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「どういうことですか?」私はフィン様へと視線を向けた。彼は笑顔を崩さない。フィン様は本当に何を考えているのか読めない。「ヘンリはアリシアのことが大好きだからね。それに今までだって何か集まりがあるとすれば、リズのことかアリシアのことだったもんね」「ですが、今までとは随分と状況が変わりました」私はフィン様の眩しい笑顔に負けずに、ニッコリと微笑んだ。「......まぁ、ヘンリが朝から俺たちを呼んだってことは、アリシアに会わせたくなかったんだろうけどな」カーティス様が会話に割り込んでくる。確かにそうよね。......けど、私がこの屋敷に住んでいる以上、来客と会わないなんて結構無理があるわよね? 「アリシアが朝早くから庭で剣を振り回していることを予測していなかったヘンリが悪いんだよ」「ああ。あいつが悪い。俺たちはここでアリシアが汗だくになりながら剣を振り回しているなんて思ってもみなかったんだから」「アリシアのやりそうなことではあるけどね」 ......さっきかともどこか失礼じゃない? それに剣を振り回しているって言い方! 剣の稽古をしているって言ってよ! 私は二人を軽く睨んだ。フィン様はそんな私を見ても楽しそうに笑っている。彼に恐怖心というものはないのだろうか。......そう言えば、フィン様が怯えているとこを見たことがない。「それにしても驚いたよね!」フィン様の言葉に私は首を傾げる。彼は目を輝かせながら私を見つめている。「だって、あのアルバートも勝てなかったんだよ!」「俺達の中でもかなり強い方なのにな」カーティス様、その一言は余計にアルバートお兄様の心をえぐります。というか、フィン様も容赦ない。もう少しフォローしてあげてよ。私の立場からじゃ何も言えないのだから。女の子に負けること自体も屈辱的なはず。それなのにも離れた妹って考えるとプライドがズタズタだ。私は誰にも舐められないぐらい強くなりたかったし、それなりに鍛錬も積んできた。人並み以上にしないと男性と同等になれない。だからこそ、人並の数十倍の鍛錬を日々重ねてきた。私にもプライドがある。今まで必死に足掻いて、腕を磨いてきたのだもの。見くびってもらっては困る。 ......って考えると、クシャナのあの威力はバケモノね。洗練されていて、無駄な動きが一切なかった。それに、あの腕力。勝てなかったけど、彼女と戦えたことを誇りに思う。「なんか、アルバート傷ついてない?」ちょっとフィン様! 天使の顔でお兄様になんてこと聞いているのよ! 泣いてしまうわよ! カーティス様もフィン様の言葉には「それは言ってやるな」と気を遣っている。けど、お兄様からしたらこの気遣いが逆効果になるだろう。「......アリシアが強いことは知っていたから別に傷ついてはいない。ただ自分があまりにも不甲斐ないだけだ」誰も何も言えない気まずい空気が流れる。フィン様は自分の発したことを悪いと思っている様子は一切ない。むしろ彼は「何か言ってあげて」という目で私を見つめてくる。 ......もしかしたら、これがフィン様なりの配慮なのかもしれない。私はフゥっと小さく息を吐いて、言葉を発した。「ここから強くなればいいのです。剣術なんてただのスキル。幸いなことに、スキルは鍛錬を積めばいくらでも磨くことができます」私は慰めの言葉をかけるような人間じゃない。可愛い妹にはなれない。......けど、それでいい。	“What do you mean?” I turned my attention to Finn-sama. He didn’t break his smile. I really couldn’t read what Finn-sama was thinking. “Henry loves Alicia. And even up until now, if there’s been any kind of gathering, it’s been about Liz or Alicia.” “But things have changed a lot since then.” I smiled, not to be outdone by Finn-sama’s dazzling smile. “...Well, if Henry called us in the morning, I guess, maybe he didn’t want Alicia to see us.” Curtis-sama interrupted the conversation. I could certainly agree with that. But it was pretty much impossible for me to avoid seeing visitors when I lived in this mansion, you know? “It’s Henry’s fault for not anticipating Alicia’s early morning sword practice in the garden.” “Yeah, it’s his fault. We didn’t expect Alicia to be here, sweating and swinging around a sword.” “That’s exactly what Alicia would do, though.” ...You two had been somewhat rude to me since the beginning, you know? And the way you said about me swinging around a sword! Say that I was practicing with a sword! I scowled at them both, and Finn-sama looked pleased to see me glaring at him. I wondered if he had any fear. I had never seen Finn-sama scared before. “That’s amazing, right!” I tilted my head at Finn-sama’s words. He looked at me with a sparkle in his eyes. “Because Albert never won!” “Even though he’s one of the strongest among us.” Curtis-sama, that one word excessively gouged Big Brother Albert’s heart. I mean, Finn-sama was relentless, as well. You should have covered up for him instead, even by a little. I couldn’t really say something about it from my point of view. It must be humiliating to lose to a girl. And yet, he lost to not only a woman but his younger sister who was five years younger than him, the damage must have been worse. I wanted to be strong enough so that no one would underestimate me, and I had trained myself accordingly. I aim to be as strong as I could be, even surpassing a man’s level. That was why I trained dozens of times more than other people. I also had pride. I worked hard and honed my skills until now. I would hate for them to underestimate me. When I thought about it, I realized that Kushana’s power was monstrous. She was so refined, and she didn’t waste any of her movements. And she had such power in her body. I didn’t win, but I was proud to have had the chance to fight her. “Albert, are you hurt or something?” Hey, Finn-sama! How dared you ask my brother like that with that angelic face of yours! You’re going to make him cry! Curtis-sama was also careful about what Finn-sama said, telling him, “Don’t ask that”. But from big brother’s point of view, this concern had the opposite effect. “...I knew Alicia was strong, so I’m not really hurt. It’s just that I’m too unworthy.” The air was awkward, with no one able to say anything. Finn-sama did not seem to feel bad about what he said. Rather, he looked at me with a stare that said, “Say something”. Perhaps this was Finn-sama’s way of showing consideration. I let out a small sigh and spoke. “You can get stronger from here on. Swordsmanship is just a skill. Fortunately, skills can be honed as much as you want with training.” I was not the kind of person to offer words of comfort. I could never be a sweet little sister. But that was fine.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 0, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
この絵画には目に映る以上のものが隠されていますご覧のとおり男性のアクリル画ですでもキャンバスに描いたのではありません男性の上に直接描きました私がやっているアートはキャンバスを使いませんもし皆さんの肖像画を手がけるとしたら皆さんの体に直接描きます耳の中が絵の具たっぷりになるのを覚悟してください耳の中が絵の具たっぷりになるのを覚悟してください耳の上に耳を描くからですこのシーンでは人物衣服 ― 椅子壁すべてを絵の具で塗りつくしその下にあるものを描き出していますそうやって 3次元の情景を 2次元の絵画のように見せることができますどの角度から撮っても 2次元に見えます Photoshop は使っていませんこちらは別の3次元絵画を撮った写真です人を絵画に変えてしまうアイデアをどんな風に思いついたかお話します元々は人や絵画とはまったく無関係で陰影から始まりました光がない状態に魅せられて影を有形化して消えてしまう前に留めておきたかったそこで影を描くアイデアを思いつきました気に入ったのは描いた影は実際の影に隠れてほとんど見えませんが陽が傾くことで突如として ― 光の中に自分の描いた影が現れること他にも影を描けるか考えたところ友人のバーニーを思いつきましたでもただ影を描くだけではなくハイライトも描きたいと思いグレースケールで体に描き出しました友人を描いているときどんな風に仕上げたいかとても明確なイメージがあってそのイメージにできるだけ近づけようとしましたでも私の目の前で何かが瞬いていてそれが何だか分かりませんでした一歩離れてみた瞬間 ― 魔法が起こりました友人を絵画に変えたのです影を描きたかったときには思ってもいませんでしたが影を描きたかったときには思ってもいませんでしたが丸々1つの次元を取り出して押し潰し絵を友人に作り上げ友人を絵に引き込んだということですちょっとした葛藤がありました自分の発見にとても興奮しましたがちょうど大学を卒業するときで政治学専攻だった私はいつも夢見ていたからですワシントンDCに行って ― 立派なデスクに座って政府機関で働くんだ! なぜこんなアイデアを思いついてしまったのか? 難しい決断を下しました卒業後は実家に帰って国会議事堂ではなく家の地下室にもぐり込み絵画について学ぶことにしました何から手をつければ良いか分かりませんでした絵は 16歳のとき ― サマーキャンプで習ったきりです昔の巨匠の絵を模写したりキャンバスを張って何度も何度も描くような練習はしたくなかったこのプロジェクトには意味をなさないものでしたから私がテーマとしていたのは空間と光です初期にキャンバスとして使用したのは皆さんが考えるようなキャンバスではなくこんな食べ物です油っこい目玉焼きに絵の具をつけるなんてほぼ不可能ですよねもっと手こずったのはグレープフルーツの酸でした見えないインクみたいに絵の具を消してしまうんです色を乗せたとたん消えてしまいます人をキャンバスにしたいと思ったときちょっと恥ずかしかったのが自分のアトリエに連れてきて地下室でトーストに絵を描いているのを見られることでしたそこで自分に絵の具を塗って練習してみることにしました私のお気に入りのモデルの一人はある退職したおじいさんですじっと座っていてくれて耳に絵の具が入っても気にしない何より公共の場所に連れて行ってもそんなに恥ずかしがりません展示のために地下鉄に乗ったりしましたこのプロセスは本当に楽しかったです様々なスタイルの描き方を自分で学び他にどんなことができるか探りたいと思いました協力者のシェイラ・ヴァンドと一緒にもっと意外なものに絵を描くアイデアを思いつきました牛乳ですプールを用意して牛乳でいっぱいにしますシェイラを入れて描き始めました出来上がるイメージはいつもとても思いがけないものでしたどんな風に仕上げるか具体的にイメージしてそれに合わせて描きますが ― シェイラが牛乳に浸った瞬間すべてが変化しますプール内は常に流動的ですそれに逆らうのではなく受け入れどんな風になるか試したりもっと良いものを作るために調整したりします時にはシェイラが牛乳の中に横たわると腕についた絵の具を洗い落としてしまいます少し強引かもしれませんが私たちの解決方法は腕を隠すことあるときは髪が牛乳まみれになって顔の絵の具を全部洗い流してしまいましたそれなら顔を隠してみようすると私たちの想像以上にエレガントなものが生まれましたそのやり方はちょうど手を上手く描けなくて苛立った子供が手をポケットに隠すようなものでしたけど「牛乳プロジェクト」を始めたとき ― 大学を卒業したとき ― 政治への道を夢見てデスクで働くことから陰影に魅せられて人々を絵画に変えて牛乳のプールに入った人を描くなんて思ってもいませんでしたでも慣れ親しんだものから未知のものを見つけるのは予測不可能ではありません光で照らされたものの先を見てみてください影に隠れているその下にあるものを見ることができますすると目に映る以上のものが待ち受けていますありがとうございました	There's more to this painting than meets the eye. And yes, it's an acrylic painting of a man, but I didn't paint it on canvas. I painted it directly on top of the man. What I do in my art is I skip the canvas altogether, and if I want to paint your portrait, I'm painting it on you, physically on you. That also means you're probably going to end up with an earful of paint, because I need to paint your ear on your ear. Everything in this scene, the person, the clothes, chairs, wall, gets covered in a mask of paint that mimics what's directly below it, and in this way, I'm able to take a three-dimensional scene and make it look like a two-dimensional painting. I can photograph it from any angle, and it will still look 2D. There's no Photoshop here. This is just a photo of one of my three-dimensional paintings. You might be wondering how I came up with this idea of turning people into paintings. But originally, this had nothing to do with either people or paint. It was about shadows. I was fascinated with the absence of light, and I wanted to find a way that I could give it materiality and pin it down before it changed. I came up with the idea of painting shadows. I loved that I could hide within this shadow my own painted version, and it would be almost invisible until the light changed, and all of a sudden my shadow would be brought to the light. I wanted to think about what else I could put shadows on, and I thought of my friend Bernie. But I didn't just want to paint the shadows. I also wanted to paint the highlights and create a mapping on his body in greyscale. I had a very specific vision of what this would look like, and as I was painting him, I made sure to follow that very closely. But something kept on flickering before my eyes. I wasn't quite sure what I was looking at. And then when I took that moment to take a step back, magic. I had turned my friend into a painting. I couldn't have foreseen that when I wanted to paint a shadow, I would pull out this whole other dimension, that I would collapse it, that I would take a painting and make it my friend and then bring him back to a painting. I was a little conflicted though, because I was so excited about what I'd found, but I was just about to graduate from college with a degree in political science, and I'd always had this dream of going to Washington, D.C., and sitting at a desk and working in government. Why did this have to get in the way of all that? I made the tough decision of going home after graduation and not going up to Capitol Hill, but going down to my parents' basement and making it my job to learn how to paint. I had no idea where to begin. The last time I'd painted, I was 16 years old at summer camp, and I didn't want to teach myself how to paint by copying the old masters or stretching a canvas and practicing over and over again on that surface, because that's not what this project was about for me. It was about space and light. My early canvases ended up being things that you wouldn't expect to be used as canvas, like fried food. It's nearly impossible to get paint to stick to the grease in an egg. Even harder was getting paint to stick to the acid in a grapefruit. It just would erase my brush strokes like invisible ink. I'd put something down, and instantly it would be gone. And if I wanted to paint on people, well, I was a little bit embarrassed to bring people down into my studio and show them that I spent my days in a basement putting paint on toast. It just seemed like it made more sense to practice by painting on myself. One of my favorite models actually ended up being a retired old man who not only didn't mind sitting still and getting the paint in his ears, but he also didn't really have much embarrassment about being taken out into very public places for exhibition, like the Metro. I was having so much fun with this process. I was teaching myself how to paint in all these different styles, and I wanted to see what else I could do with it. I came together with a collaborator, Sheila Vand, and we had the idea of creating paintings in a more unusual surface, and that was milk. We got a pool. We filled it with milk. We filled it with Sheila. And I began painting. And the images were always completely unexpected in the end, because I could have a very specific image about how it would turn out, I could paint it to match that, but the moment that Sheila laid back into the milk, everything would change. It was in constant flux, and we had to, rather than fight it, embrace it, see where the milk would take us and compensate to make it even better. Sometimes, when Sheila would lay down in the milk, it would wash all the paint off of her arms, and it might seem a little bit clumsy, but our solution would be, okay, hide your arms. And one time, she got so much milk in her hair that it just smeared all the paint off of her face. All right, well, hide your face. And we ended up with something far more elegant than we could have imagined, even though this is essentially the same solution that a frustrated kid uses when he can't draw hands, just hiding them in the pockets. When we started out on the milk project, and when I started out, from pursuing my dream in politics and working at a desk to tripping over a shadow and then turning people into paintings and painting on people in a pool of milk. But then again, I guess it's also not unforeseeable that you can find the strange in the familiar, as long as you're willing to look beyond what's already been brought to light, that you can see what's below the surface, hiding in the shadows, and recognize that there can be more there than meets the eye. Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
薄暗い地下道を数人の武官たちに先導され、身分卑しからぬ壮年の男と、20台半ばの青年とが息を殺し、出来る限り早足で走り続けていた。「お急ぎください陛下、ここを抜けられれば首都郊外の山小屋に出られます。その後バルディ公爵の元に身を隠し、帝国か聖王国の手を借りることで、逆賊と化物どもを国内から一掃いたしましょう」「わ、わかっておる。この国をあのような魔物や逆賊どもになどくれてやるものか。必ずや余の手で取り戻してくれようぞ!」壮年の――顔立ちは悪くはないが――どことなく覇気に乏しい男が、小箱を大事そうに抱えたまま忌々しげにそう呟いた。「勿論です父上、この国が誰のものか目にもの見せてやりましょう。それにしても、魔物どもにも増して腹立たしいのは国民どもです! 父上の治世で豊かな生活を謳歌しておきながら、一転して我々を非難し暴徒と化すとは――あの忘恩の火事場泥棒どもめ!」青年の方はもっと露骨に、ぎらぎらとした怨みの炎を瞳に燃やしていた。「その通りです。幸いこの通路は王族以外の限られた者しか存在を知りません。また城側の出入り口も塞いでおきましたので、まずは一安心かと」武官のその言葉に、その男――アミティア王国現国王は、一瞬躊躇いのような表情を浮かべた。「・・・しかし、王宮にはまだ息子や娘、それに妃たちが残っていたのじゃが」「やむを得ません。連れ立って歩けば人目にもつきますし、脱出にも時間がかかります。しかし現国王たる父上と次期国王たる私、なによりその国璽さえあればアミティア王国は安泰です。彼らも王族、犠牲は覚悟の上でしょう」断固とした口調で青年――第一王子にして、次期王位継承権第一位の息子に言われ、国王は手にした小箱に目をやり黙り込んだ。と、その途端、彼らの足音だけしかしなかった地下道に、小さな子供が立てるような可愛らしい拍手の音が響いた。「――な、なに奴?!」慌てて立ち止まり、剣を抜いて拍手のした方向――進行方向の闇へと向き直る一同。やがて、彼らが手にするカンテラ――ロウソクではなく、魔法の明かりを灯す魔導具なのでかなり明るい――の光の範囲内に、薔薇をあしらった黒の豪奢なドレスを着た、いまだあどけなさが残る容姿でありながら恐ろしいほどの美貌をした少女が、赤色の鎧を装備し顔の上半分に鬼面のあまりにも場違いな闖入者に、一瞬、これは幽霊か精霊ではないのか? と全員の頭に疑問が浮かんだが、少女のほうはそんな一同の困惑に斟酌することなく、明るくもざっくばらんな調子で口を開いた。「ご立派ご立派。そうだよねー、王族だもん責任はとらないとねぇ。当然その覚悟はあるよね、自分で言ったことだしねぇ」そう言って腕組みしてうんうん頷く。「何者だお前?! なぜこの場所にいる!?」眼光鋭く問いただす第一王子を、一瞬冷ややかな視線で一瞥した後、少女は優雅な仕草でと申します。皆様にはお初にお目にかかります。――で、さようなら」「なっ......なぜ、インペリアル・クリムゾンがこの抜け道を......?」声にならない一同の中、第一王子が辛うじてその問いを口に出した。「――さあ? もう居なくなるあなた方が知っても意味がないでしょう」その言葉に、己の役目を思い出した武官たちが、各々剣を構えて緋雪の元へと殺到してきた。長剣を抜いた赤い騎士がその前に立ち塞がり、これを迎え撃とうとする。とはいえ狭い地下道のこと、複数の方角から仕掛けられた攻撃はさばききれないだろう、そう自分たちの勝利を確信した武官たちだが―― 霞吹雪稀人と呼ばれた男が踏み込むと同時に、その姿がいくつにも分裂して見え、同時に武官たちの目が驚愕に見開かれた。「そ、その技は!!」「あ、貴方様は――!?」「まさか、殿・・・」一瞬の交錯。そして、稀人が歩き出すと同時に、武官たちは一人残らず血煙を伴い倒れた。「ひいいいいいいいっ!!」剣を握ることもなく悲鳴をあげ、恥も外聞もなくその場から逃げようとする第一王子の醜態に、稀人はため息をついて剣を一閃させた。剣閃が闇を切り裂き、なにか重いものが転がる音がした。ただ一人残った...と言うより腰を抜かして身動きが取れない、国王に向き合う位置まで近づきながら、緋雪は「やれやれ」と首を振った。「言ってることとやってることがバラバラだねぇ。アシル王子の件だってそうだよ、私たちの国と結託した外患誘致? じゃあ君らのさっきの言葉はなんだい、『帝国か聖王国の手を借りる』って同じことじゃないの? そういうのをダブルスタンダードって言うんだよ」しかし国王はそんな言葉は聞いていないのだろう。土下座して手にした小箱を差し出し、「た、助けてくれぃ! こ、この国璽を渡す。これでこの国はオヌシのものじゃ。だ、だからどうか......」涙ながらに懇願する。その様子に毒気を抜かれた表情で、緋雪はお手上げという風に両手を上げた。一つで国がどうなるもんでもないと思うけどねえ。まあ、後でコラード君にでも渡しておけば、何かのハッタリには使えるかな? 取りあえずもらっておくよ」そう言って小箱をつま先で軽く蹴り上げ、キャッチして背中のポシェットに収納した。「......こ、これでどうか、余の命ばかりは」そう言って地面に額をこすりつける国王から、緋雪は冷ややかかつ微妙に困惑した視線を稀人に移したが、『姫にお任せします』という風に肩をすくめられ、ため息をついた。「もうちょいマシな人物と聞いてたんだけど、期待はずれというか・・・いや、ここまで卑屈だと一周回ってかえって清清しいねえ。――こりゃ確かに国璽のほうがよほど値打ちモノだわ」そう言われても身を震わせ、うわごとのように助命を繰り返す国王の姿に、呆れと蔑みをブレンドした生暖かい視線をやって、肩をすくめる。「わかったよ、なんかこの場で首級をとる価値もないみたいだし、私とインペリアル・クリムゾンは一切手出しはしないよ」「――おっ、おおお......!!」その言葉に国王の顔が希望に輝いた。「・・・なので、後のことはこの国の人間に任せるよ。これから王宮前の広場に連れて行くので、あとは国民がどう判断するのか......まあ、君は善政で国を治め、国民に豊かな生活を謳歌させたそうだからね、みんな喜んで受け入れてくれるだろうさ」続けての死刑宣告に等しい言葉に国王の顔が絶望に染まり、いやいやをするように頭を振ってその場から後ずさろうとするが、稀人にその襟首を掴まれ、駄々っ子のように涙と唾を流してその手を逃れようとする。「見ちゃいられないねぇ。―― その呼びかけに応えて、緋雪の胸元から淡い光の粒子が飛び、その傍らに集まり金色の騎士と化した。「――はい、お呼びでございますか姫」「悪いけど、コレ王宮前の広場に棄てといて――ああ、出口は塞がってるみたいだから、適当なところぶち抜いて構わないよ。あと集まっている市民にコレの始末をさせることも説明してもらえるかな?」生ゴミの始末を頼む気安さと口調とで、じたばたしている国王を差す緋雪。「承知いたしました」天涯は再度一礼をして、稀人に替わって襟首を掴み、ずりずりと無造作に引き摺って行く。「い、いやじゃああーっ、よ、余がなにをしたというのじゃ――――っ!!!」「なにもしなかったから、その結果じゃない?」すでに聞こえるはずもないが、地下道の彼方へ消え去った国王にそう答え、緋雪は黙然と立ち尽くす稀人に視線をやった。「・・・最期まで気が付かなかったみたいだね、第一王子も国王も。部下でさえ気が付いたっていうのに」「......喜ぶべきか悲しむべきか、微妙なところですけど、この結果が全てですね」武官たちと第一王子の遺体が転がる地下通路を見回し、稀人はどうでもいいような口調でそれに答え、手にしていたを一振りし、血しぶきを拭って鞘に収めた。「それじゃあ私はこの判子をコラード君に渡してくるよ。――まあ、相当嫌がるとは思うけどね」その光景を想像して含み笑いをする緋雪。「なら、俺はその間に野暮用を済ませてきます」「ふーん、まあ、こっちは9割方片付いたんだし、ゆっくりしてくればいいさ」無言で頷いた稀人は、真っ直ぐ王宮の方へと歩みを進め、それを見送った緋雪は身を翻し、もと来た道を戻り始めた。	Guided by several military officers inside a dim, underground tunnel, a man in his prime with respectful social status and a man in his mid-twenties were breathing heavily. They kept running as fast as they could. “Please hurry, your majesty. If we can escape from here, we will come out of a hut on the outskirts of the royal capital. Afterward, we shall hide inside Duke Baldi’s place for a short time. Then we will seek help from the empire or the holy kingdom to sweep those rebels and demons out of this country.” “I-I know. As if I would hand this country over to those kinds of demons or rebels! I will definitely take it back with my own hands.” The man in his prime, who doesn’t have bad looks, but somehow lacks ambition, grumbled annoyingly while carrying a small box like it was something of great importance. “Of course, father. Let’s teach them who owns this country. At any rate, more irritating than those demons are the citizens! They kept enjoying a great life under father’s rule and yet they turned sides and changed into insurgents that blame us ―Damn those ungrateful looters!” The young man is more brazen; dazzling flames of malice burned in his eyes. “It’s just as his highness said. Fortunately, this passage is only known to a few people outside of the royal family. Also, earlier we blocked the exits and entrances to the castle, so, Your Majesty, please feel at ease.” Hearing the words from the military officer, the man ―Amitia Kingdom’s current king, seemed to hesitate for a moment. “...However, my sons, my daughters, and my empresses remain in the royal palace.” “There’s no other way. The public would take notice and they would slow our escape. However, as long as we have father who is the current king, and myself who is the next term’s king, and above all, if we have the seal of state, then the Amitia Kingdom will still be at peace. They are also royalty, so they already should have had the resolve to sacrifice themselves, right?” Being told with a firm tone by the young man ―the first prince, his son who was first in line for the throne, the king looked upon the small box held in his hands and sank into silence. Then, at that moment, inside the underground tunnel where there should be no presence other than their own, cute clapping sounds like they were made by small hands echoed. “W-Who?” Everyone present became confused and halted their advance. They drew their swords and turned toward the direction of the clapping sounds ―the darkness where they were supposed to go. Before long, within the range of the lantern’s light held in their hands, not using a candle but through a magical tool which by turning on the enchantment inside made it quite bright, there appeared a little girl wearing a black luxury dress arranged with roses. Her appearance still maintained her innocence and yet her face was terribly seductive. She was accompanied by a swordsman equipped with red armor who had the upper half of his face hidden by a devil mask. Towards that very out-of-place intruder, momentarily, the question of, ‘Was that a ghost or a spirit?’ floated in everyone’s mind, but the girl didn’t even consider their bafflement and opened her mouth with a fully bright and frank tone. “Splendid, splendid! That’s right~ Royalty must take responsibility. Naturally they have the resolve for it, you said it yourself right?” Saying so, she folded her arms and nodded in consent. “Who are you? Why are you here?” The girl sent a cold gaze toward the prince who asked the questions with a sharp light in his eyes for a moment and then she elegantly performed a curtsy. “I am called Hiyuki, the sovereign of the demon kingdom, Imperial Crimson. It’s a pleasure to meet you for the first time. ―And, I bid you my final farewell.” “Wh...Why are people from Imperial Crimson here...?” Among his brethren who were speechless, the first prince could barely express his question. “Who knows? You won’t exist anymore so it’s useless to know, don’t you agree?” Hearing her words, the military officers remembered their duty and readied each of their swords. They came rushing toward Hiyuki. The red knight drew his long sword and stood in their way, and they clashed with him. Since this is a narrow underground tunnel, an attack from several directions would be too much for him, that’s why those military officers believed they had attained victory. However... “Haze Storm.” At the same time the man who was called Maroudo stepped in, his figure seemed to duplicate. Simultaneously, the military officers’ eyes opened in surprise. “Th-that skill!!” “Yo-you are―!?” “Don’t tell me, pri-” It all happened in an instant. And then, at the same time Maroudo walked out, the military officers dropped down together with spurts of blood. “Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!” The first prince, not even gripping his sword, screamed and escaped with neither shame nor concern for his reputation. Looking upon his disgraceful act, Maroudo breathed a sigh and brandished his sword. The sword’s flash cut through the darkness. The sound of something heavy falling could be heard. Only one person remains... the king. Rather, the reason he remains was that he already dislocated his back and was unable to move. Hiyuki swayed her head, “Oh dear, oh dear” while approaching him until they faced each other. “You see, the things you said and the things you did don’t match up. In Prince Acyl’s case, it was just like that: accusing him of inviting foreign intervention and conspiring with your country? Then what are you guys saying just now? Isn’t ‘seeking help from the empire or the holy kingdom’ just the same? That sort of thing is what we call double standards.” However, the king probably didn’t hear her words, as he prostrated himself and presented a small box, “Sp-spare me! I carry my seal of state. With this, my country is yours. Th-that’s why, please...” He appealed while crying. Hiyuki is taken aback, looking at the situation. She raised both of her hands, giving up. “I believe the country isn’t going to turn around only with this single seal. Well, if I gave this to Collard later, I wonder if I could use it for some kind of bluff? For the time being I shall accept it.” Saying so, she lightly kicked up the small box, caught it, and stored it in her back pocket. “...H-how about it then? Just my life.” Having said that, the king rubbed his head on the ground. Hiyuki turned her cold yet subtly bewildered gaze toward Maroudo, but he shrugged his shoulders showing that he left the decision to her. She sighed. “I heard that your character was a bit better, but rather than to say I’m disappointed... Nah, that miserable look, on the contrary, is refreshing once in a while. ―Well, the seal of state is a very valuable thing for sure.” Despite being told that, the king’s body was trembling, he repeatedly begged for his life again and again, muttering incoherently. Seeing his figure, Hiyuki sent her lukewarm gaze blended with shock and contempt, and then she shrugged her shoulders. “I understand. It seems there is no value in taking your head in this place. I and the Imperial Crimson won’t interfere with anything.” “O-oooooh...!!” The king glittered with hope because of those words. “...Therefore, I shall leave everything to the citizens of this country. After this, we are going to take you to the plaza in front of the royal palace. How will the citizens judge you, I wonder? ...Well, since you are managing the country well, making the people rejoice at how great their lives are, they should jump with delight in receiving you.” As her words were the equivalent of a consecutive death sentence, the king’s face was once again dyed in despair. He shook his head in denial, backing off from that place but Maroudo seized his neck. Tears and saliva poured out, escaping from his face like a spoiled child. “Unsightly. Tengai.” Responding to that call, faint light particles flew out from Hiyuki’s chest and gathered beside her; it then transformed into a golden-colored knight. “Yes. Did you call me, princess?” “Sorry, but will you throw this out into the plaza in front of the royal palace? Aah, the exit is closed so breaking out wherever suitable would be no problem. Later, explain to the gathered citizens that we gave them this thing for them to clean up.” With a relaxed tone like she was dealing with kitchen waste, Hiyuki pointed at the king who is currently struggling. “Acknowledged.” Tengai bowed once again, then he gripped the king’s neck, taking him from Maroudo, and casually dragged him away. “No, nooooooooooooo. Wh-what are you going to do with meee!!!” “We won’t do anything. Therefore that’s the outcome isn’t it?” Although the king couldn’t hear it anymore, Hiyuki replied to him after he disappeared across the underground tunnel. She turned toward Maroudo who stood still in silence. “...Looks like the first prince and the king didn’t even notice you until their last moment. Even though their subordinates did.” “Whether I should feel sad or delighted is a complicated thing, but this result is everything.” Looking around at the corpses of the military officers and the first prince strewn across the ground inside the underground passage, Maroudo replied to her remark with an indifferent tone. He swung the long sword held in his hand once, erasing the splash of blood, and returned it to his scabbard. “Now then, I am going to give this seal to Collard. ―Well, I think he is going to hate it for sure.” Hiyuki, suppressing her giggles, imagined the scene. “In that case, I will finish some minor business in the meantime.” “Hmmm. Oh well, we have finished % of our business here anyway so you can take it easy.” Maroudo silently nodded. He proceeded to walk straight in the direction of the royal palace. Seeing him off, Hiyuki turned her body and returned down the way she came from.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 1, "inserted_lines_src": 5, "inserted_lines_trg": 2 }
今最もやられたくない事、やられたら嫌な事は何か。相手が賢ければ、確実に、的確に、希望的観測などいつもいつも裏切られてきた。世の中は最悪だけでできている。だからこそ、予想は容易い。宿の裏手に忍び寄る怪しい影があった。袖や裾をたくし上げた動きやすい格好で、首には手ぬぐいをかけている。体格が良くて、いかにも力がありそうな男だ。そういう男は今、このクグトフルムの街に結構な人数、入り込んでいる。濁流がメチャクチャにしたこの街で、色々と物を片付けたり運んだりするのに必要だからだ。どこをうろついていても怪しまれはすまい。しかし、彼がこの街でこなすべき仕事は、荷物を運ぶことでもゴミの片付けでもなかった。復興作業で慌ただしい街に紛れ、やってきた彼は、周囲を伺って人目が無いことを確認すると、ズボンのポケットに手を突っ込む。すると外見的には入っているはずがない大きさの、ガラス玉みたいな物体が出てきた。袋や箱の中を亜空間に繋げて、多くの品物を仕舞い込むマジックアイテムというのが世の中にはあるわけだが、服のポケットをそのように魔化したり、あるいはポケットの内袋としてそういうものを仕込んだりもできるのだ。』に充填されているのは、汚らしい色のペーストだ。男はそれを見て『こんな物本当なら持ち歩きたくもない』とでも言う様子で眉をひそめ、それを、宿の裏口目がけて振りかぶり...... 「うっ!?」ほとばしる閃光に目を眩ませられて、たじろいだ。「見つけた」景色を写し取る魔法の箱には、間違い無く、汚いものを投げつけようとしている男の姿が焼き付けられていた。ここは『岩トカゲ館』の裏口、ではない。「ホント、笑えるくらい馬鹿で分かりやすいのね。餌を見せればすぐに食いつく。モニカは、面食らった様子の男を嘲笑する。にもかかわらず、何故、通りからも見える屋上に姿を晒して写真撮影に興じていたか。この宿と自分自身を囮にして、『悪戯』の犯人をおびき出すためだ。『サンザシ亭』は玄関側の通りが運河に沿っていて、見通しが良すぎる。そして左右は(壁の中は土地が限られるのでよくあることだが)人が入るのが窮屈なほどに別の建物にくっついている。を仕掛けるなら建物の裏口が並ぶ裏通りだろう、というのは予測できる。宿の主には少々申し訳ないかとも思ったが、このまま犯人を野放しにすればどうせ事は『岩トカゲ館』だけで済まぬのだ。者を攻撃する千の機会は逃したくないはず。......そう、全ては最悪の予測の内だった。「それでどうするの? 観念して洗いざらい喋れば、減刑されるかも知れないけど?」をひらりとかざす。それを見ていた男の顔が......威嚇する犬みたいに歪んだ。「......んだテメェこのクソガキぁ!!」気が付いた時にはモニカは大きな手で顔面を掴まれ、湿っぽい裏通りの石畳の上に押し倒されていた。を知らない......!? 突然の、あまりにも突然の暴力に、モニカはただ唖然と困惑して身体をこわばらせることしかできなかった。誤算。まず第一に『悪戯』の犯人は一人ではなかった。モニカや“黄金の兜”の動向を調べ、実行犯に指示を出す者が居たのだ。黒幕の意を受けて、事情を全て把握し、動いているのはそちらだった。この実行犯の男はモニカを直接見た事さえ無かった。本来の姿も、そして『群衆の眼鏡』によってカモフラージュした今の姿も。政治や政治的事情にも全く興味が無く、十数年前に国を揺るがし、王妃と第一王女の廃位に至った大スキャンダルさえ知らなかった。そしてもう一つは、モニカの想像力が、犯人の愚かしさに追いついていなかった事だ。モニカは生まれてこの方、多くの悪意に晒される人生を送ってきた。だが彼女には、『下賤な悪意』に晒された経験が決定的に欠けていた。モニカを追い詰めた貴族たちは、教養があり、失うものがあり、とにかく外聞を気に掛けるのだ。だからこそ彼らの仕打ちは、返り血を浴びぬよう慎重なやり口で、じわりじわりと精神を参らせるような、えげつなくも迂遠なものだった。そう......彼らの悪意は洗練された複雑なものだったのだ。この『悪戯』を仕掛ける側にとって、モニカに直接手を出すというのは最大の悪手の一つ。だからこそモニカはここに姿を晒している。だが相手が賢いとは限らず、常に熟慮して最適の行動を取るとも限らない。モニカの想像の下のさらに下を行く者が、世の中にはいくらでも存在するのだ。怒りが腕に直結している者もある。後先のことを微塵も考えず、『なんかヤバそうだしムカつくから』という理由で致命的暴行に及ぶ者が世の中にはいくらでも存在するのだ! 護身用と言うにはちょっと大振りなナイフを、男は抜き放つ。汚れた刃先がギトついた輝きを放った。「むーっ! む゙ーっ!!」「大人を......ナメんじゃねぇ、クソガキが...... 急所でもあるし、人を呼ばれないため喉を潰すというのも、まあ妥当ではあろう......5分後の安全だけを考えるなら。その一撃は稚拙ながらも躊躇いなく、力強く。振り下ろされるナイフは。「ぎゃっ!!」男と一緒に、宙を舞った。風のような速度で横合いより駆け込んだ騎士が、大柄な男の身体を蹴鞠のように鋭く蹴り転がしたからだ。ナイフは回転しながら石畳の上を滑っていった。モニカの心臓は大きな音を立てて脈打っていた。呼吸が乱れていて、モニカは必死で息を吸った。身を起こしたモニカの前で、二人の騎士が男に馬乗りになり、蛇鎖(投げつけると勝手に相手に絡み付くミスリル製の鎖)で男を幾重にも縛り上げていた。「確保!」だと!? ガキ、てめ、呼びやがっ......」男はもがいたが、戒めを解くことはとてもできそうになかった。男は勘違いしている様子だが、彼を捕らえたのは衛兵ではないし、モニカが呼んだわけでもない。市民風の格好をして街に溶け込めるようにしているが、よく見れば服の下にミスリルの鎖帷子を身につけ、剣を刷いている騎士だ。おそらくはフォスター公爵の家臣。彼らはつかず離れず、モニカの護衛を......いや、監視か。モニカの動向を見極め、公爵に報告し、必要とあらばモニカの行動を咎めることもあるのだろう。そのために遣わされた騎士だ。どこから監視していたか知らないが、裏通りで何か起こっていると察し、駆けつけたようだ。「モニカ!」丁度そこで、宿の裏口をぶち破るほどの勢いで開けて、ルシェラとビオラが飛び出してきた。	What was the one thing you would least have wanted to experience at that moment, or something you would have disliked happening to you? If the other person were intelligent, they would have executed accurately and precisely. Optimistic views had always been betrayed time and time again. The world was made up of only the worst. That’s precisely why predictions were easy. There had been a suspicious shadow sneaking up behind the inn. Dressed in a manner that allowed for easy movement, with sleeves and hem rolled up, a cloth was draped around the neck. He had a good physique, the kind that seemed to hold considerable strength. Men like him had been present in quite a number within the city of Kugutfulm. In this city that the turbulent currents had turned chaotic, it had been necessary to tidy up and transport various things. No matter where he wandered, he wouldn’t have been suspected. However, the task he had had to accomplish in that city hadn’t been about transporting goods or cleaning up trash. Blending into the bustling city that had been busy with reconstruction efforts, he had looked around to confirm that no one was watching, then had reached into his pants pocket. Then, something like a glass bead, which logically shouldn’t have fit in his pocket due to its size, had emerged. In the world, there were magic items that could connect bags or boxes to a subspace, allowing many items to be stored within. Similarly, it had been possible to enchant clothing pockets in such a way or incorporate such items as inner pockets within the pockets themselves. What filled the glass-like object... the potion ball, was a paste of a dirty color. The man frowned at it, as if saying “I wouldn’t want to carry something like this around,” and raised his hand, preparing to swing it toward the inn’s back door. “Ugh!?” Dazzled by the gushing flash of light, he staggered. “Found you.” Monica, who had been hiding beside the doorway, appeared holding a Chrome Shooter. In the magical box that captured the scene, without a doubt, the figure of the man attempting to throw something dirty was imprinted. This wasn’t the back entrance of the Rock Lizard Inn. It was the back entrance of the inn called Hawthorn Pavilion, where Monica was staying. “Really, you’re so laughably foolish and obvious. Show bait, and you bite right away. Even the fish in a fishing pond are a bit smarter, aren’t they?” Monica mocked the man, who seemed taken aback. From the start, Monica had been secretly brought here through teleportation magic and left behind, and she understood the intention behind it. However, why had she, despite this, exposed herself on the rooftop, visible from the street, engaging in photography? It was to use this inn and herself as bait to lure out the culprit behind the “prank.” Hawthorn Pavilion’s entrance faced the street running along the canal, offering an unobstructed view. And on the left and right sides (a common layout due to limited space within the walls), it was tightly attached to other buildings, leaving little room for anyone to enter. were to be set up, it would be in the back alley lined with the inn’s back entrances. She felt a bit sorry for the innkeeper, but if she let the culprit go free like this, it wouldn’t just end at the Rock Lizard Inn. If they could be lured, then that would be the best strategy. The most effective bait that was needed would be... Monica herself. The other party surely wouldn’t want to miss the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to attack the person who was currently “So, what’s your plan? If you give in and spill everything, you might get a reduced sentence, you know?” The man’s face, as he looked at it, twisted like an intimidating dog. “...You little piece of s̲h̲i̲t̲!!” Before she knew it, Monica’s face was grabbed by a large hand, and she was pushed down onto the damp cobblestones of the narrow alley. Her lips cut against her own teeth, and the taste of blood spread in her mouth. —This man, he doesn’t know me (Monica)...!? Caught off guard by the sudden, too sudden, burst of violence, Monica could only freeze in astonishment and confusion, her body tensing up. There were two miscalculations. First, the culprit behind the “prank” wasn’t acting alone. There had been someone who investigated Monica and the movements of Golden Helmet, giving instructions to the perpetrator. It was the person who, under the orders of the mastermind, had a complete understanding of the situation and was carrying out the actions. This executing perpetrator had never directly seen Monica. Neither her true appearance nor her current appearance concealed by the Mob Glasses. He had no interest whatsoever in politics or political affairs and didn’t even know about the scandal that had rocked the country over a decade ago, leading to the abdication of the queen and the first princess. And the second miscalculation was that Monica’s imagination hadn’t caught up with the foolishness of the culprit. Throughout her life, Monica had been exposed to a lot of malice. As a result, she was extremely sensitive to hostility and ill will, and had a nature that allowed her to peer into the depths of others’ hearts. However, she lacked crucial experience in dealing with “vulgar malice.” The nobles who had cornered Monica were cultured, had something to lose, and cared about appearances. That’s why their actions had been careful, designed not to get spattered with backlash, gradually wearing down her spirit with calculated, elaborate, and cruel methods. Yes... their malice had been a refined and intricate thing. For the side setting up this “prank,” directly targeting Monica was one of the worst moves they could make. That’s why Monica had exposed herself here. But the opponent might not be intelligent, and they might not always consider their actions carefully to choose the optimal course of action. There were individuals out there who went even lower than what Monica could imagine. There were those whose anger was directly linked to their arms. There were individuals who would engage in fatal violence without a second thought, saying “It looks dangerous and annoying, so I’ll just go for it!” The man drew a knife, larger than one might use for self-defense, and brandished it. The dirty blade emitted a gleam tainted with grime. “Mgh! Mnghhh!!” “Don’t... underestimate... adults, you damn brat...! Just playing... the hero, huh... What a joke!” The man aimed for her throat. It was a vital spot, and crushing the throat to prevent her from calling for help would be a reasonable choice, if he was only thinking about his safety five minutes later. The strike, although unskilled, was swift and forceful, devoid of hesitation. The knife descended. “Gyaah!!” In an instant, both the man and the knife were propelled into the air. A knight, who had rushed in from the side at a speed akin to the wind, sharply kicked the bulky man’s body as if it were a kicked ball. The knife slid across the cobblestones as it spun. Monica’s heart pounded loudly, her breathing erratic as she struggled to catch her breath. Before Monica, two knights dismounted their horses and subdued the man, restraining him with a serpent chain —a Mythril chain designed to ensnare adversaries upon impact— wrapping him in multiple layers. “Secured!” “Guards!?! You little... you damn... calling for...” The man struggled, but it seemed unlikely he could break free from the restraints. The man seemed to have misunderstood, but it wasn’t guards who captured him, and Monica hadn’t called for them either. Dressed in civilian attire that allowed them to blend into the city, they were knights who, upon closer inspection, wore Mythril chain shirts beneath their clothes and had their swords polished—a disguise to be able to move around unnoticed. Likely, they were retainers of Duke Foster. They kept a close but not too close distance, guarding... or perhaps, monitoring Monica. They would observe Monica’s actions, report to the duke, and if necessary, even reprimand her behavior. They were knights sent for this purpose. Monica didn’t know where they had been observing from, but they seemed to have sensed something happening in the narrow alley and rushed over. ““Monica!”” Just at that moment, Lucella and Viola smashed open the inn’s back door and rushed out.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 2, "inserted_lines_src": 15, "inserted_lines_trg": 4 }
オークで倒したレオ。何とか目で追えるくらいの速度だったが、やっぱりレオって強いんだなぁ。目で追えるからって、人間にはあの速さは出せないだろうし、対処をする事も出来ないと思う......。レオが簡単な作業を終えたような声を出しながら、俺の所へ戻って来る。セバスチャンさんを始め、俺以外の皆は口をあんぐりと開けてレオがオーク達を倒して戻って来るのを見ていた。レオが戻って来るまでに、俺は抜いていたショートソードを鞘にしまう。 ......慣れない剣を振る機会が無くて良かった。「ワフーワウ、ワフワフ」「......ああ、偉かったなレオ」「ワフフ」俺のところまで来たレオは、褒めて欲しそうに顔を下げて俺の手が届くところに持って来たので、しっかり頭を撫でてやった。それを見てる護衛さん達。「俺達......何も出来なかったな......」「はい......私達のいる意味って......」「某はまだまだ未熟だ......」護衛さん達はレオの活躍に、ここにいる意味を見失いかけてる。ちゃんと人間の護衛も必要ですから、大丈夫ですって! ......きっと......。「シルバーフェンリルの戦闘がこれ程とは......さすがは最強と言われる事はありますな」「はい......あの可愛いレオ様が......」「私を助けて下さった時もそうでしたが、やはりレオ様にとってオーク相手は一瞬で終わるのですね」「ワフ? ワフワフー。ワフワーフウワウ」何やらオークを見て、食べるような口の動き......。レオはオークの事をただ単に食料としてしか見て無いようだな......。レオにとっては簡単な狩りをしてる気分なのかもしれない。「タクミさん、レオ様は何と?」「......オークは単なるおいしいお肉だって言ってるんだと思います......」「ワウ!」そうだとばかりに頷くレオ。「......オークは熟練の兵士でも油断すると危ない魔物なのですが......」クレアさんが、オークをお肉と言ったレオを驚いた表情で見ている。護衛さんは、ショックを受けて言葉も出ないようだ。「......とりあえず、川を目指しましょう。そこで一息つくと良いでしょう」「ワフ? ワフワフー?」レオが倒したオーク達を見て何やら首を傾げてる。えっと......以前は倒したオークを食べたのに今回は食べないのか聞いてるのかな。「......でもなぁ......3体はさすがに持って行けなくないか? セバスチャンさん、レオがオークを食べたいと言ってるんですが......どうしましょう?」「そうですね......フィリップ、持って行けますか?」「レオ様が真にしたやつなら、何とか持てるかと......」「ふむ......それなら、引き摺って行きましょう。持つよりは楽だと思いますよ。それに、もうすぐ川ですからね」「わかりました。ヨハンナ、ニコラ」「はい」「良い鍛錬になりそうです」護衛さん達三人は、レオが倒したオークの所に向かう。「レオ、オークを持って行けるのか?」レオもオークの所へ向かって、首に噛みついて倒したオークに近づく。「ガフ」レオは全身が残ってるオークの頭を口で捕まえ、そのまま持ち上げた。 ......オーク一体って、大きさは人間くらいだが、お腹が丸々太ってて結構重そうなんだけど、レオにとっては大したこと無いみたいだ。「レオ様が運んでくれるなら、楽が出来そうですな」「私達は残りのオークを運びます」残ったオークはレオによって引き裂かれ、二つになったのが2体で合。フィリップさんがそのうち二つの腕部分を、左右の手でそれぞれ掴み、運び始める。残った二つはヨハンナさんとニコラさんが足部分を引きずって運ぶ。三人共、荷物の入った袋を持っていて、さらに金属製の鎧を着てるのに、更にオークを運ぶのは結構辛そうだ。おぉ、そうだ......あれがあった。「フィリップさん達、少し待って下さい」俺は、オーク達を運んで歩き出そうとしたフィリップさん達を呼び止めながら、持って来た荷物を漁る。お、あったあった、これだ。「ちょっと怪しいかもしれませんが、これを食べてみて下さい」「これは......?」俺が荷物の中から取り出して、三人に渡したのは、昨日『雑草栽培』の研究をしていた時に出来た植物の葉だ。「多分、オークを運ぶのが楽になると思いますよ」「......はぁ」「......何やら奇怪な色をしていますな......」渡した葉っぱの色は青。花では無く、葉っぱが青色の植物なんて、薬草と知っていても食べるのは躊躇するだろう。それでも三人は俺を信用してくれたのか、思い切ってその薬草を口に入れた。「これは......結構いけるな......」「美味しいですね......」「色からは想像が出来ない味ですな」お、味は好評だったようだ。味の方も気にして、『雑草栽培』を使ってみたからな。俺も端っこを少しだけ食べてみたが、ラムネっぽい味だった。植物からラムネの味ってだけでかなり怪しい物な気がするけどな.........。「ん? 何だか体が軽いような......」「半分とは言え、オークを軽々と持ち上げられますぞ」薬草を食べた三人はすぐに効果が表れたようで、ヨハンナさんとニコラさんは、オークの下半身部分を簡単に持ち上げていた。フィリップさんの方は二つだからさすがに持ち上げなかったが、それでも運ぶのが楽になったようだ。良かった、ちゃんと効果が出たようだ。安全は確認してるが、実験みたいになったけどまぁ、大丈夫だろうと思う。「タクミさん、これは?」三人の様子を見ていたクレアさんが、俺に聞いて来る。「昨日裏庭で試してた事ですよ。『雑草栽培』でどんな事が出来るか、ですね」「この薬草の事だったんですね、試してみたい事って」「......んー、いえ。この薬草だけじゃないんですけどね。というかこの薬草は試してる段階で偶然出来た物なので、狙って栽培したわけじゃないんです」「そうなのですか? それなら、本当は何を試したかったんですか?」「まぁ、それは後にしましょう。今はまず川を目指して歩きましょう」「......むぅ、わかりました。でも、絶対後で聞かせて下さいね」	Leo had defeated the orcs in an instant. My eyes were barely able to keep up with her. And I was reminded of just how strong Leo was. Even if I could see it, it was too fast for a human to copy, let alone deal with... Leo sounded like she had just finished a simple task as she returned to me. But everyone excluding me had their mouths hanging open as they watched Leo walk back. In the meantime, I sheathed the short sword I had been carrying. ...It was a good thing that I hadn’t been forced to use it while still not accustomed to it. “Wuff-wou. Wuff-wuff.” “...Yes, very good, Leo.” “Wuffuff.” As she returned to my side, Leo lowered her head as if she wanted to be patted, and so I reached out and patted her head. Upon seeing this, the guards said, “We...weren’t able to do anything...” “Yes...what is the point of us being...” “I am still green...” Leo’s display had taken away their purpose. Don’t worry. I’m sure we still need human guards as well! ...I think... “So this is how a Silver Fenrir fights... It is no wonder they are considered to be the greatest of monsters.” “Yes... To think that the Great Leo, who is so cute...” “It was like this when they rescued me as well. For the Great Leo, a battle with an orc lasts just a second.” “Wuff? Wuff-wuff. Wuff-wuff wou!” She was looking at the orcs and moving her mouth as if to eat them... It seemed like Leo just saw the orcs as a food supply... So perhaps this was all just a casual hunt for her. “Mr. Takumi, what did Leo say?” “...I think she said that orcs are nothing but tasty meat...” “Wou!” Leo nodded as if to confirm it. “...But orcs are monsters that can even be dangerous for seasoned fighters if they let their guard down...” After hearing that Leo thought of orcs as meat, Ms. Claire looked very surprised. The three guards were also too shocked to speak. “...In any case, let’s head to the river. And we can rest there.” “Wuff? Wuff-wuff?” Leo looked towards the orcs and then tilted her head to the side. Uhh... As we had eaten an orc after defeating it previously, she was asking why we weren’t going to do it this time. “...But... I don’t think we can carry three of them? Mr Sebastian. Leo is saying that she wants to eat the orc meat... What should we do?” “Indeed... Phillip. Can you carry them?” “If it’s the ones that the Great Leo has split into two, we might...” “Hmm... In that case, let’s drag them.. It will be easier than carrying them, I think. Besides, we’re already close to the river.” “Very well. Johanna, Nicholas.” “Yes.” “This will be good training.” And so the three guards walked towards the orcs that Leo defeated. “Leo. You can carry the orcs?” And then Leo walked over to them and stopped at the orc whose neck she had bitten. “Guff.” Leo’s jaw went around its head and then she lifted it up. ...An orc’s body was about the same size as a human’s, but they were quite fat and looked heavy. But Leo seemed to barely even notice the weight. “It will be a lot easier if the Great Leo carries one.” “Then we will carry the remaining orcs.” The remaining orcs had been split in half by Leo, which meant that there were four pieces. And so Phillip grabbed the two torso pieces by the arms and pulled them away. Johanna and Nicolas took the remaining two pieces and dragged them by the legs. As all three of them were already carrying baggage, on top of wearing metal armor, it seemed quite harsh to have to carry the orcs on top of that. Ah, that’s right... There was something that I could do. “Uh, Phillip. Please wait one moment.” I stopped Phillip and the other guards as they were about to start walking. And then I rummaged through my bag. Ah, there it is. This. “I know it may look suspicious, but please eat this.” “What is it...?” What I took out of the bag and handed to them was the leaves of the plant I had made yesterday while studying Weed Cultivation. “I think it will help you while carrying the orcs.” “...Ah.” “...It has a very strange color...” The leaves had a blue color. Even if you knew that it was a medicinal plant, most people would hesitate to eat it if it was the leaves that were blue, and not the flower. Still, the three seemed to trust me, and so they put the leaves into their mouths. “It’s not...bad at all...” “It’s rather good...” “I would not have expected it to taste like this.” Oh, so they even liked the taste. It was probably because I was thinking about taste as well when using Weed Cultivation. I had tried eating a small piece myself, and it tasted like soda pop. However, the idea of a plant tasting like soda pop didn’t make it sound any less suspicious... “Hmm? My body suddenly feels lighter...” “While it’s only half an orc, I can lift it up easily now.” The effect was felt immediately after the three ate the plant. And Johanna and Nicolas raised the legs easily. As Phillip was carrying two, he wasn’t able to do that, but it seemed that it was still easier for him now. That was good. So it had worked. While I was sure it was safe, it was still a little like an experiment. But it was probably fine. “Mr. Takumi. What is that?” Ms. Claire, who had been watching the three guards, asked me. “Something I was testing in the back garden yesterday. I wanted to see what I could do with Weed Cultivation.” “So you were making this plant. That was the secret.” “...Hmm, no. It’s not just this plant. In fact, this one was made quite by accident while I was testing other things. I wasn’t trying to make it.” “Is that so? Then what were you really trying to do?” “Well, I think we should talk about that later. For now, let’s head to the river.” “...Hmph, very well. But I will have my answer from you when we get there.”	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 7, "inserted_lines_src": 0, "inserted_lines_trg": 2 }
いざという時、私たちには大きな創造力が必要とされます創造力は寛容の精神を人々の間に広げることもできますし、自由を擁護することもできますし、教育というものを何かすばらしいものであるかのように見せかけることもできます偉大な創造力は貧困にスポットライトを当てることもできれば、それが必ずしも貧困というものではないという風に見せることもできます偉大な創造力はまた政治家や政党を選ぶ価値のあるものにも価値のないものにもすることができます。また戦争というものを悲劇のようにもまた茶番劇のようにも見せることができます創造力はT-シャツのスローガンや私たちが口にする表現を創り出すものですまた創造力は私たちにシンプルな道を教えてくれて通り抜けられないようなモラルの迷路からの脱出路を示してくれるものでもあります科学というものは賢いものですが、しかし偉大な創造力というものは、何か知識としてより獲得しにくいような、より魔術的なものです。そして今、私たちはその魔法を必要としています。今こそ「いざという時」なのです。私たちの地球の気候が急速に変化しつつあります。あまりにも急速に、です。そして、ドラマティックで創造的な言葉を通して私たちにこれまでとは違った考え方をさせてくれるような、偉大な創造力がいま必要とされています。楽しく創造的なクリップを通して私たちにこれまでとは違った考え方をさせてくれるように、創造力を用いて人々の環境意識を高めるために私が関わっているある運動のそのようなクリップを紹介したいと思います。ビデオ: 男性:今日は車じゃなくて歩くことにするよ。ナレーション:そして彼は歩き始めました。歩いている途中で、彼はいろいろなものを目にしました。歩かなければ見ることはなかったような目新しい、すばらしいものです。足を痒がっている鹿。空を飛ぶバイク。ミステリアスな壁によって自転車から隔てられている父と娘。そして彼は立ち止まりました。彼の前を歩いていたのは彼女でした。子供のころよく彼と一緒に草原をスキップしていた、でも結局彼をふった彼女。そう、確かに彼女は少し年を取りました。いや、実はとても年を取っていました。しかし彼は昔のあの彼女への情熱が復活するのを感じました。「フォード」、と彼は優しく呼びかけました。それが彼女の名前だったのです。「「それ以上の言葉は要らないわ、ガスティ。」と彼女は言いました。それは彼の名前でした。「トレーラーのとなりににテントがあるわ。ここから300ヤードちょうど。そこに行って、いいことしましょう。テントの中で。」フォードは服を脱いで、片足を、次にもう一方の足を開きました。ガスティは大胆に彼女の中に入っていき、リズミカルにセックスをしました。その間、彼女はずっと彼をビデオに撮っていました。なぜならば彼女は熱心なアマチュアポルノ映画監督だったのです。大地は二人のために動きました。それから二人はずっと幸せに暮らしました。それは、何よりも彼がその日車ではなく歩くことに決めた、そのおかげだったのです。 (拍手) アンディ・ホブズボーム:私たちは科学を手に入れ、またもう十分議論もしてきました。私たちの目の前にあるのは道徳的な命令だけです。そのすべてを受け取り、シンプルかつ鋭いものにするためには偉大な創造力が必要とされています。それを正しいものとすること。人々がやってみようと思うようなものにすること。だから、これは信じられぬぐらいい才能豊かなTEDの皆さんにへの呼びかけであり、嘆願です。気候変動に対して我々の創造性を発揮しましょう。そしてそれをすぐ始めましょう。ご清聴ありがとうございました。	Discuss. Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful. Great creativity can spread tolerance, champion freedom, make education seem like a bright idea. Great creativity can turn a spotlight on deprivation, or show that deprivation ain't necessarily so. Great creativity can make politicians electable, or parties unelectable. It can make war seem like tragedy or farce. Creativity is the meme-maker that puts slogans on our t-shirts and phrases on our lips. It's the pathfinder that shows us a simple road through an impenetrable moral maze. Science is clever, but great creativity is something less knowable, more magical. And now we need that magic. This is a time of need. Our climate is changing quickly, too quickly. And great creativity is needed to do what it does so well: to provoke us to think differently with dramatic creative statements. To tempt us to act differently with delightful creative scraps. Here is one such scrap from an initiative I'm involved in using creativity to inspire people to be greener. Man: You know, rather than drive today, I'm going to walk. Narrator: And so he walked, and as he walked he saw things. Strange and wonderful things he would not otherwise have seen. A deer with an itchy leg. A flying motorcycle. A father and daughter separated from a bicycle by a mysterious wall. And then he stopped. Walking in front of him was her. The woman who as a child had skipped with him through fields and broken his heart. Sure, she had aged a little. In fact, she had aged a lot. But he felt all his old passion for her return. "Ford," he called softly. For that was her name. "Don't say another word, Gusty," she said, for that was his name. "I know a tent next to a caravan, exactly 300 yards from here. Let's go there and make love. In the tent." Ford undressed. She spread one leg, and then the other. Gusty entered her boldly and made love to her rhythmically while she filmed him, because she was a keen amateur pornographer. The earth moved for both of them. And they lived together happily ever after. And all because he decided to walk that day. Andy Hobsbawm: We've got the science, we've had the debate. The moral imperative is on the table. Great creativity is needed to take it all, make it simple and sharp. To make it connect. To make it make people want to act. So this is a call, a plea, to the incredibly talented TED community. Let's get creative against climate change. And let's do it soon. Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
ここで負けてはいけないと思い、嘲笑しながらそう言う。「おい! 身分をわきまえろ!」衛兵が大きな声で私に怒鳴る。その台詞、そろそろ聞き飽きてきたわ。もっと違う台詞が出ないのかしら。「何様だ」とか無難な言葉なのにまも聞いてないわよ。まぁ、私が聞き逃しているって場合もあるけれど。王子の目の色が少し変わる。どうやら私に少し興味を示したみたい。「根性はあるみたいだな」「なかったら、とっくに脱走しているでしょ」「......お前、本当に目が見えないのか?」緑色の目が疑い深く私を見据える。やっぱりそうくるわよね。私も王子の立場ならそう質問するわ。 ......もし私が王子の立場なら、なんて言われたら信じるだろう。昨日の決闘でもかなり攻撃をかわしているし、絶対に私のこの包帯が演出じゃないかって疑っている人間も多そうだわ。「答えないのか?」「僕は本当に目が見えない。なんなら、確かめる?」「殴られる? 蹴られる? 刺される? ここの王子はたかがガキの言葉に腹が立って、暴力を振るうんだ」あえて怒らすようなことを一気に言ってみる。ラヴァール国の王子の質を見させてもらおうじゃない。確かに私の言葉は相当腹が立つだろうけど、そんな言葉で本気で怒っていたらきりがないわ。まぁ、たとえ王子が暴君じゃなくとも首を切られそうな言葉よね。「ハッ、威勢のいいガキじゃねえか」彼は口元をくっと上げてニヤリと笑う。「俺は、ヴィクター・ハリストだ。この国の子だ」ということは、ロン毛の方がお兄様ってことね。ただの偏見だけど、何故か短髪の貴方の方が弟かなって思っていた。「僕の名前はリア」「それだけか?」「それ以外に言うことない」「本当に生意気な小僧だな」ヴィクターは席を立ち、私の方へと向かってくる。一瞬で私の所にくるなんて、一体どんな足の長さしてるのよ。元モデルなの? ......近くに来ると分かるけど、かなり身長が高い。その上、短髪だし、なんかバスケとか得意そうね。品定めするように、私を鋭い目でじっと見下す。子ども相手によくそんな威圧するような目を出来るわね。そこら辺に転がっている令嬢なら、失神してしまうんじゃないかしら。......令嬢はそこら辺には転がっていないわね。早くこの品定めの時間終わってくれないかしら、今までも色々な圧を経験してきたけれど、この圧は......苦手だわ。彼は暫く私を見た後、私の手をガッと力強く掴んだ。「細いが、良い筋肉しているな」「離せよ」ヴィクターは私を掴んでいる手にさらに力を入れて、グッと自分の方へと引き寄せる。包帯で私の目は見えていないはずなのに、がっつりと王子と目が合っているようだ。なんか嫌な予感しかしない。心臓の音がうるさくなるのが分かる。「......お前、女か?」低い声が部屋に響く。	I say this with a sneer, not wanting to appear weak. “Oi! Know your place!” The guards yelled loudly at me. I was getting tired of hearing that line. I wonder if they could come up with something different. Well, it could just be that I was not listening. The expression in the prince’s eyes changed a little. He seems to be a little interested in me. “You seem to have some guts.” “If I didn’t, I’d have escaped a long time ago.” “...Are you really blind?” The green eyes look at me suspiciously. I knew he would ask that. That was a question I would ask myself if I were the prince. ...If I were the prince, I wonder what I would believe. I dodged a lot of attacks in the duel yesterday, and I bet there would be a lot of people who would suspect that my bandages were staged. “You’re not going to answer?” “I’m really blind. If you want, you can check?” “Will you hit me? Kick me? Or stab me? The prince of this country becomes enraged and furious because of the comments of a child.” I dared to say something that would make him angry. Let’s see the quality of the prince of Ravaal. My words would undoubtedly enrage him, but if he were truly enraged by such words, there would be no end to his anger in the future. Well, even if the prince wasn’t a tyrant, those words could get a person’s head chopped off. “Ha, you’re a bratty little thing, aren’t you?” He smirks, his mouth lifting into a pout. “I’m Victor Harrist, the second prince of this country.” So that means the long-haired one was the older brother. I know it was just a prejudice, but I had already assumed you were the younger brother because of your short hair. “My name is Ria.” ” Is that all?” “That’s all I have to say.” “You really are a cocky little thing, aren’t you?” Victor stood up from his seat and made his way over to me. What kind of legs do you have to rush over to where I was in an instant? A former model? ...I could tell when he got closer that he was pretty tall. And with short hair, he looks like he could be good at basketball. He stared down at me with sharp eyes, as if he was assessing me. How could you be so intimidating to a child? I’m sure if any lady were present here, she would definitely faint. ...I doubt that any young ladies are present here, though. Could you please hurry up and finish the interrogation?I have experienced a lot of pressure in my life, but this pressure... I couldn’t stand it. He glanced at me for a moment before firmly grasping my hand. “You’re thin, but you’ve got good muscles.” “Let go of me.” Victor puts more strength into the hand grabbing me and pulls me towards him with a good yank. He couldn’t see my eyes because of the bandages, but I was firmly eye to eye with the prince. I have a bad feeling about this. I could already feel my heartbeat getting louder. “...Are you a woman?” A low voice echoed in the room.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 1, "inserted_lines_src": 1, "inserted_lines_trg": 1 }
像の正体を教えてくれた親切な人は、俺が広場で立ち尽くしている間に去っていった。「なぜ俺の像が......似てないけど」そうつぶやいてから考える。明らかに、エリックとゴランの仕業だ。もともと友情に篤い奴ではあった。俺が彼らを逃がすために魔神を足止めしたことに恩を感じて暴走してしまったのだろう。「というか、これ絶対、俺が死んだと思ってるだろ......」とつぶやいたところで、ふと気づく。さっきの優しい通行人は10年前と言っていた。10年もの間、戦っていたのだろうか。そんなに長い間戦っていた覚えはない。何かの間違いでは? 俺は先程とは別の通行人を呼び留める。「お急ぎのところ申し訳ありません。今日って何年何月ですか?」びくっとした後、笑顔になって答えてくれる。ぼろぼろの服を着ているのに、通行人が優しい。やはりよそ者には親切にするというポリシーでも持っているのだろうか。「王国歴315年6月10日ですよ」「ありがとうございます」通行人は去っていった。俺が、魔神と戦い始めたのは、王国歴305年のことだった。やはり、10年前ということになる。戦闘に必死過ぎたせいで、時間感覚がおかしくなったのだろうか。傀儡人形の副作用かもしれない。自分の魔法で自分の体を操作するというのはイレギュラーな運用だ。それを長期にわたって何度も何度も使い続けた。時間感覚がおかしくなっても不思議ではない。本当はなにが理由かはわからない。どちらにせよ、俺の時間感覚がおかしくなったのは事実らしい。「......これは困った」改めて呆然とした。見上げるとやはりイケメン過ぎる俺の像が目に入る。視線を下に戻すと、楽しそうに散歩する親子が目に入った。 10年前よりずっと平和でよい街になっていると思う。それはとても嬉しい。「走ってはいけませんよ」子供が転んだ。3,4歳ぐらいだろうか。可愛らしい男の子だ。「う、う。うえぇぇ」「ほら、走るから」子供が泣いて母親が駆けよる。「強い子なのだから泣いてはいけませんよ」「泣き虫だとラックさまみたいになれませんよ」「......うぅ......泣かない」子供は涙を拭いて立ち上がった。母親と手をつないで歩いていく。「......人をだしに教育しないでほしいぞ」思わず俺は小さな声でつぶやいた。俺はけして立派な人間ではないのだ。見本にされても困る。俺はとぼとぼと歩きながら、冒険者ギルドへと向かった。冒険者ギルドの建物は変わらない。 10年経っているから少しだけ古くなっていたがそれだけだ。「なんかうれしいな」懐かしさを感じる。少し嬉しくなった。すこしうきうきしながら、冒険者ギルドの扉を開ける。途端に肩をつかまれた。「やっと来やがったか!」「ちょっ!」「こっちに来い! 話はそれからだ」冒険者ギルドでは、ゴランが待ち構えていた。髪に白いものが混じり、顔には少しだけしわが増えている。ゴランは俺の肩をつかんだまま、建物の奥へと引っ張っていく。「お前、老けた?」「あたりまえだろうが! 10年経ったんだからな! というかお前が変わらなさすぎじゃねぇか。というか若返ってるだろ」奥の部屋に入ると、ゴランが俺の両肩をつかむ。「よく生きて戻って来てくれた......」「お前泣いてる?」ゴランはそういうが、ぽろぽろ涙をこぼしている。目に涙を浮かべるといったレベルではない。号泣だ。「な、泣くなよ」男は女の涙に弱いとかいうが、男の涙にも弱いのだとわかった。たとえおっさんでも泣かれると困る。いや、むしろおっさんの方が困るかもしれない。抱きしめるわけにもいかないのだ。ただ、黙って立っているしかない。申し訳程度に肩に手を乗せておいた。俺はゴランが泣きやむまで、しばらく待った。「......すまんな」「いや、いいさ」それからゴランが、説明してくれた。「ラックを名乗る奴が家に来たって、うちの門番に聞いてな。本当にお前なら、次に向かうのは冒険者ギルドだろうと、ずっと待ってたんだ」「いや、面倒でも何でもないぞ」その時、部屋にお茶とお菓子が運ばれてくる。一口食べてみた。ものすごく美味しかった。10年ぶりの食べものだ。「......うまい」「そうか。次元の狭間では食事はどうしてたんだよ?」「いや、なにも食ってないな」俺はドレインタッチについて説明する。ゴランはほうほうと感心しながら聞いていたが、突如慌て始めた。お菓子を取り上げられる。「10年何も食べてなかったんだろ?」「そうだが......」「断食明けに固形物食べたらやばいんじゃねーか?」「お、重湯でも、持ってこさせよう」「大丈夫だ。なぜかわからないが、意外と大丈夫だぞ」俺はそういって説得しようとしたが、ゴランは納得しない。「せっかく生き延びたのに、こんなことで死んだら困るだろうが。うまい物ならこれからいくらでも食えるんだからな」そういって、職員に重湯を持ってくるよう指示をしていた。気を使ってくれるのはありがたい。だが、お菓子がものすごく美味しかったので、すごく残念でもある。重湯が運ばれてくるまでの間、俺は次元の狭間での出来事についてゴランに語った。お茶の代わりに果実のジュースを出されたのでそれを飲む。「ジュースもうまいな」一通り語り終わったころ、重湯が運ばれてきた。運んできた男は、覆面をかぶっていた。ものすごく怪しい。「お、やっと来たか。エリック。ラックが帰って来たぞ」「おお、ラック! 本当にラックじゃないかっ!」男が覆面をとった。それはまさしく勇者エリック本人だった。	The Legendary Ruck The kind man who told me about the statue walked away as I stood there in the plaza. “Why is there a statue of me...and it doesn’t even look like me.” I muttered and thought. This was clearly the work of Eric and Goran. They had always been passionate when it came to friendships. They must have felt grateful about my sacrifice in stopping the devils, and they had gotten a little carried away. “Also, they totally think that I died...” I said and suddenly realized one other thing. That kind man had said that it was years ago. So that meant I had been fighting for years. I don’t remember it being that long. Was it some mistake? I stopped a different person who was passing through. “I’m sorry to disturb you while you’re busy. But what year and month is it today?” There was a moment of shock that was followed by a pleasant smile. These people were very kind in spite of the tattered clothes I was wearing. Perhaps they really did have some kind of policy to be kind to outsiders. “Year of the kingdom era, June 0th.” “Thank you.” The person left. I fought against the devils in the year 305. So it really had been 10 years ago. Could I have been fighting so desperately that my perception of time had become messed up? No, perhaps it was a side effect of the Marionette spell. Controlling your own body with magic wasn’t exactly business as usual. And I had done it repeatedly for extended periods of time. It was not too surprising then, that my perceptions had been affected. But I didn’t really know what the reason was. In any case, the truth was that it had been altered. “...Well, this is troublesome.” I felt a renewed shock. I looked up and saw the exaggeratedly handsome face of the statue. When I looked down again, there was a family happily taking a stroll. The city seemed much nicer and peaceful than it had been 10 years ago. That made me very happy. “Don’t run here.” The child fell. An adorable boy of 3 or 4 years of age. “Uh, uhhh...wahhhhh!” “See, that’s what happens when you run.” The mother rushed to her crying child. “Be strong and do not cry.” “Ahhhh....!” “You will never become like Ruck if you are such a crybaby.” “...Uh...I...won’t cry.” The child wiped his tears away and stood up. They held each other’s hands and walked away. “...Don’t use me to educate your child.” I muttered to myself without thinking. I really wasn’t anything impressive. I shouldn’t be seen as a role model. I continued to walk as I headed for the Adventurer’s guild. The building for the guild was the same as it was before. The only difference was that it looked slightly older, as 10 years had passed. “Ah, this makes me happy.” It was somewhat nostalgic. I couldn’t help but be happy. And so I opened the door with a feeling of excitement. Someone immediately grabbed me by the shoulders. “You finally came!” “Hey!” “Come over here! Then we’ll talk!” Goran had been waiting for me at the Adventurers Guild. There was white in his hair now, and a few lines on his face that had not been there before. With Goran’s hands still on my shoulders, I was pulled into the back of the building. “Did you age?” “Of course I did! It’s been 10 years! It’s you who hasn’t changed enough. If anything, you look younger.” When we entered the back room, Goran put his hands on my shoulders again. “I’m so glad that you returned alive...” “Are you crying?” Goran denied it, but tears were running down his face. It wasn’t just teary eyes. He was sobbing. “Do-don’t cry.” They say that men were weak to the tears of women, but I learned that I was also weak to the tears of men. Even if it was this old man. I felt uncomfortable. Well, maybe it was especially uncomfortable because it was an old man. I couldn’t exactly hug him. I could only stand there. Apologetically, I put a hand on his shoulder. It took a while for him to stop crying. “...Sorry about that.” “No, it’s fine.” And then Goran explained to me. “I heard from the gatekeeper that someone called Ruck had visited. I knew that if it was really you, you would come to the Adventurer’s guild next. And so I was waiting here.” “Bah, it’s nothing at all.” Right then, tea and snacks were brought into the room. I took a bite. It was delicious. It was the first time I had eaten in 10 years. “...This is good.” “Is it? What were you eating in that place between our dimensions anyway?” “I actually didn’t eat anything.” I told him about Drain Touch. Goran listened with great interest, but then suddenly turned frantic. He swiped the snacks from off the table. “You really haven’t eaten in 10 years?” “Yeah...” “Isn’t it dangerous to eat solids after a long period of fasting?” “I-I’ll have them bring you some rice water.” “I’m fine. I don’t know how, but I feel just fine.” I said and tried to persuade him, but Goran was not convinced. “You survived through so much to come here, I’m not going to let you die over something like this. You will be able to eat plenty of delicious food later.” So saying, he ordered the staff to bring me some rice water. I was thankful that he felt so concerned. But the snack had tasted so good, which was too bad. As the rice water was being prepared, I told Goran about what had happened in the place between our dimensions. Then I drank some fruit juice that had been brought after the tea. “The juice is also delicious.” When we were finished talking, the rice water was brought in. The man carrying it was wearing a mask. He was incredibly suspicious looking. “Ah, you are finally here. Eric. Ruck’s returned to us!” “Oooh, Ruck! It really is you!” The man took off his mask. It was the Hero, himself. 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シア、セルリス、ニアが狼の獣人族とともに出かけ間が経った。俺はその日も水竜の集落に泊まっていた。ここのところ毎日のように、レッサーヴァンパイアの襲撃がある。俺はどんな少数の襲撃でも、必ず現場に向かうことにしていた。当然、俺が到着したころにはレッサーヴァンパイアは狩られていることの方が多い。俺がガルヴと一緒に駆けつけると、水竜が申し訳なさそうに言う。「ラックさん、ありがとうございます。ですが......」「ああ、もう無事狩られたのですね。なによりです」「無駄足を踏ませてしまって申し訳ありません」「いえいえ。万一のために駆けつけてるだけなので、何事も無ければそれが一番ですよ」水竜は竜の中でも上位種だ。そこらのワイバーンやレッサードラゴンなどとはわけが違う。レッサーヴァンパイアごとき相手にはならない。「それにしても......。なぜ毎日襲撃を仕掛けてくるのでしょう。ラックさんのおっしゃられていた結界のほころびを探すという理由ならば......」「確かにもっと効率的な手法はあるかもですね」「はい」「ヴァンパイアの上位種は、レッサーを戦力として計算していないので、使い捨てにしているかもしれませんね」「そんなものでしょうか? もしそうなら、楽でいいのですが」「または、慣れを狙っているのかもしれません」「慣れですか?」「集落への敵の侵入を報せる警報が鳴ったとき、どうせレッサーだろうと対応がおざなりになるときを待っているのかもしれません」そして、俺は懸念を伝える。たとえレッサーでも魔装機械を持ち込むことはできる。そうなれば、大きな被害が出かねない。「なるほど。肝に銘じます」「緊張感を維持することは大変でしょうが......お願いいたします」「はい!」そして、俺はガルヴと一緒に水竜の宮殿に戻ってひと眠りした。朝、起床して、リーアと一緒に軽く朝ごはんを食べる。その後、屋敷に帰還する前に、俺は結界を点検する。ガルヴを連れて水竜の集落を点検しながらぐるりと一周するのだ。ガルヴの散歩も兼ねている。リーアと水竜の若者たち数体がついて来てくれる。人の姿状態のリーアも足が速い。走るガルヴにしっかりついてくる。「いつものように、リーアも水竜の皆さんも、気づいたことがあったら教えてください」「ラック、わかったの」「お任せください!」ガルヴは嗅覚が鋭い。もし潜んでいるレッサーヴァンパイアなどがいたら気づいてくれるだろう。水竜の集落の結界に異常がないことを確認すると、俺は王都に戻る。いつものようにミルカが出迎えてくれた。「ロックさん、おかえりだ! 今日も寝るのかい?」「ああ、少し寝るかな」「昼頃に起こせばいいかい?」「頼む。ミルカも勉強頑張れよ」ミルカとルッチラは、午前中はフィリーの授業だ。冒険に出ているので、授業を受けられないニアが少し心配だが仕方がない。「眠いのか。わかった」ガルヴが急かすように、俺の手のひらを鼻先で突っついてきた。俺はガルヴと一緒に、部屋に戻って少し眠った。真夜中の襲撃のせいで、睡眠不足になりがちだ。いざというときに、睡眠不足で力を発揮できないと困る。ガルヴも子狼なので、睡眠は大切なのだ。「ロックさん、お昼だよ」ミルカが起こしに来てくれた。あっという間だった。少ししか眠っていない気がする。「ミルカありがとう」ガルヴがベッドの上で、思いっきり伸びをしていた。「セルリスさんたちが、戻ってきたよー」「おお、そうか、急いでいこう」俺は急いで居間に向かう。「ロックさん。ただいま」セルリスとシアとニア、全員が無事に帰ってきている。心底ほっとした。「無事でよかった。魔道具はどうだった?」「うん。おかげさまですごく快調だったわ! ロードの魅了にも抵抗できたもの」「それは素晴らしい」フィリーも嬉しそうにうなずいた。「まあ、フィリーとロックさんが作ったのだ。そのぐらいは当然だ」俺はセルリスたちの様子をじっくり観察する。着ていた鎧は壊れていない。だが、相当に傷ついている。かなり激しい戦いをこなしてきたのだろう。どんな冒険をしてきたのか聞いてみたいところだ。とも雰囲気が変わっているが、一番変わったのはニアだ。「ニア、大きくなったか?」「そんなには変わっていないと思います」「そうか。雰囲気が変わったな。激戦を潜り抜けたんだろう」俺がそういうと、ニアは照れる。一方、セルリスは真剣な表情をしていた。「で、私たちが戻ってきたのには理由があるの」「もしかして、敵の本拠地を見つけたのか?」「そうなの! 狼の獣人族の方々は本当に凄いの」「まだ、確定ではないでありますよ」確定情報でなくとも、情報はとてもありがたい。「聞かせてくれ」セルリスはうなずくと語りはじめた。	A week had now passed since Shia, Serulis, and Nia had gone to the beastkin tribes. During this time, I spent the nights in the water dragon settlement. The lesser vampires continued to attack every night. But no matter how few there were, I always went to the scene of the fight. Of course, there were many times when the job was done by the time we arrived. When Grulf and I would reach the place, the water dragons would look at us apologetically. “Mister Ruck. Thank you for coming, but...” “Oh, so you already finished here. That’s good.” “I’m sorry that you wasted your time.” “No, no. I always come, just in case. And it’s better that nothing serious happens.” Water dragons were stronger than most dragons. Much stronger than wyverns and lesser dragons. And so lesser vampires were no match for them. “Still... Why do they keep attacking us like this? If they were really just trying to find a weakness in the barrier, as you suggested...” “Yes, there are better ways of doing that.” “Indeed.” “Perhaps the greater vampires do not even include lessers as part of their fighting force. And they are completely disposable.” “Do you really think so? It would be a relief to know it doesn’t mean anything.” “Or perhaps they want us to get used to this?” “Used to it?” “So every time the alarm goes off, we will just assume that it’s lessers attacking again.” It was something I had been worried about. After all, lessers could bring in the magic machines. That would be incredibly dangerous. “I see. We will be careful.” “It will be hard to stay cautious at all times...but we must try.” “Yes!” And with that, Grulf and I returned to the water dragon palace and got some sleep. When we woke up the next morning, we had a light breakfast with Leea. And then I inspected the barrier before returning to the mansion. This meant taking Grulf and me walking around the settlement while checking the barrier. So it was also a walk for Grulf. Leea and some of the water dragons came with us. Even while in human form, Leea was very fast. She could easily keep pace with Grulf. “As always, please tell me if you notice that there is something strange.” “Okay, Ruck.” “Leave it to us!” Grulf had a sharp sense of smell. He would notice if there were any lesser vampires hidden here. Once I was sure that there was nothing strange about the barrier, I returned to the city. As always, Milka greeted me. “Welcome back Mister Locke! Are you going straight to bed today as well?” “Yeah, just for a little while.” “Should I wake you up for lunch?” “Yes, thanks. Good luck with your schoolwork.” Milka and Luchila studied under Philly in the morning. I was a little worried about Nia, who was out adventuring instead of studying, but there was nothing that could be done about that. “You’re tired too? Alright.” Grulf pushed his nose into my hand as if to hurry me on. And so I went to my room with him and we rested for a short while. The midnight attacks were resulting in sleep-deprivation. And it would be no good if that affected my ability to fight when the time came. Grulf was still a pup, so sleeping was also important for him. “Mister Locke. It’s lunchtime.” Milka said as she woke me up. It felt so soon. I felt as if I had hardly slept at all. “Thank you, Milka.” Grulf stretched on top of the bed. “Serulis and the others are back!” “Ah, I see. I better hurry.” I hurried down to the drawing-room. “Mister Locke. We’re back.” Serulis, Shia and Nia had all come back safely. I was quite relieved. “I’m glad that you’re all well. How was the magic tool?” “Yes. It made things much easier! I was able to resist the Charm of a Lord.” “That’s wonderful.’ Philly also nodded happily. “Well, it was made by Philly and Locke, so it’s no surprise that it was effective.” I then inspected Serulis and the others. Their armor was not broken. However, there were lots of scratches. They must have been through a lot of intense battles. I would have like to hear more about it. And all three seemed a little changed, but Nia seemed especially different. “Nia? Have you grown taller?” “I don’t think I have that much.” “I see. You seem different. You must have been through quite a battle.” I said, and she looked embarrassed. On the other hand, Serulis looked very serious. “Well, there is a reason that we have returned.” “Did you find the enemy base then?” “We did! The beastkin wolves are really incredible!” “But we are not sure yet.” Even if the information wasn’t confirmed yet, it was very valuable. “Tell me about it.” Serulis nodded and began to talk.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 7, "inserted_lines_src": 2, "inserted_lines_trg": 1 }
「うわぁっと、危なっ! いきなり何するんですか!」「ほぉ、意外に身のこなしが素早いじゃないか。避けるとは思わなかったぞ」すごい、今のを避けるなんて......。アルキューネも少し驚いている様子だ。「ちょっと冗談はやめて――ってアルキューネ先生コスプレですか! いきなり変身魔法なんか使っちゃって。なんでまた急に......」「くっくっ、まだ事態を理解していないのか。オツムはてんで鈍いと見える」「なっ!? オ、オツムが鈍いですってぇえ! うっきぃ――それが教師の言う言葉ですか!」ティレアさんが顔を真っ赤にして憤慨している。オツムが鈍いと言われてよっぽど頭に来ているみたいだ。うん、こればかりはアルキューネの言うことも一理ある。この危機意識のなさは問題だよ。ティレアさん、魔族のプレッシャーを感じないのかな? とにかくティレアさんに現状がどんなに危険か早く理解させないといけない。「ティレアさん、そんな場合じゃありません。奴は人を襲う「吸血鬼? 魔族? 何言っているの? いくら先生に叱られたからってそんな悪口を言っちゃだめだよ」もぉお、なんなのこの人! 緊迫した状況わかってよ。のんきというかずれているというか、ティレアさんには遠回しな表現はだめだ。はっきり言わないとわかってくれないだろう。「本当なんです! 私も殺されそうになったし、親友もそいつの手にかかっているんですよ!」「......ま、まじで?」「まじです。冗談でも魔法で変装しているわけでもありません」私の本気が伝わったのか、ティレアさんは改めてアルキューネの顔や姿を観察している。そして......。「うぁあああ! 本当に魔族なの? え? え? 吸血鬼って本当? ドッキリとかじゃないよね?」「くっくっ、そうだ。ようやく恐怖したか。まったくオツムが弱いのも困ったものだ。お前は美しく気に入っていたのにバカなのは減点だ」アルキューネが率直な意見をこぼす。否定してやりたいが、私は嘘が苦手だ。「ま、ま、ま、まじで......さ、さすが王都ね。あ、あぁ初期魔法が使えたからってそれがなんだって言うのよ。こ、これが本当の冒険、ようやく私も本当の意味でファンタジーの世界に足を踏み入れたんだ。ど、どうしよう? 心の準備ができていない。せめてはじめはスライムからにして欲しかったよぉ」ティレアさんは混乱しているのか、訳がわからない言葉をつぶやいている。それもしょうがない。なんたってあの魔族が目の前にいるのだから。訓練を受けた魔法学生の私でも魔族のオーラにあてられ気絶しそうなのだ。まして普通の人であるティレアさんが平常でいられるはずがない。ここは私が頑張らないと! こういう時に動けずになんのために魔法学園で学んできたのか! 「ティレアさん、逃げましょう!」私はティレアさんの手を取り、そのまま渡り廊下をひた走る。だが、気持ちとはうらはらに足がふらふらともつれる。気を抜くと意識が遠のきそうだ。私の体力は限界に近く、このままじゃ逃げきれない。「はぁ、はぁ、はぁ」「ジェシカちゃん、大丈夫?」ティレアさんが心配げに私を見つめ声をかけてくれた。あんなに怖がっていたのに私の心配をしてくれている。やっぱり優しい人なんだ。なんとかティレアさんだけでも逃がしてあげたい。どうする? アルキューネの視線は背中に常に感じている。すぐに捕まえようとはせずに逃げる私達を弄んでいるのだろう。アルキューネが遊んで油断している間に、魔法弾を撃ってけん制するしかない。「ティレアさん、私がなんとかアルキューネを食い止めます」「ジェシカちゃん、ありがと。そして、ごめんね。ちょっとパニクってた。私のほうが年上なのに本当申し訳ない」「そんなことないです。とにかく私が魔法弾を撃って奴をけん制します。その間に逃げてください」「ジェシカちゃん、それは死亡フラグってやつよ。絶対にだめ。一緒に逃げるの」「でも、もう私は走れそうにないんです」「そうわかった」ティレアさんは私の言を聞くや、ひょいと私をお姫様だっこして走る。嘘! ティレアさんって意外に力持ち、それに速い。風のようにぐんぐんと走り出していく。「くっくっ、逃げろ、逃げろ。恐怖におび――って、なんだ? は、速すぎるぞ! おい、貴様ら待て、待たんか!」アルキューネが血相を変えて追ってくる。どうやらティレアさんの足の速さに驚いているようだ。私も驚愕している。ティレアさんは私を抱えたまま一気に階段を駆け上がっても息ひとつ切れていないのだ。抱っこされている私のほうが、あまりの速さに肩まで弾ませているというのに......。ティレアさんの脚力は尋常じゃない。身体強化の魔法、それも上位クラスの魔法をかけないとこの速さは出ないと思う。となるとティレアさんって実は名のある冒険者なのかな? 「ティレアさんって、冒険者だったんですね」「へっ? 何言ってるの。違うよ、私はただの料理人」「で、でも、私を抱えてこんなに速く走れるのに......」「まぁ、体力には自信があるからね」「そんなの説明になってません。ただの料理人がこんな――」「ちっちっちっ、ジェシカちゃん、料理人をバカにしたらいけないよ。料理は力仕事なのよ」ティレアさんが諭すように答えてくれた。そ、そんな問題? いやおかしいよ、ティレアさん。私がまだ何か言おうとすると、急にティレアさんの足が止まった。「ジェシカちゃん」「なんですか?」「あれ、吸血鬼よね?」ティレアさんが指差す方向を見ると、ゲイル先生が片足をひきずりながら移動していた。理性はなく、時折、獣のような「はい、尊敬していた先生でした......だけど、アルキューネの手にかかって......」「そう......辛かったね」「ぐすっ、今でも信じられません。あんなに生徒思いだった先生があんな姿になるなんて......ひどい、ひどすぎます」「残念だけど、もう吸血鬼になっている。襲われないようにしないと」ティレアさんの言う通りだ。悲しんでばかりはいられない。今はアルキューネの魔の手から逃れることが先決だ。「ティレアさん、アルキューネに血を吸われないようにしてください。血を吸われるとあんなふうに吸血鬼にされてしまいます」「うん、わかってる。そういう意味では吸血鬼にされた人にも、噛まれないようにしないといけないよ」「あっ!? 確かにそうですね。あと、吸血鬼にされた人は身体能力も上がるみたいで動きに注意しないといけません」「う~ん、その辺のところも鉄板なのかぁ。手足が損傷しても動き回っているし、ゾンビ要素もあるみたいね」「あのティレアさんって魔族をご存じなのですか?」「うん。まぁ魔族というより吸血鬼の特性をね。転生チートってやつで私は特殊な知識を持ち合わせているのよ。私の唯一の武器といってもいいくらいね」てんせぇちぃと? どういう意味なんだろう? 特殊な知識......。確かにティレアさんは吸血鬼を詳しく知っているようだ。「それにしてもティムを待機させてて良かった。まさか学園がこんな魔窟になっていようとは思いもしなかったよ」「そういえばティムちゃん正門にいるんですよね?」「うん、あ~待てよ。まずいぞ。あまり時間をかけていたら、ティムが心配して学園に入ってくるかも!?」ありうる。ティレアさんが長いこと戻ってこなかったら、心配して学園に捜しに来る可能性は高い。「どうしますか?」「ジェシカちゃん、ここに食糧庫ってある?」「食糧庫ですか。それなら食堂の奥がそうです」「食堂ってどこ?」「ちょうどこの廊下の突き当たりを右に曲がったところが食堂です」「そう、そこまで行くわよ」「はい。でも、どうして食糧庫なんですか?」「ふふ、吸血鬼の弱点の一つであるニンニクを手に入れるためよ」「にんにく?」「あぁ、えぇとこの世界でいうクカノミね」「それが弱点なんですか?」ティレアさんは自信満々に言い放つ。クカノミが弱点......。クカノミを使った料理は学園の食堂でもよく出るメニューだ。スタミナがつくからと男子が好んで食べているけど、私は臭いがきつくて苦手である。アルキューネもクカノミが苦手なの? うーん、アルキューネは普通に食べていたような気がするけど、それとも気づかれないように残していたとか? ......何か違うような気がする。「あ、あのティレアさん、やっぱりクカノミが弱点とは思えないんですけど」「ジェシカちゃん、私を信じて!」あぁ、ティレアさんとはさっき会ったばかりだが、だんだんこの人の性格がわかってきた。この人が自信満々に言うときはたいていずれている。「で、でも、ティレアさん、やっぱり――」「ジェシカちゃん、時間がないの。なんとか奴を倒してティムと合流しないと!」だめだ、聞く耳持たないよ。そうしてティレアさんに連れられ、あっという間に食堂奥の食糧庫に到着する。「へぇ~ここが王都魔法学園の食糧庫か。さすがにでかい。おぉ、ヘライアの実まであるよ」ティレアさんは食糧庫にある棚の引き出しや箱を、かたっぱしから開けてクカノミを探している。時折、レアな食材を見つけたのか感嘆の声をあげたりもしている。食材に感動しているあたり料理人と言ってたのは本当みたいだ。「よし、見つけた。けっこうあるぞ。良かった」「はい、ジェシカちゃんの分よ」ティレアさんからクカノミを受け取る。つんと独特のクカノミ臭がした。私はクカノミを手に取って手触りを確認する。硬くもなく柔らかくもなくでこぼこした只の食材だ。これを使って魔族を倒せるとは到底思えない。「いい? 奴が来たら一斉にこれを投げつけるのよ」「あ、あのティレアさん。やっぱり別の作戦を考えたほうが――」「しーっ、来たみたい」ティレアさんの言う通り、アルキューネが息を切らして追いついてきた。「はぁ、はぁ、おのれぇ! ちょろちょろ逃げ足の速い奴だ。だが追い詰めたぞ」「今よ!」ティレアさんからの合図、こうなればいちかばちかだ! 私はせいいっぱい力を込めてクカノミをアルキューネに投げつける。だが、私が投げたクカノミは放物線を描いてポタリと地面に落ちただけだった。だめだ......。クカノミに効果があるか以前に、私の腕力じゃアルキューネに当てることすらできない。私が落胆すると、突然、部屋中に断末魔じみた声が響く。見ると、ティレアさんから放たれたクカノミがアルキューネの肩口に命中していたのだ。アルキューネの肩口にクカノミがめり込み、まるで鉄球にでも当たったかのごとく陥没していた。陥没している肩口からはドロリと血がたれている。「す、すごい......ティレアさんって戦士だったんですね」「戦士じゃないって。だからクカノミが奴の弱点だと言ったでしょう」「え、でもこれってクカノミの力?」「そうよ。まぁ、イメージでは当てたらじゅわっと溶けていくイメージだったけどね。理論と実践は違うってところかしら」本当かな? どう見ても、ティレアさんの腕力にものをいわせた力技にしか思えないけど......。「ぜぇ、ぜぇ、ぜぇ、な、何をしやがった? たかが人間風情が! はぁ、はぁ、な、舐めやがって!」アルキューネから余裕の笑みが消え、激しい怒りの表情に変化していた。お、恐ろしい。これが魔族の本気の重圧なのか......。そのどす黒い殺気は人間の悪意とは重さが違う。私は恐怖からティレアさんの腕にしがみついた。「はぁ、はぁ、殺す! あ、遊んでやっていたらつけあがりやがって。ただでは殺さん。生きたまま血をすすり、その身を引き裂いてくれん!」その声に、びくっと身を震わせる。ティレアさんもアルキューネの恐ろしさに震えているようだ。アルキューネはダメージを負ってる。今なら外に応援を呼べるはずだ。「はぁ、はぁ、許さん。私を傷つけたお前は特に許さん! この屈辱のお返しはお前だけでなく、お前の妹にも同じ責め苦を味あわせてやるからな!」なんておぞましい。ティムちゃんも連れて遠くに逃げないと。私は一刻も早く逃げ出そうとするが、急にティレアさんの足が止まる。「ティレアさん?」「ジェシカちゃん、先に行って」「え!? 早く逃げないと」「だめ。奴はティムを襲うと言った。このまま逃げてもいつか奴がティムを襲うかもしれない」「で、でも」「先に行って。正直、すごく怖いけど、ティムを襲うって言っている奴を、このまま野放しにするわけにはいかない」ティレアさんは踵を返すとアルキューネに向かっていく。「はぁ、はぁ、もう油断はしねぇえ。ぐちゃぐちゃに脳髄をかき出してやるからなぁああ!」アルキューネは自らの牙をむき出しにしてティレアさんに襲い掛かった。ティレアさんは大きく足をあげ弓なりに身体をひねり、その勢いのままクカノミを凄まじい速度で投げつける。クカノミはうなりをあげてアルキューネの太股に激突した。ティレアさんの投擲をくらい、アルキューネはよたよたと後退した。太股からの出血がおびただしい。「はぁ、はぁ。お、お前は、な、なんなんだ? な、何故、たかが投擲の一つでこれほどまでのダメージを――」「ひっ、やめ......」ティレアさんが掛け声とともに放ったとどめの一撃は、音速を超えた勢いであり、私にはとても視認できなかった。気づいたらその凄まじい一撃はアルキューネの顔面に命中していたのである。アルキューネはぴくぴくと痙攣し、そのまま動かなくなった。「さ、行くよ」魔族を瞬殺......。ティレアさんって何者なんだろう? クカノミの力って言ってるけど、どう見てもティレアさんの力だった。魔族を倒すなんて普通の一般人とはとても思えない。もしかしてティレアさんは勇者の末裔で、何か密命を帯びており正体を他人にばらさないようにしているとか? うーん、それにしては言動が単純というか正直すぎる気がする。ティレアさんに隠し事なんて無理そうだ。それともそう思わせる演技をしている? まぁ、でもティレアさんのおかげで命が助かったのだ。詮索なんてしないで素直に感謝しよう。それにティムちゃんが心配だし早く合流しないとね。私とティレアさんは急ぎ正門へと向かった。出口に近づくにつれ何か騒がしい。先ほどまで静寂を極めた夜であったのに怒号が飛び交っている。気になったので、窓から外を眺めてみる。なっ!? 人が人を襲っている! 昼中にはあれほど親しげに話していた隣人同士で争いをしているのだ。いや、よく観察すると争っている片方は吸血鬼化している。襲っているのは吸血鬼で、人は応戦をしているみたいだ。まさかまた魔族の仕業? アルキューネに仲間がいたのかな? 「い、いったい外で何が起こっているの?」「はは......バイオハザド」ティレアさんが乾いた声でつぶやいた。	“Uwah-! That was close. What the heck are you doing all of a sudden!?” “Hohh? Surprisingly nimble, aren’t you. I didn’t think you’d dodge.” Amazing... To think she dodged something like that... Alcyune looked a little surprised as well. “Hey, stop joking around already― wai-, Mr. Alcyune, you’re cosplaying!? And you suddenly used some weird magic to do it. Why all this weird behaviour suddenly...” “Ku ku, you still don’t understand the situation? A truly slow head you’ve got there.” “WHA-!? S-, Slow head you say!? Grrrgrgr― Is that something a teacher of all people should be saying!” Ms. Tilea turned bright red with indignation. Apparently she was really angry about the slow head comment. Mn, but this is probably the only thing I have to agree with him about. Her non-existent sense of danger is really a problem, you know. Can’t Ms. Tilea feel the pressure from a demon? Anyway, I have to hurry up and make her understand just how dangerous this is. “Ms. Tilea, this isn’t the time for that. He attacks people. A vampire, a demon. He’s trying to kill us, you know!” “Vampire? Demon? What on earth are you saying? No matter how harshly he scolded you, you can’t slander people like that, you know?” ARGHHH! What’s with this person!? Please just understand how tense our situation is. Maybe you could call her optimistic, or maybe a bit out of touch with reality, but the point is that indirect expressions won’t work with her. I don’t think she’ll get it unless I say it outright. “It’s true! He tried to kill me too, and he’s already attacked my friend, you know!” “...S-, Seriously?” “Yes, seriously. This isn’t a joke, or a magical disguise, or anything else.” Perhaps she realized how serious I was, because Ms. Tilea looked back towards Alcyune and started observing his face and figure. And then... “UWAHHHHH! He’s really a demon? Eh? Eh? Vampires are real? This isn’t some prank show, right?” “Ku ku. Quite right. So you finally know terror? Honestly, I never thought I would be troubled by my prey being too dumb. Even though I was quite taken by your beauty, I’ll subtract some points for your lack of intelligence.” Alcyune frankly stated his opinions. I wanted to disagree, but I’m bad at lying. “S-, S-, S-, Seriously... A-, As expected of the Capital. A-, Aahh, so what if I can use elementary magic? T-, This is a real adventure. So at last, in the truest, truest sense, I too have set foot into a fantasy world. W-, What do I do? My heart wasn’t prepared for this. At least start me off on a slimeeee...!” Perhaps because she was frantic, Ms. Tilea started to speak nonsense. It can’t be helped though. After all, there’s a demon in front of her eyes. I’m a student who took lessons in magic, and even I almost fainted from his aura. To say nothing of a normal person. There’s no way Ms. Tilea would be in a normal state of mind. I have to try my best for us! If I can’t act during times like this, just what on earth did I learn magic for! “Ms. Tilea, let’s run!” I took her by the hand and started sprinting down the hallway. But to be honest my feet felt unsteady. If I let up even a little, I might faint at any moment. My endurance is reaching its limit, and we won’t get away at this rate. “Hahh, hahh, hahh...” “Jessica, are you okay?” Ms. Tilea spoke to me with a worried expression. Even though she was that scared just now, she’s worrying about me instead. She really is a kind person, just like I thought. I have to let her escape at least. What should I do? He’s probably toying with us by having us run. I guess I have no choice except to hold him back with magical bullets while he still isn’t being serious. “Ms. Tilea, I’ll hold him back somehow.” “Jessica. Thank you. And sorry. I fell into a bit of a panic, didn’t I. It’s pathetic that I’m the older one here.” “Not at all. At any rate, I’ll use magical bullets to hold him back. In the meantime, please escape.” “Jessica, that’s what they call a death flag you know? Definitely not. We escape together.” “But, I can’t run anymore.” “I see. Got it.” The moment she heard my words, Ms. Tilea suddenly lifted me up like a princess and began to run. No way! Ms. Tilea is surprisingly powerful. And fast. Like the wind, she ran faster and faster. “Ku ku, run, run. Tremble in fea― wai-, wha-, s-, so fast! Oi, wait up! Wait, I say!” Alcyune’s face changed, and he started running after us. Apparently Ms. Tilea’s running speed shocked him too. With me still in her arms, she bolted up the stairs without missing a breath. Rather, it was me, being carried, that was out of breath due to the speed... Ms. Tilea’s leg strength really isn’t normal. I don’t think you can get this kind of speed without body reinforcement magic, and a high-level spell at that. So could that mean that Ms. Tilea is actually a famous adventurer maybe? “Ms. Tilea, you were actually an adventurer, weren’t you.” “Heh? What the heck are you saying? Of course not. I’m just a normal chef.” “B-, But, you’re running so fast with me in your arms...” “Well, I do have confidence in my physical strength.” “Just that much wouldn’t explain it. A normal chef wouldn’t be able to―” “Tsktsktsk. Jessica, you shouldn’t make light of chefs. Cooking needs a lot of strength, you know?” Ms. Tilea replied with an admonishment. T-, That’s the problem here? No, no, that’s crazy, Ms. Tilea. I was about to speak to her again when Ms. Tilea suddenly stopped her legs. “Jessica.” “What is it?” “That thing’s a vampire, right?” In the direction that Ms. Tilea pointed, Mr. Geil limped on one leg. He had lost his reason, and sometimes roared like a beast. “Yes. He was a teacher I respected... but because of Alcyune...” “I see... It must have been hard on you.” “Hic-, I still can’t believe it... A teacher who cared so much about us students looking like that is... it’s cruel. It’s just so cruel.” “It’s unfortunate, but he’s a vampire now. We can’t let him attack us.” It’s just like Ms. Tilea says. I can’t just grieve here. We have to prioritize escaping right now. “Ms. Tilea, please don’t let Alcyune drink your blood. If he manages to do so, you’ll be turned into a vampire.” “Mn, I know that. In the same way, we can’t let those new vampires bite us either.” “Ah-!? You’re right. Also, it looks like the new vampires gain physical strength too, so we have to be careful about our movements.” “Hm~mm... So they resemble the cliches in that way too huh... He’s moving about even with an injured leg, so I guess it looks like he has some zombie traits too, huh?” “Um, Ms. Tilea, you know about the demon race?” “Mn. Well, rather than the demon race, you could say that they’re characteristics of a vampire. It’s my very own Reincarnation Cheat; I have some special knowledge. You could even say that it’s my only weapon.” Rheeyin Carnashon Cheet? Whatever could that mean? Special knowledge... It does look like she’s knowledgeable on the vampires. “But still, I’m glad I had Timu wait outside. To think that this academy would turn into such a den of monsters.” “Speaking of which, Timu is at the front gate, right?” “Yeah. Ah~ Wait! This is bad. If I take too long, Timu might get worried and come looking for me inside!” It’s possible. If Ms. Tilea doesn’t come back after a long time, there’s a high chance that Timu would search the school for her. “What should we do?” “Jessica, is there a food storage room?” “A food storage room? If you’re looking for one, there should be one in the back of the dining hall.” “And where’s the dining hall?” “If we follow this hallway and make a right, we’ll arrive just at it.” “I see. Let’s go then.” “Yes. But, why that room?” “Huhu, it’s to get our hands on one of the vampire’s weak points; garlic.” “Gar Lik?” “Aah, umm, in this world we call it laminariales, don’t we?” “Is that one of their weak points?” So she declared, filled with confidence. Laminariales is their weak point...? We have a lot of dishes on our menu that feature laminariales. It’s good for stamina so the boys happily eat it up, but it stinks to me, so I’m no good with it. Is Alcyune also bad with it? Hmmm... I get the feeling that Alcyune just ate it like normal too, but maybe he secretly left it behind? ...Something feels a little off about this. “U-, Umm, Ms. Tilea, I really don’t think that laminariales is their weak point, but...” “Jessica, believe in me!” Aahh, even though I’ve only just met Ms. Tilea, I more or less understand her type. Whenever she declares anything brimming with confidence, she’s basically always wrong. “B-, But, Ms. Tilea. I really don’t think―” “Jessica, we don’t have time. We have to beat him and meet up with Timu!” Like that, Ms. Tilea brought me along, and we reached the dining hall and storage room in an instant. “Hmm~ So this is the Magic Academy’s food storage room. Huge, as you’d expect. Oohh! They even have heraia fruits!” Ms. Tilea opened every cupboard and drawer in search of laminariales. Occasionally, perhaps because she spotted a rare ingredient or something, but she would sigh with emotion too. Considering how moved she is by ingredients, it looks like the thing about being a chef is the truth. “Okay, found it. There’s quite a bit too. Thank goodness.” “Here, this is your portion, Jessica.” I took the laminariales from Ms. Tilea. The strong smell assailed my nose. Checking with a squeeze that I had them in hand, I found that they weren’t hard or soft, and just your average, lumpy ingredient. It’s impossible to think that I can use this to defeat a demon. “Listen, okay? When he comes, we’ll throw these together.” “U-, Umm, Ms. Tilea. I really do think we should think of another tact―” “Shhh. Looks like he’s here.” Just like she said, Alcyune came running in, out of breath. “Hahh, hahh, you b̲i̲t̲c̲h̲e̲s̲! Running about so hard to catch. But I’ve got you now.” “NOW!” Ms. Tilea signaled. At this point, it’s do or die! I threw the laminariales with all my might at him. But the laminariales that I threw just traced a parabola in the air before plonking onto the ground. It’s no good... Before even considering the effect of the laminariales, my arm strength was too weak to hit him. As I was feeling despondent, A death agony suddenly resounded through the room. When I looked up, I found that Tilea’s laminariales had made a hole in the area around his collarbone. The laminariales was caved in like it was an iron ball. Thick blood overflowed from the cavity. “A-, Amazing... So you were a warrior, weren’t you, Ms. Tilea.” “I’m not a warrior. I already told you that laminariales is his weakness, right?” “Eh-, but, are you saying this is the power of laminariales?” “That’s right. Well, in my mind it was more of a ‘shuwawa~’ kind of thing where he’d dissolve after touching it though. Is this what they mean by the difference between theory and implementation?” Really? However I look at it, it just looks like Ms. Tilea used her arm strength though... W-, What the hell did you do? A mere human! Hahh, hahh, d-, don’t make light of me!” The smile of composure had vanished from his face, and in its place was an intense look of fury. H-, How horrifying. Is this the pressure from a demon when he’s serious...? This deep black bloodlust is completely different from a human’s spite. Because of the terror, I clung to Ms. Tilea’s arm. “Hahh, hahh, I’ll kill you! F-, F̲u̲c̲k̲i̲n̲g taking advantage because I was just playing with you. Don’t think you’ll die an easy death. I’ll drain you of your blood alive, and then I’ll rip your body to pieces!” My body trembled violently at his voice. It looked like Ms. Tilea was trembling from fear as well. Alcyune had taken damage. What we needed to do now was escape and call for help. “Hahh, hahh, unforgivable. Hurting me like this is unforgivable! I won’t just repay this humiliation. I’ll have your little sister taste the same hell as well!” How repulsive. We have to take Timu away as well. I was determined to escape even a second faster, but suddenly, Ms. Tilea stopped in her tracks. “Ms. Tilea?” “Jessica, you go ahead.” “Eh-!? We have to hurry and run.” “No. This guy said he would attack Timu. If I run here, I’ll never know when he might attack her.” “B-, But.” “You go ahead. Honestly, I’m really scared, but there’s no way I can let him go after what he said.” Ms. Tilea turned around and headed back to face Alcyune. “Hahh, hahh, no more carelessness... I’LL CLAW YOUR F̲U̲C̲K̲I̲N̲G̲ BRAINS OUTTTT!” Alcyune bore his fangs, and rushed towards her. Ms. Tilea lifted her leg up high, bending her body like a bow, before launching the laminariales at tremendous speed. It roared through the air, before crashing into his thigh. Suffering Ms. Tilea’s toss, Alcyune staggered away from her. Blood was flooding from his thigh. “Hahh, hahh... W-, What are you? W-, Why am I taking s-, so much damage from a single toss―” “Hii-, sto-...” Ms. Tilea yelled to pump herself up before launching the final blow with such force that it seemed to pass the speed of sound. It was so fast that I couldn’t even see it. Before I knew it, that incredible toss had struck Alcyune right in the face, and after convulsing a few times, he stopped moving altogether. “Now then, let’s go.” Instantly killing a demon... Just who is Ms. Tilea? She said it was the power of the laminariales, but no matter how you look at it, it was Ms. Tilea’s strength. I can’t imagine that a normal person could defeat a demon. Could it be that Ms. Tilea is actually a descendant of a hero, and was bound by some secret fetters that stopped her from revealing herself? Hmmm... But if that’s the case, her behavior is too simple, or rather, too straightforward. I really can’t imagine that she’s capable of hiding anything. Or is that also just an act to fool me? But well, thanks to Ms. Tilea, my life was saved. I should just feel thankful instead of prying. And also, I’m worried about Timu so we need to hurry. Ms. Tilea and I hurried to the main gate. As we approached it, I started to hear some kind of fuss. Even though it was the dead quiet of the night just before, I could hear roars and bellows flying about now. Wondering what was going on, I tried looking out the window. WHA-!? People are attacking each other! Neighbors who were talking so intimately just this morning were attacking each other. No, once I looked carefully, I noticed that the side doing the attacking were vampirized. The attackers were vampires, and the humans were fighting back. Is this also the work of the demons? Did Alcyune have companions? “W-, What on earth is happening outside?” “Haha... Resident Evil.” Ms. Tilea muttered those words in a hoarse voice.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 13, "inserted_lines_src": 4, "inserted_lines_trg": 4 }
「はは、はははっ! これはおもしろい!......お嬢さん、レシピを売るつもりなら、おおよそ適正価格ですよ。ガレットは単価が低い分、それ以上出す人はいないでしょう」「え......?」「ただし、よく考えるように。レシピを売るということは、同じ味の店ができるかもしれないということです。今後、営業許可をとって場所代を払っても、ガレットは売れなくなるかもしれません。ナオヤさんが、同じ味の違う店を出した場合は」ガレットのレシピを買い取る。俺がそう言ったのに「こんなにもらえない」と言い出した女の子。このお金をもらわなきゃ、娼館で働かされることになるのに。困った俺を助けたのは、いままでガレットを売っていた少女に詰め寄り、クロエを煽っていた商人ギルドのギルド長だった。ニヤニヤと、まるで値踏みするかのように俺を覗き込んでくる。実際値踏みしてるんだろう。俺はどうするつもりなのか、商売人として俺にどれだけの価値があるのか。たぶんギルド長は、俺を見極めるためにこんなことを言い出したんだろう。「さあ、受け取るんだ。明日のことは明日考えればいい」迷う少女の手に、俺はお金を押し付ける。「商売するのに許可が必要で、お金を払わなきゃいけないこともある。どんな形でも稼ぐには規則を守らないと。娼館で働くんじゃなくて、明日も商売がしたいなら......受け取るんだ」正直に言えば、商人ギルドのギルド長は優しいとさえ思う。俺とクロエと少女の心情は別にして。分の場所代なのに、金額は俺の給料の半月分、三年目社員の平均月給程度。おそらく遅延に対する割り増しもない。払えないなら働き口を紹介して分割も認めている。仕事先はアレだけど。しかも商人ギルドのギルド長は、なぜか俺の提案に乗ってくれた。なぜかというか、ターゲットをガレット売りの少女から俺に変えたんだろう。俺が単なる同情で金を出したのか、それともこのチャンスを自分の利益に繋げられるのか。要は俺を、アイヲンモール異世界店の新しい店長の手腕と能力を見極めるいい機会だと思ったわけだ。エグい。ぶっちゃけ、ガレットのレシピの利用方法は思いついてない。「わかり、ました」少女は、震える手で俺からお金を受け取った。「そちらの取引は成立したようですなあ。では三年分の場所代をいただいて、支払い証書をお渡ししましょう」ギルド長が少女の手から硬貨を取り去り、いつの間にか横いた護衛っぽい鎧姿の男に預ける。手に持っていた書類にサラサラとサインして、少女に書類を手渡した。「これで支払いも終了ですねえ。今後食品を販売する際は、商人ギルドに申請して場所代を納めるように。まあガレットのレシピを売ったようですし、今後も商売できるか知りませんが」「そのへんは俺とこの子が話して決めますよ。ゆっくり話し合います」「ふふ、はははっ! では今後を楽しみにしてますよ、ナオヤさん」最後にニンマリと笑って、ギルド長は馬車に乗り込んで去っていった。残されたのは俺とクロエと、ガレット売りの少女だけ。「あのゲスが、引き下がった......だと......?」「まだ、お金が、残ってる......」の女性は呆然としてる。「あー、クロエ。とりあえずガレットとジャムはポーチに入るか? それからキミにキミの家に行っていいかな?」「ああ、入るぞナオヤ。待て! まさかナオヤは少女の家に行って! 『助けてやった礼をもらわないとなあ』などと言って少女を襲う、いやそれどころか少女の母親とその場にいた私までもッ! くっ、殺せ!」「ないから。代金を払ったガレットのレシピを教わりに行くだけだから。活用方法は思いついてないんだけどさ」ギルド長は同じ味で別の店を出せるって言ったけど、それは間違いだ。から。ガレットだけ再現できても買ってくれる人はいないだろう。そりゃアイヲンモール異世界店には、日本で売ってるジャムもあるだろうけど。封鎖された棚に眠ってるジャムを使えば代用できるかもしれないけど。いまのところ、俺にその気はない。「はあ、ほんと甘いな俺。これで商人ギルドのギルド長に目をつけられたわけだ。ああ、名前を知られてたしいまさら顔が引きつってくる。アイヲンモール異世界店の商売敵、商人ギルドはなかなか手強いらしい。まあ、とりあえず。「おおおおお! 支度金があって助かりました! ありがとうアイヲンちょっと見直した! でもいまので使い切っちゃって明日からどうしよう!」「......あの、だ、大丈夫ですか? 騎士さま、お連れのお兄さんが」「少女よ、気にしなくていいぞ! ナオヤはときどきこうなるんだ!」「誰のせいだと思ってんだよ! お前らだよお前ら!」「そ、その、よくわからんが、すまん」「ごめんなさい......本当に、ありがとうございます」「お、おう、わかってくれればいいんだ。でもクロエはあとで反省会な」「まままさかナオヤ! 反省会を名目に狭く暗い部屋に私を押し込んで! 逃げ場を失った私を襲い」「そういうのいいから。俺ちょっと疲れちゃっていま相手できないから」クロエの言葉を遮る。ふうっと大きくため息を吐く。「んじゃキミ、家に案内してくれるかな? キミのお母さんとも話しておきたいし」「その、ウチは人を招待できるほどキレイじゃ......」「あー、いいっていいって。俺もクロエも気にしないよ。クロエの部屋の方がぐちゃぐちゃっぽいし」「な、なな、なんでわかったナオヤッ! さては私を尾行して部屋を覗き」「家はここから近いのかな?」「はい、裏通りですけど、少し歩いたところに」また何か言い出したクロエを無視して、俺はガレット売りの少女と一緒に歩き出した。アイヲンモール異世界店に帰るのは少し遅れて、夕方のピークに間に合わなくなりそうだ。 ......まあ大丈夫か。ピークって言っても重なるお客さまは10人ぐらいだし。少なすぎてツラいです!	“Haha, hahahha! This is interesting! ...... Miss, if you intend to sell the recipe, it’s roughly the right price. No one will pay more for a galette than that for a low unit price.” “Eh ......?” “However, think about it. Selling the recipe means that a restaurant with the same taste may be opened. In the future, even if you get a business license and pay for the place, you may not be able to sell the galette. If Naoya opens a different restaurant with the same flavor.” I buy out the recipe for the galette. I told her so, and the girl said, “I can’t get this much.” Without this money, she would have been forced to work in a brothel. The one who came to aid me in my time of need was the guild leader of the merchant guild, who had been pestering the girl who had been selling the galette, and who had been instigating Chloe to do the same. He was grinning at me, as if he was trying to price me out of a job. In fact, I think he’s trying to price me out. I wondered what he was going to do with me and how much I was worth as a businessman. Perhaps the guild leader is trying to gauge my worth by saying something like this. “Come on, take it. Whatever happens tomorrow, you can think about it tomorrow.” I put the money into the girl’s hesitant hands. “There are times when you need a permit to do business, and you have to pay for it. You have to follow the rules to earn any form of money. If you want to do business tomorrow, instead of working in a brothel, take it .......” Honestly, I even think the head of the merchant guild is kind. Apart from the sentiment of me, Chloe and the girl. Although it is a three-year location fee, the amount is half of my salary, about the average monthly salary of a third-year employee. And probably no additional payment for additional time. If she can’t pay it, I’ll give her a job offer and allow her to split the money. The job is not the same, though. Furthermore, for some reason, the merchant guild leader agreed to my proposal. I guess he changed his target from the galette girl to me. I wonder if he paid me out of mere sympathy, or if he can use this opportunity to his own benefit. In short, he saw me as a good opportunity to assess the skills and abilities of the new manager of the Aion Mall Otherworldly Store. Yikes. To be frank, I have no idea how to use the galette recipe. “I- understand.” She took the money from me with trembling hands. “It seems we have a deal. I’ll give you the three years’ rent for the place and a receipt for the payment.” The guild leader took the coins from the girl’s hand and gave them to a man in armor who was standing next to the guild leader before I knew it. He signed a document in his hand and handed it to the girl. “This completes your payment. When you sell food in the future, you must register with the merchants’ guild and pay for the place. Well, it seems you sold the recipe for galette, so I don’t know if you can continue to do business.” “This girl and I will talk about it and make a decision. We will discuss it carefully.” “Fufu, hahahhha! I am looking forward to the future, Naoya-san.” The guild leader smiled at the end, got into his carriage, and left. All that remained was me, Chloe, and the galette girl. “That prick backed down,......?” “There’s plenty of money left .......” The two ladies are stunned. “Uh, Chloe. Can you get the galette and the jam on the pouch for now? And you, can I come to your house with you?” “Ah, sure, I’ll join you, Naoya. Wait! You know, you can’t just go to a girl’s house. Naoya went to the girl’s house, said something like, ” You should thank me for saving your life,” and attacked the girl, or even her mother and me, who were there! Kuh, kill me!” “I’m not. I’m just going to learn the recipe for the galette I paid for. I can’t think of a way to use it.” Beside- The guild leader said I could open another restaurant with the same flavors, but he’s wrong. Even if I could recreate the galette, no one would buy it. Although there may be some jam available for sale in Japan at the Aion Mall’s Otherworld Store. I might be able to substitute jam that’s sitting on a shelf in a sealed-off store. I have no intention of doing so at the moment. “Sigh, I’m really naive. Now the merchant guild leader is on to me. Ah, he knew my name and had been on to me from the very beginning.” My face is getting tense now. The merchants’ guild, the business rival of the Aion Mall’s Otherworldly Store, is apparently quite formidable. Well, for now. “Ooooooh! I’m so glad I had the money to prepare! Thank you, Aion, you’ve made me think a little bit more about you! But now I’ve used it all up, what am I going to do tomorrow?!” “Uhmm ...... is everything okay? Sir knight, is this brother with you?” “Don’t worry about it, young girl! Naoya sometimes does this!” “Whose fault is it that I’m like this? It’s you and your friends!” “W-well, I don’t know. Sorry.” “I’m sorry ......, and ...... ......, thank you so much.” “A-ah, I hope you understand. But Chloe, we’ll talk about it later.” “D-d-d-don’t tell me, Naoya! You pushed me into a small, dark room under the guise of a meeting to reflect on the situation! And then you attacked me.” “Don’t worry about that. I’m a little tired and I can’t deal with you right now.” Chloe’s speech was interrupted. I let out a big sigh. “So, you’re going to show me the house, right? I’d like to talk to your mother.” “Well, my house isn’t pretty enough to invite people over. ......” “Ah. I don’t mind, and neither does Chloe. Chloe’s room is more messy.” “H-how did you know that, Naoya? You must have followed me to my room.” “Is your house close to here?” “Yes, it’s in a back alley, just a few short steps away.” Ignoring Chloe who started to say something again, I started walking with the galette girl. My return to the Aion Mall Otherworld Store is going to be a little late and I’m going to miss the evening peak. ......Well, that’s okay. I say peak, but there are only about customers that overlap. It’s just too few and it’s so frustrating!	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 3, "inserted_lines_trg": 1 }
当てはまらない方もいるでしょうが私は生活していく上でいかに多くを他の人に依存しているのだろうと実感することがありますそれを少し怖いと思うこともありますでも今日お話しするのはこうした相互依存が実は強力な社会基盤そのものでありそこにオープンソースの協同作業を加えることで非常に根深い社会問題の緩和策になりえるということです数年前マイケル・ポーラン氏がニューヨーク・タイムズ誌に寄稿した記事を読みました食料をほんの一部でも自作することで環境にとって非常に良い働きかけができるのだという記事ですその記事を読んだのは真冬でしたし私が住むニューヨークのアパートには土を入れるようなスペースもありませんでしたそれで私はとりあえずワイアード誌の次号発行を待ってこういった将来の問題への専門家たちの見解を読もうと思いましたしかしそれこそポーラン氏が記事中で指摘していたことだと気づきましたつまり専門家に全ての責任を引き渡すことが今経験しているような食品系の混乱を起こす原因だということですたまたま私は仕事の関係で NASAが宇宙での食物育成法を探るため養液栽培を行っていることを知りました植物の根の周りに高品質の液肥を流すことにより栄養に富んだ収穫が得られます私のアパートは農園を作るには宇宙と同じぐらい不向きな場所ですでも自然光はいくらか入りますし通年の温度調整も可能です 2年が飛ぶように過ぎやっと室内で食物を育成できる縦長の養液栽培装置を使った窓辺の農園が出来上がりましたこの仕組みを説明すると装置下部のポンプが定期的に養液を上部へ送り粘土粒に支えられた植物の根に滴らせます土は使いませんさて光と温度は窓周辺の局所的環境に左右されるので窓辺の農園には農園主が必要になりますどんな作物を窓辺の農園に植えるのか有機栽培するのか否かを決定するのも農園主です当初窓辺の農園は技術的に複雑で多くの試行錯誤が必要だと考えられましたそれで公開プロジェクトにしたかったのですその理由として養液栽培が米国で現在最も特許の数を増やしている分野でありモンサントのように食料に関する数多くの知的財産権を企業が占有する分野になる可能性があるからですそれで私は製品を作る代わりに共同開発者たち全員にこの技術を公開することにしました初期に作り上げた装置は何とか上手く作動しニューヨークの一般的なアパートの窓辺で週に約一皿分のサラダが収穫できましたチェリートマトやキュウリなどいろんな野菜を育てることができましたでも初期の装置では水漏れがあり音がうるさく電力消費が大きかったのでマーサ・スチュワートなら絶対に認可しなかったでしょうより多くの人に開発に関わってもらおうと私たちはSNSのサイトを立ち上げデザインを公開してそれがどのように動くのかを説明し装置のあらゆる問題点を公表することまで行いましたそして世界中の人々にこの装置を作り一緒に試してみてほしいと呼びかけました今ではこのウェブサイトに 18,000人が登録しています窓辺の農園は世界中に広がりました私たちが行っていることは NASAや大企業で言えば R&D つまり研究開発です私たちはそれを R&D-I-Yと呼びます自力で行う研究開発ということです例えばジャクソン氏はウォーターポンプの代わりに空気ポンプの使用を勧めてくれました装置全体の作り直しが必要でしたが完成すると二酸化炭素の排出量がほぼ半分になりました多くの方たちが試行錯誤を重ねましたがシカゴのトニー氏は有機肥料の成分を変えることで光量が少ない環境下でもイチゴを1年のうち9か月収穫可能にしましたフィンランドの窓辺農園主は北欧の暗い冬に合わせ LEDのグローライトを装置に取り付けました今では公開されプロジェクトの一部になっています窓辺の農園はソフトウェアのようにどんどんバージョンアップされて進化していますこのようにオープンソースのプロジェクトにおける本当の利点は個人的な関心に基づき装置を改良する人と全体的なことに関心を持つ人との間で相互作用が起きることなのですだから私は中心メンバーとともに全員の役に立つような改良に集中することができますし初心者の方々のニーズにも気を配ることができます私たちは DIYの愛好者のために検証を重ねた手引書を無料で提供しています世界中のどんな人でも登録料等なしで窓辺の農園を作ることができます私たちのコミュニティはこの装置への特許を出願していますプロジェクトの資金を得るため自ら装置を作る時間が持てない学校や個人と契約して装置の制作を代行していますコミュニティの内部ではある文化が生まれていますただアイデアを出すだけでなく誰かのアイデアを支援しその実験者になる方がよいという文化ですこのプロジェクトを通じて私たちの農園への支援が得られましたしただ電球を新型に変えるといったこと以上に環境保全に対して積極的な働きかけをすることができますでも私たちがここから本当に得たものはアイリーン氏が言うようにコラボレーションの喜びです自分のアイデアが遥か遠くに暮らす他の誰かによって形を変えて発展しその人が自分の貢献に感謝してくれるのは素晴らしいことだと彼女は言っています環境保護論者や食に携わる人の言葉を借りると消費者の行動を大きく変えようと思ったら「消費者」という意識を捨て去り行動を起こしている人を支援しなければなりませんオープンソースのプロジェクトには独自の推進力があります自発的な研究開発の広まりは窓辺の農園やLED照明にとどまらず太陽光発電や野菜を育てる養液で魚も養殖するアクアポニックスにも見られます私たちは先人が築いてきたものの上に革新を重ねてきました未来の世代を考えると今こそが暮らし方を改革するときなのですさあ皆さん私たちとともに人々がつながり合うことの価値を再発見し今でもなお我々は開拓者なのだと宣言しましょう	And there are days -- I don't know about the rest of you guys -- but there are days when I palpably feel how much I rely on other people for pretty much everything in my life. And some days, that can even be a little scary. But what I'm here to talk to you about today is how that same interdependence is actually an extremely powerful social infrastructure that we can actually harness to help heal some of our deepest civic issues, if we apply open source collaboration. A couple of years ago, I read an article by New York Times writer Michael Pollan in which he argued that growing even some of our own food is one of the best things that we can do for the environment. Now at the time that I was reading this, it was the middle of the winter in my New York City apartment. So I was basically just willing to settle for just reading the next Wired magazine and finding out how the experts were going to figure out how to solve all these problems for us in the future. But that was actually exactly the point that Michael Pollan was making in this article -- was it's precisely when we hand over the responsibility for all these things to specialists that we cause the kind of messes that we see with the food system. about how NASA has been using hydroponics to explore growing food in space. And you can actually get optimal nutritional yield by running a kind of high-quality liquid soil over plants' root systems. Now to a vegetable plant, about as foreign as outer space. But I can offer some natural light and year-round climate control. Fast-forward two years later: we now have window farms, which are vertical, hydroponic platforms for food-growing indoors. And the way it works is that there's a pump at the bottom, which periodically sends some of this liquid nutrient solution up to the top, which then trickles down through plants' root systems that are suspended in clay pellets -- so there's no dirt involved. Now light and temperature vary with each window's microclimate, so a window farm requires a farmer, and she must decide what kind of crops she is going to put in her window farm, and whether she is going to feed her food organically. Back at the time, a window farm was no more than a technically complex idea that was going to require a lot of testing. And I really wanted it to be an open project, is one of the fastest growing areas of patenting in the United States right now and could possibly become another area like Monsanto, where we have a lot of corporate intellectual property in the way of people's food. So I decided that, instead of creating a product, what I was going to do was open this up to a whole bunch of co-developers. The first few systems that we created, they kind of worked. We were actually able to grow about a salad a week in a typical New York City apartment window. And we were able to grow cherry tomatoes and cucumbers, all kinds of stuff. But the first few systems were these leaky, loud power-guzzlers that Martha Stewart would definitely never have approved. So to bring on more co-developers, what we did was we created a social media site on which we published the designs, we explained how they worked, and we even went so far as to point out everything that was wrong with these systems. And then we invited people all over the world to build them and experiment with us. So actually now on this website, we have 18,000 people. And we have window farms all over the world. What we're doing is what NASA or a large corporation would call R&D, or research and development. But what we call it is R&D-I-Y, or research and develop it yourself. So for example, Jackson came along and suggested that we use air pumps instead of water pumps. It took building a whole bunch of systems to get it right, but once we did, we were able to cut our carbon footprint nearly in half. Tony in Chicago has been taking on growing experiments, like lots of other window farmers, and he's been able to get his strawberries to fruit for nine months of the year in low-light conditions by simply changing out the organic nutrients. And window farmers in Finland have been customizing their window farms for the dark days of the Finnish winters by outfitting them with LED grow lights that they're now making open source and part of the project. So window farms have been evolving through a rapid versioning process similar to software. And with every open source project, the real benefit is the interplay between the specific concerns of people customizing their systems for their own particular concerns and the universal concerns. So my core team and I are able to concentrate on the improvements that really benefit everyone. And we're able to look out for the needs of newcomers. So for do-it-yourselfers, we provide free, very well-tested instructions so that anyone, anywhere around the world, can build one of these systems for free. And there's a patent pending on these systems as well that's held by the community. And to fund the project, we partner to create products that we then sell to schools and to individuals who don't have time to build their own systems. Now within our community, a certain culture has appeared. In our culture, it is better to be a tester who supports someone else's idea than it is to be just the idea guy. What we get out of this project is we get support for our own work, as well as an experience of actually contributing to the environmental movement in a way other than just screwing in new light bulbs. But I think that Eileen expresses best what we really get out of this, which is the actual joy of collaboration. So she expresses here what it's like to see someone halfway across the world having taken your idea, built upon it and then acknowledging you for contributing. If we really want to see the kind of wide consumer behavior change that we're all talking about as environmentalists and food people, maybe we just need to ditch the term "consumer" and get behind the people who are doing stuff. Open source projects tend to have a momentum of their own. And what we're seeing is that R&D-I-Y has moved beyond just window farms and LEDs into solar panels and aquaponic systems. And we're building upon innovations of generations who went before us. And we're looking ahead at generations who really need us to retool our lives now. So we ask that you join us in rediscovering the value of citizens united, that we are all still pioneers.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
2003年にはSkoll基金と社会起業についてしかし電話は来ません 2004年にはParticipantプロダクションを設立しました最初の年は実によい滑り出しでしたしかし電話はきませんそして去年、ついに電話が来ましたがその時は出番がJJエイブラムスの後でした TEDは血も涙もないブラックユーモアのセンスがあります初めてシリコンバレーからハリウッドに移り住んだ時私には不安がありましたしかしハリウッドにいることのメリットもあるとわかりましたそれに、実は自分の映画会社を持つこともメリットも私はまた、ハリウッドとシリコンバレーは思ったより共通点が多いとわかりましたハリウッドにはセックスシンボルがおり、バレーにもいますハリウッドにはハリウッドのライバルが、バレーと同じでしたハリウッドでは人々はパワーテーブルの前に集まりバレーでも我々はパワーテーブルに集まりますつまり、自分で思っていたよりずっと共通点が多かったのですしかし、とにかく私は今ここで話をしていますその一部は個人的なものですクリスが私をスピーカーとして招待してくれた時彼は、私が他人から見れば—謎の人物でなにが私を駆り立てているのかを知りたがっていると言いました私を駆り立てているものーそれは私たち皆が共有している未来のビジョンですそこは平和と繁栄と持続性のある世界ですここ数日間、エド・ウィルソンやジェームズ・ナクトウェイの写真などのたくさんのプレゼンを聴きましたが私たちが新しいバージョンの「ヒューマニティ2.0」に到達するには、とても長い道のりを進まなくてはならないと思いますそして、私が今日の世界の二大災厄と考えているものを終わらせたいという気持ちは私たち全ての心にあることだと思いますそのうち一つは機会の格差で― 昨夜クリントンが不平等、不公平そして非持続的と呼んだもので― そこから我々を取り囲む全ての悪:貧困、文盲、病魔などが発生しているのですしかし、おそらくもっと大きな格差は「希望の格差」だと思いますどこかでだれかが普通の人間はこの世界を変えることはできないのだ、という非常に悪い考えを抱いているのですこれは恐ろしいことだと思いますそこで第一章はまさにここで、私たち全てと共に始まるのですなぜなら私たちそれぞれの中には機会格差を均等にし、希望格差を埋める力があるからですもしTEDの人たちが世界を変えられなかったら、誰が変えられるでしょう私にとって、こういうことはずっと若い頃家族でニューヨークの郊外でキャンプしていた頃に始まります夏の間そこでは、姉に小突き回されるか読書をする以外にはやるべきことがほとんどなくそれで私はジェイムズ・ミッチェナー、ジェイムズ・クラベル、アイン・ランドなどを読んでいましたそして彼らの物語によって、世界が非常に小さく、互いに結びついているように感じられましたそして、もし私が物語を書いて世界が小さく互いに結びついていると書いたらひょっとしたら人々が、我々を取り巻いている問題に関心を持ち、世界を変えようとするかもしれないと思いました私はそれが生計を立てるベストな方法ではないと思ったのでまず経済的に自立する道を選び、それからなるべく早くそのような物語を書こうと思いましたそして私が14歳の時に、はっと目が覚めるような出来事がありましたある日父親が家に帰って来て彼が癌に冒されており、かなり悪そうだと話したのですそして父が言うには、自分は死ぬことはそれほど恐れていないが自分が人生でしたかったことができないのが怖い、と言ったのです幸運にも、それから長年経った今でも父は生きていますしかし若かった私には、それは非常に衝撃的で人は自分があとどれくらい時間があるかわからないのだと思いましたそこで私は急ぎました私は工学を学びいくつかビジネスを起こしそれが経済的自由への切符だと思っていましたビジネスの一つはコンピュータレンタルの仕事で「マイクロ・オン・ザ・ムーヴ」といってよく出来た名前で人々はしょっちゅうコンピュータを盗みましたそこで私はもっとビジネスについて知らなくてはと思いスタンフォードビジネススクールに通って学びました私がそこにいる時にピエール・オミダイアと友達になり、彼は今日ここにいますがピエール、ごめんな―この写真は昔のなんですそして私が卒業してすぐピエールが私のところに来てー人々がオンラインで欲しいものを売買するためのシステムのアイデアをもたらしましたスタンフォードの学位からくる知恵を持つ私は言いました「ピエール、なんて馬鹿なことを」ともちろん私は正しくそれからすぐ、96年にピエールと私はフルタイムジョブから離れ eBayを企業化し、そのあとはご存知ですね会社は2年後に上場し今では世界で一番知られている企業の一つになっています何億人もの人が何百という国でeBayを利用していて、まあそういうことですしかし私にとっては、それはまさしく「変化」でした私はパロアルトの5人住まいの部屋から始めて残り物の食べ物で生活していましたが突然全てのリソースが手に入ったのですそして私はどうやってこのリソースの恵みを世界と分かち合えるかを考えようと思いました私はその頃、注目すべき人物、ジョン・ガードナーと会いました彼は1960年代、リンドンジョンソン政権下の「偉大な社会」プログラムの開発者で私は彼に尋ねました「私か、他の誰でもいいが人間性に関する長期的な問題について世界を変えるにはこれからどうしたらいいと思いますか?」と彼は言いました「良い人々が良い行いをするのに賭けなさい」と「良い人々が良い行いをするのに賭けなさい」私はそれに本当に共感しました私は基金をつくり良い人々が良い行いをするのに賭けることにしました先進的で、革新的で、非営利の人たちビジネススキルを非常に有効に使い社会問題を解決する人々です今では社会起業家と呼ばれる人たちですたとえばグラミン銀行を興し世界で一億人以上の人を貧困から救いノーベル平和賞を受賞したモハメド・ユヌス氏ですしかし、あまり知られていないたくさんの人たちもいますたとえばアン・コットン:彼女はアフリカの女性の教育が切り詰められていると感じ、CAMFEDという組織を起こしすでに10年が経ちますがこれまでに25万人以上のアフリカの女性を教育していますあるいはヴィクトリア・ヘール博士彼女は世界で始めて、非営利の製薬会社を起こし最初の製品は「黒熱病」と呼ばれる内臓リーシュマニア症の治療薬でした彼女は2010年には、開発途上国では大きな苦悩であったこの病気を根絶できると考えていますこれが、良い人の良い行いへの私の賭けなのですこれら多くの例が重なって、改革の精神になっており非常に強力なことだと思いますこれが「投資し、結びつけ、称賛する」ということです投資―良い人々が良い行いをしていたら、それに投資して下さい彼らの組織やビジネスに、そういう人たちに投資してください TEDや、私の基金が毎年オックスフォードで開催している「社会起業家世界会議」などの場で彼らを結びつけることで非常にたくさんの強力なコネクションが生まれますそして彼らの物語を話し、称賛して下さいなぜなら良い人々は良い行いをするだけでなく彼らの物語が希望格差を減らすことになるからです私の使命の最後の部分の「称賛」はまさに、私が子供の頃、我々全てに影響する問題に、物語で人々の関心を集めたいと思っていたことを思い出させましたそしてひらめきました一つ:私は自分で物語を書く必要ななく、作家を探せばいい二つ目のひらめき:ただ本にするよりも映画やテレビにしたほうが人々の関心を惹くのじゃないか? 私は自分が影響を受けた映画について考えました「ガンジー」や「シンドラーのリスト」などですそして、現在こういう仕事をしているのは誰だろうと考えましたそして、公衆の利益に関心を寄せている会社は実際は存在しなかったのですそこで2003年、私はロサンジェルスを歩き回り社会問題に特化したメディア会社というアイデアを話して回りましたがたくさんの激励を受けましたそういった激励の中でよく耳にしたのは「ハリウッドの通りは君みたいな人の死骸でいっぱいだ君がここまできて映画を作ると誰が思うんだ?」でしたもちろん他の言い伝えもありました「百万長者になるには億万長者になってから映画の世界に入ることだ」ひるまずに私は2004年にParticipantプロダクションを起こしました公衆の利益に目を向けた世界規模のメディア会社というビジョンでした私達の使命は、社会の変化を創発するような娯楽映画を作ることでした観客が私たちの映画を見て「面白かったね」と言って、あと忘れてほしくなかったのです彼らに、そのあと実際に問題にかかわってほしかったのです 2005年に私たちは第一弾の映画を開始しました「マーダーボール」「スタンドアップ」「シリアナ」それと「グッドナイト&グッドラック」です驚いたことに、それらは注目されましたそして11のオスカーにノミネートされこの人物にはとてもよい年になりましたおそらくより重要なのは何万人もの人々が、我々が映画をめぐって作った支援プログラムや行動プログラムに参加したことでしょう私たちはまたそのオンライン版 Participate.netも作りましたしかし、我々の社会部門のパートナーであるACLU,PBS, シェラクラブやNRDCのおかげで、人々は映画を観たあと世界を変えるために具体的な行動ができたのですこのような映画のひとつが「スタンドアップ」で興行的には失敗でしたしかし、シャーリーズ・セロン主演のこの映画は女性の権利、女性の福祉向上、家庭内暴力などを扱っていましたその映画は議会が「女性に対する暴力対策法」の更改を審議している最中に公開されましたそして全国婦人協会などのパートナーとの連携による議会での上映や議論によってその映画は、法律の更改を成功に導く効果があったと評価されましたそれは私には大きな意味がありました―なぜならその映画は実話に基づくからです虐待され、雇用主を訴え、機会均等法および女性に対する暴力禁止法の成立へと導いた記念碑的判例についてのものだったからですそしてこの人物がこういうことをしてより大きな更改を得たのですこれもまた良い人の良い行いに賭けることになっているのです関連して、我らが仲間のTEDster アル・ゴアについてアルと私は2005年の地球温暖化に関するスライドプレゼンテーションで初めて会いましたその頃私は地球温暖化は 30年から50年先のことだと思っていました彼のスライドショーを見た後ではそれがもっと差し迫っているとわかりましたそれで、すぐあとで、私は舞台裏でアルやそこにいたローレンス・ベンダーやローリー・デビッド、それにParticipantでドキュメンタリーを撮っていたデイヴィス・グッゲンハイムらと会いましたそしてアルの承認を得て、我々はその場でそれを映画にすることにしましたその方がアルが世界のあちこちに出かけて 100人か200人そこらの人たちに話すよりはもっと簡単にメッセージを拡げられると思ったからですご存知のように、ハリウッドにはもう一つの格言があります「誰も何についても何も知らない」ですそして私は、この映画はすぐにPBSへ回される慈善のようなものと思っていましたところが、私たちにショックだったのはその映画が大衆の関心を捉えイギリスとスコットランドとスカンジナビアでは学校での必須視聴科目になったのです我々は5万本のDVDを全米の高校教師に送り地球温暖化の議論を変えて行きましたこの人物にとってはとても良い年になりアルは「地球温暖化のジョージ・クルーニー」と呼ばれています Participantにとってはこれが出発点でした我々のすることは世界の主要な問題を見据えており現在Participantは10本の映画の製作を進めており他に企画中のものが数十本あります近日公開のいくつかについて簡単にお話しします一つは「チャーリー・ウィルソンズ・ウォー」でトム・ハンクスとジュリア・ロバーツ主演、実在の上院議員チャーリー・ウィルソンがアフガニスタンでロシアと戦うためにいかにタリバンに出資したかを描きます「君のためなら千回でも」は、書籍「カイトランナー」に基づく、同じくアフガニスタンに関する映画です映画を見ると、人々は中東の全般とアフガニスタンに関してよりよい理解ができるようになるでしょう我々はサンダンス映画祭で「The Chicago 10」のプレミア上映を行いましたそれは1968年、民主党大会で反戦デモを行ったアビー・ホフマンと仲間の話ですこれもまた世界を変えた、少人数のグループの話ですさらに、ジミー・カーター氏と彼の長年にわたる中東和平のドキュメンタリーもあります特に、彼の最近の著書出版ツアーをフォローしているのですがご存じのとおりまったく話題にも上らないので映画のプロモーションにはなっていません最後に私は、だれでも自分なりの方法で世界を変えるチャンスがあると言いたいと思いますこの部屋にいる全ての人たちはそれぞれのビジネスライフ、慈善活動などの分野でそれを実行した人たちですそして私が学んだことは、世界を変えるのは一つの正しい方法だけではない、ということです誰でも技術分野、財政分野、非営利分野、エンタメ分野などのどの分野でもほかのどんなことでもできるのですそして私たちがそのようなことを実行すれば機会格差をなくし、希望格差をなくし、そしてそれらが達成されれば 10年後の新聞の見出しはこんな感じのものになるでしょう: 「アフリカの新規のAIDS症例数、ゼロに」「米国、最後の石油の輸入を終了」 (拍手) 「イスラエルとパレスチナ、平和共存10年を祝う」 (拍手) これいいよね「キリマンジャロに冠雪戻る」最後に、eBayリストにあるよく知られたスライドショーもう古くなって博物館入りなんですが―アル・ゴアに連絡してくださいそして、我々は協同することでこれら全てを実現可能だと信じています今日ここに呼んでくださってありがとうとても名誉なことですありがとう (拍手) おお、ありがとう	In 2003, I was ready to do a talk about the Skoll Foundation and social entrepreneurship. No call. In 2004, I started Participant Productions and we had a really good first year, and no call. And finally, I get a call last year, and then I have to go up after J.J. Abrams. You've got a cruel sense of humor, TED. When I first moved to Hollywood from Silicon Valley, I had some misgivings. But I found that there were some advantages to being in Hollywood. And, in fact, some advantages to owning your own media company. And I also found that Hollywood and Silicon Valley have a lot more in common than I would have dreamed. Hollywood has its sex symbols, and the Valley has its sex symbols. Hollywood has its rivalries, and the Valley has its rivalries. Hollywood gathers around power tables, and the Valley gathers around power tables. So it turned out there was a lot more in common than I would have dreamed. But I'm actually here today to tell a story. And part of it is a personal story. When Chris invited me to speak, he said, people think of you as a bit of an enigma, and they want to know what drives you a bit. And what really drives me is a vision of the future that I think we all share. It's a world of peace and prosperity and sustainability. And when we heard a lot of the presentations over the last couple of days, Ed Wilson and the pictures of James Nachtwey, I think we all realized how far we have to go to get to this new version of humanity that I like to call "Humanity 2.0." And it's also something that resides in each of us, to close what I think are the two big calamities in the world today. One is the gap in opportunity -- this gap that President Clinton last night called uneven, unfair and unsustainable -- and, out of that, comes poverty and illiteracy and disease and all these evils that we see around us. But perhaps the other, bigger gap is what we call the hope gap. And someone, at some point, came up with this very bad idea that an ordinary individual couldn't make a difference in the world. And I think that's just a horrible thing. And so chapter one really begins today, with all of us, because within each of us is the power to equal those opportunity gaps and to close the hope gaps. And if the men and women of TED can't make a difference in the world, I don't know who can. And for me, a lot of this started when I was younger and my family used to go camping in upstate New York. And there really wasn't much to do there for the summer, except get beaten up by my sister or read books. And so I used to read authors like James Michener and James Clavell and Ayn Rand. And their stories made the world seem a very small and interconnected place. And it struck me that if I could write stories that were about this world as being small and interconnected, that maybe I could get people interested in the issues that affected us all, and maybe engage them to make a difference. I didn't think that was necessarily the best way to make a living, so I decided to go on a path to become financially independent, so I could write these stories as quickly as I could. I then had a bit of a wake-up call when I was 14. And my dad came home one day and announced that he had cancer, and it looked pretty bad. And what he said was, he wasn't so much afraid that he might die, but that he hadn't done the things that he wanted to with his life. And knock on wood, he's still alive today, many years later. But for a young man that made a real impression on me, that one never knows how much time one really has. So I set out in a hurry. I studied engineering. I started a couple of businesses that I thought would be the ticket to financial freedom. One of those businesses was a computer rental business called Micros on the Move, which is very well named, because people kept stealing the computers. So I figured I needed to learn a little bit more about business, so I went to Stanford Business School and studied there. And while I was there, I made friends with a fellow named Pierre Omidyar, who is here today. And Pierre, I apologize for this. This is a photo from the old days. And just after I'd graduated, Pierre came to me with this idea to help people buy and sell things online with each other. And with the wisdom of my Stanford degree, I said, "Pierre, what a stupid idea." And needless to say, I was right. But right after that, Pierre -- in '96, Pierre and I left our full-time jobs to build eBay as a company. And the rest of that story, you know. The company went public two years later and is today one of the best known companies in the world. Hundreds of millions of people use it in hundreds of countries, and so on. But for me, personally, it was a real change. I went from living in a house with five guys in Palo Alto and living off their leftovers, to all of a sudden having all kinds of resources. And I wanted to figure out how I could take the blessing of these resources and share it with the world. And around that time, I met John Gardner, who is a remarkable man. He was the architect of the Great Society programs under Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s. And I asked him what he felt was the best thing I could do, or anyone could do, to make a difference in the long-term issues facing humanity. And John said, "Bet on good people doing good things. Bet on good people doing good things." And that really resonated with me. I started a foundation to bet on these good people doing good things. These leading, innovative, nonprofit folks, who are using business skills in a very leveraged way to solve social problems. People today we call social entrepreneurs. who started the Grameen Bank, has lifted 100 million people plus out of poverty around the world, won the Nobel Peace Prize. But there's also a lot of people that you don't know. Folks like Ann Cotton, who started a group called CAMFED in Africa, because she felt girls' education was lagging. And she started it about 10 years ago, and today, she educates over a quarter million African girls. And somebody like Dr. Victoria Hale, who started the world's first nonprofit pharmaceutical company, and whose first drug will be fighting visceral leishmaniasis, also known as black fever. And by 2010, she hopes to eliminate this disease, which is really a scourge in the developing world. And so this is one way to bet on good people doing good things. And a lot of this comes together in a philosophy of change that I find really is powerful. It's what we call, "Invest, connect and celebrate." And invest: if you see good people doing good things, invest in them. Invest in their organizations, or in business. Invest in these folks. Connecting them together through conferences -- like a TED -- brings so many powerful connections, or through the World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship that my foundation does at Oxford every year. And celebrate them: tell their stories, because not only are there good people doing good work, but their stories can help close these gaps of hope. And it was this last part of the mission, the celebrate part, that really got me back to thinking when I was a kid and wanted to tell stories to get people involved in the issues that affect us all. And a light bulb went off, which was, first, that I didn't actually have to do the writing myself, I could find writers. And then the next light bulb was, better than just writing, what about film and TV, to get out to people in a big way? And I thought about the films that inspired me, films like "Gandhi" and "Schindler's List." And I wondered who was doing these kinds of films today. And there really wasn't a specific company that was focused on the public interest. So, in 2003, I started to make my way around Los Angeles to talk about the idea of a pro-social media company and I was met with a lot of encouragement. One of the lines of encouragement that I heard over and over was, "The streets of Hollywood are littered with the carcasses of people like you, who think you're going to come to this town and make movies." And then of course, there was the other adage. "The surest way to become a millionaire is to start by being a billionaire and go into the movie business." Undeterred, in January of 2004, I started Participant Productions with the vision to be a global media company focused on the public interest. And our mission is to produce entertainment that creates and inspires social change. And we don't just want people to see our movies and say, that was fun, and forget about it. We want them to actually get involved in the issues. In 2005, we launched our first slate of films, "Murder Ball," "North Country," "Syriana" and "Good Night and Good Luck." And much to my surprise, they were noticed. We ended up with 11 Oscar nominations for these films. And it turned out to be a pretty good year for this guy. Perhaps more importantly, tens of thousands of people joined the advocacy programs and the activism programs that we created to go around the movies. And we had an online component of that, our community sect called Participate.net. But with our social sector partners, like the ACLU and PBS and the Sierra Club and the NRDC, once people saw the film, there was actually something they could do to make a difference. One of these films in particular, called "North Country," was actually kind of a box office disaster. But it was a film that starred Charlize Theron and it was about women's rights, women's empowerment, domestic violence and so on. And we released the film at the same time that the Congress was debating the renewal of the Violence Against Women Act. And with screenings on the Hill, and discussions, and with our social sector partners, like the National Organization of Women, the film was widely credited with influencing the successful renewal of the act. And that to me, spoke volumes, because it's -- the film started about a true-life story about a woman who was harassed, sued her employer, led to a landmark case that led to the Equal Opportunity Act, and the Violence Against Women Act and others. And then the movie about this person doing these things, then led to this greater renewal. And so again, it goes back to betting on good people doing good things. Speaking of which, our fellow TEDster, Al -- I first saw Al do his slide show presentation on global warming in May of 2005. At that point, I thought I knew something about global warming. I thought it was a 30 to 50 year problem. And after we saw his slide show, it became clear that it was much more urgent. And so right afterwards, I met backstage with Al, and with Lawrence Bender, who was there, and Laurie David, and Davis Guggenheim, who was running documentaries for Participant at the time. And with Al's blessing, we decided on the spot to turn it into a film, because we felt that we could get the message out there far more quickly than having Al go around the world, speaking to audiences of 100 or 200 at a time. And you know, there's another adage in Hollywood, that nobody knows nothing about anything. And I really thought this was going to be a straight-to-PBS charitable initiative. And so it was a great shock to all of us when the film really captured the public interest, and today is mandatory viewing in schools in England and Scotland, and most of Scandinavia. We've sent 50,000 DVDs to high school teachers in the U.S. and it's really changed the debate on global warming. It was also a pretty good year for this guy. We now call Al the George Clooney of global warming. And for Participant, this is just the start. Everything we do looks at the major issues in the world. And we have 10 films in production right now, and dozens others in development. I'll quickly talk about a few coming up. One is "Charlie Wilson's War," with Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts. And it's the true story of Congressman Charlie Wilson, and how he funded the Taliban to fight the Russians in Afghanistan. And we're also doing a movie called "The Kite Runner," based on the book "The Kite Runner," also about Afghanistan. And we think once people see these films, they'll have a much better understanding of that part of the world and the Middle East in general. We premiered a film called "The Chicago 10" at Sundance this year. It's based on the protesters at the Democratic Convention in 1968, Abby Hoffman and crew, and, again, a story about a small group of individuals who did make change in the world. And a documentary that we're doing on Jimmy Carter and his Mid-East peace efforts over the years. And in particular, we've been following him on his recent book tour, which, as many of you know, has been very non-controversial -- -- which is really bad for getting people to come see a movie. In closing, I'd like to say that everybody has the opportunity to make change in their own way. And all the people in this room have done so through their business lives, or their philanthropic work, or their other interests. And one thing that I've learned is that there's never one right way to make change. One can do it as a tech person, or as a finance person, or a nonprofit person, or as an entertainment person, but every one of us is all of those things and more. And I believe if we do these things, we can close the opportunity gaps, we can close the hope gaps. And I can imagine, if we do this, the headlines in 10 years might read something like these: "New AIDS Cases in Africa Fall to Zero," "U.S. Imports its Last Barrel of Oil" -- -- "Israelis and Palestinians Celebrate 10 Years of Peaceful Coexistence." And I like this one, "Snow Has Returned to Kilimanjaro." And finally, an eBay listing for one well-traveled slide show, now obsolete, museum piece. Please contact Al Gore. And I believe that, working together, we can make all of these things happen. And I want to thank you all for having me here today. It's been a real honor. Thank you. Oh, thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
「え......」ラルシアのとんでもない発言に、分隊長が絶句して固まっていると......。だっ! だだっ! 数人の店員が、左右に分かれて駆け出した。勿論、ラルシアの指示に従って王宮へと向かったのである。「あ! ま、待て! こら、待てええええええぇ~~っっ!!」分隊長が必死に叫ぶが、それで止まるような馬鹿はいないであろう。「追え、取り押さえろおおぉ~~!!」部下達にそう命令するが、既に店員達は散り散りに分かれ、それぞれ別のルートで王宮へと向かっている。......全速力で。商店の従業員とはいえ、荷の積み下ろしや倉庫への運び込み等で身体は結構鍛えられている。いくら兵士とはいっても、武器と防具を身に着けた状態で、全力で走る彼らに追いつけるとは思えなかった。なので、警備兵達は誰も走り出そうとはしなかった。そもそも、もし追いつけたところで、何もしていない普通の王都民を取り押さえたりすれば、自分が処罰されることとなる。もはや先が見えている、悪事に手を染めた上官の指示に従って自分を棒に振るのは真っ平であった。そして兵士達の、上官に対する思いはひとつであった。 (((((......もう遅い!))))) 分隊長の言葉など全く聞く様子がなく、ただ自分の言い分を大声で叫ぶだけのラルシアは、警備隊の行動理由を勝手に決めつけて、既成事実として弾劾し続けている。 ......もう、滅茶苦茶であった。そして、警備兵達は考えた。この分隊長の未来は既に決まった。決まってしまった。今回の、ここでの発言。そして当然調査され露見するであろう、今までの悪事。それに対して、自分達はここでは何も発言していないし、悪事も行っていない。ただ、分隊長に指示されてここへついてきただけである。そして、明らかに違法な命令に対して異議を示し、それを拒否した。これは、処分を受ける危険を冒してでも正義を貫き警備隊の威容を示した、として、違法行為を続けていた上官達の処分に巻き込まれることなく、逃げ延びられる可能性があるのではないか、と......。明らかに無実である被害者側を捕らえようとする、このような胸くその悪い仕事に連れ出されて不愉快な思いをしていた警備隊の兵士達は、思わぬ『自分達は抗議しました』と言い張れるネタを手にすることができて、内心、ホッとしていた。 * * (計画通り......) 隅の方に固まっている従業員達の中で、にやりと嗤う私。うん、カラーウイッグを付けて、お化粧で肌の色を少し変えた私は、従業員のお仕着せを着てみんなの中に紛れ込んでいた。勿論、いざとなれば『この紋所が目に入らぬか!』って出ていって、ラルシアを護るために。なぜ貴族の娘が従業員の恰好を、とか言われたら、面白そうだから社会経験としてやらせてもらっていた、と答えれば済むことだ。貴族のお嬢様が我が儘で、退屈凌ぎに平民の振りをして周りを振り回すというのは、『貴族の娘、あるある話』であり、疑う理由はないからね。貴族であることの証明は、本国は遠いからヴァネル王国の王宮か上級貴族に確認してくれ、と言えば済むだろう。ま、現在王族や貴族が注目しているラルシア貿易の商会主が保証するなら、疑われることはないだろうけどね。 ......何しろ、平民がそんな嘘を吐けば、関係者全員が打ち首、お家お取り潰しの上、私財没収は間違いないからねぇ。いや、たとえ貴族であっても、ただでは済まないか......。そして逆に、それが分かっていて、つまり私やラルシアが嘘を吐き爵位詐称をしているという確率はとてつもなく低いということを承知で私を騙り呼ばわりし、侮辱した者がどうなるか、ということも、当然分かっているはずだ。何せ、他国の貴族家当主様にして、噂の『ヤマノ子爵領特産品』の供給元だからねぇ......。つまり、私の身分を疑ったり否定したりする者はいない、ってことだ。馬鹿か自殺志願者でもない限り......。王宮へと走った従業員達は止められず、部下達は命令に従わず、そして全てを目撃していた大勢の王都民達。そして更に増え続ける群衆の冷たい目は、分隊長に注がれている。これでラルシアの強制連行を続行できたなら、ある意味、尊敬に値する。 ......その馬鹿さ加減と、勇気に対して。そして勿論、分隊長は馬鹿でも勇者でもなかったらしく、部下と共に慌てて去っていった。部下達も、撤収の命令には素直に従ったようだ。いきなり王宮へ押し掛けた従業員達も、別に捕らえられたりはしていないはずだ。ラルシアが『王宮へ知らせに行け』と命じた場合、どのように行動するかは、事前にちゃんと教え込んである。門衛に止められた場合にどういう説明をするか、そしてどれくらいの大声で騒ぐか、駆け付けてきた他の兵士や文官達にどう説明するかを、きちんと......。ラルシアが命じた時に、分散して走り去ったのも、事前教育のそして勿論、王宮側には私とラルシアが事前に根回しをしておいた。の危機を告げて救援を求めたならば。しかもそれが、警備隊による衆人環視の場での不法行為とあらば、事情確認のための兵は出してもらえるはずだ。下手をすれば王都の治安を守る警備隊の信用が失墜し、そして勿論、警備隊と王都軍と近衛隊は互いにライバル心があり、酒場の女性を取り合ったり、縄張り意識があったりして、あまり仲が良くないらしい。 ......仕事上の担当範囲の境目があやふやな類似業種、あるあるである。更に、それぞれの上層部や、管轄部署を仕切る貴族達の思惑や利害関係が絡み......。ま、そういうわけで、ラルシア貿易の関係者が駆け込んで助けを求めれば、無視されることはないだろうということだ。たとえ事前の調整がなかったとしても。 ......そして、今回はちゃんと根回しがしてある。警備隊の上の方とは対立する貴族やら、近衛隊の上級士官やら、王都軍の士官やらに。うん、『少ししか入荷しないヤマノ子爵領産のお酒や高級食材、化粧品等を独占販売している、ラルシア貿易』の若き少女商会主と、その友人であり卸元である異国の少女子爵の訪問(手土産と、自分達に有利な情報付き)は、効くよねえ......。そういうわけで、何人もの貴族や文官さん、軍の高級士官や王族の人......さすがに、国王陛下とか王子殿下、王女殿下とかではなく、もっと下の人......に会えたわけだ。割と簡単に。『いつでも会えるアイドル』ならぬ、『気軽に会える貴族・王族』である。なので、城門の前で揉め事が起これば、すぐにその人達の息が掛かった者が駆け付けてくれることになっている。チンケな権力を振りかざす者には、もっと上の権力をぶつけてやればいい。虎の威を借る者には、全ての責任がその者にある、ということを大々的に公表してやればいい。ああいう連中は、何をやっても自分が責任を問われることはない、と思っているから、馬鹿をやれるんだ。そういう奴らには、ちゃんと個人名を公表してやって、全ての責任は自分が取ることになると教えてやれば、途端におとなしくなる。 ......まあ、勿論その時点では既に手遅れだけどね。そして、そいつが何をやらかしたかを、上司にちゃんと伝えてあげる。その上司も同類であれば、更にその上司へ。それを続けていけば、いつかはまともな上司に行き当たるだろう。もし行き当たらなければ、次は対立派閥に話を持ち込む。......勿論、ヤマノ子爵領産商品の優先販売というお土産付きで。今回は、警備隊への情報漏洩とか、事前に対策を取られたりしないように、警備隊の上層部には一切接触していない。どのあたりまで腐敗が進んでいるか分からないからね。もしかすると、トップまでとか、関係する貴族まで腐っている可能性もあるし。ま、それはこの後の対処状況を見て判断しよう。うん、ま、何とかなるなる!	“Eh......” (Man) Larushia’s ridiculous remarks made the squad leader utterly confused... Da! Dadada! Several clerks rushed out, splitting off to the left and right. Of course, they went to the royal palace according to Larushia’s instructions. “Ah! Wa, wait! Hey, waaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiit!!!” (Man) The squad leader shouted frantically, but no one would be stupid enough to stop there. “Go after them, seize them aaallll!!!” (Man) He ordered his men to do so, but the clerks had already scattered far and wide, each taking a different route to the royal palace...... at full speed. Even though they’re employees of the store, they’re quite physically fit from loading and unloading the shipments, carrying the goods into the warehouse, and so on. No matter how many guards he had brought, it was unlikely that they could keep up with them running as fast as they could with their weapons and armor on. Therefore, none of the guards wanted to run. In the first place, even if they could catch up with them, they would be punished for seizing an ordinary citizen who had done nothing wrong. They were not willing to follow the instructions of their superior officer, who had already done something wrong and throw their lives away. And the soldiers were united in their feelings toward their superior officer. (((((... It’s already too late!))))) Larushia, who did not seem to listen to the words of the squad leader at all, but only shouted out her own arguments, continued to impeach the guards as an established fact, deciding the guards’ reasons for their actions by herself. ......It was already a mess. Then the guards thought. The future of this squad leader has already been decided. Yeah, it has been decided. This time, all of what he said here. And, of course, the wrongdoings that will be investigated and exposed later on. In contrast, we have not said or done anything wrong here. We just followed the squad leader here at his orders. We then objected to the clearly illegal order and refused to comply with it. This may allow us to get away with it without being involved in the punishment of our superior who continued to act illegally, as we showed the dignity of a Guardsman by doing justice even at the risk of being punished...... The guards, who had been displeased for being dragged on such a disgusting job of trying to catch the obviously innocent victims, were inwardly relieved to have an unexpected “we protested” story to claim that they did. ===== (Just as planned...) I chuckled as I blended among the employees who were frozen in the corner. Yeah, I was wearing a colored wig and a little makeup to change my skin color, and I was blending in with everyone else wearing the employee’s tailored clothes. Of course, if push comes to shove, “Don’t you see this crest?” I’ll go out and protect Larushia. If someone asked me why a daughter of a noble family dressed as an employee, I would simply say that I was allowed to do it as a social experience because it looked interesting. It’s a “common story of a noble’s daughter!” It’s just a noble’s daughter’s selfishness and pretending to be a commoner because she’s bored, and there would be no reason to doubt me. To prove that I’m a nobleman, I could just say that my home country was far away and that they should check with the royal palace or a senior nobleman in the Vanell kingdom. Well, if the owner of the Larushia Trade, which was currently the focus of royalty and nobility, can vouch for me, there would be no doubt about it. ......Anyway, if a commoner were to tell such a lie, everyone involved would be beheaded, their families would be destroyed, and their personal property would be confiscated for sure. No, even an aristocrat can’t get away with it scot-free...... And conversely, of course, they knew what’ll happen to those who’d call me a liar and insult me, knowing that this was the case, i.e. The probability that Larushia and I were lying and fraudulently claiming the title was tremendously low. After all, I am the head of a noble family in another country and the supplier of the rumored “Viscount Yamano’s Specialty Products”...... That means no one would question or deny my status. Unless they’re stupid or suicidal...... The employees who ran to the palace were unstoppable, his subordinates disobeyed his orders, and a large number of the people of the royal city witnessed everything. And the cold eyes of the ever-growing crowd were on the squad leader. In a way, if he could continue to forcibly arrest Larushia at this point, I would respect him... ......For stupidity and courage. And of course, the squad leader was neither stupid nor courageous and left in a hurry with his men. The subordinates also seemed to obediently obey the order to withdraw. The employees who suddenly barged into the palace should not have been captured. Since Larushia ordered them to “go to the royal palace to inform the king”, they have been properly taught in advance how to act. What explanation to give if stopped by the gate guard, how loudly to make the noise, and how to explain to the other soldiers and civil servants who rushed to the scene, were all properly arranged....... The fact that they dispersed and ran away when Larushia ordered them to do so was also a result of their prior education. Otherwise, they would not have been able to react like that on the spur of the moment. And, of course, Larushia and I had already laid the groundwork on the royal court’s side. No, even if I had not done so, if an employee of Larushia Trading, who was quite well-known, had told of the crisis and asked for help, the Lord would have been in a better position to help him. Moreover, if it was an illegal act by the guards in full view of the public, they should be able to send out soldiers to check the situation. If they were not careful, the guards that protect the security of the capital would lose credibility, which could lead to a major incident. And of course, the Guards, the Royal Army, and the Royal Knights have a rivalry with each other, and apparently, they don’t get along very well, like fighting over women in the bars and being territorial. ......There were similar industries where the boundaries of the scope of work responsibilities were blurred. Furthermore, the thoughts and interests of the respective upper echelons and the aristocrats in charge of the departments under their jurisdiction were intertwined...... Well, that’s why I say that if the employees of the Larushia Trade rushed in and asked for help, they would not be ignored. Even if there was no prior notification. ......And this time, the groundwork has been properly laid. The upper echelons of the Guardsmen were at odds with the nobility, the senior officers of the Royal Knights, and the officers of the Royal Army. Yeah, a visit (with a souvenir and information to their advantage) from a young girl merchant owner of “Larushia Trading, which exclusively sells liquor, fine foodstuffs, cosmetics, etc. from the Viscount Yamano’s territory, which rarely comes”, and her friend, the wholesale source, an exotic girl viscount. That would work nicely, wouldn’t it?...... That’s how I was able to meet a number of aristocrats, civil servants, high-ranking military officers, and royalty...... indeed, not His Majesty the King, but His Royal Highness the Prince, or Her Royal Highness the Princess, they’re somewhat much lower....... Yet rather too easy. They’re not “idols you can meet anytime,” but “aristocrats and royalty you can meet easily”. Therefore, if there’s a dispute in front of the gate, a person who’s in charge of the situation would be expected to come to the scene immediately. Those who wield chintzy power should be put up against those who wield higher power. Let it be widely publicized that whoever was in charge of the tiger was the one who was responsible for everything it does. They think that they will not be held responsible for anything they do, so they can act like fools. If we make their names public and let them know that they will be held responsible for everything they do, they will instantly calm down. ......Well, of course, by that point it’s already too late. And I will make sure to tell his superior what that guy did. If his superior was also the same, then I’ll go to a higher ranking one. If I keep doing that, I may find a decent superior. But if we don’t get anywhere, the next step would be to talk to the opposing faction...... of course, with the souvenir of preferential sales of Viscount Yamano’s products. This time, I did not contact the upper echelons of the Guardsmen to prevent them from leaking information to the guards or taking other countermeasures in advance. We don’t know how deep the corruption had rooted. It could possibly be corrupt all the way to the top or even to the nobility in charge. Well, let’s see how the situation would be handled after this, and I’ll make a decision based on that. Yeah, well, I can handle it!	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 4, "inserted_lines_trg": 2 }
アミティア共和国の首都アーラ。もとは自由都市として名をはせていた街だが、アミティアが王国から共和国へ名を改めたのにあわせて、交通の便にいささか不便があった旧王都カルディアから遷都を行い首都となった。通常、遷都となれば数年がかりの作業となるが、飾らない人柄であったコラード国王の意思により、王宮の建設などは行わず、都市議会棟をそのまま流用する形で政治機能の移転を主目的としたため、通常ではあり得ない短期間での遷都が可能となった。ただし、いざ国王が拠点とする新首都へ凱旋(もともとアーラ市の出身ということで都市民としてはその意識が高かった)した際に、予定していなかった王宮――赤いトンガリ屋根のお伽噺の王様が住むようなお城――を目にして唖然とした。これは宗主国であるインペリアル・クリムゾン国主(国によっては『魔女帝』とか『魔皇』などと呼ぶ向きもあったが、その容姿か的には『姫様』で通っていた)の肝煎りで、密かに建造されていたものであり、資材、人材、費用など全てインペリアル・クリムゾンが負担し、正式に下賜されたものであったことから、受け取ったコラード国王はその場でがっくりと両手をついて、「意趣返し仕返しされた......」と呟いたとも言われている。結果、半年余りで街の規模、人口ともにアミティア最大の街へと変貌したのだった。とはいえ民衆にとっては国王が替わろうが、国の名前が変わろうが、魔物の国の傘下に収まろうが、明日の小麦の値段が変わらないほうがよほど重要事項であり、そうした面から言えば現体制に不満はなく、人々は日々の平穏な生活に追われ日常を過ごしていた。多少、以前に比べ変わったところといえば、貴族という身分が無くなったことだが、もともと自分たちの生活に直接関わるものでもなく、関わるとすれば徴税の時くらいで、現在は代わりに国の官僚である徴税官がその仕事を賄っているため、特に変化を感じることもなく、逆に地方ごとにバラバラだった徴税率が均一化されたため、貴族の圧制に苦しんでいた地方にとっては朗報以外の何ものでもなかった。また、目に見えた変化としては、宗主国であるインペリアル・クリムゾンの要望により、人間社会に順応した魔物に人権を認めるようになったため、街のそこかしこで値段交渉をするゴブリンや、オークなどどいった以前では考えられない光景も見られるようになったことがあるが、当初危惧された魔族の特権階級化ということもなく、彼らに対しても通常の市民同様、納税の義務や犯罪を犯した際の罰則を周知徹底したことにより、以前の貴族社会に比べよほど公正かつ、平等、平和な社会が成り立ったのであった。 ◆◇◆◇ 首都の大通りに面した公園の席のひとつに腰掛けながら、街行く人々の流れを見ていたジョーイは、ずいぶんとこの街も変わったなぁ、と漠然と思った。目に見える範囲でも、通行人に獣人やエルフなど、西部地域では亜人と呼ばれる人種が増えて(地域によっては魔族扱いされる)、そればかりか以前は魔物として討伐することしか考えなかった大森林のゴブリンや、身近なところでも、ギルド長だったコラードさんがどーいうわけか国王陛下になったり。「どーいうわけなんでしょうかね? 私が訊きたいですね、あはははは・・・」ギルド長の引継ぎのために久々に逢ったコラードさんは、なぜかうつろな目でそんなことを言っていた。新ギルド長になったガルテ先生――ギルドの訓練所ではずいぶんとしぼられた――も苦笑いしていた。「ところで、ジョーイ。お前さんをここに呼んだのには2つ理由があってな。ひとつはこれだ――」ガルテ新ギルド長の合図で、傍に控えていたミーアさん(今度受付から正式にギルド長の秘書になった)が、見慣れた金属片――ギルド証を持ってきて、ガルテ新ギルド長に手渡した。「ちょっと早いかとも思ったんだがな、うちの大将が国王陛下になった...まあご祝儀ってところだ。――Dランク昇進。これでやっと卵の殻が取れたな」渡されたギルド証を見て目を丸くしているジョーイの胸を、ガルテ新ギルド長がどんと叩き、その痛みにじわじわと実感がわいてきたところで、ミーアさんが満面の笑みを浮かべて拍手してくれた。「おめでとう、ジョーイ君。これで晴れて一人前ね」その言葉に神妙に頷く。「――ところで、Dランクということで、もう一つの用件ですが、例の約束を覚えていますか?」『約束』――その刹那、忘れた事などない少女の美貌が鮮やかに甦った。「も、もちろんです! 俺、あいつを案内するって・・・!」意気込んで言った台詞に、なぜか眼鏡のつるを押さえて、コラードさんがため息をついた。「......まあ、それについては、駄目もとというか、陛下に世間話のついででお話したんですが」再度、大きくため息をつく。「『あ、行く行く! ちょうど退屈だったし』って、我が国との協議や他国との交渉が山積みになってるこの時期に、どこにそんなヒマがあるんでしょうね、あの方は......」「はあ・・・」適当に頷く。そういや、ヒユキの奴って国王になったコラードさんより偉いとか聞いてるし、きっと大変なんだろうなー、などとのん気に考えるジョーイ。「こちらに落ち合う場所と日時が書いてあるそうです。――字は読めますね?」「あ、はい、訓練所で習いましたから、だいたいは・・・」これって、つまりあいつに会えるのか! ジョーイの顔が一瞬で輝いた。「よろしい。では、せいぜい騒ぎを起こさないよう、しっかりあの方の手綱を握っていてください。――名目上はあくまで『一般人のお嬢さんが観光するのを、ギルドの冒険者が護衛と案内をする』という形ですから。国としても余計な手出しはしない方針です」真剣な顔で釘を刺され、ジョーイはあいまいな顔で頷いた。「――でも、いいんですか?」とはいえ本能的になんかヤバイんじゃないかな?と思ったので確認したところ、またでっかいため息をつかれた。「いいわけはないんですけどねー。下手に騒ぐと藪をつつく形になりますし、ならこちらとしても『なにも知らなかった』という姿勢を貫くほうがマシというものです。なのでお願いしますよ、ジョーイ君」ジョーイの頼りない返事に、ああ、こいつ意味わかってねーな、と全員が悟った。「まあお前は余計なこと考えないで、しっかりエスコートしてこい!」で、手紙に書いてあった時間と場所で待っているんだけど、あの目立つ女の子の姿は見えない。なんか間違えたかな? を着て剣を下げているため、使えるポケットがこれぐらいしかない――から手紙を取り出し、しかめっ面で中身を確認する。「・・・間違いねーよな。なにやってんだあいつ」そう独りごちたところへ、懐かしい涼やかな声が掛けられた。「――やあ、ごめんごめん。すまないね、遅れて」遅いぞ!と言いかけて、一瞬相手が人違いかと思い、もう一度顔を見て間違いないのを確認して、ジョーイは軽く息を飲み込んだ。コットンの白いサマードレスに、薄い水色のリボンを巻いた白い帽子をかぶり、そこに一輪だけ赤い薔薇の花を差した緋雪が、笑顔を浮かべていた。てっきりいつもの派手なドレスで来るものと思っていたジョーイは意表を突かれ、それにも増して新鮮かつ無防備なその格好に、胸が高鳴るのを覚えた。「お、お前、その・・・いつものドレスじゃないんだな」「さすがにあの格好は目立つからねぇ、あと『いつもの』って言ったけど、君と会った初日はAラインのドレスで、2日目はプリンセスラインで全然別だったんだけど、ひょっとして区別がついてなかったの?」「.........」どちらも同じものだと思っていたジョーイは言葉に詰まった。「まあいいけどさ。そんなわけで変装してみたんだけど、似合わないかな?」そういって、片手で帽子を押さえながら、その場で一回転する緋雪。ふわりと短いスカートがひるがえり、細くて真っ白い脚が目に焼きついて、ジョーイは慌てて赤くなった顔をそらせ、「いや、似合ってると思うぞ。それに、俺も最初誰だかわかんなかったし」「そうかい。なら変装は成功かな」とは言えその容姿は、黙って立っていても周囲の注目を浴びるには十分過ぎるもので、さすがにそうした周りの反応に気が付いたジョーイは、これ以上ここにいると騒ぎになると判断して、大急ぎで椅子から立ち上がり、有無を言わせず緋雪の小さくて華奢な手を取った。「それじゃあ、そろそろ行ってみようぜ。どこか行きたいところとかあるか?」「いや、そのあたりは任せるけどさ。......なんで手を握ってるわけ? ――しかも恋人繋ぎで」最後の方は小声だったので耳に入らなかったらしい、ジョーイは怪訝そうに聞き返してきた。「ん? ミーアさんから街を案内する時は、こうするもんだって教わったんだけど、なんか違うのか?」あいている方の手で額の辺りを押さえる緋雪。「あの人はまた......ってゆーか、あれから8ヶ月も経っているのに、ミーアさんとは仲良くなってないの?」「いや、そんなことはないぞ。一緒に飯食ったり、俺が依頼を受けて外に出る時とかお弁当作ってくれたり、親切だよなミーアさん!」一点の曇りもないさわやかな表情で言い切るジョーイを、様々な感情が入り混じり過ぎてなんとも言いがたい笑顔になった緋雪が見つめ直す。過ぎるのか、こっちが鈍すぎるのか......どっちもどっちな気がするねぇ」「なんかよくわかんねーけど、行き先はどこでもいいんだな?」「任せるよ。君が行きたいと思うところで」投げやりなリクエストに、ジョーイは少し考えて答えた。「んじゃ、俺の行きつけの武器屋にしよう」「・・・相変わらず脊髄反射で生きてるね、君」まあこの世界の武器とか興味あるけどさ。普通、女の子を連れて真っ先に行く場所かなぁ・・・? と、内心大いに疑問に思う緋雪なのであった。 ◆◇◆◇ 1時間後―― 新品の剣を腰に下げ、ジョーイはホクホク顔で緋雪、通りを歩いていた(もちろんまだ手は繋いだままである)。「本当にいいのか、こんな良い剣買ってもらって?」あいてる方の手で剣の柄を触りながら、何度目かになる確認をするジョーイ。「構わないさ。昇進のご祝儀代わりとでも思ってくれれば。それに別に魔剣ってわけじゃない、普通の剣だし・・・だいたい前の剣を下取りに出したんだから、全部が全部、私が払ったわけじゃないよ」軽く肩をすくめる緋雪に、そっか、でも悪いな、と言いつつもジョーイは嬉しげである。「でも、武器屋のオヤジも『お嬢ちゃん良い目してるね。こいつを打った鍛冶屋はまだ若いけど腕はぴか一だ』っていってたし、やっぱお前って凄いんだな!」「まあそれが同じ値段の剣の中で唯一+1で、耐久度も高かったからね。よく銘を覚えておいて、次に買い換える時も、その作者の剣を買うのをお勧めするよ」ふ~~ん、と頷いたジョーイだが、ふと視線を感じて首をひねった。「・・・なあ、あの獣人、お前の知り合いか?」「――?」これ以上ないというほど大きく見開かれた。「......そんな......馬鹿な......」これまで聞いたこともないほど激しく動揺して、震える緋雪の声と握られた手とに、ジョーイは驚いてその相手を凝視した。年齢は20歳前後だろうか、にやにや笑いを絶やさない黒髪で、前髪だけが金髪のメッシュが入った狼系と思われる獣人の若者。服装は特に目立たない麻の上下で、目立つ特徴といえば両手足に手甲、足甲を付けている事位か。その男が、まさに獲物を前にした狼のような顔で、緋雪の顔をみながら、ゆっくりと近づいて来た。「よう、久しぶりだな、緋雪たん」その挨拶に緋雪の口からかすれた声が漏れた。さん、貴方もここへ......?」ギルド『兄貴と愉快な仲間たち』のギルマスにして、緋雪同様の爵位保持者【	Amitia Republic Capital City, Alra. Originally, Alra was widely known as a free city. However, matching the transformation of Amitia’s name from a kingdom to a republic, the capital relocated from the old one of Chaedia which had some roads that were difficult to access. Usually when relocating a capital, it takes several years of work, but through the will of King Collard who has a restrained personality, they didn’t build the royal palace; they re-used the town hall building for political functions so the normally impossible short time for relocation became possible. However, now as the king triumphantly returned to the new capital (He originally was from the city so the citizens were highly conscious of it), he was dumbfounded as the unplanned royal palace ―a castle with a red pointed roof like those in fairy tales where kings live― stood before his very eyes. That was secretly built by the sponsorship from Amitia’s suzerain state, Imperial Crimson’s sovereign (Among the countries there were some who called her things like ‘Demon Empress’ or ‘Demon Emperor’, but from her appearance, ‘Princess’ is the most popular one). Officially it is a grant, as the raw materials, human resources, and expenses were all covered by Imperial Crimson. Collard who received it prostrated himself on the ground with a broken heart, and murmured, “The revenge backfired...” As a result, in more than half a year the town changed into the largest, both in size and population, in Amitia. Although for the citizens, instead thinking something like “Should we change the king”, “Should we change the country’s name”, or “Should we settle under the jurisdiction of a demon country”, the price of tomorrow’s grain is a much more important matter. From their perspective there is no dissatisfaction with the present regime. Each person followed their ordinary regular business and passed their time normally. More or less, if you’re talking about something that’s different from before, noble social status is now gone, but from the start they didn’t have a direct influence on the people. The only case where people were affected was with tax collection. Right now the duty is covered by tax collectors from the government’s bureaucrats so there isn’t anything particularly different. On the contrary, the dispersed tax rate along the region was now unified, and therefore for the regions which suffered from noble oppression, that was nothing but good news. Still, the visible changes can be seen here and there throughout the town. There were things which were unthinkable before but now can be seen in town, like goblins or orcs negotiating for prices. The suzerain state, Imperial Crimson, demanded recognition of personal rights for adapting demons into human society. However, there were no special privileges for demons as people feared at first. It was widely spread that they were treated as equal to normal citizens: they had tax duties, and were punished for crimes they committed. With that, compared to the society with nobles, it was much more fair, equal, and peaceful. ◆◇◆◇ While sitting on a park bench that faced the main street, Joey was watching the stream of people who were moving into the town. ‘This town is changing a lot...’ he obscurely thought. From what he could see, the races referred to as demi-humans in the western area like elves, dwarfs, and the like, were increasing within the population (In some regions they were treated as demons). Not only that, goblins from the Great Forest, orcs from the dungeon, and cyclops from the Northern Dragon Mountain Range, which previously couldn’t be thought of as anything besides monsters to be subjugated, were swaggering around downtown. Not to mention the one beside him, Collard, who formerly was a guild master, has now become his majesty, the king. “You must be wondering how things turned out like this right? I also want to know that. Aha ha ha ha...” Collard who came over to transfer the title of guild master met with Joey after some time, he somehow talked with vacant eyes. Gald ―Who had trained the hell out of Joey at the guild training school― became the new guild master and also smiled bitterly. “By the way Joey, there are two reasons why I called you here. One of them is this―” At the new guild master’s signal, Mia, who was on stand-by (She had been promoted from a receptionist to the guild master’s secretary), brought a familiar metal plate ―the guild emblem and handed it over to the new guild master, Gald. “I thought this would be a bit early, but our boss here became his majesty the king... so congratulations. ―You are now promoted to D-rank. With this you’ve finally come out from your eggshell.” The new guild master Gald struck Joey on the chest while he stared in wonder and was handed the guild emblem. As the pain gradually made him realize the truth, Mia smiled with her whole face and applauded him. “Congratulations Joey. With this you are publicly a full-fledged guild member.” He meekly nodded in response to those words. “―Okay, putting the matter about your ranking aside, there is one more reason. Did you remember your promise?” ‘Promise’ ―That moment, the face of an unforgettable beautiful girl freshly resurrected in his mind. “O-of course! I have said that I will guide her...!” Hearing Joey’s enthusiastic speech, for some reason Collard pinned down the bridge of his glasses and breathed a sigh. “Well, regarding that, rather than stopping you, her majesty had some words about it while we were having another chat.” Again, he breathed a grand sigh. “She said ‘I am going! I am going! It’s a bit boring here anyway,’ in a time where our country had a mountain of internal discussions and foreign negotiations, I wonder where her majesty got the leisure...” “Uh-huh...” Joey vaguely nodded. ‘Come to think of it, I heard Hiyuki is more important than Collard who became the king, I guess its surely very grave~’, Joey pondered carefreely and continued his thoughts, ‘In that case, perhaps guiding her around the town would not be so easy―’. “The meeting place and the time are written in this envelope. ―Can you read the characters?” “Ah, yes. I’ve taken a lesson about it in training school, so I should be able to get the gist of it...” This means I could meet her! Joey’s face instantly shined. “Very well. Then, to prevent any uproar from happening as much as possible, please grasp tightly to that person’s reins. ―Since on the paper it’s purely ‘An ordinary young lady sightseeing with a guild adventurer escorting and guiding her,’ even the country is not planning a lot of inference.” Being given the warning with a serious expression, Joey nodded with an unsure one. “...but, is this really okay?” Be that as it may, instinctively he thought, ‘Wouldn’t that be dangerous?’ So he confirmed it, again Collard gave a huge sigh. “There is no good explanation though―. I would rather say when you make unnecessary fuss or trouble, our side will just say ‘We didn’t know anything.’ So please, Joey.” “Uh-huh.” Hearing Joey’s unreliable answer, all members realized ‘Ah, this guy doesn’t know what the meaning is.’ “Well, ya don’t need to think so much, just escort her properly!” Gald struck Joey’s shoulder hard in order to erase his anxiety. So then, Joey was waiting at the time and place written in that letter, but that conspicuous girl’s figure couldn’t be seen. Is there some sort of mistake? So he thought then from his back pocket ―since he has escort duty, today he wore his favorite leather armor and hung his sword so the only usable pocket was his back one― he took out the letter and frowned looking at the contents. “...it’s not wrong right? What is she doing?” Shortly after he talked to himself, a dearly clear voice was heard. “―Yo, sorry-sorry. Pardon me for being late.” He was about to say ‘You’re late!’, but at that moment he thought that he had mistaken someone else as her. He saw her face once again making sure of it, then he lightly caught his breath. Hiyuki wore a cotton white summer dress and a hat coiled with a light blue ribbon adorned with a single red rose. She smiled. Joey was caught unexpectedly, thinking that she would surely come with her usual showy dress. Also, not to mention her fresh and yet defenseless figure made him feel the quickness of his throbbing heart. “Y, you, um... didn’t wear the usual dress.” “As expected, I think that dress is too conspicuous. Also, about the ‘usual’ you said, actually the first day I wore a line dress and the second day was a princess line dress so everything was different. By any chance did you not notice it?” “......” Joey was at a loss for words, thinking both of them were the same. “Well it’s no problem. For that reason I tried to wear a disguise, did it not suit me?” So she said, she pinned down her hat with one hand and spun around in a circle in place. Her skirt softly fluttered, the slender white feet etched in Joey’s eyes. His flustered face became red. “No, I think it suits you. Besides, I also didn’t know who you were at first.” He expresses rapidly what he was thinking. “Is that so? Then the disguise is a success.” Hiyuki delightfully smiled. Although with that appearance of hers, she was causing those surrounding them to notice just by standing silently. As expected, Joey, who had taken notice of their reactions, judged that remaining here any longer would cause an uproar. He stood up from the bench in a hurry and forcibly took Hiyuki’s small delicate hand. “Now then, let’s go soon. Is there any place you would like to visit?” “Well, I’ll leave that up to you. ...Why did you grasp my hand? ―Moreover, we’re holding hands like lovers.” The latter part was spoken in a low voice so Joey seemed to not have heard it. He asked her again, puzzled. “Hmm? Mia taught me to do it like this when guiding someone around town, is this wrong?” With the opposite hand, Hiyuki pinned down the side of her forehead. “She is still... rather, eight months have passed and yet you are still not on good terms with her?” “Well, that’s not true. We eat together and she makes me boxed lunches when I receive requests and go outside. Mia is really kind!” Towards Joey who declared that while having a clear face without a single cloud, Hiyuki made a beyond delicate smile that was mixed with various feelings, then she stared at him again. “Was Miya too much of a late bloomer? Or is this one too dense? ...I feel either one could be the cause.” “I kinda don’t understand but anyway, where would you like to go?” “I’ll leave it to you. Any place that you think would be good.” With her careless request, Joey pondered a little and then replied. “Then, let’s go to my favorite weapon shop.” “...Your thoughtless reactions are as lively as ever, Joey.” ‘Well I have some interest in this world’s weapons though. But normally, was this somewhere you would take a girl first...?’ Hiyuki thought of this question greatly in the innermost part of her heart. ◆◇◆◇ ― hour later. Wearing a brand new sword on his waist, Joey walked along the street together with Hiyuki with a pleasant face. (Of course, their hands were still connected) “Is it really all right? Buying this sword for me?” While touching the sword with his other hand, Joey made sure for an unknown number of times. “It’s no problem. I thought of it as a substitute for your promotion present. Besides, it’s just a normal sword, not a magic one... In the first place it was exchanged with your previous sword so, by any means, it doesn’t mean I’m paying for it.” Hiyuki lightly shrugged her shoulders. Responding to her, Joey said, “Is that so, my bad.” although he seems to be happy. “But, even the uncle at the weapon store said, ‘Young lady, you really have good eyes. The blacksmith who forged this one is still young, but his arms are the best,’ as I thought you are great!” “Well that thing has + while having the same price as the other swords, so the endurance is higher. Remember the inscription next time when you buy a replacement sword again, I recommend you to buy from that smith.” “Hmmm...” Joey nodded, but suddenly he felt someone’s gaze and wondered. “...Say, is that beastman one of your acquaintances?” “.....?” She opened her eyes so wide that they wouldn’t go any further. “...That’s...impossible...” Because of Hiyuki’s trembling hand and her shivering voice that he hadn’t heard of before, Joey was surprised and stared at that person. It was a young beastman who appeared to be from the wolf tribe, having an age around years old with black hair and blonde highlights flowing in. He continuously grinned. His attire did not particularly stand out, being a linen top and bottom. Speaking of conspicuous things perhaps it’s the leg armor that covered both of his hands and legs. That man, who while seeing Hiyuki had a face like a wolf in front of a prey, approached. “Yo! Long time no see! Hiyuki.” A husky voice leaked from Hiyuki’s mouth hearing that greeting. “......! A-Animaru! You’re here too...?” That man was the guild master of ‘Aniki and Happy Friends’, the holder of court rank equal to Hiyuki, ‘Bladeless Beast King’. He didn’t reply to that question and deepened his cheerful smile.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 2, "inserted_lines_src": 15, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
ハジメ達が去っ経ったウルの町。荒れた大地の整備やおびただしい数の魔物の死体処理など頭の痛い問題は多々あるが、それでも町も人も無傷という、起きた事態に対してまさに奇跡としか言い様のない結果。その吉報は、直ちに避難した住民達や周辺の町、王都に伝えられた、戻ってきた住人達は、再会した家族や恋人、友人達と抱きしめ合い、互いの無事を喜び合ってウルの町はさながらお祭りのような喧騒に包まれていた。町の周囲にはハジメが残していった防壁がそのまま残っており、戦い始終を見届けた者達は、いかに常識を超えた戦いだったのかを身振り手振りで、防壁から荒れた大地に視線をやりながら神話の語り部のごとく語って聞かせた。避難していた人達、特に子供達はそんな彼等の話に目をキラキラさせている。抜け目のない商人達は、既にハジメの防壁をウルの町の新たな名物として一儲けする算段を付けていた。また、白髪眼帯の少年ハジメの事を〝女神の剣〟あるいは〝女神の騎士〟と呼び、同じく敬った。それを聞いたデビッド達本当の護衛騎士達が、ハジメと愛子の口付けを思い出しながら「やっぱり、アイツは気に入らない!!」と荒れ狂ったのは別の話。後に、自分名を聞いてハジメが身悶えるのも別の話だ。若干、自分自身への恥ずかしい二つ名という誤算はあったものの、ハジメの思惑通り、愛子の名声と人望は鰻登りだった。町を歩けば、全ての人間の視線が集まっているのではというほどの集中砲火を受け、中には「ありがたや~」と拝み始める人までいる。この町で、確かに目に見える形で人々を救った愛子は、正しく〝女神〟だった。その噂は、既に周辺へと伝播を始めている。少なくとも、ウルの町では既に聖教教会の司教よりも愛子の言葉の方が重みを持っている事は間違いないだろう。その愛子はというと......町の復興支援やら重鎮達への対応を無難にこなしつつ、それでも親しい人には丸分かりなくらい明からさまに心ここにあらずという有様だった。原因は、言わずもがなだろう。戦いの前にハジメから伝えられた数々の衝撃の事実のこともあるが何より、ハジメが清水を殺したことが、その瞬間の光景が、愛子の脳裏から離れず心を蝕んでいるのである。その日も、一日の役目を終えて夕食時となり、〝水妖精の宿〟でいつのもの様に生徒達や護衛隊の騎士達と食事をとっていたのだが、愛子は機械的に料理を口に運びつつも、どこかボーとした様子で会話の内容にも気のない返事をするばかりだった。「愛ちゃん先生......やっぱり、愛ちゃん先生の魔法は凄いですよね! あんなに荒れてた大地もどんどん浄化されていって......あと一週間もあれば元に戻りそうですもんね!」「......そうですね......よかったです」園部優花が、愛子の心ここにあらずな様子に気がつきつつも、殊更明るい様子で話しかける。愛子の変調の原因を理解しているために何とか励ましたいのだ。しかし、園部の明るさを含んだ言葉にも、愛子はまるで定型文をそのまま言葉にしたような気のない返事しか返さない。園部が、「まだ、だめか~」と肩を落とす。「愛子......今日も町長や司教様から何か言われたのか? 本当に困ったら俺に言ってくれ。例え、司教様が相手でも愛子を困らせるような真似は俺が許さない。「......そうですね......よかったです」デビッドが、励ましたいのか口説きたいのかよくわからない言葉を愛子に贈る。神殿騎士でありながら司教に楯突くという発言はかなり危ないのだが、既に愛の戦士と成り果てているデビッドには関係ないのだろう。やたらと〝俺〟という部分が強調されているのは、誰に対抗しているのか......周囲の騎士達も察しはついているのでデビッドに同意しつつも、さり気なく抜け駆けしようとしている自分達の隊長に鋭い牽制の視線を送っている。しかし、そんなデビッドのさり気ないアピールは某お昼の長寿番組の相槌の如き同じ言葉であっさり流された。聞いていたかも怪しいところだ。生徒達が肩を落とすデビッドに「ざまぁ~」という表情をする。一部の騎士達も同じ表情をしている。そんな生徒達や騎士達のやり取りにも気がついていないのか、愛子は特に反応することもなく淡々と食事を続けていた。 (......私が、もっときちんと清水君とお話が出来ていれば......あの子の思いにもっと早く気がついていれば......そうすればこんな事にはならなかった......それに、彼に、同じ生徒である彼に、あんな事を頼まなければ......あの時、人質になんかならなければ......私が......死んでいれば......彼も清水君を殺す必要なんて......どうして、殺したの......同じクラスメイトなのに......敵だから? ......それだけであんなにあっさり? ......人を殺すってそんなに簡単なことなの? ......そんな簡単に出来てしまうことなの? ......そんなのおかしい......人は魔物ではないのに......あんな躊躇わずに......彼は......簡単に人を殺せる人間? ......放っておけば他の子達も......彼は危険? ......彼がいなければ清水君も死ななかった?......彼がいなくなれば他の子達は安全? ......彼さえいなければ......ッ!? 私は何を! ......ダメ、これ以上考えてはダメ!) 今の愛子の心の内は、後悔と自責を延々と繰り返している状態だった......そして下手をすればハジメへの恐れと恨みが芽生えそうで、それを慌てて打ち消し、再び最初の思考に戻るということを繰り返していた。考えることが多すぎて、考えたくないことも多すぎて、愛子の心は、まるで本棚が倒壊した図書館の様に整理されていない情報が散乱しグチャグチャの状態だった。そんな時、スっと心に響くような穏やかで温かみのある声音が愛子に届く。「ふぇ?」〝水妖精の宿〟オーナーのフォス・セルオだ。彼の声は決して大きくはないどころか、むしろ小さいくらいだ。だが、この宿にいる者でフォスの言葉を聞き逃すものはいない。彼の深みがあって落ち着いた声音は、必ず相手に届くのだ。今も、心を思考の渦に囚われていた愛子へあっさり言葉を届け、その意識を現実へと回帰させた。変な声を出してしまった事に気がつき、愛子は少し頬を染めつつ穏やかに微笑むフォスに視線を向ける。「え、えっと何でしょう? すいません、ちょっとボーとしてました」「いえいえ、お気になさらず。何やら浮かないお顔でしたので、料理がお口に合わなかったのかと。宜しければ他をお出ししますが......」「い、いえ! お料理は、とっても美味しいですよ。ちょっと考え事をしていたもので......」とても美味しいと言いながら、食べた料理の味が思い出せない愛子。周囲を見渡せば、生徒達や騎士達も、どこか心配そうな眼差しを自分に向けている。自分が相当、思考の坩堝にはまっていることに気がつき、これではいけないと気を取り直し、食事を再開するが、少し慌てていたため気管に入り盛大にむせた。涙目でケホッケホッとむせる愛子に、生徒達や騎士達があわあわとする。そんな様子を視界に収めつつ、さり気なくナプキンと水を用意するフォス。「す、すみません。ご迷惑を......」「迷惑など、とんでもない」愛子の失態を見ても穏やかな微笑みを崩さないフォスに、安心感を抱きつつも恐縮する愛子。そんな愛子に、フォスは目を細めると少し考える素振りを見せて、やはり静かな落ち着いた声音で語りかけた。「ふむ。愛子様。僭越ながら一つ宜しいでしょうか?」「え? ええ、はい。なんでしょうか?」「愛子様の信じたいことを信じてみてはいかがでしょう?」フォスの脈絡のない言葉に愛子は頭に〝?〟を浮かべて首を傾げる。それに、「言葉足らずでした」と苦笑いしながらフォスが話を続ける。「どうやら、愛子様の心は、今、大変な混乱の中にあるように見受けられます。考えるべき事も考えたくない事も多すぎて、何をどうすればいいのかわからない。何が最善か、自分がどうしたいのか、それもわからない。わからない事ばかりで、どうにかしなければと焦りばかりが募り、それがまた混乱に拍車をかける悪循環。違いますか?」「ど、どうして......」今の愛子の心の内をドンピシャリと言い当てられて、思わず言葉を詰まらせる愛子。そんな愛子に、フォスは「色々なお客様を見てきていますので」と穏やかに微笑む。「そういう時は、取り敢えず〝信じたいものを信じてみる〟というのも手の一つかと。よく、人は信じたいものだけ信じて真実を見逃すと、そう警告的に言われることがあります。それは確かにその通りなのでしょう。しかし、人の行動は信じるところから始まると私などは思うのです。ならば、〝動けない〟時には逆に〝信じたいものを信じる〟というのも悪くない手だと、そう思うのです」「......信じたいことを信じる」フォスのその言葉を愛子は反芻する。愛子の心は、今、後悔と罪悪感と、芽生えそうなハジメへの疑心、恨みでぐるぐると渦巻いている。ハジメは確かに愛子の大切な生徒ではあったが、同じく大切な生徒である清水を殺害し、場合によっては他の生徒の命をも奪いかねない存在であると理解した瞬間、ハジメを自分の大切なものを奪おうとする脅威であると認識してしまったのだ。それでも、ハジメもまた生徒である以上、完全に切り捨てられない。大量虐殺をしようとした清水を見捨てられなかったように。だからこそ、どうすればいいのかわからず混乱する。難儀な性格であると、愛子自身も思うが、こればっかりは仕方ない。それが畑山愛子〝先生〟なのだから。フォスは、愛子に何があったのかを知らない。彼女が、ある意味信じたいことを信じすぎたが為に今の状態にあるとは知らない。それでも、信じていたものが尽く崩れ去って身動きが取れなくなっている状態で盛大に失態を演じた今では、見え方も異なり有効かもしれなかった。そう思った愛子は、食事の手を止めて思考に没頭し始める。 (信じたいものを信じる。私が信じたいこと......何でしょう? 一つは、生徒達と皆で日本に帰る事です。でも、それはもう叶わない。今は、これ以上欠けることなく皆で帰れるという事を信じたい......彼の話。クラスメイトの誰かに殺されかけたという話。それは信じたくありません......彼が、邪魔すれば私達でも殺すと言った事、人殺しを躊躇わない人間に...生徒達を脅かす敵に......これも信じたくありません。でも、実際、彼はあの子を......清水君を躊躇わず殺した。なら、もう彼は......いえ、信じたいことを信じるのです) 再び、黒い感情が浮かびそうになるのを瞑目して押さえ込む愛子。周囲の者達は、微動だにせず何かを考え込む愛子を心配そうに見ている。 (彼は言っていました。〝敵だから〟と。それに〝余裕がない〟とも。清水君を生かした後、自分や周りの大切な人が再び襲われることを危惧したから殺した。それは、誰かを思ってのこと。実際、ただの冷酷な人間ならユエさんやシアさんがあんなに信頼を寄せるはずがありません。彼は、あの子達のためにも後顧の憂いを断ちたかった......だから生かしておけなかった。つまり、私が、清水君をどうにかできるとは思えなかったのですね......清水君を生かしたければ、改心させられると確信出来るくらいの何かを私が見せなければならなかった......結局は、私が無力なばかりに......清水君は......それでも、あんな風に殺すなんて......唯でさえ清水君は弱って......ッ) 清水を撃ち殺したハジメにも、そうするだけの明確な理由があった。だから、人殺しを何とも思わない壊れた人間などではなく、理解できない化け物でもなく、闇雲に生徒達を害する敵でもなく、未だ自分の言葉が届く〝生徒〟なのだと信じようとする愛子。そして、その思考過程で、生徒が生徒を撃ち殺すという衝撃の光景のせいで吹っ飛んでいた。わざわざ撃つ必要なんて全くなかった! なら、なぜ? なぜ、あんなことを? 確実に殺すため? いえ、そんな必要はありません。あの子は、もって数分だった。だから、どうしようもなくて彼に頼んだのです。私には、どうすることも出来なかったから......私のせいで撃たれた清水君ッ!?) 愛子は、目を大きく見開いた。今更気がついた事実に愕然とする。狙った攻撃であの傷を負った。何もしなければ、私のとばっちりで死んだ。私のせいで死ぬはずだった! でも誰も、私ですら、清水君は自分のせいで、自分こそが生徒を殺したのだと、ハジメが危惧した通りそう考えた愛子は、一瞬で青ざめる。生徒という存在は、愛子を支える根幹だ。だからこそ、自分がその大切な生徒の死の原因という事実は、愛子の心を打ち砕く。あまりの衝撃に、心が本能的な防衛機構を働かせ、愛子の意識を奪おうとする。視界が暗闇に閉ざされていき、愛子がそのまま闇に身を委ねようかと思った瞬間、脳裏にハジメの去り際の言葉がふと蘇った。〝出来れば、折れないでくれ〟あの時は、衝撃の連続に心がついて行かず、碌に考えぬまま面倒事が多いだろうけど頑張れくらいの意味だろうと、あっさり流した言葉だ。 (もし、もしあの言葉が、今の私を予測してのことなら......彼は心配してくれたのでしょうか? ......私が、清水君の死の原因は私自身だと気がついて〝折れてしまう〟ことを。だから......する必要もないのに撃った......殺したのは自分だと思い込ませるために......私が、罪悪感に折れてしまわないように......先生でいられるように......) 愛子とて、ハジメの価値観は理解しつつあった。だから、全てが自分のためだとは思わない。しかし、それでも、ハジメが愛子を想って行動を起こしたという考えは否定できそうになかった。愛子の閉じかけた心の扉が、完全に閉まる寸前で動きを止める。そして、再びゆっくりと開き始めた。狭まった視界は、再び広がり始める。心は、まだ極寒の如き冷たさを感じているが、同時に小さくとも確かな火が灯ったことも感じた。 (私は、彼に守られていたのですね......いえ、彼だけでなく他にも多くの人に守られている。今も傍らのこの子達が私を守ってくれている。守ることばかり考えて、守られている事実に気がつかないなんて......未熟ですね。ならば、勝手に自己完結している場合ではありません......) 愛子が決然とした表情をする。きっと、清水を巻き込んで殺したという思いは一生消えることはないだろう。それでも、自分を先生と慕って頼ってくれる生徒がいる限り勝手に立ち止まるわけにはいかないし、立ち止まりたいとも思わない。愛子は、例え世界が変わっても〝先生〟として出来ることをしようと改めて誓う。ただし、今度は自分の理想に踊らされないよう心掛けて。もう、ハジメに対する疑心や恐怖、恨みはなかった。 (彼も不器用な人ですね......私に恨まれるかもしれない、敵対する事になるかもしれない、そう分かっていながら......そう言えば、私の言葉を受け取って、真剣に考えてくれたのでしたね......もしかするとお返しの意味もあったのでしょうか? 思えば、彼には助けられてばかりです。教えてもらった真実もそうですし、結局、町も救ってくれて、その上、あれだけの戦いの中、約束を守って清水君を連れてきてくれました。思い返すと、私は滅茶苦茶ですね。あれもこれもと理想ばかり追いかけて......それを彼に押し付けてしまった......本当に未熟の極みです。それでも、彼が助けてくれたのは......何だ、確かに考え方は厳しいものになっていますが......以前の彼の良いところも残っているのですね......いえ、少しずつ取り戻しているということでしょうか? それは、やっぱりあの女の子達が......?) 改めて、ハジメの世話になりっぱなしだと内心で苦笑いする愛子。先生として情けない限りだと我が身の未熟を恥じつつも、ステータスに伸び悩んでいたハジメが物凄く頼りがいのある男として帰ってきた事に思わず頬が綻ぶ。そして、すっかり変心したと思っていたハジメにも、以前の心が垣間見えることに嬉しさも感じる。だが、その原因がユエやシアというハジメの傍に寄り添っていた少女達だと推測し思い浮かべた瞬間、何故か愛子の心がチクリと痛んだ。それに、首を傾げる愛子。だが、直ぐに気のせいだと思い直した。 (そういえば、シアさんに庇われたのに碌なお礼も言えませんでした。彼女は文字通り命の恩人なのに......今度、会ったらきちんとお礼をしなければなりませんね......それに命の恩人といえば彼も......) 毒物の影響やその後の怒涛の展開により、シアに碌な礼が出来なかったと反省しながら、同じ命の恩人であるハジメを思い浮かべる愛子。そして、今の今まで記憶の隅に封印していた (あ、あれは人工呼吸! 救命措置! それ以外の何ものでもありません! べ、別にあんな激しいの初めてとか、まして気持ちよかった何て思ってません! ええ、断じて思ってなどいませんよ!) 突然、赤面したかと思ったら、いきなりテーブルをペシペシと叩き始める愛子。誰にともなく言い訳を繰り返す。ちなみに、愛子とて大人。恋愛経験が皆無というわけではない。だが、しかし、見た目や言動の愛らしさに反して本気の恋愛とは縁が極めて薄いというのが実情だったりする。なぜなら、日本には見た目十代前半の少女である愛子に本気になるのは大抵〝紳士〟だけだからだ。愛子の中身を知って、いいなぁと思う男は多くいるが、だれも不名誉さ爆発の〝ロ〟で始まるレッテルを貼られたくないので、大抵いい友達で終わる。この世界では、十代前半で嫁ぐのは珍しくもなんともないので、愛子の童顔低身長という少女の見た目でも気にする者はいない。故にデビッド達は本気なのだが......恋愛経験の少なさと、自分のようなチンチクリンに興味を持つ男なんていないと割り切ってしまっているため異世界の男性陣から送られるラブコールにも一切気がつかないのだ。というわけで、ハジメのなした救命措置という名の口付けは、愛子にとってかなり衝撃的だった。心が落ち着いて、一度思い出してしまうと脳裏にこびりついて離れないくらいには。 (......大体、彼にはユエさんとシアさんという恋人が......二人もいるなら今更一人増えたところでって私は一体何を言っているの! 私は教師! 彼は生徒! ってそもそもそういう問題じゃない! 別に、私は何とも思ってませんし! それに何故か普通に受け入れてましたけど二股ですよ! 不純異性交遊は禁止です! 不誠実です! 恋愛は一途であるべきです! ......二人いっぺんに何て......ッハレンチな! そんなふしだらな関係は許しません! ええ、許しませんとも!) テーブルを叩く音がペシペシからバシバシに変わる。 (......しかし、ユエさんは彼にとってかなり特別な感じでしたね。私とあまり体型もスタイルも変わらないのに......ひょっとして彼は、こ、小柄な女性が好みなのでしょうか? た、例えば、わ、私みたいな? いやいやいや、何を言ってるの私ぃ! 彼の好みを知ってどうするの! 大体、彼も年下だし......そう言えば、ユエさんは吸血鬼族でかなり長く生きているんでしたっけ? つまり、彼は小柄で年上の女性好き? ってだからそんな事考えてどうするの! 正気に戻るのよ畑山愛子! あなたは教師! 彼は生徒! ちょっとキスされたくらいで、狼狽えるなんて教師失格です!) テーブルを叩き出したかと思えば、顔を両手で押さえてイヤイヤをし始め、またテーブルを叩き、またイヤイヤをし、最終的には「私は教師ぃー!」と言いながらテーブルに額を打ち付け始めた。流石の愛子大好き集団である生徒達や護衛隊の騎士達も彼女の奇行ぶりにドン引き状態だ。愛子が一人百面相と奇行を始めたきっかけとなったフォスは、「おや、元気が出てきましたね」と変わらず穏やかに微笑んでいる。大物だ。愛子は、その後、ハジメに対して感じたあれこれを、情緒不安定になっていた故の一時的な気の迷いということで自己完結した。そして、ハジメも生徒であることに変わりはない以上、ハジメの情報が伝わった王国や聖教教会の上層部から万一に備えてハジメの事を守らねばならないと、王国に戻ることを決意した。愛子は、気がついていない。ハジメの事が自己完結ではなく、ただの棚上げであることを。生徒達を心の中で呼ぶとき〝あの子〟などと指示語で表すのに対して、ハジメの事は〝彼〟と呼んでいることを。そして、芽生え始めた気持ちにも。そのことに愛子が気がつくのは、もう少し先の話......	Three days had passed since Hajime and his party left Ul. Although there were vexing problems; such as how to dispose of the corpses of the demonic beasts, and how to repair the roughened ground, the townspeople were unhurt. A result that could only be considered nothing but a miracle. The good news was immediately spread to the people who took shelter, peripheral towns, and even the Imperial Capital. The returning townspeople met their lovers and families. Some were hugging their close friends, and the joy of their safeties wrapped Ul in a festival-like clamor. The protective wall Hajime left behind was surrounded the town as is, and the people who were talking about the details of the fight were gesturing how it exceed the common sense similar to how storytellers talked about a myth as they looked at the roughened ground outside of the protective wall. Thus, the townspeople who didn’t know anything about Hajime and Aiko believed Hajime and his party were dispatched by the “Goddess of Good Harvest,” and Hajime’s wall was named “Goddess’s Shield” to honor it. Furthermore, the white-haired, eye-patched boy; Hajime, was called “Goddess’s Sword” and “Goddess’s Knight” in respect. However, it was a different story when David and the other Knights, or rather the real bodyguard Knights, recalled what was said about Aiko and Hajime. They would rampage while shouting, “As expected, I hate that guy!!!” In the future, Hajime would writhe in agony whenever he hears his name, but that’s another story. It was somewhat a miscalculation that resulted in earning himself some embarrassing nicknames, but just as Hajime thought, Aiko’s fame and popularity were through the roof. When she walked into town, all the people would turn around and focus their gazes on her. Among them, there were also some who began to worship her while saying things such as “Bless us~.” In this town Aiko, who saved the people, was certainly seen as nothing less than a “Goddess.” The rumor had also already spread to the surrounding towns. At the very least, it might be correct to say that Aiko’s words carried more weight than the Church of Saints’ bishop, in the town of Ul. The rumored Aiko was... safely supporting the town leaders in the town’s reconstruction, but although she acted cheerful around people close to her, her mind wasn’t there. The cause was the various impacts of the shocking truths Hajime had revealed before the fight. But above all, it was how Hajime killed Shimizu. The scene of that moment consumed her mind and gnawed at her heart. Even today, after they finished their day duty and it was time for dinner, the students and bodyguard Knights were dining at “Water Fairy Inn,” Aiko just mechanically carried the food into her mouth and blankly looked some place else without registering the conversation of the others in her mind, only answering with the same reply. “Ai-chan sensei... Ai-chan sensei’s magic is amazing after all! Even those roughened ground recovered quickly... Looks like it’ll return to normal in just a week!” “... I see... that’s good.” Sonobe Yuka, who noticed Aiko’s mind was somewhere else, intentionally talked to her cheerfully. She tried to somehow encourage Aiko, since she knew the source of her abnormal state. However, even Sonobe’s cheerful words only received an indifferent answer in return, like pre-typed-like words. Sonobe drooped her shoulders as she said “Still won’t do, huh~.” “Aiko... did the mayor or the bishop said anything today? If you’re really troubled by it, I won’t forgive them for troubling Aiko, even if it’s the bishop. I am Aiko’s Knight after all. No matter when, only I will be Aiko’s ally.” “... I see... that’s good.” It was unknown whether David said those words to encourage Aiko or to seduce her. The remark on how he was willing to go up against the bishop was considerably dangerous as a Templar Knight, although it might not be important to David; the warrior of love. The “I” part was emphasized. In regards to going against anyone... it was also considered by the surrounding Knights, as they agreed with him while they directed sharp glares at their commander who casually made his advance. However David’s casual appeal was easily tossed aside like the words coming from a certain long running TV program during daytime. It was doubtful as to whether or not she heard him. The expression on the student’s faces were saying “Serves you right~” to David who drooped his shoulders. The same expression was on the other Knights’ faces. Without taking any notice of the students and the Knights, Aiko indifferently continued to eat without responding. Why did he kill him... Even though they were classmates... Was it simply because he was an enemy?... Could killing someone be so simple because of such a reason? Was it so simple to kill a person?... How could it be done so naturally?... Presently, regret and self-condemnation repeated themselves in Aiko’s mind... Thus, if she thought of it unconsciously, the buds of fear and grudges towards Hajime would appear, she would deny them in a panic, and she would once again return to her first thoughts, repeating the process. There was too much she wanted to think about, and there were also a lot things she didn’t want to think of. Aiko’s mind was similar to a library where the bookshelves had crumbled and unorganized information were scattered around in a chaotic manner. Suddenly, a calm and warmth voice reached Aiko. “Aiko-sama. About today’s dish, is it not up to your taste?” “Eh?” It was Foss Selo, the owner of “Water Fairy Inn.” His voice was far from loud, it was actually said in a rather small voice. However, there was no one inside the inn who missed Foss’s words. His calm and deep voice would reach anyone without fail. Even now, Aiko whose mind was caught in whirpool of thought easily heard his words, and it made her senses return to reality. When she noticed she had cried out in a rather strange and loud voice, Aiko’s cheeks flushed slightly as she turned towards the smiling Foss. “U-Umm, what was it? I’m sorry, I was daydreaming for a moment.” “No, no, don’t worry about it. I just thought the dish was not to your taste because you didn’t raise your face. If so, I thought of sending out another dish...” “N-No need! The food is really delicious. I was just thinking about something...” Although Aiko said the food was very delicious, she herself couldn’t remember what it tasted like. When she looked at her surroundings, her students and the Knights were looking at her with a somewhat anxious expression. She noticed what was on their minds, and she thought she mustn’t continue the way she has been acting as she pulled herself together and continued on with her meal. However, she coughed in a panic when food entered her lungs. Because Aiko was coughing with teary eyes, the students and the Knights were panicked. Seeing the situation, Foss casually prepared napkin and water. “I-I am sorry. To trouble yo-...” “It is not a trouble at all.” Although Foss saw Aiko’s blunder, he kept a calm smile which made Aiko feel grateful and relieved. Seeing Aiko’s current state, Foss narrowed his eyes and thought of something. He spoke with a small and still calm voice. “Umm. Aiko-sama. Though it might be presumptuous, may I ask one thing?” “Eh? Ah, yes. What is it?” “Why can’t Aiko-sama believe what you want to believe?” Unable to understand Foss’s words, Aiko tilted her head as a question mark floated above her head. Because of that, Foss continued with a wry smile, “Looks like those words were too lacking.” “Apparently, Aiko-sama’s mind is currently in serious confusion. There are too many things you want to think about, there are also things you don’t want to think of, and you don’t know what should you do. What’s best is to do what you want, even if you’re not sure of what you want yet. There are many things you don’t understand, which only increases your impatience, and become the impetus towards the vicious circle of confusion. Am I wrong?” “H-How...” Because he had correctly guessed what she was thinking of, Aiko instantly became speechless. Seeing her reaction, Foss calmly explained with a smile, “I’ve seen a lot of guests, after all.” “During such times, it’s better to just ‘believe in what you want to believe in’ for now. But then again, people will overlook things if they only want to believe what they want, those words also came with such warning. That saying is correct. However, in my opinion, people only act in what they believe in. That’s why, I feel that during times when one ‘can’t move on,’ it isn’t a bad thing to ‘believe in what you want to believe in’.” “... To believe in what I want to believe in.” Aiko contemplated in Foss’s words. Aiko’s mind was currently filled with regret and guilt which became a bud of doubt in Hajime as the hatred swirled around. Hajime was certainly Aiko’s important student, but Shimizu who was also a similarly an important student to her was murdered. The moment she understood he was an existence who, according to situation, would deprive the other students of their lives. She recognized Hajime as a threat who would deprive her of her important people. Even so, Hajime was also her student, she couldn’t simply cast him away. It was the same reason why she couldn’t just abandon Shimizu, who tried to commit mass murder. That’s why she was confused since because didn’t know what to do. Though Aiko herself thought she had a difficult personality, she couldn’t help it. Hatayama Aiko was a ‘teacher,’ after all. Foss didn’t know what happened to Aiko. He didn’t know she was, in a certain sense, believing too much in what she wanted to believe in. Even so, he could see she had committed a large blunder since she couldn’t move on after what she believed in had collapsed. While he was lost in thought, Aiko’s hands had stopped from partaking of her meal and began to get absorbed in her thoughts. (To believe in what I want to believe in. I wonder... what is it that I want to believe in? One of the things is that I want all of the students to return to Japan. However, it’s something that can no longer be fulfilled. Now what I want to believe in is for it to be possible to return home without any more losses... Aiko closed her eyes as she tried to hold down the resurfaced dark feelings. The surrounding people were anxiously looking at her as she moved slightly while thinking of something. (‘Because he’s an enemy’ is what he said, and ‘I have no time for that’. He also feared Shimizu-kun will once again attack him and his important people if he let him live. That was something anyone would have thought of. There was a clear reason why Hajime shot Shimizu dead. He was not a broken human who would think nothing of murder. He was not a monster who couldn’t be understood. He wasn’t an enemy who blindly harm the students. Aiko decided to believe in him because he was a ‘student’, and her words could still reach him. With such thinking process, she recalled the shocking scene where a student shot another student to death, and she tried to search for the reason behind it. (That’s right. I had forgotten it until now. To begin with, I was the one who asked him to help the dying Shimizu-kun, and that was the result. Shimizu-kun would have died even if he didn’t do anything. It was completely unnecessary for him to purposely shoot him! So why?! Why did he do that?! To make sure he dies? No, there’s no need for him to do such a thing. That child only had a few minutes left to live, it was why I asked him for his help, but there’s nothing more left to be done. After all, there was nothing I could do... Shimizu-kun was shot because of me— Kh!?) Aiko opened her eyes widel She was aghast by the truth she had just noticed. (... That’s right. Shimizu-kun received the wound from the attack aimed at me. If nothing was done during that time, I would have surely died. It was my fault he had to die! But everyone was convinced Shimizu-kun was killed by him! He was the one who convinced us of it!) It was her fault, it was her who killed her own student. Just like Hajime feared, Aiko finally realized the truth and paled in an instant. The existence of her students were Aiko’s supporting pillars. The fact that she was the cause of one of her student’s death broke Aiko’s mind. The impact of the fact made her mind unintentionally turn on its defensive mechanism, and Aiko’s mind blanked out. With her outlook wrapped in darkness, she thought of giving herself to the darkness. However, the words Hajime left behind revived her mind. “If possible, please don’t get demoralized.” At that time, her mind didn’t understand it because of consecutive impacts. Even though it was troublesome to think well of the meaning behind those words, they were simple words if she thought hard enough. (If, if he said those words because he had predicted my situation... Wasn’t he worrying about me?... I, he noticed I would break down because I realized I was the cause of Shimizu-kun’s death. That was the reason why... he unnecessarily shot him... to convince us it was he who killed him... so I wouldn’t be crushed by guilt... to keep being a teacher...) Aiko understood Hajime’s sense of values. Therefore, she didn’t think it was done entirely for her sake. Even so, there’s no denying Hajime had rushed into action because he thought of Aiko. The closing of the door in Aiko’s mind was immediately stopped right before it completely shut, and it began to slowly open once again. Her narrowed view once again broadened. Though there was still the cold feeling like one of the coldest season inside her mind, but at the same time, there certainly was a small fire present. (Looks like I was being protected by him... No, not only him, but a lot of people have protected me. The children by my side are protecting me even now. I only thought of protecting him, but I didn’t realize I was also being protected... How immature of me. That’s now’s not the right time for me to keep trying to be independent...) Aiko wore a resolute expression. However, her thoughts involving Shimizu-kun and the fact that she was the reason he was killed wouldn’t disappear for the rest of her life. Even so, she couldn’t just stand still because there were students who adored and relied on her as their teacher; she didn’t want to. Aiko renewed her vow to do the things she could do as a ‘teacher’, even if the world had changed. In addition, she also engraved in her mind to not let her current ideals be shaken. There is already, without a doubt, fear or grudge against Hajime. When I think back, I’ve only been saved by him. He told me the truth, and in the end, he even saved this town. Moreover, during the battle, he fulfilled his promise and brought Shimizu-kun back. If I reconsidered those things, I’ve only been unreasonable. I only talked of my ideals... and I’ve pressured him with that... How truly immature of me. Even so, he saved us... even though his way of thinking is cold... Looks like parts of his previous self still remained... No, at the very least, he regained some of them, right? Could it be because of those girls?) Once again, Aiko smiled wryly as she thought of becoming indebted to him. Even though her immaturity was shameful as teacher, she smiled as remembered the Hajime who had sluggish status in the beginning, transforming into a truly dependable man. Thus, even though Hajime had completely changed, she felt happy when she caught a glimpse of his previous self. But at the moment, she guessed the reasons were Yue and Shia, the girls who were always close to Hajime’s side. Aiko somehow felt a pain in her heart. Aiko inclined her neck, but she immediately thought of it as nothing but her imagination. (Incidentally, I still haven’t said my thanks to Shia-san who protected me. Even though she is someone I owe my life to... Next time, I must properly make sure to thank her... In addition, I also owe my life to him...) About the poison and the raging development, Aiko reflected. She had not thanked Shia, and the other benefactor of her life, Hajime. It was only now that she recalled something sealed in the corner of her memory, and she blushed as though fire came out of her face. (Th-That’s just an artificial respiration! A lifesaving measure! There’s absolutely nothing more than that! I-It’s not like such an intense thing was my first time. I never thought of it as pleasant! Yup, I absolutely never thought of it like that!) When she thought of the reason behind her flushed face, Aiko suddenly began to beat the table. She repeated her excuse to no one in particular. In addition, even though Aiko was an adult, she didn’t have any experience in love. Even so, it was true that with her lovely looks, speech, and behavior changed, becoming like someone who was seriously in love. After all, in Japan, there were only ‘gentlemen,’ who treated her seriously because of her teenage-like appearance. Aiko knew there were a lot of men who thought of her appearance as good, but most of them ended up as good friends because none of them wanted to experience shame in being labeled as something beginning with ‘Lo’. Since it was not unusual for people in their earlier teens to marry in this world, no one was bothered by Aiko’s short height and childish face; the so-called a little girl’s appearance. So even though David and the other Knights were serious,... her small experience in love and her small stature made her believe no man would be interested in her, since she didn’t even notice the love call clearly sent by men from this different world. Thus, the mouth to mouth life-saving measure Hajime had quite the impact on Aiko. She calmed her mind, and once again recalled the things that wouldn’t get out of her head. (... To begin with, he already has girlfriends named Yue and Shia... There were already two, so it doesn’t matter if it increases by one. Just what I am saying?! I am a teacher! He’s a student! Wait, that’s not the problem! It’s not like he thinks of me like that! Besides, he somehow managed to casually two-time! Illicit sexual relationships are forbidden! That’s insincere! Love should only be one way!... To have two at the same time... Kh, how shameless! I won’t allow such immoral relationships! Hmph, I won’t allow it!) The sound of her beating the table became louder. (... But his feelings towards Yue-san is quite special. Though her style isn’t so different from me... Could it be that h-he likes child-like women? F-For example, like me? No, no, no, what am I thinking! So what if I know his tastes! To begin with, he is eight years younger... Now that I think about it, aren’t people from the Vampire race like Yue-san have a long lifespan? In other words, he likes child-like older woman? Wait, so what if I knew that! Return to your senses, Hatayama Aiko! You are a teacher! He is a student! You are disqualified as a teacher if a little kiss makes you confused!) Maybe because she was done beating the table, she held her face with both hands, began shaking her head while saying ‘No, no’, once again she beat the table, continued with another ‘No, no’, and finally she shouted “I am a teacher—!!,” as she began to pound the table with her forehead. As expected, even the students and bodyguard Knights; the group who loves Aiko, was taken aback by her eccentric behavior. When Foss noticed Aiko, who started a one-man show, he said, “Oh my, looks like you’ve cheered up,” with his unchanging calm smile. What a big person. Afterwards, Aiko was able to come to terms with her feelings towards Hajime about this and that, and self-concluded that was only a temporary hesitation caused by unstable emotion. Thus, there’s no change, Hajime was her student. While it was necessary to deliver information about Hajime to the top management in Church of the Saint and the Kingdom, she also needed to be prepared to protect Hajime from them in case of emergency, since she was determined to return to the Kingdom. Aiko didn’t notice it. The thing about Hajime wasn’t concluded, it was just put on hold. While she called the students in her mind as “that child,” only Hajime was called “he.” Thus the feeling began to bud. The time when Aiko finally took notice of it would be a little bit more in the future...	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 2, "inserted_lines_src": 13, "inserted_lines_trg": 7 }
6階の探索は比較的に順調だった。生息しているのは歩行の猫顔の獣人と、寸胴の蛇である。猫獣人は発達した前腕と鋭い爪で素早く切りかかってくる。俊敏な動きは厄介ではあるが、ミトロフからすれば黄土猪よりも御し易い。素早い相手にはミトロフの決闘剣技は相性が良い。寸胴の蛇は地や壁を這って近づいてくる。ぎゅっと身を縮めたかと思うと、砲弾のように飛びかかってくる。見つけ次第、グラシエが射落とすこともあれば、ミトロフがガントレットで弾き落とすこともあった。寸胴蛇の砲弾を、ミトロフは腹に受けた。胃を叩かれるような手痛い衝撃だったが、ミトロフのあまりに分厚い脂肪のために、寸胴蛇が跳ね返されることになった。対処法に慣れてしまえば、6階は比較的、探索のしやすい場所だと言える。しかし猫獣人も寸胴蛇も、剥ぎ取って価値のある部位がなく、収穫という点では5階のほうが実り多い場所のようだった。「やはり青鹿はおらぬな」グラシエがぼそりと呟いた。考えが思わずこぼれたようである。平坦な声ではあったが、その声音に焦りや不安といった色味が混ざっていることを、ミトロフは感じる。 6階の探索は順調である。しかし青鹿の痕跡もなければ、トロルの姿も見えない。求めるものが見つからない以上、探索として順調であっても、心は疲弊していく。その異変が起きたのは、カヌレがふたりの様子を心配して、休憩を提案したときだった。「何かが暴れておるようじゃな」耳のよいグラシエが初めに気づいた。その先導で道を曲がり、近づいてようやく、ミトロフもその音を聞いた。たしかに固いものが壁にぶつかる音がしている。迷宮で聞こえるその音は、ほぼ確実に誰かが何かと戦う音だ。しかし不思議なのは、6階にはそこまで大きな音を立てる魔物がいないことだった。どうしたのかと通路を進めば、その姿が見える。戦っているのは狼々ノ風だった。大剣を構えたミケルがミトロフに気づいた。「ミトロフ! 離れてろ! トロルのその言葉に反応もできず、ミトロフは目を丸くするばかりだった。通路に横穴が空いている。そこからトロルが身を乗り出しているところだ。それだけではない。通路には3体のトロルがミケルたちと争い、すでに力尽きたトロルも見える。この場所だけで10体近いトロルの姿があるのだ。「助けますか?」カヌレが冷静な声でミトロフに訊ねた。それはここを離れるか、あの戦いに参加するかを決めろということである。もちろん、ミトロフは迷わない。「––––行く。カヌレはここに残ってくれ。グラシエ、いいか?」「もちろんじゃ。見捨てるなどエルフの矜持を汚すだけじゃわい」グラシエは矢筒かの矢を抜いた。一本を口に咥え、一本を右手の小指と薬指で握り、最後の一本を番えて弦を引いた。ミトロフは細剣を抜き放ち、駆け出した。どむ、どむ、どむ、と腹肉を揺らしながら、それでも素早く駆ける。後ろから矢が追い抜いた。一、二、三。連射は横穴から姿を見せたトロルの首と頭に正確に刺さった。悲鳴。しかし刺さりは浅い。トロルの肌は分厚く、脂肪に守られている。致命傷には至らない。しかしこちらの存在を知らせるには充分だった。トロルは刺さった矢をまとめて握って抜き、地面に叩きつけた。喉奥から掠れた咆哮をあげ、走り寄るミトロフに睨みをつけた。「おい! 逃げろって言ってんだろブタ!」とミケルが叫んだ。「助け合うのが冒険者だって言っただろうチビ!」とミトロフは叫び返した。トロルはその手に欠けた石斧を握っている。切れ味など期待できるわけもない石の塊だが、ぶつかればそれだけでミトロフは死ぬだろう。急激に燃え上がるように身体が熱くなる。柄を強く握った。トロルが石斧を振り上げ、振り下ろす。その動きを見切れないわけがない。ミトロフはステップを刻み、石斧を避けた。砕かれた床の破片がビシビシとミトロフの足に飛んだ。気にしない。その懐に入り込み、トロルの膝に刺突を入れた。すぐに抜き戻し、膝裏を斬り払う。悲鳴。ミトロフが飛び退いた場所にトロルが崩れ落ちる。右脚の腱を断てば巨体は支えられない。膝を突けば頭が下がる。そこにはもう、手が届く。ミトロフは迷いなく再び飛び込み、膝を落として腰だめに剣を寄せた。そして全身で伸び上がるように一点に刺す。下から突き上げ狙うのは、トロルの顎の下である。レイピアは狙い違わず貫通し、トロルの脳を打った。すぐさまに剣を抜き、身体を回転させるようにステップを踏んでその場を離れる。振り払われた切先から一筋の血が、ミトロフの身体を包むように弧を描いた。悲鳴もなく、呆気もなく。トロルは倒れ、動かない。「––––よし」あのトロルと戦ってから、幾度となく思い描いた動きである。それが現実にできたことに頷き、すぐに次へと移る。「やるじゃんか、後輩!」ミケルが揶揄うように言った。自らも戦いながら、ミトロフにも目を配っていたらしい。その余裕は今の自分にはなく、さすが先輩と見習うしかない。口に出すのは癪に思えて、ミトロフは黙っていたが。ミケルたちは三体のトロルを同時に相手にしながら、危うげもない。彼らのパーティーであり、それぞれに役職が定まっている。確実に、安全に、トロルに対処していた。これなら大丈夫か、と息をつく間もなく、横穴からトロルが顔を覗かせた。その瞬間、その右目に矢が突き立った。厚い脂肪もない眼球を的確に狙った一矢は、トロルを間違いなく射止めていた。どすん、と崩れ落ちる。矢を放ったままの姿勢で、グラシエが「にっ」と笑ってみせた。ミトロフがトロルと戦う方法を何度も想定したように、グラシエも思うところがあったのだろう。獣を狩るのではなく、魔物を討つ。狩人から冒険者へ変革した意識の差が、卓越した弓術に磨きを掛けたようである。ミトロフたちが助太刀をする必要もなく、狼々ノ風はトロルたちを一体ずつ仕留め、ついに最後の一体となった。さあ、これで一息つける––––ふっと、緊張の糸が緩んだ瞬間だった。どん、と。天井が弾けた。	The exploration of the sixth floor was relatively smooth. The creatures inhabiting it were bipeds, cat-faced beastmen, and plump snakes. The cat beastmen came at Mitrof quickly with their developed forearms and sharp claws. Their swift movements were troublesome, but Mitrof found them easier to deal with than the ochre boars. His decisive swordsmanship was well-suited to fast opponents. The plump snakes approached by crawling on the ground or walls. When they contracted tightly, they would jump like a cannonball. Grace sometimes shot them down, and Mitrof sometimes knocked them down with his gauntlet. Once, Mitrof took a hit from a plump snake like a cannonball in the stomach. It was a painful blow to the stomach, but because of Mitrof’s thick fat, the plump snake bounced back. Once you get used to dealing with them, the sixth floor can be a relatively easy place to explore. However, neither the cat beastmen nor the plump snakes had valuable parts when skinned, and in terms of harvest, the fifth floor seemed to be a more fruitful location. “It seems like there really aren’t any blue deer present.” Grace murmured softly, as if her thoughts had slipped out. Although her voice was flat, Mitrof could sense a tinge of anxiety and restlessness mixed into her tone. The exploration of the th floor was progressing smoothly. However, there were no signs of the blue deer, nor could they see the troll. Even if the exploration itself was going well, without finding what they were looking for, their hearts would continue to tire. The incident occurred when Canule suggested taking a break because she was worried about the two. “Something seems to be rampaging.” Grace, with her sharp ears, noticed it first. Following her lead and turning a corner in the road, Mitrof finally heard the sound. There was definitely the sound of something hard hitting the wall. In the labyrinth, that sound was almost certainly the noise of someone fighting something. However, what was strange was that there were no monsters on the th floor that could make such a loud noise. As they continued down the hallway to see what was happening, they could finally see the figure. It was the “Wolves Wind” who was in a battle. Mikel, holding his great sword, noticed Mitrof. “Mitrof! Get back!—It’s the troll’s ‘March of Advance’!” Without any reaction to his words, Mitrof could only widen his eyes. There was a hole in the path. Trolls emerged from there, and it wasn’t just that. Three trolls were already fighting with Mikel and others in the passageway, and there were even trolls that had already exhausted their energy. Close to trolls were now visible in this location alone. “Do we help?” Canule asked Mitrof calmly. It meant deciding whether to leave this place or participate in the battle. Of course, Mitrof didn’t hesitate. “——Let’s go. Canule, stay here. Grace, okay?” “Of course. Abandoning them would only tarnish the pride of the elves.” Grace pulled out three arrows from the quiver. She held one in her mouth, held the other with her little finger and ring finger of her right hand, and drew the bowstring with the last one. Mitrof drew out his rapier and ran forward. With his belly shaking and bouncing, he ran swiftly. Arrows flew past him from behind. One, two, three. The rapid fire accurately hit the troll’s neck and head, visible through the side hole. The troll screamed, but the wounds were shallow. The troll’s skin was thick and protected by fat. It was not a fatal blow. However, it was enough to signal their presence. The troll pulled out the arrows embedded in his body and threw them to the ground. The creature let out a growl, glaring at Mitrof as he approached. “Hey! I told you to run, you pig!” Mikel shouted. “You said adventurers help each other, you shorty!” Mitrof shouted back. The troll held a broken stone axe in his hand. It was nothing more than a lump of rock without any sharpness, but if it hit Mitrof, it would surely kill him. His body suddenly heated up, burning with flames. He tightly gripped the handle of his weapon. The troll raised the stone axe and swung it down. There was no way he could miss that movement. Mitrof stepped and avoided the stone axe. Fragments of the shattered floor flew toward his feet. He paid no attention. He moved in and stabbed the knee of the troll. Quickly pulling his sword back, he slashed the back of the knee. A scream. The troll collapsed where Mitrof had jumped back. If he severed the tendon of his right leg, the giant could not stand. If Mitrof hit his knee, the head would lower. It was easily within reach. Without hesitation, Mitrof jumped in again, dropped his knee, and thrust his sword with his whole body toward one point. He thrusts from below, aiming for the bottom of the troll’s chin. The rapier penetrated accurately and pierced through the troll’s brain. Immediately withdrawing the sword, he stepped back with a turn of his body. A ray of blood from the tip of the sword that was shaken off draws an arc that wraps around Mitrof’s body. Without a scream or astonishment, the troll fell and stopped moving. “——Good.” This movement was something that Mitrof had imagined many times since fighting the troll. He nodded at the fact that he could do it in reality, and quickly moved on to the next challenge. “You did it, junior!” Mikel teased Mitrof, keeping an eye on him while fighting at the same time. Mitrof’s composure in battle was something he had to learn from his experienced seniors. He felt frustrated but didn’t say a word. Mikel and the others were fighting three trolls at once with ease. They were a party of four people, each with their own roles. They dealt with trolls with confidence and efficiency. While Mitrof was taking a breath, a troll peered out from a nearby cave. But at that moment, an arrow pierced its right eye with pinpoint accuracy, taking it down without fail. Grace, who was still holding the bow, remained in place and released the arrow. Mitrof looked back and saw Grace smiling confidently. Just as Mitrof had many ideas on how to fight trolls, Grace must have had her own, not to hunt the beast, but to strike the monster. This difference in mindset from hunting to adventuring had sharpened her archery skills. Mitrof and the others didn’t need to provide backup, as “Wolves Wind” had taken care of the trolls one by one, finally defeating the last one. Now they could take a breath and relax—but suddenly, at that very moment when the tension came loose, Dodon. The ceiling burst open.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 2, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
彼は船のデッキに立って一等航海士に話しかけました。「明日我々は例の岩場の近くを通る。そこにはセイレーンと呼ばれる美しい女性たちがいるだろう。彼女たちは魅惑的な歌を歌っている。それはもううっとりするような歌を。その歌を聴いた者は一人残らず岩にぶつかって死ぬと言われている。」彼の話しぶりから普通ならこの海路は避けるべきだと考えるでしょう。オデュッセウスはこう言うのです。「私はその歌を聴いてみたい。だから私はこうしようと思う。船上にいる全ての者の耳を蝋でふさぎます。こうすれば彼らに歌声は聞こえない。そして、私はマストに縛り付けてもらうことで歌を聴く。これで問題なく航海できるというわけだ」と。このように、船長は船員全員の命を危険にさらすことである歌を聞くことができるためです。こういった場合、彼らは数回にリハーサルをしたはずです。オデュッセウスはこう言ったのではないでしょうか。「今から予行練習をしよう。マストに縛り付けられたら、私は縄を解くよう懇願するだろう。しかし、私が何と言おうと縄をほどいてはならない。分かったな。じゃあマストに縛り付けてくれ。」そこで航海士はロープを持ってきて彼をマストに固く縛り付けました。するとオデュッセウスは迫真の演技を始めました。「縄をほどいてくれ!自由にしてくれ! あの歌が聴きたいんだ!」一等航海士は忠実に言いつけを守り縄をほどきませんでした。するとオデュッセウスは「よくやった。それでいい。縄をほどいてくれ。夕食にしよう。」と言います。一等航海士は迷いました。「まだ練習中なのか、いや、もう終わったのか」と。散々迷ったものの、彼は「練習は既に終わったんだろう」と思い、縄を解きました。するとオデュッセウスは激高して一等航海士の胸ぐらをつかみました。「馬鹿野郎! もし明日同じことをしたら、私もおまえも他の船員も皆死ぬはめになるんだ! 何があろうと私の縄をほどいてはならない。わかったな!」こう言って彼を床に突き飛ばしました。結局このリハーサルは夜通し行われたのです。かわいそうな航海士は周りの者が笑う中何度もオデュッセウスをマストに縛り付けては、彼の演技に毎回だまされ、情け容赦なく殴られ続けました。このオデュッセウスのように自らの動きを制限するこのやり方心理学者が背水の陣法と呼ぶものです。冷静に自身を抑制することで賢明な決断をすることができます。かっとなってしまった時でも、後々の後悔につなげないための方法です。物事を考えるとき我々人には二種類の頭脳があります学者たちはこの二種類の頭脳についてのメタファーを誘惑を論じる際いつも引き合いに出してきました一つ目は「現在の自分」です。オデュッセウスが歌を聴き、セイレーンに近づきたくなるこの心理が一例です。その場、その時、その瞬間の満足感だけが全てなのです。しかし同時に「未来の自分」も存在します未来のオデュッセウスは妻のペネロペとどこか暖かい場所でのんびりと老後を過ごすことを望んでいる、といったものです。イサカの郊外辺りなどきっといいですね。では、なぜ我々には背水の陣法が必要なのでしょうか。上手に誘惑を制することはなかなか難しいです 19世紀のイギリス人経済学者のナッソー=ウィリアム=シニアはこう言っています。「活力の源となる楽しみを慎むこと、または、簡単に答えを出さずに長期的に探求することは人間の意志の中で最も困難を伴うことです。」他の多くの人々と同じように、あなたも何か自分自身のゴールを設定するとします。すると、あなたはきっと気付くでしょう。なかなか目標を達成できないのはゴールが物理的に不可能だからでなく自制心の欠如に原因があることに。体重を減らすことは物理的に可能ですし、もっと頻繁に運動することだってできるんです。難しいのは誘惑からの自制なのです。これが難しい理由はもう一つあります。それは誘惑からの自制が現在の自分と未来の自分の間で繰り広げられる不平等な戦いだからです。もっと詳しく話しましょう。現在の自分は常に存在し、現在における主導権、決定権を握っています。あなたの口にドーナツを運ぶことだってたやすいことなのです。このとき、未来の自分は全く姿を見せません。未来の自分は立場が弱く、現在においては、弁護士も雇えません。誰も支持してくれないのです。というわけで現在の自分が、未来における目標達成という夢を全て打ち砕いてしまうのです。このように現在と未来の自分の戦いが頻繁に起こるので、戦いのフィールドを等しくするために私たちには背水の陣法が必要なのです。実際に私はこの考え方を大変気に入っています。マストに自分を縛り付ける以外にも方法はあります。例えばクレジットカードを金庫にしまう、ジャンクフードを家に持ち込まない、インターネットのプラグを抜くこともできるのです。そうすればネットサーフィンで時間を無駄にしないでしょう。私も以前、まだ背水の陣法を知らなかった頃ですが、個人的に背水の陣法をつくりました。コロンビア大学で博士号を取ろうと奮闘していた頃、いわゆる「研究業績を出せ、さもなければ消えよ」というプレッシャーに耐えていた時期です。毎日5ページ書かなくてはいけなかったのでできない日は5ドル手放すというルールを設定しました。実際にこの背水の陣法を実行しようとしてみるといたるところに悪魔が存在することが分かるでしょう。というのも5ドルと縁を切るのは思うほど簡単ではないのです。焼却することは違法なのでできません。そこで私はチャリティーに寄付しようと考えました。または妻にあげるとかそんな感じです。しかし何かが違うと感じました。なぜなら書かないことは悪ですが、寄付することは善だからです。これでは私は書かないことを正当化することができてしまいます。私は他にもいろいろと考えを巡らせてみました。例えば私の5ドルをナチスにあげることもできるとも。しかしこれは書く書かないの善悪のレベルを超えて悪です。これではお話になりません。そこで私は結局、ただ単純に電車の中に封筒を置いておくことに決めたのです。時にはそれを善人が拾い、時には悪人がそれを見つけることもあるでしょう。概して、これは完全に不毛な交換でした。今では後悔しています。笑背水の陣法はこのように用いることができるのです。私はこのアイディアが好きですが用いるたびに感じる懸念が二点あります。みなさんももしこの背水の陣法を使えば感じると思います。まず一つ目ですが、みなさんが私のように背水の陣法を始めたとします。しかしこれはセルフコントロールのない単なる定期的なお知らせ機能に過ぎないのです。「背水の陣法なしには何もできないし、私には強い自制心もないわ。」などと言っていては何もならないのです。この方法が適用しない状況に置かれたとき、例えば「あら、ドーナツいただいちゃったわ。でも背水の陣法にドーナツを防御する方法なんてなかったし...」などと言って食べてしまうのです。私はこの方法が当人から権限を奪い取ってしまうことがいやなのです。自制とは筋肉のようなものであると私は考えます。筋肉は鍛えれば鍛えるほど強くなりますよね。二つ目の問題は私たちはいつでもこの背水の陣法から逃げられるということです。「今日は5ページも書けないよ。だってTEDTalkでのスピーチもしなきゃいけないし、他にもインタビューが5個もある。その後はカクテルパーティに行く予定だから...酔っ払っていては書けないだろう。この通り、今日はどうやったって論文に取り掛かることなんてできない!」これは事実上、あなたの中にオデュッセウスと一等航海士がいるようなものです。あなたは自分の状況を考え、自制を促しながらも逃げだそうともします。そして最後には自分を責めてしまうのです。そこで私は10年に渡って背水の陣法を使わずに未来の自分との付き合い方を変える他の道を見つけ出そうとしてきました。いかなるデバイスにも頼ることなくです。とりわけ、将来の経済状況との関係性は興味深いです。これはとてもタイムリーな問題なのです。貯金について話していきましょう。ここには典型的な二つの問題がありますね。まず、現在の自分は貯金なんてしたくありません。とにかく消費したいのです。一方で未来の自分は現在の自分に貯金してもらいたい。これは実にタイムリーな問題です。貯蓄率の推移を見ると 1950年代から減少していることが見て取れます。同時に、全米退職リスク=インデックスを見ると退職後の生活のために十分に貯蓄できない可能性が増えていることがわかります。マッキンゼー=グローバル機関は既に、ベビーブーマー世代の3人に2人がこれから来る老後のための金銭的準備が十分にできないだろうと予測しています。私たちは一体どうすればよいのでしょうか? 私と友人は、デレク=パーフィットという哲学者の次の言葉から着想を得ました。「私たちはときに、失敗を思い込み、失敗を想像することで未来の自分たちを軽視してしまうかもしれない。言い換えると、私たちは、歳をとっていくことを信じにくく、またはいつかは老いるということを想像できないのです。これは馬鹿馬鹿しく聞こえることでもあるでしょう。もちろん、私たちは老いていく現実を知っています。ですが、信じながらも信じられない、そんな事柄は世の中にたくさんありますよね。そこで私は相棒と共に、現代における最もすばらしい道具、コンピューターを使って、人々の想像をサポートし自分たちの将来がどんな風になっていくかを予想するお手伝いをしました。では、いくつかツールを紹介しましょう。一つ目はディストリビューション=ビルダーと呼ばれる分布表です。未来に含まれるであろう起こりうる結果を100個提示することで人々に自分の未来がどのようであるかを示すのです。それぞれの結果はこのようなマーカーで表され列になっています。これは財産の水準と退職を示しています。上に行けば行くほど高い所得をもって退職後の生活を楽しんでいるということです。反対に、下に行けば行くほど生活のやりくりに苦労している状態を示します。あなたが何か投資をするとき、こう断言するのではないでしょうか。「これら100のうちの一つが自分の未来となり、将来の財産を確定することを受け入れよう」と。それではマーカーをいろいろ動かしてみましょう。こんな風にあなたの運命をコントロールできるのです。しかしそのためには手間をかける必要もあります。その手間とは、今もっと貯蓄することです。何か満足いく投資を見出したら、「完了ボタン」をクリックします。するとこれらのマーカーが消えていくのです。ゆっくりと、しかし一つずつ確実に。これは行った投資がもたらす影響をシュミレーションし、その投資が成功するか否かを判断するのです。最後には、たった一つのマーカーが残り、それがあなたの老後における裕福さを示しているのです。そう、例えばこの人の退職後の収入は働いているときの収入比150パーセントです。現役で働いているときよりも定年後の方がお金を得ているのです。もしあなたが他の多くの人々と同じように現在のあなたに小さな満足感や喜びをもたらすものを望むだけなら、単純に退職後に今よりも収入を 50%増やすことを考えてください。しかし、もしあなたが結局最も下の位置に行き着いたとしたら、不安や悪心といった絶望を感じ、老後を切り抜けることに苦悶を抱くことでしょう。このツールを繰り返し使い、様々な結果をシュミレーションすることで、人々は理解するでしょう。私たちが今日行う投資や貯蓄こそがより豊かな未来の決め手になるということを。将来に希望や不安を抱く人々はやる気を持ち、各々が意欲的にとりかかるものを見つけ出すのです。これはグラフを使ったシュミレーションです。数字ではなく、金で買えるものに対してモチベーションを感じる人のために、数値的な収入の代わりに、それぞれの所得に相応した物件を示す分布表を作りました。退職後にそれぞれ月に3000ドル、2500ドル、 2000ドル...の収入がある場合に、買うことができる部屋をお見せしましょう。所得高別に部屋を一つずつ見ていくとどんどん質が悪くなっていることが分かります。いくつかは私が大学院生時代に住んでいた部屋のように質素です。そして一番下まで行くと、とても残念な現実を目の当たりにすることになります。定年後のための貯蓄を全くしないでいると、そもそも家を買うことすらできないのです。これらはインターネット上で見つけたそれぞれの所得に見合った賃料の、実存する部屋の写真です。みなさんに最後にお見せするのは生涯の最後にとる行動が分かるタイムマシーンです。これは、先に紹介したプロジェクトの相棒から紹介された金融行動の専門家であるハーシュ=フィールドと共に考案したものです。これは何かと言うとバーチャル=リアリティ診断です。何をするかというと、まず人々の写真を撮ります。ここでは大学生の年代の人々ですね。そしてソフトウェアを使って彼らを老いさせます。そして彼らが60歳、70歳、80歳になったときにどんな風になっているかを示すのです。自身の将来への投資姿勢を変えられる未来の自分の顔を見ることで、実際にあなたがたの未来の想像の手伝いができているかどうか、これを使って検証するのです。これは我々の試みの一つです。左側に若い被験者の顔があります。彼は自由に彼の貯蓄率を調整することができます。彼が貯蓄率を下げ、この目盛りが一番左に来たときは彼の貯蓄がゼロということを意味します。この数字は彼の手取り分のパーセンテージです。現在の手取りは、91%ととても高いことが分かります。しかし彼の老後の所得はとても低いです。彼は退職後、現役時代の収入のたった44%分しか得られないことになります。もし彼が可能な限り貯蓄すると彼の退職後の所得は上がります。しかし、彼は今使えるお金が減ったので不満のようです。他の状況も人々に自身の将来を示しています。また未来の自分から見ると、全ては逆になります。もしあなたが本当に少ししか貯蓄しなかった場合、未来のあなたはとても不幸でしょう。だって以前の所得の44%で生きていかなくてはいけないのですから。しかし、もし現在のあなたが貯蓄をたくさんしたら今とほぼ変わらない所得を得ることができる未来のあなたはとてもうれしいでしょう。私はより多くの人に分布表ツールを使ってもらうためにこのタイムマシーンづくりにハルとアリアンツと共に携わってきました。ただ未来の自分を見ることができるだけでなく退職後の財産の水準に応じて予測される情緒反応まで見ることができるように。例えば、このツールを使ってみましょう。つまみの左右の動きに応じて変わる表情を見てください。若者の表情がどんどんうれしそうになっていますが、貯蓄はゼロなので、老人の表情は本当に哀れです。少しずつつまみを適度な貯蓄率にまで動かしてみましょう。そして貯蓄率を上げると、若者の表情はどんどん悲しげになり、老人はなんともうれしそうです。私たちはこのツールを使うことで行動が及ぼす影響の有無を見ることができるのです。このツールのよい点はこれが笑顔としかめっ面を用いて人々に偏見を抱かせるものではないということです。これはつまみをどちらに動かすべきか指示するものではありません。このタイムマシーンツールは、あなたが未来の自分と密接につながっているということを思い出させるものです。今日の決断が未来の豊かさの決め手となります。しかし人々はこの事実を忘れがちです。また、このバーチャル体験は、ただ単に自分の老後の顔を見られるだけではないのです。もしあなたが喫煙をしたらどのようになるか、もし日焼けをしすぎたらどうなるか、もし太ったら・・・など他にも様々なプログラムがあるのです。こちらの良い点は私がハルと、ラス=スミスと一緒に実行したプログラムと違い、このバーチャルリアリティを体験するためにあなた方自身でプログラミングする必要がないということです。数ドルでインストールできるスマートフォンのアプリがあり、それで同じことができます。これは私の相棒ハルの写真です。この私のスピーチの中にも出てきた彼です。冗談半分ではありますが、写真の彼をソフトウェアを使ってはげさせ、年取らせ、太らせてみました。彼のこの写真を見て私たちは将来こんな風になりたくないと改めて感じ、将来に向けて投資をしていく意志が強まったのではないでしょうか。それでは、ここで終わりたいと思います。ハルと私自身を代表し、現在のあなた、そして未来のあなた方皆さんに多くの幸せが訪れることをお祈りします。ありがとうございました。	And he's standing on the deck of his ship, he's talking to his first mate, "Tomorrow, we will sail past those rocks, and on those rocks sit some beautiful women called Sirens. And these women sing an enchanting song, a song so alluring that all sailors who hear it crash into the rocks and die." Now you would expect, given that, that they would choose an alternate route around the Sirens, but instead Odysseus says, "I want to hear that song. And so what I'm going to do is I'm going to pour wax in the ears of you and all the men -- stay with me -- so that you can't hear the song, and then I'm going to have you tie me to the mast so that I can listen and we can all sail by unaffected." So this is a captain putting the life of every single person on the ship at risk so that he can hear a song. And I'd like to think if this was the case, they probably would have rehearsed it a few times. Odysseus would have said, "Okay, let's do a dry run. You tie me to the mast, and I'm going to beg and plead. And no matter what I say, you cannot untie me from the mast. All right, so tie me to the mast." And the first mate takes a rope and ties Odysseus to the mast in a nice knot. And Odysseus does his best job playacting and says, "Untie me. Untie me. I want to hear that song. Untie me." And the first mate wisely resists and doesn't untie Odysseus. And then Odysseus says, "I see that you can get it. All right, untie me now and we'll get some dinner." And the first mate hesitates. He's like, "Is this still the rehearsal, or should I untie him?" And the first mate thinks, "Well, I guess at some point the rehearsal has to end." So he unties Odysseus, and Odysseus flips out. He's like, "You idiot. You moron. If you do that tomorrow, I'll be dead, you'll be dead, every single one of the men will be dead. Now just don't untie me no matter what." He throws the first mate to the ground. This repeats itself through the night -- rehearsal, tying to the mast, conning his way out of it, beating the poor first mate up mercilessly. Hilarity ensues. Tying yourself to a mast is perhaps the oldest written example of what psychologists call a commitment device. A commitment device is a decision that you make with a cool head to bind yourself when you have a hot head. Because there's two heads inside one person when you think about it. Scholars have long invoked this metaphor of two selves when it comes to questions of temptation. There is first, the present self. This is like Odysseus when he's hearing the song. He just wants to get to the front row. He just thinks about the here and now and the immediate gratification. But then there's this other self, the future self. This is Odysseus as an old man who wants nothing more than to retire in a sunny villa with his wife Penelope outside of Ithaca -- the other one. So why do we need commitment devices? Well resisting temptation is hard, as the 19th century English economist Nassau William Senior said, "To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions of the human will." If you set goals for yourself and you're like a lot of other people, you probably realize it's not that your goals are physically impossible that's keeping you from achieving them, it's that you lack the self-discipline to stick to them. It's physically possible to lose weight. It's physically possible to exercise more. But resisting temptation is hard. The other reason that it's difficult to resist temptation is because it's an unequal battle between the present self and the future self. I mean, let's face it, the present self is present. It's in control. It's in power right now. It has these strong, heroic arms that can lift doughnuts into your mouth. And the future self is not even around. It's off in the future. It's weak. It doesn't even have a lawyer present. There's nobody to stick up for the future self. And so the present self can trounce all over its dreams. So there's this battle between the two selves that's being fought, and we need commitment devices to level the playing field between the two. Now I'm a big fan of commitment devices actually. Tying yourself to the mast is the oldest one, but there are other ones such as locking a credit card away with a key or not bringing junk food into the house so you won't eat it or unplugging your Internet connection so you can use your computer. I was creating commitment devices of my own long before I knew what they were. So when I was a starving post-doc at Columbia University, I was deep in a publish-or-perish phase of my career. I had to write five pages a day towards papers or I would have to give up five dollars. And when you try to execute these commitment devices, you realize the devil is really in the details. Because it's not that easy to get rid of five dollars. I mean, you can't burn it; that's illegal. And I thought, well I could give it to a charity or give it to my wife or something like that. But then I thought, oh, I'm sending myself mixed messages. Because not writing is bad, but giving to charity is good. So then I would kind of justify not writing by giving a gift. And then I kind of flipped that around and thought, well I could give it to the neo-Nazis. But then I was like, that's more bad than writing is good, and so that wouldn't work. So ultimately, I just decided I would leave it in an envelope on the subway. Sometimes a good person would find it, sometimes a bad person would find it. On average, it was just a completely pointless exchange of money that I would regret. Such it is with commitment devices. But despite my like for them, there's two nagging concerns that I've always had about commitment devices, and you might feel this if you use them yourself. So the first is, when you've got one of these devices going, such as this contract to write everyday or pay, it's just a constant reminder that you have no self-control. You're just telling yourself, "Without you, commitment device, I am nothing, I have no self-discipline." And then when you're ever in a situation where you don't have a commitment device in place -- like, "Oh my God, that person's offering me a doughnut, and I have no defense mechanism," -- you just eat it. So I don't like the way that they take the power away from you. I think self-discipline is something, it's like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it gets. The other problem with commitment devices is that you can always weasel your way out of them. You say, "Well, of course I can't write today, because I'm giving a TEDTalk and I have five media interviews, and then I'm going to a cocktail party and then I'll be drunk after that. And so there's no way that this is going to work." So in effect, you are like Odysseus and the first mate in one person. You're putting yourself, you're binding yourself, and you're weaseling your way out of it, and then you're beating yourself up afterwards. So I've been working for about a decade now on finding other ways to change people's relationship to the future self without using commitment devices. In particular, I'm interested in the relationship to the future financial self. And this is a timely issue. I'm talking about the topic of saving. Now saving is a classic two selves problem. The present self does not want to save at all. It wants to consume. Whereas the future self wants the present self to save. So this is a timely problem. We look at the savings rate and it has been declining since the 1950s. At the same time, the Retirement Risk Index, the chance of not being able to meet your needs in retirement, has been increasing. And we're at a situation now where for every three baby boomers, the McKinsey Global Institute predicts that two will not be able to meet their pre-retirement needs while they're in retirement. So what can we do about this? There's a philosopher, Derek Parfit, who said some words that were inspiring to my coauthors and I. He said that, "We might neglect our future selves because of some failure of belief or imagination." That is to say, we somehow might not believe that we're going to get old, or we might not be able to imagine that we're going to get old some day. On the one hand, it sounds ridiculous. Of course, we know that we're going to get old. But aren't there things that we believe and don't believe at the same time? So my coauthors and I have used computers, the greatest tool of our time, to assist people's imagination and help them imagine what it might be like to go into the future. And I'll show you some of these tools right here. The first is called the distribution builder. It shows people what the future might be like by showing them a hundred equally probable outcomes that might be obtained in the future. Each outcome is shown by one of these markers, and each sits on a row that represents a level of wealth and retirement. Being up at the top means that you're enjoying a high income in retirement. Being down at the bottom means that you're struggling to make ends meet. When you make an investment, what you're really saying is, "I accept that any one of these 100 things could happen to me and determine my wealth." Now you can try to move your outcomes around. You can try to manipulate your fate, like this person is doing, but it costs you something to do it. It means that you have to save more today. Once you find an investment that you're happy with, what people do is they click "done" and the markers begin to disappear, slowly, one by one. It simulates what it is like to invest in something and to watch that investment pan out. At the end, there will only be one marker left standing and it will determine our wealth in retirement. Yes, this person retired at 150 percent of their working income in retirement. They're making more money while retired than they were making while they were working. If you're like most people, just seeing that gave you a small sense of elation and joy -- just to think about making 50 percent more money in retirement than before. However, had you ended up on the very bottom, it might have given you a slight sense of dread and/or nausea thinking about struggling to get by in retirement. By using this tool over and over and simulating outcome after outcome, people can understand that the investments and savings that they undertake today determine their well-being in the future. Now people are motivated through emotions, but different people find different things motivating. This is a simulation but other people find motivating what money can buy, not just numbers. So here I made a distribution builder where instead of showing numerical outcomes, I show people what those outcomes will get you, in particular apartments that you can afford if you're retiring on 3,000, 2,500, 2,000 dollars per month and so on. As you move down the ladder of apartments, you see that they get worse and worse. Some of them look like places I lived in as a graduate student. And as you get to the very bottom, you're faced with the unfortunate reality that if you don't save anything for retirement, you won't be able to afford any housing at all. Those are actual pictures of actual apartments renting for that amount as advertised on the Internet. The last thing I'll show you, the last behavioral time machine, is something that I created with Hal Hershfield, who was introduced to me by my coauthor on a previous project, Bill Sharpe. And what it is is an exploration into virtual reality. So what we do is we take pictures of people -- in this case, college-age people -- and we use software to age them and show these people what they'll look like when they're 60, 70, 80 years old. And we try to test whether actually assisting your imagination by looking at the face of your future self can change you investment behavior. So this is one of our experiments. Here we see the face of the young subject on the left. He's given a control that allows him to adjust his savings rate. As he moves his savings rate down, it means that he's saving zero when it's all the way here at the left. this is the percentage of his paycheck that he can take home today -- is quite high, 91 percent, but his retirement income is quite low. He's going to retire on 44 percent of what he earned while he was working. If he saves the maximum legal amount, his retirement income goes up, because now he has less money on the left-hand side to spend today. Other conditions show people the future self. And from the future self's point of view, everything is in reverse. If you save very little, the future self is unhappy living on 44 percent of the income. Whereas if the present self saves a lot, the future self is delighted, where the income is close up near 100 percent. To bring this to a wider audience, I've been working with Hal and Allianz to create something we call the behavioral time machine, in which you not only get to see yourself in the future, but you get to see anticipated emotional reactions to different levels of retirement wealth. So for instance, here is somebody using the tool. And just watch the facial expressions as they move the slider. The younger face gets happier and happier, saving nothing. The older face is miserable. And slowly, slowly we're bringing it up to a moderate savings rate. And then it's a high savings rate. The younger face is getting unhappy. The older face is quite pleased with the decision. We're going to see if this has an effect on what people do. And what's nice about it is it's not something that biasing people actually, because as one face smiles, the other face frowns. It's not telling you which way to put the slider, it's just reminding you that you are connected to and legally tied to this future self. Your decisions today are going to determine its well-being. And that's something that's easy to forget. This use of virtual reality is not just good for making people look older. There are programs you can get to see how people might look if they smoke, if they get too much exposure to the sun, if they gain weight and so on. And what's good is, unlike in the experiments that Hal and myself ran with Russ Smith, you don't have to program these by yourself in order to see the virtual reality. There are applications you can get on smartphones for just a few dollars that do the same thing. This is actually a picture of Hal, my coauthor. You might recognize him from the previous demos. And just for kicks we ran his picture through the balding, aging and weight gain software to see how he would look. Hal is here, so I think we owe it to him as well as yourself And I'll close it there. On behalf of Hal and myself, I wish all the best to your present and future selves. Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
「わかりました。カロルさんの処罰については、ハンター組合に任せます。ただし処罰なしというのだけは、やめてください」「はい。もちろんです」「それから1つ確認なんですが、結局カロルさんとの模擬戦の結果ってどうなるのでしょう?」「貴女の勝ちよ」わたしの問いに、カロルさんがすぐに答える。こういった潔さは好印象なのに、なぜ暴走してしまうのか。いや、たまたまわたし達が、カロルさんの暴走を促してしまうような存在だっただけか。「だとしたら、B級までの試験の合格は認められるんですよね?」「少し時間をもらうと思いますが、問題ないでしょう。シエルメールさんには、それだけの実力があることは証明されましたから」「それなら、可能な限りハンターランクをあげたいです。できるならB級になりたいですし、それでなくても上級のハンターとのトラブルがあった時に、蔑ろにされない程度までは上げてほしいです」ただしこの町にいる限り、実績を作れるように取り計らうことはできます。確約はできませんが、1年間でC級になれるようには対応させていただきます」「通常はどれくらいかかるものなんですか?」的にD級になるのに5年、そこから5年だと言われています。実力が高い人でも数年はかかるでしょう。またC級からは上級ハンターとして認められますから、ギルドからの扱いも変わってきます。だとしたら、1年でC級になれるというのは大きいか。「ではギルドの方でわたしがC級になるまで、取り計らうことを今回の件で要求します。「わかりました。そのように対応させてもらいます」「あと今からでも泊まれる宿があれば、教えてください」「はい、そうですね。もうすぐ日も暮れてしまいますし、ハンター組合が紹介している宿にご案内します。何か希望はありますか?」日本ではないわけだし、夜になってから女の子の1人歩きは危ないのだろうか。創作物で言うなら、人攫いに会うってこともある。「ここからあまり離れていなくて、お風呂があるところが良いです」「わかりました。では、詳しい話は明日また行うとして、今日は宿にご案内しますね」「ありがとうございます」わたしのことを慮ってくれたのか、それともハンター組合としての調整もあるのか、どちらもなのかわからないけれど、宿に連れて行ってくれるというのであれば、着いていく。炎のように揺らめいているわけではなくて、明るさも蛍光灯ほどではないものの、夜中に本が読める程度には明るいのではないだろうか。「夜なのに明るいんですね」「明かりの魔道具を見るのは、初めてですか?」「はい。宿で使い方がわからなかったらどうしよう、なんて思ってます」「スイッチを入れるだけですから、難しくないですよ。それで明かりがつかなければ、魔石から魔力が失われているということになりますから、主人に話せば大丈夫です」思い切って尋ねてみたけれど、どうやら不思議には思われなかったらしい。だとしたら、魔道具は小さな村などでは、普及していないのだろう。「なぜ急いでランクを上げたいんですか?」「この国から逃げたいからです」「逃げる、ですか?」「この町を出て行くことに反対ですか?」少し突っ込んだ質問をして、注意深くセリアさんを見上げる。質問に質問で返したことで、嫌な印象を与えてしまわないだろうかという不安もあったけれど、そういうことはなさそうだ。は賛成です」と答えた。「シエルメールさんは、この町で燻っていていい人ではなさそうですから。「セリアさんは、自分が初めて何か食べたのが、何歳のときか知っていますか?」「そうですね。覚えてはいませんが、一般的に生後半年ほどで麦粥を食べるのではないでしょうか」「わたしが初めて何かを口にしたのは、5歳になってからでした」不幸自慢をするわけではないけれど、味方になってくれそうだから、もう少しわたし達について話をしておこう。「セリアさんは、わたしの髪の毛は見ましたか?」「......はい。そうですね。隠しているようだったので、あまり見ないようにはしていましたが」「この髪の毛、最初は金色だったんです。それが白くなったから、こうやって隠していたんですが、別に隠さなくてもよさそうですね」「白い髪は珍しいですが、全くいないわけではありませんからね。特に一部の魔術師だと、白い髪はそれだけで憧憬されるものですね」「だとしたら、明日から髪を隠さなくて良さそうですね」「そうですね。そうしていただけると、こちらとしても助かります。髪が白い10歳くらいの女の子が来たら......と、同僚に言っておけるということだろう。「ところで、カロルさんとの模擬戦ですが、わたしの勝ちで良いんですか? 「確認ですが、シエルメールさんはまだ戦えますよね?」「氷の槍を1本撃ち込まれるくらいなら大丈夫です」「カロルにはもうまともに魔術を使う余力はありませんでしたから、続けていたら確実にシエルメールさんが勝っていたでしょう。「単純に突き刺すだけではなくて、刺さったところから凍らせるくらいですからね」「それにも気が付いていたんですね」どうやら氷の槍というのは、他の魔術とは一線を画すものらしい。だから魔術に名前が付いていたのだろうか。あとに続いて入ると、思っていたよりもきれいなところに連れてこられたらしい。淡い色を基調としていて落ち着いた宿は、女性向けと言って差し支えないだろう。セリアさんと親しげに話しているので、個人的な付き合いとかもあるのかもしれない。「というわけでニルダさん、シエルメールさんをよろしくお願いします」「はいはい。シエルメールちゃん。今日からよろしくね」「はい。よろしくお願いします」ニルダさんは鍵を1本取り出し、わたしに渡して「今日はもう疲れただろうから、部屋に夕飯を持っていくわね。部屋は2階の一番奥。少し遠いけど頑張って」とエールを送ってきた。お礼を言って鍵を受け取ってから、促されるまま2階に上る。今日はなんだかとても疲れてしまった。	「I see. Regarding Carol’s punishment, I’ll leave it to the Hunter’s Guild. But please don’t let her off with no punishment.」「Of course. Naturally.」「And there’s something I want to confirm but, after what happened, what actually is the result of the match?」「It’s your win.」 Carol immediately answered my question. I really like the way she’s fair and sincere but why does she have to be so reckless. No, maybe we were just coincidentally the type that incites recklessness in her behavior. After all, this likeable part of her might be the reason that Celia decided to let her handle the exam. In a way, she’s just unlucky but, as the party involved, I definitely don’t have any sympathy for her. 「Then that means I passed the B-Rank qualification exam, right?」「It might take some time to get it approved, but there should be no problem. After all, you have proven to us that you have enough strength to meet the qualifications, Cielmer.」「So then, please raise my hunter rank as high as possible. If possible, I want to be B-Rank and if I can’t, I want to at least be high enough that I won’t get treated badly in case I get into some trouble with high ranking hunters.」「I’m very sorry. Regarding the the rank, there’s a limit to what we can do. However, as long as you are in this town, I make arrangements to ensure that you to make achievements. Although I cannot guarantee it, we will assist you in reaching C-Rank within a year.」「How long does that usually take?」「It’s typically said that it takes years to reach D-Rank and more years to reach C-Rank. Even capable people would likely take several years to get to C-Rank. Furthermore, since C-Rankers and above are recognized as Veteran Hunters, the guild’s treatment of them will change as well. However, just as C-Rankers and above are considered top hunters, it’s not a level that anybody can reach simply by trying.」 In that case, reaching C-Rank in a year might be quite big. 「Then from today’s incident, I would like to demand the guild for assistance until I reach C-Rank. Besides that, I would like to request only Celia to handle me on the reception desk. After all, I don’t think that the conversation will go just as smooth when talking to other people.」「Understood. Then allow me to arrange that.」「Also, if you know any inn I can stay in right now, please educate me.」「Understood, let’s see. Since the sun is setting soon, allow me to guide you to an inn in the Hunter’s Guild’s referral. Do you have any requests?」 I was fine with just knowing the place but it seems that she’ll be guiding me too. Well it’s not Japan after all, so it might be dangerous for a girl to walk at night by herself. Based on creative media for example, I might even encounter a kidnapper. Since I’ll immediately notice if there are any suspicious movements, I don’t think we’ll be abducted though. Most of all, even if I know how to go to the place, I might get lost as well. There isn’t a single reason for me to turn down this kindness of hers, is there? 「I would like a place that has a bath and is not very far from here.」「Understood. Now then, we’ll talk about the exact details tomorrow; so for today, let me guide you to the inn.」「Thank you very much.」 I don’t know if she’s just being considerate of me, or it’s part of the Hunter’s Guild’s regulations, or both; but since she’s going to take me to the inn, I’ll follow her. At that moment, she told Carol 「I’m not finished with you yet, stay here,」 and left the interrogation(?) room. Outside the Hunter’s Guild, it’s completely dark now but, from the windows of the surrounding buildings, light shines through. It’s not a flickering light like those made by flames, and though not as bright as that from a fluorescent bulb, it’s still probably bright enough for reading a book in the middle of the night. 「It’s really bright even though it’s nighttime.」「Is this your first time seeing a lamp magic item?」「Yes. I’m worried that I wouldn’t know how to use the one they have at the inn.」「You only need to flip the switch, it’s not too complicated. And if the light doesn’t turn on, that means the magic stone has run out of magic power, so it’ll be fine if you tell the landlord about it.」 I mustered up my courage and asked about it but it seems that she didn’t find it that weird. In that case, magic items might not be available in small villages and such. As I made a sigh of relief in my mind, Celia asked me a question with 「If you don’t mind answering...」 as a preface. 「Why are you rushing to rank up?」「Because I want to get out of this country?」「Get out, is it?」「Are you against me leaving this town?」 I posed a somewhat intricate question and gazed at Celia with caution. As I replied with a question, I was concerned that she might find it offensive. However, it didn’t seem to be an issue, as she shook her head and looked straight into my eyes, responding with, 「 agree with that.」「Cielmer, in my opinion, you’re an individual that shouldn’t be held back in a town like this. So regarding that, may I ask you why you want to get out of the country?」「Celia, do you still remember how old you were, the first time you ate something?」「Let’s see. I don’t really remember but I believe that children can generally start eating oatmeal half a year after their birth.」「I was five years old when I had my first meal.」 As I kept in mind to say it as casually as possible, Celia was left speechless and was unable to find anything to reply with. I’m not really trying to brag about our misfortunes but since it looks like she might support us, I decided to talk a bit more about us. 「Celia, have you seen my hair?」「... Yes. I have. Since it seems that you want to keep it hidden, I did try not to stare too much.」「At first, my hair was golden blonde. Ever since it turned white, I hide it like this, but it appears there is no need for me to do so.」「While it’s true that having white hair isn’t common to see, it’s not a color that you can’t find. A particular portion of sorcerers will even hold admiration simply because of having white hair.」「Then it looks like I can let my hair out starting tomorrow.」「That’s right. Doing so would also help quite a bit on our side. With that, even if I’m not there, it’ll make the reception much easier.」 This means that she can tell her co-workers to watch out for a white-haired -year-oldish girl. In this sense, standing out isn’t always bad. Since the mood got somewhat lighter, I asked her something that I was a bit curious about. 「By the way, about my match with Carol, is it really okay to see it as my win? We’ve already talked about it earlier, but I don’t really think that we finished the fight.」「I would like to confirm, you can still fight right, Cielmer?」「I can still probably take one more ice spear.」「Since Carol doesn’t have enough energy left to use any proper sorcery, you would have most likely won if the fight continued. That’s just how much magic power Glacia Lentso consumes.」「After all, it doesn’t only pierce through, it also freezes the place it hits.」「So you’ve notice that as well.」 It seems like the ice spear is extraordinary compared to other spells. Maybe that’s also why it had a proper name. As I vaguely nodded, Celia stops in front of a certain building. Seemingly familiar with the place, she enters the building with a brightly lit interior. As I trailed behind her, I realized that Celia had led me to a place that was much more beautiful than I had envisioned. Having a calming light color as the main tone of the inn, I’m probably not mistaken to think that it’s a female-oriented inn. At the counter there is a lady as well, that’s about old enough to have a child of my age. Her gentle smile and her height, slightly tall for a female, leaves a strong impression. So she seems to be an indulgent person in a lot of ways. Since they seem to be close by how they’re talking, Celia might know her in private. After talking for some time, Celia suddenly faces me. 「So with that, Mrs. Nilda, please take care of Cielmer.」「Sure sure. Cielmer, nice meeting you today.」「Yes. Please take care of me.」 Nilda is looking at me with a friendly smile but I wonder what she sees me as. Does she think of me as a country bumpkin that came from a declining village? I should’ve listened to their conversation. Nilda takes out a key and gives it to me while saying, 「You’re probably tired for today, so I’ll have dinner brought to your room. Your room is in the innermost area of the nd floor. It’s a bit far but do your best.」 After receiving the key and thanking her, I did as she said and went up to the nd floor. I enter the room that fits my key and decide to rest while waiting for the food to arrive. Today was somehow awfully tiring.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 25, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
彼は即ち、すべては父のしたことですと主張したいのだろう。そしてそれは、現当主の自分には全く関係ないことだ、と。息子に泥を被せた父と、父を切り捨て保身に走る息子。非情卑劣と言うなかれ。貴族と言うのはそう言うモノだ。他国の国王を拉致し、簒奪に手を貸そうとしていたのだから、本来その咎は息子どころ全体にまで及んでいてもおかしくはない。無論、縁というほど深い縁ではないのだが、ドノバンにとっては、まさに藁をもすがるという思いのはずだ。実際のところ俺としても、ドノバンまで罪を背負わせても何の得にもならない。俺と言う特殊な生まれに、ミシェルちゃんと言う有用な戦力。政治的な後ろ盾もあった方がいいのだが、エリオットにそれを頼むのは、なし崩し的に北国連合に組み込まれそうで怖い。そこでドノバンだ。現ストラ領の領主。辺境伯というのは独自の軍事編成権も持つ強力な爵位でもある。現在はその軍隊を維持する経済力の源を失っているが、それは取り戻してしまえばいいだけの話である。レティーナもマクスウェルも、ラウムの中枢に近すぎる点からすると、後ろ盾にはあまりふさわしくない。「話は――」「話は聞かせてもらったわ!」生徒指導室の扉には窓が無いので、ガラスが割れることはなかったが、勢い良く叩きつけられたせいで扉がレールを外れ、室内に倒れ込んでくる。運よくその範囲には人はいなかったのだが、危ない事この上ない。「コルティナ、危ない」「ごめんごめん、ちょっと勢い付いちゃって」謝罪しながら扉を戻す姿は、中々に格好が悪い雄とは思えない情けなさだ。俺が言うのも何だが。しばらく扉と格闘して、元に戻してからスーツの埃を叩いて落とす。それから再びこちらを振り向いて宣言した。「それはともかく、話は聞かせてもらったわ!」「うん、知ってる」こう見えても世界最高の斥候として、六英雄に派遣された俺だ。扉の外で聞き耳を立てる素人の気配くらい余裕で読める。それを放置しておいたのは、ひとえに彼女がそうする事によって、一般的な生徒が近寄る事ができなかったからだ。「でもニコルちゃんが言った通り、私たちがここで判断するわけには行かないの。まずは実際にあなたが、本当に前サルワ辺境伯を匿っていないか確認しないと」「それは......どうすれば?」「まずあなたの屋敷、それからストラ領の屋敷と関連施設も調べさせてもらうわ」「ですがそれでは今までと同じで、私の疑惑が晴れないままに......」「だから、疑惑が晴れれば衆目の前で宣言してあげる。ストラ領現当主の疑いは晴れたと。そうすれば無実は周知されることになるでしょ? むしろ他の領主よりも潔白が証明されたことになるわ」「それはありがたいですが......問題は時間です。今の段階ですでに疑惑の目を向けられていますので、領民が逃げ出すようになるまで、もう時間はあまり残っていませんので」「そこは急ぐとしか言いようがないわね。でもこの辺が妥協点だと、私は思っているんだけど」コルティナもそんな彼を急かすことなく、返事を待っていた。時間にしも待っただろうか。ようやく彼は考えを纏め、コルティナに向き直った。「わかりました。それでお願いします。ですが、徴税権に関しては......」「そればかりは現国王に話を通さないと、どうにもならないわね。現行の書類を無効化し、新規に発行してもらえば無論解決するけど、それはあなたの管理能力を問われる事態になるわよ」「どっちにしろ今は初夏。作物の収穫の始まる秋まではそう大きな問題にはならないでしょう。それまでにお父上を捕縛する事を考えた方がいいわね」「感情的には微妙な気がしますが、それしかないですね」もちろん夏に収穫する作物もあるが、主力となる麦は秋が本番だ。しかしそれとて楽観視はできない。徴税とはあらゆるものにかかってくる。鍛冶や採掘、商売、行商、通行料に到るまで、それらの収益すら今は回収できない状況なのだ。強制的に爵位を押し付けられ、旨みのある場所だけ強奪して逃げられたとは言え、貴族ともなるとその言い訳は通用しない。それができない場合、彼には身内の恥を処理できない無能と言うレッテルを貼られてしまう。「まったく貴族ってのは面倒な......」「俺も今......つくづくそう思ったよ」俺やミシェルちゃんが貴族に取り込まれたら、そういう面倒が降りかかってくるようになるのだ。	For the time being, I understood what Donovan wanted. Basically, he was claiming that everything was done by his father. In other words, none of it was related to him, the current lord. A father that left the son in mud, and a son that cast his father aside to save himself. It wasn’t something to call cruel or dirty – that’s simply how nobles acted. He took part in the kidnapping of the king of another kingdom and the attempted usurpation, so normally, not just his son but his entire household would be put to blame. So Donovan trying to depend on his sole connection, that is, me, to get out of that situation was a natural course of action. Naturally, our connection was not deep in any way, but he was grasping at the straws at this point. But the truth was, there was nothing for me to gain by putting that blame on Donovan. Rather, by winning his favor here, it could prove to be extremely valuable in the future. I was a unique existence in this world, while Michelle was a dependable war power. What the two of us needed was some kind of backing. If we lacked that, someone influential might try to make use of us. Of course, we had an influential person like Lyell, but at the end of the day, he was just one person. We would be better off also having a backer in politics. If I were to ask Elliot to do that, I feared it would eventually lead us to be incorporated into the United Nations. And there came Donovan in the picture. He was the current Lord of the Stolla domain. The peerage of Margrave was one influential enough to hold rights to the military formation. He had presently lost the economic strength to maintain such an army, but everything would work out as long as we fixed that. People that were too close to the Raum’s center like Letina or Maxwell would not be too convenient for us as backers. So a Margrave was a really convenient choice. Winning his favor here would prove very useful. “I—” “I heard everything!” . I was about to say that, but the door behind me was busted open with those words that interrupted mine. The counseling door had no windows on it so nothing broke, but due to the powerful push, the door went out of its rails and collapsed inwards. Fortunately, no one was standing there at the moment, but it was nonetheless dangerous. “Cortina, that was dangerous.” “Sorry, sorry, I put a little too much strength in that.” She went to fix the door while apologizing. It was quite a sad sight, too pathetic for someone like a Hero. Not that I was in any position to say that. After grappling with the door for a while and finally returning it to normal, she dusted off her suit, and once again turned towards us and said. “Leaving that aside, I heard your talk!” “Yeah, I know.” I used to be the world’s best scout that was part of the Six Heroes. I could easily spot some amateur straining their ears at the door. But my answer made her turn dejected for some reason. The reason I let her be was that by doing that she prevented the other students from doing the same. “Anyway, as Nicole said, we can’t decide based on what you told us alone. We first have to confirm whether you are really not trying to shelter the previous Margrave.” “I... What should I do?” “For now, let us investigate your mansion, then the Stolla mansion and all related facilities.” “But that way the doubt regarding me would not go away...” “I am saying that if we manage to clear our suspicions, we will declare it in front of the public that the Lord of Stolla is innocent. If we do that, it would become common knowledge, right? You would be considered more innocent than any other Lord at that point.” “I would be grateful if you do that, but... The problem is the time. I am already viewed with suspicion so it is only a matter of time until my population leaves me, and there’s not much left of that time.” “I can only suggest that we hurry it up then. But I think we can find a common ground here.” Donovan meekly lowered his head at Cortina’s words. He was probably weighing his losses and gains, as well as the time left until his people would lose trust in him. Cortina did not try to hurry him up and quietly awaited his answer. About five minutes passed after that. Having finally collected his thoughts, he once again faced Cortina. “Understood. Please do that. However, as for the tax collection...” “That cannot be resolved without the intervention of the present king. The current certificate has to be annulled and reissued to fix everything, but that would come at the cost of people questioning your administrative ability.” “Either way, it’s early summer now. It should not pose many problems until fall where the harvest of the crop happens. You should hope that your father gets arrested before then.” “I feel complicated about that, but that seems to be my only choice.” Of course, there were some crops that they harvested during the summer, but the mainline was the fall harvest, in the end. Even so, it was not something to be optimistic about. Taxation involved many things other than that. At present, he could not collect any earnings from blacksmithing, mining, businesses, peddlers, or even the toll. While the peerage was forcibly pushed on him all while his father pillaged everything valuable from him, that excuse would not work in the noble society. Instead, making that excuse would deepen the mud on his name. Secretly... Would be impossible, but he had to handle it as quickly as possible. Otherwise, he would be labeled a powerless Lord who couldn’t even solve the disgrace caused by his own relatives. “Good grief, nobles are such a pain...” “I am... wholeheartedly of the same opinion.” Donovan surprisingly agreed to my idle grumble. If Michelle and I got rolled up into the affairs of the noble, we would find ourselves surrounded by these kinds of troubles.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 2, "inserted_lines_src": 12, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
マタラ合従国、沖合い。指揮官の負傷により、急遽防衛部隊の指揮を執ることになったサリカ・ヘリオンとザナスティア・アマミヤは微妙な感情のまま、街を見つめていた。高等学院のクラスメイトのニコルの教えに従い、魔神に勝てないと判断した彼女たちは、市民と軍隊の避難を優先した結果、街を見捨てることになってしまった。人的被害は最小限に抑えることに成功した。それは学院を出たばかりの彼女たちからしたら、快挙と言っていい成果である。だからと言って、故郷の街を見捨てる結果を手放しに喜ぶことはできなかった。わずか三体。このわずか三体の魔神によって、彼女たちの街は敗北した。その事実に血が滲むほど拳を握り締め、怒りを抑える。「全砲門、港の魔神に照準を。ただし撃ってはだめです」今や彼女の指示に疑問を挟む兵士はいない。彼女たちの指示が無ければ、どれほどの被害が出たのかわからなかったのだから。「ハッ、周知いたします」そうなると、勝てるかどうかわからない魔神との泥沼の海上戦が始まってしまう。砲を向けるのはあくまで牽制。魔神とて、海での戦いの不利は理解しているはず。「問題は、どれだけ街が破壊されるかね」「ザナス......」「いえ、人が無事ならやり直せる。それはわかっているんだけどね」「今はみんなが助かったことを喜ぶべきよね」「問題はあの魔神をどうやって排除するかよね」「どっか行ってくれたらいいんだけどね」「戻って来る可能性もあるから、誰かが倒してくれるとありがたいんだけど......冒険者ギルドの方は対応してもらえるかしら?」「すぐには難しいかも。急な襲撃だったし」他の場所で魔神に対抗できる冒険者が現れたり、倒せる手段が開発できたとしても、受け入れる街が存在しない状態になる。「問題は食料と水ね。どれだけ積み込めた?」「ざっと三日分。切り詰めても一週間は持たないわ」街全員を避難させたため、魔術師の数は結構いる。海水を魔術で浄水すれば、飲料水はどうにか維持できる。しかし三日では、他からの救援は期待できそうにない。この街の危機を知り、準備を整え、今の状況を悟るまで、三日は優にかかるはずだ。他の街も襲撃されていた場合、救援はさらに遅れるはずだった。「厳しいわね」為す術もない現状に、歯噛みするしかないことを自覚する。しかしその時、突然魔神が別の方向に視線を向けた。明らかに避難船から視線を外し、細い路地へと向けている。そしてその路地から一人の少年が姿を現した。遠目にも明らかに少年とわかる、細身の身体。その背には身の丈を超える巨大な剣を背負っている。少年は魔神を目にすると、静かに背の剣を構える。先手を打ったのは少年だった。海上から見ていたにもかかわらず、その動き出しをサリカは目にすることができなかった。だが少年を見ていた誰もが、その動きを認識することができなかった。意識の隙間を縫うような滑るような動き。認識できなかったのは魔神も同じだったようで、少年の正面からの大上段の一撃を、防御すらできずにまともに食らっていた。剣も槍も、矢すらも通らなかった魔神。しかし少年の一撃はそんな魔神を、まるで柔らかな果物を両断するかのように真っ二つにする。遠目に見ていたサリカたちからは、まるで冗談のような光景。予定調和のように、抵抗すらできずに両断された仲間を見て、ようやく他の魔神たちが動き出す。少年をけん制するかのように右に回り込み、刺突を繰り出す魔神。体勢を崩す魔神のもう片方の腕を掴み、背負い投げで地面に転がし、喉に剣を突き立ててとどめを刺した。残された魔神は少年の強さに警戒心を示し、ジワリと距離を取る。その意図を図りかねた魔神は警戒するかのように腰を落とし、剣を構え直した。「グア?」その現象を目にした魔神が、間の抜けた声を漏らす。唐突に魔神の背後から、少女が姿を現す。彼女たちがいる沖合いは、それなりに距離がある。少なくとも、普通に会話する声が届くはずがない。だというのに、魔神の声も、涼やかな少女の声も、彼女たちの耳に届いていた。「え、どういうこと......?」その不思議な現象に、サリカは思わず隣のザナスティアを見る。そんな二人に答えるように、港の少年は声を上げる。「この街の魔神は、戦神アレクと地神マールが討伐した! 民衆よ、街に戻るがいい!」戦神アレクに地神マール。その名に二人は聞き覚えがあった。大陸南東にある武の国、暗殺者レイドを輩出したアレクマール剣王国の由来となった神々の名である。千年の昔、破戒神ユーリと風神ハスタールと共に世界樹に上り、魔王を倒したとされている神々だ。そんなとんでもない事実を突きつけられ、思わずサリカたちは顔を見合わせる。魔神の死体だけが残された港を見て、言葉もなく立ち尽くす避難民たち。そんな中、真っ先に我を取り戻したのは、やはりサリカだった。「と、とにかく偵察隊を編成して! 魔神が街中に残っていないか確認しないと!?」サリカはそこに思い至り、即座に街の安全を確認するために指示を飛ばす。 ◇◆◇◆◇ 戦神を名乗った少年は足早に港街を出て、そのまま北を目指していた。「あーあ、せっかく久しぶりに人里に降りてきたってのに、この騒動だもんなぁ」「むしろ騒動が起きてるから、わたしたちが出てきてるんだよ?」「ユーリ姉は頻繁に顔を出してるみたいじゃない?」「まぁ、ユーリさんだから......」愚痴っぽく不平を漏らす少年の姿は、先ほど魔神を一蹴した達人とは思えないくらい、子供っぽい。戦神アレクは破戒神ユーリと共に世界樹の迷宮を踏破した神として有名だ。「ユーリさんも今は手が離せないみたいだから、わたしたちがきちんとしないと」「ユーリ姉を出し抜くとか、怖いことするよなぁ。絶対なんか反撃されるよ」「......そう、だね」やや引き攣った顔でマールが頷く。「それより、北の方は大丈夫かな?」魔神の群れの発生源である北部三か国連合は、かなり危険な状況らしいと聞いている。「レヴィさんがいるから大丈夫だろ。邪竜騒動の時に人を動かせるようにって北に居座ってたみたいだし」「それっていいのかなぁ?」神々は人の営みには手を出さないという不文律があった。積極的にトラブルに手を出すというわけではなく、あくまで人材育成や戦術教導などを目的とした干渉である。ルールに抵触するギリギリを攻めているとも言えた。「今は北の方でギルドマスターをやっているんだっけ?」「対魔神戦術とか言って、破城槌を搔き集めてたよ。あと腕利きの冒険者も」「レヴィさんに振り回される冒険者さんも可哀想」格で言えば、漂神レヴィは彼らよりも高い。「あと西側はマリエールさんだっけ?」「うん。まぁ大軍相手なら俺たちよりは向いてるさ」「じゃあ北に向かっているのは、レヴィさんのフォローのためね?」「レヴィさんというか、レヴィさんに振り回されているであろう冒険者のためだな」「なら急いであげないと可哀想」気配を消し、敵の背後を取る達人という恐ろしい技術を持っていながら、戦い以外ではそんな素振りを一切見せない。そういう意味では、彼女はおそらくこの世界でも有数の暗殺者だろう。「噂のニコルって娘よりも、怖いかもなぁ」「アレクくん、何か言った?」「......いや、何でもないよ」聞こえないように言ったつもりなのに、耳聡く聞きつけてきた彼女に、冷や汗を流しながら返す。 ◇◆◇◆◇ ラウム森王国、保養地。温泉で有名なこの町にも、魔神の脅威は押し寄せていた。かつてニコルに命を救われた少年、マイキーも防衛戦に駆り出されていた。「くっそ、反則みたいな連中だな......」彼の手には柄まで鉄でできた槍があったのだが、その柄はすでに折れ曲がっていた。その間別の冒険者が前線を受け持っていたが、長くは持ちそうにない。「あいつなら、持ちこたえるんだろうな......」かつて模擬戦をしたことがあるクラウドの姿を思い浮かべる。「くそ、もう大丈夫だ、交代してくれ!」「いいのか!?」「構わない!」万全とはいいがたい状態で前に出るマイキー。クラウドに対する劣等感が、彼を焦燥に駆り立てていた。だが代わりに借り受けた槍は木製の柄で、魔神の剣を受け止めるには到底足りない。「ぐあっ!?」「マイキー!」肺を傷付けられることは避けられたが、肋骨にダメージを負い、呼吸がままならなくなってしまう。死を待つばかりのマイキーに絶望の声を上げる冒険者たち。パキンと金属が割れるような音と共に、視界が白く染まる。「邪魔ですから、後ろに下がっていただけます?」氷を踏み割りながら、グラマラスな肢体の女性がマイキーのそばまで歩み寄る。豪奢な巻き毛を持つ女性は魔神を一瞥し、鼻を鳴らした。「のんびり隠遁生活をしゃれこんでいましたのに、騒々しい話ですわね」警戒する魔神を一顧だにせず、彼女は背後の冒険者たちに撤退を促した。「ここは私が引き受けますから、あなたたちは村にお帰りなさいな」「村......? いや、それよりあんたは?」その言葉の選び方に疑問を持ちつつ、マイキーは女性に語り掛けた。「私はマリエール・ブランシェ。水神エイルと呼ぶ人もいますわね」周辺を水の嵐が巻き起こり、続け様に冷気が吹き付ける。その惨劇を目撃したマイキーは頭が真っ白になり、ただうわ言のように声を漏らす。「神......様......?」「そう申しましたわよ? ほら、怪我はもう治しましたから立ってくださいまし」水神に告げられ、マイキーは初めて自分の胸の傷が完治していることに気が付いた。「あ、ありがとうございます」「お礼は受け取っておきますわ。素直な子は好きですの。ほら、さっさと行きなさい」その気配を背に感じ、マイキーは一体何が起きているのかと戦慄した。	In the Matara Alliance, offshore. Due to the commander’s injury, Celica Helion and Zanastia Amamiya, who were suddenly entrusted with the command of the defense force, gazed at the city with mixed emotions. Following the teachings of their high school classmate, Nicole, they concluded that they couldn’t defeat the Devils. As a result, they prioritized the evacuation of civilians and the military, leading to the abandonment of the city. They managed to minimize human casualties, which, for two recently graduated from the academy, was a significant achievement. However, they couldn’t celebrate the outcome of abandoning their hometown with open arms. Three Devils loomed offshore, staring at the city’s harbor. Only three Devils, and yet, it was these mere three that led to the city’s defeat. They clench their fists until their knuckles turn white, suppressing their anger at this fact. “Target all cannons at the Devils in the harbor, but do not fire,” Celica ordered calmly, considering the possibility of pursuit. No soldier questioned her orders anymore. They knew that without the two’s guidance, the extent of the damage would have been immeasurable. “Yes, understood.” Firing upon the Devils prematurely might provoke them, potentially leading to a protracted naval battle against these uncertain adversaries. Aiming the cannons was merely a show of force. The Devils should’ve understood the disadvantage of fighting at sea, so the instruction was issued under the assumption that the Devils wouldn’t pursue them. “The question is how much damage the city will suffer.” “Zanas...” “No, we can rebuild as long as people are safe. I understand that, but...” “For now, we should be glad that everyone is safe.” Celica returned a resentful gaze to the Devils staring at them from the harbor. For someone as mild-mannered as her, it was an unusually intense look. “The problem is how to deal with those Devils.” “It would be nice if they just went somewhere else.” “Someone defeating it would be appreciated, as there’s a possibility it might come back. But can the Adventurer’s Guild handle it?” “It might be difficult right away; it was a sudden attack.” The Adventurer’s Guild itself had also moved to the evacuation ships. There shouldn’t be a single soul left in the city now. If anyone remained, the Devils would likely head there. Even if adventurers capable of opposing the Devils appeared elsewhere or means to defeat them were developed, there would be no city to accommodate them. It would take a considerable amount of time for information to reach the evacuation ships offshore. “The problem is food and water, right? How much did we manage to load?” “About three days’ worth. Even with rationing, it won’t last a week.” Having evacuated the entire city, there were quite a few magicians who could magically purify seawater for drinking. However, the shortage of food was critical. Given the lack of time to load supplies, securing three days’ worth was considered a success. However, within three days, it seemed unlikely that they could expect help from elsewhere. It would take well over three days for anyone to learn about the crisis in this city, prepare, and comprehend the current situation. Moreover, there was no guarantee that the Devil attack was exclusive to this city. If other cities were under attack, the relief effort would be further delayed. “This is tough.” With a grinding sound, Celica forced the words out. Faced with the helpless reality, she realized that gritting her teeth was the only option. At that moment, the Devils suddenly shifted their gaze in another direction. Clearly diverting their attention from the evacuation ships, they focused on a narrow alley. From that alley, a boy appeared. Even from a distance, it was evident that he was a young boy from his slim figure. On his back, he carried a giant sword taller than himself. When the boy saw the Devils, he silently readied the sword on his back. The boy took the initiative. Despite watching from the sea, Celica couldn’t perceive the start of his movement. In hindsight, the boy’s movements weren’t exceptionally fast – a speed the Devils should easily handle. However, everyone who watched him couldn’t recognize his movements. It was like he slipped through the gaps in consciousness, moving smoothly. The Devils seemed equally unaware, unable to defend against a powerful strike directly to the front from the boy, hitting them without any means of defense. The Devil, impervious to swords and spears, was effortlessly cleaved in two by the boy’s strike, as if slicing through soft fruit, much to the astonishment of Celica and the others watching from a distance. Seeing their comrade being bisected without any resistance as if it was predetermined finally prompted the other Devils to react. One Devil circled to the right, attempting a thrust as if to restrain the boy. However, he effortlessly deflected it and countered with a powerful kick that shattered the Devil’s knee due to the significant size difference. Grabbing the destabilized Devil’s other arm, the boy executed a throw, rolling him to the ground. With a swift motion, he thrust the sword into the Devil’s throat, delivering the finishing blow. The remaining Devil, wary of the boy’s strength, cautiously distanced itself. The boy lowered his sword lazily, extending his left hand provocatively. Unable to discern his intention, the Devil crouched down, readjusted its stance, and raised its sword in a defensive posture. Suddenly, a blade pierced through the Devil’s chest. “Gua...?” The Devil, witnessing the phenomenon, uttered a bewildered sound. The blade rotated halfway, seeming to extract its essence with a probing motion before exiting from the back. Abruptly, a girl appeared behind the Devil, her beautiful appearance somewhat lacking in impression. Observing from the ship, Celica and the others noticed a strange fact. They were quite a distance away from the shore now. At the very least, it was far enough that a normal conversation shouldn’t have reached them. And yet, the voices of the Devil and the serene girl reached their ears. “Huh? What’s happening...?” Baffled by this mysterious phenomenon, Celica instinctively looked at Zanastia beside her. Zanastia, too, placed a hand on her ear, returning a puzzled gaze. As if in response to their confusion, the boy from the harbor raised his voice. “The Devils of this city have been defeated by the War God Alec and the Earth God Marle! People, you may return to the city!” War God Alec and Earth God Marle. The names resonated with both of them. No one in this world would be unfamiliar with these names. They were the names of the gods that originated from the Alecmarle Sword Kingdom, a martial nation in the southeast of the continent known for producing the assassin Reid. A thousand years ago, they, along with the God of Destruction Yuuri and the Wind God Hastur, ascended the World Tree and defeated the Demon King. These gods were said to have ascended to godhood based on their achievements during that time, and the land where they were born was named after them. The legendary gods, now present right before their eyes, confronted Celica and Zanastia with an unbelievable reality. Faced with such an astounding fact, the two couldn’t help but exchange glances. However, the boy and the girl at the harbor left the scene without answering their unspoken questions. The only remnants were the lifeless bodies of the Devils strewn across the harbor, leaving the evacuees standing in silence. Amidst the confusion, Celica was the first to regain her composure. “A-Anyway, form a reconnaissance team! We need to confirm if any Devils are still lurking in the city!” There was no time to stand there in bewilderment. Celica realized this and promptly issued instructions to ensure the city’s safety. ◇◆◇◆◇ The boy who claimed to be the War God swiftly left the harbor city, heading north. Accompanying him was a girl who identified herself as the Earth Mother Goddess. “Ah geez, just when I came down to the human world after a long time, this uproar happens.” “Actually, we can only come out because there was an uproar, you know?” “Doesn’t big sis Yuuri pop up here all the time?” “Well, that’s because it’s Yuuri, after all...” The boy, complaining with a tone of discontent, seemed surprisingly childish compared to the master who had just defeated Devils moments ago. The girl, chiding him, also appeared quite young, giving off the impression of siblings playfully interacting. War God Alec was famous as a god who, along with the God of Destruction Yuuri, conquered the labyrinth of the World Tree. Marle, too, was one of the gods who accompanied them. As former comrades, their relationship was excellent, and Yuuri, in particular, treated them like beloved siblings. “Yuuri seems to be quite busy now, so we need to handle things properly.” “Trying to outsmart big sis Yuuri, they’re doing something really scary there. She’ll definitely retaliate somehow.” “...Yeah, you’re right.” Marle nodded with a slightly strained expression. “More importantly, is everything okay in the north?” They had heard that the Northern Alliance, the origin of the Devil horde, was in a considerably perilous situation. They had heard that their comrade, the Drifting God Levi, had gone to handle it. “Levi is there, so it should be fine. It seems like she stayed in the north during the Evil Dragon strife to be able to mobilize people.” “Is that really okay?” There was an unwritten rule among the gods that they shouldn’t interfere with human affairs. This rule led them to live relatively isolated lives, avoiding extensive interaction with humans. In contrast to them, the Drifting God Levi actively immersed herself in human society. Her involvement was not about actively meddling in troubles but rather interference with the purpose of talent development and tactical instruction. One could say she was pushing the boundaries, just shy of violating the rules. “Isn’t she currently acting as the guild master in the north?” “Yep, she brought up some anti-Devil tactics and started gathering siege hammers and recruiting skilled adventurers.” “Oh the poor adventurers getting manipulated by her.” In terms of status, the Drifting God Levi was higher than them. Normally, making jests about her would not be tolerated. However, Levi herself had a personality that didn’t care about such things, making her an easy target for playful banter. “And on the west side, it should be Marielle, right?” “Yeah. Well, she’s more suited to dealing with large armies than us.” “So, are we heading north to support Levi?” “More accurately, the adventurers who are probably being tossed around by her.” “In that case, we should hurry; it would be pitiful otherwise.” With a modest and warm smile, she moved forward in front of the War God. Despite possessing a terrifying skill set of concealing her presence and seizing enemies from behind, she never displayed such traits outside of battle. In that sense, she was probably one of the top assassins in this world. “Maybe she’s scarier than that rumored girl Nicole.” “Alec, did you say something?” “...No, it’s nothing.” Even though he thought he spoke too quietly to be heard, she picked it up with her keen ears. Alec responded with a nervous sweat, quickly overtaking her again, ensuring his face remained hidden, and swiftly headed towards the north. ◇◆◇◆◇ The Forest Kingdom of Raum, at the health resort. Even in this town famous for its hot springs, the threat of Devils was looming. Adventurers and elves fought back with bows and magic, but it was clear that their efforts were falling short. Mikey, the young boy whose life was once saved by Nicole, was also thrust into the defensive battle. “Darn it, these guys are like cheaters...” In his hands was a spear made entirely of iron, but the shaft was already bent. It was the result of thrusting it into a Devil and receiving a counterattack. He stepped back momentarily and received a replacement spear. Meanwhile, another adventurer took over the frontline, but it seemed unlikely that they would last long. “If it’s him, he could hold his ground...” Mikey recalled the figure of Cloud, with whom he had once engaged in a mock battle. With Cloud’s robust defense, enduring the attacks of the Devils seemed possible. This thought stimulated Mikey’s pride. “Damn it, I’m fine now, switch with me!” “Are you sure!?” “It’s fine!” Mikey stepped forward in a less-than-ideal condition. His sense of inferiority to Cloud drove him to impatience. However, the spear he borrowed as a replacement had a wooden shaft and was insufficient to withstand the Devil’s sword. It was snapped with a single blow, leaving him with a deep wound in his chest. “Gaah!?” “Mikey!” Though he managed to avoid damage to his lungs, Mikey sustained rib injuries that left him unable to breathe properly. The Devil raised its sword over Mikey, who was immobilized as a result. Adventurers shouted in despair for Mikey, who could only await his fate. In this seemingly hopeless situation, a cool voice shattered the despair. With a sound resembling the breaking of metal, the field turned white. No, the surroundings were sealed by ice. “You are in the way, so could I ask you to back off?” Crushing the ice beneath her feet, a woman with a glamorous figure approached Mikey. The woman, with luxurious curly hair, glanced at the Devil and snorted. “I was enjoying a leisurely life of seclusion, and now it has become so noisy.” The Devil, wary of the sudden appearance of the woman, raised its dual swords. Ignoring the wary Devil, the woman urged the adventurers behind her to retreat. “I shall take care of this, so all of you should return to the village.” “The village...? No, more importantly, who are you?” The town, famous for its hot springs, was no longer a village in size. With doubts about the choice of words, Mikey addressed the woman. Looking down at Mikey, the woman proudly declared, “I am Marielle Blanche. Some also call me the Water Goddess Eir.” With a wave of her arm, she activated a spell or rather... magic. A storm of water surged around, followed by a blast of cold air. The Devil’s outer layer froze in an instant, and without a chance to resist, it was shattered. Witnessing this gruesome spectacle, Mikey’s mind went blank, and he muttered incomprehensibly. “A... God...?” “Yes, that is what I said. Come now, your injuries are healed, so please stand.” Upon hearing the Water Goddess’ words, Mikey realized for the first time that the wound on his chest had completely healed. For a moment, he thought the injury was just a dream as he looked at his unscathed chest. However, the damaged chest plate served as a reminder that it was indeed real. “Th-thank you.” “I shall accept your gratitude. I like honest children. Now, go on, do not linger.” Nodding meekly at the Water Goddess’ words, Mikey turned away so as not to be a hindrance. Soon after, a chilling wind swept through the deep forest of Raum, freezing it so much that even the air seemed to solidify. Feeling the presence behind him, Mikey shuddered, wondering what exactly was happening. At the very least, he understood that a situation beyond his comprehension was unfolding.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 3, "inserted_lines_src": 59, "inserted_lines_trg": 3 }
今日、王都に母さんがやって来る。なぜ、こんな急に母さんがやってくるのかといえば、近況を知らせた手紙のせいなのだ。俺は定期的に母さん達に手紙を送っている。父さんも母さんも子供達だけで王都で暮らすことにすごく心配していた。だから、小まめに手紙を送って安心させていたのだ。その手紙のやり取りの中でつい店の経営について愚痴を書いてしまった。すると、母さんが「店の帳簿を送ってくれ」と手紙に書いてきたから帳簿を送ったんだけど......。なんかそれがまずかったらしい。が母さんを迎えにいっているのだ。母さん、手紙では切羽詰まったような感じだったけど、杞憂なんだよね。もう、店の経営については問題ない。ドリュアス君のアイデアのおかげで店も持ち直すはずだ。母さんが心配することはないのに......。まぁ、いいや。久しぶりに母さんに会えるのだ。楽しみには違いない。お店の話はすぐに終わらせて、親子で団欒といこうではないか。で、そろそろ着くと思うんだけど......。すると、遠くから馬車の音が聞こえてきた。店の外へと飛び出す。そこには馬車から顔を出す懐かしき母さんの姿があった。「母さん!」思わず母さんのもとへと駆け寄り抱擁する。「ティレア、久しぶりね。元気にしてた?」「うん、私もティムも元気だよ」ふぁあ、母さんだ、久しぶりに甘えちゃうぞ。母さんのお胸にすりすりする。わぁい、柔くてあったかい。それに懐かしい母さんの匂いだ。くんくん。「や、やぁ。ティレアちゃん、久しぶり!」まったく、空気読めっての! 俺と母さんの憩いの時間だよ。タイミングを見てよね。は睨まれると思っていなかったのか、困惑顔で狼狽えていた。は身銭を切って母さんの送り迎えをしてくれたのだ。そこに下心があるかどうかは別にして、お礼ぐらいは言わないといけないね。「ビセフさん、母さんを迎えに来てくれてありがとうございます」「いやいや、大したことしてないよ」「そんなことないです。助かりました」「いいって、いいって。どうせ、俺は王都に来る用事があったしね」「用事?」「あぁ。実はね、俺も王都に住むことになったんだ」「えぇ、そうなんですか!」「ふふ、驚いたかい。これから何か不安があれば、いつでも俺を頼ってくれていいんだからね」「はは......そうですか」よ。てめーの正体は、ばっちりわかっているんだ。何が悲しゅうて、あんたを頼らなくてはならぬ。もうね、あんたに頼るぐらいなら自分で解決したほうが全然ましなのよ。俺が冷めた眼で「ビセフさん、本当にありがとうございます。娘を宜しくお願いします」のところに俺を嫁に出すみたいだから勘弁してよ。「お義母さ――ゴホン、セーラさん、任せてください。ティレアちゃんとティムちゃんは俺が守ります」おい、今、なんて言おうとした? もう俺の夫気取りか! ――って母さんも未来の息子みたいな眼をそれからは俺と親公認の仲になったと思ったのか、上機嫌で出て行った。軽くスキップをしているし......。よ。今後、もし勘違いした行動を取ろうものなら容赦なく鉄拳を振るうから。まじだよ。そして、しばしの母娘の抱擁後、母さんが本題を切り出してきた。「ティレア、帳簿は見せてもらったわ」「ま、まぁ、ちょっと足が出ちゃったけど、大丈夫。ちゃんと挽回策も考えてあるんだよ。何より私の料理の腕は天んだから」「あ、あなた、あの赤字がちょっとですって! ふざけるんじゃありません。なんでもっと早く相談しなかったの!」「ご、ごめんなさい。でもね、価格設定とか立地条件とか色々考えて――」「ティレア、もうそんな段階じゃない。手遅れよ」「そ、そんなことないよ。確かに数千万ゴールドの赤字を返すのは大変だけど」「数千万ゴールドですって! あなた、もう一度帳簿を見直してごらんなさい」「えっ!? どういうこと......? 確万ゴールドの借金だったはず......」「はぁ~ティレア、桁を一つ間違えているわ。現在の借金は三億ゴールドです」うっそ! 慌てて帳簿を見直す。えーと、これが繰り上がってこうなるから......。えーと......。「ティレア、ここの計算が間違っている。それと、ここも。そして、そこの魚の代金を合計に入れていないわ。それから......」母さんが的確にポイントを示してくれる。さすが伊達に経理をしていない。三億ゴールドの赤字です。再計算したから間違いない。借金が「億」って......。「か、母さん、どうしよう?」俺は涙目になりながら母さんに訴える。「ティレア、私はあなたが料理店を任せられると聞いて、てっきり料理人として雇われたと思ってたの。それがまさか経営から全てあなたが仕切ってたなんて......」母さんの疑問は最もだ。俺も最初は、経営はだれかオル父の部下みたいな人がしてくれるのかと思ってた。だけど、オルは全てを一任してくるんだよ。金だけ渡して一切文句を言わなかった。なんて無謀なと思ったけど、それだけ俺を信頼してくれてたのかもしれない。俺なら料理店を任せられるって......それをこんな形で裏切ってしまった。「ど、どうしよう? 出資者のオルには数千万の赤字って報告してたんだ。あわわ、それが億だったなんて......」「オルさんがこの店のオーナーなの?」「うん、正確にはオル......オルティッシオの親がそうなんだけどね。オルが窓口になって資金を調達していたんだ」「そのオルティッシオさんは毎月資金を出していたのよね? こんなに赤字で何も言わなかったの?」「そうだよ。それに毎月どころか、月によっては毎週お金を借りていたけど、オルは何も文句をつけなかった」「毎週って......そういえば先々月、べらぼうにお金を使っていたわね?」「先々月......? あぁ、そうそうちょうど漁を終えた船が港に着いたばかりで、ハマチのいいところが市場に出てね。ついつい毎週――」「このおバカ! あなたも父さんもだけど料理バカになるのも大概にしなさい。お客のニーズに合わせた買い方をしないと」「だ、だって......本当に良い素材だったんだ。あれを見逃すなんてできないよ。オルも『はい、どうぞ』とか言って気軽にお金を渡してくれたし」俺の言い訳を聞いて、母さんが頭を押さえて悩んでいる。うん、冷静になってみると俺はとんでもないことをしてたんだよね。「......もういいわ。とにかく出資者のオルティッシオさんに会わせてくれる?」「えっ!? オルに会うの? 大丈夫かな?」患者に免疫がない母さんが、オルの言動についていけるであろうか。「ティレア、悩んでないで。もう私が話をするしかないでしょ。それともあなたは億の借金について話をつけることができるの?」「で、できないかも。でも、私とオルの仲で......」「ティレア、出資者のオルティッシオさんにそんな無礼な態度はだめよ。オルティッシオさんは王都の貴族様なんでしょ」「うん、そうだよ。でも、私とオルの仲はそんな身分にとらわれないんだから」オルは大貴族のおせがれだが、それを鼻にかけない。庶民の俺とも対等に接してくれている。というか、むしろ俺を格上扱いしてくる始末だ。「はぁ~あなたはベルガの気のいい人達しか知らないでしょう。だけど、王都の貴族様はお金についてシビアな考え方をされるわ」「そ、そうかな? オルはその辺、無頓着な感じがするけど」だって、俺がオルに金を貸してと言ったら即答するんだよ。全然、嫌がらない。宝物庫も盗んでといわんばかりに開放してあるし、財に執着しているように思えないんだけど。「ティレア、貴族様が無為にお金を消費することは考えられないのよ。何か裏がある。私がオルティッシオさんに会って真意を問い質します」「そんな。母さん、オルに裏なんてないよ」あんな馬鹿正直な人間はいない。あれで裏があるなんて言われたら人間不信に陥っちゃう。「ティレア、あなたは不思議に思わなかったの? これほど出資してもらうなんて不自然よ。それも経営に関してはズブの素人であるあなたに一任だなんて......」「それは私の料理の腕を見込まれて――」「確かにあなたは父さんからみっちり仕込まれただけあって、料理の腕は一流と言ってもいい。でも、だからといって経営まで一任するなんておかしすぎます。さっきから話を聞いていると、この数ヶ月、お店に関してあなたに丸投げ状態じゃない。これじゃあ、意図的に赤字にさせていると思っても不思議ではないわ。大体、いきなり店を用意してくれるなんてありえない」「ティレア、その仲ってどういう意味? もしかして、あなたオルティッシオさんの愛人にでもなったの?」がぼっ! あまりな物言いにむせてしまう。俺がオルの愛人? 冗談じゃない。「か、母さん、いくらなんでもあんまりでしょ。私はそんなに安くないよ」「わかっているわ。あなたがそんなことはしないって。だけどね、そうでもしないとこの現状を説明できないのよ」母さんが興奮している。確かに見ず知らずの人がこんな小娘に店を与えてくれるなんて何か裏がありそうだ。いくら料理の腕がピカイチな俺だからといって不自然すぎる話である。要するに母さんはオルを疑っているんだ。こんなにお金を出資する訳は、オルが俺を狙っているんじゃないかって......。だが、言えない。本当のところは、オルが以前俺を襲った慰謝料のつもりでお店を用意してくれたのだ。う~ん、どうしようか。このままでは母さんが納得しない。正直に話してもオルがますます信用を失くすだけだし......。「ティレア、だからねオルティッシオさんに会わせて。その辺も含めてきっちり真意を問い質します」これはオルに会わせないって選択肢は選べないみたいだ。母さん、オルに会うまでテコでも動かない感じである。しょうがない。とりあえずオルに会わせるだけ会わせよう。後は、状況に応じて臨機応変に対処する。オル、母さんとトラブルだけは起こすなよ。俺は万感の思いで地下帝国にいるオルを呼びにいった。	Mum was coming to the Capital today. Why so suddenly, you ask? It’s because I mentioned my financial state in one of my letters. I regularly send letters to my parents because of how worried they are about letting their kids live alone here. That’s why I write whenever I can. Some of those letters may have included my grumblings about shop management. She replied, “Send me your account book,” so I did and then... Apparently that had been a bad idea. I got this letter saying that she was coming immediately, which is why Loser (Bizef) was accompanying my mum here. Mum, I might have exaggerated things a bit in the letters, but we’re really okay now. Geez, the shop is just fine. Dryas’ ideas should make everything just fine. Well whatever. It was a good chance to see Mum again so I’d be lying to say I wasn’t somewhat happy. I decided to get the business talk over with and then spend some quality bonding time with her. Now then... It was about time for her to arrive I think... Before long, I heard the sound of an approaching horse carriage. I rushed out of the store to check. Alighting from the carriage was my beloved mother. “Mum!” Before I knew it I had rushed over to embrace her. “It’s been a while, Tilea. Have you been well?” “Yeah. Both Timu and I have been great.” Fwahh, it’s Mum. It’s been a while so I’ll fawn on you! I rubbed up against Mum’s chest. Waah, it’s so warm and soft. And I missed this smell. Sniff sniff. “H-, Hey, Tilea. Sup!” Honestly, it’s called reading the mood! Mum and I are supposed to be catching up right now! I glared at him. He looked flustered and confused as though he had been expecting something else. “Bizef, thank you very much for accompanying my mother here.” “No, no, it was nothing.” “Don’t say that. I’m grateful.” “It’s fine, I said, fine. I had some business in the Capital anyway.” “Business?” “Yeah, to tell the truth I’m moving here.” “Really!?” “Huhu, surprised? If you have any troubles, you can come find me any time.” “Haha... I see.” Hey, Loser (Bizef). I’ve completely seen through you. When the hell would I go looking to you for help. Trying to rely on you would make everything ten times harder. I gazed coldly at him for a while. “Bizef, I really have to thank you too. Please take care of my daughter.” Mum started to thank him. Please, Mum, the way you worded it sounds like I’m getting married to him. “Mu-, AHEM, Madam Sera, please leave it to me. I’ll take care of Tilea and Timu for you.” Oi, what the hell did he almost say just now? Are you already pretending to be my husband!? Oh god, please stop that Mum. You’re looking at him like he’s your future son-in-law or something. He’s going to misunderstand, okay! Loser (Bizef) was in a good mood after that. Probably because he thought he had my parents’ approval or something. He even started getting touchy-feely with me... Bro... If you keep this misunderstanding up you’re going to meet my cestus, okay. Seriously. Anyway, after I was done hugging Mum, she moved onto the main topic. “Tilea, I looked at your ledger,” she said, letting out a huge sigh. “W-Well, it’s true that I overspent a little but it’s okay. I’ve got a plan to turn this around. Plus, you have to know that nobody can beat my cooking.” “A-, A little!? Do you have any idea how serious this is? Why didn’t you ask me for help earlier!” “Sorry, b-but I’ve been thinking about the pricing and like the location and all sorts of stuff and―” “Tilea, we’re a little past that stage. It’s too late.” “D-, Don’t be like that, come on. I know it’s going to be hard to pay back a few dozen million but...” “A few dozen million!? Show me that account book again.” “Eh-!? What do you...? Wasn’t it like million gold...?” “Hahh~ Tilea, you forgot a digit. Right now you’re million gold in debt.” WHA-!? I flusteredly looked over the ledger again. Umm, so you carry this over and then... Umm... “Tilea, this calculation is wrong. This one too. And also you forgot to add the price of this fish. There’s also...” Mum began accurately pointing out everything I did wrong. Wow, she’s not the manager of the restaurant for show. After a lot of fixing, the result...?,000,000 gold in debt. Double checked. A debt in the hundred millions... Even the government would feel it if they had to bail me out. “M-, Mum? What should I do?” I looked at my mum tearily. “Tilea, when you told me that you were working at a restaurant, I assumed you meant as a chef. Never had I imagined that you were doing everything from the cooking to the management...” Mum had a good point. To begin with I thought I was going to work for Orty’s dad or something. But then Orty just left everything to me. He just gave me money and didn’t ask for a thing. I thought it was pretty reckless of him but then decided it might have been his way of saying he trusted me. That’s why I thought I would do it all... but then I let him down like this. “W-What should I do? I told Orty that I was just 30 million behind. Awawa, for that to have turned into 300 million...!” “Orty is the owner of this restaurant?” “Mn, it’s actually Orty’s... Ortissio’s relative that owns it though. Orty is just the middleman who hands me the funds.” “And this Ortissio provides you with money on a monthly basis? He didn’t say a thing about this debt?” “Yeah. And far from each month, on some months I even ask for money each week but he’s never complained about it.” “Each week...? Speaking of which, the month before last you used an absurd amount of money didn’t you.” “The month before...? Ohh, right, right, there was this fishing boat that had just come back from the ocean with some fresh young yellowtail so I kinda―” “You silly girl! Both you and your father are such idiots whenever it comes to cooking. Listen, when you buy ingredients you need to match the needs of your customers.” “B-But... it was so good. I couldn’t just let it go. And Orty said it was okay too and gave me the money.” After hearing my excuses, Mum held her head in her hands. Yeah, thinking back on it, even I think I was being ridiculous. “...I’ve heard enough. Anyway, can you arrange a meeting with Ortissio for me?” “Eh-!? A meeting with Orty? I dunno...” Mum isn’t used to chuunibyou like I am so will they even be able to communicate? “Tilea, don’t think so much about it. At this point you can only leave it to me, right? Or are you telling me that you can tell him you’re 300 million in debt?” “M-, Maybe not. But Orty and I are close so...” “Tilea, you can’t be that disrespectful to Ortissio. Isn’t he the son of a noble here?” “Mn, yeah. But Orty and I are close, so we don’t care about that.” Orty might be a major noble but he’s never been arrogant about it. He treats commoners like me equally. Actually, I’ve kind of ended on top. “Hahh~ You only know the friendly people from Beluga, but the nobles of the Royal Capital are strict when it comes to their money.” “R-, Really? Orty never seems to really care that much though.” I mean, whenever I bring up money he immediately forks some over. Not a bit of hesitation. I’m basically robbing his treasury and he doesn’t care at all. “Tilea, it’s impossible that a noble would thoughtlessly waste money. He has a reason. I need to meet with him to find out what it is.” “That’s impossible. Mum, Ortissio doesn’t scheme like that.” I mean, I’ve never met a more stupidly honest person. If I found out somebody like that was actually a schemer I don’t think I’d be able to trust other people anymore. “Tilea, have you never thought it strange? It’s unnatural that somebody would just hand you this much money. Not only that, but to leave the entire store to somebody with zero experience like yourself...” “That’s because he saw through my skill in cooking and―” “It’s true that you inherited your dad’s talent. I’d even call you a first class cook. But leaving the entire store for you to manage would be unthinkable. From what I’ve heard, he’s basically left everything up to you these last few months, hasn’t he. Then in that case it wouldn’t be strange to think that he’s bankrupting you on purpose. To begin with, it’s unthinkable that he suddenly prepared a store for you.” “Tilea, what do you mean by Close? Don’t tell me you’ve become his mistress or something?” I choked on my drink. Me, Orty’s mistress? Don’t even joke about that. “M-, Mum, don’t suddenly say something so shocking. I’m not that cheap, okay.” “I know. I don’t think you’d do that either. But I can’t explain this situation any other way.” Mum was getting agitated. I mean, looking at this objectively I can kind of see her point. You wouldn’t just hand over your shop to some random girl you met on the streets. No matter how great my cooking was, it was completely unnatural. In other words, Mum was suspicious of Orty. Suspicious that he was handing out all this money because he had his eye on me... But I couldn’t tell her the truth either. That Orty prepared the restaurant as consolation for trying to assault me. Ahhh, what do I do? I don’t think I can fool Mum. But if I told the truth it would make her suspect him even more... “That’s why I want you to arrange a meeting, Tilea. I’ll make sure to find out the truth for you.” I don’t think she was giving me any other option. Mum was being really adamant about it. I decided to just arrange the meeting. After that I’d just deal with whatever happened. Orty, no matter what you do, don’t start trouble with my Mum. Lost in my thoughts, I headed underground to look for Orty.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 3, "inserted_lines_src": 28, "inserted_lines_trg": 7 }
俺はすぐに応戦しようと考えた。......が、その必要はないみたいだ。あの、風の音を聞いたのか、3人は既に集まっていた。「おいおい、異常な音が聞こえたからって来てみりゃ......」「なんで灰騎犬がこんなところにいるの!? ミュリ、子供達は?」「子供達と村の人達はアリムちゃんが避難させてくれました」「わかった。まだ僕達が居てよかった。明日じゃなくて、本当に」「それでも、私達が勝てるとは決まったわけじゃないでしょ? 今まで戦った魔物の中強いって言っても過言じゃないわ」「そうだね......。皆、むちゃしないで」 ......あいつって、そんなに強いの? 今だったら素手でもいけるぞ。俺は今、住民を避難させた後に近くの物陰に隠れて戦いの様子を見ている。「......きますっ!」ミュリさんがそう言った。灰騎犬の前に魔法陣が現れ、そこから4人にむかって暴風が放射される。「ウインドエミッション!」リロさんの魔法だ。見事に灰騎犬の魔法とかぶせ相殺させた。同時にリロさんが合図をする。「いまよっ!」「補助魔法、かけます!」それにオルゴさんとミュリさんが返事をした。ミュリさんはオルゴさんに、補助魔法をかけている。強化術の魔法なのだろう。ザシュッ__________ が、オルゴさんも灰騎士犬に足を噛まれたようだ。「ハイ・ヒールっ!」ミュリさんが快復魔法唱える。血が止まり、若干傷が癒えているのはここからでもわかる。「サンキュー、ミュリ!」「いえ」一方でルインさんは灰騎犬に斬りかかるも回避されてしまう。うーん、なかなか良い太刀筋だったんだけど。「くそっ!」「任せて!フレイムエミッション!」今度はリロさんから魔法を唱える。灰騎犬が動くから少し距離をとる。さらに、ウインドボールを唱えたようだ。狙った先はリロさん。リロさんもボールを唱え、それらを相殺する。「なめないでよねっ!」だが、誰も気づいてなかった。リロさんの足元にエミッションの魔法陣があることを。「なっ!?」ミュリさんはそれに気付き、即座にリロさんに補助魔法を掛ける。だが、それでもダメージは多大だったようだ。「キャァァァァァァアアアッ!!」暴風が放射させると共にリロさんが空中に打ち上げられる。 ......まずい。今のモロに喰らった一撃でHPはだいぶ削られたかもしれない。あのセインフォースメンバーはおそらく、4人ともレベル20前後だ。あれは灰騎犬のエミッションを受けたことがないからわからないが、様子をみるに、レベル20代にはキツイ威力なのだろう。ともかく、地面にこのまま落下したら死んでしまう恐れがある。そうはさせない。早く助けに___________ 「......っと」ああ、よかった。ルインさんがうまくキャッチしたようだ。お姫様抱っこで、あら~。いや、そんなこと考えてる場合じゃないわ。ルインさんが鬼の形相をしている。「よくもリロをっ......!喰らえ、ライトエミッション!」ん?聞いたことがないな。ライト......光か。灰騎犬の足元に白い魔法陣が展開され、そこから白い光線が出てきた。たしかに当たりはした。 ......が、奴を倒すには不十分なようだ。ルインさんはオルゴさんにアイコンタクトをしている。オルゴさんは黙って頷いた。その刹那、オルゴさんは灰騎犬にむかって剣を振るう。あの太刀筋は相手を遠ざける切りつけ方だ。オルゴさんを敵に集中させてる間に、ルインさんはリロさんを遠くの木の下に寝かせる。ミュリさんもその場所に来て、必死にヒールを唱えていた。時間稼ぎのアイコンタクトか。ルインさんはその場所からすぐに離れ、オルゴさんの所へ加勢しに行く。ライトエミッションを放ったが、回避されたようだ。また、灰騎犬の奴はオルゴさんに噛みつき、爪で引っ掻いている。エミッションよりは威力が低いだろうが...... 「くぅっ!? くそっ」やはり、相当なダメージか蓄積されていっているようだ。それでも、オルゴさんの攻撃は灰騎犬に届いていて、奴も少しずつダメージが溜まって言っているのがわかる。このまま、いけるのではないか? そう考えが。灰騎犬は大幅に移動する。 ......もしかしたら物凄くマズイかもしれない。あぁ、空気の魔力から灰騎犬はまたウインドエミッションを出そうとしているのがわかる。だが魔法陣はどこだ? その魔法陣の場所は、ルインさんでなく、オルゴさんでなく、木の下にいる、リロさんとミュリさんの所にだった。	I thought I was going to fight. But it seemed that it wasn’t necessary. From the looks of it, it seems the of them have made it there. 「Hey, that was an abnormal sound......」「Why is there an Ash Dog in a place like this? Muri, what about the children?」「Earlier they have left fpr evacuation.」「All right.Lucky that we were still here, but not really for tomorrow, huh. 」「Still, aren’t we determined to win? It’s no exaggeration that this is the strongest demon by far that we will fight.」「Yeah.....Everyone, please don’t be reckless.」 Is it so strong? It looks like I can go bare handed. After the villagers took refuge, I hid in the shadows to see the battle start. 「......It comes!」 Muri yelled. Magic forms appear in front of the Ash Dog, directing it to the adventurers. 「Wind Emissions!」 It’s Lilo’s magic. It covers the Dog. At the same time, Lilo makes a signal. 「Go now!」「Support Magic, go!」 Besides Orgo, Muri chanted. Muri is applying support magic to Orgo. It’s reinforcement magic. Zashu-tsu__________ Orgo got struck by the foot of the Dog. 「High・Heal!」 Muri quickly chants recovery magic. The blood stops, and some of the wounds close. 「Thank you, Muri.」「Yeah.」 On the other hand, Ruin seems to avoiding deadly slashes. He’s still pretty good. 「Dammit!」「Leave it to me. Flame Emissions!」 Lili released some magic. It moved. It reduced its distance. Moreover, he seemed to recite Wind Ball. It aimed for Lilo. She counterattacks with the same move. 「Don’t eat me!」 But no one noticed. That Lilo had a magic formation under her. 「Huh!?」 Muri finally noticed and casted supporting magic towards Lilo. But the damage was too great. 「GAAAAAHHHH!!」 A storm radiated as Lilo was launched into the air. ....This is bad.Her HP must gone down considirerably. All of them should be around level . But by just looking at the Dog, it’s obvious that it’s a higher level. Anyways, no one would blame her if she scared of dying. I can’t let her die.. I gotta help quickly.___________ 「......Tsk.」 Oh good, Ruin caught Lilo on time. Well, in a princess carry~. No, that’s not the case. Ruin has the face of a demon. 「Well done Lilo. Light Emission!」 Hmm? I never heard that before.Light...light? A white magic light was deployed under the Ash Dog. It got hit. ......Though it seems that it wasn’t enough. Ruin makes eye contact with Orgo. Orgo nodded silently. Orgo then immediately wielded his word at it. A way to cut off the enemy. While Orgo is distracting it, Ruin let’s Lilo off under a distant tree. Muri came and desperately chanted heals. Eye-contact? Ruin leaves immediately and helps out Orgo. He released more Light Emission, but it was avoided. The Dog bites Orgo and starts scratching him. The difference in power is obvious...... 「Kuu!? Dammit!」 As expected, he accumulated heavy damage.But still, Orgo keeps on fighting, he keeps going. Can I go in like this? So I thought. The Ash dog is really agile. ......This is terribly bad. Just from feeling the air, he’s going to release a powerful Wind Emission. But where is the magic formation? It wasn’t aimed at Ruin, Orgo or Muri, it was aimed under a tree, it was aiming for Lilo.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 5, "inserted_lines_src": 1, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
ケーテが去ってから、俺とニアとガルヴは王都に向けて歩き始めた。ニアもガルヴも散歩開始当初の元気はない。特にガルヴは疲れているように見えた。「ガルヴ、大丈夫か?」「がぅー」「ニアは大丈夫か?」王都まで、徒歩間程度。普通に歩ける距離だ。だが、全力で走ったり、ゴブリン退治したりしたので、疲れているのもわかる。ニアもガルヴもまだ子供なのだ。ゲルベルガさまは、俺の胸あての中に入ってうとうとしていた。お昼寝の時間なのだろう。ゆっくり眠ってほしい。「なんだ、ガルヴ。ケーテに送ってほしかったのか?」どうやら歩くよりは、ケーテに送ってほしいようだ。ケーテに対する恐怖を克服したのかもしれない。「ガルヴ。ケーテは大きな声で叫んでしまったからな。いまは警戒されまくっている」「あ、そうですね。ケーテさんに乗って近づいたら大騒ぎになってしまいます」「よくわかったな。ニアの言うとおりだ」ほめるとニアは照れていた。「ニアもガルヴも本当に疲れたら言えよ。背負ってあげよう」「大丈夫です!」ガルヴは俺の後ろに回る。そして前足を俺の肩に乗せた。早速、俺に背負ってもらおうとしているのだ。「ガルヴ、もう少し頑張れよ......」ガルヴは馬ぐらい大きいので、背負うのは出来れば避けたい。ガルヴを肩から降ろして、励ましながら歩いていく。帰り道、西の丘の近くを通った。ゴランと数人の冒険者、それと騎士が十人いた。ゴランたちは冒険者ギルドの精鋭だろう。十人の騎士は、鎧から判断するに、近衛騎士の一個分隊だろう。エリックの命で駆け付けたに違いない。ゴランが俺に気付いて近づいてきた。「ガルヴ。よしよし。あとで遊んでやるからな」ゴランは懐から干し肉を取り出して、ガルヴにあげながら言う。「やっぱり竜によばれていたロックって、ロックのことか?」「そうか......。そうかもしれないとは思っていたんだ」「そういえば、ゴランにケーテのこと話してなかったな」「ケーテ?」俺はケーテについてゴランに簡単に説明した。「そういうことは早く言えよ」「すまない。報告を忘れていた。ヴァンパイアとも昏き者どもとも関係ないと思っていたからな」「それはそうだが......」「あとでゴランの家に行って詳しく説明しよう。何時ごろに帰る?」「いや、仕事が終わり次第、ロックの家に俺が行こう」「わかった。待ってる」そして、ゴランは冒険者や騎士たちに説明しに戻っていった。危険はもうないと、うまく説明してくれることを祈ろう。俺のことを抜きで、説明するのは難しそうだ。苦労を掛けてしまった。あとで、謝っておこう。「ガルヴ。思いっきり体動かせてすっきりしたか?」干し肉をもらったせいか、ガルヴは少し元気になった気がする。出歩くときはガルヴが軽く食べられるおやつをたくさん持って行くことにしよう。王都の門をくぐり、自宅へとまっすぐ帰る。ゴブリンロードとヴァンパイアロードを討伐した。強敵に遭遇した場合、討伐、未討伐に関わらず報告するのが義務ではある。報告をもとに冒険者ギルドは強敵の分布や出現頻度を調べるのだ。だが、今日はゴランに報告したからいいだろう。それにFランク戦でゴブリンロードを討伐したといっても信じてもらえない。「適当にお土産買って帰るか」「お土産ですか?」「なにか食べたいものないか?」「お菓子とか......」「ガウ!」ニアの言葉に、ガルヴも賛成のようだ。なので、俺は菓子店で、クッキーを沢山買った。「狼ってクッキー食べて大丈夫なのか?」ガルヴは不安そうになる。もらえない可能性を危惧しているのだろう。「ガルヴは霊獣さまなので大丈夫ですよ?」ガルヴは嬉しそうだ。屋敷に戻ると、ミルカに出迎えられた。「ロックさん。お帰り! 結構長い散歩だったんだな」「色々あってな......。あ、これはお土産だ」「お菓子か! お茶を入れてくるよ!」ガルヴの尻尾がぶんぶん振れる。「いや、やっぱりお菓子は後の方がいいな!」ミルカの言葉で、ガルヴの尻尾がしゅんとなる。「お昼ごはんの方が先だよな! もうほとんどできてるから、すぐ持ってくるぞ」お昼ごはんと聞いた途端、ガルヴの尻尾がまた激しく動き始めた。胸当ての中で眠っていたゲルベルガさまも、ご飯という言葉で起きた。パタパタはばたいて、胸当ての外に出る。朝ごはんの後の散歩だったのだが、もう昼ごはんの時間になっていたようだ。ミルカと入れ替わりでルッチラ、セルリス、シアが来た。「おかえりなさい。ゲルベルガさまは喜んでおられましたか?」ゲルベルガさまはルッチラの胸元にとびこんだ。「ロックさん、おかえり。ケーテの声すごかったわね」「ここまで聞こえてたか......」王都中に響いたのだろう。こまった竜だ。「おかえりなさいであります。ニアはご迷惑をおかけしませんでしたか?」「ニアは全く迷惑ではなかったぞ」「それならよかったであります」シアはニアの頭を優しく撫でた。そこにミルカが入ってくる。「お昼ご飯だぞー」「ありがとう」「ゲルベルガさまには、これだぞー」ガルヴの尻尾がビュンビュン揺れる。ガルヴ用のお昼ごはんは焼いた肉の塊だ。ゲルベルガさま用のお昼ご飯は、野菜の盛り合わせだった。ゲルベルガさまは普通の鶏よりたくさん食べるのだ。お昼ご飯を食べながら、「散歩の内容について報告しよう」俺がそういうと、全員が興味を持ったようだった。	After Kathe left, we started to walk back towards the capital. Nia and Grulf were not nearly as cheerful as during the beginning of the walk. Grulf was especially tired. “Grulf. Are you alright?” “What about you, Nia?” “I’m fine!” It was an hours walk back to the capital. A completely manageable distance. But then again, we ran as fast as we could and then killed goblins, so they were likely tired. Nia and Grulf were still young. Lord Gerberga was sleeping in my breastplate. It was his nap time, I guess. I hoped he had a good rest. “What is it, Grulf? You wanted Kathe to take us back?” It seemed that he would have preferred that to walking. Which suggested he had gotten over his fear of the dragon. “Grulf. After Kathe shouted so loudly, people will be on the lookout.” “Yes, that is true. People will see us if we rode on the back of a dragon.” “Exactly, Nia is right.” Nia looked a little bashful. “Still, let me know if either of you are really tired. And then I will carry you.” Grulf went behind me and put his front paws on my shoulders. He was fully prepared to take me up on my offer. “Grulf, how about you try walking just a little more...” Grulf was nearly the size of a horse, so I didn’t actually want to carry him. And so I took him down and encouraged him to walk more. We passed the western hills on our way back. Goran and several Adventurers and ten knights were there. Goran was likely with the best of the guild. As for the knights, their armor suggested they were part of the royal guard. So Eric must have sent them. Goran noticed me and walked over to us. “Grulf. Good boy. I’ll play with you later.” Goran said as he pulled out some dried meat and offered it to Grulf. “So, this ‘Locke’ that the dragon was calling was you after all?” “Yes.” “I see... I thought it might be.” “Now that I think of it, I didn’t tell you about Kathe yet, did I?” “Kathe?” And so I gave him a short outline of what had happened. “You should have told me this sooner!” “I’m sorry. I forgot. It didn’t seem related to the vampires and dark ones at first.” “Still...” “I’ll visit you at your house later and tell you the rest. What time will you be back?” “No, I will visit you when my work is done.” “Alright. I’ll be waiting.” And then Goran went back to tell the Adventurers and knights. Hopefully he could explain to them that there was no danger in a satisfying manner. It would be hard, since he couldn’t talk about me. I felt bad for him. I would apologize about it later. “Grulf. Do you feel better now?” Perhaps it was because of the meat, but he seemed more energetic now. I would have to remember to bring food with us next time for him to snack on. We went through the city gates and walked straight towards the house. We had killed a goblin lord and a Vampire Lord. It was your duty to make a report about powerful enemies whether you killed them or not. This information helped the guild understand the distribution, or population of strong monsters. However, I had already told Goran, so it was probably fine. Besides, it was not likely that they would believe that two F-rank Warriors had killed a goblin lord. “Maybe we should buy something for the others.” “A gift?” “Is there anything you want to eat?” “Snacks...” “Groof!” Grulf agreed with Nia’s suggestion. And so we entered a candy store and bought a lot of cookies. “Can wolves eat cookies?” Grulf looked worried. He sensed the danger of being deprived of cookies. “Grulf is a spirit beast, so it should be alright.” Grulf looked happy. When we reached the mansion, Milka greeted us. “Mister Locke. Welcome back! That was a very long walk.” “A lot happened... Oh, we got you all something.” “Snacks! I’ll put on some tea!” Grulf wagged his tail excitedly. “Wait. The snacks can come later!” Grulf’s tail stopped in mid-air at Milka’s declaration. “We should have lunch first! It’s mostly ready now, so I’ll bring it right away.” And with that, Grulf’s tail wagged with a renewed vigor. Even Lord Gerberga seemed to have been roused by the word ‘lunch,’ as he immediately woke up. And with a flutter of wings, he popped out of the breastplate. We had left right after breakfast, and so it was already time for lunch. As soon as Milka left, Luchila, Serulis and Shia came in. “Welcome back. Did Lord Gerberga enjoy his walk?” “Yes. I think he got plenty of exercise.” Lord Gerberga jumped into Luchila’s arms. “Mister Locke. Kathe was so loud today.” “You could hear it from here...?” It must have echoed throughout the whole city. Damn that dragon. “Welcome back. I hope that Nia didn’t cause you any trouble?” “She didn’t cause any trouble at all.” “That is good.” Shia gently patted her sister on the head. And then Milka returned. “Here’s your lunch!” “Thank you.” “And this is for you, Lord Gerberga.” Grulf’s tail wagged. His lunch was a mass of grilled meat. Lord Gerberga’s lunch was a bowl of vegetables. Lord Gerberga ate more than the average chicken. As we ate lunch, I said, “Now, let me tell you what happened on our walk.” And everyone looked at me with interest.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 12, "inserted_lines_src": 7, "inserted_lines_trg": 6 }
死屍累々。そんな言葉がピッタリな光景がライセン大峡谷の谷底に広がっていた。ある魔物はひしゃげた頭部を地面にめり込ませ、またある魔物は頭部を粉砕されて横たわり、更には全身を炭化させた魔物など、死に方は様々だに一撃で絶命しているようだ。当然、この世の地獄、処刑場と人々に恐れられるこの場所で、こんなことが出来るのは...... 「一撃必殺ですぅ!」ズガンッ!! 「......邪魔」ゴバッ!! 「うぜぇ」ドパンッ!! ハジメ、ユエ、シアである。ハジメ達はブルックの町を出た後(ユエシアのファンらしき人々の見送り付き)、魔力駆を走らせて、かつて通った【ライセン大峡谷】の入口にたどり着いた。そして現在は、そこから更に進み、野営もしつつ、【オルクス大迷宮】の転移陣が隠されている洞窟も通り過ぎて、更に二日ほど進んだあたりだ。【ライセン大峡谷】では、相変わらず懲りもしない魔物達がこぞって襲ってくる。シアの大槌が、その絶大な膂力をもって振るわれ文字通り一撃必殺となって魔物を叩き潰す。攻撃を受けた魔物は自身の耐久力を遥かに超えた衝撃に為す術なく潰され絶命する。餅つきウサギも真っ青な破壊力である。ユエは、至近距離まで迫った魔物を、魔力に物を言わせて強引に発動した魔法で屠っていく。ユエ自身の魔力が膨大であることもあるが、魔晶石シリーズに蓄えられた魔力が莫大であることから、まるで弾切れのない爆撃だ。谷底の魔力分解作用のせいで発動時間・飛距離共に短くとも、超高温の炎がノータイムで発動するので魔物達は一体の例外もなく炭化して絶命する。ハジメは、言うまでもない。魔力駆動二輪を走らせながらドンナーで頭部を狙い撃ちにしていく。魔力駆動二輪を走らせながら〝纏雷〟をも発動させ続けるのは相当魔力を消費する行為なのだが、やはり魔力切れを起こす様子はない。谷底に跋扈する地獄の猛獣達が完全に雑魚扱いだった。大迷宮を示す何かがないかを探索しながら片手間で皆殺しにして行く。道中には魔物の死体が溢れかえっていた。「はぁ~、ライセンの何処かにあるってだけじゃあ、やっぱ大雑把過ぎるよなぁ」洞窟などがあれば調べようと、注意深く観察はしているのだが、それらしき場所は一向に見つからない。ついつい愚痴をこぼしてしまうハジメ。「まぁ、大火山に行くついでなんですし、見つかれば儲けものくらいでいいじゃないですか。大火山の迷宮を攻略すれば手がかりも見つかるかもしれませんし」「まぁ、そうなんだけどな......」「ん......でも魔物が鬱陶しい」「あ~、ユエさんには好ましくない場所ですものね~」そんな風に愚痴をこぼし、魔物の多さに辟易しつつも、更に走り続けること三日。その日も収穫なく日が暮れて、谷底から見上げる空に上弦の月が美しく輝く頃、ハジメ達はその日の野営の準備をしていた。野営テントを取り出し、夕食の準備をする。町で揃えた食材と調味料と共に、調理器具も取り出す。この野営テントと調理器具、実は全てハジメ謹製のアーティファクトだったりする。野営テントは、生成魔法により創り出した〝暖房石〟と〝冷房石〟が取り付けられており、常に快適な温度を保ってくれる。また、冷房石を利用して〝冷蔵庫〟や〝冷凍庫〟も完備されている。さらに、金属製の骨組みには〝気配遮断〟が付加された〝気断石〟を組み込んであるので敵に見つかりにくい。調理器具には、流し込む魔力量に比例して熱量を調整できる火要らずのフライパンや鍋、魔力を流し込むことで〝風爪〟が付与された切れ味鋭い包丁などがある。スチームクリーナーモドキなんかもある。どれも旅の食事を豊かにしてくれるハジメの愛し子達だ。しかも、魔力の直接操作が出来ないと扱えないという、ある意味防犯性もある。〝神代魔法超便利〟調理器具型アーティファクトや冷暖房完備式野営テントを作った時のハジメの言葉だ。まさに無駄に洗練された無駄のない無駄な技術力である。ちなみに、その日の夕食はクルルー鳥のトマト煮である。クルルー鳥とは、空飛ぶ鶏のことだ。肉の質や味はまんま鶏である。この世界でもポピュラーな鳥肉だ。一口サイズに切られ、先に小麦粉をまぶしてソテーしたものを各種野菜と一緒にトマトスープで煮込んだ料理だ。肉にはバターの風味と肉汁をたっぷり閉じ込められたまま、スっと鼻を通るようなトマトの酸味が染み込んでおり、口に入れた瞬間、それらの風味が口いっぱいに広がる。肉はホロホロと口の中で崩れていき、トマトスープがしっかり染み込んだジャガイモ(モドキ)はホクホクで、ニンジン(モドキ)やタマネギ(モドキ)は自然な甘味を舌に伝える。旨みが溶け出したスープにつけて柔くしたパンも実に美味しい。大満足の夕食を終えて、その余韻に浸りながら、いつも通り食後の雑談をするハジメ達。テントの中にいれば、それなりに気断石が活躍し魔物が寄ってこないので比較的ゆっくりできる。たまに寄ってくる魔物は、テントに取り付けられた窓からハジメが手だけを突き出し発砲して処理する。そして、就寝時間が来れば、三人で見張りを交代しながら朝を迎えるのだ。その日も、そろそろ就寝時間だと寝る準備に入るユエとシア。最初の見張りはハジメだ。テントの中にはふかふかの布団があるので、野営にもかかわらず快適な睡眠が取れる。と、布団に入る前にシアがテントの外へと出ていこうとした。訝しそうなハジメに、シアがすまし顔で言う。「ちょっと、お花摘みに」「谷底に花はないぞ?」「ハ・ジ・メ・さ~ん!」デリカシーのない発言にシアがすまし顔を崩しキッとハジメを睨みつける。ハジメはもちろん意味がわかっているので「悪い悪い」と全く悪く思ってなさそうな顔で苦笑いする。ぷんすかと怒りながらテントの外に出て行き、しばらくすると...... 「ハ、ハジメさ~ん! ユエさ~ん! 大変ですぅ! こっちに来てくださぁ~い!」と、シアが、魔物を呼び寄せる可能性も忘れたかのように大声を上げた。何事かと、ハジメとユエは顔を見合わせ同時にテントを飛び出す。シアの声がした方へ行くと、そこには、巨大な一枚岩が谷の壁面にもたれ掛かるように倒れおり、壁面と一枚岩との間に隙間が空いている場所があった。シアは、その隙間の前で、ブンブンと腕を振っている。その表情は、信じられないものを見た! というように興奮に彩られていた。「こっち、こっちですぅ! 見つけたんですよぉ!」「わかったから、取り敢えず引っ張るな。身体強化全開じゃねぇか。興奮しすぎだろ」「......うるさい」はしゃぎながらハジメとユエの手を引っ張るシアに、ハジメは少し引き気味に、ユエは鬱陶しそうに顔をしかめる。シアに導かれて岩の隙間に入ると、壁面側が奥へと窪んでおり、意外なほど広い空間が存在した。そして、その空間の中程まで来ると、シアが無言で、しかし得意気な表情でビシッと壁の一部に向けて指をさした。その指先をたどって視線を転じるハジメとユエは、そこにあるものを見て「は?」と思わず呆けた声を出し目を瞬かせた。二人の視線の先、其処には、壁を直接削って作ったのであろう見事な装飾の長方形型の看板があり、それに反して妙に女の子らしい丸っこい字でこう掘られていた。〝おいでませ! ミレディ・ライセンのドキワク大迷宮へ♪〟〝!〟や〝♪〟のマークが妙に凝っている所が何とも腹立たしい。「......なにこれ」ハジメとユエの声が重なる。その表情は、まさに〝信じられないものを見た!〟という表現がぴったり当てはまるものだ。二人共、呆然と地獄の谷底には似つかわしくない看板を見つめている。「何って、入口ですよ! 大迷宮の! おトイ......ゴホッン、お花を摘みに来たら偶然見つけちゃいまして。いや~、ホントにあったんですねぇ、ライセン大峡谷に大迷宮って」能天気なシアの声が響く中、ハジメとシアはようやく硬直が解けたのか、何とも言えない表情になり、困惑しながらお互いを見た。「......ユエ。マジだと思うか?」「..............................ん」「長ぇ間だな。根拠は?」〝ミレディ〟その名は、オスカーの手記に出て来たライセンのファーストネームだ。ライセンの名は世間にも伝わっており有名ではあるがファーストネームの方は知られていない。故に、その名が記されているこの場所がライセンの大迷宮である可能性は非常に高かった。だがしかし、はいそうですかと素直に信じられないのは...... 「何でこんなチャラいんだよ......」そう言う理由である。ハジメとしては、オルクス大迷宮の内での数々の死闘を思い返し、きっと他の迷宮も一筋縄では行かないだろうと想像していただけに、この軽さは否応なくハジメを脱力させるものだった。ユエも、大迷宮の過酷さを骨身に染みて理解しているだけに、若干、まだ誰かのいたずらではないかと疑わしそうな表情をしている。「でも、入口らしい場所は見当たりませんね? 奥も行き止まりですし......」そんなハジメとユエの微妙な心理に気づくこともなく、シアは、入口はどこでしょう? と辺りをキョロキョロ見渡したり、壁の窪みの奥の壁をペシペシと叩いたりしている。「おい、シア。あんまり......」ガコンッ! 「ふきゃ!?」〝あんまり不用意に動き回るな〟そう言おうとしたハジメの眼前で、シアの触っていた窪みの奥の壁が突如グルンッと回転し、巻き込まれたシアはそのまま壁の向こう側へ姿を消した。さながら忍者屋敷の仕掛け扉だ。「「......」」奇しくも大迷宮への入口も発見したことで看板の信憑性が増した。やはり、ライセンの大迷宮はここにあるようだ。まるで遊園地の誘い文句の様な入口に、「これでいいのか大迷宮」とか「オルクスでのシリアスを返せ」とか言いたいことは山ほどあるが、無言でシアが消えた回転扉を見つめていたハジメとユエは、一度、顔を見合わせて溜息を吐くと、シアと同じように回転扉に手をかけた。扉の仕掛けが作用して、ハジメとユエを同時に扉の向こう側へと送る。中は真っ暗だった。扉がグルリと回転し元の位置にピタリと止まる。と、その瞬間、ヒュヒュヒュ! 無数の風切り音が響いたかと思うと暗闇の中をハジメ達目掛けて何かが飛来した。ハジメの〝夜目〟はその正体を直ぐさま暴く。それは矢だ。全く光を反射しない漆黒の矢が侵入者を排除せんと無数に飛んできているのだ。ハジメはドンナーを右手に、左手はそのままに、飛来する漆黒の矢の尽くを叩き落とした。本数にすれば二十本。一本の金属から削り出したような艶のない黒い矢が地面に散らばり、最後の矢が地面に叩き落とされる音を最後に再び静寂が戻った。と、同時に周囲の壁がぼんやりと光りだし辺りを照らし出す。ハジメ達のいる場所は、十メートの部屋で、奥へと真っ直ぐに整備された通路が伸びていた。そして部屋の中央には石版があり、看板と同じ丸っこい女の子文字でとある言葉が掘られていた。〝ビビった? ねぇ、ビビっちゃった? チビってたりして、ニヤニヤ〟〝それとも怪我した? もしかして誰か死んじゃった? ......ぶふっ〟「「......」」ハジメとユエの内心はかつてないほど一致している。すなわち「うぜぇ~」と。わざわざ、〝ニヤニヤ〟と〝ぶふっ〟の部分だけ彫りが深く強調されているのが余計腹立たしい。特に、パーティーで踏み込んで誰か死んでいたら、間違いなく生き残りは怒髪天を衝くだろう。ハジメもユエも、額に青筋を浮かべてイラッとした表情をしている。そして、ふと、ユエが思い出したように呟いた。「......シアは?」「あ」ユエの呟きでハジメも思い出したようで、慌てて背後の回転扉を振り返る。扉は、一度作動する事に半回転するので、この部屋にいないということは、ハジメ達が入ったのと同時に再び外に出た可能性が高い。結構な時間が経っているのに未だ入ってこない事に嫌な予感がして、ハジメは直ぐに回転扉を作動させに行った。果たしてシアは......いた。回転扉に縫い付けられた姿で。「うぅ、ぐすっ、ハジメざん......見ないで下さいぃ~、でも、これは取って欲しいでずぅ。ひっく、見ないで降ろじて下さいぃ~」何というか実に哀れを誘う姿だった。シアは、おそらく矢が飛来する風切り音に気がつき見えないながらも天性の索敵能力で何とか躱したのだろう。だが、本当にギリギリだったらしく、衣服のあちこちを射抜かれて非常口のピクトグラムに描かれている人型の様な格好で固定されていた。ウサミミが稲妻形に折れ曲がって矢を避けており、明らかに無理をしているようでビクビクと痙攣している。もっとも、シアが泣いているのは死にかけた恐怖などではないようだ。なぜなら......足元が盛大に濡れていたからである。「そう言えば花を摘みに行っている途中だったな......まぁ、何だ。よくあることだって......」「ありまぜんよぉ! うぅ~、どうして先に済ませておかなかったのですかぁ、過去のわたじぃ~!!」女として絶対に見られたくない姿を、よりにもよって惚れた男の前で晒してしまったことに滂沱の涙を流すシア。ウサミミもペタリと垂れ下がってしまっている。もっとも、出会いの時点で百年の恋も覚めるような醜態を見ているので、ハジメとしては今更だった。なので、特に目を逸らすこともなく呆れた表情を向けている。それがシアの心を更に抉る。「......動かないで」流石に同じ女として思うところがあったのか、ユエが無表情の中に同情を含ませてシアを磔から解放する。「......あれくらい何とかする。未熟者」「面目ないですぅ~。ぐすっ」「......ハジメ、着替え出して」〝宝物庫〟からシアの着替えを出してやり、シアは顔を真っ赤にしながら手早く着替えた。そして、シアの準備も整い、いざ迷宮攻略へ! と意気込み奥へ進もうとして、シアが石版に気がついた。顔を俯かせ垂れ下がった髪が表情を隠す。しばらく無言だったシアは、おもむろにドリュッケンを取り出すと一瞬で展開し、渾身の一撃を石板に叩き込んだ。ゴギャ! という破壊音を響かせて粉砕される石板。よほど腹に据えかねたのか、親の仇と言わんばかりの勢いでドリュッケンを何度も何度も振り下ろした。すると、砕けた石板の跡、地面の部分に何やら文字が彫ってあり、そこには...... 〝ざんね~ん♪ この石板は一定時間経つと自動修復するよぉ~プークスクス!!〟「ムキィーー!!」シアが遂にマジギレして更に激しくドリュッケンを振い始めた。部屋全体が小規模な地震が発生したかのように揺れ、途轍もない衝撃音が何度も響き渡る。発狂するシアを尻目にハジメはポツリと呟いた。「ミレディ・ライセンだけは〝解放者〟云々関係なく、人類の敵で問題ないな」「......激しく同意」どうやらライセンの大迷宮は、オルクス大迷宮とは別の意味で一筋縄ではいかない場所のようだった。	A heap of corpses. Those words fit the current spectacle inside the Raisen Grand Canyon’s ravine. Some demonic beasts had their heads smashed, along with the ground. While some demonic beasts had theirs pulverized, furthermore some demonic beasts had their body carbonized, although there were various killing methods, all of them died in one attack. Naturally, inside this hell, the place that was feared as an execution ground by people, there were... “One hit certain kill~!” ZUGANn!! “... ... Hindrance” GOBANn!! DOPANn!! It was the trio of Hajime, Yue, and Shia. After Hajime and his party got out from the town of Brook (with Yue and Shia’s fans seeing them off), using the magic-driven two-wheeler, they passed through the entrance of “Raisen Grand Canyon”. Currently, after advancing further and camping along the way, they had already passed through the cave concealing the path to “Orcus Great Dungeon”, furthermore two days had passed since then. Inside “Raisen Grand Canyon”, the demonic beasts kept attacking them just as usual. Shia’s Sledgehammer, swung with immense force smashed demonic beasts, it was literally a one hit certain kill. The demonic beasts were crushed to death with a normal attack that far exceed their defense. Even the mochi pounding moon rabbit’s destructive power paled in comparison to this. Yue closed in on the demonic beasts, then slaughtered them with magic that she instantly invoked with magical power from her equipment. Although Yue herself has enormous magical power, equipped with magical power stored inside the accessories called magic crystallization stone series, it became even more enormous. Her attack could be compared to endless bombing. Even if magical power was disintegrated in the ravine, thus the time to invoke magic became longer and the distance became shorter, she invoked ultra high temperature flames in no time and demonic beasts were killed while being carbonized without exception. Hajime, needless to say, was sniping the heads with Donner while driving the magic-driven two-wheeler. Although it was consuming his magic to use “Lightning-clad” and driving the magic-driven two-wheeler at the same time, there is no sign of magic depletion. The hell beasts that dominate the ravine were completely treated as small fish. The annihilation was treated as a side job while they searched for a sign of the Great Dungeon. The demonic beasts’ corpses overflowed on their way. “Haa~, even though it should be somewhere inside the Raisen, it was too vast after all” They moved while examining if there were caves. Even though they made thorough observations, not even one was found. Hajime could only inadvertently complain. “Well, because no matter what happens we’ll reach the Big Volcanic Mountain, it’s okay to not find it at all. There might be some clues in the Big Volcanic Mountain after all” “Well, even if that’s so...” “Nn... ... but, those demonic beasts made it gloomy” “A~, Yue-san also dislikes this place~” While complaining and being disgusted by the demonic beasts that keep coming, they had kept traveling for three days. There are no results today and the dark had already set in. The beautiful shine of the crescent moon could be seen if you looked up, therefore Hajime and his party started to prepare their camp. After taking out the tent, they prepared dinner with ingredients and seasoning bought in the town. The tent and cooking utensils were artifacts Hajime made. The tent was created using Creation magic, with “heating stone” and “cooling stone” installed, it’s always kept at a comfortable temperature. It’s also equipped with “refrigerator” and “freezer” made with cooling stone. Furthermore, the metal frame was imbued with “sign interception” from the “mind-severing stone” so that it wouldn’t be found easily by enemies. For cooking utensils, there was a frying pan and kettle with an adjustable flame that was proportionate with the amount of magic used, and a kitchen knife endowed with “wind claw” in its sharp edge that could be activated by pouring in magic. There was also a steam cleaner-like thing. They were Hajime’s beloved children that help provide the meals on their travel. Moreover, because it could only be used using direct magic manipulation, it could be said that there was a crime prevention system. “Age of gods magic is truly a convenient one” Those were the words that Hajime said when he made the cooking utensil artifacts and the tent installed with a heating and cooling system. It’s just like a useless technology, that wasn’t that useless, that he uselessly refined. By the way, today’s dinner was kururu chicken simmered in tomato. Kururu chicken was a chicken that was capable of flying in the sky. Its meat’s quality and taste was just like chicken, a popular type of chicken meat of this world. It was a dish where the meat was cut into bite size pieces and floured. after that it was sautéd, then boiled along with various vegetables in a tomato soup. It has the right flavor of butter and meat juice inside the meat, you could feel the tomato’s sourness permeate in your nose when you smell it, when you put it into your mouth, the flavors will spread through. The meat will ‘horohoro’, crumble inside your mouth, ‘hokuhoku’ the potato(fake) that’s completely soaked inside the tomato soup, while carrot(fake)’s and onion(fake)’s sweetness transmitted to your tongue. To have bread melt and soften after dipping it inside the delicious soup truly made it more delicious. Dinner was finished with full satisfaction. and while immersed in the lingering taste, Hajime and his party chatted just like they always do. Inside the tent, they could leisurely chat because the mind-severing stone was activate, which made it so that demonic beasts do not approach them. Although sometimes there were demonic beasts that came near, Hajime only needed to stick his hand out the window that installed, and shoot it. Moreover, when time for sleep, the three rotated the lookout duty until morning came. Today, it was about time for Yue and Shia to start preparing to sleep. The first on look out was Hajime. Because there were fluffy futons inside the tent, they could sleep comfortably despite it being a camp. Also, Shia went outside the tent before getting into the futon. To Hajime who was dubious of what happened, Shia said with a calm face. “For a while, I wanted to pick flowers” “There are no flowers inside the ravine, you know?” “Ha-ji-me-sa~n!” Hajime’s words that lacked delicacy destroyed Shia’s calm face, she angrily stared at him. Hajime who obviously knew what those words meant said, “My bad my bad”, with a wryly smiling face that didn’t show any remorse. Shia hurriedly went to the tent’s side in anger, after a while... “Ha-Hajime-sa~n! Yue-sa~n! It’s an emergency! Please come he~re!” Was what Shia shouted out, forgetting the possibility of demonic beasts hearing it. Wondering what happened, Hajime and Yue, who came from the tent, looked at each other then dashed out at the same time. When they arrived at the origin of Shia’s voice, they saw that there was a huge monolith that leaned on the ravine’s wall after it fell, and a space was revealed between the monolith and the wall. Shia was inside that space seeing something unbelievable! Being colored in excitement all the while. “Here, over here! I found it!” “I understand, for the time being get out of there. It looks like you used full body strengthening. Aren’t you too excited?” “... ... annoying” The frolicking Shia was pulled out by Hajime and Yue’s hands, when Hajime pulled her he got a feel, while Yue gloomily frowned because of that. Guided by Shia into the crevice between the rocks, when they entered the wall’s side had a hollow interior, and it was wider than expected. Having entered that space, Shia silently, with a proud expression ‘bishi’, pointed her finger at the wall. Hajime and Yue looked at the place pointed by that finger, then they inadvertently let out “Ha?”, while blinking their eyes in surprise. In front of the two, in that place, there was a splendid rectangular signboard that was made with cuts in the wall, and strangely woman-like characters were carved there. “Please come in! Into Miledi Raisen’s thrilling Great Dungeon♪” The mark “!” and “♪” felt strangely irritating. “... ... what is this” Hajime and Yue’s voice came out in succession. “I am seeing something unbelievable right now!”, were the exact presentations of their expressions. The two of them, blankly looked at the signboard inside the hellish ravine. “To ask what, it is the entrance! Great Dungeon’s! It was found by chance when I went to-... ...cough, to pick flowers. Well~, it was real, there is a Great Dungeon inside Raisen Grand Canyon” While Shia’s slaphappy voice resounded, maybe because Hajime and Yue was finally able to get out of their surprise, they wore indescribable expressions, then looked at each other in perplexion. “... ... Yue. Do you think it’s real?” “... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Nn” “That’s a long pause there. Your basis?” “Miledi”, it was the first name of Raisen that appeared on Oscar’s memorandum. Although the name Raisen was conveyed and known by the world, the first name was unknown. Therefore, the chance that a place with its name signed in was the Great Dungeon of Raisen is very high. But, no matter what, what they were honestly unable to believe was... “Why must it be this character...” There was a reason for saying that. Hajime was considering the desperate fights that happened inside the Orcus Great Dungeon, and surely the other dungeons would also be along that line, that’s why the lightheartedness of this made him lose his strength. Yue also understood well the severity of a Great Dungeon, that’s why, her expression said that she still thought maybe it was someone’s prank. “But, the entrance-like place couldn’t be seen, right? The interior was a dead end...” Not noticing what happened in Hajime and Yue’s minds, Shia thought, I wonder where the entrance is? And was looking around the surrounding, then she ‘peshipeshi’, hit the hollow part of the wall. “Oi, Shia. Don’t...” GAKONn! “Fukya!?” “Don’t carelessly move around,” were the words Hajime was unable to finish when part of the wall that Shia touched ‘GURUNn’, suddenly rotated, and Shia disappeared to the other side of the wall. It was like a door mechanism inside a ninja’s house. “”... ...”” The credibility of that signboard miraculously increased with the finding of the entrance of the Great Dungeon. The Great Dungeon of Raisen was here after all. Even though they had a mountain of complaints such as, “Is this really okay for a Great Dungeon?” and “Give me my seriousness from Orcus back”, something like that after seeing that amusement-like invitation. Hajime and Yue who saw Shia silently disappear behind the rotating door, once more, looked at each other then let out sighs, and put their hands onto the rotating door just like Shia. Having activated the door, Hajime and Yue were sent to the other side just like Shia. The inside was pitch black, and the door was ‘gururi’, rotated back to its former position. And, at that time, Hyu Hyu Hyu! Sounds of something coming flying at them resounded, while they couldn’t see anything inside the darkness. Hajime immediately used “Night Vision” and discovered what they were. They were arrows. Countless arrows painted jet black so as to not reflect light, and they came flying to remove any intruders that entered. Hajime, with Donner in his right hand, used his left hand to beat down those flying jet black arrows. ‘Kan Kan Kan’, the sound of metal knocking metal came out, without missing even one arrow. When counted, there were arrows. Jet black arrows made of metal and didn’t reflect any light scattered on the ground, when the last arrow was knocked down, silence returned. At the same time, the surrounding walls began to shine. The area Hajime and his party were in was a room with a length of meters in every direction, and straight ahead, a passage into the interior appeared. In addition, there was a lithograph inside the room with words with the same characters as the signboard carved on it. “Did you get scared? Hey, did this scare you? Then you’re a kid, Niya Niya” “Or, were you injured? Or did someone die? ... ... bufu—” “” ... ...”” Hajime and Yue couldn’t think of anything but one thing. That was “How annoying~”. Also, the “Niya Niya” and “bufu-” part that were carved with emphasis as if to provoke them, made them even more irritated. Especially, if someone in their party truly died, then surely the survivor would curse the heaven. Hajime and Yue were so irritated that many veins popped out on their heads. Then, suddenly, Yue muttered something she just remembered. “... ... Shia?” “Ah.” Having heard Yue’s mutter, Hajime finally remembered, then looked back at the rotating door in panic. Because the door only did one rotation at a time, for her to not be here means the possibility that she got out at the same time Hajime and Yue entered were high. It made him feel something unpleasant because even though a lot of time had passed she didn’t enter, so Hajime immediately activated the rotating door. Shia was... ... there as expected. Her form sewn on the rotating door. “Uu, sob, Hajime-san... ... please don’t look~, but, I want you to take these out. Hic, please do it without looking at me~” It truly was a pitiful appearance. Shia, although unable to see the arrows that came flying, she probably used her natural search ability to somehow manage to dodge them from the sound. However it seemed it was truly last second, with her clothes pierced here and there, she made a pictogram similar to those that were drawn on emergency exits. Her rabbit ears bent into something similar to a lightning bolt to avoid the arrows, because she knew that she had done something impossible, her body still twitched even now. Most of all, Shia didn’t cry out of fear of death. The cause was... ... her feet were magnificently wet. “Now that I remember, you are going to pick some flowers... ... well, what to say. You only did the necessary...” “Wrong! Uu~, just why didn’t you finish that, the past me~!!” It was an appearance that you’d never want to show as a woman, even more so for Shia who cried because she had shown it to the man she fell for. Her rabbit ears completely hung down. First of all, even if it was a chance to encounter love after years, Hajime thought it was already too late. That’s why, without looking away he stared at her in amazement. And, that hollowed Shia’s heart even more. “... ... Don’t move” Maybe because she was also a woman, Yue’s expressionlessness contained sympathy and she released Shia from the crucifixion. “... ... I’ll do something about it. You’re still a novice” “I am ashamed~. Sob” “... ... Hajime, change of clothes” “Here” Shia’s change of clothes were pulled out from the “Treasure Box”, then she did a quick change while blushing. Finally, Shia’s preparations are finished, “It’s time to conquer the Dungeon!”, was the enthusiastic shout that she let out, only to notice the lithograph. She looked down and her hair concealed her expression. Shia was silent for a while, then she slowly took out Doryukken, and struck the lithograph with all of her might. ‘Gogya’, was the sound that resounded accompanied with the destruction of the lithograph. Maybe because she was unable to endure it anymore, she magnificently swung Doryukken many many times as if attacking the enemy of her parents. Then, in the place of the broken lithograph, characters were carved on the ground, it said... “Sorr~y♪ This lithograph will automatically be repaired after some time~ Pu-kusukusu!!” “Mukii— —!!” Shia was truly enraged and started to swing Doryukken more intensely. The small room was shaken as if a small earthquake happened, the sound of extraordinary impacts were resounding many times. Watching Shia with a skeptical gaze, Hajime frankly muttered. “Miledi Raisen, rather than a member of the “Liberators,” she is unquestionably the enemy of humanity” “... ... I absolutely agree on that” Apparently, the Great Dungeon of Raisen would be a difficult place in a different way than the Orcus Great Dungeon.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 6, "inserted_lines_trg": 4 }
これらは全て、国際化をうまく進めるためには、主権の定義を改める必要があることを示唆している。国際化とは、ひと、アイディア、温暖効果ガス、もの、ドル、麻薬、ウイルス、Eメール、武器、その他諸々の流通（国境の内で、そして国境を越えて）の容量、速度、そして重要性の高まりを必然的に伴い、主権の基本原理の一つである、国境を越えて両方向に運ばれるものを管理する能力を問う。主権国家は国家同士ではなく、彼らの管理の及ばない動力に対する弱さを次第に認識している。	At its core, globalization entails the increasing volume, velocity, and importance of flows – within and across borders – of people, ideas, greenhouse gases, goods, dollars, drugs, viruses, emails, weapons, and a good deal else, challenging one of sovereignty’s fundamental principles: the ability to control what crosses borders in either direction. Sovereign states increasingly measure their vulnerability not to one another, but to forces beyond their control.	{ "source": "news_commentary", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
異質なものに対して好奇心旺盛大人が恐怖心を植えつけたり失礼がないようにと子供の好奇心を押さえ込んだり質問を遮ったりするから子供は異質なものを恐れてしまう実際先生がはしゃぐ子供たちに言ったわ「間違ってもエミーさんの足を」「じろじろ見ないこと」でも大切なのはそこ義足に触れてもらうのが目的そこで私は先生にこう持ちかけた「2分間だけ子供たちと話がしたい」「大人抜きで」扉が開き、子供たちは義足に群がったつついたり、つま先を動かしたり短距離走用の義足に全体重をかけてみたり私は尋ねた「今朝ふと思ったの」「家を跳び越えてみたいって」「2、3階建ての家よ」「動物、スーパーヒーロー、アニメキャラ」「何でもいいの」「どんな足なら跳べるかしら」「カンガルー!」と誰かが叫んだ「だめだめ!カエル!」「ガジェット警部がいいよ!」「ちがうよ!Mr.インクレディブルだよ!」私が聞いたことのないものまですると8才の子が「ねえ、空を飛びたいとは思わないの?」みんな口をそろえて言ったわ「もちろん!」しつけられた子供の目には障害者として映ったであろう私は今や未知の可能性を秘めた体の持ち主超人にだってなれるおもしろいでしょ私は11年前もこの場に立ちました TEDで人生が変わったという声を何度も耳にしますが、私もそのひとり TEDはその後の人生探求の出発点だったその時紹介したのが当時画期的とされた義足チーターの後肢をモデルに炭素繊維で作った短距離走用の義足ですそしてこの本物さながらのシリコンの足従来の医療の枠を越えて革新者を集め、科学と技術を駆使した義足作りを目指した形、機能、美の価値を別々に追求するのをやめるにはいいチャンス幸い多くの人が賛同してくれて TED参加者のチー・パールマンを知ったのもこの頃今日も会場にいるはずよチーは当時『ID』誌の編集者でトップ記事で私を紹介してくれたこれが大きなきっかけとなり心躍る出会いが次々と生まれたチーター義足のデザインについて世界中から講演依頼が殺到講演の後は男性も女性もみんな集まってきたそしてこんな風に言われるの「エミー、すごく魅力的だよ」「とても身体障害者に見えない」私だってそんな風に感じたことないわと心の中で思いながらだけどこの会話で、美しさには探求の余地があることを気づかされました美しい女性ってどんな姿? 魅力的な体って? アイデンティティという視点から障害を持つことにはどんな意味がある? パメラ・アンダーソンの体は人工的でも障害者とは呼ばれないでしょ『ID』の記事はグラフィックデザイナーのピーター・サヴィルからファッションデザイナーのアレキサンダー・マックイーンと写真家のニック・ナイトに渡った TEDの3ヶ月後、初のモデル撮影をロンドンで行いましたそれがこの表紙見出しは「ファッション化?」 3ヶ月後にはマックイーンのショーでモデルを務めトネリコ製の手彫りの義足を履いたら観客は木のブーツだと勘違いこれが実物ですブドウのつるとモクレンの見事な美詩も大切よ詩は平凡でなおざりになったものを芸術に変える詩は人々が恐れていたものを興味深くしもう少しだけ見てみたい理解したいものに変えるマシュー・バーニーの「クレマスター・サイクル」が私にそのことを教えてくれた私の義足は履く彫刻なのだと心から痛感したそのとき私は人間らしさの復元だけに美の理想を見出す視点から解放されつつありました「ガラスの脚」として親しまれた義足は実はボーリング玉の素材と同じ透明なポリウレタン製重いのよ! これは土の中で鋳造した義足ジャガイモとテンサイが根を張ってるわつま先は真ちゅうこれが拡大画像次は上半身が女性、下半身がチーターアスリート人生への感謝の印特殊メイクに14時間かけ本格的な足や爪としなやかな尻尾を持つ生き物になりきりましたヤモリみたいにもう一つ共同制作したのがこちらクラゲの足のようこれもポリウレタンです映画以外でのこの足の使い道は感覚に訴え想像力を刺激すること奇抜さも大事よ私は義足を12足以上持ってます多くの人が手がけそれぞれが違った感覚を足もとに与えてくれる身長だって変えられる私の身長は5種類今日は185cm 1年前、英国ドーセット州の整形外科で作ってもらったものをマンハッタンに持ち帰りパーティーに行った時のこと普段173cmの私を知る長年の友人が私を見てビックリ「すごい背が高いじゃない!」私はすかさず「ねぇ!面白いでしょ?」竹馬に竹馬で乗る感覚よ想定外だったのはドア枠に頭を打ってしまうことそれすらも楽しかったしかも友人が言うの「でも、エミーそんなのずるいわ」 (拍手) ウソみたいだけど友人は本気だった自由に身長を変えられるなんてずるいでしょその瞬間―― 社会の反応がこの10年で大きく変わったと実感したもはやハンディは克服するものではなくプラスに増幅していくもの社会は可能性に溢れている義肢はもはや失ったものを補うのではない新たに生まれた空間に装着者が自由な創作を実現する力の象徴身体障害者とされてきた人々は今や自分の個性を演出できるんです自分が秘めた可能性を信じ身体をデザインすることにより新たな個性を生み出し続ける今、私が心待ちにしているのがロボットやバイオニクスなどの最先端技術と昔からある詩を組み合わせることで私たちが人類全体の人間らしさを理解し始めていること私たちが持つ人間らしさに最大の可能性を見出したければ誰もが持っているすばらしい長所や偉大な欠陥を褒め称える必要があります『ヴェニスの商人』でシャイロックが言ってるでしょ「針で刺せば血が出る」「くすぐられれば笑いもする」それが私たちの人間らしさでありそこに潜むすべての可能性が私たちを美しくするのですありがとうございました	And, from my experience, you know, kids are naturally curious about what they don't know, or don't understand, or is foreign to them. They only learn to be frightened of those differences when an adult influences them to behave that way, and maybe censors that natural curiosity, or you know, reins in the question-asking in the hopes of them being polite little kids. don't stare at her legs." But, of course, that's the point. That's why I was there, I wanted to invite them to look and explore. So I made a deal with the adults that the kids could come in without any adults for two minutes on their own. The doors open, the kids descend on this table of legs, and they are poking and prodding, and they're wiggling toes, and they're trying to put their full weight on the sprinting leg to see what happens with that. And I said, "Kids, really quickly -- I woke up this morning, I decided I wanted to be able to jump over a house -- nothing too big, two or three stories -- but, if you could think of any animal, any superhero, any cartoon character, anything you can dream up right now, what kind of legs would you build me?" And immediately a voice shouted, "Kangaroo!" "No, no, no! Should be a frog!" "No. It should be Go Go Gadget!" "No, no, no! It should be the Incredibles." And other things that I don't -- aren't familiar with. And then, one eight-year-old said, "Hey, why wouldn't you want to fly too?" And the whole room, including me, was like, "Yeah." And just like that, I went from being a woman that these kids would have been trained to see as "disabled" to somebody that had potential that their bodies didn't have yet. Somebody that might even be super-abled. Interesting. So some of you actually saw me at TED, 11 years ago. And there's been a lot of talk about how life-changing this conference is for both speakers and attendees, and I am no exception. TED literally was the launch pad to the next decade of my life's exploration. At the time, the legs I presented were groundbreaking in prosthetics. I had woven carbon fiber sprinting legs modeled after the hind leg of a cheetah, And also these very life-like, intrinsically painted silicone legs. to innovators outside the traditional medical prosthetic community to come bring their talent to the science and to the art of building legs. So that we can stop compartmentalizing form, function and aesthetic, and assigning them different values. Well, lucky for me, a lot of people answered that call. And the journey started, funny enough, with a TED conference attendee -- Chee Pearlman, who hopefully is in the audience somewhere today. She was the editor then of a magazine called ID, and she gave me a cover story. Curious encounters were happening to me at the time; I'd been accepting numerous invitations to speak on the design of the cheetah legs around the world. And people would come up to me after the conference, after my talk, men and women. And the conversation would go something like this, "You know Aimee, you're very attractive. You don't look disabled." I thought, "Well, that's amazing, because I don't feel disabled." And it really opened my eyes to this conversation that could be explored, about beauty. What does a beautiful woman have to look like? What is a sexy body? And interestingly, from an identity standpoint, what does it mean to have a disability? I mean, people -- Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled. So this magazine, through the hands of graphic designer Peter Saville, went to fashion designer Alexander McQueen, and photographer Nick Knight, who were also interested in exploring that conversation. So, three months after TED I found myself on a plane to London, doing my first fashion shoot, which resulted in this cover -- "Fashion-able"? Three months after that, I did my first runway show for Alexander McQueen on a pair of hand-carved wooden legs made from solid ash. Nobody knew -- everyone thought they were wooden boots. Actually, I have them on stage with me: grapevines, magnolias -- truly stunning. Poetry matters. Poetry is what elevates the banal and neglected object to a realm of art. It can transform the thing that might have made people fearful into something that invites them to look, and look a little longer, and maybe even understand. The artist Matthew Barney, in his film opus called the "The Cremaster Cycle." This is where it really hit home for me -- that my legs could be wearable sculpture. And even at this point, I started to move away from the need to replicate human-ness as the only aesthetic ideal. So we made what people lovingly referred to as glass legs even though they're actually optically clear polyurethane, a.k.a. bowling ball material. Heavy! Then we made these legs that are cast in soil with a potato root system growing in them, and beetroots out the top, and a very lovely brass toe. That's a good close-up of that one. Then another character was a half-woman, half-cheetah -- a little homage to my life as an athlete. 14 hours of prosthetic make-up to get into a creature that had articulated paws, claws and a tail that whipped around, like a gecko. And then another pair of legs we collaborated on were these -- look like jellyfish legs, also polyurethane. And the only purpose that these legs can serve, outside the context of the film, is to provoke the senses and ignite the imagination. So whimsy matters. Today, I have over a dozen pair of prosthetic legs that various people have made for me, and with them I have different negotiations of the terrain under my feet, and I can change my height -- I have a variable of five different heights. Today, I'm 6'1". And I had these legs made a little over a year ago and when I brought them home to Manhattan, my first night out on the town, I went to a very fancy party. And a girl was there who has known me for years at my normal 5'8". Her mouth dropped open when she saw me, and she went, "But you're so tall!" And I said, "I know. Isn't it fun?" I mean, it's a little bit like wearing stilts on stilts, but I have an entirely new relationship to door jams that I never expected I would ever have. And I was having fun with it. And she looked at me, and she said, "But, Aimee, that's not fair." And the incredible thing was she really meant it. It's not fair that you can change your height, as you want it. And that's when I knew -- that's when I knew that the conversation with society has changed profoundly in this last decade. It is no longer a conversation about overcoming deficiency. It's a conversation about augmentation. It's a conversation about potential. A prosthetic limb doesn't represent the need to replace loss anymore. It can stand as a symbol that the wearer has the power to create whatever it is that they want to create in that space. So people that society once considered to be disabled can now become the architects of their own identities and indeed continue to change those identities by designing their bodies from a place of empowerment. And what is exciting to me so much right now is that by combining cutting-edge technology -- robotics, bionics -- with the age-old poetry, we are moving closer to understanding our collective humanity. I think that if we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities that we all have. I think of Shakespeare's Shylock: "If you prick us, do we not bleed, and if you tickle us, do we not laugh?" It is our humanity, and all the potential within it, that makes us beautiful. Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
これを聞いてもらいましょう TEDトークから作った曲ですこの曲はスローな方がクールなのでスローダウンしますおはようございますご機嫌いかがですか? (マーク・アップルバウム)では— (ケイト・ストーン)—音をミックスしますストーリーを語るようにね (トッド・マッコーバー)誰もまだ聞いた事が無いような (ストーン)クロスフェーダーです (ジュリアン・トレジャー)これはミキサー (ストーン)DJデッキが2台あります (クリス・アンダーソン)ダイアルを回すとホイールが回転し始めずっと音楽を愛してきましたメロディかリズム感覚か姿勢か? (ダニエル・ウォルパート)体の中で起こっている事全てを感じています (アダム・オッケルフォード)脳内にはこの素晴らしい音楽のコンピューターがあるコンピューターやシンセサイザーを使った作品は今も進化を続ける言語なのですそして21世紀ラジオを付けてディスコへ行こうこの人が何をしているか分かるでしょう— 音楽に合わせて踊っています (マーク・ロンソン)これはお気に入りのパートですドアストップそれが重要なんです (マッコーバー)私達は皆音楽を愛してる国歌流行のダンスバラードそして行進曲 (カービー・ファーガソン & JT)リミックスは古い音楽から生まれる新しい音楽継ぎ目なく混ざり合いそんな感じ音楽が止んだらどうなる? (ストーン)イェーイ! (拍手) 見ての通り TEDトークをたくさん観ました TEDへの出演を依頼された時最初どういう視点で話すか分からずすぐにTEDトークを山ほど見始めましたよそんなことをするのは実は全く最悪でだんだんパニック状態になって「北極探検にもまだ成功していない」とか「発明の才能を発揮して自分の村に電気を供給できてもいないのに」とか考えてました実際僕は人生のほとんどをクラブで DJをして過ごしてきたのでポップレコードを作ったりねでもマゾヒストなのでビデオを見続けて次第にマイケル・ティルソン=トマスやトッド・マッコーバーが直感的な情熱で音楽を語る姿をみたら確実に自分の中で何かを感じたんです音楽の力を熱く語る人は誰でも簡単に信じちゃうんでそれで小さなカードに何かピンと響く事を聞く度に書き留め音楽に引っ掛けてみましたそれか何か使えそうな事とか直ぐにスタジオはこんな感じになり— ジョン・ナッシュの『ビューティフル・マンド』っぽいですね TEDトークを観て良いことは凄くいいトークを観た時急にそのスピーカーが一日だけでも親友だったらいいのにと思いませんか? 皆凄く良い人に見えるんですよね一緒に自転車で遠出したりアイスクリームを分け合ったりいろいろ学ぶでしょうねそれで時々彼らは僕が専門的な内容の半分も分かっていないことにイラついて小言を言ったりねでも僕がただの普通のIQの人間で大学すら出ていないと分かっているので許してくれるんですねそれで犬みたいによしよしと撫でてくれるいや現実の世界では多分サー・ケン・ロビンソンと僕が親友になる事なんてないでしょうね彼はロスに住んでいてかなり忙しいだろうしでも僕の手に入るツールつまりテクノロジーや自分に備わっている作曲へのアプローチを通してそれぞれの存在をこの共有体験に押し込めてしまえるんです先程観ていただいた感じですねメディアから何かすごく気に入ったものを拾って取り入れて自分をそのナラティブ(物語)に入れ込んだり更に変えてしまったりするんです要するにそれがこうした音楽で僕がやろうとして来たことです更に— 過去30年音楽はそういうことだったそれが本題なんです 30年前最初のデジタル・サンプラーが現れ一晩で全てを変えました突然アーティストたちは過去のあらゆるものをサンプリング出来るようになりスネアドラムやファンキー・ミーターズから— ロン・カーターのベースまで— クイズ番組『ザ・プライス・イズ・ライト』のテーマ曲ですデ・ラ・ソウルの『3フィート・ハイ・アンド・ライジング』やビースティ・ボーイズの『Paul's Boutique』といったアルバムも過去のレコード音楽から音を拾い当時の『サージェント・ペパーズ(ビートルズのヒット作)』ともいえる傑作を重ねた音楽を作りました彼らは自分の曲を作れない程怠惰だったからサンプリングをしたのではなくオリジナルの耳慣れた音が売れる為に利用しようとサンプリングしたのでもなく本当はサンプリングというのははっきりしない音を拾う事でした皆さんも知っているヴァニラ・アイスの「ドゥドゥドゥ・ドゥドゥ・ドゥドゥ」みたいないくつかの有名な例外を除いてですがとにかく皆がレコードをサンプリングしたのはその音楽に何か響く物を感じたからで聞いたらその音楽のナラティブに自分を入れ込みたくなったからなんです音楽を聞いてその一部になりたくてそして突然それを可能にするテクノロジーが手に入ってしまった例えばデルタ・ブルースがストーンズやビートルズやクラプトンを魅了して彼らがその時代の楽器でその音を取り込まずにはいられなかったように音楽では私達は愛する旋律や音を見つけそれを更に発展させていくんです少しこれを聞いて下さいこれが『ラ・ディ・ダ・ディ』で史上5番目に多くサンプリングされた曲ですこれまでに547回サンプリングされましたこの曲は1984年にこのヒップホップの伝説的存在の2人スリック・リックとダグ・E・フレッシュによって作られましたレイバンとジェリーカールが強烈ですねまた流行って欲しいですねとにかくこれはサンプリングの時代が訪れる前でしたこのレコードはサンプリング無しです昨夜ネットで調べたらいや数ヶ月前調べたらこの『ラ・ディ・ダ・ディ』は 19世紀後半のイギリスの古いコックニー (ロンドンの下町言葉)の表現なので『ダウントン・アビー』シリーズに登場するパットモア夫人とのリミックスももうすぐ出て来るかも知れませんいつかねダグ・E・フレッシュは人間ビートボックスでしたレコードの声はスリック・リックですスリック・リックのメロディにのったキャッチーなボーカルが終わりのない絶好のサウンドバイトやサンプリング源を次世代のポップ・レコードに与えました 1984年のことですこれは1984年の僕です僕がどんな風に過ごしていたか聞いてくれてありがとう昔の写真でツイッターの投稿みたいですよね僕はデュラン・デュランの音楽にどっぷりはまっていました服装からも分かるでしょう真ん中です曲の中に自分をなんとかして存在させるための自分が知っていた最もシンプルな方法は自分が知っていた最もシンプルな方法は 9才の友達をバンドに誘って学校の発表会で『ワイルド・ボーイズ』を演奏することでした長い話を端折るとブーイングされてステージから追い払われましたもし人生で一度体育館で 2〜3年生達に野次られながら逃げ出すという体験が出来れば絶対にお勧めしますよ楽しく無いのでそんなことはどうでも良かったんです自分はただなんとかしてあの曲の歴史の中に 1分でも存在したくて誰が曲を気に入ろうが関係なくただあの曲が好きで自分がその中に入ってしまおうと思ったんですそれから10年間『ラ・ディ・ダ・ディ』は数えきれないレコードにサンプルされ続け『ヒア・カムズ・ザ・ホット・ステッパー』や『アイ・ワナ・セックス・ユー・アップ』といったメガヒットにも登場しますスヌープ・ドギー・ドッグがデビューアルバム『ドギー・スタイル』でカバーし『ロディ・ドディ』と呼びました著作権弁護士たちは大いに飛び回っていましたよそして1997年に早送りすると— ノートリアス・B.I.G. 別名ビギーが『ラ・ディ・ダ・ディ』に新たな解釈を加え No.1ヒット曲『ヒプノタイズ』を出しました少しこれを再生しますその後にスリック・リックも流してサンプリング部分を聞いてもらいましょう (音楽『ヒプノタイズ』by ノートリアス・B.I.G.) ビギーがこの曲が No.1ヒットになる一週間前に殺されたのはヒップホップ時代を代表する悲劇ですが『ラ・ディ・ダ・ディ』が最初に出た時ブルックリンに住んでいた元気いっぱいの13才の男の子だった彼にはその曲と楽しい思い出が重なっていたに違いないと思いますお分かりのように彼の解釈は完全に彼独特のものですひっくり返して作り直し模倣の寄せ集めのようなところは全くありません『モダン・ビギー』です (『モダン・ミリー』をもじって) この会場でこのジョークを言わずにはいられなかったんです皆さんにならウケると思ったのででもスベりましたねポップやラップの世界はサンプリングに取り憑かれ過ぎたようです曖昧な音のサンプリングから離れて突然皆がボウイの『レッツ・ダンス』のような 80年代のメガヒットやディスコレコードにラップを乗せるようになりましたこのようなレコードは長続きしませんもう最近は耳にする事もありませんそういう曲は当時の雰囲気に浸りきった時代からのただの借り物だからですノスタルジックな曲の数々を丸ごと拝借してしまうのはいけませんリスナーは気分が悪くなってしまうんでそういう曲からある要素を選んで新しくて新鮮なものを加える事は僕が以前に一緒に仕事をした素晴らしい— エイミー・ワインハウスの作品『バック・トゥ・ブラック』での仕事で学びましたこのアルバムのサウンドについて— 僕とサラーム・レミや他のプロデューサーが長らく失われていた音を実現した事は話題になりましたでもとても21世紀らしいパーソナリティのエイミー・ワインハウスのような火付け役彼女の更生施設やロジャー・ムーアについての歌詞スリック・リックへの言及とかこうした全てが無ければ全部が模倣になってしまう危険があった訳です例えば当時の歌手がこの曲を古い歌詞に乗せて歌う姿を想像してください全部がつまらなくなってしまうでしょうこの音楽のアレンジを聞けばエイミーと僕そしてサラームが皆ゴスペル、ソウル&ブルースそしてジャズを愛していたのは明らかでしょうエイミーが曲に現代の私達にうったえる重要な要素を加えました時が経ち現代になると文化的偉業を遂げたマイリー・サイラスが『ラ・ディ・ダ・ディ』を全く新しく彼女の世代に向けて解釈し直しますスリック・リックをまず聞いて彼女がどう変化させたかを見てみましょう (音楽『ウィ・キャント・ストップ』 by マイリー・サイラス) マイリー・サイラスは『ラ・ディ・ダ・ディ』が出来た頃生まれてさえいませんでした共同作曲者も誰一人として生まれていなかったんですでもポップスの共同の意識の中にその存在を刻み込んだこの曲を発掘してタイムレスなオリジナルの遊び心が全く新しい世代に解釈されて彼らの物として取り入れられて行くでしょうサンプリングの時代の幕開けによってサンプルを含む音楽の正当性について終わり無き議論が起こりましたグラミー賞選考委員会によると対象となる曲が他の曲から借りた音楽を含んでいるとその年の最優秀楽曲賞には選ばれませんロッキストたちはロックミュージック至上主義の差別主義者ですがいつも彼らの理論を— ロッキストって本当にある言葉なんですよ— いつもラップやモダン・ポップ音楽を蔑むための持論を利用していますがこうした彼らの理論は完全に的外れですなぜならダムは決壊してしまって私達はポストサンプリング時代にいるからです私達は好きな音楽を手に取りそれを加工し発展させて行きますそういうものなんですそして本当に重要かつオリジナルなものを加え自分の音楽の旅をこれと融合出来れば私達が愛する音楽の進化の歴史の一部になりその曲が再び新しい音楽になることでその曲と繋がることができるそんな可能性を手に入れるのですもう一曲聞いて頂きたいと思います今夜の為に作りました今までに見た中で特にインスパイアされた 2つのTEDトークから出来ていますピアニストのデレク・パラヴィチーニ盲目で自閉症のピアノの天才そしてエマニュエル・ジャル南スーダンの少年兵だった彼はスポークン・ワードの詩人でラッパーですそれで再び僕はウザくもこれらの音楽の歴史の中に自分を存在させる方法を見つけましたでも止められないんです音楽を愛しているからいじって絡みたいのですだから皆さんにこれを贈ります TEDの音楽をもう一度聞いてみましょうどうもありがとうございました	So what I'm going to do is play this. This is the song from the TED Talks online. And I'm going to slow it down because things sound cooler when they're slower. Ken Robinson: Good morning. How are you? Mark Applebaum: I'm going to -- Kate Stone: -- mix some music. MA: I'm going to do so in a way that tells a story. Tod Machover: Something nobody's ever heard before. KS: I have a crossfader. Julian Treasure: I call this the mixer. KS: Two D.J. decks. Chris Anderson: You turn up the dials, the wheel starts to turn. Dan Ellsey: I have always loved music. Michael Tilson Thomas: Is it a melody or a rhythm or a mood or an attitude? Daniel Wolpert: Feeling everything that's going on inside my body. Adam Ockelford: In your brain is this amazing musical computer. MTT: Using computers and synthesizers to create works. It's a language that's still evolving. And the 21st century. KR: Turn on the radio. Pop into the discotheque. You will know what this person is doing: moving to the music. Mark Ronson: This is my favorite part. MA: You gotta have doorstops. That's important. TM: We all love music a great deal. MTT: Anthems, dance crazes, ballads and marches. Kirby Ferguson and JT: The remix: It is new music created from old music. Ryan Holladay: Blend seamlessly. Kathryn Schulz: And that's how it goes. MTT: What happens when the music stops? KS: Yay! MR: Obviously, I've been watching a lot of TED Talks. When I was first asked to speak at TED, I wasn't quite sure what my angle was, at first, so yeah, I immediately started watching tons of TED Talks, which is pretty much absolutely the worst thing that you can do because you start to go into panic mode, thinking, I haven't mounted a successful expedition to the North Pole yet. to my village through sheer ingenuity. In fact, I've pretty much wasted most of my life DJing in night clubs and producing pop records. But I still kept watching the videos, because I'm a masochist, and eventually, things like Michael Tilson Thomas and Tod Machover, and seeing their visceral passion talking about music, it definitely stirred something in me, and I'm a sucker for anyone talking devotedly about the power of music. And I started to write down on these little note cards every time I heard something that struck a chord in me, pardon the pun, or something that I thought I could use, and pretty soon, my studio looked like this, kind of like a John Nash, "Beautiful Mind" vibe. The other good thing about watching TED Talks, when you see a really good one, you kind of all of a sudden wish the speaker was your best friend, don't you? Like, just for a day. They seem like a nice person. You'd take a bike ride, maybe share an ice cream. You'd certainly learn a lot. when they got frustrated that you couldn't really keep up with half of the technical things they're banging on about all the time. But then they'd remember that you're but a mere human of ordinary, mortal intelligence that didn't finish university, and they'd kind of forgive you, and pet you like the dog. Man, yeah, back to the real world, probably Sir Ken Robinson and I are not going to end up being best of friends. He lives all the way in L.A. and I imagine is quite busy, but through the tools available to me -- technology and the innate way that I approach making music -- I can sort of bully our existences into a shared event, which is sort of what you saw. I can hear something that I love in a piece of media and I can co-opt it and insert myself in that narrative, or alter it, even. In a nutshell, that's what I was trying to do with these things, but more importantly, that's what the past 30 years of music has been. That's the major thread. See, 30 years ago, you had the first digital samplers, and they changed everything overnight. All of a sudden, artists could sample from anything and everything that came before them, from a snare drum from the Funky Meters, to a Ron Carter bassline, the theme to "The Price Is Right." Albums like De La Soul's "3 Feet High and Rising" and the Beastie Boys' "Paul's Boutique" looted from decades of recorded music to create these sonic, layered masterpieces that were basically the Sgt. Peppers of their day. And they weren't sampling these records because they were too lazy to write their own music. They weren't sampling these records to cash in on the familiarity of the original stuff. To be honest, it was all about sampling really obscure things, except for a few obvious exceptions like Vanilla Ice and "doo doo doo da da doo doo" that we know about. But the thing is, they were sampling those records because they heard something in that music that spoke to them that they instantly wanted to inject themselves into the narrative of that music. They heard it, they wanted to be a part of it, and all of a sudden they found themselves in possession of the technology to do so, not much unlike the way the Delta blues struck a chord with the Stones and the Beatles and Clapton, and they felt the need to co-opt that music for the tools of their day. You know, in music we take something that we love and we build on it. I'd like to play a song for you. That's "La Di Da Di" and it's the fifth-most sampled song of all time. It's been sampled 547 times. It was made in 1984 by these two legends of hip-hop, Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh, and the Ray-Ban and Jheri curl look is so strong. I do hope that comes back soon. Anyway, this predated the sampling era. There were no samples in this record, although I did look up on the Internet last night, I mean several months ago, that "La Di Da Di" means, it's an old Cockney expression from the late 1800s in England, so maybe a remix with Mrs. Patmore from "Downton Abbey" coming soon, or that's for another day. Doug E. Fresh was the human beat box. Slick Rick is the voice you hear on the record, and because of Slick Rick's sing-songy, super-catchy vocals, it provides endless sound bites and samples for future pop records. That was 1984. This is me in 1984, in case you were wondering how I was doing, thank you for asking. It's Throwback Thursday already. I was involved in a heavy love affair with the music of Duran Duran, as you can probably tell from my outfit. I was in the middle. And the simplest way that I knew how to co-opt myself into that experience of wanting to be in that song somehow was to just get a band together of fellow nine-year-olds and play "Wild Boys" at the school talent show. So that's what we did, and long story short, we were booed off the stage, and if you ever have a chance to live your life escaping hearing the sound of an auditorium full of second- and third-graders booing, I would highly recommend it. It's not really fun. But it didn't really matter, because what I wanted somehow was to just be in the history of that song for a minute. I didn't care who liked it. I just loved it, and I thought I could put myself in there. Over the next 10 years, "La Di Da Di" continues to be sampled by countless records, ending up on massive hits like "Here Comes the Hotstepper" and "I Wanna Sex You Up." Snoop Doggy Dogg covers this song on his debut album "Doggystyle" and calls it "Lodi Dodi." Copyright lawyers are having a field day at this point. And then you fast forward to 1997, and the Notorious B.I.G., or Biggie, reinterprets "La Di Da Di" on his number one hit called "Hypnotize," which I will play a little bit of and I will play you a little bit of the Slick Rick to show you where they got it from. So Biggie was killed weeks before that song made it to number one, in one of the great tragedies of the hip-hop era, and very much alive when "La Di Da Di" first came out, and as a young boy growing up in Brooklyn, it's hard not to think that that song probably held some fond memories for him. But the way he interpreted it, as you hear, is completely his own. He flips it, makes it, there's nothing pastiche whatsoever about it. It's thoroughly modern Biggie. I had to make that joke in this room, because you would be the only people that I'd ever have a chance of getting it. And so, it's a groaner. Elsewhere in the pop and rap world, we're going a little bit sample-crazy. We're getting away from the obscure samples that we were doing, and all of a sudden everyone's taking these massive '80s tunes like Bowie, "Let's Dance," and all these disco records, and just rapping on them. These records don't really age that well. You don't hear them now, because they borrowed from an era that was too steeped in its own connotation. You can't just hijack nostalgia wholesale. It leaves the listener feeling sickly. You have to take an element of those things and then bring something fresh and new to it, which was something that I learned when I was working with the late, amazing Amy Winehouse on her album "Back to Black." A lot of fuss was made about the sonic of the album that myself and Salaam Remi, the other producer, achieved, how we captured this long-lost sound, but without the very, very 21st-century personality and firebrand that was Amy Winehouse and her lyrics about rehab and Roger Moore and even a mention of Slick Rick, the whole thing would have run the risk of being very pastiche, to be honest. Imagine any other singer from that era over it singing the same old lyrics. It runs a risk of being completely bland. I mean, there was no doubt that Amy and I and Salaam all had this love for this gospel, soul and blues and jazz that was evident listening to the musical arrangements. She brought the ingredients that made it urgent and of the time. So if we come all the way up to the present day now, the cultural tour de force that is Miley Cyrus, she reinterprets "La Di Da Di" completely for her generation, and we'll take a listen to the Slick Rick part and then see how she sort of flipped it. So Miley Cyrus, who wasn't even born yet when "La Di Da Di" was made, and neither were any of the co-writers on the song, has found this song that somehow etched its way into the collective consciousness of pop music, and now, with its timeless playfulness of the original, has kind of translated to a whole new generation who will probably co-opt it as their own. Since the dawn of the sampling era, about the validity of music that contains samples. You know, the Grammy committee says that if your song contains some kind of pre-written or pre-existing music, you're ineligible for song of the year. Rockists, who are racist but only about rock music, constantly use the argument to — That's a real word. That is a real word. They constantly use the argument to devalue rap and modern pop, and these arguments completely miss the point, because the dam has burst. We live in the post-sampling era. We take the things that we love and we build on them. That's just how it goes. And when we really add something significant and original and we merge our musical journey with this, then we have a chance to be a part of the evolution of that music that we love and be linked with it once it becomes something new again. So I would like to do one more piece that I put together for you tonight, and it takes place with two pretty inspiring TED performances that I've seen. One of them is the piano player Derek Paravicini, who happens to be a blind, autistic genius at the piano, and Emmanuel Jal, who is an ex-child soldier from the South Sudan, who is a spoken word poet and rapper. And once again I found a way to annoyingly me-me-me myself into the musical history of these songs, but I can't help it, because they're these things that I love, and I want to mess around with them. So I hope you enjoy this. Here we go. Let's hear that TED sound again, right? Thank you very much. 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きっと、さっきの光景を少しだけ見たんだろうな。けど、聖女の魔力を持っているのならデュークがこの部屋を綺麗にする前に解決して欲しかった。勿論、こんな残酷な光景を見るのは苦痛だろうけど。それでも彼女にそこまで求めてしまうのは欲張りすぎているのだろうか。 ......まぁ、しょうがないよね、キャザー・リズは普通の女の子だから。アリシアとは違うんだ。「治せるか?」デュークがリズに聞くと、リズは眉間に少し皺を寄せてエマを見つめる。まるでエマの痛みを自分も味わっているかのようだ。「治せると思うわ」リズはそう言って、エマの前に立ち、彼女に魔法をかける。リズから放たれる魔力は想像以上のものだった。眩しい光が彼女達を包む。 ......これが聖女の力なんだ。初めて目の当たりにするキャザー・リズの魔力に思わず後退ってしまう。聖女と言われるだけのことは確かにある。エマの額の傷は消え、足の腫れも収まり元通りになる。顔色がさっきより随分と良くなった。ああ、アリシアが言っていたのはこのことなのかも。キャザー・リズには努力じゃ敵わないって。けど、近付くことは出来る。こんな人を目の前にして、頑張り続けられるアリシアが凄い。僕なら諦めてしまいそうだ。キャザー・リズがエマを治している間、僕はそんなことを考えていた。「相変わらず流石だな」全て終わった後、ヘンリは少し顔を引きつらせながらそう言った。キャザー・リズは無事にエマを治せたことにホッとしている。これほどの魔力を使った治癒魔法。相当な体力を消費しているはずなのに、ふらつく様子もない。「やっぱり、メルは嫌い」隣でボソッとメルの呟きが聞こえた。嫌いの対象はキャザー・リズのことだろう。メルはキャザー・リズのことを嫌いのままでいいと思う。それを含めてメルだ。彼女が急にキャザー・リズを好きになったら違和感を抱きそうだし。「助かった」デュークの言葉にリズは嬉しそうに口角を上げる。「ううん。私じゃ何も出来なかったから有難う。......それにしても誰かしら。こんな惨いことをするなんて」リズはエマの方を見つめる。僕は口を開く。「リズ信者だよ」「え、私の信者?」「リズを盲目的に信じている者達はアリシア派がいることを許せないんだ。だから、見せしめにこんなことをしたんだと思う」「......そんな」ショックを受けるリズに対してデュークは声をかける。「どっちの思考を信じるかは勝手だが、流石にここまで害を及ぼすとなると何か手を考えないといけないな」「ええ、勿論よ。私が元凶だもの。自分がしたことの後始末はちゃんとしないと」力強い声。彼女の目は覚悟を決めたものだった。キャザー・リズが最初から本性を表に出していれば、デュークに少しは好かれたかもしれない。馬鹿な考えだけど、一理ある。まぁ、それでもデュークがアリシア一択なのは間違いないだろうけど。だって、デューク間もアリシアのことを想い続けているんだから。「けど、熱狂的なリズ信者はリズのことを想ってこんなことをしているんだよな」「じゃあ、私がこんなの望んでいないって言えばいいのかしら?」「いや、それもあんまり意味がないような気がする」ヘンリは難しい顔をして黙り込んでしまう。確かに下手に動くと火に油を注ぐことになって、事態が悪化する。暫く沈黙が続いた後、メルの明るく軽快な声が部屋に響いた。	I’m sure she must have seen a little of the scene earlier. But if she had the magic of a saint, I wanted her to solve it before Duke cleaned up this room. Of course, witnessing such a horrific scene would have been upsetting for her. Still, was I being too greedy to expect so much from her? Well, it couldn’t be helped. Liz Cather was just an ordinary girl, different from Alicia. “Can you heal her?” Duke asked Liz, and Liz looked at Emma with a slight furrow between her eyebrows. It was as if she were experiencing Emma’s pain herself. “I think I can heal her.” Liz said as she stood in front of Emma, casting a spell on her. The magic emanating from Liz was more than I could have ever imagined. A blinding light enveloped them. ...This was the power of a saint. I involuntarily backed away the first time I saw Liz Cather’s magical power. She was undoubtedly a saint. The wound on Emma’s forehead disappeared, and the swelling on her leg subsided and returned to normal. Her complexion was much better than before. Ah, maybe this was what Alicia meant when she said that she couldn’t match Liz Cather with efforts alone, but she could come close. It was incredible that Alicia could keep working so hard with such a person ahead of her. If it were me, I would have given up. That was what I thought as I silently watched Liz Cather heal Emma. “You’re still as amazing as ever.” Henry said with a bit of a scowl after everything was done. Liz Cather was relieved that she was able to heal Emma safely. This kind of healing magic should have consumed a considerable amount of physical strength, but she didn’t seem to be affected. “Mel still doesn’t like her.” I heard Mel muttering next to me. The object of her dislike must be Liz Cather. I guess Mel would rather continue to dislike Liz Cather. That was just part of her being Mel. It would be uncomfortable if she suddenly took a liking to Liz Cather. “Thanks.” Liz’s smiled at Duke’s words. “No problem. I couldn’t have done it without your help, so thank you. But who could have done such a terrible thing?” While Liz was looking at Emma, I answered her. “A follower of Liz.” “Eh, a follower of mine?” “Those who blindly believe in Liz can’t tolerate the presence of the Alicia faction. I think that’s why they did this, to make an example.” “...That’s just...” Duke responded to Liz’s shock. “They can believe in whatever they want, but if it’s going to cause this much harm, we’ll have to think of some way to deal with it.” “Yes, of course. I’m the one who caused this. I have to clean up after what I did.” Her voice was strong and her eyes determined. Perhaps Duke might have liked her a little better if Liz Cather had shown her true colors from the beginning. It was a foolish notion, but she made a point. Well, I was confident that Duke would still choose Alicia. Because Duke had been in love with Alicia for nine years. “But the enthusiastic Liz followers are doing this because they are thinking about Liz, right?” “So should I just tell them that I don’t want this?” “No, I don’t think that would make much of a difference either.” Henry looked confused and fell silent. Surely, a bad move would add fuel to the fire and make things worse. After a few moments of silence, Mel’s bright voice echoed through the room.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 1, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
男は学業で失敗します女との交際もしませんしセックスもしません他には特に問題もないのですがデータを見てみましょう退学のデータは顕著です男子は女子より30%も多く退学するようですカナダでは女子3人に対し男子5人です小学校から大学院まで全て女子の方が優秀なのですあるデータによると文学士や他の大学院プログラムでは男子は女子に10%も劣っています特別補習講座を受けている学生の3分の2が男子ですご存じの通り男子は女子より5倍も多く多動性障害と診断されますそのため彼らにリタリンを投与します失敗の兆候は何でしょうかまずは触れ合いへの恐れです触れ合いが意味するものは他人との物理的・感情的な関わりで特に曖昧で矛盾的でリン光を発するような性的合図を出している毎年研究が行われいて大学生が自白する内気具合を調べています男子ではそれが上昇傾向ですこれは2種類ありますそれは社会的不適応です昔の内気は拒絶への恐れでした見知らぬ土地にいるようです言うべき事もするべき事もわかりません特に1対1で異性と対面する場合です彼らは対面して話す方法を知りません心置きなく他人と話したり他人に耳を傾けるためのルールを彼らは知らないのです私は社会的強度症候群について研究していて男が女との交配よりも男同士での集まりを好む原因を探っています結果として幼少期から少年期そして成人期と彼らは男友達を好むことがわかりましたそして実際に皮質性の刺激があるのです男はいつも男同士でいますチーム・クラブ・ギャング・フラタニティ等で特に軍隊やパブではそれが目に見えますスーパーボウルの日は顕著で男は見知らぬ人とバーで過ごします彼らは寝室でジェニファー・ロペスの全裸を見るよりパッカーズの防具姿のアーロンを見たいのです問題なのは彼らが現在実社会での自然な繋がりより非同期なネットの世界を好むのです原因は予期せぬ結果でしたそれはインターネットやゲームのやり過ぎや過剰なまでのアダルトサイトへのアクセスだと思います皮質性中毒が問題となっています薬物中毒は量の問題ですが皮質性中毒は種類の問題で量は解決になりませんつまり欲求を満たすために真新しさが必要です問題は産業界がそれを提供していることですジェーン・マクゴニガルによれば男子は21歳を迎えるまでにゲームを1万時間もやりそのほとんどの時間が孤独ですまた男は愛を営むこととポルノをすることの違いを理解していないとシンディ・ギャロップは言いました平均的な男子は週に50個もエロ動画を観ます当たり前ですが週に100個観る男もいますポルノ業界はアメリカで急速に成長しています年間150億ドルです映画が400個できる頃にはエロ動画は11,000個も作られます早くもその影響はでて新種の性的興奮となりました男子の脳は新しい配線にデジタルで繋がれ変化・真新しさ・普遍の性的興奮を求めますつまりアナログで静止している従来の類には完全に同期していないのです彼らはまた徐々に育んでいくロマンチックな関係にも同期できていないのですただ私は警告するだけです解決策は自分で見つけて下さいだが誰の責任でしょうかおそらく両親や教育者ゲーマー映画製作者真の男が好きな女です真の男と言うのは話せて踊れてゆっくりと愛の営みができ我々の進化に貢献できる者ですそれにより人間はナメクジより優勢でしょう悪気はないです有難うございました	Guys are flaming out academically; they're wiping out socially with girls and sexually with women. Other than that, there's not much of a problem. So what's the data? So the data on dropping out is amazing. Boys are 30 percent more likely than girls to drop out of school. In Canada, five boys drop out for every three girls. Girls outperform boys now at every level, from elementary school to graduate school. There's a 10 percent differential between getting BA's and all graduate programs, with guys falling behind girls. Two-thirds of all students in special ed. remedial programs are guys. And as you all know, boys are five times more likely than girls to be labeled as having attention deficit disorder -- and therefore we drug them with Ritalin. What's the evidence of wiping out? First, it's a new fear of intimacy. Intimacy means physical, emotional connection with somebody else -- and especially with somebody of the opposite sex who gives off ambiguous, contradictory, phosphorescent signals. And every year there's research done on self-reported shyness among college students. And we're seeing a steady increase among males. And this is two kinds. It's a social awkwardness. The old shyness was a fear of rejection. It's a social awkwardness like you're a stranger in a foreign land. They don't know what to say, they don't know what to do, especially one-on-one [with the] opposite sex. They don't know the language of face contact, the non-verbal and verbal set of rules that enable you to comfortably talk to somebody else, listen to somebody else. There's something I'm developing here called social intensity syndrome, which tries to account for why guys really prefer male bonding over female mating. It turns out, from earliest childhood, boys, and then men, prefer the company of guys -- physical company. And there's actually a cortical arousal we're looking at, because guys have been with guys in teams, in clubs, in gangs, in fraternities, especially in the military, and then in pubs. And this peaks at Super Bowl Sunday when guys would rather be in a bar with strangers, watching a totally overdressed Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers, rather than Jennifer Lopez totally naked in the bedroom. The problem is they now prefer [the] asynchronistic Internet world to the spontaneous interaction in social relationships. What are the causes? Well, it's an unintended consequence. I think it's excessive Internet use in general, excessive video gaming, excessive new access to pornography. The problem is these are arousal addictions. Drug addiction, you simply want more. Arousal addiction, you want different. Drugs, you want more of the same -- different. So you need the novelty in order for the arousal to be sustained. And the problem is the industry is supplying it. Jane McGonigal told us last year that by the time a boy is 21, he's played 10,000 hours of video games, most of that in isolation. As you remember, Cindy Gallop said men don't know the difference between making love and doing porn. The average boy now watches 50 porn video clips a week. And there's some guy watching a hundred, obviously. And the porn industry is the fastest growing industry in America -- 15 billion annually. For every 400 movies made in Hollywood, there are 11,000 now made porn videos. So the effect, very quickly, is it's a new kind of arousal. Boys' brains are being digitally rewired in a totally new way for change, novelty, excitement and constant arousal. That means they're totally out of sync in traditional classes, which are analog, static, interactively passive. They're also totally out of sync in romantic relationships, which build gradually and subtly. So what's the solution? It's not my job. I'm here to alarm. It's your job to solve. But who should care? The only people who should care about this is parents of boys and girls, educators, gamers, filmmakers and women who would like a real man who they can talk to, who can dance, who can make love slowly and contribute to the evolutionary pressures to keep our species above banana slugs. No offense to banana slug owners. Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
まず最初にちょっとした実験をしてみましょう。メガネをやコンタクトレンズをつけていたりレーシックを受けたことがある人は手を挙げてください。残念なことに該当者が多すぎて正確な統計がとれませんね。しかしおそらく推測によると、該当者は60%程度でしょう。先進国で視力を矯正している人の割合がだいたいこのくらいですからね。世界保健機構の試算によると・・・まぁ、世界保健機構では眼鏡を必要とする人の数について様々な試算をしていますが少なく見積もって1億5千万人であると言われています。 10億程度という試算もあります。しかし、実際、今ここで行った実験によって視覚矯正器具は世界の約半数の人から需要があるとわかりました。そして視力低下の問題は、単に健康上の問題にとどまらず教育上の問題、経済的な問題、そして生活の質の問題でもあるのです。眼鏡はそんなに高価ではありませんし、大量に生産されています。問題は、視力矯正器具を正しく装着できるようなアイケアの専門家が不足していることです。彼等は先進国にしかいないのです。この深刻な専門家不足に対応する方法もあります。ではスライドを見てください。これが眼鏡調製の専門家で、青く小さい人は約1万人を表しています。これがイギリスでの比率です。こちらがサハラ以南のアフリカでの眼鏡調製の専門家と人口の比率です。実際、サハラ以南のアフリカには 800万人を1人の眼科医が診ているような国もあるのです。どうでしょう。どうすれば解決できるでしょうか。私はこの問題を解決する方法を思いつきました。そして補償光学を基礎にした解決策に行きついたのです。その解決策とは、自分で眼鏡を作成し、これにより眼鏡調整士不足という問題が解決できるのです。それでは今から1人で眼鏡が作成できることを証明してみせましょう。眼鏡の作り方をお見せします。これをポケットに入れます。私は近視でね。一番後ろのサインを見ても、ほとんど見えません。では・・・よし、これであそこを走っている人が見えるようになりました。あそこで走っている人も。これで私の処方に合った眼鏡が調製できました。では次のステップに移りましょう。私の処方に合った眼鏡が調製できました。はい。眼鏡を調製したらはい。私の処方に合ったこの眼鏡を調製したらあとはこうして・・・これで眼鏡のできあがりです。 (拍手) 世界には他にもこのように調製できる眼鏡が存在します。この技術は日々進歩してきています。 1985年の開発以来非常にゆっくりではありますが進歩してきています。現在、使用されているのは約30000組。 15カ国で使用されており、世界中に広まりつつあります。私はひとつのビジョンをもっています。それをこれからお話しましょう。視力に関する国際的なビジョンです。そのビジョンとは2020年までに10億人の人がそれぞれ必要とする眼鏡をかけられるようにすることです。これは、まだ始まったばかりの技術でしかありません。技術はさらに進化を続けています。コストも低減しなければなりません。現在ではこの眼鏡は19ドルの費用がかかっています。しかし、コストは低減しなければなりません。 1日1ドルで生活しているような貧しい人々に使ってもらうためにはコスト削減が必要不可欠なのです。この問題はどうすれば解決するでしょうか? さらに詳しく見てみましょう。スライドを診てください。あらゆる問題を簡単に説明しています。配布方法は?フィッティング方法は? 視力に問題があることに気付いてもらうには? メーカーへの対応は? その答えが調査です。私たちは発展途上国視覚支援センターをこの大学に創設したのです。詳細については、ウェブサイトをご覧下さい。ご清聴ありがとうございました。	I'd like to start with a little experiment. Could you put your hand up if you wear glasses or contact lenses, or you've had laser refractive surgery? Now, unfortunately, there are too many of you for me to do the statistics properly. But it looks like -- I'm guessing -- that it'll be about 60 percent of the room because that's roughly the fraction of developed world population that have some sort of vision correction. The World Health Organization estimates -- well, they make various estimates of the number of people who need glasses -- the lowest estimate is 150 million people. They also have an estimate of around a billion. But in fact, I would argue that we've just done an experiment here and now, which shows us that the global need for corrective eyewear is around half of any population. And the problem of poor vision, is actually not just a health problem, it's also an educational problem, and it's an economic problem, and it's a quality of life problem. Glasses are not very expensive. They're quite plentiful. The problem is, there aren't enough eye care professionals in the world to use the model of the delivery of corrective eyewear that we have in the developed world. There are just way too few eye care professionals. So this little slide here shows you an optometrist and the little blue person represents about 10,000 people and that's the ratio in the U.K. This is the ratio of optometrists to people in sub-Saharan Africa. In fact, there are some countries in sub-Saharan Africa where there's one optometrist for eight million of the population. How do you do this? How do you solve this problem? I came up with a solution to this problem, and I came up with a solution based on adaptive optics for this. And the idea is you make eye glasses, and you adjust them yourself and that solves the problem. What I want to do is to show you that one can make a pair of glasses. I shall just show you how you make a pair of glasses. I shall pop this in my pocket. I'm short sighted. I look at the signs at the end, I can hardly see them. So -- okay, I can now see that man running out there, and I can see that guy running out there. I've now made prescription eyewear to my prescription. Next step in my process. So, I've now made eye glasses to my prescription. Okay, so I've made these glasses and ... Okay, I've made the glasses to my prescription and ... ... I've just ... And I've now made some glasses. That's it. Now, these aren't the only pair in the world. In fact, this technology's been evolving. I started working on it in 1985, and it's been evolving very slowly. There are about 30,000 in use now. And they're in fifteen countries. They're spread around the world. And I have a vision, which I'll share with you. I have a global vision for vision. And that vision is to try to get a billion people wearing the glasses they need by the year 2020. To do that -- this is an early example of the technology. The technology is being further developed -- the cost has to be brought down. This pair, in fact, these currently cost about 19 dollars. But the cost has to be brought right down. It has to be brought down because we're trying to serve populations who live on a dollar a day. How do you solve this problem? You start to get into detail. And on this slide, I'm basically explaining all the problems you have. How do you distribute? How do you work out how to fit the thing? How do you have people realizing that they have a vision problem? How do you deal with the industry? And the answer to that is research. What we've done is to set up the Center for Vision in the Developing World here in the university. If you want to know more, just come have a look at our website. Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
他のアメリカの政治家も同じ立場をとった。保守的な共和党の上院議員－そして中絶反対者として有名な－トレント・ロットは攻撃について、「絶対にやるべきだ」と述べた。普段はブッシュに反対することが多い共和党指導層の上院議員ジョン・マッケインもまた、民間の犠牲者に哀悼を示しながらも、「同じことを繰り返さないとは言い切れない」と付け加えた。	Senator Trent Lott, a conservative Republican – and a prominent opponent of abortion – said of the attack: “Absolutely, we should do it.” Senator John McCain, another leading Republican, though one often ready to disagree with Bush, expressed regret for the civilian deaths, but added, “I can’t tell you that we wouldn’t do the same thing again.”	{ "source": "news_commentary", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
エルフの里に冒険が訪れたという知らせがメルクの耳に入ってきたのは、里長が依頼を出し目のことだった。「え? 嘘だろう?」話を聞いた時、メルクは例のように庭で木の棒を振り回していた。いい感じに汗を掻き始めた頃に、息を切らせてローが帰ってきたのだ。ローはまるで日課のように、今朝も森の関所へと赴いていたのだが、どうやら冒険者が現れたことをメルクに伝えようと走って戻ってきたらしい。以前はほとんど家から出ず、体力も同年代に比べて心許なかったローが森から走ってくるなんて成長したものだ――メルクはそんな風に呑気に考えていた。「ほ、本当なんだよ組のパーティーが、森の関所に現れたんだっ! お母さんが取り次いで、今は里長の屋敷に向かっているはずだよ」』を討伐するためにエルフの里へ訪れるなんて何を考えてるんだ? しかも三人ってことは、よほど実力のあるパーティーなんだろうな......) 依頼を受ける冒険者が現れないことを見越していたメルクは、当てが外れ内心で苛立ちを覚える。本来であれば依頼を受ける者などいないと思われていた『炎翼狼』討伐を、冒険者たちが請け負ってくれたのはありがたいことだ。メルクだってそれは分かっているし、自分が身勝手ななく依頼を達成してしまえば、メルクが里長に認められる機会が無くなってしまうということ――つまり、メルクがエルフの里を出る算段がつかなくなってしまうということだ。それは本音を言えば喜ばしくないことだった。「現れた冒険者っていうのは、どういう奴らだった?」「え? うーん、男の人一人に女の人だったよ。みんな若くて、人間の歳だったら二十いかないくらいかな? 男の人は剣を持ってたよ」「へぇ、男一人に女二人か」冒険者であれば、組む相手の性別など二の次、三の次だ。無論、よく知らない相手と性別を気にせずパーティーを組めば、性被害の危険は増す。しかし、戦う相性が良く、気が合うのであれば相手が男女の如何に関わらず、組んだ方が冒険はしやすい。性別にこだわる方が非効率的なのだ。そのため、世の中には男一人に女が複数のパーティーや、それとは逆に女一人に男が複数のパーティーだって珍しくはない。だよなぁ。俺も一度くらいは、女冒険者に囲まれたかった) そんなメルクのように下心満載で考える冒険者が、単に卑しいだけである。「よし、実物を見なければはっきりしないし、私たちも里長のところに行くか」「え? ぼ、僕はいいよ......森の関所で見られたし」「何言ってるんだよ? お前だって気になるんだろう? 里長が依頼を出してから連日、気になって様子を見に行ってたんじゃないか」「う、うん......」初めて里に現れた冒険者に、あるいは人間という存在に興味がないはずはないのである。嫌がる素振りをしているのは単純に、期待と不安が入り混じっているせいだろう。「ほら、行こう」木の棒を持つ手とは反対の手でローの手を無理やり掴み、メルクは里長の屋敷へと向かう。「ちょ、ひ、引っ張らないでよ」文句を言いながらではあるが、ローも決心がついたのか特に抵抗はしなかった。里長の屋敷に辿り着いたメルクとローは、屋敷の窓や縁側の障子から中を窺う里の者たちを見つけた。子どもが大半ではあるが、中には大人たちも混じっている。どうやら、考えることは皆同じらしい。「みんな、里に来た冒険者たちが気になるんだね」「ああ、あまり行儀の良い振る舞いじゃないが、な」さっそくメルクとローも、知り合いの子どもたちにスペースを空けてもらって中を覗き込む。見れば里長と相談役、そして向かい合うように三人の人間達が座っていた。ローの話していたように、男一人と女二人の冒険者だ。少年や少女とは言えないが、みな一様に若い。一人の女は槍遣いなのだろう。正座している自分の脚の横に槍を置き、直ぐにでも手に取れるようにしている。桃色の長髪を後ろに纏めた、芯の強そうな瞳をしていた。もう一人の女は、見るからに魔法使いであることが分かる出で立ちだった。室内にも拘らず魔導帽を被り、春先だというのに真冬のような黒く厚手の外套を纏っている。杖は見当たらないが、きっと外套の内側に隠しているのだろう。どうやら大陸でも珍しい、黒色の髪をしているようだ。 (......二人とも美人だな) 美形の多いエルフに囲まれているおかげで少し美的感覚が狂いそうだが、二人の女冒険者は人間の中では間違いなく美人と言えるだろう。エルフたちと比べたって見劣りしない。そして何より二人とも――胸がデカかった。「でけぇ......」「お姉ちゃん?」「......なんでもない」で好青年そのものといった感じだ。見ているだけで勝手に好感度が上がってしまいそうな、そんな理不尽な印象を受ける。おまけに皮鎧に包まれた体格もすこぶるいい。「あの人、格好いい......」里のエルフたちにはない凛々しく男らしい顔つきと身体つきに、周囲にいた女エルフたちが嘆息する。メルクとしては何だか悔しい。「ちっ、何だあの男。耳も尖ってないし、鼻も低いじゃないか」メルクの周囲にいた男エルフが、嫉妬丸出しの陰口を叩く。普段であれば陰口などくだらないものと切り捨てるメルクだが、こればかりは素直に同感してしまった。もちろん、口には出さないが。「剣......は、見えないな」代わりに気になったのは、ローが言っていた剣である。どうやらメルクから見える場所の反対側に置かれているようで、辛うじて鞘の先が見える程度である。これではどういった剣か分からない、はずだった。「あれ?」え......反り具合や風味、色......そして醸し出される雰囲気――何故かいずれもメルクの記憶の中にあった。どこかで見た、あるいは感じた懐かしい気配だった。	The fourth day after the Chief of the village made the request, Merc received word that a group of adventurers had arrived in the village. “What? You must be joking.” Merc was swinging in the back of the garden, as usual, when she heard the news. Law had rushed in and told her just as she had worked up a good sweat. It had recently become a habit of his to go to the forest early in the morning. He had gone there earlier today as well, but he returned specifically to inform Merc of the news. To think that Law, who rarely leaves the house and is less physically fit than his peers, ran all the way from the forest to here. “I-It’s true. A party of three appeared at the barrier! Mother was assigned to guide them, and they’re currently on their way to the Chief’s mansion.” Ridiculous! What are they thinking?! Visiting the elf village to subdue a Ghezo Velche! Furthermore, there are only three of them, so they must be quite good... Merc was furious since her prediction that no one would show up had proven to be incorrect. Normally, no one would accept a Ghezo Velche’s subjugation mission, so Merc should have been grateful that a group of adventurers had shown up. Merc was well aware of this, and she also recognized that her outrage was completely selfish. However, if those adventurers completed the assignment without incident, Merc’s chances of getting approved by the Chief would vanish. Her chances of leaving the village would also vanish. And Merc honestly didn’t like that. “What kind of guys are they? The adventurers I mean.” “What? Oh. There is one man and two women. They all appear to be quite young. If I had to estimate their age in human years, I’d say they’re in their twenties. The man also carried a sword with him.” “Really? So one man and two women, huh?” When it came to seeking companions, gender usually didn’t matter much to adventurers. Normally, it would come in second or third place. Of course, forming a group with someone unfamiliar with the opposing gender could result in harassment. However, if the members of a group got along well, it was easier to embark on an adventure if they teamed up, regardless of whether their companions were male or female. It was inefficient to be concerned about gender. As a result, it wasn’t uncommon to encounter parties made up of one man and numerous women, or vice versa, all over the world. Well I guess that’s what adventuring is all about... I, too, have wished to be surrounded by female adventurers at some point. There were also adventurers, such as Merc, who solely had lecherous thoughts. “Well, unless I see them for myself, I won’t know for sure. We’re off to the Chief’s mansion.” “What? I-I’m staying here... I already saw them at the barrier.” “What are you saying? You’re curious as well, aren’t you? Aren’t you the one who’s been waiting for them every day since the Chief made the request?” “T-That’s right, but...” He couldn’t possibly be uninterested in the adventures, particularly the first humans to visit the elf village. The reason Law had been training with Merc recently was most likely due to his anticipation and anxiousness colliding. “Come on, let’s go!” Merc approached the Chief’s mansion with her wooden stick in one hand and Law’s hand in the other. “W-Wait! D-Don’t pull me!” Despite his protests, Law didn’t put up much of a fight, as if he’d made up his mind. When Merc and Law arrived at the village Chief’s mansion, they noticed that the other villagers were peeping in through the windows and holes in the paper sliding doors. The majority of those present were children, but there were a few adults present as well. Everyone appeared to be thinking the same thing. “It seems like everyone wants to get a glimpse at the adventurers.” “Yea. However, the manner they’re going about it isn’t exactly graceful.” Without further ado, Merc and Law asked one of the children, a friend of theirs, to clear some space for them to look. Inside, Merc could see the village chief and counselor, as well as the three adventurers sitting across from them. Just as Law had told her, there was one man and two women. They couldn’t be categorized as teens, but they were unquestionably young. One of the women seemed to be a spearman from what Merc could see. She sat gracefully, her spear poised next to her legs, ready to be snatched at any moment. Her long pink hair was pulled back into a ponytail, and her eyes shone with confidence. The second woman seemed to be a magician. She wore her magician’s hat inside the room, and despite the fact that it was spring, she was clad in a black and thick-looking mantle. Her wand was nowhere to be found, so Merc assumed it was hidden inside her mantle. Her hair was black, which was rare on this continent. ... Both of them are quite the beauties. Merc’s perception of beauty had twisted a little from being surrounded by elves all this time, but the women standing before her could undoubtedly be characterized as beauties among humans. They were in no way inferior to the elves. To top it off, they both had massive breasts. “Massive...” “Sis?” “... I-It’s nothing.” He didn’t appear to be the flirtatious, playboy kind at all, and was actually listening intently to the Chief’s explanation. He appeared to be a very decent young man. Merc felt closer to him simply by looking at him. That was the kind of irrational impression the youth made on others. Furthermore, the physique covered by his leather armor was well-developed. “He’s so stunning...” The female elves sighed as they saw the youth’s masculine and dignified appearance, as well as his body, which the male elves lacked. Seeing them like that enraged Merc. “Tsk. What’s wrong with that man. His ears aren’t even pointed, and his nasal bridge is quite high.” The men gathered around Merc could be heard complaining. Normally, she would dismiss such remarks, and even though she didn’t say it out loud she agreed with the men on this occasion. “I can’t see his sword.” Merc’s attention was drawn to the man’s weapon, which Law had told her about, rather than his appearance. Unfortunately for Merc, the man’s weapon was positioned on the opposite side of him, allowing her to only see a part of the sword’s scabbard. And with just that little, Merc had no way of knowing what kind of weapon it was, or so she assumed. “What?” She had a vague recollection of that sword. She remembered the craftsmanship in the sword’s scabbard, to be more specific... Its curve, uniqueness, and color... For some reason, the atmosphere it emitted was all too familiar to Merc. It was as if she’d seen it before.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 4, "inserted_lines_src": 8, "inserted_lines_trg": 1 }
「......じっちゃん?」僕は朗らかな表情を浮かべているじっちゃんをじっと見つめた。今にも目が覚めそうなのに、もと動くことのないじっちゃん。僕はじっちゃんがこの世を去ったことを理解出来ずにいた。僕が固まっていると、後ろから声が聞こえた。「お疲れさまでした」僕は国王の方へと振り返る。彼は深く頭を下げてじっちゃんに最大の敬意を払っていた。その瞬間、全員がじっちゃんに向かって頭を下げた。不思議な光景だった。国王と貴族と平民が同じ部屋で頭を下げているのだから......。誰もがじっちゃんに対しを置いていた。じっちゃんならこの国を救ってくれると期待の眼差しを向けていた。じっちゃんの近くにいれば、誰もが彼を尊敬しただろう。馬が合う合わないはあるかもしれないが、じっちゃんはデュルキス国にとって必要不可欠な存在であった。この世界へともう一度戻って来たじっちゃんに誰もが期待した。そして、彼が国王になることを願った。 ......その願いはもう叶わないけれど。泣きたい気持ちをグッと堪えようと思ったが、無理だった。勝手に涙が溢れてくる。僕は遺体にしがみついた。どれだけ抱きしめても、じっちゃんはもう僕を握り返すことはない。本来なら貧困村の僕が王家の人にこんな無礼な行為をするなんて許されないだろう。だが、この部屋にいる誰も僕を止めることはなかった。何も言わず泣き崩れながらじっちゃんにしがみつく僕を見守ってくれていた。あの死と隣り合わせの村で唯一の味方だった。じっちゃんがいたから僕の心臓はまだ動いているんだ。じっちゃんは歴史に名を残せるだろう。そして、じっちゃんのことが歴史に刻まれたと同時にじっちゃんはこの国に復讐できる。じっちゃんを切り捨てたデュルキス国の判断ミスは汚点として伝わっていく。この汚点を残したということが、じっちゃんにとっての復讐だ。この国は、シーカー・ウィルを罪人にし、その後、彼に助けてもらっているのだ。じっちゃん、貴方は後世に素晴らしい人格者だと伝わっていくよ。「兄上」誰もいなくなった部屋でシーカー・ルークはベッドの上で安らかに眠っている遺体に向かってそう呟いた。ジルは泣き疲れたのか、ウィルに抱きついたまま寝てしまった。ヘンリがジルを抱えて部屋まで運んで行った。その場にいた誰もがウィルの死を悼んだ。ルークは椅子に腰を下ろし、ウィルを見つめながら口を開いた。「心の準備はしていたはずなのですが、......いざ直面するとかなりキツいですね」王である限り涙は流してはならないと、ルークは必死に自分に言い聞かせた。それなのに、どうしてもあふれ出す悲しさを覆い隠すことができない。「......今この瞬間、......この部屋にいる時だけは、ただの兄弟になってもいいでしょうか」そう言葉を放った瞬間、ルークは頬に静かに涙が伝った。「貴方の弟で幸せでした」それだけ伝えると、ルークはそっとその場を立ち去ろうとした。その瞬間だった。ウィルの首元に何か光ったものが見えた。ウィルが亡くなったことの衝撃が大きすぎて、今まで気付かなかったのだろう。不思議に思い、少しの間ウィルの首元を見つめた後、何か確かめるように彼の元へと近づいた。そっと、ウィルの首元に手を伸ばし、ネックレスを外した。「............鍵?」ネックレスには見たことのない古びた鍵がついていた。	“...Gramps?” I stared at Gramps, who had a cheerful expression on his face. It was as if he were about to wake up, but he never moved again, and I couldn’t bring myself to accept that he had left this world. As I froze, I heard a voice from behind me. “Thank you for your hard work.” I turned back to the King. He was bowing deeply and paying his utmost respect to Gramps. At that moment, everyone bowed toward the Gramps. It was a strange sight. The King, the nobles, and the commoners all bowing in the same room.... Everyone was looking at Gramps with awe, hoping that he would save the country. Anyone who was close to Gramps would have respected him. Although they might not have seen eye to eye, Gramps was indispensable to Duelkis. Everyone had high hopes for Gramps’ return to the world. And they hoped he would become King. Though that wish could no longer be fulfilled. I tried to hold back my desire to cry, but it was impossible. Tears started to flow on their own. I clung to his body. No matter how much I hugged him, Gramps never held me back. Normally, it would be unforgivable for me, from an impoverished village, to be so disrespectful to a member of the Royal Family. But no one in this room stopped me. They watched over me as I clung to Gramps, sobbing without saying a word. Gramps had been the only ally I had in that grim village, and he was the reason my heart still beats. Gramps would have made history. And as soon as Gramps was written in the history books, Gramps could take revenge on this country. The Duelkis’ error of judgment in cutting off Gramps was a stain that would be passed down to the rest of the world. The fact that this stain was left behind would be revenge for Gramps. This country made Will Seeker a sinner and then had him help them. Gramps, your story would be passed down to future generations that you were a man of great character. “Brother.” Luke Seeker muttered to the body resting peacefully on the bed in the empty room. Gilles, tired of crying, fell asleep in Will’s arms, and Henry carried Gilles to his room. Everyone present mourned Will’s death. Luke sat down in a chair, looked at Will, and started talking. “I thought I was prepared for this, but...it’s pretty hard when I have to face it.” Luke desperately told himself that as long as he was King, he should not shed tears. And yet, he just couldn’t cover up the sadness that was overflowing. “...At that moment... just when we are in this room, can we be just brothers?” The moment he released those words, Luke had silent tears rolling down his cheeks. “I was happy to be your brother.” With these words, Luke quietly turned to leave. It was at that moment that he saw something shiny around Will’s neck. The shock of Will’s death must have been too great for him to have noticed it. He stared at Will’s neck for a moment, wondering, and then moved closer to him as if to check something. Gently, he reached around Will’s neck and removed the necklace. “...a key?” There was an old key on the necklace that he had never seen before.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 0, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
中国が踏み出した流動相場制への控えめな第一歩が、経済にどう影響を及ぼすにせよ､我々はその戦略の巧妙さに感服するべきだろう。今回の小幅な改革（人民元の為替レートを対ドルで２％切り上げ）は、この先いつどう動くのか、全く予想がつけられない点が特質的である｡	Whatever the ultimate economic effects of China’s first modest step towards floating its currency, one has to admire its strategic brilliance. The genius of China’s mini-move (allowing the Yuan to rise 2% against the dollar) is that no one can tell when or what is going to happen next.	{ "source": "news_commentary", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
予定のなかった放課後、シェイラは突然図書館へ行こうと思い立った。セイリュウが言っていた兵法書も気になっていたし、何より、政変について本気で調べてみようと思ったのだ。「ふわぁ......」初めて足を踏み入れる図書館は、圧倒的な広さだった。に梯子が必要なほど高い本棚が設置されていて、壁面以外にも数えきれないほどの書架が林立している。ドーム型の天井には、放射状に細長い天窓が並んでいた。日光が本を傷めないよう計算されているし、湿度も温度も一定で快適だった。大声を出しても、沢山の本達に吸い込まれて消えてしまいそうな静寂。柔らかなカーペットの上を歩きながら、辺りを見回す。以前コディが、王宮に次ぐ蔵書量だと言っていたような、いなかったような。ともかく、読みたい本を探すのに10年かかりそうだということだけは分かる。自力で探すことは早々に諦め、シェイラは受付カウンターに向かった。そこには、穏やかそうな初老の紳士が座っていた。「すいません。読みたい本があるんですけど、場所を教えてもらえますか?えっと、シュタイツ王国の歴史を調べたいんです。あと兵法書と、あれば神話の本なんかも」たどたどしい敬語で話すと、紳士は柔和な笑みを浮かべた。「勿論ですよ。筆記テスト前でもないのに歴史を学びたいとは、とても勉強熱心ですね」筆記テストがあるのか、と内心暗い気持ちになったが、司書らしき紳士を先導に本棚の隙間を縫って歩く。深い森に迷い込んだみたいに、急に薄暗くなった。本棚が高すぎて光が届かないのだろう。「歴史書はかなり分厚いですし、冊数もありますよ。どの辺りのことを調べたいのですか?」「政変について知りたいんです」「先の政変でよろしいですか?」長い歴史の中で政変が何度も起こっているのは当然だ。言葉が足りなかったことに気付き、シェイラはしきりに首肯した。「すいません、そうです。ありがとうございます」「謝ることではありませんよ。では、こちらになりますね」紳士の言う通り、歴史書はかなり大きくて分厚かった。活字嫌いの性質が躊躇わせるが、何とか受け取る。兵法書は更に充実していて、書架一つでは足りないほどだった。どこから手を付ければいいのか分からなかったので、とりあえず先頭の一冊を抜き出すで既に気が重くなっていたシェイラは、神話の本を次回に持ち越すことにした。「そうだ。魔術についての本も読みたいんですけど」実力テストの時、魔術について学ぶことが強くなる近道だと実感したのを思い出した。呪文が書かれている本でも見られればと思ったのだが、初老の紳士はすまなそうに眉尻を下げた。「申し訳ございません。失礼とは存じますが、あなたは特待生のように見受けられます。魔術書は、貴族以外閲覧禁止とされているのですよ」「えぇ?なぜですか?」「理由といたしましては、魔術を使えぬ者が閲覧する必要がないから、ではないかと思われますが......」「その程度の理由なんて、あってないようなものじゃないですか。せめて、申請すれば見られるように制度を変えるとか......」「私もそう思いますが、規則は規則ですので......申し訳ございません」重ねて謝られれば、シェイラには何も言えない。そもそも、規則を作った訳ではない彼に非はないのだ。わがままを言ってしまったことを謝り、司書とはそこで別れた。閲覧席まで重い本を運んで席につく。まず、歴史書に手をかけた。比較的新しい深緋の革表紙には、鷹と剣の紋章が金で箔押しされている。開くと、インクの香りが鼻腔をくすぐった。内容は、全て古めかしく厳格な言い回しで書かれている。時間はかかりそうだが、クローシェザードの教育のおかげで何とか理解はできそうだ。「ファリル神歴978年......ってことは、私が産まれ前か」ブラドサリアム政変、と呼ばれているらしい。当時の子の名前が由来だという。当時の国王陛下にはの王子の王女がいた。国王は長患いをしていて、政権が第一王子に移るのは時間の問題、とも言われていた。それを不満に思った第三王子のブラドサリアムは玉座の簒奪を目論み、既に立太子していた第一王子の暗殺を企てた。それに協力したのが第四王子だった。彼らと家ぐるみで付き合いのあった二人の王女もそこに与した。第一王子の味方には、第二王子と第五王子、残り三人の王女が付いた。第六王子は当時まだ幼く、権力争いに関与していなかったという。「数字の上で見ると、王太子側が有利に思えるけど......」第一王子はその翌年、不運な馬車の事故で亡くなってしまった。そこからは敵も味方もない血塗れの争いだったという。正式な跡継ぎを失った国は荒れた。王子同士の争いが激化していく中で、国王が崩御したのだ。国政はまともに機能しなくなってしまった。折り悪く国内では日照りが続き、餓死者が増える一方だったという。城門の前には助けを求める人々の山が形成され、それもやがて骸へと成り果てていった。国内の荒れた状況にも王子達が手を取り合うことはなかった。覇権争いを引き起こしたブラドサリアムが一番最初に討ち取られたというのは、何とも皮肉な話だった。次いで第二王子と第五王子が毒殺され、生き残ったかに思えた第四王子が、王女の一人に殺されてしまう―――――。結局王位継承権を持つ男児の中で生き残ったのは、権力争いからは隔離されていた第六王子だった。急ぎ第六王子が即位した時、第一王子が不慮の事故で亡くなってから、実の月日が経っていたという。こう言うと生き残った王の子は一人だけのように思えるが、実は王子はもう一人いた。国王が崩御してすぐ、第三妃が男児を産んでいて、その子どもが六歳になっていたのだ。国王は、末の子どもの顔を見ることなく亡くなったことになる。第六王子は賢明な人柄で、政争の火種になりそうな末王子を殺しはしなかった。自分が病弱で子どもの望めない体だったことが大きな理由でもある。そんな事情もあって、第一王子の元に残された二人の子どもを引き取り、今も跡継ぎとして育てているのだそうだ。「今の国王陛下の子どもは、養子だったんだ......この学院にいる第二王子も、正確に言えば国王陛下の甥っ子ってことか」さらりと記されているが、かなり多くの命が失われた政変だったらしい。敵方に与する貴族や騎士も粛清の対象になったと書かれている。国民の被害も甚大で、実に凄惨な時代だったようだ。「全然知らなかったな......村に人の出入りはほとんどないけど、全くないわけじゃないのに」政変が終わった時、シェイラはまだ三歳。わざわざ大人が教えることもなかったのだろう。終わりの部分に、政変で亡くなった貴族の名前が一通り記してあった。文官、騎士、身分に関わらず亡くなっている。公爵家の当主、近衛騎士団に所属していた貴族の子息、王女、巡回兵の平民......。その中に、当時の近衛騎士団長とその補佐をしていた妻の名前があった。「リガード⋅ノルシュタイン、ミラ⋅ノルシュタイン..................」ゆっくりと字を追っていた指が、止まった。シェイラはゆるゆると天井を見上げる。高い高い天井から燦々と注いでいた日差しに、いつの間にか橙色が交ざり始めていた。もうすぐ日が暮れる。食堂が開く頃だから、早く寮に戻らないと食いっぱぐれてしまう。分かっているのに、なかなか立ち上がることができなかった。思い出すのは、何を考えているのか読み取れない横顔。迷惑そうにしていても、質問には必ず答えてくれていた人が初めて見せた、明確な拒絶。 ―――――クローシェザード⋅ノルシュタイン。彼がなぜ、詳しく語ることを避けたのか。政変について訊いた時どんな気持ちだったのかを考えて、シェイラは窓の向こうの狭い空をずっと見つめ続けた。	After her classes were over, Sheila suddenly had the urge to go to the library. She was curious about the book on military tactics that Seiryuu had mentioned, but above all, she wanted to do some serious research about the political upheaval. “Wow....” When Sheila first set foot in the library, it was overwhelmingly huge. There were bookshelves so high that a ladder was required to reach them on one wall, and there were countless stacks of books beyond them. The domed ceiling was lined with long, narrow skylights that radiated out. The room was comfortable, with constant humidity and temperature, calculated to prevent the sunlight from damaging the books. It was so quiet that even if one shouted, the sound would be absorbed by the many books and disappear. Sheila looked around as she walked on the soft carpet. Cody had once told her that the library had the second most extensive collection of books after the royal palace, or maybe he hadn’t. Anyway, all she knew was that it was going to take her years to find the book she wanted to read. Giving up on trying to find the book on her own, Sheila went to the reception counter. There sat a kind-looking elderly gentleman. “Excuse me. I have a book I want to read. Can you tell me where I can find it? Um, it’s about the history of the Kingdom of Steitz. Also, I would like to read books about military tactics and some books on mythology, if you have them.” When Sheila spoke in faltering honorifics, the elderly man smiled softly. “Of course. You’re very studious, wanting to learn history even before the written test.” Sheila inwardly felt gloomy, wondering if there was a written test, but the kind old man who seemed to be the librarian led the way as they weaved their way through the gaps between the bookshelves. The surroundings suddenly became dim, as if she had wandered into a deep forest. The bookshelves were probably too high for the light to reach them. “The history books are quite thick, and there are many volumes of them. Which areas would you like to research?” “I want to know about the political upheaval.” “The last political upheaval, is that correct?” It was natural that political upheavals had occurred many times in the country’s long history. Sheila realized that she hadn’t said enough and nodded her head affirmatively. “I’m sorry, yes. Thank you.” “You don’t have to apologize. Now, let’s go this way.” As the elderly man said, the history book was quite large and thick. Her aversion to the printed word made her hesitate, but she managed to accept it. The military law books were even more extensive, so much so that one shelf wasn’t enough. She didn’t know where to start, so she pulled out the first book for now. Already feeling overwhelmed by two books, Sheila decided to take the book on mythology next time. “Oh, that’s right. I would like to read some books about magic, too.” Sheila remembered that, during the competency test, she had realized that learning about magic was a shortcut to becoming stronger. She was hoping to see a book with spells written on it, but the elderly man lowered his eyebrows apologetically. “I am sorry. I don’t mean to be rude, but you seem to be a special student. Only aristocrats are allowed to read books on magic.” “Eh? Why is that?” “The reason, I suppose, is that those who cannot use magic have no need to view it....” “Is there such a reason like that? At least change the system so that people can see it if they register for it at the counter....” “I think so too, but rules are rules.... I’m very sorry.” If he apologized again and again, Sheila wouldn’t be able to say anything. After all, he wasn’t the one who made the rules, so it wasn’t his fault. Sheila apologized for her selfishness and parted ways with the librarian. She carried the heavy books to the reading table and took a seat. First, she turned to the history books. It had a relatively new deep scarlet leather cover with a crest of an eagle and a sword stamped in gold foil. When she opened it, the scent of ink tickled her nose. The contents were all written in an old-fashioned, rigorous phraseology. It would take some time, but thanks to Claushezade’s education, Sheila managed to understand it. “Faril’s history of the year ..... So, that means four years before I was born?” At that time, His Majesty the King had six princes and five princesses. The king had been ill for a long time, and it was said that it was only a matter of time before the power would be transferred to the first prince. It was said that it was called the Vladsaliam Rebellion, after the third prince. Dissatisfied with this, the third prince, Vladsaliam, plotted to usurp the throne and assassinate the first prince, who had already ascended to the throne. The fourth prince cooperated in this plot. The two princesses, who had been friends with them, also joined in the plot. On the side of the first prince were the second and fifth princes, and the remaining three princesses. The sixth prince was still young at the time and was not involved in the power struggle. “When you look at the numbers, the crown prince’s side seems to have the advantage....” The first prince died the following year in an unfortunate carriage accident. From that point on, it was a bloody struggle between friend and foe alike. The country was in shambles after losing its official heir. The king collapsed amidst the intensifying conflict between the princes. The national government ceased to function properly. At the worst possible time, the country was suffering from a continuous drought, and the number of people starving to death was on the rise. A mountain of people begging for help formed in front of the castle gate, which eventually turned into a wreck. Even in the rough domestic situation, the princes didn’t join hands. It was quite ironic that Vladsaliam, who had caused the struggle for supremacy, was the first to be struck down. The second and fifth princes were poisoned next, and the fourth prince, who seemed to have survived, was killed by one of the princesses. In the end, the only survivor among the male heirs to the throne was the sixth prince, who was isolated from the power struggle. When the sixth prince hastily ascended the throne, it had been seven years since the first prince died in an accident. That made it sound like there was only one surviving son of the king, but in fact, there was another prince. Shortly after the king’s death, his third wife gave birth to a baby boy, who was at the time six years old. The king died without ever seeing his youngest child. The sixth prince was a wise man and did not kill the youngest prince, who might have sparked another political strife. The main reason for this was that he was too sickly to have children. Because of these circumstances, he took in the two children left by the first prince and was raising them as heirs even now. “The child of His Majesty the King was adopted and the second prince in this academy is, to be precise, the nephew of the current King....” Although it was written in a casual way, the political upheaval was said to have resulted in the loss of quite a lot of lives. It was written that nobles and knights who supported the enemy were also purged. The people suffered greatly, and it was a truly terrible time. “I had no idea.... Very few people go in and out of the village, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t any at all.” Sheila was only three years old when the political upheaval ended. It was probably not necessary for an adult to go to the trouble of teaching her. At the end of the book, the names of all the nobles who died in the political upheaval were listed. Civil servants, knights, and all other nobles, regardless of their status, had died. The head of a ducal family, the son of a nobleman who belonged to the Imperial Knights, a princess, and a commoner who was a patrolling soldier.... Among them were the names of the then Commander of the Imperial Knights and his wife, who had assisted him. “Regald Norstein, Mira Norstein.....” Her fingers, which had been slowly following the letters, stopped. Sheila slowly looked up at the ceiling. Before she knew it, an orange color mixed in with the bright sunlight poured down from the high ceiling. The sun would be setting soon. It was about time the cafeteria opened, so Sheila had to get back to the dormitory as soon as possible or she would run out of food. She knew that, but she couldn’t get up. She recalled his facial expression in which she couldn’t read what he was thinking. The first clear rejection she ever saw from someone who always answered her questions, even when they looked annoyed. ――Clauschezade Norstein. Why did he avoid telling her the details? Sheila kept staring out the window at the narrow sky, wondering how he had felt when she had asked him about the upheaval.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 0, "inserted_lines_trg": 2 }
こんにちは、鍛冶の修行をしてた筈が何故か商業ギルドに登録する事になりました、レンです。特許登録の為に行った商業ギルドで聞いた話によると、この国では全然レシピが無いらしいんだけど、ロングパスタを使った料理というのはもっと大陸中央の方にはあるとの事らしい。ただ、今まで使われていたパスタ料理の為の麺を作る専門の機器というのが微妙で......ところてんを作る要領で力任せに押し込んでひり出す、とか何とか。それに比べて私が作ったパスタマシーンはそんなに力も要らずに簡単に麺が作れるという画期的発明! という事だそうですよ? 尚、ミンサーはあるのにこの国にハンバーグは存在しない模様。意味がわからん。大陸中央の方にはそれっぽい料理のレシピがあるような無いような、とは職員さんの弁。この国だとクズ肉を丸めたミートボールもどきはあるみたい? なのでミンサーは国内では碌に売れないらしい。ちなみにロングパスタ料理はこの国にはほぼ存在してない模様。でも西の方にある交易都市にはあるらしい。んー、一度行ってみたい。美味しいご飯色々食べたいです。それはさておき、前世でたまたま構造を知ってたから作ってみただけのもので、自分で発明した訳でも無い物で、有る程度定期的な収入が得られてしまうというのは......なんだか色々申し訳ない気分に...... あ、そうか。これが知識チートって奴か。異世界転生ものの主人公ってみんな神経図太いんだなー。これ、私も慣れないといけないの? っていうかね、色々発展途上というかちぐはぐな発展遂げてるのは分かってたけど、特許制度とかあるとか、本当にこの世界あべこべすぎて、もうどこから突っ込めばいいのやら。ちなみに商業ギルドは登録料が高い。最初に始める商売によっても金額が上下するらしいんだけど、大体金貨1~5枚。場合によっては金貨10枚にまでなる。これはその最初の商売が失敗した時、場合によっては発生するかもしれない損失の補填に使われる補償金でもあるらしい。今回の件に関していえば、設計図も併せて特許登録しておけば製造されるごとに使用料が入ってくるらしい。商業ギルドは国を跨いだ国際組織なので、他国で作った場合でもお金が入ってくる。商業ギルドにも取り分が入る。なのでギルドの権益を守る為にもその辺りはきっちり取り立ててくれるそうな。尚、商業ギルドで色々話を聞いてみた結果、この国はかなり田舎で後進的な部類に入るみたい。そこにこんな機材の特許を取りに来たものだからあれこれ探られる羽目になって非常に疲れた。尚、特許料の収入はギルドで処理して自動振込みしてくれるとのこと。下ろすのは一々商業ギルドに行かなくてもいいらしく、そういったギルド預けのお金というのは各種ギルドが業務提携してるとかで、別に他に登録しているギルドがある場合はそちらでも下ろせる、という事らしい。私の場合は冒険者ギルドでも引き出せるという事になる。ちなみに商業ギルドは冒険者ギルドと違って年会費を払う必要があるらしいんだけど、それらの支払いは口座からの引き落としを指定しておけばわざわざ払いに来ないで良いという事だったので、自動引き落としでお願いしておいた。いや、特許登録の時に色々探るような対応されたからね、それがお金を下ろすのにギルドに来るたびにやられても嫌じゃない? 商人の目付き怖い、マジで。いや、まさかハルーラでトンカツを作った事はおろか、養鶏をやってる村での事も特定されてて、更には西の森に引き篭もっていた魔女の噂についても怪しまれてるような発言があったりとか、普通に怖いって! いや、森の魔女の件に関しては時期的に近いからって事だったみたいだから、色々とすっとぼけてはみたけど。とまあ、そんな訳で商業ギルドには出来ればもう来たくないんだよ。というか、ここまで商業ギルドに筒抜けだと、例のカエル顔の商人の事も気になる訳で。 ......追っ手みたいなのとか、来ないよね? 場合によっては逃げる事も考えておかないといけないんだけど、折角借りる事ができた鍛冶場の事もあるし、本気で悩ましい。ノリとか雰囲気とか勢いとかで色々やらかしてるので、いい加減もう少し自重しないと......目立ちたくないとは何だったのか。いや、マジで。あ、ちなみに商業ギルドのランクは、ギルド員の商売の売り上げの一部をギルドへの上納金と国への納税で支払って、その年間の合計金額が一定額以上になると上がっていくって事らしい。私の場合だと特許料が振り込まれて、そこから自動で引いていってくれるそうなので、放って置いても別に大丈夫みたい。まあ、たまにランク更新とかで顔出さないといけないらしいんだけど......でもやっぱり出来ればここには来たくないなあ...... その日は昼前の休憩でちょっと敷地の外に出てみた。で、その裏通りなんだけど、通りを挟んだ向こう側は柵になってて、その向こうは空が見える。つまり、そこの先はかなりの段差になって、崖になってる。柵に手を着いて下を見下ろせばそこには下の家の屋根が見える。ここから落ちたら大怪我するって位の高低差になってるので、落ちないように気をつけないといけない。とはいえ、しっかりとした柵だってあるんだからここから落ちるようだと流石に自己責任で、落ちた人はかなりのおまぬけさんという事になる。実際、ここから落ちても国からの補償だのなんだのは無いらしい。気をつけよう。でもここに居ると高台の上に居るのと同じ事なので、風が非常に気持ちいい。柵の近くには、休憩用かな? 一定間隔でベンチが設置されていて、裏通りだというのにそれなりに人が座って休んでいる様子だった。まあ、そんな場所だといっても人目が少ない訳ではないので私は当然のようにマント着用でてるてる坊主状態な訳だけど。ついでにノルンも側に居るし。「ふわー」おわ、変な声がでた。「あの、あなたそこから出てきたけど、そこの工房の見習いさん?」ふわっ!? 今の変な声聞かれた!? やばい、恥ずかしい! 「あ、はい? いえ、違いますけど」「あれ? そうなの? でもそこから......」「あー、そうなのかー......じゃあ無理かなあ、当てが外れたー......」がっくりと項垂れて落ち込んでしまった。なんだろう、別に私が悪いという訳ではない筈なのに、何故か罪悪感が凄い。その位に盛大に落ち込んでいる。んー。「その......なにか困った事でも?」これ、いつもなら絶対聞いちゃ駄目なやつ。フラグだよ。分かってる、面倒事の元だ。でも聞いちゃう、だって日本人だもの。それに、なによりもこの子は...... 「え?」「なにか、困ってる事でもあるんですか?」「あー、いやあ......なんて言ったらいいんだろ? そのね、私まだ駆け出しの冒険者なんだけど......」 ......冒険者ギルドと職人ギルドには、互助契約というシステムがある。駆け出しの冒険者と、同じく駆け出しの見習い職人がお互いに手を助け合って技術を高め合う為の契約だ。具体的な例を挙げると、駆け出しの冒険者であればお金がないので装備が揃えられない。装備品は信頼できる品質のものとなると相応のお金が掛かる。そして、それらは消耗品だ。そして、例えば見習いの鍛冶職人が居るとする。彼、或いは彼女はようやく槌を振る事を許された、駆け出しの鍛冶師だ。でも彼は自由に出来る資材がない。自由に鍛冶場を使う事も許されていない。仮に何かを作ったとして、それの実際の性能や使い勝手を知る手段も無い。冒険者は必要な武器や防具等を安価、或いは無料で手に入れる事ができる。職人は実際に自分が作った物の性能を知る事ができる。冒険者は職人が必要とする素材を無料、或いは安価で提供し、新たな武器や防具を手に入れ、経験を得る。職人も新たな素材を扱う事を覚え、また、自分が作った品々の性能や使い勝手を知り、改良し、腕を上げていく。お互いに足りない金銭を補い、得がたい経験を得、切磋琢磨していく。それが互助契約。駆け出しの冒険者の能力等というものは、所詮は高が知れている。ふとした事であっさり死ぬ。当然技能も低い。要求された素材を集める事は容易ではない。見習い職人も同様で、所詮は見習い。作り出せる物の性能や信頼性はお察し。戦闘中にいきなり壊れる事だってある。だからこの互助契約にはお互いの生死に関しても後々に責任を負わない事、などの記述が有る。死んでも自己責任なのだ。仲間の冒険者が装備の不具合で死亡した場合でも、互助契約を結んだ職人に対して問い詰める等の行為をしてはならないとされてる。ただし、あまりに死亡事故を繰り返すようであれば職人の方にも罰則が適用される。そして、今目の前に居る少女はその互助契約を結ぶ相手を探して、連日この鍛冶職人通りの周辺をうろついてるという事だった。 ......変わらない。変わってない。淡い金髪で、長さは後ろで握りこぶし一つくらいで束ねる事ができる位。昔はもっと長かった。肌はうっすらと浅黒い。以前よりも若干焼けただろうか? くりくりとした碧眼は変わらずあの頃のままで、強い意志を宿していた。 ......そう、私はこの少女のことを知っている。「......という訳でね、一緒に孤児院からでてきた子達の負担も考えると、互助契約をしてもらえる人を探すのが一番って言うか? とはいっても、そもそもの相手が見つからなくてねー? いや、困った困った」 11歳になってしばらく経った後、同じ年頃の子達を連れて孤児院を出て、冒険者になったらしい。私達が居た孤児院は本来であれば15歳になるまでは居てもいい事になっている。でも彼女、或いは彼女達は自分達よりも小さい子供達の為に孤児院を出る事を選んだのだと言う。「何とかなると思ったんだけど、薬草の区別も付かなくってね? そうなると正当防衛でゴブリンとかレッサーウルフとか倒すとかしかないんだけど、そうすると武器とか全然ダメで」彼女の腰には使い古したダガーが佩いてある。鞘に収まっていてもあちこちぼろぼろで、今までの苦労が窺い知れた。彼女の手もぼろぼろだった。孤児院に居た子達はみんな手はぼろぼろだったけど、それでも今の彼女と比べれば、ずっとずっとマシだった。「そんな訳でさ、自己責任とかあったけど、それでも互助契約が結べれば全然マシかなって思ったんだよね! うまく行けば他の子達の武器もお願いできるかもしれないし?」変わらない、全然。あの頃と全然変わらない。いつもみんなの面倒をみて回って、自分から余計な苦労を背負い込んでいた。「......変わりませんね、トリエラは」彼女は、トリエラは目を丸くしてこっちを見返してきた。その目の色は孤児院に居た頃と変わらなくて、何となくだけど、安心した。	Hello, this is Ren, I’ve been training in blacksmithing and for some reason I decided to register with the commerce guild. It seems that the pasta machine and mincer that I used earlier was considered quite revolutionary, thus the revenue from the patents were quite profitable. According to what I heard at the commerce guild when I went to register the patents. The recipe didn’t exist in this country, but long pasta dishes did exist in the central continent. But the tools that are used to make the noodles for the pasta dishes sound complicated......it’s somewhat like making tokoroten in how you have to forcefully push it in and then pull it out. Compared to that, the pasta machine I made was like a ground-breaking invention since it allowed for noodles to be made easily! Was it something like that? On the other hand, the mincer was considered amazing because it was a smaller version....... Although mincers did exist, there were apparently no hamburgers in this country. Which I didn’t really understand. The staff also said that there wasn’t a recipe that required the usage method for it in the central continent. I think in this country, meatballs are made using leftover scraps? So the mincer wouldn’t sell here either. While long pasta dishes didn’t exist in this country, it seems to exist in a trade city in the west. Hm, I want to go there at least once. I want to try all the various foods there. That aside, I was able to make these since I knew about the structure due to my previous life. I’m not the one who invented them, yet I’m earning some income from them.....somehow I feel bad in various ways...... Oh, right. I guess this would be considered a knowledge cheat. The protagonists in the otherworld genre usually have quite the knowledgebase. I guess I would have to get used to it too? But still, I know this world is still in various stages of development, but to think there would be a patent system and such. This world really is over the top, I don’t even know where to begin commenting. Incidentally, the commerce guilds have a high registration fee. The cost would depend on the business being started, but it would be about to gold coins. Depending on the case, it could even go up to gold coins. Apparently, it was because the cost would be used as compensation to cover any losses that might occur if the initial business failed. In my case, I had to pay gold coins. Considering that, the adventurer’s guild which didn’t charge a registration fee was quite generous. Also regarding my case, since I registered for a patent for the design, a fee would be charged each time the device was manufactured. The commerce guild was an international organization that spanned across multiple countries, so even if it was manufactured in another country, I would still earn money. The commerce guild also received a portion of the fee. As such, it seems that the fee would be properly collected in the surrounding areas in order to protect the guild’s interests. In addition, as a result of listening to various explanations at the commerce guild, it seems that this country was more rural and was quite backward. When I came here to get the patent for the tools, the process was quite exhausting. Furthermore, the income from the patent fee would be processed by the guild and automatically transferred. Registering with the commerce guild would allow me to open an account with them, thus all the fees would be transferred to that account. Apparently, the account could be accessed from other guilds too since the various guilds had business dealing with each other, so money could still be withdrawn even if it was a completely different guild. So in my case, I could access it even at the adventurer’s guild. Unlike the adventurer’s guild, it seems that the commerce guild required an annual membership fee, but if you allowed it to be withdrawn from your account, you wouldn’t have to come to pay for it and it would be automatically deducted. But the investigation process was quite long when I was registering for the patent, so I guess it’s quite nice that I don’t have to come to pay fees? Seriously, the eyes of the surrounding merchants are scary. I wasn’t expecting them to recognize me as the person who made tonkatsu back in Harula and the one at the poultry farming village. There were even suspicions about me being the rumored witch of the forest, scary! But I managed to mislead them into thinking that the matters regarding the witch of the forest was just something that happened close to me. And so, I didn’t want to come to the commerce guild anymore because of that. Or rather, I was worried about running into the toad-faced merchant if I frequented the commerce guild too much. ......He wouldn’t send pursers after me, right? Depending on the case, I might have to consider running away, but I had already rented a smithy, so it would be really annoying to do so. For now, I guess I’ll just wait and see......but I’ll prepare so that I’m able to escape anytime. I’ve been doing a lot of things based upon the surrounding mood, so I have to be a little more careful.......I don’t want to stand out. No, for real. Additionally, the rank of the commerce guild increases when revenue and taxes paid to the commerce guild and to the country generated from a guild member’s business exceeds a specific amount for a year. For me, since it would be automatically deducted from the income from the patent fee, it seems it was alright to leave it alone. Well, it seems that sometimes I would have to visit to update my rank and such.....but if possible, I don’t really want to come back...... Despite such troubles, I still had time to forge swords and such afterward. Later that day, I took a break before noon and went outside the workshop for a bit. There was a door behind the main building that led outside of the perimeter walls of the workshop. Exiting from there would then lead to a back alley. The other end of the back alley was fenced and the open sky could be seen beyond. In other words, there was a highland ahead, or a cliff so to say. When I placed my hands on the fence and looked down, I could see the roofs of the houses below. If I fell from here, I would get seriously injured, the difference in elevation was quite large so I had to be careful not to fall. However, since there was a solid fence around here, it seems that if someone fell from here, it would be considered their own fault, and the person who fell would probably go down as a laughingstock. Apparently, there also wouldn’t be any compensation from the country even if someone fell from here. As such, let’s be careful. But being here is like standing on top of a hill, the wind feels very nice. Should I take a break near the fence? There were benches set up at regular intervals, and it seems people would sit and rest here despite it being an alley. Even though it was located in such a place, it didn’t mean there weren’t any people, so I was naturally wearing my cloak. Norn was also next to me. And the wind really did feel nice. It might be a good idea to take a break here from now on. “Fwah~” Woah, I let out a weird voice. “Um, you came out from there, are you perhaps an apprentice of the workshop?” Huh!? Did my weird voice get heard!? No way, how embarrassing! “Ah, what? No, that’s not it.” “Huh? Is that so? But you came out from there......” “Oh, I see.....if that’s the case, then I guess it won’t be possible......” The person looked disappointed and depressed. It wasn’t like I did anything wrong, but for some reason, I felt guilty. And the person was giving off quite a depressing atmosphere. Hmm... “Um.....is there something troubling you?” This is something that should never be asked. It’s a flag. I know this will bring something troublesome. But I asked since I was Japanese. And above all, the person is a child..... “Eh?” “Is there anything that’s troubling you?” “Oh, no......how should I put this? That is, I’m still just a newbie adventurer.......” The adventurer’s guild and craftsmen guild operated on a mutual assistance contract system. The contract was that new adventurers and new craftsmen would help each other to improve their own skills. For example, new adventurers might not have enough money for equipment. Good equipment would cost a bit of money. Furthermore, equipment would be considered consumables. Likewise, it would be similar for apprentice blacksmiths. The person would be a new blacksmith who only just recently began forging. As such, they wouldn’t be able to afford materials. They also wouldn’t be allowed to use the smithies whenever they pleased. And even if they made something, there wasn’t a method to test its actual performance or usability. But the mutual assistance contract would allow such new adventurers and craftsmen to make up for each other’s needs. Adventurers could get necessary weapons and armor at low prices or for free. And craftsmen would be able to test the performance of the products they made. Adventurers could also provide the materials craftsmen would need at low prices or for free, and thus obtain new weapons, armor, and more experience. Craftsmen would also be able to experience working with new materials, and through learning about the performance and usability of their products, make improvements, and thus improve their own skills. As a result, they would be able to make up for each other’s lack of money, gain experience, and improve together. Hence the mutual assistance contract. However, there were also disadvantages. The abilities of new adventurers were limited. Sudden death was inevitable. Naturally, they wouldn’t be in possession of many skills either. Thus, gathering the required materials wasn’t easy. The same applied to new craftsmen, since they were only mere apprentices. The performance and reliability of the products created weren’t well-established. Sometimes, they could even suddenly break during a battle. Therefore, there was a clause in the mutual assistance contract that both parties would not be held responsible for the life and death of the other. Even if you died, it would be your own fault. There were also clauses regarding the companions of dead adventurers. In the case that a fellow adventurer died due to equipment failure, taking action upon the craftsmen who signed the mutual assistance contract wasn’t allowed. Naturally, breaking the agreement would result in penalties. However, if too many fatal accidents occurred, the penalties would be applied to the craftsmen. Thus, signing a mutual assistance contract would mean agreeing to these trade-offs. Apparently, the girl in front of me had been wandering around the blacksmith district every day, looking for someone to sign the mutual assistance contract with. The rapid manner the girl spoke in, how she would keep rambling on, and yet still be able to convey her meaning. .....She hasn’t changed. She’s just like before. She had light blonde hair, and the length was at the point where the hair could be neatly tied into a single, small bun. But before, she used to have long hair. Her skin was darker than I remembered. I guess she became tanner? But her sharp blue eyes were the same as before, a look full of willpower. ......Right, I know this girl. “......And so, considering the burden on the children who left the orphanage together with me, I thought it would be best to look for someone to sign a mutual assistance contract? But how would I find someone like that to begin with? Haa, how troubling.” It seems that after becoming years old, she left the orphanage with some other children of the same age to become adventurers. Originally, the orphanage we were from would allow us to stay until we reached 5 years old. But she and the others had chosen to leave the orphanage to make space for children younger than them. “I thought it would be manageable, but I wasn’t able to tell herbs apart from each other. And with good armor, I’m able to fight against goblins and lesser wolves, but my weapon didn’t hold up at all.” She had a worn-out looking dagger on her waist. Although it was sheathed, the various tears all over it made it was obvious how much hardships she had been through. Her hands were also quite worn-out. All the children in the orphanage had somewhat rough-looking hands, but their hands were still in much better shape than her hands. “I understand I brought this upon myself, but I still think that with a mutual assistance contract, it’ll be alright! And if it goes well, I might even be able to ask for weapons for the other children. perhaps?” She hasn’t changed at all. She’s just like in the past. She was always looking after everyone and taking the extra burden upon herself. “......You haven’t changed at all, Triela.” She looked at me with widened eyes. The look in her eyes was the same as back at the orphanage, and for some reason, it felt relieving.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 2, "inserted_lines_src": 14, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
確かなことは同年代の中ではすっかり注目の的になったということだ。「いやもうほんとどうしてこうなった」されて困ってるのはヴェルナーぐらいじゃないかな」魔族討伐の功績で勲功に選ばれたマゼルが応じる。本来ならマゼル褒められなきゃいけないはずだが。ゲームのシナリオに狂いが生じてるのは確かだろう。そもそもあの戦いの後でパーティー開く余裕なんかなかったはずだし。王太子が死んでるんだからな。いや本当ならこれからも魔族や魔王関連の事件は頻発するからパーティーどころじゃないんだが、それを何で知ってるのかって話になると何も言えん。なおその王太子は国王と同じく早々に引っ込んだ。何かほかの仕事があるのかも知れないが雲の上過ぎて解らん。それにしてもこっちは貴族の礼服でマゼルは学生服なのにあっちの方が格好いいのはどういうことだ。神が差別してるとしか思えないんだが。神の存在を信じてなくても神の差別を信じるのは矛盾か? 「探せばほかにも一人ぐらい......いないか」「いないと思う。学園でうらやましがる人はいると思うけど」マゼルの奴は他人事である。まあ普通はそうか。だが俺個人の知識でいえば状況は最悪だ。学生だから王都から長時間離れられないし、爵位を預かった以上王城にいる可能性も高くなる。要するにあのイベントの時に城内にいる可能性が上がったわけで。「胃が痛ぇ」「僕は昨日のほうが胃が痛かったんだけどな」とてもそうは見えないが多少緊張から解放された雰囲気はある。やっぱり礼儀を気にはしてたのか。その割に陛下とのやり取りは教科書に載ってもいいぐらいだったがな。なんでもそつなくこなすのも主人公チートかねえ。まあ飯を食う気はないので胃が痛いのは好都合か。そんなことを思っていたら礼服を着た壮年の男性が近づいてきた。見覚えのある顔。ノルポト侯爵だ。「ヴェルナー・ファン・ツェアフェルト卿、まずは祝いの言を述べさせてもらう所だな」「恐縮でございます、ノルポト侯爵」まずは、か。ああ、やっぱりなというのが正直な感想である。ここは先に謝る場面か。「それと、先日の戦陣では大変失礼をいたしました。謹んでお詫び申し上げます」「ほう」いやその反応、わかってて言ってるだろ。とは言え順序でいえば俺のほうが先だし問題行為は事実だから頭を下げておく。隣のマゼルが頭にクエスチョンマークを浮かべてるが事情を知らないから当然だな。そんなことを考えてたらノルポト侯がふっと笑った。ダンディなオジサマがやると様になるな。どうして俺の周りは美男率が高いのか。「解っているのであればよい。王太子殿下からも言われておるしな」「殿下が?」「相手は若いのだから咎めるのもほどほどにしておけ、と釘を刺されていた。それでも驕っているようなら一言言おうとは思っていたが、必要はなさそうだ」ひえー、何か王太子殿下のお気に入り扱いじゃんか。どうすんだよこれ。「ツェアフェルト伯爵はよいご子息をお持ちのようだ。今後も期待しているぞ」「お心遣いに感謝いたします」もう一度頭を下げてから頭上げるとノルポト侯爵が歩み去っていくのが見えた。正直ほっとした。「何がどういう事?」「あー、まあ、簡単に言うとだ」ちゃんと空気を読んで疑問をこらえていたマゼルの質問に事情を説明する。要するに敵の釣り野伏に気が付いた後、直接王太子の本陣に行ったのが軍隊のシステムでいえば問題なのだ。本来なら左翼指揮官のノルポト侯に報告を上げてノルポト侯から本陣に連絡が行くのが正道なのだから。「でもそれだと危なかったんじゃない?」「実際危なかったと思う。ノルポト侯爵を説得する時間がもったいなかった」とは言えルール違反はルール違反だ。課長代理ぐらいが部長を無視して社長に話持って行ったんだから手順で言えばとんでもない。咎められて当然、と言うわけだな。「功績上げればルール違反が許される、じゃ軍隊としての規律が保てなくなる」「なるほどねえ......」マゼルが妙な目でこっちを見る。なんだその眼は。こっちみんなのAAでも顔に張り付けてやろうか。「ヴェルナー、本当に同い年? 僕は説明されるまで何も解らなかったよ」「人生経験の差かもな」そんな事を話していたらどやどやと人が集まってきた。魔族退治の勇者殿に顔をつなぎたい貴族が待ちかねていたんだろう。しばらくは忙しい事になりそうだ。 ......なってしまった。	What I know is that currently we have become celebrities among our peers. “Sigh... Really, how did things become like this?” “Welner, you’re the only person who will complain after being given a peerage, you know.” Mazell, whose contribution earned him third place in the award ceremony, said. In the game, Mazell was the first place, not the Crown Prince. As I expected, deviation from the game scenario has appeared. A banquet like this also didn’t happen in the game. Well, with the death of the Crown Prince, who would have been in the mood to hold a banquet? Even now, it’s not the right time to hold a banquet. After all, the demon king is in the midst of his revival. Not that anyone knows about it. Even if I go on my way to announce it, I won’t be able to answer where I got this information. Regarding the banquet itself, the Crown Prince and the King had already left. Maybe they need to take care of the kingdom’s matter or something, I don’t know. Why does that punk Mazell look more handsome while wearing a student’s uniform compared to me who has worn the gallant formal suit? God sure is unfair. Not that I believe God exists. “No way, it’s just me! If you properly search...” “If you properly search, you’re only going to find that other students envy you.” Mazell said. It makes sense that being bestowed on a peerage is an honor for others, but for me, it’s the worst thing that can happen. First of all, it’s already bad enough that it’s hard for me to leave the capital for a long time as a student. Now, my chances of being in the royal palace, the heart of that event, just increased. “My stomach hurts...” “Now you know how I felt yesterday, don’t you.” Now that I looked closely, Mazell seems to be more relaxed compared to yesterday. Despite everything that I had said before, it seems like Mazell was really nervous yesterday because of his manner. So he can converse that well with His Majesty yesterday despite being nervous, eh. I remember thinking that the scene of Mazell conversing with His Majesty is good enough to be included in a future history book. Being able to do everything perfectly seems to be included in the protagonist’s cheat. Well, my number one problem right now is this stomach ache. It did come at a perfect time, though, since I had no intention to eat anything at this banquet. Suddenly, a familiar man wearing a ceremonial suit approached me. It’s Marquis Norporth. “Sir Welner von Zevert. First of all, let me extend my congratulations on your new peerage.” “Thank you, Marquis Norporth.” , it means there’s more. Arghh... Is it about that? Let’s just apologize first. “Also, please accept my apology for my actions in the previous battle.” “Hm...” Did he or did he not accept my apology? Anyway, I just lowered my head. I was the one who was in the wrong after all. After I raised my head, I could see Mazell’s confused face. I stayed silent and waited for Marquis Norporth’s next word. What I got is the low hearty laugh of this dandy uncle. He looks handsome when laughing. Why is the ratio of handsome men near me so high? “It’s fine as long as you understand. I also need to honor His Highness’s request.” “His Highness’s request?” “His Highness requested me not to be too harsh on you as you’re still young. Despite His Highness’ request, I came here prepared to scold you if you let your achievement go over your head, but it seems like it’s a needless worry.” Wha- Did I just enter His Highness’s good grace? What should I do... “Count Zeavert is lucky to have such an excellent heir. I will be looking forward to your future.” “Thank you for your praise.” I bowed again. When I raised my head, Marquis Norporth was gone. Fyuh... “So, what just happened?” “Well, to put it simply...” I explained the situation at that time to Mazell who had to repress his question until now. After I noticed the enemy was using Tsurinobuse, I immediately went to the main camp to report to the Crown Prince. That’s the problem. According to the army’s chain of command, I should have reported to the left flank commander, Marquis Norporth. Then, the marquis should be the one that contacted the Crown Prince. “But if you did that, won’t it become more dangerous?” “Yeah. That’s why I went straight to His Highness because I don’t have any time to persuade Marquis Norporth.” Still, I ignored the rule. This is the same as I, a representative of the sectional manager, skipped the department head and immediately reported to the CEO. That’s ignoring the proper procedure. “But if someone is allowed to ignore the rule because that person had some achievement, the order of the army will collapse.” “I see...” Mazell stared at me like I was some kind of alien. Can I slap the ‘stop looking at me!’ meme on his face? “Welner, are we really the same age? I understand why Marquis Norporth came here only after your explanation, so how did you...” “That’s called the difference between our life experiences.” As we were talking, other people started to gather around us. The nobles that want to form ties with the hero must have exhausted their patience. We might get busy for a while... ...and we did.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 2, "inserted_lines_src": 12, "inserted_lines_trg": 1 }
アンワルによる華々しい試みと、彼に対する有罪判決および権力の乱用により、イスラム教志向のマレー人の間で、反 UMNO および反マハティール感情の支持が拡大し、reformasi (改革) 運動が活発化した。これは最終的には、1999 年 11 月の支配連合政権の惨憺たる選挙結果につながった。	Anwar’s bizarre trial and sentencing on charges of sodomy and abuse of power invigorated the reformasi movement, as growing anti-UMNO and anti-Mahathir sentiments took hold among Islamic-minded Malays. This culminated in poor electoral results for the ruling coalition in November 1999.	{ "source": "news_commentary", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
で熱が下がってすっかり元気になった。病気になったら普段健康でいられる事の有難みがよく分かるわ。昨日のデューク様の......、人命救助の事はあまり深く考えないでおきましょ。それよりも問題は、魔法学園にもうヒロインがいるって事よ。一番重要な事なのにすっかり忘れていたわ。忘れていた事を今更悔いてもしょうがないわ。でも、アルバートお兄様からヒロインの話を一回も聞いた事がないのよね。平民で全魔法を使えるって相当噂になるはずだわ。けど、ヒロインって特待生だから関係ないわよね。ああ、どうなっているのか気になるわ......。アルバートお兄様に聞いて、どうして知りたいの? とか言われたら困るわ。 ......こうなったら魔法学園に侵入するしかないわね! 情報収集は自分でしないとね。悪女たるもの人に頼ってはだめよ。侵入すればヒロインを生で見る事が出来るし、それに侵入って悪い事だから......、一よ。ああ、ヒロインについに会えるのね。長い道のりだったわ。胸が高鳴るわ。開いた口が塞がらないわ。ゲームで外見は知っていたけど、生で見たら迫力が凄いわ。窓がステンドグラスって、誰かがボール遊びして割れたらどうするのかしら。私は馬から下りて正門の方へ向かった。正門から入って大丈夫なのかしら? 捕まったりしないわよね? でも裏門からコソコソ行くのは嫌なのよね。悪女は堂々としておかないと! それに魔法学園の生徒以外立ち入り禁止なんて聞いた事ないもの。私は背筋を伸ばして門を潜ろうとした。「君!」私は満面の笑みを浮かべて守衛らしき人を見た。この人は普通の人間なのかしら? 「君はここの生徒じゃないだろう?」「ええ」「それじゃあ、入ったらダメだ」あら、魔法学園の生徒以外立ち入り禁止なの? それならそうとゲームの説明書に書いておいて欲しかったわ。本当はこんな卑怯な手は使いたくなかったのだけれど......。「私はウィリアムズ家のアリシアですわ。お兄様の忘れ物を届けに来たのよ。それを追い返すつもり?」守衛らしき人の顔が急に青ざめていく。さっきまでニコニコしていた少女が睨んできだけでそんなに怯えた顔をされるなんて......。嬉しすぎるわ。そんな顔をしてくださり有難うございます。自分が悪女だって実感できますわ。「ウィリアムズ家の......」ん? もしかして私がウィリアムズ家だからって理由で怯えたの? さっきの喜びを返してほしいわ。なんだかとても残念な気分よ。結局家の名前なのね。「どうぞ、お入りください」私は気分が沈んだまま校舎へ向かった。	There’s nothing like being sick to make you realize just how grateful you are to be healthy. With a newly clear head I decide that what happened yesterday with Duke-Sama.... that mouth-to-mouth moment.... I probably shouldn’t think too deeply about it. More than that, what I really need to be focusing on is the fact that the heroine is already attending the magic academy. Even though that news should be the most important, it had somehow completely slipped my mind. I feel regretful over the wasted time, but there’s nothing that I can do about it at this point. I’ll just have to think extra hard about it from now on. Starting with the current state of affairs. I wonder what’s been happening? By now, the heroine should have definitely become close to all of the capture targets, right? But the odd thing is, I still haven’t heard Albert-Oniisama mention the heroine even once yet. I’m starting to wonder if she really did enter the academy or not. The rumors of a commoner who’s capable of wielding every type of magic already should have spread. So, what happened? Don’t tell me she suddenly lost all her money and so she ended up not being able to attend. ....No, wait, the heroine was a scholarship student anyway, so that shouldn’t have anything to do with it. Ahh, I’m so curious.....! I really want to ask Albert-Oniisama but if he questions me about why I want to know then I’ll really be in a bind. It’s not like I can just honestly tell him that it’s because I’m excited to start bullying her. ....If there’s no other way to find out, I’ll just have to infiltrate the academy! And I guess this is for the best. Gathering information really should be done personally after all. Since a villainess needs to be independent, she can’t rely on others for these sorts of things. Plus, if I go myself, then I’ll finally get to see the heroine in the flesh, and since trespassing is also considered a wicked act.... it’s like killing two birds with one stone! Ahh, I’ll finally get to see the heroine! It’s been such a long time in coming. My heart is beating faster just thinking about it! I’m in awe. I know my mouth is wide open, but I can’t help it. Just how much did it cost to build this this place....!? I saw the academy’s façade during the game of course, but those images can’t even compare to how impressive it is in person. All the windows are made of stained glass.... Stained glass! At a school! What are they going to do if someone’s playing ball nearby and ends up breaking something? I dismount from my horse and head off towards the front gate. ....I wonder if it’s okay for me to enter from there? They won’t detain me or arrest me or anything, right? But I really don’t want to sneak in through the back entrance. A villainess always needs to act in a grand and imposing manner! Besides, I’ve never heard that the academy was off limits for non-students or staff. So I’m sure it’ll be fine. I’ll just go confidently in through the front. I straighten my back and stride towards the gate. “Hey, you!” And I am called out in an instant. “Yes? What is it?” I bring a smile onto my face and turn to look at the likely security guard. Could he be a regular person? I doubt he’s a noble.... “You aren’t a student here, right?” “Nope.” “Then you can’t go in.” Oh? So the school premises really do have restricted access for all non-related personnel? If that’s the case, I really wish the game would have mentioned that in its explanation of the setting. I guess I’ll have to resort to plan B. I really didn’t want to have to use this type of cowardly method.... “I’m Alicia, from the Williams family. I came to bring my brother something he forgot at home. Do you mean to stop me?” I ask, glaring self-righteously at the man. It’s a lie though, of course. His face pales instantly. To think that he would be this scared after just being glared at by a previously smiley little girl.... I’m over the moon. Thank you so much for showing off such a frightened expression for me. It’s like confirmation that I truly have become a villainess. “The Williams family’s.....” the security guard whispers while backing away. Huh? Could it be that he was frightened simply because I’m from the Williams family? I’ll be taking back my previous thanks. Somehow, knowing that it wasn’t me who made him quake in terror leaves a bad taste in my mouth. In the end, it was only my family name that mattered to him. “Please, go on in.” Still in a foul mood, I stride through the gate and stalk off towards the school building.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 1, "inserted_lines_src": 13, "inserted_lines_trg": 1 }
マルグリットは俺の説明を真剣な表情で聞いていた。右手はゴランに抱えられた徒弟の腕をやさしく撫でている。「真祖......なんということなの」とハイロードと魔装機械であるぞ!」ケーテはどこか自慢げだ。尻尾の揺れもいつにもまして激しい。「はっきり言って、マルグリットの手勢では返り討ちだっただろう」ゴランが真面目な顔で言う。「そうね、完全に見誤っていたわ。私と諜報機関の致命的なミスね」素直にマルグリットは反省している。セルリスの素直さは母親譲りなのかもしれない。反省したあと、マルグリットは向こうの事情を説明してくれた。マルグリットの徒弟が誘拐されたので、駐在武官と私兵を率いて救出に来たのだと言う。もちろん、リンゲイン王国の許可を得たうえでの行動だ。むしろリンゲイン王国は騎士たちを貸そうと準備してくれていたらしい。だが、マルグリットは時間がないと急いだのだ。マルグリットは侯爵で特命全権大使だがAランクの魔法剣士でもある。「ロードだという情報だったから、私たちだけでやれると判断してしまったわ」「ママ、本当によかったわね」セルリスの言うとおりだ。奇跡的な幸運だ。そして、エリックの方もほっと胸をなでおろしていた。全権特命大使が兵を率いてきていた事情が、重大な政治的事情ではなかったからだろう。「エリックのことは伏せて、リンゲイン政府には報告するわね。いいかしら?」ここまでのことがあった以上、報告しないわけにはいかない。真祖に率いられた大量のヴァンパイア、昏竜に魔装機械だ。国防にかかわる。「ああ、頼めるか? 苦労を掛ける」「気にしないで、エリック。リンゲインとの折衝は得意分野よ」そう言ってマルグリットは微笑んだ。マルグリットの持つ爵位、シュミット侯爵はリンゲイン王族ゆかりだ。その関係もあり、マルグリットはリンゲインの王侯貴族に知己が多い。だからこそ、全権大使に任命されたのだ。そのころやっとマルグリットの部下たちが戻ってきた。「屋敷には敵影は見つかりませんでした」「ありがとう。魔石は?」「はい。こちらになります。あとメダルのようなものや魔道具も集めておきました」部下たちは優秀なようだ。屋敷の外で倒した昏竜の魔石や魔装機械の残骸も持ってきている。「ロック、検分お願いするわ。この中では一番得意でしょう?」「そうだな。調べてみよう。ケーテとシアも頼む」「わかったのである」「任せるであります」ケーテとシアは元気に返事をすると、検分作業に入った。俺も検分しながらマルグリットに向けて言う。「魔道具はケーテも詳しいし、ヴァンパイア関連のものならシアは俺より詳しい」「そうなのね、すばらしいわ」「そうなのである。詳しいのだ!」「それほどでもないであります」ケーテとシアは口では正反対のことを言いながら、尻尾は同じように揺らしている。「ところで、マルグリット。ここはどこなんだ?」「リンゲイン王都から徒歩の位置にある、とある貴族の屋敷ね」「......その貴族は?」「謀反の嫌疑をかけられて連行されそうになったのだけど、その際に自害したわ」本当に謀反の計画を立てていたのか、政敵に嵌められたのかはわからない。そして、それはリンゲイン王国の問題だ。俺が何かすることではない。「俺たちが何か調べるわけには行かないし、リンゲインの調査頼みになるな」エリックの言うとおりだ。勝手に調べたりしたら、内政干渉と捉えられかねない。情報交換を済ませた後、戦利品も分配する。戦利品としてというよりも、敵の状況の調査材料としての分配だ。「本当はお金も支払うべきなんでしょうけど」「それは気にしなくていい」「で、あなたたちはどうやって帰るの?」「敵の使っていた転移魔法陣を修復して使う予定だ」「そんなことができるの?」マルグリットの問いになぜかケーテがどや顔で答える。「普通は出来ないのであるが、ロックならできるであろう!」「そうねロックさんならできるわ!」セルリスも少し嬉しそうに言う。「それは......確かにそうかもしれないわね」マルグリットはそう言ってから考え込む。「マルグリット。もしかして再利用を考えているのか」「そうね。行き来できるなら便利でしょう?」「確かに便利だが、国防上の重大な問題になりそうだが」エリックの懸念はもっともだ。「それもロックに隠ぺいを頼めば何とかなるだろう」「ゴランの言う通りなのである。それに、もしばれても風竜王のせいにしてもいいのだ」人族の国境に竜の王族は縛られない。ケーテがやったといえば、それ以上文句をつけることは難しいかもしれない。「そういうことなら、開通させた後、リンゲインの王都近くに設置しにいこうか?」「ロック。どのくらいかかりそう?」マルグリットが期待のこもった目で見つめてくる。開通すればセルリスと頻繁に会えるようになる。それが嬉しいのだろう。「開通には、結構かかると思ってくれ」「時間がかかってもいいわ。とても嬉しい」そう言うとマルグリットは微笑んだ。	Marguerite listened to my explanation with a serious expression. At the same time, she used her right hand to gently stroke the arm of the apprentice that Goran was carrying. “A True Ancestor...what does this mean...” “And there are Evil Dragons, High Lords and magic machines!” Kathe said boastfully. Her tail was wagging even more than usual. “To be frank, I think you and your soldiers would have been driven back.” Goran said seriously. “Yes. I misjudged the enemy completely. I and the intelligence organization have made a terrible mistake.” Marguerite admitted honestly. Perhaps Serulis had inherited her honest personality from her mother. After that, Marguerite explained to us what was happening on her side. As Marguerite’s apprentice had been abducted, she had led a group of soldiers and came to the rescue. Of course, this action was taken with the permission of the Ringain Kingdom. If anything, the Ringain Kingdom had been preparing to send their own knights with her. However, Marguerite had felt that there was no time, and had rushed on ahead. Marguerite was a Marquess and an ambassador, but she was also an A-Rank magic sword fighter. “Our information said that they were just Lords, and so I decided that we could handle it on our own.” “Mother, thank goodness we were here.” Serulis was right. It was miraculous how good her luck was. Eric also breathed a sigh of relief. Though, it was mostly because the reason that the ambassador had come here with an army of soldiers was not due to some important political issue. “I will leave Eric out of my report to the Ringain government then. Is that alright?” Considering what had happened here, she could not avoid making a report. A swarm of vampires, Evil Dragons and magic machines that were led by a True Ancestor. It was a matter of national defense. “Aye, will you do that? I would greatly appreciate it.” “Don’t worry about it, Eric. I’m very good when it comes to negotiating with Ringain.” Marguerite said with a smile. Marguerite’s title, Marquess Schmitt, was from a family that was closely connected with the Ringain royal family. And due to this relation, Marguerite was acquainted with many of the royal nobles. That was why she was appointed as ambassador. After some time, Marguerite’s men finally returned. “We found no traces of any surviving enemies in the mansion.” “Thank you. And the magic stones?” “Yes. Here they are. We also gathered these medals and magic tools.” Her men were quite capable, it seemed. They had even brought magic stones from the Evil Dragons that we killed outside of the mansion, as well as the remains of the magic machines. “Locke, please inspect them. You’re the best at doing it, aren’t you?” “That’s true. I’ll look into them. Kathe and Shia will help me.” “I understand.” Kathe and Shia replied cheerfully, and so we got to work. As I inspected them, I talked to Marguerite. “Kathe is quite knowledgeable about magic tools, and Shia knows more about vampires than me.” “Is that so? How wonderful.” “It is so. I know a lot!” Kathe and Shia said the exact opposite things, but their tails wagged just the same. “By the way, Marguerite. Where are we?” “In a certain nobleman’s mansion that is located about three days from the Ringain royal capital on foot.” “...Who is this noble?” “He was arrested on suspicion of planning a rebellion, and then confessed everything.” Was he really planning such a thing, or had he been framed by political enemies? I did not know. Regardless, it was Ringain’s problem. There was nothing for me to do. “It’s not like we can go and investigate. And so we must rely on Ringain.” Eric was right. If we start doing things on our own, it will be seen as interfering with domestic affairs. After we finished exchanging information, we split up the spoils. Though, they were less spoils and more like materials that would be used to investigate the current state of the enemy. “But it would probably be right to pay in gold...” “Don’t worry about it.” “So, how are you all going to get back?” “The plan is to repair the teleportation circle that the enemy was using.” “You can do such a thing?” Marguerite asked. Kathe replied with a smug expression. “Most people would not be able to do it, but surely Locke can!” “Yes, surely Mister Locke can do it!” Serulis agreed happily. “Well...that is likely true.” Marguerite said, and then seemed to get lost in her thoughts. “Marguerite. Are you thinking about using it again?” “Yes. Wouldn’t it be convenient to be able to travel back and forth?” “It would be convenient, but surely it would also be considered a problem in terms of national security.” Eric said worriedly. “I think that can be solved if Locke uses some concealment magic.” “Goran is right. Besides, even if they find out, you can just blame it on the Wind Dragon King.” Royal dragons were not bound by the borders of human countries. If they said that Kathe had done it, no one would be able to complain. “If that’s the case, after it is opened, should I go and place it near the Ringain royal capital?” “Locke. How long do you think it will take?” Marguerite looked at me with hopeful eyes. If it was opened up, she would be able to meet Serulis often. And that would make her very happy. “You should expect it to take awhile.” “I don’t mind if it takes some time. I’m just very happy.” Marguerite said with a smile.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 1, "inserted_lines_trg": 2 }
「今はまだいいが、10階から先となると、時間がかかって仕方ないだろうな」ミトロフは空いた場所に荷物を下ろしながら、カヌレに言った。「そうでしょうね、目的階に行くだけでも日が過ぎてしまいそうです」ようやく地下10階にたどり着いたところである。階段前の小部屋は他の階に比べても広く、いつ来ても大勢の冒険者が思い思いに休んでいる。落ち着ける壁際に人が集まるため、中央はたいてい空白地になっていて、ロの字型に冒険者たちが陣取る形である。浅い階層では休憩している冒険者の数も少なく、ほとんどは布を敷いて座る程度だった。しかし10階の休憩広場では、隅にテントを張って休んでいる者もいれば、すっかり装備を脱いでしまって平服で食事をしている姿も見かける。すぐに帰るつもりがない証である。迷宮は深く、道中には魔物が蔓延り、地上との行き帰りには時間が掛かる。深くまで潜るとなれば、何泊という長旅になってしまうだろう。延々とこの地下迷宮から出られないとなると気が滅入ってしまいそうだ、とミトロフがぼやくと、隣で休んでいた冒険者が笑った。「なんだ、坊主、知らねえのか」中年の男である。短く刈り込んだ髪と顎髭には白いものが混じっている。目尻は下がり、瞼は眠たげだった。それが男の雰囲気を柔らかくしている。「知らない、とは?」「10階を攻略すれば”羽印”がもらえるのは知ってらあな?」「ああ、受付嬢が教えてくれた。それ前の区切りだ、と」「じゃあなんで”羽印”だと思う?」それは、とミトロフは言いかける。初心者のことを“羽つき(ルービー)“と呼ぶ。ルービーという鳥は、特徴的な赤い羽が抜け落ちると成鳥になる......。男はミトロフの言おうとしたことを先読みしたように首を横に振った。「違う違う。10階を超えたら、冒険者は文字通りの”羽”を手に入れるのさ」まるで謎かけである。それはどういう意味か、とミトロフが首を捻ると、短髪の冒険者の向こう隣に座っていた男が口を挟んだ。「おい、また新人に”講座”を開いてやってんのか」短剣に砥石をかけながら、その男はミトロフに顔を向けた。「こいつはな、ここで座って待っちゃ、新人が来るとその話をするんだ。どういうことですか? 教えてください! そう言われるのが楽しみでずっと10階にいるんだよな?」「おい、俺を性根の腐った変人みたいに言うんじゃねえよ!」「自分のことをよく分かってるじゃねえか」「うるせえ! 俺みたいな剣士は剣角兎の相手が苦手なんだよ!」「じゃあ早くパーティーメンバーでも見つけろよ!」「仕方ねえだろ! こんな中年のおっさんが声掛けたら怪しいんだから!」「かーっ、自信も魅力もない中年ってのは情けないねえ!」普段から親しみ深いらしい。ふたりは立ち尽くすミトロフとカヌレのことなど気にした様子もなく、言葉の応酬を激しくした。「大昇降機があるんだよ」ちょうど通りがかった獣人の女性が軽く教えてくれた。「悪いね、会話が聞こえちまってさ。ほら、耳がいいから」と指差すのは、頭部からぴょこんと生えた獣耳である。「あ! なんで俺の代わりに教えてるんだよ! ばか!」「ばかはあんたたちだろう。新人を捕まえてなにを下らない話を聞かせてんだい。若い子はあんたらほど暇じゃないんだよ。働きな」うわ、とミトロフが一歩引いてしまう舌鋒だった。男たちは途端に熱気を収め、しゅんと首を垂れてしまう。「ひどい......ひどすぎる......気にしてるのに......」「そこまで言わなくたって......なあ......?」「そうやってふたりで仲良く傷を舐め合ってな」一瞥で切り捨てて、獣人の女性はミトロフに向き直った。表情はころりと変わり、人好きのする軽やかな笑みを浮かべている。「あまり知られちゃいないが、迷宮には縦穴があってね、地上には大昇降機が据えられてんのさ。もちろん金は取られるが、深いところに行くにはこれほど便利なものはない」ほう、とミトロフは感心した。「それは、魔法で作られたものなのか?」「さあて、小難しいことはあたしには分からないよ。使えるから使う。そんなもんさ」「遺物だよ、遺物」「あんなすっげえもんを動かすんだ、古代人の叡智に違いねえよ」「まるで乗った事があるみたいに言うね?」「お前さ、俺にひどくない?」短髪男のしゅんとした横顔を見て、短剣を持った男が「だはは」と笑った。手の中で器用にくるりと回し、指で研ぎ具合を確かめながら、説明を継いだ。「ありゃギルドのお宝のひとつだからさ、詳しいことは誰も知らねえのよ。”遺物”で動いてるだとか、天才が作った”ジョウキ”だとか、噂は聞くけどな。大事なのは、下まであっという間に降りれるってことだよ」と獣耳の女性が言う。「そう、金を払えば歩く必要がない。まるで羽が生えたように、上から下へ、下から上に思うがままってわけだ」「なるほど、それが”羽”というわけか。勉強になる」ミトロフの堅苦しい言い方にの冒険者たちは顔を見合わせた。それぞれに一瞬、目を交わし、しかしそれで終わりである。冒険者というのは誰もが何かしら事情を抱えているものである。深くは訊かない。それが冒険者同士の暗黙の了解でもあった。「ま、いくら10階を越えたって、時間さえ掛けりゃ往復できるんだ。大昇降機を使わねえ奴らも多いんだぜ」気を取り直したように短髪の男が言う。指さしたのは、小部屋の向かいに張られたテントである。「高いからなあ。使うにしても片道分だけで済ませるやつが多いよな」「そりゃタダにしてごらんよ。あんたみたいな能無しが樽いっぱいに乗りこんで落っこっちまうさ」「言い過ぎじゃねえか!?」獣耳の女が笑い、短剣の男が笑い、揶揄われた短髪の男も言い返しながら笑っている。それを見て、ミトロフもまた笑った。後ろでひっそり、カヌレの堪えたような笑い声がしているのも、ミトロフは聞いている。ミトロフとカヌレは休憩がてら、男たちと談笑を楽しんだ。三人は熟練の冒険者というわけではなく、転職してまだ数年と経っていないらしい。それでもミトロフよりははるかに迷宮に慣れている。ミトロフが未だ手放せない緊張感を、男たちは見事に捨て去っていた。それは悪い意味ではなく、休むべきときにはしっかりと休む、という意識の切り替えが上手いのだ。ミトロフは剣でも礼儀作法でもダンスでも、必ず家庭教師から教えを受けて育った。指導者がいて、それに従えば上達した。しかし今、冒険者がどうあるべきかという教えを授けてくれる教師はいない。あえて言えばグラシエに基礎を教わりはしたが、それはあくまでも序の序。いまだに知らぬこと分からぬことの方が多い。先達とこうして話すことは、ミトロフにとっても学びの多いことだった。三人は午前中に探索をしていたとのことで、まだしばらく休むという。では、また。と、再会を約束する挨拶を交わして、ミトロフとカヌレは迷宮の奥へと進むことにした。人の気配に溢れ、光に満ちた小部屋から離れるほどに、少しずつ心細さが染み込んでくる。そこから先は魔物の領域であり、弛んでいた緊張の糸を引き締め直す必要がある。ミトロフはいつでも抜けるようにレイピアの柄に右手を添える。視界の中に動くものがないかと目を凝らしながら、カヌレに話しかけた。「大昇降機か。迷宮にはすごいものがあるんだな」「はい。わたしも驚きました。どんな原理で動くものなのか......使えるようになれば、探索も楽になるでしょうね」「ああ。少なくない金がかかるらしいというのが、悩みどころだが」難しい顔で言うミトロフの声に、カヌレは鈴を転がすように、柔らかく笑った。「そうですね、家計簿に書く項目が増えてしまいますね」「今のところはちゃんと記録が続いている。食費が家計を圧迫していることが判明した」カヌレはまた笑う。「そう笑うな。ぼくは本腰を入れて痩せる必要がある気がしている」「そこまでお気になさらずとも。今のミトロフさまも素敵ですよ」カヌレの言葉に慰められはするが、その言葉に甘えてしまっていいものかと悩ましい。冒険者となってミトロフの運動量は飛躍的に増えたが、体重はあまり減っていない。「迷宮帰りの食事は、美味すぎるからな......」そう、美味いのである。迷宮の中で汗を流し、命を削り、疲れきった精神と肉体。そこにぶちこむ味の濃い屋台の飯は、まるで命が求めていたかのように美味い。そして胃袋に食い物を放り込む感覚のなんと素晴らしい満足感! はじめこそ食卓に並べられるような貴族の、いわばお上品な食事との違いに違和感もあったが、今ではミトロフもすっかり庶民の食事に慣れてしまった。塩気も香辛料も強い味付けは、迷宮で労働をしたあとの身体には不可欠なものである。冒険者は迷宮でのひどい緊張と精神の昂りを解消するために、特定の行為や行動に過剰にハマる傾向がある。ミトロフの場合は元々、食うことに集中していたこともあり、迷宮帰りには必ず暴食してしまう。夜な夜な、腹を叩いてはわずかに後悔してはいたのだが、その暴食ぶりが家計簿に数字となって記録してしまったがために、理性が大義名分を握ったように自分の本能を非難している。食い過ぎだぞ、と。しかしミトロフは食べることが好きなのだ。ほどよく、と制限することは、なかなか難しい問題だった。今日こそは節制した食事にするべきかと悩んでいたそのとき、廊下の先に浮かぶ影に、ミトロフが気づいた。	“Right now, it’s still okay, but once we get past the th floor, it’s going to take a while.” As Mitrof unloaded his bags in an open space, he spoke to Canule. “Yes, that’s right—It’s likely that just getting to the designated floor will take a whole day.” Finally, they arrived at the th floor. The small room in front of the staircase was larger than on the other floors, and many adventurers rested there at any given time. People tended to gather along the calm walls, leaving the center mostly empty, with adventurers forming a ▢ formation. On the shallower levels, there were only a few adventurers resting, with most just sitting on a cloth. However, on the th floor’s break area, some were resting in tents in the corners, while others had taken off their equipment and were eating in casual clothes. It was evident they didn’t plan on returning anytime soon. The labyrinth was deep, and monsters infested the paths, making the journey to and from the surface time-consuming. If they were to go deeper, it would become a long journey spanning several nights. Mitrof muttered that he would be depressed if he couldn’t get out of this underground labyrinth, and the adventurer next to him laughed. “What’s wrong, kid? Don’t you know?” The man was middle-aged, with white mixed into his short-cropped hair and chin stubble. The corners of his eyes drooped, and his eyelids looked drowsy, softening his appearance. “Don’t know what?” “You know you’ll get a ‘wing emblem’ if you conquer the th floor, right?” “Yeah, the receptionist told me that—she said it’s a milestone.” “Then why do you think it’s called a ‘wing emblem’?” That is what Mitrof goes on to say. intending to explain that beginners are called “rubi” and that the rubi bird, which has noticeable red feathers, loses them when it becomes an adult... But the man shook his head, as if anticipating Mitrof’s response. “No, no. After passing the 10th floor, adventurers literally get their own ‘wings’.” It was like a riddle. When Mitrof twisted his neck to ask what it meant, the man sitting next to the adventurer with short hair interjected. “Hey, are you still giving the ‘course’ to the newcomers?” As he sharpened his short sword with a whetstone, the man turned to face Mitrof. “This guy sits here and waits, and when a newcomer comes in, he talks about it—’What is that about? Please let me tell you!’—This guy has been on the 10th floor eagerly waiting for them every day, just for that.” “Hey, don’t talk about me like I’m some kind of depraved weirdo!” “You know yourself well.” “Shut up! Swordsmen like me are weak against swordhorn rabbits!” “Then hurry up and find some party members!” “What can I do?!—When a middle-aged man like me calls out to them, they get suspicious!” “Ha!—A middle-aged man with no confidence or charisma is just pathetic!” They seemed to have a close relationship as they exchanged sharp words, paying no attention to Mitrof and Canule standing still. “There’s a great elevator, you know.” A passing beastman woman casually informed them. “Sorry for overhearing—well, I have good hearing, you know.” Pointing to her head were animal ears that grew perkily from it. “Ah! Why are you telling him instead of me? You idiot!” “The idiot here is you guys—what are you doing, telling silly stories to the newcomers?—Young people aren’t as free as you—go to work.” The tongue was so sharp that Mitrof took a step back. The men suddenly became quiet and hung their heads. “That’s terrible... It’s too much...even though I’m concerned...” “You don’t have to say that...hey, right...?” “That’s how you two bond—by licking each other’s wounds.” The beast-woman cut them off with a glance, turning to face Mitrof. Her expression changed completely, and she showed a light, friendly smile. “Not many people know this, but there are vertical holes with the great elevator set up in the labyrinth up on the surface—of course, there’s a fee, but nothing is more convenient when you’re going into the deep parts.” “Wow,” Mitrof said, impressed. “Is it made with magic?” “Well, I don’t know complicated things like that—you just use it, that’s all.” “It’s a relic, a relic,” said the short-haired man. “It must have been the wisdom of the ancients to move such a huge thing.” “You say it as if you’ve ridden it before?” “Hey, are you being mean to me?” The man with the short sword laughed at the short-haired man’s sullen profile. He deftly spun the sword in his hand, checking the sharpness with his fingers as he continued to explain. “That’s one of the guild’s treasures—no one knows the details. It’s said to be powered by a relic or that some genius built it. The important thing is that it can take you down to the bottom in no time.” “If you pay the money,” said the woman with the animal ears. “Yes, if you pay, you don’t have to walk—it’s like having wings; you can go up and down as you please.” “I see, so that’s why it’s called ‘wings.’ I’m learning something new.” The three adventurers exchanged glances at Mitrof’s formal language, but it ended there. Adventurers were all people who had some kind of situation. No one would ask deeply about it. It was an unspoken understanding among adventurers. “Well, you can go back and forth over 10 floors if you take your time—a lot of people don’t use the great elevators.” A short-haired man commented as if he had regained his composure. He pointed to a tent set up across from the small room. “It’s expensive, you know—many people just use it for a one-way trip.” “Hey, why don’t you try using it for free?—A noob like you could climb into a barrel full of them and fall in.” “Aren’t you going too far?!” The woman with beast ears laughed, the man with short swords laughed, and the man with short hair, who had been teased, also laughed while retorting. Watching them, Mitrof also laughed. He could also hear Canule’s suppressed laughter behind him. Mitrof and Canule took a break and enjoyed chatting with the men. The three of them were not skilled adventurers, as they had only changed careers a few years ago. Still, they were much more accustomed to the labyrinth than Mitrof. The tension that Mitrof still couldn’t let go of, the men had managed to rid themselves of. This was not in a negative sense, but a conscious decision to rest when necessary and switch mindsets. Swordsmanship, etiquette, and even dance were subjects that Mitrof’s private tutor always taught him. With a teacher to guide him, he could improve with ease. However, now that there was no teacher to teach him how adventurers should act, it was difficult. If anything, he was taught the basics by Grace, but that was only the beginning. There were still many things he didn’t know. Speaking to his seniors like this was a great learning experience for Mitrof. The three of them had explored in the morning and were taking a break for a while. “Then, see you later.” After exchanging promises to meet again, Mitrof and Canule decided to continue deeper into the labyrinth. As they moved away from the small room overflowing with human presence and filled with light, they gradually began to sense an unsettling feeling. Beyond that point was the territory of monsters, and they needed to firm up the slackened tension. Mitrof placed his right hand on the hilt of his rapier to be ready to escape at any time. He talked to Canule while scanning the area for any movement. “A great elevator?—Labyrinth has some amazing things.” “Yes, I was surprised too—if we can figure out how it works, it would make exploration much easier.” “Yes, but the cost seems to be quite high, which is a concern.” Canule smiled softly, rolling a bell at Mitrof’s complicated expression. “Yes, there are more items to write in the household account book.” “So far, the records have held up well—it turns out that the cost of food is putting a strain on the family budget.” Canule laughed again. “Don’t laugh like that—I feel like I need to seriously lose weight.” “Don’t worry about it too much—Mitrof-sama is already wonderful as he is.” Canule consoled Mitrof, but at the same time, Mitrof was troubled about whether to rely on her words. Although Mitrof’s physical activity had increased significantly since becoming an adventurer, his weight had not decreased much. “The post-labyrinth meals are just too delicious...” Yes, they were truly delicious. ‘Sweating in the labyrinth, grinding our lives away, exhausted in spirit and body—the food from the food stalls is as tasty as if your life demanded it—and what a wonderful feeling of satisfaction to have food in your stomach!’ At first, Mitrof felt uncomfortable with the noble and refined meals on the dining table, but now he had completely become accustomed to the commoner’s food. Strong seasoning and spices were essential for the body after working hard in the labyrinth. Adventurers tended to become excessively attached to certain acts or behaviors in order to relieve the terrible tension and excitement in the labyrinth. In Mitrof’s case, he was already accustomed to focusing on eating, so he always overindulged in food after returning from the labyrinth. Night after night, Mitrof would hit his stomach and feel a slight regret. But his gluttony was recorded as numbers in the household account book, which made him condemn his own instincts as his rationality held the moral high ground. ‘You’re eating too much,’ he scolded himself. However, the truth was that Mitrof loved to eat. It was a difficult problem to limit himself in moderation. As he pondered whether to have a restrained meal today, he noticed a shadow floating at the end of the hallway.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 2, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
車体を強化したりシートベルトを付けたりエアバッグを付けたりこの10年ほどは自動車を賢くすることによってこの運転手という欠陥部分を正そうとするようになりました今日お話しするのは運転支援システムによってこの問題を手当てするアプローチと車を完全に自動運転にするアプローチの違いとそれでどんな恩恵があるのかということですまた私たちが開発している自動運転車とそれが周りの世界をどう見どう反応しているのかもお見せしますがその前にまず何が問題なのか話しましょう大きな問題です世界で毎年120万人が交通事故によって死んでいますアメリカだけでも毎年3万3千人が死んでいるんです分かりやすく言うとこれは737型旅客機が平日に毎日墜落していることに相当します信じがたいことです自動車はこんなイメージで売られていますが実際の運転はこんな感じです天気は悪く運転中にみんな他のことをしたくなりますその理由は交通事情が悪化しているからですアメリカでは1990年から 2010年までの間に自動車の総走行距離は 38%増加しましたが道路の増加は6%に留まりますだから交通事情の変化は単なる感覚的なものではなくこの20年で現実にはっきり悪化しているんですこれは人々にコストとしてかかってきますアメリカにおける平均通勤時間は約50分ですがこれを労働人口の1億2千万人と掛け合わせると毎日通勤のために 60億分という時間が浪費されていることになります大きな数字なので分かりやすく言い換えましょう 60億分を人の平均寿命で割ると毎日162人分の命がこの単なる移動時間のために無駄になっている計算です信じ難い話ですそれに加えこの渋滞の中に座るという特権を持たない人たちもいます彼はスティーブといいとても有能な人ですが目が見えません仕事に行くのに朝30分運転する代わりに 2時間かけて交通機関を乗り継ぐか送ってもらえるよう友人や家族に頼まなければなりません私たちのような移動の自由を持っていないのですこれはどうにかする必要があります多くの人は運転支援システムを作って徐々に改良していけばいつか自動運転車ができると考えますでもそれは一生懸命ジャンプしてればいつか空を飛べるようになると言うのと同じようなものです基本的に違うことをする必要があります自動運転車が運転支援システムと異なる点を 3つ示しますがまず私たちが経験したことをお話ししましょう 2013年に初めて一般人を載せて自動運転車のテストを行いました 100人のGoogle社員ではありますがこのプロジェクト外の人たちです自動運転車を渡して日常的に使ってもらいました自動運転車と言っても留保付きですまだ実験段階のもので運転席の人に注意を払ってもらう必要がありました十分テストはしていましたがそれでも誤動作することがあったんですそれで彼らに 2時間のトレーニングの後に運転席についてもらい使ってもらいましたそうして得られた声は新製品を世に送り出そうとしている者にとって勇気づけられるものでした誰もがとても気に入ってくれたのです普段ポルシェに乗っている人がいて最初は「こんなの馬鹿げている何考えてんのか分からない」と言っていたんですが終いにはこう言ったのです「自分だけでなくすべての人がこの車を持つべきだみんなひどいドライバーだから」これは私たちの耳に心地よい言葉でしたが自動運転車に乗った人たちが車内でやっていることには驚かせられることになりましたこれは私のお気に入りの逸話なんですがある人が運転中に携帯を見てバッテリーが切れかけているのに気付きこんな風に後ろを向いてバックパックの中を探ってノートPCを取り出し横の座席に置きまた振り向いてバックパックを漁って充電ケーブルを取り出しノートPCと携帯を繋いで携帯を充電したんですがこの間車はずっと時速100キロ以上で走っていました信じられないような話ですこれを見て答えは出たと思いましたね技術が進むほど運転手の信頼性は逆に下がっていくので自動車を徐々に賢くしていっても望むような結果にはならないだろうと少し技術的な話をしましょうこのグラフの横軸は車がブレーキをかけるべきでない時にかける頻度ですこちらの軸は概ね無視して構いません街中を運転していて車がランダムに停止するようならそんな車は誰も買わないからです縦軸は事故を防ぐために車がブレーキをかけるべき時にかける頻度です左下隅が昔ながらの自動車です車が自分でブレーキをかけることはなく馬鹿なことをすることもなければ事故を防いでくれることもありません衝突回避自動ブレーキのような運転支援システムを作ろうと思ったら色々な技術を取り込んでこんなグラフになりある種の動作特性を実現できるでしょうが事故をすべて防げるわけではなくそこまでの能力はありませんそれでもこの曲線上のいずれかの点を選んで事故の数を半分にできるかもしれませんこれはすごいことです交通事故が半分になるんですからアメリカで毎年死ぬ人の数が 1万7千人も減らせますしかし自動運転車を作ろうと思ったら曲線をこのようなものにする技術が必要になります車にもっとセンサーを付け基本的に衝突が起こらないという点を選ぶことになります衝突は起きたとしても極めて低い頻度ですこれを見て移行は段階的であるべきか議論ができるでしょう 80:20の法則というのもありますが上の曲線に移るのは極めて難しいのですこれを別の角度から見てみましょうこの技術はどれくらいの精度で正しく振る舞わなければならないのか? 緑の点は運転支援システムですアメリカでは人間の運転手は事故に繋がるようなミスを 10万マイルに1度犯していますこれに対して自動運転車は 1秒間に10回くらい判断を行っています 1マイルあたりだとおよそ千回ですこの2点は対数目盛りで 8つ離れています 10の8乗倍ですこれは私が走る速さと光の速さを比較するようなものです私がいかに頑張ったところでそこに到達することはありませんとても大きなギャップがあるということです最後にシステムが不確定さをいかに扱うかという問題がありますこの歩行者は道を渡るのかどうか私には分からないしどんなアルゴリズムでも分かりません運転支援システムは行動を起こせないということです予期しないところでブレーキをかけるというのは受け入れられないからです一方自動運転車の場合は歩行者がどうしようとしているのか分からないという場合スピードを落として様子を見それから適切に反応しますだから運転支援システムよりもずっと安全だということです 2つのシステムの違いについては分かったので自動運転車は世界をどう見ているのかという話をしましょう白いのが私たちの車ですまず自分が世界のどこにいるのかを知るところから始めます地図とセンサーデータを突き合わせ地図に現在見えているものを重ね合わせます紫色の箱は道路上の他の車です道の端にある赤い箱は自転車ですそれからよく見てもらうとずっと向こうにロードコーンがありますこれで車がいる状況については分かりますがそれだけでは駄目でこの後何が起きるか予測する必要があります右手前方にいる小型トラックは左に車線変更しようとしています道路の先が塞がっているのを迂回するためです 1台のトラックの動きを読むだけじゃいけませんみんなの考えを読む必要がありこれはとても複雑な問題ですそれを元にどう動くべきか判断しますどういう経路を取りどうスピードを変えるか道に沿って進む左か右にハンドルを切るブレーキやアクセルを踏む詰まるところ 2つの数値に集約できます難しくはなさそうでしょう? 2009年に取り組み始めた頃はこんな感じでした私たちの車が中央にあり道を走る他の車が箱として描かれています自分がどこにいて他の車がどこにいるかおおよそ把握している必要があります世界を幾何学的に理解するのです街中を走行するようになって問題は格段に難しくなりました車の前を歩行者が横断したり車が目の前を横切ったり様々な方向に進みます信号があり横断歩道があります前と比べて遙かに複雑になっていますそれに対応できるようになったら今度は工事現場に対応できなければいけませんここでは左側のロードコーンによって右に移動させられています工事現場そのものだけでなくその周囲を行く人にも注意を払う必要があります交通違反があれば警察が来ます屋根に点滅するライトが付いている車はただの車ではなく警察車両だと理解できる必要があります道路の端にいるオレンジ色の箱はスクールバスですこれも特別な扱いを必要とします道路上の人々にはそれぞれ期待することがあります自転車の人が手を挙げているのは車線変更したいので道を譲ってほしいということです警官が路上に立ってこんなポーズをしていたら止まれという意味だと理解する必要があり進めという合図をしたら進む必要がありますこのために私たちの取っている方法は車同士で情報共有するということです最初の荒削りなモデルでは 1台が工事現場を見つけたら他の車にも知らせ車線変更して問題を回避できるようにするというものでしたしかし私たちはもっと深い理解をしていますこれまで観察してきた他の車のデータ — 何十万という歩行者自転車自動車のデータからそれぞれがどんな姿をしているか理解しそれを元に他の車や歩行者がどう見えるか推測しますさらに重要なのはそれぞれがどう動くと予想されるかというモデルを作れたことですここで黄色い箱は前を横切る歩行者です青い箱は自転車でこちらの車を右に避けると予想しています向こうからやってくる自転車は道に沿って進んでいくだろうと予想できますここでは車が右折していてこちらでは目の前に Uターンしようとしている車がいてその動きを予期しそれに応じて安全な動きをします見たことのあるものばかりなら良いのですが現実の世界では見たことのないものにも出くわしますこれはほんの2ヶ月前にマウンテンビューを走行していて出会ったものですが電動車椅子の女性が道の真ん中でぐるぐる鴨を追いかけていたんです陸運局のマニュアルのどこを見てもこの状況にどう対処すべきか書いてありませんしかし私たちの車はこの時スピードを落として無事やり過ごせました対応しなければならないのは鴨ばかりではありません鳥が突然前に飛び出しましたが車はちゃんと対応していますここではマウンテンビュー以外ではおよそお目にかからないような自転車に対応していますもちろん他の車にも対応する必要がありますこんなミニサイズのものまで含めて右手を見てください誰かトラックから降りてきます左にいる車の緑の箱がぎりぎりになって右折してきます車線変更しようとしたら左手の車も同時に車線変更してきました車が赤信号を突っ込んでくるので道を譲っていますこちらでは自転車が信号無視して入ってきますもちろん危険がないように対応しますそして道路では時々理解できないことをする人たちがいます 2台の自動運転車の間に真横から車が入ってきました「何考えてんだ?」と言いたくなるでしょう様々なケースを立て続けにお見せしたので 1つのケースを少しだけ細かく見てみましょう先ほどの自転車のケースですが下の映像で分かるようにこの自転車はまだ視界に入っていませんしかし車は自転車を把握しています左端の青い箱ですレーザーを使って捉えたものですこれは少しわかりにくいので向きを変えてレーザーによるデータをよく見てみましょう目をこらして見ると道の角にいくつか点がありこの部分ですが青い箱が自転車を示していますこちらの信号は赤ですが自転車の信号は既に黄色になっています映像をよく見ると分かりますしかし自転車は交差点に入ってきますこちらの信号が青に変わり向こうは赤になっていますがこの自転車が道を横切ってくることを予期していますあいにく隣の車は我々ほど注意を払っていなかったため進み始めます幸い自転車はうまくよけて交差点を渡りきりましたこれで前に進めますご覧いただいたようにこの技術はとても素晴らしい進歩を遂げ市場に送り出せると強い自信を持っています日々行っているシミュレーターによるテスト走行は 500万キロにも及びますこの車がどれほど経験を積んできたかお分かりになるでしょう私たちはこの技術を道路にもたらせる日を待ち焦がれています運転者支援システムではなく自動運転車が正しい道であると信じていますこれはとても緊急性の高い問題なんですこの講演をしている間にもアメリカでは34人が交通事故で死んでいる計算ですこれを世に出せるのはいつになるのか? 非常に難しい問題なので確答するは難しいですこの写真は私の2人の息子です長男は11歳でそれはあと4年半で運転免許を取れるようになるということです私たちのチームではそんなことにならないよう全力を尽くしていますありがとうございました 1つ質問していいですかどうぞあなた方の車の能力は驚くばかりです運転支援システムか完全な自動運転車かという点については現在さかんに議論が行われていますテスラのような会社は運転支援システムの道を選んでいますあなたのお話ではそれでは行き詰まり運転支援システムを改善していっても自動運転車には到らないということでした運転している人が「大丈夫なようだ」と思って後ろの方を向いてまずい事態になるだろうとその通りです運転支援システムなど価値がないと言うのではありません過渡的には多くの命を救うことができるでしょうしかしスティーブのような盲目の人がどこにでも行けるようにするとか安全性を究極まで高めるとか駐車場所を車が自分で見つけに行くことで都心から駐車場という名のクレーターをなくすといった抜本的な変化を目指すなら自動運転車が唯一の道です大きな興味を持って今後を見守っていますありがとうございます	We've made the car stronger. We've added seat belts, we've added air bags, and in the last decade, we've actually started trying to make the car smarter to fix that bug, the driver. Now, today I'm going to talk to you a little bit about the difference between patching around the problem with driver assistance systems and actually having fully self-driving cars and what they can do for the world. I'm also going to talk to you a little bit about our car and allow you to see how it sees the world and how it reacts and what it does, but first I'm going to talk a little bit about the problem. And it's a big problem: 1.2 million people are killed on the world's roads every year. In America alone, 33,000 people are killed each year. To put that in perspective, that's the same as a 737 falling out of the sky every working day. It's kind of unbelievable. Cars are sold to us like this, but really, this is what driving's like. Right? It's not sunny, it's rainy, and you want to do anything other than drive. And the reason why is this: Traffic is getting worse. In America, between 1990 and 2010, the vehicle miles traveled increased by 38 percent. We grew by six percent of roads, so it's not in your brains. Traffic really is substantially worse than it was not very long ago. And all of this has a very human cost. So if you take the average commute time in America, which is about 50 minutes, you multiply that by the 120 million workers we have, that turns out to be about six billion minutes wasted in commuting every day. Now, that's a big number, so let's put it in perspective. You take that six billion minutes and you divide it by the average life expectancy of a person, that turns out to be 162 lifetimes spent every day, wasted, It's unbelievable. And then, there are those of us who don't have the privilege of sitting in traffic. So this is Steve. He's an incredibly capable guy, but he just happens to be blind, and that means instead of a 30-minute drive to work in the morning, it's a two-hour ordeal of piecing together bits of public transit or asking friends and family for a ride. He doesn't have that same freedom that you and I have to get around. We should do something about that. Now, conventional wisdom would say that we'll just take these driver assistance systems and we'll kind of push them and incrementally improve them, and over time, they'll turn into self-driving cars. Well, I'm here to tell you that's like me saying that if I work really hard at jumping, one day I'll be able to fly. We actually need to do something a little different. And so I'm going to talk to you about three different ways that self-driving systems are different than driver assistance systems. And I'm going to start with some of our own experience. So back in 2013, we had the first test of a self-driving car Well, almost regular -- they were 100 Googlers, but they weren't working on the project. And we gave them the car and we allowed them to use it in their daily lives. But unlike a real self-driving car, this one had a big asterisk with it: They had to pay attention, because this was an experimental vehicle. We tested it a lot, but it could still fail. And so we gave them two hours of training, we put them in the car, we let them use it, and what we heard back was something awesome, as someone trying to bring a product into the world. Every one of them told us they loved it. In fact, we had a Porsche driver who came in and told us on the first day, "This is completely stupid. What are we thinking?" But at the end of it, he said, "Not only should I have it, everyone else should have it, because people are terrible drivers." So this was music to our ears, but then we started to look at what the people inside the car were doing, and this was eye-opening. Now, my favorite story is this gentleman who looks down at his phone and realizes the battery is low, so he turns around like this in the car and digs around in his backpack, pulls out his laptop, puts it on the seat, goes in the back again, digs around, pulls out the charging cable for his phone, futzes around, puts it into the laptop, puts it on the phone. Sure enough, the phone is charging. All the time he's been doing 65 miles per hour down the freeway. Right? Unbelievable. So we thought about this and we said, it's kind of obvious, right? The better the technology gets, the less reliable the driver is going to get. So by just making the cars incrementally smarter, we're probably not going to see the wins we really need. Let me talk about something a little technical for a moment here. So we're looking at this graph, and along the bottom is how often does the car apply the brakes when it shouldn't. You can ignore most of that axis, because if you're driving around town, and the car starts stopping randomly, you're never going to buy that car. And the vertical axis is how often the car is going to apply the brakes when it's supposed to to help you avoid an accident. Now, if we look at the bottom left corner here, this is your classic car. It doesn't apply the brakes for you, it doesn't do anything goofy, but it also doesn't get you out of an accident. Now, if we want to bring a driver assistance system into a car, we're going to put some package of technology on there, and that's this curve, and it's going to have some operating properties, but it's never going to avoid all of the accidents, because it doesn't have that capability. But we'll pick some place along the curve here, and maybe it avoids half of accidents that the human driver misses, and that's amazing, right? We just reduced accidents on our roads by a factor of two. There are now 17,000 less people dying every year in America. But if we want a self-driving car, we need a technology curve that looks like this. We're going to have to put more sensors in the vehicle, where it basically never gets into a crash. They'll happen, but very low frequency. Now you and I could look at this and we could argue about whether it's incremental, and I could say something like "80-20 rule," and it's really hard to move up to that new curve. But let's look at it from a different direction for a moment. So let's look at how often the technology has to do the right thing. And so this green dot up here is a driver assistance system. It turns out that human drivers make mistakes that lead to traffic accidents about once every 100,000 miles in America. In contrast, a self-driving system is probably making decisions about 10 times per second, so order of magnitude, that's about 1,000 times per mile. So if you compare the distance between these two, it's about 10 to the eighth, right? Eight orders of magnitude. That's like comparing how fast I run to the speed of light. It doesn't matter how hard I train, I'm never actually going to get there. So there's a pretty big gap there. And then finally, there's how the system can handle uncertainty. So this pedestrian here might be stepping into the road, might not be. I can't tell, nor can any of our algorithms, but in the case of a driver assistance system, that means it can't take action, because again, if it presses the brakes unexpectedly, that's completely unacceptable. Whereas a self-driving system can look at that pedestrian and say, I don't know what they're about to do, slow down, take a better look, and then react appropriately after that. So it can be much safer than a driver assistance system can ever be. So that's enough about the differences between the two. Let's spend some time talking about how the car sees the world. So this is our vehicle. It starts by understanding where it is in the world, by taking a map and its sensor data and aligning the two, and then we layer on top of that what it sees in the moment. So here, all the purple boxes you can see are other vehicles on the road, and the red thing on the side over there is a cyclist, and up in the distance, if you look really closely, you can see some cones. Then we know where the car is in the moment, but we have to do better than that: we have to predict what's going to happen. So here the pickup truck in top right is about to make a left lane change because the road in front of it is closed, so it needs to get out of the way. Knowing that one pickup truck is great, but we really need to know what everybody's thinking, so it becomes quite a complicated problem. And then given that, we can figure out how the car should respond in the moment, so what trajectory it should follow, how quickly it should slow down or speed up. And then that all turns into just following a path: turning the steering wheel left or right, pressing the brake or gas. It's really just two numbers at the end of the day. So how hard can it really be? Back when we started in 2009, this is what our system looked like. So you can see our car in the middle and the other boxes on the road, driving down the highway. The car needs to understand where it is and roughly where the other vehicles are. It's really a geometric understanding of the world. Once we started driving on neighborhood and city streets, the problem becomes a whole new level of difficulty. You see pedestrians crossing in front of us, cars crossing in front of us, going every which way, the traffic lights, crosswalks. It's an incredibly complicated problem by comparison. And then once you have that problem solved, the vehicle has to be able to deal with construction. So here are the cones on the left forcing it to drive to the right, but not just construction in isolation, of course. It has to deal with other people moving through that construction zone as well. And of course, if anyone's breaking the rules, the police are there and the car has to understand that that flashing light on the top of the car means that it's not just a car, it's actually a police officer. Similarly, the orange box on the side here, it's a school bus, and we have to treat that differently as well. When we're out on the road, other people have expectations: So, when a cyclist puts up their arm, it means they're expecting the car to yield to them and make room for them to make a lane change. And when a police officer stood in the road, our vehicle should understand that this means stop, and when they signal to go, we should continue. Now, the way we accomplish this is by sharing data between the vehicles. The first, most crude model of this is when one vehicle sees a construction zone, having another know about it so it can be in the correct lane to avoid some of the difficulty. But we actually have a much deeper understanding of this. We could take all of the data that the cars have seen over time, the hundreds of thousands of pedestrians, cyclists, and vehicles that have been out there and understand what they look like and use that to infer what other vehicles should look like and other pedestrians should look like. And then, even more importantly, we could take from that a model of how we expect them to move through the world. So here the yellow box is a pedestrian crossing in front of us. Here the blue box is a cyclist and we anticipate that they're going to nudge out and around the car to the right. Here there's a cyclist coming down the road and we know they're going to continue to drive down the shape of the road. Here somebody makes a right turn, and in a moment here, somebody's going to make a U-turn in front of us, and we can anticipate that behavior and respond safely. Now, that's all well and good for things that we've seen, but of course, you encounter lots of things that you haven't seen in the world before. And so just a couple of months ago, our vehicles were driving through Mountain View, and this is what we encountered. This is a woman in an electric wheelchair chasing a duck in circles on the road. Now it turns out, there is nowhere in the DMV handbook that tells you how to deal with that, but our vehicles were able to encounter that, slow down, and drive safely. Now, we don't have to deal with just ducks. Watch this bird fly across in front of us. The car reacts to that. Here we're dealing with a cyclist that you would never expect to see anywhere other than Mountain View. And of course, we have to deal with drivers, even the very small ones. Watch to the right as someone jumps out of this truck at us. And now, watch the left as the car with the green box decides he needs to make a right turn at the last possible moment. Here, as we make a lane change, the car to our left decides And here, we watch a car blow through a red light and yield to it. And similarly, here, a cyclist blowing through that light as well. And of course, the vehicle responds safely. And of course, we have people who do I don't know what sometimes on the road, like this guy pulling out between two self-driving cars. You have to ask, "What are you thinking?" Now, I just fire-hosed you with a lot of stuff there, so I'm going to break one of these down pretty quickly. So what we're looking at is the scene with the cyclist again, and you might notice in the bottom, we can't actually see the cyclist yet, but the car can: it's that little blue box up there, and that comes from the laser data. And that's not actually really easy to understand, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to turn that laser data and look at it, and if you're really good at looking at laser data, you can see a few dots on the curve there, right there, and that blue box is that cyclist. Now as our light is red, the cyclist's light has turned yellow already, and if you squint, you can see that in the imagery. But the cyclist, we see, is going to proceed through the intersection. Our light has now turned green, his is solidly red, and we now anticipate that this bike is going to come all the way across. Unfortunately the other drivers next to us were not paying as much attention. They started to pull forward, and fortunately for everyone, this cyclists reacts, avoids, and makes it through the intersection. And off we go. Now, as you can see, we've made some pretty exciting progress, and at this point we're pretty convinced this technology is going to come to market. We do three million miles of testing in our simulators every single day, so you can imagine the experience that our vehicles have. We are looking forward to having this technology on the road, and we think the right path is to go through the self-driving rather than driver assistance approach because the urgency is so large. In the time I have given this talk today, 34 people have died on America's roads. How soon can we bring it out? Well, it's hard to say because it's a really complicated problem, but these are my two boys. My oldest son is 11, and that means in four and a half years, he's going to be able to get his driver's license. My team and I are committed to making sure that doesn't happen. Thank you. Chris Anderson: Chris, I've got a question for you. Chris Urmson: Sure. CA: So certainly, the mind of your cars is pretty mind-boggling. On this debate between driver-assisted and fully driverless -- I mean, there's a real debate going on out there right now. So some of the companies, for example, Tesla, are going the driver-assisted route. What you're saying is that that's kind of going to be a dead end because you can't just keep improving that route and get to fully driverless at some point, and then a driver is going to say, "This feels safe," and climb into the back, and something ugly will happen. CU: Right. No, that's exactly right, and it's not to say that the driver assistance systems aren't going to be incredibly valuable. They can save a lot of lives in the interim, but to see the transformative opportunity to help someone like Steve get around, to really get to the end case in safety, to have the opportunity to change our cities and move parking out and get rid of these urban craters we call parking lots, it's the only way to go. CA: We will be tracking your progress with huge interest. Thanks so much, Chris. CU: Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
私はちょうど 2日前皆さんのお招きに上がりヒマラヤ山脈から来ましたですから皆さんをしばらくの間ヒマラヤ山脈に招待したいと思いますそして私のような修行僧がいる場所にご案内しましょう私はパスツール研究所の分子生物学者でしたが山に入る道を選びましたこれは運良く居合わせたときに撮った映像です東チベットのカイラシュ山 -- 素晴らしい景色ですマルボロの荒野みたいですねこれは青緑色の湖です瞑想家これは 8月1日一年で最も暑い日の東チベットです前の晩皆でキャンプしましたチベットの友人はこう言いました「我々は外で眠ります」私が「なぜ?テントは十分広いのに」と言うと「はいでもせっかくの夏ですから」と言いましたさてと幸福について語りましょう私はフランス人ですがフランスには幸福に全く興味のない知識人が多いです私はちょうど幸福に関するエッセイを書いたのですがすると論争が起こりました誰かがこういうことを書きました「幸せなんて冴えないものを押し付けないでくれ幸せなんて関係ない情熱的に生きるべきだ人生の浮き沈みがいいんだ苦しみもいいものだ小休止のときに気分がいいからね」これはヒマラヤ山脈の私の住処のバルコニーからの景色です 3x2メートルの小部屋です皆さんいつでも大歓迎ですでは幸福または満たされた状態について話しましょうまず最初にフランスの知識人がなんと言おうと朝から「今日も一日苦しむだろうか」と考えながら起きる人は誰もいませんつまり -- 意識しようがしまいが、直接であれ間接であれすぐのことでも将来のことでも我々がすること望むこと夢見ることそういったこと全てが心の奥底で幸せを求めることにつながっているのです首をくくってしまう人は苦しみを終わらせる方法を探した末に他の方法を見出せなかったのだとパスカルも言っていますでも、東洋や西洋の書物を調べれば幸せの定義は驚くほど多彩でしょうこう言う人がいます "過去の記憶を信じて将来を想像し現在は念頭にない" こう言う人もいます "幸せとは今という瞬間今という瞬間の新鮮さの度合いである” そしてこれはフランスの哲学者アンリベルクソンにこう言わせました「すべての偉大な人文科学の思想家は幸せを曖昧なまま残した彼らが自分達の言葉で幸せを定義できるように」人生において幸せにそれほど関心がないならかまわないでしょうしかし幸せが人生のあらゆる瞬間の質を定めるものだとしたら私たちはそれが何であるかを知りはっきりした考えを持った方が良いでしょうそしておそらく私たちが幸せについてよく知らないことが理由となってしばしば幸せを求めながらそれに背を向けてしまうのでしょう苦しみから逃れたいのに苦しみに向って走っているかのようですそれはある種の勘違いが原因かもしれません喜びを幸せと思い込む事はよくありますこの 2つの特徴をよく見てみると喜びは時間目的場所に左右されますその本質は変わりうるものですチョコレートケーキの最初の一切れはおいしいです二切れ目はそれほどでもなく三切れ目には嫌気がさしますそれが物事の本質です飽きが来ます私は昔バッハが大好きでギターで弾いたりしました 5回聴いても飽きませんもし24時間休みなしで聴くことになれば飽きるかもしれません寒いとき火のそばに近づくのは気持ちがいいですそしてしばらくすると少し後ろに下がりますそれからすごく熱く感じます喜びは経験とともに消費されるかのようですそしてそれはあなたから発せられるものではありませんあなたが強い喜びを感じることでまわりの人が大いに苦しむこともありえますでは幸福とはいったいなんでしょう幸福というとあまりにも漠然とした言葉なので満ち足りた状態と言いましょう仏教徒の見解から最もふさわしい定義は満ち足りた状態とはただ楽しいという感覚ではないということですそれは心の奥底を静かに満たすものです人生におけるあらゆる心の働きや喜びや悲しみにもしみ渡ってその根底に横たわっています皆さんは驚くかもしれません悲しみのさなかでも満ち足りていることは、ある意味可能ですなぜなら私たちは別のレベルの話をしているからです岸辺に寄せる波をごらんなさい波の谷間にいれば、海底に当たります堅い岩にあたります波の上にのっているときは意気揚揚としています海面は上へ下へと揺れ動きます外洋をごらんなさいそこには鏡のように美しく穏やかな海があるかもしれません嵐の海かもしれませんしかし海の深さはそこにあり変わらないのですどういうことでしょう? それはつかの間の感情や感覚でなくそのものの状態です喜びもまた幸福の源となりえますが誰かの苦しみを喜ぶというような邪悪な喜びもありますではどのように幸せを探しましょうか? たいていは外界から探し出そうとします '幸せ'になるためにすべての状況すべての条件を満たせば幸せになれると考えますすべてを得ることで幸せになるこんな考え方の幸福には崩壊が待ち構えていますすべてを持つこと何かが欠ければそれは崩れます何かがうまく行かないといつも外界を修正しようとしますしかし私たちが外に及ぼす力は限られたもの一時のもの錯覚かもしれませんでは内部の状況を見てくださいそれらはより強くありませんか? 外界から幸福や苦しみを捉えるのは心ではないですか? 心の影響が強くないですか? 小さなパラダイスのようなところに住んでいてもまったく不幸せなこともあるのをご存知でしょうダライラマがポルトガルに行ったときそこでは至る所で建設工事が行われていましたある晩彼は言いました「立派な建物を建てるよりも心の中に何か築き上げるのが良いのではありませんか」? そしてこう言いました「もしあなたが素晴らしくモダンで居心地の良いハイテクのマンションの100 階に住んでいても内面でひどく不幸だったら飛び降りるための窓を探してしまうでしょう」では反対に非常に厳しい状況下でも落ち着き芯の強さ自由信頼を失わない人が沢山いますでは内面の条件が強ければどうかもちろん外部状況は影響するでしょうそして健康に長生きすることや情報が得られ教育が受けられ旅行が出来自由でいられることは素晴らしいことです大変望ましいことですしかしこれだけでは十分ではありません補助的な条件に過ぎないのですすべてに解釈を与えるのは心の中に存在する経験です内面の幸せの条件をどうはぐくむかと自問していくと幸せを妨げるものが自らの内面に見出されたりもしますこれを解るにはいくらかの経験が必要ですある種の心の状態があることに気付かなければなりませんそれはこの幸せ、この満ち足りた状態につながる心の状態でギリシア人がユーダイモニアと呼んだものですこんな満ち足りた状態の妨げとなるものもあります自らの経験の中から探しても怒りや憎悪嫉妬ごう慢しつこいほどの欲望執着 -- そんな感情にとらわれた後はあまりよい状態とはいえませんそのうえそれらは他人の幸せにも有害ですこれらのものが心に侵入すればするほど連鎖反応のようにますます惨めになり苦悩を感じます逆に誰もが知っていることですが献身的で寛大な行為の奥底では遠くからであっても、他の誰に知られることがなくても子どもの生命を救い誰かを幸せにすることができます我々は認識されることも感謝されることも必要としませんただそうする事が心の深みにおいて満ち足りたものを与えますそれは常にそうありたいと思う「姿」ですでは生き方を変えて心の在りようを変容させることが可能でしょうか生まれつき心が持っていた否定的な気持ちや破壊的な感情を? 我々のムードや特徴そして感情を変化させることは可能でしょうか? そのためにはこう尋ねなければなりません心の性質とは何でしょう? 経験的な観点から見れば意識の主な性質というものは単に事実を認識し、気付くことなのです意識はすべてのイメージを映し出す鏡のようです醜い顔も美しい顔も鏡は気にしません鏡は汚されずイメージによって変質する事もありません同様にすべての思考の背後にはありのままの意識純粋な認識がありますそういう性質なのです意識は憎悪や嫉妬によって損なわれるようなことはありません全体が染料で染められても布は布であるように常に意識はそこにあります我々はいつも怒っていたり嫉妬深かったり気前がよかったりするわけではありません意識という布地は純粋に認識をするというその性質において石とは違っていてだから変化の可能性がありますすべての感情は過ぎ去っていくからですそれが心の訓練の基盤です心の訓練は 2つの対立する精神要因が同時に起こり得ないという考えに基づきます愛から憎しみへ行くことはできますでも同じ時間に同じもの同じ人に対し害悪を願いながら善を願うことはできませんあなたは握手しながら殴ることはできません我々の内面が満ち足りようとするのを妨げる感情に対して自然の特効薬があるということですそこに進むべき道があります嫉妬に対しては喜び貧欲な執着に対しては内心の自由憎悪に対しては慈愛あふれる親切もちろんそれぞれの感情ごとに特定の解毒剤が必要ですもう一つの方法は全ての感情の特質を分析することで対抗手段を見出そうとするものです通常我々が誰かに対し不快や憎しみ動揺を感じたり何かに執着すると我々の心はその対象のことを繰り返し考えますその対象に思いを寄せるたびに執着心や不快感が増しますその過程は際限なく繰り返されていきます今我々が見るべきなのは外を見る代わりに内観するということです怒りそのものを注視してくださいそれは非常に恐ろしげに沸き立つモンスーンか雷雲のように見えますその雲に座ることすらできそうに見えますが、近づけばただの霧にすぎません同様にあなたが怒りという感情を直視するとそれは朝日のあたった霜のように消えます何度も繰り返して怒りの感情を直視して解消しているうちに怒りの繰り返しは解消するたびにだんだん小さくなりますそしてついにはたとえ怒りが生じても心をかすめるのみで空を渡る鳥のように痕跡も残さなくなりますこれが心の訓練の基本です時間はかかります -- 心の欠点や性癖を積み重ねるのに時間がかかったようにそれらを解きほぐすのにも時間がかかりますしかしそれしか方法はありません心の変容こそが瞑想の意味することろです新しい在り方やものの受け止め方を習熟することですそのほうがより現実であり相互に支えあい流れのように連続的な変化であるものそれが我々の存在であり意識であるのですそれでは認知科学との接点についてこの話をする必要があります短い限られた時間で話さなければなりません脳の可塑性に関して以前は脳の機能は不変のものと思われていました 20年ほど前まではすべての神経の接続の総数は成人した後にはほとんど変化しなくなるものと考えられていました最近ではそれは大きく変化しうることが解かっています 10,000時間バイオリンの特訓をしたバイオリン奏者の話を聞きましたが指の動きを制御する脳の部分は大いに変化してシナプス接続が強化されます人間の品位において愛あふれる慈悲や忍耐強さ開かれた心によっても同じことができるでしょうか? これはそれらの偉大な瞑想家が行っていることですウィスコンシンのマディソンまたはバークレーの研究室に来た達人の中には 2万から4万時間も瞑想をした人がいます彼らは3年間ほどの隠遁生活を送りその間毎日12時間、その後も毎日 3-4 時間瞑想します彼らは心の訓練の真のオリンピック勝者です瞑想の達人の一人 -- すばらしいですねここには256本の電極があります何が明らかになったでしょうかさきほどの話と同じです研究に関してはまだお話できないのですがいずれネイチャーに掲載されることを期待しますこの研究では無条件の慈悲について調べました何年も何年もかけて心の中に慈しみをあふれるさせることができるようになった瞑想家に実験を手伝ってもらいましたそこに至る訓練の途上では対象として苦しんでいる人々のこと愛する人々のことを考えますがやがて慈しみがあふれて全てを覆い尽くすことができるのです初期的な結果をここに示しますこれはすでに公開されているのでお話できます釣鐘型の曲線は比較対象の150人を示しますここでは左右前頭葉の違いを測っています要点だけ言えば前頭葉前部皮質の右側がより活動的な人は元気がなく引っ込み思案で良い情動が多くありません反対に左側は: 利他的幸福表現する好奇心が強いなどの傾向がありますこれは基本的な傾向です滑稽な映画を見れば左側に寄ります満足していればもっと左に寄ります鬱病の発作におそわれれば右側に行きます慈悲について瞑想した瞑想家の -0.45 という値は標準偏差の 4 倍で正規分布から全く外れています科学的な結果の全てを述べる時間はありませんまたの機会があることを期待しましょう MRIの中から3時間半ぶりに出てきたところそれはまるで宇宙船から出てくるみたいでした例えばバークレーのポールエクマンの研究室など他の研究室でも同じようなことが確かめられました一部の瞑想家はそれまで考えられていた以上に彼らの感情的な反応を制御できますたとえば驚かせる実験を行いました椅子に座らせた人に生理機能を測定するあらゆる機器を取り付けますそれから爆弾のようなものを炸裂させますこれは本能的な応答なのでこの20 年の間驚かなかった人はいませんでした瞑想家の中には驚かないように努力することなく完全に心を開いた状態になることで爆発音を流れ星のように小さな出来事ととらえてまったく動じない人がいます肝心なことはこの実験はサーカスのように特別なことができる人を見せようというものではなく精神鍛錬は重要だと言いたいのですこれはただの贅沢ではなく精神のビタミン栄養剤でもありませんこれは我々の人生のすべての瞬間の品質を決定するものです皆さん教育にはすすんで 15 年を費やしジョギングやフィットネスなど美貌を維持するためにあらゆる事を行いますしかし心の動かし方という最も重要なことには驚くほど無関心で時間をかけませんそれは我々の経験の質を決定する根本的なことです我々の慈悲を行動にうつすべきです我々はそれをいろいろな場所でやろうとしていますこの一つの例だけでも骨折りの甲斐がありますこの骨結核の女性はテントの中に一人娘と取り残され死ぬところでした一年後の彼女です我々がチベットで開いている学校や病院ですでは私の言葉以上に幸福について語ってくれる美しい表情を残して行きたいと思いますそしてチベットの跳ぶ修道僧 (笑) 飛ぶ修道僧どうもありがとう	And so I just came, two days ago, from the Himalayas to your kind invitation. So I would like to invite you, also, for a while, to the Himalayas themselves. And to show the place where meditators, like me, who began with being a molecular biologist in Pasteur Institute, and found their way to the mountains. So these are a few images I was lucky to take and be there. There's Mount Kailash in Eastern Tibet -- wonderful setting. This is from Marlboro country. This is a turquoise lake. A meditator. This is the hottest day of the year somewhere in Eastern Tibet, on August 1. And the night before, we camped, and my Tibetan friends said, "We are going to sleep outside." And I said, "Why? We have enough space in the tent." They said, "Yes, but it's summertime." So now, we are going to speak of happiness. that there are a lot of French intellectuals that think happiness is not at all interesting. I just wrote an essay on happiness, and there was a controversy. And someone wrote an article saying, "Don't impose on us the dirty work of happiness." "We don't care about being happy. We need to live with passion. We like the ups and downs of life. We like our suffering because it's so good when it ceases for a while." This is what I see from the balcony of my hermitage in the Himalayas. It's about two meters by three, and you are all welcome any time. Now, let's come to happiness or well-being. And first of all, you know, despite what the French intellectuals say, it seems that no one wakes up in the morning thinking, "May I suffer the whole day?" Which means that somehow, consciously or not, directly or indirectly, in the short or the long term, whatever we do, whatever we hope, whatever we dream -- somehow, is related to a deep, profound desire for well-being or happiness. As Pascal said, even the one who hangs himself, somehow, is looking for cessation of suffering. He finds no other way. But then, if you look in the literature, East and West, you can find incredible diversity of definition of happiness. Some people say, I only believed in remembering the past, imagining the future, never the present. Some people say happiness is right now; it's the quality of the freshness of the present moment. And that led Henri Bergson, the French philosopher, to say, "All the great thinkers of humanity have left happiness in the vague so that each of them could define their own terms." Well, that would be fine if it was just a secondary preoccupation in life. But now, if it is something that is going to determine the quality of every instant of our life, then we better know what it is, have some clearer idea. And probably, the fact that we don't know that is why, so often, although we seek happiness, it seems we turn our back to it. Although we want to avoid suffering, it seems we are running somewhat towards it. And that can also come from some kind of confusions. One of the most common ones is happiness and pleasure. But if you look at the characteristics of those two, pleasure is contingent upon time, upon its object, upon the place. It is something that -- changes of nature. Beautiful chocolate cake: first serving is delicious, second one not so much, then we feel disgust. That's the nature of things. We get tired. I used to be a fan of Bach. I used to play it on the guitar, you know. I can hear it two, three, five times. If I had to hear it 24 hours, non-stop, it might be very tiring. If you are feeling very cold, you come near a fire, it's so wonderful. After some moments, you just go a little back, and then it starts burning. It sort of uses itself as you experience it. And also, again, it can -- also, it's something that you -- it is not something that is radiating outside. Like, you can feel intense pleasure and some others around you can be suffering a lot. Now, what, then, will be happiness? And happiness, of course, is such a vague word, so let's say well-being. And so, I think the best definition, according to the Buddhist view, is that well-being is not just a mere pleasurable sensation. It is a deep sense of serenity and fulfillment. A state that actually pervades and underlies all emotional states, and all the joys and sorrows that can come one's way. For you, that might be surprising. Can we have this kind of well-being while being sad? In a way, why not? Because we are speaking of a different level. Look at the waves coming near the shore. When you are at the bottom of the wave, you hit the bottom. You hit the solid rock. When you are surfing on the top, you are all elated. Now, if you look at the high sea, there might be beautiful, calm ocean, like a mirror. There might be storms, but the depth of the ocean is still there, unchanged. So now, how is that? It can only be a state of being, not just a fleeting emotion, sensation. Even joy -- that can be the spring of happiness. But there's also wicked joy, you can rejoice in someone's suffering. So how do we proceed in our quest for happiness? Very often, we look outside. We think that if we could gather this and that, all the conditions, something that we say, "Everything to be happy -- to have everything to be happy." That very sentence already reveals the doom, destruction of happiness. To have everything. If we miss something, it collapses. And also, when things go wrong, we try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory. So now, look at inner conditions. Aren't they stronger? Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering? And isn't that stronger? We know, by experience, that we can be what we call "a little paradise," and yet, be completely unhappy within. The Dalai Lama was once in Portugal, and there was a lot of construction going on everywhere. So one evening, he said, "Look, you are doing all these things, but isn't it nice, also, to build something within?" And he said, "[Without] that -- even if you get a high-tech flat on the 100th floor of a super-modern and comfortable building, if you are deeply unhappy within, all you are going to look for is a window from which to jump." So now, at the opposite, we know a lot of people who, in very difficult circumstances, manage to keep serenity, inner strength, inner freedom, confidence. So now, if the inner conditions are stronger -- of course, the outer conditions do influence, and it's wonderful to live longer, healthier, to have access to information, education, to be able to travel, to have freedom. It's highly desirable. However, this is not enough. Those are just auxiliary, help conditions. The experience that translates everything is within the mind. So then, when we ask oneself how to nurture the condition for happiness, the inner conditions, and which are those which will undermine happiness. So then, this just needs to have some experience. We have to know from ourselves, there are certain states of mind that are conducive to this flourishing, to this well-being, what the Greeks called eudaimonia, flourishing. There are some which are adverse to this well-being. And so, if we look from our own experience, anger, hatred, jealousy, arrogance, obsessive desire, strong grasping, they don't leave us in such a good state after we have experienced it. And also, they are detrimental to others' happiness. So we may consider that the more those are invading our mind, and, like a chain reaction, the more we feel miserable, we feel tormented. At the opposite, everyone knows deep within that an act of selfless generosity, if from the distance, without anyone knowing anything about it, we could save a child's life, make someone happy. We don't need the recognition. We don't need any gratitude. Just the mere fact of doing that fills such a sense of adequation with our deep nature. And we would like to be like that all the time. So is that possible, to change our way of being, to transform one's mind? Aren't those negative emotions, or destructive emotions, inherent to the nature of mind? Is change possible in our emotions, in our traits, in our moods? For that we have to ask, what is the nature of mind? And if we look from the experiential point of view, there is a primary quality of consciousness that's just the mere fact to be cognitive, to be aware. Consciousness is like a mirror that allows all images to rise on it. You can have ugly faces, beautiful faces in the mirror. The mirror allows that, but the mirror is not tainted, is not modified, is not altered by those images. Likewise, behind every single thought there is the bare consciousness, pure awareness. This is the nature. It cannot be tainted intrinsically with hatred or jealousy because then, if it was always there -- like a dye that would permeate the whole cloth -- then it would be found all the time, somewhere. We know we're not always angry, always jealous, always generous. So, because the basic fabric of consciousness is this pure cognitive quality that differentiates it from a stone, there is a possibility for change because all emotions are fleeting. That is the ground for mind training. Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from love to hate. But you cannot, at the same time, toward the same object, the same person, want to harm and want to do good. You cannot, in the same gesture, shake hand and give a blow. So, there are natural antidotes to emotions that are destructive to our inner well-being. So that's the way to proceed. Rejoicing compared to jealousy. A kind of sense of inner freedom as opposite to intense grasping and obsession. Benevolence, loving kindness against hatred. But, of course, each emotion then would need a particular antidote. Another way is to try to find a general antidote to all emotions, and that's by looking at the very nature. Usually, when we feel annoyed, hatred or upset with someone, or obsessed with something, the mind goes again and again to that object. Each time it goes to the object, it reinforces that obsession or that annoyance. So then, it's a self-perpetuating process. So what we need to look for now is, instead of looking outward, we look inward. Look at anger itself. It looks very menacing, like a billowing monsoon cloud or thunderstorm. We think we could sit on the cloud, but if you go there, it's just mist. Likewise, if you look at the thought of anger, it will vanish like frost under the morning sun. If you do this again and again, the propensity, the tendencies for anger to arise again will be less and less each time you dissolve it. And, at the end, although it may rise, it will just cross the mind, like a bird crossing the sky without leaving any track. So this is the principal of mind training. because it took time for all those faults in our mind, the tendencies, to build up, so it will take time to unfold them as well. But that's the only way to go. Mind transformation -- that is the very meaning of meditation. It means familiarization with a new way of being, new way of perceiving things, which is more in adequation with reality, with interdependence, with the stream and continuous transformation, which our being and our consciousness is. So, the interface with cognitive science, since we need to come to that, it was, I suppose, the subject of -- we have to deal in such a short time -- with brain plasticity. The brain was thought to be more or less fixed. All the nominal connections, in numbers and quantities, were thought, until the last 20 years, to be more or less fixed when we reached adult age. Now, recently, it has been found that it can change a lot. A violinist, as we heard, who has done 10,000 hours of violin practice, some area that controls the movements of fingers in the brain changes a lot, increasing reinforcement of the synaptic connections. So can we do that with human qualities? With loving kindness, with patience, with openness? So that's what those great meditators have been doing. Some of them who came to the labs, like in Madison, Wisconsin, or in Berkeley, did 20 to 40,000 hours of meditation. They do, like, three years' retreat, where they do meditate 12 hours a day. And then, the rest of their life, they will do three or four hours a day. They are real Olympic champions of mind training. This is the place where the meditators -- you can see it's kind of inspiring. Now, here with 256 electrodes. if it's ever submitted to "Nature," hopefully, it will be accepted. It deals with the state of compassion, unconditional compassion. We asked meditators, who have been doing that for years and years, to put their mind in a state where there's nothing but loving kindness, total availability to sentient being. Of course, during the training, we do that with objects. We think of people suffering, of people we love, but at some point, it can be a state which is all pervading. Here is the preliminary result, which I can show because it's already been shown. The bell curve shows 150 controls, and what is being looked at is the difference between the right and the left frontal lobe. In very short, people who have more activity in the right side of the prefrontal cortex are more depressed, withdrawn. They don't describe a lot of positive affect. It's the opposite on the left side: more tendency to altruism, to happiness, to express, and curiosity and so forth. So there's a basic line for people. And also, it can be changed. If you see a comic movie, you go off to the left side. If you are happy about something, you'll go more to the left side. If you have a bout of depression, you'll go to the right side. Here, the -0.5 is the full standard deviation of a meditator who meditated on compassion. It's something that is totally out of the bell curve. So, I've no time to go into all the different scientific results. Hopefully, they will come. But they found that -- this is after three and a half hours it's like coming out of a space ship. Also, it has been shown in other labs -- for instance, Paul Ekman's labs in Berkeley -- that some meditators are able, also, to control their emotional response more than it could be thought. Like the startle experiments, for example. If you sit a guy on a chair with all this apparatus measuring your physiology, and there's kind of a bomb that goes off, it's such an instinctive response that, in 20 years, they never saw anyone who would not jump. Some meditators, without trying to stop it, but simply by being completely open, thinking that that bang is just going to be a small event like a shooting star, they are able not to move at all. So the whole point of that is not, sort of, to make, like, a circus thing of showing exceptional beings who can jump, or whatever. It's more to say that mind training matters. That this is not just a luxury. This is not a supplementary vitamin for the soul. This is something that's going to determine the quality of every instant of our lives. We are ready to spend 15 years achieving education. We love to do jogging, fitness. We do all kinds of things to remain beautiful. Yet, we spend surprisingly little time taking care of what matters most -- the way our mind functions -- which, again, is the ultimate thing that determines the quality of our experience. Now, compassion is supposed to be put in action. That's what we try to do in different places. Just this one example is worth a lot of work. This lady with bone TB, left alone in a tent, was going to die with her only daughter. One year later, how she is. Different schools and clinics we've been doing in Tibet. And just, I leave you with the beauty of those looks that tells more about happiness than I could ever say. And jumping monks of Tibet. Flying monks. Thank you very much.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
最初にお見せする企画は初の「ズボンなし地下鉄乗車」で 2002年の1月に行いましたこの女性がビデオの主人公です撮影されていると気づいていません隠しカメラで撮影していますニューヨーク市の地下鉄6ライン列車内でこれが路線の最初の停車駅ですデンマーク人の男が 2人やってきて隠しカメラの横に座りましたこの茶色のコートの人が僕です外は摂氏-1度ほどで僕は帽子を被ってマフラーをしています女性がもうすぐ僕に気づきますご覧の通りズボンを履いていませんそれでこの時点で― この時点で女性は僕に気づきましたでもニューヨークの地下鉄ですから 1人くらいは珍しくありません女性は本に戻りますちなみに題は「レイプ」です変なものを目撃したけれど気を取り直したわけですさて一方では僕の友達6人が次の6つの停車駅で下着姿で待っています 1人ずつこの車両に乗ってきます僕らはお互い他人のフリをしてこの凍える1月の日にズボンを忘れるという不幸な間違いをしただけのように振る舞いますこの時点で女性はレイプの本をしまうことにしますそして周囲にもう少し注意を向けることにしますカメラの左側のデンマーク人2人はこんな滑稽なことは見たことがないと爆笑しています彼らと女性が目配せしますから見ていてくださいこのビデオの瞬間は最高ですここで体験を共有するまでは女性にとってこれは少し不気味なよく分からない状況だったのに一旦共有されると可笑しくて笑える状況になったからです電車は今6ラインの 3つ目の停車駅に到着しました最後まで全部お見せしませんがこの状態があと4駅続きます計7人の誰か分からない男らが下着姿で乗り込んできます 8つ目の駅では巨大な袋を抱えた女の子が乗ってきて1ドルでズボンを売ると言います電車の中で電池やアメを販売する要領です僕らは皆当然のようにズボンを買って履き「すごいタイミングだありがとう」と言って何が起こったのか説明もなく電車を降りてそれぞれ別の方向に去ったのでした (拍手) ありがとうこれはビデオからの画像です女性の反応が最高でしたその日あとからビデオを観ていて続けてみようと思いました Improv Everywhereの目的の1つは公共の場で騒ぎを起こして人に楽しんでもらうことですイタズラですが面白い話のネタになるイタズラです女性の反応がよかったので第2回ズボンなし地下鉄乗車を行いその後毎年続けるようになりました今年1月には10回目を行いました 3,500人の様々な人たちが下着姿でニューヨーク市内の地下鉄のほぼ全線に乗りましたまた世界中50ヶ所の都市でも人々が参加しました即興劇場で即興のクラスを取り始め他の創造的な人や役者やコメディアンに出会うにつれこの様な企画に参加を希望する人のメーリングリストを作り始めましたより大規模な企画を行うためですある日ユニオンスクエアを歩いていてこのビルを見ました 2005年に建設されたばかりですするとビルの窓ぎわで女の子が踊っていました外は暗くビル内は明るかったので独特な感じでしかも観衆を意識した踊りでしたでもなぜだか分かりましたディスプレイの後ろにいた友達が 15秒ほど後に現れ 2人は笑い抱き合ってから走り去りました人前で踊れるか賭けたのでしょうそこで僕は思いつきましたビルの正面にあるのは計70の窓することは決まっていました「もっと見上げて」企画では70人の役者に黒を着せ全く許可なしで行いました店舗には知らせませんでしたそして僕は公園から合図を出し最初の合図で全員が1mほどの大きさの文字を掲げ「Look Up More」と綴りました企画名「もっと見上げて」です次の合図で一斉に挙手跳躍をしました運動開始がここで見られます次はダンスで全員が踊りましたそれから全員が1人を指差してその人だけが踊るソロもしましたそして手で次の合図をすると下のFOREVER 21にいる次の人がソロのダンスをしました他にもいくつかのことをしましたジャンプしてもらったり床に伏せてもらったりですトレーナー姿の僕はそしらぬ顔で手をゴミ箱に置いたり離したりして進行合図を送っていました現場はユニオンスクエアで地下鉄の駅のすぐそばだったので終わる頃には何百人もの人が立ち止まり僕らのしていることを見上げていましたその時のもっといい写真ですこのイベントはたまたま目にした出来事からヒントを得て行いました次にお見せしたい企画は知らない人がメールでくれました 2006年にテキサス州のある高校生に言われました「できるだけ沢山の人を集めて青のポロシャツとカーキのズボン姿でBest Buyの店内にぼーっと立ってもらえば?」 (拍手) 僕はすぐに「君の言う通りだ」と返信しました「今週末やってみるありがとう」というわけでそのビデオですこれは2005年のことでこれはニューヨーク市のBest Buyです約80人が参加したいと集まり 1人ずつ店に入りました参加者には8歳の女の子 10歳の女の子 65歳の男性もいましたとても多様な人々のグループです僕からの指示は「実際に仕事をしないこと買物もしないことただブラブラして商品も見ないこと」でした正規の従業員たちがいますシャツに黄色のロゴがある人たちです他は皆僕らの役者です一般従業員は面白がっていました休憩室に自分のカメラを取りに行き僕らと写真を撮った者もいました冗談で僕らに重たいテレビを裏からお客様のところへ運んでこさせようとする者も沢山いましたでも店長たちや警備員は特に面白がってくれませんでしたこの映像に彼らも映っています黄色か黒のシャツを着ています僕らが現れて大体10分くらいで警察に通報されましたそして彼らは店内中を回り「警察が来るぞいいのか」と皆に警告し始めましたちょうどここの映像で警官たちが見えます黒い制服を着た警官が隠しカメラで撮影されています最終的には警察がBest Buy側に青いポロシャツとカーキのズボンは違法ではないと言って終わりました (拍手) ありがとう (拍手) こうして僕らは20分ほどで満足して店を出ました店側は僕らのカメラを見つけようとしかばんにカメラを隠していた2~3人が捕まりましたでもある男性は捕まりませんでした空のテープだけ持って Best Buyのカメラ売り場に行き商品のカメラにテープを入れて買い物しているふりをしたんです敵の技術を利用するとはなかなかですいい企画とは場所に合ったものですその場で行う意義のあるものですある朝僕は地下鉄に乗っていて 53番通りで乗り換えでした巨大なエスカレーターが2つあり混雑した朝にはとても気の滅入る場所ですそこである日の朝を出来るだけ楽しくすることをやってやろうと決めましたこれは2009年の冬で朝の8時半です朝のラッシュ時間です外が非常に寒い日です人々はクイーンズからやって来て Eラインから6ラインに乗り換えています巨大エスカレーターを上がって仕事に向かう途中です「ロブがあなたにハイタッチしてくれます」「用意はいいですか?」「この人がロブ」(拍手) ありがとうもう少し分かりやすい写真ですロブはその日2千回ハイタッチしましたでも前後に手を洗って風邪をひいたりなどしませんでしたこれも許可なしで行いましたが誰も気にしてないようでしたさて長年の間で YouTubeでの匿名コメントで一番多かった Improv Everywhereへの批判は「暇すぎなんじゃないか」でした誰もが自分のやることに好意を持つとは限りません実際おかげで面の皮も厚くなりましたでもこれは前から気になっていました僕らは暇なわけじゃないからです Improv Everywhereの参加者の余暇の量は他のニューヨーカーと変わりませんたまに変わったことをして過ごしているだけです秋になると何十万人の人々が毎週末スタジアムに行ってフットボールの観戦をしますでもフットボールの試合を見て「観客は暇すぎなんじゃないか」と言う人はいませんそれにもちろん暇じゃないんですスタジアムでのフットボール観戦は全く素晴らしい週末の午後の過ごし方ですでも他にも全く妥当な過ごし方はありグランドセントラル駅で静止状態で 200人の人と午後を過ごしたりゴーストバスターの格好でニューヨーク公共図書館内を走ったり 3千人の人と一緒に同じMP3を聴きながら無言で公園で踊ったりスーパーで前触れなくミュージカルの歌を突然歌い始めたり正装してコニーアイランドの海に飛び込んだりです子供は遊ぶことを教わりますが遊ぶ理由まで教わりません遊ぶのが楽しいというだけでいいのですこれがImprov Everywhereの意味とも言えます意味がなく意味の必要もありません理由も要りません楽しくて面白そうなアイデアで目撃する人たちにも楽しんでもらえそうなら僕らにはそれで十分です遊び方には良いも悪いもないと大人は学ぶ必要があると思いますどうもありがとうございました	So the first project we're going to take a look at is the very first No Pants Subway Ride. Now this took place in January of 2002. And this woman is the star of the video. She doesn't know she's being filmed. She's being filmed with a hidden camera. This is on the 6 train in New York City. And this is the first stop along the line. These are two Danish guys who come out and sit down next to the hidden camera. And that's me right there in a brown coat. It's about 30 degrees outside. I'm wearing a hat. I'm wearing a scarf. And the girl's going to notice me right here. And as you'll see now, I'm not wearing pants. So at this point -- at this point she's noticed me, but in New York there's weirdos on any given train car. One person's not that unusual. She goes back to reading her book, which is unfortunately titled "Rape." So she's noticed the unusual thing, but she's gone back to her normal life. Now in the meantime, I have six friends who are waiting at the next six consecutive stops in their underwear as well. They're going to be entering this car one by one. We'll act as though we don't know each other. forgetting our pants on this cold January day. So at this point, she decides to put the rape book away. And she decides to be a little bit more aware of her surroundings. Now in the meantime, the two Danish guys to the left of the camera, they're cracking up. They think this is the funniest thing they've ever seen before. And watch her make eye contact with them right about now. And I love that moment in this video, because before it became a shared experience, it was something that was maybe a little bit scary, or something that was at least confusing to her. And then once it became a shared experience, it was funny and something that she could laugh at. So the train is now pulling into the third stop along the 6 line. So the video won't show everything. This goes on for another four stops. A total of seven guys enter anonymously in their underwear. At the eighth stop, a girl came in with a giant duffel bag and announced she had pants for sale for a dollar -- like you might sell batteries or candy on the train. We all very matter of factly bought a pair of pants, put them on and said, "Thank you. That's exactly what I needed today," and then exited without revealing what had happened and went in all different directions. Thank you. So that's a still from the video there. And I love that girl's reaction so much. And watching that videotape later that day inspired me to keep doing what I do. And really one of the points of Improv Everywhere is to cause a scene in a public place that is a positive experience for other people. It's a prank, but it's a prank that gives somebody a great story to tell. And her reaction inspired me to do a second annual No Pants Subway Ride. And we've continued to do it every year. This January, we did the 10th annual No Pants Subway Ride where a diverse group of 3,500 people rode the train in their underwear in New York -- almost every single train line in the city. And also in 50 other cities around the world, people participated. As I started taking improv class at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater and meeting other creative people and other performers and comedians, I started amassing a mailing list So I could do more large-scale projects. Well one day I was walking through Union Square, and I saw this building, which had just been built in 2005. And there was a girl in one of the windows and she was dancing. because it was dark out, but she was back-lit with florescent lighting, and she was very much onstage, and I couldn't figure out why she was doing it. After about 15 seconds, her friend appeared -- she had been hiding behind a display -- and they laughed and hugged each other and ran away. So it seemed like maybe she had been dared to do this. So I got inspired by that. Looking at the entire facade -- there were 70 total windows -- and I knew what I had to do. So this project is called Look Up More. We had 70 actors dress in black. This was completely unauthorized. We didn't let the stores know we were coming. And I stood in the park giving signals. The first signal was for everybody to hold up these four-foot tall letters that spelled out "Look Up More," the name of the project. The second signal was for everybody to do Jumping jacks together. You'll see that start right here. And then we had dancing. We had everyone dance. And then we had dance solos where only one person would dance and everybody would point to them. So then I gave a new hand signal, which signaled the next soloist down below in Forever 21, and he danced. There were several other activities. We had people jumping up and down, people dropping to the ground. And I was standing just anonymously in a sweatshirt, putting my hand on and off of a trashcan to signal the advancement. And because it was in Union Square Park, right by a subway station, there were hundreds of people by the end who stopped and looked up and watched what we were doing. There's a better photo of it. So that particular event was inspired by a moment that I happened to stumble upon. The next project I want to show was given to me in an email from a stranger. A high school kid in Texas wrote me in 2006 and said, "You should get as many people as possible to put on blue polo shirts and khaki pants and go into a Best Buy and stand around." So I wrote this high school kid back immediately, and I said, "Yes, you are correct. I think I'll try to do that this weekend. Thank you." So here's the video. So again, this is 2005. This is the Best Buy in New York City. We had about 80 people show up to participate, entering one-by-one. There was an eight year-old girl, a 10 year-old girl. There was also a 65 year-old man So a very diverse group of people. And I told people, "Don't work. Don't actually do work. But also, don't shop. Just stand around and don't face products." Now you can see the regular employees by the ones that have the yellow tags on their shirt. Everybody else is one of our actors. The lower level employees thought it was very funny. And in fact, several of them went to go get their camera from the break room and took photos with us. A lot of them made jokes about trying to get us to go to the back to get heavy television sets for customers. The managers and the security guards, on the other hand, did not find it particularly funny. You can see them in this footage. They're wearing either a yellow shirt or a black shirt. And we were there probably 10 minutes before the managers decided to dial 911. So they started running around telling everybody the cops were coming, watch out, the cops were coming. And you can see the cops in this footage right here. That's a cop wearing black right there, being filmed with a hidden camera. Ultimately, the police had to inform Best Buy management that it was not, in fact, illegal to wear a blue polo shirt and khaki pants. Thank you. So we had been there for 20 minutes; we were happy to exit the store. One thing the managers were trying to do was to track down our cameras. And they caught a couple of my guys who had hidden cameras in duffel bags. But the one camera guy they never caught was the guy that went in just with a blank tape and went over to the Best Buy camera department and just put his tape in one of their cameras and pretended to shop. So I like that concept of using their own technology against them. I think our best projects are ones that are site specific and happen at a particular place for a reason. And one morning, I was riding the subway. I had to make a transfer at the 53rd St. stop where there are these two giant escalators. And it's a very depressing place to be in the morning, it's very crowded. So I decided to try and stage something that could make it as happy as possible for one morning. So this was in the winter of 2009 -- 8:30 in the morning. It's morning rush hour. It's very cold outside. People are coming in from Queens, transferring from the E train to the 6 train. And they're going up these giant escalators on their way to their jobs. Thank you. So there's a photograph that illustrates it a little bit better. He gave 2,000 high fives that day, and he washed his hands before and afterward and did not get sick. And that was done also without permission, although no one seemed to care. So I'd say over the years, one of the most common criticisms I see of Improv Everywhere left anonymously on YouTube comments is: "These people have too much time on their hands." And you know, not everybody's going to like everything you do, and I've certainly developed a thick skin thanks to Internet comments, but that one's always bothered me, because we don't have too much time on our hands. The participants at Improv Everywhere events have just as much leisure time as any other New Yorkers, they just occasionally choose to spend it in an unusual way. You know, every Saturday and Sunday, hundreds of thousands of people each fall gather in football stadiums to watch games. And I've never seen anybody comment, looking at a football game, saying, "All those people in the stands, they have too much time on their hands." And of course they don't. It's a perfectly wonderful way to spent a weekend afternoon, But I think it's also a perfectly valid way to spend an afternoon freezing in place with 200 people in the Grand Central terminal or dressing up like a ghostbuster and running through the New York Public Library. Or listening to the same MP3 as 3,000 other people and dancing silently in a park, or bursting into song in a grocery store as part of a spontaneous musical, or diving into the ocean in Coney Island wearing formal attire. You know, as kids, we're taught to play. And we're never given a reason why we should play. It's just acceptable that play is a good thing. And I think that's sort of the point of Improv Everywhere. It's that there is no point and that there doesn't have to be a point. We don't need a reason. As long as it's fun and it seems like it's going to be a funny idea and it seems like the people who witness it will also have a fun time, then that's enough for us. And I think, as adults, we need to learn that there's no right or wrong way to play. Thank you very much.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
あんな煽り方ある? こっそり行っても......ばれるわよね。だって、ここは王子の家だもの。塔に何かあるのか、誰か閉じ込めているのか、それとも......罠? 「おい! お前、俺の話を聞いてるのか!」突然の大きな声に私はハッと我に返る。目の前にいかつい顔がドンッと現れる。......なんとまぁ、渋い顔なのかしら。そんな眉間に皺を寄せていたら幸せ逃げていくわよ。「さっきからぼーっとしやがって。やる気がないならママの元へ帰るんだな」ごもっともだわ。やる気のない奴は要らないものねだけ怠けた奴がいたら一気に規律が乱れるもの。「申し訳ございませんでした!」声を張って、私は深く頭を下げた。そうよ、私はここで頑張らないといけないのよ。必ずのし上がってやるわ。まさか私が素直に謝るとは思っていなったのか、男は目を丸くする。周りにいた兵士達も固まっている。「......新人、名前は?」「リア」「俺の名前はマリウス、リード・マリウスだ。この隊の隊長だ」「......この隊?」「お前、自分が所属している隊も分からずここにいるのか?」マリウス隊長は呆れた表情をする。いきなりヴィクターにここに放り込まれたんだもの。何の説明もなしにね。「いいか、この隊はヴィクター王子の特別部隊だ。この隊に入りたくて世の中の兵たちは死にもの狂いで頑張っているんだ。......それをどういうわけか王子はこんな何の経験もない貧しいガキをここにぶっこんだんだ。一体何を考えているのやら」「実力でここに残ればいいんでしょ」私の言葉に空気が凍る。マリウス隊長は顔を引きつらせる。......あ、怒らせてしまったみたいだわ。別に令嬢じゃない格好で人を怒らせても悪女ポイントは上がらないのに。「いうじゃねえか、新人」考えてみれば、隊長とこんな風に話すのって初めてかもしれない。デュルキス国では兵とはあんまり関わりがなかったものね。「え」それだけ? 腕立て二百回だけでいいの? 何の罰にもなっていないわよ? 言った方がいいのかしら......。腕立て千回ぐらいの罰の方が良いよって。「怯えているぜ」「隊長もひでえよな、入ってきたそうそう腕立て二百回今からやらせるなんて」「あいつは一週間ももたないに賭けるぜ」「俺は一日だと思うぜ」次々と兵達が言葉を発する。どんどん短くなっていくわね。どれだけ根性なしだと思われているのかしら。失礼しちゃうわ。「失敗したら一からやり直しだ」「おい、あんまり新人を」「二百回でいいの?」クリーム色の髪色をした短髪の男がマリウス隊長を止めようとしたのを私は遮る。隊長にそんな風に言えるなんて、多分副隊長かしら。隊長より細身だけど、良い筋肉をしている。おかしなことに、どれだけ頑張っても私は全く筋肉がつかないから羨ましいわ。「おい、お前もあんまり煽るな」短髪の男が私に注意する。煽らないと回数増えないでしょ。二百回だと全くペナルティーにならないのよ。「おもしれえじゃねえか。じゃあ回、連続で腕立てしろ」私はそう言って、その場に手をついて、腕立ての姿勢になる。「あと、お前、ちゃんと敬語使え」上からマリウス隊長の言葉が聞こえる。「分かりました」私はそう言って、その場で腕立てを始めた。	How could he do that? If I sneaked over there, they would know, right? This was probably the prince’s place. Was there something in that tower, or someone locked in there, or... a trap? “Hey! Are you even listening to me?” A loud voice suddenly brought me back to my senses. A large man’s face appeared in front of me. ...What a stern looking face. Happiness would flee from him if he kept wrinkling his brow like that. “You’ve been dawdling for a while now. If you’re not going to do anything, you should go back to your mother.” I can agree with that. I also wouldn’t want someone who was unmotivated. One lazy person could upset the discipline at once. “I’m sorry, sir!” I bowed my head deeply, my voice strained. Yes, I must do my best here. I will definitely rise to the top. The man’s eyes widened, as if he didn’t expect me to apologize honestly. The surrounding soldiers also froze. “...What’s your name, rookie?” “Ria.” “My name is Marius, Reid Marius. I’m the captain of this squad.” “...This squad?” “You don’t even know what squad you’re in, and you’re here?” Captain Marius looked dumbfounded. I was suddenly thrown in here by Victor. He didn’t explain anything about all this. “Look, this is Prince Victor’s special unit. All the soldiers in the world are dying to join this unit. ...And somehow the prince threw this poor kid in here with no experience. I don’t know what the hell he’s thinking.” “I just have to stay here on my own merits, don’t I?” The air froze at my words. Captain Marius tightened his face. ...Ah, I think I offended him. It wasn’t like I was going to get any villainess points for pissing off people by dressing up as something other than a lady. “You’re right, rookie.” Thinking about it, this might be the first time I talked to the captain like this. I didn’t have much to do with the soldiers in Duelkis. “Eh?” That’s it? Two hundred push-ups? That’s not a punishment at all, is it? I wonder if I should tell him... A thousand push-ups would be a better punishment. “You’re freaking me out.” “The captain is also a jerk, forcing him to do push-ups right now, right after he arrived.” “I bet he won’t last a week.” “I think he’ll only last a day.” One by one, the soldiers spoke. It’s getting shorter and shorter. I wonder how gutless they thought I was. Not that I’m being rude about it, by the way. “If I fail, do I have to start all over again?” “Hey, you’re getting carried away, rookie.” “Two hundred times?” A short man with cream-colored hair tried to stop Captain Marius, but I interrupted him. He was probably the second-in-command, to be able to say that to the captain. He’s slimmer than the captain, but he has good muscles. The funny thing was, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t build any muscle at all, which made me jealous of them. “Hey, don’t get too excited about it, either.” The short-haired man cautions me. He wouldn’t increase the number of times I had to do the push-ups if I didn’t agitate him. Two hundred times isn’t a penalty at all. “That’s fun. Then do five hundred push-ups in a row.” I then put my hands on the floor and got into a push-up position. “Also, use proper honorifics.” I heard Captain Marius say from above. “Understood, sir.” I said and began to do push-ups on the spot.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 3, "inserted_lines_src": 1, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
議会の権力による決定の社会的重要性は多大なものとなるであろう。議会による批准は、単純にクーデターに印を押したということではない：同意は条件付きであった。民間から見た妥当性を確保するために議会の同意を必要とする首長たちは、これからは、権力共有の必要性を考慮に入れなければならない。	The consequences of this assertion of parliamentary authority will be enormous. Parliamentary ratification did not simply provide a rubber stamp to a palace coup; its approval was conditional. Emirs who need parliamentary approval to secure popular legitimacy must now reckon with the need to share power.	{ "source": "news_commentary", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
わたしは、幼児番組「Free to be you and me」とヒップホップで育ちました。今日ヒップホップファンは少ないのかな? ありがとう。ヒップホップとアニタ・ヒルです。わたしの両親は急進主義者が、成長して大人になった人たちでした。わたしの父はおどけて言ったものです僕らは世界を救うつもりで気がついたらただの金持ちになりさがっていたのさ、と。実際は、我が家はコロラドスプリングスの中流家庭でしたがでもご理解いただけるでしょう? わたしは強烈な、まだ完成していない過去の遺産があるという感覚とともに育ったのです。今、円熟の三十歳を迎え、わたしはずっと考えてきました。この恐ろしくも素晴らしい時代に「成長する」ということはどういうことなのかと。そしてわたしは確信しました。それは長い道のりであり、パラドックスであると。第1のパラドックスは「成長する」ということは、過去を拒絶しながらもすぐそれを取り戻したがるということです。フェミニズムはわたしが育った庭でした。わたしが幼い頃に母は、始めました。今や世界で最も長く続いている女性映画際を。他の子供立ちがコメディやアニメを見ている間わたしは難解なドキュメンタリーを見ていました。女性による女性についてのドキュメンタリーです。これが子供にどのくらい影響を与えたかはおわかりでしょう。しかも、我が家のフェミニストは母だけではありませんでした。父は、実際に男性に限った地元のビジネスクラブを退会しました。将来、息子を歓迎するかもしれないが娘を拒絶するような組織にかかわるつもりはないとの理由でです。実は今日父はここに来ています。実を言えば、結局わたしの兄はビジネスマンではなく前衛詩人になったわけですが、でもその意気やよし、です。ともかく、当時のわたしはフェミニストと呼ばれたくありませんでした。フェミニズムに取り囲まれていたにも関わらずです。なぜならわたしは、フェミニズムというものを母の婦人グループや母のスカートや肩パットなどと結びつけて考えていて、当時通っていたパルマー高校でクールに振る舞いたかったわたしにはぐっとこなかったからです。でも、フェミニズムというものが実はすごく大事なのではないかという気はしていたのでこっそりと母の本棚に行っては本を取り出して読んでいました。もちろん絶対にそのことは認めたりしませんでしたが。私は実際、自分がフェミニストだとは言っていませんでした。バーナード大学に入学してエミー・リチャードとジェニファー・バウムガードナーの話を初めて聞くまでは。二人は「マニフェスタ」という本の著者です。たぶんみなさんはお尋ねになりたいでしょうね。わたしが何でフェミニズムに目覚めたのかを? きっかけは「網タイツ」です。ジェニファー・バウムガードナーが身に付けていてわたしはかっこいいと思い、 OK、わたしもフェミニストになる、と思ったのです。このことを恥を忍んでお話するのはわたしがこう考えているからです。美しさや楽しむことは重要だと認めることもフェミニズムの1つの役割だと。近代における政治的運動では、文化的なかっこよさが火付け役となったものがたくさんあります。たとえばこの人達のことをご存知ないですか? こうしたことから、わたしにとってのフェミニズムは、母からの影響を非常に受けてはいますが、見た目はだいぶ違っています。たとえば母が「家父長制」と言えばわたしは「交叉性」と言います。ジェンダーや階級・階層、人種や能力これらすべてが女性としての体験の中に入り込んでいるからです。男女平等賃金?もちろんフェミニズムが扱う問題ですがわたしにとって、移民問題もそうです。ありがとう。母は「デモ行進」と言い、わたしは「オンラインでの組織づくり」と言います。わたしは、Feministing.comと呼ばれるサイトを非常に聡明で素晴らしい女性達と共に運営しています。このサイトは、フェミニストの出版物としてはもっとも広く読まれているものです。このことをお話しするのはこれが重要なことだと思うからです。続いているということを知ることがです。フェミニストブログとは、いわば21世紀版のコンシャスネス・レイジングです。しかしわたしたちは、直接的な政治的影響力も持っています。フェミニズム運動はウォールマートの棚から商品を撤去させることができます。わたしたちに嫌がらせメールを送りつけた女嫌いの理事を学校から解雇させたこともあります。そしてわたしたちの最大の成功の一つはアイオワ中部の10代の女の子からメールをもらったことです。「ジェシカ・シンプソンをgoogleで調べててあなたたちのサイトに来たの。フェミニズムって、男嫌いとビルケンシュトックだけってわけじゃないのね。」わたしたちは、次の世代を惹きつけることができたのです。フェミニズムを全く新しい形でです。母が「グロリア・スタイネム」と言えば、わたしは、「サミータ・ムコパダイ、ミリアム・ペレーズ、アン・フリードマン、ジェシカ・ヴァレンティ、ヴァネッサ・ヴァレンティそれから、それから」と続けます。わたしたちはたった一人の勇者をたった一人の象徴を求めません。わたしたちには1人の顔はいらないのです。国内にいる何千人もの男女が、オンラインに記事を投稿し、コミュニティをつくり、内側から組織を変えていくーこれらすべての素晴らしい成果は、脈々と受け継がれているのです。わたしたちの母、またその母が始めたことを。ありがとう。そのことが第2のパラドックスにつながります。「成長する」ということは、自分の存在の小ささに気づきながらも自分の素晴らしさについて同時に信じ続けることです。わたしたちの世代の多くはよい子育てと、自尊心を育てる教育によって信じこまされてきました。わたしたちは特別な小さい雪ひらであり大きくなったら世界を救うのだと。「世界を救う」という言葉と共に育てられたのです。やがて過剰に膨らんだ期待を胸に卒業を迎えて気がついてみたら実際に「世界を救う」とはどうすればよいのかさっぱりわからないことに気づくのです。マスメディアはよくわたしたちの世代のことを「無関心」だと言います。わたしは、より正確にはわたしたちは圧倒されている、というべきだと思います。そして実際のところ、圧倒されてもしかたない問題がたくさんあります。環境危機、国内の貧富の格差、これは1928年以来、目にしてきたものとは違うものです。そして世界的に見ても道義にもとるような、貧富の差は拡大しています。外国人排斥問題も出てきており、女性や女児の売買問題もです。これらのことは、圧倒されてしまうには十分です。わたし自身、このことを経験しました。 2002年にバーナード大学を卒業した年にです。わたしは希望に燃え、成果を挙げる気満々でした。家を出て、NPOで働き、大学院に通い、コールサービスをし、抗議をし、ボランティアをし、でも、わたしの努力は全く意味が無いように見えました。そしてある、とても暗い夜 2004年の12月に家族と一緒に座っている時、わたしは自分が心底失望しており、ある思いつき、暗い妄想があることを白状しました。それは手紙を、この世界の全ての問題点を記した手紙を書いてホワイトハウスの階段の上で自分自身に火をつけようと考えていると。母は、彼女の特製のシー・ブリーズに口をつけ、今にも涙があふれそうな目でわたしをまっすぐに見て、言いました。絶望には賛同しない。あなたは、もっと頭が良くて、もっと創造的でもっと忍耐強いはずよ、と。このことがわたしに第3のパラドックスを気づかせました。「成長する」ということは、成功することを大胆に狙いながらもしっかりと失敗をすることによって成し遂げられるのだと。わたしが多大な影響を受けた作家のパーカー・パルマーはわたしたちの多くが、両極端に揺れていると書いています。傲慢なまでの自分への買いかぶりと卑屈なまでの自分を過小評価することに。もうお気づきとは思いますがわたしは抗議の焼身自殺はしませんでした。わたしは、必死に自分にできるとわかっていること、すなわち執筆をしました。わたしは、わたしが読むべき本を書きました。わたしは、8人の素晴らしい人々この国中にいる社会を正すための仕事をしている人々についての本を書きました。わたしはニア・マーティン-ロビンソンについて書きました。彼女はデトロイトの市民権運動家の両親を持ち彼女自身のすべてを環境正義に捧げています。わたしはエミリー・アプトについて書きました。彼女は初め社会福祉制度のケースワーカになりました。自分にできる最も尊い仕事であると考えたからです。しかし、すぐに彼女は、自分がその仕事を好きになれないだけでなく全く向いていないことに気づき、代わりに彼女が本当にしたいこと、すなわち映画を作ることにしたのです。彼女は社会福祉制度についての映画を作り社会に大きな衝撃を与えました。わたしはマリセラ・グズマンについて書きました。彼女はメキシコ移民の娘で大学の学費のために軍に入隊しました。彼女は新兵訓練所で性的暴行を受け「女性軍人活動ネットワーク」というグループを共同で立ち上げました。わたしが、彼女達をはじめ、他の多くの人から学んだことは判断することはできないということです。彼らがその非常に高い目標を達成する元になった失敗からは。彼らの多くは、解決の大変困難なシステムで働いています。軍隊、議会教育制度、などです。しかしそのシステムの中で、彼らはそのシステムに、より人間的な影響力を与えようとしているのです。そして、結局はこれ以上に重要なことがあるでしょうか。コーネル・ウェストは言いました。「もちろんそれは失敗さ。でも、なんてみごとな失敗だろうか?」これは、わたしたちの最も大胆で大きな夢をあきらめろと言っているのではありません。二つの側面から物事を進めなさいということなのです。一つ目は、この破綻したシステムを追求することです。私たちがその一部となっているシステムを。でももう一つは、自分の可能性を信じ、 1日を少しでもよくしようと行動することです。もっと親切に、もっと正しく、などを日々心がけることによって。わたしが小さかったころ、いくつかの変わった癖を持っていました。その一つが、わたしが子供のころの家で台所で寝転がり、左手の親指をしゃぶりながら右手で母の冷たい足の指を握るというものでした。その格好で母がよく電話で話をしているのを聞いていました。母は理事会や平和団体の立ち上げについて話していました。相乗り車の利用をとりまとめたり、友達をなぐさめたり気配りや、創造性に富んだことを日々行っていました。ほんの3歳か4歳の頃ですから、その当時は母の心地良い声音を聞いているだけでした。でも、同時にわたしは人生最初の活動家運動のレッスンを受けていたことになります。わたしがインタビューした活動家には文字通り共通点はなにもありませんでした。活動家としての自分のルーツであり、もっとも影響された人物は母であると全員が言ってることを除いては。だからわたしたちは、折りにふれ、特に幼い頃にはるか先を見つめていたのです。わたしたちの意味のある人生のお手本を、です。時に母達は台所で、電話をし、わたしたちの食事を作り、世の中を回していくために必要なことをずっと続けてきていたのです。わたしの母や、母のような女性達が教えてくれました。人生とは、栄光や確実性や、安定性を求めるものではないと。人生とはパラドックスを受け入れること。人生とは圧倒されるような出来事を前にしながら行動すること。人生とは人々を本当に愛することであると。そしてこれこそが人生を通じての挑戦であり、恩恵であるのです。ありがとうございました。	I was raised on "Free to be you and me" -- hip-hop -- not as many woohoos for hip-hop in the house. Thank you. Thank you for hip-hop -- and Anita Hill. My parents were radicals -- who became, well, grown-ups. My dad facetiously says, "We wanted to save the world, and instead we just got rich." We actually just got "middle class" in Colorado Springs, Colorado, but you get the picture. I was raised with a very heavy sense of unfinished legacy. At this ripe old age of 30, I've been thinking a lot about what it means to grow up in this horrible, beautiful time, and I've decided, for me, it's been a real journey and paradox. The first paradox is that growing up is about rejecting the past and then promptly reclaiming it. Feminism was the water I grew up in. When I was just a little girl, my mom started what is now the longest-running women's film festival in the world. So while other kids were watching sitcoms and cartoons, I was watching very esoteric documentaries made by and about women. You can see how this had an influence. But she was not the only feminist in the house. My dad actually resigned from the male-only business club in my hometown because he said he would never be part of an organization that would one day welcome his son, but not his daughter. He's actually here today. The trick here is my brother would become an experimental poet, not a businessman, but the intention was really good. In any case, I didn't readily claim the feminist label, even though it was all around me, because I associated it with my mom's women's groups, her swishy skirts and her shoulder pads -- none of which had much cachet in the hallways of Palmer High School where I was trying to be cool at the time. But I suspected there was something really important about this whole feminism thing, so I started covertly tiptoeing into my mom's bookshelves and picking books off and reading them -- never, of course, admitting that I was doing so. I didn't actually claim the feminist label until I went to Barnard College and I heard Amy Richards and Jennifer Baumgardner speak for the first time. They were the co-authors of a book called "Manifesta." So what very profound epiphany, you might ask, was responsible for my feminist click moment? Fishnet stockings. Jennifer Baumgardner was wearing them. I thought they were really hot. I decided, okay, I can claim the feminist label. Now I tell you this -- I tell you this at the risk of embarrassing myself, because I think part of the work of feminism is to admit that aesthetics, that beauty, that fun do matter. There are lots of very modern political movements that have caught fire in no small part because of cultural hipness. Anyone heard of these two guys as an example? So my feminism is very indebted to my mom's, but it looks very different. My mom says, "patriarchy." I say, "intersectionality." So race, class, gender, ability, all of these things go into our experiences of what it means to be a woman. Pay equity? Yes. Absolutely a feminist issue. But for me, so is immigration. Thank you. My mom says, "Protest march." I say, "Online organizing." I co-edit, along with a collective of other super-smart, amazing women, a site called Feministing.com. We are the most widely read feminist publication ever, and I tell you this because I think it's really important to see that there's a continuum. Feminist blogging is basically the 21st century version of consciousness raising. But we also have a straightforward political impact. Feministing has been able to get merchandise pulled off the shelves of Walmart. We got a misogynist administrator sending us hate-mail fired from a Big Ten school. And one of our biggest successes is we get mail from teenage girls in the middle of Iowa who say, "I Googled Jessica Simpson and stumbled on your site. I realized feminism wasn't about man-hating and Birkenstocks." So we're able to pull in the next generation in a totally new way. My mom says, "Gloria Steinem." I say, "Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Miriam Perez, Ann Friedman, Jessica Valenti, Vanessa Valenti, and on and on and on and on." We don't want one hero. We don't want one icon. We don't want one face. We are thousands of women and men across this country doing online writing, community organizing, changing institutions from the inside out -- all continuing the incredible work that our mothers and grandmothers started. Thank you. Which brings me to the second paradox: sobering up about our smallness and maintaining faith in our greatness all at once. Many in my generation -- because of well-intentioned parenting and self-esteem education -- were socialized to believe that we were special little snowflakes -- who were going to go out and save the world. These are three words many of us were raised with. We walk across graduation stages, high on our overblown expectations, and when we float back down to earth, we realize we don't know what the heck it means to actually save the world anyway. The mainstream media often paints my generation as apathetic, and I think it's much more accurate to say we are deeply overwhelmed. And there's a lot to be overwhelmed about, to be fair -- an environmental crisis, wealth disparity in this country unlike we've seen since 1928, and globally, a totally immoral and ongoing wealth disparity. Xenophobia's on the rise. The trafficking of women and girls. It's enough to make you feel very overwhelmed. I experienced this firsthand myself when I graduated from Barnard College in 2002. I was fired up; I was ready to make a difference. I went out and I worked at a non-profit, I went to grad school, I phone-banked, I protested, I volunteered, and none of it seemed to matter. And on a particularly dark night of December of 2004, I sat down with my family, and I said that I had become very disillusioned. I admitted that I'd actually had a fantasy -- kind of a dark fantasy -- of writing a letter about everything that was wrong with the world and then lighting myself on fire on the White House steps. My mom took a drink of her signature Sea Breeze, her eyes really welled with tears, and she looked right at me and she said, "I will not stand for your desperation." She said, "You are smarter, more creative and more resilient than that." Which brings me to my third paradox. Growing up is about aiming to succeed wildly and being fulfilled by failing really well. There's a writer I've been deeply influenced by, Parker Palmer, and he writes that many of us are often whiplashed "between arrogant overestimation of ourselves and a servile underestimation of ourselves." You may have guessed by now, I did not light myself on fire. I did what I know to do in desperation, which is write. I wrote the book I needed to read. I wrote a book about eight incredible people all over this country doing social justice work. I wrote about Nia Martin-Robinson, the daughter of Detroit and two civil rights activists, who's dedicating her life to environmental justice. I wrote about Emily Apt who initially became a caseworker in the welfare system because she decided that was the most noble thing she could do, but quickly learned, not only did she not like it, but she wasn't really good at it. Instead, what she really wanted to do was make films. So she made a film about the welfare system and had a huge impact. I wrote about Maricela Guzman, the daughter of Mexican immigrants, who joined the military so she could afford college. She was actually sexually assaulted in boot camp and went on to co-organize a group called the Service Women's Action Network. What I learned from these people and others was that I couldn't judge them based on their failure to meet their very lofty goals. Many of them are working in deeply intractable systems -- the military, congress, the education system, etc. But what they managed to do within those systems was be a humanizing force. And at the end of the day, what could possibly be more important than that? Cornel West says, "Of course it's a failure. But how good a failure is it?" This isn't to say we give up our wildest, biggest dreams. It's to say we operate on two levels. On one, we really go after changing these broken systems of which we find ourselves a part. But on the other, we root our self-esteem in the daily acts of trying to make one person's day more kind, more just, etc. So when I was a little girl, I had a couple of very strange habits. One of them was I used to lie on the kitchen floor of my childhood home, and I would suck the thumb of my left hand and hold my mom's cold toes with my right hand. I was listening to her talk on the phone, which she did a lot. She was talking about board meetings, she was founding peace organizations, she was coordinating carpools, she was consoling friends -- all these daily acts of care and creativity. And surely, at three and four years old, I was listening to the soothing sound of her voice, but I think I was also getting my first lesson in activist work. The activists I interviewed had nothing in common, literally, except for one thing, which was that they all cited their mothers as their most looming and important activist influences. So often, particularly at a young age, we look far afield for our models of the meaningful life, and sometimes they're in our own kitchens, talking on the phone, making us dinner, doing all that keeps the world going around and around. My mom and so many women like her have taught me that life is not about glory, or certainty, or security even. It's about embracing the paradox. It's about acting in the face of overwhelm. And it's about loving people really well. And at the end of the day, these things make for a lifetime of challenge and reward. Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
トークの一週間後にクリスが連絡してきました「トークをネット配信することになりましたあなたのも配信して構いませんか?」「もちろん」その後の4年間であのトークは 4百万回ダウンロードされました見た人の数ということであればたぶんその20倍くらいになるでしょうそしてクリスが言うにはみんな飢えているというのです私のビデオに (拍手) 皆さんもそう感じませんか? だからこのイベントの間中ずっと入念に準備していましたでは始めましょうアルゴアは私が講演したのと同じ4年前のTEDで自然環境の危機の話をしました私は自分の話の最後にそのトークの内容に触れました今日はその続きから始めたいと思いますなにせ18分しかないのですからですから先ほど申し上げた通り... 彼の指摘は正しいのです明らかに気候変動の重大な危機が存在します信じられないと言う人はもっと外に出た方がいいですねでも環境の危機はもう一つあるのです同じくらい深刻で同じ種類の危機で同じくらい緊急に対処しなければなりませんそれは... でも皆さんは言うでしょうね「もう十分だ危機は一つでたくさん二つめは必要ない」これは自然環境の問題ではなくもちろん自然環境も大事ですが人の環境の問題です他の多くの講演者たちもこの大会で指摘していますが基本的に私達は自分の才能をうまく生かせていません大多数の人は人生において自分の才能が何なのかわからずそもそも才能があるとも思っていません何の取り柄もないと思っている人に出会うのは珍しくありません私は世界を二つのグループに分けて見るようになりました功利主義哲学者のジェレミーベンサムはこの考えを見事に言い表しました「世界には2種類の人がいる世界を二つに分ける人とそうしない人だ」私は分ける派です自分の仕事を楽しめない人が大勢いますこの人達は人生を黙々と耐えて生きるだけです仕事から喜びを見いだすことはありません楽しむというより耐えながら週末が来るのを待つのです一方で仕事が大好きで他のことをするなんて考えられない人もいますやめろと言われたりしたら訳が分からないという顔をするでしょう彼らにとってそれは自分の存在に関わることだからです「だけどこれがあっての私なんですこれをやめるなんて馬鹿げてる一番本当の自分がここにあるんだから」でもこのような生き方をしている人は多くありませんそれどころか実際はこのような生き方の人は少数派ですその原因はいろいろとあると思いますが大きな原因の一つは教育にあります教育はある面で多くの人をその持って生まれた才能から引き離すものだからです人の才能は天然資源と同じで深い場所に埋もれています探さないと見つかりません表面に転がってはいません才能が現れ出る状況を作る必要があります教育がそのための手段だと思うかもしれませんが多くの場合そうなっていません現在世界中で教育システムの改善が進められていますでも十分ではありません改善では役に立たないのです破綻しているモデルを改良するだけだからです必要なのはこの場でも度々使われてきた言葉ですが教育の「進化」ではなく教育の「革命」なのです教育は全く別のものにならねばなりません (拍手) 本当に難しいのは教育を根本的に改革することです改革は難しいものですそれはみんなが簡単だと思っていないことをしなければならないからですそれは私達が当然と思うもの明白だと思うことに挑戦することになります改善や変革において大きな問題になるのは「常識」というとてつもなく強い力です常識とは「ずっとそうやってきたんだから他のやり方はない」と皆が思い込んでいることです最近リンカーン大統領の素晴らしい言葉を知りましたここでリンカーンが出てくるのは皆さん嬉しいでしょうリンカーン大統領の1862年12月の第2回米国連邦議会での演説です私は当時の米国で何があったのか全く知りません英国では米国の歴史を教えないからです米国史を「抑圧」してるんです政策として何か大事件があったのだと思います皆さんのうち米国出身の方ならきっとご存じでしょうリンカーンは言いました「平穏な過去の時代の定説はこの時代は困難に満ちている我々はこの時代とともに立ち上がらねばならない」素晴らしいですね「時代に対して」ではなく「時代とともに」です「新たな事態には新たな思考と行動をもって対処しなければならない我々自身の束縛を解きこの国を救わねばならない」良い言葉ですね「束縛を解く」意味はわかりますね? 私達みんなが囚われている考えがあります私達はそういう考えを自然なこととしてそういうものと思い込んでいます私達の考えの多くは現在の状況ではなく前世紀の状況に合わせて形成されましたしかし私達の心はいまだ囚われたままですですから私達は自らを束縛から解放する必要があるのです言うのはやさしく実行するのは難しいです自分が何を当然と思っているかを知ることは大変難しいのですなぜならそれを当然のことと思っているからです皆さんが当然と思っていることについて聞いてみましょう 25歳以上の方はどれくらいいますか? それを皆さん当たり前とは思ってないでしょうその歳にはもう慣れたとは思いますがでは 25歳未満の方は? 25歳以上の方で腕時計をしている方は手を挙げてください大半の方がそうですね同じ質問を10代の若者にしてごらんなさい 10代の若者は腕時計をしませんできないとか許されてないわけではなく自分でしようと思わないのですその理由はこうです 25歳以上の人はデジタル化以前の時代に育ったので時間を知りたければ時を告げるものを身につける必要がありました今の子供たちはデジタル化された世界に住んでいますから時間はどこででも知ることができます腕時計をする必要がないのですもちろん皆さんも腕時計は必要ありませんが習慣的にし続けているのです私の娘のケイトは20歳ですが腕時計などしたことがありません腕時計の必要を認めないのです彼女は言います「えなにその機能1個って?」「ダサいもいいとこね」「そんなことないよ日付だって分るんだから」「ほら多機能じゃない!」教育においても私達には囚われていることがあります例を挙げましょうひとつは一本道という考えでスタートして規定のコースを走りすべて正しくやればあとの人生は安泰というものです TEDで講演した人はみんな暗にあるいは明確にそれとは違ったことを言っています人生は一本道ではなくもっと絡み合っているものです私達は自分の才能を追求する中で成長の助けとなる周囲のものと共生的に生きていますしかし私達は一本道という考えに囚われており教育の最大の山場は大学に入ることだと思っていますそれも特定の大学に入学させようという考えにとりつかれています大学に行くなと言うわけではありません全員がすぐに行く必要はないということですもう少し後でも良いかもしれませんしばらく前に本のサイン会のためサンフランシスコに出かけました本を買ってくれたある30代の男性に「お仕事は何を?」と尋ねました「消防士です」「消防士をやって長いんですか?」「ずっとです昔から消防士をしています」「なろうと思ったのはいつですか?」「子供の時です実のところ学校では問題がありましたみんな消防士になりたいと言いますからね」「でも私は本気で消防士になりたかったんです」「高校3年生になったとき先生方は私の進路希望を本気にしてくれませんでした」「全然まともに取り合ってくれない先生がいてその先生は言いました "消防士なんて人生を棒に振るようなものだ大学へ行って専門を身につけなさい君には素晴らしい可能性があるんだから才能を無駄にするんじゃない"」「クラスのみんなの前で言われたのですごく屈辱的で嫌な思いをしましたでも私はどうしても消防士になりたかったのです卒業するとすぐに消防士に志願して念願を果たしました」「あなたが先ほど話をされていたとき私はその先生のことを思い出していました」「というのも 6ヶ月前のこと私はその先生の命を救ったからです」「先生が自動車事故に遭って私が救出して蘇生救命措置をしたんです奥さんの命も救いました」「今では多少は見直してくれたんじゃないかと思います」 (拍手) 私は思うのですが人間社会は才能の多様性によって成り立っています単一の能力によってではありません私達にとっての課題は... (拍手) 私達にとっての重要な課題は能力と知性についての私達の考え方を再構築することです一本道という考え方に問題があります私が9年ほど前ロサンゼルスに移ってきたとき次のような標語に出逢いました善意で作られたものでしょうが「大学は幼稚園から始まる」というものでしたまさか違いますよ大学は幼稚園からは始まりません時間があればお話ししたいところですがやめときます幼稚園は幼稚園から始まるのです私の友人が以前言っていました「3歳児は6歳児の半分ってわけじゃない」 (拍手) 3歳児は3歳児なのですですが先のセッションで聞いたように現在は「良い」幼稚園に入る競争がとても熾烈になっているので入園面接もあります 3歳児ですよ子供たちが無表情な面接官の前に座ります面接官は履歴書を手にぱらぱらとめくりながら言います「これだけですか?」 (拍手) 「36ヶ月間生きてきてたったこれだけですか?」「確たる実績が何もありませんね最初の6ヶ月は授乳を受けていただじゃありませんか」考えただけでも馬鹿げていますがみんなそれに引かれるのですもう一つの問題は画一性です私達は教育システムをファーストフード産業をモデルに構築しましたそのことについてはジェミーオリバーが先日講演しました外食産業には二つの品質保証モデルがありますその一つはファーストフードですべてが標準化されていますもう一つはザガットやミシュランのレストランで標準化されずその地方の特色を生かしたサービスを提供します私達は教育のファーストフード化を推進してきましたファーストフードが私達の肉体を蝕むように教育が私達の精神と活力を蝕んでいます (拍手) ここでいくつかの事項を確認したいと思います一つは人間の才能は途方もなく多様性に満ちていることです人の才能は皆異なります最近分かったことがあります私は子供の頃ギターを買ってもらいましたが同じ頃にエリッククラプトンも最初のギターを手にしていたんです私に言えるのはまあエリックにはうまくいったねということです私はダメでしたけど良い音色は出ませんでしたいくら一生懸命に吹いてもまったくダメでしたでもそれだけではありません情熱が違ったのです人は本当に好きなことに上達するものです情熱が大切なのです精神と活力をたぎらせるものが大事なのです大好きなことや得意なことをしているときには時間の過ぎ方が異なります妻は最近小説を書き上げました傑作です執筆に没頭すると何時間も姿を消してしまいますご存じでしょう何か本当に好きなことをしていると 1時間が5分ほどに思えます一方で心に響くものがなければ 5分が1時間に感じられます多くの人が教育を見限るのは教育が心の糧にならないからです活力や情熱をかき立てないからですですから教育のモデルを変える必要があります教育を工業的製造業的モデルから脱却させる必要がありますこのモデルは直線的画一的であり人を一緒くたに扱いますこのモデルを農業的原理に基づくモデルに変えねばなりません人がその才能を花開かせるのは機械的で自動的なプロセスではなく「有機的」なプロセスだと捉える必要があります人の成長の結果を予言することなどできませんできることは農夫のように花開く条件を整えることだけです教育の改革変革は同じシステムのコピーではできません KIPPのような個別指導を特徴とする素晴らしいモデルがいくつもあります個々の状況や実態に合わせて教育を個別化することが大切ですこれが未来につながる解決方法です無理を押して新たな解決策を求めるのではなく個人個人のカリキュラムに基づき外的な支援を得ながら皆がそれぞれの状況に合わせ解決策を探求できる運動を教育の場に作り出すことですこのホールにはビジネス、マルチメディア、インターネットなどの素晴しいリソースを持った人たちが集っていますこれらの技術を優れた教師の能力と合体させることで教育に革命を起こすことができますこの教育革命に皆さんも参加してください私達ばかりでなく私達の子供たちの未来のためにぜひとも必要なことだからです教育は工業的なモデルから農業的なモデルへと変わらねばなりませんそうなれば学校はすぐに生気を取り戻すでしょうそこで子供たちは本来の生き方を見つけるのですホームスクーリングならば家庭で家族や友人達に囲まれて生き方を見つけますこの大会では多くの方々が夢について語っていますここでちょっとご紹介したいのですが昨夜ナタリーマーチャントが古い詩を歌ったのに感激したので私もちょっとだけ短い詩をご紹介します W. B.イエイツの詩です誰だかご存じですねこの詩は恋人のために書かれましたモードゴンですイエイツは自分が貧しくて彼女の欲しいものを何もあげられないことを嘆いています「君に贈り物があるけれど喜んではくれないだろうね」そして「もし私に金と銀の光が縫い込まれた天の布があったなら夜と薄明と昼を表す漆黒と灰色と空色をした天の布があったならその布をあなたの足下に広げましょうでも貧しい私には夢しか持ち合わせがないので私の夢をあなたの足下に広げますどうかそっと歩いてください私の夢の上なのですから」毎日世界中で子供たちが私達の足下に夢を広げているのです私達はその上を優しく歩まねばなりませんありがとうございました (拍手) どうもありがとうございました	And I said, "Sure." And four years later, it's been downloaded four million times. So I suppose you could multiply that by 20 or something to get the number of people who've seen it. And, as Chris says, there is a hunger for videos of me. Don't you feel? So, this whole event has been an elaborate build-up to me doing another one for you, so here it is. Al Gore spoke at the TED conference I spoke at four years ago and talked about the climate crisis. And I referenced that at the end of my last talk. So I want to pick up from there because I only had 18 minutes, frankly. So, as I was saying -- You see, he's right. I mean, there is a major climate crisis, obviously, and I think if people don't believe it, they should get out more. But I believe there is a second climate crisis, which is as severe, which has the same origins, and that we have to deal with with the same urgency. And you may say, by the way, "Look, I'm good. I have one climate crisis, I don't really need the second one." But this is a crisis of, not natural resources -- though I believe that's true -- but a crisis of human resources. as many speakers have said during the past few days, that we make very poor use of our talents. Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of. I meet all kinds of people who don't think they're really good at anything. Actually, I kind of divide the world into two groups now. Jeremy Bentham, the great utilitarian philosopher, once spiked this argument. He said, "There are two types of people in this world: those who divide the world into two types and those who do not." Well, I do. I meet all kinds of people who don't enjoy what they do. They simply go through their lives getting on with it. They get no great pleasure from what they do. They endure it rather than enjoy it, and wait for the weekend. But I also meet people who love what they do and couldn't imagine doing anything else. If you said, "Don't do this anymore," they'd wonder what you're talking about. It isn't what they do, it's who they are. They say, "But this is me, you know. It would be foolish to abandon this, because it speaks to my most authentic self." And it's not true of enough people. In fact, on the contrary, I think it's still true of a minority of people. And I think there are many possible explanations for it. And high among them is education, because education, in a way, dislocates very many people from their natural talents. And human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they're not just lying around on the surface. You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves. And you might imagine education would be the way that happens, but too often, it's not. Every education system in the world is being reformed at the moment and it's not enough. Reform is no use anymore, because that's simply improving a broken model. What we need -- and the word's been used many times in the past few days -- is not evolution, but a revolution in education. This has to be transformed into something else. One of the real challenges is to innovate fundamentally in education. Innovation is hard, because it means doing something that people don't find very easy, for the most part. It means challenging what we take for granted, things that we think are obvious. The great problem for reform or transformation is the tyranny of common sense. Things that people think, "It can't be done differently, that's how it's done." I came across a great quote recently from Abraham Lincoln, who I thought you'd be pleased to have quoted at this point. He said this in December 1862 to the second annual meeting of Congress. I ought to explain that I have no idea what was happening at the time. We don't teach American history in Britain. We suppress it. You know, this is our policy. No doubt, something fascinating was happening then, which the Americans among us will be aware of. But he said this: "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion." I love that. Not rise to it, rise with it. "As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country." I love that word, "disenthrall." You know what it means? That there are ideas that all of us are enthralled to, which we simply take for granted as the natural order of things, the way things are. And many of our ideas have been formed, not to meet the circumstances of this century, but to cope with the circumstances of previous centuries. But our minds are still hypnotized by them, and we have to disenthrall ourselves of some of them. Now, doing this is easier said than done. It's very hard to know, by the way, what it is you take for granted. And the reason is that you take it for granted. Let me ask you something you may take for granted. How many of you here are over the age of 25? That's not what you take for granted, I'm sure you're familiar with that. Are there any people here under the age of 25? Great. Now, those over 25, could you put your hands up if you're wearing your wristwatch? Now that's a great deal of us, isn't it? Ask a room full of teenagers the same thing. Teenagers do not wear wristwatches. I don't mean they can't, they just often choose not to. And the reason is we were brought up in a pre-digital culture, those of us over 25. And so for us, if you want to know the time, you have to wear something to tell it. Kids now live in a world which is digitized, and the time, for them, is everywhere. They see no reason to do this. And by the way, you don't need either; it's just that you've always done it and you carry on doing it. My daughter never wears a watch, my daughter Kate, who's 20. She doesn't see the point. As she says, "It's a single-function device." "Like, how lame is that?" And I say, "No, no, it tells the date as well." "It has multiple functions." But, you see, there are things we're enthralled to in education. A couple of examples. One of them is the idea of linearity: that it starts here and you go through a track and if you do everything right, you will end up set for the rest of your life. Everybody who's spoken at TED has told us implicitly, or sometimes explicitly, a different story: that life is not linear; it's organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances they help to create for us. But, you know, we have become obsessed with this linear narrative. And probably the pinnacle for education is getting you to college. I think we are obsessed with getting people to college. Certain sorts of college. I don't mean you shouldn't go, but not everybody needs to go, or go now. Maybe they go later, not right away. And I was up in San Francisco a while ago doing a book signing. There was this guy buying a book, he was in his 30s. I said, "What do you do?" And he said, "I'm a fireman." I asked, "How long have you been a fireman?" "Always. I've always been a fireman." "Well, when did you decide?" He said, "As a kid. Actually, it was a problem for me at school, because at school, everybody wanted to be a fireman." He said, "But I wanted to be a fireman." And he said, "When I got to the senior year of school, my teachers didn't take it seriously. This one teacher didn't take it seriously. He said I was throwing my life away if that's all I chose to do with it; that I should go to college, I should become a professional person, that I had great potential and I was wasting my talent to do that." He said, "It was humiliating. It was in front of the whole class and I felt dreadful. But it's what I wanted, and as soon as I left school, I applied to the fire service and I was accepted. You know, I was thinking about that guy recently, just a few minutes ago when you were speaking, about this teacher, because six months ago, I saved his life." He said, "He was in a car wreck, and I pulled him out, gave him CPR, and I saved his wife's life as well." He said, "I think he thinks better of me now." You know, to me, human communities depend upon a diversity of talent, not a singular conception of ability. And at the heart of our challenges -- At the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our sense of ability and of intelligence. This linearity thing is a problem. When I arrived in L.A. about nine years ago, I came across a policy statement -- very well-intentioned -- which said, "College begins in kindergarten." No, it doesn't. It doesn't. If we had time, I could go into this, but we don't. Kindergarten begins in kindergarten. A friend of mine once said, "A three year-old is not half a six year-old." They're three. But as we just heard in this last session, there's such competition now to get into kindergarten -- to get to the right kindergarten -- that people are being interviewed for it at three. Kids sitting in front of unimpressed panels, you know, with their resumes -- Flicking through and saying, "What, this is it?" "You've been around for 36 months, and this is it?" "You've achieved nothing -- commit. Spent the first six months breastfeeding, I can see." See, it's outrageous as a conception. The other big issue is conformity. We have built our education systems on the model of fast food. This is something Jamie Oliver talked about the other day. There are two models of quality assurance in catering. One is fast food, where everything is standardized. The other is like Zagat and Michelin restaurants, where everything is not standardized, they're customized to local circumstances. And we have sold ourselves into a fast-food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies. We have to recognize a couple of things here. One is that human talent is tremendously diverse. People have very different aptitudes. I worked out recently that I was given a guitar as a kid at about the same time that Eric Clapton got his first guitar. It worked out for Eric, that's all I'm saying. it did not for me. I could not get this thing to work no matter how often or how hard I blew into it. It just wouldn't work. But it's not only about that. It's about passion. Often, people are good at things they don't really care for. It's about passion, and what excites our spirit and our energy. And if you're doing the thing that you love to do, that you're good at, time takes a different course entirely. My wife's just finished writing a novel, and I think it's a great book, but she disappears for hours on end. You know this, if you're doing something you love, an hour feels like five minutes. If you're doing something that doesn't resonate with your spirit, five minutes feels like an hour. And the reason so many people are opting out of education is because it doesn't feed their spirit, it doesn't feed their energy or their passion. So I think we have to change metaphors. We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people. We have to move to a model that is based more on principles of agriculture. We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process; it's an organic process. And you cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish. So when we look at reforming education and transforming it, it isn't like cloning a system. There are great ones, like KIPP's; it's a great system. There are many great models. It's about customizing to your circumstances and personalizing education to the people you're actually teaching. And doing that, I think, is the answer to the future because it's not about scaling a new solution; it's about creating a movement in education in which people develop their own solutions, but with external support based on a personalized curriculum. Now in this room, there are people who represent extraordinary resources in business, in multimedia, in the Internet. These technologies, combined with the extraordinary talents of teachers, provide an opportunity to revolutionize education. And I urge you to get involved in it because it's vital, not just to ourselves, but to the future of our children. But we have to change from the industrial model to an agricultural model, where each school can be flourishing tomorrow. That's where children experience life. Or at home, if that's what they choose, to be educated with their families or friends. There's been a lot of talk about dreams over the course of these few days. And I wanted to just very quickly -- I was very struck by Natalie Merchant's songs last night, recovering old poems. I wanted to read you a quick, very short poem from W. B. Yeats, who some of you may know. He wrote this to his love, Maud Gonne, and he was bewailing the fact that he couldn't really give her what he thought she wanted from him. And he says, "I've got something else, but it may not be for you." He says this: "Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with gold and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." And every day, everywhere, our children spread their dreams beneath our feet. And we should tread softly. Thank you. Thank you very much.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
「勝者、登録番号86」アナウンスと共に、セイヤ、ユア、そしてリリィが結界内から出てくるが結界の外に出ると、他の選手たちが畏怖のまなざしで見つめていた。「あいつら、また勝ったのか」「親衛隊と並んで今勝だぞ」「親衛隊は三人でだけど、あのチームは金髪一人しか戦ってないわよ」「ほかはまだ一戦も参加してないぞ」「いくらなんでも、強すぎだろ」畏怖のまなざしを向けながら、ひそひそと話す選手たち。予選ブロック目、セイヤたちは今のところ十四勝零敗という戦績を収めている。つまり勝率十割だ。この時点で、残すカードは数試合だったが、Cブロックから決勝ブロックに駒を勧められる可能性があるチームは、セイヤ達の登録番号86と、ユア様親衛隊の登録番号12のふたチームだけだった。セイヤたちのチーム、登録番号86は、今まで戦ってきた十四戦、すべてをセイヤ一人で勝ち抜いてきた。セイヤはホリンズと水属性の魔力を巧みに使い、相手を沈静化させて倒したり、体術だけで倒したりと、さまざまなバリエーションで戦っている。そのため、ユアとリリィはただ隠れて待っているだけだった。だから二人の戦い方や、どのような魔法を使うのかは、誰も知らない。特にリリィは。なぜセイヤたちがこのような戦い方になったかというと、それは初戦のセイヤのミスによってだ。セイヤたちの初戦の相手であったチームが、どうやら中級魔法師で、しかも学園でも強い部類に入る生徒だったらしい。そしてチームを一人で倒したセイヤは、一瞬で注目の的になった。だからセイヤはその注目を利用して、今までの戦いを一人で戦ってきたのだ。「余裕だった......セイヤ......」「セイヤすごかった!」ユアとリリィがセイヤの腕に抱きつきながら褒めてくる。「ありがとな」セイヤが礼を言うと、二人はよりいっそうセイヤに抱きつく。そんな三人を見ながら、会場にいる男子生徒たちは嫉妬のまなざしでセイヤを見る。どうやら金髪の少年が、白髪の美少女と青髪の美幼女に抱きつかれている様子が羨ましかったようだ。三人が次の対戦を待機するため、会場で座れる場所を探し始めると、セイヤたちに三人の女子生徒が近づいてくる。「ずいぶんと余裕ね、キリスナ=セイヤ」三人のうち、真ん中にいた黒髪をポニーテイルにした強気の少女がセイヤに向かって言い放つ。その少女の横には、栗色の髪をショートにした少女と、長い銀髪を持った少女がいる。銀髪の少女は、セイヤのクラスメイトのエレンだった。黒髪の少女と栗色の少女はセイヤを見下すような形で立っていたが、エレンはどこか気まずそうにしている。「誰だ、お前?」セイヤは礼儀など関係なく、黒髪の少女に聞いた。黒髪の少女はそんなセイヤの態度などを気にするそぶりもなく、自らの名を名乗る。「私はユア様親衛隊、総隊長スニル=クロニクル。ユア様、私たち親衛隊はユア様に近づく男はすべて消し去りますのでご安心を」スニルと名乗る少女が、ユアに向かって忠誠を尽くす騎士のようなポーズをとるが、ユアは何も言わずセイヤの背中の中に隠れる。「ずいぶんとユア様と仲がいいのね。でも、あなたは私が倒すわ」「私たち親衛隊が、あなたたちの予選最後の相手です」スニルに続き、栗色の髪の少女がセイヤに向かって言う。「そうか。悪いが決勝ブロックに進むのは俺たちだ」セイヤが当然の事を言うかのように宣言すると、スニルは笑みをこぼしながら言う。「残念ながら、勝つのは私たちよ。私たちはあなたが今まで戦ってきたチームとは違うわ」「私たちも勝率十割なので」スニルと栗色の髪の少女は、自分たちが勝つのを確信しているようだ。「それでは、対戦を楽しみにしているわ。キリスナ=セイヤ」スニルはそう言い捨てると、どこかへ行ってしまう。栗色の少女とエレンも着いていくが、エレンはどこか元気のない様子だった。しかし、そんなことなどどうでもいいセイヤは、特に気にしない。「お前も大変だな、ユア」セイヤは自分の背中に隠れていたユアにそんなことを言う。「あいつら苦手......でもセイヤがいるから大丈夫......」ユアはセイヤの背中に抱きつきながら、安心したような顔で答えた。「私もいるよ!」リリィが元気に言うと、ユアが笑顔になる。三人はその後、近くのベンチに座った。時刻は夕暮れ、おそらく今行われている試合が今日最後の試合になるだろう。そしてその試合が終わると、教師のセランとナジェンダが前に来て、今日の試合は終了したことを伝える。しかし、連絡はまだ終わらなかった。「ええ、次に明日の話なのですが、このCブロックから決勝ブロックに出られるのは登録番号86と登録番号12の二チームだけになります。セランが宣言すると、会場からは一斉に雄叫びが上がった。どうやらそっちの方が盛り上がるらしく、消化試合も少しは盛り上がるようだ。「連絡は以上だ。解散」ナジェンダの言葉で、選手たちは続々と下校していく。予選ブロック中は、クラスで集まることはなく、朝から会場に集まり、試合を行っていく。途中、作戦会議の時間やら昼食の時間などを挟むが、基本的に一日中試合ばっかりだ。セイヤはユアとリリィと一緒に下校する。予選ブロック中、ナーリとはあまり会えないため、この日も三人で帰ることになった。そして三人は夕食を食べ、寝る準備をすると、セイヤの部屋に集まる。もちろん作戦会議のために。「明日の試合だが、おそらく俺一人だと厳しいだろうな」「あいつらの言い方からして、何か俺への対策をしてきているだろうな」「うん......」「そうね。となると私の出番かしら?」セイヤの意見に賛同する二人。リリィは作戦会議の時は大人バージョンになるため、最近の夜は毎日大人バージョンのリリィなっていた。そして作戦会議が終わると、そのままユアの前でセイヤのことを襲い始める。そんなリリィを止めるのではなく、便乗してユアまでセイヤのことを襲うのが、ここ最近の日課であった。「ああ、そうなるかもな。あいつらはユアの親衛隊を名乗るほどだ。ユアに付いての情報を持っていてもおかしくない。となると、切り札は俺が一度も見していない『「ごめん......足手まといで......」予選ブロックで何もできなさそうなユアが謝ってくる。「気にするな、ユア」「そうよ、ユアちゃん。その分、決勝ブロックで頑張ればいいんだから」「ありがとう......」ユアは二人に笑いながらお礼を言う。そしてその日の夜も、作戦会議やリリィの誘惑などで更けていき、三人はCブロック代表決定戦を迎えるのであった。	「Number is the winner」 Together with the announcement, Seiya, Yua, and Lily came out of the barrier. When they appeared outside, the audience was staring at them in awe. 「Did they win again?」「They should be in the first place, together with the royal guard」「The royal guard had three people, but the blond guy was the only one who fought from the other team」「The other two didn’t fight even once」「Isn’t he a bit too strong?」 The participants were slowly whispering to each other. On the fourth day, Seiya’s team had won times and lost times, their winning rate is one of the highest. There were only a few matches left. The teams that could enter the final block from the C block at this point were number , Seiya’s team, and number 2, Yua-sama’s royal guard’s team, only those two. Team 86 won every single match with only Seiya taking the field. He defeated his opponents with the Hollins, wrapped in the water mana, or by using pure martial skills, there were plenty of variations. That’s why Yua and Lily were just waiting in the shadows. So their skills and spells are still unknown, especially Lily’s. The reason why they continued to fight this way could be attributed to Seiya’s mistake in the first fight. It seems that his first opponents were intermediate magicians and were considered quite strong. And Seiya, who defeated them in a moment, became the center of attention in a blink. Therefore, Seiya used it to gather the attention only on himself and continued to fight in this way. 「It was easy....Seiya....」「You were amazing! 」 Yua and Lily hugged his arms and praised him. 「Thanks」 Seiya thanked them and they stuck to him even closer. Seeing the three, the male part of the audience enveloped Seiya in the jealous stares. Apparently, an appearance of the blond guy being hugged by the silver-haired and the blue-haired beauties was a sore in their eyes. The three were looking for a place to sit when the three girls approached them. 「You are quite relaxed, Kiritsuna Seiya」 The strong-looking black-haired girl with a ponytail said to Seiya. There were the silver-haired and the chestnut-haired girls next to her. The silver-haired girl was Elen, Seiya’s classmate. The black-haired and the chestnut-haired girls were standing there looking down on him somewhat, while Elen was awkwardly fidgeting by their side. 「Who are you anyway?」 Seiya asked the black-haired girl, disregarding the courtesy. She didn’t care too much and introduced herself. 「The captain of the royal guard, Sunir Chronicle. Yua-sama, be at ease, the royal guard will erase any man who approaches you 」 The girl named Sunir knelt like a knight pledging her loyalty, but Yua just silently hid behind Seiya’s back. 「You became quite close with Yua-sama. However, you will be defeated by me」「We, the royal guard, are your last opponent in this block」 Following after Sunir, the brown-haired girl said to Seiya. 「I see. Sorry, but we will be the ones who will advance to the final block」 Said Seiya, as if it was a natural outcome, and Sunir said while flashing a small smile. 「Sorry to disappoint you, but we will be the winners. We are different from the teams you have been fighting until now」「Our winning rate is the same」 The girl with the brown hair seemed convinced of their victory. 「Well then, I’m looking forward to our fight, Kiritsuna Seiya」 Sunir said so and left somewhere. The brown-haired girl and Elen followed after her, but Elen didn’t look that energetic. However, Seiya wasn’t in a mood to care much. 「You are a source of trouble, Yua」 Said Seiya towards Yua, who was hiding behind his back. 「I’m bad around them......But with Seiya here I am fine.....」 Yua said with a relieved face while hugging him from behind. 「There is also me!」 When she energetically said so, a smile appeared on Yua’s face. After that, the trio sat on the nearest bench. It was getting late, most likely, the current match will be the last for today. And when that match was concluded, the teachers, Seran and Najenda came to declare the end of the matches for today. However, it didn’t end with just that. 「Eh, the next is about tomorrow. The teams, capable of getting to the final block, are only number 86 and number 12. And since the winner will be decided only after they fight it out, I want to have this fight to be the last one tomorrow」 Following the Seran’s declaration, the audience became agitated. They were hyped up for things to come. 「That is all. Dismissed」 After Najenda’s words, the students started going back. During the qualifiers, everyone gathered in the hall instead of the class, after that, matches are being held. There is some time for a strategy meeting, but it is mostly matches all day long. Seiya goes back with Yua and Lily. Because of the qualifiers, they were unable to meet with Nari often, so they decided to go home as they were. After the three ate dinner, they gathered together in Seiya’s room. Of course, it was for a strategy meeting. 「About tomorrow’s match, most likely, it will be too much for me alone」「Judging by their words, they might have a countermeasure against me」「Un.....」「Seems likely. Does that mean that it is time for my debut? 」 The two agreed with his opinion. During such strategy meetings, Lily spends her time in the adult form. Recently, she was in the adult version every night. And when the meeting ends, she assaults Seiya before Yua’s eyes as it is. Rather than stopping her, Yua takes advantage of the situation and joins the attack. That was his current daily routine. 「That might be so. They call themselves Yua’s royal guard. It is to be expected of them to have the information about Yua. If that happens, I will either use the unknown『Mantle of Light』together with the Hollins or it will be the time for Lily’s water attribute」「Sorry....I’m dragging you down.....」 Yua apologized for the lack of use in the qualifiers. 「Don’t dwell on it, Yua」「That’s right, Yua-chan. You just need to do your best in the final block」「Thank you....」 Yua thanked the two with a smile. Then after the strategy meeting and Lily’s temptations, the team was ready for a fight that will decide the C block representative in the finals.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 1, "inserted_lines_src": 2, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
「すっかり暗くなってしまったなぁ......」 NSOの世界の太陽は沈んだ。あたりを照らすのは月と星の光のみ......。最終決戦の疲れでいつもより深い眠りに落ち、起きるのが遅くなったあの日から、俺の生活リズムは少しズレた。昼夜逆転と言うほどではない。ただ働いていた頃より少し後に起き、寝る時間も少し遅くなった。健康面を考えると直した方が良いのだろうけど、ゲームを遊びたい気持ちも眠気には勝てない。仕事の時のように目覚ましで叩き起こしても絶対寝してしまう。早寝も同じく眠たくならないと寝つけない。これ以上ズレるようならなんとかして直すけど、まあちょっとくらいなら問題ないだろう。何より生活リズムがズレたおかげで、まだ見たことがないNSOを見られるかもしれない。その一面というのは......夜だ。俺は朝ログインして夜ログアウトという遊び方を続けてきたから、夜のNSOをあまり知らない。夜はモンスターが増えたり強くなったりするという情報は聞いているが、体験したことはない。というのも、夜の闇は射撃の天敵だからだ。どうやら俺には弓矢の才能があるらしいから、見えている敵に当てるのは苦にならない。でも、闇に潜む見えざる敵を撃てと言われると......困る。夜行性生物のように闇を見通す目もなく、コウモリのように超音波で物の位置を探ったりも出来ない。視界の狭さは長射程を殺す。結局見えないものは撃てない。だから俺は夜を避けてきた、あと、恥ずかしながら単純に暗いのは苦手だ。リアルの夜もそんなに好きじゃない。暗がりを見ていても気分は落ち込んでいくだけだ。だから、ホラーゲームもダメなんだよなぁ......。作り込まれたダークな設定を調べたりするのは好きだが、実際にプレイしろと言われると......。進めるたびに怖い目にあうとわかってるのに、どうしてやる気が出てこようというのだ......。とまあ、俺自身も俺の戦闘スタイルも夜が苦手だ。ならなぜ俺は夜のフィールドの真っ只中にいるのか? ......完全にミスだ。俺がクリアしただけで『黄道十二迷宮』のイベントはまだ続いている。最近は最終決戦の挑戦者も増え、難易度を下げて同時に何パーティも戦える形式になったが、それでもクリア者は少ない。よく勝てたなぁ......と今でも思う。もう一回戦ったら普通にどうなるかわからない。そんなギリギリの勝利だったからなぁ......。いや、この話は置いておこう。今はそんな場合じゃない。俺はチャリンも言っていたように隠し迷宮を探してフィールドを駆け回っていた。しかし、そう簡単には見つからない。もっと隠れた場所にあるのではないかと思い、今日は偶然見つけた洞窟に潜ってみた。結果は......ハズレ。やたら長いのに何もない洞窟だった。オンラインゲームではいつかイベントやクエストで使うマップを先に作っておくことがある。でも、通常モンスターは普通に出てくるので結構時間を食ってしまった......と思いながら外に出てきたら、空が暗くなっていた。しかも運が悪いことに今いる洞窟はまだ地図を手に入れてない真っ黒なエリアだ。どちらに進めば夜でも比較的安全な街道に出られるのかわからない。ファストトラベルは街から街が原則なので、フィールドからワープすることは出来ない。さて、どうしたものか......。ログアウトを目指すなら街道を探し、その道沿いに点在している村を探すのがベターだ。村は最低限の施設しかないが、ログアウト可能だし街へファストトラベルも出来る。逆に街から村には飛べないのが少し不便だけど、あくまで村は街から離れたフィールドでも回復やアイテムの購入、ログアウトを可能にするための救済要素だ。ちなみに街以外でログアウトすることも可能は可能だ。しかしその場合、意識の抜けた体がその場に残るので、ほぼ確実にモンスターの餌食になる。チャリン戦で傷ついた装備を直したばかりだし、それは選択肢に入らない。記憶を頼りに近くの村を目指そう。グルルルルルル............! 獣の唸り声だ。しかも複数で、距離も近いな。ガー坊は深い海に住んでいたけど暗視能力はない。いつもの様に威嚇の鳴き声をあげなかったのも当然か。「松明、松明......」念のために松明を買っておいて正解だった。それも高価で、とびきり明るいと評判の松明をな! 松明をアイテムボックスから取り出して『使う』を選択する。すると、白に近い炎がボッと燃え上がった。試練の時に貰った松明に比べると熱さを感じる......! でも、あの時の何倍も明るい! 真っ黒な体毛にギラギラ光る赤い目......体も筋肉質で大きい。昼間に出てくるオオカミより強いんだぞって見た目で主張しているな。「いくぞ、ガー坊」「ガー! ガー!」ガー坊を前に、俺は洞窟を背にして戦う。洞窟にもモンスターは出るが、ほぼ倒したのでしばらくは出現しないだろう。安全な場所に背を向けることで、前方だけを気にすれば良くなる。ソから攻撃される状況はご法度だからな。キリリリリ......シュ! ザクッ! 矢をどんどん撃っていく。松明は地面に突き刺してある。敵の姿さえ見えれば当てるのは簡単だ。オオカミたちの動きは素早いと言っても、チャリンには及ばない。ただ、こいつら硬いぞ......! ヘッドショットを決めても一撃では倒れない。オオカミ型モンスターは素早い代わりに耐久力は乏しいはずなのに。これが夜のモンスターか......! 「生半可な気持ちで出歩くものではないな」オオカミたちを全滅させて一息つく。負けはしないが、戦う場所が悪かったらもっと苦戦していたかもしれない。相手がクマ型だったりゴリラ型だったりしたら......怖いけどちょっと戦ってみたいと思ってしまった俺は、もはや戦闘狂なのかも。でも、今回はとりあえず村を目指そう。狩りをする時は狩りをする心の準備がいる。さっきも言ったように生半可な気持ちだと痛い目見そうだからな。「あ、地面にぶっ刺した松明を回収しないと!」妙に明るいと思ったら松明をしまうのを忘れていた。せっかく高い奴を買ったんだから1回使って無くしましたでは困る。 ......あれ? 松明をしまっても明るいままだ。空から光が......。「............」声も出なかった。頭上に飛行船が浮かんでいるのだ。ぼんやりと光る人魂を引き連れ、ツギハギのガス袋で空を飛ぶ姿はまるで幽霊船......。幽霊飛行船だ......!	“It’s completely dark now...” The sun in the world of NSO had sunk. Only the light of the moon and stars illuminated the area around... Ever since that morning after the final battle, where I had fallen into a deep sleep after becoming more tired than usual, my daily rhythm shifted slightly. I wouldn’t say that day and night had been reversed. However, I did wake up later than I did while I was still working, and I also went to bed at a later time. It was probably not a good thing, from a health perspective, however, the desire to play the game was stronger than the desire to sleep. Even if I used an alarm clock like I used to, I would always just fall right back to sleep. Similarly, I would have trouble falling asleep if I tried to go to bed early. I meant to fix it if it got any worse, but I suppose this much of a shift was not really a problem. After all, thanks to this shift, I would likely be able to see parts of NSO that I had not seen before. Such as...the night. I had always logged in during the morning and logged out at night, and so I didn’t know what NSO was like at night. There was information out there about how monsters were stronger and appeared in larger numbers at night, but I had never experienced it. After all, the shadows of night were the mortal enemy of archers. Apparently, I had a knack for using bows. And so I didn’t have much trouble with shooting enemies that I could see. However, when it came to shooting enemies that lurked in the dark...that was another matter. I didn’t have eyes that could see through the dark like some nocturnal animal, or supersonic waves that told me the location of something, like a bat. Not being able to see far meant that my Range was useless. You couldn’t shoot what you couldn’t see. And so I had been avoiding the night. Also, while it was a little embarrassing, I just did not like the darkness. I didn’t even like the night in the real world. Seeing the darkness just made me feel depressed. That’s why I didn’t like horror games... I did like looking in the dark setting or backstories, but when it came to actually playing it... Just knowing that I would see something horrifying if I continued was enough to kill my motivation... So, the night just wasn’t a good fit for me or the way I fought. Then why was I currently in the middle of a dark field at night? ...It was all a mistake. While I had finished it, the zodiac event was still continuing. More people were taking on the final boss now. The difficulty had dropped, and multiple parties could now fight simultaneously. However, the number of winners was still low. Even now...it felt surprising that we had made it. Who knows what would happen if we fought again. It had been a really close call... No, nevermind that. It wasn’t the time to think of such things. I had taken Charin’s advice and decided to run through the fields and search for the hidden labyrinths. However, this was no easy task. And so I thought that they must be in a more hidden location, and so I entered a cave that I found by accident. The result was...nothing. It was a long cave, but there was nothing inside. In online games, they sometimes created maps that would be used for events or quests in the future. But as there were normal monsters inside, it ended up taking a long time to get through... It was with such thoughts that I stepped out of the cave, only to see that the sky was dark. Not only that, but unluckily, this was an area where I hadn’t gotten the map yet, so it was all black. And so I didn’t know how to get to the main roads, which were relatively safe, even during the night. And since you could only fast travel from town to town, I could not warp out of the field. So, what should I do... If I wanted to log out, I should search for the road, which would hopefully lead me to a village. While villages only had the bare minimum facilities, it was possible to log out and fast travel to a town. On the other hand, you couldn’t warp to a village from a town, but villages were really just a small relief measure that allowed players far away from a town to heal, buy items and log out. It wasn’t actually impossible to log out when not in a town. However, if you did, your body would remain there without a conscious, so would likely become prey to some monster. But I had only just repaired my equipment after the Charin fight, and so that wasn’t an option for me. And so I would try and find a village while relying on my memory. Grrrr...! I heard the growl of a beast. Multiple beasts. And they weren’t too far away. While Garbow lived in the deep sea, he did not have night vision abilities. So it was no wonder that he didn’t let out his usual hostile cry. “Torch, torch...” It was a good thing that I had bought a torch, just in case. An expensive torch that was known for being extra bright! And so I took it out of the item box and selected ‘Use.’ And then a flame that almost looked white began to burn up. It seemed so much hotter than the torch I used during the trials...! And it was also a lot brighter! The black fur and the glimmering red eyes... The bodies were large and muscular. It was like their eyes were telling me that they were stronger than the wolves that appeared during the day. “Let’s go, Garbow.” “Gar! Gar!” With Garbow in front of me, I fought with my back facing the cave. While monsters had been in the cave as well, I had killed most of them. So they shouldn’t appear for a while. As my back was safe, I just had to focus on what was in front of me. As a solo player, I could not allow myself to be attacked from all sides. Kiriri...shu! Zhunk! The arrows were unleashed one after another. I had stabbed the ground with the torch. If I could see the enemy, the rest was easy. While the enemy was fast, they weren’t nearly as fast as Charin. But, these guys are tough...! They wouldn’t go down in one hit, even if I shot them in the head. Wolves were supposed to be fast, but have weak defense. So this was how different night monsters were...! “You can’t walk out here half-heartedly.” I finally killed all of them and caught my breath. While I wouldn’t lose, had I been fighting in a less ideal place, I would have had a difficult time. And if they were a bear or gorilla type monsters... Well, while the thought was scary, I actually wanted to fight them. Was I becoming obsessed with fighting? In any case, for now, I would just try and reach a village. I needed to be prepared if I was going to go hunting. Like I said before, going out half-heartedly could have disastrous results. “Ah, I can’t forget the torch in the ground!” I had thought that it was strangely bright, and realized that I had forgotten to put away the torch. As it was expensive, it would be a big waste to only use it once and then lose it. ...Huh? It was still bright, even after putting the torch away. There was a light in the sky... “...” I had no words. There was an airship flying overhead. I could see vague, glowing figures in the craft that flew with a patchwork envelope filled with gas, like some kind of ghost ship... A ghost airship...!	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 2, "inserted_lines_src": 0, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
ざわ......ざわ...... 王都のあちこちで、王都民達が噂話をしていた。ぇ......。ウェンナール男爵領が危機の時に何もしなかった王族と、ソサエティーに加わらず何もしていない公爵家の娘が、ソサエティーを乗っ取って私物化、名声を独り占めにしようとしているっていうのか......」「許せねぇ! 聖女様達を食い物にして支配しようなんざ、女神様に楯突く行為だ! いくら王族だからって、そんな悪逆非道な横暴が許されるはずがねぇ! せっかく聖女様達の御尽力で我が国に女神様の御慈悲がそんな声が、王都中で......。「いったい、どうなっておる! この噂の出所はどこだ! そして、なぜこちらの思惑が筒抜けなのだ!!」「いえ、そう言われましても、イレイシャ嬢をソサエティーにねじ込む、それも陛下の肝いりで、主宰者として、などと、誰がどう見ても魂胆丸分かりではないですか......」宰相に正論を吐かれ、うっ、と口籠もる国王。どうやらこの件は宰相には相談せず、国王とケリスコール公爵家の間で密かに進められていたようである。なので、問題が起きてから話を持ち込まれた宰相は、かなり機嫌が悪いようであった。の人気回復とか、王太子妃候補のイレイシャ嬢に国民の人気を集めるとかで、無料で効果抜群な方法ではないか、イレイシャ嬢がソサエティーの聖女達を束ねる大聖女となり、息子と結婚するという筋書きは......」それを聞いて、ハァ、と疲れたような溜息を「......そしてその結果が、現状なわけですが......」そう、、あっという間に王都中に噂が広まり、王都民から、いや、国民からの王族批判の声が高まっているのである。しかも、貴族達の間からも、恥知らず、子供達の親睦会を政治利用のために乗っ取り踏み台にしようとする外道、などと、普通では考えられないような酷評をされている。特に、ソサエティーに救われたウェンナール男爵領とその寄親や派閥の貴族達、そして娘がソサエティーに加入している貴族達がに王族バッシングを始めたのである。元々、ミツハの思惑で少しは男爵家や子爵家の娘も加入させているものの、ソサエティーの構成員の大半は有力な伯爵家と侯爵家の娘達である。それも、派閥を跨いでのメンバーであった。なので、それらの貴族家が結集した場合、いくら王家とはいえ、簡単にどうこうできるわけではない。「ミッチェル侯爵の派閥は王宮派との関係が良好であるし、ケリスコール公爵家ともそう仲が悪いわけでもない。なので、公爵家からの強い要望ならば受けてくれると思ったのだ! 確かに美味しいところを奪われるのは業腹であろうが、王家と公爵家からの強い要望であるし、その見返りは確実に得られるのであるから、政治的に考えるとそう損にはならぬのは明白なのだからな。それが、なぜ......」「はぁ?」宰相が、呆れたような声を出した。「いえ、確かにミッチェル侯爵はそう判断するでしょうが......」「なら、なぜ......」国王の疑問の声に、宰相が無慈悲な答えを返した。「それは、ソサエティーはミッチェル侯爵とは全く関係のない組織だからでしょう? アレの主宰者は、ミッチェル侯爵ではなく、令嬢であるミシュリーヌ嬢です。......そしてその黒幕は、言わずと知れた、あの、ヤマノ子爵ですよ。であったなら、ヤマノ子爵領産の商品を王宮に納入させないとか、王女殿下達の加入を断るとか、そんなことをするとお思いですか? ソサエティーは、正真正銘、子供達が運営している親睦団体なのですよ、大人の操り人形ではなく......」「............」かと思われます。一部の貴族達の仕業か、ソサエティーの少女達に心酔した王宮内の平民事務官達の仕業かは分かりませんが......。そして恐ろしいのが、この噂の拡散速度と、その正確さです。普通、噂というものは拡散する過程で歪み、変質し、尾ひれが付くものです。それが、今回は完全な正確性を保ったまま、あっという間に拡散しています。こんなもの、誰かが意図してコントロールしない限り、あり得るはずがありません。 ......とにかく、ソサエティーに敵対した場合、民衆や貴族、そして本来味方であるはずの者達をも敵に回してしまうということが、よく分かりましたね......」「............」さすがの宰相も、ウェンナール男爵領への援助作戦そのものが、民衆を味方に付けるためのものであったこと。そしてリーク元がソサエティーそのものであることまでは看破できなかったようである。幼い少女達であっても、父親や使用人達、お友達である貴族の子供達に愚痴を溢したり悩みを相談したりすることくらいはできるのである。そして更に、そこにヤマノ子爵の人脈や、レフィリア貿易の顔の広さを利用した広報効果が加われば......。「......ケリスコール公爵家から、イレイシャ嬢のソサエティー加入要望が取り下げられた」ミッチェル侯爵様の言葉に、にやりと嗤う、みっちゃんと私。うん、あれだけ露骨な魂胆が晒され批判されちゃあ、ゴリ押ししてソサエティーに加入したところで、逆効果だものねぇ。なす、悪魔の手先呼ばわりは確実だからねぇ......。王太子妃の座に近付くどころか、却って大きく遠ざかっちゃったんじゃなかろうか、今回の件で。余計なことさえ企まなきゃ、順当に第一王子の婚約者になれていたかもしれないものを。我がソサエティーに牙を剥いた者の末路か。なむなむ......。そろそろ遣いの人が帝国から戻っているかな、と思い、うちの国の王宮に顔を出した。うん、賠償金を受け取るために。「ほれ、誓約書と、金貨2300枚だ。帝国金貨だが、うちの金貨と価値は同じで、我が国でも普通に使えるぞ」ああ、国の信用度は関係ない、地金の価値のみの通貨だからか。そして、面倒さをなくすため、近隣諸国の金貨は全て金の含有量は同じ、ってわけか......。尤も、含有量が同じなだけで、純度は若干違うのかも。勿論、その分は大きさで補正してあるだろうけどね。あ! 今までは地球で換金していたのはこの国の金貨だけだったけど、新しい種類の金貨だから、高値が付く可能性があるぞ! 硬度を持たせるために混ぜてある金属が、王国のとは違う可能性もあるし。とりあえず、各国政府は絶対に入手しようとするだろうから、オークションにかければ......。コレクターとかも、頑張って競り上げてくれるかも......。そして、にひひ、とほくそ笑む私に、王様から苦情が。「それで、サビーネは、いったいいつ帰ってくるのだ......」そう、日本邸もコレットちゃんの病室も、冷暖房完備、ゲームと ......コレットちゃんは患者だからお医者さんの指導が入るけど、サビーネちゃんにはそんなの関係ないからね。お風呂は、私に転移を要求して、ヤマノ家日本邸に入りに行ってる。 ......どうして私がそんなのの言いなりになっているか? ここで、録音確認作業の時の報酬の一部を使われたんだよ、『あれの報酬の一部として要求する!』って......。それ使われたら、断れないじゃん......。しかも、それで報酬の『一部』だよ、『一部』! それだけで済ませてくれるつもり、皆無の模様。それに、コレットちゃんの分は、まるまる手付かずで、未使用だしね、報酬......。おまけに、今回の件で、コレットちゃんには返しきれない程の借りができちゃったし......。私の命の代価って、どれくらいの借りになるのかなぁ。 ......まあ、コレットちゃんは無理を言ったりする子じゃないから、心配はしてないけどね。そしてサビーネちゃんが病院に泊まり込んで寝る時は、コレットちゃんのベッドに潜り込んで、ふたり一緒に。大人用のベッドに子供ふたりだから、充分寝られる。普通ならばそんなの病院側が許さないだろうけど、......まぁ、上から言われているんだろうなぁ、『自由にさせろ』って......。くそっ、私も混ぜてよっ!! ......さすがに、子供ふたりと大人ひとりは、病院のベッドじゃ無理か......。そして、王様からの苦情には、笑って誤魔化す私であった......。	zawa...... zawa...... All over the city, the people of the royal capital were gossiping. “It’s terrible....... The royal family, who did nothing when the Wennar Barony was in crisis, and now, the duchess, who did nothing for the Society, is trying to take over the Society, own it, and monopolize its prestige......” “Unacceptable! Preying on the saints and ruling over them is an act against the goddess! No matter how royalty they are, such treacherous and outrageous behavior is unforgivable!” “Even though the Goddess of Mercy has bestowed good fortune upon our country through the efforts of the saints, now the Goddess will abandon us!” Such voices can be heard all over the capital....... “What the hell is going on! Where are these rumors coming from? And how is it possible for them to know those things?” (King) “No, no matter how you look at it, it is obvious to anyone your intentions in bringing the young lady Elisha into the society as its head. Moreover, under your backings, Your Majesty......” (PM) The king was shouting, while the Prime Minister gave him a sound argument. Apparently, this matter was not discussed with the Prime Minister but was secretly worked out between the King and Duke Keriskor. So the Prime Minister, who was brought into the conversation after the issue had arisen, seemed to be in a very bad mood. “No, I mean, it is a free and effective way to restore the popularity of me and my son Ale, who has lost reputations in various ways related to Viscount Yamano, and to make the young lady Elisha, who is popular among the people, the candidate as the crown princess.” (King) Hearing this, the Prime Minister lets out a weary sigh. “...And the result is the current situation...” (PM) Ugh Yes, for some reason ... Rumors spread all over the royal capital in a blink of an eye, and the criticism of the royal family from the people of the royal capital, or rather, from the people of the kingdom, was growing intensely. Moreover, even among the nobles, the king has been criticized as shameless, an outcast who tried to seize control of the children’s social gatherings, for political purposes and use them as a stepping stone, and so on. In particular, the Wennard Barony, which was saved by the Society, their relatives, and factional nobles, and the nobles whose daughters had joined the Society, began bashing the royal family en masse. Originally, Mitsuha’s intention was to have a few daughters of barons and viscounts join the Society, but the majority of the Society’s members were the daughters of powerful counts and marquises. The members were also from different factions. So when those noble families rallied together, there was no easy way to do anything about it, no matter how royalty they may be. “Marquis Mitchell’s faction has good relations with the royalist faction and is not on bad terms with Duke Keriskor. So I thought he would accept a bold request from the duke! Certainly, it would be a shame to be deprived of such delicious foods, but it’s still a request from the royal family and the duke, and since he will certainly get something in return, it’s obvious from a political point of view that there’s not much of a loss. That’s why......” (King) ?” (PM) The Prime Minister sounded appalled. “No, surely, Marquis Mitchell would judge it that way......” (PM) “Then why......” (King) To the king’s questioning tone, the Prime Minister replied ruthlessly. “That’s because the [Society] is an organization that has nothing to do with Marquis Mitchell, right? The presiding officer of that organization is not Marquis Mitchell, but his daughter, the young lady Micheline... And the mastermind is, needless to say, Viscount Yamano. If the young lady Micheline was a puppet of her father, then Viscount Yamano’s products would have been delivered to the royal palace, or they would accept the duke’s daughter, wouldn’t they? The Society is a fellowship genuinely run by children, not puppets of adults......” (PM) “............” “Maybe this is a deliberate manipulation leak. I don’t know if it’s the work of some nobles or the commoner clerk in the royal palace who was fascinated by the girls of the society... And what’s more frightening is the speed with which these rumors spread and their accuracy. Usually, rumors are distorted, altered, and jumbled in the process of spreading. In this case, however, the rumors spread quickly and with total accuracy. This is unlikely unless someone was intentionally controlling it. ......Anyway, they’ve made it very clear that if you are hostile to the [Society], you are also hostile to the people, the nobility, and those who are supposed to be your allies......” (PM) “............” The Prime Minister also said that the operation to help Baron Wennar was to get the people on their side. And it seems that even the Prime Minister could not detect that the leak source was the [Society] itself. Moreover, the young girls can complain and discuss their problems with their fathers, servants, and their noble children’s friends. Additionally, the public relations effect of using Viscount Yamano’s network and the broad face of the Refilia trade...... “...Duke Keriskor has withdrawn his request to have the young lady Elisha join the Society.” (Mitchell) Micchan and I grinned at the words of Marquis Mitchell. Yes, the blatant souls were exposed and criticized, it would be counterproductive for them to keep pushing to join the [Society]. Far from being a great saint, it’s certain that the devil’s minions will be called the saints... Instead of getting closer to the position of the crown princess, I think she has gone farther away from it this time. Had she not attempted to do something unnecessary, she might have become the first prince’s fiancée naturally. I just hope this will be the end of those who have turned on our [Society]. Namu namu....... I wondered if the messenger had returned from the empire by now, so I showed up at the royal palace in my country. Of course, to receive compensation. “Here is the pledge and , gold coins. They are imperial gold coins, but they have the same value as our gold coins and can be used in our country as well.” (King) Ah, because the creditworthiness of the country was irrelevant, only the bullion value of the currency. And to eliminate hassle, all gold coins from neighboring countries have the same value as gold, I guess...... Granted, it was physically the same, but the purity may be slightly different. Of course, that would be compensated for by the size, though. Ah! So far, the only gold coins I have redeemed on earth have been those of this kingdom, but since it was a new kind of gold, there’s a chance it could fetch a higher price! It’s also possible that the metal they’re mixing to give them hardness may be different from the one used in the kingdom. In the meantime, the governments of each country will definitely try to obtain them, so if I auction them off... Moreover, maybe a collector or two will do their best to bid on it... And the king complained to me, who was giggling like an idiot. “So when the hell is Sabine coming back......?” (King) Yes, both my Japanese residence and Colette-chan’s hospital room have air-conditioning and heaters, games, Blu-Rays, novels, manga, and real-time TV broadcasts. Moreover, all the snacks and fruits you can eat. ......Colette-chan is a patient, so she gets guidance from doctors, but Sabine-chan doesn’t care about that. But for the bath, they demanded that I teleport them to the Yamano Family Japanese Residence just to take a bath. ......Why am I complying with that? It was a part of the reward for helping me check the recordings, it’s a “Request as part of that reward!” they said... If they use that against me, I can’t say no...... Moreover, that’s ‘part’ of the reward, just a ‘part’! And they don’t seem to be satisfied with just that. Besides, Colette-chan’s reward was entirely untouched and unused. Her reward... In addition, I owe Colette-chan more than I can ever repay her for this incident...... I wonder how much I owe her for saving my life. ...Well, I’m not worried about Colette-chan, because she’s not the kind of girl who demands extravagant things. And when Sabine-chan stays at the hospital to sleep, she sneaks into Colette-chan’s bed and they both sleep together. Two children in an adult bed had plenty of sleeping space. Normally, the hospital would not allow such a thing, but... well, I guess the higher-ups told them, ‘let them be’... Damn it, mix me in there as well!!!! ......But as expected, a hospital bed cannot accommodate two children and one adult...... And so, I can only reply with a dry laugh at the king’s complaint...	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 4, "inserted_lines_src": 9, "inserted_lines_trg": 1 }
まず27年前交通違反チケットを切られ私はこう考えましたそれ以来何度か考えているんですがつまりエネルギー効率というのは自動車だけの問題ではなく道路にも関係しているのです道路特に交差点の設計が重要です 2種類の交差点があります信号機付きのものと ”止まれ”の標識です 50%の衝突事故は交差点で起こっていますこれに比べロータリーはかなり安全です 24箇所の交差点を調査したところ信号の交差点をロータリーに変更すると衝突事故が40%減少することが分かりました衝突による負傷も76%減少しました致死的な衝突事故は90%減ですしかしこれは安全面の話でしかありません時間とガソリンはどうでしょう? 流れがスムーズだとブレーキの回数が減りますつまりアクセルの回数、燃料消費量、大気汚染無駄な時間も減少することになりますヨーロッパのエネルギー効率がアメリカのものより優れている一因です信号なし交差点の停止標識は多くの命を救っていますが停止標識は増えすぎました小さなロータリーも登場してきています自宅近くのものです信号機や ”止まれ”の標識 4 本よりもずっとよいですね設置は値が張りますが標識のままだともっとお金がかかります見てみましょう ”止まれ”がふさわしくない場所もありますそこで、例えばT字路小さな道から大きな方に入るところの ”止まれ”は理にかなっていますが残りの2箇所には疑問が残りますこんな交差点も私が研究したのはこちらの交差点 3 番目の道からの車は少ないのですそこで“止まれ”の費用はいくらかという問題です私が見たこの交差点では毎日各方向から3000台の車が通過しますアクセルを踏むと2オンス分ガソリンが消費されます毎回 5 セントに毎日 3000 台をかけて年間で51000ドルになりますこれはガソリン代だけ他に大気汚染や車体償却費や時間も関わります時間は何ドルになるでしょう? 10秒ずつ 3000台なら一日では8.3時間国内の平均時給は20ドルすなわち年間6万ドル相当ですガソリン代と合わせて 11万2千ドルこれが一方向の“止まれ”のコストです割引率 5% で現在価値に直すと 200 万ドル以上です一方向の標識のコストですさて近所の空地にはどれ位価値があるでしょう皆さん土地を購入してかん木を切って見通しを良くして再度売り払うことも可能なんですこのほうがお得ですそこで”何でこんなものがあるの?”と思いませんか? つまり、なんで3つも”止まれ”の標識があるのか? 命を守っているからです他の達成法はないでしょうか? 脇道から安全に合流できればいいのです T字路の合流では幹線の車が減速しないので脇道から出られない車を先頭に長い列が出来ることになります果たして既存の標識で大丈夫でしょうか? ”止まれ”と”譲れ”の標識には長い歴史があるんです ”止まれ”の標識は1915年に作られました ”譲れ”は1950年に、これで終わりです ”譲れ”を使えばいいじゃないか ”譲れ”の標識は、右側の車に道を譲れというものですつまりもし車が5台並んでいたらあなたは6番目 5台全部行くまで進めませんこれには譲り合いの精神が欠落していますこの標識は必ず脇道に設置され幹線の方に優先権を与えます既存の標識に新たな意味を与えるのは難しく「今までの"譲れ"は忘れよう」というわけにはいきませんこれでは駄目ですそこで我々が今必要なのは新しいタイプの標識です (拍手) 下側に指示を記載した標識もつけます官報を見ない人もいますから要は”止まれ”と”譲れ”の融合体です T の形は「交互に」の T 見慣れないので注意を引きます対処のわからない未知の状況下ではスピードを落としますさぁ皆さんもう立派な”交通学者”ですこの標識を待ってはだめですよすぐに変えられるものではありませんからでも皆さん全員が地域の一員ですから地域にはたらきかけて思いやりある交通の流れを作れるでしょう皆さんの地域でこういう変化を起こせば環境問題に対する貢献は車を替えるよりも大きなものになりますありがとうございました	I've had some time to think it over. And energy efficiency is more than just about the vehicle -- it's also about the road. Road design makes a difference, particularly intersections, of which there are two types: signalized and unsignalized, which means stop signs. Fifty percent of crashes happen at intersections. Roundabouts are much better. A study of 24 intersections has found crashes drop 40 percent from when you convert a traffic light into a roundabout. Injury crashes have dropped 76 percent, fatal crashes down 90 percent. But that's just safety. What about time and gas? So, traffic keeps flowing, so that means less braking, which means less accelerating, less gas and less pollution, less time wasted, and that partly accounts for Europe's better efficiency than we have in the United States. So, unsignalized intersections, meaning stop signs, they save many lives, but there's an excessive proliferation of them. Small roundabouts are starting to appear. This is one in my neighborhood. And they are much better -- better than traffic lights, better than four-way stop signs. They're expensive to install, but they are more expensive not to. So, we should look at that. But they are not applicable in all situations. So, take, for example, the three-way intersection. So, it's logical that you'd have one there, on the minor road entering the major. But the other two are somewhat questionable. So, here's one. There's another one which I studied. Cars rarely appear on that third road. And so, the question is, what does that cost us? That intersection I looked at had about 3,000 cars per day in each direction, and so that's two ounces of gas to accelerate out of. That's five cents each, and times 3,000 cars per day, that's $51,000 per year. That's just the gasoline cost. There is also pollution, wear on the car, and time. What's that time worth? Well, at 10 seconds per 3,000 cars, that's 8.3 hours per day. The average wage in the U.S. is $20 an hour. That is 60,000 per year. Add that together with the gas, and it's $112,000 per year, just for that sign in each direction. Discount that back to the present, at five percent: over two million dollars for a stop sign, in each direction. Now, if you look at what that adjacent property is worth, you could actually buy the property, cut down the shrubbery to improve the sight line, and then sell it off again. And you'd still come out ahead. So, it makes one wonder, "Why is it there?" I mean, why is there that stop sign in each direction? Because it is saving lives. So, is there a better way to accomplish that goal? The answer is to enable cars to come in from that side road safely. Because there are a lot of people who might live up there and if they're waiting forever a long queue could form because the cars aren't slowing down on the main road. Can that be accomplished with existing signs? So, there is a long history of stop signs and yield signs. Stop signs were invented in 1915, yield signs in 1950. But that's all we got. So, why not use a yield sign? Well the meaning of yield is: You must yield the right-of-way. That means that if there are five cars waiting, you have to wait till they all go, then you go. It lacks the notion of alternating, or taking turns, and it's always on the minor road, allowing the major one to have primacy. So, it's hard to create a new meaning for the existing sign. You couldn't suddenly tell everyone, "OK, remember what you used to do at yield signs? Now do something different." That would not work. So, what the world needs now is a new type of sign. So, you'd have a little instruction below it, you know, for those who didn't see the public service announcements. And it merges the stop sign and yield signs. It's kind of shaped like a T, as in taking turns. And uncertainty results in caution. When people come to an unfamiliar situation they don't know how to deal with they slow down. So, now that you are all "Road Scholars" ... don't wait for that sign to be adopted, these things don't change quickly. But you all are members of communities, and you can exercise your community influence to create more sensible traffic flows. And you can have more impact on the environment just getting your neighborhood to change these things than by changing your vehicle. Thank you very much.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
デューク様の澄んだ青い瞳に、どこか疲れた表情をしている私が映っていた。じっと見つめられると、思わず目を逸らしたくなる。その真っ直ぐな瞳に上手く応えられない。いきなり両目でこの美形を直視するのはしんどいわ......。目を無理やりにでも悪くさせて、ずっと視界をぼやけさせておこうかしら。むしろ、その方が目に良いかもしれない。そんな馬鹿なことを考えているはずなのに、心にぽっかりと空いた虚しさを消し去ることは出来なかった。私の中で何かが欠けてしまったような感覚がずっとある。「伯父は......」「......ええ。............ご冥福をお祈りいたします」私はデューク様から少し離れて、頭をゆっくりと下げた。ウィルおじさんと私は何の血縁関係もない。彼は生まれてから死ぬまで王族であり、この国を担うために生まれてきた重要人物だ。私なんかと格が違う。ウィルおじさんと親族であるデューク様に私は頭を下げることしか出来なかった。私は彼に泣きつくことさえ許されない立場だと思っている。きっと、それを言うとデューク様は否定するのだろう。それでも、私は自分のエゴでウィルおじさんにも生きる希望を与えてしまった。そして、彼は私の為に人生を捧げて下さったのだ。王族の方を......、デューク様の伯父上を私の夢の為に利用してしまったのは事実だもの。デューク様がどんな表情をしているのか分からない。ただ怒っていないことは分かる。それでも申し訳なさで顔を上げることができない。「ごめんなさい」私はそう呟いた。心の底から彼に謝罪した。きっとデューク様からしたら必要のない謝罪なのだろうけれど......。一呼吸置いた後、デューク様の声が聞こえた。「何故アリシアが謝るんだ?」「......私は自分の夢を叶えたい為に、ウィルおじさんを利用しました。自分の幸せの為にウィルおじさんの死が早まったのかもしれない。......そこに因果関係があるのかは分からないけれど、それでも自分の気持ちに区切りをつけることができなくて」自分の言っていることが無茶苦茶だと分かっている。今の私はきっと頭が働いていない。......そんな状態でデューク様と対話するのはやめておいたほうがいいわ。勝手に罪悪感を抱いている者の謝罪なんて鬱陶しいだけかもしれないもの。「伯父上にもう一度幸せを与えたのは他でもないアリシアだ」疲れ切った私の脳に甘くて優しい言葉が響いた。私は頭を上げて、デューク様を見つめた。彼はどこか切なそうな顔を浮かべている。「君はどこまでも俺を頼ろうとしないんだな」こんな表情をさせたいわけじゃない。ただ私は............。「それが私なので」私は新しい仮面をかぶり、無表情と共に冷たい声を発した。	Duke-sama’s clear blue eyes reflected my somewhat tired expression. When he stared at me, I couldn’t help but want to look away. I couldn’t respond well to his straightforward eyes. It was hard for me to suddenly look directly at this beauty with both eyes... I should force my eyes to go bad and keep blurring my vision. In fact, that might be better for my eyes. I should have been thinking of such a foolish thing, but I couldn’t erase the emptiness that had left a gaping hole in my heart. I kept feeling as if something was missing in me. “Uncle...” “...Yes. ...may he rest in peace.” I backed away from Duke-sama a little and slowly bowed my head. Uncle Will and I were not related in any way. He was royalty from birth to death, an important person born to lead this country. He was different from me. I could only bow down to Uncle Will and his kin, Duke-sama. I felt like I was in a position where I was not even allowed to cry for him. I was sure Duke-sama would deny it if I told him. Still, with my ego, I gave Uncle Will the hope of continuing to live. And he gave his life for me. It was true that I exploited Royalty...and Duke-sama’s uncle for my dream. I did not know what expression was on Duke-sama’s face. I just know that he was not angry. Still, I couldn’t look up because of my regret. “I’m sorry.” I muttered. I apologized to him from the bottom of my heart. An apology that was probably unnecessary from Duke-sama’s point of view, but... After a pause, I heard Duke-sama’s voice. “Why is Alicia apologizing?” “...I used Uncle Will to make my dream come true. Maybe Uncle Will’s death was hastened for my own happiness. ...I don’t know if there is a cause and effect relationship there, but I still couldn’t put closure on my feelings.” I knew what I was saying was absurd. I was sure I was not thinking straight at the moment. ...I should not be interacting with Duke-sama in such a state. An apology from someone who felt guilty might be just too depressing. “It was none other than Alicia who made my Uncle happy once again.” The sweet, gentle words echoed in my exhausted brain. I lifted my head and looked at Duke-sama. He looked somewhat longing. “You don’t want to rely on me to any extent, do you?” I didn’t mean to give him this look. I just... “Because that’s who I am.” I put on my new mask, and my voice was cold, along with my expressionless face.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 0, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
そう言えば、僕が『リーフ』として生まれてから、どのくらい経ったのだろう? 何度か眠ったが、まだ時間の感覚はよくわからない。今の状況には慣れてきたように思うが、油断するとすぐに眠気に襲われるので、実はもう何日か経っているのかもしれない。だが――。どうやら本当に『転生』しているようだ。これだけの新奇の感覚に溢れた夢というものを僕は知らないし、僕が眠っている間も両親は甲斐甲斐しく僕の世話をしているようだ。父親はルドラ。生まれたときの会話を聞く限りでは、どうやら軍人らしい。母親のナタルは、どういう職業なのかはわからない。なにかと僕に構ってくれるところを見ると、今は僕の世話をするのが仕事のようだ。「これからずっと大事に育てて行かなければならないね」「娘とはいえの命を預かっているんですもの。責任重大よ」いつの間にか寝入ってしまっていたのか、また時間が飛んでいる。夜になっていたはずの窓の外が明るくなっているのがわかった。欠伸に任せて身体を伸ばしてみようとするが、手足がちぐはぐに動く。反射といわれる反応なのかもしれないが、それにしても身体が思うように動かせないのにはまだ慣れない。それでも、黒石病で失われたグラスの身体よりは、これから動くであろう希望が感じられるのが救いだ。「リーフ、おはよう。今朝は早起きなのね」どこからか母の声が聞こえて来た。耳はまあまあ聞こえるが目はまだあまり見えない。良い匂いがするところを見ると、キッチンにいるのだろうと思った。それにしても、寝るか食べるかしかすることがないのは、さすがに暇だ。せめてこの世界がどういう場所でどういう時代なのかわかれば助かるのだが......。木で組まれたらしい家の天井を見上げる。丈夫そうな太い木は、恐らく寝返りどころか、自力で首を動かすのも難しい。頭が重すぎるのか、首が弱すぎるのかわからないが、誰かに抱き上げられていなければ、外界の刺激もかなり限られる。「あー、あーう」溜息を吐いたつもりが、赤ん坊のあの舌っ足らずな音が口から漏れた。「おやおや。退屈させてしまったかな、リーフ」父が気づいて近づいてくる。逞しい腕に抱き上げられると、視界が高くなり、部屋の様子がぼんやりと見えるようになった。部屋が明るいせいか、目が少し発達してきたせいか、あるいはその両方か。「あっう」せっかくなので、父に移動を促してみる。こんな赤ん坊の話を聞いてくれるとは思わなかったが、物は試しだ。「おお、あっちに行きたいのか、リーフ?」どうして通じるのかわからないが、父は僕を抱いたまま窓の方へと移動しはじめた。柵つきのベッドから離れたのは、沐浴の時以外では初めてだろう。明るい時間に部屋を見渡せるというこの状況は、僕にとってかなり新鮮だった。窓の外を大きな人型の影のようなものが過っていく。大きさからして、人間ではなさそうだったが、街中に機兵のような戦闘用のロボットがいるとは思えなかった。「大変、ゴミの日だったわ。ルドラ、お願い」「ああ、急がないと」母が何かに気づいたように声を上げ、反応した父が僕をベッドに戻す。「今、従機が通っていったと思ったんだよ」 ......? あの機兵のようなものは従機だったらしい。グラス=ディメリアが生きた時代――特に人魔大戦の時代では、機兵とともに魔族と戦う巨大な人型の兵機だったが、両親の会話から推測するに、この時代の従機はどうやらゴミを回収する役割を担うもののようだ。	I wonder, how long has it been since I was reborn as “Leafa”? I’ve taken several naps, but I still don’t have a good sense of time. I’m getting used to the current situation, but if I let my guard down, sleepiness quickly overwhelms me, so it may have been several days already. But... It seems like I have truly “reincarnated.” I’ve never experienced such a novel sensation in my dreams, and it seems that my parents have been taking care of me while I sleep. My father is Rudra. Based on the conversation I heard when I was born, he appears to be a military man. As for my mother, Natal, I’m not sure what her profession is. Judging by the way she cares for me, it seems like her job is taking care of me now. “We have to raise her with care from now on.” “Even though she’s our daughter, we’re entrusted with a single life. It’s a significant responsibility.” I must have dozed off without realizing it, and time seems to have passed again. The window that should have been dark at night was now bright. I tried to stretch my body and let out a yawn, but my limbs moved awkwardly. It might be a reflexive reaction, but I was still not used to not being able to move my body as I wanted. Nonetheless, I was relieved that there was a hope that I’d be able to move better in the future compared to the body of Glass which I lost to the Black Stone Disease. “Leafa, good morning. You’re an early riser this morning, aren’t you?” I heard my mother’s voice coming from somewhere. My ears were working fine, but my vision was still limited. Judging by the pleasant scent, I figured she must be in the kitchen. Nevertheless, it’s quite boring when all you do is sleep or eat. It would be helpful if I could at least understand what kind of place this world was and what era it belonged to... I gazed up at the ceiling of what seemed to be a wooden house. The sturdy, thick wood logs were probably the beams. I wondered if this house was a one-story or two-story structure. It was my own home but I didn’t even know that. I couldn’t even turn over, let alone move my head on my own. I wasn’t sure if my head was too heavy or my neck too weak, but without someone lifting me, my exposure to the outside world was quite limited. “Ah, aau...” I intended to sigh, but it came out as that babyish sound from my mouth. “Oh, did I bore you, Leafa?” My father noticed and approached. When he picked me up with his strong arms, my view rose, and I could vaguely see the room. Maybe it was because the room was well-lit, or perhaps my eyes were developing a bit, or maybe both. “Ah-uu...” Since he took me up, I decided to encourage my father to move me. I didn’t expect him to engage in baby talk, but it was worth a try. “Oh, do you want me to take you there, Leafa?” I’m not sure how he understood, but my father began to move me toward the window while still holding me. This was the first time I had moved away from the crib, except during bathing. Being able to look around the room during the daytime was quite refreshing for me. Something that looked like a large, humanoid shadow passed by outside the window. Judging by its size, it didn’t appear to be human, and I couldn’t imagine combat robots like mecha soldiers strolling the city. “Oh silly me, it’s garbage day today. Rudra, can you handle it?” “Ah, gotta hurry!” My mother said something upon realization and my father reacted to it, and returned me back to the bed. “I think I saw a subordinate unit passing by just now.” Subordinate uni...? It seemed that the mecha soldier-looking thing outside was called a subordinate unit. In the era I lived as Glass Dimelia, especially during the Human-Demon War, they were massive humanoid automatons that fought against demons alongside the mecha units. However, judging from my parents’ conversation, in this era, the subordinate units seemed to have taken the role of collecting garbage.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 1, "inserted_lines_src": 1, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
「私はこの子を寝かせて来るわ」「畏まりました。タクミさんはどうされますか?」「そうですね、まずは部屋に荷物を置いて来ようと思います。それから客間に行くのでお茶を貰っても良いですか? この屋敷で出るお茶がおいしくて落ち着くので」「わかりました、用意させますね」クレアさんは部屋にフェンリルを連れて行って寝かせるようだ。馬車に乗る前は俺かレオがいないとフェンリルに居る事を不安がってる事もあったのに、もう慣れたみたいだな。これまでフェンリルから敵意のようなものは無く、無邪気に走り回るくらいだったから、クレアさんも安心したんだろうと思う。ティルラちゃんも、フェンリルを見るためにクレアさんについて行った。「レオ、行くぞー」「ワフー......」ティルラちゃんがフェンリルについて行ったのを寂しそうに見ていたレオを呼んで、部屋へと向かう。さっさと荷物を置いて客間に行かないとな、セバスチャンさんにお茶をお願いしたからすぐに用意されるだろう。以前ライラさんもそうだったのだが、この屋敷の使用人はワープでもしてるのかと思うくらい屋敷内の移動が早い事があるからな。もしかしたら、俺が部屋に戻るくらいの時間で客間にお茶が用意されてるかもしれない。俺はまだティルラちゃんの向かった方をチラチラ気にしてるレオを連れて部屋に戻った。客間でお茶でも飲みながら、ちゃんと構ってやるからそんなに拗ねるなよ、レオ。部屋に戻り、荷物を置いて着替える。この部屋に残しておいた服だが、今まで着てたのはさすがに汚れてるからな。一応野営中はライラさんとヨハンナさんで、俺達が森を探索している間に川の水を使って洗濯してくれてはいた。でも洗剤の無い森の中だと、完全に汚れを落とすなんて出来ないだろうし、ここに帰って来るまでにも汚れてたから。着替え終わって、レオを連れて客間へ向かう。客間へ向かう道すがら、レオの毛を見ていると銀色がくすんでるように見えた。また風呂に入って洗ってやるか、今はまだレオには言わないけど。ティルラちゃんの興味が別の所に行って、寂しそうに拗ねてるレオに言ったら、余計しょんぼりしそうだからなぁ。俺達が客間に入ると、中でゲルダさんがいつでもお茶を淹れられるようにポットとカップをテーブルに置いて待機していた。「タクミ様、お帰りなさいませ。お茶の用意が出来ております」「ありがとうございます。それと、ただいま帰りました」ゲルダさんにお礼と挨拶をしつつ、テーブルにつく。レオもゲルダさんに近付いて挨拶だ。俺がテーブルについてすぐ、ゲルダさんがカップにお茶を淹れてくれた。「レオ様もお帰りなさいませ。牛乳の方はご入用ですか?」「ワフ!」ゲルダさんの言葉に頷くレオ。ゲルダさんも随分レオに慣れたなぁ。以前はもっと恐る恐るレオと接してたのに、今では普通に接してるように見える。ライラさんと一緒に裏庭でレオに乗せて走ったのが効いたかな? まぁ、少しだけ肩肘が張り過ぎてるような気もするが、これはレオ相手だけじゃなくていつもの事だ。「あぁ、やっぱりこのお茶はおいしいですね」「ありがとうございます」ゲルダさんがレオ用の牛乳を用意してるのを見ながら、お茶を一口飲む。このお茶を飲んで初めて、この屋敷に帰って来たんだと実感した。安心できる味だなぁ。レオ用の牛乳もあらかじめ準備していたのか、大きなバケツくらいある器をレオの前に持って来るゲルダさん。レオはゲルダさんに一度顔を向けて礼を言うように鳴くと、勢いよく牛乳に顔を突っ込んで飲み始めた。森に行ってる間、牛乳は飲めなかったからな。しかしレオ、顔に牛乳を付けたまま誰かにくっ付いたりしないように気を付けてくれよ? ゲルダさんはレオの牛乳を用意した後、入り口の扉横で待機。俺とレオはゲルダさんの用意してくれたお茶と牛乳を楽しみながら、のんびりする事にした。しばらく客間でお茶を嗜んでいると、入り口がノックされ、足元にフェンリルを連れたクレアさんとティルラちゃんが入って来る。「タクミさん、森の探索、お疲れ様でした。それと、ご協力ありがとうございました」「いえいえ、クレアさんもお疲れ様でした」客間に入って来るなりクレアさんは俺にお礼と労いの言葉を掛けて来た。そのままクレアさんはテーブルにつき、ゲルダさんがお茶を淹れる。ティルラちゃんはフェンリルと一緒にレオの所へ。多少懐くのが早い気がしないでもないが、お互い子供だからなぁ。子供って、何故か一瞬で仲良くなる事があるから、それかもしれないな。「ええ。私が部屋に戻った時に目を覚ましました。ふふ」クレアさんは話しながら何かを思い出したように微笑んだけど、どうしたんだろう? 「どうかしましたか?」「あぁいえ、フェンリルが起きた時なんですが。寝ていた時は馬車に乗っていたでしょう? それが起きた時には屋敷の中にいた事に驚いたのか、キョロキョロと部屋を見たり、あちこち動いたりしてたのが可愛かったもので」なるほどね。フェンリルからしてみれば、気付けば知らない場所にいたわけだから、そうなるのも仕方ない。屋敷にはこれから慣れて行くだろうしな。クレアさんはその様子を思い出して、レオやティルラちゃんとじゃれ合ってるフェンリルを見ながら微笑んでいる。確かに、その姿を想像したら可愛いかもしれないな。フェンリルは見た目がまるっきり犬だからなぁ......。成長したら、体も大きくなって、狼のような精悍な顔付きになるかもしれないけどな。「そういえばタクミさん、森の中で使った『雑草栽培』の事なのですが」「いえ、以前裏庭で色々試していたようなので、そろそろ教えて頂いてもいいかと」「あぁ、そういえばまだ説明していませんでしたね」何だかんだと今までクレアさんに説明する事を忘れていた。今はまったりしてる時間だし、特にこれから何かあるわけじゃない、いい機会だから話しておこうかな。そう思ってクレアさんに説明をするため、どう話そうか考えてる時、急に頭の中が真っ白になった。いや、頭の中だけじゃない、視界すら白い。あれ? これは一体なんだ? 「どうしました、タクミさん?」全てが白くなり、何も見えなくなった中、クレアさんの心配そうな声が聞こえる。「ワフ? ワフワフ!」「キャゥ?」周りから声や音だけが聞こえる。レオが心配そうな声から、何か緊急事態を知らせるような声色になった。ティルラちゃんとフェンリルからも声が聞こえる。しかし、白い視界はそのままで何も見えない。それどころか、視界は端の方から段々と黒くなって行き、周りの音や声も遠く感じるようになって来た。何だこれ、俺はどうなったんだ? いや、これは体験した事がある.........そうだ......確か......仕事仕事で休めなかった時、こんな感じで気絶した事が一度......。最後まで考える事も出来ずに、全てが真っ暗になって俺は意識を失った......。	“I’m going to go and put this little one to bed.” “Indeed. I’m going to drop my things off in my room first. And then, can I have some tea in the drawing room? The tea you serve here is very delicious and helps me relax.” “Very well. It will be prepared.” So Ms. Claire was going to let the fenrir sleep in her room. At first, she had seemed a little anxious about being with the fenrir when Leo and I were not there, but that was no longer the case, it seemed. The fenrir had never shown any signs of hostility, and it just ran around playfully. And so Ms. Claire probably realized that there was nothing to worry about now. Tilura followed after Ms. Claire in order to look at the fenrir. “Leo, let’s go.” “Wuff...” I called Leo, who was looking sadly at Tilura leaving with the fenrir. And then I headed to my room. I needed to hurry up and drop off my things and go to the drawing room. Sebastian was bound to have the tea ready in no time. Ms. Lyra had been like that as well. The servants seemed capable of moving through the mansion with such a speed that I wondered if they were capable of teleporting. The tea might be ready in the drawing room by the time I reach my door. And so I took Leo, who kept glancing back in the direction that Tilura went, and headed for my room. Don’t be so sulky, Leo. You’ll get plenty of attention later. I put down my things in the room and then changed my clothes. They were the clothes that I had left here, but the ones that I was wearing were much too dirty. Though, Ms. Lyra and Johanna had washed our clothes in the river while we were out exploring. However, there was no detergent in the forest, and so the clothes wouldn’t be completely cleaned. And they had gotten dirty on the journey back as well. After I was changed, I took Leo and walked to the drawing room. While walking down the hall, I looked at Leo and noticed that her silver fur looked dull. I suppose that I’d have to bathe her again. Though, I wouldn’t bring it up now. Leo was already feeling both sad and sulky over Tilura’s attention being directed elsewhere, and she would not take the news of a bath very well. When we entered the drawing room, Ms. Gelda was waiting there with a pot and tea cup placed on the table. “Welcome back, Mr. Takumi. Your tea is ready.” “Thank you. It’s good to be back.” I thanked her and sat down at the table. Leo also approached Ms. Gelda, and greeted her. Once I had sat down, Ms. Gelda poured me a cup of tea. “Welcome back, good Leo. Would you like to have some milk?” “Wuff!” Leo nodded at Ms. Gelda’s words. Ms. Gelda seemed to be used to Leo now. She used to talk to Leo so fearfully, but now she was acting quite normal. Perhaps it was because she and Ms. Lyra had ridden on Leo’s back in the garden? Well, now that I looked carefully, she still seemed a little tense. But then again, I had a feeling she was always like that, even when not around Leo. “Ah, this tea really is delicious.” “Thank you.” I took a sip while Ms. Gelda prepared the milk for Leo. I didn’t feel like I had truly returned to this mansion until I had a cup of tea. There was something very comforting about the taste. The milk must have been prepared in advance, as Ms. Gelda brought out a bowl that was the size of a large bucket, and placed it in front of Leo. Leo looked at Ms. Gelda and barked once with gratitude, and then she dunk her face inside and drank greedily. She had not been able to drink any milk while we were in the forest. But Leo, be careful to not stick to anyone while you have all that milk on your face, all right? After giving Leo her milk, Ms. Gelda stood by the door and waited. And so Leo and I drank our tea and milk and relaxed. Eventually, there was a knock on the door, and Ms. Claire and Tilura entered, with the fenrir by their feet. “Mr. Takumi, thank you for accompanying me to the forest. I am grateful for your cooperation.” “Not at all, Ms. Claire. I hope you are not too tired.” Ms. Claire thanked me as soon as she came in. She then sat at the table and Ms. Gelda poured her some tea. Tilura and the fenrir went straight towards Leo. It seemed a little too soon, but perhaps it was because they were both children. After all, children seemed to be capable of becoming friends in an instant. “So it woke up.” “Yes. It woke up just as we reached my room. Hehe!” Ms. Claire chuckled as if she had just remembered something. What was it? “Did something happen?” “Not really. But it was when the fenrir woke up. It fell asleep inside of the carriage, yes? And so it was surprised to suddenly wake up in this mansion. It was quite adorable as it ran about, trying to figure out where it was.” I see. From the fenrir’s point of view, it had suddenly appeared in an unknown place, so it was no wonder that it felt alarmed. But I’m sure it would get used to being here. Ms. Claire recalled the moment with a smile as she watched Leo and Tilura play. Yes, I could imagine how cute it would have looked. Because the fenrir just looked like a dog... However, it would one day grow large and become a terrifying wolf. “Now that I think about it, Mr. Takumi. Weed Cultivation, which you demonstrated in the forest...” “Well, you were testing all sorts of things in the garden. Perhaps it’s time that you told me more about that.” “Ah, yes. I haven’t explained it to you yet.” So much had happened that I had forgotten. But we had plenty of time now, with nothing important to do. So it was a good opportunity. And so I started to think of how best to explain it to her. But then my mind suddenly went blank. No, it wasn’t just my mind. But my vision. Huh? What is this? “Mr. Takumi? Are you all right?” Everything was white. I couldn’t see anything. But I could hear Ms. Claire’s concerned voice. “Wuff? Wuff-wuff!” “What is it, Mr. Takumi?” “Kyau?” I could only hear voices and sounds around me. However, the worry in Leo’s voice sounded like this was a state of emergency. And I could hear Tilura and the fenrir as well. But my vision remained white and I could see nothing. Not only that, but a blackness started to creep in from the edges, and the sounds grew more distant. What is this? What was happening to me? No, I had experienced this before...yes... Once, I had fainted after being forced to work for days and days without rest... Without being able to finish the thought, everything turned black and I lost consciousness...	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 7, "inserted_lines_trg": 6 }
我々はタイタニックの映像の中でも特に素晴らしい物を持っていますそしてそれは今日お見せしませんタイタニックは実際に興行収入の記録は打ち立てましたが海洋における最もエキサイティングな話ではないんです海が当然のものと思われていることが問題です考えてみれば海は地球の75%を占めており地球の大半は海ですその深さは平均で約4kmですよ私の思う問題の一部は海岸に立ったり海を想像して広大な青を臨むと海面はきらめきそして動いています波が寄せては返し流れもありますでもそこに何が眠っているかは知らないのです海底には地球上最長の山脈があります生命のほとんどは海中にいます地震と火山も同様ですつまり海底にあるんです海における多様性と生物密度は熱帯雨林のそれを上回ります大部分が未開拓ですが我々を魅了し親近感すら覚える美しい場所がありますですから浜辺はこの未知の世界の入り口であることを忘れないで下さい我々がこの世界に入るにはとても特別な技術を必要とします我々は使用するのは潜水艦アルビンとカメラですこのカメラはビルがソニーと連携して開発したものですマーセルが言いました「本当の探検とは新たな風景の探索といより新たな視点を持つということである」提携した人達も新たな視点を教えてくれます既存の海底に眠る新たな風景だけでなく地球上の生命について考える方法ですクラゲがいますね体全体が可動するので気に入っていますこれは実は水中で最長の生物なんですよ最長で約46mまで伸びます動きまわるのが見えますか? 私はこの手のものが大好きですこれには底にルアーがついていて上下に動きます触手がこのようにゆらゆらと動きますこれは群体動物ですこれらは全て別々の個体ですが集まり集合体を形成します前にはジェットエンジンがあって小型のライトも装備しています大型の魚群泳性の魚もろもろを捕獲して測りを挟んで先ほどのクラゲと一緒に並べればこいつらの圧勝です海洋バイオマスの大半はこのような構造ですエックスウイングデスジェリーです発光は仲間を引き付ける際や獲物を誘惑する時― 意思疎通に利用されますクラゲのアーカイブをまずお見せすることは出来ませんでした大きさ形が全て異なっているからですビル:海が平均して何万kmもの深さがあることと我々が知っている動物というのは海面から約― 60-90mに生息するものだけでこれ以降の深海の生物は未知であることを我々は忘れがちですそしてこういった生物たちはまだ未開拓の微小重力環境に暮らしている種族なのです巨大イカの話は聞いたことがあるでしょうがこれらの一部は最大で約45mにもなります彼らについての情報は殆どありませんデイビッド:こちらもお気に入りです小型のタコ目の一種です実際に頭を見透かすことが出来ます耳で水かきをして非常に優雅に泳ぐのです最深部を含むあらゆる深度で見ることが出来ます数cmのものから数mになるものもいます彼らはすぐに潜水艦に群がり - 窓に目を押し付けて内を覗き見ますこれは実際に存在する世界です他にあと2つお見せします海の真ん中を横切るとこのような生き物を見ることが出来ますこれは海底の乱暴者のようなものですこいつはある意味かなり畏まって見えますこちらもお気に入りですなんて顔でしょう! これが今眺めている科学的なデータです科学的な目的のため採取した映像ですこれがビルの行ってきた作業の一つがこのような動物の未知の分布状況を科学者に提供することです網で捕まえているわけではありません実際に深海へ赴き撮影をしています操縦桿を握って地上のコンピュータを前に座りジョイスティックを前に押して地球を飛び回ります海中の尾根を探しに行きます約64000kmの長い山脈です山頂までの深さはだいたい800mですここは大西洋上です - あれが尾根です - カリブ海つまり中央アメリカを横断しここは太平洋 9度北上しました音やソナーを用いこれら山の地図を作成しますこれは山脈の一つです右側に崖が近づいてきましたこの谷の両側山の高さはほとんどの地点でアルプスのそれをしのぎますまだ地図に記されていない山が何万と眠っていますこれは火山の尾根ですどんどん潜っていくと最終的にこんな所にたどり着きます我々のマスコットでジェイソンと呼んでいますこのように座ってジョイスティックとヘッドセットを用いてロボットを操作して実際に海底へ行くことが出来ますウッズホールとの共同目標の一つはこの仮想世界つまり未だ未開拓の世界を研究所へ持ち帰ることです今見ているのは単なるデータに過ぎませんから音として捉えたり映像や写真に収めたり科学センサーで感知していますが面白みのある全体像としてまとめたことは未だにないのですここはビルのカメラの見せどころですこれは熱水噴出孔と呼ばれるものですそして今ご覧いただいているのは海底火山の軸から湧き出す濃密に圧縮された硫化水素を含む水の雲です華氏で600-700度の範囲まで上昇しますこれが海中に眠る世界海底数キロメートルの光景です 60、70年代には火山だったと確認されていますこの噴煙が地球の軸に沿って存在するという根拠があります火山活動が起これば海の水は割れ目へと流れ込みますそこでマグマに触れ熱せられた状態で噴出します水素酸化物をこんなに多く含んでいるとは知りませんでしたこんなものは見たことがなく煙突と呼んでいますこれは熱水噴出孔の一種です地球から華氏600度の水が吹き出しています両側にある山はアルプスよりも高くこの風景はとてもドラマチックですビル: この白い物体はバクテリアの一種で摂氏180度の所で暮らしていますデイブ:これは海底に見る素晴らしい物語の一つだと思っています火山の噴火後に海底からまず出てくるのはバクテリアなのですそこから長い間考えていましたどうやって海底ができたのだろうか? 多分地球の内側からできたのだろうと考えています地球の内側から出来ただけではなくつまり火山活動による生物発生説バクテリアも生物の生息地を支えているのでしょうここの水圧は1インチあたり約1800kgです海面下数kmのここに太陽光が届くことはありませんここでの命を支えるエネルギーは全て地球内部から発生していますつまり化学合成です生き物が沢山いることがわかりますねこれはチューブワームと呼ばれていますビル: このワームには消化器官も口もありませんしかし二種類のえらを持っています一つは深海水から酸素を取り込むものでもう一方は化学合成細菌を収容するものですこのバクテリアは熱水流体を取り込むのです先ほどお見せした海底から沸き出るお湯ですがそしてこれをワームの消化できる純粋な糖分へと変えるのですデイビッド:カニが暮らしているのが見えますね彼はワームをつかむことが出来ますさて通常はカニが触れると反応しますおっ! 動きましたねカニが触れた瞬間にピクッと殻の中へ引っ込みます今お見せしているのは最近解明が始まったばかりのものばかりです全て最新カメラ技術のおかげですビル:このワームは激動の気温変動の中暮らしています足元は摂氏約200度程ですが頭部の付近は摂氏3度程ですこれは手を沸騰水に足を凍りつく水に浸しているような感じですこういう生き方が好みなんですデイビッド:これはワームのメスですこちらはオスです見てください長くはかかりませんよ -- こいつとあちらのやつが -- 喧嘩を始めますこれは全て真っ暗闇の深海での出来事です光は我々の持ち込んだものしか届きません始まりました最近のあるダイビング中にこの周辺で200の種を見ましたがそのうち198は新種でしたビル:問題の一つは生物学者がここらで作業をしており回収作業が難しいことですさらに帰還中に分解してしまうので科学には実物が必要ですよねデイビッド:約4kmの所にタコが2体います水圧も驚くべきものです彼らはタイタニックをペプシの空き缶のように潰してしまうほどの圧力下で暮らしているのです太平洋からここまで登ってきました大西洋です更に深くに行きましょうこのエビは小さいやつにちょっかいを出していますね爪で追い払っちゃうよバーン! ここでも同じことが起きていますこいつらでカニの背中で食料を採取していますとても変わったバクテリアであらゆる動物の背中に生息しますそしてこのエビはこの動物の背中からバクテリアを栽培しようとしているのですカニはこれが大嫌いなんですカニの背部に見えるこの長いフィラメントはあのバクテリアの生成物によって作られたものですつまりバクテリアがカニの毛を育てるのです背中をもう一度見てください赤い点は噴気孔からの距離特定用に潜水艦アルビンが発しているレーザーライトですこれは全てエビです熱湯がぼこぼこ吹き出しているのが分かります彼らは岩肌にくっついていますが実は岩肌からバクテリアをそぎ落としているのです支柱の脇に小さな噴出孔がありますこの支柱の長さは何メートルもありますこの谷は柱に噴き出る熱湯火山活動― 地震といった異様な光景に溢れており地球内部で生成される化学エネルギーを糧に生きる奇妙な生物が暮らしているのです彼らに太陽は不要なのですビル:エビの背中に白いV字型の印が見えますか? 実はこれは光センサー器官ですこうして熱水噴出孔を探し当てますここからは黒体放射 -- 赤外線の一種 -- が出ていいるため彼らはかなりの距離からでも噴出孔を見つけることができるのですデイビッド:お見せしたのは約64000kmに渡る山脈で命のリボンと呼んでいます今私達が話をしている間も火山活動により命が誕生しているからですこれは我々の初の試みなのです太平洋での高解像映像をお見せします柱を一本持ち帰っているところですこの柱は数メートルの長さがあります内部に様々な動物が生息していることがわかりますね変てこなホットプレートから熱湯が漏れていますこれらは全てワームの住処なのですさらに接写した映像をお見せしますこちらにカニとワームがいます小さいのが這い回ってますね塔みたな構造をしています見た目上はこれが一番かと思いますここは見逃せませんよ小さな煙突が煙を履いていますこれはおぞましいほど有毒なんですこれを海に廃棄する許可は降りないでしょうねまぁ全て海から出ているんですが信じがたいですがこれは硫酸なんです途方も無い量が海水に流入してますここは動物の住処で多分人類誕生の場所です多分ここから進化してきたのでしょうビル:さっき話しをしたこのバクテリアは知りうる限り最も単純な生命体なんですこれら噴出孔から生物が生まれたと主張する団体はいくらもあります噴出孔自体は短命なんですけどね一箇所は10年程度しか存続しませんここの生態系は何百万 -- いや何十億 -- 年も続いていますけどねデイビッド:上手くいき過ぎですここには魚がいます魚が一匹座っていますチューブワームに爪を向けるカニがいます頭をくっつけてくるのを待っているんですビル:今日の生物学者達はこれらの生命体の活力を説明するに至っていませんこのワームは週に数cmも伸びるんですよ! デイビッド:先ほど言いましたがここは人間には地獄同然ですそれだけでなく -- 活力である -- 噴出孔もだんだんと枯れていくので別の噴出孔に移り住まなくてはいけませんさらには地震も起こりますし 5年毎くらいに起こる火山の噴火で何もかも流されてしまいますにも関わらず1年もすれば命が戻って来ますこれは息を吹き返したばかりの熱帯雨林の多様性密度を凌いでいるんです感受性は?高いです脆いの?いえそんなに脆くはありません最後に一つだけ言っておきます海海水堆積物海底の岩の中には物語が眠っています驚愕の物語です堆積物や岩を観察し時間をさかのぼると見えるものは地球の歴史なのです地球上のありとあらゆるものは周期とリズムに従って働いています大陸は分断し再びめぐり合う海も山も氷山もよせてはかえすエルニーニョ現象の発生は突発的でなく周期的我々の学んでいることは協奏曲みたいなものです音楽みたい -- というか音楽そのものですそして50億年分の協奏曲を聞かずに今日に至り「やめろ!明日の調べは今日のものと一緒がいいんだ」とは言えないのです馬鹿げてます本当につまりこの全く異なるスケールで地球がどこへ向かっているのかそしてどう付き合っていくのか知る必要があるのです指揮するために知りましょう保存という概念は虚しいものです保全は難しいですがおそらく達成できるでしょうありがとうございましたありがとう	We've got some of the most incredible video of Titanic that's ever been seen, and we're not going to show you any of it. The truth of the matter is that the Titanic -- even though it's breaking all sorts of box office records -- it's not the most exciting story from the sea. And the problem, I think, is that we take the ocean for granted. When you think about it, the oceans are 75 percent of the planet. Most of the planet is ocean water. The average depth is about two miles. Part of the problem, I think, is we stand at the beach, or we see images like this of the ocean, and you look out at this great big blue expanse, and it's shimmering and it's moving and there's waves and there's surf and there's tides, but you have no idea for what lies in there. And in the oceans, there are the longest mountain ranges on the planet. Most of the animals are in the oceans. Most of the earthquakes and volcanoes are in the sea, at the bottom of the sea. The biodiversity and the biodensity in the ocean is higher, in places, than it is in the rainforests. It's mostly unexplored, and yet there are beautiful sights like this that captivate us and make us become familiar with it. But when you're standing at the beach, I want you to think that you're standing at the edge of a very unfamiliar world. We have to have a very special technology to get into that unfamiliar world. We use the submarine Alvin and we use cameras, and the cameras are something that Bill Lange has developed with the help of Sony. Marcel Proust said, "The true voyage of discovery is not so much in seeking new landscapes as in having new eyes." People that have partnered with us have given us new eyes, not only on what exists -- the new landscapes at the bottom of the sea -- but also how we think about life on the planet itself. Here's a jelly. It's one of my favorites, because it's got all sorts of working parts. This turns out to be the longest creature in the oceans. It gets up to about 150 feet long. But see all those different working things? I love that kind of stuff. It's got these fishing lures on the bottom. They're going up and down. It's got tentacles dangling, swirling around like that. It's a colonial animal. These are all individual animals banding together to make this one creature. And it's got these jet thrusters up in front that it'll use in a moment, and a little light. If you take all the big fish and schooling fish and all that, put them on one side of the scale, put all the jelly-type of animals on the other side, those guys win hands down. Most of the biomass in the ocean is made out of creatures like this. Here's the X-wing death jelly. The bioluminescence -- they use the lights for attracting mates and attracting prey and communicating. We couldn't begin to show you our archival stuff from the jellies. They come in all different sizes and shapes. Bill Lange: We tend to forget about the fact that the ocean is miles deep on average, and that we're real familiar with the animals that are in the first 200 or 300 feet, but we're not familiar with what exists from there all the way down to the bottom. And these are the types of animals that live in that three-dimensional space, that micro-gravity environment that we really haven't explored. You hear about giant squid and things like that, but some of these animals get up to be approximately 140, 160 feet long. They're very little understood. DG: This is one of them, another one of our favorites, because it's a little octopod. You can actually see through his head. And here he is, flapping with his ears and very gracefully going up. We see those at all depths and even at the greatest depths. They go from a couple of inches to a couple of feet. They come right up to the submarine -- they'll put their eyes right up to the window and peek inside the sub. This is really a world within a world, and we're going to show you two. In this case, we're passing down through the mid-ocean and we see creatures like this. This is kind of like an undersea rooster. This guy, that looks incredibly formal, in a way. And then one of my favorites. What a face! This is basically scientific data that you're looking at. It's footage that we've collected for scientific purposes. And that's one of the things that Bill's been doing, is providing scientists with this first view of animals like this, in the world where they belong. They don't catch them in a net. They're actually looking at them down in that world. We're going to take a joystick, sit in front of our computer, on the Earth, and press the joystick forward, and fly around the planet. We're going to look at the mid-ocean ridge, a 40,000-mile long mountain range. The average depth at the top of it is about a mile and a half. And we're over the Atlantic -- that's the ridge right there -- but we're going to go across the Caribbean, Central America, and end up against the Pacific, nine degrees north. We make maps of these mountain ranges with sound, with sonar, and this is one of those mountain ranges. We're coming around a cliff here on the right. The height of these mountains on either side of this valley is greater than the Alps in most cases. And there's tens of thousands of those mountains out there that haven't been mapped yet. This is a volcanic ridge. We're getting down further and further in scale. And eventually, we can come up with something like this. This is an icon of our robot, Jason, it's called. And you can sit in a room like this, with a joystick and a headset, and drive a robot like that around the bottom of the ocean in real time. One of the things we're trying to do at Woods Hole with our partners is to bring this virtual world -- this world, this unexplored region -- back to the laboratory. Because we see it in bits and pieces right now. We see it either as sound, or we see it as video, or we see it as photographs, or we see it as chemical sensors, but we never have yet put it all together into one interesting picture. Here's where Bill's cameras really do shine. This is what's called a hydrothermal vent. And what you're seeing here is a cloud of densely packed, hydrogen-sulfide-rich water coming out of a volcanic axis on the sea floor. Gets up to 600, 700 degrees F, somewhere in that range. So that's all water under the sea -- a mile and a half, two miles, three miles down. And we knew it was volcanic back in the '60s, '70s. And then we had some hint that these things existed water's going to get down from the sea into cracks in the sea floor, come in contact with magma, and come shooting out hot. We weren't really aware that it would be so rich with sulfides, hydrogen sulfides. We didn't have any idea about these things, which we call chimneys. This is one of these hydrothermal vents. Six hundred degree F water coming out of the Earth. On either side of us are mountain ranges that are higher than the Alps, so the setting here is very dramatic. BL: The white material is a type of bacteria that thrives at 180 degrees C. DG: I think that's one of the greatest stories right now that we're seeing from the bottom of the sea, is that the first thing we see coming out of the sea floor after a volcanic eruption is bacteria. And we started to wonder for a long time, how did it all get down there? What we find out now is that it's probably coming from inside the Earth. Not only is it coming out of the Earth -- so, biogenesis made from volcanic activity -- but that bacteria supports these colonies of life. The pressure here is 4,000 pounds per square inch. A mile and a half from the surface to two miles to three miles -- no sun has ever gotten down here. All the energy to support these life forms is coming from inside the Earth -- so, chemosynthesis. And you can see how dense the population is. These are called tube worms. BL: These worms have no digestive system. They have no mouth. But they have two types of gill structures. One for extracting oxygen out of the deep-sea water, another one which houses this chemosynthetic bacteria, which takes the hydrothermal fluid -- that hot water that you saw coming out of the bottom -- and converts that into simple sugars that the tube worm can digest. DG: You can see, here's a crab that lives down there. He's managed to grab a tip of these worms. Now, they normally retract as soon as a crab touches them. Oh! Good going. So, as soon as a crab touches them, they retract down into their shells, just like your fingernails. There's a whole story being played out here that we're just now beginning to have some idea of because of this new camera technology. BL: These worms live in a real temperature extreme. Their foot is at about 200 degrees C and their head is out at three degrees C, so it's like having your hand in boiling water and your foot in freezing water. That's how they like to live. DG: This is a female of this kind of worm. And here's a male. You watch. It doesn't take long before two guys here -- this one and one that will show up over here -- start to fight. Everything you see is played out in the pitch black of the deep sea. There are never any lights there, except the lights that we bring. Here they go. On one of the last dive series, we counted 200 species in these areas -- 198 were new, new species. BL: One of the big problems is that for the biologists working at these sites, it's rather difficult to collect these animals. And they disintegrate on the way up, so the imagery is critical for the science. DG: Two octopods at about two miles depth. This pressure thing really amazes me -- that these animals can exist there at a depth with pressure enough to crush the Titanic like an empty Pepsi can. What we saw up till now was from the Pacific. This is from the Atlantic. Even greater depth. You can see this shrimp is harassing this poor little guy here, and he'll bat it away with his claw. Whack! And the same thing's going on over here. What they're getting at is that -- on the back of this crab -- the foodstuff here is this very strange bacteria that lives on the backs of all these animals. And what these shrimp are trying to do is actually harvest the bacteria from the backs of these animals. And the crabs don't like it at all. These long filaments that you see on the back of the crab are actually created by the product of that bacteria. So, the bacteria grows hair on the crab. On the back, you see this again. The red dot is the laser light of the submarine Alvin to give us an idea about how far away we are from the vents. Those are all shrimp. You see the hot water over here, here and here, coming out. They're clinging to a rock face and actually scraping bacteria off that rock face. Here's a tiny, little vent that's come out of the side of that pillar. Those pillars get up to several stories. So here, you've got this valley with this incredible alien landscape of pillars and hot springs and volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, inhabited by these very strange animals that live only on chemical energy coming out of the ground. They don't need the sun at all. BL: You see this white V-shaped mark on the back of the shrimp? It's actually a light-sensing organ. It's how they find the hydrothermal vents. The vents are emitting a black body radiation -- an IR signature -- and so they're able to find these vents at considerable distances. DG: All this stuff is happening along that 40,000-mile long mountain range that we're calling the ribbon of life, because just even today, as we speak, there's life being generated there from volcanic activity. This is the first time we've ever tried this any place. We're going to try to show you high definition from the Pacific. We're moving up one of these pillars. This one's several stories tall. In it, you'll see that it's a habitat for a lot of different animals. There's a funny kind of hot plate here, with vent water coming out of it. So all of these are individual homes for worms. Now here's a closer view of that community. Here's crabs here, worms here. There are smaller animals crawling around. Here's pagoda structures. I think this is the neatest-looking thing. I just can't get over this -- that you've got these little chimneys sitting here smoking away. This stuff is toxic as hell, by the way. You could never get a permit to dump this in the ocean, and it's coming out all from it. It's unbelievable. It's basically sulfuric acid, and it's being just dumped out, at incredible rates. And animals are thriving -- and we probably came from here. That's probably where we evolved from. BL: This bacteria that we've been talking about turns out to be the most simplest form of life found. There are a number of groups that are proposing that life evolved at these vent sites. Although the vent sites are short-lived -- an individual site may last only 10 years or so -- as an ecosystem they've been stable for millions -- well, billions -- of years. DG: It works too well. You see there're some fish inside here as well. There's a fish sitting here. Here's a crab with his claw right at the end of that tube worm, waiting for that worm to stick his head out. BL: The biologists right now cannot explain why these animals are so active. The worms are growing inches per week! DG: I already said that this site, from a human perspective, is toxic as hell. Not only that, but on top -- the lifeblood -- that plumbing system turns off every year or so. Their plumbing system turns off, so the sites have to move. And then there's earthquakes, and then volcanic eruptions, on the order of one every five years, that completely wipes the area out. Despite that, these animals grow back in about a year's time. You're talking about biodensities and biodiversity, again, higher than the rainforest that just springs back to life. Is it sensitive? Yes. Is it fragile? No, it's not really very fragile. I'll end up with saying one thing. in the sediments and the rocks of the sea floor. It's an incredible story. What we see when we look back in time, in those sediments and rocks, is a record of Earth history. Everything on this planet -- everything -- works by cycles and rhythms. The continents move apart. They come back together. Oceans come and go. Mountains come and go. Glaciers come and go. El Nino comes and goes. It's not a disaster, it's rhythmic. What we're learning now, it's almost like a symphony. It's just like music -- it really is just like music. And what we're learning now is that you can't listen to a five-billion-year long symphony, get to today and say, "Stop! We want tomorrow's note to be the same as it was today." It's absurd. It's just absurd. So, what we've got to learn now is to find out where this planet's going at all these different scales and work with it. Learn to manage it. The concept of preservation is futile. Conservation's tougher, but we can probably get there. Thank you very much. Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
え、今何とおっしゃいましたか? 世界の中でのこの国の位置? 何故それを私に聞くのかしら。私がそんな事を答えられるわけがないでしょう。の少女ですよ? ......中身は置いておいて。もしかしてこれは私が悪女かどうかを試す神様からの課題かしら。きっとそうよね、そうじゃなきゃこんな国王様が現れてこんな質問投げかけてくるわけないじゃない。私は机に置かれている地図した。この国、デュルキス国の世界の立場......。そうね、大国だけど良い国ではないわ。最近、本で読んだのよね。やっぱり読書って大切ね。これを言えばいいのかしら。悪女っぽいわよね? だって国王様の前でこの国は良い国じゃないって言うのよ。絵に描いたような悪女よ。これを言って国外追放になってしまったらどうしましょ。まぁ、その時はその時よね。だって、私は悪女になるためにこの世界に転生したんだもの。「恐れながら、この国は大国ではありますが決して良い国とは言えません」国王様の顔が曇る。そりゃそうよね、自分の国を八歳の子供に貶されているんだもの。 ......デュークはどうしてそんなに楽しそうな顔をしているのかしら。貴方、国王様の息子よね? 私が言うのもなんだけど怒るべきなのでは? 「どういう点が良くないのだ?」その質問、絶対に来ると思いました。自分より年上の秀才達に囲まれ、国王様に質問攻めにされるなんて一体どんな拷問かしら。けどこの威圧に耐えてこそ悪女よ。私は読んだ知識と自分の考えを猛スピードで頭の中で結びつけた。「一見経済が潤って見えますが、それは見かけだけで深く掘り下げてみると、貧富の差が非常に大きいと思われます。この国の貧困村と言われる場所は見るに堪えない状況です。彼らが暴動を起こす可能性を考えるともっと財政政策に重きをおかなければなりません」国王様が目を見開く。ほう、と呟きながら髭を触った。「じゃあ、その解決策として何があると思う」まだ聞きますか!? 八歳の女の子に何を答えさせようとしているんですか。こんな難しい質問普通の女の子が答えられるわけないじゃない。 ......もしかして、この質問で私の悪女の素質を見抜こうとしているのかしら。そうよ、本当の悪女ならこの解決策に非情な回答を持ってくるわ。「ラヴァール国の支配下にあるカルベラ国の独立を支援するのはいかがでしょう?」皆の表情が固まる。その表情はもう何度も拝見しているわ。「カルベラ国の独立を支援しても、この国の傘下には置けないぞ」有難うゲイル様。その台詞待っていましたわ。「そうです。傘下には置けません」さぁ、ここからが悪女の本領発揮よ。私はもう一度姿勢を正し国王様の目をまっすぐ見た。「恩を売るのです」	Um, what did he just say? He asked about what? The position that our country occupies in the world? Why is he asking me that? There’s no way that I would be able to answer that sort of question, right? I’m just an -year-old girl, you know? ....At least on the outside.... Maybe this is a challenge sent down from God to test whether I’m really fit to call myself a villainess? That must be it. Otherwise there’s no way that a king would be sitting in front of me and asking that sort of question. I glance over at the map that lays open on the desk. This country, the Duelkis Kingdom’s position in the world.... That’s right, we’re a big country, but that doesn’t necessarily make us a good country. That’s what I’ve come to understand from the books that I’ve been reading recently. It seems all that reading that I’ve been doing was worthwhile after all. Will it be enough if I just say something like that? It certainly sounds like something a villainess would say. Because that would mean I’d be telling a king to his face that his country isn’t that good! That’s the very picture of a villainess! I wonder what I should do if he banishes me from the kingdom for saying that.... Well, if that happens, I’m sure I’ll figure something out. I mean, I was reborn into this world in order to be a villainess after all, I couldn’t possibly back down here. “This country may be large, but with all due respect, I can’t call it a good country,” I say, keeping steady eye contact with the king and standing as straight and tall as I can. At my words, His Majesty’s face darkens. Which is to be expected, considering he just had his own country badmouthed by an -year-old child. ......But Duke on the other hand.... why does he look like he’s enjoying this? Aren’t you the king’s son?? I probably have no right to judge, since I was the one who said that and all, but shouldn’t you be feeling angered by my words? “What’s not good about it?” I figured that question would be coming. But wow. I’m surrounded by a bunch of geniuses all older than me and being interrogated by the king.... what sort of torture is this? But enduring ordeals like this is also an important aspect of being a villainess. So without stopping to feel sorry for myself, I start formulating my answer. At an insane speed, I try to gather all my knowledge on the current state of affairs and combine them with my own thoughts on the country to come up with a reply. “At a glance, our country seems to have a booming economy, but upon closer inspection it becomes clear that there is a large economic inequality between the upper class and the common people. It’s to the point where the impoverished areas and villages are so miserable that no one can bear to look at them. And the people living under those conditions run the risk of revolting, which means we must revise the fiscal policy that is currently in place.” The king’s eyes go wide. Hmm, he murmurs while stroking his mustache. “Then what do you propose to fix this problem?” You’re going to continue questioning me about this!? What the heck are you trying to make an -year-old girl answer? There’s no way that a normal little girl would be able to answer something like this! .....Could they possibly be testing me right now? Trying to see what villainous qualities I possess? Well I suppose that a true villainess should have a heartless solution on hand for this sort of problem, so how about this... “What about if we were to support Calverra’s desire to secede from the Ravaal Kingdom?” Jeez. I’ve already seen that expression too many times to count. I’m getting tired of it, so can you guys try something new the next time that you’re surprised? “Even if we support Calverra’s request for independence that doesn’t mean that we can put them under our own jurisdiction,” Gayle-Sama tells me, his eyes as round as saucers. Thank you, Gayle-Sama. I was waiting for someone to say that. “That’s true. We won’t be able to take them under our command.” Okay! Shall I show off what a villainess’s specialty is now? I straighten my posture once again and then turn to look the king straight in the eye. “We must demand gratitude from them.”	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 1, "inserted_lines_src": 5, "inserted_lines_trg": 1 }
その姿......ワニ! 『レイヴンガー』から『レイヴンアリゲイト』へと進化したガー坊には4本の脚が生え、どっしりと大地を踏みしめている! 種族の名前から『ガー』要素が消えたが、まあモンスターの進化なんてそんなもんだ。思っていたのと違う姿になることが多い中で、ガー坊は進化前の面影を残している方......というか、前の姿に脚を生やしただけでは......。鳴き声は少し低く、勇ましくなったような気がする。ここは『ガー』のままで助かった。『ワニワニー!』とか言われたら俺も頭を抱えただろう。「ガー坊! も俺の脚を噛んで体を支えてくれ!」川にはワニの群れの生き残り、地上側には猛獣が待ち構えている。動きの鈍い俺が地上にいてはエサでしかない。一度シャキッと立ち上がり、【浮雲の群れ】で空に足場を作り、【ワープアロー】でその上に乗る。ここなら地上の猛獣たちの牙も届くまい。俺がいなくなった分、ガー坊が狙われることになるが......問題はない。まだ細かくステータスを見ていないが、とりあえず奥義が2つ、スキルが1つ追加されている。さらには既存の奥義が2つも進化している......! 今のガー坊は以前の何倍も強い! 「ガー坊! まずは川の敵を攻撃だ!」ワニたちは一度戦って数や能力を把握しているし、川の敵を排除しておけば最悪ガー坊と一緒に水中を逃げることが出来る。サバンナの猛獣たちが川に入って海まで追ってくるとは思えないしな。ダジャレはさておき、ガー坊の影から5体の分身が生み出された。漆黒の体に赤い目を持つ分身は、風雲の隠れ里で戦ったトカゲや影のようにモヤモヤしていて冷静に見ると偽物とわかるが、本物のガー坊も黒い装甲なので動き回っていると案外わからない。この分身たちには当たり判定が存在し、一定のダメージを受けると消滅する。性能は本体の5分の1程度で、奥義が使用できないという制限があるが、それ以外は本物のガー坊となんら変わりはない。手数を増やして畳みかけるというソロではなかなか出来ない戦法もこの奥義があれば出来る! 5分の1になってもガー坊の攻撃ステータスはバカにならない。敵を複数でとり囲んで攻撃を加え、どんどん撃破していく! 「俺も出来る限り援護しないと......おっ?」ここで俺は重要なことに気づいた。脚が生えたおかげでガー坊が地上でも素早く動けるようになっている! 泳いでいる時ほど速くはないが、少なくとも今までのように敵の的になるようなことはない。それでいて、今までのように空中浮遊も可能だ。浮遊して敵の攻撃を回避し、解除後に落下するスピードを乗せた尻尾による攻撃で敵の体を打ち砕く。すでに新スキル【フレイルテイル】も使いこなしているようだ。古代ワニがガー坊の装甲を砕いた攻撃と似たシンプルなスキルではあるが、使い方を見るとAIもかなり賢くなっているような気がする......! 新奥義はまだ1つ残っている。おそらく威力ではこれが最強......。その名も【口を大きく開けて高速回転しながら突進。むき出しの牙はミキサーの刃のように敵を粉々に切り刻む......! これもまた古代ワニの攻撃に似ている。つまり、俺に食らわせたあの攻撃も可能だ......! 「ガアアァァァーーーッ!!」ガー坊がひと際ウロコの硬いワニを咥えると、その体を一瞬でねじ切った。そう、口で挟みこめば回転の力がそのまま対象に伝わり、肉をねじ切るほどのパワーを生むのだ。リアルのワニも使う必殺技デスロール......第3進化を終えたレアモンスターであるガー坊が行えば、これほどの威力を発揮する......! 川のワニたちはこれで片付いた。後は分身たちが抑え込んでいた地上の猛獣だけだ。ライオン、トラ、チーターなどカッコよくて恐ろしい獣ばかりだが、今のガー坊の敵ではない。ガー坊はふわりと空中に浮き、強化された【オーシャンスフィア】である【気持ち蒼さを増したような水の球体の性能は......正直さほど上がっていない。重要なのはクールタイムの短縮だ。前は10分だったクールタイムが、5分になっている! これは中途半端な性能強化よりもずっとすごいことだ。なんてったって奥義の回転効率が一気に2倍だからな......! さらに強化されたのは【オーシャンスフィア】だけではない。ずっと俺とガー坊を支えてくれた代名詞たる奥義【赤い流星】も【赤い流星こちらも威力や速さなどの基本性能は微強化にとどまるが、クールタイムが10分から5分へと短縮されている。より強い奥義が手に入った後に、前の奥義が気軽に使えるように変更されるってのはありがたい。さて、ガー坊が近くの敵をあらかた片付けてしまったから、俺は空から周辺を索敵しよう。戦いの匂いに誘われて新手のモンスターが来ている可能性もあるから......な......。ガシャン、ガシャン、ガシャン...... 何かサバンナという世界観にそぐわない足音が遠くから聞こえてきた。スキル【狙撃の眼力】を発動し、その足音がする方をよーく見てみる。「......メカライオン?」照り付ける太陽を反射する金属のボディを揺らして、メカアニマル軍団がこちらに迫って来ていた。どうしてこんなゲテモノが......いや、そういえばガー坊も機械のお魚だしメカアニマルに近い存在だ。まさか、何か関係あるのか......?	He looked like an...alligator! Garbow had evolved from a Ravengar into a Ravenalligate, and had grown four legs that stood heavily on the ground! ‘Gar’ was no longer in his name, but monster evolutions were always like this. They often turned into something that you weren’t expecting, and so the fact that Garbow still had features from his old form... Well, he actually looked the same, only with legs now... His voice also sounded lower and more powerful. And I was glad that he still said ‘Gar.’ I would have been a little annoyed if he started saying ‘alligate’ or something like that. “Garbow! Bite my leg again and support me!” There were still alligators in the river, and other wild beasts lurked on dry land. Now that I could barely move, I was a sitting duck. And so I stood up once, created a platform in the air with Floating Cloud Herd, and then used Warp Arrow to get on top of it. Now their fangs would not be able to reach me. Of course, that meant that Garbow would be targeted instead...but that was fine. I hadn’t checked his status yet, but had seen that he gained charge attacks and skill. Furthermore, of his old charge attacks had evolved...! And so Garbow was several times more powerful than before! “Garbow! Attack the enemies in the river first!” As I had fought the alligators before, I knew how many there were and their abilities. As long as we got rid of them, Garbow and I could escape through the water. I doubted the savannah beasts would follow us into the river and sea. And like that, five duplicates of Garbow appeared. They had black bodies and red eyes, and reminded me of the lizards I fought in the hidden Windcloud settlement, or the snake in the tunnel. They were shadowy and clearly not real if you looked closely. But as the real Garbow was also black, you could get confused if they were all moving around. These clones could also take damage, and so they would disappear if attacked enough times. Their abilities were only a fifth of the real Garbow, and they could not use charge attacks. Otherwise, they were the same. With this charge attack, I could use strategies that would normally be impossible while solo! Even though they were just one fifth of Garbow, the attack stats were impressive. And so they would surround enemies and attack them one after another! “I have to do what I can to support him as well... Oh?” It was then that I noticed something important. Thanks to growing legs, Garbow was now able to move quickly on dry land! He wasn’t quite as fast as when he was swimming, but he was no longer an easy target like before. And yet he could also float in the air the same as before. So he floated in the air and dodged enemy attacks, then fell while slamming his tail down for a drop attack, crushing the enemy’s body. He was already using the new skill, Flail Tail very well. It was a simple skill, much like the one that the ancient alligator used to crack Garbow’s shell, but judging by the way that he used it, his AI seemed to have improved...! There was just one new charge attack left. It was probably the strongest one... And it was called, ‘Crimson Death Roll’! He opened his mouth wide and rotated at a high speed while charging. His bared teeth acted like a blender that shredded the enemy to bits...! This also resembled the ancient alligator’s attack. In other words, he could also do that attack that hit me...! “GAAARRR!!” Garbow bit one alligator that had especially tough scales, and then twisted its body in a flash. Yes. If he bit into something, the force of his rotation would affect the target, resulting in enough power to severe its flesh. Real alligators used the death roll...but when a rare monster that has undergone a rd evolution uses it, it becomes this powerful...! And like that, all of the river alligators were dealt with. Now it was just the beasts that the clones were keeping in check. Lions, tigers, cheetahs. They all looked terrifying, but they were no match against Garbow as he was now. Garbow floated up into the air and activated Blue Ocean Sphere, which was an enhanced version of Ocean Sphere. The sphere of water looked a little more blue, and it’s ability...was not that much better. The important part was that the cool down had been shortened. What used to be minutes was now minutes! This was much better than some half-assed upgrade. After all, the charge attack was now twice as efficient...! And Ocean Sphere wasn’t the only thing that had been enhanced. The charge attack that had helped me and Garbow so many times, Red Meteor, was now Red Meteor II. This one too was an upgrade in force and speed, and also had its cool down cut from 0 minutes down to 5 minutes. It was nice that after getting a new stronger charge attack, the previous one became easier to use. Now, as Garbow had taken care of the rest of the enemies, I would scout out the area from the sky. It was possible that all of the fighting had attracted other monsters... Gashan. Gashan. Gashan... I heard metallic sounds that did not seem very natural for a savanna. And so I activated my Sniping Insight skill and looked in the direction that the sounds came from. “...A mecha lion?” Their metal bodies swayed as the sunlight reflected off of them. And like that, an army of mecha animals came towards us. Why were they here... Well, now that I think of it, Garbow is a mechanical fish, so he is similar to them. Was that somehow related to this...?	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 7, "inserted_lines_src": 6, "inserted_lines_trg": 1 }
想像が描き出す心象は馴染みがあるでしょうどんな人だって想像はしますからしかし幻覚もあります幻覚は全く異なるもので我々の創造ではありません抑制もできません幻覚は外から現れて現実と区別がつきにくいその幻覚について話をします私の患者が体験した- 特殊な幻視を紹介します数か月前に電話がありました私が働く老人ホームからです入居中の90代の女性が幻覚を見ているので気が狂ったのではないかとまたは高齢のために脳卒中かアルツハイマーではないかとそれで診に来てほしいと頼まれましたロザリーおばあさんです診に行ったら彼女が正気なのは明らかでした頭ははっきりしていて理解力もあるでも非常に当惑していました幻覚が現れるからです事前に聞いていませんでしたが彼女は盲目だったのです彼女は5年前に加齢黄斑変性症のため失明したのですが数日前から幻覚を見るようになりました “何が見える?” と聞くと “東洋風の服を着た人たちが階段を上り下りしている私の方を見て微笑んでいる男口の脇から大きな歯が出ているの動物も見える白い建物わた雪が降っている雪かき用ハーネスをつけた馬が見えるそしてある晩シーンが変わったの猫や犬が寄ってきてある程度近づいたら立ち止まるそしてまた変わる階段を上り下りしているたくさんの子どもバラ色や青の明るい服を着ている東洋の服のよう” その人たちが現れる前に床に広がるピンクと青の四角い模様が天井に上がる幻覚が見えることも “夢のような感じ?” と尋ねると “いいえ夢ではなく映画のよう色もついていて動きがあるでも無声映画のように音がない” やや退屈な映画だと “東洋風の服をまとった人たちは上り下りを繰り返すばかりで行動が限られている” ユーモアのある女性なんです幻覚だとわかっていても怖がっていた 95年の人生で幻覚を見たことがなかったからその幻覚は彼女の思考や感覚行動と無関係だというのにやって来ては消えていくようですコントロールすることはできず彼女には幻覚の中の人物や場所はどれも見覚えがないしかも人も動物も彼女に気がついていないようだった彼女は状況が把握できず狂ってしまったかと心配していました私は入念に診察しました陽気なおばあさんで異常はなし体調良好幻覚を引き起こす薬も飲んでいません盲目ということだけそれで言ったんです “察しがつきました視力低下や失明によって起きる- 特殊な幻視があるんです” “これはシャルルボネという男性が 18世紀に初めて記述した症状ですあなたはシャルルボネ症候群です脳も精神も正常シャルルボネ症候群ですよ” それを聞いて彼女は安心し深刻な問題ではないことにホッとしたそしてむしろ好奇の目で “シャルルボネって誰? 彼にも幻覚が見えたの?” とさらには “看護師のみんなに私はシャルルボネ症候群だと言ってちょうだい” “狂ってもボケてもいないシャルルボネ症候群なだけ” 彼女の言うとおりにしましたこれはよくあるケースです主として老人ホームで仕事をするので高齢者が相手です聴覚視覚障害者も多く聴覚障害者の約1割は音楽性幻聴が聴こえます視覚障害者の約1割は幻視を見ます全盲ではなく弱視も含まれます 18世紀に話を移しますがこの幻覚症状があったのはシャルルボネではなく彼の祖父でした祖父は高齢の裁判官でした白内障の手術を受け視力は相当悪かった 1759年彼は自分の幻覚症状を孫に話したのですまず彼が話したのは宙に浮くハンカチです大判で青地にオレンジの丸が4つ祖父は幻覚だと認識していました宙に浮くハンカチはありませんからそして宙に浮く大きな車輪を見たでも時々幻覚か否か自信がなかった幻覚が身の回りのものと調和しているからですある日孫娘が来ていた時 “男前の若い衆は誰かね?” と聞きました “まぁお祖父様そんな人いないわ” そうするとその男たちは姿を消しました幻覚ではよくあることですパッと現れパッと消える徐々に現れたり消えたりしませんむしろ突然起きるのですシャルルボネの祖父には何百もの人影や形風景が見えましたバスローブ姿でパイプを吸う男も見えましたそれは彼自身だったのです見覚えのあるのはそれだけでしたある時パリの街を歩いていたら目に入った本物の工事現場の足場が帰宅すると15cmのミニチュアとなって書斎の机にのっていました映像を繰返し見ることは反復視と呼ばれますシャルルボネの祖父やロザリーに起こっている現象をロザリーに説明しました視力を失うと脳の視覚部分に入る情報が無くなるためそこが活動過多になりますそして自発的に作用してしまい幻覚を見始めるのです時に内容も非常に複雑化します別の患者の体験ですその女性は弱視で彼女に見えるものは厄介でしたある時彼女はレストランで縞模様のシャツを着た男を見た男は彼女の方を振り向き 6人に分離して彼女の方へと歩き始めたのですそして 6人はスーっと1人に戻りましたある時彼女は夫が運転する- 車に乗っていたら道が4つに分かれましたそして彼女も4つに分かれて進む感覚を覚えました動きのある幻覚も見えましたその多くは車に関連したものでした時々彼女はボンネットに座っている― 10代の男の子が見えました車にくっつき道を曲がるたびに優雅に動くのですそして車が止まると男の子は 30m 真上に急上昇して姿を消してしまうのですこんな幻覚を見る患者もいましたその女性は目には問題ないけれど脳の視覚部分に問題がありました後頭皮質にある小さな腫瘍ですとりわけ彼女にはアニメ映像が見えましたそのアニメは透けて見えるもので画面のように視野の半分を占めていますよく見るのはカエルのカーミットでした私はセサミストリートは見ませんが彼女はこう主張するんです “なぜ?カーミットが出てくる理由がわからないフロイト的な意味が知りたいなぜカーミットなの? 何の意味もなさないのに” アニメは我慢できてもしつこく出てくるイメージや顔の幻覚に彼女もロザリーも困っていました多くの場合巨大な歯や目をしたデフォルメされた顔が見えるからです彼女は怖がっていました彼らには何が起きていたのでしょう医者である私は患者の症状を見極め安心させるのが仕事です狂ったのではないと伝えるのは特にそうです先ほども言いましたが視覚障害者の 1割がこの症状を持っていますしかし症状を訴えるのはそのうちの1%以下精神障害だと思われるのが怖いからです病院に行っても誤診される- 可能性だってあります特に幻覚の概念は気が狂ってるとみられがちですしかし精神病性幻覚はかなり違います精神病性の幻視や幻聴の場合声をかけてくる責められる誘惑してくる侮辱される馬鹿にされる巻き込まれてしまいますシャルルボネ症候群において声をかけられることはありません自分とは無関係の映画を見るようなものそのように捉えられています側頭葉てんかんという稀なケースがありますこの症状は過去に遡る感覚や以前訪れた場所へ戻るような感覚が生じることがありますある交差点に立っている焼き栗の香りがする車の音五感で感じ取れます彼女を待っていた- 忘れもしない1982年あの火曜の夜側頭葉に関わる幻覚はすべての感覚に関係しています感覚があり馴染みがあり場所や時間もはっきりしていて話に筋が通っていて芝居のようシャルルボネはかなり違いますシャルルボネ症候群には様々なレベルがあります幾何学模様の幻覚やロザリーが見たピンクや青の四角人や特に顔の出てくるとても精緻な幻覚もありますデフォルメされた顔が現れるのはシャルルボネ症候群で最も一般的です 2つ目によくあるのはアニメこれはどういうことか面白いことに過去数年の間に幻覚症状の最中にfMRIを使用して脳機能の画像化が可能になりました実際に幻覚が現れているときに異なる脳の視覚部分が活発化することが特定されました単純な幾何学模様が現れるときは一次視覚野が活発化します脳はこの領域でへりや模様を知覚します一次視覚野で画像を作りだすのではありません画像が作りだされるとき高次の視覚野が側頭葉と作用します特に側頭葉の一部は紡錘状回と呼ばれています紡錘状回がダメージを受けると顔を認識できなくなることがありますしかし紡錘状回が異常に働くと顔の幻覚を見ることがありますこれが患者に起きていることだったのですこの脳回の前方には歯と目を思い描く領域があります巨大な歯と目の幻覚が見えるときは脳回のその部分が活発化しています脳の別の部分はアニメが見えるときに活発になりますアニメを見たり描いたりアニメの幻覚発生時に活動しています特異性があって興味深いんです脳の他の部分では具体的に建物風景の認識や幻覚に関連する部分があります 1970年頃脳の決まった部分のみならず特定の細胞があることがわかりました 1970年頃顔細胞が発見されました今では何百種類もの細胞が発見されています非常に特有な細胞ですですからもしかしたら車細胞だけではなくアストンマーチン細胞があるかも今朝アストンマーチンを見たので話したかったんだ既にどこかにあるはずだよ下側頭葉皮質と呼ばれるこのレベルでは視覚画像や断片しか処理されません他の感覚が加わってくるのはもっと高次の領域ですそして記憶や感情と関連していますシャルルボネ症候群ではこのレベルまでは達しません下側頭葉皮質において何千も何百万ものイメージや断片的な作り事が決まった細胞や細胞の小さな固まりに神経符号化される部分で生じます通常これはどれも知覚や想像の一体化した流れの一部なのです人間は意識していません視覚障害者である場合に限りこの過程が中断されますそして正常な知覚を得る代わりに下側頭葉皮質ではその視覚細胞から無秩序で発作的な刺激や放出が行われているのですそして突然顔や車が見えたり色々なものが見えるのです頭はまとめようとしたり一貫性をもたせようと頑張りますが完璧には働きませんこの幻覚が初めて発表されたとき夢のように解釈できると思われていましたでも患者さんは言う “こんな人たち知らない関連づけ出来ないわ” “カーミットなんて私にとって何の意味も持たない” 夢のように考えてもダメなんですさぁ私の話はこんなところです要はこの幻覚症状はよくある事なんです世界の盲人数を考えてくださいこのような幻覚症状を持つ盲人は何十万といるに違いないでも怖くて言えないんですですからこのような事実は患者医者世間のためにもっと知られるべきなんです最後にこれは脳の働きを洞察するには非常に興味深く貴重な情報だと思っています 250年前にシャルルボネはこのような幻覚症状を思いながら脳の機械仕掛けから心の劇作品がいかに作り出されるのだろうと考えました 250年経った現在私たちは真相を究明し始めたと思うのですどうもありがとう (拍手) 最高だどうもありがとう洞察力が深くて患者さんへの共感が感じられましたそのような経験をご自身もされたことは? 聞かれるだろうと思いましたよけっこう見ます実は私も視覚障害者です片目は失明してもう片方も良好ではありません幾何学模様の幻覚が見えます他のは見えません不安にかられませんか? どんなことが起きているのか分っておられるから耳鳴りよりはましです耳鳴りは無視してますけど幻覚には時折興味が湧くのでノートにたくさん絵を描いています fMRIも使用して視覚野の機能も見ました六角形や複雑な模様は眼性片頭痛でも見ることがあるのですがこれは普通なのでしょうかねそして洞窟壁画や装飾デザインは幻覚をヒントに作られたのか興味があります非常に興味深い貴重な講話でしたどうもありがとうございましたありがとうございました	And we are familiar with the landscapes of our own imagination, our inscapes. We've lived with them all our lives. But there are also hallucinations as well, and hallucinations are completely different. They don't seem to be of our creation. They don't seem to be under our control. They seem to come from the outside, and to mimic perception. So I am going to be talking about hallucinations, and a particular sort of visual hallucination A few months ago, I got a phone call from a nursing home where I work. They told me that one of their residents, an old lady in her 90s, was seeing things, and they wondered if she'd gone bonkers or, because she was an old lady, whether she'd had a stroke, or whether she had Alzheimer's. And so they asked me if I would come and see Rosalie, the old lady. I went in to see her. It was evident straight away that she was perfectly sane and lucid and of good intelligence, but she'd been very startled and very bewildered, because she'd been seeing things. And she told me -- the nurses hadn't mentioned this -- that she was blind, that she had been completely blind from macular degeneration for five years. But now, for the last few days, she'd been seeing things. So I said, "What sort of things?" And she said, "People in Eastern dress, in drapes, walking up and down stairs. A man who turns towards me and smiles. But he has huge teeth on one side of his mouth. Animals too. I see a white building. It's snowing, a soft snow. I see this horse with a harness, dragging the snow away. Then, one night, the scene changes. I see cats and dogs walking towards me. They come to a certain point and then stop. Then it changes again. I see a lot of children. They are walking up and down stairs. They wear bright colors, rose and blue, like Eastern dress." Sometimes, she said, before the people come on, she may hallucinate pink and blue squares on the floor, which seem to go up to the ceiling. I said, "Is this like a dream?" And she said, "No, it's not like a dream. It's like a movie." She said, "It's got color. It's got motion. But it's completely silent, like a silent movie." And she said that it's a rather boring movie. She said, "All these people with Eastern dress, walking up and down, very repetitive, very limited." And she has a sense of humor. She knew it was a hallucination. But she was frightened. She'd lived 95 years and she'd never had a hallucination before. She said that the hallucinations were unrelated to anything she was thinking or feeling or doing, that they seemed to come on by themselves, or disappear. She had no control over them. She said she didn't recognize any of the people or places in the hallucinations. And none of the people or the animals, well, they all seemed oblivious of her. And she didn't know what was going on. She wondered if she was going mad or losing her mind. Well, I examined her carefully. She was a bright old lady, perfectly sane. She had no medical problems. She wasn't on any medications which could produce hallucinations. But she was blind. And I then said to her, "I think I know what you have." I said, "There is a special form of visual hallucination which may go with deteriorating vision or blindness. This was originally described," I said, "right back in the 18th century, by a man called Charles Bonnet. And you have Charles Bonnet syndrome. There is nothing wrong with your brain. There is nothing wrong with your mind. You have Charles Bonnet syndrome." And she was very relieved at this, that there was nothing seriously the matter, and also rather curious. She said, "Who is this Charles Bonnet?" She said, "Did he have them himself?" And she said, "Tell all the nurses that I have Charles Bonnet syndrome." "I'm not crazy. I'm not demented. I have Charles Bonnet syndrome." Well, so I did tell the nurses. Now this, for me, is a common situation. I work in old-age homes, largely. I see a lot of elderly people who are hearing impaired or visually impaired. About 10 percent of the hearing impaired people get musical hallucinations. And about 10 percent of the visually impaired people get visual hallucinations. You don't have to be completely blind, only sufficiently impaired. Now with the original description in the 18th century, Charles Bonnet did not have them. His grandfather had these hallucinations. His grandfather was a magistrate, an elderly man. He'd had cataract surgery. His vision was pretty poor. And in 1759, he described to his grandson various things he was seeing. The first thing he said was he saw a handkerchief in midair. It was a large blue handkerchief with four orange circles. And he knew it was a hallucination. You don't have handkerchiefs in midair. And then he saw a big wheel in midair. But sometimes he wasn't sure whether he was hallucinating or not, because the hallucinations would fit in the context of the visions. So on one occasion, when his granddaughters were visiting them, he said, "And who are these handsome young men with you?" And then the handsome young men disappeared. It's typical of these hallucinations that they may come in a flash and disappear in a flash. They don't usually fade in and out. They are rather sudden, and they change suddenly. Charles Lullin, the grandfather, saw hundreds of different figures, different landscapes of all sorts. On one occasion, he saw a man in a bathrobe smoking a pipe, and realized it was himself. That was the only figure he recognized. On one occasion when he was walking in the streets of Paris, he saw -- this was real -- a scaffolding. But when he got back home, he saw a miniature of the scaffolding six inches high, on his study table. This repetition of perception is sometimes called palinopsia. With him and with Rosalie, what seems to be going on -- and Rosalie said, "What's going on?" -- and I said that as you lose vision, as the visual parts of the brain are no longer getting any input, they become hyperactive and excitable, and they start to fire spontaneously. And you start to see things. The things you see can be very complicated indeed. With another patient of mine, who, also had some vision, the vision she had could be disturbing. On one occasion, she said she saw a man in a striped shirt in a restaurant. And he turned around. And then he divided into six figures in striped shirts, who started walking towards her. And then the six figures came together again, like a concertina. Once, when she was driving, or rather, her husband was driving, the road divided into four and she felt herself going simultaneously up four roads. She had very mobile hallucinations as well. A lot of them had to do with a car. Sometimes she would see a teenage boy sitting on the hood of the car. He was very tenacious and he moved rather gracefully when the car turned. And then when they came to a stop, the boy would do a sudden vertical takeoff, 100 foot in the air, and then disappear. Another patient of mine had a different sort of hallucination. This was a woman who didn't have trouble with her eyes, but the visual parts of her brain, a little tumor in the occipital cortex. And, above all, she would see cartoons. These cartoons would be transparent and would cover half the visual field, like a screen. And especially she saw cartoons of Kermit the Frog. Now, I don't watch Sesame Street, but she made a point of saying, "Why Kermit?" she said, "Kermit the Frog means nothing to me. You know, I was wondering about Freudian determinants. Why Kermit? Kermit the Frog means nothing to me." She didn't mind the cartoons too much. But what did disturb her was she got very persistent images or hallucinations of faces and as with Rosalie, the faces were often deformed, with very large teeth or very large eyes. And these frightened her. Well, what is going on with these people? As a physician, I have to try and define what's going on, and to reassure people, especially to reassure them that they're not going insane. Something like 10 percent, as I said, of visually impaired people get these. But no more than one percent of the people acknowledge them, because they are afraid they will be seen as insane or something. And if they do mention them to their own doctors they may be misdiagnosed. In particular, the notion is that if you see things or hear things, you're going mad, but the psychotic hallucinations are quite different. Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer at you. You interact with them. There is none of this quality of being addressed with these Charles Bonnet hallucinations. There is a film. You're seeing a film which has nothing to do with you, or that's how people think about it. There is also a rare thing called temporal lobe epilepsy, and sometimes, if one has this, one may feel oneself transported back to a time and place in the past. You're at a particular road junction. You smell chestnuts roasting. You hear the traffic. All the senses are involved. And you're waiting for your girl. And it's that Tuesday evening back in 1982. And the temporal lobe hallucinations are all-sense hallucinations, full of feeling, full of familiarity, located in space and time, coherent, dramatic. The Charles Bonnet ones are quite different. So in the Charles Bonnet hallucinations, you have all sorts of levels, from the geometrical hallucinations -- the pink and blue squares the woman had -- up to quite elaborate hallucinations with figures and especially faces. Faces, and sometimes deformed faces, are the single commonest thing in these hallucinations. And one of the second commonest is cartoons. So, what is going on? Fascinatingly, in the last few years, it's been possible to do functional brain imagery, to do fMRI on people as they are hallucinating. And in fact, to find that different parts of the visual brain are activated as they are hallucinating. When people have these simple geometrical hallucinations, the primary visual cortex is activated. This is the part of the brain which perceives edges and patterns. You don't form images with your primary visual cortex. When images are formed, a higher part of the visual cortex is involved in the temporal lobe. And in particular, one area of the temporal lobe is called the fusiform gyrus. And it's known that if people have damage in the fusiform gyrus, they maybe lose the ability to recognize faces. But if there is an abnormal activity in the fusiform gyrus, they may hallucinate faces, and this is exactly what you find in some of these people. There is an area in the anterior part of this gyrus where teeth and eyes are represented, and that part of the gyrus is activated when people get the deformed hallucinations. There is another part of the brain which is especially activated when one sees cartoons. It's activated when one recognizes cartoons, when one draws cartoons, and when one hallucinates them. It's very interesting that that should be specific. There are other parts of the brain which are specifically involved with the recognition and hallucination of buildings and landscapes. Around 1970, it was found that there were not only parts of the brain, but particular cells. "Face cells" were discovered around 1970. And now we know that there are hundreds of other sorts of cells, which can be very, very specific. So you may not only have "car" cells, you may have "Aston Martin" cells. I saw an Aston Martin this morning. I had to bring it in. And now it's in there somewhere. Now, at this level, in what's called the inferotemporal cortex, there are only visual images, or figments or fragments. It's only at higher levels that the other senses join in and there are connections with memory and emotion. And in the Charles Bonnet syndrome, you don't go to those higher levels. You're in these levels of inferior visual cortex and millions of images, or figments, or fragmentary figments, all neurally encoded in particular cells or small clusters of cells. Normally these are all part of the integrated stream of perception, or imagination, and one is not conscious of them. It is only if one is visually impaired or blind that the process is interrupted. And instead of getting normal perception, convulsive stimulation, or release, of all of these visual cells in the inferotemporal cortex. So, suddenly you see a face. Suddenly you see a car. Suddenly this, and suddenly that. The mind does its best to organize and to give some sort of coherence to this, but not terribly successfully. When these were first described, it was thought that they could be interpreted like dreams. But in fact people say, "I don't recognize the people. I can't form any associations." "Kermit means nothing to me." You don't get anywhere thinking of them as dreams. Well, I've more or less said what I wanted. I think I just want to recapitulate and say this is common. Think of the number of blind people. There must be hundreds of thousands of blind people who have these hallucinations, but are too scared to mention them. So this sort of thing needs to be brought into notice, for patients, for doctors, for the public. Finally, I think they are infinitely interesting and valuable, for giving one some insight as to how the brain works. Charles Bonnet said, 250 years ago -- he wondered how, thinking these hallucinations, how, as he put it, the theater of the mind could be generated by the machinery of the brain. Now, 250 years later, I think we're beginning to glimpse how this is done. Thanks very much. Chris Anderson: That was superb. Thank you so much. You speak about these things with so much insight and empathy for your patients. Have you yourself experienced any of the syndromes you write about? Oliver Sacks: I was afraid you'd ask that. Well, yeah, a lot of them. And actually I'm a little visually impaired myself. I'm blind in one eye, and not terribly good in the other. And I see the geometrical hallucinations. But they stop there. CA: And they don't disturb you? Because you understand what's doing it, it doesn't make you worried? OS: Well they don't disturb me any more than my tinnitus, which I ignore. They occasionally interest me, and I have many pictures of them in my notebooks. I've gone and had an fMRI myself, to see how my visual cortex is taking over. And when I see all these hexagons and complex things, which I also have, in visual migraine, I wonder whether everyone sees things like this, and whether things like cave art or ornamental art may have been derived from them a bit. CA: That was an utterly, utterly fascinating talk. Thank you so much for sharing. OS: Thank you. Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
それと同じ頃にとても仲の良かった父がゲイであることを知りました完全に寝耳に水でした絆の固い家族だったので大ショックを受けましたある時ぎこちなくなってしまった会話の中で父がストーンウォールの反乱のことを話しはじめました 1969年のある夜若い黒人やラテン系のドラァグクイーンたちがマンハッタンのゲイバーストーンウォール・インで警官に立ち向かい現在のゲイ解放運動の発火点になったというのです本当にすごい話で強く興味を掻き立てられましたそこでテープレコーダーを手にとりもっと調べることにしたのですマイケル・シャーカーという若い記録保管人の助けを借りてその夜ストーンウォール・インにいた人をできる限り探し出しましたインタビューを録音していて気づいたのはマイクは私にとってそれがなければ決して行くことのなかっただろう場所に行き話すことのなかっただろう人々と話せる許可証となることです光栄にも知り合えたのはそれまで出会った中で最も素晴らしくパワフルで勇気ある人々でしたストーンウォールの話が全米のリスナーに届けられたのはこれが初めてでした私はこの番組を父に捧げこれが父との関係と私の人生を一変させましたその後15年以上に渡って更に沢山のラジオドキュメンタリーを制作しメディアが滅多に取り上げない人々に光を当てました何度も目にしたのはインタビューを受けるという単純なことが人々にとって大きな意味を持つということです話を真剣に聞いてもらえない経験をした人にとっては特にそうでしたマイクに向かって話し始めたとたん本当にみんな背筋が伸びるのです 1998年にマンハッタンのバワリー地区に残る最後の簡易宿泊所のドキュメンタリーを制作しました男たちが何十年もの間こういった安宿で暮らしていました彼らが住む部屋は刑務所の独房ほどの広さで金網で囲まれていて隣に飛び移れないようになっていました後日写真家のハーヴェイ・ワンと組んでこの男たちの本を書きました印象に残っているのは本の草稿を持って宿泊所に行き自分のことが書かれたページを本人に見せた時のことです彼は立ち尽くし黙って見ていましたがふいに私の手から本を引ったくるとページを頭上に掲げて細い廊下を走りながら叫び始めました「俺はいるんだ! 確かにいるんだ!」 (拍手) いろんな意味で「俺はいるんだ」は StoryCorpsのきっかけになった言葉ですこの途方もないアイデアは十数年前に思いついたものですドキュメンタリー作成を逆転させるという発想でしたこれまでドキュメンタリーとは多くの人が見聞きする芸術や娯楽や教養のための番組制作を目的としてインタビューを録音することでしたでも私がやりたかったのはインタビュー自体が目的のプロジェクトでした話を聞いてもらえる機会を可能な限り多くの人に与えられないものか試したかったのですそこで11年前にグランド・セントラル駅に誰でも使えるブースを作り人生についてインタビューすることを通じてその人を称えられる場所にしましたブースに来ると進行係がいて中に案内してくれますそして例えば自分のおじいさんの前に座り 1時間近く話を聞いたり話したりします多くの人が考えるのは「もしこれが最後の会話だとしたら自分にとってかけがえのないこの相手に何を尋ね何を言おうか?」ということですインタビューが終わると録音のコピーをもらえますもう1本のコピーは米国議会図書館のアメリカ庶民生活センターに送られますこれでいつかひ孫のそのまた孫たちがあなたのおじいさんについて知る機会を得られるでしょう世界有数の繁華街に開設したこのブースで人々に他の人間とものすごく親密な会話をしてもらおうというわけですどういう結果になるか全くわかりませんでしたが最初からうまくいきましたみんなこの体験をものすごく大事なものとして扱ってくれましたブース内では本当に素晴らしい会話が行われましたここでグランド・セントラル駅のブースで録音されたとあるインタビューの一部にアニメを付けたものをお見せします 12才のジョシュア・リットマンが母親のサラにインタビューしたものですジョシュはアスペルガー症候群ですご存知かも知れませんがアスペルガーの子どもはものすごく頭がいいのですが社会的には苦労します強いこだわりを持つことが多くジョシュの場合その対象は動物です 9年前にグランド・セントラル駅で行われたジョシュと母親サラの会話をお聞きくださいジョシュ・リットマン: もし動物がいなかったら人生は10点満点で何点になってたと思う? サラ・リットマン: 動物がいない人生は8点ね動物はいっぱい喜びを与えてくれるからジョシュ:動物がいなかったら人生はどう違ってたと思う? サラ:ゴキブリや蛇はいなくてもいいわジョシュ:僕は蛇なら大丈夫毒のないやつとか締め付けてこないやつならねサラ:そうね私は蛇は好きではないわジョシュ:ゴキブリも嫌われ者だよねサラ:確かにそうねジョシュ:子どもがいて大変だと思ったことはある? サラ:あなたが赤ちゃんの時ひどい疝痛になって泣いてばかりいたのを思い出すわジョシュ:疝痛って? サラ:何時間も泣き叫ぶほどお腹がいたくなることよジョシュ:エイミーより大きな声で? サラ:あなたは大声だったけどエイミーのは甲高かったわジョシュ:みんなエイミーの方が好きみたいだよねまるで小さな天使みたいにサラ:エイミーの方が好かれているように思うのはわかるわでもそれはアスペルガー症候群のせいじゃないのエイミーはすぐ人と仲良くなれるけどあなたにはそれが大変だからだと思うでも時間をかけてあなたを知った人はあなたのことが大好きよジョシュ:ベンやエリックやカルロスみたいに? サラ:そうよジョシュ:数は少ないけど友だちの質が高いってこと? サラ:質をどうこう言うつもりはないけど・・・ジョシュ:だってエイミーなんてクローディアを好きになってその後嫌いになってまた好きになって嫌いになるじゃないサラ:それは女の子によくあることなのよあなたにとって大切なのは親友が何人かいることよそれが人生で本当に必要なことねジョシュ:僕生まれた時に母さんが望んだ通りの息子になった? 母さんの期待通りになった? サラ:あなたは私の期待以上よ確かに自分の子どもの将来はいろいろ想像するけれどあなたのおかげで私は親として成長したんだからそれは ― ジョシュ:僕のおかげで親になれたんだよねサラ:あなたのおかげで親になれた・・・それもそうねただそれだけじゃなくあなたは育児本に書いてあるような考え方をする子どもじゃないから私も一緒に枠にとらわれない考え方を学ばなければならなかっただから親としても人としてもずっと創造的になれたのあなたにはいつも感謝してるわジョシュ:エイミーの時にも役に立った? サラ:役に立つ以上にあなたはすごく特別な存在だからあなたの親になれて私は本当に幸せ者ね (拍手) デイヴ・アイセイ:この話が放送されるとジョシュに手紙が何百通も届きました彼の素晴らしさを称えた手紙です母親のサラは手紙を1冊にまとめてジョシュが学校でいじめられた時一緒にそれを読みましたこの2人のヒーローがここに来てくれていますご紹介しましょうサラ・リットマンと息子のジョシュです彼は今大学の特待生です (拍手) StoryCorpsの話を聞いて泣いたという人がたくさんいますでも話が悲しかったからではありませんほとんどは違いますそれはきっと純粋な真実の話を聞いたからだと思います現代はどれが現実でどれが広告なのか見分けにくいことも多いですからこれはいわば反リアリティTVですお金のために来る人はいません有名になるために来る人もいませんただ愛情と思いやりから生じた行為です大部分が普通の人で優しさ勇気良識尊厳をもって生きた人生について話してくれますそんな話を聞いていると聖域に足を踏み入れたような気持ちになることがありますグランド・セントラル駅での実験が成功したので次はこれを全国に展開しましたこれまでに全米50州の何千もの街で 10万人以上が StoryCorpsのインタビューを録音しています肉声のコレクションとしては過去最大です (拍手) インタビューの手引きをするために何百人もの進行役を採用し育ててきました多くの人は1年か2年の間全国を旅しながら StoryCorpsで働き人類の英知を収集します彼らは自分の役割は立会人だと言います進行役にたずねたなら全員がこう答えるでしょうインタビューに立ち会って学んだ一番大切なことは「人間は本質的に善良である」ということだと確かにStoryCorpsの最初の1年は人選に偏りがあったかもしれませんでも全国のあらゆる場所であらゆる人々が行った何万回ものインタビュー豊かな人や貧しい人 5才から105才まで 80の言語を話す多様な政治観の人々のインタビューが行われた今彼らの証言は真実だと思わないわけにはいかないでしょう私もインタビューから本当にたくさんのことを学んできました身近な人々の言葉の中に詩と叡智と品格を見いだせることを学びました耳を傾ける時間を作りさえすればいいのです例えばこのインタビューブルックリンに住む賭屋の店員ダニー・ペラーザが妻のアニーをStoryCorpsに連れてきて彼女への愛を語ったものですダニー・ペラーザ: いいかいよく聞いてくれ「愛してる」って言うとき必ず罪悪感があるんだいつも「愛してる」って言うのはこんなに不細工な俺だけどそんな俺からの言葉だってこと意識して欲しいから言うのさきれいな歌を壊れかけの古いラジオで聞くみたいだけど家にラジオがあるのはいいことだよアニー・ペラーザ:キッチンにメモが無い時は何かあったのかと思うわ毎朝のラブレターだからダニー:何かあったとしてもペンが見つからないくらいだなアニー:「お姫様へ ― 今日の天気は大雨だよ午前11時20分に電話するよ」ダニー:ロマンチックな天気予報さアニー:「愛してる愛してる愛してる」ダニー:男にとって幸せな結婚ってのは仕事で何があってもその日何が起ころうとも家に帰れば安心できる場所があって抱きしめられる誰かがいてそんなことしても「離して」なんて言われて階段から突き落とされないことだな結婚ってのはカラーテレビのようなもんだ白黒には戻れないデイヴ:ダニーは身長150cm足らず斜視で 1本出っ歯がありますがそれでもハリウッドのトップ俳優が全員でかかってもかなわないほどの大恋愛をしていたのです他にも学んだことがあります他人を許す心には想像を絶するほどの許容量があること立ち直る力そして人間の強さです例えばオーシェイ・イズリエルとメアリー・ジョンソンのインタビューオーシェイは十代の時メアリーの一人息子ララミアン・バードをギャングの抗争中に殺害しましたメアリーは十数年後に刑務所を訪れてオーシェイに会い息子の命を奪ったのがどんな人間なのか確かめようとしました驚くべきことに2人は次第に友情を育み刑務所から釈放されたオーシェイはメアリーの家の隣に越してきたのですこれは彼が自由の身になってすぐ StoryCorpで録音された 2人の会話のほんの一部ですメアリー・ジョンソン: 私の本当の息子はもういないあの子の卒業は見られなかったでも今あなたが大学に行こうとしてるだからあなたの卒業は見られるわねあの子の結婚は見られなかったでもいつかあなたの結婚に立ち会えるといいわオーシェイ・イズリエル: そう言ってくれることとか今みたいに人生に関わってくれることが俺の生きる力になってるんだ正しい道から外れないよう導いてくれる俺を信じてくれることあんなに苦しませたのに信じてくれるっていうことは本当にすごいと思うよメアリー:この話題って簡単に話し合えるものじゃないわね今みたいにお互い顔を合わせて座っていてもそう簡単じゃないとわかってるからあなたが話してくれることすごいと思うわオーシェイ:大好きだよメアリーおばさんメアリー:私もよオーシェイ (拍手) デイヴ:私が何度も繰り返し気付かされるのは人の勇気と善良さそして歴史の流れが正しい方向に向かう様子です例えばアレクシス・マルティネスの話シカゴのハロルド・アイクス公営団地で生まれた時彼女は「アーサー」でしたこのインタビューでは娘のレズリーに若い頃ギャングの一員になったことや後に女性になったことそしてそれが運命だったことを話していますアレクシスと娘のレズリーの話をお聞きくださいアレクシス・マルティネス: 私にとってつらかったのは孫娘に近づかせてもらえないんじゃないかっていつも不安だったことねでもあなたたち夫婦はそんな不安を吹き飛ばしてくれたそれで実を結んだのが私と孫娘たちとの関係時々私がおじいちゃんなのかおばあちゃんなのかもめてるわレズリー・マルティネス: そこは放っといているのアレクシス:自由に話せるなんて私には奇跡みたいレズリー:謝ることもないしこそこそしなくてもいいのよ縁を切ったりなんかしないからそこをわかって欲しいの母さんは愛されているんだからアレクシス:それは毎日感じてるわ女性として道を歩いていると今の自分に心が休まるのもうちょっと声がソフトだったらとは思うけど今は愛で心が満たされているし毎日そう生きていこうとしてるのデイヴ:「今愛で心が満たされている」 StoryCorpsの秘密を教えましょうこういう会話をするには少し勇気が必要ですよねだから命に限りがあることを思い出してもらうのです利用者は自分の死後ずっと先に誰かが録音を聞くことを知っていますホスピスの医師であるアイラ・バイアックは私たちと協力して死にゆく人々のインタビューを録音しています彼は『最も大切な4つのこと』という本の中で自分や一番大切な人の死を前にして伝えるべき4つの言葉が何かを書いています「ありがとう」「愛してる」「許してほしい」「許してあげる」これは私たちが人と伝え合える最も力強い言葉で StoryCorpsのブースでもよく聞かれますこれは大切な人と共に心の整理をするチャンスなのです後悔も言いそびれたことも無いようにこれは難しいことですし勇気もいりますがそのために私たちは生きているのではないでしょうか? それでは TEDプライズについてです数か月前にTEDとクリスから受賞の可能性があると聞いてありえない位びっくりしましたそして人類に向けた私の望みを 50語以内で簡潔に考えてほしいと頼まれましたそこで考えまして 50語にまとめました何週間か経ってクリスが電話で「これで行こう」と言ってくれました私の望みはこうです「みなさんの手で StoryCorpsの活動を通じ我々が学んできたあらゆることを世界中に広め誰もがどこでも簡単に誰かと意味深いインタビューを録音して歴史の1ページに刻めるようにしたい」ではどうやって実現させるのか? これを使います世界中誰でもスマートフォンを使える未来が急速に実現しつつあります私がStoryCorpsを始めた 11年前には想像すらできなかった大きな力を秘めていますマイクがありやり方も教えてくれ音声ファイルを送信できますこれが重要な要素ですだから私の望みの半分はすでに進行中ですこの2か月間開発チームが猛烈に作業してきました StoryCoprsをブースの外へと持ち出せるアプリを作り誰もがいつでもどこでもインタビューを体験できるように StoryCorpsでは対話する2人以外に必ず進行係がいて会話の録音を手伝い録音された会話は永久保存されます現在はStoryCorpsアプリの公開ベータバージョンを出そうとしているところですこれはいわばデジタル進行係で StoryCorpsのインタビューの手順を一歩一歩教えてくれたり質問を選ぶのを手伝ってくれたり意味深いインタビューを録音するために必要なヒントをくれタップ1つで米国議会図書館のアーカイブに録音をアップロードします今のは技術的な側面簡単な部分です本当の課題は皆さんにかかっていますこのツールを手にとりアメリカ中そして世界中でどう使えるかを考えることですそうすればこれまで年に数千件だったインタビューを何万件何十万件あるいはそれ以上に増やせる可能性があるのです想像してみてください例えばアメリカ史を学ぶ全国の高校生に同じ宿題を出します感謝祭の休日にお年寄りにインタビューをし録音するようにとそうすればたった1回の週末でアメリカの一世代全体の暮らしや体験を記録できます (拍手) またこんなのはどうでしょう世界のどこか紛争中の国々で両サイドの母親たちが紛争について語るためではなくお互いに人としての本当の姿を見い出しそれによって信頼の絆を築き始められるよう対話するのですあるいはいつか StoryCorpsのインタビューで 75才の誕生日を祝うことが世界中で習わしになったらどうでしょうそれとも地域の人々が老人ホームや病院やホームレスのシェルターや刑務所にも出かけこのアプリを駆使して社会にほとんど注目されない人々を称え彼らの本当の姿や人生で学んできたことそしてどんな形で人の記憶に残りたいかを聞くのです (拍手) 私は10年前StoryCorpsで父へのインタビューを録音しました父は精神科医でしたが後にゲイの活動家として知られるようになりましたインタビューをする私たちの写真です録音したことなど忘れていましたが 2年ほど前健康そのものに見え週に40時間も診察していた父がガンの告知を受けたのです父は数日後突然亡くなりました 2012年6月28日ストーンウォールの反乱の記念日でした父が死んだ日の朝3時に私は初めてそのインタビューを聞きました家には子どもが2人いますが私にとって偉大な存在だった父という人間を子どもたちが知る唯一の手段がそのインタビューになりました私はStoryCorpsの意義をこれ以上ない程信じているつもりでしたがまさにその時全身で心の底から録音の重要性を理解したのです毎日多くの人が私のところに来て言います「父や祖母や兄とインタビューをしたかったのに今はもう手遅れになってしまった」とでももう待つ必要はありませんコミュニケーションの大部分が刹那的で取るに足らないこんな時代だからこそ永久に残る重要な会話をデジタル・アーカイブに残す活動に参加してほしいのです子どもたちへの贈り物として私たちがどんな人間だったのか証を残す活動に手を貸してくださいこの望みを実現するために皆さんのご協力をお願いします家族や友達そして知らない人ともインタビューをしてくださいそうすればみんなで人間の英知をアーカイブにまとめられますそしてたぶんそうすることで人は相手の話をもっとよく聞くことを学び声高な主張は減るでしょうそんな会話を通して本当に大切なことを思い出せるかも知れませんそしていつか私たちがそんな会話から単純な真実に気づく日が来るかもしれませんすべての人 1人ひとりの人生が等しくこの上なく大切だということにありがとうございました (拍手) ありがとうありがとう (拍手) ありがとう	At almost the exact same time, I found out that my dad, who I was very, very close to, was gay. I was taken completely by surprise. We were a very tight-knit family, and I was crushed. At some point, in one of our strained conversations, my dad mentioned the Stonewall riots. He told me that one night in 1969, a group of young black and Latino drag queens fought back against the police at a gay bar in Manhattan called the Stonewall Inn, and how this sparked the modern gay rights movement. It was an amazing story, and it piqued my interest. So I decided to pick up my tape recorder and find out more. With the help of a young archivist named Michael Shirker, we tracked down all of the people we could find who had been at the Stonewall Inn that night. Recording these interviews, I saw how the microphone gave me the license to go places I otherwise never would have gone and talk to people I might not otherwise ever have spoken to. I had the privilege of getting to know some of the most amazing, fierce and courageous human beings I had ever met. It was the first time the story of Stonewall had been told to a national audience. I dedicated the program to my dad, it changed my relationship with him, and it changed my life. Over the next 15 years, I made many more radio documentaries, working to shine a light on people who are rarely heard from in the media. Over and over again, I'd see how this simple act of being interviewed could mean so much to people, particularly those who had been told that their stories didn't matter. I could literally see people's back straighten as they started to speak into the microphone. In 1998, I made a documentary about the last flophouse hotels on the Bowery in Manhattan. Guys stayed up in these cheap hotels for decades. They lived in cubicles the size of prison cells covered with chicken wire so you couldn't jump from one room into the next. Later, I wrote a book on the men with the photographer Harvey Wang. I remember walking into a flophouse with an early version of the book and showing one of the guys his page. He stood there staring at it in silence, then he grabbed the book out of my hand and started running down the long, narrow hallway holding it over his head shouting, "I exist! I exist." In many ways, "I exist" became the clarion call for StoryCorps, this crazy idea that I had a dozen years ago. The thought was to take documentary work and turn it on its head. Traditionally, broadcast documentary has been about recording interviews to create a work of art or entertainment or education that is seen or heard by a whole lot of people, but I wanted to try something where the interview itself was the purpose of this work, and see if we could give many, many, many people the chance to be listened to in this way. So in Grand Central Terminal 11 years ago, we built a booth where anyone can come to honor someone else by interviewing them about their life. You come to this booth and you're met by a facilitator who brings you inside. You sit across from, say, your grandfather for close to an hour and you listen and you talk. Many people think of it as, if this was to be our last conversation, what would I want to ask of and say to this person who means so much to me? At the end of the session, you walk away with a copy of the interview and another copy goes to the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress so that your great-great-great-grandkids can someday get to know your grandfather through his voice and story. So we open this booth in one of the busiest places in the world and invite people to have this incredibly intimate conversation with another human being. I had no idea if it would work, but from the very beginning, it did. People treated the experience with incredible respect, and amazing conversations happened inside. I want to play just one animated excerpt from an interview recorded at that original Grand Central Booth. This is 12-year-old Joshua Littman interviewing his mother, Sarah. Josh has Asperger's syndrome. As you may know, kids with Asperger's are incredibly smart but have a tough time socially. They usually have obsessions. In Josh's case, it's with animals, so this is Josh talking with his mom Sarah Josh Littman: From a scale of one to 10, do you think your life would be different without animals? Sarah Littman: I think it would be an eight without animals, because they add so much pleasure to life. JL: How else do you think your life would be different without them? SL: I could do without things like cockroaches and snakes. JL: Well, I'm okay with snakes as long as they're not venomous or constrict you or anything. SL: Yeah, I'm not a big snake person -- JL: But cockroach is just the insect we love to hate. SL: Yeah, it really is. JL: Have you ever thought you couldn't cope with having a child? SL: I remember when you were a baby, you had really bad colic, so you would just cry and cry. JL: What's colic? SL: It's when you get this stomach ache and all you do is scream for, like, four hours. JL: Even louder than Amy does? SL: You were pretty loud, but Amy's was more high-pitched. JL: I think it feels like everyone seems to like Amy more, like she's the perfect little angel. SL: Well, I can understand why you think that people like Amy more, and I'm not saying it's because of your Asperger's syndrome, but being friendly comes easily to Amy, whereas I think for you it's more difficult, but the people who take the time to get to know you love you so much. JL: Like Ben or Eric or Carlos? SL: Yeah -- JL: Like I have better quality friends but less quantity? SL: I wouldn't judge the quality, but I think -- JL: I mean, first it was like, Amy loved Claudia, then she hated Claudia, she loved Claudia, then she hated Claudia. SL: Part of that's a girl thing, honey. The important thing for you is that you have a few very good friends, and really that's what you need in life. JL: Did I turn out to be the son you wanted when I was born? Did I meet your expectations? SL: You've exceeded my expectations, sweetie, because, sure, you have these fantasies of what your child's going to be like, but you have made me grow so much as a parent, because you think -- JL: Well, I was the one who made you a parent. SL: You were the one who made me a parent. That's a good point. But also because you think differently from what they tell you in the parenting books, I really had to learn to think outside of the box with you, and it's made me much more creative as a parent and as a person, and I'll always thank you for that. JL: And that helped when Amy was born? SL: And that helped when Amy was born, but you are so incredibly special to me and I'm so lucky to have you as my son. David Isay: After this story ran on public radio, Josh received hundreds of letters telling him what an amazing kid he was. His mom, Sarah, bound them together in a book, and when Josh got picked on at school, they would read the letters together. I just want to acknowledge that two of my heroes are here with us tonight. Sarah Littman and her son Josh, who is now an honors student in college. You know, a lot of people talk about crying when they hear StoryCorps stories, and it's not because they're sad. Most of them aren't. I think it's because you're hearing something authentic and pure at this moment, when sometimes it's hard to tell what's real and what's an advertisement. It's kind of the anti-reality TV. Nobody comes to StoryCorps to get rich. Nobody comes to get famous. It's simply an act of generosity and love. So many of these are just everyday people talking about lives lived with kindness, courage, decency and dignity, and when you hear that kind of story, it can sometimes feel like you're walking on holy ground. So this experiment in Grand Central worked, and we expanded across the country. Today, more than 100,000 people in all 50 states in thousands of cities and towns across America have recorded StoryCorps interviews. It's now the largest single collection of human voices ever gathered. We've hired and trained hundreds of facilitators to help guide people through the experience. Most serve a year or two with StoryCorps traveling the country, gathering the wisdom of humanity. They call it bearing witness, and if you ask them, all of the facilitators will tell you that the most important thing they've learned from being present during these interviews is that people are basically good. And I think for the first years of StoryCorps, you could argue that there was some kind of a selection bias happening, but after tens of thousands of interviews with every kind of person in every part of the country -- rich, poor, five years old to 105, 80 different languages, across the political spectrum -- you have to think that maybe these guys are actually onto something. I've also learned so much from these interviews. I've learned about the poetry and the wisdom and the grace that can be found in the words of people all around us when we simply take the time to listen, like this interview between a betting clerk in Brooklyn named Danny Perasa who brought his wife Annie to StoryCorps to talk about his love for her. Danny Perasa: You see, the thing of it is, I always feel guilty when I say "I love you" to you. And I say it so often. I say it to remind you that as dumpy as I am, it's coming from me. It's like hearing a beautiful song from a busted old radio, and it's nice of you to keep the radio around the house. Annie Perasa: If I don't have a note on the kitchen table, I think there's something wrong. You write a love letter to me every morning. DP: Well, the only thing that could possibly be wrong is I couldn't find a silly pen. AP: To my princess: The weather outside today is extremely rainy. I'll call you at 11:20 in the morning. DP: It's a romantic weather report. AP: And I love you. I love you. I love you. DP: When a guy is happily married, no matter what happens at work, no matter what happens in the rest of the day, there's a shelter when you get home, there's a knowledge knowing that you can hug somebody without them throwing you downstairs and saying, "Get your hands off me." Being married is like having a color television set. You never want to go back to black and white. DI: Danny was about five feet tall with crossed eyes and one single snaggletooth, but Danny Perasa had more romance in his little pinky than all of Hollywood's leading men put together. What else have I learned? I've learned about the almost unimaginable capacity for the human spirit to forgive. I've learned about resilience and I've learned about strength. Like an interview with Oshea Israel and Mary Johnson. When Oshea was a teenager, he murdered Mary's only son, Laramiun Byrd, in a gang fight. A dozen years later, Mary went to prison to meet Oshea and find out who this person was who had taken her son's life. Slowly and remarkably, they became friends, and when he was finally released from the penitentiary, Oshea actually moved in next door to Mary. This is just a short excerpt of a conversation they had soon after Oshea was freed. Mary Johnson: My natural son is no longer here. I didn't see him graduate, and now you're going to college. I'll have the opportunity to see you graduate. I didn't see him get married. Hopefully one day, I'll be able to experience that with you. Oshea Israel: Just to hear you say those things and to be in my life in the manner in which you are is my motivation. It motivates me to make sure that I stay on the right path. You still believe in me, and the fact that you can do it despite how much pain I caused you, it's amazing. MJ: I know it's not an easy thing to be able to share our story together, even with us sitting here looking at each other right now. I know it's not an easy thing, so I admire that you can do this. OI: I love you, lady. MJ: I love you too, son. DI: And I've been reminded countless times of the courage and goodness of people, and how the arc of history truly does bend towards justice. Like the story of Alexis Martinez, who was born Arthur Martinez in the Harold Ickes projects in Chicago. In the interview, she talks with her daughter Lesley about joining a gang as a young man, and later in life transitioning into the woman she was always meant to be. This is Alexis and her daughter Lesley. Alexis Martinez: One of the most difficult things for me was I was always afraid that I wouldn't be allowed to be in my granddaughters' lives, and you blew that completely out of the water, you and your husband. One of the fruits of that is, in my relationship with my granddaughters, they fight with each other sometimes over whether I'm he or she. Lesley Martinez: But they're free to talk about it. AM: They're free to talk about it, but that, to me, is a miracle. LM: You don't have to apologize. You don't have to tiptoe. We're not going to cut you off, and that's something I've always wanted you to just know, that you're loved. AM: You know, I live this every day now. I walk down the streets as a woman, and I really am at peace with who I am. I mean, I wish I had a softer voice maybe, but now I walk in love and I try to live that way every day. DI: Now I walk in love. I'm going to tell you a secret about StoryCorps. It takes some courage to have these conversations. StoryCorps speaks to our mortality. Participants know this recording will be heard long after they're gone. There's a hospice doctor named Ira Byock who has worked closely with us on recording interviews with people who are dying. He wrote a book called "The Four Things That Matter Most" about the four things you want to say to the most important people in your life before they or you die: thank you, I love you, forgive me, I forgive you. They're just about the most powerful words we can say to one another, and often that's what happens in a StoryCorps booth. It's a chance to have a sense of closure with someone you care about -- no regrets, nothing left unsaid. And it's hard and it takes courage, but that's why we're alive, right? So, the TED Prize. When I first heard from TED and Chris a few months ago about the possibility of the Prize, I was completely floored. They asked me to come up with a very brief wish for humanity, no more than 50 words. So I thought about it, I wrote my 50 words, and a few weeks later, Chris called and said, "Go for it." So here is my wish: that you will help us take everything we've learned through StoryCorps and bring it to the world so that anyone anywhere can easily record a meaningful interview with another human being which will then be archived for history. How are we going to do that? With this. We're fast moving into a future where everyone in the world will have access to one of these, and it has powers I never could have imagined 11 years ago when I started StoryCorps. It has a microphone, it can tell you how to do things, and it can send audio files. Those are the key ingredients. So the first part of the wish is already underway. Over the past couple of months, the team at StoryCorps has been working furiously to create an app that will bring StoryCorps out of our booths so that it can be experienced by anyone, anywhere, anytime. Remember, StoryCorps has always been two people and a facilitator helping them record their conversation, which is preserved forever, but at this very moment, we're releasing a public beta version of the StoryCorps app. The app is a digital facilitator that walks you through the StoryCorps interview process, helps you pick questions, and gives you all the tips you need to record a meaningful StoryCorps interview, and then with one tap upload it to our archive at the Library of Congress. That's the easy part, the technology. The real challenge is up to you: to take this tool and figure out how we can use it all across America and around the world, so that instead of recording thousands of StoryCorps interviews a year, we could potentially record tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands or maybe even more. Imagine, for example, a national homework assignment where every high school student studying U.S. history across the country records an interview with an elder over Thanksgiving, so that in one single weekend an entire generation of American lives and experiences are captured. Or imagine mothers on opposite sides of a conflict somewhere in the world sitting down not to talk about that conflict but to find out who they are as people, and in doing so, begin to build bonds of trust; or that someday it becomes a tradition all over the world that people are honored with a StoryCorps interview on their 75th birthday; or that people in your community go into retirement homes or hospitals or homeless shelters or even prisons armed with this app to honor the people least heard in our society and ask them who they are, what they've learned in life, and how they want to be remembered. Ten years ago, I recorded a StoryCorps interview with my dad who was a psychiatrist, and became a well-known gay activist. This is the picture of us at that interview. I never thought about that recording until a couple of years ago, when my dad, who seemed to be in perfect health and was still seeing patients 40 hours a week, was diagnosed with cancer. He passed away very suddenly a few days later. It was June 28, 2012, the anniversary of the Stonewall riots. I listened to that interview for the first time at three in the morning on the day that he died. I have a couple of young kids at home, and I knew that the only way they were going to get to know this person who was such a towering figure in my life would be through that session. I thought I couldn't believe in StoryCorps any more deeply than I did, but it was at that moment that I fully and viscerally grasped the importance of making these recordings. Every day, people come up to me and say, "I wish I had interviewed my father or my grandmother or my brother, but I waited too long." Now, no one has to wait anymore. At this moment, when so much of how we communicate is fleeting and inconsequential, join us in creating this digital archive Help us create this gift to our children, this testament to who we are as human beings. I hope you'll help us make this wish come true. Interview a family member, a friend or even a stranger. Together, we can create an archive of the wisdom of humanity, and maybe in doing so, we'll learn to listen a little more and shout a little less. Maybe these conversations will remind us what's really important. And maybe, just maybe, it will help us recognize that simple truth that every life, every single life, matters equally and infinitely. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
右拳は完全に壊れていた。これでは近接戦に糸を使う事は難しい。しかし朗報もある。俺の身体の内側、筋肉の繊維に操糸が掛けられた事だ。に付き、俺の筋力分の力。即ち俺の拳は多大な強化を成し遂げている。これがあの白い神の言っていた『最強になれるだけの力』なのだろうか? だがそれにしては、やはり俺の身体が脆過ぎる。これでは最強には程遠い。しかしこの苦境を乗り切るだけの力には――なる。マテウスが一瞬の驚愕から立て直し、こちらに迫ってきた。驚くのも無理はない。奴にとっては残像を切ったような感触を受けただろう。この力を攻撃に使えば、敵を倒すより先に自分の身体が壊れてしまう。ならば回避に全ての力を注ぎ込み、時間を稼げばいいと考えた。手足の筋肉に操糸の力を纏わせ、人形のように操る事で紙一重で躱していく。筋肉や腱、神経を、手や指よりも緻密に動かせる糸と見做したからこそ可能な、ぎりぎりの回避。俺は自身の身体を、まるで操り人形のように操作し、精密極まりない動作を可能としていた。奴にとっては信じられない神技に見えた事だろう。端から見れば俺は細切れに斬り裂かれているようにも見えたはずだ。しかし、その斬撃はかすりもしていない。十を超える斬撃を放ち、すべてをことごとく躱しきられ、たまらずマテウスは距離を取った。「さぁな。教えてやる義理も無い」捨て台詞と共に左腕のピアノ線を一閃。しかしこれはあっさりと回避される。やはり牽制程度の攻撃では通用しない相手だ。呆然としていても、正面からの攻撃に対応する程度の正気は残しているか。とりあえず、防御に関しては問題なくなったと言ってもいい。しかしまだ楽観はできない。クラウドの出血はいまだ止まらず、俺の右拳も砕けている。回避とて、いつまで可能かはわからない。操糸の力を体内に向けることは、確実に俺の身体の耐久力を削っている。対して向こうは、膝を斬り裂かれた男が一人のみ。マテウスに到ってはまだ無傷だ。今まではマテウスの邪魔になるため、近付く事も出来なかった連中だ。マテウスが距離を取ったため、チャンスと見て襲い掛かってきたのだろう。だが俺はその二人を壁にしつつ、さらにマテウスから距離を取る。一気にクラウドのそばまで飛び退り、ピアノ線を振ってクラウドの腕に巻き付けて止血する。糸は斬り裂くような動きをさせていないため、その肩口を強く締め上げ、出血を押さえる。同時に襲い掛かってきた一人の膝を踵で踏み砕きにかかった。本来ならば、体重が軽い俺の蹴りで砕けるほど、やわな足ではない。しかし今の俺は、筋繊維に操糸をかけているため、その蹴りは通常よりも遥かに重い一撃になっている。体重の軽さを、速度で補う踏みつけ。足を折られた男は俺とマテウスの間でのたうち回り、互いの障害となった。残る一人も、反対側から剣を振りかざして襲い掛かってきたが、これは左肘を持ち手に叩き付ける事で剣を弾き飛ばし、武装解除しておいた。「ぐわああぁぁあああぁぁぁぁ!?」肘打ちで持ち手の指が砕かれ、男が悲鳴を上げて自分の腕を押さえる。一流ならばそんな無防備な姿はさらさない。やはり敵の中で注意が必要なのは、マテウスだけのようだ。ついでに膝を横から踏みつけ、同じようにへし折って、地面に転がしておく。これでマテウスは俺の元に辿り着くまでに、二人を回避しなければならなくなったわけだ。だがマテウスはこちらに向かうどころか、だらりと腕を下げて、気の抜けた、投げやりな声を上げた。「ああ、もう......やめたやめた」「なに?」「お嬢ちゃんは予想外の手練れだし、同僚無力化されたし、これはもうは退き時でしょ?」「おい、マテウス! 目撃者を放置するつもりか!?」見たところ、でっぷりと太ったその男こそ、奴隷商の頭目なのだろう。どう見ても戦いには向いていない。「いや、だってさぁ。このお嬢ちゃん、倒すのに時間かかりそうだぜぇ?」「かければいいだろう!」「そんな余裕ないっしょ? どうせ通報しているだろうし、衛士が駆け付けてくるのも時間の問題よ?」「......くそっ!」男はそれだけ吐き捨てると、馬車に繋がれていた馬を外し、それに乗ってとっとと逃げ出し始めた。これは馬車に乗ったままでは逃げきれないという判断だ。森の中を駆けるのに、大型馬車を着けたままでは難しい。できるならば後を追って、とどめを刺したいところではあるが、俺の手にはすでに武器はない。しかし仲間を見捨てて逃げ出すあたり、実に思い切りがいい。正体がばれても気にしないという事は、ラウムの街に入る気は毛頭ないという所か。「お嬢ちゃんの名前、聞いてもいいかなぁ。そっちのお嬢ちゃんが散々呼んでいたから知ってるけど?」俺としても、クラウドの救出は成ったわけだし、ここで無理をして深追いする理由はない。いや、あるが......さすがにそこまで猪突猛進ではない。「――ニコル」「ニコル......ね? 覚えた、覚えた。じゃあ、次の標的はニコルちゃん、君にしよう」「標的......?」隠密の能力を持つ、一流......いや、超一流と呼んでいい剣士。そんな奴がこの場にいた事が、偶然なわけがない。そんな男が起こした事件を、俺は最近耳にしている。「お前が――タルカシール伯爵を暗殺したのか?」おそらくは俺と同じく隠密のギフトを持つ者が成したであろう、暗殺事件。その能力を持つ者が、ここにいて関係していないはずがない。案の定、マテウスは大仰に手を広げ、肯定して見せた。「そぉぉのとおぉぉり! よくぞ見抜いてくれました。さすが俺のライバルだね? 将来嫁になってくれてもいいけど」「またそれかぁ?」今度は残念そうに肩を落として見せる。感情表現が豊富......と言うより、これは意図的にそう演じている風にも見える。「誰に雇われて、タルカシールを殺した?」「言えるわけないじゃん?」「......だよな」しかし、できるならばこいつを引き留めて、逃げる隙を与えたくはなかったが......それは向こうも承知していたようだった。「それじゃ、そろそろお迎えが来そうだし、俺も逃げるとするかね?」ひょいと後ろに飛び退り、もう一頭の馬に跨るマテウス。「俺は、隠刀流ジェンド派のマテウス。また会う時まで覚えていてくれよ?」そう言い残し、走り去る。俺はそれを追うことはできない。クラウドが残されたままだからだ。そして遠くから、馬の嘶きと、金属のこすれる音。どうやらようやく、衛士隊が到着したらしかった。	My right fist was broken for good. That made it hard to use my thread in a close battle. But there was also good news. That was the fact that I could manipulate the muscle fibers inside my body. Each thread added to my physical power. In other words, my fist managed to gain incredible strengthening. Was this the “power to become the strongest” that the White God told me about? But for that to be the case, my body was still far too fragile. I was far off from becoming the strongest in my current state. But to overcome this predicament—this was enough. I could understand his shock. It probably looked as if he had cut my afterimage. I evaded it narrowly enough to make that illusion. I was using my thread manipulation not for attacking but defending. If I used it to attack, my body would break before I defeated him. As such, I decided it was better to dedicate myself entirely to dodging and gaining time. I focused my manipulative power on my limb muscles and proceeded to narrowly dodge his attacks by moving my body like a puppet. This was all possible because I could view my muscles, tendons, and nerves more accurately than my limbs themselves, as threads. Moving myself like a marionette boosted my precision to an unbelievable extent. My movements probably looked to be nothing short of the divine from his perspective. With that as a start, I continued dodging his storm-like barrage with fluid movements. From the side, it probably looked as if he was chopping me into pieces. However, none of those slashes managed to so much as graze me. After over ten consecutive slashes, all of which I dodged thoroughly, Mateus finally took his distance. “Who knows. I have no obligation to tell you.” I swung my thread along with that frank answer. However, he easily evaded it. He was really not someone who’d fall for such feints, as expected. Even if he was overcome with surprise, he was apparently still collected enough to respond to frontal attacks. So far, the defending had gone as planned. But I couldn’t get too optimistic here. Cloud was still bleeding, and my right arm was broken. I wasn’t sure how much longer I could continue dodging. Manipulating the insides of my body meant that I was gradually shaving away my stamina reserves. The other side, however, only had one guy that sustained a knee injury. While Mateus himself was still without a single injury. At that moment, the two other men decided to rush at me. They didn’t approach until now as they would get in Mateus’ way. But since he took distance from me, they decided this was their chance. However, I used those two as shields and moved even farther from Mateus. I instantly rushed next to Cloud, and then manipulated my piano wire to wrap it around his arm and stop the bleeding. As I wasn’t making it move to cut, the wire simply constricted his shoulder tip and blocked the hemorrhage. Following that, I swung my heel towards the man that chased after me and smashed his knee. His leg wasn’t frail enough that it would have broken with a kick from someone as light as me, were it the usual. However, due to manipulating my muscle fibers, this kick was far heavier than it normally was, making up for my lack of weight with speed. With a repulsive breaking sound, his knee caved in, and he collapsed between us and Mateus. He started rolling about in pain and became an obstacle for both sides. Seeing that Mateus started pondering about something for a moment. During that time, the other man also charged at me from the opposite side with his sword raised, but I easily flung that sword from his hands by elbowing the hand holding it, effectively disarming him. “GAAAAAAGHHH!?” The elbow strike broke his fingers, making him scream while holding his hand. A first-class fighter would never have shown such a defenseless posture. As expected, Mateus was the one I had to be cautious of. Taking the opportunity, I kicked his elbow and broke it like the other man, leaving him rolling on the ground. With that, Mateus had two obstacles to dodge before getting to me. Dodging them would, in turn, become openings for me to make use of. And I would never miss such an opportunity. Contrary to what I expected, rather than approach me, Mateus lowered his arms and said in a listless, carefree voice. “Ah, good grief... I quit, I quit.” “What?” “You turned out to be far more skilled than I expected, little lady. And you neutralized three of my coworkers. I think this would be a good time to quit, wouldn’t you agree?” “What the hell, Mateus! You intend to leave the eyewitnesses!?” The last remaining man yelled at Mateus who dropped his arms, losing his intention to fight. Judging from the appearance, that fat man was probably the leader of these slave traders. And he was no fighter however you looked. “But, you see, it would take a while to defeat her.” “Who cares if it will!” “We don’t have that much time to waste, do we? We’ve already been reported, and the guards are probably on their way, right?” “...S̲h̲i̲t̲!” The man spat out those final words, freed one horse that was tied to the carriage, and started making his escape with it. He judged that he would not be able to escape with the carriage on him. It was difficult to pass through the forest with a large carriage. I would’ve preferred to follow and put an end to him, but I had no weapons on me right now. But leaving his comrades and escaping like that was quite a resolute decision. Since he didn’t mind his identity getting exposed, perhaps he was never intending to enter any of Raum’s towns. “Could you tell me your name, young lady? I already know the other one’s name, since you were calling to her earlier.” He asked while lightly shrugging his shoulders. This was probably his way of closing the fight. I managed to succeed in saving Cloud, so I had no reason to continue the fight at this point. No, well, I had one... But it was not worth the risk. “...Nicole.” “Nicole... Huh? Okay, I remembered it. Well then, let’s make you the next target, Nicole.” “Next target...?” After he said that much, I finally caught on to something. He was a first-class swordsman... No, even higher than that, who had the Stealth Gift. His presence here could not be a mere coincidence. I remembered an incident that a man of his caliber caused fairly recently. “So you... You are the one who assassinated Count Tarkashire?” It was an assassination incident that was caused by someone who most probably held a similar Stealth Gift to mine. Someone with that ability was in front of me now, so there was no way he was uninvolved. As expected, Mateus spread his arms wide in exaggeration and affirmed my question. “Exaaaaaactly! Good job realizing that. As expected of my rival, huh? How about you become my wife when you grow up?” “Again with that, huh?” This time, he responded with a dejected drop of his shoulders. He was extremely expressive of his emotions... Or more like, he seemed to be pretending as if that was the case. “Under whose orders did you kill Tarkashire?” “I can’t go answering that now, can I?” “...Right.” If he was an assassin like me, he wouldn’t go revealing his employer’s name. If possible, I wanted to restrain him to keep him from escaping... But the other party was fully aware of that. “Well then, looks like your friends would be arriving soon, so it’s about time I made my escape.” He suddenly leaped back and straddled on the other horse. Since the previous guy didn’t take the carriage with him, there was one more horse remaining there. “I am Mateus of the Jend sect of the hidden blade style. I hope you remember me until we meet again.” With those words, he made his escape. I had no time to chase after him. I couldn’t leave Cloud be, after all. Following that, I heard the neighs of horses and sounds of metal. It seemed that the guards had finally arrived.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 2, "inserted_lines_src": 15, "inserted_lines_trg": 3 }
男から聞き出した範囲では、どうやら半魔人を主軸とした反体制派が存在するようだ。連中は現存するあらゆる国家に異を唱え、この世界で差別を受ける自分たちの境遇改善という名目で、反対に他種族を圧しようとしていだ。無論、そのような理念に同調する者は極少数に過ぎないが、その数の不利を補うべく、異界の神......すなわち魔神を召喚することで戦力を補おうとしているのだという。迷惑極まりない話だが、その目論見が成功してしまうと――いや、その召喚を行おうとするたびに、生贄という実害が発生するとなると、話は変わる。しかも各地に奴隷商を派遣して、生贄を大陸各所から掻き集めているらしい。その本拠地がどこにあるかまでは、この男は理解していなかったようだが、そういう組織があるという事実だけは知ることができた。「というわけで、マクスウェルに後を任そうと思う」「そりゃ、これほどの大ごとになれば、国単位で動かねばならんじゃろうが......レイドや、一つ重要なことを忘れておるぞ」「あん?」「ここは北国同盟の領土。つまりワシの権力もあまり効果が及ばん」「ああ......そうだった」そこにきて、他国の領内で魔神召喚を行っている犯罪者を捕まえましたと本人がしゃしゃり出てきた場合、エリオットのメンツを潰すと同時に大騒動になってしまう。それは先の暗殺騒動で地盤が緩んできているエリオットにとって、かなりうれしくない事態になるだろう。だからと言って、この男を放置するわけにはいかない。俺とマクスウェルが頭を悩まして唸っていると、そこに声をかけてくるものがいた。「どうした、なにかあったのか?」聞きなれない男の声。これは外で見張りを担当していた奴だろう。少々反応が遅いと思わなくもないが、事が魔神召喚。どのような騒動が起きるかわかったものではない。召喚主の男が護衛として別の魔神を用意していたくらいなのだから、ひょっとするといつも戦闘に近い騒動を起こしていたのかもしれない。やってきた男は、その場の状況を目にして、驚愕に顎を落としていた。そこには下半身丸出しで股間から血を流して気絶している召喚主の男と、魔神と変わらない体格の良さを誇る『ローブを着た』マクスウェルの姿。いまだ気を失ったままの子供たちと、気絶する男のそばに立つ、戦闘で上気した顔をした俺。都合の悪いことに、激しい戦闘行為で俺の下の処理に不都合が生じ、内股に血が流れ落ちていた。「まさか......生贄に手を出しやがったのか、このアホゥが!」「ちがうわ!」まさか子供の俺から攻撃を受けるとは思っていなかったらしく、男はその糸の斬撃をまともに受けてしまう。ミスリル糸の鋭い切れ味は、一撃の下に男を無力化してみせた。「あ、やっべ。思わず攻撃しちまったけど、まだ生きてるかな?」マクスウェルが様子を見に行き、手早く応急処置に「危ねぇ危ねぇ、喋れる口は少しでも多い方がいいからな」「お主のツッコミは危険すぎるようじゃなぁ」「うるさい。多感な美少女にセクハラ発言ぶっ飛ばすこいつが悪い」「都合のいい時だけ少女を自称するでない」「それはそれとして。こいつらどうするよ?」マクスウェルが表立って男たちを官憲に突き出せない以上、代わりの人間を用意しないといけない。候補としては事情を知る俺と、マテウスたち三人くらいしかいない。ならば俺が行くしかないわけだが...... 「子供の姿じゃ、説得力無いよなぁ?」「それにお主が倒したと証言されるのも問題がある。幻覚の指輪を使って変装するのが良かろう」「その手しかないか」半ば焼き千切れかけてはいるが、出血だけは止まった。だが俺一人では、を運ぶことは難しい。「こいつら、どうやって運ぶ? 爺さんが近くの町の衛兵詰所まで運んでくれるのか?」「そうじゃな。ではここで魔術の授業と行こうかの」「おいおい、今はそんな場合じゃ......」「そう急くでない。運ぶのにも役に立つ魔法じゃ」そう言ってマクスウェルが提示した魔法は、しかも高度を維持する効果があるため、落とし穴にかかっても落下することはないし、浮遊することで足音も消せる。不都合があるとすれば、空を踏むため、機動力が大きく落ちることくらいだ。地面との摩擦がなくなれば動かす質量だけの問題になり、労力は大きく減衰できるはず。もちろん、魔法に抵抗されたら無効化される魔法なのだが、気絶している以上、その可能性は低い。マクスウェルの指導の元、術式を構築し、慎重に発動させる。俺は男たちを糸を使って引っ張りつつ、移動の具合を確かめる。「うん、予想以上に簡単に引っ張れるな」「ではこちらも移動させるとしようか」で板を作り、その上に子供たちを乗せる。子供たちごと板が浮き上がり、それをマクスウェルが押していく。その先にさらに二つの魔法を維持しつつ、最高位の魔法を使用する。それを事もなくやってのけるのだから凄まじい。「ほれ、先に行け。ワシが飛ぶと門が消えるのでな」「わかった。んじゃ、行ってくる」俺は幻影の指輪で仮の姿――ハウメアと名乗る女性に姿を変え、門の中に入ったのだった。	Based on the information that I managed to get out of the man, there seemed to exist an anti-establishment group centered around Half-Demons. They raised objections towards every other nation, and tried to repress other races under the pretext of the betterment of their environment who were being discriminated against. Naturally, there were very few who sympathized with their ideals, but they made up for that numerical disadvantage by summoning the otherworldly divine beings... In other words Devils. It was an extremely troublesome situation, but if their plans were to succeed—Or rather, if their actions lead to sacrifices every time they tried to summon, the situation would be quite grim. Moreover, it seemed that they had slave traders dispatched in every country and gathered sacrifices through them. This guy didn’t know where their stronghold was exactly, but at least we learned that such an organization existed. Honestly speaking, something on this scale was beyond my capabilities. “So yeah, I think I’m gonna leave the rest to you, Maxwell.” “With such a major incident, kingdoms themselves have to move... But Reid, you are forgetting something important.” “Huh?” “This is the Northern Alliance’s territory. In other words, my authority would not have much effect.” “Ah... Right.” Maxwell coming here was closer to him traveling incognito. If they learned that someone who came uninvited to their territory was the one that apprehended a criminal who was trying to summon a Devil, that would both put a stain on Elliot’s reputation and also cause a major uproar. For Elliot, whose foothold was unsteady due to the assassination attempts, this would not be a very welcomed development. That said, we could not leave this man be either. While we were racking our brains on what to do, we suddenly heard someone’s voice. “Hey, did something happen there?” It was an unfamiliar voice of a man. It should have belonged to the guy that was standing guard outside. He heard the uproar inside and came to check what was going on. I couldn’t help but comment that his reaction was a bit too delayed, but they were summoning a Devil here. There was no knowing how noisy it could get. The man had a different Devil with him, so it could be that he was expecting a battle to break out from the start. The man’s jaw dropped from astonishment after he saw the situation. The fainted summoner with his lower half exposed and bleeding from his crotch, and Maxwell who was “clad in a robe” and looked physically similar to the Devil. And there was also I, standing next to the fainted man and the kids, while having a flushed expression due to the previous battle. And to make matters worse, the violent battle caused certain inconveniences to my crotch and it started to bleed. I was wearing the usual short skirt, so the stain was visible from the outside. “Could it be... Did this dumbass lay his hands on the sacrifice!” “NO!” I reflexively attacked the man who came to the totally wrong conclusion with a thread. He apparently never imagined that a child like me would attack him, so he took the slash head on. It landed diagonally on his shoulder, scattering blood everywhere as he collapsed. The sharpness behind the Mythril thread was able to neutralize the man with one attack. “Ah, s̲h̲i̲t̲. I attacked without thinking. I wonder if he’s still alive?” Maxwell went to check the situation and quickly cast emergency Heal on him. That naturally wasn’t enough to fully heal him, but there was no longer a danger to his life. “That was close. We’d need as many of them alive as possible.” “You have quite some dangerous way of retorting there.” “Shut up. It was this guy’s fault for sexually harassing a sensitive beauty.” “You only call yourself that when it is convenient, huh?” “Setting that aside. What shall we do about them?” As Maxwell couldn’t openly hand them over to the authorities himself, there was a need to prepare a substitute. The only candidates for that were I, who knew the situation, and Mateus’s group. However, Mateus’s group didn’t know what happened here, so if they were questioned about the particulars, they could find flaws in it. That only left me... “I have no persuasiveness with this childish body, huh?” “Not just that, it would be a problem of its own if they learn that you defeated them. You should use the Illusion Ring and transform.” “Guess that’s the only way.” I cast Cure Light on the man to stop his bleeding. He was half-scorched, but at least he wasn’t bleeding any more. Still, carrying two men on my own would be hard. “How should I carry these two? Can you help me carry them to the nearby station?” “Right. How about I give you a magic lesson?” “Hey now, this is no place for...” “Now now, do not be hasty. It is a spell that would aid you in carrying them.” What he presented to me with those words was a spell called Levitate. This spell allowed you to make the targets levitate a few centimeters above the ground. Moreover, it could regulate its own altitude, so it wouldn’t fall into pitfalls and such, and there would be no sound of footsteps, either. If there were any inconveniences, it would be the fact that your mobility would fall a lot since you were basically walking in the air. If I cast this on the two, I could move while dragging them along. If there was no friction with the ground, it would only need the mass to drag it, so it would greatly alleviate the labor needed. Naturally, it could be resisted and disabled, but fainted people couldn’t do that. I constructed the technique according to Maxwell’s instructions and carefully invoked it. I didn’t care in the slightest even if they got hurt, so after several trials and errors, I managed to succeed in it. I tied my threads to them and pulled on them to test it out. “Okay, I can pull them easier than I imagined.” “Then, let us carry them as well.” With that, Maxwell created a board with Earth Wall, and put the children on it. In addition, he cast Levitate on that board. The board floated up along with the children, which Maxwell pushed and carried along. He then created a Portal Gate in front of it, connecting it to the nearby town. He cast high-ranked spells while maintaining two spells. The fact that he did all that without batting an eye was proof of how amazing he was. “Now, go on first. The gate will disappear if I do it first.” “Okay, here I go then.” I used my Illusion Ring to change into my fake identity—the woman by the name of Haumea, and passed through the gate.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 1, "inserted_lines_src": 23, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
ジェシカとマリオンは、ドラゴンの姿でノシノシと丘を下り、村民たちの前に姿をさらした。そして、既ともアイリスに敗北していること。もともと、この村に敵意がないこと。アイリスに忠誠を誓っているので、暴れる心配が皆無であることをシェリルが説明すると、混乱は収まった。しかし、それだけでは当然、完全な信用は勝ちとれない。村人たちの猜疑心を最も緩和させたのは、彼女らの人間形態の容姿だった。ジェシカのかけ声とともに、ドラゴンの親子二人は人間に変身する。それを見た村人たちは、言葉を失った。まずドラゴンが人間になってしまったという驚き。そして、その人間形態が、驚くほどの美女と美少女だったという衝撃。男たちが鼻の下を伸ばすのは当然として、同じ女性から見ても、二人は魅力的だった。少なくとも『敵』と認識するのは難しい。というわけで、ジェシカとマリオンは、シルバーライト男爵領の領民としは迎え入れられた。もちろん、中には二人を疑っている者もいた。そのうち、ドラゴン形態になって暴れるのではないか、と。だが、そんな疑惑を吹き飛ばすように、二人は働いた。彼女らは人間形態になっても、パワーはドラゴンらしさを失っていなかった。ゆえに畑を耕す速度は常人を圧倒する。二人で百人分の仕事をしてしまう。おかげで予定よりも遙かに早く、畑が完成してしまった。更に二人は「お近づきの印に」と言って、ドラゴン形態の巨体を利用して、どこからか大きな岩を持ってきた。とても綺麗な御影石だった。直径が成人男分ほどある。「この辺って石材があまり手に入らないでしょー? 必要になったらこれを削って使ってねー」ジェシカの言うとおり、この辺は木材は採れるが石材はなかった。多少はシェリルが王都から運んできたらしいが、これから村を拡張していくことを考えると、こうして近くに石の塊があるのはありがたいだろう。そのうち城壁などを作るかもしれないし、他にも窯とか炉などがあれば便利だ。この村で色々なものを作れるようになる。陶芸家の先生とか育っちゃったりして。それにシェリルは仮にも男爵なのだから、領民たちと同じような木造の家では格好がつかない。いずれは立派な石造りの屋敷に住むべきだろう。「ドラゴンが村にいると助かるなぁ」という声があちこちから上がってきた。一ヶ月もすると、のほほんとした性格のジェシカと子供っぽい性格のマリオンを『敵』として扱う者はいなくなってしまった。さて。ドラゴン親子のおかげで予定よりも早く完成した畑で、シェリルは予定通り、ジャガイモを育てることにしたようだ。アイリスは丘の上からプニガミと一緒にその様子を見守る。守護神として、とても見守りがいがある。「まったく。あんたは働きもせず、毎日毎日、丘の上でのんびりして......恥ずかしくないわけ?」「......ドラゴンって不思議な価値観を持ってるのね。自分のことを棚に上げるのがドラゴン的には普通なの?」アイリスはつい皮肉を言ってしまった。しかし、正当な反論だと確信している。「た、棚には上げてないでしょ! 確かに今は休んでいるけど、畑を耕したり、石を運んできたり、色々やったじゃない。あんただけよ。ガチで何もしていないのは!」「私はほら。ここにいるだけで湖が湧いてきて、森が生えてきて、土が豊かになるのよ。ある意味、一番貢献してるわ」「貢献はしてても働いてないじゃないの」「違うわ。重要なのは成果を出すことで、働くことじゃないのよ。『たとえ結果に結びつかなくても努力したことそのものを評価する』って考え方を否定するつもりはないけど。だからといって『結果を出したのに努力していないから』といって非難されるのは納得がいかないわ」「ぐぬっ......幼女のくせになんて論理的な......」「ふふ。その程度の理論武装もせずにニートは務まらないのよ」「威張るなっ!」マリオンは律儀にツッコミを入れてくれる。真面目な性格なので、シェリルよりもツッコミにキレがある。シェリルはむしろボケ担当なので、アイリスがツッコミに回るハメになり、なかなか疲れるのだ。「ちょっとマリオン。いつまで遊んでるのぉ? あなたもジャガイモ植えるの手伝いなさいよー」そこにジェシカがやってきた。土まみれになっており、今まで真面目に働いていたことを物語っている。そうやって母親が働いているというのに、娘であるマリオンはアイリスのそばを動こうとしない。「お母さん。ドラゴンである私たちは、ジャガイモを植えるなんて細々とした仕事をするべきじゃないわ。もっとダイナミックな役目があるはずよ!」「変な理屈を言わないの。ドラゴンの里にも畑はあったし、あなただって手伝ってたでしょ。さ、さ。アイリスちゃんのそばを離れたくないのは分かるけど、お母さんだって我慢してるんだから」「べ、別にそんなんじゃないし! アイリスのそばにいたいわけじゃないし!」「じゃあ、早く畑に行くわよー。それとも何? 領主であるシェリルちゃんまでジャガイモを植えているのに、あなたはサボろうっていうのぉ? お母さん、マリオンをそんな風に育てた覚えはないわよー」「うぐっ......分かったわよ、今行くわよ!」マリオンはヤケクソ気味に叫ぶ。そして母親のあとを追いかけ、しかし途中で立ち止まり、アイリスを振り返り、「き、気が向いたらあとでまた遊びに来てあげるわ!」などとい言って、パタパタ走って行った。「......あれが噂に聞くツンデレというやつ?」きっとそうに違いない、とプニガミは言う。マリオンがツンデレということになると、つまり彼女はアイリスが好きだということになる。それもまた照れくさい。アイリスはプニガミに抱きつき、そのひんやりした体に顔を埋め手足をジタバタさせた。それから月後。十一月になった頃、ジャガイモが収穫された。予想通り、アイリスの魔力を吸った土で育ったジャガイモは、ゴロゴロとした大きな物ばかりだった。アイリスは丘の上から収穫している様子を眺め、ぐーぐーお腹を鳴らす。そんなお腹の音を聞いたのか、シェリルとマリオンとジェシカが、大きなバスケットを持って丘を駆け上ってきた。「アイリス様ぁ。プニガミ様ぁ。待望のジャガイモですよ~~」「シェリル。私がジャガイモを待望していたってよく分かったわね」「はい。丘の下からでも、アイリス様がヨダレを流しているのが見えました」「え、マジ!?」「いいえ、冗談です」「......私、シェリルのこと嫌い」「ええ!?」嫌いと言われたシェリルはギョッとした顔になり、更にぴょんと跳びはねた。「冗談よ」「ほっ......そんな仕返ししなくてもいいじゃないですか。もっと守護神らしく余裕を持ってくださいよ」「気まぐれに人間を虐めるとか、いかにも神様らしいじゃないの」「うーん......アイリス様がだんだん神としての権力を振りかざすようになってきました......あの謙虚なアイリス様はいずこに......およよ」シェリルは袖で目元を覆う。しかし声色からして、泣いていないのは分かりきっている。「でも、私の目には本当にアイリスがヨダレ垂らしてるの見えたわよ」「私にも見えたわよー。ふふ、アイリスちゃんのヨダレがプニガミちゃんの体にポタポタ落ちて、プニガミちゃんはそれを吸収してたわねー」と、ドラゴンの親子が言い出した。「もうだまされないわよ。シェリルと同じネタを使い回すなんて、あなたたちも芸がないわね」「馬鹿ね。私たちドラゴンよ。人間形態になっても視力は一緒だし」「......え......ガチ?」マリオンは短く断言した。プニガミも「お前の唾液は我が血肉となった」などと言い出した。なぜちょっと格好いい口調なのだろうか。魔王の娘のヨダレを吸ってしまったからか。「は、恥ずかしい......こうなったら引きこもるしかないわ......」「駄目ですよアイリス様。引きこもったらジャガイモを食べさせてあげません。ほら、採れたての、ふかしたてですよ~~」そう言ってシェリルは、バスケットからジャガイモを取り出した。まだ皮がついたまま。ごろりとした一塊。何の変哲もないジャガイモだ。しかし、そこからは熱々の湯気が上がっている。ただそれだけのことが、とても食欲を誘う。「あちゃちゃ!」そんな熱々のジャガイモを素手で触ったシェリルは当然、悲鳴を上げて暴れた。せっかくのジャガイモを草むらの上に落とす。するとジャガイモは、斜面を下ってコロコロと落ちていく。「ああ、待ってください!」シェリルは転がるジャガイモを、あたふたと追いかけていった。「......何てアホな男爵様なのかしら」アイリスが呆れながらシェリルの後ろ姿を見ていると、マリオンが不思議そうに首をかしげた。「そもそも、このくらい別に熱くないでしょ? 普通に素手で持てるんですけど」「そうねぇ、ドラゴンはこのくらいへっちゃらねー」そう言って、ドラゴンの親子は素手でジャガイモを掴み、皮をむいていく。「ドラゴンを基準に言われても困ります。こっちはか弱い女の子なんですから。ねえアイリス様」ジャガイモを拾って戻ってきたシェリルは、マリオンとジェシカに抗議した。しかし、残念ながらアイリスはそれに同意してあげることができなかった。「ごめん、私も素手で持てるわ」「むむっ、そう言えばアイリス様は人間でなく女神様でしたね。やれやれ普通の女の子は私だけですか......」シェリルのようなアホを普通の女の子というのは間違っている気がする。それにアイリスは女神ではなく魔王の娘だ。もっとも、指摘したところでシェリルは信じてくれない。近頃、アイリスはそれについて突っ込むのが面倒になり、やめてしまった。「もちろんプニガミにも食べさせてあげるわよ。ほら」アイリスはジャガイモの皮をむいてプニガミの体内に突っ込んだ。「あ、ごめん、熱かった? ふー、ふー」プニガミが飛び跳ねて暴れたので、一度ジャガイモを戻し、吐息で冷ましてからもう一度。「このくらいなら丁度いいのね。美味しい?」「ぷーに!」とても美味しいらしい。アイリス以外はもう既に食べ始めている。皆、幸せそうな顔だ。アイリスも負けじとかぶりつく。「はふはふ......ひゃー美味しい! ただ蒸しただけなんでしょ!? なのにどうしてこんなに美味しいのかしら!」堅すぎず柔らかすぎず、ホクホクとした食感。甘みのある濃厚な味。このジャガイモだけでお腹いっぱいになりたい。「やっぱり、アイリス様の魔力が土にしみこんでいるからでしょうね」「つまり、私たちは間接的にアイリスちゃんを食べているのねー」「そう考えると不気味だわ......」マリオンはジャガイモを見つめ、顔を引きつらせる。「失礼ね、私の魔力なんて常に垂れ流し状態なんだから、皆、普段から吸ってるのよ。このジャガイモに限った話じゃないわ!」アイリスが抗議すると、シェリルが「そう言えば――」と語り出す。「私が王都から連れてきた人たちの中に、元傭兵がいるって話をしましたよね。なんか古傷が痛むとか言っていたんですけど、この村に住み始めてから、凄く調子がいいみたいなんです。もしかして、それもアイリス様の魔力のお陰でしょうか?」「え、まさか。いくら何でも、そこまでの効能はないと思うけど......」アイリスは一応、否定してみる。が、自分の魔力の影響力など調べたことはないので、自信たっぷりには言えない。それにしても、アイリスは元々、人間を滅ぼすために作られたのに、こんなところでジャガイモに魔力を注入していると知ったら、大魔王はどんな反応をするだろう。カプセルの外に出てからクリフォト大陸で過ごした期間は半月程度。大魔王たちとは、さほど深い付き合いではない。知ったことではないと言えばそれまでだ。しかし、相手は仮にも親。積極的に悲しませたいとは思わない。とはいえ、律儀に人間を滅ぼすつもりもないので、まあ大魔王たちには諦めてもらうより他にない。アイリスはここで一生ニート生活を送るのだ。	Jessica and Marion descended the hill in their dragon form and displayed themselves before the villagers. []As expected they panicked but Sheryl, being the lord, calmed them down. She also told them about the fact that the two have already lost to Iris. They didn’t have any hostility against this village in the first place. And once Sheryl explained about their pledge of loyalty and reassured them, the panic subsided. However, that by itself couldn’t win their complete trust. The villagers were finally relieved once they saw their human appearance. Following Jessica’s voice, the dragon pair transformed into humans. Having seen this, the villagers lost their words. First, they were surprised at them becoming humans. Second, their human appearance was that of two beauties. With men turning particularly attentive as a matter of course, even fellow women were attracted to them. At the very least, it was hard to perceive them as『enemies』. In such a manner, Jessica and Marion were somewhat accepted by the villagers. Of course, there were those who didn’t trust them. Won’t they eventually turn back into dragons and go on a rampage or something along those lines. However, the two worked hard to dispel their doubts. Even though they became humans, they didn’t lose any of their power. In light of that, they work speed was much faster than that of ordinary people. The two did as much work and roughly hundred people. Thanks to that, the work was completed ahead of schedule. After that, the two used their dragon forms to bring a giant rock from somewhere as a「Sign of Friendship」. It was a beautiful piece of granite. I was about five adult males in diameter. 「There isn’t much building materials around here. If you need some, you can cut a part for yourself」 As Jessica said, there was plenty of wood but not enough stone around these parts. As it stands, Sheryl brought some from the capital but, considering the future development, having local supply would make it much easier. Eventually, they might build a wall, and having kilns and furnaces would be quite convenient. They would be able to make various good in the village. Maybe even foster their own ceramics craftsmen. Besides, Sheryl was still a baroness, living in the same type of house as her subjects won’t be appropriate. She should eventually move to a fine stone house of her own. 「Having dragons in our village is quite helpful」 Or so you could hear here and there. After a month, there was no one in the village who still thought of the nonchalant Jessica and childish Marion as『enemies』. Well then. Since the field was ready ahead of schedule, Sheryl decided to cultivate potatoes according to her initial plan. Iris watched over them together with Punigami from the top of the hill. It was worth to protect them as the Guardian Deity. 「Geez. Not working and relaxing on top of the hill all day......aren’t you embarrassed? 」「.......Dragons have a mysterious sense of values. Is it normal for dragons to put themselves on a pedestal? 」 Iris let out a sarcastic remark. However, she was sure that it was a sound argument. 「I’m not on any pedestal! Although I’m relaxing now, I plowed the field, carried rocks, and did all kinds of other things. There is only you. A person that doesn’t do anything! 」「Me, you know. I made the lake appear, grew the forest, and revitalized the soil just by being here. From a certain perspective, I’m the biggest contributor」「Even if you contribute, you aren’t working」「Wrong. It’s much more important to produce results, not to work. 『Any effort deserves a praise, even if it doesn’t produce results』I this is how you think, I’m not going to reject it. Nevertheless being accused of『not doing anything and producing results』doesn’t sit well with me」「Gunuu......so logical for a little girl.......」「Fufu. Arguments of this caliber won’t be able to defeat a NEET, even without the logical armament」「Don’t swagger!」 Marion interjected with an honest retort. Because of her personality, her retorts are even more on point than Sheryl’s. Sheryl’s is more often than not on the other side of the retort, which makes it rather tiring. 「Hey, Marion. How long are you going to rest? You too should help us plant potatoes」 Then, Jessica appeared. She was covered in dirt, there was no doubt that she worked hard in the field. And even though the mother, Jessica, was hard at work, the daughter, Marion, didn’t move from Iris’ side. 「Mother, We, dragons, shouldn’t bother ourselves with such miscellaneous jobs as planting potatoes. There should be something more dynamic for us to do! 」「Don’t force your strange logic. There were fields in the Village of Dragons and you helped me out. Come on, come on. Mother understands that you don’t want to leave Iris-chan’s side but even I’m barely holding myself back」「T-There is no such thing! It’s not like I want to be by Iris side! 」「Then let’s hurry and go back to the field. Or could it be? Even the lord herself, Sheryl-chan, is sowing potatoes while you are idling? I don’t remember raising you this way」「Uguh......I get it, I’m going! 」 Shouted Marion in annoyance. She followed after her mother, however, then she suddenly stopped and turned towards Iris. 「I-I’ll come to play again, if I feel like it!」 Or so she said before running off. 「......Is this the rumored tsundere? 」 This must be so, said Punigami. If Marion is tsundere that means she actually likes Iris. Which makes it quite embarrassing. Iris hugged Punigami and buried her face in his cool body. Three months later. By November, potatoes have been harvested. As expected, almost every potato, grown on the soil, which sucked Iris magical power, turned out to be big. Iris watched over the harvest from the top of the hill as her stomach made rumbling sounds. Maybe because their heard it, Sheryl, Marion, and Jessica came running up the hill with a big basket. 「Iris-sama. Punigami-sama It’s long-awaited potatoes~~」「Sheryl. How did you know that I waited for them? 」「Yes. Even from below, I saw Iris-sama drooling」「Eh, really!?」「No, I’m kidding」「......I hate Sheryl」「Eeh!?」 Hearing that, Sheryl turned pale in the face and jumped in horror. 「I’m kidding」「Hoh......there was no need for such cruel revenge. Please, be more forgiving as the Guardian Deity should be」「Abusing humans on a whim, isn’t that what the gods do?」「Un.......Iris-sama is gradually getting used to her divine authority........when did my humble Iris-sama......oyoyo」 Sheryl covered her eyes with her sleeve. However, from her voice it was easy to understand that she didn’t actually cry. 「But I did indeed saw Iris-sama drooling」「I saw that too. Fufu, as Iris-chan’s drool fell on Punigami-chan’s body, Punigami-chan absorbed it」 [] Said the dragon. 「I won’t be deceived. To use the same joke as Sheryl, you people have no originality」「Ridiculous. We are dragons. Even in our human forms, our eyesight stays the same」「........Eh......I did? 」 Marion gave a short confirmation. Punigami too said「You saliva became my flesh and blood」. He sounded proud for some reason. Maybe because he sucked the saliva of the Demon King’s daughter. 「Wa, how embarrassing.......since it came to that, I have no choice but to go into seclusion」「You can’t, Iris-sama. If you do, I won’t give you any potatoes. Look, they are freshly picked, right from the field~~」 Said Sheryl as she took out potatoes from the basket. It was still unpeeled. A massive one. What an impressive potato it was. However, there was steam rising from it. Just this alone was enough to ignite someone’s appetite. 「Achacha!」 The one who touched this steaming hot potato with her bare hands, Sheryl, raised a scream. The long-awaited potato ended up on the grass. Then, it rolled down the hill as it fell apart. 「Ah, please wait!」 Sheryl chased after the rolling potato in a hurry. 「.......What a stupid baroness」 As Iris spoke in frustration looking at Sheryl’s back, Marion curiously tilted her head. 「This isn’t that hot in the first place. You can easily hold it with your bare hands」「That’s right, it’s only slightly warm for us dragons」 Having said that, the dragon duo grabbed potatoes with their hands and started peeling them. 「Judging me by dragon standards would be inappropriate. I’m just a weak feeble girl. Right, Iris-sama? 」 Sheryl, who came back with the potato, objected to Marion and Jessica. However, regretfully, Iris couldn’t agree with her on this matter. 「Sorry, I too can hold it with my bare hands」「Mumu, come to think of it, Iris-sama in the Goddess. My my, am I the only normal girl here? 」 I have a feeling that an idiot like Sheryl isn’t that common too. Besides, Iris wasn’t the Goddess but the daughter of the Demon King. That being said, pointing it out won’t make Sheryl believe it. Recently, Iris got tired of retorting and gave up. 「Of course, there is one for Punigami too. Here」 Iris peeled a potato and stuffed it inside Punigami. 「Ah, sorry, was it too hot? Fuu, fuu」 Punigami jumped away, so she pulled out and let it cool before doing it once more. 「This much should be just fine. Is it good? 」「Puni!」 It seemed to be very tasty. Everyone, except Iris, was already in the middle of eating. Joy was apparent on their faces. Iris too bit down with a sense of defeat. 「Wafu wafu......hiya, delicious! And it was only steamed! Why is it so good!?」 Not too hard, not too soft, it had a nice texture. It had a rich and sweet taste. I want to eat my fill of these potatoes only! 「It must’ve happened because Iris-sama’s magical power permeated the soil」「In other words, although indirectly, we are eating Iris-chan」「If you think like this, it makes it rather creepy..........」 Marion stared at the potatoes and made a long face. 「How rude, my magical power is in a state of constant spillage, so everyone’s already permeated by it. It doesn’t end with only these potatoes! 」 As Iris objected, 「Come to think of it–」Sheryl realized. 「I’ve already talked about how amongst those people, who I brought from the capital, there were some mercenaries, right? They were saying something about their old wounds hurting but, since they came to this village, they feel exceptionally good. Could this change be brought by Iris-sama’s magical power too? 」「Eh, no way. I don’t think that my magical power has such an effect...」 [] Iris chose to deny that. However, as it stands, she didn’t do any extensive research into her own magical power, so she couldn’t deny with absolute confidence. What face would the Great Demon King make when he learns that Iris, who was created with the sole purpose of eradicating humanity in mind, spends her time injecting her magical power into potatoes? Since she left the capsule, she only spent about half a month on the Kurifot continent. Her relationship with the Great Demon King wasn’t that deep. She didn’t know a great deal about him. However, the other party was still a parent. She didn’t want to purposefully make him sad. That being said, she had no intention of destroying the human race, so she had no choice but to wait for the Great Demon King to give up. Until that time, Iris would gladly live here as a NEET.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 9, "inserted_lines_src": 1, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
有人宇宙飛行の分野において人類は全く進歩していないどころか、むしろ後退しています子供達に夢を持たせ、私達人類がこれまで行なってきたような重要な活動を可能にさせるという能力を私達は失いつつありますこれまで人類は本能に従いより厳しい環境に向かい、それを乗り越えることで結局のところ、生き延びることができたのです私が強く思うのは私たちの子供がただ単に新発売の携帯電話に期待しているようではダメだということです子供たちは未知の世界を探求し、他の星へ移り住み、今まで成し得なかった躍進に期待する必要があるのです。私たちは、将来の発展のため、生き延びるために子供たちに夢を持たせる必要があります特に私が問題だと思うのは、NASAがブッシュ政権のもとで行っていることで・・・次の15年で --- あ、しまった・・・ここでは政治のことは話さないように強く言われているんです私が言いたいことは・・・ (拍手) 私が言いたいことは・・・子供たちに夢を持たせることだけではないのですが現在の政府の計画はこの国の最もクリエイティブな宇宙船技術者たちがリスクをとって挑戦する機会を奪っている、ということなのです私たちは、「50年後」に月に行こうとしているのですしかも何も新しいことを学べないと分かっていながら私は本当にそれを問題視しています今日この場で私が伝えたいことは将来私たちの指導者となる子供たちにどう夢を持たせるかということですそれが、今日私が話すことです夢を持つきっかけは幼い時に起こると思います 3歳から12,14歳の間ですその時子供が何を見るかが重要なのです人類の飛行の歴史を振り返ってみましょうそこには、飛行史において数々の飛躍が起きた最も重要な4年間があったのです 1908年にライト兄弟がフランスで初飛行した時、誰もがこう言いました「そんなこと俺だってできる!」その当時は飛行機の操縦士は世界にほとんどいませんでしたが 4年後には39カ国に数百機の飛行機、数千の操縦士が生まれたのですあなたは現代の飛行機を見て、素晴らしいと思うでしょうしかし、そのような優れた飛行機は、20世紀初頭にはなかったのです当時は、数万回のテストフライトが行われもし飛行機が堕ちてパイロットが死んだら、他のパイロットが飛ぶ当時は、飛行訓練を受けたパイロットがいなかったためうまく飛んで、着陸できた人がいわゆる「優秀なパイロット」と見なされたのですこのように何千回も挑戦することによって現代の飛行機の形が出来上がり試行錯誤を重ねたからこそ現在のように安全になったのですそのようなことは宇宙飛行の分野では全く起きていませんなぜなら、アメリカとロシアの2カ国しか挑戦していないからですその黎明期の4年間に影響を受けたのは誰でしょう? Aviation Weekに 100年の飛行史の中で最も功績を上げた人物は誰かと聞かれました名前を書いた後気づいたのは彼ら全員が子供時代に飛行史の黎明期の4年間を過ごしていたのです私が子供の頃にも様々な出来事がありましたジェット機・ミサイル開発競争、フォン・ブラウンの火星計画スプートニク打ち上げもありましたその頃の火星は今よりずっと興味深かったのです動物が生息していると思われていたし色が変わる植物も生えていると考えられていましたしかし、NASAが人工衛星を砂漠にしか着陸させなかったせいでそんなことはもう誰も信じませんが黒い線が、人類が到達した最速の飛行スピード赤い線が、軍の最優秀パイロットの飛行スピード青い線が、商業用飛行機の飛行スピードを表します私が子供のとき、技術的な飛躍があったのがわかりますその出来事が、私にとって夢を持つきっかけになったのです他の人があきらめることにも挑戦する勇気を与えてくれたのです私は子供時代に何をしていたでしょうか? 改造車も、女も、ダンスもしなかったしその頃はクスリもありませんでした。代わりに、飛行機模型で遊んでいましたベトナム戦争中の約7年間アメリカ空軍の試作飛行機製作に関わり空軍に入隊後は、簡単に組み立てられる飛行機も製作しましたそしてこれら飛行機のうち約3000機が飛び立ちましたその中の1つが、Voyagerです。そして1982年には今の会社を立ち上げました 1982年以来、毎年1機以上、新型の飛行機を作り出していますここにある飛行機以外にも、まだまだたくさんあります私の中で最も印象に残っている飛行機はジェット機が開発されてから、たった十数年で登場しそれから耐用年数まで使われ、引退しました 1956年に作られた飛行機が、1998年に引退したのです、信じられますか? 最も印象に残っている宇宙船は・・・グル―マン月着陸船です。月に着陸し、離陸する全部自動でできるのですすばらしいですねそして1972年に引退となりましたこの着陸船は、ガガーリンが飛行した1961年の3年後に作られたのですたった3年後です。現在はどうでしょう? イノベーションサイクルについて少し話しましょう新しいものが登場したとき、古いものにとって代わりますこれは25年周期で起きますこれは、他のどんなテクノロジーにも言えることですおもしろいのはこのイノベーションサイクルは高速飛行の歴史において全く見られないということですこの2つの新型飛行機は、1958年に登場した飛行機と同じ飛行速度ですつまり、イノベーションサイクルが起きていないのですそれは国が開発し、国が使うからですいい例が、DARPAネットワークですコンピューターは当初、軍事的なものに使われていましたしかし、民間の私たちが使い始めてから、有益に使われるようになったのですだから民間がやらないとダメなのですそれを忘れないでください私は宇宙飛行の分野でイノベーションサイクルを探しましたが、ゼロでしたガガーリンが人類初の宇宙を成し遂げた最初の年数週間後にアラン・シェパードが飛び立ちその年には計5回の有人宇宙飛行がありました 2003年、アメリカが送り出したすべての宇宙飛行士は事故死しました 2003年には、たった3、4回の宇宙飛行しかなかったのに、です 2004年には、国際宇宙ステーションへのロシアのソユーズ打ち上げが 2回あっただけです。私は、モハヴェ宇宙港から少数のチームにより、3回の打ち上げを行いましたそれで合計5回ですそれは1961年と同じ数字なのです本当に何も成長していないのですここにスペースシップ・ワンから撮った写真がありますこれが軌道からの写真です私たちの目標は、みなさんにこの景色を見てもらうことなのです現時点で、弾道飛行(軌道に乗らない飛行)なら安全に行うことができます少なくとも初期の航空機と同じレベルの安全性は保てますこんな小さい会社が、なぜこんな壮大なことをやろうと思ったのか少しお話ししたいと思いますまず、これから何が起ころうとしているのでしょうか宇宙旅行ビジネスに参入する企業が増えるでしょうつい先週も、参入を発表した企業がありましたこれも弾道飛行になります。軌道飛行ではない理由は軌道飛行に安全性の問題があるからです 3カ国の政府が 45年間もこの問題に取り組んでいますが大気圏外に出た人のうち4%は事故死していますこの安全記録でビジネスをするのは難しいのです 2020年までに10万人が宇宙に飛び立つでしょうこれがいつ始まるかはライバル企業に知られてしまうため、ここでは言えませんが技術革新はすぐに訪れるでしょうそして、軌道上にリゾートホテルが現れる日も近いのです月を一周したり、素晴らしい眺めを見ることも簡単にできるようになるのです月には大気がないので、楕円軌道に乗って月面を高度3メートルで飛ぶことだってできるのです楽しくてたまらないでしょう! しかし、中にはこう言う人もいます「億万長者のお金を、億万長者の遊びのために使っているだけ」「実用的なものではなくただの遊びでしかない」以前私は、このことについて悩みましたでも、考えてみてください。1978年にアップルのパソコンを買った理由は、他人に見せびらかしたりゲームをするためだったのです銀行や企業にあるパソコンとは違い家庭にあるパソコンはゲームをするためのものでした 10年もの間、パソコンは「遊び」のためにあったのですしかし、それから何が起こったでしょう? パソコンは巨大産業となり、大きな成長を遂げましたそして今、普及したパソコンのおかげで、新しい発明が生まれています今日偶然ここにおられる - アル・ゴア氏の情報スーパーハイウェイ構想もありながら私たちが10年間も遊びのために使ってきたものが私たちのビジネス、研究、通信など、すべてを支えるようになったのですグーグル社の社員たちに聞けば遊びから生まれたアイデアが成功した例を、もっと教えてくれるでしょう昔パソコンがない時代があったなんて子供たちは信じられなくなるでしょうだから「遊び」でもいいのですこのちょっと複雑なグラフを見てくださいこれから何が起こっていくのかそして、重要な点があるのです全員の名前は知らないと思いますが子供のころに月着陸のニュースを見て影響され今、実際に行動を起こしている人たちがいるのです彼らは当時 3歳から15歳くらいの子供でしたポール・アレン、イーロン・マスク、リチャード・ブランソン、ジェフ・ベゾス、ロシアの弾道飛行を援助しているアンサリ家、民営宇宙ステーションのボブ・ビゲロー、ジョン・カーマック、彼らは私たちにとって重要な分野に資金を投入していますそれは、新しい携帯電話のような分野ではなく私たち人類にとって重要な分野であり人類の進歩に関わることなのですそれによって私たちは未知の世界を探求することができ遠い将来には、星への移住により人類の絶滅を防ぐことになると考えています彼らのような投資家たちは、偉大な進歩という夢を持っているのですでは、実際に何が起こっているのでしょう軍のもっとも優秀なジェット機で、SR-71という機体がありました耐用期間いっぱいまで使用され、引退しましたコンコルドは商業用飛行機の移動速度を2倍にしましたこれも耐用期間いっぱいまで使用されライバル機も登場しないまま引退しました私たちは、1950年代後半に登場した飛行機と同じ技術水準のまま、取り残されているのですしかし今なら、子供たちに夢を与えられるでしょう赤ちゃんや、10歳の子供がいるなら特に関係があります本当におもしろいことが起ころうとしているのですもうすぐ、軍の最新鋭の飛行機よりも速く高い高度で飛ぶ飛行機の航空券を買うことができるようになります。これは今まで起きたことがないのです軍が古い技術水準に取り残されている理由は、ボタン一つで戦争に勝てる時代に速い飛行機を作る必要がなくなったからですただ、宇宙旅行が一般に登場する前にまず軍に弾道飛行のスキルを持ったパイロットが登場するでしょうしかし、宇宙飛行の技術はビジネスとして発展したほうが、より速く進歩するのですこれを、「資本主義による宇宙開発競争」と呼びましょう。反対に・・・ 60年代の宇宙開発競争は国家の威信をかけたものでしたアメリカは競争で2つの敗北を経験しましたがどちらも技術的な敗北ではありませんでした人工衛星にはアメリカ製の機器が積まれていたからです同様に、スプートニク号の打ち上げは技術的な敗北ではなく、アメリカにとって国家的威信の敗北でしたその瞬間、アメリカは最先端技術の国ではなくなったのですそれは衝撃的なものでしたその後アメリカは、ガガーリン飛行のたった数週間後にアラン・シェパードを打ち上げ、技術力をアピールしましたしかし、アメリカは負けたのです。だからこそ、その後大きな飛躍を遂げました繰り返しますが、開発競争当初アメリカはロシアに負けていたのです現在、アメリカで宇宙行き航空券は買えませんでも、ロシアでは買えますロシア製の機器を使って飛ぶことができますなぜなら、ロシアの宇宙計画は予算不足だからです大富豪に宇宙行き航空券を1枚20億円で売りたいのです宇宙旅行ビジネスとも言えますアポロ8号のように月を周回するツアーも発売中なのです数十億円の月旅行です想像してみてください 1960年代の宇宙開発競争のときアメリカ人が月に打ち上げられることになりいざロケットに乗ってみたら、ロシア製の機器が積まれていたら? ロシアの威信をかけた人類初の月着陸計画でロケットに乗り込む飛行士がロシア人ではなかったら?大富豪の日本人やアメリカ人だとしたら、とても奇妙ですとにかく、開発競争はまたやってきますこれから、極めて巨大な宇宙旅行ビジネスが登場しかつての競争のように、誰が最初に開発するかは重要ではなくなります例えば、ロシアはコンコルドより以前に超音速旅客機を開発しましたが貨物輸送に使っただけでしたビジネスとして発展するとこのような違いが出るのですビジネスにおける、有人宇宙飛行の発展について考えてみましょう宇宙旅行ビジネスとして技術が発展した場合、 2020年までにNASAの計画より、5倍も進展すると考えられています民間からの投資だけで、すでに10億5000万ドルから10億7000万ドルの資金が世界中から集まっていますグーグルで検索すればわかりますがその2倍の金額が投資されることになっていて数年後の計画に向けて準備が進んでいるのです宇宙旅行ビジネスは、利益の大きいビジネスになるでしょう 2000万円の旅行ツアーを売り出してかかるコストはその10分の1かそれ以下だからです大きな利益が生まれますまた、このビジネスに投資されたお金はアメリカの納税者がNASAの宇宙計画に使う金額の半分で済むと予想していますさらに、投資されたお金はNASAで使われるより 10~15倍も効率よく使われることになりますそれはつまり、有人宇宙飛行における進歩は、税金無しでも現在のNASAの宇宙計画より 5倍も進展する、ということなのですそれは、私たち民間企業だからできるのですこういうことを国にやらせ続けてはダメなのです私たちは長い間、NASAなど、国に頼ってきました民間では宇宙旅客機などは作ってきませんでしたしかしNASAは長い間、宇宙船開発を担当し、唯一の宇宙路線を運営しています、私たちは今までその事実から目を背けてきましたしかしながら、2004年の6月、私が少人数のチームでも実際に行動を起こせることを示してからすべてが変わったのですご清聴、ありがとうございました	We stand a very big chance of losing our ability to inspire our youth to go out and continue this very important thing that we as a species have always done. And that is, instinctively we've gone out and climbed over difficult places, went to more hostile places, and found out later, maybe to our surprise, that that's the reason we survived. And I feel very strongly that it's not good enough for us to have generations of kids that think that it's OK to look forward to a better version of a cell phone with a video in it. They need to look forward to exploration; they need to look forward to colonization; they need to look forward to breakthroughs. We need to inspire them, because they need to lead us and help us survive in the future. I'm particularly troubled that what NASA's doing right now with this new Bush doctrine to -- for this next decade and a half -- oh shoot, I screwed up. We have real specific instructions here not to talk about politics. What we're looking forward to is -- what we're looking forward to is not only the inspiration of our children, but the current plan right now is not really even allowing the most creative people in this country -- the Boeing's and Lockheed's space engineers -- to go out and take risks and try new stuff. We're going to go back to the moon ... 50 years later? And we're going to do it very specifically planned to not learn anything new. I'm really troubled by that. But anyway that's -- the basis of the thing that I want to share with you today, though, is that right back to where we inspire people who will be our great leaders later. That's the theme of my next 15 minutes here. And I think that the inspiration begins when you're very young: three-year-olds, up to 12-, 14-year-olds. What they look at is the most important thing. Let's take a snapshot at aviation. And there was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, "Ooh, hey, I can do that." There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousand of pilots. Airplanes were invented by natural selection. Now you can say that intelligent design designs our airplanes of today, but there was no intelligent design really designing those early airplanes. There were probably at least 30,000 different things tried, and when they crash and kill the pilot, don't try that again. The ones that flew and landed OK because there were no trained pilots who had good flying qualities by definition. So we, by making a whole bunch of attempts, thousands of attempts, in that four-year time period, we invented the concepts of the airplanes that we fly today. And that's why they're so safe, as we gave it a lot of chance to find what's good. That has not happened at all in space flying. There's only been two concepts tried -- two by the U.S. and one by the Russians. Well, who was inspired during that time period? Aviation Week asked me to make a list of who I thought were the movers and shakers of the first 100 years of aviation. And I wrote them down and I found out later that every one of them was a little kid in that wonderful renaissance of aviation. Well, what happened when I was a little kid was -- some pretty heavy stuff too. The jet age started: the missile age started. Von Braun was on there showing how to go to Mars -- and this was before Sputnik. And this was at a time when Mars was a hell of a lot more interesting than it is now. We thought there'd be animals there; we knew there were plants there; the colors change, right? But, you know, NASA screwed that up because they've sent these robots and they've landed it only in the deserts. If you look at what happened -- this little black line is as fast as man ever flew, and the red line is top-of-the-line military fighters and the blue line is commercial air transport. You notice here's a big jump when I was a little kid -- and I think that had something to do with giving me the courage to go out and try something that other people weren't having the courage to try. Well, what did I do when I was a kid? I didn't do the hotrods and the girls and the dancing and, well, we didn't have drugs in those days. But I did competition model airplanes. I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them is around the world Voyager. I founded another company in '82, which is my company now. And we have developed more than one new type of airplane every year since 1982. And there's a lot of them that I actually can't show you on this chart. The most impressive airplane ever, I believe, was designed only a dozen years after the first operational jet. Stayed in service till it was too rusty to fly, taken out of service. We retreated in '98 back to something that was developed in '56. What? The most impressive spaceship ever, I believe, was a Grumman Lunar Lander. It was a -- you know, it landed on the moon, take off of the moon, didn't need any maintenance guys -- that's kind of cool. We've lost that capability. We abandoned it in '72. This thing was designed three years after Gagarin first flew in space in 1961. Three years, and we can't do that now. Crazy. Talk very briefly about innovation cycles, things that grow, have a lot of activity; they die out when they're replaced by something else. These things tend to happen every 25 years. 40 years long, with an overlap. You can put that statement on all kinds of different technologies. The interesting thing -- by the way, the speed here, excuse me, higher-speed travel is the title of these innovation cycles. There is none here. These two new airplanes are the same speed as the DC8 that was done in 1958. Here's the biggie, and that is, you don't have innovation cycles if the government develops and the government uses it. You know, a good example, of course, is the DARPA net. Computers were used for artillery first, then IRS. But when we got it, now you have all the level of activity, all the benefit from it. Private sector has to do it. Keep that in mind. I put down innovation -- I've looked for innovation cycles in space; I found none. The very first year, starting when Gagarin went in space, and a few weeks later Alan Shepherd, there were five manned space flights in the world -- the very first year. In 2003, everyone that the United States sent to space was killed. There were only three or four flights in 2003. In 2004, there were only two flights: two Russian Soyuz flights to the international manned station. And I had to fly three in Mojave with my little group of a couple dozen people in order to get to a total of five, which was the number the same year back in 1961. There is no growth. There's no activity. There's no nothing. This is a picture here taken from SpaceShipOne. This is a picture here taken from orbit. Our goal is to make it so that you can see this picture and really enjoy that. We know how to do it for sub-orbital flying now, do it safe enough -- at least as safe as the early airlines -- so that can be done. And I think I want to talk a little bit about why we had the courage to go out and try that as a small company. Well, first of all, what's going to happen next? The first industry will be a high volume, a lot of players. There's another one announced just last week. And it will be sub-orbital. And the reason it has to be sub-orbital is, there is not solutions for adequate safety to fly the public to orbit. The governments have been doing this -- three governments have been doing this for 45 years, and still four percent of the people that have left the atmosphere have died. That's -- You don't want to run a business with that kind of a safety record. It'll be very high volume; we think 100,000 people will fly by 2020. I can't tell you when this will start, because I don't want my competition to know my schedule. But I think once it does, we will find solutions, and very quickly, you'll see those resort hotels in orbit. And that real easy thing to do, which is a swing around the moon so you have this cool view. And that will be really cool. Because the moon doesn't have an atmosphere -- you can do an elliptical orbit and miss it by 10 feet if you want. Oh, it's going to be so much fun. OK. My critics say, "Hey, Rutan's just spending a lot of these billionaires' money for joyrides for billionaires. What's this? This is not a transportation system; it's just for fun." And I used to be bothered by that, and then I got to thinking, well, wait a minute. I bought my first Apple computer in 1978 and I bought it because I could say, "I got a computer at my house and you don't. 'What do you use it for?' Come over. It does Frogger." OK. Not the bank's computer or Lockheed's computer, but the home computer was for games. For a whole decade it was for fun -- we didn't even know what it was for. But what happened, the fact that we had this big industry, big development, big improvement and capability and so on, and they get out there in enough homes -- we were ripe for a new invention. And the inventor is in this audience. Al Gore invented the Internet and because of that, something that we used for a whole year -- excuse me -- a whole decade for fun, became everything -- our commerce, our research, our communication and, if we let the Google guys think for another couple weekends, we can add a dozen more things to the list. And it won't be very long before you won't be able to convince kids that we didn't always have computers in our homes. So fun is defendable. OK, I want to show you kind of a busy chart, but in it is my prediction with what's going to happen. And in it also brings up another point, right here. and you don't know all of them -- but the ones that have come forward were inspired as young children, this little three- to 15-year-old age, by us going to orbit and going to the moon here, right in this time period. Paul Allen, Elan Musk, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, the Ansari family, which is now funding the Russians' sub-orbital thing, Bob Bigelow, a private space station, and Carmack. These people are taking money and putting it in an interesting area, and I think it's a lot better than they put it in an area of a better cell phone or something -- but they're putting it in very -- areas and this will lead us into this kind of capability, and it will lead us into the next really big thing and it will allow us to explore. And I think eventually it will allow us to colonize and to keep us from going extinct. They were inspired by big progress. But look at the progress that's going on after that. There were a couple of examples here. The military fighters had a -- highest-performance military airplane was the SR71. It went a whole life cycle, got too rusty to fly, and was taken out of service. The Concorde doubled the speed for airline travel. It went a whole life cycle without competition, took out of service. And we're stuck back here with the same kind of capability for military fighters and commercial airline travel that we had back in the late '50s. But something is out there to inspire our kids now. And I'm talking about if you've got a baby now, or if you've got a 10-year-old now. What's out there is there's something really interesting going to happen here. Relatively soon, you'll be able to buy a ticket and fly higher and faster than the highest-performance military operational airplane. It's never happened before. The fact that they have stuck here with this kind of performance has been, well, you know, you win the war in 12 minutes; why do you need something better? But I think when you guys start buying tickets and flying sub-orbital flights to space, very soon -- wait a minute, what's happening here, we'll have military fighters with sub-orbital capability, and I think very soon this. But the interesting thing about it is the commercial guys are going to go first. OK, I look forward to a new "capitalist's space race," let's call it. You remember the space race in the '60s was for national prestige, because we lost the first two milestones. We didn't lose them technically. The fact that we had the hardware to put something in orbit when we let Von Braun fly it -- you can argue that's not a technical loss. Sputnik wasn't a technical loss, but it was a prestige loss. America -- the world saw America as not being the leader in technology, and that was a very strong thing. And then we flew Alan Shepherd weeks after Gagarin, not months or decades, or whatever. So we had the capability. But America lost. We lost. And because of that, we made a big jump to recover it. Well, again, what's interesting here is we've lost to the Russians on the first couple of milestones already. You cannot buy a ticket commercially to fly into space in America -- can't do it. You can buy it in Russia. You can fly with Russian hardware. This is available because a Russian space program is starving, and it's nice for them to get 20 million here and there to take one of the seats. It's commercial. It can be defined as space tourism. They are also offering a trip to go on this whip around the moon, like Apollo 8 was done. 100 million bucks -- hey, I can go to the moon. But, you know, would you have thought back in the '60s, when the space race was going on, that the first commercial capitalist-like thing to do to buy a ticket to go to the moon would be in Russian hardware? And would you have thought, would the Russians have thought, that when they first go to the moon in their developed hardware, the guys inside won't be Russians? Maybe it'll probably be a Japanese or an American billionaire? Well, that's weird: you know, it really is. But anyway, I think we need to beat them again. I think what we'll do is we'll see a successful, very successful, private space flight industry. Whether we're first or not really doesn't matter. The Russians actually flew a supersonic transport before the Concorde. And then they flew a few cargo flights, and took it out of service. I think you kind of see the same kind of parallel when the commercial stuff is offered. OK, we'll talk just a little bit about commercial development for human space flight. This little thing says here: five times what NASA's doing by 2020. I want to tell you, already there's about 1.5 billion to 1.7 billion investment in private space flight that is not government at all -- already, worldwide. If you read -- if you Google it, you'll find about half of that money, but there's twice of that being committed out there -- not spent yet, but being committed and planned for the next few years. Hey, that's pretty big. and it certainly is profitable when you fly people at 200,000 dollars on something that you can actually operate at a tenth of that cost, or less -- this is going to be very profitable. I predict, also, that the investment that will flow into this will be somewhere around half of what the U.S. taxpayer spends for NASA's manned spacecraft work. And every dollar that flows into that will be spent more efficiently by a factor of 10 to 15. And what that means is before we know it, the progress in human space flight, with no taxpayer dollars, will be at a level of about five times as much as the current NASA budgets for human space flight. And that is because it's us. It's private industry. You should never depend on the government to do this sort of stuff -- and we've done it for a long time. The NACA, before NASA, never developed an airliner and never ran an airline. But NASA is developing the space liner, always has, and runs the only space line, OK. And we've shied away from it because we're afraid of it. But starting back in June of 2004, when I showed that a little group out there actually can do it, can get a start with it, everything changed after that time. 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純白の輝きが大瀑布となって頭上から降り注いだ。それが、スヤスヤと気持ち良さそうに眠っている雫を背負ったハジメが氷壁を抜けた先で見た光景だった。正体はわかっている。なので、ただ魔物か何かと勘違いしただけなら、樫バリア!」をしてやれば死ぬ気で止まるだろうと思っていたのだが見た相手の眼がどうにも正気の色を宿しているようには見えなかったので、仕方なく〝縮地〟でその場を飛び退き回避を行った。直後、今の今までハジメがいた場所を凶悪な斬撃が駆け抜けていき、轟音と共に氷の地面と壁に深い亀裂を作り上げた。瞬く間に修復されていくものの、その破壊痕を見れば冗談抜きで相手が殺すつもりで攻撃したのだとわかる。もっとも、その前に殺意や込められた魔力量から自明の理ではあったが。ハジメは、少し離れた場所でニヤニヤと嗤っている虚像にチラリと視線を向けてから、背中の雫を背負い直して凶行の犯人にスっと細めた眼を向けた。ちなみに、その轟音にも負けず、雫は一瞬むずかっただけで睡眠を続行した。余程疲れていたのか、それともこのくらいの危険では反応しないほど安心しきっているのか、ただ単に図太いという可能性もあるが...... 「......で? 何のつもりだ、天之河」そう、ハジメの言葉通り、強襲の犯人は光輝だった。虚像の方ではない。紛うこと無き本人である。その光輝は、地面をかち割り半ばまで埋もれたままの聖剣を握り締めながら、何かをブツブツと呟いている。前髪が垂れて目元が隠れているので表情はよくわからないが、明らかに尋常な様子ではない。「あ? 聞こえねぇよ。取り敢えず、相手は俺達じゃなくて、あっち......」「......俺達?」よく聞き取れない呟きに、ハジメは眉をしかめながら虚像に視線を向ける。今度は間違えずに敵を討てよと言外に伝えながら。しかし、その言葉の一部に光輝が過剰な反応を示す。前髪の隙間から炯々と光る瞳が覗き、刺さったままの聖剣が強引に引き抜かれた。「まるで自分と雫がワンセットみたいな言い方だな? えぇ? なに、自分のものみたいな言い方をしているんだ? ふざけてるのか?」「......お前は何を言ってんだ? 阿呆なこと言ってないで、さっさと終わらせろよ」聖剣を引きずりながら、血走った眼差しを向ける光輝。その言葉の意味不明さに、ハジメは嫌な予感を覚えながら試練のクリアを促す。しかし、やはり今の光輝にはハジメの言葉が通じていないようだ。「......あぁ、終わらせるよ。お前なんかに一々言われなくても、全て終わらせてやるさ!」そう絶叫するや否や、光輝は瞳孔の開ききった狂気を感じさせる眼差しでハジメに向かって突進した。〝爆縮地〟で姿を霞ませながら一気に肉薄し、莫大な魔力を込めた光の斬撃を放つ。「チッ、堕されたのか。馬鹿野郎が」「黙れ! お前が死ねば全て元に戻るんだっ! さっさと死ねぇえええ!!」ハジメは、光輝の奇行の原因を察した。己の虚像に相当追い詰められた果てなのだろうと。そして、自分の背に体を預ける雫を肩越しに見て、「止めは俺か......」とタイミングの悪さに顔をしかめながら小さく呟く。光輝は、そんなハジメの呟きなど完全に無視すると、ただ我武者羅に殺意と憎悪を滾らせて最大威力の聖剣を振るった。明らかにハジメを殺すつもりのようだ。雫を背負っているにもかかわらず、加減なく攻撃してくる光輝に正気はないとハジメは断定した。「ん、んむぅ、な~にぃ? もう少し寝かせ......」「アホか! この状況でよく寝ぼけられるな! 今すぐ起きねぇと人間砲弾にするぞ!」駄々っ子のようにむずかる寝ぼけ顔の雫に、激しくイラっと来た表情でハジメが怒鳴った。一秒で覚醒しなければ本気で光輝に投げつけるつもりで。ハジメの怒声と直後に放たれた光の砲撃による轟音と閃光で、ようやく覚醒した雫は驚愕に目を見張った。ハジメがクロスビットによる結界を張っているので、攻撃は届いていないのだが、その眼前の光景で、ようやく戦闘中だと気が付いたのだ。すごすごと背中から降りる。「爆睡し過ぎだろう。図太い奴だなぁ」「ず、図太くなんてないわよ。ただ、南雲くんの背中が気持ちよゴニョゴニョ......」「まぁ、八重樫のことはどうでもいいんだ。それより、あれ。何とかしてくれ」「ど、どうでもいいって......っていうかこの状況、何がどうなって......え?」ハジメの呆れた表情と言葉に若干ショックを受けて涙目になる雫だったが、閃光が収まったあと、その攻撃を放ったと思われる相手の姿を見て呆けた声を漏らし棒立ちとなってしまった。無理もないだろう。明らかに殺傷性の高い攻撃を放った相手が慣れ親しんだ幼馴染だったのだから。「どうやら、堕ちたようだぞ? 俺こそ諸悪の根源って感じだな」「そんな......」視線の先には虚像の光輝。面白そうな眼差しをハジメ達に送っている。大体の事情を察した雫は瞳に力を入れると、濁った瞳で自分達を見つめている光輝に声を張り上げた。「光輝! ダメよ! もう一人の自分に負けてはダメ! 正気に戻って、自分に打ち勝って!」光輝を見る雫の眼差しは心配の色一色に染まっていた。色々と問題はあっても、善意に溢れる人のいい幼馴染なのだ。小さい頃から家族ぐるみの付き合いをしてきたのだ。大切な家族も同然なのだ。それが、今まで見たことのない殺意と憎悪に歪んだ表情になっている。とても見ていられなかった。祈るように両手を合わせて、必死に光輝の心を奮い立たせようとした。しかし、そんな雫に、光輝はにっこりと笑いかけるととんでもないことを口にしだした。「......大丈夫さ。雫のことは必ず助け出してみせるよ」「光輝? 何を言って......」「南雲に洗脳されてしまったんだろ? 大丈夫。南雲を倒せば解けるはずだ。......南雲、元クラスメイトでも俺の大切な幼馴染を傷付けてただで済むと思うな。お前を倒して、香織や他の女の子達にかけられた洗脳も全て解いてやる! そして、彼女達と共に、俺は世界を救う!!」意味不明な光輝の宣言に雫句が継げない。今の光輝は、言うなれば、以前、香織がハジメ達と旅立った夜に雫と話さなかった場合の光輝と言えるだろう。あの夜、雫の言葉に含まれた重さに光輝は暴走を防がれた。直ぐには考え方を変えられなかったし、ハジメに対して思うところは多々あった。だから、度々突っかかってしまっていたわけだが、それでも、雫の言葉があったから完全な決別もなければ香織のことも口を出さなくなった。しかし、それは言い換えれば雫が傍にいたから、だとも言える。光輝の価値観や思考は多分に〝子供らしさ〟が含まれている。幼少の時に根付いた〝理想の正しさ〟を現実の壁に阻まれることなく持ち続け、そのままこの歳まで来てしまったのだから当然と言えば当然だ。そんな子供な光輝にとって、独占欲を向ける最後の幼馴染の女の子が奪われれば、これも当然の如く〝癇癪〟を起こすに決まっているのだ。もっとも、勇者たる力を持つ光輝の癇癪は洒落にならないわけだが...... しかも、自分の非を認めたがらない〝子供っぽさ〟を持つ光輝は、己の虚像に散々現実を突き付けられ追い詰められた。ヒーローたる自分には相応しくない感情が心の内に溢れているのだと刃物で切りつけるように刻まれた。必死に否定して、必死に目を逸らして、ギリギリのところで踏ん張っていたら、最後の砦である雫が何でもないはずの男に対して明らかに見せてはいけない幸せそうな表情で身を預けていたのだ。鈍感な光輝でも、それが何を意味するのか察することが出来る。そして察することが出来たからこそ砦は崩れ去り、光輝の悪癖は追い詰められた心と相まって最悪の形で現出してしまった。すなわち、南雲ハジメは幼馴染や複数の女の子を洗脳し世界を救おうとする自分を邪魔する諸悪の根源である、と思い込むという形で。手加減なしのご都合解釈である。「光輝! しっかりしなさい! 何を吹き込まれたのか知らないけれど、惑わされないで!」「聞いて、光輝。自分の嫌な部分と向き合うのは本当に辛いことよ。私も危うく死ぬところだったから良くわかるわ。でも、受け入れて乗り越えないと先へは進めない。強くなって沢山の人を救いたいなら、ここで都合のいい思い込みに縋ってはダメ。貴方の敵は貴方自身。あそこでニヤついてるもう一人の光輝よ! 目を覚ましなさい!」雫の必死の説得が広い空間に木霊する。虚像は現状を楽しんでいるようで静観するつもりのようだ。そして、雫の一心からの言葉を向けられた光輝はというと、雫ににっこりと微笑みを向けた。それは、日本にいた時によくしていた、多くの女の子達を魅了した微笑み。しかし、今は、どこか歪さを感じてしまう。「ありがとう、雫。雫は、いつもそうやって俺の為に真剣になってくれるよな」目を覚ましたのかと雫の表情に喜色が浮かぶ。「本当に嬉しいよ。洗脳されているのに、それでも俺を想ってくれているんだから」「大丈夫。あの俺と同じ顔をした魔物は倒すし、南雲からも救い出す。もう、好きでもない男の傍に寄り添う必要はないんだ。雫がいるべき場所に帰してみせるからな」光輝の言葉に雫の表情が抜け落ちた。雫が静かに問い返す。「......私がいるべき場所? それは何処のことを言っているのかしら?」「そうか。......それもわからなくなってしまったんだな。可哀想に。南雲は本当に許せないな」「光輝。答えて」「あぁ、それはもちろん、俺の隣だよ。今までずっとそうだったし、これからもそうだ」雫は大きく溜息を吐いた。「......光輝。あの夜のことを覚えているかしら? 香織が旅立った日、橋の上で話したこと」「ああ、もちろん覚えているさ。正しさを疑えってやつだろう? 大丈夫。最初から南雲は危険な奴だと思っていたけど、雫の言葉があったから、今まで散々南雲を見てきてやったんだ。でも、やっぱり最低な裏切り者以外の何者でもなかったよ」「問答は無用だ。洗脳された雫にはわからないだろうけど、これが〝正しい〟ことなんだよ」光輝は更に言い募ろうとした雫の言葉を問答無用に切り捨てた。全ては〝洗脳されている〟という都合のいい解釈のもとに、自分にとって一番望ましい未来を手に入れる為に。同時に、そのヘドロのように濁った瞳をハジメに向けて腰を落とす。雫と話している間、意図的に弱められていた〝限界突破〟の輝きが息を吹き返すように燦然たる輝きを取り戻す。「光輝っ。止めて!」雫が、焦燥を滲ませた声音で制止の声を張り上げるが......当然、光輝は止まらなかった。光の尾を引きながら猛烈な勢いで突進する。その瞳には既に雫は一切映っておらず、ただただ憎き敵であるハジメのみを捉えていた。強烈な殺意を向けられて、今まで我関せずとそっぽを向いていたハジメの視線が光輝に戻された。その眼がスっと細められる。ハジメが本気の殺意を向けられて、相手をただで済ませるとは到底思えず雫の顔から血の気が引いた。このままでは幼馴染が殺されてしまう! と。「っ、私が止めないとっ」〝限界突破〟発動状態の光輝の突進力の前では雫など木の葉の如くである。だが、それでも放っておくことなど出来るはずもなく、雫は咄嗟にハジメとの間に割って入って光輝を止めようとした。しかし、「八重樫、右だ」突然聞こえたハジメの警告とほぼ同時に、赤黒い魔力を纏った虚像の光輝が雫に襲いかかった。横槍を入れるという言葉通り、真横から凄まじい勢いでタックルを仕掛けたのだ。雫は咄嗟に黒刀をかざし衝撃に備えた。同時に、赤黒い砲弾と見紛う勢いで迫る虚像の光輝がニヤリと嫌らしく嗤うのがわかった。と、虚像の光輝が雫に接触する直前、スっと両者の間に割り込む影が...... それは、虚像の光輝とは似て非なる魔力を纏った十字架。どこまでも鮮やかな紅の輝きを宿すクロスビットだった。〝金剛〟を発動して即席の盾となったのである。直後、クロスビットの盾を間に挟んで、雫は虚像の光輝にさらわれるようにハジメと光輝の間から消えていった。赤黒い魔力の残滓が、睨み合う二人の間に棚引く雲のように漂う。『雫の相手は俺がしておくよ。お前は、憎い敵と思う存分戦うといいさ』「くっ、このっ。離れなさい! こんなことしている場合じゃ......」『まぁまぁ、俺と雫の仲じゃないか。二人で踊りながら余興を楽しもう。自滅させるより、欲望に狂う方が「勝手なことをっ」どうやら虚像の光輝は、光輝の試練に龍太郎と同じような己の欲望に勝つという要素を取り入れることにしたようだ。ハジメとの戦いを経て、現実を受け止め正気に戻れるか否か......ということだろう。ハジメとしては勝手に試験官扱いをされていい迷惑である。「いいのか? お前の大事な幼馴染が襲われているが?」「......あれは俺でもある。殺しはしない。多少の怪我はお前のような男にあっさり洗脳されてしまったことへの戒めになるだろう」「......さっき、あれは魔物だと言ってなかったか?」「俺の感情をコピーして擬態した魔物だろう? なら、魔物でも雫を殺すようなことはしない」ご都合解釈ここに極まれり。自分とは関係のない魔物だと断じて起きながら、自分をコピーしたものだから雫に危険はないという。本当に滅茶苦茶だ。おそらく、光輝は内心で虚像が自分の負の感情から構成されていることを理解しているのだろう。だから、負の感情の矛先が向かない雫の安全も無意識レベルで理解している。だが、それを認めることは、すなわち虚像に言われたことが事実であると認めることになってしまう。だから、雫のこと以外では戯言だと切って捨てるために、自分の虚像ではなく魔物だと断じるのだ。筋すら通っていない強引すぎるロジックだが光輝の中では真実となっているらしい。「覚悟しろ。これ以上、お前の好き勝手にはさせない。雫も香織も、ユエ達も、みんな解放してもらう!」その宣言と同時に、光輝は溜めた力を解放するように爆発的な突進を行った。正面から、迷いのない唐竹の一撃を繰り出す。ゴゥ! と風を切る凄まじい音と共に光そのもので構成されているかのような聖剣の凄絶な一撃がハジメを襲う。しかし、そんな致死の一撃を前に、ハジメは一歩も動かずスっと腕をかかげただけだった。その手にはドンナーが握られており、ガキンッ! という金属同士がぶつかる音と火花を撒き散らして、光輝の渾身の一撃はあっさり受け止められてしまった。それも、ドンナーの銃口によって。驚愕して思わず声を漏らす光輝に、ハジメは冷め切った眼差しを向けながら口を開いた。「真性の馬鹿に馬鹿と罵るほど無意味なことはない。......だが、これだけは言わせてもらおうか。......てめぇ、誰の許可得て俺の女を呼び捨てにしてんだ? あぁ?」直後、溢れ出す殺意の奔流。大瀑布の水圧の如きプレッシャー。人と呼ぶには強大すぎるし、おぞましすぎる圧倒的な〝力〟の気配。至近距離から化け物の本気の威圧を叩きつけられて光輝の体が意図せず硬直する。ドパンッ! ドンナーの引き金が引かれ電磁加速された弾丸が銃口を塞ぐ聖剣を、邪魔だと罵るように弾き飛ばした。凄まじい衝撃に耐え切れず、手からすっぽ抜けた聖剣がくるくると宙を舞う。そして、片手だけ強制万歳させられた光輝に、下方より黒い影――ハジメ必殺のヤクザキックが繰り出された。凄まじい衝撃音を響かせて光輝の腹に叩き込まれたヤクザキックは、そのまま光輝の体をくの字に折り曲げながら宙に浮かせる。ハジメは、間髪入れずにその場でくるりと回転すると、遠心力をたっぷり乗せた後ろ回し蹴りを追加で叩き込んだ。再び響く衝撃音。同時に、光輝の体が大型トラックにでも轢かれたように猛烈な勢いで吹き飛んでいく。砲弾の如く地面と水平に飛んだ光輝は、そのまま背中から氷壁に叩きつけられた。一体、どれほどの衝撃だったのか。背後の氷壁が放射状に大きく粉砕される。光輝は、そのまま地面に落ちん這い状態で咳き込んだ。ピチャピチャと口から血が吐き出される。〝限界突破〟を行わず、武器すら使っていないただの蹴りで、国宝級アーティファクトの鎧を着た光輝の内臓にダメージを与えた。その事実に光輝は苦しげに呻きながら歯噛みした。だが、悔しがる暇などハジメが与えるはずもなく、ドパンッ! ドパンッ! ドパンッ! 連続した発砲音が轟き、蹲る光輝に紅い閃光が襲いかかった。ハジメの殺気を感じ取ったのか、引き金が引かれるとほぼ同時に横っ飛びで回避した光輝だったが、その回避方向すら読まれていたようで飛んだ瞬間目の弾丸に肩を撃ち抜かれた。更に、先に回避したはずの弾丸の一発は紅い魔力を纏わせただけの電磁加速させていない通常弾だったようで、砕けた背後の氷壁に跳弾すると背後から光輝を襲い、防具の隙間を通って膝関節を撃ち抜いた。「ぐぁ......こ、来い、聖剣っ」地面をゴロゴロと転がり、肩と足から血を流しながら倒れ込んだ光輝は、少し離れた場所に落ちていた聖剣に手を伸ばした。光輝の呼び声に応えて飛んでくる聖剣。しかし、それが光輝の手元に納まることはなかった。寸前で、ハジメが踏みつけて止めてしまったからだ。聖剣が主のもとへ戻ろうと暴れるが、そんな抵抗など無意味だと言わんばかりにハジメの踏みつける足は微動だにしない。「無様なもんだ。新しい能力を上手く使えばまだマシな戦いが出来ただろうに」ハジメが冷め切った声音で呟いた。特に光輝に聞かせるつもりのない独り言だったが、光輝にはバッチリ聞こえていたらしい。憎々しげに歪められた表情で射殺さんばかりにハジメを睨んでいる。そんな光輝の額に向けてドンナーが突き付けられた。依然、ハジメの殺気は収められていない。常人ならそれだけで心臓を止めそうなほど凄絶な濃度を保っている。誰が見ても、止めを刺す気に見えるだろう。と、そこへ必死な声音が響いた。「南雲くん! お願い、止めて! 光輝は、私が説得するからっ」雫だ。虚像の光輝と斬り結びながら、焦燥に塗れた表情でハジメに光輝の助命を願う。だが、それは致命的な隙となり、また、雫の願う展開は虚像の望むところでもなかった。故に、『雫は少し退場していようか?』虚像の放った衝撃波が雫を強襲した。雫はそのまま全身を打たれ、意識と一緒に壁際まで吹き飛んでいき、地を滑りながら力なく横たわった。寸前でクロスビットが間に入って盾となったために直撃は免れたようだが、唯でさえ防御力が低い上に、単純な出力では勇者故に強大で、更に、光輝が散々己の負の感情を拒否した為に本人より遥かに強化されていたことから、ただの余波であっても十分に有効打となったようだ。単純な斬撃と異なり、脳震盪を誘発するような衝撃波であるから、回復措置をとらなければしばらく目を覚まさないだろう。虚像の光輝は上手く気絶した雫に満足気な笑みを浮かべると、くるりと踵を返してハジメと向き合った。そして、ごく自然な動きで黒い聖剣を突き出すと強烈な光の砲撃を放った。螺旋を描いて迫る閃光は、確実に光輝をも巻き込むコースだ。諸共に葬るつもりなのか......取り敢えず、ハジメはその場を離脱した。光輝を放置して。思わず悲鳴を上げて防御姿勢を取る光輝だったが、直撃寸前で光の砲撃はクイッと曲がるとハジメを追尾し始めた。ハジメは魔眼石で砲撃の核を見つけ出し、あっさりピンポイント射撃を成功させ霧散させた。しかし、虚像の目論見通り光輝から距離を取らせることには成功している。虚像は光輝の傍に歩み寄ると、倒れたままの光輝の耳元に何事かを囁いた。三日月のように口元を裂いて嗤いながら、おそらく甘言であろう言葉を吹き込む姿は、まるで悪魔のようだ。それが、もう一人の自分などと光輝は決して認めないだろうが。やがて、光輝は血走った眼差しをハジメと虚像の交互に向けて、やむを得ないといった様子で頷いた。直後、虚像の姿が霞のように薄れていき代わりに赤黒い光の粒子が渦巻き始めた。。ヒーロータイムだ。悪者からヒロイン達を助け出そうじゃないか!』「うるさいっ。お前の指図は受けない。今だけ使ってやるだけだ! 南雲を倒したあとは、お前の番だということを忘れるなっ」その言葉と同時に、赤黒い粒子は光輝の身の内へと入っていき光輝の体が脈動を始める。ドクンッドクンッと鼓動の音が部屋に木霊し始め光輝が纏っていた純白の光に赤黒い色が血管のように混じり始めた。ゆっくりと起き上がる光輝。見れば、肩や足の傷口も治って来ているようだ。光輝の持つ派生技能〝治癒力向上〟が爆発的に能力を向上させているようである。そこへ、問答無用の銃撃。ヒーローと相対する悪役のように、空気を読んで変身シーンを待ってやるような親切心をハジメは持ち合わせていないのだ。ついでとばかりに手榴弾もいくつか投げ込んでおく。紅い閃光に肩や足を穿たれてグラリグラリと揺れる光輝。更に、コロコロと転がってきた手榴弾が爆炎を上げ、その中に呑み込まれる。「無駄だよ」だが、爆炎の中から出てきたのはズタボロとなった光輝ではなく、そんな言葉だった。どこか愉悦を含んだような、歓喜に震えるような、そんな声音だ。どうやら大したダメージもなかったようで、純白に赤黒い色を交えた魔力を噴き上げ爆炎を吹き飛ばした。そこには、片目を赤黒く染めオッドアイとなった光輝の姿があった。先程受けた銃撃の痕も既にほとんど治癒できているらしい。外見の変化は瞳だけでなく、本来の茶髪には白いメッシュが入っており、聖なる鎧には赤黒い血管のようなものが幾筋も入っている。更に、その手には、白と黒、二振り聖剣が握られていた。「融合でもしたか?」「不本意ではあるけど、な。お前を倒す為なら甘んじて受け入れよう。もっとも、あとでこいつも倒すけれど」「なにいい子ぶってんだ? ただ誘惑に負けただけだろうが」「好きに囀るといいさ。何を言ったところで、もう俺には勝てない。この湧き上がる力があれば俺は全てを取り戻せる!」「そんなだから失ったんだってことに、どうして気がつかねぇかな」「御託はいらない。覚悟しろ、南雲っ!! 〝覇潰〟!!」光輝から更に数倍の規模で魔力が噴き上がった。全ステータスに引き上げる〝限界突破〟の最終派生〝覇潰〟――虚像の自分を取り込んだ光輝の力はトータルで言えば一万に届くかというほど。文字通り化け物レベルの上昇率だ。光輝が双聖剣を構えた。刹那、その姿がぶれた。気合の声が聞こえたのはハジメの背後。一瞬で回り込んだのだ。二振りの聖剣が白と赤黒い色の魔力を引きながら十文字をハジメに刻もうとする。ハジメは振り向いてすらいない。った!) 光輝がそう確信した瞬間、聞き慣れた炸裂音が響いた。同時に、双聖剣が凄まじい衝撃と共に弾かれ、ガラ空きとなった胴体に紅い閃光が突き刺さった。飛躍的に向上した鎧の防御力と〝物理耐性〟及びその派生〝衝撃緩和〟によって致命傷にはなり得なかったが、一般人がヘビー級ボクサーの本気のボディブローを受けたかのような衝撃が光輝を襲い盛大に後方へ吹き飛ばされる。反応できていなかったはずなのに何故? と息を詰まらせつつも空中で姿勢を整え着地した光輝。その視線の先には、手首の返しで銃口だけが後ろを向いたドンナーの姿があった。それで、ハジメは反応できなかったのではなく、振り向く必要すらなかったのだろうと察した光輝の表情が屈辱に歪む。足に力を入れて、腹の痛みを無視すると雄叫びと共に双聖剣を振り下ろした。「〝天翔剣・嵐〟!!」そうして放たれたのは、広範囲に拡散する幾百の斬撃。見える光の刃だけで百はあり、その影に潜むようにして三百近い風の刃が追随している。既に殲滅魔法レベルだ。だが、そんな幾百の斬撃の嵐を、ハジメはゆらりゆらりと木の葉が風にそよぐように揺れながらかわし、かわしきれないものは打ち払い、あるいは逸らしていく。それどころか、避けながらスっと自然な動作でドンナーを光輝に向けると刃の嵐の隙間を縫って反撃まで行った。冗談のように隙間を抜けてきた弾丸は、光輝の足元に刺さると盛大に衝撃波を撒き散らし、光輝を足元からひっくり返す。そして、ハジメは自身も刃の嵐をくぐり抜けると光輝と同等、いや、それ以上の速さで肉薄し、まるでサッカーボールのように光輝を蹴り上げた。呻き声を上げながら空中に投げ出された光輝に、ドンナー&シュラークを向ける。咄嗟に〝空力〟で宙を蹴り付け射線から逃れようとする光輝だったが、二丁のリボルバーの銃口は光輝から微妙にずれて未来位置を狙っていた。意図せず、光輝の表情が引き攣る。光輝とハジメの感覚が引き伸ばされたようにスローになった。色褪せた世界の中で、ハジメは引き金を引く寸前、視界の端に雫の姿を捉える。必死になって光輝を説得しようとしていた姿やハジメに助命を嘆願する姿が脳裏を過る。同時に、同じ幼馴染である香織の姿も思い浮かんだ。ハジメは、「チッ」と小さく舌打ちをして、微妙に銃口を逸らすと霞むような速度で引き金を連続して引いた。ドパァアアン!! 僅かに間延びした一発の銃声は、同時撃ちが行われた証。逆再生された流星の如く、空を切り裂いた紅い閃光は、空中の光輝を滅多打ちにした。子供が繰る無様なマリオネットのように、ガクンガクンと体を揺らしながら放物線を描く光輝。血飛沫を撒き散らしながら少し離れた場所にドシャ! と生々しい音を響かせて落下した。傍から見れば何発もの銃弾に穿たれた死体に見えたかもしれない。だが、そうでないことは、直後に光輝が動き出したことで否定された。双聖剣を支えに直ぐに起き上がる。肩、両腕、両足から血を噴き出し、口元からも血が滴り落ちているが、それも瞬く間に治っていった。血走った瞳が狂気の色を添えられて、更に凶悪な様相になっている。既に、人々の夢と希望が詰まった勇者の面影はない。「手加減のつもりか? 俺を馬鹿にしてるのか?」撃ち抜かれた場所はいずれも急所を外れている。相手を無力化しようという意図が透けて見える攻撃だ。故に、自分は殺すつもりなのに、まるで相手にされていないかのような気になって光輝の中のドス黒い部分が更に湧き上がってきた。ハジメは、ドンナーで肩をトントンしながら何でもないようにあっさりと答える。「まぁ、ここまで堕ちてると面倒いし殺す方がいいんだが......そうすると、八重樫や香織に泣かれそうだからな。適当にボコッて、後は幼馴染ィズに任せるさ」「っ、ふざけるなっ! そんな余裕、直ぐになくしてやる!」再び、光輝が双聖剣を振りかぶりながら肉薄してきた。その顔には憎しみと嫉妬の色が張り付いている。ハジメが、まるで自分よりも二人のことを考えているかのようで強烈な不快感が胸中を満たしたのだ。激しい剣戟がハジメを襲うが、その全てを焦った様子もなく冷めた表情で捌いていくハジメに、益々黒い感情を滾らせた光輝が堪えきれないといった様子で喚きだした。「お前がっ、お前みたいな奴がっ、わかったような口を利くな! 雫と香織のことを本当にわかっているのは俺だっ。二人のことを誰よりも大切にしているのは俺だっ。俺こそが二人と共にあるべきなんだっ。お前なんかじゃない! 絶対に、お前みたいな奴なんかじゃ!」「......まるで駄々を捏ねるガキだな」光輝が振り回す双聖剣を掻い潜り、ハジメのドンナー&シュラークがゼロ距離からその体を貫いた。しかし、今の光輝は、そんなことでは止まらないらしい。体に穴が空いても、文字通り限界を超えた力で治癒してしまい、ダメージを無視して我武者羅に突っ込んでくる。その姿は、ハジメの言葉通り思い通りにならない現状に駄々を捏ねる子供の姿そのものだった。光輝の負の感情に呼応するように、とっくに超えている肉体の限界を更に無理やり引き上げてスペックが上がっていく。おそらく、とり憑いた虚像が強化されるのに合わせて光輝本人も強化されているのだろう。既にスペック的に見れば、ハジメをして〝限界突破〟を発動しなければ厳しいレベル。繰り出される剣戟の嵐は、かつて戦った神の使徒〝ノイント〟を彷彿とさせる速度と威力を有し、それでもなお足りないと言わんばかりに力は上昇していく。「ぉおおおおおおっ」光輝の口から裂帛の気合が迸った。対するハジメは......無言。光輝のスペックがノイントに勝らずとも劣らずと言えるほど上昇していても、かつてノイントと交わした気迫の雄叫びが飛び出すことはなかった。そして、〝限界突破〟に踏み切ることも、やはりない。届いていないのだ。光輝の攻撃は。どれだけ速さを増そうと、どれだけ力が上がっても、ハジメには掠りもしていない。理由は単純。使い手の精神が未熟な上に、濁っているから。逆上して冷静さを欠き、ただ相手を叩き潰して愉悦に浸りたいだけの攻撃。そんなものでは、きっと、誰にも、どんな場所にも――届きはしない。と、その時、光輝の背後で氷壁の一部が溶け出し通路の出入り口が開いた。光輝の剣戟を捌き、雄叫びと罵詈雑言を受け流しながらハジメが視線を向けると、そこからユエ達全メンバーが出てきた。ハジメと光輝の戦いを見て、目を見開きながら呆然と立ち止まっている。しかし、光輝はそんな彼女達に気がついた様子もなく、ただひたすらハジメを滅殺すべく殺意と憎悪を撒き散らした。「お前さえ、お前さえいなければ、全部上手くいってたんだ! 香織も雫もずっと俺のものだった! この世界で勇者として世界を救えていた! それを、全部お前が滅茶苦茶にしたんだ!」「人殺しのくせにっ。簡単に見捨てるくせにっ。そんな最低なお前が、人から好かれるはずがないんだ!」「......だから、洗脳したって?」「そうだろう! それ以外に何がある! 香織も雫も、ユエもシアもティオも、みんな洗脳して弄んでいるんだっ。どうせ龍太郎や鈴だって洗脳するんだろう!? そうはさせない。俺が勇者なんだ。みんなお前の手から救い出して、全部、全部取り戻す! お前はもう要らないんだよっ!!」その絶叫はユエ達にも聞こえていたのだろう。ユエとシアの目がスっと細くなり、ティオが不快そうに眉根を寄せた。対照的に、香織はショックを受けたように口元を両手で覆っている。幼馴染の余りに勝手で滅茶苦茶な言い分に言葉もないのだろう。それは、龍太郎と鈴も同じようで、呆然と光輝を見つめたまま硬直してしまっている。ハジメは、本当に面倒な奴だと内心で溜息を吐きながら、呆然としているユエ達に〝念話〟を飛ばした。『お前らも無事だったようだな』『......ん。平気。それより、その馬鹿はなに?』『そうですよ。何か随分なこと言ってますけど』ユエとシアから怒りを感じさせる声音が返された。最愛の人を悪しざまに罵られた挙句、不要だと言い捨てられたのだ。加えて、呼び捨てにされたのも何気に気に食わないことだった。ハジメは、そんな二人に小さく笑みをこぼした。『簡単に説明すると、自分の虚像に負けてご都合解釈全開で俺に八つ当たり中ってところだ。虚像を取り込んで力の底上げをしてやがる。自分を取り戻せれば試練クリアなんだろうが......無理だな。八重樫ですら、説得しようとして結局あの様だ』ハジメが光輝に膝蹴りをぶち込み怯ませながらチラリと視線を雫の方へ向ける。ハジメに注目していたユエ達も釣られてそちらに視線を向けて倒れている雫を発見した。『雫ちゃん!』『直撃は防いでおいた。大事はないはずだが、一応見てやってくれ、香織』『も、もちろんだよ! 任せて!』硬直していた香織も、雫の姿を見て我を取り戻したようで慌てたように雫のもとへ駆け寄っていった。その動きで、光輝もようやくユエ達の存在に気がついたようだ。ハジメから距離をとりながら、そちらに視線を向けて目を丸くし、次いでニッコリと微笑みを向けた。「みんな、来てたんだな。少し待っていてくれ。今、こいつを倒してみんなを解放してみせるから」光輝の言葉に、ユエとシア、ティオは不快を通り越して憐れむかのような眼差しを向けた。代わりに龍太郎と鈴が我を取り戻して必死に声を張り上げた。「なに言ってんだよ、光輝! どうしちまったんだ! 正気に戻れよ!」「光輝くん、しっかりして! 倒さなきゃならないのは南雲君じゃなくて、自分自身だよ!」二人の心からの叫びに、光輝は嬉しそうにするどころか憤怒の表情になった。その矛先は案の定、ハジメである。「......南雲。まさか、既に龍太郎と鈴まで洗脳してるなんて。どこまで腐っているんだ。どこまで俺から奪えば気が済むんだ! あぁ、そうか。今、わかったよ。恵里のことも......お前の仕業なんだな? あんな風に豹変するなんておかしいと思っていたんだ。でも、お前が洗脳したんだとすれば全ての辻褄が合う」「合わねぇよ、ド阿呆」「今更、言い訳は見苦しいぞ。必ず罪を償わせてやる」「お前の阿呆さ加減も十分大罪だと思うが......」光輝が雄叫びを上げて双聖剣をかかげた。激しく渦巻く魔力の奔流。余波だけで周囲の地面が吹き飛び天井が消滅していく。膨大な魔力にものを言わせて〝神威〟を放つつもりのようだ。呆れた表情で、ハジメは〝宝物庫〟からボーラを取り出すとそれを光輝に投げつけた。チャージ中だったため回避が遅れて見事に絡みつかれ、両手をかかげたまま空間に固定される光輝。「くっ、卑怯な。だが、これくらいっ」空気を読まない悪役は卑怯者らしい。光輝はハジメを罵りながら魔力を更に上げてボーラの拘束を逃れようとする。だが、ノイントでもない限り数秒で脱することなど出来ようはずもなく、その隙にハジメの方がチャージを完了してしまった。そう、ハジメの手にはいつの間にかシュラーゲンに似たフォルムのライフル銃が握られていたのだ。シュラーゲンと異なるのはその口径だ。バスケットボールがすっぽりはいりそうな大きな発射口が空いている。その巨大な発射口には燦然と輝く紅い魔力の塊が集束していた。魔力砲〝グレンツェン〟――純粋魔力砲撃用アーティファクトだ。【メルジーネ海底遺跡】での経験から、純粋な魔力攻撃が有効となる場合もあるのだと学んで作ったものの、今まで使う機会もなく御蔵入りしていたものだ。〝魔力操作〟の派生〝魔力放射〟〝魔力圧縮〟〝遠隔操作〟の他、〝高速魔力回復〟とその派生〝魔素吸収〟が基本として組み込まれたこの魔力砲は、ハジメの魔力だけでなく外界の魔力も高速で集束し、重力魔法と合わせて超圧縮することができる。圧縮された魔力が多ければ多いほど対象が吹き飛ばされる魔力量も多くなる。そして、今、集束された魔力量はステータスの数値に換算するなら優に一万を超える量。いくら常軌を逸した強化をしたとはいえ、光輝は散々力任せに魔力を消費し続けたのだ。結果はわかりきったものである。「自分の言葉は否定しても、せめて八重樫の言葉だけは受け止めるべきだったな」ハジメは、そう言って集束された魔力量に目を剥き焦燥を浮かべる光輝に向かって、グレンツェンの引き金を引いた。「お前がっ、お前さえいなければっ。俺がっ――」次の瞬間、シュラーゲンに似た紅い閃光が螺旋を描く砲撃となって光輝に直進し、その姿を余さず呑み込んだ。香織と治癒されて目を覚ました雫、そして龍太郎と鈴が息を呑む音が響いた。轟音も破壊も起こらない静かな砲撃は広い空間を鮮やかな紅に染め上げ、氷壁をガーネットのように煌めかせる。ある意味、幻想的とも言える光景だ。やがて極太だった閃光は細くなっていき、宙に溶け込むように霧散していった。その後には、やはり破壊痕など一切なく、無傷の光輝が現れた。ボーラによる拘束は既に解けている。カランッ! カランッ! 硬質な音が響いた。光輝が二振りの聖剣を落とした音だ。同時に、黒い聖剣の方が揺らめきながら消えてしまった。見れば、光輝の瞳も赤黒かった片目が元に戻り、髪も元の色を取り戻していた。聖なる鎧も赤黒い筋が消えている。完全に元に戻ったようだ。「ち、力が消えて......うっ、まだ、まだだ......俺は、全部、取り戻して......」ハジメの魔力砲撃は光輝の内に巣食う虚像の要素をも吹き飛ばしたのだろう。姿が元に戻ったのに合わせて魔力が湧き上がることもなくなったようだ。今は、枯渇寸前の微々たる魔力しか感じない。光輝は今にも飛びそうな意識を必死につなぎ止めながら、うわ言のように同じ言葉を繰り返した。そして、ふらつきつつも聖剣を拾おうとする。そこへ、グレンツェンを〝宝物庫〟にしまったハジメが歩み寄り、その胸倉を掴んで持ち上げた。「離せ!」と怒声を上げたい光輝だったが、締めつけが強すぎて呻き声しか出ない。ハジメの剣呑な眼差しを見て、光輝が殺されるのではと飛び出そうとした龍太郎達だったが、それをティオが押し止める。大丈夫だとでも言うように微笑を浮かべて。ハジメは光輝を締め上げながら、その視線を寄り添い合う雫と香織に向けた。雫も香織も悲痛そうな、懇願するような眼差しを向けている。そんな二人にハジメは溜息を吐くと、如何にも「しょうがねぇなぁ」といった雰囲気で肩を竦めた。二人の表情がふわっと柔らかくなる。光輝に向き直ったハジメは、皆が見守る中、静かな、されどよく響く声音で言葉を投げつけた。「もう一遍、人生やり直して来い。大馬鹿野郎」直後、ハジメの右手――生身の拳が光輝の顔面を捉えた。ただ純粋に握り締めただけの拳によるストレート。ゴガッ! と音を響かせて、そのまま地面に叩きつけられた光輝は、あっさり意識を飛ばして白目を向いた。駆け寄ってくる香織や雫、他のメンバー達。ハジメは倒れた光輝を見ながら、「万が一ノイントが沢山いた場合に備えて肉壁を増やしておこう作戦✩」なんてものを立てたバチが当たったのだろうかと、頬をポリポリと掻きながら面倒そうに溜息を吐くのだった。	Pure white radiance became a large waterfall that poured down from overhead. That was the scene that Hajime witnessed upon passing the ice wall while carrying the pleasantly sleeping Shizuku on his back. Hajime understood the true meaning of what happened. Because if this was just a misunderstanding made because he was confused for a monster or something using a ‘Yaegashi Barrier’, then the attack would surely be stopped desperately. Immediately after, the spot where Hajime was just at was struc by a brutal slash, a deep crack being created on the ice ground and wall followed by a thunderous roar. Hajime sent a glance at the false image that was grinning widely in a slightly distanced spot, then he fixed the position of Shizuku on his back while narrowing his eyes at the culprit of the act of violence. Shizuku didn’t succumb even to the thunderous roar of the attack and only twitched for a moment before continuing her sleep. Was she really that tired? Or perhaps she was so in peace that she wouldn’t react to a danger of this level? There was also the possibility that she was just merely being shameless, though... “... So? What are you doing, Amanogawa?” Yes, exactly as Hajime said, the culprit of the attack was Kouki. It wasn’t the false image, but the real one without any doubt. That Kouki tightly gripped his holy sword that was still half-buried into the half-crushed ground while grumbling something. His bangs hung low, hiding his eyes so his expression couldn’t be seen clearly, but he was obviously not in a normal state. “Haa? I cannot hear that. Anyway, your opponent is not us, it’s over...” “... Us?” Hajime frowned because he couldn’t really catch Kouki’s murmur while directing his gaze at the false image. He did that while implicitly telling Kouki to attack the enemy without mistake next time. However, Kouki showed an excessive reaction to a part of Hajime’s words. Piercing eyes peeked out from between his bangs, then his stabbed holy sword was forcefully pulled out. “The way you say that is like you and Shizuku are one set, isn’t it? Eh? What, the way you are talking is like she belongs to you? Are you screwing around?” “... Just what are you saying? Don’t say such a stupid thing, finish this quickly.” Kouki directed the attack at Hajime’s bloodshot look while dragging the holy sword. The unclear meaning of Kouki’s words made Hajime feel an unpleasant premonition while he urged Kouki to clear the trial. However, as expected, Hajime’s words couldn’t get through to the current Kouki. “... Ah, I’ll end it now. Even without you telling me every little thing, I’ll end everything!” The moment he yelled that Kouki faced Hajime with a gaze that emitted madness from his opened pupils while charging forward. His figure hazed using ‘Implosion Ground’ while he pressed hard in one go and then unleashed a slash of light filled with enormous magic power. “Tch, so you fell. You stupid *****.” “Shut up! Everything will return to before if you die-! DIE RIGHT NOWWWW!” Hajime guessed the cause of Kouki’s eccentricity. Surely this was the result of his false image cornering him so much. Then, Hajime looked over his shoulder at Shizuku who was entrusting her body on his back, “So I’m the finishing blow...” he murmured in a small voice while frowning about his bad timing. Kouki completely ignored that murmur of Hajime and he only recklessly held his holy sword at full power with a seething killing intent and hatred. He was obviously trying to kill Hajime. Regardless of Shizuku who was on Hajime’s back, Kouki attacked without holding back and Hajime concluded that he wasn’t sane. “Nn, nmuu, what? Let me sleep a little mo...” “You idiot! How can you sleep talk in this situation! If you don’t wake up right now, then I’ll make you into a human cannonball, just so you know!” Looking at the half-asleep face of Shizuku who was peevish like a spoiled child, Hajime made a violently irritated look and yelled angrily. If she didn’t wake up in one second, then he was seriously planning on punching Kouki. Hajime’s angry yell, the thunderous roar, and a flash of the cannon of light that was released right after that finally made Shizuku open and widen her eyes in shock. Hajime deployed the barrier using cross bits so the attack didn’t reach them, but the scenery in front of her eyes finally made her notice that they were in the middle of battle, and she dejectedly got down from Hajime’s back. “You slept too much, like a log just now. What a shameless fellow.” “I’m not shameless or anything. It’s just that Nagumo-kun’s back felt so...” “Well, it doesn’t matter about you, Yaegashi. Putting that aside, do something about it.” “Doesn’t matter what you say... or rather this situation, what happened... eh?” Shizuku got teary eyed from quite the shock that she received by Hajime’s exasperated expression and words. However, after the flash settled down she saw the figure of the opponent that seemed to be the one who unleashed that attack. This caused her to leak out a dumbfounded voice while her body turned rigid. That surely couldn’t be helped, because the opponent who unleashed the attack with an obviously high chance of casualties was a childhood friend she was familiar with. “It seems that he fell, see? It feels like he’s thinking that I am exactly the root of all evil.” “That’s...” Ahead of her gaze was the false image of Kouki. He was sending them an amused look. Shizuku who guessed the general situation filled her gaze with strength and then raised her voice at Kouki who was looking at them with clouded eyes. “Kouki! Don’t do this! You mustn’t lose to your other self! Come back to your senses, overcome yourself!” The gaze of Shizuku who was looking at Kouki was colored only with worry. Even though there were various troubles with him, he was still a good childhood friend of hers who was overflowing with good intention. He was an acquaintance of hers, including his family, from when they were children to now. He was like her important family. And now his expression was warped with killing intent and hatred that she had never seen before. However, toward such a Shizuku, Kouki smiled and said something outrageous. “... It’s fine. I swear that I will save Shizuku without fail.” “Kouki? What are you saying...?” “You are brainwashed by Nagumo, right? It’s okay. You will be freed if Nagumo is defeated.... Nagumo, even though you are my former classmate, don’t think that you can get off scot free after hurting my important childhood friend. I’ll defeat you, and release all your brainwashing of Kaori and the other girls too! And then, I’ll save the world together with them!” Shizuku was dumbstruck at Kouki’s outrageous declaration. The current Kouki, so to speak, could be considered like the Kouki had Shizuku not spoken with him the night when Kaori departed with Hajime’s group previously. At that night, the weight filled inside Shizuku’s words stopped Kouki from running wild. He couldn’t immediately change the way he thought since there was also a lot of aspects in Hajime he was bothered with. That was why he bumped against Hajime over and over again, but even so, because he had the words of Shizuku, he wouldn’t say anything about Kaori too, as long as there was no complete separation between her and Hajime. However, to put it in other words, it could also be said that Kouki could do that only because Shizuku was at his side. Kouki’s sense of value and thought were perhaps included with ‘childishness’. He kept carrying the ‘ideal righteousness’ that was planted in his infancy without any wall of reality standing in his way, and he kept it like that until his current age, so perhaps this was only the logical development. For such a childish Kouki, if the last female childhood friend where he directed his desire to monopolize was taken, then it would also seem natural that his ‘temper’ would explode. Although, the temper of Kouki who was holding the power of a hero wasn’t a laughing matter at all... Furthermore, Kouki who held a ‘childishness’ that wasn’t eager to recognize one’s own fault was thoroughly cornered by the reality that was shoved on his face by his false image. The emotion that wasn’t fitting for a hero like him was overflowing from inside his heart, carving into him like a slashing blade. He desperately denied it. He averted his eyes. And when he just barely held his ground, his last fortress that was Shizuku was entrusting her body with a happy expression that obviously wouldn’t be shown to a man that was nothing to her. Even the thickheaded Kouki could guess just what the meaning of that was. And then exactly because he could guess that. his fortress crumbled. Kouki’s bad habit coupled with his cornered heart manifested in the worst way. That was to say, Nagumo Hajime was the root of all evil who brainwashed his childhood friends and multiple other girls, who then became a hindrance for him who was trying to save the world. That was the impression his heart was set on. A really convenient interpretation without holding back. “Kouki! Get a hold of yourself! I don’t know what was told to you, but don’t go astray!” “Listen, Kouki. Facing your own disgusting part is really painful. I understand that well because I also almost died from that. But if you don’t accept and overcome it, then you won’t be able to move forward. If you want to become strong and save a lot of people, then you must not cling to convenient thinking here. Your enemy is yourself. It’s the other smirking Kouki there! Open your eyes!” Shizuku’s desperate persuasion echoed inside the space. It seemed that the false image intended to observe the current situation silently in amusement. And then Kouki who was being told by Shizuku using words from her heart smiled widely at Shizuku. That was a smile that was done a lot when they were in Japan, a smile that charmed a lot of girls. However, right now it felt distorted somewhere in it. “Thank you, Shizuku. Shizuku, you always become serious like that for my sake, don’t you?” Shizuku’s expression was dyed in joy thinking that he had opened his eyes. But... “I’m really happy. Even though you are brainwashed, even so, you still think of me.” “It’s fine. I’ll defeat that man and that monster with the same face like me, and I’ll save you from Nagumo too. You don’t need to snuggle close to a man that you don’t even like anymore. I swear I’ll let Shizuku return back to the place where you should be at.” Shizuku’s expression fell hearing out Kouki’s words. Shizuku silently asked back... “... The place I should be at? Can you tell me where this place is that you mean?” “I see. ... So now you cannot even understand that. How pitiful. What Nagumo is doing is really unforgivable.” “Kouki. Answer me.” “Aah, that is of course, at my side. Just like all this time until now, and from here on out too.” Shizuku breathed out a long sigh. “... Kouki. I wonder if you remember about that night? That day Kaori departed when we talked on the bridge.” “Yeah, of course, I remember. That thing about doubting my righteousness, right? It’s fine. I thought that Nagumo was dangerous guy since the beginning, but because of Shizuku’s words, I was looking thoroughly at Nagumo until now. But, as expected, he is nothing more than the worst betrayer.” “There is no use arguing. You don’t understand because you are brainwashed Shizuku, but this is something ‘righteous’.” Kouki cut down the words of Shizuku that was going to keep arguing vehemently without hesitation. He was putting everything under the convenient interpretation of ‘being brainwashed’, in order to obtain the most desirable future for himself. At the same time, Kouki directed those eyes which were cloudy like slime and dropped his stance. The radiance of ‘Limit Break’ that he intentionally weakened while he was talking with Shizuku recovered its brilliant radiance as though regaining a second breath. “Kouki. Stop it!” Shizuku raised her voice to stop him with impatience coloring her tone but... naturally Kouki didn’t stop. He charged with a fierce momentum while leaving a track of light behind. His eyes already didn’t reflect Shizuku at all, he was only seeing the figure of his hateful enemy Hajime. Having a fierce killing intent directed at him, Hajime who was until now looking aside as though what happened wasn’t a concern of his now returned his gaze at Kouki. His eyes were quickly narrowing. The face of Shizuku’s face went pale because she believed that it wouldn’t end well for the opponent when they directed a serious killing intent at Hajime. At this rate, her childhood friend would be killed! “-, if I don’t stop him-“ In front of the charging momentum of Kouki who was in the ‘Limit Break’ state, the likes of Shizuku was just like a leaf. But even so, there was no way she could just leave this alone, and Shizuku immediately cut in between Kouki and Hajime to try to stop him. “Yaegashi, to your right.” Almost at the same time as Hajime’s warning, she suddenly heard the false image of Kouki clad in reddish-black magic power attacking Shizuku. It was literally like the phrase of thrusting a spear from the side, and the false image commenced a tackle right from the side with terrific momentum. (TN: The phrase had the meaning of interruption in Japan.) Shizuku immediately held up her black katana and braced herself for impact. At the same time the fast-approaching Kouki that could be mistaken as a reddish-black cannon was noticeably grinning disgustingly. But just before the fake Kouki touched Shizuku, a shadow suddenly erupted between the two... That was, a cross clad in wrong magic power similar to the false Kouki. It was a crossbit that contained a really vivid red radiance. It activated ‘Vajra’ and became an improvised shield. The dregs of the reddish black magic power drifted like a lingering cloud between the two people glaring. {I’ll be Shizuku’s opponent. You, you can fight your hateful enemy to your heart’s content.} “Guh, you-. Let go of me! This is not the time for something like...” {Now now, this is not related to me and Shizuku, is it? Let’s enjoy a sideshow while those two are dancing. Rather than self-destruction, getting possessed with his own desire is more fitting for that guy’s trial.} “Doing as you please-“ It appeared that the false image made the trial for Kouki similar to Ryuutaro’s, where it incorporated the factor where he needed to win against his own desire. Whether Kouki could accept reality and return to his sense while fighting Hajime or not... that was the trial. It was a real nuisance for Hajime to be treated like an examiner as the labyrinth pleased. “Is it fine? Your important childhood friend is being attacked there.” “... That thing is also me. He won’t kill her. Some wound will surely be a lesson for her to get so easily brainwashed by a man like you.” “... Just now, didn’t you say that thing was a monster?” “It is a mimicking monster that copies my emotion, right? Then, even though it’s a monster then it won’t kill Shizuku.” That was too much of a convenient interpretation. While he concluded that it was a monster unrelated to himself, he said that it wouldn’t put Shizuku into danger because it was something that copied himself. It was really absurd. Most likely inside his heart, Kouki understood that the false image was made up from his negative emotion already. That was why he subconsciously understood that Shizuku was safe because the negative emotions wouldn’t aim at her. But, if he recognized that then it would mean that he recognized what the false image said as the truth. That was why, in order to throw away everything else other than Shizuku as bullshit, he concluded that it wasn’t his false image but a monster. It was a crooked logic that was too forceful, but it seemed that it had become a truth inside Kouki. “Prepare yourself. I won’t let you do as you please any more than this. Shizuku and Kaori, then Yue and the others too, I’ll release everyone from you!” At the same time as that proclamation, Kouki released the energy he gathered and explosively charged forward. He let out a wood chopping strike from the front without any hesitation. Along with a terrific sound of cut wind, the holy sword that looked as though it was made from light itself attacked Hajime violently. However, in front of such a lethal attack, Hajime didn’t take even a step back and he only raised his arm. the sound of metals clashing and sparks scattered, Kouki’s full strength attack was easily blocked. Even more, it was blocked by the gun point of Donner. Kouki was shocked and leaked out a voice reflexively, Hajime directed a cold gaze at Kouki and opened his mouth. “There is nothing more meaningless than insulting a true idiot as an idiot... But, I’ll just say this much... ***, who permitted a ***** like you to name my woman so casually? Huh?” (EN: Kouki used their first names, which is being a little too familiar in Japan) Immediately after, a torrent of killing intent was overflowing. The pressure was like the pressing of a great waterfall. It was too vast to be called human, a presence of overwhelming ‘strength’ that was too terrifying. Kouki’s body that was struck with the serious monster’s coercion from close range was unintentionally stiffening. DOPAN! The trigger of Donner was pulled and an electromagnetically accelerated bullet flicked off the holy sword, plugging the muzzle as though it was insulted that it was in the way. And then, toward Kouki that was making a banzai posture with only one hand, a black shadow from lower region?Hajime’s sure-kill yakuza kick lunged. The yakuza kick that struck Kouki’s stomach with a dreadful sound of impact made Kouki’s body double into a sideways ‘V’ shape while floating him in the air like that. A sound of impact resonated once more. Kouki’s body was blown far away as though a large truck was running over him. Kouki that flew horizontally like a cannon had his back struck by an ice wall like that. One could only wonder just how great of an impact that was. The ice wall on his back was largely pulverized into a radial shape. Kouki fell on the ground after that, he was on all four while coughing. Blood splattered out from his vomiting mouth. With just a kick without a weapon or ‘Limit Break’, the internal organs of Kouki who was wearing an armor artifact of national treasure class was damaged. That fact made Kouki grit his teeth while groaning painfully. But, there was no way Hajime would give him time to be frustrated or anything. DOPAN-! DOPAN-! DOPAN-! Consecutive sounds of gun discharge roared, and red flashes assaulted the crouching Kouki. Perhaps he noticed Hajime’s killing intent. Kouki leaped aside almost at the same time Hajime pulled the trigger, but it was as though even his dodging direction was read, that the moment Kouki jumped, the third bullet shot through his shoulder. Furthermore, one of the bullets that Kouki evaded earlier seemed to be a normal bullet that was only clad in red magic power without being accelerated electromagnetically, when it impacted the broken ice wall behind Kouki it ricocheted, and red light attacked “Gua... co, come, holy sword-“ While rolling all over the ground with blood flowing from his shoulder and leg, the collapsed Kouki reached out his hand at the falling holy sword at a slightly distant spot. The holy sword responded to Kouki’s calling voice and flew at him. However, it didn’t settle into Kouki’s hand. Just before it reached, Hajime stepped on the sword. The holy sword struggled to return to its master, but such resistance was meaningless as the stepping foot didn’t even twitch. “How unsightly. If you can skillfully use this new ability then surely you will be able to fight better.” Hajime murmured with a cold tone. He was just speaking to himself without intention for Kouki to hear it, but it seemed Kouki heard it completely. He glared at Hajime with an expression warped in hatred as though he was trying to kill him with his gaze. Donner was pointed at the temple of Kouki. Hajime’s killing intent wasn’t settled yet. He was maintaining the gruesome thickness of his intent that might stop the heart of a normal person. No matter who saw it, it appeared that Hajime intended to deal the finishing blow. But, a desperate voice resonated at that timing. “Nagumo-kun! Please, stop! I’ll persuade Kouki, so-“ It was Shizuku. While locked in a sword fight with the false Kouki, she begged for him to spare Kouki’s life with a look colored by fretfulness. But it became a fatal opening, and the development that Shizuku wished wasn’t something that the false image wished for. Therefore... {How about Shizuku leave the stage for a little bit?} The shockwave from the false image launched and assaulted Shizuku. Shizuku was struck like that on her whole body, and she was blown away altogether with her consciousness until she hit the wall and collapsed powerlessly while sliding onto the ground. Because a crossbit interfered between the two just before the attack hit and became a shield, it seemed that Shizuku was rescued from a direct hit, but for Shizuku who had a low defensive power even in the best of times, furthermore the might of a hero’s pure output, added by Kouki’s thorough rejection of his own negative emotion that strengthened the false image into something far stronger than the real one, just a glancing blow turned into a sufficient enough telling blow. Different from a pure slashing attack, it was a shockwave that induced cerebral concussion, so without taking a recovery measure she wouldn’t open her eyes for a while. The false image of Kouki floated a satisfied smile from his success of skillfully making Shizuku faint, he then turned on his heel and faced Hajime. And then, with a really natural motion, he thrust out his black holy sword and launched a strong bombing of light. The approaching flash that was drawing in a spiral was on a course that would swallow Kouki with certainty too. Was the false image trying to bury the both of them altogether?... Anyway, Hajime withdrew from that spot. He left Kouki behind. Kouki reflexively screamed and took a defensive stance, but just before the light bombing hit, it curved and began to chase after Hajime. Hajime discovered the cover of the bombing with his magic eye stone and easily succeeded in pinpoint sniping that dispersed the attack. However, the false image successfully managed to distance Hajime from Kouki just as planned. The false image walked toward Kouki’s side and he whispered something into the ear of the laid-down Kouki. While his mouth split apart into a grin that looked like a crescent moon, his figure that was likely whispering sweet words looked like a demon. There was no way that Kouki could admit that figure was his other self anymore like that. Before long, Kouki’s bloodshot gaze was looking alternately at Hajime and the false image, and he then nodded reluctantly. Right after that, the figure of the false image thinned down like mist and in exchange reddish-black particles of light began to whirl. {Now you. It’s hero time. Let’s rescue the heroines from the scoundrel!} “Shut up-. I’m not doing your instruction. I’m only using you for now! After defeating Nagumo, it will be your turn, don’t forget that-“ At the same time as those words, reddish black particles were entering into Kouki’s body and Kouki’s body began to pulse. Kouki slowly stood up. Looking carefully, the wounds in his shoulder and leg were also healing. It appeared that the derivative ability Kouki had, ‘Healing Strength Improvement’ was explosively increased. There, a shooting without questions asked. Something like a kindness for reading the mood by a villain facing a hero, waiting for the transformation scene, was something that Hajime didn’t have. And while he was at it, he also threw several grenades. Red flashes gouged Kouki’s shoulder and leg, making him unsteady on his feet. “That’s pointless.” That voice sounded like it was including joy in it somewhere as if it was trembling in happiness. It seemed that not much damage was inflicted, the magic power that had changed colors from pure white into reddish-black burst up and blew away the flame. There, the figure of Kouki who became odd-eyed with one of his eyes dyed reddish-black appeared. Even the scar from the shot just now had been mostly healed. The change in his appearance wasn’t just his eye, his originally brown hair was mixed with white mesh, his holy armor was attached with several blood vessel thingies. Furthermore, at his hands, black and white, two holy swords were grasped. “You combined?” “It’s not my intention, but yeah. If it’s for defeating you, then I’ll resign myself to accept it. Although later, I’ll defeat this guy too.” “What are you acting like a good kid for? You are just losing to the temptation.” “You can insult me however you like. No matter what you say, you cannot win against me anymore. If there is this welling up strength then I can take back everything!” “Why you are unable to notice that you got hit by loss because of that, I wonder.” “No more talk. Prepare yourself Nagumo-! ‘Supreme Break’!” Magic power burst up from Kouki in an even further scale of several times more. The last derivative of ‘Limit Break’ that raised up all his status by five times, ‘Supreme Break’?the strength of Kouki who had taken in his false image had already reached the total of ten thousand. It was literally a rate of increase in monster level. Kouki made a stance with his twin holy swords. In an instant his figure hazed. A yell of spirit could be heard behind Hajime. Kouki had circled at Hajime’s back instantly. Two holy swords trailed behind white and reddish black magic power behind while carving a cross at Hajime’s back. Hajime didn’t even look back. (Got him!) flash pierced his torso that became defenseless. The defensive power of the armor that had been drastically increased and the ‘Physical Resistance’ skill as well as its derivative ‘Impact Mitigation’ made the attack not fatal, but an impact like a normal person receiving the serious body blow of a heavyweight boxer attacked Kouki and blew him away grandly backward. ‘How? He should not be able to react.’, even while his breath was blocked up, Kouki rearranged his stance in the air and landed. Ahead of his gaze, there was the appearance of Donner’s muzzle facing behind with only Hajime’s wrist turning back. Looking at that, Kouki realized that it wasn’t because Hajime couldn’t react, it was that he didn’t even need to turn back. Kouki’s expression distorted in humiliation. He put strength on his feet, then he swung down his twin holy swords while screaming, ignoring the pain in his stomach. “‘Heaven Soaring Sword – Storm’!” Like that, what he launched was hundreds of slashes scattered in a wide range. Just the visible blades of light had been already in a hundred, and nearly three hundred blades of wind were following, lurking at the shadow. The attack was already at a level of obliteration magic. But such a storm of hundreds of slashes was evaded by Hajime with a swaying motion like a leaf fluttering in the wind, what couldn’t be evaded was swept aside or averted. The bullet that went through the gap like a joke stabbed under Kouki’s feet and scattered grand shockwave, overturning Kouki from under his feet. And then Hajime himself also slipped through the storm of blades and approached Kouki with speed equal, no, it was faster than Kouki, and he kicked Kouki as though he was a soccer ball. Kouki immediately kicked the air using ‘Sky Force’ to try to escape from the line of fire, but the two revolvers’ muzzles didn’t shift from Kouki even for a bit and aimed at his future spot. Kouki’s expression unintentionally cramped. The scene became slow as though Kouki and Hajime’s senses were stretched out. Inside the world of dull color, just before Hajime pulled the trigger, he caught the figure of Shizuku at the corner of his sight. Her figure that desperately tried to persuade Kouki and her entreaty to spare his life flashed at the back of Hajime’s mind. At the same time, he also recalled the figure of Kaori who was also this guy’s childhood friend. Hajime clicked his tongue ‘tch’ a bit, averted his gun muzzles a bit, and he pulled the triggers consecutively with blurring speed. DOPAAAAN! The sound of a single gunshot that was slightly stretched was the proof of the simultaneous shots. Like a reversely-restored meteors, red flashes cut through the air, showering Kouki in the air with blows. Like a marionette that was unsightly manipulated by children, that resonated. Looking from the side perhaps it looked like a corpse that had been gouged by many bullets. But, that guess was denied immediately by the movement that came from Kouki. He wasted no time to stand up using the twin holy swords as support. Blood was spurting out from his shoulders, both arms, and both legs, but those were healed in a moment. His bloodshot eyes were colored with madness, turning his look even more gruesomely. There was not even a trace of the hero who was stuffed with the dream and hope of the people anymore. “You are holding back? Are you making fun of me?” All of the places he was shot at weren’t vital spots. It was an attack that was transparently tried to make the opponent powerless. Therefore, Kouki felt like he wasn’t even seen as an opponent even though here he was fighting to kill. Inside his chest, a muddy black part was further welling up. while answering easily as though it was nothing. “Well, you who fall that far is just troublesome and it’s better to kill you but... if I do that Yaegashi and Kaori will cry. I’ll beat you up appropriately and I’ll leave the rest to your childhood friends.” “-, don’t screw with me-! I’ll make you lose that composure right now!” Once more Kouki brandished his twin holy swords while approaching closer. Hatred and jealousy were attached on his face. It seemed that Hajime was thinking about the two girls more than himself, it made severe displeasure fill his chest. Fierce swordplay assaulted Hajime, but everything was handled by him with a cold expression without any hurry, seeing that the black emotion was more and more seething in Kouki and he shouted, unable to bear it. “You-, someone like you-, don’t speak as though you understand! The one who really understand Shizuku and Kaori is me-. The one who treasured the two of them more than anyone is me-. I am the one that should be together with the two of them-. It’s not the likes of you! It’s absolutely not a guy like you!” “... You are like a brat throwing tantrum.” Slipping through the twin holy swords Kouki brandished, Hajime’s Donner & Schlag pierced his body from range zero. However, the current Kouki was unstoppable by something like that. Even though holes were opened in his body, it was healed with power that literally surpassed any limit. Kouki ignored the damage and recklessly charged. That figure was exactly like Hajime said, a figure of a kid that was throwing a tantrum because the situation wasn’t going as he wished it. As though hailing Kouki’s negative emotion, the spec of his flesh that had passed its limit a long time ago was forcefully raising even more. Most likely the possessing false image was strengthened and Kouki himself was also strengthened following that. Looking at the spec, Kouki was already at the level that neared Hajime without ‘Limit Break’ activated. The storm of swordplay that was unleashed possessed speed and might that resembled the apostle of god ‘Nointo’, even so, his power was still increasing as though to say that it still wasn’t enough. “OOOOOOOOO-“ The shrieking of fighting spirit surged from Kouki’s mouth. On the other hand, Hajime was... silent. Even with Kouki’s spec raising to a level that wasn’t inferior to Nointo even though it wasn’t superior too, but Hajime didn’t let loose the roar of fighting spirit like what he exchanged with Nointo once. And then as expected, he also didn’t take a plunge into ‘Limit Break’. It didn’t reach Kouki’s attack. No matter how fast it became, no matter how strong it got, it didn’t even graze Hajime. The reason was simple. The user’s mental area was inexperienced, on top of that it was dull. The attack was frenzied and lacked calmness, the attack was merely wanting to crush the opponent and soaked in joy. Something like that, against anyone, in any kind of place, would surely not reach. And, at that time, a part of the ice wall behind Kouki melted and an entrance of a passage opened. Hajime sent his gaze there while warding off Kouki’s war cry and vilification, there Yue and others, all the members came out. Seeing Hajime and Kouki’s fight, their eyes opened wide and they stood still with a dumbfounded look. However, Kouki didn’t even notice them at all, he was merely scattering his hatred and killing intent earnestly in order to kill Hajime. “If only, if only you weren’t here, everything will go well! Kaori and also Shizuku would belong to me forever! I would have saved this world as a hero! You, you are the one that messed up everything!” “Even though you are a killer-. Even though you easily abandoned others-. There is no way someone who is the worst can be liked by people!” “... And so, I brainwashed them?” “That’s right! There is no other explanation except that! Kaori and Shizuku, and Yue and Shia and Tio too, everyone was brainwashed and played around by you. Sooner or later you are going to brainwash Ryuutaro and Suzu too, aren’t you!? I won’t let you. I am a hero. I’ll save everyone from your hand, I’ll take back everything, everything! You are not needed anymore-!” That scream was also audible to Yue and others too. The eyes of Yue and Shia narrowed dangerously, and Tio frowned in displeasure. In contrast, Kaori covered his mouth with both hands from the shock she received. She didn’t even have any word toward the absurd grievance of his childhood friend that was too egoist. Ryuutaro and Suzu were also the same, they were staring in a daze at Kouki while being completely stiff. Hajime made a long sigh inside his heart thinking that this was really one troublesome guy while transmitting ‘Telepathy’ to Yue and others. {Looks like you all are safe too.} {... Nn. All good. Rather than that, what’s with that idiot?} {That’s right. He is saying a really reprehensible thing.} Yue and Shia returned back to a tone that felt angry. Their beloved person was cursed unfavorably and in the end was declared as unneeded. In addition, they inadvertently also couldn’t stomach Kouki calling them without an honorific. Hajime leaked out a small smile at the two. {To explain it simply, he lost to his false image and now he is in the middle of venting his anger with his convenient interpretation in full throttle. He took in his false image and his strength was raised. Looks like he can clear the trial if he regains himself, but... that looks impossible. Even Yaegashi, she tried to persuade him but in the end, she ended up like that.} Hajime threw a kick at Kouki’s knee to make him flinch while sending his gaze at Shizuku’s direction. Yue and others whose attention were lured by Hajime also sent their gazes there and discovered the fainted Shizuku. {Shizuku-chan!} {She wasn’t hit directly. She shouldn’t be seriously wounded, but for the moment, look at her Kaori.} {Oh, of course! Leave it to me!} Kaori who was petrified recovered her senses when she saw Shizuku’s figure and she rushed at her in panic. That motion finally made Kouki notice the existence of Yue and the others too. He took distance from Hajime while turning his gaze at them with wide eyes, next he smiled widely at them. “Everyone, you all came. Wait a little for me. I swear that I’ll beat this guy and release everyone right now.” Kouki’s words made Yue, Shia, and Tio go past displeasure and now they directed a pitying gaze at him. In exchange, Ryuutaro and Suzu came back to their senses and they yelled desperately. “Just what are you saying, Kouki? What the hell! Come back to your senses!” “Kouki-kun, pull yourself together! The one that you must defeat isn’t Nagumo-kun, it’s yourself!” Hearing those heartfelt yells of the two, instead of being happy, Kouki’s expression turned into rage. As expected, the target of that rage was Hajime. “... Nagumo. Don’t tell me, you have even brainwashed Ryuutaro and Shizuku? Just how rotten are you? How much you are going to steal from me until you are satisfied?! “It doesn’t make sense you know, idiot.” “Making excuses this late is just unsightly. I’ll make you atone for your sin for sure.” “I think that idiocy to your level is already a big enough sin, though...” Kouki screamed and raised his twin holy swords. A torrent of magic power fiercely whirled. The surrounding ground was blown away just from the waves and the ceiling was obliterated. It seemed that he planned to unleash ‘Heaven Might’ using the tremendous magic power. With an exasperated expression, Hajime took out a Bola from ‘Treasure Warehouse’ and threw it to Kouki. Because he was in the middle of charging, Kouki was late in dodging and he got splendidly entangled, he was fixed in place with both his hands bounded immobile in the air. “Ugh, you coward. But, just this much-“ It seemed that a villain that couldn’t read the mood was a coward. Kouki insulted Hajime while raising his magic power even more in an attempt to escape from Bola. But as long as it wasn’t Nointo then it shouldn’t be possible to escape from it in several seconds, in that time Hajime had finished charging. Yes, in Hajime’s hand a rifle with a shape that resembled Schlagen was grasped before anyone was aware. What was different from Schlagen was its caliber. Its firing mouth that could be filled with a basket ball smoothly was wide open. A lump of red magic power shining brilliantly was converged in that large firing mouth. Magic power cannon ‘Grenzen’??a pure magic power bombardment artifact. From his experience in Merujiine Undersea Ruins, there was also some situation where a pure magic power attack would be useful, so Hajime learned and created this. Although until now, there was no chance to use it, so it was something that was shelved. The derivative of ‘Magic Power Manipulation’ that was ‘Magic Power Emission’,‘Magic Power Compression’, ‘Remote Control’, also ‘High-Speed Magic Power Recovery’ and its derivative ‘Magic Source Absorption’, all those skills were used as a base and included into the magic power cannon. It focused not just Hajime’s magic power but also the magic power of the outside world, combined with gravity magic so it could compress that magic power. The more the compressed magic power was then the more the amount of magic power of the target would be blown away. And then right now the amount of the focused magic power was in the amount that would easily surpass ten thousand if it was converted into a status number. No matter how much Kouki had been strengthened outside of the proper track, Kouki was continuously consuming magic power thoroughly with all his might. The result was something that could be easily understood. “Even if you deny your own words, at the very least you should accept Yaegashi’s words.” Hajime said that and aimed the focused magic power at Kouki who was opening his eyes wide in panic, and then the trigger was pulled. “You-, if only you were not here-. I??” The scream that was filled with Kouki’s hatred resonated. The next moment, a red flash that resembled Schlagen traced a spiral, turning into a bombardment that rushed at Kouki, and his figure was completely swallowed without any spot spared. Shizuku who was healed by Kaori had opened her eyes, and then Ryuutaro and Suzu gulped audibly. The silent bombardment that didn’t make any roar or destruction dyed the spacious room with a vivid red, and the ice wall was sparkling like a garnet. In a certain meaning, it was a spectacle that could be called fantastical. Before long the thick flash thinned down, it melted into the air and dispersed. After that, it was as expected there was no trace of destruction at all, and Kouki appeared without any wound. The binding due to the Bola had been released. karan-! karan-! The stiff sound resonated. It was the sound of Kouki dropping his two holy swords. At the same time, the black holy sword flickered while disappearing. Looking at it, Kouki’s eye that was reddish-black also returned to normal, his hair also recovered its original color. Reddish-black veins also disappeared from the holy armor. It appeared that he had completely returned to normal. “My, my strength is vanishing... uu, again, still again... I will take back, everything...” Hajime’s magic power cannon had blown away the factor of the false image nesting inside Kouki. Matching with his return to his original appearance, the magic power had also stopped welling up from inside. Right now, Kouki could only feel the slight magic power just before it dried up. Kouki was desperately tying down his consciousness that even now was going to sink into darkness while repeating talk in delirium. And then he was trying to pick up his holy sword even while staggering. There Hajime who had stored back Grenzen into ‘Treasure Warehouse’ approached, he grasped Kouki’s collar and lifted him up. “Release me!” Kouki yelled angrily, but the clamping hand was too strong that he could only groan. Seeing Hajime’s dangerous look, Ryuutaro thought that Kouki was going to get killed and he was about to jump, but he was stopped by Tio. Tio smiled as though to say that it would be okay. Hajime lifted up Kouki while he sent his gaze at Kaori and Shizuku who were cuddling close to each other. Kaori and also Shizuku were directing Hajime painful and pleading gazes. Hajime sighed deeply looking at those two and he shrugged his shoulders with an air of ‘really it can’t be helped’. The expression of the two softened gently. Hajime who turned at Kouki again threw words with calm but clearly resounding tone while everyone was watching. “Start over your life from the beginning once more, you stupid, foolish idiot.” Right after, Hajime’s right hand, his bare fist, captured Kouki’s face. It was merely a clenched straight fist. Such sound resonated, and like that Kouki was struck into the ground and his consciousness was easily cut off, but the whites of his eyes were barely open. Kaori and Shizuku rushed close, and the other members too. Hajime looked at the fainted Kouki while wondering if his “Let’s Increase the Meat Shield in Preparation of the Worst Case That There is a lot of Nointo Strategy” was actually cursed. He scratched at his cheek while sighing deeply at how troublesome this was.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 18, "inserted_lines_src": 7, "inserted_lines_trg": 28 }
故郷の村に戻ってきて、数日が過ぎた。村人たちも、俺たちに好奇の視線を向けてきたが、ストラールやラウムほどの物ではないので、これは無視できるレベルだった。おかげで俺たちは、毎日ゆっくり過ごすことができている。「逆にクラウドとかミシェルちゃんは、物足りなさそうなんだけどねぇ」「そりゃ、しかたないわよ。あの子たちは力を持て余してる年頃だし」「俺も同い年なんですけどね?」コルティナとマリアとお茶をしながら、俺はそんなことを愚痴ってみる。正体を知られてから、俺は自分のことを『わたし』と『俺』類の呼称で呼んでいた。そんな自分の微妙なブレに俺で顔をしかめていると、俺の膝元にフィーナが飛びついてきた。「ニコねーちゃん、のる!」「乗る? 膝にかな?」舌ったらずで語彙力が圧倒的に不足しているフィーナの言葉を、俺は膝に乗りたいと解釈し、ひょいと膝の上に抱き上げた。柔らかく体温の高いフィーナの感触に、思わずふわふわの頭に頬擦りしてしまう。「ああ、フィーナは癒されるなぁ」「うぬぅ......」「どうしたんだ、コルティナ。微妙な顔して」そんな俺を見て、コルティナが眉間にしわを寄せていた。「いや、あんたがニコルちゃんのままだったら、その光景も微笑ましい物だったんだけどねぇ。中身がレイドだって知っちゃうと、幼女に頬擦りしてる犯罪者にしか見えないという不思議」「誰が犯罪者か」「暗殺者は犯罪者でしょ」コルティナの言う通り、俺は生前は暗殺者で紛う事無き犯罪者だった。しかしそれをここで持ち出すのは卑怯じゃなかろうか? 「ニコねーちゃん、わるい人?」「悪くないよー。いい人だよー」「英雄になっちゃうくらいにはいい人よね。おかげで、こんなところまで逃げなきゃいけなくなっちゃったけど」自分の住む村を『こんなところ』呼ばわりされて、マリアは少し不本意そうに唇を尖らせていた。破戒神からもらった薬の効果もあるだろうけど、恐ろしいまでに変わりがない。「そーじゃなくて! フィーナはのりたいの!」「もうお膝に乗ってるよ?」フィーナが俺の膝の上で手を振り回してばたばたと抗議する。俺は彼女の意図を汲みかねて、大きく首を傾げることになった。「おひざはいつものってるの。ふぃーはどらごんさんにのりたいの!」「ドラゴン......ああ」俺がこの村の近くで邪竜コルキスに変身して大暴れをしたのは、この村からも見えていたらしい。その光景を見て、フィーナはドラゴンに変身した俺に乗ってみたいと考えたらしい。子供特有の怖いもの知らずな発想だ。「うーん、それは構わないんだけど......」「構いなさい。邪竜がまた降臨したって、大騒ぎになるじゃない」「いや、それもあるけど。そうじゃなくて、フィーナ一人だと転げ落ちて危ないから」「ちゃんとしがみつくよ?」「フィーナの力じゃ、きっと落ちちゃうなぁ」まだ五歳にもならないフィーナの力では、自分の身体を支えることも難しいはずだ。「俺......わたしが確か素振りもろくにできずに、剣がすっぽ抜けていたっけ」「ニコねーちゃん、ドジっ子?」「フィーナ、それは当たり前のことなんだ。ところで誰がドジっ子なんて言葉を教えたのかな?」「ティーナぁ」ギロリとコルティナの方に視線を向けると、彼女は素知らぬ顔で視線を逸らし、茶を啜っていた。そんな俺たちのやり取りを無視して、マリアは別のところに食いついていた。「邪竜に乗る......その発想は無かったわね」「だって邪竜よ? 出会った段階で殺し合い、というか一方的に蹂躙されるような存在に騎乗できるって言うのは、私としても興味があるわ」の魔法って、痛いんだぞ」「毎月使ってたそうじゃない?」「そりゃそうだけど」毎月コルティナにレイドとして会うために、今の俺は、その魔法を自分の力で扱うことができる。「だめぇ?」「うっ!?」膝の上でこちらを振り返り、上目遣いでお願いしてくるフィーナに誰が歯向かうことができるだろう。「でも、落ちちゃったら危ないし」「それなら私も一緒に乗ればいいじゃない。フィーナを支えてあげれば問題ないわ」「裏切ったな、マリア!?」「ママと呼びなさい」「バレてない時だって、そんな呼び方してないし」バレる前は年齢相応に『母さん』と呼んでいた。『ママ』と呼んでいたのは子供の頃の話だ。「しかたないなぁ。一回だけだよ?」「やったぁ!」「待ちなさい、ニコルちゃん。いえ、レイド」その真剣な口調に、俺は見落としていた危険がどこかに潜んでいるのではないかと危惧した。「いい? あなたに乗っていいのは、私とフィニアちゃんだけよ!」「下の話かよォ!?」真剣な顔で下世話な話をしてくるコルティナに、思わず怒鳴り返してしまったのだ。屋敷の庭や村の広場では広さが足りないし、村人が驚いてしまうというわけで、村の外の草原までやってきていた。昔はここでミシェルちゃんと走り回ったものだと、感慨深い思いに囚われてしまう。そこで俺は服を脱ぎ...... 「コルティナ、変なヤジ飛ばすな」「ニコルちゃんの露出プレイとか」「うるさい!」変身すれば服が破れるから、仕方ないじゃないか。そのために女性だけでここにやってきたというのに。男の姿でこれをやっていたなら、ただの変態であるのも事実ではあるが。俺は覚えたばかりの魔法を起動し、その場で巨大なドラゴンと化す。ぎょろりと剥き出しになった巨眼に一メートルはあるかという牙。その凶相は周囲の動物たちが腰を抜かすほど、威圧感を放っていた。そしてそれを間近で受けたフィーナも、例外ではない。「はわわわわわ――」声にならない悲鳴を上げ、その場で腰を抜かし、股間を湿らせている。「あらあら」マリアが手早くその粗相の後始末に取り掛かる。二度の遭遇を経験しているマリアとコルティナは慣れたモノだが、さすが児にはきつかったらしい。それを見て、俺も少々陰鬱な気分になった。最愛のフィーナを背に乗せる。それ自体は別に嫌なことではない。変身の痛みも、今は慣れたモノだ。しかし粗相をした直後に背に乗せるというのは、いささか情けない状況なのではないだろうか? 「グルルゥ......」どうにも泣きたい気分のまま、俺は唸り声を漏らしていたのだった。	A few days passed since we returned to our village. The villagers were giving us curious gazes too, but we could ignore it since it wasn’t on Stollar or Raum’s level. Thanks to that we were able to relax every day. “Cloud and Michelle seem to be a little unsatisfied though.” “Can’t be helped. Kids of their age have too much vigor on their hands.” “I’m also their age, ya know?” I was grumbling about such things while drinking tea with Cortina and Maria. Now that my identity was busted, I started to refer to myself using both female and male pronouns. This was probably because I still couldn’t quite grasp my standpoint yet. As I was grimacing to myself from such inconsistencies in me, Fina suddenly leaped toward my lap. “Nico, I wanna ride!” “Ride? You mean my lap?” I interpreted the lisping speech that lacked vocabulary as her wanting to ride on my lap, and lifted her up and put her on my lap. The soft and warm sensation coming from her made me reflexively rub my cheeks on her fluffy head. “Ahh, you’re healing my soul.” “Ugh...” “What’s wrong, Cortina? You have a complex expression.” Cortina had wrinkles on her forehead as she observed me. It was the face of someone tasting some bad cooking. “I mean, this would’ve been a lovely sight if you were still Nicole. But now that I know you’re Reid, I can strangely only see you as a criminal rubbing his cheeks on a little girl.” “Who’re you calling a criminal!” “Aren’t assassins criminals?” As she said, I was an assassin, undoubtedly a criminal in my past life. But wasn’t it dirty to bring that up here? “Nico, are you a bad person?” “I’m not. I’m a good person.” “She’s good enough to become a hero. She had to evacuate to the boonies like this because of that, though.” Maria pouted, disliking that her village was called the boonies. She was already nearing fifty but you couldn’t tell her age from her devilish appearance. The drug she got from the God of Destruction played a part too, but she really hasn’t changed at all. “That’s not it! Fina wants to ride you!” “Aren’t you already on my knees?” Fina was flailing her hands and protesting on my lap. I tilted my head in puzzlement, unable to figure out what she meant. “I can sit on your lap all the time. Fii wants to ride mister Dragon!” “Dragon... Oh.” Apparently, I was visible from this village when I transformed into Evil Dragon Colchis and rampaged nearby. Seeing that, Fina apparently wanted to try riding me in the Dragon form. It really was a thought of a kid that knew no fear. “Ugh, well I don’t mind but...” “You should mind it. If the Evil Dragon shows up again, it’ll cause an uproar.” “I mean, I guess that too. But more than that, it would be dangerous with Fina alone as she could fall off.” “With your strength, you’d definitely fall off.” She wasn’t even five yet, so it would be difficult for her to support her own body. In fact, when I was five... “I...I couldn’t even swing a practice sword properly and it always slipped off my hand.” “Nico, you were a clutz?” “Fin, that’s a normal thing. By the way, who taught you the word clutz?” “Tina.” “I see.” I glared at Cortina, but she looked away while sipping tea, feigning ignorance. While watching our exchange, Maria focused on one part of it. “Riding the Evil Dragon... That never crossed my mind.” “You’re focusing on that?” “I mean, it’s the Evil Dragon, you know? It’s a being that you have to fight to the death, or rather, you’ll be one-sidedly trampled down upon the encounter, so even I’m interested in the opportunity to ride it.” “Polymorph is quite a bit painful, you know?” “But you’ve been using it every month, right?” Maria was well aware that I was constantly using Polymorph every month to meet up with Cortina. Nowadays I could use that spell on my own too. As long as I could ignore the pain of the transformation. “You won’t?” “Ugh?!” Who could possibly oppose Fina’s puppy-eyed plea from the lap? I for sure couldn’t. “But it’d be dangerous if you fall off.” “Then I’ll just ride along with her. It’d be no problem if I supported her.” “Maria, you backstabber!” “Call me mommy.” “I didn’t do that even when I was still not found out.” I just called her “mom” normally before that. The “mommy” thing was from my younger days. Anyway, I suppose Fina’s safety would be guaranteed with Maria coming along. I would obviously grant Fina’s “request.” “There’s no helping it. But just once, okay?” “Yaay!” “Hold it, Nicole. I mean, Reid.” Cortina, who was staying silent, butted in. Her serious tone made me wonder if I had overlooked some kind of risk. “Listen here. The only ones allowed to ride you are Finia and I!” “That’s what it was about?!” I ended up yelling back at Cortina who brought up a dirty topic with a serious face. The mansion’s yard or the village’s plaza wasn’t wide enough, and we’d also scare the villagers, so we headed to the grasslands outside of the village. I ended up getting sentimental, remembering the days I used to run around here with Michelle. Then I started to undress... “Cortina, drop your weird cheering.” “We get to see Nicole’s exhibitionism performance.” “Shut up!” My clothes would rip if I transformed, so it was unavoidable. That’s why I only brought women with me. But still, I couldn’t deny it felt a bit weird to get undressed in the wild. It’s also a fact that I’d be seen as a total pervert if I did it in male form. I activated the spell that I had only recently learned to use, and transformed into a giant Dragon. My body swelled up to twenty meters in size, and hard scales started to cover it. My giant eyes opened wide and my fangs grew to a meter long. I was giving off such an overwhelming presence that the animals around me were frozen from fear. Fina, who was showered in it from near proximity, was no exception. “Hawawawa—” She raised a silent shriek and sank to the ground, wetting her crotch. “Oh dear.” Maria quickly started to clean her up. Maria and Cortina have encountered it twice, so they were used to it, but it was too much for a four-year-old child, in the end. Seeing that I became quite depressed too. I didn’t hate having Fina whom I loved so dearly riding on my back. And I was already used to the Polymorph’s pain too. But having her ride me right after wetting herself was making me look kinda miserable, you know? “Grrrr...” I ended up groaning while feeling like crying.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 4, "inserted_lines_src": 14, "inserted_lines_trg": 2 }
私はその時までこれほど早く患者が急変する様を見たことがありませんでした 2日間彼女は呼吸器に繋がれ 3日目に亡くなりましたソルは百日咳にかかっていたのです部屋で症例について話し合い沈痛な気持ちを切り替えた後チーフレジデントがこう言ったのを覚えています「深呼吸して顔を洗って来なさいここからが一番大変だよご両親に説明しに行かなければ」その時何千という疑問が湧きました「1ヶ月の赤ん坊があんな不運に見舞われなけりゃいけないなんて?」や「もっと何かできたんじゃないかしら?」ワクチンが出来る前多くの感染症が毎年何百万という人々の生命を奪いました 1918年のインフルエンザ大流行では 5千万人が亡くなりましたアルゼンチンの総人口よりも多い数です皆さんの中には1956年にアルゼンチンを襲ったポリオ大流行を知っている方もいらっしゃるのではないでしょうか当時ポリオワクチンはまだ無く皆手立てが無く我を忘れていました生石灰を木々に塗りたくったり樟脳の入った小袋をそれが何か役に立つとでも言うかのように子供の下着に入れたりしましたポリオ大流行により何千人もの人々が亡くなりましたそして何千人もの人々に神経系の重篤な障害が残りましたこれは読んで知ったことですがワクチンのお陰で私たちの世代はこれ程酷い疫病に悩まされずに済んだのですワクチンは公衆衛生における 20世紀最大の成功の一つです安全な飲み水に次いで抗生物質に比べても最も死亡率の低下に寄与した発明でワクチンは天然痘のような重篤な病気を地上から駆逐し麻疹や百日咳、ポリオなどといった病気による死亡率を大きく減少させることに寄与しました死亡率を大きく減少させることに寄与しましたこれら全ての病気はワクチンで防げる病気だと考えられていますこれはどういうことでしょう? つまりこうした病気は予防できるはずなのですが予防する為にはしなくてはならないことがありますワクチンを受ける必要があるのです今日ここにいる皆さんのほとんどは一生のうちいつかワクチンを受けるでしょうでもこの中で何人が青年期を過ぎてどのワクチンや追加免疫を受けるべきかを知っているかとなると分かりませんいったい誰を守る為にワクチンを打つのだろうと思ったことは? これはどういう意味でしょう? 自分を守る以外の効果があるのでしょうか? ご説明しましょう今一度も麻疹などの疫病が流行ったことのない今一度も麻疹などの疫病が流行ったことのない街にいるとしましょう街にいるとしましょうここでは誰も病気に罹ったことがなくその為に誰も麻疹への耐性が無くワクチンを打った事もありませんある日麻疹患者が街を訪れます麻疹は抵抗に遭うこと無く瞬く間に人から人へと感染って行きコミュニティ全体へと感染してしまいますしばらくすると人口の殆どが病気になってしまいますワクチンが無い場合にはこうなりますが逆の場合を考えてみましょうこの街では人口の90%以上が麻疹への抗体があり― つまり既に一度麻疹に罹り自然に抗体が出来ているか麻疹ワクチンを打っているかどちらかですある日麻疹患者が街を訪れます麻疹はかなりの抵抗に遭い人から人へとそれが伝染することもありません感染は最小限度に留まり麻疹の大流行は起こりませんここで注意をして頂きたいのがワクチンを受けた人々は自分自身だけを守るのではなくコミュニティで病気が流行することを防ぐという点で間接的にワクチンを受けていないコミュニティの住人たちも守っているのですワクチンを受けることで病気との接触を防ぐシールドを張り人々を守りますこのようにしてコミュニティでまだワクチンを受けていない人々がワクチンを接種した人々に囲まれることで生まれる間接的なシールドは「集団免疫」と呼ばれていますコミュニティの人々の多くはこの集団免疫だけによって病気から守られていますこの図表で見るワクチンを受けていない人々の割合は実際のものです彼らは私たちの甥、姪、子どもたちなどのワクチンを接種するには若すぎる子どもたちですまた私たちの親が、兄妹が知り合いが何か病気にかかっていたり免疫を弱める薬を飲んでいて未接種かも知れないのです特定のワクチンへアレルギーがある人達もいますワクチンを接種しても期待した効果が生じていない人はここにもいるかもしれません全てのワクチンが100% 常に効力がある訳では無いのですこのような人たちは集団免疫だけによって病気から守られています集団免疫を有効にする為には人口の大多数がワクチン接種を受ける必要がありますこの必要な接種率は「閾値」と呼ばれ閾値は様々な変数に左右されしますウイルスの性質だったりワクチンが生じさせる免疫反応だったりそしてそれらは全て共通点がありますもしコミュニティでのワクチン接種率が閾値以下であれば病気が伝染しやすくなるのでコミュニティの中で大流行が発生する可能性があります一旦収束しかけた病気ですら再流行するかも知れませんこれは理論上の空論ではなく実際に起った状況で今でも見られる現象です 1998年イギリス人の研究者が著名な医学誌に論文を発表しました麻疹、おたふく風邪、風疹を予防する新三種混合ワクチンは自閉症の発症に関連しているというものですこの発表はすぐさま反響を呼びました人々はワクチン接種を止め子どもたちへの接種も止みましたそれでどうなったでしょう? 世界中でワクチン接種した人口は閾値以下に減少し世界各国の都市で麻疹の大流行が起こりましたアメリカヨーロッパなどでもです多くの人びとが病気になり麻疹により亡くなりましたそれからこの論文について医学界で大きな議論が起こり何十人もの研究者達がその真偽を確認するための研究を始めましたしかし誰も新三種混合ワクチンと自閉症の間に因果関係を見いだせなかっただけでなくこの論文には正しくない主張が書かれていたことが分かりました論文は意図的に操作されていたのです医学誌はこの論文を2010年に正式に撤回していますワクチン接種を避ける理由や口実の一つは副作用ですワクチンは薬と同じく副作用を起こす可能性がありますほとんどは軽度で一時的なものでそうした副作用よりも常に利点の方が大きいのです私たちは病気の時は早く治りたいものです私たちはよく感染症にかかると抗生物質を飲み高血圧になると降圧剤を飲みます循環器系の為の薬を飲みます病気から早く治りたいからですそこに疑問はほとんどありませんねでは何故自分達が健康なうちに適切なケアをして病気から身を守る事が難しく感じるのでしょう? 私たちは病気になったり目前に危機が迫ると必死に身体のケアをしますねここにいる私たちの殆どが 2009年にアルゼンチンそして世界中で起こった A型インフルエンザの大流行を覚えているはずです最初の症例が明らかになった時アルゼンチンは冬になったばかりで私たちは何も知らず全ては混乱していました人々は町中でマスクを付けアルコール除菌ジェルを買いに薬局へ走り薬局ではワクチン接種の列が出来ましてそれがこの新しいウイルスに対して有効なワクチンかどうかも分かっていないというのに― 私たちは何も知りませんでした当時私は Infant Foundationの奨学生としての研究に加え南米式前払い制医療会社で小児専門の家庭医として働いていましたシフトが始まる朝8時それまでに50人の予約が入っていましたそこはカオスでした誰もどうすればいいか分かっていませんでした私が診療した患者たちの傾向をよく覚えています患者たちは通常冬に診る患者たちよりも少し年齢が上で熱が長く続いていましたその事を当時の職場の指導医に報告すると彼は彼で同じような報告を同僚から聞いていて妊婦の多くや若者達が病院のICUにケアの難しい臨床例として収容されているということでしたそれで私たちは何が起こっているのかを解明しようとしました月曜の朝一番に車でブエノスアイレスの郊外にある新型インフルエンザ患者の受け入れ病院へ行きましたそこに着くとそこは混み合っていて医療スタッフはNASAのような防護服を着ていました私たちは全員ポケットにマスクを忍ばせ神経質な私は2時間息を止めていましたそれでも何が起こっているかは分かりました直ぐに私たちは市内の6病院そしてブエノスアイレス郊外の病院の小児科医たちに連絡をし始めました目的はこの新しいウイルスが子どもたちにどのような症状をもたらすか出来る限り短期間で調べることでしたマラソンのような過酷な仕事でした 3ヶ月以内にこの新たなH1N1ウイルスが持つ性質を 251人の感染し入院している子どもたちで確認することができました最も症状が重く出る子どもたちは 4歳以下で特に1歳以下の子どもたち特に神経系の病を患う子どもたちそして慢性的な呼吸器疾患のある子どもたちでしたこれらの高リスクグループを見分けることは重要でした彼らをインフルエンザワクチン接種の優先リストへ組み込む為ですこの情報はアルゼンチンのみならず感染大流行がまだ襲っていない国々にも伝えられました 1年後 H1N1ウイルスワクチンが出来て私たちは状況を見守りました高リスクグループを守ることを唱った大掛かりなワクチンキャペーンの後高リスクグループの人々の93%がワクチンの接種を受けた病院では H1N1ウイルスに羅患した患者の入院は1例もありませんでした (拍手) 2009年には251例だったものが 2010年にはゼロになりましたワクチン接種は個人の責任に基づく行為ですが集団へ大きな影響を及ぼす力があります私がワクチンを接種すると自分だけでなく周囲の人々をも守ることが出来るのです百日咳を患ったソルはまだとても小さく百日咳のワクチンをまだ受けていませんでしたまだこう考えるのですもしソルの周りにいた全員がワクチンを接種していたらどうだったかしらと	Until then, I had never seen a patient worsen so fast. In just two days she was connected to a respirator and on the third day she died. Sol had whooping cough. After discussing the case in the room and after a quite distressing catharsis, I remember my chief resident said to me, "Okay, take a deep breath. Wash your face. And now comes the hardest part: We have to go talk to her parents." At that time, a thousand questions came to mind, from, "How could a one-month-old baby be so unfortunate?" to, "Could we have done something about it?" Before vaccines existed, many infectious diseases killed millions of people per year. During the 1918 flu pandemic 50 million people died. That's greater than Argentina's current population. Perhaps, the older ones among you remember the polio epidemic that occurred in Argentina in 1956. At that time, there was no vaccine available against polio. People didn't know what to do. They were going crazy. They would go painting trees with caustic lime. They'd put little bags of camphor in their children's underwear, as if that could do something. During the polio epidemic, thousands of people died. And thousands of people were left with very significant neurological damage. I know this because I read about it, because thanks to vaccines, my generation was lucky to not live through an epidemic as terrible as this. Vaccines are one of the great successes of the 20th century's public health. After potable water, they are the interventions that have most reduced mortality, even more than antibiotics. Vaccines eradicated terrible diseases such as smallpox from the planet and succeeded in significantly reducing mortality due to other diseases such as measles, whooping cough, polio and many more. All these diseases are considered vaccine-preventable diseases. What does this mean? That they are potentially preventable, but in order to be so, something must be done. You need to get vaccinated. I imagine that most, if not all of us here today, received a vaccine at some point in our life. Now, I'm not so sure that many of us know which vaccines or boosters we should receive after adolescence. Have you ever wondered who we are protecting when we vaccinate? What do I mean by that? Is there any other effect beyond protecting ourselves? Let me show you something. Imagine for a moment that we are in a city that has never had a case of a particular disease, such as the measles. This would mean that no one in the city has ever had contact with the disease. No one has natural defenses against, nor been vaccinated against measles. If one day, a person sick with the measles appears in this city the disease won't find much resistance and will begin spreading from person to person, and in no time it will disseminate throughout the community. After a certain time a big part of the population will be ill. This happened when there were no vaccines. Now, imagine the complete opposite case. We are in a city where more than 90 percent of the population has defenses against the measles, which means that they either had the disease, survived, and developed natural defenses; or that they had been immunized against measles. If one day, a person sick with the measles appears in this city, the disease will find much more resistance and won't be transmitted that much from person to person. The spread will probably remain contained and a measles outbreak won't happen. I would like you to pay attention to something. People who are vaccinated are not only protecting themselves, but by blocking the dissemination of the disease within the community, they are indirectly protecting the people in this community who are not vaccinated. They create a kind of protective shield which prevents them from coming in contact with the disease, so that these people are protected. This indirect protection that the unvaccinated people within a community receive simply by being surrounded by vaccinated people, is called herd immunity. Many people in the community depend almost exclusively on this herd immunity to be protected against disease. The unvaccinated people you see in infographics are not just hypothetical. Those people are our nieces and nephews, our children, who may be too young to receive their first shots. They are our parents, our siblings, our acquaintances, who may have a disease, or take medication that lowers their defenses. There are also people who are allergic to a particular vaccine. any of us who got vaccinated, but the vaccine didn't produce the expected effect, because not all vaccines are always 100 percent effective. All these people depend almost exclusively on herd immunity to be protected against diseases. To achieve this effect of herd immunity, it is necessary that a large percentage of the population be vaccinated. This percentage is called the threshold. The threshold depends on many variables: It depends on the germ's characteristics, and those of the immune response that the vaccine generates. But they all have something in common. If the percentage of the population in a vaccinated community is below this threshold number, the disease will begin to spread more freely and may generate an outbreak of this disease within the community. Even diseases which were at some point controlled may reappear. This is not just a theory. This has happened, and is still happening. In 1998, a British researcher published an article in one of the most important medical journals, saying that the MMR vaccine, which is given for measles, mumps and rubella, was associated with autism. This generated an immediate impact. People began to stop getting vaccinated, and stopped vaccinating their children. And what happened? The number of people vaccinated, in many communities around the world, fell below this threshold. And there were outbreaks of measles in many cities in the world -- in the U.S., in Europe. Many people got sick. People died of measles. What happened? This article also generated a huge stir within the medical community. Dozens of researchers began to assess if this was actually true. Not only could no one find a causal association between MMR and autism at the population level, but it was also found that this article had incorrect claims. Even more, it was fraudulent. In fact, the journal publicly retracted the article in 2010. One of the main concerns and excuses for not getting vaccinated are the adverse effects. Vaccines, like other drugs, can have potential adverse effects. Most are mild and temporary. But the benefits are always greater than possible complications. When we are ill, we want to heal fast. Many of us who are here take antibiotics when we have an infection, we take anti-hypertensives when we have high blood pressure, we take cardiac medications. Why? Because we are sick and we want to heal fast. And we don't question it much. Why is it so difficult to think of preventing diseases, by taking care of ourselves when we are healthy? We take care of ourselves a lot when affected by an illness, or in situations of imminent danger. I imagine most of us here, which broke out in 2009 in Argentina and worldwide. When the first cases began to come to light, we, here in Argentina, were entering the winter season. We knew absolutely nothing. Everything was a mess. People wore masks on the street, ran into pharmacies to buy alcohol gel. People would line up in pharmacies to get a vaccine, without even knowing if it was the right vaccine that would protect them against this new virus. We knew absolutely nothing. At that time, in addition to doing my fellowship at the Infant Foundation, I worked as a home pediatrician for a prepaid medicine company. I remember that I started my shift at 8 a.m., and by 8, I already had a list of 50 scheduled visits. It was chaos; people didn't know what to do. I remember the types of patients that I was examining. The patients were a little older than what we were used to seeing in winter, with longer fevers. And I mentioned that to my fellowship mentor, and he, for his part, had heard the same from a colleague, about the large number of pregnant women and young adults being hospitalized in intensive care, with hard-to-manage clinical profiles. At that time, we set out to understand what was happening. First thing Monday morning, we took the car and went to a hospital in Buenos Aires Province, that served as a referral hospital for cases of the new influenza virus. We arrived at the hospital; it was crowded. All health staff were dressed in NASA-like bio-safety suits. We all had face masks in our pockets. I, being a hypochondriac, didn't breathe for two hours. But we could see what was happening. Immediately, we started reaching out to pediatricians from six hospitals in the city and in Buenos Aires Province. Our main goal was to find out how this new virus behaved in contact with our children, in the shortest time possible. A marathon work. In less than three months, we could see what effect this new H1N1 virus had on the 251 children hospitalized by this virus. We could see which children got more seriously ill: children under four, especially those less than one year old; patients with neurological diseases; and young children with chronic pulmonary diseases. Identifying these at-risk groups was important to include them as priority groups in the recommendations for getting the influenza vaccine, not only here in Argentina, but also in other countries which the pandemic not yet reached. A year later, when a vaccine against the pandemic H1N1 virus became available, we wanted to see what happened. After a huge vaccination campaign aimed at protecting at-risk groups, these hospitals, with 93 percent of the at-risk groups vaccinated, had not hospitalized a single patient for the pandemic H1N1 virus. In 2009: 251. In 2010: zero. Vaccination is an act of individual responsibility, but it has a huge collective impact. If I get vaccinated, not only am I protecting myself, but I am also protecting others. Sol had whooping cough. Sol was very young, and she hadn't yet received her first vaccine against whooping cough. I still wonder what would have happened if everyone around Sol had been vaccinated.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
そして特にこの歌を私の祖母に捧げたいと思います活動家の私が警察に嫌がらせを受けていた時に非常に重要な役割を果たしてくれたからです 1976年6月16日に南アフリカの学生たちがアフリカーンス語を圧制者の言語であるとしてボイコットした事を皆さんご存じでしょう彼らはなんでもアフリカーンス語で行わなければいけないと言われました生物も数学の授業もなぜ私達の各々の言語ではいけないのか? 学生たちは政府と話し合いたいと思いましたが警察は銃弾で答えましたですから私達は毎年6月16日に亡くなった学生や仲間たちを追悼しているのですその時私はまだ11歳ぐらいだったと思いますがいろいろな疑問がわいたのですそれが私の政治教育の始まりでしたそして私は後にアフリカ民族会議の青年団に加わりました ANCを組織したり追悼式を準備したので警察は私達をリーダーとみなし一斉検挙しようとしました私は6月の9日か10日位になると警察が来るだろうと家から逃げたものですそして祖母はある日こう言いました「いや逃げちゃいけないここはあんたの場所なんだからここにいなさい」そして警察が来ました逮捕されれば刑務所に入れられ 20日過ぎにならないと解放してもらえません 6月10日に警察に家を囲まれた時祖母は家の明かりを全部消しキッチンのドアを開けましたそしてこう言ったんです「ヴズィはここにいるけど今夜は彼を連れていかせないあんた達の子ども達は家でぐっすり寝ているのにあんた達が家に来て私達に嫌がらせをする事にうんざりしているんだ彼はここにいるけど連れて行けないよここに熱湯がたっぷり入ったボールがある―一番始めに家に入るのがかぶるんだよ」そして彼らは帰りました (拍手) トゥラママ、トゥラママ、トゥラママ、トゥラママ子供の頃の思い出の中あなたの目は涙でかすんでいる僕はあなたの笑顔の中の真実を知っている僕はあなたの笑顔の中の真実を知っているその笑顔は僕の無知の暗闇を照らしてくれたあぁママは横たわって寝ているとても具合が悪く心は泣き叫んでいるわからないわからないわからないわからないこの世界がどうなってしまうのか子ども達が自分達を守らなきゃいけない事は正しいのかい?いやいやいやいやいやおばあちゃんに困難が降りかかるのは正しい事かい? 本当にかわいそうな無力な人々トゥラママママ、トゥラママ、トゥラママトゥラママ、トゥラママ、トゥラママママ、トゥラママ明日はもっと良くなる明日は生きるのにもっといい日になるトゥラママ、トゥラママ僕はブルース歌手や吟遊詩人のように歌い出すべきなのか? そしてブルースクラブにいなくても遠いところから歌うべきなのか? ベイビーベイビーベイビーベイビーベイビーベイビー僕は今もう愛の歌を歌うのをやめるべきなのか今や僕の記憶は血で覆われているから? 女性達よどうしてどうして時に僕たちは小さなできものを癌と間違えたりするんだろう愛の歌なんかもうやめてなんて言うのは誰? 僕は愛の歌を歌いたいんだ妊娠しているのに塀を飛び越えそれでも健康な子どもを産んだあの女性に微笑の陽だまりの中へゆっくり歩いていくと誰かを愛する僕の気持ちに火がともり愛の歌命の歌が鳴り出すんだ僕の愛の歌僕の人生は愛を歌う事おぉ僕は歌から逃げたりしない不屈の声が聞こえる敵の爆弾より強力な声その歌は僕たちの命と血の雨を洗う愛の歌を歌う事が僕の人生命を歌おう愛を歌おう僕は命の限り愛を歌う -みんな一緒にこの人生を愛の歌に捧げよう―― さあ歌って命の歌を愛の歌を―― 聞こえないよ愛の歌を歌う事が僕の人生――もっと大きい声で命の歌を愛の歌を――続けて続けて僕の愛を生涯をかけてそう僕は愛を歌うもっと大きな声で―― 僕の人生は愛の歌そう僕の命の歌続けてその調子歌って――僕の愛の歌僕の愛の歌僕の命の歌歌って愛の歌は僕の人生の歌歌って愛を歌う命の限り歌って愛の歌を僕の人生を歌って愛の歌僕の命の歌歌って僕は愛の歌をずっと歌うよ僕の命の歌	And, of course, I’m dedicating it also to my grandmother, whom I think really played quite a lot of important roles, especially for me when I was an activist, and being harassed by the police. You will recall that in 1976, June 16, the students of South Africa boycotted the language of Afrikaans as the medium of the oppressor, as they were sort of like really told that they must do everything in Afrikaans -- biology, mathematics -- and what about our languages? And the students wanted to speak to the government, and police answered with bullets. So every year, June 16, we will commemorate all those comrades or students who died. And I was very young then. I think I was 11 years, and I started asking questions, and that’s when my political education started. And I joined, later on, the youth organization under the African National Congress. So as part of organizing this and whatever, this commemoration, the police will round us up as they call us leaders. And I used to run away from home, when I know that maybe the police might be coming around the ninth or 10th of June or so. And my grandmother one time said, "No, look, you’re not going to run away. This is your place, you stay here." And indeed, the police came -- because they’ll just arrest us and put us in jail and release us whenever they feel like, after the 20th or so. So it was on the 10th of June, and they came, and they surrounded the house, and my grandmother switched off all the lights in the house, and opened the kitchen door. And she said to them, "Vusi's here, and you're not going to take him tonight. I'm tired of you having to come here, harassing us, while your children are sleeping peacefully in your homes. He is here, and you're not going to take him. I've got a bowl full of boiling water -- the first one who comes in here, gets it." And they left. ♫ Thula Mama, Thula Mama, Thula Mama, Thula Mama. ♫ ♫ Through the mist of the tears in your eyes on my childhood memory, ♫ ♫ I know the truth in your smile, ♫ ♫ I know the truth in your smile, ♫ ♫ piercing through the gloom of my ignorance. ♫ ♫ Oh, there is a mama lying down sleeping ♫ ♫ you're very ill and your heart crying. ♫ ♫ Wondering, wondering, wondering, wondering where is this world coming to. ♫ ♫ Is it right the children have to fend for themselves? No, no, no, no, no. no. ♫ ♫ Is it right heaping trouble on an old lady's head? ♫ ♫ So unlucky faceless people. ♫ ♫ Thula Mama Mama, Thula Mama. Thula Mama Mama. ♫ ♫ Thula Mama, Thula Mama, Thula Mama Mama, Thula Mama ♫ ♫ Tomorrow it’s going to be better. ♫ ♫ Tomorrow it's going to be better to climb, Mama. ♫ ♫ Thula Mama, Thula Mama. ♫ ♫ Am I to break into the song like the blues man or troubadour. ♫ ♫ And then from long distance in no blues club am I to sing, ♫ ♫ baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby. ♫ ♫ Should I now stop singing of love, ♫ ♫ now that my memory’s surrounded by blood? ♫ ♫ Sister, why oh why do we at times mistake a pimple for a cancer? ♫ ♫ So who are they who says, no more love poems now? ♫ ♫ I want to sing a song of love ♫ ♫ for that woman who jumped the fences pregnant ♫ ♫ and still gave birth to a healthy child. ♫ ♫ Softly I walk into the sun rays of the smile ♫ ♫ that will ignite my love song, my song of life, ♫ ♫ my song of love, my song of life, my song of love, ♫ ♫ my song of life, my song of love, my song of life. ♫ ♫ Ooh, I’ve not tried to run away from song, ♫ ♫ I hear a persistent voice, more powerful than the enemy bombs. ♫ ♫ The song that washed our lives and the rains of our blood. ♫ ♫ My song of love and my song of life, my song of love, ♫ ♫ my song of life, my song of love, ♫ ♫ my song of life, my song of love -- I want everybody to sing with me -- ♫ ♫ my song of life, my song of love, my song of life -- everybody sing with me -- ♫ ♫ my song of life, my song of love -- I can’t hear you -- ♫ ♫ my song of love, my song of life -- you can do better -- ♫ ♫ my song of life, my song of love -- keep singing, keep singing -- ♫ ♫ my song of love, my song of life, yes, my song of love -- ♫ ♫ you can do better than that -- ♫ ♫ my song of life, yes, my song of love, my song of life, my song of love -- ♫ ♫ keep singing, keep singing, keep singing -- my song of love. ♫ ♫ Oh yeah. My song of -- a love song, my song of life. Sing. A love song, my song of life. Sing. ♫ ♫ Love song, my song of life. Sing. Love song, my song of life. Sing. ♫ ♫ Love song, my song of life. Sing. Love song, my song of life. ♫ ♫ Love song, my song of life. ♫	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
スライドを使って宇宙の夜明けについてお話しします私は宇宙調査と呼んでいますが創造の名残りを観測することによって始めに何が起きたのかを推測しそれを続けることで理解につなげるのです辺りを見回して下さい何が見えますか? この場はデザイナーや人々が働いて作り上げた空間ですでも実際に見ているのは既に存在していた物質がある状態に加工されたものですではその物質はどこから来たのでしょうかどうやって加工前の状態になったのでしょう? これは連続性とは何かという問題です私に言わせれば宇宙がどのように始まり形作られたかという問題につながっています宇宙創世とその後の進化においていかにしてこれらの物質は生まれたのでしょうか? ではここでハッブル超深宇宙探査の写真をお見せしましょうこの写真は暗い中に光る物体がいくらか見えます光る物体のうち4個は恒星ですここです小さなプラスの形をしていますこれとこれが恒星で他は全て銀河です眼をここにやれば数千の銀河を簡単に見ることができます特に私たちの銀河とよく似ているこの銀河を見ると不思議な気持ちになりますそこで芸術大学のデザイン会議が開催されているのではないかそして知的生命体がデザインについて考えそこには何人かの宇宙学者がいて宇宙がどこからやってきたのかを考え中には私たちの銀河系を見てここで起きている事を知りたがっている者もいるのではないかとでも銀河は他にもたくさんあり近くのものは太陽のような色をしていて遠くにあるものは青みがかった色になりますでも知りたいのはなぜこれほど多くの銀河があるのかということではないでしょうかこれは宇宙のごく一部をきれいに表したものですたった千個の銀河しかありませんハッブル宇宙望遠鏡で観測できる銀河は精査する時間があればおよそ千億個ほどだろうと考えられています非常に多い数です私たちの銀河にある恒星の数もそれと大体同じぐらいですでもこのような写真を見ると恒星よりも銀河の方が沢山ありますどうしてかはわかりませんだから疑問に思うべきなのはどんなデザインや創造的なプロセスが世界をこのように作り上げたのかということですそれは非常に複雑なことだということをお示ししていきます試行錯誤しながら進んで行きますこれを調べる上で役に立つのは宇宙があまりに大きいのである意味タイムマシンになっているという事実ですここに多層の球体の断面図を描いています地球から観測を行うので地球を球体の中心に置いています月は光速で2秒の距離にあるので月の写真を撮ると2秒前の月が写ります 2秒というのは現在のようなものです太陽だと8分前です襲来するフレアから逃げるとき以外は大きな問題ではありません襲ってくる場合は多少前もって警告を受け取りたいですねでも木星になると光速で40分かかりますこれは問題です火星とコミュニケーションを取るのも大変です光が行き来する時間がかかりますから一番近い40〜50ほどの恒星までは 10年ほどかかります写真を撮って見えるのは10年前の姿です銀河の中心となると何千年前の姿になります一番近い銀河であるアンドロメダは 200万年前の姿です地球で200万年前といえば人間の痕跡は皆無でしょうまだ人間が現れる前だったでしょうからこれでスケールがおわかりいただけたでしょうハッブル宇宙望遠鏡を使って私たちは数億から10億年という時間を見ていますより遠くを見る方法を思いつけば - 私はそれを大いに研究してきました - 恒星や銀河が生まれるよりも前の時代を見ることができます今と違って熱くて高密度の宇宙の時代ですそんな順番に並んでいるのですこれを別のイメージ図で示します真ん中に銀河系があります天の川銀河です周りをハッブルで見たような銀河が囲んでいます球体は異なる時間スケールを表していますその後ろにあるのはより新しい銀河です全体像がわかりましたか? 時の始まりというのは奇妙なことに外側になるのですそれに宇宙には我々には見えない部分がありますあまりに高密度で熱すぎるので光が出られないのです太陽の中心を見ることができないのと同じです太陽の内部で起きている事を知るには別の方法が必要ですでも太陽の外縁は見ることができます宇宙もそのようにして見ることができるのです外部ぎりぎりのところがモデル領域ですビッグバンから生まれた放射です信じられないほど一様なのです宇宙はほぼ完全に球体ですただごくわずかの変動がありこの絵では極端に拡大して描いています時の経過に伴いこれらの小さな相違が不規則な銀河や最初の恒星になりより発展した銀河を経て最終的には太陽系が生まれるのです壮大なデザインですどのようにして行われてきたのかを見ていきましょうこれらの計測はいくつかの人工衛星で行われました 1989年に打ち上げられたCOBE衛星を使ってこの相違を発見したのです 2000年にはWMAP衛星が打ち上げられより鮮明な写真が撮れるようになりました今年後半には - これは格好良くて静かな衛星です美しいデザインを持っています - Planck衛星が打ち上げられ非常に高精細な地図を作るでしょうこのようにして宇宙の始まりに向かって理解を進めて行くのです宇宙にある相違から時空の構造と宇宙の構成要素そして宇宙の始まりに関する秘密を知ることができますこの壮麗な絵を用意しました宇宙の始まりに戻りましょう何らかのきっかけで宇宙が生まれ膨張期を経て宇宙が冷え透明になりますそして暗黒時代の後最初の恒星が光を放ちますそこから銀河、やがて銀河団が形成されますこの間どこかで太陽系が形成され今の形に成長してきました驚異的なこともありましたこのゴミ箱の底みたいな部分は膨張期の時空の構造自体の変化を示しています本当に奇妙なモデルですねどんな証拠があるというのでしょう? この結果生まれた自然界のパターンをいくつかお見せしましょう私は時空こそが宇宙の本質であり銀河や星は海の泡のようなものだと考えています面白い波がどこにあり何が起きたかを示すものなのですこれはスローンデジタルスカイサーベイによる100万個の銀河で一つひとつの点が銀河の位置を示しています調査では望遠鏡を空に向けて写真を撮り銀河に注目するので恒星は除外して距離を推定して作図すると放射状にこのようなものができます宇宙の大規模構造であるグレートウォールが見えます一方で空洞の部分や暗くなっている部分もあります望遠鏡の性能によるものです 3Dで見てみましょうどうするのかというと地球の自転に合わせて扇形に宇宙を撮影します我々の銀河に邪魔されて見えない場所や望遠鏡の制約により見えない場所もあります次の映像では 3D 版をくるくる回して見せます宇宙が扇形に映し出されているのがわかりますか? ひとつひとつの点が銀河を現しています比較的我々の銀河から近い場所に先ほどのグレートウォールが見えます複雑な構造もあれば空洞もあります銀河のない場所もあれば何千もの銀河が密集している場所もあります面白いパターンがありそうですがそれを調べるにはデータが不足していますたった100万の銀河についてのデータしかないのです空にある100万のボールを見ているようなものですではどうするか? これとよく似た調査結果があります 2度視野銀河赤方偏移観測です 2度の視野の中で遥か遠くまで観測します銀河を見つける度に赤色偏移などを観測し銀河の種類や色を記録していくのですこれは実際の観測結果を表したものです銀河の真ん中にいるときはパターンが見えづらくなります人生の真ん中のようなものです観客の真ん中にいるとパターンは見えにくいものです外に出てから見てみましょうまず調査の構造がわかりますそして銀河の構造が見えてくるようになります外にいるから見えるのですグレートウォールがそそり立っているのが見えます空洞があるのもわかります複雑な構造ですどうしてこうなったのでしょう? 自分が宇宙のデザイナーだと思ってくださいどうやって銀河をこんな模様に作りますか? ただランダムに放り投げただけではありませんもっと複雑なプロセスがありますどうやってそれを作り上げるのでしょうか? このカンファレンスの題名でもある"serious play"の出番です私たちは神の役割を真面目に演じなければいけないのです人々の生活を変えるだけでなく、宇宙を作ることについてもその責任を負うとしたらどのように行いますか? どんな方法を使いますか? どんなことを行いますか? 大規模なシミュレーションの結果をお見せします我々が考える宇宙のあり方について人間が必死になって学んできたけれど自然は最初から知っている遊びとデザインの原則を使ったものですとても単純な材料とルールから始めますが複雑にするために材料の量は十分に必要ですそこにいくらかのランダムさとゆらぎを加えますさまざまな形が現れますこれからお見せするのはスケールに応じて定まる物質の分布ですズームインしましょう適正な宇宙にするためにもう一種の素材を加えなければなりません暗黒物質です私やこのステージなどの通常の物質とは違い光との相互作用をしない物質です暗黒物質は光に対して透明ですがここでは白く表現します図で白く見える部分が暗黒物質です目に見えない物質と呼ぶべきですが私たちが目に見えるようにしたのです黄色の部分は星や銀河になる通常の物質です動画を見てみましょうズームインしますこの模様に注目して下さいもっとズームインしていきますフィラメントや空洞が見えますねたくさんのフィラメントがまとまって結び目のようになると超銀河団ができます今ズームインしているものは狭い範囲に10万から100万の銀河があります私たちはど田舎にいるのです私たちは太陽系の中心にはいません銀河の中心にもいませんそして我々の銀河は銀河集団の中心ではありませんズームインを続けます 10万以上の銀河がある場所ですそのエリアには約100万の銀河がありますもっとズームインしましょうスケールを言い忘れていました 1パーセクは3.26光年です 1ギガパーセクは30 億光年ほどになります光がその距離を行くのに30億年かかるということですこの2点の距離を考えましょうこれが私たちとアンドロメダの距離ですここに見える小さなしみは銀河ですズームバックして戻ると構造を見ることができます遠くからだと規則正しく見えますがたくさんの不規則な濃淡からできています構成部品は単純です最初は非常に単純な流体です普通の物質も暗黒物質もあります光子やニュートリノもありますが初期を除いてはたいした役割はありません単純な流体が時を経てこの複雑な構造に発展するのです最初にこの図をご覧になったときは大した意味を持たなかったことでしょうここで見えるのは目に見える宇宙の1%ほどですそれでも何十億もの銀河つまりノードを見ていますでもそれらは主要な構造ではないのです目に見えない暗黒物質が枠組みのように作用して全てをつなぎ合わせているのです何かの中にいながらその全体像をつかむのがいかに難しいかがおわかりでしょう同じ結果になりますフィラメントがあります明るい部分は目に見えない物質で黄色は現れつつある銀河か恒星ですずっと先へ進むと時折フィラメント同士が交わっているところがあります巨大な銀河団もあります非常に大きな銀河団があるところにいきましょうどんな風に見えるかわかります内側からはあまり複雑には見えませんね? 縮尺を上げて見た時に初めてとても複雑なデザインだということがわかるのです何らかの方法でここまで発展してきました知りたいのはこういうことですこれを組み立てるのはどれ程大変なのか? この宇宙を組み立てるとしたらどれ程大きな建設チームが必要なのか? それが大事なのですさあ着きましたどのようにフィラメントが幾つかまとまって超銀河団になるのかがわかるでしょうでも実際にこう見えるわけではありませんまずこんなに速くは動けません全てが破壊されてしまいますここでは簡単なレンダリングと映像ソフトを使っています数十億年を旅するともし見えない物質が見えればこのように見えるはずですこういうことですどのようにして宇宙をシンプルにまとめるのか? 目に見える宇宙全体ハッブル宇宙望遠鏡で見えるものと他の機器で見えるものも全てかつては原子1個よりも小さな空間に収まっていたことがわかっていますはじまりは小さな量子論的ゆらぎでしたが途方もない割合で拡大しましたそれらのゆらぎがけた外れに大きなサイズに広がり最終的には宇宙背景放射になりました背景放射のゆらぎから銀河や銀河団の不規則構造に到達する必要があります小さめのシミュレーションをお見せしましょう今のシミュレーションは 1000個のCPU で 1 ヶ月計算してやっと今のような可視化ができるものでした次の図に示すのはパソコンで2日でできるものです宇宙に小さなゆらぎがあった時から始めます今度は四分の一の大きさですそしてつながりが生まれ宇宙の構造が形成されるのがわかりますこれはシンプルなモデルです通常の物質はなく暗黒物質だけがあります暗黒物質が塊になり通常の物質はこれについて行くのですそうなのです最初は均一でしたゆらぎは10万分の1程度ですところどころで1万分の1程度のゆらぎが生じ何十億年もしてから重力が加わります密度の高いところは物質を引き寄せどんどんと引き込んでいきますでも宇宙の距離はとても広大で時間の尺度も大きいので形成には長い時間がかかります膨張ということで言えば宇宙が今の半分ぐらいの大きさになるまで形成が続きますこの段階で宇宙は不思議なことに膨張を加速しより大きな構造の形成は止まりますここで見えている構造の大きさが上限ですでに形成が始まっていた物だけがどんどんと形作られていきますこのシミュレーションはパソコンで2日かかります先に見せたようなシミュレーションを行うには 1000 個の CPU で 30 日かかりますどうやって宇宙の創造をまじめに遊ぶかはわかっています物質に満ちた涙よりも小さなものから始めますほとんど何も無いところです極めて小さくほぼ完璧ですが 10万分の一の単位でわずかなゆらぎがありますそのゆらぎが私たちの目に見える面白いパターンやデザインを生み出していますつまりそれが銀河や恒星なのです私たちにはモデルがあり計算もできそれを使って我々が思うところの宇宙の姿をデザインすることができますそのデザインは私たちが元々想像していたものを遥かに超えるものになります私はこれを15年前に始めました COBEを使い地図を作りました大規模なゆらぎがありそれはいくつかの段階に分かれていることがわかりましたその後WMAPによる探査が始まりより高角度の分解能力を得ました同じ大規模構造の他に小規模構造も見えるようになりました右下にあるのはもし衛星の方向が逆になって地球を描いたらどうなるかというイメージです主要な大陸を見つけることができるでしょう今後打ち上げられるプランク衛星に期待したいのは地球上で複雑なパターンを見ることができるのと同じように高い分解能で宇宙を観測することです鋭い境界とかぴたりとはまる断片から非線形のプロセスの存在がわかります例えば地質学ではプレートの移動という非線形の効果がありこれは地図だけからでもわかります初期宇宙の地図でもそのレベルに達したいのです何かを動かし変化させる非線形の効果の有無は時空そのものが生じた始まりがどのようであったかについてのヒントになります私たちは今ここまで来ていますそれをお伝えしたかったのですデザインや全てのものの見方について異なる視点を伝えたかったのですありがとう	And so one of the questions that I asked you is, when you look around, what do you see? Well, you see this space that's created by designers and by the work of people, but what you actually see is a lot of material that was already here, being reshaped in a certain form. And so the question is: how did that material get here? How did it get into the form that it had before it got reshaped, and so forth? It's a question of what's the continuity? So one of the things I look at is, how did the universe begin and shape? What was the whole process in the creation and the evolution of the universe to getting to the point that we have these kinds of materials? So that's sort of the part, and let me move on then and show you the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. If you look at this picture, what you will see is a lot of dark with some light objects in it. And everything but -- four of these light objects are stars, and you can see them there -- little pluses. This is a star, this is a star, everything else is a galaxy, OK? So there's a couple of thousand galaxies you can see easily with your eye in here. And when I look out at particularly this galaxy, which looks a lot like ours, I wonder if there's an art design college conference going on, and intelligent beings there are thinking about, you know, what designs they might do, and there might be a few cosmologists trying to understand where the universe itself came from, and there might even be some in that galaxy looking at ours trying to figure out what's going on over here. But there's a lot of other galaxies, and some are nearby, and they're kind of the color of the Sun, and some are further away and they're a little bluer, and so forth. But one of the questions is -- this should be, to you -- how come there are so many galaxies? Because this represents a very clean fraction of the sky. This is only 1,000 galaxies. We think there's on the order -- visible to the Hubble Space Telescope, if you had the time to scan it around -- about 100 billion galaxies. Right? It's a very large number of galaxies. And that's roughly how many stars there are in our own galaxy. But when you look at some of these regions like this, you'll see more galaxies than stars, which is kind of a conundrum. So the question should come to your mind is, what kind of design, you know, what kind of creative process and what kind of design produced the world like that? And then I'm going to show you it's actually a lot more complicated. We're going to try and follow it up. We have a tool that actually helps us out in this study, and that's the fact that the universe is so incredibly big that it's a time machine, in a certain sense. We draw this set of nested spheres cut away so you see it. Put the Earth at the center of the nested spheres, And the moon is only two seconds away, so if you take a picture of the moon using ordinary light, it's the moon two seconds ago, and who cares. Two seconds is like the present. The Sun is eight minutes ago. That's not such a big deal, right, unless there's solar flares coming then you want to get out the way. You'd like to have a little advance warning. But you get out to Jupiter and it's 40 minutes away. It's a problem. You hear about Mars, it's a problem communicating to Mars because it takes light long enough to go there. But if you look out to the nearest set of stars, to the nearest 40 or 50 stars, it's about 10 years. So if you take a picture of what's going on, it's 10 years ago. But you go and look to the center of the galaxy, it's thousands of years ago. If you look at Andromeda, which is the nearest big galaxy, and it's two million years ago. If you took a picture of the Earth two million years ago, there'd be no evidence of humans at all, because we don't think there were humans yet. I mean, it just gives you the scale. With the Hubble Space Telescope, we're looking at hundreds of millions of years to a billion years. But if we were capable to come up with an idea of how to look even further -- there's some things even further, was to develop the techniques -- we could look out back to even earlier epochs before there were stars and before there were galaxies, back to when the universe was hot and dense and very different. And so that's the sort of sequence, and so I have a more artistic impression of this. There's the galaxy in the middle, which is the Milky Way, and around that are the Hubble -- you know, nearby kind of galaxies, and there's a sphere that marks the different times. And behind that are some more modern galaxies. You see the whole big picture? The beginning of time is funny -- it's on the outside, right? And then there's a part of the universe we can't see because it's so dense and so hot, light can't escape. It's like you can't see to the center of the Sun; you have to use other techniques to know what's going on inside the Sun. But you can see the edge of the Sun, and the universe gets that way, and you can see that. And then you see this sort of model area around the outside, and that is the radiation coming from the Big Bang, which is actually incredibly uniform. The universe is almost a perfect sphere, but there are these very tiny variations which we show here in great exaggeration. And from them in the time sequence we're going to have to go from these tiny variations to these irregular galaxies and first stars to these more advanced galaxies, and eventually the solar system, and so forth. So it's a big design job, but we'll see about how things are going on. So the way these measurements were done, there's been a set of satellites, and this is where you get to see. So there was the COBE satellite, which was launched in 1989, and we discovered these variations. And then in 2000, the MAP satellite was launched -- the WMAP -- and it made somewhat better pictures. And later this year -- this is the cool stealth version, the one that actually has some beautiful design features to it, and you should look -- the Planck satellite will be launched, and it will make very high-resolution maps. And that will be the sequence of understanding the very beginning of the universe. And what we saw was, we saw these variations, and then they told us the secrets, both about the structure of space-time, and about the contents of the universe, and about how the universe started in its original motions. So we have this picture, which is quite a spectacular picture, and I'll come back to the beginning, where we're going to have some mysterious process that kicks the universe off at the beginning. And we go through a period of accelerating expansion, and the universe expands and cools until it gets to the point where it becomes transparent, then to the Dark Ages, and then the first stars turn on, and they evolve into galaxies, and then later they get to the more expansive galaxies. And somewhere around this period is when our solar system started forming. And it's maturing up to the present time. And there's some spectacular things. And this wastebasket part, that's to represent what the structure of space-time itself is doing during this period. And so this is a pretty weird model, right? What kind of evidence do we have for that? So let me show you some of nature's patterns that are the result of this. I always think of space-time as being the real substance of space, and the galaxies and the stars just like the foam on the ocean. It's a marker of where the interesting waves are and whatever went on. So here is the Sloan Digital Sky Survey showing the location of a million galaxies. So there's a dot on here for every galaxy. They go out and point a telescope at the sky, take a picture, identify what are stars and throw them away, look at the galaxies, estimate how far away they are, and plot them up. And just put radially they're going out that way. And you see these structures, this thing we call the Great Wall, but there are voids and those kinds of stuff, and they kind of fade out because the telescope isn't sensitive enough to do it. Now I'm going to show you this in 3D. What happens is, you take pictures as the Earth rotates, you get a fan across the sky. There are some places you can't look because of our own galaxy, or because there are no telescopes available to do it. So the next picture shows you the three-dimensional version of this rotating around. Do you see the fan-like scans made across the sky? Remember, every spot on here is a galaxy, and you see the galaxies, you know, sort of in our neighborhood, and you sort of see the structure. And you see this thing we call the Great Wall, and you see the complicated structure, and you see these voids. There are places where there are no galaxies and there are places where there are thousands of galaxies clumped together, right. So there's an interesting pattern, but we don't have enough data here to actually see the pattern. We only have a million galaxies, right? So we're keeping, like, a million balls in the air but, what's going on? There's another survey which is very similar to this, called the Two-degree Field of View Galaxy Redshift Survey. And every time there's a galaxy -- at its location there's a galaxy -- and if we know anything about the galaxy, which we do, because there's a redshift measurement and everything, you put in the type of galaxy and the color, so this is the real representation. And when you're in the middle of the galaxies it's hard to see the pattern; it's like being in the middle of life. It's hard to see the pattern in the middle of the audience, it's hard to see the pattern of this. So we're going to go out and swing around and look back at this. And you'll see, first, the structure of the survey, and then you'll start seeing the structure of the galaxies that we see out there. So again, you can see the extension of this Great Wall of galaxies showing up here. But you can see the voids, you can see the complicated structure, and you say, well, how did this happen? Suppose you're the cosmic designer. How are you going to put galaxies out there in a pattern like that? It's not just throwing them out at random. There's a more complicated process going on here. How are you going to end up doing that? And so now we're in for some serious play. That is, we have to seriously play God, not just change people's lives, but make the universe, right. So if that's your responsibility, how are you going to do that? What's the kind of technique? What's the kind of thing you're going to do? So I'm going to show you the results of a very large-scale simulation of what we think the universe might be like, using, essentially, you know, humans have labored so hard to pick up, but apparently nature knew how to do at the beginning. And that is, you start out with very simple ingredients and some simple rules, but you have to have enough ingredients to make it complicated. And then you put in some randomness, some fluctuations and some randomness, and realize a whole bunch of different representations. So what I'm going to do is show you the distribution of matter as a function of scales. We're going to zoom in, but this is a plot of what it is. And we had to add one more thing to make the universe come out right. It's called dark matter. That is matter that doesn't interact with light the typical way that ordinary matter does, the way the light's shining on me or on the stage. It's transparent to light, but in order for you to see it, we're going to make it white. OK? So the stuff that's in this picture that's white, that is the dark matter. It should be called invisible matter, but the dark matter we've made visible. And the stuff that is in the yellow color, that is the ordinary kind of matter that's turned into stars and galaxies. So I'll show you the next movie. So this -- we're going to zoom in. Notice this pattern and pay attention to this pattern. We're going to zoom in and zoom in. And you'll see there are all these filaments and structures and voids. And when a number of filaments come together in a knot, that makes a supercluster of galaxies. This one we're zooming in on is somewhere between 100,000 and a million galaxies in that small region. So we live in the boonies. We don't live in the center of the solar system, we don't live in the center of the galaxy and our galaxy's not in the center of the cluster. So we're zooming in. This is a region which probably has more than 100,000, on the order of a million galaxies in that region. We're going to keep zooming in. OK. And so I forgot to tell you the scale. A parsec is 3.26 light years. So a gigaparsec is three billion light years -- that's the scale. So it takes light three billion years to travel over that distance. Now we're into a distance sort of between here and here. That's the distance between us and Andromeda, right? These little specks that you're seeing in here, they're galaxies. Now we're going to zoom back out, and you can see this structure that, when we get very far out, looks very regular, but it's made up of a lot of irregular variations. So they're simple building blocks. There's a very simple fluid to begin with. It's got dark matter, it's got ordinary matter, it's got photons and it's got neutrinos, which don't play much role in the later part of the universe. And it's just a simple fluid and it, over time, develops into this complicated structure. And so you know when you first saw this picture, it didn't mean quite so much to you. Here you're looking across one percent of the volume of the visible universe and you're seeing billions of galaxies, right, and nodes, but you realize they're not even the main structure. There's a framework, which is the dark matter, the invisible matter, that's out there that's actually holding it all together. So let's fly through it, and you can see how much harder it is when you're in the middle of something to figure this out. So here's that same end result. You see a filament, you see the light is the invisible matter, and the yellow is the stars or the galaxies showing up. And we're going to fly around, and we'll fly around, and you'll see occasionally a couple of filaments intersect, and you get a large cluster of galaxies. And then we'll fly in to where the very large cluster is, and you can see what it looks like. And so from inside, it doesn't look very complicated, right? It's only when you look at it at a very large scale, and explore it and so forth, you realize it's a very intricate, complicated kind of a design, right? And it's grown up in some kind of way. So the question is, how hard would it be to assemble this, right? How big a contractor team would you need to put this universe together, right? That's the issue, right? And so here we are. You see how the filament -- you see how several filaments are coming together, therefore making this supercluster of galaxies. And you have to understand, this is not how it would actually look if you -- first, you can't travel this fast, everything would be distorted, but this is using simple rendering and graphic arts kind of stuff. This is how, if you took billions of years to go around, it might look to you, right? And if you could see invisible matter, too. And so the idea is, you know, how would you put together the universe in a very simple way? We're going to start and realize that the entire visible universe, everything we can see in every direction with the Hubble Space Telescope plus our other instruments, was once in a region that was smaller than an atom. It started with tiny quantum mechanical fluctuations, but expanding at a tremendous rate. And those fluctuations were stretched to astronomical sizes, and those fluctuations eventually are the things we see in the cosmic microwave background. And then we needed some way to turn those fluctuations into galaxies and clusters of galaxies and make these kinds of structures go on. So I'm going to show you a smaller simulation. This simulation was run on 1,000 processors for a month in order to make just this simple visible one. that can be run on a desktop in two days in the next picture. So you start out with teeny fluctuations when the universe was at this point, now four times smaller, and so forth. And you start seeing these networks, this cosmic web of structure forming. And this is a simple one, because it doesn't have the ordinary matter and it just has the dark matter in it. And you see how the dark matter lumps up, and the ordinary matter just trails along behind. So there it is. At the beginning it's very uniform. The fluctuations are a part in 100,000. There are a few peaks that are a part in 10,000, and then over billions of years, gravity just pulls in. This is light over density, pulls the material around in. That pulls in more material and pulls in more material. But the distances on the universe are so large and the time scales are so large that it takes a long time for this to form. And it keeps forming until the universe is roughly about half the size it is now, in terms of its expansion. And at that point, the universe mysteriously starts accelerating its expansion and cuts off the formation of larger-scale structure. So we're just seeing as large a scale structure as we can see, and then only things that have started forming already are going to form, and then from then on it's going to go on. So we're able to do the simulation, but this is two days on a desktop. to do the kind of simulation that I showed you before. So we have an idea of how to play seriously, creating the universe by starting with essentially less than an eyedrop full of material, from almost nothing -- that is, something extremely tiny, extremely small -- and it is almost perfect, except it has these tiny fluctuations at a part in 100,000 level, which turn out to produce the interesting patterns and designs we see, that is, galaxies and stars and so forth. So we have a model, and we can calculate it, and we can use it to make designs of what we think the universe really looks like. And that design is sort of way beyond what our original imagination ever was. So this is what we started with 15 years ago, with the Cosmic Background Explorer -- made the map on the upper right, which basically showed us that there were large-scale fluctuations, and actually fluctuations on several scales. You can kind of see that. Since then we've had WMAP, which just gives us higher angular resolution. We see the same large-scale structure, but we see additional small-scale structure. And on the bottom right is if the satellite had flipped upside down and mapped the Earth, what kind of a map we would have got of the Earth. You can see, well, you can, kind of pick out all the major continents, but that's about it. But what we're hoping when we get to Planck, we'll have resolution about equivalent to the resolution you see of the Earth there, where you can really see the complicated pattern that exists on the Earth. And you can also tell, because of the sharp edges and the way things fit together, there are some non-linear processes. Geology has these effects, You can see that just from the map alone. We want to get to the point in our maps of the early universe we can see whether there are any non-linear effects that are starting to move, to modify, and are giving us a hint about how space-time itself was actually created at the beginning moments. So that's where we are today, and that's what I wanted to give you a flavor of. Give you a different view about what the design and what everything else looks like. Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
王子の言葉に皆が湖を険しい目で見つめる。確かに、毒があるこの臭く汚い湖に何かしらの原因はありそうだ。それにしても、人によって毒の内容が変わるなんて、そんな身勝手な毒聞いたことないわよ。まぁ、ファンタジーの世界だから何でもありなのね。「この湖を掃除するんすか?」ケレスの言葉につい笑ってしまった。この湖を綺麗にするなんて、不可能に近い。隊に入って見て分かったけど、ヴィクターの兵士って脳筋の人が多い。この湖の水を透明に出来たら、死んだ人間を甦らせることが出来るぐらい奇跡よ。「違う、この下にあるこの湖の源を探すんだ」「遠征部が今から潜水部?」「何言ってんだ?」ヴィクターが私のしょうもない言葉に顔をしかめる。透明なビューティフルオーシャンになら潜りたいけど、この泥沼に潜りたくはない。罰ゲームじゃない。そもそも、潜ったところで何か手掛かりがつかめるとは思えない。「湖の源って具体的に何ですか?」純粋な瞳をヴィクターに向けながらジュルドが尋ねる。「具体的には分からないが、確かにあるらしい。湖の中は薄く汚れているが、透明だから探すことは可能だ」ということは、過去に潜った人間がいたのね。......勇者だわ。「どうしてその湖の源が欲しいんですか?」今度は敬語で聞く。ヴィクターは少年のような表情を浮かべ、にやりと笑う。「王になる条件だ」覇気のある声でそう言って、彼は上着を脱ぐ。袖をまくり、今にでも湖の中に入りそうな勢いだ。 ......そう言えば、ヴィクターは子だったわね。あのロン毛のお兄様が子だもの。彼よりヴィクターの方が行動力があるように思える。まだあの城に来てそんなに経っていないけど、ヴィクターの兄を見かけたことが一度もない。引きこもりなのかしら。勝手なイメージだけど、少し大人しそうな雰囲気だったし。「潜るぞ」王子の言葉で皆が一斉に服を脱ぎ始める。マリウス隊長とジュルドが上半身裸になる。ケレスと私は王子同様上着を一枚脱いだだけだ。絶対に上半身は裸になれないわ。水にぬれてさらしが透けないことを祈るしかない。割と分厚い生地だしその辺は安心......、分厚かったら水を沢山含んで死ぬ確率が上がるわよね。王子は自分が死ぬ可能性を考えていないのかしら。そもそもこの湖全体が毒なら、死にに行くようなもの......。「お、王子、まだ早まらない方が良いですよ」「あ?」私の言葉にヴィクターは怪訝な表情を浮かべる。「自殺志願者なんですか? 王になる前に死ぬって」「毒の中に入るんですよ。僕も王子の雰囲気にのみ込まれたけど、冷静に考えたらやばくないですか?」「お、ガキ、ついに怖気づいたのか?」ヴィクターはどこか嬉しそうな声でそう言った。「ライオンに立ち向かったやつとは思えねえな」マリウス隊長が横から会話に入ってくる。この毒に汚染されている湖に潜るのとライオンと戦うのじゃ、死亡率が確実に違うわよ。「飲まなきゃ死なねえよ」 ......この国の王子に怖いものはないのかしら。「じゃあ、彼らは?」私はおじい様衆を勢いよく指さした。指をさすのは良くないことだけど、今は令嬢じゃないから良いわよね......。「じじいがこんな湖潜ったら死ぬだろ」「間違いないです」「でも、副隊長も潜らないんですか?」ニール副隊長の方にちらりと目を向ける。彼は皆が上着を脱いだり、上半身を裸にしている時に、何も動かなかった。ただ私達の準備する様子を見ていただけだ。「一人ぐらいここに残しておいた方がいいだろ」「あ、じゃあ僕が」「お前は潜れ」最後まで言う前にヴィクターは少しきつい口調で私にそう言った。選択の余地はなさそうね。早く腹をくくらないと。覚悟を決めるのよ、アリシア。「私が死んだら、王子も呪い殺します」兵士の皆が「王子になんてこと言ってんだこいつ」と言いたげな顔をする。ヴィクターは私の言葉に軽く笑い、口を開いた。「安心しろ、俺が死んでもお前は生きてるだろうよ」俺が見込んだんだから自信もって湖に入れ、と言っているように聞こえた。彼の瞳が私にそう言っていた。 ......しょうがないわ。一番最初にこの腐った湖に突っ込んでやるわよ。私はスッと息を吸い、湖の前に立った。「安心しろ、目を見開いても目から毒は入らないらしい。あ、ただ、鼻からは入るぞ」後ろからヴィクターの落ち着きのある声が聞こえた。私はとっさに振り向く。「もうすでに何人かここに来てるの?」「ああ。入れるかどうか実験しておかないと俺が入るわけないだろ。兵士は捨て駒だ」何の躊躇いもなしに、こうも堂々と言われると何も言えなくなる。ヴィクターって思っていたよりも冷血ね。いや、王たるものはこれぐらいの方が良いのかしら。それに、ここで何人か死んでいるか分からない。その腐敗した湖に潜っていく王子の行動力はやっぱりすごいわよね。私だったら進んでこの中に潜ることなんて絶対にないもの。大きく空気を吸い口を閉じ、鼻をキュッと締めて、思い切り灰色の液体の中に飛び込んだ。	At the prince’s words, everyone stared at the lake with stern eyes. Surely, there must be a reason for this foul-smelling, poisonous lake. Still, I’d never heard of a selfish poison whose contents change depending on the person. Well, I suppose anything is possible in a fantasy world, right? “Are we going to clean up this lake?” I couldn’t help but laugh at Ceres’ words. It would be next to impossible to clean this lake. As I found out when I joined the unit, Victor’s soldiers tend to be very intelligent people. It would be a miracle equivalent to bringing a dead person back to life if we could make the water in this lake clear. “No, we have to find the source of this lake down here.” “The Expedition team is now a diving team?” “What are you talking about?” Victor frowned at my inane words. I want to dive in the clear, Beautiful Ocean, but I refuse to dive in this quagmire. It wasn’t a punishment. In the first place, I doubt that I would be able to find any clues even if I dived in there. “What exactly is the source of the lake?” Jurd asks, turning his pure eyes to Victor. “I’m not completely sure, but I’ve heard it’s there. The lake is pale and dirty, but it’s transparent, so it’s possible to find it.” So, there were people who dived in the past... Brave men. “Why do you want the source of that lake?” This time I ask respectfully. Victor smiled, a child-like expression on his face. “It’s a condition of becoming the King.” Saying this in a high-pitched voice, he took off his jacket. He rolls up his sleeves and looks as if he is about to jump into the water at any moment. ...Come to think of it, Victor was the second prince. That long-haired brother was the first prince. Victor appeared to be more action-oriented than he was. I hadn’t been in that castle long, but I’d never seen Victor’s brother. I wondered if he was a recluse. I know it was selfish of me, but he seemed to be a bit more mature. “Let’s dive!” At the prince’s words, everyone started taking off their clothes at once, Captain Marius and Jurd taking off their tops; Ceres and I just took off one of our jackets, as did the prince. We definitely couldn’t be naked on the top half of our bodies. I could only hope that the water wouldn’t make the cloth see through. It was a rather thick fabric, so I’m comfortable in that area... If it was thicker, it would hold a lot of water and increase the chance of death. I wondered if the prince had considered the possibility of his own death. It would be as though he was there to die if the entire lake was poisonous to begin with..... “Oh, prince, don’t get ahead of yourself just yet.” “Oh?” Victor looks doubtful at my words. “Are you on a suicidal mission? Do you want to die before becoming the King?” “You’re about to enter a poisonous environment. I also got caught up in the prince’s mood, but if you think about it calmly, wouldn’t it be dangerous?” “Oh, kid, you finally got scared, then?” Victor said in a somewhat happy voice. “I doubt you were the one who stood up to that Lion.” Captain Marius entered the conversation from the side. There was a clear difference in the fatality rate between plunging into this poisoned lake and fighting a lion. “If you don’t drink it, you ain’t gonna die.” ...I wonder if the prince of this country has anything to fear. “What about them?” I pointed vigorously at the three grandfathers. Pointing fingers would not be nice, but it was ok because I was not a young lady right now... “If an old man dives in a lake like this, he’ll die.” “Definitely.” “But won’t the second-in-command dive too?” I glanced toward Vice Admiral Neil. He made no move as everyone took off their jackets or stripped down to their tops. He just watched us get ready. “Why don’t you leave at least one of us here?” “Oh, I’ll do it then.” “You dive.” Before I could finish, Victor said to me in a slightly harsh tone. I guess I didn’t have a choice. I needed to hang in there. Make up your mind, Alicia. “If I die, I will curse the prince as well.” Victor laughed gently at my comments before speaking up, while the troops all stared at me as if to say something about what I was saying to the prince. “Don’t worry, even if I die, you’ll still be alive.” It sounded like he was telling me to go into the lake with confidence because I was the one who saw it coming. That was what his eyes were telling me. ...It couldn’t be helped. I’ll be the first one to plunge into this rotten lake. I took a quick breath and stood in front of the lake. “Don’t worry, I heard that if you open your eyes, the poison will not enter your body through your eyes. Oh, but it will get in through your nose.” I heard Victor’s soothing voice from behind me. I turn around quickly. “Have some people already been here?” “Yeah. There’s no way I’m getting in without experimenting to see if I can get in. Soldiers are pawns.” When he said it so openly and without hesitation, I couldn’t say anything back to him. Victor was more cold-blooded than I thought. No, I guess it was better for a king to be this cold-blooded. Besides, I wondered how many people have died here. It was surprising that the prince had the courage to dive into that rotting lake. If it were me, I would never willingly dive into it. I took a big gulp of air, closed my mouth, tightened my nose, and plunged into the gray liquid with all my might.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 1, "inserted_lines_src": 1, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
俺たちが北部の村に腰を落ち着け月以上が経過した。その間にドラゴンに変身して旅人を乗せたり、そのせいで国軍が派遣されたりと問題もあったが、おおむね平穏な毎日を過ごしていた。この日も、俺は村の教会兼孤児院に出向き、子供たちに勉強を教えていた。コルティナが教師をやっていたこともあり、マリアが俺にこの仕事を斡旋してきたのだ。「で、なんでコルティナは、子供に馬乗りにされてんの?」教会の前庭、村の憩いの広場でもあるそこで、コルティナがうつ伏せになって倒れており、そこに子供たちが馬乗りになっていた。正直雄と尊敬を集める俺たちの扱いにしては、あまりにもぞんざいな姿。「うるさい、わね......私が、この村で......何度、行き倒れてる、と思って......るのよ」「それ、自慢になる話じゃないよね?」その特訓は今でも続いており、来た当初によく見かけられた行き倒れ姿は、今や名物となりつつある。そんな有様だから、村人たちからもだんだんとぞんざいに扱われるようになり、今では子供が倒れた彼女を見つけるや否や、こうしてじゃれかかる始末だ。「ちなみに今日のトレーニングメニューは?」「......前周」「それはわたしでもキツイ」コルティナがライエルみたいな体型になったら、ちょっと引くぞ? 「父さんには、わたしから自重するように伝えとく」「そうしてくれると助かるわ。ってか、あんたたち、いつまで私に乗っかってるの! どきなさい、私に乗っていいのはレイドだけよ!」「子供にそういうこと言うの、やめてね」十にも満たない子供相手に、何を言ってるんだか。とはいえ、この状態のコルティナで返すのも心苦しい。俺の受け持つ授業も終わったことだし、彼女を支えながら帰宅することにした。途中で露店のおばちゃんから果物やら野菜を分けてもらい、屋敷に着くころには両手いっぱいに抱える羽目になる。「今帰ったわよぉ」「なんでコルティナの方が偉そうなのかしら?」夕飯の用意をしていたのか、マリアがエプロンで手を拭きながら出迎えてくれる。「そりゃ、もう半年近くこの村に住んでるし?」「それより、母さん。これ、おすそ分け」「あら、今日も大漁ね」「言い方ぁ!」これは冗談交じりと分かってはいるが、さすがに聖女と呼ばれている女性としてはどうなんだと思う。そんな俺の思惑をさらりと流し、マリアはひょいと大量のおすそ分けをエプロンに包み担ぎ上げる。「それより、お風呂の準備もできてるから、二人まとめて入っちゃいなさい」「やった、ニコルちゃんと一緒」「いつも入ってるじゃない」たまにライエルが乱入しようとして、マリアに折檻されていたりもした。そんなわけで、俺はコルティナと、乱入してきたフィーナと共に汗を流す。そうして湯上りにフィニアの用意してくれた果実水で喉を潤してから、食堂に向かった。この日はライエルも早々に帰宅しているらしく、食堂では俺以外がすでに待っているらしい。「あ、わたしおへやにわすれものー」「フィーナ? じゃあわたしも一緒に――」「いいって、いいって。私が一緒に行ってあげるから。ニコルちゃんは先に食堂にいってなさい」コルティナは、俺がレイドだと知ってからも、俺のことを『ニコルちゃん』と呼んでくれる。この辺りは、彼女なりのこだわりがあるのかもしれない。そうして二人と別れ、食堂に足を踏み入れた俺に、パンパンとクラッカーの音が鳴り響いた。火薬を使うこのオモチャは、意外と高価でしかも使い捨てという、それなりに貴重品のはずだ。「ニコル。お誕生日、おめでとう!」「十六歳、おめでとう、ニコル」食堂で待ち構えていたマリアとライエル、それにフィニアが次々と祝いの言葉を贈ってくる。それを聞いて、初めて俺は、今日が誕生日であることに気が付いた。「あ、今日だったんだ?」「そうですよ。ニコル様、全然気付いていませんでしたから」「最近忙しかったから......でも、ありがとう、フィニア」フィニアはそう言いながら、俺に向けて小さな包みを差し出してきた。「ニコル様用の匂い袋です。ほら、エリクサーの」「ああ。クファルが変装してくるから、見分けるために作ったやつか」「ええ。もう不要かもしれませんけど」「いやいや。エリクサーってだけで使い道はあるから。専用の入れ物があるのはありがたいよ」エリクサーは非常に強い緑の匂いを放つので、そのまま持ち歩くのは少し難しい。そこで匂いをある程度制限できる袋状の入れ物に入れて首から下げていた。包みを開けてみると、そこにはライエルやマリアが下げているのと同じ、植物を編んだ小さな篭のような首飾りが出てきた。「お揃いだ」「はい、お気に召しませんでしたか?」「とんでもない、すごく気に入った。ありがとう」「よかった」俺にとって、ライエルもマリアも、代えがたい仲間である。彼らと同じものを身に着けるというのは、不思議な一体感を与えてくれて、安心できる。「俺からはこれだ」次に俺にプレゼントを差し出したのは、ライエルだった。ライエルが送ってくれたのは、六十センチくらいの、緩く湾曲した刃物が収まった鞘だった。「これ、カタナ?」「東方では脇差しっていうらしい。カタナと対になる装備なんだとか」「へぇ?」「前のカタナは失くしただろ。何かあった方がいいと思ってな」「そういえば、邪竜との戦いで失くしたっけありがとう」「うむ。それで迫ってくる男がいたら、思うままに切り捨てるがいい」「俺は危険人物かよ」「暗殺者だろ」「......そうだった」前にも言われた気がするが、どうもその意識が薄くなってきた気がする。それはこの人生の方が、過去よりも比重が重くなってきたということだろうか? そこへ、コルティナとフィーナが食堂に踏み込んできた。二人とも手に俺へのプレゼントを持って。「私からのプレゼントは、これよ!」「ぬいぐるみ! しかもおっきいやつ! これを抱いて寝るニコルちゃんを想像したら、押し倒さざるを得ないわね」「フィーナの前で何を言っているか!」ぬいぐるみに興味はないが、抱き枕的な物だと思えば、悪くない。ぴょんと少しだけ跳ねて小さな包みを差し出してくる。一瞬そのまま彼女を抱き上げようかと思ってしまったが、手に持っている小瓶が気になって制止した。「これはなに?」「えっとね。白いかみさまが『暗殺者ならこれですよー』って」「イヤな予感しかしない」「捨ててしまえ!?」反射的に俺はそう叫んだが、それを受けてフィーナの瞳にみるみる涙が溜まっていくのを見て、言葉を無くす。「あ、いや。そうじゃなくって」「ニコルちゃん、酷いんだー」「うるさいな。えっとね、ふぃーな、その......喜んで受け取ります。ありがとう」こんな危険な薬、使う予定はないのだが。「じゃあ、さっそく今晩から使いましょう」「コルティナはちょっと黙ってて。あと白いのは後でぶっ殺す」「無理じゃない? あの子、不老不死らしいし。さすが神様よね」「世の理不尽を体現したような存在だな......」俺は疲れ果てたようにそう呟くと、今度はマリアが食卓の方に手を伸ばす。「私はプレゼントとか用意してなかったけど、代わりにごちそうを作っておいたわ。即物的で悪いけど」「ううん、すごくおいしそう。ケーキまであるんだ?」この辺境では砂糖というのは嗜好品である。もちろん料理に必要な調味料でもあるので、輸入的な方法で仕入れてはいるが、決して安くはない。ケーキとなると、それこそ年に一度、口にできるかどうかだ。「みんな、ありがとう」そう口にする俺の目に、かすかに涙が浮かんでくる。レイドと知られてもなお受け入れてくれる仲間たち。前世ではほとんど貰えなかった祝福の言葉。それを今、まとめて贈られて涙腺が緩んでしまったようだ。「それじゃ、食事にしましょ。フィーナの目がケーキに釘付けになってるもの」言われてフィーナの方を見てみると、彼女の目はケーキを捉えたまま動かなくなっていて、しかも口元から涎がたらりと垂れている。それを見て、俺やコルティナ、フィニアは思わず笑みがこぼれた。この世界に生まれ変わり、いろいろなことがあったが、やはりここが俺の帰るべき場所だと再認識した瞬間だった。	It had been over a month since we settled in the northern village. I transformed into a Dragon and attracted travelers, which caused the army to move and cause problems, but other than that the days went on peacefully. Today, as usual, I went to the church which also served as an orphanage, and was teaching the kids there. Cortina used to be a teacher too, so Maria suggested this work to us. “So why are you being used as a horse by kids, Cortina?” At the church’s front garden which also served as the village’s relaxation plaza, Cortina was lying on her face and the kids were riding on her back. Honestly, it was too pitiful a sight for a member of Six Heroes, who were the objects of respect. “Shut...up... How many times... do you think I collapsed in this... village.?” “Is that something you should be bragging about?” Cortina came to this village to train. Her training continued even now, and she was often found collapsed like this to the point it was becoming a local specialty. The villagers started to treat her quite casually because of that, and kids played with her whenever they discovered her like this. “By the way, what’s your training schedule today?” “...Thirty laps around the yard.” “That’s tough even for me.” That b̲a̲s̲t̲a̲r̲d̲ Lyell... What is he making a feline, who lacks stamina, do? I’ll be a little put off if she ends up with a body like Lyell’s, you know? “I’ll ask dad to hold back.” “Please do. Anyway, how long are you brats going to straddle me? Get off! Only Reid is allowed to ride me!” “Stop telling stuff like that to kids.” What the heck is she saying to kids that weren’t even in their teens? Still, it would be too pitiful to leave her in that state and go back. The lessons I was in charge of ended already, so I decided to help her return home. The grannies at the stalls gave us fruit and vegetables on the way, and by the time I got home, my hands were completely full. This was also a daily thing ever since we came to this village. The villagers were treating me very warmly after coming back. “I’m back.” “Why are you the one acting all smug about it, Cortina?” Maria came to greet us while wiping her hands on her apron as she was probably in the middle of cooking. “I mean, I’ve been here close to half a year already.” “That aside, mom, they gave me these.” “Oh, it’s a big catch today too, huh?” “Wording!” I knew she was mostly joking, but a Saint shouldn’t really be saying that stuff. She ignored my worries and took the food from my hands with the apron. “That aside, the bath’s ready, so you should get in together.” “Yaay, I get to bathe with Nicole.” “Isn’t that the usual?” Whenever I entered the bath, someone always followed me in. It could be Cortina, Finia, or Fina. Sometimes even Lyell tried to barge in too, but Maria disciplined him for it. Thus, I ended up bathing with Cortina and Fina who also intruded. Fina was with us so Cortina was forced to control herself, which I was grateful for. Then we appeased our thirst with the juice Finia prepared as we got out of the bath, after which we headed to the dining hall. Lyell was home early today too, so everyone other than me was already present it seems. “Ah, I forgot something in my room.” “Fina? Then I’ll come along—” “It’s fine, I’ll go with her, Nicole. You just head to the dining hall first.” Cortina kept calling me Nicole even after knowing I was Reid. But when I was in Reid’s form, she properly called me Reid. It was probably her fixation playing a part here. As I entered the dining hall after parting with the two, I heard the popping sounds of the crackers. These toys that used gunpowder were quite pricey and were single-use, so they were quite valuable. “Nicole, happy birthday!” “Congrats on turning sixteen, Nicole.” Maria, Lyell, and Finia who were ambushing me in the dining hall congratulated me one by one. Their words made me finally remember that it was my birthday today. “Oh, right, it was today, huh?” “That’s right, Lady Nicole. You really forgot about it.” “Well it’s been hectic lately... But thanks, Finia.” Finia gave me a small package as she congratulated me. “What’s this?” “It’s the scent bag for you, Lady Nicole. The one made with Elixir.” “Oh, the thing you made to tell us apart when Kufar was disguising himself as one of us?” “Yes. I suppose it isn’t useful anymore.” “Not true. Elixir is valuable on its own. I’m grateful for the exclusive container of it.” Elixir had an extremely subtle greenery smell, so it was difficult to just carry it with you. Thus, they instead used scent bags that limited its smell to a degree and wore them as necklaces. Opening the wrapping I found a small necklace made out of knitted plants similar to the one Lyell and Maria had. “They match.” “Yes, do you not like it?” “No such thing. I do, a lot. Thanks.” “I’m glad.” Lyell and Maria were irreplaceable comrades to me. Wearing the same thing as they made me feel a strange sense of unity and relief. “And I have this for you.” Lyell was the one to give me a gift next. What he gave me was a scabbard with a gentle curve that hid a blade about centimeters long. “Is this a katana?” “It is apparently called a wakizashi in the east. It supposedly forms a pair with a katana.” “Oh?” “You lost that Katana, right? So I thought you should have something to replace it.” “Oh yeah, I did lose it in the battle against the Evil Dragon. Thanks.” “Sure. You can use that to cut down any men that approach you.” “Am I some kind of a hazard?” “I mean, you’re an assassin.” “...Oh, right.” I feel like I got told of this before too. I feel like I’m forgetting that fact as of late. Perhaps it was proof that the gravity of my life had deepened compared to my previous life. Then Cortina and Fina arrived at the scene. They both held presents in their hands. So this was why they separated from me earlier. “This is my gift for you!” “A plushy! And a big one too! When I imagine you sleeping while hugging this I feel like pushing you down.” “The heck are you saying in front of Fina!” I smacked her head but still gratefully accepted the gift. I wasn’t interested in plushies but it wasn’t bad to have a body pillow. She jumped up a little and presented a small wrapping. I ended up reflexively considering lifting her up, but I refrained myself since I was curious about the small bottle in their hands. “Umm, the white goddess told me this was perfect for assassins.” “I have a bad feeling about this.” “Just throw it away!!” I reflexively yelled out, but Fina’s eyes started to water so I was at a loss. I had to correct my statement right away. “Oh, no, I, uh, I didn’t mean it like that.” “Nicole, you’re horrible.” “Shut up. Umm, Fina, I’ll... gladly accept it. Thanks.” I accepted the bottle in half tears. I had no plans to use something this dangerous, though. “How about we use it tonight?” “Cortina, shut up. Also, I’ll go and kill that Whitey later.” “Isn’t that impossible? She’s apparently immortal. Gods are quite something.” “She’s like the manifestation of the world’s injustice...” I muttered in a tired tone, but then Maria pointed to the table. “I didn’t prepare a present but I made a feast in exchange. Sorry if it’s a little pragmatic.” “Not at all, I’m really happy. We even have a cake?” Sugar was a luxury item in the countryside like this. It was an essential cooking ingredient so it was being imported, but it was by no means cheap. Cakes used so much of it that it was something you could only afford once a year at best. And that was about a big shot like Lyell. For common people, even that was beyond reach. “Thanks, everyone.” I felt tears forming in the corners of my eyes as I spoke. My comrades accepted me even after knowing I was Reid. These were words that I hardly ever heard in my past life. I could only remember receiving such words from a single woman when I was a child. I received all their words at once, so it made my tear glands lax. “Alright, let’s eat now. Fina’s eyes are glued to the cake.” I looked toward Fina to check, and as she said, she was standing still and staring fixedly at the cake, and even starting to drool. Cortina, Finia, and I couldn’t help but burst into laughter at that. I got reborn into this world and many things happened along the way, but this was the moment I once again learned that this was the place where I belonged.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 4, "inserted_lines_src": 18, "inserted_lines_trg": 4 }
そのことを少しお話ししたいと思いますちょっと考えてみてくださいみなさんがアフリカの小さな村に住んでいたとしても大都会に住んでいたとしても、あらゆるものは結局は植物に由来するものです食品、薬、燃料、建設工事、衣類、などのすべての目に見えるもの、あるいは私たちにとって大切な精神的なものやレクリエーションもそうですあるいは土壌形成、その大気への影響一次的生産などもそうですなんと、ここにある書物さえ植物から作られているのですこれらのものはすべて植物に由来するのですもし植物がなかったとしたら私たちもここにはいなかったでしょう。今植物たちは危機にあります気候変動によって植物は危機にあるのですさらに、植物はこの惑星状で私たちのような者と共存している理由からも危機に瀕しているのです私たちのような者は植物やその生息環境を破壊するようなことをしたがります食糧生産だろうとそこにあるべきではない場所への外来植物の移植だろうと生息環境を他の目的に使用することであろうとこれはすべて、植物たちがが適応するか死ぬか移動するしかないということを意味しますしかし時には植物たちにとって移動というものがとても困難だということが分かります都市やその他のものが移動の邪魔になるかもしれないからですだから、もし人間の生活がすべて植物に依存しているとしたら我々がその植物を救うために努力すべきだということには道理があるのではないでしょうか私はそう思いますそこで、植物たちを救うためのあるプロジェクトを紹介させていただきたいと思います植物たちを救う方法は種を保存しておくことですなぜかというと、種は、その様々な美点の中でも植物の未来だからです将来の世代のためのすべての遺伝子情報は種の中にありますさてここにある建物ですが大したビルには見えませんねしかし、地下にはたくさんの階がありますここは世界最大のシード・バンクなのですシード・バンクはイギリス南部だけではなく世界中に分布しています。またそのことは後で触れますこの建物は核攻撃にも耐える構造になっています願わくはそのようなことにならなければいいのですがだから、シード・バンクを設立しようとすればそこに何を保存するかを決めなければなりませんそこで私たちは、何よりもまず保存したいものが最も危機に瀕している種であると決定しましたそれらは乾燥地域の種ですそこでまず最初に私たちは 50カ国と契約を結びましたそれはその50カ国の国家元首や事務方と契約締結のための交渉をすることを意味します世界中の、これらのオレンジ色になっている国々に私たちは120の協力機関を持っています世界中から人々が研究のために研究所にやってきますそして彼らは自国に戻り、正確にいかにしてこれらの種を採集するかを計画するのです彼らは、これらの植物が生息すると言われる地域にタグを付ける人々を何千人も持っています彼らはそれらの植物を探します。そして開花しているものを見つけ、種をつけたときにそこに戻り種を採集します全世界でですこれらの種――そのある部分はとても非技術的なものですそれらをみんなスコップで袋に詰め込み乾燥させるのですラベリングもします。あるところではハイテクを用い、あるところではローテクを用います主要なことは、それらの種を、低温で、とても慎重に乾燥させなければならないということですそれからそれらを、極めて低湿度の中で摂氏マイナス20度―― 華氏で言えばマイナス4度だと思います――で貯蔵しなければなりませんそうすればこれらの種は、我々の考えではその多くは数千年後に数百年後なら間違いなく発芽することが可能になるのです。それらの種がまだ生育可能かどうか不明な場合それらを貯蔵することはよくありませんそこで私たちは10年ごとに持っているすべての種のサンプルで発芽テストを行いますネットワークなので、世界中の人々が同じことをしています。それで私たちは発芽プロトコルを発展させることができるのですそれは、私たちが、これらの種を発芽させるための、暑さと寒さとそのサイクルの正確なコンビネーションを知っているということを意味しますそれはとても有用な情報なのです我々はこれらを生育させこれらの種の出身地の人々に伝えますいいですか実際私たちはこれらの種を後で得るためにのみ貯蔵しているわけではありませんこれらの栽培の困難な植物をどのように発芽させるかについての情報をみなさんに提供できますと。そしてそういうことはすでに起こりつつあることですそれで私たちはどこまで到達したのでしょうか私は今日私たちの30億番目の種が今貯蔵されることを発表できることをうれしく思っていますこの惑星の全植物の10%に当たる24,000種が安全な状態になっています資金が得られれば、来年までに30,000種 2020年までに世界の全植物の25%を貯蔵しますこれらは、皆さんがノルウエーのスヴァルバドに貯蔵されているのをご覧になったかもしれないような穀物植物だけではありませんあそこではすばらしい仕事がされていますこちらの方は少なくとも100倍のサイズのコレクションです私たちは世界中に送られている何千というコレクションを持っています旱魃に強い森林植物の種はパキスタンとエジプトに送られます光合成能力の高い植物はここアメリカ合衆国に来ます塩分に強い牧草種はオーストラリアに送られますこのリストはずっと続きますこれらの種は状態回復のために用いられますだからここアメリカ合衆国のトールグラス・プレーリー国立自然保護区あるいはいくつかの国の地雷埋設地のような既にダメージを受けている生息地においてはこれらの種、このコレクションのおかげで状態回復が既に起きていますスクリーンの左下にあるようないくつかの植物は最後の残されたものとなってしまっていますこの男性が種をトラックに積んでいるものはもう木が最後の30本しか残っていませんたんぱく質のためにも薬品のためにも信じられないぐらい有用な植物です私たちは中国やアメリカ合衆国その他たくさんの国で研修を行っていますそのコストはどれぐらいかというと 1種類あたり2,800ドルが平均です私はその価値を考えると安いものだと思いますそれにその科学的データも合わせて得ることができるのです将来の研究は「10年ごとに植えることなしに、種の生存能力のための遺伝子的・分子的マーカーをどのようにすれば発見できるか」ですそして私たちはもうほとんどゴールに近づいていますご清聴ありがとうございました	Let me try to convince you of that in a few seconds. Just think for a moment. It doesn't matter whether you live in a small African village, or you live in a big city, everything comes back to plants in the end: whether it's for the food, the medicine, the fuel, the construction, the clothing, all the obvious things; or whether it's for the spiritual and recreational things that matter to us so much; or whether it's soil formation, or the effect on the atmosphere, or primary production. Damn it, even the books here are made out of plants. All these things, they come back to plants. And without them we wouldn't be here. Now plants are under threat. They're under threat because of changing climate. And they are also under threat because they are sharing a planet with people like us. And people like us want to do things that destroy plants, and their habitats. And whether that's because of food production, or because of the introduction of alien plants or because of habitats being used for other purposes -- all these things are meaning that plants have to adapt, or die, or move. And plants sometimes find it rather difficult to move because there might be cities and other things in the way. So if all human life depends on plants, doesn't it make sense that perhaps we should try to save them? I think it does. And I want to tell you about a project to save plants. And the way that you save plants is by storing seeds. Because seeds, in all their diverse glory, are plants' futures. All the genetic information for future generations of plants are held in seeds. So here is the building; it looks rather unassuming, really. But it goes down below ground many stories. And it's the largest seed bank in the world. It exists not only in southern England, but distributed around the world. I'll come to that. This is a nuclear-proof facility. God forbid that it should have to withstand that. So if you're going to build a seed bank, you have to decide what you're going to store in it. Right? And we decided that what we want to store first of all, are the species that are most under threat. And those are the dry land species. So first of all we did deals with 50 different countries. It means negotiating with heads of state, and with secretaries of state in 50 countries to sign treaties. We have 120 partner institutions all over the world, in all those countries colored orange. People come from all over the world to learn, and then they go away and plan exactly how they're going to collect these seeds. They have thousands of people all over the world tagging places where those plants are said to exist. They search for them. They find them in flower. And they go back when their seeds have arrived. And they collect the seeds. All over the world. The seeds -- some of if is very untechnical. You kind of shovel them all in to bags and dry them off. You label them. You do some high-tech things here and there, some low-tech things here and there. And the main thing is that you have to dry them very carefully, at low temperature. And then you have to store them at about minus 20 degrees C -- that's about minus four Fahrenheit, I think -- with a very critically low moisture content. And these seeds will be able to germinate, we believe, with many of the species, in thousands of years, and certainly in hundreds of years. It's no good storing the seeds if you don't know they're still viable. So every 10 years we do germination tests on every sample of seeds that we have. And this is a distributed network. So all around the world people are doing the same thing. And that enables us to develop germination protocols. That means that we know the right combination of heat and cold and the cycles that you have to get to make the seed germinate. And that is very useful information. And then we grow these things, and we tell people, back in the countries where these seeds have come from, "Look, actually we're not just storing this to get the seeds later, but we can give you this information about how to germinate these difficult plants." And that's already happening. So where have we got to? I am pleased to unveil that our three billionth seed -- that's three thousand millionth seed -- is now stored. Ten percent of all plant species on the planet, 24,000 species are safe; 30,000 species, if we get the funding, by next year. Twenty-five percent of all the world's plants, by 2020. These are not just crop plants, as you might have seen stored in Svalbard in Norway -- fantastic work there. This is at least 100 times bigger. We have thousands of collections that have been sent out all over the world: drought-tolerant forest species sent to Pakistan and Egypt; especially photosynthetic-efficient plants come here to the United States; salt-tolerant pasture species sent to Australia; the list goes on and on. These seeds are used for restoration. So in habitats that have already been damaged, like the tall grass prairie here in the USA, or in mined land in various countries, restoration is already happening because of these species -- and because of this collection. Some of these plants, like the ones on the bottom to the left of your screen, they are down to the last few remaining members. The one where the guy is collecting seeds there on the truck, that is down to about 30 last remaining trees. both for protein and for medicine. We have training going on in China, in the USA, and many other countries. How much does it cost? 2,800 dollars per species is the average. I think that's cheap, at the price. And that gets you all the scientific data that goes with it. The future research is "How can we find the genetic and molecular markers for the viability of seeds, without having to plant them every 10 years?" And we're almost there. Thank you very much.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
酒場の中に入ったアリエス達が見たのは、この暗黒大陸にはいないはずの活気に満ちた『人々』の姿であった。その種族こそ人間、獣人、エルフ、天翼族、ドワーフ、小人族と纏まりがないが、確かに人類が暮らしている姿は軽い驚愕ものだ。かつ雄が魔神王に敗れて以降、人類はその生存圏を徐々に追いやられ、今では僅かな面積――即ち今までアリエス達が行動していたほんの少しの土地でしか暮らしていない。それがまさか、暗黒大陸の中でも危険度を誇るムスペルヘイムで普通に暮らしているなどとは。消えない氷に包まれた店内には防寒具を着込んだ人々が所狭しと座っており、酒を飲んだり談笑したりしている。少なくとも、明日を生きるにも怯えている、といった暗い雰囲気ではない。「当たり前だけど家具は氷じゃないのねえ」適当な机に触れながらスコルピウスがどうでもよさそうに呟く。いくら消えないといっても、流石に椅子やテーブルまで氷製というわけではないらしい。とはいえ、やはり周囲が周囲だ。冷たいのには変わりない。だが、それでも氷で閉じ込められている事を考えれば、この酒場は不自然なまでに暖かいと言えた。「寒い事は寒いけど、外に比べると結構暖かいんだね」「アリエス様、それは恐らくこの氷に秘密があるのかと。雪というのは空気を含み、優れた断熱作用を持つ。故に、雪で造り上げた空洞や家というのは驚くほど暖かいのだ。勿論それは外に比べれば相対的に暖かく感じる、程度のものである事は言うまでもないが、体感的には相当に居心地のいい空間に思てしまう。ハイドラスはその細かに造られた消えない氷に、同じ水属性として称賛の目を向けながら説明をした。アリエス達が物珍しそうに店内を見ていると、そこに店主らしきドワーフが声をかけてきた。その姿を見てスコルピウスは、『こいつら本当、どいつもこいつも同じような顔してるわね』と失礼な感想を抱く。ルファスはドワーフについ年前に『ミザール以外は見分けがつかん』と言っていたがスコルピウスも概ね同じ意見だ。もっともスコルピウスにはミザールと他のドワーフの見分けも付いていないが。「そっちは見飽きた顔ねえ。ドワーフって何処でも同じ顔なのかしらあ?」「失敬な」スコルピウスは基本的にルファス以外には礼儀を払わない。だからこうした、相手によっては無礼とも取るかもしれない言動を平然と行ってしまう。これでは余計なトラブルを生むだけだと考えたカルキノスは彼女を下がらせ、代わりにカウンター前へと座った。「Sorry。彼女も悪気があって言ったわけではないのです。「何だ、知らんのか」「Yes。ミー達は旅人ですから」「旅人って......この魔神族に支配された世界をかね? 「まあ、そんな所ですね」カルキノスは、そのふざけた口調とは裏腹にこれで中々コミュニケーション能力は高い。少なくとも、ルファスの失脚後にずっと落ち込んでいたアリエスや、侵略者化したスコルピウスとは比較にもならないだろう。何故なら彼だけが十二星の中で唯一、人間達の中に紛れて生活する道を選び、成功させていたのだ。あるいはルファスも、それを見越して彼をここに配置したのかもしれない。普段の軽い言動からは意外に思われるが、彼はこれで結構慎重かつ気長な性格なのだ。「この町か......そうだな、ここは『ネクタール』。まさかムスペルヘイムに町があるとは思いませんでしたから」「あんた、いつの時代の人だい? ここが灼熱の世界だったのは二百年近く昔の事だぞ」「Oh! 二百年も前ですか」「ああ。二百年前、人類が魔神族に負けたのはアンタも知っているだろう。店主の言葉は納得出来るものだ。確かに人類は追い詰められてその生存圏を狭めたが、全員が逃げ切れたなどというのは有り得ない。逃げられなかった者、最期まで戦う事を選択した者も当然いるだろう。だが問題はその後だ。そうした者達がいた事は予想の範疇ではあるが、それがこうして生き延びて町に暮らしているというのは更に有り得ない。魔神族が支配するこの大地の上でいつまでも見逃されるわけがないのだ。「ま、その後は散々だったらしくてな。魔神族に抗ったはいいが、当たり前のように次々と人々は殺された。んで、もう駄目かって時に我等が王、アクアリウス様がムスペルヘイムを氷で閉ざし、近付く魔神族を片っ端から氷漬けにしたのさ。それを見た儂等の先祖はこの方に縋るしかないと確信したんだろうな。皆があの方に忠誠を誓う代わりにあの方の庇護を得る事が出来た。「ほうほう、なるほど。そのような事があったのですね」カルキノスはポケットに手を入れ、硬貨を出そうとする。だがふと、何かに気付いたように懐へと手を入れた。そして出て来たのは、小さな宝石だ。「Thank you、いい話を聞けました。これはお代です」「お、おい、こりゃ宝石じゃないか! 受け取れないよ、こんな高価なの!」「いえいえ。生憎とこの町のMoneyを持ち合わせていなくてですね。「い、いや、しかし......これは高すぎるぞ。釣り合わん」「でしたらもう一つ、情報を提供して頂いてもよろしいですか? それでチャラとしましょう」「む......ぬう、わかった。どんな事でも話そう。それでもまだ高すぎるがな。店主の言葉を受け、カルキノスの眼鏡が怪しく光った。これから聞く事は、こちらから切り出したならば怪しまれるかもしれない際どい話題だ。だが向こうから何でも話す、と言った以上それを違える事はないだろう。ドワーフというのは基本的に義理堅く、相手に借りを作るのを嫌う。だから、高い宝石を出せば必ず向こうからそれに釣り合う条件を出してくれると踏んでいた。何でも話すという言質は取った。そしてドワーフは前言を違える事もまた好まない。上手く行き過ぎて怖いくらいだ。案外、自分には参謀の素質もあるのかもしれない、とカルキノスは勝手に自画自賛する。もしもこの内心の声がポルクスに聞こえていたならば、『ただの偶然でしょ』と一刀両断されていた事だろう。「では、この国のQueenにお会いする方法を」「くいーん?」「女王様の事ですよ」「何を言っとるんだ。アクアリウス様は男だろう」「......ああ、なるほど! それは失礼、お名前の響きからてっきりLadyとばかり」カルキノスは軽い調子で合わせながら、スコルピウスとアリエスへ目配せをする。すると、二人も小さく頷いた。どうやら少しばかり面倒臭い事になりそうだ、と目が語っている。「いやあ......直接会うのは流石に無理なんじゃないのか? 「大きな手柄?」「例えば、外から襲ってくる魔神族を倒しちまうとか、そいつ等を率いているプルートゥを倒すとか......まあ無理だろうがな」「プルートゥ?」「ここらの魔神族を指揮している奴さ。アクアリウス様ほどじゃないんだが、とんでもなく強くて、ここ数十年くらいずっと睨み合いをしてんのさ。その情報を聞き、カルキノスの口元が笑みに歪んだ。なるほど、それを倒せば事を荒立てずにアクアリウスへの面会が叶うのか。無理に押し入ったり潜入したりするよりも、余程『彼女』の機嫌を損ねない......『簡単な手段』だ。「いい情報でした、マスター」「もう行くのかい?」「ええ。やる事が見付かりましたから」「そうか。近くに来たらまた寄りな。アンタ等なら無料で飲ませてやるよ」宝石は先払い、という事だろう。何とも義理堅いドワーフだ。情報の見返りと言っているのに、それで納得しないとは頑固というかお人好しというか。しかしカルキノスは彼のような男は嫌いではない。「その時があれば是非」とだけ返し、それからスコルピウス達と共に外へと出た。ネクタールから約500km離れた場所。そこに一つの都市があった。都市――と呼ぶには、それは余りにも大きすぎるかもしれない。何故ならその面積は人類の生存圏全てを合わせたよりも上なのだから。もはやそれは国家にも等しく、錬金術で造られた高層建築物が並ぶ様は、まるで勇者瀬衣の故郷、地球の文明大国を思わせる。夜でもマナの明かりで道を照らし、娯楽施設も充実したそこはまさに地上の支配者と呼ぶに相応しい栄華に満ち溢れている。もっとも、彼等は決して善良なる民とは言えないだろう。娯楽施設の中を見れば、そこには悪趣味な遊戯が並んでいるのが分かる。『人間叩き』......捕らえた人間をハンマーで叩き潰し、その数を競う遊びだ。魔神族達は恐怖など一切ないといった顔で町中を歩き、我が世の春を謳歌していた。彼等は自分達の平穏を疑っていない。人類など最早眼中にもなく、そのうち魔神王が滅ぼすだろうと安心し切っている。故に、それは突然の事であった。 ――巨大な足音が響いた。続いて聞こえて来たのは、巨大な何かの咆哮。大地を震わせ、空を切り裂く魔の叫び。魔神族達は何事かと思い顔をあげ、まだ平和ボケの抜けていない様子で、興味本位にその場へと向かう。そして見た。大地を揺らしながらこちらへと向かってくる――巨大な羊の姿を。全身は虹色の炎で包まれ、建物を溶かしながら無慈悲に何もかもを踏み潰し、前進している。「な、何だあれは!? モンスターか!?」「馬鹿な......でかすぎる!」「軍隊は!? 軍は何をしているんだ!」巨大な羊が歩くだけで建物が崩れる。築き上げた文明を。文化を。営みを。壊している事にすら気付かず、歩いているだけで粉砕する。だが悪夢は終わらない。心せよ魔神族。お前達の平穏は今日をもって終わりを告げるのだ。次に現れたのは巨大な蠍の怪物。地面を割り、その亀裂の中からおぞましい全貌を露にする。尾の一振りで建物を薙ぎ払い、鋏を動かすだけで大地が砕ける。海からは蟹の怪物が姿を現し、上陸を開始した。それに対し、魔神族は軍隊を動員して攻撃へと移る。空を飛ぶ魔神族が一斉に魔法を発射し、大砲の怪物へと次々に炸裂する。だが怪物達は止まらない。その歩みを緩めない。正面から攻撃を浴びながら、まるで蚊に刺されたかのように気にせず進む。「キシャアアァァ......!」巨大な蠍が鋏を開いた。解放された鋏の内側に炎が集約され、熱量が加速度的に上昇していく。不吉な鳴動が町全体を揺らし、避けられない『死』を誰もが予感する。それを止めようと軍が必死に攻撃するが、まるで通じていない。蠍の怪物はまるで嘲笑うように鳴き、そして破滅の炎を解き放った。それはまるで、どこまでも続く熱閃。地平線の彼方まで届く炎が建造物を貫通して焼き尽くし、更に鋏を動かすことで町全体を薙ぎ払う。いや、鋏だけではない。口や尾からも熱閃を発射し、左右前後全てに対し攻撃を仕掛けていた。羊の吐き出す虹色の炎が広大な面積を焼きながら次々と引火を繰り返し、軍が発射した実弾は何故か吸い込まれるように蟹へ炸裂し、そして次の瞬間には反撃の鋏で叩き落される。それはまさに災害であった。二百年の時を経て、彼等の元へ再び訪れた災厄であった。災厄を前に出来る事など何もない。ただ逃げまどい、隠れ、立ち去るのを祈りながら待つ事しか出来ない。壊される町の中、一際大きな塔の中で一人の男が目を見開きながら震えていた。プルートゥ、と呼ばれるその魔神族はレベルにして420。七曜すらも凌駕する実力者であり、しかし人界侵攻よりも己が支配する町造りに執心していた為、テラの誘いを断ってこの立場に甘んじていた男だ。いや、それは言い訳だ。本当は恐れていたから此処に留まっていたに過ぎない。二百年前の数少ない生き残りである彼はルファス・マファールを知っていた。彼女に従う意思ある災害達を知っていた。誰もが自分を強いと言う。七曜などよりも強い本当の実力者だと持ち上げる。嗚呼、違う。違うのだ。この町に本当の強者など存在しない。所詮は弱者同士の背比べ......本物の化物と比べてしまえば、等しく虫けらに等しい。だから人界侵略の幹部の座を蹴った。七曜などになりたくもなかった。何故なら人界にはまだ、あの化物達がいて......何よりも、あれでルファス・マファールが死んだなどと到底信じられなかったからだ。そしてその予感は正しかった。見よ、この絶望に満ちた光景を。この悪夢を。二百年の時を超えて、目の前に現れた地獄の具現を。「二百年か......まあ、長く続いた方だな」プルートゥは震える手で葉巻をくわえ、火を付けた。ああ、分かっていたさ。いつかこんな日が来るだろうと思っていた。何故ならここは女神の遊技場で、そして自分達はその人形で。その事実に気付いた自分だけが、みっともなく逃げ回って生き残り、こうして強者の椅子に座る事が出来た。今日まで贅沢を貪れた。「嗚呼......」故に男は自嘲するような笑みを浮かべ、最後の一服を堪能する。塔の外では巨大な羊が口を開き、こちらへ炎を吐き出そうとしているが今更逃げようという気は起きなかった。時代は変わるものだ。かつてルファス・マファールが台頭したように。そして彼女が失脚したように。今度は自分達の番が来た......それだけの事に過ぎない。煙を吐き出し、迫る炎を見ながら男は薄く笑った。「終わりってのは呆気ないもんだな」二百年前を知る魔神族の一人が諦めに満ちた声で呟き、直後に虹色の炎に建造物ごと消された。魔神族の栄華は終わりを告げた。今日まで人類を迫害し、そして平穏を貪っていた代償を払う時がやってきたのだ。昔を知る者達は思い知るだろう。知らぬ若い世代は何も知らずに恐怖するだろう。意思を持つ災害『覇道十二星』が、再び黒翼の覇王の元に集いつつある、その絶望に満ちた事実を。	After entering a tavern, what Aries and the rest saw was a sight that should not have existed in the Dark Continent — a lively bunch of “humanoids”. They included, but were not limited to, humans, beastkin, elves, flugels, dwarves and hobbits. The very fact that humanoids were actually living here was astonishing. Ever since the Seven Heroes had lost against the Demon King, the humanoids had had their right to exist slowly taken away. By now, they were only left with a small area of land – specifically, they could only live in the small area of land where Aries and the rest had been operating in up to this point. Yet, to think that there were some living normally in Muspelheim, which boasted the greatest level of danger even within the Dark Continent. Inside the shop, enveloped by perpetual ice, people were sitting down whilst wearing heavy clothing in order to keep warm and drinking alcoholic beverages while having friendly conversations. At the very least, it did not seem like they were liviing in fear of tomorrow, because the tavern was not shrouded in a dark atmosphere. “This is kind of a given, but it doesn’t seem like the furniture themselves are made out of ice, huh.” Scorpius touched a random table and muttered in a disinterested voice. Even taking into consideration that they wouldn’t disappear, as expected, the tables and chairs could not have been made out of ice. Having said that, the surroundings were how they were. It did not change the fact that it was still cold. However, taking into consideration how the whole place was enclosed by ice, this tavern could be said to be unnaturally warm. “If you ask me if it’s a bit chilly, it’s a bit chilly, but it’s actually quite warm compared to outside.” “Aries-sama, that’s probably because these ice has a secret to it. These ice doesn’t just not melt. They probably has air within it and, rather than ice, it’s closer to snow in nature.” Snow contained air, therefore it had an outstanding insulation function. As a result, caves or houses made out of snow were surprisingly warm. Needless to say, the degree of warmth was only relative to the outside temperature, however, it did not change the fact that people would still feel more comfortable inside. Hydrus explained all of the finer details of the ice that would not disappear whilst admiring it due to it being the work of the Water attribute. Whilst Aries and the rest were looking at the inside of the tavern like it was something strange, a dwarf who appeared to be the shopkeeper came and spoke to them. Looking at his appearance, Scorpius muttered an honest but rude observation, “Really, these guys... wherever I go, they all look the same.” With regard to the dwarf race, Ruphas had once said years ago, “With the exception of Mizar, I can’t tell them apart.” Scorpius was also of the same opinion. If anything, Scorpius could not even distinguish between Mizar and the other dwarves. “On the other hand, you’re a familiar face. Why does every dwarf look exactly the same?” “How rude.” Fundamentally, Scorpius afforded no courtesy to anyone other than Ruphas. Therefore, she would sometimes nonchalantly behave in a manner that might be taken as disrespectful by the other party. Thinking that it would only cause unnecessary problems with the way things were going, Karkinos made her fall back and sat in front of the counter instead. ”Sorry. She did not say that because she had any ill intent. By the way, master, what kind of place is this city?” “What? You don’t know?” “Yes. After all, me are a group of travellers.” “Travellers... in this world that’s being dominated by the demon race? How eccentric. Or is it that you guys are just that confident in your own strength?” “Well, something like that.” Contrary to his ridiculous speech pattern, Karkinos was someone who possessed good communication skills. At the very least, it was incomparable to that of Aries or Scorpius, who fell into a deep depression for a long time or became aggressive after Ruphas’s defeat respectively. That was because he was the only one amongst the Twelve Stars who had chosen and successfully managed to blend in with the humanoids and live alongside them. Perhaps this was one of the contributing factors behind why Ruphas had decided to dispatch him to this place. Although it might have been unbelievable based on his usual frivolous actions, he actually had a fairly serious and patient personality. “This city, huh... hmm, it’s called [Nectar]. This place used to be called the scorching world Muspelheim.” “That, me are also aware of. That’s why it’s surprising. To think that there would be a city where Muspelheim used to be.” “You, what age are you guys from? The time when this place was the scorching world was almost years ago.” “Oh! So it’s been like this since 0 years ago.” “Yeah. Even you should be aware that the humanoids lost against the demons 200 years ago. At that time, a lot of people either died or ran away from the land they used to live in. But amongst them, a few groups of people didn’t manage to get away in time or refused to abandon the place where they used to live and ended up remaining in this land.” What the shopkeeper said made sense. Indeed, as the humanoids were cornered and had their domain stolen, it was an impossible scenario to think that every single one of them had gotten away. It was natural that there were those that did not manage to get away or decided to fight until the very end. But the problem was after that. Whilst it was somewhat reasonable to think that there would be people that fit into those categories, it was unbelievable that those people would manage to survive and thrive in a city like this until this age. After all, it was impossible for them to have been overlooked all this time as they lived in the domain controlled by the demon race. “Well, apparently, it was miserable after that. It was fine and all that they tried to retaliate against the demon race, but naturally, they were killed one after another. Anyways, so just as we thought it was all over for us, our King, Aquarius-sama, enclosed Muspelheim in ice and froze each and every demon that tried to get close. Seeing that, our ancestors must have believed that we had no other option but to cling onto that person. So in exchange for everyone swearing their loyalty, they managed to gain that his protection. Not only that, that person even gave us this city. So we became able to live here peacefully whilst being in the Dark Continent.” “Ah hah, I see. So something like that happened.” Karkinos put his hands into his pocket and tried to take out a coin. But suddenly, he had a lightbulb moment and searched the inside of his pocket. And what he took out was a small gemstone. “Thank you, me heard a good story. This is payment.” “O, oi, isn’t this a gemstone!? I can’t accept something precious like this!” “No, no. Unfortunately, me don’t have this city’s money. This is the least valuable and cheapest thing that I can pay you.” “N, no, but... this is too valuable. It’s not a fair exchange.” “Then in that case, can I ask you for one more piece of information? If you agree, me will call it even.” “O... kay, fine. I’ll answer anything you ask. It’ll still be too valuable even then. So, what do you want to know?” After hearing the shopkeeper’s words, Karkinos’s glasses suspiciously shone. What he was going to ask from now on were questions that would have been seen as suspicious if he was the one to first raise the topic. But now that the other party had told him that he would answer anything, Karkinos doubted that the dwarf would not follow through. Fundamentally, dwarves were a race with a strong sense of honour and hated getting into debt. As such, Karkinos believed that the other party would be the one to give him a correspondingly good trade offer if he were to give him a valuable gemstone. Karkinos had now obtained the verbal promise that he would answer anything Karkinos asked. And dwarves disliked going back on their word, especially if they had just said it. Things were going so well that it was scary. Karkinos unwarrantedly thought that perhaps he had an innate talent for being a strategist and praised himself. If these inner thoughts were to be heard by Pollux, she would have said, “Isn’t it just a coincidence?” and bluntly cut him off. “Then, please tell me of a way to meet this country’s Queen.” “Kueen?” “I mean the Queen.” “What are you talking about? Aquarius-sama is a man.” “......Ahh, I see! How rude of me. I just assumed they were a lady from the name.” Karkinos lightly matched the flow of the conversation but signalled towards Scorpius and Aries. When he did, the two of them nodded ever so slightly. It seemed like things were going to become troublesome – that was what their eyes were saying. “Well, yeah... directly meeting him is probably impossible? Though you might be able to seek an audience if you manage to achieve something very significant.” “Achieve something very significant?” “Well, for example, defeating the demons that come attacking or to defeat Pluto who’s leading them... well, it’s probably impossible though.” “Pluto?” “That’s the one leading the demons around here. Although not to the extent of Aquarius-sama, he’s super strong and yeah, we’ve been staring each other down for the past few dozens of years. Apparently, for some reason, Aquarius-sama can’t leave this city, but yeah, this city ended up suffering a few times because of him. He’s a really annoying guy.” Hearing that information, Karkinos’s lips distorted into a smile. I see, so if we defeat that guy, we can meet Aquarius without making things messy. Rather than charging in, with this, we won’t have to incur “her” bad mood... “That was a good piece of information, master.” “Are you going already?” “Yes. Me figured out what me have to do now.” “I see. If you drop by the area, come visit again. If it’s you guys, I’ll let you drink for free.” He probably meant that the gemstone was a form of pre-payment. What an honourable dwarf he was. Even though he was told it was payment for the information. Was him not accepting that considered too stubborn or just too well-natured? But Karkinos did not dislike a man like him. After replying, “If there is a chance, I’d appreciate that,” he left the tavern along with Scorpius and the rest. At a location approximately 500 km away from Nectar, there existed a city. A city – perhaps to be called that, it might have been just too big. The reason was that it had more surface area than the whole of the humanoids’ domain combined. If anything, it was as big as a whole country. The appearance of the city which was lined up with high-rise buildings made out of alchemy was just like the Hero Sei’s hometown. It was so much so that one could mistake the location for one of Earth’s developed major countries. Even during the night, the roads were lit up with mana. The scene of the location being filled with recreational facilities designed for the fulfilment of the inhabitants created a spectacle which would make the place befitting to be called the ruler’s place above the land. Nevertheless, the inhabitants could not be called good citizens by any means. If one were to look inside those recreational facilities, it was lined up with devilish games. [Whack-A-Human]...... it was a game of hitting captured humans using a hammer and comparing scores with each other.[Beastkin Arena]...... it was a game of making the tamed beastkin warriors kill each other and comparing whose pet was stronger so that they could boast in the end.[Humanoids Darts]...... it was a game of putting the captured humanoids onto a target and dividing it up into different sections which were each assigned a different point value so that they could throw darts at them. The demons walked around the city without feeling a shred of fear. If anything, they walked around as if they were reveling in the prime of their lives. They did not doubt the peace and tranquillity that they were enjoying. They no longer even had humanoids in their minds. They lived in peace whilst believing that the Demon King would soon exterminate them. As such, what happened next was all too spontaneous. – Loud footsteps resounded. What followed next was the sound of something giant roaring. A devilish roar shook the land itself and cut through the sky. The demons looked up in confusion and headed towards the sound to satisfy their curiosity whilst seemingly still stuck in the naïve frame of mind that they had become accustomed to as a result of the long period of peace. The appearance of a giant sheep which was walking in their direction whilst shaking the land itself. Its whole body was enveloped in rainbow-coloured flames and it continued to mercilessly progress towards them whilst melting the buildings and squishing everything and everyone in its path. “Wha, what is that!? A monster!?” “How can this be... it’s too big!” “Where’s the army!? What exactly is the army doing!?” When that giant sheep moved, just by taking a step, buildings collapsed. Cultures which were build up. Traditions. Businesses. It did not even notice that it was destroying everything. Just by walking forward, everything was demolished and pulverised. But their nightmare had yet to end. Be attentive, demons. The peace and tranquillity that you have enjoyed thus far shall now presently come to a conclusion. What appeared next was a giant monstrous scorpion. It cracked the ground and from the fissure, the full picture of something repulsive came to light. Buildings were cleared away with a single swing of its stinger, and the ground below it cracked with each light movement of its pincers. Similarly, from the sea appeared a crab monster which began to come ashore. In retaliation, the demon race’s army was mobilised and moved in to attack. The demons who flew in the sky all fired arcane magic and the artillery shots all slammed into the three monsters one after another. Yet the monsters did not stop. Their steps did not falter. Even though they received all the attacks head-on, as if they were merely being bitten by mosquitoes, they continued to close in without even minding it in the slightest. “Kishyaaa...!” The giant scorpion opened its pincers. An intense flame began to gather within the expanded pincers, and its heat started to increase exponentially. An inauspicious rumbling sound rang throughout the whole city and everyone could feel the impending “death” that they would not be able to avoid. The army desperately attacked with the hope of stopping that attack, however, it had absolutely no effect. The monstrous scorpion cried out as if to ridicule them, then released the flames of destruction. That flame was like a heat flash that continued on indefinitely. The flame, which reached the edges of the horizon, burnt and pierced through the buildings. Furthermore, by moving its pincers horizontally, the scorpion’s flames razed the whole city. No, it was not just from the pincers. The scorpion also released the heat flash from its mouth and stinger and started attacking in all directions. Meanwhile, the rainbow-coloured flames being breathed out by the sheep burnt away large areas of land and repeatedly ignited things. At the same time, for an unknown reason, all of the shots fired by the army went towards and exploded on the crab as if they were sucked in. Then, in the next moment, a counter-attack from the crab’s pincer swatted them down. What was happening was truly a catastrophe. A catastrophe which had returned to them once again after the passage of 200 years. In the face of these calamities, there was nothing the demons could do to retaliate. They could only run around, hide and pray that they would move on and wait until that moment where they did. Amidst the city which was being destroyed and within a tower which was larger than the other structures in its vicinity, a single man was shaking in fear with his eyes wide open. His name was Pluto and this demon was level 420. He possessed abilities which surpassed even that of the Seven Luminaries. However, rather than advancing into the humanoids’ territories, he wanted to concentrate more on the city that he governed. Thus, he turned away Terra’s invitation into the organisation. As a result, he was in the position that he currently occupied. No, that was just an excuse. The truth was that he was only holed up in this place because he was scared. As one of the few survivors from 200 years ago, he knew of the individual called Ruphas Mafahl. He knew of the living calamities which obeyed her. Everyone around him said that he was strong. They raised him up on a pedestal and said that he possessed more abilities than the people within the Seven Luminaries. Alas, they were wrong. They were so wrong. There existed no one who was truly strong in this city. In the end, it was nothing more than a ranking amongst the weaklings... When compared with a true monster, they were nothing more than mere insects. That was why he refused the commander’s seat for the expedition into the humanoids’ domain. He did not want to become a member of the Seven Luminaries. Because in the humanoids’ domain, there were still bunches of monsters... and above all else, because he did not really believe that Ruphas Mafahl would actually die from something of that degree. And his hunch turned out to be correct. Just look. This scene of despair filled his sight. This nightmare. The embodiments of hell which appeared before his eyes after 200 years had passed. “200 years, huh... I guess it’s on the longer side.” With a shaking hand, Pluto placed a cigar in his mouth then lit it. Ahh, I already knew. I always knew that there would be a day like this one day. After all, this place is the Goddess’s playground and we’re simply her dolls. As the only one to have noticed that fact, I ran around pitifully and lived until this point. I managed to sit in the seat of the strong. I was blessed by luxury until today. “Ahh......” As such, the man smiled at himself in self-mockery, then inhaled one last time in satisfaction. Outside of the tower, the giant sheep opened its mouth and seemed to be about to breathe out a flame in his direction, but he had no thoughts of running away this late in time. An age would pass on. Just like how Ruphas Mafahl had once risen up. And just like how she was overthrown. This time, it was their turn... nothing more, nothing less. He exhaled smoke and, looking at the flames which were closing in on him, smiled faintly. “The ending turned out to be quite abrupt and disappointing, huh.” A demon which knew of the events from 200 years ago muttered in a voice stained with resignation and, in the next instant, was erased by the rainbow-coloured flames along with the building that he was in. With it, the glory of the demon race came to a conclusion. To this date, they persecuted and oppressed the humanoids, yet indulged themselves in peace and tranquillity. Today was finally the time for them to pay up all of those debts. Those who knew of the past would come to the realisation. Those of the younger generation who did not know of the past would come to experience fear without knowing anything. What it meant for the calamities who possessed wills of their own, [The Tyrannical Twelve Heavenly Stars] to soon all be gathered under the Black-winged Supreme Ruler once more. The despair behind what that reality entailed.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 1, "inserted_lines_src": 15, "inserted_lines_trg": 2 }
今日も昨日もそして何十年もの間毎日のようにこうしたことを耳にしてきました深刻な問題大きな問題緊迫した問題栄養失調水の供給気候変動や森林破壊スキル不足不安感食料不足不十分なヘルスケアや環境汚染など問題には事欠きません今がこれまでと違うのは私がこれまでの人生で知りうるどんな時よりもこうした問題が認知されていることです私たちは皆よく分かっていますではなぜこれらの問題を解決するのにこんなにも苦労しているのでしょう? 私は畑違いながらもずっとこの疑問に取り組んできました私は社会問題の専門家ではなくビジネスと向き合いビジネスでお金儲けをする手伝いをしてきましたとんでもないことですさてなぜ私たちはこれら社会問題について多くの課題を抱えているのでしょう? ビジネスは何もできないんでしょうか? できるとすればその役割は何でしょう? この問いに向き合うには少し立ち止まって今直面している― 大きな社会問題に対して私たちがどのように課題と解決策を捉え考えてきたか見直す必要があります多くの人はビジネスをそれ自体が社会問題であるかのように― 少なくとも社会問題の一つとして捉えていますファーストフード業界製薬業界や銀行業界を考えてみてくださいビジネスに敬意が払われない最たる例でしょうビジネスに敬意が払われない最たる例でしょうビジネスは解決策ではなく問題そのものという見方が今は多勢です事実そのようなケースも多々あります困ったところもたくさんあり間違ったことをして問題を深刻化させたこともありますですからこの見方はまあ理にかなっているでしょうこれまで私たちは直面している― 多くの社会問題の解決策についてどのような見方をしてきたのでしょう? 私たちはその解決策を NGOや政府慈善団体といった組織に求める傾向にあります NGOや政府慈善団体といった組織に求める傾向にあります NGOや政府慈善団体といった組織に求める傾向にあります確かに驚異的な台頭を見せている NGOや社会団体は確かに驚異的な台頭を見せている NGOや社会団体は現代の特徴的な組織形態ですこのユニークで新しい組織形態が成長してこのユニークで新しい組織形態が成長して計り知れないイノベーションや大量のエネルギー多くの才能が流動化されこの組織を通じてあらゆる社会問題の解決に向けられようとしています皆さんの多くも深く関わられていることでしょうビジネススクールの教授ながら私も実際に 4つの非営利団体を立上げています社会問題に関心を持つたびに私は非営利団体を設立してきたのです私は非営利団体を設立してきたのです誰もが社会問題にはこのように対処すべきと考えてきましたビジネススクールの教授でさえそう考えていたのですでも振り返ってみると私たちは長い間このやり方を踏襲してきました何十年もこれらの問題を認識し長年にわたり NGOや政府団体で活動をしてきました長年にわたり NGOや政府団体で活動をしてきましたでも困った現実もありますというのも残念ながら十分な速さで進展が見られないのです私たちは勝利に向かっていないのですこれらの問題はいまだに暗い影を落とし手に負えない状況です私たちが解決しているのは小さなことなのです漸進的な進展しかありませんこれら社会問題に対処する上で何が根本的な課題なのでしょう? これら社会問題に対処する上で何が根本的な課題なのでしょう? 単純化して言えば「スケール」の問題ですスケールが小さいのです私たちは前に進み効果も出せます結果も出せますし事態を改善できます役立っているしよくやっていますでもスケールを大きくできません大きなスケールで社会問題に影響は与えられませんなぜでしょうか? リソースが足りないからです今やこれは明白な事実でここ数十年と比べて一層明らかになっていますつまり今のやり方では社会問題を大規模に解決する資金が足りないのです社会問題を大規模に解決する資金が足りないのです十分な税収もなければ十分な慈善資金もなく今のやり方ではこの問題に対処できないのです私たちはこの現実に立ち向かう必要がありますリソース不足は拡大する一方で様々な財政問題を抱えた先進社会ではリソース不足は当然のことですこれが根本的にリソースの問題だとして社会のどこにリソースがあるのでしょうか? リソースはどうやって作られるのでしょう? 社会的課題を解決するために必要なリソースです社会的課題を解決するために必要なリソースですその答えは明白でしょうビジネスです全ての富はビジネスによって作られますビジネスが富を生み出すのはそれがニーズと合致し利益を生むときですそうやって全ての富が作られていますニーズに応えて利益を生みそれが税収にもつながり所得にもなり慈善資金にもつながりますビジネスこそ全てのリソースの源なのです事実ビジネスしかリソースは生み出せません他の機関がリソースを使って重要なことをしたとしてもビジネスのようにリソースを作り出すことはありませんビジネスはニーズに応えて利益を出すときリソースを生みます世にあるリソースは圧倒的割合でビジネスが作っているのです問題はどうやってこれを利用するかですどうやって活用しますか? ビジネスがリソースを生み出すのは利益が出るときです利益は売上とコストの小さな差額です利益は売上とコストの小さな差額ですそのビジネスがどんな問題にどんな解決策を提示しようとも同じですでもこの利益こそが魔法の薬なのですなぜか? その利益が私たちが生み出した解決策を無限大にしてくれるからです利益を生み出せればそれをもとに 10倍 100倍 100万倍 1億倍 10億倍のことができます解決策自体を自立させられるのですこれこそビジネスが利益を生み規模を拡大するプロセスですこれこそビジネスが利益を生み規模を拡大するプロセスですではこれが社会問題とどう関係するんでしょう? ではこれが社会問題とどう関係するんでしょう? 一つの考え方はこの利益をまわして社会問題解決に使おうというものです実業界はもっとお金を出しもっと責任を取るべき― これがビジネスの世界で行われてきたことですこれがビジネスの世界で行われてきたことですでも私たちが選んできたこの道は行き着くべきところに導いてくれていませんさて私は戦略論の教授としてキャリアを始め現在も戦略論の教授です誇りに思っていますでも同時にここ何年も社会問題により力を注ぐようになりましたヘルスケアや環境問題経済発展貧困緩和といった問題に取り組み社会分野での活動が増えています次第に私は私や私の人生に大きな影響を与えたことに気付き始めました経済学や経営学における従来の通説では経済学や経営学における従来の通説では社会的成果と経済的成果はトレードオフの関係にあるとされますつまりこれまでの通説ではビジネスは社会問題を引き起こすことで利益を生むとされるわけですその典型例が環境汚染ですビジネスをする上では環境汚染していた方が環境汚染を減らす努力をするよりお金は儲かります汚染を減らすにはお金もかかりますですからビジネスではそんなことしたくない訳です危険な労働環境の方が利益が上がります安全な労働環境を作るのはお金がかかりすぎます安全な労働環境でない方がビジネスではよりお金を生めるのですこれが今までの通説だったのです多くの企業がこの通説通りになり下がっていました企業は環境改善も労働環境改善も渋りましたその考え方が結局のところ私たちが批判するようになり私自身も批判するようになった― ビジネス活動の所以なのですでもこうした社会問題に次から次に深く関わるようになりいくつか個人的にも私の非営利団体を通じて問題に取り組むようになるにつれ事実は逆ではないかと思うようになりました事実は逆ではないかと思うようになりましたビジネスは社会問題を引き起こすことで利益を生みませんビジネスは社会問題を引き起こすことで利益を生みません根本的な意味で違うのですとても単純なことですこうした問題により深く関わるにつれより理解することになるでしょうが実際のところビジネスは社会問題の解決によって利益を得るのですそこに真の利益があるのです環境汚染で考えてみましょう今分かっているのは汚染や排ガスを減らすことで利益が上がるということですお金も節約できますより生産的・効率的な経営が行えリソースも無駄にしませんより安全な労働環境なら事故を減らすことができ利益も増やせます事故が少ないことはよい生産工程の証だからです事故が起こるとかえってお金もかかりますどの問題からも見えてくるのは根本的な意味において社会的発展と経済性との間でトレードオフなんてないということです健康の問題もあります実際のところ従業員の健康はビジネスにおいて重要なことなのです健康であってこそ従業員はより生産的に働けて欠勤もなくなるからですより進んだ新しい研究新しい考え方によればビジネスと社会問題との間には実は― 根本的で深い相互作用があるとされています根本的で深い相互作用があるとされています超短期的視点で見なければ特にそうなります目先のことにとらわれると時に誤った考え方をしてビジネスと社会問題解決は根本的に相容れないと考えがちですでも長い目で見れば最終的にはビジネスと社会問題解決の両立は可能だと分かってきましたどうやったら私たちはビジネスの力を使って私たちが直面している根本的課題に対処できるでしょうか? ビジネスを活用できれば大規模な展開が可能になりますビジネスを活用できれば大規模な展開が可能になりますこの甚大なリソースや組織能力を活用できるのです実はこれはもう始まっています皆さんのようにこれらの問題について何年も何十年も取り組んできた人のお蔭でもありますダウ・ケミカル社などはトランス脂肪や飽和脂肪を革命的な新製品に置き換える革新を進めていますこれはジェイン灌漑システム社の例です点滴灌漑技術を何千何百万もの農家に提供し水の使用量を大幅に減らしましたさらにブラジルの製紙メーカーフィブリア社などは原生林の破壊を食い止める方法を考えユーカリ植林により 1ヘクタールあたりのパルプ生産量を上げて古くからある木々を切り倒すことなくより多くの紙が作れるようにしましたシスコ社などは 400万人以上に ITスキルの訓練をしてきましたもちろん業務のためですがこの訓練によって IT技術が広まり産業全体も成長しています今ビジネスにはこれら社会問題に影響を与え取り組みをする大きな機会がありますそしてこの機会は最大のビジネス・チャンスです最大のビジネス・チャンスですどうすればビジネスをこの共通価値の創造に向かわせられるでしょうか? 私が「共通価値」と呼ぶのはビジネスモデルを使い社会問題に取り組むことですこれが共通価値の創造です共通価値は資本主義ですがより高度な資本主義ですそれは資本主義があるべき究極的な姿であって社会の重要なニーズに応えるものです製品や市場シェアの些細な違いを競争することではありません製品や市場シェアの些細な違いを競争することではありません製品や市場シェアの些細な違いを競争することではありません共通価値が生まれるのは私たちが社会的価値と経済的価値を同時に創造することですつまりこれらの機会を捉えて私たちが持つ最大限の可能性を引き出し実際にこれらの社会問題に取り組むのです大きなスケールでできるからです共通価値の創造は様々なレベルで取り組めます本当です実際に起こっているんですでもこの解決策をうまく機能させるにはビジネスのあり方を変えなくてはいけません幸運にもこれはすでに進行中ですビジネスがこれまでとらわれてきた社会通念とは社会問題なんか関係ないとか本質的なことじゃないとか他の人がすることだとかいったものです今企業は共通価値を取り入れるようになってきていますでも私たちが同時に理解すべきはビジネスだけで取り組むよりは NGOや政府と連携する方がより効果的だということです際立って変化を起こしている新しいNGOはこうしたパートナーシップを見つけ連携する道を見つけています政府で一番成果を上げているのもビジネスで共通価値を実現する道を見つけた政府でビジネスで共通価値を実現する道を見つけた政府で政府だけで全てを決めるところではありません政府だけで全てを決めるところではありません政府は様々な方法で企業のやる気や能力を高めて競争を促進することができます企業のやる気や能力を高めて競争を促進することができますもしビジネスの役割を再定義してその新しい考え方を世の中に広げることができれば世界を変えられるのです私はこの兆しを目の当たりにし知っています実感しています若者は― ハーバード・ビジネス・スクールの私の学生は理解してきていますもしこの種の分断や不安緊張を取り払いもしこの種の分断や不安緊張を取り払い社会問題を解決するには根本的な連携が必要という認識を社会問題を解決するには根本的な連携が必要という認識を醸成できるのであれば私たちはこの状況を打破し最終的には解決ができると思いますありがとうございました	Serious problems, big problems, pressing problems. Poor nutrition, access to water, climate change, deforestation, lack of skills, insecurity, not enough food, not enough healthcare, pollution. There's problem after problem, and I think what really separates this time from any time I can remember in my brief time on Earth is the awareness of these problems. We're all very aware. Why are we having so much trouble dealing with these problems? That's the question I've been struggling with, coming from my very different perspective. I'm not a social problem guy. I'm a guy that works with business, helps business make money. God forbid. So why are we having so many problems with these social problems, and really is there any role for business, and if so, what is that role? I think that in order to address that question, we have to step back and think about how we've understood and pondered both the problems and the solutions to these great social challenges that we face. Now, I think many have seen business as the problem, or at least one of the problems, in many of the social challenges we face. You know, think of the fast food industry, the drug industry, the banking industry. You know, this is a low point in the respect for business. Business is not seen as the solution. It's seen as the problem now, for most people. And rightly so, in many cases. There's a lot of bad actors out there that have done the wrong thing, that actually have made the problem worse. So this perspective is perhaps justified. How have we tended to see the solutions to these social problems, these many issues that we face in society? Well, we've tended to see the solutions in terms of NGOs, in terms of government, in terms of philanthropy. Indeed, the kind of unique organizational entity of this age is this tremendous rise of NGOs and social organizations. This is a unique, new organizational form that we've seen grown up. Enormous innovation, enormous energy, enormous talent now has been mobilized through this structure to try to deal with all of these challenges. And many of us here are deeply involved in that. I'm a business school professor, but I've actually founded, I think, now, four nonprofits. Whenever I got interested and became aware of a societal problem, that was what I did, form a nonprofit. That was the way we've thought about how to deal with these issues. Even a business school professor has thought about it that way. But I think at this moment, we've been at this for quite a while. We've been aware of these problems for decades. We have decades of experience with our NGOs and with our government entities, and there's an awkward reality. The awkward reality is we're not making fast enough progress. We're not winning. These problems still seem very daunting and very intractable, and any solutions we're achieving are small solutions. We're making incremental progress. What's the fundamental problem we have in dealing with these social problems? If we cut all the complexity away, we have the problem of scale. We can't scale. We can make progress. We can show benefits. We can show results. We can make things better. We're helping. We're doing better. We're doing good. We can't scale. We can't make a large-scale impact on these problems. Why is that? Because we don't have the resources. And that's really clear now. And that's clearer now than it's been for decades. There's simply not enough money to deal with any of these problems at scale using the current model. There's not enough tax revenue, there's not enough philanthropic donations, to deal with these problems the way we're dealing with them now. We've got to confront that reality. And the scarcity of resources for dealing with these problems is only growing, certainly in the advanced world today, So if it's fundamentally a resource problem, where are the resources in society? How are those resources really created, the resources we're going to need to deal with all these societal challenges? Well there, I think the answer is very clear: They're in business. All wealth is actually created by business. Business creates wealth when it meets needs at a profit. That's how all wealth is created. It's meeting needs at a profit that leads to taxes and that leads to incomes and that leads to charitable donations. That's where all the resources come from. Only business can actually create resources. Other institutions can utilize them to do important work, but only business can create them. And business creates them when it's able to meet a need at a profit. The resources are overwhelmingly generated by business. The question then is, how do we tap into this? How do we tap into this? Business generates those resources when it makes a profit. That profit is that small difference between the price and the cost it takes to produce whatever solution business has created to whatever problem they're trying to solve. But that profit is the magic. Why? Because that profit allows whatever solution we've created to be infinitely scalable. Because if we can make a profit, we can do it for 10, 100, a million, 100 million, a billion. The solution becomes self-sustaining. That's what business does when it makes a profit. Now what does this all have to do with social problems? Well, one line of thinking is, let's take this profit and redeploy it into social problems. Business should give more. Business should be more responsible. And that's been the path that we've been on in business. But again, this path that we've been on is not getting us where we need to go. Now, I started out as a strategy professor, and I'm still a strategy professor. I'm proud of that. But I've also, over the years, worked more and more on social issues. I've worked on healthcare, the environment, economic development, reducing poverty, and as I worked more and more in the social field, I started seeing something that had a profound impact on me and my whole life, in a way. The conventional wisdom in economics and the view in business has historically been that actually, there's a tradeoff between social performance and economic performance. The conventional wisdom has been that business actually makes a profit by causing a social problem. The classic example is pollution. If business pollutes, it makes more money than if it tried to reduce that pollution. Reducing pollution is expensive, therefore businesses don't want to do it. It's profitable to have an unsafe working environment. It's too expensive to have a safe working environment, therefore business makes more money if they don't have a safe working environment. That's been the conventional wisdom. A lot of companies have fallen into that conventional wisdom. They resisted environmental improvement. They resisted workplace improvement. That thinking has led to, I think, much of the behavior that we have come to criticize in business, that I come to criticize in business. But the more deeply I got into all these social issues, one after another, and actually, the more I tried to address them myself, personally, in a few cases, through nonprofits that I was involved with, the more I found actually that the reality is the opposite. Business does not profit from causing social problems, actually not in any fundamental sense. That's a very simplistic view. The deeper we get into these issues, the more we start to understand that actually business profits from solving from social problems. That's where the real profit comes. Let's take pollution. We've learned today that actually reducing pollution and emissions is generating profit. It saves money. It makes the business more productive and efficient. It doesn't waste resources. Having a safer working environment actually, and avoiding accidents, it makes the business more profitable, because it's a sign of good processes. Accidents are expensive and costly. Issue by issue by issue, we start to learn that actually there's no trade-off between social progress and economic efficiency in any fundamental sense. Another issue is health. I mean, what we've found is actually health of employees is something that business should treasure, because that health allows those employees to be more productive and come to work and not be absent. The deeper work, the new work, the new thinking on the interface between business and social problems is actually showing that there's a fundamental, deep synergy, particularly if you're not thinking in the very short run. In the very short run, you can sometimes fool yourself into thinking that there's fundamentally opposing goals, but in the long run, ultimately, we're learning in field after field that this is simply not true. So how could we tap into the power of business to address the fundamental problems that we face? Imagine if we could do that, because if we could do it, we could scale. We could tap into this enormous resource pool and this organizational capacity. And guess what? That's happening now, finally, partly because of people like you who have raised these issues now for year after year and decade after decade. We see organizations like Dow Chemical leading the revolution away from trans fat and saturated fat with innovative new products. This is an example of Jain Irrigation. This is a company that's brought drip irrigation technology to thousands and millions of farmers, reducing substantially the use of water. We see companies like the Brazilian forestry company Fibria that's figured out how to avoid tearing down old growth forest and using eucalyptus and getting much more yield per hectare of pulp and making much more paper than you could make by cutting down those old trees. You see companies like Cisco that are training so far four million people in I.T. skills to actually, yes, be responsible, but help expand the opportunity to disseminate I.T. technology and grow the whole business. There's a fundamental opportunity for business today to impact and address these social problems, and this opportunity is the largest business opportunity we see in business. And the question is, how can we get business thinking to adapt this issue of shared value? This is what I call shared value: addressing a social issue with a business model. That's shared value. Shared value is capitalism, but it's a higher kind of capitalism. It's capitalism as it was ultimately meant to be, meeting important needs, not incrementally competing for trivial differences in product attributes and market share. Shared value is when we can create social value and economic value simultaneously. It's finding those opportunities that will unleash the greatest possibility we have to actually address these social problems because we can scale. We can address shared value at multiple levels. It's real. It's happening. But in order to get this solution working, we have to now change how business sees itself, and this is thankfully underway. Businesses got trapped into the conventional wisdom that they shouldn't worry about social problems, that this was sort of something on the side, that somebody else was doing it. We're now seeing companies embrace this idea. But we also have to recognize business is not going to do this as effectively as if we have NGOs and government working in partnership with business. The new NGOs that are really moving the needle are the ones that have found these partnerships, that have found these ways to collaborate. The governments that are making the most progress are the governments that have found ways to enable shared value in business rather than see government as the only player that has to call the shots. And government has many ways in which it could impact the willingness and the ability of companies to compete in this way. I think if we can get business seeing itself differently, and if we can get others seeing business differently, we can change the world. I know it. I'm seeing it. I'm feeling it. Young people, I think, my Harvard Business School students, are getting it. If we can break down this sort of divide, this unease, this tension, this sense that we're not fundamentally collaborating here in driving these social problems, we can break this down, and we finally, I think, can have solutions. Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
健康とは何かという問いもまた複雑です同時に考えるなんて目を背けたくなるしかし私がこれから伝える事は複雑に絡み合った中にも理解すれば私達を前進させる単純な事柄があるということですそれらの単純な事柄とは複雑な科学などではなく馴染みのある事柄ですまずはこんな言葉からママが不幸だとみんなが不幸経験から知っていると思いますこれを理解してまずはここから始めれば次のステップに進めるはず海が不幸なら誰も幸せになれないこのスピーチのテーマです色々な方法で私達は海を不幸にしていますこれは1932年の”缶詰横丁” 当時”缶詰横丁”には西海岸で最大の缶詰製造産業がありましたそして膨大な汚染物質を大気と海に蓄積しました私の職場ホプキン海洋研究所その教授ロルフ・ボリンが 40年代こう書いています入り江に浮かぶカスから立ち上るガスはとても醜悪で鉛を含んだペンキを黒くしてしまいました缶詰工場の従業員達は悪臭の中一日を過ごすのがやっとでしたしかし彼らはこう言いました「何の匂いか分かるかい?」「お金だよ」そこでは汚染はお金を意味し人々は耐え忍びました皮ふや体に汚染を吸い込みながらお金の為に私達は海をそして人々を不幸にし彼らの健康を奪いました海と人間の健康との繋がりはまた別の格言に基づいていますその格言とは「小魚をつねれば鯨が泣く」海洋生物のピラミッド生態学者が海を考える時非常に異なる観点から一般の人とは違う物事を見ますなぜなら生態学者は物事の相互関係を見るからです食物連鎖の底辺小さなプランクトンがどの様にして中層に位置する生物の餌になるのか図の頂点に至るまで考えますそしてその命の流れ底辺から頂点までの流れこそ生態学者の見る流れなのです「海を救おう海の健康を取り戻そう」と訴える時私達が守ろうとしている物それがピラミッドなのですさてなぜ人間の健康と関わってくるのか? なぜならピラミッドの底に在るべきでない物を押し込むととても怖い事が起こるからです私達が作り出した汚染物例えばPCBなどは体内で分解できませんそれらはピラミッドの底へ入り次々と捕食動物の間を漂い上がり頂点まで辿り着きますそうする間に蓄積されていくのです理解する為にゲームをひとつ想像するだけで大丈夫です発泡スチロールとチョコのゲームボートに乗っているとします発泡スチロールのピーナッツを 1人2粒渡されますなにもできないのでとりあえずはポケットにルールは毎回お酒を勧める度にお酒と一緒にピーナッツも渡しますするとピーナッツは廻りめぐって一番ケチで飲兵衛な人の元に集まっていきます消化できないピーナッツが一ヶ所に集まりどんどん積み上がる何のからくりもありませんこれこそまさに PCBに起こる事なのですピラミッドの頂点へ蓄積するのですさてピーナッツの代わりにこの美味しそうなチョコを持っているとしましょう何人かは渡す代わりに食べてしまう蓄積する代わりに私達の間をめぐり消費されていくので一ヶ所には溜まりませんこの違いこそオメガ3の様な体に良い天然物と PCBとの違いです PCBは蓄積されます残念な事に実例がありますサラソタ湾やテキサス州やノースキャロライナ州のイルカにPCBは蓄積します食物連鎖のなかでプランクトンから魚へ魚からイルカへ脂溶性のPCBはイルカに蓄積されますさてそのイルカ達全てのイルカにとって PCBを体外に出す方法はたった1つそれは何か? 母乳ですこれはサラソタ湾のイルカの PCB含有量を示す図ですオス:大量子供:大量授乳を終えたメス: 少量意思とは関係なくメス達は自分の子に授乳によって PCBを渡しているのですその子供達は長生き出来ません初産による子供の死亡率は 60~80%です母親達は子供に大量の汚染物質を流し込み多くを殺してしまいます母親は次の子を産めますがこの汚染物質の蓄積に払う代償はあまりに大き過ぎます第一子の死海の食物連鎖におけるもう1つの頂点それはもちろん人間です私達は同じ場所からくる肉を食べています東京のスーパーで売られている鯨の肉それとも本当は? 数年前私たちは分子生物学研究室をこっそり東京に作りそこで鯨肉サンプルの DNAテストを行い正体を突き止めましたいくつかは実際に鯨肉でしたが「違法な鯨肉」ですがそれはまた別の話ですいくつかは全くの偽者でしたラベルは偽りで実際はイルカの肉イルカの肝臓や脂肪だったのですそしてそれらの各部位には大量のPCBやダイオキシンや重金属が含まれていましたそれら大量の汚染物は人間の体に流れ込みます事実大量のイルカが世界の鯨市場で食肉として販売されていますイルカだけでなく汚染されているとは知らずにそれを食べる人々にとってもこの事実は悲劇なのですこのデータを発見したのは数年前鯨肉として売られている肉が実際は汚染されたイルカである私はその事実を知るおそらくただ一人の人間でした EPA基準の200~400倍もの量が含有されていたのですこう思ったのを覚えています「これは偉大な科学的発見だ」しかし恐ろしい発見でした科学雑誌でデータを公表してからそれについて演説をするという通常の手順を科学者人生で初めて破りましたとても丁寧な手紙を日本の厚生労働大臣宛てに送り私達ではなく日本の人々にとって許されざる状況なのだと指摘しました授乳中の母親が幼い子を持つ母親達が汚染された肉を体に良いと信じ買っているかも知れないのだとこれが日本で様々な運動の引き金となりました誇りを持って言えますが今日本に偽装表示の商品はほとんどありませんこれが良いこととは思いませんが日本で鯨肉の売買は続いていますけれども少なくとも表示に偽りはなく汚染されたイルカの肉を買ってしまう心配はありません日本だけではありませんカナダ北極圏やアメリカそして欧州北極圏それら地域の食生活とアシカやクジラの食生活が世界のあらゆる場所から PCBを集積させ彼女達のもとへと運びますこの女性達の母乳は有毒です彼女達は子供を母乳で育てることが出来ません食物連鎖と彼女達が一部を担う海のピラミッドが集めた毒のせいで彼女達の免疫システムは損なわれさらに子供達の発達も危険にさらされますここ十年世界はこの問題に注目しこの女性達の為に問題を軽減してきましたピラミッドではなく食生活を変えることで問題を解決する為に彼女らをピラミッドから外しましたしかしこの策は根本的解決にはなりませんピラミッドを壊す方法は他にもあります底に物を詰め込めば詰った下水道の様に逆流します養分や汚水化学肥料をピラミッドの底に詰め込むと頂点まで逆流します何が起るかはご存知の通り例えば赤潮毒性の藻類の異常発生海を漂い神経性の被害を与えますバクテリアやウィルスの異常発生も起り得ますこの海岸では2度赤潮が起りコレラ菌を含むビブリオ属のバクテリアを含んでいます「海岸閉鎖」のサインを見たことある人? どうして起るのか? ピラミッドの底に沢山詰め込みすぎて詰ったバクテリアが海辺まで溢れ出てくるのです大抵は汚水が原因です国立公園や州立公園の入り口でこんな看板を見たことがありますか? 「生活排水が公園中に溢れているため立ち入り禁止」滅多にありませんよね? 公園だと耐えられないのに海岸は頻繁に閉鎖されます同じ事が世界中で起っているこれは容認すべきではありません問題は清潔さだけでなくそれらの生物がどのように病気の原因になるのかそれも問題ですそれらは実際人に影響を及ぼします皮ふに入り込み感染症を引き起こします NOAAによるグラフです過去2年間におけるビブリオ菌による人への感染その増加を示していますサーファーはこれを熟知していますサーフサイトで見れるのは実際のところ天気や波の状況だけでなくいくつかの海岸では糞尿警報を見ることができます最高の波が来ていたとしても危険だということですサーフィンを楽しんだ後直すのが難しい病原菌を持ち帰るかも知れないからですそのうち幾つかが持つ抗生物質抵抗性遺伝子が事態を悪化させますそれと同じ病原体が有害な藻類を発生させますそれがまた別の化学物質を生み出します藻類異常発生から派生した毒物の簡単なリストです貝中毒シガテラ毒魚下痢性貝毒...これは知らぬが仏神経性貝毒麻痺性貝毒全て食物連鎖の一部です藻類異常発生が原因でリタ・コーウェルが興味深い話を追っています人間ではなく媒介生物コペポーダによって人間社会に持ち込まれるコレラについてコペポーダは甲殻類です数分の1センチの大きさで病気の原因となるコレラ菌を足に抱えて運びますそれは世界中の港でコレラの蔓延に火をつけ人々は貨物船がそれらの媒介生物を運んでしまわないよう注意する様になりましたではどうするのか? 問題は混乱した生態系の流れですピラミッドはうまく作動せず底からの流れは塞がれ詰まっているこんな時どう対処するか? できる事はいくつかあります配管工のジョーを呼ぶとか彼がやってきて直してくれるかもしれないしかし実際見回してみれば解決の希望を持てる場所だけでなく既に問題を解決した所把握し改善に向かう場所もありますモントレーはその1つです初めに示したとおり私達はモントレー湾の生態系を汚染や缶詰産業などによって苦しめましたこの写真が1932年 2009年劇的に変化しています缶詰工場はなくなり汚染は減少していますしかし重要なのは個々の社会が必要なのは正常な生態系だという事です正常に機能するピラミッドが必要ですモントレーのピラミッドは今人々の努力によって過去150年で最もよくに機能しています偶然起ったのではありません多くの人々の時間と労力そして開拓者精神の賜物です左の写真ジュリア・プラット私の出身地パシフィック・グローブの市長海を守る為には何かをしなければと 74才で市長となりました 1931年カリフォルニア初の地域密着型の海洋保護地域を汚染源缶詰工場のすぐ横に設定しました彼女は知っていたのですいつか缶詰工場がなくなった時海は育つ場所を芽を出す場所を必要とする事をその種を用意したかったのですデビットとジュリー・パッカードはモントレー水族館を作るのに貢献し人々に海と海洋生態系の健康はその生態系を食する事と同じくらい地域経済にとっても重要なのだと認識させましたその認識の転換はモントレー湾の富にだけでなく世界中に劇的な変化をもたらしました最後に私達の真の目的は海のピラミッドの保護です海と私達のピラミッドはつながっていますここは海の惑星です私達は陸上動物ですが海のピラミッドと私達の陸上での生活は複雑につながっています海を健康に保つ事でのみ私達は健康でいられますありがとう	And it can be a very complicated thing, what human health is. And bringing those two together might seem a very daunting task, but what I'm going to try to say is that even in that complexity, there's some simple themes that I think, if we understand, we can really move forward. And those simple themes aren't really themes about the complex science of what's going on, but things that we all pretty well know. And I'm going to start with this one: If momma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy. We know that, right? We've experienced that. And if we just take that and we build from there, then we can go to the next step, which is that if the ocean ain't happy, ain't nobody happy. That's the theme of my talk. And we're making the ocean pretty unhappy in a lot of different ways. This is a shot of Cannery Row in 1932. Cannery Row, at the time, had the biggest industrial canning operation on the west coast. We piled enormous amounts of pollution into the air and into the water. Rolf Bolin, who was a professor at the Hopkin's Marine Station where I work, wrote in the 1940s that "The fumes from the scum floating on the inlets of the bay were so bad they turned lead-based paints black." People working in these canneries could barely stay there all day because of the smell, but you know what they came out saying? They say, "You know what you smell? You smell money." That pollution was money to that community, and those people dealt with the pollution and absorbed it into their skin and into their bodies because they needed the money. We made the ocean unhappy; we made people very unhappy, and we made them unhealthy. The connection between ocean health and human health is actually based upon another couple simple adages, and I want to call that "pinch a minnow, hurt a whale." The pyramid of ocean life ... Now, when an ecologist looks at the ocean -- I have to tell you -- we look at the ocean in a very different way, and we see different things than when a regular person looks at the ocean because when an ecologist looks at the ocean, we see all those interconnections. We see the base of the food chain, the plankton, the small things, and we see how those animals are food to animals in the middle of the pyramid, and on so up this diagram. And that flow, that flow of life, from the very base up to the very top, is the flow that ecologists see. when we say, "Save the ocean. Heal the ocean." It's that pyramid. Now why does that matter for human health? Because when we jam things in the bottom of that pyramid that shouldn't be there, some very frightening things happen. Pollutants, some pollutants have been created by us: molecules like PCBs that can't be broken down by our bodies. And they go in the base of that pyramid, on to predators and on to the top predators, and in so doing, they accumulate. Now, to bring that home, I thought I'd invent a little game. We don't really have to play it; we can just think about it here. It's the Styrofoam and chocolate game. Imagine that when we got on this boat, two Styrofoam peanuts. Can't do much with them: Put them in your pocket. Suppose the rules are: every time you offer somebody a drink, you give them the drink, and you give them your Styrofoam peanuts too. What'll happen is that the Styrofoam peanuts will start moving through our society here, and they will accumulate in the drunkest, stingiest people. There's no mechanism in this game for them to go anywhere but into a bigger and bigger pile of indigestible Styrofoam peanuts. And that's exactly what happens with PDBs in this food pyramid: They accumulate into the top of it. Now suppose, instead of Styrofoam peanuts, we take these lovely little chocolates that we get and we had those instead. Well, some of us would be eating those chocolates instead of passing them around, and instead of accumulating, and not accumulate in any one group because they're absorbed by us. And that's the difference between a PCB and, say, something natural like an omega-3, something we want out of the marine food chain. PCBs accumulate. We have great examples of that, unfortunately. PCBs accumulate in dolphins in Sarasota Bay, in Texas, in North Carolina. They get into the food chain. The dolphins eat the fish that have PCBs from the plankton, and those PCBs, being fat-soluble, accumulate in these dolphins. Now, a dolphin, mother dolphin, any dolphin -- there's only one way that a PCB can get out of a dolphin. And what's that? In mother's milk. Here's a diagram of the PCB load of dolphins in Sarasota Bay. Adult males: a huge load. Juveniles: a huge load. Females after their first calf is already weaned: a lower load. Those females are passing the PCBs in the fat of their own mother's milk into their offspring, and their offspring don't survive. The death rate in these dolphins, for the first calf born of every female dolphin, is 60 to 80 percent. These mothers pump their first offspring full of this pollutant, and most of them die. Now, the mother then can go and reproduce, for the accumulation of this pollutant in these animals -- the death of the first-born calf. There's another top predator in the ocean, it turns out. That top predator, of course, is us. that comes from some of these same places. This is whale meat that I photographed in a grocery store in Tokyo -- or is it? In fact, what we did a few years ago was learn how to smuggle a molecular biology lab into Tokyo and use it to genetically test the DNA out of whale meat samples and identify what they really were. And some of those whale meat samples were whale meat. Some of them were illegal whale meat, by the way. That's another story. But some of them were not whale meat at all. Even though they were labeled whale meat, they were dolphin meat. Some of them were dolphin liver. Some of them were dolphin blubber. And those dolphin parts had a huge load of PCBs, dioxins and heavy metals. And that huge load was passing into the people that ate this meat. It turns out that a lot of dolphins are being sold as meat in the whale meat market around the world. That's a tragedy for those populations, but it's also a tragedy for the people eating them because they don't know that that's toxic meat. We had these data a few years ago. who knew that whale meat being sold in these markets was really dolphin meat, and it was toxic. It had two-to-three-to-400 times the toxic loads ever allowed by the EPA. And I remember there sitting at my desk thinking, "Well, I know this. This is a great scientific discovery," but it was so awful. which is that you take the data and publish them in scientific journals and then begin to talk about them. We sent a very polite letter to the Minister of Health in Japan this is an intolerable situation, not for us, but for the people of Japan because mothers who may be breastfeeding, who may have young children, would be buying something that they thought was healthy, but it was really toxic. That led to a whole series of other campaigns in Japan, and I'm really proud to say that at this point, that's labeled incorrectly, even though they're still selling whale meat, which I believe they shouldn't. But at least it's labeled correctly, and you're no longer going to be buying toxic dolphin meat instead. It isn't just there that this happens, but in a natural diet of some communities in the Canadian arctic and in the United States and in the European arctic, a natural diet of seals and whales leads to an accumulation of PCBs that have gathered up from all parts of the world and ended up in these women. These women have toxic breast milk. They cannot feed their offspring, their children, their breast milk in their food chain, in their part of the world's ocean pyramid. That means their immune systems are compromised. It means that their children's development can be compromised. And the world's attention on this over the last decade has reduced the problem for these women, not by changing the pyramid, but by changing what they particularly eat out of it. We've taken them out of their natural pyramid in order to solve this problem. but it does nothing to solve the pyramid problem. There's other ways of breaking the pyramid. The pyramid, if we jam things in the bottom, can get backed up like a sewer line that's clogged. And if we jam nutrients, sewage, fertilizer in the base of that food pyramid, it can back up all through it. We end up with things we've heard about before: red tides, for example, which are blooms of toxic algae floating through the oceans causing neurological damage. We can also see blooms of bacteria, blooms of viruses in the ocean. These are two shots of a red tide coming on shore here and a bacteria in the genus vibrio, which includes the genus that has cholera in it. How many people have seen a "beach closed" sign? Why does that happen? into the base of the natural ocean pyramid that these bacteria clog it up and overfill onto our beaches. Often what jams us up is sewage. Now how many of you have ever gone to a state park or a national park where you had a big sign at the front saying, "Closed because human sewage is so far over this park that you can't use it"? Not very often. We wouldn't tolerate that. We wouldn't tolerate our parks being swamped by human sewage, but beaches are closed a lot in our country. They're closed more and more and more all around the world for the same reason, and I believe we shouldn't tolerate that either. It's not just a question of cleanliness; it's also a question of how those organisms then turn into human disease. These vibrios, these bacteria, can actually infect people. They can go into your skin and create skin infections. This is a graph from NOAA's ocean and human health initiative, showing the rise of the infections by vibrio in people over the last few years. Surfers, for example, know this incredibly. And if you can see on some surfing sites, in fact, not only do you see what the waves are like or what the weather's like, but on some surf rider sites, you see a little flashing poo alert. That means that the beach might have great waves, but it's a dangerous place for surfers to be because they can carry with them, even after a great day of surfing, this legacy of an infection that might take a very long time to solve. Some of these infections are actually carrying antibiotic resistance genes now, and that makes them even more difficult. These same infections create harmful algal blooms. Those blooms are generating other kinds of chemicals. that come out of these harmful algal blooms: shellfish poisoning,fish ciguatera, neurotoxic shellfish poisoning, paralytic shellfish poisoning. These are things that are getting into our food chain because of these blooms. Rita Calwell very famously traced a very interesting story of cholera into human communities, brought there, not by a normal human vector, but by a marine vector, this copepod. Copepods are small crustaceans. They're a tiny fraction of an inch long, and they can carry on their little legs some of the cholera bacteria that then leads to human disease. That has sparked cholera epidemics in ports along the world and has led to increased concentration on trying to make sure shipping doesn't move these vectors of cholera around the world. So what do you do? We have major problems in disrupted ecosystem flow that the pyramid may not be working so well, that the flow from the base up into it is being blocked and clogged. What do you do when you have this sort of disrupted flow? Well, there's a bunch of things you could do. You could call Joe the Plumber, for example. And he could come in and fix the flow. But in fact, if you look around the world, not only are there hope spots for where we may be able to fix problems, there have been places where problems have been fixed, where people have come to grips with these issues and begun to turn them around. Monterey is one of those. I started out showing how much we had distressed the Monterey Bay ecosystem with pollution and the canning industry and all of the attendant problems. In 1932, that's the picture. In 2009, the picture is dramatically different. The canneries are gone. The pollution has abated. But there's a greater sense here that what the individual communities need is working ecosystems. They need a functioning pyramid from the base all the way to the top. And that pyramid in Monterey, right now, because of the efforts of a lot of different people, for the last 150 years. It didn't happen accidentally. It happened because many people put their time and effort and their pioneering spirit into this. On the left there, Julia Platt, the mayor of my little hometown in Pacific Grove. At 74 years old, became mayor In 1931, she produced California's first community-based marine protected area, right next to the biggest polluting cannery, because Julia knew that when the canneries eventually were gone, the ocean needed a place to grow from, that the ocean needed a place to spark a seed, and she wanted to provide that seed. Other people, like David Packard and Julie Packard, who were instrumental in producing the Monterey Bay aquarium to lock into people's notion and the health of the ocean ecosystem were just as important to the economy of this area as eating the ecosystem would be. That change in thinking has led to a dramatic shift, not only in the fortunes of Monterey Bay, but other places around the world. Well, I want to leave you with the thought that what we're really trying to do here is protect this ocean pyramid, and that ocean pyramid connects to our own pyramid of life. It's an ocean planet, and we think of ourselves as a terrestrial species, but the pyramid of life in the ocean and our own lives on land are intricately connected. And it's only through having the ocean being healthy that we can remain healthy ourselves. Thank you very much.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
頼りっきり私達も考えたいものです操作し探して情報を見つけたいのですそのために利用者としてあなたを運転席に戻さなければなりませんあなたとコンピュータネットワークそしてコンピュータ間の協力が必要ですでは日常的な現実世界からあなたを運転席に戻すにはどうしたら良いのでしょうか今まで学習したことをもっと有効に利用しませんか? バーチャルアースは全世界の包括的デジタル表現作成の第一歩なのです我々は全てのデータの統合を目指していますタグを付け属性を付与しデータに基本情報を与え地方の情報を提供してもらい世界的観点で地方の情報も包括しますこの問題はとてつもない巨大な事業で何から手をつければよいのか迷ってしまいます衛星航空機地上の乗り物や人々からデータを収集しますこの工程は技術的な問題機械的な問題物流の問題操作など様々な問題があります航空カメラの画像があります全色性のもので 4色錐です更に多スペクトル感応性です想像できるかわかりませんが我々は 4Gbpsでデータを収集していますこの数値は12の衛星の最高速度の合計に値します我々は航空機で上空約1500mを飛行します先端にカメラが見えるでしょうさまざまな地点眺望的視点角度テクスチャを採取し持ち帰ります地上のものは我々の視点から見ると何が見えるだろうか? 我々はこのような経験も組み込む必要があるのです Apple社のCMを皆さん見たことがあるでしょう利点と使いやすさを見せるためにパソコンをいじくっているやつですところであまり知られていない秘密とは... ウェブカメラの男のCMを見たことがありますか? この男は頭にウェブカメラをぐるぐるに巻きつけられてしまいますその秘密とは彼の兄弟がバーチャルアースチームで働いていることですここで兄弟間の張り合いが始まってしまいましたでも彼の仕事の邪魔にはなってませんこの技術はたくさんの利益を提供できるでしょうカトリーナの通過後です我々は航空機とした災害エリアに立ち入りを許可された初めての商業団体でした現地へ飛び内部や被災地の画像を採取しました初期対応者の一員として調査と救助を行いました彼らの家の状況を初めて見れたのは多くの場合バーチャルアース上でした無料でウェブ上に公開しというのも目標を達成しつつ人助けができる絶好の機会でしたからどのように統合できるかと考えたとき全てはソフトアルゴリズム数学に行き着きます画像を採取しますしかし3Dモデルを作るためには位置情報を決めその情報を画像に登録する必要がありますこれらをまとめポイントを見つけます画像から正確な位置を割り出しますこの過程はとても複雑な計算が必要な処理ですが実はいままで手作業で行われていましたハリウッドは映画撮影用の小さな通りに何百万ドルも投じますすべて手作業ですから彼らは LIDAR というレーザーを搭載した車を走らせ画像と一緒に情報を集め手作業でそれぞれの建造物を作ります我々はソフトウェアを使いますアルゴリズムや数理計算で高度に自動化された処理手順でこれらの街を作り上げます我々はとても安い費用でこれらの街を作りますこれこそが現実を夢にすることができる方法です我々はユーザインターフェースも考慮してます多角的に捉えるとはどういうことでしょう? オルソ画像ナディア画像モデルの流動性を残して画像の正確さを保つにはどうしたらよいでしょうか? 研究室でもまだ未公開の最新のバーチャルアースをお見せして終わりにしたいと思います皆さん気に入ると思います我々の高解像鳥瞰図ですしかしこれは3Dモデルの流動性に適応できると発見しました子供でもXBoxのようなゲームのコントローラーで操作できますここでは画像を取り込み3D空間で映し出そうとしています全ての解像度をご覧いただけますここからゆっくり画像を拡大していきます次の画像を取得配合し移行しますこうして原版の細やかさを保ち実際に過去の履歴も記録しています鮮明で豊富な情報表現のおかげで画像をあらゆる視点や方向から見ることができます我々は仮想世界の構築に取り組んでいますコンピューティングをよりユーザフレンドリーなものにし皆さんの色々な視点から見識を引き出せたらと思っていますお時間をいただきありがとうございました	But we want to use our brain! We want to navigate, explore, discover information. In order to do that, we have to put you as a user back in the driver's seat. We need cooperation between you and the computing network and the computer. So what better way to put you back in the driver's seat Why not leverage the learnings that you've been learning your entire life? So Virtual Earth is about starting off creating the first digital representation, comprehensive, of the entire world. What we want to do is mix in all types of data. Tag it. Attribute it. Metadata. Get the community to add local depth, global perspective, local knowledge. So when you think about this problem, what an enormous undertaking. Where do you begin? Well, we collect data from satellites, from airplanes, from ground vehicles, from people. This process is an engineering problem, a mechanical problem, a logistical problem, an operational problem. Here is an example of our aerial camera. This is panchromatic. It's actually four color cones. In addition, it's multi-spectral. We collect four gigabits per second of data, if you can imagine that kind of data stream coming down. That's equivalent to a constellation of 12 satellites at highest res capacity. We fly these airplanes at 5,000 feet in the air. You can see the camera on the front. We collect multiple viewpoints, vantage points, angles, textures. We bring all that data back in. We sit here -- you know, think about the ground vehicles, the human scale -- what do you see in person? We need to capture that up close to establish that what it's like-type experience. I bet many of you have seen the Apple commercials, kind of poking at the PC for their brilliance and simplicity. So a little unknown secret is -- did you see the one with the guy, he's got the Web cam? The poor PC guy. They're duct taping his head. They're just wrapping it on him. Well, a little unknown secret is his brother actually works on the Virtual Earth team. . So they've got a little bit of a sibling rivalry thing going on here. But let me tell you -- it doesn't affect his day job. We think a lot of good can come from this technology. This was after Katrina. We were the first commercial fleet of airplanes to be cleared into the disaster impact zone. We flew the area. We imaged it. We sent in people. We took pictures of interiors, disaster areas. We helped with the first responders, the search and rescue. Often the first time anyone saw what happened to their house was on Virtual Earth. We made it all freely available on the Web, just to -- it was obviously our chance of helping out with the cause. When we think about how all this comes together, it's all about software, algorithms and math. You know, we capture this imagery but to build the 3-D models we need to do geo-positioning. We need to do geo-registering of the images. We have to bundle adjust them. Find tie points. Extract geometry from the images. This process is a very calculated process. In fact, it was always done manual. Hollywood would spend millions of dollars to do a small urban corridor for a movie because they'd have to do it manually. They'd drive the streets with lasers called LIDAR. They'd collected information with photos. They'd manually build each building. We do this all through software, algorithms and math -- a highly automated pipeline creating these cities. We took a decimal point off what it cost to build these cities, and that's how we're going to be able to scale this out and make this reality a dream. We think about the user interface. What does it mean to look at it from multiple perspectives? An ortho-view, a nadir-view. How do you keep the precision of the fidelity of the imagery while maintaining the fluidity of the model? I'll wrap up by showing you the -- this is a brand-new peek I haven't really shown into the lab area of Virtual Earth. What we're doing is -- people like this a lot, this bird's eye imagery we work with. It's this high resolution data. But what we've found is they like the fluidity of the 3-D model. A child can navigate with an Xbox controller or a game controller. So here what we're trying to do is we bring the picture and project it into the 3-D model space. You can see all types of resolution. From here, I can slowly pan the image over. I can get the next image. I can blend and transition. By doing this I don't lose the original detail. In fact, I might be recording history. The freshness, the capacity. I can turn this image. I can look at it from multiple viewpoints and angles. What we're trying to do is build a virtual world. We hope that we can make computing a user model you're familiar with, and really derive insights from you, from all different directions. I thank you very much for your time.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
北国同盟は少し寒い国で、しかもその北限の山を登ってきたのだから、寒暖の差が激しい。体力の乏しい俺としては、この気温の差は非常に堪える。「なんだか、生きているだけで疲労しそう」「それ、死んじゃう!?」「例えだよ。ミシェルちゃんは大げさだよ?」「ニコルちゃん、今までさんざん心配かけてきたのを忘れてない?」「うぐっ!」まあ、今回ばかりは彼女たちにも気を使わせてしまった。しかし、体調の変化というのだけはどうしようもない。水着用の糸の調達という、余計な日程を挟んでしまっただけに、今回の合宿のスケジュールはかなり押している。今日の課題は、持ち帰ったファングウルフの牙を加工して、タリスマンの形を削り出し、そこに魔法陣を刻む作業だ。「ま、まあ、それはともかくとして、今日は素材の加工だよ? これも冒険者のお仕事だし」「うぅ、細かい作業は苦手なんだよね」「わたしもできるだけサポートするから」「なに、それほど心配するとこはあるまいよ。失敗しても、この牙の大きさなら多少は余裕があるでな」マテウスたちをラウムに送り届けてきたマクスウェルが、気楽そうにそう保証してくれる。小さすぎると飲み込んでしまう危険があるし、大きすぎると持ち運びに不便だ。太さで言うと三センチほどの棒状、長さら十センチの間という感じか。「結構大きいのですわね、マクスウェル様」「もっと小さく作ることも可能じゃがの。まあ、これくらいが首に吊るすにはちょうど良い。それに小さすぎると赤ん坊には危険じゃ」「慣れてくれば、小さいサイズで作り直して来ればよかろう。それができる技量を手に入れてからの話じゃがな」「あうっ、精進しますわ」に戻り、レティーナが順調に墓穴を掘っている間、俺はミシェルちゃんとフィニアに、加工の手順を説明していた。学院に通っているレティーナには基礎知識があるが、この二人にはそれがない。詳細に説明せねばならない。オマケでクラウドにも。そうして丸一日かけて狼の牙を削り出し、俺が夜なべでその牙に魔法陣を刻み込む。せいぜい薄めの革鎧程度の防御だが、それでも赤ん坊の危険を大きく軽減してくれるだろう。貯め込んだ魔力が切れれば、俺がまた注入してやればよい。これで『俺の贈り物』という体裁が整えられるわけだ。そうして順調に合宿の日程をこなし、最終日は予備日として想定していたので、もう一度海で遊ぶことにした。そうやって季節に似合わぬ日焼けをしてから、俺たちはラウムへ帰還したのである。マクスウェルの屋敷で、集めてきた素材をそれぞれに分担し、利益を分配する。レティーナとクラウドがそれぞれの家に帰る。俺もミシェルちゃんとフィニアと一緒に、通い慣れた帰路についていた。いつもと違ったのは、俺たちがコルティナの家の前に来た時だった。「ちょっと、本当に大丈夫なんでしょうね!?」家の中からいつもでは想像できないくらい取り乱した、コルティナの声が響いてきた。「な、なんだろ?」「わかんない。でもいつものコルティナなら、あんなに取り乱したりしない」「そうですね。いつもは悠然と構えている方ですから、珍しいです」彼女は基本的に冷静な人間だ。その分、内にため込みやすい性格ではあるが、その冷静さは戦場では一つの武器になる。その彼女が、いつにないほど我を忘れ、奇声を上げていた。「そ、そんなの俺に聞かれても......なぁ、ガドルス、大丈夫だよな?」「ワシが知るか!」続いて聞こえてきたのはライエルとガドルスの声。この二人も、戦場の猛者である。だがその声がヒントになったのか、フィニアはパンと手を叩いて歓声を上げた。「あっ、もしかしたら......」「フィニア、何か思いついた?」「ええ。ひょっとすると、マリア様のお産が始まったのかもしれません!」「えっ!?」マリアの出産予定には、まだひと月近い日にちが残っていたはず。少し早いのではないだろうか? 「予定日は来月だったよね?」「少し早く生まれるのかもしれません。これくらいなら充分あり得ます」「そ、それって大変なんじゃ!?」「はい。ですので私も行ってお手伝いしてきます!」フィニアはいつになく乱暴にドアを開け、荷物を玄関の脇に放り出した。「わ、わたしもなにか......てつだうこと!」「ニコルちゃん、落ち着いて! えっと、えっと......わたし、お母さん呼んでくるね!」それを見て俺は、何をしていいのかわからず、あわあわと挙動不審のまま立ち尽くしていたのだった。	The next day, we returned to Maxwell’s islet. The Northern Alliance was a somewhat cold kingdom, and we even climbed up the mountain range there, so the difference in temperature was quite drastic. Given my meager stamina, that difference hit me pretty hard. “I feel like I’m suffering just by being alive.” “Oh no, are you gonna die!?” “I was just speaking metaphorically. You sure love overreacting, Michelle.” “Nicole, did you forget how much you worried us until now?” “Ugh!” Oh well, it was true that I made them worry over me this time. But it was due to my physical changes, not something I could help. Since procuring the threads for swimsuits got crammed in our tasks, our training camp schedule had turned quite tight. Today’s task was to shave the Fang Wolf’s fangs in talisman shapes and carve magic circles on them. We had to finish doing this within two days. However, I had already made the magic circle layouts, so the only thing left was molding the fangs and carving the magic circles by referencing what I had already drawn. “L-Leaving that aside, we have to process the materials today, you know? That’s one of the jobs of Adventurers.” “Ugh, I am not good at detailed work.” “I will do what I can to assist you.” “Oh, don’t worry, even if you fail, these fangs are big enough to allow for some mistakes.” Maxwell, who had already sent Mateus’ group back to Raum, assured us. I didn’t really care about the exact size for our share of the talismans, but I had to carefully consider it for the baby’s share. There was a risk of it getting swallowed if it was made too small, but making it too big would also make it inconvenient to carry around. After calculating its size, we ended up making it from one of the fangs, a bit on the bigger side. In terms of thickness, it was a cm cylinder, and the length was somewhere between - cm. “That is quite a big one, Lord Maxwell.” “We could make it smaller, but this looks like the right size to hang on the neck. And making it too small would endanger the baby.” “After the baby gets used to it, we could remake it in a smaller shape. But that is something you can consider after having the ability to do so, however.” “Ugh, I will do my best.” After we returned to the cottage, I went to explain the manufacturing process to Michelle and Finia, while Letina was busy digging her own grave. Since Letina attended the Academy, she had the fundamental knowledge, but these two didn’t. I had to explain it to them in detail. And to Cloud as well as a bonus. And thus, we spent the entire day shaving the fangs, and then came my night work of carving the magic circles on them. We just had to pour magic into them like with Magic Crystals and they would be finished. While the magic power remained inside them, they would continue to protect the wearers. It really only was on the level of a leather armor, but it still made a huge difference in baby’s safety. If the magic power ran out, I could just recharge it again. Like this, my “Gift” finally took on a proper form. Thus, we finished our training camp schedule favorably, and decided to use the last day that we had as a reserve to play at the sea. And finally, we returned to Raum while getting quite an unfitting tan considering the season. We split and shared the spoils at Maxwell’s house. That was the same plain old thing we did. After that Letina and Cloud went to their respective homes. I also followed the familiar path home along with Michelle and Finia. What was different from usual, was what happened after we reached Cortina’s home. “Hey, is this really alright!?” From inside came Cortina’s voice, appearing unimaginably shaken. It made us reflexively exchange gazes. “W-What’s going on?” “I don’t know. But normal Cortina would never sound so confused.” “True. She is always composed, so this is unusual.” She was by nature a calm person. Conversely, she tended to keep everything bottled inside, but her calm nature was also one of her weapons during battles. Someone like that had presently lost all her composite and raised strange voices. “W-Why are you asking that to me... Hey, Gadius, what do you think?” “As if I would know!” Following it came Lyell and Gadius’ voices. These two were fearless fighters too. It was really rare to hear such shaken voices from them. That seemed to have been some kind of hint for Finia, she suddenly clapped her hands in joy. “Ah, could it be...” “Finia, did you think of something?” “Yes. It could be that Lady Maria started giving birth!” “Wha-!?” There should have been close to a month until her childbirth. Wasn’t it a little too early? “Wasn’t she expecting it next month?” “She might be giving birth a little early. It happens quite often.” “I-Isn’t that quite a big deal!?” “Yes. So I will go help them right away!” Finia opened the door uncharacteristically violently and threw the luggage at the entrance. It was a strange act from someone who treated belongings with care. “I-I also... Have to help somehow!” “Nicole, calm down! Err, Uhh... I’ll go call my mom!” As Finia headed into the house, Michelle rushed towards her own. Seeing that, I just stood still and flapped around weirdly, unable to come up with what to do.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 1, "inserted_lines_src": 15, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
クロキリたちは個の武勇によって、狐姫たちが新たな技術によって、雪翁たちが策謀によって蛸王のモンスターたちを撃退していた頃、『籠る桜火の竜君』のダンジョン『桜島直火口』にて「はい。お願いします。」『桜島直火口』の層は桜島の噴火口の内側に入口が存在しており普通の人間には入る事は出来ないが、層は竜君が眷属を作るために外に一部が出るように作られている。そして今現在その第二階層には竜君に数名の桜火人、それに十数名の人間が居る。だが、彼女たちの出す雰囲気には焦りと怒りが感じられるが、敵対の意思は感じられない。それは何故か。「分かった。港町の状況は刻一刻と不味い事になってる。」まず初めに言うべき事として『籠る桜火の竜君』は魔王らしくない魔王であり、普段竜君がしている事と言えばダンジョン内で適当にモンスターを生み出しつつ眠るぐらい。あとやる事と言えば眷属作成用に作った第二階層に人間が来て眷属化を求めた際に眷属にするぐらいであり、外にモンスターを出して集落を襲うような事は無い。そう。竜君は今まで自分から人間を襲ったことのない魔王なのだ。それに加えて彼女の眷属である桜火人は固有スキルの≪桜火雨≫による治療能力を有しており、普段から殆どの桜火人は各自で集落を渡り歩いて怪我人の治療などを行っていてその評判は上々である。そう言った事情から竜君と竜君の眷属である桜火人は他の魔王やその眷属たちと違って周囲の人間たちからは好意的に受け入れられている。「分かっています。だから私たちに力を下さいませ竜君様。」その中で『這い寄る混沌の蛸王』のモンスターが突如港町に襲い掛かり、人間と港町に居た桜火人は苦戦を強いられる事になり、竜君たちは早急に戦力を確保して援軍を送る必要に迫られた。「それならばもう止めない。≪魔性創生≫」だから竜君はこの場に集まり、人間を辞める決意をした者たちを自らの眷属にする。彼らが守りたいものを守れるようにするために。竜君のスキル発動と共に集まっていた人間たちの髪色が綺麗な桜色に染まり、桜色の火の粉が新たな眷属の誕生を祝うように辺りに降り注ぐ。「頼むぞ。」「はい!」そして新たな眷属たちは自らの戦場へと赴いていった。 ------------------- 人間と桜火人、そして竜君のモンスターたちが協力し、竜君が眷属を増やして送り込んでも戦況は逼迫していた。それは何故か。確かに桜火人の≪桜火雨≫は攻撃と回復を同時に行える強力なスキルであり、複数人の桜火人が同時に行使すれば大抵の傷は一瞬にして回復するし敵にも幾分のダメージを与えられる。だが、≪桜火雨≫の効果の主体は回復であり、攻撃ではないのである。そして竜君のモンスターもどちらかと言えば回復系の能力持ちが多く、人間たちも竜君が人間を襲わない魔王であったために戦いの経験が殆ど無い。それ故に起きる事態が...... 「くそっ!まるで数が減らない!」「もっと火力を一点に集めろ!」深刻な火力不足である。そのために現在竜君側は来るかどうかも分からない他の魔王たちからの援軍を待ちながら徐々に後退して敵の攻撃に耐える事になっている。さて、ここで一つ疑問が上がるだろう。いくら攻撃力が無くてもこれだけの回復力があれば戦線を押し返すのは無理でも拮抗させることはできるのではないかと。だが、今の状況はそんな甘い話ではないのである。回復と言うのはあくまでも生きている者にのみ効果があるものであり、一撃で死んでしまったり、盾や槍などの物品の破損には効果が無いのである。「奴が来たぞー!撤退しろー!!」そう。例えば、盾ごと人間を叩き潰せるだけの膂力を持った大ダコ等は彼らの天敵なのである。「くそっ!退け!退けえええぇぇぇ!!」「援軍はまだ......ギャアアアアア!!」悪態を吐きつつ竜君側の人間たちが逃げていき、その隙だらけの背中に蛸王のモンスターたちが襲い掛かり命を奪っていく。 ---------------- 「畜生......。あの大ダコさえどうにかできれば......」街の外にまで逃げ、何とか戦いの体裁を整えた人間たちが思わずそう呟く。彼らの目には街から徐々に自分たちの方に向かってくる蛸王のモンスターたち...あの忌まわしい大ダコの姿が見えている。もし、あの大ダコたちがここまで到達すれば自分たちは為す術も無く蹂躙されるだろう。そう人間たちは思い、ある者は泣き震え、ある者は絶望していた。だが、ここまで彼らが幾重もの犠牲の上に積み上げた時間が彼らを救う。「ーーーーーーーーーー!!」突然、大ダコの絶叫が辺りに響き渡る。何事かと彼らは顔を上げる。そこで見たのは自分たちを散々苦しめてきた大ダコが一人の少女によって一刀両断される姿であった。「よく頑張りましたね。後は任せてください。」遠くにいるはずなのに不思議と少女の声は身近に聞こえる。その少女は左腕を金属製の籠手で覆い、右手には両刃の剣が握られ、黒い服を全身に纏っていた。少女の名はイチコ。『定まらぬ剣の刃姫』の別名を持ち、クロキリの命を受けてこの国中を駆け回って蛸王のモンスターたちを狩っていた。そして彼女が現れたことによって場の流れは一変する。その強さは圧倒的と言う他なかった。彼らが散々苦戦していた大ダコは一瞬にして切り倒され、他のモンスターたちも危険な能力を持つ者から的確に急所を突かれて絶命していく。その力の前には何とか反撃しようとした者も水の一滴すら当てられず逆に手痛い反撃によって討ち取られる。そしてその光景を受けて今まで守り一辺倒だった他の人間たちも攻勢に打って出る。人間たちの勢いは凄まじく、今までの火力不足が嘘だったかのように蛸王のモンスターたちを討ち取っていく。時折掠める攻撃も辺り一帯に降り注ぐ≪桜火雨≫により一瞬で治癒される。そのスピードは瀕死の重体者ですら数秒で戦いを復帰できるほどであった。その後狐姫の最新式装備を整えた援軍も駆けつけ、やがて蛸王のモンスターたちは一方的にその数を減らしていき、戦いは竜君たちの勝利に終わることになった。	————– While Kurokiri and the others were fending off the Octopus King’s monsters with the individual valor, the Fox Princess’ group testing out the new technology, and the Snow Sage’s party strategizing, this was what was happening at the “Sakurajima Direct Crater” dungeon of the “Dragon Sovereign of the Caged Cherry Blossom Flame”. “Yes. Please do.” The first level of “Sakurajima Direct Crater” had an entrance within the Sakurajima crater, rendering it inaccessible to ordinary humans, but the second level was designed to allow a portion of the structure to be opened for Dragon Sovereign to create her kin. And as of now, the Dragon Sovereign of the Caged Cherry Blossom Flame as well as the Sakurahijin accompanied by a dozen or so human beings were on the second level of the structure. Nevertheless, despite the impatience and fury in their atmosphere, there was no sense of antagonism. You were wondering the reason for this? “I understand. The circumstances in the port city are getting worse by the minute.” To begin with, “Dragon Sovereign of the Caged Cherry Blossom Flame” was a Demon King who lacked the characteristics of a Demon King, and her typical behavior was to slumber in the dungeon while creating monsters as she saw fit. The only other thing she did besides that was to transform humans into her kin when they came to the second level, which she created for the purpose of creating kin, and she did not release monsters outside to attack the settlements. Right. The Dragon Sovereign was a Demon King who had never taken the initiative to harm any human being. On top of that, her kin, the Sakurahijin, possessed the ability to heal the injured with their unique skill ≪Cherry Blossom Rain≫ and the bulk of them customarily wandered around the community to heal the wounded and were highly reputed. Therefore, the Dragon Sovereign and her kin, the Sakurahijin, were favorably accepted by the people in the surrounding areas, unlike other Demon Kings and their kin. “We are aware of that. That is why we ask for your power, Dragon Sovereign-sama.” In the midst of this, the monsters of the “Crawling Octopus King of Chaos” had abruptly stormed the port city, causing the humans and the Sakurahijin in the port city to suffer an uphill battle. The Dragon Sovereign and her team had to urgently maintain their strength and send in reinforcements. “Then I won’t stop you anymore. ≪Monster Create≫.” For this reason, the Dragon Sovereign had gathered the group of humans who had made up their minds to resign from the human race and be her kin. So that they can protect what they desired to protect. With the activation of Dragon Sovereign’s skill, the hair color of the assembled humans turned into an alluring cherry blossom color, which was followed by cherry blossom-colored fire sparks that rained down on the area as if celebrating the birth of new kin. “I am counting on you.” “Yes!” And the batch of new kin headed off to the battlefield of their own accord. ————– The conflict was still tense, despite the cooperation of humans, Sakurahijin, and Dragon Sovereign’s monsters, as well as the additional kin dispatched by the Dragon Sovereign. What was the reason behind this? Indeed, the ≪Cherry Blossom Rain≫ was a formidable skill that can both attack and heal at the same time, and if multiple Sakurahijin exercised it synchronously, most wounds can be healed instantaneously and the opponents can be inflicted with a certain extent of damage. Regardless, the primary effect of ≪Cherry Blossom Rain≫ was recovery rather than offense. Many of Dragon Sovereign’s monsters also had recovery abilities, and since Dragon Sovereign was a Demon King who did not strike humans, the humans themselves had scarcely any experience in battle. Hence, the situation that occurred was... “Damn it! We’re outnumbered!” “Concentrate all your firepower in one place!” There was a critical shortage of firepower. As a result, the Dragon Sovereign’s side was now awaiting reinforcements from other Demon Kings, who may or may not arrive, and was gradually retreating to withstand the enemies’ aggression. Now, a question might be posed here. You may wonder, even if they lacked offensive capabilities, given their resilience, was it possible to maintain the war front even if it was impossible to push back the enemy? The current predicament, nevertheless, was not such a simple one. Recovery, by definition, only applied to those who are still alive ; not to those who perish with a single blow or damage to equipment, such as shields and spears. “It’s coming! Retreat!!” Yes. For instance, the giant octopus, whose physical strength was sufficient to crush a human being with a shield, was their natural antagonist. “Damn it! Fall back! Fall backkkkkk!!” “Reinforcements are not yet... gyaaaaa!!” The humans on Dragon Sovereign’s side fled while swearing, and the Octopus King’s monsters pounced on their vulnerable backs, snatching their lives away. “Damn it... If only we could do something about that giant octopus...” These humans, who managed to escape to the outer part of the city and put up a fighting appearance, involuntarily murmured to themselves. In their eyes, they can catch sight of the monsters of the Octopus King who were progressively advancing towards them from the city... that loathsome giant octopus. Should that giant octopus reach this point, they would be hopelessly devastated. That was what the humans were thinking, with some weeping and quivering, and others in despair. Yet, the time they had accumulated over the many sacrifices they had exerted up to this point will save them. “ーーー!!” All of a sudden, the exclamation of the giant octopus pierced the area. They looked up to check what was going on. There, they witnessed the giant octopus that had tormented them for so long being slain in one blow by a girl. “You did your best. Please leave the rest to me.” Although she seemed to be far away, the girl’s voice sounded mysteriously familiar. That girl was clad entirely in black, with a metal gauntlet covering her left arm and a double-edged blade in her right hand. Ichiko was the name of the young woman. She carried the alias of “Blade Princess of the Undefined Sword” and was running around this country hunting monsters of the Octopus King under the command of Kurokiri. Her arrival at the scene drastically altered the course of events. That strength of hers could only be described as overwhelming. The giant octopus with which they had struggled so viciously was slashed to death in a heartbeat, while other monsters with threatening abilities succumbed after being hit in the vital parts with pinpoint accuracy. Even those who were able to retaliate were struck down by excruciating counterattacks without a single blow landed on her. In response to this spectacle, other humans, who until now had been on the defensive, also went on the offensive. As if their lack of firepower up to this stage were a falsehood, the humans were so vigorous that they were vanquishing the monsters of the Octopus King. Even the enemies’ occasional attacks were immediately cured by ≪Cherry Blossom Rain≫ that poured down all over the vicinity. The speed of the healing was such that even a critically wounded man can regain his fighting strength within mere seconds. After that, reinforcements equipped with the latest equipment from the Fox Princess also arrived at the battlefield, and before long, the monsters of the Octopus King were unilaterally reduced in number, thus ending the battle with a victory for Dragon Sovereign and her team.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 2, "inserted_lines_trg": 7 }
現在の海洋の化学を調査し過去の海洋の化学を考察します過去の考察には深海にあるサンゴの化石を使いますこれはサンゴの写真です南極付近の水深数千メートルの深海で採取されたもので南国に行ったことがあれば運良く見ることもあるサンゴとはかなり違いますこの話で海洋の4次元的な見方を示したいと思います例えばこの美しい海面水温の平面画像は 2次元になりますこれは驚異的な空間解像度を備えた人工衛星で撮影されました全体的な特徴は実にわかりやすいものです赤道地域は日射量が多いため温暖で極地は日射量が少ないため寒冷ですこれにより南極大陸と北極圏で氷冠が発達しますもし皆さんが海に深く飛び込むかつま先を入れるだけでも深くなるにつれて冷たくなるのが分かりますその主な理由は深海に広がる底層水は極地の冷たい高密度水が循環したものだからです 2万年前にさかのぼると地球は今と随分違って見えます大昔に時間を巻き戻すと目にするであろう主な違いの一つをご覧に入れます氷冠はずっと広大でした氷の塊が多くの大陸を覆い海上まで広がっていました海面は今より120メートル低く二酸化炭素の量は今よりずっと低レベルでした故に当時の地球の気温は全体的に3~5度低く極地の気温は更にずっと低かったと考えられます私と同僚たちが理解に努めているのはどのようにして昔の寒冷な気候から現在の温暖な気候へと移り変わったのかです氷床コアの研究から寒冷期から温暖期への移行は太陽放射量の緩やかな増加をもとに皆さんが予想するほど安定的ではなかったことが分かります氷床コアからこれらが分かるのは氷を下に掘り進めて行くと年毎の層が見られるからです氷山にもありますこのような青と白の層です氷床コアにはガスが閉じ込められており二酸化炭素濃度の測定が可能で昔は二酸化炭素濃度が低かったと知ることができますまた氷の化学的性質から極地の気温の情報も得られます皆さんがもしも 2万年前から現代に来れば気温の上昇に気付きます気温の上昇は不安定でした急激に上昇することもあれば停滞期に入ったりまた急上昇したりしましたこれは南北の極地で異なり二酸化炭素濃度も急上昇しました私たちは海との大きな関連を確信しています海は大量の炭素を貯えていてその量は大気中の約60倍ですそれは同じく赤道を越えて熱を運ぶように作用し海は栄養豊富でこれが基礎生産力を左右します深海で何が起きているかを知るには実際に深海に潜り何があるかを見て調査することが不可欠ですこの見事な映像は陸地から遠く離れた大西洋赤道域の国際水域にある水深約1キロの海山で撮影しました我々研究チームを含めてこのような海底の映像を見たことある人はほとんどいません皆さんはおそらく私たちも知らない新種の生物を見ていますサンプルを収集し一心不乱に分類するだけですバブルガムサンゴがいますサンゴに潜んで成長するクモヒトデもいますサンゴから伸びている触手のようなものです様々な形態の炭酸カルシウムから成るサンゴが巨大な海山の玄武岩の上に成長していますこの黒っぽい物体は化石化したサンゴです後で昔の話をするのでこれについてもう少し説明します後で昔の話をするのでこれについてもう少し説明しますまず私たちは調査用ボートを借りますテネリフェ島に停泊する海洋調査船ジェームズ・クック号です美しいですね船乗りでなくても分かりますこのようにしていることもあります貴重なサンプルを失くしていないか確認している場面です皆が忙しく動き回ったり私はひどい船酔いをしたりと楽しいことばかりではありませんが大抵は楽しいです私たちは腕利きの地図製作者になる必要がありましたこのように見事なサンゴの分布はなかなかありません世界中の深海にありますが私たちは本当に適当な場所を見つける必要があります今見たのが世界の海底地図その上に重ねたのが昨年の航路です 7週間の航海でした約7万5千平方キロに及ぶ― 海底の地図をたった7週間で独自に作成しましたがこれは海底のほんの一部分です西から東へ移動します大きな縮尺の地図では海底は何の特徴もなく見えますがこれらの山のいくつかはエベレスト級の大きさです私たちが船上で作成する地図では約100メートルの解像度が得られこれは機材の配置場所を選ぶには十分ですが観察には不十分ですこのため遠隔操作の無人探査機を海底から約5メートルで泳がせる必要がありますすると水深数千メートル地点で 1メートルの解像度の地図が得られますすると水深数千メートル地点で 1メートルの解像度の地図が得られますこの遠隔操作無人探査機は研究用のレベルです上部にずらりと並んだ大きなライトが見えます高解像度カメラやマニピュレーターアームサンプルを収めるための多数の小箱などがありますさあ今回の航海で初の潜水です海に潜っています無人探査機が他の船の影響を受けないようにかなりの高速で潜らせますさらに深く潜るとこのような物が見えます体長1メートルほどの海綿動物がいますこれは泳ぐ棘皮動物つまり小さなナマコですこれはスローモーションです映像の大部分は実際は長時間かかるので早送りしていますこれもまた美しいナマコですこれからお見せする動物に皆さん驚くでしょう私も見たことがなかったので一同が驚いたものです約15時間の作業の後で私たちが少しイライラしてきた頃突如この巨大な海の怪物がくねりながら通ったのですこれはパイロソーマもしくは群体ホヤと呼ばれています私たちが探していた物ではありませんでした私たちが探していたのは深海のサンゴですある映像をお見せします小形で体長は5センチ程です炭酸カルシウムでできているので触手が見えます海流を受けて動いていますこのような生物は恐らく100年は生きていますそして成長しながら海から化学物質を取り込みますその化学物質の種類や量は水温、pH値や栄養素によって異なりますどのように化学物質が骨格に取り込まれるかが分かれば戻って化石標本を収集し昔の海がどういうありさまだったのか再現できますこれは私たちが真空装置でサンゴを収集しサンプル容器に入れている様子ですこれはとても慎重な作業だと言っておきます中にはさらに長命な生物もいますこれはクロサンゴ類のレイオパテスで同僚のブレンダン・ロアークがハワイの海面下約500メートルで撮影しました 4000年は経過していますこの枝を1本採って磨いてみると画面のさしわたしが数百ミクロンですブレンダンはこれをいくつかの分析にかけ跡が見えますね実際の成長輪の可視化に成功しましたつまり水深500メートルのサンゴも季節による変化を記録できるのですこれには目を見張りますしかし4000年では最終氷期の最盛期には届きませんではどうするか? これらの化石標本を調査しますこのため私は研究班で実に不人気です海底へ進んでいくとあちこちに大きなサメやホヤそして泳ぐナマコ大きな海綿動物がいますしかし私は研究員を化石のある場所へ連れて行きショベルで海底をすくうことにたっぷり時間をかけさせるのですそしてこれらのサンゴを全て収集して持ち帰り分類しますそれぞれ年齢が異なりもしも年齢が分かれば化学信号の測定が可能で過去に海で何が起きていたのかを調査するのに役立ちます左側の写真はサンゴの一部を採取し注意深く磨いて光学像を撮影したものです右側の写真は同じサンゴのかけらを原子炉に入れ核分裂を誘発した画像です核分裂のたびにその痕跡がサンゴに残されていくのでウランの分布がわかりますこの分析は何のためか? ウランはぜんぜん評判の良くない元素ですが私は好きです崩壊によりその比率や事象が起きた年代を測定できます最初を思い出すとこれこそ気候の調査で突き止めたかったことですサンゴが含有するウランと娘核種のトリウムをレーザーで分析すると化石がちょうど何歳か分かりますこの南極海の美しい動画を使って私たちがサンゴから古代海洋の情報を― どのように得るのか説明していきましょうライアン・アバナシーによるこの動画で海面の海水の密度が分かりますたった1年分のデータですが南極海がどれほど活発なのかがわかりますボックスが示す海水の密度が集中的に混合している海域― 特にドレーク海峡は世界で最も潮の流れが荒い海域の一つで潮は西から東へ通っていきます海中の大きな山の上を流れるので激しく混合し海中の大きな山の上を流れるので激しく混合しこれが海中と大気中の二酸化炭素と熱を交換可能にします基本的に海は南極海を介して呼吸しています私たちは南極海の海峡を行来してサンゴを収集しウラン年代測定により驚くべき発見をしました実は氷河期から間氷期へ移行している間にサンゴは南から北へ移動していたのです理由は分かりませんが食料や水中の酸素と関連していると考えられます食料や水中の酸素と関連していると考えられますさてここからです南極海のサンゴから得た気候についての見解を説明します私たちは海山を上って下りサンゴの化石を集めましたこれが私の説明です私たちは独自のサンゴの分析により氷河期を研究した結果南極海の深部は炭素が豊富で上部は低密度の海水の層であったと知りましたこれが海から二酸化炭素を放出しないようにしますその後見つけた中間年齢のサンゴにより気候の遷移の中で海水が混合したことが分かりましたこれにより炭素は深海から放出されるようになりますより現代に近いサンゴを分析するか実際にとにかく海底まで潜りサンゴを化学測定すれば私たちは炭素が出入り可能な時代に移ったのだと分かりますこうして私たちはサンゴの化石を環境を学ぶために役立てています最後のスライドをご覧くださいこれは先ほどご覧に入れた映像の抜粋です見事なサンゴの庭園ですね想像を絶する美しさです数千メートルの水面下新種の生物がいますとにかく美しい場所ですここにある化石全てそして深海にあるサンゴの化石の真価を皆さんにお伝えしました今度幸運にも飛行機で海を越えるか航海する機会があれば思い出してください海底には― 誰も見たことのない巨大な海山や美しいサンゴの庭園があるとありがとうございます	I look at the chemistry of the ocean today. I look at the chemistry of the ocean in the past. The way I look back in the past is by using the fossilized remains of deepwater corals. You can see an image of one of these corals behind me. It was collected from close to Antarctica, thousands of meters below the sea, so, very different than the kinds of corals you may have been lucky enough to see if you've had a tropical holiday. So I'm hoping that this talk will give you a four-dimensional view of the ocean. Two dimensions, such as this beautiful two-dimensional image of the sea surface temperature. This was taken using satellite, so it's got tremendous spatial resolution. The overall features are extremely easy to understand. The equatorial regions are warm because there's more sunlight. The polar regions are cold because there's less sunlight. And that allows big icecaps to build up on Antarctica and up in the Northern Hemisphere. If you plunge deep into the sea, or even put your toes in the sea, you know it gets colder as you go down, and that's mostly because the deep waters that fill the abyss of the ocean come from the cold polar regions where the waters are dense. If we travel back in time 20,000 years ago, the earth looked very much different. And I've just given you a cartoon version of one of the major differences you would have seen if you went back that long. The icecaps were much bigger. They covered lots of the continent, and they extended out over the ocean. Sea level was 120 meters lower. Carbon dioxide [levels] were very much lower than they are today. So the earth was probably about three to five degrees colder overall, and much, much colder in the polar regions. What I'm trying to understand, and what other colleagues of mine are trying to understand, is how we moved from that cold climate condition to the warm climate condition that we enjoy today. We know from ice core research that the transition from these cold conditions to warm conditions wasn't smooth, as you might predict from the slow increase in solar radiation. And we know this from ice cores, because if you drill down into ice, you find annual bands of ice, and you can see this in the iceberg. You can see those blue-white layers. Gases are trapped in the ice cores, so we can measure CO2 -- that's why we know CO2 was lower in the past -- and the chemistry of the ice also tells us about temperature in the polar regions. And if you move in time from 20,000 years ago to the modern day, you see that temperature increased. It didn't increase smoothly. Sometimes it increased very rapidly, then there was a plateau, then it increased rapidly. It was different in the two polar regions, and CO2 also increased in jumps. So we're pretty sure the ocean has a lot to do with this. The ocean stores huge amounts of carbon, about 60 times more than is in the atmosphere. It also acts to transport heat across the equator, and the ocean is full of nutrients and it controls primary productivity. So if we want to find out what's going on down in the deep sea, we really need to get down there, see what's there and start to explore. This is some spectacular footage coming from a seamount about a kilometer deep in international waters in the equatorial Atlantic, far from land. You're amongst the first people to see this bit of the seafloor, along with my research team. You're probably seeing new species. We don't know. You'd have to collect the samples and do some very intense taxonomy. You can see beautiful bubblegum corals. There are brittle stars growing on these corals. Those are things that look like tentacles coming out of corals. There are corals made of different forms of calcium carbonate growing off the basalt of this massive undersea mountain, and the dark sort of stuff, those are fossilized corals, and we're going to talk a little more about those as we travel back in time. To do that, we need to charter a research boat. This is the James Cook, an ocean-class research vessel moored up in Tenerife. Looks beautiful, right? Great, if you're not a great mariner. Sometimes it looks a little more like this. This is us trying to make sure that we don't lose precious samples. Everyone's scurrying around, and I get terribly seasick, so it's not always a lot of fun, but overall it is. So we've got to become a really good mapper to do this. You don't see that kind of spectacular coral abundance everywhere. It is global and it is deep, but we need to really find the right places. We just saw a global map, and overlaid was our cruise passage from last year. This was a seven-week cruise, and this is us, having made our own maps of about 75,000 square kilometers of the seafloor in seven weeks, but that's only a tiny fraction of the seafloor. We're traveling from west to east, over part of the ocean that would look featureless on a big-scale map, but actually some of these mountains are as big as Everest. So with the maps that we make on board, we get about 100-meter resolution, enough to pick out areas to deploy our equipment, but not enough to see very much. To do that, we need to fly remotely-operated vehicles about five meters off the seafloor. And if we do that, we can get maps that are one-meter resolution down thousands of meters. Here is a remotely-operated vehicle, a research-grade vehicle. You can see an array of big lights on the top. There are high-definition cameras, manipulator arms, and lots of little boxes and things to put your samples. Here we are on our first dive of this particular cruise, plunging down into the ocean. We go pretty fast to make sure the remotely operated vehicles are not affected by any other ships. And we go down, and these are the kinds of things you see. These are deep sea sponges, meter scale. This is a swimming holothurian -- it's a small sea slug, basically. This is slowed down. Most of the footage I'm showing you is speeded up, because all of this takes a lot of time. This is a beautiful holothurian as well. And this animal you're going to see coming up was a big surprise. I've never seen anything like this and it took us all a bit surprised. This was after about 15 hours of work and we were all a bit trigger-happy, and suddenly this giant sea monster started rolling past. It's called a pyrosome or colonial tunicate, if you like. This wasn't what we were looking for. We were looking for corals, deep sea corals. You're going to see a picture of one in a moment. It's small, about five centimeters high. It's made of calcium carbonate, so you can see its tentacles there, moving in the ocean currents. An organism like this probably lives for about a hundred years. And as it grows, it takes in chemicals from the ocean. And the chemicals, or the amount of chemicals, depends on the temperature; it depends on the pH, it depends on the nutrients. And if we can understand how these chemicals get into the skeleton, we can then go back, collect fossil specimens, and reconstruct what the ocean used to look like in the past. And here you can see us collecting that coral with a vacuum system, and we put it into a sampling container. We can do this very carefully, I should add. Some of these organisms live even longer. This is a black coral called Leiopathes, an image taken by my colleague, Brendan Roark, about 500 meters below Hawaii. Four thousand years is a long time. If you take a branch from one of these corals and polish it up, this is about 100 microns across. And Brendan took some analyses across this coral -- you can see the marks -- and he's been able to show that these are actual annual bands, so even at 500 meters deep in the ocean, corals can record seasonal changes, which is pretty spectacular. But 4,000 years is not enough to get us back to our last glacial maximum. So what do we do? We go in for these fossil specimens. This is what makes me really unpopular with my research team. So going along, there's giant sharks everywhere, there are pyrosomes, there are swimming holothurians, there's giant sponges, but I make everyone go down to these dead fossil areas and spend ages kind of shoveling around on the seafloor. And we pick up all these corals, bring them back, we sort them out. But each one of these is a different age, and if we can find out how old they are and then we can measure those chemical signals, this helps us to find out what's been going on in the ocean in the past. So on the left-hand image here, I've taken a slice through a coral, polished it very carefully and taken an optical image. On the right-hand side, we've taken that same piece of coral, put it in a nuclear reactor, induced fission, and every time there's some decay, you can see that marked out in the coral, so we can see the uranium distribution. Why are we doing this? Uranium is a very poorly regarded element, but I love it. The decay helps us find out about the rates and dates of what's going on in the ocean. And if you remember from the beginning, that's what we want to get at when we're thinking about climate. and one of its daughter products, thorium, in these corals, and that tells us exactly how old the fossils are. This beautiful animation of the Southern Ocean I'm just going to use illustrate how we're using these corals to get at some of the ancient ocean feedbacks. You can see the density of the surface water It's just one year of data, but you can see how dynamic the Southern Ocean is. The intense mixing, particularly the Drake Passage, which is shown by the box, is really one of the strongest currents in the world coming through here, flowing from west to east. It's very turbulently mixed, because it's moving over those great big undersea mountains, and this allows CO2 and heat to exchange with the atmosphere in and out. And essentially, the oceans are breathing through the Southern Ocean. We've collected corals from back and forth across this Antarctic passage, and we've found quite a surprising thing from my uranium dating: the corals migrated from south to north during this transition from the glacial to the interglacial. We don't really know why, but we think it's something to do with the food source and maybe the oxygen in the water. So here we are. I'm going to illustrate what I think we've found about climate from those corals in the Southern Ocean. We went up and down sea mountains. We collected little fossil corals. This is my illustration of that. We think back in the glacial, from the analysis we've made in the corals, that the deep part of the Southern Ocean was very rich in carbon, and there was a low-density layer sitting on top. That stops carbon dioxide coming out of the ocean. We then found corals that are of an intermediate age, and they show us that the ocean mixed partway through that climate transition. That allows carbon to come out of the deep ocean. And then if we analyze corals closer to the modern day, or indeed if we go down there today anyway and measure the chemistry of the corals, we see that we move to a position where carbon can exchange in and out. So this is the way we can use fossil corals to help us learn about the environment. So I want to leave you with this last slide. It's just a still taken out of that first piece of footage that I showed you. This is a spectacular coral garden. We didn't even expect to find things this beautiful. It's thousands of meters deep. There are new species. It's just a beautiful place. There are fossils in amongst, and now I've trained you to appreciate the fossil corals that are down there. So next time you're lucky enough to fly over the ocean or sail over the ocean, just think -- there are massive sea mountains down there that nobody's ever seen before, and there are beautiful corals. Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
も下旬になった。ミュリエルはわずか数日で村に完全に溶け込んでしまった。夜はアイリス、イクリプスにベッドで川の字になって眠り、朝になると真っ先に飛び起きて、丘の下に走って行く。そして毎日、子供たちと遊び回る。シェリルいわく、たまにしか出てこないアイリスと違って親しみやすいと、村人たちに評判らしい。それを聞いたアイリスは「ぐぬぬ」と唸った。「だってアイリスお姉ちゃん、ずっと教会から出てこないんだもん。たまには村に行こうよー」イクリプスは唸っているアイリスに説教してくる。「いやよ、人間がいるじゃないの......」「皆いい人だよー?」「そういう問題じゃないのよ」いい人とか悪い人とかの話になると、まるで相手に問題があるように聞こえてしまう。しかしアイリスは、相手が何者であろうと、知らない人と会話するというのが恐怖なのだ。つまり問題は相手ではなく、アイリス自身にある。アイリスがアイリスである以上、引きこもり体質は揺るがないのだ。「我思う。ゆえに我ニート――」「何をかっこよさそうに語ってるのよ。ただの怠け者じゃないの」と、マリオンとプニガミに馬鹿にされてしまった。事実を指摘してくるとは、酷いドラゴンとスライムだなぁ、なんて思いながら、アイリスは真っ昼間からベッドにもぞもぞ潜り込んで現実から逃避する。そのままぐっすりと寝て、次の日のお昼前。目を覚ますと、ベッドには誰もいなかった。妙に肌寒い。吐く息が白かった。アイリスは毛布で体を包んで、教会の外に出てみる。するとそこには真っ白な雪景色が広がっていた。「わぁ......」ついつい感嘆の声が漏れてしまった。それほど意外で、美しくて、肌に冷たくて、キラキラしていて、靴越しに柔らかい感触があって――。なにせアイリスは雪を見るのが初めてだった。緑色だった丘も、村の屋根も、森の葉っぱも、何もかもが地平線まで白い。突如として湖が出現したときよりも、更に凄い変化だ。一日寝ていただけで、世界はこんなにも変わってしまうのだなぁと感動した。そんな何もかもが凍り付いたような白い世界でも、子供たちは元気だった。丘の下でわーわー言いながら、雪玉を投げ、ぶつけ合っている。もちろん、その中にはイクリプスとミュリエルも混ざっている。「楽しそうね......」と呟いてみたが、もちろんアイリスにはそれに混ざっていく勇気はない。ただ丘の上から見つめるのみだ。そのとき、雪を巻き上げながら怒濤の勢いで丘を登ってくる物体が現れた。背中にシェリルとマリオンを乗せたプニガミである。「アイリス様、おはようございます! 見てください、雪ですよ!」「迎えに来てあげたわよ。まさかこれでも引きこもるとか言い出さないわよね?」どうやら彼女らは、アイリスを下に連れて行きたいようだ。アイリスも行きたい。あの雪玉を投げる遊びに加わりたい。が、怖い。「......いや、その。遠慮しておこうかしら」「何言ってるのよ! そんなんだと教会と体が一体化しちゃうわよ。今日くらいは皆と遊びなさいよ!」「そうですよ。新雪ですよ。真っ白ですよ。こんなに綺麗なのは今だけで、すぐに融けてビチャビチャになったり、泥と混じって汚くなったりするんですよ。さあ!」「ぷーに!」マリオンとシェリルがアイリスの腕を左右から引っ張る。更にプニガミが背中を押してきた。「わっ、待って待って! 行くから! だからせめて着替えさせてよ!」「じゃあ早くしなさい! あー、もう、私が着替えさせてやるわよ!」「あ、マリオンさん、ずるいです! 私もお着替えに参加しますよ!」と、アイリスは教会に連れ込まれ、パジャマを剥ぎ取られ、いつもの服に着替えさせられた。そしてプニガミの上に乗せられ、ふと気がつけば丘をズダダダダと下っていた。後ろからはマリオンがズダダダダと追いかけてくる。なおシェリルも頑張って走って追いかけてきていたが、途中で転び、ゴロゴロと玉のように転がり落ちてきた。丘を下りながら大きな雪玉へと成長したシェリルは、プニガミを追い越し、一足先に村に突っ込んでいく。そこは丁度、子供たちが遊んでいる場所だった。「のじゃあ! 巨大な雪玉が来たのじゃ! これは反則なのじゃ!」「雪合戦にこんな大きな雪玉を使っちゃ、めーっなの!」イクリプスが巨大雪玉の前に立ち塞がり、両腕を「えーい」と突き出した。雪玉は凄い勢いだったが、イクリプスにとっては軽いものだ。たやすく止めてしまう。そして雪玉は真っ二つに割れ、中から目を回したシェリルが出てきた。「わー、シェリルが雪玉から生まれたー」「雪玉から生まれたから、雪子ちゃんなのじゃ」「ひえー......人の名前を変えないでくださーい......」シェリルは目を回しながらも、ちゃんと文句を言う。「もう、シェリルったらドジなんだから」「ぷにぃ......」アイリスとプニガミはあきれ果てる。「まあ、人間は私たちほど強くないし......仕方がないんじゃないの?」と、マリオンは一応、シェリルを擁護する。だが周りの子供たちが「シェリル様を人間の基準にするなー」とか「俺たちはそこまでドジじゃないぞー」とか声を上げた。「ひ、酷いですぅ......」シェリルは涙目になりながら、ヨロヨロと起き上がった。盛大に転がった割には元気そうだ。「さて。無事にアイリス様をお連れしたことですし、雪合戦を再開しましょう......って、アイリス様。プニガミ様の後ろに隠れちゃダメじゃないですか」「え、だって......」ここにはいつものメンバーだけでなく、知らない子供たちが大勢いるのだ。丘の上で覚悟を決めたつもりだったが、いざとなると、やはり覚悟が足りなかった。「アイリスの引きこもり体質にもこまったものじゃなぁ......えい!」ミュリエルは脈絡もなく、アイリスの顔に雪玉をぶつけてきた。「......何するのよ......えい!」するとミュリエルがまた投げてくる。やがて雪玉の応酬が始まった。「なるほど、これが雪合戦ってやつね。えいっ、えいっ!」「アイリス、私も加勢するわよ!」マリオンも一緒にミュリエルに雪玉を投げ始めた。「じゃあ私はミュリエルの味方になるー」「プニガミ様はアイリス様の味方ですか? では私はミュリエル様に付きましょう」という感じで、二つの陣営に分かれて雪合戦が始まった。別にこうなれば勝ちとか負けとか、明確なルールは決まっていない。とにかく相手に雪玉がぶつかれば嬉しいし、当てられると悔しいというだけだ。なのに楽しい。アイリスは引きこもりたいという気持ちを忘れ、楽しく雪合戦で遊んでしまった。そしてお日様が暮れた頃、全員が疲れ果て、地面に座り込んだ。雪はすっかり踏み固められ、最初のふわふわ感は、もうなかった。もうやめどきかな、とアイリスが思ったとき、ジェシカがやってきた。「あらあら。皆、沢山遊んだのね。ジャガイモのバター焼きを作ったわよ。食べる人は?」流石はジェシカ。実にナイスなタイミングだ。無論、全員が「はーい」と手を上げた。そして皆で楽しくジャガイモを食べた。これでアイリスもすっかり村の子供たちに溶け込んだ――と思いきや。その夜、よくあんな大それたことができたものだ、とアイリスはベッドの中で震えた。「アイリスお姉ちゃん......雪合戦しただけなのにー......」とイクリプスにすら呆れられてしまう。「やれやれ。これでは守護神は務まらんのじゃ。やはりこの村には妾が必要なのじゃ」散々な言われようだが、それだけアイリスにとって他人と触れ合うというのは精神力を使うことなのだ。今日一日で精神力を使い切ってしまったので、回復させるためほど引きこもろうと決意した。	The last days of December. Muriel completely mixed with the village in just a few days. At night, she slept with Iris and Eclipse on the bed, at sunset she immediately ran down the hill and played with the children. According to Sheryl, she enjoyed bigger popularity compared to Iris, who almost never shows her face. Hearing this, Iris could only groan in frustration. 「But Big Sister Iris never comes out of the church. Let’s visit the village from time to time」 Eclipse preached to the frustrated Iris. 「No way, there are people there......」「They are good people, though?」「That’s not the problem」 When judging people as good or bad it almost sounds like she has a problem with their attitude. But Iris was scared of talking with strangers, no matter their disposition. In other words, the problem lied with Iris, not with people themselves. Iris being Iris had an unshakable shut-in disposition. 「You’re a NEET. So I conclude」「Why are you sounding so cool? You are just an embodiment of sloth」 Marion and Punigami mercilessly made fun of her. Hearing the truth from a scary dragon and slime, Iris crawled under the blanket to escape reality. There she fell asleep until the lunch of the next day. As she opened her eyes, she saw no one else on the bed. Strangely chilly. Her breathing turned white. Iris, wrapped in a blanket, decided to go out the church. There she saw a pure white expanse of snow. 「Waaa....」 She leaked a voice of admiration. So surprisingly beautiful, chilling on the skin, sparkling, with a soft feeling coming from her feet. After all, this was the first time for Iris to witness snow. The previously green hill, houses’ roofs, the forest, everything was white until the very horizon. The change was even more impressive compared to the time when the lake appeared. For the world to change so much in a day was truly impressive. Even in such a frozen world, the kids were as active as ever. They threw balls of snow at each other as they played. Of course, Eclipse and Muriel were among them. 「Seems fun.....」 Or so she muttered but didn’t have the courage to join them. She just watched from the top of the hill. At that time, a body of snow appeared and climbed the hill. It was Punigami with Sheryl and Marion on his back. 「Good morning, Iris-sama! Please look, it’s snow! 」「I’m here to pick you up. You aren’t going to miss on this too, right? 」 Apparently, they came here to bring Iris down. Iris wanted to go. She wanted to join the game of throwing snowballs. But, she was scared. 「.......No, I mean. I’ll tactfully decline」「What are you saying?! At this rate, your body will merge with the church. Go and play with everyone, at least today! 」「That’s right. It’s the first snow. Pure white. It’s only this beautiful now, it’ll swiftly melt, mix with the mud, and become dirty. Let’s go! 」「Pu-ni!」 Sheryl and Marion pulled her by the hands with Punigami pushing from behind. 「Wa, wait, wait! I’ll wait! Just let me change! 」「Then hurry up! Ah, I’ll help you change myself! 」「Foul play, Marion-san! I’ll participate too! 」 Then, Iris was dragged into the church stripped of her pajamas and changed into her usual attire. After that, Punigami brought her down the hill before she noticed. Marion followed closely behind. Must be noted that Sheryl tried to catch up but stumbled midway and rolled down like a ball. Gaining in size, she easily overtook Punigami and rolled into the village. Right where the kids played. 「No ja! Here comes a giant snowball! That’s cheating! 」「You can’t use such big snowball in a snowball fight!」 Eclipse stood before the giant snowball and 「Ei」held out her hands. The giant snowball’s momentum was but a trifle for Eclipse. It stopped easily. Then it broke in halves and Sheryl came out with spinning eyes. 「Wa, the snowball gave birth to Sheryl」「Since she was born from a snowball, let’s call her Yukiko-chan」「Hie......don’t casually rename people......」 Sheryl didn’t forget to complain despite her spinning eyes. She seemed to be okay. 「Sheryl as clumsy as always」「Punii.....」 Iris and Punigami sighed in exasperation. 「Well, humans aren’t as strong as we are.....can’t help it, I suppose?」 Or so Marion tried to defend her. However the kids around them 「Sheryl-sama is a role model of a human being」「We aren’t that clumsy」didn’t share her sentiment. 「H-How cruel.....」 Sheryl unsteadily got up with teary-eyes. 「Well then. Since Iris-sama was safely delivered let’s restart the snow fight......Iris-sama, you can’t just hide behind Punigami」「Eh, but......」 There were unknown children besides the usual members present here. She thought she gathered enough courage on top of the hill, but when it came to it there wasn’t enough. 「Iris’ shut-in disposition is troublesome.....ei!」 Without any warning, Muriel smashed a snowball into Iris’ face. 「.....What are you doing......ei!」 Then Muriel threw again. Eventually it escalated into a skirmish. 「I see, so this is a snowball fight. Ei, ei!」「Iris, I’ll join your side!」 Marion too started throwing snowballs at Muriel. 「Then I shall be Muriel’s ally」「So Punigami-sama is Iris-sama’s comrade? Then I shall assist Muriel-sama」 In that manner, the two camps engaged in snowball warfare. Although there were no rules about winning or losing established. For now, hitting an opponent with a snowball was good and getting hit was bad. Nevertheless, it was fun. Iris forgot about her desire to shut herself in and had fun playing with snowballs. When the sun set, everyone sat on the ground exhausted. The snow has been completely trampled and there was no that fluffy feeling anymore. Perhaps it’s time to go back, thought Iris when Jessica came. 「Arara, Everyone played to their heart’s content. I made some butter roasted potatoes. Is someone interested? 」 As expected of Jessica. Nice timing indeed. Of course,「Me!」 everyone raised their hands. Everyone happily ate their share. With this, Iris completely accepted the children – or so everyone thought. How could I do something so grand, that night Iris trembled under the blanket. 「Big Sister Iris........you only had a snowball fight.......」 Even Eclipse felt a wave of exasperation. 「My, my. Can’t be a Guardian Deity like that. This Mistress is essential to this village」 They said many things, but Iris wasted too much mental power interacting with strangers. She decided to stay inside for at least three days to recover her mental energy.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 8, "inserted_lines_src": 1, "inserted_lines_trg": 1 }
ゴブリンロードは、さっきまで俺たちがいたところまでやってきた。まるで痕跡に気づいたかのように足を止める。ゴブリンは人間の小児ほどの大きさだ。だが、ゴブリンロードの成人男性の1.5倍ほど身長がある。胴も足も、腕も太く、ゴブリンというよりオークに近い。アリオとジョッシュはカタカタと震えている。ゴブリンは雑魚だ。1対1ならFランク冒険者でも苦戦しない。だが、ゴブリンロードとなると、1対1ではBランク冒険者でも危険である。 Fランク冒険者がいくら束になっても勝てる相手ではない。ちなみにFランクは新人、Eは新人を抜け出したころ。 Dで一人前、Cで熟練、Bは一流、Aランクは超一流だ。俺のSランクは歴史的に見ても、ごくわずかな人物しか与えられていないランクだ。俺はアリオたちに向けて小声で言う。「落ち着け」「だが......」 Fランクパーティーなら、ゴブリンロードに遭遇した時点で全滅必至だ。だが、俺はSランクなのだ。俺は世界を滅ぼしかねない魔神王をソロで倒している。俺にとって、ゴブリンロードごときは脅威ではない。「いざとなれば、俺に任せてアリオたちは逃げろ」「そんな、俺たちだけ逃げるなんてできません......」 10年前にも似たような会話を交わした。少しだけ懐かしい気分になった。ゴブリンロードは俺たちが近くにいることには気付いているようだ。ゴブリン種は総じて鼻がいい。俺たちの臭いに気づいたのだろう。だが、どこにいるかはわからないらしい。目はあまりよくないのかもしれない。大声でわめきながら、武器を振り回している。大きな鋼鉄のこん棒だ。坑道の壁に当たって、大きな音が鳴る。岩が砕けて散らばった。俺は注意深く、それを観察する。ゴブリンロードぐらいはすぐ倒せる。だが、怪しい。大きな群れを率いるゴブリンロードともなると、それなりに賢いものだ。だが、このゴブリンロードに知性が感じられない。近隣の村から家畜を少しずつ盗むというのがまずおかしく思える。知性の無いゴブリンならば全部盗まないとおかしい。 30匹もいる群れだ。家畜どころか、村人ごと全員さらわれていても、不思議はない。まるで、小さなゴブリンの群れだと誤認させたがっているように見える。それに、坑道の入り口に見張りを置いていた。組織としてゴブリンたちを運用しようとしている証左だ。目の前の、苛立って壁を殴りつけているゴブリンロードにできるとは思えない。恐らく、さらに背後に何かいる気がする。できればそいつを逃したくない。だからじっと俺は観察した。ゴブリンロードが侵入者を仕留めきれないと判断したら出てくるかもしれない。もしくはゴブリンロードが報告しに戻るかもしれない。それを待った。「GRAAA......AAA?」吠えていたゴブリンロードが一瞬固まる。坑道の入り口方向から、何者かがまっすぐに駆けてきた。速い。一気に間合いをつめると、ゴブリンロードに突きを繰り出す。獣人の少女だ。なかなかの戦士に見える。細身の剣を的確にゴブリンロードの急所へと繰り出している。「GAAA!!」巨体に見合わぬ速さで、ゴブリンロードは反応する。巨大な鋼鉄のこん棒を木の枝であるかのように操って、少女の突きをすべていなした。「雑魚が邪魔するなであります!」少女は、巧みに間合いを詰めたり広げたりしてゴブリンロードを翻弄する。だが、ゴブリンロードも、見事に対応して見せる。両者とも致命的な一撃を与えられていない。膠着状態に陥った。「すげぇ......」アリオが、小さな声でつぶやいた。その瞬間、少女の耳がかすかに動く。「そこにいる奴ら! 逃げられるなら今のうちに逃げるでありますよ!」獣人だけあって、耳が非常にいいようだ。「アリオ、ジョッシュ、とりあえず走れ」「お、おう」「わかりました」「一応奇襲には注意しろ」「う、うん」アリオたちは側道から外に向けて駆けだしていく。「GAA!」ゴブリンロードはアリオたちを追おうとするが、「させない!」少女が牽制して防いだ。俺は少女に向かって言う。「手伝おうか?」「逃げなかったでありますか!」「逃げる必要がないからな」「好きにすればいいであります。だが邪魔はするな!」少女はゴブリンロードと真剣な表情で向きあっている。邪魔をするなと言われたら、見守るべきだろう。冒険者には色々な事情がある。手を出すのはやばくなってからでいい。しばらく少女とゴブリンロードは互角の戦いを繰り広げた。その力量は互角だった。差を分けたのは武器の差だ。 ――パキッシ軽い音がなって、少女の剣が砕けた。鋼鉄の巨大なこん棒と何度も打ち合っていた。そうなるのは必然だ。武器を失い、少女は防戦一方に追い込まれる。それも武器で受けることすらできない。すべてかわさねばならない。俺はもう一度問うた。「手伝おうか?」「いらないのです! お前もいいから逃げるのですよ」腰から短刀を抜いて戦い始める。だが、これまでの剣ですら倒すことが叶わなかったのだ。短刀が届くはずがない。慌てて少女は、距離をとる。少女が直前にいた場所でこん棒が空を切った。「ぐぅ......」悔しそうに少女がうめく。もう限界だ。少女が倒されるのも、時間の問題だろう。「もう尋ねない。勝手にやらせてもらう」「いいから逃げるでありま――」「もともと、ここには俺が先着だ」そういうと、俺は背中の剣に手をやった。	The Goblin Lord was now standing where we had been a moment ago. It had stopped as if having detected our presence. Goblins were about the size of human children. However, Goblin Lords were nearly . times larger than the average man. Its chest and arms were thick, and it was overall closer to an orc than a goblin. Ario and Josh were shaking visibly. Goblins were nothing. If it was one on one, then even an F Rank Adventurer would have an easy time. However, Goblin Lords could pose a threat to even B Rank Adventurers. No matter how united they were, F Rank Adventurers did not have much chance. By the way, F Rankers are newcomers. E just barely escapes that status. At D, you are a full-fledged Adventurer. B means you are one of the best. A is for the highest elite. As for the S Rank, only a few people in history have ever been given it. I turned to Ario and Josh and whispered. “Calm down.” “But...” An F Rank party was likely to be annihilated the moment they bumped into a Goblin Lord. However, I was an S Rank. I soloed a Devil King who almost destroyed the entire world. A mere Goblin Lord was not a threat to me. “If it comes to it, run away and leave the rest to me.” “What, we can’t leave you here...” This conversation sounded like the one years ago. I felt a little nostalgic. It seemed like the Goblin Lord noticed that we were close by. Goblins tended to have a sharp sense of smell. He must have smelled us from where he was. But it looked like he wasn’t sure of our exact location yet. Perhaps his eyes were not the best. It roared loudly and swung its weapon around. It was a large steel club. It smashed into the walls of the mines with loud crashing sounds. The rock walls crumbled. I watched this carefully. I could defeat a Goblin Lord quite easily. But something about all of this was suspicious. A Goblin Lord who led a large group must be intelligent. But I didn’t sense much intelligence in this one. It didn’t seem likely that this one would have thought to slowly take livestock from surrounding villages. A stupid goblin would have taken them all at once. This pack had over thirty goblins. Not only could they have taken all of the animals, but they could have destroyed the entire village. It seemed like they wanted humans to believe that they were a small pack. Besides, there had even been guards stationed at the entrance. This was proof that the goblins were being managed as an organized group. And that did not seem like something that this Goblin Lord, who was banging against the walls in frustration, would do. There must be someone else pulling the strings. If possible, I did not want that person to escape. And so I watched. Perhaps the person would come out after seeing that the Goblin Lord was not able to stop the invaders. Or the Goblin Lord would return to make a report. I waited. “GRAAAA...AAA?” The Goblin Lord stopped roaring and froze. Something was running straight towards it from the entrance of the mine. It was fast. The distance between the Goblin Lord and newcomer was closed in an instant, and a thin weapon thrust out repeatedly. It was a beastkin girl. And she looked like quite the warrior. Her thin blade moved with precision as it shot out towards the Goblin Lord’s vital areas. “GAAA!!” The Goblin Lord reacted with speed that was surprising for its size. He wielded his giant club as if it were a twig, and blocked all of the girl’s attacks. “Do not hinder me, weakling!” The girl said derisively as she expertly moved in and moved out. However, the Goblin Lord was handling it well. Neither was able to deal a decisive blow. They were in a stalemate. “Amazing...” Ario whispered. At that instant, the girl’s ears twitched. “You there! Escape from here while you still can!” As a beastfolk, her ears were very good. “Ario, Josh. You two get out of here.” “Oh, okay.” “Understood.” “But be careful of ambushes.” “Ye-yes.” Ario and Josh dashed out from the side tunnel. “GAA!” The Goblin Lord tried to chase after them. “I won’t let you!” The girl said as she stopped his advance. I turn to her and say: “Do you need help?” “So you did not run!” “I had no need to run.” “Then do as you like. But do not get in my way!” She said seriously as she faced the Goblin Lord. If she didn’t want me to bother her, it was probably better to just watch. Adventurer’s had their reasons. I would make a move if things got dangerous. The battle between the girl and Goblin Lord continued for a while. They were evenly matched. The difference between them was their weapons. –Crack. There was a small ring and then the girl’s sword shattered. It had clashed with the giant steel club many times. It was an obvious outcome. Having lost her weapon, the girl was forced to fight defensively. She could not block with a weapon and had to dodge every attack. I asked her again. “Do you need help?” “I do not! Perhaps you should run away now.” She pulled out a short sword from her belt and continued to fight. However, she had not been able to defeat him with her original sword. There was no chance that this short sword would reach it. The girl frantically jumped back. The steel club crashed into the ground where she had been a moment ago. “Gggrr...” She groaned angrily. She was done. It was only a matter of time before she was killed. “I won’t ask you anymore. I will do as I please.” “I don’t care. But you should run away...” “Actually, I was here first.” I said and put a hand on the sword on my back.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 4, "inserted_lines_src": 0, "inserted_lines_trg": 1 }
何かというと健康の概念をひねったものでここで私は健康という言葉が含む意味合いの新しい定義を試みていますどんな大学にでもあるヘルスクリニックですが患者が来る理由だけが違います環境衛生に関する心配事のため訪れ改善のための行動案を書いた処方箋を持ち帰るのです自分の体に関する相談をして治療薬の処方箋をもらうクリニックとは違いますこれは医師が宣誓する『ヒポクラテスの誓い』から抜粋した大変便利な言葉です「魂の大部分は身体の外側に宿り内側を治療するには外側の治療が必要である」この言葉は論点としての私の狙いを表しています健康とは何なのかを再度定義しなおすチャンスなのですなぜなら健康が内面的で細分化され、個人的なもので薬でどうにかなるという考え方はその大半が間違いだからですここでフィリップ・ランドリガンの最近の研究を使って健康の概念に別の角度から光を当てたいと思いますランドリガンはマンハッタンとニューヨーク地区の小児科医の大半を訪れ診察中どの病気を診ていたのか記録を取りました 80〜90%の診察は 5つの疾病が占めていました一番多かったのは喘息 2番目は発育不全 3番目は過去10〜15年で 400倍に増えた稀少な小児がん 4番目と5番目は小児肥満と糖尿病系の問題でしたさてこの5つ全てに共通する点は何でしょう? 環境です環境の関与が急増していたのです医者は細菌の扱いの訓練を受けていますがそれとは別物です健康の定義が違うのですここでいう「健康」は外的で周りと共通し対策が可能であるという大きな利点があります遺伝的に予め決まっている内的な個人的なものとは違いますクリニックの客は忍耐強いという意味を含む patient「患者」ではなく impatient「非患者」と呼ばれます地域や環境衛生を改善する法が施行されるまで待てないからです大学でそういった人たちを診ます学外オフィスも何か所か様々な場所にあり我々が晒されている環境問題を現場に身を置いて肌で感じられるようにしましたこのベルギーの学外診療所が気に入っています環状交差点で診察していましたまさにこの環状交差点こそが社会の変革を表すリーダー不在の社会運動を象徴しておりトップダウンで統制する赤信号式の交差点とは反対だからですもちろんこの場合環状交差点は人々が何の命令を受けずにその場で自ら下した数々の小さな決断のかたまりですからねそれでも当然ながら通過量はより多くそのくせ事故は少ない社会運動のモデルとして面白いでしょうクリニックで開発したものをお見せしますまずはオタマジャクシ役人の飼育「監視観察」とでも言いましょうかご説明するとオタマジャクシにその地域で住民が飲む水の質を決定する権限を持つ官僚の名前をつけて飼いますつまり水質を気にする「非患者」は関心のある水のサンプルの中で官僚オタマジャクシを育てるわけですクリニックからは道具をいくつか与えますブログやメールを書く時など身近に置くための容器ですそしてオタマジャクシの散歩装置夕方にペットのオタマジャクシを散歩させるための器具ですすると面白いことが起こりますーーオタマジャクシだから当たり前なのですがオタマジャクシは生物の中でも最も優れた生体感度を誇ります感覚によってはヒトの感覚と比べて何桁も優れた感度を持つためオタマジャクシは内分泌かく乱化学物質または環境ホルモンと呼ばれる一連の産業的有害物質に対し有意な生体反応を示しますペットのオタマジャクシを夕方散歩させることで-- こちらが実況写真です-- まず近所の人に言われるでしょう「何してるんですか?」ってするとオタマジャクシを紹介するはめになります名前の由来についても何をしてるのかとかまた当然ながらオタマジャクシの成長過程の観察しやすさヒトと同じ甲状腺ホルモンを持つことそんなことも説明するはめになりますするとご近所さんと次に会ったときには「例のオタマジャクシどうしてる?」って言われますよねでオタマジャクシと彼らをソーシャルネットワークで繋げます環境ヘルスクリニックにはソーシャルネットワークサイトがありますが人間の「非患者」用だけでなく人間以外の動物用にもあるんですよ人間と人間以外の両方ですもちろんこれらの環境ホルモンは乳がんや肥満の異常発生また女子の初潮年齢が 2.5年も低下したことやその他もろもろの関連する現象との因果関係が疑われていますねこのプログラムの頂点はもしオタマジャクシを行動・成長の記録をつけつつ育て上げることに成功した場合名前の元になった官僚に会いに行きオタマジャクシを紹介します観察してきた事実や証拠について話し合うんですプログラムをもう一つ紹介します私たちの活動について具体的にイメージしていただけるかと思います-- 尿サンプルの代わりにネズミのサンプルを出してもらうんです幸運にも台所の棚をネズミと共同で使ってる方いませんか? ネズミが家族にいらっしゃる方? あなたとてもラッキーですよネズミはおわかりかと思いますが典型的な実験用モデル生物です環境衛生のモデルにはさらに相応しいのです哺乳類としての生態だけでなく食べる物もヒトと大体同じだからですヒトと同じ環境ストレス要因の下で暮らしておりアスベストしかり鉛しかり何であれ晒されている物質も同じですまたヒトより行動範囲が制限されます対象の患者が晒されてきた汚染物質が家内にある除去が難しい生物由来のものか職業上のものかそれとも子供の頃受けたものかは特定できませんがネズミを見れば現状がわかるからですまずは目的に合ったネズミ用罠を作るところから始まりますこんな感じです環境ストレスへの対処はやっかいですよねどなたか抗うつ剤を飲まれてませんか? マンハッタンでは沢山の人が飲んでますネズミが自分でSSRIを飲むかどうか実験してみました ProzacにZoloft 黒いジェリービーンズに筋弛緩剤これ全部「非患者」が実際に摂っていたものですではネズミも抗うつ剤を自分で飲んだと思う人? どうですか? (聴講者:はい!もちろん!) どうしてわかったんですか? そう飲んだんですこれはウォッカ水溶液にジン水溶液このネズミはただの水と筋弛緩剤も好んでましたどなたか詳しい方いませんか? ウォッカ、ジン・・・ (聴講者:[聞き取り不可]) そう!そうですネズミをよくわかってらっしゃるアルコールも飲んだんです面白いことに真水と同じくらいだけウォッカも飲んだんですネズミはその後捕獲装置に入って捕まります古い携帯があっていいリサイクル方法ですクリニックに電話がかかってきてネズミを迎えにいきます血液のサンプルを採って血液や体毛を調べるという流れですここで健康を外的なものとして捉えることの大きな利点をご説明したいと思います私達の活動の一環で処方した製品がいくつかあるんですが医療的なモデルとは大きく異なります水質や空気の質を改善するための行動も理解したり変えようとする行動も同じ水を飲み空気を吸う誰もが恩恵にあずかることができますこの集合的効果全体的な行動の効果は実際皆に都合がいいように活かすことができますではクリニックで出している処方例を一つご紹介します No Parkと呼ばれています水質改善のために処方したものです「非患者」は水質や空気の質に強い関心を持つ人が多くそこで私たちは消火栓に目をつけました消火栓の前は駐車禁止なのでアスファルトを撤去し人工的に緑地を作り雨水を浸透させようという処方ですどういうことかというとご存知の方も多いと思いますがニューヨーク=ニュージャージー港では現在最大の汚染の元は特定の汚染源からではなく大規模な工場などでもなく GE(ゼネラル・エレクトリック)でもなく巨大な道路ネットワークなのですこの道路の表面は不浸透性なのでブレーキ板から出るカドミウム等の神経毒や油にまみれた炭化水素廃棄物が嵐が起きるたび古いインフラのせいで河口にどっと流されますここからいいことは余り起こりませんこの汚染物質が港にたどり着くのを遮断しようというささやかな対策がこれです市内のあちこちの街区で「非患者」達の手によって色々と工夫を凝らして造られています大体の目安なんですが一つの街区あたりだいたい2〜3つの消火栓がありますここのアスファルトを除いて人工的に雨水が浸透するような緑地を作っても緊急車両停車位置としての駐車を防ぐためではありません当たり前のことですが消防車は停車していいのですから幾つか植物が潰れますが問題なしですまた再生しますでももしこれをすべての消火栓一つ一つにつきもれなく造ったら緊急事態というものの新しい定義ができるのではないでしょうか消防車が停車していない 99%の時間は汚染物質を浸透させるのです同時に二酸化炭素の対策にもなり空気中に舞い上がる汚染物質も隔離することができます全部合わせれば 7インチの降水量や 100年に一回規模の嵐並みの悪天候が訪れても道路から出る汚染物質が河口に流されるのを食い止めることができるのですこういった小さな行動でも集合すれば地域の環境衛生の改善に大きな効果を及ぼすことができますもっと大がかりな例を紹介しましょう気候変動の危機が明らかにした問題自体は二次的ですそれよりも油断ならないさらに蔓延している危機がありますそれは行動の作用に関するものつまり私たちが何をするかという問題です地元産のレタスを買うようにする省エネ電球に切り替える制限速度を守るタイヤを定期的に変えるこういう行動も気候危機の規模に比べるとどれも何だか足りないように感じてしまいませんかこの写真の核シェルター憶えていますね一つの時代の象徴として面白いですよね現代の気候危機に対する核シェルターとは何でしょうか? 当時は市民が一気に動員されました教会学校病院一般住居-- 誰も彼もがものの数か月で核シェルターを作り上げましたこれらのシェルターは核の危機という漠然としたしかし全体に共通する脅威への市民全体の反応を象徴するものとして今も残っています気候危機に対する核シェルターは私に言わせればこんなのやこんなのです何かというと都市型集約農業施設ですニューヨーク大学の私の研究所のビルでもうすぐ出来上がりますこの設備が何をするのかというととても単純なアイディアですマンハッタンで排出される 80~90%の二酸化炭素は建物から出てくるものですので農業で使う商売用のグリーンハウスと同様建物から出る二酸化炭素-- 二酸化炭素濃度の濃い空気が必ず都市農業施設を通るように設計してそこから酸素の豊富な空気を供給する仕組みです屋根の上はあまり使えませんもともとそういう造りではないので使うのは脚のほうです石造りの壁や柱にこの機能を全て集中しますオープンソースのハードウェアを使って皆で力を合わせて組み立てますこちらは4分の一サイズの試作品ですスペインで実際に機能していましたこれが完成図成功を願います NYUの神の思し召すままさてここでお見せしたいのは-- 実際その部品の一つでここ最近試験中なのですが-- 太陽光煙突というものでニューヨークのあちこちに現在17本あり受動的に空気を吸いあげますこの仕組みおわかりですよね暖かい空気は上昇しますから黒いプラスティックを建物の側面に付けると太陽光で暖まり受動的気流が生まれますここで実際には標準的なHVACフィルターを上部に取り付けますこれで空気中の炭素微粒子の約95%を取り除くことができます黒色炭素というのはオゾンを合わせると地球温室効果の原因の約半分に値しますなぜかというと雪の表面に付着し反射率を変えてしまうほかさらに大気の透過性も変えてしまうからです炭素微粒子とはそのほかにもあなたのきれいなピンク色の肺にこびりつくすすでもありますいいところがありませんし燃焼そのものからではなく不完全燃焼から発生しますこの炭素微粒子は我らが太陽光煙突を通すと実に約95%まで除去できるんです溜まったら生徒と一緒に取り出して実はこの黒色炭素を再び取り出します空気中から除去したすすを利用して鉛筆を造っていますこれがその煙突の一つです立てたのは学生です鉛筆を非常によく使う人たちですねさてここでもう2点だけ他の装置をお見せしましょうというのも人間の大きな課題の一つが自然の生態と人間の関係を再度イメージすることだからです今までお話ししたような個人的健康をひねった考え方を通してだけでなく私たちの身近に共生する動物たちを通してです人間だけでなく動物も移住してきてます実際都市への移住というと今ではかつて野生で知られていた動物の都市中心部への移動も意味するからですセントラルパークのコヨーテゴワナス運河の鯨ウェストチェスター郡のヘラジカ先進国世界のあちこちで起きている現象です生息地を失ったせいもあるでしょうが人の住む都市が以前より少しだけ住みやすくなったことと私たちが造る緑の空間一つ一つが人間以外の生物にも共生を誘うからでもあります今まで私たちはどうしたらそれをうまく造れるか面白くできるかという想像力に欠けていましたここで技術的なインターフェイスを幾つかお見せしたいと思います通称OOZと言って動物園のzooを逆に綴ったもので檻が存在しません動物とのヒトとの関係性の改革を試みたものですこれは鳥とコミュニケーションする技術ですこんな形をしています鳥がとまると録音した音声が流れます実際ウィットニー美術館内に 6点ありまして一つ一つが違うメッセージを持つ違った音声を流しますこんな音が流れます録音音声:今から言う通りにしてくださいあっちで健康食バーを買ってください鳥のエサと呼ばれるものです買ってきてばらまきなさいよしあなたいい人ですねナタリー・ジェレミジェンコ:いかがでしょうかこういう装置がいくつかあり鳥はその間を飛び回ることができます都市に住むごく普通の鳩です初期の実験で調べていたのはどの音声が人から協力的行動を引き出すことができたかなのですが-- 100対1で一番効果があるという結論に達したのがこれです: 録音音声:カチカチカチこれは鳥インフルエンザの遺伝子が命にかかわるヒトインフルエンザに突然変異する音ですどうしたら変異がペースダウンするでしょうか? 健康な鳥の群れの生息を増やし生態系全体の多様性を増やすこと私たち鳥が健康でハッピーで食べ物に困らないことはあなた達人間のためでもあるんですよしたがってあなた方がお持ちの栄養源を独り占めしないで分けてくださいつまりごはんを私たち鳥にも分けてってことですナタリー:これ効果あったんですよ本当のことですしねさてお見せしたい最後のプロジェクトは魚用のインターフェイスです最近始まったばかりなんですが-- 建築家連合の素敵な協力者の方々のお陰で正式には来週始動予定です-- 魚と意思疎通すると言われてもピンとこないかもしれませんがそのための装置を作りました見た目はこんな感じです: 水面に浮くブイ水上・水面下に3フィートずつの長さで魚がその下で泳ぐと光ります実際にはこんな感じです他にも機能があります上のライトは ―船酔いさせちゃったらごめんなさい― 上のライトは実は水質表示もします水中の溶存酸素量が低いと赤酸素濃度が上がると青/緑に変わります魚にショートメールを送ることもできます名刺も用意してあるのでメールしてみてください返事もきますよブイにメールが届くと2回光ります受信したという意味ですでも一番人気はブロンクス川に配置したブイですそこは過去250年間で初めてニューヨークに巣を作るという奇行をやってのけたビーバーが観れる場所ですビーバーからの最新ニュースビーバーからのニュースを購読したり話しかけたりできますここで考えたいのですが今のは自然の生態系との交流方法をとりわけ誰が情報源でどこに情報を置くか誰が理解できるかそしてそこから何ができるかを再定義したインターフェイスですこの場合チューイングガムやドリトスなどポケット内のものを投げ捨てたり魚に与えるよりもいいことができます-- アイスランドの市内のど真ん中私が関わってきた水場があってそこの水質汚染の最大の原因は道路からの汚染じゃなくて実は人間が魚や鳥に与えようと投げ入れたパンなんですそういうことをするよりもと開発したのが魚のエサになる魚スティックですおいしいですよ異種間に共通するおいしさです人間にも人間以外にもおいしいですでも実はキレート剤も入っていて栄養学的にも餌として適していますドリトスなんかと違ってね動物たちと交流したいなと思ったときいつでも ―この欲求ってあのよくある「動物にエサをやらないでください」のサインと同じくらい程度にはよく起こる気持ちですよねニューヨーク市では一つの公園につき3つはあるサインですイエローストーン自然公園では「動物にエサを与えないで」のサインの数がエサを与えたいと思う動物の数を上回っているくらいですしかしその行為というか交流方法を新たに書き直すことでつまり適切な栄養分を含む食べ物を与える機会に転換することで私たち人間が使い果たしてしまった食糧源を増やし魚の数も増やすという目的に適っていますキレート剤にも意味があります医薬品に使われるキレート剤同様このエサに含まれるキレート剤にはこの特定の生息地に棲む魚の体内に溜まっている生物濃縮された重金属やPCBに結びついて無害な塩として体外に排出させる効果があります錯塩となって生体反応性を失うので有毒物質が生体に吸収されるのを効果的に防げるわけですしかしこのやりとりつまり交流方法を再定義し全体運動というか全体的改善運動に変えることは反対側にあるハドソン川で行われる PCBの浚渫活動とは非常に異なる取り組み方ですこの浚渫活動は 30年にもわたる法制化と司法の争いの結果としてスーパーファンド法に従ってGE の負担で世界最大規模の浚渫作業を実施しています浚渫した後の汚染物はおそらくペンシルバニア州か最寄りの第三世界の国に輸送されてそこで新たに有毒廃棄物として捨てられるのでしょう単なる汚染の移し替えは環境問題への答えにはなりませんが今まで人間は典型的にこの枠組みの中で動いてきましたしかし新しい技術現存する新しいインタラクティブな技術を用いて意思疎通の方法を再定義し隔離され個別化されたやりとりだけでなく合わせれば何かの意味を持つ集合的で全体的な活動としてデザインする機会を利用することで重要な環境問題の幾つかに対する本当の意味での対処が始められるはずですありがとうございました	Because, really, what I'm trying to do now is redefine what counts as health. It's a clinic like a health clinic at any other university, except people come to the clinic with environmental health concerns, and they walk out with prescriptions for things they can do to improve environmental health, as opposed to coming to a clinic with medical concerns and walking out with prescriptions for pharmaceuticals. It's a handy-dandy quote from Hippocrates of the Hippocratic oath that says, "The greater part of the soul lays outside the body, treatment of the inner requires treatment of the outer." But that suggests the issue that I'm trying to get at here, that we have an opportunity to redefine what is health. Because this idea that health is internal and atomized and individual and pharmaceutical is largely an error. And I would use this study, a recent study by Philip Landrigan, to motivate a different view of health, where he went to most of the pediatricians in Manhattan and the New York area and logged what they spent their patient hours on. 80 to 90 percent of their time was spent on five things. Number one was asthma, number two was developmental delays, number three was 400-fold increases in rare childhood cancers Number four and five were childhood obesity and diabetes-related issues. So all of those -- what's common about all of those? The environment is implicated, radically implicated, right. This is not the germs that medicos were trained to deal with; this is a different definition of health, health that has a great advantage because it's external, it's shared, we can do something about it, as opposed to internal, genetically predetermined or individualized. People who come to the clinic are called, not patients, but impatients, because they're too impatient to wait for legislative change to address local and environmental health issues. And I meet them at the University, I also have a few field offices that I set up in various places in some of the environmental challenges we face. I like this one from the Belgian field office, where we met in a roundabout, precisely because the roundabout iconified the headless social movement that informs much social transformation, as opposed to the top-down control of red light traffic intersections. In this case, of course, the roundabout with that micro-decisions being made in situ by people not being told what to do. But, of course, affords greater throughput, fewer accidents, and an interesting model of social movement. Some of the things that the monitoring protocols have developed: this is the tadpole bureaucrat protocol, or keeping tabs, if you will. What they are is an addition of tadpoles that are named after a local bureaucrat whose decisions affect your water quality. So an impatient concerned for water quality would raise a tadpole bureaucrat in a sample of water in which they're interested. And we give them a couple of things to do that, to help them do companion animal devices while they're blogging and doing their email. This is a tadpole walker to take your tadpole walking in the evening. And the interesting thing that happens -- because we're using tadpoles, of course, because they have the most exquisite biosenses that we have, several orders of magnitude more sensitive than some of our senses for sensing, responding in a biologically meaningful way, to that whole class of industrial contaminants we call endocrine disruptors or hormone emulators. But by taking your tadpole out for a walk in the evening -- there's a few action shots -- your neighbors are likely to say, "What are you doing?" And then you have to introduce your tadpole and who it's named after. You have to explain what you're doing and how the developmental events of a tadpole are, of course, very observable and they use the same T3-mediated hormones that we do. And so next time your neighbor sees you they'll say, "How is that tadpole doing?" And you can let them social network with your tadpole, because the Environmental Health Clinic has a social networking site for, not only impatients, humans, but non-humans, social networking for humans and non-humans. And of course, these endocrine disruptors are things that are implicated in the breast cancer epidemic, the obesity epidemic, the two and a half year drop in the average age of onset of puberty in young girls and other related things. The culmination of this is if you've successfully raised your tadpole, observing the behavioral and developmental events, you will then go and introduce your tadpole and discuss the evidence that you've seen. Another quick protocol -- and I'm going to go through these quickly, but just to give you the material sense of what we're doing here -- instead of asking you for urine samples, I'll ask you for a mouse sample. Anyone here lucky enough to share, to cohabit with a mouse -- a domestic partnership with mice? Very lucky. Mice, of course, are the quintessential model organism. They're even better models of environmental health, because not only the same mammalian biology, but they share your diet, largely. They share your environmental stressors, the asbestos levels and lead levels, whatever you're exposed to. And they're geographically more limited than you are, because we don't know if you've been exposed to persistent organic pollutants in your home, or occupationally or as a child. Mice are a very good representation. So it starts by building a better mousetrap, of course. This is one of them. Coping with environmental stressors is tricky. Is anybody here on antidepressants? There's a lot of people in Manhattan are. And we were testing if the mice would also self-administer SSRIs. So this was Prozac, this was Zoloft, this was a black jellybean and this was muscle relaxant, all of which were the medications that the impatient was taking. So do you think the mice self-administered antidepressants? What's the -- How did you know that? They did. This was vodka and solution, gin and solution. This guy also liked plain water and the muscle relaxant. Where's our expert? Vodka, gin -- Yes. Yes. You know your mice well. They did, yes. So they drank as much vodka as they did plain water, which was interesting. Then of course, it goes into the entrapment device. There's an old cellphone in there -- a good use for old cellphones -- which dials the clinic, we go and pick up the mouse. We take the blood sample and do the blood work and hair work on the mice. And I want to sort of point out the big advantage of framing health in this external way. But we do have a few prescription products through this. It's very different from the medical model. Anything you do to improve your water quality or air quality, or to understand it or to change it, the benefits are enjoyed by anyone you share that water quality or air quality with. And that aggregating effect, that collective action effect, is actually something we can use to our advantage. So I want to show you one prescription product in the clinic called the No Park. This is a prescription to improve water quality. Many impatients are very concerned for water quality and air quality. What we do is we take a fire hydrant, a "no parking" space associated with a fire hydrant, and we prescribe the removal of the asphalt to create an engineered micro landscape, to create an infiltration opportunity. Because, many of you will know, that we have on the New York, New Jersey harbor right now is no longer the point sources, no longer the big polluters, no longer the GEs, but that massive network of roads, [those] impervious surfaces, that collect all that cadmium neurotoxin that comes from your brake liners or the oily hydrocarbon waste in every single storm event and medieval infrastructure washes it straight into the estuary system. That doesn't do a lot of good. These are little opportunities to intercept those pollutants before they enter the harbor, and they're produced by impatients on various city blocks in some very interesting ways. I just want to say it was sort of a rule of thumb though, there's about two or three fire hydrants on every city block. By creating engineered micro landscapes to infiltrate in them, we don't prevent them from being used as emergency vehicle parking spaces, because, of course, a firetruck can come and park there. They flatten a few plants. No big deal, they'll regenerate. But if we did this in every single -- every fire hydrant we could redefine the emergency. That 99 percent of the time when a firetruck is not parking there, it's infiltrating pollutants. It's also increasing fixing CO2s, sequestering some of the airborne pollutants. these smaller interceptions could actually infiltrate all the roadborne pollution that now runs into the estuary system, up to a seven inch rain event, up to a hundred-year storm. So these are small actions that can amount to a significant effect to improve local environmental health. This is one of the more ambitious ones. What the climate crisis has revealed to us is a secondary, more insidious and more pervasive crisis, which is the crisis of agency, which is what to do. Somehow buying a local lettuce, changing a light bulb, driving the speed limit, changing your tires regularly, doesn't seem sufficient in the face of climate crisis. And this is an interesting icon that happened -- you remember these: fallout shelters. What is the fallout shelter for the climate crisis? This was civic mobilization. Churches, school groups, hospitals, private residents -- everyone built one of these in a matter of months. And they still remain as icons of civic response in the face of shared, uncertain, collective threat. Fallout shelter for the climate crisis, I would say, looks something like this, or this, which is an intensive urban agriculture facility that's due to go on my lab building at NYU. What it does is a very simple idea of taking -- 80 to 90 percent of the CO2 produced in Manhattan is building related -- we take, just like a commercial greenhouse, we take the CO2 from the building -- CO2-enriched air -- we force it through the urban agriculture facility, and then we resupply oxygen-enriched air. You can't actually build much on a roof, they're not designed for that. So it's on legs, so it focuses all the load on the masonry walls and the columns. It's built as a barn raising, using open source hardware. This is the quarter-scale prototype that was functioning in Spain. This is what it will look like, fingers crossed, NYU willing. And what I want to show you is -- actually this is one of the components of it that we've just recently been testing -- which is a solar chimney -- we have got 17 of them now put around New York at the moment -- that passively draws air up. You understand a solar chimney. Hot air rises. You put a bit of black plastic on the side of a building, it'll heat up, and you'll get passive airflow. What we do is actually put a standard HVAC filter on the top of that. That actually removes about 95 percent of the carbon black, that stuff that, with ozone, is responsible for about half of global warming's effects, because it changes, it settles on the snow, it changes the reflectors, it changes the transmission qualities of the atmosphere. Carbon black is that grime that otherwise lodges in your pretty pink lungs, and it's associated with. It's not good stuff, and it's from inefficient combustion, not from combustion itself. When we put it through our solar chimney, we remove actually about 95 percent of that. And then I swap it out with the students and actually re-release that carbon black. And we make pencils the length of which measures the grime that we've pulled out of the air. Here's one of them that we have up now. Here's who put them up and who are avid pencil users. Okay, so I want to show you just two more interfaces, because I think one of our big challenges is re-imagining our relationship to natural systems, not only through this model of twisted personalized health, but through the animals with whom we cohabit. We are not alone; the animals are moving in. In fact, urban migration now describes the movement of animals formerly known as wild into urban centers. You know, coyote in Central Park, a whale in the Gowanus Canal, elk in Westchester County. It's happening all over the Developed World, probably for loss of habitat, but also because our cities are a little bit more livable than they have been. And every green space we create is an invitation for non-humans to cohabit with us. But we've kind of lacked imagination in how we could do that well or interestingly. And I want to show you a few of the technological interfaces that have been developed under the moniker of OOZ -- which is zoo backwards and without cages -- to try and reform that relationship. This is communication technology for birds. It looks like this. When a bird lands on it, they trigger a sound file. This is actually in the Whitney Museum, where there were six of them, each of which had a different argument on it, different sound file. They said things like this. Recorded Voice: Here's what you need to do. Go down there and buy some of those health food bars, the ones you call bird food, and bring it here and scatter it around. There's a good person. Natalie Jeremijenko: Okay. So there was several of these. The birds were able to jump from one to the other. These are just your average urban pigeon. And an early test which argument elicited cooperative behavior from the people below -- about a hundred to one decided that this was the argument that worked best on us. Recorded Voice: Tick, tick, tick. That's the sound of genetic mutations of the avian flu becoming a deadly human flu. Do you know what slows it down? Healthy sub-populations of birds, increasing biodiversity generally. It is in your interests that I'm healthy, happy, well-fed. Hence, you could share some of your nutritional resources instead of monopolizing them. That is, share your lunch. NJ: It worked, and it's true. The final project I'd like to show you is a new interface for fish that has just been launched -- it's actually officially launched next week -- You may not have known that you need to communicate with fish, but there is now a device for you to do so. It looks like this: buoys that float on the water, project three foot up, three foot down. When a fish swims underneath, a light goes on. This is what it looks like. So there's another function on here. This top light is -- I'm sorry if I'm making you seasick -- this top light is actually a water quality display that shifts from red, when the dissolved oxygen is low, to a blue/green, when its dissolved oxygen is high. And then you can also text the fish. So there's business cards down there that'll give you contact details. And they text back. When the buoys get your text, they wink at you twice to say, we've got your message. But perhaps the most popular has been that we've got another array of these boys in the Bronx River, where the first beaver -- to have moved in and built a lodge in New York in 250 years, hangs out. So updates from a beaver. You can subscribe to updates from him. You can talk to him. And what I like to think of is this is an interface that re-scripts how we interact with natural systems, specifically by changing who has information, where they have it, who can make sense of that information, and what you can do about it. In this case, instead of throwing chewing gum, or Doritos or whatever you have in your pocket at the fish -- There's a body of water in Iceland that I've been dealing with that's in the middle of the city, and the largest pollution burden on it is not the roadborne pollution, it's actually white bread from people feeding the fish and the birds. Instead of doing that actually, we've developed some fish sticks that you can feed the fish. They're delicious. They're cross-species delicious that is, delicious for humans and non-humans. But they also have a chelating agent in them. They're nutritionally appropriate, not like Doritos. And so every time that desire to interact with the animals, which is at least as ubiquitous as that sign: "Do not feed the animals." And there's about three of them on every New York City park. And Yellowstone National Park, there's more "do not feed the animals" signs than there are animals you might wish to feed. But in that action, that interaction, by re-scripting that, by changing it into an opportunity to offer food that is nutritionally appropriate, that could augment the nutritional resources that we ourselves have depleted for augmenting the fish population and also adding chelating agent, which, like any chelating agent that we use medicinally, binds to the bioaccumulated heavy metals and PCBs living in this particular habitat and allows them to pass it out as a harmless salt where it's complexed by a reactive, effectively removing it from bioavailability. But I wanted to say that interaction, re-scripting that interaction, into collective action, collective remediative action, very different from the approach that's being used on the other side on the Hudson River, where we're dredging the PCBs -- after 30 years of legislative and legal struggle, GE's paying for the dredging of the largest Superfund site in the world -- we're dredging it, and it'll probably get shipped off to Pennsylvania or the nearest Third World country, where it will continue to be toxic sludge. Displacement is not the way to deal with environmental issues. And that's typically the paradigm under which we've operated. By actually taking the opportunity that new technologies, new interactive technologies, present to re-script our interactions, to script them, not just as isolated, individuated interactions, but as collective aggregating actions that can amount to something, some of our important environmental challenges. 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俺とクラウドが立ち合いを終えた後は、クラウドがガドルスと、フィニアがライエルと立ち会う事になった。クラウドは連戦になるのだが、彼はパーティの中でも最もタフさを要求される役割を担っている。そのスタミナを見るための意味もあるらしい。ライエルはフィニアを相手にするとあって、クラウドほど乱暴にできないため、非常にやりにくそうだ。そんな様子を眺めていたところ、妙な光景が俺の視界に入った。「で、マクスウェル。『彼女』はどこにいったの?」「彼女って誰のことかのぅ?」「ハウメアとかいう、レイドの生まれ変わりと思しき女よ!」「私もその話は初めて聞いたわ。詳しく話してくれないかしら?」「いや、その......彼女はレイドの生まれ変わりなんかじゃ――」「いまさらそんな言い逃れが通用すると思う? タルカシールの屋敷に残された痕跡はごまかせないからね」「いや、あれは......」しどろもどろのマクスウェルと言うのは珍しいのだが、それを楽しんでばかりもいられない。その内容があまりにも問題だ。ここはどうにかして矛先を逸らさないといけないのだが、いい口実が思い浮かばない。マクスウェルは俺に向けてチラチラと視線を投げかけ助けを求めているが、俺だってそんな簡単に言い訳を考えつくモノではない。むしろ考えるのは苦手な方だ。俺は何とか引き延ばせと、手を左右に広げて伸ばせと言うジェスチャーを送るが、コルティナたちの追及も厳しい。「その、実はの......」血気盛んに詰め寄るコルティナももちろんだが、肩に手を置いてしっかりと捕まえ、うしろからにっこりと笑うマリアも恐ろしい。正直あそこに足を踏み込む勇気は、俺にはない。邪竜コルキス相手にした時より怖い。「レイドは......その......ああ、もう!」「なんだ、取込み中か?」ついにマクスウェルの我慢が限界に達し、俺も覚悟を決めそうになった瞬間、そこに飄々と割り込む声があった。緊迫した雰囲気をものともせず踏み込んできたのは......アストだった。がっしりした体型をすっぽりと覆い隠すローブ姿に、小脇に包みを抱えている。彼を初めて見るコルティナたちは胡散臭そうな視線を送っていた。「注文の品を持ってきたのだが、後にした方がいいか?」「いやいや、とんでもない。いいタイミングでしたぞ!」「ちょっと、何がいいタイミングなのよ? それに誰よ、この人」「知り合いの鍛冶師じゃ。いや、その話はまた後でな。ほら客人も来た事だし?」ビシッとアストを指さすマクスウェル。コルティナはまだ何か言いたそうだったが、マリアはさすがに客人の前で尋問を続けるほど傍若無人ではない。渋々と言う風情で、マクスウェルの肩から手を離し、マクスウェルに同意を示す。マリアがそういう態度を取ったので、コルティナも続けるという訳にはいかなくなった。「うっ、そ、それはもちろん。そうじゃ、この後ニコルを借りてもいいかの? アストはこう見えてなかなか腕がよいでな」「正確には細工師なんだがな。いやそれも違うか」「細工師? そうなの?」「そうとも! ニコルは成長期じゃからな。装備の調整はこまめにやらんと」「そう言えばかなり背が伸びてるものね。剣はともかく、革鎧なんかは調整した方がいいわね」マクスウェルの意見に、マリアは同意を示す。そこでようやく、ライエルたちの稽古が終わった。ライエルは平気な顔をしているが、フィニアは汗だくで足元がカクカクと揺れている。クラウドの方も似たような状態だ。「フィニアは筋は良いがやはり体力不足だな。クラウドの方は基礎体力はあるから後は技術の問題か」「うむ、この少年、なかなか良い素材をしておるわ。さすがお主の娘が目を付けただけはあるの」悪い評価ではないと聞いて、クラウドもフィニアも満更ではなさそうだった。そこで俺は、先ほどガドルスから聞いた話を思い出す。ライエルが俺に構ってもらえていないせいで、ストレスを溜めているという話だ。目指す目標先に到達しているライバルなのだから、好意を抱けと言うのも無理がある。俺はそこまでお人好しではない。しかし憎んでいるわけではないため、『娘との関係がぎくしゃくしている』という状況も可哀想だ。俺はマリアの用意したタオルを手に取り、ライエルの元へ駆け寄った。「おつかれ。はい、パパ」同じようにガドルスとフィニアにもタオルを渡してやる。ライエルとガドルスはほとんど汗をかいていなかったが、フィニアは運動服がぐっしょりと濡れるほどの汗を掻いている。汗で濡れた運動服身体に張り付いて、なかなかに色っぽい。うん、悪くない眺めだ。「ありがとうございます、ニコル様」ガドルスは鷹揚に、フィニアはいつものように丁寧にタオルを受け取ってくれたが、ライエルは固まっていた。ふるふると震えること、しばし。俺が不審に思って首をひねっていると、唐突にライエルの手がこちらに伸びてきた。「うおおおぉぉぉ、ニコルぅぅぅ!」「みぎゃあああぁぁぁぁぁぁぁ!?」「どうだガドルス、うちの娘は可愛いだろう?」汗をほとんど掻いていないとはいえ、まったく掻かないわけではないので、少しばかり汗臭い。しかも薄めの服の生地の下から、躍動する筋肉の動きが如実に感じ取れた。「わかったわかった。わかったから早う放してやらんか。そんなじゃから敬遠されるんじゃぞ」「な、なんだって? ニコルはそんな事で嫌ったりしないぞ」ちょっと隙を見せれば、すぐこれだ。俺は容赦なく切って捨てて、ライエルの拘束から脱出する。俺の言葉に硬直した奴から逃げることくらいはできる。そしてすぐさまフィニアにしがみついて、安全を確保した。「えっと、ニコル。俺のタオルは?」「自分で取れば?」別にクラウドにまで愛想を振り撒く必要はなかったため、彼の分のタオルまで持ってきてはいない。	After Cloud and I finished our respective face-offs, it was now time for him to face Gadius, while Finia faced Lyell. It was his second match without a break, but his role in our party required the most toughness. This was also to see how he fared in terms of stamina. As for Lyell, since he was facing Finia now, he couldn’t get violent as he did with Cloud, so he was in a pretty awkward state. While I was observing them, I spotted something strange in the corner of my vision. There, Maxwell was being cornered by Cortina and Maria. “So, Maxwell. Where did ‘she’ go?” “She? I have not the slightest idea who might you mean?” “I mean that Haumea, the girl that seems to be the reincarnation of Reid!” “This is my first time hearing about this as well. Care to tell me the details?” “I, ehm... She is not Reid’s reincar—” “You really think that excuse is gonna work at this late hour? You can’t pretend that the evidence left in Tarkashire’s mansion doesn’t exist.” “No, that was...” It was rare to see Maxwell so flustered, but I couldn’t just stand and enjoy it. The contents of their talk were problematic for me too. At this rate, he might end up confessing about me. I had to shift their target to something else, but I couldn’t think of a good excuse. Maxwell was sneaking glances towards me and asking for help, but I couldn’t just come up with an excuse on the spot so fast. Thinking wasn’t my forte, in the first place. I spread my hands out, gesturing at him to drag it on as much as he could, but Cortina and Maria were no pushovers. “Umm, the truth is...” Maxwell started while sweating bullets. It was obvious that his bastion was about to fall. Cortina who was pressing him for the answer was one thing, but Maria who held him by the shoulders from behind while smiling sweetly was equally frightening. Honestly peaking, I had no courage to butt in there. It looked scarier than the fight with the Evil Dragon Colchis. “Reid is... Umm... Alright, fine!” “Oh, are you in the middle of something?” Just as Maxwell’s endurance reached its limit and I also resolved myself for the inevitable, a nonchalant voice interrupted their conversation. The one that butted in their conversation without caring about the tense mood... Was Aste. He was clad in a robe that covered his solid body, and held a package under his arm. Cortina and Maria who were seeing him for the first time felt suspicious of him. “I came to deliver your order, but should I leave for now?” “No, no such thing. You came at the perfect time!” “Wait a minute, what do you mean perfect time. Rather, who is this person?” “He is my acquaintance blacksmith. No, let’s leave that for later. We have a guest here, right?” Maxwell pointed at him while making that appeal. Cortina still seemed to have something to say, but Maria wasn’t so outrageous to keep pressing him for answers before a guest. Thus, she reluctantly let go of Maxwell’s shoulders and agreed to his opinion. Seeing Maria that way, Cortina couldn’t keep going either. “U-Uh, o-of course. Oh right, can I borrow Nicole after this? Aste is quite a capable blacksmith.” “To be accurate, I am a craftsman. No, I suppose that isn’t right either.” “A craftsman? Really?” “Indeed he is! Nicole is a growing girl, so her equipment needs to undergo adjustments.” “Now that you mention it, she’s grown quite taller lately. Sword aside, her leather armor does need some readjustments.” Maria agreed with Maxwell. Lyell and the rest finally finished their training by that time. Lyell himself looked fine, but Finia was dripping with sweat and her legs looked wobbly. Cloud was in a similar state too. “Finia has the skills but her stamina is the problem. Cloud on the other hand has the necessary stamina, so all that’s left are techniques.” “Yes, this lad is quite talented. Explains why your daughter had an eye on him.” The two briefly commented on their students while heading towards us. Hearing their good evaluation, Finia and Cloud looked quite satisfied. I recalled my previous conversation with Gadius. Lyell seemed to have been stressed since I was ignoring him. He was someone irksome for me, but that didn’t mean I hated him. He was the rival that had reached my ideal a step faster than me, so it was a bit unreasonable to ask me to be kind to him. I wasn’t that good-natured. Still, I didn’t hate him, so leaving him in this awkward relationship with his daughter was also a bit too harsh. Thus, I grabbed the towels that Maria prepared and ran up to him. “Good work. Here you go, dad.” I handed over the towel in a frank but also somewhat shy tone. I also gave one each to Gadius and Finia. Lyell and Gadius almost didn’t sweat at all, but Finia was so sweaty her exercise uniform was completely drenched. Her uniform was clinging to her skin and looked quite erotic. Yeah, not a bad sight to behold. “Thank you, Lady Nicole.” Gadius thanked me casually, while Finia was more polite about it. Lyell, on the other hand, was simply frozen in place. He stood there trembling for a while. I c̲o̲c̲k̲e̲d̲ my head to the side in wonder, but the next moment he suddenly reached out toward me. “Waaaaaaah, Nicoleeee!” “Gyaaaaaaaaah!” “Look, Gadius, isn’t my daughter simply adorable!” He suddenly pulled me close and hugged me so tight I couldn’t even move. Though I said he didn’t sweat, it wasn’t like he didn’t sweat even a bit, so he was somewhat stinky. Moreover, I could feel his bulging muscles from under his thin clothes. I tried to resist with all my might, with goosebumps all over my body, but alas, it was futile. “I got it, I got it already, so let her go. She keeps her distance because you act like that.” “W-What!? Nicole wouldn’t hate me over such a thing!” Whenever I throw him a bone, he’s always like this. I threw my merciless retort and slipped out of his grasp. I was at least able to escape from him while he was struck by my words. Then I rushed straight towards Finia and clung to her, securing my safety. Lyell collapsed to his knees and hung his head down in dejection. But he brought that on himself. “Uh, Nicole. What about my towel?” “How about you go get it yourself?” There was no reason to appeal to Cloud as well, so I didn’t bring his share. Hearing my words, he also fell to his knees in dejection right next to Lyell.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 3, "inserted_lines_src": 9, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
「かつて、ここは『呪われた地』と呼ばれていました」「......アンナさん?」風もないのにたなびくローブ、濃厚な闇を凝縮したような黒いオーラ。微笑みはなく、真剣な眼差しのアンナさんが近づいてくる。俺はゴクリと唾を呑み込んだ。いつものアンナさんとは違う、『死者の王』とも呼ばれるアンデッドの姿を目にして。アンナさんがゆっくりと近づいてくる。アイヲンモール異世界店から離れようとしていた行商は、その迫力に足を止めた。でっぷりした行商人は震えながら前に立ち、奥さんは子供を抱きかかえてしゃがみ込んでいる。「およそ800年前のことです。赤死病が街を襲いました。この地にあった、教会と孤児院も」うつむいたアンナさんの表情は読み取れない。「人々は病に倒れ......罹患していない者は兵士の案内で街を逃れました。発症したけれどまだ動ける者は、この地を目指しました」アンナさんが俺の横を通り過ぎた。後ろにはバルベラが続いて、心配そうな表情でアンナさんと病気の子供をチラチラ見ている。「この地にあった教会には、『聖女』と呼ばれる女がいたのです。不治の病である赤死病も、『聖女』なら治せるのではないかと」「アンナさん? え、800年ってそうとう前じゃ?」「里の長老から聞いたことがある。『赤死病で滅んだ街と嘆きの聖女』。街の人間の話では『偽りの聖女と呪われた街』......まさか」「クロエ? そうか、ギルド長とアンナさんが言ってたおとぎ話って、この街では怪しい薬は厳しくチェックされるって」アンナさんの後に続いてきたのは、バルベラだけじゃない。「教会に押し寄せた病人の世話をする女性たちがいました。赤死病にかかることを恐れず、赤死病にかかっているのに、微笑みながら」アンナさんが病気の子供を抱き上げた。行商人夫妻は魔法にでもかけられたかのように動かない。目を丸くする行商人夫妻に見つめられながら、エプロン付きスケルトンたちは木材を組み上げた。簡易寝台だ。まるで手慣れたように、あっという間に。アンナさんが子供を寝かせる。「人であふれた教会を、モンスターから守る騎士と兵士たちがいました。病に冒された我らでもせめて、と。亡くなる時に騎士は言いました。生きて民を守れなかった我は、死してもこの地の平穏を守ろう、と」骨の馬を走らせる豪華な鎧兜のスケルトン隊長と、鎧を着たスケルトン部隊が駆け寄ってきた。隊長が手にしているのは苔、部隊が持ってるのはこの世界の製薬道具だろうか。簡易寝台の横に座ったアンナさんの前に道具を広げていく。「赤死病にかかった子は、最期に言いました。もっといろんなものが見たかったと、いろんな人とお話ししたかったと」簡易寝台に寝かされた子供を、ウサギの着ぐるみが心配そうに覗き込んでいる。「子を亡くした母親は言いました。たとえ永劫苦しむとしても、死してなお、身に赤死病を宿し続けると。治療法を見つけるために」アイヲンモール異世界店の、駐車場の「えっ? はい?」から出てきたのは、肉がぐずぐずに崩れた人間だ。ゾンビ。この世界におけるアンデッドの一種。出てきたゾンビに、ウサギの着ぐるみが駆け寄った。なだめるように、ゾンビが着ぐるみの手を握る。「たとえ今生は死したとしても、ある者は研究者になると、ある者は労働力になるのだと。熱で苦しいはずなのに、自分よりも他者のことを思って。生よりも、死したあとを望んで」製薬道具を手にしたアンナさんが苔をすりつぶし、水を注ぎ、スケルトンから受け取った液体を混ぜ合わせる。その迫力に呑まれたようで俺もクロエも、行商人夫妻さえ何も言えない。アンデッドが、死者の群れが、俺たちを取り囲んでいる。心配そうに子供を見つめて、でも、アンデッドは祈らずに。「そして。『聖女』と呼ばれていたのに、誰一人救えず、看取るしかできなかった『偽りの聖女』は————邪法に身を染めました」アンナさんが少しだけ笑った。どこか寂しそうに。「まさか。アンナさん、偽りの聖女って、邪法って」「およそ200年前、両親から話を聞いた心優しいドラゴンがこの地を訪れました。この身が、血が、役に立つならと。ドラゴンは薬になるからと」アンナさんは赤い粉、たぶん発電に使ってるドラゴンのウロコを砕いた粉を、手元の液体に入れた。バルベラは液体に手首を近づけて......反対の手の爪で、ピッと手首を切った。薬になるという、ドラゴンの血が。「それでも。教会は朽ち果てて、地下墓地が土と植物に呑まれるほど時が経っても、治療法は見つかりませんでした」たぶん薬を作ろうとしていることは理解していて、「もしかしたら」と思っていたんだろう。俺は、「助からないんですか」とアンナさんに聞こうとして。アンナさんがローブから手のひらほどの、銀色のシートを取り出した。指で押し込むと、パラパラと小さな白い粒が落ちる。錠剤。販売はしてなかったけど、アイヲンモール異世界店のドラッグストアか医療モールにあったヤツだろう。アンナさんの手がほのかに光る。黒いオーラとは違う温かな光りが、液体に流れ込む。魔法か、魔力ってヤツかもしれない。アンナさんを、赤死病で苦しむ子供を応援するかのように。俺とクロエは、ただじっとアンナさんを見つめていた。「聖と邪と、魔法と科学。生を終えて、死を超えて、私は、私たちは、いまこの時のために。......もと、誰も死なせません! 『魔薬生成』!」アンナさんの手元が光る。リッチの手と、調合していた薬が光る。光がおさまると、アンナさんは薬を手に立ち上がった。エプロン付きスケルトンが、子供の背に手を、いや、骨をかけて上体を起こす。アンナさんが器を傾けて、どろりとした赤い液体を子供の口に流し込んだ。俺もクロエも、行商人夫妻も、固唾を呑んでその様子を見守る。横になった子供の肌から、徐々に赤みが引いていく。赤い斑点も小さくなり—— 溶けるように、消えた。「おおおおお! すごい、すごいぞアンナ! 赤死病の斑点が消えた! こんなことがあるなんて!」「クロエ、それって治ったってことか!? アンナさん!?」クロエの言葉がきっかけになったように、行商人夫妻は簡易寝台の子供に駆け寄って覗き込む。俺とクロエが近づくと、アンナさんがふらっと倒れそうになった。ので、抱きとめる。やわらかい感触が、アンナさんはリッチなのに、じゃなくて。「ありがとうございますナオヤさん。でも私はまだがんばらないと。あとは回復魔法をかけて、栄養を摂らせて安静にすれば」「おお! ではアンナは休むんだ! 回復魔法はこの私に任せるといい! 聖騎士の! このクロエに!」「ってことらしいんで、アンナさんは休みましょう。本当に、助かりました」俺にぐったり体重を預けてくるアンナさんを抱えたまま様子を見る。バルベラが、さっと俺に腕を差し出してきた。「そうかドラゴンの肉って体を強くするし魔力も高める、ってアンパ○マンかよ。とりあえずウィダーイ○ゼリーとか栄養ドリンクでいいだろ。いきなり肉は重そうだから」「......そう。いつでも言って」バルベラは大人しく引き下がってくれた。アンナさんと、寝てる子供をどこで寝かせようかなあと思いつつ顔をあげて、俺は見た。喜びで跳ねたり踊ったりしてる、スケルトンとゾンビとウサギの着ぐるみを。「お祭りかよ。完全にホラーなんですけど。......まあしょうがないか、死んでも叶えたい念願が叶ったってことなんだろうし」今日だけは許してやろう、もう夜だし誰も見てないし、って考えたところで気がついた。「あっ。行商人さんたちにめっちゃ見られた。アイヲンモール異世界店がアンデッドまみれなことがバレた。ま、まあ大丈夫か、命の恩人なんだし!......大丈夫、だよな?」俺が店長になってから12日目のアイヲンモール異世界店。閉店後に緊急事態は起きたけど、なんとか一日が終わりそうだ。来客数、134人。売上、364,000円。アンナさんとアンデッドたちが想像以上に優秀で、本格的にドラッグストアと医療モールを検討してもよさそうです。	“In the past, this place was called the “Cursed Land.” “...Anna-san?” Her robe fluttered without wind, a black aura that seemed to condense thick darkness. Anna-san, with a serious gaze and no smile, approaches. I swallowed hard. I saw a figure different from the usual Anna-san – an undead known as the “King of the Dead.” Anna-san slowly approaches. The merchant family, who was trying to leave the Aion Mall Otherworldly store, stopped in the face of her overwhelming presence. The plump merchant stood trembling, and his wife squatted, holding their child. “About years ago, a plague called the Red Death struck the city. The church and orphanage in this area were also affected.” Anna-san’s downturned expression is unreadable. “People fell ill, and those unaffected were guided out of the city by soldiers. Those who were still able to move, despite being infected, aimed for this land.” Anna-san passed by me. Behind her, Barbera followed, glancing worriedly at Anna-san and the sick child. “There was a woman called the ‘Holy Maiden’ in the church here. It was believed that even the incurable Red Death could be cured by the ‘Holy Maiden.'” “Anna-san? years ago, that’s quite a long time, isn’t it?” “I heard it from the village elder. ‘The city destroyed by the Red Death and the lamenting Holy Maiden.’ According to the people in the city, it was ‘The false Holy Maiden and the cursed city’... I never thought...” “Chloe? Oh, the fairy tale that Guild Master and Anna-san were talking about. In this city, suspicious potions are strictly checked.” Not only Barbera followed Anna-san, but also a clattering group of apron-wearing skeletons, carrying blankets, cushions, and wood. “There were women in the church who cared for the sick people who crowded in. They smiled even though they were infected with the Red Death, not fearing it.” Anna-san lifted the sick child. The merchant couple seemed frozen, as if under a spell. While the merchant couple stared in astonishment, the skeleton apron-wearers assembled wood with a clatter. A makeshift bed. Swiftly, as if they were accustomed to it. Anna-san laid the child to rest. “Knights and soldiers protected the crowded church from monsters. Even they, afflicted by the disease, tried our best. The knight said before he died, ‘Unable to protect the people in life, I will protect the peace of this land even in death.'” A skeletal captain in luxurious armor, riding a bone horse, and a skeletal unit in armor rushed over. The captain held moss, and the unit carried pharmaceutical tools from this world, perhaps. They spread the tools in front of Anna-san, who was sitting next to the makeshift bed. “The child with the Red Death said before passing away, ‘I wanted to see more things and talk to various people.'” The child in the makeshift bed, watched by a worried rabbit costume. “The mother who lost her child said, ‘Even if I suffer for eternity, I will continue to carry the Red Death even in death. In order to find a cure.'” The ground in the parking lot of Aion Mall Otherworldly store bulged. “Huh? Hah?” Rising from the ground, a human figure with crumbling flesh appeared. A zombie. A type of undead in this world. The rabbit costume rushed to the emerging zombie. It held the zombie’s hand as if comforting it. “Even if this life is considered dead, some become researchers, and some become laborers. Despite suffering from fever, they think more about others than themselves. They wish for what comes after death more than life.” Anna-san, holding pharmaceutical tools, crushed moss, poured water, and mixed the liquid received from the skeleton. Captivated by her intensity, neither I nor Chloe nor even the merchant couple could say anything. Undead and a horde of the dead surrounded us. Looking at the child with concern, but the undead didn’t pray. “And then, the ‘Holy Maiden’ who couldn’t save anyone despite being called so, could only watch and turned to dark arts.” Anna-san smiled a little. Looking at afar, somehow lonely. “Impossible. Anna-san, the false Holy Maiden practicing dark arts?” “About 0 years ago, a kind-hearted dragon, after hearing the story from its parents, visited this land. It offered its body, blood, anything that could be of use. The dragon said it could be used as medicine.” Anna-san crushed red powder and, presumably, dragon scales used for generating power, into a liquid in front of her. Barbera approached Anna-san with small steps. Barbera brought her wrist close to the liquid and... with the opposite hand’s claws, she cut her wrist. Blood dripped. The dragon’s blood, believed to be very effective as medicine. “Even so, even as the church decayed and the underground cemetery was swallowed by soil and plants over time, no cure was found.” At Anna-san’s words, the faces of the merchant couple twisted. They probably understood that she was attempting to make medicine, and perhaps they had some hope. I was about to ask Anna-san, “Can’t he be saved?” when Anna-san continued speaking. Anna-san took out a silver sheet about the size of her palm from her robe. Pressing it with her fingers, small white grains fell. Pills. Japanese medicine, although it wasn’t being sold, probably something from the Aion Mall Otherworldy Store’s drugstore or medical mall. Anna-san’s hands faintly glowed. A warm light, different from the black aura, flowed into the liquid. It might be magic or magical power. The undead surrounding us clenched their fists as if cheering on Anna-san and the child suffering from the Red Death. Chloe and I just stared at Anna-san. “Holy and unholy, magic and science. Beyond life, beyond death, I, we, for this moment. ...Never again, will anyone die! ‘Generate Magical Medicine!'” Anna-san’s hands glowed. The hands of the lich and the potion she was concocting also glowed. When the light subsided, Anna-san stood up with the medicine in her hand. The apron-wearing skeleton put its hands, or rather, bones on the child’s back and lifted its upper body. Anna-san tilted the vessel and poured the thick red liquid into the child’s mouth. I, Chloe, the merchant couple, all watched in suspense. From the skin of the lying child, the redness gradually receded. The red spots also became smaller— As if melting, they disappeared. “Ohhh! Amazing, Anna! The Red Death spots disappeared! I never thought something like this could happen!” “Chloe, does that mean it’s cured!? Anna-san!?” Chloe’s words seemed to trigger it; the merchant couple rushed to the child on the makeshift bed. As Chloe and I approached, Anna-san seemed to sway and almost fall. So, I caught her. A soft sensation, Anna-san was a lich, no- that’s not it. “Thank you, Naoya-san. But I still have to do my best. After this, I’ll apply healing magic, provide nutrition, and keep them at rest.” “Great! Then Anna will rest! Leave the healing magic to me! The Holy Knight! Chloe!” “Seems like that, so let’s let Anna-san rest. Truly, thank you.” I held Anna-san, who leaned heavily on me, and watched. Barbera offered her arm to me. “Oh, dragon meat strengthens the body and enhances magical power, like in Anpanman. Anyway, it’s better to use energy drinks or nutritional drinks than meat, it looks heavy all of a sudden.” “...I see. Anytime you say.” Barbera obediently stepped back. While wondering where to put Anna-san and the sleeping child, I looked up and saw. Skeletons, zombies, and the rabbit costume were jumping and dancing in joy. “It’s like a festival. Even though it’s a completely horror spectacle. Well, I guess it can’t be helped; their long-cherished wish came true even in death.” I thought of forgiving them for today; it’s already night, and no one else is watching. “Oh. The merchant folks saw us a lot. They found out that the Aion Mall Otherworldly Store is filled with undead. Well, it should be fine, we’re their benefactors!... It’ll be okay, right?” On the 12th day of the Aion Mall Otherworldly Store, since I became the store manager. Although an emergency occurred after closing, it seems like we will manage to finish the day somehow. Number of visitors: 134 people. Sales: 364,000 yen. Anna-san and the undead turned out to be more capable than imagined, and it seems that considering a full-fledged drugstore or medical mall might be a good idea.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 1, "inserted_lines_src": 14, "inserted_lines_trg": 1 }
◇◆◇◆◇ ラウム森王国。その王宮内の男女が密会していた。とはいえ、何か艶事などがあるわけでもない。人目を忍ぶのは確かにそうではあるが、そこに色っぽい雰囲気などは、微塵も存在しなかった。「それで、マクスウェル伯父様。厄介ごとは解決したのですか?」「もちろんじゃ。思った以上に滞りなくのぅ。やはりレイドは使える男じゃて。今は女じゃが」「生まれ変わった英雄殿ですかお会いしたいものです」「目の前に生きた英雄がいるんじゃが......いや、べつにええんじゃよ?」王宮内にしては『比較的』狭い室内。せいぜいがコルティナの家程度の広さだろう。その中央にテーブルセットを置き、優雅に茶を口元に運ぶ少女。室内には他に人の姿はない。もちろん、使用人を呼ぶためのハンドベルは用意してあるが。「それにしても、よりによって......というところですね。まさかフィーナさんを狙うとは」「アシェラ教皇の尽力によって、半魔人差別が比較的穏やかになってきた矢先の出来事じゃからな。正直肝が冷えたわぃ」「ライエル様とマリア様のお子さんに手を出せば、下手をすれば世界すべてが一気に反半魔人に傾倒しまう所でした。よくやってくれました」「ありがたきお言葉です。エリゴール様」少女に対し、わざとらしく臣下の礼を取って見せるマクスウェル。その目には悪戯っぽい光が浮かんでいた。「きちんとエリゴーと呼んでいただけませんか? 初代様ほどの偉業はまだ成していませんので」「かつて回復魔法の発展に寄与した『超越者』殿のパトロンでしたな。いや失敬」「親しみを込めてエリゴール・ザ・サード。もしくはエリ「長いので遠慮しますじゃ」かつてこの国に存在した女王の名。その後継者として三世と名を得た少女だったが、いかんせんどこかしら迂闊な少女だった。しかもその少女が、この国の第一王位継承者である。臣下の心労たるや、如何ほどのことか。そんなエリゴールに、親し気に話しかけるマクスウェル。血縁的には伯父と姪だが、すでに王家から臣籍に下った後は、こうしてこっそりと会う程度に控えていた。現在の国王は彼の弟だが、その国王は彼が王家と接触することを、あまり快くは思っていなかったからだ。だとしても、マクスウェルが有能な家臣であることは間違いないため、事が起きては彼を呼びつけることも多い。そのためマクスウェルは、臣下でありながら王族の重要人物であるエリゴールと、こうしてフリーパスで会うことができていた。「事を隠し通すことは可能ですか?」「すでに緘口令は敷いておる。もっとも人の口に戸は立てられぬものじゃて」「噂になるのは避けられない、ということですか」「さいわい、事が起きたのが他国の、しかも辺境での出来事じゃ。こちらまで届くのはしばらくかかるじゃろう」もし今回の一件が広まれば、再び半魔人は差別の対象にされてしまう。それを恐れての質問だった。国王はその問題に興味は薄かったが雄に憧れを持つ彼女としては、あまり広まって欲しくない噂である。「北部では問題になりますか?」「エリオット王自らがレイドに助けられた事件があったからの。あちらは辺境でもなければ、それほど問題にはなるまい。むしろ――」「ラウムの方が大きく響きそうですね」「陛下がもう少し寛大な方であれば......いや、失言じゃったな」「不敬罪になりますよ。人前では注意してください、伯父様」「お主の前では、どうしても気が緩んでしまうんじゃよ。親しみやすくてよいことじゃ」「威厳が足りないと、素直に仰ってくださいまし。それよりこの問題、何か手を打っておいた方がよろしいでしょうか?」エリゴールに聞かれ、マクスウェルは髭に手をやった。彼が考え事をする時の癖である。しばし黙考した後、重々しく口を開く。「正直、ここでまた差別の激しかった過去に戻ってしまうのはよくないのぅ。手は打っておいた方が良いのは確かじゃ」「では、どのように?」「そうじゃな。噂がこちらに届くより先に、民に親しみを感じておいてもらうくらいしかできんじゃろう」「半魔人に親しみを、ねぇ?」「例えば人気のある王族の友に半魔人がおる、とかな?」「私に? あいにくと知人にはおりませんが......もしや、レイド様を紹介していただけるので!?」「そんな真似をしたらワシがコルティナに殺されるわぃ! それにあやつは今女じゃ」「私は別にそれでも。それはそれで楽しみようが......」「正気に戻れ、我が姪よ」め、マクスウェルは溜息をつく。しかしこれはこれで、いい機会なのではなかろうかとも考えていた。「ライエルの弟子に、将来有望な半魔人の少年がいてのぅ」「ライエル様の......ということは、ニコル様の仲間ですの?」「うむ。現在はストラールの街で冒険者をやっておる。もう一人の仲間が少々厄介な能力を持っておってな」「例のゴブリン騒動で殲滅してのけた『弓聖』ですわね?」「まぁ、そうじゃ。大仰な二つ名が付いたものじゃ」ゴブリンの侵略騒動で、その大半を蹂躙してのけたミシェルは、今やラウムでは弓聖とまで呼ばれ恐れられている。同時にそれほどの戦闘力を取り込もうとする貴族も、後を絶ってはいない。「幸いなことにワシの許嫁殿の元仲間じゃ。彼女が正式に公爵位を継げば、その庇護を受けてラウムへ呼び戻すことも可能じゃろうな」「そんな方が......そういえば私、ストラールへ出向く用がありましたわね」「それは都合が良い」「あそこも代替わりで、少しゴタゴタしましたので。王家の者を出向かせ、もてなさせることで信頼を喧伝しようという腹ですわ」「陛下の考えか。まあ、それも悪くなかろうな」「そういうわけで、その冒険者たちに連絡を取ってくださいません? ニコルさんと会えるのも、楽しみですわ!」「それはそれで、あやつの心労の種になりそうじゃな。じゃがそれが良い!」悪戯っぽい顔で親指を立てあう二人。この伯父と姪は、どう見ても似た者同士だったのだった。	◇◆◇◆◇ A man and a woman were having a secret meeting in the royal palace. That said, it wasn’t a love affair or anything. They certainly avoided being seen, but there was not a speck of amorous atmosphere between the two. “So then, Uncle Maxwell, did you solve the trouble?” “Of course. And even more smoothly than I expected. Reid really is a useful man. He is a woman now, however.” “The esteemed Hero who was reborn? I would like to meet him one time.” “You have a hero before your eyes right now... But that could be arranged I suppose?” They were in a narrow room for the royal palace. It was at most as wide as Cortina’s house. In the center of it, a young girl placed a table set in the center and elegantly carried tea to her lips. There were no other people in the room. There was of course a handbell to call servants with, however. “Nevertheless, of all things that could have happened... For them to aim for Fina.” “It had to happen just as Pope Ashella’s painstaking efforts somewhat improved the half-demon treatment. Frankly, I was breaking into a cold sweat.” “If they laid their hands on Lord Lyell and Lady Maria’s daughter, it would very well lead to the entire world turning against half-demons. Good work for avoiding that.” “Your words are wasted on me, Lady Eligore.” Maxwell made an affected servantly bow towards the young girl. His eyes were filled with an impish gleam. In response, the girl referred to as Eligor snorted in displeasure. That action was somewhat improper of a lady. “Could you call me Eligor III properly? I have yet to achieve something as great as the first ancestor.” transcendent who contributed to the development of recovery magic, was it? How rude of me.” “As a form of closeness, you may call me Eligor The Third. Or simply Elly thir—” “It is too long so I shall refrain.” It was the name of the Queen who once existed in this kingdom. She took the third generation title as her successor, but she was quite a careless girl in some respects. But this little girl was the primary heir of the throne of this kingdom. It was hard to imagine the worries her retainers faced. Maxwell was talking with that Eligor in a familiar manner. They were uncle and niece by blood, but as he had already resigned from the royal family, they only met secretly like this. The current king was his younger brother, but he didn’t like the idea of him meeting with the royalty very much. Even so, Maxwell was still a capable vassal, so he was often summoned when something happened. For that reason, Maxwell could get a free pass and meet with an important royal like Eligor despite being a retainer. “Will it be possible to keep this situation hidden?” “The gag order has already been issued. However, one cannot control what people say.” “You mean that it is bound to become a rumor?” “Fortunately, it happened in a different kingdom, and in the countryside at that. It will take some time before it reaches us.” If this incident spread, the half-demons would once again become targets of discrimination. She asked this question in fear of that. The king didn’t seem to care much for that problem, but she, who admired the Six Heroes, did not wish for that rumor to spread. “Will the north be alright?” “King Elliot had been saved by Reid before. Even if it did not happen in the countryside, I daresay nothing serious would have happened. Rather—” “It is more likely to spread in Raum, is it?” “If only His Highness was more broad-minded... Ah, that was a slip of tongue.” “That would be taken as lese majeste. Be careful what you say in front of others, uncle.” “I end up getting loose-lipped when I am with you. I am glad you are so easy to talk to.” “Please just admit you think I lack dignity. More importantly, is it better if we do something now?” Maxwell rubbed his beard at her question. It was his habit when he was thinking. After some silence, he spoke with a serious tone. “Frankly, it would be bad if we return back to the old days where the discrimination was severe. It is certainly true that we should take some measures.” “But then, what would it be?” “Well, we can only get them on friendlier terms before those rumors reach us.” “Friendlier with the half-demons, is it?” “For example, if a popular royalty member has a half-demon among their friends, it could work out.” “You mean me? Unfortunately, I have no one like that... Oh, could it be, you plan to introduce Lord Reid?!” “If I did that Cortina would kill me! And he’s a woman now.” “I am fine with that. That could be fun in its own way...” “Come to your senses, my niece!” Maxwell sighed as he rebuked his niece who was going above and beyond what he imagined. But this was a good opportunity from Maxwell’s perspective too. “There is a promising half-demon boy who is also Lyell’s student.” “Lord Lyell’s... That would mean, is he Lady Nicole’s comrade?” “Indeed. They are presently working as Adventurers in Stollar. Because one of their comrades has a very troublesome power.” “You mean the ‘Bow Saint’ that exterminated the Goblins during the raid, yes?” “Well, yes. That is quite some nickname she obtained.” Michelle, who trampled most of the Goblins during the raid, was feared as the Bow Saint in Raum nowadays. The nobles seeking to obtain a war power like her were still incessant. “Fortunately, she is also former-comrade of my fiancee. If she formally gains the Duke peerage, her protection should allow her to return to Raum.” “So there was such a method... Speaking of which, I do have an errand in Stollar.” “That is quite convenient then.” “Some trouble has been brewing there too due to the change in the governing body. We plan to appease them and gain trust by sending a royal member over.” “Was that His Highness’s idea? Well, it does not sound bad.” “In that case, could you contact the Adventurers for me? I am looking forward to meeting Miss Nicole too.” “I feel that that would only add to her worries. But serve her right!” The two exchanged thumbs up with impish grins. This uncle and niece were clearly made out of the same cloth.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 4, "inserted_lines_trg": 3 }
目前の任務の難しさは、言葉で表現することができないほどである。ハマスは、イスラエル人撤退を「武力闘争」の勝利に帰するための、集中的なメディアキャンペーンを開始した。キャンペーンおよびそのテーマは、ガザ地区と他のパレスチナ自治政府管轄の領域における支配権を争う内部抗争を反映しており、武装解除をせず、西部地区における「武力闘争」を継続するというハマスの決断を強調している。	Hamas has launched an intensive media campaign to appropriate the Israeli withdrawal as a victory of its “armed struggle.” The campaign and its themes reflect an internal fight for control of the Gaza Strip and other PA-administered territories, and stresses Hamas’ determination not to be disarmed and to continue the “armed struggle” in the West Bank.	{ "source": "news_commentary", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
貿易援助は、国際的キーワードとなっている。援助 (債権放棄を含む) の拡大および、貧しい国々の製品の裕福な国々の市場へのアクセスの拡大が、グローバルな最重要課題であるかのように見える。事実、今日の議論は何をすべきかでなく、いかに迅速にいくらできるかについてである。	More aid (including debt relief) and greater access to rich countries’ markets for poor countries’ products now appears to be at the top of the global agenda. Indeed, the debate nowadays is not about what to do, but howmuch to do, and how fast.	{ "source": "news_commentary", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
俺はその足でマクスウェルの下に向かい、先の出来事を報告した。「レイドの振りをした敵か。また妙な相手を......」「おそらくコルティナの家に出入りする俺を見て、変装したんだと思う。声はかなり若そうだった」俺の正体を知るマクスウェルはその相手を警戒する理由がわかるが、それを知らないコルティナは無防備に俺の姿をした敵に近付きかねない。「それほど見事な変装じゃったのか?」「ああ、俺が保証する。あれは俺でも見分け付かないかもしれないな」「その変装、魔法を使ったものかわかるかの?」奴と剣を交えたとき、何度も違和感を覚えた。もし、俺が幻覚の指輪でやっているのと同じように、幻覚を纏っていたのだとすれば、体格のズレで攻撃が外れたという解釈もできるはず。「だけど......なんだかしっくりこない」「幻覚ではなかったかの?」「最後にはなった糸、鈍いけど手応え自体はあったんだ。ただそれがどうも、な」「納得いかんのか?」「手応えはあった。だが肉を斬った手応えではなかった」俺の感想を聞き、マクスウェルはヒゲをしごきながら思案する。「いくつか可能性はあるがのは相手が人間じゃなかった場合じゃ」「というと?」「例えば、使い魔を使用した場合」「人型の使い魔とか、聞いたことが無いんだが」「そのまま使うとは言っておらん。使い魔に幻覚を纏わせることもできる」「ふむ?」マクスウェルの意見を俺は腕を組んで吟味する。例えば......毛の長い何かだった場合。使い魔なら切った毛は本体から外れた段階で土塊に戻るので、証拠になるものは残らない。「確かにそれだとつじつまは合うかもしれないんだが......何か違う感じがするな」「ほう、どう違う?」「奴は不意打ちの抜刀を躱して見せた。そんな反応速度は使い魔では出せない」「ふむ、ではゴーレムだった場合は? 反応速度は上がるし、視界をゴーレムに移す術も存在するぞ」「ゴーレムだった場合も、納得できない。動きにゴーレム特有のぎこちなさはなかった。それに酸を飛ばすギミックまで使用していたぞ」「なるほどのぅ。しかしここで議論しても答えは出ん気がするな。しょせん推論にすぎん」「まぁな。問題はコルティナにどう警戒を促すかだ」「それはワシの方から伝えておこう。幸いネタもあることじゃしな」「ネタ?」魔法を感知するエリアで、見事な変装をして連絡を握り潰した存在がいたこと。それは今回の俺の経験と重なる。「魔法じゃない変装か......ミシェルちゃんのところに聞き込みに来た話もあるから、合わせて警告しておけば、コルティナも気を付けるだろうな」「うむ、じゃがその場合、お主を見分ける手段がない」「メンドくせぇな。なんかないか?」「なんでもワシに投げっぱなしにするでない。とは言え、そうじゃな......レイド、その男は匂いはどうじゃった?」「匂い? そう言えば、特に何もなかったな」「外見だけならどうとでも真似られてしまう。では特徴的な匂いを纏うというのはどうじゃ?」「と言っても、俺とわかるような匂いなぁ。心当たりはないんだが」香水と言うのは確かにいい手かもしれないが、ありきたりなモノではあっさりと真似をされてしまい、意味がない。「貴重な香水というものならば、いくつか持ってはおるが......真似できないというほどではないの」「俺もそっち系は一切興味がなかったからな。むしろ強い匂いは仕事の邪魔だったし」「ライエルに相談しても無駄じゃろうな」「あの朴念仁は、俺を超える」「いや、それはない」「なにおぅ!?」怒ってはみたが、確かに奴は俺より先に結婚している。そういう意味では俺より甲斐性があったということかもしれない。だからと言って、香水と言うおしゃれに興味があるようには見えないので、相談は意味がないだろう。「ガドルス......問題外だな」「酒の匂いなら嗅ぎ分けられそうじゃがな」「こういうのはやはり女性が有利か。マリアかコルティナは、いい案を持ってると思うか?」ワシらだけではキリがないの。外部の協力者に頼むしかないか」「外部っても誰がいるんだ?」「いつもの御仁じゃよ」マクスウェルが尊敬を込めて御仁という人物など、一人しかいない。「アストか。確かに奴なら何か考えてくれそうだ」「じゃな。さっそく向かいたいが、時間はあるかな?」が使えるマクスウェルなら夕食時までには充分に戻ってこれるだろう。「ああ、おそらく大丈夫だ。それにことは一刻を争うからな」だが明日はわからない。できるならば、今日中に俺の確認手段を確保しておきたかった。「準備は、まあ必要ないじゃろ。今回は早さ重視じゃ。行くぞ」「おいおい、さっそくかよ」「マテウスは張り込みをさせておるから、この家にはだれもおらん。戸締りするだけでいいんじゃ」「さっさとしてきたら?」「魔法で一括施錠できるんじゃよ」「クッソ、無駄に便利なことしやがって」の魔法を範囲拡大して家中に掛けるのだろう。一息に家中を施錠し、そして相変わらず無茶な魔力の使い方をしていると思うが、この爺さんにとっては負担にすらならない。そして俺は門の中に飛び込み、アレクマール剣王国へと向かったのだった。	I headed right to Maxwell and reported what just happened. When he heard that, he started frowning. “An enemy pretending to be Reid, huh. It seems yet another oddball has shown up...” “He probably saw me going in and out of Cortina’s house and disguised himself as me. He sounded quite young.” Maxwell was aware of how dangerous this situation was. He knew me, so he knew to be vigilant of that enemy, but Cortina didn’t, so she might drop her guard and come into contact with the enemy pretending to be me. “Was it such a perfect disguise?” “Yeah, I can guarantee it. Even I might not tell it apart.” “Do you know if they used magic to disguise themselves?” When I exchanged blows with him, I felt an uncomfortable feeling over and over. When I thought I had him for sure, he managed to escape. If he was disguised similarly to how I did with the illusion ring, him escaping my attacks could be explained by the stature differences. “Still... It doesn’t feel right somehow.” “Are you saying it wasn’t an illusion?” “The thread I swung at him at the end managed to land on him even if it felt a bit dull. But that part bothers me.” “Does something not feel right?” “There was a reaction. But it was not the feeling of cutting flesh..” Hearing my impression, Maxwell started pondering while brushing his beard. “There are several possibilities. One is that the enemy wasn’t a human.” “Meaning?” “For example, they were using a familiar.” “I’ve never heard of a humanoid familiar.” “I did not say they used it directly. They might have cast an illusion on it.” “Oh?” I pondered about Maxwell’s opinion. Since it didn’t feel like flesh, it must have been something else. For example... If it was something with long fur, like a longhair rabbit or something, then even if I slashed at its fur, it wouldn’t feel like cutting flesh. And the cut fur would return to dust once it separated from the familiar’s body, so there would be no evidence left. “That certainly sounds consistent... But something still feels off.” “Oh? And what would it be?” “He bent back to dodge my katana slash. Such reaction speed should be impossible for a familiar.” “Hmm, then what if it was a golem? The reaction speed rises and there is a way to transfer your vision to a golem.” “It still feels off even if it was a golem. There was no awkwardness in his movements that’s characteristic of golems. He also had an acid shooting gimmick.” “I see. Well, we will not arrive at an answer if we just argue here. We are simply trying to deduce it, after all.” “Well, yeah. The question is, how should we raise Cortina’s vigilance.” “I will relay it myself. Fortunately, I have some backup information too.” “Information?” Then Maxwell told me the events that transpired in the north. That there was someone who had disguised perfectly in a magic perception area and destroyed the means of contact. It overlapped with my incident. “A disguise that’s not magic, huh... They seem to have gone to Michelle’s house to gather information too, if we are all careful, Cortina would be too.” “But in that case, there would be no way to tell you apart from them.” “That sucks. Isn’t there some way?” “Stop throwing all your problems my way. That said, hmm... Reid, did that man have any smell?” “Smell? Come to think of it, he didn’t have a particular smell.” “They may mimic your outer appearance whatever you do. However, what if you cover yourself with a characteristic smell?” “Well, what smell would make it know that it’s me. I don’t have any idea.” Perfume might be a good measure, but an average one would just get mimicked. If I were to do it, I had to use something characteristic that cannot be imitated. “I do have several expensive perfumes... However, they are not something that cannot be imitated.” “I had no interest in that stuff myself. Rather, a strong smell would just get in the way of my work.” “Consulting Lyell would most likely be fruitless too.” “That blockhead is even worse than me.” “No, I would not say that.” “Hey!?” I retorted in anger, but that guy had gotten married before me. In that sense, he may have been more resourceful than me. Having said that, he didn’t seem to be the type to be interested in perfume, so there was no point consulting him. “Gadius...Is out of the question.” “He might be able to tell the smell of alcohol apart.” “I guess it’s better to consult girls about this stuff. Do you think Maria or Cortina will have any good ideas?” “I have little hope about it. A unique smell is essential. There would be no end if we go about it by ourselves. We need to ask external collaborators for help.” “External... Do you have someone in mind?” “I am talking about the usual personage.” There was one person that Maxwell would refer to politely as ‘personage’. And that person’s knowledge knew no bounds even from my perspective. “Aste, huh. Right, he might have an idea.” “Indeed. I would like to head there right away, do you have time now?” It was close to evening now. Maxwell could use Portal Gate so we could easily make it back before dinnertime. “Yeah, should be fine. We are in a race against time now.” I managed to drive him away today, so I don’t think he’d start anything the very same day. But I wasn’t sure about tomorrow. If possible, I wanted to finish all preparations by today. “We...do not need preparations I suppose. Speed is more important this time. Let us go.” “Wait, are we leaving right away?” “Mateus is on the lookout so there is no one in this mansion now. I only need to lock up.” “Go do it then?” “I can lock everything with magic in one go.” “Damn, what a pointlessly useless trick.” He was probably using the wide-scale Lock spell on the entire house. As I thought, he started chanting before me and put so much magic power into the spell you wouldn’t think he was casting mere Lock. He instantly locked the entire house and opened up the Portal Gate. I was thinking that he was using his magic power wastefully, but he probably didn’t even feel any burden from it. Thus, I jumped into the gate and headed to the Sword Kingdom of Alecmarle.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 2, "inserted_lines_src": 18, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
「あれ? 終わっちゃった?」次の敵を探しているうちにチャリンの試合終了というアナウンスが流れてきた。の勝利だ。サトミがコアと相打ちに倒れたようだが、俺が援護していれば完全勝利も......いや、無粋なことを考えるのはよそう。全員生き残って勝利しても、1人だけ生き残って勝利しても結果は変わらない。トーナメントはギリギリでも勝利するたびに1歩優勝へと近づき、どんなに良い勝負をしても1回負ければ終わりなんだ。「まずは1つ......!」勝ちが確定した途端、フッと気が抜ける。こんな戦いをあと5回も繰り返し、すべてに勝利しなければ栄光は掴めない。だからこそ、価値のあるものなんだろうな。「さあ、待機場所に戻って2回戦までゆっくり休むか」それにみんなと勝利の喜びを分かち合わないとな! ◆ ◆ ◆ 「やりました! 1回戦突破です! わぁ~パチパチパチ!」集まってみればテンションが高かったのはアンヌだった。そもそも対人戦の経験が少なく、誰かを倒すという興奮に慣れていないからハイになるのもうなずける。格ゲーでも落ちものパズルでもFPSでもなんでも、画面の向こうにいる人間に勝つのは病みつきになる。 NPC相手とはまた違うのだ。「アンヌが試合を終わらせたみたいだけど、どうやって勝ったんだい?」「それはですねぇ!」「おおっ! いたいた! おーい! 俺たちも混ぜろよ!」現れたのはマッドスライムCOREの4人だ。負けたばかりだというのにケロッとしている。 1人を除いて......。「うう......。すまねぇみんな......」「泣くんじゃねぇよアシド。どうせお前ひとりじゃ逆転なんて無理だったんだから悔いる必要はねぇよ。全員がわりぃ!」「でもよぉ......。やられ方がだせぇんだ......。一生ネットの晒し者だ......」「そんなこったねぇよ! あの程度で一生人の心に残れるほどネットは甘くねぇ! そのうち忘れられちまうよ!」「さっきからお前......慰めてるのか、けなしてるのか、わからねぇ......!」フードを目深にかぶり、大型のバズーカ砲を背負った大男が体を振るわせて泣いている。コアの『お前ひとりじゃ』って発言から考えると、彼がマッドスライムCOREの最後の生き残りでアンヌの対戦相手だったのか。「あ! 私が倒したのはこの人です! まあでも、倒せたのは偶然なんですけどね......!」「ぐ、偶然......?」「私、皆さんが敵を倒しているという情報を受け取って、自分もそろそろ戦いかなって緊張していたんです! それでトゲ鉄球をぐるぐる振り回しながら歩くことで、奇襲を防ごうとしてたんです!」「なるほど、確かにあれを振り回して歩いてたら敵も容易には近づけないよなぁ。それであの彼は......それに引っかかっちゃった感じ......?」「待て! 流石に俺もそこまでマヌケじゃない! 勘違いするなよ! そもそも俺の武器はバズーカだ! 奇襲を仕掛けるにしろ敵に接近する必要はない!」「す、すいません......。アンヌ、続きをお願い」「あー、続きと言ってももう終わりなんですよ。ぐるぐる鉄球を振り回しているうちに、手が疲れてきちゃって、握ってた鎖がすっぽ抜けちゃったんですよね! それですごい勢いで飛んでいった鉄球があの人に......」「そうだよ! 偶然当たったんだよ! 完全に死角をとってバズーカで狙ってたのに、こちらを振り向きもせずに鉄球が飛んできたから回避できなかったんだ! そんなの......予想できないだろ!? そうだよな、みんな!?」マッドスライムCOREの面々は笑いをこらえている。やっぱり愉快な集団だなぁ......マッドスライム。「しかも当たり所が最悪だった! 即死こそしなかったが、利き腕の右腕が潰れちまったんだ! バズーカは両手武器だから使えなくなるし、偶然当てたにしては俺への追撃が速かったし、そもそも振り回してるだけにしては威力が高かった! なぜだ!」「追撃は反射的なものだったんです! 私もびっくりしてすぐ手が出ちゃったんです! 威力が高いのは振り回すほど威力が上がるスキルを使ってたからですね。すぐに火力が出ない微妙なスキルだと思ってたんですが、今回は役に立ちましたね!」「くぅ~! 運命の女神はあんたの味方ってわけか! シスターだけに!」「見てくれだけですけどね」これでアンヌ戦の真実がわかったな。不幸な事故......からの油断なき追撃の勝利だった。ゲーム経験こそ少ないが、闘争本能で最適な戦いを繰り広げるアンヌもまた強者なのだ。「んまっ、なんにせよこれで俺たちはめでたく1回戦敗退だ。やってくれたなぁ! それ以外特にかける言葉もないぜ。敗者が勝者にアドバイスなんざおこがましいし、俺たちの分まで~なんて無駄なものを背負わせることもねぇ。勝手に戦って、勝手に勝てよ。身内に2500万が転がり込んできたら俺も得するしな」「あげませんよ。1円も」サトミがコアにぴしゃりと言う。 2人とも笑っている。「メシくらい奢れよ弟! あと、2回戦の相手をよく確認しとけ!」そう言い残してコアたちは去っていった。 2回戦の相手......すでに決定している。なぜなら、俺たちの前の試合の勝者が2回戦の相手だからだ。自分たちの試合の直前だったので緊張しながらの観戦だったが、パーティ名はハッキリ覚えている。おじさんのさらに上、おじいさんたちで構成されたパーティだ......!	“Huh? It’s over already?” As I searched for the next enemy, it was announced that the battle was over. The results were vs . The Ghost Guild had won. Apparently, Satomi had died taking down Core, which meant it might have been a total victory for us if I had helped him... No, I wouldn’t think about such things now. There is no difference between winning with everyone surviving and just one of us surviving. You moved forward in the tournament with every win, no matter how close it was. And no matter how well you fight, one loss means you’re out. “That’s one down...!” As soon as our victory was decided, all the tension left me. We would have to do this five more times and win every single one in order to achieve glory. That’s why it was something that had value. “Now, I should go back to the waiting area and rest until the next battle.” Besides, I wanted to celebrate our victory with the others! ◆ ◆ ◆ “We did it! We won the first round! Yes!!” After we had gathered together, it was Anne who was the most excited. In the first place, she didn’t have much experience with PvP, and so she wasn’t used to the excitement of beating another player. So it was no wonder that she was on such a high. Whether it’s a fighting game, puzzle game or shooter, winning against another player could become addicting. It was different from fighting an NPC. “It ended with you, Anne. How did you do it?” “About that!” “Ohh! There you are! Hey! Let’s go and talk to them!” It was the four from Mad Slime CORE. They seemed rather cheerful considering they had just lost. Well, except for one of them... “Uuu... I’m so sorry...” “Stop crying Ashido. There’s no need for you to be sorry, as it would have been impossible for you to turn things around at that point. We’re all at fault!” “But... It’s the way that I died that is so lame... I’ll be a laughing stock online...” “No you won’t! It will take a lot more than that to become eternally famous on the internet! If anything, you’ll be completely forgotten in no time!” “You...I don’t know if you’re encouraging me or mocking me...!” A large man who wore a hood and carried a bazooka on his back was crying uncontrollably. Judging by the conversation, this was clearly the last surviving member of Mad Slime CORE. The one that Anne had beaten. “Ah! That’s the guy I defeated! Well, it really just a coincidence...!” “A-a coincidence...?” “I received information that you were all fighting the enemy, and so I was getting quite nervous, knowing that my time was coming! And so I started swinging my spiked ball around as I walked, in order to prevent an ambush!” “I see. It’s true that no one would be able to get close to you if you were swinging that around. And so, uh...did he get caught in it...?” “Wait! Even I am not that stupid! Don’t get me wrong! In the first place, my weapon is a bazooka! I don’t need to get close to someone in order to ambush them!” “S-sorry... Anne, could you continue?” “Ah, well, there isn’t much else to say. As I was swinging it around, my hand grew tired, and I accidentally let go of the chain! And then the iron ball went flying off and hit that guy...!” “That’s right! It hit me by accident! I was completely hidden and aiming with my bazooka. She wasn’t even looking at me when the iron ball came flying in my direction, so I couldn’t dodge it! How was I...supposed to predict that!? Right?!” But the members of Mad Slime CORE were trying to hold back their laughter. They really did seem like an amusing group... “And it hit me in the worst place! While it wasn’t an instant death, it crushed my right arm! So I couldn’t use the bazooka, as it’s a two-handed weapon, and she was quick with the followup attack, which was very powerful! Why!” “The followup attack was mostly just reflexes! I was so shocked that I moved without thinking! I did a lot of damage because I was using a skill that gives you a boost the more you swing it. I had thought that it was a questionable skill, as it takes a long time to get fired up, but it was quite useful this time!” “Tsk! So luck was on your side this time! Because you’re a nun!” “It’s just a costume.” So now we know the truth of Anne’s fight. An unfortunate accident...that led to a quick followup attack and victory. While she lacked experience, Anne’s battle instincts had led her to fight in the best way, which is what made her strong. “Well, regardless of any of that, we were still defeated in the first round. You’ve really done it! I have nothing else to say to you. A loser shouldn’t be giving a winner any advice, and I’m not going to add more pressure by asking you to win for us. Just fight in your own way and win. Besides, I can still enjoy the benefits of a family member winning million.” “I’m not giving you a single yen.” Satomi said flatly. And then they both laughed. “You could at least buy me lunch then! Also, you better check out your next opponent!” So saying, Core and the others left. Our next opponent...was already decided. Because they were the people who won the battle before ours. As our battle was coming up, I had been quite nervous while watching them, and so I remembered their name clearly. They were called...G’z. Apparently, they were a party made up of grandfathers...!	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 5, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
ますます深長になるベールの意義はさらに、モロッコの男性と女性の重要な違いを強調した。イスラミストであろうとなかろうと、多くの男性にとってベールとは、あくまでイスラムとのつながりと伝統的な信心を示すサインである。一方で、多くの女性にとってのベールは、解放のしるし－彼女達が宗教的慣習に対する自分達の認識を反映するかたちでモロッコの公務に携わることのしるしなのである。	For many men, Islamist or not, the veil remains a sign of Islamic affiliation and traditional piety. For many women, however, the veil is a token of liberation – an indication that they have engaged with the Moroccan public in ways that reflect their own sense of religious practice.	{ "source": "news_commentary", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
昼間とは違い、夜の場合は獣も危険だが人も危険になる。そこで街道から少し外れた場所で野営することにしている組の場合はその必要はないだろうが、これも基本だ。「というわけで、まず焚き火は必須」テキパキとクラウドが三人組に指示を出している。どうやら、同性ということで奴だけは気安く話しかけれるようだ。獣が火を恐れる、というのは実は俗信である。中には火に興味を持って近付いてくる獣もいる。真っ暗闇の中で奇襲を受けることほど、恐ろしいことはない。職業柄、俺はそれをよく知っている。「まずは燃え広がらないように、周囲の草を毟って焚き火のスペースを作る」「うっす」彼らは最初は反抗的だが認めた相手には従順になる性格のようだ。田舎村では、彼らをねじ伏せる相手がいなかったので、横暴な行為を続けられたのだろう。彼らに圧勝したミシェルちゃんや、魔法使いとして優秀なフィニア、意外と歴戦の戦績を持つクラウドは、相応に敬意を持って対応されていた。もちろん、彼女たちを率いる俺にもその視線は向けられている。ただしその中に疑惑の感情が混じっているのは仕方ないところだろう。しばし夜営の準備などを指導しつつ、夕食の準備を始める。「だから、三人だけの時はパンとチーズに、干し野菜を戻したスープとかでも最低限の栄養は確保できますので、そうしてください」「うぃす、でも面倒だから干し肉だけでも――」「それは塩分が強くてやめた方が......喉乾きますし」どうやら自分の土俵であるこの分野では、気後れすることもなく話ができるようだった。俺たちのパーティで、他のパーティでは受けられない長所が一つある。それはフィニアの料理だ。「うめぇ! うめぇっスよ、フィニアの姐さん!」「誰が姐さんか。フィニアはわたしのモノだ」プロの料理人にも引けを取らない夕食に、感涙してがっつく三人に俺は昼に作ったオシオキ棒でツッコミを入れておく。その様子を見て、ミシェルちゃんは苦笑を浮かべていた。「でも、しかたないよね。フィニアさんの料理、おいしいもん」「孤児院の料理とは比べ物になんねーし」「こんなおいしい料理ばっかり食べてたら太っちゃうよ」「ニコル様はぜんぜん太りませんでしたけどね」「わたしは、胸にばかり肉が寄っちゃって」「ニコルちゃん、それって嫌味かなー?」「ミシェルちゃんには言われたくないよ!」俺以上に豊満なくせに何を言っているのだか。そういえば、これから夜番を立てるわけだが、その組み合わせも考えておかないといけない。「この後は見張り番を立てて夜を過ごすんだけど、その組み合わせはどうする?」いつもなら俺が指示しておしまいの話題だが、今回は他の連中の育成のためでもある。それに俺も、彼女たちがどういう組み合わせを提案するのか、聞いてみたい。「そうだな、三人はみんなバラバラにした方がいいよな」「じゃあ三交代制だね。疲れも少ないしいいんじゃないかな」「わたしたち組だから一組で組んだらちょうどいいですね。一人は夜番抜きでずっと休めてしまいますが」「じゃあ、それはニコルちゃんだね」「え、わたし?」ミシェルちゃんが俺を夜番から外すように提案してきた。その意図が読めず、鳩が豆鉄砲を食らったような顔を返してしまう。だがミシェルちゃんは当然というような顔で、説明してきた。「だってニコルちゃんは、中で一番疲れやすい体質でしょ? なら休憩はこまめに取らないと」「でもわたしだけ休むなんて、悪いよ?」「その分、昼間は斥候してもらってるだろ。気絶しやすいんだから、休める時に休んどけって」「そうですね、ニコル様はいわば切り札ですから、もう少し勿体ぶってくれてもいいんですよ?」昼間の失敗と説教、それとフィニアの料理などで、自分たちには学ぶことが多いと再確認したのだろうか? ならば俺も、ここで意固地になる必要はない。そもそも俺の眠りは基本的に浅い方だ。万が一夜番が敵の接近などを見逃しても、俺なら奇襲前に気付くことができる。俺は勢い込んでフィニアの作った野菜スープを口に運び......その熱さに舌を焼かれて、悶えたのだった。	Unlike the daytime, the nighttime was dangerous not just because of the beasts but people as well. Since we were in the middle of nowhere, other travelers could approach us with bad motives. It was all the more dangerous when we were all beauties. Thus, we decided to camp a little away from the highway. There was no need for that in the trio’s case, but it was still something fundamental. “Anyway, first we need a bonfire.” Cloud quickly issued instructions to them. Looks like he could talk to them normally, with all of them being the boys and all. Animals fearing fire... was actually a folk belief. Some animals even approached it out of curiosity. But without light, we couldn’t see our surroundings either. There’s nothing as scary as being suddenly attacked in total darkness. I knew that full well due to my profession. More than the damage you receive, the chaos that follows it is more frightening. “First, we should plug the grass around and make space for the bonfire so the flame doesn’t spread.” “Gotcha.” The three listened obediently when it came to simple work like this. They were rebellious at first, but they became docile towards those who they accepted. They had no one to make them yield in their rural village, so they were allowed to continue their high-handedness. Michelle, who defeated them overwhelmingly, Finia, who was skilled as a magician, and Cloud who had unexpectedly big combat experience, were all targets of respect for them. Of course, I who was leading them was also given similar respect. However, there were some doubts mixed in their gazes, but that was expected. Unlike Cloud, my body was small and dainty. It was rather unreasonable to make them accept that I was strong with words alone. They started getting ready for a meal while instructing the three on camping. I had nothing to offer in this regard, so Finia took the stage. That said, it wasn’t like they’d learn it immediately even if taught. “So when it’s just the three of you, you can eat bread and cheese and a soup with rehydrated dried vegetables, and it will give you sufficient nutrients.” “Okay, but it sounds like a pain so maybe just a jerky will—” “That has a lot of salt so I would advise against it... it will make you thirsty.” She was answering their questions while nimbly making the food. It seemed that she could speak without losing her nerve in her area of expertise. I would be happy if her shyness gets abated with this. Our party had one strong merit that other parties didn’t. That was Finia’s cooking. I could only make crude food, while Michelle was in charge of just eating, so we couldn’t make delicious meals. Cloud could apparently do it more or less, but he was not anywhere near Finia’s level. “Holy! This is delicious, big sis Finia!” “Who’re you calling a big sis? Finia is mine.” As the three were shedding tears of gratitude at Finia’s pro-level cooking, I used the smacking pole I made earlier to rebuke them. Michelle couldn’t help but laugh seeing that. “But it can’t be helped. Finia’s cooking is delicious.” “It can’t even be compared to the stuff I had to eat at the orphanage.” “I’d get fat if I ate nothing but this food.” “Lady Nicole isn’t gaining any weight, however.” “Well in my case, all the fat is going to my breasts.” “Nicole, is that supposed to be a snide remark?” “You’re the last person who should be saying that Michelle!” What was she complaining about when she was far more packed than me? Speaking of which, we had to keep watch after this, so we needed to think about the pairing. “We have to keep watch after this, so what do we do about the pairs?” Usually, it would be me giving directions, but we were doing this for others to train. They would only grow if they themselves decided on things and gave instructions. Besides, I was also curious about what kind of pairings they would decide on. “Right, it’s better for the three of you to divide.” “Then three shifts it is. We’d get less tired that way, so sounds good.” “There’s four of us, so if we go with pairs, it would be just right. The remaining person will just sleep without keeping watch.” “Then that would be Nicole.” “Huh, me?” Michelle suggested that I would be removed from the night watch. I looked at her surprised, not understanding her intention. But Michelle explained it as if it was natural. “I mean, you have the weakest constitution among us, right? So you have to rest properly.” “But I’d feel bad if only I were to sleep.” “You are making up for it by scouting during the day. You’re prone to fainting so just rest when you can.” “That’s right. You’re our trump card, so you should put on some more airs, Lady Nicole.” I glanced at the trio. But they seem to have no objections about their decision. Maybe they have reconfirmed that they had a lot to learn after their daytime failures and sermons, and Finia’s cooking on top. If so, I suppose I shouldn’t be stubborn here either. In the first place, my sleep is pretty light. Even if whoever is on the night watch overlooks the enemy’s approach, I will be able to notice it before they attack us. And if that happened, that failure would also serve as a good lesson for them. Convincing myself, I decided to accept Michelle’s proposal. With that settled, all that was left was to finish up the meal before my eyes. Eating Finia’s cooking without properly tasting it would be too much of a waste. Thus, I carried Finia’s vegetable soup to my mouth with enthusiasm... only to burn my tongue and writhe in pain.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 16, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
でも宇宙については母なる地球の生命線である地下水路についてよりもずっとよく知られていると分かりましただからもっと驚くべきことをすることにしました宇宙の代わりに地球内部の驚異を探検したかったのです多くの人が洞窟潜水は恐らく最も危険な活動の一つだといいます想像してみてくださいこの部屋にいるあなたが突然暗闇に押し込められてひたすら出口を探すのを任務とし時には広い空間を泳ぎ時には椅子の下を這うようにして細いガイドラインをたどって生命維持装置が次の息を供給するのを待つのですそれが私の仕事場です今日お教えしたいのは地球は一つの大きな硬い岩ではないということですむしろスポンジのようなものです私は地球のスポンジにあるたくさんの穴の中を泳げますが行かれない場所でも他の生命体と物質が私なしで旅しています私は母なる地球の内部について皆さんにお教えするつもりです人類初の南極の氷山内部への潜水を決心した時ガイドブックはありませんでした 2000年においてこれは地球最大の移動物体でしたロス氷棚が分離したものです氷縁の生態系を調査し氷の下の生命体を探すために潜りました私たちはリブリーザーと呼ばれる技術を使います宇宙遊泳に使われる技術と非常に似ていますこの技術で 10年前に想像したよりも深く潜れるようになりました私たちは特殊なガスを使い水中で20時間もの任務でさえ可能です私は生物学者たちと一緒に働いています洞窟は驚くべき生物や以前は存在を知らなかった種の宝庫と分りましたこれらの生物の多くは独特な方法で生活しています多くの場合色素や目がなくそして非常に長生きです実は今日洞窟で泳いでいる動物は恐竜の絶滅以前の化石として残されている種と全く同じものですだからこれらは小さな泳ぐ恐竜だと想像してみて下さい彼らは進化と生存について何を教えてくれるのでしょうか? 例えばこの瓶の中で泳ぐムカデエビのような動物は大きな毒牙を持っています自分の40倍の大きさのものを襲って殺せますもしこれが猫の大きさだとしたら地球上最も危険なものになるでしょうこうした動物たちはとても美しい場所に住み時にはこのようにとても新しい洞窟ですが動物は古代のものですどうやってそこに行ったのでしょうか? 私は物理学者とも働いています彼らは大抵地球の気候変動に関心があります洞窟内の岩を採取し薄切りにして岩の内部の層を調査します木の年輪にそっくりで歴史を遡ることができ全く異なる時代の地球の気候が分りますこの写真の赤い部分はサハラ砂漠からの砂です風に拾われて大西洋を越えて飛んできましたこの場合バハマのアバコ島に大量に降り注ぎました地面を通って染み込み洞窟内の岩に堆積しましたこれらの岩の層を振り返ると地球の気候が非常に乾燥していた時代について分り何十万年も遡ることができます古気候学者も他の時代において地球の海面がどこにあったのかに関心を持っていますここバミューダで私はチームと共にこの地域で最も深く有人潜水を行いました海面より何百フィートも下でかつて波が打ち寄せた海岸線を探したのです古生物学者と考古学者とも仕事を始めましたメキシコバハマキューバなどのいくつかの場所で洞窟に残された文化遺跡と人骨を調査しています調査によって初期の地域住民についていろいろなことが分ります私のお気に入りのプロジェクトは15年以上前地下の地形を正確な3Dの地図として初めて作るチームの一員だったものです私が洞窟で運転している装置は運転している最中に 3Dモデルを作成していました洞窟内での私たちの正確な位置を地上に伝えるために超低周波無線機も使いました家、会社、ボーリング場、ゴルフコースソニーズBBQレストランの下さえも泳ぎましたとても素晴らしかったそれで学んだのは地球の表面での行いは飲料水として自分に返ってくるということです私たちの水惑星は川、湖、海だけでなく私たちを結び付ける地下水の広大なネットワークなのですそれは私たち皆が飲む共有資源です地下水及び地球の水資源と人間とのつながりを理解したら恐らく今世紀最も重要な問題に取り組むでしょう私はずっとなりたかった宇宙飛行士になれませんでしたでもビル・ストーン博士が設計したこの地図作製装置はなれるでしょう実際には姿を変えました今や自泳式自律型ロボットとなり人工知能を持っていますその究極の目的は木星の月のエウロパに行き凍結した表面下にある海を探検することですとても素晴らしいことです	So I decided to do something that was even more remarkable. Instead of exploring outer space, I wanted to explore the wonders of inner space. Now, a lot of people will tell you that cave diving is perhaps one of the most dangerous endeavors. I mean, imagine yourself here in this room, if you were suddenly plunged into blackness, with your only job to find the exit, sometimes swimming through these large spaces, and at other times crawling beneath the seats, following a thin guideline, just waiting for the life support to provide your very next breath. Well, that's my workplace. But what I want to teach you today is that our world is not one big solid rock. It's a whole lot more like a sponge. I can swim through a lot of the pores in our earth's sponge, but where I can't, other life-forms and other materials can make that journey without me. And my voice is the one that's going to teach you about the inside of Mother Earth. There was no guidebook available to me when I decided to be the first person to cave dive inside Antarctic icebergs. In 2000, this was the largest moving object on the planet. It calved off the Ross Ice Shelf, and we went down there to explore ice edge ecology and search for life-forms beneath the ice. We use a technology called rebreathers. It's an awful lot like the same technology that is used for space walks. This technology enables us to go deeper than we could've imagined even 10 years ago. We use exotic gases, and we can make missions even up to 20 hours long underwater. I work with biologists. It turns out that caves are repositories of amazing life-forms, species that we never knew existed before. Many of these life-forms live in unusual ways. They have no pigment and no eyes in many cases, and these animals are also extremely long-lived. In fact, animals swimming in these caves today are identical in the fossil record that predates the extinction of the dinosaurs. So imagine that: these are like little swimming dinosaurs. What can they teach us about evolution and survival? When we look at an animal like this remipede swimming in the jar, he has giant fangs with venom. He can actually attack something 40 times his size and kill it. If he were the size of a cat, he'd be the most dangerous thing on our planet. And these animals live in remarkably beautiful places, and in some cases, caves like this, that are very young, yet the animals are ancient. How did they get there? I also work with physicists, and they're interested oftentimes in global climate change. They can take rocks within the caves, and they can slice them and look at the layers within with rocks, much like the rings of a tree, and they can count back in history and learn about the climate on our planet at very different times. The red that you see in this photograph is actually dust from the Sahara Desert. So it's been picked up by wind, blown across the Atlantic Ocean. It's rained down in this case on the island of Abaco in the Bahamas. It soaks in through the ground and deposits itself in the rocks within these caves. And when we look back in the layers of these rocks, we can find times when the climate was very, very dry on earth, and we can go back many hundreds of thousands of years. Paleoclimatologists are also interested in where the sea level stands were at other times on earth. Here in Bermuda, my team and I embarked on the deepest manned dives ever conducted in the region, and we were looking for places where the sea level used to lap up against the shoreline, many hundreds of feet below current levels. I also get to work with paleontologists and archaeologists. In places like Mexico, in the Bahamas, and even in Cuba, we're looking at cultural remains and also human remains in caves, and they tell us a lot about some of the earliest inhabitants of these regions. But my very favorite project of all was over 15 years ago, accurate, three-dimensional map of a subterranean surface. This device that I'm driving through the cave was actually creating a three-dimensional model as we drove it. We also used ultra low frequency radio to broadcast back to the surface our exact position within the cave. So I swam under houses and businesses and bowling alleys and golf courses, and even under a Sonny's BBQ Restaurant, Pretty remarkable, and what that taught me was that everything we do on the surface of our earth will be returned to us to drink. Our water planet is not just rivers, lakes and oceans, but it's this vast network of groundwater that knits us all together. It's a shared resource from which we all drink. and all of our water resources on this planet, then we'll be working on the problem that's probably the most important issue of this century. So I never got to be that astronaut that I always wanted to be, but this mapping device, designed by Dr. Bill Stone, will be. It's actually morphed. It's now a self-swimming autonomous robot, artificially intelligent, and its ultimate goal is to go to Jupiter's moon Europa and explore oceans beneath the frozen surface of that body. And that's pretty amazing.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
「では、参ります。全員、突撃!」ルーノスの言葉と共に青旗の軍勢が突撃を開始した。各部隊を指揮する騎士のもと、歩兵たちが突撃するとともに弓兵たちが前進しながら矢をつがえ、放つ。「来たぞ、斜線陣を取れ!」はナルスに言われていた通り右手の丘の側の部隊を前に、左手の林側の部隊を後ろという斜めの陣形を取るように命じた。訓練を受けた歩兵たちは長い槍を構え、上を盾で守りながらすぐさま斜線陣の形になる。「弓隊、矢をつがえろ! 十分に引きつけてから撃てよ!」弓兵たちはいっせいに矢をつがえ、何時でも打てる体勢で指示を待っている。「よし、撃て!」僕の号令と共に、100人の弓隊が放つ矢が至近距離まで近づいてきた相手の上に降り注いだ。この一度の斉射である程度の兵に塗料をつけて脱落させることが出来たようだ。悔しがる相手の声が聞こえてくる。それに対しこちらはじっと待ち構えているおかげで、届く矢のほとんどは防げたようで歩兵たちの被害は軽微だ。「ひるむな、正面から当たらず横に回って攻撃しろ!」ルーノスの言葉に青旗側の兵たちは赤旗の長槍の側面に回って攻撃しようとしているが、こちらが斜線陣を引いているために逆に後ろの隊の長槍に横から突かれる形になってしまう。 5メートルの長槍の効果は絶大で次々と相手の歩兵、更には騎兵にまで赤い塗料を付けていく。「くっ、このままでは......!」ルーノスが味方の苦戦に渋い表情を浮かべたその時、林側から迂回していた部隊が突撃してきた。『うおおぉぉぉ!』『来たぞ、転回して防げええ!』青旗の奇襲部隊は勢いよく斜線陣の一番後ろの部隊目掛けて突撃していくが、まだ交戦していなかった赤旗の槍兵たちは待ち構えていたかのように見事な動きで方向を変え、それに対応する。さらにその後ろにいた弓兵たちが突撃してくる青旗の部隊に対し矢を放ってその数を減らした。「奇襲も失敗か、この上は」ルーノスは味方部隊に対し大声で叫んだ。「全軍本陣まで撤退せよ! 本陣にてマーカス将軍の指示を仰げ! 退却!」そう叫んだあと、指揮をするカルロの方を見て呟いた。「さて、せっかくの機会です。もう少しお付き合いいただきますよ」うん、これは上手く行った。ナルスの策がこれほど当たるとは、やるなあ。奇襲作戦にはちょっと驚いたけど、斜行陣を引いていたおかげで兵たちは落ち着いて対処してくれてる。この分なら問題なく勝てそう......なんて気軽に考えていた時期が僕にもありました。ルーノスが叫ぶのを聞いて「こりゃ勝ったな」と思ったその瞬間、その当人が突っ込んでくるじゃありませんか! え? え? なんで逃げないの? 戸惑っているうちにルーノスが真っ直ぐ目の前にやってきて、「カルロさま、一騎打ちを所望します!」なんて言ってくる。「ちょ、ちょっと待て、ここはそういう場所じゃないだろう」「互いの将が一騎打ちをするのは別におかしくないと思いますがね」そう言いながら木剣と盾を手に打ちかかってきた。問答無用かよっ! 剣技大会でのFとの試合を見て、ルーノスの腕前は嫌というほど分かってる。誘拐犯の一味の仮面の傭兵、暁としてルーノスとやり合った時はほんの2、3合打ち合っただけだった。もともと茶番だったしすぐ魔法使って逃げ出したけど、十分その強さは肌で感じた。さすが「元」とはいえバルハムント最強と言われた騎士、強敵なのは当然だ。しかも女の子にモテるイケメンだから戦いたくないって言うのに! 勝っても別に嬉しくないしファンの女の子には恨まれそうだし、かといって負けたら腹立つし。だからやりたくないと言っても、この感じじゃとても許してくれそうもない。なんでこいつはこんなに僕とやりたがってるんだ?! 「どうしました? 総大将が討ち取られてはまずいんじゃないですか?」おっと、そんなことを考えながら危なく斬られる(といっても塗料が付くだけだけど)所だった。ルーノスの言葉で我に返った。「なんでそんなに一生懸命なんだ? これは所詮演習だろう」「だからですよ。せっかくの遊び、これで終わるのはもったいないじゃないですか。大会の決勝を見ていつかお相手願いたいとずっと思っていたんですよっ!」そう言いながら鋭く斬りかかってくる木剣を受け止めながら説得を試みる。「まあそれはまたいつか、という事でどうだ? ここは素直に引いてくれないか?」ただでさえ早いルーノスの剣が、木剣のおかげでますます速くなって防ぐのがやっとだ。こっちはオリハルコンの剣も使えないし魔法も使ったら暁のことがバレそうだし、勘弁してよ。「この速さを話をしながら捌くとは、やはりカルロさまは只者ではありませんね」そう言ってニヤリと笑いながらルーノスめ、調子に乗ってますます攻めてくる。誰か手助けを、と思っても周りにいるのは歩兵と弓兵ばかり。みんな初めて間近で見る騎士同士の一騎打ちに、相手の軍を追うのも忘れて見ている始末。残念すぎる。たしかに全体としては勝っても総大将が討たれたら画竜点睛を欠く、ってかカッコ悪いな。むしろもしかしたら実質的に負けたことになるとか? うーん僕、思いもよらない形で絶体絶命――	“Then, shall we start? All units, charge!” As Lunos uttered these words the blue army started its charge. Each unit was led by a knight, the foot soldiers charged and the archers advanced while shooting arrows. “Here they come, use the Echelon formation!” As Nals told me I ordered them to take a diagonal formation with the hill on the right-hand side in front and the forest on the left-hand side behind them. The well-trained foot soldiers were immediately able to form a diagonal line while the ones at the front raised their shields to protect the spear wielders behind them. “Archers, nock your arrows! After having attracted enough of them shoot!” The archers nocked their arrows at once and waited for instructions in a posture ready to shoot at any time. “Alright, shoot!” At my command, archers poured their arrows down on the closest enemies. It seems like they were able to splash paint on some soldiers with that single volley. I hear the frustrated voices of the other party. On the other hand, thanks to patiently waiting most of the arrows could be blocked and the damage to our infantry was just minor. “Don’t be daunted, attacking their front won’t work, attack their flanks!” At Lunos’ words the soldiers of the blue army turned around to attack the red army’s flank, but then they used the Echelon formation with the soldiers holding long spears in the back stabbing them instead. The meter long spear’s effect was tremendous, not only did they splash red paint on foot soldiers one after another but also on horsemen. “Ku, if it’s like this then......!” Lunos showed a sour expression as he saw his allies engaging in this hard fight, at that moment the unit which took a detour through the forest charged at them. 『Uooooo!』『There they are, turn around and defeeend!』 The blue army’s surprise attack corps vigorously aimed their charge at the last troop of the Echelon formation but the red army’s pike men who had not yet engaged in battle changed direction in a splendid movement as if they were awaiting them and were able to deal with them. Furthermore, the archers who were standing behind them were able to reduce the blue army’s assault group’s numbers. “The surprise attack also failed, huh? Then, above all” Lunos shouted to his allied units. “Whole army, retreat to the camp! Ask for further instructions from General Marcus in the camp! Retreat!” After he shouted this he looked towards Carlo who was giving out orders and then muttered. “Well then, this is a precious opportunity. Please keep me company a little longer.” Yeah, it went well. It was Nals who prepared for this, so of course. Though I was a little surprised by their surprise attack operation but the soldiers acted calmly and were able to deal with them thanks to this formation. If it’s continuing like this we’ll be able to win without a problem......I also had some time to think freely. As I heard Lunos shouted this I thought “We won this” but why is the person himself coming over here?! Eh? Eh? Why won’t you retreat? While I was still puzzled Lunos came over and stopped in front of me. “Carlo-sama, I want to have a fight!” What is he saying? “Wai, wait a minute, this isn’t the right place to do this” “I don’t think it’s particularly strange for enemy commanders to engage in combat” As he said that he attacked with a wooden sword and shield in his hands. Is there no room for discussion? As I saw his match with F in the Sword Fighting Competition I understand Lunos’ strength all too well. When I had a fight with Lunos as the masked mercenary Akatsuki because of that incident with the kidnappers we only exchanged to blows. Originally it was just a farce and I immediately escaped using magic but I was able to experience his strength on my own body. As one would expect from the “Ex” strongest knight of Braham, he’s a powerful enemy. Besides, he’s a handsome guy popular with the girls so I don’t want to fight him! Even if I win I can’t be happy about it as his female fans will hold a grudge against me and if I lose I’ll get frustrated. That’s why I feel like I won’t be forgiven even if I say I didn’t want to. Why does this guy want to fight me that much?! “What’s wrong? Wouldn’t it be bad if the commander gets defeated?” Oops, while I was thinking about such things I was nearly killed (Though it’s just paint). As I heard Lunos’ words I pulled myself together. “Why are you trying so hard? This is just an exercise, right?” “Because it is an exercise. Wouldn’t it be a shame to let this golden opportunity slide? Ever since I saw the Sword Fighting Competition’s finals I thought about wanting to fight you once!” I tried to persuade him while parrying the wooden sword which was about to cut me as he said that. “Well then how about doing that on another day? Would you obediently withdraw from this place then?” Lunos’ fast sword swings became faster and faster but thanks to it being a wooden sword I was barely able to block. I can’t use my Oricalcum sword and if I use magic the thing with Akatsuki will come out, so forgive me. “To talk while still being able to deal with this speed, as I thought Carlo-sama isn’t an ordinary person.” As he said that Lunos started to attack more and more with a grin on his face. Even if I wanted someone to help there were just foot soldiers and archers around. As that was everyone’s first time seeing someone fight toe-on-toe with a knight in a one-on-one they completely forgot to chase the enemy army and just watched. How disappointing. Even if we win overall if the commander gets defeated it doesn’t feel like a complete victory, I mean, it’s not cool at all. Or rather doesn’t that practically mean our defeat? Mmm, I unexpectedly got myself in to a desperate situation――	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 1, "inserted_lines_src": 1, "inserted_lines_trg": 3 }
まだ暗黒の時代から抜け出られずにいます TEDではあらゆる分野における人間の持つ素晴らしい能力・知識についての講演がされていますがこの惑星が未だに地球と呼ばれることを思い返して下さい信じられません暗黒の時代は終わってないんですねアリストテレスは言いましたこの星は平らじゃない丸いんだ裁判が控えていたガリレオは慎ましくする必要がありましたが地球が中心じゃねぇんだよと唱えましたホークスの見解はこうです「ここは''地''球じゃなく ”水”球だろうが」ここは海の惑星なんですエリオットが私に言った言葉です鳥肌が立つかもしれません「探検からは終わりは見つからない探検の終わりは初めて知った出発点への帰着なのである」続けて「未知の門を通り抜けた先の世界の最果てが見つける場所それこそが全ての始まりである」ここで皆さんにメッセージがあります私達は誤った方向を目指しているようなんですここにはロケット技師の方がいるでしょうお仕事自体は素敵ですガッツも勇気もかいますしかし肝心のロケットがどうしょうもない方に向けられていますこれは全て見方の問題なんです例を挙げましょう気を悪くしないで聴いて下さいね侮辱ととられてしまうので実際にはやりませんがまねごとをしてみましょう皆さんの考えを当ててみせます 1平方フィートの地面を切り出したとしますそして次に海から2平方フィートを取り出します大きさは1.5倍ですねこの二つの相対値はいくつでしょうか? 相対寄与ですね皆さんそろって「知ってるよ」と言うでしょうね地球上での水の表面積は大地のそれの二倍に当たりますしかしこれは見方の問題なんですねもし愚かにも地球と呼ばれるこの海洋の惑星に対してこのようにお考えならばつまり 2対1の相対的重要度だと考えるなら 10倍ほど間違っています途方もない馬鹿とは言いませんが「地球」とい言うと少し馬鹿げて聞こえます見る方向をこのように変えれば地球の断片は紙切れの如く薄くなるからです二次元のペラペラのフィルム同然です海には更に深度というものが加わりますそしてこの二つを持ち上げれば相対値は20対1だとわかるでしょう地球上の生命の94%以上が水性だと分かっています言い換えれば陸上生物は少数派ということです人類の信仰の中に潜む問題は地球は人類の為に出来たという概念を捨てなくてはいけないことですこれこそが私達の問題なんですもしここが海の惑星で人類はほんの少数派でしかないなら人類にはなにかと不都合ですねではここで少し批判をさせて下さいジェームズ・キャメロンの批判ではありません彼の話は今日はいいですが彼の最新作はぜひ見て下さいエイリアンズ・オブ・ザ・ディープです素晴らしいですこの2台の潜水艦が主役ですここがダメですあれらは私のものなんですこれは古典的潜水艦の中でも最も美しいものの一つだと思います上部に球体が見えますねこの球体は非環式のものですこれが全ての浮力と有効荷重を生み出します風船のようなバッテリーが下部に取り付けてありますこれが気嚢こちらがゴンドラです後ほど詳しく見ていきますが巨大なライトもいただけません更にはハイテクな操縦機が2台ついています本当にすごい潜水艦なんです素晴らしい設計です問題点はこれが二次元思考で作られていることですそのため私は同種のものは二度と作らないつもりですこれは潜水を試みるエンジニアの典型です私達は地上での障害・制約を考慮しなくてはいけませんがこの二次元の制約は強力すぎて私達は理解すらしていませんにも関わらずこれを水中に持ち込んでいますお気づきの通りジムは着席していますねこれは重力が座席にかかる二次元世界のみで可能なんですいいですか? そして二次元界にも三次元についての知はありますが重力に逆らうには膨大なエネルギーが必要なためこれが顧みられることはありません母親たちは言いますね「転ばないようにね」下には倒れてしまいますから次は水の中について考えてみましょうこの惑星の内部環境は二種類あります内側の水圏と外側の気体の多い大気圏です地球上の生命のほとんどは水圏に暮らしています人類には未知の三次元の世界に悠々と暮らしているんです魚は椅子に座りませんよ座りません魚の母親は子供に「転ばないように」なんてことは言いません転ぶことも落ちることもありません彼らの三次元世界では上下前後ろどこへ行くにも消費エネルギーは同じです正真正銘の三次元世界です人類はまだここに踏み込んだばかりです無人・有人に関わらず三次元界の特性を利用した潜水艦は私のもの以外に見たことがありませんこれこそが正しい潜水方法なんですこちらは三次元対応の潜水艦ですつまり水中では水性生物のように三次元界で自由に泳ぐべきなんですこの映像はすごいですよこれは人類史上初の海底飛行の試みです優雅に泳ぐ巨大なマンタが見えてきました彼女の横幅は私の2倍はありますほらこちらを見ています彼女の旋回を見てみて下さい座ってませんしタンクもついてません上昇するにも下降にもただ単に回るだけですこの潜水艦の映像は本日初公開ですクリスに未公開映像の上映を頼まれていましたのでお気づきでしょうか彼女が旋回して戻ってきたんですほら戻ってくるのが見えますね下から上がってきました私は逆スラストでゆっくり潜っています全ての動きは優しくと心がけています 3時間も潜っていたので親近感がわき始めたんですね彼女は完璧なバレーを踊るんですよ近づきすぎて少し離れられてしまいまいした彼女の追跡を試みていますがこれが初飛行でまだ練習中で上手く行きませんこのプロトタイプは一号機でこれにはフライ・バイ・ワイヤを採用しています翼もありますへんな浮力タンクは付けていませんもちろん永久に浮力を得ることが出来ます水の中を飛行することでコントロールを得ます見て下さい下から旋回してきましたこの潜水艦で潜水したのはこの一度きりです作成に10年を要しましたまぁしかし彼女には本当にたくさんのことを教わりましたこの3時間の水中飛行のなかで多くのことを学びましたまた別のものを作らなくてはねタンクに空気を送ってあれこれと考えながらゆっくり浮上せずとも少し背圧を利用すればこうして一直線に浮上することが出来ますこの内部カメラはSony製です Sony ありがとう私も案外見苦しくないもんですがカメラが近すぎて少し歪んで映っていますまた来ました上を泳いでいますこのカメラは広角撮影が可能です私の頭上すれすれのところを泳いでいます「はっはっは頭の真上を通ったぞおぉなんだすごく近かったなぁ」水面に出ました息継ぎではありません「マンタとの素晴らしい遭遇だったよもうなんて言っていいやら」「目と鼻の先だったよもう一回潜ってこよう」よし止めてもらえますか? 照明も戻して下さいマンタと一緒に泳ごうとしましたが問題点は機動性不足ではなく実は彼女が遅すぎたんですね水中では機敏に動いて移動範囲を拡大するのが良いと思い高速移動が出来るように設計をしてしまったのです彼女に会ってからもう一度マンタと踊りたくなりました彼女は踊りたがっていたんですグリップを効かせて力強さを出すために翼面を広くする必要がありました昨年完成したモデルがこちらです巨大な翼が見えますねこれはとても素敵なことですから他の人にも潜水を楽しんでもらいたくなりましたそこで世界初の海底飛行専門学校を開きました以前小さくてへんてこな球体をぷかぷかさせている時には沿岸警備隊は特に気にもかけませんでしたが噴射推進式潜水艦で実際に潜水を始めると彼らも少し敏感になったようで近づいてきて「ライセンスは持ってるのか?」と質問してくるようになりましたそこで私はサングラスをひげの生えたあごにかけて答えるんです「ライセンスなんていらねーよ」今ではしょうもないライセンスを書いていますボブ・ゲルフォンなんですが会場にライセンスナンバー20を持っている方がいます世界に先駆ける海底飛行家の一人です今では学校を2つ運営していますなにを目指しているんでしょう知りませんまぁ楽しいですよ水中では30秒後に何が待っているかもわかりませんところでカレンと私は海底飛行の特許を目指していました提携先から特許化を求められていましたのでこれには確信が持てませんでしたこれは放っておくことにしました間違っているのではと考えたからです海底飛行の自由を奪うということがね私達の模倣をしたい方や参加したい方はご自由にどうぞ私達は低コスト化も実現しています他にも今朝クレーグ・ベントナーに告知を頼まれました私達はこれを更に小型化した無人の深海探索ボートをつくって深海のDNA採取をするつもりですありがとうございました	We still have one foot in the dark ages. And when you listen to some of the presentations here -- and the extraordinary range of human capability, our understandings -- and then you contrast it with the fact we still call this planet, "Earth:" it’s pretty extraordinary -- we have one foot in the dark ages. Just quickly: Aristotle, his thing was, "It’s not flat, stupid, it’s round." Galileo -- he had the Inquisition, so he had to be a little bit more polite -- his was, "It’s not in the middle, you know." And Hawkes: "it’s not earth, stupid, it’s ocean." This is an ocean planet. T.S. Eliot really said it for me -- and this should give you goose bumps: "we shall not cease from exploration and the end of our exploring shall be to return where we started and know the place for the first time." And the next lines are, "Through the unknown remembered gate, where the last of earth discovered is that which is the beginning." So I have one message. It seems to me that we’re all pointed in the wrong direction. For the rocketeers in the audience: I love what you’re doing, I admire the guts, I admire the courage -- but your rockets are pointed in the wrong goddamn direction. And it’s all a question of perspective. Let me try and tell you -- I don’t mean to insult you, but look, because it would be an insult, so I’m going to pretend, and it softens the blow -- I’m going to tell you what you’re thinking. If I held up a square that was one foot square and the color of earth, and I held up another square that was the root two square -- so it’s 1.5 times bigger -- and was the color of the oceans; and I said, what is the relative value of these two things? Well, it’s the relative importance. You would say -- yeah, yeah, yeah, we all know this; water covers twice the area of the planet than dry land. But it’s a question of perception, and if that’s what you’re thinking, "This is an ocean planet stupidly called 'Earth.'" If you think that that’s the relative importance, two to one, you’re wrong by a factor of ten. Now, you’re not as thick as two short planks, but you sound like it when you say "Earth," because that demonstration, if I turned around this way -- that earth plane would be as thin as paper. It’s a thin film, two-dimensional existence. The ocean representation would have a depth to it. And if you hefted those two things you might find that the relative scale of those is 20 to 1. 94 percent of life on earth is aquatic. That means that us terrestrials occupy a minority. The problem we have in believing that is -- you just have to give up this notion that this Earth was created for us. Because it’s a problem we have. If this is an ocean planet and we only have a small minority of this planet, it just interferes with a lot of what humanity thinks. Okay. Let me criticize this thing. I’m not talking about James Cameron -- although I could, but I won’t. You really do have to go and see his latest film, "Aliens of the Deep." It’s incredible. It features two of these deep rovers, and I can criticize them because these sweet things are mine. This, I think, represents one of the most beautiful If you look at that sub, you’ll see a sphere. This is an acryclic sphere. It generates all of the buoyancy, all of the payload for the craft, and the batteries are down here hanging underneath, exactly like a balloon. This is the envelope, and this is the gondola, the payload. Also coming up later for criticism are these massive lights. And this one actually carries two great manipulators. It actually is a very good working sub -- that’s what it was designed for. The problem with it is -- and the reason I will never build another one like it -- is that this is a product of two-dimensional thinking. It’s what we humans do when we go in the ocean as engineers; we take all our terrestrial hang-ups, all our constraints -- importantly, these two-dimensional constraints that we have, and they’re so constrained we don’t even understand it -- and we take them underwater. You notice that Jim Cameron is sitting in a seat. A seat works in a two-dimensional world, where gravity blasts down on that seat, OK? And in a two-dimensional world, we do know about the third dimension but we don’t use it because to go up requires an awful lot of energy against gravity. And then our mothers tell us, "Careful you don’t fall down" -- because you’ll fall over. Now, go into the real atmosphere of this planet. This planet has an inner atmosphere of water; it’s its inner atmosphere. It has two atmospheres -- a lesser, outer gaseous atmosphere, a lighter one. Most of life on earth is in that inner atmosphere. And that life enjoys a three-dimensional existence, which is alien to us. Fish do not sit in seats. They don’t. Their mothers don’t say to little baby fish, "Careful you don’t fall over." They don’t fall over. They don’t fall. They live in a three-dimensional world where there is no difference in energy It’s truly a three-dimensional space. And we’re only just beginning to grasp it. I don’t know of any other submersible, or even remote, that just takes advantage that this is a three-dimensional space. This is the way we should be going into the oceans. This is a three-dimensional machine. What we need to do is go down into the ocean with the freedom of the animals, and move in this three-dimensional space. OK, this is good stuff. This is man’s first attempt at flying underwater. Right now, I’m just coming down on this gorgeous, big, giant manta ray. She has twice the wingspan that I do. There I’m coming; she sees me. And just notice how she rolls under and turns; she doesn’t sit there and try and blow air into a tank and kind of flow up or sink down -- she just rolls. And the craft that I’m in -- this hasn’t been shown before. Chris asked us to show stuff that hasn’t been shown before. I wanted you to notice that she actually turned to come back up. There I am; I see her coming back, coming up underneath me. I put reverse thrust and I try and pull gently down. I’m trying to do everything very gently. We spent about three hours together and she’s beginning to trust me. And this ballet is controlled by this lady here. She gets about that close and then she pulls away. So now I try and go after her, but I’m practicing flying. This is the first flying machine. This was the first prototype. This was a fly by wire. It has wings. There’re no silly buoyancy tanks -- it’s permanently, positively buoyant. And then by moving through the water it’s able to take that control. Now, look at that; look, it’s -- she just blew me away. She just rolled right away from underneath. Really that’s the only real dive I’ve ever made in this machine. It took 10 years to build. But this lady here taught me, hah, taught me so much. We just learned so much in three hours in the water there. I just had to go and build another machine. But look here. Instead of blowing tanks and coming up slowly without thinking about it, it’s a little bit of back pressure, and that sub just comes straight back up out of the water. This is an internal Sony camera. Thank you, Sony. I don’t really look that ugly, but the camera is so close that it’s just distorted. Now, there she goes, right overhead. This is a wide-angle camera. She’s just a few inches off the top of my head. "Aah, ha, oh, he just crossed over the top of my head about, oh, I don’t know, just so close." I come back up, not for air. "This is an incredible encounter with a manta. I’m speechless. We’ve been just feet apart. I’m going back down now." Okay, can we cut that? Lights back up please. Trying to fly and keep up with that animal -- it wasn’t the lack of maneuverability that we had. It was the fact she was going so slow. I actually designed that to move faster through the water because I thought that was the thing that we needed to do: to move fast and get range. But after that encounter I really did want to go back with that animal and dance. She wanted to dance. And so what we needed to do was increase the wing area so that we just had more grip, develop higher forces. So the sub that was outside last year -- this is the one. You see the larger wing area here. Also, clearly, it was such a powerful thing, we wanted to try and bring other people but we couldn't figure out how to do it. So we opened the world’s first flight school. The rational for the world’s first flight school goes something like: when the coastguards come up to me and say -- they used to leave us alone when we were diving these goofy little spherical things, but when we started flying around in underwater jet fighters they got a little nervous -- they would come up and say, "Do you have a license for that?" And then I’d put my sunglasses on, the beard that would all sprout out, and I would say, "I don’t need no stinking license." "I write these stinking license," which I do. So Bob Gelfond's around here -- but somebody in the audience here has license number 20. They’re one of the first subsea aviators. So we’ve run two flight schools. Where the hell that goes, I don’t know, but it’s a lot of fun. What comes next in 30 seconds? I can’t tell you. But the patent for underwater flight -- Karen and I, we were looking at it, some business partners wanted us to patent it -- we weren’t sure about that. We’ve decided we’re just going to let that go. It just seems wrong to try and patent -- -- the freedom for underwater flight. So anybody who wants to copy us and come and join us, go for it. The other thing is that we’ve got much lower costs. We developed some other technology called spider optics, and Craig Ventner asked me to make an announcement here this morning: we’re going to be building a beautiful, little, small version of this -- unmanned, super deep -- for his boat to go and get back some deep sea DNA stuff. Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
人の集団が混沌に陥ることなく持続する価値あるものを一貫して作り出せるようにするにはどうすればいいのでしょう? この問題を経済学では協調コストと呼んでいます協調コストにはグループの仕事の段取りに関わる― 金銭的組織的な問題すべてが含まれます協調コストに対する伝統的な解決法は人のグループの作業を協調させるには組織を作れというものですリソースを集める何かを設立する私的なもの公的なもの営利非営利大きいもの小さいもの様々ですがリソースを集約する点は共通しています組織を作りその組織を使ってグループの活動を協調させるのです最近になってグループの人々が互いにコミュニケーションを取るコストが劇的に下がりましたコミュニケーションのコストというのは協調コストの中で大きな部分を占めていますそして第2の解決法が現れました組織を構成することなくインフラで協力を可能にしシステムの働きの副産物としてグループの作業が協調するようなシステムをデザインするというものですそれが今日私のお話したいことですごく具体的な例を使って説明しますが見据えているのは常により広い主題ですあなた方がいつか自らに問うだろう疑問インターネットが作られた目的とも言える疑問に回答を試みるところから始めましょうその疑問とは ― ローラースケートする人魚の写真をいかにして集めるか? ニューヨークでは毎年夏の最初の土曜日に地元の古びた遊園地であるコニーアイランドで「マーメイドパレード」が行われますこれには一般の人たちが街中から着飾って集まってきますそんなに着飾らない人もいます若い人にお年寄り通りで踊る人色とりどりの人物みんながこの一時を楽しみます魅力的ではありますが注目してほしいのはマーメイドパレード自体ではなく写真の方ですこれは私が撮ったものではないのですではどこから? 答えはFlickr です Flickr というのは写真共有サービスで人々が撮った写真をアップロードし Web で公開できます最近 Flickr はタグという新機能を追加しましたタグはソーシャルブックマークのDel.icio.us とジョシュアシャクターが先鞭を付けましたタグというのは分類の問題に対する協力のインフラを使った解法ですこの講演を去年やっていたとしたら今のをお見せすることはできませんでした写真を探せなかったからです司書の一団を雇いアップロードされた写真を整理させる代わりに Flickr は写真の特徴付けという仕事をユーザにゆだねることにしたのですそれで私はFlickr で"Mermaid Parade"とタグ付けされた写真を集めることができました 118人が撮った計3,100枚の写真ですこのすてきな名前の元日時の新しい順に並んでいますそれを落としてきてこの小さなスライドショーを作りましたここで解決されている難しい問題は何でしょう? すごく抽象的な言い方をすると協調の問題ですインターネット上には膨大な数の人がおりマーメイドパレードの写真を持っているのはごくわずかの割合の人だけです彼らに貢献してもらうにはどうすればいいのでしょう? 伝統的なやり方は組織を構成するというものですそれらの人々を明示的な目的を持ちよく整理された組織に集めるということですこの組織化という方法には副作用があることに注意してください第1に組織を作るとマネジメントの問題が生じますスタッフを雇うだけではだめでそれらのスタッフを管理し組織の目的に沿って働かせるための人をも雇う必要があります第2に構造を作る必要があります経済的な構造が必要です法的な構造が必要です物理的な構造が必要ですそのため余計にコストがかかることになります第3に組織の構築というのは本質的に排他的だということです写真を持つすべての人を集められはしません 1つの会社で全員雇うのは無理です 1つの政府機関で全員雇うこともできませんある人々は取り落とすことになります第4にこの選り分けの結果としてプロの集団が形成されることになりますここで生じた変化に注意してください写真を持っている人から写真家へと変わっているのですマーメイドパレードなりなんなりの写真を撮ることを目的とした写真のプロの集団が作られたのですインフラに協力を組み込むならこれはFlickr の方法だったわけですが人々のあり方を変えることなく問題を人の方に引き寄せることができます人の方を動かすのではなくグループ内で協調し組織化に伴う問題は抜きに同じ結果を得ることができるのです組織の持つ命令系統は失われます人々が自発的に行う作業を取り仕切る権利はありませんしかし同時に組織化のコストもなくすことができそれによって大きな自由度が得られます Flickr がしたのは計画を協調に置き換えるということですこれは協力的なシステムに一般的に見られる側面ですあなた方自身も携帯電話を手にしたときに同じことを経験しているはずです予定を決めずにただこう言うのです「着いたら電話するよ」「仕事が終わったら電話して」これは個人対個人における計画の協調への置き換えです私たちは今やこれをグループの中で行うことができます「前もって計画を立てる必要がある」「Wikipediaの― 5カ年計画を策定しよう」などと言う代わりに単にこう言えるのです「グループの作業を協調させて進みながら舵取りしていこう十分協調できてるし何をするかあらかじめ決めなくてもいいよね」別な例を挙げましょうもう少し陰気な話です Flickr で“Iraq”とタグ付けされた写真ですマーメイドパレードで難しかった協調コストの問題はいっそう難しくなりますより多くの写真がありより多くの撮影者がおり地理的により広い範囲でより長い期間にわたって写真が撮られていますそして何よりこのスライドにある数字 1人あたり10枚というのは嘘だということです数学的には正しいのですがそれには大した意味はありませんこのようなシステムにおいては平均にはあまり意味がないのです意味があるのはこれですこれはIraq とタグ付けされた 5,445枚の写真を撮った529人をグラフにしたものです撮った写真の枚数の順に並べてありますこの端っこの一番多く撮っている人は約350枚撮っており 100枚以上撮っている人が数人いますそれから何十枚か撮っている人が数十人この辺にくると 10枚以下の人たちでそれから平たくて長いしっぽがあります真ん中あたりより先では 1枚しか写真のない人が何百人も続いていますこれは冪乗則と呼ばれるものです制約のない社会的システムにおいてよく見られます人々が好きなだけ多くも少なくも貢献できる場合このようなことになります冪乗則の数学的な性質は n 番目の位置では値が 1 番目のn 分の1 になるということですだから10 番目にたくさん撮っている人は 1 番の人の10 分の1 100 番目の人は 1 番の人の100 分の1 ということになります曲線の先頭部分の傾き具合は多少変わるにしてもこの性質によって急な傾斜と平たくて長いしっぽができることになります面白いのはこのようなシステムは大きくなっても収束しないということですもっと発散することになります大きなシステムでは頭はより大きくしっぽはより長くアンバランスの度合いが大きくなるのですこの曲線は見ての通り左に大きく偏っていますどれくらい偏っているかというと上位10 パーセントの人が全体の4 分の3 の写真を撮っています上位10 パーセント人だけでです上位5 パーセントの人だけでも 60 パーセントになります上位1 パーセントの人だけを取ってあとの99 パーセントを捨てたとしても 4 分の1 近くの写真が残りますこの左側への偏りのため平均は実際この辺ずっと左の方になりますこれは変に思えるかもしれませんがしかし実際 8 割の人が平均未満なのですこれが奇妙に思えるのは私たちは平均は真ん中あたりにあるものだと思っているからですこれが80/20 の法則の裏にある数学なのです 80/20 の法則について耳にしたらそれはこういうことなのです 20% の商品が80% の収入をもたらしている 20% のユーザが80% のリソースを使っている彼らが話しているのはこのグラフの形なのです組織が持つツールは2 つだけアメとムチですそして80 パーセントの部分にはアメもムチも使えません組織を運営するためのコストはこれらの人たちの貢献が組織という枠組みにおいては容易に手にできないことを意味します組織のモデルはいつでも左側の人たちをスタッフにするという形を取ります組織の考え方は 10 パーセントを雇えば 75 パーセントの結果は得られるというものです私でもそうするでしょう一方協力のインフラのモデルではどうして25 パーセントを捨ててしまうの? と問います価値の4 分の1 をあきらめなければならないようなシステムなら作り替えるべきだとそれらの人々の貢献を得る妨げとなるコストを避けて誰もが好きなだけ貢献できるシステムを作ろうだから協調の文脈で問われるのはその人たちがスタッフとしてどうかではなく彼らの貢献自体の価値なのです Psycho Milt というFlickr ユーザがいて Iraq というタグの写真を1 枚だけ撮っていますその写真がこれです「ひどい一日」というタイトルです問うべきはこの写真をほしいかどうかということです Psycho Milt は雇うべきか否かということではありません「実現するもの」としての組織と「障害になるもの」としての組織の間に緊張関係がありますこの分布の左側の端だけ扱うならこちらで望むものをたくさん作ろうと多くの時間を費やす人々を相手にするなら「実現するもの」としての組織ですそういった人々をスタッフとして雇い彼らの仕事を協調させ結果を手にすることができますしかしPsycho Milt のいるあたり 1 枚の写真しか提供しない人たちのところでは組織は障害になります組織は障害呼ばわりされるのを嫌います問題を組織化によって解こうとするなら名目上の目的が何だったのであれ組織の第一の目的は自己保存へと速やかに移行しますそして組織の実際の目的は 2 番目以降ということになりますだから価値を巡って協調する方法は別にあり組織は障害だと言われるとき組織の反応はキューブラー=ロスの段階をたどることになります不治の病を宣告された人が示す否認、怒り、取引、受容という反応です企業システムの多くは「受容」の段階に至るほど長くは存続しないもののようです多くの組織は「否認」の段階に留まりますしかし最近は「怒り」や「取引」もよく見かけます今まさに進行中の素晴らしい例がありますフランスでは自動車の相乗りをしている人たちをバス会社が訴えています彼らが協力して価値を生み出すのが会社の利益を損なっているというのですガーディアン紙のサイトで詳しく読めますすごく楽しめますよより大きな問題はこのしっぽの価値はどうしたらいいのかということですどうやって手に入れるか? 組織はそれを手にすることができません Microsoft のCEO スティーブバルマーは何年か前Linux を批判して言っていました Linux に貢献する何千というプログラマがいるなんてまやかしだ Linux に貢献している人間を調べてみたら多くのパッチは貢献がそれ1 つしかないプログラマによって作られている彼が不平を言っているのはこの分布なのです彼にはまずいアイデアに見えるのも理解できます雇った人間が会社のコーラを飲みテーブルサッカーをするばかり 3年間にたった1つの仕事しかしていない雇って損した Psycho Milt について問うべきはその貢献が良いものかどうかということですそれがセキュリティパッチなら? Windows にもあるバッファオーバーフロー脆弱性へのセキュリティパッチだとしたら? そのパッチを欲しいのでは? 1 人のプログラマが組織と雇用関係を結ぶことなく Linux をただ1 度改善して 2 度と現れないとしたらそれをバルマーは恐れるはずですそのような価値は従来的な組織の枠組みでは得られないからですしかしオープンソースやファイル共有や Wikipedia のような協力的システムにおいては可能なのです Flickr の例ばかり挙げましたが実際このような話は他にもいろいろあります Meetup というサービスがありますユーザが同じ地域にいる趣味や関心を共有する人を見つけカフェやパブなどで実際に会えるようにするサービスですスコットハイファマンがMeetup を作ったときには鉄道マニアや愛猫家のことを考えていました昔からある趣味のグループです発明家は自らの発明を知らないものです Meetup で都市数支部数メンバー数が最大で最も活発なグループが何かお分りになりますか? 専業主婦グループです郊外化し共働きが一般的なアメリカにおいて専業主婦はかつては大家族やご近所といったものによって得られていた社会的つながりを失っていますだからこのツールを使ってそれを再生しているのです Meetup はプラットフォームですがここで価値があるのは社会的な基盤です世界を変えるテクノロジーが何か知りたければ 13 歳の男の子に目を向けるのではなく若い母親たちに目を向けることですあの人たちは実質的に生活を改善しないようなテクノロジーはちっとも支持しませんからこれは派手さはありませんが Xbox なんかよりずっと重要なのですこれは革命だと思いますこれは人間関係を調整する方法における根本的な変化だと思います私はこの言葉を十分考えた上で使っていますこれは均衡を破るであろう革命なのですこれは物事をする全く新しい方法ですが新たな欠点も持っていますアメリカでは現在ジュディスミラーという女性が連邦大陪審に情報源を明かさなかったかどで投獄されていますニューヨークタイムズ紙の記者でとても難解で追跡困難な事件の情報源を隠していますジャーナリストたちが守秘権法を改善しようと路上で運動しています守秘権法は実際は州法の継ぎ合わせなのですがジャーナリストが情報源の開示を避けられるようにする法律ですしかしブログの興隆を背景として今回のことが起きましたブログはマスアマチュア化の代表例であり情報の発信を非プロ化しました自分の考えを今日世界に発信したいと思ったらどうしますか? ボタン1 つで無料で行うことができますこれは出版におけるプロ階級をマスアマチュア階級へと引きずり下ろすことになりましたそのため守秘権法は我々が望むにもかかわらず真実を語るプロ階級を望んでいるというのにますます一貫性を欠くようになっておりそれは組織が一貫性を欠くためですアメリカには現在問題に取り組む人々ブロガーはジャーナリストなのか明らかにしようとする人々がいますそしてその答えは何かというとそれは問題ではないということです質問が正しくないのですジャーナリズムはより重要な質問いかにして社会に情報を知らしめるかという問いへの答えでした社会はアイデアや意見をいかにして共有するのか? それに対する答えがジャーナリズムのプロという枠組みの外にあるならこの広く分布する階級がプロと言えるか問うたところで意味がありませんだから私たちは守秘権法を求めていますが彼らが結びついている組織の方は一貫性をなくしていくのですもう1 つの例を挙げましょう Pro-ana というグループですこれはティーンの女の子のグループでブログや掲示板やその他の協力のインフラで活動しており自らの意志で拒食症になろうとする人の支援グループをそこに作り上げています彼らは痩せたモデルの写真を投稿しそれを“Thinspiration”と呼んでいます「飢えこそ救い」のようなスローガンを掲げていますランスアームストロングみたいなブレスレットさえあってその赤いブレスレットはこの小さなグループの中で「摂食障害を維持しようと努めています」という宣言になります彼らはまたコツを教えあっていますたとえば「何か食べたくなったらトイレや猫用トイレの掃除をするといいよ食欲がなくなるから」支援グループというのは良いものだと私たちは思っていました支援グループは本質的に良いものなのだとしかし支援グループそのものは価値に関してニュートラルなのです支援グループというのは大きなグループの中にあってある生き方を維持しようと望む小さなグループというにすぎません大きなグループが酒飲みの集団で小さなグループがしらふでいたい人々であるならそれは素晴らしい支援グループでしょうしかし自ら拒食症になろうとするティーンの女の子たちにはショックを受けます私たちが馴染んでいるかつての支援グループの掲げる目的というのはそれを支える組織が決めたものであってインフラからきたのではありませんインフラが一般に利用可能となったとき支援グループの仕組みは誰にでもあのような目的を追求する人々にも手の届くものとなるのですだからこれらの変化には良い面もれば深刻な問題点もあるということです現在の状況においては国際関係に影響を与え利用しようとする反アメリカ活動家の行動については軽くほのめかすに止める必要がありますがこれは 9.11 テロ実行犯と関係者のソーシャルマップですこういった多くのツールを使ったコミュニケーションのパターンを解析し作られたものです世界の諜報機関が先週のテロに関して― 同じ作業を今しているだろうことは間違いありませんさてこれらの結果として何が起きるのか語るべき部分まで来ましたが時間がなくなってしまいましたでもかまいません私は答えを知らないからです印刷機と同じようにこれがもし本当に革命であるならポイントA からポイントB へというようには推移しませんポイントA から混乱状態へと推移するのです印刷機は200 年に及ぶ混乱状態を引き起こしましたカトリック教会によって― 政治的な力に秩序が与えられていたところからウェストファリア条約が結ばれ国家という新たな単位が見いだされるまでの間です今度もまた200 年の混乱状態が起きるとは言いません今後50 年の間緩く協調したグループがより大きなレバレッジを得て何が起こるか前もって捉えるとか利益上の動機といった点で伝統的組織の命令系統の上を行くようになりさらにレバレッジを得るでしょう組織はますます大きなプレッシャーを受けるようになり厳格に管理され情報の独占に依存したところほど大きなプレッシャーを受けることになるでしょうそういうことが 1 つひとつの領域ごと組織ごとに起きていきます力は普遍的なものですが結果は個別的に現れますだから要は「これはすばらしい」ということでも「組織だけの世界から協力だけの世界への移行を目にするだろう」ということでもありませんもっと込み入ったものになりますしかし重要なのはそれが大きな再編成になるということですそれがやってくるだろうことが分かっているわけですから備えておいてはいかがでしょうかご静聴ありがとうございました	How do you organize a group of individuals so that the output of the group is something coherent and of lasting value, instead of just being chaos? And the economic framing of that problem is called coordination costs. And a coordination cost is essentially all of the financial or institutional difficulties in arranging group output. And we've had a classic answer for coordination costs, which is, if you want to coordinate the work of a group of people, you start an institution, right? You raise some resources. You found something. It can be private or public. It can be for profit or not profit. It can be large or small. But you get these resources together. You found an institution, and you use the institution to coordinate the activities of the group. More recently, because the cost of letting groups communicate with each other has fallen through the floor -- and communication costs are one of the big inputs to coordination -- there has been a second answer, which is to put the cooperation into the infrastructure, to design systems that coordinate the output of the group as a by-product of the operating of the system, without regard to institutional models. So, that's what I want to talk about today. I'm going to illustrate it with some fairly concrete examples, but always pointing to the broader themes. So, I'm going to start by trying to answer a question that I know each of you will have asked yourself at some point or other, and which the Internet is purpose-built to answer, which is, where can I get a picture of a roller-skating mermaid? So, in New York City, on the first Saturday of every summer, Coney Island, our local, charmingly run-down amusement park, hosts the Mermaid Parade. It's an amateur parade; people come from all over the city; people get all dressed up. Some people get less dressed up. Young and old, dancing in the streets. Colorful characters, and a good time is had by all. And what I want to call your attention to is not the Mermaid Parade itself, charming though it is, but rather to these photos. I didn't take them. How did I get them? And the answer is: I got them from Flickr. Flickr is a photo-sharing service that allows people to take photos, upload them, share them over the Web and so forth. Recently, Flickr has added an additional function called tagging. Tagging was pioneered by Delicious and Joshua Schachter. Delicious is a social bookmarking service. Tagging is a cooperative infrastructure answer to classification. Right? If I had given this talk last year, I couldn't do what I just did, because I couldn't have found those photos. we need to hire a professional class of librarians to organize these photos once they're uploaded, Flickr simply turned over to the users the ability to characterize the photos. So, I was able to go in and draw down photos that had been tagged "Mermaid Parade." There were 3,100 photos taken by 118 photographers, all aggregated and then put under this nice, neat name, shown in reverse chronological order. And I was then able to go and retrieve them to give you that little slideshow. Now, what hard problem is being solved here? And it's -- in the most schematic possible view, it's a coordination problem, right? There are a large number of people on the Internet, a very small fraction of them have photos of the Mermaid Parade. How do we get those people together to contribute that work? The classic answer is to form an institution, right? To draw those people into some prearranged structure that has explicit goals. And I want to call your attention to some of the side effects of going the institutional route. First of all, when you form an institution, you take on a management problem, right? No good just hiring employees, you also have to hire other employees to manage those employees and to enforce the goals of the institution and so forth. Secondly, you have to bring structure into place. Right? You have to have economic structure. You have to have legal structure. You have to have physical structure. And that creates additional costs. Third, forming an institution is inherently exclusionary. You notice we haven't got everybody who has a photo. You can't hire everyone in a company, right? You can't recruit everyone into a governmental organization. You have to exclude some people. And fourth, as a result of that exclusion, you end up with a professional class. Look at the change here. We've gone from people with photos to photographers. Right? We've created a professional class of photographers whose goal is to go out and photograph the Mermaid Parade, or whatever else they're sent out to photograph. When you build cooperation into the infrastructure, which is the Flickr answer, you can leave the people where they are and you take the problem to the individuals, rather than moving the individuals to the problem. You arrange the coordination in the group, and by doing that you get the same outcome, without the institutional difficulties. You lose the institutional imperative. You lose the right to shape people's work when it's volunteer effort, but you also shed the institutional cost, which gives you greater flexibility. What Flickr does is it replaces planning with coordination. And this is a general aspect of these cooperative systems. whenever you bought your first mobile phone, and you stopped making plans. You just said, "I'll call you when I get there." "Call me when you get off work." Right? That is a point-to-point replacement of coordination with planning. Right. We're now able to do that kind of thing with groups. To say instead of, we must make an advance plan, we must have a five-year projection of where the Wikipedia is going to be, or whatever, you can just say, let's coordinate the group effort, and let's deal with it as we go, because we're now well-enough coordinated that we don't have to take on the problems of deciding in advance what to do. So here's another example. This one's somewhat more somber. These are photos on Flickr tagged "Iraq." And everything that was hard about the coordination cost with the Mermaid Parade is even harder here. There are more pictures. There are more photographers. It's taken over a wider geographic area. The photos are spread out over a longer period of time. And worst of all, that figure at the bottom, approximately ten photos per photographer, is a lie. It's mathematically true, but it doesn't really talk about anything important -- because in these systems, the average isn't really what matters. What matters is this. This is a graph of photographs tagged Iraq as taken by the 529 photographers who contributed the 5,445 photos. And it's ranked in order of number of photos taken per photographer. You can see here, over at the end, our most prolific photographer has taken around 350 photos, and you can see there's a few people who have taken hundreds of photos. Then there's dozens of people who've taken dozens of photos. And by the time we get around here, we get ten or fewer photos, and then there's this long, flat tail. And by the time you get to the middle, who have contributed only one photo each. This is called a power-law distribution. It appears often in unconstrained social systems where people are allowed to contribute as much or as little as they like -- this is often what you get. Right? The math behind the power-law distribution is that whatever's in the nth position relative to the person in the first position. So, we'd expect the tenth most prolific photographer to have contributed about a tenth of the photos, and the hundredth most prolific photographer to have contributed only about a hundred as many photos as the most prolific photographer did. So, the head of the curve can be sharper or flatter. But that basic math accounts both for the steep slope and for the long, flat tail. And curiously, in these systems, as they grow larger, the systems don't converge; they diverge more. In bigger systems, the head gets bigger and the tail gets longer, so the imbalance increases. You can see the curve is obviously heavily left-weighted. Here's how heavily: if you take the top 10 percent of photographers contributing to this system, they account for three quarters of the photos taken -- just the top 10 percent most prolific photographers. If you go down to five percent, you're still accounting for 60 percent of the photos. If you go down to one percent, exclude 99 percent of the group effort, you're still accounting for almost a quarter of the photos. And because of this left weighting, the average is actually here, way to the left. And that sounds strange to our ears, but what ends up happening is that 80 percent of the contributors have contributed a below-average amount. That sounds strange because we expect average and middle to be about the same, but they're not at all. This is the math underlying the 80/20 rule. Right? Whenever you hear anybody talking about the 80/20 rule, this is what's going on. Right? 20 percent of the merchandise accounts for 80 percent of the revenue, 20 percent of the users use 80 percent of the resources -- this is the shape people are talking about when that happens. Institutions only have two tools: carrots and sticks. And the 80 percent zone is a no-carrot and no-stick zone. The costs of running the institution mean that you cannot take on the work of those people easily in an institutional frame. The institutional model always pushes leftwards, treating these people as employees. The institutional response is, I can get 75 percent of the value for 10 percent of the hires -- great, that's what I'll do. The cooperative infrastructure model says, why do you want to give up a quarter of the value? If your system is designed so that you have to give up a quarter of the value, re-engineer the system. Don't take on the cost that prevents you from getting to the contributions of these people. Build the system so that anybody can contribute at any amount. So the coordination response asks not, how are these people as employees, but rather, what is their contribution like? Right? We have over here Psycho Milt, a Flickr user, who has contributed one, and only one, photo titled "Iraq." And here's the photo. Right. Labeled, "Bad Day at Work." Right? So the question is, do you want that photo? Yes or no. The question is not, is Psycho Milt a good employee? And the tension here is between institution as enabler and institution as obstacle. When you're dealing with the left-hand edge of one of these distributions, when you're dealing with the people who spend a lot of time producing a lot of the material you want, that's an institution-as-enabler world. You can hire those people as employees, you can coordinate their work and you can get some output. But when you're down here, where the Psycho Milts of the world are adding one photo at a time, that's institution as obstacle. Institutions hate being told they're obstacles. One of the first things that happens when you institutionalize a problem is that the first goal of the institution immediately shifts from whatever the nominal goal was to self-preservation. And the actual goal of the institution goes to two through n. Right? So, when institutions are told they are obstacles, and that there are other ways of coordinating the value, they go through something a little bit like the Kubler-Ross stages -- -- of reaction, being told you have a fatal illness: denial, anger, bargaining, acceptance. Most of the cooperative systems we've seen haven't been around long enough to have gotten to the acceptance phase. Many, many institutions are still in denial, but we're seeing recently a lot of both anger and bargaining. There's a wonderful, small example going on right now. In France, a bus company is suing people for forming a carpool, right, because the fact that they have coordinated themselves to create cooperative value is depriving them of revenue. You can follow this in the Guardian. It's actually quite entertaining. The bigger question is, what do you do about the value down here? Right? How do you capture that? And institutions, as I've said, are prevented from capturing that. Steve Ballmer, now CEO of Microsoft, was criticizing Linux a couple of years ago, and he said, "Oh, this business of thousands of programmers contributing to Linux, this is a myth. We've looked at who's contributed to Linux, and most of the patches have been produced by programmers who've only done one thing." Right? You can hear this distribution under that complaint. And you can see why, from Ballmer's point of view, that's a bad idea, right? We hired this programmer, he came in, he drank our Cokes and played Foosball for three years and he had one idea. Right? Bad hire. Right? The Psycho Milt question is, was it a good idea? What if it was a security patch? What if it was a security patch for a buffer overflow exploit, of which Windows has not some, [but] several? Do you want that patch, right? The fact that a single programmer can, without having to move into a professional relation to an institution, improve Linux once and never be seen from again, should terrify Ballmer. Because this kind of value is unreachable in classic institutional frameworks, but is part of cooperative systems of open-source software, of file sharing, of the Wikipedia. I've used a lot of examples from Flickr, but there are actually stories about this from all over. Meetup, a service founded so that users could find people in their local area who share their interests and affinities and actually have a real-world meeting offline in a cafe or a pub or what have you. When Scott Heiferman founded Meetup, he thought it would be used for, you know, train spotters and cat fanciers -- classic affinity groups. The inventors don't know what the invention is. Number one group on Meetup right now, most chapters in most cities with most members, most active? Stay-at-home moms. Right? In the suburbanized, dual-income United States, stay-at-home moms are actually missing the social infrastructure that comes from extended family and local, small-scale neighborhoods. So they're reinventing it, using these tools. Meetup is the platform, but the value here is in social infrastructure. If you want to know what technology is going to change the world, don't pay attention to 13-year-old boys -- pay attention to young mothers, because they have got not an ounce of support for technology that doesn't materially make their lives better. This is so much more important than Xbox, but it's a lot less glitzy. I think this is a revolution. I think that this is a really profound change in the way human affairs are arranged. And I use that word advisedly. It's a revolution in that it's a change in equilibrium. It's a whole new way of doing things, which includes new downsides. In the United States right now, a woman named Judith Miller is in jail for not having given to a Federal Grand Jury her sources -- she's a reporter for the New York Times -- her sources, in a very abstract and hard-to-follow case. And journalists are in the street rallying to improve the shield laws. The shield laws are our laws -- pretty much a patchwork of state laws -- that prevent a journalist from having to betray a source. This is happening, however, against the background of the rise of Web logging. Web logging is a classic example of mass amateurization. It has de-professionalized publishing. Want to publish globally anything you think today? It is a one-button operation that you can do for free. That has sent the professional class of publishing down into the ranks of mass amateurization. And so the shield law, as much as we want it -- we want a professional class of truth-tellers -- it is becoming increasingly incoherent, because the institution is becoming incoherent. There are people in the States right now tying themselves into knots, trying to figure out whether or not bloggers are journalists. And the answer to that question is, it doesn't matter, because that's not the right question. Journalism was an answer to an even more important question, which is, how will society be informed? How will they share ideas and opinions? And if there is an answer to that that happens outside the professional framework of journalism, it makes no sense to take a professional metaphor and apply it to this distributed class. So as much as we want the shield laws, the background -- the institution to which they were attached -- is becoming incoherent. Here's another example. Pro-ana, the pro-ana groups. These are groups of teenage girls who have taken on Web logs, bulletin boards, other kinds of cooperative infrastructure, and have used it to set up support groups for They post pictures of thin models, which they call "thinspiration." They have little slogans, like "Salvation through Starvation." They even have Lance Armstrong-style bracelets, these red bracelets, which signify, in the small group, I am trying to maintain my eating disorder. They trade tips, like, if you feel like eating something, clean a toilet or the litter box. The feeling will pass. We're used to support groups being beneficial. We have an attitude that support groups are inherently beneficial. But it turns out that the logic of the support group is value neutral. A support group is simply a small group that wants to maintain a way of living in the context of a larger group. Now, when the larger group is a bunch of drunks, and the small group wants to stay sober, then we think, that's a great support group. But when the small group is teenage girls who want to stay anorexic by choice, then we're horrified. What's happened is that the normative goals of the support groups that we're used to, came from the institutions that were framing them, and not from the infrastructure. Once the infrastructure becomes generically available, the logic of the support group has been revealed to be accessible to anyone, including people pursuing these kinds of goals. So, there are significant downsides to these changes as well as upsides. And of course, in the current environment, one need allude only lightly to the work of non-state actors trying to influence global affairs, and taking advantage of these. This is a social map of the hijackers and their associates who perpetrated the 9/11 attack. It was produced by analyzing their communications patterns using a lot of these tools. And doubtless the intelligence communities of the world are doing the same work today for the attacks of last week. Now, this is the part of the talk where I tell you what's going to come as a result of all of this, but I'm running out of time, which is good, because I don't know. Right. As with the printing press, if it's really a revolution, it doesn't take us from Point A to Point B. It takes us from Point A to chaos. The printing press precipitated 200 years of chaos, moving from a world where the Catholic Church was the sort of organizing political force to the Treaty of Westphalia, when we finally knew what the new unit was: the nation state. Now, I'm not predicting 200 years of chaos as a result of this. 50. 50 years in which loosely coordinated groups are going to be given increasingly high leverage, and the more those groups forego traditional institutional imperatives -- like deciding in advance what's going to happen, or the profit motive -- the more leverage they'll get. And institutions are going to come under an increasing degree of pressure, and the more rigidly managed, and the more they rely on information monopolies, the greater the pressure is going to be. And that's going to happen one arena at a time, one institution at a time. The forces are general, but the results are going to be specific. And so the point here is not, "This is wonderful," or "We're going to see a transition from only institutions to only cooperative framework." It's going to be much more complicated than that. But the point is that it's going to be a massive readjustment. And since we can see it in advance and know it's coming, my argument is essentially: we might as well get good at it. Thank you very much.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
これからお話しする陸上の生物は地球に浮かぶ陸地の表面に張り付くケシ粒ほどですが我々にとっては重要です大きさは我々に近くミリからメートル程でしたその生物達は絶滅してしまい別の生物である哺乳類がその後を継いだのです災害の様子は詳細まで明らかですバミューダ近海で採取した地層コア標本です人類の歴史全体の記録に残る津波や地震等からはこの災害で地球がこうむった被害規模は理解できませんこの衝突について明らかになる前からまた科学者達が進化論についておおむね合意するよりも前からあらゆる科学者と自然史研究家は地球の生命史を二章に分類しています中生代と新生代— 古代と最近の生物です実はこの区分は地質学的な歴史とうまく一致しています中世代という時代は分裂の時代でした新生代は再会の時代でした南アメリカ大陸は北アメリカとインドはアジアと繋がりました私は中生代の放散の特性と新生代の放散の特性を比較研究しました恐竜と他の生物を比較して解明される秘密は何か? 移動する大陸に棲む生物から進化について何が明らかになるか? この研究からこんな疑問が生じますなぜ彼らは水中には進出しなかったのか? 哺乳類には例えばこんな水生動物がいます海に行けば実例がたくさん見つかります小惑星の衝突から5百から1千万年の内にあらゆる生物種が水中で進化しましたなぜ恐竜は陸地に留まったのか? なぜ樹上に棲む小さな体の恐竜や穴に暮らす恐竜がいなかったのか? 何が理由だったのか? それらの場所にはどんな生物が棲んでいたのか? 何も棲んでいなかったとしたら陸上の進化の作用について何を物語るのか? 大変面白い課題ですその多くは体の大きさと関係すると考えます大半の課題は体の大きさと関係しますあのような自然災害によって生じた生態系の空き地を受け継いだときの哺乳類の大きさです恐竜の進化を見て研究しているとその発掘を何年も行っていると最後は哺乳類の多様性を調べる番になります新生代は全ての動きが速いです技術進歩のように何桁も速いです恐竜の進化はゆったりとしたペースで進みましたどの面から評価しても桁違いに遅かったのです多様性で評価しても体の大きさの限界に達するまでの時間で評価しても構いませんそう確かに恐竜は巨大でしたが大半の恐竜はもっと小さく大きくなるのにかかった時間が大事です体のサイズが最大になるのに5千万年かかりましたこれは哺乳類の体が最大になりすべての生息環境を侵略するまでにかかった期間の10倍ですここから分かることがあります例外的ケースから分かることがあるのですその例外は我々はじめ多くの学者達の発見によって大変有名になったものです前にも見たジュラ紀の鳥として有名な始祖鳥ですご存知のようにこのときだけは恐竜の体が小さくなりました元となる恐竜の大きさはこれからお見せしますそしてこの一度だけはかつて恐竜が棲まなかった場所などあらゆる生息環境を侵略したのですご存知のように水棲になり極地にも棲みました穴に暮らす鳥もいますどんな体のサイズでも樹上に住みもちろん地上を制覇しています私たちが最初にこれが鳥だと言い始めやがて皆がネイチャーやサイエンスに投稿を始めましたこの鳥をシノミスといい始祖鳥よりも進化しています別の地層からは始祖鳥より原始的なものやあらゆる階層が見つかります今何か見つけたとしたら髪をかきむしってというよりは羽根を裂くように調べて鳥か鳥でないかを決定するのです我々の知る最も壮大なこの遷移によって陸上に棲む生物が別の種類に例外なく変わりました骨格もしっかりとした 2~3キロの動物がどう変化したか理解できています実にすばらしい進化のつながりです私はこれを最初から研究していました恐竜の進化を理解しようとしたらこの地層まで戻るべきだと考えましたかけらがみつかって時間と空間を遡れれば最古の恐竜にまで遡れるのです我々が直面する課題を理解してもらうために短いビデオをご覧くださいよく受ける質問があります「こんな所でどうやって化石を見つけるのですか?」このビデオが答えになります最古の地層をヘリコプターから眺めたところですこれはアルゼンチンの北東部眼下の崖この崖の上端より後は恐竜の天下となったのでした崖の下で恐竜を見つけるのは至難の業ですが原始の恐竜を探す場所はここ崖の下ですさて現場に出たら地質学的な地図を把握します地形図ですそして最高のやり手のメンバーを集めますあとはあなた次第化石を見つけるのです化石を掘り出すには本体よりもずっと大きな穴を掘らなければいけません崖をよじ登ってかつて存在したものを全て恐竜に限らず探しますこんな場所も堀ります火山灰の層を見つけて掘っています 2億2800万年前の地層から極めて原始的な恐竜を発見しましたアーディノサウルスです 1 メートルほどの種類ですきれいな頭蓋をもつ二足歩行の肉食獣です皆さんや子どもたちが知っている他の恐竜は四足歩行です頭蓋はこんなふうですまったく素敵な形で 15センチほどの長さ見ての通りで鳥に近いのです鳥のように骨には空洞がありますおそらく 25ポンド 10キロの捕食恐竜ですここから恐竜の放散が始まりました四足歩行の哺乳類と比べて 10倍大きくなりました私たちは極めて恐竜と似ています二足歩行の生物は例外的です大陸が分裂すると地上生活者の恐竜は各大陸と共に漂流を始めますがその情報は不足しています南半球の大陸の探査がまだ進んでいないのです地球の全体像を描くために手を加えたいなら行くべきは南半球の4ヵ所アフリカとインド南極とオーストラリアです発見は相次いでいます私もそこに行きましたスティーブン・ピンカーいわくアフリカはムクの板その真ん中を占める大きな黒板への探検に耐えられれば至る所に恐竜の化石が散在していますサハラへ続く道路はなくただ広大な場所ですサハラで見つけた80トンの恐竜を掘り起こして持ち帰るためにはそんな悪条件に負けない探検隊を組織しなければなりません政治的条件や物理的条件も多く心理的な要因も重要ですこれらの条件をクリアして砂漠に乗り込むのです多くの場合目にする風景はご覧のように他には誰も目にしたことの無い風景どんなチームがそんな世界に順応できるのか? チームのメンバーは科学が目的を掲げた冒険だと捉えますたいていの学生は砂漠を見たこともありません中にはもう少し経験のある者もいます間違いなくチーム種目でありリーダーの役目はメンバーを鼓舞し想像も絶する環境下で人生においてかつてないほどの仕事をさせること気温50度はあたり前です地表は65度まで熱くなるので金属の工具を外に放置してはいけません触ったとたんに第一度の火傷になるからですまたここでは文化的な面でも驚かされます世界で最後の偉大な遊牧民たちと寝食を共にしますトゥアレグ族は何世紀も同じスタイルの暮らしを続けています地表から発掘したこんな物が歴史の1ページを成すのですそのためにはまずは輸送です砂漠から何千キロも運ぶのですエチオピアの次はニジェールの話ですナイジェリアの北の国です現地での写真です今話しているこの国で我々が作業を始めたときコンテナ輸送はできませんでした骨は海岸の船まで自分で輸送しましたサハラの真ん中から運び出そうとすれば約3千キロの道のりです埋蔵物は膨大で仕事は山ほどありますここに埋まっていた恐竜の群れの一部は全部で20トンにもなりましたジョバリアは立たせてみました他の大陸では目にしたことのない竜脚類です今のところ同類が見つかりません北米の同時代の地層を掘っても似たものが見つかるとは思えませんジョバリアを捕食していた恐竜です動物園みたいですこういう骨を見たり触れたことがある方もいるでしょう 1億1千万年前の歴史に触れているのですこれは親指のかぎ爪を見つけた直後の写真です生命のこんな驚異が語られるようになったのは我々が時間の深みを理解し始めてから後のことです過去の時間を刻めるようになってからまだ1世紀も経っていません放射性年代測定法の登場によって標本の年代を正確に測定できるようになったのが最大の転機だったといえるでしょう我々自身に対する見方も変わりました世界の見方も劇的に変わりましたこんな歴史の一片を手にすれば若者たちは科学にもっと興味を覚えることでしょう親指の爪はこの恐竜スコミムスのものです他にもありますモロッコで見つけた巨大な動物です CT スキャンしてこの動物の脳を再現しました前頭葉はヒトの 15分の1しかなかったことが分かりましたこれはサイエンス誌の表紙を飾りましたヒトは恐竜より賢いと思ったからでしょうでも人間社会を見るとたとえ脳の容積で大いに勝っていても気質は昔と同じかもしれませんさて小さなラプトルですジュラシックパークに出てきましたみなさんもご存知でしょうこれまでは北半球で見つかっておりこの骨が南半球で最初の骨ですそして大事なことがありますいいですか後ろ足にはかぎ爪がなくヴェロキラプトルとは違うのですこれは全く別の放散です全体像の把握を目指していますこのプテロサウルスのような翼竜もいますアフリカで発掘したものですワニももちろんこれはまだ命名していない見事な一体ですこんなに大きいのですこの砂漠に横たわっているのは巨大なワニの下あご専門家はこのワニをサルコスクスと呼びますあごの中にオリノコのワニを置いてみましたこの復元に取り組みました最近のワニを徹底的に調べワニを拡大するとどうなるかを考えましたさて短いビデオをもう一本いいですか? 科学の中でもこの分野はまさに冒険です現在生息している最大のワニを見つけて計測する必要がありましたボートと同じほどの大きさです背びれを見ろこれは大物だこれを陸に上げられればこのワニから有益な情報が得られますサルコスクスの謎を解く上で有用ですよしもう少しよこせほらワニを目隠しするのはポール・セレノ気をつけて危ない危ない後ろ足を頼んだぞ後ろ足を捕まえた後ろ足は? おいそれは前足だつかんだ後ろ足だだれか前足を押さえろさて巻き尺で測るのですそこだおおー 1.7メートルだこれは大きな頭だ大きいとはいってもサルコスクスの頭の半分以下です大きいね 4メートルのワニとはね思ったとおりだ降りるなまだ降りるなオレに任せろ身体計測を終えたのでワニを川に帰すことにしました降りるな降りるな降りるなよ化石が相手ならこんな危険はありませんよし 3つ数えたら降りるぞ 1 2 3 よしこんなふうに面白いことに化石として残った物が現在の生物に対する新たな見方を迫りますこういった測定を通じてワニと相似形だとわかりました頭蓋の形状がカギです実際にこういう計測で確かめ正しく復元できたことを確認しこの巨大ワニは 12メートルでおそらくオスだと科学界に示しました他にも発見はありましたアフリカ最大の新石器時代の遺跡を発掘するためにサハラへの遠征隊を編成しますこれは昨年発見したものです 200 体もの骨格道具宝石これは儀式用の円盤 5千年前にサハラに定住した驚くべき足跡がそこにそのまま残って我々の再訪を待っていますワクワクしますまたその次の研究ではチベットに向かう予定です普通はチベットは高地だと思われますが実は島だらけの大地ですインドの露払いとして送られたゴンドワナ大陸からの伝令は失われた恐竜の楽園として何百万年も孤立してきましたまだ未発見ですが所在地は分かっており来年にはそこで発掘をする予定です目的地の標高は 4000から4300メートルです暖かい季節に行けば問題ありませんさて恐竜の進化の歴史を繋ぎ合わせて進化の基本的なパターンを理解しようと試みてきましたほんの数例をお話ししました研究テーマは膨大ですこの骨格の山を徹底的に調べどの変化が何を意味するのか理解しなければなりません進化の将来は予測できませんがその規則を学ぶことはできますそれが目指すところです生物地理学の見方では地球は分裂していますこれらはみな地表の生物で二分割できますすべてが二分割され大陸の分裂が進化の系統樹の枝分かれに対応しますうまく他の大陸に逃げ出せた種類はこの分裂の影響を受けずどちら側でも無事に生き延びたものや一方では滅亡したものもいます反対側で生き残れば違いが生じますあるいは3パターンのいずれにしてもまだ未発見の場合もあるでしょうこんな4つのパターンがあって問題がいかに複雑か分かるでしょう発掘するだけではなく恐竜の記録を調べてある程度の答えが分かります恐竜は移住したのです「散布」と呼びます細い地峡を通じて散布しました南極から2−3度の緯度を通る経路です大陸間の類似性が維持されましたしかし分離してしまえば実状のとおり大陸の違いが恐竜の違いを作り出すことが分かりますさらに大事なことがあります絶滅ですこの要素は軽視されてきました絶滅が生命の歴史を形づくり恐竜世界の最期に向けて彗星衝突の直前までの違いを生みだしたのですモデルを作ることが最良のテスト方法ですこの生命系統樹を遡ればこれは二次元ですが三次元で示しましょう生命の系統樹をご覧くださいここに地域の次元を加えました普通の系統樹は時間とともに広がりますが時間とともに広がるだけではなく地域の次元を加えたのですこんなコンピュータープログラムです三つの変数を操作できます調整可能な項目は絶滅と抽出と分散ですある地域から別の地域へ広がることです究極的には分岐も制御すれば大陸移動を想定しながら試すことができますこれを何千回も実行すればパラメータを推測し正解かどうかはともかくとして少なくとも何が障壁なのかは分かりますここまでは科学的な話でした残りの時間ではシカゴで行っているプロジェクトについて少し話しますそれは多くのTED 仲間と話したりして気付いたことに関連します実際に挙手をお願いしても正直に答えてもらえないかもしれませんともかく多くの人は科学技術娯楽分野の仕事に就いていても社会的な基準では落伍者学校では落ちこぼれでした私もそうでした学校では落ちこぼれ落第しましただれの責任か何人かの教師は私を殺そうとました私は芸術に目覚めました完全な落ちこぼれで高校卒業もあやしい中キャンバスに描いた初の作品です辞書を読んで大学に潜り込みました芸術家になって描き始めました抽象画をポートフォリオにまとめるとニューヨークを目指したのです時折体の中に見える骨を描きましたそして見えざる何かに導かれニューヨークのスタジオへの途中でアメリカ自然史博物館に寄ったのをきっかけに芸術活動を終えました実は同じ原則です類似の原則です見えない物を見通す力には何か類似点があるのです小さな骨のかけらを恐竜の骨と見通す力ある種から別の種への進化を歪みとして捉え進化の過程を見通す力ですこの絵は極端ですが人の顔であれば誰もが専門家並みの力を発揮できますこれが恐竜相手だと何年も掛かります原則は似たものなのですシカゴで始めたプロジェクトでは科学や技術分野の評価が低い学生を集めて一旗あげようと目論んでいますそんなことでは必要な人数の科学者技術者専門家は育たないと言う見解があることも知っていますずっと前スプートニクの時期から言われ続ける課題ですようやく今この取り組みの成果が出始め重視され始めました人材をどこで集めるべきか? そして広く社会へ問うべきなのは学校でつまずいた人々はどうなるのか? 自分のように学校に通った子供達です皆さんの中にもいるでしょう学校では評価されず科学や技術に疎い子供達それが問題です先程の話のエチオピアでも重大ですニジェールでも同様に重大で何か成果を挙げたいと懸命ですエイズの問題もありますがアメリカ国務省がニジェールに何が問題かと尋ねたところ 2つの問題が指摘されましたその1つは恐竜でした恐竜の博物館があれば観光客を呼べます観光は国内第二の産業です神様でもアメリカ政府でもTEDでも誰でもニジェールのために我々の活動を支援して下さい自分の祖国や故郷を顧みると— みなさんの故郷や私の故郷ですこんな若者が多数いますこんな若者が多数います若者を科学に引きつける方法とは... これは長年の懸案でした我々はシカゴでプロジェクト・エクスプロレーションという NPO を始めましたプロジェクトの仲間2人です高校1年のときに出会いましたが成績はよくありませんでした今では1人はシカゴ大学もう1人はイリノイ大学に進みましたハーバードに進んだ生徒もいますこれまで6年の記録が残っています学者がこのようなことに長期的に取り組んだ記録はほとんど見当たりません我々の実績では100パーセントが卒業し 90パーセントが大学進学し ― その多くは家族で初めて― 90パーセントは科学を職業として選びました実に素晴らしい実績です今振り返って言えることは最初から確実な理論があったのではありませんただ理科教育に関しては理論的活動がありましたそれは科学を探求と捉えるもので大きな進歩となりましたシカゴにいたデューイが実践により学ぶと述べたように自分を科学者と思って学ぶのです自分を科学者と思って学ぶのです次に自分が科学者になることを学ぶのですその段階では科学者になるための能力について学びます段階を踏むことが重要ですそうすれば若者を科学へ引付けるのは簡単です大変なのは彼らに科学者の自覚を持たせることですこのシンポジウムのように聴衆の前で話して第一人者として何かを伝えることそのように科学者の役を演じそれを極めるためのスキルを獲得すること今そんな活動をしていますシカゴは永続的拠点にするつもりです色んなアイデアがある中で目指すのはこの TED でも誰かに言いましたがこれまでに無かった物を作ることです学校のようでもあり博物館のようでもあり貯蔵庫でもあり動物園でもあります若者を科学好きにするという問題に対する答でもあります若者を科学好きにするという問題に対する答でもありますありがとうございました	And although we know that the land animals I'm going to talk about are just the scum of the Earth on the land -- the little bits of land floating around -- but they are important to us because they're sort of in our scale of experience from millimeters to meters. And these animals disappeared, and a separate life, mammals, radiated out to take their place. And so, we know this in extraordinary detail. And so this is a core from near Bermuda. We know that the tsunamis, the earthquakes, and the things that we've experienced in the entire record of humankind history can't really quite get around the kind of disaster that this represented for the Earth. So even before that impact was known, even before scientists in general came to an agreement over the theory of evolution, scientists and natural historians of all kinds of stripes actually had divided Earth's life's history into these two episodes: Mesozoic, the middle life, and the Cenozoic, the recent life. And as it turns out, it actually corresponds really nicely with geologic history. So we have a Mesozoic period, an age of fragmentation, and a Cenozoic period, an age of reconnection -- South America to North America, India to Asia. And so my work, really, is trying to understand the character of that Mesozoic radiation compared to the Cenozoic radiation to see what mysteries we can understand from dinosaurs and from other animals about what life on drifting continents really can tell us about evolution. The work immediately begs the question, "Why didn't they go into the waters?" I mean, certainly mammals did. This is one example. You can go outside -- see many other examples. Within five, 10 million years of the bolide impact we had a whole variety of animals going into the water. Why didn't they do that? Why didn't they hang around in trees at good size, and why didn't they burrow? Why didn't they do all these things, and if they didn't do all these things, what kinds of animals were in those spaces? And if there were no animals in those spaces, what does that tell us about, you know, how evolution works on land? Really interesting questions. I think a lot of it has to do with body size. In fact, I think that most of it has to do with body size -- the size you are when you inherit a vacant ecospace from whatever natural disaster. Looking at dinosaur evolution and studying it, digging it up for many years, I end up looking at the mammal radiation, and it seems as though everything is quick time, just like technology, advancing by an order of magnitude. Dinosaur evolution proceeded at a stately pace, an order of magnitude slower on any way you want to measure it. You want to measure it by diversity? the time it took to reach maximum body size? Yes, they do have larger body size, but many of them are smaller, but we're interested in the time it took them to achieve that. Fifty million years to achieve this maximum body size. And that is 10 times longer than it took the mammals to achieve maximum body size and invade all those habitats. So there's lessons to learn, and there's lessons to learn from the exception, the exception that we know very well today from the discoveries we've made, and many other scholars have made around the world. This slide was shown before. This is the famous Jurassic bird Archaeopteryx. We now know this transition is the one time that dinosaurs actually went below that body size -- we're going to see where they began in a minute -- and it is the one time that they rapidly invaded all the habitats I just told you that dinosaurs weren't in. They became marine. We now know them today from the ice caps. There's burrowing birds. They inhabit the trees at all body sizes, and, of course, they inhabit the land. So we were the first to actually name a bird from the famous series that later exploded onto the pages of Science and Nature. We called this bird Sinornis. It's a little bit more advanced than Archaeopteryx, and if you go to different layers, you find things that are less advanced than Archaeopteryx, and every grade in between, so that if you find something today, we're usually splitting hairs -- or, more appropriately, feathers -- as to decide whether it's actually a non-avian or an avian. It is the greatest transition that we have, actually, on land from one habitat to another, bar none, to understand how a bony, fairly heavy, kilogram or a couple-of-kilogram animal could make such a transition. It is really our greatest -- one of our greatest -- evolutionary sequences. Now, my work began at the beginning. I thought if I'm going to understand dinosaur evolution, I'd have to go back to those beds where they had picked up fragments, go back to a time and a place where the earliest dinosaurs existed. I'd like to call for this little video clip to give you some idea of, sort of, what we face. Normally, we get asked a lot of questions: "Well, how do you find fossils in areas that look like this?" If we could roll that first video clip. This is sort of a nice helicopter ride and they're located in Northeastern Argentina. And we're coming over a cliff, and at the top of that cliff, dinosaurs had basically taken over. At the bottom of the cliff, we find that they're rare as hens' teeth. That's where dinosaur origins is to be found: at the bottom of the cliff. You go into an area like this, you get a geologic map, you get a topographic map, and the best, most-inspired team you can bring to the area. And the rest is up to you. You've got to find fossils. You've got to dig a hole that's usually quite a bit bigger than that to get it out; you've got to climb those cliffs and find, really, everything that existed -- not just the dinosaurs, but the entire story. If you're lucky, and you dig a place like that, you actually find the ash bed to dig it, and we did. 228 million years old, we found what really is the most primitive dinosaur: that's the Ur-dinosaur. A three-and-a-half foot thing, beautiful skull, predator, meat-eater, a two-legged animal. So, all the other dinosaurs that you know, or your kids know, at least, on four legs. This is sort of a look at the skull, and it's an absolutely fantastic thing about five or six inches long. It looks rather bird-like because it is. It's bird-like and hollow. A predator. Maybe 25 pounds, or 10 kilograms. That's where dinosaurs began. That's where the radiation began. That is 10 times larger than the mammal radiation, which was a four-legged radiation. We are extremely dinosaur-like, and unusual in our two-legged approach to life. then when the continents broke apart, and dinosaurs found -- landlubbers, as they are -- found themselves adrift. There's some missing puzzle pieces. Most of those missing puzzle pieces are southern continents, because it was those continents that are least explored. If you want to add to this picture and try and sketch it globally, you really have to force yourself to go down to the four corners of the Earth -- Africa, India, Antarctica, Australia -- and start putting together some of these pieces. I've been to some of those continents, but Africa was, in the words of Steven Pinker, was a blank slate, largely. But one with an immense chalkboard in the middle, with lots of little areas of dinosaur rock if you could survive an expedition. There's no roads into the Sahara. It's an enormous place. the 80 tons of dinosaurs that we have in the Sahara and take them out, you really have to put together an expedition team that can handle the conditions. Some of them are political. Many of them are physical. Some of them -- the most important -- are mental. And you really have to be able to withstand conditions -- you have to drive into the desert, you will see landscapes in many cases -- you can see from what we've discovered -- that nobody else has ever seen. And the kinds of teams they bring in? Well, they're composed of people who understand science as adventure with a purpose. They're usually students who've never seen a desert. Some of them are more experienced. Your job as a leader -- this is definitely a team sport -- your job as a leader is to try to inspire them to do more work than they've ever done in their life So, 125 degrees is normal. The ground surface at 150 -- typical. So, you can't leave your normal metal tools out because you'll get a first-degree burn if you grab them sometimes. So, you are finding yourself also in an amazing cultural milieu. You're really rubbing shoulders with the world's last great nomadic people. much as they have for centuries. Your job is to excavate things like this in the foreground, and make them enter the pages of history. To do that, you've got to actually transport them thousands of miles out of the desert. We're talking about Ethiopia, but let's talk about Niger -- or Niger, in our English language -- north of Nigeria -- that's where this photograph was taken. Basically you're talking about a country that, when we started working there, did not have container traffic. You transported the bones out yourself to the coast of Africa, onto a boat, if you wanted to get them out of the middle of the Sahara. That's a 2,000 mile journey. So enormous excavations and a lot of work, and out of essentially a partial herd of dinosaurs that you saw buried there -- 20 tons of material -- we erect Jobaria, a sauropod dinosaur like we haven't seen on some other continents. It looks nothing like what we would find if we dug in contemporary beds in North America. Here's the animal that was causing it trouble. And, you know, on and on -- a whole menagerie. When you pick up something like this -- and some of you have had the chance to touch it -- this is a piece of history. You're touching something that's 110 million years old. This is a thumb claw. There it was, moments after it was discovered. It is an incredible view of life, and it really began when we began to understand the depth of time. It's only been with us for less than a century, and in that time, that fourth dimension, when radioactive dating came about, less than a century ago, and we could actually tell how old some of these things were, is probably the most profound transformation, because it changes the way we look at ourselves and the world dramatically. When you pick up a piece of history like that, I think it can transform kids that are possibly interested in science. That's the animal that thumb claw came from: Suchomimus. Here's some others. This is something we found in Morocco, an immense animal. We prototyped by CAT-scanning the brain out of this animal. It turns out to have a forebrain one-fifteenth the size of a human. This was the cover of Science, because they thought that humans were more intelligent than these animals, but we can see by some in our administration that despite the enormous advantage in brain volume some of the attitudes remain the same. Anyway, smaller raptors. All the stuff from Jurassic Park that you know of -- all those small animals -- they all come from northern continents. This is the first skeleton from a southern continent, and guess what? You start preparing it. It has no big claw on its hind foot. It doesn't look like a Velociraptor. It's really a wholly separate radiation. So what we're trying to piece together here is a story. It involves flying reptiles like this Pterosaur that we reconstructed from Africa. Crocodiles, of course, and that's a nasty one we haven't named yet. And huge things -- I mean, this is a lower jaw just laying there in the desert of this enormous crocodile. The crocodile is technically called Sarcosuchus. That's an adult Orinoco crocodile in its jaws. We had to try and reconstruct this. We had to actually look at recent crocodiles to understand how crocodiles scale. Could I have the second little video clip? Now, this field is just -- and, of course, science in general -- is just -- adventure. We had to find and measure the largest crocodiles living today. Narrator: ... as long as their boat. Man: Look at that set of choppers! Yeah, he's a big one. Narrator: If they can just land it, this croc will provide useful data, helping Paul in his quest to understand Sarcosuchus. Man: OK, hand me some more here. Man 2: OK. Narrator: It falls to Paul to cover its eyes. Man: Watch out! Watch out! No, no, no, no. You're going to have to get on the back legs. Man: I got the back legs. Man 2: You have the back legs? No, you have the front legs, my friend. I've got it. I've got the back legs. Somebody get the front legs. Paul Sereno: Let's get this tape measure on him. Put it right there. Wow. Sixty-five. Wow. That's a big skull. Narrator: Big, but less than half the size of supercroc's skull. Man: Enormous. PS: You've got a ... 14-foot croc. Man: I knew it was big. PS: Don't get off. You don't get off, but don't worry about me. Narrator: Paul has his data, so they decide to release the animal back into the river. PS: Don't get off! Don't get off! Don't get off! Narrator: Paul has never seen a fossil do that. PS: Okay, when I say three, we move. One, two, three! Whoa! So -- there were -- Well, you know, the -- the fossil record is truly amazing because it really forces you to look at living animals in a new way. We proved with those measurements that crocodiles scaled isometrically. It depended on the shape of their skull, though, so we had to actually get those measurements to be sure that we had reconstructed and could prove to the scientific world that supercroc in fact is a 40-foot crocodile, probably a male. Anyway, you find other things, too. I'm going to lead an expedition to the Sahara to dig up Africa's largest neolithic site. We found this last year. Two hundred skeletons, tools, jewelry. This is a ceremonial disk. An amazing record of the colonization of the Sahara 5,000 years ago is been sitting out there waiting for us to go back. So, really exciting. And then work later is going to take us to Tibet. Now, we normally think of Tibet as a highland. It's really an island continent. It was a precursor to India, a messenger from Gondwana -- a lost paradise of dinosaurs isolated for millions of years. No one's found them. We know where they are, and we're going to go and get them next year. They're only between 13 and 14,000 feet, but if you go in the warm part of the year, it's O.K. Now, I tried to suture together a dinosaur evolutionary history so that we can try to understand some basic patterns of evolution. I've talked about a few of them. We really need to take that further. We need to delve into this mass of anatomy that we've been compiling to understand where the changes are occurring and what this means. We can't predict, necessarily, what will happen in evolution, but we can learn some of the rules of the game, and that's really what we're trying to do. With regard to the biogeographic question, the Earth is dividing. These are all landlubbing animals. There's a couple of choices. You get divided, and a continent's division corresponds to a fork in the evolutionary tree, or you're crafty, and you manage to escape from one to the other and erase that division, or you're living peacefully on each side, and on one side you just go extinct, and you survive on the other side and create a difference. And the fourth thing is that you actually did one or the other of those three things, but the paleontologist never found you. And you take those four instances and you realize you have a complex problem. And so, in addition to digging, I think we have some answers from the dinosaur record. I think these dinosaurs migrated -- we call it dispersal -- around the globe, with the slightest land bridge. They did it within two or three degrees of the pole, to maintain similarity between continents. But when they were divided, indeed they were divided, and we do see the continents carving differences among dinosaurs. But there's one thing that's even more important, and I think that's extinction. We have downgraded this factor. It carves up the history of life, in the dinosaur world towards the end, right before the bolide impact. The best way to test this is to actually create a model. So if we move back, this is a two-dimensional typical tree of life. I want to give you three dimensions. So you see the tree of life, but now I've added the dimension of area. So the tree of life is normally divergence over time. Now we have divergence over time, but we've created the third dimension of area. This is a computer program which has three knobs. We can control those things that we're worried about: extinction, sampling, dispersal -- going from one area to another. And ultimately we can control the branching to mimic what we think the continents were like, and run it a thousand times, so we can estimate the parameters, to answer the question whether we are on the mark or not, at least to know the barriers of the problems. So that's a little bit about the science. Today I'm going to spend the rest of my few minutes up here talking about the other stuff that I do in Chicago, and actually, in talking to a lot of TEDsters, there's a number of you out there -- I don't know that I'd get an answer honestly, if I asked you to raise your hand, but there are a number of you out there that started your scientific, technical, entertainment career as failures, by society's standards, as failures by schools. I was one of those. I was failed by my school -- my school failed me. Who's pointing fingers? Several teachers nearly killed me. I found myself in art. I was a total failure in school, not really headed to graduate high school. And I went on -- that's my first painting on canvas. I read a dictionary. I got into college. I became an artist. O.K., and started drawing. It became abstract. I worked up a portfolio, and I was headed to New York. Sometimes I would see bones when there was a body there. Something was going on in the background. I headed to New York to a studio. I took a side trip to the American Museum, and I never recovered. But really it's the same discipline -- they're kindred disciplines. I mean, is there anything that is not visualizing what can't be seen, in terms of discovering this dinosaur bone from a small piece of it that's out there, or seeing the distortion that we try to see as evolutionary distortion in one animal to another? This is a very extraordinarily visual. I give you a human face because you're experts at that. It takes us years to understand how to do that with dinosaurs. They're really kindred disciplines. But what we're trying to create in Chicago who are least represented in our science and technology spheres. We all know, and there's been several allusions to it, that we are failing in our ability to produce enough scientists, engineers and technicians. We've known that for a long time. We've gone through the Sputnik phase, and now, as you see the increase in the pace of what we're doing, it becomes even more prominent. Where are all these people going to come from? And a more general question for our society is, what's going to happen to all the rest that are left behind? What about all the kids like me that were in school -- kids like some of you out there -- that were in school and didn't get a chance and will never get a chance to participate in science and technology? Those are the questions I ask. And we talk about Ethiopia, and it's very important. Niger is equally important, and I'm trying desperately to do something in Niger. They have an AIDS problem. I asked -- the U.S. State Department asked the government recently, What do you want to do? And they gave them two problems. Dinosaurs was one of them. Give us a museum of dinosaurs, and we will attract tourists, which is our number two industry. And I hope to God the United States government, me, or TED, or somebody helps us do that, because that would be an incredible thing for their country. But when we look back at our own country, we're looking back at our cities, the cities where most of you come from -- certainly the city I come from -- there's legions of kids out there like these. And the question is -- and we started to address this question for centuries -- as to how we get these kids involved in science. We've started in Chicago an organization -- a non-profit organization -- called Project Exploration. These are two kids from Project Exploration. We met them in their early stages in high school. They were -- failing to poor students, and they are now -- one at the University of Chicago, another in Illinois. We've got students at Harvard. We're six years old. And we created a track record. Because when you go out there as a scholar, and you try to find out longitudinal studies, track records like that, there essentially are very few, if none. So, we've created an incredible track record of 100 percent graduation, 90 percent going to college, many first-generation, 90 percent of those choosing science as a career. It's an impressive track record, and so we look back and we say, well, we didn't really exactly work this out theoretically from the start, but when we look back, there are theoretical movements in science education. It's gone through science as an inquiry, which was a big advance, and Dewey back at Chicago -- you learn by doing. To -- you learn by envisioning yourself as a scientist, and then you learn to envision yourself as a scientist. The next step is to learn the capability to make yourself a scientist. You have to have those steps. If you have -- It's easy to get kids interested in science. It's hard to get them to envision themselves as a scientist, which involves standing up in front of people like we're doing here at this symposium and presenting something as a knowledgeable person, and then seeing yourself in the role as a scientist and giving yourself the tools to pursue that. And so, that's what we're going to do. We're planning a permanent home in Chicago. We have lots of ideas, but I guarantee you this one thing -- and I've talked to some people here at TED -- it's not going to look like anything you've seen before. It's going to be part-school, part-museum hall, part-conservatory, part-zoo, and part of an answer to the problem of how you interest kids in science. Thank you very much.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
彗星まで着陸機を送り届けその上に降り立ち調査させるのですここ2年間これに情熱を傾けてきましたこれを行うためにみなさんに太陽系の始まりについて説明する必要があります 45億年前ガスとチリでできた雲がありましたこの雲の真ん中で私たちの太陽が形成され火がつきましたそれと同時に私たちがよく知っている惑星や彗星小惑星も形成されたのですこの後何が起こったのか理論によると― 地球が形成されて間もなく冷やされましたがそのとき彗星が地球に落ちて大きな衝撃を与え水をもたらしました水だけではなく複雑な有機物ももたらされたと考えられますこれが生命の出現をもたらしたのかもしれませんこれは言わば 250ピースのパズルを解くようなものです 2000ピースのパズルではありませんよ木星や土星といった大きな惑星は今ある位置にはなかったんですがやがてこの2つの惑星は重力に基づいて動き太陽系の中にあったさまざまなものをきれいに整頓しました現在の彗星はカイパーベルトと呼ばれるものに落ち着きました現在の彗星はカイパーベルトと呼ばれるものに落ち着きました海王星の軌道の外にある天体でできたベルトですこれらの天体はお互いに衝突することがあります衝突した後重力によりお互いから逸れていきますそれを木星の重力が太陽系に引き戻すのですそれが現在私たちが空で見ている彗星なのですここで忘れてならないのはこの45億年の間これら彗星はずっと太陽系の外に位置し何も変わっていないことです私たちのいる太陽系を深く凍らせたようなものです私たちが空を見上げるとこのように見えますお馴染みのほうき星の尻尾ですじつは尻尾は2つあります 1つはチリでできた尻尾太陽風に吹かれてできますもうひとつはイオンの尻尾でその正体は荷電粒子ですこの荷電粒子は太陽系の磁場に沿って動きます彗星のコマですそして核があります肉眼で見るには小さすぎますここで忘れてはならないのがロゼッタの場合は― 宇宙船はその真ん中の粒子の中なんです彗星からはわずか20~40km しか離れていませんここで何が重要かというと彗星の中には太陽系が形成されたときにあった物質が含まれていることですから組成を分析するのに理想的なのです地球が生まれた時生命が生まれた時に存在していたものです彗星はこう考えられています生命の誕生のきっかけとなった元素を乗せているのではないかとも 1983年欧州宇宙機関が「ホライゾン2000」という長期計画を立てその中の試金石の1つとして彗星の計画がありましたそれと平行して彗星の小さな計画「ジョット」計画が開始しました 1986年にはハレー艦隊の他の探査機と共にハレー彗星の近くを通過しましたこの計画の結果からすぐに明らかになったのは私たちの太陽系を理解する上で彗星を研究することが理想的だということですそういった経緯を経てロゼッタ計画は1993年に承認されましたもともとは2003年に打ち上げが計画されていましたが打上げ機のアリアンロケットに問題が発生したのです当時われわれの広報ははやる気持ちからデルフト・ブルーの記念の皿をすでに1000枚製作していました記載されている彗星の名前が間違っていたおかげでそれからというものお皿は買わなくてすんでいます問題がすべて解決し 2004年に地球を離れました新しく選択された彗星チュリュモフ・ゲラシメンコに向けてこの彗星が選ばれたのには特別な理由がありますまずたどり着けること次に太陽系内の滞在時間が長くないことこの彗星は1959年から太陽系にいますがその時初めて木星の重力で引き付けられ太陽との距離が縮まり太陽系内に入ったのですですから彗星としては新しいのですロゼッタは史上初をいくつか成し遂げています彗星の軌道を回る史上初の人工衛星であり彗星が太陽系に滞在する間ずっと追跡していますから太陽にもっとも近づいた衛星でもあります 8月にこの様子が見られますそしてまた外へと向かうわけです彗星に着陸するのも史上初です通常の宇宙探査機とは違う方法で彗星を周回しています通常は空を見て目的地と現在地を把握するわけですがこの場合それだけでは十分ではありません彗星のランドマークを確認しながらナビゲーションします特徴を認識します大きな石とかクレーターとかそうやって彗星に対して自分がどこにいるか確認するのですそして木星の軌道の外に出た史上初の衛星でもありました太陽電池を使ってですこう言うと少々オーバーに聞こえるかもしれません放射性同位体熱発電機という技術は― 当時まだヨーロッパでは使えず他に選択肢がなかっただけですからこの太陽電池アレイは大きかったこちらは翼のひとつですここにいるのは小人ではありません皆さんや私と同じ通常サイズの人間ですこういった翼が2つあり合わせて65平方メートルありますそれでこのあと彗星にたどり着いたら 65平方メートルの翼を使ってガスを噴出する天体の近くで航行するのは容易ではないとわかるはずですではどうやって彗星にたどり着いたのでしょうかロゼッタの科学的目的のために到達しなければならないのは地球から太陽までの距離の 4倍という長距離でしたまた燃料で達成できる速度よりもはるかに速い速度が必要でした宇宙探査機の重さの6倍の燃料がないと達成できない速度だったんですさあどうしたらいいのでしょう重力を利用して近傍通過したり重力スリングショットを使いましたかなりの低空飛行で惑星を通過するのです惑星との距離は数千キロメートルそうするとその惑星が持っている公転速度がタダで得られますこれを何度か繰り返しました地球と火星でこれを行い再度地球で2回やりました小惑星も利用しました「ルテティア」と「ステインズ」ですそうして2011年にはこれ以上太陽から遠くなったら― 宇宙船を救うことは無理なほど太陽から離れましたそのため冬眠しました時計ひとつを除きすべてのスイッチを切りましたこちらの白い線はロゼッタの軌道です私たちの始点となっている円から比べて白い線が外に行くにつれて楕円形になっていますそうしてやっと彗星にたどり着きました 2014年5月ランデブーの操作を開始しましたそこへ行くまでに地球の近くを通りカメラのテストをする意味で何枚か写真を撮りました地球の向こう側で月が昇ってくる様子ですこれは私たちが「セルフィー」つまり「自撮り」と呼んでいるものですその頃はそんな言葉はありませんでしたがこれは火星です CIVAカメラで撮影しました着陸機に搭載されているカメラの1つです太陽電池アレイのすぐ下のようです火星と太陽電池アレイが遠くに見えます 2014年1月に冬眠から目が覚めたとき彗星から200万kmの距離でしたが 5月に彗星にたどり着くべく接近を始めましたしかし宇宙探査機の速度が速すぎました彗星よりも時速2800 km 速度を落とす必要がありました 8回操作をしてここを見ると中には非常に大きなものがあります最初は時速数百kmほど減速しなければなりませんでした操作にかかった時間は7時間でした燃料を218キロ使い非常に神経を使う作業でした当時はまだ2007年でしたからロゼッタの推進力のシステムに漏れがあったんですブランチを遮断しなくてはなりませんでしたですからシステムは実際には圧力で動いていましたそのようにデザインもされていなければその能力も証明されていないのにそのあと彗星の近くまできたのですがこれがそのとき撮った初めての写真です彗星の実質回転周期は12時間半でしたから加速されていたわけです飛行力学のエンジニアたちが着陸するのは楽じゃない― 「これはえらいこっちゃ」と考えたのがわかりますねジャガイモのような着陸しやすいものだと私たちは期待していました少なくとも表面が滑らかだろうといいえとんでもありませんその時点で明らかになったのは― できるだけ細かく天体をマッピングする必要があること直径500メートルの平地を探さなければならなかったからですなぜ500メートルかというと着地にはその範囲の誤差が出てしまうからですこのプロセスを実行し彗星のマッピングをしました写真傾斜測定というテクニックを使いました太陽が投げかける影を使いますここには彗星の表面にある岩が見えます上のほうから太陽が照っていますこの影から私たちの頭脳を使って瞬時にこの岩のおおよその形がわかりますそれをコンピュータにプログラムしますそれを彗星全体に繰り返すと彗星のマップが出来上がりますそのために 8月から特別な軌道をいくつも通りましたまずは1辺が100kmの三角形を 100kmの距離でそれから 50キロメートルの距離で同じことを繰り返しましたここまでで彗星をありとあらゆる角度で確認しましたこのテクニックを使って全体をマッピングしたわけですこれにより着地点の選定ができました彗星のマッピングから実際の着地点の選択まで全体のプロセスにかかった期間は60日でしたもう時間はありませんでした通常の火星のミッションでは何百人という科学者が何年もミーティングを重ね「どこへ行こうか」と議論しますでも私たちにはたった60日しかなかったんですさてついに最終的な着地点を決めましたロゼッタからフィラエを着地させるコマンドの準備が整いました宇宙空間の最適な地点にロゼッタが位置していないとうまくいきませんそして彗星に対して正確に狙いを定めていないといけません着陸機は受動的なんです押し出されて彗星に向かって動きますロゼッタは向きを変える必要がありました離れていくあいだカメラをフィラエに向けるためです同時に通信できなければなりません軌道全体の着地にかかる時間は7時間ここで簡単な計算をしてみましょうロゼッタの速度が 1秒間で1センチずれていたとします 7時間は25000秒ですから 252メートルずれてしまうことになりますですからロゼッタの速度を 1秒1センチ以下の精度で把握する必要がありました地球から5億kmの距離にあるロゼッタの位置把握は― 100メートル以上の精度で求められますこれは至難の業です科学的にまた装置がどうなっているのか手短に説明しましょうあくびが出るほど事細かく説明したりはしないので安心してくださいでもすべて網羅していますガスを探知したり塵を測定したり形や組成を調べたり磁気探知機などみんな揃っています気体の濃度を測る機器からロゼッタのポジションで計測された結果のひとつですが彗星から放出されるガスです下にあるグラフは昨年9月のものです長期的な変動があるのは驚くことではありません尖ったピークがありますねこれは彗星の日中です太陽の影響でガスが蒸発して出てきます彗星は自転していますつまり場所によってはっきりとたくさん噴出する部分が見えるんです太陽によって熱せられ裏側に回って冷やされますこれに関する比重の変動が見えますこれらはガスと有機化合物ですすでに測定済みのものです感動するほど大きなリストになりましたこんなものではありませんもっともっとあります測定されている値はもっと沢山あるからです現在会合がヒューストンで開かれていてそこで沢山のデータが発表されています塵の粒子も測定していますみなさんにはあまりすごいことに見えないと思いますが― 科学者にとってはこれはワクワクすることだったんです 2つの粒子があります右が「ボリス」ですタンタルを発射して分析しました塩素とマグネシウムを発見しましたこれによってわかることはこの2つの物質こそ太陽系形成時に存在した物質が凝縮されたものということです惑星が生まれたときどの物質が存在していたのかわかるようになりました重要なことのひとつは画像化することでしたロゼッタ搭載のカメラのひとつでオシリス・カメラです科学雑誌の『サイエンス』で今年の1月23日号の表紙を飾った写真ですこの天体の姿がこうだと想像した人はいませんでした大小の岩―どちらかというとヨセミテ国立公園にあるハーフドームのようなものですこんなものも見ました砂丘や右手にあるような風に吹かれる影などまた火星から知ったのですがこの彗星には大気がありませんですから風に吹かれる影を作るのは少々難しいのです局所からのガス放出の可能性がありますつまり出たり戻ったりするものだということですでもまだ分かりません調査すべきことはたくさんありますここで同じ画像を2枚見せます左側の画像の真ん中には穴があります右側の画像にはよく見るとその穴のそこの部分から気体が3本噴射していますこれが彗星の活動なのですこのくぼみの部分は活動している部分なんですここから物質が宇宙空間へと蒸発します非常に興味深いひび割れが彗星の首の辺りにありますみなさんから見て右手になります長さが1メートルあり幅2.5メートルですその部分については一部の人がこう言います太陽に近づいたら彗星が2つに割れるだろうですから選ばないといけなくなりますどちら側の彗星にするのか着陸機にもたくさんの装置が付いています地面をたたくハンマーやドリルなどを除くとほぼ同等の道具がありますそれはロゼッタとほぼ同様に宇宙空間で見つかるものを彗星で見つかるものと比較するためですグラウンドトルース測定と呼ばれていますこちらは着陸進入の際の画像ですオシリスカメラで撮影されたものです着陸機がロゼッタから次第に遠ざかって行くのがわかります右上に60メートルの地点で着陸機が撮影した画像があります彗星の表面から60メートル上空ですここに見える大きな石は10メートルもありますつまりこれらの写真は彗星に着陸する直前にとらえた画像なんですこちらは同じ様子を別の角度からとらえたものです彗星の表面を動いている着陸機の左の下の部分から中央に向かって 3本の噴出しているものが見えます上のほうをご覧ください着陸する前と後の写真がありますところが後のほうの写真には着陸機の姿がありませんでもよく見るとこの写真の右手のほうに着陸機がまだいるのがわかりますがじつはこの着陸機は跳ねたんですいったん地面を離れたんですここでちょっと笑い話なんですがロゼッタはもともと跳ねる着陸機を持つよう設計されましたでもあまりに費用がかかるので取りやめになったんです私たちは忘れていたけれど着陸機は覚えていたんです最初に跳ねたときに磁気探知機から得られたデータがここにあります X軸 Y軸 Z軸の3つです真ん中あたりに赤い線がありますこの赤い線のあたりで変化がありました何が起きたかというと 1回目に跳ねたときクレーターのどこか端っこに着陸機の足がぶつかったんですそのため着陸機の回転速度が変わったですから今の場所にあるというのは幸運だと言わざるを得ませんこちらはロゼッタの有名な画像のひとつです人工物である着陸機の足で彗星に第一歩を踏み出している様子ですこれまでに見た宇宙科学に関する画像のなかで最高のものだと個人的に思っています (拍手) まだ済んでいないのが着陸機を見つけることですこの青い部分にあるに違いないとわかっていますまだ見つけられてはいませんが探索は続いています着陸機をまた作動しようと努力しているので毎日私たちは耳を澄ましています遅くとも4月中には着陸機を覚醒させ再び稼動させたいと思っています彗星で発見したことはこの物体が水に浮いていただろうということ水の半分の比重です大きな岩のように見えますが実際は違います昨年の6月から8月にかけて私たちが目にした活発化した活動は通常の4倍の活動量でした太陽に近づくまでには 1秒に100キロこの彗星から物質が出て行くことになりますガスにしろ塵にしろとにかく一日に1億キロになるのですそうしてついに着陸の日を迎えました決して忘れることはないでしょうドイツに 250人ものテレビ取材陣が集まる狂気の沙汰で BBCのインタビュー取材もあれば私を1日密着取材するテレビ局もありました私がインタビューを受ける様子を撮影したりそういうことが一日中続きました『ディスカバリーチャンネル』の取材班が私が制御室を出てくるところをつかまえてすばらしい質問をしてくれました思わず涙が出ました今でもそのときの気持ちがよみがえります 1ヵ月半のあいだ着陸の日のことを涙なしで思い起こすことはできませんでした今でもその時の思いが自分のなかにあります彗星のこの画像をご覧頂きながら私の話を終わりたいと思いますありがとうございました	To escort and land the probe on a comet, this has been my passion for the past two years. In order to do that, I need to explain to you something about the origin of the solar system. When we go back four and a half billion years, there was a cloud of gas and dust. In the center of this cloud, our sun formed and ignited. Along with that, what we now know as planets, comets and asteroids formed. What then happened, according to theory, is that when the Earth had cooled down a bit after its formation, comets massively impacted the Earth and delivered water to Earth. They probably also delivered complex organic material to Earth, and that may have bootstrapped the emergence of life. You can compare this to having to solve a 250-piece puzzle and not a 2,000-piece puzzle. Afterwards, the big planets like Jupiter and Saturn, they were not in their place where they are now, and they interacted gravitationally, and they swept the whole interior of the solar system clean, and what we now know as comets ended up in something called the Kuiper Belt, which is a belt of objects beyond the orbit of Neptune. And sometimes these objects run into each other, and they gravitationally deflect, and then the gravity of Jupiter pulls them back into the solar system. And they then become the comets as we see them in the sky. The important thing here to note is that in the meantime, the four and a half billion years, these comets have been sitting on the outside of the solar system, and haven't changed -- deep, frozen versions of our solar system. In the sky, they look like this. We know them for their tails. There are actually two tails. One is a dust tail, which is blown away by the solar wind. The other one is an ion tail, which is charged particles, and they follow the magnetic field in the solar system. There's the coma, and then there is the nucleus, which here is too small to see, and you have to remember that in the case of Rosetta, the spacecraft is in that center pixel. We are only 20, 30, 40 kilometers away from the comet. So what's important to remember? Comets contain the original material from which our solar system was formed, so they're ideal to study the components that were present at the time when Earth, and life, started. Comets are also suspected of having brought the elements which may have bootstrapped life. In 1983, ESA set up its long-term Horizon 2000 program, which contained one cornerstone, which would be a mission to a comet. In parallel, a small mission to a comet, what you see here, Giotto, was launched, and in 1986, flew by the comet of Halley with an armada of other spacecraft. From the results of that mission, it became immediately clear that comets were ideal bodies to study to understand our solar system. And thus, the Rosetta mission was approved in 1993, and originally it was supposed to be launched in 2003, but a problem arose with an Ariane rocket. However, our P.R. department, in its enthusiasm, had already made 1,000 Delft Blue plates with the name of the wrong comets. So I've never had to buy any china since. That's the positive part. Once the whole problem was solved, we left Earth in 2004 to the newly selected comet, Churyumov-Gerasimenko. This comet had to be specially selected because A, you have to be able to get to it, and B, it shouldn't have been in the solar system too long. This particular comet has been in the solar system since 1959. That's the first time when it was deflected by Jupiter, and it got close enough to the sun to start changing. So it's a very fresh comet. Rosetta made a few historic firsts. It's the first satellite to orbit a comet, and to escort it throughout its whole tour through the solar system -- closest approach to the sun, as we will see in August, and then away again to the exterior. It's the first ever landing on a comet. We actually orbit the comet using something which is not normally done with spacecraft. Normally, you look at the sky and you know where you point and where you are. In this case, that's not enough. We navigated by looking at landmarks on the comet. We recognized features -- boulders, craters -- and that's how we know where we are respective to the comet. And, of course, it's the first satellite to go beyond the orbit of Jupiter on solar cells. Now, this sounds more heroic than it actually is, because the technology to use radio isotope thermal generators wasn't available in Europe at that time, so there was no choice. But these solar arrays are big. This is one wing, and these are not specially selected small people. They're just like you and me. We have two of these wings, 65 square meters. Now later on, of course, when we got to the comet, you find out that 65 square meters of sail close to a body which is outgassing is not always a very handy choice. Now, how did we get to the comet? Because we had to go there for the Rosetta scientific objectives very far away -- four times the distance of the Earth to the sun -- and also at a much higher velocity than we could achieve with fuel, because we'd have to take six times as much fuel as the whole spacecraft weighed. So what do you do? You use gravitational flybys, slingshots, where you pass by a planet at very low altitude, a few thousand kilometers, and then you get the velocity of that planet around the sun for free. We did that a few times. We did Earth, we did Mars, we did twice Earth again, and we also flew by two asteroids, Lutetia and Steins. Then in 2011, we got so far from the sun that if the spacecraft got into trouble, we couldn't actually save the spacecraft anymore, so we went into hibernation. Everything was switched off except for one clock. Here you see in white the trajectory, and the way this works. You see that from the circle where we started, the white line, actually you get more and more and more elliptical, and then finally we approached the comet in May 2014, and we had to start doing the rendezvous maneuvers. On the way there, we flew by Earth and we took a few pictures to test our cameras. This is the moon rising over Earth, and this is what we now call a selfie, which at that time, by the way, that word didn't exist. It's at Mars. It was taken by the CIVA camera. That's one of the cameras on the lander, and it just looks under the solar arrays, and you see the planet Mars and the solar array in the distance. Now, when we got out of hibernation in January 2014, we started arriving at a distance of two million kilometers from the comet in May. However, the velocity the spacecraft had was much too fast. We were going 2,800 kilometers an hour faster than the comet, so we had to brake. We had to do eight maneuvers, and you see here, some of them were really big. We had to brake the first one by a few hundred kilometers per hour, and actually, the duration of that was seven hours, and it used 218 kilos of fuel, and those were seven nerve-wracking hours, because in 2007, there was a leak in the system of the propulsion of Rosetta, and we had to close off a branch, so the system was actually operating at a pressure which it was never designed or qualified for. Then we got in the vicinity of the comet, and these were the first pictures we saw. The true comet rotation period is 12 and a half hours, so this is accelerated, but you will understand that our flight dynamics engineers thought, this is not going to be an easy thing to land on. We had hoped for some kind of spud-like thing where you could easily land. But we had one hope: maybe it was smooth. No. That didn't work either. So at that point in time, it was clearly unavoidable: we had to map this body in all the detail you could get, because we had to find an area which is 500 meters in diameter and flat. Why 500 meters? That's the error we have on landing the probe. So we went through this process, and we mapped the comet. We used a technique called photoclinometry. You use shadows thrown by the sun. What you see here is a rock sitting on the surface of the comet, and the sun shines from above. From the shadow, we, with our brain, can immediately determine roughly what the shape of that rock is. You can program that in a computer, you then cover the whole comet, and you can map the comet. For that, we flew special trajectories starting in August. First, a triangle of 100 kilometers on a side at 100 kilometers' distance, and we repeated the whole thing at 50 kilometers. At that time, we had seen the comet at all kinds of angles, and we could use this technique to map the whole thing. Now, this led to a selection of landing sites. This whole process we had to do, to go from the mapping of the comet to actually finding the final landing site, was 60 days. We didn't have more. To give you an idea, the average Mars mission takes hundreds of scientists for years to meet about where shall we go? We had 60 days, and that was it. We finally selected the final landing site and the commands were prepared for Rosetta to launch Philae. The way this works is that Rosetta has to be at the right point in space, and aiming towards the comet, because the lander is passive. The lander is then pushed out and moves towards the comet. Rosetta had to turn around to get its cameras to actually look at Philae while it was departing and to be able to communicate with it. Now, the landing duration of the whole trajectory was seven hours. Now do a simple calculation: if the velocity of Rosetta is off by one centimeter per second, seven hours is 25,000 seconds. That means 252 meters wrong on the comet. So we had to know the velocity of Rosetta much better than one centimeter per second, and its location in space better than 100 meters at 500 million kilometers from Earth. That's no mean feat. Let me quickly take you through some of the science and the instruments. I won't bore you with all the details of all the instruments, but it's got everything. We can sniff gas, we can measure dust particles, the shape of them, the composition, there are magnetometers, everything. This is one of the results from an instrument which measures gas density at the position of Rosetta, so it's gas which has left the comet. The bottom graph is September of last year. There is a long-term variation, which in itself is not surprising, but you see the sharp peaks. This is a comet day. You can see the effect of the sun on the evaporation of gas and the fact that the comet is rotating. So there is one spot, apparently, where there is a lot of stuff coming from, it gets heated in the Sun, and then cools down on the back side. And we can see the density variations of this. These are the gases and the organic compounds that we already have measured. You will see it's an impressive list, and there is much, much, much more to come, because there are more measurements. Actually, there is a conference going on in Houston at the moment where many of these results are presented. Also, we measured dust particles. Now, for you, this will not look very impressive, but the scientists were thrilled when they saw this. Two dust particles: the right one they call Boris, and they shot it with tantalum in order to be able to analyze it. Now, we found sodium and magnesium. What this tells you is this is the concentration of these two materials at the time the solar system was formed, so we learned things about which materials were there Of course, one of the important elements is the imaging. This is one of the cameras of Rosetta, the OSIRIS camera, and this actually was the cover of Science magazine on January 23 of this year. Nobody had expected this body to look like this. Boulders, rocks -- if anything, it looks more like the Half Dome in Yosemite than anything else. We also saw things like this: dunes, and what look to be, on the righthand side, wind-blown shadows. Now we know these from Mars, but this comet doesn't have an atmosphere, so it's a bit difficult to create a wind-blown shadow. It may be local outgassing, stuff which goes up and comes back. We don't know, so there is a lot to investigate. Here, you see the same image twice. On the left-hand side, you see in the middle a pit. On the right-hand side, if you carefully look, there are three jets coming out of the bottom of that pit. So this is the activity of the comet. Apparently, at the bottom of these pits is where the active regions are, and where the material evaporates into space. There is a very intriguing crack in the neck of the comet. You see it on the right-hand side. It's a kilometer long, and it's two and a half meters wide. Some people suggest that actually, when we get close to the sun, the comet may split in two, and then we'll have to choose, which comet do we go for? The lander -- again, lots of instruments, mostly comparable except for the things which hammer in the ground and drill, etc. But much the same as Rosetta, and that is because you want to compare what you find in space with what you find on the comet. These are called ground truth measurements. These are the landing descent images that were taken by the OSIRIS camera. You see the lander getting further and further away from Rosetta. On the top right, you see an image taken at 60 meters by the lander, 60 meters above the surface of the comet. The boulder there is some 10 meters. So this is one of the last images we took before we landed on the comet. Here, you see the whole sequence again, but from a different perspective, and you see three blown-ups from the bottom-left to the middle of the lander traveling over the surface of the comet. Then, at the top, there is a before and an after image of the landing. The only problem with the after image is, there is no lander. But if you carefully look at the right-hand side of this image, we saw the lander still there, but it had bounced. It had departed again. Now, on a bit of a comical note here is that originally Rosetta was designed to have a lander which would bounce. That was discarded because it was way too expensive. Now, we forgot, but the lander knew. During the first bounce, in the magnetometers, you see here the data from them, from the three axes, x, y and z. Halfway through, you see a red line. At that red line, there is a change. What happened, apparently, is during the first bounce, somewhere, we hit the edge of a crater with one of the legs of the lander, and the rotation velocity of the lander changed. So we've been rather lucky that we are where we are. This is one of the iconic images of Rosetta. It's a man-made object, a leg of the lander, standing on a comet. This, for me, is one of the very best images of space science I have ever seen. One of the things we still have to do is to actually find the lander. The blue area here is where we know it must be. We haven't been able to find it yet, but the search is continuing, as are our efforts to start getting the lander to work again. We listen every day, and we hope that between now and somewhere in April, the lander will wake up again. The findings of what we found on the comet: This thing would float in water. It's half the density of water. So it looks like a very big rock, but it's not. The activity increase we saw in June, July, August last year was a four-fold activity increase. By the time we will be at the sun, there will be 100 kilos a second leaving this comet: gas, dust, whatever. That's 100 million kilos a day. Then, finally, the landing day. I will never forget -- absolute madness, 250 TV crews in Germany. The BBC was interviewing me, and another TV crew who was following me all day were filming me being interviewed, and it went on like that for the whole day. The Discovery Channel crew actually caught me when leaving the control room, and they asked the right question, and man, I got into tears, and I still feel this. For a month and a half, I couldn't think about landing day without crying, and I still have the emotion in me. With this image of the comet, I would like to leave you. Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
しかしエボラというテーマを提案する人は誰もいませんでしたそれは2ヶ月前にエボラが急激に拡大しそれまで目にすることがなかった広い範囲にまで広がっており世界中が恐怖に陥り近年稀にみる勢いでこの病気に関心を持ち不安にかられるようになったからですしかし今日私はここでエボラに打ち勝つ事についてお話し出来ると思いますそれはおそらく皆さんの多くが聞いた事もないリベリアのロファ郡で働く医師ピーター・クレメントのような耳慣れない人たちのお蔭なのですロファ郡が非常に重要だというのはこういう理由からです今から約5ヶ月前この感染症がちょうど拡大し始めた頃ロファ郡は伝染流行の中心正にど真ん中にありました当時国境なき医師団とそこにある治療センターで医師たちは来る日も来る日も大勢の患者を診ていました患者たちとコミュニティは時間が経つにつれますますこの病気の事そしてそれが自分たちの家族やコミュニティ子供たちや親戚にどのように影響するかを恐れるようになりましたそこでピーター・クレメントは首都モンロビアからロファ郡まで長く険しい道を12時間かけて運転しこの場所での感染拡大を収める手助けをしようとしました現地に到着したピーターが気づいたのは先ほど私が申し上げたような恐怖でしたそこで彼は地元の首長と膝を交えて彼らの話に耳を傾けましたそこで彼が耳にしたのは悲痛なものでした彼はこの病気に感染した人々の荒廃と絶望の声を聞きました痛ましい話を聞いたのですそれはエボラが人々に与えた痛みだけでなくその家族やコミュニティに与えた痛みの話でしたその土地の首長たちの話を聞くと彼らはこう語りました「子供たちが病気になり死にかけていて近づきたくても彼らを抱くことも出来ない親戚が亡くなる時も慣習に従って彼らを弔うことも出来ない自分たちのコミュニティの風習に従って遺体を清めて埋葬することも許されないのです」そしてその為に彼らは非常に当惑し不安になり切れ目のない伝染病が目の前で広がっていったのです人々はやって来た医療従事者に感情をぶつけていましたコミュニティを救い手助けしようとやって来た英雄たちは彼らに近づく事が出来ませんでしたその時ピーターがリーダー達に説明しましたリーダー達は耳を傾け皆は形勢を逆転させましたピーターはエボラとは何なのかどんな病気なのかそれがコミュニティにもたらしたものを説明したのですエボラは私たち人を人たらしめる全てを脅威にさらすと彼は説明しましたエボラとはこれまでのように子供を抱くことが出来ない事それまでやってきたように遺体を埋葬できない事防護服を着た人たちを信用し彼らにそうした役割を託さなければならないのですそして皆さんその後非常に驚くべき事が起こりましたコミュニティと医療従事者そしてピーターが協力しあえたのですロファ郡のエボラ制圧に向けて新たな共同計画を立てましたそしてここからがとても大切な話となるのです皆さん何故なら今日このエボラ感染の正に中心になっているこの郡― 皆さんが新聞で目にしテレビの画面で見聞きしてきたロファ郡では今日まで8週間エボラの新たな症例は一例も出ていないからです (拍手) 勿論これで任務が終わったという訳ではありませんまだここでは新たな症例が出る大きなリスクがありますしかしこれで確かに私たちはエボラに打ち勝つ事が出来ると分かったのですここが肝心ですこの規模でさえこの環境で見られた急速な感染拡大の下でさえ現在エボラに打ち勝つことが可能だと分かったのですコミュニティが医療従事者と協力し合い共に戦えばこの病気を封じ込める可能性があるという事ですそもそもどのようにロファ郡でエボラ出血熱が流行したのでしょうか? その為に私たちはこの感染の始まりである 12ヶ月前まで遡らなければなりません多くの方がご存じのようにこのウイルスは検出されないままでした発生してから3、4ヶ月間ウイルスの検出が見過ごされていましたそれはこれが西アフリカの病気ではなくずっと奥の中央アフリカの病気だからです以前この病気は知られていませんでしたつまり医療従事者もこの病気を診たことがなかったのです何であるか分からず手に負えませんでした更に厄介なことにウイルスそのものがこの病気特有の症状とは異なる種類の症状を引き起こしていましたそれでエボラを知っている人ですらこの病気を認識しなかったのですそういう訳で暫くの間この病気は発覚が遅れたのですしかし最近一般的に広く信じられている事とは逆に一旦ウイルスが検出されると急速な支援の波が起きたのです MSFは即座に多くの方がご存じの通りこの地域にエボラ治療センターを設立しました WHOと協力機関はその後2ヶ月以上に渡ってウイルスを追跡する手助けができるよう最終的に何百もの人々を動員しました皆さんその時までに問題になっていたのは現在エボラとして良く知られたこのウイルスが過剰に拡大した事ですエボラの勢いは今までで最も大掛かりな感染対策の取り組みを凌ぎアウトブレイクを起こしましたその年の中頃までにはギニアだけでなくシエラレオネやリベリアにも感染は広まっていましたウイルスが地理的に広まるにつれ感染の数は増加しこの時点で何百人もの人々が感染し死の瀬戸際にいただけでなく重要な事に前線の救援担当者達や手助けしようとやって来た人々医療関係者や他の救援者たちが何十人も感染し死に瀕していましたこれらの国々の大統領達は緊急事態を認識しましたその頃彼らは会合を持ち共通の活動に取り組むことに同意しこの病気の収束に向けて今お話しした事についての戦略を実行する為にコナクリにエボラ出血治療センターを設置しましたしかしその時起こったのはこれまで経験したことのない事態でしたウイルスつまりウイルスに罹患した誰かが飛行機で別の国に渡ったのでした初めて別の離れた国でエボラ患者が発見されましたウイルスが再び次々と現れたのですその時はナイジェリアの 2千百万人の人間がごった返す大都市ラゴスでしたウイルスはそんな環境の中にありました予測した通り国際的な非常事態宣言が出されました近年目にした事のない規模の国際的重大事がこのように病気によって引き起こされました WHOは直ちに専門家委員会を招集し状況を検討し国際的緊急事態を宣言しましたその間も懸念が深まる国々を助ける為に国際支援の巨大な動きがあるものと期待していましたがそこで私たちが見たものはかなり違うものでしたある大きな反応だったのですご存じの通り多くの国の人々が -- 数多くの NGOや団体が支援の為にやって来たのですしかし同時に逆の事が多くの場所で起こりました警告がエスカレートしすぐにこれらの国々は自分たちが必要としている支援を受けているのではなく孤立を深めている事に気づきましたこれらの国々に民間の航空機が入って行きそれでウイルスの危険にさらされていなかった人々も国外へ渡航することが許されなくなりましたこのことは明らかに国そのものにとっての問題だけでなく対応にとっての問題も引き起こしますアウトブレイクに対応する手助けをする人々を迎え入れようとしたこれらの組織は彼らを飛行機に乗せられなくなり支援するための要員を迎え入れることが出来なくなったのですこの状況は皆さんエボラのようなウイルスには好都合でしたそしてこれまでになかった事が起こりましたすでに感染の起こっている場所でこのウイルスが生き続けるだけでなくその後拡大をし始め見たことのないような規模の症例数をここで目にするまでになったのですエボラの症例数が急上昇しこれらの国々やすでに感染の広まった地域だけでなくそこから更に拡大しその国々のありとあらゆる場所に広がっていきました皆さんこれは私たちがこれまで見てきた中で公衆衛生上最も危機的な国際的緊急事態の一つでしたその時これらの国々で起こった事は多くの方々がテレビで目にし新聞で読まれた通りです私たちはこの伝染病の強大さの下で医療システムが崩壊し始めるのを目にしました学校が閉鎖され始め市場はもう開かれなくなりこれらの国々の機能は破綻したのです状況に関する警告が発令されるよりむしろすばやく間違った情報や認識がコミュニティに広まり始めました防護服に身を包んだ支援者を宇宙服を着た人達と恐れ彼らは後ずさりを始めましたそれから状況はより深刻に悪化しました国々は緊急事態を宣言しなければなりませんでした人口が多い地域では隔離を行う必要がありそうして暴動が起こりましたこれはとてもとても恐ろしい状況でした世界中で多くの人々が尋ね始めました「こんなにも広がり始めているエボラを私たちはくい止める事が出来るのか?」「本当のところこのウイルスについてどの程度の知識があるのか?」実際エボラについてはあまり良く分かっていませんこれは私たちが知る限りでは比較的新しい病気ですこれが1976年に中央アフリカで最初に確認され私たちがこの病気を知ってわずか40年しか経たないのですしかしそれにもかかわらず分かっている事は確かに数多くありますこのウイルスはおそらくコウモリの種の間で生き延びましたそしておそらく人間の個体群に入りこんだのは分かっています私たちがウイルスに感染した野生動物と接触するようになりおそらくそれによって感染し病気を発症したのでしょうその後ウイルスは感染した体液を通して人から人へと感染した事は分かっていますそして皆さんがご覧の通りこの恐ろしい病気は高熱や激しい下痢嘔吐を引き起こし不運にもその内70パーセントないしそれ以上が死に至りますこれは非常に危険で衰弱した末死に至る病ですしかしこの病気が特に長い間知られていなかったという事実にもかかわらずその全てを知っている訳ではありませんがこの病気をくい止める方法は確実に分かっているのですエボラをくい止める決定的な 4つの事柄がありますまず第一に人々がこの病気を理解しなければなりませんこの病気の広がり方とそれを阻止する方法を理解しなければなりませんそして私たちはありとあらゆる症例を見つけ接触した人々を追跡できるシステムを確立し伝染をくい止められるように伝染の連鎖を辿り始めなければなりませんエボラ出血熱の治療に特化した治療センターを設立し感染者に支援提供する際にはそこで働く人々を守る必要があります感染を免れるためですそして亡くなった人々についてはその時にまた感染が拡大しないように私たちは安全で且つ同時に尊厳のある埋葬過程を保障しなければならないのですエボラをくい止めるやり方は分かっていますしこれらの戦略は機能するのです皆さんナイジェリアではこれら4つの戦略とそれらを実行した人々によってウイルスを制圧することができましたウイルスの拡大はセネガルで止まりましたそこはウイルスが広がりこのアウトブレイクで感染が他の国々にも広まった場所ですこれらの戦略が実際機能するということに疑問の余地はありません皆さん大きな問題は皆さんがご覧になってきたように多くの国で感染者の数が急上昇しているこの状況下でこの戦略が機能できるかどうかという事なのですそれはわずか2、3ヶ月前に直面していた大きな問題でした今日その疑問に対する答えを私たちは知っていますその答えが得られたのは素晴らしいNGO、政府地元のリーダー、国連機関や人道支援その他大勢の組織が西アフリカでエボラを止めようとする闘いに挑んだ驚異的な働きのお蔭です西アフリカでエボラを止めようとする闘いに挑んだ驚異的な働きのお蔭ですしかしそこでなされた事は少しだけ違っていましたそれらの国々は私がたった今ご紹介したこれらの戦略をとりましたつまりコミュニティの協力症例の発見保菌者の追跡等々です彼らは逆の見方をしましたあまりに病気が蔓延していたので異なるアプローチをとったのですこの病気が感染した人々から広まらないよう特別な治療センターで出来るだけ多くのベッドを迅速に用意する事に決めました感染拡大の速度を緩めようとするものでした彼らは遺体を安全に扱うことが出来るように多くの埋葬チームを迅速に設置しそれによって症例を発見し保菌者の追跡を管理する昔ながらのアプローチが実際効果的かを見極めながらこのアウトブレイクの収束を試みました私は約3ヶ月前に西アフリカに行った時そこで尋常ではないものを目にしました大統領たちが病気をくい止めようとする国際的な支援の高まりをとらえ自ら組織編成し監督し推進出来るエボラと闘うための緊急治療センターを開設している姿を目にしたのです私たちが目にしたのはあらゆる所から集まった軍隊が病気の人たちを隔離する為のエボラ治療センターの設立を援助し赤十字が現場のパートナーエージェンシーと協力して尊厳をもって遺体を埋葬できるようにコミュニティに啓蒙活動を行ったことです尊厳をもって遺体を埋葬できるようにコミュニティに啓蒙活動を行ったことです国連世界食糧計画のような国連機関は先ほどお話した戦略を実行できるようにこれらの国々の隅々まで迅速に担当者を送ることの出来るよう非常に大きな支援の橋を架けています皆さん私たちが見たものでおそらく一番印象的だったのは― これらの国々の政府やリーダー達による― 人々にこの病気を確実に理解させエボラをくい止める為に尋常ではない努力が必要だと理解させる素晴らしい働きでした皆さんその結果ほんの2、3ヶ月前にはできるかどうかも分からなかったことが実現出来るということを目の当たりにしたのです私たちが目にしたのは 12月1日に集計したこのグラフの通りです分かったのはこの曲線は下降させられるということいわばこの急上昇のカーブを変える事ができこのアウトブレイクを制圧できるという希望を取り戻せるということでした皆さんこのように現在では西アフリカでのこのアウトブレイクに追いつきエボラに打ち勝つ事が出来るのですしかし大きな問題はこの大きな曲線を見てもこう尋ねられる事です「ちょっと待って下さい数が減らせるのはのは良いのですが実際にゼロにまで出来るのですか?」このトークの始めにリベリアのロファ郡でエボラの新規症例数が8週間の間一件も無かったことをお話ししこの質問に対する答えは申し上げましたこの質問に対する答えは申し上げました同様の話が他の国々にも見られます初めての症例が実際報告されたギニアのゲケドゥからはこの数ヶ月殆ど症例は出ていませんそして別の震源地だったここシエラレオネのケネマで 2、3週間以上ウイルスが検出されていません明らかに勝利宣言するには早すぎるのですが皆さん根拠に基づくと支援が病気に追いつくことができるばかりでなくこの病気がゼロにまで減らせる可能性があるという事なのです勿論今の課題はこれらの国々で必要とされた規模でこれらの活動をすることでありそれはたいへんな課題ですこれ程の長期に渡りこれ程の規模で取り組んでいるとある2つの脅威がウイルスに加わってしまうからです一つはひとりよがりの現実的でない自己満足ですこの病気のカーブが下降し始めるとメディアや世界の注目はどこか他の場所に移っていきます自己満足は常にリスクとなりますもう一つのリスクはもちろん長い間一所懸命働き続け何か月も寝不足が続くと誰しも疲れて疲弊してしまう事ですするとその新たなリスクにも対処しなくてはならないのです皆さん私はたった今西アフリカから帰ってきたばかりですこれらの国々の人々これらの国々のリーダーたちは自己満足はしていません彼らは自国でエボラをゼロにしたいと願っていますそうですこの人たちは疲れてはいますが疲弊はしてません彼らにはエネルギーと勇気がありますこの病気を収束させる力を持っています皆さんこの時点で彼らに必要なものは彼らと共に立ち上がる為の国際社会の確固たる支援なのです現地の人たちと手をとり団結を強化し問題の終焉に向けて支援を加速させることです何故なら正に今エボラを収束させることはこのウイルスの形勢を逆転させ追い詰める事を意味するからです覚えておいて下さいこのウイルスは一つの症例から始まった大きな危機ですそして最後の一つの症例をもって終わりを迎えるのですしかし当時国に十分な疫学者十分な医療従事者十分な事務方彼らと協力しすべての症例や接触者を追跡しこの病気が永久に終焉を迎えるような取り組みが出来る人々が各国に十分にいてこそ初めて収束することができます皆さんエボラに打ち勝つ事は可能ですこの話に耳を傾ける人たちにそれを伝えてもらいたいのですそしてその人たちにエボラに打ち勝つことがどういうことかを伝え更に大切な事はこの国々に必要な資源をもたらす支援が出来る人々に対しこう言い続けてもらいたいのですこの病気に打ち勝つ事は出来るのだと皆さんがエボラに打ち勝つ為出来る事を行う事で生き残り豊かに暮らせる多くの人々が存在するのです有難うございました	But nobody suggested this one, and the reason for that was two months ago, Ebola was escalating exponentially and spreading over wider geographic areas than we had ever seen, and the world was terrified, concerned and alarmed by this disease, in a way we've not seen in recent history. But today, I can stand here and I can talk to you about beating Ebola because of people whom you've never heard of, people like Peter Clement, a Liberian doctor who's working in Lofa County, a place that many of you have never heard of, probably, in Liberia. The reason that Lofa County is so important is because about five months ago, when the epidemic was just starting to escalate, Lofa County was right at the center, the epicenter of this epidemic. At that time, MSF and the treatment center there, they were seeing dozens of patients every single day, and these patients, these communities were becoming more and more terrified as time went by, with this disease and what it was doing to their families, to their communities, to their children, to their relatives. And so Peter Clement was charged with driving that 12-hour-long rough road from Monrovia, the capital, up to Lofa County, to try and help bring control to the escalating epidemic there. And what Peter found when he arrived was the terror that I just mentioned to you. So he sat down with the local chiefs, and he listened. And what he heard was heartbreaking. He heard about the devastation and the desperation of people affected by this disease. He heard the heartbreaking stories about not just the damage that Ebola did to people, but what it did to families and what it did to communities. And he listened to the local chiefs there and what they told him -- They said, "When our children are sick, when our children are dying, we can't hold them at a time when we want to be closest to them. When our relatives die, we can't take care of them as our tradition demands. We are not allowed to wash the bodies to bury them the way our communities and our rituals demand. And for this reason, they were deeply disturbed, deeply alarmed and the entire epidemic was unraveling in front of them. People were turning on the healthcare workers who had come, the heroes who had come to try and help save the community, to help work with the community, and they were unable to access them. And what happened then was Peter explained to the leaders. The leaders listened. They turned the tables. And Peter explained what Ebola was. He explained what the disease was. He explained what it did to their communities. And he explained that Ebola threatened everything that made us human. Ebola means you can't hold your children the way you would in this situation. You can't bury your dead the way that you would. You have to trust these people in these space suits to do that for you. And ladies and gentlemen, what happened then was rather extraordinary: The community and the health workers, Peter, they sat down together and they put together a new plan for controlling Ebola in Lofa County. And the reason that this is such an important story, ladies and gentlemen, is because today, this county, which is right at the center of this epidemic you've been watching, you've been seeing in the newspapers, you've been seeing on the television screens, today Lofa County is nearly eight weeks without seeing a single case of Ebola. Now, this doesn't mean that the job is done, obviously. There's still a huge risk that there will be additional cases there. But what it does teach us is that Ebola can be beaten. That's the key thing. Even on this scale, even with the rapid kind of growth that we saw in this environment here, we now know Ebola can be beaten. When communities come together with health care workers, work together, that's when this disease can be stopped. But how did Ebola end up in Lofa County in the first place? Well, for that, we have to go back 12 months, to the start of this epidemic. And as many of you know, this virus went undetected, it evaded detection for three or four months when it began. That's because this is not a disease of West Africa, it's a disease of Central Africa, half a continent away. People hadn't seen the disease before; health workers hadn't seen the disease before. They didn't know what they were dealing with, and to make it even more complicated, the virus itself was causing a symptom, a type of a presentation that wasn't classical of the disease. So people didn't even recognize the disease, people who knew Ebola. For that reason it evaded detection for some time, But contrary to public belief sometimes these days, once the virus was detected, there was a rapid surge in of support. MSF rapidly set up an Ebola treatment center, as many of you know, in the area. The World Health Organization and the partners that it works with deployed eventually hundreds of people over the next two months to be able to help track the virus. The problem, ladies and gentlemen, is by then, this virus, well known now as Ebola, had spread too far. It had already outstripped what was one of the largest responses that had been mounted so far to an Ebola outbreak. By the middle of the year, not just Guinea but now Sierra Leone and Liberia were also infected. As the virus was spreading geographically, the numbers were increasing and at this time, not only were hundreds of people infected and dying of the disease, but as importantly, the front line responders, the people who had gone to try and help, the health care workers, the other responders were also sick and dying by the dozens. The presidents of these countries recognized the emergencies. They met right around that time, they agreed on common action and they put together an emergency joint operation center in Conakry to try and work together to finish this disease and get it stopped, to implement the strategies we talked about. But what happened then was something we had never seen before with Ebola. What happened then was the virus, or someone sick with the virus, boarded an airplane, flew to another country, and for the first time, we saw in another distant country the virus pop up again. This time it was in Nigeria, in the teeming metropolis of Lagos, 21 million people. Now the virus was in that environment. And as you can anticipate, there was international alarm, international concern on a scale that we hadn't seen in recent years caused by a disease like this. The World Health Organization immediately called together an expert panel, looked at the situation, declared an international emergency. And in doing so, the expectation would be that there would be a huge outpouring of international assistance to help these countries which were in so much trouble and concern at that time. But what we saw was something very different. There was some great response. A number of countries came to assist -- many, many NGOs and others, as you know, but at the same time, the opposite happened in many places. Alarm escalated, and very soon these countries found themselves not receiving the support they needed, but increasingly isolated. What we saw was commercial airlines [stopped] flying into these countries and people who hadn't even been exposed to the virus were no longer allowed to travel. This caused not only problems, obviously, for the countries themselves, but also for the response. Those organizations that were trying to bring people in, to try and help them respond to the outbreak, they could not get people on airplanes, they could not get them into the countries to be able to respond. In that situation, ladies and gentleman, a virus like Ebola takes advantage. And what we saw then was something also we hadn't seen before. Not only did this virus continue in the places where they'd already become infected, but then it started to escalate and we saw the case numbers that you see here, something we'd never seen before on such a scale, an exponential increase of Ebola cases not just in these countries or the areas already infected in these countries but also spreading further and deeper into these countries. Ladies and gentleman, this was one of the most concerning international emergencies in public health we've ever seen. And what happened in these countries then, many of you saw, again, on the television, read about in the newspapers, we saw the health system start to collapse under the weight of this epidemic. We saw the schools begin to close, markets no longer started, no longer functioned the way that they should in these countries. We saw that misinformation and misperceptions started to spread even faster through the communities, which became even more alarmed about the situation. They started to recoil from those people that you saw in those space suits, as they call them, who had come to help them. And then the situation deteriorated even further. The countries had to declare a state of emergency. Large populations needed to be quarantined in some areas, and then riots broke out. It was a very, very terrifying situation. Around the world, many people began to ask, can we ever stop Ebola when it starts to spread like this? And they started to ask, how well do we really know this virus? The reality is we don't know Ebola extremely well. It's a relatively modern disease in terms of what we know about it. We've known the disease only for 40 years, since it first popped up in Central Africa in 1976. But despite that, we do know many things: We know that this virus probably survives in a type of a bat. We know that it probably enters a human population when we come in contact with a wild animal that has been infected with the virus and probably sickened by it. Then we know that the virus spreads from person to person through contaminated body fluids. And as you've all seen, we know the horrific disease that it then causes in humans, where we see this disease cause severe fevers, diarrhea, vomiting, and then unfortunately, in 70 percent of the cases or often more, death. This is a very dangerous, debilitating, and deadly disease. But despite the fact that we've not known this disease for a particularly long time, and we don't know everything about it, we do know how to stop this disease. There are four things that are critical to stopping Ebola. First and foremost, the communities have got to understand this disease, they've got to understand how it spreads and how to stop it. And then we've got to be able to have systems that can find every single case, every contact of those cases, and begin to track the transmission chains so that you can stop transmission. We have to have treatment centers, specialized Ebola treatment centers, where the workers can be protected as they try to provide support to the people who are infected, so that they might survive the disease. And then for those who do die, we have to ensure there is a safe, but at the same time dignified, burial process, so that there is no spread at that time as well. So we do know how to stop Ebola, and these strategies work, ladies and gentlemen. The virus was stopped in Nigeria by these four strategies and the people implementing them, obviously. It was stopped in Senegal, where it had spread, and also in the other countries that were affected by this virus, in this outbreak. So there's no question that these strategies actually work. The big question, ladies and gentlemen, was whether these strategies could work on this scale, in this situation, with so many countries affected with the kind of exponential growth that you saw. That was the big question that we were facing just two or three months ago. Today we know the answer to that question. And we know that answer because of the extraordinary work of an incredible group of NGOs, of governments, of local leaders, of U.N. agencies and many humanitarian and other organizations that came and joined the fight to try and stop Ebola in West Africa. But what had to be done there was slightly different. These countries took those strategies I just showed you; the community engagement, the case finding, contact tracing, etc., and they turned them on their head. There was so much disease, they approached it differently. What they decided to do was they would first try and slow down this epidemic by rapidly building as many beds as possible in specialized treatment centers so that they could prevent the disease from spreading from those were infected. They would rapidly build out many, many burial teams so that they could safely deal with the dead, and with that, they would try and slow this outbreak to see if it could actually then be controlled using the classic approach of case finding and contact tracing. And when I went to West Africa about three months ago, when I was there what I saw was extraordinary. I saw presidents opening emergency operation centers themselves against Ebola so that they could personally coordinate and oversee and champion this surge of international support to try and stop this disease. We saw militaries from within those countries and from far beyond coming in to help build Ebola treatment centers that could be used to isolate those who were sick. We saw the Red Cross movement working with its partner agencies on the ground there to help train the communities so that they could actually safely bury their dead in a dignified manner themselves. And we saw the U.N. agencies, the World Food Program, build a tremendous air bridge that could get responders to every single corner of these countries rapidly to be able to implement the strategies that we just talked about. What we saw, ladies and gentlemen, which was probably most impressive, was this incredible work by the governments, by the leaders in these countries, with the communities, to try to ensure people understood this disease, understood the extraordinary things they would have to do to try and stop Ebola. And as a result, ladies and gentlemen, we saw something that we did not know only two or three months earlier, whether or not it would be possible. What we saw was what you see now in this graph, when we took stock on December 1. What we saw was we could bend that curve, so to speak, change this exponential growth, and bring some hope back to the ability to control this outbreak. And for this reason, ladies and gentlemen, there's absolutely no question now that we can catch up with this outbreak in West Africa and we can beat Ebola. The big question, though, that many people are asking, even when they saw this curve, they said, "Well, hang on a minute -- that's great you can slow it down, but can you actually drive it down to zero?" when I spoke about Lofa County in Liberia. We told you the story how Lofa County got to a situation where they have not seen Ebola for eight weeks. But there are similar stories from the other countries as well. From Gueckedou in Guinea, the first area where the first case was actually diagnosed. We've seen very, very few cases in the last couple of months, and here in Kenema, in Sierra Leone, another area in the epicenter, we have not seen the virus for more than a couple of weeks -- way too early to declare victory, obviously, but evidence, ladies and gentlemen, not only can the response catch up to the disease, but this disease can be driven to zero. The challenge now, of course, is doing this on the scale needed right across these three countries, and that is a huge challenge. Because when you've been at something for this long, on this scale, two other big threats come in to join the virus. The first of those is complacency, the risk that as this disease curve starts to bend, the media look elsewhere, the world looks elsewhere. Complacency always a risk. And the other risk, of course, is when you've been working so hard for so long, and slept so few hours over the past months, people are tired, people become fatigued, and these new risks start to creep into the response. Ladies and gentlemen, I can tell you today I've just come back from West Africa. The people of these countries, the leaders of these countries, they are not complacent. They want to drive Ebola to zero in their countries. And these people, yes, they're tired, but they are not fatigued. They have an energy, they have a courage, they have the strength to get this finished. What they need, ladies and gentlemen, at this point, is the unwavering support of the international community, to stand with them, to bolster and bring even more support at this time, to get the job finished. Because finishing Ebola right now means turning the tables on this virus, and beginning to hunt it. Remember, this virus, this whole crisis, rather, started with one case, and is going to finish with one case. But it will only finish if those countries have got enough epidemiologists, enough health workers, enough logisticians and enough other people working with them to be able to find every one of those cases, track their contacts and make sure that this disease stops once and for all. Ladies and gentleman, Ebola can be beaten. Now we need you to take this story out to tell it to the people who will listen and educate them on what it means to beat Ebola, and more importantly, we need you to advocate with the people who can help us bring the resources we need to these countries, to beat this disease. There are a lot of people out there who will survive and will thrive, in part because of what you do to help us beat Ebola. Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
せに引き倒され、腕を極められては反撃の術は見当たらない。これが仰向けならば、まだ何かできたかもしれないが、自分の正面に地面という壁を突き付けられては行動しようがなかったのだ。敗北を認め、逃げないことを約束させてから、俺はようやく彼女を解放した。「さて、君は誰かな? なぜ後をつけたのかな? なぜ襲ってきたのかな?」俺は少女を正座させ、顔の半分を覆っていた覆面を取らせる。「じゃあ、まずは自己紹介から行こうか? わたしの名前はニコル。知ってると思うけどね。あなたは?」「だまらっしゃい」正座させたので、彼女の頭は俺の目の前にある。「ったぃ!? うう......これが敗者の屈辱か......」「で? 名前!」「あ、はい。私はプリシラといいます。エリオット様の護衛で――」そこで俺は、彼女の視線が少し泳いだのを見逃さなかった。も頭を叩いて、隠した情報を聞き出す。「ウソ......じゃなくても言って無い情報がある顔だね?」「ううっ、姓はラグランですぅ」「ふむ、北国同盟のラグラン......ん?」その姓は俺も聞き覚えがある。それも前世でだ。「ラグランって結構な名家じゃなかったっけ?」「一応、旧ステラ王国の伯爵家になりますね。連合王国になってからはエリオット様の護衛を任されています」正座したまま、胸を張って説明するプリシラ。せっかく隠していた情報なんだから、そこで胸を張るんじゃないと、思わずツッコミそうになった。それにしても......思い出した。ステラ王国のラグラン家か。おかげでステラ王国の要人は、暗殺するのが結構面倒だった。「まあ、身元はそれで納得がいった。それで、次......なぜ後をつけたの?」「そりゃ、エリオット様が懸想なさっている女性の身元くらい調べる物じゃないですか。私、護衛ですもの」「あー、そりゃ、ねぇ......」エリオットは、ああ見えても北部三ヵ国同盟では現存する唯一の王族。しかも領土面積だけで言うなら、三ヵ国を統合した連合国家は、この大陸でも最も大きな国だ。更に言うと幼少時から俺達という庇護を受け、権力争いの渦中にあった人物である。「でもわたしの身元は、これ以上ないくらいしっかりしていると思うけど......?」「本物なら、です」「これ以上ないくらい本物だって!」「生まれて十年かそこらのお子様が、あれほど完成した戦闘術を持っているなんて......さすが英雄のご息女というべきでしょうか?」「その『ご息女』に斬り掛かったんだからね、君」「ひぃ!?」どうやら戦闘技術はそれなりに高いが、状況判断力に問題があるタイプらしい。おそらくエリオットの護衛として派遣されたのは、経験を積ませる意味合いもあるのだろう。「まったく、面倒ごとを押し付けてきたもんだ......」「お、お嬢様、実は口が悪いお方なんでしょうか?」「パパの影響。男っぽい地が出ることはときどきある」何せ中身が男なのだから、そこは仕方ない。なのでここはライエルに泥をかぶってもらおう。「そうなんですか。見かけと違ってワイルドなんですね」「そっちこそ、その歳でエリオットの護衛になるなんて、すごい。二十歳行って無いでしょ?」「ええ、まだす。おかげでいろいろ「今まさに、ご迷惑をお掛けされたわけだけど」「その節は誠に申し訳なく!」俺が半眼になって指摘すると、プリシラは平伏して謝罪の意を示した。「で、次。なぜ襲い掛かってきたのかな?」「そりゃ、普通はその歳のニコル様がここまで戦いなれているなんて、思いもよりませんよ。こちらを誘い込むように路地に移動し、挑発するかのように足を止める。さらに私の殺気にすら微動だにせず、不敵な笑みを浮かべていたとなると――」「あー、確かに普通じゃないね」「それで、ニコル様に変装した何者かが、エリオット様に近付いたのかと思いまして......」「それで襲い掛かってきたの?」「あと、ニコル様が入れ替わりのため、どこかに拉致監禁されている可能性もあるかと」俺のような例外を目にして、疑惑の視線を向ける事は何も問題ではない。だがそれを確認するため実力行使に出るのが早すぎる。「そこが経験不足なのか」「は?」「いや、こっちのこと。まあ、悪意があってやったわけじゃないから、今回は見逃してあげる」「まことにありがたく存じます」「わたしのお友達も結構な手練れだから、襲い掛かっちゃダメだよ?」「ハ、肝に銘じておきます!」ミシェルちゃんやレティーナ、クラウドなど、俺と共に実戦を繰り返してきたため、歳のわりに結構な実力者になっている。前もって釘を刺しておいて間違いはないだろう。	She stood her ground for quite a bit, but she eventually succumbed to my locking techniques. She had no way to counterattack, simply lying on the floor with her arm being stretched to extremes. If she was face up, there might still have been something she could have done, but with a ground pushed to her face, there was nothing she could do. After she admitted defeat and promised not to run, I finally let her go. After she realized that I had no intention to kill her, she finally turned obedient. I stood imposingly in front and fired my questions. “Now then, who are you? Why did you follow me? Why did you attack me?” I had her kneel on the ground and removed the mask that hid half of her face. What I saw was the face of a girl even younger than I initially assumed. I thought she was just someone that sounded young, but looking at her appearance, she wasn’t even years old. “Then, start by introducing yourself, will you? I am Nicole. However, you should know that by now. How about you?” “Kindly shut up.” Since I had her kneel, her face was before my eyes. I shut her up with a good smack on the head. She didn’t have to poke her nose where it didn’t belong. “Ouch!? Ugh... So this is the shame of a loser...” “So? Your name!” “Ah, right. I am Priscilla. I am King Elliot’s guard...” I saw her eyes swimming around at that declaration, so I gave her another smack to reveal what else she was hiding. “A lie... It may not be, but there’s something else you aren’t saying, isn’t it right?” “Ugh... Raglan is my last name.” “So, Raglan from the United Alliance... Hmm?” I remembered hearing that name. In my previous life at that. “Wasn’t Raglan quite a distinguished household?” “Well, we are counts of the former Stolla Kingdom. But after the alliance, we act as King Elliot’s guards.” Priscilla explained proudly while still kneeling. You were hiding that info until now, so what are you acting so proud about it? Then... I remembered something. Raglan of the Stolla Kingdom, huh? Their count status did not give them much influence, but they served the kings as their personal fight specialists for generations. Naturally, they could fight more than just humans too, so they were quite useful as stealth corps. Thanks to them, it was very difficult to assassinate big shots of the Stolla Kingdom. “Okay, that’ll do for your background check. Next... Why were you following me?” “I mean, I had to check what kind of person was the girl that King Elliot has fallen for. I am his guard, after all.” “Ah, well, yeah...” Despite everything, Elliot was still the sole king of the United Alliance. And if we spoke strictly in terms of territory, the United Alliance that emerged from three kingdoms was by far the largest on this continent. To add to that, we used to protect him since his infancy, so he was always in a maelstrom of power struggle. It was natural to investigate who his companion was. “But you should be more than aware of who I am, though...?” “Assuming you are really her.” “I am as real as it can get!” “For a ten or so years old kid to have mastered the art of combat to that degree... I suppose that was expected from the daughter of the heroes?” “And you just tried to kill that ‘daughter’, didn’t you?” “Eek!?” It seemed that she finally realized the mess she was in, she got goosebumps and started trembling. It appeared that while her combat skills were quite high, her assessment skills left much to be desired. Perhaps she was dispatched as Elliot’s guard to gain some experience. They probably judged that they didn’t need him to be overguarded, given Maxwell and Cortina resided in this country. “Good grief, making me babysit people in their place ...” “Y-Young lady, you seem to have quite a sharp tongue...” “It’s dad’s influence. I tend to act like a boy at times.” I was actually a man, so it couldn’t be helped. So I let Lyell take the blame here. I’ve been studying the sword under him all this time, so that excuse worked perfectly. “Is that so. So you are quite wild contrary to what your appearance suggests.” “How about you, you are quite something to be chosen as Elliot’s guard at such a young age. You shouldn’t even be years old, right?” “Indeed, I’m still . Because of that I’m still inexperienced in many things and always make trouble for others.” “You did exactly that earlier.” “I apologize about that with all my heart!” I pointed it out while squinting my eyes, and Priscilla prostrated herself on the ground in apology. “Okay, next. Why did you attack me?” “That’s... because I did not think that Lady Nicole would be such a fighter. You even lured me into an alley and did not even flinch at my killing intent, merely smiling fearlessly at me...” “Ah, that isn’t normal, huh...” “So I judged that someone disguised themselves as Lady Nicole and tried to get close to King Elliot...” “So you attacked me?” “I judged that they should have been hiding the real Lady Nicole somewhere after they replaced her.” Her logic wasn’t bad. However, she was thinking too inside the box. Seeing an exception like me and judging myself to be suspicious was by no means a mistake. However, it was too hasty for her to use force to ascertain it. She made such a blunder because she trusted her judgment too much. “So that’s where her inexperience comes from.” “Eh?” “Just talking to myself. Anyway, there was no ill will behind your attack, so I can let this matter go.” “Thank you from the bottom of my heart!” “But my friends are quite skilled themselves, so don’t go attacking them, you hear?” “I shall engrave it to my heart!” Michelle, Letina, and Cloud who fought together with me were quite a bit stronger than appropriate for their ages. If I left her be, Priscilla could very well attack them too. It was wise to warn her in advance.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 3, "inserted_lines_src": 16, "inserted_lines_trg": 1 }

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