Plastic Sea (JA) — What's Left, Page 44
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はるか上空で、巨大なパッチワークのガーデン・シップが、広大なきらめく海をひとり航行している。甲板では、人々の小さな輪が、ひとつの小さなシアン色の光を囲んでいる。その上には黒い吹き出しがひとつ浮かんでいる。トフム：「一日目。」
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色鮮やかなガーデン・シップが、きらめく海をひとり航行している。甲板には小さな光がひとつ輝き、その上には「一日目」と書かれた黒い吹き出しがひとつ浮かんでいる。
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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.