What do you think?
It's really warm!
Really feels like summer...
Make sure you get your fill of it!
You won't be touching any warm surfaces for a while, after this.
Hey.
What?
Let's do this in Antarctica, too.
Well, shall we?
Ready to sail!
It's done, huh?
No.
We did it.
The boat left the land.
I don't know what this trip will mean in the end.
We'll be taking time off from school, missing tests...
It might even affect our entrance exams.
But as of now,
we are no longer high school students who can never take a step forward.
We are not 17-year-olds and 16-year-olds who try but accomplish nothing.
It's all ocean!
Of course it is.
The world really is big, isn't it?
That's enough!
Hey, guys, I'm taking a picture!
Look up here!
Okay, say cheese!
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Ready to go?
I see! Thank you very much!
Yeah, yeah. Very cute.
We're not live, so you can do it again...
We rocked!
They said the waves were gonna get pretty rough...
We really need to be efficient with our time.
They wanted us to help out later, right?
Yes, that's right.
Why didn't you wake me?
I did.
Then you need to wake me harder!
Excuse us!
Wait! Wait! Thirty minutes more!
Fifteen, at least!
Okay. We'll wait outside.
Did she not have eyebrows?
It's not uncommon among women.
I'd actually say it's typical.
Is it really?
Ow!
As we go further south,
we'll be stopping at places in the ocean known as "stations"
to gather bacteria and seawater.
We have tons of equipment on board to help us with that!
This is a water sampler and a CTD monitor.
Wow! This is a water sampler and a CTD monitor, huh?
We'll be gathering rocks like these
and performing geological surveys in Antarctica.
We'll investigate the stratum several thousand meters down
The mic is too close!
to learn more about the conditions on primordial Earth.
She has normal eyebrows, right?
Would you just listen to her?
Oh, no! Oh, no! Oh, no! We're late! We're late!
Which way was it, again?
This way!
High School Girls' room!! You gotta KNOCK
Ow!
Sorry we're late!
Yeah, yeah, we've been waiting!
Hey, dessert!
You make that here, too?
Well, with whatever we have, anyway.
Now, if you don't mind, start up on those.
Those?
This is why I wanted to bring a peeler!
Stupid Rin!
There are still so many more to go...
But this kind of thing is fun, don't you think?
You like grunt work, huh, Kimari?
Seems like it takes the four of you just to reach one horsepower.
Are we that slow?
It's clear you don't help out at home very often.
Still, don't rush yourselves.
We don't want you getting hurt.
She's fast!
I am a pro, after all.
Are you a cook somewhere?
I'm usually a lunch lady.
I'm constantly thinking up and preparing dishes
for picky eaters like you guys.
Anyway, work hard, so you can get up on deck soon.
Get up on deck?
From 1100 hours to 1700 hours, training is permitted on-deck. Counterclockwise.
What's that?
It means we're allowed to train topside.
In other words, we can go outside and get some exercise.
Exercise?
I'll take you up when you're done.
It's sort of a duty for expedition members.
Wow, the ocean.
W-We're going to run here?
Yep.
Hey, wait up!
If they announce clockwise, you'd go this way.
If they announce counterclockwise, you go that way.
The direction changes by day, so be careful.
Okay!
About how long do we have to run?
There's no particular rule.
But as we've told you over and over, stamina is crucial on an expedition.
You might be working all day in sub-zero conditions,
so you need strong bodies to meet the challenge.
Mom was always exercising, too...
If you run out of stamina and pass out,
not only will you not contribute anything,
you'll be an active drag on the people around you.
You don't want to get to Antarctica to be a drag, right?
See you!
She's fast!
Okay! We'll do our best, too!
Hey!
Kimari-san doesn't realize, does she?
She'll catch on soon enough.
I thought so...
Hey, are you okay?
Why... is it... so big?
You've walked around here countless times, haven't you?
But... everyone else... goes so fast...
Even she can run that fast...
She looks like a scientist,
but I guess she still has tons of stamina.
We're going.
W-Wait!
Eighteen!
By the time we get to Antarctica, we'll be Amazons!
It won't be that easy...
Okay, last one!
It itches!
My nose!
Yuzu, can you not lift your arms?
If you do anything, I will just kill you...
I will kill you ♥
You idiots! You idiots!
So this is a seawater bath...
It's pretty big, huh?
Definitely worth experiencing.
Would you get out already?
Seawater is more permeating than I expected.
My hair is so crusty...
I think that's why everyone cuts their hair.
And the men shave their heads...
Okay, maybe we should cut it!
I'll cut it!
The boat has barber facilities, right?
Not even if the fate of the world depended on it.
Ditto.
How come? I'm good!
I cut my own bangs all the time!
At last, the mystery...
...is solved.
That's why...
...her hair looks like that.
What? What?
Provisions ready!
It's time for dinner.
No way! Already?
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I'm all sticky!
Because you didn't wash off properly in the shower.
But I didn't have time!
Hey, meat and potatoes!
Are these the ones we peeled?
Have we forgotten to do anything else?
Dinner, bath... laundry?
Don't we have to do that at a certain time, too?
It's because you two were playing around in the bath.
Take responsibility and go do it.
Wait, but what about our dinner?
But didn't we pick someone to do it because it seemed easy to forget?
Oh, that's right!
Yes.
As I recall, we did rock-paper-scissors...
Hey!
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That'll do it.
What do you mean, "that'll do it"?
You actually sat there and ate your whole meal!
I still made it in time, so what's the problem?
Don't.
She must be tired.
They kept us busy a lot longer than I expected.
Yeah, true...
And it all starts again tomorrow.
You think we'll hold out?
We just have to do our best, right?
We don't have any other choice.
Feel sick...
I feel... sick.
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Going to die.
The world is spinning.
Don't talk. If you talk...
How'd it go?
Don't ask.
You're really seasick, huh?
But we were totally fine before.
We took medicine for it...
Didn't that wear off?
It can wear off?
It's medicine. Of course it'll wear off eventually.
I see.
I've never been on a boat this long. I didn't even think...
Hinata, you idiot.
Why am I the idiot?
You need to take medicine and get a good night's rest.
Then have a proper meal.
I know you probably don't have an appetite,
and you're afraid that if you eat it'll just come back up.
But if you don't eat, you'll just keep losing stamina.
If it gets bad enough, we might have to give you an IV supplement.
I see.
If that happens, none of your training will mean anything.
Okay.
Provisions ready!
Remember what Kanae-san said?
If we don't want to be a drag in Antarctica,
we have to eat, whether we like it or not!
It all came up.
Yuzuki-chan, did it all come up for you, too?
Don't say it.
Stop rocking!
Just stop for a little bit!
I think it is stopped.
No way!
They said they're collecting seawater.
And still...
Yumiko-san said we'd get used to it eventually.
But it's not happening.
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They've probably been on boats so often
their semicircular canals are busted.
From 0800 hours to 1400 hours,
training is permitted on-deck. Clockwise.
What'll we do?
Yeah, there's no way I can run...
But it's a little better outside, with the wind, at least...
I could probably manage it if not for the rocking...
I wanted to see the whales...
Whales? Can you see them?
They said earlier that they were in sight.
Can you see them?
Um... Tamaki-san, was it?
Yes.
There's one right now.
You see it?
She self-destructed just now.
Because she was focusing on a single point, right?
Lay off. Just thinking about it makes me want to puke.
There they are. Hey!
I looked in your room earlier,
and it looked like you weren't ready at all. Are you okay?
Ready?
53 degrees?
Though we set that record a long time ago.
The last time I came here, it felt to me like we rocked so far,
this desk was up there.
No way!
When you go to Antarctica, you must surpass these things...
The howling 40 degrees.
The maddening 50 degrees.
The screaming 60 degrees.
Wh-What do you mean?
It's about latitudes.
Earth is a water planet, remember?
It spins on its axis, and that creates wind and water currents.
But Earth has continents,
so those block the currents and weaken them.
But around this area of the southern hemisphere,
there's no land in the way,
so there's nothing to interrupt the current.
Mom said they were going to plow their way right through it.
How long will it take?
I don't know all the details, but pretty long.
Your insides will go woo, like on a roller coaster!
A roller coaster? I like those, but...
But do you want to go on one now?
Here it comes...
Though I like this kind of thing... the feeling, like I'm fighting.
I'm falling!
That was the biggest one yet, right?
I think that was about 15 degrees.
No way.
Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes!
I floated.
My body floated.
You'd better stay in bed.
But the blood is rushing to my head...
Ouch...
You okay?
I'm dizzy.
No getting to sleep tonight, huh?
Yeah...
You think we'll really make it to Antarctica?
Of course we will. We're on a boat going there.
I know that...
but we might not be able to do anything once we get there.
Everyone has so much stamina, and they can handle the boat...
It's almost like we're completely different organisms.
Then we have to become stronger, too!
You really think we can be like them?
We just have to do our best, right?
We don't have any other choice.
That's not true.
We always had a choice.
But we chose to be here.
Kimari-san?
We chose this ourselves!
Well said!
Where are you going?
The toilet.
I think I'm getting used to throwing up.
Same.
I'll eat anything! I'll puke anything!
That was an actual hill.
Yeah, when I get home I can tell them...
expedition ships are amazing.
Yeah, I'll tell them it was really fun!
You must be joking!
I'm not!
I'm sure that when this trip is over, that's how we'll feel!
I'd like to go outside for a bit!
That sounds good!
I wanna see, too!
Let's go!
It's pitch black!
This is the ocean we're crossing, huh?
To a continent of ice protected by storms and raging waves!
We really did choose to go there, didn't we?
What's that? Rain?
It's salty! It's the waves!
You're right!
It's salty!
Feeling better?
Yeah, we're totally fine!
Because we saw the whales yesterday!
Sounds like you've gotten used to the boat.
Yes!
But...
Once we make landfall, you're gonna get landsick.
For real?
Left ten degrees, five miles!
Where are they?
No clouds.
No birds.
The view is a single sheet of blue.
I strain my eyes, but the horizon is all I can see.
I know I was probably hearing the sounds of the boat,
but that overwhelming scenery seemed to render everything silent.
I was looking out on an infinite world reminiscent of outer space.
No way...
Is that...
It is.
Those are...
In that moment, we knew for sure.
It really lay ahead... Antarctica!
We're back, aren't we?
Though it'll be a long time before we're even opening the front door.