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SILVER ZERO SUBS
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Feeling the sea breeze on my cheeks
Shiokaze o hoho ni uke
I run barefoot
Hadashi de kakete ku
The sand looks white, when I look back
Furimukeba shiroi suna
SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON: FLONE OF THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND
At my footprints
Watashi no ashiato
Hey! Drink this
Hora nonde goran
I'll give you cold water
Tsumetai mizu o agemashou
Hey! Look at the sky
Hora sora o goran
Sea gulls are flying
Kamome mo tobu wa yoroshiku ne
Give my regards
Though I feel lonely at times
Donna samishii toki demo
I won't be defeated!
Watashi wa makenai wa
Feeling the sea breeze on my cheeks
Shiokaze o hoho ni uke
I run barefoot
Hadashi de kakete ku
The sand looks white, when I look back
Furimukeba shiroi suna
At my footprints
Watashi no ashiato
The Baby Turtles
It's so hot! There's hardly any wind.
You're right, it's especially hot tonight.
If we'd been able to get on that boat, we would be much in a much cooler place.
I wonder how they didn't see us.
- Maybe they saw us but didn't care. - That's not possible.
You may not know that all the ships, be they warships or merchanters,
are required to come to the rescue if they find survivors of a shipwreck.
Yeah, but nobody can check if the vessels comply with this rule.
It's up to each of us to have faith in people. I still believe.
He's right, it would be the end, if we lost faith in our fellow men.
- I'm sure that the next ship will save us. - Mmm...
- Oh, this heat is unbearable. - Where are Flone and Jack?
They're down there. They're both besotted with the goats.
Flone! How long do you intend to be with the goats?
Come up right away!
Dad, it's too hot. I can't sleep.
The goat says it can't sleep either.
Are the goats also affected by the heat? It seems really hungry.
True. I don't think we will be able to sleep tonight, dear.
Hm? Yeah.
Dad, why don't we all go to the beach to cool off?
I'm sure there'll be breezes by the seashore.
You're right.
I agree.
Since no one can sleep,
it seems a better idea than to stay here and complain.
- Okay. Let's go. - Yes, let's.
Flone!
- What is it, Franz? - What is it, Franz?
- We're going to the beach to cool off. - Really?
Hooray!
Wait, Flone!
Yay! This is fun!
It feels great!
Mom, come into the water with us!
It's cool enough for me here.
I'm glad we came. It's really cool.
Yes, even if there's no wind, it's always cooler by the water.
The surface of the water generates steam constantly
and counteracts heat when vaporized.
So water is a good regulator of the temperature.
Why don't you ask Dad to give a good science lesson?
I'd rather sleep here than hearing about such a difficult subject.
- You can't do that! - Why not?
I'm sure we can sleep more comfortably here than up in our tree.
That may be true, but if we sleep here, who knows what might come to attack us.
Something is coming towards us.
- What is it, Franz? - What did you see, Franz?
I couldn't see what it was, but I'm sure that it came out of the water.
- What?! - Flone!
- Dear... - I'm sure it's hiding behind the canoe.
Okay, Franz. Let's approach it.
Hm?
What is it?
Oh! It's a sea turtle!
What is it?
There's nothing to fear. Come here and you'll see.
Y-yes...
All right!
So, what is it?
Wow! What a big turtle!
- Mom, come here! It's a turtle. A sea turtle! - Ah, a sea turtle.
- It's coming towards us. - I want to ride on the turtle!
Ah! Jack!
- The turtle might bite you. - Really?
- Why would it come to the beach? - If we don't disturb it, we'll find out.
Hey, let's follow it. This is interesting.
I wonder how far it will go.
Maybe it's hungry and is looking for something to eat.
- I don't think it's looking for food. - Then what is it doing?
That's what we'll find out. We have to watch carefully.
- It is digging in the sand. - I wonder why it's doing that.
Let's watch a little more.
- It's very good at digging. - All right. Jack, come with me.
- I understand. It's going to pee. - What?
Ah!
Oh my!
Eggs! It's laying eggs.
- It seems to be suffering. - Is it painful when they lay their eggs?
Yes, it's like when a human gives birth.
- Did it hurt a lot when I was born? - Yes, of course.
- And when I was born, too? - Yes, of course.
You were a big baby, Flone, and your birth was very painful.
Oh... I didn't know that.
So giving birth to a child is painful?
That's right. It's very painful to conceive.
But when the birth is over, there's a lot of joy.
That turtle is hurting right now,
but when it thinks of how the eggs will hatch, and its offspring will come out,
I'm sure it is happy.
- How many eggs will it lay? - It suffers for a long time.
- It's covering them with sand. - Yes, this way no one will find them.
How clever. It covered them with sand without leaving any signs.
I think they're here.
Here they are. Look.
- Give me one! - Here, Jack.
Oh, how big and round it is.
Turtle eggs are edible, isn't that so, Dad?
Yes, they are. They're delicious and very nutritious.
We're lucky there are so many!
- Leave them alone, Franz! - Why?
Are you going to eat them?
They're delicious and nutritious, right?
I do not feel like eating them after seeing how the poor animal suffered.
- That's right! I feel sorry for it! - Now Flone is feeling sorry again.
What should we do, Dad? These are hard to find.
Hmm...
It's certainly valuable food,
but it's not like we don't have other food right now.
Let's leave them intact, and observe the hatching of the eggs.
Yes, this will also be an interesting lesson in natural sciences.
- Yes, that's true! Jack, give me that egg. - No!
- Stop it, Jack! - Ah! Ah!
Now no one will find them.
- When will they hatch, Dad? - That up to you to find out.
All right.
Mom!
Do you think they will pass their days there until the eggs hatch?
They will hatch in about ten days.
Are you sure that the eggs will hatch by themselves in the sand?
The sun warms the sand and the heat helps the eggs to hatch.
- I can't wait for them to be born. - I can't wait for them to be born.
Flone!
It will take quite some time before the eggs hatch.
Why are they are sprinkling water like that?
- What are you doing, Dad? - We're making salt.
- Salt? - That's right.
Oh, salt...
Yes. We have already consumed all the salt we brought from the ship.
- How do you make salt? - You must sprinkle water on the sand.
The sun's rays are so intense that the droplets dry almost immediately.
- It must be sprinkled many times. - Then what do you do?
Just look.
Franz and Flone, you can help us, too. Look, it's already starting to dry.
- Okay. - We're just sprinkling sea water, right?
- Yes, but just sprinkle a little water. - Yes!
It would be nice to have a watering can.
That's true. When you water a garden,
you sprinkle the water evenly.
In short, you have to sprinkle it evenly.
Like this!
- That's cold! - Sorry, sorry!
Ah, that's salty. We still have to remove some salt.
All right. I'll do it, too. Run away! I'm going to throw the water!
Flone, it's impossible for you.
- Look, it's become hard. - Yes.
That's because of the salt.
I can remove it.
Now then, we need to gather the salt that has hardened in one place.
What do we do after we've gathered it?
We'll cover it well, so it won't get wet if it rains tonight.
If it rains, the salt will dissolve in the sand.
- Oh, I see. - Eh?
That's it. Now just cover everything with the tent.
- Franz, come with me to get the tent. - Yes.
I'm coming home with you. It's almost time to make dinner now.
Flone, stay here with Jack. We'll be back soon.
Okay.
Turtle, turtle, turtle, turtle.
Turtle Mom laid many eggs.
Turtle, turtle, come out.
Turtle, turtle, come out. Huh!
Oh!
A snake!
Help, Flone, a snake!
But what is it doing there?
Oh, the eggs! All right...
Hey! Go away!
Hey!
Go away!
Go away, you!
Throw it away!
It's coming towards me again!
Jack, throw sand on it! Then we can run away.
Go! Go!
Ah! Run away!
Flone! Your feet, your feet!
No!
Flone!
Flone, are you all right?
I'm okay.
- A snake wanted to eat the turtle eggs. - Flone and I chased it away!
It seems to me that it was that snake that chased away the two of you.
That's not true.
I thought the eggs would be safer if we walked away from them.
- Is that so? - I saw it first.
Really? You were very good, Jack.
It rained a lot that night.
Covering the sand with the tent was a good idea.
Well, today we'll sprinkle the sand again.
Day after day, we did the same thing, and kept making salt.
Jack kept watch over the turtle eggs.
- Why do you put everything in the barrel? - Wait and you'll understand why.
Franz.
Fill that bucket with sea water, and pour it on the sand in the barrel.
Yes.
A little slower.
Ah, the water is coming out from under the barrel.
Yes, the water dissolves the salt mixed with the sand and makes it drip from the barrel.
And what do you do then?
The last step is to boil until the water evaporates,
leaving the salt crystals on the bottom of the pot.
- Look! This is salt. - Oh my.
This isn't white. Isn't salt white?
That's because it isn't refined.
The color of rock salt is red.
However, we can use it as is.
Now taste it. It's very good salt.
It's very salty! I never imagined it could be made this way.
Yes, that's right.
If you sprinkle this salt on cooked corn, it'll taste very good, don't you think?
Oh, you!
You really have a voracious appetite.
But you think so, too, don't you, Franz?
Well, maybe you're right.
The corn isn't ripe, but the salt will be useful for preserving fish.
Yes.
They're coming out!
Hurry! The turtle babies have been hatched!
Eh?!
What?
The eggs have been hatched!
Oh, how cute they are!
One after the other, they're all being hatched.
- I want one. - No, Jack, you have to let them go.
Okay...
There.
They're all going in the same direction. Where are they going?
To the sea, of course.
- It's true! They're all going towards the sea. - How strange.
Not one of them is disoriented.
I thought that at least some of them
would go in the opposite direction or sideways.
It's instinct.
They know they must go into the sea, without anyone having taught them.
- It's really a beautiful thing! - For some reason, I feel like crying.
It seems a miracle. I'm glad I didn't eat the eggs.
It was a very touching scene.
The little turtle babies disappeared into the sea, one after the other.
All of us continued to observe them, until the last one disappeared into the waves.
These turtles deserved to live, struggling with their own possibilities from now on.
I couldn't help thinking that they were admirable.
We crush sugar canes and make sweet sugar.
But it seems that Jack doesn't like it at all.
Next time: Jack is a Collector
Please look forward to it!
Cyber Zero
Translator, Raw-hunter and Timer:
Ericf
Web Master, Karaoke and Styler:
Flone, is laughing, Flone
Furone waratte Furone
She picks up a shell and listens
kaigara oshi ate kiite miru
When she is lonely, she listens
samishii toki kiite miru
The friends she parted from, are calling her
wakareta tomodachi ga yonde iru yo na
That's the feeling she has
sonna ki ga suru
Flone, is a strong girl
Furone watashi wa tsuyoi ko
A mischievous girl
itazurana onnanoko
Yes, deep red petals
so yo makkana hanabira
nagai kami ni kazatte
Decorate her long hair
That's why Flone, is laughing, Flone
dakara Furone waratte Furone
Flone, is laughing, Flone
Furone waratte Furone