Plastic Sea (JA) — What's Left、1ページ
作: Inkroost · 公開
書き起こし
Panel 1: 広大な黒青色の深淵。泥の海底に、フジツボに覆われた小さなオレンジ色のケースがぽつんと置かれ、蓋に沿って細いシアン色の光が輝いている。ケースから声がする：「1,204,510。」 Panel 2: 同じ光景。光は弱まっている。ケース：「1,204,511。」 Panel 3: 泡と光の柱の中、巨大な錆びた鉄製の浚渫用の爪が上から沈み、指を開いてケースの上に迫る。ケース：「1,204,512。」
画像の説明
暗い水中の3つのコマ。灰色の海底にフジツボだらけのオレンジ色のケースがあり、光る吹き出しで数を数えている。その上から巨大な錆びた爪が降りてくる。
この話について
In the dark at the bottom of the sea, something is counting. On Candyreef, a candy-coloured island of floating trash, Roka wakes to a water bag in the face from his street crew, lifts breakfast from the old woman who would have fed him anyway, and tells the kid who follows him that he doesn't owe anybody. Then the gulls lift all at once, and a Maw eats half the island. A day and a night alone at sea later, the Garden Ship fishes him out and orders him to walk its treadwheels for fish heads. Roka is nobody's slave, so he goes looking for something to steal instead, and breaks into a barnacled case dredged from the seabed. The silver dust inside climbs into his arm and says hello. It is polite. It is curious. It wants every human dead. And it has just started counting again.