Chapter 3
Page 3
“Good morning!”
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“Morning.”
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“Let’s go!”
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“Ok.”
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“Life here must be so simple.”
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“Simple?”
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“No need to worry about too many issues.”
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“Sounds like you’ve had your fair share of hardship in the city, huh.”
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“No point in telling any more.”
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“Escaped home?”
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“I’ve lost touch with that place long ago.”
Page 6
“What I’m asking is, are you staying away from something?”
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“Away? ...more like the opposite…”
Page 7
“Give me some sauce.”
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“Alright.”
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“Find a seat over there.”
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“Oh.”
Page 8
“So this place has a crowded market too.”
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“Keep driving to the east and
you can also see a really huge lighthouse∼”
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“I just noticed it,
Do the totems on those flags have certain meanings?”
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“Ah, those are the aboriginal people’s traditional symbols.”
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“They’re famous for astrological divination.
You ever heard of the Five-Star Calendar?”
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“Youngsters!
If you’re travelling here, be sure to stay till next month∼”
Page 9
“The Rebirth Festival over here is totally superb!”
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“Though, it might be a bit hard for outsiders to visit the sacred mountain,
especially since you gotta wear their white hemp clothes to do so...”
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“Come, why not take a good look at this slab of Venus calendar?”
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“Boss, you can’t be thinking of asking us to bring this huge stone back?”
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“What are you saying, I just want to share its culture with you-”
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Ring ring ring ring ring - - -
Ring ring…
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“Hello?”
Page 10
“Ah? It got stuck again? How come?”
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“Right now? Hmm-”
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“Come take a look,
this is some beautiful aboriginal handcrafted art!”
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Clack !
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“Icek?”
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“My bad-
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Can I drag you along to my workplace for a bit?”
Page 11
“The researcher is too busy to come today,
and the machine is having problems again...”
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“What kind of machine?”
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“One of the algae factory’s water filtration machines,
similar to a water turbine, it’s a bit hard to explain without seeing it.”
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“Algae factory?”
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“Yea, it’s a place that can generate biodiesel from algae”
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“I volunteered there during high school, and gradually got
well-acquainted with the people.
Then I just kept helping out more and more.”
Page 12
“We’re here!”
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“What a magnificent place…”
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“Is it okay if I just walk in like this?”
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“No probs, no probs∼”
Page 13
“Meir! Thank goodness you finally arrived!”
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“Hmm? Is that your friend over there?”
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“Ah well, he’s a guest at the house.”
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“How rare, you’re actually taking a guest out to play?”
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“Haha..”
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“Anyways, quickly change your clothes.”
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“Yea∼ yea∼”
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“It’s about time you guys seek an actual mechanic to
thoroughly inspect the equipment.”
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“What about it? It’s usually just me looking after this place on my own...”
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“The broken one is turbine number 6.”
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“Roger that.”
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“I’m all done here, restart it to check!”
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“Fixed up!”
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“Aww yea!”
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“How? I’m awesome, ain’t I?”
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“Hey! Haha!”
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“Beat it, you smell all salty…”
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“The greenhouse here is surely amazing, you wouldn’t guess
this place is actually cultivating algae inside...”
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“Isn’t it. The biomass generated by this factory each day
can illuminate an entire small town, you know∼”
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“Furthermore, the process utilizes agricultural wastewater and
industrial CO2 emissions to nourish the algae.”
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“This is the final product-”
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“Algae oil.”
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“Wanna have a taste?”
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“So salty…”
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“Pfft, you just eat when you're told to.”
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“Hey…”
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“Aside from biodiesel, algae is also valuable as food.
Its uses are basically endless∼”
Page 18
“Have you always known that you wanted to walk this path?”
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“Ecological engineering?
More like it happens to align with my worldview.”
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“After all I’m a country bumpkin∼”
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“I never said that.”
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You obviously think so too.”
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“But if we’re talking about a lifetime career, actually it’s not like
I have something I’m absolutely set on doing.”
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“How about you?”
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“Lifetime career… it’s not really something everyone can have, isn’t it?
People should adjust what they do according to life occurrences”
Pages 19-20
“Perhaps because I never feel that I have to do something,
I always seem to hover between the states of
‘no choice but to do’ and ‘don’t do’”
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“Drawing is that way too?”
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“That’s… more like something to kill time…”
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“This trip I’m having now,
it might be a way to break through that dichotomy…”
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“Over there,”
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“see those birds.”
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“Follow them and you’ll reach the Island of Long.”
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“You really want to see that place, don’t you?”