its own ecosystem. The monsters that exist within it are more ferocious, stronger, and hostile compared to the creatures on the surface. They are called “monsters”. Their materials are extremely useful, and the labyrinth guild will eagerly buy them off. So, anyone who is struggling to make a living will undoubtedly challenge the labyrinth. They enter it with whatever money they can earn and for the sake of surviving the day. And then they die. Even so, no one cares. If someone dies today, someone else will come tomorrow. And so, the labyrinth continues. Mitrof changed into his training clothes, took only his rapier, and entered the labyrinth to earn enough gold for today’s meal. The labyrinth deepens underground layer by layer, but the shallower depths have already been fully explored. People’s hands were everywhere on the stone floor and walls, and the passage had lanterns and graffiti. In a small plaza, vendors had taken up space, and bright bonfires illuminated the ceiling. It had become a night market. Without encountering any monsters, he descended to the second basement floor. Monsters could pop up from anywhere. Mitrof thought back to what the instructor had said during the training. “Beginners die on the second basement floor. That’s where——” A cry rang out. Mitrof instinctively took a half-step back and drew his rapier from his waist. The lantern hanging on the wall was illuminating the creature. Its dense green body was thin, and it appeared to be dwarf-sized. However, its eyes were bulging, and its pupils were slit vertically. Its nose was crushed, and drool dripped from the gaps between its yellowed teeth. Swinging a rusty short sword in its hand, it approached. “...A goblin, huh?” Mitrof swallowed hard. The liquid he expected to go down smoothly felt like hard pebbles in his throat. The hand holding the hilt was sweaty. The back of his neck was cold. This creature was trying to kill him. The truth was terrifying. The goblin rushed towards him while emitting a wheezing cry. “Ah!” Instinctively, he stepped back, but reason told him it was useless. Yet his instincts were fearful. The goblin leapt up, swinging its short sword overhead. There are gaps, reason said. Terrifying! cried his instincts. He couldn’t move; he just watched. Mitrof realized that this is how beginners die. ——Thunk. An arrow pierced the goblin’s forehead. The next moment, the goblin was thrown back and rolled across the stone pavement, the sound of the short sword clattering echoed. Mitrof was standing there, dumbfounded. “Are you alright?” A voice came from behind. Mitrof slowly turned around. There stood a girl with blue eyes. She had a beautiful, jewel-like radiance. She held a short bow in her hand and had a quiver on her back. Her fur clothing was more akin to that of a forest hunter than an adventurer. Silver earrings dangled from her long, pointed ears, for she was a member of the elven race, known as the folk of the forest. “...T-Thank you—you were a great help.” “No problem—we help each other in the labyrinth, don’t we?” Though she looked young, her voice was light, like the sound of a rolling bell. However, her way of speaking was oddly old-fashioned, which made Mitrof somewhat confused. “There aren’t many people who would really help like you did—you’re a good person.” “That’s right. I’m a good elf—it’s boring to die in a place like this, so be careful.” The girl approached the goblin with ease, retrieved her arrow, and used a knife to cut off its left ear. Goblin materials were worthless, so the only reward for defeating one was the bounty for the left ear. As he watched the girl’s departing back, Mitrof sheathed his rapier, which was trembling in his hand. A rusty, short sword lay on the ground. It belonged to that goblin. He picked it up, stared at it, then threw it at the wall. It would be boring to die here. Mitrof thought the girl was right.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 1, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
それはシカゴ大学のリチャード・セイラーと私がそれはシカゴ大学のリチャード・セイラーと私がおよそ15年前に考案したプログラムですこのプログラムは言ってみれば「行動ファイナンス」をより強力にしたもの― 行動ファイナンスの活用に関するものです「行動ファイナンス」とは何かとお尋ねになるかもしれませんねでは我々がお金をどう管理しているのか考えてみましょうまずは住宅ローンからこれは少なくともアメリカでは最近話題になっていることです多くの人たちはお金の許す限り大きな家を買います実際はそれよりちょっと大きめですがそしてそれを抵当に入れる後から彼らは銀行を責めるのです「住宅ローンを背負わせた悪い奴らだ!」とこんなことも考えてみましょう我々がどのようにリスクを扱っているか― たとえば株式市場への投資です 2年前 3年前 4年前市場は好調でした我々はリスクを冒すことも辞しませんでした当然ですよねそして株式市場が衰退すると我々はこうです「ああこの喪失感はこの喪失感は市場が好調だった時に考えていたのとは大違いじゃないか」そう我々はリスクを負うことはあまり上手でないのです iPhoneをお持ちの方は何人おられますか? 持っている人? すばらしい皆さんのうちの多くは iPhoneに保険をかけているでしょう保証を追加することで保険に入っているのです iPhoneをなくした場合にはこうこういう場合にはこうとかねこのうち子どもさんのいる方は? 該当の方は? 手をあげていて下さいねこのうち十分な生命保険をかけている方は? 多くの手が下がりましたねおそらく皆さんは代表的サンプルですというのも皆さんの多くはたとえ子どもがいても命よりiPhoneに保険をかけているのです我々は保険のことは得意でないのですアメリカの平均的世帯は 1年に1000ドルを宝くじに費やします気違いじみていると思うでしょう 1年に1000ドルも宝くじに費やす方おられますか? 誰もおられませんねつまりこの場にいない人たちが 1000ドル以上費やしているということですそうすると平均が1000ドルになります低所得の人々は宝くじに1000ドル以上費やすのですつまりどういうことか? 我々はお金の管理が得意でないのです「行動ファイナンス」は心理学と経済学の組み合わせですそして人々のお金にまつわる間違いを理解しようとしますそして残り 12分と53秒ありますから私はお金の管理方法について面白いお話をしたいとは思いますが皆さんは最後にはこれを使って人助けしたくなるでしょうそれこそが今日私が真に注目したい点なのです我々はどのようにすれば人々のお金に関する間違いを理解できるでしょうかそしてどのようにすればこの問題行動を解決行動に変えていけるでしょうか? そして今日私がお話しすることは「明日はもっと!貯蓄法」です貯蓄についてのお話を致しましょう貯蓄についてのお話を致しましょうここにいるのは 100人のアメリカ人の代表的サンプルです彼らの貯蓄行動を見てみましょうまず注目すべきは彼らの半分は 401プランにアクセスさえできないことです彼らは楽に貯蓄することができません彼らはお金を目にしたり触ったりする前に給料から401プランに天引きして貯めることができないのです残りの半分の人々はどうでしょう? なかには貯蓄しないことを選ぶ人もいます彼らは怠惰すぎるのです複雑なウェブサイトを閲覧して 17回クリックして401プランに加入しようとはしないのですさらに彼らはどのように投資するかを 52の選択肢から選ばなければなりませんマネー・マーケット・ファンドなど聞いたこともなくそして圧倒され加入しませんどれだけの人が最終的に401プランに加入するのでしょうか? アメリカ人の3分の1です 3分の2の人は現在貯畜をしていません彼らはすでに十分蓄えがあるのでしょうか? 少ししか貯畜がないと言っている人を省いてみましょう十分に蓄えがあるのは 10人中1人です 10人中9人は 401プランを通じての貯畜ができないか貯畜しないと決めているか -または貯畜する決意がないか― もしくは貯畜が少なすぎる人たちです貯畜が多すぎる人々の問題についても考えましょうこれを見て下さい 1人です― 実際には彼を半分に切りましょうなぜなら1%に満たないからです「貯畜が多すぎる」と感じているアメリカ人はだいたい0.5%ですこれは何を示唆しているでしょうか? これこそ私が注目したい点です我々は人々が貯畜しない理由を理解せねばなりませんそして我々はその問題行動をひっくり返して解決行動に変えたいのですそしてそれがいかに強力か見てみましょうこれから人々が貯畜するのを妨げる問題や困難さを見ていきますが一瞬だけ話題を変えさせて下さい脱線してバナナとチョコレートのお話です来週また素晴らしい TEDイベントがあるとしましょうそしてその休憩時間に軽食が出ることでしょうあなたはバナナかチョコレートを選べますバナナを選ぶと思う人はどれくらいおられますか? 来週の仮想TEDイベント中に? バナナを選ぶ人? すばらしい私は科学的に予言しましょう 74%の人がバナナを選びますそう予測した研究が少なくとも1つありますそして日が近づくにつれ人々が何を最終的に食べているか見てみましょうバナナを選ぶと想像していたその当人たちが結局1週間後にはチョコレートを食べているのですセルフコントロールは将来の問題ではありませんチョコレートの誘惑を感じているまさに今現在の問題なのです時間と貯畜の間にはどんな関係があるのでしょうか? これは「即時的満足」の問題あるいは一部の経済学者の言う「現在志向バイアス」の問題でしょうか? 貯畜について考えてみましょう我々は貯畜は必要と知っています来年はしようと思っていますしかし今日は使ってしまうのですクリスマスも近いですしね我々は知り合い皆にプレゼントをどっさり買ってしまうのですこの現在志向バイアスによる問題は貯畜について考えさせてはくれますが結局使って終わるのですまた別の貯畜への障壁について話をさせて下さいこれは「怠け心」と関連したものですしかし再びちょっと寄り道臓器提供についてです様々な国を比較した素晴らしい研究がありますよく似た2つの国を見てみましょうドイツとオーストリアですドイツではもしあなたが臓器を提供したい時は― そんなひどいことあなたに起きてほしくはないですよ― 自動車免許やIDカードを取得する際にこのボックスにチェックするのです「私は臓器を提供します」多くの人はボックスにチェックしませんそれは負担だからです考えないといけませんからねチェックするのは12%の人だけですオーストリアお隣の国ですがちょっと似ていますがちょっと違うのですどこが違うのでしょうか? あなたはやはり選択肢をもっていますあなたが決めるのです臓器を提供するかどうかをしかし自動車免許を取得する時ボックスにチェックするのは臓器を提供「したくない」場合なのです誰もチェックする人はいませんそれは負担だからですチェックする人はたった1%で残りの人は何もしません何もしないのは非常に一般的です多くの人はボックスにチェックはしませんこれが人命救助や臓器利用を可能にすることに対して示唆することは何でしょうか? ドイツではチェックを入れた人は12%で臓器ドナーは12%です臓器は大幅に不足します起きてほしくないですがあなたに臓器が必要でもオーストリアでは誰もボックスにチェックをしませんしたがって 99%の人が臓器ドナーです怠け心つまり行動を起こさないことですデフォルトの設定は何ですか? 人が何もしない時決断を遅らせたりチェックを入れない時それは非常に強力です決断を遅らせたりチェックを入れない時それは非常に強力です考えてみましょうもし人々が401プランに対して圧倒され怖がってしまうとどうなるか我々は自動的にプランに加入させられますか? それとも放ったらかしにされますか? 多くの401プランではもし人々が何もしなかったら退職後に向けた貯畜をしないままになってしまうのですボックスにチェックをしなかったらですボックスにチェックをするのは負担です我々は行動的障壁をいくつか挙げましたこの困難を解決に変える前にもう1つサルとリンゴの話をしましょういえいえこれは真面目な研究ですそしてこれは行動経済学に大いに関係がありますサルの群れがリンゴを1個もらいましたとても幸せです別の群れは2つもらった後 1つ奪われますすると彼らはまだ1個持っているのに非常に怒りました「なぜ自分たちのリンゴを取るんだ?」これを「損失回避」と言います我々は物を失うことを嫌いますそれが大きなリスクを伴うことでなくてもですあなたはATMに行って 100ドルを引き出して 20ドル札を1枚なくしたと気づくと嫌でしょうたいしたことではないのに非常に苦痛です 20ドルは簡単な昼食程度なのにこれが損失回避です貯蓄の場合にもこれが絡んできます人々は心理的にも情緒的本能的にも貯蓄を損失と感じるのですなぜなら消費を抑える必要があるからです我々はこれで全ての問題行動について述べましたどれも最終的に貯蓄と関係します「即時的満足」つまりチョコ対バナナについて考えるかどうか今すぐ貯蓄するのは苦痛なのですもっと楽しいのは今は使ってしまうことです我々は「怠け心」と臓器提供について話しましたボックスをチェックすることについてですもし多くのボックスにチェックしないと 401プランに加入できないのなら人々は行動を先延ばしにして加入しないでしょう最後に「損失回避」ですサルとリンゴの話ですもし人々が心理的に老後のための貯蓄を損失ととらえていたら老後のために貯めようとはしないでしょう我々はこういった問題を抱えているのですそしてこれらはリチャード・セイラーと私がいつも魅了されてきたことなのです― 行動ファイナンスが「行動ファイナンス強化版」または「行動ファイナンス2.0」「実践!行動ファイナンス」と言ってもいい― それが困難を解決に変えるのです我々はお恥ずかしいほど単純な解決法を思いつきました今日ではなく「明日はもっと!貯蓄法」ですこれは我々が話してきたような困難をいかにして解決するのでしょうか? たとえばバナナとチョコレートの問題を考えましょう我々は「来週はバナナを食べよう」と考えます我々は「来年はお金を貯めよう」と考えます「明日はもっと!貯畜法」によって従業員たちは「来年はもっと貯めよう」と考えます未来のいつかはとそのいつか我々は自分たちがバナナを食べているのを想像はできます地域でもっとボランティアをすることとかもっと運動するとかあらゆる善行もそうですね今我々はボックスにチェックすることそして行動を起こすことの難しさをお話ししました「明日はもっと!貯蓄法」はこれを簡単にしてくれます自動操縦のようなものです一度あなたが「将来お金を貯めたい」と私に話したらたとえば毎年1月にあなたは自動的にお金を貯蓄に振り分けることになります給料から401プランに天引きするのです目にする前に触れる前に即時的満足に陥る前にですしかし我々はサルと損失回避に対してはどうしたらいいでしょう? 来年の1月が来て貯蓄を殖やすとなると人々は支出を控えなければと考えるでしょうがそれは苦痛ですたぶん1月だけ貯金をするのではなくお金を稼いだ時にはもっと貯蓄してもらった方がいいでしょうこのようにお金を稼いだ時や昇給した時人々は支出を抑えなくてもいいのです彼らは少しでも家に持って帰る給料が増えるとそれまでより多く使ってしまう― その増加分のうち少しだけ 401プランに入れてみましょうそれがこのプログラムのやり方なのですお恥ずかしいほど単純ですしかし我々がこれから見るように非常に強力ですリチャード・セイラーと私がこれを初めて実践したのは 1998年にさかのぼりますアメリカ中西部のある中規模の会社は従業員が家計を賄えるだけの給料を支払うことに苦心していました従業員たちは繰り返し我々に言いました「今すぐ貯蓄を殖やすのは無理だ」と今日貯めてもらおうとは思っていません我々が勧めたのは昇給の度に貯める額を3%増やすことですその結果がこうですここには3年半後の結果を示しています 4回昇給があり貯畜に苦労していた人たちが給料の3%を貯め始めました 3年半後貯蓄する割合はほぼ4倍になりましたほぼ14%ですね靴や自転車その他この図にあるようなもの私は単に数値だけをお見せしたい訳ではなくこの事実について考えたいのですつまり貯める額を4倍に増やすことが人々が豊かなライフスタイルを手に入れる点で大きな違いを生むのですこれは現実ですそれは紙切れに書かれた単なる数ではないのです 3%の貯蓄ではせいぜい歩くための良いスニーカーを買える程度で他の物を買う余裕はありませんしかし14%貯畜したら車を停めている所まで歩くためにお洒落な靴を買えるでしょうこれが現実の違いです今までに 60%の大企業がこのようなプログラムを実施してきましたそれらは年金保護法の一部として用いられてきましたそして言うまでもなくセイラーと私はこのプログラムの一部に加えて頂き大きな違いを生むことができました締めくくりとしてキーとなるメッセージを2つお伝えします 1つ目は行動ファイナンスが非常に強力であるということです今回はたった一つの例にすぎません 2つ目のメッセージはまだすべきことが多くあるということですこれは氷山の一角にすぎませんもし人々が住宅ローンに関して家を買ってから支払いができなくなったら我々はそれについて考えねばなりませんもし人々が高すぎるリスクを抱えていてもそれがどの程度のリスクなのか理解していなかったりあるいはリスクが低すぎるようなら我々はそれについて考える必要がありますもし1年に1000ドルを費やして宝くじを買う人たちがいるのなら我々はそれについて考えねばなりません平均でみると最高記録はシンガポールです平均的な世帯が宝くじに年間4000ドル費やしていますすべきことはたくさんあります同様に退職に関する領域にも解決すべきことがたくさんありますつまり退職後のお金の使い方を考える際にです最後に1つだけ質問させて下さい皆さんのうち何人が「退職に向けて非常に堅実な計画を持っている」と安心しておられますか? あなたが退職する時そして社会保険給付を請求する時どんなライフスタイルを望みますかお金が足りなくならないようにするには毎月いくら使えますか? 「自分には堅実な将来計画がある」と感じている方は何人おられますか? 退職後の決定の際に 1 2 3 4 非常に洗練された聴衆の中でも 3%に満たないですね行動ファイナンスはまだまだこれからですたくさんの機会を通じて繰り返しそれを強力なものにしていけますありがとうございました	It's a program that Richard Thaler from the University of Chicago and I devised maybe 15 years ago. The program, in a sense, is an example of behavioral finance on steroids -- how we could really use behavioral finance. Now you might ask, what is behavioral finance? So let's think about how we manage our money. Let's start with mortgages. It's kind of a recent topic, at least in the U.S. A lot of people buy the biggest house they can afford, and actually slightly bigger than that. And then they foreclose. And then they blame the banks for being the bad guys who gave them the mortgages. Let's also think about how we manage risks -- for example, investing in the stock market. Two years ago, three years ago, about four years ago, markets did well. We were risk takers, of course. Then market stocks seize and we're like, "Wow. These losses, they feel, emotionally, they feel very different from what we actually thought about it when markets were going up." So we're probably not doing a great job when it comes to risk taking. How many of you have iPhones? Anyone? Wonderful. I would bet many more of you insure your iPhone -- you're implicitly buying insurance by having an extended warranty. What if you lose your iPhone? What if you do this? How many of you have kids? Anyone? Keep your hands up if you have sufficient life insurance. I see a lot of hands coming down. I would predict, if you're a representative sample, that many more of you insure your iPhones than your lives, We're not doing that well when it comes to insurance. The average American household spends 1,000 dollars a year on lotteries. And I know it sounds crazy. How many of you spend a thousand dollars a year on lotteries? No one. So that tells us that the people not in this room are spending more than a thousand to get the average to a thousand. Low-income people spend a lot more than a thousand on lotteries. So where does it take us? We're not doing a great job managing money. Behavioral finance is really a combination of psychology and economics, trying to understand the money mistakes people make. And I can keep standing here for the 12 minutes and 53 seconds that I have left and make fun of all sorts of ways we manage money, and at the end you're going to ask, "How can we help people?" And that's what I really want to focus on today. How do we take an understanding of the money mistakes people make, and then turning the behavioral challenges into behavioral solutions? And what I'm going to talk about today is Save More Tomorrow. I want to address the issue of savings. We have on the screen of 100 Americans. And we're going to look at their saving behavior. First thing to notice is, half of them to a 401 plan. They cannot make savings easy. They cannot have money go away from their paycheck into a 401 plan before they see it, before they can touch it. What about the remaining half of the people? Some of them elect not to save. They're just too lazy. They never get around to logging into a complicated website and doing 17 clicks to join the 401 plan. And then they have to decide how they're going to invest in their 52 choices, and they never heard about what is a money market fund. And they get overwhelmed and the just don't join. How many people end up saving to a 401 plan? One third of Americans. Two thirds are not saving now. Are they saving enough? Take out those who say they save too little. One out of 10 are saving enough. Nine out of 10 either cannot save through their 401 plan, decide not to save -- or don't decide -- or save too little. We think we have a problem of people saving too much. Let's look at that. We have one person -- well, actually we're going to slice him in half because it's less than one percent. Roughly half a percent of Americans feel that they save too much. What are we going to do about it? That's what I really want to focus on. We have to understand why people are not saving, and then we can hopefully flip the behavioral challenges into behavioral solutions, and then see how powerful it might be. So let me divert for a second as we're going to identify the problems, the challenges, the behavioral challenges, that prevent people from saving. I'm going to divert and talk about bananas and chocolate. Suppose we had another wonderful TED event next week. And during the break there would be a snack and you could choose bananas or chocolate. How many of you think you would like to have bananas during this hypothetical TED event next week? Who would go for bananas? Wonderful. I predict scientifically 74 percent of you will go for bananas. Well that's at least what one wonderful study predicted. And then count down the days and see what people ended up eating. The same people that imagined themselves eating the bananas ended up eating chocolates a week later. Self-control is not a problem in the future. when the chocolate is next to us. What does it have to do with time and savings, this issue of immediate gratification? Or as some economists call it, present bias. We think about saving. We know we should be saving. We know we'll do it next year, but today let us go and spend. Christmas is coming, we might as well buy a lot of gifts for everyone we know. So this issue of present bias causes us to think about saving, but end up spending. about another behavioral obstacle to saving having to do with inertia. But again, a little diversion to the topic of organ donation. Wonderful study comparing different countries. We're going to look at two similar countries, Germany and Austria. And in Germany, if you would like to donate your organs -- God forbid something really bad happens to you -- when you get your driving license or an I.D., you check the box saying, "I would like to donate my organs." Not many people like checking boxes. It takes effort. You need to think. Twelve percent do. Austria, a neighboring country, slightly similar, slightly different. What's the difference? Well, you still have choice. You will decide whether you want to donate your organs or not. But when you get your driving license, you check the box if you do not want to donate your organ. Nobody checks boxes. That's kind of too much effort. One percent check the box. The rest do nothing. Doing nothing is very common. Not many people check boxes. What are the implications to saving lives and having organs available? In Germany, 12 percent check the box. Twelve percent are organ donors. Huge shortage of organs, God forbid, if you need one. In Austria, again, nobody checks the box. Therefore, 99 percent of people are organ donors. Inertia, lack of action. What is the default setting if people do nothing, if they keep procrastinating, if they don't check the boxes? Very powerful. We're going to talk about what happens if people are overwhelmed and scared to make their 401 choices. Are we going to make them automatically join the plan, or are they going to be left out? In too many 401 plans, if people do nothing, it means they're not saving for retirement, if they don't check the box. And checking the box takes effort. So we've chatted about a couple of behavioral challenges. One more before we flip the challenges into solutions, having to do with monkeys and apples. No, no, no, this is a real study and it's got a lot to do with behavioral economics. One group of monkeys gets an apple, they're pretty happy. The other group gets two apples, one is taken away. They still have an apple left. They're really mad. Why have you taken our apple? This is the notion of loss aversion. We hate losing stuff, even if it doesn't mean a lot of risk. You would hate to go to the ATM, take out 100 dollars and notice that you lost one of those $20 bills. It's very painful, Those 20 dollars might have been a quick lunch. So this notion of loss aversion kicks in when it comes to savings too, because people, mentally and emotionally and intuitively frame savings as a loss because I have to cut my spending. So we talked about all sorts of behavioral challenges having to do with savings eventually. Whether you think about immediate gratification, and the chocolates versus bananas, it's just painful to save now. It's a lot more fun to spend now. We talked about inertia and organ donations and checking the box. If people have to check a lot of boxes to join a 401 plan, they're going to keep procrastinating and not join. And last, we talked about loss aversion, and the monkeys and the apples. If people frame mentally saving for retirement as a loss, they're not going to be saving for retirement. So we've got these challenges, and what Richard Thaler and I were always fascinated by -- take behavioral finance, make it behavioral finance on steroids or behavioral finance 2.0 or behavioral finance in action -- flip the challenges into solutions. And we came up with an embarrassingly simple solution called Save More, not today, Tomorrow. How is it going to solve the challenges we chatted about? If you think about the problem of bananas versus chocolates, we think we're going to eat bananas next week. We think we're going to save more next year. Save More Tomorrow invites employees to save more maybe next year -- sometime in the future when we can imagine ourselves eating bananas, volunteering more in the community, exercising more and doing all the right things on the planet. Now we also talked about checking the box and the difficulty of taking action. Save More Tomorrow makes it easy. It's an autopilot. Once you tell me you would like to save more in the future, let's say every January you're going to be saving more automatically and it's going to go away from your paycheck to the 401 plan before you see it, before you touch it, of immediate gratification. But what are we going to do about the monkeys and loss aversion? Next January comes and people might feel that if they save more, they have to spend less, and that's painful. Well, maybe it shouldn't be just January. Maybe we should make people save more when they make more money. That way, when they make more money, when they get a pay raise, they don't have to cut their spending. They take a little bit of the increase in the paycheck home and spend more -- take a little bit of the increase and put it in a 401 plan. So that is the program, embarrassingly simple, but as we're going to see, extremely powerful. Richard Thaler and I, back in 1998. Mid-sized company in the Midwest, blue collar employees struggling to pay their bills repeatedly told us they cannot save more right away. Saving more today is not an option. We invited them to save three percentage points more every time they get a pay raise. And here are the results. We're seeing here a three and a half-year period, four pay raises, people who were struggling to save, were saving three percent of their paycheck, three and a half years later saving almost four times as much, almost 14 percent. And there's shoes and bicycles and things on this chart because I don't want to just throw numbers in a vacuum. I want, really, to think about the fact that saving four times more is a huge difference in terms of the lifestyle that people will be able to afford. It's real. It's not just numbers on a piece of paper. Whereas with saving three percent, people might have to add nice sneakers so they can walk, because they won't be able to afford anything else, when they save 14 percent they might be able to maybe have nice dress shoes to walk to the car to drive. This is a real difference. By now, about 60 percent of the large companies actually have programs like this in place. It's been part of the Pension Protection Act. And needless to say that Thaler and I have been blessed to be part of this program and make a difference. Let me wrap with two key messages. One is behavioral finance is extremely powerful. This is just one example. Message two is there's still a lot to do. This is really the tip of the iceberg. If you think about people and mortgages and buying houses and then not being able to pay for it, we need to think about that. If you're thinking about people taking too much risk and not understanding how much risk they're taking or taking too little risk, we need to think about that. If you think about people spending a thousand dollars a year on lottery tickets, we need to think about that. The average actually, the record is in Singapore. The average household spends $4,000 a year on lottery tickets. We've got a lot to do, also in the retirement area when it comes to what people do with their money after retirement. One last question: How many of you feel comfortable that as you're planning for retirement you have a really solid plan when you're going to retire, when you're going to claim Social Security benefits, what lifestyle to expect, how much to spend every month so you're not going to run out of money? How many of you feel you have a solid plan for the future when it comes to post-retirement decisions. One, two, three, four. of a very sophisticated audience. Behavioral finance has a long way. There's a lot of opportunities to make it powerful again and again and again. 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私は口角を軽く上げて挨拶をした。美形たちに私の方を向く。間近で見ると顔面偏差値の高さに気絶しそうだわ。美形達は私の方にどんどん接近してくる。「この子がアルの妹?」「かっわい!」「ちっさいな~」皆、目を輝かせながら私を見ている。正直、褒められているのかよく分からないわ。こういう時って悪女ならどんな反応するのかしら。謙遜は絶対にしないはずよ。という事は、可愛いと言われた事を肯定すればいいのかしら。 ......違うわ、その前に自己紹介よ。礼儀知らずな女だと思われたくないわ。「アリシアと申します」「おい、アランとヘンリが言ってた妹と全然印象が違うじゃないか」あら、アランお兄様とヘンリお兄様は一体私の事をなんて言っていたのかしら。まぁ、大体予想は出来るけどね。我儘で手に負えない妹とか言っていたに違いないわ。「それでアリシア、どうしたんだ?」どうしたんだ? って、まさかアルバートお兄様忘れていたの...。今日は剣術を教えてくれる日よ。私はこの日の為に毎日基礎体力をつけていたのよ。喉まで出かかった言葉を飲み込んで、心を落ち着かせた。「剣術を教えてください」お兄様達だけでなく、他の美形達にまで。エリック様は口まで開いていますわよ。そんなに私変な事を言っているのかしら。皆さんの綺麗な瞳をそんなに目を開いて見せてくださらなくても大丈夫ですよ。「アリ、それは毎日君が腹筋と腕立てをしたらの話だろ?」アルバートお兄様が微笑みながらそう言った。 ......やったわよ! もはや、お兄様が出した課題の何倍もしたわ。本当に私を馬鹿にしすぎだわ。私はだんだん腹が立ってきた。自分でも頬が膨れているのが分かる。ああ、なんて悪女っぽくない怒り方なのかしら。悪女は絶対に頬を膨らまして怒ることなんてないのに。まだまだ子供ね......中身は違うけど。悪女歴はまだ浅いもの。しょうがないわ。理性より感情が勝ってしまう。「怒った顔も可愛いな」カーティス様、ちょっと黙ってくださるかしら。火に油を注がないでください。「アリ、剣は危ないものなんだよ。アリには似合わない」前世でどうしてこの頭ポンポンが胸キュンする一つに入っていたのかしら。お兄様の表情が固まった。お兄様だけでなく皆の顔も固まっている。さっきまでの穏やかな空気が一瞬にして張り詰める。やってしまったわ......。悪女ってこうした後にどうするんだっけ。 ......肝心な時に何も思いつかない。こうなったら感情に任せて行動するのみ。私はお兄様の腰にさしてある小さい方の剣を抜いた。おっも! 剣ってこんなにも重いの? 確かに筋トレは絶対に必要ね。けど一週間頑張った成果は出ていた。前までの私の筋力なら多分持つことすら出来なかったもの。今の私にならこの剣を振り回す事ぐらい......、出来なくはない。私は木の根元に近づき、呼吸を整えてから、自分の足に全ての力を集中させた。林檎がもう少しで落ちかけているのを確認してから思いっきり木の幹を蹴った。木全体が振動して、林檎が揺れる。落ちてよね。ここでもし落ちなかったら私物凄く恥ずかしい思いをする事になるんだから。私はじっと揺れている林檎を見つめた。......良かった、もうすぐ落ちそうだわ。私は林檎の落下軌道を前に本で読んだ通りに計算した。沢山本を読んでいて良かったわ。上手くできるかしら......。これはもう感覚よね。剣を初めて扱う私に感覚なんて全く分からない。悲観的になっちゃだめよ。これに成功したら立派な悪女への階段を一段上れるのよ。私は勢いよく剣を横に振った。	“Good Morning,” I say with a slight upturn of my lips. Hearing my greeting, the handsome boys turn to look at me all at once. The overall level of their appearances is so high that I feel like I might faint from seeing them all so up-close. And to make matters worse, they are all rushing towards me right now. “So this girl is Al’s little sister?” “She’s so cute!” “So tiny~” They start saying all at once, staring at me with bright eyes. And to be honest, I’m not sure if they are trying to compliment me or not. How is a villainess supposed to act in a situation like this I wonder? Whatever the correct answer is, I definitely don’t think now is the time to be acting modestly. Let’s see.... one of them called me cute, so maybe it would be a good idea to agree with him on that? .....No wait, before I do that I should introduce myself first. I don’t want them to end up thinking that I’m a girl who lacks manners or proper understanding of social etiquette. “I am Alicia. It’s a pleasure to make your acquaintance,” I say, lightly grasping my dress and giving them my best curtsy. “Hey, Alan, Henry.... Is this that little sister you’ve been telling us about? She’s nothing like how you were describing her!?” I hear someone whisper to my brothers. Hmm? Just what exactly have my dear brothers been saying about me this whole time? Though, I suppose I can actually imagine it. I bet they were complaining to them about how selfish and spoiled of a baby sister I am. “But Alicia, what’s wrong? What are you doing here?” What am I doing here? Albert-Oniisama..... You couldn’t have forgotten already, right? Today was the day that you promised to teach me how to use a sword. That’s the whole reason that I’ve been working out every single day in an effort to build up some physical strength. ....Is what I want to say, but I somehow manage to hold my tongue and take a moment to calm myself down. “Please teach me how to use sword,” I say simply instead, but I’m met with the exact same reaction as I was the first time. And this time it’s not just from my brothers, the other boys all react in a similar way as well. Eric-Sama, your mouth is hanging wide open, you know. Did I really say something so strange as to warrant such a response? I know you all have very pretty eyes, but I assure you that I can appreciate them even if they are only open to a normal degree. “Ali, that was only if you were able to finish doing your sit-ups and push-ups every day...” Albert-Oniisama says, smiling kindly at me. .......But I did! Moreover, I did triple the amount that you had told me to do. He really is looking down on me way too much. I’m slowly growing more and more frustrated with them to the point that I can feel my cheeks starting to puff up in an unbecoming pout. Agh, this is not the way that a proper villainess would express her rage! There’s no way that such a villainous and proud lady would be caught dead pouting. I guess I really am just a child still..... even if my actual self isn’t a child anymore, this body still belongs to one.... It looks like I still haven’t completely internalized what it means to be a villainess. But there’s nothing I can do about it. My feelings have overcome me even against my better judgment. “Aww, even her little pouty face looks adorable.” Curtis-Sama, would you kindly shut your mouth? I’m having a hard enough time without you adding oil to the fire like that. “Ali, swords are really dangerous, you know. They don’t really suit you,” Albert-Oniisama says, patting me affectionately on the head. Just what exactly did I find cute about someone patting a girl’s head like this in my previous life!? I lightly swat Oniisama’s hand away from my head and with that one move, the lighthearted atmosphere of our little get-together is destroyed in an instant. Oniisama’s expression hardens. And it’s not only him, everyone else’s expressions seem to stiffen as well. I really did it now.... Just what would a villainess do in a situation like this? ......How come nothing comes to mind when it really matters? I guess I can only trust in my instincts at this point. Without thinking, I reach for the small sword that is sheathed at Oniisama’s waist and pull it out. .....It’s heavy! Are swords always heavy like this?? I guess the muscle training really was necessary before learning swordplay. But my past week of working hard wasn’t wasted. If this was my past self, before I had worked out at all, I probably wouldn’t have been able to lift this sword at all. But now, forget just lifting it, fully brandishing a sword like this..... shouldn’t be something that I’m incapable of. I adjust my breathing, getting it under control, and I orient my body towards the tree that is standing right beside us. I focus all of my concentration on harnessing the power in my legs so that I can properly balance myself and maintain a strong base. I glance over the branches of the tree and find an apple that looks like it’s ready to fall and then I kick at the trunk with all my might. Please fall. If you don’t fall, I’m going to be extremely embarrassed. So please, please fall! For an unbearably long moment, I can only watch as the apple continues to swing....... But then the stem twists, and I know it’s about to fall. I quickly calculate its trajectory just like how I’d read in a Physics book previously. Thank goodness I was able to read so many books within the past few days. I wonder if I’ll be able to do this right. I just have to go off of instinct.... But this is my first time ever using a sword.... I don’t really have any muscle memory for what feels right. No! I can’t let myself be pessimistic now. If I can just do this right, then I’ll have taken another important step forward on the road to becoming a respectable villainess. ......Which, in retrospect, was way too much force! I somehow managed to calculate the correct trajectory and sliced neatly through the apple, but what I had not accounted for was the large amount of centripetal force that I was creating. Even after I had cleaved the apple in two, my body kept turning in the direction of my swing, out of control. “You’re welcome,” he replies, smiling kindly. (An actual kind smile! Not the type that Albert-Oniisama wears all the time, filled with hidden intentions.)	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 1, "inserted_lines_src": 6, "inserted_lines_trg": 14 }
殆どの人は「宇宙」とは全てを意味すると信じて育ってきました殆どの人は「宇宙」とは全てを意味すると信じて育ってきました「殆どの人は」と断ったのはこんな事があったからです 4歳の娘はこの様な考えを聞きながら育ってきました去年のことですそんな娘にこう語り掛けました「ソフィア、宇宙で一番好きだよ」「ソフィア、宇宙で一番好きだよ」するとこんな答えが返ってきました「パパ、宇宙それとも多元宇宙?」するとこんな答えが返ってきました「パパ、宇宙それとも多元宇宙?」例えこのような変わった環境に育っても我々と違う世界を想像するのは難しいものです我々と違う世界を想像するのは難しいものです違った機能や特性を持った全く別の宇宙です違った機能や特性を持った全く別の宇宙ですしかしこのアイデアが全くの仮説であってもしかしこのアイデアが全くの仮説であっても真剣に考える理由があることを解って頂きたいのです真剣に考える理由があることを解って頂きたいのですこれが真実かもしれません多元宇宙の話は3部に分けてお話します第1部ではノーベル賞受賞の観測結果と第1部ではノーベル賞受賞の観測結果とそれによってもたらされた重要な謎についてお話しますそれによってもたらされた重要な謎についてお話します第2部ではその謎を解き明かす仮説を紹介します第2部ではその謎を解き明かす仮説を紹介します弦理論に基づいたものですここで多元宇宙のアイデアが登場しますここで多元宇宙のアイデアが登場しますそして最後の第3部でインフレーションと言う宇宙理論についてお話しますインフレーションと言う宇宙理論についてお話しますこれはバラバラな話をまとめるものです第1部は1929 年に始まります偉大な天文学者エドウィン・ハッブルが遥か彼方にある銀河が我々からどんどん遠ざかっているのに気付き遥か彼方にある銀河が我々からどんどん遠ざかっているのに気付き宇宙がだんだんと大きくなり膨張している事実を確立しましたこれには皆びっくりしましたそれまでの通常の考えでは宇宙は不変であるというものでしたしかし膨張が正しいにせよ少なくとも膨張の速度は衰えているはずです少なくとも膨張の速度は衰えているはずです地球の重力によって投げ上げたリンゴの上昇が次第に遅くなるように地球の重力によって投げ上げたリンゴの上昇が次第に遅くなるように銀河同士の重力がお互いに作用しあって銀河同士の重力がお互いに作用しあって膨張の速度を衰えさせているはずです膨張の速度を衰えさせているはずですここで歴史を1990年に進めましょう冒頭でお話した二つの天文学者のチームが冒頭でお話した二つの天文学者のチームがこの考えに興味を持ち膨張の減速の度合いを測ることにしました膨張の減速の度合いを測ることにしました彼らは入念に遠く離れた銀河の位置を測り彼らは入念に遠く離れた銀河の位置を測りそれをチャートにして長い年月の間に膨張の速度がどのように変化したか分析しました長い年月の間に膨張の速度がどのように変化したか分析しましたすると思いがけない結果が出ました膨張は次第に衰えているどころか次第に加速している事が解ったのです次第に加速している事が解ったのです投げ上げたリンゴが上に行くに従って速度を増すようなものです投げ上げたリンゴが上に行くに従って速度を増すようなものですそんなリンゴを見たらなにが起こっているのか知りたくなりますどんな力が働いているのだろう? 同様にこのノーベル賞受賞の素晴らしい発見にも同様にこのノーベル賞受賞の素晴らしい発見にも似たような疑問が起こりました銀河同士を加速的に引き離すには銀河同士を加速的に引き離すにはどんな力が働いているのだろう? 答えとして最も可能性のあるのが古いアインシュタインのアイデアです私達は重力というと普通物を引き付け合う力だと思いますが物を引き付け合う力だと思いますがアインシュタインの一般相対性理論によるとアインシュタインの一般相対性理論によると重力が物を押し離すこともあるのですどうやって?アインシュタインの計算ではもし宇宙が均一で見えない霧のようなエネルギーでもし宇宙が均一で見えない霧のようなエネルギーで満たされているとするとその霧の生む重力は物を押し離す反発性の重力になります物を押し離す反発性の重力になりますこれは観測にうまく当てはまりますこの宇宙の見えないエネルギーは現在ダークエネルギーと呼ばれこの宇宙の見えないエネルギーは現在ダークエネルギーと呼ばれ見やすいよう白い煙状になっていますが見やすいよう白い煙状になっていますがこのエネルギーの反発性の重力が銀河同士を押し離しあって膨張を加速させているのです銀河同士を押し離しあって膨張を加速させているのです減速ではありませんこの説明はかなりの進歩ですこの説明はかなりの進歩ですでもこの第1部には謎があるとお約束しましたでもこの第1部には謎があるとお約束しましたそれは次のようなものです宇宙にダークエネルギーがどのくらいあれば宇宙にダークエネルギーがどのくらいあれば膨張の加速が起こるか天文学者が計算したところ膨張の加速が起こるか天文学者が計算したところこの様な答えが出ましたとても小さな数字ですここで適切な単位を使うと驚くほど小さな数値ですここで適切な単位を使うと驚くほど小さな数値です「謎」はこの値の意味です物理の法則からこの数値を導ければ良いのですが物理の法則からこの数値を導ければ良いのですがまだ誰も成功していません皆さんこう思うかもしれまん気にする必要あるの? この数字の説明なんて技術的な問題でこの数字の説明なんて技術的な問題で専門家には興味がある詳細だけれど普通の人には関係ないことだろうと確かに技術的に些細な事ですがこういうことが大切な事もあるのです些細な事が未知の真実への扉を開ける事もありますこの数字がその鍵かもしれませんなぜかと言うとこれを説明しようとすると他の宇宙の存在の可能性が生じるからですこれは弦理論から来る考えですのでここで第2部:弦理論に移りますダークエネルギーの謎についにはちょっと頭の片隅に置いておいてください弦理論について三つ大切な事をお話します弦理論について三つ大切な事をお話しますまず弦理論とは何でしょう? これはアインシュタインの夢見た統一論を実現する試みです宇宙の全ての力をこれ一つで説明しようとする宇宙の全ての力をこれ一つで説明しようとするフレームワークです弦理論の中心になる考えはごくシンプルなものです弦理論の中心になる考えはごくシンプルなものですものを細かく見てみると見えるのはまず分子であり見えるのはまず分子でありそれから原子や素粒子が観測できます理論ではそこから更に中を見られるとすると現在の技術で観察できるより小さいスケールではこれらの粒子の中に何かがあります小さな振動するエネルギーの糸小さな振動するひもですバイオリンの弦は様々なパターンで振動しバイオリンの弦は様々なパターンで振動し様々な音色を奏でますこれらの基本的なひもは様々なパターンで振動しこれらの基本的なひもは様々なパターンで振動し様々な種類の粒子となります電子やクオーク、ニュートリノ、光子など様々な粒子は皆ひもの振動から生じるものとして様々な粒子は皆ひもの振動から生じるものとしてひとつの枠組みにまとめられます説得力のある見方です宇宙のシンフォニー我々のまわりにある全ての様々な物が我々のまわりにある全ての様々な物がこの小さなひもの奏でる音楽により生まれるのですこの小さなひもの奏でる音楽により生まれるのですしかしこのエレガントな統一化には代償がありますしかしこのエレガントな統一化には代償があります過去何年もの研究で弦理論には数学的に問題があるのが解っています過去何年もの研究で弦理論には数学的に問題があるのが解っています数学的な矛盾を取り除くためには数学的な矛盾を取り除くためには我々に馴染みの無い余剰次元を加えなければならないのです我々に馴染みの無い余剰次元を加えなければならないのです我々の慣れ親しんでいるのは 3次元の空間ですこれらは高さ幅奥行きで表されますこれらは高さ幅奥行きで表されますでも弦理論ではごく小さなスケールに更にもっと沢山次元が存在します小さく巻き上がっていて我々が見る事はできませんしかしこれらの次元が目に見えなくても我々の見えるものに大きな影響を与えますなぜなら様々な次元の形がひもの振動の仕方を決めるからです弦理論では振動で全てが決まります弦理論では振動で全てが決まります粒子の質量、力の強さそして何よりもダークエネルギーの量がこれらの次元の形によって決定されますこれらの次元の形によって決定されますもしこれら余剰次元の形が解ればこれらの特徴を計算できダークエネルギーの量も計算できるはずです問題はこれら余剰次元の形がわからないと言う事です問題はこれら余剰次元の形がわからないと言う事です問題はこれら余剰次元の形がわからないと言う事です数学によって適切とされるいくつかの候補となる形があるだけですいくつかの候補となる形があるだけです研究の初期の段階では候補になる形は5つほどでしたそれをひとつひとつ見て実際に私達の観測できる物理的なものにあてはまるか判断する事ができそうです物理的なものにあてはまるか判断する事ができそうですしかし時間が経つにつれ候補になる形が増えました 5つだったものが何百にも何千にもなったのです大きな数ですがまだどうにか分析できそうですこういうことは大学院生の仕事ですこういうことは大学院生の仕事ですしかしさらにその数は更に増え続け何百万、何十億となり現在その数は10の500乗にもなりました現在その数は10の500乗にもなりましたどうすればよいのでしょう? あきらめる研究者もでてきました余剰次元の形の候補がこんなにもたくさんあってそれそれが違う物理的特徴を持っているのでは弦理論で検証可能な予測をすることは不可能だと結論を出したのでした弦理論で検証可能な予測をすることは不可能だと結論を出したのでしたしかし中にはこれを利用して多元宇宙の可能性を追求したのです簡単に説明するとこうなりますこれらの形はすべて対等でどれが本物と言うものではありませんどれが本物と言うものではありません沢山の宇宙がそれぞれ違う形でそれぞれの余剰次元にあるわけです余剰次元においてそれぞれ形の違う沢山の宇宙があるわけですこれはとても急進的な発想で我々の謎に大きな影響を与えますノーベル賞受賞の観測がもたらしたダークエネルギーの量の謎にですたとえばもし他に幾つもの宇宙があってたとえばもし他に幾つもの宇宙があってそれぞれの宇宙の余剰次元が違う形だとするとそれぞれの宇宙の余剰次元が違う形だとするとそれぞれの宇宙の特徴が違ってきます特にそれぞれの宇宙にあるダークエネルギーの量も違うわけです特にそれぞれの宇宙にあるダークエネルギーの量も違うわけです特にそれぞれの宇宙にあるダークエネルギーの量も違うわけですそうだとすると我々の測ったあのダークエネルギーの量をそうだとすると我々の測ったあのダークエネルギーの量を説明する意味が全く変わってきますこのシナリオではひとつの数字でダークエネルギーを説明する事は出来ないわけですなぜなら一つでなく沢山の数があるからですなぜなら一つでなく沢山の数があるからですということは我々の質問自体間違っていたことになりますということは我々の質問自体間違っていたことになります正しい質問はなぜ我々が丁度この測定した量のダークエネルギーがある宇宙に住み他にいろいろ存在しうる宇宙に住んでいないのかということです他にいろいろ存在しうる宇宙に住んでいないのかということですこれこそ答えを探す事ができる質問ですなぜならダークエネルギーの多い宇宙はなぜならダークエネルギーの多い宇宙は物質が固まって銀河になろうとするとダークエネルギーの反発力が強すぎで塊が爆発してしまい銀河が創生されないからです反対にダークエネルギーの少ない宇宙では宇宙そのものが収縮してしまい銀河が作られません銀河が無ければ星も無いし惑星もありませんもちろん我々のような生物ももちろん我々のような生物もそういう宇宙にはいないということです私たちがあの特定の量のダークエネルギーを持つ宇宙にいるのは私たちがあの特定の量のダークエネルギーを持つ宇宙にいるのはこの宇宙の条件が我々のような生命に適しているからですそれだけです謎は解決です多元宇宙が答えですしかしこのような説明が気に入らない人もいるでしょう我々の考える物理学と言うものは観察事実にきちんとした説明を与えるものですしかし観察している物がしかし観察している物がいろいろな所に存在する現実によって異なった値を持つとしたらいろいろな所に存在する現実によって異なった値を持つとしたらいろいろな所に存在する現実によって異なった値を持つとしたらその値であるべき理由を探そうとするのは間違いなのですその値であるべき理由を探そうとするのは間違いなのですその値であるべき理由を探そうとするのは間違いなのです以前にも同じような事がありました偉大な天文学者のヨハネス・ケプラーは別のある数字の虜になっていました別のある数字の虜になっていましたなぜ地球から太陽までの距離が 1億5千万km なのかということです何十年もこの数字の意味を解ろうとしましたが成功しませんでしたなぜかというとケプラーは間違った質問の答えを探していたからですケプラーは間違った質問の答えを探していたからです現在いろいろな惑星がいろいろな距離で星の周りをまわっていることが解っています物理学の法則を使って 1億5千万km という特定の数字を説明しようということ自体が間違っています 1億5千万km という特定の数字を説明しようということ自体が間違っていますこの場合正しい質問はなぜ人類が太陽からこの距離にある惑星に住む事になったのか他の可能性に対してです我々はこのような質問には答える事ができます太陽のような恒星にずっと近い惑星は温度が高すぎて我々のような生命は存在できませんそして恒星からずっと遠い惑星は温度が低すぎてこれもまた我々のような生命は生きられないのですつまり我々が太陽からこの特定の距離に住んでいる理由はこの距離が我々のような生命体にとって不可欠な条件を作り出すからです惑星とその距離についてはこれが正しい考え方なのです要するに宇宙とそこにあるダークエネルギーを考えるときこの様な考え方があてはまるかもしれませんもちろん大きな違いは他の惑星の存在はわかっていますが現時点で他の宇宙の存在は仮説に過ぎないと言う事です現時点で他の宇宙の存在は仮説に過ぎないと言う事ですこれをまとめるには他の宇宙を生み出すメカニズムが必要ですこれをまとめるには他の宇宙を生み出すメカニズムが必要ですこれをまとめるには他の宇宙を生み出すメカニズムが必要ですそれがこの最後の第3部に結びつきますこの様なメカニズムはビッグバンを研究する宇宙学者によって見出されていますこの様なメカニズムはビッグバンを研究する宇宙学者によって見出されていますビッグバンというと目に浮かぶのはビッグバンというと目に浮かぶのは宇宙の爆発が宇宙を作り出し宇宙の爆発が宇宙を作り出しその空間が外に向かって広がって行く光景ですでもここであまり知られていない事がありますビッグバンはとても大切な物を忘れています「バン」の部分です爆発の後どのように宇宙が成長したかは説明されているのですが爆発の後どのように宇宙が成長したかは説明されているのですが爆発の元となった力については何も説明がありませんこのギャップを埋めたのが改良されたビッグバン理論ですインフレーション宇宙論と呼ばれ宇宙空間の外への膨張に必要な燃料は何かを特定しました燃料は何かを特定しました燃料は量子場に基づく物ですがここで大切なのはこの燃料はとても効率が良く使い果たしてしまう事がありえないということです使い果たしてしまう事がありえないということですつまりインフレーション理論によればビッグバンが我々の宇宙を生み出すのは一回とは限らないのですこの燃料は我々のビッグバンの他に幾つものビッグバンを起こしその一つ一つが別々の宇宙を生成しました私達の宇宙は多数の泡の集った多元宇宙の一つの泡に過ぎないのです私達の宇宙は多数の泡の集った多元宇宙の一つの泡に過ぎないのですこれを弦理論と組み合わせるとこんな風になりますこれを弦理論と組み合わせるとこんな風になりますそれぞれの宇宙に余剰次元があります余剰次元はいろいろな形で別の形は別の物理的特徴を生み出します我々が他の宇宙でなくこの宇宙に存在するのは単にこの宇宙でのみ例えばダークエネルギーの量などの物理的な特徴が我々の存在に適しているからですこれが説得力がありまた同時に議論も多い宇宙の見方です最新の観測や理論からこの見方が注目されるようになりました最新の観測や理論からこの見方が注目されるようになりました残る疑問はもちろん他の宇宙の存在を確認する事は出来るのかということです私はこの様な形でそれが可能かもしれないと考えていますインフレーション理論は既にそれを支持する観測結果がありますこの理論が予測するのはビッグバンがとても強く宇宙がとても速く膨張した時ミクロの世界で起こった量子学的な揺れがマクロの世界にも影響して指紋のようなものを残したと言う事です微妙に高温や低温な部分が宇宙全体にあるパターンですこれは性能の良い望遠鏡で観測されています更に他の宇宙があればこの理論によると時にはこれらの宇宙が衝突するのですもし我々の宇宙が別の宇宙と衝突したとすればもし我々の宇宙が別の宇宙と衝突したとすればその衝突でうまれた宇宙に広がる微妙な温度の変化を見つける事ができる日がくるかもしれません見つける事ができる日がくるかもしれません奇想天外に思える考えも観測を通じて確立されたものになり観測を通じて確立されたものになり他の宇宙の存在を確固としたものにするかもしれませんまとめにこれらの考えがまとめにこれらの考えが遠い未来に予測される事をお話したいと思います遠い未来に予測される事をお話したいと思います我々はこの宇宙が不変ではない事や我々はこの宇宙が不変ではない事や宇宙は膨張している事、またその膨張が加速している事や他の宇宙が存在するかもしれない事などを遠く離れた銀河から来るかすかな星の光りを慎重に観測して学んできましたかすかな星の光りを慎重に観測して学んできましたしかし膨張が加速的に速まっているということは遠い未来にはこれらの銀河は我々からどんどん遠くに離れていってしまい遠い未来にはこれらの銀河は我々からどんどん遠くに離れていってしまい観測できなくなってしまいます望遠鏡の技術的な限界の問題ではなく物理学の理論上の問題です望遠鏡の技術的な限界の問題ではなく物理学の理論上の問題ですこれらの銀河が発する光りは最速といわれる光速で伝わってきてもこれらの銀河が発する光は最も速い光速で伝わってきても常に伸び続ける距離を克服する事が出来ないからです常に伸び続ける距離を克服する事が出来ないからです遠い将来の天文学者は深い宇宙を覗いてみても遠い将来の天文学者は深い宇宙を覗いてみても永遠に広がる不変で真っ暗な無の空間が見られるだけですそれを見てこんな結論をだすかもしれません宇宙は不変であり存在するのは真ん中にある自分たちの住むオアシスだけであると存在するのは真ん中にある自分たちの住むオアシスだけであると我々から見れば確実に間違った見方です我々から見れば確実に間違った見方です将来の天文学者が我々のような前時代からの記録を受け継ぐかもしれません銀河に満ちた宇宙が膨張しているというデータです銀河に満ちた宇宙が膨張しているというデータですでも将来の天文学者はそんな太古の知識を信じるでしょうか? でも将来の天文学者はそんな太古の知識を信じるでしょうか? それとも彼らはその時代にある最新の技術で観測できる真っ暗な不変な宇宙を信じるでしょうか? たぶん後者ではないかと思いますという事は我々がこの時代に生きているのはとても幸運だと言う事ですという事は我々がこの時代に生きているのはとても幸運だと言う事です宇宙の深い真実がまだ人類に探索できるところにあるからです宇宙の深い真実がまだ人類に探索できるところにあるからです宇宙の深い真実がまだ人類に探索できるところにあるからですいつまでもこの様なわけには行かないようです今日の天文学者は強力な望遠鏡を天に向けて今日の天文学者は強力な望遠鏡を天に向けて極めて有用な情報を持つ僅かな量の光子を集めてきました何十億年かけて届く電報みたいな物です何十億年かけて届く電報みたいな物ですその年月をかけて届いたメッセージははっきりしています時に自然はその秘密を解きがたい物理法則でしっかりと守っていますが解きがたい物理法則でしっかりと守っていますが時に真実の本当の姿は地平線のすぐむこうから手招きしているのですありがとうございました (拍手) クリス・アンダーソン: ありがとう目がまわり心をおどらせるとてつもないアイデアですね目がまわり心をおどらせるとてつもないアイデアですね歴史的に見て現在の宇宙論の置かれた状況をどう思いますか? 歴史的に見て現在の宇宙論の置かれた状況をどう思いますか? 歴史的に見て現在の宇宙論の置かれた状況をどう思いますか? 今までになかった事が起きているのでしょうか? BG: どうでしょう観測のデータが将来十分得られなくなるかもしれないと考えると観測のデータが将来十分得られなくなるかもしれないと考えると現在既にそうではないかと疑問になります宇宙の進化を考えると宇宙の彼方にある大切な情報が既に我々の手の届かない所にあるのかもしれません既に我々の手の届かない所にあるのかもしれませんそうだとすると我々の疑問を完全に理解する事は出来ないかもしれません我々の疑問を完全に理解する事は出来ないかもしれませんその一方現在の知識で宇宙の年齢を理解できますその一方現在の知識で宇宙の年齢を理解できます 137.2 億年前から来る宇宙マイクロ波背景放射を分析して 137.2 億年前から来る宇宙マイクロ波背景放射を分析して 137.2 億年前から来る宇宙マイクロ波背景放射を分析して計算で予測することが観測と一致します計算で予測することが観測と一致します本当にびっくりする事ですですからすごく進歩してきたわけですでも将来何に突き当たるかわかりません CA: 数日この会場にいらっしゃいますね是非いろいろお話を伺いたいものですありがとうブライアン (拍手)	I mean, most of us were raised to believe that the word "universe" means everything. And I say most of us with forethought, as my four-year-old daughter has heard me speak of these ideas since she was born. And last year I was holding her and I said, "Sophia, I love you more than anything in the universe." And she turned to me and said, "Daddy, universe or multiverse?" But barring such an anomalous upbringing, it is strange to imagine other realms separate from ours, most with fundamentally different features, that would rightly be called universes of their own. And yet, speculative though the idea surely is, I aim to convince you that there's reason for taking it seriously, as it just might be right. I'm going to tell the story of the multiverse in three parts. In part one, I'm going to describe those Nobel Prize-winning results and to highlight a profound mystery which those results revealed. In part two, I'll offer a solution to that mystery. It's based on an approach called string theory, and that's where the idea of the multiverse will come into the story. Finally, in part three, I'm going to describe a cosmological theory called inflation, which will pull all the pieces of the story together. Okay, part one starts back in 1929 when the great astronomer Edwin Hubble realized that the distant galaxies were all rushing away from us, establishing that space itself is stretching, it's expanding. Now this was revolutionary. The prevailing wisdom was that on the largest of scales the universe was static. But even so, there was one thing that everyone was certain of: The expansion must be slowing down. That, much as the gravitational pull of the Earth slows the ascent of an apple tossed upward, the gravitational pull of each galaxy on every other must be slowing the expansion of space. Now let's fast-forward to the 1990s when those two teams of astronomers I mentioned at the outset were inspired by this reasoning to measure the rate at which the expansion has been slowing. And they did this by painstaking observations of numerous distant galaxies, allowing them to chart how the expansion rate has changed over time. Here's the surprise: They found that the expansion is not slowing down. Instead they found that it's speeding up, going faster and faster. That's like tossing an apple upward and it goes up faster and faster. Now if you saw an apple do that, you'd want to know why. What's pushing on it? Similarly, the astronomers' results are surely well-deserving of the Nobel Prize, but they raised an analogous question. What force is driving all galaxies to rush away from every other at an ever-quickening speed? Well the most promising answer comes from an old idea of Einstein's. You see, we are all used to gravity being a force that does one thing, pulls objects together. But in Einstein's theory of gravity, his general theory of relativity, gravity can also push things apart. How? Well according to Einstein's math, if space is uniformly filled with an invisible energy, sort of like a uniform, invisible mist, then the gravity generated by that mist would be repulsive, repulsive gravity, which is just what we need to explain the observations. Because the repulsive gravity of an invisible energy in space -- we now call it dark energy, but I've made it smokey white here so you can see it -- its repulsive gravity would cause each galaxy to push against every other, driving expansion to speed up, not slow down. And this explanation represents great progress. But I promised you a mystery here in part one. Here it is. When the astronomers worked out how much of this dark energy must be infusing space to account for the cosmic speed up, look at what they found. This number is small. Expressed in the relevant unit, it is spectacularly small. And the mystery is to explain this peculiar number. We want this number to emerge from the laws of physics, but so far no one has found a way to do that. Now you might wonder, should you care? Maybe explaining this number is just a technical issue, a technical detail of interest to experts, but of no relevance to anybody else. Well it surely is a technical detail, but some details really matter. Some details provide windows into uncharted realms of reality, and this peculiar number may be doing just that, as the only approach that's so far made headway to explain it invokes the possibility of other universes -- an idea that naturally emerges from string theory, which takes me to part two: string theory. So hold the mystery of the dark energy in the back of your mind as I now go on to tell you three key things about string theory. First off, what is it? Well it's an approach to realize Einstein's dream of a unified theory of physics, a single overarching framework that would be able to describe all the forces at work in the universe. And the central idea of string theory is quite straightforward. It says that if you examine any piece of matter ever more finely, at first you'll find molecules and then you'll find atoms and subatomic particles. But the theory says that if you could probe smaller, much smaller than we can with existing technology, you'd find something else inside these particles -- a little tiny vibrating filament of energy, a little tiny vibrating string. And just like the strings on a violin, they can vibrate in different patterns producing different musical notes. These little fundamental strings, when they vibrate in different patterns, they produce different kinds of particles -- so electrons, quarks, neutrinos, photons, all other particles would be united into a single framework, as they would all arise from vibrating strings. It's a compelling picture, a kind of cosmic symphony, where all the richness that we see in the world around us emerges from the music that these little, tiny strings can play. But there's a cost to this elegant unification, because years of research have shown that the math of string theory doesn't quite work. It has internal inconsistencies, unless we allow for something wholly unfamiliar -- extra dimensions of space. That is, we all know about the usual three dimensions of space. And you can think about those as height, width and depth. But string theory says that, on fantastically small scales, there are additional dimensions crumpled to a tiny size so small that we have not detected them. But even though the dimensions are hidden, they would have an impact on things that we can observe because the shape of the extra dimensions constrains how the strings can vibrate. And in string theory, vibration determines everything. So particle masses, the strengths of forces, and most importantly, the amount of dark energy would be determined by the shape of the extra dimensions. So if we knew the shape of the extra dimensions, we should be able to calculate these features, calculate the amount of dark energy. The challenge is we don't know the shape of the extra dimensions. All we have is a list of candidate shapes allowed by the math. Now when these ideas were first developed, there were only about five different candidate shapes, so you can imagine analyzing them one-by-one to determine if any yield the physical features we observe. But over time the list grew as researchers found other candidate shapes. From five, the number grew into the hundreds and then the thousands -- A large, but still manageable, collection to analyze, since after all, graduate students need something to do. But then the list continued to grow into the millions and the billions, until today. The list of candidate shapes has soared to about 10 to the 500. So, what to do? Well some researchers lost heart, concluding that was so many candidate shapes for the extra dimensions, each giving rise to different physical features, string theory would never make definitive, testable predictions. But others turned this issue on its head, taking us to the possibility of a multiverse. Here's the idea. Maybe each of these shapes is on an equal footing with every other. Each is as real as every other, in the sense that there are many universes, each with a different shape, for the extra dimensions. And this radical proposal has a profound impact on this mystery: the amount of dark energy revealed by the Nobel Prize-winning results. Because you see, if there are other universes, and if those universes each have, say, a different shape for the extra dimensions, then the physical features of each universe will be different, and in particular, the amount of dark energy in each universe will be different. Which means that the mystery of explaining the amount of dark energy we've now measured would take on a wholly different character. In this context, the laws of physics can't explain one number for the dark energy because there isn't just one number, there are many numbers. Which means we have been asking the wrong question. It's that the right question to ask is, why do we humans find ourselves in a universe with a particular amount of dark energy we've measured instead of any of the other possibilities that are out there? And that's a question on which we can make headway. Because those universes that have much more dark energy than ours, whenever matter tries to clump into galaxies, the repulsive push of the dark energy is so strong that it blows the clump apart and galaxies don't form. And in those universes that have much less dark energy, well they collapse back on themselves so quickly that, again, galaxies don't form. And without galaxies, there are no stars, no planets and no chance for our form of life to exist in those other universes. So we find ourselves in a universe with the particular amount of dark energy we've measured simply because our universe has conditions hospitable to our form of life. And that would be that. Mystery solved, multiverse found. Now some find this explanation unsatisfying. We're used to physics giving us definitive explanations for the features we observe. But the point is, if the feature you're observing can and does take on a wide variety of different values across the wider landscape of reality, then thinking one explanation for a particular value is simply misguided. An early example comes from the great astronomer Johannes Kepler who was obsessed with understanding a different number -- why the Sun is 93 million miles away from the Earth. And he worked for decades trying to explain this number, but he never succeeded, and we know why. Kepler was asking the wrong question. We now know that there are many planets at a wide variety of different distances from their host stars. So hoping that the laws of physics will explain one particular number, 93 million miles, well that is simply wrongheaded. Instead the right question to ask is, why do we humans find ourselves on a planet at this particular distance, instead of any of the other possibilities? And again, that's a question we can answer. Those planets which are much closer to a star like the Sun would be so hot that our form of life wouldn't exist. And those planets that are much farther away from the star, well they're so cold that, again, our form of life would not take hold. So we find ourselves on a planet at this particular distance simply because it yields conditions vital to our form of life. And when it comes to planets and their distances, this clearly is the right kind of reasoning. The point is, when it comes to universes and the dark energy that they contain, it may also be the right kind of reasoning. One key difference, of course, is we know that there are other planets out there, but so far I've only speculated on the possibility that there might be other universes. So to pull it all together, we need a mechanism that can actually generate other universes. And that takes me to my final part, part three. Because such a mechanism has been found by cosmologists trying to understand the Big Bang. You see, when we speak of the Big Bang, we often have an image of a kind of cosmic explosion that created our universe and set space rushing outward. But there's a little secret. The Big Bang leaves out something pretty important, the Bang. It tells us how the universe evolved after the Bang, but gives us no insight into what would have powered the Bang itself. And this gap was finally filled by an enhanced version of the Big Bang theory. It's called inflationary cosmology, which identified a particular kind of fuel an outward rush of space. The fuel is based on something called a quantum field, but the only detail that matters for us is that this fuel proves to be so efficient that it's virtually impossible to use it all up, which means in the inflationary theory, the Big Bang giving rise to our universe is likely not a one-time event. Instead the fuel not only generated our Big Bang, but it would also generate countless other Big Bangs, each giving rise to its own separate universe with our universe becoming but one bubble in a grand cosmic bubble bath of universes. And now, when we meld this with string theory, here's the picture we're led to. Each of these universes has extra dimensions. The extra dimensions take on a wide variety of different shapes. The different shapes yield different physical features. And we find ourselves in one universe instead of another simply because it's only in our universe that the physical features, like the amount of dark energy, are right for our form of life to take hold. And this is the compelling but highly controversial picture of the wider cosmos that cutting-edge observation and theory have now led us to seriously consider. One big remaining question, of course, is, the existence of other universes? Well let me describe one way that might one day happen. The inflationary theory already has strong observational support. Because the theory predicts that the Big Bang would have been so intense that as space rapidly expanded, tiny quantum jitters from the micro world would have been stretched out to the macro world, yielding a distinctive fingerprint, a pattern of slightly hotter spots and slightly colder spots, across space, which powerful telescopes have now observed. Going further, if there are other universes, the theory predicts that every so often those universes can collide. And if our universe got hit by another, that collision would generate an additional subtle pattern of temperature variations across space that we might one day be able to detect. And so exotic as this picture is, it may one day be grounded in observations, establishing the existence of other universes. I'll conclude with a striking implication of all these ideas for the very far future. You see, we learned that our universe is not static, that space is expanding, that that expansion is speeding up and that there might be other universes all by carefully examining faint pinpoints of starlight coming to us from distant galaxies. But because the expansion is speeding up, in the very far future, those galaxies will rush away so far and so fast that we won't be able to see them -- not because of technological limitations, but because of the laws of physics. The light those galaxies emit, even traveling at the fastest speed, the speed of light, will not be able to overcome the ever-widening gulf between us. So astronomers in the far future looking out into deep space will see nothing but an endless stretch of static, inky, black stillness. And they will conclude that the universe is static and unchanging and populated by a single central oasis of matter that they inhabit -- a picture of the cosmos that we definitively know to be wrong. Now maybe those future astronomers will have records handed down from an earlier era, like ours, attesting to an expanding cosmos teeming with galaxies. But would those future astronomers believe such ancient knowledge? Or would they believe in the black, static empty universe that their own state-of-the-art observations reveal? I suspect the latter. Which means that we are living through a remarkably privileged era when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration. It appears that it may not always be that way. Because today's astronomers, by turning powerful telescopes to the sky, have captured a handful of starkly informative photons -- a kind of cosmic telegram billions of years in transit. and the message echoing across the ages is clear. Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon. Thank you very much. Chris Anderson: Brian, thank you. The range of ideas you've just spoken about are dizzying, exhilarating, incredible. How do you think of where cosmology is now, in a sort of historical side? Are we in the middle of something unusual historically in your opinion? BG: Well it's hard to say. When we learn that astronomers of the far future may not have enough information to figure things out, the natural question is, maybe we're already in that position and certain deep, critical features of the universe already have escaped our ability to understand because of how cosmology evolves. So from that perspective, maybe we will always be asking questions and never be able to fully answer them. On the other hand, we now can understand how old the universe is. We can understand how to understand the data from the microwave background radiation that was set down 13.72 billion years ago -- and yet, we can do calculations today to predict how it will look and it matches. Holy cow! That's just amazing. So on the one hand, it's just incredible where we've gotten, but who knows what sort of blocks we may find in the future. CA: You're going to be around for the next few days. Maybe some of these conversations can continue. Thank you. Thank you, Brian.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
裏庭のベンチにミトロフとグラシエは並んで腰掛けている。サフランが天井画を手放すことの意味を、ミトロフはグラシエに語った。サフランの自己犠牲のようにも見えるが、それは正しくない、と。彼は新しい野望を抱いたのだ。過去の夢を清算し、新たな旅のための資金に換えることを決断したのであって、それを周りのものが悔やんだり、引き留める必要はないのだと。グラシエはううむと唸っていたが、自分の中で折り合いをつけるために頷きを返した。それでひとつの話題に区切りがつき、ふたりの間に日中の暖かな陽気が溜まった。礼拝堂には見知らぬ大人たちが出入りを繰り返しているが、子どもたちはすでにそれを気にしていない。サフランが事態をよく語って聞かせたことで理解をしたようであった。子どもだからと甘く見ることはできないものだとミトロフは思う。とくにこの教会にいる子らは、ミトロフよりもよほどしっかりと現実と向き合っている。向き合う必要に迫られている。ゆえに年齢と精神の幼稚性は比例しないものだ。裏庭で子どもたちが駆け回り、ラティエとカヌレが洗濯物を物干しにかけている。その光景を眺めていたが、ミトロフはちらとグラシエに目を向けた。サフランが問題の解決を定めたことで、グラシエの抱えていた孤児院を脅かす存在への心配も収束が見えている。彼女は姉のラティエが住まうこの孤児院の存続と、裏社会の権力者との諍いによる荒事を警戒して、ミトロフと行動を共にしていなかった。すべての心配がなくなれば、ふたりはまたパーティーを組み、迷宮に挑む日々が戻ってくるはずだった。それがどれほど充実したものになるか、ミトロフは想像するだけで心が華やぐのだ。孤児院の裏に茂った草木の向こうから虫の声が聞こえている。裏通りのどこかで木戸が閉じられる音がかすかに鳴った。「ぼくは君を守ることができない」と言ったとき、グラシエは不思議な感覚を得た。それはあまりに鮮明な光景であったために、目が覚めてもまだ夢だとは気づけないでいる夜明けの時間に似ていた。グラシエはエルフ族の中では若輩でありながらも、狩人として過ごした時間と経験は長い。木陰の中に息を潜め、獲物の動向を見定め、呼吸を知る。弓に矢をつがえて引き絞るとき、指から離れる前に必中の光景を見ることがある。その矢が外れたとき、グラシエは呆然とする。そんなはずはなかったのに......なにが起きたのだろうか......。「......われとパーティーを組むつもりはない、と。そういうことか」「そうじゃない」ミトロフは決然と言った。引き伸ばされた唇は結ばれている。奥歯を噛み締めているからだ。瞼に力が込められているために、普段よりも瞳孔が大きく見える。ある種の頑なさがまとわりつく雰囲気を、グラシエは感じ取る。揺るがぬ答えを自分の中に見つけた者がそれを実行に移すとき、独特の気配がある。目に見えずとも壁が生まれ、どんな言葉もその壁を通り抜けられない。「きみはたくさんの人に慕われてる。子どもたちがきみを待っている。もし迷宮で死んでしまえば、悲しむ人は多い」「おぬしとカヌレは違うとでも言うのか?」「カヌレはぼくより強いし、迷宮に潜る理由がある」彼女の身に振りかかった古の呪いは、どんな賢者にも治す術がない。の手掛かりがあるとすれば迷宮の中だけである。「ではミトロフ、おぬしはなぜ迷宮に潜るのじゃ? 呪われてもおらぬ、財宝を見つけて一攫千金を狙うでもなく、身を立てる必要もないであろう?」「ぼくは、怠惰だ。怖がりだし、自分に甘いし、勇気も度胸も足りていない。努力もしてこなかった。まるで毎日を祭日のように無意味に過ごしてきた。だからぼくの人生に特別な日も、ああよく頑張ったと満足に眠れる日もなかった」でも、とミトロフは言葉を続けた。「迷宮に挑むとき、ぼくは......生きている。魔物と戦って呼吸をするたび、熱が肺を膨らませる。勝てば嬉しい。負ければ、悔しい。次はもっとやれる、ぼくはもっと成長できる......そう感じることが、嬉しいんだ。迷宮の中で、ぼくは変わっていける。ぼくは人生で初めて、自分の意思を感じた」言い切って、ミトロフは付き物が落ちたように晴れやかな顔をしている。悩みながらも言葉にしながら、自分で自分の気持ちを見つけていくようなことが、時にしてある。誰かに本心を話すことも、ぶつかることも避けてきたミトロフにとって、今まさに感じているその変化は、奇妙な高揚すら感じさせた。グラシエが初めてミトロフと出会ったとき、その顔は鬱屈としていた。希望を持たず、明日を恐れて逃げ回り、いつまでも夜の帳にしがみついている人間だった。しばらく見ない間に、その顔はすっかりと変わっていた。ミトロフは頬を高揚させ、熱を宿した瞳でグラシエを見据えた。焚き火の中心に盛る熾火––––エルフはその長寿性のために感情が希薄になる。自らを見つめるミトロフの瞳に灯る感情の熱に、グラシエは捉えられたと感じた。これほどに情熱的な目を向けられたことはない。ミトロフは言う。その言葉を自分が拒絶できないことを、グラシエはもう知っていた。「ぼくは君を守れない。ぼくは、弱い。だからぼくにはきみが必要だ」グラシエは目を見開いた。男とは、女を守るもの。騎士とは姫を守るもの。それが当然のこの世界の中では、ミトロフの言葉は情けないものだった。だが、グラシエはその言葉に喜びを得た。エルフの里の中で弓を持ち、男勝りに狩りをしてきたグラシエは浮いた存在だった。女ながらに、という言葉が常について回っていた。磨いてきた弓の技はグラシエの誇りである。自分の誇りも丸ごとに、必要とされている。「おぬしは、旋風の中心のようじゃな」「......どういう意味だ?」捉われた落ち葉は逆らいようもなく引き込まれ、中心に吸い寄せられる。そんな不思議な力が、目の前の男にはあるようだ......。しかし口には出さず、グラシエは目を細めた。「われの答えは決まっておる。おぬしを放っておくと心配でいかん。此度も勝手に厄介な敵と戦いおって」「ぶひっ......そ、それは、すまなかった。心配をかけた」「なんでまたひとりで挑んだのじゃ?」ミトロフは腕を組んで目を閉じ、黙り込んだ。唇を尖らせながら。「お、男の意地だ」と答える。「男とは、まったく」グラシエは目を見開き、やれやれと首を振った。「もと無謀なことはするでないぞ。それは約束してもらう」「......分かった。約束する」「良きかな」グラシエは微笑み、ミトロフの頬をつまんだ。もっちりとした触感は予想だにせず心地よいものだった。「なにをひゅるんだ」むにむにむに。「ええい、やめろ!」「なんじゃ、楽しんでおったのに」ミトロフはグラシエの手首をつかんで外し、その勢いのまま立ち上がった。グラシエの手を引いて歩いていく。きょとんとしたグラシエを引き連れて、向かう先はラティエのところだった。近づく気配に振り返り、大方を察したカヌレはスッと身を引いた。「ラティエ殿」改まった呼び方にミトロフの緊張が表れている。小さなシャツを手に振り返ったラティエに、ミトロフは鼻息も荒く向かい合った。言葉を溜めの間に沈黙が満ち、ミトロフはついに口を開く。「ぼくは、ひとりではなにもできないダメなやつだ」「––––はい?」「多少の金勘定と、刺突剣を振るうこと、食うこと以外は、ろくなことができない。今回もまた、カヌレとグラシエに助けてもらった。これからも助けてもらわなければ、生きていける自信がない」ラティエがどう感じているのかを、ミトロフは考えない。これまではずっと相手がどう思うかを察するように生きていた。今はただ、自分の中にあるものを伝えたいと思っている。「ぼくは、自分を強い人間だと思いたかった。いつか、何かすごいことができる人間だと。でも、それは違った。ぼくは、弱い人間だ。それを知った。だから、ぼくはいざとなったら逃げる」「逃げるのですか」ラティエが訊き返す。ミトロフは自信満々に頷いた。「ああ、逃げる。だが、ぼくが逃げるのは仲間を逃したあとに––––いちばん最後だと誓う」ミトロフはグラシエとカヌレを見やった。「カヌレとグラシエがいてくれたら、ぼくは心強い。ぼくだけなら出来ないことも、勝てない相手にも、3人でなら勝てる。ぼくには彼女が必要なんだ。だから、グラシエと共に迷宮に挑むことを許してほしい」ラティエの返事には間があった。胸に抱いたシャツに、ぎゅっと力が入った。「自分が弱いことを知っている人は、強さを誇る人よりも希少なものです。あなたがそれを忘れずにいてくれることを、私は願います」答えて、ラティエはグラシエに顔を向けた。「グラシエ––––気をつけるのよ。必ず帰ってきて。何度でも」「......もちろんじゃ、姉上」「カヌレさん、あなたもよ」「––––はい」呼びかけられた声が予想外だったのか、カヌレの返事は上擦っていた。「ミトロフさん」「妹を、よろしくお願いします」深々と下げられた頭に、ミトロフもまた同じくらいに深く頭を下げた。	Mitrof and Grace were sitting side by side on a bench in the backyard. Mitrof explained to Grace the significance of Saffron giving up the ceiling painting. It may seem like Saffron made a sacrifice, but that’s not the case. He harbored a new ambition. He decided to liquidate past dreams and turn them into funds for a new journey. There was no need for those around him to regret or stop him. Grace groaned but nodded to come to terms with it. The topic came to an end, and the warmth of the afternoon sun gathered between the two. Unfamiliar adults came and went from the chapel, but the children no longer cared. They seemed to understand better as Saffron explained the situation to them. Mitrof thought that one should not underestimate children just because they are kids. Especially the children in this church confront reality much more firmly than Mitrof does. They are forced to face it. Therefore, their age and mental immaturity do not correspond. Children were running around the backyard as Lattier and Canule hung laundry on the clothesline. Mitrof was watching that scene, but his eyes briefly turned to Grace. With Saffron’s resolution to the problem, the concerns that threatened Grace’s orphanage seemed to be resolved. Grace had been cautious about the orphanage’s survival and the danger from the underworld’s powerful figures, so she had not been working with Mitrof. Once all the worries were gone, the two of them could team up again and return to their daily routine of challenging the labyrinth. Just the thought of it made Mitrof’s heart flutter with excitement. The sound of insects could be heard from beyond the overgrown trees behind the orphanage. There was a faint sound of a wooden door closing somewhere in the back alley. “I can’t protect you.” Grace had a strange sensation. It was a scene so vivid that it resembled the dawn hour, when you wake up and still do not realize that you are dreaming. Grace, although young among the elves, has considerable experience as a hunter. She sneaks in the shadows of the trees, observing the movements of her prey and knowing their breathing. Sometimes, just before releasing the arrow from her bow, she sees a clear shot that is sure to hit its target. When her arrow misses, Grace is left stunned. What went wrong? It couldn’t have been that... could it? “...You don’t want me to join you—is that what you mean?” “That’s not it.” Mitrof replied firmly. His lips were stretched and sealed as he clenched his teeth. His pupils appear bigger than usual because of the force he puts into his eyelids. Grace can feel a certain obstinance surrounding him. When someone finds an unshakeable answer within themselves and puts it into action, there is a distinct feeling. Although invisible, a wall is immediately erected, and no words can pass through it. “You are loved by many people—children are waiting for you—if you die in the labyrinth, many people will be saddened.” “Are you saying that you and Canule are different?” “Canule is stronger than me, and she has a reason to explore the labyrinth.” The ancient curse that befell her cannot be cured by any wise person. The only clue to a possible cure lies within the labyrinth itself. “Then Mitrof, why do you want to dive into the labyrinth? You’re not cursed, you’re not looking for treasure to strike it rich, and you don’t even need to make a name for yourself, right?” “...I am lazy. I am a coward who is too kind to himself, lacking in courage and nerve. I haven’t made any effort. I’ve spent every day like a holiday, a meaningless existence. That’s why there hasn’t been a special day in my life—a day where I can say that I have accomplished something and sleep well satisfied.” Mitrof continued his words. “When I challenge the labyrinth, I feel like I’m alive... Every breath I take against the monster makes my lungs swell with heat. Winning makes me happy, and losing makes me frustrated. But I feel like I can do better and grow even more... That’s what makes me happy—in the labyrinth, I can change—for the first time in my life, I feel my own willpower.” Saying this, Mitrof’s face cleared up like a cloud had lifted. Sometimes, even when we’re struggling, it’s important to find our own feelings by putting them into words. For Mitrof, who had always avoided speaking out and confronting his true feelings with others, this change he was experiencing was an odd sense of exhilaration. When Grace first met Mitrof, his face was clouded with frustration. He had no hope; fear of tomorrow consumed him, and he was a person clinging to the darkness of night. After a while, his face had completely changed. Mitrof’s cheeks lifted as he looked at Grace with fiery eyes. The fiery center of the bonfire—due to the longevity of the elves, their emotions become scarce. The heat in Mitrof’s eyes as he looked at Grace moved her. She had never been looked at with such passionate eyes before. Mitrof spoke. Grace already knew she couldn’t reject his words. “I can’t protect you—I’m weak—that’s why I need you.” Grace’s eyes widened. A man’s duty is to protect a woman. A knight’s duty is to protect a princess. In this world where it was considered natural, Mitrof’s words were pitiful. However, Grace took joy in those words. As a woman who held a bow and hunted like a man in the elven village, she was an outcast. The word “although she’s a woman” always followed her. The polished technique of her bow was Grace’s pride. Her pride was needed in its entirety. “You are like the center of my whirlwind.” “...What do you mean?” The caught leaves were irresistibly drawn and sucked toward the center. A mysterious power seemed to exist in front of his eyes... However, Grace narrowed her eyes without saying a word. “My answer is already decided—I can’t let you go and worry about you; you’ve already taken it upon yourself to fight a troublesome enemy.” “I’m sorry! I didn’t mean to worry you!” “Why did you challenge a demon alone again?” Mitrof crossed his arms, closed his eyes, and fell silent, pursing his lips. “That’s a man’s determination.” He answered sharply. “Men are such creatures, really.” Grace widened her eyes and shook her head. “You will never do something foolish like that again—promise me.” “...Alright. I promise.” “Good.” Grace smiled and pinched Mitrof’s cheek. The soft and squishy sensation was surprisingly pleasant. “What are you giggling about?” Squish, squish, squish. “Hey, stop it!” “What’s wrong? I thought we were having fun.” Mitrof grabbed Grace’s wrist and removed it, standing up in the process. He led Grace by the hand as they walked away. They were heading towards Lattier’s place with a bewildered Grace in tow. Sensing their approach, Canule turned around and quickly withdrew. “Lattier-dono.” Mitrof’s nervousness was apparent in his formal address. As Lattier turned around, holding a small shirt in her hand, Mitrof faced her, his breath ragged. After a moment of silence, Mitrof gathered his words and finally spoke. “I’m a useless guy who can’t do anything on his own.” “——Uh, okay?” “Other than handling a small amount of money, wielding a thrusting sword, and eating, I can’t do anything worthwhile—once again, Canule and Grace helped me out this time—and I don’t have the confidence to survive if I don’t continue receiving their help in the future.” Mitrof didn’t bother considering how Lattier might feel about his confession. He had always lived his life trying to read other people’s reactions. But now he simply wanted to convey his own feelings. “I wanted to believe that I was a strong person, that I was someone who could do something amazing someday, but that was not the case—I am a weak person—I have come to realize that—so, when the time comes, I will run away.” “What do you mean you will run away?” Lattier asked back. Mitrof nodded confidently. “Yes, I will run away—however, I vow to be the last one to run away after letting my companions escape.” Mitrof looked at Grace and Canule. “I feel more confident with Canule and Grace by my side—together, the three of us can overcome anything, even opponents who are stronger than me alone—I need her by my side. So please allow me to challenge the labyrinth with Grace.” There was a pause in Lattier’s response. Her grip on the shirt she held against her chest tightened. “People who acknowledge their own weakness are rarer than those who boast about their strength—I hope that you’ll never forget that.” Lattier replied, turning to face Grace. “Grace, be careful—make sure to come back, no matter how many times.” “...Of course, older sister.” “Canule-san, you too.” “——Yes.” Perhaps caught off guard by being called out, Canule’s response sounded hesitant. “Mitrof-san.” “Please take care of my little sister.” Lattier bowed deeply; Grace and Mitrof did the same, bowing deeply.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 2, "inserted_lines_src": 1, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
まずみなさんの食生活についてお聞きします虫を食べたことのある人は? 意外に多いですねでもこの会場での割合が地球上の人の割合を代表しているわけではありませんね地球上の80%の人が実は虫を食べているのですでもここも結構な割合ですよ虫を食べませんか? まず「虫」とは何でしょうか「虫」とは 6本足がある生物でたくさんの種類がいます地球上には6百万種類の虫がいます 6百万種類ですよ数百種類しかいない哺乳類と比べるとものすごく種類が多いですねさらに個体の数で考えた場合はもっと差がでます実際に地球上のすべての生物の種のうち 80%は虫だといえるのですまた各々の種の重さを計ってその平均で比べると人間1人の体重に対して 200~2000kg になるそうです要するにバイオマス的に考えれば虫は我々よりずっと豊富だということですこの星は人間のものではなく虫の惑星ということなのです虫は自然の中にいるだけではありません私たちが気が付いていないだけで我々の経済にも影響しています数年前に行った評価では控えめに見積もったとしてもアメリカの経済における虫からの利益は年間で 570億ドルと言われていますこのアメリカ経済に対する巨額の虫からの貢献は無償で行われているのです一方我々がイラクの戦争に同じ年に費やした金額を調べると 800億ドルでした金のかかる戦争だったというのは有名なことですでも虫はコストを全くかけずにアメリカの経済にイラク戦争の費用と同じくらい金額を貢献しました誰も気がつかない間にですアメリカだけでなくどこの国の経済にも貢献していますどうやってでしょうか? 糞などを処理したり受粉をさせたりしてです我々が食べている果物の1/3は虫の恩恵を受けて実をつけています虫は害虫も駆除します動物のエサにもなります虫は食物連鎖の出発点でもあります小動物は虫を食べもっと大きな動物も虫を食べます虫を食べた小動物を大きな動物が食べその動物をもっと大きい動物が食べます人類は食物連鎖の頂点で彼らを食べています虫はかなり多くの人に食べられています今お見せしているように中国の田舎の都市リージャンは人口200万人程度ですが例えば夕飯に魚料理の店に行ってどの魚を食べるか選ぶようにどの虫を食べるのかを選ぶことができます選んだ虫は美味しく料理してもらえますほら美味しそうでしょう? いもむしイナゴ-- 蜂などの珍味です毎日でも違う種類が食べられます地球上では 1,000種類以上の虫が食べられていますからこの数の多さは我々が食べている哺乳類たとえば牛や豚とか羊とかと比べると 1,000種類以上というのはものすごいバラエティがあります皆さんはきっとこう考えているでしょう中国の田舎街では虫を食べるかもしれないが我々は違う、とすでにこの会場のかなりの人が虫を食べたことがあるということですが実際はあなた方のほとんどが例外なく虫を食べています少なくとも1年間に 500グラムの虫を食べているのですどうやって食べているのかというと-- トマトスープピーナッツバターチョコレート麺類 -- すべての加工品には虫が含まれています虫は我々の周り中にいてどこにでも見つけることができます作物からも見つかります果物の虫食いもありますね虫食いになってしまったトマトはトマトスープにされます虫食いが無ければ店頭に並んで売られます普段目にするトマトですねしかしトマトスープに使われるトマトには食品衛生局の基準を満たしている限りはどんなものが入っていても構いません全然問題ないスープにわざわざ肉団子を足さなくてもすでに「肉」が入っていると言えるくらいです実際にすべての加工食品は我々が思っているよりずっと多くのたんぱく質を含んでいますたんぱく質は何からでも摂取できるのですそこであなたはこう思うでしょう 'じゃあ知らないうちに500gもたんぱく質を採っているのか?" 知らないうちに採っているだけではありません理由があって虫を食べていることもありますこのスライドでお見せするのは二つの例だけですが-- ピンクのクッキーやカニかまぼこまたカンパリリキュールなど赤い色の多くの食品は自然素材で着色されていますカニかまぼこはカニの身として売られていますが実際は白身魚をカイガラムシで染めたものですカイガラムシはサボテンにつく虫でコヒニールという赤色着色料になります大量に作られているその着色料は年間150~180トンがペルーのカナリア諸島で生産されていますコヒニール1グラムは 30ユーロぐらいです金1グラムもほぼ同じ値段ですコヒニールはとても貴重なのです食品を着色するのに使います世界の状況が変わりつつある中でその変化は地球上すべての人に関係あります地球上の人口は急激に増加しました飛躍的な増加です現時点での総人口は 60億人~70億人の間ですが人口増加により2050年には 90億人に達しますもっと食料が必要になるという事です食料不足の可能性は人々を不安にさせています食糧危機問題は昨年10月に開催された食糧農業機関会議でのメイントピックとなりましたどうやって世界中の食料を供給するのか? その数から見積もって今より 30%ほど多くの人数分の食料が必要となり農業生産は70%も増やさなくてはいけませんそれは世界の人口がどんどんと数の上で増加しているだけでなく生活自体がより豊かになっているからです生活が豊かになると食べる量が増えしかも肉をもっと食べるようになります事実肉というのは我々の食料のなかで生産するのに-- かなり高いコストが必要となります我々の食生活には動物性たんぱく質が必要ですが現時点ではその大半を家畜や野生の動物からの食肉や魚などから採っています我々はかなりの量を食べています先進国では平均して 1年間に1人80kgの肉を食べていますアメリカではそれが 120kg にもなっています多少消費量が少ない先進国もありますが平均すると年間で1人当たり 80kg 消費しています発展途上国ではずっと少なく 1人当たり年間25kgとなっていますしかしその消費量は飛躍的に増えています中国では過去20年間に 20kg/年から 50kg/年に増加しましたしかもまだ増加しています例えば世界の人口の1/3の人の肉の消費量が平均で25kgから80kgへ増えたとして実際世界人口の1/3はインドと中国に住んでいるので肉の需要が凄まじく増えることになりますもちろん肉は我々先進国だけでも発展途上国だけのものでもなく同じだけの取り分があるはずですまず最初に言っておきたいのは西洋社会では肉類を食べすぎているということですもっともっと少ない量の肉でも大丈夫です私はずっとベジタリアンです肉なしでも容易にやっていけますたんぱく質はどんなものからも採ることができます食肉を生産することにはたくさんの問題があり私達は以前に増してその問題に向き合わされていますまず健康上の問題がありますブタは(遺伝学上)人間と似ていますそのため製薬開発にも使われていますそれどころかブタから器官を移植することもできますつまりブタと人間は同じ病気にかかるということですブタの病気やブタに感染するウィルス・人間に感染するウィルスでブタにも人間にも感染するのですまたこのウィルスの繁殖の仕方は新種のウィルスを生み出します 90年代にオランダで実際に発生した豚インフルエンザがその例です致命的な病気が生み出される可能性もあります一方「虫」は我々と全く異なっていますブタのようなことはめったに起きません虫の方が優れている点その1ですさらに生産効率という要因もあります 1kgの牛肉を生産するのに 10kgものエサが必要ですイナゴなら同じ量のエサから9kgもとれますもしあなたが起業家であればどうしますか? 10kgの投入に対して 1kgの収穫か 9kgの収穫かです今は10kgを投入してたんぱく質は1kgからせいぜい5kgの収穫ですもったいないですね虫だったら9kgも採れるんです虫の方が優れている点その2ですまた環境の面でも優れています 10kgのエサから-- 1kgの牛肉が採れるとすると 9kgは無駄になっています大半は肥やし(排泄物)になります虫から出る肥やしはずっと少なくてすみます生産する肉1kgあたりの無駄になっている量が減りますその上肥やし 1kgあたりの発生するアンモニアと温室効果ガスも牛の肥やしより虫の肥やしの方がずっと少なくてすみます発生する廃棄物もより少なくそしてその廃棄物が牛からの廃棄物に比べて環境に与える影響も少ない虫の方が優れている点その3ですもちろんこれは仮定の話ですが虫から「肉」を作ったら上質な肉になるでしょうか様々な分析の結果虫にはたんぱく質や脂質ビタミンなどが豊富に含まれている事がわかっています実際現在我々が普段食べている肉にも匹敵しますカロリーの観点から言っても非常に優秀ですイナゴ1kgあたりのカロリーはホットドック10個かビックマック6個と同じカロリーです虫の方が優れている点その4です虫を食べる利点をもっともっと並べることはできますがもう時間がないのでやめておきますでは、どうして虫を食べないのでしょうか? 少なくとも4つの利点をご説明しましたね我々は虫を食べるべきですもし嫌いだとしても虫を食べることに慣れる必要がありますなぜなら現在地球上の農地の70%が家畜を生産する為に使われているからですそれには家畜を放牧するためだけでなく飼料を加工したり輸送したりするための土地も含まれています熱帯雨林を犠牲にすることで多少の農地を増やすことはできますがそれも遠からず尽きてしまうでしょう 70%も農作物を増やさなければいけない事を考えると現在の方法ではとても無理ですそのためにも牛肉を食べる代わりに虫にしましょうすでに世界中の80%は虫を食べているのですつまり少数派なのは我々-- イギリスやアメリカやオランダなどの国に住んでいる人たちのほうなのです左側のスライドはラオスの市場ですそこでは実に種類の豊富な虫を夕食の食材に買うことができます右側のスライドはイナゴです人々がイナゴを食べる理由は他に食べるものがないからではなくイナゴを美味しいと思うからです虫こそがごちそうなのですしかも種類も料理法も豊富です虫を食べるメリットは沢山あります実際のところ我々はすでにイナゴのようなものを食べていますエビです美味しいですよねしかも高価な食材ですエビを食べられない人いますか? 大概の人はエビを好きだとおもいますがエビとかカニとかザリガニは虫と似通っていますそして美味です実際バッタは「陸の海老」と呼ばれます我々の食生活にも適していますこれでもまだ虫を食べる気になれませんか? 単に感覚の問題なのです慣れの問題でもあります我々は虫はまったく接点の無い生物だと思っているのです私達はその意識を変えていこうとしています同僚のアーノルド・ヴァン・ヒュイスと一緒に虫とは何かを人々に説明してきました虫が如何に素晴らしいかということや自然における虫の重要な役割についてです実際に我々は昆虫がいなかったら今ここには存在していないでしょうもし昆虫が死に絶えてしまったら我々もすぐに滅亡してしまいます我々が死に絶えても昆虫は問題ないでしょうが... 虫を食べることに慣れなくてはいけないのです昆虫を食べようにも手に入らないと思うかも知れません手に入りますオランダで起業された会社が販売しています今日会場に来てくれていますマリアン・ピーターズさんこちらの写真です今年中にはスーパーマーケットで虫を食品中の動物性たんぱく質として手に入れることができるようになると思いますそして2020年までには虫が虫とわかる状態で売られていて食べるようになると思いますとても上手に料理されていますオランダのチョコレート屋さんです (拍手) 素敵なデコレーションですねオランダの農業大臣は革新的で庁舎のレストランのメニューに虫を取り入れましたそして EU中の農業大臣を集めてハーグで会議が開かれた時高級レストランで大臣たちが虫を食べました私個人の趣味ではありませんブームになってきていますさあ虫を食べたくなったでしょう? ぜひご自分で食べてみてください数年前オランダのヴァーヘニンゲンの広場に1750人を集めて全員で同時に虫を食べました未だに大きな話題になっています近いうちに虫を食べることは珍しくなくなるでしょう単に普通のことだと思われるのですあなたも今日試してくださいそして虫のすばらしさを満喫してください私が初めて作った虫のレシピをブルーノに食べてもらいます (拍手) ブルーノ:これを見てくれ虫だ! マルセル:まるごとたんぱく質だよブルーノ:ビデオに出てたのと同じだね美味しそうだナッツか何かみたいだよ良かった	And I would like to know what the audience is, and so who of you ever ate insects? That's quite a lot. But still, you're not representing the overall population of the Earth. Because there's 80 percent out there that really eats insects. But this is quite good. Why not eat insects? Well first, what are insects? Insects are animals that walk around on six legs. And here you see just a selection. There's six million species of insects on this planet, six million species. There's a few hundreds of mammals -- six million species of insects. In fact, if we count all the individual organisms, we would come at much larger numbers. In fact, of all animals on Earth, of all animal species, 80 percent walks on six legs. But if we would count all the individuals, and we take an average weight of them, it would amount to something like 200 to 2,000 kilograms for each of you and me on Earth. That means that in terms of biomass, insects are more abundant than we are, and we're not on a planet of men, but we're on a planet of insects. Insects are not only there in nature, but they also are involved in our economy, usually without us knowing. There was an estimation, a conservative estimation, a couple of years ago that the U.S. economy benefited by 57 billion dollars per year. It's a number -- very large -- a contribution to the economy of the United States for free. And so I looked up what the economy was paying for the war in Iraq in the same year. It was 80 billion U.S. dollars. Well we know that that was not a cheap war. So insects, just for free, contribute to the economy of the United States with about the same order of magnitude, just for free, without everyone knowing. And not only in the States, but in any country, in any economy. What do they do? They remove dung, they pollinate our crops. A third of all the fruits that we eat are all a result of insects taking care of the reproduction of plants. They control pests, and they're food for animals. They're at the start of food chains. Small animals eat insects. Even larger animals eat insects. But the small animals that eat insects are being eaten by larger animals, still larger animals. And at the end of the food chain, we are eating them as well. There's quite a lot of people that are eating insects. And here you see me in a small, provincial town in China, Lijiang -- about two million inhabitants. If you go out for dinner, like in a fish restaurant, where you can select which fish you want to eat, you can select which insects you would like to eat. And they prepare it in a wonderful way. And here you see me enjoying a meal with caterpillars, locusts, bee pupae -- delicacies. And you can eat something new everyday. There's more than 1,000 species of insects that are being eaten all around the globe. That's quite a bit more than just a few mammals that we're eating, like a cow or a pig or a sheep. More than 1,000 species -- an enormous variety. And now you may think, okay, in this provincial town in China they're doing that, but not us. Well we've seen already that quite some of you already ate insects maybe occasionally, but I can tell you that every one of you is eating insects, without any exception. You're eating at least 500 grams per year. What are you eating? Tomato soup, peanut butter, chocolate, noodles -- any processed food that you're eating contains insects, because insects are here all around us, and when they're out there in nature they're also in our crops. Some fruits get some insect damage. Those are the fruits, if they're tomato, that go to the tomato soup. If they don't have any damage, they go to the grocery. And that's your view of a tomato. But there's tomatoes that end up in a soup, and as long as they meet the requirements of the food agency, there can be all kinds of things in there, no problem. In fact, why would we put these balls in the soup, there's meat in there anyway? In fact, all our processed foods contain more proteins than we would be aware of. So anything is a good protein source already. Now you may say, "Okay, so we're eating 500 grams just by accident." We're even doing this on purpose. In a lot of food items that we have -- I have only two items here on the slide -- pink cookies or surimi sticks or, if you like, Campari -- a lot of our food products that are of a red color are dyed with a natural dye. The surimi sticks [of] crabmeat, or is being sold as crab meat, is white fish that's being dyed with cochineal. Cochineal is a product of an insect that lives off these cacti. It's being produced in large amounts, 150 to 180 metric tons per year in the Canary Islands in Peru, and it's big business. One gram of cochineal costs about 30 euros. One gram of gold is 30 euros. So it's a very precious thing that we're using to dye our foods. Now the situation in the world is going to change for you and me, for everyone on this Earth. The human population is growing very rapidly and is growing exponentially. Where, at the moment, we have something between six and seven billion people, it will grow to about nine billion in 2050. That means that we have a lot more mouths to feed, and this is something that worries more and more people. There was an FAO conference last October that was completely devoted to this. How are we going to feed this world? And if you look at the figures up there, it says that we have a third more mouths to feed, but we need an agricultural production increase of 70 percent. And that's especially because this world population is increasing, and it's increasing, not only in numbers, but we're also getting wealthier, and anyone that gets wealthier starts to eat more and also starts to eat more meat. And meat, in fact, is something that costs a lot of our agricultural production. Our diet consists, [in] some part, of animal proteins, and at the moment, most of us here get it from livestock, from fish, from game. And we eat quite a lot of it. In the developed world it's on average 80 kilograms per person per year, which goes up to 120 in the United States and a bit lower in some other countries, but on average 80 kilograms per person per year. In the developing world it's much lower. It's 25 kilograms per person per year. But it's increasing enormously. In China in the last 20 years, it increased from 20 to 50, and it's still increasing. So if a third of the world population is going to increase its meat consumption from 25 to 80 on average, and a third of the world population is living in China and in India, we're having an enormous demand on meat. And of course, we are not there to say that's only for us, it's not for them. They have the same share that we have. Now to start with, I should say that we are eating way too much meat in the Western world. We could do with much, much less -- and I know, I've been a vegetarian for a long time, and you can easily do without anything. You'll get proteins in any kind of food anyway. that come with meat production, and we're being faced with that more and more often. The first problem that we're facing is human health. Pigs are quite like us. They're even models in medicine, and we can even transplant organs from a pig to a human. That means that pigs also share diseases with us. And a pig disease, a pig virus, and a human virus can both proliferate, and because of their kind of reproduction, they can combine and produce a new virus. This has happened in the Netherlands in the 1990s during the classical swine fever outbreak. You get a new disease that can be deadly. We eat insects -- they're so distantly related from us that this doesn't happen. So that's one point for insects. And there's the conversion factor. You take 10 kilograms of feed, you can get one kilogram of beef, but you can get nine kilograms of locust meat. So if you would be an entrepreneur, what would you do? With 10 kilograms of input, you can get either one or nine kg. of output. So far we're taking the one, or up to five kilograms of output. We're not taking the bonus yet. We're not taking the nine kilograms of output yet. So that's two points for insects. And there's the environment. If we take 10 kilograms of food -- and it results in one kilogram of beef, the other nine kilograms are waste, and a lot of that is manure. If you produce insects, you have less manure per kilogram of meat that you produce. So less waste. Furthermore, per kilogram of manure, you have much, much less ammonia and fewer greenhouse gases when you have insect manure than when you have cow manure. So you have less waste, and the waste that you have is not as environmental malign as it is with cow dung. So that's three points for insects. Now there's a big "if," of course, and it is if insects produce meat that is of good quality. Well there have been all kinds of analyses and in terms of protein, or fat, or vitamins, it's very good. In fact, it's comparable to anything we eat as meat at the moment. And even in terms of calories, it is very good. One kilogram of grasshoppers has the same amount of calories as 10 hot dogs, or six Big Macs. So that's four points for insects. I can go on, and I could make many more points for insects, but time doesn't allow this. So the question is, why not eat insects? I gave you at least four arguments in favor. We'll have to. Even if you don't like it, you'll have to get used to this because at the moment, 70 percent of all our agricultural land is being used to produce livestock. That's not only the land where the livestock is walking and feeding, but it's also other areas where the feed is being produced and being transported. at the expense of rainforests, but there's a limitation very soon. And if you remember that we need to increase agricultural production by 70 percent, we're not going to make it that way. We could much better change from meat, from beef, to insects. And then 80 percent of the world already eats insects, so we are just a minority -- in a country like the U.K., the USA, the Netherlands, anywhere. On the left-hand side, you see a market in Laos where they have abundantly present all kinds of insects that you choose for dinner for the night. On the right-hand side you see a grasshopper. So people there are eating them, not because they're hungry, but because they think it's a delicacy. It's just very good food. You can vary enormously. It has many benefits. In fact, we have delicacy that's very much like this grasshopper: shrimps, a delicacy being sold at a high price. Who wouldn't like to eat a shrimp? There are a few people who don't like shrimp, but shrimp, or crabs, or crayfish, are very closely related. They are delicacies. In fact, a locust is a "shrimp" of the land, and it would make very good into our diet. So why are we not eating insects yet? Well that's just a matter of mindset. We're not used to it, and we see insects as these organisms that are very different from us. That's why we're changing the perception of insects. And I'm working very hard with my colleague, Arnold van Huis, in telling people what insects are, what magnificent things they are, what magnificent jobs they do in nature. And in fact, without insects, we would not be here in this room, because if the insects die out, we will soon die out as well. If we die out, the insects will continue very happily. So we have to get used to the idea of eating insects. And some might think, well they're not yet available. Well they are. There are entrepreneurs in the Netherlands that produce them, and one of them is here in the audience, Marian Peeters, who's in the picture. I predict that later this year, you'll get them in the supermarkets -- not visible, but as animal protein in the food. And maybe by 2020, you'll buy them just knowing that this is an insect that you're going to eat. And they're being made in the most wonderful ways. A Dutch chocolate maker. So there's even a lot of design to it. Well in the Netherlands, we have an innovative Minister of Agriculture, and she puts the insects on the menu And when she got all the Ministers of Agriculture of the E.U. over to the Hague recently, she went to a high-class restaurant, and they ate insects all together. It's not something that is a hobby of mine. It's really taken off the ground. So why not eat insects? You should try it yourself. A couple of years ago, we had 1,750 people all together in a square in Wageningen town, and they ate insects at the same moment, and this was still big, big news. I think soon it will not be big news anymore when we all eat insects, because it's just a normal way of doing. So you can try it yourself today, and I would say, enjoy. And I'm going to show to Bruno some first tries, and he can have the first bite. Bruno Giussani: Look at them first. Look at them first. Marcel Dicke: It's all protein. BG: That's exactly the same [one] you saw in the video actually. And it looks delicious. They just make it [with] nuts or something. MD: Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
「......問題ない。うちの病院なら縫合すべき怪我もあるが、無制限に地球の医療技術を提供するつもりはないのだろう? ならば、少し大きな傷が残るが、後遺症になるようなものはない。、鎮痛解熱剤と抗生物質を渡しておくから、子爵の判断で発熱した者に少量だけ投与してくれ。用法、用量をよく読んでくれよ。 ......そして、絶対にここの人間に一回分以上の薬を纏めて渡すな。たくさん飲めば早く治ると思って一度に飲む、というのが、素人あるある話だからな。それと、全部市販薬で揃えたから、あまり強力なのじゃないからな。処方薬と同じには考えないでくれ。 ......但し、それでも説明書の一回分の指定量以上は絶対に与えるな。もし何かあれば、すぐに呼んでくれ。勤務時間内でも構わんから、遠慮するな。人命第一だ」「分かりました。ありがとうございます!」病院の薬を勝手に持ち出すわけには行かなかったのだろう。大量の消毒薬や治療薬、痛み止めや抗炎症剤、包帯とかは、自腹でドラッグストアで買ってきてくれた、マッコイさん。 ......いや、勿論、後で経費は支払うよ。痛み止めは、痛みが酷い時の、でも、解熱や抗炎症剤としての効果があるから、我慢させずに、ちゃんと飲ませよう。効果時間が短いから、使いどころが難しいな......。市販薬だから、ボルタレンはなしか。ロキソニンとカロナール......。特性が大きく異なるから、うまく使い分ける必要があるな......。飲み過ぎると、胃に悪いし......。でも、あんまり効き過ぎても困る。こういう世界に、中途半端に地球の薬を持ち込むのは、良くないことだ。薬は、この世界で、自力で作れるよう指導しなきゃ、意味がない。それに、うちの領地とボーゼス領だけに地球の薬を出回らせるなんて、自殺行為だ。絶対に、あちこちから目を付けられるに決まってる。噂に尾ひれが付いて、神薬だとか、万能薬だとかいう話が広まれば、年老いた権力者達が何を考えるか、分かったもんじゃない。今回は、火薬の製造なんてことを持ち込んだ私のせいで起きた事故だし、貴重な研究者を失いたくなかったから、特別措置だ。魔物退治で怪我をした、とかいうのとはワケが違う。 ......でも、みんなはそうは思わないよねぇ......。前回、アイツは姫巫女様の薬と治療で助かったのに、どうしてうちの息子は助けてくれないのか。そう思っちゃうよねぇ、どうしても......。ま、深く考えるのはやめよう。私の手は、この世界の全ての人々を守れるほど長くはない。私が全力で守るのは、身近な者だけだ。それも、私が守ると決めた者だけ。神様ですら、信者全てを助けてくれるわけじゃない。たまたま気が向いた時に、目に付いた者をちょっと助けるだけだ。世の中、そんなものだろう......。とりあえず、また盗聴器や録音器、超小型カメラとかのコレクションが増えそうだな。そしてまた、『退屈を持て余して、話し相手を求めてやってくる幼い少女』とかが来るのかな。 ......むさいおっさんふたりの部屋に。ボーゼス伯爵様が侯爵に陞爵されることが、正式に発表されたらしい。 ......式典やパーティー? いや、そんなのに関わったりしないよ。パーティーの出来が少女の未来に大きく影響する、デビュタント・ボールじゃないんだから。それに、そういうのには昔からのしきたりとか作法とかがあるだろうから、奇をてらったイベントをすればいいってものじゃないだろう。多分、王様とかも出席する、国の行事だろうし......。「いや、確かにそれはそうなのだが、パーティーの料理は頼む......」そう思っていたら、伯爵様から依頼が来た。「え~......」「いや、式典はともかく、我がボーゼス家が主役のパーティーで、ヤマノ料理が出ないなど、そのような頼む、充分な報酬は出すし、ライナー子爵家には私から依頼する!」うん、ライナー子爵家というのは、アデレートちゃんの家ね。 ......つまり、ヤマノ料理の特訓をした、マルセルさんとその部下の皆さんに応援を頼む、ということだ。ベアトリスちゃんのデビュタント・ボールの時のようにね。「それじゃ、私がいなくてもいいんじゃあ......」「駄目だ! 我がボーゼス家の、おそらく私の存命中における最大の晴れ舞台なのだ、国中の貴族達に最大限の威容を示さねばならんのだ。......そう、絶対にだ!!」あ~......。まあ、仕方ないか。さすがに屋台料理ってわけには行かないだろうから、普通の大皿料理やデザート、お酒類だよねぇ......。に大量の料理を届けてもらって、それを持って来ればいいか。お菓子やフルーツ、缶詰やレトルト物は日保ちするから、事前に用意しておけるし......。「分かりました。......料理だけですよね?」「ああ、そうだ。さすがに、陞爵の儀式やお披露目のパーティーで、おかしなうん、まぁ、そりゃそうだろうねぇ......。あ、もしかすると、私との親密な関係をアピールしたいのかも。ベアトリスちゃんのデビュタント・ボールであれだけ協力しておきながら、伯爵様の陞爵イベントはスルーしちゃうと、私が仲良しなのはベアトリスちゃんであって伯爵様じゃない、って風評が立つかもしれないよね。そうなると、伯爵様の影響力が下がって、ベアトリスちゃんの婚約話が増える。 ......いかん。いかんいかんいかん!! 「全力で当たらせていただきます!」陞爵の儀式もパーティーも、まだ少し先の話だ。こういうのは、一週間前に発表、とかいうわけには行かないからね。女性は、新しいドレスやアクセサリーを発注したり、その日に合わせてダイエットとか髪やお肌の手入れとか、色々と準備が必要なのだから......。	“...No problem. There are injuries that should be sutured in our hospital, but you don’t intend to provide unlimited medical technology from Earth now, do you? No? In that case, a slightly large scar would remain, but there would be no aftereffects. In the meantime, I’ll give you some analgesic, antipyretic, and antibiotic, and you can administer only a small dose to those who have a fever at your discretion, Viscount. Please read the dosage and administration carefully. ......and never give more than the required dosage to anyone here. They’ll think that if they drink a lot, they’ll get well faster, so they’ll take it all at once, which is a common layman’s rumor. Also, I got them all from over-the-counter drugs, so they’re not very potent. Don’t think of them as prescription drugs. ......However, still, never give more than the specified amount per dose in the instructions. If you need anything, call me right away. I don’t mind even if it’s during working hours, so don’t hesitate. People’s lives come first.” (McCoy) “Understood. Thank you!” (Mitsuha) I guess I couldn’t just take the medicine from the hospital without permission. McCoy-san bought a large amount of antiseptics, remedies, pain relievers, anti-inflammatories, bandages, etc., at the pharmacy out of his own pocket. ......Well, of course, I will pay the expenses later. As for painkillers, when the pain is severe, they shouldn’t take them regularly, but only when the symptoms are severe. Although, I’m sure these guys here can tolerate the pain. But it’s effective as a fever reducer and anti-inflammatory, so they don’t have to endure it, I have to give them the proper dose. It’s hard to know when to use it because of its short effect time... It’s an over-the-counter drug, so there’s no Voltaren . Loxonin and Calonal have very different characteristics, so it’s necessary to use them properly... If you drink too much, it’ll be bad for your stomach... But we don’t want it to work too well either. It’s not a good idea to half-heartedly bring Earth’s medicine into a world like this. Such medicines are meaningless in this world if we don’t teach them how to make them themselves. Besides, it would be suicidal to let the earth’s medicine be available only in our territory and the Boses’ territory. We’re absolutely bound to be noticed from all over the place. If rumors spread that it was a miracle drug or a panacea, who knows what the old people in power would think. This time, it was an accident caused by me bringing in the manufacture of gunpowder, and I didn’t want to lose valuable researchers, so it was a special measure. It’s not like they were injured while killing monsters or something. ...But not everyone thinks so... Last time that guy was saved by Hime Miko’s medicine and treatment, so why can’t our son be saved? I can’t help but think so...... Well, let’s not think too deeply about it. My arms are not long enough to protect all the people in this world. I will only protect those who are close to me at all costs. And only those whom I have decided to protect. Even God doesn’t help all believers. When I happen to feel like it, I just help people who caught my eye. That’s how the world works...... At any rate, it looks like my collection of bugging devices, recorders, and ultra-compact cameras will increase again. And I wonder if we will get another “little girl who is bored and comes to me for someone to talk to” or something like that. ......In the room of two filthy old men. I heard that it has been officially announced that Count Bozes will be promoted to the rank of Marquis. ...Ceremony or Party? No, I don’t want to get involved in that. It’s not a debutante ball where the success of the party greatly affects the girl’s future. Besides, there must be some traditional customs and manners for such an event, so it would not be enough to hold an eccentric event. It should be a solemn and quiet event. It will probably be a national event, attended by the king and other higher-ups...... “Well, that’s certainly true, but I’d like to order food for the party...” (Count Bozes) While I was thinking that, a request came from Count-sama. “Eh~...” (Mitsuha) “No, putting aside the ceremony, there’s no way I could betray the expectations of my guests at a party where the Boses family is the main attraction, by not serving Yamano cuisine! Please, I’ll pay you properly and I’ll ask Viscount Reiner to do it for me!” (Count Bozes) Oh yeah, Viscount Reiner’s house is Adelaide-chan’s house, isn’t it? ......That means I’ll be asking Marcel-san and his crew, who have had special training in Yamano cuisine, to support me. Just like at Beatrice-chan’s debutante ball. “Then you don’t need me to be there, do you?......” (Mitsuha) “No way! This is probably the biggest stage of my life, of the Bozes family. We have to show the nobles all over the country the utmost dignity.... Yes, absolutely!!” (Count Bozes) Ah~... Well, I guess it can’t be helped. It’s not going to be street food, as you’d expect, so it’ll be regular platters, desserts, and alcoholic beverages... If that’s the case, I should ask Viscount Reiner’s chefs and bring them a large amount of food from my Japanese residence. Sweets, fruits, canned food, and retort pouches that can be kept well for a long time, so we can prepare them in advance... “Understood...... Just food, right?” (Mitsuha) “Yes, that’s right. As one would expect, we can’t have any weird performances at the ceremony of the promotion or at the reception party.” (Count Bozes) Well, yeah. That’s right, I guess... Oh, maybe he wants to show off how close his relationship with me. Since I cooperated so much with Beatrice-chan’s debutante ball, if I ignore count-sama’s promotion event, it might create a rumor that I’m on good terms with only Beatrice-chan and not Count-sama... That would reduce the Count’s influence and increase Beatrice-chan’s engagement talk. ......I can’t let that happen. No no no no no no!! “I will do my best!” (Mitsuha) The ceremony and party for the promotion were still some way off. These things can’t be announced a week in advance. The women need to order new dresses and accessories, and they need to prepare for the day by dieting, taking care of their hair and skin, and so on......	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 1, "inserted_lines_src": 6, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
9時、俺はいま、城の門の前に立っている。ギルドカードを見せつつ、門番に話しける。彼はギルドカードを見て、俺と確認すると、中に案内してくれた。やがに案内され、ここで待機するようにと言われたので、その通りにする。既に先客が居たようだ。ラハンドという人だ。写実を見たときよりも、怖い。顔が。「よぉ...お嬢ちゃん? ガバイナから聞いてるだろぅ? オレがぁ...ラハンドだぜぇ...よろしっくなっ」「よろしくお願いします!」「おぅ...おぅ...元気が...いいじゃねぇかぁっ...皆オレ様をみて初見はぁ...ビビるんだがぁぁぁ! アリムぅ...気に入ったゼェェェェェっ!」このひとそのうちロックンロールだとか言いださないよね? この世界にロックはないぜ? 「それにしてもぅ~、ガバイナの奴にぃぃ聞いたっ! 通りっ! だぜぇ...。中々にぃぃ好める魅力があるってナァァァァっ!」ガバイナさん、そんなこと言ってたの? 俺、魅力的? 魅力的? 「まぁ...仲良くぅ...していこうやぁ...」「はい、よろしくです!」そんな感じで、ラハンドさんと親しくなり、お喋りをしていたところに、誰か入ってきた...。可愛らしいアリムと同い年位の女の子...いや、お姫様だな。直感でわかる。それに、金髪の美青年。その横には正装をした茶髪のおじ様が。その人達は、俺らに挨拶しはじめた。「ラハンド様、アリム様、お越しいただきありがたく思います...僕はメフィラド王国第一王子の、テュール・メフィラドです。この娘は僕の妹の...」「カルア・メフィラドと申します。是非とも今日は、食会をお楽しみくださいね」「私はメフィラド国の大臣の、オラフル・ガリオン。とも、くれぐれもテュール様や国王様に無礼のないよう、頼みますぞ」 3人はあのお上品なお辞儀をした。王子達に、俺らも挨拶を返す。「オレはラハンド・アッシュでさぁ...。お招きいた...いただき、ありがとうごぜぇます」「ボクはアリム・ナリウェイです! 今日はよろしくお願いします!」大臣が満足気に俺らを見ている。いまのところ無礼はないようだ。姫様が口を開く。「あぁ...アリム様...お兄様からお聞きしていたとうり、本当に可愛らしいですわ」「お兄様...ですか?」「えぇ、僕には弟......第二王子が居まして...あ、そろそろ来るかと思いますよ」この部屋の外から誰かが近づいてくる音がする。ノックの後、この部屋のドアが開かれた。そこに立っていたのは...... 立派な、いかにも王族のような格好をしたルインさんだった。「え.........ルインさ...ん?」「はは...驚かせちゃった? アリムちゃん。僕はメフィナド王国の第二王子、ルイン・メフィナド。......17日ぶりかな?」ええ~嘘だろ、マジかよ。でも、確かにこんかに訳ありならば、あんなに忙しそうにしてたのも、俺を仲間に入れられなかったのも頷ける。こんな状況に、少し置いて行かれ気味のラハンドさんが小声で俺に聞いてくる。「(な、なぁ、アリムよ。オレはイマイチ状況が飲み込めないんだが...? とりあえず、なんで第二王子様とアリムが知り合いなんだ?)」「(ボクが記憶がないのはご存知ですか?)」「(あぁ...ガバイナが話してたぜ...............)」「(その記憶がないボクを森の中から救出して、王都まで連れてきてくれたのが、ルインさんなんです)」「(なるほど、つまりはアリムの恩人ってわけか。......あれ? でもなんで......王子様が森の中に?)」「(彼は、冒険者をしてるんです...4人でパーティを組んでました)」「(ん......? ちょっと待てよ...? ルイン...ルイン...あ、あぁっ! まさか、セインフォースのリーダーのルイン...否、ルイン様か?)」「(えぇ、そうですよ。でもなんで、セインフォースのこと知ってるんですか?)」「(セインフォースは何回も武闘大会のDランクの部を優勝しているから有名なんだよ。はぁ...まさかセインフォースが王族出身の冒険者だったとはなぁ......)」「(このことは、他人に話さない方が...)」「(わかってるっての。ガバイナにすら話さねぇよ)」そんな感じで小声で囁きあっていたが、突然、大臣が俺にむかって頭を下げてきた。	o’clock now, I am standing in front of the castle gate. I speak to the gatekeeper while showing my guild card. He looked at my guild card and confirmed it, then guided me inside. I was guided to a room before long and was told to wait. Seems someone is here ahead of me. It was the person known as The Hand. His face is even scarier than the realistic drawing. His face really is. He thenn called out to me. 「Yo... young lady? Did you hear about me from Gabaina-san? I am known as The Hand... Nice to meet you.」「It is a pleasure to meet you!」「Ou... Ou... quiet energetic... that’s good... usually when everyone sees me... they get scared and shakes in fear on the spot! Alim... it is a pleasure~~~! 」 Doesn’t he sound a bit like a vocalist from a rock and roll band? There is no such thing as rock in this world, right? 「Nevertheless~, I heard about you from Gabaina! Just as he said! Daze... You were considerably, no incredibly charming indeed...! 」 Gabaina-san said such a thing? I am attractive? Attractive is it? 「Maa... well... let’s get along...」「Yes, I look forward to it!」 In such a way, while I talked with The Hand, people came into this place. It was a girl about the same age as this cute Alim... no a princess, probably. That’s what my intuition tells me. There’s also, a blond young man. Next to him was a well-dressed middle-aged man with brown hair. That group gave us a greeting. 「Thank you for joining us, The Hand-sama, Alim-sama... I am Tuhl Mephirad, the first prince of Mephirad Kingdom. This young lady is my sister...」「I am Karua Mephirad. Today definitely please enjoy the banquet.」「I am a Mephirad minister, Oraful Gallion. I ask that you be respectful to Tuhl and the King.」 The three give an elegant bow. We return greetings with the royal children. 「I am The Hand・Asch. I gratefully receive the invitation, thank you very much.」「I am Alim・Nariwei! Thank you very much for today! 」 The minister is watching us with satisfaction. It seems as though we have not acted impolite yet. The princess opens her mouth. 「Aaa... Alim-sama... Just as my elder brother said, you are really cute」「Your elder brother...?」「Yes, I have a younger brother... the second prince.. Ah, he should join us soon. 」(Tuhl) There is the sound of someone approaching from outside the room. After a knock, the door of the room was opened. And the person who was standing there was... A splendid man who looked just like the royal family, Ruin-san was standing there. 「eeeeh...... Ruin-san?」「haha... did I surprise you? Alim-chan. I am the second prince of the Mephirad Kingdom, Ruin Mephirad. ...It’s been days hasn’t it? 」 eeee~ no way, unbelievable. But, this could be the reason that he was busy and could not afford to join me. Seeing the situation, The Hand spoke to me in a quiet voice. 「(Hey, hey, Alim. I wasn’t really able to follow, what is going on...? First of all, why does it seem as though the second prince and Alim know each other?)」「(Did you hear about me losing my memory?)」「(Ahh... Gabaina said something about that...)」「(The person who rescued me in the forest where I lost my memory and brought me back to the royal capital was Ruin-san.)」「(I see, in other words he is Alim’s benefactor... a-re? But why... would the prince be out in the middle of the forest?)」「(He is an adventurer... he was in a party of four people.)」「(Nnn...? Wait a minute...? Ruin... Ruin... Aa, aaah! No way, Seinforce leader Ruin, no Ruin-sama?)」「(Ee, that’s right. But how do you know about Seinforce?)」「(Seinforce is famous because they have won as the champion in the D-rank battle tournament many times. Haa... no way, Seinforce was a royal adventurer...)」「(It will be for the best if we don’t tell anyone...)」「(I agree. I won’t even talk to Gabaina about it) 」 I was whispering loudly like that, then suddenly the minister bowed to me.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 1, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
シェーナは湯船から出ると、足早に着替えて脱衣所の外でリィーシャを待つ。失礼なのは重々承知だが、やはり女性と入浴は慣れないものだ。遅れてリィーシャが脱衣所から火照った顔で出てきた。「まに入ろうね。店の開店は大変だろうけど、できることがあれば何でも協力するよ」「ありがとうございます。すみません、やはり女性と一緒に入浴や着替えは慣れないもので......」「気にしなくていいよ。事情は分かっているつもりだからね」リィーシャはシェーナを気遣って特に気にしている様子はなかった。丁が会話していると、男女の何組かが脱衣所に入っていくと、シェーナは鉢合わせなくてよかったとほっとする。リィーシャは行政地区に用事があるらしいので、シェーナは一人でキシャナが眠っている自室へと戻っていった。玄関扉を開けると、すでにキシャナは起床して朝食の仕度をしていた。「おかえり。どこ行ってたんだよ?」「すまん、庭先で剣の素振りをしてたらリィーシャさんに誘われて温泉に浸かってた」「ほぉ......女騎士様はリィーシャさんのようなタイプの女性が好みだったのか」「誤解だ!? 俺はそんなつもりじゃないぞ」キシャナを置いてリィーシャと温泉に浸かったのは悪かったが、何もやましいことはしていないとシェーナは慌てて反論する。頬を膨らませて拗ねた仕草をするキシャナは次第に笑いをこらえられなくなる。「シェーナがそんなつもりはないことぐらい知ってるよ。まあ少しぐらいその気があって丁度いいとは思うよ」「お前なぁ......」シェーナは呆れてテーブルの席につくと、キシャナは朝食を並べていく。二人は卓を囲んで談笑すると、今日の仕事に取り掛かるために商業地区へと向かった。キシャナとは店前で別れると、シェーナは錬金術師の工房へと足を運ぶ。活気がある商人達の人垣を通り抜けると、鍛冶屋や裁縫屋の店構えが目に飛び込んで冒険者が装備の修理や新調したりする姿が見受けられる。キシャナに工房の場所を教えてもらうと、ドーム状の建物に煙突から黒煙が立ち込めている。シェーナは入口を見つけて中に入ると、エルフの少女が釜をかき混ぜている姿があった。「いらっしゃいませ。錬金の依頼でしたら、少々お待ち下さい」エルフの少女は釜から液体をガラス瓶にすくい上げで蓋をする。ガラス瓶を棚に置くと、エルフの少女は手拭いで汗を拭いてシェーナに応対する。「お待たせしました。ご用件を伺います」「実は以前に氷を作る箱を目にしまして、食材を保存できる程度の涼しい箱を作れたりできますか?」「ああ、お姉さんはリィーシャさんの知り合いか。あれは特注品だから製作に時間とお金がかかります。一週間と金貨百枚あれば、すぐにでも作りますよ?」想像はしていたが、やはり高価な品物だ。金貨百枚はシェーナが身に着けていた魔法鎧を売るしかない。「わかりました。金貨百枚は用意しますので、お願いします」「......承知しました。代金は後ほど徴収に参ります。こちらの紙に住所を記入して下さい」エルフの少女がペンをシェーナに渡すと、指先が少し触れた。すると以前キシャナと出会った時と同じく奇妙な感覚が二人を襲う。それが何なのかはお互いに理解すると、最初にシェーナは驚いた声を張り上げる。「あなたは......樫山円さんなのか!」「......これは驚いた。クラスメイトだった男子高校生が美人な女性になって現れるとはね」エルフの少女は口調を変えてシェーナを睨みつけた。	Schenna stepped out of the bath, quickly changed back to her clothes and waited for Reesha outside. She was well aware that it was rude, but she just couldn’t get into a bath with other women despite all the effort. Reesha also stepped outside soon after, with her face flushed. “Let’s come back for a hot bath in the future okay? I know opening the restaurant can be big trouble, so let me know if there’s anything I can do!” “Thank you so much, and sorry... I just can’t seem to get used to being around naked women.” “Don’t worry so much about it. I’m well aware.” Reesha took a very delicate attitude towards Schenna so that she wouldn’t feel bad. While they were talking to each other, they came across a group of men and she was extremely relieved for not having bumped into any of them. Reesha seemed to have things to do over at the administrative district, so Schenna was left by herself as she headed back home. As she opened the front door, Kishana had already woken up and was taking care of breakfast. “Welcome back! How was it?” “I’m sorry, I went outside early in the morning to practice my sword swings and Reesha invited me to join her at the hot springs.” “Ohh, so Reesha happens to be your type huh...” “No, that’s not it!? It’s nothing like that.” Schenna explained everything to Kishana, as she emphasized the part where nothing lewd had happened and said she felt bad for leaving Kishana behind. Kishana who felt like she was playing a prank on Schenna just couldn’t hold it anymore and burst out laughing. “Haha, I know that you didn’t do anything lewd. I mean, to be honest, it would be normal if you did in my opinion...” “What do you mean!” Schenna who was in shock sat at the table, while Kishana placed the breakfast on top of it. The two of them chatted over their meal for a while before heading to the commercial district to get back to work. Schenna parted with Kishana by the front door of the restaurant and went to meet the alchemist. As she passed by the energetic merchants, she came across an armorsmith and a weaponsmith, with a bunch of adventurers getting their brand new gear from both the shops. According to Kishana, the alchemist building was similar to a dome, with black fumes coming out of the chimney. She didn’t take long to find it. As she entered the building, she saw a young girl doing some sort of mix in a pot. “Welcome! If you have an alchemy request, please wait a moment” The young elf took out the liquid from the pot and put it inside a glass bottle. She placed the glass bin on the shelf, wiped her sweat with a towel and faced Schenna. “Sorry for the wait. What’s the order?” “The truth is, a while back I happened to come across an ice-making box that you created and gifted to Reesha, could you by any chance create something similar that can conserve food?” “Ahh, you’re acquainted with Reesha-san? That was a special order which takes quite a lot of time and money to make. If you’re willing to wait for a week and pay gold coins, I can get on it right away.” She had already imagined it being expensive but not this much. In order to get coins, her only choice was to sell her enchanted armor. “Understood. I’ll get the 0 gold coins ready.” “.... As you wish. I’ll drop by to collect the payment afterward. Please write your address on this paper” As the young elf handed the pen to Schenna, they touched each other’s fingertips. Right after, she felt the same weird sensation as the one she felt back when she touched Kishana. Upon understanding what was going on, Schenna raised her voice in surprise. “Wait, you are... Kashiyama Madoka!?” “Woah... I’m in shock! I didn’t expect to meet my previous classmate once again as such a beautiful girl.” The young Elf changed her tone and kept staring at Schenna.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 0, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
「ヒュロロロォォ!たっだいまー」「お帰りなさい。随分とかかったじゃない」およそ半日でクヌキハッピィの門前からリーンの森上空を高速で飛びぬけた俺はアキューム湖の畔に降り立ち、ミズキの姿を見つけるととりあえず挨拶をする。「いやまあ、本当なら買い物だけやってとっとと帰るつもりだったんだけどねぇ......」「何かあったの?」「いやうん。本当に色々あったんだよ......」と言うわけで森の中から熊とか猪とかが何匹か近づいてきているようなので身に纏っている魔力を森の外仕様から森の中仕様に戻しつつ、地面に魔力放出を極限にまで抑え込んだ根を突き刺す。「ブヒィ!?」「グマアァ!?」そして森の中から響いてくる獣たちの叫び声に根を通して伝わってくる肉を突き刺す感触と美味しい血を吸い上げる感覚。うん。やっぱり森の中の生物の方が色々と美味いな。冬眠明けにわざわざ来ていただきありがとうございました。え?何をやったのかって?魔力放出を抑えることで強化をすると同時にステルス仕様にした根で地面の中から獣たちを突き上げてやっただけの話である。「とりあえず説明タイム要る?」そう言う事でアキューム湖の美味しい水で口直しをしつつクヌキハッピィであったことを俺はミズキに話し始めた。 ----------------- 「とまあ、そんなこんなで帰ってくるまでにこんなに時間がかかる事になったわけだ」「随分と大変だったみたいね......と言うかそのリオって子の事情。関わったら絶対に面倒な事になるわね」「うん。だから俺も偶然の結果として関わることになったら諦めて全力で関わるけど、積極的に関わる気は無い」で、一通り話し終わったところでリオについてミズキがそう言う感想を漏らしたので俺もそう返しておく。まああれだ。街に行った時に一緒に依頼を受けてくださいとか助けてと言われたりとかしたら関わるけど、自分からリオがどこに居るかを探してまで関わる気は無いという事だ。実際そう言う関わり方はストーカーとしか思われないだろうしな。「ああそれでだ。これがお土産な」「あ、買って来てくれたんだ」俺はクヌキハッピィでミズキの為に買ったお土産の袋を取り出すとミズキに投げ渡し、ミズキはそれを水を操って空中でキャッチする。「どれどれ、これは......飴?」袋の中から飴玉を取り出して見たミズキは首を傾げる。「うーん?」「何を悩んでいるんだ?」「別に悩んでないわよ。ただ、パンプキンにしては良い物を買って来たなぁと思って。だって、私たち精霊って魔力の塊が意思を持った存在だから服とかアクセサリーとかは貰っても使えないし、普通の菓子だと直接味わうのは難しい。他にもまあ色々とお土産候補になりそうなものはあるけど大抵は精霊にとって無用の長物じゃない。その中でよく飴玉何て言う水精霊でもある私でも味わえるものを選んだなぁ......って」「お、おう......」すみません。ミズキさん。私そこまで考えていませんでした。単純に露店で見ていて他の菓子よりも魔力が多く宿っていたから、美味しそうと思ったから買ってきただけなんですごめんなさい。まあ、実際の所はどうあれ喜んでもらえたなら別にいいか。「うん。甘くて美味しい」現に水の中に飴玉を溶かしてその甘い味わっているみたいだし問題なし。問題なし。「で、そっちは羊皮紙とインク?」「おう。保存系の魔法がかかってるっぽいぞ」ミズキが羊皮紙とインクに顔を近づけてじっくりと観察する。その目はかなり真剣だ。そして一通りの観察を終えた所でミズキが口を開く。「これ......この世界の魔法じゃないわね」「どういう事だ?」ミズキの言葉に俺は疑問符を頭の上に浮かべる。が関わっている可能性が高そうだが......普通のヒューマンでないのは魔力からして確かだが一介の文房具屋がそんなものに関わりを持っているのか? いや、それ以前に何故ミズキはこの世界の魔法でないと判断したんだ? 俺はミズキに視線を向ける。すると一度肯いてからミズキは明らかに警戒している顔を表に出しつつ説明を初めてくれる。「精霊ってのはこの世界に根差す存在なの。だから現物さえ見せてもらえればその魔法がこの世界の法則に基づいているかぐらいかは分かるわ。そしてこの羊皮紙にかかっている魔法はこの世界の魔法法則に基づいて発動するのならば破綻を免れないはずなの」「なのに何の問題も無く魔法は発動している......だからこの世界の魔法ではない。という事か?」「ええ。誰が作ったのかは分からないけど凄い高度な技術と膨大な力を持って作られているわ。尤も精霊以外ではそもそもこんな事は分からないだろうけれど」うーん。こりゃあ次に街に行く機会があるなら多少の探りは入れてみるべきかもな。敵対しない限りは気にしないとか言ってられないわ。まあ、次の機会があればだが。「それでこれからどうするの?パンプキンが居ない間に貴方の家に人間たちが来てたみたいだけど。あ、荒らされてたりとかはしてないから安心しなさい」「え?」ミズキさん......その話は初耳なんですけど!? 「まあ、不安なら一度帰ってみれば?」「ああうん。そうする。明日以降どうするかも考えないといけないし」そんなわけで俺はミズキに別れを告げると急いで卵形の岩にまで戻るのであった。	“Hyulololooo! I’m back.” “Welcome back. You took a long time.” After flying at high speed over Lean Forest from Kunukihappy’s gate in about half a day, Pumpkin landed on the shores of Lake Accumulate where he spotted Mizuki and greeted her. “Well, actually, I was just planning to do some shopping and leave at once but...” “Did something happen?” “Yeah. A lot of things happened...” While converting the magic in his body from the specifications outside of the forest to the specifications inside of the forest, Pumpkin drove his roots, which suppressed the release of magic power to the utmost limit, into the ground as several bears and boars appeared to be approaching from within the forest. “Buhii!?” “Gumaaa!?” After that, the screeches of the beasts reverberated within the forest, and the sensation of piercing flesh and sucking up delectable blood transmitted through Pumpkin’s roots. Yup. The creatures in the forest are, after all, in many ways piquant. Thank you for coming all the way here after hibernation. Huh? You are wondering what I did? By suppressing all discharge of magic power, I simply propelled the beasts up from the ground with my stealthy roots while simultaneously reinforcing them by restraining any release of magic power. “Anyway, do you mind explaining?” With that said, he began to tell Mizuki about what had happened at Kunukihappy while refreshing himself with the delightful water from Lake Accumulate. —————– “And that’s why it took me so long to get home.” “Sounds like you’ve had a rough time of it... or rather, with that Rio girl’s situation... If you get caught up in it, you’re sure to run into a lot of trouble.” “Yeah. So, if I happen to get involved, I’ll resign myself to it and give it my all, but I have no desire to be actively involved.” After the conversation was over, Mizuki expressed her opinion about Rio, to which he responded. Well, you know. If someone asked me to accompany them on a request or help them when I went to town, then I would associate with them, but I would not be willing to go out of my way to find out where Rio is. In fact, such involvement would be regarded as stalking. “Oh, and by the way, here’s a souvenir.” “Ah, you bought it for me.” Pumpkin took out the bag of souvenirs which he bought for Mizuki at Kunukihappy and threw it to Mizuki, who caught it in the air by maneuvering the water. “Which one is mine, this is... candy?” Mizuki tilted her head as she took out the candy from the bag and looked at it. “Hmm?” “Is something bothering you?” “I’m not really bothered. But I didn’t expect this to be bought by you, Pumpkin. Because we spirits are magical beings possessing a will, even if we are given clothes or accessories, they are unusable, while ordinary sweets are difficult for us to savor directly. There are various other things that could be potential souvenirs, but most of them are of no worth to spirits. Among these things, you managed to choose a candy that a water spirit like me can savor... It is quite unexpected.” “O-Oh...” I’m sorry, Mizuki-san. I didn’t put that much thought into it. I simply bought it after seeing it at a stall and figuring it would taste good since it had more magic power in it than other sweets, sorry. Well, not that it really matters, as long as you were pleased with it. “Yeah. It’s sweet and tasty.” There wasn’t an issue; in fact, it appeared as though she was experiencing the candy’s sweetness through its dissolution in water. “So, you got the parchment and ink over there?” “Yeah. Looks like it’s under some kind of preservation magic.” Mizuki put her face close to the parchment and ink and observed them carefully. Her eyes were quite serious. After the observation, Mizuki spoke up. “This... this isn’t magic from this world.” “What do you mean?” A question mark floated over his head at Mizuki’s words. If it’s not magic from this world, then the “Outer World,” as Lean-sama refers to it, may be at play... Based on her magic power, that woman is undoubtedly not a normal human being, but what kind of stationer would be affiliated with something like that? No, first of all, why did Mizuki rule out the magic as not from this world? Pumpkin turned his attention back to Mizuki. After giving a nod of affirmation, Mizuki began to explain to him, her face clearly reflecting her wariness. “Spirits are beings that originated in this world. That is why if you show me the actual thing, I can ascertain whether the magic is based on the laws of this world or not. And the magic on this parchment, if it were to be invoked according to the magic laws of this world, would not be exempt from its collapse.” “And yet the magic is invoked without any problem... so you are saying that it is not the magic of this world?” “Yes. While I do not have any idea who made this, it was created with advanced techniques and a vast amount of power. But only a spirit would be able to understand such a thing in the first place.” Yeah. Perhaps I should do some probing the next time I have a chance to visit the town. As long as they don’t turn hostile, it’s fine. Well, provided there’s a next time anyway. “So what are you going to do now? I noticed some humans came to your house while you were gone. Oh, nothing has been ransacked or anything, so you can rest assured.” “What?” Mizuki-san... why are you only mentioning it now!? “Well, if you’re worried, why don’t you check it yourself?” “Oh yeah. I’ll do that. I have to figure out what I’m going to do from tomorrow onward as well.” So having parted company with Mizuki, Pumpkin hurried back to the egg-shaped boulder.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 4, "inserted_lines_src": 1, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
「「「おぉぉっ......!?」」」周囲の騎士達から声が上がる。イングリスは間近にいたため、返り血が頬や髪に降りかかって来た。「クリス! 大丈夫!?」駆け寄って来て来たラフィニアが、ハンカチで頬を拭ってくれた。「あ、うん。大丈夫だよ」そのイングリスの様子を見て、イーベルが冷たい笑みを見せる。「フン。返り血を浴びせてやったのに、肝が据わってるじゃないか? 大の男どもは怯えているって言うのにさ」そんな事よりも、先程のイーベルの力――あれはなかなか興味深い。の動きらしきものは感じたので、魔術の一種なのだろうが―― よりも、より速くより強く、洗練された力の流れをしていたように感じた。イングリスは知らず知らず、つい笑顔を浮かべてしまっていた。「何を笑っている。君は怒ると笑う性格なのかな?」「いえ。メイドですから、お客様に笑顔で接するのは当然でしょう?」我ながら上手く誤魔化せたのではないだろうか。だがイングリスはさておき、ラフィニアは怒っていた。「今の、わざとやったんですか!? 悪趣味だわ!」「そうかい? 人を招いておいて殺そうとする方がよほど悪趣味じゃないのかい? ねえ王よ、君は僕を領土で釣っておいて討とうとしたのかい?」イーベルはラフィニアを受け流して、カーリアス国王に視線を向ける。「め、滅相も無い......! これは我が国の意志ではございませぬ――!」「さ、左様! 近頃地上に置きましては血鉄鎖旅団なる賊共が跋扈しておりまして、先程の事もその族共の仕業かと――」「この者の申す通りにございます......! 族の跋扈を許しておりますのは、王として面目次第も御座いませんが......」カーリアス国王とレダスは、口々に弁明を続けた。「ははっ。このカーリアス、かくなる上は如何なる責めも受ける覚悟で御座います。どうか何卒ご容赦を願います――」カーリアス国王はイーベルの前に跪き、低頭平身。「「「へ、陛下......!」」」国王自らがそこまでする事に、騎士達は何とも言い難い複雑な表情をしている。「............」ラフィニアも黙っているが、悲しそうな目をしていた。だがそんな中、イーベルは酷薄な笑みを絶やさない。「ぬるい。そんなもんじゃダメだね、王よ。謝って許されるのなんて、お互いが対等な関係の時だけさ―― すっと、イーベルの指先がカーリアス国王の右の上腕部を撫ぜるように動く。「......!? ぐうぅおぉぉぉ......っ!?」血を噴き出しながら、その腕がボトリと地面に落ちた。「腕一本。詫びに貰っておくとするよ?」実に嬉しそうな、嫌らしい笑みだった。「き、貴様ああぁぁぁぁぁッ!」「やっていい事と悪い事があるぞッ!?」さすがに国王を傷つけられては我慢の限界か、騎士達は殺気立ちイーベルを取り囲む。「おや? やっぱり君達、僕を騙し討ちにするつもりだったのかい?」レダスも怒り心頭のようで、剣を抜きイーベルに突きつける。「黙れッ! 我等が王に仇なす者は許しておかんッ!」「止せっっっッ! 鎮まれ皆の者ッ! 鎮まらぬのなら、王の名において死罪に処す!」カーリアス国王は、広間中に響き渡る大声で騎士達を一喝する。そうまで言われてしまうと、レダスや騎士達も、冷や水を浴びせられたようにしゅんとしてしまう。「い、イーベル殿......寛大な処置を有難うございます――」カーリアス国王は、片腕を失いながらもイーベルに首を垂れるのだった。「「「へ、陛下......」」」その姿を見て、情けなさなのか悔しさなのか、涙する騎士もいた。「くくく......いいだろう、失態は許そう。さあちゃんと僕を護りなよ?」イーベルは満足そうに頷いた。ラフィニアがイングリスだけに聞こえるように小声で、囁いてくる。「ね、ねえクリス......」「?」「ホントにこれでいいの......? これが正しいの? こんな――」「人それぞれじゃない? ラニが正しいと思った事が正しいんだよ」イングリス個人としては、配下の騎士を悔し泣きさせる位に、王の立場や矜持をかなぐり捨てて見せるカーリアス国王には、ある種の信念のようなものは感じるが。への絶対的恭順を貫き、国や人々を生き延びさせようという事だろう。それを見ていると分かる。との力関係を縮めようという意図を感じるウェイン王子とは、確かに信念が折り合わないだろう。イングリスには関係のない話だ。この時代の事は、この時代の人々が決めればいい。「それよりもラニ、急いでやる事があるよ?」「え......? 何をするの?」「これ――」と、イングリスは床に落ちたカーリアス国王の腕にそっと触れる。「急げばまだくっつくかもしれないから」ラフィニアの新型「そ、そうね......! 分かった、やるわね!」ラフィニアはぎゅっと表情を引き締めて、頷いた。	「「「Ooo......!?」」」 The Knights in the vicinity shouted in awe of the power of the Highlander who just bisected a man with his bare hands and shuddered at the horrific death of the assassin. Their voices could be in response to either. Since Inglis was at zero distance from the tragedy, she had blood splattered on her cheeks and hair. 「Glis! Are you okay!?」 Rafinha came running over and wiped her cheek with a handkerchief. 「Ah, yeah. I’m fine.」 Seeing Inglis’ condition, Abel gave her a cold smirk. 「Hmph. You remain unfazed even after being drenched in blood, you have some nerve, don’t you? And yet those burly men over there are shrieking like babies.」 Inglis only bowed, brushing the ordeal off. Rather than something like this, she was more interested in the power Abel displayed earlier. She could feel the movement of mana, so it had to be sorcery, but she couldn’t grasp details of it at first glance. It felt like an even faster, stronger, and more sophisticated flow of power compared to the mana that flowed through ordinary sorcery structures or Artifacts. The fact that it was mysterious was good. It only meant that he was a strong opponent with more bites than the usual opponents. Without her noticing, Inglis already made a delightful smile on her lips. 「What are you smiling for? Are you the type to smile when angered?」「No, sir. I am a maid, so is it not natural for me to smile at a guest?」 I think I did a good job deceiving him. However, Inglis aside, Rafinha was furious. 「Did you do that on purpose!? That was nasty!」「Is it? Don’t you think it’s nastier to invite people over only to kill them? Hey, King, did you lure me into your land and try to kill me?」 Abel fended Rafinha off and turned his gaze to King Charleas. 「N-, nonsense! Our Kingdom held no will as such!」「I-, indeed! One woeful group, the Ironblood Chain Brigade, has been crawling all over the Midland as of late, I suspect they are responsible for what had happened!」「Exactly! As a King, it is disgraceful of me to let such a band operate within my walls......」 King Charleas and Redas continued on their vindication. 「My lord. This humble Charleas is prepared to receive any kind of blame that comes my way. I pledge for your forgiveness!」 King Charleas knelt before Abel, his head low and flat. He prostrated so low his forehead might as well touch the floor on Abel’s feet. 「「「Y-, Your Majesty......!」」」 The Knights had an indescribably complicated look on their faces to see that their own revered King would stoop so low. 「............」 Rafinha was also silent, but her eyes reflected misery. Even so, Abel kept his callous smirk on his face. 「Too lenient. That’s not good enough, King. An apology can only work if and when both parties are of equal standings! The Highland and the Midland are heaven and earth apart. You are nothing but the head of a herd of livestock. And livestock are nothing but livestock, you know? Which only means...」 All of a sudden, Abel’s fingertips moved to strike King Charleas’ right upper arm. His fingertips were surrounded by the same mysterious light as before, and... 「......!? GUAAaaaakgh......!?」 With a thud, the right arm fell to the ground, spurting out blood. 「I’ll take one arm as an apology, okay?」 It was a very joyful, disgusting smile. 「Y-, YOUR MAJESTTYYY!!!!」「THERE ARE LINES YOU SHOULDN’T CROSS!!」 Naturally, after they saw him injuring their King, the Knights surrounded him in a frenzy as though they had hit the limit of their patience. 「Oya? So you are planning to attack me, after all?」 As Redas seemed to have been enraged as well, he drew his sword and pointed it at Abel. 「Shut up!! I shan’t allow anyone wronged my King to live!!」「CEASE IT!!!!! Calm down, all of you! Anyone who doesn’t obey shall be put to death in the name of the King!」 King Charleas roared to the Knights with a voice so loud it echoed throughout the entire venue. Having been told off so far, Redas and the other Knights had no choice but become crestfallen, as though icy cold water doused their heart. 「L-, Lord Abel...... Thank you for your magnanimous treatment...」 Despite losing an arm, King Charleas hung his head down to Abel. 「「「Y-, Your Majesty......」」」 Some of the Knights wept at such a sight of him, whether out of misery or vexation. 「Kukuku......Very well, I pardon your blunder. Now, make sure to protect me properly, okay?」 Abel nodded in satisfaction. In a hushed voice so that only she and Inglis could hear, Rafinha whispered. 「H-, hey Glis......」「?」「Is this really the correct thing to do......? Is this right? Something like this is...」「To each and their own, remember? What you believe to be right, Rani, is the right thing.」 As for Inglis personally, she could sense a certain kind of conviction in the King who had thrown away his position and pride as a monarch to the point of making his subordinate cried out in vexation. No matter how many times he was trampled on, he would maintain absolute reverence for the Highland to keep his kingdom and people alive. Inglis could see that in his eyes. It was only natural that he would have a hard time coming to an understanding with Prince Wayne, whom Inglis felt was trying to gain power for the Midland and reduce the power relationship with the Highland. Just what would come out from this conflict? Well, Inglis would leave that to each of them to work it out. It was none of her business. The people of this age should determine how they would lead this age. 「Rather than that, Rani. Don’t you have something to do in haste?」「Eh......? What do I do?」「This...」 Inglis touched King Charleas’ right arm that had fallen on the ground. 「If you hurry, it may still get attached back.」 With the healing power of Rafinha’s new-type Artifact. 「Y-, you’re right......! I got it, I’ll do it!」 Rafinha’s expression tightened, then she nodded.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 5, "inserted_lines_src": 27, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
アルセニア魔法学園はセナビア魔法学園と同じくらい広く、職員室の近くへ行くと、生徒たちの数も減ってほとんどいない。だが、ほとんどいないと言っても、少しはおり、仲良く手をつないでいるセイヤとリリィのことをチラチラと見ていた。そんに対して誰かが呼び止める。「ちょっとそこの二人」セイヤとリリィは自分たちのことだとは思わず、そのまま学園長室に向かう。そんな二人に対し、声の主は先ほどよりも大声で呼び止める。「ちょっと待ちなさいよ。そこの手を繋いでいる二人よ」セイヤは大声に気づき、周りを見た。周りには生徒たちが少しいるが、手を繋いでいるのはセイヤとリリィだけだ。そのことに気づいたセイヤは声の主がいるのであろう方向を見る。リリィもセイヤが後ろを見たので、立ち止まって振り返る。そこにいたのはきれいな赤髪をツインテールにして、トパーズのようにきれいな黄色の眼をした少女だった。しかしその顔はどこか怒っているようで、周りにいた生徒はその少女を見ると、足早にその場から立ち去る。そして赤髪ツインテールの少女は、まっすぐとセイヤとリリィのことを睨んでいた。「俺たちの事か?」だが、セイヤは聞いてみる。すると、赤髪ツインテールの少女は怒りながら答えた。「そうよ。ほかにだれがいるのよ?」赤髪ツインテールの少女の言う通り、セイヤたち以外に手を繋いでいる人は近くにいなかった。「それで何の用だ?」セイヤは赤髪の少女に用件を聞くと、赤髪の少女は不機嫌そうに答えた。「あなたたち見ない顔ね。侵入者かしら?」「違うぞ、転校生だ」「転校生? 聞いてないわよ」「それはクラスが違うなら普通知らないだろ」魔法学園は各地方しか存在しないため、かなりのマンモス校だ。なので、転校生が来たところでいちいち他の生徒に知らされるわけもなく、知らない顔があったって当然のはずだ。この少女は一体何を言っているんだ? と思うセイヤ。そんなセイヤに対して、赤髪ツインテールの少女は理由を答えた。「違うわ。転校生が来るならふつう私のところにも連絡が来るのよ」「お前何者だ?」よくわからない少女に対し、セイヤは一瞬、本気でイタイ少女かと考えてしまったが、少女の纏う雰囲気を見て、すぐに違うと理解する。少女が纏う雰囲気はセイヤ程ではないにしろ、かなりの実力者だった。「私はアルセニア魔法学園生徒会副会長、セレナ=フェニックスよ」アルセニア魔法学園生徒会。これは文字通り、アルセニア魔法学園の生徒会であるが、魔法学園の生徒会は普通の学園の生徒会とは違う。魔法学園の生徒会は、風紀委員なども兼任しており、実力は学園でもトップクラスが集まる集団だ。セイヤの通っていたセナビア魔法学園にも生徒会は存在していたが、彼らも相当の実力者たちだった。ちなみに、セナビア魔法学園の生徒会にはジンなどが所属している。生徒会の実力はとても強く、学園側と同等の権利を持っていたりするほどだ。そんな生徒会の中でも、少女は副会長だ。目の前の少女のレベルが高いことなどセイヤもわかっていたため、セイヤは一応自己紹介をしておく。「俺は今日二年A組に転校してきたキリスナ=セイヤだ」「二年生って私と同じじゃない。私は二年C組よ。よろしくね」「そうだったのか、よろしく。で、こっちが訓生二年のリリィだ。俺と一緒で今日からこの学園に通うことになった」「そうなの? よろしくね。リリィちゃん」セレナはリリィの可愛さにもためらわず挨拶をする。リリィもそれに応えて挨拶をする。「よろしく!」ここまでは至って友好的な挨拶だ。最初こそ機嫌の悪かったセレナだが、事情を知った今では優しい副会長である。しかし、セレナの機嫌はまたすぐに悪くなるのだった。「ところで二人は婚約者なの? 仲良く手を繋いでいたけど」セレナの質問に答えるのをためらうセイヤ。もしここで変なことを答えてしまい、目をつけられるような事があれば、セイヤは親衛隊とファンクラブ、そして生徒会から目をつけられることになってしまう。そんなのはとても面倒で、セイヤは御免だった。しかし、セイヤがどう答えるか考えていると、セイヤと手をつないでいた美幼女が再び爆弾を落とす。「えっ......」リリィの発言にセレナは固まる。それもそのはず、なにせ目の前のの少女(仮)が、いきなり婚約者ではなく、愛人と言いだしたのだから。「おっ、面白いね、リリィちゃんは。でもそんな冗談言っちゃだめだよ?」セレナは何とか口から言葉を発したが、その声は動揺によって震えている。「冗談じゃないよ? リリィは本当にセイヤの愛人だよ! だってセイヤには婚約者がいるもん!」リリィがどんどんとセイヤたちの特別な家庭環境を暴露していく。これにはセレナだけでなく、セイヤも固まるしかなかった。そしてセレナはわなわなと震えながら、セイヤのことを睨む。「婚約者がいるのに、こんな小さい子を愛人って?」「それはだな......」セイヤは必死に弁解の言葉を探すが、見つからない。なぜなら、それが事実だから。「あなた、もしかしてロリコンか何か?」「ちっ、違うぞ」ロリコン疑惑を掛けられたセイヤは、必死に弁解を探すが、その前にセレナがリリィに問う。「リリィちゃんは愛人の意味を知っているの?」「うん! 結婚している人と不倫する人!」セイヤのHPがどんどん削られていく。しかしセレナもどうしていいかわからず、目がグルグルしだしていた。「リ、リリィちゃん、こいつの婚約者はリリィちゃんのことを知っているの?」アワアワとしだすセレナに対し、リリィはお構いなく爆弾を投下する。「うん! お姉ちゃんはリリィのことを知っているよ!」「えっ、おっ、お姉ちゃん!?」「ま、待て、リリィ。誤解を招く言い方は......」セイヤは残り少ないHPを何とか振り絞ってリリィを止めようとしたが、その前にセレナが軽蔑のまなざしでセイヤのことを睨む。「あんた、何考えているの?」「婚約者の妹と不倫って。しかもこんな小さい子を」「まっ、待て」セイヤを見るセレナの目がどんどんとひどくなっていく。それに伴いセイヤの残り少ないHPもさらに減少していく。そんなセイヤに、リリィがとどめを刺そうとばかりに、最後の爆弾を投下した。「リリィは全然いいの。お姉ちゃんもリリィのことを認めてくれているよ! それにリリィとセイヤはもう繋がったから!」「つっ、繋がった!?」リリィは妖精と人間の完全契約のことを言っているのだが、セレナは完全に誤解をしている。けれども、本当のことを言えば大人バージョンのリリィとは............(この後はご想像にお任せします) 「私はアルセニア魔法学園生徒会、副会長セレナ=フェニックスの名のおいて誓うわ。女の敵、キリスナ=セイヤ。あなたのことを生徒会は認めない。覚悟しておくことね」セレナはそう言い残して、どこかへと走り去ってしまった。セイヤは生徒会までを敵に回してしまったことに、何とも言えない感情になりながら、学園長室に向かうのであった。	Arsenia Magic Academy is as large as Senabia Magic Academy, so you can’t see a lot of people in the corridors. However, even if there is almost no one around, someone spotted Seiya and Lily walking hand in hand. Therefore, this someone calls out to them. 「Hey, you two over there」 Seiya and Lily thought that this person wasn’t calling for them and continued to head in the direction of principal’s office. However, the owner of the voice raised the volume and called again. 「Wait a little. Hey, you two, who are holding hands」 Seiya became aware of the voice and looked around. There he found a few students, but Lily and Seiya were the only ones who were holding each other’s hands. He understood that the voice was calling for him and turned in its direction. Lily also stopped and looked back. There was a girl with beautiful red twin tails and yellow eyes like topaz. However, her face looked angry for some reason, and the students who saw that girl swiftly left the scene. In addition, the girl with twin tails stared straight at Seiya and Lily. 「Do you mean us?」 First things first, Seiya decided to confirm. And the red-haired girl with twin tails answered with an angry tone. [] 「That’s right. Who else is here? 」 As she said, no one except Seiya and Lily walked with connected hands. Seiya inquired about her intentions and the girl answered while in a bad mood. 「I haven’t seen you here before. Are you an intruder? 」「Nope, I’m a transfer student」「Transfer student? Why was I not made aware of this? 」「When you are in a different class it’s hard to meet you know」 The academy is spacious enough in the first place. Therefore, it is natural for other students to not be told about every new student, and it is natural to see an unfamiliar face from time to time. Just what is this girl saying? Thought Seiya. And the girl declared her reason soon enough. 「It is different. I will know when a new student appears」「Who are you? 」 Facing this unknown entity, Seiya, for a moment, thought that she was hit in the head. But seeing her serious face he understood that he guessed wrong. Although her aura felt weaker than Seiya’s, she was quite powerful. 「I’m the Vice President of student council of Arsenia Magic Academy, Selena Phoenix」 The student council of the Arsenia Magic Academy So this is the representative of the student council right here. The student council of a magic academy is different from the one in a normal academy. The student council of the magic academy has the right to pass judgment. They are also the gathering of top class magicians of the academy A student council also existed in Senabia Magic Academy and they were quite powerful. By the way, Jin belongs to that same council. They are the students with impressive abilities; they also have a lot of authority in the academy grounds. In that student council, this girl is the vice president. Thinking that her level is quite high, Seiya introduced himself. 「My name is Kiritsuna Seiya, from now on I’m a part of class -A」「So your grade is the same as mine. I’m from -C, best regards」「Best regards from me too. This girl is Lily; she is a trainee in the second grade. Similar to me, she is going to attend this academy from this very day」「Oh? Glad to meet you, Lily-chan」 Selena calmly greeted Lily, despite her cuteness, and Lily greeted her back. [] 「Nice to meet you!」 She became very friendly at this point. Selena was in a bad mood at first, but now she is the gentle vice president. But her mood suddenly dropped again. 「By the way, are you two engaged? You were holding hands earlier」 Seiya hesitated to answer that question. If he gives a wrong answer here, there will be an additional faction against him, adding to that the fan club and the royal guard. It will be quite troublesome and Seiya wanted to avoid it. Nevertheless, while Seiya was contemplating the answer, the beautiful little girl dropped a bomb again. Selena suddenly solidified. It’s understandable. After all, the little girl of (temporary) years old said that she was his mistress, not even a fiancée. 「This was a fun one, Lily-chan. But it is bad to joke about that」 Somehow, Selena was able to produce an answer, although with a trembling voice. 「This is not a joke! Lily is truly Seiya’s mistress! Seiya has a fiancée! 」 Lily kept revealing their circumstances. At this point, not only Selena, but also Seiya became paralyzed. And Selena glared at Seiya while trembling. 「What is the meaning of this?」「Etto.......」「Even though you have a fiancée, this little girl is a mistress?」「About that.....」 Seiya desperately searched for a way out but couldn’t find one. Because it was a fact. 「Are you a lolicon or something?」「It’s different」 Being labeled as a lolicon, Seiya tried to come up with an excuse. But before that happened, Selena asked Lily. 「Does Lily-chan knows the meaning of the word “mistress”?」「Un! They are doing improper things with married people! 」 Seiya’s HP was being depleted at the fast pace and Selena’s eyes were spinning in circles. 「Li-Lily-chan, does his fiancée knows about you?」 To the flustered Selena, Lily continued dropping bombs. 「Un! Big sister knows Lily! 」「Eh, oh...Big sister!? 」「Slow down Lily, you will cause a misunderstanding......」[] Somehow retaining a little bit of his HP, Seiya tried to stop Lily. But right after, he felt an intense contemptuous stare. 「Just what were you thinking about?」「Being intimate with your fiancée’s sister and she is even so small」「Wait, wait, wait」 Selena’s eyes were getting increasingly threatening. As a result, Seiya’s HP further decreased. There, Lily released her final bomb to finish him off. 「Lily is fine with that. Big sister properly accepted me too! Besides, we are already connected! 」「C-c-connected!?」 Lily was talking about the complete contract between them, but Selena completely misunderstood her. But to tell the truth, her adult version.... (I will leave the rest to your imagination) 「I swear in the name of the Arsenia Magic Academy student council’s Vice President Selena Phoenix. Kiritsuna Seiya, the enemy of all women. The student council will not acknowledge you. Be prepared for things to come」 She left it as her final words and ran off somewhere. Seiya headed for the principal’s office filled with indescribable emotions.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 3, "inserted_lines_src": 5, "inserted_lines_trg": 4 }
俺は改めて全員に向けて言う。「まずは俺が入る。状況がどうあれ、すぐに連絡する予定だ」「連絡がなければ、通話の腕輪を使えない状況ということだよな?」「ゴランの言うとおりだ。その場合は魔法陣を破壊してくれ」「いや、すぐに増援に向かおう」エリックが力強く言う。気持ちはありがたいがそれは困る。「もし即死系トラップがあったら無駄に全滅だ」「それも、ロックが防げないやつってことだよな。わかった」エリックはまだ納得していないようだが、ゴランはわかってくれたようだ。魔法陣から最後に敵が出てきてからは経っている。いつ、向こうからふさがれてもおかしくはない。ゆっくりはしていられない。簡単な打ち合わせをした後、すぐに俺は転移魔法陣に飛び込んだ。視界がぐにゃぐにゃした後、まぶしい光を感じた。転移先は広くて明るい広間だった。壁も床もきれいな大理石で作られている。部屋はとても広く、竜形態のケーテでも中で動けるほどだ。部屋にの大きな扉がある。その扉もケーテでも問題なくくぐれるだろう。そして、アークヴァンパイアいた。魔神王の剣で素早く首をはねる。部屋の中にほかに敵がいないことと、トラップの有無を確認するため魔力探知を発動させる。それと同時に通話の腕輪に小声で話しかける。「今、魔力探知をかけているところだが、ひとまず危険はなさそうだ」『......』返事はないが、耳をすませば息遣いが聞こえる。エリックたちにはこちら側の状況が詳細にはわからない。だから、俺は声を出しているとはいえ、念のために声を発しないのだろう。部屋の中にトラップの存在がないことを確かめて、「よし、探知が終わった。こっちに来てくれ」すぐに転移魔法陣が輝いて、こちら側に皆が来る。『どこに敵の耳があるかわからない。一応念話で会話しよう』『わかっている。で、ここはどこだ?』エリックが顔をしかめる。『立派な大理石で作られた広い部屋。宮殿か城ってところか?』『そうだとおもうが、我が国にこのような建物はないはずだが......』ここまで立派な建物であれば、エリックが知っていないとおかしい。『ということは、他国か?』『可能性はあるな。面倒なことだが』エリックは国王。他国に行くとなると、政治的な問題が発生する。『非常時だから仕方ないだろう』『そうであります。先に攻撃を仕掛けられたのはこっちでありますからね』『ま、誰かに会っても正体を明かさなければ問題ねーだろ』そういってゴランはニコッと笑った。『さて、ここがヴァンパイアどもの拠点だとして、ボスはいるのか? ロックわかるか?』エリックに尋ねられて、俺は改めて魔力探知をさらに広範囲にかける。『そうだな......。いちいち壁に魔法的防御をかけられているから探知が難しいな』『簡単に言ってくれるな』慎重さと繊細さが求められる。そして、この場で魔法を使えるのは俺とケーテだけ。俺がやるしかないだろう。俺が慎重に魔力探知を進めていると、『まあ、普通に考えていないわけねーよな』『ハイロードは転移してきて、ロックに倒されたんだろう? その上がいてもおかしくない』『そうであるなー』念話の使えないセルリス以外、みんな自由に念話で会話している。そしてガルヴは部屋の臭いをかいで回っていた。『ガルヴ、一応俺のそばにいなさい』魔力探知しながら、ガルヴに語り掛ける。ガルヴは素直に俺の真横に来てお座りした。魔力探査に切り替えながら、魔力探知でわかったことを皆に報告する。『建物自体かなりでかいな。種類まではわからないが、人型の魔力反応が多数ある』『建物の大きさまでわかるのか?』エリックの問いは当然といえる。魔力探知は魔力を持つものを見つけるものだ。生物や魔道具の位置と数はわかっても、建物の大きさはわからない。『壁にいちいち魔力防御をかけてくれているからな。だから分かった』『なるほどな。その魔法防御の強度はどのくらいなんだ?』『かなりしっかりしたものだ。だが魔法に対する耐性も物理耐性も高い』『人型の反応って言うのは、ヴァンパイアでありますかね?』『いま魔力探査をかけているところだが、ヴァンパイアの可能性は高いだろう』部屋の中を調べ始めたケーテが言う。『建物は大きいって、どのくらい大きいのであるか?』『エリックの王宮より大きいかもしれん』『ほほう。それはすごいのである』その時、ふんふん鼻を鳴らしながら、ガルヴが鼻で俺の手をつついた。俺がガルヴに目をやると、ガルヴはケーテの方を見る。ガルヴは「ケーテが勝手に歩き回っているけど大丈夫か?」と尋ねているのだろう。ケーテはガルヴより強い。魔導士としての素養もある。だから、大丈夫だと思う。だが、群れの仲間を心配するガルヴの心がけは褒めるべきことだ。だから、俺はガルヴの頭をなでなでしておいた。	I turned to them all once again. “I’ll go first. And no matter what the situation is, I’ll contact you.” “So, if you don’t contact us, it’ll mean that the bracelet doesn’t work, right?” “Exactly. And if that happens, you should destroy the magic circle immediately.” “No, we’ll go in to help you.” Eric insisted. I was happy to hear him say it, but it would not do. “It could be an instant kill trap. We would all die then.” “I see. An instant kill trap that even you can’t disarm.” Eric did not look pleased, but Goran seemed to understand. At least fifteen minutes had passed since the enemy came out of the magic circle. Who knew when they would close it from the other side? I had to hurry. And so after exchanging a few more words, I jumped through the circle. My vision distorted and then there was a blinding light. I was in a great hall that was brightly lit. The walls and floor were made of polished marble. In fact, the hall was so large that a dragon like Kathe would fit inside comfortably. There was one large door. It was also big enough for Kathe to pass through. And there were Arch Vampires standing in front of me. I quickly chopped off their heads with the Devil King sword. As there were no other enemies in the room, I activated Magic Detection to see if there were any traps. At the same time, I talked into my bracelet. “I’m using Magic Detection now. But it seems to be safe here.” ‘...’ While I didn’t get an answer, I did hear some breathing. Eric didn’t know what the situation was here. And so they were staying quiet, just in case. Once I was sure that there were no traps, “Alright, it is finished. You can come out now.” Immediately, the teleportation circle flashed, and the others arrived. ‘We don’t know if they are listening to us or not. So let’s talk with telepathy.’ ‘I know. So, where are we?’ Eric scowled. ‘This great room is made of marble. Do you think it might be a palace or castle?’ ‘It could be, but I don’t believe there is such a building in our kingdom...’ Eric would have known of such a grand building. ‘So, it’s a different country then?’ ‘That is possible. And that would complicate things greatly.’ Eric was the king. And so his presence in other countries would result in political problems. ‘It’s an emergency, so it cannot be helped.’ ‘That’s true. After all, they are the ones that attacked first.’ ‘Well, I don’t see the problem. We just have to keep our identities a secret.’ Goran said with a grin. ‘Now, if this really is the vampire base, would their boss be here? Can you tell, Locke?’ Eric asked. And so I widened the area of effect for Magic Detection. ‘Let me see... They have magic protection on all of the walls, so it’s difficult to detect things.’ ‘That’s easy for you to say.’ We had to be careful here. The only people here who could use magic was me and Kathe. So I would have to do it. And so I very carefully continued to use Magic Detection. ‘Well, of course, they’ve thought of that...’ ‘Indeed...’ ‘There was a high lord that came. And Locke killed him. There must be someone above him...’ Aside from Serulis, the others were all using Telepathy to talk to each other. Grulf was moving around the room and sniffing. ‘Grulf, stay by my side.’ I said to Grulf as I searched. Grulf quietly returned and sat down next to me. I had used both Magic Detection and Magic Exploration. And so I made a report to the others. ‘This building is incredibly large. I don’t know what kind yet, but there are a number of humanoid monsters in the area.’ ‘You were able to tell how large the building is?’ I wasn’t surprised that Eric would ask that. But Magic Detection was about searching for magic energy. It allowed me to know the number and positions of living things and magic tools, but not the size of a building. ‘They have protection on every single wall here. Thanks to that, I was able to tell the size.’ ‘I see. And how strong is this magic protection?’ ‘It’s quite strong. And it has a high resistance to magic and physical attacks.’ ‘Are the humanoid monsters vampires?’ ‘I’m using Magic Exploration right now, but it seems very likely that they are vampires.’ Kathe said as she searched the room. ‘So, how big is this building, exactly?’ ‘It’s bigger than Eric’s palace.’ ‘Hoho. That’s impressive.’ Just then, Grulf sniffed and started to poke my hand with his nose. When I looked at him, he turned his head towards Kathe. I think he was asking me why Kathe was allowed to wander around, and not him. Well, she was much stronger, for one. And she was also a Sorcerer. That’s why it was fine. However, perhaps it was commendable for Grulf to be concerned about a member of the pack. And so I patted him on the head.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 3, "inserted_lines_src": 1, "inserted_lines_trg": 1 }
「あたしゃイザベルってもんだ。ここで魔法道具商店をやってるケチな婆さ」「初めまして、タクミです」「タクミね......それじゃさっそくこの水晶に手を当てな」俺はイザベルさんへ近づき、店のカウンターの上に置いてある水晶を触った。水晶はボウリング球くらいの大きさで、完全な透明ではないがそれなりに透き通って見える。イザベルさんの容姿もあって、占い師のような雰囲気だ。ただ、水晶に前の世界で見た物と違う部分があるな。丸い水晶の中心に赤い点のような物が見えた。ガラスで作られた水晶に混ざり物が入ったとかではなさそうで、その赤い点の間隔で点滅している。魔法が掛けられた道具だからなのかもしれない。俺が水晶に触れると、その赤い点が激しく点滅し始めたと思ったら、緑色に変わり光を放って店内を照らす。「ふむ......これは......」「どうですかな、イザベル」「慌てるんじゃないよ......成る程ね......」イザベルさんが水晶を覗いて考え込んでいる。そうしている間にも、水晶は赤くなったり緑になったりと色を変えて点滅してる。眩しい程ではないのだが、赤とか緑とかの光を放たれたらちょっと目に悪そうだな。「わかったよ、タクミの魔力」「......どうでしたか?」俺が聞くと、イザベルさんは眉間にしわを寄せながら話し始めた。「魔力量はかなりあるようだね。魔法の扱いに慣れればそれなりの魔法使いになれるくらいだろうさ」魔力が結構あるという事はちゃんとした魔法が使えるって事だ。これで小さい頃憧れた魔法を使って戦うとかも出来るかもしれないな。戦闘がしたいわけじゃないけどな。「だけど......これは......」「どうしたんですか?」「何かあったんですか? イザベル」「......あんた、ギフトを持ってるね」「やっぱりそうだったのね」「クレア様はご存じだったんですかね?」「はっきりとギフトを持っているとまでは......。でも、ギフトを持ってないと説明の出来ない事があったのよ」「それで、どんなギフトだったのですか?」セバスチャンさんが急かすようにイザベルさんに聞く。俺よりセバスチャンさんの方が俺のギフトに興味を持ってるみたいだな。俺も自分がどんなギフトで、どんな事が出来るのか楽しみだけどな。「ギフト名は『雑草栽培』......まぁ、そのまま雑草を栽培する能力のようだね」「『雑草栽培』......」えー、なんか役に立たなそうな名前......。期待してただけにちょっとショックだ。「そのギフトはどのような使い方が出来るの?」「野菜以外の雑草......農業だとかに使える植物以外の植物をどこでも何でも栽培する事が出来るというギフトですね」「......そう、ならやっぱりあのラモギも......」「お嬢様は何か思い当たることがおありなのですか?」「ええ。タクミさんと初めて森であった時、ラモギを探していたのだけど......どこを探しても見つからなかったの。でも、タクミさんが休憩しようと腰を下ろした場所に、偶然ラモギがあって発見するって事があったのだけど......」「......つまりお嬢様はそのラモギは『雑草栽培』の能力のおかげだと?」「ええ、そうじゃないかと思うわ。どうでしょうか、タクミさん?」「......そうですね......」あの時俺は、ラモギがどんな物か考えながら腰を下ろした。そして、手を付いた場所からラモギが生えて来たのを覚えてる。つまり、俺がラモギを欲したからギフトが発動して生えて来たんじゃないかという事か。「......あの時、見付からないラモギがどんな物なのかを思い浮かべていました。そうしたら、クレアさんには言っていませんでしたが、地面に置いた手の間から生えて来たんです」「そうだったのですね。じゃあやっぱり、タクミさんのギフトのおかげでラモギが手に入ったという事ですよね」「そのようですな」「タクミ、あたしが鑑定した内容と一致するさね。タクミは思い浮かべた雑草をどこであろうと生やして栽培出来る。......便利な能力さね」そうなのだろうか......以前はたまたまラモギが生えただけで、実際には雑草を生やすって使えるのだろうか? 「そうだタクミさん、ラモギを乾燥させた事もありましたね。あれも『雑草栽培』の能力なのでしょうか?」「ありましたね。俺がラモギを手に持っただけで乾燥して、すぐ薬として使えるようになりました」「それも『雑草栽培』の能力だろうね。雑草を薬になる状態に変化させる事が出来るってところかね」「あの時も確かに、ラモギが乾燥したらすぐに使えるのにとか考えてました」つまり俺は、野菜以外の植物をいつでも生やせる事が出来て、その植物をすぐ使用出来る状態にさせられる、と......。んー、便利なような、役立たずなような......。あぁでも、薬屋とかそういった店にならいいのかもしれないのか。「ありがとうございます、イザベルさん。おかげでどんな能力か知ることが出来ました」「あたしゃただ魔力を調べただけだよ。いいかいタクミ......一つだけ言っておくよ」「何でしょう?」「ギフトという能力は特別な力、どう使うかはお前さん次第だ。そして、それを生かす事が出来るのもお前さんだけだ。よく考えて使うんだよ」「......はい、わかりました」『雑草栽培』......名前を聞いただけの時は使えそうにないと思ったけど、もしかしたら良い使い方があるかもしれない。これから先、この能力を使ってどうするのかをしっかり考えよう。「タクミ様の能力がわかった事ですし、そろそろお暇しましょうか」「何だい、もう帰るのかい?」「ええ、もう日が落ちますからね。屋敷に早く帰らないといけません。お嬢様もいますから」「そうかい。次に来た時はゆっくり出来るように早く来るんだよ」「ええ、そうします」「イザベル、ありがとう」「イザベルさん、ありがとうございました」俺達はイザベルさんに礼を言って店を後にした。もしかすると、お婆さん一人でやってる店だから寂しいのかもしれないな。今度この街に来た時はゆっくりと魔法道具の事とかを聞かせてもらおう。外で待っていたレオやヨハンナさんと合流して、ティルラちゃんを待たせ過ぎないように屋敷への帰り道を急いだ。ちなみにフィリップさんは店の中について来ていたが、俺がギフトを持ってる事に驚いた表情を見せたくらいで黙って後ろに控えていた。	“My name is Isabelle. I’m a stingy old woman who runs this magic item shop.” “It’s nice to meet you. I’m Takumi.” “Takumi...eh? Alright, then put your hand on this crystal ball.” I moved over to Ms. Isabelle and touched the crystal ball that lay on top of the store counter. It was about the size of a bowling ball. And while it wasn’t completely transparent, it was decently clear. And due to Ms. Isabelle’s appearance, I felt like I was seeing a fortune teller. However, there was something about the crystal that was different from any crystal from my world. In the center of the sphere, there was a red dot. I doubted it was something that had got mixed inside as the crystal wasn’t glass. And the red dot seemed to be blinking at even intervals. Well, it was a magic item. Once my hand was on it, the red dot began to blink faster. Then it suddenly turned a green color and unleashed a light that illuminated the whole room. “Hmm... This...” “How is it, Isabelle?” “Don’t rush me... Yes, I see...” Deep in thought, Ms. Isabelle gazed into the crystal ball. In the meantime, the crystal continued to alternate between red and green as it blinked. While it wasn’t blindingly bright, the red and green lights felt like they would be bad for your eyes. “I understand it now, your magic energy, Mr. Takumi.” “...How is it?” I asked. And then Ms. Isabelle narrowed her eyebrows and began to talk. “You have quite a lot of magic energy. Enough that I think you could become a decent sorcerer if you learned how to use it.” If I had a lot of magic energy, I should be able to use magic. That meant my childhood dream of fighting with magic could become true. Not that I wanted to fight. “But...this...” “What?” “Did something happen? Isabelle?” “...You. You have the Gift.” “So he has it after all.” “Did you know, Lady Claire?” “Not exactly... But there was something that happened that could only be explained if he had it.” “So, what kind of Gift is it?” Sebastian asked Isabelle as if he couldn’t wait to find out. It was like Sebastian was more curious about my Gift than I was. Of course, I was also looking forward to knowing what my Gift would allow me to do. “The Gift is called ‘Weed Cultivation’... Well, it seems to be what it sounds like. You have the ability to cultivate weeds.” “Weed Cultivation...” Uh... That sounded completely useless to me... As my expectations had been high, I felt rather shocked. “And what can this Gift be used for?” “Small plants, other than vegetables...or any farm plants, really. You can cultivate them wherever you are. That’s what it does.” “...I see. So then the Ramogi really was...” “Is there something you witnessed, Lady Claire?” “Yes. When I first met Mr. Takumi in the forest, we were searching for Ramogi... But we couldn’t find it anywhere. But then, when Mr. Takumi sat down to rest, there just happened to be some Ramogi there by coincidence...” “...In other words, Lady Claire, you believe it was because of his Weed Cultivation ability?” “Yes, I do believe that. What do you think, Mr. Takumi?” “...Indeed...” At that time, I had been thinking about what Ramogi was while I sat down. And I remember that Ramogi was growing where I placed my hand. In other words, it would suggest that my desire for Ramogi had activated the Gift so that it grew. “...During that time, I was imagining what this elusive Ramogi was. And while I didn’t tell Ms. Claire about it, the Ramogi grew from the ground where I placed my hand.” “Is that so? Then it’s true. We were able to get the Ramogi because of your gift, Mr. Takumi.” “It appears to be the case.” “Takumi. That story matched what I saw. You are able to make plants grow by just thinking about them. ...It is a useful ability.” Was it really...? What if the Ramogi really had just been there by coincidence. And could growing weeds really be useful? “Oh, and Mr. Takumi also dried the Ramogi once. Is that also part of his Weed Cultivation ability?” “Ah, yes. It dried after I held it. And so it could be used as medicine immediately.” “That must be part of the Weed Cultivation ability as well. So you can change plants so that they are in a state where they can be used for medicine.” “When that happened, I was also thinking about how we could use it immediately if it was only dried.” In other words, I could make plants other than vegetables grow. And I could change them into a state for immediate use... Hmm. It sounded sort of useful, but not that useful... I suppose if I wanted to open up my own medicine shop. “Thank you, Ms. Isabelle. Now I know what my ability is.” “All I did was check your magic energy. Listen to me, Takumi... I have one word of advice.” “What is it?” “A Gift is a special power. It’s up to you how you use it. And you are the only one who can know its true potential. And so you must think about it carefully before using it.” “...Yes. I understand.” ‘Weed Cultivation.’ ...The name had made me think it was pretty useless at first, but perhaps I was wrong. Yes, I would think hard about how I could put this ability to use in the future. “Well, since Mr. Takumi knows about his ability now, it’s time that we take our leave.” “What? You’re leaving already?” “Yes. The sun is coming down. We need to hurry and return to the mansion. Lady Tilura will be waiting.” “I see. But then you must come earlier next time. So we will have plenty of time to talk.” “Yes, we will do that.” “Thank you, Isabelle.” “Ms. Isabelle. Thank you so much.” We thanked Ms. Isabelle and then left the store. Perhaps she was lonely, as she had to run the store by herself. The next time we came to town, I would like to visit her and hear stories about magic tools. We reunited with Leo and Johanna, who were waiting outside, and then we rushed back down the road in the carriage, so as to not keep Tilura waiting too long. Phillip had entered the store with us, but aside from looking a little surprised when he heard about my gift, he waited quietly behind us.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 4, "inserted_lines_src": 0, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
昼の休憩兼勉強会のメンバー増えてから、あっという間に2回ほど授業してみた。トリエラにあげたのと同じ小さい黒板とチョークをリコの分も用意して、というかちょっと塀の中に取りに行った風を装って、新しく追加で作って持ってきて渡して、授業したわけなんだけど...... 正直リコリスのやる気舐めてた。ものすごい覚えが早い。正直トリエラよりも早い目にはもうトリエラの進度に追いついた。トリエラに先を教えながらリコにも教えてたわけだから、リコの覚えの速さがどれだけかわかると思う。「......リコは覚えるのが凄く早いですね。トリエラより早いですよ」「ホント? えへへー、聞いた? トリエラより凄いって!」「調子に乗らないの!」「トリエラ横暴だー!」喧嘩イクナイよー。仲良くしようね? とも基本的な漢字も覚えましたし、あとは難しめの漢字を覚えれば大丈夫でしょう。トリエラもカタカナ覚えたようですし、リコも分からないところはトリエラに聞けば問題ないと思います」「これで資料室で本読めるね!」「うーん、でも難しい漢字はまだ微妙だなあ......分からない漢字は司書さんに聞くしかないかなあ」「以前までと違って全部聞くわけじゃありませんから、そんなに気にしないでいいと思いますよ」「そうかなあ?」「そうですよ」さて、お勉強の時間も終わったし、お昼ご飯にしますかね。今日のメニューはおにぎりです。真ん中に具を入れるタイプじゃなくて炊き込みご飯のおにぎり。おにぎりでございます。後は汁物に豚汁。いや、肉は豚肉じゃなくてオーク肉だからオーク汁? ......なぜだろう、急に卑猥な響きになった気がする。うん、やっぱり豚汁ってことで。「ご飯にしましょう」「わーい! ごっはーん!」二人に手渡しつつ、足元で丸くなってるノルンとベルの分も準備する。みんなたんとお上がり? 最近色々食べさせててわかったのは、ノルンは割と味噌とか醤油系の味付けが好きっぽいということ。だから今日のご飯はかなり好みにストライクの模様。尻尾めっちゃ振りまくってる。ベルは基本何でも食べる。でも苦いのは苦手みたい。 ......色々食べるようになった所為か、最近ノルンが大きくなってる気が......なんか、私乗っても大丈夫そうな気がする。「平気です。それにご飯はみんなで食べたほうが美味しいです」「そうだよー。ご飯はみんなで食べた方が美味しいんだよー!」「リコ、アンタ......はあ、もういいわ。ありがと、レン。頂きます!」「はい、召し上がれ」「今日のご飯も美味しい~」「これ、お米? お米ってこんなに美味しかったっけ? 孤児院に居た時に出てきたときは固くて不味かったよね?」「炊き方にコツがあるんです。慣れれば美味しく炊けますよ」「へえ......お米って小麦より安かったよね? こんなに美味しいならお米買って自炊するほうがいいかな? 今はじゃが芋も安く食べられるし」そうそう、驚いたことに王都だと普通にじゃが芋食べられてるんだよ。政策で数年前から、食料自給率を上げるためにじゃが芋食べるのを勧めてたらしい。保存方法やどこが毒になるのかとか、しっかり教えて回ったとか。でも私達が住んでた街や、ハルーラのほうまでは中々普及してなかったみたい? 国内に普及するまではまだまだ時間が掛かりそう。ちなみに、この政策は国王陛下直々に指揮を執ったらしく、自分の利益の為だけに芽がでたじゃが芋を使った料理を売ったりした場合、最悪の場合は国王の意思に逆らったということで国家反逆罪で死刑になったりしたらしいよ? 芽が出たじゃが芋売って死刑って...... でもそこまでしないと自分のことしか考えない連中ってのは大人しくならないということなんだろうけど、でもじゃが芋で死刑って......なんか凄い。 ......あれ? そういえば前にリリーさんにポテトサラダ食べさせたら泣いちゃったよね? リリーさん、王都にじゃが芋が普及し始めた頃はまだこっち住んでた筈だし......何かあったのかな? もしかして毒に当たったことがある? 「今泊まってる宿だとご飯も出ないし、部屋の隙間風は酷いし......私達は大人数だから、将来的には家を借りるのがいいとは思うんだけどね」「月々の家賃も結構しますから、もう少しお金貯まってからでいいのでは?」「そうだねえ......最低限男女で部屋が分かれてて、台所があれば自炊も出来るから、その位の間取りの家がないか、今のうちから探してみる」「そうですね、冬になる前には借りたほうがいいと思います。家を借りたら教えてください、お米の炊き方教えに行くので」「ありがと!」「ケインはバカだから討伐受けられないのに先に装備整えようとしてるんだよ、ほんとバカだよねー?」「バカですね、本当に」「13歳になる頃には身体も大きくなってるって、普通分かりそうなものだよね? 防具の買い替えだけでどれだけお金掛かると思ってるんだろう? なんであんなに馬鹿なのかな?」「格好つけたいだけじゃないですか? 鎧を着て腰に剣を下げてるのが格好良いと思ってるんでしょう、多分」「あ、きっとそれだ」「やっぱりケイン馬鹿すぎー」「住環境のほうが先だと思うんですけどね、普通は」「今は薬草採取とか雑用くらいしか受けられないんだから、武器なんてせいぜいナイフかダガーくらいで大丈夫でしょ? 基本的にゴブリンとか出てきたら逃げればいいわけだし?」「でもこの間逃げそこなってトリエラが返り討ちにしちゃったでしょ? その所為でやっぱり武器が欲しいって騒いでるんだよねー」「無視しましょう、無視」やっぱりケインはバカということで結論が出た。しかしバカの話題で盛り上がるのも私的にはちょっと微妙なので話題を変えよう。「ああ、そうだ。リコ、ちょっとこっちに来て下さい」「ん? なに?」「これ、リコのダガー造ってみました。防具は......まだちょっと早いと思うので、この皮のマントを」「え、いいの!?」「ちょっと、レン! あんまり甘やかしちゃダメだって!」「トリエラもそうですけど、リコも怪我したら嫌ですよ、私」「それを言われると......」「二人とも拒否権は無いです」「むう」「やったー! 私もレンちゃんの装備げっとー!」なお、ダガーは新造だけど、マントは私が最初に使ってたやつを手直ししてみた。ついでに【隠身】をLV2で付与しておいたので、魔物に襲われにくいはず? え? そんなスキル付与した装備与えたら別の意味で危ないって? それはそうかもしれないんだけど、でもこの位しておかないとこの子、なんだか無茶しそうで危なっかしいんだよ。んー、後はそうだなあ...... 「二人とも、今日はまだ時間大丈夫ですか?」「え? うん、まだ1時間くらいは平気だけど?」「じゃあ、ちょっと魔法教えるので、こっちに来て下さい」「魔法!? レンちゃん魔法使えるようになったの? 凄い!」「むう、レンの進化が留まる所を知らない」うん、魔法を教えてみよう。これなら元手ゼロですむし、覚えることが出来ればちっこいリコでも色々役に立てる。「えっと、まあ、はい。それで今日は取りあえず、魔法覚えるための前準備として【魔力感知】を覚えるところから始めましょう」「いきなりばーんって使えないの?」「そういうのは才能がある人です。私達凡人は地道に行くのです」と言いつつ、実は私は才能あった人。嘘吐いてごめんね? 「二人とも私の手を取って、目を瞑って集中してください。私が魔力を流すので、それを感じ取ってみてくださいね?」魔法習得法に関してはリリーさんの魔法講座で習ったので早速実践してみるのだ! これで今日二人が覚えられなくても、まあ、そこは地道にやっていけばその内覚えられるらしいので、気長に頑張っていただこう。「うーん?」「あー、なんかあったかいような感じがする? ような?」お、調子いい? このまま先に進んでみるかな? 「ではもう一つ先に進みましょう。二人も手をつないで、三人で輪になってください。私がトリエラのほうに魔力を流して、リコを経由して自分に戻すので、その流れを感じ取ってみてください」ちなみにこれ、感知、操作、循環と三段階先まで鍛えるのにずっとやる練習法だったりもする。一人でやる時は自分の中で魔力をぐるぐる回す。そうするとその内【魔力循環】も覚えられる。「あー、なんか流れて行ってるような......?」「リコはどうです? 分かります?」「うん、なんとなくわかったような気がする?」よし、じゃあ次だ。どんどん行くよ。「はい、じゃあ二人とも手を離して、今度は自分の中にある魔力を感じ取ってみましょう」「あ、わたしなんかわかっちゃったかも!」お? リコのほうが才能あるっぽい? ちょっと二人のステータスチェック! トリエラは......うん、【魔力感知】覚えてる。でもLVは0。取りあえず取っ掛かりは覚えた感じかな? リコは......あれ? 「......二人とも覚えたみたいですね。悪いとは思いましたけど、ちょっとステータスを見させてもらいました」「え? あ、もしかして【鑑定】?」「はい。二人とも自分のステータスを見てみてください」「なにかあったの?」「......リコのほうが、少し」「あ! なんか色々増えてる!」「は? 色々?」「ええと、リコは、その......魔法系のレアスキルが......」「ええええ? ホントに!? ちょっと、私【魔力感知】のLV0しか増えてないんだけど!?」「リコは、【魔力感知】がLV2、【魔力操作】がLV0で覚えてます。その上【魔法効果増幅】というスキルが......」魔法の威力や効果を上げるには、スキルレベルを上げるかつぎ込むMPの量を増やせばいいんだけど、【魔法効果増幅】はMPをつぎ込んだ時の威力向上効率を上げる効果があるスキルらしい。初めてみたスキルの効果もわかるんだから【鑑定】便利だわ、マジで。「......と、そういう効果のスキルですね」「わたし、凄い!? もしかして魔法の才能ある!?」「そうですね、才能はあると思います。ただ、どの属性魔法に適性があるのか、魔法系統の資質によっては宝の持ち腐れになる可能性もあるので、ちょっと判断が難しいところですね」「ねえ、レンちゃんの【鑑定】でそういうのってわからないの?」「ええと......」【鑑定】と【解析】を使えばどっちも分かる。「......知りたいですか?」「知りたい! 教えて!」んー......まあ、この先も魔法を教えるのであれば、早めに知っておいても損は無い? かな? と言うわけでれっつ【解析】! ............おおぅ「......非常に言いづらいのですが、属性の適性は、無属性のみです」「..................」「......レン、それっていいの? 悪いの?」「何も無いよりは全然いいです。ただ、他の属性魔法が使えないので、状況に応じて使い分けは出来ませんし、火力も劣ります。ですが無属性はあらゆる状況で使えますから、汎用性は非常に高いです。それに無属性魔法からは他の特殊魔法にも派生しやすいですから、頑張っていけばそちらも覚えることができるかもしれません」無属性魔法からは【回復魔法】【結界魔法】【魔法剣】【強化魔法】【弱化魔法】と、他にも色々派生する。まあこっちもそれぞれに適性が無いとダメだし、別に無属性無くても覚える人は覚えるらしいんだけど、無属性を持ってると覚えやすいらしい。「でも系統適性は全て揃ってますから! 今の時点でも魔力はトリエラより高いですし! それに火力で劣るといっても【魔法効果増幅】で補えますよ! 寧ろ高火力になりますよ!?」と言うか、さっきからリコがうつむいてプルプルしてるんですけど!? え、どうすればいいのこれ!? 「......ちなみに私の適性は?」「基本4属性全部です」あああああ、リコが大きくビクってなった!? 「ちょっとレン!?」「待ってください、私の所為ですか!?」聞いてきたのトリエラじゃん! ひでえ! って、いやいや、今はそれどころじゃない! リコをなんとかせねば! 「ええと、リコ、余り気にしないほうがいいといいますか、こういったものは使い方次第ですので、やり様はいくらでもあるので、そう、相談に乗りますから! ですから、えーっと、なんといえばいいのか」やばい、テンパってきた。どうすればいいんだ。女子供は嫌いじゃないけど、こういうときの対処は苦手だ。しどろもどろ君になっちゃう。なんてトリエラと二人してあわあわしてたら急にリコが頭を上げた。「レンちゃん、ありがとう! わたし、すごい! これでわたしもみんなの役に立てるよ!」「......えっと、リコ、落ち込んでいたのでは?」「落ち込む? なんで?」「いえ、トリエラの適性聞いたときとか」「あー、あれはね、役割が被らなかったから嬉しかったんだよ? わたしとトリエラで適性被ってたらパーティーでの役割も被っちゃうでしょ? それにね、無属性は汎用性があるからどんなときでも使えるってレンちゃん言ったよね? なら、私はどんなときでも役に立てるってことでしょ? それってすごいことだよね?」「はい、そうですね」「大体、元々魔法なんて使えなかったんだから、それが使えるようになるって言うだけで凄いことだよ! レンちゃん、ありがとう! 大好き!」 ......正直、リコのこと甘く見てた。ここまでしっかり考えられるようになってるとは思わなかった。トリエラも驚いたような顔してるし、あっちも似たように思ってたのかも知れない。「リコは、ちゃんと考えてがんばってたんですね」「そうだよー? わたし、ちんちくりんでみんなの足引っ張ってばっかりだから、これでみんなの役に立てるようになれるよ! そこまで言われたら全力を出さざるを得ない! じっくりかわいがってやる! 泣いたり笑ったり出来なくしてやる! 「分かりました。取り敢えず二人は私が居ないときに魔法の練習はしないようにしてください。何かあったときに対処できませんから」「ダメです。魔力が暴走したりした場合、下手したら命に関わりますから」「......わかった、我慢するー」「トリエラ、ちゃんと見張って置いてくださいね」「分かってるよ、レン。この子直ぐ無茶するからね」「もし約束を破ったらもう二度と魔法は教えませんから、そのつもりで」「えー!?」やっぱりこっそりやる気で居たね。こんちきしょーめ。「......言っておきますが、もしやってた場合はわかりますからね?」そんな、チッうっせーな反省してまーす、みたいな言い方されても............凄く不安だ。ちなみにトリエラの系統適性は矢と盾だけでしたとさ。すごいしょんぼりしてたけど、明らかに才能があるリコと比べるのは間違ってるし、攻撃魔法使えない私としてはトリエラの事普通に羨ましいんだけどね?	Two lessons had passed since the number of members for the lunch break and study session increased by one. I prepared the same small blackboard and chalks with what I gave to Triela for Rico. Rather, I pretended to go and take it from my storage even though I made a new one and handed it over to her. With that, I began to teach her, but... To be honest, I was making light of Rico’s motivation. She was a very fast learner. I could even say that she was faster than Triela. In our third study session, she had already caught up with Triela’s progress. Since I taught Rico after teaching Triela first, I could see how fast Rico learned the basics. “...Rico is a very fast learner. You’re even faster than Triela.” “Really? Ehehe, did you hear that? I’m better than Triela!” “Don’t get carried away!” “Triela is being violent~!” You guys shouldn’t quarrel. Let’s get along well, okay? “Both of you have learned the basic kanji. It should be okay for you to start learning difficult kanji. Since Triela already learned katakana, I think it should be okay for Rico to ask Triela if there’s something you don’t understand.” They have learned up to this point, so the rest was up to their determination. Good luck, both of you!“I can read the books in the reference room now, right!” “Hmm, but I’m still not very good with the difficult kanji... I can only ask the librarian for the kanji I don’t understand.” “It’s not like you’re asking them to read the whole text like before, so don’t worry too much.” “Is that so?” “Yes.” Now then. Since the study time was over, how about having our lunch? Today’s menu was rice balls. It wasn’t the type where the ingredients were in the middle, but seasoned rice balls. These rice balls had a mixture of minced vegetables and chicken meat in the rice. The other dish was pork miso soup. But since the meat wasn’t pork but orc meat, so orc soup? ...For some reason, it suddenly sounded indecent. Hmm, let’s just go with pork miso soup. “Let’s eat.” “Yay! Thank you!” While handing the rice ball and miso soup to both of them, I also prepared Norn and Bell’s share. They were curling up on my feet. Eat lots, yeah? What I learned from feeding them a lot of dishes recently was that Norn seemed to like miso and meals with soy sauce. Therefore, today’s lunch hit right on the mark. Norn’s tail was swinging around. Bell basically ate everything. Even so, she didn’t like bitter food. ...I think Norn was getting bigger these days, but it was probably because I fed her a lot of things... I felt like I could even ride her back now.“...You even prepared our meals even after you taught us how to read and write. Is this really okay?” “I don’t mind. Plus, it’s more delicious to eat together.” “That’s right~ It’s more delicious to eat together~!” “Rico, you... Hah, okay then. Thanks, Ren. I’ll gratefully eat it!” “Yes, eat up.” “Today’s meal is delicious too~” “This is rice? Was rice always this delicious? When we ate it in the orphanage, wasn’t it hard and unappetizing?” “There’s a trick in cooking it. Once you get used to it, you can cook it deliciously.” “Hee... Rice is cheaper than wheat, right? Since it’s this delicious, should we buy rice and cook it on our own? It’s also cheaper to eat potatoes nowadays.” Ah, right. Surprisingly, potatoes were normally eaten in the royal capital. Since a few years ago, a policy had recommended eating potatoes to raise food self-sufficiency rate. They taught how to store it and where the poisonous parts were. Even so, it seemed like it wasn’t spread until Harula? It would take some time before they managed to spread the knowledge in the entire kingdom. By the way, this policy seemed to be His Majesty the King’s direct command. Plus, it seemed like selling dishes using potatoes with sprouts for personal gains could be considered as going against the King. In the worst case, they might be sentenced to the death penalty for treason? To think that selling potatoes with sprouts would kill you... I guess if they didn’t do it that way, the guys who only thought about themselves wouldn’t be obedient, but getting a death penalty because of potatoes... it was kind of terrible. ...Oh? Speaking of which, Lily cried when she ate my potato salad before, right? When the potatoes started to spread in the royal capital, she must’ve lived here... Did something happen to her? Maybe she was poisoned before? “The inn we’re staying in doesn’t serve food and the ventilation in the room is terrible... Since our party has a large number of people, I think we should rent a house in the future.” “The monthly rent is quite reasonable, so isn’t it fine to do that after saving up some money?” “Right... At least men and women have separate rooms. If we have a kitchen, we can cook our own meals too. I’ll try to look for a house with that kind of arrangement.” “Well, I think you should rent it before winter. Please tell me when you’re going to rent a house. I’ll teach you how to cook rice.” “Thank you!” “Cain is stupid, so he bought his equipment first even though we can’t take subjugation tasks. He’s really an idiot, isn’t he?” “Yeah, he’s really stupid.” “He should’ve thought that his body will grow bigger by the time he’s thirteen years old, right? Does he understand how expensive it will cost us to buy new armors? Why is he that stupid?” “He probably only wants to look good. Maybe he thought it’s cool to wear armor and hang a sword on his waist.” “Ah, that’s definitely the reason.” “After all, Cain is too much of a fool~” “Usually people will think of their living environment first too.” “We can only collect herbs and do odd jobs right now, so a knife or a dagger should be enough as a weapon, right? Besides, if a goblin appears, we can do nothing but run away.” “But he made a scene when Triela defeated a goblin the other day, right? That’s why he’s so noisy, asking for a weapon~” “Let’s ignore him.” In the end, we came to the conclusion that Cain was stupid. However, I felt a bit complicated to get excited while talking about that fool, so let’s change the topic. “Ah, right. Rico, please come over here first.” “Nn? What?” “I made a dagger for you. For armor... I think it’s still a bit too early for you, so have this leather cloak.” “Eh, is this okay!?” “Hey, Ren! You shouldn’t spoil her too much!” “I’m sure it’s the same for Triela, but I hate it if Rico gets hurt.” “Even if you said that...” “Both of you have no right to refuse.” “Muu.” “Yay! I also got Ren’s equipment!” The dagger was brand new, but I tried to modify the cloak I used in the beginning. I also applied [Concealment] Level there, so it should be hard for the monsters to attack her, I think? Eh? Wasn’t it dangerous in a different sense if I gave her equipment with that kind of skill, you say? That might be the case, but if I didn’t do this much, I felt like this kid would somehow rashly jump into danger. Hmm, after that is... “Do both of you still have some time today?” “Eh? Yeah, we’re still free for around an hour.” “Then I’ll teach you a little magic. Please come here.” “Magic!? We can use magic like Ren? Amazing!” “Muu, I don’t know where Ren’s evolution will stop.” Yeah, let’s teach them magic. With this, they don’t need to pay for anything. And if they can learn it, even the small Rico can be very helpful. “Well, yeah, kind of. For today, let’s start by learning [Mana Sense] as the preparation for learning magic.” “We can’t just immediately use it?” “That’s the case for talented people. We ordinary people have to do it steadily.” Even though I said so, I’m actually a talented person. Sorry for lying~ “Both of you, please take my hand, close your eyes, and focus. I’m pouring my magic to you, so try to sense it, okay?” I learned how to do it from Lily’s magic course, so I should immediately put it into practice! Even if both of them couldn’t learn it today, well, it seemed like they would be able to learn it before long if they practiced steadily. For now, let’s patiently keep at it. “Hmm?” “Ahh, I feel something kind of warm? I think?” Oh, that went well? Should I keep going? “Then let’s take one step further. Hold both of your hands together and let’s make a circle together. I’ll pour my magic to Triela and return it back through Rico. Please sense the flow.” By the way, this was a practicing method I did all the time to train up to the three stages of perception, operation, and circulation. When I did it alone, I circulated my magic power within my body. Having done that, I eventually learned [Mana Circulation]. “Ah, something seems to be flowing...?” “How about Rico? Do you understand?” “Yeah, I feel like I understand it somehow?” Okay, then we’ll go to the next stage. Let’s go steadily. “Okay, now release both of your hands and try to sense the magic power within your own body.” “Ah, I think I get it!” Oh? Seems like Rico was more talented? Let’s check both of your statuses then! Triela... Yeah, she learned [Mana Sense]. But the level was zero. For the time being, she had picked up on how to start. Rico was... eh? “...Both of you have learned it, eh. I feel a bit bad, but I checked your statuses for a moment.” “Eh? Ah, are you using [Appraisal]?” “Yes. Please take a look at your status.” “What happened?” “...Rico is a bit...” “Ah! A lot of things are increasing!” “What? A lot?” “Um, Rico has... talent in rare magic skill...” “Ehhh? Seriously!? Wait, I only learned level zero of [Mana Sense], though!?” “Rico learned level two of [Mana Sense] and level zero of [Mana Control]. In addition, she has a skill called [Magic Effect Amplification]...” In order to increase the power and effect of magic, one should raise the skill level or increase the amount of MP used for the magic, but [Magic Effect Amplification] seemed to be a skill that increased the effect by inputting less MP on it. [Appraisal] sure was convenient since I could see the effect of the skill I saw for the first time. “...like that. It’s a skill with that kind of effect.” “I’m amazing!? Maybe I have a talent for magic!?” “Right, I think you have a talent. However, it will depend on the attribute magic you are suited for and the nature of your magic. There is a possibility that it can be a waste of talent, so it’s a bit hard to judge.” “Hey, Ren’s [Appraisal] can’t tell that too?” “Uh...” I could know both of that by using [Appraisal] and [Analyze]. “...Do you want to know?” “I want to! Please tell me!” Hmm... Since I was going to teach them magic in the future, it would be worthwhile to know it early, right? Maybe? Oh well, [Analyze]! ...Ohh. “...It’s very hard for me to say this, but your attribute aptitude is only for non-attribute.” “......” “...Ren, is that good? Or bad?” “It’s better than nothing. However, since Rico can’t use other attribute magic, she might be unable to use it depending on the situation, and the firepower falls behind. But since non-attribute can be used in all circumstances, it has an extremely all-purpose nature. Plus, since it’s easy to derive from non-attribute magic to other unique magic, she may be able to learn those as well if she does her best.” From the non-attribute magic, there were various other derivations such as [Recovery Magic], [Barrier Magic], [Magic Sword], [Magic Enhancement], and [Magic Weakening]. Well, it’s useless if the user had no aptitude for each of them, and people without aptitude for non-attribute could learn it as well. Even so, having an aptitude for non-attribute made it easier to learn. “But you have talent, Rico! Even now, your magic power is higher than Triela! And even if your firepower is inferior, you can supplement it with [Magic Effect Amplification! Rather, your firepower will become high, you know!?” I mean, Rico had been casting her eyes down and slightly trembled for a while, okay!? What should I do now!? “...By the way, what is my aptitude?” “All of the basic four attributes.” Ahhh, Rico’s trembling had increased in intensity!? “Hey, Ren!?” “Wait, is it my fault!?” Wasn’t it Triela who asked me that!? So cruel! No, no, that’s not what important now! I have to do something about Rico! “Um, Rico. You don’t have to worry too much. These things depend on how you use them, and there are many ways to utilize them. Right, you can consult with me! So, uhh, what should I say here?” Oh no, I’m at my wits’ end. What should I do? I didn’t hate little girls, but I wasn’t good at dealing with situations like this. I would become flustered like this. As Triela and I panicked, Rico suddenly raised her head. “Thank you, Ren! I’m amazing! With this, I can help everyone!” “...Eh, Rico, you’re not sad?” “Sad? Why?” “Er, you didn’t feel anything when you heard about Triela’s aptitude?” “Ah, I’m happy that we have the same duties, you know? If I have the same aptitude with Triela, my role won’t be that important in the party, right? Also, Ren said that my non-attribute is versatile, I can use it at any time, right? Then I can be useful at any time. Isn’t that great?” “Yes, that’s right.” “Originally, I couldn’t use magic, so it’s already amazing that you told me I could use it! Ren, thank you! I love you!” ...I honestly took Rico too lightly. I didn’t expect that she would be this reliable. Triela also looked surprised. Probably, she had a similar impression to me. “Rico is thinking over it well. I can see you have been working hard.” “That’s right! Since I’m short, I keep pulling everyone’s legs. But now I can be useful for everyone! That’s why, please teach me more about magic! Please, Teacher Ren!” Since she already said it like that, I had to give it my all! I’ll pamper her properly! I’ll make sure she won’t be able to cry or laugh! “I understand. First off, both of you can’t practice without me. If I’m not watching, you won’t be able to deal with it.” “You can’t. Once your magic power goes out of control, it will be fatal if you’re careless.” “...Okay, I’ll endure it.” “Triela, please look out on Rico as well.” “I know, Ren. This kid will do something rash before long.” “If you break your promise, I won’t teach you magic again. So heed my warning.” “Eh!?” As I thought, she was planning to do it secretly, eh. Jesus. “...I’ll say this as a warning. I’ll know if you’re secretly training, okay?” Why did she reply to me like she’s saying, “Tsk, so noisy. I won’t listen to you,”... She’s making me really anxious. By the way, Triela only had an aptitude for arrows and shields nature. She was really downhearted, but she shouldn’t compare herself to Rico who was obviously talented. Plus, I’m envious of Triela since I couldn’t use attack magic, okay?	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 3, "inserted_lines_src": 4, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
とうとうやってきたコミケ出発の日。僕は新幹線に乗ーーーる事はなく、薫さんの車で薫さんと由良さんと僕の3人で向かう事になった。とてもありがたいのだけど本当にいいのかな? でもあそこまで強に行こうと言われると流石に断りきれないよ・・・そして今僕は車に揺られながら向かっている訳なんですが・・・「あ、ありがとうございます?」「もう私の妹になってよ!!」「いや僕男ですよ!?」何故か由良さんで後部座席に乗る事になっていた。滅茶苦茶頭撫でてくるのはなんでなの!? 「むぅ、由良、優希くんが暑そうにしてるよ?」「えっ!?そ、そんなこと無いよね!?」「あ、暑くは無いですけど・・・頭撫でられるのは恥ずかしいので・・・」「あぁぁぁ!もう!そんな事で照れる所も可愛いなぁ!!」「ど、どうすればいいんですかぁ!!」「由良、落ち着いて!? 車めっちゃ揺れてるから!!」「あ、ごめんね・・・」しょんぼりとしながら元の位置に戻った由良さん。それからはゆったりとした時間が流れていき気付けば由良さんは眠ってしまったようだった。「あ、由良寝ちゃったんだ。」「みたいですね。」「今日は色々楽しみにしていたみたいだったから・・・」「何がそんなに楽しみだったんですか?」「うーん、優希くんにとっていい話ではないかもしれないけど、由良って末っ子なんだよね。」「弟とか妹っていう存在に憧れてたみたいでね、優希くんを擬似的な弟や妹に見立ててるんだと私は思うんだ。」「ま、まぁ年下なのは間違い無いですけど・・・」「流石に本当に嫌だなって思うような事する子では無いから優希くんに付き合えるレベルでいいから付き合ってあげてくれると嬉しいな。」「まぁ、少しくらいなら・・・」人によっては望む所なんだろうけど僕は恥ずかしさが先に来てしまうタイプだから、過剰なスキンシップはちょっと僕の心臓に悪いかな。それに男と思われてないっていうのも地味に傷つくんだ・・・でも、僕なんかで幸せな気分になって貰えるのならそれはそれで嬉しいのも事実だけど。「まだまだ道は長いから優希くんも眠くなったら寝ても大丈夫だからね。」「はい!でもまだ大丈夫ですよ!」でお昼休憩にしよっか?」「はい!」そして車は無事に次の大きなSAに到着した。そこは餃子が有名な土地のSAで飲食店にも餃子がメニューに入っていた。僕達は皆揃って餃子を頼んで小腹を満たすと飲み物を買ったりトイレを済ませたりした。途中で行きたくなると地獄だからこういう行ける時に行っておくのはとても大事なんだよね。そしてこのSAから由良さんが運転手を務めるらしい。・・・まさか。「(やっぱりこうなったか・・・)」僕の隣に座る薫さんを見ながらやっぱりか、と思った。そして僕の想像を遥かに上にいく事態が起きる。ぎゅっそんな音がしたわけでも無いけれどそんな擬音がぴったり状況になった。僕は薫さんに抱きしめられていた。「!?!?」「すぅ...すぅ...」「ね、寝てる、んですか?」「あーお姉ちゃんのハグ癖治ってなかったんだ・・・」「ハグ癖って何ですか!?」「えっと、抱き枕とかが無いと熟睡出来ない人とかって世の中にはいるよね?」「確かにたまにそういう人が居るって聞きますけど・・・」「お姉ちゃんの場合は意識が無い時近くにある物を抱きしめる癖があるの・・・」癖なら仕方ないか、と思っていたのも束の間あの、色々当たっちゃいけない物が!!! 「すぅ...」幸せそうな寝顔の薫さんを見ると起こす気にもなれなかったので必死に我慢した。抱きしめられている心地よさからか僕は意識を失った。「むんっ・・・?」一瞬車が大きく揺れて僕は意識を再び取り戻した。そのとき僕の顔に何か柔らかいものが当たった気がした。気のせいじゃなかった。薫さんが僕のことを抱きしめたままだった。僕の顔は薫さんの胸元にすっぽりと入っていた。さっきよりも悪化してる気がするよこの体勢!? 「むぐ!?」「ん?なにかあっt・・・」僕が思わず声を上げると薫さんも目が覚めたらしい。「むぐぅ!!」「あ、あ、ご、ごめんね優希くん!?」僕に謝るのと同時に僕を離した薫さんは顔が心なしか赤くなっていた。「ぷはっ、あの、その、抱きしめるのはまだいいですけど、いや良くはないんですけど、僕も一応男なんですよ・・・!」「頭では分かってても不思議と優希くんならいいかなって思っちゃって・・・ごめんね。」男は狼って言うくらいなんですよ! 僕がそんな人間だったらどうするんですか!」「(優希くんが狼・・・ありかも。)」「何か言いました・・・?」「何二人でイチャイチャしてるのさー」「イチャイチャはしてないですよ!?」「息ぴったりじゃん・・・まぁいいけど、渋滞に巻き込まれちゃったからもうちょっと時間かかるからあれだったら寝てても大丈夫だよー」「うん、分かった、由良よろしくね。」「ふぁ・・・すいません、お願いします・・・。」「「おやすみ、優希くん。」」この後滅茶苦茶目的地に着いた。	Finally, the day to depart for Comiket has arrived. Instead of taking the bullet train, I ended up going with Kaoru-san and Yura-san in their car. I’m grateful, but aren’t I imposing too much on them? But when they insist so firmly on going together, I can’t exactly refuse... And now, as I’m being jostled in the car... “T-Thank you?” “Why don’t you just become my little sister?” “But I’m a guy!” For some reason, Yura-san and I are in the back seat together. And why does she keep patting my head so much?! “Um, Yura, I think Yuki-kun is starting to feel hot.” “Huh?! Not to me, though?” “Well, I’m not hot, but... being patted on the head is a bit embarrassing...” “Ahhhhh! You’re cute when you’re embarrassed too!!!” “W-What do you want me to do?!” “Yura, calm down! The car is shaking a lot!” “Oops, sorry...” Yura-san returns to her original position, looking a bit downcast. From there, time passed leisurely, and before I knew it, Yura-san had fallen asleep. “Ah, Yura fell asleep.” “It seems so.” “She seemed to be looking forward to today...” “What was she looking forward to?” “Hmm, it might not be a pleasant story for you, Yuki-kun, but Yura is the youngest child.” “She admired the idea of having a younger brother or sister, and I think she sees you as a surrogate younger sibling.” “W-Well, I am younger...” “She’s not the type to do anything that would upset you, so I’d appreciate it if you could indulge her to some extent.” “A little bit won’t hurt, I guess...” Some people might wish for this, but I’m the type who gets embarrassed first. Excessive physical contact might be a little bad for my heart. And it’s also a bit hurtful to be not seen as a guy... But if I can make them happy, then that’s a good thing too. “We’ve got a long way to go, so feel free to sleep if you get tired, Yuki-kun.” “Okay! But I can still keep going!” “All right, let’s take a lunch break at the next service area then, shall we?” “Okay!” And so, the car safely arrived at the next large service area. This was a service area in a region known for its dumplings, which were on the restaurant’s menu. We all ordered dumplings to fill our stomachs, bought drinks, and used the restroom. It’s hell when you feel the urge to go once you’re on the road, so it’s essential to go when you can. It seems that Yura-san will be driving from this service area. Don’t tell me... “(So, it has come to this, after all...)” I thought, glancing at Kaoru-san, who was sitting next to me. Then, a situation far beyond my imagination took place. Squeeze. There wasn’t such a sound, but it perfectly described the situation. Kaoru-san is hugging me. “?!?!” “Zzz...zzz...” “A-Are you asleep?” “Ah, so her hugging habit hasn’t been cured...” “What do you mean by ‘hugging habit’?!” “Um, you know some people in the world who can’t sleep deeply unless they have a body pillow or something, right?” “I do hear about such people occasionally...” “In my sister’s case, she has a habit of hugging anything close to her when she’s unconscious...” she adds with a bitter smile, not expecting people could be targets too. I thought it couldn’t be helped since it was a habit, but wait a moment... There are certain things that shouldn’t be touching! “Zzz...” Seeing Kaoru-san’s peaceful sleeping face, I didn’t have the heart to wake her up, so I endured. Perhaps due to the comfort of being hugged, I lost consciousness. “Mmm...?” The car jolts a bit, bringing me back to my senses. At that moment, I felt something soft against my face. It wasn’t my imagination. Kaoru-san is still hugging me. My face is buried in her chest. This position feels even worse than before! “Mmph?!” “Hm? Did someth...” When I unintentionally raised my voice, it seemed Kaoru-san woke up too. “Mmbh!!!” “O-Oh, I-I’m sorry, Yuki-kun!” As she apologizes and lets go of me, Kaoru-san’s face is slightly red. “Pwah- U-Um, hugging is still fine...Okay, maybe not really, but let’s not forget I’m still a guy, so...!” “I know that in my head, but for some reason, I thought it was okay because it was you... I’m sorry.” You know they say all men are wolves! What if I was that kind of person?!” “(Yuki-kun being a wolf... that could be.)” “Did you say something...?” “What are you two flirting about?” “We are not flirting!” “You’re perfectly in sync... Anyway, it doesn’t matter, we’re stuck in traffic, so it’ll take a bit longer. Feel free to sleep some more if you want.” “Got it, Yura, thanks.” “Um... sorry, and thank you...” “Good night, Yuki-kun.” After that, we finally arrived at our destination in a mess.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 7, "inserted_lines_src": 3, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
私は分子生物学者ですがこのような細胞・分子過程を表す細胞・分子過程を表すモデル図を多数見てきましたこの絵が示すのはクラスリン媒介エンドサイトーシスと呼ばれるもので細胞外の分子が泡のような被覆小胞で細胞内に取り込まれ細胞の一部になる過程ですしかしこの絵には問題がありその殆どがこれでは表現しきれていないということです多くの実験やあらゆる科学者によりこれらの分子がどんなもので細胞の中でどのように動き回るかそしてそれらが非常にダイナミックな環境で起きている事などが分かっていますそれでクラスリン専門家のトーマス・カークハゥゼンの協力を得て全てが分かる新しいモデルを作る事にしましたそれで細胞の外から始め今細胞内を見ていますクラスリンは三脚巴構造でサッカーボールの様な形に自己組織化します細胞膜に接し細胞膜をコップ型から泡の様な小胞に変え細胞の外にあるタンパク質と結合します結合したタンパク質はその小胞を細胞膜から切り離しますクラスリンの役目はこれで終わった様なものですその後タンパク質は細胞内へこれらを黄色とオレンジ色にしましたクラスリン脱離の原因ですこれらのタンパク質は殆どが再使用されますこれらのタンパク質は殆どが再使用されますこれらの過程は極微でどんなに優れた顕微鏡でも見えませんでしたそれで仮説上の過程を可視化するにはこのようなアニメーションが実に効果的ですこれは別の図ですが研究者の想像したものを描いたもので HIVウイルスが細胞を出たり入ったりしている所ですこれはあまりに単純化されたものでこれでは今明らかになっている細胞過程と呼ぶにはほど遠いものです驚かれると思いますがこれらの単純な図は殆どの生物学者が分子レベルの仮説を可視化できる唯一の方法ですどうしてでしょう? 予測される分子過程の動画を作る事はとても難しいからです何ヶ月もハリウッドで 3Dアニメーションソフトを学び 1つのアニメーションに何ヶ月もかけました問題は研究者にはそんな時間がない事ですでもその甲斐は十分にありますアニメーションほどこれほど詳細にしかも正確に分子過程の情報を多くの人々に伝えられるものはありません今新しいプロジェクト「HIVの科学」に携わっています HIVウイルスのライフサイクルの全てを分子レベルでできる限り正確にアニメーション化する計画です分子レベルでできる限り正確にアニメーション化する計画ですアニメーションに織り込まれるのは研究者が過去何十年も掛かり集めた何千ものデータからのウイルスの様子やウイルスがヒト細胞を感染させる様子や治療で感染と闘う様子などです過去何年間で分かった事はアニメーションはアイデアを伝えるのに有用なだけでなく仮説を探るのにとても役に立ちます生物学者は殆ど未だに紙と鉛筆を使って研究過程を可視化していますが今のデータを表すにはもうそれでは十分ではないのですアニメーションを作ることで研究者は自分たちのアイデアを精密に具体化できるのです過去に関わった神経変性疾患の分子構造の研究をしているある研究者は私と共に作製したアニメーションに直接関連した実験を考え出しましたこのようにアニメーションは研究者にインスピレーションを与えてくれますアニメーションで生物学が変わると信じていますアニメーションを通して私たち研究者の関わり方データの探索の仕方クラスでの教え方を変えることができますしかしそうなるにはもっと多くの研究者がアニメーションを作る必要がありますそれを目指して生物学者、アニメーション作成者プログラマーと共に新しい自由なオープンソースのソフト「分子パラパラ本」と名付た生物学者だけのための分子アニメーション制作ソフトを作りましたテストしてこんなことが分かりましたアニメーションソフトを使った事のない研究者でも自分達の研究における仮説を初めて分子アニメーションにするのに 15分しか掛かりませんでしたまた誰でも見れダウンロードでき自分のアニメーションを投稿できるオンライン・データベースも私たちは作っていますダウンドロード可能な分子アニメーションのソフトツールキットが今日ベータ版で公開される事をお知らせできてとても嬉しいですついに自分たちのモデルをアニメーション化できる事で生物学者の皆さんが何を作れるか又どんな洞察が得られるかととても心がときめいていますありがとうございました	I'm a molecular biologist by training, and I've seen a lot of these kinds of drawings. They're usually referred to as a model figure, a drawing that shows how we think a cellular or molecular process occurs. This particular drawing is of a process called clathrin-mediated endocytosis. It's a process by which a molecule can get from the outside of the cell to the inside by getting captured in a bubble or a vesicle that then gets internalized by the cell. There's a problem with this drawing, though, and it's mainly in what it doesn't show. From lots of experiments, from lots of different scientists, we know a lot about what these molecules look like, how they move around in the cell, and that this is all taking place in an incredibly dynamic environment. So in collaboration with a clathrin expert Tomas Kirchhausen, we decided to create a new kind of model figure that showed all of that. So we start outside of the cell. Now we're looking inside. Clathrin are these three-legged molecules that can self-assemble into soccer-ball-like shapes. Through connections with a membrane, clathrin is able to deform the membrane and form this sort of a cup that forms this sort of a bubble, or a vesicle, that's now capturing some of the proteins that were outside of the cell. Proteins are coming in now that basically pinch off this vesicle, making it separate from the rest of the membrane, and now clathrin is basically done with its job, and so proteins are coming in now — we've covered them yellow and orange — that are responsible for taking apart this clathrin cage. And so all of these proteins can get basically recycled and used all over again. These processes are too small to be seen directly, even with the best microscopes, so animations like this provide a really powerful way of visualizing a hypothesis. Here's another illustration, and this is a drawing of how a researcher might think that the HIV virus gets into and out of cells. And again, this is a vast oversimplification and doesn't begin to show what we actually know about these processes. You might be surprised to know that these simple drawings are the only way that most biologists visualize their molecular hypotheses. Why? Because creating movies of processes as we think they actually occur is really hard. I spent months in Hollywood learning 3D animation software, and I spend months on each animation, and that's just time that most researchers can't afford. The payoffs can be huge, though. Molecular animations are unparalleled in their ability to convey a great deal of information to broad audiences with extreme accuracy. And I'm working on a new project now called "The Science of HIV" where I'll be animating the entire life cycle of the HIV virus as accurately as possible and all in molecular detail. The animation will feature data from thousands of researchers collected over decades, data on what this virus looks like, how it's able to infect cells in our body, and how therapeutics are helping to combat infection. Over the years, I found that animations aren't just useful for communicating an idea, but they're also really useful for exploring a hypothesis. Biologists for the most part are still using a paper and pencil to visualize the processes they study, and with the data we have now, that's just not good enough anymore. The process of creating an animation can act as a catalyst that allows researchers to crystalize and refine their own ideas. One researcher I worked with who works on the molecular mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases came up with experiments that were related directly to the animation that she and I worked on together, and in this way, animation can feed back into the research process. I believe that animation can change biology. It can change the way that we communicate with one another, how we explore our data and how we teach our students. But for that change to happen, we need more researchers creating animations, and toward that end, I brought together a team of biologists, animators and programmers to create a new, free, open-source software — we call it Molecular Flipbook — that's created just for biologists just to create molecular animations. From our testing, we've found that it only takes 15 minutes for a biologist who has never touched animation software before to create her first molecular animation of her own hypothesis. where anyone can view, download and contribute their own animations. We're really excited to announce that the beta version of the molecular animation software toolkit will be available for download today. We are really excited to see what biologists will create with it and what new insights they're able to gain from finally being able to animate their own model figures. 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朝起きると、ミトロフは腕の調子を確かめた。右腕の筋を痛めていたために迷宮探索を休止していたが、既に痛みはない。これならば迷宮に行っても問題はないのでは、と考えた。身体を休めるという意味で、休日は良いものである。ミトロフの身体からは疲れも抜けている。しかし心が休まるかと言えば別の問題だ。心に移りゆく由無し事を書き留めるよりも、魔物と戦うことに専心しているほうが休まるということもあるらしい。ミトロフは迷宮探索用の作業着に着替えると、左腕に革のガントレットを着け、刺突剣を剣帯に留めた。ブーツの紐を丁寧に結びながら、カヌレを誘うべきかと考えた。医者に間はおとなしくするようにと言われている。カヌレもそれを支持しているし、彼女は生真面目な性格だ。心配してくれている。ミトロフがもう治ったと言っても、医者の言葉を優先するだろう。「......少しだけ、身体を動かすだけだ」虚空に言い訳をするように呟いて、ミトロフは部屋を出た。深くまで潜るつもりはない。ごく浅い階層を歩いて回る。戦闘も無理はしない。腕の調子を確かめる訓練だ。だったら、カヌレに了承を得る必要もあるまい。言い訳を並べてみると、自分の行為は悪くないように思えてくる。そうだ、誰にだって運動をする権利はある。ぼくには痩せるための運動も必要だしな、と。ギルドに向かえば、行き交うのは冒険者ばかりである。そこに自分も所属しているという意識が、ミトロフをほっとさせた。自分の寄る辺はここであるという安心感を覚えている。迷宮に入るための手続きにカウンターを探せば、いつもの受付嬢がいる。大きな丸眼鏡を鼻先にずらしたまま、受付嬢はミトロフに笑みを浮かべた。「ミトロフさん、今日はおひとりですか?」「ああ、浅い階層を歩いてみるつもりなんだ。運動に。あと、腕の調子を確かめようと思って」知らず、聞かれてもいないのに言い訳じみてしまうのは、カヌレに対するちょっとした罪悪感があるからかもしれなかった。受付嬢は「はあ」と曖昧な笑みで答えて、ミトロフから冒険者カードを受け取った。迷宮に入る冒険者は、必ずここで手続きを行う。誰が、何人で、何のために、どの階層に向かうのか。そうしたことを記録している。「おかえりはどの程度にしましょうか」「昼過ぎには戻ると思う。腹が減るから」「かしこまりました」受付嬢はさらさらと書類に書き込む。「いつも帰りの時間を聞かれるが、過ぎたらどうなるんだ?」「24時間が過ぎてもお戻りにならない場合は、捜索隊を派遣することになっています」「それは、親切なことだな」「ええ、まあ」と、受付嬢は苦笑した。含みのある言葉の濁し方にミトロフが首を傾げると、受付嬢は眉を下げて答える。「迷宮での未帰還ということは、ほとんど亡くなっているということですから。たいていは遺体か、身柄を特定できるものを探すということになります。それでも時には、怪我をしたまま動けないでいる方もいらっしゃいますから」「そうか......そうだな。迷宮で動けなくなれば、命は長くはないか」「運よく他の冒険者さんや、”迷宮の人々”が見つけてくださればいいのですけれど」「”迷宮の人々”が助けてくれるのか?」「あまり公にはされていないのですが、冒険者を助けていただいているんですよ。ええと、暗黙の了解と言いますか」あやふやな言い方になるのは、大人の事情が絡んでいる、ということらしい。ブラン・マンジェは冒険者を助けているのか、とミトロフは考える。彼女自身、なにを考え、どんな目的があるのか、ミトロフには判然としない。しかし悪い人間ではない、という気がしている。クエストの対価に”アンバール”をもらった恩もある。もう少しちゃんと話を聞いてみるべきかな、と悩みながら、受付嬢からカードを受け取り、迷宮に潜る。薄暗い迷宮の中をひとりで歩きながら、ミトロフは新鮮な気持ちを感じていた。思えばこうしてひとりで進むのは、初めて来て以来のことだった。命の危機を救われて、グラシエとパーティーを組んだ。カヌレを加えとなり、グラシエが里に戻ってからはカヌレとふたりになった。グラシエが戻ってきたいま、孤児院の問題さえ片付けば、また三人でここを歩くと思っていた。それが自然な形である、と。しかしグラシエの姉であるラティエが心配する通り、迷宮とは危険な場所だ。ミトロフは他に生きる糧を稼ぐ術を持たない。カヌレは迷宮の中に呪いを解く手がかりを求めている。だが、グラシエにはもう、迷宮で危険を冒す理由がない。グラシエのために、ミトロフは貴族の蒐集家と交渉をした。ふたりで見つけた貴重な迷宮の遺物と交換で得た薬の材料を、そのままグラシエに渡した。グラシエはミトロフに借りがあると思っている。では、その借りを返してもらうまでは、一緒に冒険をしようという話運びになるのだろうか。歩きながら考え、魔物と出会えば思考は平静となる。時折に出くわす魔物を危うげなく倒していく。かつてはあれほどに怯え、肩に力をこめて必死に戦っていた相手であっても、今となっては落ち着いて対処できる相手である。そこに自分の成長と、時間の流れを感じた。迷宮を歩いていると、他の冒険者とすれ違う。初心者らしいパーティーが疲れ果てた顔で帰ってくる。火守りの男が、壁に掛かったランタンに油を継ぎ足して回っている。迷宮の中ではなにかもが単純化されている。魔物を倒し、歩き、帰る。それだけでいい。それがミトロフにとっては気楽だった。ミトロフは階段を降りる。ひとりで魔物と戦っていく。まだいける、まだ大丈夫だ......まだ、まだ、と足を延ばすうちに、ミトロフは地下5階の奥まで進んでいた。階下に繋がる階段に向かう道と”守護者”の部屋に繋がる道との分岐に立ち、ミトロフは折り返すべきかと悩んでいた。よく身体を動かし、気晴らしのようにもなった。地下6階からはとなる。敵の手強さも増し、ひとりで進むには不安が残る。ミトロフの右腕もまた肘のあたりが熱を持っているようで、ぴりぴりとした痛みの前兆を感じさせた。無理をして痛めては馬鹿らしい。ミトロフはここで戻ろうと決めた。しかしふと、”守護者”の部屋に繋がる通路に気が取られた。迷宮には不思議な規則があり、そのひとつが5階ごとに存在する”守護者”と呼ばれる強力な魔物である。”守護者”を倒さずとも階下には進める形式上、冒険者にとっては力試しと箔付けの様相となっている。 5階の”守護者”は、”緋熊”と呼ばれる巨体の熊であるらしい。ミトロフはその右腕だけを目にしたことがある。ミトロフが死闘を繰り広げた”赤目のトロル”––––魔物でありながら”昇華”を得た変異体とも呼ばれる魔物が”緋熊”を討ち倒し、その右腕を武器として振るったのである。 ”赤目のトロル”はその右腕の爪を叩きつけることで守護者の部屋の床を掘り進め、ついには穴を開けてしまった。それほどに”緋熊”の爪は鋭く、強靭であった。ギルドは早急に穴を塞いだ。しかし奇妙なことに、それ以来、”緋熊”が現れなくなったという話を、ミトロフは耳にしていた。ギルドは原因の究明と称して部屋を閉鎖しているが、そもそもなにも分かっていない迷宮のことだ、調べたって分かるもんか––––冒険者たちはそう言って笑っている。力自慢の物好きくらいしか用のない”守護者”の一匹が気まぐれに姿を消したとしても、大勢の冒険者の生活にはなにも影響がない証である。ミトロフの前にある通路には、その噂の証のように、立ち入り禁止を示す立て札が設けられていた。 ”守護者”がいなくなった部屋に用があるものはいない。まあ、いたとしても行くつもりはないのだが......と。ミトロフは目を細めた。丸っこい耳をぴくぴくと動かし、それが幻聴ではないのか確かめるために呼吸を止めた。「––––歌、か?」通路の奥から微かに残響している。冬の季節に木戸の隙間風がそう聞こえることがあるように、不明瞭で不安定で、しかし旋律になっている。気のせい、だろうか。だがやけに気になるのはなぜだろう、とミトロフはうなじに手を当てた。襟足から襟首の間がぴりぴりと痺れる。勘、というものを、ミトロフはあまり信じていない。悪いことは唐突に起きるものだし、良いことはそうそう起きないものだ。それを事前に察知するというのは偶然でしかない。一日に百回でも、悪い予感がする、と言っておけば、そのうちに当たるものだ。だが今ばかりは奇妙なほどの実感を持って、”悪い予感”が後ろ首を撫でている。いや、気にするまい、とミトロフは首を横に振った。なにもいないはずの部屋から歌が聞こえるなど、酔っ払いの戯言のようだ。来た道を引き返して数歩を歩き、そこで立ち止まった。「......確かめにいくだけだ。どうせなにもいない」それは立入禁止区域に入ることへの罪悪感ではなく、自分へ言い聞かせるものだ。ミトロフは足早に”守護者”の部屋へ向かう通路に足を進めた。右手は柄に添えたまま、闇の中に誰かが潜んでいないか、静かに確かめる。火守りもここには入らないらしい。壁掛けのランタンに火は入っていない。どんどん暗闇が深くなり、ミトロフは足を止め、背荷物から持ち歩き用のランタンを取り出し、明かりを灯した。眼前に掲げながら進んでいくほどに、幻聴ではなかったと分かる。今ではもう、はっきりと歌が聞こえていた。とある海にはセイレーンと呼ばれる精霊がいるという。人魚とも称される女性の姿をしたセイレーンは、美しい歌声で船乗りたちを惑わせる。しかし今、ミトロフが耳にしているのは、聞くに耐えない歌声だった。旋律は不調子で音量の安定もなく、金属が擦れ合うような不快な響きをしている。耳から入り込んだそれはミトロフの背中に氷の棘を流し込むようで、どうしてか寒気が込み上げている。それでも、これは歌なのだ。通路の先にはささやかな広間と、無骨な両開きの扉があった。人の気配はなく、まるで廃墟のように忘れ去られた空気に満ちている。ここで引き返して、ギルドに報告をするのが正しい判断だろうかと考えながらも、それでも扉に手を当ててしまったのは、ひとつの好奇心に唆されたからと言える。扉の向こうに何かが、あるいは誰かがいる。それがいったい何なのか......怖いもの見たさがミトロフを突き動かしている。扉を押した。見た目は重たげな石の扉のように思えるが、体重を預けるようにして押し進めば、ざりざりと地面を擦りながら隙間ができた。歌声がぴたりと止まった。ミトロフも一度、動きを止めた。わずかな迷いの後に扉をさらに押し込み、ランタンを差し込みながら室内を覗いた。光も差し込まない守護者の広間には静けさと暗闇だけが満ちていた。ミトロフの首から背筋までがぴりぴりと痺れている。何かがいる、そんな気がした。戻るべきだ、と平静な精神が伝えている。それでもミトロフは中に進んでいく。ランタンを掲げ、その場でぐるりと回る。周囲を観察するための動作は、身に染み付いたダンスのステップのように滑らかだった。部屋を照らすにはあまりにか弱いランタンでは、守護者の広間を全体を確かめることも難しい。ミトロフは動きを止めた。何かが動く物音がしないかと、息を潜めた。頬に汗がひとしずく、流れ落ちる。歌声は消えている。なにもいない。ふう、と息を吐く。「直感というのもあまり当てにならないか」帰ろうと踵を返して、ミトロフは肩を跳ね上げた。誰もいなかったはずの場所に異形の老婆が立っていた。	When Mitrof woke up in the morning, he checked the condition of his arm. He had been resting from exploring the labyrinth due to a strain in his right arm muscles, but now the pain was gone. He thought that he could go to the labyrinth without any problems. Rest days were good for resting the body. Mitrof’s body was no longer tired. However, it was a different matter if the heart could rest. It seemed that it was more restful to focus on fighting monsters than to write down things that absentmindedly shift to the heart. Mitrof changed into his work clothes for labyrinth exploration, put on a leather gauntlet on his left arm, and attached a thrusting sword to his sword belt. While carefully tying his boot laces, he considered inviting Canule. The doctor had told him to rest quietly for a week. Canule also supported that, and she was a serious person. She worries about him. Even if Mitrof said that he was already cured, she would prioritize the doctor’s words. “...I’ll just move my body a little.” Muttering excuses to the emptiness, Mitrof left the room. He had no intention of delving too deep, only walking around the shallow levels. He wouldn’t push himself too hard in battle. This was simply to check the condition of his arms. But then, he realized he needed to get Canule’s permission. When he lined up his excuses, his actions didn’t seem so bad. Yes, everyone has the right to exercise. He needed to exercise to lose weight. If he went to the guild, he would only see other adventurers bustling around. Being a member of that community made Mitrof feel at ease. He felt a sense of security knowing that this was his place to belong. When he looked for the counter to enter the labyrinth, the usual receptionist was there. The receptionist smiled at Mitrof with her large round glasses still on her nose. “Mitrof-san, are you alone today?” “Yeah, I plan on walking around the shallow levels—just for exercise and to check the condition of my arms.” Maybe it was because of a little sense of guilt towards Canule that Mitrof found himself making excuses without being asked. The receptionist answered with a vague smile, “Okay,” and took Mitrof’s adventurer card. Every adventurer entering the labyrinth must complete the necessary procedures here. They record who, how many, why, and which floor they are heading to. “How long will you be gone?” “I think I’ll be back by early afternoon—when I get hungry.” “Understood.” The receptionist smoothly filled in the paperwork. “I’m always asked about my return time, but what happens if I don’t come back?” “If it’s been hours and you haven’t returned, a search team will be dispatched.” “That’s kind of you.” “Well, yes.” The receptionist chuckled with a hint of meaning. When Mitrof tilted his head in confusion, the receptionist frowned and replied. “If someone has not returned from the labyrinth, it usually means they have died or their body cannot be found—typically, we search for a body or something that identifies them; however, sometimes they are unable to move due to injuries.” “I see... Well, if you’re stuck in the labyrinth, you won’t have long to live.” “Hopefully adventurers or ‘people of the labyrinth’ can find you instead.” “Will the ‘people of the labyrinth’ help me?” “It’s not widely known, but they do help adventurers—it’s an unspoken agreement, you could say.” It seems that there are adult circumstances involved in the vague wording. Mitrof wonders if Blanc Manje is also helping adventurers. He does not know what she thinks or what her purpose is. However, he has a feeling that she is not a bad person. There is also a debt of gratitude for receiving “amber” as compensation for completing the quest. As Mitrof received the card from the receptionist, he wondered if he should have listened to the conversation more carefully before diving into the labyrinth. Walking alone in the dim labyrinth, Mitrof felt refreshed. Come to think of it, this was the first time he had walked alone since the first time he came here. After being saved from a life-threatening situation, he formed a party with Grace and Canule. When Grace returned to the village, it was just the two of them. Now that Grace had returned, Mitrof had thought that once they dealt with the problem at the orphanage, the three of them would walk through here again naturally. However, as Lattier, Grace’s older sister, had worried, the labyrinth was a dangerous place. Mitrof had no other means of earning a living. Canule was searching for clues to break the curse within the labyrinth. But Grace has no more reason to take risks in the labyrinth. For Grace’s sake, Mitrof negotiated with a noble collector, exchanged a precious labyrinth’s relic they found together for the ingredients for medicine, and handed it over to Grace as is. Grace probably thinks she owes Mitrof a favor. Will they end up discussing how she pays off that debt by adventuring together? While walking, Mitrof’s mind becomes calm when encountering monsters. They defeat monsters they occasionally come across without hesitation. Even opponents, whom he used to be so afraid of and fight so desperately with, can now be handled calmly. There, he felt his growth and the passage of time. While walking in the labyrinth, Mitrof passes by other adventurers. A party of beginners returns with tired faces. A man guarding the fire replenishes oil to the hanging lanterns on the walls. Everything seems to be simplified inside the labyrinth. Defeating monsters, walking, and returning, that’s all they need to do. For Mitrof, it was easy and relaxing. Mitrof descended the stairs, ready to fight monsters alone. He could still do it. He was still okay. As he extended his steps, Mitrof reached the farthest point of the fifth basement floor. Standing at the junction, where one path leads to the stairs descending to lower floors, and the other leads to the room of the “guardian,” Mitrof hesitated about whether to turn back or move forward. It was good physical exercise and a good distraction. The sixth floor marked the second level, and the enemies grew tougher, making it difficult for him to advance alone. Mitrof’s right arm was also feeling hot around the elbow, indicating that he was about to experience sharp, stinging pain. It would be foolish to injure himself by pushing too hard. It was then that Mitrof decided to turn back. However, he became drawn to the passage leading to the “guardian’s” room. Labyrinths have mysterious rules, and one of them is the existence of a powerful monster called a “guardian” every five floors. Even if adventurers don’t defeat the “guardian,” they can still advance to lower floors. It’s a test of strength and a sort of badge of honor for adventurers. The guardian of the fifth floor is a giant bear called the “Scarlet Bear.” Mitrof has only seen its right arm. Mitrof had fought against the “Red-Eyed Troll,” a monster that had transformed into a mutant through “sublimation,” and defeated the “Scarlet Bear,” using its right arm as a weapon. The “Red-Eyed Troll” hammered its claws into the floor, digging through the guardian’s room, finally making a hole. This was because the “Scarlet Bear’s” claws were so sharp and solid. The guild quickly sealed the hole. However, strangely enough, Mitrof heard that the “Scarlet Bear” had not appeared since then. The Guild has closed the room in the name of investigating the cause, but adventurers just laugh and say there is no point in investigating the labyrinth, which they don’t even understand to begin with. Even if one of the eccentric “Guardians” disappears on a whim, adventurers’ lives are not affected in any way. In front of Mitrof, a sign indicating “restricted access” was set up, serving as proof of these rumors. “No one has any business in the room without the “Guardian”. Well, even if there was, I have no intention of going...” Mitrof squinted his eyes, and his round ears twitched. He held his breath to confirm that what he heard was not an auditory hallucination. “...Is that a song?” There was a faint echo coming from the end of the passage. Like how wind whispers through the gaps in wooden doors in the winter, it was obscure and unstable, yet a melody nonetheless. ‘Was it just my imagination?’ Mitrof placed his hand on his nape, feeling a tingle from the base of his hair all the way to the back of his neck. ‘But why does it bother me so much?’ Mitrof doesn’t believe in intuition. Bad things can happen unexpectedly, and good things rarely occur. It’s a mere chance to predict them beforehand. Even if you feel a bad premonition a hundred times a day, it’s bound to come true eventually. But now, Mitrof has an inexplicable feeling that a “bad premonition” is haunting him. ‘No, I shouldn’t worry about it,’ Mitrof said, shaking his head. Hearing music from an empty room is just a drunken man’s rambling. He retraced his steps a few steps back and stopped. “... I’m just going to check—there’s nothing there anyway.” It’s not a sense of guilt for breaking into a restricted area, but rather a self-affirmation. With his right hand still on the hilt, Mitrof walked towards the corridor leading to the “Guardian’s” room, silently checking for any lurking figures in the darkness. Apparently, even the firekeepers don’t enter this area. The lantern hanging on the wall is not lit. As the darkness deepened, Mitrof stopped, took out a lantern from his backpack, and illuminated the area. As he advanced with it held up before his eyes, he realized it wasn’t just an auditory hallucination; he could clearly hear the song now. Legend has it that in the sea, there are spirits known as sirens. These sirens, also known as mermaids, have the appearance of beautiful women and bewitch sailors with their lovely singing voices. But what Mitrof was hearing now was not music to his ears. The melody was off-key, the volume was unstable, and the unpleasant sound was like metal scraping together. As it entered his ears, it felt like ice-cold thorns were being thrust into his back, causing a chill to run through him. Nonetheless, this was a song. At the end of the corridor, there was a small hall and a pair of rough double doors. There was no sign of human presence, and the air was filled with an atmosphere like that of a deserted ruin. Although it would be the right call to turn back and report to the guild, something piqued Mitrof’s curiosity and prompted him to place his hand on the doors. There is something or someone beyond the doors. ‘What could it be?’ The desire to see something scary moves Mitrof forward. Pushing the door, it seemed like a heavy stone door, but when pushed with force, the gaps opened while scraping the ground. The singing abruptly stopped. Mitrof also paused for a moment, then pushed the door further and peered into the room with a lantern in hand. The Guardian’s Hall, where no light penetrated, was filled with silence and darkness. From his neck to his spine, Mitrof felt a tingling sensation. He felt like something was there. The calm voice in his head told him to turn back. Nevertheless, Mitrof continued onward. He raised the lantern and turned around on the spot, as if it were a smooth dance step that had become ingrained in his body, to observe his surroundings. The lantern was too weak to fully illuminate the Guardian’s Hall, making it difficult to have a comprehensive view of the whole room. Mitrof froze. He held his breath, listening for any sound of movement. A single bead of sweat rolled down his cheek. The singing had stopped. There was nothing there. He breathed a sigh of relief. “I guess intuition is not always reliable.” As Mitrof turned on his heel to leave, he shrugged his shoulders. Then an elderly woman with a grotesque appearance stood in a place where no one should have been.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 0, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
さて、新しいスキルや設備の確認りしたところで層の作成である。方向性としては2種類。長所を伸ばすか短所を潰すかだ。現状、俺のダンジョンの長所と言えば層以降に侵入した者の殺害・捕獲率の高さであり、それは不意打ちと罠・構造の凶悪さによるところが大きい。ただまあ、未だに破られる感じはしないんだよな。基本的に確殺してて情報が漏れないようにしているから。となると今回は短所を潰すべきだろうな。短所......単純にスペース不足はまずあるよな。ダンジョン内における数にはどうしても物理的に限度があって、限度以上に置くと身動きが取れなくなって侵入者のいいカモにされることになる。だからと言って現状の数だと、今回の蛸王の襲撃は無理やり何とかしたけど、本来なら戦力が足りなくて相当酷い事になる。うーん。でも実際問題それならどうすればその短所を無くせるのか? 単純にだだっ広い空間を作る...ボツ。それは流石にどうかと思う。地上部にダンジョン領域を広げてそこにモンスターを放す...ボツ。今の丁度いい侵入者の流入量に余計な水を差すことになる。他の階層同士を繋げるようにして作った連絡通路...微妙なところだな。単純に作ると侵入者に利用された時に困る。「後処理終わらせてきました。」「ふう。まるでモンスターハウスでしたわ。」と、イチコたちが帰って来たか。ん?モンスターハウス?まあいいか。「お帰り。残党の掃討と剥ぎ取りはどうだった?」「残党の掃討については問題ありませんでした。この辺り一帯は『開かれし霧魔の口』でほぼ壊滅でしたし、それ以外の場所でも薄靄狼の嗅覚を生かした追跡で難なく追う事が出来ましたから。」うん。丘でもしっかり強調されて... ドゴオォ! 「クロキリ?」「すみませぇんイチコさん......」 ≪霧魔法付与≫腹パンは割と本気で痛いので勘弁してください......。「はあ、夫婦漫才はともかくとして、治療と葬儀の方は滞りなく終わらせてきましたわ。剥ぎ取りの方についても私は担当ではなかったので詳しくは知りませんが、クロキリが『開かれし霧魔の口』を使ってほぼ無傷で仕留めましたから普段よりもいい素材が大量には剥ぎ取れているそうです。」「夫婦漫才って......まあいいか。なら、剥ぎ取れた素材とそれを元にした武器が市場に流れ始めたらサンプルとして少し回収しておいてもらってもいいか?『開かれし霧魔の口』の影響が出ているかどうか調べたい。」「分かりましたわ。」そう言ってリョウはアリアにトリの二人とどの程度までなら蓄財を放出できるかの相談に行く。「では、私もウチの戦力が戻るまでの間、万が一に備えて第二階層と第一階層の間に居ておきます。」「ん。よろしく頼むわ。」そしてイチコも自分が今居るべき場所に向かっていった。うーん。それにしても第六階層はどうしよう。そう言えばさっきリョウがモンスターハウスとか言ってたな。モンスターハウスってあれだろ?ローグライク系のゲームによくあるやつ。でも実際の所、現実にああいう物を作っても通路で一匹ずつ撃退されたり、部屋の中で身動きが取れない状況で範囲系スキルを撃ち込まれたりするとかなり酷い事になるのが目に見えているしなぁ。そもそも何でああいう物がゲーム中にあるんだろうな?確かに絶え間なく敵が襲い掛かり続けるってのは侵入者側からすれば結構キツい状況だけど。それだけを目的にああいう物があるとは思えないんだよな。うーん。アレかな?モンスターたちの待機所的な意味でモンスターハウスになっているのかな?それならよくあるローグライクのモンスターハウスのように眠っているのはともかく、多種多様なモンスターが一ヶ所に集まっているのは納得がいくかも。それにそう言う考え方で作るのなら現実にあっても十分にありだよな。となるとだ。まず、侵入者が入り込むのを可能な限り防ぐために第六階層から他の階層に移動する場所はで、完全に侵入不可能だとそもそも作れないから第一階層の適当な場所......廃墟がいくつもあるからその廃墟の地下室から繋がる様に作ればいいだろう。それに層の深部にも一つ入口を作っておくか。第五階層はモンスターも構造もランダム化してあるから、問題ないだろう。第六階層の範囲については第一階層から第五階層までの地下にして、それぞれの階層に所属するモンスターが少なくなった時に移動させてモンスターの数を補給できるようにする。で、移動直後に待ち伏せからの撃破をされないようにするために出口は複数作り、定期的に位置を変更するようにすればいい。で、実際の第六階層の構造としては蟻の巣のように細い通路(クエレブレや靄大狼も動き回れる程度には太くするので、案外細くないかも)を張り巡らせる。もちろん二次元的ではな元的に細かい段差も付けつつだ。その上に中程度の部屋をいくつか作成、そこをモンスターたちの待機場所にする。その上で待機場所以外の通路には黒沼を仕掛けて侵入者にはスリップダメージを与えるようにし、各部屋の入り口には門兵代わりにスモークや薄靄狼を配置して万が一の侵入者にも備えておく。「まあ、こんなところか。」俺は迷宮創生の画面を通して指示を出し、必要なコストを支払ったところで画面を閉じる。これで後は体力が回復するのを待ち、回復したらモンスターと魔源装置を作れるだけ作ればいいだろう。とりあえず、俺の回復を促すために皆とイチャイチャしてくっかー	It was time to develop the sixth level now that the new skill and equipment had been identified. I had two directions to choose from. Either enhance the advantages or eliminate the disadvantages. My dungeon’s inherent advantage lay in the high kill・capture rate of those who penetrated past the second level, which was largely attributable to the unexpected attack and the viciousness of the traps and structures. But well, I still didn’t have the feeling that it can be breached beyond that. It was basically a foolproof means of keeping information from leaking out. That being the case, I supposed I ought to destroy the drawbacks this time around. Disadvantages... There is a simple lack of space. There was a physical limit to the number of spaces in a dungeon, which meant that if you exceed the limit, you will be stuck in the dungeon, leaving you a sitting duck for intruders. Nevertheless, with the existing number, despite the fact that we managed to handle the Octopus King’s invasion this time, it would have been a horrific situation due to the lack of strength. Mmm. But the key question was: how can this disadvantage be resolved? Simply create a large space... rejected. That was clearly not a viable choice. Expand the dungeon above ground and let creatures loose... rejected. This would unnecessarily increase the current influx of just the proper number of invaders. A connecting passageway designed to link the other levels... it was a tricky one. If I simply constructed it, once the intruders took advantage of it, it will be aggravating. “I’ve finished the clean-up.” “Phew... That was like a Monster House.” And Ichiko and Ryo were back. Hmm? Monster House? Well, forget it. “Welcome back. How was the cleanup and takedown of the remnants?” “Getting rid of the remnants was not a problem. The ‘Opening of the Mouth of the Mist Demon,’ virtually ruined the area around here, but I was able to trace the rest of them using the Thin Mist Wolf’s sense of smell,” Ichiko answered by lightly stretching her back and rotating her arms as if she was doing calisthenics. Yeah. Even on the hill, it is emphasized... [i] Thud! “Kurokiri?” “Sorry, Ichiko-san...” , because it hurts a lot... “Well, putting aside both of your husband-and-wife comedic dialogue, the treatment and the funeral went off without a hitch. I was not responsible for the stripping, thus I am unaware of the specifics. But I heard that a lot of excellent materials were being taken away from their corpses, which were a cut above than usual since you employed ‘Opening of the Mouth of the Mist Demon’ to finish them off nearly untouched, Kurokiri.” “Husband-and-wife comedic dialogue... ah, let’s just leave that part alone. Then can I have you collect some of the stripped materials and the weapons based on them as a sample when they start to flow in the market? I want to investigate whether or not they are affected by the ‘Opening of the Mouth of the Mist Demon’.” “I understand.” Ryo then went to confer with Aria about how they and Tori may use the wealth they had amassed. “Then, I’ll stay between the second and first levels until our forces return.” “Hmm. That would be great.” And Ichiko also moved towards the place where she was supposed to be. Yeah. Even so, what should I do about the sixth level? Speaking of which, Ryo mentioned something about a Monster House earlier. Monster House is that thing, right? The sort you will frequently see in roguelike games. But in reality, even if I build something like that in the real world, I can imagine that it would be quite disastrous if the monsters were repulsed one by one in the hallways, or if they were to be shot with ranged skills when they were stuck in the room. Why were those things even in the game in the first place? Indeed, from the perspective of the invader, the relentless attack of foes was a challenging circumstance. But it was hard to believe that such a thing was there for that purpose only. Um, is it for that? Perhaps Monster House is akin to a waiting area for monsters in a way? If that’s the case, having a vast range of monsters congregated in one place, let alone resting like in a conventional roguelike Monster House, may make sense. Besides, if that was the idea behind it, it would be adequate to have it in reality. To begin with, the entrance connecting the sixth level to the other levels should be a one-way door to keep intruders out as much as possible, right? If it was completely impenetrable, it would be impossible to construct it in the first place, therefore it would be wiser to establish a link from the ruins’ basement to a suitable spot on the first level... where there were other ruins. In addition, perhaps an entrance could be built into the depths of the fifth level. Since the fifth level was randomized in terms of monsters and structure, things should be fine. From the first to the fifth level, the sixth level’s range should be underground, and when the number of monsters in each level ran low, they can be relocated to replenish the number of monsters. Multiple exits should be developed and their positions should be adjusted on a regular basis to guarantee that the monsters were not attacked right after relocating. Therefore, the actual structure of the sixth level should consist of narrow corridors like an ant’s nest (not as narrow as one might think since the corridors will be wide enough to allow even a Cuélebre or a Giant Mist Wolf to move around). It will, of course, not be two-dimensional, but three-dimensional with detailed level distinctions. On top of that, several medium-sized rooms will be created and designated as waiting areas for the monsters. Furthermore, a black swamp would be set up in the corridors outside the waiting area to inflict damage on invaders over time, and Smoke and Thin Mist Wolves would be stationed at each room’s entrance as gate guards in the event of an intruder. “Well, that settles it.” After issuing instructions through the dungeon creation screen and paying the necessary costs, I closed it. Now all I had to do was wait for my strength to recover, and then I can create as many monsters and magic source devices as I can. 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ガドルスの宿『大盾の守護』亭にやってきて、俺たちが取った行動は......まず身体を休めることだった。俺たちは全員若輩といっていい年齢だ。だがその分体力は有り余っている。だからといって、疲労を押して無理をしては、思わぬところでミスをしかねない。それに若い頃の無茶は、後々に後悔する故障を抱えることになりかねない。無理をしない範囲できっちりと負担をかけ、鍛えていくことが重要なのだ。「と、経験者が言ってました」「経験者って誰?」全員間の休暇を告げたところで、ミシェルちゃんが質問してきた。びしっと挙手してからする姿は可愛い。ついでに揺れたので素晴らしい。いきなり休みを告げられて、何かしようとやる気に逸った彼女を諫めるために、俺は敢えてしかめっ面で宥めてまわった。「でも、新しい街に来たばかりで休暇って言われてもなぁ。何していいか、わかんねーよ」「そりゃ住み慣れたラウムだったら、暇の潰し方もお手の物だっただろうけどね。むしろ新しい街だからこそ、散策でもしてみたら? 土地勘は大事だよ」「散策じゃ寂しいし......」クラウドはそこまで反論してから、ちらりとフィニアに視線をやる。一人じゃ寂しいからフィニアと一緒に、とか思っているのか? 残念だが貴様にフィニアはやらぬ。ミシェルちゃんもだ。「フィニアとミシェルちゃんは、わたしとお買い物ね。女の子はいろいろと入用だし」「そうですね。ガドルス様に用意していただいた部屋も、このままでは殺風景ですから、お買い物はしておきたいです」「日用品とかも、どこで手に入るか調べておかないとね」「なら俺も......」「ちなみに下着とかアレヤコレヤも揃える予定だけど、ついてくる?」「......遠慮しときます」クラウドはしおしおとうなだれていった。だがこればかりは仕方ない間の旅で着替えがかなり溜まっているし、その洗濯もせねばならない。ラウムの自宅......コルティナの家ならその必要が無いのだが、ここには最小限の荷物しか持ってきていない。新たに用意しないといけない物は、数多い。「一人が寂しいんだったら、ガドルスに稽古をつけてもらったら?」「全然身体が休まらねぇじゃん、それ! いいよ。この街の造りとか見て回ってくるから」「そうした方がいいね。冒険者は万が一に備えないと」「ちくしょう、いいんだ、男は孤独な生き物だから」「なにをカッコつけてるんだか。クラウドのくせに」「俺の存在を根底から否定するなぁ!」本当ならば、数人で一部屋取った方が経済的なのだが、いかんせん俺には秘密が多い。普通の冒険者のように相部屋とはいかない。その分、ガドルスには部屋数的に負担になってしまうが、宿代はきちんと正規料金を支払うので問題はないだろう。フィニアには俺が操糸のギフトを持っていることを知らせておいたが、レイドの時に愛用していた手甲に関しては知られていない。彼女は合宿の時に目にしているはずだが、それがミシェルちゃんたちも何度も目にしているが、こちらはレイドの姿を知らないので問題はない。そして手甲も見つからないように隠しておく必要があった。「といっても、隠す場所なんてベッドの下くらいしかないんだけどな」であるこの部屋の上はいうまでもなく三階。つまり屋根裏に隠すという手段は使えない。クローゼットも存在しているが、鍵が付いていないため何かの拍子に開けられたら困る。「まず壁際にベッドを寄せておいて......壁に偽装して板を張って、その向こうに隠すか。手前にダミーを用意して置いたら、それ以上捜そうと考えないだろうし?」壁際に手甲を入れた箱を隠し、その手前に壁と同じ模様の板を立てて奥行きを偽装する。数十センチほどなら、ごまかせなくもないはずだ。そしてその手前にいかにも隠したい感じの品をこれ見よがしに隠しておけば、探索者はそこで納得して、さらに奥を調べることをしなくなる。いわば二重底の下にさらに底があるというトラップのようなものだ。これは意外と見落とされやすい。「明日の買い物で素人大工の名目で板も買ってくるかな」いささか女の子らしい趣味とは言えないが、こうでも言わないと唐突に板を買ってくるのは怪しまれる。新しい街に来た記念に、新しい趣味に挑戦するとでも言っておけば、まあ、何とかなるだろう。五日という旅は予想以上に俺の体力を蝕んでいたのか、瞬く間に目蓋が落ちてくる。寝巻に着替えないといけないところだが、今着ている旅装も保温性は高いし、すでに皺だらけだ。このまま寝てしまっても構わないだろう。	The first thing we did after we came to Gadius’ inn, “Greatshield’s Protection”, was... taking a good rest. All of us were what would be considered young in terms of age. For that reason, we had excess stamina. That said, if we push ourselves too much, it could lead to making blunders where we wouldn’t expect. Not to mention, the reckless things you did as a kid could come to bite you back later on. It was important to train your body gradually without pushing it too far. “Or so said an experienced person.” “Who is that person?” Michelle asked me as I told everyone to take a three day rest. The way she raised her hand was adorable. The way something swayed was also wonderful. Hearing they were getting three days’ rest, she became excited and started thinking about what to do, so I intentionally frowned and pacified her, advising her against it. “But we just came to the new city, so I don’t even know what to do with the time off.” “Yeah, well, killing time was my strong point in Raum where I lived for so long. But since it’s a new city, why not just go on a walk? It’s important to familiarise yourself with the land too.” “But it would be too lonely to go alone...” Cloud protested and glanced at Finia. It would be lonely alone so he wanted to go with Finia? Too bad, but I’m not handing Finia to you, you jerk. Or Michelle for that matter. “Finia and Michelle will be shopping with me. Girls have things to prepare.” “That is true. The rooms Lord Gadius prepared still look too barren, so I would like to go shopping.” “We also need to check where to buy the daily necessities too.” “Then I’ll also...” “Oh, we also plan to check underwear and that stuff, so still wanna come?” “...I’ll refrain.” Cloud dejectedly hung his head. But it couldn’t be helped. We got a lot of laundries piled up in these five days, so we wanted to wash it too. There was also a need to replenish the clothes we lacked. In my home in Raum... in Cortina’s house, there was no need for that, but we only brought minimum luggage here. There were many things we needed to buy. “If you feel lonely alone, why not train with Gadius?” “You call that a rest?! I’ll just go check the town’s structure or something.” “You should. Adventurers have to be ready for anything.” “Gahh, fine, goddammit, men are lonely creatures anyway.” “What are you trying to act cool for. You’re just Cloud.” “Don’t deny my very existence, will yooou!” I teased Cloud who was acting nihilistic, and then we all returned to our respective rooms. It would have been more financially forgiving to get one room for several people, but I had too many secrets. I couldn’t go with the shared room method like normal Adventurers did. It would have been weird if only I took a personal room, so I decided to get everyone their own too. On that part, Gadius had to sacrifice quite a few rooms, but I was properly paying him the full price, so there should be no problems. As I entered my room, I immediately started to inspect my equipment. Finia got to know about my Thread Manipulation Gift, but she still didn’t know about my trusty gauntlets that I used as Reid. She should have seen it during the training camp, but she does not seem to have realized that it belonged to Reid. I guess luck was on my side. Michelle had also seen it a few times, but she didn’t know how Reid even looked so it was fine. But there was no guarantee that she would never realize it. I may need to commission Aste to change the exterior. Until then, I have to make do with the spare piano wires I have on me. And I have to hide the gauntlets too. “That said, I can only hide it underneath the bed at most here.” Needless to say, above my room that was on the second floor, was the third floor. In other words, I couldn’t hide it in the attic. There was a closet, but it didn’t have a lock so it would be bad if someone opened it. Hiding things under the bed was typical, but there was no other place to hide them so I had to endure. “Let’s push the bed to the wall... then disguise a board as a wall, and hide them behind it. If I prepare a dummy beforehand, they shouldn’t rummage beyond it, right?” I would put a box with the gauntlets alongside the wall, and then camouflage it by putting a board with the wall pattern before it. I should be able to hide a few centimeters of difference in depth. And if I put something showy nearby as if I was hiding it, whoever rummages my room would be convinced when they find it and stop looking. It was like a trap with two-layered bottoms that had yet another bottom. It was surprisingly easy to overlook. “I guess I’ll go buy a board tomorrow while pretending that I was into carpentry.” It wasn’t a very girly hobby, but I had to at least make up that excuse or it would be too strange if I suddenly came back with a board. If I just say that I was testing out new hobbies since we changed the city, it should somehow convince them. After that, I stuffed my blotches inside the closet and lay down. The five days of journey had shaved away my stamina more than I thought, so my eyelids quickly started to close. I really had to change into pajamas, but the travel clothes I was wearing could retain warmth quite well, and they were already wrinkled anyway. It wouldn’t be a problem to sleep as is.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 1, "inserted_lines_src": 8, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
これから彼らの話をしますがその前に実験です理論家なので普段はしませんがこのスイッチを押したらどうなるのかな? なるほどさてかつて私は素粒子を研究していました極限まで細かくしたらどうなるか? 何で構成されているのか? 素粒子に関する法則は万物に適用できます宇宙の歴史とも深く関係しています四つの力はよくわかっていますもっと多いはずですが力の及ぶ範囲が小さいのでまだあまりその存在を認識できていません一番お話ししたいことはこちらです基礎物理学の分野で得られた知見です美しさこそ確実に正しい理論を選択するための基準になるということですいったいなぜなのでしょう? これは私の実体験ですがとてもドラマチックな事がありました 1957年 3人か4人の仲間で力の一つ「弱い力」について部分的ながら完ぺきな理論を提案しましたしかしこの理論は七つの実験結果と一致しませんでした七つもですでも実験結果の方がすべて間違いでした我々は結果を知らずに発表しましたとても美しいのだから正しいと思ったからです実験は間違いのはずで実際に間違いでした我々の仲間アルバート・アインシュタインはこんなことを言われてもあまり耳を貸しませんでした「特殊相対性理論を満たさない実験結果が出たよ D.C. ミラーだどうする?」彼は答えました「すぐに消えるよ」なぜ上手くいくのでしょう? 不思議ですね美しさとは何を意味するのでしょう? それはただ一つのことですこれについて部分的ながら明らかにしていきますなぜ上手くいくのでしょうか? 人類に関係あるのでしょうか? 後者について答えておきますと人類には関係ありませんはるか遠くにある恒星のまわりを公転している別の惑星 ― おそらく別の銀河にある惑星のどこかに我々と同じような知性をもつ生命が実在して科学に興味があるでしょう否定はできませんたぶん多いでしょうおそらく会えるほど近くにいないだけです普通に存在していると思われます感覚器官などはかなり違っているのではないでしょうか触手が7本小さくて変な形の複眼が14個ビスケットみたいな脳をもっていますそこには地球とは違う法則があるのでしょうか? そう信じる人は多いのですがまったくばかばかしい話です世の中には法則がありますどんなに時間があっても理解し尽くせないでしょうそれでも挑戦して理解を深めていくつもりですいつか人類は素粒子と力に関する基本的な統一理論を見つけるでしょうそれが「基本法則」といわれるものですそう遠い話でもないでしょう生きているうちには出会えないかもしれませんがどこかに存在すると信じてそこに近づこうと努力が続けられていますそれが重要だと思いますこれを数学的に表現したときに非常に簡潔になることつまり数学的表記という点で複雑でなく非常にすっきりと表記できることが美しさや優雅さの意味するところなのですこれは基本法則についてお話した内容です基本法則は実在しますニュートンは確信していましたそしてこう言いました「そういった法則を見つけることが自然哲学の課題だ」基本法則についてちょっと仮定してみましょう基本法則が全素粒子にまたがる統一理論の形態をなすと仮定します万物の理論と言う人もいますが間違いですその理論は量子力学的なものだからです量子力学がどういったものかは深入りしませんがいずれにせよこれにまつわる誤解はよく耳にされるでしょう映画にも間違いがたくさんあります重要なのは量子力学が可能性を測るということですほぼ確実だといえる場合もあります身近な例ではたいていそうなりますが違う場合もあります様々な結果が生じる可能性だけがわかりますつまり宇宙の歴史は基本法則だけでは決まらないということです基本法則に加えて途方もない偶然の連続偶然の産物が関係してきます基本法則は偶然の産物を考慮しません偶然は付加的なものですだから万物の理論とはいえないのです現実においてもこの宇宙を取り巻く膨大な情報は偶然の産物であって基本法則から導かれたわけではありませんよく言われることですが低エネルギー高エネルギー超高エネルギーでの現象を順に調べることあるいはどんどん距離を縮めて調べることで徐々に基本法則に近づくことは玉ねぎの皮をむくようなものですそれを続けながらもっとパワーのある素粒子加速器を作って素粒子の構造をもっと詳細に調べていますそうすることで基本法則にどんどん近づいていますそうやって玉ねぎの皮をむきながらまだ見ぬ基本法則に近づいていくとどの皮も前後の皮と共通点があることに気づきますそれを数学的に表記すると数学的表記がそっくりになりますそっくりであることを必要としているのですこれは注目に値することですこれこそ今日私が言いたいことなのですニュートンは ― ところでニュートンはあちらですこちらはアルバート・アインシュタインですやあアル! ニュートンは「自然は彼女自身に整合する」と言いました自然を女性に見立てています新しい現象新しい皮つまり玉ねぎをむいて現れる内側の若干小さな皮は大きい方の皮に似ています前の皮を表現していた数学的表記が次の皮で必要とされる数学的表記とほとんど同じなのですだから方程式はとても簡潔な姿をしているのですすでに知っている数学的表記を利用するからです簡単な例を紹介しますニュートンは重力の法則を発見しました引き合う物体の距離の2乗分の1に比例するというものですフランスのクーロンは電荷について同じ法則を発見しました類似性を示す一例です重力を調べていたらある法則を発見し電気を調べていたら同じ法則を発見したのです非常に分かりやすい例ですもっと専門的な例もたくさんありますここでは対称性がとても重要ですご存じでしょうが例えば円はその中心まわりに回転対称になっています円を中心のまわりで回転させても変化しません 3次元の場合には球をその中心のまわりでどう回転させても変化しませんこれが対称性ですある操作をしても現象に変化がなくその表記が変わらないことを一般的に対称性があるといいますマクスウェル方程式は空間内のあらゆる回転に対してもちろん対称です空間全体をある角度回転させても影響はありません電磁的にも磁気的にも現象は変わりません 19世紀にはこれを表現する新しい表記法が現れましたその表記法を使えばこの方程式がずっと簡潔になりますアインシュタインは特殊な相対性理論を利用しマクスウェル方程式の対称性を調べ上げましたこれが特殊相対性理論ですそのような対称性によってこの方程式が一層短くて美しくなりました見てください意味は分からなくて結構です形を見るだけでいいですよ形だけ見てください上段に長々と書いてあるのは空間の3方向を表す3成分xとyとzを使った方程式ですベクトル解析と回転対称を利用すると真ん中の式になります特殊相対性理論の対称性を利用するともっと簡潔になります一番下です対称性がどんどん良くなる様子が表れています対称性が高いほど理論の簡潔さや美しさをはっきりと表記できます一番下にある二つの式のうち一つ目は電荷と電流からあらゆる電磁場が発生することを示しています二つ目の式は磁場だけでは存在できないことを示しています磁場だけは電荷と電流から発生しますいつかはこの理論にも多少矛盾が出てくるでしょうが当分は大丈夫です実はほとんどの方が知らない驚くような進展があります知っておくべきですが専門的に詳しく説明するのはやっかいですからそれはやめて言っておくだけにしますフランク・ヤンと呼ばれていた楊振寧と ― ボブ・ミルズは 50年前に新しい対称性を利用してマクスウェル方程式を一般化しました全く新しい対称性です数学的にそっくりですが全く新しい対称性があります彼らはこれが何らかの形で素粒子物理学に役立つと期待していたのですがそれだけでは役立ちませんでしたところが我々の仲間がこれを更に一般化した結果役に立つものとなりました強い力と弱い力をとても美しく表記しています先ほど言ったことの繰り返しですが玉ねぎの皮はどれも隣の皮に似ています隣の皮の数学的表記は次の皮で必要とされるものにとても似ているのですだから美しいのですどうやれば綺麗で正確に表記できるか既に知っているからですこんなテーマがあります我々はすべての秩序を支える統一理論の存在を信じているということです統一への歩みが簡潔さにつながり対称性が簡潔さにつながります大きさの違いをまたいで玉ねぎの1枚の皮から別の皮へとつながる近接した場所での自己相似性ですそれがこの現象を作り上げていますだから正しい理論を選択する基準として美しさが適していると言えるのですニュートンはこう言いました「自然は自らに調和し相似する」彼の考えていたことの一つが今では当然だと思われていますが彼の時代には当然ではありませんでした本当なのか定かではないのですがよく言われる話があります情報元は四つありますケンブリッジで疫病がはやったとき彼は母親の農場を訪れました大学が閉鎖されたからですそのとき木から頭かどこかにリンゴが落ちるのを見てリンゴを地球に引き寄せる力が惑星や月の運動を制御する力と同じではないかとひらめきました今ではあたりまえですがその時代には重要といえる統一でした重力の法則と同じです彼はこの自然法則を調和だと言っています「この自然法則は哲学者の思想からはほど遠いものなのでその本で説明するのは差し控えたとんでもない奇人だと思われるのを避けるためであり ―」これは我々も注意しないといけませんこの講演では特にそうです「その本の論旨が全て怪しいという先入観を読者に抱いてほしくないからだ」今それを単に頭に浮かんだ奇想だと言う人はいませんね? リンゴを地面に落下させる力は惑星や月をぐるぐる回す力などと同じですだれでも知っていますそれが重力の性質ですこれは心の中だけのものではありません人の心はこれを評価したり楽しんだり利用したりすることができますが心の中から生まれたのではなく重力の性質から得られたのですそれはすべてに当てはまりますそれが基本法則の特徴なのです基本法則とはそういうものなので玉ねぎの皮は互いに似ているのですだから1枚の皮を表す数学的表記を使って次の皮の現象を美しく簡潔に表記できるのですニュートンはその年様々な実績を上げました重力運動の法則微積分虹色の集合が白色となることなどです「夏休みにしたこと」について素晴らしい作文を書けたかもしれませんこれらの原則を独立した形而上学的な仮定だと考える必要はありませんこれらは基本法則から得られるもので創発特性といいますさらに何かを得るためにさらに何かが必要なわけではありませんそれが創発の意味です生命の誕生は物理的過程と化学的過程に多くの偶然が関与して生じます人の心は神経生物学と多くの偶然が関与して生まれますそうやって物理学的過程にある種の偶然が関与して化学結合が生まれますもっと基本的な要素に偶然が重なって生まれるものだとわかってもこういった主題の重要性が失われるわけではありませんそれが大原則でありそれに気づくことが非常に重要ですさらに何かを得るためにさらに何かが必要なわけではありません私の著書「クォークとジャガー」の読者からいつも質問を受けます「今あるものを上回るようなものはないというのですか」おそらく超自然現象みたいなものを言っているのでしょうそんなものはありませんさらに何かを説明するためにさらに何かが必要なわけではありませんありがとうございました(拍手)	We'll be talking about them. Now, I'm going try an experiment. I don't do experiments, normally. I'm a theorist. But I'm going see what happens if I press this button. Sure enough. OK. I used to work in this field of elementary particles. What happens to matter if you chop it up very fine? What is it made of? And the laws of these particles are valid throughout the universe, and they're very much connected with the history of the universe. We know a lot about four forces. There must be a lot more, but those are at very, very small distances, and we haven't really interacted with them very much yet. The main thing I want to talk about is this: that we have this remarkable experience in this field of fundamental physics that beauty is a very successful criterion for choosing the right theory. And why on earth could that be so? Well, here's an example from my own experience. It's fairly dramatic, actually, to have this happen. Three or four of us, in 1957, put forward a partially complete theory of one of these forces, this weak force. And it was in disagreement with seven -- seven, count them, seven experiments. Experiments were all wrong. And we published before knowing that, because we figured it was so beautiful, it's gotta be right! The experiments had to be wrong, and they were. Now our friend over there, Albert Einstein, used to pay very little attention when people said, "You know, there's a man with an experiment that seems to disagree with special relativity. DC Miller. What about that?" And he would say, "Aw, that'll go away." Now, why does stuff like that work? That's the question. Now, yeah, what do we mean by beautiful? That's one thing. I'll try to make that clear -- partially clear. Why should it work, and is this something to do with human beings? I'll let you in on the answer to the last one that I offer, and that is, it has nothing to do with human beings. Somewhere in some other planet, orbiting some very distant star, maybe in a another galaxy, there could well be entities that are at least as intelligent as we are, and are interested in science. It's not impossible; I think there probably are lots. Very likely, none is close enough to interact with us. But they could be out there, very easily. And suppose they have, you know, very different sensory apparatus, and so on. They have seven tentacles, and they have 14 little funny-looking compound eyes, and a brain shaped like a pretzel. Would they really have different laws? There are lots of people who believe that, and I think it is utter baloney. I think there are laws out there, and we of course don't understand them at any given time very well -- but we try. And we try to get closer and closer. And someday, we may actually figure out the fundamental unified theory of the particles and forces, what I call the "fundamental law." We may not even be terribly far from it. But even if we don't run across it in our lifetimes, we can still think there is one out there, and we're just trying to get closer and closer to it. I think that's the main point to be made. We express these things mathematically. And when the mathematics is very simple -- when in terms of some mathematical notation, you can write the theory in a very brief space, without a lot of complication -- that's essentially what we mean by beauty or elegance. Here's what I was saying about the laws. They're really there. Newton certainly believed that. And he said, here, "It is the business of natural philosophy to find out those laws." The basic law, let's say -- here's an assumption. The assumption is that the basic law really takes the form of a unified theory of all the particles. Now, some people call that a theory of everything. That's wrong because the theory is quantum mechanical. And I won't go into a lot of stuff about quantum mechanics and what it's like, and so on. You've heard a lot of wrong things about it anyway. There are even movies about it with a lot of wrong stuff. But the main thing here is that it predicts probabilities. Now, sometimes those probabilities are near certainties. And in a lot of familiar cases, they of course are. But other times they're not, and you have only probabilities for different outcomes. So what that means is that the history of the universe is not determined just by the fundamental law. It's the fundamental law and this incredibly long series of accidents, or chance outcomes, that are there in addition. And the fundamental theory doesn't include those chance outcomes; they are in addition. So it's not a theory of everything. And in fact, a huge amount of the information in the universe around us comes from those accidents, and not just from the fundamental laws. Now, it's often said that getting closer and closer to the fundamental laws by examining phenomena at low energies, and then higher energies, and then higher energies, or short distances, and then shorter distances, and then still shorter distances, and so on, is like peeling the skin of an onion. And we keep doing that, and build more powerful machines, accelerators for particles. We look deeper and deeper into the structure of particles, and in that way we get probably closer and closer to this fundamental law. Now, what happens is that as we do that, as we peel these skins of the onion, and we get closer and closer to the underlying law, we see that each skin has something in common with the previous one, and with the next one. We write them out mathematically, and we see they use very similar mathematics. They require very similar mathematics. That is absolutely remarkable, and that is a central feature of what I'm trying to say today. Newton called it -- that's Newton, by the way -- that one. This one is Albert Einstein. Hi, Al! And anyway, he said, "nature conformable to herself" -- personifying nature as a female. And so what happens is that the new phenomena, the new skins, the inner skins of the slightly smaller skins of the onion that we get to, resemble the slightly larger ones. And the kind of mathematics that we had for the previous skin is almost the same as what we need for the next skin. And that's why the equations look so simple. Because they use mathematics we already have. A trivial example is this: Newton found the law of gravity, which goes like one over the square of the distance between the things gravitated. Coulomb, in France, found the same law for electric charges. Here's an example of this similarity. You look at gravity, you see a certain law. Then you look at electricity. Sure enough. The same rule. It's a very simple example. There are lots of more sophisticated examples. Symmetry is very important in this discussion. You know what it means. A circle, for example, is symmetric under rotations about the center of the circle. You rotate around the center of the circle, the circle remains unchanged. You take a sphere, in three dimensions, you rotate around the center of the sphere, and all those rotations leave the sphere alone. They are symmetries of the sphere. So we say, in general, that there's a symmetry under certain operations if those operations leave the phenomenon, or its description, unchanged. Maxwell's equations are of course symmetrical under rotations of all of space. Doesn't matter if we turn the whole of space around by some angle, it doesn't leave the -- doesn't change the phenomenon of electricity or magnetism. There's a new notation in the 19th century that expressed this, and if you use that notation, the equations get a lot simpler. Then Einstein, with his special theory of relativity, looked at a whole set of symmetries of Maxwell's equations, which are called special relativity. And those symmetries, then, make the equations even shorter, and even prettier, therefore. Let's look. You don't have to know what these things mean, doesn't make any difference. But you can just look at the form. You can look at the form. You see above, at the top, a long list of equations with three components for the three directions of space: x, y and z. Then, using vector analysis, you use rotational symmetry, and you get this next set. Then you use the symmetry of special relativity and you get an even simpler set down here, showing that symmetry exhibits better and better. The more and more symmetry you have, the better you exhibit the simplicity and elegance of the theory. The last two, the first equation says that electric charges and currents give rise to all the electric and magnetic fields. The next -- second -- equation says that there is no magnetism other than that. The only magnetism comes from electric charges and currents. Someday we may find some slight hole in that argument. But for the moment, that's the case. Now, here is a very exciting development that many people have not heard of. They should have heard of it, but it's a little tricky to explain in technical detail, so I won't do it. I'll just mention it. But Chen Ning Yang, called by us "Frank" Yang -- -- and Bob Mills put forward, 50 years ago, this generalization of Maxwell's equations, with a new symmetry. A whole new symmetry. Mathematics very similar, but there was a whole new symmetry. They hoped that this would contribute somehow to particle physics -- didn't. It didn't, by itself, contribute to particle physics. But then some of us generalized it further. And then it did! And it gave a very beautiful description of the strong force and of the weak force. So here we say, again, what we said before: that each skin of the onion shows a similarity to the adjoining skins. So the mathematics for the adjoining skins is very similar to what we need for the new one. And therefore it looks beautiful because we already know how to write it in a lovely, concise way. So here are the themes. We believe there is a unified theory underlying all the regularities. Steps toward unification exhibit the simplicity. Symmetry exhibits the simplicity. from one skin of the onion to another one. Proximate self-similarity. And that accounts for this phenomenon. That will account for why beauty is a successful criterion for selecting the right theory. Here's what Newton himself said: "Nature is very consonant and conformable to her self." One thing he was thinking of is something that most of us take for granted today, but in his day it wasn't taken for granted. There's the story, which is not absolutely certain to be right, but a lot of people told it. Four sources told it. That when they had the plague in Cambridge, and he went down to his mother's farm -- because the university was closed -- he saw an apple fall from a tree, or on his head or something. And he realized suddenly that the force that drew the apple down to the earth could be the same as the force regulating the motions of the planets and the moon. That was a big unification for those days, although today we take it for granted. It's the same theory of gravity. So he said that this principle of nature, consonance: "This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, lest I should be accounted an extravagant freak ... " That's what we all have to watch out for, especially at this meeting. " ... and so prejudice my readers against all those things which were the main design of the book." Now, who today would claim that as a mere conceit of the human mind? That the force that causes the apple to fall to the ground is the same force that causes the planets and the moon to move around, and so on? Everybody knows that. It's a property of gravitation. It's not something in the human mind. The human mind can, of course, appreciate it and enjoy it, use it, but it's not -- it doesn't stem from the human mind. It stems from the character of gravity. And that's true of all the things we're talking about. They are properties of the fundamental law. The fundamental law is such that the different skins of the onion resemble one another, and therefore the math for one skin allows you to express beautifully and simply the phenomenon of the next skin. I say here that Newton did a lot of things that year: gravity, the laws of motion, the calculus, white light composed of all the colors of the rainbow. And he could have written quite an essay on "What I Did Over My Summer Vacation." So we don't have to assume these principles as separate metaphysical postulates. They follow from the fundamental theory. They are what we call emergent properties. You don't need -- you don't need something more to get something more. That's what emergence means. Life can emerge from physics and chemistry, plus a lot of accidents. The human mind can arise from neurobiology and a lot of accidents, the way the chemical bond arises from physics and certain accidents. It doesn't diminish the importance of these subjects to know that they follow from more fundamental things, plus accidents. That's a general rule, and it's critically important to realize that. You don't need something more in order to get something more. People keep asking that when they read my book, "The Quark and the Jaguar," and they say, "Isn't there something more beyond what you have there?" Presumably, they mean something supernatural. Anyway, there isn't. You don't need something more to explain something more. 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ぼよんぼよんぼよんぼよんっ! ええい、また変なのが出てきた......! 見た目はファンタジーにおける雑魚敵の王道スライムなのだが、その戦闘方法違う。決して接近してくることはなく、スナイパーのごとく体液を飛ばしてくる。その名も『スライパー』! 俺と同じタイプの敵だ! ただ遠距離からの撃ち合いになるなら負けはしないが、スライパーはその弾力のある体を使って木から木へとぼよんぼよん跳ねながら狙撃を行うからこちらは狙いづらいことこの上ない。それでいてスライパーの方の命中精度はバカにならないからな......。「まあ、良い対人戦の訓練になる......!」矢をモンスターに当てるのとプレイヤーに当てるのではワケが違う。熟練のプレイヤーともなれば回避能力もずば抜けている。ぼよんぼよん跳ねるだけのスライムくらいには百発百中といきたいところだ。「サンダーアロー!」バチィっとスライムに雷の矢がヒットする。物理攻撃にはまあまあ耐性があるスライムも火や雷には弱い。クリーンヒットすれば一撃で撃破できるのでなかなか爽快感がある。だが、モンスターをスムーズに倒せたからといって油断できないのが『リボリボ原生林』だ。このフィールドは......フィールド自体が牙をむく......! パァァァンッ! パァァァンッ! 「くぅ......! またかっ!」地面に生えている白いキノコ『その光の強さは一瞬とはいえ視界のすべてが奪われるレベルだ。戦闘中に踏んでしまったら大変なことになる。光にダメージがないことが救いだな。まさに『閃光だけ』......。 ......それはさておき、この『閃光茸』は手で掴んで引っこ抜くことでアイテムとして回収することが出来る。『再生薬』に必要な素材もこのようにフィールドに生えている物を手で引っこ抜いてアイテム化することにより集めていく。まあ、『閃光茸』は『再生薬』を作るための素材ではないのだが、なんだか邪魔されっぱなしも癪なので見つけ次第回収しまくっている。大量に生えているので集めても他のプレイヤーの迷惑になることもないだろう。「えっと、あと必要な素材は......ボーンボーンキノコか」リボリボとかボーンボーンとか愉快な原生林だな。ってことなんだろうけど、この素材だけなかなか見つからない。「もっと奥に進んでみるか......」時間に余裕はあるし、出てくる敵モンスターも無理せず倒せるレベルだ。ボーンボーンキノコを求めて、俺は原生林の奥へと足を踏み入れた......。 ◆ ◆ ◆ 「灼熱の森林...... 一部が焼け焦げた看板にはそう書かれていた。どうやらここから先は少し環境が変わるらしい。木や草花に赤が目立つようになり、空気もむしむしと暑い。出てくるモンスターも赤くなり、炎による攻撃が増え始める。同時にこちらの火属性攻撃に耐性を持つようになった。主力の【バーニングアロー】に頼れなくなるとはな......。「でも、この先にボーンボーンキノコがありそうな気がする」赤色からは強い生命力を感じる。きっと俺の求めるキノコも体を巡る血のように赤いのだろう。油断せずに先に進もう。 ......なんか悪趣味なオブジェがぽつぽつ設置されてるなぁ。トラップではないんだけど、ドクロや血文字を見ると気が滅入る。未開のジャングルに住む食人族......なんて安っぽい妄想が頭の中を駆け巡ってしまう。キリリリリ......シュッ! 「んっ......!?」この音は俺が矢を撃った音ではない! 反射的に横に飛びのくと、元いた地面にストンッと矢が刺さった。狙われている......それも弓矢で! でも、ここはヴァーサスフィールドではないからプレイヤーがプレイヤーを攻撃することは出来ない。つまり、弓矢を使うモンスターがいる......? 音のする方向を見ると、人影が木の後ろに隠れるのが見えた。やはりプレイヤーなのか? 撃った後にすぐ身を隠すのは相当考えられた動きだ。ひゅん! ひゅんひゅん! 今度は投石だと......!? しかも同時にいくつもだ! 複数の敵に狙われているのは間違いないが、やけに数が多い気がする。少なくとも4人パーティではこの同時攻撃は不可能。「とりあえず、確かめてみるか......!」俺は投石の1つにあえて当たってみた。じんわりとした軽い痛みとダメージが俺の体に伝わる。 ......やはりモンスターだ! 「封魔縛陣、3連展開!」上に乗った敵の動きを封じる魔法陣を敵が移動しているルート上に設置する。標的は......すぐに引っかかった。ヒィィィイヒィィィイヒィヒィィィィィィ!!! それは猿......いや、ヒヒだった! 全身の体毛が赤く、まるで燃え盛る炎のようだ。狂ったような声を上げ、魔法陣から逃れようとしている。逃げられる前に仕留めてしまおう! 「サンダー......! うわっ!?」仲間のヒヒたちから妨害を受けた! 俺が攻撃を避けているうちに他の仲間が魔法陣の設置された地面をぶっ壊し、引っかかった仲間を救出していた。こいつら......仲間意識がある! 危険な状態の仲間を助けるために援護と救出で役割を分け、同時に行動していた。今までのモンスターより知能がずっと高い。だからこそ......。「対パーティ戦の良い練習になりそうだ......!」	Bounce-bounce-bounce! Uh, and another strange one has arrived...! It looked like a typical fantasy slime monster, but its fighting style was a little different. It would never come close, but would shoot its liquid at me like some kind of sniper. And its name was Sliper! So this enemy was the same as me! However, I wouldn’t lose if this was just a normal sniping battle. But the Sliper would use its body to bounce around from tree to tree, which made it difficult for me to aim at it. And yet, the Sliper had ridiculously good accuracy... “Well, this will be good practice for PvP...!” Hitting a monster with an arrow was a lot different from hitting a player with an arrow. Especially with veteran players, they would have superior dodging ability. And so even if it was a hopping slime, I wanted to have a hundred percent accuracy. “Thunder Arrow!” The electric arrow hit the slime with a zap. While slimes had decent defense against physical attacks, they were weak against fire and thunder. And so if you got a clean hit, you could oneshot them, which felt very good. However, this was the Riboribo forest, and killing some monsters smoothly didn’t mean that I could relax. Because the field itself...could attack you...! Paaaan! Paaan! “Tsk...! Again!” There were white mushrooms on the ground called Flashrooms, and they flashed a blinding light if disturbed. While it was only for a second, it was bright enough to completely rob you of sight. It would be a disaster if I stepped on such a thing during battle. The only saving grace was that it didn’t deal damage. It was just a light... ...On the other hand, you could also pull them out of the ground and gather them as items. The materials that I needed for the regeneration potion could also be gathered like this. You just grabbed things on the field and they turned into items. Well, the Flashroom wasn’t a material that I needed, but since they kept bothering me, I just tore them out whenever I found them. This was one thing you could take a lot of, and other players wouldn’t complain. “Uh, the last material I need is...the Bonbon Mushroom.” Riboribo and Bonbon. This sure was a delightful place. However, this last material proved to be very difficult to find. “I guess I should go deeper in...” I had plenty of time, and the enemy monsters weren’t giving me much trouble. And so I went deeper into the forest in order to search for the Bonbon Mushroom... ◆ ◆ ◆ “Scorched Forest...Lifeflame Jungle.” Read a partially burnt sign. Apparently, the area up ahead was slightly different. There was more red in the trees and plants, and the air was a lot hotter. The monsters were also more red, and some used fire attacks. And they also had better fire resistance when it came to defense. So I wouldn’t be able to rely on Burning Arrow anymore... “But I have a feeling that I’ll find the mushroom here.” There was something about the color red that made me think of vitality. The mushroom that I wanted was probably a bloody red as well. And so I would carefully make my way forward. ...There were a lot of tasteless decorations everywhere. Not outright traps, but words written in blood and things like skulls. It made me think of silly ideas...like cannibals in hidden jungles. Kiririri...shu! “Huh...!?” That wasn’t an arrow shot by me! I reflexively jumped to the side, and an arrow pierced the ground where I had just been standing. Someone was targeting me...with a bow! But this wasn’t a versus field, so players weren’t able to attack each other. In other words, there was a monster that used a bow...? When I looked in the direction that the sound came from, I saw that someone was hiding behind a tree. So it was a player? Most monsters wouldn’t hide immediately after attacking. Hyu! Hyun-hyun! Now it was throwing rocks...!? And they were coming from different directions! I was being targeted by multiple enemies, and there seemed to be a lot of them. This couldn’t be a party of four. “I better find out...!” And so I purposely allowed one of the rocks to hit me. There was a mild pain as I took damage. ...So they were monsters after all! “Seal Demon Bind! Three times!” I created the magic circles right in their path. They would freeze any enemy that entered them. The target...got caught immediately. Hiiiii-hiiii-hiiii!!! It was a monkey...no, a baboon! Its body was covered in red hair that looked like burning flames. It raised its voice like a mad man and tried to escape from the magic circle. But I would kill it before it could escape! “Thunder...! Woah!?” The other baboons started to attack me! While I was busy dodging their attacks, the other baboons destroyed the ground under the magic circles and saved their friends. They...had a sense of comradeship! When one of them was in danger, they split up into different roles and moved at the same time. That made them much more intelligent than any monster I had fought up until now. 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シェーナは衣食住のお礼に、今日の夕飯は自分が料理を用意しようと思う。そのために買い物と居住手続きを済ませて、家賃が滞っていたキシャナとルームシェアをして負担を減らせればいい。城塞都市シャルティユには大きく分けて行政地区、商業地区、居住地区の地区で構成されている。鎖帷子の上からローブを羽織って、まずは居住地区から行政地区へと足を運ぶ。居住地区はシャルティユで生活するために種族を問わず大勢の者が暮らしているところだ。都市の中央に近い程、建物は豪華絢爛で家賃も高いが、逆に離れていくと家賃も安く冒険者やキシャナのような訳ありの人物が住んでいることが多い。行政地区は主に役所が点在する区域で、居住区域で生活する住民票の発行や身分証明書の発行等がある。裁判所や警察組織も行政地区に集約されたりしている。住民票を取得するために、行政地区の住民課へ訪れると書類に必要事項を記入して受付に通す。シェーナが騎士団に所属していた頃には、剣を振るうこと以外隊を任された隊長として上司や部下に報告する必要書類の作成等といった事務作業も地道にこなしてきた。隊長の肩書きと言っても、前世で例えると会社の係長が中間管理職として上司と部下の板挟みになって働くのと変わらず、前世や異世界でも組織に属していたら通る道だろう。申請が通るまでシェーナは椅子に腰かけていると、受付嬢から呼び出される。「書類に問題はありません。キシャナ・ウスティー氏とのルームシェアですが、貸主の許可も取れましたので、こちらが住民票となります。こちらの身分証明書は商業ギルドの登録にも使えますので、紛失なさらないよう各自で保管して下さい」「ありがとうございます」シェーナは受付嬢に礼を言うと、住民票と身分証明書を受け取って一安心する。料理を作るために材料を揃えようとシェーナは次に商業地区に足を運ぶ。商業地区にはハルセンティス大陸の各国に商業ギルド『女神の剣』、『古の古文書』等の巨大組織に属した商人が商売を展開して、個人や団体からの依頼を商業ギルドが仲介して冒険者に仕事を斡旋したりする地区だ。料理は決めているのだが、問題は材料が揃うかだ。「まずは強力粉が欲しいけど、後は卵と塩とオリーブオイルはさすがにないよなぁ。他の油で代用するしかないか」食材を取り扱うところを重点的に回ると、パンを製造するのに使う強力粉はすぐに見つかった。卵と塩も無事に揃えることはできて、意外にもオリーブオイルを取り扱っている店は少数だが見つけることができた。「あるところにはあるんだな。後はソースの材料だけど、これも大丈夫そうだな」もう一方の材料はトマト、玉ねぎ、ニンニク、コショウだが、こちらも難なく揃えることはできた。「よし、今夜はトマトソースの生パスタだ」	To show Kishana some gratitude for the clothing and food, Schenna decided she would take care of all the cooking for tonight. For that she first needed to go shopping and finish the residential contract, since sharing a room would be cheaper, and it would avoid the same situation as she had gone through before. The citadel of Shalteux was divided into the administrative district, the commercial district, and the three residential districts. Schenna attached a robe to the top of the chainmail armor, then left the residential area as she headed towards the administrative district. The residential area was designed for every species to be able to live in peace. Luxurious buildings surround the middle part of the city, the rent for those buildings are naturally extremely expensive. The further the house is from the center, the cheaper it gets. In Kishana’s case, her rent is quite low due to the fact that she lives far from the center. In the administrative district, it’s mostly just government offices, and where people can find places to rent and take care of the paperwork. Both the courthouse and the guard station are located in this district as well. To get the resident certificate, people need to visit the residence department and fill in the required forms in order to be able to live here. Back when Schenna was still part of the knight corps, she did more than just swing her sword around. As the commanding officer, she had to take care of reports both for her higher ranks and lower ranks so she was well used to filling in paperwork. Schenna sat on a chair while waiting for the application to be passed, and got called by the receptionist after a while. “There are no problems with the documents. We also have permission from the landlord to share the room with Ms. Kishana Ustey, here is the resident certificate. “Thank you very much” Schenna thanked the receptionist, then had a sense of relief as soon as she got her hands on both the certificate and the documents. Next would be a visit to the merchant district so that she could get all the ingredients she needed for tonight’s dinner. from “Sword of the Goddess” to “Ancient Archives” and much more. All these big companies had a representative here, along with the merchant guild being in charge of passing on requests from both individuals and organizations to adventurers. Alright so I already have the dish planned out, all I need is to gather all the necessary ingredients. “First of all, I want to get some strong flour, next up are some eggs, salt, and olive oil.... or not. Guess I’ll have to use a different kind of oil.” As she looked around with the main ingredients in mind, she instantly came across the flour for making bread. She soon got her hands on eggs and salt, as well as olive oil despite having very few shops that sold it. “Seek and you shall find right. Lastly comes the sauce, shouldn’t be hard to find.” The remaining ingredients were tomatoes, onions, garlic, and pepper but these were everywhere. “There we go, we’re having tomato sauce pasta for dinner!”Schenna enthusiastically headed back to the residential district to prepare the meal.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 1, "inserted_lines_trg": 3 }
私にとっては赤ちゃんのようなものです皆さんかわいい赤ちゃんは好きですよね私も昔はかわいい赤ちゃんでした私が生まれて数日後に父親と撮った写真ですプロダクトデザインの世界ではかわいい赤ちゃんはコンセプト・カーのようなものですみんなを圧倒します見た人はこう言います「すごい即買いだ!」では今年の新車が昨年のモデルとほとんど同じに見えるのはどうしてでしょう? デザインスタジオと工場の間でどんな問題があったのでしょう? 私が今日お話ししたいのはかわいい赤ちゃんのことではなくぎこちないデザインの「思春期」― 世界の仕組みを理解しようと模索している失敗も多く難しい時期についてお話しします新生児の健康に関する私たちの仕事を例に始めましょう問題はこうです世界には途上国を中心に 1歳になる前に中には生後1か月を迎える前に命を落とす赤ちゃんが毎年400万人ほどいますこうした赤ちゃんの半数およそ180万人は生後3日間もしくは1週間きちんと温かい状態に保てば命をつなぐことができますネパールのカトマンズにある新生児集中治療室ですここの赤ちゃんはみなこんな感じの保育器の中にいますこれがカトマンズで使われている日本から寄付されたアトム保育器です私たちはこういうものを必要としていますおそらくは日本の病院が設備を更新して古くなった保育器をネパールに寄付したのでしょう問題は技術者や予備の部品がなければこうした寄付品はすぐガラクタになることですここに私たちが何かできることがある気がしました赤ちゃんを1週間温かく保つことはロケット科学ではありませんそこで取り組みを始めましたここボストンの優れた医療研究機関と協力し海外で何か月にも及ぶユーザー調査を行いました人々が望んでいることを把握できるように人間中心のデザインを念頭に置いてデザイナーの視点で考えました何千枚もの付箋を使いここにたどり着くまでに何十という試作品を作りましたそしてこれがネオナーチャ保育器ですいろんな工夫が詰め込まれていていい出来だと思いましたコンセプト・カーとは違い私たちは美しいものと実際に機能するものを掛け合わせたかったのです私たちはこのデザインがメーカーや影響力を持つ人たちの心に響き私たちの製品を使ってくれるようになるだろうと思いました悪い知らせです実際にネオナーチャ保育器の中に入った赤ちゃんは「タイム」誌の写真撮影の際のこの子だけでした反響は素晴らしいものでした私たちはデザインは多くの人々の目に触れるべきだと考えていますこの保育器はいろんな賞をもらいましたが私たちにはブービー賞のように感じられました私たちは美しいものを作って世界をより良い場所にしたかったのにこの赤ちゃんは温まる時間すらなく保育器からいなくなってしまいましたインスピレーションを与えるためのデザインというのは実際には― 私たちにとってあるいは私が行いたいことにとっては遅すぎたり機能しなかったりで効果がないことが分かりました私はデザインは結果を伴ってほしいと切に思っています望むのは美しいものを作ることではなく世界をより良い場所にすることですネオナーチャ保育器をデザインしているときこれを使うであろう人たちのことをいろいろと考えましたたとえば貧しい家族や田舎の医師働き過ぎの看護師や修理技師のことなどです自分たちは抜け目なくすべてを正しく行ってきたと思っていましたでも実際わかったのは製品を成功させるためにはさまざまな人たちの関与が必要だということでした製造資金調達流通規制 PATHのマイケル・フリーは誰が「選び使い支払うのか」を把握しなければならないと言いますベンチャーキャピタルはいつもこう聞きます「あなたのビジネスは何ですか顧客は誰ですか?」私たちの顧客は誰か? ひとつ例を挙げますバングラデシュの病院経営者が施設の外にいます病院の設備はどれも彼が買ったものではなく設備購入の決定権は国の保健省や海外の援助国にあり病院側はただ設備を受け入れるだけということがわかりましたこの多国籍医療機器メーカーでも同様です「魚のいるところで釣りをする」ということが大切ですつまり新興市場でのターゲットは勃興している中流階級であって中流層の問題は心臓病や不妊症などの裕福病でした結果を求めるデザインの一つの側面は製造と流通のためのデザインを考えることだとわかりました重要な教訓ですここで学んだ教訓を次のプロジェクトに生かそうと製造業者を見つけるところから始めましたベトナムで東南アジア向けに新生児看護の製品を作っている MTTSという団体ですもう一つは East Meets Westというアメリカの財団でこの技術を東南アジアの貧しい病院に広める活動を行っています私たちはまず「何をしましょうか? どんな問題を解決したいですか?」と尋ねました「新生児の黄疸の問題に取り組みましょう」という提案を受けました黄疸もとても深刻な世界的な問題のひとつです世界の新生児の 3分の2が黄疸を発症しそのうちのざっと10人に1人は治療を受けなければ症状が深刻化し一生にわたって障害が残ったり死に至ったりすることもあります黄疸を治療する一つの方法は「交換輸血」と呼ばれるものです想像できると思いますが高価で多少危険性もあります別の治療法もありますとても技術的で複雑で手ごわい方法です子どもに青色光を当てるのです明るい青色光をできるだけ多くの皮膚に当てるのですなぜこれが難問なのでしょう? MITに行って理由を探りましたいずれわかるでしょう例を挙げますこれはアメリカの病院にある頭上光線療法の設備です使用法はこうです赤ちゃんの上に設置して一人ずつ照らしますアメリカの病院から機材を持ち出してアジアの込み合った病院に送ると実際にはこんな風に使われています光線療法の効果は光量次第です濃い青の四角部分にちょうどよい光線が当たるのですでも実際にはこう使われています端の方にいる子どもには光線療法の効果がありませんでも訓練もされず光量計もなければそんなことはわかりません似た問題は他にもありますこの新生児集中治療室には母親がやってきて赤ちゃんとの時間を過ごしますその母親は帝王切開を少し前に経験したかもしれませんそれだけで大変な体験ですよね母親が赤ちゃんを訪れたときに子どもが裸で青い光の下に寝かされていると寒そうに見えるので母親が赤ちゃんに毛布をかけることは日常的に起こります光線療法の視点から言えば理想的な行動ではありませんむしろ間抜けなように見えますでも私たちは間抜けなユーザーなどいないということを学びました間抜けなのは製品の方です私たちは実存主義者のように考えなければなりません重要なのは「描いたかもしれない」絵ではなく「実際に描いた」絵なのです製品が実際の使用法を想定しているか人々がその製品を実際にどう使うかが重要なのですパートナーのMTTSのことを考えたときも同じでした彼らは新生児の病気を治療する素晴らしい技術を開発しました頭上型の保温器とCPAP(持続的陽圧呼吸法)の設備です安価でとても丈夫にできていますベトナムで5万人の子どもを治療してきましたが問題も抱えています世界中のあらゆる医師や病院経営者がテレビを見て― 「E.R.」の再放送とか見てしまって医療機器とはこんなものだというイメージを持っているのです効果的なものではなくキャプテン・ロジャースを欲しがります信じがたくまともな考えとは思えませんが安っぽくてみすぼらしく見える機材を持つよりは何もない方がいいという病院は実際にあるのですだから機材を信用してもらうためには見た目が大切なのです結果について考えて見た目の重要性がわかりましただからそうした情報をひとまとめにしました今回こそ正しく理解しようとしたのですそこから生まれたのがこれですファイアフライ光線療法機です今回はコンセプト・カーから先の段階をめざしましたいちばん最初から製造業者と話を始めました目標はパートナーのMTTSが実際に製造できる最先端の製品を生み出すことでした彼らの働き方や使える資源を学び製品の製造ができるようにしましたこれが「製造のためのデザイン」の問題です実際の使用法を考えるとファイアフライには新生児用ベッドが一つついています赤ちゃん一人しか乗せることができませんこの機材をどのように使うのか明白にわかるようにしたのです二人以上の子どもを乗せようとすると赤ちゃんを山積みすることになります間違った使い方をするのが難しいようにデザインしたのです別の言い方をすれば正しい使い方が最も簡単な使い方となるようにしたのですもう一つの例です勘違いしている母親の話です母親は赤ちゃんが寒がっているように見えて毛布をかけますそこで私たちは光が上からも下からも当たるようにしました母親が赤ちゃんに毛布をかけたとしても下から十分な光線を当てることができます最後の話ですインドに住む友人に言われましたアジアで電子機器を普及させようとするならばゴキブリが機械の中に入り込んで全ての部品におしっこをかけるという製品テストをクリアしなければならないおかしな話だと思われるでしょう平和部隊にいたときにノートPCにドット欠けがたくさん起きたことがありましたある日PCの中を見てみるとアリが大量に入り込んで死んでいたのです可哀そうに! ファイアフライではこんな対応策を取りました電子機器は熱くなるのでほとんどの製品は温度を上げないために通気口や送風機を設置する必要がありますでも通気口の隣に「入らないで」と記しても意味はありませんそこで通気口を全て取っ払いましたファイアフライは完全密封されています私たちはこれらの教訓を学びました試行錯誤の思春期以上に試行錯誤のデザインはぎこちないものでした本当に世界を変えるためには製造と流通に気を配らなければなりません人々が実際にその機器をどう使うか気を配らなければなりません本当に注意する必要があります失敗しても言い訳はできません実存主義者のように考え間抜けなユーザーなどはおらずあるのは間抜けな製品だけだと考えなければなりません自らに厳しい質問を投げかけねばなりません自分たちが望む世界のためにデザインしているのか? 今ある世界のためにデザインしているのか? 準備ができていようともいまいともこれからやって来る世界のためのデザインなのか? 私は製品をデザインすることからこの世界に入りましたしかし本当に世界に変化を起こしたいのであれば結果をデザインしなければならないと学びましたそれこそが真に意味のあるデザインなのですありがとうございます	It's my beautiful baby. Here's the thing: everybody loves a beautiful baby. I mean, I was a beautiful baby. Here's me and my dad a couple days after I was born. So in the world of product design, the beautiful baby's like the concept car. It's the knockout. You see it and you go, "Oh, my God. I'd buy that in a second!" So why is it that this year's new cars look pretty much exactly like last year's new cars? What went wrong between the design studio and the factory? Today, I don't want to talk about beautiful babies, I want to talk about the awkward adolescence of design -- where you're trying to figure out how the world works. I'm going to start with an example from some work that we did on newborn health. So here's a problem: four million babies around the world, mostly in developing countries, die every year before their first birthday, even before their first month of life. It turns out half of those kids, or about 1.8 million newborns around the world, would make it if you could just keep them warm for the first three days, maybe the first week. So this is a newborn intensive care unit in Kathmandu, Nepal. All of these kids in blankets belong in incubators -- something like this. This is a donated Japanese Atom incubator that we found in a NICU in Kathmandu. This is what we want. Probably what happened is a hospital in Japan upgraded their equipment and donated their old stuff to Nepal. The problem is, without technicians, without spare parts, donations like this very quickly turn into junk. So this seemed like a problem that we could do something about. Keeping a baby warm for a week -- that's not rocket science. So we got started. We partnered with a leading medical research institution here in Boston. We conducted months of user research overseas, trying to think like designers, human-centered design -- We killed thousands of Post-it notes. We made dozens of prototypes to get to this. So this is the NeoNurture infant incubator, and this has a lot of smarts built into it, and we felt great. So the idea here is, unlike the concept car, we want to marry something beautiful with something that actually works. And our idea is that this design would inspire manufacturers and other people of influence to take this model and run with it. Here's the bad news: the only baby ever actually put inside the NeoNurture incubator was this kid during a Time magazine photo shoot. So recognition is fantastic. We want design to get out for people to see it. It won lots of awards. But it felt like a booby prize. We wanted to make beautiful things that are going to make the world a better place, and I don't think this kid was even in it long enough to get warm. So it turns out that design for inspiration doesn't really ... I guess what I would say is, for us, for what I want to do, it's either too slow or it just doesn't work, it's ineffective. So, really, I want to design for outcomes. I don't want to make beautiful stuff; I want to make the world a better place. So when we were designing NeoNurture, we paid a lot of attention to the people who are going to use this thing, for example, poor families, rural doctors, overloaded nurses, even repair technicians. We thought we had all our bases covered, we'd done everything right. Well, it turns out there's this whole constellation of people who have to be involved in a product for it to be successful: manufacturing, financing, distribution, regulation. Michael Free at PATH says you have to figure out who will "choose, use and pay the dues" for a product like this. And I have to ask the question that VCs always ask: "Sir, what is your business, and who is your customer?" Who is our customer? Well, here's an example. This is a Bangladeshi hospital director outside his facility. It turns out he doesn't buy any of his equipment. Those decisions are made by the Ministry of Health or by foreign donors, and it just kind of shows up. Similarly, here's a multinational medical-device manufacturer. It turns out they've got to fish where the fish are. So it turns out that in emerging markets -- where the fish are -- are the emerging middle class of these countries -- diseases of affluence: heart disease, infertility. So it turns out that design for outcomes in one aspect really means thinking about design for manufacture and distribution. OK, that was an important lesson. Second, we took that lesson and tried to push it into our next project. So we started by finding a manufacturer, an organization called MTTS in Vietnam, that manufactures newborn-care technologies for Southeast Asia. Our other partner is East Meets West, an American foundation that distributes that technology to poor hospitals around that region. So we started with them, saying, "Well, what do you want? What's a problem you want to solve?" And they said, "Let's work on newborn jaundice." So this is another one of these mind-boggling global problems. Jaundice affects two-thirds of newborns around the world. Of those newborns, one in 10 roughly, if it's not treated, the jaundice gets so severe that it leads to either a life-long disability, or the kids could even die. There's one way to treat jaundice, and that's what's called an exchange transfusion. So as you can imagine, that's expensive and a little bit dangerous. There is another cure. It's very technological, it's very complex, a little daunting. You've got to shine blue light on the kid. Bright blue light on as much of the skin as you can cover. How is this a hard problem? I went to MIT. OK, we'll figure that out. So here's an example. This is an overhead phototherapy device that's designed for American hospitals, and here's how it's supposed to be used. It's over the baby, illuminating a single patient. Take it out of an American hospital, send it overseas to a crowded facility in Asia, here's how it's actually used. The effectiveness of phototherapy is a function of light intensity. These dark blue squares show you where it's effective phototherapy. Here's what it looks like under actual use. So those kids on the edges aren't actually receiving effective phototherapy. But without training, without some kind of light meter, how would you know? We see other examples of problems like this. Here's a neonatal intensive care unit, where moms come in to visit their babies. And keep in mind that Mom maybe just had a C-section, so that's already kind of a bummer. Mom's visiting her kid. She sees her baby naked, lying under some blue lights, looking kind of vulnerable. It's not uncommon for Mom to put a blanket over the baby. From a phototherapy standpoint, maybe not the best behavior. In fact, that sounds kind of dumb. Except, what we've learned is that there's no such thing as a dumb user -- there are only dumb products. We have to think like existentialists: it's not the painting we would have painted, it's the painting that we actually painted. It's the use -- designed for actual use. How are people actually going to use this? So, similarly, when we think about our partner MTTS, they've made some amazing technologies for treating newborn illnesses. So here's an overhead warmer and a CPAP. They're inexpensive, really rugged. They've treated 50,000 kids in Vietnam with this technology. But here's the problem: Every doctor in the world, every hospital administrator, has seen TV -- curse those "ER" reruns! Turns out they all know what a medical device is supposed to look like. They want Buck Rogers, they don't want effective. It sounds crazy, it sounds dumb, but there are actually hospitals who would rather have no equipment than something that looks cheap and crummy. So again, if we want people to trust a device, it has to look trustworthy. So thinking about outcomes, it turns out appearances matter. We took all that information together. We tried, this time, to get it right. And here's what we developed. This is the Firefly phototherapy device, except this time, we didn't stop at the concept car. From the very beginning, we started by talking to manufacturers. Our goal is to make a state-of-the-art product that our partner MTTS can actually manufacture. Our goal is to study how they work, the resources they have access to, so that they can make this product. So that's the design for manufacture question. When we think about actual use, you'll notice that Firefly has a single bassinet. It only fits a single baby, and the idea here is it's obvious how you ought to use this device. If you try to put more than one kid in, you're stacking them on top of each other. So the idea here is you want to make it hard to use wrong. In other words, you want to make the right way to use it the easiest way to use it. Another example -- again, silly Mom. Silly Mom thinks her baby looks cold, wants to put a blanket over the baby. That's why we have lights above and below the baby in Firefly, so if Mom does put a blanket over the baby, it's still receiving effective phototherapy from below. Last story here: I've got a friend in India who told me that you haven't really tested a piece of electronic technology for distribution in Asia, until you've trained a cockroach to climb in and pee on every single little component on the inside. You think it's funny. I had a laptop in the Peace Corps, and the screen had all these dead pixels on it. And one day I looked in -- they were all dead ants that had gotten into my laptop and perished. Those poor ants. So with Firefly, what we did is -- the problem is electronics get hot, and you have to put in vents or fans to keep them cool -- in most products. We decided we can't put a "Do not enter" sign next to the vent. We actually got rid of all that stuff. So Firefly's totally sealed. These are the kinds of lessons -- as awkward as it was to be a pretty goofy teenager, much worse to be a frustrated designer. So I was thinking, "What I really want to do is change the world. I have to pay attention to manufacturing and distribution. I have to pay attention to how people are actually going to use a device. I actually have to pay attention. There's no excuse for failure. I have to think like an existentialist. I have to accept that there are no dumb users, only dumb products." We have to ask ourselves hard questions. Are we designing for the world that we want? Are we designing for the world that we have? Are we designing for the world that's coming, whether we're ready or not? I got into this business designing products. I've since learned that if you really want to make a difference in the world, you have to design outcomes. And that's design that matters. Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
90%以上の者は国を出たこともなく 90%以上の者は国を出たこともなくキューバで医療を学ぶ奨学金を得て元々来た所へいずれ戻ると心に決め― そこは田舎の農村や山、そしてゲットーそこは田舎の農村や山、そしてゲットー彼ら自身と同じような人々のための医師となるために「歩むべくを歩み」― やるべきことをやるためにハバナにあるラテンアメリカ医科大学は世界で一番大きな医科大学です 2005年に開校して以来 2万3千人の若い医師達を輩出してきましたそして尚、更に1万人の卒業を控えていますここのミッションは最も必要としている人々のために医師を育てることですそれは1度も医者にかかったことがない 10億人もの人々あらゆる貧困ラインの下で生きて死んでいく人々ですあらゆる貧困ラインの下で生きて死んでいく人々です個々の学生たちはあらゆる「常識」に挑みます彼らは学校の最も危険なリスクであり希望です彼らは学校の最も危険なリスクであり希望です彼らは地球上で最も貧しく荒んだ場所から集められてきました優秀なだけでなく彼らはコミュニティーが切実に必要とする医師となるだろうと切実に必要とする医師となるだろうと信じる学校の期待を託され多くの医師が行かないような貧しい地域や危険な地域で多くの医師が行かないような貧しい地域や危険な地域で多くの医師が行かないような貧しい地域や危険な地域でリュックに解毒剤を運び故郷で麻薬やギャングや弾丸のはびこる界隈をくぐり抜ける医師たちです彼らにかかっている期待は医療のアクセスを改革し貧困に喘ぐ地域での健康状況を塗り替え医療自体が学ばれ実践される方法を変えてしまう事ですそして私たちの皆保険制度が世界中に広がるための開拓者となる事ですもちろん高望みでしょう 1998年の2つの大きな嵐とこの「歩むべくを歩む」と言う事がELAMの設立につながりましたハリケーンのジョージとミッチはカリブと中央アメリカを直撃してカリブと中央アメリカを直撃して 3万人の死者を出し 250百万人のホームレスを生み出しました何百人ものキューバ人医師たちが災害救援ボランティアに志願しましたが現場に着いたときより大きな災害を目にしました全コミュニティーが医療へのアクセスも無く地域の病院のドアは物資の不足のために堅く閉ざされあまりにも多くの赤ちゃんが最初の誕生日を迎える前に死んでいきましたこのキューバ人医師達が去った時どうなるというのでしょう? 治療を持続可能にするために新たに医師達が必要でしたでも一体どこから来てくれるというのでしょう? どこで研修をすれば? そこでハバナでは前海軍学校がキューバ厚生省に委譲されラテンアメリカ医科大学 ELAMとなりました嵐により最も激しく被災した国々からの数百人の学生たちに学費、寮、それに諸費が与えられましたハバナのジャーナリストとして私は 1999年3月に最初の 97人のニカラグア人達が到着するのを見届けました彼らはほとんど改装されていない寮に引越し教授達が教室の床を掃き机や椅子や顕微鏡を運び入れるのを手伝いましたそれから数年アメリカ大陸の政府はそれぞれ自国の学生のための奨学金を要求し黒人議員連盟はアメリカの若者のために何百もの奨学金を獲得しました今日2万3千人の卒業生の中にはアメリカ大陸やアフリカそしてアジアの 83カ国からの出身者がいてそしてそれは123カ国へと拡大しました半数以上の学生は若い女性です彼らは100の民族から成り立ち 50カ国の言葉を話します WHO事務局長のマーガレット・チャンはこう言いました「もしあなたが貧しく女性で先住民族の出身だったらそれは明らかな利点なのですあなたはこの学校をユニークにする民族の一員ですから」ルーサー・カスティーヨはホンジュラスの太平洋岸にあるサン・ペドロ・デ・トカマチョ出身ですそこには流れる飲み水もなく電気もなく村へたどりつくには何時間も歩くか私のように思い切ってトラックに運を任せて大西洋の波打ち際を走り続けるのですルーサーはホンジュラスの人口の 20%を占めるガリフナと呼ばれる 20%を占めるガリフナと呼ばれる黒人の土着民族の子供たち— その中でも学校へ行った 40人の1人でした一番近い病院は生死を分ける何マイルも先にありましたルーサーは中学校へ通うために毎日3時間歩きました 17人だけが通学し 5人が高校に進み 1人だけ大学に進みました ELAMへ行ったルーサーは最初のガリフナの卒業生の1人ですそれ以前のガリフナの卒業生はホンジュラス史上たった2人だけでした ELAMのお蔭で今日では69人になりました大きな問題には大きな解決策が必要です大きなアイデアや想像力そして大胆さもしかしまた有用な解決策も必要です ELAMの教授陣はあらかじめ用意された資料もなく苦労して学びながら学生を指導し軌道修正をしながら試行錯誤を続けました貧困層コミュニティーから来た最も優秀な学生でさえも 6年間の医療トレーニングのための知識は十分でなく次に必要なのはマプチェ、ケチュア、グアラニ、ガリフナといったスペイン語を第二言語として学んだ原住民たちやクレオール語を話すハイチ人たちのための語学教育でスペイン語が学部に入る前のカリキュラムに組み込まれましたキューバでは音楽、食、においあらゆる全てが違っていましたが教師たちは家族のようになり ELAMは我が家になりました宗教は土着信仰からヨルバ、ムスリム教、キリスト教、福音主義と多岐に渡りました異質なものを受け入れることはそこでの生き方となりましたなぜそんなにも多くの国々がこの奨学金を求めたのでしょうか? まず十分な医師がいないということいたとしても貧困層には行き渡っていません地球規模の医療危機―人的資源の欠乏の為にますます悪化しているからです基本的ニーズを満たす為だけにも 4〜7百万人の医療従事者たちが不足していますこの問題は至る所で見られます医者たちは世界の半分の人口が住む医者たちは世界の半分の人口が住む都市に集中しており貧民街や南LAには十分いませんアメリカでは医療制度改革がありますが医療従事者たちは不足しています 2020年までに 4万5千人のプライマリーケア医師が不足するでしょう我々は問題の一部でもありますアメリカは発展途上国からの医師の第一の輸入国でもありますキューバに学生たちが集まる第二の理由はこの島独自の健康レポートカードでそれはしっかりとしたプライマリーケアに依存していますランセット誌の委員会はキューバを健康において最も良い成果を上げている中所得国のひとつと評価しています NGOセーブ・ザ・チルドレンはキューバをラテンアメリカで最も母親にやさしい国だと評価していますキューバはアメリカと同程度の寿命とより低い新生児死亡率を誇ります地域でのばらつきも比較的低く地域でのばらつきも比較的低くしかも一人当たりの医療コストはアメリカの20分の1です ELAMの教育は厳しいですが 80%の学生は卒業します科目はごく一般的なもので— 基礎そして臨床科学などです大きな違いは次の点にありますトレーニングは象牙の塔の外で行われ授業では診療を近隣住区で実地するのですほとんどの卒業生が将来実際に働くような場所ですもちろん彼らは講義や病院でのシフトもありますがコミュニティーベースの学習は第1日目から始まります次に学生たちは患者のすべてと向き合います心そして身体です家族やコミュニティーそして文化の関連の中で患者を診察します 3つ目に彼らは公衆衛生を学びます彼らの両親が飲む水や家の状況そして社会的経済的状況を評価する為です 4つ目に彼らはしっかりとした問診と 4つ目に彼らはしっかりとした問診と徹底的な臨床検査によって診断に必要なヒントの殆どを得られるので高額な技術で確認する必要がありません最後に彼らは何度も何度も予防の大切さを教えこまれます特に慢性疾患が世界中で医療制度を硬直させているからですこのような実地教育はチームアプローチと共に行われチームとしての働き方チームの指揮の取り方少しの謙虚さの必要性も学びます卒業してからこれらの医師たちはその知識を看護師や助産婦地域医療従事者と共有しますそれは彼らがより良い仕事をするように育てるためで新たな代わりと交代させるのではありません彼らは伝統的な呪術師や治癒師と協力もします ELAMの卒業生たち— この大胆な試みが正しいと実証しているでしょうか数十のプロジェクトからそれを実証できそうだと分かりますガリフナの卒業生たち彼らは故郷で働く為に帰っただけでなく自分たちでコミュニティーを動かしホンジュラス初の先住民の病院を建てました建築家の助けを借り現地の人々は文字通り1から立ち上げ 2007年12月に最初の患者がそのドアから足を踏み入れましたその時以来病院は 100万人近くの来院数を記録しました政府も注目しこの病院をホンジュラス農村地の公衆衛生モデルとして掲げました ELAMの卒業生たちは頭脳明晰で強くそして熱心ですハイチ 2010年1月痛みが国を襲いました人々は3千万トンの瓦礫の下に埋もれました圧倒される光景でした 340人のキューバ人医師達が既に長期に渡り現地で働いていました増員が予定されていましたがより多くの医師が必要でした ELAMでは、学生達が24時間体制で 2千人の卒業生達に連絡をとっていました結果として数百名がハイチに着きその内訳は27カ国サハラにあるマリ共和国からセントルシア、ボリビア、チリ、アメリカまで様々でしたみんなスペイン語で互いに会話しキューバのELAMからきたハイチの医学生のおかげで患者がクレオール語で話すのを聞き取りました患者がクレオール語で話すのを聞き取りました彼らの多くはコレラの流行にも関わらず数ヶ月残りました何百人ものハイチ人卒業生たちが瓦礫のかけらを拾い心痛を乗り越えハイチの新しい公共医療制度を作るという重荷を背負うと決めました今日ノルウェーからキューバ、ブラジルまでの政府や団体の助けを借り数十の新たな医療センターが建てられましたそのうち35はELAM卒業生が指揮を取りますそのうち35はELAM卒業生が指揮を取りますしかしこのハイチの物語は多くの国々が直面するより大きな問題を描き出していますみて下さい 2012年コレラが襲った時 748名のハイチ人卒業生たちがいましたが半分は公共の医療セクターで働き 4分の1は職がなく 110名はハイチを離れていました最良のシナリオではこれらの卒業生は続々と職に就き公共医療システムを強化します往々にして彼らしか医師になる者はいない状況です最悪のケースでは最貧民層が治療を受ける公共医療セクターに十分な働き口が無く政治の活力も資源も何もかもが足りず― ただ溢れる患者がケアを受けられずにいます卒業生たちは家族からのプレッシャーにも直面します生活するのに必死で公共セクターの働き口がない場合はこれらの新人医師たちは個人開業医に落ち着いてしまったり仕送りをするために海外へ出稼ぎに出たりしてしまうのです最悪の例ではある国々では医学会が免許認定機関に影響を及ぼし ELAM の学位を認めさせません彼らが自分たちの働き口や患者を奪い生活を脅かすのではないかという焦りに駆られるのですこれは能力の問題ではありませんここアメリカではカリフォルニア州医事審議会が厳しい審査の後にELAMを認定し新たに医師になった卒業生たちは次々と審査を通過しニューヨーク、シカゴ、ニューメキシコ等誉高い場所での臨床研修へ受け入れられ― キューバの大いなる賭けに良い結果をもたらしています 200人ものそうした卒業生たちがアメリカに戻りやる気に溢れて同時に不満を抱えています卒業生の1人が言ったようにキューバでは「私たち医師は最小限の資源で質の良いケアを提供するように訓練されていますだからこれだけの資源を目にしてそれができないと言うのが信じられませんそれは間違いですそうするのを見てきただけでなく自分でもやってきたのですから」 ELAM卒業生たちはワシントンDCやボルチモアの非常に貧しい家庭からワシントンDCやボルチモアの非常に貧しい家庭から彼らのコミュニティーに医療、教育声を届けにやって来ました彼らは力を尽くしてきましたさあ私たちも2万3千人を超え増え続ける彼らに力を貸すべきです私たち皆- 基金、臨床研修プログラムディレクター、メディア起業家、政治家、一般の人々- 皆が立ち上がる時です私たちはもっと世界規模でこれらの新しい医師たちに彼らの気概を活かすチャンスを与えるべきです彼らはそれぞれの国の資格試験を受けることができなければなりません彼らは公共医療セクターや非営利医療センターのような場所で学んだ事や献身を活かせる仕事に就くべきなのです彼らは患者に求められている医師となるためのチャンスが必要なのです前進するためには始めに戻ることも必要かもしれません私が子供の頃シカゴの南の貧しい地区にある我が家のドアをノックしたあの小児科医患者の家々を見て回ってくれた私達のための公僕だったあの医師を思い出しますこれらは医療のあるべき姿としてそれほど新しいアイデアではありません新しいのはプログラムが育ち進化していることそして医師たちの顔ぶれです ELAM卒業生は女性である確率のほうが高くなりますし― アマゾン、ベルー、グァテマラの土着民族の医師あるいはアメリカではスペイン語を流暢に話す有色人種の医師が増えるのですからそうした女医達はよく訓練され頼りになる彼女の診る患者と同じ顔つきや文化を共有している実に私達がサポートするべき相手です彼女たちは地下鉄やロバやカヌーに乗って― 私達に「歩むべき歩み」を教えてくれているのですから (拍手)	Havana's Latin American Medical School: It's the largest medical school in the world, graduating 23,000 young doctors since its first class of 2005, with nearly 10,000 more in the pipeline. Its mission, to train physicians for the people who need them the most: the over one billion who have never seen a doctor, the people who live and die under every poverty line ever invented. Its students defy all norms. They're the school's biggest risk and also its best bet. They're recruited from the poorest, most broken places on our planet by a school that believes they can become not just the good but the excellent physicians their communities desperately need, that they will practice where most doctors don't, in places not only poor but oftentimes dangerous, carrying venom antidotes in their backpacks or navigating neighborhoods riddled by drugs, gangs and bullets, their home ground. The hope is that they will help transform access to care, the health picture in impoverished areas, and even the way medicine itself is learned and practiced, and that they will become pioneers in our global reach for universal health coverage, surely a tall order. Two big storms and this notion of "walk the walk" prompted creation of ELAM back in 1998. The Hurricanes Georges and Mitch had ripped through the Caribbean and Central America, leaving 30,000 dead and two and a half million homeless. Hundreds of Cuban doctors volunteered for disaster response, but when they got there, they found a bigger disaster: whole communities with no healthcare, doors bolted shut on rural hospitals for lack of staff, and just too many babies dying before their first birthday. What would happen when these Cuban doctors left? New doctors were needed to make care sustainable, but where would they come from? Where would they train? In Havana, the campus of a former naval academy was turned over to the Cuban Health Ministry to become the Latin American Medical School, ELAM. Tuition, room and board, and a small stipend were offered to hundreds of students from the countries hardest hit by the storms. As a journalist in Havana, I watched the first 97 Nicaraguans arrive in March 1999, settling into dorms barely refurbished and helping their professors not only sweep out the classrooms but move in the desks and the chairs and the microscopes. Over the next few years, governments throughout the Americas requested scholarships for their own students, and the Congressional Black Caucus asked for and received hundreds of scholarships for young people from the USA. Today, among the 23,000 are graduates from 83 countries in the Americas, Africa and Asia, and enrollment has grown to 123 nations. More than half the students are young women. They come from 100 ethnic groups, speak 50 different languages. WHO Director Margaret Chan said, "For once, if you are poor, female, or from an indigenous population, you have a distinct advantage, an ethic that makes this medical school unique." Luther Castillo comes from San Pedro de Tocamacho on the Atlantic coast of Honduras. There's no running water, no electricity there, and to reach the village, you have to walk for hours or take your chances in a pickup truck like I did skirting the waves of the Atlantic. Luther was one of 40 Tocamacho children who started grammar school, the sons and daughters of a black indigenous people known as the Garífuna, 20 percent of the Honduran population. The nearest healthcare was fatal miles away. Luther had to walk three hours every day to middle school. Only 17 made that trip. Only five went on to high school, and only one to university: Luther, to ELAM, among the first crop of Garífuna graduates. Just two Garífuna doctors had preceded them in all of Honduran history. Now there are 69, thanks to ELAM. Big problems need big solutions, sparked by big ideas, imagination and audacity, but also solutions that work. ELAM's faculty had no handy evidence base to guide them, so they learned the hard way, by doing and correcting course as they went. Even the brightest students from these poor communities weren't academically prepared for six years of medical training, so a bridging course was set up in sciences. Then came language: these were Mapuche, Quechuas, Guaraní, Garífuna, indigenous peoples who learned Spanish as a second language, or Haitians who spoke Creole. So Spanish became part of the pre-pre-med curriculum. Even so, in Cuba, the music, the food, the smells, just about everything was different, so faculty became family, ELAM home. Religions ranged from indigenous beliefs to Yoruba, Muslim and Christian evangelical. Embracing diversity became a way of life. Why have so many countries asked for these scholarships? First, they just don't have enough doctors, and where they do, their distribution is skewed against the poor, because our global health crisis is fed by a crisis in human resources. We are short four to seven million health workers just to meet basic needs, and the problem is everywhere. Doctors are concentrated in the cities, where only half the world's people live, and within cities, not in the shantytowns or South L.A. Here in the United States, where we have healthcare reform, we don't have the professionals we need. By 2020, we will be short 45,000 primary care physicians. And we're also part of the problem. The United States is the number one importer of doctors from developing countries. The second reasons students flock to Cuba is the island's own health report card, relying on strong primary care. A commission from The Lancet rates Cuba among the best performing middle-income countries in health. Save the Children ranks Cuba the best country in Latin America to become a mother. Cuba has similar life expectancy and lower infant mortality than the United States, with fewer disparities, while spending per person one 20th of what we do on health here in the USA. Academically, ELAM is tough, but 80 percent of its students graduate. The subjects are familiar — basic and clinical sciences — but there are major differences. First, training has moved out of the ivory tower and into clinic classrooms and neighborhoods, the kinds of places most of these grads will practice. Sure, they have lectures and hospital rotations too, but community-based learning starts on day one. Second, students treat the whole patient, mind and body, in the context of their families, their communities and their culture. Third, they learn public health: to assess their patients' drinking water, housing, social and economic conditions. Fourth, they are taught that a good patient interview and a thorough clinical exam provide most of the clues for diagnosis, saving costly technology for confirmation. And finally, they're taught over and over again the importance of prevention, especially as chronic diseases cripple health systems worldwide. Such an in-service learning also comes with a team approach, as much how to work in teams as how to lead them, with a dose of humility. Upon graduation, these doctors share their knowledge with nurse's aids, midwives, community health workers, to help them become better at what they do, not to replace them, to work with shamans and traditional healers. ELAM's graduates: Are they proving this audacious experiment right? Dozens of projects give us an inkling of what they're capable of doing. Take the Garífuna grads. They not only went to work back home, but they organized their communities to build Honduras' first indigenous hospital. With an architect's help, residents literally raised it from the ground up. The first patients walked through the doors in December 2007, and since then, the hospital has received nearly one million patient visits. And government is paying attention, upholding the hospital as a model of rural public health for Honduras. ELAM's graduates are smart, strong and also dedicated. Haiti, January 2010. The pain. People buried under 30 million tons of rubble. Overwhelming. Three hundred forty Cuban doctors were already on the ground long term. More were on their way. Many more were needed. At ELAM, students worked round the clock to contact 2,000 graduates. As a result, hundreds arrived in Haiti, 27 countries' worth, from Mali in the Sahara to St. Lucia, Bolivia, Chile and the USA. They spoke easily to each other in Spanish and listened to their patients in Creole thanks to Haitian medical students flown in from ELAM in Cuba. Many stayed for months, even through the cholera epidemic. Hundreds of Haitian graduates had to pick up the pieces, overcome their own heartbreak, of building a new public health system for Haiti. Today, with aid of organizations and governments from Norway to Cuba to Brazil, dozens of new health centers have been built, staffed, and in 35 cases, headed by ELAM graduates. Yet the Haitian story also illustrates some of the bigger problems Take a look: 748 Haitian graduates by 2012, when cholera struck, nearly half working in the public health sector but one quarter unemployed, and 110 had left Haiti altogether. So in the best case scenarios, these graduates are staffing and thus strengthening public health systems, where often they're the only doctors around. In the worst cases, there are simply not enough jobs in the public health sector, where most poor people are treated, not enough political will, not enough resources, not enough anything — just too many patients with no care. The grads face pressure from their families too, desperate to make ends meet, so when there are no public sector jobs, these new MDs decamp into private practice, or go abroad to send money home. Worst of all, in some countries, medical societies influence accreditation bodies not to honor the ELAM degree, fearful these grads will take their jobs or reduce their patient loads and income. It's not a question of competencies. Here in the USA, the California Medical Board accredited the school after rigorous inspection, and the new physicians are making good on Cuba's big bet, passing their boards and accepted from New York to Chicago to New Mexico. Two hundred strong, they're coming back to the United States energized, and also dissatisfied. As one grad put it, in Cuba, "We are trained to provide quality care with minimal resources, so when I see all the resources we have here, and you tell me that's not possible, I know it's not true. Not only have I seen it work, I've done the work." ELAM's graduates, some from right here in D.C. and Baltimore, have come from the poorest of the poor to offer health, education and a voice to their communities. They've done the heavy lifting. Now we need to do our part to support the 23,000 and counting, All of us — foundations, residency directors, press, entrepreneurs, policymakers, people — need to step up. We need to do much more globally to give these new doctors the opportunity to prove their mettle. They need to be able to take their countries' licensing exams. They need jobs in the public health sector or in nonprofit health centers to put their training and commitment to work. They need the chance to be the doctors their patients need. To move forward, we may have to find our way back on the South Side of Chicago when I was a kid, who made house calls, who was a public servant. These aren't such new ideas of what medicine should be. What's new is the scaling up and the faces of the doctors themselves: an ELAM graduate is more likely to be a she than a he; In the Amazon, Peru or Guatemala, an indigenous doctor; in the USA, a doctor of color who speaks fluent Spanish. She is well trained, can be counted on, and shares the face and culture of her patients, and she deserves our support surely, because whether by subway, mule, or canoe, she is teaching us to walk the walk. Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
「その店が商売を始める前後の時期で、ラクトスの街で疫病が広がり始めます。確か、村での病が出始めたのも、その頃ですよね?」正確には、例の店が2カ月近く前に動き始めて、1カ月と少し前から病気が広がり始めた。頃合いを見計らって、薬を買い占めて販売し始めたんだろう。「悪質な店は、病の広がりを利用し、他の店で売っている薬や薬草を買い占め、自分達の店でしか満足に薬を買う事を出来なくしました。しかも、薬等は全て混ぜ物をして効果を薄めてかさ増しをして、ですね」独占したとしても、需要が高まらなければ利益は生まれない。例の店は、仕入れ価格ではなく、店頭価格で薬を買い占めているのだから当然だな。「そこで出て来るのが、今ハンネスさんの持っているガラス球です」フィリップさんも、少し離れて見ていた村人達も同じくだ。「仕組みは俺にはわからないのですが......どうやらその球は、病を媒介する物のようです。疫病を広げるための物、という事ですね」「ひっ!」疫病の原因がガラス球にあると聞いたハンネスさんは、怯えた様子でガラス球を手放した。地面に落ちたガラス球は、そのまま地面を転がってワイン樽に当たって止まる。「多分、触っても大丈夫だと思いますよ。その球はワインなんかの物に対して効果があるのかもしれません。人に直接効果がある物じゃないんだと思います。じゃないと、レオが怒って俺が触る事も許さなかったでしょうから」怯えたハンネスさんを安心させるように声をかけ、その言葉にレオが力強く頷く。確証がある事じゃないが、このガラス球は人に直接作用はしないんだろう......じゃないと商人が持って来た時、商人も病に罹ってしまうからな。村で病にかかった人が出るのが、時期的に少し遅かったのはそのためなんだと思う。「レオが嫌な臭いがすると示した樽のワインですが......恐らくそのワインに球が作用して、病を広げたんだと思います。ワインを飲んだ人が病に罹るように......」ワインを媒介して、という事にハンネスさんは驚愕の表情だ。他の村人も同じような表情をしているが、丹精込めて作った村自慢のワインが、疫病を広げる役目だと言われたんだから当たり前か。「玉を持って来た商人と、ラクトスで悪質な薬を売る店の人は、もちろん協力者なんでしょう」「それで、疫病が広がる時期がわかった、と......」ワインはラクトスの街に確実に卸されている。それを使って病を広げる事を知っていれば、街中の薬を買い占めるなんてリスクのある事も出来るだろう。例の店の店主と、ガラス球を持って来た商人は共犯者なのは間違いないと思う。店の方は伯爵家との繋がりがあると言っているし、ガラス球を持って来た商人も伯爵の領内から来た人物だ。 ......伯爵がどこまで関わっているのかは、俺にはわからないが......。「ハンネスさん達が悪いわけではありませんよ。悪いのは、騙してガラス球を......疫病の原因を置いていた商人達です」自分達が作ったワインが、疫病を広まらせた事に落ち込んでいるハンネスさん。作った事が悪いわけじゃなくて、そう仕向けた人が悪いんだ。ハンネスさんが落ち込む事は無いと思うけど......まぁ、仕方ないか。「フィリップさん、他の物に触れないよう、あの球を保管しておいて下さい」「わかりました。しかし、どうするのですか? 破壊してしまった方が良いのでは?」「例の店の悪事に対する証拠になるかもしれませんからね。今は破壊しません。まぁ、後はセバスチャンさんに任せる事になるでしょうが......」「あ......昨夜は酔っていたのと、意気投合した人に勧められて......ですが、タクミ様の考えを聞いた後では、飲む気はしませんよ」フィリップさんは昨日、千鳥足になる程酔っていたから、蔵に入り込んで入り口付近のワインを味見とばかりに飲んでいてもおかしくないだろう。多分だけど、気温の低い蔵の地面で寝ていた事と、ガラス球が置いてあった近くのワインを飲んでしまったために、今朝のあの状況だったんだと思う。村の人から勧められたとしても、お酒の飲み過ぎは良くないな、俺も気を付けよう......何故か酔えないが......。「フィリップさんが蔵で寝ていたおかげで、そのガラス球を発見できたんです。十分お手柄だと思いますよ? まぁ、飲み過ぎには注意ですけどね」ガラス球を、布のようなものにくるんでいるフィリップさんを見つつ、軽く話をする。実際、今回フィリップさんがガラス球を見つけてくれなかったら、病の原因には気付かないままだっただろう。そんな俺達に、落ち込んでいたハンネスさんがゆっくりと近づいて来た。「......タクミ様......我々はどうしたら良いのでしょうか? ワインが原因で今回のような事態になるなんて......」「ハンネスさん。......んー、そうですね......」気休めを言うだけじゃ駄目だな。俺は、ハンネスさん達が落ち込まないで済む方法が何かないかを考えた。	“During the same time that the store opened, an illness began to spread through the town of Ractos. And if I’m not wrong, it was the same time as it spread in this village as well.” “Yes, that’s right.” To be precise, the store opened close to two month ago, and the illness started to spread about a little over a month ago. So they had guessed at the timing and started to buy all the medicine. “This malicious store used the spread of the disease, and bought all the stock from other stores so that they could be the only place that sold them. Not only that, but all of their medicine was increased through diluting it.” “That is what we know based on Sebastian’s findings, isn’t it?” “Yes. But how they knew of the right timing... After all, if it didn’t spread, then not many people would buy from them, and they would not have made much of a profit.” There was no point if the demand did not increase. After all, they paid the same prices as customers for the medicine, not the cost price. “And now we must talk about the glass sphere that Mr. Hannes is holding now.” “This...?” Phillip and the villagers also looked at it. “I don’t understand how it actually works, but... That sphere seems to be transmitting the disease. It is an object meant to spread it.” “What!” Upon hearing this, Mr. Hannes gasped and dropped the glass sphere. It fell to the ground and rolled towards the wine barrels before stopping. “I think it’s fine to touch it. Perhaps it is only effective for things like wine. I don’t think it has a direct effect on people. Otherwise, Leo wouldn’t have let me touch it.” “Wuff!” I said to reassure Mr. Hannes, and Leo nodded in agreement. While there was no evidence yet, I did believe that it didn’t work like that... Otherwise, the merchant who brought it would have also become sick. That’s why it took some time for the illness to spread through the village. “As for the wine that Leo smelled something bad in... I think they were affected by the sphere, and that’s how the illness spread. You become sick after drinking it...” “So...it’s the wine that we made that...” Mr. Hannes was shocked when he heard this. The other villagers were the same. They had worked so hard, and were proud of their village’s wine. And now they had been told that it had played a role in spreading a disease. “Obviously, the merchant who brought the sphere would be working with the people from the store.” “That’s why they knew when it would start spreading...” The wine was always sent to Ractos. If they knew it would spread like that, then they could take a risk, and buy all of the medicine in the town. There was no doubt in my mind that the grape merchant and the people from the store were working together. We already knew that the store was connected to the count, and the merchant with the sphere had come from the count’s territories. ...But just how much this count was personally involved...I did not know... “So it was our wine... What have we done...” “You are not to blame, Mr. Hannes. It was all because of the merchant who tricked you into placing the glass sphere there.” Mr. Hannes was terribly distressed when he understood that their wine had spread the disease. But it wasn’t the making of the wine that was wrong, but the person who tampered with it. So there was no need for him to feel that way... But I suppose he could not help it. “Phillip. Please put that sphere away safely, so that it does not touch anything else.” “Very well. But, what are you going to do? Won’t it be better to just destroy it?” “It will probably be used as evidence. So we cannot destroy it now. Well, it will be something that Sebastian can decide...” “Oh, he will be delighted to hear of this.” “Also, take this with you. Just in case.” “Ramogi. Very well.” “You must drink it if you feel the smallest sign of the illness.” “I understand.” “Also, don’t drink any of the wine without permission.” “Ah...last night, I was so drunk already, and someone I befriended recommended it to me... But I don’t feel like drinking any more after hearing what you said, Mr. Takumi.” Considering how drunk Phillip had been last night, it would not be strange for him to sneak into the wine storage house for a quick taste test. And a combination of the cold floor and drinking the wine near the entrance had caused him to become sick in the morning. Even if one of the villagers had told him to do it, it was not good to drink so much. I would also have to be careful... Though, I hadn’t gotten drunk at all... “Still, most of it was thanks to Leo, for being able to tell the difference... And Phillip helped as well.” “I did? Of course, I agree with you about Leo, but...I didn’t do...” “It’s thanks to the fact that you fell drunkenly asleep in the storage house, that we found the glass sphere. That’s a big contribution, isn’t it? Though, you must be careful about your drinking.” “Ahahaha...yes, I will.” Phillip wrapped the glass sphere in a cloth as we talked. In fact, had Phillip not found the glass sphere, we might not have figured out the cause of the disease. It was then that the depressed-looking Mr. Hannes approached us. “...Mr. Takumi... What are we to do now? I never would have thought that our wine would cause such a thing...” “Mr. Hannes. ...Hmm. Yes...” And so merely offering encouraging words was not enough. I would have to think of some way to prevent them from being too hard on themselves.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 4, "inserted_lines_src": 16, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
シカゴ南部で死期の近い人々とその家族のケアをしていましたそして末期患者と家族に起こることを目の当たりにしていましたそして研究室では「配偶者を亡くして受ける影響」について研究していましたこれは社会学では 150年前からある古い考えで「悲嘆のあまりの死」として知られています例えば私が死んだ場合その後1年間は私の妻も亡くなる可能性が2倍になるのです私はある患者のケアを行なっていましたがこの患者は末期の認知症の女性でした写真の二人とは違いこの女性の場合は娘さんが介護をしていました娘さんは母親の介護で疲れきっていましたそして娘さんの夫もまた自分の妻が疲労困憊していることに苦しんでいましたそんなある日私が車で家に向かっているとその夫の友人から電話がかかってきました彼は自分の友達の苦しむ様子をみて気がめいっているというのですそういうわけで私は知らない人から電話をもらいしかもその人は社会的に一定の距離のある人から影響受けて電話したわけですこのことでふと2つのとても簡単なことに気がつきました 1つ目は「配偶者を亡くして受ける影響」は夫婦間に限ったことではないということそしてもう1つは 2人の間だけにとどまるわけでもないということです私は世界をまったく新しい視点で人々がペアになってつながっているようなものだと考えるようになりました更にはこれらのペアが近くの別のペアとつながって 4人組を形成していくということに気づいたのですその上この人たちは他のさまざまな人間関係に組み込まれています例えば結婚や配偶者関係友情関係やその他のさまざまなつながりです実際これらのつながりは広大でその上私たちは皆この広いつながりのなかに組み込まれているのです私は世界をまったく新しい視点から見るようになりすっかりとりこになりましたどうして私たちはこの社会的ネットワークに組み込まれていてそして私たちの生活にどう影響を与えているのかという疑問が頭を離れなくなりました社会的ネットワークには複雑な美しさがありますとても精巧で複雑でいたるところにあるので実際にどんな役割を担っているかと考えさせられますなぜ私たちは社会的ネットワークに組み込まれているのでしょう? どのように形成され機能しているのでしょう? そして私たちにどのような影響を与えているのでしょうか? 社会的ネットワークに関しての私の一番最初のテーマは死ではなく肥満についてでした肥満のまん延について話すことがにわかに流行になっていましたが私は共同研究者のジェームス・ファウラーと共に肥満は本当に伝染するのかまた先ほど話した4人のように人から人へと伝染して広まっていくのだろうかと考えるようになりましたこのスライドは初期の研究結果の一部です 2000年の時点の2200人の人々でそれぞれの点は人で点の大きさはその人の体の大きさと比例していますつまり大きい点は体の大きい人です体型に加えて BMIまたはボディマス指数が30以上つまり医学的に肥満の人は点が黄色になっていますさてこの画像をみれば肥満の人の集団とそうでない人の集団があることが一目でわかるでしょうしかしこの画像の見た目がかなり複雑なことには変わりなく具体的に何が起こっているのかわかりにくいですねしかもいくつかの疑問がすぐに浮かんできますここにはどのぐらい密集した集団があるのでしょうか? 偶然に起こりうる以上の数の集団があるのでしょうか? 集団の大きさはどのくらいまで大きくなるのでしょう? そして何よりもこれらの集団を形成するのは何でしょうか? そこで私たちは集団の大きさを計算し分析しましたこちらのY軸に見てもらえるのは肥満の人と社会的接点がある人が自分も肥満である確率がどのくらい増加するかを示したものです X軸はこの2人の間の距離を示しています一番左の紫色のグラフは友達が肥満だったら自分も肥満になる危険性が 45%高くなることを表しています隣の赤色のグラフは友達の友達が肥満だと自分の肥満の危険性は 25%高くなることを表していますそしてその隣のグラフは友達の友達の友達知り合いでもない人が肥満の場合でも肥満の危険性は10%高くなることを表していますそして友達の友達の友達の友達まで離れたときようやくその人の体型が自分の体型と関係なくなるのですでは何が集団化を引き起こすのでしょう? 少なくとも3つの可能性が考えられますひとつは自分が太ったせいで相手も太ってしまう誘発つまり人から人へ広がっていくという可能性です 2つ目は誰もが考える同質結合傾向つまり「類は友を呼ぶ」という可能性です要は「私たちは同じような体型をしているから友達になりましょう」ということですそして3つ目の可能性は「交絡」として知られているものです現状を判断する能力を狂わせるからですこの場合は自分の体重増加のせいで相手の体重も増加するという発想ではなくまたお互い同じような体型をしているからその人と友達になりたいという発想でもありませんここではむしろ例えばスポーツジムなど 2人が同時に痩せるような共通点があるという考えですそしてデータを分析するとこれらすべての可能性は立証されたのです「誘発」も含めてですそしてもし自分の友達が肥満になったとしたら同じ期間に自分自身も肥満になる危険性が 57%も上がることがわかりましたこの現象にはいくつものメカニズムがあると考えられますひとつは友達がある習慣を身に着けて自分にも広めるという可能性です例えば「マフィンとビールで一杯しようよ」などと誘われて最悪な組み合わせですけどでもその習慣を自分も取り入れて自分自身も友達のように太り始めるのですもうひとつの油断できない可能性として友達が太り始めたことで自分の考える体型の許容範囲が変わってしまうということがありますここでは人から人へと広がるのは習慣ではなく常識です考えが広がっているのですちなみに特ダネ記者たちは私たちの研究を見て大騒ぎしたのですがニューヨークタイムズの記事の見出しは確か「体重が増えてきた? -それは肥満の友達のせいです」でした面白かったのはヨーロッパの記者たちは違った見方をしていたことで彼らの見出しは「友達が太り始めた?-それはあなたのせいかも」でしたこれはアメリカに対するそして身勝手で「私のせいじゃありません」的な現象に対するなかなか興味深いコメントだと思いましたここではっきりと言っておきたいのですが私たちはこの研究が人々の体型に対する偏見を正当化するものだと考えてはいませんさて私たちの次の課題はこうした広がりを視覚化することはできるだろうかというものでしたある人の体重の増加が別の人にもうつることがあるのでしょうかこれはとても複雑でしたなぜならネットワークの構造つまりつながりの構成は時間とともに常に変化していることを考えなければならないからですまた肥満はひとつの感染源から広がる伝染病ではないので肥満の流行には「患者第1号」は存在しませんもしいたら肥満はその人を中心にして広がっているはずです肥満は感染源が複数ある伝染病と言えますたくさんの人が同時に様々なことをしているのです今から30秒ほどのビデオ映像をお見せします私とジェームスが5年間を費やして作りました先ほどのようにそれぞれの点が人です点と点の連結線はその人たちの関係を表します今から映像を再生しますネットワークの毎日のカットがおよそ30年分続きます点が大きくなりおびただしい数の黄色の点がネットワークを支配していくのがわかるでしょう人々が生まれまた亡くなるにしたがって点も現れたり消えたりしますまた点が繋がったり切れたりします結婚や離婚友達になったり友達でなくなったりするからです本当に複雑で多くのことがたったこの30年の間に起こります肥満のまん延も含めてですそして最終的に肥満の人の集団とそうでない人の集団がネットワーク内に見えてきますこれを見たとき私のものの見方が変わりましたなぜならこのネットワークは時がたつにつれて変化していて記憶があり動きがありネットワーク内を循環するものもありある種の一貫性があるのです人々は死ぬかもしれませんがネットワークは死にませんネットワークは存在し続けます順応力のようなものを持ち合わせていて時間が立っても存在しつづけることができるのですそれでこの種の社会性ネットワークを生き物としてみるようになりました顕微鏡のようなものを使って研究分析し理解を深めることができるような生き物ですこのためにさまざまな手段を用いほかのさまざまな種類の現象についても研究し始めました喫煙や飲酒の習慣投票行動さらには離婚-これも広がるんですが- そして利他主義もですそしてやがて感情についても興味を持つようになりましたさて私たちは感情を抱くとそれを表しますどうして感情を表すのでしょう? 怒りや幸福感など心の中の感情を体験することに利点はあるでしょうが私たちはただ感情を体験するにとどまらず表現しますそれだけでなく周りの人はその感情を読み取ることができますただ読み取るだけでなくまねることもできます「感情の伝染」が集団のなかで起こるのですしたがって感情の持つ機能というのは感情が持つ他の目的に加えて原始的なコミュニケーション手段のようなものだと言えます実際人間の感情を本当に理解したかったらこのように考える必要がありますところで私たちは感情を単純で短時間に起こるものと考えがちです例えば最近ニューヨーク市で講演をしていてこう言いました「地下鉄に乗っていて向かい側に座っている人がほほ笑みかけてきたら反射的にほほえみ返しますよね」聴衆は真面目な顔で「ニューヨーク市ではそういうことはしません」と言うので私は「ほかでは世界中どこでもこれが人間のごく普通の行動です」と付け加えたのですがつまり私たちは瞬間的に感情を伝え合うことをとても本能的に行っているのですその上「感情の伝染」はより広範囲でも起こり得ます暴動のような断続的に起こる怒りの表現のようなものがそうです私たちが知りたかったのは暴動などのケースより持続的な方法で感情が時とともに広がることができるのかということですそして地下鉄の車両でほほ笑み合う二人だけでなくもっと多くの人の間で広がることができるのでしょうか? 表面下の静かな暴動のようなものがあって私たちを常に活気づけているのかもしれませんまた感情の集団暴走が社会的ネットワーク上で波紋のように広がっているのかもしれませんもしかすると感情は実際に集合的な存在で個人的な存在だけではないかもしれませんこの現象を研究するために作った最初のイメージのひとつがこれですこれも社会的ネットワークですが今度は幸せな人だったら黄色に悲しんでいる人は青その中間は緑にしましたこの画像を見ればすぐに幸せな人と不幸せな人の集団があるのがわかりますここでも3人分の距離をおいてて広がっていますそして直感的にわかるでしょうが不幸せな人たちはネットワーク構造上で異なった位置を占めていますこのネットワークには真ん中と端がありますが不幸せな人たちは端のほうに位置する傾向にあります別の比喩に例えると社会的ネットワークを巨大な人類の構造のようなものだと想像すると私はあなたとつながっていてあなたは彼女とつながっているというように限りなく遠くまでつながっていきますこの構造は昔ながらのアメリカンキルトのように幸せな布切れと不幸せな布切れが継ぎ合わせられていてその人が幸せになるかどうかは幸せなほうの布切れにいるかどうかにもよるのですこの感情についての研究はとても基本的なものですが人間が社会的ネットワークを形成する根本的な理由は遺伝子の中にコードされているのではないかと考えるきっかけになりましたなぜなら人間の社会的ネットワークを図にするといつも同じように見えこの図のような形をしているからです決してこのようにはなりませんなぜこの図のようにはならないのでしょう? なぜ私たちは規則的な格子型の社会的ネットワークを形成しないのでしょうか? 人間の社会的ネットワークの印象的なパターンとその普遍性そして明らかな意図は私たちはそもそも最初から社会的ネットワークを持つように進化してきたのではないかある特定の構造を形成するように進化してきたのではないかという疑問を私たちに投げかけますしかしこれを理解するためにはまずネットワークの構造を詳細に調べなければなりませんこのネットワーク上の人はだれもがみな同じ構造位置にあることに注目してくださいしかし実際のネットワークではそんなことはありません例えばこれは現実に存在するアメリカ北東部のエリート大学の学生のネットワークですいくつかの点がハイライトしてあります点を見て左上にいるBと右端にいるDを比べてください Bは4人の友だちとつながっていますそしてDは6人の友達とつながっていますつまりこの2人には違った人数の友達がいますでもこれは誰もがわかりきったことですねしかし社会的ネットワークにはそこまで明白ではない側面もあります左上のBと左下のAを比べてくださいこの2人にはともに4人の友達がいますが Aの友達はみなお互い知り合いですしかしBの友達はお互いを知りませんつまりAの友達の友達は Aとも友達ですが Bの友達の友達はBとは友達ではなくてネットワーク上ではBからより離れたところにいますこれはネットワークの他動性と呼ばれますそして最後にCとDを比べてください CとDはともに友達が6人いますこの2人に「どんな社会生活を送っていますか?」と聞いたら 2人とも「友達が6人いますそれが私の社会生活です」と答えるでしょうしかしこのネットワークを一望するとこの2人はかなり異なった社会にいることがわかりますこう聞けばみなさんは直感で理解できるでしょうもし致死性の病原菌がネットワーク上に広がったとしたらみなさんはCとDのどちらになりたいですか? ネットワークの端にいるDになりたいでしょうではもし自分以外の人のおいしいうわさ話がネットワーク上で広まっているとしたら? この場合はCになりたいですねつまり異なった構造位置にいることは自分の人生に違った意味合いを持ってくるのですこれに関する実験をいくつか行いましたが友達の人数の幅の46%は実際その人の遺伝子によって決まるということがわかりましたしかしこれはさほど驚くようなことではありません生まれつき恥ずかしがり屋の人もいれば社交的な人もいることは周知の通りですしかし意外なことも分かりました例えば自分の友達2人がお互い知り合いかどうかの 47%も遺伝子に左右されるのです自分の友達がお互い知り合いかどうかは友達の遺伝子だけでなく自分自身の遺伝子にもよるのですこれは自分の友達同士を紹介するのが好きな人もいればそれぞれの友達の間に距離を設けて友達同士を合わせない人もいるからでしょうさらにネットワークを自分の周りに編むようにして沢山の繋がりを張りめぐらせそこに快適に腰を据える人もいますそして最後に人がネットワークの真ん中にいるか 30%も遺伝子のせいだということもわかりました自分がネットワークの真ん中にいるか端にいるかも一部は遺伝なのですではこれは何を意味するのでしょうか? 世の中を理解するうえでどう役立つのでしょう? 現在私たちが抱えている問題を解決するにあたってどのように役に立ってくれるのでしょうか? 私が言いたいのはネットワークには価値があるということです一種の社会資本と言えます私たちが社会的ネットワークに組み込まれることによって新しい特性が生まれますそしてその特性はネットワーク内の個人だけでなくネットワークの構造自体にも備わっているものなのです共通点を持つこの2つの物体について考えてみてください 2つとも炭素からできていますが左の物体は炭素原子がある一定の方法で並べられていますやわらかくて黒い黒鉛ですしかし同じ炭素原子を異なる方法で連結させると透明で硬いダイヤモンドになりますやわらかさ硬さ暗さ透明さなどという性質は炭素原子の中に備わっているのではありませんそれらは炭素原子同士の連結に存在するのです少なくとも炭素原子の結合によって現れるのだと言うことができるでしょう同じように人と人の関係のパターンもその集団にさまざまな性質をもたらすのです人と人の結びつきが全体を単なる個々の合計よりも大きくするのです周りの人に何が起こっているかということだけではないのです痩せた太ったお金持ちになった貧乏になった幸せになった不幸せになったというだけでなく自分たちを取り囲む人間関係の構造自体にも私たちは影響されているのです私たちがこの世界で経験することは自分が存在するネットワークの実際の構造とネットワーク上を波紋のように広がって行きかうすべての物事によって大きく変わってくるのですこれが事実だと思うのは人間はお互いに集まって一種の超個体を形成するからです超個体は多数の個体が集まって形成された集団のことで個体レベルで研究しても理解できない行動や現象を見せるため集合体として扱い研究して理解する必要があります例えば新しく巣を作る場所を探しているハチの群れや敵を回避しようとしている鳥の群れや知恵を結集して太平洋の真ん中にあるごく小さな島をめざし飛行できる鳥の一群そして自分よりも大きい獲物をしとめることができるオオカミの群れなど超個体には個々を研究するだけでは理解できない性質があるのです社会的ネットワークがどのようにして形成され作用するのかを理解することは健康や感情についての理解を深めるのに役立つだけでなく他の様々な現象で例えば犯罪や福祉銀行への取り付け騒動や市場の暴落などの経済現象新しいアイデアの導入や商品採用の展開などを理解する上でも役立ちますこれをみてください私たちが社会的ネットワークを形成するのは人間関係から得られる利益がそれを得るためのコストをはるかに上回るからだと思いますもし私がみなさんに対していつも暴力的だったりデマを流したり悲しませたり致死性の病原菌を伝染したりしたら皆さんは私との関係を切ろうとするでしょうそしてネットワークは崩壊してしまうでしょうつまり社会的ネットワークを維持しさらに発展させるためには善と価値あるものを広めることが必要なのです同じように社会的ネットワークはためになり価値のあるものを広げるために必要でもあるのです例えば愛や優しさ幸福や利他精神そしてアイデアです実際もし私たちがみな社会的ネットワークがどんなに価値のあるものかに気づけばこれを発展し維持するためにもっと多くの時間を費やすでしょうなぜなら社会的ネットワークは根本的に善と結びついているからですそしてこの世界が今必要としているのはより多くのつながりだと思うのですありがとうございました	And I was taking care of people who were dying and their families in the South Side of Chicago. And I was observing what happened to people and their families over the course of their terminal illness. And in my lab, I was studying the widower effect, which is a very old idea in the social sciences, going back 150 years, known as "dying of a broken heart." So, when I die, my wife's risk of death can double, And I had gone to take care of one particular patient, a woman who was dying of dementia. And in this case, unlike this couple, she was being cared for by her daughter. And the daughter was exhausted from caring for her mother. And the daughter's husband, from his wife's exhaustion. And I was driving home one day, and I get a phone call from the husband's friend, calling me because he was depressed about what was happening to his friend. So here I get this call from this random guy that's having an experience that's being influenced by people at some social distance. And so I suddenly realized two very simple things: First, the widowhood effect was not restricted to husbands and wives. And second, it was not restricted to pairs of people. And I started to see the world in a whole new way, like pairs of people connected to each other. And then I realized that these individuals would be connected into foursomes with other pairs of people nearby. And then, in fact, these people were embedded in other sorts of relationships: marriage and spousal and friendship and other sorts of ties. And that, in fact, these connections were vast and that we were all embedded in this broad set of connections with each other. So I started to see the world in a completely new way and I became obsessed with this. I became obsessed with how it might be that we're embedded in these social networks, and how they affect our lives. So, social networks are these intricate things of beauty, and they're so elaborate and so complex and so ubiquitous, in fact, that one has to ask what purpose they serve. Why are we embedded in social networks? I mean, how do they form? How do they operate? And how do they effect us? So my first topic with respect to this, was not death, but obesity. to speak about the "obesity epidemic." And, along with my collaborator, James Fowler, we began to wonder whether obesity really was epidemic and could it spread from person to person like the four people I discussed earlier. So this is a slide of some of our initial results. It's 2,200 people in the year 2000. Every dot is a person. We make the dot size proportional to people's body size; so bigger dots are bigger people. In addition, if your body size, if your BMI, your body mass index, is above 30 -- if you're clinically obese -- we also colored the dots yellow. So, if you look at this image, right away you might be able to see that there are clusters of obese and non-obese people in the image. But the visual complexity is still very high. It's not obvious exactly what's going on. In addition, some questions are immediately raised: How much clustering is there? Is there more clustering than would be due to chance alone? How big are the clusters? How far do they reach? And, most importantly, what causes the clusters? So we did some mathematics to study the size of these clusters. This here shows, on the Y-axis, the increase in the probability that a person is obese given that a social contact of theirs is obese and, on the X-axis, the degrees of separation between the two people. On the far left, you see the purple line. It says that, if your friends are obese, your risk of obesity is 45 percent higher. And the next bar over, the [red] line, says if your friend's friends are obese, your risk of obesity is 25 percent higher. And then the next line over says if your friend's friend's friend, someone you probably don't even know, is obese, your risk of obesity is 10 percent higher. And it's only when you get to your friend's friend's friend's friends that there's no longer a relationship between that person's body size and your own body size. Well, what might be causing this clustering? There are at least three possibilities: One possibility is that, as I gain weight, it causes you to gain weight. A kind of induction, a kind of spread from person to person. Another possibility, very obvious, is homophily, or, birds of a feather flock together; here, I form my tie to you because you and I share a similar body size. And the last possibility is what is known as confounding, because it confounds our ability to figure out what's going on. And here, the idea is not that my weight gain is causing your weight gain, nor that I preferentially form a tie with you because you and I share the same body size, but rather that we share a common exposure to something, like a health club that makes us both lose weight at the same time. When we studied these data, we found evidence for all of these things, including for induction. And we found that if your friend becomes obese, it increases your risk of obesity by about 57 percent in the same given time period. There can be many mechanisms for this effect: One possibility is that your friends say to you something like -- you know, they adopt a behavior that spreads to you -- like, they say, "Let's go have muffins and beer," which is a terrible combination. But you adopt that combination, and then you start gaining weight like them. Another more subtle possibility is that they start gaining weight, and it changes your ideas of what an acceptable body size is. Here, what's spreading from person to person is not a behavior, but rather a norm: An idea is spreading. Now, headline writers had a field day with our studies. I think the headline in The New York Times was, "Are you packing it on? Blame your fat friends." What was interesting to us is that the European headline writers had a different take: They said, "Are your friends gaining weight? Perhaps you are to blame." And we thought this was a very interesting comment on America, and a kind of self-serving, "not my responsibility" kind of phenomenon. Now, I want to be very clear: We do not think our work should or could justify prejudice against people of one or another body size at all. Our next questions was: Could we actually visualize this spread? Was weight gain in one person actually spreading to weight gain in another person? And this was complicated because we needed to take into account the fact that the network structure, the architecture of the ties, was changing across time. In addition, because obesity is not a unicentric epidemic, there's not a Patient Zero of the obesity epidemic -- if we find that guy, there was a spread of obesity out from him -- it's a multicentric epidemic. Lots of people are doing things at the same time. And I'm about to show you a 30 second video animation that took me and James five years of our lives to do. So, again, every dot is a person. Every tie between them is a relationship. We're going to put this into motion now, taking daily cuts through the network for about 30 years. The dot sizes are going to grow, you're going to see a sea of yellow take over. You're going to see people be born and die -- dots will appear and disappear -- ties will form and break, marriages and divorces, friendings and defriendings. A lot of complexity, a lot is happening just in this 30-year period that includes the obesity epidemic. And, by the end, you're going to see clusters of obese and non-obese individuals within the network. Now, when looked at this, it changed the way I see things, because this thing, this network that's changing across time, it has a memory, it moves, things flow within it, it has a kind of consistency -- people can die, but it doesn't die; it still persists -- and it has a kind of resilience that allows it to persist across time. And so, I came to see these kinds of social networks as living things, as living things that we could put under a kind of microscope to study and analyze and understand. And we used a variety of techniques to do this. And we started exploring all kinds of other phenomena. We looked at smoking and drinking behavior, and voting behavior, and divorce -- which can spread -- and altruism. And, eventually, we became interested in emotions. Now, when we have emotions, we show them. Why do we show our emotions? our emotions inside, you know, anger or happiness. But we don't just experience them, we show them. And not only do we show them, but others can read them. And, not only can they read them, but they copy them. There's emotional contagion that takes place in human populations. And so this function of emotions suggests that, in addition to any other purpose they serve, they're a kind of primitive form of communication. And that, in fact, if we really want to understand human emotions, we need to think about them in this way. Now, we're accustomed to thinking about emotions in this way, in simple, sort of, brief periods of time. So, for example, I was giving this talk recently in New York City, and I said, "You know when you're on the subway and the other person across the subway car smiles at you, and you just instinctively smile back?" And they looked at me and said, "We don't do that in New York City." And I said, "Everywhere else in the world, that's normal human behavior." And so there's a very instinctive way in which we briefly transmit emotions to each other. And, in fact, emotional contagion can be broader still. Like we could have punctuated expressions of anger, as in riots. The question that we wanted to ask was: in a more sustained way than riots, across time and involve large numbers of people, not just this pair of individuals smiling at each other in the subway car? Maybe there's a kind of below the surface, quiet riot that animates us all the time. Maybe there are emotional stampedes that ripple through social networks. Maybe, in fact, emotions have a collective existence, not just an individual existence. And this is one of the first images we made to study this phenomenon. Again, a social network, but now we color the people yellow if they're happy and blue if they're sad and green in between. And if you look at this image, you can right away see clusters of happy and unhappy people, again, spreading to three degrees of separation. And you might form the intuition that the unhappy people occupy a different structural location within the network. There's a middle and an edge to this network, and the unhappy people seem to be located at the edges. So to invoke another metaphor, if you imagine social networks as a kind of vast fabric of humanity -- I'm connected to you and you to her, on out endlessly into the distance -- this fabric is actually like an old-fashioned American quilt, and it has patches on it: happy and unhappy patches. And whether you become happy or not depends in part on whether you occupy a happy patch. So, this work with emotions, which are so fundamental, then got us to thinking about: Maybe the fundamental causes of human social networks are somehow encoded in our genes. Because human social networks, whenever they are mapped, always kind of look like this: the picture of the network. But they never look like this. Why do they not look like this? Why don't we form human social networks Well, the striking patterns of human social networks, their ubiquity and their apparent purpose beg questions about whether we evolved to have human social networks in the first place, and whether we evolved to form networks with a particular structure. And notice first of all -- so, to understand this, though, we need to dissect network structure a little bit first -- and notice that every person in this network has exactly the same structural location as every other person. But that's not the case with real networks. So, for example, here is a real network of college students at an elite northeastern university. And now I'm highlighting a few dots. If you look here at the dots, compare node B in the upper left to node D in the far right; B has four friends coming out from him and D has six friends coming out from him. And so, those two individuals have different numbers of friends. That's very obvious, we all know that. of social network structure are not so obvious. Compare node B in the upper left to node A in the lower left. Now, those people both have four friends, but A's friends all know each other, and B's friends do not. So the friend of a friend of A's is, back again, a friend of A's, whereas the friend of a friend of B's is not a friend of B's, but is farther away in the network. This is known as transitivity in networks. And, finally, compare nodes C and D: C and D both have six friends. If you talk to them, and you said, "What is your social life like?" they would say, "I've got six friends. That's my social experience." But now we, with a bird's eye view looking at this network, can see that they occupy very different social worlds. And I can cultivate that intuition in you by just asking you: Who would you rather be if a deadly germ was spreading through the network? Would you rather be C or D? You'd rather be D, on the edge of the network. And now who would you rather be if a juicy piece of gossip -- not about you -- was spreading through the network? Now, you would rather be C. So different structural locations have different implications for your life. And, in fact, when we did some experiments looking at this, what we found is that 46 percent of the variation in how many friends you have is explained by your genes. And this is not surprising. We know that some people are born shy and some are born gregarious. That's obvious. But we also found some non-obvious things. For instance, 47 percent in the variation in whether your friends know each other is attributable to your genes. Whether your friends know each other has not just to do with their genes, but with yours. like to introduce their friends to each other -- you know who you are -- and others of you keep them apart and don't introduce your friends to each other. And so some people knit together the networks around them, creating a kind of dense web of ties in which they're comfortably embedded. And finally, we even found that 30 percent of the variation in whether or not people are in the middle or on the edge of the network can also be attributed to their genes. So whether you find yourself in the middle or on the edge is also partially heritable. Now, what is the point of this? How does this help us understand? How does this help us figure out some of the problems that are affecting us these days? Well, the argument I'd like to make is that networks have value. They are a kind of social capital. New properties emerge because of our embeddedness in social networks, and these properties inhere in the structure of the networks, not just in the individuals within them. So think about these two common objects. They're both made of carbon, and yet one of them has carbon atoms in it that are arranged in one particular way -- on the left -- and you get graphite, which is soft and dark. But if you take the same carbon atoms and interconnect them a different way, you get diamond, which is clear and hard. And those properties of softness and hardness and darkness and clearness do not reside in the carbon atoms; they reside in the interconnections between the carbon atoms, or at least arise because of the interconnections between the carbon atoms. So, similarly, the pattern of connections among people confers upon the groups of people different properties. It is the ties between people that makes the whole greater than the sum of its parts. And so it is not just what's happening to these people -- whether they're losing weight or gaining weight, or becoming rich or becoming poor, or becoming happy or not becoming happy -- that affects us; it's also the actual architecture of the ties around us. Our experience of the world depends on the actual structure of the networks in which we're residing and on all the kinds of things that ripple and flow through the network. Now, the reason, I think, that this is the case is that human beings assemble themselves and form a kind of superorganism. Now, a superorganism is a collection of individuals which show or evince behaviors or phenomena that are not reducible to the study of individuals and that must be understood by reference to, and by studying, the collective. Like, for example, a hive of bees that's finding a new nesting site, or a flock of birds that's evading a predator, or a flock of birds that's able to pool its wisdom of an island in the middle of the Pacific, or a pack of wolves that's able to bring down larger prey. Superorganisms have properties that cannot be understood just by studying the individuals. I think understanding social networks and how they form and operate can help us understand not just health and emotions but all kinds of other phenomena -- like crime, and warfare, and economic phenomena like bank runs and market crashes and the adoption of innovation and the spread of product adoption. Now, look at this. I think we form social networks because the benefits of a connected life outweigh the costs. If I was always violent towards you or gave you misinformation or made you sad or infected you with deadly germs, you would cut the ties to me, and the network would disintegrate. So the spread of good and valuable things is required to sustain and nourish social networks. Similarly, social networks are required for the spread of good and valuable things, like love and kindness and happiness and altruism and ideas. I think, in fact, that if we realized how valuable social networks are, we'd spend a lot more time nourishing them and sustaining them, because I think social networks are fundamentally related to goodness. And what I think the world needs now is more connections. Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
火燐石の採取できる火山まで、ハウメアたちと同行することになった。いつもならマリア似の容貌のおかげで、無駄に注目を浴びてしまうのだが、眼帯の魅了封じのおかげか、目立つことなく通過することができた。「これ、魅了と隠密のギフトを併用したら、どうなるんだろう?」御者台の助手席でぼそりと漏らす。本来なら危険な行為なのだが、隣にいるのはフィニアなので聞かれても問題はない。「それは少し興味ありますね。でもお客さんも乗せてるわけですし、もう少し慎重になった方が......」「うん、まあそれは気を付けてるよ。フィニアは心配症だ」「レイ――ニコル様はここぞというところで詰めが甘いですから」フフン、とドヤ顔で語って見せるフィニアは、それはそれで可愛いのだが、内容があんまりである。「うぬぅ......」不平不満を表明するかのように、頬を膨らませて腕組みをする。視線も合わせない俺に、フィニアは慌てたように弁明を始めた。「あ、別にニコル様がドジとかそういう話じゃないですよ! ここぞというときには頼りになりますし、その......前の人生ではすごくカッコよかったですから」この程度で怒っていたら、コルティナなんて何度俺と絶縁していたかわからない。今のような仲になる前の彼女の毒舌は、まだまだ鋭かった。少しの間、フィニアをからかうつもりで不機嫌な振りをしていると、荷台との境の布が開かれ、中からハウメアが顔を出してきた。「この橋を渡り切ったら朝食にしましょ。それから空いた時間で少しレクチャーしてあげるわ」「あ、ありがとうございます。でもミシェルちゃんは......?」「まだ寝てる。こういう時馬車って便利ね。寝てても移動できるんだもの」「その代わり、誰かが操縦していないといけないんですけどね」整理券の番号の都合上、俺たちはに木賃宿を出ていた。特に健康優良児で成長著しいミシェルちゃんは、俺よりも長い睡眠を必要としている。いや、子供ならそれくらい普通かもしれない。いい加減彼女も、子供という年齢でもないのだが...... フィニアがしばらく馬車を操り、橋を渡り終えたところで使えそうな水場を探していた。しかし戦闘訓練を行うとなれば、近くに人がいない方が望ましい。内容を人に知られては困るのではなく、武器を振り回す傍に一般人が寄ってきたら危険だからだ。特に冒険者の訓練ともなれば、好奇心旺盛な子供が寄ってきやすい。特に雄の話もあって、冒険者というのは羨望の的になりやすかった。どうにか人目の少ない場所を見つけ、ようやく朝食の準備に取り掛かることになった。「パンにチーズはもちろん、野菜まで? あ、こっちはお肉じゃない」の魔法を使用できるので、肉や魚も結構長期間運べるんですよ」「一流の弓師に英雄の教えを受けた前衛と、英才教育を受けた英雄の娘、それに複数の属性を使用できる魔術師。羨ましいほど「それをいうならハウメアさんだって。弓、かなりの腕でしょ?」「あら、わかる?」「もちろん」彼女の右手は、矢を番える時に擦れる場所にタコができている。それにこの二人はそれぞれ魔法が使え、そして剣と弓を使いこなせるということである。しかも二人旅で安全を確保できるのだから、相応に腕も立つはず。「といっても、旅先の限られた時間では、大したものは作れませんけどね」「それでも充分よ。いつもはパンとチーズとドライフルーツだもの」沸騰してきたところに野菜を流し込み、調味料で味を調えた後、最後に魚を取り出したところで何かに気付いたように顔を上げる。その様子を興味深そうに見ていたハウメアに、フィニアは慌てたように尋ね返した。「あ、なんとなくいつもの手順で作ってましたけど、食べられないものとかあります?」「ええ、大丈夫よ。私もコールも、好き嫌いはないわ」「よかった。お魚は好き嫌いがありますから」の魔法は維持に魔力を必要としないため、長期間の保存に向く。自然解凍しない代わりに、この魔法が必要になる。大抵は合わせて習得する魔法だ。フィニアが即席の魚介スープを作っている間に、俺はミシェルちゃんを起こしに向かった。コールさんは訓練のための準備か、武器の点検に忙しそうだ。そんなわけで馬車に乗り込み、毛布をかぶって芋虫と化しているミシェルちゃんの肩付近を掴んで揺する。「むむ」しかし返ってきた手触りは、明らかに肩ではない。これは乳だ。「ほら、ミシェルちゃん起きてー」「んー、やだぁ」「あと何分とかじゃなく明確な拒否と来たか。ほら、ご飯だよ」「取っといてぇ」「却下です」「じゃー、ニコルちゃんも寝よー」「いや」長年の付き合いなので、彼女を起こすのもお手の物......とはいかないが、まあトラブルなく叩き起こすことができた。そのまま食事を済ませ、ここで初めてのミシェルちゃんの接近戦訓練となったのである。	We decided to travel with Haumea and Cole until the volcano where Fire Phosphorite could be obtained. But before that, we had to pass the checkpoint to enter the Tarkashire domain. Normally I would be attracting a lot of attention due to my Maria-looking appearance, but maybe it was thanks to the eyepatch I was using to seal my charm, I managed to pass through without standing out. “I wonder what would happen if I used charm and the Stealth Gift at the same time?” I muttered while sitting at the assistant coachman’s seat. That was normally a risky thing to do, but there was no problem if Finia overheard me from the side. “I am also interested in that a little. But we have guests riding along, so it would be best to be more careful...” “Yeah, well, I’ll be careful. You sure are a worrywart, Finia.” “That’s because you tend to get careless during the critical moments, Lord Re—Lady Nicole.” Finia spoke with a smug face, which was cute on its own, but her words were not. It sounded like I was a clutz or something. “Grr...” I puffed my cheeks and folded my arms in demonstration of dissatisfaction. Seeing how I moved my gaze away, Finia hurriedly made her excuses. “Ah, I’m not saying you are clumsy or anything, Lady Nicole! You are dependable when it counts, and umm... You were very cool in your past life!” She made excuses while waving her arms. I wasn’t really angry or anything. If this was enough to get me angry, Cortina and I would have broken off several times over by now. Her toxic tongue from before we ended up in our current relationship was still going sharp. I continued to pretend to be displeased to tease Finia for some time, but then the curtain of the carrier opened up and Haumea peeked her head out. “Let’s have breakfast once we pass this bridge. Then I’ll hold a bit of a lecture using the free time we have.” “T-Thank you very much. But what about Michelle...?” “She’s still sleeping. Carriages sure are handy at times like these. You can move while sleeping.” “But someone has to operate it in exchange.” Due to the numbering on our number tag, we left the lodging house first thing in the morning. As such, we hadn’t eaten breakfast, and we lacked sleep too. Michelle who was healthy and growing at an extreme rate needed more sleep than I. Or well, kids probably needed that much normally. I think she was already past the age to be called a kid though... Finia steered the carriage for a while, searching for a good watering hole once we passed the bridge. Water itself was not a problem as there was always the river, but the places where we could have a meal were all crowded. Considering we were going to hold a combat practice too, it was ideal if there was no one nearby. Not because I didn’t want someone to see what we were doing, but because it would be dangerous if an ordinary person approached us while weapons were being swung around. When it came to Adventures, kids brimming with curiosity tended to flock over. In these past twenty-five years, Adventurers were being viewed as objects of envy, with the Heroic stories and all. We somehow managed to find a place with a few people and finally started preparing for breakfast. We had a carriage so we could carry quite a lot of food with us. That meant that we could both carry a lot of ingredients and that we could enjoy a far more satisfying menu compared to other adventurers. “Not just bread and cheese, but also vegetables? And there’s meat too?” “Finia can use the Freeze spell, so we can carry meat and fish for quite long without spoiling.” “A first-class archer, a vanguard who was instructed by the Heroes, the Heroes’ daughter who had received gifted education, and a magician that can use several attributes. Your party is full of enviable talents.” “If you go there, you’re quite skilled at the bow yourself, aren’t you Miss Haumea?” “Oh, you can tell?” “Of course.” Her right hand had a callus where the arrows rubbed on when nocking them. She also had a wand so she could definitely use magic too. Cole also had calluses from the sword, and had his own wand too. Both of them could use magic and also mastered sword and bow respectively. Moreover, they could remain safe traveling as a duo, so their skills should have been good too. “That said, I can’t really make anything grandiose with limited time.” “That’s more than enough. Normally it’s bread, cheese, and dried fruits.” Finia filled a pot with water and lit the firewood up with the Tinder spell. Then she added vegetables once it came to a boil, and after adjusting the taste with seasonings, then she brought out fish, but suddenly stopped and looked up as if realizing something. She then asked Haumea, who had been observing her with deep interest, in fluster. “Um, I just started making it like normal, but do you have anything you can’t eat?” “No, it’s alright. Cole and I are not picky eaters.” “Thank god. People tend to be picky about fish.” Relieved to hear that, she once again moved her gaze towards her hands, and started to process the fish she defrosted with the Defrost spell. The Freeze spell did not use magic power to keep it going, so it was suited for long-term preservation. As it did not melt naturally, it needed this spell to defrost. Thus, these spells were generally taught together. While Finia was busy making an impromptu fish soup, I headed to wake Michelle up. I could’ve left it to Cloud, but it’s him we are talking about here. He could go and touch her in some weird place. Cole seemed busy inspecting his weapon, perhaps in preparation for the training. As such, I got on the carriage and shook Michelle, who had wrapped herself in the blanket like a hornworm, by what I assumed to be the shoulders. “Mgmm.” But the response I felt in my hands didn’t feel like shoulders at all. It was her breasts. She seemed to have grown even bigger. “Hey, Michelle, wake up.” “Nngh, noo!” “You’re not gonna say ‘give me a few minutes’ but straight up deny huh. Get up, it’s time to eat.” “Set it aside for me.” “Rejected.” “Then come sleep with me, Nicole.” “No.” We had a long relationship, so I was an expert at waking her up... would be an overstatement, but I could at least wake her up without problems. Like this, we finished the meal and it was time for Michelle’s first close-quarters training.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 17, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
必死に感情を押し殺した光輝の声が響く中、その言葉を向けられている当人はというと、まるでその言葉が聞こえていないかのように、スタスタと倒れ伏すメルドの傍に寄り添うシアのもとへ歩みを進めた。ユエの方も、光輝達の護衛はもういいだろうと、ハジメ達の方へ向かう。背後で「あぁ、お姉さまぁ!」と心の中に小さなおっさんを飼う鈴が叫んでいたがスルーだ。「シア、メルドの容態はどうだ?」「危なかったです。あと少し遅ければ助かりませんでした。......指示通り〝神水〟を使っておきましたけど......良かったのですか?」「ああ、この人には、それなりに世話になったんだ。それに、メルドが抜ける穴は、色んな意味で大きすぎる。特に、勇者パーティーの教育係に変なのがついても困るしな。まぁ、あの様子を見る限り、メルドもきちんと教育しきれていないようだが......人格者であることに違いはない。死なせるにはいろんな意味で惜しい人だ」ハジメは、龍太郎に支えられつつクラスメイト達と共に歩み寄ってくる光輝が、未だハジメを睨みつけているのをチラリと見ながら、シアに、メルドへの神水の使用許可を出した理由を話した。ちなみに、〝変なの〟とは、例えば、聖教教会のイシュタルのような人物のことである。「ユエ。ありがとな、頼み聞いてくれて」「んっ」シアと話しているうちにユエが到着する。自分の名を呼び見上げてくるユエの頬を優しく撫でながら、ハジメは、感謝の意を伝えた。それに、視線で「気にしないで」と伝えながらも、嬉しそうに目元を綻ばせるユエ。自然、ハジメの眼差しも和らぎ見つめ合う形になる。「......共、空気読んで下さいよ......ほら、正気に戻って! ぞろぞろ集まって来ましたよ!」既に病気と言ってもいいくらい、いつも通り二人の世界を作り始めたハジメとユエに、シアがパンパンと手を鳴らしながらツッコミを入れて正気に戻す。何やら、光輝とは違う意味で睨む視線が増えたような気がするハジメ。特に、光輝達とは別方向から来る視線に、何故か背筋が粟立った。「おい、南雲。なぜ、彼女を......」「ハジメくん......いろいろ聞きたい事はあるんだけど、取り敢えずメルドさんはどうなったの? 見た感じ、傷が塞がっているみたいだし呼吸も安定してる。致命傷だったはずなのに......」ハジメを問い詰めようとした光輝の言葉を遮って、香織が、真剣な表情でメルドの傍に膝を突き、詳しく容態を確かめながらハジメに尋ねた。ハジメは、自分に向けられた香織の視線に肝が冷えるような感覚を味わったが、気のせいだと思うことにして、香織の疑問に答えることにした。「ああ、それな......ちょっと特別な薬を使ったんだよ。飲めば瀕死でも一瞬で完全治癒するって代物だ」「そ、そんな薬、聞いたことないよ?」「そりゃ、伝説になってるくらいだしな......普通は手に入らない。だから樫は、治癒魔法でもかけてもらえ。魔力回復薬はやるから」「え、ええ......ありがとう」ハジメに声をかけられ、未だに記憶にあるハジメとのギャップに少しどもりながら薬を受け取り礼をいう雫。ハジメは、そんな雫の反応を特に気にするでもなく、香織にも魔力回復薬を投げ渡した。あわあわと言いながらも、きっちり薬瓶をキャッチした香織も、ハジメに一言礼を言って中身を飲み干す。リポビ○ンな味が広がり、少しずつ活力が戻ってくる。香織さえ回復すれば、クラスメイト達も直ぐに治癒されるだろう。取り敢えず、メルドは心配ないとわかり安堵の息を吐く香織達。そこで、光輝が再び口を開く。「おい、南雲、メルドさんの事は礼を言うが、なぜ、かの......」「ハジメくん。メルドさんを助けてくれてありがとう。私達のことも......助けてくれてありがとう」そして、再び、香織によって遮られた。光輝が、物凄く微妙な表情になっている。しかし、香織は、そんな光輝のことは全く気にせず真っ直ぐにハジメだけを見ていた。ハジメの変わりように激しいショックを受けはしたが、それでも、どうしても伝えたい事があったのだ。メルドの事と、自分達を救ってくれたことのお礼を言いつつハジメの目の前まで歩み寄る。そして、グッと込み上げてくる何かを堪えるように服の裾を両の手で握り締め、しかし、堪えきれずにホロホロと涙をこぼし始めた。嗚咽を漏らしながら、それでも目の前のハジメの存在が夢幻でないことを確かめるように片時も目を離さない。ハジメは、そんな香織を静かに見返した。「ハジメぐん......生きででくれで、ぐすっ、ありがどうっ。あの時、守れなぐて......ひっく......ゴメンねっ......ぐすっ」クラスメイトのうち、女子は香織の気持ちを察していたので生暖かい眼差しを向けており、男子の中でも何となく察していた者は同じような眼差しを、近藤達は苦虫を噛み潰したような目を、光輝と龍太郎は香織が誰を想っていたのか分かっていないのでキョトンとした表情をしている。鈍感主人公を地で行く光輝と脳筋の龍太郎、雫の苦労が目に浮かぶ。シアは「むっ、もしや新たなライバル?」と難しい表情をし、ユエはいつにも増して無表情でジッと香織を見つめている。ハジメは、目の前で顔をくしゃくしゃにして泣く香織が、遠藤に聞いていた通り、あの日からずっと自分の事を気にしていたのだと悟り、何とも言えない表情をした。正直、ユエには一度、自分の境遇を話す上で香織の話をしたことはあったのだが、それは奈落にいるときのことで、それ以降、ウルの町で愛子達に再会するまで香織の事は完全に忘れていたのだ。なので、これほど強く想われていた事に、少しだけ罪悪感が湧き上がった。ハジメは、困ったような迷うような表情をした後、苦笑いしながら香織に言葉を返した。「......何つーか、心配かけたようだな。直ぐに連絡しなくて悪かったよ。まぁ、この通り、しっかり生きてっから......謝る必要はないし......その、何だ、泣かないでくれ」そう言って香織を見るハジメの眼差しは、いつか見た「守ってくれ」と言った時と同じ香織を気遣う優しさが宿っていた。その眼差しに、あの約束を交わした夜を思い出し、胸がいっぱいになる香織。思わずワッと泣き出し、そのままハジメの胸に飛び込んでしまった。胸元に縋り付いて泣く香織に、どうしたものかと両手をホールドアップしたまま途方に暮れるハジメ。他のクラスメイトだったら、問答無用に鬱陶しいと投げ飛ばすか、ヤクザキックで意識を刈り取るかするのだが、ここまで純粋に変わらない好意を向けられると、奈落に落ちる前のこともあり、邪険にしづらい。ただ、ユエの手前、ほかの女を抱きしめるのははばかられたので、銃口を突きつけられた人のように両手をホールドアップさせたまま、香織の泣くに任せるという中途半端な対応になってしまった。実に、ハジメらしくない。傍らにいる雫から「私の親友が泣いているのよ! 抱きしめてあげてよぉ!」という視線が叩きつけられているが、無言で見つめてくるユエの視線もあるので身動きが取りづらい。仕方なく間をとって、ポンポンと軽く頭を撫でるに止めてみた。本当に、いつになくヘタレているハジメだった。「......ふぅ、香織は本当に優しいな。クラスメイトが生きていた事を泣いて喜ぶなんて......でも、南雲は無抵抗の人を殺したんだ。話し合う必要がある。もうそれくらいにして、南雲から離れた方がいい」クラスメイトの一部から「お前、空気読めよ!」という非難の眼差しが光輝に飛んだ。この期に及んで、この男は、まだ香織の気持ちに気がつかないらしい。何処かハジメを責めるように睨みながら、ハジメに寄り添う香織を引き離そうとしている。単に、香織と触れ合っている事が気に食わないのか、それとも人殺しの傍にいることに危機感を抱いているのか......あるいはその両方かもしれない。「ちょっと、光輝! 南雲君は、私達を助けてくれたのよ? そんな言い方はないでしょう?」「だが、雫。彼女は既に戦意を喪失していたんだ。殺す必要はなかった。南雲がしたことは許されることじゃない」「あのね、光輝、いい加減にしなさいよ? 大体......」光輝の物言いに、雫が目を吊り上げて反論する。クラスメイト達は、どうしたものかとオロオロするばかりであったが、檜山達は、元々ハジメが気に食わなかったこともあり、光輝に加勢し始める。次第に、ハジメの行動に対する議論が白熱し始めた。香織は、既にハジメの胸元から離れて涙を拭った後だったが、先程のハジメの様子にショックを受けていたこともあり、何かを考え込むように難しい表情で黙り込んでいた。そんな彼等に、今度は比喩的な意味で冷水を浴びせる声が一つ。「......くだらない連中。ハジメ、もう行こう?」「あー、うん、そうだな」絶対零度と表現したくなるほどの冷たい声音で、光輝達を〝くだらない〟と切って捨てたのはユエだ。その声は、小さな呟き程度のものだったが、光輝達の喧騒も関係なくやけに明瞭に響いた。一瞬で、静寂が辺りを包み、光輝達がユエに視線を向ける。ハジメは、元々遠藤から話を聞いて、香織への義理を果たすために来ただけなので用は済んでいる。なので、ハジメの手を引くユエに従い、部屋を出ていこうとした。シアも、周囲を気にしながら追従する。「待ってくれ。こっちの話は終わっていない。南雲の本音を聞かないと仲間として認められない。それに、君は誰なんだ? 助けてくれた事には感謝するけど、初対面の相手にくだらないなんて......失礼だろ? 一体、何がくだらないって言うんだい?」「......」光輝が、またズレた発言をする。言っている事自体はいつも通り正しいのだが、状況と照らし合わせると、「自分の胸に手を置いて考えろ」と言いたくなる有様だ。ここまでくれば、何かに呪われていると言われても不思議ではない。ユエは、既に光輝に見切りをつけたのか、会話する価値すらないと思っているようで視線すら合わせない。光輝は、そんなユエの態度に少し苛立ったように眉をしかめるが、直ぐに、いつも女の子にしているように優しげな微笑みを携えて再度、ユエに話しかけようとした。このままでは埓があかないどころかユエを不快にさてしまうと感じたハジメは、面倒そうな表情で溜息を吐きながらも代わりに少しだけ答えることにした。「天之河。存在自体が色んな意味で冗談みたいなお前を、いちいち構ってやる義理も義務もないが、それだとお前はしつこく絡んできそうだから、少しだけ指摘させてもらう」「指摘だって? 俺が、間違っているとでも言う気か? 俺は、人として当たり前の事を言っているだけだ」ハジメから心底面倒です! という表情を向けられ、不機嫌そうにハジメに反論する光輝に取り合わず、ハジメは言葉を続けた。「誤魔化すなよ」「いきなり何を......」「お前は、俺があの女を殺したから怒っているんじゃない。人死にを見るのが嫌だっただけだ。だが、自分達を殺しかけ、騎士団員を殺害したあの女を殺した事自体を責めるのは、流石に、お門違いだと分かっている。だから、「ち、違う! 勝手なこと言うな! お前が、無抵抗の人を殺したのは事実だろうが!」「敵を殺す、それの何が悪い?」「なっ!? 何がって、人殺しだぞ! 悪いに決まってるだろ!」「はぁ、お前と議論するつもりはないから、もうこれで終いな?――――俺は、敵対した者には一切容赦するつもりはない。敵対した時点で、明確な理由でもない限り、必ず殺す。そこに善悪だの抵抗の有無だのは関係ない。甘さを見せた瞬間、死ぬということは嫌ってくらい理解したからな。これは、俺が奈落の底で培った価値観であり、他人に強制するつもりはない。が、それを気に食わないと言って俺の前に立ちはだかるなら......」ハジメが一瞬で距離を詰めて光輝の額に銃口を押し付ける。同時に、ハジメの〝威圧〟が発動し周囲に濃密な殺気が大瀑布のごとく降りかかった。息を呑む光輝達。仲間内でもっとも速い雫の動きだって目で追える光輝だったが、今のハジメの動きはまるで察知出来ず、戦慄の表情をする。「例え、元クラスメイトでも躊躇いなく殺す」「勘違いするなよ? 俺は、戻って来たわけじゃないし、まして、お前等の仲間でもない。白崎に義理を果たしに来ただけ。ここを出たらお別れだ。俺には俺の道がある」それだけ言うと、何も答えず生唾を飲む光輝をひと睨みして、ハジメはドンナーをホルスターにしまった。〝威圧〟も解けて、盛大に息を吐きハジメを複雑そうな眼差しで見るクラスメイト達だったが、光輝は、やはり納得出来ないのか、なお何かを言い募ろうとした。しかし、それは、うんざりした雰囲気のユエのキツイ一言によって阻まれる。「......戦ったのはハジメ。恐怖に負けて逃げ出した負け犬にとやかくいう資格はない」「なっ、俺は逃げてなんて......」実は、ハジメ達が、ピンポイントであの場所に落ちてこられたのは偶然ではない。ちょうど上階を移動している時に莫大な魔力の奔流を感じて光輝達だと察したハジメが、感知系能力をフル活用して階下の気配を探り、錬成とパイルバンカーで撃ち抜いたというのが真相である。そして、その時感じた魔力の奔流とは、光輝の〝覇潰〟だった。感じた力の大きさからすれば、あの状態の光輝なら魔人族の女を討てたはずだと、ハジメ達はわかっていた。なので、その後の現場の状況と合わせて光輝が人殺しを躊躇い、そのためにあの窮地を招いたのだと看破していたのだ。それが、ユエの言う〝恐怖に負けて逃げ出した〟という言葉である。光輝が、ユエに反論しようとすると、そこへ、深みのある声が割って入った。「メルドさん!」メルドは、少し前に意識を取り戻して、光輝達の会話を聞いていたようだ。まだ少しボーとするのか、意識をはっきりさせようと頭を振りながら起き上がる。そして、自分の腹など怪我していたはずの箇所を見て、不思議そうな顔で首を傾げた。香織が、メルドに簡潔に何があったのかを説明する。メルドは、自分が何やら貴重な薬で奇跡的に助けられたことを知り、そして、その相手がハジメであると聞いて、ハジメの生存を心底喜んだ。また、救われたことに礼を述べながら、あの時、助けられなかった事を土下座する勢いで謝罪するメルドに、ハジメは居心地悪そうにして謝罪を受け取った。ハジメとしては、全く気にしていなかったというか、メルドが言った「絶対助けてやる」という言葉自体忘却の彼方だったのだが......深々と頭を下げて謝罪するメルドを前に空気を読んだのだ。ハジメとのやり取りが終わると、メルドは、光輝に向き直り、ハジメにしたのと同じように謝罪した。「メ、メルドさん? どうして、メルドさんが謝るんだ?」「当然だろ。俺はお前等の教育係なんだ......なのに、戦う者として大事な事を教えなかった。人を殺す覚悟のことだ。時期がくれば、偶然を装って、賊をけしかけるなりして人殺しを経験させようと思っていた......魔人族との戦争に参加するなら絶対に必要なことだからな......だが、お前達と多くの時間を過ごし、多くの話しをしていく内に、本当にお前達にそんな経験をさせていいのか......迷うようになった。騎士団団長としての立場を考えれば、早めに教えるべきだったのだろうがな......もう少し、あと少し、これをクリアしたら、そんな風に先延ばしにしている間に、今回の出来事だ......私が半端だった。教育者として誤ったのだ。そのせいで、お前達を死なせるところだった......申し訳ない」そう言って、再び深く頭を下げるメルドに、クラスメイト達はあたふたと慰めに入る。どうやら、メルドはメルドで光輝達についてかなり悩んでいたようだ。団長としての使命と私人としての思いの狭間で揺れていたのだろう。メルドも、王国の人間である以上、聖教教会の信者だ。それ故に、〝神の使徒〟として呼ばれた光輝達が魔人族と戦うことは、当然だとか名誉なことだとか思ってもおかしくはない。にもかかわらず、光輝達が戦うことに疑問を感じる時点で、何とも人がいいというか、優しいというか、ハジメの言う通り人格者と評してもいいレベルだ。メルドの心の内を聞き、押し黙る光輝。そう遠くないうちに人を殺さなければならなかったと言われ、魔人族の女を殺しかけた時の恐怖を思い出したようだ。それと同時に、たとえ賊であっても人である者を訓練のために殺させようとしていたメルドの言葉にショックも受けていた。賊くらいなら、圧倒出来るだけの力はあるので、わざわざ殺すなんて......と。一方、香織の方も押し黙っていた。それは、メルドの話を聞いていたからではない。ずっと、ハジメの言葉について考えていたからだ。奈落の底で培った価値観、敵なら躊躇いなく殺す、例えクラスメイトであっても......以前のハジメからは考えられない発言だ。だが、それは先程の殺気が本気だと証明していた。他人のために体を張って行動できる優しいハジメが、自分達にすら躊躇うことなく殺意を向ける。自分の知るハジメと目の前にいるハジメの差に香織の心が戸惑い揺れる。先程、香織を気遣った時に感じた以前のハジメは自分の錯覚だったのかと、不安になる。と、香織がそんな事を考え込んでいると不意に視線を感じた。香織がその先を見やると、そこには金髪紅眼の美貌の少女。香織でも思わず見蕩れてしまうくらい美しいその少女が、感情を感じさせない瞳で香織をジッと観察していた。そう言えば、ハジメと随分親密そうだったと思い出し、香織も興味を惹かれてユエを見返した。しばらく、見つめ合う二人。しかし、その見つめ合いはユエの方から逸らされた。嘲笑付きで。思わず息を呑む香織。嘲笑に込められた意味に気がついたからだ。すなわち「この程度で揺れる思いなら、そのままハジメの事は忘れてしまえ」ということに。ユエは当然、香織の態度からハジメの事をどう思っているのか察していた。そして、ハジメが奈落に落ちても生存を信じて頑張っていたと聞いて、これは強力な恋敵が現れたかもしれない、受けて立ってやる! と内心息巻いていたのだ。だが、実際、香織を見てみると、以前のハジメと今のハジメを比べて、以前と異なることに戸惑いと不安を覚え一歩引いてしまっている。その反応は人として当然と言えば当然ではあるのだが......ユエからすると取るに足りない相手に見えたようだ。言外にそう宣言され、香織は顔を真っ赤に染めた。それは、怒りか羞恥か。それでも、反論できなかったのは、香織が、ハジメという人間を見失いかけていたからだ。ユエと香織の初邂逅は、ユエに軍配が上がったようである。光輝達が微妙な雰囲気になっているのを尻目に、ハジメがユエとシアを連れて、パイルバンカーの杭などいくつかのものを回収し、開けた竪穴から出ていこうとした。それに気がついた光輝達も、ハジメ達に追随し始める。全員、消耗しているので地上に出るまでの間、ハジメ達に便乗しようと遠藤が提案し、メルドがハジメに頼み込んで了承を取ったのである。地上へ向かう道中、邪魔くさそうに魔物の尽くを軽く瞬殺していくハジメに、改めて、その呆れるほどの強さを実感して、これが、かつて〝無能〟と呼ばれていた奴なのかと様々な表情をするクラスメイト達。檜山は、青ざめた表情のままハジメを睨み、近藤達は妬みの視線を送り、永山達は感嘆の視線を向けながらも仲間ではないとはっきり言われた事に複雑な表情をしている。近藤達は、ハジメの実力を間近で見て萎縮はしているものの、以前のハジメに対する意識が抜けきっていないのだろう。永山達は、ハジメが檜山達にどういう扱いを受けているか知っていながら見て見ぬふりをしていたことから、後ろめたさがあるようだ。仲間と思われなくても仕方ないかもしれないと...... 背後からぞろぞろと様々な視線を向けてくる光輝達を、サクッと無視して我が道を進むハジメ。途中、鈴の中のおっさんが騒ぎ出しユエにあれこれ話しかけたり、ハジメに何があったのか質問攻めにしたり、二人が余り相手にしてくれないと悟るとシアの巨乳とウサミミを狙いだしたりして、雫に物理的に止められたり、近藤達がユエやシアに下心満載で話しかけて完全に無視されたり、それでもしつこく付き纏った挙句、無断でシアのウサミミに触ろうとしてハジメからゴム弾をしこたま撃ち込まれたり、ヤクザキックを受けて嘔吐したり、マジな殺気を受けて少し漏らしながら今度こそ恐怖を叩き込まれたり――――色々ありつつ、遂に、一行は地上へとたどり着いた。香織は、未だ、俯いて思い悩んでいる。雫は、そんな香織を心配そうに寄り添いながら見つめていた。だが、そんな香織の悩みなど吹き飛ぶ衝撃の事態が発生する。ハジメに心を寄せていた一人の女としては、絶対に看過できない事態。それは、【オルクス大迷宮】の入場ゲートを出た瞬間にやって来た。「あっ! パパぁー!!」「むっ! ミュウか」ハジメをパパと呼ぶ幼女の登場である。	While the sound of Kouki’s desperate voice subduing the silence, the person whom the words were directed to pretended as though he didn’t hear anything and walked towards Shia’s side, beside the collapsed Meld. Thinking there was no longer a need to protect Kouki’s party, Yue also walked towards Hajime and Shia. “Ahh, One-sama!,” Suzu’s shout, whose heart was just like a small old man, came from behind her. “Shia, how’s Meld’s condition?” “It was almost too late. He would not survive if we were even a little slower... I used “Holy Water” as instructed, but... was it really okay to do that?” “Ah, I was indebted to this person. Besides, the hole Meld left would be too big in a lot of ways. It’ll be especially problematic if someone weird took over the training of the Hero’s party. Well, seeing their current state, it looks like Meld was unable to finish their training properly... but it isn’t a mistake that he is a man of character. He is a person who will cause regret in various meanings if he died.” Kouki was currently glaring at Hajime. Supported by Ryuutarou, he walked towards Hajime accompanied by the other classmates. Shia was asking him for the reason of using Holy Water on Meld. Incidentally, what he meant by “someone weird” was the person from Church of the Saints such as Ishtal. “Yue. Thank you for listening to my request.” “Nh.” Yue had arrived at the time he was still speaking to Shia. While gently patting Yue’s cheek who was looking up at him as she called his name, Hajime conveyed his gratitude. Yue’s gaze expressed, “Don’t mind,” while delightedly narrowing her eyes. Naturally, Hajime’s gaze softened and the two were watching each other. “... You two, please read the mood... Come on, return to your senses! Everyone are almost gathered here!” Hajime and Yue began to create their own world which could already be called a disease for them. Thus, Shia clapped her hands and retorted to make them return to their senses. Apparently, the glares coming from Kouki with different meaning had increased and Hajime noticed it. Especially a glare coming from different direction than Kouki and the others. It made him feel a chill running down on his spine. “Oi, Nagumo. Why did you kill—...” “Hajime-kun... even though there’s much I want to ask, how’s Meld-san’s condition? From what I see, the injuries had been closed and his breathing is also steady. But, he should’ve been mortally wounded...” Kouki’s words to press a question onto Hajime was interrupted by Kaori, who came and knelt by Meld’s side with a serious expression and asked Hajime the details of Meld’s condition. For a moment, Hajime felt the chill in his guts from Kaori’s gaze, but thinking it was just his imagination, he decided to answer Kaori’s question. “Yeah, that’s because... I used a rather special medicine. The liquid type that will instantly heal a person completely even if the person was dying.” “S-Such a medicine, how come I’ve never heard of it?” “That is because it was once only a legend... and no one would be able to obtain it, normally. That’s why, Yaegashi, you need to be healed by magic. And here is the potion to recover magic power.” “Eh, yes... Thank you.” Being called by Hajime, Shizuku received the potion and slightly stammered while she said her gratitude due to the gap between the current Hajime and the Hajime in her memory. Hajime didn’t especially mind Shizuku’s reaction and he gave another magic power recovery potion to Kaori. Kaori caught the potion bottle and drunk the content after she said her gratitude to Hajime. With the Lipovitan-like taste spreading inside her mouth, her energy gradually recovered. The classmates should be immediately healed as long as Kaori recovers. For now, Kaori and the others breathed sighs of relief because they understood there was nothing to worry about in regards to Meld. Then, Kouki once again opened his mouth. “Oi, Nagumo, I am grateful about Meld-san’s matter, but why did y—...” “Hajime-kun. Thank you for saving Meld-san. Also, thank you... for saving us.” Thus, he was once again interrupted by Kaori. Kouki now wore a truly subtle expression. However, Kaori completely not noticing Kouki’s expression since she was looking straight at Hajime. Even though she received a severe shock from Hajime’s changes, there were things she wanted to say. She walked up until she was right before Hajime to say her gratitude about Meld’s matter and how he saved them. Afterwards, while grasping her skirt with both hands, guh, the things she wanted to say were on the tip of her tongue, but she couldn’t say anything and her tears began to fall. Although she was sobbing, she didn’t look away from Hajime as though to confirm the him before her was not an illusion. Hajime silently returned Kaori’s gaze. “Hajime-gun... dank God, gusuh, dat you’r alive. Dat time, I am sorry... hic... dat I couldn’t protect you... waaa.” Amongst the classmates, the girls held warm gazes because they could guess Kaori’s feelings. Some of the boys also had warm gazes, but Kondou and some others had bitter expressions, while Kouki and Ryuutarou were dumbfounded since they could not understand Kaori. The most dense protagonist on earth, Kouki, and the muscle for a brain, Ryuutarou, made it hard for Shizuku and it could be seen in her eyes. With troubled expression, Shia said, “Uh, by any chance, is she a new rival?,” while Yue was looking at Kaori with the usual silent and expressionlessness. The Kaori before him was crying which messed her face, and Hajime wore an indescribable expression when he realized Kaori had been worrying about him since the day he fell just as Endou had said. The truth was, he had told Yue once about his circumstance along with the story about Kaori, but that was when they were still in the abyss, and he had completely forgotten about Kaori until he met Aiko and the others in Ul. That’s why, he was gradually feeling guilty because she thought of him this strongly. After sporting a troubled and at lost expression, Hajime answered Kaori’s words with a bitter smile. “...What to say, looks like I’ve made you worried. I am sorry for not immediately telling you about it. Well, just as you see, I am alive... so there’s no need to apologize... Also, umm, please don’t cry.” Hajime said while looking at Kaori with the same gentle gaze when he was worrying about Kaori and said, “Please protect me.” Upon seeing his gaze, Kaori felt her chest being filled with the memory of the night when they exchanged the promise. Inadvertently, Waahh, she cried and jumped into Hajime’s chest. At a loss of what to do about Kaori who was crying while clinging on his chest, Hajime held up both of his hands. If it was another classmate, he would have mercilessly threw the person away since he would feel irritated and use yakuza kick to make the person unconscious. However, the pure and never changing goodwill which was the same even before he fell into the abyss made him incapable of treating her coldly. But with Yue by his side, he couldn’t embrace another woman and could only hold up his hands as though someone had pointed gun’s muzzle at him, becoming a half assed respond since he just let Kaori cry. It was truly not Hajime-like. “My best friend is crying! So, hug her!,” was what Shizuku’s gaze who was beside him was saying, but it was hard to move because Yue was also watching him in silence. Being helpless, he lightly pat Kaori’s head to stop her after a while. Really, Hajime had became a good for nothing. “...Fuu, Kaori is really gentle. She even cry in joy from her classmate’s survival... However, Nagumo killed a non-resisting person. We need to talk. That’s why, that’s enough and you should get away from Nagumo.” “You, read the mood!,” was what some of the classmates criticized Kouki with their gazes. Even in such time, this boy was still unable to be considerate to Kaori’s feeling. While glaring at Hajime mixed with condemn, he tried to pull Kaori away from Hajime. Maybe it was simply because he didn’t want others to touch Kaori or because the caution he held from being beside a murderer... or maybe both. “Wait, Kouki! Isn’t Nagumo-kun the one who saved us? How can you said such things?” “But, Shizuku. That woman already lost her spirit to fight. There’s no need to kill her. So what Nagumo did is something I can’t allow.” “See here, Kouki, can you cut it out already? To begin with...” Kouki’s objection was rebutted by Shizuku. The other classmates were flustered since they didn’t know what to do, but Hiyama’s gang who never liked Hajime began to support Kouki. Gradually, it became a discussion about Hajime’s action. Kaori had already separated from Hajime’s chest and wiped her tears, but there was still the shock she received from a while ago, so she fell silent with a difficult expression while she was thinking of something. Suddenly, a voice came to douse them with cold water. “...What foolish people. Hajime, can we leave now?” “Ah~, yup, let’s go.” The one calling Kouki and the others “foolish” with tone so cold as if it was in absolute zero was Yue. Although the voice was spoken in small mutter, it clearly resounded even inside the commotion of Kouki and the others. For a moment, silence wrapped their location, then Kouki and the others moved their gazes towards Yue. To begin with, the reason Hajime came here after hearing Endou’s story was his obligation to Kaori, and it had been accomplished. Thus, he went out of the room following Yue who pulled his hand. Shia followed after them without minding the others. “Please stop. Our talk here isn’t over yet. I won’t take Nagumo as my comrade if he doesn’t tell me his real intention. Besides, just who do you think you are? Although I am grateful for your help, to call us foolish at our first meeting... isn’t that rude? Just what is foolish about us?” “...” Kouki once again talk about something out of topic. Although what he said was correct in such situations, comparing their circumstances made Yue wanted to say, “Try to think while putting your hand on your chest.” To even go this far, it wouldn’t be strange to say Kouki was cursed by something. Maybe because Yue had forsaken Kouki already; she didn’t look at him, expressing there’s no value in looking at him. Kouki was slightly irritated and frowned being of Yue’s attitude, but he immediately floated a gentle smile again, thinking she was just an ordinary girl, and he tried to talk to Yue. Because this wouldn’t end with the way it was going and he felt Yue’s discomfort, Hajime decided to answer a little and sighed with an expression as though saying it was a hassle. “Amanogawa. I have neither care nor obligation to answer everything to you whose existence is a joke in more ways than one. But, I’ll point it out to you a little because you are being persistent about it.” “Point it out, you say? Are you saying I am wrong? I, I only say something obvious as a person.” Because, It’s troublesome, truly!, was what Hajime expression turned to. Kouki irritatedly objected Hajime’s words which was then ignored, and Hajime continued his words. “You can’t fool me.” “What’s with that...” “You, you are not angry because I killed that woman. You are only feeling unpleasant to see a person’s death. However, you knew you are mistaken to blame me to kill the woman who murdered the Knights and tried to kill you. That’s why you’re using “killing a non-resisting person” as your main point, right? Being made to see something you didn’t want to see and for someone to easily do things you couldn’t... those are the cause of your anger. However, you tried to cover it under the name of justice. What worse is you yourself aren’t conscious of it. You never change, huh. You interpret things at your own convenience as natural as breathing.” “Y-You are wrong! Don’t say something for your own convenience! It is the true you killed a non-resisting person!” “I killed my enemy, what’s wrong with that?” “Wh-!? What are you saying? It’s murder! Of course it is wrong!” “Haa, I don’t want to discuss with you, so can we end it now? ———— I, I won’t give any mercy to my enemy. If someone opposed me, as long as I don’t have any other need for it, I will absolutely kill that person. I don’t care whether they are good or evil, resisting or not. Hatefully, I knew I’d be dead if I show even a moment of weakness. This is my sense of value cultivated inside the abyss, and I won’t force it to other. But, if someone doesn’t like it and tried to block me...” Hajime instantly closed the distance and pressed the muzzle against Kouki’s forehead. At the same time, Hajime’s “Pressure” activated and the dense killing intent fell into the surrounding like a large, powerful waterfall. Kouki’s party held their breaths. Even Kouki, who was able to chase after Shizuku whose movement was the fastest among his comrades, could not even perceive Hajime’s earlier movement and he trembled in fear. “I will kill them, even if that person is a former classmate of mine.” “Don’t misunderstand, okay? I never thought of returning to you. Also, I am not your comrade. I only came here to pay my obligation to Shirasaki. It’s a goodbye after we get out of here. I have my own path to take.” After saying so, he glared at Kouki who couldn’t say anything and was holding his breath. Hajime returned Donner to its holster, and with “Pressure” deactivation, the classmates exhaled greatly while looking at Hajime with complexed gazes. However, Kouki still could not accept it and tried to argue some more. But it was prevented by Yue’s harsh words while she wore a disgusted expression. “...The one who fought was Hajime. The loser who ran away after being defeated in fear has no qualification to criticize him.” “Wh—, you say I ran away...” Actually it was not a coincidence Hajime’s party could pinpointed their location. The truth was, Hajime guessed the explosive torrent of magic power he felt to be coming from Kouki’s party when he was still in upper floor. Then, he used full advantage of his perception type skills to search for people presences downstairs and used transmutation along with pile bunker to pierce through the floors. The torrent of magic power he felt at that time was Kouki’s “Supreme Break.” Feeling the huge power, Hajime’s party understood that Kouki would be able to defeat the demon race woman in that condition. That’s why they could see through that Kouki hesitated to kill and invited their predicament after coming to their location. It was why Yue said, “he ran away after being defeated in fear.” Kouki tried to refute Yue, but a deep voice interrupted him. “Meld-san!” Meld’s consciousness had returned a while ago and he heard the conversation between Kouki and the others. Still somewhat in a daze, he stood up and shook his head to clear his mind. Next, he saw his abdomen which surely had been injured, and so he tilt his head in confusion. Kaori explained to Meld in details about what had happened. Knowing he was miraculously helped with a valuable medicine and hearing the owner was Hajime, Meld was happy from the depth of his heart that Hajime was alive. Moreover, he thanked Hajime for saving him. He grandly prostrated for being unable to save him at that time which made Hajime felt uncomfortable to receive his apology. Rather than not minding it, Hajime had completely forgotten when Meld said, “I will absolutely save you,” ... but he read the mood when Meld was before him, apologizing while bowing deeply. When his conversation with Hajime ended, Meld turned towards Kouki and apologized just like what he did to Hajime. “M-Meld-san? Why, why are you apologizing?” “Of course. I am your trainer... but, I forgot to teach you an important thing during a fight. It’s the resolution to kill a person. When the time comes, I’ve thought of making you experience killing people by setting them up as thieves while making it look like a coincidence... After all, that experience is something necessary if you participate in war against the demon race... However, I’ve spent a lot of time conversing with you which made me think if it was really okay to let you experience that... Thus, I’ve hesitated. If I am thinking of my position as the commander of the Knights, I would have taught you even earlier, but... a little longer, just a little longer, until we cleared this. Things dragged on in this manner and reached this situation... I am just being half-assed. It’s my mistake as your trainer. That’s why, to make you face death... I apologize.” Saying so, Meld once again bowed which made the classmates try and comfort him in hurry. Apparently, Meld had been considerably worried about Kouki’s party. He was likely being pulled apart by his mission as the commander and him as a person. Meld is a citizen of the Kingdom and a believer of Church of the Saints. Therefore, it wasn’t weird that he felt it was natural and an honor for Kouki and the others, the “God’s Apostles,” to fight the demon race. However, he doubted as he fought along with Kouki’s party which meant he was a good or maybe a gentle person, and at the level of a man of character just as Hajime said. Hearing what was in Meld’s mind, Kouki fell silent. After knowing that he must kill people in due time, he recalled his fear when he was about to kill the demon race woman. At the same time, he received shock from Meld’s words saying they would kill people masked as thieves for the sake of training. If it’s thieves, then we have power to overwhelm them. But to purposely killed them... he thought. On the other side, Kaori was also silent. But it was not because she heard Meld’s words. For a long time, she had been thinking about Hajime’s words. The sense of value cultivated inside the abyss where enemy would be killed without hesitation even if it was his classmate... were impossible words coming from Hajime of the past. However, he proved he was serious with the previous killing intent. The Hajime who was gentle and acted by putting the sake of others before him had unhesitatingly turned his killing intent towards them. Kaori was perplexed and shaken by the differences between Hajime she knew and Hajime before her. Thinking of the Hajime who was worried about her from a little ago was an illusion, Kaori was uneasy. While she was thinking, Kaori suddenly felt someone’s gaze. Before Kaori was the blond-haired, red-eyed beautiful girl. A beautiful girl that made even Kaori instinctively charmed. She was quietly observing Kaori with eyes where no feeling could be felt. Kaori recalled the girl had been fairly intimate with Hajime which made Kaori interested and turned to look at Yue. For a while, the two watched each other. However, Yue was the first to avert her gaze while sneering. Kaori inadvertently held her breath. It was because she noticed the meaning behind her sneer. It was, “If you are shaken by this, just forget about Hajime,” something like that. Yue had of course guessed how Kaori feels about Hajime from her attitude. Thus, hearing she believed of Hajime’s survival even though he fell into the abyss, a strong rival in love might show up, I must stand tall!, was what she thought. However, when she saw Kaori comparing the past and current Hajime, and it resulted in her being shaken and perplexed while being taken aback by the differences. Although that reaction was as natural as possible for a person... it made Yue see her as insignificant. You can’t even become an enemy. From now on, Hajime is only mine. Hajime’s “special” person is me! The implied declaration made Kaori’s face red; red from shame and anger. However, Kaori could not refute since she had lost sight of the human called Hajime. The first encounter between Yue and Kaori resulted in Yue as the victor. Leering at Kouki and the others whose mood became subtle, Hajime took Yue and Shia along, collected the pile bunker’s stake, and tried to go through the opened hole. Noticing what he was doing, Kouki and the others began to follow Hajime’s party. Endou had proposed for everyone to take advantage of Hajime’s party until they reached the surface, and Meld was being carried by Hajime after they pleaded him. On the way to the surface, the demonic beasts that tried to obstruct them were instantly killed by Hajime which made them once again amazed by his strength. The classmates wore various expressions thinking whether he was the same person who was once called “incompetent.” Hiyama was glaring at Hajime with paled complexion, Kondou’s gang were sending him begrudging gazes, and Nagayama’s party were looking at him admiringly as they wore complex expressions due to Hajime clearly saying he was not their comrade. Even though Kondou’s gang had closely seen Hajime’s prowess and shrunk before it, they still thought Hajime was the same as the previous him. On the other side, Nagayama’s party knew what kind of treatment Hajime received from Hiyama and his gang and pretend to not see it, so now they felt guilty about it. They thought it could not be helped that Hajime didn’t think of them as his comrades... Receiving various gazes from Kouki and the others behind him, Hajime just ignored them and advanced on his own road. On the way, Suzu’s inner oldman caused commotion as she tried to talk to Yue about various things. She also barraged Hajime with questions about what happened, then she turned her aim towards Shia’s huge breasts and rabbit-ears. When she realized the two just ignored her, she was then physically stopped by Shizuku. Kondou’s gang tried to talk to Yue and Shia fully loaded with desire, but were completely ignored, even so they kept being persistent. They tried to touch Shia’s rabbit-ears without permission which awarded them with Hajime’s rubber bullets. They vomited after receiving yakuza kicks, and fear was driven into them when they received a slight killing intent leaking from Hajime ———— various things happened, and finally the group reached the surface. Kaori was still looking down, worrying. Shizuku was also worriedly watching Kaori and drew closer to her. However, a situation where an impact blew away all of Kaori’s worries had happened. It was a situation she couldn’t overlook as a woman whose heart was set on Hajime. It happened when they arrived at the entrance of «Orcus Great Dungeon». “Ah! Papaa~!” “Uh! Myuu, huh.” It was the appearance of a little girl calling Hajime papa.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 6, "inserted_lines_src": 4, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
最近のプーチンの市民社会に対する弾圧、経済の重要区分における国家主義の再興、チェチェン紛争解決のための政治的アプローチの失敗、そして帝国への郷愁の培養などによって、ロシアは将来を左右する唯一のチャンスをつぶそうとしているのだ。	With Putin’s current clampdown on civil society, re-nationalization of key segments of the economy, failure to develop any political approach to resolving the conflict in Chechnya, and cultivation of imperial nostalgia, Russia is killing its only chance to matter in the future.	{ "source": "news_commentary", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
私の考えでは天国は好奇心を満たしてくれる所です天国はとても心地よい雲のようなものでうつ伏せで寝転がることができます子供時代に肘をついてテレビを観ていたような感覚ですそして好きな場所を見ることができいつか観たかった映画も観れますニューヨークの地下鉄で本を読んでいる時に感じるどこか心地よいトランスと似たような感覚ですどこか心地よいトランスと似たような感覚ですおかしなことに私は既にそのような生活を送っていますなぜなら私は発見したのです理解するのに時間はかかりましたがなぜなら私は発見したのです理解するのに時間はかかりましたが 24歳の頃自分が人よりも物と居るほうが心地よいことに気付きましたそしてその方面に情熱を傾けることに決めたのです私の日常では目に入るものすべてが長いストーリーの始まりのようで一種のトランス状態と言えるかもしれませんたとえばこれは MoMAで2004年に開催した「ハンブルマスターピース」という展覧会です当時私たちはミッドタウンの本館を大きな大きな建物に改築中でクイーンズの狭い狭い場所にいました私のキャリアの中でも最も楽しかった時のひとつです他にもありますこれはヘルベチカという書体ですこの書体は今年で50周年を迎えますマックス・ミーディンガーなどのスイスのデザイナー達が一緒になってアクチデンツ・グロテスクを超えるものを考え新たなサンセリフ書体を思いつく― ヘルベチカのドキュメンタリー映画を思い出しますそしてもちろん「ハンブルマスターピース」ではそのような傑作が100倍もあったんですでもこの展示の真のゴールから同様なものを感じ取ってもらえればと思いますこの展覧会で意図したのは例えば子供たちがこの様な行動をとるようになることです家で宿題をする時にお盆に2粒の豆を並べる代わりにキッチン棚か母親のハンドバッグを開け美術館クオリティのデザインコレクションをお盆の上で始めて欲しいのです誰もが常に新しい「ハンブルマスターピース」を提案するので MoMAでは来場者が各自の「ハンブルマスターピース」を提案できるノートを設置していますそういう場合は大抵 80%がポルノで 20%が提案なのですが今回はすべて― 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1995年に開催した「ミュータント・マテリアルズ展」は私の考えではデザイン界は新しい局面を迎えましたデザイナーは自ら素材をカスタマイズできるようになったからですそれにより私はカリフォルニアのローレンス・リバモア国立研究所でエアロゲルのような幅広いデザイン素材と出会いましたその時ちょうどその素材が民間市場に登場し始めたところでした時を同じくして石黒猛氏の素晴らしい作品であるお米でできた美しいソルト&ペッパー容器も登場しました皆さんもご覧の通りとても多様な作品群になっていますたとえば 2001年に開催した展覧会「ワークスフィア展」ではデザイナー達にその当時世界で起こりつつあった様々なワーキングスタイルを提案してもらいました IDEOからの提案です美しい「パーソナルスカイ」ですこのアイデアは小さく区切られたワークスペースの天井に空を映し出しています頭上に自分だけの空ができます「部屋の中の空」― イタリアの有名な曲にもある空です他にもマルティ・ギゼはどこに居ても仕事ができるスタイルをヘラ・ヨンゲリウスの家での働き方は私のお気に入りですこの展示を通して紹介できたのはデザインについての大切な考えですデザイナーは世界で最も有力な統合者なのです彼らが最も得意とするのは人々のニーズすなわち経済や原材料持続可能性の問題などを取り上げ統合することで最終的にその問題を一つずつ解決するよりも ―もし彼らが有能であれば― より効果的な結果を導くことができますヘラ・ヨンゲリウスは見事に統合できる人ですその手腕は目を見張るものがあります同時にとても愉快です彼女の作品には時代が背景にありその当時仕事とプライベートは分けて考えられていましたが彼女は「いいえ仕事と遊びは同時にできるのよ」と言いました 2001年のTVディナーが見えますねその作品は特に素敵ですその間多くの展覧会が開催されました私の展覧会の代わりにいかに素晴らしいデザイナーが存在するかをお話しましょう長い間「マーヴェリック」という言葉を理解できず 13年前の渡米から今まで「それはどういう意味?」と聞いていました今朝辞書を引いてみると「飼い牛に所有者を示す焼き印を押さない人」とありましたですから規則に囚われない人を「一匹狼(マーヴェリック)」と呼ぶそうですデザイナーは一匹狼である必要がありますなぜなら成功するデザインや今まで無かった物を作り出す最善の方法はそれがかつて世に存在しなかったように振る舞うか全く新しい使い方ができるようにするかです「セーフ展」は私がMoMAで開催した一番最近の展覧会です去年のはじめに終了しましたこの展覧会は安全や防護のためのデザインを展示しましたこの展覧会は長期間構想を練っており 2001年には「エマージェンシー展」という名称でしたその後 9/11が起こり私はあまりのショックに展覧会をキャンセルしましたが構想はゆっくりでも確実に戻ってきました半分が空のコップから半分が満たされたコップに変化したのです半分が空のコップから半分が満たされたコップに変化したのです展示品は防護と安全をテーマに地雷撤去機器からストロー浄水器までとても幅広い作品群ですストロー浄水器までとても幅広い作品群ですまたキャメロン・シンクレアと私は協力し彼のウェブサイトで掲載されている作品のいくつかを「セーフ展」で展示しました興味深いのは私たちはこれ以上デザインとアートについて語る必要はなくデザインはその主張を伝えるため何でも自由に使えるのですそれは経済観念やユーモアのセンスの問題なのですこれは南アフリカ出身のラルフ・ボーランドの美しいプロジェクトです市民としての反抗着ぐるみですこのアイデアは暴動や抗議をする時に警察が近寄って来るとこの着ぐるみを着ます大きなハート形でスピーカーから大きな心臓の音が鳴り響きます着用者の心音が増幅し警察も目が覚めますこれはライフルの前に花を差し出すようなものです想像してみてくださいたくさんの人がこの着ぐるみを着て心音が集まり増幅されたら警察はきっと恐怖を感じるでしょうこの例のとおりデザイナーはすぐに役立つ作品を作らなくても私たちが問題を理解する手助けをしてくれますアンソニー・ダンとフィオナ・レイビーは苦悩とパラノイアについての作品を創りましたこの隠れ家のような家具は床と同じ木で作られています環境に完全に同化し身を隠せます更に素敵な作品をご紹介します抱きしめたくなるキノコ雲ですこの作品は米・科学雑誌に掲載されました MoMA初ですこのファラデーチェアは電磁波から体を守ってくれるはずですですが興味深いことにこの展覧会中に発見した究極のシェルターは自己意識だということです多くのデザイナー達がこのテーマについて取り組んでいますシンディ・ファン・デン・ブレーメンです彼女はこのキャップスターを創りましたこれはイスラム女性がスキーやテニスを楽しむ時に着用するスポーツウェアですスポーツなどで激しく動いても宗教上隠している部分を露出せずに済みますこのようなニーズを調べることで美しいデザインが生まれることがあるのですトワン・バドニックはとても若い27歳のデザイナーです彼は心理学者と協力し感覚を刺激するぬいぐるみを心理学的障害のある子供達に創りましたとても美しい作品ですぬいぐるみはフワフワで抱きつけるものから自閉症児はきつく抱かれたいので中にバネが入っています鏡付きの人形で子供が自分を眺めて自己を再認識できるものまで幅広い種類がありますデザインは全世界を見渡し通常とは異なった角度から考えられています私は最近ヘラルド・トリビューンの高級品カンファレンスに参加するためイスタンブールに行ってきました私は最後のスピーカーだったのですが興味深いことに私の前は高級品についてのスピーチばかりでした座を白けさせるつもりはなかったのですが現実に引き戻す必要性を感じました本当はさまざまな種類の高級品がありあまり物を持っていない人々の高級品も存在します 2つの例をお見せしましょう経済観念をベースにしたデザインは明確な限界がありますキューバでは握ると音のでるおもちゃを自転車のベルとしてリサイクル使用していますこちらは米袋で作ったレインコートですとても美しい物ですがそれはスマートかつ経済的だからですこの作品はサンパウロの兄弟ユニットのものですフェルナンド&ウンベルト・カンパーナは貧困とその中で生きる人々の賢さにインスパイアされ家具を創っていますそれは今や高額で販売されていますそれはこの市場の不思議な特性ですデザインはすべての要素を考慮しなければなりません面白いことに技術の進歩とともに私たちはどんどんワイヤレスになり触る感覚を忘れがちです反対にデザイナー達は実体験を促し時に通常の接触以上を求めます反対にデザイナー達は実体験を促し時に通常の接触以上を求めますこれらは物理的に接触することを求める家具のシリーズですこの椅子は自ら広げて座ると自分の型が押されますこの美しい家具シリーズはバルセロナのアナ・ミルの作品です人間の髪でできたアクセサリーからチョコレートの乳首足の指の間に挟むキャンディーは恋人に舐めてもらうようになっていますこれらは何故かとても美しいデザインにとって素晴らしい瞬間です数年前ウィーン出身のマルケッティという数学者に出会いました彼は軍事業界のイノベーションについて話してくれました極秘に進められるイノベーションと民間は2つの反した正弦曲線を描いているそうです理にかなっています戦争中は壮大な技術革新が進められます一方で国民は質素な生活を余儀なくされます第2次世界大戦中は鉄もアルミも使えませんでした再び平和が訪れた時突然テクノロジーが一般市場でもオープンになりますご存じだと思いますがチャールズ&レイ・イームズのポテトチップチェアはその恩恵を受けた作品です戦後突然繊維ガラスが民間で使えるようになったからですこれは不思議な瞬間です正弦曲線のリズムが大きく変わるのです過去25年の生活リズムが大きく変わったように私ももうどう考えて良いのかわかりませんがこれはデザインにとって重要な時ですなぜならテクノロジーが技術躍進しコンピュータ技術がデザインの分野でもオープンソースを可能にしただけではなく持続可能性という考え方が多くのデザイナーの作品を構成する重要な要素になっているからですこの持続可能性は CO2排出量の観点だけではなく持続可能な人類の相互関係も含めた考え方ですだからこそデザイナー達は物体だけではなく人の行動にも取り組んでいます全員でなくとも優秀なデザイナーは特にその傾向がありますたとえばマチュー・ルアヌールはとても素晴らしいフランスの若いデザイナーですこの時点では彼は製薬会社と協力し子供の患者が薬を摂取する際に確実に一定量を定期的に摂取できるような新しい方法を模索していましたたとえばこれは美しい喘息薬の容器ですが薬を飲む時間になると自動的に膨らむ仕組みになっています子供は「ふーーー」と吸いこんで容器の膨らみを戻しますもうひとつの薬は自分の肌に書き込めます皮内に摂取することを楽しんで行えます同じくマルティ・ギゼも食を通じて間違いや味を経験し口から理解する取り組みをしています私が次に進めている展覧会はこの場でもたくさんの人にお世話になっている最新技術とデザインに関する展示ですこの展示では比喩ではなく共通点を見つけようとしています共通の不満や問題先入観などですそれによって処方箋ではなく手がかりや方向性を示す方法としてデザインを捉えることでさらに深くデザインを理解できると思うのです皆さんの参加をお待ちしています既にEメールも送っておきましたデザインと科学をいろいろなスケールで表現しとても小さなものでも素晴らしく大きな意味があるものも作れるとお見せできると思いますありがとうございました (拍手)	And in my idea, heaven is satisfied curiosity. I think of heaven as a really comfortable cloud where I can just lie down with my belly down, like I was watching TV when I was a child, and my elbows up. And I can basically look everywhere I want, see every movie I've always wanted to see. in the subway in New York when you're reading, there's something really soothing and easy. Well, the funny thing is that I already have that kind of life, in a way, because I discovered ... it took me a while to understand it, but when I discovered around 24 years of age that I was much more comfortable with objects than with people, I finally decided to really embrace this passion. And I basically live my life in sort of a trance, and I look around and everything I see is just the beginning of a long story. Just to give you an example: this is the exhibition, Humble Masterpieces, as it was at MoMA in 2004. We were in Queens, we were building the big, big, big, big building in Midtown, so we were in the small, small, small boondocks. That was one of the funnest moments of my career. But it's not only that. The typeface -- the typeface is Helvetica; it's its 50th anniversary this year. And so I start thinking -- Max Miedinger and all those Swiss designers together, trying to outdo Akzidenz-Grotesk, and come up with a new sans-serif typeface -- and the movie starts playing in my head already. And of course, you can imagine, with Humble Masterpieces it was the same thing multiplied by a hundred. And I do hope, by the way, that the real goal of the exhibition is going to have the same effect on you. The exhibition was meant to be a way to have children think of doing ... you know when they do homeworks at home? Instead of having a tray with two peas, I was hoping that they would go into the kitchen cabinet or the mother's handbag and do their museum-quality design collection on a tray. So, everybody's always suggesting new humble masterpieces, and at MoMA we put out some books just for people to suggest their own humble masterpieces. And when you do that, usually you get 80 percent porn and 20 percent real suggestions, and instead it was all -- almost -- all good suggestions. And a lot of nationalism came in. For instance, I didn't know that the Spaniards invented the mop, but they were very proud so every Spaniard said "la frego." And Italians did the pizza. And I wanted to show you, also, the suggestions from Kentucky are pretty good -- they had moonshine, laundry detergents and liquid nails. And I keep it going, and I just got, also, this suggestion from Milan: it's our traffic divider, which we call "panettone," and it's painted; it's these beautiful concrete things that you use around Milan to define all the lanes of traffic. So, think of your own, send them on if you want to -- they're always welcome. But an exhibition like that made me understand even more what I've been thinking of for 13 years ever since I got to MoMA. I'm Italian. In Italy, design is normal. Different parts of the world have a knack for different things. I was just recently in Argentina and in Uruguay, and the default way of building homes in the country is a beautiful modernism that you don't see elsewhere, but the contemporary art was terrible. In Italy, in Milan especially, contemporary art really doesn't have that much of a place. But design -- oh, my God. What you find at the store at the corner, without going to any kind of fancy store, is the kind of refined design that makes everybody think that we are all so sophisticated. It's just what you find at the store. And New York has another kind of knack for contemporary art. I'm always amazed -- three-year-olds know who Richard Serra is and take you to the galleries. But design, for some reason, is still misunderstood for decoration. It's really interesting: what many people think when I say the word "design" is they think of this kind of overdesigned -- in this case, it's overdesigned on purpose, but -- decoration, interior decoration. They think of somebody choosing fabrics. Design can be that, of course, but it can also be this. It can be a school of design in Jerusalem that tries to find a better way to design gas masks for people, because, as you know, Israel deploys one gas mask per person including babies. So, what these designers do is they find a way to lower the neckline, so that instead of being completely strangled, a teenager can also sip a Coke. They tried to make a toddler's gas mask in such a way that the toddler can be held by the parent because proximity of the body is so important. And then they make a little tent for the baby. However cruel, however ruthless you can think this is it's a great design, and it is miles away from the fancy furniture, but still, it's part of my same field of passion. What I've been doing at MoMA since the beginning is to try to harness the power of MoMA because it's great to work there. You really have power in that people usually tend to know about your exhibition or see the exhibitions, and that is power because in a design museum I wouldn't have as many visitors. I'm very well aware that 80 percent of my public is there to see Picasso and Matisse, and then they stumble upon my show and I keep them there. But what I've been trying to do is something that the curators at MoMA in my department have been doing ever since the museum was founded in 1929, which is to try and see what's going on in the world and try to use that authority in order to make things better. There have been many episodes, and actually Eames Demetrius may be here in the audience, but in two instances, his great-grandfather, grandfather -- I'm always a little perplexed about the relation, exactly -- Charles Eames the first time and then Charles and Ray Eames the second time were involved in two competitions: one in 1940, it was about organic furniture, and the second one in 1948 was low-cost furniture for the GIs coming back from the war that then sparked a whole line of furniture. And then there was good design for very low price. There were a lot of programs in architecture and design that were about pointing people in the direction of a better design for a better life. So, I started out in '95 with this exhibition that was called It was about a new phase, in my opinion, in the world of design in that materials could be customized by the designers themselves. And that put me in touch with such diverse design examples as the aerogels from the Lawrence Livermore Lab in California; at that time, they were beginning to be brought into the civilian market. And at the same time, the gorgeous work of Takeshi Ishiguro, who did these beautiful salt-and-pepper containers that are made of rice dough. So you see, the range is really quite diverse. And then, for instance, this other exhibition that was entitled Workspheres in 2001, where I asked different designers to come up with ideas for the new type of work styles that were happening in the world at that time. And you see IDEO there. It was beautiful -- it was called Personal Skies. The idea was that if you had a cubicle, you could project a sky on top of your head and have your own "Cielo in Una Stanza" -- a sky in a room -- it's a very famous Italian song. And other examples: this was Marti Guixe about working on the go, and Hella Jongerius, my favorite, about how to work at home. And this lets me introduce a very important idea about design: designers are the biggest synthesizers in the world. What they do best is make a synthesis of human needs, current conditions in economy, in materials, in sustainability issues, and then what they do at the end -- if they are good -- is much more than the sum of its parts. Hella Jongerius is a person that is able to make a synthesis that is really quite amazing and also quite hilarious. The idea behind her work was that at that time, everybody was saying you have to really divide your life. Instead, she said, "No, no. Work and leisure can be together." Yeah, that's particularly gorgeous -- it's the TV dinner of 2001. There have been many other exhibitions in the meantime, but I don't want to focus on my shows. I would like, instead, to talk about how great some designers are. I've always had a hard time with the word "maverick." I came to the United States 13 years ago, and to this day I have to ask, "What does that mean?" So, this morning I went to see on the dictionary and it said that there was this gentleman that was not branding its cattle. Therefore, he was not following everybody's lead, and therefore, he was a maverick. So, designers do need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object -- and also an object that we were missing before -- is to pretend that either it never existed or that people will be able to have a new behavior with it. So, Safe is the last exhibition that I did at MoMA and it ended at the beginning of last year. It was about design that deals with safety and deals with protection. It's a long story because it started before 2001 and it was called Emergency. And then when 9/11 happened, I had a shock and I canceled the exhibition until, slowly but surely, it came back -- as a half-full glass instead of half-empty -- and it was about protection and safety. But it ranged from such items as a complete de-mining equipment to these kind of water-sterilizing straws, so it was really wide-ranging. It also had ... you know, Cameron and I worked a little bit together, and some of the entries that you see in his website were actually in the exhibition. But what is interesting is that we don't need to talk about design and art anymore; design uses whatever tools it has at its disposal in order to make a point. It's a sense of economy and a sense, also, of humor. This is a beautiful project by Ralph Borland, who's South African. It's a suit for civil disobedience. The idea is that when you have a riot or a protest and the police comes towards you, you're wearing this thing -- it's like a big heart and it has a loudspeaker over your heart so your heartbeat is amplified -- and the police is reminded; it's like having a flower in front of the rifle. And also, you can imagine, a whole group of people with the same suit will have this mounting collective heartbeat that will be scary to the police. So, designers sometimes don't do things that are immediately functional, but they're functional to our understanding of issues. Tony Dunne and Fiona Raby did this series of objects that are about our anguish and our paranoia, like this hideaway furniture that's made in the same wood as your floor so it disappears completely and you can hide away; or even better, the huggable atomic mushroom, which got me an article on the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists of the United States -- I don't think it ever happened before at MoMA; or this Faraday Chair that is supposed to protect you from radiations. But the interesting thing in the exhibition is the discovery that the ultimate shelter is your sense of self, and there are quite a few designers that are working on this particular topic. This is Cindy van den Bremen, who is a Dutch designer that's done this series of Capsters. They are athletic gear for Muslim women that enable them to ski, play tennis, do whatever they want to do without having to uncap themselves. And sometimes by doing this kind of research, you encounter such beautiful ideas of design. Twan Verdonck is really young, I think he's 27, and working together with some psychologist he did a series of toys that are for sensorial stimulation for children that have psychological impairments. They're quite beautiful. They range from this fluffy toy that is about hugging you -- because autistic children like to be hugged tight, so it has a spring inside -- all the way to this doll with a mirror so the child can see him or herself in the mirror and regain a sense of self. Design really looks upon the whole world and it considers the world in all of its different ranges. I was recently at a conference on luxury organized by the Herald Tribune in Istanbul. And it was really interesting because I was the last speaker and before me there were people that were really talking about luxury, and I didn't want to be a party pooper but at the same time I felt that I had to kind of bring back the discourse to reality. And the truth is that there are very different kinds of luxury, and there's luxury that is relative for people that don't have that much. I want to make this point by showing you two examples of design coming from a sense of economy -- very, very clear limits. This is Cuba, and this is the recycling of a squeaky toy as a bicycle bell, and this is a raincoat that is made out of rice sacks. So they're quite beautiful, but they're beautiful because they're so smart and economical. And here is the work of two brothers from Sao Paulo, Fernando and Humberto Campana, who got inspired by the poverty and smartness that they saw around them to do pieces of furniture that now are selling for an enormous amount of money. But that's because of the kind of strangeness of the market itself. So really, design takes everything into account, and the interesting thing is that as the technology advances, as we become more and more wireless and impalpable, designers, instead, want us to be hands-on. This is a whole series of furniture that wants to engage you physically. Even this chair that you have to open up and then sit on so that it takes your imprint, all the way to this beautiful series of objects that are considered design by Ana Mir in Barcelona. From this kind of bijou made with human hair to these chocolate nipples to these intra-toe candies that your lover is supposed to suck from your toes. It's quite beautiful because somehow, this is a gorgeous moment for design. Many years ago I heard a mathematician from Vienna, whose name was Marchetti, explain how the innovation in the military industry -- therefore, secret innovation -- and the innovation in the civilian society are two sinusoids that are kind of opposed. And that makes sense. In moments of war there's great technological innovation, and in the world you have to do without -- well, during the Second World War, you had to do without steel, you had to do without aluminum. And then as peace comes, all of these technologies get all of a sudden available for the civilian market. Many of you might know that the Potato Chip Chair by Charles and Ray Eames comes exactly from that kind of instance: fiberglass was available for civilian use all of a sudden. I think that this is a strange moment. The rhythm of the sinusoids has changed tremendously, just like the rhythm of our life in the past 25 years, so I'm not sure anymore what the wavelength is. But it surely is a very important moment for design, because not only is the technology proceeding, not only is computing technology making open-source possible also in the world of design, but also the idea of sustainability -- which is not only sustainability from the viewpoint of CO2 emissions and footprint, but also sustainability of human interrelationships -- is very much part of the work of so many designers. And that's why designers, more and more, are working on behaviors rather than on objects. Especially the good ones, not all of them. I wanted to show you, for instance, the work of Mathieu Lehanneur, which is quite fantastic. He's another young designer from France who's working -- and at this point he's working, also, with pharmaceutical companies -- on new ways to engage patients, especially children, in taking their medicines with constancy and with certainty. For instance, this is a beautiful container for asthma medicine that kind of inflates itself when it's time for you to take the medicine, so the child has to go -- pffff! -- to release and relieve the container itself. And this other medicine is something that you can draw on your skin, so intradermal delivery enables you to joyfully be involved in this particular kind of delivery. Similarly, there's the work of people like Marti Guixe that tries to involve you in a way that is really about making everything pass through your mouth so that you learn from your mistakes or from your taste, orally. The next show that I'm going to work on -- and I've been bugging a lot of you about this here -- is about the relationship between design and science. I'm trying to find not the metaphors, but, rather, the points in common -- the common gripes, the common issues, the common preoccupations -- and I think that it will enable us to go a little further in this idea of design as an instruction, as a direction rather than a prescription of form. And I am hoping that many of you will respond to this. I've sent an email already to quite a few of you. But design and science and the possibility of visualizing different scales, and therefore, really work at the scale of the very small to make it very big and very meaningful. Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
数年前、サダム・フセイン支配下で、イラク人がもし衛星アンテナを所有していること、あるいは政府の認可なしにインターネットを使ったことを暴かれれば、彼は舌を切られてしまったかもしれないだろう。今日、衛星アンテナはイラクにおいても、至る所に設置されている。	A few years ago, under Saddam Hussein, an Iraqi could have his tongue cut out if he was found in possession of a satellite dish or used the Internet without government approval. Today, satellite dishes are ubiquitous in Iraq as well.	{ "source": "news_commentary", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
屋敷の玄関を出てすぐの場所に、護衛さん達が乗るための馬が4頭と、馬車もある。今回もセバスチャンさんが御者を務め、俺とクレアさん、ライラさんに馬車へ。荷物は全て、馬車の椅子の下にある引き出しの中へ。結構物が入るんだな......。あまり大きくない馬車だからが同じ場所に座るとちょっと狭い。ちなみに、俺、ライラさん、クレアさんの順番だ。「......ちょっとライラさん......あまりこっちに寄ると色々と......」聞こえないように小さく呟きながら、体を小さくさせて座る。顔が熱くなりそうなのを誤魔化しながら、出発した。そんな俺を見て、何かを察したレオが溜め息を吐いてた。 ......仕方ないだろ......今までそんな経験ほとんど無いんだから......。クレアさんもだが、ライラさんも十分に美人だし......むしろライラさんの方がクレアさんより肉付きが......これ以上は止めておこう。誤魔化せなくなるし、ライラさんにも失礼だ。「それでは、出発致します」「ワウ!」セバスチャンさんが俺達に出発を告げると同時、手綱を振るって馬車を発進させた。レオも答えるように一鳴きして、馬車の横を走り始める。護衛さん達は左右一人ずつ、後ろに一人、先導するのに一人という配置になっている。そういえば、森までどれくらいかかるんだろう? 「セバスチャンさん、馬車で森まではどのくらいかかりますか?」「そうですね......約3時間程でしょうか」「どうかしましたか、タクミさん?」「いえ......馬車に乗り慣れないものですから、長時間乗っていられるか心配になったんです」本当は、長時間密着するのと色々まずい気がしたからだが、こっちの方向で誤魔化そう。実際この世界に来るまで馬車どころか馬も写真や映像でしか見た事無かったから。「以前はどうやって移動してたのですか? レオ様が大きくなったのはこちらに来てからとは伺いましたが」「んー......何て言えばいいんでしょう......馬車もあるにはあったんですが、普通は乗る事なんてありません。その変わりに、鉄で出来た自走式の物に乗って移動していました」車の事って説明が難しいな......。生き物じゃないのは当たり前だが、この世界だと鉄の乗り物なんて無いだろうし......。「それはどんな物なのですか!? 自走式......馬が曳かなくても動くという事なのですか? タクミさんの居た所は魔法が無いと聞きましたが......どうやってそんな物を動かすのでしょうか......」思いの外、クレアさんが食い付いてしまった。見れば、ライラさんも興味深そうにこちらを見てる......顔近いですって......。セバスチャンさんも、御者台に座ってるために前を向いてるけど、こちらの話が気になるのか、チラチラと顔を振り向かせてる。 ......どうやって説明しよう......。「えっと......そうですね......魔法ではありません。薪とは違って、液体の燃料を動力にして動かしています」「液体の燃料......そんな物があるのですか?」「はい。ただ、暖を取ったりするには薪の方が良いんです。でも液体燃料の方が良く燃えるので、それをエネルギーに変える技術が発達しています」「燃えるエネルギー......鉄で出来ていると仰いましたが、相当な重さだと思います。......そんな事で動くのですか?」「理論なんかはちょっと......専門外なので詳しくわからないんですけど、しっかり動きますよ」「タクミさんの居た所は技術が凄いのですね」「まぁ、魔法が無い代わりに、技術で生活を豊かにしようという所でしたから」以前、何かの本で読んだ言葉に、【十分に発達した科学技術は、魔法と見分けがつかない】という言葉があった。仕組みを詳しく知らない俺からすると、携帯だのテレビだのネットだのってのは魔法と言えるのかもしれないな......。以前の世界とこちらの世界との違いを話したりしながら、俺達を乗せた馬車は森へと走った。色々話してたおかげで、ライラさんの顔の近さが途中から気にならなくなった。慣れたというより、話しに集中できたおかげだと思う。 ......集中しないと、クレアさん達に科学の事を説明するのが難しかったからというのが一番の理由だろう。「こちらで一旦休憩となります」セバスチャンさんが、俺達に声を掛けながらポツンと一本だけ立っていた木の傍で馬車を停める。俺やクレアさん、ライラさんは狭い馬車に密着して座ってるから休憩しないと辛いというのもあったが、走り続ける馬も休ませないとばててしまうからな。レオは全力で走ってるわけでも無いからか、全然疲れを見せて無い。セバスチャンさんが馬に水をあげたりして休ませてる間に、俺達は馬車から降りて固まった体を伸ばす。「んーっ。さすがに座る場所が少し狭かったですね」「そうですね。おかげで体が固まってしまいました。んー」クレアさんも俺と同じように腕を上に上げて体を伸ばしてる。その動きが恥ずかしいのか、少し控えめに。ライラさんはレオに持って来た荷物の中から牛乳を取り出して皿に入れて飲ませている。疲れてる様子には見えないが、喉は渇いてるのかガブガブと勢いよく飲んでるな。「セバスチャンさん、森まで後どのくらいでしょうか」「ここは森から一番近い街道になります。屋敷からだと、半分を少し過ぎたあたりですね。これから街道を外れて森に向かいますが......おそらく1時間程で到着するでしょう」「そうですか。それなら、俺は残りの道をレオに乗って移動しても良いですか?」「レオ様にですか?」「はい。......えっと......ちょっと良いですか?」「......どうしましたか?」セバスチャンさんに近づいて、小声で内緒話。「ちょっと......馬車が狭くてですね......ライラさんやクレアさんと密着してしまうんです......」「それはそれは......ほっほっほ、若いですからな。それも良いのではないですか?」この人は何を言ってるのか......。そん(座り順で主にライラさんだが)に密着するのは恥ずかしいんだって! ......嫌じゃないんだけどな、うん。むしろ嬉しいくらいだが......やっぱり照れるし、そんな照れてる姿を見せるのも恥ずかしい。「......残りの道はレオに乗って行きますね」「仕方ありませんな。......良い思いをしたと思っておけばいいのではと思いますが......致し方ありません」この人は......結構アレだな......。	Right outside of the mansion entrance, were the four horses that the guards would ride, and the carriage. Once again, Sebastian would be our driver, and I, Ms. Claire, and Ms. Lyra would ride in the back. All of our belongings were stored in the drawers under the seats. You could fit quite a lot in there... But as it wasn’t the biggest carriage, it felt a little cramped to have three people sitting in the back. The sitting order was me, Ms. Lyra and then Ms. Claire. “...Hey, Ms. Lyra...don’t push me so much...” I muttered quietly so that the others wouldn’t hear, and tried to sit without taking up much space. My face grew a little hot, but I pretended to be unbothered as we set off. But Leo looked at me and seemed to notice my dilemma, as she let out a sigh. ...It can’t be helped... It’s not every day that I ride like this... Both Ms. Claire and Ms. Lyra was very beautiful... If anything, Ms. Lyra was a little more...plump and...I would say no more. It might become obvious, and was also quite rude. “And now, we will head to the forest!” “Wou!” Sebastian shook the reins as the horses began to trot. Leo also barked and started to run alongside the carriage. As for the guards, one stayed on our right and one on the left, and there was one in the back and one lead in the front. Now that I thought about it, how long would it take us to reach the forest? “Mr. Sebastian. How long will it take us to reach the forest by carriage?” “Indeed...approximately three hours, I should say.” “Is there a problem, Mr. Takumi?” “No... But I’m not used to riding carriages for long hours, so I’m a little worried.” I was actually more concerned about being pressed against someone for so long, but they did not need to know that. Until I came to this world, I had never ridden a carriage, let alone a horse. I had only seen them in pictures and videos. “But how did you travel then? You did say that Leo only grew to this size after you came to this world.” “Hmm... How should I say this... There were carriages, but you normally wouldn’t ride on them. Instead, there were automatic machines made of iron.” I didn’t know how to explain cars to them... Obviously, it wasn’t a living creature, but I doubted they had vehicles made of metal in this world... “What are they like!? An automatic machine... Does that mean they do not need horses to pull them? You did say that there is no magic in your world... But how does such a thing move...?” Surprisingly, Ms. Claire was very interested in this. Ms. Lyra was also looking at me with deep curiosity...but her face was so close... And while Sebastian was facing ahead, as he was the driver, he kept glancing back as if interested in what I was going to say. ...How should I explain it... “Uh...well...it’s not magic. We just use a kind of liquid fuel instead of firewood to make them run.” “Liquid fuel... Such a thing exists?” “Yes. However, firewood is much better for securing warmth. But liquid fuel burns very well, and so the technology to turn it into energy has developed a lot.” “Burning energy... You said that it was made of iron, which would make it very heavy. ...And yet it still moves?” “The theory behind it... Well, it’s outside of my expertise, so I don’t know the details...but, yes. They do move.” “They must have have amazing technology where you come from, Mr. Takumi.” “Well, since we don’t have magic, technology was used to make our lives richer, I suppose.” I remember reading something in a book once. Something about how highly developed technology was no different from magic. After all, for someone who did not understand how they worked, phones, tvs and the internet could seem like magic... And so I continued to talk about the differences between my world and this world as the carriage drove closer to the forest. Thanks to all of this conversation, I got used to the close proximity of Lyra’s face. Which was good, because I was able to concentrate on what I was saying. ...And if I didn’t concentrate, I would not have been able to offer much explanation to Ms. Claire’s various questions regarding science. “We will take a short break here.” Sebastian said to us as he stopped the carriage under a lone tree. One of the reasons was that I, Ms. Lyra and Ms. Claire would like to take a break after being cramped in the back for so long, but they also wanted to let the horses rest as well. But as Leo had not been running at full speed, she showed no signs of being tired. As Sebastian gave water to the horses, we got out of the carriage and stretched our limbs. “Hmm. It is quite cramped in there.” “Indeed. I feel quite stiff now and uh... Mmm.” Ms. Claire was raising her arms and stretching, just like I was. Though, she seemed to be slightly embarrassed about doing it, and so her movements were more modest. Ms. Lyra brought out a bowl and some milk and gave it to Leo. While Leo wasn’t tired, she must have been thirsty, as she lapped it up hungrily. “Mr. Sebastian. How much farther until we reach the forest?” “This is the road that is the closest to the forest. I suppose you can say that we’re just past the halfway point from the mansion. We will now leave the main road and head towards the forest... I think we should arrive in about an hour.” “I see. In that case, could I ride on Leo the remainder of the way?” “On the Great Leo?” “Yes. ...Uh...can I tell you something?” “...What is it?” I moved closer to Sebastian and whispered. “It’s just that...the carriage is very small...and so I’m pressed a little close to the others...” “Oh, I see... Hohoho. Well, you are still young. But is it such a bad thing?” What was he saying... It was what made it quite embarrassing for me! ...I wasn’t saying that it was bad. Yes. It was actually nice...but I also didn’t want them to see me looking embarrassed. “...In any case, I shall ride on Leo for the remainder of the journey.” “If you insist. ...I do not really understand your reasoning...but it cannot be helped.” This guy...was pretty...uh, interesting...	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 1, "inserted_lines_src": 0, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
前にいの御者の内がそう呟いた。 ......こんなに一瞬で噂って広まるものなのね。まぁ、そりゃ一国の大ニュースだものね。私、本当に無事にデュルキス国に帰ることが出来るのかしら。「ああ、あ貴族のお嬢様の話か。どうせ激甘王子がどうにかして国に留めさせとくんじゃないのか?」残念ながら私はここにいるよ。「けど、檻に入って城に行く様子を見たっていう奴がいたから、今回は相当罪が重そうだぜ」「どうせ国外追放になっても向こうの城で良い暮らしできるんだろう」「そうだろうな~、貴族様は罪を犯してもほとんど隠蔽するからな。全く良い身分だぜ」う~ん、皆と変わらず牢に閉じ込められるか、労働するか、のどちらかだと思うけれど......。国外追放された人間だもの。勿論、私は奴隷になる気なんてさらさらないわよ。目的はラヴァール国の真髄を知る為に行くこと。その為には、城に忍び込まなければ......。けど、どうやって? 「一体誰が令嬢を運ぶんだろうな」「シーカー家の直属の御者とかだろう。犯罪者とはいえ、俺らが貴族の令嬢を運べるわけねえよ」あら、今の瞬間を光栄に思うことね。嬉しいことに貴方達は今、五大貴族の令嬢を運んでいるのよ。そんな話、誰も信じないだろうけど。「僕達ってどこに連れていかれるの?」「知らねえな~。良い所ではないっていうのは確かだな」フィルが少し明るい口調で答えてくれた。「......城から遠くない所だと良いんだけど」「は?」「いや、何でもない」思わず声にボソッと出してしまった。とりあえず、今は体力温存しておこう。私はゆっくりと瞼を閉じた。「おい、着いたぞ。起きろ小僧」荒々しいその言葉に私はゆっくりと目を開いた。「ぐっすり寝ていたな」そう言ってニカッと笑うフィルが視界に入る。ぼんやりとしたまま、私は立ち上がり、檻から出る。ここどこ? ラヴァール国ってことは分かるんだけど、全くラヴァール国らしいものがないのよね。国旗もなけりゃ、ラヴァール人らしい人もいないし......。レンガの壁に囲まれた暗い場所に私達は全員降ろされた。 ......何、この異臭。強烈な酸っぱく、鼻にツンとくる匂いに私は思わず顔をしかめた。貧困村とはまた違う臭さ......。とにかく貴族が立ち入ることはないであろう場所なのは確かね。「ここはどこだ?」ミルが奥さんのルビーを抱えながら辺りを見渡す。怖いものはもうないはずなのに、彼の様子は怯えて見えた。「ようこそ、ラヴァール国へ」低く、不気味な声が奥から聞こえた。	One of the two men in front of me muttered. ...I didn’t know that rumors could spread in such an instant. Well, it’s big news for the country, right? I wonder if I’ll really be able to return to the Duelkis Kingdom safely. “Oh, you’re talking about the young lady of one of the five great noble families. Isn’t the fiercely naive prince going to let her stay in the country somehow anyway?” I’m here, unfortunately for you. “But there was a guy who said he saw her going to the castle locked in a cage, so it looks like she’s pretty guilty this time.” “I’m sure they’ll let her live a good life in some castle somewhere over here, even if she gets exiled anyway.” “That’s true, the nobles almost always cover up their crimes. It’s an envious existence.” Nope, my guess is I’ll either be locked up like everyone else, or I’ll have to work.... I’m just another outcast here. Of course, I don’t want to be a slave at all. My goal is to go to the Ravaal Kingdom to learn its true nature. To do that, I need to sneak into the castle... But, how? “I wonder who in the world is going to transport the Lady.” “It’s probably some direct officer of the Seeker family. Even though they’re criminals, there’s no way we could be the armed escorts to transport a nobleman’s daughter.” Oh, you should feel honored by this moment. I’m happy to report that you’re now carrying the young lady of one of the five great noble families. No one will believe me if I said it out now, though. “Where are we going to be taken?” “I don’t know. I’m pretty sure it’s not a good place.” Phil replied in a slightly cheerful tone. “...Somewhere not too far from the capital, I hope.” “Haah?” “No, it’s nothing.” I couldn’t help but blurt that out. For now, I’ll just conserve my strength. I slowly closed my eyes. “Hey, we’re here. Wake up kid.” I slowly opened my eyes at the rough words. “You slept so well.” Phil smirked as he said that, entering my field of vision. While still in a daze, I stood up and stepped out of the cage. I know I’m already in the Ravaal Kingdom, but there’s nothing here that seemingly proves that I am already in Ravaal Kingdom at all. There’s no flag, there’s no one who looks like a person from Ravaal... We were all dropped off in a dark place surrounded by brick walls. ...What is this strange smell? I couldn’t help but frown at the strong, sour smell that tingled in my nose. It was a different smell from the impoverished village... Anyway, it was definitely a place that no nobleman would ever enter. “Where are we?” Mill looks around while holding his wife Ruby. There should be nothing to be afraid of anymore, but he looked frightened. “Welcome to the Ravaal Kingdom.” A low, eerie voice came from the behind them.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 1, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
「はぁ?! 右腕? 許さない? あなたが何を言ってるのか全然分からないんだけど!」僕の前に立ち塞がったドッヂにキトラの視線が向く。美少女なだけに氷の眼差し。他の奴らは誰も声も掛けようともしない、なんて冷たい奴らだ。頑張れドッヂ、僕の右腕! かは知らねえが、暁さまにこれ以上の無礼は許さねえ、って言ってるだ」「無礼ですって? 言っときますけどね、無礼なのはこの男よ! このわたしに何の連絡もせず、ずっとほったらかし。そんなことが許されると思うの?」するとドッジは急に後ろを振り向いた。なんだか言いづらそうに僕の顔を見ている。「あのお、この娘っ子は......この方も......暁さまの、あの、ドッヂ「この方も」「そういう」ってエルサ、っていう意味かな? 言っとくけど僕、まだ君と同じくは闇の司祭だぞ? そんな人とどうともなる訳がないだろうが」「あ、そうだっただか。よかっただ」こっちを向かないようにしてい月の背中が小さく震えている。コイツ僕とドッジのやり取りを聞いて笑ってるよ。今に思い知らせてやるからな、悪役カルロ=ド=メリチを舐めるとどうなるか! 「あら、ずいぶんな言い方じゃない。わたしだって普通の女の子なんですけど」キトラが口を尖らせて文句を言う。あのね、闇の司祭はぜんぜん普通じゃありませんから。「キトラ、怒るのは分かる。俺が悪かった、だからこうして誘いに来たんだ。行かないのか?」「そりゃあ行くわよ、決まってるでしょ。それとそこのアナタ!」今度はドッヂに向かってビシッと指を付きつけた。ドッヂの声が心なしか震えているような。分かるよ、美少女の怒った顔って怖いもんな。「今後このわたしに対してさっきみたいな口をきいたら、それこそ許さないから!」「オ、オラは暁さまを守るだけだ。許さないもなにもねえだ」えーっとドッヂ、気持ちは嬉しいけど、ここは反抗しない方がいいと思うな。それに強がってもビビってるのが丸分かりだから。「もしまたそんな口をきいたら、アナタを未来永劫わたしの奴隷にしてあげますからねっ!」あー、やっぱりそういう事ね。ドッヂ、気を付けないとアンデッドにされちゃうぞ。「暁さま、奴隷とかこの娘っ子は何を言ってるだか?」意味が分からないながらも不穏な空気を感じたんだろう、ドッヂが不安そうな顔をしている。「気を付けろ、この娘は本気だ。キトラもその辺にしといてくれ。ドッヂをゾンビにされたら俺が困る」「ぞ、ゾンビ?! そんなの絶対に嫌ですだぁ!」「フン、だったら口のきき方に気を付ける事ね。じゃあさっそく行くわよ」涙目になって後ずさるドッヂを尻目に、キトラが早速教会を出て行く。巻き込まれないように明後日を向いていた薄情な奴らも慌てて後に続いた。「あの、キトラさん」「あら貴女、確か魔法使いの方よね。お名前は何だったかしら?」「僕の名前はクノップです。ちょっとお聞きしたいことがあるんですが」キャンプで食事中にクノップがキトラに話しかけている。気の強いキトラもなぜか猫耳娘のクノップには当たりが柔らかい。「いいわよ、なにかしら?」「生きている人間をそのままゾンビにすることって出来るんですか?」おいおい、そこの猫耳マッドサイエンティストは何に興味を持ってるんだ? 「出来るわよ、もちろん。スケルトンにするには殺して白骨化するのを待つか肉を削がないといけないけど」クノップの質問にキトラが普通に答えてる。あのー、食事が不味くなるんでそういう話やめてもらっていいですかね。「具体的にはどうするんですか?」「これを使うのよ」そういうとキトラは鞄から瓶に入ったポーションを取り出した。なんとも言えない暗く濁った緑色の、ひと目見ただけで怪しいと分かる薬だ。「それは?」「ネクロキニーネ、通称『ゾンビ薬』よ。これを相手に飲ませるの」「あ、何となく聞いたことがあります。それを飲ませるだけでゾンビになるんですか?」「まさか。この薬は体を生と死の間の状態に持っていくだけ。ゾンビにして使役するには黒魔法が必要よ」「そっかー、やっぱり黒魔法が必要になるんですねえ」クノップ、なんでちょっとがっかりした声出してるの? っていうかキトラもなんで普通にそんな薬持ち歩いてるんだよ! 生と死の間の状態ってどういう状態? それって完全に劇薬だよね、取り扱い注意! 「もういい加減にするだ! そ、そったら話ばっかしてっと寝れなくなるだ!」ドッヂが耐え切れなくなって声を上げた。そりゃあそうだ、自分が実験材料にされそうなんだもんな。恐怖のあまり訛りがきつくなってるよ、可哀そうに。三日月とピックは我関せずとばかりに離れたところで食事してる。僕もあっちで食べておけばよかったよ。肉は美味しそうに焼けてるけど食欲がわかないなあ。こうしてキャンプの夜は更けて行く。	“Hah?! Right hand? Won’t allow it? I have no idea what you are talking about!” Kitora’s eyes were directed towards Doji who stood in front of me. That beautiful girl’s look was just as cold as ice. Her voice even affected the others, freezing. Go for it, Doji, my right hand! “Though I don’t know who you are, but I won’t allow any more rudeness towards Akatsuki-sama, that’s what I said” “Rude, you say? Even though the one being rude is that man over there! He failed to contact me for all this time even though I waited for this long. Do you think such a thing is forgivable?” Then Doji suddenly turned around. He looked at my face as if he has a hard time talking to me about something. “Ehm, Is this girl......the same as......Akatsuki-sama’s, ehm, that kind of ... person?” Did Doji mean Elsa by saying “That kind of person” and “The same”? For your information, I, like you, am still a virgin! “Doji, I’m not in ... that kind of relationship with this person over there. Rather this girl is a Priestess of Darkness, right? There’s no way she would become that kind of person, I guess” “Ah, so it was like that? I’m relieved.” Crescent Moon’s back which was facing us trembled slightly. That fellow, she’s laughing at mine and Doji’s exchanges. Shall I make you realise now what happens if you make fun of the villain Carlo de Medici? “Oh my, don’t say that. Even I am just a common girl” Kitora pouts and complains. You see, I don’t think a Priestess of Darkness is something one would call common. “Kitora, I get that you’re angry. It’s my bad, therefore I came here to invite you. Will you come with us?” “Of course I will come along. Wasn’t that clear already? And you over there!” This time she pointed her finger towards Doji with a whack sound. Doji’s voice somewhat shook. I know, the angry voice of a beautiful girl is a scary thing. “If you talk in the same manner as you did just now in the future I won’t overlook that!” “I, I only follow Akatsuki-sama’s orders. I won’t allow this either.” Eeeehm, Doji, I’m happy that you feel this way but I think it would be better not to defy her on this point. It’s fine to be scared so you don’t have to act tough. “If you speak to me in such a manner again I will turn you into my eternal slave!” Aah, I knew it would turn out like this. Doji, if you’re not careful you’ll be turned into an Undead. “Akatsuki-sama, what does this girl mean by slave?” Doji seemed concerned. He felt threatened even though he didn’t understand what she meant. “Be careful, that girl is serious. Kitora, you as well. Don’t do anything weird. If you turn Doji into a zombie I’ll be troubled.” “Zo, zombie?! I absolutely don’t want that!” “Hmpf, then be careful with your manner of speaking. Let’s depart at once.” Disregarding Doji who become teary eyed and fell back, Kitora immediately left the church. Those heartless guys who turned to look towards the day after tomorrow to make sure they won’t get rolled up in this affair soon followed her in a hurry. “Ehm, Kitora-san” “Oh my, you are that magician. What was your name?” “My name is Knopf. I wanted to ask you some things if that’s fine.” As we were having a meal after we found a place to build a camp Knopf started to talk to Kitora. For some reason, the strong-minded Kitora also had a soft spot for the cat girl, Knopf. “That’s fine, what is it?” “Is it possible to turn a living human being into a zombie?” Hey, hey, what’s the cat-eared mad scientist interested in now? “I can do it, of course. Though to make a Skeleton you have to kill them first and wait until they are reduced to bones or you have to shave off the meat.” Kitora casually answered Knopf’s question. Excuse me, could you please stop otherwise we’ll lose our appetite? “What would you have to do specifically?” “I use this” As she said that Kitora took out a potion from one of the bags. Just taking a glimpse at that muddy, dark, green medicine would make one understand that this stuff was of suspicious nature. “That is?” “Nekrokinine, or otherwise known as the “Zombie drug”. I’ll let the other party drink this.” “Ah, I kind of heard about this. Will one become a zombie just by drinking this?” “How’s that possible. This medicine will bring one into a state between life and death. Black magic is necessary to ultimately make one into a zombie.” “I see, so black magic is necessary after all” Why do you sound slightly disappointed, Knopf? I mean why are you carrying around such a medicine as if it’s normal, Kitora?! What kind of state is a state between life and death anyway? This stuff is a tremendously powerful drug, be careful with that! “Isn’t that enough already?! I, if you don’t stop talking I won’t be able to sleep!” Doji couldn’t take it anymore and raised his voice. No wonder, if one thinks of themselves as the experiment material. His dialect got worse out of fear, poor guy. Crescent Moon and Pick were eating indifferently at a remote place. I should have eaten with them there as well. Even though the meat is cooked deliciously I don’t seem to have any appetite. Like this night fell.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 1, "inserted_lines_src": 8, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
私はずいぶん長くこれをやってきましたがはっきり言って — 彼らは森や森にある貴重な薬について我々が到底及び得ないくらいによく知っています同時に彼ら原住民の固有文化が森自体よりも急速に失われようとしていますアマゾンの熱帯雨林で最も絶滅の危機に瀕しているのはジャガーでもなければオウギワシでもなく孤立した未接触部族なのです 4年前私は山登りの事故で足を怪我して医者に行きました医者は温めたり冷やしたりアスピリンや麻薬性鎮痛薬や抗炎症薬を投与したりコルチゾン注射したりしましたが効き目がありませんでした何ヶ月か後にアマゾンの北東部のある村に足を踏み入れた時シャーマンが言いました「びっこを引いてるな」この時のことは生涯忘れることはないでしょう彼は私の顔をのぞき込んで言いました「靴を脱いでその山刀を寄越しなさい」彼はヤシの木の元へ歩いて行ってシダを切ると火にくべてそれを私の足に当てポットに入れてそのお茶を私に飲ませましたその後7ヶ月痛みが消えました再び痛み出したのでまた彼の所に行き彼は同じ処置をしてくれましたそれ以来3年間痛みは出ていません皆さんなら誰に治療してもらいたいですか? 誤解しないでもらいたいんですが西洋医学は最も成功している病気治療術ですしかし穴もたくさんあります乳がんはどうですか? 統合失調症は? 胃酸の逆流は? 不眠症は? 我々に治せないものをアマゾンの人々が治せる場合が少なからずあるのですアマゾン北東部の呪医がリーシュマニア症を治療しているところですやっかいな原虫性の病気で世界で1千2百万の人々が苦しんでいます西洋医学ではアンチモンを注射しますが痛みがあり高価で重金属なので心臓にも良くないでしょうこの男はアマゾンの熱帯雨林にある植物3種で治療してしまいますこれは魔法のカエルです私の同僚である故ローレン・マッキンタイヤはペルー・アンデスにあるアマゾン源流の湖マッキンタイア湖の発見者ですが 30年前ペルーとブラジルの国境付近で道を見失いました彼はマツェと呼ばれる孤立したインディオ部族に助けられました彼らは森の中を付いてくるように招き彼はその通りにしました彼らはヤシの葉のカゴを持ってきて中からジャイアントネコメガエルを取り出しましたこんな大きなカエルですそしてそれを舐め始めました強い幻覚誘発性があるんですその時のことを書いた彼の文章が大麻の雑誌ハイタイムズの編集者の目に留まりました民族植物学者の周りには色々と変わった系統の人がいるんですその編集者はアマゾンに行くことにしましたそいつを一発 — あるいは一舐め試しに — その体験を彼はこう記しています「血圧は天井を突き破り体のコントロールをすっかり失ったバッタリ倒れて 6時間後にハンモックの中で目を覚ましたその後2日間神になったように感じた」イタリアの化学者がこれを読んで思いました「ジャイアントネコメガエルの神学的側面に興味はないがこの血圧の変化はいったいどういうことだろう?」その化学者はジャイアントネコメガエルの皮膚のペプチドから高血圧の新しい治療薬を作る研究をしており別の科学者はそこから薬物耐性黄色ブドウ球菌への対処法を見つけようとしていますこの孤立したインディオの部族と魔法のカエルが治療への答えだと分かったら皮肉なものですこれはアマゾンの北西部にいるアヤワスカ族のシャーマンがヤへの儀式をしているところです彼らの文化を守るための資金援助が得られるようある基金の責任者に会わせるため彼をロサンゼルスに連れて行きましたシャーマンを見た男が言いました「医大には行っていないんですよね?」「行っていない」とシャーマン「だったら治療について何が分かるんです?」シャーマンは彼を見て言いました「伝染病にかかったなら医者に行けばいいしかし人間の苦悩の多くは心や魂の病だその面で西洋医学は役に立たないそれを癒すのが私だ」自然から新しい医療を学ぶことがあらゆる面でバラ色というわけではありませんこれはブラジルにいる毒蛇でその毒はここブラジルのサンパウロ大学で研究され後にその毒から ACE阻害薬が開発されました高血圧に対する第一線の治療薬です高血圧は死因の10%以上を占めていますこの40億ドルの産業をブラジルのヘビ毒が支えているわけですがブラジルの人々には一銭も入っていませんこれは商売のあり方として許容できるものではありません熱帯雨林は地上における生命の最高の表現であると言われています私が好きなスリナムの言葉があります「熱帯雨林はまだ聞いていない質問への答えを持っている」しかしご存じのように熱帯雨林は急速に消失していますここブラジルでもアマゾンでも世界でもこれは私が小型機から撮した写真でここからは北西にあたるマットグロッソ州にあるシングー族保護区の東の境界線です上半分がインディオの住んでいる場所で真ん中の線が保護区の東の境界線です上半分がインディオ下半分が白人です上半分は驚異の薬をもたらし下半分は痩せた牛がいるばかり上半分では炭素が森を作り出し下半分では炭素が大気に放出されて地球温暖化をもたらしています事実炭素が大気に放出される 2番目に大きな原因が森林破壊なのです環境破壊について話す時他では見られないアマゾンの壮観さも忘れてはいけませんアマゾンは美と驚異の地です世界最大のアリクイがこの熱帯雨林に住んでおりその体重は40キロにもなりますルブロンオオツチグモは世界最大のクモですがこれもアマゾンに生息していますオウギワシは翼開長が 2メートルを超えますそしてクロカイマンこの怪物は体重が 500キロにもなり人食いワニとして知られていますアナコンダ世界最大のヘビですカピバラ世界最大の齧歯類ですここブラジルには重さが91キロもあるカピバラの標本がありますこれらの生き物が住むアマゾン北東部アクリオ族が住む地に目を向けてみましょう未接触部族は我々の想像力の中で神秘的で象徴的な役割を担っています自然のことを誰よりもよく知っています自然と完全に調和して生きています我々の基準に照らして彼らを原始的と言う人もいます「彼らは火の起こし方を知らない」「現代文明と接触するまで知らなかった」しかし彼らは森のことを我々より遙かに良く知っていますアクリオ族には「蜂蜜」を指す言葉が 35もあります他のインディオ達からこのジャングルの地の真の主と目されていますこれは私の友達のポネイです私がニューオーリンズのローリングストーンズに夢中な十代だった頃ポネイは森の放浪者でアマゾン北東部のジャングルを少人数のグループで彷徨い獲物を追い薬草を探し他の放浪集団から妻を見つけようとしていました我々の知らないことを知っていて多くの教訓をもたらしてくれるのがこのような人々なんですしかしアマゾンの森林の多くにはこのような先住民はいませんあるのはこういうものだけです未接触の先住民が石斧を研ぐのに使った削られた岩の跡ですかつて踊り愛し神を歌い森を崇めたそのような文化は去ってしまい残っているのは岩に刻まれた痕跡だけですアマゾン西部に目を向けてみましょう孤立部族のいる中心地ですこれらの点のそれぞれが小さな未接触部族を表しコロンビア・アマゾンだけでも 14ないしは15の孤立したグループがあると見られていますなぜ彼らは孤立しているのでしょう? 彼らは我々の存在も外の世界があることも知っていますこれは彼らなりの抵抗なのです彼らは孤立することを選んだのです人間としてそうあり続ける権利が彼らにはあると思いますなぜ彼らは他の人類から姿を隠しているのか? 理由はこれですある部分1492年に始まったことですが 20世紀の変わり目のゴム貿易が大きな要因になっていますアマゾンで取れる天然ゴムへの需要が植物版のゴールドラッシュをもたらしました自転車のタイヤのためのゴム自動車のタイやのためのゴムツェッペリン型飛行船のためのゴムゴムを手に入れようとする狂ったような競争がありましたこの左側に出ているフリオ・アラナはその中でもことさら残虐な悪漢ですこの男の会社や他の会社の連中がインディオを殺害し虐殺し拷問し殺戮しました右側のウイトト族の男のように今日においてさえ森から出て来た人々はめったにハッピーエンドを迎えませんこれはヌカック族です彼らは80年代に現代文明に接触し 1年以内に40歳以上の者がみんな死にました彼らが文字を持たないことを思い出してください年長者は彼らの図書館なのですシャーマンが1人死ぬのは図書館が1つ焼失するようなものなのです彼らは土地を追われました麻薬密売人に土地を奪われヌカック族の人々は東コロンビアの公園で乞食として生きていますヌカックの地の南西にある世界で最も壮観な地に目を移しましょうチリビケテ国立公園です 3つの孤立部族に囲まれた地でしたがコロンビア政府やコロンビアにいる同僚達のお陰で拡張されメリーランド州より広くなっています植物多様性の宝庫ですこの地の植物を1943年に最初に調査したのは私の師であるリチャード・シュルテスですこの写真は彼がカリホナ族の聖なる山ベルマウンテンの頂上にいるところですこの場所の今日の様子をご覧に入れましょうチリビケテの上を飛ぶとこの失われた世界の山々が未だ失われたままなのが分かります科学者は誰もこれらの山に登っていません 1943年にシュルテスが登って以来ベルマウンテンに登った者はいませんベルマウンテンにたどり着きました映像の右手に見えています今日の様子ですここは植物多様性の宝庫であるだけでなく 3つの孤立部族の棲み家であるだけでもなくコロンブス以前の絵画の世界最大の宝庫でもあるんですここには20万点以上の絵画がありますオランダの科学者トーマス・ファン・デア・ハーメンは「アマゾン熱帯雨林のシスティーナ礼拝堂」と形容しましたチリビケテの南東に目を向けましょうここもまたコロンビア・アマゾンですコロンビア・アマゾンはニューイングランドよりも広いんですアマゾンは大きな森でブラジルはその大きな部分を占めていますがすべてではありませんカウイナリとプレの 2つの国立公園がありますコロンビア・アマゾン内で右にブラジルとの国境がありますここにもいくつか孤立した未接触部族がいますよく見るとこれらモロカと呼ばれる住居の屋根の形には文化的な多様性が見て取れますこちらは別の部族になります孤立した地域ですが外の世界からいろんな人々が入り込んでいますプトゥマヨでは貿易や輸送が増加していますコロンビア内戦の収束とともに外から人が入ってくるようになりました違法な金鉱採掘者が北からあるいは東のブラジル側から入ってきます商業的な狩猟や漁業が増加しています南から違法な森林伐採業者が来ます麻薬密売人が公園を通り抜けてブラジルへ行きますかつて人々が孤立したインディオに関わらなかったのはこのためですこの写真がピンぼけなのは急いで撮る必要があったためですこれはまるで — ブラジル・アマゾンの格納庫の写真みたいですが実はキューバのハバナで開かれた展覧会での写真です未接触インディオに干渉すべきでない理由を表現したロス・カルピンテロスというグループの作品ですしかし世界は変化していますこれはブラジルとペルーの国境辺りにいるマシコ・ピロ族で麻薬密売人や木材伐採業者に追い立てられてジャングルからさまよい出て来ましたペルーでは「人間サファリ」と呼ばれる嫌らしいビジネスが行われています観光客を孤立部族の元に連れて行って一緒に写真を撮るんです彼らに服や道具を与えると同時に病気ももたらすことになります私は「非人道的サファリ」と呼んでいますこれもペルー国境付近のインディオの写真で宣教師の飛行機が撮ったものです彼らをキリスト教徒に変えようと言うのですそれがどんな結果になるかは知っての通りです我々は何を為べきでしょうか? 未接触部族への干渉を避け現代文明と接触のある部族に文化に配慮しつつテクノロジーを渡すことですこれは太古のシャーマンの知恵と 21世紀テクノロジーの理想的な結婚です私たちをこれを 30以上の部族に対して行い先祖伝来の30万平方キロに及ぶ熱帯雨林の地を地図にし管理し保護していますこうすることでインディオが自分達の — 環境と文化の運命を自分で決めることができます部外者が入り込まないよう監視所も建てています公園保護官として訓練されたインディオ達が境界をパトロールして外の世界を閉め出していますこれは実際の接触の場面ですブラジルとペルーの国境地帯にいるチトナワ族です助けを求めてジャングルから出てきました彼らは銃で襲撃され家を焼かれ虐殺された者もいます機関銃を使って未接触部族の人々を虐殺するというのは今日地上で行われている最も忌むべき非人道的行為であり何としてもやめさせなければなりませんこの仕事は精神的に報われるものですが困難で危険でもあります 2人の同僚が小型機の墜落のため最近亡くなりました彼らは未接触部族を守るため森で働いていました疑問はいったいどんな未来が待っているのかということですこれはブラジルにいるヨラ族です彼らを待っている未来は我々を待っている未来は何でしょう? 違った考え方をしてみましょうより良い世界を作りましょう気候が変わるのなら悪い方ではなく良い方に変えましよう植物が生い茂る星に暮らしましょう彼らがそう望むなら孤立した人々が孤立したままで居てその神秘と知識を保てるようにしましょう森に住むシャーマンが不思議な草と聖なるカエルでみんなを癒してくれる世界で生きることにしましょうありがとうございました	I've been doing this for a long time, and I want to tell you, these people know these forests and these medicinal treasures better than we do and better than we ever will. But also, these cultures, these indigenous cultures, are disappearing much faster than the forests themselves. in the Amazon Rainforest is not the jaguar, it's not the harpy eagle, it's the isolated and uncontacted tribes. Now four years ago, I injured my foot in a climbing accident and I went to the doctor. She gave me heat, she gave me cold, aspirin, narcotic painkillers, anti-inflammatories, cortisone shots. It didn't work. Several months later, I was in the northeast Amazon, walked into a village, and the shaman said, "You're limping." And I'll never forget this as long as I live. He looked me in the face and he said, "Take off your shoe and give me your machete." He walked over to a palm tree and carved off a fern, threw it in the fire, applied it to my foot, threw it in a pot of water, and had me drink the tea. The pain disappeared for seven months. When it came back, I went to see the shaman again. He gave me the same treatment, and I've been cured for three years now. Who would you rather be treated by? Now, make no mistake — Western medicine is the most successful system of healing ever devised, but there's plenty of holes in it. Where's the cure for breast cancer? Where's the cure for schizophrenia? Where's the cure for acid reflux? Where's the cure for insomnia? The fact is that these people can sometimes, sometimes, sometimes cure things we cannot. Here you see a medicine man in the northeast Amazon treating leishmaniasis, a really nasty protozoal disease that afflicts 12 million people around the world. Western treatment are injections of antimony. They're painful, they're expensive, and they're probably not good for your heart; This man cures it with three plants from the Amazon Rainforest. This is the magic frog. My colleague, the late great Loren McIntyre, discoverer of the source lake of the Amazon, Laguna McIntyre in the Peruvian Andes, was lost on the Peru-Brazil border about 30 years ago. He was rescued by a group of isolated Indians called the Matsés. They beckoned for him to follow them into the forest, which he did. There, they took out palm leaf baskets. There, they took out these green monkey frogs — these are big suckers, they're like this — and they began licking them. It turns out, they're highly hallucinogenic. McIntyre wrote about this and it was read by the editor of High Times magazine. You see that ethnobotanists have friends in all sorts of strange cultures. This guy decided he would go down to the Amazon and give it a whirl, or give it a lick, and he did, and he wrote, "My blood pressure went through the roof, I lost full control of my bodily functions, I passed out in a heap, I woke up in a hammock six hours later, felt like God for two days." An Italian chemist read this and said, "I'm not really interested in the theological aspects of the green monkey frog. What's this about the change in blood pressure?" Now, this is an Italian chemist who's working on a new treatment for high blood pressure based on peptides in the skin of the green monkey frog, and other scientists are looking at a cure for drug-resistant Staph aureus. How ironic if these isolated Indians and their magic frog prove to be one of the cures. Here's an ayahuasca shaman in the northwest Amazon, in the middle of a yage ceremony. I took him to Los Angeles to meet a foundation officer looking for support for monies to protect their culture. This fellow looked at the medicine man, and he said, "You didn't go to medical school, did you?" The shaman said, "No, I did not." He said, "Well, then what can you know about healing?" The shaman looked at him and he said, "You know what? If you have an infection, go to a doctor. But many human afflictions are diseases of the heart, the mind and the spirit. Western medicine can't touch those. I cure them." But all is not rosy in learning from nature about new medicines. This is a viper from Brazil, the venom of which was studied at the Universidade de São Paulo here. It was later developed into ACE inhibitors. This is a frontline treatment for hypertension. Hypertension causes over 10 percent of all deaths on the planet every day. This is a $4 billion industry based on venom from a Brazilian snake, and the Brazilians did not get a nickel. This is not an acceptable way of doing business. The rainforest has been called the greatest expression of life on Earth. There's a saying in Suriname that I dearly love: "The rainforests hold answers to questions we have yet to ask." But as you all know, it's rapidly disappearing. Here in Brazil, in the Amazon, around the world. I took this picture from a small plane flying over the eastern border of the Xingu indigenous reserve in the state of Mato Grosso to the northwest of here. The top half of the picture, you see where the Indians live. The line through the middle is the eastern border of the reserve. Top half Indians, bottom half white guys. Top half wonder drugs, bottom half just a bunch of skinny-ass cows. Top half carbon sequestered in the forest where it belongs, bottom half carbon in the atmosphere where it's driving climate change. In fact, the number two cause of carbon being released into the atmosphere is forest destruction. But in talking about destruction, that the Amazon is the mightiest landscape of all. It's a place of beauty and wonder. The biggest anteater in the world lives in the rain forest, tips the scale at 90 pounds. The goliath bird-eating spider is the world's largest spider. It's found in the Amazon as well. The harpy eagle wingspan is over seven feet. And the black cayman — these monsters can tip the scale at over half a ton. They're known to be man-eaters. The anaconda, the largest snake, the capybara, the largest rodent. A specimen from here in Brazil tipped the scale at 201 pounds. Let's visit where these creatures live, the northeast Amazon, home to the Akuriyo tribe. Uncontacted peoples hold a mystical and iconic role in our imagination. These are the people who know nature best. in total harmony with nature. By our standards, some would dismiss these people as primitive. "They don't know how to make fire, or they didn't when they were first contacted." But they know the forest far better than we do. The Akuriyos have 35 words for honey, and other Indians look up to them as being the true masters of the emerald realm. Here you see the face of my friend Pohnay. When I was a teenager rocking out to the Rolling Stones in my hometown of New Orleans, Pohnay was a forest nomad roaming the jungles of the northeast Amazon in a small band, looking for game, looking for medicinal plants, looking for a wife, in other small nomadic bands. But it's people like these that know things that we don't, and they have lots of lessons to teach us. However, if you go into most of the forests of the Amazon, there are no indigenous peoples. This is what you find: rock carvings which indigenous peoples, uncontacted peoples, used to sharpen the edge of the stone axe. These cultures that once danced, made love, sang to the gods, worshipped the forest, all that's left is an imprint in stone, as you see here. Let's move to the western Amazon, which is really the epicenter of isolated peoples. Each of these dots represents a small, uncontacted tribe, and the big reveal today is we believe there are 14 or 15 isolated groups in the Colombian Amazon alone. Why are these people isolated? They know we exist, they know there's an outside world. This is a form of resistance. They have chosen to remain isolated, and I think it is their human right to remain so. Why are these the tribes that hide from man? Here's why. Obviously, some of this was set off in 1492. But at the turn of the last century was the rubber trade. The demand for natural rubber, which came from the Amazon, set off the botanical equivalent of a gold rush. Rubber for bicycle tires, rubber for automobile tires, rubber for zeppelins. It was a mad race to get that rubber, and the man on the left, Julio Arana, is one of the true thugs of the story. His people, his company, and other companies like them killed, massacred, tortured, butchered Indians like the Witotos you see on the right hand side of the slide. Even today, when people come out of the forest, the story seldom has a happy ending. These are Nukaks. They were contacted in the '80s. Within a year, everybody over 40 was dead. And remember, these are preliterate societies. The elders are the libraries. Every time a shaman dies, it's as if a library has burned down. They have been forced off their lands. The drug traffickers have taken over the Nukak lands, and the Nukaks live as beggars in public parks in eastern Colombia. From the Nukak lands, I want to take you to the southwest, to the most spectacular landscape in the world: Chiribiquete National Park. It was surrounded by three isolated tribes and thanks to the Colombian government and Colombian colleagues, it has now expanded. It's bigger than the state of Maryland. It is a treasure trove of botanical diversity. It was first explored botanically in 1943 by my mentor, Richard Schultes, seen here atop the Bell Mountain, the sacred mountains of the Karijonas. And let me show you what it looks like today. Flying over Chiribiquete, realize that these lost world mountains are still lost. No scientist has been atop them. In fact, nobody has been atop the Bell Mountain since Schultes in '43. And we'll end up here with the Bell Mountain just to the east of the picture. Let me show you what it looks like today. Not only is this a treasure trove of botanical diversity, not only is it home to three isolated tribes, but it's the greatest treasure trove of pre-Colombian art in the world: over 200,000 paintings. The Dutch scientist Thomas van der Hammen described this as the Sistine Chapel of the Amazon Rainforest. But move from Chiribiquete down to the southeast, again in the Colombian Amazon. Remember, the Colombian Amazon is bigger than New England. The Amazon's a big forest, and Brazil's got a big part of it, but not all of it. Moving down to these two national parks, in the Colombian Amazon — that's the Brazilian border to the right — it's home to several groups of isolated and uncontacted peoples. To the trained eye, you can look at the roofs of these malocas, these longhouses, and see that there's cultural diversity. These are, in fact, different tribes. As isolated as these areas are, let me show you how the outside world is crowding in. Here we see trade and transport increased in Putumayo. With the diminishment of the Civil War in Colombia, the outside world is showing up. To the north, we have illegal gold mining, also from the east, from Brazil. There's increased hunting and fishing for commercial purposes. We see illegal logging coming from the south, and drug runners are trying to move through the park and get into Brazil. This, in the past, is why you didn't mess with isolated Indians. And if it looks like this picture is out of focus because it was taken in a hurry, here's why. This looks like — This looks like a hangar from the Brazilian Amazon. This is an art exhibit in Havana, Cuba. This is their perception of why you shouldn't mess with uncontacted Indians. But the world is changing. These are Mashco-Piros on the Brazil-Peru border who stumbled out of the jungle because they were essentially chased out by drug runners and timber people. And in Peru, there's a very nasty business. It's called human safaris. They will take you in to isolated groups to take their picture. Of course, when you give them clothes, when you give them tools, you also give them diseases. We call these "inhuman safaris." These are Indians again on the Peru border, who were overflown by flights sponsored by missionaries. They want to get in there and turn them into Christians. We know how that turns out. What's to be done? Introduce technology to the contacted tribes, not the uncontacted tribes, in a culturally sensitive way. This is the perfect marriage of ancient shamanic wisdom and 21st century technology. We've done this now with over 30 tribes, of over 70 million acres of ancestral rainforest. So this allows the Indians to take control of their environmental and cultural destiny. They also then set up guard houses to keep outsiders out. These are Indians, trained as indigenous park rangers, patrolling the borders and keeping the outside world at bay. This is a picture of actual contact. These are Chitonahua Indians on the Brazil-Peru border. They've come out of the jungle They were shot at, their malocas, their longhouses, were burned. Some of them were massacred. Using automatic weapons to slaughter uncontacted peoples is the single most despicable and disgusting human rights abuse on our planet today, and it has to stop. But let me conclude by saying, this work can be spiritually rewarding, but it's difficult and it can be dangerous. Two colleagues of mine passed away recently in the crash of a small plane. to protect those uncontacted tribes. So the question is, in conclusion, is what the future holds. These are the Uray people in Brazil. What does the future hold for them, and what does the future hold for us? Let's think differently. Let's make a better world. If the climate's going to change, let's have a climate that changes for the better rather than the worse. Let's live on a planet full of luxuriant vegetation, in which isolated peoples can remain in isolation, can maintain that mystery and that knowledge Let's live in a world where the shamans live in these forests and heal themselves and us with their mystical plants and their sacred frogs. Thanks again.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
「あははは。そんなあだ名付けられちゃったの、イングリスちゃん」イングリス達の話を聞くと、リップルは可笑しそうに笑った。状況はミリエラ校長の指示通り、各学年ごとのチーム交代でリップルの護衛に付いている所だ。が授業参観に来てくれたのと同じであり、他の生徒達の授業への士気も上がっていた。「ええ。さすがに少し恥ずかしいです......」これでも自分の精神は、英雄王と呼ばれた一国の主。「ユアちゃんって何か変わってるもんねえ。ボクも名前覚えてくれなかったなあ」天下のの名前も覚えないとは、豪快な事だ。「リップルさんは何と?」「ケモ耳様」「......」確かにリップルは獣の耳をしているけれども。「まぁ別にいいけどね。ラフィニアちゃんは何て呼ばれたの?」「小鬼ちゃん――」カミナリを落とされたのがちょっと怖かったらしい。「......レオーネちゃんは?」ちゃんです――たぶん、ここで......」と、リンちゃんが埋まってくつろいでいる胸元を指差す。「ああ、それつながりだ......リーゼロッテちゃんは?」髪が巻き毛で先が尖っているように見えるから――だと思われる。「ははは。みんなめちゃくちゃだねえ」「――まあユア先輩はクリス並みに変わってるけど、ちゃんとわかってくれたと思うわ。多分......問題はシルヴァ先輩よね。リップルさん、シルヴァ先輩に失礼な事言われたり、されたりしませんでした?」「ん? 別に大丈夫だよ? ちょっと肩に力が入り過ぎてる気はしたけど――でもあの子、ボクと相性いいと思うよ?」とリップルが言うのを聞きながら、イングリスは目の前のチェスの駒を進める。「ううっ......ま、参りました――」と、レオーネは肩を落とす。「ダメだわ、何度やっても勝てない......! イングリスってば、敵が現れたら真正面から殴り倒す事しか考えない子なのに......っ!」「人聞きが悪いよ――普段はあえてだからね」イングリスの普段の行動は、成長を最大化させるために思考された結果なのだ。つまり思慮深く敵に最短で突撃しているだけだ。「まあねえ、クリスってチェスも強いのよねえ――昔からそうなのよ」「普段の様子からは、そういう想像はつきませんわね」「ところがどっこい、初めてやった時に自分のお父様に勝っちゃうし、ラファ兄様もウチのお父様も、一回も勝ててないのよねー」と、イングリス達の隣の盤面で対戦しているラフィニアとリーゼロッテが話し合う。「ラフィニアさんはどうなのです?」「あたし? あたしが勝てるわけないじゃない! ......見て分かるでしょ?」盤面上はリーゼロッテの圧倒的優位である。「そ、そうですわね――もう少し努力が必要ですわね」チェスはそういうところが試されるゲームだ。ラフィニアが弱いのは当然である。「まあ実際あたしが出来る必要ないし。困った時はクリスに任せればいいもん。ね?」「いやいや、それでは一人前の自立した騎士として――」「うん。全部任せてくれていいよ?」「甘っ!? イングリスさん、あなたちょっとラフィニアさんに甘過ぎませんか?」「そう? でもいいんだよ、わたしがずっとラニの従騎士でいればいいでしょ?」「は、はあ――それでいいんですの? あなたの強さならば、武勲で地位も名誉も得られると思いますが?」「うん。興味ないから」むしろ下手に出世などさせられる方が困る。前線に立てなくなる。「ははは......変な人ですわねえ」リーゼロッテが渇いた笑いを浮かべる。「うー! また負けたぁ......!」「リップル様も一局如何ですか? お手前を拝見してみたいですわ」と、リーゼロッテがリップルを誘う。「いやー。ボクもラフィニアちゃんと同じで、そういうのエリス任せだからねぇ。体を動かす方が得意かなぁ」「では手合わせをしに行きませんか? ちょうど長い間座っていて体をほぐした方がいいでしょうし、適度な運動は精神衛生上にもいいですし、暴れた方がストレス解消にもなりますし――」是非リップルには一度相手をして欲しかったのだ。「クリスうぅぅ~?」じとーっ。とした目でラフィニアに睨まれる。「今は止めておきなさいよ、イングリス。リップルさんに何かあったらどうするの?」「そうですわ。そんな場合ではないでしょう?」レオーネもリーゼロッテも呆れ口調だった。「いやいやいや。決してわたしが戦いたいだけじゃなくてね? リップルさんの為にもいいかなあって――ね、ラニ?」「ダメです。ワガママ言わないの。魔石獣が出て来るだけで十分でしょ?」と、ラフィニアに言われるが―― 「んー? いーよ。じゃあやろっか?」と、リップルは意外にも首を縦に振ってくれたのだった。「ほ、本当ですか!? ありがとうございますリップルさん!」「戦闘したらどうなるかも確かめたいって、ミリエラもセオドア様も言ってたからね。ボクもイングリスちゃんの力を体感してみたいし――って凄く嬉しそうだね。ははは......」「はい! わたし、リップルさんの事が大好きです!」イングリスの瞳は宝石のようにキラキラと輝いていた。	「Ahahaha. She gave you that kind of nickname, Inglis?」 When she heard Inglis and the others talking, Ripple laughed amusingly. Today she seemed to be in good spirits. Inglis knew that Ripple was aching deep down, as she could see how her expression would become cloudy after she woke up from or recalled the phenomenon’s symptoms. However, she tried her best to appear cheerful so as not to make everyone around her become concerned. As per Principal Miliera’s instruction, teams from each grade would take turns guarding Ripple for the day. Today was the first day for Inglis and the first years to take the duty. Ripple was free to go anywhere within the campus ground. While Inglis and the other students were advised to not miss their classes as much as possible. This meant that Ripple would inevitably come to visit the students taking their class. From what Inglis heard, it seemed that the upperclassmen were also visited by Ripple. That would very well mean that the Kingdom’s Guardian Deity, a Hyrule Menace, came to observe the lessons, which resulted in the other students’ morale raising through the roof. 「Yes. Obviously, it is embarrassing for me......」 Even with her appearance, Inglis was still a Monarch of a Kingdom with the title Hero King in her soul. She had grown accustomed to her female body lately, and she also enjoyed being one. However, never in her wildest dream that the day she would be called Boobie girl would come... Fate was truly a most unexpected thing. 「Yua’s a bit of an odd girl. She can’t remember my name too.」 To think she doesn’t even remember the name of everyone’s beloved Hyrule Menace, glorious isn’t she? 「What does she call you, Miss Ripple?」「Lady Beast-Ears」「......」 It was true that Ripple had a set of animal ears, but still. At least she was aware that Ripple was a person in a high position. 「Well, I don’t mind either way. What about you, Rafinha? What does she name you?」「Devil girl——」 Apparently, she was still scared of Rafinha a bit for being scolded. 「......You, Leone?」「Miss Number Two——Perhaps, about these......」 Leone pointed to her breasts where Rene buried herself. 「Aah, I see what she meant.... Liselotte?」 She had curly hair that ended in a pointy tip, perhaps that was where it came. 「Hahaha. Everyone’s got some absurd names.」「——Well, Senior Yua is as much of a freak as Glis, but I’m sure she understands us. Maybe... The problem is Senior Silva. Miss Ripple, have you ever been treated or spoken rudely by Senior Silva before?」「Nn? He’s alright, yanno? I do think he’s too straightlaced, though. Still, I think he and I will make a good combi.」 Whilst still listening to Ripple, Inglis moved a chess piece on the board in front of her. On the other end, Leone sat with a thorny face. Today, as part of the classroom lecture, they were made to play chess, but the five of them remained after class to continue the game. 「Uuu......M-, my defeat——」 Leone’s shoulders slumped. 「No good, I can’t win no matter how much I try......! Damn you Inglis, even though all you do is plunging into enemies headfirst whenever we’re in a battle......!」「You made me sound awful—— That is just what I usually do.」 A game of chess was different from reality. In reality, your pawn was capable of growth. It could grow stronger and even single-handedly crush the enemy’s pawns, every last of it. Inglis’ usual conduct was nothing but the product of her strategy to maximize that growth. In short, she was thoughtfully plunging into the enemies headfirst. 「Well, you see, Glis is also a strong chess player. She has always been.」「She doesn’t give off that impression, with how she usually carries herself.」「By the by, she defeated her own father the first time she played chess, and neither big bro Rafa nor my Father has ever beaten her even once.」 Rafinha and Liselotte who were playing on the board next to Inglis and Leone chimed in. 「What about you, Miss Rafinha?」「Me? As if I can beat Inglis! ......Can’t you see?」 Said Rafinha with a bit of bitter expression. Liselotte’s overwhelming victory was present on the chessboard. 「I-, I guess so——You need to put more effort.」 Rafinha was not fit for a match that required underhanded tricks and bargaining pieces. Chess was a game that tested such qualities from a person. It was obvious that Rafinha was weak at it. 「Well, I don’t really need to be good at it. Whenever I’m in trouble, I’ll just leave it to Glis. Right?」「No, no, to become a full-fledged, independent Knight, you mustn’t——」「Yeah. Just leave everything to me.」「So soft!? Miss Inglis, aren’t you pampering Miss Rafinha a bit too much?」「Am I? But, that’s okay. I just need to be Rafinha’s Squire forever, right?」「H-, haah——Are you fine with that? With your strength, I’m sure you can gain rank and honor through military service, you know?」「Yeah. I’m not interested in those, after all.」 Rather, it would be troubling if she became successful in life in a way she didn’t want. She would be put on the front line. Even if there were offers for such positions in the future, she would use her disposition as a Runeless Squire to talk herself out of it. 「Hahaha......You sure are strange.」 Liselotte laughed dryly. She then moved a pawn then brought her game to a conclusion. 「Uuh~! I lost again......!」「Would you play too, Lady Ripple? I’d like to observe your skill.」 Liselotte invited Ripple to join her. 「Nah, I’m good. I’m like Rafinha, I leave everything to Eris. I’m better at moving my body.」「Then why don’t we have a contest of strength? Conveniently, it is good to untangle your body after sitting for a long period of time, a proper amount of workout is excellent for your health, and rampaging around is good for relieving stress too—」 Inglis quickly made her invitation. By all means, she would like to fight against Ripple at least once. She couldn’t possibly miss a chance to fight a Hyrule Menace. 「Gliss~~?」 Rafinha glared dagger at her. 「Don’t do it now, Inglis. What would you do if something happened to Miss Ripple?」「Indeed. Now is not the time for it.」 Both Leone and Liselotte were also marveled 「No, no, no. By no means at all this is only because I want to fight, you see? I’m also thinking that it would be good for Miss Ripple’s condition. Okay, Rani?」「Nope. Don’t be selfish. Don’t you have your fill with the emerging Magic Stone Beasts?」 So spoke Rafinha, but—— 「Nn~? I’m fine with that. Let’s do it, then?」 Ripple, surprisingly, nodded in consent. 「R-, really!? Thank you very much, Miss Ripple!」「Miliera and Lord Theodore also said that they’re curious what would happen if I fought, too. And, personally, I want to taste Lil Inglis’ strength with my own body——wait, aren’t you being too happy? Hahaha......」「Yes! I love you so very much, Miss Ripple!」 Inglis’ eyes sparkled like a diamond. She was so happy that she actually made Ripple cower a bit.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 27, "inserted_lines_trg": 1 }
私は今激怒している。本来今日は私がイベントに出る日じゃなかったからだ。ちなみにイベントはコミックマーケット、通称コミケ、ここで行われるのだけどVtuber達は東京本社にある各部屋で行われる。ちなみに今日の私はオフでコミケに行く予定だった。ゆかちゃん達のブースは初日だったからね。私たちいまなんじは企業ブースにてグッズの販売、更にSNSで応募してくれた人の中から抽選でブース内で開かれる特別イベントの招待券が貰えるというキャンペーンを行っている。その特別イベントがバーチャル握手会。と言っても1人3分程度の雑談が出来るサービスのようなもの。各日10人の選ばれたVtuberの中で自分の推しを選択して抽選に応募。当日に企業ブースへ向かい推しに会うだけ。このイベントは時間の指定があるので忘れないようにするのも大事。そして私は2日目に参加予定だった。な!の!に! 「なんで私が急に1日目に移動になってるんですか!」「本当に!本当にごめんなさい!」マネージャーが必死に謝ってきているが、ゆかちゃんのブースの本とボイスを買えないなんて流石に酷い! 「私何度も何度もルートの確認して、うぅ・・・」思わず泣きそうになった。「あなたの欲しかった新刊とシリアルコードはなんとかして手に入れるから!本当にお願い!」「というかなんで私に伝えた日程と私との握手会の日付が違うのおおおお! ・・・明日明後日は大丈夫ですよね?」「それは大丈夫!約束するわ!」「じゃあ新刊セットだけはなんとかして・・・でも転売屋からだけは買わないでくださいね、それだけは徹底したいから。手に入らなかったら私は恨みますけどね!」「知り合いが現地参戦だから頼んでおくわ・・・」じゃあ行ってきます・・・」「本当にごめんなさい!!!!」「絶対ゆるさないもん!!! ・・・でも来てくれてる人の為にも手は抜かないから大丈夫です。これでも大物Vtuberだから私。」そう言って私は用意された部屋へ入っていった。お盆休みを利用してわたしは初めてコミケに参戦する事にした。もちろん目的はゆかちゃん本とド本命であるゆかちゃんのASMRボイス! これを買わずして何を買うと言うのか! ただ、両親にはモデルのお仕事が東京であるからって誤魔化して来ちゃった。まぁ実際には明日にあるから! 嘘では無いし!うん! 1日早く来ちゃっただけだから! そしてわたしはネットで事前に情報を見て戦慄していた。今回の来場者数は100万人を見込んでいるとか。こんなに人が来るんだコミケって・・・でもわたしは負けない! 絶対にゆかちゃん本を手に入れるんだ! 「あつい・・・」わたしは今どこにいると思う? え?東京ビッグサイト? 違う違う。地獄。太陽の光差し込む人混みの中という地獄。「日焼けしちゃいけないからってこんな服着てこなければよかった・・・」そう、モデルであるわたしに日焼けは厳禁。こんな時期でも長袖にロングスカート。もちろん腕や顔にも日焼け止めを塗ってダブルで保護。「始発最速で来たのはいいけど体力持つかなぁわたし。」会場が開くまでわたしは地獄で待機することになる。そして待つ事数時間、熱中症予防に大量の水分を持ってきていて本当によかったと思った。何故かって? わたしの近くで暑さを軽く見ていた人たちがバタバタと倒れたから。あれを見て予防の大切さを知ったよね。何よ38度って体温より高いよ。そんな事を言っていたら周りから拍手が巻き起こった。何これ、よくわかんないけどわたしも拍手しとこ。それから列が前に進み始めた。やっと入れるんだ! でもこの汗臭くなってるわたしを見てもらうのはなんか嫌だな・・・そして1時間かけて目的のゆる先生のブースへ到着。待ち人数もかなり多く、売り切れないか心配だけど、大丈夫かな。列の進みが思っていたよりも早くて30分ほどでわたしの番になった。わたしの前にいるのはよくわからない女性。ゆる先生ではないみたいだけど誰なんだろう? 売り子さんって言う人かな? 「新刊セットぷらすを1つください!」「はい!新刊セットぷらすですね!1500円になります!」わたしは用意していた1500円を渡す。「ありがとうございます!こちら新刊セットぷらす一つになります!」「ありがとうございます!」るんるん気分でわたしは会場を後にした。でもゆかちゃんに会ってみたかったなぁ・・・写真だけ並んでる時にささっと撮ったけど、やっぱり近くで撮りたいよね。そしてホテルに戻ったわたしはシャワーを浴びていざASMRボイスを聴く事にした。眠っても大丈夫なようにベッドでスマホを充電しながら聴いておこう。既にワクワクが止まらない。再生ボタンをぽちっと押したらゆかちゃんの声が聴こえてきた。『凄く疲れた顔してるけど、大丈夫?』『えっ?一緒に寝たいの?どっちがお姉ちゃんかわからないね、これじゃ。』ふふっと小声で笑うゆかちゃん。『はいっ、こっちにどーぞ!』ふぁさっと布団を動かす音がする。まるで隣にゆかちゃんがいるような、そんな錯覚を覚えるわたし。『いつもボクのためにお仕事頑張ってありがとね、お姉ちゃん。』『ボクにはこんな風にお姉ちゃんを癒してあげることしか出来なくてごめんね。』何をやってるのそっちのわたし!? 『そんな事無いって?なら、いいんだけど・・・』髪の毛に触れるような音が聴こえる。『いきなり頭撫でないでよお姉ちゃん、えへへ。』どうやらゆかちゃんの頭を撫でる音だったようだ。『でもありがとう、大好きだよお姉ちゃん♪』あ、もう無理死ぬ。『そ、それじゃあお姉ちゃん、おやすみなさい!』慌てたように布団を被るそんな音がしたかと思えばゆかちゃんの息遣いが聴こえてくる。『すぅ・・・すぅ・・・』「すぅ・・・すぅ・・・」気付けばわたしもゆかちゃんに合わせて眠ってしまっていた。	I’m absolutely exasperated. I wasn’t originally scheduled to appear at the event today. By the way, the event is Comiket, short for Comic Market, which is held here. However, VTubers operate in separate rooms in our Tokyo branch. I planned to attend the convention today on my day off. Yuka-chan and the others have their booth on the first day, after all. Our company, Imananji, runs a campaign at the corporate booth, selling merch and giving away tickets to a special event by raffle from those who apply on social media. That special event is a virtual handshake event. Though it’s more like a service where you can chat with a VTuber for about three minutes. You choose your bias from among the ten selected talents each day and apply for the raffle. Just go to the corporate booth on the day and meet your bias. It’s only available for a specified time, so it’s best not to forget. I was scheduled for the second day. Yet! Here! I! Am! “Why have I been suddenly moved to the first day?!” “I’m truly, truly sorry!” The manager is desperately apologizing, but not being able to buy Yuka-chan’s book and voice pack at their booth is plain cruel! “I already went through the route repeatedly, haa...” I feel like crying now. “I’ll somehow get you the new book and the serial code you wanted! Please, I’m begging you!” “Besides, why is the date of my handshake event different from the date you told meeeeee? ...My next two days are free, right?” “Yes! I promise!” “Then please secure the new book set somehow... but don’t buy it from a reseller. I want to be thorough about that. If you can’t get it, I’ll hold a grudge!” “I know someone who’s attending the con. I’ll ask them...” Well then, I’m off...” “I’m truly sorry!!!” “I’ll never forgive this!!! ...But I won’t skimp on my performance for the people here. After all, I’m a big VTuber.” With that, I enter the room that has been prepared for me. Taking advantage of the Obon holiday, I decided to attend Comiket for the first time. Of course, my aim is to get Yuka-chan’s book and her ASMR voice pack, which I’ve been dying for! What else would I buy if not these?! However, I tricked my parents by telling them I have a modeling job in Tokyo. I do have one, but it’s tomorrow! I didn’t lie to them! Yup! I just came a day early! But after looking up the information on the internet beforehand, I was petrified. The number of visitors this time is expected to be a million. I had no idea this many people attended Comiket... But I won’t lose! I’m determined to get my hands on Yuka-chan’s book! “Ugh...so hot...” Where do you think I am right now? Huh? Tokyo Big Sight? Wrong. I’m in hell. Hell amidst a crowd under the glaring sun. “I shouldn’t have worn these clothes just to avoid getting sunburnt...” Yes, as a model, sunburn is a no-no for me. I’m in long sleeves and a long skirt even in this weather. Of course, I’ve slathered sunscreen on my arms and face for double protection. “I made the right choice to get here early, but I wonder if I can last.” I’ll be waiting in this hell until the venue opens. After waiting for several hours, I commended myself for bringing a lot of fluids for heat stroke prevention. Why, you ask? Because people around me who underestimated the heat started dropping like flies. Seeing that made me realize the importance of precautionary measures. And then, I almost gasped when I saw the current temperature. degrees Celsius?! That’s even hotter than my body temperature. As I was engaged in soliloquy, a round of applause erupted around me. I don’t understand what it’s for, but I’ll join in. Then, the line started moving forward. Finally, I can get in! But I don’t really want people to see me all sweaty... After an hour, I finally reached Yuru-sensei’s booth. There were a lot of people waiting, and I was worried that they might sell out, but it’ll probably be okay. The line moved faster than expected, and it was my turn in about minutes. I don’t recognize the girl in front of me. She doesn’t seem to be Yuru-sensei. Who is she? Maybe one of their assistants? “One set of the limited-edition book, please!” “Got it! That’s one set of the limited-edition book! That will be yen!” I hand over the 1500 yen I’ve prepared. “Thank you! Here’s your order!” “Thank you!” Euphoric, I leave the venue. I wanted to meet Yuka-chan, too, but if I stayed here for a long time, I’d surely die... I snapped a quick photo while she stood there, but I really wanted to take one up close. Back at the hotel, I took a shower and then settled down to listen to the ASMR voice pack. I’ll listen while my phone is charged in bed, so things should be fine even if I fall asleep midway. My heart is racing with excitement already. As soon as I press play... I hear Yuka-chan’s voice. {You look exhausted, are you okay?} {Huh? You want to sleep together? I can’t tell anymore who’s the onee-chan here.} Yuka-chan giggles softly. {Okay, come here!} I hear the sound of the sheets rustling. It feels as if Yuka-chan is right next to me. {Thank you for always working hard for me, onee-chan.} {I’m sorry all I can do is comfort you like this.} What is voice-pack-me doing to her right now?! {You weren’t tickling me? Well, if you say so...} I hear a sound like someone caressing hair. {Don’t just suddenly pat my head like that, onee-chan, ehehe.} That must be the sound of me patting her head. {But thank you. I love you, onee-chan♪} Ahhhh, I can’t take this anymore. {A-All right, onee-chan, good night!} I hear the sound of her quickly pulling the sheets over, and then Yuka-chan’s breathing comes through. {Zzz...zzz...} “Zzz...zzz...” Next thing I know, I’m asleep, my breathing matching Yuka-chan’s.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 4, "inserted_lines_src": 3, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
「ふぅー」ゆっくりと息を吐く。巨大岩となった王宮をじっと見る。かなりのMPを込めて結界を張ったのだが、全く減っている感じがしない。むしろ、頭も体も、絶好調だ。少しずつ、気分が高揚していくのがわかる。突然、俺の脇腹に衝撃を感じる。見ると、首長竜が俺の脇腹に食いついている。そのまま長い首を左右に振る。俺の体が空中を踊る。そのままさらに首の動きを加速させた。当然、首長竜の顔は、俺の体もろとも商人街の建物や西側の城壁にぶつかり、街を破壊していく。そして俺を銜えたまま飛び上がり、かなりの速さで飛行しながら大きく首を振る。城壁と街の破壊に拍車がかかる。そのまま北門の城壁を越え、俺の体を地面に叩きつけた。それに飽き足らず首長竜は、倒れている俺に向かって強烈なブレスを吐き出したのだった。大爆発と共に、周が煙に覆われる。俺の姿を探す首長竜。煙の中から現れた俺は、全くの無傷だった。当然である。俺は薄いが、最高硬度を誇る結界を張っている。首長竜ごときの攻撃を通すほどヤワではない。それでも、狂ったように俺の頭を噛みまくる。おそらく俺の体は噛みきれず、必殺のブレスも通用しないと認識した首長竜は、俺を頭から持ち上げようとしている。俺を無理やり飲み込もうとしているのだ。しかし、首長竜の動きが止まる。俺は首長竜の口から頭を出して距離を取る。そして、魔力を込める。「ギギギギギーーーーーーバキッ、バキッ!!パキィィン!!」素早く首長竜がすっぽり入る結界を張ったのだ。そして結界をそのまま圧縮する。最初こそ耐えていたが、やがて限界が来たと見えて、龍の鱗が粉砕されていく。「ゴルァアアアアアア!!!ゴルァアアアアアアア!!ゴルアァァァァァァァァー!!!」必死の叫び声を上げる。何とか脱出しようと体を動かそうとするが、俺の結界はビクともしない。尻尾、後ろ足、前足が潰れていく。「よくもご主人様たちを!エリルを!師匠を!殿下を!食らいやがってぇぇぇぇ!お前だけは許さん!街も丸ごと破壊しやがって!お前は殺すっ!しかし、楽には殺さんからなぁぁぁぁ!!!!」「体の半分が潰れちまったなぁ。これは殿下の痛みだ、よく味わえ!」首長竜の声が消えたのを合図に、俺は竜を全回復させる。当然欠損部分も回復させる。傷と痛みが一瞬で無くなったことに驚いた竜であったが、再びその瞳には憎悪の光が浮かび上がる。「ドン!ドン!ドン!ドン!」竜の手と足がそれぞれ爆発し、飛散する。竜の凄まじい叫び声が響き渡る、俺は手を緩めずに、両目、角、牙を順に爆発させていく。「クルアァァッ!クルアァァッ!クルアァァッ!クルアァァッ!」「目も見えず、鼻も効かず、痛みだけしか残らないだろう?師匠の痛みだ、じっくり味わえ!」再び竜が動かなくなる。俺は回復魔法をかける。一瞬で傷が治癒される。まだまだ俺は満足しない。今度は竜の頭の部分の結界を解除し、残りの部分の結界の温度を上昇させる。生き物の中で最高硬度を誇る竜の鱗が真っ赤に灼熱し、その体を焼き尽くしていく。首だけ動かして、必死に逃げようとする首長竜が哀れである。「「クルァァァァーン」か、面白い鳴き方をするな。うん?お前泣いてんのか?」首長竜は涙を流しながら必死で逃げようとする。もはや竜は俺を見ていない。ひたすら逃げようともがいている。黒かった首長竜の鱗が真っ赤に焼けただれている。そして俺、首長竜に回復魔法をかけて、すべての傷を治癒していく。竜という生き物は、誇り高き生き物であるとされる。しかし、目の前の竜は、涙を流し、怯え、ひたすら逃げようとする哀れな生き物だ。もはやこいつは、竜ではない。「今のはエリルの悔しさと痛みだ。どうだ?痛みがないってのは至福だろう?最後に、ご主人様たちの苦しみを味わって、死ね!」竜の全身を結界で多い、その中の空気を抜き、真空状態にしていく。水中でも生息可能な首長竜であるが、さすがに空気がない状態では生きられない。しばらくは何とか耐えていたものの少しずつ苦しみはじめ、体が震えてきたかと思えば、徐々に瞳孔が開いてくる。最後に目がカッと開かれたと同時に体がビクンと震え、龍の目から光が失われた。「はぁ、はぁ、はぁ、ざまぁみやがれ!」首長竜が完全に息絶えたことを確認し、ゆっくりと息を吐く。さすがに今度は限界までMPを使った気がする。眠いし、けだるい。「仇は、取りましたよ」そうつぶやきつつ俺は、ゆっくりと草原に倒れていき、深い眠りについたのであった。	「Fuh」 I slowly breathed out. I looked at the giant rock that was once a royal palace. I spent quite a bit of MP to erect this barrier but I do not feel it lessening at all. On the opposite, my body and my mind are in the best condition. Suddenly, I felt a shock from my flank. Looking there, I found the dragon attached to my side. Then it started swinging its long neck. My body danced in the air. Its head movements kept accelerating. Of course, its head, together with my body, collided with the buildings in the vicinity and the west wall, thus destroying the city. Then it took off from the ground with me in its mouth, destroying the walls of the way. It left the boundaries of the city and collided with the ground again. The dragon wasn’t satisfied and fired a breath upon landing. [] With a big explosion, the area was covered in smoke. The dragon tried to find my figure in the smoke. And I appeared from it completely unscathed. That is a matter of course. Although thin, I have my hardest barrier cast on me. It’s not so weak to be destroyed by this dragon. Still, I feel something pressing on my head. Most likely, once the dragon determined that it was unable to bite through my barrier, in addition to his most powerful attack, breath, showing no effect whatsoever, it lifted me by the head to try to swallow me whole. [] However, the dragon’s movements stopped. 「Gigigigi, bakih! Bakih! Pakyin!! 」 Once inside, I quickly erected a barrier. Then I just compressed it. It resisted for a while, but it very soon hit its limit. The dragon was slowly getting pulverized together starting from its scales. 「Goruaaaaa!!! Goruaaaaa!! Goruaaaaaaaaa!!!」 It raised a scream of despair. It tried to escape but my barrier didn’t move an inch. Its tail and legs were crushed. [] 「Masters! Eril! Teacher! His highness! Taste this! I will never forgive you! You destroyed this city! I will kill you! However, your death will be slow and painful!!!」「Half of your body is crushed. His highness was just like you, enjoy it thoroughly! 」 With the dragon’s voice about to vanish as a sign, I restored its body. Of course, the missing parts were restored too. The dragon was surprised at its wounds and pain disappearing, but hatred soon filled its eyes again. 「Don! Don! Don! Don! 」 The dragon’s limbs exploded and scattered. It raised a tremendous cry. I exploded its eyes, nose, and fangs one after another. 「Kuruaaa! Kuruaaa! Kuruaaa! Kuruaaa! 」「You can’t see? Can’t you breathe? Can you only feel pain? It’s my teacher’s pain! Enjoy it thoroughly! 」 The dragon stopped moving again. I cast a recovery spell and healed it in an instant. I’m not satisfied yet. This time, I dispelled a part of the barrier around his head and raised the temperature inside. [] 「It is funny seeing you「Kuruaaaa」all of the sudden. Mm? Are you crying? 」 The dragon sheds tears and desperately tries to escape. It no longer looked at me. All of its attention was on escaping. Its previously black scales are now burning red. And I heal its wounds for the third time. People say the dragons are very proud creatures. However, the dragon before me looks like a frightened little animal. You can’t call it a dragon anymore. 「Those are Eril’s regrets and pain. How does it feel? Life without pain is a bliss, right? And finally, taste the suffering of my Masters, die! 」 I enveloped its whole body in the barrier and pulled out the air, creating a vacuum. This kind of dragons lives in water, but it can’t survive without the air after all. It was enduring for a moment, but it finally felt the suffering. It trembled with its eyes opened wide. 「Haaa, haaa, haa. Serves you right! 」 Confirming that the dragon breathed its last, I finally exhaled. As expected, this time I used my MP to the limit. I feel sleepy and tired. 「The enemy was vanquished」 I muttered this, fell on the grass and fell into the deep sleep.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 2, "inserted_lines_src": 0, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
今日お話ししたいのはある特有の性格をもったこの大切なヒョウから教わったメッセージです私たちは犯罪捜査ドラマ CSIの 28年間つづく超ロングエピソードとでも言える生活をしてきました基本的には動物の科学的研究や行動を観察して大型ネコ科動物に捕えられた 2千頭以上の動物も見てきましたしかし科学ではこの動物たちがもつ個々の性格を真剣に見ていないことにがっかりしますこんな実例がありますこのヒョウはアフリカにある樹齢2千年のバオバブの木の上にいましたこのヒョウの母や祖母も同じ木にいたのですこのヒョウは私たちをいざないとても大切なものを見せてくれました生後8日目の雌ヒョウです私たちはすぐさまここで生活をすることにしてこのヒョウと共に 4年間半を過ごしました毎日観察をしてこのヒョウに近づきこの個体の性格がわかるようになりました私はある特定の女性たちとたくさんの時間を過ごす運命にあります彼らは変わっていてとても特別な存在で個性的でしばしばセクシーです (会場: 笑い声) 明らかに妻はその一人ですがリガデマと名付けたこのヒョウもそうですリガデマは私たちの人生を変えました母ヒョウがリガデマと過ごす時間以上に私たちはリガデマと一緒にいました母ヒョウが狩りに出てから観察と撮影をしました私たちがいた場所から20歩ほどの木に雷が落ちたことがありましたとても怖かったですバラバラと木の葉が落ち焼けた匂いがたちこめましたしばらく茫然としていましたが正気に戻ったときにヒョウの赤ちゃんを見て心配になったことがありましたあの耳をつんざく音と私たちを結びつけて覚えてしまうのではないかと思ったのですそれは要らない心配でしたリガデマは急いで茂みから走り寄り震えながらも私たちの横に座りましたデレックに背を向け周囲を見まわしていましたその日を機に私たちに打ち解けてくれたようでしたまさにこの日がこのヒョウの名前の由来になりましたリガデマとは空からの光という意味ですどの動物にも個性がありますが特にネコ科は個性的ですこのライオンは「火と共に挨拶する男」と名付けました写真からその理由が見て取れるでしょうでも実際に彼らに近づき時間を共にすることで心を通わせて個性を知ることができるのです研究を進めるにはアフリカの未開の土地を探さなくてはいけませんこれはボツワナのオカバンゴデルタですこの湿地にテントを張って生活しますわくわくする毎日ですが緊張する時間が多いのも事実です水の中を運転したり未知の土地にいるためですそれでも私たちはアフリカで大型ネコ科動物を探し求め撮影をしていますネコ科の動物が水嫌いであることは誰でも知っていますが意外な事実を発見しました正気の人なら行かない場所へ自分たちをせきたてて出かけ発見したことですビバリーに背中を押されたこともあり限界に挑んで自らをせきたて頑張りましたでもこのライオンが通常のライオンより 15%も大きいことがわかりました水牛の狩りを専門とするライオンなのです私たちに課せられた問題は引き返すタイミングを知ることです毎回うまくはいきませんこの写真を撮った日は水深を軽く見過ぎていましたどんどん深みにはまりデレックの胸まで浸かってしまいましたそこで深い窪地にはまり車が完全に沈んでしまったのです 200万ドル相当の撮影器具を台無しにしてしまいましたプライドの傷つき方はひどいものでしたまた車のエンジンもだめになりました私たちの決め事ですが車を沈めてしまった者がワニと泳ぐ特典を得ます (会場:笑い声) この映像すべてはビバリーが上から撮ったものです濡れることがない場所です (会場: 笑い声) でも抜け出せなくなった場所はどこも素晴らしい景色でしたちょうどこのライオンたちがやって来たのでビバリーが見事な写真を収めました私たちは珍しい映像を捉える為に絶え間なく撮影をしています 20年前「永遠の敵」と題した映画の撮影でライオンとハイエナの珍しくて残酷な光景を捉えることに成功しました驚く事に支持され続ける作品になりましたその理由はきっと自然界に存在する悪と人間界の悪の争いに共通点があるからでしょう驚いたのはこのライオンが名前のとおり火と共に挨拶する男であることが見てわかりますこのハイエナに狙いを定め捕まえようとしています (動物の声) これは動物たちにもそれぞれの性格があることを表していると思います動物の撮影をするときは限界に挑戦するだけではなく彼らの生活を干渉しないようにして生活しています動物のこのような行動は何百年も続いているので人間が善し悪しを決めるべきではありません難しい問題ですデレックが言うとおり私たちは極限の状態で仕事をしています極限とも言える気温の中夜も自らせきたて睡眠もとらないことが多いのです活動中はほとんどギリギリの状態です私たちは10年間ライオンと象を追い続けましたうまくいかずにいたところある晩撮影できたのです正直に言うと辛い想いをした夜でした涙が頬を伝わりました心配で体が震えていたほどですこのような撮影は未だかつて行われた事はありませんでしたこれは是非見ていただきたい映像ですこれは私たちが撮った最高の映像だと思いますが目を見張るのは結末が予測できないところです多くの人は心や肺ではなく目で死の始まりを確信してしまい死を確信したときに人間も動物も希望を捨ててしまいますこの映像でそれがわかりますこの象はあまりの敵の多さに希望を捨ててしまいますでも同様に希望を取り戻すこともできます万事休したと思ったときある事が起きますあることがひらめき戦う意思が芽生えます鉄のように固い意思は人間もこの象もこの自然保護区もネコ科動物も誰もが持っている意思なのです戦い精神的な壁を突き進み前に進もうとするための意思ですいろいろな意味でこの象は私たちにとってインスピレーションの象徴になり仕事を進める上で希望の象徴にもなりました (拍手) ヒョウの話に戻りますこのヒョウの性格を理解するには十分すぎるほどたくさんの時間を共に過ごしました当たり前のように一緒にいたのはヒョウには気に食わなかったかもしれません私たち夫婦は常に一緒に仕事をしているので車中ではお互いの場所をきちんと決めていますビバリーが座る片側には撮影器具も置いていますその反対が私の場所お互いの場所の確保は大切なのですあるとき私は後部座席の撮影器具を取りに席を外しましたそれを見ていたリガデマは好奇心旺盛の猫のように様子を伺いに来ました驚きましたが私たちを信頼してくれたようでとても嬉しかったですでもこれが癖になると他の人にも同じことをするのではないかと心配になりました何かあったらこのヒョウが撃たれてしまうかもしれませんそのためすぐに予防策を考えました思いついた唯一のやり方はこのヒョウを怖がらせずに母ヒョウが出すうなり声に似た音を聞かせることですデレックの思いつきでヒーターのスイッチを入れました自分の居場所を取られてしまうとビバリーが心配してたのでね (会場: 笑い声) それは冗談ですがこのようにして個性を見せてくれたのですしかしリガデマが狩りを始めたときは事態の展開に驚きました最初はとても嬉しく思いました卒業式を見ているようで代理親になった気分でしたリガデマは生きていけるとこのとき確信しましたでも母ヒヒに赤ちゃんがくっついているのがわかり珍しいことが起きていることに気がついたのですヒヒの赤ちゃんはとてもあどけなく逃げもしませんでしたそこで数時間ほど観察したところ面白いものが見られましたとても感心したのはハイエナから身を守るためにリガデマが赤ちゃんをくわえたことですその後 5時間もすると世話をしていました私たちが知らないことはまだ存在し自然は人間の予想を超えるものだと気づきました常にオープンな心が必要ですちょっと手荒いこともありました (会場: 笑い声) でもとても面白いものがここからわかるのです遊びが大好きな子ヒョウでありながら獲物をとらえる捕食者でもあり母親にもなったために精神的葛藤があるのです母性本能があり女性になりつつある女の子のようですこの観察はリガデマを理解する上で新しい側面をもたらしましたリガデマとヒヒは夜もずっと一緒でした何時間も一緒に寝ていました赤ちゃんヒヒがどうなったのか皆に尋ねられますが死んでしまいました冬の寒さが原因だと見ていますこの時期だったと思いますが自然環境の保護がもつ意味を私たちは確信しました動物の個々の性格を理解し尊敬の意を表しながら動物の重要性を理解することですナショナルジオグラフィックと始めたのは大型ネコ科動物を守りながら自然環境の保護を推進する運動ですまた過去50年にわたって人間がしてきたことを振り返りました私たち夫婦が生まれた頃ライオンは45万頭いましたが現在は2万頭しかいませんトラも減っていて 4万5千頭いたのが今は3千頭ほどですチーターは1万2千頭まで減ってしまいましたヒョウは 70万頭いたのがわずか5万頭です私たちがリガデマと過ごした素晴らしい5年間以上の月日の間に 1万頭のヒョウが合法的にハンターに殺されてしまいましたその間に犠牲になったヒョウはまだたくさんいて密猟で1万頭ほどが殺されている可能性があります持続可能とは言えません人間は動物を敬服したり恐れたりしますが動物の力を奪いたいのですかつては国王のみがヒョウ皮を身に着けていましたが今では儀式などで伝統的なヒーラーや聖職者が身につけますこれは皮をはがされたライオンの前足ですが不気味なくらい人間の手に似ています皮肉にも動物の運命は我々が握っています骨の貿易が急速に高まり南アフリカではライオンの骨が市場に出回っていますライオンとトラの骨は見た目が同じであるためライオンの骨を扱う産業がトラを絶滅させようとしていますこれは切実な問題ですが雄ライオンにも重大な問題が降りかかっています 2万頭と示したライオンの数には注意が必要です雄ライオンは3~4千頭ですが皆同じ病気に感染してしまっていますそれは怠慢という病気です人間の怠慢です狩りをスポーツのように扱っている事実を気づきながらもとがめることはしていません今日お見せしたような内容を知らない人が多いからでしょう知っていただきたいのは雄ライオンが1頭殺されると群れ全体が滅びてしまうため別の雄ライオンがやってきてその群れを引き継ぎます子ライオンは全て殺されてしまい子を守ろうとする雌ライオンも犠牲になることがありますそのためどこか遠くで壁にかけられたライオン1頭につき 20頭から30頭のライオンが犠牲になっていると見ています私たちの調査からわかったのはライオンは大切な存在であることですこの生息地には欠かせませんライオンがいなくなるとアフリカ全体のエコシステムが消えてしまいますアフリカのエコツーリズムには年間800億ドルも入りますこれはライオンだけの心配ではなくアフリカ全体に関係する問題です動物たちがいなくなると関連するもの全てが消えてしまいますでもさらに心配なことがあります人間と自然のつながりがなくなるとこのような動物たちとの精神的なつながりがなくなり人間は希望を失くし地球と私たちを結ぶ精神的なつながりや尊厳を失います今このようにライオンやヒョウの目を見て私たちが認識しなくてはいけないのは重大な問題に対する自覚です 2月に「ラストライオン」という映画の公開を予定しています「ラストライオン」はまさに現状を描いています私たちがいる状況がラストライオンだと言えます行動を起こさなければ草原から大型ネコ科動物が完全に消えてしまい他のものも絶滅してしまうでしょう動物を保護できなければ人間自身を保護する仕事まで出てくるでしょう冒頭でお話ししたように私たちの生活をかたちづくるものですが自然環境の保護とは敬意の念と関心がとにかく必要です男であれ女であれ共同体であれ地球全体であれお互いを尊重しその重要性を認めることをやめてはならないのですリガデマですが赤ちゃんができて私たちは祖父母になりました (会場: 笑い声) どうもありがとう	Well today we're here to share with you a message that we have learned from a very important and special character -- this leopard. Dereck Joubert: Well, our lives have basically been like a super long episode of "CSI" -- something like 28 years. In essence, what we've done is we've studied the science, we've looked at the behavior, we've seen over 2,000 kills by these amazing animals. But one of the things that science really lets us down on is that personality, that individual personality that these animals have. And here's a prime example. We found this leopard in a 2,000-year-old baobab tree in Africa, the same tree that we found her mother in and her grandmother. And she took us on a journey and revealed something very special to us -- her own daughter, eight days old. And the minute we found this leopard, we realized that we needed to move in, and so we basically stayed with this leopard for the next four-and-a-half years -- following her every day, getting to know her, that individual personality of hers, and really coming to know her. Now I'm destined to spend a lot of time with some unique, very, very special, individualistic and often seductive female characters. Beverly's clearly one of them, and this little leopard, Legadema, is another, and she changed our lives. BJ: Well we certainly did spend a lot of time with her -- in fact, more time than even her mother did. When her mother would go off hunting, we would stay and film. And early on, a lightning bolt hit a tree 20 paces away from us. It was frightening, and it showered us with leaves and a pungent smell. And of course, we were stunned for a while, but when we managed to get our wits about us, we looked at it and said, "My gosh, what's going to happen with that little cub? She's probably going to forever associate that deafening crash with us." Well, we needn't have worried. She came charging out of the thicket straight towards us, sat next to us, shivering, with her back towards Dereck, and looking out. And actually from that day on, she's been comfortable with us. So we felt that that day was the day that she really earned her name. We called her Legadema, which means, "light from the sky." DJ: Now we've found these individualisms in all sorts of animals, in particular in the cats. This particular one is called Eetwidomayloh, "he who greets with fire," and you can just see that about him, you know -- that's his character. But only by getting up close to these animals and spending time with them can we actually even reach out and dig out these personal characters that they have. BJ: But through our investigation, we have to seek the wildest places in Africa. in Botswana. Yes, it is swamp. We live in the swamp in a tent, but I must tell you, every day is exhilarating. But also, our hearts are in our throats a huge amount of the time, because we're driving through water, and it's an unknown territory. seeking and searching and filming the iconic cats. DJ: Now one of the big things, of course, everybody knows that cats hate water, and so this was a real revelation for us. And we could only find this by pushing ourselves, by going where no sane person should go -- not without some prompting, by the way, from Beverly -- and just pushing the envelope, going out there, pushing our vehicle, pushing ourselves. But we've managed to find that these lions are 15 percent bigger than any others, and they specialize in hunting buffalo in the water. BJ: And then of course, the challenge is knowing when to turn around. We don't always get that right, and on this particular day, we seriously underestimated the depth. We got deeper and deeper, until it was at Dereck's chest-height. Well then we hit a deep depression, and we seriously submerged the vehicle. We actually managed to drown two million dollars' worth of camera gear. We drowned our pride, I must tell you, which was really serious, and we seized the engine. DJ: And of course, one of the rules that we have in the vehicle is that he who drowns the vehicle gets to swim with the crocodiles. You will notice also that all of these images here are taken from the top angle by Beverly -- the dry top angle, by the way. But all the places we get stuck in really have great views. And it wasn't a moment, and these lions came back towards us, and Beverly was able to get a great photograph. BJ: But we truly do trying to capture unique footage. And 20 years ago, we did a film called "Eternal Enemies" where we managed to capture this unusual disturbing behavior across two species -- lions and hyenas. And surprisingly, it became a cult film. And we can only work that out as people were seeing parallels between the thuggish side of nature and gang warfare. DJ: It was amazing, because you can see that this lion is doing exactly what his name, Eetwidomayloh, represents. He's focused on this hyena, and he is going to get it. But that's, I think, what this is all about, is that these individuals have these personalities and characters. But for us to get them, not only do we push ourselves, but we live by certain rules of engagement, which mean we can't interfere. This sort of behavior has been going on for three, four, five million years, and we can't step in and say, "That's wrong, and that's right." But that's not always easy for us. BJ: So, as Dereck says, we have to work through extremes -- extreme temperatures, push ourselves at night. Sleep deprivation is extreme. We're on the edge But, for 10 years, we tried to capture lions and elephants together -- and never ever managed until this particular night. And I have to tell you that it was a disturbing night for me. I had tears rolling down my cheeks. I was shaking with anxiety, but I knew that [I had] to capture something that had never been seen before, had never been documented. And I do believe you should stay with us. DJ: The amazing thing about these moments -- and this is probably a highlight of our career -- is that you never know how it's going to end. Many people believe, in fact, that death begins in the eyes, not in the heart, not in the lungs, and that's when people give up hope, or when any life form gives up hope. And you can see the start of it here. This elephant, against overwhelming odds, simply gives up hope. But by the same token, you can get your hope back again. So just when you think it's all over, something else happens, some spark gets into you, some sort of will to fight -- that iron will that we all have, that this elephant has, that conservation has, that big cats have. Everything has that will to survive, to fight, to push through that mental barrier and to keep going. And for us, in many ways, this elephant has become a symbol of inspiration for us, a symbol of that hope as we go forward in our work. Now back to the leopard. We were spending so much time with this leopard and getting to understand her individualism, her personal character, that maybe we were taking it a little bit far. We were perhaps taking her for granted, and maybe she didn't like that that much. This is about couples working together, and so I do need to say that within the vehicle we have quite strict territories, Beverly and I. Beverly sits on the one side where all her camera gear is, and I'm on the other side where my space is. These are precious to us, these divides. BJ: But when this little cub saw that I had vacated my seat she came in like a curious cat to come and investigate. It was phenomenal, and we felt grateful that she trusted us to that extent. But at the same time, we were concerned that if she created this as a habit and jumped into somebody else's car, it might not turn out the same way -- she might get shot for that. So we knew we had to react quickly. And the only way we thought we could without scaring her is to try and simulate a growl like her mother would make -- a hiss and a sound. So Dereck turned on the heater fan in the car -- DJ: It was the only way for me to save the marriage, because Beverly felt she was being replaced, you see. But really and truly, this was how this little leopard was displaying her individual personality. But nothing prepared us for what happened next in our relationship with her, when she started hunting. BJ: And on this first hunt, we truly were excited. It was like watching a graduation ceremony. We felt like we were surrogate parents. And of course, we knew now that she was going to survive. But only when we saw the tiny baby baboon clinging to the mother's fur did we realize that something very unique was taking place here with Legadema. And of course, the baby baboon was so innocent, it didn't turn and run. So what we watched over the next couple of hours was very unique. It was absolutely amazing protecting it from the hyena. And over the next five hours, she took care of it. We realized that we actually don't know everything, and that nature is so unpredictable, we have to be open at all times. DJ: Okay, so she was a little bit rough. But in fact, what we were seeing here was interesting. Because she is a cub wanting to play, but she was also a predator needing to kill, and yet conflicted in some way, because she was also an emerging mother. She had this maternal instinct, much like a young girl on her way to womanhood, and so this really took us to this new level of understanding that personality. BJ: And of course, through the night, they lay together. They ended up sleeping for hours. But I have to tell you -- everybody always asks, "What happened to the baby baboon?" It did die, and we suspect it was from the freezing winter nights. DJ: So at this stage, I guess, we had very, very firm ideas on what conservation meant. We had to deal with these individual personalities. We had to deal with them with respect and celebrate them. And so we, with the National Geographic, formed the Big Cats Initiative to march forward into conservation, taking care of the big cats that we loved -- and then had an opportunity to look back over the last 50 years to see how well we had all collectively been doing. So when Beverly and I were born, there were 450,000 lions, and today there are 20,000. Tigers haven't fared any better -- 45,000 down to maybe 3,000. BJ: And then cheetahs have crashed all the way down to 12,000. Leopards have plummeted down to a mere 50,000. Now in the extraordinary time that we have worked with Legadema -- which is really over a five-year period -- 10,000 leopards were legally shot by safari hunters. And that's not the only leopards that were being killed through that period. There's an immense amount of poaching as well, and so possibly the same amount. It's simply not sustainable. We admire them, and we fear them, and yet, as man, we want to steal their power. It used to be the time where only kings wore a leopard skin, but now throughout rituals and ceremonies, traditional healers and ministers. And of course, looking at this lion paw that has been skinned, it eerily reminds me of a human hand, and that's ironic, because their fate is in our hands. DJ: There's a burgeoning bone trade. South Africa just released some lion bones onto the market. Lion bones and tiger bones look exactly the same, and so in a stroke, the lion bone industry is going to wipe out all the tigers. So we have a real problem here, no more so than the lions do, the male lions. So the 20,000 lion figure that you just saw is actually a red herring, because there may be 3,000 or 4,000 male lions, and they all are actually infected with the same disease. I call it complacency -- our complacency. Because there's a sport, there's an activity going on that we're all aware of, that we condone. And that's probably because we haven't seen it like we are today. BJ: And you have to know that, when a male lion is killed, it completely disrupts the whole pride. A new male comes into the area and takes over the pride, and, of course, first of all kills all the cubs and possibly some of the females that are defending their cubs. So we've estimated that between 20 [and] 30 lions are killed when one lion is hanging on a wall somewhere in a far-off place. DJ: So what our investigations have shown is that these lions are essential. They're essential to the habitat. If they disappear, whole ecosystems in Africa disappear. There's an 80-billion-dollar-a-year ecotourism revenue stream into Africa. So this is not just a concern about lions; it's a concern about communities in Africa as well. If they disappear, all of that goes away. But what I'm more concerned about in many ways is that, as we de-link ourselves from nature, as we de-link ourselves spiritually from these animals, we lose hope, we lose that spiritual connection, our dignity, that thing within us BJ: So you have to know, looking into the eyes of lions and leopards right now, it is all about critical awareness. in February, we're bringing out a film called "The Last Lion," and "The Last Lion" is exactly what is happening right now. That is the situation we're in -- the last lions. That is, if we don't take action and do something, these plains will be completely devoid of big cats, and then, in turn, everything else will disappear. And simply, if we can't protect them, we're going to have a job protecting ourselves as well. DJ: And in fact, that original thing that we spoke about and designed our lives by -- that conservation was all about respect and celebration -- is probably true. That's really what it needs. We need it. We respect and celebrate each other as a man and a woman, as a community and as part of this planet, and we need to continue that. And Legadema? Well we can report, in fact, that we're grandparents. BJ/DJ: Thank you very much.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
「風! 舞風! 浮雲!」風を受け、舞い上がり、雲に乗る。これで狩場の真上に陣取ることに成功した。あとはここから地上のモンスターを見つけ次第撃ち抜くだけだ。出来る限り他のプレイヤーが先に戦っている獲物を横取りしたくない。俺の長射程ならどこに出現しようが見つけ次第攻撃することができる。キリリリリ......シュッ! ザクッ! ここは体の一部が金属のように光っていたり、宝石が埋め込まれているモンスターが多いな。流石はマニマニヒルズ周辺、モンスターもお金持ちだ。そもそもモンスターからドロップした素材を売って1万俺はいらないアイテムをまとめて一括で売るけど、何十個も同時に売っても1万の大台にはなかなか乗らない。ポン、ポン、シュポポンッ! 撃ち抜いて倒したモンスターのドロップアイテムが、俺の元に飛んできて勝手に回収されていく。フィールドでの狩りはこのシステムがあるから楽だ。陣取り合戦は回収が大変だったなぁ。そして同時に、地上で暴れているガー坊が倒したモンスターからもアイテムが飛んでくる。ガー坊は近くにいる敵を見境なく倒してしまうので、もしかしたら他のプレイヤーが戦っているところにお邪魔しているかもしれないが......お魚なので許してほしい......。さて、ゲットしたアイテムを確認だ。「うお、ドロップ品は宝石系か......。こりゃ1万に届くかより、超えないかを心配しないとな」アイテムの値段を調べるのが確実なクリア方法だが、一回くらい直感だけで挑戦してみてもいいかもとか思いつつ、【浮雲】の制限である1時間3個を使い果たし、地上に降りる。【浮雲】は1個5分で消滅するので実質狩りは15分間だったが、十分な数のアイテムを入手できた。短い時間の分、集中できたので狙いを外すことも少なかった。「やっぱ1回くらいは直感で選んでドキドキ感を味わいたいなぁ」のかけら』を2個選択し、チャリンに提出した。『おおっ! 必勝法をわかっていながら、あえて普通に挑戦とは感心だにょん! そしてそして、今回の挑戦でピタリ賞は......出ませんでしたぁ!』早い......! 分身しても捌ききれないプレイヤーが後ろで待っているから仕方ないとはいえ、あまりにもタメがなさすぎる。『でも、まだチャンスがあるにょん! 設定金額の500NS以内の誤差ならニアピン賞でメダルはプレゼントだにょん! 今回のキュージィさんのお値段は......1万! 8000! 1万8000NS! 大誤さーん!』く、宝石はやっぱり高く売れるなぁ......。その分、見誤るととんでもない誤差が出る。のかけら』が1個1000NSだった。でも、1万8000なら8000は当たっているかも? ルビー、サファイア、エメラルドの順番で価値が高くなっていくと思っていたが、もしかして逆か? のかけら』を2個選択し、順番を待ってから再度チャリンに提出した。『むっ!? むむっ!? これはこれは......ピタリ賞が......!?』いけるか......!? チャリンが大声を上げたので、周りがざわつく。そういえば、待っている間彼女がこんな大声を上げたところは見たことがない。必勝法があるのだから、ピタリ賞はたくさん出続けているはずなのに......。『自分なりの予想で当てた人にだけ叫ぶようにしてるにょん! そうじゃないとずっと叫ばないといけないにょん!』なるほど、そりゃそうだ。それにしても、宝石狙いが当たったな。宝石は売価が大きいからキリが良く、1の位や10の位の端額が出ないと思っていた。『まずはてんびん座のメダルをプレゼント!』メダルは表面にてんびん座、裏面にも天秤が描かれている。天秤の造形もリアルでこだわりを感じる。生き物モチーフが多い中、異質な『物』の星座だがメダルのデザインに手抜き感はない。『そして、ご褒美は『裁きの両翼』だにょん!』 ......なんだこれは? 一本の棒の一端に翼が生えている。手触りは金属っぽいな......。色も金色だ。これも売ったら高い系のアイテムか? 『使う』ことは出来ないようだ。まあ、たまには使い道が想像できないアイテムが手に入ることもあるか。ご褒美とメダルをしまい込み、次なる迷宮を目指す。順番通りにいけば次はおとめ座だ。距離も結構近い。そもそも、てんびん座の天秤はおとめ座の正義の乙女の持ち物だという話もある。てんびん座のチャリンがあまりファンタジー感のないコスプレだったのは、てんびん座の神話をモチーフにするとおとめ座と被ってしまうからだろう。それにしても、乙女の試練をおじさんにクリアできるだろうか......? 割と不安なんだよなぁ、そこが。まあ、このゲームはバトル要素がメインだから、なんだかんだ戦闘になるとは思うけど。「そうだ。俺とガー坊のレベルを確認しておくか。さっきの試練でまた上がっただろうし」俺のレベルは......25か。いよいよ第2職も終盤だな。強化ポイントを全部射程に振って、素の射程は350メートルになった。これに装備やスキルを加えれば、デメリットのある【不動狙撃の構え】を使わずとも、かなり遠くから攻撃出来るな。ガー坊の方は......キリの良い40レベルだ。ユニゾンはレベルアップで得た強化ポイントが勝手に各ステータスに振られる。だから、こまめに確認しておかないといけない。より詳しいステータスを調べようとステータスウィンドウを開いた時、ふいに体が浮遊感を覚えた。「......うおっ!? うわあああああああああっ!!」急な斜面を滑り落ち、下の地面でドスンと尻餅をつく。落下ダメージが入った......。結構な距離落ちたな......。歩きステータス確認、ダメ絶対だな。それにしても、森の中を歩いていたはずだがここは一体......? マップを開いて確認すると、とんでもないことがわかった。「処女迷宮と違う方向に歩いてた......」考え事をしているうちに歩く方向が狂ったな。景色が変わらない森の中を歩くとまれにこうなる。ゲームだからいいものの、リアルだと遭難して命の危機だ。こまめなマップ確認、これ大事だな。しかし、不思議な地形だ。クレーターのような穴の底で、地面は焼け焦げている。本当に巨大隕石でも落ちたのか? 『あーあ、見つけちゃったにょんねぇ』「うわっ!?」急にチャリンが現れる。童話『赤ずきん』に登場する少女のような見た目だが、ところどころから獣の毛皮が見えている。『ようこそ、隠し星座の迷宮に。ここはおおかみ座、野獣の試練だにょん!』	“Windcloud Blast! Whirlwind! Floating Cloud!” The wind hit me, pushed me up, and I rode the clouds. I had succeeded in positioning myself right above the hunting grounds. Now I just needed to shoot any monsters I saw on the surface. If possible, I wanted to avoid taking any prey that other players were already fighting. With my range, I would be able to shoot them as soon as they appeared. Kiririri...shu! Zhunk! A lot of the monsters had body parts that shone like metal, or had jewels embedded into them. This was Manimani Hill, and even the monsters were rich. After all, it would normally be incredibly difficult to reach , NS by selling materials that monsters dropped. I would occasionally sell items that I didn’t need, and even when selling dozens at a time, I never got close to ,00. Pon, pon, Shuppon! The items that the monsters dropped would fly towards me automatically and be stored in my inventory. This system made hunting on the field a lot easier. In comparison, gathering items during the turf war had been very difficult. At the same time, I also got items from the monsters that Garbow was killing on the ground. As he was killing every monster in sight, it was possible that he was being a nuisance to other players...but he was a fish, and so I hoped they would forgive him... Now, let’s look at the items that I gathered. “Woah. They are mostly precious stones... If anything, I’m worried that I’ll exceed 10,000.” Looking up the prices would be the safe way to go about it, but I thought that I might as well go by instinct on my first try. And so once I had used Floating Cloud three times in an hour, which was the limit, I returned to the ground. Floating Cloud lasted for 5 minutes, which meant I had been hunting for 15 minutes total. Still, I had been able to get more than enough items. As short as that time was, I had been able to concentrate, and never missed any shots. “Yeah, I want to experience the excitement of going by instincts first.” And so I selected 4 ‘Sapphire Fragments’ and 2 ‘Ruby Fragments’ and submitted them to Charin. ‘Ohh! While you could have gone the easy route, you decided to do it normally. I’m impressed-nyon! As for whether the prices match up...they do not-nyon!’ That was quick...! While there were other players waiting in line, there was no feeling of suspense at all. ‘However, there is still hope-nyon! If the difference is within 500 NS, then you will be awarded the medal-nyon! As for the price of your items, Mister Kyuji... Eighteen thousand! Way off!’ Tsk. I guess precious stones really were more expensive... And so a small miscalculation could push you way off. My guess had been that the Sapphire Fragments were 2,000 NS each, and the Ruby Fragments were 1,000 each. So, if it is 18,000, maybe I was right about the sapphires, and the rubies were about 5,000? I had thought that rubies were the cheapest, and emeralds the most expensive, but maybe it was the other way around? Thinking that I could do it this time, I selected 4 ‘Sapphire Fragments’ and 2 ‘Emerald Fragments’ and waited in line before submitting them to Charin once again. ‘Oh!? Ohh!? Could this be...a perfect match...!?’ Did I do it...!? As Charin was shouting, the other players started to look in our direction. Now that I thought about it, I hadn’t heard her be so loud while I was waiting. But since you could simply look it up, there should have been plenty of other players getting a perfect match as well... ‘I only shout when I know the person did it through pure guesswork-nyon! Otherwise, I’ll be shouting all day-nyon!’ I see. That made sense. Still, it was a good thing I had used precious stones. As they were expensive, they were easy to use. You didn’t have to worry about having 1 or 10 NS difference. ‘Now here is your Libra medal!’ It had the Libra constellation on the front and a picture of a scale on the back. The scale was realistic and carefully depicted. While most of the medals had living creatures on them, they did not go the lazy route because it was just an object. ‘And the special prize, ‘Wings of Judgement’-nyon!’ ...What is this? A stick with wings growing out. It felt like metal... And it was gold in color. Maybe it was an item that could be sold for a high price? You couldn’t ‘Use’ it. Well, you would occasionally acquire items where you had no idea how to use them. I put the reward and the medal away and started my journey to the next labyrinth. If I continued on the same order, the next was Virgo. It was the closest one. In the first place, there were some people who said that the libra scale was something held by the virgo goddess of justice. Perhaps the reason that Charin’s Libra costume had lacked fantasy elements was because it would have too many similarities with Virgo. In any case, would this old man be able to clear the goddess’s trial...? I was starting to get worried. Well, this game was still mostly focused on combat. And so it would probably involve fighting in some way. “That’s right. I should check our levels. It might have gone up again.” My level was...25. I was nearing the end of my time as a 2nd. All of the strengthening points went straight to Range, which resulted in a total of 350 meters. Adding the effects of equipment and skills, I would be able to shoot incredibly far without using Immobile Sniping Stance, which had a demerit. As for Garbow...he was at a nice level 40. With Unisons, their points were distributed automatically upon leveling up. And so I had to check it regularly. But just as I opened the status window in order to see them in more detail, I felt my body lift off the ground. “...Woah!? Ahhhh!!” I slid down a steep slope, and landed hard on my butt at the base. There was fall damage... It must have been quite a drop... One should never check their status while walking. That being said, I had been walking in the forest. But where was I now...? But when I opened my map, I realized the shocking truth. “I’ve been walking in the opposite direction of the Virgo Labyrinth...” I had gotten the direction mixed up while I was thinking and walking. This could easily happen when you were in a forest where the scenery never changed. While this was fine, since I was in a game, my life would be in danger if this was real life. Checking your map regularly was really important. However, this terrain sure was strange. There was something like a crater, and the ground at the bottom was burnt. Had a huge meteor fallen here? “Ah... So you found it-nyon.’ “Whoa!?” Charin suddenly appeared. She was dressed like Little Red Riding Hood from the story, but the fur of a beast was also visible in certain areas. ‘Welcome to the hidden constellation labyrinth. This is the Lupus constellation. The Beast Trial-nyon!’	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 5, "inserted_lines_src": 20, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
朝ごはんを食べ終わると、狼の獣人の若い衆が迎えに来てダントンは帰っていった。何度も何度もお礼を言われて、娘たちをお願いしますと頼まれた。ダントンを見送った後、俺は庭でゲルベルガさまとガルヴと遊ぶ。「ゲルベルガさまは外に散歩に行きたくなったりしないのか?」「こぉ?」「......なるほど」正直何を言いたいのかわからない。だが、それほど散歩に行きたそうではなさそうだ。、ガルヴは散歩という単語を出しただけで俺の前に来て尻尾を振っていた。期待のこもった目をしている。「ガルヴは散歩に行きたそうだな」俺はミルカとルッチラに一言告げて、散歩に行くことにした。ゲルベルガさまをいつでも入れられるように加工された金属の胸当てをつける。「私も行きます!」ニアがついて来てくれる。「シアにちゃんと外出することを言ったか?」「もちろんです」それなら何の問題もないと一頭と一羽で散歩に行くことにした。王都の通りを歩きながら、ニアが言う。「ガルヴさんの散歩でしたら私がやりますのに......」「俺も運動不足になるからな。それに冒険者ギルドにも顔を出しておきたいし」「任務をこなされるのですか?」「そういうわけではないんだが、友達の冒険者の様子も見たいし」ゲルベルガさまは俺のすぐ横を歩きながらついてきている。「ゲルベルガさま、疲れたらいつでも言ってくれ」冒険者ギルドに到着する、アリオたちに出会った。 Fランク冒険者、魔導士のアリオが笑顔で話しかけてくる。「おお、ロック。久しぶりだな」「久しぶりって、二ぐらいだろう。今日は人手は必要か?」「いや、大丈夫だ。ただの薬草集めだからな」「それならよかった」アリオと同じくFランク冒険者で弓スカウトのジョッシュが言う。「ロックさん。今日は子供連れなんですね」「この子はシアの妹だ」「ニアは俺たちと同じFランク冒険者なんだ。冒険する機会があったらよろしく頼む」「こんなに小さいのにすごいな」「一族の風習なんです」「すごい一族ですねーさすがシアさんの妹です」ジョッシュは素直に感心しているようだった。それから、少しの間雑談する。以外の魔法を習得しようとしているらしい。は何とかものになりそうなんだが、それ以外にも習得したいと思っているんだ。おすすめはないか?」「器用貧乏になるよりはな。火球だけだと使い勝手が悪い。魔法の矢だけだと複数の敵を相手にするのが難しい。だが......」「その二種類があれば、なんとかなるってことか」「大概の場合はな」「なるほど。参考になった、ありがとう!」「気にするな」そして、アリオとジョッシュは薬草採取に出かけて行った。それから俺はクエストが貼られている掲示板を一応眺めた。ニアも真剣な表情で掲示板を見る。「いっぱいありますね」「そうだな。だが、俺たちはFランクだから受注できるクエストは少ない。ニア。文字は読めるか?」「はい」狼の獣人族は教育を重視しているようだ。かなり長い時間を戦闘訓練に費やしていたようだが、それだけではないようだ。「それは素晴らしい」俺はニアに依頼票の見方を教えておいた。文字さえ読めれば、後は簡単だ。文字も読めない冒険者向けの符号は、文字を読める者にとっても優しいのだ。「ゴブリン退治は無しっと」「昨日も退治したのに、ゴブリンが気になるのですか?」ニアが不思議そうな顔をするので、俺はゴブリン退治の重要性を語っておいた。それから、ギルドを出て、王都の外へと向かう。ガルヴを運動させるためだ。王都の外に出ると、ゲルベルガさまに胸当ての中に入ってもらう。それをみながら、ニアが言う。「王都の外までが、ガルヴさんの散歩コースなんですか?」「王都の中を適当に走るだけでいいのかもしれないが......」ガルヴの体は大きすぎる。王都の中だと全力では走れない。「がう!」ガルヴは嬉しそうに尻尾を振っていた。「ガルヴも運動不足になるからな。暇なときは王都の外を走らせてやりたい」「ニア、ある程度全力で走ってくれ。その後ろを俺とガルヴがついて行く」「了解しました!」ニアは走り出す。かなり速い。それをガルヴが追っていく。ニアは速いと言っても。ガルヴよりは当然遅い。ガルヴはニアを追い越して、しばらく速度を緩めて、また加速する。そうやって楽しんでいた。「ゲルベルガさま。俺も走るぞ」「ココ!」ゲルベルガさまは胸当てから出て、俺の肩に乗る。走っていいという許可が出た。俺は軽く走り出す。ゲルベルガさまはしっかりと俺の肩に爪を立てている。胸当てを吊るす丈夫で太い皮を掴んでいるので痛くはない。あっという間にニアに追いつく。ニアに追いついてからは、ニアと足並みをそろえて走る。俺たちは王都から続く街道をしばらく走った。ニアとガルヴの息が上がったところで休憩にする。魔法の鞄から水を出してニアとガルヴに与えた。「あ、ありがとうございます」「たまに走るのは気持ちがいいな」「そうですね!」水を一生懸命飲むガルヴの背中を優しく撫でた。しばらくの間のんびりと休憩する。天気も良いし風も気持ちがいい。ゲルベルガさまも、俺の肩の上で、気持ちよさそうだ。「さて、そろそろ戻るか」「はい――」「GYAAAAA......」遠くから大きな咆哮が聞こえてきた。「あれって、まさかケーテか?」「かもしれないです」のろし代わりに吠えたのだろう。困った奴だ。とりあえず、咆哮が聞こえた方に移動しなければなるまい。「ロオオオオォォックゥゥゥゥーーーーーおぉぉぉるぅぅかぁぁぁーーーー」「あいつ......。ロック、おるかじゃないだろ......いなかったらどうすんだよ」こともあろうに、ケーテは俺の名を叫び始めた。	After finishing his breakfast, a team of young beastkin men came to take Danton home. He thanked me repeatedly and asked me to take care of his daughters. Once Danton was gone, I went out into the garden to play with Lord Gerberga and Grulf. “Wouldn’t you want to take a walk outside as well, Lord Gerberga?” “...I see.” Actually, I had no idea what he was saying. But it didn’t seem like he was eager to go on a walk. On the other hand, Grulf started to wag his tail vigorously in front of me as soon as he heard the word ‘walk.’ His eyes were full of expectation. “Grulf looks like he wants to go.” “Groof!” And so I told Milka and Luchila that I was going out on a walk. I had a metal breastplate that could carry Lord Gerberga when I was on the move, and so I put it on now. “I will go too!” Nia said. “Did you tell Shia that you are leaving the house?” “Of course.” Then there was no problem. And so all four of us decided to go. As we walked down the streets, Nia said, “I could take Grulf on walks for you...” “I like the exercise too. Besides, I have to show up at the Adventurers Guild every now and then.” “Are you going to take on quests?” “Not really. But I would like to see how my friends are doing.” Lord Gerberga was walking right next to me. “Let me know when you get tired, Lord Gerberga.” We met Ario and Josh at the Adventurers Guild. Ario, the F-Rank Sorcerer, smiled as he talked to us. “Ah, Locke. It’s been a while.” “A while? It’s only been a few days. Do you need any help today?” “No, we’re fine. Today, it’s just herb gathering.” “That’s good.” Then Josh, the F-Rank Archer and Scout, said, “Mister Locke. I see you have someone with you today.” “This is Shia’s younger sister.” “So you’re the same rank as us. Maybe we can team up some time.” “That’s so impressive considering your age.” “It’s our tribe’s custom.” “What a great tribe. It’s no wonder Shia is so strong.” Josh was genuinely impressed. We talked for a while after that. Ario was trying to acquire another spell after Fireball. “I might be able to get Magic Arrow. But I also want to learn other magic. Do you have any suggestions?” “Really?” “It’s better than being a jack of all trades and master of none. Fireballs are difficult to use by themselves. And Magic Arrows are not great against multiple enemies. But...” “I can manage if I use both of them?” “In most cases, yes.” “I see. That is good advice. Thank you!” “Don’t mention it.” And with that, Ario and Josh went out to gather herbs. And so I decided to check the quest board, just in case. Nia also looked at it carefully. “There are a lot of them.” “Yes. But there aren’t many that an F-Ranker can accept. Nia. Can you read?” “Yes.” The beastkin took education very seriously, it seemed. She apparently spent a lot of time in combat training, but that wasn’t all she did. “That’s wonderful.” And so I taught her how to look at the requests. It was easy if you could read. There were also different markings used on them for Adventurers who couldn’t read. “There are no goblin quests today.” “You killed goblins just yesterday. Are you still thinking about them?” Nia said with a puzzled look. And so I told her about the importance of killing goblins. After that, we left the guild and headed for the area outside of the city. It was so Grulf could get some exercise. When we were outside of the city, I put Lord Gerberga into my breastplate. Nia watched me do this and said, “Does Grulf’s walk always take him outside of the city?” “We could just have him run around in the city as well...” But Grulf was very large. He would not be able to run very fast. Grulf wagged his tail happily. “But I want him to get lots of exercise. He should be allowed to run outside of the city when I have time to take him.” “Nia. Try running as fast as you can. Grulf and I will follow you.” “Understood!” Nia began to run. She was very fast. Grulf chased after her. Nia was fast, but she was still eight years old. And so she was slower than Grulf. Grulf quickly passed her before slowing down, then increasing his speed again. They enjoyed running like that for a while. “Lord Gerbera. I’m going to run too.” “Cluck!” Lord Gerberga jumped out of my breastplate and landed on my shoulder. He gave me permission to run. And so I started to run lightly. Gerberga’s claws were clamped tightly around my shoulder. However, the breastplate was strapped onto me with thick leather, so it did not hurt. I quickly caught up with Nia and then ran at the same pace as her. We ran on the road leading to the city for quite some time. Once Nia and Grulf were out of breath, we stopped to rest. I took out some water from my magic bag and gave it to Nia and Grulf. “Th-thank you.” “It feels good to run every once in a while.” “It really does!” I gently petted Grulf as he eagerly drank his water. And so we had a leisurely, relaxing time just resting there. The weather was nice and the wind felt good. Even Lord Gerberga seemed pleased as he rested on my shoulder. “Well, we should head back soon.” “Yes-” “GYAAAAAAAAAAAAA...” We heard a loud roar in the distance. “Is that...could it be Kathe?” “It might be.” Kathe had probably roared as a way of calling me. That was annoying. In any case, I would have to head in the direction of the roar. “LLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCKKKE—-AARRRE YOOUU THEEEREE???” “Damn it... Am I here? ...And what if I wasn’t?” Of all the things Kathe could have done, screaming my name should have been last on the list.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 8, "inserted_lines_src": 6, "inserted_lines_trg": 4 }
「ひっぐ、ぐすっ、ひぅ」ボロボロになった桟橋の近くで、幼い少女のすすり泣く音が響く。野次馬やら兵士達やらで人がごった返しているのだが、喧騒など微塵もなく、妙に静まり返っていた。それは、攫われたはずの海人族の女の子が天から降ってきた事や、人間であるはずの少年が空を跳びはねキャッチした事、更にその上空から少女を背に乗せた黒竜が降りてきた事も原因ではあるのだがの理由は、その少年が盛大に海人族の少女を叱り付けたことだろう。いや、正確には、叱りつけた少年に対する先程から何度か聞こえる幼女の呼び名が原因かもしれない。「ぐすっ、パパ、ごめんなしゃい......」「もうあんな危ない事しないって約束できるか?」「よし、ならいい。ほら、来な」「パパぁー!」片膝立ちで幼子にしっかり言い聞かせるハジメの姿と、叱られて泣きながらも素直に反省し、許されてハジメの胸元に飛び込むミュウの姿は......普通に親子だった。ミュウが連呼する〝パパ〟の呼び名の通りに。攫われたはずの海人族の幼子が、単なる〝慕う〟を通り越して人間の少年を父親扱いしている事態に、そしてそれを受け入れてミュウを娘扱いしているハジメに、皆、意味が分からず唖然としている。内心は皆一緒だろう。すなわち、「これ、どうなってんの?」と。ハジメがミュウを抱き上げて、よしよしと背中をポンポンしていると、ようやく、周囲の人々も我を取り戻したようで盛大に騒ぎ始めた。そんな周囲の困惑に満ちた喧騒を尻目に、ハジメがミュウをあやしていると背後からトンと抱きついてくる感触が......ハジメが肩越しに振り返ると、そこにはハジメの肩口に額を当てて小刻みに震える香織の姿があった。「よかった......よかったよぉ~、ぐすっ」今度は、香織が泣き出してしまった。気丈に振舞っていても、内心、死ぬほど不安だったのだろう。ハジメの生存を信じていたが、それでも心配な気持ちを感じなくなるわけではない。しかも、ようやく再会できたというのに、すぐさ目の行方不明だ。相当堪えたに違いない。「心配掛けて悪かった。この通り、ピンピンしてるよ。だから、泣くなよ......香織に泣かれるのは......色々困る」「うっ、ひっぐ、じゃ、じゃあ、もう少しこのまま......」ハジメは困ったように、肩越しに手を回して香織の頭をポンポンと撫でるのだが、香織は涙が止まらないのか、顔を見せないように益々ハジメの肩口に顔をうずめた。両手も後ろからハジメの腹部に回されギュッと締め付けている。「おい、お前、一体どういうことか、せつッぷげらっ!?」「むっ? すまぬ」そんな中、先程、ハジメの跳躍の余波で吹き飛ばされ、海に落ちた隊長らしき人物が全身から水を滴らせつつ、空気を読まずハジメに詰め寄ろうとした。が、その後ろから小走りでハジメに駆け寄ったティオ(竜化は着地と同時に解いた)とぶつかってしまい、再び海に叩き落とされた。大して気にもせず、ティオはハジメの傍に寄ると、その頭を抱き抱え自らの胸の谷間に押し付けた。「ぬおっ!? おい、ティオ」「信じておったよ? 信じておったが......やはり、こうして再会すると......しばし、時間をおくれ、ご主人様よ」ハジメが僅かに胸の谷間から顔を覗かせティオの顔を見れば、大切なものが腕の中にあることを噛み締めるような表情をして、目の端に涙を溜めていた。今回は、ティオに頼って無茶もさせたので、仕方ないかと好きにさせるハジメ。そうこうしているうちに、ミュウが「ミュウもギュ~する~」と言いながらハジメの首筋に抱きつき、いつの間にか傍に来ていたユエが側面から、シアが香織とは反対側の肩口に抱き付き始めた。衆人環視の中、美幼女・美少女・美女を体が見えなくなるくらい全身に纏わりつかせたハジメ。周囲の視線が、困惑から次第に生暖かなものへと変わっていく。既に、殺気立っていた海人族の自警団達も人間族の兵士達も、毒気を抜かれたように武器を下げていた。「貴様等......一度ならず、二度までも......王国兵士に対する公務妨害で捕縛してやろうか!」再び桟橋から這い上がってきた隊長らしき人物が、怒りの形相でハジメ達を睨んだ。武器を手に、今にも襲いかかってきそうな勢いだ。一応、攫われた本人であるミュウが尋常でないくらい懐いていることから誘拐犯の可能性は余り考えていないようだが、それにしても理解不能な点が多すぎるので、しょっ引いて事情聴取をしたいのだろう。ミュウに関しては、元より、中立商業都市フューレンのギルド支部長であるイルワからの正式な護送依頼であるので、ハジメも事情説明はするつもりだった。ただ、それを証明するものがなかったので困っていたわけだが、今は、それが手元にある。ハジメは、ティオから〝宝物庫〟を返してもらうと、中からステータスプレートとイルワからの依頼書を取り出し、隊長に提示した。「......なになに......〝金〟ランクだとっ!? しかも、フューレン支部長の指名依頼!?」イルワの依頼書の他、事の経緯が書かれた手紙も提出した。これはエリセンの町長と目の前の駐在兵士のトップに宛てられたものだ。それを食い入るように読み進めた隊長は盛大に溜息を吐くと、少し逡巡したようだが、やがて諦めたように肩を落として敬礼をした。「......依頼の完了を承認する。南雲殿」「疑いが晴れたようで何よりだ。他にも色々聞きたいことはあるんだろうが、こっちはこっちで忙しい。というわけで何も聞かないでくれ......一先ず、この子と母親を会わせたい。いいよな?」「もちろんだ。しかし、先程の竜の事や貴方の先程の跳躍、それにあの船らしきもの......王国兵士としては看過できない」先程の高圧的な態度とは一転し、ハジメに対して一定の敬意を払った態度となった隊長は、それでも聞くべきことは見逃せないとハジメに強い眼差しで訴える。「それなら、時間が出来たら話すってことでいいだろ? どっちにしろしばらくエリセンに滞在する予定だしな。もっとも、本国に報告しても無駄だと思うぞ。もう、ほとんど知ってるだろうし......」「むっ、そうか。とにかく、話す機会があるならいい。その子を母親の元へ......その子は母親の状態を?」「いや、まだ知らないが、問題ない。こっちには最高の薬もあるし、治癒師もいるからな」「そうか、わかった。では、落ち着いたらまた、尋ねるとしよう」隊長の男、最後にサルゼと名乗った彼は、そう言うと野次馬を散らして騒ぎの収拾に入った。中々、職務に忠実な人物である。ミュウを知る者達が、声を掛けたそうにしていたが、そうすれば何時までたっても母親のところへたどり着けそうになかったので、ハジメは視線で制止した。「パパ、パパ。お家に帰るの。ママが待ってるの! ママに会いたいの」「そうだな......早く、会いに行こう」ハジメの手を懸命に引っ張り、早く早く! と急かすミュウ。彼女にとっては、約二ヶ月ぶりの我が家と母親なのだ。無理もない。道中も、ハジメ達が構うので普段は笑っていたが、夜、寝る時などに、やはり母親が恋しくなるようで、そういう時は特に甘えん坊になっていた。ミュウの案内に従って彼女の家に向かう道中、顔を寄せて来た香織が不安そうな小声で尋ねる。「ハジメくん。さっきの兵士さんとの話って......」「いや、命に関わるようなものじゃないらしい。ただ、怪我が酷いのと、後は、精神的なものだそうだ......精神の方はミュウがいれば問題ない。怪我の方は詳しく見てやってくれ」「うん。任せて」そんな会話をしていると、通りの先で騒ぎが聞こえだした。若い女の声と、数人の男女の声だ。「レミア、落ち着くんだ! その足じゃ無理だ!」「そうだよ、レミアちゃん。ミュウちゃんならちゃんと連れてくるから!」「いやよ! ミュウが帰ってきたのでしょう!? なら、私が行かないと! 迎えに行ってあげないと!」どうやら、家を飛び出そうとしている女性を、数人の男女が抑えているようである。おそらく、知り合いがミュウの帰還を母親に伝えたのだろう。そのレミアと呼ばれた女性の必死な声が響くと、ミュウが顔をパァア! と輝かせた。そして、玄関口で倒れ込んでいる二十代半ば程の女性に向かって、精一杯大きな声で呼びかけながら駆け出した。「ママーー!!」「ッ!? ミュウ!? ミュウ!」ミュウは、ステテテテー! と勢いよく走り、玄関先で両足を揃えて投げ出し崩れ落ちている女性――母親であるレミアの胸元へ満面の笑顔で飛び込んだ。もう二度と離れないというように固く抱きしめ合う母娘の姿に、周囲の人々が温かな眼差しを向けている。レミアは、何度も何度もミュウに「ごめんなさい」と繰り返していた。それは、目を離してしまったことか、それとも迎えに行ってあげられなかったことか、あるいはその両方か。娘が無事だった事に対する安堵と守れなかった事に対する不甲斐なさにポロポロと涙をこぼすレミアに、ミュウは心配そうな眼差しを向けながら、その頭を優しく撫でた。「大丈夫なの。ママ、ミュウはここにいるの。だから、大丈夫なの」「ミュウ......」まさか、まの娘に慰められるとは思わず、レミアは涙で滲む瞳をまん丸に見開いて、ミュウを見つめた。ミュウは、真っ直ぐレミアを見つめており、その瞳には確かに、レミアを気遣う気持ちが宿っていた。攫われる前は、人一倍甘えん坊で寂しがり屋だった娘が、自分の方が遥かに辛い思いをしたはずなのに、再会して直ぐに自分のことより母親に心を砕いている。驚いて思わずマジマジとミュウを見つめるレミアに、ミュウは、ニッコリと笑うと、今度は自分からレミアを抱きしめた。体に、あるいは心に酷い傷でも負っているのではないかと眠れぬ夜を過ごしながら、自分は心配の余り心を病みかけていたというのに、娘はむしろ成長して帰って来たように見える。その事実に、レミアは、つい苦笑いをこぼした。肩の力が抜け、涙も止まり、その瞳には、ただただ娘への愛おしさが宿っている。再び抱きしめ合ったミュウとレミアだったが、突如、ミュウが悲鳴じみた声を上げた。「ママ! あし! どうしたの! けがしたの!? いたいの!?」どうやら、肩越しにレミアの足の状態に気がついたらしい。彼女のロングスカートから覗いている両足は、包帯でぐるぐる巻きにされており、痛々しい有様だった。これが、サルゼが言っていたことであり、エリセンに来る道中でハジメが青年から聞いていたことだ。ミュウを攫ったこともだが、母親であるレミアに歩けなくなる程の重傷を負わせたことも、海人族達があれ程殺気立っていた理由の一つだったのだ。ミュウは、レミアとはぐれた際に攫われたと言っていたが、海人族側からすれば目撃者がいないなら誘拐とは断定できないはずであり、彼等がそう断言していたのは、レミアが実際に犯人と遭遇したからなのだ。レミアは、はぐれたミュウを探している時に、海岸の近くで砂浜の足跡を消している怪しげな男達を発見した。嫌な予感がしたものの、取り敢えず娘を知らないか尋ねようと近付いたところ......男は「しまった」という表情をして、いきなり詠唱を始めたらしい。レミアは、ミュウがいなくなったことに彼等が関与していると確信し、何とかミュウを取り返そうと、足跡の続いている方向へ走り出そうとした。しかし、もう一人の男に殴りつけられ転倒し、そこへ追い打ちを掛けるように炎弾が放たれた。幸い、何とか上半身への直撃は避けたものの足に被弾し、そのまま衝撃で吹き飛ばされ海へと落ちた。レミアは、痛みと衝撃で気を失い、気が付けば帰りの遅いレミア達を捜索しに来た自警団の人達に助けられていたのだ。一命は取り留めたものの、時間が経っていたこともあり、レミアの足は神経をやられていて、もう歩くことも今までのように泳ぐことも出来ない状態になってしまった。当然、娘を探しに行こうとしたレミアだが、そんな足では捜索など出来るはずもなく、結局、自警団と王国に任せるしかなかった。そんな事情があり、レミアは現在、立っていることもままならない状態なのである。レミアは、これ以上、娘に心配ばかりかけられないと笑顔を見せて、ミュウと同じように「大丈夫」と伝えようとした。しかし、それより早く、ミュウは、この世でもっとも頼りにしている〝パパ〟に助けを求めた。「パパぁ! ママを助けて! ママの足が痛いの!」「えっ!? ミ、ミュウ? いま、なんて......」「パパ! はやくぅ!」「あら? あらら? やっぱり、パパって言ったの? ミュウ、パパって?」混乱し頭上に大量の〝?〟を浮かべるレミア。周囲の人々もザワザワと騒ぎ出した。あちこちから「レミアが......再婚? そんな......バカナ」「レミアちゃんにも、ようやく次の春が来たのね! おめでたいわ!」「ウソだろ? 誰か、嘘だと言ってくれ......俺のレミアさんが......」「パパ...だと!? 俺のことか!?」「きっとクッ○ングパパみたいな芸名とかそんな感じのやつだよ、うん、そうに違いない」「おい、緊急集会だ! レミアさんとミュウちゃんを温かく見守る会のメンバー全員に通達しろ! こりゃあ、荒れるぞ!」など、色々危ない発言が飛び交っている。どうやら、レミアとミュウは、かなり人気のある母娘のようだ。レミアは、まだ、二十代半ばと若く、今は、かなりやつれてしまっているが、ミュウによく似た整った顔立ちをしている。復調すれば、おっとり系の美人として人目を惹くだろうことは容易く想像できるので、人気があるのも頷ける。刻一刻と大きくなる喧騒に、「行きたくねぇなぁ」と表情を引き攣らせるハジメ。ミュウがハジメをパパと呼ぶようになった経緯を説明すれば、あくまでパパ〝代わり(内心は別としても)〟であって、決してレミアとの再婚を狙っているわけではないと分かってもらえるだろうと簡単に考えていたのだが、どうやら、誤解が物凄い勢いで加速しているようだ。だが、ある意味僥倖かもしれないとハジメは考えた。ミュウは母親の元に残して、ハジメ達は旅を続けなければならない。【メルジーネ海底遺跡】を攻略すれば、ミュウとはお別れなのだ。故郷から遠く離れた地で、母親から無理やり引き離されたミュウの寄る辺がハジメ達だったわけだが、母親の元に戻れば、最初は悲しむかもしれないが時間がハジメ達への思いを薄れさせるだろうと考えていた。周囲の人々の、レミア達母娘への関心の強さは、きっと、その助けとなるはずだ。「パパぁ! はやくぅ! ママをたすけて!」ミュウの視線が、がっちりハジメを捉えているので、その視線をたどりレミアも周囲の人々もハジメの存在に気がついたようだ。ハジメは観念して、レミア達母娘へと歩み寄った。「パパ、ママが......」「大丈夫だ、ミュウ......ちゃんと治る。だから、泣きそうな顔するな」「はいなの......」ハジメが、泣きそうな表情で振り返るミュウの頭をくしゃくしゃと撫でながら、視線をレミアに向ける。レミアは、ポカンとした表情でハジメを見つめていた。無理もないだろうと思いつつも、ハジメの登場で益々騒ぎが大きくなったので、ハジメは、取り敢えず、治療のためにも家の中に入ることにした。「悪いが、ちょっと失礼するぞ?」「え? ッ!? あらら?」ハジメは、ヒョイと全く重さを感じさせずにレミアをお姫様抱っこすると、ミュウに先導してもらってレミアを家の中に運び入れた。レミアを抱き上げたことに、背後で悲鳴と怒号が上がっていたが、無視だ。当のレミアは、突然、抱き上げられたことに目を白黒させている。家の中に入ると、リビングのソファーが目に入ったので、ハジメはそこへレミアをそっと下ろした。そして、ソファーに座りハジメのことを目をぱちくりさせながら見つめるレミアの前にかしずき、香織を呼んだ。「香織、どうだ?」「ちょっと見てみるね......レミアさん、足に触れますね。痛かったら言って下さい」「は、はい? えっと、どういう状況なのかしら?」突然、攫われた娘が帰ってきたと思ったら、その娘がパパと慕う男が現れて、更に、見知らぬ美女・美少女が家の中に集まっているという状況に、レミアは、困ったように眉字にしている。そうこうしているうちに、香織の診察も終わり、レミアの足は神経を傷つけてはいるものの香織の回復魔法できちんと治癒できることが伝えられた。「ただ、少し時間がかかります。デリケートな場所なので、後遺症なく治療するにはほど掛けてゆっくり、少しずつ癒していくのがいいと思います。それまで、不便だと思いますけど、必ず治しますから安心して下さいね」「あらあら、まあまあ。もう、歩けないと思っていましたのに......何とお礼を言えばいいか......」「ふふ、いいんですよ。ミュウちゃんのお母さんなんですから」「えっと、そういえば、皆さんは、ミュウとはどのような......それに、その......どうして、ミュウは、貴方のことを〝パパ〟と......」香織が、早速、レミアの足を治療している間に、ハジメ達は、事の経緯を説明することにした。フューレンでのミュウとの出会いと騒動、そしてパパと呼ぶようになった経緯など。香織に治療されながら、全てを聞いたレミアは、その場で深々と頭を下げ、涙ながらに何度も何度もお礼を繰り返した。「本当に、何とお礼を言えばいいか......娘とこうして再会できたのは、全て皆さんのおかげです。このご恩は一生かけてもお返しします。私に出来ることでしたら、どんなことでも......」気にするなとハジメ達は伝えたが、レミアとしても娘の命の恩人に礼の一つもしないでは納得できない。そうこうしているうちに、香織の治療もひと段落着いたので、今日の宿を探すからと暇を伝えると、レミアはこれ幸いと、自分の家を使って欲しいと訴えた。「どうかせめて、これくらいはさせて下さい。幸い、家はゆとりがありますから、皆さんの分の部屋も空いています。エリセンに滞在中は、どうか遠慮なく。それに、その方がミュウも喜びます。ね? ミュウ? ハジメさん達が家にいてくれた方が嬉しいわよね?」「? パパ、どこかに行くの?」レミアの言葉に、レミアの膝枕でうとうとしていたミュウは目をぱちくりさせて目を覚まし、次いでキョトンとした。どうやら、ミュウの中でハジメが自分の家に滞在することは物理法則より当たり前のことらしい。なぜ、レミアがそんな事を聞くのかわからないと言った表情だ。「母親の元に送り届けたら、少しずつ距離を取ろうかと思っていたんだが......」「あらあら、うふふ。パパが、娘から距離を取るなんていけませんよ?」「いや、それは説明しただろ? 俺達は......」「いずれ、旅立たれることは承知しています。ですが、だからこそ、お別れの日まで〝パパ〟でいてあげて下さい。距離を取られた挙句、さようならでは......ね?」「......まぁ、それもそうか......」「うふふ、別に、お別れの日までと言わず、ずっと〝パパ〟でもいいのですよ? 先程、〝一生かけて〟と言ってしまいましたし......」そんな事を言って、少し赤く染まった頬に片手を当てながら「うふふ♡」と笑みをこぼすレミア。おっとりした微笑みは、普通なら和むものなのだろうが......ハジメの周囲にはブリザードが発生している。「そういう冗談はよしてくれ......空気が冷たいだろうが......」「あらあら、おモテになるのですね。ですが、私も夫を亡くしてそろそですし......ミュウもパパ欲しいわよね?」「ふぇ? パパはパパだよ?」「うふふ、だそうですよ、パパ?」ブリザードが激しさを増す。冷たい空気に気が付いているのかいないのか分からないが、おっとりした雰囲気で、冗談とも本気とも付かない事をいうレミア。「いい度胸だ、ゴラァ!」という視線を送るユエ達にも「あらあら、うふふ」と微笑むだけで、柳に風と受け流している。意外に大物なのかもしれない。結局、レミア宅に世話になることになった。部屋割りで「夫婦なら一緒にしますか?」とのたまうレミアとユエ達が無言の応酬を繰り広げたり、「パパとママと一緒に寝る~」というミュウの言葉に場がカオスと化したりしたが、一応の落ち着きを見せた。明日からは、大迷宮攻略に向けて、しばらくの間、損壊、喪失した装備品の修繕・作成や、新たな神代魔法に対する試行錯誤を行わなければならない。しかし、残り少ないミュウとの時間も、蔑ろにはできないと考えながら、ベッドに入ったハジメの意識は微睡んでいった。それから三日。妙にハジメとの距離が近いレミアに、海人族の男連中が嫉妬で目を血走らせたり、ハジメに突っかかってきたり、ご近所のおばちゃん達がハジメとレミアの仲を盛り上げたり、それにユエ達が不機嫌になってハジメへのアプローチが激しくなったり、夜のユエが殊更可愛くなったりしながらも、準備を万全にしたハジメは、遂に、【メルジーネ海底遺跡】の探索に乗り出した。しばしの別れに、物凄く寂しそうな表情をするミュウ。盛大に後ろ髪惹かれる思いのハジメだったが、何とか振り切り桟橋から修繕した潜水艇に乗り込もうとする。ミュウが手を振りながら「パパ、いってらっしゃい!」と気丈に叫ぶ。そして、やはり冗談なのか本気なのか分からない雰囲気で「いってらっしゃい、あ・な・た♡」と手を振るレミア。傍から見れば仕事に行く夫を見送る妻と娘そのままだ。背後のユエ達からも周囲の海人族からも鋭い視線が飛んでくる。迷宮から戻って来ることに少々ためらいを覚えるハジメであった。	“Hic, sob, hic.” A sobbing sound of a young girl resounding nearby the pier that had turned into wreckage. The onlookers and soldiers were crowding there, but there was not even a clamor, and the place was strangely quiet. It was because of the should be kidnapped girl of Sea-dweller tribe who flew down from the sky, the human boy who jumped into the sky and caught her, and there was the black dragon with a girl riding on its back in the sky. However, the biggest reason was how the boy greatly scolded the girl from Sea-dweller tribe. Well, actually, it was how the young girl called the boy who scolded her. “Sob, Papa, sorry...” “Promise me you won’t do anything that dangerous again, okay?” “Okay, that’s good. Come here.” “Papaa~!” The figures of Hajime, who was on one knee as he scolded the young child, and Myuu, who obediently reflected as she scolded by him though she cried then and jumped into Hajime’s chest when she was forgiven... were as normal as that of a father and his child. It was also shown by how Myuu repeatedly called him “Papa.” The situation where the should’ve been kidnapped child of Sea-dweller tribe “adoring” a human boy enough to treat him as her father, and how Hajime treated Myuu as his own daughter made everyone dumbfounded, not understanding what had happened. Their minds were asking the same thing. Which was, “How did it come to this?” Hajime lifted Myuu with his arm and patted her back to calm her, and finally, the surrounding people returned to their senses and began to cause a great commotion. As he leered at the clamoring, perplexed people, Hajime patted Myuu’s back and someone hugged him from behind... when he looked over his shoulder, there was Kaori’s figure whose head was on his shoulder, slightly trembling. “I’m glad... I am really glad~, hic, hic.” This time, Kaori had begun to cry. Even though she acted firm, inside, she was worried Hajime might be dead. She believed in Hajime’s survival, but there was no way she didn’t feel worried about him. That added to how he went missing for the second time shortly after they finally met again, enduring it was impossible for her “I am sorry to make you worry. But as you can see, I am full of life here. That’s why, please don’t cry... if Kaori cry... I will be imensely troubled.” “Uh, hic, th-then, let me stay like this for a little more...” Troubled, Hajime patted Kaori’s head whose hands were wrapped around his arm. However, maybe because she couldn’t stop crying, Kaori buried her face more and more into Hajime’s shoulder. Both of her hands were now tightly embracing around Hajime’s stomach from behind. “Oi, you, explain what are yo-gah!?” “Muh? Sorry.” The above was the commander-like person who was dripping wet due to being blown away into the seas as the consequence of Hajime’s jump. He didn’t read the mood and tried to question Hajime. However, he was knocked by Tio (deactivated her Dragonform when she landed) who was running in short steps towards Hajime, thus the man once again fell into the sea. Not minding the man that much, Tio came beside Hajime, held his head and pressed it into her cleavage. “What the—!? Oi, Tio.” “This one believes, thou know? This one believes... even so, Master... too much time hath passed until this reunion.” When Hajime quietly looked at Tio’s face from her cleavage, her expression was one of ascerting her important one inside her arms with tears accumulated on the edges of her eyes. This time, Hajime felt it couldn’t be helped and let her do as she pleases because he had relied on her to do something unreasonable. While that happened, Myuu said, “Myuu will hug Papa too~,” and she clung to Hajime’s nape. Shia, who was beside Yue, who was beside Hajime, began to hug his free arm. The surrounding gazes couldn’t even see Hajime, as his whole body was covered by a beautiful little girl, beautiful girls, and a beautiful woman. The surrounding gazes were gradually changing from one of perplexion to one of looking at them warmly. Even the agitated vigilante corps and soldiers had lowered their arms, dumbfounded. “You people... not only once, but twice... I will arrest you for obstructing the Kingdom’s soldiers’ work.” Once again crawled up onto the pier, the commander-like person was angrily glaring at Hajime’s party. With weapon in hand, he seemed to be ready to attack at any moment. Though Hajime couldn’t be thought of as the kidnapper from how the kidnapped Myuu was abnormally too attached him, there were too many unknown things about him, so of course the man wanted to question him. Ever Hajime since the beginning had wanted to explain that he was entrusted by the head of Fhu-ren’s guild branch, Ilwa, to escort Myuu. However, he was troubled as he had nothing to prove that, but now it was at hand. With “Treasure Box” returned by Tio, Hajime took out his status plate and the request form from Ilwa, then he presented them to the commander. “... Let me see... a “Gold” rank!? Moreover, a direct request from the head of Fhuren’s branch!?” Other than the request form, there was also the letter from Ilwa where the details were written. It was addressed to the Elisen’s mayor and the top brass of the soldiers who resided in this town, the man before the party. After reading the letter intently, the commander spated a big sigh and after he hesitated a little, he gave up as he drooped his shoulder then saluted. “... The request has been completed. Nagumo-dono.” “It is good that all doubts have been cleared. You must have things that you want to ask, but we are in a hurry. So I want you to not ask anything because... I want to let this child meet her mother right now. It’s okay, right?” “Of course it is. However, as a soldier of this Kingdom... I can’t overlook about the dragon, you jumping, and the ship-like thing from before.” Radically changing from the previous oppressive manner, the commander’s attitude became one which paid Hajime with respect. Even so, he appealed with his strong gaze to Hajime that it was impossible to overlook those. “About that, can we just talk about it in another time? I am going to stay in this Elisen for a while, after all. I also think there’s no need to report about it to the kingdom because they probably already know about it...” “Mm, I see. Anyway, it’s good as long as we can have a chance to talk. Now please return that child to her mother... does she know of her mother’s condition?” “No, she doesn’t. But it’s okay. After all, we have the best medicine and healer here.” “I see. Then let me question you once things are settled.” The commander lastly introduced himself as Saluz, then he went to control the crowd by dispersing the onlookers. A dutiful person. The people who know Myuu seemed to want to call out to her, but Hajime used his gaze to stop them because much time would pass before she returns to her mother if they did that. “Papa, Papa. We are returning to home. Mama is waiting! Myuu wants to meet Mama.” “Of course... so let’s hurry and meet her.” Pulling Hajime’s hand, Myuu urged on with “Hurry, hurry!” It had been around two months since the last time she returned to her house and mother. So it couldn’t be helped. Though she was usually laughing as she was taken care of by Hajime’s party on their way, at night when the time to sleep came, she wanted to be spoiled because she indeed missed her mother. On their way to Myuu’s house, with Myuu as their guide, Kaori came close to him and asked him with a small, uneased voice. “Hajime-kun. About what the soldier from before said...” “Well, it doesn’t seem to be life threatening. It’s just that her wound is rather severe and it’s also the physiological one... well there’s no need to worry about the latter with Myuu being here. So please check her injury.” “Un. Leave it to me.” While having that kind of conversation, they heard a commotion from the road ahead. It was the voice of a young woman and several voices of men and women. “Lemia, calm down! It’s impossible with the condition of your legs!” “That’s right, Lemia-chan. Myuu-chan will surely come back!” “I don’t want to! Didn’t you say Myuu have come back!? Then, I must go to see her! I need to welcome her!” Apparently, the woman tried to get out of the house, and she was stopped by several men and women. It was likely because an acquaintance had told Myuu’s mother of her return. With the resounding of the frantic voice of the woman called Lemia, Myuu’s face bloomed and shone. Then, as loud as she could, she called out to the woman in her mid twenties, who had collapsed at the entrance door, while running. “Mama~~!!” “—!? Myuu!? Myuu!” Running with all her might and with an expression full of smile Myuu jumped into the bosom of the woman — her mother, Lemia, who tried to steady her legs before the front door. Seeing the figures of a mother closely and tightly embracing her daughter, expressing she didn’t want to be separated again from her child made the surrounding people look at them warmly. For so many, many times Lemia repeatedly said, “I am sorry,” to Myuu. It was either because she had lost sight of Myuu or her incapability to come looking for her or may both. Tears fell as Lemia both feel relieved from her daughter’s safety and also the grief from being incapable of protecting hear. Looking at Lemia with anxious eyes, Myuu gently patted her mother’s head. “It’s okay. Mama, Myuu is here. So there’s nothing to worry.” “Myuu...” Never did she thought she would be comforted by her four year old daughter, so Lemia’s teary eyes unconsciously wide opened and she watched Myuu. Myuu was also looking straight at Lemia and there’s indeed worry about Lemia lodged inside her eyes. Myuu was a mama’s girl and couldn’t stand being alone before she was kidnapped, and although she also had painful times herself, she was more brokenhearted about her mother than herself in this reunion. Surprised by that, Lemia was unconsciously watching Myuu in seriousness which made Myuu smiled, and this time she was the one who hugged Lemia tightly. Lemia wasn’t that badly injured both in body and mind, but she was suffering from the sleepless night, overly worrying about Myuu, but it seemed her daughter had returned all grown up more than before. This fact made Lemia inadvertently raised a wry smile. With her shoulders relaxed and her tears stopped, Lemia was looking at her daughter with eyes filled with love. Myuu and Lemia once again hugged each other, but suddenly, Myuu raised a scream-like voice. “Mama! Your legs! What happened!? Are you injured!? Is it hurt!?” Apparently, Myuu noticed the state of Lemia’s legs from over Lemia’s shoulder. Both of her feet peeking from Lemia’s long skirt were bandaged all over, they were in a miserable state. This was the thing Saluz talked about, and it was what Hajime’s party heard from the young man on their way to Elisen. The thing that made the Sea-dweller tribe agitated was not only was Myuu kidnapped, but also how her mother was seriously injured that it became impossible for her to walk. Though Myuu said she was kidnapped when she was separated from Lemia, the Sea-dweller tribe wouldn’t be able to say it was a kidnapping unless there’s an eyewitness. They were able to declare so because it seemed Lemia had actually encountered the kidnappers. Lemia had discovered suspicious men erasing their footprints in the sand near the coast when she was looking for Myuu when she got separated from her. Though she felt a bad premonition, she approached the men to ask whether they know her daughter... the men’s faces were expressing “Oh ****” and began to chant all of a sudden. Convinced the men had a part on Myuu’s disappearance, Lemia tried to somehow get Myuu back, running along the footprints. However, one of the men fought back by firing flame bullets. Fortunately, she avoided being hit on her upper body but her legs were hit instead, then she was blown into the sea by the impact. Lemia lost her consciousness from both the pain and impact. When she woke up, she was being helped by the people from vigilante corps who went looking for her because she have not returned. Her life was saved, but as the time passed, Lemia still couldn’t feel her legs, thus she became unable to walk nor to swim. Naturally, Lemia tried to search for her daughter, but she couldn’t due to her legs. In the end, she could do nothing but to leave it to the vigilante corps and the Kingdom. Lemia was in a state where she couldn’t even stand properly now. Lemia smiled to try not to make her daughter worry more than this, so she tried telling Myuu, “It’s okay.” However, faster than her, Myuu asked for help from her “Papa” whom she depended on the most in this world. “Papaa! Please help Mama! Mama’s legs are injured!” “Eh!? M-Myuu? Just now...” “Papa! Hurryy!” “Ara? Arara? You said Papa? Myuu, who is this Papa?” Confused, lot of “?”s floated above Lemia’s head. The surrounding people were also clamoring. A lot of absurd remarks were flying from here and there such as: Apparently, Lemia and Myuu, this mother and daughter were popular here. Lemia was still young, in the mid of her twenties. Although she was considerably emaciated now, she had a well-sculpted looks similar to Myuu’s. It was easy to imagine how attention grabbing her beauty would be once she was recovered, so it was understandable for her to be popular. With the commotion that kept growing, Hajime’s expression cramped expressing, “I don’t want to go there now.” Though he thought these people would understand once he explained the details about how Myuu came to call Hajime papa, he was just a “substitute (though inwardly they didn’t think so)” of her Papa, and he wasn’t aiming to marry Lemia, but the current misunderstanding were growing at an uncontrollable pace. However, Hajime thought it was a godsend. After all, Hajime and his party wouldn’t be able to continue their journey unless they left Myuu to her mother. It will be a goodbye once his party conquered «Meljeene Bottom Sea Ruin». Hajime thought Myuu had come close to Hajime’s party because she was in a place away from her hometown and been forcibly separated from mother, so once she returned to her mother her desire to be by Hajime’s party’s side would surely weakened as time passed, though she would be saddened at first. The surrounding people were strongly concerned about Lemia and her daughter, so they would surely helped them. “Papaa! Hurrry! Please help Mama!” Myuu’s gaze was firmly looking at where Hajime was, thus Lemia and the surrounding people noticed Hajime once they traced Myuu’s gaze. Hajime gave up and walked to where the mother and daughter were. “Papa, Mama is...” “It’s okay Myuu... I will surely heal her. So please don’t make such a tearful look.” “Okay...” Hajime rustled Myuu’s hair who was looking at him with tearful expression, then he moved his gaze to Lemia. Lemia was watching Hajime, dumbfounded. While thinking it couldn’t be helped for her to do that, Hajime decided to carry her into the house to heal her because his appearance had made the commotion grow we more. “I am sorry, but excuse me for a moment, okay?” “Eh? —!? Arara?” Hajime lifted Lemia in princess carry while looking like he didn’t feel her weight at all. Then, he carried Lemia into the house guided by Myuu. With Hajime carrying Lemia, screams and roars were raised behind them, which he ignored. Lemia herself could only blinking from being suddenly lifted and carried by Hajime. Having entered the house, he found a sofa in the living room, so Hajime slowly lowered Lemia there. Following that, while watching the blinking Lemia who was sitting on the sofa before him, Hajime called out to Kaori. “Kaori, how is she?” “Let me look at her... Lemia-san, I will touch your foot. Please say if it hurts.” “Y-Yes? Umm, what’s with this situation?” When she thought her kidnapped daughter had suddenly returned, a man whom her daughter adored and called Papa appeared. Furthermore, unknown beautiful girls and a beautiful woman gathered in her house. Such a situation made Lemia eyebrows frowned, troubled. While that happened, Kaori’s examination ended and she told Lamia that her damaged legs’ nerves would be able to be recovered with her healing magic. “However, it will take some time. The damaged nerves were in delicate places, so I will need around three days for there not to have any side effects to occur. Also, I think it will be better for them to heal little by little. Although it will be inconvenient, please hang on until then because I will surely heal you.” “Ara ara, maa maa. I had thought I wouldn’t be able to walk anymore... how can I repay you...” “Fufu, don’t worry about it. You are Myuu-chan’s mother after all.” “Umm, come to think of it, what is everyone’s relation to Myuu... furthermore, umm... why did Myuu call that person “Papa”...” While Kaori immediately begin to treat Lemia’s legs, Hajime’s party decided to explain Lemia the details about things. About how they met Myuu in Fhuren, the riot, and how did Hajime came to be called Papa. Having heard everything while being treated by Kaori, Lemia deeply bowed her head in place, then repeatedly thanked them in tears. “Truly, how can repay you for this... It is thanks to you that I was able to reunite with my daughter. I will surely repay this kindness of yours even with my life. As long as it is something I can do, whatever it is...” Although Hajime’s party told her to not mind it, Lemia couldn’t consent not to repay the benefactors of her daughter’s life. In the mean time, the treatment from Kaori ended for today. When they told Lemia they were looking for an inn, Lemia thought it was a godsend and asked them to just use her house. “Please at least let me do this much. Fortunately, this house is big, so there’s room for everyone. Please don’t hold back and use this house while you are staying in Elisen. Besides, Myuu will be happy with this. Right, Myuu? You are happy that Hajime-san and the others stay in our house, right?” “? Papa is going somewhere?” Hearing Lemia’s words, Myuu who was resting her head on Lemia’s lap woke up, blinking, she was dumbfounded. Apparently, she seemed to think it was a natural thing for Hajime to stay in her house. Her expression said she didn’t understand why Lemia asked her that question. “I thought of putting a little distance once she returned to her own mother...” “Ara ara, ufufu. It isn’t good for Papa to take a distance from her daughter, you know?” “No, didn’t I explained it before? We are...” “I know that you will continue your travel sooner or later. However, that’s why please keep being her “Papa” until that day comes. If you take a distance know, then it would be a sudden goodbye... right?” “... Well, if you say so...” “Ufufu, it is okay too for you to always be her “Papa”, you know? After all, I have said “with my life” before...” Saying so, “Ufufu ♡”, Lemia laughed with one hand on her slightly blushing cheek. Such a calming and beautiful smile would normally calmed anyone... but a blizzard generated around Hajime. “Please don’t joke like that... the atmosphere turned cold now...” “Ara ara, how popular. However, it is almost five years since I lost my husband... Myuu also want a Papa, right?” “Fue? Isn’t Papa Papa?” “Ufufu, she said it, so Papa?” The blizzard became much more intense. Though he didn’t know whether Lemia actually notice the cold atmosphere, her calm aura made her words neither be taken as a joke nor a serious one. “That’s a good courage, you!,” was what Yue and the girls’ gazes said, which was easily warded off by Lemia with a smile along with, “Ara ara, ufufu.” She might be an unexpectedly great person. In the end, the party decided to stay in Lemia’s house. When time to allocate the rooms, Lemia said, “Shouldn’t the husband and wife be together?” which responded with silent reply from Yue and the girls. Then, Myuu said, “Myuu will sleep with Papa and Mama,” which turned the place into a chaos, but at least it calmed down for now. The party were going to conquer the next Great Dungeon from tomorrow onwards, so they needed to resupply and mend the broken and lost fixtures while it was also necessary for them to train on the newly acquired Age of Gods magic. However, while thinking he couldn’t neglect his few remaining time with Myuu, Hajime dozed off on the bed. Three days after that. How strangely short distance between Lemia and Hajime made the bloodshot glares of envy from men of Sea-dweller tribe stabbed Hajime. The neighbourhood aunties were also gossiping about Hajime and Lemia. In addition, Yue and the girls’ approach became even more intense as they became ill-humored. Yue at night was also becoming more lovely. Even so, Hajime completed the party’s preparation and about to begin to search for «Meljeene Bottom Sea Ruin». When the time come for them to part, Myuu wore a truly lonely expression. She greatly pulled Hajime’s back hair, but he somehow managed shake her off on the pier and board the fixed submarine. Waving her hands, Myuu firmly shouted, “Papa, have a safe trip!” Following that, with an atmosphere that could neither be taken as a joking nor a serious one, Lemia waved her hand saying, “Have a safe trip, D-A-R-L-I-N-G ♡.” From the side, they could be seen as wife and daughter who were sending the husband off to work. Sharp glares were coming from Yue and the girls behind him and the surrounding Sea-dweller tribe. It made Hajime slightly hesitant to return here after conquering the next dungeon.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 1, "inserted_lines_src": 1, "inserted_lines_trg": 6 }
「で、その人形は結局何なんだ?後、この前の偽装の詳細について教えろ」で、リーン様の用件も済んだところで普段の取引をしつつ、先程ロウィッチが隠した人形の事と破壊神の腕の時にロウィッチが俺に施した偽装の詳細について質問をする。そしたらロウィッチはまるでよくぞ聞いてくれましたと言わんばかりに顔を輝かせる。あ、ヤバいなこれ。誰かに自分の技術の事を自慢したがっている職人に対してその技術に関することを聞いちゃった感じだ。「よくぞ聞いてくれました!」「あー......」で、俺の予想通りにロウィッチは両腕を大きく広げるとまるで演説をするかのように喋り始める。「それではこの人形について語る前にまずは件の偽装について語ろう。まず俺が得意とする偽装は変身魔法であるが、その変身魔法は普通の変身ではない。俺はロウィッチ......つまりは魔法少女をこよなく愛する者であるため、変身させた者に対して魔法少女としての力的に与えることが出来るのだ。そして俺が作り上げる魔法少女である以上は能力的な意味だけでなく外見的な意味でも一流の魔法少女にするのは当然の流れである」「へー」「だがこれで終わりではないぞ!当然と言うべきだがお前の普段の姿ではこんなに素晴らしい魔法少女装束でも残念ながら一部特殊な嗜好を持つ者でなければ似合わないと判断せざる得ない。と言うわけでここからが俺の変身魔法の本領である肉体に関する部分だ!まず、身長の変更は無しだ。大抵の魔法少女物は身長の変化は起こさないし、戦闘を行う事を考えた場合視界の大幅な変化は致命傷になるからな。また、お前の性別を考えた場合胸を極端に大きくするのも無しだ。大きな胸は戦闘の邪魔にもなるが、それ以前に魔法“少女”と言う存在上その種族や外見の年齢上そぐわない胸にするなどナンセンスにも程があるからな。が、逆に言えば変えてはならない点はこ程度だ」「はいはい」「まず顔!ここには見た者全てを悩殺するようなまるで天使のごとき愛嬌ある顔にすると共に、変装として意味を持たせるために人ならざる美しさも同時に持たせた。またそれと同時にお前の妹であるウリコちゃんの顔パターンも入れることによって僅かではあるが人としての温かみや血縁関係的なものも感じる様になっている。次に体だが、こちらも大きく変化させてしまうと動きに支障が出るから大きくは変化させていないが、変身前と変わらず動ける様に筋力量や骨格配置を行うと共に肌はまるでシルクを思わせるようなきめ細やかさとゼロ距離からオリハルコン製弾頭を撃ち込まれても表面上は傷がつかないような防御力にすると言う本来なら背反する事象を両立させたものとなっているのだ!」「そうして出来上がったのが南瓜の魔法少女マジカル☆パンプキンであり、それを16分の1スケールにおいて小物の一つどころか杖に刻まれている文字の一つ一つまで再現しつつも顔などはデフォルメを施して可愛らしくしたのが俺の今持つ16分の1スケール南瓜の魔法少女マジカル☆パンプキン・リーンカーネーションフォームだ!!」「ZZZzzz......」「寝るなあああぁぁぁ!!まだ服のモチーフにしたキャラとか言ってないんだぞ!むしろここからが本番じゃああぁぁぁ!!」どうやらロウィッチの説明があまりにも長すぎたためにいつの間にか意識が遠のいていたらしい。ただまあ、こうして説明を聞いていてちょっと疑問が浮かんだ。「いやーすまんすまん。とりあえずロウィッチがとんでもない技術を持っているのは分かったわ」「まず......ん?本当か?」「本当本当。ところでロウィッチ?」「何だ?」「そのフィギュアは何で作ったんだ?」「そりゃあ勿論折角あんなに良い魔法少女が産まれたのならその記録は後世に至るまでしっかりと残しておくべきだろう。それに同好の士が何人も出来の良さから既に注文もしてきているもんで型とかも作ってあるぞ」「ん?」ロウィッチの言葉を聞いた俺は、ロウィッチの腰にゆっくりと蔓を巻き付ける。いやさあ、なんて言うかね。「即刻廃棄しやがれこのド変態があぁ!!」「ぐふあああぁぁぁ!?」俺の人権や肖像権は何処に行った! と言うわけで俺はロウィッチに対してバックブリーカーから開始される格ゲーならば十割確定のコンボを決めるとデータや型の廃棄を求め、目の前でそれを削除させるのであった。「とりあえず次にやったら本気で殺しにかかるからな......」「はい......」仮にロウィッチが同じことをもう一度やったらその時はアレだな。全力で消しにかかると同時にリーン様を通じてロウィッチの上役が多分居るはずだからそいつに連絡するのも有りかもな。	“What’s the story behind the doll, then? Also, please describe the last disguise you have done on me in detail.” Having settled with Lean’s business, Pumpkin asked about the doll Lowizc had just hidden and the details of the disguise she had cast on him at the time of the God of Destruction’s arm. Lowizc’s face then lit up as if to say, “I’m impressed that you asked me that.” Oh no, this is bad. Her reaction is like asking a craftsman who wished to boast about their abilities when asked. “I’m impressed that you asked me that!” “Ah...” Lowizc opened her arms widely and started to talk as though she were presenting a speech, which was exactly what he had anticipated. “Let’s first speak about the disguise before discussing this doll. First off, transformation magic—my area of expertise in disguise—is not your typical type of magic. I am Lowizc... in other words, a lover of magical girls, so I can temporarily bestow the power of a magical girl on the person I have transformed. And as long as it is a magical girl that I create, it’s only reasonable that I’ll make her a first-class magical girl—both in terms of her talents and beauty.” “Heh.” “But this is not the end! I should say, of course, that in your normal state, even this wonderful magical girl costume would unfortunately not suit you unless you have some special tastes. So this brings us to the physical part, the realm of my transformation magic! First, there will be no change in height. The bulk of magical girls don’t get taller, and if they were to fight, a sharp shift in eyesight would be lethal. Furthermore, given your gender, there is no extreme enlargement of your breasts. Large breasts can be a hindrance in battle, but even before that, it is nonsensical to make a magical ‘girl’ have breasts that are not appropriate for her race or age in terms of appearance. Conversely, these are the only two aspects that should not be altered.” “Yes, yes.” “First, the face! Here is a face that has the charm of an angel that will mesmerize all who see it, and at the same time has an inhuman beauty to serve the purpose of a disguise. I was able to evoke a sensation of human warmth and blood tie, albeit a minor one, by incorporating the facial pattern of your sister, Uriko. Secondly, I made adjustments to your muscle mass and skeletal structure so that you can move as you did before your transformation, even though I didn’t make any significant physical alterations because those would limit your motions. Even if an Orichalcum warhead is fired from a point-blank range, the surface of the skin will not be scratched, making the skin both fine and silky, which would normally be the opposite of what is expected!” “The result was Pumpkin Lean Carnation Form, which is a /th scale pumpkin magical girl Magical☆Pumpkin, and I have reproduced it in /th scale, not only one of the small parts, but even the letters engraved on the staff while deforming the face and other parts to make it look cute!!” “Zzz...” “Do not fall asleeppppp! I still haven’t even revealed to you whose character I based the design of your clothing! If anything, this is where the real fun starts!!” Pumpkin’s consciousness appeared to have vanished at some point since Lowizc’s explanation seemed to go on for too long. However, after hearing this explanation, a small query sprang to mind. “Oh, my bad. At any rate, I now understand that Lowizc has some extraordinary skills.” “First of all... ngh? Really?” “Yeah, really, really. By the way, Lowizc?” “What is it?” “Why did you make that figurine?” “Of course, if such a fine magical girl was produced, then the record of it should be preserved for posterity. Besides, a number of kindred spirits have already ordered them because of the quality, and I have even made models of it.” “Hmm?” After hearing Lowizc’s words, Pumpkin slowly wrapped the vines around her waist. Well, what can I say? “Scrap it immediately, you pervert!!” “Gghhhhhhhhh!?” Where are my rights, my rights to the usage of my likeness! Therefore, after executing a combo that would have been a definite method for him to win the fighting game, beginning with a backbreaker, Pumpkin demanded Lowizc destroy the data and model and had it wiped right before his eyes. “Anyway, the next time you attempt something like this, your death will be for real...” “Yes...” Suppose Lowizc pulled the same stunt twice, that would be the time to do “it”. While doing everything he can to eliminate her, Pumpkin might as well contact Lowizc’s superior through Lean, since the superior was probably in charge of the matter.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 4, "inserted_lines_src": 1, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
鬱陶しいエドワードを尻目に今日は朝から冒険者ギルドに直行。当然護衛代わりにノルンとベル。ご飯確保以外では最近あんまり構ってあげられてないので、その内何かしてあげたいところ。むーん。っと、冒険者ギルドに行くわけだけど、今日の目的は資料室。魔力剣とかについて調べたいんだよね。まあ、詳しい資料はないにしても多少の情報はあるといいなー、と言う程度のアテでしかないんだけどね。などとつらつらと考えながらギルドに向ってぽてぽてと徒歩移動しつつ、昨日今日の食事中とか休憩中に聞いたエドワードとかの事情についてのまとめ! いや、個人的には割とどうでもいいんだけどね...... なんでもアルノー親方の息子さん、長男のアルフォンスさんと次男のエドワードを比べると、エドのほうが才能があるらしい。一応跡継ぎ予定は長男のアルフォンスさんらしいんだけど、それでも才能がある息子も伸ばそうと褒めながらエドを教育していたらしい。でもちょっと目を放した隙に増長して天狗になっちゃってたそうな。しかも、私が指摘した悪い癖付きで。で、困ったことに同時に反抗期を併発してしまい、親方の言うことには一々反発してたとかなんとか。拳骨何発も頂いても反発してたらしいので、筋金入りの馬鹿ですね! 長男のアルフォンスさんがストイックに淡々と基礎の修行積む人で、尚且つ反抗期も無かったらしく、親方は子育てなんてこんなものか、と思ってたらしいんだけど......長男とまったく違うエドには困惑してしまってどうして良いか分からなくなってしまってたらしい。それでもデリアさんがエドに指摘したように、一部からは悪評が出てきて、このまま一部で済まないほどになるようであればエドを放逐しないといけないかも、と思ってたところで私が叩き潰してしまった、と。ちなみに悪評流してた一部ってのは仲の悪い斜向かいの工房の親方と息子だったそうです。エドのアレっぷりは反抗期始まった頃からみんな知ってたので、大半の人達は『まだ拗らせてるのか』程度の反応だったそうな。どこまで拗らせてたんだ、エドワード...... 私は見てなかったんだけど、私にへし折られて消沈してるエドワードは目も当てられない様子だったらしい。でも翌朝には吹っ切れたのか、子供の頃のように素直なエドワードがそこに! そんな感じで実の息子を放り出さないといけないかもしれないと思い悩んでた親方さんは私に大層感謝したそうな。でもその感謝の行動が、背中バンバン叩きまくるという行動なのはちょっとどうかと思います。本気で痛いです。いや、その後またミスリルもらえたからいいんだけどね...... でも親方はもうちょっとちゃんと子育て頑張ったほうがいいと思います。ほんとに。なんて考えてるうちにギルドとうちゃーく! 朝ごはん食べて直ぐ位の時間だから物凄い混んでるわ......朝のピークタイムか! いや、工房は朝早いからね。朝ご飯食べるのも早いんだよね。それから移動したから一番混む時間にぶつかったっぽい? ちょっと失敗したなあ...... 入り口からロビーにあたる部分に入っていくと、こっちをみてぎょっとする人が結構居る。......うん、ノルンがね、大きいからね。ここ最近でメキメキと大きくなったんだよねとも。このところ色々料理食べさせた所為かな? ベルは成犬位のサイズになったし、ノルンはもう私より大きい。大型の虎? 3m位かな? 私が余裕で乗れる位のサイズ。うん、大きいよね......そりゃ皆驚くよ。「なんだあれ......」「グレーターウルフ?」「いや、でかすぎるだろ」「知らねーよ、俺に聞くな」「あの小さいのがあの狼のテイマーか?」うーん、視線が痛い。さっさと資料室に逃げよう。フードを深めに引っ張ってさっさと階段に向かう。ここの資料室は二階に有る。無料で開放しているとは言え貴重な資料なので司書さんも二名常駐してる。ハルーラの資料室はここより狭くて司書の人も一人しかいなかったので、そこは流石の王都ギルド。人手も多いんだろうね。「おや、おちびさん。駆け出しの冒険者かな? 薬草の資料かね?」二人居る司書さんのうち、おじいちゃんの方が声を掛けてきた。ちなみにもう一人は若いおねーさん。顔は......まあ、普通? 「いえ、別の資料を探しに」「ほう......なんの資料かな?」「魔法の武器について書かれてるものはありますか? 魔力剣とか魔剣とか」「おやおや、駆け出しなのにもう魔剣かね。まあ、色々なことに興味を持つのはいいことだけどね。ええと、魔剣ね......」いや、言うほど駆け出しでもないはずだけどね......いや、冒険者になってまだ一年も経ってないしまだまだ駆け出し? でも一応既にEランクだし......まあなんでもいいか。「うーん、魔剣や魔法の武具に関しての資料はそっちの棚の奥のほうだね。とは言っても、ここは冒険者ギルドだから、鍛冶ギルドや錬金術師ギルドと違って余り詳しい資料は無かったはずだよ」「ありがとうございます。何も無いよりは全然マシですから、助かります」うん、何もないよりは何かしら分かる分全然マシ。と言うわけで一番端にある列の奥へ移動。ノルン達も私の後ろをのしのしと付いてくる。床がミシミシ言ってるけど、大丈夫かな、これ? えーと、それっぽいタイトルの本が......二? 取り敢えず全部持って更に奥の書見台まで移動。ちなみにこの書見台、お一人用ではなく複数人が並んで読めるような仕様で、斜めになったテーブルって言ったほうが分かり易いくらいには簡易な造り。ここの資料室、羊皮紙の本と植物紙の本と混ざってるから読むためのテーブルも書見台風なんだと思う。まあ私は別に、読めればなんでも良いんだけど。と言うわけで早速読んでみる。えーと......なるほど。次。うーん......へえ。はい次。ふむふむ......うん、なるほど。ぶっちゃけ一冊目二冊目にはそこまで内容に大幅な差はなかった。一冊目は有名どころの魔剣聖剣について。有名な聖剣、魔剣の名称と、代々の所有者、そして現在の所在。あとは言い伝えられてる付与等の能力? 過去に高レベルの鑑定スキルを使って調べたものであればそれを、鑑定されていないものに関しては近くで見てた人物達による付与された能力の予想等が書かれてる。二冊目は過去に聖剣や魔剣の使い手で有名になった人の話。これはあんまり有用な感じではなかった。一冊目と被る内容が多かった。三冊目は代表的な、と言うか比較的付与されてることの多いスキル。これが当たり。と言うか、知りたかった内容だった。付与されたスキルは、人間が覚えるものと同じで10段階のレベル表記。付与された属性魔法も同様。よくある付与スキルとしては、装備そのものの強化では【攻撃強化】【耐久強化】【重量軽減】等。所有者のステータスを強化するもので【腕力強化】【敏捷強化】【魔力強化】等。スキルを強化するものだと【属性強化】【属性耐性】等。あとは特定の魔物に対して攻撃力が劇的に上昇する【特効】系。滅多に無いレアなものだと【幸運】【身体強化】等々......他には敢えてデメリットのあるスキルをつけることでほかの効果を高めたりする、なんていう武器も在ったらしい。まあ、あれだよ。【創造魔法】スキルで無理やり魔剣とかを作る時、どういうスキルがあるのかわからなかったらそれも出来ないからね。どういう付与スキルがあるのか知りたかったからそれを調べたかったんだよね。でもまあ、これで何とかなりそうかな? ちなみに、魔力剣や魔剣を手に入れる方法は基本的に二種類。造ってもらうか拾うか。造ってもらう場合、造れる職業は二種類。鍛冶師か錬金術師。鍛冶師の場合、代々それらを造る秘伝や技法を受け継いだ鍛冶師に造ってもらう。ただ、本職は鍛冶師なので付与自体はそこまで高いものは付いてない。でも付与スキルを除いた場合の剣自体の性能は、鍛冶師の腕にも依るけど、基本的には高い。そもそも、魔力剣や魔剣を造れるだけの鍛冶師は鍛冶スキルのレベル自体が高いから、それは当然と言えば当然。錬金術師の場合、用意された剣に付与を施すことで普通の剣が魔剣になる。この場合だと錬金術師の錬金術系のスキルレベルが高いほど強力な付与が施せる。ただし後付で付与を施した魔剣の場合、その剣を作ったとして名が売れるのは大抵の場合は錬金術師のほうになる。なので、あとで付与するから剣を打ってくれと言われると、鍛冶師からは普通に嫌がられる。ちなみに黙って後から付与してもらったりした場合、それがばれるとその剣を買った剣士はそれ以降鍛冶師達に剣を打ってもらえなくなったりするそうな。とは言え説得して剣を打ってもらうのは本当に苦労するらしい...... 次は拾う場合。これはダンジョンで拾う。ダンジョンと言うのは、神の用意した修練場らしい。ダンジョン自体は色々なタイプがあるらしいんだけど、共通してるのが『特殊な魔物が出る』『宝箱が落ちてて、回収しても一定周期で再出現する』『稀にスキルを習得したりステータスを向上させる魔法陣がある』と言う三つ。ここで言う特殊な魔物というのはダンジョンにしか出ないと言うわけではなく、倒した後に死体が残らずに霧になって消えてしまう、という点で特殊。ちなみに倒した時にアイテムを落とす。ゲームかよ。で、魔剣を拾うというのは、このダンジョンで宝箱から手に入れる、という意味。宝箱は階層ごとに有る程度個数が決まっていて、回収した後はランダムで同じ階層のどこかに再出現するらしい。再出現の周期はダンジョンごとに異なる。ちなみにダンジョンが神の用意した修練場だというのは、過去に神様がそういうお告げを下したのでそういうことになってるそうな。実際、三つ目の『稀にスキルを習得したりステータスを向上させる魔法陣がある』という、この魔法陣の存在があるので否定もしづらい。この魔法陣でのスキル習得は、本人にそのスキル適性がなくても覚えられるため、才能がない凡人が成り上がるにはダンジョンに行くのが鉄板コースになっている。あとは宝箱からスキルスクロールという使い捨てのマジックアイテムを手に入れるとか......とはいっても強力なスキルも強力な武具も、より深い階層に潜らないと手に入らないわけだけど。って、また話が逸れた。ただし、このダンジョンで手に入る魔剣にも欠点があったりする。それは『付与されたスキルが有用とは限らない』ということ。例えば短剣に【重量軽減】付いていても余り有用ではない。【重量軽減】は使用者のみに効果がある付与で、攻撃自体には元々の重量が乗る。付与スキルのレベルが高いと、馬鹿でかいメイスを片手でぶんぶん振り回すとか言う無茶も可能になる。その為、どちらかといえば重装系の装備に付いてるほうが役立つ。両手剣とか両手斧とかロングスピアとかメイスとか。他にも武器に耐性系のスキルが付いてたり、その逆に防具に攻撃系のスキルがついてたりと、時々大外れなスキルが付いてることがあるそうな。ちなみにそんながっかり武器で有名なものだと『聖剣粗悪な鉄の両手剣』というものが有る。聖剣というのは本来それだけで相当に強力な武器なんだけど、このがっかり聖剣は、鍛えた鋼鉄ですらない普通の鉄製の両手剣で、しかも品質は最低ランク。その上神聖属性LV1以外の付与は何も付いていない、というもの。【攻撃強化】とは言わないにしても、せめて【耐久強化】が付いていればまだ使い物になるんだろうけど、この剣はそれすらない。正に宝の持ち腐れで箔付けと儀礼用以外に使い道が無いという......ちなみにどこぞの国の宝物庫に国宝として収蔵されてるそうです。切ない。うーん、付与は奥が深いなあ......なんてしみじみしてたら声を掛けられた。「あれ? レン?」「トリエラ?」そう言えば最近は良くここに来てるんだっけ?	Today, I went straight to the Adventurer’s Guild from the morning after shooting the troublesome Edward a side glance. Naturally, Norn and Bell followed me to make up for my escorts. They hadn’t been doing anything other than securing food lately, so I wanted to do something to make up for that. Hmm. Well, I was going to the Adventurer’s Guild, but my purpose today was the reference room. I wanted to find out about the magic sword. Even if they didn’t give detailed materials, it would be nice to have some information. Since I was walking slowly to the guild while thinking of some random things, here’s the summary of Edward’s situation for the past two days! I personally didn’t really care, though... When comparing Arnold’s sons —the eldest son Alphonse with the second son Edward— Ed was more talented. For the record, Alphonse was expected to be the successor, but Arnold was also training Ed while complimenting his second son who had the potential to grow more. However, Ed had grown into a braggart and became arrogant once they took their eyes off him for a while. Not to mention, he developed bad habits that I had pointed out before. Then what made it worse was that Ed was in his rebellion age. He opposed everything that the master said to him. He still rebelled even after taking so many punches, really a hardcore idiot! Alphonse was someone who trained his foundation in a stoic and cool manner. He didn’t have any rebellious age, so the master thought that parenting was something this simple... Bewildered by Ed who acted completely different from the eldest son, the master was lost and didn’t know what he should do anymore. Still, as Delia pointed out to Ed, they might have to expel Ed. The reason was how he caused a bad reputation and how they couldn’t tolerate him at all. And right at that moment, I smashed Ed up. By the way, some of the bad reputations seemed to be about how the master and the son of the workshop across the street had a bad relationship. Everyone knew his bad habits around the time he entered his rebellion period, so the majority of the reaction was, “His personality is even worse now, huh?” Just how far would you make it worse, Edward... I didn’t see it, but after I smashed his pride, Edward was dejected and unable to accept the reality. But he renewed himself in the next morning and became as obedient as a child! The master was worried that he might have to disown his biological son like that, so he thanked me a lot. However, I didn’t really like how he expressed his attitude by slapping my back. It was really painful. But well, I received another mithril after that, so whatever... But I believe master should work a little harder on raising his children. Seriously. Once I reached the end of my thought, I noticed that I had arrived in the guild! I immediately came after having my breakfast, so it was really crowded... ah, this was the peak time in the morning! I forgot that everyone in the workshop started their day from early in the morning. I also ate breakfast quickly. That’s why I came at the most crowded time, I guess? I made a little blunder here... As I entered the lobby from the entrance, quite a few people were looking at me with a surprised face. ...I know, Norn was really big. Both of them had been getting bigger recently. It might be because I fed them with various dishes these days, right? Bell had grown to the mature size, and Norn was bigger than me. Maybe like a large tiger? Around three-meter? I could even get on her now. Yeah, she was big... Norn, you’re surprising everyone. “What is that...?” “Greater Wolf?” “No, it’s too big.” “Nah, don’t ask me.” “That little girl is that wolf’s tamer?” Hmm, their gaze was painful. Let’s quickly escape to the reference room. I pulled my hood to hide my face even more and head straight to the stairs. The reference room in this guild was located on the second floor. Although it was open to the public and took no charge, two librarians were stationed there considering how they stored precious documents. The reference room in Haruna was smaller than this, and they only had one librarian. Just as expected from the guild in the royal capital. There were probably a lot of workers working in this building. “Oh, little girl. Are you a beginner adventurer? Looking for data about medicinal plants?” One of the librarians called me out. He was a grandpa. By the way, the other librarian was a young lady. Her face was... well, normal? “No, I’m searching for other data.” “I see... What kind of data?” “Do you have information about magic weapons? Like mana sword or magic sword.” “Oh my, you’re already interested in magic sword even though you’re still a beginner? Well, it’s good to be interested in various things. Err, where is it again...” Er, I don’t think I’m a beginner, though... But only one year had passed since I became an adventurer, so I was still a beginner, maybe? But I was already in E rank... Well, whatever. “Hmm, the documents about magic sword and magic armor are at the back of that shelf. But since this is an adventurer’s guild, I’m sure you won’t find detailed documents about that. You should go to blacksmith guild or alchemist guild for that.” “Thank you very much. It’s better than nothing at all, so it really helps.” Yeah, it’s better to know something than nothing. I moved to the back row at the very end of the room. Norn also followed me behind. The floor was creaking. Is this really okay? Uhh, there were books with titles that seemed authentic... two or three books? For the time being, I took everything and moved further to the end of the bookrest. By the way, the bookrest was designed so that multiple people could read books side by side rather than separating it for one person’s use. Just by looking at the slanting table, I could easily see that it had a simple structure. The tables were designed like this probably because this reference room had parchment book and plant paper, so it would be easier to read them this way. Well, I didn’t mind as long as I could read what I want. Thus, I read it at once. Hmm... I see. Next. Umm... oh. Okay, next. Hmmmm... Okay, I get it. If I had to be honest, the contents of the first and second books weren’t that different. The first book was about the famous magic sword and holy sword. The content was mostly about the holy sword, the title of magic swords, the owner for generations, and the current whereabouts. Other than that, it also talked about the ability bestowed by using it? There were pieces of information about the examination of the sword using a high-level appraisal skill in the past and predictions about the ability the user would get based on the people who had seen the sword up close. The second book was about the user of holy sword and magic sword who had become famous in the past. I didn’t think this was useful at all. There was a lot more content covered in the first book. The third book was the exemplary book, or perhaps I should say, this talked about the comparative skills bestowed by using the sword. This was what I was looking for. Yup, this is what I wanted to know. The bestowed skills were the same as what humans could learn. It was notated in ten levels. The magic attribute was also the same. The commonly bestowed skills were strengthening the equipment itself, such as [Attack Enhancement], [Endurance Enhancement], and [Weight Reduction]. For skills that strengthened the owner’s stats, there were [Physical Strength Enhancement], [Agility Enhancement], [Magic Power Enhancement], and so forth. For skills that strengthened the user’s skills, there were [Attribute Enhancement], [Attribute Resistance], and so forth. Other than that was increasing the offensive ability towards a specific monster, and they entered the [Special Effect] group. The rare ones were [Fortune], [Build Enhancement], etc. It seemed like there were other weapons that enhanced the effectiveness by intentionally giving demerit skill. Well, that’s it. The reason why I wanted to know this was that I wouldn’t be able to forcibly make magic sword with my [Creation Magic] skill unless I knew what kind of skill it could bestow upon the user. But well, I could do something with this, I guess? By the way, there were basically two ways to obtain magic sword and mana sword. Should I have other people make it for me or find it myself? If I chose the former, there were two types of occupations that could make magic sword; blacksmith or alchemist. If I went with blacksmith route, I had to ask the blacksmith master who had inherited the secrets and techniques taught for generations to make it. However, their main occupation was a blacksmith, so the skills they could bestow wouldn’t be that high. But excluding the bestowed skill, the performance of the skill itself was basically high. It would depend on the skill of the blacksmith. But in the first place, blacksmiths who could make magic sword and mana sword should have a high level of blacksmithing skill. If I went with alchemist route, they could make an ordinary sword become magic sword by applying the bestowed skill to the sword that had been prepared. In this case, the higher the alchemist’s skill level, the stronger the bestowed skill. Even so, it was usually the alchemist who get recognized even if the sword was forged by a great blacksmith. Therefore, blacksmith master generally wouldn’t make a sword that an alchemist could easily work on later. By the way, if the swordsman secretly had alchemist apply the bestowed skill later, the blacksmith master wouldn’t make swords for that swordsman anymore once they knew about it. And also, it was really hard to persuade them to make a sword, to begin with... The other option was finding it. I could pick it up in the dungeon. It seemed like a dungeon was a training ground prepared by God. There were various types of dungeons, but the common characteristics were “appearance of special monsters,” treasure chests respawning at fixed intervals,” and “magic circles that raise your status or give you rare skills.” The special monsters I mentioned here didn’t mean that it would only appear in the dungeon, but it was special because the corpse would disappear into fog once you defeated it, leaving no remains. By the way, it would drop items. What is this, a game? So picking up a magic sword means obtaining it from the treasure chest in these dungeons. There were a certain number of treasure chests on each level, and they would randomly reappear somewhere on the same level after being collected. The reappearance cycle differed for each dungeon. By the way, the dungeon was called the training ground prepared by God because of an oracle in the past. In fact, it was difficult to deny this due to the dungeon’s third characteristic with “magic circles that raise your status or give you rare skills”. Being able to learn skills one didn’t have an aptitude for with this magic circle made going to the dungeon worth it for an ordinary person with no talent. Other than that, they could also get disposable magic items such as the skill scrolls from the treasure box... be that as it may, you could only get powerful skills and armors by delving into the deeper level. Ah, I strayed from the subject. However, the magic sword that could be obtained in the dungeon also had its drawbacks. Because the bestowed skill wasn’t always useful. For example, [Weight Reduction] attached in a dagger wasn’t very helpful. [Weight Reduction] only had an effect on users. The original weight still applied to the attack itself. With high level [Weight Reduction], it was possible to swing a crazily heavy mace with one hand. For that reason, it was more useful to have this skill in heavy equipment. Such as two-handed sword, two-handed axe, long spear, and mace. In addition, sometimes weapons had resistance-type skills. And conversely, sometimes armor had attack-type skills. By the way, one of the most disappointing weapons was known as “Holy Sword: Inferior Two-handed Iron Sword.” The holy sword was a fairly powerful weapon, but this disappointing holy sword was an ordinary two-handed sword with the lowest quality. Besides, there was nothing attached other than [Holy Attribute level ]. Even if it didn’t have [Attack Enhancement], it would still become useful if it had [Endurance Enhancement], but this sword didn’t even have that. This sword was known as a useless possession and didn’t have other functions other than wearing it for prestige and for ceremonies... Also, this was stored as a national treasure in some country’s treasury. How heartrending. Hmm, there was a lot to consider here, huh...As I deeply pondered so, someone called me out. “Eh? Ren?” “Triela?” Speaking of which, they had been visiting the reference room often lately, right?	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 2, "inserted_lines_src": 0, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
到着して最初の目標はアパートを決めて妻と生まれたばかりのメラニーを呼び寄せ一緒にアイダホ州で暮らすことでしたすぐに人事部へ行って職員と話すとこんな話をしてくれました「アイダホ州マウンテンホームではアパートを見つけるなんて簡単だよみんな我々軍人が大好きなんだだって部屋を貸す相手が空軍の兵士なら家賃を取りっぱぐれないからね」これはとても大事なことでした「これが連絡先のリストだ電話すれば希望のアパートを選ばせてくれるよ」私はリストをもらって電話をかけました私が部屋を借りたいと伝えると相手の女性が言いました「お電話ありがとうございます今のところ空室が4〜5部屋ありますベッドルームは1部屋と2部屋どちらがご希望ですか?」そしてこう続けました「電話で話すより直接いらして物件を選んでは? 契約書にサインすればカギをお渡ししてすぐにご家族を呼べますよ」私は嬉しくなりました車に飛び乗って街へ行きドアをノックしましたすると例の女性が現れて私を見て言いました「何かご用?」「はいアパートの件で電話した者です部屋を選びに来ました」と答えましたすると彼女は「ごめんなさい ― 主人が全部貸してしまったのを私が知らなくて」と言うのです「5部屋全部を1時間で貸してしまったんですか?」彼女は答えず代わりに言いました「電話番号を教えてもらえれば空き部屋が出たら連絡します」言うまでもなく電話はかかってきませんでしたそれどころかアパート業者のリストに載っていた誰からも返事がなかったのですそれで疎外感を感じながら基地に戻って部隊の司令官に相談したのです名前はマクドウ少佐といいました「少佐助けて下さい」って私があらましを話すと少佐は言いました「ジェームズ手を貸したいのは山々だただ君もわかっていると思うが貸したくない人間に無理に貸せとは言えないんだそれに我々と地域住民との関係は良好だからそれを傷つけたくないんだ」彼は続けました「こうしてはどうだい家族を向うに住ませては君は30日間の休暇がとれるだろうだから年に1度家族の元に帰って 30日一緒に過ごして戻ってくるんだ」当然それには納得できませんでしただから少佐の部屋を出ると人事部に戻って職員と話しましたするとこう言うんです「ジムいい方法があるよ転勤が決まっている兵士がいてトレーラーを持っているんだ気づいただろうがマウンテンホームにはトレーラーパークやトレーラーがそこら中にあるんだ彼のトレーラーをすごくお得に買えると思うよできるだけ早くここから出たいって言ってたからこれで君の問題にけりをつけられるかもしれない」私はすぐに車に飛び乗り街に行ってトレーラーを見ました小さなトレーラーでしたが事情を考えるとこれが精一杯だと思いましただからそれを買ったんですそれから相手にたずねました「トレーラーをここに置いておけないかな? そうすれば一件落着なんだ他の場所を探す必要もなくなる」彼は返事をする前に管理人に確認すると言いました私が基地に戻ると彼から電話がありました管理人はこう言ったそうです「トレーラーはここには置けない ― もう区画を別の人に貸す約束をしているんだ」私は変だと思いましたまだ空き区画はいくつかあったのにたまたまその区画を貸すことになっているなんてすると彼は言いました「心配するなよトレーラーパークなんてたくさんあるさ」そこで私はトレーラーパークのリストをまとめてひとつひとつ訪ねて行きましたするとアパートを探していた時と同じように断られ続けたのです空きがないということに加えてこんなことを言われました「ジム君に場所を貸せないのはもう黒人の一家が住んでいるからなのさ私のせいじゃない君らのことは好きだしね」私も思わず笑いましたこうも言われました「厄介なのは君が入ると他の人が出て行ってしまうこっちには大打撃なんだよ」「とにかく貸せない」とも言われましたがっかりしましたが諦めませんでした探し続けてマウンテンホームの端まで行き小さなトレーラーパークを見つけました本当に小さいトレーラーパークでした通路は舗装もされていなくてコンクリートの土台もなく自分の区画と他の区画を仕切る柵もありませんでした洗濯する場所もありませんでも他に方法はないという結論に達したのですだから妻に電話をかけて言いました「これで何とかやっていこうよ」こうして引っ越しをしてアイダホ州マウンテンホームに自宅を構えたのですその後すべてが落ち着いていきましたその4年後にマウンテンホームからラブラドール地方のグースベイという所に転任を命じられました言うまでもなくそこも最高の場所でした大変だったのはマウンテンホームからペンシルバニア州シャロンに家族を送り届けることでした新車を買ったばかりだったので引っ越し自体は何でもありませんでした母が電話でこちらに来ると言ってくれました一緒について来て子どもの世話をしてくれるというのです母がやってきてアリスと一緒に食べ物をたくさん用意しました私たちは朝5時頃に出発しましたとてもいい旅でした楽しくよくしゃべりました 6時半か7時になって少し疲れてきたのでこんな話になりました「モーテルに泊まって明日朝早く出かけよう」走っているとモーテルをたくさん見かけましたその1軒にはとても大きなネオンサインがついていました「空室空室空室」ってだからそこに入ったんです家族を駐車場に待たせ私が事務所に行きました入っていくと女主人が誰かと契約をしているところで私の後ろには別の人が並びました私がカウンターに近づくと女主人が「ご用は?」と言いました「家族で1泊したいのですが」と伝えると「ごめんなさい最後の1部屋が埋まったところで朝まで空きません」と言われました「この道を45分か1時間くらい行けばトレーラーパークがもう1軒ありますよ」私が「でも空室のサインがついてるじゃないですか」と言うと「あら忘れてた」と言ってスイッチに手を伸ばしサインを消しました彼女と私はお互いを見ました部屋には他にも人がいました彼女はそちらも見たようで誰も何も言いませんでした私はなるほどと思って駐車場に出て行きました母と妻とメラニーに向かって私は言いました「もうちょっと走らないと今日は泊まれないようだ」車を出したのですが出発して駐車場を出る直前にどうなったと思います? また空室のサインがついたんです「空室空室空室」ってその後いい宿が見つかりました好みではなかったけれど安全で清潔でしたその夜はみんなよく眠れましたただここで強調したいのは私たちが同じようなことを何度も経験したことですアイダホ州からペンシルバニア州までの間 ― ホテルやモーテルやレストランに入れなかったのですでも何とかペンシルバニア州に着きました家族はそこに落ち着き周りの人は子どもに会えて喜んでいました私は飛行機に乗ってラブラドール地方のグースベイに送られましたがそれはまた別の話ですねさて53年経った今私には9人の孫と2人のひ孫がいて孫のうち5人は男の子です修士号や博士号を持つ子も大学や医学部に進んだ子もいます 2人ははやりの仕事をやろうとしていますいい所までいっていますがまだまだです大学に入って今年で 8年目になる子もいますまだ何の学位もとっていなくてコメディアンになりたいようですだからみんなで学校に留めようとしています家では面白い子でもコメディアンになれるわけじゃないでしょう? でも要はみんないい子なんです麻薬に手を出さず高校で妊娠もせず犯罪も犯していませんそんな状況の中で私は部屋でテレビを見ていましたテレビではファーガソンの件や今起きている騒動を取り上げています急に1人のコメンテーターの言葉が流れてきました「この3か月間で武器を持っていない8人のアフリカ系アメリカ人男性が警官や白人の家主や白人市民によって殺害されています」私は衝撃を受けました「これはいったいどういうことだ? おかしいじゃないか人をこんな風にしてしまう憎しみっていったい何なんだ?」ちょうどその時孫が電話してきました「じいちゃんテレビを見たかい?」「見たよ」と言うと「僕はわからなくなったよやるべきことは全部しているのに運転していても歩いていても話していても黒人っていうだけで危ないんだどうしたらいい? じいちゃんの言うことは守っているのに警察に車を止められたら両手をハンドルの一番上に載せるし IDカードを出すように言われれば『いまグローブボックスからゆっくり取り出します』って言う車から降ろされて身体検査される時も地面に寝かせられて身体検査される時もトランクを開けて調べられる時も抗議はしないし文句も言わないだってじいちゃんが警察に楯突くなって言うからさ後で電話してこっちに文句を言えって言うからさ」孫は続けました「頭にくるんだよ ― 白人の友達がいてよく一緒に遊ぶんだけど僕たちの経験を教えてやるとこう言うんだ『なんで我慢するんだ? 抵抗すべきだよ抗議するべきだよ相手にもIDを出させるべきだ』って」孫たちはそんな時こう言うように教えられてきました「君たちにはできるかも知れないけれど僕たちが車にいるときはやめてくれ君らと僕らとでは話は全然違うんだから」では祖父として孫に何を伝えられるでしょうか? どうすれば孫たちが安全に生きていけるでしょう? 私のところに来てこう言う人もいます「ジム怒ってるのかい?」私の答えはこうです「怒るなんて私には贅沢すぎるよそれに頭に来たらどんな結果になるかよくわかっている」だから私にできることは知恵とエネルギーとアイデアと経験を振り絞って差別的なあらゆるものに対してどんな時も必ず抗議することだけですだからまず知識を広め次に差別を白日の下に晒し最終的には力の限りあらゆる手段を使って私が生きているうちに何としても差別を根絶するのです私にはやることがもう一つあります私はアメリカ人に訴えたいアメリカ人の人間性と威厳そして ― 市民としての誇りと責任感に訴えたいこのような凶悪犯罪に敵意で応じないよう訴えたいのですその代わりに社会についてもっと知りもっと気付きもっと意識を高め私たち全員で一致団結して武器も持たない人を殺すことが許される狂気に対して声を上げて抗議するよう訴えたいのです被害者がどんな民族だろうとどんな人種だろうとどれほど違っていたとしても関係ありません私たちは抗議すべきですおかしいことです私たちに残された方法は集団で行動することです黒人も白人もアジア系もヒスパニック系も歩み出てこう主張すべきです「我々はこれ以上こんな行為は認めない」と	Upon first arriving there, the first goal that I had was for me to identify an apartment, so I could bring my wife and my new baby, Melanie, out to join me in Idaho. I immediately went to the personnel office, and talking with the guys in personnel, they said, "Hey, no problem finding an apartment in Mountain Home, Idaho. The people down there love us because they know if they have an airman who is coming in to rent one of their apartments, they'll always get their money." And that was a really important thing. He said, "So here is a list of people that you can call, and then they will then allow you to select the apartment that you want." So I got the list; I made the call. The lady answered on the other end and I told her what I wanted. She said, "Oh, great you called. We have four or five apartments available right now." She said, "Do you want a one-bedroom or two-bedroom?" Then she said, "Let's not talk about that. Just come on down, select the apartment that you want. We'll sign the contract and you'll have keys in your hand to get your family out here right away." So I was excited. I jumped in my car. I went downtown and knocked on the door. When I knocked on the door, the woman came to the door, and she looked at me, and she said, "Can I help you?" I said, "Yes, I'm the person who called about the apartments. I was just coming down to make my selection." She said, "You know what? I'm really sorry, but my husband rented those apartments and didn't tell me about them." I said, "You mean he rented all five of them in one hour?" She didn't give me a response, and what she said was this: She said, "Why don't you leave your number, and if we have some openings, I'll give you a call?" Needless to say, I did not get a call from her. Nor did I get any responses from the other people that they gave me on the list where I could get apartments. So as a result of that, and feeling rejected, I went back to the base, and I talked to the squadron commander. His name was McDow, Major McDow. I said, "Major McDow, I need your help." I told him what happened, and here's what he said to me: He said, "James, I would love to help you. But you know the problem: We can't make people rent to folks that they don't want to rent to. And besides, we have a great relationship with people in the community and we really don't want to damage that." He said, "So maybe this is what you should do. Why don't you let your family stay home, because you do know that you get a 30-day leave. So once a year, you can go home to your family, spend 30 days and then come on back." Needless to say, that didn't resonate for me. So after leaving him, I went back to personnel, and talking to the clerk, he said, "Jim, I think I have a solution for you. There's an airman who is leaving and he has a trailer. If you noticed, in Mountain Home, there are trailer parks and trailers all over the place. You can buy his trailer, and you'd probably get a really good deal because he wants to get out of town as soon as possible. And that would take care of your problem, and that would provide the solution for you." So I immediately jumped in my car, went downtown, saw the trailer -- it was a small trailer, but under the circumstances, I figured that was the best thing that I could do. So I bought the trailer. And then I asked him, "Can I just leave the trailer here, and that would take care of all my problems, I wouldn't have to find another trailer park?" He said, "Before I say yes to that, I need to check with management." So I get back to the base, he called me back and management said, "No, you can't leave the trailer here because we had promised that slot to some other people." And that was strange to me because there were several other slots that were open, but it just so happened that he had promised that slot to someone else. So, what I did -- and he said, "You shouldn't worry, Jim, because there are a lot of trailer parks." So I put out another exhaustive list of going to trailer parks. I went to one after another, after another. And I got the same kind of rejection there that I received when I was looking for the apartment. And as a result, the kind of comments that they made to me, in addition to saying that they didn't have any slots open, one person said, "Jim, the reason why we can't rent to you, we already have a Negro family in the trailer park." He said, "And it's not me, because I like you people." And that's what I did, too. I chuckled, too. He said, "But here's the problem: If I let you in, the other tenants will move out and I can't afford to take that kind of a hit." He said, "I just can't rent to you." Even though that was discouraging, it didn't stop me. I kept looking, and I looked at the far end of the town in Mountain Home, and there was a small trailer park. I mean, a really small trailer park. It didn't have any paved roads in it, it didn't have the concrete slabs, it didn't have fencing to portion off your trailer slot from other trailer slots. It didn't have a laundry facility. But the conclusion I reached at that moment was that I didn't have a lot of other options. So I called my wife, and I said, "We're going to make this one work." And we moved into it and we became homeowners in Mountain Home, Idaho. And of course, eventually things settled down. Four years after that, I received papers to move from Mountain Home, Idaho to a place called Goose Bay, Labrador. We won't even talk about that. It was another great location. So my challenge then was to get my family from Mountain Home, Idaho to Sharon, Pennsylvania. That wasn't a problem because we had just purchased a brand-new automobile. My mother called and said she'll fly out. She'll be with us as we drive, she'll help us manage the children. So she came out, her and Alice put a lot of food together for the trip. That morning, we left at about 5 a.m. Great trip, having a great time, good conversation. Somewhere around 6:30, 7 o'clock, we got a little bit tired, and we said, "Why don't we get a motel so that we can rest and then have an early start in the morning?" So we were looking at a number of the motels as we drove down the road, and we saw one, it was a great big, bright flashing light that said, "Vacancies, Vacancies, Vacanies." So we stopped in. They were in the parking lot, I went inside. When I walked inside, the lady was just finishing up one contract with some folks, some other people were coming in behind me. And so I walked to the counter, and she said, "How can I help you?" I said, "I would like to get a motel for the evening for my family." She said, "You know, I'm really sorry, I just rented the last one. We will not have any more until the morning." She said, "But if you go down the road about an hour, 45 minutes, there's another trailer park down there." I said, "Yeah, but you still have the 'Vacancies' light on, and it's flashing." She said, "Oh, I forgot." And she reached over and turned the light off. She looked at me and I looked at her. There were other people in the room. She kind of looked at them. No one said anything. So I just got the hint and I left, and went outside to the parking lot. And I told my mother and I told my wife and also Melanie, and I said, "It looks like we're going to have to drive a little bit further down the road to be able to sleep tonight." And we did drive down the road, but just before we took off and pulled out of the parking lot, guess what happened? The light came back on. And it said, "Vacancies, Vacancies, Vacancies." We were able to find a nice place. It wasn't our preference, but it was secure and it was clean. And so we had a great sleep that night. The piece that's important about that is that we had similar kinds of experiences from Idaho all the way through to Pennsylvania, where we were rejected from hotels, motels and restaurants. But we made it to Pennsylvania. We got the family settled. Everyone was glad to see the kids. I jumped on a plane and shot off to Goose Bay, Labrador, which is another story, right? Here it is, 53 years later, I now have nine grandchildren, two great-grandchildren. Five of the grandchildren are boys. I have master's, Ph.D., undergrad, one in medical school. I have a couple that are trending. They're almost there but not quite. I have one who has been in college now for eight years. He doesn't have a degree yet, but he wants to be a comedian. So we're just trying to get him to stay in school. Because you never know, just because you're funny at home, does not make you a comedian, right? But the thing about it, they're all good kids -- no drugs, no babies in high school, no crime. So with that being the backdrop, I was sitting in my TV room watching TV, and they were talking about Ferguson and all the hullabaloo that was going on. And all of a sudden, one of the news commentators got on the air and she said, "In the last three months, eight unarmed African-American males have been killed by police, white homeowners, or white citizens." For some reason, at that moment it just all hit me. I said, "What is it? It is so insane. What is the hatred that's causing people to do these kinds of things?" Just then, one of my grandsons called. He said, "Granddad, did you hear what they said on TV?" I said, "Yes, I did." He said, "I'm just so confused. We do everything we do, but it seems that driving while black, walking while black, talking while black, it's just dangerous. What can we do? We do everything that you told us to do. When stopped by the police, we place both hands on the steering wheel at the 12 o'clock position. If asked to get identification, we tell them, 'I am slowly reaching over into the glove compartment to get my I.D.' When pulled out of the car to be searched, when laid on the ground to be searched, when our trunks are opened to be searched, we don't push back, we don't challenge because we know, you've told us, 'Don't you challenge the police. After it's over, call us and we'll be the ones to challenge." He said, "And this is the piece that really bugs me: Our white friends, our buddies, we kind of hang together. When they hear about these kinds of things happening to us, they say, 'Why do you take it? You need to push back. You need to challenge. You need to ask them for their identification.'" And here's what the boys have been taught to tell them: "We know that you can do that, but please do not do that while we're in the car because the consequences for you are significantly different than the consequences for us." And so as a grandparent, what do I tell my grandsons? How do I keep them safe? How do I keep them alive? As a result of this, people have come to me and said, "Jim, are you angry?" And my response to that is this: "I don't have the luxury of being angry, and I also know the consequences of being enraged." So therefore, the only thing that I can do is take my collective intellect and my energy and my ideas and my experiences and dedicate myself to challenge, at any point in time, anything that looks like it might be racist. So the first thing I have to do is to educate, the second thing I have to do is to unveil racism, and the last thing I need to do is do everything within my power to eradicate racism in my lifetime by any means necessary. The second thing I do is this: I want to appeal to Americans. I want to appeal to their humanity, to their dignity, to their civic pride and ownership to be able to not react to these heinous crimes in an adverse manner. But instead, to elevate your level of societal knowledge, your level of societal awareness and societal consciousness to then collectively come together, all of us come together, to make sure that we speak out against and we challenge any kind of insanity, any kind of insanity that makes it okay to kill unarmed people, regardless of their ethnicity, regardless of their race, regardless of their diversity makeup. We have to challenge that. It doesn't make any sense. The only way I think we can do that is through a collective. We need to have black and white and Asian and Hispanic just to step forward and say, "We are not going to accept that kind of behavior anymore."	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
対照的に、米国はベトナムに対して 1994 年を期限とする貿易禁止を実施し、1995 年になってやっと外交関係を確立したものの、それから何年もベトナムからの輸入に最恵国待遇を与えなかった。ベトナムは今でも WTO に加入していない。	By contrast, America maintained a trade embargo against Vietnam until 1994, established diplomatic relations only in 1995, and did not provide most-favored nation treatment to Vietnamese imports for years after that. Vietnam still remains outside the WTO.	{ "source": "news_commentary", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
ギルドに入ったら、少し酔った感じの男の人に声をかけられた。「おうおう、可愛いお嬢さん、品物の受け取りと冒険者への依頼はこっちじゃないよー」「ほう! お嬢さんがかい? ガハハハハッ!頑張れよぉ~」酔ってるけど悪い人じゃない。悪い人だったら迎撃しようとか考えてたんだけど。俺はそのまま受付へ直行する。綺麗な女の人じゃないの? 普通こういうのって。受付の人が喋り出す。「へいっ! 可愛いお嬢ちゃんじゃないか! ギルドになんかようかい?」「あ......えっと、冒険者になりたくって......」「へぇ?お嬢ちゃんが?」「まぁ、ギルドには誰でも入れるがな。お嬢ちゃん犯罪歴とか......は、ないよな。年はいくつ?」「12歳ですっ!」「うーむ、12か......」あれ、あれ、どうかしたのか? 「12歳だとなにか問題が?」「んー、まぁ、そうだな。本当は冒険者の適性年齢ってのは15歳からなんだが、それ以下の歳の場合はXランクっていって、特別なランクからなんだが......それでもいいかい?」うわ、まじか。そんなんあるのか。どーせあれだろ、雑用ぐらいしかできないとかだろ。「Xランク......? すいません、ギルドのことよくわかんなくって......。でも、これしかできる仕事はないから......。詳しく、説明してくれませんかっ?」俺は目を潤ませ首を少しかしげ、手を口にあてる。いわゆる、ぶりっ子ポーズをした。効いてるかな? 「お、おぅ!? あ、お、お嬢ちゃんぐらい可愛い娘だったら、いろんな仕事あると思うけどな...。カフェの店員とかよ。まぁいい、知らないってんならギルドの説明するぜ。ちっとばかし長くなるがいいか?」「はい!大丈夫です!お願いします。」効くのか。さぁ、どんどん説明してくれ。「ギルドっちゅうのはな、全アナズム中共通の、どこにでもある、冒険者を扱う組織なんだ。依頼を受けて、その中から好きな依頼......あぁ、そこの掲示板か、受付から選ぶんだが、ま、とにかく依頼を冒険者達にやってもらうんだ。そして、冒険者は依頼人から依頼料を受け取る。まぁ、提示額をギルドももらうからな。依頼人は一割多く払うんだが。あ、ちなみに冒険者も依頼はすることができるからな?でも受付は隣の店でやってくれよ。あ、依頼をクエストっていう奴もいるぞ。ちがいはないがな。ひとまず、ここまではいいな?」「よし、じゃあ次な。依頼の種類は大きく分けて3つ、討伐、採取、その他だ。討伐は指定の場所で指定の魔物を倒す依頼だ。討伐部位を納めて依頼クリアになる。ちなみに倒した魔物はその冒険者のものだぞ。採取は指定された物や魔物の部位を採取指定持ってくる依頼だ。まぁ、討伐よりこっちがメインだな。最後にその他。商人の一時的な護衛や、底ランク向けに掃除とかもあるぜ」お、討伐した魔物もらえるのか。それは良いことだな。儲かる。「パーティについて。パーティってのは冒険者が2人以上で組むもんのこったな。まぁ、その分依頼が簡単になったり、逆にパーティでないと受けられない依頼とかもあるぜ。パーティは何人でもOKだ。ちなみに、100人とか超えてるパーティや経済力的に協力なパーティもあるんだが、そういうのはチームっていう。チームは結構、権利持ってるぞ。ついてこれてるか?」「過去に取った魔核とかは大丈夫なんですか?」「ん?その魔核が提出した本人が入手したものだったらたとえ100年前のもんでも大丈夫だぞ。どういう原理かはわかんないけど。じゃ、次で最後な。」「お願いします」「ここのことだ。ここは酒場が一緒にやってるギルドだ。王都には他にもカフェが一緒になったギルドもあるぜ。あぁ、あと、泊まる場所が見つからないんだったら言えよ?ギルドには簡易宿泊施設があるからな。一晩50ベルだ。あと魔核の買取も行っている。あ、ちなみに魔核以外の魔物の部位はそれ専門の店とか商人組会に行けよ?あと、ギルドカード。これは冒険者全員に渡される。身分証にもなるからな。そう簡単になくすなよ?再発行はできるけど。ランクが変わったらカードのランクも変わるし、依頼相手に自分のスキルを見せたかったら自分のギルドカード触れさせれば見せたいスキルだけ見せられる。説明はここまで。」よくこんなに説明してくれたな。ありがとう。「ありがとうございます!」「じゃ、早速冒険者として登録するかい?」「はい!」「名前は? お嬢ちゃん」「アリムっていいます」「アリムちゃん...ね......っと。あ、あとセカンドネームは?」「え?」名字なんかいるのか。でも俺のステータスにはそんなの書いてなかった。適当に決めていいよね。俺の地球に居た時の名字は#成上__じょうじょう__#...。訓読みすると、なりうえ...。「ボクの名前はアリム・ナリウェイです。」「ナリウェイ......ね。できたぜ。ギルドカードだ。こうして俺は冒険者となれた。あ、性別が女のまま登録しちゃったんだ.........まぁ、いっか。	When I entered the guild, a man that seems to be drunk immediately spoke to me. 「Ou... Cute little miss, the reception for goods and requests for adventurers is not in this booth.」「Hou! Little miss are sure? GAHAHAHAHA... good luck!」 Even if he’s drunk, he doesn’t seem to be a bad person. I was thinking of how fight back if he was a bad person. I then went straight to the reception desk. Wow, a muscle uncle seems to be the receptionist. He looks quite strong on the appearance alone. Wasn’t it supposed to be a beautiful woman? The norm is probably this. Then the receptionist uncle spoke. 「Oh! Isn’t this a pretty cute little miss! Is there anything you want with the guild?」「Um... you see.... I want to register as an adventurer...」「Hee? Are you sure little miss?」「Yes!」「Well... anyone can register I guess, little miss I don’t expect it but you don’t have any criminal record right?... How old are you by the way?」「It’s years old desu!」「Umu... I see...」 Are? Are? Is there something wrong? 「Is there something wrong being years old??」「Well, the thing is you see, in order to be a proper adventurer, it is required to be at least years old, which can be called adult, in case you’re younger than that then you will be given rank X... it is kind of a special rank but is it alright with you?」 Uwah... seriously... so it was like that... I wonder what the tasks will be, maybe it’s like some simple chores?... 「X rank...? umm sorry but... I don’t really know anything about it or the guild... I only know that I can look for work here.. can I have a detailed explanation about it?」 I make the most powerful teary puppy eyes I could, along with placing my hands close to my mouth. The so called loli beg pose. 「Ou...Ouu!?... um right... I mean... If you are that cute there will definitely be a lot of work available for you to do in the guild... Like a clerk for a cafe or something... well I still haven’t explained about the guild so let’s go with that first ok?」「Hai! I will be alright! Thank you!」 Was that effective? Well there will be more coming. 「Then let’s start. First the guild is an organization that deals with adventurers who have been registered, and can be accessed throughout every country. Receiving requests, choosing what requests to do, oh by the quests are available in the quest board, well there are also requests given directly to the adventurers. As for compensations, the adventurer will receive some rewards but 10% of the rewards will go to the guild, the client also pays 10% extra to the guild, adventurers can also have their requests submitted to the guild, its on the other window, there are also some people who directly call for requests without using the guild. That’s all the information, is that good enough? 」「Okay, next we go to the types of requests. Basically quests are divided into 3 types, those are subjugation, collection, and escorting. Subjugation is for defeating designated monsters in designated places. By the way any demon you have defeated will belong to you. It is also required to present a part of the demon as subjugation proof. Collection includes requests to bring specific objects that was requested, also proof of subjugation can also be included in collection requests. This is also the easiest known requests that is taken by beginners. The other is escorting and direct requests which are easy to understand what it’s like.」 Oh, demon that you have took down can also be submitted. That surely is helpful. In making money that is. 「Next will be about parties. A party is a group of adventurers doing a request together. A party consist of at least 2 people and will be really helpful in doing harder requests. Since there are quests that cannot be done alone or would need more people to make it easier to accomplish. Any people can make their own party. There are also parties that exceed 100 people and accumulates all rewards they have collected. Such parties are called “Team” A team have plenty of privileges. got it?」「Ummm... is it ok if the demon cores that I have collected from some time ago?」「Nn? Well it doesn’t really matter even if the core was collected 100 years ago. I don’t know how it works but it will still be usable even after a longer time has passed. Well then the last part」「Please continue」「It’s about this. This part of the guild which includes the bar that works in a collaboration. There are a few shops in the area that is working in collaboration with the guild. The guild also provides services that these places offer but only in a more simplified form. The price for the inn is 50 bell per night. Items can also be sold to the guild the same as in other merchants that are specialized in collecting them. Oh that’s right We only buy demon cores by the way, other usable parts can be sold to specialized shops, and merchant organizations. And this here is the guild card. This is given to all adventurers. It also serves as a proof of being one, so do not easily lose it. In case you lost it, it can be reissued. When your rank changes. the rank of your card will also be changed. Information about your skills can also be shown if you allow another person to see it. You can also limit the skills that you want to show if needed.」 The explanation was really understandable. Thank you for explaining. 「Thank you very much!」「And so do you really want to be an adventurer?」「Well then what’s your name jou-chan?」「My name is Alim.」「I see Alim-chan... so then what’s your second name?」「Eh?」 Eh, do I really need to have a surname? But according to my status I don’t have any. Maybe I can choose whatever I want? My last name when I was on earth is “Narita”. Maybe something that derived from it should be good. Something nariu, Hmmm. like Nariu~ei or something like Nariwei ... Alright let’s go with Nariwei. 「My full name is Alim Nariwei desu!」「Nariwei is it... Ok and the guild card is done. It’s a gray guild card for now.」 And in this way I am now an adventurer. Ah... My registered gender is a female... Well not that I mind about it.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 2, "inserted_lines_src": 9, "inserted_lines_trg": 3 }
俺の水中での戦法は海弓術の型がほぼすべてだ。ワニみたいな硬い皮膚を持ったモンスターにこのスキルではロクなダメージにならない。かといって一体一体相手にしていては食い殺されるし......。「......あっ! もしかして海弓術は結界を張ったり、刃を生み出したり、罠を設置したりする〈破魔弓術〉のスキルは特殊過ぎて融合できなかったが、〈海弓術・七の型〉は海の中専用ということ以外シンプルな効果のものが多い。もし融合させることが出来れば、水中での戦法も無限に広がる......! 「水属性に特効のある【トライデントアロー】と【針千本】で...... ......出た! まるでフォークのような細かい三つ又の矢が全方位に発射される。だが、スキルとスキルの融合ではワニを倒しきるのに威力が足りない。鮫の矢の嵐【鮫】は俺の矢によってダメージを受けた対象をホーミングする! 】ではかすり傷程度にしかならないワニとて、サメの群れに襲われれば無事ではいられまい......! 「ガー! ガー!」ガー坊も弱ったワニに追い打ちをかけて数を減らしていく。よし、これなら問題なく処理でき......。「ぐぅ......!?」と、飛んできた......ワニが! グルグルとドリルのように回転しながら矢のごとく突進してきた......! ワニたちは得意技もガー坊と似ている......! いや、それより無傷のワニが結構いる......。体の小さいワニはあらかた処理できたが、体の大きいワニはかなり残っている。ダメージを与えた敵をホーミングするということは、裏を返せばダメージを与えていない敵には当たらないということ。最初の攻撃を避けるかスキルによって相殺してダメージをゼロに抑えたワニにとって、2撃目は避けるまでもなく勝手に矢の方から避けてくれる状況になっていた。とはいえ、攻撃判定を持つ矢がそこらじゅうを飛び交っていたのは確かで、ワニたちはそれが収まってから狙いを定めて突進してきた。まったく頭の良いワニさんたちだ......! 【矢の嵐】を使った今、それ以上の攻撃は【流星弓】とか【【流星弓】でガー坊を引っ込めたら探索が滞るし、どデカい発射台を設置する【スイスイ水の中を泳ぐワニに照準が定まるとは思えない。かくなる上は......! 「戻れ! ガー坊! いけっ! 海弓術・四の型合技...... 水の中から逃げるのみ! ここは川であって海のど真ん中じゃない。スピード自慢の【梶木】と【アイムアロー】を組み合わせて飛べば、陸地なんてすぐそこだ。戦闘というのは、相手の土俵で行うものではないのだ。自分の土俵に相手を引き込む......! 水の中から出た! このまま飛べるだけ飛んで、効果が解除されたら【浮雲の群れ】で空中に陣取って地上を確認したのち、安全なところに下りればいい。「なっ!? うわああああああッ!!」左脚を何かに噛まれた!? そして、回転の方向が変わる......! 【アイムアロー】のきりもみ回転から、側転のような横回転に......! 「がッ! ぐっ......! ああ......」嫌な音がした後、体が草地に投げ出される。サバンナを思わせる背の低い草はクッションにもならなかった。だが、まだ瀕死ではない......。「......左脚の感覚がない」グロ設定をほぼオフにしている俺の目にはまだ脚があるように見えてはいる。だが、実際そこに左脚はなく、動かすことが出来ない。風雲竜との戦いの時に味わった部位欠損状態だ。これ治すには『再生薬』というHP回復薬とはまた違うアイテムが必要になる。そして、前と同じく俺はこの薬を所持していない! 最強パーティ決定戦でも欠損状態になる可能性はあるし、なんとか作っておかないといけないな......。両腕がなくなれば弓が撃てなくなるが、両脚なら問題ないってわけでもない。ここ最近、強敵から学ばされることが多いな。その俺の左脚を食いちぎった強敵というのは......やはりワニだ。カラスのように黒いウロコを持つワニは、もはや恐竜のように見える。古代に存在したとされるワニの先祖をモチーフにしたモンスターだろうか。あの巨大な口で襲い掛かられたのに左脚1本で済んだことを感謝したくなるレベルだ。それに激しく回転しながら食いちぎってくれたおかげで、体が吹っ飛んで古代ワニから十分な距離をとることが出来た。まさか群れのボスともいえる古代ワニが地上で待ち構えているとは思わなかったが、奇襲をかけられてこの状況は運が良いな。普通にのんびり地上に上がっていたら即死もあり得た。【アイムアロー】をぶっ潰す攻撃力には恐れ入るが、結果的に身を守ることは出来た。脚は1本なくなっているが、戦いの流れはこちらにある......そう思おう。いや、戦わずに一度【ワープアロー】で撤退するという手も......。「ガー! ガー! ガー!」「どうしたガー坊?」いつもより鳴き声が激しい。それに今にも襲い掛かろうというほど興奮している......。「まさか、あいつが持ってるのか? 進化に必要なアイテムを......」その鳴き声はガー坊なりの返事に思えた。 ......この状態でやるだけやってみるか! マップを見た感じこのサバンナは街道からかなり外れているし、1発の【ワープアロー】では近くの村までは飛べない。場合によっては着地を他のモンスターに狩られる可能性もある。ならば、ここであの古代ワニを倒して進化したガー坊と共に移動する方が安全だ。脚がないからなんだ。砲台くらいにはなる! これはガー坊の進化をかけた戦いだ。ガー坊をメインに据えて戦おう!	When it came to my fighting style underwater, the seven forms of Seabow Arts was everything. I doubted that it would do much against monsters like alligators, who had tough skin. That being said, I would get torn to shreds if I tried to fight them one on one... “...Ah! Maybe I could fuse Seabow Arts!” Skills involving barriers, creating blades and setting traps were too special for fusion, but aside from the fact that they were used in the water, most of them were quite simple. And so if I could fuse them, it would really open up new possibilities for me when it came to underwater combat....! “Trident Arrow and Thousand Arrows... Thousand Trident!” ...It worked! Small fork-like tridents shot out in every direction. However, fusing skills would not result in enough force to defeat these alligators. “Seabow Arts – Form Five fusion...Shark Arrow Storm!” ‘Shark’ homed in on any targets that had taken damage! And even if Thousand Trident only scratched the alligators, they wouldn’t be so lucky when attacked by a pack of sharks...! “Gar! Gar!” Garbow also attacked the weakened alligators and brought their number down. Alright. I would be able to deal with them now... “Gah...!?” It came flying...the alligator! It was shooting at me like an arrow while rotating...! Even their special attacks reminded me of Garbow...! No, more importantly, there were a lot of alligators who had taken no damage... The smaller alligators had been easy to kill, but there were plenty of larger ones left. While it homed in on enemies that took damage, it also meant that it ignored enemies who hadn’t. And so the enemies that dodged the first attack or canceled it out with skills didn’t even have to avoid the second attack. That being said, it was still true that there were arrows flying around everywhere, and so the alligators had waited for them to die down before charging. They really were smart...! Now that I had used Arrow Storm, the only attacks I had left that were better were Meteor Bow and Southern Cross Ballista... But using Meteor Arrow meant losing Garbow and halting the exploration. And Southern Cross Arrow created a large launching platform that would be hindered by the water. I doubted that I would be able to aim at the alligators who swam so quickly in the water. In that case...! “Come back! Garbow! Go! Seabow Arts – Form Four fusion...I’m Marlin!” We just had to escape from the water! This was a river, not in the middle of the ocean. If I combined the speedy Marlin with I’m Arrow and flew, we would be on dry land in no time. You shouldn’t fight an enemy on their own turf. Lure them into your own...! We shot out of the water! I would fly as far as I could, and once the effect ended, I would land on Floating Cloud Herd and watch them from above. “What!? Woah!!” Something bit into my left left!? And then I started rotating in a different direction...! I went from I’m Arrow’s drill spin to doing cartwheels...! “Gah! Grr...! Ah...” I heard a terrible sound and then I was thrown onto the grass. Even the tall grass here was not enough to cushion me. But I wasn’t dead... “...I can’t feel my left leg.” As I had turned off most gore effects in the settings, it looked like I still had a leg. But in fact, there was no leg there, and so I couldn’t move it. I had experienced this loss of body parts before during the fight with the Windcloud Dragon. I needed a regeneration potion or some other item in order to fix this. And just like before, I didn’t have such a potion with me! As it was possible that I could lose limbs during the tournament battle, I really had to find a way to make some... I wouldn’t be able to shoot if I lost my arms. But losing a leg was also bad. These strong enemies have been really teaching me lessons a lot lately. As for the enemy that tore off my left leg...it was the alligator. It had scales that were black like a crow. It practically looked like a dinosaur. Perhaps it had been based on some prehistoric ancestor of alligators. Considering how large its mouth was, I should probably be thankful that it only took one leg. And due to the violent spinning, I had been flung off far away enough from the ancient alligator. I had not expected this boss-like alligator to be waiting for me up on dry land. But I got off pretty lightly considering I had been ambushed. I might have died in one hit had I just walked normally out of the water. While its ability to crush I’m Arrow frightened me, I was able to protect myself in the end. And even while missing a leg, the battle was in my favor...I think. No, perhaps I should just retreat once with Warp Arrow... “Gar! Gar! Gar!” “What is it, Garbow?” He was crying much louder than usual. And he seemed so excited, like he was about to attack... “Wait, is it because that thing has it? The item you need for evolution...” It sounded like Garbow was replying to me. ...So I would do what I could in the situation! From what I could see, this savanah was quite far from the main road. I wouldn’t be able to reach the nearest town by using Warp Arrow just once. Besides, I might be hunted down by some other monster when I landed. In that case, I should kill this ancient alligator and then travel with the evolved Garbow. That would be safer. What did it matter if I didn’t have any legs? I’ll be a cannon! This was all for Garbow’s evolution. And so I would stay put with Garbow and fight!	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 7, "inserted_lines_src": 17, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
この幼い身体で、成人男性と――それも相当な手練れを相手に斬り結ぶ事ができた。つまり糸を使った身体強化ならば、充分な戦力向上を図れるという証明である。「とは言間フルに使うと、身体の方が保たないな......」今もなお身体の各所、特に肩と膝にズキズキとした痛みが走っている。「まぁ、そこは追々修正していくとして、今はとにかく、この場を離れないとな......」こんなところを人に見られたら、いくら俺が子供の姿をしているといっても、間違いなく牢屋で数日を過ごす事になってしまう。いくらマチスちゃんが証言してくれるだろうといっても、夜に出歩いている事がバレるのは今後にとってもあまりよろしくない。不自然な顔の汚れを落として、目立つ艶やかな髪を隠しておけば、そこらの浮浪児に見えてもおかしくないはずだ。りができており、マチスちゃんの周りには衛士が集まって応急処置が施されていた。あとは衛士経由で、マクスウェルかコルティナの元に女王華の種が手渡されるだろう。俺は隠密のギフトを活用しつつ、コルティナの家まで戻り、自室に潜り込んだ。ただでさえ子供の身体で夜更かししているので、身体の負担は結構大きい。質の高い睡眠は確保しておきたい。汚れたタオルとマフラー、血まみれの服は翌日に洗濯するとして......いや、その作業もフィニアの目を盗みながらなので、面倒なのだが...... 「......もういいや。週明けに学院で洗濯しよう」俺は汚れたタオルを体操着を入れる巾着に隠し、パジャマに着替えて寝床に潜り込んだのだった。翌朝、俺が目を覚まして食堂に向かうと、すでにコルティナの姿は見えなかった。「おはよう、フィニア」「おはようございます、ニコル様。今日はすごくゆっくりでしたね?」「うん。ちょっと夜更かししちゃった」俺はそうフィニアに告げると、彼女は俺の発言を何か勘違いしたようだった。そんな仕草をしながらも、彼女の給仕の手は止まらない。手早くサラダとトーストをテーブルの上に運び、ハムエッグも用意してくれた。「そう言えば昨日、ライエル様の活躍を目の当たりにしたのでしたか。興奮して寝付けなくなるのも無理はないですね」「ぜったい違うし」だがそれが彼女に別の勘違いを生ませてしまったようだ。「ライエル様はカッコいいですからね。ニコル様もお父様の活躍を目にして、見直したでしょう?」「む、レイドの方がカッコいいし」「それは同意しますけどね!」彼女の一番は、面映ゆいながらも、未だ俺のままだった。おそらく過去を盛大に美化した結果なのだろうが、評価してくれるのはありがたい。「コルティナは?」「何でも昨夜火事があったそうで。それが実は人攫いのアジトで、誘拐されていたマチス様が発見されたそうです」「そっか、よかった」「しかも森から奪われた女王華の種も一緒に見つかったとかで、マクスウェル様とコルティナ様が朝から大忙しなんです」「へー、じゃあ蜜を分けてもらえるね」「はい、これでニコル様も元気になれますね!」「わたしはいつも元気だけど......」だがそれもこれまで。俺の体力を大きく削ぎ落としていた元凶である魔力蓄過症さえ完治すれば、鍛錬の成果が正常にフィードバックされるはず。「むふ」「嬉しそうですね、ニコル様」「病気が治るんだし、多少はね」極僅かに砂糖の甘みがあるところが気が利いている。ほのかな甘みが身体に染み込むように感じられて、心地いい。ドヤドヤと騒がしく玄関が開いたと思ったら、コルティナとマクスウェルが闖入してきたのだ。「たっだいまぁ。あー、疲れた。フィニアちゃんお茶くれる?」「ワシは豆茶でな。濃い目に頼むぞ」「はい、ただいま用意します」そんな俺の気も知らず、マクスウェルは空気を読まずに話を続ける。「それで、ニコルや。話は聞いておるかな?」「フィニアから、だいたいは」「そりゃよかった。説明し直すのは面倒だからのぅ。そういう訳で昼から女王華の元に訪れるから、準備しておくんじゃぞ」「わかった。ミシェルちゃんとレティーナは?」「ああ、連絡しておかんと後で恨まれそうじゃな。そちらはニコルに任せるとしようか」「ん、連絡しておく」しかし、俺はマクスウェルと違って彼女達時中一緒にいるクラスメイトだ。顔を合わせる度に恨み言を言われるのは勘弁願いたい。「はい、お気をつけて」ぴょんと椅子から飛び降り――足がつかないのだ――服を着替えてから玄関を飛び出していく。背後から微笑ましそうな視線を三つほど感じた気がするが、この際気にしない事にした。	Next to the fallen man, I clenched my fist, feeling the result of my training. I was able to fight with an adult—and someone of such a skill—with this small body. Not to mention, without being overpowered through the sword’s might, setting the tackle aside. In other words, it was proof that strengthening my body with threads raised my battle power quite a lot. “That said, if I use it for a full three minutes, my body would give in first...” Even now, a stinging pain ran all over my body, especially my shoulders and knees. If it was like this, were I to recast it during the battle to extend its time, I probably would become unable to move for a few days. “Well, I can work on that part bit by bit. For now, I need to get away from this place...” A clearly suspicious-looking child had clearly stabbed a clearly suspicious-looking man to death. If someone saw me like this, I would end up spending some days in jail regardless of how young I looked. Even if Matisse gave testimony for me, the fact that I slip out at night would be revealed, so the end result would still be bad. I wiped the soot from my face with the scarf and returned back to the kidnappers’ base. If I wiped the filth of my face and covered my glossy hair, I would be hardly distinguishable from your average street urchins. There was already a crowd gathered around the base, with guards surroundings Matisse and giving her emergency treatment. Seeing that, I heaved a relieved sigh and slowly withdrew from the place. With that, her safety should’ve been guaranteed. After this, the Queen Blossom’s seeds would reach Maxwell and Cortina via the guards. I activated my Stealth Gift, returned to Cortina’s house and slipped into my room. Then I wet a towel with the water jug and carefully cleaned the filth from my body. As expected, it was not even early summer now, so getting naked and wiping my body made me feel quite cold, but if I didn’t do at least that much I’d be reeking of sweat. I was already staying up late as a child, so the burden on my body was quite big. I wanted to guarantee myself a good quality sleep. I decided to wash the towel, scarf, and my bloody clothes tomorrow... Well, it would be quite troublesome to do that without being seen by Finia... “...Well, whatever. I’ll just wash them in the academy next week.” I received the attention of other students so I couldn’t do anything too suspicious, but that much shouldn’t matter. I put the filthy towel inside the drawstring purse where my gym uniform was, then changed to my pajamas and slipped into my bed. The next morning, when I woke up and headed to the dining room, Cortina was nowhere to be seen. Actually, it was already close to forenoon so I overslept quite a bit. I greeted Finia who was in the middle of preparing dinner. “Morning, Finia.” “Good Morning, Lady Nicole. You slept for quite some time today.” “Yeah, I ended up staying up late yesterday.” When I mentioned that, Finia seemed to have misunderstood what I meant. She covered her mouth and started giggling meaningfully, with an unpleasant smile. Her expression practically screamed how amused she was. During that time, her hands didn’t stop doing the waiter duties. She quickly carried the salad and toasts to the table, and even prepared ham and eggs. “Now that you mentioned it, you witnessed Lord Lyell in action yesterday, right? No wonder you couldn’t sleep at night.” “You are way off the mark.” Her absurd misunderstanding put me in a foul mood and I protested while looking away. But that action produced yet another misunderstanding. “Lord Lyell is really cool. You see him in a different light after witnessing his feats, right?” “Mhm, I think Reid is cooler.” “Well, I agree with you there!” She immediately agreed to my objection. Embarrassingly enough, I was still number one in her eyes. She probably glorified the past a lot, but I was still grateful for her high evaluation. “Where’s Cortina?” “I heard there was a fire last night. But that place turned out to be the kidnappers’ base and they found Lady Matisse there.” “Oh, that’s good.” “Moreover, the stolen Queen Blossom’s seeds were discovered alongside her, so both Lord Maxwell and Lady Cortina are very busy.” “Oh, looks like we can get her nectar now.” “Indeed, with that, you can become energetic, Lady Nicole!” “I’ve always been energetic, though...” Rather, I’ve been training my body incomparably harsher than other children. The problem was that it bore no fruit. But that would be solved soon. When the Magic Buildup Disease that was the culprit of my weak strength gets cured, my training will finally start producing proper feedback. “Mhm.” “You look happy, Lady Nicole.” “Well, my illness is going to be cured, so I suppose I am a bit.” I finished my brunch and brought the after-meal cup of hot milk to my lips. It was quite sensible that it had a faint sweetness of sugar. That sweetness permeated my body, making me feel at bliss. But such a calm forenoon didn’t last for very long. The door suddenly burst open and Maxwell and Cortina intruded inside. “We’re hooome. Aah, I’m so tired. Finia, can you pour me some tea?” “Make it soybean one for me. And preferably strong.” “I will prepare it at once.” Cortina aside, at least you hold back a little, Maxwell. I cursed in my mind while amazed at Finia’s good personality. Without paying me any mind, or reading the mood, Maxwell started talking. “Well then, Nicole. I assume you’ve heard of the situation?” “I got the gist from Finia.” “That’s good. It would be bothersome to explain it all over again. We will be returning back to the Queen Blossom at noon, so make preparations.” “Got it. What about Michelle and Letina?” “Yeah, I suppose we have to contact them or they would hold a grudge. I leave that to you.” “Okay, I will let them know.” If I were to be honest, I wasn’t so keen on taking them with us, because we were still heading for the monster territory, regardless of how docile they were. However, unlike Maxwell, I was their classmate and spend every day with them. I wanted to avoid hearing their complaints every time we saw each other. “Okay, take care.” I hopped down from the chair—since my feet couldn’t reach the ground—and went to change my clothes, then stepped outside. I felt three warm gazes on my back, but I decided to pretend that I didn’t notice.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 1, "inserted_lines_src": 25, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
百年前までエルフ以外の者は立ち入りが禁止されていたが、エルフの長が代変わりしてから解放された主な理由は、簡潔に述べると時代の変化である。人間の数も昔に比べて人口は増えて、ここ数百年間で戦争の規模も大きくなった。エルフ達は種を守るために、人間や他種族の文明を取り入れて繁栄させようと舵を切ったのだ。森を抜けると、若いエルフ達の賑やかな声が出迎えてくれた。「ようこそ、エルフの里へ!」若いエルフ達が里の入口で地図のような物を手渡してくれた。よく見ると、里のガイドブックのようだ。想像していたのと違って、静かな場所だと思っていたが、遊園地のような賑わいでシェーナは驚いてしまった。「驚いたかい? 私が若かった頃はこぢんまりした里だったけど、最近は森を解放してお祭り騒ぎさ」「ええ、賑やかで楽しそうですね。訪れてよかったです」リィーシャは里全体を見渡しながら、シェーナに語りかける。現在、里の人口比はエルフやダークエルフ、人間や他種族の者になっているらしい。時代の流れなのか、最近はエルフと人間が結婚して、ハーフエルフの誕生が話題になった。エルフは数百年前まで他種族と交流を拒んでいたので、ハーフエルフは今後エルフの未来を担う存在になっていくのかもしれない。「私は長に挨拶してくるから、君達は里をゆっくり見物でもして楽しんでくれ」リィーシャはシェーナ達と別れて、里の奥へと消えていった。シェーナはガイドブックを広げると、里に点在する施設を確認する。里は大きく分けて中央と東西南北リアで構成されている。東は主に観光エリアとして、外部から訪れた者をもてなすための娯楽施設がある。西は里のエルフで作った農産物を提供した料理店が並んでいる。南は森や里の治安部隊が詰めている兵舎や訓練施設がある。北は畑や牧場が広がり、農作物を育てるための土地で形成されている。前回ルトルスと訪れた農村でも見たことだが、エルフの里でも他種族の若者を受け入れて農業の成り手を育てているらしい。中央は里の住人が暮らす家々で構成されている。「どこから見て回ろうか?」シェーナは皆に意見を求めると、バラバラな意見が返ってきた。キシャナは北、ペトラは西、ルトルスは南、グラナは東である。「各々みたい場所へ行こう。昼になったら、西のエリアに集まって昼食にしようか」シェーナの意見が通ると、皆は各エリアに向かって歩き出す。シェーナはルトルスと一緒に南を見て回ることにする。「じゃあ、行こうか」「......うん」シェーナはルトルスの手を引いてあげると、南のエリアに向かって歩き出した。	Hundred years ago entry to the elf district was forbidden for other races, but since a new elf leader took over, the forest was opened to other races. The main reasons for the change were to make things simpler, as well as the change of times. Nowadays the number of humans had increased a lot compared to before, and the wars waged recently involved many more people than the ones from centuries ago. The elves also chose to protect other races, so they changed those customs to introduce cultures from humans and other races to their own. When they crossed the forest, the happy voices from young elves reached their ears. “Welcome to the elf district!” The young elves stood at the entrance of the district and handed them something that resembled a map. When they took a closer look at it, it turned out to be a guide book of the district. Schenna had pictured it as a more calm place, but it’s surprisingly almost like an amusement park. “Are you surprised? When I was young, this was just a small and calm district, but since they recently opened the forest for anyone, it’s almost like a festival every day.” “Yes, it looks very bright and amusing. I’m glad we came to visit.” Reesha looked over the whole district as she spoke to Schenna. The district was currently populated by nine-tenths elves and dark elves, while the remaining tenth were all other races. And with the change of time, there were recently a lot of talks about marriages between elves and humans, and the birth of half-elves. Elves had historically been a race that refused to mix itself with others, but now that half-elves were starting to emerge, they might have to shoulder the many traditions from the other elves. “I’ll go greet the leader, you can go look around anywhere you can and have fun.” Reesha split off from the rest of them and disappeared somewhere inside the district. Schenna spread the guide book and checked the different establishments in the district. The district was divided into five big sections, central, north, south, east, and west areas. The eastern side was mostly for sightseeing and filled with establishments to entertain visitors. The western side had restaurants that used the produce from the fields of the district itself. The southern side had the forest and barracks for the district’s defensive force, as well as training grounds. The northern side housed the farms and fields, formed by many patches of cultivated earth. The elf district also accepted young people from other races and taught them how to raise crops, Schenna had already noticed a similar pattern in the village she visited with Luthors before. And lastly, the central part was the residential area for those living in the district. “Where should we go look around then?” Schenna turned to see what the others thought, but they all had different ideas. Kishana wanted to go to the north, Petra to the west, Luthors to the south, and Grana to the east. “We should go to whichever part we want then. Around noon we’ll meet again on the west side to have lunch.” After Schenna gave her opinion, everyone split off and went where they wanted. Schenna was going together with Luthors to check the southern side. “Well, should we go then?” “...Yeah.” Schenna held Luthors hand and they headed towards the southern side.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 1, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
そこでイヌイットとともに暮らしました 200人ほどのイヌイットの集落の中でイヌイットでないのは3家族だけでしたその村にテレビはなく当然コンピュータもなくラジオや電話さえありませんでしたやることと言えばイヌイットと外で遊ぶことだけです雪と氷が私の砂場でありイヌイットが私の教師でしたそうして私はこの極地という世界に心から惹かれるようになっていつかこの場所のことを伝えこの場所を守るための仕事をしようと心に決めたのです私の作品をいくつかブランディ・カーライルの素敵な曲にのせてご覧いただこうと思いますナショナルジオグラフィックがなぜOKしたのかわかりませんまだ雑誌に載っていない撮ったばかりの写真を公開させるなんてかつてなかったことですお見せできるのは大変嬉しいですスライドの始めの方にグレートベア・レインフォレストに住む小さな熊の写真が何枚かあります真っ白ですがシロクマではなくスピリットベアとかカーモードベアと呼ばれている 200頭ほどしか残っていないパンダより珍しい熊です 2ヶ月川辺で待ち構えましたが一度も姿を見せずもう駄目だと思いましたこんな馬鹿な話をナショジオに持ちかけていったい何を考えていたのかと思いましただからその2ヶ月考えていたわけです写真家をやめたら何をしたらいいのかときっとクビに決まっています雑誌に載せるのは写真であって言い訳ではないというのは彼らがはっきりさせていることですから 2ヶ月粘った後のある日もう終わりだと思っているとすごく大きな白い雄熊が出てきて私のすぐ1メートルくらい横を過ぎると魚を捕りに行き森に戻って食べたのです子どもの頃からの夢が叶いその日はずっと熊と一緒に森を散歩しました熊は原生林の中を歩き先住民による細工のある樹齢400年の木のそばで眠り私もその森で熊から1メートルと離れていない所で一緒に寝たのですそして写真を撮りましたその時の写真や私が極地で撮ってきた作品をお見せできることに興奮していますどうぞお楽しみくださいひとりで森にさまよい込んだことある? すべてがあるべき姿にあると感じられる場所に? そこの命の一部になり素敵なものの一部になったと感じるひとりで森にさまよい込んだことがあるならひとりで森にさまよい込んだことがあるなら星空を見つめたことある? 仰向けになってなぜなのかと思いながら何のためなんだろう? 自分は何者なんだろう? 星空を見つめたことがあるなら Ah oh oh ah ah oh oh 星空を見つめたことある? 雪の中を歩いたことある? 元いた所に戻ろうとしていつでも結局どこへ行けばいいかわからなくなる雪の中を歩いたことがあるなら Ah ah oh ah ah oh oh 外の世界を歩いたことがあるならわかるでしょうありがとうございますまだ終わりじゃありません時間がないので先へ進みましょうどうもありがとうございます海から氷が消えているというニュースが溢れています最低の水準になっていると科学者たちは最初 100年以内に海から氷がなくなると言っていましたがそれが50年になり今では4年から10年のうちに北極の氷は夏の間なくなるだろうと言っていますそうするとどうなるのでしょう? いつも目にしているとありふれたニュースになってあまり意識もしなくなります私がしようとしているのはその帰結をイメージとして見せるということです氷がなくなれば生態系がまるごと失われることをみんなに理解してほしいのですシロクマも50年から100年のうちに絶滅すると予想されています私のメッセージを伝える上でこれほどセクシーで美しくカリスマ的な大型動物は他にいませんシロクマは優れたハンターです浜辺でしばらく一緒にいたシロクマです海に落ちた氷の上にアザラシがいて少し離れていましたがシロクマはそこに泳いで行くと 400キロはありそうなアゴヒゲアザラシを捕え泳ぎ戻って食べたのですシロクマは満腹して上機嫌で撮るために6メートルまで近づいても見せた警戒と言えばさらにアザラシを食べることくらいすごくたくさん食べていて 100キロくらいは食べていたのではと思いますが口の片側で食べながら反対側から戻すという具合でしただからシロクマは多少とも氷があれば生き残ることでしょうしかしその氷がなくなろうとしているのです北極でシロクマの死骸をよく目にするようになりました 20年前生物学者として調査をしていたときにはまず見かけなかったものですそれがこの4、5年は至る所で目にするようになりましたボーフォート海で氷の溶けた海に浮いているのを見ました去年はノルウェーで2体見ました氷の上で目にしますこの熊たちは消えていく氷の影響をまざまざと示しています母熊と2歳の子熊が陸から何百キロも離れた氷の船で漂っています大きな氷河の氷に載っていて幸い彼らは今のところ大丈夫低体温症で死ぬことはありませんどこかの土地に流れ着くことでしょう問題は北極の氷河の 95%が後退していることであるのは陸の上ばかりになり海の生態系へと氷が押し出されなくなっていますこれはワモンアザラシで北極の「スナック」です小さくて丸々とした 70キロの脂肪の塊でシロクマの命を支えていますこの辺にいるゴマフアザラシとは違っていますワモンアザラシもまたその一生を海の氷と関わりながら生きています氷の中で子どもを産み氷の下にいる北極鱈を食べていますやせ細った氷の写真です 12年ものの多年氷の一部です科学者が予想していなかったのはこの氷が溶けることで黒い大きな水たまりができ太陽熱を吸収することで氷がさらに溶けるということですボーフォート海に潜っているところです視界が200メートルあります命綱をつけていて氷がそこら中で動いていますこの潜水で命を落としかけた話を小一時間くらいしたいところですがこの写真で本当に重要なのは端に見えている多年氷の大きな塊ですこの一塊の氷に 300種の微生物がいるのです春になって日が差すようになると植物プランクトンが氷の下に育ちますそれから海藻ができさらにそれらを食べる— 動物プランクトンが現れますだから氷は豊かな園のような役割を果たしているのです園にある土のようなものです逆さまの園です氷が消えるのは園から土がなくなるのと同じですこれは仕事場にいる私です自分の仕事場がありがたく思えるでしょう 1時間ほど氷の下に潜っていた後です顔が凍り付いており手足の感覚もなくなっています下から上がってきたところでとにかく水から出たいと思っていました 1時間もそのような厳しい状態にいるため潜るたびにほとんどいつもレギュレータの中に吐くことになりますストレスに体が対応しきれないのです潜水が終わってほっとして「カメラを受け取ってくれ」と言おうと助手に向かって「ウーッウーッ」と言ってるわけですが「写真を撮ってくれ」だと思ったようですコミュニケーションの断絶を経験したわけですでも努力の甲斐はありますベルーガホッキョククジライッカクシロクマヒョウアザラシの写真をお見せしますがこの写真は中でも特に意味深いものですご覧いただいた穴を通って氷の海に入り氷を下から見上げると目が回るように感じました命綱もなくとても不安になりました周りの世界は動いています「まいったな」と思いましたしかしそこで目にしたのは無数の端脚類やカイアシ類が動き回り氷の下でエサを取り子を産み一生を過ごす姿でしたこれが北極における食物連鎖全体を支えているのです海から氷が減るとき海のカイアシ類の数も減ることになるのですホッキョククジラですこれは今地球にいる動物の中で一番長く生きてきたと考えられていますこのクジラは250歳以上かもしれません産業革命が始まる頃に生まれて 150年に及ぶ捕鯨の中を生き抜いてきたのかもしれませんそして今一番の脅威は北の氷の消失です南にいる我々のライフスタイルが引き起こしていることですイッカクです 2.5メートルの象牙質の牙を持つ威厳ある生き物ですが広い海で生きていける彼らがここにいて小さな氷の穴から頭を出し息継ぎしているのは氷の下に山ほど鱈がいるからですそして鱈がそこにいるのは常食とする端脚類やカイアシ類がいるからですいよいよ私のお気に入りの部分ですいまわの際で私が他の何よりも思い出すだろうエピソードがありますスピリットベアと過ごした時間も強烈でしたがあのヒョウアザラシとの出会いのような体験は二度とないだろうと思っていますヒョウアザラシは探検家シャックルトンの時代から悪評を受けてきました口には苦笑いを浮かべ邪悪な黒い目をして体は斑点で覆われていますまったく古風な見た目で少し怖い感じがします 2004年に悲劇的な事件があって科学者が海に引きずり込まれ食べられれてしまいましたそれでみんな「やっぱり危険な動物なんだ」と思ったのですみんな思い思いのことを考えますそのとき記事のアイデアが浮かびました南極に行ってヒョウアザラシがたくさんいる海に入り本当に危険な動物なのかどうか公平な目で見てやろうと思ったのですそれがアイデアでしたちなみにヒョウアザラシは「ハッピーフィート」も食べます可愛らしいペンギンを食べるヒョウアザラシは醜い悪者だと私たち人間は勝手に考えますでもそれは違いますペンギンは自分が可愛らしいとは知りませんヒョウアザラシは自分が怪物のようだとは知りません単に食物連鎖の一環ということですヒョウアザラシはとても大きいです小さなゴマフアザラシとは違います体長4メートルで体重は500キロです好奇心が強く積極的です 12人の旅行客の乗ったゴムボートが氷の海を漂っているとヒョウアザラシがやってきてボートに噛みつきますボートは沈み始め乗客は慌てて船に戻り家に帰って襲われたという話をしますでもヒョウアザラシはただ— 風船を噛んだだけです海に大きな風船を見つけ手がないのでちょっと噛んでみたらボートが弾け彼らが逃げていったそれだけのことですドレーク海峡を過ぎて5日して・・・これちょっとすごいでしょう? ドレーク海峡を過ぎて5日してようやく南極にたどり着きましたスウェーデン人の助手兼ガイドが一緒でしたゴラン・エルメという名でヒョウアザラシについてよく知っていました私はまだ見たことがなかったのです小さなゴムボートで入り江に入っていくと巨大なヒョウアザラシがいて彼に言わせても「クソでけぇアザラシだ」ということでしたそのアザラシはペンギンの頭を噛んで振り回していました中身を引っ張り出して骨に付いた肉を食べようとしていたのですそれからまた別なのを捕りに行き新しいのを捕まえるとボートの下にやってきて船体に体当たりし始めました私たちは水に落ちないよう掴まっていました身を低くしながらゴランが言いました「こいつぁいいアザラシだから水に入ったらいい」私はゴランを見つめて「冗談言うなよ」と言いました実際はもうちょっと品のない言い方をしたと思いますしかし彼は正しかったのです何のために来たのかと説教されましたその馬鹿な記事を雑誌に載せたいならやらなくちゃいけない雑誌に言い訳は載せられないだろうと口の中がすごく乾きましたたぶん今ほどひどくではありませんがすごく乾きました脚はずっと震えていて感覚がなくなりました足ひれを履きかろうじて口を開けるとシュノーケルをくわえゴムボートの脇から水の中へ入りましたこれがヒョウアザラシの最初にしたことですすごい勢いで来てカメラをすっぽりくわえ上にも下にも歯が並んでいましたゴランは水に入る前に素敵なアドバイスをしてくれました「怖けりゃ目を閉じときゃいいそしたらどっかいっちまうから」作戦と言えばそれしかなかったのですしかしとにかく写真を撮り始めましたヒョウアザラシはしばらく威嚇していましたが驚いたことに急になごんだのですそしてどこからかペンギンを捕まえてきて私から3メートルくらいのところまで来ると暴れているペンギンを放しましたペンギンは私の方に泳いできて逃げましたするとまた別なのを捕まえて戻ってきます私に食べろと言ってるんだと気づきました私のところにきてペンギンを放す理由が他にあるでしょうか? それを4、5回繰り返したあとがっかりした顔を私に近づけましたあまり擬人化したくはありませんが彼女は本当に「この駄目な捕食者はきっと私の海で飢え死にしちゃうわ」と言っているようでした泳ぐペンギンは捕まえられないのだと気づき捕まえたペンギンをくわえたままゆっくりと近づいてから放しましたそれでもうまくいきません私はひどく笑いそれから感情がこみ上げてマスクが溢れるほど泣きましたそれほど驚くべき体験だったのですそれでもうまくいかないとわかるとペンギンをくわえて氷山を滑り降りながらバレエのようなセクシーな動きを誇示した後私の所に持ってきて勧めましたそんなことが4日間続きました 1、2回のことではないのですそれから生きているペンギンが駄目ならと死んだペンギンを持ってくるようになりましたそれで私の周りにはペンギンが4つも5つも漂うことになりましたが私はひたすら写真を撮り続けました時折立ち止まると「どうして?」というがっかりした顔を見せますペンギンを食べないのが信じられないのです彼女の世界では子育てか食べるかであり私は子育てしてなかったわけですからそれでも駄目ならと彼女は私の頭にペンギンを載せ始めました無理にでも食べさせようというのですあちこち私を押しやりながら私のカメラに食べさせようとしました写真家には夢のようです彼女はいらいらすると私の顔に空気の泡を吹きかけました食べなきゃ餓死しちゃうよと教えているようでしたそれでも彼女はあきらめずペンギンを食べさせようとし続けましたそこでの最後の日に彼女を怒らせたかもと不安になりましたこちらに近づきながら仰向けになってノドからゴッゴッゴッと削岩機のようなすごい音を出したからです噛みつかれるかと思いましたきっとすごく苛立っているのだとでも実はそうではなく背後から近づいていた別なアザラシを彼女は威嚇して追い払ったのでしたそれからまたペンギンを捕まえて持ってきました出会ったアザラシは彼女だけではありません 30頭のヒョウアザラシがいる海に入りましたが恐ろしい目に遭うことは一度もありませんでした私が追ってきた動物の中でも際立った存在でシロクマにも劣りませんそしてヒョウアザラシもまた氷に覆われた環境を必要としているのですすいませんちょっと感情的になっていますこれは私の胸の奥深くにあるエピソードですみなさんにお話しできて光栄ですこれが私の情熱を傾けているものです北極や南極に一緒に行きたいという方がいたら連れて行きます行きましょうこのストーリーを世界に伝えなければなりませんありがとうございますありがとうございますどうもありがとうございますありがとうございます	There we lived with the Inuit in the tiny Inuit community of 200 Inuit people, where [we] were one of three non-Inuit families. And in this community, we didn't have a television; we didn't have computers, obviously, radio. We didn't even have a telephone. All of my time was spent outside with the Inuit, playing. The snow and the ice were my sandbox, and the Inuit were my teachers. And that's where I became truly obsessed with this polar realm. And I knew someday that I was going to do something that had to do with trying to share news about it and protect it. some images, a cross-section of my work, to the beautiful music by Brandi Carlile, "Have You Ever." I don't know why National Geographic has done this, they've never done this before, but they're allowing me to show you a few images from a coverage that I've just completed that is not published yet. National Geographic doesn't do this, so I'm very excited to be able to share this with you. And what these images are -- you'll see them at the start of the slide show -- there's only about four images -- but it's of a little bear that lives in the Great Bear Rainforest. It's pure white, but it's not a polar bear. It's a spirit bear, or a Kermode bear. There are only 200 of these bears left. They're more rare than the panda bear. I sat there on the river for two months without seeing one. I thought, my career's over. I proposed this stupid story to National Geographic. What in the heck was I thinking? So I had two months to sit there and figure out different ways of what I was going to do in my next life, after I was a photographer, because they were going to fire me. Because National Geographic is a magazine; they remind us all the time: they publish pictures, not excuses. And after two months of sitting there -- one day, thinking that it was all over, this incredible big white male came down, right beside me, three feet away from me, and he went down and grabbed a fish and went off in the forest and ate it. And then I spent the entire day living my childhood dream of walking around with this bear through the forest. He went through this old-growth forest and sat up beside this 400-year-old culturally modified tree and went to sleep. And I actually got to sleep within three feet of him, just in the forest, and photograph him. So I'm very excited to be able to show you those images and a cross-section of my work that I've done on the polar regions. Please enjoy. Brandi Carlile: ♫ Have you ever wandered lonely through the woods? ♫ ♫ And everything there feels just as it should ♫ ♫ You're part of the life there ♫ ♫ You're part of something good ♫ ♫ If you've ever wandered lonely through the woods ♫ ♫ If you've ever wandered lonely through the woods ♫ ♫ Have you ever stared into a starry sky? ♫ ♫ Lying on your back, you're asking why ♫ ♫ What's the purpose? ♫ ♫ I wonder, who am I? ♫ ♫ If you've ever stared into a starry sky ♫ ♫ Ah, oh, oh, ah, ah, oh, oh ♫ ♫ Have you ever stared into a starry sky? ♫ ♫ Have you ever been out walking in the snow? ♫ ♫ Tried to get back where you were before ♫ ♫ You always end up ♫ ♫ Not knowing where to go ♫ ♫ If you've ever been out walking in the snow ♫ ♫ Oh, ah, ah, ah ♫ ♫ If you'd ever been out walking you would know ♫ Paul Nicklen: Thank you very much. The show's not over. My clock is ticking. OK, let's stop. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. We're inundated with news all the time that the sea ice is disappearing and it's at its lowest level. And in fact, scientists were originally saying sea ice is going to disappear in the next hundred years, then they said 50 years. Now they're saying the sea ice in the Arctic, the summertime extent is going to be gone in the next four to 10 years. And what does that mean? After a while of reading this in the news, it just becomes news. You glaze over with it. And I want people to understand and get the concept that, if we lose ice, we stand to lose an entire ecosystem. in the next 50 to 100 years. And there's no better, sexier, more beautiful, charismatic megafauna species for me to hang my campaign on. Polar bears are amazing hunters. This was a bear I sat with for a while on the shores. There was no ice around. But this glacier caved into the water and a seal got on it. And this bear swam out to that seal -- 800 lb. bearded seal -- grabbed it, swam back and ate it. And he was so full, he was so happy and so fat eating this seal, that, as I approached him -- about 20 feet away -- to get this picture, his only defense was to keep eating more seal. And as he ate, he was so full -- he probably had about 200 lbs of meat in his belly -- and as he ate inside one side of his mouth, he was regurgitating out the other side of his mouth. So as long as these bears have any bit of ice they will survive, but it's the ice that's disappearing. We're finding more and more dead bears in the Arctic. When I worked on polar bears as a biologist 20 years ago, we never found dead bears. And in the last four or five years, we're finding dead bears popping up all over the place. We're seeing them in the Beaufort Sea, floating in the open ocean where the ice has melted out. I found a couple in Norway last year. We're seeing them on the ice. These bears are already showing signs of the stress of disappearing ice. Here's a mother and her two year-old cub were traveling on a ship a hundred miles offshore in the middle of nowhere, and they're riding on this big piece of glacier ice, which is great for them; they're safe at this point. They're not going to die of hypothermia. They're going to get to land. But unfortunately, 95 percent of the glaciers in the Arctic are also receding right now to the point that the ice is ending up on land and not injecting any ice back into the ecosystem. These ringed seals, these are the "fatsicles" of the Arctic. These little, fat dumplings, 150-pound bundles of blubber are the mainstay of the polar bear. And they're not like the harbor seals that you have here. These ringed seals also live out their entire life cycle associated and connected to sea ice. They give birth inside the ice, and they feed on the Arctic cod that live under the ice. And here's a picture of sick ice. This is a piece of multi-year ice that's 12 years old. And what scientists didn't predict is that, as this ice melts, these big pockets of black water are forming and they're grabbing the sun's energy and accelerating the melting process. And here we are diving in the Beaufort Sea. The visibility's 600 ft.; we're on our safety lines; the ice is moving all over the place. I wish I could spend half an hour telling you about how we almost died on this dive. But what's important in this picture is that you have a piece of multi-year ice, that big chunk of ice up in the corner. In that one single piece of ice, you have 300 species of microorganisms. And in the spring, when the sun returns to the ice, it forms the phytoplankton, grows under that ice, and then you get bigger sheets of seaweed, and then you get the zooplankton feeding on all that life. So really what the ice does is it acts like a garden. It acts like the soil in a garden. It's an inverted garden. Losing that ice is like losing the soil in a garden. Here's me in my office. I hope you appreciate yours. This is after an hour under the ice. I can't feel my lips; my face is frozen; I can't feel my hands; I can't feel my feet. And I've come up, and all I wanted to do was get out of the water. After an hour in these conditions, it's so extreme that, when I go down, almost every dive I vomit into my regulator because my body can't deal with the stress of the cold on my head. And so I'm just so happy that the dive is over. I get to hand my camera to my assistant, and I'm looking up at him, and I'm going, "Woo. Woo. Woo." Which means, "Take my camera." And he thinks I'm saying, "Take my picture." So we had this little communication breakdown. But it's worth it. I'm going to show you pictures of beluga whales, bowhead whales, and narwhals, and polar bears, and leopard seals today, but this picture right here means more to me than any other I've ever made. I dropped down in this ice hole, just through that hole that you just saw, and I looked up under the underside of the ice, and I was dizzy; I thought I had vertigo. I got very nervous -- no rope, no safety line, the whole world is moving around me -- and I thought, "I'm in trouble." But what happened is that the entire underside was full of these billions of amphipods and copepods moving around and feeding on the underside of the ice, giving birth and living out their entire life cycle. This is the foundation of the whole food chain in the Arctic, right here. And when you have low productivity in this, in ice, the productivity in copepods go down. This is a bowhead whale. Supposedly, science is stating that it could be the oldest living animal on earth right now. This very whale right here could be over 250 years old. This whale could have been born around the start of the Industrial Revolution. It could have survived 150 years of whaling. And now its biggest threat is the disappearance of ice in the North because of the lives that we're leading in the South. Narwhals, these majestic narwhals with their eight-foot long ivory tusks, don't have to be here; they could be out on the open water. But they're forcing themselves to come up in these tiny little ice holes where they can breathe, catch a breath, because right under that ice are all the swarms of cod. And the cod are there because they are feeding on all the copepods and amphipods. Alright, my favorite part. When I'm on my deathbed, I'm going to remember one story more than any other. Even though that spirit bear moment was powerful, I don't think I'll ever have another experience like I did with these leopard seals. Leopard seals, since the time of Shackleton, have had a bad reputation. They've got that wryly smile on their mouth. They've got those black sinister eyes and those spots on their body. They look positively prehistoric and a bit scary. And tragically in [2003], a scientist was taken down and drowned, and she was being consumed by a leopard seal. And people were like, "We knew they were vicious. We knew they were." And so people love to form their opinions. And that's when I got a story idea: I want to go to Antarctica, get in the water with as many leopard seals as I possibly can and give them a fair shake -- find out if they really are these vicious animals, or if they're misunderstood. So this is that story. Oh, and they also happen to eat Happy Feet. As a species, as humans, we like to say penguins are really cute, therefore, leopard seals eat them, so leopard seals are ugly and bad. It doesn't work that way. The penguin doesn't know it's cute, and the leopard seal doesn't know it's kind of big and monstrous. This is just the food chain unfolding. They're also big. They're not these little harbor seals. They are 12 ft. long, a thousand pounds. And they're also curiously aggressive. You get 12 tourists packed into a Zodiac, floating in these icy waters, and a leopard seal comes up and bites the pontoon. The boat starts to sink, they race back to the ship and get to go home and tell the stories of how they got attacked. All the leopard seal was doing -- it's just biting a balloon. It just sees this big balloon in the ocean -- it doesn't have hands -- it's going to take a little bite, the boat pops, and off they go. So after five days of crossing the Drake Passage -- isn't that beautiful -- after five days of crossing the Drake Passage, we have finally arrived at Antarctica. His name is Goran Ehlme from Sweden -- Goran. And he has a lot of experience with leopard seals. I have never seen one. So we come around the cove in our little Zodiac boat, and there's this monstrous leopard seal. And even in his voice, he goes, "That's a bloody big seal, ya." And this seal is taking this penguin by the head, and it's flipping it back and forth. And what it's trying to do is turn that penguin inside-out, so it can eat the meat off the bones, and then it goes off and gets another one. And so this leopard seal grabbed another penguin, came under the boat, the Zodiac, starting hitting the hull of the boat. And we're trying to not fall in the water. And we sit down, and that's when Goran said to me, "This is a good seal, ya. It's time for you to get in the water." And I looked at Goran, and I said to him, "Forget that." But I think I probably used a different word starting with the letter "F." But he was right. He scolded me out, and said, "This is why we're here. And you purposed this stupid story to National Geographic. And now you've got to deliver. And you can't publish excuses." So I had such dry mouth -- probably not as bad as now -- but I had such, such dry mouth. And my legs were just trembling. I couldn't feel my legs. I put my flippers on. I could barely part my lips. I put my snorkel in my mouth, and I rolled over the side of the Zodiac into the water. And this was the first thing she did. She came racing up to me, engulfed my whole camera -- and her teeth are up here and down here -- but Goran, before I had gotten in the water, had given me amazing advice. He said, "If you get scared, you close your eyes, ya, and she'll go away." So that's all I had to work with at that point. But I just started to shoot these pictures. So she did this threat display for a few minutes, and then the most amazing thing happened -- she totally relaxed. She went off, she got a penguin. She stopped about 10 feet away from me, and she sat there with this penguin, the penguin's flapping, and she let's it go. The penguin swims toward me, takes off. She grabs another one. She does this over and over. And it dawned on me that she's trying to feed me a penguin. Why else would she release these penguins at me? And after she did this four or five times, she swam by me with this dejected look on her face. You don't want to be too anthropomorphic, but I swear that she looked at me like, "This useless predator's going to starve in my ocean." So realizing I couldn't catch swimming penguins, she'd get these other penguins and bring them slowly towards me, bobbing like this, and she'd let them go. This didn't work. I was laughing so hard and so emotional that my mask was flooding, because I was crying underwater, just because it was so amazing. And so that didn't work. So then she'd get another penguin and try this ballet-like sexy display sliding down this iceberg like this. And she would sort of bring them over to me and offer it to me. This went on for four days. This just didn't happen a couple of times. And then so she realized I couldn't catch live ones, so she brought me dead penguins. Now I've got four or five penguins floating around my head, and I'm just sitting there shooting away. And she would often stop and have this dejected look on her face like, "Are you for real?" Because she can't believe I can't eat this penguin. Because in her world, you're either breeding or you're eating -- and I'm not breeding, so ... And then that wasn't enough; she started to flip penguins onto my head. She was trying to force-feed me. She's pushing me around. She's trying to force-feed my camera, which is every photographer's dream. And she would get frustrated; she'd blow bubbles in my face. She would, I think, let me know that I was going to starve. But yet she didn't stop. She would not stop trying to feed me penguins. And on the last day with this female where I thought I had pushed her too far, I got nervous because she came up to me, she rolled over on her back, and she did this deep, guttural jackhammer sound, this gok-gok-gok-gok. And I thought, she's about to bite. She's about to let me know she's too frustrated with me. What had happened was another seal had snuck in behind me, and she did that to threat display. She chased that big seal away, went and got its penguin That wasn't the only seal I got in the water with. I got in the water with 30 other leopard seals, and I never once had a scary encounter. They are the most remarkable animals I've ever worked with, and the same with polar bears. And just like the polar bears, these animals depend on an icy environment. I get emotional. Sorry. It's a story that lives deep in my heart, and I'm proud to share this with you. And I'm so passionate about it. Anybody want to come with me to Antarctica or the Arctic, I'll take you; let's go. We've got to get the story out now. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks very much. Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
フィニアと軽くデートを済ませた後、俺は気配を消してマクスウェルの家に忍び込んだ。奴はガドルスの送迎もやっていたので、念のため気配を消しておく。何らかの理由でガドルスがこの屋敷に残っている可能性もあると思ったからだ。マクスウェルの執務室の前で気配を探り、中しかいないと確認してから扉を開ける。「ただいま、今戻ったぞマクスウェル」「おう、戻ったかレイド。首尾よく行ったようでなによりじゃな」「ああ。コルティナも機嫌を直してくれたよ。しばらくは問題ないと思う」「しばらくなのか?」「一か月月おきには顔を出さないといけないかもしれないけどな」「それは......アスト殿に負担をかけてしまうのぅ」毎月のように顔を出そうとすれば、その魔道具を制作しているアストに負担をかけることになってしまう。このアイテム自体間程度で作り上げれるようだが、それでも高価なアイテムを毎月提供してもらうのは、気を使わざるを得ない。あと、あの苦痛は一か月に一度でも味わいたくない。「何とか俺の都合もあるから二か月はあるかもって言っておいたがな」「さすがにそれ以上の間を開けるのは可哀想か。やれやれ恋する乙女の機嫌取りも大変じゃな」「まあ、俺の自業自得って面もあるからな。アストにはせめて報酬を弾んでおくさ。こっちもデンをおもちゃにされたことだし、その辺で手を打ってくれるだろう」アストの報酬に関して話していると、急に動悸が激しくなり、体の節々が痛み出した。「どうした!?」「どうやら時間切れらしい......」倒れ込まないように俺はその場で膝をつく。倒れて頭などを強打する危険性を危惧してのことだ。波のように襲い来る苦痛に歯を食いしばって耐える。これからは一か月から二か月に一度は、この苦痛を経験せねばならないのだ。半日前にも味わったように、身体がバラバラになるような激痛が走る。の魔法で強引に叩き起こされる羽目になった。見ると俺はだぶだぶになったコートの下で、かなりはしたない格好をしたまま目を覚ましていた。「目が覚めたかの?」客に会うための身嗜みを整えるために設置されているものだ。背の高いマクスウェルが使用するので、かなり大きなものが置かれている。前の姿と変わりはない。どうやら変な戻り方をせずに済んだようだ。変な戻り方とは、術式が元の身体を曖昧に記録した状態で使用した場合、元の姿に戻りきれず異形と化す可能性もあると、アストから聞いていたせいだ。無論、あの男の仕事にそんなミスがあるとは思っていないが、それでも不安なモノは不安である。「無事、元に戻ったようだな」「お主の服も持ち帰っておるよ。じゃがせめて下着くらいは男に運ばせるのはやめてくれんかのぅ」「無茶言うな。俺が女児向けの下着なんて持ち歩いていたら、それこそコルティナに牢獄に放り込まれるわ!」「それはワシも同じなんじゃが......?」今日の出来事を思い返す。コルティナと感動の再会。生まれて初めて女に言い寄ったあのシーンで、万が一俺の懐から女児用の下着がこぼれ落ちた日には......次の転生を迎えさせられてしまうかもしれない。いや、マリアも次は最悪の状況を想像し、俺は身震いしながら身嗜みを整える。「む、どうしたレイド。体調が悪いのか?」「いや、怖い想像をしただけだから、心配するな」「そうか? 慣れない魔法を使用したのじゃから、身体に無理が掛かっておる可能性もある。くれぐれも体調には気を付けるのじゃぞ。不調を感じたらワシかマリアに知らせるがよい」「ああ、そうさせてもらうが......マリアに知らせるのはさすがにやばくないか?」「なに、慣れぬ儀式魔法を学んで体調を崩したとでも言えばよい」さすがに次の日の夕方まで戻らないというのは、怪しまれるかもしれない。俺もあまり帰宅時間が遅れては、そのズレから疑惑が発生する可能性もある。「余り遅れると怪しまれるから、俺はもう帰るぞ」「待て待て。震えとるのに一人で帰せるわけないじゃろう。それにそんな真似をしたらワシがコルティナに怒鳴られるわい」「いやこれは......まあいい、頼む」どのみち日も暮れようかという時間に子供一人で帰還するのは、確かに危ない。マクスウェルがついてくれば、問題の大半は穏便に収めることができる。幸いトラブルに巻き込まれることもなく、コルティナの家まで戻ることができた。「ただいまー。コルティナ、戻ったよ?」「お、お帰りなさいませ、ニコル様。マクスウェル様もご苦労様です」「うむ、ではワシはここで失礼するぞ」「え、いえ、その......ちょっとお願いが......」「フィニア、何かあったの?」「ええ、コルティナ様が――」「え......?」コルティナに何かあったらしい。お互い今日の出来事は初めての経験だったし、体調でも崩したのだろうか? 俺はやや心配になりながら、コルティナの部屋に向かう。「コルティナ、入るよ?」いつもならあまり訪れることのない、コルティナの部屋。今日は二度目の訪問だが、その時は彼女に不調は見受けられなかった。何かあったとすれば、俺と別れた後のはずだ。心配になって返事を待たず扉を開く。すると中には、ベッドの上で毛布にくるまり、でへでへと気持ち悪い笑みを浮かべるコルティナが存在したのだった。「その、私が帰った時からこの様子でして。話も通じない状態なので、どうしたものかと」その様子を見て、マクスウェルは呆れたように踵を返す。「これ以上は付き合いきれんて。もうお主たちでどうにかせい」「見捨てる気かよ!?」「馬に蹴られたくないでなぁ」そう言うとさっさと退場するマクスウェル。俺も後を追いたかったが、この状態のコルティナを放置するわけには行かない。結局、ベッドの上でバタバタするコルティナを眺め、立ち尽くすしかできなかったのだ。	After lightly finishing my date with Finia, I erased my presence and snuck into Maxwell’s house. I had been going in and out for so long already that I was fully aware of all the traps around it. He had gone to get Gadius, so I erased my presence just in case. There was a chance that Gadius had stayed behind for whatever reason. I looked for human presence while standing in front of his office, and after ascertaining that there was only one person inside, I opened the door. “I’m back, Maxwell.” “Ah, welcome. It seems that everything has gone well.” “Yeah. Cortina’s mood is back to normal now. It should last for a while.” “For a while?” “I might have to show my face every month or two.” “That... Would put some burden on Sir Aste.” At present, I couldn’t use Polymorph on my own. If I tried to visit her every month, it would put the burden on Aste who made the scroll version of it. The item itself can be made in about five hours, but requesting something so highly valued every month would need careful consideration. Also, I really didn’t want to experience that pain even once a month. “I told her it might take about two months due to my circumstances.” “Any longer than that would be too pitiful for her. Oh dear, pleasing maidens in love is quite a difficult task.” “Well, I’m paying for my own mistakes here. I have to give Aste his fair share of rewards. He turned Den into his plaything too, so I can strike some bargain considering that.” While I was talking about Aste, my heartbeat suddenly increased, and my joints were assaulted with pain. “What is the matter!?” “Looks like the time is up...” I dropped to my knees so I wouldn’t fall over. I feared hitting my head if I collapsed as is. I grit my teeth and endured the pain attacking in waves. I would have to experience this pain once every month or two from now on, after all. Like I experienced half a day ago, the sharp pain of my body being torn apart assaulted me. It was definitely not something you could endure, so I easily lost consciousness, my vision turning dark. After a while, Maxwell had to forcibly wake me up with the Awaken spell. Checking myself, I seem to have woken up looking quite improper under the coat that was now too large for me. “Are you awake?” Tying my coat, I stood before the mirror installed in the office. It was something he set up there to fix his appearance when meeting with guests. Since it was used by someone as tall as Maxwell, it was quite a big mirror. Based on the inspection, I now looked identical to my original appearance. I seem to have reverted without any irregularities. By irregularity, I meant that in case the spell failed to accurately record the original appearance, there was a possibility that you could fail to revert and end up with a grotesque form. Aste warned me of that. Naturally, I didn’t think a spell devised by him would have such an error, but the anxiety was still there. “Looks like everything went smoothly.” “I have brought your clothes here. However, please at least stop having a man carry your underwear.” “Don’t give me that. If I carried little girl panties with me, Cortina would’ve thrown me into jail!” “That goes for me too, though...?” I recalled today’s events. The emotional reunion with Cortina. During the scene where I was courting her, the first woman in my life, if the panties fell from my pocket... I feel like I would’ve faced my next reincarnation. Actually, Maria would probably not even cast Reincarnation on me anymore. I shuddered, imagining the worst possible outcome while getting dressed. “Mh, what is it, Reid? Do you feel unwell?” “No, I just imagined something scary, don’t worry about it.” “Is that so? It was a spell you are not used to, so there is a possibility that your body is strained. Be very mindful of your condition. If you feel unwell, call Maria or me at once.” “Okay, I’ll do that... But wouldn’t it be bad if Maria knows about this?” “Oh, you can simply tell her that you used a ritual spell and ruined your condition.” Now that he mentioned it, I did use that pretext for spending the night away this time. Still, they might have suspected something for not returning until the evening of the next day. Maxwell had already informed Finia that I would return by then, though. If I was too late, they might raise questions about the delay. “They’ll start suspecting something if I don’t return soon, so I’m going back.” “Wait, wait. You are shivering, I cannot let you go alone. And if I did, I would get yelled at by Cortina.” “I mean... Well, alright then.” It was indeed dangerous to send a child home alone when it was already darkening. I could resolve most dangers given my power, but there was no need to try my luck. If Maxwell follows me, most situations could be resolved quietly. Fortunately, we arrived at Cortina’s home without running into any trouble. While acting nonchalantly, I vigorously opened the door. I was acting like a kid who had cheerfully returned home. “Hey, I’m back, Cortina?” “W-Welcome back Lady Nicole. And thank you for escorting her, Lord Maxwell.” “Of course. Well then, I shall excuse myself.” “Eh, ah, um... I have a little favor to ask...” “Finia, is anything the matter?” “Yes, Lady Cortina has—” “Huh...?” There was apparently something up with Cortina. It was our first time for both of us, so maybe she was feeling unwell after the experience? I headed to Cortina’s room while feeling a little worried. Seeing the situation, Maxwell followed after me. “Cortina, I’m coming in, okay?” This was Cortina’s room that I usually didn’t visit. It was my second time visiting it today, but she wasn’t feeling bad during the previous visit. If something had happened, it could only have happened after we parted. Getting worried, I opened the door without waiting for a reply. And then, I saw Cortina, rolled in her blanket with a really disturbing grin on her face. “Um, when I returned, she was already like this. She doesn’t even hear me, so I was lost on what to do.” So it was basically that. She had been grinning like this ever since we parted. Seeing her state, even Maxwell felt exasperated. “I cannot handle this anymore. Just do something on your own.” “Hey, are you planning to ditch us here!?” “I have no desire to get involved in other’s romantic affairs.” With those words, he quickly made his escape. I wanted to follow after him, but I couldn’t really leave Cortina in this state. In the end, I could do nothing but stand and stare as she made merry on the bed.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 4, "inserted_lines_src": 17, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
かつて世界を救った英雄。そであるコルティナに詰め寄った事で、女性は強張った表情を浮かべながら事情を説明してくれた。そしてその噂が広まれば、観光地で有名なこの町も大幅なイメージダウンになってしまう。俺達は食事しながら、コルティナはお茶で喉を潤しながら、女性の――ジェシカさんの話を聞く。「つまり、息子さんのマイキー君が昨夜から行方不明と?」「はい。気付いたのは寝る前。よく家を抜け出す子でしたので、またフラフラ出歩いていたのかと思ったのですが、朝になっても戻ってこず......」「それで徹夜してしまったのですね。大分顔色が悪いですよ」「ですが息子が――!」活発そうで、そして生意気そうな少年だった。その彼の行方が、いまだ見つからない。「そう言えば昨日別れた時、門の方に走っていったような?」「門ですか?」フィニアが昨夜の様子を思い出しながら、報告する。これはコルティナにも情報を伝える必要があるからあえて口にしている面もある。確かに彼は、俺達と別れた後、町の外側に向かって駆けて行った。今考えてみると、あの時間にあの方向に走っていくのは、かなり怪しい。「町の外に出た可能性もある?」「でもなぜ、外に......この近辺は他よりは安全と言っても、獣が出ない訳じゃないのに」冒険者達によって周辺の治安は整えられているが、それでも小規模なモンスターの類は存在する。「そこまではわからないけど......いや、ちょっと待って」それはあの白いの――破戒神が俺に伝えた言葉だ。「確か、洞窟にカーバンクルがいるって......」「カーバンクル? 保護指定幻獣じゃない。どうしてこんなところに?」「わからないけど、神様がそういったの」「神様って、昨日のあの白い子? 自分で神を名乗るなんて変な子だとは思ってたけど......」コルティナはあの白いのが神である事に半信半疑だ。しかし、これが普通の反応だろう。「とにかく、洞窟のそばでカーバンクルを見かけたから保護しに来たって言ってた。でも多分方便」「方便って......どうしてそう思うの?」「だって、あそこは獣人用のお風呂だよ? そんなところで待ち伏せて、わざわざわたしに教えたって事は、わたしに行ってもらいたいんじゃないかなぁって」洞窟にカーバンクルがいる。その情報を俺に渡すために、白々しい演技までしてあの場で待ち伏せていたのだ。そして姿を消した少年。このタイミングでこの事件。無関係を断じる方が難しい。「ひょっとして、その子が先にカーバンクルを発見してしまったとか?」「まさか、幻獣に襲われて!?」「いや、カーバンクルはそれほど好戦的なモンスターじゃありません。下手に手を出さない限り安全です。そもそも子供程度の脅威なら、歯牙にもかけません」カーバンクルはそれほど強いモンスターではない。だがそれでも竜種の端くれ、しかも特に魔法に秀でた種族だ。子供相手なら自在にあしらう事ができるはず。つまり、マイキー君がカーバンクルに襲われて帰れなくなったという線はない。「なんにせよ、可能性がある以上、様子を見に行かないといけないわね」「わたしもいく!」というか、顔を知っているのは俺かフィニアだけだ。村人を連れて行くよりは俺の方がよほど役に立つはず。「そうね。あまりお勧めはできないけど、ニコルちゃんの探知能力は私にとってもありがたいわ」コルティナは策を講じる事に優れてはいても、他の能力は一般的な冒険者を上回る程度。一流に手が届きそうで届かない、そんなレベルだ。「それならわたしも!」ミシェルちゃんとレティーナも両手を上げて立候補をするが、森の中の竜種を捜しに行くのに、彼女たちを連れて行くわけにはいかない。されて、結局留守番する事になった。「あの、私はどうすれば......」「ジェシカさんが森に来ても、できる事は何もありません。擦れ違いになる可能性もありますし、町で待っていてください。それにカーバンクルの元に向かったと決まった訳じゃありませんし」「は、はい......」彼女もコルティナに反論するほど、取り乱してはいなかった。ここは大人しく、こちらの言葉を承諾してくれる。こうして俺は、コルティナでカーバンクル探索に出る事になったのだ。	Urged by Cortina, one of the Heroes that once saved the world, the woman started to explain the circumstances with a stiff expression. If she so wished, Cortina could easily erase her from this world. Not to mention, if the rumours spread about it, this place would take a big hit as a tourist attraction spot, too. She knew that too, hence the apparent tension on her face. We decided to head inside the cafeteria in question and discuss the matter with the woman over a meal. We had meals, while Cortina appeased her thirst with tea, as we listened to what she had to say. “So you are saying your child Mikey disappeared since last night?” “Yes. I noticed it just before I went to sleep. He often slips out so I thought he was just roaming outside as usual, but he didn’t come back even in the morning...” “So you’ve spent all night awake, huh. Your complexion looks awful.” “How could I when my child was...!” That Mikey was the boy that ran into Finia yesterday night. He was quite a lively and a little cheeky kid. His whereabouts were unknown even now. She rushed about and even had the people around help her, but they still couldn’t find him. “Now that I think about it, didn’t he head towards the gate yesterday?” “Towards the gate?” Finia reported while recalling yesterday’s events. Cortina needed to hear this too so she intentionally mentioned it. But true, the kid did certainly dash towards the outside of the town after he parted from us. Thinking about it, it was quite strange for him to run in that direction considering the time it was. “Do you think he would go outside?” “But why would he... While it is relatively peaceful around here, it’s not like there are no monsters at all.” The Adventurers were managing the safety of the surroundings, but the monsters on a smaller scale still existed. Wild goats and wolves, in particular, were quite common throughout Raum. It would be hard for a kid slightly above my age to deal with them competently. “I have no idea about that... No, give me a moment.” I suddenly recalled certain words. The words that white thing—The God of Destruction had told me. “I think I heard there was a Carbuncle in the cavern...” “A Carbuncle? Isn’t that a protected Mythical Beast? What is it doing here?” “I’m not sure, but the Goddess said so.” “By Goddess, you mean that white girl from yesterday? I thought she was weird for calling herself a Goddess, but...” Cortina was skeptical about her being a God, but that was a natural reaction. That aside, suspicious it may have been, a Goddess said so herself. Not to mention, she was my ancestor. She... shouldn’t have any reason to deceive me. “Anyway, she said a Carbuncle was sighted near the cavern, so she came to safeguard it. But that was probably a bait for me.” “A bait... Why do you think so?” “I mean, she showed up in a Beastmen bath, right? The fact that she lied in wait for me there and told me about it means she wants me to do something about it.” There’s a Carbuncle in the cavern. Just to tell me that, she did that barefaced performance and ambushed me. Since she let me know about it, she was probably implicitly suggesting that I went there. And now there was a disappeared kid. Given this timing, it was hard to think all these weren’t connected somehow. “Could it be that this kid discovered the Carbuncle?” “Oh no, was he attacked by the beast!?” “No, Carbuncles aren’t such aggressive monsters. As long as you don’t hurt them, they are relatively safe. It wouldn’t even view a kid as a threat.” Jessica paled from Finia’s conjecture, but Cortina denied her fears. Carbuncles were quite weak monsters. Still, they were part of the Dragon race and were particularly blessed with Magic. One could easily shrug off a kid. In other words, it wasn’t logical for Mikey to get attacked to the point where he wasn’t able to return. “At any rate, as long as there’s a possibility, we have to check it.” “I’ll come as well!” Or rather, only me and Finia knew his face. Instead of taking a villager, it was more advantageous to take me instead. “Right. I wouldn’t really advise it, but your detection ability would be useful even for me.” Cortina excelled in coming up with plans, but other than that, she was only a little above an average Adventurer. She was just a bit out of reach from a first-class. In other words, my searching skill was better than hers. “In that case, I’ll come too!” Michelle and Letina raised their hands to announce their participation, but I couldn’t let them come to a forest in search of a member of the Dragon race. In the end, Cortina managed to persuade them and they ended up house-sitting, with Finia stuck as their babysitter. “Um, what should I...” “Even if you come to the forest, you wouldn’t be able to do anything there. There’s a chance we’d pass each other too, so please remain here. We aren’t even sure he headed towards the Carbuncle.” “O-Okay...” Jessica still had enough self-control to not object to Cortina’s request. She chose to trust our words and wait. As such, me and Cortina set out in search of the Carbuncle.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 2, "inserted_lines_src": 14, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
俺が初めて魔法を使った時の話をしよう。この世界で俺が生まれ育ったのは、ハルケニア王国の王都メイシスから見て北西の方向にある、ごく普通の農村だ。俺の親はその村では世話役のような立場であり、他の家と比べてそこそこ裕福なほうだった。裕福と言っても、平民の中では中の上ぐらいのもの。所有している土地だけはかなりのものだったが、それ以外はごく平凡な家だった。 ......ある日の日暮れ頃である。「ジェラルド。新しい蝋燭を取ってきてくれ」「うん、わかった!」この世界では、夜になると蝋燭かランプぐらいしか光源がない。貴族などでは『光球』という照明の魔道具を持っていることもあるが、平民ではそういうわけにもいかない。そのため、蝋燭がなくなりそうな時は物置から新しい蝋燭を取ってこなければならないのだ。色々なもの(主にガラクタ)が無理やり突っ込まれ、確認するまでもなく散らかっていることが見て取れた。脚取れたテーブル、割れた花瓶、取っ手が外れて開かない棚、無造作に積まれた分厚く古い本や紙束......。掃除も行き届いていないため空気だって埃っぽかった。「......いつものことだけど、蝋燭一本探すのも一苦労しそうだな」よくこんなところに、蝋燭なんかを保存しておく気になるものだと感心する。わざわざ探すのが面倒だと思わないのだろうか、父さんは。「......もうちょっと片付けたらいいのに」だが、それでも少ばかり根気よく探してみれば、かき分けたガラクタの向こうに蝋燭を保存している白木の箱を見つけることができた。「......よし、あった」蝋燭が入っている箱を開こうと手を伸ばす。だが、その手は箱に届く前に近くに積み上がっていた本の塔に触れて崩してしまった。「あっ」短くそう叫んだ時にはもう遅い。ただでさえ散らかっている床に向かって、分厚い本だの紙の束だのが襲いかかるような勢いで倒れていく。ただでさえ散らかっていた床が、なおのこと整理のつかない状況となってしまった。まあ、元々何がどこにあるのか分からないような有様だったけれど......。せめて少しは片付けようと思った俺は、仕方なしに床に膝をつけ、手近にある本からとりあえず手に取っていく。「ん? これは......」その本は大判で、真紅の装丁をしていた。表紙には金糸で豪華な装飾が施されており、その様はまるで調度品を思わせる。本と言われるよりは、飾り物と言われたほうが納得できそうな気がした。おまけに、古ぼけてはいたが紙の質は明らかに上等なものだった。その歳まで、紙といえば表面がやすりみたいにざらざらしたものしか知らなかった俺は、つるつるとした手触りに思わず目を剥いた。「何か、特別な本なのかな。凄く、高級そうな装丁だし」どう考えても、この本は地方の農村にあっていいようなものとは思えなかった。中でも物語は大好きで、母親が寝物語に聞かせてくれる英雄譚や昔話を聞くと逆に興奮して夜も眠れないぐらい。触ってはダメなものかもしれないという考えが一瞬脳裏をよぎったものの、好奇心を抑えきれなかった俺は本の表紙を開いていた。「......? これは、えっと」しかしたった五年分の知識では、まるで見当もつかない。分かるのは、これを自分では読むことができないということだけだった。 ......まあ、それも仕方ないだろう。読めなかったのは少し残念だけど、こんな豪華な本に勝手に触れたら怒られるかもしれないし。「――ッ、ぐ、ぁぁがぁぅぅっっううっっ!?」激しい頭痛が俺を襲った。そしてしばらく頭痛は続き、やがてそれが収まったころにはなんと前世の記憶を取り戻していたのだ。脳の回線が焼き切れるかと思った。なんせ短いながらも、人間の一生分の記憶が頭に流れ込んでくるのだから。ともかく、その時の俺はすべて思い出していた。自分が緒方和彦という名前のの文系大学生だったことも、自転車に撥ねられて死んだことも、死ぬまでの自分の半生も、そして当然...... 日本語のこともフラバ......フラッシュバックという、この世界にない言葉。それを口にしたことこそが、前世の記憶を取り戻した何よりの証明だった。	Let’s talk about the first time I used magic. In this world, I was born and raised in a quintessential farming village, northwest from the imperial capital of Meiziss My parents held a managerial role and, compared to the other families, we were on the affluent side. Though I say affluent, it was only slightly above the average commoner household. Aside from the land we owned, which was considerably large, everything else was very ordinary. Taking this into consideration, it was actually a miracle to be able to find a grimoire in such a mundane place. One day, around sunset... “Gerald, could you go grab a new candle?” “Okay!” At night, in this world, basic lighting consists of candles and oil lamps. Nobles may have the magical illumination known as the sphere of light, but you won’t find any commoners that possess it. For that reason, every household in this village would light candles once the sky darkens. That day, the candle in the living room was flickering and was about to burn out. And without any candles, we’d have to eat in the dark. For that reason, when a candle looks like it’s at its end, we needed to retrieve another one from the storage room. After nodding to my father in acknowledgement, I headed towards the storage room. Upon opening the door and entering, I was met with a scene of chaos that spread throughout the room. So many things (mainly junk) were scattered about and forced together. It was to the point that you couldn’t tell one thing apart from another. There was a table missing a leg, a broken vase, a shelf missing its handles and stuck closed, carelessly stacked old thick wood and bundles of paper... Years of neglect had made everything dusty, especially the air. “As usual, it looks like going to be tough to find even a single candle...” It’s amazing that someone could feel inclined to store something like candles in a room like this. Doesn’t Father think that searching through this is too much trouble? As shocked as I was, I should probably find a candle soon. And so, I forced my way in and waded through the junk. “If only it was a little more organised...” I let a complaint slip after discovering that the mess was worse than I imagined. After some more wading, and a little effort, I managed to uncover a plain wooden box that the candles were stored inside. “Alright, found it...” While reaching out to the box of candles, I accidentally brushed against a nearby tower of books. “Ah!” Stacks of thick books, bundles of paper and similar items collapsed with great force onto the ever disheveled floor. Letting out a sigh, I glared at the books scattered across the floor before me. Well, from the start it was impossible to tell where anything was anyway... Getting on my knees, I decided to at least clean up a little and started by grabbing the books within reach. Then, amongst the books I had gathered...I discovered it. “Hmm? This is...” It was large and had a deep crimson binding. The front cover was extravagantly decorated with golden thread, giving it the impression of an expensive ornament. Rather than a book, I had the feeling it was more apt to describe it as a decoration. It was so large that I had to hug it to my chest to pick it up. The book was decidedly heavy for my year old self. On top of that, although the book was wearing out, the paper itself was of significantly high quality. Until then, all the paper I had come across was like sandpaper. I had never experienced such a smooth sensation from touching paper “I wonder if this is some special book. The binding looks really high quality.” Either way, this isn’t the kind of book you would find in a rural farming village. It was more like a book that would be handled by the rumored Royal Library. After thinking so, I spontaneously became extremely interested in its contents. At five years of age, I had already learnt to read and write, and had recently been spending some of my spare time reading. When my mother put me to sleep, she would often recount tales of heroes and other local legends, but I loved them so much I would get so excited that I was unable to sleep. It was a foregone conclusion that a book like this would greatly arouse my curiosity. It crossed my mind that it could be something that shouldn’t be touched, but that thought lasted but a moment before my curiosity won over and peeled open the front cover. However, the letters written in the book were not the ones taught to me by my parents, but something else entirely. “...? This is, err...” Page after page were completely covered in a strange language. Was it a foreign language? Or an ancient one? I had absolutely no idea with my mere years worth of knowledge The only thing I understood was that it would be impossible for me to read this by myself. It was a bit of a shame that I couldn’t read it. I might also get in trouble for touching such a splendid book without permission. After convincing myself of that, I tried to close the book. In that instant, it happened. “–a, gah, aaaghaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!?” I was assaulted by furious headache. It continued for a while, and when the headache eventually dissolved I had regained my memories of a past life I thought it would fry my brain; having a lifetime’s memories poured into my head in such a short time. Regardless, at that moment, I remembered everything... I remembered that I was run over by a car and died... And naturally...I remembered the Japanese language... The concept of flags...does not exist in this world. The use of that word is, in itself, the greatest proof that I had recovered the memories of a past life.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 3, "inserted_lines_src": 16, "inserted_lines_trg": 6 }
美徳とは古めかしい言葉です TEDのような最先端の環境においては場違いな言葉かもしれませんそれに皆さんの中には美徳って一体どんな意味があるんだ?と思う方がいるかもしれない 1つ例を挙げてみましょういまスクリーンに流れているのは病院の清掃員の職務明細書ですここに書いてある項目はどれも珍しいものではありません誰もが予想する内容です床をモップで拭く、掃く、ゴミ捨て、棚の整理数の多さに多少驚くかもしれませんが内容自体は至って普通ですこの中で1つだけ気付いていただきたいことはこのとても長い職務リストの中に他者と関わる仕事が1つもないということです 1つもです病院内の清掃と霊安室の掃除はさほど変わりないかもしれませんしかし、病院の清掃員が自分たちの仕事をどう思っているか調査するため心理学者が清掃員にインタビューしたところマイクに出会いましたマイクはジョーンズさんが体力作りのため少し運動したりホールの中で軽いウォーキングをするために床のモップがけをやめたと心理学者に語りましたまたシャーリーンは、毎日病院を訪れては1日中患者につきっきりの家族が待合室でたまたま仮眠を取っていたので上司の言いつけを無視して待合室に掃除機をかけませんでしたルークは昏睡状態にある若者の病室を2度掃除した話をしたそうですというのは、6ヶ月間寝ずの看病をしていた青年の父親はルークが最初に掃除をした時に気付かずサボっているのではと怒ったのですこのような清掃員や技師、看護師の行動は運が良ければたまにこんな医者もいるでしょうが周囲の人々の気持ちを少し和らげてくれるだけでなく実際に患者へのケアの質を上げ病院の運営も向上させますもちろん清掃員の誰もがこうではありませんですが、彼らのような清掃員は人と触れ合いながら優しく気遣い思いやることが仕事において必要不可欠な部分だと考えているのですにもかかわらず職務明細書には他者を示唆する言葉は1つとして出てこないこの清掃員たちは他者に対して正しい行いをするという倫理的な意志を持っているそれ以上に、彼らは正しい行いとは何かを判断するための倫理的技術を持っているアリストテレスは「実践知とは」「倫理的な意志と技術の組み合わせである」と説いています清掃員が他の目的を果たすために任務を無視する術を知っていたように賢い者は規則に例外が必要な場合をわきまえ、そして例外の設け方を知っていますルークが2度床を掃除したように賢い者は即興で演じることができるのです現実世界の問題の多くは曖昧模糊としており文脈は常に変わっていっています賢い人はジャズミュージシャンのように譜面の音符を読むだけでなく、音符の周りで踊りますその場の状況やそこにいる人に適した組み合わせを生み出します賢い人は正しい目的のために倫理的な技術を使う方法を知っています他者を操るためではなく、他者に仕えるためにです最後に、最も重要な点ですが生まれながらに賢い人はいない。成長と共に作られるのです知恵は経験から生み出されますでもどんな経験も知恵となるわけではありません仕えている人について学ぶ時間が必要になります相手と即興で演じ、新しいことを試み、時には間違え失敗から共に学ぶことを許されなくてはいけませんそして賢い先人から教えを乞う必要もありますもし私がお話したような行動を取る清掃員に仕事を習得するのがどれくらい大変か訊いたら多くの経験を要すると答えるでしょうモップがけやゴミ捨てを覚えるのに多くの経験がいるわけではありません他人への思いやりを学ぶのに多くの経験が必要なのです TEDには類い稀なる才能が溢れています恐ろしいほどですありがたいのは賢くあるために有能さは必要ではないことですですが残念なことに、知恵のない有能さでは不十分です頭がよくても知恵がなければ、あなた自身や他人にも迷惑をかけるでしょう (拍手) 皆さんにとっては自明のことだと信じていますあまりにも当然だと思っているでしょうがこんな話をご存知ですかレモネードについてのお話です父親と11歳になる息子が球場でデトロイト・タイガースの試合を見ていました息子は父親にレモネードをねだりましたそこで父親は売店へ買いに行きました売店にあったのは5%のアルコールが入っている「マイクのハードレモネード」だけでした学者であった父親は「マイクのハードレモネード」がお酒だとは知らずそれを買って息子のもとに戻りました息子がそれを飲んでいると警備員がそれに気付いて警察を呼び、救急車も来て息子を病院へ連れて行きました救急治療室でその子の血中からアルコールは検出されないことが確認され病院はその子を退院させようとしましたがことはそんなにスムーズには運びませんでしたウェイン地区児童福祉保護局がノーと言ったのです子供は児童養護施設に3日間送られてしまいましたこの時点で、子供は家へ帰れるのでしょうか? 裁判官は父親が外泊するならば子供を帰してもよいとしました 2週間後やっとのことでこの家族は元の生活に戻りましたしかし児童福祉局も救急隊も裁判官もみな一様に同じことを言っていました「こんなことしたくはないが決まった手続きに従うしかない」こういった事はどうして起こるのでしょうか? スコット・サイモンはラジオでこの話をし、こんな指摘をしています「規則自体が私たちに命令してくるわけではないが」「規則は私たちから考える力を奪ってしまっている」規則は得てして強制されますがそれは過去の職員の対応が甘く子供を虐待のある家庭に戻してしまったからと言ったりしますもっともですよくあることですが、何かが間違った方向にいった時私たちは事態を収拾するために2つの方法をとります 1つは規則よりよい規則を、より多く 2つ目は報奨よりよい報奨を、より多く、です結局、他に一体何があるでしょうか? これは今の経済危機に対する私たちの対処方法にも現れています規制に規制を重ねていったり毎回ちょっと違った報奨を与えますしかし、規則も報奨も何も変えてはくれませんあの清掃員がしたようなことを指示する規則をどうやって作れるでしょうか? 他人に思いやりを抱くことでボーナスがもらえるでしょうか? それでは本末転倒ですもし私たちがより規則に依存するようになったら規則や報奨は一時的に状況を改善するかもしれませんですが、長期的には悪化していく悪循環を生み出します私達は規則に頼りすぎることで臨機応変に状況から学ぶ機会を失い倫理的技術を衰えさせてしまいますまた、絶え間なく与えられる報奨という誘惑は私たちの「正しい行為をしたい」という思いを奪い倫理的意志は揺らいでいくでしょうそして私たちは無意識に規則や報奨に頼ることで知恵に対する戦いに巻き込まれていますいくつか例を挙げましょうレモネードの話は規則と倫理的技術をめぐる戦いのいい例ですアメリカにおける近代教育の性質も皆さんよくご存知の通りでしょうすべて教科書に指定された横並びのカリキュラムこれはシカゴの幼稚園の例です「文学と親しみながら」「Bで始まる単語を考えます」「Bathという言葉で子供達を絨毯の上に集め」「熱湯が危険だと教えます」 25ページの絵本に75個のアイテムがあるとしますシカゴ中のあらゆる幼稚園ですべての先生が同じ日に、同じような口調で、同じ単語を言っていることになります私たちは教師用の教本がどうして必要かわかっています私たちは教師それぞれの解釈や判断を信頼していないからですこういった教本は万一の失敗を防ぐための予防策です実際、教本のおかげでひどい事態は免れますしかし教本はあらゆるクラスを凡庸にしてしまいます (拍手) どうぞ誤解しないでください。規則は必要です! ジャズミュージシャンも音譜がいりますほとんどのジャズミュージシャンが譜面を使います当然、銀行家にはより多くの規則が必要ですですが規則が多過ぎると、熟練したジャズミュージシャンは即興しづらくなります結果、才能を発揮し切れなくなるそれどころか演奏をやめてしまう報奨についてはどうでしょう? 報奨の方が効果がありそうですね何かをする動機があったとして同じことをしてもらうために別の動機を与えるとしたら動機は1つより2つあった方がいいように思えます動機が2つある方が行動を起こしやすくなるかもしれないそうでしょう? まあ、絶対とは言えませんが理由が2つあるとお互いサポートし合うというより矛盾してしまう場合がありますからそうなると行動しなくなります時間が押しているので例を1つだけお話しします 15年前にスイスで核廃棄物をどこで処理するか議論していました国民投票が実施される際、心理学者は街頭で世論調査をし事態をよく理解している人に「自分の住む地域で」「核廃棄物を引きうけてもよいか?」と尋ねました信じられないことに50%の人がイエスと解答しました危険を承知の上です所有地の価値が下がるとわかっていましたがどこかで処理する必要がありそれは国民の義務だと考えたのです心理学者は質問を変えて他の人に聞いてみました毎年6週間分の給与を払ったら自分の地域で核廃棄物を処理しても構わないかと尋ねました国民の責任とお金、2つの理由ができましたところが 25%の人がイエスと答えただけでしたなぜかというと報奨を与えると言った途端、我々は「自分の責任は何か?」と問うのではなく「どんな利益を得られるか」と考えてしまうのです報奨の仕組みが機能しない場合 CEOが膨大なボーナスを出すために短期的な収益を追い求めるあまり長期的な会社としての健全さを無視した場合周りの反応はいつでも同じですよりよい報酬を得ようとしますでも本当は人に満足を与え続けられるに足る十分な報奨の仕組みなどないのですどんな報奨制度も悪意によって堕落する可能性があります報奨は必要です。私たちはそれで生計を立てていますしかし報奨への過度な依存は 2つの意味で労働から倫理観を奪ってしまいますまずその仕事をする人の士気を低下させます次に仕事そのものから倫理が失われるのです就任前オバマ氏は「利益を生み出すか否かだけでなく」「正しいかどうか判断しなければならない」と言いました仕事における倫理観が危機にさらされるときその職についている人は報酬に依存し、虜となりますそして「これは正しいのか?」と問わなくなる医療の世界でも見られます「大したことじゃないが、裁判沙汰にならないように見張っておこう」同様にビジネスでも見られます「今の市場で勝ち抜くためには君じゃなくもっと性格の悪い奴にしないとだめなんだ」「この茶番の10分の1の価値もないもんに魂を売ってしまった」明らかに誰もこんな風に働きたいとは思っていませんでは私たちに何ができるでしょうか? 希望は少しあります仕事における倫理観を取り戻すことですですが倫理の授業を増やしても意味はありません (拍手) 倫理について伝えるべきことを何でもかんでも学校の授業任せにしてしまうと誰も真剣に受け取ってくれなくなりますではどうするか? 倫理的模範を称えるのです実際、ロースクールに行くとアティカス・フィンチ(架空の理想の弁護士)についてみなが囁き合っています 10歳児はM&Aのことを学ぶためにロースクールに行きはしません誰もが倫理的な英雄に感銘を受けますしかし成長と共に、倫理的英雄と崇める人がいることを認めづらくなってきますどうぞ認めてください心の中の倫理的英雄に誇りを持ってください倫理的英雄を賞賛してくださいあなた方の先生にはご自分を認め、讃えるよう伝えてくださいこれが私たちにできることです 15年前にポーラテックを作ったマサチューセッツのメルデン・ミルズの代表をやっていたもう1人の倫理的英雄、アーロン・フェウエルステインを覚えている人はいますか? 工場が燃えてしまったんですが従業員3000人すべてを守りました解雇されたら従業員は路頭に迷いコミュニティ全体への打撃も大きいからです「私たちの会社は金融街の連中にとって以前ほど書面上の価値はないかもしれない」「でも本当は価値は上がってる。ちゃんと経営できてますからね」ここTEDでも倫理的英雄の皆さんが話してくださいました特に感銘を受けた話が2つあります 1つはレイ・アンダーソン (拍手) "悪の帝国の一味"を一変させ地球環境への負担を限りなくゼロに近くしましたレイはそれが正しいことだからしたのですそれは思いがけないプレゼントを彼にもたらしましたより一層の収益を得ることになったのです社員はレイの努力に感動しています正しい行いをする喜びを知っているからです昨日、ウィリー・スミッツがインドネシアの植林運動について話してくれました (拍手) ウィリーの話は正しい行いをしようとする意志が何をもたらすか示す完璧な例です膨大な技術力が求められました植林活動を計画するためにウィリー達が必要とした知識の量には舌を巻きましたしかしこの計画を成功させるのに最も重要だったのは地域住民を理解することだったとウィリーは強調していました一緒に働く人と歩調が合っていなければ必ず失敗します各コミュニティには異なる人々がいて違った生活を営んでいますから理解や支援を得るための公式などありませんですからここTEDや色々な場所で、讃えることが山ほどありますものすごく偉大な英雄である必要はありません普通の英雄でいいんです病院の清掃員も讃えるべき日常の英雄です私たち1人1人、特別な英雄にならなくてもいいですから普通の英雄になるべく切磋琢磨すべきです組織のリーダーとして私たちは倫理的技術と倫理的意志をともに伸ばし、育てられる環境を作らねばなりません組織において逆流に立ち向かって泳がなければならない時は最も賢く、善良な意志を持った人間でさえ諦めてしまうでしょう経営者の方は決して、けっして、従業員誰一人としてあの清掃員のような職務明細書を持たせてはいけません他者と関わる仕事はそれがどんな仕事であれ倫理的な仕事なのですからそしてあらゆる倫理的な仕事は実践知を必要とします恐らくなにより大事なことは教える者として、指導する相手にとって日常の中での英雄となり、倫理の手本となることです私たちは指導者として、自分が教えている間常に誰かが見張っていてカメラはいつも回っているという意識を持つべきですビル・ゲイツは教育の重要性特にKIPPという教育プログラムについて話しましたその名の通り「知識は力なり」ですビルは貧しい地域の子供が大学を目指せるようにするKIPPの教育について話しましたねビルが取り上げなかった部分をお話ししましょう子供たちが本当に学ぶべき唯一大事なことは人としての品格だけだとKIPPは気付いたのです子供は自己を尊敬することを学ばなくてはいけません友達を尊敬することを学ばなくてはなりません先生を尊敬することを学ばなくてはなりませんもっとも重要なのは、学ぶことをを重んじることですこれが本質的な目的ですこれさえ押さえれば、あとは自然と楽に進めます学ぶ大切さを教えるために、教師も他の職員も毎日 1分1秒、自分たち自身が学ぶ重要性を実感しながらそれを実践していかなければいけませんオバマ大統領は人間の美徳を喚起しました私は彼は正しいと思いますそして何よりも必要な美徳は実践知です実践知を持つことで私たちは、正直さや優しさ、勇気などの美徳を必要な時に最適な形で示すことができるのですオバマ大統領は希望も呼び起こしましたまたしても正しい希望を持つ理由がちゃんとありますから人間は高潔でありたいと望んでいると思います TEDはまさにその象徴です正しい動機のもと、正しいタイミングで正しい行いをしたいと願っている私たち1人1人、すべての人が注意を向け始めればこの知恵は私たちのものとなるでしょう一番重要なのは押しつぶすのではなく育てるために自分たちの行動とそのプロセスに注意を払い私たちが働いている会社などの組織の構造に注意を向けることですどうもありがとうございましたどうもありがとう (拍手) クリス・アンダーソン:皆さんまだ拍手していますよバリー・シュワルツ:どうもありがとうございました	Virtue is an old-fashioned word. It seems a little out of place in a cutting-edge environment like this one. And besides, some of you might be wondering, what the hell does it mean? Let me begin with an example. This is the job description of a hospital janitor that is scrolling up on the screen. And all of the items on it are unremarkable. They're the things you would expect: mop the floors, sweep them, empty the trash, restock the cabinets. It may be a little surprising how many things there are, but it's not surprising what they are. But the one thing I want you to notice about them is this: even though this is a very long list, there isn't a single thing on it that involves other human beings. Not one. The janitor's job could just as well be done in a mortuary as in a hospital. And yet, when some psychologists interviewed hospital janitors to get a sense of what they thought their jobs were like, they encountered Mike, because Mr. Jones was out of his bed getting a little exercise, trying to build up his strength, walking slowly up and down the hall. And Charlene told them about how she ignored her supervisor's admonition and didn't vacuum the visitor's lounge because there were some family members who were there all day, every day who, at this moment, happened to be taking a nap. And then there was Luke, who washed the floor in a comatose young man's room twice because the man's father, who had been keeping a vigil for six months, didn't see Luke do it the first time, and his father was angry. And behavior like this from janitors, from technicians, from nurses and, if we're lucky now and then, from doctors, doesn't just make people feel a little better, it actually improves the quality of patient care and enables hospitals to run well. Now, not all janitors are like this, of course. But the ones who are think that these sorts of human interactions involving kindness, care and empathy are an essential part of the job. And yet their job description contains not one word about other human beings. These janitors have the moral will to do right by other people. And beyond this, they have the moral skill to figure out what "doing right" means. "Practical wisdom," Aristotle told us, "is the combination of moral will and moral skill." A wise person knows when and how to make the exception to every rule, as the janitors knew when to ignore the job duties in the service of other objectives. A wise person knows how to improvise, as Luke did when he re-washed the floor. Real-world problems are often ambiguous and ill-defined and the context is always changing. A wise person is like a jazz musician -- using the notes on the page, but dancing around them, inventing combinations that are appropriate for the situation and the people at hand. A wise person knows how to use these moral skills in the service of the right aims. To serve other people, not to manipulate other people. And finally, perhaps most important, a wise person is made, not born. Wisdom depends on experience, and not just any experience. You need the time to get to know the people that you're serving. You need permission to be allowed to improvise, try new things, occasionally to fail and to learn from your failures. And you need to be mentored by wise teachers. When you ask the janitors who behaved like the ones I described how hard it is to learn to do their job, they tell you that it takes lots of experience. And they don't mean it takes lots of experience to learn how to mop floors and empty trash cans. It takes lots of experience to learn how to care for people. At TED, brilliance is rampant. It's scary. The good news is you don't need to be brilliant to be wise. The bad news is that without wisdom, brilliance isn't enough. It's as likely to get you and other people into trouble as anything else. Now, I hope that we all know this. There's a sense in which it's obvious, and yet, let me tell you a little story. It's a story about lemonade. A dad and his seven-year-old son were watching a Detroit Tigers game at the ballpark. His son asked him for some lemonade and Dad went to the concession stand to buy it. All they had was Mike's Hard Lemonade, Dad, being an academic, had no idea that Mike's Hard Lemonade contained alcohol. So he brought it back. And the kid was drinking it, and a security guard spotted it, and called the police, who called an ambulance that rushed to the ballpark, whisked the kid to the hospital. The emergency room ascertained that the kid had no alcohol in his blood. And they were ready to let the kid go. But not so fast. The Wayne County Child Welfare Protection Agency said no. And the child was sent to a foster home for three days. At that point, can the child go home? Well, a judge said yes, but only if the dad leaves the house and checks into a motel. After two weeks, I'm happy to report, the family was reunited. But the welfare workers and the ambulance people and the judge all said the same thing: "We hate to do it but we have to follow procedure." How do things like this happen? Scott Simon, who told this story on NPR, said, "Rules and procedures may be dumb, but they spare you from thinking." And, to be fair, rules are often imposed because previous officials have been lax and they let a child go back to an abusive household. Fair enough. When things go wrong, as of course they do, we reach for two tools to try to fix them. One tool we reach for is rules. Better ones, more of them. The second tool we reach for is incentives. Better ones, more of them. What else, after all, is there? We can certainly see this in response to the current financial crisis. Regulate, regulate, regulate. Fix the incentives, fix the incentives, fix the incentives ... The truth is that neither rules nor incentives are enough to do the job. How could you even write a rule that got the janitors to do what they did? And would you pay them a bonus for being empathic? It's preposterous on its face. And what happens is that as we turn increasingly to rules, rules and incentives may make things better in the short run, but they create a downward spiral that makes them worse in the long run. Moral skill is chipped away by an over-reliance on rules to improvise and learn from our improvisations. And moral will is undermined by an incessant appeal to incentives that destroy our desire to do the right thing. And without intending it, by appealing to rules and incentives, we are engaging in a war on wisdom. Let me just give you a few examples, first of rules and the war on moral skill. The lemonade story is one. is the nature of modern American education: scripted, lock-step curricula. Here's an example from Chicago kindergarten. Reading and enjoying literature and words that begin with 'B.' "The Bath:" Assemble students on a rug and give students a warning about the dangers of hot water. Say 75 items in this script to teach a 25-page picture book. All over Chicago in every kindergarten class in the city, every teacher is saying the same words in the same way on the same day. We know why these scripts are there. We don't trust the judgment of teachers enough to let them loose on their own. Scripts like these are insurance policies against disaster. And they prevent disaster. But what they assure in its place is mediocrity. Don't get me wrong. We need rules! Jazz musicians need some notes -- most of them need some notes on the page. We need more rules for the bankers, God knows. But too many rules prevent accomplished jazz musicians from improvising. And as a result, they lose their gifts, or worse, they stop playing altogether. Now, how about incentives? They seem cleverer. If you have one reason for doing something and I give you a second reason for doing the same thing, it seems only logical that two reasons are better than one and you're more likely to do it. Right? Well, not always. Sometimes two reasons to do the same thing seem to compete with one another instead of complimenting, and they make people less likely to do it. I'll just give you one example because time is racing. In Switzerland, back about 15 years ago, they were trying to decide where to site nuclear waste dumps. There was going to be a national referendum. Some psychologists went around and polled citizens who were very well informed. And they said, "Would you be willing to have a nuclear waste dump in your community?" Astonishingly, 50 percent of the citizens said yes. They knew it was dangerous. They thought it would reduce their property values. But it had to go somewhere and they had responsibilities as citizens. The psychologists asked other people a slightly different question. They said, "If we paid you six weeks' salary every year would you be willing to have a nuclear waste dump in your community?" Two reasons. It's my responsibility and I'm getting paid. Instead of 50 percent saying yes, 25 percent said yes. What happens is that the second this introduction of incentive gets us so that instead of asking, "What is my responsibility?" all we ask is, "What serves my interests?" When incentives don't work, when CEOs ignore the long-term health of their companies in pursuit of short-term gains that will lead to massive bonuses, the response is always the same. Get smarter incentives. The truth is that there are no incentives that you can devise that are ever going to be smart enough. Any incentive system can be subverted by bad will. We need incentives. People have to make a living. But excessive reliance on incentives demoralizes professional activity in two senses of that word. It causes people who engage in that activity to lose morale and it causes the activity itself to lose morality. Barack Obama said, before he was inaugurated, "We must ask not just 'Is it profitable?' but 'Is it right?'" And when professions are demoralized, everyone in them becomes dependent on -- addicted to -- incentives and they stop asking "Is it right?" We see this in medicine. And we certainly see it in the world of business. It is obvious that this is not the way people want to do their work. So what can we do? A few sources of hope: we ought to try to re-moralize work. One way not to do it: teach more ethics courses. There is no better way to show people that you're not serious than to tie up everything you have to say about ethics into a little package with a bow and consign it to the margins as an ethics course. What to do instead? One: Celebrate moral exemplars. Acknowledge, when you go to law school, that a little voice is whispering in your ear about Atticus Finch. No 10-year-old goes to law school to do mergers and acquisitions. People are inspired by moral heroes. But we learn that with sophistication comes the understanding that you can't acknowledge that you have moral heroes. Well, acknowledge them. Be proud that you have them. Celebrate them. And demand that the people who teach you acknowledge them and celebrate them too. That's one thing we can do. I don't know how many of you remember this: another moral hero, 15 years ago, Aaron Feuerstein, who was the head of Malden Mills in Massachusetts -- they made Polartec -- The factory burned down. 3,000 employees. He kept every one of them on the payroll. Why? Because it would have been a disaster for them and for the community if he had let them go. "Maybe on paper our company is worth less to Wall Street, but I can tell you it's worth more. We're doing fine." Just at this TED we heard talks from several moral heroes. Two were particularly inspiring to me. One was Ray Anderson, who turned -- -- turned, you know, a part of the evil empire into a zero-footprint, or almost zero-footprint business. Why? Because it was the right thing to do. And a bonus he's discovering is he's actually going to make even more money. His employees are inspired by the effort. Why? Because there happy to be doing something that's the right thing to do. Yesterday we heard Willie Smits talk about re-foresting in Indonesia. In many ways this is the perfect example. Because it took the will to do the right thing. God knows it took a huge amount of technical skill. I'm boggled at how much he and his associates needed to know in order to plot this out. But most important to make it work -- and he emphasized this -- is that it took knowing the people in the communities. Unless the people you're working with are behind you, this will fail. because different people in different communities organize their lives in different ways. So there's a lot here at TED, and at other places, to celebrate. And you don't have to be a mega-hero. There are ordinary heroes. Ordinary heroes like the janitors who are worth celebrating too. As practitioners each and every one of us should strive to be ordinary, if not extraordinary heroes. As heads of organizations, we should strive to create environments that encourage and nurture both moral skill and moral will. Even the wisest and most well-meaning people will give up if they have to swim against the current in the organizations in which they work. If you run an organization, you should be sure that none of the jobs -- none of the jobs -- have job descriptions like the job descriptions of the janitors. Because the truth is that any work that you do that involves interaction with other people is moral work. And any moral work depends upon practical wisdom. And, perhaps most important, as teachers, we should strive to be the ordinary heroes, the moral exemplars, to the people we mentor. And there are a few things that we have to remember as teachers. Someone is always watching. The camera is always on. Bill Gates talked about the importance of education and, in particular, the model that KIPP was providing: "Knowledge is power." And he talked about a lot of the wonderful things that KIPP is doing to take inner-city kids and turn them in the direction of college. I want to focus on one particular thing KIPP is doing that Bill didn't mention. That is that they have come to the realization that the single most important thing kids need to learn is character. They need to learn to respect themselves. They need to learn to respect their schoolmates. They need to learn to respect their teachers. And, most important, they need to learn to respect learning. That's the principle objective. If you do that, the rest is just pretty much a coast downhill. And the teachers: the way you teach these things to the kids is by having the teachers and all the other staff embody it every minute of every day. Obama appealed to virtue. And I think he was right. And the virtue I think we need above all others is practical wisdom, because it's what allows other virtues -- honesty, kindness, courage and so on -- to be displayed at the right time and in the right way. He also appealed to hope. Right again. I think there is reason for hope. I think people want to be allowed to be virtuous. In many ways, it's what TED is all about. Wanting to do the right thing in the right way for the right reasons. This kind of wisdom is within the grasp of each and every one of us if only we start paying attention. Paying attention to what we do, to how we do it, to the structure of the organizations within which we work, Thank you very much. Thank you. 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いよいよ年の瀬も近づいてきた。メリッサに特別な年末年始の行事があるのか聞いてみたが、休暇ぐらいで特にイベントはないという。なるほど、そういう事ならいい考えがあるぞ。「メリッサ、ピカールとレイナ、あとミレアも呼んでくれないか」「かしこまりました」「お呼びでしょうか?」「おおピカール、それにレイナもミレアもよく来た。年の瀬が近づいてきたな」「そうですね、今年は何か特に色々あったような気がいたします」そりゃそうだ、主君であるカルロの中身が入れ替わったんだからな。みんなにとってもそうだろうけど、僕にとってもこの数カ月は怒涛の日々だった。ただのダメリーマンが自分で書いたファンタジー小説の悪役になるとか。どんな転職だよ。「うむ、今年も皆よく働いてくれた。そこでボーナスを出そうと思う」「ぼーなす? なんでしょうかそれは?」「ああ、臨時の賞与のことだ。それと、ゆっくりと故郷で過ごす為の休暇を与える」「お気づかい、有り難うございます。しかし賞与はともかく、皆に休暇を頂いてしまいますとカルロ様のお世話をする者がいなくなります。休暇は交代で取らせて頂きますので」それは困る。それでは僕のアイデアが台無しだ、なんとかしなきゃ。「そう言ってくれるのは嬉しいが、それでは俺の気が済まん。俺は皆に故郷でゆっくりと過ごして欲しいんだ。レイナ、お前も久しぶりに両親の元へ帰りたいだろ?」「カルロさま、有り難うございます! 長い間両親の顔を見ていませんし、臨時でお給金を頂けたらお土産も買えるのできっと喜ぶと思います!」レイナは素直ないい子だな。「メリッサにもいつも迷惑をかけてばかりいるからな。今年の年末は故郷でゆっくりしてくれ」「そんな......暖かいお言葉を有り難うございます。でもわたしにはカルロさまのお世話という役目がありますので、お言葉だけで結構です」メリッサは目に涙を浮かべながらもはっきり断ってきた。素直に休暇を取らせるのはなかなか難しそうだ、どうしようか。「メリッサ様、カルロさまのお世話でしたら私にお任せいただけませんか。私には帰るべき家もございませんし、カルロさまにもメリッサ様にもご恩がございます。是非ここは私にお任せください」ミレアさんがメリッサに向かって熱っぽく語りかける。そうか、ミレアさんには帰る所はないんだったな。でも残るのがミレアさんだけなら何とかなるだろう。お母さんとして娘のルチアちゃんの世話もしなきゃいけないだろうし。「メリッサ、せっかくの申し出だ。ミレアの言うとおりにするといい。俺もこの年末年始は公務は忘れてダラダラ過ごすつもりだから、ミレアだけで世話は充分だ」「まあカルロさま、いけませんよ。私がいないからって羽目を外されるおつもりなのでしょ?」よし、メリッサが笑ったぞ。これなら何とかなりそうだ。「という訳だ、ピカール。この年末年始は特に公務をするつもりもない。何か特別な事態でも起こればすぐにお前の所に使いをやるから、安心して家族と過ごすといい」「わかりました。そうまでおっしゃって頂けるのであれば、私もお休みを頂きます。たまには妻と息子の顔も見てやらなければいけませんし」やった、上手く行った......じゃなくて、えぇぇ?! ピカールって奥さんと息子がいたの?! 作者なのに全然知らなかった。結婚したときは髪が生えてたんだろうか、それともハゲ好き......気になる。しかし作者が知らない設定が色々あるなあ。まあいい、これで舞台は整った。「ではカルロさま、お言葉に甘えて休暇を取らせて頂きます。お体にはお気を付け下さいますよう」「分かってるさ、メリッサ。無茶はしないから安心しろ」「そうだとよいのですけれど。ミレア、しっかりお世話を頼みましたよ」「かしこまりました。お任せください」「マーカス将軍と近衛騎士団にも休暇を取るよう伝えましたが、本当に良かったのですか?」「大丈夫だピカール。すぐ近所にはFもいるしな。何かあったらすぐ連絡するから安心しろ」「かしこまりました。なにぶん心配性でして」そう言ってピカールは光る頭を深々と下げた。きっとその頭は心因性のストレスが大きな原因だな。言うと胃を壊すといけないから言わないでおくけど。「ではレイナもしっかり親孝行して来いよ」「有り難うございます、お体にはお気を付け下さいね!」レイナ、その鞄から覗いている薄い本は一体なんだ? 新作とかじゃないよね......怖いから聞かないけど。「では行ってまいります」こうして皆は屋敷を出て行った。「皆さん行ってしまわれましたね」「そうだな。でも良かったのか? ルチアをどこかに連れて行ってあげたりしなくて」「いえ、あの子は学校で出来たお友達と遊ぶ方が楽しみのようですので」応接のソファに座った僕にミレアさんは微笑んだ。さて、ここからが本題だ。「ミレア、ちょっといいか。頼みがあるんだが」「はい、何でしょうか?」「実はな、俺はこれから当分の間ここを留守にしようと思う。それでだな、その、なんだ......」「そのことをメリッサ様やピカール様に内密にするように、という事でしょうか」ミレアはニッコリ笑って図星をついてきた。な、なんでバレてる? 「あ、いや、まあ平たく言えばそういう事なんだが」「ウフフ、そんな事ではないかと思っておりました。がいらっしゃるとカルロさまも羽を伸ばしにくくていらっしゃいますものね」「いいのか?」「もちろんです。私は娘ともども、カルロさまに命を助けていただいた上に、働き場所や学ぶ機会を与えて頂きました。どれだけ返しても返しきれない恩がございます。どんなことであってもご命令には従います」やばい、ちょっとジーンときた。そこまで感謝してくれてたのか。悪役としてはどうかとも思うけど、正直嬉しいな。「それに、カルロさまは立派な大人でいらっしゃいますのに、メリッサ様は少々過保護でいらっしゃいますよね。是非この機会に存分に羽を伸ばしてくださいませ」そう言ってミレアさんは悪戯っぽくウインクしてきた。やばい、これが大人の女の余裕ってやつか。さすがは未亡人、分かってるなあ。「すまない、感謝する。その分賞与は弾むからな、期待していてくれ」「まあ、ぼーなすですわね、有り難うございます。それでルチアに何か買ってやりますわ」こうして僕は自由な時間を手に入れた。	The end of the year finally approached. I asked Melissa if there were any special end-of-the-year events but she told me there weren’t any. I see, in that case, I have a good idea. “Melissa, could you call Pikaru, Reina and Mirea?” “Certainly” “You called?” “Ooh, Pikaru. Reina and Mirea came as well. The end of the year is approaching, isn’t it?” “That’s right, I feel like this year was rather different in various ways.” Well, of course, as Carlo’s, the lord’s, insides got replaced. Though it hard for everyone, but the last months were like a surging wave for me. For me to become the villain of the fantasy novel I wrote myself. What kind of career change is that? “Umu, everyone worked hard this past year. Therefore, I thought about giving you a bonus” “A Bonus? What’s that?” “Yeah, a special reward. Additionally, I’ll give you some vacation you can comfortably spend in at home.” “Thank you for your consideration. However, aside from the bonus, if everyone takes a vacation all at once then there would be no one to take care of Carlo-sama. Because of such reasons we should take turns in taking some days off.” That’s troublesome. Then, with my idea ruined, I had to think of another way. “I’m glad that you say that but then my mind won’t be at ease. I want everyone to spend some time at home. Reina, don’t you want to see your parents after such long time as well?” “Carlo-sama, thank you very much! I haven’t seen my parents’ face in such a long time, I’m sure they will be pleased and I can even buy a souvenir with the special bonus!” Reina is such an obedient, good child. “I’m always troubling Melissa. You should just relax at home on these holidays.” “That’s......Thank you for your kind words. But as my duty is to take care of Carlo-sama, I’m content with just the thought.” Melissa clearly declined with tears in her eyes. Looks like she won’t take a day off so easily, what should I do? “Melissa-sama, please leave Carlo-sama’s care to me. I don’t have a home to return to and I’m grateful to both Melissa-sama and Carlo-sama. So leave this to me by all means.” Mirea spoke passionately to Melissa. That’s right, Mirea-san didn’t have a place to return to. But if it’s just Mirea-san who stays behind it should be fine. As a mother, she has to take care of her daughter, Lucia, after all. “Melissa, this is a precious offer. You should do as Mirea said. I also intend to spend these vacations comfortably without minding government affairs, so Mirea is enough to care for me.” “Well, Carlo-sama, that’s no good. Are you making such a racket because you want to get rid of me?” Alright, Melissa laughed. Looks like I was able to do it somehow. “That’s why, Pikaru. I don’t intend to do any government related work during these holidays. If something happens I shall immediately contact you so you can spend your time with you family in peace.” “Understood. If that’s what you say I shall take some days off. I should show my face to my wife and son from time to time as well.” I did it, everything went well......That’s not it, I mean, eeeh? Pikaru had a wife and son?! Even though I’m the author I never knew about that. I wonder if he still had hair when he married or did she like his baldness?......I’m curious. However, there are many settings I as the author didn’t know about. Well, fine, the stage is now set. “Well then, Carlo-sama, I shall take a few days off if you insist. Please take care of yourself” “Got it, Melissa. Be at ease, I won’t act recklessly.” “I hope so. Mirea, please take good care of him” “Certainly. Leave it to me” “I told General Marcus and the Imperial Guard Order to take some days off, but is that really fine?” “It’s alright, Pikaru. F is close by as well. As soon as something comes up I shall contact you so be at ease.” “Certainly. Then I have nothing to worry about.” As I said that Pikaru deeply lowered his glittering head. The biggest cause for his shining head is certainly psychogenic stress. I didn’t tell him that as to not upset his stomach. “Well then, Reina, make sure to listen well to your parent” “Thank you, I will. Please take care of yourself.” Reina, what’s with that thin book peeking out of your bag? Could that be your new work?......I don’t want to hear about it as I’m scared of what I might see. “Then we shall be off” Like this, everyone left the mansion. “Everyone has left” “That’s right. But are you really fine? Why don’t you take Lucia somewhere?” “No, that child seems to look forward to playing with her friends she made in school.” Mirea-san smiled at me who sat on a sofa. Well then, let’s get to the main subject. “Mirea, I have a request, is that fine?” “Yes, what is it?” “Actually, I intend to leave this place for some time. So, you see, the thing is, somehow......” “You want me to keep this a secret from Melissa-sama and Pikaru-sama?” Mirea completed my sentence with a smile. Di, did I get exposed? “Ah, no, well, if you want to put it simply.” “Ufufu, I thought as much. With those two people around it’s hard for Carlo-sama to spread your wings after all.” “Is that fine with you?” “Of course. Carlo-sama saved mine and my daughter’s life while also giving me work and her an opportunity to study. This is a debt I can never fully repay. I’ll obey your orders, no matter what” **, I became slightly tingly. You’re grateful to such an extent? Though I’m happy, please think of me as a villain. “Besides, Carlo-sama is already a splendid adult so Melissa-sama is slightly overprotective, isn’t she? Please take this opportunity to spread your wings to your heart’s content.” While saying that Mirea teasingly winked at me. **, is that an adult woman’s composure? As expected of a widow, she understands. “I’m sorry and thank you. You shall get a bonus fitting your actions, so look forward to it.” “Well, about the bonus, thank you. I’ll buy something nice for Lucia.” Like this, I gained some freedom.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 1, "inserted_lines_src": 0, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
「ナオヤさん、見学してもいいですか?」「アンナさん? 接客は大丈夫ですか?」「ええ、店内にお客さまはいなくなりました。お客さまがいらっしゃったら、私の配下が教えてくれます」「もうそんな時間ですか。はあ、この時間帯の集客を考えないとなあ」俺が店長になってか目のアイヲンモール異世界店。中食を狙って試作した作ったカツとハンバーグ、午前中の試食は上々だった。営業をアンナさんに任せて調理場で新メニューの試作をしようと思ったら、いつの間にかお客さまが途切れる時間帯になってたみたいだ。調理器具の確認と食材の味見で、思ってたより時間が経ってたらしい。「見学はかまいませんけど、教えるのはレシピが完成してからでもいいですか? それに、この料理はアンナさんよりスケルトンたちに見せたいんですよね」そう言って目を向けると、エプロン付きスケルトンたちは小さく拳を握って近づいてきた。やる気あります! みたいな感じで。俺がこれから作ろうと思ってる料理は、難しくないけど手間と時間がかかる。疲れを知らなくて睡眠が不要なスケルトンに手伝ってもらうことを前提にしたチョイスだ。「では、私はこの子たちの後ろで見守ってますね。みんな、がんばって!」微笑みを浮かべてスケルトンにエールを送るアンナさん。リッチなアンナさんはともかく、俺もすっかりスケルトンを当てにしてる。異世界生目でずいぶん馴染んだもんだ。初めてスケルトンを見た時は焦って漏らしそうに......なってないし。「んじゃまずはじめに、材料が飛び散らないように清潔な布をかけます」説明しながら手元を見せる。ふんふん頷きながらスケルトンたちがメモを取る。の骨に、マジックで。「って文字書けるのかよ! 前腕の骨に書くぐらいなら紙を使え紙を!」動きを止めて俺を見つめるスケルトンたち。返事はない。「はあ、まあいいや。布をかけたら......下に置いたキレイに洗ったハンマーを打ちつける。ガンッ! と大きな音が響いて、スケルトンたちがビクッとする。「細かいのはそのままで、砕くのは大きなガンガン叩いて、あっと言う間に行程が終わる。音がうるさかったのか、スケルトンたちはちょっと俺から離れた。アンナさんも。「ざっと砕いたら天板に並べます。骨も肉がこびりついた骨もそのまま、あとはこうやってスジ肉なんかも並べていく感じだな」いま砕いた骨、それにカツとハンバーグを作る時に出たスジ肉を並べる。今回はわざわざ確保しておいたけど、本格的にカツとハンバーグを売りはじめたら、骨もスジ肉も出てくるだろう。アキレス腱の部分のスジ肉も、スジが多い肉って意味のスジ肉も。なにしろ肉屋で売ってるのは骨がついたままの枝肉だから。「次に、この骨とスジ肉をオーブンで焼きます。だいたい30分ぐらいで焼き色がつくまで」「ほ、骨を......焼き......?」「そうですアンナさん。なんでかは知りませんが、そうすると肉や骨の旨みが出てくるらしいんで。肉も骨も余すことなく使います」今回は角牛の骨とスジ肉を使ってる。カツ、ハンバーグ、それにいまから作る料理。このメニュー構成なら、枝肉のまま仕入れてもほとんどムダにしなくて済むだろう。「み、みんな、大丈夫です。ナオヤさんは料理の作り方を説明してるだけで、きっとみんなは大丈夫ですから」部屋の隅で固まるスケルトンたちにアンナさんが声をかける。の役目らしい。スケルトンにはいろいろ手伝ってもらってるし、俺も気をつけるようにしよう。焼き上がりを待つ間にタマネギや香味野菜を炒める。香味野菜というか、農家のおばちゃんが「煮込み料理に使う」って言ってた野菜なだけで、本当に香味野菜かどうかはわからない。さっき味を確かめた感じではそんなに外してないと思うんだけど。「骨とスジ肉が焼き上がったら、炒めた香味野菜と一緒に寸胴鍋に入れます。水も入れて火にかけて、沸騰直前を保つ感じで」「つ、次は煮込む......ナオヤさん、その、どれぐらいでしょうか? 短時間ならみんなもなんとか」「一番フォンで6時間ってところでしょうか。骨も骨髄も肉もじっくり煮込んで、すべての旨みを溶かし出すんです」「す、すべてを......?」時間と手間がかかるだけで難しい行程はない。試食のおばちゃんに教わって、ウチの離れのキッチンで作った時はしんどかったけど。俺一人だったし。でもここには、疲れを知らずで睡眠も必要ないスケルトンたちがいる。「アンナさん、スケルトンたちにアクを取るようお願いしてもらってもいいですか? それと、沸騰させないように気をつけて——」「みんな、気を強くもって! 魂をこの場に留めるのです! 大丈夫、大丈夫、あの骨は仲間じゃありません! みんなは、ああはなりませんから!」「......あれ? どうしました?」振り返ると、スケルトンたちは調理場の隅にしゃがみ込んで震えていた。子供のようにイヤイヤと首を振るスケルトンをアンナさんが励ましてる。まるで、クロエの『浄化』を受けた時のように。「ナオヤさん! 砕いて焼いて火にかけるなんて! これは新しい拷問ですか!?」「え? 拷問? 俺はただ料理してるだけで、砕くのも焼くのも煮込むのも必要な行程で、まあ骨を砕くのは絶対じゃない......あっ」そこまで言って、スケルトンとアンナさんがなんでこんな反応なのかわかった。やっと気づいた。「えーっと......角牛の骨ですからね? スケルトンの骨じゃないですからね? だいたいそれ人骨でしょうし」「わかってます、わかってますけど!」して、野菜を追加してまた煮込むんですけど.....フォンって言って」「ひっ。さらに煮込む......」息を呑むアンナさん、アンナさんの体に隠れようと試みるスケルトンたち。骨の体が震えてカタカタ鳴ってる。「ナオヤさんが鬼に......いえひょっとしたら悪魔に憑かれ......クロエさんにお願いしてナオヤさんに『浄化』をかけて、ダメですクロエさんは先ほど街に......ならば私が!」「鬼でも悪魔でもないですから。むしろそっちがリッチとアンデッドで」「あ、悪霊退散! ターンアンデッド!」「いやそれアンナさんたちがダメージ受けるでしょ」「みんな、ここは私に任せて! 私が時間を稼いでいる間に逃げるのです!」「アンナさん、聞いてます? スケルトンは材料にしませんからね? あと時間稼ぐっていうかアンナさんがその気になったら俺瞬殺されませんか?」へっぴり腰なアンナさんをなだめる。スケルトンたちは混乱してもつれて骨が絡まってる。アイヲンモール異世界店の調理場は、混乱状態だった。便利なスケルトンたちにも苦手なことがあったらしい。ダメだ異世界の常識がわからない......いや常識ってコイツらはスケルトンなわけで、コレは常識じゃなさそうだけど。	“Naoya-san, may I take a look?” “Anna-san? Is it okay to leave the customers?” “Yes, there are no more customers in the store. If there are any customers, my servants will let me know.” “Is it that late already? Sigh, I have to think about how to attract customers at this time of the day.” On the sixth day after I became manager of the Aion Mall Otherworld Store. The cutlet and hamburger I made as samples for the mid-morning meal. I left the business to Anna-san and went to the kitchen to make a prototype of the new menu, but it seemed that before I knew it, the customers had stopped coming in. Apparently, checking the cooking utensils and reviewing the ingredients took longer than she had expected. “I don’t mind you observing, Is it okay if I teach you after the recipe is complete? Besides, I want to show this dish to the skeletons more than Anna-san.” As I turned to look at them, the skeletons with aprons approached me with small fists clenched. They are willing to do it! Is what I thought they said. This dish I’m about to cook isn’t difficult, but it’s time-consuming and laborious. It’s a choice I’ve made with the assumption that Skeleton, who knows no fatigue and needs no sleep, will help me. “Well then, I’ll be watching over the back of these boys. Good luck, everyone!” Anna-san gives the skeletons a boost with a smile. The Lich Anna-san is not the only one, I’m also relying on the skeletons. After seven days of living in another world, I’ve gotten used to it. The first time I saw a skeleton, I almost shat myself with panic,....... “First of all, I’m going to cover it with a clean cloth so that the material doesn’t splatter all over the place.” While explaining the process, I show them my hand. The skeletons nodded and took notes. Notes on the bone, with magic. “How can you write on a bone?! Use paper instead of writing on the bones of your forearms!” The skeletons stop moving and stare at me. No answer. “Sigh, oh well. After covering it with a cloth, crush the bones placed underneath. Like this” I hit the bones with a clean hammer. BANG! A loud sound echoes, and the skeletons are startled. “Just break the big bones, leaving the small ones intact. If the meat is sticking to the bone, leave it as it is.” I beat the bones with a hammer, and in no time at all, the process was over. Maybe the noise was too loud, the skeletons moved away from me for a moment. Anna-san, too. “After crushing them roughly, put them on a baking sheet. The bones and meat stuck to the bones will be left intact, and then we’ll arrange the meatballs like this,” After the bones are crushed, the meat from the cutlets and hamburger steaks are placed on the baking sheet. Although I went to the trouble of reserving the bones for this occasion, once we start selling cutlets and hamburgers in earnest, there will be more bones and meat bits to go along with them. I also have some meat from the Achilles’ tendon and some meat with a lot of joints. After all, butcher shops sell the meat with the bones still attached to the bone. “Next, we roast the bones and the meatballs in the oven. It takes about minutes to cook until the meat is browned.” “Y-you bake..... the bones ......?” “That’s right, Anna-san. I don’t know why, but it is said that doing so will bring out the flavor of the meat and bones. I use every last bit of meat and bone.” For this dish, I used the bones and meat from a horned beef. Cutlets, hamburgers, and other dishes to be prepared from now on. With this menu, we will not waste much meat even if we buy the whole carcass. “E-everyone, it’s all right. Naoya-san is just explaining how to cook, and I’m sure everyone will be fine.” Anna-san calls out to the skeletons who are frozen in the corner of the room. It seems that it is the role of the chief supervisor to cheer up their subordinates. I’ve got the skeletons helping me out a lot, so I’ll take care of them too. While we wait for the food to be cooked, I fry onions and other fragrant herbs. I don’t know if they are really fragrant herbs or not. I think I didn’t miss it that much from the way I tasted it earlier. “When the bones and the shredded meat are cooked, I put them in a skillet along with the fried fragrant herbs and vegetables. Add water and heat it up and keep it just before boiling.” “H-how long will it take to simmer, Naoya-san? If it’s for a short time, everyone can manage.” “I think the longest time is about six hours. The bones, the marrow, the meat, it’s all slow-cooked, and all the goodness is released.” “T-that long ......?” It’s not a difficult process, just time-consuming and labour-intensive. It was tough when the tasting lady taught me how to make it in our remote kitchen, but I was alone. It was just me. But here we have skeletons who are tireless and don’t need sleep. “Anna-san, may I ask you to ask the skeletons to take the scum out of the water? And be careful not to let it boil over–“ “Everyone, be strong! Keep the spirit in this place! It’s okay, it’s okay, those bones are not one of us! Everyone else won’t be like that! “...... Huh? What’s wrong?” When I looked back, the skeletons were crouched in the corner of the kitchen, shivering. Anna-san is encouraging the skeletons, who are shaking their heads like children. It was just like when they were “purified” by Chloe. “Naoya-san! How can you crush, burn, and put them on fire? Is this a new kind of torture?!” “Huh? Torture? I’m just cooking, and it’s a process that requires crushing, baking, and simmering.... Ah.” Having said all that, I realized why the skeletons and Anna-san were reacting this way. I finally realized. “Uhhm, ...... it’s a bone from a horned cow, right ......? They are not the bones of a skeleton, you know. I mean, those are human bones, aren’t they?” “Of course I know, of course!” “And then all you have to do is simmer it, oh, and when you’ve made the first batch, strain it, add some vegetables, and simmer it again, ...... and call it the second batch.” “Gasp. Simer it further......” Anna-san gasps for breath, and skeletons attempt to hide behind her body. The skeleton’s body is shaking and clattering. “Naoya-san is possessed by a demon,...... or perhaps a devil,............. I should ask Chloe-san to ‘purify’ Naoya-san,.......no, Chloe-san just went to town....... Then I’ll do it!” “I’m not a demon or a devil. Instead, you are a Lich and undead.” “Oh, dispel the evil spirits! Turn undead!” “No, that’s going to damage Anna-san and the others.” “I’ll take care of this, everyone! I’ll buy you time to escape!” “Anna-san, do you hear me? I won’t use skeletons as material, okay? And if you want to buy me time, won’t Anna-san easily kill me?” I calm Anna-san, who is still in a slump. The skeletons are confused and their bones are tangled. The kitchen at Aion Mall’s Otherworldly Store was in a state of chaos. It seems that even the handy skeletons had their difficulties. I don’t understand the common sense of another world... No, common sense of the skeletons, so this doesn’t seem to be common sense.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 1, "inserted_lines_src": 5, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
その頃、丘を挟んで逆の東側の陣には将軍のマーカスと近衛隊長のルーノスがいた。青い軍旗を持った兵たちが並ぶ後ろに置かれた机を挟んで話し合っている。「将軍、作戦はどのように?」「うむ、そうじゃな。まずはカルロさまの出方じゃ。今回の軍制改革の目玉が騎馬隊の分離にある以上、騎馬の機動力を生かした作戦を取ってくるのは間違いなかろう」「そうですね」「騎馬を独立して運用することは、その速さという面では確実に効果がある。じゃが一方でその数が多い訳ではないから、いかにそれが近衛騎士からなる精鋭といえど多数と正面から当たりたくはないはずじゃ」マーカスはそう言うと、机の上に広げた地図の中心を指し示す。「向こうはほぼ間違いなく最初にこの砦を奪いに来るじゃろう」「速さでは確実に向こうが上ですから、砦を抑えられるのは間違いありません。それが厄介ですね」「そうよの。たとえ50にすぎぬとはいえ、近衛騎士に砦に籠られると落とすのは時間が掛かる」「じきに後続の応援が来てしまいます。そうなるとますます落とすのは難しくなりますね」「そうじゃろう、そこでじゃ」マーカスは丘の南を迂回する大きな弧を描いて見せた。「ワシらは砦を狙わず南を回って直接本陣を落とす」「なるほど、裏をかくという訳ですか」を上げることに成功すれば、その時点で勝ちとなる。「しかしもし相手も同じように迂回して来たらどうします?」「如何に相手の脚が速かろうと騎馬50騎じゃ、その備えにこちらは本陣に3分の1の兵を残す」「100の兵で本陣を守り、残る200の兵で相手の本陣を突く訳ですね」「さようその兵はルーノス、お主に任せる。例えカルロさまが騎馬以外の兵250を全て本陣に置いておったとしても所詮は屯田兵の寄せ集め、指揮する者も戦の経験のない烏合の衆じゃ、恐れるに足らん」「もし途中で騎馬隊に遭遇しても、その兵力差では確実に打ち破れますね」「騎馬を独立させると歩兵と速さの差がでる故、各個撃破の危険性も増す。そこを利用させてもらおうか」作戦計画が出来上がり、マーカスはルーノスと共に兵たちの前に立って話し始めた。「現在カルロ様の命により、軍の改革が行われているのは皆聞いておろう。騎士団の中にはあまり納得できておらん者もおるかと思う。そういう者にこの新しい編成がいかに効果的かを見せるのが今回の演習の目的じゃ。つまり――」マーカス将軍はそこで一呼吸おいて声を張り上げた。「今回、我々はやられ役じゃ。散々に負けて『この軍制改革が正しかった』と皆に分からせることが期待されておる!」マーカスのその言葉を聞いて兵たちがざわつく。自分たちがやられ役だと言われたのだからそれも当然だ。ルーノスは思わず小声でマーカスに聞いた。 (そんなことをぶっちゃけて大丈夫なんですか?将軍は勝つおつもりなんですよね?) (まあ、見ておれ) マーカスはさらに声を張り上げた。「しかし、じゃ。ワシはおとなしく負けて見せる気は毛頭ない! カルロさまからも思い切りやってよいとの許しを得ておる。お主らはどうじゃ? 勝ってカルロさまの鼻を明かしてやりたいとは思わんか?!」兵たちのざわつきはさらに大きくなる。「お主ら、ここで見事に勝って見せようではないか! そうじゃ、勝てば皆に特別な褒賞を出そう! お主ら、勝ちたいとは思わんか?!」兵たちはマーカスの問いかけにこぶしを突き上げて答える。それに続いてルーノスも叫んだ。「お前ら、勝って今夜は美味い酒をたらふく飲むぞ!」「年越しはその金でちょっとはいい思いが出来るぞ!」「いいか、これは演習じゃない! 実戦のつもりで絶対勝つぞ!」『おおおおお!!』「うむ、皆なかなかいい塩梅にやる気が出たようじゃな」兵たちの士気の高まりに、マーカス将軍は満足げにあご髭を撫でた。「そうですね、これならにやれます」「ではそろそろ時間じゃろう。攻撃隊の準備を頼む」「かしこまりました。陣の守りはお任せしますので」こうして準備は整った。あとは砦から演習開始の狼煙が上がるのを待つだけだ。	Meanwhile, General Marcus and the Imperial Guard’s first corps’ captain, Lunos, were on the east side of the hill. They were talking over a desk behind which soldiers holding blue war flags were lined up. “General, what’s the strategy?” “Umu, right. First about Carlo-sama’s move. Since splitting up the cavalry is a centrepiece of this time’s military reform they’ll probably use tactics making use of the cavalry’s high mobility, no doubt” “Right” “Letting the cavalry act independently is surely effective in terms of speed. But on the other hand, their numbers won’t be high, no matter how much of an elite group the Imperial Guard Order is they won’t be able to do a frontal attack.” As Marcus said this he pointed at the centre of the map which was lying on the desk. “They’ll most certainly try to take the fort right from the beginning.” “There’s no doubt that they would be able to conquer the fort with their speed. How troubling.” “Right. Although they are no more than it’ll be time consuming to remove the Imperial Guard Order’s knights once they confined themselves in the fort.” “Soon after reinforcement would arrive. In that case it would be even harder to remove them.” “That’s right, look here” Marcus drew a big arc going around the hill’s south. “We will go south around the hill without aiming for the fort but directly aiming for their camp” “I see, attacking their back, is it?” By the way, one has won if one succeeds in conquering the opposing team’s camp and fired up a beacon. “However, what if the opposing team has the same idea?” “No matter how fast they are they just have horseman. We’ll leave one third of our soldiers in the camp to prepare for that case.” “So we protect our camp with soldiers while attacking the opposing camp with 00.” “That’s right, I leave those soldiers to you, Lunos. Even if Carlo-sama puts the other 250 soldiers other than the cavalry corps inside the camp they are just the mish-mash of people called farmer soldiers and the commander also hasn’t experienced real warfare yet so it’s just a disorderly mass not worthy to be afraid of.” “Even if we encounter the cavalry party we’re definitely able to break through with this difference in military power.” “If the cavalry acts independently from the infantry the difference in speed increases as well as the risk of their individual defeat. Let’s make use of that, shall we?” The strategic plan was completed and Marcus stood in front of the soldiers together with Lunos and started to talk. “Everyone should have heard about Carlo-sama’s live-changing military reform by now. I think there are some among the Imperial Guard Order who aren’t satisfied with this. The purpose of this exercise is to show those people the effectiveness of this new formation. In other words – -” General Marcus paused for a bit and then raised his voice. “This time our role is to be defeated. They expect us to overwhelmingly lose for us to understand that “This military reform was right after all” in the end!” Hearing Marcus’ words the soldiers start to murmur. That’s natural as they were told that one’s role was to lose. Lunos unintentionally asked Marcus in a low voice. (Is it fine for you to talk that frankly? Does the General intend to win?) (Well, watch) Marcus raised his voice once more. “However. This one doesn’t intend to take defeat so easily! I got permission from Carlo-sama to fight with all we got. How is it, gentlemen? Don’t you want to win and get Carlo-sama down from his high horse?!” The soldiers murmuring became louder. “Let’s show them how a magnificent victory looks like right at this place, gentlemen! That’s right, let’s give everyone a reward if we win! Gentlemen, do you feel like winning now?!” As they answered to Marcus’ question the soldiers pushed up their fists. Then, following this, Lunos also shouted. “You guys, if we win this today we’ll get to drink some delicious liquor tonight!” “You can see off the past year with a good feeling with this money!” “That’s good, this isn’t just some exercise! We’ll certainly win while treating this like an actual battle!” 『Oooooooooooooh!!』 “Umu, everyone seems to be in high spirits.” As he saw the surge of the soldiers’ morale, General Marcus contentedly stroked his beard. “That’s right, this much should be enough” “Well then, it should be time soon. Please prepare the raiding party.” “Certainly. I’ll entrust the camp’s defence to you.” Like this, they got ready. They only waited for the beacon signalling the exercise’s start to be shot from the fort.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 3, "inserted_lines_src": 1, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
◇◆◇◆◇ 魔神の襲撃は北部全域に及んでいた。もちろ国連合王国の王都トライアッドにも、魔神の群れは襲来していた。むしろ住民が多い分、他の集落などよりも遥かに多い数が集まった影響で、騎士団をほとんど戦線に投入する程の激戦区と化していた。「陛下、北門の防御がすでに限界です。守備兵の被害が多数出ています!」「南門の兵士に余裕があったはずだ。それと後詰めの騎士団も投入せよ」「西の、どうにか魔神の侵攻を押し止めています!」「なに!? どうやってだ?」ですら強力な魔神。それ、このトライアッドに襲い掛かってきていた。それぞれが連携せず、一点突破してこない分だけ耐えられているのは、不幸中の幸いである。しかしそれでも劣勢であることには変わりない。だというのに西の第二門だけは耐えられるというのが、納得のいかないことだった。「ハ、第二門にはラグラン伯と妃殿下が対処に当たられてまして」「プリシラが!? 姿を見ないと思ったら、そんなところに......」「ですがお二人が協力してくださってるおかげで、魔神に対抗で来ていることも事実ですし――」「それは王妃の仕事ではなかろう! まったく、なぜ危険な場所に乗り込んでいくのか」王の発言に抗弁することは、基本的にできない。だから周囲の臣下たちはそれに反することはしなかった。そしてエリオットも、それを知っているからこそ、連れ戻せとは口にしない。現状、魔神に対抗できている唯一の戦場から、戦力を引き抜くわけにはいかない。この紙一重のバランスを崩すことで、一気に戦線が崩壊しかねない危険を承知していたからだ。「プリシラの安全もだが......他の戦場も――」戦況は劣勢であり、ラグラン伯爵親娘が参戦していない場所は、城壁を利用してどうにか持ち堪えている状況だ。このままでは撃退するどころか、逆に王都が陥落しかねない。「ライエル様とマクスウェル様には、まだ連絡がつかないのか?」「ハ、どうやらラウムと開拓村にも、魔神の襲撃があったようで......」「あちらにもか! 一体何なんだ、この魔神の氾濫は!」ガンと玉座の肘置きに拳を叩きつける。温厚なエリオット王にしては珍しい激昂。それだけに臣下の恐怖はかつてないほどだった。だがエリオットとしては、それどころではない。このままでは無駄に兵士を死なせてしまうだけだった。何らかの手を早急に打たねばならない。「........................トライアッドを、放棄する」「南門の敵は手薄なんだな? ならそこから市民を逃がせ。今すぐにだ」「陛下、それだけはご再考を! まだ、この都は耐えられます!」「そうです。ようやく再興したこの王都を放棄するなど......どうかお考え直しください!」「その間のどれだけの兵が死ぬと思っている。今できることは可能な限り兵力を維持しつつ、態勢を立て直すことだ」臣下とエリオットの意見が対立し、場が混乱して指示が停滞する。その時、伝令兵が謁見の間に飛び込んできた。「伝令! 西の第三門、突破されました!」「なにぃ!?」「すでに住民にも被害が出ております! え、援軍を――」そこまで口にしたところで、伝令兵は前のめりに倒れこんだ。よく見ると身体中に傷を負い、疲労困憊の様子だった。おそらくここまで駆け込んでくるだけで、体力を使い尽くしてしまったのだろう。その様子を見て、エリオットに反対していた臣下たちは言葉を失った。王城の中では気付かなかったが、そこまで戦況は悪化していたのだと、ようやく知ったのだ。「見たか? もはや一刻の時間もない。早く住民の避難を――」「ああ、それはええ判断やけど、ちょっとだけ待ってくれんか?」同時に、天井を支える柱の陰から、一人の女性が姿を現した。肩口まで伸ばした黒髪の、美人というより親しみやすい愛嬌の方が目立つ顔立ち。どちらかというとプリシラに近い印象だろうか。「うちはギルドの北部方面統括支部長や。いつもはストラールの街におるねんけどな」独特の訛りを持つしゃべり方が、彼女に独特の雰囲気を与えている。「あの魔神の対策なら、うちらの方でいくつか立てとってな。なんやったらお手伝いしようかと思て」「手立てがあるのか!?」彼女は細い目をさらに細め、にやりと口角を上げてみせる。エリオットの方は、その何か企んでいそうな笑顔すら無視し、提案に飛びついていた。「できるというなら、ぜひ頼む! 報酬は可能な限り応じると約束しよう!」「ほな、契約成立ということで」女性はそう言うと、懐から小さな箱状の道具を取り出した。その動きに反応して、即座に抜剣し警戒の体勢を取る護衛兵たち。だが彼女はそんな周囲の様子も意に介さず、平然と箱に向けて話し始めた。「こっちの了解は取っといたで。あとはそっちがしっかりしぃや」「了解」箱から聞こえてきた返答はたった一言。それだけで通信らしきモノは途切れてしまった。それから緊張した状態で十数分が過ぎた。細身の女性は相変わらずニヤニヤと笑みを浮かべたまま立っている。状況がわからないエリオットも、その間何らかの反応を見るべく、動くことはなかった。そして待望の伝令が謁見の間に訪れた。「伝令! 東の第一門、魔神を撃破しました!」「なんだと! いったいどうやって!?」「ハ、冒険者の一団が破城槌を持って急襲し、魔神を足止めしつつそれで串刺しに」「魔神に......破城槌だと?」「は、はい」驚愕の声を上げるエリオットに、女性はニヤニヤしたまま答えを返した。「防御が硬くて有効打を与えられんのなら、それ以上の破壊力をぶつけたらええだけやろ? 城門を破壊する破城槌の一撃なら、いくら魔神でも耐えられんて」「そんな単純な......」そもそも破城槌というのは巨大な目標に向かって叩きつける、丸太の先を尖らせただけような兵器だ。もちろん補強もされており、加速しやすくるために車輪なども取り付けられている。「さいわい魔神の図体はでっかいことやし、ぶつけるのは意外と簡単やで」三メートルを超える巨体。今回はそれが仇となった。もちろん魔神とて回避行動は取るだろうが、こちらの数がいればその機動力も封じられる。特に冒険者という様々な戦況に対応できる人材ならば、それも可能だろう。「北の二門、東西の三門の計八門にすでに破城槌は派遣してある。連中、勉強不足らしいし、ここいらでちょっくら人間の怖さを学んでもらおか」そう言ってさらに口角を吊り上げる女性。その笑みはまるで、戯曲に登場する人を騙す悪魔のようだ。同時に複数の伝令兵が謁見の間に飛び込んでくる。それを見てエリオットは、この戦いの勝利を確信したのだった。	◇◆◇◆◇ The Devil attacks had spread through the entire northern region. Naturally, that meant that the Devil groups also reached the United Three Nations’ capital, Tryad. Rather, due to the number of citizens, far more Devils gathered there, so the battle forced practically all the knights to head out to the frontline. “Your Highness, the northern gate defenses are already at the limit. There are many casualties among the guards!” “The southern gate guards should have some leeway in numbers. Send them there along with the rear guard knights.” “The second western gate is somehow holding back the Devil attacks!” “What?! How did they do it?” Even a single Devil was a powerful threat. Tryad was being attacked by eight of them now. It was a small mercy that they were able to hold them back so far thanks to the fact that they didn’t cooperate and didn’t focus on breaking through from one point. However, they were nonetheless in an inferior position. And yet, the second western gate managed to hold its own, a fact that Elliot found hard to believe. “Sir, Count Raglan and Her Highness are in charge of the second gate.” “Priscilla?! I wondered where she went, but to think she went there...” “It is still thanks to their cooperation that they are able to put up a resistance against the Devils there...” “But that’s not something a queen should do! Good grief, why did she rush into danger like that.” One couldn’t object to the king’s statement in general, so the subordinates around didn’t oppose his words. Elliot was well aware of the situation, which was why he didn’t order them to bring her back. He couldn’t pull personnel from the sole battlefront that was putting up a proper fight against the Devils. After all, he knew that if this paper-thin balance broke, the entire front could collapse with it. “I’m worried about Priscilla... but the other fronts are also...” The battle was at a disadvantage, and places, where Count Raglan and his daughter weren’t present, were using the rampart to somehow manage to endure the attacks. At this rate, let alone repelling them, the royal capital could actually fall. “You still can’t contact Lord Lyell and Lord Maxwell?” “Sir, it appears that Raum and the pioneer village are also facing the Devil attacks...” “Even there?! Just where did this flood of Devils come from?!” He punched down the throne’s armrest. This kind of rage was rare for a gentle king like Elliot. Which was why his retainers were currently as scared as they had ever been. But Elliot has more things to worry about now. At this rate, he would let his soldiers die in vain. He had to make some decisions as soon as possible. “............We... are going to abandon Tryad.” “There’s less enemy at the southern gate, right? Then evacuate the citizens from there. Hurry up!” “Your Highness, please reconsider! This city can still stand!” “Exactly. How could we abandon this capital that we have finally rebuilt... Please reconsider!” “And how many soldiers do you think will die in the process? What we can do now is to save our military force as much as possible and reorganize ourselves.” Elliot’s and his subordinates’ opinions clashed, throwing the place into chaos and hindering further instructions. Meanwhile, a messenger rushed into the audience hall. “Reporting! The third western gate has been broken through!” “What?!” “There are already casualties among the citizens! P-Please, send reinforc—!” The next moment, the messenger fell forward. Looking closely, his body was wounded all over, and was in total exhaustion. He probably used all his stamina to rush here. Seeing that, Elliot’s retainers that were opposing him were at a loss for words. They failed to realize it from the castle, but now they finally learned that the situation was much direr than they expected. “Did you see? We can’t lose even a second. Quickly, evacuate the—” “Yes, that’s a good decision, but could ye wait fer a little?” Suddenly, a voice interrupted Elliot’s words. At the same time, a woman showed herself from behind a pillar that supported the ceiling. She was slim and had two short swords on her back. Her hair was cut at shoulder length, and rather than a beauty, her looks made her feel more like an amiable and charming girl. If anything, she looked closer to Priscilla. “I’m the northern area supervisin’ branch manager of the Guild. I’m usually in Stollar, though.” The female introduced herself while scratching her head. She had a peculiar accent that gave her a special atmosphere. “We’ve made several strategies on how ta defeat those Devils. I wanted to offer some help.” “You have a way of beating them?!” She narrowed her eyes and gave a sly grin. Elliot ignored her scheming grin and latched onto her proposal. “If you can, please do! I promise I will respond with any reward that’s in my ability!” “Kay, we seem ta have reached an agreement.” She said so, then took out a small box-shaped tool from her pocket. The guards instantly reacted to it and drew their swords in vigilance. However, the woman ignored them altogether, and casually spoke towards the box. “I have their agreement. Do yer job properly now.” “Got it.” That was the only response that came from the box. After that, the communication got cut off. The tense atmosphere continued for ten-odd minutes. The woman stood while still grinning like before. Elliot, who couldn’t follow the situation, didn’t move and waited for some kind of reaction. And then, the long-awaited messenger showed up in the audience hall. “Reporting! The Devil at the first eastern gate has been defeated!” “What?! How did they do it?!” “Sir, a group of Adventurers suddenly attacked it with a battering ram, stopping it first and then skewering it.” “A battering ram... against a Devil?” “Y-Yes.” The woman answered shocked Elliot while maintaining her grin. “If ye can’t deal any effective damage due ta their hard defenses, ya just hafta hit them with an attack that exceeds it, right? Even a Devil can’t endure an attack of a battering ram that can destroy castle gates.” “A simple method like that...” In the first place, battering rams simply had sharpened logs on them that you used to slam against a giant target. They were of course reinforced and had wheels for easier transportation too. “Fortunately, Devils have giant bodies, so it’s surprisingly easy ta slam it at them.” They were giants over three meters tall. And that backfired on them now. Of course, the Devils could try to evade it, but with the numbers on their side, they could seal their mobility. That would be all the more possible if capable people like Adventurers who could adapt to various situations were the ones doing it. “Two gates in the north, three gates in east and west, eight in total, have already deployed the battering rams. Those fellows haven’t prepared well enough, and they are going ta taste how scary humans can be.” After saying so, the woman’s mouth turned up into a bigger grin. Her smile was just like that of a devil that deceived people taking part in a drama. At the same time, several messengers rushed into the audience hall. Seeing that, Elliot was convinced of their victory.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 2, "inserted_lines_src": 4, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
何の因果か、エリオットとお茶する羽目になった。エリオットの最近のおすすめというカフェに入って、エスコートされるままに席に着く。艶のあるクルミ材の内装が、通りに面しているにしては、中々に渋い。店内を漂う香ばしい豆茶の香りも、実にいい。対面に座ったエリオットはやや不本意そうな俺とは対照的に、ニコニコと笑顔を浮かべている。「あ、ストロベリーパフェ、ください。あとキャラメルマキアート」この店内を漂う香りからして、豆茶が売りの店なのはわかっているが、今の俺の舌は実にお子様だ。この身体ならば、問題なく注文できるのは、転生してからの数少ない長所だ。いや、今は大人の姿にはなっているけど。もしこれがレイドの姿だったら、どんな噂が流れるかわかったモノじゃない。「私は豆茶を、ストレートで」ミルクや砂糖を入れる事で味を調整する豆茶だが、良い豆を使っている場合そのまま飲む方が美味い......らしい。それに、地味に味にうるさいエリオットが注文するのだから、折り紙付きと予想できる。「苦いのに」「ここの豆茶は風味がいいですから、そのままでもイケますよ。今度ぜひお試しください」「北部の出身と言ってましたけど......あ、その、そう言えば今更ですが、お名前は?」「ぷっ、ふふ――あはははは! まさに今更ですね! いや失礼。私はエリオットと申します」「私は......えっと......」そう言えば偽名とか考えてねぇや。そうだな、温泉街に行った時に護衛してもらった、エルフのお姉さんの名前を借りるか。「警戒していらっしゃる?」「あ、いえ。私はハウメアと申します」俺が口篭もった事を、警戒していると勘違いするエリオット。まあ、この状況で警戒しない女はいないんじゃなかろうか? 後はエリオットをこの姿の俺に惚れさせれば、元の俺に対する興味は相対的に薄れるはず。「私は出身地を明かしたのに、エリオットさんは教えてくれないんですか?」「おっと、これは失礼を。私はトライアッドの首都出身ですよ」「トライアッド......あの邪竜に襲われた! あ、これは申し訳ない事を」「いえ、お気になさらず。過ぎた事ですので」それに崩壊した故郷を思い出させる事は、彼にとっても気持ちのいい物ではないのも知っている。しかしここは、敢えてそう尋ねる事で会話を俺の謝罪へと誘導し、彼に主導権を持たせた。この会話術は、マクスウェルからの受け売りだったりする。俺って勤勉だなぁ。「本当に申し訳ありませんでした。不快な思いをなさったら、謝ります」「いえ、本当にもう大丈夫です。幼い時はさすがにきつかったですが、今はもう......それに二十年は経ってますから」「もうそんなになるんですね......ずっと首都でお暮しに?」「いや、一時的に首都から離れていましてね。おかげで災厄からは逃れる事ができましたよ」「それは不幸中の幸いでしたね」「ええ、おかげで有名人とも面識を得る事も出来ましたし」「有名人?」尋ねてみたが、誰の事かは想像ができている。もちろん、俺達の事だ。「ええ、なん雄ですよ。あの災禍のおかげで、ずいぶん助けていただきました」「まあ!」そこでカフェのマスターが注文の品をテーブルに運んでくる。俺は遠慮なく、そのパフェにスプーンを突き刺した。ふんわりと甘いミルククリームの甘味が口いっぱいに広がり、続いてかけてあるストロベリージャムの酸味が甘味を覆い隠していく。実に美味だった。「あ、おいし――」「お気に召していただけたようで、何より」匙を咥えたまま、予想外の美味さに思わず言葉が漏れた。新鮮な苺の酸味と甘いミルククリームに、思わず我を忘れて陶然とする。「ハッ!? そ、そうです、六英雄のお話を......」「フフ、食べ終わってからでもいいんですよ?」「いえ、聞ける機会にぜひお願いします!」「では......」甘味に意識を持っていかれた俺が可笑しかったのか、笑いを堪えながらエリオットは話を続けた。ライエルやガドルス、そして俺の功績や、語られない失敗談を面白おかしく紹介していく。一見すると、仲睦まじい男女。そんな時間を意図的に演出していく。その時、俺は鋭い視線を感じ取ったのだった。	After this and that, I ended up having to drink tea with Elliot. All this was so he’d stop making eyes at me from now on. Having him leer at me so I could avoid it felt like I was putting the cart before the horse. How did it come to this... Actually, Maxwell is how. We entered the nearby cafe that Elliot suggested, and were escorted to the table. This place was a so-called “hidden gem”, with a calm atmosphere. The glossy interior made of walnut was quite refined despite facing the street. The aroma of bean tea drifting inside was quite pleasing too. There was no one around either, so we could have a quiet meal. Though I suppose the store itself wasn’t quite happy about that fact. Elliot sitting in front of me was in all smiles, contrastive to me who was acting quite reluctant. Ignoring him, I decided to quickly order the food from the menu placed on the table. “Ah, one strawberry parfait, please. Oh, and a caramel macchiato.” Based on the bean tea smell drifting around, I realized that this was a shop mainly focused on that, but my tastes were that of a kid’s right now. I liked some bitter things, but sweet stuff was where my tastes mainly pointed to. I had a sweet tooth since my previous life... Though it was a little embarrassing to order parfaits back then. The fact that my appearance allowed me to order it without worrying about it was among the few good things that my reincarnation had brought with it. Though I was currently using an adult form. If it was Reid ordering it now, there was no knowing what rumors would spread. At the very least, they would be far off from the stoic warrior that I was aiming to be. “Bean tea for me, plain.” Sweetening it with milk or sugar was the norm, but when they used high-quality beans, it was tastier to drink it raw... Or so I heard. It was proof that this store had good enough quality to warrant drinking it like that. And when Elliot who had a picky tongue ordered it, it further certified their credibility. “That’s just bitter.” “These beans have a great flavor so they are good as is. Please give it a try next time.” “You said you were from north... Ah, right, it’s a bit too late, but what’s your name?” “Pfft, hahahaha, a little bit too late indeed! My bad. I am Elliot.” “I’m... Err...” Now that he mentioned it, I have to think of an alias. Right, maybe I’ll borrow that Elven lady’s name that guarded us on the way to the hot spring town. “Are you wary of me?” “Ah, no. My name is Haumea.” He misunderstood my silence for wariness. But well, any girl would be wary in this situation, wouldn’t they? Either way, we finally reached the stage of exchanging names. Now if only I make him fall for this me, his interest in the actual me should fade. “I told you about my birthplace, will you not do the same, Mr. Elliot?” “Oops, so rude of me. I come from the capital of Tryad.” “Tryad... You mean the one that was attacked by the Evil Dragon! Ah, that was so inconsiderate of me.” “No, please don’t mind it. It’s all in the past.” I shamelessly stared at him while acting shocked. Of course, I was more than aware of where he was born and raised. I also knew that making him remember his ruined birthplace wouldn’t be a pleasant thing for him. However, by intentionally asking it, I made myself look apologetic, handing the dominance of the conversation to him. I was parroting what Maxwell taught me. Man, I sure am diligent. “I’m truly sorry for that. I apologize for making you remember something unpleasant.” “No, please, it’s alright already. It was tough when I was a child, but now... It’s been twenty years already.” “It’s been so long, huh... So you always lived in the capital?” “No, I was temporarily away from it. Thanks to that, I managed to avoid that calamity.” “That must have been a blessing in disguise.” “Indeed, thanks to it, I managed to get acquaintanced with famous people.” “Famous people?” I asked anyway, but I already had an idea who he meant. It was obviously us. I could’ve just let it slide, but I wanted to hear his opinion of us. Maybe I could even get some weakness of Maxwell out of him. “Yeah, I mean the Six Heroes themselves. Thanks to that disaster, I’ve been in their care for quite a bit.” “Oh my!” I put a hand to my mouth and acted surprised. This was part of Maxwell’s lessons too. Meanwhile, the cafe manager carried the order to our table. I went and stabbed my spoon into the parfait without any hesitation. I scooped out the cream filling the largish glass to the brim and carried it to my mouth. The sweetness of the milk cream spread through my mouth, after which the sourness of the accompanying strawberry jam took over and covered it. It was absolutely delicious. “Ahh, delicious—” “I’m glad that it is to your taste.” The unexpected taste made me unconsciously leak the words of praise, with the spoon still in my mouth. That said, I felt like I was dancing on his palm, so I fixed my expression, but it only lasted for a moment. The fine taste of the sweet made my expression naturally melt. The sourness of the fresh strawberry and the sweetness of the milk cream intoxicated me and made me lose myself. “Ah!? R-Right, you were saying something about the Six Heroes...” “Haha, it can wait until you are done with your meal.” “No, please start when you are ready!” “Well then...” He endured a laugh, perhaps finding it funny that I became a captive of the dessert, and then he started his story. He happily talked about Lyell, Gadius and my achievements, and the blunders that we never talked about. At a glance, we looked like an intimate couple. I intentionally created such an atmosphere for us. But then, I noticed a sharp gaze directed at us.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 2, "inserted_lines_src": 20, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
水竜の集落は危機に陥っていた。体、地上には魔装機械機並んでいる。水竜たちが激闘を繰り広げていた。「ここまで侵入されているってことは、結界を突破されたか?」俺の後ろから襲いかかってきたアークヴァンパイアをガルヴがねじ伏せた。「ガルヴ、助かった!」狙いは上空の昏竜だ。合本の氷槍を二十体の昏竜に打ち込んだ。まともに食らった昏竜は致命傷をうけて地面に墜ちた。魔法障壁で防いだ昏竜も羽が凍り、大きく体勢を崩す。そこに水竜たちが殺到する。氷槍の発射と同時に俺は走る。次の狙いは魔装機械だ。俺の通常のより威力の高い魔法がいい。だが巻き込みが怖いので範囲の広い魔法は使えない。「......これが早いか」周囲に黒い球を十個出現させた。ふわふわと浮かぶ黒い球から光線を撃ち込むのだ。さすがは邪神の魔法。暗黒光線は魔装機械の青い障壁を砕いて、装甲を突き破り、内部で爆発した。「よし」十機を倒して、次の魔装機械十機に狙いを定める。その瞬間、魔装機械の障壁の色が黒に変わった。そこに暗黒光線がぶつかる。「なっ!」魔装機械の張る障壁によって、暗黒光線は完全に弾かれた。魔装機械は色々な魔法障壁を使い分けられるらしい。「ならば!」俺に近くの魔装機械との距離をつめると、魔神王の剣で斬り裂いた。俺を目掛けて、魔装機械が攻撃を一斉に繰り出してくる。眼にもとまらぬ速さの小さな金属の塊が何十、何百と飛んでくる。 ――ガガガガガガガッガ魔法障壁を三枚張って防ぐ。一枚目の障壁は砕かれたが、二枚目で止まった。素早く移動しながら、魔装機械を斬り飛ばしていく。ガルヴは俺の真後ろを走ってついてくる。なかなか速い。正面の魔装機械を斬り飛ばし、右にいる魔装機械を下から魔法の槍で貫く。すると、また障壁の色が変わる。今度は無色だ。一機が魔法で破壊されると、残り全機がその属性を防ぐ障壁に変わるようだ。前回戦った時にはなかった機能だ。進化しているのだろう。水竜たちは水属性の魔法が得意だ。だが、水の魔法で一機でも破壊すれば、もう水魔法が通じなくなる。水竜に対して非常に有効な機能と言えるだろう。「これは、苦戦しても仕方がない」そして俺は大声を出す。「魔装機械に対しても、水の魔法をどんどん使ってください!」「で、ですが! ラックさん。水の魔法はなぜか通用しなくて」水竜の一体が叫んだ。効かなかったことを伝えようとしているのだろう。「知ってる! 俺を信じろ!」水竜たちは一斉に水の魔法を使い始める。水の魔法が常に通用するように、俺は水以外の魔法で破壊し続けなければならない。魔神王の剣でも斬り裂いていく。真横や後ろからヴァンパイアロードから何度も奇襲を受けた。それはガルヴが防いでくれる。ロードの首に噛みつきねじ伏せ、完全に息の根を止めるのだ。羽が凍り地面に墜ちた昏竜が俺に向かって爪をふるう。かわす間がない。咄嗟に剣で防いだ。昏竜の真横からガルヴが首に噛みついた。「GYAAA!」ガルヴの牙は昏竜にも効いているようだ。断末魔の声を上げて、昏竜は動かなくなる。ケーテもリーアも侍従長モーリスも竜の姿で、戦っている。モーリスは相変わらずの強さだ。ケーテは風のブレスを使いにくいようだ。集落ごと破壊してしまうからだろう。「ガラクタと雑魚竜ごときが! 風竜王を舐めすぎなのである!」爪で魔装機械を貫き、昏竜を牙でねじ伏せている。昏竜のブレスも障壁と羽で防いでいる。当代の風竜王は伊達ではないようだ。リーアもかなり強い。昏竜にねじ伏せられかけた水竜を助けている。そして水の魔法。リーアの真後ろに現れたヴァンパイアロードをニアが斬り裂く。ニアはリーアの羽と羽の間に乗って、その背中を守っていたらしい。「ニア。ありがとう」「いえ! こちらこそありがとうです!」活躍の場を得ることが出来て、ニアはとても嬉しそうだ。「風の魔法の効きがいいのである!」ケーテは少し嬉しそうだ。が魔装機械を上空へ跳ね上げながら、斬り裂いていく。周りが水の魔法を使いまくっているせいで、風は効きやすいのだろう。俺も快調に魔装機械と昏竜を退治していく。俺は特に大きな昏竜を目標にした。魔法の槍と氷槍を連続で撃ち込みながら、距離を詰め剣で斬りかかる。昏竜も強力だ。魔法障壁と爪で俺の攻撃を防ぎきる。至近距離で魔法を撃ち込もうとした、その瞬間、真後ろからヴァンパイアに襲われた。ガルヴが噛みついて防ぐ。一瞬で息の根を止めた。だが、それも囮。別のヴァンパイアが俺の真横に出現すると同時に剣をふるう。俺は咄嗟に障壁で防ぐ。あっさり砕かれた。後方にとんで距離をとる。浅いが剣で腹を斬られている。直後、一瞬くらりとした。	The water dragon settlement was in danger. There were twenty evil dragons in the sky and thirty magic machines on the ground. The water dragons were in a desperate battle. “They got this far in? Has the barrier been breached?” Grulf tore into an arch vampire that had appeared behind me to attack. “Thanks, Grulf!” I was targeting the evil dragons in the sky. In all, lances were launched into the air, and all dragons were hit. Those that had received lethal wounds came falling to the ground. Even those who had magic barriers felt their wings freeze, and they lost their balance. And that was when the water dragon attacked them. I started to run as soon as the Ice Lances were launched. My next target was the magic machines. It required two of my normal magic bullets to take one down. Using high-power magic was the most effective, but I avoided using wide-area attacks because I didn’t want to accidentally hurt anyone else. “...This one should make it quick.” Ten black spheres appeared in the air. The floating black spheres would shoot the rays of light. It was the magic of the Evil God. And with that, the magic machines’ blue barriers were shattered, their armor pierced, and their insides exploded. “Good.” After destroying ten of them, I targeted the next ten machines. And then suddenly, the barriers around the magic machines suddenly changed to black. And then the Dark Ray hit them. “What!” The Dark Rays were completely stopped by the new barriers. Apparently, the magic machines could alternate between different kinds of barriers. “In that case!” I dashed forward to the closest magic machine and cut it with the Devil King Sword. All at once, the other magic machines started to attack me. Hundreds of bullets came flying faster than the eye could see. —GAGGAGAGAGAGA I created three layers of barriers to stop them. The first layer was quickly shattered, but the other two remained. I moved quickly and cut through the magic machines. Grulf was running right behind me. He was very fast. After slashing through the magic machines in the front, I summoned magic spears from the ground to pierce the machines to my right. Then their barrier changed color again. This time it was clear and colorless. It seemed that their barriers all changed every time a machine was destroyed. They had not had this feature when last I fought them. They had evolved then. The water dragons were good with water magic. However, if they destroyed one machine with water magic, then their water magic would no longer work. So you could say that this feature was very effective when facing water dragons. “This is going to be a tough battle no matter what.” And then I shouted. “Keep using your water magic against the machines!” “B-but! Mister Ruck! For some reason, our magic doesn’t work!” One of the water dragons shouted. “I know! But trust me!” And with that, the water dragons all started to use water magic. To keep this effective, I had to constantly attack them with magic that was not water magic. I would even use the Devil King Sword when I could. Vampire Lords would often try and attack me from behind. But Grulf would protect me. He would tear into their throats and kill them. “GYAAAA!!” An evil dragon, whose wings had been frozen, now attacked me with its claws. I had no time to move, and so I blocked it with my sword. Then Grulf jumped on the dragon and bit its neck. It seemed that Grulf’s claws could hurt the dragon. The dragon let out a final cry before going completely still Kathe, Leea and Grand Chamberlain Morris were also fighting in the forms of dragons. Morris was as strong as usual. Kathe seemed like she was trying not to use her wind breath. There was a danger of destroying the entire settlement. “Metal trash and worms are what you are! Do not underestimate the wind dragon ruler!” She boasted as her claws tore into the machines and her jaws twisted the necks of the evil dragons. She blocked the breath of the evil dragons with her wings and with barriers. The current reigning wind dragon was very powerful. Leea was also quite strong. She helped a water dragon who was being attacked by an evil dragon. And then the water magic. Aqua Blades cut through the machines. Nia slashed a Vampire Lord who had appeared behind Leea. Nia had been riding on Leea’s back and was protecting her. “Thank you, Nia.” “No! Thank you!” Nia was very happy to be given a position where she could be useful. “The wind magic is working quite well!” Kathe cried happily. She used Toronado Blade to launch the machines into the air and shred them. As water magic was being used everywhere, there were no barriers to block her wind magic. My own fight with the magic machines and the evil dragons was going quite smoothly. I was now fighting an especially large evil dragon. First, I launched a volley of magic spears and ice lances at it. Then I got up close and attacked with my sword. But the evil dragon was also strong. It blocked my attacks with barriers and its claws. It happened just as I was about to use magic again. A vampire attacked me from behind. Grulf’s jaws clamped down and held him back. The vampire was dead in a second. But there was no time for relief. A different vampire appeared to my side and swung his sword. I blocked the attack with a barrier, but it was immediately shattered. And so jumped back. That’s when I noticed that my stomach had been cut. And in the next instant, I felt a wave of dizziness.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 10, "inserted_lines_src": 11, "inserted_lines_trg": 1 }
ジェーン・フォンダ:そのとおりねパット:女友達についてのセルバンテスのこんな言葉を読んだことがあるの「付き合っている友人を見れば―」この場合は女性のことね「その人となりが分かる」ってねどちらから見てみようかな― ジェーン:大喧嘩になりそうねリリー・トムリン:そこの水を1つ取ってものすごく辛口になりそうだからジェーン:時間を無駄にしないでよ時間が限られているんだからリリー:彼女といるだけで私の人生は短くなるわねジェーン:人生まだまだこれからよでも - ごめんねパット:さあて友人に何を求めている? リリー:ユーモアのセンスがあって大胆なところがあり率直でポリシーがあって地球のことについてもちょっと関心があり礼儀正しく正義感もあってこの私の存在に価値があると考えてくれる人ね (拍手) ジェーン:今朝ちょっと考えてみたの女友達がいなかったらどうなっていただろうってねつまり「我友人あり故に我あり」ってところねジェーン:本当よ女友達があってこその私なの彼女たちの― あなたもその1人あなたはどうか分からないけれどともかく― 女友達が私を強くし賢くし勇敢にさせてくれるの私が間違っている時にポンと肩を叩いてくれるのほとんどの友人達は私よりもずっと若いのよ分かる? 素敵なことなのリリー:有難うジェーン:あなたもその1人に含めているのは ― 聞いてね人生の終わりに近づいている時一緒に遊び学ぶ人がいることは素敵なことだからよ私も終わりに近づいているわあなたよりも早くねリリー:あなたと一緒に齢を重ねるなんて光栄ねジェーン:歳の取り方教えてあげるリリー:あなたは良くご存じねパット:歳を取っていき様々なことを人生で経験していくなかで友人関係をどうやって生き生きと保っていくの? リリー:かなり利用するのが- ジェーン:彼女あまり家に招いてくれないのよそれは確かねリリー: ソーシャルメディアを頻繁に使うことねあなたは黙っててリリー: メイルやテキストメッセージを確認するそこに友人からのものがあったらすぐに返事を出すの彼女たちは私のアドバイスを求めているからね私に助けを求めているのよ友人の多くは作家や活動家や俳優だったりするからねあなたはその3つともね... それから他にもいろんな立場の人がいるわねそして少しでも早く返事を出していつでも力になれるわよって伝えたいのジェーン:絵文字は使ってる? リリー: ん~ ジェーン: 使ってないの? リリー:あれは嫌ねジェーン:私は絵文字大好きよリリー: 私はね幸せや祝福や悲しみといったことを言葉にして伝えたいのジェーン:ちゃんと言葉にしているのねリリー:一字一句ねジェーン:純粋なのね歳を取ると友情の大切さがより分かってきてだから連絡を取ってお付き合いして ― 疎遠になり過ぎないようにするのリリーはよく知っているけど私は本を沢山読んで気に入った本は友達に送っているわリリー:今日ここに来ると分かってからあなたは女性や女の友情に関する本を沢山送ってくれたわね本の数とそれにこの手の研究の多さに驚いたわジェーン:あなた感謝してる? リリー:してるわよパット:で― リリー:待って大事な話よこれは女性が見下されたり脇に追いやられたり軽んじられる例の一つなのだからこのような事例の調査に私たちもずいぶん時間を捧げて来たけど調査はほとんど進んでいないのよジェーン:ホントにそうねリリー:これとても面白くってあなた達も興味を惹かれるわよハーバード大学医学大学院の研究によると女の親友を持つ女性は障害が起きにくくて― 年を取ると起きる身体的な障害が少なく友人がいるとより活動的で刺激的な生活が送れる可能性が高いそうよジェーン:そして長生きする... リリー:楽しい生活ねジェーン:女性は男性より5年長く生きるわリリー:その分の寿命を楽しさと取引したいわリリー:調査結果で最も大事な結論は― とても興味深くしかもゆるぎない結論で研究者が見出したことは女性の親友がいないことは喫煙や肥満と同じくらい健康に悪いってことなのジェーン:他にもあるわ... リリー:私の番は終わりだから... ジェーン:オーケーじゃあ私の話を聞いてまだ付け加えることがあるわ何年も何十年もの間ストレスの影響に関する研究は男性に関するものばかりほんの最近になってストレスの女性への影響も研究されるようになったのそこで分かったことは私たち女性がストレスにさらされると身体中でオキシトシンの量が増えるのこれは気分を良くし心を落ち着かせるストレスを減らすホルモンのことこれは女友達と一緒にいる時も増えるのこれが女性がより長生きできる 1つの理由じゃないかな男性は可哀そうねそれが欠けているのよ男性の体内にあるテストステロンがオキシトシンの効果を弱めてしまうのリリー:あなたとドリーと『9時から5時まで』を撮影したときジェーン:あっ― リリー:私たち笑ったわよね腹の底からそして私たちは多くの共通点と相違点を見出したわあなたはまるでハリウッドのお偉いさん私はまるでデトロイト出のならず者ドリーはテネシーの貧しい街から来た南部の女そして私たちは女性としてとても息が合ってきっと― 笑ったから少なくとも10年は寿命が延びたはずよジェーン:私たち何度も足を組んだわねわかるでしょリリー:みんな分かっているわよパット:あなた達のおかげで私たちの寿命も10年延びたわジェーンが私たち両方に送ってくれた女友達に関する本の内 1冊は我々がとても尊敬するシスター・ジョーン・チッティスターが書いたもので彼女は「女性の友人関係は単なる社交的な行いではなくって魂の付合いだ」って言ってるわ女友達は精神的だと思う? 人生に精神的な何かを与えている? リリー:精神的―全くその通りよだって特にあなたにとっての長年の友人一緒に過ごしてきた人たちはその心の中に精神的な真髄があるのよ優しさとか心の傷付きやすさといったことよそこには愛情といったものがあって人間関係に必要な要素としての愛よあなたの魂には深い愛があるのパット:ジェーンこれどう思う? リリー:私には特別な力があるのジェーン:いろんなタイプの友人がいるわビジネス友達それにパーティ友達私には沢山いるわよでもオキシトシンを増やしてくれる友人というと... 精神的なものを感じる人達よね? 心を開いてくれるから知っての通り私たちの付き合いは深くて― 親友と一緒にいて沢山涙を流したわ悲しさからではなく心を揺り動かされ力づけられたからよリリー:あなた達の一方があの世に行くのも遠くない将来ねパット:2人ここに座っているけどリリーどちらのことを言っているのよ? いつも思うんだけれど女性が友人関係について話をしていると男性はいつも何か戸惑っているのよね男の友情と女の友情どんな違いがあると思う? ジェーン:すごく違うわよ男性の気持ちにもっと寄り添ってあげないと女性的な友情を男性は持っていないんだからだから彼らはすぐに死んじゃうのよ男の人本当に可哀そうまじめな話女性は― 女の友情はとても深くて何も秘密にしなくってあからさまね弱さをさらけ出す― 男にはできないことね何度もあなたに「私大丈夫かしら?」「へましなかった?」って尋ねたでしょうパット:今はしっかりしていますよジェーン:女同士だとそんな質問をし合うけれど男性はしないわね女性同士の関係は互いに顔を向かい合わせるようなもので男性の場合並んで立っているようなものだと言われるわねリリー:男性は感情を滅多に表に出さず心の奥にしまって置こうとするのつまり昔っからの流儀ね男性は男臭い自分の部屋でスポーツを見たりゴルフをしたりスポーツやハンティングとか車とかの話をしてセックスをするつまりそういう男っぽい振る舞いをするのよジェーン:男はセックスも話題にするって言いたかったんでしょリリー:誰かをお気に入りの部屋に連れ込めたらセックスし始めちゃうかもよーでもね知ってる? これも面白い話なんだけれど心理学者がつい最近になって解き明かしたこと男性も女性と同じく生まれつき他人に依存してるってこと映像を見ると生まれたばかりの子は男の子でも女の子でも― 男の赤ちゃんは女の赤ちゃんと同じくお母さんの目をじっと見るのつまり互いにエネルギーの交換を必要としているってわけお母さんが目をそらすと子供はうろたえて男の子でも泣き出しちゃうつながりを必要としているのよ謎は成長とともになぜ変わってしまうのかということねその答えは家長主義的な文化よ男の子や若い男性は他人に頼ったり情にもろくなることは女っぽいことだと教わるから真の男は指示を仰いだり欲しいものを口に出したりしない気分が悪くなっても病院には行かないってことね助けを求めないのよ好きな言葉があるわ「男は『我々』になることを恐れるがために『自己』を失ってしまうのだ」これが彼にとっての「自分」逆に女性にとっての「自分」はいつも穴だらけでも「私達」が互いに欠点を補っていて私たちを強くしているの女性は男性より優れてはいないけど誇示するような男らしさが無いだけの違いリリー:それに― ジェーン:それグロリア・スタイネムの言葉ねそれで私たちは人間性を表現できて― リリー:スタイネムのこと知っているわよジェーン:あなたが知っていること位分かっているわよでも本当にいい言葉よね「女性は男性より優れていないけどそれは誇示するような男らしさが無いだけの違い」とても大切なことねリリー:でも男性は家長制度の元で正しく振舞うべきだと文化的背景のもと叩き込まれているのねでも私達が変化を起こしていかなければジェーン:女性の友人関係はパワー再生の源のようねリリー:本当に面白い話題だわ私たちの友人関係は― 女性の友情は女同士の連帯へと進化し姉妹関係はとても力強いパワーを世界に与え― 世界をあるべき姿に変え― 人間が渇望しているものを与えるのよパット:だからこのことを話題にするのね女性の友情がジェーンあなたの言う通りパワー再生の源となるからよこのパワーをどう使う? ジェーン:そうね女性の人口は特に高齢女性の人口は世界中で急速に増加しているわもし我々のパワーを活かすことができたら世界を変えられるわねいい?それが必要なのよ (拍手) それはすぐにでも始めるべきねやるべきことの1つは― 女性だからできることは― 1つは標準的な消費のあり方を定めるということよ消費を減らすべきなのよ欧米諸国では消費をへらし物を買うときは地元で作られたものを買い食品を買うときは地産のものを買う必要があるの私達こそインフラ網とは一線を画すべきだし化石燃料に頼るべきではないのよ化石燃料関連企業― エクソンやシェルといったたちの悪い企業は彼らは― もはや石器時代に戻れないのだから化石燃料は必要だって言うのよ代替エネルギーはまだ十分でないっていうけどそれは嘘世界には今でも殆ど再生可能なエネルギーで生活し上手くいっている国々があるのでも彼らは化石燃料を利用しなくなれば石器時代に戻るのだと主張しているわ実際には再生可能なエネルギーを使い始めれば北極で掘削する必要もないしリリー:何と― ジェーン:アルバータ州のタールサンドを掘ることもないわねそういうことよそうすれば― もっと民主的になって職も増えもっと精神的に豊かになるわそして女性がその方向性を導いていくのリリー:今や女性運動の第3の波が始まろうとしているかもしれないわ世界中の女性同士の団結― 見たことも会ったこともない女性同士が一緒になって行動するのなぜならアリストテレスはこう言ったわ「多くの人々は男友達も無くこの世を去っていくだろう」ここで大切な言葉は「男」ね友人関係は同等でなければならず女性は同等でないと考えていたからねジェーン:ギリシア人は女性には魂も無いと考えていたわリリー:全くその通りねアリストテレスの限界を示しているわ待ってここが大事なところいい男性は女性を求めているようなのよ地球は女性を必要としているのね合衆国憲法は女性を必要とするのでも憲法に規定されてさえいないわジェーン:男女平等憲法修正案のことねリリー:その通りギンズバーグ裁判官はこんなことを言っていたわ「第二次世界大戦後に書かれた憲法はいずれも女性の国民は男性と同格であるという条項があるがわが憲法には書かれていない」だからここから始められたらいいわねとっても穏やかな始め方ジェーン:その通りね (拍手) 男女平等は一本の潮流のようなもので女性だけでなく皆を助け出すのよパット:これを実現するための新たなロールモデルが必要ねどうやって友人になり私たちのパワーの使い方を様々に考えてみる― 消費者として世界の市民としてねそしてジェーンとリリーはこのようにして時には意見が一致しないことがあっても ― ずっと長い間女友達でいられるロールモデルなのね有難うお二人とも有難う (拍手) ジェーン:有難うリリー:有難うジェーン:有難う	Jane Fonda: Yes we have. PM: And one of the things that I read about female friendship is something that Cervantes said. He said, "You can tell a lot about someone," in this case a woman, "by the company that she keeps." So let's start with -- JF: We're in big trouble. Lily Tomlin: Hand me one of those waters, I'm extremely dry. JF: You're taking up our time. We have a very limited -- LT: Just being with her sucks the life out of me. JF: You ain't seen nothing yet. Anyway -- sorry. PM: So tell me, what do you look for in a friend? LT: I look for someone who has a sense of fun, who's audacious, who's forthcoming, who has politics, who has even a small scrap of passion for the planet, someone who's decent, has a sense of justice and who thinks I'm worthwhile. JF: You know, I was thinking this morning, I don't even know what I would do without my women friends. I mean it's, "I have my friends, therefore I am." LT: JF: No, it's true. I exist because I have my women friends. They -- You're one of them. I don't know about you. But anyway -- You know, they make me stronger, they make me smarter, they make me braver. They tap me on the shoulder when I might be in need of course-correcting. And most of them are a good deal younger than me, too. You know? I mean, it's nice -- LT: Thank you. JF: No, I do, I include you in that, because listen, you know -- it's nice to have somebody still around to play with and learn from when you're getting toward the end. I'm approaching -- I'll be there sooner than you. LT: No, I'm glad to have you parallel aging alongside me. JF: I'm showing you the way. LT: Well, you are and you have. PM: Well, as we grow older, and as we go through different kinds of life's journeys, what do you do to keep your friendships vital and alive? LT: Well you have to use a lot of -- JF: She doesn't invite me over much, I'll tell you that. LT: I have to use a lot of social media -- You be quiet now. And so -- LT: And I look through my emails, I look through my texts to find my friends, so I can answer them as quickly as possible, because I know they need my counsel. They need my support, because most of my friends are writers, or activists, or actors, and you're all three ... and a long string of other descriptive phrases, and I want to get to you as soon as possible, I want you to know that I'm there for you. JF: Do you do emojis? LT: Oh ... JF: No? LT: That's embarrassing. JF: I'm really into emojis. LT: No, I spell out my -- I spell out my words of happiness and congratulations, and sadness. JF: You spell it right out -- LT: I spell it, every letter. JF: Such a purist. You know, as I've gotten older, I've understood more the importance of friendships, and so, I really make an effort to reach out and make play dates -- not let too much time go by. I read a lot my books that I like, I send to my friends. LT: When we knew we would be here today you sent me a lot of books about women, female friendships, and I was so surprised to see how many books, how much research has been done recently -- JF: And were you grateful? LT: I was grateful. PM: And -- LT: Wait, no, it's really important because this is another example of how women are overlooked, put aside, marginalized. There's been very little research done on us, even though we volunteered lots of times. JF: That's for sure. LT: This is really exciting, and you all will be interested in this. The Harvard Medical School study has shown that women who have close female friendships are less likely to develop impairments -- physical impairments as they age, and they are likely to be seen to be living much more vital, exciting -- JF: And longer -- LT: Joyful lives. JF: We live five years longer than men. LT: I think I'd trade the years for joy. LT: But the most important part is they found -- the results were so exciting and so conclusive -- the researchers found that not having close female friends is detrimental to your health, as much as smoking or being overweight. JF: And there's something else, too -- LT: I've said my part, so ... JF: OK, well, listen to my part, because there's an additional thing. Because they only -- for years, decades -- they only researched men when they were trying to understand stress, only very recently have they researched what happens to women when we're stressed, and it turns out that when we're stressed -- women, our bodies get flooded by oxytocin. Which is a feel-good, calming, stress-reducing hormone. Which is also increased when we're with our women friends. And I do think that's one reason why we live longer. And I feel so bad for men because they don't have that. Testosterone in men diminishes the effects of oxytocin. LT: Well, when you and I and Dolly made "9 to 5" ... JF: Oh -- LT: We laughed, we did, we laughed so much, we found we had so much in common and we're so different. Here she is, like Hollywood royalty, I'm like a tough kid from Detroit, [Dolly's] a Southern kid from a poor town in Tennessee, and we found we were so in sync as women, and we must have -- we laughed -- we must have added at least a decade onto our lifespans. JF: I think -- we sure crossed our legs a lot. If you know what I mean. LT: I think we all know what you mean. PM: You're adding decades to our lives right now. So among the books that Jane sent us both to read on female friendship was one by a woman we admire greatly, Sister Joan Chittister, who said about female friendship that women friends are not just a social act, they're a spiritual act. Do you think of your friends as spiritual? Do they add something spiritual to your lives? LT: Spiritual -- I absolutely think that. Because -- especially people you've known a long time, people you've spent time with -- I can see the spiritual essence inside them, the tenderness, the vulnerability. There's actually kind of a love, an element of love in the relationship. I just see deeply into your soul. PM: Do you think that, Jane -- LT: But I have special powers. JF: Well, there's all kinds of friends. There's business friends, and party friends, I've got a lot of those. But the oxytocin-producing friendships have ... They feel spiritual because it's a heart opening, right? You know, we go deep. And -- I find that I shed tears a lot with my intimate friends. Not because I'm sad but because I'm so touched and inspired by them. LT: And you know one of you is going to go soon. PM: Well, two of us are sitting here, Lily, which one are you talking about? And I always think, when women talk about their friendships, that men always look a little mystified. between men friendships and women friendships? JF: There's a lot of difference, and I think we have to have a lot of empathy for men -- that they don't have what we have. Which I think may be why they die sooner. I have a lot of compassion for men, because women, no kidding, we -- women's relationships, our friendships are full disclosure, we go deep. They're revelatory. We risk vulnerability -- this is something men don't do. I mean how many times have I asked you, "Am I doing OK?" "Did I really screw up there?" PM: You're doing great. JF: But I mean, we ask questions like that of our women friends, and men don't. You know, people describe women's relationships as face-to-face, whereas men's friendships are more side-by-side. LT: I mean most of the time men don't want to reveal their emotions, they want to bury deeper feelings. I mean, that's the general, conventional thought. They would rather go off in their man cave and watch a game or hit golf balls, or talk about sports, or hunting, or cars or have sex. I mean, it's just the kind of -- it's a more manly behavior. JF: You meant -- LT: They talk about sex. I meant they might have sex if they could get somebody in their man cave to -- JF: You know something, though, that I find very interesting -- and again, psychologists didn't know this until relatively recently -- is that men are born every bit as relational as women are. If you look at films of newborn baby boys and girls, you'll see the baby boys just like the girls, gazing into their mother's eyes, you know, needing that relational exchange of energy. When the mother looks away, they could see the dismay on the child, even the boy would cry. They need relationship. So the question is why, as they grow older, does that change? And the answer is patriarchal culture, which says to boys and young men that to be needing of relationship, to be emotional with someone is girly. That a real man doesn't ask directions or express a need, they don't go to doctors if they feel bad. They don't ask for help. There's a quote that I really like, "Men fear that becoming 'we' will erase his 'I'." You know, his sense of self. Whereas women's sense of self has always been kind of porous. But our "we" is our saving grace, it's what makes us strong. It's not that we're better than men, we just don't have our masculinity to prove. LT: And, well -- JF: That's a Gloria Steinem quote. So we can express our humanity -- LT: I know who Gloria Steinem is. JF: I know you know who she is, but I think it's a -- No, but it's a great quote, I think. We're not better than men, we just don't have our masculinity to prove. And that's really important. LT: But men are so inculcated in the culture to be comfortable in the patriarchy. And we've got to make something different happen. JF: Women's friendships are like a renewable source of power. LT: Well, that's what's exciting about this subject. It's because our friendships -- female friendships are just a hop to our sisterhood, and sisterhood can be a very powerful force, to give the world -- to make it what it should be -- the things that humans desperately need. PM: It is why we're talking about it, because women's friendships are, as you said, Jane, a renewable source of power. So how do we use that power? JF: Well, women are the fastest growing demographic in the world, especially older women. And if we harness our power, we can change the world. And guess what? We need to. And we need to do it soon. And one of the things that we need to do -- and we can do it as women -- for one thing, we kind of set the consumer standards. We need to consume less. We in the Western world need to consume less and when we buy things, we need to buy things that are made locally, when we buy food, we need to buy food that's grown locally. We are the ones that need to get off the grid. We need to make ourselves independent from fossil fuels. And the fossil fuel companies -- the Exxons and the Shell Oils and those bad guys -- cause they are -- are going to tell us that we can't do it without going back to the Stone Age. You know, that the alternatives just aren't quite there yet, and that's not true. There are countries in the world right now that are living mostly on renewable energy and doing just fine. And they tell us that if we do wean ourselves from fossil fuel that we're going to be back in the Stone Age, and in fact, if we begin to use renewable energy, and not drill in the Arctic, and not drill -- LT: Oh, boy. JF: And not drill in the Alberta tar sands -- Right. That we will be -- there will be more democracy and more jobs and more well-being, and it's women that are going to lead the way. LT: Maybe we have the momentum to start a third-wave feminist movement with our sisterhood around the world, with women we don't see, women we may never meet, but we join together that way, because -- Aristotle said -- most people -- people would die without male friendships. And the operative word here was "male." Because they thought that friendships should be between equals and women were not considered equal -- JF: They didn't think we had souls even, the Greeks. LT: No, exactly. That shows you just how limited Aristotle was. And wait, no, here's the best part. It's like, you know, men do need women now. The planet needs women. The US Constitution needs women. We are not even in the Constitution. JF: You're talking about the Equal Rights Amendment. LT: Right. Justice Ginsberg said something like -- every constitution that's been written since the end of World War II included a provision that made women citizens of equal stature, but ours does not. So that would be a good place to start. Very, very mild -- JF: Right. And gender equality, it's like a tide, it would lift all boats, not just women. PM: Needing new role models on how to do that. How to be friends, how to think about our power in different ways, as consumers, as citizens of the world, and this is what makes Jane and Lily a role model of how women can be friends -- for a very long time, and even if they occasionally disagree. Thank you. Thank you both. JF: Thanks. LT: Thank you. JF: Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
それは積極的な何かをする安全な方法だと思っていましたしかしやはり最悪な目に遭いました私たちは皆逮捕されたのです逮捕された時の私です証拠のチラシを持っています私の罪は解かれましたが数週間後に 2人のFBI捜査官がやって来て “FBIに協力してテロ集団をスパイしないと私を国内テロリストに認定する” と言うのです私はひるみませんでしたがゾッとしました恐怖が収まるとなぜこんな目に遭ったのか疑問が募りました動物擁護運動や環境保護活動で誰も傷つけていない者がなぜFBIには国内最大のテロ脅威として認識されるのか? 数年後私が書いた記事に関して連邦議会で証言を求められ私は議員たちにこう伝えました “皆が環境保全について話している間も命の危険を顧みずに森林保護やパイプラインの阻止に挑んでいる人たちがいます” 彼らは補鯨船の銛と― 鯨の間に立ちはだかっています毎日誰かが行動を起こしていますイタリアのある抗議団体は有刺鉄線のフェンスを乗り越えビーグル犬を連れ出し動物実験から守りましたこの抗議活動は驚くほど効果的で人々の注目を集めたので 1985年彼らの活動に敵対する者たちは “エコテロリスト”という言葉を作って世論を引きつけようとしました単なる造語ですこれは動物関連企業テロリズム法のような新法の制定を支援している企業ですこれは利益の損失を招くような活動はテロだと断ずる法律です連邦議会の議員ですらこの法律を知らないでしょうその場の 1パーセントにも満たない人たちでこの法案は下院を通過しました他の議員たちは追悼式に出席しキング牧師に祈りをささげていました彼の活動は動物や環境保護の名を借りたテロ行為の烙印を押されていました法改正の支持者たちはこの法律の必要性を破壊者や放火犯のような過激派を取り締まるためだと言いますトランスカナダという会社ではこのようなプレゼンテーションの場で非暴力の抗議活動をいかにテロ行為として訴えるか警察に説明しているのです FBIのマニュアルにはエコテロリズムについて破壊活動ではなく PR活動について触れています現在さまざまな国で企業が新法の制定を強く要請し動物虐待現場の撮影を法で禁じようとしていますつい2週間前にもアイダホ州で制定されたので我々は訴訟を起こしその法律は違憲で報道にとって脅威に値すると申し立てました “ag-gag法”違反で最初に告訴された人物はエミー・メイヤーという娘です彼女は病気の畜牛が畜殺場からブルドーザーで運ばれているのを公道から見かけごくありふれたことをしました撮影したのですこの一件を記事に書くと 24時間以内に大騒動に発展し彼女に対する訴えはすべて取り下げられましたどうやらこのような暴露記事は脅威になるようです情報公開法の下テロ対策ユニットが私の記事や発言を監視していると知りましたこんな些細な記事も監視され― “説得力のあるよく書けた記事だ” と評されました次回作の推薦文に使えますね我々はどのような脅しにも屈せずジャーナリストとして教育の力を信じて揺るぎない信念を貫きます陽の光こそ最大の武器ですドストエフスキーはこう書きました “人間は人間でありピアノの鍵盤でないと納得したいのだ” 歴史を通じて繰り返し何度も権力者は恐怖心を植え付け真実や反対意見を封じ込めました新しい調べを奏でましょうありがとうございました	Police took this blurry photo of me holding leaflets as evidence. My charges were dismissed, but a few weeks later, two FBI agents knocked on my door, and they told me that unless I helped them by spying on protest groups, they would put me on a domestic terrorist list. I'd love to tell you that I didn't flinch, but I was terrified, and when my fear subsided, I became obsessed with finding out how this happened, how animal rights and environmental activists who have never injured anyone could become the FBI's number one domestic terrorism threat. A few years later, I was invited to testify before Congress about my reporting, and I told lawmakers that, while everybody is talking about going green, some people are risking their lives to defend forests and to stop oil pipelines. They're physically putting their bodies on the line between the whalers' harpoons and the whales. These are everyday people, like these protesters in Italy barbed wire fences to rescue beagles from animal testing. And these movements have been incredibly effective and popular, so in 1985, their opponents made up a new word, eco-terrorist, to shift how we view them. They just made it up. Now these companies have backed new laws like the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, which turns activism into terrorism if it causes a loss of profits. Now most people never even heard about this law, including members of Congress. Less than one percent were in the room when it passed the House. The rest were outside at a new memorial. They were praising Dr. King as his style of activism was branded as terrorism if done in the name of animals or the environment. Supporters say laws like this are needed for the extremists: the vandals, the arsonists, the radicals. But right now, companies like TransCanada are briefing police in presentations like this one about how to prosecute nonviolent protesters as terrorists. The FBI's training documents on eco-terrorism are not about violence, they're about public relations. Today, in multiple countries, corporations are pushing new laws that make it illegal to photograph animal cruelty on their farms. The latest was in Idaho just two weeks ago, and today we released a lawsuit challenging it as unconstitutional as a threat to journalism. The first of these ag-gag prosecutions, was a young woman named Amy Meyer, and Amy saw a sick cow being moved by a bulldozer outside of a slaughterhouse as she was on the public street. And Amy did what any of us would: She filmed it. When I found out about her story, I wrote about it, and within 24 hours, it created such an uproar that the prosecutors just dropped all the charges. But apparently, even exposing stuff like that is a threat. Through the Freedom of Information Act, I learned that the counter-terrorism unit has been monitoring my articles and speeches like this one. They even included this nice little write-up of my book. They described it as "compelling and well-written." Blurb on the next book, right? The point of all of this is to make us afraid, but as a journalist, I have an unwavering faith in the power of education. Our best weapon is sunlight. Dostoevsky wrote that the whole work of man is to prove he's a man and not a piano key. Over and over throughout history, people in power have used fear to silence the truth and to silence dissent. It's time we strike a new note. Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
根を張ると何世代もの間同じ地にありますしかし視点を幹から小枝に移すと木は活発な動体となります動き成長するのです私はこの動きを探究するため木を芸術家にしました単純に小枝に筆の先端を結びました風を待ち、カンバスを保持しましたすると芸術を生み出すのです左の絵はベイスギが右はダグラスファーが描きました木にはそれぞれ特徴がありそれはまるでピカソとモネのようですしかし私は木の動きをどう捉え数量化するかに興味を持ちましたそれでこの絵を描いたツタカエデの年間運動距離を測るために個々のラインを測定合計しましたそれに枝1本当りの小枝数と木1本当りの枝数を掛けて 1年を分換算したもので割りましたそれで木1本の年間運動距離を計算できましたどれだけかわかりますか 186,540マイル地球7周分です単に視点をひとつの幹からたくさんの動的な小枝に移すことで木は単なる静物ではなく極めて躍動的だとわかるのです私はこの木から学んだことの生かし方を考え静的で行き場がないが変化と躍動を求める他の存在物を考え始めましたその1つが刑務所です刑務所は法を犯した人が監禁拘束されている所です刑務所制度自体も行き詰っています全米で230万人以上の男女が投獄されておりその数は増加しています釈放された人の6割が刑務所に戻ってきます教育、職業訓練、社会復帰の資金は減少していますこの投獄の悪循環は終わりません芸術家としての木から学んだことが静的施設に適用できるかを調べました刑務所のような施設です答えはイエスです 2007年にワシントン州更生局との提携を発足しました 4刑務所と協働で、科学と科学者持続可能性と保全プロジェクトを 4つの州刑務所に持ち込みました我々は科学の講義をします囚人は科学講義に来ます TVや重量挙げの代わりですそれは動きだと思いますスタフォードクリーク矯正センターの囚人のために自然管理委員会と組み絶滅危惧植物を栽培しました州に残された大草原を復元するためですこれも動きだと思いますワシントン州野生生物局と協働し絶滅危惧種のカエルを飼育し後に保護湿地に放流しましたこれも動きです最近協働しているのは最高レベル警備施設に隔離されている囚人です亀裂骨折を負っています看守や他の囚人と何もない個室に隔離です 1日23時間です審査委員や精神科医との面接の際身動きできないブースに入ります 1日1時間閑散とした味気ない運動場に連れて来られます木や植物、カエルを身近な環境に持ち込めませんが自然のイメージを運動場に取り込み壁も植物で覆うので自然のイメージと接触できるのです 18ヵ月間独房にいるロペス氏です彼はあるイメージを提供してくれます自分自身や仲間を平穏安静にし非暴力的にする理想型ですご覧の通り変化を求める小さな動きが集まれば動かすことができるのです刑務所制度のようなものを希望に導くのです幹だけを見ると木は静物ですでも木が芸術を創造できるなら 1年に地球を7周できるなら囚人が植物やカエルを飼育するなら我々の内面にある他の静物、例えば悲痛、中毒人種差別なども同様に変えられるのですご清聴ありがとうございました	Trees are rooted in the ground in one place for many human generations, but if we shift our perspective from the trunk to the twigs, trees become very dynamic entities, moving and growing. And I decided to explore this movement by turning trees into artists. I simply tied the end of a paintbrush onto a twig. I waited for the wind to come up and held up a canvas, and that produced art. The piece of art you see on your left is painted by a western red cedar and that on your right by a Douglas fir, and what I learned was that different species have different signatures, like a Picasso versus a Monet. But I was also interested in the movement of trees and how this art might let me capture that and quantify it, so to measure the distance that a single vine maple tree -- which produced this painting -- moved in a single year, I simply measured and summed each of those lines. I multiplied them by the number of twigs per branch and the number of branches per tree and then divided that by the number of minutes per year. And so I was able to calculate how far a single tree moved in a single year. You might have a guess. The answer is actually 186,540 miles, or seven times around the globe. And so simply by shifting our perspective from a single trunk to the many dynamic twigs, we are able to see that trees are not simply static entities, but rather extremely dynamic. And I began to think about ways that we might consider this lesson of trees, to consider other entities that are also static and stuck, but which cry for change and dynamicism, and one of those entities is our prisons. Prisons, of course, are where people who break our laws are stuck, confined behind bars. And our prison system itself is stuck. The United States has over 2.3 million incarcerated men and women. That number is rising. Of the 100 incarcerated people that are released, 60 will return to prison. Funds for education, for training and for rehabilitation are declining, so this despairing cycle of incarceration continues. I decided to ask whether the lesson I had learned from trees as artists could be applied to a static institution such as our prisons, and I think the answer is yes. In the year 2007, with the Washington State Department of Corrections. Working with four prisons, we began bringing science and scientists, sustainability and conservation projects to four state prisons. We give science lectures, and the men here are choosing to come to our science lectures instead of watching television or weightlifting. That, I think, is movement. for inmates at Stafford Creek Correctional Center to grow endangered prairie plants for restoration of relic prairie areas in Washington state. That, I think, is movement. We worked with the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife to grow endangered frogs -- the Oregon spotted frog -- for later release into protected wetlands. That, I think, is movement. And just recently, we've begun to work with by becoming violent with guards and with other prisoners. They're kept in bare cells like this for 23 hours a day. When they have meetings with their review boards or mental health professionals, they're placed in immobile booths like this. For one hour a day they're brought to these bleak and bland exercise yards. Although we can't bring trees and prairie plants and frogs into these environments, we are bringing images of nature into these exercise yards, putting them on the walls, so at least they get contact with visual images of nature. This is Mr. Lopez, who has been in solitary confinement for 18 months, and he's providing input on the types of images that he believes would make him and his fellow inmates more serene, more calm, less apt to violence. And so what we see, I think, is that small, collective movements of change can perhaps move an entity such as our own prison system in a direction of hope. We know that trees are static entities when we look at their trunks. But if trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change. Thank you very much.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
「!? な、何――!?」「今の、プラムの声だったね――」「何かあったんだわ、行きましょクリス!」「うん――!」イングリスとラフィニアは、雪を食べる手を止めて、声のした方へ向かう。「プラム......!? どこ!?」「地下室がありますわ! 入って右手の奥の部屋です!」ラフィニアの呼びかけに応じたのは、プラムではなくリーゼロッテの声だった。薄暗い足元の階段を駆け下りて――そこには既に、レオーネやラティやイアンの姿もあり、イングリスとラフィニア以外は全員揃っていた。「ああ――ひどい......!」そして目立った外傷は無く、つまり全員餓死したのであろうと容易に想像できた。の襲撃からこの子達を隠したのはいいけど――その後、誰も救助が来なかったんだね......だから、こんな――」まだ十にも満たないような子供達だ。街の大人達は必死でこの子達を匿ったのだろう。「大人の方々の姿は見えませんでしたが......どこに――?」「多分、リックレアに連れて行かれたか、外に倒れていても、雪に埋もれて......」多分雪を掘り返せば、いくつかの遺体は見つかるだろう。「リックレアに近づけば近づくほど、どんどん村や街の被害が大きくなっていますわ。このままでは、わたくし達が通って来た村や街も、いずれ――」「......早くしなきゃ――! こんなこと続けさせちゃダメよ、絶対......!」ラフィニアの目に強い決意が宿っていた。「お、お兄ちゃんが――ハリムお兄ちゃんがこんな事をして――わ、私......皆さんに何て言えばいいか......ご、ごめんなさい――ごめんなさい......!」ハリムの妹であるプラムの受けた衝撃は、生半可なものではなかったようだ。「プラム......!」「プラム――辛いのは分かるわ、悲しいのも分かる......自分の家族が――お兄さんがやった事だもの、責任を感じるのよね......? もしかしたら、自分が何か出来たのかもしれないって思えて――でももう、自分には何も出来なくて、どうしようもなくて......」「ううぅぅぅ......っ! は、はい......わ、私ぃ......私今さらどうしたら――こんな事が起きてしまって......!」プラムは嗚咽を漏らしながら、そう声を絞り出していた。「......気持ちは分かるつもりよ。私も聖騎士だったお兄様が国を捨てて血鉄鎖旅団に走ってから――周りの皆に裏切り者の一族だって言われるようになって......でもただ悲しくて、申し訳なくて、泣いてばかりいたら――気付けば何もかも無くなって、一人ぼっちになってた......でも、そんなの悔しいじゃない......! だから、私は私だって思うようにしたわ。私は私のために、自分の手でお兄様を捕らえて、家の汚名を返上してやるって――あなたもそう、お兄さんがどうだって、あなたはあなたなのよ――!」レオーネは熱のこもった瞳でプラムを見据えながら、彼女の震える両肩をぐっと掴み、力強く支えた。「っく......っく――レ、レオーネちゃん......」「泣いているだけじゃ何も変わらないし、変えられないわ。泣くのは今日だけにして、明日からは出来る事をしましょう? 一刻も早くこんな事を止めて、これ以上あなたのお兄さんに罪を重ねさせないようにするの。大丈夫よ、あなたはまだ一人ぼっちじゃないから。支えになってくれる人が、側にいるわ」と、レオーネが視線を向けたのは、ラティである。「う......? え......?」「何をぼさーっとしてるのよ。自分の大切な子がこんなに悲しんでるんだから、側にいて抱き締めてあげなさいよ」「いやちょっと待て俺はだな......」「こんな時にごちゃごちゃ言ってないで! 早くする!」彼女がこんな風に声を荒げるのは、かなり珍しい事だ。「は、はい......!」ラティがおずおずと、プラムを抱きしめた。「だ、大丈夫だからな。お、俺が付いてるから......」「うわぁぁぁあぁぁんっ! ラティぃぃぃっ......! 私......! 私――! うわあああぁぁぁぁんっ!」安心したのか、プラムは大声で泣いて、ラティにしがみついていた。「ここは任せて、私達はどこか休めそうな場所を探しに行きましょう? 今晩はこの街で泊りよね」その背中は、いつも姿勢正しくきっちりとしているが、今日はいつもより凛としているようにも映る。歩く足取りも、いつもよりちょっと早足だ。少し後ろについて歩いていると、ラフィニアがぼそりと呟く。「レオーネ、強いわね......迫力あったわ。説得力も」「......そうですわね」リーゼロッテも同意していた。「あたしだときっとダメだったわ......ずっと苦労知らずだし、兄様はラファ兄様だし、何言ってもあんまり説得力無いもんね――」確かにラフィニアの兄ラファエルは、カーラリアに置いて、万人から尊敬を集める聖騎士だ。国の全ての騎士の頂点であると言える。性格的にも心優しく品行方正で非の打ち所がなく、そんなラファエルはラフィニアにとって、自慢の兄以外の何物でもない。ラフィニアには、兄の行いで運命を狂わされる妹の気持ちは決して分からないだろう。レオーネの兄レオンは、イングリスから見れば決して悪人ではない一廉の人物だが、自分の一族や妹のレオーネの運命を狂わせてしまったことは事実。「レオーネと比べたらまだまだ子供なのよね、あたしって......」イングリスは、ぽんとラフィニアの頭を撫でる。「大丈夫。それが分かってるなら、十分ラニも成長してるよ」ある意味最も辛い思いをするのは、\|ラフィニアになる可能性もある《・・・・・・・・・・・・・・》。 ――自分が見ている限りは、ラフィニアを泣かせるようなあらゆる事は叩き潰すつもりだが。「何をお姉さんぶってるのよ。一番好き放題やって苦労してない人でしょ、クリスは」ちょっと拗ねたような、だが微笑んでいるラフィニアだった。「ふふっ。それはそうだけどね」イングリスはラフィニアから逃げる素振りで歩を早め、レオーネに追いついた。「......ありがとう。変な所で気が利くわよね、イングリスは」自分と比べて大人だとラフィニアは認めていたが、レオーネもまだの少女である。自分の辛い過去の記憶を人に吐露すれば、当時の事を思い出して、感情が昂りもするだろう。今のプラムに深く同情し、励ますためとは言え、触れたくも無い傷を自ら抉って見せたのだ。「どういたしまして。ほら、ラニ。わたし達はあっちを探そう。行くよ」「あ、待ってよクリス~!」その日の夜はレオーネの提案通り、街の空き家に間借りして一晩を過ごした。	「?! Wh-what was that?!」「That was Pullum’s voice, wasn’t it?!」「What happened?! Let’s go, Glis!」「Yeah!」 Inglis and Rafinha stopped eating snow and headed in the direction of the voice. Following the voice they came upon a church built of stone in one of the silent town’s corners. There was nobody inside, only the sound of Pullum’s sobbing echoing within the walls. 「Pullum?! Where are you?!」「There’s a basement! Deeper in the room at your right after you enter!」 It was Liselotte who answered Rafinha’s shout. It seemed that she had rushed inside before them. They went as directed and found a hidden entrance to a staircase left open. As they ran down the dimly lit stairs, they found that Leone, Lahti, Ian, and Liselotte were already there. However, they were not alone in the darkness... 「Aah...how awful!」 There were a number of children lying on the floor, huddled together. They were all inhumanly skinny, and it was obvious with a single glance how malnourished they had been. There were no obvious external injuries, so it was easy to imagine the reason for their death was starvation. 「Perhaps, the townspeople hid these children down here from the assaults of the Highlanders. While that might have been a good idea at the time, nobody came for them ever since......that’s why, they ended up...」 They were all children, no older than ten. The adults of the town must have hid them here in desperation. However, their endeavor... bore no fruit. 「We didn’t see any adults at all......where are they?」「Maybe they were all brought to Lekrea. Even if there were any remains of them outside, with all the snow, by now they’d be......」 Inglis answered Ian’s question. Perhaps, if they dug through the snow, they might find some bodies buried under it. 「The closer we get to Lekrea, the worse the damages of the towns and villages we see. If this continues, all the towns we have passed will soon suffer the same fate!」「......We need to hurry! We can’t let this situation continue, absolutely!」 Rafinha’s eyes were lit with strong resolution. 「B-, brother... Brother Hallim did all these... Wha-what should......I say to......I-I’m sorry... I’m sorry!」 The impact of this scenery on Pullum, being Hallim’s sister, wasn’t shallow. She collapsed on the spot, unable to get back up. Her voice tremblings, tears spilling in large drops from her eyes. 「Pullum!」「Pullum! I know how hard it is, how heart wrenching it can be...... Since it’s your own family! Your own brother who did it! You feel the responsibility falls on you, don’t you? You feel like you should have been able to change the outcome somehow, but now, now there’s nothing you can do, you can only feel how powerless you are...」「Uuuuuuu......!! Y-, yes......I-, I......What can I even do! Now that such a thing happened, what can I even......!」 In between her sobs, Pullum squeezed her voice out. 「......I know how you feel, I do. It also occured to me when my brother abandoned his status as a Holy Knight and deserted his own country to join the Ironblood Chain Brigade! Everyone around me started to call me the sibling of the traitor...... But, I was just so sad, feeling so sorry about myself, I couldn’t stop crying that the next thing I knew, I had lost everything, I was all by myself......And it really frustrated me! That’s why, ever since then, I tried to see myself as my own person. I take it upon myself to capture him and clear my family’s name, all for my own sake! And so must you. Regardless of your brother, you are your own person!」 Leone looked at Pullum, whose eyes were feverish, grabbed both of the latter’s trembling shoulders and supported her up firmly. 「Hics......hics... L-, Leone......」「Just crying won’t change anything, neither will it change you. This is the last day you’ll be crying. Tomorrow, you’ll do everything you can, okay? You’ll stop this atrocity even a second faster and you’ll prevent your brother from committing any more sins than he already did. After all, you still have someone by your side.」 Saying so, Leone turned her gaze to someone in the room, Lahti. 「Uh......? Eh......?」「What are you dawdling on about? Someone you cherish so much is grieving, why can’t you go to her side and hug her already?」「No, hold up, I’m not exactly......」「It’s no time to wuss about! Do it now!」 She yelled at Lahti. It was quite unusual for the girl to raise her voice like that. 「Y-, yes......!」 Lahti waddled over and wrapped his arms around Pullum. 「I-, it’ll be okay. Y-, you have me......」「UWAAAAAHHHH!!! LAHTIIII......!! I......!! WHAT SHOULD I——!! UWAAAAHHHH!!」 Relieved, Pullum cried out loudly and clung to her childhood friend. 「Why don’t we leave her to Lahti and find somewhere else to rest? We’re staying in this town tonight, right?」 Leone walked up the stairs as she spoke. Her back was always firm and straight, but today it looked even more dignified than usual. Her gait was also a little bit faster. As they followed after her, Rafinha whispered to the others. 「Leone is strong, isn’t she......Her words are powerful and sound.」「......You’re right.」 Liselotte agreed with her. 「I wouldn’t have been able to do it just as well......I’ve always had it easy, not to mention, my brother Indeed, Rafinha’s older brother, Raphael, was a Holy Knight respected by all in Charalia. It wouldn’t be wrong to call him someone who stood at the zenith of all Knights. He was kind-hearted, high-moraled, and impeccable, and he was nothing if not a brother Rafinha could take pride of. And if he was to be compared to Hallim, they couldn’t be any more different. Rafinha could never come to understand the feeling of a little sister whose fate was ruined by her brother’s misdeeds. After all, Raphael had never done anything that could jeopardize Rafinha. In Inglis’ eyes, Leone’s brother, Leon, was by no means an evil person either. However, it is also the fact that he had ruined the fate of his family and his own little sister, Leone. In the end, it was Leone who understood Pullum the most. 「Compared to Leone, I’m still nothing but a kid, aren’t I......」 Inglis patted Rafinha on the head. 「It’s okay. If you understand that, it means you’ve grown mature enough.」 There’s still no telling for now, but... In a sense, it might be Rafinha who will suffer the most out of the three... Although, as long as I’m here, I will crush anything that would make Rafinha cry. 「And why are you acting like you’re my big sister? You’re the one who’s been doing whatever you like the most without any burden, Glis.」 Rafinha said a bit peevishly, but with a smile on her lips. 「Fufu. I guess that’s true.」 Inglis walked faster, pretending to run away from Rafinha as she caught up to Leone. Then, as she reached where the latter was, she took out a handkerchief and offered it to Leone. 「......Thanks. Inglis, you really are thoughtful at the weirdest times.」 Inglis didn’t see her expression, but Leone’s voice was a bit shaky. Rafinha admitted that Leone was more mature than her, but Leone was still a fifteen years old girl. Mentioning her painful memories of the past to the others meant she would relive those memories in her head, re-experiencing her emotions at the time. She deeply empathized with the current Pullum. Still, even though what she did was to encourage her, she revealed a wound that she herself didn’t want to touch. She must have been desperately trying to hold back her own tears, as she was the one who was encouraging others now. 「You’re welcome. Come on, Rani. We’re going to search around the area. Let’s go」「Ah, wait for me, Glis~!」 As Leone suggested, they all spent the night in an empty house in the town.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 3, "inserted_lines_src": 25, "inserted_lines_trg": 1 }
「タクミ様、お客様です」翌日、昼食までの時間で鍛錬をしていた俺に、ゲルダさんが呼びに来た。まだこの世界に来て、ろくに知り合いのいない俺に客が来る事があるのだろうか? 何故かレオが訳知り顔で頷いてたが、お前今まで俺にいたから客が誰か知らないだろう? 不思議に思いつつも、汗を拭きながらゲルダさんと、屋敷の玄関ホールへ行く。「アニキ、お疲れ様です!」「......その呼び方......ニックか?」誰かと思えばニックだった。しかしその頭は、昨日までのようなモヒカンではなくスキンヘッドになっている......剃ったのか......まぁ、カレスさんの店で使う以上客商売だからモヒカンのままよりはマシか。服の方も、棘等の装飾が付いたものではなく、一般的な服装になっていて、人相は若干悪いが普通の人に見えなくもない。 ......ニックが来たからレオが頷いていたのか......セバスチャンさんの魔法で、レオもどこにいるのかわかるみたいだから。「どうした、わざわざここまで来て。カレスさんに店を追い出されたか?」ニックがまともに働かず、カレスさんに追い出されたと言うのなら、俺が謝らなければいけない。雇うと決めて、カレスさんの店に置いて来たのは俺だからな。「さすがに俺でも、昨日の今日で追い出されたりしやせんよ! アニキ、薬草を取りに来ました」そう言えば、カレスさんとこの屋敷の間で、販売する薬草を運ぶのを任せる事にしたんだった。昨日はあれから孤児院の事があったり、悪質な店の事を考えていたからすっかり忘れてた。セバスチャンさんも、そちらの方にかかりきりで忙しいようだしな。「どうするか......」「まだ薬草が出来ていないんで?」「あぁ、そうなんだが......ちょっと待ってろ」ニックをその場に置いて、俺はゲルダさんにセバスチャンさんがいる場所を聞き、そこへ向かう。「セバスチャンさん、良いですか?」執事達の執務室となっている部屋は、屋敷の2階の端にあった。扉をノックして声を掛けると、すぐにセバスチャンさんから許可が出る。「失礼します」扉を開けて中に入ると、複数の机が横並びになっていて、部屋の一番奥でセバスチャンさんは書類が積み重なった机に座っていた。何か、以前の世界の会社を思い出す部屋だな......。「いえ、ニックが薬草を取りに来たんですけど......どうしましょう?」「そういえば、まだ今日の注文書を渡しておりませんでしたな。申し訳ありません、悪質な店の情報を整理するのに忙しかったもので」やっぱりセバスチャンさんは、そちらに忙しかったようだ。朝食の時も、いつもはクレアさんの後ろで控えているのに、今日はいなかったしな。「えーと......こちらになります。数は昨日の販売分よりも多めになっておりますが、大丈夫でしょうか?」「ほほほ、私ももう若くありませんからね。自分の限界はわかっていますよ」セバスチャンさんから注文書を受け取った俺は、一度玄関ホールへ戻って、ニックに待つように伝えた後、また裏庭へ。ティルラちゃんが鍛錬をしているのを見ながら、レオの横で『雑草栽培』を使う。「ワフ?」「これは今日の分の薬草だ。食べちゃダメだぞ?」レオが首を傾げてどうしたのかという表情だったので、薬草を作る事を説明する。俺が手を付いた地面から生えて来た植物を、興味深そうに鼻先を近づけたシェリーに注意はしておく。大丈夫だとは思うが、間違って食べたりしたらいけないからな。「しかし、やっぱりラモギが多いのか」昨日の薬草や薬の売れ行きも、ラモギが真っ先に完売したようで、今日は多めの注文だった。街で疫病が流行り始めてるのか、もう広まってしまっているのか......。 30分程で、全ての薬草を用意する。『雑草栽培』を使う傍ら、薬草を使える状態に変化させた先から、ライラさんに手伝ってもらって種類ごとに包装する。個別にするには時間がかかるから、それはカレスさんに任せよう。「よし、出来たな。ライラさん、手伝って下さってありがとうございます」「いえ、お役に立てたのなら良かったです」ライラさんにお礼を言った後、俺は待たせているニックの所へ行くため、玄関ホールへ。途中、ゲルダさんに会って、ニックは客間に案内したと伝えられ、そちらへ方向転換。「待たせたな。薬草、持って来たぞ。」ニックは、客間に入って声を掛けた俺に、呆けた顔をしながら室内を見回している。まぁ、公爵家の屋敷だからな。調度品も良い物ばかりのように見えるし、部屋も広い。こういう所に馴染みのなさそうなニックなら、驚くのも仕方ない事だろう。俺も、最初ここに来た時は驚いたしな......。「ここで変な事はするなよ。ほら、これを持って行ってくれ」「どうしたんですかい、アニキ?」薬草の入った袋を受け取ったニックが、部屋を出ようとしたところを呼び止める。振り返ったニックに近付きながら、持っていた金貨を1枚取り出した。「とりあえずの報酬だ。何日か分をまとめてだがな。今、お金を持ってないだろう?」俺から金貨を受け取ったニックは、感激したように目を潤ませながら深々と頭を下げる。そこまで喜ぶような事か? まぁ、金が無くて困ってたから、暴れるような事をしたんだと思うしな、とりあえずは困らないようにしておきたい。報酬の相場を昨日の帰り道で、セバスチャンさんに聞いて良かった。金貨1枚で大体半月以上~1月分らしい。「まぁ、こことラクトスの街の往復をさせるからな」往復させる分、報酬を弾んでおかないといけないと考えた。交通費と言うわけじゃないが、これで半月分としておこう。後は、ニックの仕事ぶりを見てから増やすか減らすか考えようと思う。そのうち、ニックを任せたカレスさんにも聞いておかないとな。	“Mr. Takumi, you have a guest.” “Someone is here to see me?” “Wuff.” The next day, during my morning training, Ms. Gelda came to call me. But I barely had any acquaintances in this world. Who could have come to see me? For some reason, Leo was nodding with a knowing expression. Leo. How would you know, if you were with me this whole time? While I thought it was strange, I wiped away the sweat and followed Ms. Gelda to the entrance hall. “Brother, good morning!” “...Is that...Nick?” “Yes, it is!” So it was Nick. But he no longer had a mohawk like yesterday. He was completely bald...I suppose he had shaved it off. Well, I suppose that might be preferable if he was working at Mr. Kalis’s store now. His clothes were also no longer covered in spikes. He was wearing regular clothes, and looked quite normal. Though, there was still an intimidating air about him. ...So that explains why Leo was nodding... The spell that Sebastian had cast allowed her to know where he was. “And what are you doing out here? Did Mr. Kalis throw you out already?” If Mr. Kalis had driven him out because he was a useless worker, then I would have to go and apologize to him. After all, I had been the one to hire him and ask that he be placed there. “Oh, even I wouldn’t get thrown out that quickly! I came here to pick up the herbs.” “Ah, the herbs.” Now that I think about it, I had left the job of delivering the herbs to him. I had completely forgotten, as my mind was filled with the event at the orphanage, as well as thoughts of the malicious store. Even Sebastian was busy dealing with it. “What should I do...” “Are the herbs not ready?” “Yes, that’s just it... Wait here a moment.” I left Nick at the entrance and asked Ms. Gelda where Sebastian was. Then I headed there. “Sebastian. Do you have a moment?” “Mr. Takumi? Of course.” The room was an office for the butlers, and was located in a corner on the second floor. I knocked on the door and Sebastian immediately gave me permission to enter. “Excuse me.” I opened the door and stepped inside. There were several desks lined up, and Sebastian was sitting in the back of the room among a pile of documents that were stacked on his desk. The room reminded me of the old company I used to work at in my previous world... “Is something the matter?” “No, it’s just that Nick came to pick up the herbs... What should I do?” “Now that I think about it, I didn’t give you the order sheet. I’m very sorry, but I was busy organizing the information about this malicious store.” So Sebastian really was busy with that. I hadn’t seen him at breakfast, even though he usually waited behind Ms. Claire. “Hmm...here it is. It is a little more than what was sold yesterday. Is that all right?” “Uh...yes, I think this should be fine. I could even do more if necessary.” “Thank you.” “Yes. And please don’t overwork yourself either, Sebastian.” “Hohoho. I know that I’m no longer young, and I know my own limits.” I accepted the order sheet from Sebastian and then returned to the entrance hall. Then I told Nick to wait a little longer as I went out into the back garden. I watched Tilura train as I stood next to Leo and used Weed Cultivation. “Wuff?” “These herbs are for today’s order. You can’t eat them.” “Kyau.” As Leo was looking at me with a puzzled expression, I explained what I was doing. Sherry then started to sniff the plants that had grown from the ground, so I warned her. It was probably fine, but I didn’t want her to eat them by accident. “Still, there sure is a lot of Ramogi.” Even with the herbs that we sold yesterday, the Ramogi had been the first to sell out. And so the number had been increased for today. Either the illness was starting to spread through the town, or it already had... I was able to prepare all of the herbs in half an hour. After changing the herbs into a state where they could be used, I had Ms. Lyra help me by wrapping them up by type. Wrapping them individually would take time, and so I would leave that to Mr. Kalis. “Good, it’s ready. Thank you for your help, Ms. Lyra.” “Not at all, I’m just glad that I could be of use.” After thanking Ms. Lyra, I returned to the entrance hall where Nick was waiting. But on the way, I met Ms. Gelda, and was told that Nick was taken to the waiting room, and so I went there instead. “Sorry to keep you waiting. I’ve brought the herbs.” “Brother, this really is an amazing place...” Nick said with a dumbfounded expression as he looked around the room. Well, it was the duke’s mansion. All of the furniture looked expensive, and the room was big. Nick seemed like the kind of person who would not have much experience being in such places, so it was no wonder that he was surprised. I myself had been stunned when I first came here... “Don’t do anything strange here. Now, take this with you.” “Yes, sir! I’ll deliver it to Mr. Kalis no matter what!” “I’m counting on you. ...Oh, also...” “What is it, brother?” I stopped Nick just as he was about to leave the room after accepting the bag of herbs. As he turned around, I put a single gold coin in his hand. “Here is the payment for now. Multiple days’ worth. You don’t have any money, right?” “...Brother... Thank you!” Upon receiving the money, Nick’s eyes seemed to be filled with emotion as he bowed his head repeatedly. Was it really something to be so happy about? Well, perhaps it was because he didn’t have money, that he resorted to crime. And so I wanted to ensure that he wouldn’t have that problem anymore. It was a good thing I had discussed the average rates with Sebastian on the way home. He said that one gold should cover anywhere between half a month to a month. “Well, you’ll be making many roundtrips from here to Ractos.” Since there was a lot of traveling, I had figured that I should give him an incentive. I suppose it was like traveling expenses, and so I would make it half a month’s pay. After that, I would consider lowering or raising it depending on how he works. That was something I would have to ask Mr. Kalis about later.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 14, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
昼も近くなった頃、ようやく起き出したゲメルがギルド支部に顔を出すと、丁度受付を担当していた女性職員はぎょっとした。すぐにいつもの営業スマイルを取り繕ったが、その仕草はゲメルを苛立たせるに充分だった。「よーう」「お、おはようございます、ゲメルさん」「指名依頼は?」ゲメルは最近かはギルド支部を訪れ、同じ質問をしていた。「来ておりません......」威嚇するニワトリみたいな挙動でゲメルが顔を近づけると、若い女性職員は俯いてびくりと震える。「前は指名依頼がどんどん来たんだぞ。特定の冒険者を指定して発注される依頼は、冒険者の等級に応じた固定報酬の割合が大きくなるのだ。中堅から頭一つ抜け出したくらいのランクである目賽”にとって、指名依頼はかなり美味しい。ハズレがあるかも知れない一般の討伐依頼などやっていられないから指名依頼を待つ、という方針にゲメルは切り替えたのだ。ゲメルは、仕事があるのが当然というつもりでここへ来ている。ところが、その依頼が待てど暮らせど来なかった。これまでは気に食わない依頼を断れるほど指名依頼があったのに。これはギルド側の先日の腹いせではないか、とゲメルが短絡的に考えたのは当然の運びだった。おそらく以前はマネージャーさんが依頼人の方と個別に交渉し、ギルドを介して依頼するようお願いしていたものかと......」「んだと?」また、思い出したくもない奴の存在を持ち出して。 ――またあいつかよ、くそ、気分悪ぃ...... ゲメルは『もったいないことをした』とか『悪い事をした』とは一欠片も考えなかった。ただ、見下しきっていた無能者の■■■■■が自分の存在を支えていたという事実は、自分の身体の一部が無能な寄生虫野郎でできているかのように思われて大変不愉快だった。「もういい!」びちゃっ、とゲメルは水っぽい舌打ちをして、足音も荒くギルド支部を出て行った。「ゲメル、戻ったか!」「あ? どうした?」憂さ晴らし用の酒を適当に買い込んでパーティー拠点の貸家に戻って来るなり、三人のパーティーメンバーが揃って玄関前まで飛び出して出迎えた。全員が、腕利きの冒険者としてありえざることに、新米冒険者が初めて魔物と戦うときのような切羽詰まった顔をしていた。「ちょ......見ろよこれ」家の中に引きずり込まれたゲメルは、テーブルの上にぽつんと置かれた銀色のプレートを示される。「あの野郎の冒険者証?」首をかしげながらそれを持ち上げたゲメルは、すぐに他のメンバーと同じような顔をすることになった。 ===== 抵抗 78 ===== 「なん............だ、こりゃあ」名前部分が塗りつぶされた不気味な冒険者証に、絶対にあり得ないはずの数字の羅列を見て、ゲメルは血の気が引いた。「あいつの荷物、始末しようと思って漁ってたらこんなことになってたんだ」「ゲメル、お前今ステータスいくつだ?」問われてゲメルは自分の冒険者証を見る。 30が超人、あるいは英雄傑物。人は、その成長速度に才能の差こそあれど、訓練を積み戦うほどに鍛えられていく。そしてやがては肉体の限界を超えるのだ。能力値的には30でさえ肉体の物理的限界を超えているという話だった。それはもはや生体という魔法。だが、冒険者証に表示された■■■■■の能力値はそれさえ軽く越えた。 HPやMPはもっと極端だ。国に数人というレベルの英雄でさえ200やそこら。300すら普通あり得ない。ゲメルも最近は立て続けに良い仕事をこなせていたので、肉体は良い具合に仕上がっている。ハッキリ言って、これは自慢できる数字だ。ステータスの見方を分かっている依頼人ならこれだけで感服し、ゲメルの力を信頼する。だが、確かに部分的には勝っていると言えど、■■■■■に比べればゲメルのステータスのなんと卑小なことか。「おかしいだろ、こいつの魔力とMP......」「一流の術師が何人分だ?」「体力系もおかしい」「ドラゴンに踏まれてもケロッとしてそう」「どんなステータスでもあり得ない数字だろ。魔王に呪われても死なないぞ、こんなの」冒険者証という見知った物体に、あり得ない数字が羅列されているという気味の悪さ。皆、縫いとめられたように銀色のプレートを見ていた。人がここまで強くなれるわけねえ。ましてあの寄生虫野郎じゃあな」「ゲメル、お前が『冒険者証は壊れない』って言ったんだぞ」「絶対はねえだろ!? 普通は壊れないって話だよ!」ゲメルは自分の声が引き攣っているのが分かった。「なあ、もう捨てようぜ、これ......」やがて、誰からともなくそう言った。見つかったらやべーぞ。これ、簡単にゃ割れねえんだから」ゲメルは冷静に、努めて冷静に、慎重に判断した。本音を言うならゲメルもこんな不気味な物体を手元に残しておきたくない。しかし、厄介な物は捨て方をちゃんと考えないとかえって余計な厄介事を招くのだ。「放っておけばいいだろ。適当にしまって、な」皆、頷く。しかし誰の顔にも自信や余裕は見て取れなかった。「もしこれが壊れてなかったら......?」誰かが言った。言ったのはゲメルだったかも知れない。それはあり得ない事の筈なのに、まるで見えない重石に喉を潰されているかのように、誰も否定の言葉を吐けなかった。	When it was nearing noon, Gemel finally woke up and visited the guild branch, which made the female receptionist in charge startled. She quickly switched to her usual business smile, but it still proved enough to irritate him. “Hey.” “G-Good morning, Mr. Gemel.” “Are there any nominated quests?” Gemel had been visiting the guild once every two or three days lately, and asked that same question. “None so far...” He drew his face closer like a threatening chicken, making the receptionist hang her head while trembling. “I used to get nominated quests all the time. Are you b̲a̲s̲t̲a̲r̲d̲s̲ stopping quests directed at me?” The quests aimed at specific adventurers had a larger share of the fixed reward appropriate for their rank. For the Seventh Dice which was slightly above the middle ranks, nominated quests looked very attractive. Since they couldn’t bear doing the normal quests which had busts mixed among them, Gemel had decided to just wait for a nominated quest instead. He completely believed that there would be work waiting for him whenever he came. However, nothing showed up no matter how long he waited. Previously, there used to be so many nominated quests that he even had the option of turning down the ones he didn’t like. It was natural that Gemel started wondering whether this was the guild’s retaliation for the previous incident. “Um, we... the guild is not involved in the acquisition of the nominated quests. Your manager most likely negotiated with the clients directly and asked them to issue the quests through the guild...” “Huuh?” The receptionist refuted his claim while trembling. And she once again reminded him of the one guy he didn’t want to remember. —That guy again? This makes me sick... Gemel didn’t for a moment think that he had done something wasteful or wrong. However, the realization that the incompetent ■■■■■ that he’d been looking down on used to actually support his livelihood made him feel as if a part of him was made of that incompetent parasite, and that made him extremely displeased. “Forget it!” He clicked his tongue with saliva spitting and left the guild with rough footsteps. “Gemel, you’re back!” “Huh? What’s wrong?” Just as Gemel returned to his party’s rented house with a bunch of booze to wash off his worries, the three of his party members all rushed to the entrance to meet him. Their expressions were tense like those of newbie adventurers when fighting monsters for the first time. Certainly not expressions skilled adventurers like them would make. “Hey... Look at this.” Gemel was dragged inside by them and shown a silver plate lying on the table. “Is it that b̲a̲s̲t̲a̲r̲d̲’s adventurer’s card?” Gemel quizzically lifted it up, but then, his expression immediately turned similar to the rest. ===== ===== “Wha......the heck is this.” Gemel’s face paled at the impossible numerical figures listed on the adventurer’s card with a blurred name. “We were rummaging through that guy’s luggage to deal with it and we found it like this.” “Gemel, what are your stats?” Gemel pulled out his own adventurer’s card at that question. ===== was considered average, excluding magic. was considered first-class or talented. was considered superhuman, or perhaps a heroic person. Humans had differences in growth based on talent, but everyone honed their abilities through training. And eventually, they would exceed the limit of their body. In terms of the ability score, was already considered to be beyond the physical limitations of the human body. It was already at the level of magic in the form of a body. However, ■■■■■’s values on his adventurer’s card easily crossed even those. His HP and MP were particularly extreme. Even heroes that each kingdom only had a few who had values in the 200s. Even 300 was already impossible. Gemel had been working on good jobs lately so his body was polished well. Frankly, his stats were something to brag about. The clients who knew how to read the stats would be impressed and trust his strength just based on those numbers. However, even if some of his stats were winning, they were still trivial compared to ■■■■■’s stats. “This is crazy. His magic power and MP...” “How many first-class magician’s worth is this?” “His vitality is also off the charts.” “It feels like he’d shrug it off even if he gets bit by a dragon.” “Actually, what the heck is with his resistance being 78?” “All his stats are basically impossible values. He won’t die even if the demon lord curses him.” The adventurer’s card they knew well had impossible values listed on it, making it feel eerie. Everyone was staring at the silver plate as if their eyes were glued to it. “M-Maybe it broke, after all. There’s no way humans could become this strong. Much less that parasite.” “Gemel, you’re the one who said adventurer’s cards don’t break.” “But it’s not like it can never happen, alright?! I just meant in general!” Gemel realized his voice was stiff. “Hey, let’s just throw this away already...” Before long, someone said that. “How? It’ll be dangerous if someone finds it. And it’s not easy to break it.” Calmly, very calmly and carefully, Gemel made his decision. Frankly, he wanted to throw an ominous thing like this just like them. But unless he came up with a proper way of getting rid of something this troublesome, it would just invite trouble down the line. “We can just ignore it. Let’s just put it away somewhere.” Everyone nodded. But none of their faces had any confidence or composure. “And what if this isn’t broken...?” Someone spoke up. Maybe it was even Gemel himself. That should have been impossible, but no one could speak up to deny it, as if some invisible boulder had crushed their throats.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 3, "inserted_lines_src": 33, "inserted_lines_trg": 1 }
俺の腕枕はさておいて、まずはメシを食うことにした。今日のメニューは、チャーハンと山菜の天ぷら、野菜と肉の炒め物、卵焼きだ。そして、デザートには俺の力作であるプリンを出した。「おっ、美味しい!こんなに美味しいもの初めて食べましたー。ラースの言ってたことは本当だったわ!」予想通り、フェリスはよく食った。こ間ほとんど何も食べていなかったせいもあり、山盛りにもったチャーハンをあっという間に完食した。このペースで食われると全ての料理が完食されてしまうので、俺は追加でから揚げを作る羽目になった。デザートも完食し、それでもまだ食いたそうな顔をしていたので、無限収納にあったおはぎを20個出してやると、それをペロリと平らげて、やっと満足した。メシのあと、彼女からラースのことも聞くことができた。泣き虫ぶりは相変わらずらしいが、かなり頑張っているらしい。率先して狩りにも出ているらしく、このままいけば優秀な戦士になりそうだとのこと。ラースの脱皮が終わり、旅に出るような、会いたいものだ。フェリスは、ラースから俺たちのことをほぼ、毎日のように聞いていたらしい。ラースと一緒にいたのは一週間かそこらであるが、内容がかなり誇張されており、その上、フェリスの妄想と期待と都合のいい解釈と相まって、それはそれは神のごとき人物として俺は認識されていたようだ。夜は、ペーリスの部屋に一緒に泊めてもらうことにした。風呂を沸かしてやると、風呂という物を初めて見るらしく、目をキラキラさせていた。「お風呂はすごく気持ちいいですよー。一緒に入りましょう!」ペーリスがいいお姉さんぶりを発揮してくれているので、あとは彼女に任せることにする。俺たちも離れに戻って、風呂に入る。「フェリス、どうするかなー」「ご主人様はもう、決めておいでになるのでは?」「うーん、ラースのお姉さんだからなー。無下にすることもできないんだよなー」「しかし、あれほどの食欲であれば、ペーリスさんとリコ様が大変だと思います」「うーん。フェリスにも、料理を覚えさせるか?」「それが最低限かもしれません」風呂から上がると、ゴンが俺たちの部屋にやってきた。夜にゴンが訪ねてくるのは珍しいことだ。「あのフェリスという龍娘、条件次第ではここにおいてもいいかもしれないでありますー」「ああ、俺たちもさっき話してたんだ。アイツよく食うだろ?料理させようと思うんだよ。あと、自分で狩りもやらせてもいいかもしれないな」「そんなことより、もっと大事なことがあるでありますー。彼女がいれば、もしかしたらジュカ山脈を無傷で通れるかもしれないでありますー」「なるほど!」俺がジュカ王国に帰らないのは、帰りたくても帰れない理由があった。ヒーデータ帝国からの距離が問題なのだ。ジュカ山脈をぐるりと迂回するルートを取っているため、帝都からジュカ王国までは約二ヶ月の行程になる。行って帰ってくるだけ月もロスすることになるのだ。約半年間も館を空けるのはさすがに憚られるし、宰相閣下もいい顔をしないだろう。しかし、ジュカ山脈を越えれば、わずか数日。イリモを使えば最短で二日あれば着くことができる。これは非常に大きいのだ。早速明日の朝にその条件を出してみることにして、俺たちはベッドに入った。しかし、さっきからリコの様子がおかしい。一言もしゃべらないのだ。そんな様子を察してか、メイは自分の部屋に入っていった。「・・・リコ?」「・・・」「リコちゃーん?腕枕は、いいのかなー?」さっきから俺に背中を向けたままで何も答えない。俺は腕を彼女の首の下に入れ、腕枕をしてやる。するとリコはガバッと俺に向き直り、「どうしてあの龍娘を屋敷に置くのですの?」「リコは反対なのかい?」「なんだか許せませんわ。あんなふてぶてしい態度を取るなんて。それに招待もされていないのに、食べたいだけ食べて、リノスにも世話をかけていますわ」「まだ子供なんだから仕方ないだろう」「それに、どうして腕枕などと・・・」「ああ、あの子の弟を山に返すときに、腕枕してやったんだよ」「私の他にも腕枕をしたのでしょう?」「雄の幼い龍だよ。そうしないとなかなか寝なかったんだ。女性にはリコとメイだけだよ?」「あんな小娘を屋敷に・・・あっ」俺は有無を言わさずリコを抱きしめ、唇を奪った。「フッ、ハッ、ハッ、私は、私は・・・」「わかっている。腕枕は、リコだけにする。それじゃダメかい?」「それでしたら・・・いいですわ」「ありがとう、リコ」瞳を潤ませ、顔を真っ赤にしたリコは本当にキレイだった。俺は再びリコを抱きしめた。朝になり、ダイニングに行くと既にフェリスが待っていた。ペーリスは朝食を手際よく作っており、それを見たリコが手伝いに向かう。メイはイリモの世話に出ているようだ。俺とゴンはフェリスの前に座る。するとフェリスは立ち上がり、「昨日は、色々と失礼をしてすみませんでした。お役に立てることがあれば何でもしますので、こちらに置いてください、お願いします」ペコリと頭を下げる。「わかった。座っていいよ。ウチは「働かざるもの食うべからず」だ。よって、何もしない奴はウチにはいらない。フェリスをここに置くにあたっては、二つの条件を付けたい」フェリスがゴクリと唾を飲み込む。「一つ目の条件は、ここにいるにあたって、フェリスには、リコとペーリスの手伝いをしてほしい。要は料理を覚えてほしい。沢山食べたいのであれば、森で食材を狩ってくることもしていいかもしれん。森の狩りはハーピーたちに任せているので、そいつらと共同でやるのもいいだろう。それがまず一つ目。二つ目は、これは出来なければそれでいい。実は、ジュカ山脈を通過できるように計らってくれないだろうか。あそこはドラゴンの巣窟で、ヘタに近づくとドラゴンに襲われてしまう。フェリスの群れが管理する場所だけでも、無事に通してもらえるよう計らってもらえないだろうか。それが二つ目だ」フェリスは俺の顔をじっと見て、コクリとうなずく。「狩りは得意です。そのために修行してきましたから。それに、ジュカ山脈の通過も大丈夫だと思います。私が一緒に居れば、きっと皆も手を出さないと思います」「よーしわかった。じゃあ、好きなだけここにいていいぞ!」「あ、ありがとうございばずぅぅぅえええええ」泣き出してしまった。弟に劣らず、彼女も涙もろいらしい。「皆集まってくれ!今日から新しい仲間になってくれたフェリスだ。みんなよろしくな!」「びっ、びなざん、よろじくおねがいじまずぅぅぅう」号泣しながら皆に挨拶をしたフェリス。しかし、用意された朝食はキレイに平らげてくれた。「では、仕事に行ってくる。今夜はフェリスのお祝いにしよう。帝都で材料買ってくるよ!」「では、砂糖をお願いします!」「今日はお魚を買ってきてくださいませ。あと昆布と、エビとイカも」「ご主人、ニガリもなくなってきているでありますー」「了解、今日は店を早く閉めて帰ってくるよ。メイ、行くぞー」俺とメイは、イリモに跨った。今日の店は、開店直後に数件の依頼があったほかは、かなり暇な一日であった。俺たちはこれを機会に店でケーキを作ることにした。無限収納に入れてある大量のハーピーの卵、小麦粉、砂糖、バターをはじめ、旬のいちごを市場で購入してコツコツと作り上げた。途中、火魔法の加減を間違えて危うく焦がしそうになったが、何とか閉店までにバカでかいホールケーキを作ることに成功した。その日の夕食は、いつになく豪華だった。肉、魚、サラダなどがテーブルの上に所狭しと並べられ、皆で舌鼓を打った。早速フェリスも狩りに出たようで、デカイ牛の化け物も狩ってきた。ゴンはそれを解体するのが大変だったそうだが、この肉も脂が上品でとても美味だった。そして、デザートには俺とメイの力作のケーキを振る舞った。沢山のいちごを使用した豪華なケーキだ。皆、美味い美味いと喜んで食べてくれた。やはりハーピーの卵の味がいいためか、実に上品な仕上がりだ。あとで聞くと、ハーピーの卵は超高級品であり、王族でもめったに口に入らないものらしい。どうりでうまくできるわけだ。フェリスの部屋については、ペーリスの部屋の隣、俺がもともと使っていた部屋を使わせることにした。基本的に人化したままでいるそうで、これも修行の一環なのだそうだ。そうなると毎日同じ服を着ているわけにもいかず、さっそく俺たちは次の日から、フェリスの服や狩り用の武器や防具、そしてベッドなど日用品を揃えに帝都に通った。元々持ってきた荷物は、食料が大半で、私物はほとんど持っていなかった。俺たちの屋敷が見つけられなければどうするつもりだったのか。そんなこともあり、日用品を部屋に運び込むしりから必要なものが出てくる有様で、俺たちは数日の間、帝都に買い物に通うことになった。フェリスが来て一週間、ようやく彼女の生活も落ち着いてきた。そしてその時を待っていたかのように、ジェネハたちが帰ってきた。そこで俺にもたらされた報告は、衝撃のものだった。	Disregarding the issue with the arm pillow, we ended up having a meal first. Today’s menu consisted of the fried rice, tempura, and tamagoyaki. And for dessert, I brought out my masterpiece of a pudding. 「T-Tasty! It is the first time I ate something so delicious. Lars wasn’t lying! 」 Ferris had a bigger appetite than I anticipated. She didn’t eat anything since she left her mountains, the mountain of rice disappeared in no time. At this pace, she would finish everything, so I ended up making karaage. She wasn’t satisfied even after finishing the dessert. She was finally full after I brought out portions of ohagi from my infinite storage. After the meal, I managed to ask her about Lars. The Crybaby was as always, but he did work hard in his own way. He hunted on his own initiative, it was expected from him to become an accomplished warrior. When it is time for his journey, I would be nice to meet him once. Apparently, Ferris heard about us from Lars on the daily basis. We were together for just one week, but the events became increasingly exaggerated as they came out of his mouth. Coupled with Ferris’ delusions and convenient interpretation, my image turned into something close to a god. Today, I had her stay in Peris’ room. When she saw me preparing a bath, her eyes glittered. 「This bath is really great. Let’s go in together later」 After I saw Peris acting as a big sister, I decided to leave everything to her. I distanced myself from them and entered the bath. 「What should I do with Ferris?」「Didn’t husband already decide?」「Un, she is Lars’ big sister, I can’t just disregard her」「However, with her appetite, Peris-san and Rico-sama might be in trouble」「Un. Should I teach her how to cook? 」「That might be the best choice」[] When we left the bath, Gon came into our room. It is rare for him to visit in the night. 「Depending on the circumstances, this dragon girl, Ferris might be quite useful to us」「Oh, we discussed it just a while ago. Are you talking about her appetite? I’m thinking about making her cook for herself. Also, we might ask her to hunt too」「There is something more important than this. With her, we can secure a safe passage through the Juka Mountain Range」「I see!」 I didn’t try to return to the Juka Kingdom simply because I couldn’t. It is a matter of the distance from the Hideta Empire. It takes about two months to circle around the Juka Mountain Range and reach the Juka Kingdom. The round trip would take months. I can’t leave my mansion for that long and the prime minister won’t be happy either. However, if you go through the Juka Mountain Range it would only take a few days. With Irimo, I could arrive in two days. The difference is substantial. We decided to postpone it to the morning and climbed on the bed. However, Rico’s behavior was unusual since a while ago. She didn’t say a word. Maybe because she understood the reason, Mei quietly returned to her room. 「.....Rico? 」「.....」「Rico-chan? Do you want the arm pillow? 」 She turned her back to me and didn’t speak. I put my arm under her neck and gave her the arm pillow. Following that, Rico turned around to face me. 「Why did you let that dragon girl stay in the mansion?」「Are you against it?」「Somehow, I can’t forgive her. She assumed such an impudent attitude. She ate everything and troubled you, even though it was our first meeting」「She is still a kid, can’t help it」「Besides, why did she ask for the arm pillow.........」 [] 「Ah, when I was on my way to deliver her little brother home, I let him do it」「Did you do it to someone else besides me?」「To the small male dragon that is. He didn’t fall asleep otherwise. It is only Rico and Mei amongst the women」「Leaving this little girl in the mansion......ah」 I silently embraced her and stole her lips. 「Fuh, hah, hah, I, I.........」「I know. My arm pillow is only for Rico. Or you still aren’t satisfied? 」「Then.....all right」「Thanks, Rico」 Teary-eyed, red-faced Rico was truly beautiful. I embraced Rico once again. In the morning, when I entered the dining room, Ferris was already there waiting for me. Peris was skillfully preparing breakfast and Rico went to help her out. Mei seemed to be taking care of Irimo. Gon and I sat before Ferris. Following that, Ferris stood up 「I’m sorry for my rude behavior yesterday. I will do anything to be useful, please let me stay here」 and lowered her head. 「All right. You can sit. In this house「If a person doesn’t work, he doesn’t eat」. Therefore, those who can do nothing can’t stay here. I have two conditions you have to agree to before you can stay」 Ferris swallowed with a sound. 「First condition, I want you to help Rico and Peris when you are here. In other words, I want you to learn how to cook. If you want to eat more, you have to hunt for ingredients in the forest. Since I left the hunting to the harpies, you can just cooperate with them. This is about it for the first condition. The second one, it would be fine even if you can’t achieve this. Can you somehow arrange a safe passage through the Juka Mountain Range? That place is the dragon’s den, they will attack if you approach carelessly. Can you arrange the passage at least through the lands of your own tribe? This is the second condition」 Ferris stared at my face and nodded. 「I’m good at hunting. That’s why I left on a journey in the first place. Besides, it should be fine with the passage too. No one would touch us as long as you bring me with you」「All right, I understand. You can stay here for as long as you want! 」「T-Thank you very mush ~uuueeeee」 She started crying. She does indeed resemble her brother. 「Everyone, please gather! This is our new friend from now on, Ferris. Take care of her, everyone!」「Ev, evirione, besd regars ~uuuu」 Ferris greeted everyone through her tears. Yet, she still devoured breakfast in a moment. 「All right, I’m off to work. Let’s throw a welcoming party for Ferris tonight. I will shop for ingredients in the capital」「Please buy some sugar!」「Buy fish today. Also, kelps, squids, and prawns would be nice too」「We are almost out of bittern too」「All right, I will try to close the store sooner. Mei, let’s go」 Mei and I mounted Irimo. Today, after I finished a few of the orders right after the opening, I didn’t have anything else to do in the store. We decided to use this opportunity to make a cake. I took out the harpies’ eggs, sugar butter, and bought the strawberries from the market. In the process, I failed to adjust the heat and nearly burned everything, but, nonetheless, it was a success. Today’s dinner ended up being quite grand. Everyone smacked their lips seeing the amount of meat, fish, and salads. It seems that Ferris went out to hunt while I was away and brought cow-like monsters home. Gon worked hard to dismantle them all, their meat was truly delicious. As for dessert, I brought out our masterpiece of a cake. It was a gigantic cake with a lot of strawberries on top. Everyone ate with a gusto. That taste of the harpies’ eggs was truly delicious, it had a nice touch to it. When I asked later, I learned that the harpies’ eggs are considered luxury goods and even royalty rarely has a chance to taste them. No wonder. Regarding Ferris’ room, I delegated her a room next to Peris’. This was the room that I used previously. It seems that she spends most of her time in the human form as a part of her training. With that as it is, we couldn’t let her wear the same clothes every day, so on the next day, we went on a shopping spree to buy some new clothes, armor and weapons for hunting, and daily necessities. In the first place, her baggage was mostly filled with food and little to no personal things. I wonder what she would have done if she didn’t find me. It took us several days of shopping to completely arrange her room. A week after Ferris’ arrival, our life has finally calmed down. And as if aiming for that time, Jeneha came back. I received a shock after hearing her report.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 5, "inserted_lines_src": 0, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
周囲の人がほとんど統一教会信者ということは気づいていませんでしたがそれから1 週間の内に文鮮明という第2 のキリストが現れ私は神より特別に彼の奉仕者に選出される準備があったのだと信じるようになりました聞こえはいいですが家族は良く思いませんでしたあらゆる手で説得してきました当時地下で活動していた怪しい秘密組織を覚えている方もいるでしょう彼らはディプログラマと呼ばれてましたそれから長い5 年程が経ち私の家族は私の洗脳解除を依頼しましたそれからは私自信がディプログラマになり 5 年間にわたりディプログラミングをしていましたが私は拉致の疑いで逮捕されました私の携わった事例はほとんどが望まぬ行為と見なされました 1 週間程話をするために対象者の家族には安全な場所の確保をお願いしていたのですがこれが半ば強制的であると判断されてしまったようです逮捕されたことはこの仕事をやめるちょうどよい機会だと思いましたそして約20年が経つとある疑問が頭の中を駆け巡っていました「なんでこんなことが私に起こったのか?」「実際私の脳はどうなったのだろう?」何かが起こっていたのは明らかです私はこの10年についての自叙伝を書く決心をしました執筆活動が終盤にさしかかる頃ジョーンズタウンに関するあるドキュメンタリに出会いました身の毛もよだつ光景が広がっていましたこれはジョーンズタウンの住民ですこの日約900人が亡くなりましたほとんどの方が自殺をしました女性は赤ん坊に毒をやり泡を吹いて死ぬまで見届けました上の写真は文鮮明より清めを受けた統一教会信者たちの写真です彼らの同志は選ばれし者でした下はヒトラーユーゲントの写真ですこれは自爆テロをした子供の脚です私自信強い嫌悪を抱きながらもこの光景を理解できるということを認めざるを得ませんでしたなぜこんなことが起こるのか分かっていました人の脳や心がこの様なことを是正すると大量虐殺をせずに世界を放置しておくことが間違っているのだ、という思想を生み出すことは認識していましたこれは一体どのように作用するのでしょう? 私に起こったことをどうしてウィルス性メーム伝達と思ったのでしょう? メーム学に馴染みのない方はその定義は人間の脳内に複製を作りウィルスの様に脳から脳へと移る思想だと思ってくださいまさにウィルスのように感染しますつまり脆弱な免疫系をお持ちの方に感染しては大きな被害を出すのです 1974年当時私は若く無垢で自分の世界におぼれた真の理想主義者でした感情的に弱ってる時は、難問に対する取っつきやすい解決策は魅力的なものですすると循環論法が台頭してきます「文は神の使いだ」「神が世界の問題を全て解決してくれる」「私はただ従えばいいのだ」「神は私の望んだとおり戦争や飢餓を全て正してくれる」「私は謙虚に従うだけ」「最終的には使いを通じて神が世界を正してくれる」この思想が絶対のものとなりますこの思想の最も危険なところは "私たち" と "他人" '"正" と "誤" "善" と "悪" の様な二極化を生み出してしまうことです何もかもを可能にするのです全てが合理化されてしまいます私が統一教会に参加していた頃の脳を見てみたらどうなっているでしょう? 昨日レイ・カーツワイルが「科学は拡大する」と言った様に神経科学は拡大をしていますその研究範囲は脳内部に到達しました私の脳やこの様にメームに感染した脳を観察して会場の誰かもしくは日常的に批判的思考をする人の脳と比較してみると全く異なる様相をしているはずです奇妙に聞こえるかもしれませんがこのことに私は希望を感じています希望を見いだす理由は問題の認識こそが初めの一歩だからですこれは人的問題ですが科学的問題にもなりえます脳内の問題であり外部から悪が働きかけることはありませんつまりこれは研究や教育を通じて解決が可能な問題だと信じていますそこで最初のステップは"私たち"と”他人”といった二極化など存在せずに皆共に取り組んでいくという認識を持つことですご清聴ありがとうございました	And within a week I had come to believe that the second coming of Christ had occurred, that it was Sun Myung Moon, and that I had been specially chosen and prepared by God to be his disciple. Now as cool as that sounds, my family was not that thrilled with this. And they tried everything they could to get me out of there. There was an underground railroad of sorts that was going on during those years. Maybe some of you remember it. They were called deprogrammers. And after about five long years my family had me deprogrammed. And I then became a deprogrammer. I started going out on cases. And after about five years of doing this, I was arrested for kidnapping. Most of the cases I went out on were called involuntary. What happened was that the family had to get their loved ones some safe place somehow. And so they took them to some safe place. And we would come in and talk to them, usually for about a week. And so after this happened, I decided it was a good time to turn my back on this work. And about 20 years went by. There was a burning question though that would not leave me. And that was, "How did this happen to me?" And in fact, what did happen to my brain? Because something did. And so I decided to write a book, a memoir, about this decade of my life. And toward the end of writing that book there was a documentary that came out. It was on Jonestown. And it had a chilling effect on me. These are the dead in Jonestown. About 900 people died that day, most of them taking their own lives. Women gave poison to their babies, and watched foam come from their mouths as they died. The top picture is a group of Moonies that have been blessed by their messiah. Their mates were chosen for them. The bottom picture is Hitler youth. This is the leg of a suicide bomber. The thing I had to admit to myself, with great repulsion, was that I get it. I understand how this could happen. I understand how someone's brain, how someone's mind can come to the place where it makes sense -- in fact it would be wrong, when your brain is working like that -- not to try to save the world through genocide. And so what is this? How does this work? And how I've come to view what happened to me is a viral, memetic infection. For those of you who aren't familiar with memetics, a meme has been defined as an idea that replicates in the human brain and moves from brain to brain like a virus, much like a virus. The way a virus works is -- it can infect and do the most damage to someone who has a compromised immune system. In 1974, I was young, I was naive, and I was pretty lost in my world. I was really idealistic. These easy ideas to complex questions are very appealing when you are emotionally vulnerable. What happens is that circular logic takes over. "Moon is one with God. God is going to fix all the problems in the world. All I have to do is humbly follow. Because God is going to stop war and hunger -- all these things I wanted to do -- all I have to do is humbly follow. Because after all, God is [working through] the messiah. He's going to fix all this." It becomes impenetrable. And the most dangerous part of this is that is creates "us" and "them," "right" and "wrong," "good" and "evil." And it makes anything possible, makes anything rationalizable. And the thing is, though, if you looked at my brain during those years in the Moonies -- neuroscience is expanding exponentially, as Ray Kurzweil said yesterday. Science is expanding. We're beginning to look inside the brain. And so if you looked at my brain, or any brain that's infected with a viral memetic infection like this, and compared it to anyone in this room, or anyone who uses critical thinking on a regular basis, I am convinced it would look very, very different. And that, strange as it may sound, gives me hope. And the reason that gives me hope is that the first thing is to admit that we have a problem. But it's a human problem. It's a scientific problem, if you will. It happens in the human brain. There is no evil force out there to get us. And so this is something that, through research and education, I believe that we can solve. And so the first step is to realize that we can do this together, and that there is no "us" and "them." Thank you very much.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
成人から2年、俺は14歳になっていた。いよいよ俺は、王宮結界師として仕官することになるらしい。現在の王宮結界師が近いうちに引退することになるのだ。バーサーム家では俄かに慌ただしさが増しつつある。エルザ様が王宮に行くことが増えたのだ。先日など何の連絡もなく5日間も帰らなかった。さすがに心配になって王宮の大手門まで何度も迎えに行き、警備の兵士に笑われたくらいだ。見かねた兵士が大手門の傍にある小門を開いて見せてくれた。大手門から真っすぐに王宮に向かって広い大きな石でできた橋が掛けられており、橋の遥か先に見える王宮は美しかった。王宮に入ってしまうと、なかなか外には出られなくなるだろう。そう思った俺は、暇を見つけては西地区に出かけていき、様々な商店を物色している。色々と珍しい食材や武器や防具があり、なかなか楽しい。黄金鳥で稼いだお金が手付かずであるので、買おうと思えば大抵のものは買える。しかし、今の俺にはほとんど必要ないものばかりだ。ちょっとレストラン風の店で飯を食うくらいだ。奴隷商も見に行った。店の中は見ることができなかった。気配探知で探ってみたら、20人ほどが中にいるようだが、誰が誰かはわからないに連れてこられた女の子たちはどうしているだろうか?生きていれば、みんな成人しているはずだ。一時は疎遠になりつつあった森への狩りも、最近は行くようになった。もちろんエリルも一緒だ。何だかんだで一緒に修行した仲間であり、俺にとっては姉のような人である。王宮に入るとエリルともなかなか会えないだろう。自由な時間があるうちに、思い出を作っておきたかったのだ。・・・その日は、エルザ様がいつものように王宮に出かける日であった。エルザ様と護衛のファルコ師匠乗った馬車を見送るとエリルが狩りに行きたいと言い出した。久しぶりに大物でも狩りましょうと、運動がてら、森に行くことにする。ここ数年で俺も馬に乗れるようになった。まだまだエリルの腕には敵わないものの、かなりの腕前になったと自負している。で馬を並べて北門に向かって移動する。門を出て橋を渡るとすぐ森である。馬に乗れないときはよく、エリルの背中にしがみついていたものだが、最近はそれもなくなった。今、後ろに乗せてくれとお願いしたら、エリルは乗せてくれるだろうか? そんなことを考えながら、気ままに狩りをつづけること数時間、気が付けばお昼だ。「お腹がすいたわね」「今日は私が作ります。街で小豆と砂糖を手に入れました。ちゃーんと塩もあります。お嬢様、楽しみにしておいてください」「は?何を作る気?時間がかかる?いやよ、お弁当を出してよ」ぜんざいを作ろうと思っていたのだが、拒否られてしまった。仕方なくお弁当を出して食べ始める。「ぜんざい?甘いの?へぇー美味しそうね。じゃあ早めに出発しましょう。お屋敷に帰って作ってよ!」せっかく出した小豆らを無限収納に入れていく。この無限収納と千里鏡は狩りの時の必須アイテムだ。すばらしいアイテムである。お屋敷に帰還するべく、馬に乗って移動する。森の出口付近に来ると不意に馬が立ち止まる。その直後、「ドーン!」「ドーーン!!」「ドーーーン!!!」何かが爆発する音が聞こえる。エリルと俺は顔を見合わせ、森の出口に急ぐ。森を抜けてすぐ、俺たちの目に飛び込んできたのは、王国軍によって完全に北門が封鎖されている光景だった。またしても爆発音が起こる。音の方向に目を向けると、そこには、おびただしい数のワイバーンが王宮を襲っている姿が見えた。「ワイバーン!?何で!?王宮が、王宮が危ない!!」驚愕の表情を浮かべて絶叫するエリル。王国軍が北門を封鎖しているのはこのためか。しかし、王宮に攻め込まれているのはまずい。呆然とする俺たちに、北門を封鎖している王国軍の中から一人の兵隊がこちらに向かってくる。「リノス殿とエリル殿ですね。王宮は我らが占領しました。我が主がお二人をお呼びです」	Two years after adulthood, I became years old It’s about time for me to assume the post of the royal barrier master. The current royal barrier master is going to retire very soon. The Versam family suddenly got very busy. Elsa-sama’s visits to the royal palace had increased. Last time, she even went out for days straight without any warning. I was worried and visited the royal palace’s main gate regularly, to the extent of making the guards laugh. One soldier showed me to a smaller gate, close to the main one. Leading to the royal palace there was a big stone bridge, the palace was really beautiful from there. It’s difficult to exit once you entered inside. I thought so, and having nothing to do went to the west district, which was filled with a variety of different shops. There were a lot of ingredients, armor, and weapons, it was quite fun. My earnings from the golden birds were still with me, so I could afford most of the things here. However, those things were of little interest to me. I only ate in the restaurants sometimes. I also visited the slave shop but wasn’t able to peek inside. Scanning the building with the presence detection, I found people, I had no idea who was who. What happened to the girls that were brought here with me? Is they are still alive, they should already be adults. Recently, when I was in the mood, I was hunting in the Runo forest. Of course, Eril was with me. However you put it, I spent a lot of time training with her, she is like a big sister to me. Once I enter the royal palace, it would be hard to meet her. So I thought of making some memories while I still had a chance. .....That day, Elsa-sama went for the royal palace as usual. Falco went with her as an escort and Eril suddenly proclaimed that she wanted to hunt. Let’s hunt something big once in a while, I thought while stretching. In these years, I learned how to ride a horse. Although I’m no match for Eril, I’m still proud of my achievements. Together, we lined up and headed for the north gate. Once you pass the bridge, the forest will be right before your eyes. When I was unable to ride a horse, I was always clinging to Eril’s back, but recently I didn’t need to. I wonder if she would let me if I ask? While thinking about such things, several hours of hunting passed and it was already evening. 「My stomach is empty」「I will make the food today. I managed to obtain the red beans and some sugar. There is also salt. You can look forward to it, my Lady」「Wa? What are you going to make? Will it take time? No way, take out a boxed lunch」 I thought about making a zenzai, but I was shot down. Having no other choice, I took out the boxed lunches and started to eat. 「Zenzai? Is it sweet? Hee, sounds tasty. Let’s hurry and depart. Make it once we return to the mansion! 」 I stored the lunch that I just took out. This infinite storage and farseeing mirror are necessary while hunting. Truly a wonderful item. In order to return to the mansion, I mounted a horse. But, the moment we were about to exit the forest, the horses suddenly stopped, and in the next moment. 「Don!」「Doon!」「Dooon!」 I heard the sound of an explosion. Eril and I looked at each other and rushed out of the forest. Once we rode out of the forest, the sight of the kingdom’s army blocking the north gate greeted us. There was another explosive sound. Looking in the direction of the capital, I saw the royal palace being attacked by the wyverns. 「Wyvern!? Why is this happening!? The royal palace, the royal palace is in danger!!」 Eril screamed with a shocked expression on her face. Was it because the kingdom’s army is blocking the north gate? Still, the situation is bad. While we were spacing out, a single soldier from the army that blocked the north gate approached us. 「So it is Rinos-dono and Eril-dono. We occupied the royal castle. Our lord wants to see you」	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 0, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
何故-はいはい厳粛にしてくださいこれは広大無辺の謎なのですどうして世界があり私たちはその中に居るのかそしてなぜ「無」ではなく何かが「ある」のでしょう? つまりこれは超究極の「問いかけ」なのですさてまさに我々が取り掛かろうとしている存在の謎や存在の難問についてそれから何故皆さんが注意を払うべきか -そうして頂くことを望んでいますがそれらについてお話しましょう哲学者のアルトゥル・ショーペンハウアーは己の存在世界の存在の測り知れなさに思いを巡らせない者は低能だと言いましたやや辛辣ですが言い得て妙ですのでこれは最も崇高で荘厳な謎- 人類が提起できる最も深遠で壮大な問いかけで偉大な思想家を悩ませ続けています恐らく20世紀で最も偉大な哲学者ルートヴィッヒ・ウィトゲンシュタインは世界はまごうことなくあるべきことに驚嘆しました彼は『論理哲学論考』の命題4.66で「世界の中での事象の有り様が神秘的ではなくてどの様に世界が存在しているかが神秘的なのである」もし哲学者からの警句を拝借するのが好きでなければ科学者はどうでしょうかー 20世紀で最も偉大な物理学者でリチャード・ファインマンの師 20世紀で最も偉大な物理学者でリチャード・ファインマンの師「ブラックホール」を造語したジョン・アーチボルト・ホイーラーは「私はどうして量子が宇宙が存在が『ある』のか知りたいのです」と言ったのですそして私の友人のマーティン・エイミス- すみません講演中に多くの名前が出てきますがどうか慣れて下さい- 私の友人のマーティン・エイミスはかつて我々は宇宙がどこから来たのかという謎に答えるにはアインシュタインが約5人必要だと言ったのですそして今夜の観客席には間違いなく 5人のアインシュタインが居ると確信していますアインシュタインさん? 手を挙げて?居ないですか? さてなぜ「無」ではなく何かが「ある」のかというこの「問いかけ」この崇高な問いかけは思想史のかなり後期に提起されましたそれは17世紀末にかけて哲学者でありアイザック・ニュートンから独立し微積分学を生み出したアイザック・ニュートンから独立し微積分学を生み出した非常に聡明なライプニッツが同時期に提起したのですなぜ「無」ではなく何かが「ある」のか― 彼にとっては大した謎でもなかったのです彼の形而上学的な見地では彼はキリスト教正教徒もしくはそのフリをしていたので何故世界が存在するのかは明らかだと言ったのです何故なら神が創造したからです神は無から創造されたのです神は全知全能な存在なのです神は世界を形作るのにいかなる既存材料も必要としないのです神はまったくの無から何もないところから世界を創造されたのですちなみにこれは殆どの現代のアメリカ人が信じていることです彼らには存在の謎はないのです神が創り給うたのですからさてこれを方程式に入れてみましょうスライドがありませんので身振り手振りをしますから想像力を働かせてください神+無=世界いいですか?これが方程式です皆さんは恐らく神を信じないでしょう科学的または非科学的な無神論者とかいずれにせよ神を信じておらず快く思ってはいないでしょうところで神+無=世界この様な方程式の場合でも何故神は存在するのか? という問題が既にあるのです本体論的証明を信じれば別ですが良いものでもなく信じていない方がいいのですが神は論理のみで存在しないのですですから神が存在するのであれば未来永劫全知全能な存在であることに神は訝しむかもしれませんでも我はどこから来たのだろうか? そしてでも我はどこにいるのだろうか? 神は「我」とか格式ばった言葉で話しますからねそして神は自身の存在の謎を思案し飽き飽きし気晴らしに世界を想像したのだとそういう説がありますとにかく神の事は置いておきましょう方程式から神を除くと ________ +無=世界となりますさてもし皆さんが仏教徒ならここまでで十分だと思うでしょう何故なら本質的に皆さんが得たものは無=世界そして式は対称ですから世界=無なんです分かりますか? 仏教徒にとって世界はただの無の集積なんですそれは広大無辺の空虚なのですそこに多くの何かがあると考えるのですがそれは我々が自身の欲望の虜になっているからですもし我々が欲望を消滅させるなら世界は真にどんなものか知ることが出来るでしょう -虚空 -無そして我々は今世の命は成仏を楽しむ為のものであるというような解脱による至福の境地に至るでしょう(笑) それが仏教徒の考えですしかし私は西洋人なのでまだ存在の難問に関心があるので ________ + — 直にエライことになりますよいいですか? ________ + 無 = 世界そこの空白には何を入れましょうか? 科学はどうでしょう科学は現実の自然現象を最も紐解いてくれますし科学の根本は物理学なのですそれは我々に素の現実が本当はどんなものか「TAUFOTU」-宇宙の真実と究極の構成物- The True And Ultimate Furniture Of The Universe というものを明らかにするのですですので恐らく物理学はこの空白を埋められますそして実際 1960年代後半か1970年頃から物理学者は全くの虚無- 空間からの量子変動からどのようにしてこのような宇宙が存在することとなったかの純粋な科学的説明を口にし始めたのですスティーヴン・ホーキングはそんな物理学者の1人で近頃ではアレックス・ビレンケンやその他実に優秀な物理学者の友人で『宇宙が始まる前には何があったのか?』の著者であるローレンス・クラウスなどが人気を博していますちなみにローレンスは闘争的な無神論者なので神を枠から外しています最新技術の物理学である場の量子論の法則はどの様に全くの無から- 空間も時間も何もかもの無から- 偽真空の小さな塊が実在へと変化していきそして膨張の奇跡によって我々の周りにあるこの巨大で多様な宇宙へと変貌を遂げるのかを示してくれますさてこれは実に独創的な筋書ですとても推論的で魅惑的ですしかしここでちょっと問題があります宗教がかった見解が問題なのですさてローレンスは自分が無神論者だと思っていますが彼は未だに宗教的世界観に囚われているのです彼は物質の法則は神の命令のように見なしているのです彼にとって場の量子論の法則はまるで神の思召し- 「光あれ」なのですその法則はある種の力や影響力があり実在を孕んだ天地創造以前の混沌を形作れるのですその法則により無から世界を実在させたのですしかしそれは自然界の法則に関する非常に原始の見解ですよね我々は物理法則は実際に世界の様式と規則性の一般化された記述であると知っていますそれらは世界の外には存在しませんそれ自体存在論的な不透明さもありませんだからその法則では無から世界を創造できないのですそれは科学の法則が何たるかの非常に原始的な見立てなのですそしてもしあなたがこのことを信じないならいかなる外界の要因も創造主も必要としない自己完結型の宇宙モデルを周知させた創造主も必要としない自己完結型の宇宙モデルを周知させたスティーヴン・ホーキングに話を聞いてみてください彼はこのモデルは方程式に過ぎないと述べ未だに途方に暮れていることも認めました方程式に命を与え描くべき世界を創造するのは何であるのか? 彼は困惑させられました方程式それ自体は魔法を起こせません存在の難問を解決できませんしかも法則が解決出来たとしてもどうしてこの法則の組合せでしょうか? どうして場の量子論の法則が特定量の力と分子などで世界を描写するのでしょう? どうして全く異なる法則の組合せではないのか? 多くの数学的に矛盾のない法則の組合せがありますどうして他の法則が何もないのか? どうして全くの無でないのか? 信じようが信じまいがこれは問題です思慮深い物理学者が再三考えそしてこの点においては彼らは形而上学に傾倒しがちで例えば- 我々の宇宙を描写する法則の組合せは一組だけでそれは現実のある一面を描写しているがすべて矛盾のない法則は現実の他の側面を描写しそしてすべての有り得る物質界は実際にそこに存在していて「ある」のである我々は場の量子論の法則によって描写された小さな現実の一部を見るだけだが非常に異なる仮説で語られる多くの別の世界や現実の要素は想像できない程我々のものとは違うので想像を絶するほどに異世界なのです一般的な素粒子物理学の父とされるスティーヴン・ワインバーグは全ての可能な現実は実際に存在しているというこのアイデアに実に魅了されましたまた若手の物理学者のマックス・テグマークは全ての数理的な構造は存在しそして数理的な存在は物理的な存在と同じであると信じているので我々は全ての理論的な可能性を包括するこの広大で豊かな多元宇宙論を有するのですさてこの形而上学的なものはさて置きこれらの物理学者や哲学者は事実非常に昔のアイデア -プラトーまで立ち戻っていますそれは充足や繁殖力の原則あるいは現実が出来る限り満たさている大いなる存在の連鎖ですそれは虚無から出来る限り遠くに移されますですから我々には二つの極論があるのです一方は全くの空虚で最も簡素な現実ですもう一方は対極で全ての想像し得る世界を包含する満ち溢れた現実―なのですさてこの二つの極論の間には何があるのでしょうか? これらはあらゆる種類の中間の現実で幾つかだけを含みそれ以外は除外されていますですのでこれらの中間現実の1つ- 例えば数学的にエレガントな現実がそうでないもの -不格好な非対称なもの等を除外するのですさて我々が最もエレガントな現実に住んでいるとそう言う物理学者も中にはいます私はブライアン・グリーンが -観客席に居ると思いますが『エレガントな宇宙』という著書で我々が住んでいる宇宙は数学的に非常にエレガントだと主張しています彼を信じないでください願わくばという信心深い望みですがある日彼が私に実は不格好な宇宙だと認めましたそれはさほど考えもせずに作られ多すぎる任意の結合定数と質量比や不必要な基礎素粒子の族ですダークエネルギーとは何なのでしょうか? それは棒と風船ガムの奇妙な仕掛けですそれはエレガントな宇宙ではありませんそして倫理学上の意識の中に最善の世界があるのです厳粛にお願いします何故なら感覚のある生き物がいわれなく苦しまない世界- 小児がんや大虐殺などのない世界なのですからこれは倫理的な概念ですともかく虚無と充足した可能現実種々の特別な現実の間なんです空虚は特別で最も単純ですそして最もエレガントな可能現実があるのですそれは特別です充足した可能現実実に特別ですでも我々はここで何を取りこぼすのでしょうか? そこにはただ下らなくどうあがいても特別にはなり得ないある意味手当り次第のごく一般的な現実もありますそれらは永遠に虚無から取り除かれていますが完全な充足が永遠に足りないのですそれらは混沌と数理的なエレガンスと醜さの道理が混在しているのですですので私はこれらの現実を果てしない二流の不完全な混乱で包括的な現実である種の宇宙の下らない試みだと述べましょうそしてこれらの現実には神性なるものがあるのでしょうか? 恐らく- しかしユダヤ教やキリスト教の神のように神性なるものは完璧ではありませんそれは完璧に善良で万能ではありません代わりに100%の悪意あるものででも80%しか効いてないようなまるで我々を取り巻くこの世界のようなものかも知れませんですから存在の謎の決意は我々が存在している現実がこれらの包括的な現実の1つであるということだと提案したいわけです現実は何とか判明しないとなりませんそれは全く何でもないとかその通りだったとかどちらとも言えないとかでしょうですからそれが例えば実にエレガントだとか充足しているとか虚無のように実に単純だとか何か特別な特徴を備えていると説明が必要になるでしょうしかし気まぐれな包括的な現実の内の1つに過ぎなけばそれ以上の説明はないでしょう実に言うなればそれが我々の生きる現実なのですそれが科学が我々に教えてくれることです今週始めに宇宙の膨張説の胸躍る情報を得たのですそれは大きくて無限でごたまぜであり気まぐれで良く分からない現実を予言しますそれはボトルから溢れ出るシャンペンの大きな泡のようで魅力と秩序と平和の小さなポケット付きの大概は不毛な広大無辺の宇宙でこの膨張説は南極大陸にある電波望遠鏡による観測によって確認されていますそれはビッグバンの直前に重力の波の兆しを捉えました皆さんもご存知のことと思いますがいずれにせよこの現実というのは我々に押し付けられた現実であるという証拠があると思うのですさて我々はどうして懸念すべきなのでしょうか? えーと「なぜ世界は存在するのか?」というその問いそれは広大無念な問いでもっと身近な問いを呼び起こします「どうして私は存在するのか?」「どうしてあなたは存在するのか?」遺伝子的に誕生可能な人間の数は膨大で我々の存在は驚異の賜物のようなのですもし遺伝子の数とその対立遺伝子をを見積もると概算して約10から10,000乗の遺伝的に誕生可能な人間がいるわけですそれは100の10乗と天文学的数字の間なのですそして実際に存在している人間の数は 1000億人とか50億人でしょうかごく僅かな割合ですですから我々全員は驚異的な広大無辺のくじを引き当てたのです我々はここにいるのですいいですねどんな種類の現実に我々は住みたいのか? 我々は特殊な現実に住みたいのか? もし我々が最もエレガントな可能現実に住んでいるとしたら? エレガントであろうとその期待に応えようとする我々の実存のプレッシャーを想像してみてくださいあるいはもし我々が最も充実した可能現実に住んでいるとしたら? すると我々の存在は保証されるでしょう何故ならすべての可能なことは現実に存在しているのですしかし我々の選択は意味をなさないでしょうもし私が本当に道徳的に苦しみもがき正しい行いをしようと決めたらどんな違いがあるというのでしょうかそこには無限の私のバージョンが存在しそして正しい行いをしまた無限の数の私が悪いことを行っているのですですから私の選択は無意味で我々はそんな特殊な現実に住みたくありません無の特殊な現実についてはもうお話しすることはないでしょうですからこの平凡でありきたりの現実に住むということは良いことも嫌なこともありますが我々は良いことはもっと多くそして嫌なことはもっと少なくすることで人生の目的のようなものを得るのです宇宙は滑稽ですが我々はまだ目的を掲げることができそれはとても良いモノで全体的な現実の平凡さのようなものは我々の存在のコアで感じるような平凡さときちんと共鳴しているのです皆さんも感じておられるはずです皆さんは全員特別なのですがある種密かに平凡なのですそうですよね? (拍手) さてともかく皆さんはこう言うかもしれませんね存在の謎の難問は馬鹿らしい謎を煽っているだけだと皆さんは宇宙の存在に驚きませんし良い仲間に恵まれていますバートランド・ラッセルが言うには「宇宙はただそこにあるんだそれだけさ」どうしようもない事実です偉大な達観したおどけ者であり私の教授でコロンビア大学のシドニー・モーゲンベッサーは「モーゲンベッサー先生なぜ無ではなく何かが『ある』のでしょう?」と尋ねると「えーもし何も無かったとしても君は満足しないだろうからね」と答えましたですので――はいはい皆さんは驚かなくても私は気にしませんでも結論として皆さんが絶対に驚くようなことをお話ししますそれはこのTEDカンファレンスで出会った全ての輝くばかりの素晴らしい人々を驚かしたものなのです ―それは― 「私は人生で一度も携帯電話を持ったことがない」ありがとうございました	Why is there — Okay. Okay. This is a cosmic mystery. Be solemn. Why is there a world, why are we in it, and why is there something rather than nothing at all? I mean, this is the super ultimate "why" question? So I'm going to talk about the mystery of existence, the puzzle of existence, where we are now in addressing it, and why you should care, and I hope you do care. The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said that those who don't wonder about the contingency of their existence, of the contingency of the world's existence, are mentally deficient. That's a little harsh, but still. So this has been called the most sublime and awesome mystery, the deepest and most far-reaching question man can pose. It's obsessed great thinkers. Ludwig Wittgenstein, perhaps the greatest philosopher of the 20th century, was astonished that there should be a world at all. He wrote in his "Tractatus," Proposition 4.66, "It is not how things are in the world that is the mystical, it's that the world exists." And if you don't like taking your epigrams from a philosopher, try a scientist. John Archibald Wheeler, one of the great physicists of the 20th century, the teacher of Richard Feynman, the coiner of the term "black hole," he said, "I want to know how come the quantum, how come the universe, how come existence?" And my friend Martin Amis — sorry that I'll be doing a lot of name-dropping in this talk, so get used to it — my dear friend Martin Amis once said that we're about five Einsteins away from answering the mystery of where the universe came from. And I've no doubt there are five Einsteins in the audience tonight. Any Einsteins? Show of hands? No? No? No? No Einsteins? Okay. So this question, why is there something rather than nothing, this sublime question, was posed rather late in intellectual history. It was towards the end of the 17th century, the philosopher Leibniz who asked it, a very smart guy, Leibniz, who invented the calculus independently of Isaac Newton, at about the same time, but for Leibniz, who asked why is there something rather than nothing, this was not a great mystery. He either was or pretended to be an Orthodox Christian in his metaphysical outlook, and he said it's obvious why the world exists: because God created it. And God created, indeed, out of nothing at all. That's how powerful God is. He doesn't need any preexisting materials to fashion a world out of. He can make it out of sheer nothingness, creation ex nihilo. And by the way, this is what most Americans today believe. There is no mystery of existence for them. God made it. So let's put this in an equation. I don't have any slides so I'm going to mime my visuals, so use your imaginations. So it's God + nothing = the world. Okay? Now that's the equation. And so maybe you don't believe in God. Maybe you're a scientific atheist or an unscientific atheist, and you don't believe in God, and you're not happy with it. God + nothing = the world, there's already a problem: Why does God exist? God doesn't exist by logic alone unless you believe the ontological argument, and I hope you don't, because it's not a good argument. So it's conceivable, if God were to exist, he might wonder, I'm eternal, I'm all-powerful, but where did I come from? Whence then am I? God speaks in a more formal English. And so one theory is that God was so bored with pondering the puzzle of His own existence that He created the world just to distract himself. But anyway, let's forget about God. Take God out of the equation: We have ________ + nothing = the world. Now, if you're a Buddhist, you might want to stop right there, because essentially what you've got is nothing = the world, and by symmetry of identity, that means the world = nothing. Okay? And to a Buddhist, the world is just a whole lot of nothing. It's just a big cosmic vacuity. And we think there's a lot of something out there but that's because we're enslaved by our desires. If we let our desires melt away, we'll see the world for what it truly is, a vacuity, nothingness, and we'll slip into this happy state of nirvana which has been defined as having just enough life to enjoy being dead. So that's the Buddhist thinking. But I'm a Westerner, and I'm still concerned with the puzzle of existence, so I've got ________ + — this is going to get serious in a minute, so — ________ + nothing = the world. What are we going to put in that blank? Well, how about science? Science is our best guide to the nature of reality, and the most fundamental science is physics. That tells us what naked reality really is, that reveals what I call TAUFOTU, the True And Ultimate Furniture Of The Universe. So maybe physics can fill this blank, and indeed, since about the late 1960s or around 1970, physicists have purported to give a purely scientific explanation of how a universe like ours could have popped into existence out of sheer nothingness, a quantum fluctuation out of the void. Stephen Hawking is one of these physicists, more recently Alex Vilenkin, by another very fine physicist and friend of mine, Lawrence Krauss, who wrote a book called "A Universe from Nothing," and Lawrence thinks that he's given — he's a militant atheist, by the way, so he's gotten God out of the picture. The laws of quantum field theory, the state-of-the-art physics, can show how out of sheer nothingness, no space, no time, no matter, nothing, a little nugget of false vacuum can fluctuate into existence, and then, by the miracle of inflation, blow up into this huge and variegated cosmos we see around us. Okay, this is a really ingenious scenario. It's very speculative. It's fascinating. But I've got a big problem with it, and the problem is this: It's a pseudo-religious point of view. Now, Lawrence thinks he's an atheist, but he's still in thrall to a religious worldview. He sees physical laws as being like divine commands. The laws of quantum field theory for him are like fiat lux, "Let there be light." The laws have some sort of ontological power or clout that they can form the abyss, that it's pregnant with being. They can call a world into existence out of nothing. But that's a very primitive view of what a physical law is, right? We know that physical laws are actually generalized descriptions of patterns and regularities in the world. They don't exist outside the world. They don't have any ontic cloud of their own. They can't call a world into existence out of nothingness. That's a very primitive view of what a scientific law is. And if you don't believe me on this, listen to Stephen Hawking, who himself put forward a model of the cosmos that was self-contained, didn't require any outside cause, any creator, and after proposing this, Hawking admitted that he was still puzzled. He said, this model is just equations. What breathes fire into the equations and creates a world for them to describe? He was puzzled by this, so equations themselves can't do the magic, can't resolve the puzzle of existence. And besides, even if the laws could do that, why this set of laws? Why quantum field theory that describes a universe with a certain number of forces and particles and so forth? Why not a completely different set of laws? There are many, many mathematically consistent sets of laws. Why not no laws at all? Why not sheer nothingness? So this is a problem, believe it or not, that reflective physicists really think a lot about, and at this point they tend to go metaphysical, say, well, maybe the set of laws that describes our universe, it's just one set of laws and it describes one part of reality, but maybe every consistent set of laws describes another part of reality, and in fact all possible physical worlds really exist, they're all out there. We just see a little tiny part of reality that's described by the laws of quantum field theory, but there are many, many other worlds, parts of reality that are described that are different from ours in ways we can't imagine, that are inconceivably exotic. Steven Weinberg, the father of the standard model of particle physics, has actually flirted with this idea himself, that all possible realities actually exist. Also, a younger physicist, Max Tegmark, who believes that all mathematical structures exist, and mathematical existence is the same thing as physical existence, so we have this vastly rich multiverse that encompasses every logical possibility. Now, in taking this metaphysical way out, these physicists and also philosophers are actually reaching back to a very old idea that goes back to Plato. or the great chain of being, that reality is actually as full as possible. It's as far removed from nothingness as it could possibly be. So we have these two extremes now. We have sheer nothingness on one side, and we have this vision of a reality that encompasses every conceivable world at the other extreme: the fullest possible reality, nothingness, the simplest possible reality. Now what's in between these two extremes? There are all kinds of intermediate realities that include some things and leave out others. So one of these intermediate realities is, say, the most mathematically elegant reality, that leaves out the inelegant bits, the ugly asymmetries and so forth. Now, there are some physicists who will tell you that we're actually living in the most elegant reality. I think that Brian Greene is in the audience, and he has written a book called "The Elegant Universe." He claims that the universe we live in mathematically is very elegant. Don't believe him. It's a pious hope, I wish it were true, but I think the other day he admitted to me it's really an ugly universe. It's stupidly constructed, it's got way too many arbitrary coupling constants and mass ratios and superfluous families of elementary particles, and what the hell is dark energy? It's a stick and bubble gum contraption. It's not an elegant universe. And then there's the best of all possible worlds in an ethical sense. You should get solemn now, because a world in which sentient beings don't suffer needlessly, in which there aren't things like childhood cancer or the Holocaust. This is an ethical conception. Anyway, so between nothingness and the fullest possible reality, various special realities. Nothingness is special. It's the simplest. Then there's the most elegant possible reality. That's special. The fullest possible reality, that's special. But what are we leaving out here? There's also just the crummy, that aren't special in any way, that are sort of random. They're infinitely removed from nothingness, but they fall infinitely short of complete fullness. They're a mixture of chaos and order, of mathematical elegance and ugliness. So I would describe these realities as an infinite, mediocre, incomplete mess, a generic reality, a kind of cosmic junk shot. And these realities, is there a deity in any of these realities? Maybe, but the deity isn't perfect like the Judeo-Christian deity. The deity isn't all-good and all-powerful. It might be instead 100 percent malevolent but only 80 percent effective, which pretty much describes the world we see around us, I think. So I would like to propose that the resolution to the mystery of existence is that the reality we exist in is one of these generic realities. Reality has to turn out some way. It can either turn out to be nothing or everything or something in between. So if it has some special feature, like being really elegant or really full or really simple, like nothingness, that would require an explanation. But if it's just one of these random, generic realities, there's no further explanation for it. And indeed, I would say that's the reality we live in. That's what science is telling us. At the beginning of the week, we got the exciting information that the theory of inflation, which predicts a big, infinite, messy, arbitrary, pointless reality, it's like a big frothing champagne coming out of a bottle endlessly, a vast universe, mostly a wasteland with little pockets of charm and order and peace, this has been confirmed, this inflationary scenario, by the observations made by radio telescopes in Antarctica that looked at the signature of the gravitational waves from just before the Big Bang. I'm sure you all know about this. So anyway, I think there's some evidence that this really is the reality that we're stuck with. Now, why should you care? Well — — the question, "Why does the world exist?" that's the cosmic question, it sort of rhymes with a more intimate question: Why do I exist? Why do you exist? you know, our existence would seem to be amazingly improbable, because there's an enormous number of genetically possible humans, if you can compute it by looking at the number of the genes and the number of alleles and so forth, and a back-of-the-envelope calculation will tell you possible humans, genetically. That's between a googol and a googolplex. And the number of the actual humans that have existed is 100 billion, maybe 50 billion, an infinitesimal fraction, so all of us, we've won this amazing cosmic lottery. We're here. Okay. So what kind of reality do we want to live in? Do we want to live in a special reality? What if we were living in the most elegant possible reality? Imagine the existential pressure on us to live up to that, to be elegant, not to pull down the tone of it. Or, what if we were living in the fullest possible reality? Well then our existence would be guaranteed, because every possible thing exists in that reality, but our choices would be meaningless. If I really struggle morally and agonize and I decide to do the right thing, what difference does it make, because there are an infinite number of versions of me also doing the right thing and an infinite number doing the wrong thing. So my choices are meaningless. So we don't want to live in that special reality. And as for the special reality of nothingness, we wouldn't be having this conversation. So I think living in a generic reality that's mediocre, there are nasty bits and nice bits and we could make the nice bits bigger and the nasty bits smaller and that gives us a kind of purpose in life. The universe is absurd, but we can still construct a purpose, and that's a pretty good one, and the overall mediocrity of reality kind of resonates nicely with the mediocrity we all feel in the core of our being. And I know you feel it. I know you're all special, but you're still kind of secretly mediocre, don't you think? So anyway, you may say, this puzzle, the mystery of existence, it's just silly mystery-mongering. You're not astonished at the existence of the universe and you're in good company. Bertrand Russell said, "I should say the universe is just there, and that's all." Just a brute fact. And my professor at Columbia, Sidney Morgenbesser, a great philosophical wag, when I said to him, "Professor Morgenbesser, why is there something rather than nothing?" And he said, "Oh, even if there was nothing, you still wouldn't be satisfied." So — — okay. So you're not astonished. I don't care. But I will tell you something to conclude that I guarantee you will astonish you, because it's astonished all of the brilliant, wonderful people I've met at this TED conference, when I've told them, and it's this: Never in my life have I had a cell phone. 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まだ朝も早い時間、夜明けを告げる鳥の音を散らしの馬車がけたたましく馬蹄を響かせシルバーホーンの大通りを疾走して行く。しかしまだ漂う眠気の残滓に負けると、視界を遮断して仰向けに寝転がり、再び水面下へと潜水を始める。意識がまどろみ始めた時、鳥の音すら届かない塔の最上階の静かな部屋に、一定のリズムで何度も何度もくぐもった音が響く。ミラは静寂に打つ不協和音に半ば無理矢理呼び戻されると、虚ろな視線を焦点が合わないまま漂わせつつ起き上がり、贅沢感溢れる見慣れない室内に疑問符を浮かべた。つい零れた高い音色に、昨日までの出来事が脳裏から間欠泉の如く噴出す。同時に眩暈にも似た軽い喪失感と共に「そうじゃった......」と、自身の確立を意識しながら呟いた。ミラはベッドの端まで慣れない小さな身体を滑らせると腰掛ける形で一休止おく。そこでふと翻った衣から覗いた、少女の艶かしい両脚が目に入った。カーテンの隙間から差し込んだ光がスポットライトの様に照らし、より白くより存在感を際立たせた肌にミラは言葉を詰まらせる。思春期の少年の様に思わず頬を紅らめながらも、ミラはその肌を見つめそっと確かめる様に指先で触れた。程よい弾力と柔らかい少女の肌、そこに触れられているという確かな触覚。脳に届けられたその電気信号は、今は昨日の続きである事をはっきりと認識させ意識を天上高く覚醒させた。「......しかし、朝から何の音じゃ?」頭がはっきりとしてきたミラは、目覚める前から鳴り続けていた不可解なリズムに気付き耳を澄ませる。トントントン、と硬質な物を叩く様な音の後、何者かの声が遠く掠れる。複数人であるという事だけは分かったミラは、何事かあったのかと寝室を出る。「ミラ様、いらっしゃいませんか。ミラ様」「リタリア様、本当にここにダンブルフ様のお弟子という方が居るのですか?」まず聞こえたのは、上品そうな女性の声と聞き覚えの無い男の声だった。をお持ちでしたし、昨日の夜この塔へと入って行く銀髪の少女を見たという者もいらっしゃいました。ならばきっとここで一夜を明かしているはずですわ」「しかしその後、宿に行ったということはありませんか?」があるのですから態々宿へ泊まる必要は無いです。設備は全て揃っているのです。私が毎日掃除してますので不備は無い筈です」更に一人、女性というよりは少女といった声が扉の外から聞こえてくる。声は男一人と。その内、女の声はどこか聞き覚えがあったが明確には思い出せなかった為、会えば分かると言わんばかりにミラは扉を開く。少し見上げる形で相手を確認したミラは、「なんじゃ、リタリアとマリアナか」と見慣れたその二人を一瞥しながら眠気の残る目を手の甲で擦る。それから直立したまま一歩後ろで控える、軍服を身に纏った男と目が合う。その右肩辺りにはアルカイト王国の腕章が付いていた。「お主は......?」「ミラ様! 何という格好をしているのですか!」「貴方は向こうを向いていて下さいです!」扉から現れたミラの姿を一瞬呆けた様に見つめたリタリアは、そのほぼ裸に近いミラの肌を抱く様にして男の視線から遮った。同時にメイドの姿をしたツインテールの少女は、サファイアの様にきらめく髪を靡かせながら、薄い衣から溢れるミラの肢体に鼻の下を伸ばした軍服の男を無理矢理回れ右させる。鈍い音と共に。男は突っ伏す様な姿勢で床と見詰め合う。その背後ではミラがリタリアに抱えられながら、部屋の中へと連行されていた。「一体何なんじゃ!?」扉が閉まり革張りのソファーの側に下ろされたミラ。なぜ強制的に部屋に戻されたのか分からず、困惑気味にリタリアを見上げながら返答を求める。「それはこちらのセリフですわ。いくら賢者の部屋とはいえ来客もあるのですから、このような格好で出てはいけませんっ」少々怒り気味に、リタリアはその服装について諭した。ミラはそう言われて自分の着ている物を思い出し視線を下ろす。そして天女の羽衣は確かに服とは言えなく下着というにも透け過ぎであると気付いたが、ミラにしてみればそれは大した問題でも無い。元より自室に居る時は気楽な格好で居る事が多く、今ある服といえば寝る前に着替えとして用意した戦闘用に調整されたローブくらいしかない。最初に着ていた賢者のローブも結局は戦闘用だ。今の格好よりも快適かと問われれば確実に否である。そもそも外出する時に着て行こうとした物だったので、私室内で着る気は微塵も無かったのだ。「生憎と、丁度良い着物が無くてのぉ」「こちらにありますわ。せめてこれで肌を隠して下さいませ。そうでなくては劣情を抱いた変態に襲われてしまいますよ」そう言ったリタリアは、ソファーに掛かっていた赤と黒のローブを手に取りミラに頭から被せた。もぞりもぞりと襟から頭を出したミラは、そのローブのサイズがまったく合っていない事に気付く。裾は引きずり袖は指先すら出なかったのだ。それどころか、ダンブルフには丁度良かった襟幅はミラにとっては広すぎて胸元が大きく開いた様となり、裸とは違う妖艶さを演出している。「それはダンブルフ様のですから、サイズが合わないのも無理ないです」言いながらメイドの少女は自身の髪を括っていた髪留めを片方外すと、ローブの襟元を絞る様にして留め直した。赤いリボンの形をした髪留めは、胸元でミラをより少女っぽく飾る。「締まらんのぅ......」お気に入りだったデザインのローブも、髪留め一つで威厳が薄れてしまった事にミラは肩を落とす。「ミラ様。貴女がダンブルフ様の弟子であるというのは本当ですか?」メイドの少女はミラの襟元を整えながら、一縷の希望に縋るかの様にその瞳をじっと見つめた。「ああ、そうじゃ。マリアナ、お主の事も聞いておる」息が掛かるほどに迫ったメイドの少女。サファイアの如く透き通るような蒼髪と瞳、ミラとそう変わらない体躯に薄っすらと蝶の様な羽が背中で揺らいでいる。この羽は、大人になっても人間の子供の様な姿を保ち続ける妖精族であるという事の証であり、風ではなく大気中の魔力を捉えて上空へと羽ばたく為のもの。そしてこの妖精族こそがダンブルフ付きの補佐官であるマリアナだ。「良かったです。ダンブルフ様......」安堵の表情を浮かべたマリアナは瞳を微かに潤わせると、赤みがかった頬を冷ますかの様に雫が幾度となく伝い落ちる。唐突に泣き出した女の子にミラは大いにうろたえると、どうにも居た堪れなくなり半ば無意識にその頬に手を伸ばす。しかし触れる前に、マリアナの涙の意味を感じ取ると、その手を所在無げに自分の顎に引き戻した。突然姿を消したダンブルフを想い涙を流す少女、その少女を騙しているという罪悪感にも似た感情がマリアナに触れることを躊躇わせたのだ。ミラは涙に触発されて言ってしまおうかと思った。せめてマリアナにだけは真実を明かそうかと。しかし思い止まる。どう説明すれば通じるのか、主であるダンブルフがこの様な少女になってしまった事を受け入れてくれるのか、今まで通りでいてくれるのか、そしてマリアナはショックを受けないか。としてしか接していなかったが、自分の事を思い涙を流す、確立した自我を持つ人間となったマリアナとの接し方がまだ上手く分からなかった。自分を慕う少女に拒絶されたくないという我侭と、心配をかけたくないという想いがせめぎ合う。すると自然に喉元まで出かかった言の葉はゆっくりと散り沈黙へ落ちていくと、自分勝手な言い訳で蓋をした。ミラは袖に隠れた手を情けない気持ちで見つめると黙って視線を送る。それに応じるようにリタリアはマリアナの頬をそっと拭い「よかったですわね」と囁いた。「すいません。もう大丈夫です」マリアナが気持ちの整理をつけて落ち着いた所で、聞き覚えのあるリズムが室内に響く。「あの、リタリア様、マリアナ様。もうよろしいでしょうか」少し間をおいて届いた、くぐもった男の声。マリアナに強制的に後ろを向かせられた軍服の男が正気を取り戻し、王より与えられた任務を遂行するべく再起動したのだ。「ええ、これから向かいますわ」そう声を返したリタリアは、本来の目的であったミラに目を向ける。当の本人は、余った袖を揺らしながらソファーの背もたれに身体を預けて伸びをしているところだ。「して、何用じゃ。あやつは国軍の兵であろう」「はい、先日ミラ様とお会いした後、ソロモン王様に報告させて頂きました。するとすぐにミラ様とお会いしたいとの事で迎えにいらした、使者の方ですわ」「ほぅ、ソロモンか......」アルカイト王国のソロモン王。プレイヤーの一人であり、この国の建国者。更にはダンブルフを自国に誘った張本人でもある。ミラにしてみれば、ルミナリアよりも付き合いが長い友の一人だ。しかしその様な事を知るわけも無いリタリアとマリアナは、ソロモン王を呼び捨てにする不敬とも取れるこの太太しいミラの態度を、背伸びをしてみせる思春期の年頃から来るものとして微笑ましく感じていた。更にいうとミラのダンブルフと同じ口調は、親の真似をする子供の様に思われている。そしてこれはミラにとっては知らぬところである。「ルミナリア様も、まだあちらにいらっしゃいますし、謁見の後に会えるかと思いますわ」ソロモンが居るという事は、それはルミナリアと同じくプレイヤーの可能性がある。そう思い至ったミラは、呼び出しに応じる事にしてソファーから立ち上がる。しかし扉へ向かおうしたところで、リタリアとマリアナに止められてしまう。「お待ち下さい、ミラ様」「む、今度はなんじゃ?」「ローブを着たとはいえ、そのまま行かせるわけには参りませんわ」リタリアの言うそのままとは、引きずった裾と手の出ていない袖。つまりサイズの合っていない状態のローブの事だ。「ミラ様じっとしていて下さい。すぐに整えますわ」ミラにはリタリアの目が怪しく輝く様に見えたが、その手から逃れる間もなく捕らえられる。それから嬉々とした様子のリタリアと、どこからともなく取り出した大量のリボンを手にしたマリアナに裾を上げられ袖を捲くられる。ミラは幾分の抵抗を試みるも二人のコンビネーションに押され、整え飾り付けられていった。「問題は下着ですわね」「はい、その通りです」表を一通り整え終わった二人は、ミラが羽衣一枚で出てきた瞬間を思い出し、ローブの中をどうするか思案する。それと同時に着せ替え人形にされていた少女の背筋には悪寒が全力疾走した。余りにも考えたくない単語が出てきたからだ。今はローブを着せられて肌を隠しているが、そもそも最初は裸同然ともいえる姿だったのだ。下着を着ていたという記憶などは微塵も残っていない。つまり今ミラは、ノーパンノーブラという事だ。女子二人は、目の前の少女がその様な状態で居る事を許すわけはなかった。少し考え込むと、マリアナが何かを思い立った様に「あれがありました。少々お待ち下さいです」と言い、昨日の夜にミラが開き直って突撃した浴室のある扉を開く。暫くしてマリアナが、何かを手にして戻ってくる。白い生地で出来た衣装の様だがパッと見ただけではミラには見覚えが無かった。それでもどことなく何かで見た事がある気がすると記憶を辿る。「まあ、丁度いいですわね。さあミラ様」促すように言ったリタリアだったが、その両手で軽々とミラを持ち上げるとマリアナが「失礼します」と半ば強制的に手にしたそれを穿かせる。そこにミラの意志が入り込む余地は無かった。ミラは穿かされたそれを見て、その半ズボン状のものが何だったかを思い出す。それはゴスロリといった服でよく見る下着、ドロワーズというものだ。「なぜこのようなものが、わし......いや師匠の部屋にあったのじゃ......」どうにか搾り出した言葉は、何てことはない只一番に浮かんだ疑問だ。下着という種別の装備品は確かにあったが、かつてのダンブルフには女性の下着を収集する趣味は無かったし、そういった物を部屋に置いた覚えも無いのだ。下着類であると言えば、川上り祭りで揃えの褌くらいなものだ。「ダンブルフ様の私室は、浴室が大きくて気持ち良いのです」「確かに立派じゃが......」「私の着替え用です」「そ......そうか......」その瞬間ミラは完全に抵抗の意志を失い、大きく項垂れると完全な着せ替え人形と化した。数多くのリボンで装飾されたローブは、裾がフレアスカートの様に織り込まれ、袖は適度にだぼついた形でリボンを巻かれている。一見すると勘違いした魔法少女といった様相を呈していたが、リタリアとマリアナはやり遂げたかの様にその出来栄えに満足して頷き合う。しかしそれとは反比例する様に、ミラの表情は苦笑に苦笑を重ねたまま固まっていた。「それではミラ様、参りましょう」「使者の方がお待ちです」「着替えたいのじゃが」「これ以上待たせるわけにはいきませんわ」「わしが待たせたわけでは」「あの様なお姿で居るのが悪いのです」この二人相手では勝算を微塵も見出せないと諦めたミラは、視線を下ろしその魔法少女然としたローブ姿の自分を一瞥し「締まらんのぅ」と盛大に溜息を漏らした。「では参りましょう」リタリアが先行し扉を開くと、そこには軍服の男が最初に見た時と同じ様に直立の姿勢で待機していた。若干頬が赤くなっているが。ミラが私室を出てからマリアナが静かに扉を閉める。男はミラのリボンまみれになったローブ姿を隅々まで視界に収めると、その変わり様に驚く反面、先程の肌色が大部分を占めていたミラの姿が脳裏に浮かび上がり若干の興奮を思い出す。それに逸早く気付いたマリアナは、竜すら沈黙させそうな視線で男を睨みつける。直立だった男は多少ひるんだ様子を見せるも、軽く咳払いをすると右手を胸に置いた型で一礼する。これはアルカイト王国の軍式の礼の仕方だったが、同時にミラの表情が微妙に引き攣ったものとなる。それというのもこの軍式の礼というのは、絶望的と思われていたアルカイト王国建国後に開戦した初めての戦争に勝利した時、気分絶好調だったソロモンとダンブルフ、ルミナリア、フローネで考えたものだったのだ。言うなれば、テンションが振り切りどうかしていた時に設定したものだ。戦争時ならばその雰囲気や心持から、揃って礼をする兵士達は壮観だったと記憶しているミラだが、流石にそれを対一でされると気恥ずかしさを押さえられなくなってしまう。「お初にお目にかかります、私はアルカイト王国の戦車隊副団長を勤めさせていただいているガレット・アストルと申します」「ミラじゃ」「ダンブルフ様の弟子、ミラ様でございますね。国王様よりの伝言を預かり参上させていただきました」「話は済んでおりますわ。ミラ様は王への謁見を快く引き受けて下さいました」「おおそうですか。ありがとうございます。では表に馬車を用意しておりますので早速向かいましょう」そう言った男は真面目な表情を最低限取り戻すと、ミラを馬車の前まで案内した。「道中お気をつけて行ってらっしゃいませ」「ミラ様、出来れば後日ダンブルフ様の事をお聞かせ頂いてもよろしいですか?」「ふーむ、そうじゃな。今度会う時に話すとしよう」「ありがとうございます。お待ちしてます」ミラは二人に軽く手を振り別れを示すと馬車に乗り込みながら、今度会う時ダンブルフについての説明をどうするかで頭を悩ませ始める。	Still early in the morning as the sounds of birds singing filled the air. A carriage noisily dashed down the main street of Silver Horn at full speed. Residents watched as the carriage, adorned with the heraldry of the Arkite Kingdom, headed towards the Silver Linked Towers. However, Mira sleepily threw herself back into the bed and turned away from the sunlight coming from her window. She soon slowly dozed back to sleep. As her consciousness faded, the stillness of the room, devoid of even the sounds of birds chirping as it was located on the top floor of the tower, was broken as a rhythmic chime played across the floor. Mira reluctantly awoke from a discordant shout that shattered the silence. As she woke up, she looked around and saw an unfamiliar yet luxurious room around her. Still half asleep, Mira questioned where she was. Mira unintentionally squealed as she remembered yesterday’s events. At the same time, she felt a sense of loss as she looked down muttering 「My manliness.......」 while considering her appearance. With an unfamiliar small body, Mira slid to the edge of the bed to sit. Then, Mira noticed her gorgeous legs, peeking from under her clothes. The light shining through the curtains like a spotlight made her legs appear whiter, leaving Mira speechless. With red cheeks like that of an adolescent boy, Mira softly touched her skin and gazed at it to check. It was the soft skin of a girl, and her sense of touch confirmed it. The sensation made her recognize yesterday’s events that led her to now, causing her to be fully awake. 「........However, what was the sound that woke me up?」 Mira now fully awake, noticed the mysterious rhythm was still playing. While listening carefully, Mira could make out something banging on a hard object with distance voices in the background. Mira got up from the bed to investigate what was going on. 「Mira, won’t you come out? Mira.」「Litaria, is the apprentice of Danbulf really here?」 The voices seemed to be a familiar elegant voice of a woman and an unfamiliar voice of a man. 「I am certain. She carried the tower master key for the Tower of Summoning. Also, someone saw a girl with silvery hair entering this tower last night. That means that she should have surely spent the night here.」「However, could she have not left to go to a hotel after that?」「It is not necessary to stay at a hotel because she has the tower master key. Everything is already here and because I clean every day, there shouldn’t be anything wrong.」 In addition to the woman’s voice from outside, there was another girl’s voice. Mira realized that the noise was someone knocking on the door and a man and two women were calling to her. Mira opened the door to find out why the woman’s voice was vaguely familiar. While rubbing away the remaining sleepiness away with the back of her hand, Mira confirmed the figure of the other party by looking up a little, 「What, Mariana and Litaria?」 She glanced at the two familiar people. Mira stood up straight upon seeing a man wearing a military uniform with an armband embroidered with Arkite Kingdom heraldry on his right arm. 「You are........?」「Lady Mira! Just what clothes are you wearing!」「You, please look the other way!」 Mariana stared stupefied at Mira who had just emerged from the door almost naked and revealed her captivating skin in front of the man’s eyes. At the same time, the maid with twintails that glittered like sapphires forcibly turned the man in military uniform away. He had been ogling Mira’s body which was visible from her thin clothes. With a thud, the man prostrated and stared at the floor. While Litaria pushed Mira back into the room. 「What on earth was that!?」 Mira was set down on the leather sofa while Litraria closed the door. She was just forced to return to the room. With a perplexed feeling, Mira questioned Mariana why she was returned to the room. 「It is because of you. Even if this is the Wiseman’s Room, it is wrong to leave the room with such an appearance when there’s a visitor.」 While showing a little anger, Mariana admonished Mira’s clothes. Mira recalled what she was wearing and lowered her eyes. Her clothes were certainly the Celestial Maiden’s Raiment, nonetheless they could not be called anything but underclothes. In addition, she noticed that they were almost transparent. First of all, she usually dressed carefreely when she was in her own room and she only had a combat robe prepared as a change of clothes. The Sage’s Robe she originally wore was meant for combat. And if someone was to ask her if she had any other robes there were comfortable to wear, her answer would be 「Unfortunately, I have no good clothes.」「For now, at least cover your body with this. While your chest is almost nonexistent, there is a chance for you to be attacked by a horny pervert.」 Mariana picked up a red and black robe from the sofa and dressed Mira. Mira pulled out her head from the collar of the robe and noticed that the size of the robe did not match her at all. Even the tips of her fingers did not leave the sleeves. In fact, the collar width was just right for Danbalf, but for Mira, the collar was too wide and left a large opening across her chest. Although it was nothing compared to being naked, it was still a bewitching appearance nonetheless. 「Because it is Lord Danbalf’s, it was unreasonable to expect that it would fit your size.」 Litaria unfastened her hair ornament which she had used to pin the neckline. The hair ornament had a red ribbon and Mira’s breasts were decorated in a girlish way. 「Stay still......」 It was her favorite design robe too. Mira dropped her shoulders having had her dignity fade away because of that one hair ornament. 「Miss Mira, is it true that you are an apprentice of Danbulf?」 While Mariana was straightening Mira’s collar, she stared intently into Mira’s eyes as if clinging to a thread of hope. 「Ah, yes it is like that. Mariana, I heard about you from my master.」 Mariana approached with a hanging breath. Her hair and eyes were the color of sapphire. Her size was similar to that of a human and she had a pair of wings like that of a butterfly. Her wings shook lightly as she approached. These wings were proof that she belonged to the fairy race, which kept their appearance as that of a human child even when they were grown up. They used their wings to catch atmospheric mana rather than wind to fly in the sky. Mariana was the only one of the fairy race to be Danbulf’s aide. 「I’m glad to hear that. Oh, Lord Danbulf........」 As she made an expression of relief, her eyes moistened and several tears trickled over her reddened cheeks as if to cool them down before falling. Mira lost her composure seeing the girl suddenly start crying, and wanting to do something, almost unconsciously she extended her hand towards the girl’s cheek. But before touching the cheek, Mira understood the meaning of the girl’s tears, she retracted her hand and with no better idea what to do with it, put it on her own chin. Mariana shed tears for Danbulf who had suddenly disappeared. Mira hesitated to touch Mariana because she had guilty feelings for deceiving Mariana. However, she decided not to. How would it go if she explained it? Would she believe that Danbulf had become a girl? Would Mariana accept her? Wouldn’t she be shocked? Although Mira had thought of her as only just an NPC up until now, Mariana had just cried for Mira’s sake and became a person with a sense of self, which was why Mira still didn’t know how to act towards her now. The thoughts of the selfishness of not wanting to be rejected by a girl who adored herself fought with the desire to not cause anxiety to her. Then she swallowed those thoughts that had begun to appear and fell into silence. She chose to remain silent with a selfish excuse. Mira stared silently at her hand hidden in the sleeve with miserable feelings. Litaria moved forward and gently wiped Mariana’s cheek while whispering, 「It’s okay.」「I’m sorry. I’m fine now.」 Mariana breathed out to sort her feelings and settle her mind. It was then, a familiar sound reverberated indoors. 「Um, Miss Litaria, Miss Mariana. Is it alright already?」 After a while, the muffled voice of a man could be heard. The man in the military uniform that Mariana had forcibly turned around had regained his senses. He resumed to carry out the duty he had been given by the king. 「Yes, we will go after this.」 Litaria replied to the voice. She returned her gaze on Mira, the original purpose of their visit. The person in question had stretched out on the sofa and was currently shaking her sleeve. 「Going? What business do the kingdom’s soldiers have with me?」「Yes, I reported to King Solomon about my meeting with Mira the other day. The person outside is a messenger that has come to guide you to the capital to meet the king..」「Oh, is it Solomon......?」 King Solomon of the Arkite Kingdom. He was the player that founded this country. Furthermore, he was the person who had invited Danbulf to live in this country. As for Mira, he was one of the friends who he had a longer association with than Luminaria. However, Litaria and Mariana could not know such a thing, so Mira’s attitude came off as disrespectful by calling King Solomon by his first name. However, it came from an adolescent who was stretching herself on the sofa, so it instead came off as a heartwarming feeling instead. In addition, Mira had used the same tone as Danbulf when saying those words, so it looked like a child imitating the parents. But Mira was not aware of any of this. 「Lady Luminaria as well, she has not yet left Lunatic Lake, I think it is possible to meet her after the meeting.」 The possibility of Solomon being a player was as high as Luminaria. Mira realized this and decided to accept the summons. Soon after, she stood up from the sofa. However, when she went towards the door, Litaria and Mariana stopped her. 「Please wait, Miss Mira.」「Ugh, what did I do this time?」「Although we put a robe on you, it doesn’t mean that you can go out as is.」 Litaria uttered these words and dragged her hand out of the sleeve. In other words, the current condition of the robe was not suitable. 「Miss Mira, please keep still. I will fix it immediately.」 Although it seemed to Mira that Litaria’s eyes sparkled suspiciously, she was soon captured without time to escape. After that Litaria joyfully pulled out a large quantity of ribbon out of nowhere and Mariana rolled up her sleeves. Mira offered some resistance to the two’s pushing and prodding, but she was soon turned into their dress-up doll. 「The problem is her underwear.」「Yes, that’s right.」 The two had just finished straightening out Mira’s appearance. Recalling Mira’s appearance when she came out with the Celestial Maiden’s Robe, they wondered what to do with it. At the same time, a chill traveled up Mira’s back, she had been turned into the maid’s dress-up doll. She did not want to think about what would become of her body. At least for now, she had a robe covering her body. In the beginning, she was almost half-naked. She did not recall wearing any sort of underwear. In other words, Mira was without any bra or panties. The two maids could not allow a girl in their presence to be in such a state. Mariana pondered a little and then thought of something. “There was that. Please wait just a minute,” she said. She opened the door to the bathroom where Mira had charged in with a defiant attitude from last night. After a while, Mariana returned with something in hand. Mira did not recognize the clothes on sight but she could see that they were made of white fabric. Nevertheless, she traced her memories feeling that she had seen something similar to this before. 「Mhm, this is just right. Well, Miss Mira.」 Litaria urged Mira to raise both her hands. Mariana forcibly made Mira wear it with an “Excuse me,” ignoring Mira’s will. After Mira wore the clothing, she remembered what the shorts were. It was an undergarment frequently seen with the Gothic and Lolita style clothes. 「Why is such a thing in my.............no in my master’s room.......」 Somehow she squeezed out those words. She questioned how an item like that appeared in the first place. Although she was sure that there were accessories classified as undergarments, Danbulf did not have such a hobby in collecting women’s undergarments before. She did not remember placing such a thing in this room either. Speaking of undergarments, she had collected the seven-colored loincloths from the River Ascent Festival. 「Lord Danbulf’s private room has a big and comfortable bathroom as expected.」「Well it is certainly splendid......」「It’s myspare clothes.」「Is that so.......」 In that instant, Mira completely lost the will to resist. She hung her hand as she was turned into a complete dress-up doll. Her robe was decorated with a lot of ribbons. The hem of her skirt was interwoven so that it flared up. On her sleeves, ribbons were coiled into bows. One look would make anyone mistake her appearance for a magical girl. Litaria and Mariana nodded to each other satisfied at their work. However, inversely proportional to their satisfaction, Mira’s expression stiffened as bitter smile was built upon bitter smiles. 「Well then Miss Mira, let’s go.」「The messenger is waiting for you.」「I want to change clothes.」「He cannot wait any longer.」「Although it was you who kept him waiting.」「It is bad manners to have such an appearance.」 Mira gave up the idea because she could not find the slightest hint to outsmart these two. She lowered her eyes and glanced at herself dressed in a robe like that of a magical girl. 「Then let’s go.」 Litaria led the way and opened the door. The man in the military uniform stood there in an upright posture just like when she first saw him. Though, his cheeks were slightly red. After Mira left the private room while Mariana closed the door calmly. When the man saw Mira in a robe filled to the brim with ribbons, he was surprised at the change. He recalled in his mind Mira’s appearance not too long ago which had most of her body showing and felt a little excitement at that. Mariana noticed this quickly and scowled silently at the man like a dragon. The man who was standing upright flinched somewhat and bowed while lightly clearing his throat and placing his right hand on his chest. This was the method of bowing for the army in the Arkite Kingdom. Mira’s expression cramped slightly at the same time. That is to say, this military-style etiquette was conceived by Danbulf, Solomon, and Luminaria when they were thinking about how to get the perfect mood going and to lose some stress. This military salute was something everyone thought up together when they were elated after the Arkite Kingdom turned around the desperate situation and won the first war. If it was a time of war, the atmosphere and feeling when all the soldiers were saluting together were spectacular, but if it was just for Mira, then she could not suppress her embarrassment. 「This is the first time I have met you, I am Garret Astor who serves the Arkite Kingdom as the Deputy Head of the tank corps.」「I am Mira.」「You are Lord Danbulf’s apprentice, Miss Mira I assume? I was ordered to deliver a message from the king to you.」「Everything is already settled. Miss Mira has already agreed to go meet the king.」「Ohh, is that so. Thank you very much. The carriage has been prepared in front, let us go at once.」 When the man said this, he regained his serious expression, Mira was guided to the carriage. 「See you soon, be careful on your journey.」「Miss Mira, please allow me to hear about Lord Danbulf in the future if possible?」「Hm—mm, well then. Let’s talk about it next time.」「Thank you. I will be waiting.」 While Mira was climbing into the carriage, she waved farewell to the two. She then began to rack her brains on how to explain about Danbulf the next time they meet.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 7, "inserted_lines_src": 6, "inserted_lines_trg": 4 }
「ウィルおじいさん!」「じっちゃん!」仮眠をとってから夜中に私とジルはウィルおじいさんの元へ向かった。仮眠でぐっすり眠れたから今日は長くいられるわね。ウィルおじいさんの家の前ではもう寝ている人がいなかった。どういう事かしら。そんなにあの人達が聞き分けが良いとは思えないのだけど。もしかしてこれって......レベッカが何かしたって事なの? 「アリシア、ジル、いらっしゃい」ウィルおじいさんの後ろからレベッカが松葉杖で体を支えながら出てきた。あら、何だかすっかり元気そうだわ。顔色も良くなっているし。まだ絶対に足が痛むだろうに。凄い根性ね。 ......レベッカはジルを羨ましく思ったりしないのかしら。そんな様子見せないけど。というより、なんだかここでの自分の役割を見つけたって感じがするわ。「レベッカ、ウィルおじいさんの家の前にいた人達は貴方が片づけたの?」レベッカは少し照れくさそうに言った。一日でそんな事が可能なのかしら。彼女もしかしたら相当賢いんじゃない? ジルが私の隣で目を見開いてレベッカに聞いた。「アリに言われた通りにこの村の意見を出来る限り一日で聞きまわって」「ちょっと待って、レベッカは誰かに襲われなかったの?」「皆むしろ私に怯えていたよ。多分、アリのおかげで」「そっか。この村の人達は魔法を初めて見たんだ」「そういう事。だから私のバックにはアリがいると思って皆が従ったって事」私抜きでレベッカとジルが話を進めていく。あら、これって本当に最高に素晴らしい展開じゃないかしら! 「狂った奴のふざけた答えばかりだよ」この村の人達の執念が形に出たら終わりだと前から思っていたのよね。レベッカが私からの次の命令を待っている。反乱を防ぐ方法は......。この村の改善っていうのは分かるんだけど、そんな簡単に改善は出来ないわ。ジルが顎を手で触りながらそう言った。「例えば? 不満をなかなか違うものに変換するのは難しいと思うけど」「そうよ。私達貴族への不満は私なんかが計り知れないほど強いものだと思うわ。私がいつこの村の人に殺されるか分からないもの」「いや、アリはここでは好かれていると思う。昨日、そんな声が上がっていたし」 ......好かれている? ただ社会秩序が乱れるのが嫌なのと、差別が嫌いなだけであって......。どうして私が好かれているの? 「貴族でこの村に来た人なんて今まで誰もいなかったし、実際私を助けたでしょ」やっぱり、人の表情を読み取るって人間皆結構出来る事よね。嫌がっているのを察して欲しいもの。そしてその強引さに惹かれていき恋に落ちる王子も間抜けよね。きっと私は生まれた時からヒロインを好きになれない体質なのよね。「アリシア? どうかしたの?」あら、いけないわ。全く違う事を考え込んでしまっていた。「でも魔法学園の奴らはあんな綺麗事を言っていたけど、実際は絶対どこかで僕達、貧困村の住民を忌み嫌っているから、貧困村でアリシアの好感度が上がってもむしろ悪女としてはプラスなんじゃない?」確かにそうかもしれないわ。悪女は貴族から嫌われているものよね。そして、貴族が忌み嫌う貧困村の影のボスが私なら......これは私の悪女ポイントが加点される絶好のチャンスだわ! 救世主はレベッカだもの。私は彼女に命令するだけよ。まさに理想の形だわ。「悪女って何?」いつか教えてあげる日が来るのかもしれないけど、今はまだ秘密よ。「なんでもないわ」	And those few hours had been bliss. As I had predicted, I slept just like a baby. That means I should be able to stay out longer tonight than I usually do. When we arrive, I see that there are no longer any people camped outside Grandpa Will’s house. I wonder how that happened. I don’t think those people were the type to listen to reason, so I would have thought they’d still be hanging around here. Could it be..... Did Rebecca do something? “Grandpa Will!” “Gramps!” Gilles and I call out simultaneously seeing him come out of the house to greet us. “Alicia, Gilles. Welcome.” “Ali, Gilles, good evening,” Rebecca adds, hobbling out from behind Grandpa Will. She seems to have found a crutch somewhere and is now using that for stability. Wow. Other than the fact that her leg is still gone, she seems to have completely recovered already. There’s even a healthy color back in her cheeks. Her leg must still hurt like crazy, but you wouldn’t be able to tell just going by her complexion. She’s really got some grit. She’s smiling and seems genuinely happy to see both Gilles and I.... But I wonder if Rebecca might actually be a bit jealous of Gilles. I mean, I was able to save him without sacrificing his leg and I even brought him to the outside world. Though, her face doesn’t show any hint of dissatisfaction. On the contrary, she actually looks like someone who has finally figured out what they want to do with their life. “Rebecca, was it you who cleared up all the people who had been sleeping outside of Grandpa Will’s house?” Is such a thing really possible in only two days’ time? Could it be that not only her willpower is extremely high, but her IQ is as well? “How did you get rid of them?” Gilles asks from beside me, his eyes swimming in curiosity. “I just did as Ali said. I told them that I would spend the day listening to as many of their thoughts and opinions as I possibly could, and that was that. After talking to me, they all just ended up leaving on their own.” “Wait a second, Rebecca, did none of them try to attack you?” Gilles asks, shocked. “No. Actually, they were all pretty afraid of me. I’ve probably got Ali to thank for that.” “Ah, I see. That must have been the first time they’d ever seen magic before. Of course they’d be afraid.” “Exactly. Since they knew that I have Ali as a backer, they made sure to listen carefully to all of my directions.” I listen in as Gilles and Rebecca chat, getting somewhat lost in thought. Hm, isn’t this the ideal development? Doesn’t this make me the true boss, pulling strings from the shadows behind the savior? “What about the other %?” Gilles asks her with a frown. Rebecca smiles a bit sardonically. “Oh. Those psychos? They’ve gone completely insane. Whenever I talked to them they’d just drop wisecracks and crazy jokes and then laugh their heads off.” So that means there were no positive opinions. Goodness, if these people really did start an uprising, whole towns would be wiped off the map. I’ve thought this before, but if they ever get the chance to realize their desires, that’s the end. Everything will devolve into chaos. Hm... What methods do I have to prevent an uprising.....? There’s the obvious one: improving the conditions of the village, but that’s something much easier said than done. “Channel those feelings to what though? It’ll be extremely difficult to change feelings of hatred and dissatisfaction into something positive,” Rebecca notes. “Right. I can’t even imagine how much they must detest us nobles. Their hatred must run unfathomably deep. Just being here makes me feel like someone might try to kill me at any moment,” I add. “No, actually, I think the people here have a pretty positive opinion of you, Ali. When I was listening to them yesterday, quite a few of them talked favorably about you,” Rebecca amends quickly. .....They like me? Even though I’ve honestly never thought of wanting to help them? Not even once? Sure, I find the pure chaos that is the public order here detestable, and I can’t stand seeing the blatant discrimination that occurs here, but other than those things I’ve had no desire to improve anything here.... So why do they like me? “You’re the first noble that’s even bothered to come here. And plus, you literally saved my life. I think it would actually be weirder if they all hated you,” Rebecca explains gently. She must have read the doubt in my expression. See? It’s human nature to be able to read another person’s expressions and understand them.... So why is the heroine so miserable at it? That aspect of her personality is just so exasperating. I wish she’d just pick up on the fact that I dislike her. I feel like I’m making it quite obvious! But I guess it’s still not enough for her. She has the charm of a steamroller, but to think that a certain prince is still falling for her anyway. I guess he must be a blockhead as well. I really don’t know what he can see in her. Since, whenever I’m with Liz-san, I always end up feeling incredibly annoyed. But I guess that’s inevitable. From the moment I was born, I was just hardwired to dislike her. “Alicia? What’s wrong? What are you thinking so hard about?” Gilles says, peering up at my face. Ah shoot. This won’t do. My mind ended wandering completely off topic. “But those halfwits at the academy, for all their pretty words and fake sympathy, deep down they hate us. They obviously think that this village’s inhabitants are beneath themselves. So earning our favor should actually be a good thing as a villainess, don’t you think? The enemy of my enemy and all that, right?” Gilles says expressionlessly, his voice remaining indifferent. Hm, that certainly makes sense. A villainess is the bane of all nobles... but the people here clearly aren’t of the nobility. In fact, far from it. To the aristocracy, this village and all of its inhabitants are just a blemish in an otherwise peaceful world. So, if I were to become the shadow boss of this place..... then I’ll be able to take a huge step forward towards becoming the perfect villainess. And it’s not like I’m their savior or anything. That’s Rebecca. All I’ll be doing is giving her orders and reaping in the benefits. If having their good opinion makes enacting my plans easier, then so much the better. It’s honestly a win-win for me. “What’s a villainess?” Rebecca asks, looking puzzled. ....That information is top secret, so I can’t really explain it to her. There might come a day when she’ll be allowed to know, but until then, she’ll have to be kept in the dark about it. “It’s nothing. Don’t worry about it,” I tell her, grinning widely. Also, I did see at least one request to see the chapter without my additions, so when I find a little extra time I’ll be putting out a version of chapter . I’m not sure when this will happen, but I’m thinking it will be sometime in the next weeks or so.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 3, "inserted_lines_src": 19, "inserted_lines_trg": 2 }
隠し星座? 野獣の試練......? 迷宮の数は黄道座と同じく12個ではないのか? そもそも、おおかみ座ってどんな星座だ? 『おおかみ座はてんびん座の近くにある星座だにょん! だから、この迷宮も天秤迷宮の近くにあるにょんねぇ~』なるほど、だから天秤迷宮から処女迷宮に向かう道を間違えた俺が偶然見つけることができたのか。ながら歩きもたまには悪くない。リアルでは危険なのでやってはいけないが。「ここの試練って......どういう扱いなんだろう?」聞きたいことが多いものだから何から聞いていいのかわからず、漠然とした質問になる。『おおかみ座は黄道十二星座ではないにょん! だから、この迷宮は『隠し迷宮』なんだにょん! 試練を受けても受けなくてもいいし、メダルも存在しないにょん! 最終の試練であるサーペント・パレスでの私との戦いにも影響しないにょん!』メダルはないのか......。存在したらカッコよかっただろうなぁ。『あー! 露骨にガッカリした顔してるにょん! 気持ちはわかるけど、オマケ要素だから仕方ないにょん。流石に主役である十二星座と同じ扱いには出来ないにょん』確かにここは他の迷宮に比べて殺風景だ。他の迷宮はピラミッドだったり、射的場だったり、専用のダンジョンだったりと作りこまれているのに対して、野獣迷宮は黒焦げのクレーター1つしかない。本当にオマケ要素なのだろう。それに本筋である12の迷宮の出来が悪いと判断された場合、オマケが作りこまれている方がかえって非難されることがある。どっちに力を入れているんだ......とか、あの星座の迷宮は手抜きだから実質おおかみ座が十二星座だ......とか。最悪、迷宮の出来の良さで星座に順位をつけられ、NSOにおける『星座カースト』を生み出しかねない。学校で下位の星座の少年少女がいじめられてしまう......ほどNSOがキッズのコミュニティに浸透しているとは思えないのでそこは安心だな。ただ、掲示板では煽りあいだろう。大人も子どももゲームとなると大差はない。まあ、実際の黄道十二迷宮はよく作りこまれていると思うので非難の声は聞こえない。しかし、作っている側からすれば、作った物がどう判断されるのかは実際に出してみないとわからないし、悩むものなんだ。『でもでも! メダルはないけどご褒美はあるにょん! それも通常の迷宮よりレアな物を2つプレゼントだにょん!』「2つも!?」『通常の迷宮におけるメダルのポジションをアイテムに変えてるんだにょん! 試練をクリアすればアイテムを1個プレゼント! 試練の中である条件を満たせばさらにもう1個という形だにょん!』メダルの代わりにアイテムというわけか。カッコいいとはいえメダルの役割はスタンプラリーのスタンプと同じだ。集めることに意味があり、それそのものに効果はない。だが、アイテムは違う使い道がわからなくても、実装されているわけだから何かしらの使い道がある。戦力強化の観点で見れば、貰えるアイテムが多い隠し迷宮は得というわけか。「それで試練の内容はどんな感じになってるのかな?」『試練を受けると決めたなら教えるにょん! この試練は正直難しいにょん。失敗すればデスペナルティは避けられないにょん』「そ、そんなに?」これまでの試練は受ける前にチャリンからの説明が聞けた。あれのおかげで作戦を立てつつ動くことが出来たのだが......。「どれくらい難しいか教えてくれない......よね?」『うーん、クリアは出来るかもしれないにょんねぇ。でも、ボスがとんでもなく強いからなぁ......。時間内に倒しきれるかなぁ......』ちらちらとこちらを見ながら、わざとらしくしゃべるチャリン。これが彼女の精一杯のヒントだということはすぐにわかった。俺の予想は......ズバリ、時間内生き残ることを目的としたバトルだ。クリアは出来るかもしれないけど倒せるかわからないということは、倒すことはクリア条件ではないということ。強いボスがいて、そいつから逃げて生き残ればクリア。倒しきれればご褒美。死ななければクリアなのだから、当然失敗はデスペナルティを伴う死となる。「せっかく見つけた隠し迷宮だし、挑戦もせずに逃げるのは俺の主義に反する。それにイベントの期間は長いし、一回くらいデスペナルティを食らっても問題ない。俺は野獣の試練を受けようと思う。お願いできるかな?」『もちろんだにょん! さっきのはあくまでも忠告で、こちらとしては多少手抜き......じゃなくてシンプルな作りでも実装したものは誰かに遊んで欲しいにょん! では、試練の場にワープ!』「......ワープ?」今までの試練はダンジョンに入ることはあっても、ワープはなかったような......。そんな疑問を抱いている間に、俺はだだっ広い草原に飛ばされていた。草原での戦闘は割と経験があるが、今回は雰囲気が全然違う。なんというか、2人のサムライが決闘を行うシーンに出てきそうな風の吹きすさぶ草原だ。空は暗雲に覆われ、ときおり稲光が走る。少し湿気を含んだ大気の匂い......雨が降りそうで降らない時のようだ。明らかに危ない雰囲気の戦場だが、それより俺が気になったのは無数の犬たちがうろうろしていることだ。ざっと数えても50匹近くいる。彼らは味方なのか......? 『おおかみ座のモチーフとなった人物リュカオンは、全知全能の神ゼウスの怒りを買い、狼に変えられてしまったにょん。またあるいは、怒りを買ったせいで一族を滅ぼされ、逃げ出したリュカオンがおおかみに変えられたという話もあるにょん』「へぇ......知らなかったなぁ」神話はゲームを作るうえですごく役に立つ。もはや今の世の中だと欠かせないと言ってもいい。どれだけ神々や歴史上の人物をモチーフしたキャラが生み出されてきたことか......。先人への感謝は忘れてはならない。敬意をもって扱えば、女体化も寛大な心で許してくれる......はずだ。『私も今回のイベントに際して調べただけだにょん。神話って多いし複雑だし網羅できるものではないにょん!』「全面的に同意します」『さて! あなたはゼウスの怒りを買って狼に変えられたうえで殺されようとしているにょん!』「二重苦だな......」と、冷静に突っ込んでいると頭はむずむずしてきた。触ってみると......犬耳が生えている!? 手足は......よかった。普通のままだ。流石に手が犬になると弓が引けなくなる。ゴリラは器用だから大丈夫だったが......。『あなたはこれからゼウスと戦ってもらうにょん! そして、15分生き残ればクリア! ゼウスを倒せばご褒美だにょん! 難易度はソロ用になってるけど、そうそう勝てる相手じゃないにょん!』強敵と戦う覚悟はしていたが、まさかよりによって雷の力を持つ最高神か......。あの大きな黒焦げのクレーターは、雷が落ちた跡をイメージしてたんだな。手抜きのようでしっかり試練内容を示唆していたわけだ。ポセイドンの名を冠するモンスターとは戦ったことがあるが、あいつもとんでもない強敵だった。ソロ用に弱体化されているとはいえ、本当に死を覚悟して挑まねばならない相手だな......。『ちなみにこの犬たちは神話にあるリュカオンの50人の子どもだと思って配置したんだけど、そもそも狼に変えられたのはリュカオンだけなんだから、子どもたちは普通の人間のはずだにょん! 解釈違いだにょん! こうやって間違いも受け継がれて神話は増えていくにょんねぇ~』誤訳で謎のモンスターが生まれてしまったという話は聞いたことがある。人って案外適当だ。『とにかく! この犬たちは味方だにょん! 勝手に戦うからデコイにでも使うといいにょん! では、野獣の試練スタート!』チャリンの姿が消えると同時に、体が飛び跳ねるほどの地響きが起こる。その原因はすぐにわかった。天から巨大な神が降って来たのだ。「ちょっと......デカすぎるかな......」その顔が空に浮かぶ雷雲に隠れて見えないほどの大きさ。これを今から倒せというのか......。それもソロで15分以内に......! 「ガー! ガー!」そうだ。俺にはガー坊がいる。決して一人ではない。それに犬たちも......。ワンッ! ワンワンワンッ! 犬たちはゼウスの『足』に向かっていく。巨大さゆえ、接近戦を仕掛けようとすると足に攻撃するしかないのだ。だが、相手は神だ。足だって動く。犬たちはどんどん蹴飛ばされて勝手に消えていく。「............」』という言葉はここで使うのか。また賢くなったな、俺。「ガー! ガー!」でも、ガー坊って魚かつ機械だから電気がすごく苦手だったような......。「......大丈夫なのか? これ、勝てるのか?」ガー坊は言葉を話さない。チャリンはもうアドバイスをくれない。だから自問自答する。 ......大丈夫か? 「大丈夫だ!」一喝。自分に気合を入れ、俺は神に弓を引いた。	Hidden constellation? Beast Trial...? I thought there were only labyrinths that were based on the zodiac? In the first place, what is the Lupus constellation? ‘It’s a constellation that is close to the Libra constellation-nyon! And so the labyrinth is also close-nyon!’ I see. So that was why I was able to find it while wandering off in the wrong direction when I was supposed to be heading towards the Virgo labyrinth. I suppose walking while doing something else wasn’t always a bad idea. Except in real life. That was dangerous. “This trial... What is it exactly?” I had too many questions to ask, and ended up asking something vague. ‘The Lupus constellation isn’t part of the zodiac-nyon! And so this is a hidden labyrinth-nyon! It’s completely optional and there are no medals-nyon! It will have no effect on the last trial, which is a battle against me in the Serpent Palace-nyon!’ There was no Lupus medal then... But that would have been so cool. ‘Ahh! You look so disappointed-nyon! I understand how you feel, but this is just a little bonus content-nyon. You can’t expect it to be the same as the main labyrinths-nyon.’ Indeed, this area looked very plain compared to the other labyrinths. They were pyramids and firing ranges or dungeons with a lot of detail. But there was nothing but a blackened crater where I was standing. It really was just a small bonus. Besides, if it so happened that one of the main labyrinths was subpar, then people would say it was because they wasted resources on this hidden one. Why are you putting so much effort into that one...? Or they will say that the Lupus labyrinth was the ‘real’ th labyrinth etcetera... Eventually, they’ll start ranking the labyrinths based on how bad they are, creating a new constellation caste system. The ones at the bottom will be the new bullied kids at school... Well, I didn’t think there were many kids playing NSO, so I wasn’t worried there. But things would get heated on the message boards. And the adults on those boards acted no different from children. Well, the actual labyrinths seemed to be well-made, and I hadn’t heard of any complaints yet. But the people making them would have no idea how they would be received while making them, and it could be difficult. ‘However! There is still a special reward-nyon! You will receive two presents that are even rarer than what you get in the normal labyrinths-nyon!’ “Two of them!?” ‘It’s to make up for the medal-nyon! You will receive one item for finishing the trial! And then another one if you fulfill certain requirements-nyon!’ So you got an item instead of a medal. While the medals looked cool, they were just like getting a stamp in a stamp rally. It was nice to collect them, but they didn’t do anything. But an item was different. Even if you didn’t know what they were used for, they were in the game, which meant that they had some purpose. If you wanted to get stronger, then a labyrinth that gave you more items was better. “So, what kind of trial is this?” ‘I will tell you once you accept the trial-nyon! This one is very difficult-nyon. If you fail and die, you will be penalized-nyon.’ “Re-really?” Up until now, Charin would always explain the trial to me before I accepted it. And that allowed me to move strategically... “I suppose you won’t tell me...how hard it is?” ‘Hmmm. You might be able to finish it-nyon. But the boss is incredibly strong... I don’t know if you’ll be able to do it in time...’ Charin muttered while glancing at me. I suppose this was her idea of a hint. My guess was...a survival battle with a time limit. If she thought I could finish it, but wasn’t sure if I could defeat the boss, then beating the boss wasn’t the requirement for clearing the trial. There would be a strong boss, and running away and surviving was enough to win. But if you did defeat the boss, then you got a reward. Obviously, in this case, failure would mean death, and so there would be a penalty. “Well, I was lucky enough to find this hidden labyrinth, and it would be against my principles to run away without trying. Besides, this is a long event. I don’t mind getting the penalty at least once. I’ll accept this Beast Trial. Is that alright?” ‘Of course-nyon! I was just giving you a warning. We actually want you to play this shoddy...slightly simpler trial-nyon! Now, you will be warped to the place!’ “...Warped?” In the previous trials, we might have entered dungeons, but there was no warping... As I thought of such things, I was warped away to a huge grassy field. I had plenty of experience fighting in grass fields, but the atmosphere here was different from usual. I don’t know. It sort of felt like a place where two samurais would fight a decisive battle as the wind blew through the grass. The sky was covered by clouds, and lightning would occasionally strike down. The air smelled damp...like it might rain soon. This battlefield had a clear dangerous atmosphere, but what I noticed more than anything, was that there were numerous dogs walking around. There were at least fifty of them close by. Were they friendly...? ‘The Lupis constellation is based on Lycaon, who earned the wrath of the omniscient and omnipotent Zeus, and was turned into a wolf-nyon. Though, there are also stories that say his family was destroyed and that Lycaon was turned into a wolf as he tried to escape-nyon.’ “Huh... I didn’t know that.” Mythology was very useful when making games. You could almost say that they were indispensable. Just thinking about the number of characters that have been made who were based on gods and historical figures... One must always be thankful to those who came before. If you were respectful, then they might even forgive you for turning them into girls... Maybe. ‘I only know because I looked it up for this event-nyon. There are so many myths and it’s all so complicated-nyon!’ “I agree whole-heartedly.” ‘Now! You have earned the wrath of Zeus and have been turned into a wolf, and he is trying to kill you-nyon!’ “That’s a lot of suffering...” As I mused on this, my head started to feel itchy. And when I touched it...there were dog ears there!? My arms and legs...good. They are the same. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be able to use my bow. Though a gorilla’s were fine, as they were more dexterous... ‘You will now fight against Zeus-nyon! And you will pass the trial if you can survive for minutes! Defeat Zeus, and you will receive a special reward-nyon! While the difficulty is adjusted for solo players, it still won’t be an easy battle-nyon!’ I had been expecting a strong enemy, but not the greatest god with the power to control lightning... I guess the burnt crater was supposed to be where the lightning had crashed. While it seemed lazy, it was actually a hint as to what the trial would be like. I had fought against a monster called Poseidon, and it had also been very strong. And so while this one had been made weaker for solo players, it was still an enemy where I had to consider the fact that I would likely die... ‘By the way, the dogs were put here to represent Lycaon’s 50 children, even though he was the only one who was turned into a wolf-nyon! They misinterpreted it! But it’s such mistakes that increase the scope of myths as they get passed on-nyon!’ You often hear about how new and mysterious monsters are born through misunderstandings. A lot of people didn’t care too much about facts. ‘In any case! These dogs are your friends-nyon! They will fight on their own, so you can use them as decoys! Now, let the Beast Trial begin!’ As Charin disappeared, the ground started to shake so much that I was thrown into the air. I immediately learned what had caused it. A giant god had come down from the sky. “Uh...this might be too big...” He was so big that I couldn’t see his face, as the clouds were covering it. How was I supposed to defeat that... By myself, in 15 minutes...! “Gar! Gar!” That’s right. I had Garbow with me. I wasn’t alone. And there were the dogs... Bark! Bark! Bark! The dogs started to run towards Zeus’s feet. He was so big that it was the only part of him they could attack. But this was a god. And those feet wouldn’t stay still. One after another, the dogs were kicked into the air before disappearing. “...” So this is where people use the word ‘stunned.’ I was a little wiser now. “Gar! Gar!” But he was a fish and a machine. Surely he wouldn’t like electricity... “...Are you alright? Can you beat it?” Garbow could not talk. And Charin would not give me any more advice. And so I had to answer the question myself. ...Can we do it? “We can!” I shouted. With renewed motivation, I drew my bow at the god.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 1, "inserted_lines_src": 2, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
こんなに良い雰囲気の図書室なのに誰も来ないって不思議だわ。中ここにいたいくらいなのに。ノスタルジックな雰囲気が漂っていて本当に最高の場所だわ。「......そうだね、嫌われているね」「その嫌われ者の味方にジルとデューク様とメルとヘンリお兄様がいるんでしょ?」「うん。......そのせいで最近デュークの人気が落ちているみたいだよ」一体どこから情報を仕入れているのか気になるわ。「アリシアがデュークやヘンリを狂わせたと思われていたみたいだよ」あら、それは間違いではないわよね。本来ならヒロインとくっつくはずのデューク様が私を好きになっているんだもの。 ......というか、デューク様の人気が落ちているのよね。デューク様はそんな事を気にしていないだろうけど。むしろ嬉しく思っているかもしれないわ。だって、彼は自由が欲しいんだもの。私は口元を緩めながらそう言った。ああ、嬉しすぎるわ。私の味方なんて不要だと思っていたけど、私の悪女効果が上がるのなら大歓迎よ。悪女は孤高に生きる女だと思っていたけど、味方も悪い人達だってなればもっと有名になれるわ。そしてこのまま歴史に名を刻むのよ。それに......デューク様はこの国の王子なのよ。王子を狂わせた悪女なんて素晴らしい響きだわ。「陰では狂った闇の組織とか、悪の塊とか言われているみたいだけどね」でも、狂っているより変わっているって感じなんだけど......。客観的に見たら狂っているように見えるのかもしれないわね。悪の塊って最高の誉め言葉じゃない! 私が欲しかった言葉よ。まさかそんな風に言われているなんて知らなかったわ。「ブラックデビル」「え?」「アリシアがそう言われているんだよ」「じゃあ、リズさんは」「ホワイトエンジェル」というか、ブラックデビルとホワイトエンジェルってネーミングセンス最悪じゃないかしら。「なんか、ダサいわね」私がそう言うと、ジルは口の端を高く上げた。 ......怖いわ。この表情がまさにブラックデビルよ。顔に真っ黒い影が見えるわ。笑っているはずなのになんて怖い笑顔なのかしら。本棚に並んでいる本達もこの悪魔の表情にびっくりしてすっかり静まり返っているじゃない。......まぁ、本は喋らないけどね。「一部じゃ、アリシアはブラックエンジェルとも言われているみたいだよ」「ブラックエンジェル?」「そうだよ」「じゃあ、リズさんはホワイトデビルって言われているの?」ジルはそう言って首を横に振った。 ......どうして私がエンジェルなんて名前がつくのかしら。もう、なんの変哲もないブラックデビルって名前でいいわよ。だから、エンジェルって言うのだけはやめてほしいわ。私は天使って柄じゃない。まず私の顔の特徴からして悪魔よりだ。天使はまさにリズさんみたいな人の事を言うのだろう。性格も、顔も......特にあの笑顔。私は額に手をついて心の底から本音を吐いた。最高の気分から叩き落されたわ。さっきまでの喜びの興奮を返してほしいわ。「どうしてエンジェルなんて言われているのかしら」「表では言われていないから安心して」「どうしてそれをジルが知っているのよ」流石ジルとしか言いようがないわ......。「アリシア派とリズ派の戦争が起こったりして」「......どうしてそんなに嬉しそうなのよ」「アリシアの支持が増えていると思うと嬉しくてね」誰か分からない人に支持されても......。私は心の中でジルの言葉に突っ込んだ。「まぁ、アリシア派はきっと自分がアリシアを支持しているとは言わないだろうけどね」「......圧倒的にリズさん派が多いものね。それで、本当にその情報はどこから仕入れているのよ」ジルは私を少し見つめてから諦めたようにため息をついた。「ヘンリだよ」「ヘンリお兄様?」 ......諦めるまでの時間が早かったわね。これも長年の付き合いだからよね。私がいかに頑固かをよく知っているからこそできる判断だわ。私達なかなか良い関係よね。「アリシアの知らない所で僕は結構色々な事をしているよ」色々な事って何をしているのかしら。......そういえば前の授業でジョン先生と意気投合していたみたいだし、何かの研究とか? ......ほとんど一緒にいるのに、知らない事もあるのね。本棚に並んでいる本達がジルに拍手を送っているように思えた。......まぁ、本に手なんかないんだけどね。	It makes absolutely no sense to me why no one ever comes here. I mean, I just love the tranquil, cozy atmosphere that this library gives off. It’s so pleasant that I’d stay here all day if I could! The smell of the pages and parchment, the gentle light streaming in through the windows, it just feels so nostalgic. It has to be my favorite place in the academy. “.....Yup,” Gilles agrees nonchalantly, glancing over at me and nodding. “Everybody hates you.” “Though it’s not all bad since I still have you, and Duke-Sama, and Mel, and Henry-Oniisama on my side at least, right?” “Yeah..... Though that’s the main reason that Duke’s popularity has been plummeting these days.” How does he know that? I’m so curious where he gets his intel from. “There’s rumors going around that Duke and Henry are just confused, that you drove them half mad and that’s why they’re hanging around you.” Hmm. That’s not exactly wrong. If things were as they should be, Duke-Sama would’ve been stuck to the heroine like glue, but he somehow ended up falling for me instead. .....I can’t believe I was right and that Duke-Sama’s popularity really did take a hit from liking me though. Not that he probably minds. On the contrary, I bet he’s overjoyed by it. Since he wants to be free, then reducing other’s expectations for him can only be a good thing. Ahh, I’m a little too happy about this. I always thought allies were unnecessary, but if they are this effective for increasing my impact as a villainess, then I’ll welcome them with open arms. I used to think that a villainess should be proud, aloof. Independent! But if I surround myself with equally hateful people, then that’ll just serve to make me more infamous. And if things keep going at this pace, I’ll easily be able to engrave my name on history! Plus.... Duke-Sama is this country’s prince. If I can be known as the evil witch that corrupted a prince, then I’ll be able to create an even bigger stir. “Behind our backs people are saying that we belong to some deranged shadow organization or that we’re the embodiment of pure evil.” Though, rather than deranged, I feel like eccentric might be more accurate.... Well, objectively speaking, from an outsider’s perspective maybe we really do seem deranged. But the embodiment of pure evil...? What higher praise can there be than that!? I’ve been yearning to hear those words for so long.... And to think, they’ve been saying them behind my back this whole time! “Black Devil.” “Huh?” “That’s what they’re calling you.” “Really? What about Liz-san?” “White Angel,” Gilles practically spits out the words. But anyways, Black Devil and White Angel? What is this, the s? Can their naming sense possibly be any lamer? Couldn’t they have picked something more.... sophisticated? These names are truly abominable. “They’re rather.... tacky, wouldn’t you say?” I say while wrinkling my nose. Gilles smiles, the corners of his mouth slicing high into his cheeks. .....Yikes. Now this is the expression I’d expect from a black devil. It’s almost as if a pitch-black shadow has descended over his features. How can a smile be this terrifying? Even all the books on the shelves seem to have fallen silent, cowering at that devilish look.... Not that books make much noise to begin with. “There is a small group that’s calling you a black angel though.” “Black angel?” I ask, brows furrowing. “Yup.” “Then, are those people calling Liz-san a white devil?” “Don’t know,” Gilles says, shrugging. I understand Liz-san.... but why would anyone be calling me an angel? Seriously, referring to me simply as a plain old black devil would be fine with me. Or, if they’d at least drop the angel part, I wouldn’t really care regardless of what they called me. There isn’t a single angelic thing about me. Even my features lean more towards the demonic side. Whereas Liz-san fits the term angel perfectly. Whether it’s her personality, her face.... or in particular that perfect smile of hers. “Ugh, this sucks.” With my hand clutching at my forehead, I let my frustrations leak out like a sigh. It feels like I fell all the way from cloud nine down to the bitter pits of purgatory. Bring me back those high spirits from a couple minutes ago! “Why are they calling me an angel?” “Don’t worry, they’re not saying it outright.” “Then how do you even know about it, Gilles?” The only thing I can say is, ‘as expected of him.’ “In the background, a war is waging between Liz’s faction and yours.” “.....Why do you look so delighted by that?” “I just feel happy whenever I think about how your supporters are growing,” Gilles says, the corners of his eyes crinkling in pure, innocent joy. I’m being supported by strangers.... people whom I don’t know and who likewise don’t know me.... “Though, the people in your faction would never just come out and admit that they support you.” “....Well, obviously. They’re overwhelmingly outnumbered by Liz-san’s faction. Anyone with half a brain wouldn’t show off their allegiance under such disadvantageous circumstances. But seriously. Where do you get all this information from?” I demand, scrutinizing him. Gilles gazes at me a moment and then sighs as if he’s given up. “From Henry.” “From Henry-Oniisama?” ....Hm. That was unexpectedly easy. I thought he’d hold out for at least a little bit longer. I guess after all these years we’ve really come to understand each other well. Because Gilles knows how stubborn I can be, he decided to give in now rather than later. We make quite the pair. “You know, I’m involved in quite a lot of things that you’re unaware of, Alicia,” Gilles tells me proudly, smiling at me in a way that seems to contain a hidden meaning behind his words. Involved in a lot of things? Like what I wonder? We’re together practically every second of the day, so it feels weird to think that there’s still sides to him that I don’t know about. .....Though, now that I think about it, he did seem to hit it off well with Professor John the other day, maybe he’s gotten involved with research or something? And why is he looking at me as if he’s won? In my eyes, it almost looks like all the books on the shelves seem to be giving Gilles a round of applause, extoling his triumph.... Not that they actually have hands to clap with.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 4, "inserted_lines_src": 16, "inserted_lines_trg": 2 }
きっと、御者に私達はどこかの令嬢だと思われている。装飾品が高価なものであることは誰でも分かる。目の前に背筋良く座っているヴィアンに目を向ける。これほど赤いドレスが似合う人を見たことがないと言っても過言ではないぐらい良く似合っている。 ......けど、彼は着替えてから自分の姿見なかった。もし、私がヴィアンだったら、一日中鏡を見ているわ。思いっきり自信がつきそうだもの。「何か私の顔についてる?」まじまじと見つめ過ぎてしまった。彼が訝し気な表情を浮かべる。「目と鼻と口がついているわ」「そういうことを聞いているんじゃないわよ」「......どうして着飾った後の自分を見ないの?」私の質問にヴィアンは口を閉ざす。荒い道のせいか、ガタッと馬車が揺れる。それと同時にヴィアンが何か言葉を発した。本人は私に聞こえていないのだろうと思ったのだろうけど、私はしっかりとこの耳で彼の言葉を聞いた。「私は後でいいのよ」って。どういうこと......? 自分よりも先に誰かに見てもらいたいってこと? これって触れても良いのかしら。けど、ヴィアンは私に聞こえないように言ったつもりだろうし。深く追求しない方が良いのかもしれない。暫く馬車の中で沈黙が続いた。ヴィアンはずっと外を眺めながら何か考えているように思えた。折角おめかしして街に出るんだから、楽しい話で盛り上がりたいのに......。段々町へと近づいて来た時に彼がゆっくりと口を開いた。「ドレスを仕立ててもらう時になんて言って注文していると思う?」私は思わず固まってしまった。彼は私の方を向かず、ずっと外を見つめたままだ。 ......考えてもみなかったわ。ヴィアンの骨格に合うようにドレスを作るのは難しい。どこかのご令嬢の為にドレスを作るのとはわけが違う。ヴィアンは美しいし、ドレスも似合うが、れっきとした男。ちゃんと採寸しないといけないはず......。言葉に詰まっている私の様子を察したのか、彼は話を続けた。「小さい頃は女性用のドレスでも入ったのよ。だから、女の子にプレゼントするって言ってドレスを手に入れることなんて簡単だった。でも、身体が成長していくにつれて女性用のドレスは私に入らなくなっていった。だから、自ら街に出て、ドレスデザイナーに交渉しに行ったの」「ヴィヴィアン自ら足を運んだの?」「そうよ。......そこである人に出会ったの。その人は人間として最低だったけど、私に最高のドレスを作ってくれた。私がドレスを着るって言っても非難はしなかった。ドレスを愛する者に悪い人はいないって思っているのよ」ヴィアンは嬉しそうに話をする。「人間としてどう最低だったの?」「......非難はしなかったけれど、私がドレスを着ている姿を一度も見てくれなかった。理由を聞いたら、私のドレス姿に興味はないからって。自分が作ったドレスは最高の仕上がりだから似合わないはずないって思っているのか、ただ口に出さないだけで男のドレス姿なんて気持ち悪くて見たくなかったのか......。だから、私は私が一番綺麗だと思う格好をしてあいつの前に現れてやる。それまでは自分で自分を見ない」馬車の窓にヴィアンの顔が反射する。そこには、切羽詰まった彼の表情が映っている。「もし拒絶されたらって思うと怖い?」彼は視線を私の方へと向けた。目がしっかりと合う。「どれだけ周りにその姿を褒められたとしても自信がないんでしょ? ずっと自分の心の支えを作り上げてきた人物に認められるまで」「............そうだとしたら?」ヴィアンは私を睨む。彼にニコッと微笑む。「早くその人物に会ってヴィヴィアンの美しさに腰を抜かしてもらわないとね」きょとんとした表情をヴィアンは私に向けた。「私は目の前にいる赤い宝石をそのデザイナーよりもヴィヴィアンに見て欲しいのよ」一呼吸置いた後に、ヴィアンは顔を綻ばせた。「あ~もう、アリシアには敵わないわね」それは私の台詞よ! 悔しいけど、ヴィアンの方が仕事が出来る。一番身近で彼の仕事っぷりを見させてもらった私が言うんだもの。間違いないわ。	I was certain that the owner thought we were noble ladies. Anyone could tell that the ornaments we carried were expensive. I turned my attention to Vian, who was sitting in front of me with a good figure. It would not be an exaggeration to say that I had never seen anyone look so good in a red dress. But he never looked at himself after he changed his clothes. If I were Vian, I would look in the mirror all day long. It would give me a huge confidence boost. “Is there something on my face?” I was staring way too much. He gave me a questioning look. “You have good eyes, nose, and a well shaped mouth.” “That’s not what I’m asking you.” “...Why didn’t you look at yourself after you dressed up?” Vian was tight-lipped about my question. The carriage rattled and shook, probably due to the rough road. Vian said something at the same time. He probably thought I didn’t hear him, but I heard him say, “I can wait until later.” What did he mean? Did he want someone else to see it before him? I was wondering if it was okay to bring this up. But I knew Vian didn’t want me to hear him say that. Maybe it would be better not to pursue it too deeply. There was silence in the carriage for a while, and Vian seemed to be thinking about something as he kept looking outside. Since we were going to town, all dressed up, I wanted to have a nice talk with him.... As we were getting closer and closer to town, he slowly started speaking. “What do you think I say when I place an order for a dress to be tailored?” I froze. He didn’t look at me, but kept staring outside. ...I hadn’t thought about it... it would be difficult to make a dress that would fit Vian’s frame. It would be different from making a dress for some noble young lady. Vian was beautiful, and the dress would look good on him, but he was a man. They had to get the measurements right.... Perhaps sensing that I was at a loss for words, he continued. “When I was little, I used to enter the shops wearing a woman’s dress. So, it was easy to acquire a dress and say it was a gift for a girl. But as my body grew, women’s dresses didn’t fit me anymore. So, I went to town myself and negotiated with dress designers.” “Vivian went there herself?” “Yes...I met someone there. He looked like a terrible person, but he made me the best dress. He didn’t look down on me when I said I would wear the dress. He believed that there were no bad people who loved dresses.” Vian was happy as he told me the story. “Why did you think he was a bad person?” “... He never condemned me, but he never looked at me in my dress. When I asked why, that person said he didn’t want to see me in my dress. I’m uncertain if he thought the dress he made was the best he could make and wouldn’t look good on me, or if he simply didn’t want to see me, a man in a dress because he didn’t want to feel uncomfortable... So, I will show up in front of that person dressed in what, I think, is my most beautiful outfit. Until then, I won’t look at myself. “ Vian’s face was reflected in the carriage window. There was a reflection of his impatient expression. “Are you afraid of being rejected?” He locked his eyes with mine. “No matter how many compliments people give me on the way I look, I will never be confident about it, you know? That is, until I am recognized by that person who has been my emotional support for so long.” “...And if it was rejected?” Vian glared at me. I returned it with a smile. “I can’t wait to meet that person and have them be floored by Vivian’s beauty.” Vian gave me a puzzled look. “I’d rather have Vivian look at the red gem in front of a mirror than that designer.” After a pause, Vian’s face broke into a smile. “Ah, jeez, I’m really no match for you, Alicia.” That’s my line! It was frustrating, but Vian was better at his job than I was. I was the one who got to see him work, up close and personal, so there was no doubt about it.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 1, "inserted_lines_src": 1, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
いかなる社会においても、より危機的なのは、新たなコンディションへ向けて動き始めたものの、それ以上先へ進む道は塞がれていることに気がついた人々のグループである。その要望と野心はその環境においては非現実的ではないのだが、彼らは挫折感を抱いている。物事は彼らが望むほど早くは進まず、それどころか、彼らの管理外のコンディションが原因で、まんじりともしない。機会はあっても、それを掴めず、実現されないのである。	A far more critical group in any society are those who have begun to move forward to new conditions, but then find their path blocked. Their desires and ambitions are not unrealistic in the circumstances, but they are frustrated.	{ "source": "news_commentary", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
◇◆◇◆◇ ラウム東部にある魔術学院は、かろうじてコルティナの築いたバリケードの誘導範囲の外にあった。そこには近隣の住民を集め、駆け出しの冒険者たちが柵を見張って防衛に当たっていた。もちろん、その中にはミシェルの姿もある。柵の中から弓による遠距離攻撃ができる彼女は、この避難所で最も期待された防衛戦力でもあった。「クラウドくん、大丈夫かなぁ」「なに、ミシェル。彼氏の心配?」「ぜぇったい違うし。それにクラウドくんはニコルちゃんにぞっこんなんだよ?」「え、そうなんだ!?」茶化すように話しかけてくる冒険者支援学園の級友に、唇を尖らせて答えを返す。本人が聞いたら鳥肌を立てて否定しそうな噂を、彼女はなにかと率先して流していた。「でも、指定範囲の巡回とか、ホント心配よね」「ゴブリンって数が多いし、食べれるところが無いからキライ」「嫌うところってそこなの? まあ、ミシェルらしいけど」「それに今日はレティーナちゃんがいないし」レティーナは自身の屋敷で、受け入れた難民の世話をするために帰宅している。「ニコルちゃんもいるんでしょ。あの子もすっごく強いって話を聞くけど?」「うん。でも巡回に出ちゃってるし」駆け出し冒険者の中でも、前衛職に就くものはゴブリン侵入に備えてバリケード内の巡回に出ている。もちろん、ニコルの姿も朝からは見かけていない。これはクラウドも同じことだった。「ニコルちゃんは無鉄砲だから、ゴブリンを見つけて無茶してないといいんだけど」「そうなの? おしとやかそうに見えるのに」「話してみるとわかるけど、実はすっごいヤンチャなんだよ?」「へぇ、人は見かけによらないのね」「そしてすっごいドジっ子でもあるの。だから見ててハラハラしちゃう」「魔術学院に通っているのに前衛職で、お嬢様なのにヤンチャでドジっ子とか、属性盛りすぎじゃない」「まー、強くて頼りになるのは確かなんだよね」コボルドの時も、森で暗殺者に襲われた時も、いつも彼女は窮地に駆け付けてくれる。そして、その脅威をボロボロになりながらも、いつも排除してくれた。誰よりも可憐で、誰よりも勇敢な自慢の親友。それがニコルだった。緊迫した情勢なのに、どこか余裕を持って対応できているのは、きっと彼女が同じ場所にいてくれたからだろう。しかしそこへ、切羽詰まった表情のフィニアが駆けつけてきた。「ミシェルさん、ニコル様を見かけませんでしたか!?」「あ、フィニアさんだ。ううん、朝から見かけてないよ。きっと巡回に出てるんじゃないかな?」ニコルが魔法剣士を目指していることは、学園の誰もが知っている。父親から譲られたカタナと付与魔法で、敵に勇敢に斬り込んでいく姿は、魔術学院の生徒ならは目にしたことがあるだろう。だからこそ前衛と見做され、この状況で巡回に駆り出されているはずだった。「それが昼食の時間になっても戻ってこないんです。クラウドくんも戻ってきてませんが、彼の姿はマテウスさんが確認してますし」「それって、巡回に出てる人もニコルちゃんの姿を見かけてないってこと?」「ええ、そうです」そこまで聞いた時、ミシェルの脳裏には先ほどの友人との会話が思い出された。昼夜を問わず指揮所に籠っているコルティナを助けるため、こっそりとゴブリンの迎撃に参加していたとしても、おかしくはない。そうなれば、どういう結末になるのか。彼女が頑張り過ぎた結果、気を失う姿はこの街の住人ならばどこかで一度は目にしているだろう。「たいへん、ニコルちゃんがゴブリンの苗床になっちゃう!」「えええぇぇぇぇええええ!?」妄想を暴走させたミシェルの発言に、フィニアは蒼白になって狼狽した。ゴブリンは同種族同士でも繁殖するが、異種族を相手でも繁殖が可能だ。「どどどどうしよう、フィニアさん! ニコルちゃんがママになっちゃうよ!?」「そ、そんなうらやま、いえけしからん真似をさせるわけにはいきません。待っていてくださいニコル様、今私が助けに向かいます!」「待って待って、私た位以下の後衛冒険者は外に出ちゃいけないんだよ!」混乱するミシェルと暴走を始めたフィニアを、その場に居合わせた級友が必死に止める。「でも、でも!」「おやおやぁ、ひょっとして助けが必要な場面ですかぁ?」いつの間にか彼女たちの背後に、白い少女が近付いていたのだ。「神様!」「うん、ミシェルちゃんはいい子ですね。わたしを神と敬ってくれるのはあなただけです」を授けてくれた、自称神様。その姿に、ミシェルは喝采を上げて飛びついたのだった。 ◇◆◇◆◇	◇◆◇◆◇ The Magic Academy in the eastern parts of Raum was just barely outside of the range where Cortina used barricades to guide the Goblins. This was a building that had fences and a designated shelter. The citizens from the surroundings had gathered there, and the newbie Adventurers patrolled the fences. Naturally, Michelle was among them too. She, who could use her ranged bow attacks from within the fences, was the most promising defensive power among everyone in this shelter. “I wonder if Cloud is okay.” “What, Michelle. Are you worried about your boyfriend?” “It’s not like thaat. Besides, Cloud is head over heels for Nicole, you know?” “Huh, really!?” As the classmate from the Adventurer Academy poked fun at her, she replied back with a pout. She was spreading a rumor that would make Cloud get goosebumps if he heard it. That this would serve as yet another source of envy towards him was a story for another time. “Still, having to patrol a fixed radius sure is worrying.” “There are a lot of Goblins, and they don’t have any edible parts, so I hate them.” “That’s the reason you hate them? Well, that does sound like you, Michelle.” “And Letina’s not around today.” Letina had returned home to take care of the people that were being sheltered at her mansion. She did not participate in the defense of the Magic Academy. “Nicole is here too, though. I hear she is super strong, isn’t she?” “Yes. But she’s out for patrol now.” Among the newbie Adventurers, those who took vanguard roles were patrolling the area within the barricades. Naturally, she hadn’t seen Nicole since morning. The same went for Cloud. “Nicole is quite reckless, so I hope she doesn’t do anything rash when she finds the Goblins.” “Really? She looks so lady-like though.” “You’ll realize if you talk to her, but she’s actually really mischievous.” “Heh, I suppose you can’t judge people by their appearances.” “She’s also super clumsy. So you are always in suspense when she’s around.” “She’s a vanguard despite attending Magic Academy, also a refined lady yet mischievous and clumsy... That’s quite a lot of attributes.” “Well, she certainly is strong and reliable too, though.” Be it the time with the Kobolds or during the assassination incident in the forest, she always rushed to her side when she was in a predicament. And each time, despite coming out in tatters, she still succeeded in eliminating the threat. She was the sweetest and the bravest friend that she was proud of. That was Nicole. She found pride in talking about her to her friends. Despite the tense circumstances, the fact that Michelle was able to deal with things calmly was surely because Nicole was there with her. But then, Finia suddenly came running looking to be at her wits’ end. “Michelle, have you seen Lady Nicole!?” “Oh, Finia. No, I haven’t seen her since this morning. She is probably patrolling somewhere, isn’t she?” Everyone in the Academy knew that Nicole was aiming to become a magic swordsman. The students should have seen her gallant figure at least once as she charged towards the enemies with her katana that she received from her father and her bestowal magic. As such, she had been considered a vanguard and sent to patrol the surroundings. “But she hasn’t returned even for lunch. Cloud hasn’t either, but Mateus had seen him.” “Then, do you mean to say that the other patrols haven’t seen her either?” “Yes, that’s correct.” After she heard that much, Michelle recalled the conversation she had with her friend earlier. Nicole was very responsible, was considerate of her comrades, and above all, she held a strong sense of justice. It would not be strange if she had sneaked out to participate in the Goblin interception in order to help Cortina who had been shut in the command post around the clock. What would be the end result of that? Everyone had seen Nicole fainted at least once, after she had forced herself and ended up that way. If she ended up that way in the middle of a battle with no one to cover for her... “Oh no, Nicole will become a seedbed for the Goblins!” “HUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHH!?” Finia went pale from panic after hearing Michelle’s statement stemming from a wild imagination. Goblins could breed among themselves, but they could also do it with other races. Young she may be, with a beautiful girl like her before their eyes, there was no way the Goblins wouldn’t get aroused. “W-W-W-What should we do, Finia. Nicole’s gonna become a mommy at this rate!?” “We can’t let them do something so envi-, I mean outrageous to her. Wait for me, Lady Nicole, I will save you now!” “Wait, wait! Us rear guards who are ranked below three can’t go out!” Seeing the confused Michelle and Finia who had started to run wild, the surrounding classmates started to desperately stop them. Still, thinking that Nicole could be in danger at this very moment, the two couldn’t calm down at all. “But, but..!” “Oh my, could it be that you need some assistance?” Then, another voice suddenly made itself known and stirred more trouble. It was a girl in white that had approached them without them realizing it. “Goddess!” “Oh what a sweet child you are, Michelle. You are the only one who reveres me as a god.” It was the self-proclaimed goddess who had given her the Third Eye. Seeing her, Michelle jumped up in glee. ◇◆◇◆◇	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 10, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
すると母はその通りに建ててくれました当時それが特別なこととは思いもせずきっと今もそうでしょう私は家の設計をずっとしていますからこちらは特注の6階建の家でバリ島にありますほぼ全てが竹でできています 4階のリビングからは谷間が一望でき橋を渡って家に入ります熱帯の暑さをしのぐため大きくカーブした屋根にし風を取り入れています背の高い窓を設け自然の空調をきかせつつ虫が入らないようにした部屋もありますこちらは開放的な部屋に空気の流れる天幕型のベッドを用意しましたリビングの角にテレビ部屋がほしいというクライアント高い壁で囲うのはしっくり来なかったのでこのように巨大な繭型の部屋を作りました必要な贅沢品もあります例えばお手洗いこちらはリビングの隅にあるかご型のお手洗いです言っておきますと使うのに抵抗があるかもしれません防音がまだ十分ではないんですまだ色々と試行錯誤中ではありますが一つ私が学んだのはうまく使えば竹はそれに応えてくれることです竹は野生のイネ科の植物です深い峡谷や山腹など耕作に向かない土地でも育ちます深い峡谷や山腹など耕作に向かない土地でも育ちます雨水わき水日光があれば育つのです世界には1,450種の竹があり私たちが使うのはそのうち7種類ですこちらは父です父の影響で私は竹の建築を始めました父は竹の群生のなかにいますが 7年前に植えたデンドロカラムスという巨大竹です毎年新しい芽を出します先週その若竹が3日間で1メートル成長したのを目の当たりにしたところです竹は 3年で建築資材となる持続可能性を備えた材料なのです私たちは家族で保有する数百の群生から竹を採っています「べトン」と呼ぶこちらの竹はとても長く最長18mの建築材となりますトラックで竹を麓まで運ぼうとしているところです竹はとても強く鉄のようにしなりコンクリートのような圧縮力があります竹の棹は 1本で4トンの重さに耐えられるほどです中が空洞で非常に軽く男性数人で持ち上げられるほどですもちろん女性一人でも大丈夫 (拍手) 父がバリ島にグリーン・スクールを建てたときキャンパス内の建物はすべて竹で作りました父なりの「約束」だったのです子どもたちへの「約束」です持続可能な材料でなくなることのない竹に思いをこめたのです 6年前に建築中の建物を初めて見たときまさに理にかなったものだと思いました竹はそこら中に生えています強くてエレガントでもあります地震にも耐性がありますなぜもっと早くしなかったのか― 次は何ができるだろうと考えグリーン・スクール建設に初期から関わったメンバー数名と「IBUKU」を設立しました IBUは「母」 KUは「私の」という意味で「母なる大地」を表わしています私たち IBUKUは職人、建築家、デザイナーのチームで新しい建築のあり方を創造していますこの5年あまり共に活動を続け 50以上のユニークな建物を誕生させましたほとんどがバリ島にありますうち9つの建物はグリーン・ビレッジにあり― さきほどご紹介した建物はここにあります― オーダーメイドの家具を入れまわりには菜園を設けました皆さんにもいつかぜひお越しいただきたいです滞在中にグリーン・スクールもご覧になれますスクールでは毎年新しい教室を作っています最新版のキノコの家もお楽しみいただけます輸出用の小さな家作りにも取り組んでいますこちらはスンバ島の伝統的な家を再現したもので布地などの細部に至るまで同じですオープンエアのキッチンがあるレストランですまさにキッチンという感じでしょうこちらの川にかかった橋は 22mの長さがあります私たちの取組みはそんなに新しいことではありません小屋から複雑な橋― このジャワ島の橋のようなものまで竹は世界中の熱帯でずっと使われてきました文字どおり何万年もの間です竹のいかだで初めて漂着した島や大陸までありますでも最近までは虫害から確実に竹を守ることはほぼ不可能であったため竹で作られたものは全てダメになってしまいました竹は保護しなければ色あせますし処理を怠ればほこりにやられてしまいますですから特にアジアでは竹の家に住むのはよほど貧しいか田舎者だけと考える人がほとんどなのですよほど貧しいか田舎者だけと考える人がほとんどなのですそこで考えたのがどうやって彼らの認識を変えたとえ最高の素材ではないにせよ竹が建築に適していると納得させるかですまず必要だったのは安全な処理方法ですホウ砂は自然の塩で竹に建築材料としての耐久性を与えてくれます正しく扱い注意深く設計をすることで竹の建築は一生ものになりますつぎに傑出したものを作り出すこと人々の心を動かすのです幸いにもバリでは職人技術を育む文化があり職人が尊重されていますこれらに加えるのが冒険的なスパイス地元で生まれた新進気鋭の建築家デザイナーエンジニアです設計のとき常に肝に銘じておくべきは曲がり先細で空洞の筒を扱うということです竹はどれ一つとして同じものはなく直線もありませんツーバイフォーの木材ではないのです建築界で実証された精巧な方式や用語などはここでは通用しません自らルールも作り出さないといけませんでした何が得意でどうなりたいのか竹の声に耳を傾け導かれた答えが竹を尊重しその強みに合わせて設計し水から守り曲線を生かすということでしたリアル3Dで設計し構造模型を作るのにも実際の建築で使う素材を使います竹の設計模型はそれ自体が芸術で本格的なエンジニアリングでもありますこれが家の青写真ですこれを現場に持ち込み小さな巻尺で竹の棹を一本一本計測し曲がり具合を見てその場でたくさんの竹から模型を再現するのにふさわしい竹を選び出しました細部に至ってはあらゆることを考慮しますなぜドアは長方形が多いのかなぜ丸ではないのかどうすればドアを良くできるか蝶番と重力とでは重力が勝つに決まっていますから最初からバランスが取れるよう中央に回転軸を置いたらどうかそれならドアを涙型にしたらどうかこの素材にある制約のなかで選り抜きの恩恵を享受すべく私たちは自らを限界まで押しやりその制約のなかで新しい工夫の余地を見つけましたまさにチャレンジですまっすぐな板もないのにどうやって天井を作るというんでしょう正直なところ時には石膏ボードや合板がほしいと思いますでももし熟練した職人とちょっと割竹があれば一緒に天井を編んでそこにキャンバスを広げて漆を塗れますこんな風に曲線でできた建物に合い頑丈なキッチン・カウンターをどう設計しますか食パンみたいに岩をスライスしピッタリ合うよう手で削り固くなった表面はそのまま残しておきますつまりほぼ全てが手作りなんです私たちの建物の構造は鋼製の継ぎ手で強化できますが手製の竹の留め具を大量に使います一つの階に何千もの留め具が使われていますこちらの床はつやつやして丈夫な竹の皮でできています素足でその質感を感じられますどんな床を歩くかで歩き方も変わるのではないでしょうかこの世界に残す足跡までをも変えるかもしれません 9歳の私は感嘆の気持ちと可能性ちょっとした理想主義を感じていましたこれからの道のりはまだまだ長く学ぶことはたくさんありますでも確実なのは創造力と強い思いがあれば美しさや快適さ、安全性贅沢ささえ創り出せることです美しさや快適さ、安全性贅沢ささえ創り出せることです必ず応えてくれる素材がここにあるのですからありがとうございました	And then she actually built it. I don't think I realized this was so unusual at the time, and maybe I still haven't, because I'm still designing houses. This is a six-story bespoke home on the island of Bali. It's built almost entirely from bamboo. The living room overlooks the valley from the fourth floor. You enter the house by a bridge. It can get hot in the tropics, so we make big curving roofs to catch the breezes. But some rooms have tall windows to keep the air conditioning in and the bugs out. This room we left open. We made an air-conditioned, tented bed. And one client wanted a TV room in the corner of her living room. Boxing off an area with tall walls just didn't feel right, so instead, we made this giant woven pod. Now, we do have all the necessary luxuries, like bathrooms. This one is a basket in the corner of the living room, and I've got tell you, some people actually hesitate to use it. We have not quite figured out our acoustic insulation. So there are lots of things that we're still working on, but one thing I have learned is that bamboo will treat you well if you use it right. It's actually a wild grass. It grows on otherwise unproductive land -- deep ravines, mountainsides. It lives off of rainwater, spring water, sunlight, and of the 1,450 species of bamboo that grow across the world, we use just seven of them. That's my dad. He's the one who got me building with bamboo, and he is standing in a clump of Dendrocalamus asper niger that he planted just seven years ago. Each year, it sends up a new generation of shoots. That shoot, we watched it grow a meter in three days just last week, so we're talking about sustainable timber in three years. Now, we harvest from hundreds of family-owned clumps. Betung, as we call it, it's really long, up to 18 meters of usable length. Try getting that truck down the mountain. And it's strong: it has the tensile strength of steel, the compressive strength of concrete. Slam four tons straight down on a pole, and it can take it. Because it's hollow, it's lightweight, light enough to be lifted by just a few men, or, apparently, one woman. And when my father built Green School in Bali, he chose bamboo for all of the buildings on campus, because he saw it as a promise. It's a promise to the kids. It's one sustainable material that they will not run out of. And when I first saw these structures under construction about six years ago, I just thought, this makes perfect sense. It is growing all around us. It's strong. It's elegant. It's earthquake-resistant. Why hasn't this happened sooner, and what can we do with it next? So along with some of the original builders of Green School, I founded Ibuku. Ibu means "mother," and ku means "mine," so it represents my Mother Earth, and at Ibuku, we are a team of artisans, architects and designers, and what we're doing together is creating a new way of building. Over the past five years together, we have built over 50 unique structures, most of them in Bali. Nine of them are at Green Village -- you've just seen inside some of these homes -- and we fill them with bespoke furniture, we surround them with veggie gardens, we would love to invite you all to come visit someday. And while you're there, you can also see Green School -- we keep building classrooms there each year -- as well as an updated fairy mushroom house. We're also working on a little house for export. This is a traditional Sumbanese home that we replicated, right down to the details and textiles. A restaurant with an open-air kitchen. It looks a lot like a kitchen, right? And a bridge that spans 22 meters across a river. Now, what we're doing, it's not entirely new. From little huts to elaborate bridges like this one in Java, bamboo has been in use across the tropical regions of the world for literally tens of thousands of years. There are islands and even continents that were first reached by bamboo rafts. But until recently, it was almost impossible to reliably protect bamboo from insects, and so, just about everything that was ever built out of bamboo is gone. Unprotected bamboo weathers. Untreated bamboo gets eaten to dust. And so that's why most people, especially in Asia, think that you couldn't be poor enough or rural enough to actually want to live in a bamboo house. And so we thought, what will it take to change their minds, to convince people that bamboo is worth building with, First, we needed safe treatment solutions. Borax is a natural salt. It turns bamboo into a viable building material. Treat it properly, design it carefully, and a bamboo structure can last a lifetime. Second, build something extraordinary out of it. Inspire people. Fortunately, Balinese culture fosters craftsmanship. It values the artisan. So combine those with the adventurous outliers from new generations of locally trained architects and designers and engineers, and always remember that you are designing for curving, tapering, hollow poles. No two poles alike, no straight lines, no two-by-fours here. The tried-and-true, well-crafted formulas and vocabulary of architecture do not apply here. We have had to invent our own rules. We ask the bamboo what it's good at, what it wants to become, and what it says is: respect it, design for its strengths, protect it from water, and to make the most of its curves. So we design in real 3D, making scale structural models out of the same material that we'll later use to build the house. And bamboo model-making, it's an art, as well as some hardcore engineering. So that's the blueprint of the house. And we bring it to site, and with tiny rulers, we measure each pole, and consider each curve, and we choose a piece of bamboo from the pile to replicate that house on site. When it comes down to the details, we consider everything. Why are doors so often rectangular? Why not round? How could you make a door better? Well, its hinges battle with gravity, and gravity will always win in the end, so why not have it pivot on the center where it can stay balanced? And while you're at it, why not doors shaped like teardrops? To reap the selective benefits and work within the constraints we have really had to push ourselves, and within that constraint, we have found space for something new. It's a challenge: how do you make a ceiling if you don't have any flat boards to work with? Let me tell you, sometimes I dream of sheet rock and plywood. But if what you've got is skilled craftsmen and itsy bitsy little splits, weave that ceiling together, stretch a canvas over it, lacquer it. How do you design durable kitchen countertops that do justice to this curving structure you've just built? Slice up a boulder like a loaf of bread, hand-carve each to fit the other, leave the crusts on, and what we're doing, it is almost entirely handmade. The structural connections of our buildings are reinforced by steel joints, but we use a lot of hand-whittled bamboo pins. There are thousands of pins in each floor. This floor is made of glossy and durable bamboo skin. You can feel the texture under bare feet. And the floor that you walk on, can it affect the way that you walk? Can it change the footprint that you'll ultimately leave on the world? I remember being nine years old and feeling wonder, and possibility, and a little bit of idealism. And we've got a really long way to go, there's a lot left to learn, but one thing I know is that with creativity and commitment, you can create beauty and comfort and safety and even luxury out of a material that will grow back. Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
どこにいようと逃れられない現実ですでもこんなことを知りたがる人はほぼゼロでしょうある書体がどこから現れいつ誰がデザインしたのかそもそも人間が制作したものなのかそれともソフトウェアが生み出したものなのか・・・でも私はそういうことに関心があります仕事だからです「T」と「e」の間隔が気に入らなくて怒り狂う人達はほんの少数でしょうが私はその1人ですスライドは消しましょう私にもクリスにも堪え難いこれでいいさて私がお話しするのはテクノロジーと活字デザインとの関係ですこの仕事を始めてから技術上の変革を何度も経験してきました写植デジタルデスクトップスクリーンウェブなどです変化を繰り返し経験して私はデザインにおけるその意味を理解しようと努めてきましたこのスライドではツールが形に与える影響がわかります「K」が2つあります向かって左の「K」は現代的ですコンピュータで作りました直線はどれもまっすぐで曲線には数学的ななめらかさがありますベジェ曲線が使われているためです右は昔のゴシック体です耐久性の高い素材である鉄に手彫りされていますどの直線もまっすぐではなく曲線は繊細ですこの文字には機械やプログラムには捉えられない — 手作りによる生命の輝きがありますなんという違いでしょうかでも実は全部ウソです TEDなのにウソをつきましたすみません実はどちらもコンピュータを使い同じソフトとベジェ曲線 — 同じフォント形式で作りました左はエミグレ社のズザーナ・リッコが作ったもので右のは私が作りましたツールは同じですが字体は異なります字体が違う理由はデザイナーが違うからですズザーナは左の様に作り私は右の様にしたかったただそれだけです活字には適応力があります彫刻や建築といった美術と違って活字を見ても制作方法はわかりません私は自分のことを工業デザイナーだと思っています私がデザインしたものは印刷され読まれ意味を伝えますただそれだけではなく美的な要素もありますなぜ2つの文字はデザイナーそれぞれの解釈によって違うものになるのでしょう? なぜ作品にはデザイナーのスタイルが現れるのでしょう? ファッションデザイナーや自動車デザイナーの作品でもそうですが・・・確かにデザイナーとしてテクノロジーの影響を感じることがありますこれは60年代中頃の作品です金属活字が写真植字に変わった時代 ― 鋳造から写真への転換期です写植は便利でしたが大きな欠点もありました文字を配置する際のユニットが18個しかないシステムだったのです当時コンデンス・サンセリフ体をシリーズでデザインする依頼を受けたのですがその18ユニットの範囲で可能な限りたくさんの種類を作って欲しいというのです計算結果を見てすぐに 3種類しか作れないことがわかりましたご覧の通りですヘルベチカ・コンプレスエクストラコンプレス — ウルトラコンプレスのデザインでは 18ユニットのシステムに手を焼きましたまるでシステムが書体のプロポーションを決めているようでしたここには小文字の書体しかありませんがこんな感想をもつかも知れません「気の毒に問題が克服できずにこんな結果になってしまった」そうでなければいいのですが今同じ仕事を引き受けたらユニットは18個どころか千個は使えるでしょうもっといろいろな書体を作れるはずですただそれでこの3書体がもっとよくなるでしょうか? 実際にやってみないとわかりませんが 1,000対18の割合でよくなるとは思えません私の直感ではよくなったとしてもわずかでしょうなぜならこれらの書体はシステムに合わせてデザインされたもので活字はそれに適応するからです活字を見ても制作方法はわかりません工業デザイナーには必ず制約があります美術ではないのですただ制約があるからといって妥協する必要はあるでしょうか? 制約を受け入れると水準は低くなるでしょうか? そんなことはありません私はチャールズ・イームズの言葉を励みにしています「制作する上で制約は意識していても妥協はしない」確かに制約と妥協の境界線はとても微妙ですただ私が仕事に向き合う上でこの区別はとても重要ですこれを使っていた頃を覚えていますか? 電話帳です皆さんがノスタルジーに浸れる様に画面はそのままにしましょうこれは70年代の中頃電話帳用に私がデザインしたベル・センテニアルの初期の試作ですデジタル・タイプは初体験だったので新鮮な経験でした電話帳は新聞用紙に極小サイズの文字をランプブラックと灯油のインクを使って超高速の輪転機で印刷します書体デザイナーにとっては恵まれた条件ではありません私にとって挑戦だったのは条件が厳しくても印刷できてきちんと読める文字のデザインでした当時はデジタル・タイプの黎明期で文字はすべて方眼紙に手書きしましたベル・センテニアルにはウエイトが 4種類ありましたが 1ピクセルずつ手書きし1行ずつエンコードしました作業には2年かかりましたがいろいろ学びましたこの文字はまるで犬か何かがかじったみたいですがストロークが交差したり分岐したりする部分のピクセルが欠けているのは安い紙でインクがにじむ様子を調べそれに従ってフォントを改良した結果です私は文字のサイズと制作過程から生じる — 影響も考慮してこの奇妙な書体をデザインしたのです一方 AT&Tは電話帳にヘルベチカを使おうとしていましたただ友人のエリック・シュピーカーマンが映画『ヘルベチカ』で言った通りこの書体はそれぞれの文字ができるだけ似た形になる様にデザインされています文字が小さい場合の読みやすさが目的ではありませんスライドで見るととてもエレガントです一方私は文字を見分けやすくする必要があったのでベル・センテニアルでは文字の形を少し広げましたスライドの下にある通りです続いて80年代の中頃 ― デジタル・アウトラインフォント — すなわちベクター技術の幕開けです当時の課題はフォントのデータ・サイズでしたコンピュータのメモリ上でフォントの検索と記録に必要なデータ量が問題になりましたそのせいで植字システムで利用できるフォントの数に制限があったからです私はデータを分析して画面の左にあるような典型的なセリフ体は中央のサンセリフ体と比べて約2倍のデータが必要だと知りました文字の末端の優美な曲線の定義に必要な点のせいですちなみにスライドの下にある数字はそれぞれのフォントを記憶するのに必要なデータ量を表していますですから中央のサンセリフ体はデータ量が81でセリフ体の151と比べてはるかに少ないのですそこで私は考えました「技術者は課題を抱えているそれを救うのはデザイナーだ」そこで私は右にある — 曲線のないセリフを作りましたセリフを多角形つまり直線で構成し曲線部分は面取りしましたこうすることでサンセリフ体並にデータを減らせましたこれをチャーターと名付けました私はデータサイズの値を持って得意げに技術チーフのところに行きました「問題を解決したよ」するとチーフは「問題って何だ?」と聞くのですだからこう説明しました「サンセリフ体に必要なデータ量の問題とかだよ」彼はこうこたえました「問題は先週片付けたよデータ圧縮ルーチンを使ってデータサイズを1桁減らしたんだもうシステムに好きなだけフォントを載せられるよ」「なるほどありがとう」と言うしかありませんでしたまた失敗ですデザイン上の解決策を見出したのに技術上の問題は既になくなっていたのですでも面白いのはここからです私はこのデザインをゴミ箱行きにはせずに取っておいたのですはじめは技術上の取り組みでしたが美学上の実践になっていたのです要は私はこの書体が気に入りましたきっかけはどうでもいい私はデザイン自体が気に入りましたチャーターの簡素な形にはある種の率直さと簡潔性が表れています私にはそれが心地よかったのです技術革新のまっただ中でデザイナーは時代の空気から影響を受けようとします私達デザイナーは時代の空気に反応して新しいものを追い求めますチャーターは私にとって一種の比喩です結局チャーターのデザインとテクノロジーとの間には明確な因果関係はなかったのです私はテクノロジーを誤解していました確かにヒントをくれたのはテクノロジーですがそれに縛られてはいませんでしたこれはよくあることです技術者はとても頭の回転が速く私は少し鈍いのでストレスは感じますが彼らと一緒に作業して学ぶのは楽しいことですさて90年代の中頃になって私はスクリーンフォントについてマイクロソフトと検討を始めましたそれまで画面表示用のフォントはどれも印刷用のフォントを使い回していました一方マイクロソフトは時代の流れを正しくとらえていましたつまり電子コミュニケーションやスクリーン上での読み書きへと急速に転換することで印刷物の重要性が低下するという流れですその頃まさに優先順位が変わろうとしていましたマイクロソフトが求めたのは使い回しのフォントではなく新たなデザインでした解像度が低いディスプレイという表示上の課題に対応できるフォントですマイクロソフトにはこう伝えました「特定のテクノロジー用にデザインした書体はいつか古びてしまう私はこれまで技術的な問題を解決するために書体をたくさんデザインしたし技術者達のおかげで問題は解決したけれど同時に私の書体も消えていったつなぎの手段に過ぎなかったからだよ」マイクロソフト側の返答はより高解像度で価格を抑えたモニターの開発には 10年はかかるというものでしたそれを聞いて思いました「10年なら悪くないつなぎで終わることはなさそうだ」私は説得されて制作を始めヴァーダナとジョージアが生まれましたこの時初めて紙は使わず最後の1ピクセルまでスクリーン上で作りました当時スクリーンは「バイナリ」でピクセルにはオンとオフしかありませんでしたこれは大文字「H」のアウトラインです黒い輪郭線ですがメモリ上ではこのように記録されていますその下にグレーでビットマップを表示しています画面上にはこれが表示されますビットマップはアウトラインから生成されます「H」は直線だけで構成されるのでビットマップとアウトラインは方眼上でほぼ一致します一方「O」の場合はそうはいきません文字というよりレンガを積んだようですがこれは正しいビットマップです理由は単純で x軸と y軸について対称だからですバイナリのビットマップでこれ以上は望めません小文字の「a」など難しい文字の場合は 3〜4種類作っておいて一番よい字を選ぶため少し下がって眺めたものですいや「一番よい字」というよりデザイナーの直感で「最も悪くない」字を決めようとしていましたこれは妥協でしょうか私はそうは思いませんその時技術的に可能な最高の水準に従うだけですただその水準が理想とはかけ離れているだけですご覧いただいているのはどちらもビットマップフォントです上の「a」の方が下のものよりはいいですが決して最高とは言えません文字を小さくすると効果がもっとよくわかるかも知れません私は理想主義者ではなく現実主義者ですがそうなる必要がありました私の性格だと完ぺきにはできないことにも力の限り全力で取り組むことに満足感を覚えますこれはジョージア・イタリックの小文字の「h」ですビットマップだとギザギザで粗い印象を受けますでもいろいろ試してみて画面にイタリックを表示したときにピクセルの境界部分でストロークがきちんと離れて見える最適な傾きがあることがわかりました見てください粗いかも知れませんが左右の脚の部分が同じ線上にあって離れて見えますこれはデザインの勝利ですもちろんさらに小さくすると選択肢は限られてきますこれは「S」ですわかりますか? ヴァーダナとジョージアがリリースされて18年が経ちましたマイクロソフトの予想は正しくまる10年かかりましたが現在のディスプレイはアンチエイリアスなどのおかげで空間解像度は高くなり測光解像度もはるかに改善しました彼らは目標を達成しましたがだからといって低解像度ディスプレイ向けにかつて私がデザインしたスクリーンフォントはなくなるでしょうか? それともそのフォント群はすでに旧式になったディスプレイや市場にあふれる新しいウェブフォントよりも長く存在し続けるのでしょうか? それともテクノロジーから離れた進化上独自の地位を確立していくのでしょうか? 言い方を換えれば書体デザインの主流になっていくのでしょうか? 私にはわかりませんが今のところはよくやっています 18年ですよ今の消費スピードを考えれば不満なんてありませんどうもありがとう	In much of the world, it's completely inescapable. But few consumers are concerned to know where a particular typeface came from or when or who designed it, if, indeed, there was any human agency involved in its creation, if it didn't just sort of materialize out of the software ether. But I do have to be concerned with those things. It's my job. I'm one of the tiny handful of people who gets badly bent out of shape by the bad spacing of the T and the E that you see there. I've got to take that slide off. I can't stand it. Nor can Chris. There. Good. So my talk is about the connection between technology and design of type. The technology has changed a number of times since I started work: photo, digital, desktop, screen, web. I've had to survive those changes and try to understand their implications for what I do for design. This slide is about the effect of tools on form. The two letters, the two K's, the one on your left, my right, is modern, made on a computer. All straight lines are dead straight. The curves have that kind of mathematical smoothness that the Bézier formula imposes. On the right, ancient Gothic, cut in the resistant material of steel by hand. None of the straight lines are actually straight. The curves are kind of subtle. It has that spark of life from the human hand that the machine or the program can never capture. What a contrast. Well, I tell a lie. A lie at TED. I'm really sorry. Both of these were made on a computer, same software, same Bézier curves, same font format. The one on your left was made by Zuzana Licko at Emigre, and I did the other one. The tool is the same, yet the letters are different. The letters are different because the designers are different. That's all. Zuzana wanted hers to look like that. I wanted mine to look like that. End of story. Type is very adaptable. Unlike a fine art, such as sculpture or architecture, type hides its methods. I think of myself as an industrial designer. The thing I design is manufactured, and it has a function: to be read, to convey meaning. But there is a bit more to it than that. There's the sort of aesthetic element. What makes these two letters different from different interpretations by different designers? What gives the work of some designers sort of characteristic personal style, as you might find in the work of a fashion designer, an automobile designer, whatever? There have been some cases, I admit, where I as a designer did feel the influence of technology. This is from the mid-'60s, the change from metal type to photo, hot to cold. This brought some benefits but also one particular drawback: a spacing system that only provided 18 discrete units for letters to be accommodated on. I was asked at this time to design a series of condensed sans serif types with as many different variants as possible within this 18-unit box. Quickly looking at the arithmetic, I realized I could only actually make three of related design. Here you see them. In Helvetica Compressed, Extra Compressed, and Ultra Compressed, this rigid 18-unit system really boxed me in. It kind of determined the proportions of the design. Here are the typefaces, at least the lower cases. So do you look at these and say, "Poor Matthew, he had to submit to a problem, and by God it shows in the results." I hope not. If I were doing this same job today, instead of having 18 spacing units, I would have 1,000. Clearly I could make more variants, but would these three members of the family be better? It's hard to say without actually doing it, but they would not be better in the proportion of 1,000 to 18, I can tell you that. My instinct tells you that any improvement would be rather slight, because they were designed as functions of the system they were designed to fit, and as I said, type is very adaptable. It does hide its methods. All industrial designers work within constraints. This is not fine art. The question is, does a constraint force a compromise? By accepting a constraint, are you working to a lower standard? I don't believe so, and I've always been encouraged by something that Charles Eames said. He said he was conscious of working within constraints, but not of making compromises. The distinction between a constraint and a compromise is obviously very subtle, but it's very central to my attitude to work. Remember this reading experience? The phone book. I'll hold the slide so you can enjoy the nostalgia. This is from the mid-'70s early trials of Bell Centennial typeface I designed for the U.S. phone books, and it was my first experience of digital type, and quite a baptism. Designed for the phone books, as I said, to be printed at tiny size on newsprint with ink that was kerosene and lampblack. This is not a hospitable environment for a typographic designer. So the challenge for me was to design type that performed as well as possible in these very adverse production conditions. As I say, we were in the infancy of digital type. I had to draw every character by hand on quadrille graph paper -- there were four weights of Bell Centennial — pixel by pixel, then encode them raster line by raster line for the keyboard. It took two years, but I learned a lot. These letters look as though they've been chewed by the dog or something or other, but the missing pixels at the intersections of strokes or in the crotches are the result of my studying the effects of ink spread on cheap paper and reacting, revising the font accordingly. These strange artifacts are designed to compensate for the undesirable effects of scale and production process. At the outset, AT&T had wanted to set the phone books in Helvetica, but as my friend Erik Spiekermann said in the Helvetica movie, if you've seen that, the letters in Helvetica were designed to be as similar to one another as possible. This is not the recipe for legibility at small size. It looks very elegant up on a slide. I had to disambiguate these forms of the figures as much as possible in Bell Centennial by sort of opening the shapes up, as you can see in the bottom part of that slide. So now we're on to the mid-'80s, the early days of digital outline fonts, vector technology. There was an issue at that time with the size of the fonts, the amount of data that was required to find and store a font in computer memory. It limited the number of fonts you could get on your typesetting system at any one time. I did an analysis of the data, and found that a typical serif face you see on the left needed nearly twice as much data as a sans serif in the middle because of all the points required to define the elegantly curved serif brackets. The numbers at the bottom of the slide, by the way, they represent the amount of data needed to store each of the fonts. So the sans serif, in the middle, sans the serifs, was much more economical, 81 to 151. "Aha," I thought. "The engineers have a problem. Designer to the rescue." I made a serif type, you can see it on the right, without curved serifs. I made them polygonal, out of straight line segments, chamfered brackets. And look, as economical in data as a sans serif. We call it Charter, on the right. So I went to the head of engineering with my numbers, and I said proudly, "I have solved your problem." "Oh," he said. "What problem?" And I said, "Well, you know, the problem of the huge data you require for serif fonts and so on." "Oh," he said. "We solved that problem last week. We wrote a compaction routine that reduces the size of all fonts by an order of magnitude. You can have as many fonts on your system as you like." "Well, thank you for letting me know," I said. Foiled again. I was left with a design solution for a nonexistent technical problem. But here is where the story sort of gets interesting for me. I didn't just throw my design away in a fit of pique. I persevered. What had started as a technical exercise became an aesthetic exercise, really. In other words, I had come to like this typeface. Forget its origins. Screw that. I liked the design for its own sake. The simplified forms of Charter gave it a sort of plain-spoken quality and unfussy spareness that sort of pleased me. You know, at times of technical innovation, designers want to be influenced by what's in the air. into exploring something new. So Charter is a sort of parable for me, really. In the end, there was no hard and fast causal link between the technology and the design of Charter. I had really misunderstood the technology. The technology did suggest something to me, but it did not force my hand, and I think this happens very often. You know, engineers are very smart, and despite occasional frustrations because I'm less smart, I've always enjoyed working with them and learning from them. Apropos, in the mid-'90s, I started talking to Microsoft about screen fonts. Up to that point, all the fonts on screen had been adapted from previously existing printing fonts, of course. But Microsoft foresaw correctly the movement, the stampede towards electronic communication, to reading and writing onscreen with the printed output as being sort of secondary in importance. So the priorities were just tipping at that point. They wanted a small core set of fonts that were not adapted but designed for the screen to face up to the problems of screen, which were their coarse resolution displays. I said to Microsoft, a typeface designed for a particular technology is a self-obsoleting typeface. I've designed too many faces in the past that were intended to mitigate technical problems. Thanks to the engineers, the technical problems went away. So did my typeface. It was only a stopgap. Microsoft came back to say that affordable computer monitors were at least a decade away. So I thought, well, a decade, that's not bad, that's more than a stopgap. So I was persuaded, I was convinced, and we went to work on what became Verdana and Georgia, for the first time working not on paper but directly onto the screen from the pixel up. At that time, screens were binary. The pixel was either on or it was off. Here you see the outline of a letter, the cap H, which is the thin black line, the contour, which is how it is stored in memory, superimposed on the bitmap, which is the grey area, which is how it's displayed on the screen. The bitmap is rasterized from the outline. Here in a cap H, which is all straight lines, the two are in almost perfect sync on the Cartesian grid. Not so with an O. This looks more like bricklaying than type design, but believe me, this is a good bitmap O, for the simple reason that it's symmetrical in both x and y axes. In a binary bitmap, you actually can't ask for more than that. I would sometimes make, I don't know, three or four different versions of a difficult letter like a lowercase A, and then stand back to choose which was the best. Well, there was no best, so the designer's judgment comes in in trying to decide which is the least bad. Is that a compromise? Not to me, if you are working at the highest standard the technology will allow, although that standard may be well short of the ideal. You may be able to see on this slide two different bitmap fonts there. The "a" in the upper one, I think, is better than the "a" in the lower one, but it still ain't great. You can maybe see the effect better if it's reduced. Well, maybe not. So I'm a pragmatist, not an idealist, out of necessity. For a certain kind of temperament, there is a certain kind of satisfaction in doing something that cannot be perfect Here's the lowercase H from Georgia Italic. The bitmap looks jagged and rough. It is jagged and rough. But I discovered, by experiment, for an italic on a screen so the strokes break well at the pixel boundaries. Look in this example how, rough as it is, how the left and right legs actually break at the same level. That's a victory. That's good, right there. And of course, at the lower depths, you don't get much choice. This is an S, in case you were wondering. Well, it's been 18 years now since Verdana and Georgia were released. Microsoft were absolutely right, it took a good 10 years, but screen displays now do have improved spatial resolution, and very much improved photometric resolution thanks to anti-aliasing and so on. So now that their mission is accomplished, has that meant the demise of the screen fonts that I designed for coarser displays back then? Will they outlive the now-obsolete screens and the flood of new web fonts coming on to the market? Or have they established their own sort of evolutionary niche that is independent of technology? In other words, have they been absorbed into the typographic mainstream? I'm not sure, but they've had a good run so far. Hey, 18 is a good age for anything with present-day rates of attrition, so I'm not complaining. Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
シュシーさんのお店を後にして、シエルがハンター組合に向かっているとき、『そう言えば、エイン』と声をかけられた。なんだかちょっと楽しそうな色が混じるその声に若干身構えつつ、『どうしたんですか?』と応える。『入れ替わるときに、髪飾りと指輪は仕舞ってしまったのね?』『あの......、えっと......。シエルに買ってもらった、わたしのものなので......。シエルが使いたいというのであれば、拒否はしませんが......』シエルにも貸さない、という心構えではあったけれど、シエルに頼まれればわたしは断れないだろうし。我ながら面倒くささを感じるが、そう思ってしまったものは仕方がないと思うのだ。きっと大丈夫。大丈夫。と頭の中で自分を慰めていたら、シエルがクスクスと笑うのが聞こえた。『良いのよ。良いの。だってエインのものだもの。そうなのだけれど、くれたシエルに言われるとなんだかとても恥ずかしい。『だから、これはエインにも貸してあげないわ。シエルがうれしそうに首に掛かったネックレスを触りながら、言葉を続ける。『それは、はい。もちろんです。シエルのために選んだんですから、わたしは使いません』『私も同じよ。形も色も違うけれど、お揃いね』『そうかもしれませんね』見た目は違っても、その気持ちはお揃いだったら素敵かな、なんて思うのはちょっとロマンチックすぎるだろうか? ハンター達が自由に使える机と椅子があるスペース、そを陣取っている。どう考えても、ビビアナさんへの情報伝達がうまくいっていないのだろうけれど。それとも、ビビアナさんの情報不足かな? 周りに耳を傾けてみれば「あの女って愚者の集いの......」「ああ、速撃の令嬢だ......。何であんなに威圧感を放っているかは知らんがな」という声が聞こえる。ビビアナさん「速撃の令嬢」っ名なんだ。令嬢については、良いところの娘には違いないだろうからだと思う。それはそれとしてシエルの二つ名は「色彩の踊り子」とかどうだろうか? 速攻で舞姫バレしそうだけれど。閑話休題。そんなわけで、ビビアナさんに近づくことすら難易度が高い状況だけれど、シエルは気にした様子もなく台風の目たるビビアナさんのところに向かう。それから何を思ったのか、シエルはビビアナさんの対面に座って「お待たせ」と声をかける。声をかけられたビビアナさんは飛び上がるように背筋を伸ばして、「い、いえ。とんでもございません」と裏返りそうな勢いの声をあげた。うん。たぶん、どんな風に声をかけても同じ結果になっただろう。「どうしたの?」「いえ、あの......。あれ? シエルメール......よね?」シエルの姿をはっきりと認識して、ビビアナさんが混乱したように尋ねる。そしてビビアナさんは、フィイ母様の娘がシエルとわたしであることを知らないと。ハンター組合的にはフィイ母様の娘ということがもっとも大切で、それを知ってもらえていれば良いと思惑もあったかもしれないし。下手にシエルの容姿を伝えて、勝手に侮ったあげく、見下げた対応をとられるよりはいいのだろう。「そう。久しぶり」「ええ、久しぶりね。えっと、フィイヤナミア様の娘というのは......」「私」「ちょっと、待ってくれるかしら。混乱してきたわ。あと、切り替えないと駄目よね。ええ、はい」シエルとともに落ち着くのを待っていたら、数分の時間があってビビアナさんの様子が戻った。「今までのご無礼をお許しください。知り合いとは言え、これだけの人の目がある場所で今までと同じような対応はいけないと理解しているのだろう。シエルもその辺理解したらしく、この場で話し方について言及するつもりはないらしい。一瞬怪訝そうな顔をした職員さんだったけれど、合点がいったらしく緊張した様子で案内してくれた。横暴っぽく見えるけれど、あの場所で雑談なんて始めようものなら、ハンター組合の方が困るだろう。 2人で使うにしては広めの個室の中で、シエルが魔法袋から一枚の手紙を取り出した。「これ返す。ありがとう」「いいえ、お役に立てず申し訳有りませんでした」「普通に話して良い」こちらとしては、急に話し方が代わって違和感がすごいのだけれど、ビビアナさん的には礼儀としてこうなったのだろうし、困るか。そうでなければ、シュシーさんやユンミカさんの説明が付かない。「ええ、分かったわ。これを返すと言うことは、後ろ盾はもう良いのね? 「中央に入るときに、挨拶しただけ。そしたら客として迎えてくれた」挨拶することよりも、フィイ母様の魔力に気がつけるだけの能力の方が大事だとは思う。「さっきビビアナの緊張はどうして?」「フィイヤナミア様の娘から呼び出されたのだもの。「それだけ?」「いいえ。実家からの依頼だったのよ。フィイヤナミア様の娘がどう言った人物なのかを調べることが」「どうして?」フィイヤナミア様をトップから引きずり落とそうとする勢力があるのよ。何もしていないのに一番上にいることが、気に食わないそうね。確かにフィイ母様の娘だからこそ巻き込まれる可能性があるみたいな話はあったけれど、予想はしていたけれど、行動早すぎないだろうか? まさかとは思うけれど、商人組合のシエルに逆恨みしている人もその一派に混ざっているのだろうか? むしろそのつもりだから、シエルに対してあんな行動ができたのかもしれない。『無謀過ぎません?』『私もそう思うわ。でもそう思えない人がいるから、こうなっているのよね?』『折角ですから、ビビアナさんに聞いてもらっていいですか?』フィイ母様に訊いても良いけれど、別の視点からの状況も知っておきたい。「その人達、大丈夫?」「結構な戦力は集めているらしいわ。中にはA級レベルの腕前を持っている人もいるって聞いているけれど......」「その程度?」「私もそれでフィイヤナミア様をどうにかできるとは思わないけれど、シエルメールは大丈夫なのかしら?」確かに普通に考えると、A級が複数人いるのだとしたら勝てる見込みはないのかもしれない。『A級って言うと、ワイバーンくらいよね? 全然問題ないのではないかしら?』『攻撃特化の人がいて、S級クラスまで達していたとしても大丈夫だと思います。フィイ母様の言っていたことが本当ならですが』『エインはもっと自信を持っていいと思うのだけれど。でも私はエインがいてくれるだけで安心なのよ? 結界だけじゃなくていろんなところを守ってもらっているわ』『それなら良かったです』それに調子に乗ってしまうと、足元をすくわれそうなので、わたしはとにかくより強い結界を作れるように頑張っていこうと思う。そんなビビアナさんに、シエルが一つ問いかけた。「蒼の煉獄は知ってる?」「ええ、師匠――フリーレ・イャズィーク師匠の魔術よね?」「普段使っているのの格落ちの結界で、それも耐えられた」「嘘を言っても仕方ない」「だとしたら、何も心配はいらないかもしれないわね。貴女が強いのは知っていたけれど、そこまでとは思わなかったわ」「自慢の結界だから」普段は見ないシエルの表情が何だか愛らしくはあるけれど、聞いているビビアナさん的には自画自賛しているように見えていそうだ。このまま情報を教えてもらうのも、思い出話に興じるのも良いのかもしれないけれど、その前に1つ確認しておきたい。『シエル、ビビアナさんに訊いてほしいことがあるのですが、良いですか?』『何かしら? エインが自分で聞いても良いのよ?』『入れ替わるのは少し待っていてください。ビビアナさんの前で入れ替わって良いのか決めるための質問でもありますから』『わかったわ、何かしら?』『ビビアナさんの家の立ち位置です』フィイ母様の娘を見に来たのが、中央を混乱させないためとか、フィイ母様の統治を守るためかもしれない。だけれど、逆に陥れるために依頼したという可能性もある。ビビアナさんにその気はなくても家の意向に逆らえないという事もあるだろう。「ところでビビアナの家の立ち位置はどうなの?」シエルが尋ねると、ビビアナさんの表情が陰ったように見えた。	Having left Shusii’s shop, Ciel was about to head to the Hunter Guild when she suddenly called out to me, 『That reminds me, Ain.』 While a bit startled from the hint of joy in Ciel’s tone, I replied. 『When we switched, you put away the hairpin and ring, right?』『Umm... that’s... You bought them for me and they’re mine, so... If you want to wear them, I won’t say no, but...』 Being called out over this, I feel somewhat awkward. I won’t lend these accessories, even to Ciel. Or so I said to myself, but if Ciel actually asks for them, I probably wouldn’t refuse. Still, if possible, I want to keep them only for me. I’m such a pain to deal with, if I say so myself, but I can’t help it. That’s just how I feel. I just have to make sure to keep this troublesome side of me to myself. And while it might have seeped through a bit in my answer, I was just taken by surprise. Or so I consoled myself, when I heard Ciel giggling. 『It’s fine, completely fine. After all, these are Ain’s. That just means that Ain values them to that extent, right?』 That’s exactly the case, but hearing that from the very person that gave them to me is awfully embarrassing. 『That’s why, I won’t lend this to Ain either. If Ain really wants to borrow it, I might just give in, but for now, I won’t lend it. I won’t.』 Ciel said so while happily touching the necklace hanging from her neck. 『That’s, yes. Naturally. I chose that accessory for Ciel to wear after all, so I won’t use it.』『I feel the same way. Everything from the color to the accessories themselves are different, but we’re matching, aren’t we?』『It seems so.』 The first presents we ever chose for each other to wear. While they may look different, it’d be wonderful if the feelings that inspired our choices matched. Would that be a bit too romantic to think so? When Ciel arrived at the Hunter’s Guild, Viviana was already inside. She’s there, sitting at the area with tables and chairs free for hunters to use. How do I say this, she looks agitated or maybe nervous? Due to the unusual air around her, the surrounding hunters don’t dare to sit near her. Actually, even the members of the Fools’ Gathering are watching over her from a different table. Now, I wonder how it ended up like this? No matter how you look at it, there must have been some issue with the relaying of information to Viviana. Or perhaps Viviana herself doesn’t have enough information? 「Yeah, “Lady Quickshot”... I’ve got no idea why she’s firing off such intense aura though.」 So Viviana’s alias is “Lady Quickshot”. She excels in rapid casting of sorcery, so I guess that’s where quickshot came from. As for the lady, it must be due to her coming from a well-off family. Once again, I can’t help but wonder what alias we’d have... but it’ll most likely be “Fiiyanamia’s Daughter”. I mean, that’s a bit weird to be considered an alias, but I’m pretty sure that it’s the most easily recognizable identifier for the public. That aside, what about “Dancer of Hues” for Ciel? It immediately exposes her as a Dance Princess, though. I digress. And so it’s quite difficult to approach Viviana in this current situation, but Ciel doesn’t pay any heed and simply heads towards the eye of the typhoon named Viviana. Meanwhile, Viviana herself doesn’t seem to notice that Ciel is approaching her. She’s just staring at the edge of her table. While I was wondering what she was thinking, Ciel sat at the side facing Viviana and greeted her, 「Sorry for the wait.」 Hearing that, Viviana sprang up with a straightened posture and answered with a cracking voice, 「N-no, I haven’t waited at all.」 Yeah, she probably would have reacted the same way regardless of how Ciel greeted her. 「What’s wrong?」「No, umm... Huh? You are... Cielmer, right?」 Properly recognizing Ciel, Viviana asked with a confused tone. By the looks of it, I guess she was only told that Mistress Fiiyanamia’s daughter called for her? And Viviana doesn’t seem to know that Ciel and I are Fiiyanamia’s daughter. Currently this information is yet to be completely relayed within the Hunter Guild, so the timing might have been terrible. From the Hunter Guild’s standpoint, the fact that Ciel is Fiiyanamia’s daughter is of the utmost importance, so they might have prioritized that part. It’s far better than just relaying Ciel’s appearance, which might risk the people underestimating us and treating us lightly. 「Yup. It’s been a while.」「Yes, it certainly has been. Umm, so Mistress Fiiyanamia’s daughter refers to...」「Me.」「Wait, could you give me a moment? I’m really disoriented now. And I’ll have to adjust, don’t I? Yes, right.」 Viviana’s confusion was a real sight to behold. We waited for her to calm down and after a few minutes passed, Viviana went back to normal. 「Please excuse me for my discourtesy up until now. What might be your business with me today?」 And then there’s this extreme change. As expected of a lady from a wealthy family. While we might be acquaintances, she recognizes that we can’t interact in the way we usually do in a place with this many eyes on us. Well, not like I’m knowledgeable enough to have a definitive opinion on these matters. Ciel seems to have understood this as well, as she didn’t make any comment about Viviana’s way of speaking. Instead, she called over a guild staff and said, 「I want to talk with her alone.」 For a moment, the staff person had a puzzled look, but seemingly realizing something, she nervously began to guide us. It might be a bit heavy-handed, but if we start chatting right here and then, it’d just trouble the Hunter Guild. Rather than that, isolating us would be better for both parties involved. Inside a room a bit too spacious for only two people to use, Ciel takes out a letter from her magic bag. More specifically, a letter of introduction. 「I’m returning this. Thanks.」「No, my apologies for not being of much help.」「You can speak normally now.」 Hearing that, Viviana showed a troubled expression. From our standpoint, it feels really weird to suddenly hear her talking differently but, on her end, she’s probably just showing proper etiquette, so I suppose it is troubling. Even so, it’s not like people with friends of different social status don’t exist and it should be fine to interact normally in private. Otherwise, there’s no way to explain Shusii and Yunmica’s behavior. 「Right. I understand. Since you’re returning this, you don’t need the backing anymore, right? No, that goes without saying. With you becoming Mistress Fiiyanamia’s adopted daughter, something like this isn’t necessary anymore. While I can understand that you deserve that status, I’m still impressed that you caught Mistress Fiiyanamia’s eye.」「I just greeted her when I entered Central. Then, I was welcomed as a guest.」 Rather than the act of greeting itself, I think having the capability to even notice Fiiyanamia’s magic power is more important. It’s probably impossible even for Ciel, so who knows how many people can actually achieve this feat. That’s why I think Viviana’s confused thought process isn’t exactly right. 「Why were you nervous earlier?」「Just that?」「Nope. I got a request from my family. To find out what kind of individual Mistress Fiiyanamia’s daughter is and such.」「Why?」「Now that I’ve said that much, changing topics would be useless at this point. There’s a faction that is planning to drag Mistress Fiiyanamia down from her top position. They don’t quite like how she’s at the top despite not having to do anything, it seems. And in the midst of this, if Mistress Fiiyanamia truly did adopt a child, then it would give them an opening to take advantage of.」 I sort of remember being told that there’s a possibility of us getting dragged into some mess for being Fiiyanamia’s daughter, so I already expected this, but aren’t things developing a bit too fast? I don’t plan on being an easy target though, so I’ll make sure to be extra alert with my detection magic. Don’t tell me that the people of the Merchant Guild that closed their doors to Ciel are in cahoots with this faction? Actually, maybe it’s the reason they treated Ciel like that to begin with. In other words, they’re confident that they can take Fiiyanamia down. 『Aren’t they a bit too reckless?』『I agree. Still, these people don’t think that they’re being reckless, which is why they’re doing it, right?』『Since this is a good opportunity, can you ask Viviana about this?』 She definitely has more info on them than we do. We could ask Fiiyanamia too, but it’s best to have information coming from a different perspective. 「Are those people... okay?」「It seems like they’ve mustered a fairly impressive fighting force. I’ve heard that they also have some people at A-rank level, but...」「Only that?」「I can’t imagine them being able to win against Mistress Fiiyanamia with this either, but Cielmer, will you be alright?」 Right, thinking about it normally, we might not have a winning chance against multiple A-ranked people. But I think we should be able to defend every attack they can throw. It didn’t sound like Fiiyanamia was joking about my barrier, so we probably wouldn’t even budge. 『A-rank is right about a wyvern’s strength, right? Then it wouldn’t be a problem at all, would it?』『Even if there’s someone specialized in offense with nearly S-rank level strength, it should be alright. If what Mother Fii told us is true, that is.』『I think you should be a bit more confident about yourself, Ain. Still, just having Ain by my side puts me at ease, you know?Since Ain protects me not only with a barrier, but with other things too.』『I’m grateful to hear that then.』 Me replying... just a bit curtly was, as always, because I felt embarrassed. Besides, if I get carried away, I might get the rug pulled right under me, so I’ll just continue striving to make an even stronger barrier. As we were chatting, we ended up leaving Viviana hanging. While it wasn’t for too long, she’s staring at Ciel just waiting. And so Ciel asked Viviana a question. 「Do you know blue hellfire?」「Yes, that’s my teacher’s— Friere Iazick’s sorcery, no?」「The lower power barrier that I usually use can withstand it.」「There’s no point lying about it.」「In that case, I suppose there’s no need for any concern. I already knew you were strong, but I didn’t realize you were that strong.」「It’s the barrier I’m proud of.」 Ciel saying it so proudly is probably because she meant it as a praise for me too. It’s adorable to see Ciel showing such a rare expression, but from Viviana’s standpoint, this probably only looks like Ciel’s bragging. Ciel doesn’t seem to mind that, though. At this point, either asking for more information or just simply enjoying a bit of catching up with each other would be fine, but there’s something I want to confirm before moving on. 『Ciel, there’s something I want you to ask Viviana, will that be alright?』『What is it? You can also ask her personally too, you know?』『Let’s decide whether to switch or not later. This question is also for deciding whether it’s fine to switch in front of Viviana, you see.』『Understood. What is it?』『About what side Viviana’s family will be on.』 This is something we honestly have to know. The reason why she was requested to look into Fiiyanamia’s daughter could be to prevent disorder in Central or protect Fiiyanamia’s reign. However, it’s also possible that this is so they can scheme against her. Even if Viviana doesn’t want to do that, she might not be able to go against the will of her family. 「By the way, which side is Viviana’s family on?」 As Ciel asked so, Viviana’s expression grew clouded.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 5, "inserted_lines_src": 43, "inserted_lines_trg": 3 }

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