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ロシアについてこれらのすべてを鑑みると、まったくのポチョムキン国家ではないにせよ、状況は芳しくないことがわかる。いかに前向きに捉えたとしても、ロシアが世界で潜在的に揉め事または問題を引き起こす可能性はあるが、達成できることには限界がある。モスクワにおける決定は世界のエネルギー価格、イランおよび北朝鮮の原子力計画の将来、テロリストの成功に影響を与える。その影響の良し悪しにかかわらず、ロシアの影響力は健在である。しかし、その影響はどの程度なのであろうか。	There are limits to what Russia can accomplish in the world in any positive sense, although its capacity to be a spoiler or create problems is considerable. Decisions made in Moscow can affect world energy prices, the future of the Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs, and the success of terrorists.	{ "source": "news_commentary", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
元々海上油田で使用するために開発されたもので水深 600 メートルまで潜水する道具でした博士号を取得した直後幸運にも初めてこの装置を海洋探査に使おうとしていたグループに私は加わりましたポートヒューニーメの潜水槽で訓練を受けて最初に海で潜ったのはサンタバーバラ海峡でした夜間の潜水でした私は 260 メートルまで潜り灯りを消しました灯りを消した理由は生物が作り出す光を見れるだろうと思ったからです生物発光という現象ですただ全く準備不足でどれほど沢山の光がありどれほど素晴らしいものか予想もしていませんでした鎖状のクラゲであるクダクラゲを見ましたがその長さはこの部屋よりも長く大量の光を発していたので灯りを点けなくてもスーツの中のメモリ盤やメーターが読めるほどでした青く光る煙が吹き出しているような光景でスクリューの作る水流から飛び散る火花は丸太を投げ込んだキャンプファイアーから巻き上がる火の粉のようでしたでもこれは冷たい青白い火の粉です息をのみましたさて生物発光をご覧になったことがあるとすればおそらくホタルなどでしょうか陸の生物で光るのはムシやミミズや菌の一部に何種かいますが一般的に地上ではかなりまれです海では生物発光するほうが普通です例外ではないのです世界のどこであれ外海に出て水深 900メートルから網を引き上げると実際ほとんどの場所で網にかかった大半のつまり 80% から 90% の生物は光を放ちますこうして素晴らしい光のショーが見られますそれでは潜水艇から撮影した短いビデオをお見せします最初は一人乗りの潜水艇ディープローバーで腕を磨きました次いでここに登場するジョンソンシーリンクでこの撮影をするようになりました観察ドームの前方に直径90センチの輪がありそこにスクリーンを張りますドームの中の私は高感度カメラで記録しますその感度は暗闇になれたヒトの眼と同じほどですが少し画がぼけるのが欠点ですさてカメラのスイッチを入れて照明は消しますこのパチパチしているのは生物発光ではなくてカメラの電子回路のノイズです潜水艇が水中で前進を始めるまでは生物発光は見えません前進すると生き物がスクリーンに衝突して衝撃で発光します最初にこれを行った時には発光の数を数えることで精一杯でした前進速度とスクリーンの面積をもとに一立方メートルにどれだけの光源があるか計算することができましたやがて生物の種類を特定できることに気付きました生じる閃光のタイプからわかりますこれはメイン湾の水深 220メートル見えるものほとんど全てについて種のレベルで名前がわかります例えば大きな花火の爆発は小さな有櫛動物からのものオキアミやその他の甲殻類やクラゲもいます有櫛動物の仲間ですねそこでコンピュータによる画像解析の技術者と共同して自動認識のシステムを開発し生物の種類と最初に衝突した場所の xyz 座標を抽出できるようにしましたこうして陸上の自然保護家が行うようなことをごく近距離から行えますこのような光のショーを観たければ深くまで潜らなくても水面でもこんなものが見えるのですスクリプス研究所のマイクラッツ博士が撮影したビデオは生物発光するプランクトンの中を泳ぐイルカを捉えています生物発光で有名なプエルトリコの湾などの特別な場所で撮影したのではなくサンディエゴの港で撮ったものです時にはもっと近くで見ることもできます船の「ヘッド」では ― 陸上の言葉で言えばトイレですね ― 生物発光プランクトンを含むことの多いろ過されていない海水で流します夜遅くによろよろと船の「ヘッド」に向かい船酔いでふらふらの状態で電気すら付けずに個室にこもると宗教的というべき経験をしたと思われるかもしれませんさて生物はどうやって光るのでしょうか 19世紀には大きな謎でしたフランスの生理学者のラファエルデュボアは貝類の生物発光を論じています彼は貝をすりつぶして 2-3の化学物質を取り出すとそのうちの一つの酵素をルシフェラーゼと名付けましたまた基質をルシフェリンと名付けましたこれは光を帯びた天使ルシファーに因んだのです用語は定まりましたが特定の化合物を指すわけではありませんこれらの化合物は多種多様だからです実際今日では生物発光の研究者のほとんどはこれらの化学反応に注目していますというのもこれらの化学物質は想像もつかないほど貴重なのです用途は抗バクテリア剤や抗がん剤や火星における生命の有無のテストなど私たち ORCA では海水の汚染物質を検出するために使います 2008 年にはノーベル化学賞は生物発光の緑色蛍光タンパク質を単離した研究に与えられましたクラゲの発光の化学反応から抽出したのです細胞生物学と遺伝子工学に与えた影響において顕微鏡の発明に肩をならべるインパクトを与えましたこれらの分子から別のことも分かります生物の進化の過程で生物発光は少なくとも 40 回おそらく 50 回ほどの進化を遂げてきていますそのことは生物発光の進化の道筋が生物の生き残りのためにとりわけ重要であったことを示していますそれほど多くの生物にとって重要な生物発光とは何なのか捕食者を避けようと暗闇に潜む生物にとっても生物が生存のために行う三つの行為に光は非常に有用です餌を見つけること異性を惹きつけること食われないことの三つです例えばこの魚は眼の後ろ側にヘッドライトが埋め込まれ餌を探したり異性を惹きつけるのに使うことができますライトを使っていないときには頭の中にしまいますランボルギーニのヘッドライトのようですねこの魚はハイビームを装備私のお気に入りのこの魚は頭の片側にランプが3つずつこれは青いライト海洋では生物発光の大半は青く光ります水中でもっとも遠くまで届く青色が進化の過程で選ばれたのですよりよいコミュニケーションのためにほとんどの生物は青い光を発し青い光しか感知できませんこの魅力的な魚は例外で赤色の発光器官が二つありますなぜ二つもあるのかはわかりませんこの謎もいつか解きたいものですこの魚は青い光だけでなく赤い光も見えるのです赤い生物発光を狙撃者の望遠鏡として用いて赤色が見えない魚に忍び寄ることができます自らは見られること無く相手が見えるのでしょうまたヒゲの部分には青く光る疑似餌があり遠くから獲物を惹きつけることができます多くの生物が生物発光を疑似餌として使いますこの魚もお気に入りの一匹ですこれはホウライエソで先に疑似餌のついた長い釣竿を顎の前方に垂らしています鋭い歯が名前の由来になっていますこの魚の歯はとても長いので口を閉じてしまうと自分の脳に刺さってしまうでしょうその代わりに頭の外側の溝に沿って滑るようになっていますクリスマスツリーのような魚で身につけた全てが光りますこれは疑似餌だけではなく内蔵式のストロボライトにもなっています腹のところの宝石のような器官があって様々な擬態のために使われます泳ぎ回るときの影を隠して下から見上げる捕食者から見つからないようにします口にも発光器官がありすべてのウロコやひれも光ります背中や腹の粘液層も光りますそれぞれに異なる目的で用いられ明らかになっている目的と未知の目的とがありますピクサーのおかげで生物発光については知られるようになりました私の大好きな話題についてピクサーがこれほど多くの人に広めてくれて感謝していますただピクサーが予算をもう少し出して貧しくて飢えた大学院生にコンサルタント料を払って相談していたらあれではホルマリン漬けの眼だと教えて上げられたのにと残念ですこれが生きているアンコウの眼です生きたネズミ捕りのような針のように鋭い歯のすぐ前に疑似餌を垂らし犠牲者は気づかずに惹きつけられますこの疑似餌にはあらゆる種類の面白い糸が生えています疑似餌の異なる形状は異なる種類の餌を引きつけると考えられていましたがこれらの魚の胃の中を科学者が ―あるいは大学院生かもしれませんが― 調べてみるとどの種も食べ物は同じようなものだと分かりましたそこで今では異なる疑似餌の形状はオスがメスを見つけるためと信じられていますアンコウの世界でこれらのオスは極端に小さいことで有名な仲間なのですこの小さい魚は自分を守る手段を持っていないように見えます餌を惹きつける疑似餌もなくやっと餌を捕まえたとしても歯がなくて食べられませんこの惑星上で生きるにはジゴロの道しかありませんいいヒトを見つけて生涯がっちり離さないこの小さな魚はいいヒトを見つけてお気づきでしょうか賢いのは顔を見なくても良い向きでくっついているところですでも彼にとって良いことなのは明らかなので永遠のキスで彼女との関係を固めますオスはメスと融合しメスの血流で生きていますこうしてオスは単なる精子袋にすぎなくなりますウーマンリブは深海ではこんな有様ですメスもオスがそこにいると分かっていますメスは必ずしも単婚でなくてもよいようで複数のオスを引き連れたメスもいますこんなふうに餌を探したり異性を惹きつけるのに使うわけですまた防衛のためにもいろいろな方法で大いに使われています水中にルシフェリンとルシフェラーゼを放出できるものが多くイカやタコが墨を吐くようにこの小エビは口から光を吐き出します炎を吐くドラゴンのようですホウライエソの目をくらましたり気をそらせば暗闇に泳ぎ去ることができるのですこういうことができる生物はとても多いのですクラゲイカ様々な甲殻類魚でもこれができるものもいますこれはハナメイワシですえらの近くにある器官から発光液を分泌しますこれを捕獲できたのはとても幸運でしたアフリカの北西沿岸でトロール網の調査にかかりました「ブループラネット」プロジェクトの深海の生物の調査でした特別なトロール網を用いて生きたままこれらの生物を引き揚げ捕獲したハナメイワシをラボまで持ち帰りこのように手に取ってこの肩の器官に触れるのですがそうすると生物発光が起こります驚かされたのは光の量だけでなく酵素と基質以外のものを放出していたことでしたこの魚は核と細胞膜の備わった細胞を丸ごと放出するのですエネルギーを考えると実にムダな方法ですなぜそうするのか見当もつきませんこれも解きたい大きな謎の一つです別の防衛策として防犯ベルのようなものがあります車の盗難防止アラームと同じでクラクションを鳴らして光を点滅させます注意をひくことで運が良ければ警官が来て泥棒を連行してくれるのです捕食者に捕らわれた生物にとって唯一脱出の望みがあるとすればもっと大きくて手強いヤツの注意を引いて捕食者が攻撃されること脱出のチャンスが生じますたとえばこのクラゲはけんらんたる生物発光を呈します私達が潜水艇で追いかけているところですこれは発光ではなく生殖腺が光を反射しているのです潜水艇の前部に取り付けた特別な機器でクラゲを傷つけないように捕まえ船内の実験室に連れ帰りますそしてあることをして光らせましたクラゲの神経環を尖った針で一秒に一回ずつ触れたのです発光が始まったらもう触りません信じられないような光のショーです光の風車です計算してみるとこの光は90メートル先の捕食者からも見えます思うにすばらしい疑似餌ということですね未知の海洋生物は何種類いるのか見当もつかない点を深海探査の中で不満に思っていましたそれは海洋探査の仕方が理由です海の生物を調べるときの基本的な方法は海に出て船から網を引くことこんな何百年も前からの技術に頼る科学の分野が他にあるものですか別の方法は潜水艇や遠隔操作の装置で潜行すること潜水艇では何百回と潜水をしてきましたでも潜水艇に乗っていると目立たないどころではありませんまばゆい光と騒がしいスクリューの音があるので少しでも気の利いた生物はさっさと逃げていきます長い間ずっとこれ以外の探査方法を探していましたしばらく前にカメラシステムのアイデアにたどり着きましたそんなに高度な技術ではありませんが海の眼と呼んでいます陸上で科学者達が何年も行ってきたことです動物たちには見えない光とその光を感知するカメラを使います赤外線は水中では使えません赤い光を使いますがこれにも問題があります赤い光はすぐに吸収されてしまいます高感度カメラを開発してさらにこの電子クラゲを作りたかったのです科学研究の事情ですが資金源の財団に何を見つけるつもりかを説明しないとお金をもらえないのですそして何が見つかるか私もわかりませんでしたそれではお金ももらえないそこでこの装置を寄せ集めで作りましたある大学で学生課題として作ってもらいましたそしてあらゆる資金をかき集めましたモントレー水族館の研究所から遠隔操作機を試す時間をいただきましたそこでテストを行いどんな赤色の光を使えばよいかなどいろいろとはっきりさせました動物が見えるけれど動物からは見えないようにするためです電子クラゲも動くようになりました本当にありあわせで間に合わせたので 16個のLEDをエポキシで固めたときに型として使った Ziploc のロゴまで見えています寄せ集めでここまで組み立て試し運転の試練を繰り返して動くようにしましたいよいよ全てが揃って動くようになるその時がきました写真家のマークリチャードがその瞬間をフィルムに収めていましたちょうどその場に居合わせたのです私達が全てが整ったと確かめたそのときの様子です左側にいるのが私でその時の大学院生はエリカ=レイモンドでしたリー=フライはプロジェクト担当の技師でしたこの写真は研究室の名誉のコーナーに飾ってあり「二人の女を一度に満足させたエンジニア」と記されています私たちは本当に本当に満足でした海底のオアシスのようなところに大型の捕食生物が見回るところに持ち込むことのできるシステムが出来たのですそこで我々はメキシコ湾の北部の海底の塩水湖に持ち込みました不思議な場所ですねぱっとしない映像ですが当時はひどいカメラしか無かったのですここで私は我を忘れていました塩水湖の縁に設置したカメラに向かって泳いでくる魚がいます我々のことは気にしていません私の覗き窓を海中深く沈めて潜った私達が邪魔しないときの生物の様子を初めて見ることができました海底に導入してから 4時間たったところでプログラムしてあった電子クラゲに初めて電源を入れました風車模様の表示から 86秒後にはこんなものを撮影しましたイカです 1.8メートル以上の大きさ学術上は新種で既知の分類のどこにも属しませんこれ以上よい実証成果はありませんこの結果を持って国立科学財団に行くと「こういうものを発見します」と説明し十分な研究資金を獲得しました世界初の深海ウェブカメラの開発を行いここ1年間モントレー海溝に設置してありますさらに最近ではこのシステムはモジュール化されてさらに移動しやすい形態となって潜航させたり回収することも容易になりましたシルビアが述べた「希望のスポット」を探索したり保護したりすることを支援するために使うことを考えています私自身は「希望のスポット」で生物発光についてさらに研究したいと思いますお伝えしたいメッセージがあります海にはまだまだ探査の余地があるのにシルビアの言葉を借りればそこに何があるかを知る前に壊してしまっているその通りですですからもしも潜水艇で潜る機会があったら千回でもイエスと言って機会を捉えてくださいそして灯りを消してみて下さいきっと気に入りますありがとう	It was actually developed for use by the offshore oil industry for diving on oil rigs down to a depth of 2,000 feet. Right after I completed my Ph.D., I was lucky enough to be included with a group of scientists that was using it for the first time as a tool for ocean exploration. We trained in a tank in Port Hueneme, and then my first open ocean dive was in Santa Barbara Channel. It was an evening dive. I went down to a depth of 880 feet and turned out the lights. And the reason I turned out the lights is because I knew I would see this phenomenon of animals making light called bioluminescence. But I was totally unprepared for how much there was and how spectacular it was. I saw chains of jellyfish called siphonophores that were longer than this room, pumping out so much light that I could read the dials and gauges inside the suit without a flashlight; and puffs and billows of what looked like luminous blue smoke; and explosions of sparks that would swirl up out of the thrusters -- just like when you throw a log on a campfire and the embers swirl up off the campfire, but these were icy, blue embers. It was breathtaking. Now, usually if people are familiar with bioluminescence at all, it's these guys; it's fireflies. And there are a few other land-dwellers that can make light -- some insects, earthworms, fungi -- but in general, on land, it's really rare. In the ocean, it's the rule rather than the exception. virtually anywhere in the world, and I drag a net from 3,000 feet to the surface, most of the animals -- in fact, in many places, 80 to 90 percent make light. This makes for some pretty spectacular light shows. Now I want to share with you a little video that I shot from a submersible. I first developed this technique working from a little single-person submersible called Deep Rover and then adapted it for use on the Johnson Sea-Link, which you see here. So, mounted in front of the observation sphere, there's a a three-foot diameter hoop with a screen stretched across it. And inside the sphere with me is an intensified camera that's about as sensitive as a fully dark-adapted human eye, albeit a little fuzzy. So you turn on the camera, turn out the lights. That sparkle you're seeing is not luminescence, that's just electronic noise on these super intensified cameras. You don't see luminescence until the submersible begins to move forward through the water, but as it does, animals bumping into the screen are stimulated to bioluminesce. Now, when I was first doing this, all I was trying to do was count the numbers of sources. I knew my forward speed, I knew the area, and so I could figure out how many hundreds of sources there were per cubic meter. But I started to realize that I could actually identify animals by the type of flashes they produced. And so, here, in the Gulf of Maine at 740 feet, I can name pretty much everything you're seeing there to the species level. Like those big explosions, sparks, are from a little comb jelly, and there's krill and other kinds of crustaceans, and jellyfish. There was another one of those comb jellies. And so I've worked with computer image analysis engineers to develop automatic recognition systems that can identify these animals and then extract the XYZ coordinate of the initial impact point. And we can then do the kinds of things that ecologists do on land, and do nearest neighbor distances. to see a light show like this. You can actually see it in surface waters. This is some shot, by Dr. Mike Latz at Scripps Institution, of a dolphin swimming through bioluminescent plankton. And this isn't someplace exotic like one of the bioluminescent bays in Puerto Rico, this was actually shot in San Diego Harbor. And sometimes you can see it even closer than that, because the heads on ships -- that's toilets, for any land lovers that are listening -- that often has bioluminescent plankton in it. So, if you stagger into the head late at night and you're so toilet-hugging sick that you forget to turn on the light, you may think that you're having a religious experience. So, how does a living creature make light? Well, that was the question that 19th century French physiologist Raphael Dubois, asked about this bioluminescent clam. He ground it up and he managed to get out a couple of chemicals; one, the enzyme, he called luciferase; the substrate, he called luciferin after Lucifer the Lightbearer. That terminology has stuck, but it doesn't actually refer to specific chemicals because these chemicals come in a lot of different shapes and forms. In fact, most of the people studying bioluminescence today are focused on the chemistry, because these chemicals have proved so incredibly valuable for developing antibacterial agents, cancer fighting drugs, testing for the presence of life on Mars, detecting pollutants in our waters -- which is how we use it at ORCA. In 2008, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on a molecule called green fluorescent protein that was isolated from the bioluminescent chemistry of a jellyfish, and it's been equated to the invention of the microscope, in terms of the impact that it has had on cell biology and genetic engineering. Another thing all these molecules are telling us that, apparently, bioluminescence has evolved at least 40 times, maybe as many as 50 separate times in evolutionary history, which is a clear indication of how spectacularly important this trait is for survival. So, what is it about bioluminescence that's so important to so many animals? Well, for animals that are trying to avoid predators by staying in the darkness, for the three basic things that animals have to do to survive: and that's find food, attract a mate and avoid being eaten. So, for example, this fish has a built-in headlight behind its eye that it can use for finding food or attracting a mate. And then when it's not using it, it actually can roll it down into its head just like the headlights on your Lamborghini. This fish actually has high beams. And this fish, which is one of my favorites, has three headlights on each side of its head. Now, this one is blue, and that's the color of most bioluminescence in the ocean for the color that travels farthest through seawater in order to optimize communication. So, most animals make blue light, and most animals can only see blue light, but this fish is a really fascinating exception because it has two red light organs. And I have no idea why there's two, and that's something I want to solve some day -- but not only can it see blue light, but it can see red light. So it uses its red bioluminescence like a sniper's scope to be able to sneak up on animals that are blind to red light and be able to see them without being seen. It's also got a little chin barbel here with a blue luminescent lure on it that it can use to attract prey from a long way off. And a lot of animals will use their bioluminescence as a lure. This is another one of my favorite fish. This is a viperfish, and it's got a lure on the end of a long fishing rod that it arches in front of the toothy jaw that gives the viperfish its name. The teeth on this fish are so long that if they closed inside the mouth of the fish, it would actually impale its own brain. So instead, it slides in grooves on the outside of the head. This is a Christmas tree of a fish; everything on this fish lights up, it's not just that lure. It's got a built-in flashlight. It's got these jewel-like light organs on its belly that it uses for a type of camouflage that obliterates its shadow, so when it's swimming around and there's a predator looking up from below, it makes itself disappear. It's got light organs in the mouth, it's got light organs in every single scale, in the fins, in a mucus layer on the back and the belly, all used for different things -- some of which we know about, some of which we don't. And we know a little bit more about bioluminescence thanks to Pixar, and I'm very grateful to Pixar for sharing my favorite topic with so many people. I do wish, with their budget, that they might have spent just a tiny bit more money to pay a consulting fee to some poor, starving graduate student, who could have told them that those are the eyes of a fish that's been preserved in formalin. These are the eyes of a living anglerfish. So, she's got a lure that she sticks out in front of this living mousetrap of needle-sharp teeth in order to attract in some unsuspecting prey. And this one has a lure with all kinds of little interesting threads coming off it. Now we used to think that the different shape of the lure was to attract different types of prey, but then stomach content analyses on these fish done by scientists, or more likely their graduate students, have revealed that they all eat pretty much the same thing. So, now we believe that the different shape of the lure is how the male recognizes the female in the anglerfish world, because many of these males are what are known as dwarf males. This little guy has no visible means of self-support. He has no lure for attracting food and no teeth for eating it when it gets there. His only hope for existence on this planet is as a gigolo. He's got to find himself a babe and then he's got to latch on for life. So this little guy has found himself this babe, and you will note that he's had the good sense to attach himself in a way that he doesn't actually have to look at her. But he still knows a good thing when he sees it, and so he seals the relationship with an eternal kiss. His flesh fuses with her flesh, her bloodstream grows into his body, and he becomes nothing more than a little sperm sac. Well, this is a deep-sea version of Women's Lib. She always knows where he is, and she doesn't have to be monogamous, because some of these females come up with multiple males attached. So they can use it for finding food, for attracting mates. They use it a lot for defense, many different ways. A lot of them can release their luciferin or luferase in the water just the way a squid or an octopus will release an ink cloud. This shrimp is actually spewing light out of its mouth like a fire breathing dragon in order to blind or distract this viperfish so that the shrimp can swim away into the darkness. And there are a lot of different animals that can do this: There's jellyfish, there's squid, there's a whole lot of different crustaceans, there's even fish that can do this. This fish is called the shining tubeshoulder because it actually has a tube on its shoulder that can squirt out light. And I was luck enough to capture one of these when we were on a trawling expedition off the northwest coast of Africa for "Blue Planet," for the deep portion of "Blue Planet." And we were using a special trawling net that we were able to bring these animals up alive. So we captured one of these, and I brought it into the lab. So I'm holding it, and I'm about to touch that tube on its shoulder, and when I do, you'll see bioluminescence coming out. But to me, what's shocking is not just the amount of light, but the fact that it's not just luciferin and luciferase. For this fish, it's actually whole cells with nuclei and membranes. It's energetically very costly for this fish to do this, and we have no idea why it does it -- another one of these great mysteries that needs to be solved. Now, another form of defense is something called a burglar alarm -- same reason you have a burglar alarm on your car; the honking horn and flashing lights are meant to attract the attention of, hopefully, the police that will come and take the burglar away -- when an animal's caught in the clutches of a predator, its only hope for escape may be to attract the attention of something bigger and nastier that will attack their attacker, thereby affording them a chance for escape. This jellyfish, for example, has a spectacular bioluminescent display. This is us chasing it in the submersible. That's not luminescence, that's reflected light from the gonads. We capture it in a very special device on the front of the submersible that allows us to bring it up in really pristine condition, bring it into the lab on the ship. And then to generate the display you're about to see, all I did was touch it once per second on its nerve ring with a sharp pick that's sort of like the sharp tooth of a fish. And once this display gets going, I'm not touching it anymore. This is an unbelievable light show. It's this pinwheel of light, and I've done calculations that show that this could be seen from as much as 300 feet away by a predator. And I thought, "You know, that might actually make a pretty good lure." Because one of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the ocean that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the ocean. The primary way that we know about what lives in the ocean is we go out and drag nets behind ships. And I defy you to name any other branch of science that still depends on hundreds of year-old technology. The other primary way is we go down with submersibles and remote-operated vehicles. I've made hundreds of dives in submersibles. When I'm sitting in a submersible though, I know that I'm not unobtrusive at all -- I've got bright lights and noisy thrusters -- any animal with any sense is going to be long gone. So, I've wanted for a long time to figure out a different way to explore. And so, sometime ago, I got this idea for a camera system. It's not exactly rocket science. We call this thing Eye-in-the-Sea. And scientists have done this on land for years; we just use a color that the animals can't see and then a camera that can see that color. You can't use infrared in the sea. We use far-red light, but even that's a problem because it gets absorbed so quickly. Made an intensified camera, wanted to make this electronic jellyfish. Thing is, in science, you basically have to tell the funding agencies what you're going to discover before they'll give you the money. And I didn't know what I was going to discover, so I couldn't get the funding for this. So I kluged this together, I got the Harvey Mudd Engineering Clinic to actually do it as an undergraduate student project initially, and then I kluged funding from a whole bunch of different sources. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute gave me time with their ROV so that I could test it and we could figure out, you know, for example, which colors of red light we had to use so that we could see the animals, but they couldn't see us -- get the electronic jellyfish working. And you can see just what a shoestring operation this really was, because we cast these 16 blue LEDs in epoxy and you can see in the epoxy mold that we used, the word Ziploc is still visible. Needless to say, when it's kluged together like this, there were a lot of trials and tribulations getting this working. But there came a moment when it all came together, and everything worked. And, remarkably, that moment got caught on film by photographer Mark Richards, who happened to be there at the precise moment that we discovered that it all came together. That's me on the left, my graduate student at the time, Erika Raymond, and Lee Fry, who was the engineer on the project. And we have this photograph posted in our lab in a place of honor with the caption: "Engineer satisfying two women at once." And we were very, very happy. that was kind of like an oasis on the bottom of the ocean that might be patrolled by large predators. And so, the place that we took it to was this place called a Brine Pool, which is in the northern part of the Gulf of Mexico. It's a magical place. And I know this footage isn't going to look like anything to you -- we had a crummy camera at the time -- but I was ecstatic. We're at the edge of the Brine Pool, there's a fish that's swimming towards the camera. It's clearly undisturbed by us. And I had my window into the deep sea. I, for the first time, could see what animals were doing down there when we weren't down there disturbing them in some way. Four hours into the deployment, we had programmed the electronic jellyfish to come on for the first time. Eighty-six seconds after it went into its pinwheel display, This is a squid, over six feet long, that is so new to science, it cannot be placed in any known scientific family. I could not have asked for a better proof of concept. And based on this, I went back to the National Science Foundation and said, "This is what we will discover." And they gave me enough money to do it right, which has involved developing the world's first deep-sea webcam -- the Monterey Canyon for the past year -- and now, more recently, a modular form of this system, a much more mobile form that's a lot easier to launch and recover, that I hope can be used on Sylvia's "hope spots" to help explore and protect these areas, and, for me, learn more about the bioluminescence in these "hope spots." So one of these take-home messages here is, there is still a lot to explore in the oceans. And Sylvia has said that we are destroying the oceans before we even know what's in them, and she's right. So if you ever, ever get an opportunity to take a dive in a submersible, say yes -- a thousand times, yes -- and please turn out the lights. I promise, you'll love it. Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
私たち視覚に頼る種族には理解の難しい世界ですそこで理解の助けになればと図と音を用意しました視覚的な種として私たちがシュノーケリングやダイビングで見る海の中はどんな感じでしょう遠くまで良く見えませんね人の目は空気中では機能しますが水中では制限され視界が狭くなってしまいます海洋哺乳類は水中世界の探索や仲間との交信に音を使う方法を数千万年の歳月をかけて進化させてきましたイルカやハクジラはエコロケーションを使い大きなクリック音を出して海底からはね返る音を聞いて泳ぐ方向を定めますまた獲物からの反響を聞き食料の位置を確かめターゲットとなる獲物を選んでいます海中哺乳類はみんな音で交信します大きなヒゲクジラは長く美しい歌を繁殖活動の際に用い異性を探しパートナーを選びます母子や互いに関係の深い個体は鳴き声で互いの所在を確認します生きる上で音が非常に重要です私にとっては未知の世界とも言える海の動物達の発する音に興味を持ったのはある飼育されているイルカのデータがきっかけでしたイルカが人の出す音を真似ていたのです先ほど音を視覚的に表現した図を使用すると言いましたがこれが最初の例です時間に対する周波数のグラフで楽譜みたいなものです高音は上方に低音は下方に書かれ時間の流れは右向きですこれはトレーナーの笛の音でイルカが芸をちゃんとできたときにこれを鳴らしご褒美の魚を与えます「トゥイーーー」という感じの音ですそしてこちらが飼育されている子イルカがその笛を真似た音ですこの音を鼻歌で聞かせた犬や猫がそれを真似て応えたとしたらとても驚くことでしょう人間以外で音真似の出来る哺乳類は稀ですこの能力は人間社会では音楽や言語の発展に重要ですが人間以外の哺乳類がどうしてそんなことをするのか不思議です私は研究生活の殆どを費やし海洋哺乳類が情報伝達においてどのように学習を活用し聞いたことに基づいて応答の仕方をどう変えているのか研究してきました人間以外の霊長類の鳴き声を聴いてみましょう哺乳類の多くは「コンタクトコール」を持ち母子がはぐれた時などに使っていますこれはリスザルの母子がはぐれた時に用いるコンタクトコールの例ですお分かりのように個体差がほとんどありません対照的にイルカが交信に用いる「シグネチャーホイッスル」は個体ごとに大きく異なっていますイルカは鳴き声を学ぶ能力によってより複雑で特徴的な鳴き声を発展させ個体を見分けているのですどんな状況でイルカはこの鳴き声を使うのでしょう母親と子供の生活を見てみましょう日常生活の中で母親が魚を追いかけるのに夢中になりはぐれてしまうことも少なくありませんはぐれたら合流しないといけませんこの図はイルカの間の最大距離に対してシグネチャーホイッスルが使われる割合を示しています距離が20メートル以下では鳴き声を使う頻度は半分以下です殆どの場合泳ぎ回っているうちに互いを見つけますところが 100メートル以上離れると例外なしに全ての母子が互いを探すのに固有の鳴き声を用いていますこの特徴的なシグネチャーホイッスルは殆どの場合イルカの一生を通じワンパターンで安定していますしかし例外もいくつかあります母親から巣立った雄イルカは他の雄イルカと合流することがありその協力関係が何十年と続くこともありますそして社会的な「絆」を築いたイルカたちの固有の鳴き声は収斂していき大変似通ったものになりますこの図は組になった2匹の鳴き声を表しています上の図では 2匹は「ウープウープウープ」という上向きの鳴き声を共有しています一方下図では「ウーウッウーウッウーウッ」という鳴き声です何が起こっているのでしょう? イルカは学習プロセスを用いて新しい社会グループを識別する合図を発展させているのです新しい社会的グループのための新しい識別子を形成するとても面白いやり方です少し視点を広げてイルカを人間の干渉から保護するためにこの情報から学べることを探ってみましょうこの写真を見て下さいイルカが船に囲まれその行動が阻害されているのがお分かりになるでしょうまずい状況ですしかしイルカの群れに近づく船が 1隻だけの場合であっても船が2、3百メートルまで近付くとイルカは鳴き声を挙げ始めしていたことをやめて寄り添い船が通り過ぎるのをじっと待つのですいなくなったら元の行動に戻りますフロリダのサラソタのような場所ではイルカの群れの100メートル先を平均して6分ごとに船が通り過ぎますそれが日常的な光景ですこの写真よりはマシな状況と言えるでしょうがそれでもなおイルカの日常生活に影響を与えているのです手つかずの環境が残る西オーストラリアでラーズ・バイダー氏が研究していますイルカウォッチングが始まる前と後でのイルカの行動と分布状況を比較したのです船が1隻の場合あまり影響はありませんしかし船が2隻になると何匹かのイルカはその領域から去ってしまいました残ったイルカの間でも出生率の減少が見られました船の存在は全個体数に悪い影響を与えるのですイルカなど動物の海洋保護区域において私たちは今以上に自らの行動に気を付けなければなりませんこれら問題を回避するために遊覧船やクジラウォッチングの船の数を制限する必要があるかもしれませんこれも覚えておいてください音は境界に関係なく伝搬します境界線を引いてある区域を保護はできますが化学汚染や騒音は境界を越えて入り続けるのですさてここからは話を局所的で馴染み深い沿岸環境からより広域の海で生活するヒゲクジラに変えましょうよく見慣れているような世界地図です世界は殆ど青です海は私たちが思っている以上に繋がっていることに注目してください陸上での移動に比べ海中での移動には障害物がほとんどありません海がひと続きであることを示すショッキングな実験があります海洋学者が南インド洋へ赴き海中にスピーカーを設置して音を再生するという音響実験を行いましたスピーカーから発せられた音は西はアメリカ東海岸沖合のバミューダ諸島まで届き東はカリフォルニア州のモントレーへと到達し同じ音が聞かれたのです我々は衛星通信で全世界と通信できる世界に暮らしていますがそれでも低周波数の音を地球規模で伝播させるこの海の性質にはとても驚かされますそれぞれの経路で音の伝わる時間は約3時間です殆ど地球を半周する距離です 70年代前半に海洋音響学者のロジャー・ペイン氏が理論的な論文を発表し音はこのような広範囲に伝搬しうることを指摘しましたが生物学者の多くは信じませんでした人間がこの事実を知ったのは数十年前に過ぎませんがクジラたちは数千万年かけてこの海の驚くべき性質の利用法を進化させてきたのですシロナガスクジラとナガスクジラは遠くまで伝えることのできる低周波の音を発します上の図は雄が繰り返し発する一連の複雑な鳴き声です歌を作るのは繁殖活動の一部で鳥が歌を歌うようなものです下図は雄と雌の鳴き声ですこれもかなり広範囲に届きます生物学者たちはこのクジラ達の広域通信について懐疑的でそれは70年代を経て冷戦が終わるまで続きました何がそれを覆すことになったかですが冷戦中のこと当時は秘密でしたがアメリカ海軍はロシアの潜水艦を追跡するシステムを持っていました陸まで伸びたケーブルに繋がる深海に設置された水中聴音器がありケーブルの先にある基地では北大西洋全体の音を聞けましたベルリンの壁が崩壊した後海軍はこのシステムをどんな音が聞けるのか調べるクジラ専門の音響学者たちに開放しましたこれはクリス・クラーク氏によるもので 1頭のシロナガスクジラを追跡していますクジラはバミューダ諸島を通過してマイアミの緯度まで南下しそして戻ってきています追跡は43日間続けられ距離にすると1700キロ 1000マイル以上ですねこの実験でわかったのは鳴き声は数百マイル先まで届きクジラは普段何百マイルも泳ぐことですクジラは我々の予想以上に長距離交信ができるスケールの大きな海の動物だったのです温帯や熱帯の海に生息するシロナガスクジラやナガスクジラとは異なりザトウクジラは馴染みのある限られた繁殖地に集中しています比較的高い広範囲の周波数を使い複雑な音を作ります今お聞きいただいているのはザトウクジラによる複雑な歌ですザトウクジラは歌う能力を発展させる過程で他のクジラの歌を聞き聞いた歌に基づいて自分の歌を変えるのです鳴き鳥や先ほどの鳴き真似するイルカと同じですねだからザトウクジラの歌は人間にとっての音楽と同じように一種の文化なのですこれを示すとても面白い例がオーストラリアで見つかりましたオーストラリア東海岸の生物学者がその地域のザトウクジラの歌を録音していましたこのオレンジの棒は東海岸ザトウクジラの典型的な歌を示します 1995年にはみんな同じ歌でしたが 1996年に違う歌が現れましたこの変わった歌は西海岸のクジラに典型的な歌だったのです西海岸のクジラの歌は大ヒットしどんどん歌われるようになりそして 1998年までには東海岸の歌はすっかり消えてクールで新しい西海岸の歌ばかりをクジラたちは歌うようになったのですちょうど新しい流行のスタイルがそれまでの古くさいスタイルをすっかり駆逐してしまいどの局もオールディーズを流さなくなったように懐メロを歌うクジラはいなくなったのですこれらの歌に対する海の役割をこれからお話しますこの音はザトウクジラから0.2マイル離れた場所でクリス・クラーク氏が録音したものです全周波数帯域の音が聞こえますとても大きい音ですすごく近くに聞こえますねさてお次は同じザトウクジラの歌ですが 50マイル離れて録音したものです聞いてみてくださいこれです低周波の音しか聞こえませんね海の中を長い距離通ってきた音の残響です音も大きくありませんザトウクジラの鳴き声の次にシロナガスクジラの鳴き声を再生します少し早回ししていますかなり低周波の音なので早回ししなければ聞こえません 50マイル先のシロナガスクジラの声ですザトウクジラには遠すぎましたがこちらは大きくクリアに聞こえます同じ声を 500マイル離れた水中聴音機で録音した音です他のクジラのノイズが多く入ってますが微かに聞こえますさて今からは人間が及ぼす影響を考えてみましょう海で人間が出す騒音といえばほとんどは船からのものですこれが船の音です声を大きくしないと聞こえませんよねクジラが500マイル先の音に耳を澄ましているところを想像してみてください船の音はクジラ同士の交信を阻害する可能性があるのですこの問題は結構前から知られていましたこの図は海中音のテキストからの抜粋です Y軸は深海の平均的な環境雑音の音量です X軸は周波数ですそして低周波数にあるこの線は地球の地震活動による音です高周波帯にあるこれらの線はこの周波数帯で大きくなる上方からの風や波によるノイズですその中間の本来は音が良く聞こえる周波数域が人間の船の騒音に満たされています考えてみてください驚くべきことですクジラが交信するこの周波数域で全地球的に騒音の主な源になっているのは人間の船なのです遠く離れた何千もの人間の船の音が集積したものです次のスライドでクジラの交信範囲に船の騒音が与える影響を説明しますこれがクジラの鳴き声の大きさで遠くへ行けば行くほどその音は小さくなっていきます産業革命以前の海ではこのクジラの鳴き声は簡単に検知できました 1000キロ離れても鳴き声が騒音よりも大きかったからです船が発する騒音をこれに加えてみましょうそうすると交信可能な範囲は一気に 1000キロから10キロへ狭まりました広く散らばった雄と雌がつがいの相手を見つけるのにこの信号を使っているならこれが絶滅の危機にある種の存続に与えうる影響を考えてみてくださいクジラはまたイルカ同様にコンタクトコールを使いますここでセミクジラが交信に用いるコンタクトコールの音を再生しますこの鳴き声は母子がはぐれてしまったときに互いを見つけるために用いられますそこに船の騒音があったらどうなるでしょう子とはぐれたときに船が来たら母クジラはどうすると思いますか? 母親の戦略を説明しましょう母イルカの鳴き声が下の周波数帯にあり騒音が重なる帯域にあると騒音帯域からはずれるように鳴き声を高くするのですそうすれば交信はうまくいきますペンシルベニア州立大学のスーザン・パークス氏がこの研究をしていますこちらは南大西洋のデータで 70年代に典型的だったコンタクトコールです 2000年には平均的なコンタクトコールはこうなりました北大西洋でも同様です 50年代と 2000年 50年を経た比較です海における人工騒音が酷くなればなるほどクジラは鳴き声の高くしなければならずクジラがみんなバスからテノールへと切り替えたようなものです時間的にも空間的にもスケールの大きな人間によって引き起こされた驚くべき変化ですクジラは騒音を相殺するためにさっき船の音を流したときみたいに声を大きくするか静かになるのを待つか騒音の周波数帯から音をずらすのがわかりました大きな声を出したり高さを変えるのは相応のコストがかかるだろうしそれでチャンスを逃すこともあり得ます静寂を待っている間に交信の決定的なチャンスを逃す可能性もあるのです私たちは動物たちについて騒音による生息環境の悪化や騒音に対して払う多大なコストや重要な行動を行えなくなる可能性を懸念する必要がありますとても重要な問題です喜ばしいことに船のクジラへの影響を配慮するという面で心強い進展があります国連の国際海事機関は船の静穏化に関するガイドラインを設定する組織を作り産業界に対して船の騒音を小さくする方法を示すようになりましたそして既にスクリューのデザインを工夫することで騒音を90パーセントも減らせることを発見しましたさらに動力装置を防音し船体と隔てることで騒音は99パーセント減らすことが出来ます取り入れるかどうかはコストと基準の問題ですこの組織が船の規格を作り造船業界が規格に準じて船を作れば少しずつ潜在的な問題は減っていくでしょうしかしまだ別の問題があります衝突の問題ですこのクジラは高速で走るコンテナ船をかろうじてよけて衝突を避けました衝突に関する問題は深刻です絶滅危惧種のクジラが毎年船との衝突で死んでいますこのような事故を減らすことはとても重要なことですこの問題に対する期待のできる2つの対処法をお話します 1つ目はファンディ湾のケースですこれら黒い線はファンディ湾を出入りする航路です色つき部分は航路上で絶滅危惧種のセミクジラと船が衝突するリスクのあるエリアを示しますこの航路はセミクジラが夏季に利用する餌場と重なっておりそのことが衝突のリスクを高くしているのですこの事実を放っておけない生物学者たちは国際海事機関へ行き嘆願書を提出しました「航路を移動してくれませんか? 大事な場所を通っているんですリスクの少ない所に移せませんか?」国際海事機関は力強く回答しました「これが新しい航路です」航路は移動されご覧のように衝突のリスクは減りました実際に効果が期待できますリスク回避のため様々な方法をクリエイティブに考えられるのですもう1つ輸送会社自身による自主的なアクションをご紹介しましょう元々は地球温暖化にかかわる温室ガス排出量を考慮して取られたアクションですマースクライン社は競合他社を見て造船業界では時間が何よりも重視されていることに注目しました船はできるだけ急いで目的地に向かいますが着くと大抵は待つことになるのですそこで彼らはスピードを下げる工夫をし 50パーセントも速度を落とすことに成功しました燃料消費量が30パーセントも減少し大いに節約することができました同時にクジラにも恩恵があったのです速度を落とせば騒音が減り衝突のリスクも下げることが出来ますまとめとしてこう言いたいですクジラは驚異的な音の世界に住んでおり海の音響環境を利用するよう数千万年もかけて進化してきたのです私たちの行動が知らず知らずのうちに彼らにとって極めて重要な活動を阻害している可能性を私たちは真摯に考える必要があります同時に様々な問題を軽減するためクリエイティブに解決方法を模索する必要がありますこれまで見てきた例は保護区以外にも我々に取れる方法がいろいろあることを示していると思いますクジラが安全に交信できる海の環境を皆で守っていきましょう有難うございました	Since we are such a visual species, it's hard for us to really understand this, so I'll use a mixture of figures and sounds and hope this can communicate it. But let's also think, as a visual species, what it's like when we go snorkeling or diving and try to look underwater. We really can't see very far. Our vision, which works so well in air, all of a sudden is very restricted and claustrophobic. And what marine mammals have evolved over the last tens of millions of years is ways to depend on sound to both explore their world and also to stay in touch with one another. Dolphins and toothed whales use echolocation. They can produce loud clicks and listen for echoes from the sea floor in order to orient. They can listen for echoes from prey in order to decide where food is and to decide which one they want to eat. All marine mammals use sound for communication to stay in touch. So the large baleen whales will produce long, beautiful songs, which are used in reproductive advertisement for male and females, both to find one another and to select a mate. And mother and young and closely bonded animals use calls to stay in touch with one another, so sound is really critical for their lives. The first thing that got me interested in the sounds of these underwater animals, whose world was so foreign to me, was evidence from captive dolphins that captive dolphins could imitate human sounds. And I mentioned I'll use some visual representations of sounds. Here's the first example. This is a plot of frequency against time -- sort of like musical notation, where the higher notes are up higher and the lower notes are lower, and time goes this way. This is a picture of a trainer's whistle, a whistle a trainer will blow to tell a dolphin it's done the right thing and can come get a fish. It sounds sort of like "tweeeeeet." Like that. This is a calf in captivity of that trainer's whistle. If you hummed this tune to your dog or cat and it hummed it back to you, you ought to be pretty surprised. Very few nonhuman mammals can imitate sounds. It's really important for our music and our language. So it's a puzzle: The few other mammal groups that do this, why do they do it? A lot of my career has been devoted to trying to understand how these animals use their learning, use the ability to change what you say based on what you hear in their own communication systems. So let's start with calls of a nonhuman primate. Many mammals have to produce contact calls when, say, a mother and calf are apart. This is an example of a call produced by squirrel monkeys when they're isolated from another one. And you can see, there's not much variability in these calls. By contrast, the signature whistle which dolphins use to stay in touch, each individual here has a radically different call. They can use this ability to learn calls in order to develop more complicated and more distinctive calls to identify individuals. How about the setting in which animals need to use this call? Well let's look at mothers and calves. In normal life for mother and calf dolphin, they'll often drift apart or swim apart if Mom is chasing a fish, and when they separate they have to get back together again. What this figure shows is the percentage of the separations in which dolphins whistle, against the maximum distance. So when dolphins are separating by less than 20 meters, less than half the time they need to use whistles. Most of the time they can just find each other just by swimming around. But all of the time when they separate by more than 100 meters, they need to use these individually distinctive whistles to come back together again. Most of these distinctive signature whistles are quite stereotyped and stable through the life of a dolphin. But there are some exceptions. When a male dolphin leaves Mom, it will often join up with another male and form an alliance, which may last for decades. As these two animals form a social bond, their distinctive whistles actually converge and become very similar. This plot shows two members of a pair. As you can see at the top here, they share an up-sweep, like "woop, woop, woop." They both have that kind of up-sweep. Whereas these members of a pair go "wo-ot, wo-ot, wo-ot." And what's happened is they've used this learning process to develop a new sign that identifies this new social group. It's a very interesting way that they can form a new identifier for the new social group that they've had. Let's now take a step back and see what this message can tell us about protecting dolphins from human disturbance. Anybody looking at this picture will know this dolphin is surrounded, and clearly his behavior is being disrupted. This is a bad situation. But it turns out that when just a single boat is approaching a group of dolphins at a couple hundred meters away, the dolphins will start whistling, they'll change what they're doing, they'll have a more cohesive group, wait for the boat to go by, and then they'll get back to normal business. Well, in a place like Sarasota, Florida, that a boat is passing within a hundred meters of a dolphin group is six minutes. So even in the situation that doesn't look as bad as this, it's still affecting the amount of time these animals have to do their normal work. And if we look at a very pristine environment like western Australia, Lars Bider has done work comparing dolphin behavior and distribution before there were dolphin-watching boats. When there was one boat, not much of an impact. And two boats: When the second boat was added, what happened was that some of the dolphins left the area completely. Of the ones that stayed, their reproductive rate declined. So it could have a negative impact on the whole population. When we think of marine-protected areas for animals like dolphins, this means that we have to be quite conscious about activities that we thought were benign. We may need to regulate the intensity of recreational boating and actual whale watching in order to prevent these kinds of problems. I'd also like to point out that sound doesn't obey boundaries. So you can draw a line to try to protect an area, but chemical pollution and noise pollution will continue to move through the area. And I'd like to switch now from this local, familiar, coastal environment to a much broader world of the baleen whales and the open ocean. This is a kind of map we've all been looking at. The world is mostly blue. But I'd also like to point out that the oceans are much more connected than we think. Notice how few barriers there are to movement across all of the oceans compared to land. To me, the most mind-bending example of the interconnectedness of the ocean comes from an acoustic experiment where oceanographers took a ship to the southern Indian Ocean, deployed an underwater loudspeaker and played back a sound. That same sound traveled to the west, and could be heard in Bermuda, and traveled to the east, and could be heard in Monterey -- the same sound. So we live in a world of satellite communication, are used to global communication, but it's still amazing to me. The ocean has properties that allow low-frequency sound to basically move globally. The acoustic transit time for each of these paths is about three hours. It's nearly halfway around the globe. In the early '70s, Roger Payne and an ocean acoustician published a theoretical paper pointing out that it was possible that sound could transmit over these large areas, but very few biologists believed it. It actually turns out, though, even though we've only known of long-range propagation for a few decades, the whales clearly have evolved, over tens of millions of years, a way to exploit this amazing property of the ocean. So blue whales and fin whales produce very low-frequency sounds that can travel over very long ranges. The top plot here shows a complicated series of calls that are repeated by males. They form songs, and they appear to play a role in reproduction, sort of like that of song birds. Down below here, we see calls made by both males and females that also carry over very long ranges. The biologists continued to be skeptical of the long-range communication issue well past the '70s, until the end of the Cold War. What happened was, during the Cold War, the U.S. Navy had a system that was secret at the time, that they used to track Russian submarines. It had deep underwater microphones, or hydrophones, all wired back to a central place that could listen to sounds over the whole North Atlantic. And after the Berlin Wall fell, the Navy made these systems available to see what they could hear. This is a plot from Christopher Clark who tracked one individual blue whale as it passed by Bermuda, went down to the latitude of Miami and came back again. It was tracked for 43 days, swimming 1,700 kilometers, or more than 1,000 miles. This shows us both that the calls are detectable over hundreds of miles and that whales routinely swim hundreds of miles. They're ocean-based and scale animals who are communicating over much longer ranges than we had anticipated. Unlike fins and blues, which disperse into the temperate and tropical oceans, the humpbacked whales congregate in local traditional breeding grounds, so they can make a sound that's a little higher in frequency, broader-band and more complicated. So you're listening to the complicated song produced by humpbacks here. Humpbacks, when they develop the ability to sing this song, they're listening to other whales and modifying what they sing based on what they're hearing, just like song birds or the dolphin whistles I described. This means that humpback song just like music for humans would be. I think one of the most interesting examples of this comes from Australia. Biologists on the east coast of Australia were recording the songs of humpbacks in that area. And this orange line here marks the typical songs of east coast humpbacks. In '95 they all sang the normal song. But in '96 they heard a few weird songs, and it turned out that these strange songs were typical of west coast whales. The west coast calls became more and more popular, until by 1998, none of the whales sang the east coast song; it was completely gone. They just sang the cool new west coast song. It's as if some new hit style had completely wiped out the old-fashioned style before, and with no golden oldies stations. Nobody sang the old ones. I'd like to briefly just show what the ocean does to these calls. Now you are listening to a recording made by Chris Clark, 0.2 miles away from a humpback. You can hear the full frequency range. It's quite loud. You sound very nearby. The next recording you're going to hear was made of the same humpback song 50 miles away. That's shown down here. You only hear the low frequencies. as the sound travels over long-range in the ocean and is not quite as loud. Now after I play back these humpback calls, I'll play blue whale calls, but they have to be sped up because they're so low in frequency that you wouldn't be able to hear it otherwise. Here's a blue whale call at 50 miles, which was distant for the humpback. It's loud, clear -- you can hear it very clearly. Here's the same call recorded from a hydrophone 500 miles away. There's a lot of noise, which is mostly other whales. But you can still hear that faint call. Let's now switch and think about a potential for human impacts. The most dominant sound that humans put into the ocean comes from shipping. This is the sound of a ship, and I'm having to talk a little louder to talk over it. Imagine that whale listening from 500 miles. There's a potential problem that maybe this kind of shipping noise would prevent whales from being able to hear each other. Now this is something that's been known for quite a while. This is a figure from a textbook on underwater sound. And on the y-axis is the loudness of average ambient noise in the deep ocean by frequency. In the low frequencies, this line indicates sound that comes from seismic activity of the earth. Up high, these variable lines indicate increasing noise in this frequency range from higher wind and wave. But right in the middle here where there's a sweet spot, the noise is dominated by human ships. Now think about it. This is an amazing thing: That in this frequency range where whales communicate, the main source globally, on our planet, for the noise comes from human ships, thousands of human ships, distant, far away, just all aggregating. The next slide will show what the impact this may have on the range at which whales can communicate. So here we have the loudness of a call at the whale. And as we get farther away, the sound gets fainter and fainter. Now in the pre-industrial ocean, as we were mentioning, this whale call could be easily detected. It's louder than noise Let's now take that additional increase in noise that we saw comes from shipping. All of a sudden, the effective range of communication goes from a thousand kilometers to 10 kilometers. Now if this signal is used for males and females to find each other for mating and they're dispersed, imagine the impact this could have on the recovery of endangered populations. Whales also have contact calls like I described for the dolphins. I'll play the sound of a contact call used And this is the kind of call that is used by, say, right whale mothers and calves as they separate to come back again. Now imagine -- let's put the ship noise in the picture. What's a mother to do if the ship comes by and her calf isn't there? I'll describe a couple strategies. One strategy is if your call's down here, and the noise is in this band, you could shift the frequency of your call out of the noise band and communicate better. Susan Parks of Penn State has actually studied this. She's looked in the Atlantic. Here's data from the South Atlantic. Here's a typical South Atlantic contact call from the '70s. Look what happened by 2000 to the average call. Same thing in the North Atlantic, in the '50s versus 2000. Over the last 50 years, as we've put more noise into the oceans, these whales have had to shift. It's as if the whole population had to shift from being basses to singing as a tenor. It's an amazing shift, induced by humans over this large scale, in both time and space. And we now know that whales can compensate for noise by calling louder, like I did when that ship was playing, by waiting for silence and by shifting their call out of the noise band. Now there's probably costs to calling louder or shifting the frequency away from where you want to be, and there's probably lost opportunities. If we also have to wait for silence, they may miss a critical opportunity to communicate. So we have to be very concerned about when the noise in habitats that the animals either have to pay too much to be able to communicate, or are not able to perform critical functions. It's a really important problem. And I'm happy to say that there are several very promising developments in this area, looking at the impact of shipping on whales. In terms of the shipping noise, the International Maritime Organization of the United Nations has formed a group whose job is to establish guidelines for quieting ships, to tell the industry how you could quiet ships. And they've already found that by being more intelligent about better propeller design, you can reduce that noise by 90 percent. If you actually insulate and isolate the machinery of the ship from the hull, you can reduce that noise by 99 percent. So at this point, it's primarily an issue of cost and standards. If this group can establish standards, and if the shipbuilding industry adopts them for building new ships, we can now see a gradual decline in this potential problem. But there's also another problem from ships that I'm illustrating here, and that's the problem of collision. This is a whale that just squeaked by a rapidly moving container ship and avoided collision. But collision is a serious problem. Endangered whales are killed every year by ship collision, and it's very important to try to reduce this. I'll discuss two very promising approaches. The first case comes from the Bay of Fundy. These black lines mark shipping lanes in and out of the Bay of Fundy. The colorized area shows the risk of collision for endangered right whales because of the ships moving in this lane. It turns out that this lane here goes right through a major feeding area of right whales in the summer time, and it makes an area of a significant risk of collision. Well, biologists went to the International Maritime Organization and petitioned them to say, "Can't you move that lane? Those are just lines on the ground. Can't you move them over to a place where there's less of a risk?" And the International Maritime Organization responded very strongly, "These are the new lanes." The shipping lanes have been moved. And as you can see, the risk of collision is much lower. So it's very promising, actually. of different ways to reduce these risks. Another action which was just taken independently by a shipping company itself was initiated because of concerns the shipping company had about greenhouse gas emissions with global warming. The Maersk Line looked at their competition and saw that everybody who is in shipping thinks time is money. They rush as fast as they can to get to their port. But then they often wait there. What Maersk did is they worked ways to slow down. They could slow down by about 50 percent. This reduced their fuel consumption by about 30 percent, which saved them money, and at the same time, it had a significant benefit for whales. It you slow down, you reduce the amount of noise you make and you reduce the risk of collision. So to conclude, I'd just like to point out, you know, the whales live in an amazing acoustic environment. They've evolved over tens of millions of years to take advantage of this. And we need to be very attentive and vigilant to thinking about where things that we do may unintentionally prevent them from being able to achieve their important activities. At the same time, we need to be really creative in thinking of solutions to be able to help reduce these problems. I hope these examples have shown some of the different directions we can take in addition to protected areas to be able to keep the ocean safe for whales to be able to continue to communicate. Thank you very much.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
写真を見ながら生まれ変わったイエメンを紹介していただけますかお招きありがとうございますイエメンの現状を写真とともにお伝え致しますこの写真にあるように革命は女性によって始められましたそれから男女が一緒になって抗議行動を率いていきましたこの写真からは真の変化への要望がうかがえます多くの人々が集まり激しさを増していますこの写真は革命がもたらした教育や職業訓練の機会です彼女達は応急処置法と憲法に基づく権利について学んでいますこれは私の大好きな写真ですお伝えしたかったのはイエメンの人口60%以上は 15歳以下で参政権がありませんその彼らが今やニュースに取り上げられ旗を掲げていますこれはジーンズにタイツ姿で英語による表現でいま国内で何が起きているのかを世界に伝えようとしていますそれから表現の自由は才能をもたらしましたイエメンの人々はアニメやアート作品絵画やマンガを使って世界の人々に現状を伝えています言うまでもなく革命には犠牲がつきものであり悲惨な一面もありますこの写真まだマシな方ですイエメン全土の数百万の民衆が求めているのはたった一つの事ですそしてついにイエメン革命はこの国を変えようとしていますこの国はソマリアのように分裂するのでしょうか我々はイエメン人として一つの国旗をかかげ続けます沢山の写真をありがとうございますこれらを観てもニュース報道とは違ったイエメンの姿を知る事ができますがあなたのやり方も今までとは違いますね少し個人的な事をお聞きしたいと思いますあなたのお父様は殺されましたイエメンタイムズはすでに独立した英字新聞としてイエメン国内で高い評価を得ていますあなたはどのように決定を下し責任を引き受け新聞を続けているのですか特にこの難しい情勢のなかでまず始めに私が普通のイエメンの女性でないことはもうお気づきでしょう普通はベールをかぶり外出せず家にひきこもり社会との接点がありませんがしかしそこには可能性があります皆様に直接お見せできないのが残念ですが私の目を通してお見せできればと思います皆さんにできることは沢山あるのです私は恵まれた家庭に生まれました父も母もとても立派な人で男子も女子も平等だと言って励ましてくれましたそんな家族のおかげですこんな話がありますインドの学校に通っていて 3年生になったときです私はイエメン人なのに学校の友達はインド人だという疑問を父に尋ねました「私はイエメン人なの? それともインド人なの?」「お前は架け橋さ」との父の言葉が心に残っています私は橋ですから多くの人々が私の上を歩いて行きましたそんなことはないわしかしこの事によって社会を変える人がいるとわかりましたそれから兄の後を継いで 2005年に編集長に 1999年に父が亡くなり直後は兄が努めました皆は私には無理だと思っていました「家業だからとはいえこんな小娘にいったい何ができるの」とかなんとか言って最初はとても大変でした対立したくありませんでした言いにくい事ですが男性とくに年配の方は私を避けていました編集長の権限を行使するのは困難な事でしたしかし一人の女性としてする事をしたまでです (拍手) 最初の年は男性社員を半分解雇しました (拍手) より多くの女性や若い人々を雇用したのです今日我々は男女のバランスがとれた報道局となりましたまた報道のプロとして私たちの見解や活動を現在証明できるものもあります 2006年だけで 3つの国際的な賞を頂きました国際新聞編集者協会からは独立しメディアと認められましたこれがイエメンの人々への国際社会の反応なのですご紹介します今日ここに来ている夫ですご起立いただけますかいつも私を支えてくれています (拍手) ご主人も一緒に新聞を制作しているそうですね編集長としての責任を自分の役目として引き受け伝統的な社会と新聞で報道される社会の架け橋になりました会社で働く人も変化しましたねあなたが反対している私たちが陥りがちなベールで隠された女性の服装からくるイメージに関するものです個人レベルや同僚の女性についてどう扱っていますかイエメンの女性が黒いベールで覆われているのは確かに真実です多くの場合女性は自由に自分自身の顔を見せる事ができません伝統的に強制権は多くの場合において男性や祖父母などが握っています女性に経済力があれば私はあなた以上に家庭に貢献していると主張できるのですもっと女性が力を得るとベールを取り去り自分の車を運転したり仕事で出張もできますイエメンのもう一つの顔はベールの裏にあるのですそして経済力の後押しによってベールを脱ぐ事ができます私は仕事を通してそうしてきました若い女性達を勇気づけるためにオフィスではスカーフを脱げるようにしました外での業務でもあっても顔の見えないジャーナリストを信頼して話をする事はできませんよねこれは一つの変化です私がお手本です多くの人が私を尊敬し多くの女性が私に憧れていますそして私は結婚しても母親であっても社会から尊敬される事を証明したいのですあなたは民衆のなかの一人ではなくあなた自身であり個人なのです自ら進み出てイエメン女性のイメージを変えようとし女性が報道に携わることを可能にしたことによって身に危険が及んだりしましたか 20年間のイエメンタイムスの歴史で様々な事がありました起訴されたときには新聞は休刊しましたしかし独立した新聞として人々に伝える義務があります何か不都合な記事がないか反体制新聞の新聞でないかと思われ大変な困難を経験してきました記者が逮捕されたり訴訟になったこともあります父は暗殺されました現在はとてもよい状況です我々は信頼を築いてきたのです今日のような革命や変化のときには独立したメディアというのはとても重要です強調しておきたいのは YemenTimes.comにアクセスしぜひ我々の声を聞いてくださいそれから知って頂きたいのは欧米メディアでありがちなのは多くのステレオタイプによってイエメンを一面的に捉えてしまうことですがそれは私やイエメンに対する偏見ですイエメンを訪れる記者はアルカイダやテロばかり書きますがこんな事もありました一人の記者が来てドキュメンタリーを作りたいと言いましたそして出来上がったものはなんとヒップホップについてでしたイエメンの若者達が自分自身を表現しているのです踊ったりチュクチュクってあのあれそうブレークダンスです私はそんなに年をとってはいませんよただやって無いだけです (拍手) そうですねそのドキュメンタリー映像はオンラインで見る事ができますアドレスは ShaketheDust.org ―「シェイク・ザ・ダスト」 ―そうです ShaketheDust.org また違うイエメンのイメージを得ると思いますマスコミの責任について話してくださいました確かに我々の見方は自分たちと他の人々を切り離して捉え知識不足や真の理解不足から恐れたり危険だと考えます特にこのような報道が多い欧米のメディアについて国内ではどう取られていますかある諺ですが「人は知らない事を恐れ恐れるものを嫌う」基本的には調査不足からくるものですね「宿題をする」のと同じで自分が関わること「パラシュート記者」としてただ2日間程その国に飛び込んで記事を書いて終わりにはできません世界の人に私の祖国イエメンについて知って頂けたらと思います私は一例であり他にも私のような人はいます多くはないかもしれませんがいい例として紹介される人がこれから増えていけばギャップを埋められる人達が男女を問わず出てきますイエメンと世界をつなぐ橋に彼らは再びやってきてお互いの認識を話しますそしてコミュニケーションと共感について教えられますイエメンはこれから 2、3年はとても厳しい状況となるでしょう仕方がありません将来のための価値ある犠牲です再び自分の足で立ち上がります新しいイエメンは若者と力を得た国民で築く民主国家です (拍手) ナディアあなたは私たちに全く異なるイエメンを見せてくれましたあなたがした事は確かに我々に将来のイエメンへの期待を抱かせるものですありがとうございましたこれからも応援しています YemenTimes.com Twitterでも時代の波に乗ってますね	And take us through those, and introduce us to another Yemen. Nadia Al-Sakkaf: Well, I'm glad to be here. And I would like to share with you all some of the pictures that are happening today in Yemen. This picture shows a revolution started by women, and it shows women and men leading a mixed protest. The other picture is the popularity of the real need for change. So many people are there. The intensity of the upspring. This picture shows that the revolution has allowed opportunities for training, for education. These women are learning about first aid and their rights according to the constitution. I love this picture. I just wanted to show that over 60 percent of the Yemeni population are 15 years and below. And they were excluded from decision-making, and now they are in the forefront of the news, raising the flag. English -- you will see, this is jeans and tights, and an English expression -- the ability to share with the world what is going on in our own country. And expression also, it has brought talents. Yemenis are using cartoons and art, paintings, comics, to tell the world and each other about what's going on. Obviously, there's always the dark side of it. And this is just one of the less-gruesome pictures of the revolution and the cost that we have to pay. The solidarity of millions of Yemenis across the country just demanding the one thing. And finally, lots of people are saying that Yemen's revolution is going to break the country. Is it going to be so many different countries? Is it going to be another Somalia? But we want to tell the world that, no, under the one flag, we'll still remain as Yemeni people. PM: Thank you for those images, Nadia. And they do, in many ways, tell a different story than the story of Yemen, the one that is often in the news. And yet, you yourself defy all those characterizations. So let's talk about the personal story for a moment. Your father is murdered. The Yemen Times already has a strong reputation in Yemen as an independent English language newspaper. How did you then make the decision and assume the responsibilities of running a newspaper, especially in such times of conflict? NA: Well, let me first warn you that I'm not the traditional Yemeni girl. I've guessed you've already noticed this by now. In Yemen, most women are veiled and they are sitting behind doors and not very much part of the public life. But there's so much potential. I wish I could show you my Yemen. I wish you could see Yemen through my eyes. Then you would know that there's so much to it. And I was privileged because I was born into a family, my father would always encourage the boys and the girls. He would say we are equal. And he was such an extraordinary man. And even my mother -- I owe it to my family. A story: I studied in India. And in my third year, I started becoming confused because I was Yemeni, with a lot of my friends in college. And I went back home and I said, "Daddy, I don't know who I am. I'm not a Yemeni; I'm not an Indian." And he said, "You are the bridge." And that is something I will keep in my heart forever. So since then I've been the bridge, and a lot of people have walked over me. PM: I don't think so. NA: But it just helps tell that some people are change agents in the society. And when I became editor-in-chief after my brother actually -- my father passed away in 1999, and then my brother until 2005 -- and everybody was betting that I will not be able to do it. "What's this young girl coming in and showing off because it's her family business," or something. It was very hard at first. I didn't want to clash with people. But with all due respect to all the men, and the older men especially, they did not want me around. It was very hard, you know, to impose my authority. But a woman's got to do what a woman's got to do. And in the first year, I had to fire half of the men. Brought in more women. Brought in younger men. And we have a more gender-balanced newsroom today. The other thing is that it's about professionalism. It's about proving who you are and what you can do. And I don't know if I'm going to be boasting now, but in 2006 alone, we won three international awards. One of them is the IPI Free Media Pioneer Award. So that was the answer to all the Yemeni people. And I want to score a point here, because my husband is in the room over there. If you could please stand up, [unclear]. He has been very supportive of me. PM: And we should point out that he works with you as well at the paper. But in assuming this responsibility you have become a bridge between an older and traditional society and the one that you are now creating at the paper. And so along with changing who worked there, you must have come up against another positioning that we always run into, in particular with women, and it has to do with outside image, dress, the veiled woman. So how have you dealt with this on a personal level as well as the women who worked for you? NA: As you know, the image of a lot of Yemeni women is a lot of black and covered, veiled women. And this is true. And a lot of it is because women are not able, are not free, to show their face to their self. It's a lot of traditional imposing coming by authority figures such as the men, the grandparents and so on. And it's economic empowerment and the ability for a woman to say, "I am as much contributing to this family, or more, than you are." And the more empowered the women become, the more they are able to remove the veil, for example, or to drive their own car or to have a job or to be able to travel. So the other face of Yemen is actually one that lies behind the veil, and it's economic empowerment mostly that allows the woman to just uncover it. And I have done this throughout my work. I've tried to encourage young girls. We started with, you can take it off in the office. And then after that, you can take it off on assignments. Because I didn't believe a journalist can be a journalist with -- how can you talk to people if you have your face covered? -- and so on; it's just a movement. And I am a role model in Yemen. A lot of people look up to me. A lot of young girls look up to me. And I need to prove to them that, yes, you can still be married, you can still be a mother, and you can still be respected within the society, but at the same time, that doesn't mean you [should] just be one of the crowd. You can be yourself and have your face. PM: But by putting yourself personally out there -- both projecting a different image of Yemeni women, but also what you have made possible for the women who work at the paper -- has this put you in personal danger? NA: Well the Yemen Times, across 20 years, has been through so much. We've suffered prosecution; the paper was closed down more than three times. It's an independent newspaper, but tell that to the people in charge. They think that if there's anything against them, then we are being an opposition newspaper. And very, very difficult times. Some of my reporters were arrested. We had some court cases. My father was assassinated. Today, we are in a much better situation. We've created the credibility. And in times of revolution or change like today, it is very important for independent media to have a voice. It's very important for you to go to YemenTimes.com, and it's very important to listen to our voice. And this is probably something I'm going to share with you in Western media probably -- and how there's a lot of stereotypes -- thinking of Yemen in one single frame: this is what Yemen is all about. And that's not fair. It's not fair for me; it's not fair for my country. A lot of reporters come to Yemen and they want to write a story on Al-Qaeda or terrorism. And I just wanted to share with you: there's one reporter that came. He wanted to do a documentary on what his editors wanted. And he ended up writing about a story that even surprised me -- hip hop -- that there are young Yemeni men who express themselves through dancing and puchu puchu. That thing. Yeah, break dancing. I'm not so old. I'm just not in touch. PM: Yes, you are. Actually, that's a documentary that's available online; the video's online. NA: ShaketheDust.org. PM: "Shake the Dust." PM: ShaketheDust.org. And it definitely does give a different image of Yemen. You spoke about the responsibility of the press. And certainly, when we look at the ways in which we have separated ourselves from others often from lack of knowledge, lack of real understanding, how do you see the way that the Western press in particular but in particular, in your country? NA: Well there is a saying that says, "You fear what you don't know, and you hate what you fear." So it's about the lack of research, basically. It's almost, "Do your homework," -- some involvement. And you cannot do parachute reporting -- just jump into a country for two days and think that you've done your homework and a story. So I wish that the world would know my Yemen, my country, my people. I am an example, and there are others like me. We may not be that many, as a good, positive example, there will be others -- men and women -- who can eventually bridge the gap -- again, coming to the bridge -- between Yemen and the world and telling first about recognition and then about communication and compassion. I think Yemen is going to be in a very bad situation in the next two or three years. It's natural. But after the two years, which is a price we are willing to pay, we are going to stand up again on our feet, but in the new Yemen with a younger and more empowered people -- democratic. PM: Nadia, I think you've just given us a very different view of Yemen. And certainly you yourself and what you do have given us a view of the future that we will embrace and be grateful for. And the very best of luck to you. YemenTimes.com. NA: On Twitter also. PM: So you are plugged in.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
映画はマジックを見せるには最高のメディアです映画では観客の見るものを完璧にコントロールできるので製作者はより高度な幻影を作ることを目指してさまざまな技術を開発してきました動画自体静止画を連続して投影することで成り立つ― イリュージョンの産物ですリュミエール兄弟が発明した映画を見た当時の観客は心底驚いたものです映画を見慣れた現代の観客ですらスクリーンに釘づけになります製作者たちは現実とのギャップを利用することで大きな効果を上げます 400年以上もの間想像力豊かな人々はイリュージョンを楽しんできました 16世紀ナポリの学者デッラ・ポルタは観察と研究を積み重ね自然界を操作する方法を学びました世界や私達が知覚した世界像を操ることが視覚効果の本質です映画芸術科学アカデミー科学技術評議会の協力により― 視覚効果の本質を掘り下げることでテクニックの裏側にある真実が明らかになります視覚効果はイリュージョンの原理に基づいています 1 もの事は私達が知る通りだという “先入観” ― 2 もの事は私達の予想通り展開するという “思い込み” ― 3 “リアリティを支える背景知識” これは私達がもつ世界に関する知識でスケール感などがよい例ですそして皆がこだわる 4つ目の要素は “イリュージョンは絶対に気付かれてはならない” このため視覚効果は常に完璧を目指してきましたこれからお見せするのは手回しカメラを使っていた― 映画の草創期から最近のアカデミー賞受賞作まで視覚効果が進化し時に繰り返す様子ですお楽しみください「ジョルジュ・メリエスは映画には夢をとらえる力があると― 気づいた人物よ」気づいた人物よ」『月世界旅行』オリジナルの手彩色の再現『2001年宇宙の旅』アカデミー視覚効果賞受賞「気分はどうジェイク?」『アバター』「やあみんな」アカデミー視覚効果賞受賞「新しい身体へようこそ」「ゆっくり始めていこう」「起きたいの?いいわよ」「ゆっくり・・・気をつけて」「機能障害はなさそうだ」「ボーっとする?めまいは?」「足の指動かせるね」『アリス ~不思議の国の大冒険~』「私どうしたのかしら?」『アリス・イン・ワンダーランド』アカデミー視覚効果賞ノミネート『ロスト・ワールド』ストップモーション・アニメーション『ジュラシック・パーク』 CGアニメーションアカデミー視覚効果賞受賞『スマーフ』 Autodesk Mayaで制作したキーフレームアニメーション『猿の惑星:創世記』アカデミー視覚効果賞ノミネート『メトロポリス』『ブレードランナー』アカデミー視覚効果賞ノミネート「もう大丈夫だ」『雨ぞ降る』「心配するな」アカデミー特殊効果賞受賞第一作「最悪の状況は過ぎた模様です」『2012』 CGによる破壊『ロード・オブ・ザ・リング/王の帰還』ソフトウェアにより大規模な群衆を生成アカデミー視覚効果賞受賞『ベン・ハー』ミニチュアと人形により動く群衆『グラディエーター』 CGによる競技場とデジタル群衆アカデミー視覚効果賞受賞『ハリー・ポッターと死の秘宝 PART 2』アカデミー視覚効果賞ノミネートアカデミー科学技術評議会の協力により制作 “今では不可能なこともありえないことも実現できる ― ジョルジュ・メリエス” “今では不可能なこともありえないことも実現できる ― ジョルジュ・メリエス” ありがとうございます	Now movies proved to be the ultimate medium for magic. With complete control of everything the audience can see, moviemakers had developed an arsenal of techniques to further their deceptions. Motion pictures are themselves an illusion of life, produced by the sequential projection of still frames, and they astonished the Lumière brothers' early audiences. Even today's sophisticated moviegoers still lose themselves to the screen, and filmmakers leverage this separation from reality to great effect. Now imaginative people have been having fun with this for over 400 years. Giambattista della Porta, a Neapolitan scholar in the 16th century, examined and studied the natural world and saw how it could be manipulated. Playing with the world, and our perception of it, really is the essence of visual effects. with the Science and Technology Council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences reveals some truth behind the trickery. Visual effects are based on the principles of all illusions: assumption, things are as we know them; presumption, things will behave as we expect; and context in reality, our knowledge of the world as we know it, such as scale. Now a fourth factor really becomes an obsession, which is, never betray the illusion. And that last point has made visual effects a constant quest for perfection. So from the hand-cranked jump cut early days of cinema to last Sunday's Oscar winner, what follows are some steps and a few repeats in the evolution of visual effects. I hope you will enjoy. Isabelle: "The filmmaker Georges Méliès was one of the first to realize that films had the power to capture dreams." ["'A Trip to the Moon' "] ["2011 Restoration of the Original Hand-Tinted Color"] ["'2001: A Space Odyssey' "] ["Academy Award Winner for Visual Effects"] ["'Avatar' "] First doctor: How are you feeling, Jake? Jake: Hey guys. ["Academy Award Winner for Visual Effects"] Second doctor: Welcome to your new body, Jake.First doctor: Good. Second doctor: We're gonna take this nice and easy, Jake.First doctor: Well, do you want to sit up? That's fine. Second doctor: And good, just take it nice and slow, Jake. Well, no truncal ataxia, that's good.First doctor: You feeling light-headed or dizzy at all? Oh, you're wiggling your toes. ["'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' "] Alice: What's happening to me? ["'Alice in Wonderland' "] ["Academy Award Nominee for Visual Effects"] ["'The Lost World' "] ["Stop Motion Animation"] ["'Jurassic Park' "] [Dinosaur roars] ["CG Animation"] ["Academy Award Winner for Visual Effects"] ["'The Smurfs' "] ["Autodesk Maya Software - Key Frame Animation"] ["'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' "] Chimpanzee: No! ["Academy Award Nominee for Visual Effects"] ["'Metropolis' "] ["'Blade Runner' "] ["Academy Award Nominee for Visual Effects"] ["'The Rains Came' "] Rama Safti: Well, it's all over. Maharaja: Nothing to worry about, not a thing. ['Academy Award for Special Effects - "] ["'2012' "]Governor: It seems to me that the worst is over. ["CG Destruction"] ["'Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King' "] ["Massive Software - Crowd Generation"] ["Academy Award Winner for Visual Effects"] ["'Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ' "] ["Miniatures and Puppets Bring the Crowd to Life"] ["'Gladiator' "] ["CG Coliseum and Digital Crowds"] ["Academy Award Winner for Visual Effects"] ["'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2' "] ["Academy Award Nominee for Visual Effects"] ["Produced in conjunction with the Academy's Science and Technology Council."] ["'It is today possible to realize the most impossible and improbable things.' — Georges Méliès"] Don Levy: Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
物語や小説を書いています今日は物語の真髄についていくつかお話をしますジンという超自然的な生き物の話もします本題に入る前に少しだけ個人的な話をしますが言葉だけではなく幾何学模様と共に話を進めますので話の途中で丸や輪が出てきます私はフランスのストラスブールで生まれましたトルコ人の両親は私が生まれて間もなく離婚し母は私を連れてトルコに引っ越しました私は一人っ子でシングルマザーに育てられました 70年代初頭のアンカラでは珍しい家族構成でした近所はどの家も大所帯で父親が家長だったので父家長制の社会で離婚した母を見ながら育ちましたとくに私が見て育ったのは二人のタイプの違う女性でした一人は母高学歴で西洋の影響をうけた非宗教的な現代人もう一人は母と共に私を育ててくれた祖母精神世界に生きていて低学歴で非合理的でした祖母はコーヒー豆で未来を占い鉛を不思議な形に溶かし邪気を追い払っていましたニキビがひどい人や手にイボがある人がたくさんやって来ました祖母がアラビア語でまじないをかけ消したいイボと同じ数のバラのとげを赤いリンゴに刺すのですそして祖母はインクでとげを丸く囲むのでした患者は1週間後に再び様子を見せにやってきました学者や科学者の方たちを前にしてこのようなことを言うべきでないのは承知の上ですでも肌の問題を抱えて祖母を訪ねて来た人たちは皆満足し症状も回復し帰って行きました祈りの力で治したのかと祖母に尋ねると祈りも効果はあるけれど輪がつくり出す力が効くのだと言いました祖母からは多くのことを学びましたがことに貴重な教えを受けました何かを取り除きたければニキビであろうが人の心であろうが厚い壁で囲みこんでしまえば中で消滅してしまうのです誰でも社会的文化的な輪の中で暮らしています生まれた家民族階級という輪ですでも当たり前だと思っている世界の外とつながりが全くなければ私たちも輪の中で枯渇してしまう― 可能性があるのです想像力が欠け心が小さくなり人間味を失います文化的な囲いの中に長居した結果です友人や隣人同僚や家族誰もが同じ価値観であれば我々自身を鏡に映して見ているようなものです祖母のようなトルコ人女性には鏡をベルベットで覆ったり鏡を裏返して壁に掛ける習慣が伝わっていますこれは東洋の伝統で鏡に映る自分の姿を眺めてばかりいるのは健全ではない― という考えに基づいています皮肉にも似た者同士で成り立つコミュニティーは現代のグローバル社会に挙げられる― 大きな危険性のひとつで至る所で見られます自由主義者と保守主義者不可知論者に信奉者金持ちと貧民東洋と西洋も然り人間とは共通点がある人と親しくなる傾向があり他の集団に対する― ステレオタイプをつくり出しますこのような文化的ゲットーは物語がもつ力で乗り越えられると思います境界線を取り壊すことはできなくても精神的な壁に穴をあけそこから他者を垣間見て好きになることさえできるのです私は8歳で物語を書き始めましたある日母が私に日記を書いてみてはどうかと言いましたきっと私のことが心配だったのでしょう私は絶えず話をしていたのです相手は存在しない― 架空の友達でした内気な子だった私はクレヨンと交流を図り何かにぶつかったときは物に向かって謝っていましたですから母は毎日の出来事や自分の思いを文にするのがいいと思ったのですでも私は毎日がつまらなくて文章にしたいことはひとつもなかったので他人の話や架空の出来事を書き始めましたこのようにフィクションを書く― 楽しさを身につけていったのです私にとってフィクションは当初から自分自身を明らかにするというより他者の人生や別の可能性へ入り込む旅だったのです今から別の話をしますが輪を描いて再びここに戻ってきますこの時期生活に変化が訪れました母が外交官になったため祖母と過ごした迷信深くて小さな中流階級の街を離れマドリッドにある上流階級の学校に通うことになりましたトルコ人は私だけでしたそこで私は “国の代表”を初めて経験したのです同級生はあらゆる国から来ていましたがクラスの中は必ずしも民主的だったわけではなく偏見や不平等が見受けられましたそれぞれの子どもたちが個人として見られるのではなくもっと大きなものを背負わされた雰囲気が漂っていました良く言えば小さな国連のようでしたが国や宗教に関わる― 否定的な出来事が起きると対象になった子どもはいつまでもばかにされたりいじめられましたちなみにこの学校に通学していた頃トルコでは軍が政治に介入しトルコ人の男がローマ教皇を殺そうとし欧州版歌合戦でトルコはひどいざまでした (会場: 笑い声) 当時私は学校を頻繁に休み船乗りにあこがれました文化的ステレオタイプもそこで初めて経験しました私は観たことがない― トルコが舞台の映画や一日に吸うタバコの数を同級生は尋ねてきましたトルコ人は皆愛煙家だと思われていました何歳からベールを被るのか尋ねられたこともありますトルコのステレオタイプは政治やタバコ肌や髪を隠すベールだと知りましたその後ヨルダンやドイツで暮らし再びアンカラに戻りましたどこで暮らすにも想像力は私が携帯できる― 唯一のスーツケースのようでした私は物語によって情緒的バランスや連続性や一貫性を得たのです 20代半ば大好きな街― イスタンブールに移り活気に満ちた場所で暮らしながら執筆活動をしました 1999年イスタンブールで地震がありました明け方3時で私は外に飛び出るとある光景が目に飛び込んできました社会の外れ者には目もくれない普段は不機嫌な商店の店主が座りこみ脇には黒いロングのかつらをかぶり涙でマスカラが落ちた女装者がいました震えた手つきでタバコを取り出し彼女にふるまう店主の姿がいまだに私の脳裏に焼きついています保守的な店主と泣いている女装者が共に歩道でタバコを吸っている光景です死や破壊に直面して表面上の相違点は消え短時間であっても私たちはひとつになりました物語にも同じ効果があると思いますフィクションと地震が同じ重みという意味ではありませんが優れた小説を読むと心地よい住居を後にして一人で夜の街にくり出し今まで知らなかった人たちと出会い始めます偏見の対象だった人とさえ親交が生まれるかもしれません私はその後ボストンとミシガンで大学に通いましたそこでは地理的な変化よりも言葉の転換を経験しました私は英語で小説を書き始めました移民のような立場ではない私に英語で書く理由を尋ねる人がいますが言語を使い分けることで自分自身を再び作り出せるのです私はトルコ語で執筆するのが大好きです私にはロマンチックで感情に訴える言語だからです英語も好きですが英語は私にとって数理的で知性に訴える言語ですそれぞれの言語に違ったつながりを感じます何百万もの人たちのように私は英語を勉強して身につけましたある程度の年齢になってから新しい言語を学ぼうとすると常にもどかしさを感じることになります人を笑わせたり気のきいたコメントをしたくても言葉が出てこないのは心と言語能力に差があるからですその差があることで気後れしますがおじけづかないことを身につけるとその感覚も刺激的ですボストンで感じたことですがいらだちが刺激になりました当時祖母は私の身の振り方を懸念していていつものお祈りの中で私が結婚して落ち着くことを願っていました神は祖母の見方をしたようで私は結婚をしました (会場: 笑い声) 家庭に落ち着くのではなく私はアリゾナに引っ越しました夫はイスタンブールにいるので私は行ったり来たりの生活を始めました両極端にある― 二つの街です私には肉体的にも精神的にも遊牧民のような一面があります物語が私を追いかけ人生を問うかのごとく記憶の断片をつなぎ合わせ続けます物語は大好きなのですが最近あることに気がつきました物語がただの物語以上に見られるとその魔法を失うということですこれは皆さんにもぜひ考えていただきたい内容です私が英語で執筆した小説が初めてアメリカで出版されたときある文芸評論家が言いました “面白かったけど内容が気に食わない” (会場: 笑い声) どういう意味か尋ねると登場人物は多いのにトルコ人は一人だけでそれも男だと言われましたボストンの大学の構内を舞台にしたのでトルコ人よりも国際色にあふれている方が普通だと思ったのですがそれは評論家が求めていたものではなく私の作風では今後も期待に添えないことがわかりました彼は私のアイデンティティの証拠を見たかったのです私がトルコ人女性だからという理由で本にもトルコ人女性を期待していました現実世界が物語に影響されることは話題にあがりますでも物語が各地で読まれ批評されている方法にどれだけアイデンティティ政治が影響を及ぼすのかという点にも目を向けるべきです多くの作家はこのプレッシャーを感じていますが西洋人でない場合プレッシャーはさらに大きいのです私のようなイスラム世界出身の女流作家である場合求められる物語はムスリム女性の物語で不幸なムスリム女性の暗い話が好まれます求められる物語は学びが得られ心に訴える特徴があるもので実験的文学や前衛文学は欧米作家の分野だと思われていますマドリッドの学校で子どものときに経験したことが現在文学の世界で起きています作家を独創性のある― 一人の個人として見ず個々の文化の代表者として見ているのです中国人作家やトルコ人作家ナイジェリア人作家私たちは異様ではなくても目新しさがあると思われています小説家のジェイムズボールドウィンが 1984年に受けたインタビューで同性愛指向について何度も尋ねられました同性愛作家として分類しようとする記者に対しボールドウィンは言いました “皆にないものは私にもないし私にないものは皆にもないんです” アイデンティティ政治が生み出す偏見は想像力の自由を束縛します欧米以外の作家をひとくくりにして多国籍文学と称するあいまいなカテゴリーがあります約10年前に呼ばれた私には初の多国籍読書会は決して忘れません私の他にフィリピン人とインドネシア人の作家が招かれました笑い話のようですね (会場: 笑い声) この三人の作家が招かれた理由は作風に共通点があったからではなく国籍だけの理由でした多国籍文学の作家はフィクションのように想像力を使うより実話を語ることを求められます作家自身のみならず架空の登場人物もさらに大きなものの代表になりますしかし物語を物語以上に見る傾向は欧米に限ったことではなくどこでも起こります私がこれを初めて経験したのは小説の登場人物が発した言葉を理由に 2005年に裁判にかけられたときでした私は女性の目から見たアルメニア人家族とトルコ人家族の建設的で多層的な小説を書くつもりでいました私の小さな話は告発されて大問題となりました二つの国民の対立を書き賛否両論が寄せられましたがどちらの側にもこれはフィクションなのだと伝えたかった時期がありましたただの物語だったのです “ただの物語” といっても自分の本を軽く見ているわけではありません私はフィクション小説を目的達成の手段としてではなくあるがままに楽しみたいのです作家は政治的意見を述べる権利があり優れた政治的小説もありますがフィクション小説の言葉は駆け引きのためではありませんチェーホフは言いました “問題の解決策と問題を投げかける正当な方法はまったく別ものである後者だけが表現者に課せられた責任だ” アイデンティティ政治は人間を隔て境界線をつくりあげますがフィクションは人と人をつなぎニュアンスで心に訴え境界線の認識はありませんアイデンティティ政治は頑丈なレンガでできていますがフィクションは流水ですオスマン帝国時代メッダフという語り手がいましたメッダフは喫茶店を巡回し即興で物語を披露するのですメッダフは登場人物によって声を使い分け役を演じました階級や宗教に関係なくどんな人でもメッダフの話を聴きに行けました物語がどんな境界線をも超えたのですナスレッディンホジャの物語が中東北アフリカバルカン半島アジアで人気があったようなものです物語は今も国境を超え続けますパレスチナとイスラエルの政治家はお互いに耳を傾けませんが今でもパレスチナの人たちはユダヤ人作家の小説を読み逆もまた同様に登場人物とつながりを感じ共感するのです文学は境界線を乗り越えなくてはいけませんそれができなければ優れた文学ではありませんかつて内向的だった私は本によって救われました本を崇める危険性も私は認識しています詩人のルーミーがシャムセタブリーズに会ったときシャムセがまずしたことはルーミーの本を水に放り投げ文字が消えるのを見たことでしたスーフィー信者は言います “自分を超えられない知識は無知よりもずっと悪い” 現代の文化的ゲットーが抱える問題は知識の欠如ではありませんお互いに関する知識は十分にもっていますでも私たち自身を超えられない知識はエリート主義者をつくりだし切り離されていきます私は人生を動くコンパスに例えるのが好きです片方の脚を一か所に置きながらもう片方が円を描き常に動いている姿です私の小説も同様にトルコにルーツをもちイスタンブールに根付いていながら世界を旅していろいろな文化と結びつくのですそんな意味で私の小説は地域的でありながら国際的だと考えていますイスタンブールに行ったことがある方はトプカプ宮殿を見たことがあるでしょうオスマン帝国の君主が 400年以上も住居とした宮殿ですこの宮殿にはめかけが住んでいた― 部屋がありその外にジンの集会所と呼ばれた場所があります建物にはさまれています私はこの概念に興味をそそられています二つの空間の間にある場所を怪しむ人はたくさんいますそのような場所はジンのような超自然的な生き物の棲家で彼らは得体の知れないものの象徴だからですでも人目を避けたその空間が作家や芸術家に一番必要なものだと思います私がフィクション小説を書くとき大事にするのは可変性です 10ページ先が予測できなかったり登場人物の意外な行動が好きなのですムスリム女性を題材に小説を書いたときに幸せな物語になるかもしれませんしノルウェーのハンサムなゲイの大学教授を主人公にするかもしれません心が生み出すものならばどんなことでも書けるのですオードリロードは言いました “白人の父から教えられたのは我思うゆえに我あり” 彼女が提言したのは “我感じるゆえに我は自由” 素晴らしいパラダイムシフトだと思いますでも今日に至って創作文の授業で知っていることから書きなさいと教えるのはなぜでしょうかその始め方に問題があるのではないでしょうか文学とは必ずしも私たちの本質や知識やアイデンティティに関するものではありません若者や我々自身に教えるべきことは心を広げて私たちが感じることを書いていくことです文化的ゲットーから抜け出し他の世界を見るべきです物語はスーフィーの旋回舞踏のように接点がなかった輪と輪につなぎ目をつくりますアイデンティティ政治に関係なく物語は人間性をつなげる― 肯定的側面がありますスーフィーの詩で締めくくります “これを限りに友になろうもう争いはやめにしようお互いを愛し合おう地球は皆のものだから” ありがとう	That's what I do in life -- telling stories, writing novels -- and today I would like to tell you a few stories about the art of storytelling and also some supernatural creatures called the djinni. But before I go there, please allow me to share with you glimpses of my personal story. I will do so with the help of words, of course, but also a geometrical shape, the circle, so throughout my talk, you will come across several circles. I was born in Strasbourg, France to Turkish parents. Shortly after, my parents got separated, and I came to Turkey with my mom. From then on, I was raised as a single child by a single mother. Now in the early 1970s, in Ankara, that was a bit unusual. Our neighborhood was full of large families, where fathers were the heads of households, so I grew up seeing my mother as a divorcee in a patriarchal environment. In fact, I grew up observing two different kinds of womanhood. On the one hand was my mother, a well-educated, secular, modern, westernized, Turkish woman. On the other hand was my grandmother, who also took care of me and was more spiritual, less educated and definitely less rational. This was a woman who read coffee grounds to see the future and melted lead into mysterious shapes to fend off the evil eye. Many people visited my grandmother, people with severe acne on their faces or warts on their hands. Each time, my grandmother would utter some words in Arabic, take a red apple and stab it with as many rose thorns as the number of warts she wanted to remove. encircle these thorns with dark ink. A week later, the patient would come back for a follow-up examination. Now, I'm aware that I should not be saying such things in front of an audience of scholars and scientists, but the truth is, of all the people who visited my grandmother for their skin conditions, I did not see anyone go back I asked her how she did this. Was it the power of praying? In response she said, "Yes, praying is effective, but also beware of the power of circles." From her, I learned, amongst many other things, one very precious lesson -- that if you want to destroy something in this life, be it an acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls. It will dry up inside. Now we all live in some kind of a social and cultural circle. We all do. We're born into a certain family, nation, class. with the worlds beyond the one we take for granted, then we too run the risk of drying up inside. Our imagination might shrink; our hearts might dwindle, and our humanness might wither if we stay for too long inside our cultural cocoons. Our friends, neighbors, colleagues, family -- if all the people in our inner circle resemble us, it means we are surrounded with our mirror image. Now one other thing women like my grandma do in Turkey is to cover mirrors with velvet or to hang them on the walls with their backs facing out. It's an old Eastern tradition based on the knowledge that it's not healthy for a human being to spend too much time staring at his own reflection. Ironically, [living in] communities of the like-minded is one of the greatest dangers of today's globalized world. And it's happening everywhere, among liberals and conservatives, agnostics and believers, the rich and the poor, East and West alike. We tend to form clusters based on similarity, and then we produce stereotypes about other clusters of people. In my opinion, one way of transcending these cultural ghettos is through the art of storytelling. Stories cannot demolish frontiers, but they can punch holes in our mental walls. And through those holes, we can get a glimpse of the other, and sometimes even like what we see. I started writing fiction at the age of eight. My mother came home one day with a turquoise notebook and asked me if I'd be interested in keeping a personal journal. In retrospect, I think she was slightly worried about my sanity. I was constantly telling stories at home, which was good, I was an introverted child, to the point of communicating with colored crayons and apologizing to objects when I bumped into them, so my mother thought it might do me good to write down my day-to-day experiences and emotions. What she didn't know was that I thought my life was terribly boring, and the last thing I wanted to do was to write about myself. Instead, I began to write about people other than me and things that never really happened. And thus began my life-long passion for writing fiction. So from the very beginning, fiction for me was less of an autobiographical manifestation than a transcendental journey into other lives, other possibilities. And please bear with me: I'll draw a circle and come back to this point. Now one other thing happened around this same time. My mother became a diplomat. middle-class neighborhood of my grandmother, I was zoomed into this posh, international school [in Madrid], where I was the only Turk. It was here that I had my first encounter with what I call the "representative foreigner." In our classroom, there were children from all nationalities, yet this diversity did not necessarily lead to a cosmopolitan, egalitarian classroom democracy. Instead, it generated an atmosphere in which each child was seen -- not as an individual on his own, but as the representative of something larger. We were like a miniature United Nations, which was fun, except whenever something negative, with regards to a nation or a religion, took place. The child who represented it was mocked, ridiculed and bullied endlessly. And I should know, because during the time I attended that school, a military takeover happened in my country, a gunman of my nationality nearly killed the Pope, and Turkey got zero points in [the] Eurovision Song Contest. I skipped school often and dreamed of becoming a sailor during those days. I also had my first taste of cultural stereotypes there. The other children asked me about the movie "Midnight Express," which I had not seen; they inquired how many cigarettes a day I smoked, because they thought all Turks were heavy smokers, I would start covering my hair. the three main stereotypes about my country: politics, cigarettes and the veil. After Spain, we went to Jordan, Germany and Ankara again. Everywhere I went, I felt like my imagination was the only suitcase I could take with me. Stories gave me a sense of center, continuity and coherence, the three big Cs that I otherwise lacked. In my mid-twenties, I moved to Istanbul, the city I adore. I lived in a very vibrant, diverse neighborhood where I wrote several of my novels. I was in Istanbul when the earthquake hit in 1999. When I ran out of the building at three in the morning, I saw something that stopped me in my tracks. There was the local grocer there -- a grumpy, old man who didn't sell alcohol and didn't speak to marginals. He was sitting next to a transvestite with a long black wig and mascara running down her cheeks. with trembling hands and offer one to her, and that is the image of the night of the earthquake in my mind today -- a conservative grocer and a crying transvestite smoking together on the sidewalk. In the face of death and destruction, our mundane differences evaporated, and we all became one even if for a few hours. But I've always believed that stories, too, have a similar effect on us. I'm not saying that fiction has the magnitude of an earthquake, but when we are reading a good novel, we leave our small, cozy apartments behind, go out into the night alone and start getting to know people we had never met before and perhaps had even been biased against. Shortly after, I went to a women's college in Boston, then Michigan. I experienced this, not so much as a geographical shift, as a linguistic one. I started writing fiction in English. I'm not an immigrant, refugee or exile -- they ask me why I do this -- but the commute between languages gives me the chance to recreate myself. I love writing in Turkish, which to me is very poetic and very emotional, and I love writing in English, which to me is very mathematical and cerebral. So I feel connected to each language in a different way. For me, like millions of other people around the world today, English is an acquired language. When you're a latecomer to a language, what happens is you live there with a continuous and perpetual frustration. As latecomers, we always want to say more, you know, crack better jokes, say better things, but we end up saying less because there's a gap between the mind and the tongue. And that gap is very intimidating. But if we manage not to be frightened by it, it's also stimulating. And this is what I discovered in Boston -- that frustration was very stimulating. At this stage, my grandmother, who had been watching the course of my life with increasing anxiety, started to include in her daily prayers that I urgently get married so that I could settle down once and for all. And because God loves her, I did get married. But instead of settling down, I went to Arizona. And since my husband is in Istanbul, I started commuting between Arizona and Istanbul -- the two places on the surface of earth that couldn't be more different. I guess one part of me has always been a nomad, physically and spiritually. Stories accompany me, keeping my pieces and memories together, like an existential glue. Yet as much as I love stories, recently, I've also begun to think if and when a story is seen as more than a story. And this is a subject that I would love to think about together. When my first novel written in English came out in America, I heard an interesting remark from a literary critic. "I liked your book," he said, "but I wish you had written it differently." I asked him what he meant by that. He said, "Well, look at it. There's so many Spanish, American, Hispanic characters in it, but there's only one Turkish character and it's a man." Now the novel took place on a university campus in Boston, so to me, it was normal that there be more international characters in it than Turkish characters, but I understood what my critic was looking for. And I also understood that I would keep disappointing him. He wanted to see the manifestation of my identity. He was looking for a Turkish woman in the book because I happened to be one. We often talk about how stories change the world, but we should also see how the world of identity politics affects the way stories are being circulated, read and reviewed. Many authors feel this pressure, but non-Western authors feel it more heavily. If you're a woman writer from the Muslim world, like me, then you are expected to write the stories of Muslim women and, preferably, the unhappy stories of unhappy Muslim women. You're expected to write informative, poignant and characteristic stories and leave the experimental and avant-garde to your Western colleagues. What I experienced as a child in that school in Madrid is happening in the literary world today. Writers are not seen as creative individuals on their own, but as the representatives of their respective cultures: a few authors from China, a few from Turkey, a few from Nigeria. We're all thought to have something very distinctive, if not peculiar. The writer and commuter James Baldwin gave an interview in 1984 in which he was repeatedly asked about his homosexuality. When the interviewer tried to pigeonhole him as a gay writer, Baldwin stopped and said, "But don't you see? There's nothing in me that is not in everybody else, and nothing in everybody else that is not in me." When identity politics tries to put labels on us, it is our freedom of imagination that is in danger. There's a fuzzy category called multicultural literature in which all authors from outside the Western world are lumped together. I never forget my first multicultural reading, We were three writers, one from the Philippines, one Turkish and one Indonesian -- like a joke, you know. And the reason why we were brought together was not because we shared an artistic style or a literary taste. It was only because of our passports. Multicultural writers are expected to tell real stories, not so much the imaginary. A function is attributed to fiction. In this way, not only the writers themselves, but also their fictional characters become the representatives of something larger. But I must quickly add that this tendency to see a story as more than a story does not solely come from the West. It comes from everywhere. And I experienced this firsthand when I was put on trial in 2005 for the words my fictional characters uttered in a novel. I had intended to write about an Armenian and a Turkish family through the eyes of women. My micro story became a macro issue when I was prosecuted. Some people criticized, others praised me for writing about the Turkish-Armenian conflict. But there were times when I wanted to remind both sides that this was fiction. It was just a story. And when I say, "just a story," I'm not trying to belittle my work. I want to love and celebrate fiction for what it is, not as a means to an end. Writers are entitled to their political opinions, and there are good political novels out there, but the language of fiction is not the language of daily politics. Chekhov said, "The solution to a problem and the correct way of posing the question are two completely separate things. And only the latter is an artist's responsibility." Identity politics divides us. Fiction connects. One is interested in sweeping generalizations. The other, in nuances. One draws boundaries. The other recognizes no frontiers. Identity politics is made of solid bricks. Fiction is flowing water. In the Ottoman times, there were itinerant storytellers called "meddah." They would go to coffee houses, often improvising. With each new person in the story, the meddah would change his voice, impersonating that character. Everybody could go and listen, you know -- ordinary people, even the sultan, Muslims and non-Muslims. Stories cut across all boundaries, like "The Tales of Nasreddin Hodja," which were very popular throughout the Middle East, North Africa, the Balkans and Asia. Today, stories continue to transcend borders. When Palestinian and Israeli politicians talk, they usually don't listen to each other, but a Palestinian reader still reads a novel by a Jewish author, and vice versa, connecting and empathizing with the narrator. Literature has to take us beyond. If it cannot take us there, it is not good literature. Books have saved the introverted, timid child that I was -- that I once was. But I'm also aware of the danger of fetishizing them. When the poet and mystic, Rumi, met his spiritual companion, Shams of Tabriz, one of the first things the latter did was to toss Rumi's books into water and watch the letters dissolve. The Sufis say, "Knowledge that takes you not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance." The problem with today's cultural ghettos is not lack of knowledge -- we know a lot about each other, or so we think -- but knowledge that takes us not beyond ourselves: it makes us elitist, distant and disconnected. There's a metaphor which I love: living like a drawing compass. As you know, one leg of the compass is static, rooted in a place. Meanwhile, the other leg draws a wide circle, constantly moving. Like that, my fiction as well. One part of it is rooted in Istanbul, with strong Turkish roots, but the other part travels the world, connecting to different cultures. In that sense, I like to think of my fiction as both local and universal, both from here and everywhere. Now those of you who have been to Istanbul have probably seen Topkapi Palace, which was the residence of Ottoman sultans for more than 400 years. In the palace, just outside the quarters of the favorite concubines, there's an area called The Gathering Place of the Djinn. It's between buildings. I'm intrigued by this concept. We usually distrust those areas that fall in between things. We see them as the domain of supernatural creatures like the djinn, who are made of smokeless fire and are the symbol of elusiveness. But my point is perhaps that elusive space is what writers and artists need most. When I write fiction I cherish elusiveness and changeability. I like not knowing what will happen 10 pages later. I like it when my characters surprise me. I might write about a Muslim woman in one novel, and perhaps it will be a very happy story, and in my next book, I might write about a handsome, gay professor in Norway. As long as it comes from our hearts, we can write about anything and everything. Audre Lorde once said, "The white fathers taught us to say, 'I think, therefore I am.'" She suggested, "I feel, therefore I am free." I think it was a wonderful paradigm shift. And yet, why is it that, in creative writing courses today, the very first thing we teach students is "write what you know"? Perhaps that's not the right way to start at all. Imaginative literature is not necessarily about writing who we are or what we know or what our identity is about. We should teach young people and ourselves to expand our hearts and write what we can feel. We should get out of our cultural ghetto and go visit the next one and the next. In the end, stories move like whirling dervishes, regardless of identity politics, and that is the good news. And I would like to finish with an old Sufi poem: "Come, let us be friends for once; let us make life easy on us; let us be lovers and loved ones; the earth shall be left to no one." Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
また、モバイル・デバイスのこの普及とともに、相手と「つながることができること」を当てにする、という現象をも目の当たりにしています。そして、三つ目のポイント、義務」——その自分が「つながりやすい」状態でいなければならないという義務、の問題も出てきます。問題は、我々はまだこれに苦労しているのですが、社会的な観点から、我々がどのようにして人が「つながっている」状態でいることを許しているか、ということです。実際には、我々がどういうことなら許容するか、ということの間には有意差が存在します—— ハンス・ロズリングには申し訳ない、彼は実際の統計を用いないものはどんなものでも虚偽だと言っています——。しかし、そこにある巨大な差異は、公共的な観点から我々がいかにしてこの問題を処理しているか、ということなのです。そこで、我々は隠れてこそこそやるための様々な戦術や戦略を開発してきました。この最初のものは「傾き」と呼ばれるものです。もしみなさんが何かの会議に出ていて、そこで肝だめしのようなものをしたことがあるなら、みなさんはそこに座り、相手を見つめていて、相手が目をそらすのを待って、そしてすばやくデバイスをチェックします。もっとも右側にいる紳士にちゃんと見抜かれてしまっていることは分かりますね。「ストレッチ」。オーケー、左側の紳士は「このくそったれ。俺はデバイスチェックをすることにする。」と言っています。しかし、その相手、この右側の、彼はストレッチをしています。それは体をぐううううっと伸ばすこと自分のデバイスをテーブルの下に隠すための物理的なねじりです。それから、私の大好きなやつです。「愛してるよ、本当に。」というやつです。「誰かほかに大事な人を見つけるのを許してね。」と言うようなことで「私はあなたを愛してる。」ということは伝わりませんね。それから、これ、インドから来たやつ。これはYouTubeで見られますが、バイクの上で横になってケータイ・メールをしていますね。我々が「誰かを殺してしまう前に僕を止めてくれ、ベイビー!」と呼んでいるものです。実際には人を殺すのはこのデバイスでしょうね。これはどういうことかというと。。。正面衝突、だと分かります。「つながりやすさ」の間に正面衝突が見出せるわけです。そして、「つながりやすさ」を通じてどういうことが可能になるかということ——そして基本的な人間としての欲求—— これは我々はいやと言うほど聞いた話です——シェアされた語りを創造するという欲求です。我々は個人的な語りを創造することに長けています、しかし我々の文化を創るのはシェアされた語りです。そしてあなたが誰かと一緒に立っていて、あなたはモバイル・デバイスに向かっている。そのとき実際にあなたが連れの人に言っていることは、「お前は、このデバイスを通じて私に届くもののほとんどどれよりも大切ではない。」ということなのです。周りを見回してみてください。今この瞬間にもデバイスに向かっている人がいるかもしれませんよ。多次元的な関わりに参加しているわけです。「私たちの今の現実は、あとであなたに話してあげる話ほど面白くはないのよ。」というやつです。これは私の大好きなやつ。このかわいそうな奴、明らかにつっかえ棒ですね—— 悪気で言ってるんじゃありませんよ、彼は喜んでつっかえ棒になっているんです—— しかし今記録されつつあるキスはまるで吸い取っているか何かのように見えますね。これは片手で拍手している音です。それで、我々が自分たちのアイデンティティのコンテクストを失うにしたがって、信じられぬほど重要なことになってくるのは、人が何を共有するかということが共有された語りのコンテクストになるということ、我々がその中で生きるコンテクストになる、ということなのです。我々が語るストーリー——我々が送信するストーリー—— がとりもなおさず我々が誰であるか、ということになります我々はただ単にアイデンティティを投射しているわけではない、そのストーリーたちがアイデンティティを創り出しているのです。さて、それで、この部屋にいらっしゃるみなさんへの私からのお願いです。私たちは新しいテクノロジーを創造しつつあり、それは新しい共有経験を創造しつつあり、それはさらに新しい世界を創造しつつあります。だから、私からのお願いというのは、どうか、人々を非人間的にではなくもっと人間らしくするようなテクノロジーを創りましょう、ということです。ありがとうございました。	We're seeing, along with that proliferation of mobile devices, an expectation of availability. And, with that, comes the third point, which is obligation -- and an obligation to that availability. And the problem is, we're still working through, from a societal standpoint, how we allow people to be available. There's a significant delta, in fact, between what we're willing to accept. Apologies to Hans Rosling -- he said anything that's not using real stats is a lie -- but the big delta there is how we deal with this from a public standpoint. So we've developed certain tactics and strategies This first one's called "the lean." And if you've ever been in a meeting where you play sort of meeting "chicken," you're sitting there, looking at the person, waiting for them to look away, and then quickly checking the device. Although you can see the gentleman up on the right is busting him. "The stretch." OK, the gentleman on the left is saying, "Screw you, I'm going to check my device." But the guy, here, on the right, he's doing the stretch. It's that reeeee-e-e-each out, the physical contortion to get that device just below the tabletop. Or, my favorite, the "Love you; mean it." Nothing says "I love you" like "Let me find somebody else I give a damn about." Or, this one, coming to us from India. You can find this on YouTube, the gentleman who's recumbent on a motorcycle while text messaging. Or what we call the "sweet gravy, stop me before I kill again!" That is actually the device. What this is doing is, we find a -- a direct collision -- we find a direct collision between availability -- and what's possible through availability -- and a fundamental human need -- which we've been hearing about a lot, actually -- the need to create shared narratives. We're very good at creating personal narratives, but it's the shared narratives that make us a culture. And when you're standing with someone, and you're on your mobile device, effectively what you're saying to them is, "You are not as important as, literally, almost anything that could come to me through this device." Look around you. There might be somebody on one right now, participating in multi-dimensional engagement. Our reality right now is less interesting than the story we're going to tell about it later. This one I love. This poor kid, clearly a prop -- don't get me wrong, a willing prop -- but the kiss that's being documented kind of looks like it sucks. This is the sound of one hand clapping. So, as we lose the context of our identity, it becomes incredibly important that what you share becomes the context of shared narrative, becomes the context in which we live. The stories that we tell -- what we push out -- becomes who we are. People aren't simply projecting identity, they're creating it. And so that's the request I have for everybody in this room. We are creating the technology that is going to create the new shared experience, which will create the new world. And so my request is, please, let's make technologies that make people more human, and not less. Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
私は4歳のときに母から習いました同じ年に母からダンスを習い始めました以来ずっと私は古典舞踊を続けていますそれから40年ほど過ぎました素晴らしい先生に恵まれ世界中で舞踊を上演し幅広い年齢の方々に舞踊を教えたり創作や合作に携わり振り付けを行い舞踊家として名実ともに第一人者となりましたもっとも記憶に残っているのは2007年にインドで 4番目に栄誉あるパドマシュリを受賞したことです (拍手) それでも 2008年の7月1日にある宣告を受ける心の準備はまったくできていませんでした悪性腫瘍という言葉を聞きました乳がんだったのです医師の目の前で言葉を失いました他に聞こえた単語は「キャンサー」「ステージ」「グレード」でした「キャンサー」と言えばかに座というイメージでした「ステージ」は舞台のことだと思っていましたし「グレード」は学校の成績のことだと思っていました宣告を受けた日自分の中に招かざる客がいることを知りました舞踊家として 9つの感情表現方法を身につけています怒り勇気嫌悪笑いそして恐怖宣告を受けた日に私は本当の恐怖の意味を知りましたことの重大さと癌に逆らえない無力さに泣き続けました私は夫に尋ねました「私はこれで終わってしまうのかしら舞踊家としても終わってしまうのかしら」私の夫はポジティブで「違うよこれは一時的なもので休んで治療を受ければ元通りになるよ」と言いましたそのとき人生の主導権は自分にあると考えていた私は 3つしかコントロールできないのだと知りました思考や心思考と心が創造するイメージとそこから作り出す動き私はことの大きさに感情の波にもまれてひどく落ち込んだりもしました癒しと健康幸せを求めていました自分のありのままを認めず自分のなりたい姿を求めていましたそのためになにかのきっかけを必要としていました泣くのはやめてある日私は宣言しました癌は人生のごく一部であって今後の人生に影響させるわけにはいかないそして癌を乗り越え癌に負けないと宣言しましたしかし現状から抜け出すには何かが必要でした頼りになるイメージや支えを利用してこの状況から抜け出す必要がありました私はその支えを舞踊に見出しました私の踊り強さエネルギー情熱生命の表現でもそれは本当に難しかったのです美しい姿から3日間で髪を失ったとき陽気でいられるでしょうか化学療法の副作用で階段を上ることさえも苦痛であるときに絶望せずにいられるでしょうか以前私は3時間踊り続けることができたのにこのような状況で絶望したりみじめに思わずにいられるでしょうか私は身をかがめて泣きたい気持ちでしたが恐怖と涙に負けてはいけないと自分に言い聞かせました私は体を引きずるようにダンススタジオに行き体も心も全てをささげて 4歳のときに習ったことを全て習い直しました全てをやりなおすのはとても苦痛でしたがそれでもやり遂げました辛かったです私は手を使った表現方法であるムドラや私の踊りのイメージや踊りの感情表現や人生観に意識を集中させましたそして徐々に悲しみから抜け出したのですでももうひと踏ん張りするためにほかの何かを探していましたそしてあるとき私が4歳のころ母に習ったマヒシャースラマルディニーのドゥルガを思い出しましたドゥルガは恐れを知らない地母神でヒンズーの神々によって創られましたドゥルガはきらびやかで美しく 18本の腕をもちその腕で戦うのですライオンにまたがってマヒシャースラを攻撃に行くのですドゥルガはシャクティと呼ばれる女性の強さを象徴しています恐れを知らないドゥルガを私はイメージして彼女の性格感情を私なりに表現しました神話の力と私の稽古への情熱が私をより舞踊に集中させましたどのくらいの集中力だったかというと私は手術の数週間後から踊り化学療法と放射線治療の期間も踊りました担当医もびっくりしていました舞踊のスケジュールに合わせて治療を行うように担当医にお願いしました私は癌から舞踊に向かいました癌は私の人生の一部でしかありません私が伝えたいのは人生に生じる障害や困難を乗り越えていくことです私が伝えたいのはいかに思考のパワー自分で選択するパワー集中するパワーそして自分を元気づけるパワーがあれば前に進むことができ癌ですら大したことではなくなるということです私が表現するのは象徴のパワーいわば想像力のパワーです私はドゥルガを表現しますドゥルガは恐れを知りませんドゥルガはシンハナンディニとも呼ばれライオンにまたがります私もまたライオンにまたがるように自分の内面の強さと自己回復力を備え薬を飲み治療を続け癌と闘い癌細胞におとなしくするようにといっていますまた癌の生存者ではなく癌を克服した者となりたいのですその様を表現した舞踊を披露しますタイトルは「シンハナンディニ」です	I learned it when I was four at my mother's knee. That year she introduced me to dance, and thus began my tryst with classical dance. Since then -- it's been four decades now -- I've trained with the best in the field, performed across the globe, taught young and old alike, created, collaborated, choreographed, and wove a rich tapestry of artistry, achievement and awards. The crowning glory was in 2007, when I received this country's fourth highest civilian award, the Padma Shri, for my contribution to art. But nothing, nothing prepared me for what I was to hear on the first of July 2008. I heard the word "carcinoma." Yes, breast cancer. As I sat dumbstruck in my doctor's office, I heard other words: "cancer," "stage," "grade." Until then, Cancer was the zodiac sign of my friend, stage was what I performed on, and grades were what I got in school. That day, I realized I had an unwelcome, uninvited, As a dancer, I know the nine rasas or the navarasas: anger, valor, disgust, humor and fear. I thought I knew what fear was. That day, I learned what fear was. Overcome with the enormity of it all and the complete feeling of loss of control, I shed copious tears and asked my dear husband, Jayant. I said, "Is this it? Is this the end of the road? Is this the end of my dance?" And he, the positive soul that he is, said, "No, this is just a hiatus, a hiatus during the treatment, and you'll get back to doing what you do best." I realized then that I, who thought I had complete control of my life, had control of only three things: My thought, my mind -- the images that these thoughts created -- and the action that derived from it. So here I was wallowing in a vortex of emotions and depression and what have you, with the enormity of the situation, wanting to go to a place of healing, health and happiness. I wanted to go from where I was to where I wanted to be, for which I needed something. I needed something that would pull me out of all this. So I dried my tears, and I declared to the world at large ... I said, "Cancer's only one page in my life, and I will not allow this page to impact the rest of my life." I also declared to the world at large that I would ride it out, and I would not allow cancer to ride me. But to go from where I was to where I wanted to be, I needed something. I needed an anchor, an image, a peg to peg this process on, so that I could go from there. And I found that in my dance, my dance, my strength, my energy, my passion, my very life breath. But it wasn't easy. Believe me, it definitely wasn't easy. How do you keep cheer when you go from beautiful to bald in three days? How do you not despair when, with the body ravaged by chemotherapy, climbing a mere flight of stairs was sheer torture, that to someone like me who could dance for three hours? How do you not get overwhelmed by the despair and the misery of it all? All I wanted to do was curl up and weep. But I kept telling myself fear and tears are options I did not have. So I would drag myself into my dance studio -- body, mind and spirit -- every day into my dance studio, and learn everything I learned when I was four, all over again, reworked, relearned, regrouped. It was excruciatingly painful, but I did it. Difficult. I focused on my mudras, on the imagery of my dance, on the poetry and the metaphor and the philosophy of the dance itself. And slowly, I moved out of that miserable state of mind. But I needed something else. I needed something to go that extra mile, and I found it in that metaphor which I had learned from my mother when I was four. The metaphor of Mahishasura Mardhini, of Durga. Durga, the mother goddess, the fearless one, created by the pantheon of Hindu gods. Durga, resplendent, bedecked, beautiful, her 18 arms ready for warfare, as she rode astride her lion into the battlefield to destroy Mahishasur. Durga, the epitome of creative feminine energy, or shakti. Durga, the fearless one. I made that image of Durga and her every attribute, her every nuance, my very own. Powered by the symbology of a myth and the passion of my training, I brought laser-sharp focus into my dance, laser-sharp focus to such an extent that I danced a few weeks after surgery. I danced through chemo and radiation cycles, I danced between chemo and radiation cycles and badgered him to fit it to my performing dance schedule. What I had done is I had tuned out of cancer and tuned into my dance. Yes, cancer has just been one page in my life. My story is a story of overcoming setbacks, obstacles and challenges that life throws at you. My story is the power of thought. My story is the power of choice. It's the power of focus. It's the power of bringing ourselves to the attention of something that so animates you, so moves you, that something even like cancer becomes insignificant. My story is the power of a metaphor. It's the power of an image. Mine was that of Durga, Durga the fearless one. She was also called Simhanandini, the one who rode the lion. As I ride out, as I ride my own inner strength, my own inner resilience, armed as I am with what medication can provide and continue treatment, as I ride out into the battlefield of cancer, asking my rogue cells to behave, I want to be known not as a cancer survivor, but as a cancer conqueror. I present to you an excerpt of that work "Simhanandini."	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
モンスターに追い回されたが、なんとか街に帰還しログアウト。俺の意識は現実世界へと帰還した。食事とか睡眠とかトイレとかを済ませると、またすぐに遊びたくなってきた。だが少し我慢。情報端末を操作してネットサーフィンだ。調べるのはもちろん『Next Stage Online』のこと。別にwikiを見てその通りに進めたくなったということではない。みんながどんな感じで遊んでるのかを知りたいなぁと思っただけだ。自分で攻略方法を考えるのももちろん楽しいが、友達とどこまで進めたか、どうやって進めてるのかを語り合うのもゲームの醍醐味だと思う。しかし、今のご時世なかなかリアルでゲームの話をするのは難しい。ゲーム数は膨大だし、ゲーマー仲間でも同じゲームをやっているとは限らないのだ。そういう時に頼りになるのはやはりネットだ。ネットならば同じゲームを遊んでいる人だけが集まるコミュニティなどいくらでもある。ただ、いきなり掲示板を見るのは怖いな。勝手なイメージだが、オンラインゲームの掲示板というのはよく荒れている気がする。運営への不満ならまだいいが、プレイヤー同士でプレイスタイルの押し付け合いや、煽り合いが繰り広げられているのを見ると萎えてしまう。『Next Stage Online 攻略』で検索すると、いくつかのサイトがヒットした。「......あまり情報がない」どのサイトも同じだった。そりゃそうか、発売一ヶ月も経ってないオンラインゲームのwikiが充実してるわけもない。だがしかし、わかったこともある。まず、『射手』は本当に不人気のようだ。スキル関係はもちろん、武器関係もほぼ真っ白。やたらブーメランのページだけは充実してたが、これは熱狂的な愛好者がいるのだろうか? それとも他の射撃武器よりは気持ち攻撃力が高めだから人気なのか? この疑問の答えこそが、ステータス配分以外で『射手』が嫌われる理由につながっている。『弓』『銃』『手裏剣』などは、そもそも敵に当てにくいという評価のようだ。だから他より人気なのだ......と思ったが、それなら戦士で剣を振った方が良い。やはり、攻略サイトを更新する手間も惜しまない熱狂的なファンがいるんだろう。世の中は広いな。それにしても、俺は弓を当てにくいなんて思ったことはないけどなぁ。サイトのコメントを見る感じ、弓も銃も射撃に関して補正などはかからず、素の腕前が求められるなんて書いてあるが本当か? 俺は弓道なんて習ったことないが、ストンストン当てられたんだが......。個人差なのか、不具合なのか。結構怒ってるコメントもあるなぁ。ここに『俺は簡単に当てられますよ』なんてコメントしたら、事実であっても煽りにしかならない。さて、もう一つ面白い情報を得た。それはスキルの獲得に関することだ。俺は戦士時代に【空波斬】というスキルを『戦闘中に本気で素振りすること』で手に入れた。だが、サイトに書かれている情報によると『武器を振った風圧でダメージを与えること』でも手に入るらしい。つまり、同じスキルでも獲得方法は複数あるということだ。このゲームはスキルに関してあえて謎を多く作ってある。いろんなことを試して、探していくしかない。いつか自分しか持っていないスキルを獲得することだって夢じゃないかもな。オンリーワン......最高の響きだ。テンションが上がったところでNext Stage Onlineの世界ネクスタリアへ戻ろうか。今回のまとめとしては、『人に聞く前に、自分で考えた方が早い』......かな。まだ情報が出そろってない。自分で情報を集めてトップを走るくらいの気持ちでいこう。おじさんにはオンラインゲームでトップになる気持ちはあっても体力はないからね。 ◆ ◆ ◆ さあ、冒険の再開だ。その前にウィンドウを開いてやることがある。「お、本当だ。一定レベル到達でスキルが獲得できるんだな」ステータスウィンドウのちょっと目立たないところに書かれているもんだから、攻略サイトを見るまで気づかなかったぞ。さて、今回は初期職の5レベル到達特典だ。手に入るスキルは選べない。ゲーム側がこれまでのプレイスタイルから導き出した最適なスキルを与えてくれるらしい。俺の場合は、とりあえず弓矢に関するスキルだろうな。 ――ぴこんっ! 新たなスキル【バウンドアロー】を獲得しました。 ◆獲得理由『初期職Lv5到達特典』【バウンドアロー】物に当たって跳ね返る矢。プレイヤーやモンスターに当たるか、最大射程に到達するまで跳ねる。トリッキーなスキルだ。扱いは難しいだろう。だが、一つの場所から動かないスナイパースタイルを目指す俺には、最高のスキルだと思う。角度的に当てられない場所にもバウンドを使いこなせば当てられるはずだ。さらにバウンドすることで矢が本来飛んできた方向、つまり俺の位置を誤魔化せる。「これは人のいないフィールドで練習したいな」街の公園で見せびらかすには惜しいスキルだ。こっそりスキルの練習をしつつ、レベルを10まで上げよう。もうすぐ初心者向けのイベントもある。しかも、ガッツリ対戦系だ。ちょっと尻込みしている自分もいるが、参加するからには優勝を目指すぞ!	While I continued to be chased by monsters, I was able to arrive safely in the town and logout. And like that, my awareness returned to the real world. However, once stuff like eating, sleeping and using the bathroom were out of the way, I wanted to play again. But I held off. It was time to use the old information terminal to surf the net. Of course, I wanted to look up Next Stage Online. It wasn’t that I wanted to check the Wiki and move according to it. It was just a general curiosity about how others were doing. Obviously, it was fun thinking up ways to do things by yourself, but part of the fun of gaming was seeing the progress of friends and talking about what you’ve been doing. However, it was harder to do that face to face these days. There were so many games out there, and even if you had gamer friends, they may not be playing the same games as you. And so one must rely on the internet for such needs. On the internet, you could find communities of people who are playing the same game as you. However, I was a little intimidated when it came to message boards. Perhaps it was my own prejudice, but I alway thought of message boards for online games as being chaotic. It was one thing to comment about your dissatisfaction with management, but players forcing their playstyle onto each other and other fighting was disheartening to see. And so I looked up ‘Next Stage Online guide’ and several sites popped up. “...Not much information yet...” The others were the same. Well, it was no wonder. The game hadn’t even been out for a month, so the Wiki still needed time to grow. However, there was one thing I learned. The ‘archer’ job really was unpopular. The skills and even weapons. Blank. Strangely, there was a decent amount of information about the boomerang. Was there some passionate fanatic out there? Or was it because it had relatively high attack power out of the ranged weapons? The answer to this question was connected to one of the reasons that the job was unpopular. Apparently, ‘bows,’ ‘guns,’ ‘shurikens’ etcetera were difficult to aim with. The boomerang alone could be used as a melee weapon if you missed and the enemy got close to you. So that was why it was more popular... But if that’s the reason, you were better off as a warrior with a sword. Still, it showed that there were fans out there willing to spend all this time to update the site. It was a big world. The odd thing was, I hadn’t felt that the bow was particularly difficult to aim with. Judging by the comments, your stats did not help you when shooting with the bow or gun. And so it required that you actually have good aim. Was that true? I had never learned archery in my life, and yet I was hitting my targets quite well... Was it a coincidence, or a bug? Some of the comments were very heated. I was quite sure that if I posted, ‘oh, the shooting was easy for me,’ they would take it very badly. In any case, I found another piece of information that was very interesting. It concerned the acquiring of skills. During my old warrior days, I had acquired a skill called ‘Empty Wave Slash’ because I ‘kept doing practice swings even when in combat.’ However, according to the site, you could also acquire it through ‘dealing damage by the wind pressure of a swung weapon.’ In other words, there were multiple ways of getting the same skill. This game had a lot of mystery in terms of skills. And so I would have to experiment and discover things along the way. It was possible that I might one day acquire a skill that no one else had. The only one...it had the best ring to it. Now that my excitement had reached its peak, it was time to return to Next Stage Online. The world of Nextaria. If I had to summarize my findings, it would be, ‘it’s better to think about it yourself, rather than ask others’... Maybe. There just wasn’t much information out there. I should try and gather information myself, and reach the top. At my age, wanting to reach the top in an online game was one thing, but I didn’t have the energy. ◆ ◆ ◆ Now, the adventure continues. But first, I had to open the window and do something. “Oh, it was true. You gain a skill when reaching certain levels.” As it was written in small letters in the status window, I hadn’t known this until I checked the website. The first one was a bonus for reaching level . You could not choose which skill you acquired. Apparently, the game chooses the skill based on your playstyle up until that point. Which of course, meant that I should be given a skill related to archery. –Beep! You have received the skill, ‘Bound Arrow.’ ◆Reason for acquiring: ‘Bonus for reaching Lv on first job’ [Bound Arrow] An arrow that bounces off objects. Bounces until it hits a player, monster, or reaches maximum range. A tricky skill. It seems like it would be hard to use. But since my goal was to be a sniper who stayed in one place, it was an amazing skill. This meant that I could use the bounce effect to hit things that would usually be impossible to reach. Not only that, but it could help disguise the direction that the arrow was shot from. “I’d like to practice this in a field with no other players.” It wasn’t something to show off in the park. I wanted to practice it quietly and raise it to level . There would be an event for beginners soon. And it was pvp too. While there was a part of me that hesitated, if I was going to participate, I wanted to win!	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 6, "inserted_lines_src": 2, "inserted_lines_trg": 1 }
エリックが悲愴な表情でそう呟いた。いや、そこまで苦しくならなくてもいいよ。アリシアも悪女に見られたいって頑張っていたんだし......。彼女にとっては幸せな生活を送っていて、尚且つ、念願だった国外追放になだよ。「アリシアは最初から怒ってないぞ」デュークがエリックをフォローする。その言葉でエリックは少し救われるだろう。キャザー・リズに対してほとんど何も言わなかったのに......。変に優しい言葉をかけると期待してしまうのを分かっているからあえて何も言わなかったのかもしれない。何も言わないのがデュークなりの優しさだったのだろう。デュークは案外ちゃんとリズのことを見ていたんだね......。「アリシアに会いたいな」デュークは窓の外を眺めながらボソッとそう呟いた。普段そんなことを言わない彼が珍しい。デュークが誰よりもアリシアに会いたいのだろう。僕はそんなことを思いながらアリシアのことを考えた。会っていない時間が長いと、本当に実在したのか分からなくなってくる。幻の人みたいな感じ。僕の前にパッと現れて消える伝説のヒーロー的な存在だったのかもしれない。「アリシアの考えは最初からまともだったんだ。俺貴族として......、上に立つ者として間違った選択をしてしまった」「今期待されていないってことは、後は挽回するだけだから楽だろ」デュークがエリックの言葉に即答する。確かに。今どん底にいるのだったら、エリック達は這い上がるのは簡単だ。そう思ったらデュークとか大変だよね。何かを成し遂げたら、また期待されて......。終わることのない膨れ上がっていく期待に応えないといけない。僕はキャザー・リズの方を見る。彼女はこの学園で最も好感度が高かった聖女だ。今からどんどん落ちていくだけ。キャザー・リズはこれからの生活が一変するだろう。地獄を見るかもしれない。......けど、多分君はそんなことでへこたれるような人間じゃないでしょ。「頑張れ」デュークがキャザー・リズにそう言った。それはきっと本心からのものだろう。リズはデュークを見ながらため息をついた後、フッと柔らかく笑う。「あ~あ、どうしてこんな男好きになっちゃったんだろう! エリックだったら、幸せになれたのに~」「おい、それ俺のことちょろい人間だと思ってるだろ!?」キャザー・リズの言葉にエリックが声を上げる。さっきの弱々しい声はどこに行ったんだ。デュークがいつもみたいに意地悪そうに笑みを浮かべる。「俺なんて好かれる要素ないしな」「「お前それは喧嘩売ってるだろ」」エリックとヘンリの言葉が重なる。急にヘンリも会話に参戦し始めた。	Eric muttered pathetically. No, you don’t have to be so bitter. Alicia was trying her best to be seen as a villainess too... She had a happy life, and she also got the exile she had longed for... Two birds with one stone. “Alicia never got angry in the first place.” Duke said to Eric. That should help Eric a little. He hardly said anything to Liz Cather.... Maybe he didn’t dare to say anything because he knew that if he was too nice to her, she’d expect something from him. Not saying anything was probably Duke’s way of being kind. Duke was watching Liz more closely than expected.... “I wish I could see Alicia soon.” Duke muttered to himself as he gazed outside the window. It was rare for him to say something like that, and I suppose Duke wanted to see Alicia more than anyone else. As I pondered this, I thought about Alicia. The longer we didn’t see each other, the less we knew whether the person was real or not. It was like she was a phantom. She would appear and disappear before our eyes, like a legendary hero. “Alicia’s thoughts were correct from the beginning. I made the wrong choice as one of the Five Noblemen...as the one who stands on top.” “If they are not expecting anything from you right now, it’ll be easy because all you have to do is make up for it.” Duke immediately responded to Eric’s words. Indeed. Even if Eric and the others were currently at the bottom, they could easily climb back up. If that were not the case, it would be very hard for Duke and others. If they accomplish something, they will be expected to do it again... They would have to live up to the never-ending expectations. I looked at Liz Cather. She was the most likeable saint in this school. But she would only be falling further and further away from now on. Liz Cather’s life would drastically change going forward. She would be going through hell...but maybe that would help her. But she might not be the kind of person who would let it get the best of her. “Good luck.” Duke said to Liz Cather. I was certain that he meant it. Liz sighed as she looked at Duke, then chuckled softly. “Geez, I don’t know why I fell in love with this guy. Eric would have made me happier!” “Hey, you think I’m a softy, don’t you!” Liz Cather’s words made Eric raise his voice. Where was that weak voice from earlier? Duke smiled wickedly, like he always does. “I don’t have anything to make people like me, you know.” “”Are you picking a fight.”” Eric and Henry’s words overlapped. Suddenly, Henry began to join the conversation.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 1, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
この運動の草の根的な支持の広がりに後押しされ、1982 年には当時のマハティールモハマド (Mahathir Mohamed) 首相政権は、アンワルイブラヒムを国の連合政権内の与党、統一マレー国民組織 (UMNO: United Malays National Organisation) に招聘することを決定した。戦略は成功し、国の急激な経済の現代化に付随する痛みを伴う変化に対する、イスラム教徒による抵抗の緩和に寄与した。	Faced with the grassroots popularity of this movement, by 1982 the government of then Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed decided to co-opt Anwar Ibrahim into his United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the dominant party within the country’s ruling coalition. The strategy worked well, and helped defuse Islamic opposition to the wrenching changes that accompanied the country’s rapid economic modernization.	{ "source": "news_commentary", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
本当に唐突だ。なんで突然頭を下げたんだ、この大臣は。そんかこと考えていると、彼は話し出した。「アリム殿...その節は......娘を助けていただき...本当にありがとうございました!」「ふぇ? ど...どうしたんですか? 娘さんですか?」「はい、ルイン様と娘から聞きました。灰騎犬の攻撃により、死にそうだったところを助けて頂いたと」え、じゃあまさかこの人...... 「じゃあ、まさか、オラフルさんって、リロさんのお父さん!?」「はい、そうです」「え、でも髪の色が...」「あの娘の髪の色は妻譲りでして...」「じ、じゃあ、オルゴさんとミュリさんは?」「オルゴ君のお父様は我が国の騎士団長、ミュリちゃんのお父様は教会の大司教です」あぁ、やっぱりそんな感じの権威ある人達の子供達なのね。まぁ、驚きはしたけども。じゃあ、なんで冒険者なんてやってんだろう? 「ではなぜ、ルインさん達は冒険者を...?」これにはルインが答えた。「まぁ、武者修業ってやつだよ。超極秘のね」ルインがそういうと、ラハンドが慌てた。、「極秘って...オレァ知っちまってんですが...」「それなら問題ないですよ。ラハンドさんは奴隷制完全撤廃で活躍した、いわばこの国の英雄。僕たちは貴方のことを信用してますから」「だから......」ルインさんはドアの方をチラッと見つつこう言った。「入ってきていいよ、リロ、オルゴ、ミュリ」俺が入ってきたドアから、リロさん、オルゴさん、ミュリさんが出てきた。おそらく、待機してたんだろう。リロさんは部屋に入ってくるなり俺に抱きついた。「きゃーっ! アリムちゃーん! 会いたかったよぅ~」「これっ! やめんかリロ。他のお客様だけでなく、テュール様もカルア様もいらっしゃるのだぞ!」「あ......すいません......」まるで親子漫才のようなこの状況。この場に笑いが起きる。リロさんは少し恥ずかしいそうだ。俺はもっと恥ずかしかったけどな。セインフォースの4人はこう話す。「いや~、ごめんね? 連絡できなくて。一向に君の手がかりが無くってさ」「でも、アリム、名字言ってたよな? 記憶が戻ったのか?」「いえ、それはカードを作るときにテキトーに...」「なんだ...そうだったのか。テキトーって...」「それにしても、アリムちゃん。驚かせてごめんなさいね」「ミュリ、私達はもっと驚かされてるわよ?」「そうなんだよね。まさかアリムちゃんが、武闘大会に優勝して、さらにもうSランクだなんて」「本当よね。特別観客席から見てたけど、目玉が飛び出そうだったわ」「ほら、でもよ...ピピー村でもアリム、かなり不思議だらけだっだろ?」意外な人達と再会もできた。嬉しいな。それにしてもこの場にあのファウストって人が居なくてよかったよ......。それに関して、ラハンドさんも疑問に思っていたようで、割入るように喋りはじめた。「あの...もし、ファウストのヤロ...奴が、この場に居たらどうしたんですかい? かなり重要な話しばかりしてやしたけど...?」「あぁ、それは大丈夫です。兵達には彼を11時30分になるまで通さないように言ってありますからね。彼は信用なりません」「あ、じゃあ最初から」「そう、アリムちゃんが優勝した時点で色々準備してたってわけ」今は10時30分。あと1時間は来ないのか。ゆっくりこの方達とお話ができるね。そんな感じで、ラハンドさんや、王族の皆さんと話して過ごす。ミュリさん、リロさん、俺で女子トークしていたら、カルア様が入りたそうな目でこちらをみている。しょーがねーなー、話しかけてやるか。「カルア様っ! 一緒にお話しましょう?」「えっ...でも...」「カルア様、アリムちゃんとカルア様、年がちかいんですよ? お話してみたらいかがですか?」「そうですよ、緊張することはありません」「でも...リロお姉様...ミュリお姉様っ...」「えー、こんなにほっぺたスベスベなのに~」「そうですよー! プニプニしておかないと損ですよっ!」やめろ、どさくさに紛れて俺のほっぺたプニプニするのやめろ。そんなに頬の肉あるわけじゃねぇだろ!? ただスベスベだからってよぉ...... なんてことだ! 姫様も姫様で羨ましいそうに見てるぜ。ついにしびれをきらしたのか、向こうから話しかけてきた。「お年はいくつですか?」「ボクは12です」「まぁ......私もつい2ヶ月前まで12歳でしたのっ! 本当に歳が近いのですね!」あぁ、やっと笑ってくれた。ミュリさんとリロさんの話じゃ、歳が近い友達がいないらしいもんね。可哀想に。しばらく、ミュリさん、リロさん、姫様、俺でガールズトークした。姫様はとても嬉しそうだった。いい笑顔だ...。アリムとはまた別の可愛さを持っているな。そんなこんなで一緒に話していると、第一王子のテュール様がとんでもない提案を持ちかけてきた。「ねぇ...アリム様...いや、アリムちゃんでいいかい?」「よければ城に、こういう時だけじゃなくて...たまにでいいから、遊びにきてくれないかい?」「え......いいのですか?」「是非、お願いしたいんだ。カルアがあんなに嬉しそうにしてるところを見るのは、久しぶりだったから......ずっと寂しそうでね。.........というのは建前で、本当はお父様...国王様も最初っからそのつもりでいたみたいで」「というと...?」「カルアと、友達になってくれないかい? ルイン達とも関わりがあって、リロちゃんを助けてくれてるし......それに...いや、ともかく。お願いできないかな?」なんだ、そんなことか。確かに、俺は自分で言うのもアレだけど、強いし、既に関わりを持ってるしで、姫様の友達としては最高なのかもしれないな。俺もずっと、同年代居なくて寂しかったし。けどね、友達になってくれは違うと思う。だって_____ 「ふふ...もう、既にボクとカルア様は友達ですよ!」「アリム様...これからも、遊びにきてくれるんですか?」「はい! 度々遊びにきてもいいですか?」「.........っ! 勿論、勿論ですぅぅっ!」あぁ...とても嬉しいそうな顔をしている。これだけでも、ここに来て良かったと思えるね。ミュリさんもリロさんも嬉しそう。「あぁ...これで度々、アリムちゃんに会えるよ~!」「プニプニし放題ですね!」「あの......私も、その...アリム様のほっぺをプニプニしてもよろしいですか?」まさか、カルア様もまで触りたいと言い出すとはね。「え......? あ、ええ、いいですよ?」「それでは.........(プニプニプニプニプニ)」「なら、私達も......」「ほふたりはすこしひかえれくらはい(は少し控えてください)」「「え~」」そんな感じで一時を過ごしていた。だが、そうもいかないようだ。大臣さんが、慌てたように叫ぶ。「しまった! もう11時25分だ! リロ、ミュリちゃん、オルゴくん、ルイン様、顔を見られたらまずいですぞ! はやく、どこか別の部屋へっ!」「「「はっ、はい!」」」 4人は急いで去っていった。「テュール様、カルア様、私達も一旦さりますぞ」「はい、わかりました」「アリム様...また後で」そう言って、カルア様たちも去っていった。どんだけ嫌われてるんだよ、ファウストってやつは......。ラハンドさんの不機嫌さや、周りの状況をみるに、やはり昨日のみた記事の内容は本当なのかもしれないな。 11時32分。ファウストはこの部屋に入ってきた。体型は醜悪なのは勿論、顔は身体の油でてかっている。さらに悪趣味ないかにも成金の服。鼻毛もでてる。......と、いちいち数えてたらきりがない。正直に言おう、近寄りがたい見た目だ。そして、彼がこの部屋に入ってきて最初に言った一言。それはその見た目同様、心も醜いと理解するに、十分な一言だった。「ラハンド......ブッフォッ...ハゲだ。ハゲだな、やっぱり、ププー! で、そこにいる娘がアリムねぇ......どう? 君、俺に抱かれてみねぇか? 金ならやっからよ。ブッフォッフォッフォッ......」	That was really sudden. Why’d the minister suddenly bow his head? While I was pondering this he spoke up. 「Alim-dono... previously... for saving my daughter... thank you very much!」「Fue? W... what? Your daughter-san is? 」「Yes, I heard from Ruin-sama and my daughter. That you helped them when she was about to die from the Ashe Dog’s attack.」 Ee, don’t tell me this person.... 「Then, no way, Oraful-san is Lilo-san’s father!?」「Yes, that’s right.」「Ee, but your hair color...」「She got her hair color from my wife.」「Th, then what about Olgo-san and Myuri-san?」「Olgo’s father-sama is the head of the kingdom’s knights, Myuri’s father-sama is the Archbishop of the Church.」 Aah, as I thought, children of people in such high places of authority. Well, that was surprising. Then, why are they adventurers? 「Why are Ruin-san and company adventurers?」 Ruin answers. 「Maa, you could call it a warrior’s training. It’s a super-secret though.」 When Ruin said that, The Hand started to panic. 「Absolute secret... and I now know this...」(The Hand) 「That is no problem. The Hand is one of the heroes of this country who worked in the abolition of slavery. We trust you.」 (Ruin) 「and that’s why...」 Ruin said, then glanced at the door saying 「come on in, Lilo, Orgo, Myuri」 From the door that I entered Lilo-san, Orgo-san, and Myuri-san entered. They were probably waiting. Lilo-san embraced me after she entered. 「Kyaa! Alim-chan! I wanted to meet you~」「Hey! Stop Lilo. There are other guests. Tuhl-sama and Karua-sama are also present! 」「S...Sorry」 This situation is like a parent and child comedy act. Laughter rises up. Lilo-san is a little embarrassed. But, I’m very embarrassed. The four Seinforce members say. 「Iya~, sorry. We couldn’t get in touch with you. There was no trace of you.」「But, Alim, you gave your last name? Did you get back your memories? 」「No, it’s from when we sloppily made the guild card...」「What... so that was it, sloppily...」「Nevertheless, Alim-chan, I’m sorry to surprise you.」「Myuri, weren’t we even more surprised?」「That’s right, isn’t it. I’d never have expected that Alim-chan would be the battle tournament champion and become S-rank.」「Indeed. I saw it from the special seats, I thought my eyeballs were gonna pop out.」「Hey, but... Wasn’t Alim in the Pipi Village pretty mysterious?」 I was unexpectedly able to reunite with these people. I’m glad. Even so, I am glad that Faust isn’t in this place right now... In connection with that, The Hand seemed to be wondering, and began to speak. 「Umm... about that Faust bustard... guy, what will we do if he comes? We seem to be talking about important things here...? 」「Aa, that’s OK. The soldiers were told not to let him pass until :. We don’t trust him.」「Ah, then from the beginning」「Right, starting from when Alim-chan became the champion a lot of preparations have taken place.」 It’s :. So he won’t come for another hour. I’ll be able to leisurely talk in this group. And with that sort of atmosphere, I spent time talking to The Hand, the royal family and friends. While Myuri-san, Lilo-san and I were having some girl talk, Karua-sama looked like she wanted to join in. Can’t be helped, I’ll go talk with her. 「Karua-sama! Shall we chat? 」「Uu... but...」「Karua-sama, aren’t Alim-chan and Karua-sama close in age? How about talking together? 」「Absolutely, there is no need to be nervous」「but... Lilo-anesama... Myura-anesama...」「eee, these subesube cheeks~ (smooth like silk)」「That’s right~! If you don’t punipuni (bouncy poke) them, you’re losing out!」 Stop, don’t suddenly be distracted by punipuni my cheeks! There is not that much cheek flesh, ya know!? Just because they are subesube... What the! The hime-sama as well, looks envious. Finally as the pins and needles from their attack subsided, I was talked to. 「How old are you?」「I am twelve.」「Maa... I turned twelve two months ago! We really are close in age! 」 Ah, finally a smile. According to Myuri-san and Lilo-san, there seems to be no friends close in age. For a while, Myuri-san, Lilo-san, Hime-sama, and I had some girls talk. Hime-sama looked very happy. It was a good smile... It was a different cuteness than Alim. As we were talking together like this, the first prince, Tuhl-sama, gave an outrageous proposal. 「Hey... Alim-sama... no, is Alim-chan alright?」「If you’d like, not only this time, can you come to the castle... sometimes is fine, so can you come here to play?」「Eh... is that alright?」「Definitely, I’d really like to ask this of you. It’s been quite some time since I last saw Karua so happy... for a long time she has seemed lonely. ...in fact, father... the king... has had that intention from the onset.」「So that means...?」「Would you be a friend to Karua? You have a connection to Ruin and company, you saved Lilo-chan... and also... anyway. Please consider my request.」 What is this? Certainly, I can say it myself, that I am strong, and I have a connection, so I might be the best choice as a friend to the princess. I have been somewhat lonely as no one around was the same age. But, I think it is different to be a friend. Because.... 「fufu... alright, it’s too late, I’m already friends with Karua!」「Alim-sama... will you come to play in the future?」「Hai! Is it alright to visit often? 」「....! Absolutely, absolutely~! 」 Ah... it was face filled with happiness. In any case, it is good that I have come here. Myuri-san and Lilo-san look delighted. 「Aah.. Now I can often meet Alim-chan~!」「Unlimited punipuni!」「Umm... me too, um... may I also punipuni Alim-sama’s cheek as well?」 No way, Karua-sama also wants to touch as well? 「Eh...? Ah, yea, that alright with you?」「Well then... punipunipunipuni」「Us too~」「Yuu tou pleeze shou som restrant (You two please show some restraint)」「「Heeee~」」 With that sort of mood we passed the time and an hour had already passed. But things must come to an end. The minister-san is in a fluster and shouts. 「Oh no! It’s already 11:25! Lilo, Myuri-chan, Orgo-kun, Ruin-sama, it would be bad if your faces were seen! Hurry, go to another room! 」「「「Y, yes!」」」 The four hurriedly left. 「Tuhl-sama, Karua-sama, we are also leaving」「Yes, I understand.」「Alim-sama... see you again」 Saying that, Karua and company left. I don’t like this, that Faust person... Looking at The Hand’s displeased face and the reactions of the others, it seems the contents of the article that I read yesterday may be true. 11:32. Faust entered the room. His body is ugly and his face is oily. Furthermore his cloths are in bad taste, they look like he is trying to compensate for something. ...there is no end to the bad points. I can honestly say it’s an appearance that is difficult to approach. And then, the first words when he entered the room. Even such a brief statement was enough to see that the insides were as ugly as the outside. 「The Hand... bufufu... bald. Bald, afterall, haha~! And, so you girl are Alim... hmm? Hey, would you embrace me? I’ll give you money. Bufofofo...」	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 7, "inserted_lines_src": 0, "inserted_lines_trg": 1 }
まず初めに、生パスタを作る。ガラス製のボウルにスプーンで卵をよく溶ぎほぐして、オリーブオイルを大程度入れて混ぜる。もう一方のガラス製のボウルには強力粉を入れて塩を一つまみ程度入れると、先程の卵を入れていく。スプーンで外側から強力粉を混ぜ合わせていくと、粉がそぼろ状に変化する。ボウルのそぼろ状を纏めて捏ねたら、ボウルから出して台上で力を込めてもう一度捏ねる。生地を一時間ぐらい寝かせるためにラップで包みたいところだが、布地のタオルで代用する。次に、トマトソースを作っていく。トマトのヘタをくり抜き、居住地区で汲んできた井戸水をガラス容器に移し替えてシェーナの魔法で火を起こして、トマトを熱湯に通す。皮がめくれてきたら残っている井戸水で冷まして皮をむいていく。皮むきしたトマトはざく切りにしておく。次にニンニク、玉ねぎをみじん切りにして、鉄製のフライパンにニンニクとオリーブオイルを少量入れて焦がさない程度にシェーナの魔法で熱を加える。香りが立ってきたら玉ねぎとざく切りにしたトマトを加えて塩とコショウも混ぜ合わせる。玄関扉の開く音がすると、キシャナが帰って来た。「おお、何だかトマトの良い香りがするなぁ」「おかえり。今日は俺が飯をご馳走してやるよ。楽しみにしていろ」「前世が親友の男でも、女性の手料理はやっぱり嬉しいね。こうして出迎えてくれる人がいるだけで部屋の雰囲気は変わるものだな」キシャナはテーブルの席につくと、両手を顔に添えてシェーナを見つめる。シェーナは料理に目を通しながら、キシャナに家賃の滞納について聞いてみる。「今日な......滞納している家賃を大家さんが徴収に来たんだ。お金は色々とあって解決したけど、今後もこんなことになるなら困るだろ? キシャナとルームシェアする契約をしてきたから、今後は俺も力になる」「......そうか。ごめん、金は必ず返すよ。親友に金の工面をさせてしまうなんて......私は最低だな」「そんなに自分を責めるなよ。俺も逃げるようにここへやって来たんだで力を合わせていこうじゃないか」シェーナは寝かせている生地を取り出すと、打ち粉をして生地を伸ばしていく。二ミリぐらいの厚さになったら、打ち粉をしながら何回か巻き込んで細めに切っていく。形を整えて打ち粉をしたら、茹で始める。麺が浮いてきたら引き上げて皿に盛り付けていくと、トマトソースをかけて完成。「お待たせ。トマトソースの生パスタだ」「パスタか!? まさか異世界でお目にかかることができるとはな」「家庭科の授業で昔作ったことがあっただろ? 多少、料理の工程に無理したところはあるが、我慢してくれ」「そういえば作ったことがあったなぁ。すっかり忘れてたよ」テーブルに並んだパスタを二人は食前の挨拶で「いただきます」と声を揃える。	First of all, let’s start with pasta. She put the eggs on a glass bowl, added in a large spoon of olive oil and began to mix them together. On the other glass bowl, she put the flour with the right amount of salt, then adding the mixed eggs, blending everything together as it started to gain shape. Up next was the tomato sauce. After removing the tomato’s stem and peeling it off, she put it inside a glass container filled with water from the well in the residential district, lit it up with her fire magic and boiled it. The sound of the front door opening was heard and Kishana was back home. “Woah, I smell the sweet scent of tomato.” “Welcome back! Today is my turn to treat you to a wonderful meal, just wait.” “Getting a meal made by a woman for you sure feels good, even knowing that in reality, it was made by my best male friend from our previous life, haha. Just by having someone to greet me this way already feels like the whole room is somewhat giving away a better feeling.” Kishana took a seat at the table, supporting her face with both hands while staring at Schenna. Meanwhile, Schenna who was looking over the food cooking, decided to talk to Kishana about the lack of payment for the rent. “So today... the landlord came here to collect the money that you owed him. A lot happened and I managed to deal with the situation, but if the same were to happen again you know we’re in trouble right? I signed a contract to live with you from today onwards so I’ll help you out.” “Oh... I’m so sorry, I promise I’ll get you the money back. To think I made my best friend pay up for what I owe, I’m really the worst...” “Don’t blame yourself like that! I also got here in order to run away from my problems so, let’s just make the best out of the situation and help each other.” Schenna pulled out the towel and extended the flour even further, with a thickness of around two millimeters and kept pulling it until it became thin enough. “Sorry to keep you waiting! Tomato sauce pasta, I hope you enjoy it!” “Pasta!? I never thought I would see this plate in this world.” “Remember I had made this before in our cooking class? I know I somewhat messed up here and there in terms of quantities but try to enjoy it.” “Oh yeah now that you mention it, I do remember you making it.” Schenna joined Kishana at the table with the plate of pasta and both of them started digging in.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 0, "inserted_lines_trg": 5 }
「なるほど、そういう事でしたか」ダービーの家の中に集まったリーブラ達は情報交換を終え、互いの状況を何とか把握する事に成功していた。そうして出た結論は、やはりサジタリウスは自らの意思でルファスを裏切っていたのではないという事だ。レオンがケンタウロスの里を人質に取り、それで止む無く従わざるを得なかったのだろう。だがそれでも大人しく従っていたわけではなく、敵対宣言の振りをしてリーブラに忠告を促し、ティルウィングへ来るように誘導した。それは自分ではレオンに勝てぬからこそ、勝てる戦力をここに集めるという意図があったのだろうが、ここの誤算が生じた。本来ならばルファスの圧倒的な戦力でレオンを捻じ伏せてもらう、というのがサジタリウスの狙いだったはずだ。だがルファスはベネトナシュの乱入によってこちらに訪れず、だけが来てしまった。本来ならば十二星だけでもレオンを倒す事は可能だったはずなのだが、しかしそれも今は事情が違う。女神の余計な介入のせいでレオンの戦力が上がり、手に負えなくなってしまったのだ。相性がいいはずのカルキノスですら今やレオンのパワーには対抗出来ない。こちらには今、リーブラとスコルピウス、アイゴケロス、カルキノスという強大な戦力いる。更にそこにサジタリウスとカストールも加えれ一となるわけだが......それでも厳しいと全員が痛感していた。普段ならばともかく、今のレオンの強さは異常だ。ただでさえ十二星最強の男がルファスの支配を抜けて全盛期の力を取り戻し、そこに女神の力までもが上乗せされているのだ。こんな馬鹿げた存在を正面から打破出来るのなど、それこそルファスか吸血姫、魔神王くらいしか存在すまい。「ともかく、奴は直にここへ来るだろう。カストールがケンタウロス達を見ながら深刻に語り、それにサジタリウスも頷いた。十二星を救う行動をしてしまった以上、もうどんな弁解も意味はない。レオンは必ず、サジタリウスへの報復としてこの里を襲撃に来る。サジタリウスもそれが分かっていたから、里を守れるようにとここへ来たのだ。 ......もっとも、そんなのは言い訳にならんだろうがな」「当然よお。ルファス様を裏切ったのは万死に値するわあ」自嘲気味に語るサジタリウスへ、スコルピウスが厳しい口調で追い打ちをかけた。しかし口では彼を責め立てているものの、行動には移っていない。「ま、今はアンタの力も必要だろうから見逃してあげるわあ。「感謝する」サジタリウスへの怒りがないわけではない。だが彼の処遇はルファスに任せればいい事だ。それよりも今は、どうやってレオンを倒すかが重要でありサジタリウスは貴重な戦力になる。ならばいがみ合うよりも手を組んだ方がいい。そう考える事が出来る程度にはスコルピウスも冷静であった。ヒステリーさえ起こしていなければ、そしてルファスさえ絡まなければ彼女も結構普通に物事を考えるくらいは出来るのだ。「レオンとの戦闘はカルキノスを軸にして行います。リーブラがレオンとの戦いにおけるそれぞれの役割を説明し、全員が険しい顔つきで話を聞く。多人数での袋叩きにも等しい戦法だが躊躇している余裕はない。何せ相手はあのレオンなのだ。加減などしては逆にこちらがやられてしまう。戦い方が決まったその時、まるで待っていたかのように森が揺れた。地震......などと、この期に及んで言い出す者などいない。リーブラ達は全員が一斉に小屋の外へと飛び出し、里の外を見た。そして視界に映ったのは、木々を踏み潰しながらこちらへと接近してくる巨大な獅子の姿だ。その威容に勇者一行は呆然とし、ガンツの手からは戦斧が落ちた。でかい――ただひたすらに、でかすぎる! かつてガンツはスヴェルを襲ったアリエスの姿を見ているが、レオンはそれと比較しても更に異常なサイズであった。瀬衣は現在気絶中だが、彼はこのまま寝ている方が幸せなのかもしれない。そして彼に倣うように、虎は地面に寝転がって死んだ振りをしている。カイネコは全身の毛が逆立って身動きも取れず、唯一人実力差を理解しないジャンが突撃したがあまりに小さすぎて場の誰にも気づいて貰えない。「きましたか......いきますよ、サジタリウス!」「ああ、わかっている!」リーブラがアストライア込みの全砲門一斉射撃を行い、それに合わせてサジタリウスが空へ向けて矢を放つ。リーブラの放った破壊光が巨大獅子へと直撃し、更に空から無数の光の矢が降り注いでレオンの全身へと突き刺さった。しかし刺さったのは僅かに表面のみ。皮膚をほんの僅かに刺したに過ぎずレオンの表情に変化はない。そしてレオンの足元まで到着していたジャンは矢の一本が近くに刺さった衝撃で吹き飛んでしまった。「小賢しい真似するじゃねえか。こんな攻撃など、今の俺には通じねえと......まだ理解してねえようだなあ!」レオンが大口を開け、大きく息を吸い込む。これから放つ攻撃に、別に何か気取った能力や付与効果があるわけではない。要するにただの咆哮――体内のマナを空気と共に吐き出すだけの行為に過ぎない。極論から言えばそこらの下級モンスターでも可能な、スキルとして考えれば間違いなく低級に位置する単純なだけの技。しかしそんな技すらもが、レオンが使えば王都一つ消して余りある破壊兵器へと変貌する。あまりに滅茶苦茶な話ではあるだろう。たかが一生物の放つ吐息だけで王都一つを上回るだけの規模の破壊を巻き起こせるなど出鱈目もいい所だ。しかしこの世界で最強格に名を連ねるとはそういう事。単騎で世界すらも滅ぼしうる怪物であるという事、それが最強格の最低条件なのだ。ルファスも、ベネトナシュも、魔神王もそれぞれが本気になればミズガルズなどすぐにでも宇宙の塵に出来てしまうだけの超越的な戦力を有している。国家を消すなど児戯も同然、大陸を消す事すら出来て当たり前。故にこその強者。故にこその最強。放たれる吐息はいとも容易くケンタウロスの里を......否、この亜人の集落である森そのものを焼き払い余りあるだろう。多くの亜人を死に至らしめ、不幸にも射線上にいるジャンを滅却し、十二星すらもが多大なダメージを負うに違いあるまい。そして、それを止める手段が十二星側にはない。避ける方法はあっても、レオンの攻撃力が強大すぎて相殺が出来ないのだ。せめて威力を削ごうとカルキノスが前に飛び出し、大ダメージ覚悟で巨大化をした。その、直後――。虹色の流星が飛び込み、レオンの顎を蹴り上げて無理矢理に口を閉じさせた。「――がっ!?」虹色の火炎に包まれた小柄な影は閉じた顎にもう一度蹴りを叩き込む。すると冗談のような事にレオンの巨躯が浮き上がり、それと同時に手から炎を出して加速。レオンの上へと移動して今度は蹴り落した。レオンもすぐに反撃へ転じるが......いかんせん、対象が小さすぎる。でかいというのは強さだ。大きければ必然的に攻撃には重さが加わり、相手から受けるダメージの面積も広くなるから威力も分散される。人間にとっては巨岩でもレオンにしてみれば砂粒の一つでしかなく、十二星が使う巨大化とは見た目の威圧感は勿論としてステータスの数値だけでは表せない強さの上昇が発生しているのだ。しかし小さい時には小さい時なりのメリットもある。それがこれだ。ちっぽけであるが故に攻撃がそもそも当たらない。そして虹色の火炎は相手の生命力に応じてダメージが増加する格上殺し。本体のサイズは威力に影響を及ぼさない。そのちっぽけな存在――アリエスはリーブラ達の前に着地し、バツの悪そうな顔で振り返った。「その......みんな、ごめん。遅くなっちゃった」「いえ、いいタイミングですアリエス。貴方を待っていました」レオンの強さは最早常軌を逸している。リーブラの一斉掃射すらほとんど通じぬ今、あの防御を貫く手段は限られてくるだろう。十二星一の防御が唯一の取柄であるカルキノスすらも上回っているので、これでは蟹さんの立場がない。しかしアリエスだけは別だ。彼の炎だけはあらゆる防御を貫通する。レオンの無駄に高い生命力を相手にするならばそれはもう、乱射可能なブラキウムと呼んでも間違いではなく、相手の強さに左右されるものの今この場に限って言えばアリエスの火力は主であるルファスすらも凌駕している。つまり、ルファスがいない今......アリエスだけがレオンを打倒し得る可能性を秘めているのだ。とはいえ一騎打ちではやはり勝負になるはずもなく、彼を勝たせるにはリーブラ達の協力が必須であるわけだが。「雑魚がァ......! テメェ風情が、この俺にィィ!」レオンが怒りを滾らせてアリエスを睨み、アリエスもまた臆しながらもそれを正面から見返す。獅子王レオン――最強の魔物。それはアリエスにとって憧れだった。いつだってああなりたいと思っていた。あれだけ強ければどれだけいいだろうとずっと羨望していた。何故なら彼はいつだって強くて、アリエスとはまるで違う世界を生きていたから。しかし今のレオンに抱くのは尊敬でも羨望でも情景でもなく、哀れみと失望。女神の操り人形でしかない今の彼は余りに滑稽で、あまりに相応しくなくて......それが心底、残念でならなかった。「メサルティムVer.1」アリエスの全身が虹色の炎で包まれ、髪が揺らめく。その姿をもしルファスが見たならば『だからメサルティムってそういうスキルじゃ......あ、そういうスキルだったわ』と言った事だろう。巨大な羊としての本来の姿は今は使わない。今回の戦いだけはこの、ルファスに与えられた人としての姿で挑みたい。今はそういう気分だ。その戦意に呼応しスコルピウスとアイゴケロスが同時に巨大化する。今回の攻撃の主軸はアリエスだ。ならば彼への攻撃はなるべく防がねばならない。ならばこその巨大化。ならばこその的の増加。二人は瞬時に、勝利の為にアリエスの壁となる事を決意した。「オオオオオオオオオオオッ!!」「シャアアアアアアアアアッ!!」アイゴケロスとスコルピウスが同時にレオンへと飛びかかり、その身体を抑えにかかる。更にカルキノスも遅れまいと突撃し、ここに巨大魔物四体による取っ組み合いの格闘が開始された。レオンが苛立ったように牙を剥くが、開いた大口にカルキノスの鋏が無理矢理ねじ込まれた。更にカウンターのアクベンスが突き刺さり、レオンを出血させる。だがカルキノスも無事では済まない。片方の鋏が噛み砕かれ、更に頭突きで弾き飛ばされてしまう。だがそこに割り込むようにアリエスが蹴りを放ち、レオンの牙をへし折って彼の巨体を吹き飛ばした。更に掌から炎を出して飛翔し、飛んで行ったレオンへと追撃をかける。それに合わせてレオンが大口を開くが、地面から出現した黒い触手に全身を絡め取られて僅かに攻撃が遅れる。すぐに振り解いて咆哮を放つももう遅い。アリエスは地面に炎を発射して垂直に上昇。そして今度は天に炎を発射して急降下し、レオンの頭部へ拳を叩き込んだ。一撃で地面が揺れ、レオンの頭が埋まる。だが流石に獅子王の体力は桁外れだ。既にアリエスか攻撃を受け、数値にしてこれで50万に近いダメージを受けたはずなのだがまだ立ち上がり口を開ける。咆哮を放つ直前――鈴木が発射したマナ・ライフルが眼球に迫った事でレオンは反射的に目を閉じ、寸での所でアリエスを外した。しかし直撃を避けたにも関わらず、掠っただけでその華奢な身体を吹き飛ばした。だがレオンが追撃に入るよりも速くアイゴケロスが飛び込み、レオンを下から持ち上げて投げ飛ばした。「ぐっ......う......」「アリエス! 無事ですか?」「う、うん。まだ戦える......大丈夫だよ」たったの一撃。それも掠っただけの攻撃だが、それだけでアリエスは満身創痍だった。服はボロボロになり、彼が男だからいいものの女の子だったらすぐに後方に下がらせねばならないくらいには際どい感じに破損している。白い肌にも傷が刻まれ、なまじ見た目が愛らしいので痛々しい限りだ。しかしその瞳に宿した闘志に衰えはなく、再び虹色の火炎が全身を包み込んだ。もしもディーナからかけてもらった防御術がなければ、あるいは今の一撃だけで終わっていたかもしれない。そうしている間にもアイゴケロスとカルキノス、スコルピウスが奮戦し、サジタリウスとカストールが援護射撃を行い、鈴木はどうせダメージが通らないからと執拗に目ばかりを狙い撃っている。ウィルゴはすぐにアリエスの元へ駆け寄って回復天法を施し、リーブラは隙を見て一斉掃射をレオンへと叩き込んだ。そして、あまりに騒がしいので目を覚ましてしまった哀れな瀬衣と、一緒に起きたサージェスが揃って目を剥き、同時に叫ぶ。「か......怪獣大決戦!?」	“I see, so that’s how things were.” At this moment in time, Libra and the others who were at Derby’s house finished exchanging information and somehow managed to understand each other’s situation. And the conclusion they reached was that Sagittarius’s betrayal was really not of his own will. He probably had no option but to follow Leon after he took the centaur village hostage. However, it was not as if Sagittarius submissively followed Leon. He advertised his intention to become an enemy to Libra, which served as a warning that led them to come to Tyrfing. Because he understood that he would not be able to defeat Leon by himself, he invited a fighting force that would be able to do so. He probably had such a train of thought, but unfortunately, he had made a slight miscalculation. Originally, his true aim would have been to utilise Ruphas’s overwhelming power to take Leon down. However, due to Benetnash’s interference, Ruphas was unable to come to where he was, thus only the Twelve Heavenly Stars ended up coming over. Under normal circumstances, even if it was just the Twelve Heavenly Stars, it would have been possible to defeat Leon. Nevertheless, even that was not what the current situation was. Due to a needless intervention from the Goddess, Leon’s fighting prowess had increased, making him become something beyond what they could handle. Even Karkinos, who was a perfect match to counter Leon, became unable to do anything. Currently, on their side, there were four individuals who possessed monstrous fighting prowess: Libra, Scorpius, Aigokeros and Karkinos. In addition, if they were to add Sagittarius and Castor, it would become six versus one... nevertheless, everyone in that place understood that it would still be very tough. Normal conditions aside, the current Leon’s strength was abnormal. After all, Leon, who was already the strongest individual amongst the Twelve Heavenly Stars, turned wild after being released from Ruphas’s control and regained his real strength. On top of that, he was further empowered by the Goddess’s buffs. No doubt, there would only be three individuals who would be able to fight against a stupidly overpowered existence like that head-on and come out victorious: Ruphas, the Vampire Princess and the Demon King. “In any event, he will probably arrive here very soon. Irrespective of whether we choose to stay or not, he will come for the purpose of massacring every centaur.” Castor looked at the centaurs and spoke in a grave and serious tone, followed by Sagittarius who nodded to concur. Now that he had taken action to save the Twelve Stars, any explanation that he might attempt to make became useless. Without a shred of doubt, Leon would, with absolute certainty, come attacking this village as a reprisal against Sagittarius. Sagittarius, who knew of this very well, came to the village to try and protect it. “I’m sure you’re right. That thing is a petty, short-tempered man. He’ll definitely come and destroy this village as a way to teach me a lesson. That’s why, on the surface until now, I had to be obedient to him. ........ Though, something like that wouldn’t really be a good enough excuse.” “Of course, that’s a given. Betraying Ruphas-sama is an action deserving of death.” While Sagittarius was mocking himself, Scorpius cornered him further with her harsh and spiteful words. However, even though she was reprimanding him with her mouth, there was no follow-up action. “Well, right now, we also need your power, so I’ll let you go for now. It pisses me off, but it’s better to have more fighting power against the current Leon.” “I appreciate it.” It was not as if there was no anger towards Sagittarius. However, his sentence could be left to Ruphas. Before all of that, right now, the important thing was to consider how to defeat Leon, and Sagittarius was a valuable source of fighting prowess that they should take into consideration. As such, rather than quarrelling with each other, it would be preferable for them to work with each other. Scorpius was calm and collected enough to be able to think as such. As long as she was not in a hysterical fit and Ruphas was not involved in the matter, she was also able to properly assess and think through things quite normally. “In our battle against Leon, we will be using Karkinos as the central figure. We will have him stand in front of Leon whilst Virgo and Castor will then continue to provide assistance. Sagittarius and I will provide long-ranged support. Aigokeros is to distract Leon using illusions, and Scorpius, please keep inflicting him with your poison if you see any opening to do so.” Libra ordered and explained everyone’s role in their impending fight against Leon as they listened to what she said with a grim expression. They were essentially ganging up on a single person with many people. However, they had no room for hesitation. After all, their opponent was that very Leon. If they were to hold anything back, they would be the ones who would be defeated. After they decided how they would fight against him, as if it was waiting for this moment, the forest shook. Earthquake.... – there was no individual who would be stupid enough to say such a thing in that location. Libra and the group all dashed out of the small hut and faced towards the outside of the village. And what was reflected in their eyes was the appearance of a giant lion which was nearing their location whilst crushing the trees below him with every step. In response to its majestic but imposing figure, the Hero’s group froze up in a daze and Gants dropped the battleaxe that was in his hands. Huge – just, unnecessarily, way, too, big! In the past, Gants had seen the figure of Aries when he attacked Svalinn. However, even compared to that, Leon’s figure would be considered abnormal in size. Sei was currently unconscious. However, it would probably be fortunate for him to continue sleeping. And as if learning from Sei, the tiger rolled onto the ground and tried to pretend that he was dead. On the other hand, Kaineko’s fur was standing straight. Jean, the only individual in that place who could not understand the difference in their abilities, charged in to attack. However, because he was so small in comparison, he could not even get anyone to notice that he had moved in. “So he’s arrived... let’s go, Sagittarius!” “Yeah, I know!” Libra commenced a full-powered indiscriminate attack with all that she had, including Astraea, and Sagittarius matched her by firing an arrow towards the sky. The destructive lights fired by Libra landed directly on the giant lion and countless arrows of light rained down upon and pierced into Leon’s body. However, the punctures were only on the surface. Indeed, they were nothing more than small pricks on the surface of his skin and Leon’s expression did not even change in the slightest. On the other hand, Jean, who had finally arrived at the foot of Leon, was blown away by the shockwave of a single arrow landing near him. “You really love to play these small tricks, don’t cha? Looks like you still haven’t understood... that a small attack like this, doesn’t, work on the current me!” Leon opened his mouth wide and sucked in a large amount of air. The attack that followed was nothing particularly special. It was neither a special ability nor would it inflict some detrimental debuff. In other words, it was nothing more than a simple roar – it was nothing more than an act of exhaling air combined with the mana which was in the body. If one were to speak in terms of classification, it was a skill that even a low-tiered monster could use. It was not wrong to think of the move as a basic level ability that qualified as a low-tiered skill. However, even with such a skill, if Leon were the one to use it, it would easily turn into an ability of mass destruction that could wipe out a kingdom. It might seem like a crazy exaggeration that a single living creature’s roar could have power surpassing what would be required to uproot a single kingdom. Such a description was just on so grand a scale that even calling it nonsensical was too sensible of an action. However, in this world, this was what it meant to be classified as one of the strongest individuals. To be a monster which was able to destroy a world on a whim – that was the minimum threshold of what it meant to be classified as one of the strongest in the world. Ruphas, Benetnash and the Demon King all individually possessed transcendent-like battle prowess such that they would easily be able to turn the whole of Midgard into nothing more than space dust should they really get serious. The ability to destroy a country or two was nothing more than child’s play and being able to erase a continent or two was nothing more than a given. Thus they were the powerful. Thus they were the strongest. The exhaled air would easily dust away the centaur village... no, the forest itself which served as the demi-humanoids’ settlement. There was no doubt the attack would massacre many of the demi-humans and extinguish Jean who was unfortunate enough to be in the direct line of attack. Even the Twelve Stars would no doubt suffer heavy damage from the attack. Furthermore, there was nothing that could be done to prevent the attack by those on the Twelve Stars’ side. Even if they possessed the means, Leon’s attack power was on too grand a scale that they would not be able to completely offset his attack. In hopes of at least mitigating the impact, Karkinos jumped in front. Fully prepared to take significant damage, he turned into his giant form. Right at that moment – A rainbow-coloured shooting star flew right in, kicking Leon’s jaws upwards and forcibly closing his mouth. “—gha!?” A small-framed silhouette enveloped by a rainbow-coloured flame once again slammed into the closed jaws. When it did, as if everything was a joke, Leon’s large body lifted into the air. At the same time, flames fired out from the silhouette’s hands and it accelerated. It moved above Leon and this time, it kicked Leon downwards. Leon immediately also tried to counterattack... however, the attack did not connect. The target was too small. Being large equated to strength. When something was big, its attacks would naturally have more weight. Furthermore, because any damage it received from the enemy was spread out across a large surface area, the damage it suffered was also distributed accordingly. What looked to be a giant boulder to a human would seem like nothing more than a grain of sand to Leon. When the Twelve Stars gigantified, the change in oppressiveness due to the change in appearance was a given. However, there was more to it than the number which was displayed on the status. Nevertheless, small things had their own merit for being small. And that was this. It was a small and insignificant matter, but because they were small, attacks could not hit them. Additionally, this rainbow-coloured flame inflicted damage based on the enemy’s vitality, thus it was perfect for killing high-class enemies. The damage of this attack was not affected by the size of its body. That small and insignificant existence – Aries landed in front of Libra and the others, turning to face them with an expression as if he was being flattened by the guilt of the sin he had committed. “Umm... everyone, I’m sorry. I got delayed a little.” “No, it was good timing, Aries. We were waiting for you.” Leon’s strength was beyond what one might call common sense by now. Since it had gotten to a point where not even a full-powered attack from Libra worked properly, there were only limited ways to deal with Leon’s defence. Because Leon’s defence at the moment surpassed even Karkinos whose only selling point was that he was the toughest of the Twelve Stars, the poor Crab-san did not even have a position to stand on. However, Aries alone was an exception. His flames alone could penetrate any form of defence. When used against Leon’s needlessly high vitality, it would not be wrong to call it a Brachium which could be repeatedly fired. Although it was a skill which was significantly affected by the enemy’s strength, limited to the current place and time, Aries’s flame could outdo even his own master, Ruphas. In other words, since Ruphas was not here... Aries was the only individual who had the possibility to take Leon down. Nevertheless, in a one-on-one fight, it would not even be a battle in the first place. Thus, the cooperation of Libra and the others was required to give Aries the chance to win. “A small frryy....! Trash like you, to this me!” Leon, in his anger, stared daggers at Aries, who in turn looked straight back at him, though slightly timidly. The Lion King Leon – the strongest of the magical beasts. For Aries, that was the object of his admiration. He had always wanted to become like that. He always envied that position and wondered what he could have done if he was that strong. It was because Leon had always been strong, as if he existed in a world different from that of Aries’s. However, the feeling that he had towards the current Leon was not that of envy, respect or admiration. It was pity and disappointment. The current Leon, who was nothing more than a doll controlled by the Goddess, looked too comical to Aries. It didn’t suit him at all, and that... made Aries feel disappointed from the bottom of his heart. “Mesarthim Version .” Aries’s whole body was enveloped in a rainbow-coloured flame and his hair fluttered. If Ruphas saw his current appearance, she would have said, “That’s why I’ve been saying, Mesarthim isn’t a skill that’s supposed to be used like tha... oh wait, never mind, it’s that kind of skill.” Aries was not going to use his original giant sheep appearance. Just this time alone, he wanted to challenge Leon using the appearance of a human which had been bestowed upon him by Ruphas. At this very moment, that was what he felt. As if responding to that intention, Scorpius and Aigokeros gigantified at the same time. The centrepiece of the attack this time was Aries. Therefore, any attacks towards him had to be prevented as much as possible. Thus gigantification. Thus the increase in the number of enemies. The two of them immediately decided to become a wall for Aries for the sake of victory. “Ooooooooooooooooooo!!” “Shyyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaaaaaa!!” Aigokeros and Scorpius both jumped towards Leon and tried to hold his body in place. Following all of this, Karkinos also charged in as if he was saying that he would not fall behind. As such, there were four giant magical beasts who were locked together and grappling with one another. In irritation, Leon bared his fangs. However, Karkinos forcibly shoved his scissors (pincers) into the mouth that was opened wide. Additionally, the counter skill Acubens was triggered, causing Leon to start bleeding. Nevertheless, Karkinos also did not get away scot-free. One of his scissors was shattered by the bite and he himself was sent flying after being head-butted by Leon. But cutting in at that moment was Aries who released a kick, cracking Leon’s fangs and sending his large body flying in return. Furthermore, Aries fired flames out from his palms and flew, charging in towards Leon who was blown away. Matching that action, Leon opened his mouth wide. However, black tentacles which suddenly appeared from the ground tangled with his body, causing him to become slightly delayed. He managed to immediately become unconstrained, nevertheless, the roar that he released was already too late. Aries directed the flame towards the ground and ascended vertically. He then redirected the flames towards the sky and suddenly descended, smashing his fist right into Leon’s head. This one attack caused the ground to shake and buried Leon’s head. However, as expected, the Lion King’s stamina was leagues above normal. He had already received five hits from Aries which meant that he had already received close to damage in numerical value, but he still stood back up and opened his mouth. A moment before Leon managed to release his roar – due to the mana rifle fired by Suzuki which closed in towards his eyeball, he instinctively closed his eyes, causing the attack to miss Aries by a hair’s breadth. Notwithstanding that Aries was not hit directly, the attack that merely scratched him ever so slightly sent his slender body flying. Nevertheless, even before Leon could conduct a follow-up attack, Aigokeros jumped into action, picking Leon up from the bottom and throwing him away. “Gu..... u.....” “Aries! Are you alright?” “Y, yeah. I can still fight... I’m fine.” Just a single hit. Furthermore, it was an attack that merely scratched him. Nevertheless, just that alone had caused Aries’s body to be covered in wounds. His clothes were in tatters such that the current condition was only fine because he was a guy. If he was a girl, he would have had to quickly fall back. Even his white skin was now engraved by wounds, making him appear like a fragile and hurt maiden to an onlooker and causing them to feel affectionate. However, his will to fight which resided in his eyes had not been extinguished in the slightest as he once again enveloped himself with the rainbow-coloured flames. If he had not received the defensive buff cast upon him by Dina, he might very well have been finished from that single attack that he had just suffered. Even whilst he was thinking such a thing, Aigokeros, Karkinos and Scorpius continued to be engaged in a hard battle while Sagittarius and Castor provided supporting fire from the back. Similarly, Suzuki continued to fire its rifle, however, it only aimed at Leon’s eyes after determining that it would not do any damage even if it hit. On the other hand, Virgo immediately flew towards Aries and applied recovery divine magic to heal him, whereas Libra, who found a gap in this situation, showered Leon with everything that she had. And... due to all of this noise, the poor and pitiful Sei and Sarjes both opened their eyes, only for them to pop out at the same time as they shouted aloud: “Mo.... Monster War!?”	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 7, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
「アルフェ・クリフォートです。よろしくお願いします」アルフェがそう言ってぺこりとお辞儀をする。入学式の翌日から始まった小学校での生活は、付属幼稚園の延長線上にあった。と言っても、僕とアルフェは幼稚園の頃から特待生枠にクラス分けがなされていたので、クラスメイトの顔と名前を覚えるところから始まった。クラスメイトは、僕とアルフェを覚えるだけでいいけど、僕たちは他の全員を覚えなきゃならないのは面倒だな。簡単な自己紹介と拍手が繰り返される中で、そんなことを考えながら、僕は配布された教科書や副教材の資料にぱらぱらと目を通す。アルフェの方をちらりと見ると、少し緊張気味の真剣な面持ちで皆の話に耳を傾けているのがわかった。 ――少しはクラスメイトの顔と名前を覚えておくべきか......? 逡巡したが、すぐに諦めた。基礎教育機関に身を置くのは初めてだが、ここでの関係性が今後の人生に大きく影響することは多分ないだろう。年齢や能力で振り分けられただけのクラスなのだから。配布された教科書の中には、錬金術もある。小学生向けということもあり、かなり初歩的なところから書かれていたが、この年度が終わる頃にはかなり高度な技術の習得が求められているのが教科書の内容からも見て取れた。 ――そういえば、ホムンクルスの研究は今はどうなっているのだろう? あの女神たちの話だと、禁止されていてもおかしくないが...... 気になったので索引から調べようと巻末のページを開く。「......なんだ......?」キーワードの羅列を目で辿っていた僕は、思わず目を瞠った。信じがたいことに、前世の名――グラス=ディメリアの名が巻末の索引に掲載されていたからだ。慌てて索引に示されたページを捲ると、そこには間違いなく僕の功績が僕の功績として記されていた。の概念を生み出した偉大なる錬金術師。式学錬金は錬金術に大きな発展をもたらし、その基礎概念を作りだしたグラス=ディメリアにはというのは、錬金術の過程に数学を応用して体系化した公式に当てはめ、数字によって論理的な予測と制御を可能とするグラス独自の手法だ。これによって、以前は感覚的なものであった錬金術を再現性の高い現象にまで押し上げようとしたのだが、どうやら今日においてそれは、広く用いられているようだ。どういう事情や経緯があったのかはわからなかったが、こうして教科書に載るような功績として記されているということは、僕が死んだ後〇年の間になにかがあったのだろうな。それなんであったのかは、僕にはきっと知る由もないけれど。	“Nice to meet you, I’m Alfe Clifford.” Alfe said that and bowed slightly. Life at the elementary school, which began the day after the entrance ceremony, felt like an extension of the affiliated kindergarten. However, Alfe and I had been classified as special students since our kindergarten days, so we started by memorizing the faces and names of our classmates. For our classmates, it was enough to remember Alfe and me, but it was a hassle for us to remember everyone else. Amidst simple self-introductions and applause, I skimmed over the textbooks and supplementary teaching materials given to us. I glanced at Alfe, who seemed a bit nervous but was listening attentively to everyone’s conversations. Should I bother remembering the faces and names of my classmates a little...? I wavered, but quickly gave up. It was my first time in a basic education institution, but the relationships formed here probably wouldn’t have a significant impact on my future life. After all, it was just a class sorted by age and ability. Among the distributed textbooks, there was also alchemy. Geared towards elementary school students, it was written from a very basic standpoint, but by the end of this academic year, the content of the textbook indicated that a considerable mastery of advanced techniques would be required. Come to think of it, how is research on homunculi progressing now? According to the stories of those goddesses, it wouldn’t be surprising if it’s prohibited... Curious, I decided to look it up in the index and opened the pages at the end of the book. “...What is this...?” As I traced the list of keywords with my eyes, I couldn’t help but be astonished. Incredibly, the name of my past life—Glass Dimelia—was listed in the index at the end. There should be no achievements worthy of being in a textbook. All the accomplishments from my research had been usurped by influential figures in the Alchemy Society. In a hurry, I flipped to the page indicated in the index, and there, unmistakably, my achievements were recorded as my own. Glass Dimelia. The great alchemist who conceived the concept of Code Alchemy. Code Alchemy brought significant advancements to alchemy, and Glass Dimelia, who created its foundational concepts, was bestowed with the title Grandee. Code Alchemy involved applying mathematics to the alchemical process, systematizing it with unique formulas. Glass had developed this method, enabling logical predictions and control through numerical values. With this, I had aimed to elevate alchemy, previously a sensory experience, to a highly reproducible phenomenon. It seems that today, this method was widely used. However, regarding this achievement, the Alchemy Society had tampered with my research papers, presenting them as the society’s research results. I didn’t know the circumstances or the reasons behind it, but the fact that such achievements were recorded in a textbook meant that something must have happened in the years after my death. What exactly occurred during that time was something I had no way of knowing.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 7, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
同時に、リベラルフェミニストは政党よりも市民連合に、より多くの力を注ぐようになった。これは彼女達の、モロッコ社会を全体として捉える兆候と、人々が生活を向上するために、どのような権能を与えられうるかという問いかけを広げた。結果として、政策決定者と敬虔な女性たち双方に対するリベラルフェミニストの影響力が高まった。	At the same time, liberal feminists began to invest more effort in civic associations, rather than political parties. This broadened their focus to Moroccan society as a whole and questions of how people could be empowered to improve their lives.	{ "source": "news_commentary", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
私は手に入れられないものを望み望んではならないものを必要としている私は持っていないほしいものを持っている私は手に入れられないものを望み望んではならないものを必要としている私は持っていないほしいものを持っている私は手に入れられないものを望み望んではならないものを必要としている私は持っていないほしいものを持っている私は手に入れられないものを望み望んではならないものを必要としている私は持っていないほしいものを持っている私は手に入れられないものを望み望んではならないものを必要としている持っているけど持っていない私の持っているものは全て弱い背中が背負っている失くしたものの重荷みたい最終列車で行ってしまった恋人よ苦しまないでどんな雲の裏側にも希望の光があるただの小雨ただの小雨ただの小雨私は手に入れられないものを望み望んではならないものを必要としている私は持っていないほしいものを持っている私は手に入れられないものを望み望んではならないものを必要としている持っているけど持っていない私の心はとどまることを知らず私の心はゴーサインを出す誰にも私を捕まえることはできない私の心はとどまることを知らず私の心は「待てば海路の日和あり」と言うけど私は立っていることはできない... 永久に列に並んで立っていることはできない冷たい空気に耐えて幸運を待つだけなんて「たぶんあとで」という台詞にはもううんざり幸せをつかむか幸せのふりをするかそうじゃなきゃあきらめるなぜなら私はそれに名前を付けなきゃ見なきゃだからお願い喜ばせておお喜ばせて喜ばせて私をちゃんと喜ばせてなぜかというと私の心はとどまることを知らず私の心はゴーサインを出しているから誰にも私を捕まえることはできない私の心はとどまることを知らず私の心はゴーサインを出すいいことはここにあるはず... そうちょうどここにここちょうどここちょうどここにこの人生を永遠に生きられるわけじゃない一回しかこの人生を生きることができない「たぶんあとで」という台詞にはもううんざり幸せをつかむか幸せのふりをするかそうじゃなきゃあきらめる私はそれに名前を付けてそれを要求してそれをこの手につかまなきゃおおお願い私をちゃんと喜ばせて私は手に入れられないものを望み望んではならないものを必要としている私は持っていないほしいものを持っている私は手に入れられないものを望み望んではならないものを必要としている私は持っていないものを持っている... 知ってるでしょ私の心はとどまることを知らず私の心はゴーサインを出す誰にも私を捕まえることはできない私の心はとどまることを知らず私の心はゴーサインを出すなぜなら私は手に入れられないものを望み望んではならないものを必要としているから私は持っているが私がほしいものを持っている私は手に入れられないものを望み望んではならないものを必要としている私は手に入れられないものを望み望んではならないものを必要としている持っているが持っていない私がほしいもの私は手に入れられないものを望み望んではならないものを必要としている持っているけど持っていない私は手に入れられないものを望み望んではならないものを必要としている私は持っているでもほしいものを持っていない私は手に入れられないものを望み望んではならないものを必要としている私は持っているでもほしいものを持っていない (拍手)	♫ I want what I can't have, need what I can't want ♫ ♫ Have what I don't have, what I want ♫ ♫ What I can't have, need what I can't want ♫ ♫ Have what I don't have, what I want ♫ ♫ What I can't have, need what I can't want ♫ ♫ Have what I don't have, what I want ♫ ♫ What I can't have, need what I can't want ♫ ♫ Have what I don't have, what I want ♫ ♫ What I can't have, need what I can't want ♫ ♫ Have but I don't have ♫ ♫ It feels like all I got is loss on a bad back ♫ ♫ Gone with the last train, honey don't you fret ♫ ♫ Every cloud has a silver lining ♫ ♫ Just a little rain, just a little rain, just a little rain ♫ ♫ I want what I can't have, need what I can't want ♫ ♫ Have what I don't have, what I want ♫ ♫ What I can't have, need what I can't want ♫ ♫ Have but I don't have ♫ ♫ My mind won't stop, and my heart says go ♫ ♫ Nobody knows how to hold me ♫ ♫ My mind won't stop, and my heart says, ♫ ♫ "Good things come to those who wait" ♫ ♫ And I can't stand in ... ♫ ♫ I can't stand in line forever ♫ ♫ Stand the cold air ♫ ♫ Glad-handed ♫ ♫ Sick and tired of the "Later, maybe" ♫ ♫ Take it, fake it, take it, take-it-or-leave-it life ♫ ♫ And I gotta just tame it ♫ ♫ I gotta just name it ♫ ♫ I gotta just seize, so please, oh please, oh please, oh please ♫ ♫ Oh please me right, 'cause ♫ ♫ My mind won't stop ♫ ♫ And my heart says go ♫ ♫ Nobody knows how to hold me ♫ ♫ My mind won't stop -- and my heart says go-ooooo ... ♫ ♫ Good things must be here -- yes, right here ♫ ♫ Here, right here, right here ♫ ♫ I won't live this life forever ♫ ♫ One time round is all the offer is ♫ ♫ Sick and tired of the "Later, maybe" ♫ ♫ Take it, fake it, make it, leave it life ♫ ♫ And I gotta just name it, I gotta just claim it ♫ ♫ I gotta just seize ♫ ♫ Oh please, oh please, oh please me right ♫ ♫ I want what I can't have, need what I can't want ♫ ♫ Have what I don't have, what I want ♫ ♫ What I can't have, need what I can't want ♫ ♫ Have but I don't have -- you know that ♫ ♫ My mind won't stop, and my heart says go ♫ ♫ Nobody knows how to hold me, no ♫ ♫ My mind won't stop, and my heart says go ♫ ♫ 'Cause I want what I can't have, need what I can't want ♫ ♫ Have but I -- have what I want ♫ ♫ What I can't have, need what I can't want ♫ ♫ What I can't have, need what I can't want ♫ ♫ Have but I don't have, what I want ♫ ♫ What I can't have, need what I can't want ♫ ♫ Have what I don't have, what I want ♫ ♫ What I can't have, need what I can't want ♫ ♫ Have but I don't have, what I want ♫ ♫ What I can't have, need what I can't want ♫ ♫ Have but I don't have what I want ♫	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
「さて、お互いにこの十年に何があったか一つ話していこうか。」ホウキの葬儀が終わり、俺たちは第4階層の奥に作った一般人立ち入り禁止エリアに来ていた。そしてそこで俺はイチコとリョウを慰めつつからこの十年の間に有った事を一つずつ聞いていった。そして、俺も二人が居ない間に起きた事を一つずつ話していった。で、懲罰房の事は可能な限りボカして話したはずなんだが...... 「つまりはアレですか。私たちが命がけで頑張っている間クロキリはずっと乳繰り合っていたと。」「ふふふふふ。この女の敵はどうやっても許せませんわね。どう始末しましょうか。」思いっきりばれてイチコからはチョークスリーパー(左腕の籠手に≪霧魔法付与≫をして触れるようになっている。)を、リョウからはアイアンクロー(こっちは≪霧平手≫の応用らしい。)を現在進行形で受けている。魔王のステータスの高さとリョウの攻撃は眷属だから完全無効化され、イチコの攻撃は半魔王のおかげで対して痛くはないが息苦しいことこの上ない。ちなみに霧状態になってもスキルの効果でしっかりとホールドされたままである。「えーと、二人ともそろそろ離してくれますか?ぐっ......」「私たちの気が済みましたらね。」「そうですわね。」「はー、しょうがない。じゃあ魔王権限使用。」「なっ!」「あっ!」で、やむを得ず魔王権限を使用。リョウを強制的に離れさせ、イチコの拘束を緩めさせる。そのままちょいとばかしお仕置きをする。「うう。いつかの様な気分です......。」「魔神も許せませんけど、クロキリもやっぱり許せませんわ......。」さて互いに素っ裸だが、話を進めるとしよう。「それにしても極妃の奴がそんな技術を持っていたとはな。どうやって南極からアフリカに渡ったのかが不思議だったんだがそう言う方法だったのか。」「ええ、私も予想外の方法でした。尤もそこまで高い効果が得られるわけでもないようですが、」「ガンジス河でも似たような技術がありましたわね。もしかしなくても有用な技術になりそうですわ。」まずイチコが南極からアフリカ大陸に渡った方法だが、これはリョウたちがガンジス河で見た技術とほぼ同じもの。つまりは船底にそこに生息するモンスターたちの素材を張り付けることによって海中のモンスターたちからの認識を阻害した船を使うという方法だ。この方法の利点には襲われにくくなるだけでなく、船自体の強度が大きく上がるというものもある。ただ、この方法で誤魔化せるのはモンスターたちの索敵系スキルによる認識だけで、直接視認されたり、大きな音を立てたりするとバレてしまうらしい。そのためイチコが実際にアフリカ大陸に渡った際には時には所属ダンジョンの異なるモンスター同士を遭遇させ、互いに争っている間に逃げるという手段も必要になったらしい。「この方法をうまく使えば『這い寄る混沌の蛸王』の討伐も出来るかもな。」この技術の有用性は高いと俺は思う。上手くいけば海路、空路の利用が再開できるかもしれない。「リョウお嬢様がホウキさんの砲撃から私を逃がすのに使ったあの剣。あれは一体なんだったのですか?」「あれですか。あれは『魄剣』という『魄込める呪の道士』の素材から作った武器の一部ですわ。」「そう言えばお前そんなの回収してたな。」さて、正確に言うとイチコを助ける時にリョウが使ったのは『魄剣』というよりは『魄剣』の力の残滓らしい。そのために一度効果を発揮したところで砕け散ってしまったそうだ。ただ、この辺りの話って俺は直接見てなくて後から報告を受けただけだからよく分からないんだよな。「それにしても魔王素材ってのはすごいな。俺の骨も一本ぐらい生成系のスキルを持っている奴に融通してみるのもアリか?それぐらいなら簡単に再生できるし。」「どうせなら股間のそれをもぎ取って精力増強装備にすればいいですわ。」「おい。」リョウの暴言に思わずツッコミを入れる。「駄目ですよリョウお嬢様。素材にするなら下半身全てです。」「おいいいぃぃぃ!?」そしてイチコの更なる暴言に思わず叫ぶ。二人の暴言に再びのお仕置きを敢行しようかと思って身構えた瞬間。「まあ、実際の所生きた魔王から剥ぎ取った素材では大した物は出来ませんけどね。」「極妃が少し検証に手伝ってくれましたから。」「いつかイチコさんのためにそこまでしてくれた極妃に恩返しをしてあげたいですわね。」「ですねー」話をすり替えられてお仕置きするタイミングを逃すことになった。ちっ、覚えてろ。話が終わったらたっぷりヤッてやる。「で、私的には左腕がやけに細いのもそうですがそれ以上に気になるのは......」そう言ってイチコが俺の眼帯を指差す。「どうしてクロキリが眼帯なんて着けているんですか?」「ああそれは私も気になっていましたわ。どうしてですの?」二人揃って俺の眼帯を見つめてくる。ふふふ。そんなに見つめるなよ、照れ...... ドゴオッ! 「うぷっ......」「とっとと話を進めてもらえますか。」「はい......。」キザったらしくしてたらイチコから≪霧魔法付与≫付きの腹パンを喰らった。おのれ......。「これはスキルの代償だよ。左腕もな。」「スキルの代償......ですか。」リョウが深刻そうな顔をする。んな心配しなくても大丈夫だっての。「と言っても普通のスキルじゃなくてアウタースキルの代償だ。だから普通にスキルを使ってるうちは問題ねえよ。」「治る見込みは?」イチコが自分もアウタースキルを使うからなのか心配そうな目で見つめてくる。「左腕は目下再生中。左目は治る見込み無しだな。完全に失った。」「「!?」」俺の言葉に二人とも驚きの顔を隠せないようである。とりあえず励まさないとな。「んな顔すんなって、俺は元々前線に立つ立場じゃねえし、このスキルのおかげで便利なものも手に入ったから何も問題ねえよ。」「そ、そういう問題ではないでしょうが!」リョウが俺の左目に手を当てて≪治癒≫を使いながらそんな事を言う。だから効果ないっての。「そうですよ!バカなんですか!バカなんですね!」イチコが俺に抱き着きながら罵倒してくる。うーむ。愛い奴め。「まっ、何にしてもだ。俺はこの先も魔神を打倒するために無茶をする。お前らはどうするんだ?」俺は今までと打って変わって真剣な顔をして二人に問いかける。その問いに二人は、「私も魔神を放置する気はありません。手伝います。」「ホウキの仇ですもの。私も手伝いますわ。」「じゃ、とりあえず今後の英気を養うためにも今夜はたっぷり楽しもうか。」「なっ!結局そう言うオチですか!」「この卑怯者ーーー!!」たっぷり今夜は楽しむことにした。うーん。久しぶりに見たけどリョウ姉ちゃん強くなってたな。それにイチコさんも。あ、これがクロキリさんを含んのステータスね。 Name:クロキリ(蝕む黒霧の王) Class:魔王 Race:蝕む黒霧の王 MP:2330/2330 SP:2260/2260 Status 筋力 40 器用 55 敏捷 57 感知 45 知力 64 精神 74 幸運 10 Skill ≪迷宮創生≫≪魔性創生≫≪蝕む黒の霧≫≪循環≫≪霧爆≫≪幻惑の霧≫≪ Title ≪蝕む黒霧の王≫≪白霧の奇襲者≫≪霧人達の主≫≪外を見た魔王≫≪鬼殺し≫≪魔王を討ちし者≫≪奇跡を騙るもの≫≪霧人達の王≫≪扇動者≫≪甘い毒の言葉使い≫≪霧の粛清者≫≪魔神と遭遇せし者≫≪日ノ本の統治者≫ etc. Name:那須リョウ Class:癒し手 Race:霧人 Level:9 HP:462/462 MP:519/519 SP:486/486 Status 筋力 16 器用 24 敏捷 24 感知 16 知力 35 精神 32 Skill ≪治癒≫≪霧の衣≫≪治療習熟I≫≪解毒≫≪解痺≫≪解幻≫≪ Title ≪黒霧の王の眷族≫≪白霧の癒し手≫≪眷属を率いる者≫≪霧の傭兵団≫≪霧の傭兵団・団長≫≪霧の招き手≫≪食の探究者≫≪無償の慈悲≫≪勇者殺し≫≪魔神と遭遇せし者≫ etc. Name:イチコ(定まらぬ剣の刃姫) Class:半魔王 Race:定まらぬ剣の刃姫・半霧人 Level:10 HP:1160/1160 MP:1015/1015 SP:1065/1065 筋力 30 器用 45 敏捷 57 感知 56 知力 21 精神 26 ≪形無き王の剣・弱≫≪霧の衣・薄≫≪魔性創生・下位≫≪短剣習熟I≫≪首切り≫≪キーンエッジ≫≪ロングエッジ≫≪主は我を道に力を行使す≫≪ ≪黒霧の王の眷族≫≪白霧の暗殺者≫≪鬼殺し≫≪霧王の依り代≫≪霧王の寵姫≫≪定まらぬ剣の刃姫≫≪魔神と遭遇せし者≫≪首切り姫≫≪極圏到達者≫≪魔王と親交を結びし者≫≪魔王を討ちし者≫ etc.	“Now let’s start filling each other in on what has transpired in the last decade, piece by piece.” After the funeral of Houki, we arrived at the off-limits area that I created at the rear of the fourth level. There, I consoled Ichiko and Ryo while listening to their recounts of the past ten years, chapter after chapter. I then shared with them the details of what had occurred during their absence. And, despite the fact that I had tried to be as vague as possible while describing the punishment cell... “To put it another way, you mean ‘that,’ right? While we were risking our lives, Kurokiri was having a secret affair.” “Hahaha. An enemy of a woman is unforgivable no matter how you try to defend yourself. How shall we dispose of you?” Ichiko performed a rear naked choke on me (her left arm was enchanted by ≪Enchanting Mist≫ so she can touch me), and Ryo executed a stranglehold on me that clutched my face and pressed me down (this one seemed to be an application of ≪Mist Slap≫). Thanks to the high status of a Demon King and since Ryo was a kin, her attacks were completely nullified. Due to Ichiko’s half-Demon King race, her attacks did not inflict much pain, yet they were nonetheless exceedingly suffocating for me. Incidentally, even when I was in a misty state, the effect of their skill was still holding me securely in place. “Um, would you both mind letting go of me now? Ugh...” “Only until we feel satisfied.” “Hah, it can’t be helped. Then I’ll exercise the Demon King’s authority.” “Huh?” “Ah!” And so, I inevitably employed the authority of the Demon King. After forcing Ryo to move away from Ichiko, I loosened Ichiko’s restraints. Then, I punished them slightly. “Ugh. I feel as if one day I will...” “The God of Calamity is unpardonable, but Kurokiri is unforgivable as well...” Now, although both sides were naked, I should proceed with the conversation. “Even so, I didn’t expect that Polar Queen fellow to own such a technology. I was wondering how you crossed from Antarctica to Africa, so that was the method behind it.” “Yes, it was an unexpected method for me too. However, it does not seem to be that highly effective.” “There was a similar technology used in the Ganges River, wasn’t there? Even if it is not, the technology could be useful.” To begin with, Ichiko’s way of traveling from Antarctica to the African continent was virtually identical to the Ganges River technology that Ryo and her party had witnessed. In other words, the undersea monsters would be unable to recognize the ship if materials from the area’s monsters were attached to the ship’s bottom. This method had the advantage of not only rendering the ship less vulnerable to assault but also considerably enhancing the ship’s strength. Nevertheless, this method can only fool the monsters into believing that they were being monitored by their own kind using searching skills; if they saw you directly or if you produced a loud noise, you will be exposed. Therefore, when Ichiko was actually on the African continent, she periodically had to encounter monsters from different dungeons and escaped while they were in the midst of fighting with each other. “If this method can be utilized successfully, perhaps defeating the ‘Crawling Octopus King of Chaos’ can be accomplished as well.” “Yes, that’s right.” This technology, in my viewpoint, will be immensely helpful. If all goes well, we may be able to resume the use of sea and air routes. “Lady Ryo, what was that sword you used to save me from Houki-san’s bombardment?” “Oh, you mean that one. It’s a part of a weapon known as the ‘Spiritual Sword,’ which was created from components of ‘Taoist Curse of the Enshrouded Spirit.’” “Speaking of which, I recall you retrieving such a thing.” Well, to be more accurate, it seemed that what Ryo used when saving Ichiko was not so much the “Spiritual Sword” but rather the residue of the power of the “Spiritual Sword”. That was why it shattered once it was in effect. However, since I didn’t witness this incident firsthand and only heard about it afterwards, I was not entirely clear on this. “Even so, the Demon King’s materials are terrific. Maybe I could try to fuse one of my bones with someone who has a generative skill? It would be easier to regenerate then.” “If you want, you can just rip that thing from your nether region and use it as energizing equipment.” “Hey.” I unconsciously snapped at Ryo’s outrageous words. “That would be futile, Lady Ryo. If he is going to use it as a material, the whole lower half of his body should be included.” “Heyyyyy!?” Ichiko’s further crude remark drew an involuntary yelp from me. At the moment when I was preparing to administer another punishment to both of them for their violent words... “Well, actually, the materials stripped from a living Demon King won’t make much of a difference.” “The Polar Queen helped me with the verification somewhat.” “Someday I hope to repay the Polar Queen for going to such great lengths for Ichiko-san.” “Rightー” I ended up missing the timing to punish her after she switches the subject. Tch,I will remember this. When the conversation is over, I’m going to screw you a lot more. “So, I personally find my left arm awfully thin, but what bugs me more than that is...” Ichiko then gestured to my eye patch after stating that. “Why are you wearing an eye patch?” “I’ve been wondering about that too. What’s the reason?” The two of them were staring at my eye patch collectively. Hahaha. Don’t stare so much, you are making me embarrassed... Thud! “Ugh...” “Would you please hurry up and get on with your story?” “Yes...” While I was being smug, I was stuck with the fist to the abdomen by Ichiko equipped with ≪Enchanting Mist≫. “This is the price of using a skill. And so is my left arm.” “The price for... your skill?” Ryo cast a stern look at me. There was no need to be concerned about it though. “Though that being said, it’s not a regular skill, it’s the price of Outer Skill. Therefore, as long as what is used is normal skills, everything will be fine.” “Is there any chance of recovery?” As Ichiko was also an Outer Skill practitioner, her eyes were filled with concern. “My left arm is currently regenerating. There is no hope for my left eye. It has been entirely ruined.” [[!?]] Neither of them seemed to be able to contain their astonishment at my words. At any rate, I had to cheer them up. “Don’t make that look; I’m not in a front-line position to begin with and owing to this skill, I was able to gain something prominent, so everything’s fine.” “T-That’s not the point!” Ryo put her hand on my left eye and said such a thing while utilizing ≪Heal≫. I thought I already said that it wouldn’t have any effect. “That’s right! Are you an idiot! You are so foolish!” Ichiko was cursing at me while hugging me. Mmm. What an adorable one. “Well, whatever the scenario may be, I’m going to be rash from now on in order to overthrow the God of Calamity. What are your plans, you two?” Unlike before, I asked the pair with a serious expression on my face. To that question, the two of them replied with a smile. “I, for one, have no intention of overlooking the God of Calamity. I will lend a hand.” “It’s for avenging Houki. I’ll provide assistance too.” “Well then, we should have a good time tonight for the sake of our future vigor.” “What! So that’s what you’re going to say after all!” “You cowardー!” I decided to have plenty of fun tonight. Hmm. It had been a long time since seeing her, but Ryo had become stronger. And Ichiko too. Ah, this was the status of the three of us. 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パンの話なのですが、パンはありふれた物ですし基本的な最必須の主要産物ですそして、何かのパンを食べずに 1日が終わることはまずありませんカリフォルニア低炭水化物ダイエット中でなければパンは一般的です西洋での日常食としてだけではなく今からお話するように現代生活の要なのですさて、今から皆さんのためにパンを焼きたいと思いますその間に、お話をしますややこしいかもしれませんが我慢して下さいまず始めに、少しご参加をお願いしますここに2斤のパンがあります 1斤は、スーパーマーケットにあるごく普通のもので、白パンで、あらかじめ包装されていて、ワンダーブレッドと呼ばれていると教えられましたこの名前はこちらに来て初めて知りましたそしてこのもう一方は、ほとんど全麦で、手作りの小さなパン屋で作られたパンですさて、挙手をお願いします全麦パンの方がお好きな方は? 違う尋ね方で行きましょう『ワンダーブレッド』の方が好きな方はいらっしゃいますか? ためらいがちなお2人の男性が手を挙げていらっしゃいますよわかりましたさて、問題はなぜ大多数が全麦パンの方が好きなのかという事です私が思いますに、それは私達が、全麦パンは本物だと考えるからだと思います伝統的な暮らし方に関する事です多分、より偽りのない正直なやり方ですこれはイタリアのトスカーナの写真です、この場所を見て、私達は農業はまだ美しい、生命も本当に美しいと感じるのですそして、ここなら、よい味、伝統を持っているとも思いますなぜ、このようなイメージを持っているのでしょうか? どうして全麦パンは白パンよりも本物だと感じるのでしょうか? それは歴史と大いに関係していると思います農業を開始してから1万年の間実は、私達の祖先のほとんどが農業に従事するかもしくは食べ物の生産に密に関わっていましたそれで、私達はこの神話的な昔の田舎生活のイメージを持っています芸術作品はそのイメージを持ち続ける助けになっていますそれは神話的な過去でしたもちろん、現実はだいぶ違いますこれらの貧しい農民達は自分達の手か動物を使って土地を耕し作物を作ってきましたその収穫高は現在の西アフリカの最も貧しい農民に相当する位ですしかしなぜかここ数世紀のうちに、もしくは何十年のうちに私達は過去の農業について神話的な田舎のイメージを持ち始めました産業革命の到来はたった200年前ですそしてこのように皆さんにパンを作っていますが理解するべき大事な事は革命が何を私達にもたらしたのかという事です産業革命は機械化や化学肥料などの能力をもたらしました実際にそれらが収穫高も引き上げました手で豆を収穫する等という嫌な作業も今では機械を使って行う事ができます後でお話しますが、これらは全て現実で、大きな改善ですもちろん、特にここ10年間密集したスーパーマーケットチェーンや地球規模の貿易を通じて食べ物をうまく世界中に広めましたそれが意味するところは、今あなたは世界中から来た食べ物を食べているという事ですそれが現代生活の現実です今皆さんは、この全麦パンの方が好きかもしれません手で失礼させてもらいますが、これがその姿ですしかし、本当に現代的なパンだと歴史的に言えるのは、この白い『ワンダーブレッド』なのです白パンを嫌わないで下さいなぜなら私が思うに、本当に白パンはパンや食べ物が全ての人々へ豊富で、手頃な値段になった事の象徴だからです私達はあまり気づいていませんがこれは注目すべき事なのです白パンは世界を変えたのですこの、味気ないちっちゃなパン、そしてたくさん問題があるこのパンが世界を変えましたでは、何が起こっているのでしょうか簡単な統計を少し見るのが一番良いでしょう産業革命の到来と共にそして農業の近代化と共に 1960年代以来ここ何十年間世界で1人当たりが入手可能な食料は 25パーセント増えています一方で、世界人口は2倍になりましたつまり、今私達は人類史上かつてないほどの量の食料を入手可能だという事ですそれは生産規模や生産量がうまく増加した直接的な結果ですそしてこれはいわゆる発展途上国を含め全ての国で言える事なのですでは、私達のパンには何が起こったのでしょうか食料が豊富になるという事はまた農業従事者を減らす事ができたという事です高収入の国では、平均人口の5パーセント以下程度ですアメリカでは農業従事者はたったの1パーセントだけですそれで私達は農業から解放されて他の事ができます-- 食料について心配せずにTEDカンファレンスに参加する事もできますそれは歴史的に見ると、とても珍しい状況なのです過去には一度も、世界に食料を与えるという事がこんなに少ない人々の責任であった事はありませんそして過去には一度も、こんなにたくさんの人々がその事実について気付かない事はありませんでした食料が豊富になり、パンはより安価になりましたパンが安くなるにつれて、パンの生産者は様々なものを混ぜる事にしました砂糖レーズン、油、ミルク、それから他にもたくさん、パンを作るためにシンプルなものからカロリーのあるものまで様々加えましたそして今日では、パンは肥満と結びつけて考えられていますとても奇妙な事ですパンは最も基本的な必須の食べ物で私達が何万年も食べてきたものです小麦は最も重要な穀物です人類が最初に栽培した穀物で私達が今日育てている穀物の中で最重要ですしかし今、おかしな事に、パンは高カロリーと一体化して考えられていますこの国でだけというのではなく世界中でこのイメージを持たれていますパンは熱帯の国々にも広がりましたそこでは今、中流階級の人達がフレンチロールやハンバーガーを食べ通勤者は、パンの方がご飯やキャッサバよりも手頃だと思っていますですからパンは一つの主食となりましたカロリーの源で肥満と結びつけて考えられ現代生活においての現代性の源と考えられていますそして多くの国では、パンが白ければ白いほどいいのですこれが私達が知るパンの物語ですしかしもちろん、大きく変わった事による大量生産の代償があります大規模になったという事は、たくさんの景観を破壊したという事です生物多様性の破壊ですエミューが寂しく1羽だけブラジルのセラードの大豆畑にいます損害はものすごいものです水質汚染など、皆さんご存じのあらゆる住みかの破壊です今なすべきは、食べ物が何であるかという理解に立ち返る事ですそしてこれが、私が皆さんに問いかけたい事です小麦を他の穀物と見分ける事ができる方はどれくらいいらっしゃいますか? パンを作る事ができる方は何人位いらっしゃいますか? この方法で、パン焼き機などは使わずにまたは袋入りの調味料は使わずにパンを作る事はできますか?パン1斤が実際幾らするかご存じですか? 私達は、自らが食べているパンが本当はどんなものなのか、わからなくなっていますこれもまた、進化論的に言うととてもおかしい事です実際に、パンは元々ヨーロッパでつくられたのではないという事を知っている人はあまりいませんパンは、特にイラクやシリアの農民達によって最初につくられました左から2番目の小さな穂は実は小麦の祖先ですこれがパンの始まりですここから1万年前の農民達がパンを作り始めて現在に至ります今では、この大量生産と大規模化によって抵抗運動が出てきた事は驚きではありませんここカリフォルニアでも大きな動きとなっています抵抗運動は「ここに戻ろう伝統的な農業へ戻ろう小規模な農家の市場へ戻ろう小さなパン屋へ戻ろう」と声をあげています素晴らしい事です皆さんもそう思いませんか私は大いに賛成ですトスカーナーのような伝統的な情景へよい食べ物を食べる美食道へぜひ戻りたいものですしかしこれは誤った考えです忘れた過去を理想化してしまっているからこのように考えてしまうのですもし過去に戻り、伝統的な小規模農業のままでいれば実際には貧しい農民達を追放してしまいます私は、このような貧しい農民達と長年暮らしてきましたが彼ら農民は、電気も水もないところで生産性を上げようと働くのです過去に戻れば、彼らを貧困へと追いやってしまいます貧しい農民達が望むのは生産量を増やす手段です土壌を肥沃にするもの、育てた作物を安全に市場まで持っていくようなものです小規模になるだけで世界の食糧問題が解決するとは考えられません小規模農業は費用を負担したい場合にその余裕がある人向けの贅沢な解決策です私達は、この貧しい女性がこのような土地で働いて欲しくないと思いますもし、ここで見られるように小規模生産に戻って地元でとれた食べ物だけを食べるようになると可哀想なハンズロスリング氏などはもうオレンジすら食べる事ができないという事になりますスカンジナビアではオレンジを生産していないからですですから、地元での食料生産というオプションはなくなりますしかし、田舎の人々を貧困へと追いやりたくもありませんそして、都会の貧しい人々を飢えさせたくもありませんですから、他の解決策を探さなければなりません問題のひとつは、世界の食料生産が急速に増加する必要があるという事です-- 2030年までに2倍必要です実は、その主な要因は肉です特に東南アジアや中国で穀物の値段を上げています動物性たんぱく質は引き続き必要ですその代替物となり得るものについては、また別の機会にお話しましょうしかし、動物性たんぱく質は人間の原動力となりますどうしたらよいのでしょうか? 生産量を増やす解決策を見つける事はできるでしょうか? できますしかし機械化が必要ですですから、私は以下の事を本当に訴えたいと思いますただ、作物の種を蒔き、雑草を抜くために土地を耕し、15万回も四つん這いになって1ヘクタールの米を育てる事を小規模農家へお願いはできないと強く思いますこのような状況で人を働かせる事などできません賢い控え目な機械化が必要です大規模な機械化で起こった問題を避けるようなものですどうすればよいでしょうか? 都市にいる30億人に食料を与えなければなりません都市には小規模農民市場はありませんから小規模農民市場を通しては行いません彼らは低賃金で暮らしていますそして安く、手の届く、安全で様々な食べ物の恩恵を受けていますこれが私達がこれから20、30年間に目指すべき事ですしかし、いくつか解決策はあります少し概念的な事を言います科学を、生産過程をコントロールするものとみなし横軸はその規模としてみると、ご覧の通り、私達は左下の小規模であまり制御されていない伝統的な農業から始めましたそれが、右側の大規模で高度に制御されるものに変わってきました私の理想は、科学を維持し続け、むしろもっと科学を使いつつも、地方的な規模にするという事です畑の大きさにおいてだけでなく食料ネットワーク全体において行いますこれが私達が目指すべき方向です穀物には完全には当てはまりませんが、究極的な方向は完全に閉じた生態系を持つ画面左上の園芸型システムとなりますですから、農業科学については違う方法で考える必要がありますほとんどの人々に、そしてここにはそんなにいらっしゃらないと思いますが、多くの農民にも汚染を起こし、大規模で環境を破壊するという悪いイメージを持たれていますしかし、必ずしもそうではありません人類は、もっと科学、しかもよい科学が必要ですどんな科学を使えるでしょうか? まず第一に私が思いつくのは現存の技術でもはるかによくできるという事です生物工学で、便利なもの、特に害虫や病気に抵抗できるものを使いましょう他には、例えばロボットで 1.27センチの解像度で雑草を認識するものも使えるでしょうもっと賢い灌漑方法があります水を流したくなければそうする必要はないのですそして私達はとても冷静に小規模と大規模の相対的な利点について考えなければなりません土地は多機能だという事を考える必要があります土地は様々な機能を持っいます私達が使用せねばならない様々な方法があります例えば、居住用、自然用、そして農業用です家畜も再検討する必要があります地方的になり、都会の食料体系となります駐車場や地下室で魚が泳ぐ池を見たいです園芸や温室が居住スペースの一番上にあればいいと思いますそれらの温室から、または穀物の発酵から得られるエネルギーを使って自分達の居住空間を温めたいですそれを可能にする方法がたくさんあります食糧問題をバイオ農業で解決する事はできませんしかし、私達はもっと多くの事ができますそして、私が皆さんに本当に一番お願いしたい事はご自分の国へ帰られるにせよ、この国にいらっしゃるにせよ、政府に、統合食糧政策をお願いしていただくという事です食べ物は、エネルギー、安全保障、そして環境と同じく重要です全てが相互につながっていますから統合された食糧政策は可能です例えば私が暮らすオランダデルタ地帯のような高密度人口地域ではこれらの機能を組み合わせていますですから、これはSFではありません社会的な感覚においてさえも、ものを組み合わせて田舎をもっと人がアクセスしやすい場所にできます例えば慢性疾患の患者に家を提供する事ができますたくさんできる事がありますしかし皆さんがしなければならない事があります申し上げるだけでは十分ではありません、「農業にもっと大胆な科学を取り入れましょう」あなたは戻って自身の食物連鎖について考えなければなりません農民達に話しかけて下さい最後に農家を訪れて彼らに話しかけたのはいつでしたか? レストランにいる人達にも話しかけて下さいそしてあなたが食物連鎖のどのあたりにいるのか、食べ物がどこから来るのか理解して下さいあなた自身がこの巨大な一連の出来事の一部であるとわかって下さい食物連鎖のお陰であなたは他の事を自由にできています特に私にとって、食べ物とは敬意です敬意とはどういう事かと言うと、あなたが食べ物を食する時に多くの人達がまだ日々の食料を得るために苦労しているという状況を理解する事ですそして、私達が時々思いつくような極度に単純化された全てを手作りにすれば解決できるという考え方は倫理上正当化できません日々の食べ物にも事欠く貧しい人達を貧困から救い出す必要があります彼らが農民である事に誇りを持つようにすべきです彼ら農民のお陰で私達は生き延びているのですから先程申し上げました通り、過去に一度も食料に関する責任がこんなに少数の人達の手にあった事はありませんそして、過去一度も、私達がその贅沢を今ほど当たり前に考えていた事はありませんなぜなら食べ物は今ではあまりに安いからですそして食べ物は結局私達独自の伝統において神聖なものである事を今からご紹介する方以上にわかりやすく説明した人はいないと思います栄養分やカロリーについてそう言っているのではありません分け合うという事です誠実さについて、そして、主体性についてなのですこの事を美しい言葉でおっしゃったのはマハトマガンジー氏です 75年前に彼はパンについて語りました彼は米について語りはしなかったのですインドで彼が言った事は、「1日に2食なしで過ごさなければならない人には神がパンとして現れてくださいます」という事ですそれで、パンがそろそろ焼けますが火傷をしないようにしますねこれを最前列の方々に配らせて下さい食べ物をいくらか分けさせて下さい私のパンを少し取って下さいそして食べて、試してくださいこちらに来て立ち上がって下さいパンを少しどうぞその一口一口があなたを過去や未来へつなぐ事を考えて頂きたいです最初の小麦の種を初めて作った無名の農民達へ、このパンの元を作っている農民達へとつながります皆さんは彼らが誰なのかさえもご存じありませんあなたの全ての食事が世界中から来た中味でできています全ての食べ物が大きな特権を与えてくれて、私達はその食べ物を食する事ができ、毎日食べ物を得るために苦労しないですみますそしてそれこそが進化論的に言って、珍しい事なのですこんな事は過去に一度もありませんでしたですからパンを味わって下さいパンを食べて、特権を与えられている事を感じて下さいご静聴ありがとうございました	And that is bread -- something which is as simple as our basic, most fundamental human staple. And I think few of us spend the day without eating bread in some form. Unless you're on one of these Californian low-carb diets, bread is standard. Bread is not only standard in the Western diet. As I will show to you, it is actually the mainstay of modern life. So I'm going to bake bread for you. In the meantime I'm also talking to you, so my life is going to be complicated. Bear with me. First of all, a little bit of audience participation. I have two loaves of bread here. One is a supermarket standard: white bread, pre-packaged, which I'm told is called a Wonderbread. I didn't know this word until I arrived. And this is more or less, a whole-meal, handmade, small-bakery loaf of bread. Here we go. I want to see a show of hands. Who prefers the whole-meal bread? Okay let me do this differently. Is anybody preferring the Wonderbread at all? I have two tentative male hands. Okay, now the question is really, why is this so? And I think it is because we feel that this kind of bread really is about authenticity. It's about a traditional way of living. A way that is perhaps more real, more honest. This is an image from Tuscany, where we feel agriculture is still about beauty. And life is really, too. And this is about good taste, good traditions. Why do we have this image? Why do we feel that this is more true than this? Well I think it has a lot to do with our history. In the 10,000 years since agriculture evolved, most of our ancestors have actually been agriculturalists or they were closely related to food production. And we have this mythical image of how life was in rural areas in the past. Art has helped us to maintain that kind of image. It was a mythical past. Of course, the reality is quite different. These poor farmers working the land by hand or with their animals, had yield levels that are comparable to the poorest farmers today in West Africa. But we have, somehow, in the course of the last few centuries, or even decades, started to cultivate an image of a mythical, rural agricultural past. that we had the advent of the Industrial Revolution. And while I'm starting to make some bread for you here, it's very important to understand what that revolution did to us. It brought us power. It brought us mechanization, fertilizers. And it actually drove up our yields. And even sort of horrible things, like picking beans by hand, can now be done automatically. All that is a real, great improvement, as we shall see. Of course we also, particularly in the last decade, managed to envelop the world in a dense chain of supermarkets, in a chain of global trade. And it means that you now eat products, which can come from all around the world. That is the reality of our modern life. Now you may prefer this loaf of bread. Excuse my hands but this is how it is. But actually the real relevant bread, historically, is this white Wonder loaf. And don't despise the white bread because it really, I think, symbolizes the fact that bread and food have become plentiful and affordable to all. And that is a feat that we are not really conscious of that much. But it has changed the world. This tiny bread that is tasteless in some ways and has a lot of problems has changed the world. So what is happening? Well the best way to look at that is to do a tiny bit of simplistic statistics. With the advent of the Industrial Revolution with modernization of agriculture in the last few decades, since the 1960s, food availability, per head, in this world, has increased by 25 percent. And the world population in the meantime has doubled. That means that we have now more food available than ever before in human history. And that is the result, directly, of being so successful at increasing the scale and volume of our production. And this is true, as you can see, for all countries, including the so-called developing countries. What happened to our bread in the meantime? As food became plentiful here, it also meant that we were able to decrease to something like, on average, in the high income countries, five percent or less of the population. In the U.S. only one percent of the people are actually farmers. And it frees us all up to do other things -- to sit at TED meetings and not to worry about our food. That is, historically, a really unique situation. Never before has the responsibility to feed the world been in the hands of so few people. And never before have so many people been oblivious of that fact. So as food became more plentiful, bread became cheaper. And as it became cheaper, bread manufacturers decided to add in all kinds of things. We added in more sugar. We add in raisins and oil and milk and all kinds of things to make bread, from a simple food into kind of a support for calories. And today, bread now is associated with obesity, which is very strange. It is the basic, most fundamental food that we've had in the last ten thousand years. Wheat is the most important crop -- the first crop we domesticated and the most important crop we still grow today. But this is now this strange concoction of high calories. And that's not only true in this country, it is true all over the world. Bread has migrated to tropical countries, where the middle classes now eat French rolls and hamburgers and where the commuters find bread much more handy to use than rice or cassava. So bread has become from a main staple, a source of calories associated with obesity and also a source of modernity, of modern life. And the whiter the bread, in many countries, the better it is. So this is the story of bread as we know it now. But of course the price of mass production has been that we moved large-scale. And large-scale has meant destruction of many of our landscapes, destruction of biodiversity -- still a lonely emu here in the Brazilian cerrado soybean fields. The costs have been tremendous -- water pollution, all the things you know about, destruction of our habitats. What we need to do is to go back to understanding what our food is about. And this is where I have to query all of you. How many of you can actually tell wheat apart from other cereals? How many of you actually can make a bread in this way, without starting with a bread machine or just some kind of packaged flavor? Can you actually bake bread? Do you know how much a loaf of bread actually costs? We have become very removed from what our bread really is, which, again, evolutionarily speaking, is very strange. In fact not many of you know that our bread, of course, was not a European invention. It was invented by farmers in Iraq and Syria in particular. The tiny spike on the left to the center is actually the forefather of wheat. This is where it all comes from, and where these farmers who actually, ten thousand years ago, put us on the road of bread. Now it is not surprising that with this massification and large-scale production, there is a counter-movement that emerged -- very much also here in California. The counter-movement says, "Let's go back to this. Let's go back to traditional farming. Let's go back to small-scale, to farmers' markets, small bakeries and all that." Wonderful. Don't we all agree? I certainly agree. I would love to go back to Tuscany to this kind of traditional setting, gastronomy, good food. But this is a fallacy. And the fallacy comes from idealizing a past that we have forgotten about. If we do this, if we want to stay with traditional small-scale farming we are going, actually, to relegate these poor farmers and their husbands -- among whom I have lived for many years, working without electricity and water, to try to improve their food production -- we relegate them to poverty. What they want are implements to increase their production: something to fertilize the soil, something to protect their crop and to bring it to a market. We cannot just think that small-scale is the solution to the world food problem. It's a luxury solution for us who can afford it, if you want to afford it. In fact we do not want this poor woman to work the land like this. If we say just small-scale production, as is the tendency here, to go back to local food means that a poor man like Hans Rosling cannot even eat oranges anymore because in Scandinavia we don't have oranges. So local food production is out. But also we do not want to relegate to poverty in the rural areas. And we do not want to relegate the urban poor to starvation. So we must find other solutions. One of our problems is that world food production needs to increase very rapidly -- doubling by about 2030. The main driver of that is actually meat. And meat consumption in Southeast Asia and China in particular is what drives the prices of cereals. That need for animal protein is going to continue. We can discuss alternatives in another talk, perhaps one day, but this is our driving force. So what can we do? Can we find a solution to produce more? Yes. But we need mechanization. And I'm making a real plea here. I feel so strongly that you cannot ask a small farmer to work the land and bend over to grow a hectare of rice, 150,000 times, just to plant a crop and weed it. You cannot ask people to work under these conditions. We need clever low-key mechanization that avoids the problems of the large-scale mechanization that we've had. So what can we do? We must feed three billion people in cities. We will not do that through small farmers' markets because these people have no small farmers' markets at their disposal. They have low incomes. And they benefit from cheap, affordable, safe and diverse food. That's what we must aim for in the next 20 to 30 years. But yes there are some solutions. And let me just do one simple conceptual thing: if I plot science as a proxy for control of the production process and scale. What you see is that we've started in the left-hand corner with traditional agriculture, which was sort of small-scale and low-control. We've moved towards large-scale and very high control. What I want us to do is to keep up the science and even get more science in there but go to a kind of regional scale -- not just in terms of the scale of the fields, but in terms of the entire food network. That's where we should move. And the ultimate may be, but it doesn't apply to cereals, that we have entirely closed ecosystems -- the horticultural systems right at the top left-hand corner. So we need to think differently about agriculture science. Agriculture science for most people -- and there are not many farmers among you here -- has this name of being bad, of being about pollution, about large-scale, about the destruction of the environment. That is not necessary. We need more science and not less. And we need good science. So what kind of science can we have? Well first of all I think we can do much better on the existing technologies. Use biotechnology where useful, particularly in pest and disease resistance. There are also robots, for example, who can recognize weeds with a resolution of half an inch. We have much cleverer irrigation. We do not need to spill the water if we don't want to. And we need to think very dispassionately about the comparative advantages of small-scale and large-scale. We need to think that land is multi-functional. It has different functions. There are different ways in which we must use it -- for residential, for nature, for agriculture purposes. And we also need to re-examine livestock. Go regional and go to urban food systems. I want to see fish ponds in parking lots and basements. I want to have horticulture and greenhouses on top of residential areas. And I want to use the energy that comes from those greenhouses and from the fermentation of crops to heat our residential areas. There are all kinds of ways we can do it. We cannot solve the world food problem by using biological agriculture. But we can do a lot more. And the main thing that I would really ask all of you as you go back to your countries, or as you stay here: ask your government for an integrated food policy. Food is as important as energy, as security, as the environment. Everything is linked together. So we can do that. In fact in a densely populated country like the River Delta, where I live in the Netherlands, we have combined these functions. So this is not science fiction. We can combine things even in a social sense of making the rural areas more accessible to people -- to house, for example, the chronically sick. There is all kinds of things we can do. But there is something you must do. It's not enough for me to say, "Let's get more bold science into agriculture." You must go back and think about your own food chain. Talk to farmers. When was the last time you went to a farm and talked to a farmer? Talk to people in restaurants. Understand where you are in the food chain, where your food comes from. Understand that you are part of this enormous chain of events. And that frees you up to do other things. And above all, to me, food is about respect. It's about understanding, when you eat, that there are also many people who are still in this situation, who are still struggling for their daily food. And the kind of simplistic solutions that we sometimes have, to think that doing everything by hand is going to be the solution, is really not morally justified. We need to help to lift them out of poverty. We need to make them proud of being a farmer because they allow us to survive. Never before, as I said, has the responsibility for food been in the hands of so few. And never before have we had the luxury of taking it for granted because it is now so cheap. And I think there is nobody else who has expressed better, to me, the idea that food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity. Who said this so beautifully was Mahatma Gandhi, 75 years ago, when he spoke about bread. He did not speak about rice, in India. He said, "To those who have to go without two meals a day, God can only appear as bread." And so as I'm finishing my bread here -- and I've been baking it, and I'll try not to burn my hands. Let me share with those of you here in the first row. Let me share some of the food with you. Take some of my bread. And as you eat it, and as you try it -- please come and stand up. Have some of it. I want you to think that every bite connects you to the past and the future: to these anonymous farmers, that first bred the first wheat varieties; and to the farmers of today, who've been making this. And you don't even know who they are. Every meal you eat contains ingredients from all across the world. Everything makes us so privileged, that we can eat this food, that we don't struggle every day. And that, I think, evolutionarily-speaking is unique. We've never had that before. So enjoy your bread. Eat it, and feel privileged. Thank you very much.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
「......!?」イングリスの声にレオンは振り返り、ぎょっとした顔をする。やはりレオンだ。間違いない。その周りには見覚えのある雷の獣も従えている。「イングリスちゃんか......!? ますます綺麗になってるなぁ......!」何故ここに......!?」レオンは血鉄鎖旅団に下ったはず。という事は血鉄鎖旅団は何かここで行おうとしている? との取引を邪魔しようというのか。通り魔騒ぎもその一環という事なのだろうか。しかしレオンの奥には別の、明らかに異様な風体の男もいる。を浮き上がらせた怪人だ。顔には銀色の仮面を被っており、その人相は分からない。を持つ人間を狙うと言っていた。だと。しかも立ち位置から、レオンはそれに対峙していたようにも映る。「爆ぜろッ!」雷の獣達が轟音を上げて弾け飛び、目を開けていられない程の光が発生する。「くっ......!」イングリスといえども一瞬目を閉じざるを得ず―― 「じゃあな! ここは譲るぜ!」そんな声が聞こえた。そして目を開いた時には、レオンの姿は消え去っていた。相変わらず、引き際の素早さは鮮やかとも言える。 ――だがこの場は終わりではない。まだ、レオンと対峙していた所持者を襲う通り魔とはあなたですか?」というものは一人一つだ。にも個人個人の性質があり、それに合ったものがを自力で感知したり制御したりする感性を持たない現代人の人々に合わせた仕組みである。だがこの男には、いくつものも、何人分も重なり合っているように見えるのだ。そしてその総計は――イングリスの口元が思わず緩む。どうやら久しぶりに歯ごたえのある相手と巡り会えたようだ。「できれば、わたしも襲っていただきたいのですが」「――いら......ん。マズそうな女......だ」ややたどたどしく、だが返事は返ってきた。「これでも見た目はよく褒められるのですが」「では、これでは?」イングリスは身に纏う怪人は狂喜の叫びを上げていた。「はい、どうぞ。取れるものなら、ですが」イングリスはにっこりと笑いながら怪人を手招きした。姿勢を低くした怪人が、獣のように雄叫びを上げて突っ込んでくる。 ――かなり早い! の動きにも負けていないかも知れない。しかし反応できないと言うほどでもない。猛然と繰り出される拳や蹴り、体当たりをイングリスは紙一重で見切って避けて行く。攻撃が当たらない事に焦れ始めたのか、男の攻撃が段々大振りになって行く。の力を見せて下さい」掬い上げるような軌道の拳を避けざまに、相手の脇腹に掌打を撃ちこんだ。その勢いで敵は近くの廃屋のを囲う塀を破壊し突き抜け、壁に叩きつけられた。「があぁっ!? クク......」相当な衝撃はあったはず――だが、男は何事も無かったかのように立ち上がる。これはかなりの耐久力だ。おもしろい。のいくつかが輝きを増す。ピキンと凍りつくような音を立て、両手の内に研ぎ澄まされた氷の刃が形成された。そして再び地を蹴り、こちらに突進してくる。 ――先程よりも早い! 繰り出されの氷の刃を、イングリスは舞うような華麗な身のこなしで避ける。に別の輝きが宿り、その姿がかき消えた。「......!?」ヒュンヒュンヒュンッ! そして見えなくなったまま、敵の攻撃は続行される。気配と肌に触れる空気や音を頼りに避ける―― が、確実に先程までより攻撃を捌く難易度が跳ね上がっている。長い銀髪が敵の刃に触れ、はらりと一房その場に散った。避け続けるといずれは追い込まれる。ならば、とイングリスは見えない敵の攻撃を見切り、両の手首を掴んで止めた。男の動揺する気配が伝わる。も全部見せて下さい。せっかくですから、ね? お願いします」イングリスは愛想よくお願いしたつもりだった。が、逆に相手を怯えさせてしまったようである。	「......!?」 At the sound of Inglis’ voice, Leon turned around and made a surprised look. It was Leon, after all. There was no mistaking it. He was also accompanied by the lightning beasts that surrounded him. 「Is that you, Inglis girl......!? You’ve grown even prettier......!」「Why are you here......!?」 Leon should have been under the Ironblood Chain Brigade now. So, does that mean that the Ironblood Chain Brigade is scheming something in the capital? Is it an attempt to interfere with the transaction with the Highland that Faris mentioned, after all? I wonder if the Slasher is part of their plan. However, besides Leon, there was another man with a bizarre appearance that was positioned behind him. It was a mysterious person with Runes all over his body. His face was hiding behind a silver mask, making it impossible to find out his profile. He told them it was a Rune Eater. Looking at their positions, it appeared that Leon was confronting the slasher. 「Explode!」 The lightning beasts roared and exploded, generating so much light that made anyone unable to open their eyes. 「Kh......!」 Even for Inglis, she couldn’t help but close her eyes for a moment—— 「Later! I’ll leave this one to you!」 And they heard such a remark. By the time Inglis opened her eyes again, Leon’s figure was nowhere to be seen. As usual, his swiftness in retreat could be said to be top-notch. ——However, the curtain wasn’t closed yet. The mysterious man with many Runes that stood opposite to Leon still lingered in the scene. 「...... Who are you? Are your the slasher who assaults Rune owners?」 Normally, there was only one instance of rune for each person. As how every individual had their own unique nature of mana, the Rune that was etched onto their person was unique. This mechanism was designed for people of the current age who couldn’t perceive nor manipulate mana all by themselves. However, for this man, along with several Rune instances on his body, Inglis also could feel several different mana wavelengths from him. From how she looked, this man appeared to have several people’s portions of Runes and Mana overlapping in himself. And the total of all of those——made Inglis’ mouth loosened up. Seems like I’ve finally run into a tough opponent after a while. 「If it’s okay with you, I’d like you to assault me too.」「 ——No... need. Ugly tasting... woman.」 His speech was broken, but he gave a reply. 「I’m often praised for my appearance, just so you know.」「Well, how about this then?」 Inglis changed the Ether that enveloped her body into mana. The man howled like in wild ecstasy. 「Here you go. If you can take it, that is.」 With a grin hanging from one ear to another, Inglis beckoned the man. The man came charging at Inglis from a low posture, shrieking like a mindless beast. ——He’s pretty fast! Perhaps, his movements wouldn’t lose to those of the Hyrule Menaces. However, it wasn’t so fast that Inglis couldn’t react. The punches, kicks, and body blows that he fiercely carried out, all was seen through and evaded paper-thin by Inglis. The man’s attacks were getting bigger as he grew impatient that none of his assaults hit the mark. 「What’s wrong? Please show the power of those Runes.」 While avoiding the scooping uppercut, Inglis delivered a palm strike to her opponent. With the momentum, the mysterious man flew through the fences of an abandoned house and only stopped once he hit a wall. 「GAAH!? Kuku.......」 There should have been a considerably serious body trauma——And yet, the man stood back to his feet as if nothing happened. He has quite the endurance. Interesting. Some of the Runes on his body increased their brilliance intensity. With a clink, dry sound of something freezing over, sharp blades of ice formed in his both hands. He once again kicked the ground, rushing towards Inglis. ——He’s even faster! Inglis evaded the incoming two ice blades with gorgeous dancing moves. During that time——Another Rune glowed from his body, and his figure then vanished. 「......!?」 Woosh woosh woosh! And, even when Inglis couldn’t see him, the attacks he delivered kept coming. Relying on presence, the sensation of air on her skin, and the whistling sound, Inglis evaded the incoming slashes—— But, it was certain that the difficulty of handling those attacks skyrocketed compared to before. Inglis’ silvery long hair was touched by her enemy’s blade, leaving some strands fluttering apart. If all she did was evading, she would eventually be cornered. If that’s the case , Inglis scrutinized as she predicted the invisible enemy’s attacks then grabbed both of his wrists to a stop. The man’s agitation traveled to Inglis. 「We’re not done yet.... Please show all the Runes you haven’t activated yet. We’re having such a good bout after all, are we not? Please, humor me.」 Inglis meant to ask him in a friendly manner. But, her opponent seemed to be frightened by her instead.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 6, "inserted_lines_src": 24, "inserted_lines_trg": 7 }
段々と浮き上がって行くような感覚。俺はどうしたんだっけ? 夢の中から覚めるような感覚。あれ、俺は寝てたのか? ......なんだろう......体の感覚はある。考える事も出来る。えーと......? 少し手や足を動かして確認してみる。うん、ちゃんと動く......でも態勢としてこれは横になってるな。横になってるって事はやっぱり寝ていたんだろう。「......ん」目を開けてみる。うん、見える。ここは......多分、屋敷の俺に宛てがわれた部屋だ、見覚えがある。視線を変えるため、顔を横に向ける。「あれ、クレアさん?」向けた視線の先に、クレアさんがいた。クレアさんだけじゃない。セバスチャンさんも、ライラさんも、ゲルダさんも、レオもフェンリルもいた。「タクミさん!?」「ワフ!?」「目が覚めましたか、タクミ様!」俺が皆を確認したところで、クレアさんやレオ、セバスチャンさんから大きな声があがった。んー? どうしたんだろう、皆驚いたような顔をして。それにしても、何で皆俺の部屋にいるんだ? 「皆、どうしてここに?」「タクミさん、覚えて無いのですか?」「タクミ様は客間で倒れられたのです」客間......そういえば客間でクレアさんと話してた事は覚えてる。確か、森から帰って来てすぐだったな。うん、色々思い出して来たぞ。何故かはわからないが、急に視界が真っ白になって意識が途切れたんだ。ここで寝てるのは、誰かが運んでくれたんだろう。「......おはようございます」「はぁ......まったくタクミさんは......。おはようございます、よく眠っておられましたね」「心配していたこちらが拍子抜けしますな。おはようございます、タクミ様」「ワフワフ!」クレアさんやセバスチャンさんから呆れた口調で挨拶を返された。レオからも溜め息を吐くような声で返されるし......起きて最初の挨拶はおはようじゃないの? そんな事を考えつつ、ティルラちゃんやライラさん、ゲルダさんにフェンリルにも挨拶をしておいた。「タクミさん、起きられますか?」「はい」クレアさんの言葉に、俺は体を起こしてベッドから降りる。そのまま立ち上がった俺を見て、セバスチャンさんが安心するように言った。体の調子は特に悪くないな、しっかり寝た後のすっきりした感覚だ。「ワフー」「よしよし」レオが俺の体に顔を摺り寄せて来たので、頭を撫でておく。なんか、心配させちゃったのかな? 「タクミ様、とりあえず客間の方へ移動できますかな? タクミ様が倒れた状況も話しておきたいので」さすがにこの部屋でこのまま話し込むわけにもいかないよな。椅子もないから立ったままか床へ直に座る事になる。レオやフェンリルはそれで良いかもしれないが、クレアさんやティルラちゃんは貴族のお嬢様だから、行儀の悪い事はセバスチャンさんが許しそうにない。セバスチャンさんが先にライラさん、ゲルダさんに客間の用意をさせるよう伝えて部屋から出す。クレアさんは心配そうに俺を見ながら、客間で先に待ってますと言ってティルラちゃんを連れて客間に向かった。セバスチャンさんとレオは俺に付いていてくれるようだ。理由はわからないが、俺は倒れたみたいだからな。今は普通に立って歩けるはずだが、念のためという事だろう。俺はササっと身支度を整え、セバスチャンさんやレオに客間へ向かった。セバスチャンさんが客間をノックして、中からクレアさんの声で許可が出てから入室。中にはクレアさん、ティルラちゃんが座っており、フェンリルはティルラちゃんに抱えられてた。ライラさんとゲルダさんは扉の横で待機、セバスチャンさんはクレアさんの横へ移動した。俺とレオがテーブルにつくと、ライラさんが俺のお茶を淹れてくれる。「さてタクミさん、倒れる前の事は思い出せますか?」俺がテーブルについて一口お茶を飲んだところでクレアさんから声がかかる。んー、倒れる前の事......。「確か、森から帰って来た後、この客間に来たのは覚えています」「そうです。そこでレオ様と一緒にお寛ぎになられていました。その後はどうですか?」その後? 「クレアさんとティルラちゃんがここに来て......話をしてたと思います」「しっかり覚えているようですね。私と話をしている時に倒れられたのです」何の話をしてたっけな......確か......『雑草栽培』についてだ。そうそう、『雑草栽培』で研究した事とかをクレアさんに話そうとしたら、いきなり視界が真っ白になったんだ。その時の事を思い出したが、視界が真っ白になる感覚も思い出し、少しだけ身震いする。「大丈夫ですか? 顔色が悪いですけど」「倒れる間際......それはどういった感覚だったのですか? あ、いえ......思い出したく無い事ならば言わなくても良いのですが」クレアさんは心配そうな顔をして聞いて来るが、俺が顔色を悪くした事を気にして言わなくても良いと言ってくれた。あの視界が真っ白になる感覚はあまり思い出したいものじゃないが、心配してくれた皆に言うくらいは大丈夫だ。段々とあれを思い出すのにも慣れて来てる......うん、もう何ともないな。「大丈夫です、話せます」「レオ、心配してくれてありがとう。大丈夫だから」レオが横から顔を覗き込んで来て、俺を心配するように鳴いたが大丈夫だ。心配してくれたレオに感謝をするため、頭を撫でておく。「はい。えっと......あの時は急に視界が真っ白になったんです」「視界が真っ白......何も見えないのですか?」「白以外は何も見えませんでした。一応、耳は聞こえてたようで、レオやクレアさん、ティルラちゃん達が俺に声を掛けてくれたのは聞こえてました」「何も見えない......それは恐ろしいですね」クレアさんやティルラちゃんがその時の俺の状況を想像したのか、顔を青ざめさせた。何であんな事が起こったのかはわからないが、普通起こる事じゃないからな、いきなり視界が奪われるってのは怖いもんだ。	I felt like I was slowly floating upwards. What happened to me again? It was as if I was waking from a dream. Had I been sleeping then? ...I don’t know... I could feel my body now. And I could think. Uhh...? I will try to move my arms and legs. Hmm. They move fine... But I seem to be on my side. I suppose that I was sleeping then. “...Hmm.” I opened my eyes. Yes. I could see. This... It was familiar. The room that I had been assigned to me in the mansion. In order to change my view, I turned my head to the side. “Huh? Ms. Claire?” Ms. Claire was in front of me. And not just her. Sebastian, Ms. Lyra, Ms. Gelda. Leo and the fenrir were there as well. “Mr. Takumi!?” “Wuff!?” “You are awake, Mr. Takumi!” Once I saw that they were all there, Ms. Claire, Leo, and Sebastian shouted at me. Hmm? Why were they all so surprised? Also, why were they inside of my room? “Everyone. What happened?” “Mr. Takumi. You do not remember?” “You fainted in the drawing room.” The drawing room... Now that I thought about it, I remember talking with Ms. Claire. Yes. It was right after we returned from the forest. I am starting to remember different things now. I don’t know why, but my vision had suddenly become white and I lost consciousness. And I had been sleeping here because someone must have carried me. “...Good morning.” “Ha...really, Mr. Takumi... Good morning. You seemed to have slept well.” “You gave us a terrible fright, Mr. Takumi.” “Wuff-wuff!” Ms. Claire and Sebastian sounded a little exasperated as they answered. Even Leo was sighing visibly... Shouldn’t you say good morning, Leo? Thinking this, I said good morning to Tilura, Ms. Lyra, Ms. Gelda, and the fenrir as well. “Mr. Takumi. Can you get up?” “Yes.” As Ms. Claire asked this, I sat up and then got out of my bed. Sebastian said with relief as he saw me get to my feet. Yes, I didn’t think anything was wrong. It was the same old feeling after a good night’s sleep. “Wuff.” As Leo rubbed her face into me, I patted her on the head. I suppose she really was worried? “Mr. Takumi. Perhaps we should go to the drawing room? Then we can tell you about how you fainted.” “Very well.” Indeed, this was not the place to start having a conversation. There were no chairs, and so you would have to stand or sit on the floor. And that might be fine for Leo or the fenrir, but Ms. Claire and Tilura were the daughters of a duke, and Sebastian was not likely to permit something so ill-mannered. Ms. Lyra and Ms Gelda left first, and said they would prepare the drawing room. Ms. Claire gave me a concerned look, and then said that she would be waiting for me, and then she took Tilura and left the room. Apparently, Sebastian would come with me and Leo. I didn’t know why, but I had fainted. So he probably wanted to make sure that I could walk properly. And so I quickly got ready and then headed to the drawing room with Leo and Sebastian. Sebastian knocked on the door and Ms. Claire gave him permission to enter. Inside, Ms. Claire and Tilura were sitting. The fenrir was on Tilura’s lap. Ms. Lyra and Ms. Gelda waited by the door, and Sebastian moved to stand next to Ms. Claire. Leo and I went to the table and then Ms. Lyra poured me a cup of tea. “So, Mr. Takumi. Do you remember what happened right before you fainted?” Asked Ms. Claire after I had taken a sip of the tea. Hmm. Before I fainted... “I know that after we returned from the forest, I came to this drawing room.” “That’s right. And you and Leo were relaxing. But what about after that?” After that? “Ms. Claire and Tilura came here...and we were talking.” “So you do remember. It was when we were speaking that you fainted.” But what had we been talking about... I think it was...about Weed Cultivation. That’s right, I was going to tell Ms. Claire about my research with it. And then my vision suddenly turned white. Thinking about it now, the sensation of everything going white returned for a second, and I shuddered. “Are you alright? You look a little pale.” “...Yes, I’m fine. I just remember the moment before I fell...” “The moment before... What did it feel like? Ah, um...you do not have to say it if you don’t want to think about it.” Ms. Claire asked as she looked at my face worriedly. But she also realized that I might not want to talk about it. While it wasn’t something that I wanted to remember, they were all so worried about me, and so I thought that I should tell them. Besides, I was getting used to thinking about it... Yes, it was nothing. “I’m fine. I can talk about it.” “Wuff?” “Thanks for your concern, Leo. I really am fine.” Leo was staring at me from the side. She even barked questioningly, but I was fine. I patted her on the head with gratitude. “If you say so, Mr. Takumi...” “Yes. Uh... When it happened, my vision suddenly turned white.” “White... And you couldn’t see anything?” “Nothing but white. But I could still hear. I remember hearing the voices of Leo, Ms. Claire and Tilura calling to me.” “It must have been very frightening...to not be able to see.” Ms. Claire and Tilura seemed to be imagining the moment, and they looked pale. I didn’t know what had caused it, but it was out of the ordinary. Being suddenly robbed of your vision was indeed a frightening thing.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 5, "inserted_lines_src": 4, "inserted_lines_trg": 1 }
精神的に疲れていた俺は、フィニアの作った料理に舌鼓を打ち、コルティナ達と他愛も無い会話を楽しむ。「それでニコルちゃんってば、私の話を盗み聞きして、そのまま山蛇を倒しに行っちゃったんだよ」「まあ! 相変わらずニコル様は油断も隙もありませんね」「いや、提案したのはミシェルちゃんだし。わたしは主導してないし」「またそうやって人のせいにしちゃって。しかも本当に倒してきちゃうから困るんだよなぁ。叱るに叱れない」「それもまたニコル様らしいですね。無茶を無理矢理押し通しちゃうんですから」俺は呻くようにテーブルに突っ伏し、睡眠前に入れてくれた蜂蜜入りのミルクをすする。「フィニアまで怒らなくてもいいじゃない。もうたっぷりコルティナに叱られたし」「ニコル様、そう言う問題じゃありませんよ? これがライエル様の耳に入ったりしたら――」フィニアが口を濁したところで、玄関の扉を叩く音が聞こえてきた。「ニコルゥゥゥゥゥゥ!?」前世では散々聞いた声だし、今世でもそれなりに聞いている。言わずと知れた、ライエルの絶叫だ。「フィニア、噂をすれば影がって言う格言を知ってる?」「でもライエル様はいらっしゃいますし......そろそろ来てもおかしくない頃合いですよ?」ライエル達が以前この家を訪れたのは、遠足前の前夜。ちょうど三日前に当たる。それで三日に一度。週に三回は顔を出すようにしている辺り、ライエルもマリアも、実にまめである。それだけ愛されているとわかる証拠ではある。しかし、子供なら単純に嬉しいのだろうが、中身が俺だから微妙な気分だ。転移先として指定されているのがマクスウェルの屋敷というのも、回数を減らした遠因だろう。玄関を合鍵で開け、ずかずかと乗り込んでくる二人。「いらっしゃい。パパ、ママ」「いらっしゃいませ、ライエル様。マリア様」「ちょっと、せめて家主の断りを待ってから入ってきなさいよ」とにかく、二人が怒っているのは――特にマリアが怒っているのは理解できた。おそらくは山蛇の顛末を耳にしたと推測される。「ニコル、正座」「は? え?」「......はい」俺はマリアの剣幕に、反論の機会すらなく従う。こうなるとマリアは怖い。それはもう、ライエルよりも遥かに怖い。口答えしようものなら、汚物を見るような目で見つめられてしまうのだ。いや、これは前世の事だが。「山蛇を倒したんですって?」「うん」「子供達だけで?」「カッちゃんもいたよ?」マリアにまでアレ扱いか。カッちゃんも哀れな。「危ないことしちゃダメでしょ! 心配したじゃない」「でも勝算は充分にあったし。コルティナの策だから、万が一はあり得ないし......」「ちょっとニコルちゃん、私を巻き込まないで!?」彼女もマリアの怖さを知る一人。ここで余計なとばっちりを受けたくないと思っているだろう。だが死なば諸共なのだ、コルティナよ。策を漏らしたお前が悪いのだ。「コルティナには後で物理的に折檻しておくからいいの」「物理的!?」「精神的にもね」「ダブルで!!」絶望の悲鳴を上げるコルティナ。だがそれを無視してマリアの説教は続く。「ねえ、ニコル。私たちはあなたにすごく悪い事をしたと思ってるの。あなたの身体が弱いのは、幼い頃私のお乳で育てられなかったから」「それはわたしが飲まなかっただけで......」そうだ、あの頃の俺はマリアの胸に吸い付くという行為に遠慮して、半ばハンガーストライキのような状態にあった。「例え嫌がってでも、無理矢理飲ませればよかったと何度思った事か。でもあなた可愛さに私にはそれができなかった。結果的に今のあなたは、とても身体が弱くなってしまったわ」「幸いあなたは成長するとともに、身体も丈夫になっては来てる。でもそれはあなた自身の修練の成果であって、私たちの力じゃない」「いやでも――」「いい、ニコル。一度失敗した私だから、言わせてもらうの。あなたの身体は、言わばボロボロの馬車に近いわ。それを最高の軍馬を繋いで牽かせているようなものなの」マリアは俺の身体を馬車に例えて解説し始めた。ボロボロの馬車は俺の身体。最高の軍馬はライエルとの訓練の成果。そうやって過剰な出力で振り回された結果、やがて俺の身体は崩壊する。確かに子供にあるまじき戦闘力を誇る俺は、その無理から身体を壊してしまう可能性を、常に抱えている。「だからせめて、もう少し成長するまでは大人しくしていて欲しいの。お願い」「う、うん......」俺は忘れがちではあるが、この身体は俺の物であると同時に、マリアの娘の物なのだ。ある意味、一人の身体ではない。前世のような無理は、彼女に心労を与える事を、俺は心の底から思い知らされたのである。	Come evening, it was time for dinner. Being mentally tired, I enjoyed the dinner Finia made and then had fun doing silly chatter with Cortina and others. I was trying to get back on track towards looking stoic, but I let myself have at least this much fun. “And so, she eavesdropped on my conversation and went to defeat the Mountain Serpent.” “Oh dear! As always, you can never be careful with Lady Nicole around.” “No, Michelle was the one who proposed it. It wasn’t by my initiative.” “There you go putting the blame on others again. And girls you went and actually defeated it. I can’t even get angry despite wanting to.” “That also sounds like what Lady Nicole would do. She always pushes on with her recklessness.” Even Finia was trying to roll her eyes so I gave up. I lied down on the table with a groan and sipped the milk mixed with honey that was my usual routine before bed. “Not you too, Finia. Cortina already yelled at me enough.” “Lady Nicole, that’s not what I mean, you know? If that reached Lord Lyell’s ea—” Just as Finia started to say it, someone started knocking on the door. And with it, came an almost grieving yell. “NICOOOOOOLEE!?” Of course, I knew who that voice was. I’ve heard it plenty of times in my past life, or even in this. Needless to say, it was Lyell’s. “Finia, haven’t you heard of a proverb, ‘speak of the devil’?” “But Lord Lyell comes once every three days... It’s about time for him to come, right?” Lyell and Maria last visited exactly three days ago, the night before the excursion. As she said, it wasn’t weird for him to intrude on us now, but what about this timing? As it was burdening Maria, their visits through teleportation had decreased compared to before. But they still did it every two or three days. They were both quite devoted, showing themselves about three times a week. That was just how loved I was. However, while a normal child would be happy about it, I was quite conflicted about it given who I was. The reason behind their frequency decreasing was also linked to the fact the teleporting destination was set up at Maxwell’s house. Teleportation magic wasn’t something that should be displayed too openly, so they decided to set it there. In other words, every time they leaped here, they would be intruding on Maxwell. Thus, the two opened the door with their duplicate key and barged in. Their faces were dyed red from worry and anger. “Welcome, Dad, Mom.” “Welcome, Lord Lyell, Lady Maria.” “Hey, at least wait for the house owner to open the door.” The three of us greeted them in three different ways. No, well, Cortina’s wasn’t exactly a greeting. At any rate, I realized why the two—particularly Maria—were angry. I could guess that the details about the Mountain Serpent had reached their ears. Now, it was critical for me to shift the point of their anger away from me. “Nicole, on your knees.” “Huh? What?” “...Okay.” And yet, I failed at it right away. I obeyed Maria’s angry command without even managing to say an excuse. She was scary once she became like that. Way scarier than Lyell could ever be. If you talked back to her, she’d look at you as if she was looking at the filth. That was during my past life, though. “I heard you defeated the Mountain Serpent.” “Yes.” “Just you kids.” “Kabby was with us too.” So even Maria calls Kabby “that”, huh? What a poor fellow. “Don’t go and do something so dangerous! Do you know how worried I was!?” “But I had a good enough chance of victory. It was Cortina’s plan, so there was no chance for an unlikely event...” “Hey, don’t drag me into it!” She was looking at the situation with a smug face, but when her name got called out she started panicking. She was well aware of how scary Maria could be. She probably didn’t want to become a side victim of our quarrel. But when we die, we die together, Cortina. You are at fault for leaking that plan to me. “I’ll deal with Cortina later, “PHYSICALLY?” “Mentally too.” “I GET BOTH!?” She raised a hopeless shriek. But Maria ignored her and continued her sermon. Instead, her saddened voice started to gradually change. Well, this is hard. “Listen, Nicole. I think we did something bad to you. The reason your body is weak is due to not raising you with my milk.” “It was me who was not drinking it...” Right, back then I was feeling reserved to suck on Maria’s breasts, so I was on a half hunger strike. That influenced my growth and manifested as my weak constitution. But that was something I did out of my own will, and not something Maria should be blamed for. “Even if that was the case, I should have forcibly made you drink it, I still think of it all the time. But you were so cute I couldn’t make myself do it. But because of that, you gained a very weak constitution.” “Fortunately, your body started to become stronger as you aged. But that was all thanks to your own efforts and not ours.” “But still—” “Nicole. I failed once, so let me say this much. If I had to compare, your body is like a tattered carriage. But pulling it is the strongest warhorse.” Maria started explaining by comparing my body to a carriage. Body like that of a tattered carriage. The strongest warhorse referred to my training with Lyell. If I put my body under such excess power, it would eventually break down. As she said, there was always the possibility of me breaking my body due to having power inappropriate for a child. “That’s why, please, stop being so reckless at least until you’ve grown some more.” “O-Okay...” As Maria pleaded to me with tears welling up in her eyes, I could do nothing but reply with that. I was quite forgetful about it, however, while this body belonged to me, it also belonged to Maria’s daughter. In a way, it wasn’t just my own body. Being as reckless as I was in my previous life brought her extreme worry – I was made fully aware of that fact.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 3, "inserted_lines_src": 18, "inserted_lines_trg": 2 }
おそらくこの1世紀の間に現れた最大のアイデアであると見なされるようになるでしょう「計算」というアイデアですこのアイデアはもちろん今日の様々なコンピュータ技術をもたらしたものですが計算にはそれ以上のものがあります非常に深く強力で根本的なアイデアなのです私たちはその力をまだ目にし始めたばかりです私は過去30年をこの計算というアイデアに真剣に向き合おうとする 3つの大きなプロジェクトに費やしてきました若い時分に私はコンピュータを道具として使う物理学者としてキャリアを始めましたその後それを掘り下げていくようになりましたやりたいと思う計算はどんなものか考え計算を形作りうる基本要素は何かどこまで自動化することができるのかを見極めようとしましたそして記号プログラミングに基づいたシステムを作るようになりそれがMathematicaへと繋がりましたこの23年間私たちは Mathematicaに多くのアイデアや機能を加速度的に付け加えていきました Mathematicaが研究開発や教育の分野でたくさんの素晴らしい成果に貢献していることをとても嬉しく思っていますそもそも私がMathematicaを作ったのはとても利己的な理由だったことを打ち明けなければなりませんそれは自分が使いたいものだったのですちょうどガリレオが400年前に望遠鏡を作ったのに似ていますが私の見たかったのは天文学的な宇宙ではなく計算的な宇宙だったのです私たちは普通プログラムをとても明確な目的を持って作られた複雑なものと見ていますがすべての可能なプログラム全体の空間というものを考えてみましょうこれは1つの非常にシンプルなプログラムの表現ですこのプログラムを実行するとこのようなものが得られますとてもシンプルですプログラムのルールを少しだけ変えてみましょうすると別な結果が得られますが相変わらずシンプルですもう一度変えてみましょう幾分複雑になりましたがしばらく実行し続けるとパターンは込み入っているにしてもとても規則的な構造をしているのがわかりますもっと違ったことも起き得るのでしょうか? もう少し実験してみましょう数学的な実験をして試し探すのです今見ているタイプのプログラムで考え得るすべてのものを実行してみますこれはセルオートマトンと呼ばれるものです多様な振る舞いが見られます多くのものはとてもシンプルですがこれら異なったパターンを見ていくとルール30のところで何か面白いことが起きていますひとつルール30を詳しく見てみましょうこれです下に示したごくシンプルなルールに従っているだけなのですがこのような驚くべき結果になるのです私たちが見慣れた何にも似ていません初めてこれを見たとき直感的にものすごいショックを受けこれを理解しようとして結局は「新しい種類の科学」をまるまる作り出すことになったのですこの科学は違っておりこの300年我々の使ってきた数学に基づく科学よりもっと一般的なのです一体どうやって自然は我々の目には複雑きわまりなく見えるものを苦もなく作り出しているのか? それはずっと大きな謎に思えていました私たちはその秘密を見つけたのだと思います計算の宇宙にあるものをサンプリングするだけでルール30のようなものがよく見つかるのですあるいはこんなものもそのことが分かると科学において長い間謎とされてきたことが見えてきますしかしそれは同時に計算的還元不能性という新たな問題も提起します私たちは科学によって物事が予測できることに馴染んでいますがここにあるようなものは根本的に還元不能なのですその結果を知る実質唯一の方法はただ進化を見守ることしかないのですこれは私が計算的等価の原理と呼ぶものに関連していますつまり非常に単純なシステムが他のどんな高度なシステムとも同等の計算を行い得るということです任意の計算ができるようになるためにさほどのテクノロジーや生物進化は必要となりませんそれは至る所で自然に起きていることなのですこのようなシンプルなルールでできることなのですこのことは科学に予想や制御のできない領域があることを示しています生物学的なプロセスや経済に関すること宇宙にある知性自由意志についての疑問テクノロジーの創造などがそうです長年この科学に取り組んできた中で私はいつも思っていました「これの最初のキラーアプリになるのは何だろうか?」私は子供の頃から知識を体系化したり計算可能にすることに関心を持っていましたライプニッツも300年前に同じことを考えていますしかし私はまた進歩のためには脳全体を複製する必要があるとも思っていましたしかし今はこう考えるようになりました「この私の科学パラダイムはそれとは違ったことを示している自分にはMathematicaによる膨大な計算能力があり大規模で一見クレージーなプロジェクトでも遂行できる世界第一級のリソースを持つ会社のCEOでもあるのだから世界の体系的知識のどれほどが計算可能にできるものかひとつ試してみることにしよう」これは大きくてとても複雑なプロジェクトですそもそもうまくいくのかも分かりませんでしたしかしありがたいことにこれはとてもうまくいっています去年私たちは最初の Webサイト版のWolfram Alphaを公開することができましたこれの目的は質問に対する答えを計算する本格的な知識エンジンを作ることです試してみましょう最初は簡単なことからやってみましょう [2+2と入力] うまくいくでしょうか... うまくいきましたここまでは順調ですもう少し難しいことをやってみましょうたとえば... [integrate x^2 sin^3 x dxと入力] 少し数学的なことをやってうまくいけば答えを出してさらに関連した数学的に興味深いことを何か教えてくれます現実世界のことについて質問することもできますたとえば...何にしよう... スペインのGDPはいくらか? 答えてくれるはずですついでに関連したことを聞いてみましょうスペインのGDPを何かで割ってみましょうえーと... Microsoftの売上とかここで実現したいのはこういった質問をどのようにでも考えた通りに入力できるということですもっと質問を試してみましょうたとえば健康に関する質問ですそういうことを調べてくれるラボがあるつもりで入力してみましょう「50歳男性 LDLコレステロール 140」するとWolfram Alphaは利用可能な公的医療データを使ってそれがヒストグラムのどこにあたるかを見出します今度は国際宇宙ステーションのことを尋ねてみましょうどこかから情報を見つけてくるだけではありません今この瞬間に国際宇宙ステーションがどこにありどれだけの速さで移動しているかをリアルタイムで計算しています Wolfram Alphaは様々な種類のことを知っています今では普通の資料集などで見つけられる情報のかなりの部分が網羅されていますしかし目標としているのはもっと深くもっと広くあらゆる知識を万人に開放しあらゆる分野について権威ある情報源となって人々の抱く疑問に対し計算によって答えを出すことです誰かが以前どこかに書いたことを見つけ出すというのではなく組み込まれた知識を元に個々の質問に対して新たに計算して答えを導くのですもちろんWolfram Alphaは極めて大きな長期プロジェクトで多くの難題がありますまず膨大で多様な知識やデータを収集する必要がありますそこでMathematicaの自動化と各分野の専門家の組み合わせによる大きなパイプラインを構築しましたしかしそれは始まりにすぎません生の事実やデータに基づいて [Q> XLVIII + LXXII] 実際に質問に答えるために計算をする必要があり科学やその他の領域で何世紀にもわたって築かれてきた様々な手法やモデルやアルゴリズムを実装する必要があります Mathematicaという出発点があったにしてもこれは膨大な作業です今の時点でWolfram Alphaには多様な領域の専門家により書かれた 800万行に上るMathematicaのコードがあります Wolfram Alphaで重要な考え方は普通の言葉を使って質問ができるということで [Q> JFKが死んだときのロングビーチの潮の干満] それはつまり人々が入力欄に入れるあらゆる奇妙な文章を受け入れ理解できる必要があるということですそんなこと率直に言って不可能だと思っていたことを打ち明けます [Q> ヨーロッパのGDPと鉄道の長さの比較] 2つ大きなことがありました 1つは計算の宇宙の研究から言語に関するたくさんの新しいアイデアが出てきたということですもう1つは実際に計算可能な知識を持つことによって言語理解への取り組みが根本的に変わると気付いたことです Wolfram Alphaが公開された今実際の使われ方から学ぶことができますそしてWolfram Alphaと人間のユーザの間には興味深い共進化が見られますこれはとても勇気づけられることです現在 Webでのクエリを見るとその80%以上が最初の試みで成功裏に答えを得ています iPhoneアプリではこの割合はさらに高くなりますだから私はこの結果にとても満足しています [Q> www.apple.comのトラフィック] しかし色々な点で Wolfram Alphaはまだはじめの段階にありますすべてがとてもよくスケールしており私たちは自信を深めています Wolfram Alphaのテクノロジーがより多くの場所で目にされるようになるでしょう Webサイト上の公的データというのもありますし個人や会社のプライベートな知識というのもあるでしょう Wolfram Alphaの提供するのが「知識に基づく計算」とでも言うべき全く新しい種類の計算であることに気付きました単に計算だけをするのではなく組み込まれている膨大な知識から出発するのです Webであれその他の形態であれ計算の提供に関わる経済を本当に変えることになるでしょう現在は本当に面白い状況にあります一方にはMathematicaがあり厳格で形式的な言語と注意深く設計された機能の巨大なネットワークによってほんの数行のコードで実に多くのことを成し遂げられますいくつか例をお見せしましょうとても単純なMathematicaプログラムですここではたくさんの機能を組み合わせていますこの行ではちょっとしたユーザインタフェースを追加していてそれで面白いことができますさらにもう少し複雑なプログラムです色々なアルゴリズム的なことをやってユーザインタフェースを作り出していますこれはとても厳密に定義されたものです厳密な仕様が厳格な形式言語で記述されていてそれによりMathematicaはどうすれば良いのかが分かります一方でWolfram Alphaの方には世の中のごちゃごちゃしたものや自然言語などが組み込まれていますこの2つを一緒にするとどうなるのでしょう? 実はとても素晴らしい効果を上げます Wolfram AlphaをMathematicaの中で使うとたとえば現実世界のデータを使う精密なプログラムを作ることができますこれはごく簡単な例です曖昧な入力を与えて考えていることをWolfram Alphaに推測させることもできます試してみましょう [spikeyと入力] これの一番エキサイティングなところはプログラミングを万人のものにできる可能性があるということですどうしたいのかを普通の言葉で書けば Wolfram Alphaがそれを実行する正確なコードを見出せるようになるでしょうそして例示した中から必要なものを選ばせることでより大きく正確なプログラムを構築できるでしょう時にはWolfram Alphaがその全てを即座に行ってプログラムを返しユーザがそれを実行できることもあるでしょうこれは私たちが様々な種類の学習等に使えるデモを集めた大きなWebサイトです 1つ例をお見せしましょう計算実行できるドキュメントの1例ですこれはごく小さな Mathematicaのコード片でその場で実行することができます元の話に戻りましょう私たちの新しい種類の科学をもとにしてテクノロジーを生み出すのに使える一般的な方法はあるのでしょうか? 物質的なことであれば私たちは世界中をまわって特定の技術的目的のために有用な特定の物質を見つけます計算の宇宙でも同様のことができるのが分かりますプログラムの供給は無尽蔵にあります難しいのはそれを人の目的にどう合わせるかということですたとえばルール30なんかは非常に良い乱数生成器になることがわかります他のシンプルなプログラムにも自然界や社会のプロセスの良いモデルになるものがあります実際Wolfram AlphaやMathematicaには計算の宇宙の探索で見つけたアルゴリズムがたくさん入っているのですたとえばこれは計算の宇宙を探索して音楽形式を見出すもので作曲家の間でとても人気がありますある意味で計算の宇宙を使ってクリエイティビティのマスカスタマイゼーションができるのです Wolfram Alphaを使ってルーチン的に発明や発見を即座に行いあらゆる素晴らしいものをエンジニアの手や進化プロセスを介することなく見出すことができるようになるのではと思っていますそしてこれは究極の疑問に繋がります計算の宇宙のどこかに我々の物質的な宇宙は見出せるのかということです我々の宇宙にはごくシンプルなルールやシンプルなプログラムさえあるかもしれません物理学の歴史から宇宙のルールはすごく込み入ったものに違いないと私たちは思っていますしかし計算の宇宙ではものすごくシンプルなルールがものすごく豊かで複雑な振る舞いを生み出しうることを見ました私たちの宇宙でもそのようなことが起こっている可能性はないでしょうか? 宇宙のルールがシンプルならそれはとても抽象的で低レベルなはずで物事の表現を難しくしている時間や空間といったものよりもずっと下のレベルで作用していることでしょう少なくともある種のケースにおいては宇宙は一種のネットワークと見ることができてそれは十分大きくなると連続的な空間のように振る舞いますちょうど分子がたくさん集まると連続的な流体として振る舞うようにすると宇宙はわずかなルールを適用してこのネットワークを徐々にアップデートしていくことで進化するはずですそして可能なルールのそれぞれが宇宙の候補に対応しているのですこれは以前に公開したことはないのですが私が検討してきた宇宙の候補の一部ですこの中のあるものは望みがなく全く不毛で空間や時間の概念がなかったり物質が存在しないという病的なものですしかしエキサイティングなことに計算の宇宙をそう遠くまで探しにいかずとも我々の宇宙との違いがさほど明らかでない候補が見つかることが数年前にわかりました問題は私たちの宇宙の候補として考えられるようなものは必然的に計算的還元不能性に満ちておりそれが本当にどう振る舞うのかひいては我々の物理的宇宙と適合するか知るのが極めて困難だということです何年か前非常にシンプルなルールで特殊相対性と一般相対性や重力まで再現でき量子力学の兆候さえ示すような宇宙の候補を見つけて非常に興奮しましたでは物理学の全体は見つかるのでしょうか? はっきりとはわかりませんしかし少なくとも試みないとしたらそれは恥ずかしいことだと思います簡単なプロジェクトではありませんたくさんのテクノロジーを構築する必要があります少なくとも既存の物理学と同じくらい深い体系を構築する必要があるでしょうその努力をどう組織化するのが最善なのかよく分かりませんチームを作るのか広く公開するのか賞金を提示するのかしかし私は今日ここでそのプロジェクトに真剣に取り組むことを宣言したいこれからの10年で見極めたいと思います果たして我々の宇宙のルールに到達することができるのか我々の宇宙があらゆる可能な宇宙の中のいったいどこにあるのかそしてWolfram Alphaに究極の宇宙の理論は何かと入力して答えが得られるようになるのか私はこれまで30年以上計算というアイデアに取り組んできてツールや手法を構築し知的なアイデアを何百万行というコードとサーバファームへと変換してきました年々私は計算というアイデアがいかに強力なものかという思いを強めてきましたそれは我々をはるばる導いて来ましたがこれからさらに多くをもたらすでしょう科学の基礎やテクノロジーの限界から人間条件の定義にいたるまで計算が我々の未来を決めるアイデアであることは間違いないだろうと思いますどうもありがとうございました素晴らしいお話でしたどうぞこちらにお聞きしたいことがあります控えめに言っても驚くべき講演でしたこのような考え方が宇宙を説明する基礎として考えられているひも理論のようなものとどう統合できるものか一言か二言で説明していただくことは可能でしょうか? 私たちが真理であると知っている物理学の一部として標準理論のようなものがあります私がやろうとしているのは標準理論をよりよく再現するということでそれができなければ単に間違っているということでしょう人々がこの25年かそこらの間ひも理論などで試みてきたのは標準理論へと戻ろうとする興味深い探求ですがまだそこに至ってはいません私のやっている大きな単純化は実際ひも理論で行われてきたことと大きく共鳴する部分があるのではと思っていますしかしこれは複雑な数学でありどういうことになるのかまだ分かってはいませんこの聴衆の中にブノワマンデルブロがいます彼もまたシンプルなものから如何に複雑なものが生じうるかを示しました彼の仕事とあなた仕事は関連していると思いますか? 関係していると思いますブノワマンデルブロの仕事はこの様な領域を生み出す基礎的な貢献をしたと思います彼が特に関心を持っているのは入れ子になったパターンフラクタルですそれは木のような構造で大きな枝がありそれが小さな枝を作りそれが更に小さな枝を作るという具合に続いていきますこれは真に複雑なものへと至る 1つの方法ですルール30セルオートマトンのようなものは別なレベルに至るものだと思っています実際それはまさに別なレベルへと至るための方法でありおおよそ複雑さが到達しうる限りの複雑さを生み出せるように思えます... これについてはいくらでも議論を続けられますがやめておきましょうスティーブンウルフラムありがとうございました	Actually, I think it'll eventually be seen as probably the single biggest idea that's emerged in the past century. It's the idea of computation. Now, of course, that idea has brought us all of the computer technology we have today and so on. But there's actually a lot more to computation than that. It's really a very deep, very powerful, very fundamental idea, whose effects we've only just begun to see. Well, I myself have spent the past 30 years of my life working on three large projects that really try to take the idea of computation seriously. So I started off at a young age as a physicist using computers as tools. Then, I started drilling down, thinking about the computations I might want to do, trying to figure out what primitives they could be built up from and how they could be automated as much as possible. based on symbolic programming and so on that let me build Mathematica. And for the past 23 years, at an increasing rate, we've been pouring more and more ideas and capabilities and so on into Mathematica, and I'm happy to say that that's led to many good things in R & D and education, lots of other areas. Well, I have to admit, actually, that I also had a very selfish reason for building Mathematica: I wanted to use it myself, a bit like Galileo got to use his telescope 400 years ago. But I wanted to look not at the astronomical universe, but at the computational universe. So we normally think of programs as being complicated things that we build for very specific purposes. But what about the space of all possible programs? Here's a representation of a really simple program. So, if we run this program, this is what we get. Very simple. So let's try changing the rule for this program a little bit. Now we get another result, still very simple. Try changing it again. You get something a little bit more complicated. But if we keep running this for a while, we find out that although the pattern we get is very intricate, it has a very regular structure. So the question is: Can anything else happen? Well, we can do a little experiment. Let's just do a little mathematical experiment, try and find out. Let's just run all possible programs of the particular type that we're looking at. They're called cellular automata. You can see a lot of diversity in the behavior here. Most of them do very simple things, but if you look along all these different pictures, at rule number 30, you start to see something interesting going on. So let's take a closer look at rule number 30 here. So here it is. We're just following this very simple rule at the bottom here, but we're getting all this amazing stuff. It's not at all what we're used to, and I must say that, when I first saw this, it came as a huge shock to my intuition. And, in fact, to understand it, I eventually had to create a whole new kind of science. This science is different, more general, than the mathematics-based science that we've had for the past 300 or so years. You know, it's always seemed like a big mystery: how nature, seemingly so effortlessly, manages to produce so much that seems to us so complex. Well, I think we've found its secret: It's just sampling what's out there in the computational universe and quite often getting things like Rule 30 or like this. And knowing that starts to explain a lot of long-standing mysteries in science. It also brings up new issues, though, like computational irreducibility. I mean, we're used to having science let us predict things, but something like this is fundamentally irreducible. The only way to find its outcome is, effectively, just to watch it evolve. It's connected to, what I call, the principle of computational equivalence, which tells us that even incredibly simple systems can do computations as sophisticated as anything. It doesn't take lots of technology or biological evolution to be able to do arbitrary computation; just something that happens, naturally, all over the place. Things with rules as simple as these can do it. Well, this has deep implications about the limits of science, about predictability and controllability of things like biological processes or economies, about intelligence in the universe, about questions like free will and about creating technology. You know, in working on this science for many years, I kept wondering, "What will be its first killer app?" Well, ever since I was a kid, I'd been thinking about systematizing knowledge and somehow making it computable. People like Leibniz had wondered about that too 300 years earlier. But I'd always assumed that to make progress, I'd essentially have to replicate a whole brain. Well, then I got to thinking: This scientific paradigm of mine suggests something different -- and, by the way, I've now got huge computation capabilities in Mathematica, and I'm a CEO with some worldly resources to do large, seemingly crazy, projects -- So I decided to just try to see how much of the systematic knowledge that's out there in the world we could make computable. So, it's been a big, very complex project, which I was not sure was going to work at all. But I'm happy to say it's actually going really well. And last year we were able to release the first website version of Wolfram Alpha. Its purpose is to be a serious knowledge engine that computes answers to questions. So let's give it a try. Let's start off with something really easy. Hope for the best. Very good. Okay. So far so good. Let's try something a little bit harder. Let's do some mathy thing, and with luck it'll work out the answer and try and tell us some interesting things things about related math. We could ask it something about the real world. Let's say -- I don't know -- what's the GDP of Spain? And it should be able to tell us that. Now we could compute something related to this, let's say ... the GDP of Spain divided by, I don't know, the -- hmmm ... let's say the revenue of Microsoft. The idea is that we can just type this in, this kind of question in, however we think of it. So let's try asking a question, like a health related question. So let's say we have a lab finding that ... you know, we have an LDL level of 140 for a male aged 50. So let's type that in, and now Wolfram Alpha will go and use available public health data and try and figure out what part of the population that corresponds to and so on. the International Space Station. And what's happening here is that Wolfram Alpha is not just looking up something; where the International Space Station is right now at this moment, how fast it's going, and so on. So Wolfram Alpha knows about lots and lots of kinds of things. It's got, by now, pretty good coverage of everything you might find in a standard reference library. But the goal is to go much further and, very broadly, to democratize all of this knowledge, and to try and be an authoritative source in all areas. To be able to compute answers to specific questions that people have, not by searching what other people may have written down before, but by using built in knowledge to compute fresh new answers to specific questions. Now, of course, Wolfram Alpha is a monumentally huge, long-term project with lots and lots of challenges. For a start, one has to curate a zillion different sources of facts and data, and we built quite a pipeline of Mathematica automation and human domain experts for doing this. But that's just the beginning. Given raw facts or data to actually answer questions, one has to compute: one has to implement all those methods and models and algorithms and so on that science and other areas have built up over the centuries. Well, even starting from Mathematica, this is still a huge amount of work. of Mathematica code in Wolfram Alpha built by experts from many, many different fields. Well, a crucial idea of Wolfram Alpha using ordinary human language, which means that we've got to be able to take all those strange utterances that people type into the input field and understand them. And I must say that I thought that step might just be plain impossible. Two big things happened: First, a bunch of new ideas about linguistics that came from studying the computational universe; and second, the realization that having actual computable knowledge completely changes how one can set about understanding language. And, of course, now with Wolfram Alpha actually out in the wild, we can learn from its actual usage. an interesting coevolution that's been going on between Wolfram Alpha and its human users, and it's really encouraging. Right now, if we look at web queries, more than 80 percent of them get handled successfully the first time. And if you look at things like the iPhone app, the fraction is considerably larger. So, I'm pretty pleased with it all. But, in many ways, we're still at the very beginning with Wolfram Alpha. I mean, everything is scaling up very nicely and we're getting more confident. You can expect to see Wolfram Alpha technology showing up in more and more places, working both with this kind of public data, like on the website, for people and companies and so on. You know, I've realized that Wolfram Alpha actually gives one a whole new kind of computing that one can call knowledge-based computing, in which one's starting not just from raw computation, but from a vast amount of built-in knowledge. And when one does that, one really changes the economics of delivering computational things, whether it's on the web or elsewhere. You know, we have a fairly interesting situation right now. On the one hand, we have Mathematica, with its sort of precise, formal language and a huge network of carefully designed capabilities able to get a lot done in just a few lines. Let me show you a couple of examples here. So here's a trivial piece of Mathematica programming. Here's something where we're sort of integrating a bunch of different capabilities here. Here we'll just create, in this line, a little user interface that allows us to do something fun there. If you go on, that's a slightly more complicated program that's now doing all sorts of algorithmic things and creating user interface and so on. But it's something that is very precise stuff. It's a precise specification with a precise formal language that causes Mathematica to know what to do here. Then on the other hand, we have Wolfram Alpha, with all the messiness of the world and human language and so on built into it. So what happens when you put these things together? I think it's actually rather wonderful. With Wolfram Alpha inside Mathematica, you can, for example, make precise programs Here's a real simple example. You can also just sort of give vague input and then try and have Wolfram Alpha figure out what you're talking about. Let's try this here. But actually I think the most exciting thing about this to democratize programming. I mean, anyone will be able to say what they want in plain language. Then, the idea is that Wolfram Alpha will be able to figure out what precise pieces of code can do what they're asking for and then show them examples that will let them pick what they need to build up bigger and bigger, precise programs. So, sometimes, Wolfram Alpha will be able to do the whole thing immediately and just give back a whole big program that you can then compute with. Here's a big website where we've been collecting lots of educational and other demonstrations about lots of kinds of things. I'll show you one example here. This is just an example of one of these computable documents. This is probably a fairly small piece of Mathematica code that's able to be run here. Okay. Let's zoom out again. So, given our new kind of science, is there a general way to use it to make technology? So, with physical materials, we're used to going around the world and discovering that particular materials are useful for particular technological purposes. Well, it turns out we can do very much the same kind of thing There's an inexhaustible supply of programs out there. The challenge is to see how to harness them for human purposes. Something like Rule 30, for example, turns out to be a really good randomness generator. Other simple programs are good models for processes in the natural or social world. And, for example, Wolfram Alpha and Mathematica are actually now full of algorithms that we discovered by searching the computational universe. And, for example, this -- if we go back here -- this has become surprisingly popular finding musical forms by searching the computational universe. In a sense, we can use the computational universe to get mass customized creativity. I'm hoping we can, for example, use that even to get Wolfram Alpha to routinely do invention and discovery on the fly, and to find all sorts of wonderful stuff that no engineer and no process of incremental evolution would ever come up with. Well, so, that leads to kind of an ultimate question: Could it be that someplace out there in the computational universe we might find our physical universe? Perhaps there's even some quite simple rule, some simple program for our universe. Well, the history of physics would have us believe that the rule for the universe must be pretty complicated. But in the computational universe, we've now seen how rules that are incredibly simple can produce incredibly rich and complex behavior. So could that be what's going on with our whole universe? If the rules for the universe are simple, it's kind of inevitable that they have to be very abstract and very low level; operating, for example, far below the level of space or time, which makes it hard to represent things. But in at least a large class of cases, one can think of the universe as being like some kind of network, which, when it gets big enough, behaves like continuous space in much the same way as having lots of molecules can behave like a continuous fluid. Well, then the universe has to evolve by applying little rules that progressively update this network. And each possible rule, in a sense, corresponds to a candidate universe. Actually, I haven't shown these before, but here are a few of the candidate universes Some of these are hopeless universes, completely sterile, with other kinds of pathologies like no notion of space, no notion of time, no matter, other problems like that. But the exciting thing that I've found in the last few years is that you actually don't have to go very far in the computational universe before you start finding candidate universes that aren't obviously not our universe. Here's the problem: Any serious candidate for our universe is inevitably full of computational irreducibility. to find out how it will really behave, and whether it matches our physical universe. A few years ago, I was pretty excited to discover that there are candidate universes with incredibly simple rules that successfully reproduce special relativity, and even general relativity and gravitation, and at least give hints of quantum mechanics. So, will we find the whole of physics? I don't know for sure, but I think at this point it's sort of almost embarrassing not to at least try. Not an easy project. One's got to build a lot of technology. One's got to build a structure that's probably at least as deep as existing physics. And I'm not sure what the best way to organize the whole thing is. Build a team, open it up, offer prizes and so on. But I'll tell you, here today, that I'm committed to seeing this project done, to see if, within this decade, the rule for our universe and know where our universe lies in the space of all possible universes ... and be able to type into Wolfram Alpha, "the theory of the universe," and have it tell us. So I've been working on the idea of computation building tools and methods and turning intellectual ideas into millions of lines of code and grist for server farms and so on. With every passing year, I realize how much more powerful the idea of computation really is. It's taken us a long way already, but there's so much more to come. From the foundations of science to the limits of technology to the very definition of the human condition, I think computation is destined to be the defining idea of our future. Thank you. Chris Anderson: That was astonishing. Stay here. I've got a question. So, that was, fair to say, an astonishing talk. Are you able to say in a sentence or two how this type of thinking could integrate at some point to things like string theory or the kind of things that people think of as the fundamental explanations of the universe? Stephen Wolfram: Well, the parts of physics things like the standard model of physics: what I'm trying to do better reproduce the standard model of physics or it's simply wrong. The things that people have tried to do in the last 25 years or so with string theory and so on have been an interesting exploration but hasn't quite gotten there. My guess is that some great simplifications of what I'm doing may actually have considerable resonance with what's been done in string theory, but that's a complicated math thing that I don't yet know how it's going to work out. CA: Benoit Mandelbrot is in the audience. He also has shown how complexity can arise out of a simple start. Does your work relate to his? SW: I think so. I view Benoit Mandelbrot's work as one of the founding contributions to this kind of area. Benoit has been particularly interested in nested patterns, in fractals and so on, where the structure is something that's kind of tree-like, and where there's sort of a big branch that makes little branches and even smaller branches and so on. That's one of the ways I think things like the Rule 30 cellular automaton get us to a different level. In fact, in a very precise way, they get us to a different level because they seem to be things that are capable of complexity that's sort of as great as complexity can ever get ... I could go on about this at great length, but I won't. CA: Stephen Wolfram, thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
「私たち」とは私が所属する外交問題評議会のことですここでの関心は国の安全保障のコミュニティーや生物学や公衆衛生のコミュニティーですグローバル化によって人の移動が増えたことで誰もがあらゆる場所に行けるようになりましたいかなる時も世界中のあらゆる場所にですこれは微生物というヒッチハイカーが同乗することを意味します例えばインド・スーラトの疫病の流行は不確かな事象ではなくグローバルな事象でグローバルな懸念がリスクの方程式を変えたのですハリケーン・カトリーナから学んだことは迅速な対応やあらゆることに対処するのに政府に全面的に依存できないということです実際感染症の流行がカトリーナの何倍もの脅威になります私たちの目下の最大の懸念はインフルエンザH5N1型ウイルスで鳥インフルエンザとも呼ばれていて 1990年代の中頃中国南部で最初に発生しましたしかし 1997年まで知られていなかったのです昨年のクリスマスの終わりごろにはわずか13カ国でH5N1が確認されましたところが現在世界55カ国でこのウイルスの発生が認められていますトリまたは人間あるいは両方においてですトリインフルエンザの勃発の際は世界のほとんどでこのウイルスが発見されましたが南北アメリカだけは例外でしたではなぜこのように瞬く間に広がったのでしょうか家禽特にニワトリでは致死率100%です世界中に広がり近年どの世紀を見てもこれまでで最も高い致死率の一つです沢山のニワトリを殺すことが対処法でしたが残念ながらほとんどの場合小規模農家たちには補償されず結果的に隠ぺいにつながりますまた水棲の野生渡り鳥の移動パターンによっても運ばれてきます象徴となるような出来事があったのが中国のチェンハイ湖です 2年前渡り鳥にいくつもの事件が発生しました数千羽の鳥が死にましたがこれはウイルスの突然変異が原因でしたこれによりトリインフルエンザの型が劇的に増加しましたこのウイルスがトリによってシベリアヨーロッパアフリカへ運ばれます以前は不可能だった事です現在ヒトの間でも流行が発生しています今までのところ幸い規模が小さく集団発生は頻繁ではありませんウイルスはここ2年劇的に突然変異しており H5N1ウイルスから生まれた独立した2つの科がさらにそれぞれが分岐し不安の種となる異なる性質を持っていますでは私たちは何を懸念しているのでしょうか? まず歴史上どの時点においても好タイミングで特定のワクチンの製造に成功していません 2億6000万人余りの患者に対してですこれは世界規模の病気において成功しているとは言えませんワクチンを大量備蓄していると言われていますが実際の流行が起きた時本当に効果があるのか分かりませんここである考えが浮かびます 9.11後空港が閉鎖された時インフルエンザ流行期が 2週間遅れましたそこで考えたのがヒトからヒトへの H5N1感染が拡大しているとかウイルスが変異してヒトからヒトへ感染していることが分かればすぐに空港を閉鎖することですしかしスーパーコンピュータを使ったこの方法の有効性についての大規模な分析によると大した時間稼ぎにはならないことが分かりましたもちろん準備計画ではかなりの混乱が生じるでしょう例えば全てのマスクは中国で生産されています全ての空港が閉鎖されていたらどうやってそれを世界中に配布しますか? どのようにしてワクチンを世界中にいきわたらせますかどうやって薬を運ぶのでしょう効果がある物でも入手できないかもしれませんつまり空港閉鎖は逆効果です私たちが今回のウイルスで懸念するのはこれまで研究してきた他のインフルエンザとは異なり感染している動物の生肉を食べることで感染する可能性があるからですこれまでにのら猫や飼い猫への感染がありました今では飼い犬にも感染しますネズミやフェレットへの給餌実験によると動物はこれまでのインフルエンザで見られなかった症状を呈しけいれん発作中枢神経系障害部分麻痺などが認められましたつまりありふれたインフルエンザではないのです私たちが今理解している 1918年のーインフルエンザウイルスの再来に類似しています前回の世界的流行でトリからヒトへと直接感染しました私たちは幾度ものウイルスの進化とヒトにおける信じられないほどの死亡率を経験してきました H5N1感染者のうちの55%が実際に死亡していますそして感染すると発症する場合がほとんどですサルへの給餌実験では実際に特定の免疫システムモジュレータを抑制できました結果的に死亡の直接原因はウイルス自体ではなく自分の免疫システムが過剰反応して「これがどんな異物であったとしても凶暴に反応する」と言っているのです結果としては死亡する人のほとんどが30歳以下の人達で元気で健康な若い人々ですここまでヒトからヒトへの感染を少なくとも 3つの集団で見てきました幸い感染には非常に密接な接触が必要なのでまだ全世界がリスクにさらされたわけではありません驚かせてしまいましたねおそらく皆さんは政府が何とかしてくれるだろうとお考えでしょう私たちは多くのお金を使ってきました実際にブッシュ政権での支出のほとんどは炭疽菌やバイオテロリストによる脅威に向けて使用されてきましたですが多くのお金が地方や政府レベルで使われています感染症の対策にです最終的な結果としてたった15の州だけで世界流行時のワクチンや薬の大量配布が認められています半数の州で最初の週に病院のベッドが不足してしまいます 2週間目かもしれませんそして 40州ではすでに深刻な看護師不足です世界的流行の脅威が加われば大問題ですこの予算で一体何が実施されてきたのでしょうか? 世界中で行われたのは練習と訓練です世界規模で病気の流行があったとします皆さんが走り回って自分の役を演じれば結果は大混乱になりますほとんどの人は自分に何ができるか分かりません最終的にはそれぞれの訓練で誰も責任者が分からないという状態に陥るでしょう誰も指揮系統を知りませんロサンゼルスなら市長知事アメリカ大統領国土安全保障省の長官でしょうか? 実は連邦政府によると責任者は主席連邦管理官で運輸保安局管轄です政府によると連邦政府の責任は基本的にウイルスを国内に入れないことですがご存知のとおりそれは不可能なので主に経済に与える影響を緩和させることですあとは皆さんがいる地域コミュニティーの責任ですあなたが住んでいる町の全てです市議会はどのように上手く機能しているか? 責任者である市長は上手くやってくれるのか?ということです地域にあるほとんどの施設が競合して入手しようとしているのは連邦政府が備蓄するタミフルと呼ばれる薬ですタミフルの効果の有無については分かりませんが利用できるワクチンやその他の治療法マスクやその他備蓄されている物は激しい競争になるでしょう私たちがワクチンを購入したことはおそらく耳にされたことでしょうサノフィ・アベンティス社製造です残念ながらこれは現在のH5N1に対して製造されたものですこのウイルスは突然変異するのでまた別のウイルスが生まれますその時このワクチンはおそらく効果はないでしょうこの時必要なのが政策決定ですあなたが地方の市長だとしますペットは全て家から出さないよう命令しますか? ドイツで昨年 H5N1が出現した時実施されたことです各世帯の家ネコやイヌなどを介しての感染拡大を最小限に抑えるためです陰圧換気装置付きの隔離病室がない場合はどうすれば良いでしょうか? 医療関係者が患者に対して治療を行う病室ですこれは香港の場合ですここではそのような設備はありません検疫はどうでしょうか? 北京のSARS流行中は検疫が功を奏しました米国全土の検疫政策は統一されていませんまたある州では郡ごとに違っていますしかし簡単にできることは何でしょうか? 学校はすべて閉鎖すべきでしょうか? 従業員はどうでしょうか? 子供が学校に行かなければ親御さんも仕事に行けません在宅勤務を奨励しますか?どの職種で? イギリス政府は在宅勤務のモデルを実施しました 6週間銀行業界の人々が世界的流行が進行していると想定しました彼らが気づいたことは中心となる機能でした銀行は存在しますが人々がATMでお金を振り込むことはできません誰もクレジットカードを利用しません保険料は支払えませんでした基本的に経済は破壊的状況でしょうこれは事務職員や銀行員についてだけです手洗いがどれほどインフルエンザにとって効果的であるのかは不明ですショックです頻繁に手を洗うことは良いことだと思いますよねしかし実際科学の世界で熱心に議論されているのはヒトからヒトへのインフルエンザ感染の何パーセントがクシャミや咳が原因で何パーセントが手から感染しているかです米国医学研究所はマスクについて検討しましたアメリカではマスクを製造していないので数が十分ではありませんそこで対策を立てることができるでしょうか? マスクは全て中国製です N95マスクは必要ですか? 最先端で最高級品の顔にぴったりあうマスクですまたは違う種類のマスクで代用できるでしょうか? 香港のSARSの流行で学んだことは感染時のほとんどの場合でマスクを不適切に外していたことです手がマスクの外側で汚染されその後鼻をこすりましたそうです! SARSに感染しました浮遊するウイルスが原因ではありませんでした現在インターネット上では嘘偽りの情報が沢山流れています結局この N95マスクを買うことになりますばかげたことです実際私たちには基準がありません現場の最前線にいる人たちの初期対応の保護用具に関する基準ですそしてタミフルですこの薬は皆さんご存知でしょうエフ・ホフマン・ラ・ロシュ社の特許薬です流行時の時間稼ぎになる可能性はありますタミフルを長期間使用すると副作用のひとつとして自殺願望があります公共衛生についての調査でその効果を分析したところタミフルの広範囲の使用が公衆衛生対策と相反することで事態をさらに悪化させることが分かりましたもう一つ興味深い点は人間がタミフルを摂取した場合わずか20%だけが適切に代謝されて活性化合物になります残りは安定化合物に変化し体内に残らず下水に流れますその結果まさにインフルエンザを運ぶ水鳥がこれにさらされ耐性株が発生する可能性が生じます今ではタミフル耐性株がベトナムでのヒトからヒトへの感染エジプトでのヒトからヒトへの感染で見られますですから個人的な意見としてタミフルの有効薬としての寿命は非常に限定的なものです事実非常に限定されていますそれにも関わらずほとんどの政府は全てのインフルエンザ政策でタミフルを備蓄することを基盤としています実際ロシアには十分な備えがあり 95%のロシア人に処方できます私たちには30%しかありません「十分」とは 2週間分ということですですからその後は自分たちで対処することになります世界的流行は18~24か月間持続するからです貧しい国々の中には H5N1を経験しタミフルを備蓄している国もありますがすでに期限が過ぎています使用期限が切れているのです 1918年の最後の世界的流行から私たちは何を学んだでしょうか? 連邦政府はほとんどの責任を放棄しましたそしてその場しのぎの規制だけが残りましたアメリカ全体がそうですそれぞれの都市郡州で異なる対応をしましたそして法令と信念は極めてバラバラでしたある時は学校や教会公共施設など全てが閉鎖されました世界的流行は 18カ月間で 3回循環しました民間航空会社のない時代です第2波は突然変異株によるスーパーキラーの波でした第1波では医療従事者が十分足りていましたしかし第2波が押し寄せるまでに医療従事者の多くの命が奪われました前線にいた多くの医師や看護師たちの命です総計70万人が亡くなりましたこのウイルスは妊娠女性に対しては致死率が100%でした理由は分かっていませんまた多くの死亡者が 15歳から40歳でした元気で健康な若い人々でペストにたとえられました亡くなった人数は正確には分かりません少なく見積もっても3500万人ですこれはヨーロッパと北米のデータからの推計ですハーバード大学のクリス・マリーの新しい研究によるとインドにいるイギリス人によって保存されたデータによるとインド人の死亡率が31倍と高いものでしたここで確信できたことは貧しい場所では死亡率がかなり高くなるということですそして実際の死亡数は 8千万から1億人であったと考えられますそれも民間航空機で移動する前の時代ですでは私たちは準備はできていますか? 国としてはまだです指導的立場の人々もそれを認めて準備にはまだ時間がかかると言うでしょうでは皆さんにとってどんな意味があるでしょうか? まず私なら何であれ個人的な備蓄はしません自分自身家族従業員に対してもです十分に調査して確信があるなら別ですがどのマスクが有効でどれが有効でないかマスクは何枚必要か?ということです米国医学研究所の研究によるとマスクの再利用はできないようです感染症の流行が18カ月間継続するとすれば 18カ月分のマスクを家族一人一人のために買いますか? 考えてしまいますねそこでタミフルに戻りますがタミフルの第1の副作用はインフルエンザのような症状ですですから家族全員がタミフルを服用している場合インフルエンザにかかったどうかどうやって分かるのでしょう? これをコミュニティー全体としてまた会社の全従業員で考えるとタミフルという選択肢がいかに限定されているかお分かりでしょう多くの方が私の所に来てこう尋ねます水も食料も備蓄しますあなたは何を備蓄していますか?と本気でしょうか? 実際に18カ月分の食料を備蓄する場所がありますか? 24カ月分の食料はどうですか? 世界的流行の脅威について 1950年代のように対処したいですか? 当時の人々は民間防衛の問題としてインフルエンザの世界的流行に対して個人用の小型シェルターを作りました私は合理的だとは思いません臨むべきはコミュニティーとしてで個人として準備すべきではありません国として州として町として備えるべきですしかし現在準備状況のほとんどに大きな欠陥があります皆さんにご納得いただければと思いますが実際にしていただきたいのは外に出て皆さんの地域の指導者や国の指導者たちにこう言うのです「この問題をなぜ未解決にしておくのか? なぜカトリーナから学んだことをインフルエンザ対策に活かさないのか?」と圧力が必要な場所に圧力をかけてくださいでももう一つ申し上げておきたいことは皆さんが会社を経営して雇用者を抱えている場合は一定の責任があると思います指導者として誰よりも先を見越して計画を立てる必要がありますイギリスの銀行計画では最低でも自宅勤務が有効だとしていますおそらく感染の危険が減ります事務所に来ないで互いに咳をせずまたは共通の物に触れず手を介して物を共有しないからですでもそのようにして会社を維持することができますか? ネット企業ならできるかもしれませんさもなければ難しいでしょうでは皆さんの質問にお答えします (拍手) 参加者:世界的流行の期間を決定する要因は何ですか? ローリー・ギャレット:何が世界的流行の期間を決定する要因かは分かりませんさまざまな状況を説明することはできますでも正直なところ分かりませんはっきりと言えるのは結論としてウイルスは最終的に弱毒化しヒトに対する致死性ウイルスではなくなりますそして別の宿主を探すのですしかしこれが「どのように」「なぜ」起きるのかは分かりませんとても複雑な生態学です参加者:誘因は何でしょうか? 私たちよりも良くご存知だと思いますそれが起こると世界的流行となるようなきっかけですギャレット:ヒトからヒトへの深刻な感染の兆候がある時です病気になった兄弟の世話をしている親密な家族間での感染ではなくコミュニティーでの感染です学内でのまん延寮でのまん延などですそして現在では世界保健機関を筆頭にした世界的な認識でしょう警告が発せられる時です参加者:ある研究でスタチンが有効だとされていますそれについて教えてくださいギャレット:分かりましたエビデンスではリピトールなどコレステロール降下作用を持つスタチンがインフルエンザに対するヒトの脆弱性を減少させるとしていますしかしこの理由については明確には分かっていませんメカニズムが明確ではないのです私には親御さんが自分のリピトールなどを責任を持って子供に与える方法があるのか分かりませんどんな副作用があるか全く分からないのです子供たちに対して使用した場合非常に危険な結果を引き起こすかもしれません参加者:誰かが実際に感染しているかどうかー症状が現れる前に感染しているかどうか見つけるのにどのくらいの理解が進んでいるのですか? ギャレット:かなり以前からお話ししていますが本当に必要なものは迅速な診断ですアメリカ疾病予防管理センターはセンターで開発した診断テストを迅速診断と言っています高度な検査室で熟練した技術を用いても 24時間かかります私はディップスティックを考えています自分の子供に使えます色が変わります H5N1ならそれで分かります私たちが科学のどの段階にいるかについては DNA特定の能力などにおいては大幅に遅れてはいませんがまだ十分ではなくそこに到達する資金がありません参加者:1918年インフルエンザではウイルスがヒトに感染するようになる前に幾分衰弱していたと理論づけされました今回もその可能性はありますか? 100%の死亡率とはかなり深刻ですねギャレット:そうですねですから実際は 1918年株の野生の鳥に対する致死率に関しては分かっていませんトリからヒトへの感染が起こる前です興味深いことはヒトへの世界的流行の前にアメリカ全土のニワトリや家禽類の集団死が見られなかったことですおそらくこれらの出来事は誰も関心を払っていなかった世界の裏側で起きていたのでしょうしかしウイルスは確かに世界を丸一周しました軽症の病型だったので第1次世界大戦の英国軍はそれを脅威ではなく戦争の結果にも影響しないと位置づけたのです世界中を駆け巡った後高い致死率を伴う形で戻ってきました何パーセントの感染者が命を落としたでしょう? 再度言いますが詳細についてはっきりとは分かりません明らかなことはもし栄養不足だったり免疫システムが弱かったらインドやアフリカの貧しい国に住んでいるなら死亡の確率がより高まりますでも実際のところは分かっていません参加者:耳にしたのですがインフルエンザの感染時の実際の死亡原因は肺炎を併発することによるそうですが肺炎のワクチンで生存率が50%高まるかもしれないそうですねギャレット:長い間新興疾患の研究者はインフルエンザ世界的流行の脅威に対して幾分否定的でしたその理由は 1918年には抗生物質がなかったからですまた一般的なインフルエンザで命を落とした人は一般的なインフルエンザの年で世界で約36万人でそのほとんどが高齢者だったのです死亡の原因はインフルエンザではなく免疫機能が攻撃を受けたからでした肺炎球菌やその他の細菌連鎖球菌に感染しそれが細菌性肺炎を引き起こしますしかし 1918年ではそうではなかったことが分かっています今までのところ H5N1のヒトへの感染では同じような細菌感染は全く問題ではありませんだた免疫システムが驚くほど破壊されておりこれがヒトがこのウイルスで亡くなる主な理由です付け加えたいのが SARSでも同じことがありましたですからここで起きていることはあなたの体の免疫システムが見張りを総動員して「これは一体何だろうこれまでにこんな物はまるで見たことがない」と言っているのです狙撃兵を連れてきてもどうにもならないのです抗体がないのですから戦車や大砲を投入しても何の効果もありません T細胞がそれを認識しないのですすると全面的に核の力で対処するしかないとサイトカインの生産を刺激して全免疫機能が肺に殺到します肺炎で肺に液体がたまり命を落とすのですただしこれは細菌性肺炎ではないのでワクチンが効くような肺炎ではありません時間が来たようです本日はどうもありがとうございました	When I say "we," I'm at the Council on Foreign Relations. We're concerned in the national security community, and of course in the biology community and the public health community. While globalization has increased travel, it's made it necessary that everybody be everywhere, all the time, all over the world. And that means that your microbial hitchhikers are moving with you. So a plague outbreak in Surat, India becomes not an obscure event, but a globalized event -- a globalized concern that has changed the risk equation. Katrina showed us that we cannot completely depend on government to have readiness in hand, to be capable of handling things. Indeed, an outbreak would be multiple Katrinas at once. Our big concern at the moment is a virus called H5N1 flu -- some of you call it bird flu -- which first emerged in southern China, in the mid-1990s, but we didn't know about it until 1997. At the end of last Christmas only 13 countries had seen H5N1. But we're now up to 55 countries in the world, have had this virus emerge, in either birds, or people or both. In the bird outbreaks we now can see that pretty much the whole world has seen this virus except the Americas. And I'll get into why we've so far been spared in a moment. In domestic birds, especially chickens, it's 100 percent lethal. It's one of the most lethal things we've seen in circulation in the world in any recent centuries. And we've dealt with it by killing off lots and lots and lots of chickens, and unfortunately often not reimbursing the peasant farmers with the result that there's cover-up. It's also carried on migration patterns of wild migratory aquatic birds. There has been this centralized event in a place called Lake Chenghai, China. Two years ago the migrating birds had a multiple event where thousands died because of a mutation occurring in the virus, which made the species range broaden dramatically. So that birds going to Siberia, to Europe, and to Africa carried the virus, which had not previously been possible. We're now seeing outbreaks in human populations -- so far, fortunately, small events, tiny outbreaks, occasional clusters. The virus has mutated dramatically in the last two years of the H5N1 viral tree with branches in them, and with different attributes that are worrying. So what's concerning us? Well, first of all, at no time in history have we succeeded in making in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people. It's not going to do us very much good in a global pandemic. You've heard about the vaccine we're stockpiling. But nobody believes it will actually be particularly effective if we have a real outbreak. So one thought is: after 9/11, when the airports closed, our flu season was delayed by two weeks. So the thought is, hey, maybe what we should do is just immediately -- we hear there is H5N1 spreading from human to human, the virus has mutated to be a human-to-human transmitter -- let's shut down the airports. However, huge supercomputer analyses, done of the likely effectiveness of this, show that it won't buy us much time at all. And of course it will be hugely disruptive in preparation plans. For example, all masks are made in China. How do you get them mobilized around the world if you've shut all the airports down? How do you get the vaccines moved around the world and the drugs moved, and whatever may or not be available that would work. So it turns out that shutting down the airports is counterproductive. We're worried because this virus, unlike any other flu we've ever studied, can be transmitted by eating raw meat of the infected animals. We've seen transmission to wild cats and domestic cats, and now also domestic pet dogs. And in experimental feedings to rodents and ferrets, we found that the animals exhibit symptoms never seen with flu: seizures, central nervous system disorders, partial paralysis. This is not your normal garden-variety flu. It mimics what we now understand about reconstructing the 1918 flu virus, the last great pandemic, in that it also jumped directly from birds to people. We had evolution over time, and this unbelievable mortality rate in human beings: 55 percent of people who have become infected with H5N1 have, in fact, succumbed. And we don't have a huge number of people who got infected and never developed disease. In experimental feeding in monkeys a specific immune system modulator. The result is that what kills you is not the virus directly, but your own immune system overreacting, saying, "Whatever this is so foreign I'm going berserk." The result: most of the deaths have been in people under 30 years of age, robustly healthy young adults. We have seen human-to-human transmission in at least three clusters -- fortunately involving very intimate contact, still not putting the world at large at any kind of risk. Alright, so I've got you nervous. Now you probably assume, well the governments are going to do something. And we have spent a lot of money. Most of the spending in the Bush administration has actually been more related to the anthrax results and bio-terrorism threat. But a lot of money has been thrown out at the local level and at the federal level to look at infectious diseases. End result: only 15 states have been certified to be able to do mass distribution of vaccine and drugs in a pandemic. Half the states would run out of hospital beds in the first week, maybe two weeks. And 40 states already have an acute nursing shortage. Add on pandemic threat, you're in big trouble. So what have people been doing with this money? Exercises, drills, all over the world. Let's pretend there's a pandemic. Let's everybody run around and play your role. Main result is that there is tremendous confusion. Most of these people don't actually know what their job will be. And the bottom line, major thing that has come through in every single drill: nobody knows who's in charge. Nobody knows the chain of command. If it were Los Angeles, is it the mayor, the governor, the President of the United States, the head of Homeland Security? In fact, the federal government says it's a guy called the Principle Federal Officer, who happens to be with TSA. The government says the federal responsibility will basically be about trying to keep the virus out, which we all know is impossible, and then to mitigate the impact primarily on our economy. The rest is up to your local community. Everything is about your town, where you live. Well how good a city council you have, how good a mayor you have -- that's who's going to be in charge. Most local facilities would all be competing to try and get their hands on their piece of the federal stockpile of a drug called Tamiflu, which may or may not be helpful -- I'll get into that -- of available vaccines, and any other treatments, and masks, and anything that's been stockpiled. And you'll have massive competition. Now we did purchase a vaccine, you've probably all heard about it, made by Sanofi-Aventis. Unfortunately it's made against the current form of H5N1. We know the virus will mutate. It will be a different virus. The vaccine will probably be useless. So here's where the decisions come in. You're the mayor of your local town. Let's see, should we order that all pets be kept indoors? Germany did that when H5N1 appeared in Germany last year, between households by household cats, dogs and so on. What do we do when we don't have any containment rooms with reverse air that will allow the healthcare workers to take care of patients? These are in Hong Kong; we have nothing like that here. What about quarantine? During the SARS epidemic in Beijing quarantine did seem to help. We have no uniform policies regarding quarantine across the United States. And some states have differential policies, county by county. But what about the no-brainer things? Should we close all the schools? Well then what about all the workers? They won't go to work if their kids aren't in school. Encouraging telecommuting? What works? Well the British government did a model of telecommuting. Six weeks they had all people in the banking industry pretend a pandemic was underway. What they found was, the core functions -- you know you still sort of had banks, but you couldn't get people to put money in the ATM machines. Nobody was processing the credit cards. Your insurance payments didn't go through. And basically the economy would be in a disaster state of affairs. And that's just office workers, bankers. We don't know how important hand washing is for flu -- shocking. One assumes it's a good idea to wash your hands a lot. But actually in scientific community there is great debate about what percentage of flu transmission between people is from sneezing and coughing and what percentage is on your hands. The Institute of Medicine tried to look at the masking question. Can we figure out a way, since we know we won't have enough masks because we don't make them in America anymore, they're all made in China -- do we need N95? A state-of-the-art, top-of-the-line, must-be-fitted-to-your-face mask? Or can we get away with some different kinds of masks? In the SARS epidemic, we learned in Hong Kong that most of transmission was because people were removing their masks improperly. And their hand got contaminated with the outside of the mask, and then they rubbed their nose. Bingo! They got SARS. It wasn't flying microbes. If you go online right now, you'll get so much phony-baloney information. You'll end up buying -- this is called an N95 mask. Ridiculous. We don't actually have a standard for what should be the protective gear for the first responders, the people who will actually be there on the front lines. And Tamiflu. You've probably heard of this drug, made by Hoffmann-La Roche, patented drug. There is some indication that it may buy you some time in the midst of an outbreak. Should you take Tamiflu for a long period of time, well, one of the side effects is suicidal ideations. A public health survey analyzed the effect that large-scale Tamiflu use would have, actually shows it counteractive to public health measures, making matters worse. And here is the other interesting thing: when a human being ingests Tamiflu, only 20 percent is metabolized appropriately to be an active compound in the human being. The rest turns into a stable compound, which survives filtration into the water systems, thereby exposing the very aquatic birds that would carry flu and providing them a chance to breed resistant strains. And we now have seen Tamiflu-resistant strains in both Vietnam in person-to-person transmission, and in Egypt in person-to-person transmission. So I personally think that our life expectancy for Tamiflu as an effective drug is very limited -- very limited indeed. Nevertheless most of the governments have based their whole flu policies on building stockpiles of Tamiflu. Russia has actually stockpiled enough for 95 percent of all Russians. We've stockpiled enough for 30 percent. When I say enough, that's two weeks worth. And then you're on your own because the pandemic is going to last for 18 to 24 months. Some of the poorer countries that have had the most experience with H5N1 have built up stockpiles; they're already expired. They are already out of date. What do we know from 1918, the last great pandemic? The federal government abdicated most responsibility. And so we ended up with this wild patchwork of regulations all over America. Every city, county, state did their own thing. And the rules and the belief systems were wildly disparate. In some cases all schools, all churches, all public venues were closed. The pandemic circulated three times in 18 months in the absence of commercial air travel. The second wave was the mutated, super-killer wave. And in the first wave we had enough healthcare workers. But by the time the second wave hit it took such a toll among the healthcare workers that we lost most of our doctors and nurses that were on the front lines. Overall we lost 700,000 people. The virus was 100 percent lethal to pregnant women and we don't actually know why. Most of the death toll was 15 to 40 year-olds -- robustly healthy young adults. It was likened to the plague. We don't actually know how many people died. The low-ball estimate is 35 million. This was based on European and North American data. A new study by Chris Murray at Harvard shows that if you look at the databases that were kept by the Brits in India, there was a 31-fold greater death rate among the Indians. So there is a strong belief that in places of poverty the death toll was far higher. And that a more likely toll is somewhere in the neighborhood of 80 to 100 million people before we had commercial air travel. So are we ready? As a nation, no we're not. And I think even those in the leadership would say that is the case, that we still have a long ways to go. So what does that mean for you? Well the first thing is, I wouldn't start building up personal stockpiles of anything -- for yourself, your family, or your employees -- unless you've really done your homework. What mask works, what mask doesn't work. How many masks do you need? The Institute of Medicine study felt that you could not recycle masks. Well if you think it's going to last 18 months, are you going to buy 18 months worth of masks for every single person in your family? We don't know -- again with Tamiflu, the number one side effect of Tamiflu is flu-like symptoms. So then how can you tell who in your family has the flu if everybody is taking Tamiflu? If you expand that out to think of a whole community, or all your employees in your company, the Tamiflu option might be. Everybody has come up to me and said, well I'll stockpile water or, I'll stockpile food, or what have you. But really? Do you really have a place to stockpile 18 months worth of food? Twenty-four months worth of food? Do you want to view the pandemic threat the way back in the 1950s people viewed the civil defense issue, and build your own little bomb shelter for pandemic flu? I don't think that's rational. I think it's about having to be prepared as communities, not as individuals -- being prepared as nation, being prepared as state, being prepared as town. And right now most of the preparedness is deeply flawed. And I hope I've convinced you of that, which means that the real job is go out and say to your local leaders, and your national leaders, "Why haven't you solved these problems? Why are you still thinking that the lessons of Katrina do not apply to flu?" And put the pressure where the pressure needs to be put. But I guess the other thing to add is, if you do have employees, and you do have a company, I think you have certain responsibilities to demonstrate that you are thinking ahead for them, and you are trying to plan. At a minimum the British banking plan showed that telecommuting can be helpful. It probably does reduce exposure because people are not coming into the office and coughing on each other, or touching common objects and sharing things via their hands. But can you sustain your company that way? Well if you have a dot-com, maybe you can. Otherwise you're in trouble. Happy to take your questions. Audience member: What factors determine the duration of a pandemic? Laurie Garret: What factors determine the duration of a pandemic, we don't really know. I could give you a bunch of flip, this, that, and the other. But I would say that honestly we don't know. Clearly the bottom line is the virus eventually attenuates, and ceases to be a lethal virus to humanity, and finds other hosts. But we don't really know how and why that happens. It's a very complicated ecology. Audience member: What kind of triggers are you looking for? You know way more than any of us. To say ahh, if this happens then we are going to have a pandemic? LG: The moment that you see any evidence of serious human-to-human to transmission. Not just intimately between family members who took care of an ailing sister or brother, but a community infected -- spread within a school, spread within a dormitory, something of that nature. Then I think that there is universal agreement now, at WHO all the way down: Send out the alert. Audience member: Some research has indicated that statins can be helpful. Can you talk about that? LG: Yeah. There is some evidence that taking Lipitor and other common statins for cholesterol control may decrease your vulnerability to influenza. But we do not completely understand why. The mechanism isn't clear. And I don't know that there is any way responsibly for someone to start medicating their children with their personal supply of Lipitor or something of that nature. We have absolutely no idea what that would do. You might be causing some very dangerous outcomes in your children, doing such a thing. Audience member: How far along are we in being able to determine whether someone is actually carrying, whether somebody has this before the symptoms are full-blown? LG: Right. So I have for a long time said that what we really needed was a rapid diagnostic. And our Centers for Disease Control has labeled a test they developed a rapid diagnostic. It takes 24 hours in a very highly developed laboratory, in highly skilled hands. I'm thinking dipstick. You could do it to your own kid. It changes color. It tells you if you have H5N1. In terms of where we are in science with DNA identification capacities and so on, it's not that far off. But we're not there. And there hasn't been the kind of investment to get us there. Audience member: In the 1918 flu I understand that they theorized that there was some attenuation of the virus when it made the leap into humans. Is that likely, do you think, here? I mean 100 percent death rate is pretty severe. LG: Um yeah. So we don't actually know of the 1918 strain to wild birds before it jumped from birds to humans. It's curious that there is no evidence of mass die-offs of chickens or household birds across America before the human pandemic happened. That may be because those events were occurring on the other side of the world But the virus clearly went through one round around the world in a mild enough form that the British army in World War I actually certified that it was not a threat and would not affect the outcome of the war. And after circulating around the world came back in a form that was tremendously lethal. What percentage of infected people were killed by it? Again we don't really know for sure. It's clear that if you were malnourished to begin with, you had a weakened immune system, you lived in poverty in India or Africa, your likelihood of dying was far greater. But we don't really know. Audience member: One of the things I've heard is that the real death cause when you get a flu is the associated pneumonia, and that a pneumonia vaccine may offer you 50 percent better chance of survival. LG: For a long time, researchers in emerging diseases were kind of dismissive of the pandemic flu threat on the grounds that back in 1918 they didn't have antibiotics. And that most people who die of regular flu -- which in regular flu years is about 360,000 people worldwide, most of them senior citizens -- and they die not of the flu but because the flu gives an assault to their immune system. And along comes pneumococcus or another bacteria, streptococcus and boom, they get a bacterial pneumonia. But it turns out that in 1918 that was not the case at all. And so far in the H5N1 cases in people, similarly bacterial infection has not been an issue at all. It's this absolutely phenomenal disruption of the immune system that is the key to why people die of this virus. And I would just add we saw the same thing with SARS. So what's going on here is your body says, your immune system sends out all its sentinels and says, "I don't know what the heck this is. We've never seen anything even remotely like this before." It won't do any good to bring in the sharpshooters because those antibodies aren't here. And it won't do any good to bring in the tanks and the artillery because those T-cells don't recognize it either. So we're going to have to go all-out thermonuclear response, stimulate the total cytokine cascade. The whole immune system swarms into the lungs. And yes they die, drowning in their own fluids, of pneumonia. But it's not bacterial pneumonia. And it's not a pneumonia that would respond to a vaccine. And I think my time is up. I thank you all for your attention.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
全民兵の武装解除と、南におけるレバノン政府の権限の再主張を明示的に求めた国連安全保障理事会決議1559は、無視された。2005年、盛んに報じられた杉革命(Cedar Revolution)の後、ヒズボラは、武装民兵を維持し、南を支配しながら、同時にレバノン政府にまで参加するようになった。	UN Security Council resolution 1559, which explicitly called for the disarming of all militias and the reassertion of Lebanese government authority in the south, went unheeded. After the much-heralded “Cedar Revolution” of 2005, Hezbollah even joined the Lebanese government, while at the same time maintaining its armed militia and control of the south.	{ "source": "news_commentary", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
俺が作り出したヴァンパイアロードの幻は階のものだ。王宮に手の者を沢山忍び込ませていたロードだ。俺で討滅したので、セルリスもシアもあったことがない。だから最適だと思ったのだ。「こいつ素早いであります!」シアとセルリスは見事に戦っていた。ちなみにシアが今使っている剣は、この第六位階からの戦利品だ。俺の横にダントンが来た。「我が娘ながら、いい動きだな」「ああ、見事なものだ。俺が初めてシアにあったときに比べても格段に成長している」「本当か?」「うむ。見ていればわかると思うが、今出している幻の精度はかなり高い」「それはわかる」ダントンはうなずく。ダントンは経験豊富なヴァンパイア狩りの戦士。ロードの強さは熟知している。族長たちもロードの精度に気付いているのだろう。見事に戦うシアとセルリスを見て、「ほう」と感心するような声を出している。「見事なものだ」俺は改めてつぶやく。初めて会った時、シアはゴブリンロードに苦戦していた。それがかりとはいえ、ヴァンパイアロードと互角に戦っているのだ。セルリスも初めて会った時に比べて格段に動きがよくなっている。若者の成長はかなり早い。そして、俺は近くにいる子供たちを見た。ものすごく真剣な表情で戦いを見つめていた。見ているだけでも勉強になるだろう。ダントンが幻とシアたちの戦いを見守りながら言う。「俺としては、幻の精度の高さが恐ろしい」「そうか?」「再現度が高すぎる」「今出している幻の元となったヴァンパイアロードとは直接戦ってとどめを刺したからな」ダントンはゆるゆると首を振る。「俺たちもソロでは難しくとも、力を合わせればロードは狩れる」「ふむ?」「だが、ここまで分析できない。ロックはロードを完全に見透かしている」「まあ、戦いながら観察しているからな。観察は結構得意な方だ」そんなことを話しながらも、俺は幻を調節していく。シアとセルリスが幻に与えたダメージを計算するのだ。そして、仮に本物だったらどう動きが変化するかを推定するのだ。その計算はかなり大変だ。「......相当な力量差がなければここまで見透かすことはできないぞ」「そうか。そうかもしれない」「ヴァンパイア狩りの専門家の俺たちより、ヴァンパイアに詳しいかも知れないな」「それはないだろう」「いや、ヴァンパイアの生態や風習ならともかく、戦闘に関しては完全にロックが上だろう」ダントンに俺の幻を絶賛されてしまった。自信のある幻なので、褒めてもらえてとても嬉しい。「今度、俺にも稽古をつけてくれ」「いいぞ。空き時間にいつでも言ってくれ」そんな会話を聞いていた他の族長もやってくる。「ロックさん、是非我らにも」「はい。時間さえあれば、構いませんよ」「ありがたい!」族長たちは凄く嬉しそうだった。俺と族長たちが会話している間、シアとセルリスは稽古を続けている。俺も語りながら、計算し幻の微調整を続けた。激しい戦いの後、二人の連携が見事に決まり、ロードの幻の首が飛ぶ。落ちた首にシアが素早くとどめを刺した。その瞬間、一斉に拍手の音が鳴り響く。「お見事!」「おねえちゃんすごい!」族長と子供たちから称賛されて、シアとセルリスは照れていた。そして二人とも俺のもとへと走ってくる。「「稽古、ありがとうございます」」二人が声をあわせて、お礼を言う。「思っていたより俺もいい訓練になった。ありがとう」シアたちの動きは俺が思っていたより素早かった。「あの、ロックさん、私たちの動きはどうでありましたか?」「とても良かったぞ」セルリスがゆっくりと首をふる。「まだまだ、力量が不足しているのは自分たちもわかっているわ」「そうであります」「まあ、誰と比べるかで評価は変わるからな」以前のシアたちに比べたら、相当強くなっている。だが、エリックやゴランたちと比べたら不足しているのは間違いない。シアもセルリスも目標が高いのだろう。向上心があるのは良いことだ。だから、俺も本気で改善すべき点を教えていった。シアもセルリスも真剣に俺の話を聞いていた。ガルヴとゲルベルガさまも聞いていた。シアとセルリスへの指導が終わった後、ニア、ルッチラと子供たちの指導に移る。もっとこうしたほうがいいというのを教えると、ニアたちも真面目に聞いていた。稽古が終わると、ガルヴが俺の周りをぐるぐる回りはじめた。ものすごい勢いで尻尾を振っている。「散歩したいのか?」どうやらガルヴは散歩をしたいらしい。ガルヴは大体いつも午前に散歩している。だが、今日は稽古が始まったから待っていたのだろう。嬉しそうにガルヴはぴょんぴょん跳びはねた。	The illusion I created was of the th ranking Vampire Lord. The one who had sent many spies into the palace. As I had been alone when I killed him, Serulis and Shia did not know what he looked like. Which was for the best. “This one is very fast!” Shia and Serulis were fighting very well. In fact, the sword Shia was using now was this Vampire Lord’s sword. Danton came to stand next to me. “I don’t mean to boast, but my daughter moves very well.” “Yes, it’s impressive. Shia has improved a lot since I first met her.” “Really?” “Yes. I’m sure you can tell by watching. Besides, this illusion is very accurate.” “I can see that.” Danton nodded. He was a warrior with a lot of experience in vampire hunting. He knew how strong a lord was. The other chiefs also seemed to have noticed this. They raised their voices in admiration at how well Shia and Serulis fought. “It’s wonderful.” I whispered. When I had first met her, Shia was struggling against a goblin lord. And now the two of them were fighting a vampire lord. Serulis had also improved a lot. Young people grew so quickly. The children also watched the fight. They stared with incredibly serious expressions. Just watching would be educational for them. Danton watched them fight and said, “I honestly find these illusions quite frightening.” “Do you?” “It’s too realistic.” “Well, I actually met this vampire and killed him myself.” Danton shook his head. “While it may be difficult to do solo, we can also kill Lords if we work together.” “Oh?” “But it’s hard to analyze them. You have clearly understood everything about the way they move.” “Ah. I do like to observe while fighting. I’m rather good at it.” Even as we talked, I was making adjustments to it. At the same time, I calculated the damage that Shia and Serulis were inflicting. I would guess how the vampire would react if he was real.. It was pretty difficult. “...I don’t think it would be possible for you to do it unless there was a massive gap in power.” “You think so? Perhaps that’s true.” “You know more about vampires than us. And we are supposed to be professionals.” “That’s not true.” “No, perhaps we know more about their tendencies and way of life, but you know everything about the way they fight.” Danton gushed about how good the illusion was. As it was my best work, I was quite happy about that. “I would like to train with you later.” “Of course. Let me know when you have time.” A few other chiefs heard this and approached me. “Mister Locke. We would like to train with you as well.” “Yes. I don’t mind as long as you have time.” “Thank you!” The chiefs were very happy. While we talked, Shia and Serulis continued to fight. I also continued to calculate and make adjustments. After a difficult battle, their synchronized attacks finally resulted in the lord’s head being removed from his shoulders. Shia was quick to stab the fallen head. Immediately after, the audience erupted into cheers. “Brilliant!” “That was amazing, sister!” Shia and Serulis looked a little embarrassed at all of the praise from the children and chiefs. They both ran towards me. “Thank you for helping us with our training.” They both said. “It was good training for me as well. Thank you.” Shia and Serulis had been much faster than I expected. “Um, Mister Locke. What did you think while watching us?” “You two were very good.” Serulis shook her head. “No, I know very well that I have a long way to go.” “That’s right.” “Well, I guess it depends on who you compare yourself with.” They were much stronger than before. However, they were definitely nowhere close to Eric and Goran. Shia and Serulis had very ambitious goals. But it was good that they wanted to improve. And so I gave them serious tips on what to change. Shia and Serulis listened intently. Even Grulf and Lord Gerberga listened. Now that Shia and Serulis were done, I move to instruct Nia, Luchila, and the children. I told them about how they could improve, and they listened carefully. When training was finished, Grulf started running around in a circle. His tail wagged furiously. “You want to go on a walk?” Apparently, he did. Grulf usually wanted to go on a walk in the morning. However, he had to wait today, because of the training. Grulf jumped around happily.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 9, "inserted_lines_src": 0, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
「宰相閣下」「......」「宰相閣下。よろしいですか?」「......あ、ああ済まない。ええと、君は――」「イングリス・ユークス。従騎士科生です」「従騎士科だと? その力でか......?」「それより、こちらはどうしますか? 捕縛ですか? それとも緊急の処罰を?」「捕縛だ。国王陛下にご裁定頂かねば」「――それで、この方は確実に処罰されるのですか?」「ああ勿論だ。私の名において誓おう」「了解しました」イングリスはミュンテーの前に進み出る。「......ほひょひょひょひょ! そうは行かんぞい、イングリスちゃん!」ブゥゥン! ミュンテーの手前の空間が歪んだように見える。その歪みの中から、先程の「......帰って来た?」の動きを感じる。「ははっ! 転移の術じゃわ、こう見えて忠実な奴じゃて!」「ならば別の方法で倒しましょう」そしてを操り氷の剣を生み出す。で身を包むと、並の武器は耐えられずに壊れる。この氷の剣も例外ではなく、前回も一太刀で粉々になってしまった。だが逆に言うと、を使っても一太刀は持つ。普通の武器とは違い元手はかからないので、懐は痛まず実用範囲だ。「ラニ、宰相閣下をお願い。レオーネはそのままファルスさんに。」「分かったわ、イングリス!」「うん! 前もやれたし、大丈夫よね?」「うん。大丈夫だよ」イングリスは氷の剣を構えて「ほひょ! 前のヤツがやられて、暫く大人しくしておったワケが分かるか? ちゃあんと改善と強化を施してあるんじゃよ! それぇい!」パチン、とミュンテーが指を弾く。「ごあああァァァァッ!」が血のように赤く輝き出す。の基礎代謝を上げる事により、飢えは早くなるが力は増す! 早く喰わんと飢えておぬしが死ぬぞ! イングリスちゃんのほかのヤツから喰ってやれい! そうして力を増せば勝てる!」は地を蹴り、イングリスを迂回してラフィニア達に迫ろうとする。「――こっちに来る!?」「まかせて」しかしイングリスは敵の進路上に回り込み、腕を捕らえるとそのまま壁に向かって投げつけた。また壁を突き破り、「ほひょ!? まだ通用せんか......!」ブゥン! とミュンテーの手前の空間が歪む。「おあァァッ!?」「ほひょ! まだじゃあ! 限界まで代謝を上げぇいっ!」の赤い輝きが増す。は地を蹴ると天井や壁を反射しながら高速で飛び回る。一段と動きの切れを増している。なかなか見事なものだ。 ――が、見切れないわけではない。「......まだまだですね。これではラニ達には指一本触れられませんよ」ドガアァァァンッ! 今度はレオーネに迫ろうとしていた敵を、再び船外に蹴り出した。「もう限界ですか? ならば次は倒します」ラフィニアを狙った以上、慈悲は無い。ミュンテーも同罪だが、捕縛して裁きをするとの事なので、それには従うが。「くっ......! ほひょひょひょ......! えぇぇいっ! 限界の向こう側へ行けぇぇい!」またまた戻って来たは半狂乱の叫び声を上げ―― 目の前のミュンテーの背中から胸板を手刀で貫いていた。「ほひょ......!? ち、違う――わしを喰うてどうする......!?」ミュンテーの身体が黒い炭のようになって、「限界を超え、敵味方の見境まで失ってしまいましたか。哀れなものですね。同情はしませんが――」まだ大人しくしていた方が、ミュンテーも生き永らえたのではないだろうか。「どちらにせよ、無駄なのですし――ね」しかし完全に動きを見切ったイングリスは、氷の剣を一閃する。今度は横一文字に切り裂かれた	「Your Excellency.」「......」「Your Excellency, Prime Minister, if I may?」「...... A-, aah, forgive me. Umm, and you’re—」「Inglis Eux. I am a freshman in the Squire division.」「Squire division? With that strength...?」「What should we do about him? Should we apprehend him? Or should we give an immediate punishment?」「Apprehend him. His Majesty the King will try him.」「——Will that bring justice to every sin this man has done?」「Of course. I swear it with my own name.」「Understood.」 Inglis stepped forward, approaching Myynti. 「...... Hyohohyohohyo!! Not so fast, cutie-pie!」 Voom! The space in front of Myynti seemed to distort as he spoke. From within the distortion, the Rune Eater from before appeared. 「...... He’s back?」 Inglis could feel a strong mana movement rousing around. 「HAHA! It’s a teleportation technique! Quite the faithful doll for his look, isn’t he!」「If so, then I just need to find a better way to dispose of him.」 She then manipulated the mana to produce her own ice sword. Whenever Inglis clad an ordinary weapon in an activated wave of Ether, she would break it because the weapon couldn’t withstand the Ether wave. The same also applied to this ice sword, as the last time Inglis tried it, the ice sword broke into pieces in a single swing. However, that meant that it would last a single swing even if Inglis were to use Ether Armor. And different from conventional weapons, it didn’t cost a single coin even if she were to break it, so her wallet wouldn’t suffer any damage from it. 「Rani, I entrust His Excellency to you. Leone, you keep guarding Mister Faris.」「Got that, Inglis!」「Yeah! You’ve defeated him before, so it’ll be fine, right Glis?」「Yeah. It will be alright.」 Inglis faced the Rune Eater with her ice sword at the ready. 「HOHYO! Do you know why he didn’t hunt for Runes after you defeated the last one? It’s because I made sure to improve and strengthen him even further! Have at her!」 With a snap, Myynti flicked his fingers. The Runes all over the Rune Eater’s body glowed red in blood at that moment. 「Hohyohyohyo! Just so you know, he is a monster whose metabolism has been swapped, he no longer consumes food as sustenance, but by robbing mana from others! By enhancing his basal metabolic rate, he’ll starve faster as he gets stronger! Be quick or you’ll die! Eat the other girls’ mana! We’ll have the upper hand after that!」 The Rune Eater kicked the floor as he tried to bypass Inglis and lunge into Rafinha. 「——He’s heading here!?」「Leave it to me.」 However, Inglis cut off his path, caught his arm, and threw him directly to the same wall as before. Again he broke through the wall, and the Rune Eater was once again exposed to the sky. 「Hohyo!? So it’s not enough......!」 Voom! And so the space in front of Myynti distorted again. 「OAAHHH!?!?」 The Rune Eater came back again for the second time. 「Hohyo! More! I can still raise his metabolic rate even more!!」 The red glow on his Runes intensified. 「ABYAAAHHH!!!!」 The moment the Rune Eater kicked the ground, this time, he bustled about along the ceilings and the walls with great speed. His agility was enhanced more than ever. Quite the brilliant sight, Inglis applauded it. —But, it didn’t mean she couldn’t catch him. 「...... Still not enough. With just this much, you can’t even touch Rani and Leone.」「Is that the limit already? Then, I shall bring him down next.」 From the moment he targeted Rafinha, mercy was no longer on the menu. Myynti was just as guilty, but Inglis was ordered to apprehend him so they could try him, so she would go along with that scheme. 「Kgh......! Hohyohyohyo......! EEEIII!! GO OVER YOUR LIMIT!!!!」 The Rune Eater, who got aboard yet again, now screeched at Myynti. The Rune Eater raised a half-crazed roar—— And pierced Myynti from his back, the ice sword protruded from the Highlander’s chest. 「HOHYO......!?!?!? N-, no——Don’t you eat me......!!!」 Myynti’s body blackened like charcoal as he was sucked into the Rune Eater. 「He’s gone so far past his limits that he lost sight of who is a friend and who is a foe, huh? What a pitiable person you are. But I spare no sympathy for you——」 It would have been better for Myynti too if he kept the monster’s lucidity intact. 「At the end of the day, it’s pointless even if I do——isn’t it?」 Inglis, however, had seen through his movement and brandished her ice sword at him. The Rune Eater, sliced horizontally this time, fell to the floor.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 7, "inserted_lines_src": 29, "inserted_lines_trg": 3 }
「こちらはアンソン侯爵の私室になりますわ。そしてこちらがベンボー辺境伯。どちらも気位が高い方ですから、近付かない方が賢明かと」「そうなんだ。レティーナでも?」「侯爵や辺境伯となれば、わたしとほぼ同格ですもの。変なライバル心を持たれて面倒ですの」「うわ、近寄らないでおこ」レティーナに最上階の居住者を説明してもらいながら、俺は警戒を緩めない。「で、こちらの一番奥がレメク公爵の居室になりますわ」「ここを調べさせようと冒険者を送って、帰ってこなかった......と?」「まあ、そういうことになりますわね。受けていただいた方には、悪いことをしましたわ」「ミスして命を落とすのは、冒険者としてはよくあることだよ」だとしても、それは冒険者としては常に覚悟しておかねばならない事態なので、彼女には非はない。それはもちろんレティーナも理解しているが、それでも割り切れないところが、彼女の悪いところでもありいいところでもある。「それにしても、穏やかじゃないな。寮母のおばさんはいい人......とは言えないかもしれないけど、悪人って感じじゃなかったのに」「それは魔術学院ですもの。いろんな素材を使いますし、しっかりと自分を制することができる方でないと、任せられませんわ」「それもそっか。それじゃ他の場所も行ってみよう」金銭の誘惑に抗しきれる人間でないと、寮母など務まらないだろう。「他の場所って......一階から三階まで全部見たのでしょう?」「新入りが入りにくい場所ってのもあってね。特に薬関係だと必須なのに、入りづらい場所があるんだ」そういうと俺はレティーナの手を引き、伏魔殿のようから退散した。今は授業中のため人目は少ないが、それでも一緒にいることで何が起こるかわからない。魔術学院では薬学の基礎も学ぶ。そして薬と塩や砂糖は切っても切れない関係である。この物資の調達量が制限される学院内では、ここが最有力の調達場所である。「こんにちわー」「おう、レティーナの嬢ちゃんかい!」「レティーナ、お知合い?」「ええ、料理長とは初日に挨拶しましたもの。フィニアさんの都合で」「そういえば、フィニアも料理好きだったもんね」それだけではない。フィニアにはその対策として、できうる限り彼女の手料理をレティーナに振舞うよう警告しておいた。そのためにここで間借りする時も有るので、先に挨拶していたのだろう。「おう、あの嬢ちゃんは筋がいいな! ぜひここに勤めてもらいてぇもんだが......」「残念ながら、彼女は今はわたしの従者ですの。その希望は捨ててくださいまし」「侯爵の娘さんのお手付きとなれば、しかたねぇか」「て、手は付けてませんし!」「レティーナ、からかわれてる。ところで料理長、わたしの従者もここを使ってもよいですか?」「そっちの嬢ちゃんは......?」レティーナの愛想の良さに乗せられて、いきなり漫談を始めた料理長だが、ここで俺が新顔であることに気付いたようだ。もっともその腕はフィニアには程遠く、前世の俺と同じ程度の雑な料理しかできない。「失礼しました。わたしは本日からこちらでお世話になります、ニコルと申します」そのためにはまずは第一印象。その眼帯も本来の海賊風のデザインだと怪しまれるので、表面に黒い布をかぶせてごまかしていた。ちなみにハスタール神に普通のデザインに変更してくれと注文を出したところ、『カッコ悪いからイヤだ』と返されてしまった。あの神様も地味に白いのと同じくらいメンドクサイ奴である。軽くスカートの裾をつまみ、膝を曲げる。残念ながら、高等部のスカートもそれほど長くないので、あまり持ち上げられない。丈の長いスカートで広げると見栄えがするのだが......いや、それは今どうでもいい。「おう、俺みたいな料理人にそんな挨拶はいらねぇよ。しかし......まあ、料理は俺の仕事なんだが、レティーナ嬢ちゃんの知り合いなら、いいか」「レティーナ、すごく気に入られてるけど、何したの?」「え、初日の夕食でお替りした程度ですわ」「普通はしないよね?」「引っ越しでお腹がすいてましたの。それにわたし、元冒険者ですし」「好き嫌いもなく勢いよく食ってくれてなぁ。いや、久しぶりに飯の出し甲斐のある生徒だったぜ」「それならミシェルも連れてくればよかったですわね。あの子はわたしの倍は食べますもの」「レティーナ、今はそれよりさらにすごいから」「え、ほんとに......?」ミシェルちゃんの食欲は止まるところを知らない。そのくせ肉は胸と尻にばかり付き、腹回りには余計な肉がないのだから信じられない。「そりゃ楽しみだ。一度連れてきてくれよ!」「いや、多分貴族のいる場所って聞いたら、飛んで逃げると思う。実際そうだったし」「そりゃ、鼻持ちならねぇのが多いのは確かだけどな。しかし残念だ」「うちの従者が調味料とか結構使うと思うのですけど、その辺は大丈夫ですか?」「ん? 妙なこと気にするんだな。別に生徒一人分の食材や調味料でどうなるもんじゃないぞ、ここは」確かに百人を超える生徒の胃袋を賄うのだから、この厨房の広さも、かなりのものだ。おそらく厨房の奥に見える冷蔵室や倉庫にも、大量の食材が収められているのだろう。しかしこの答えだけでは、俺の欲しい答えには至らない。「そうですか。いえ、ここは魔術学院ですので、大量の塩とか使ったりしないのかと。薬学の授業もありますし」「そりゃたまに融通してくれって通達が来ることはあるけどな。それでも目立って減るようなことはないさ」「それはよかった」水や塩は溶媒に使われることが多い。それが無いということは、別ルートのなにかがあるのかもしれない。もしくは水や塩を使わない薬とか......? 「うーん、まだ情報が足りないな」「あん? なんかいったか」「いえ、すこし喉が渇いたな、と」「そうかい。実はここに新作の果実水があってな!」「うぇ!?」こうして俺は、意図せず料理長の実験台になってしまった。それを見たレティーナが腹を抱えて爆笑したので、ドリル伸ばしの刑に処してやったのだった。	“This is Marquis Anson’s private room. That is Margrave Benbow’s. Either of them is highly prideful, so it would be wiser to keep away from them.” “I see. That goes for you too, Letina?” “Marquis and Margraves are about the same rank as I. I would rather they did not get in some strange rivalry with me.” “Oof, yeah let’s just stay away.” I remained vigilant while Letina explained to me about the residents of the top floor. I was measuring the top floor layout as we walked. This was my ingrained habit in my previous life, but either way, I found out that the room sizes here were bigger compared to the other floors. “And, this one at the very end is Duke Lamech’s room.” “You sent Adventurers to investigate this place and they didn’t return, huh...” “Well, such things happen. I feel bad for those people who accepted the commission.” “It’s common for Adventurers to lose their lives after making a blunder.” Letina felt down that she unintentionally sent a third party to a dangerous place. But even so, Adventurers should always be prepared for that, so she was not to be blamed. Letina of course understood that too, but the fact that she still couldn’t fully accept it was probably one of her faults. For better or worse, she had a strong sense of responsibility. “Still, it’s quite a nice place here. The dorm mother is a kind person...okay maybe not exactly kind, but she didn’t seem like a bad person.” “This is a magic academy, after all. They use all kinds of materials, and only hire those who can properly control themselves.” “I guess that makes sense. Anyway, let’s check the remaining places too.” They were entrusted with the master key of this dorm which had a lot of high-priced materials. They would not be suitable to be a dorm mother unless they were someone who could not be tempted with money. “The remaining places...? You already saw everything from the first to third floors, did you not?” “There are places a fresh transfer student can’t easily enter, right? Places with medicine, for example, are important but hard to get into.” With that, I grabbed Letina by the hand and escaped from this pandemonium-like fourth floor. There were few people around since they were currently in classes, but there was no knowing what could happen if we remained together. But I also didn’t wanna leave her alone there, so I chose to escape together. I brought her to the first-floor kitchen. They taught the fundamentals of pharmacy in this academy too. And medicine had an inseparable relationship with salt and sugar. The Lamech household was suspected of selling illegal drugs, so he was probably ordering large quantities of salt and sugar when compounding them. But within the academy where that supply was limited, this place was the strongest candidate of where he was getting his supplies. “Hello.” “Oh, is it you, Miss Letina!” “Letina, you know them?” “Yes, I got acquainted with the head chef on the first day, due to Finia’s matters.” “Now that you mention it, Finia does love cooking.” It wasn’t just that. The other party this time was suspected of handling drugs. There was a possibility that she would be served drugs in some way. I warned Finia to serve Letina her handmade cooking as much as possible as a countermeasure. For that reason, she would be needing to borrow this place from time to time, so she probably came here to greet the chef first. “Ah, that lass has great skill! So much so that I’d like to hire her but...” “I am sorry to say, but she is my attendant. Please give up on that.” “I suppose it can’t be helped if she’s the mistress of a Marquis’ daughter.” “S-She is not my mistress!” “Letina, he is teasing you. By the way, head chef, can my attendant use this place too?” “And who may you be...?” The head chef got influenced by Letina’s sociable nature and started happily chatting, but then he finally noticed that I was a new face. Den could apparently cook basic food already, so it wouldn’t be bad to have him polish his skills here. That said, his skill was far from Finia now, and probably could only cook stuff as crudely as I did in my past life. “My apologies. I am Nicole who transferred here today.” So I had to give him a good first impression. Removing my eyepatch would’ve done the job the fastest, but I was scared of letting a power I myself didn’t really understand run wild. Even the design looked pirate-like, so I overlaid a black cloth on top of it. Incidentally, when I asked Hastur to replace it with a normal design, he just rejected it with, “it won’t look cool, so no.” He was as much of a pain as Whitey. At any rate, he would listen to my request as long as I wasn’t impolite, so I decided to just be courteous here. I lightly grabbed the hem of my skirt and bent my knees. Unfortunately, the senior skirts weren’t very long so I couldn’t lift it up too much. Spreading a longer skirt would have more air but... Actually, who cares about that now. “Ah, no need to give such a greeting to a cook like me. Still... Well, cooking is my job, but I suppose it’s fine if you are Miss Letina’s acquaintance.” “Letina, he seems quite fond of you. What did you do?” “Huh, I simply asked for seconds during the first-day meal.” “People normally don’t do that, do they?” “I was very hungry after moving in. And I am a former Adventurer too.” “She ate her fill without being picky. I felt glad to serve a student for the first time in a while.” “I should have brought Michelle along if that would be the case. She eats twice as much as me.” “Uh, Letina, she’s far worse now.” “Huh, really...?” Michelle’s appetite knew no bounds. And yet, all the meat only went to her breasts and butt, while her waist remained slender, which was quite hard to believe. She must be contracted with some fishy god for sure. But it wouldn’t be Whitey at least. She was too flat for that. “That sounds fun. Please bring her over once!” “If she hears this was a place full of nobles, she’d just run away. That’s what actually happened.” “Well, it’s true that most of them are intolerable. Still, it’s a shame.” “My attendant uses quite a bit of seasoning, so would that be alright?” “Hmm? What a strange thing to ask. This isn’t a place where they would take issue with how many ingredients or seasonings one person uses for their cooking. Certainly, this kitchen was quite big, considering it was used to sate the hunger of over a hundred students. The cold room and warehouse I could see deeper in probably stored a lot of ingredients. Still, this wasn’t the answer I was hoping for. “I see. I was just wondering if they used a lot of salt and such, considering this was a magic academy. There are pharmacy classes, after all.” “Ah, well, they do sometimes send notices to borrow some. But not enough to considerably diminish the stored amount.” “That’s good.” In other words, they were not carrying huge amounts of water and salt from here, huh. Those two were often used in solvents. If this place wasn’t involved, there must be some other route. Could it be some kind of drug that isn’t made using water and salt? “Hmm, I still lack information.” “Huh? Did you say something?” “No, I’m just a little thirsty.” “Oh, really? I actually have fruit water here that’s new on the menu!” “Huuh?” And like that, I ended up acting as a guinea pig for the head chef. Incidentally, the aforementioned fruit juice was sour to the point it made me grimace, and grimace like hell I did. Letina burst into laughter when she saw that, and I punished her by stretching her drills.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 15, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
まずはこの寮の構造を知ることが優先だ。標的の位置を知るのも、自分の身を護るのも、すべてはここから始まるといっていい。この学院にいる目安として、コルティナの特訓が終わ月後を目途にしている。連中が押しかけると、もはや捜査どころではなくなってしまう。「まずからかな?」この寮のしきたりや規則なども含め、詳しく話を聞いておく必要もある。寮母の私室の扉をノックし、中からの返事を待つ。「どなた?」「先ほどお世話になりました、ニコルです。改めてご挨拶に参りました」「あら、ちょうどいいわね。今お茶を入れたところだからお入りなさい」平民の俺に対し、比較的好意的に対応してくれるのは、今となってはありがたい。ドアを開けて中に入ると、小ざっぱりした部屋が視界に入る。愛想よく一礼してから素早く視線を室内に走らせるが、怪しいものは見当たらない。もちろんあったとしても、簡単に目に付くところには置かないだろう。しかし一見したところでは地味ながらもセンスの良い家具が配置されており、実直な性格が表れている。「先ほどは失礼いたしました。到着したばかりで、少々混乱しておりまして」「あら、ベリトの英雄と呼ばれたあなたでも緊張するのですね」「その話は勘弁してください。あの時は必死だったので」半魔人たちの暴動を止めた一件は、結構大きな話題になってしまっていた。しかもそれが、『あの』ライエルとマリアの娘というところが、特に興味の的となっていた。俺自身にその意識がなかったこともあり、その話題を出されるたびに、どこの目立ちたがりだと叫びたくなる。その衝動を抑えるために、スカートの裾を弄って気を紛らわせていた。「そんなに恥ずかしがらなくてもいいでしょう。こちらに来てお茶でも飲みなさい」「はい、でも恥ずかしがっていたわけではないんで」「あなたは見かけによらず、気が強い性質のようですね」こういう情報収集のための話題の豊富さも、暗殺者としては必要な能力だ。そういえば前世でも、こういう時は普通に女と話せていたのに、私生活となるとさっぱりだったな。ついでに寮内の噂などを聞き出してみたが、不審な行動をとる生徒には気付かなかったらしい。「いろいろとありがとうございました。このまま少し寮内を見て回ってもいいですか?」「ええ、かまいませんよ。しかは位の高い貴族の方もいらっしゃいますので、振る舞いには気を付けるように」「承知しました。ご忠告ありがとうございます」礼を述べてから退出し、一階から順番に見て回ることにした。一階は最高学年の三年が住んでいて、食堂や浴場なども存在し、かなり広い。「こりゃ、見て回るだけでも一苦労だな」俺は独り言ちてから、足早に各部屋の配置を見て回った。さすがに中を調べる時間はない。それでも手足になって使われている奴がいるかもしれない。部屋の表札を見ながら、ここはあそこの伯爵、ここは向こうの子爵と、評判のよくない貴族の子弟の目星だけ付けへと移る。同様に、二階、三階と上がっていく。もっともこの辺になると、入学しても間もないため、黒幕と思しきレメク家の影響を受けている可能性は少ない。ここまで見たところ、一階に数名の要注意人物がいるくらいで、それほど危険な感じはしない。レティーナの送り込んだ冒険者を消すような、危険な人物はいなさそうだった。「やはり本命は最上階か」俺は気を引き締めて階段を昇っていく。その先に、金色に輝くドリルが待ち受けていた。いや、レティーナが待ち受けていた。「まったく! わたしを追い出したと思ったら、すぐさま寮内を徘徊するんですから!」「いや、レティーナ。普通なら君は学舎の方にいる時間だから」「転入生の世話をすると、担任に届けてますから問題ありません!」「......すさまじくメンドクサイ」まあ懐いてくれるというのは悪い気はしないが、時と場合を考えて欲しい。「まあ、今は人目がないけど、ある時はちゃんと考えてね?」「そこまで節操が無いわけじゃありませんわ。お任せくださいまし」「だといいけど......」それを受けてレティーナは満面の笑みで、背後から俺を胸に抱えこんできた。「レティーナ、胸板が痛い」「きぃぃぃ! 自分がちょっと膨らんだからといって!?」まあ、騒々しい奴だが、こういう態度もどこか懐かしいと思って、安心するのだった。	Leaving the room sorting to Den, I left the room. I wanted to prioritize learning this dorm structure first. That’s where both learning about our target and protecting ourselves would begin from. The rough estimate of my stay in this academy would be until Cortina’s special training ended three months later. Otherwise, Lyell and Maria could come rushing here if they heard of my enrollment. If they come barging, this investigation would go to waste. I had to resolve this matter until then. “Let’s start with the first floor I guess.” I met the dorm mother earlier, but it wasn’t a proper greeting. I had to ask her about the customs and rules of this dorm in further detail. And also use the chat to obtain information about the dorm structure and the students to be wary of. I knocked on the dorm mother’s door and awaited a response. “Who is it?” “It is Nicole from earlier. I came to greet you properly.” “Oh, what great timing. Please enter, I just made tea.” I was now thankful that she was giving a relatively favorable reception to a commoner like me. As I opened the door and entered, a neat room welcomed me. I gave an amiable bow and quickly ran my eyes through the room but did not see anything suspicious. Even if there was, I don’t think she would have put it in a visible place. Still, at a glance, the furniture of the room was plain yet in a good taste, revealing the owner’s honest personality. “My apologies for the earlier. I was a little disordered, having just arrived.” “Oh my, so even Berith’s hero gets nervous.” “Please let us not bring that up. I was desperate at that time.” The incident where I stopped the half-demon riot had become a pretty big topic. But people found it particularly interesting because it concerned the daughter of Lyell and Maria. I never planned to be a hero back then, so every time someone brought it up, I felt like yelling at myself for being such a show-off. I played with my skirt’s hem to distract myself from such impulses. “You don’t have to feel so embarrassed about it. Come here and drink some tea.” “Okay, but I was not particularly embarrassed.” “It looks like you are quite strong-willed contrary to your appearance.” Like that, I chatted with her for a little while. The abundance of topics to have for such situations was an essential skill for assassins. This reminds me, I could talk fine with girls in such cases even during my previous life, but I was a failure when it came to private life. I feel like it only grew worse after I headed north for the Evil Dragon extermination. I also tried to ask her about the dorm rumors, but our target wasn’t perceived to be among the students who would make suspicious moves. Then again, I shouldn’t have expected him to make such conspicuous moves that this person would spot. “Thank you for everything. May I look around the dormitory for a bit?” “Yes, I don’t mind. But high-class nobles reside on the fourth floor, so you should watch your conduct there.” “Understood. Thank you for the warning.” I bowed and excused myself, then started touring the place starting from the first floor. The first floor was where high-class third-year students lived, and it had a cafeteria and baths, making the palace quite wide. There weren’t as many students as in Raum, but given that they had a full boarding system here, the dormitory was as big as Raum’s school building. “It’ll take a while just to tour this.” I briskly inspected the locations of every room while muttering to myself. I had no time to inspect the interiors, as expected. The first floor was for the senior students, but as they weren’t from the fourth floor which I was concerned with, I didn’t have to be so wary of them. Then again, there might still be people who were used for errands among them. While looking at the nameplates of the rooms, I only made notes of the noble children with a bad reputation, like, “that count’s son lives here,” “that other viscount’s here,” and so on, then moved to the second floor. In the same way, I continued through the second and third floors. But people here had recently transferred so there was a low chance that they were under the influence of the Lamech household, who we thought to be the mastermind. So far, I only had to pay attention to the few names on the first floor, so I didn’t sense much danger. I said they had a bad reputation, but it was mostly on the level of things like sales through illegal channels or embezzlement—things present in every kingdom. At the very least, they shouldn’t be people who’d erase the dispatched Adventurers like it happened with Letina. “So the fourth floor is the real deal.” Bracing myself, I headed up the stairs. I saw golden drills waiting for me at the end. More accurately, Letina was waiting for me. “Good grief! First you drove me out and then immediately started loitering inside the dormitory!” “I mean, Letina, normally you should be in the school building right around now.” “I notified the teachers that I would be taking care of the transfer student, so there are no problems!” “...What a massive pain.” What was the point of me transferring after a delay if she was gonna stick to me like this? I mean, I didn’t feel bad about the fact that she was attached to me, but I wish she had considered time and place. “Oh well, there are few people today, but you should be careful when there are more, okay?” “I am not that unprincipled. Leave it to me.” “I really hope I can...” I heaved a big sigh and climbed up, tapping her on the shoulder as I passed by. In response, she broke into a big smile and squeezed me into a hug from behind. “Letina, your “Grrrrrrr! Acting so cheeky just because yours are a little bigger, huh?!” She was a noisy fellow, but even this nature of hers was nostalgic, and it made me feel relieved.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 13, "inserted_lines_trg": 3 }
「なるほど......こりゃあ確かに大きいな......」サンサーラエッグ村を出た俺は、本来なら間はかかるとされた行程を木々の上を飛んでいく事によって道に迷う事も、森を徘徊する魔獣に襲われることも、地形の関係で遠回りを余儀なくされることも無く、ほぼ丸一日程飛ぶことによってゴーリキィの報告に有った巨大な樹に到達した。で、肝心の樹だが現在俺はある程度離れた場所の地上から眺めているのだがゴーリキィの報告に有ったように確かに大きい......と言うか大き過ぎる。なにせ周囲の樹も高さにして20~30m程有るのだが......件の樹についてはそんな周囲の樹と比較して最低でも数百mは有る。はっきり言ってデカすぎる。「で、魔力や構造についても報告通りと」さて、そのサイズに圧倒されそうになるがこの巨大な樹の頂上の辺りには、これもゴーリキィから報告が有った通りにだが大量の魔力が存在していて、俺の目にはまるで霧か何かで樹の頂上が覆われているように見えている。そして構造としては芯に何かの建物が存在しており、それに絡み付くように樹が成長している。これもゴーリキィの報告通りだな。それでより詳しく見ていくと、芯にされている建物は複数の鉄骨......恐らくは何かしらの魔法によって強度や耐環境性を上げられたものだろう。そんな鉄骨を組み合わせて建てられた何かしらの用途が存在する塔であることが分かる。で、幹と枝の合間から見える部分で判断する限りでは基本的なカラーリングは赤と白か。うーん。とてつもなく高い塔で、赤と白のカラーリング......何か記憶の片隅に引っかかる物が有るんだが出てこない......。まあ、今世で引っかかる覚えは無いから前世の何かで引っかかっているんだろうが、なんだかんだでこの世界に転生してきてから結構長いしなぁ......前世の事で忘れていることが有ってもしょうがないか。「とりあえず空を飛んで近づくのは......止めた方が良さそうだな」俺は魔力の視認レベルを下げた状態で樹の頂上を見る。すると樹の頂上付近では樹から放出されている魔力の影響なのか大規模な乱気流が発生しており、近づく者を容赦なく遠ざけ、バランスを失わせて地面に叩きつけるようになっている。俺が以前やった魔力による防音魔法の様に空気の動きを無理やり停止させれば結果として風を防ぐことも出来そうだが......相手も魔力で風を起こしているわけだしなぁ......お互いの魔力が妙な干渉をしあった結果として大惨事になる可能性を考えると真正面から突っ切るのは危険か。「ん?」と、ここで俺は背中に何か視線を感じて振り返る。が、振り返ってみても誰も居ない。俺は相手が何かしらの魔法を使って隠れている可能性も考慮して下げていた魔力視認能力を少しずつ引き上げながら周囲を観察するが、特に魔力は見えない。となれば考えられるのは俺の気のせいか、高い魔力操作能力によって俺の目を誤魔化しているかだな。「と言うか今気づいたんだが、この辺りの魔力は色々と手が加えられているみたいだな」さて、魔力視認能力を高めた結果として気づいたんだが、どうやらこの辺り一帯の地中に含まれている魔力はこの塔を建てた何者かによって調整されているらしく、地中にはいくつもの妙に直線的な魔力の流れが存在している。そして魔力の流れの行きつく先は......。「そしてそうやって集められた魔力は例の樹に集められていると」当然の様にあの巨大な樹である。どうやらあの樹はこの辺り一帯の魔力を一身に集めたことによってあそこまで巨大化したらしい。ついでに確認した感じだと、魔力の流れを調整するためなのか、それとも単純に地下空間を利用するためなのかは分からないが、この辺り一帯の地中には様々な物質が埋まっていたり、妙に小奇麗な空間が出来ている感じがする。魔力濃度の片寄り方的にそんな感じがする。「さて、どうするか......」で、そこまで確認した所で魔力視認能力は普段のレベルに戻す。さて、この時点で俺が取るべき行動ある。一つは素直にあの樹を調べる事。もう一つは先程の視線の主を探し出す事。俺の気のせいの可能性もあるが、正直に言ってその可能性は低いと思っている。これでも俺は魔法使いとして一流の腕を持っていると言う自負はあるからな。そして視線と言うものには魔眼と呼ばれる物を代表として、視線を介して対象に掛ける魔法が色々と存在するように、魔法的に魔力が込めやすい物であり、素人ではどうしても視線に微量ではあるが魔力がこもってしまう。と言うわけで元々魔力を感知する能力が高い魔法使いとして意外と誰かに見られているという感覚は馬鹿に出来ないのである。尤もそんな俺でも今現在の居場所を探れない辺りに相手の力量も相当の物だと判断せざる得ないが。「まあ、何かを仕掛けてくる気配もしないし。当初の予定通りと行くか」さて、本音を言えば後顧の憂いはしっかりと断っておきたい所ではあるが、このまま相手が何か仕掛けてくるまで待つのも、俺が探し出そうとするのもあまりにも非効率だろう。そんなわけで俺は周囲への警戒レベルを上げつつ、木の根元に向かって移動を始めるのであった。	“I see... This is indeed rather huge...” Without deviating from the path, being attacked by magical beasts that prowled the forest, or having to make a detour due to the terrain, Pumpkin flew over the trees, a journey that would normally have taken a week, and after almost a full day of flying, he succeeded in reaching the enormous tree that Gorky had reported. Although he was positioned at a distance away from the tree, he could see it was large—or more accurately, abnormally massive Gorky had noted. The adjacent trees were to meters high... but the tree in issue was at least several hundred meters taller than those around. To put it bluntly, it was too gigantic. “So, the magic power and structure are exactly as reported.” Even while the tree’s sheer size was nearly overwhelming, as Gorky pointed out, its summit carried a tremendous amount of magic power, and in Pumpkin’s eyes, it appeared as though it was veiled in mist or another form. The tree was growing in such a way that it was entwined with the building, which was the result of the structure of the tree, which had some sort of building at its core. When examined more closely, it became clear that the structure’s core was made up of many steel frames, which were presumably given a magical boost in terms of strength and resilience to the environment. It can be determined that it was a tower with some kind of use for which it was constructed by combining such steel frames. The fundamental coloration was red and white, based on the portion that was visible between the trunk and branches. Yeah. It’s an enormously tall tower in red and white... There’s something about it that keeps nagging at the back of my memory but it’s not surfacing to my recollection... Well, perhaps something in my previous life has stuck with me since I don’t have any memory of being stuck in this life, but it’s been awhile since I reincarnated in this world... It’s inevitable that there are things about my former life that I have forgotten. “For now, it would be best... not to fly too close to it.” With his magic vision level lowered, Pumpkin observed the top of the tree. Around the peak of the tree, large-scale turbulence has been generated, which may be due to the influence of the magic power emitted from the tree, and whoever attempted to approach the tree would be tenaciously driven away and knocked to the ground, throwing them off balance. It may be possible to obstruct the wind by forcibly halting the movement of the air, like the soundproofing magic he once employed with his magic power but... the other party was likewise generating wind with magic power... When considering the likelihood of a catastrophe as a result of the strange interference of mutual magic power, it would be perilous to rush head-on into a confrontation. “Hmm?” This was when the sensation of a gaze was felt on Pumpkin’s back that prompted him to turn his head. The presence of the other person, though, was not to be found even as he looked back. In light of the possibility that the other party was performing some kind of magic to conceal their presence, Pumpkin gradually raised his magic vision ability, but no particular magic power was in sight. The only explanations he can come up with are that it was all in his head or that the other side’s superior ability to manipulate magic power was fooling his sight. “Or, rather, I’ve now noticed that the magic power in this area appears to have undergone a number of modifications.” As a result of his enhanced magic vision ability, the magic power contained in the ground in this area was apparently altered by someone who erected this tower, leading to the existence of several strangely linear streams of magic power within the ground. And the magic power flow ended up at... “And the magic power amassed in this way is being concentrated in that tree.” It was, not surprisingly, directed to that huge tree. That tree has apparently grown to that size by consolidating all the magic power in the area. It was not confirmed whether it was to adjust the flow of magic power or simply to utilize the underground space, yet it seemed that there were various materials buried in the ground in this area and that strangely small and neat spaces were created. In terms of the concentration of magic power, it gave off such an impression. “Now, what should I do...” So, after reviewing that much, Pumpkin returned his magic vision ability to its normal level. At this point, there were two actions he should take. First, it was an immediate investigation of the tree. The other step would be to search for the person who was staring at him. While a chance of it being purely in his head existed, in all honesty, he thought the odds of that being the case were slim. Nevertheless, as a sorcerer, he took pride in his first-rate skills. And as there were various kinds of magic that can be cast on an object through the gaze, such as the magic eye, it was easy to incorporate magic power in the gaze, and amateurs would inevitably contain a trace of magic power in their gaze. Therefore, as a sorcerer with a high ability to detect magic power, the sensation of being watched by someone was not something that can be underestimated. Pumpkin was unable to determine their present location, though, so he was compelled to conclude that the other party possessed a considerable amount of capacity as well. “Well, I don’t see any signs of them trying to pull anything on me. I guess I will move on according to my initial plan.” While he would have liked to have dismissed any lingering fears, it would be too inefficient to wait for the other party to make some sort of move or for him to try to seek them out. As such, Pumpkin began to move toward the base of the tree while heightening his level of alertness to his surroundings.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 0, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
君の名前がハリー・ベーカーなら僕らの名前は同じちょっとした導入部でねやあ僕はハリー数学を研究し詩を書くだから素数をテーマとした愛の詩から始めよう題は『59』『素敵な素数』とでもしようかと思ったけどそうやって皆ひいちゃうからねでは『59』を 59が目覚めたのは縁起悪くもベッドの反対側なぜか髪の毛は片側にペッタリちょっと考えて寝相のせいだと気付く適当な服を探して身に付ける鏡をのぞいてちょっと悦に入る荒削りながらカジュアルさも兼ね備える自分窓の外に目を見やると目を奪われるのは向かいの「60」 60の美しいこと爪の先まで完ぺきでピッタリの装いぶしつけさなど微塵もないこれ以上ないほどいつもピッタリの時間に現れそれも超クールにやってのける 59は伝えたかった彼女の好きな花を知っていると毎分毎秒毎時間彼女のことを思い続けるも思いが届かないことは分かっていた決して結ばれない運命通りのすぐ向かいにいる彼女とは住む世界が違うのだ 59は丸まったキレの良い60をこよなく愛すも 60は 59を“奇”数としか思えないから 59が好きな映画は『101(ワン・オー・ワン)』 60が好きなのは続編の『102(ワン・オー・ツー)』ロマンティックな59は二人を薄幸な恋人だと疑わず二人の力を合わせ “奇”“偶”で軌跡を起こせると信じた一方 60は母からの厳しい言いつけどおり二人の溝は埋められないそう固持したそのとき 59はママに支配された娘を愛そうとすることに無力さを感じていたが少し計算を働かせれば癒されたはずだった 60から59を引けば残りは1で唯一無二の存在だからウジウジして 2ヶ月が過ぎ 61日後に 59は「61」と出会った彼は鍵を失くし両親も外出中だったある放課後のこと彼がその家をふと見るとドアの番号は少しくずしたスタイルだと気が付いたなぜこれまで話しかけなかったのだろう彼女に招き入れられた59は口をあんぐり 61は60に似ていてちょっと大きいだけ彼女の方が目が可愛らしく親しみある笑顔だったそして彼と同様荒削りでカジュアルそして彼と同様すべてが無秩序そして彼と同様母親は友だちが来ても気にしない彼女は彼に似ていて彼は彼女が好きだった二人が似ていることを知れば彼女も好きになると彼は踏んだ今回はいつもと違ったこの子は素敵だった彼は勇気をふり絞って “数字”を尋ねた「私は61よ」という彼女に彼はにっこり「僕は59」と答えた「今日僕はすごく楽しかった明日良かったら僕の家に来ないかい?」「もちろん」と彼女奇抜な人と話すのが大好きな彼女は非公式のファースト・デートの誘いに乗った彼の準備が整ったのは約束の1分前でも彼女は1分遅く到着したので何の問題もなかったその瞬間からノンストップでおしゃべりが続いた二人は『Xファクター』を好み二つのファクターを持つこれは欠点どころか二人の存在意義を高めていた夜が明けるころには互いが運命の人だと感じていたある日彼女はうぬぼれ屋の60について話していて少し不愉快そうにする 59に気付いた彼は顔を赤らめかつての恋心を打ち明けた「ああなって良かったんだ僕たちが出会えたからね」 61は賢明だった嫉妬にとらわれることもなく彼の目を見てとても優しく諭した「君は59で私は61 二人合わせると60の2倍になるの」このとき 59は目に涙をためこんな唯一無二の娘に出会えたことを喜んだ彼は“素数”たることの意味を話した彼の心を分かつのは “一”と彼自身だけそして彼女こそ心を預けたい唯“一”の存在だと彼女は同じ気持ちだと答えた映画は半分本当だとやっと分かったあれは真の愛ではなくただの見本にすぎない真の愛においては二人こそが“素”晴らしい例なのだありがとう (拍手) これが僕が初めて書いた詩で素数がテーマの詩の夜会のため― いや素数がテーマの詩のコンテストのため書いたものです僕は素数がテーマの詩のコンテストで優勝したからまさに “素”晴らしいわけだこうして僕は「ポエトリー・スラム」なるものを知った念のために言うと「ポエトリー・スラム」はアメリカで30年前に作られたもので人をだまして詩のイベントに参加させる方法ですそれも最後に「スラム」とか格好良い言葉を付けるだけ参加者が与えられた3分間で詩を披露するとランダムに選ばれた聴衆がスコアカードを掲げ最後に集計されて点数が出されるつまりは― パフォーマーと聴衆の垣根をなくし聴く者とのつながりを強めるものでさらにはあなたも勝てるということポエトリー・スラムで優勝すればスラム・チャンピオンを名乗ってレスラーのふりもできる負けたらこう言えばいい「何?詩は主観的な芸術形式だ数で評価するとは何事か」でも僕は気に入って何度もスラムに参加しイギリスのスラム・チャンピオンになりパリのポエトリー・ワールド・カップに招待されました信じられないことでした世界中から人々が集まり自国の言語で話し英語のできないフランス人5名が評価をするんですともかく僕は勝った最高だったよ以来僕は世界中を旅できたんだからということでこれから紹介する詩がまさに世界で最高の詩なんですですから― (拍手) 英語のできないフランス人5名によればね『ペーパー・ピープル』です僕は人が好き僕は紙の人も好き紫色の紙の人飛び出す紫色の紙人もちゃんとした飛び出す紫色の紙人「飛び出す紫色の紙人なんか立たせられないだろう?」君の叫びが聞こえるよそれはね... 僕は飛び出す紫色の紙人のペーパークリップで飛び出す紫色の紙人を立たせるわけさでも念のために接着剤も用意しておくかな粘着剤「ブル・タック」を一箱紙がすべったときのためにね飛び出す都市をつくることができるけど紙人の政治問題に巻き込まれたくなくてね紙政治家の政策なんて紙のように薄っぺら公約を破ろうがちゃんと謝罪もしない小さな紙の僕と小さな紙の君がいて僕たちは紙のペーパーテレビを見るペイ・パー・ビューでねケシの紙ラッパーは紙パックをラップし紙人の乗り物が A4地点で紙詰まりを起こすのを眺めるペーパー紙のプリンセス・ケイトでも皆が目を離せないのは紙のピッパ誰もが紙裂きジャックに怯えて生きる紙のプロパガンダは偏見を広め写真写りのよいテロリストたちの写真を紙に印刷する小さな紙の僕小さな紙の君飛び出す人々の間では問題も飛び出す仰々しい紙の議会は聖域となり紙削減に対するプロテストを無視平和的な紙のプロテストは粉々に破れ去る先制攻撃の警察による紙吹雪弾でもちろん紙のお金もあり紙欲もある意地汚い紙の銀行員は必要以上を懐におさめポプリを買って紙産を粉飾他の者は貧困に生き軽くあしらわれる “正しき”貧しい経済は多くが“正しく”貧しいが彼らの要望は無視されお金は大戦へとつぎ込まれる折り紙軍隊は紙飛行機計画を広げて見せるものの一方我々は自らの紙鎖に囚われたままもっと恥ずべきことに事態はまるで変わらないただ権力者が変わり責任転嫁先が変わっただけ権力者は名をあげて非難するがそれが人の名であったことを忘れてしまう結局名前というより人の問題だからだ僕は人が好き切迫したときでも人だけが元気づけてくれる紙の上では僕たちの動きは見えにくいでもパンドラの箱の底にだってまだ希望が残っているだから僕は希望を持っている人を信じているから人に好かれている僕の祖父母僕が生まれてから一日もかかさず僕のために毎朝祈りを捧げてくれた 7892日続けて僕のことを心配してくれて本当にありがたいおばのように囚人と劇を演じる人たちもいる真の許しをできる人たち迫害を受けたパレスチナ人のような人たち私利私欲のために道を外れた人たちは何も得ることはできない人は強くなれるんだ権力を牛耳る人が被害者ぶるからといってそんな制度に屈することなんてない紙人の世界だって同じ小さな紙の僕と小さな紙の君がいて飛び出す人たちの間では人の問題が飛び出すでもたとえ世界が崩れ落ちようと僕たちは大丈夫だって僕たちは人だものありがとうありがとうございますもう1つ行けそうです僕にとって詩は自由にアイデアを表現する至極の手段詩を始めたとき僕が刺激を受けたのは素晴らしいストーリーのある人たち順風満帆の18歳の僕はフツウすぎると思ったでも僕の経験や夢信じることを話せる― そんな世界をつくれただから今日こうして皆さんの前に立てて光栄ですここにいる皆さんに感謝します皆さんがここにいなければ昨日のリハーサルと同じ状況ですからこちらはもっと面白いです『サイシャイン・キッド(太陽の光の子)』それではお楽しみください― 年老いた日の光は息子のような太陽が自慢だった小さな彼が走る姿に一日が一層輝いた彼が何かしたわけでも問題が解決したわけでもないただ彼が日当たりの良い場所にずっといただけいつもこんな風にはいかない明るさを隠そうとするときもあるどんな星だって困難の周期にぶち当たる暗闇の彼らを呼び覚ますにはより明るい光が必要だった彼が星雲に生まれたとき誰も彼が普通だなんて思わなかった彼はフレアを放っていたからミダス王が触れると黄金になるが彼が近づくと全てが少しブロンズ色になったそうこの子は他の人よりも愛されたヨセフと彼のドリームコート兄弟のように目立つのも善し悪し彼が輝きすぎれば妬みが敵を生んだシャドー・ピープルみたいにシャドー・ピープルはサンシャイン・キッドを嫌ったシャドー・ピープルの闇の行いに光を当てたからシャドー・ピープルが隠した場所を照らしたときシャドー・ピープルはキッドを始末しようと企んだまずは彼の黒点をからかった空から彼の夢を打ち砕いた銃弾のごとく彼はクールではないと思い知らせるためにお蔭で彼は学校の人気者に溶け込めなかった宙ぶらりんな彼の頭を地に着けてやると言った彼は何者でもなかったがそれこそ彼の存在価値彼は大学にも行くことはなかった彼が唯一取った“一番”は “第一”度熱傷近寄りすぎた者たちは彼は明るすぎると言っただから誰も彼の目を見ようとはしない彼の判断は曇った太陽が泣き始めると蒸発した涙で空は曇ったサンシャイン・キッドは明るく温かい性格で心は燦々と燃えていた影の人たちの汚い言葉で傷ついていた彼の心には穴が開きぽっかりと傷跡が残った彼が頑なになるにつれ輝きを失っていった名前が呼ばれるたび彼の炎は勢いを失った彼は少し光を落とせば彼らに好かれるかと考えたでも彼らは忙しなく光はひどいと話して回った彼はもはやついていけなかった彼はそんな言葉を呑み込み影に隠れたテキサス州のようにひとつ星の州になったまるでみぞおちを殴られたようだったそこに現れたのがリトル・ミス・サンシャイン大好きな歌を歌っていた ―私たちは強くなれる人に合わせなくていいそのままでいいだって私たちの心はお星さまだから― リトル・ミス・サンシャインは超イケてた一目見ただけですべてを忘れてしまう彼はとにかく彼女が忘れられなかった一目見たときから彼女の姿が網膜に焼き付いたとびきり素晴らしい彼女は彼を受け入れたこの子が好きだったのはいつも彼のそばにいると分かっていたから事態は思ったほど暗くない彼は夢を見た影なんてどこにもない彼女がいると彼は輝いた彼の目はランランとしもはや隠せなかった彼女の笑顔は眩しく憎悪の言葉も消え去った二人は互いにニックネームを付けた「クール・スター」「陽気・サン」次第に彼に影を落としていたことも消え去って行った 10の24乗ある宇宙の星に1つという特別な存在の彼女は輝かしく冷血の爬虫類でさえ朱に染めたチリ人からブラジル人まで何十億人に愛されサンシャイン・キッドに “しなやかな心”を教えてくれた彼女は言った「世界中の暗闇を集めてもたった一本のろうそくに灯る明かりを消すことなんてできないなのになんで君の光が消されてしまうの? 君自身が消しているんだよ空は果てしない光を灯し続け批評家を黙らせるのよ」心の窓である目にかかったカーテンを彼女は再び開け卑しき者たちにも太陽の光を当てた逆境の宇宙では星々は共に身を寄せ合う昼が夜になっても記憶は永遠に消えない天気予報がどうであれ晴れ晴れとした顔で雲に隠れてもこの子はずっと輝くそうサンシャイン・キッドは明るく温かい性格で心は燦々と燃えていた火に勢いを借りて銀河の先にいる彼に信じることを教えてくれた彼女に支えられてありがとうございました	If your name was Harry Baker, then our names would be the same. It's a short introductory part. Yeah, I'm Harry. I study maths. I write poetry. So I thought I'd start with a love poem about prime numbers. This is called "59." I was going to call it "Prime Time Loving." That reaction is why I didn't. So, "59." 59 wakes up on the wrong side of the bed. Realizes all his hair is on one side of his head. Takes just under a minute to work out that it’s because of the way that he slept. He finds some clothes and gets dressed. He can’t help but look in the mirror and be subtly impressed How he looks rough around the edges and yet casually messed. of 60 from across the street. Now 60 was beautiful. With perfectly trimmed cuticles, dressed in something suitable. Never rude or crude at all. Unimprovable, right on time as usual, more on cue than a snooker ball but liked to play it super cool. 59 wanted to tell her that he knew her favorite flower. He thought of her every second, every minute, every hour. But he knew it wouldn’t work, he’d never get the girl. Because although she lived across the street they came from different worlds. While 59 admired 60’s perfectly round figure, 60 thought 59 was odd. One of his favorite films was "101 Dalmatians." She preferred the sequel. He romanticized the idea they were star-crossed lovers. They could overcome the odds and evens because they had each other. While she maintained the strict views imposed on her by her mother And though at the time he felt stupid and dumb For trying to love a girl controlled by her stupid mum, He should have been comforted by the simple sum. Take 59 away from 60, and you’re left with the one. Sure enough after two months of moping around, 61 days later, 61 was who he found, He had lost his keys and his parents were out. So one day after school he went into a house As he noticed the slightly wonky numbers on the door, He wondered why he’d never introduced himself before, As she let him in, his jaw dropped in awe. 61 was like 60, but a little bit more. She had prettier eyes, and an approachable smile, And like him, rough around the edges, casual style, And like him, everything was in disorganized piles, And like him, her mum didn’t mind if friends stayed a while. Because she was like him, and he liked her. He reckoned she would like him if she knew he was like her, And it was different this time. I mean, this girl was wicked, So he plucked up the courage and asked for her digits. She said, "I'm 61." He grinned, said, "I'm 59." Today I’ve had a really nice time, So tomorrow if you wanted you could come over to mine? She said, "Sure." She loved talking to someone just as quirky, She agreed to this unofficial first date. In the end he was only ready one minute early, But it didn’t matter because she arrived one minute late. And from that moment on there was nonstop chatter, How they loved "X Factor," how they had two factors, How that did not matter, distinctiveness made them better, By the end of the night they knew they were meant together. And one day she was talking about stuck-up 60, She noticed that 59 looked a bit shifty. He blushed, told her of his crush: “The best thing that never happened because it led to us.” 61 was clever, see, not prone to jealousy, She looked him in the eyes and told him quite tenderly, "You’re 59, I’m 61, together we combine to become twice what 60 could ever be." At this point 59 had tears in his eyes, Was so glad to have this one-of-a-kind girl in his life. He told her the very definition of being prime Was that with only one and himself could his heart divide, And she was the one he wanted to give his heart to, She said she felt the same and now she knew the films were half true. Because that wasn't real love, that love was just a sample, When it came to real love, they were a prime example. Cheers. That was the first poem that I wrote and it was for a prime number-themed poetry night -- -- which turned out to be a prime number-themed poetry competition. And I became a prime number-themed poetry competition winner, or as I like to call it, a prime minister. And this is how I discovered these things called poetry slams, and if you don't know what a poetry slam is, it was a format come up with in America 30 years ago as a way of tricking people into going to poetry events by putting an exciting word like "slam" on the end. And each performer got three minutes to perform and then random audience members would hold up scorecards, and they would end up with a numerical score, and what this meant is, it kind of broke down the barrier between performer and audience and encouraged the kind of connection with the listener. And what it also means is you can win. And if you win a poetry slam, you can call yourself a slam champion and pretend you're a wrestler, and if you lose a poetry slam you can say, "Oh, what? Poetry's a subjective art form, you can't put numbers on such things." But I loved it, and I got involved in these slams, and I became the U.K. slam champion and got invited to the Poetry World Cup in Paris, which was unbelievable. It was people from all around the world speaking in their native languages to be judged by five French strangers. And somehow, I won, which was great, and I've been able to travel the world since doing it, but it also means that this next piece is technically the best poem in the world. So... According to five French strangers. So this is "Paper People." I like people. I'd like some paper people. They’d be purple paper people. Maybe pop-up purple paper people. Proper pop-up purple paper people. "How do you prop up pop-up purple paper people?" I hear you cry. Well I ... I’d probably prop up proper pop-up purple paper people with a proper pop-up purple people paperclip, but I’d pre-prepare appropriate adhesives as alternatives, a cheeky pack of Blu Tack just in case the paper slipped. Because I could build a pop-up metropolis. but I wouldn’t wanna deal with all the paper people politics. paper politicians with their paper-thin policies, broken promises without appropriate apologies. There’d be a little paper me. And a little paper you. And we could watch paper TV and it would all be pay-per-view. We’d see the poppy paper rappers rap about their paper package or watch paper people carriers get stuck in paper traffic on the A4. Paper. There’d be a paper princess Kate but we’d all stare at paper Pippa, and then we’d all live in fear of killer Jack the Paper-Ripper, because the paper propaganda propagates the people's prejudices, papers printing pictures of the photogenic terrorists. A little paper me. And a little paper you. And in a pop-up population people’s problems pop up too. There’d be a pompous paper parliament who remained out of touch, and who ignored the people's protests about all the paper cuts, then the peaceful paper protests would get blown to paper pieces, by the confetti cannons manned by pre-emptive police. And yes there’d still be paper money, so there’d still be paper greed, and the paper piggy bankers pocketing more than they need, purchasing the potpourri to pepper their paper properties, others live in poverty and ain’t acknowledged properly. A proper poor economy where so many are proper poor, but while their needs are ignored the money goes to big wars. Origami armies unfold plans for paper planes and we remain imprisoned in our own paper chains, but the greater shame is that it always seems to stay the same, what changes is who’s in power choosing how to lay the blame, they’re naming names, forgetting these are names of people, because in the end it all comes down to people. I like people. 'Cause even when the situation’s dire, it is only ever people who are able to inspire, and on paper, it’s hard to see how we all cope. But in the bottom of Pandora’s box there’s still hope, and I still hope 'cause I believe in people. People like my grandparents. Who every single day since I was born, have taken time out of their morning to pray for me. That’s 7892 days straight of someone checking I’m okay, and that’s amazing. People like my aunt who puts on plays with prisoners. People who are capable of genuine forgiveness. People like the persecuted Palestinians. People who go out of their way to make your life better, and expect nothing in return. You see, people have potential to be powerful. Just because the people in power tend to pretend to be victims we don’t need to succumb to that system. And a paper population is no different. There’s a little paper me. And a little paper you. And in a pop-up population people's problems pop up too, but even if the whole world fell apart then we’d still make it through. Because we’re people. Thank you. Thank you very much. I've just got time for one more. For me, poetry has been the ultimate way of ideas without frontiers. When I first started, the people who inspired me were the ones with the amazing stories, and I thought, as an 18-year-old with a happy life, it was too normal, but I could create these worlds where I could talk about my experiences and dreams and beliefs. So it's amazing to be here in front of you today. Thank you for being here. If you weren't here, it would be pretty much like the sound check yesterday. And this is more fun. So this last one is called "The Sunshine Kid." Thank you very much for listening. Old man sunshine was proud of his sun, And it brightened his day to see his little boy run, Not because of what he’d done, nor the problems overcome, But that despite that his disposition remained a sunny one. It hadn’t always been like this. There’d been times when he’d tried to hide his brightness, You see, every star hits periods of hardship, It takes a brighter light to inspire them through the darkness. If we go back to when he was born in a nebula, We know that he never was thought of as regular, Because he had a flair about him, To say the Midas touch is wrong But all he went near seemed to turn a little bronze, Yes this sun was loved by some more than others, It was a case of Joseph and his dreamcoat and his brothers Because standing out from the crowd had its pros and its cons, And jealousy created enemies in those he outshone Such as the Shadow People. Now the Shadow People didn’t like the Sunshine Kid, Because he showed up the dark things the Shadow People did, And when he shone he showed the places where the Shadow People hid, So the Shadow People had an evil plan to get rid of him, First up -- they made fun of his sunspots, Shooting his dreams from the sky, their words were gunshots, Designed to remind him he wasn’t very cool And he didn’t fit in with any popular kids at school. They said his head was up in space and they would bring him down to Earth, Essentially he came from nothing and that is what he was worth, He’d never get to go to university to learn, Only degrees he’d ever show would be the first degree burns From those that came too close, they told him he was too bright, That’s why no one ever looked him in the eyes, His judgment became clouded So did the sky, With evaporated tears as the sun started to cry. Because the sunshine kid was bright, with a warm personality, And inside he burned savagely Hurt by the words and curses of the shadowy folk who spoke holes in his soul and left cavities, And as his heart hardened, his spark darkened, Every time they called him names it cooled his flames, He thought they might like him if he kept his light dim But they were busy telling lightning she had terrible aim, He couldn’t quite get to grips with what they said, So he let his light be eclipsed by what they said, He fell into a Lone Star State like Texas, And felt like he’d been punched in his solar plexus. But that’s when Little Miss Sunshine came along Singing her favorite song about how we’re made to be strong, And you don’t have to be wrong to belong, Just be true to who you are, because we are all stars at heart. Little Miss Sunshine was hot stuff, The kind of girl when you looked at her you forgot stuff, But for him, there was no forgetting her, The minute he saw her her image burned in his retina, She was out of this world, and she accepted him, Something about this girl meant he knew whenever she was next to him, Things weren’t as dark as they seemed, and he dared to dream, Shadows were nowhere to be seen; when she was there he beamed, His eyes would light up in ways that can’t be faked, When she grinned her rays erased the razor-tipped words of hate, They gave each other nicknames, they were "cool star" and "fun sun," And gradually the shadowy damage became undone, She was one in a septillion, and she was brilliant, Could turn the coldest blooded reptilians vermillion, Loved by billions, from Chileans to Brazilians, And taught the Sunshine Kid the meaning of resilience. She said: “All the darkness in the world cannot put out the light from a single candle So how the hell can they handle your light? Only you can choose to dim it, and the sky is the limit, so silence the critics by burning.” And if eyes are windows to the soul then she drew back the curtains And let the sun shine through the hurting. In a universe of adversity these stars stuck together, And though days became nights the memories would last forever, Whether the weatherman said it or not, it would be fine, 'Cause even behind the clouds the kid could still shine. Yes, the Sunshine Kid was bright, with a warm personality, And inside he burned savagely, Fueled by the fire inspired across galaxies By the girl who showed him belief. Thank you very much.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
インドについて考えてみたいと思いますさてどこの社会でもとりわけ民主主義社会ならば変革が起こるのはアイデアが根付いた時だけであり「アイデアの進化」というのは興味深い見解ですアイデアは徐々にイデオロギーにそして政策へ行動へと移行していきます 1930年代インドは世界大恐慌を経験しましたかくしてルーズベルトの時代に国家安全保障および社会保障という概念が形成されました 1980年代レーガン革命を受けて規制緩和が始まりました 21世紀の世界経済危機の経験を踏まえて今日では政府介入に関するありとあらゆる規定が設けられていますアイデアには国を変える力がありますインドの場合には変革の重要因子となる 4種類のアイデアが存在しますまず思い浮かぶのは「定着したアイデア」と私が呼んでいるものですこのアイデアこそがインドを今日のインドたらしめたものです 2つ目は「発展途上のアイデア」ですコンセプトは受け入れられたものの未だ実現されていないものです 3つ目を私は「論争中のアイデア」と呼んでいます今後の方策についてイデオロギー論争が巻き起こっているものです 4つ目は最も大切な要素である「予想が必要なアイデア」です発展途上国は他の国が抱える問題を観察することで事の成り行きを異なった視点から予想することが可能ですさて今日のインドをつくりあげた重要なアイデアは6つあると考えています 1つ目は人々の意識の変革です 1960年代と70年代には人間は負担だと考えられていましたつまり負債だと認識されていました現在では資産として扱われています人々は人的資本なのです人間を負担ではなく資本として再認識するこの意識の変革こそがインド変革の根本的な要素の1つなのですこの人的資本という新たな考え方が実際に今日のインドの人的資源からの配当に繋がっています医療が改善され乳児死亡率が減少すれば出生率が下がり始めますインドがまさにこの状態ですインドではこれから30年で若年層が更に増加し人的資源からの配当も増大していきますこの配当のユニークな点は世界中でインドのみがこの恩恵に与るということですつまり高齢化する世界で唯一若返っている国なのですこれはとても重要なことです同時にこの人的資源からの配当の他に特筆すべき人口曲線が2つあります一つは2015年までに人口が頭打ちになると予測されている南部と西部です合計特殊出生率が西ヨーロッパ諸国とほぼ同じ低値を示してしまっていますもう一つのインドの北部はと言うと将来は増大する人的資源からの配当の恩恵に与ることになるでしょうしかし人的資源からの配当というのは人的資本に投資がされて初めて得られるものです教育健康インフラ― 通勤に使う道路― 夜間勉強するための照明これらが全て整って初めて人的資源からの配当が得られるのです換言すると人的資本への投資なしではこの人的資源からの配当という恩恵も人的災害になってしまうということですつまりインドは人的資源からの配当も人的災害も発生しうる重要な分岐点に立っているのです 2つ目はインドにおける起業家の役割の変化ですインドの独立当初起業家は人を搾取するくずと見なされていましたしかし60年の時を経て起業文化の台頭も追い風となり起業家はインドの規範となり社会へ大きく貢献するに至りましたこの変化によって活気づいたインドはその経済を大きく改善することができましたインド変革の3つ目の要因は英語に対する態度だと思います元々は英語は帝国主義者の言語であると卑下されていましたしかし今日のグローバル化やアウトソーシングも相まって英語は熱望される言語となりました皆が英語を学ぼうとしていますこの英語という言語がインドにとって大きな戦略的資産となってきています次はテクノロジーです 40年前のコンピューターのイメージはと言えば何か近づきがたく恐ろしげで職を奪うものでした今日インドでは 1ヶ月に800万の携帯が販売されています信用履歴なしでは契約できませんのでこの内の90%はプリペイド式のものですこのプリペイド携帯の40%では毎回の追加入金は 20セント以下ですテクノロジーがここまで自由にアクセス可能となったのですこうしてテクノロジーは不気味や脅しではなくなり強力なツールとなったのです 20年前銀行の会計報告書をコンピューターで処理していた時代にはこれを電子報告書とは呼ばずに元帳記録機械と呼んでいました労働組合からコンピューターを隠蔽していたのですより高性能なコンピューターを求めた際にはこれを最新版元帳記録機械と呼びましたこんな時代から長い道のりを経てテクノロジーに対する意識変化が起こりインド国内でも携帯電話が活力を与える道具となったのですもう1つのポイントはどこにもひけを取らないインドのグローバル化に対する適応力です東インド会社と帝国の支配下で 200年以上暮らしてきた我々インド人はグローバル化を一種の帝国主義と捉えることで自然と対応することができましたしかし今日ではインドの企業が海外進出しインド人が世界中で活躍をしておりグローバル化は自分たちが参加できるものであるという一層の自信を持っていますインドは世界で唯一若返っている国でありこのこともあってグローバル化はインドにとって一層の魅力を放っています最後にですが今まで推し進めてきた民主主義の成熟が挙げられます 60 年前インドに流入した民主主義はエリートクラスの概念でした普通選挙権・国会・憲法など民主主義的考えの導入を求める人々がこの運動を推し進めたのでした今日では民主主義がボトムアップのプロセスとなり言論の自由や透明性のある社会の利点を皆が認識していますつまり民主主義が深く根付いたのですこれら6つの要因― 1. 国民を人的資本と認めること 2. インドの起業家の台頭 3. 英語の地位向上 4. 力を与えるものとしてのテクノロジー 5. グローバル化からの利益 6. 深く根付いた民主主義これらが今日のインドの歴史的成長を支えているのですとは言ったものの次の問題は「発展途上のアイデア」です異論は唱えられていないものの行動に移すことが出来ない考えですこれには4つの要素があります 1つ目は教育問題です資金不足・社会的優先順位からか宗教のほうが歴史が長いからか初等教育が重要視されることがありませんでしたしかし今日は教育がとても大切な役割を果たす時代であると思います不幸にも公立学校がきちんと機能していないために子供たちは私立学校へ行きますインドではスラムでさえ 50%以上の都市部児童が私立学校に通っています教育を機能させるという大きな課題に直面しているのです貧しい家庭も含めて皆が子供に教育を受けてもらいたいと強く願っていますつまり初等教育の重要性は認識されているものの未だ手つかずのままなのですこれに類似してインフラも長い間その重要性を認識されずにきましたインドを訪れた方は気づかれたことでしょう中国とはまるで違っていますしかし遂にインフラ整備の必要性が認識され実行に移されようとしています政治にもこの声は反映されています 20 年前の政治的スローガンは ""Roti, kapada, makaan""でした「衣・食・住」という意味ですそれが今日では ""Bijli, sadak, pani"" つまり― 「電気・水道・道路」となっていますこれはインフラの重要性を認める意識の変革なのですつまりアイデア自体は存在するものの手が付けられていない状態です 3つ目もまた都市部に関するものですガンディは農村部に重きを置き大英帝国は都市部から支配を始めたためネルーはニューデリーを非インド的な都市と位置づけました長年インドの都市部は軽視されてきましたこの事は今日のインドの姿に現れていますしかし経済改革と経済成長を経て遂に都市部は経済成長だけでなく独創性・革新の原動力であるという考えがインド国内で容認されたように感じます都市部を改良しようという動きが見られますこれも認識されているものの未だ手つかずのアイデアなのです最後はインドを単一市場として認識するという点ですインドの単一市場性を無視することは実力のない市場を無視することに他なりませんでしたつまり以前はそれぞれの州が独自の市場を展開していたわけですそれぞれの地方も独自の農業市場を持っていました税制・インフラ等の政策ではインドを単一の市場として再認識する動きが一層強まってきていますインド国内でも地球規模のものと同様に重要なグローバル化が起こっているのですこの4つの要素― 1. 初等教育 2. インフラ― 3. 都市化 4. 単一市場これらは認識されてはいるものの未だ実現されていないアイデアです次に「論争中のアイデア」があります議論の最中にあるアイデアですこれらの議論は停滞の根源でありますどのようなものか?例えばイデオロギーの問題がありますインドの歴史的背景を考えた時カースト制度のために社会的に取り残されたインド人は数多くいますこの問題をどのように解決するかが政治の最大の焦点となっていますこれは保護区や他の政策と関連しているだけでなく左派と右派の間の論争や国民への助成金計画の問題とも繋がっていますインドの問題の多くはカースト制度の概念と関連していますこうして停滞が生まれています解決すべき課題の1つです 2つ目は労働政策についてです現行の労働政策は企業家が会社で職種を標準化することを妨げインドの93%の労働者が組合に組織化されていません彼らに福祉はありません社会保障も年金も健康保険もなにも整っていないのが実状ですこれらの人を正式な労働者として雇用できなければ市民権を剥奪することに繋がってしまいますわずらわしい現行のものとは異なる新しい労働法を作る必要があるだけではなくより多くの人を正式に雇用し何百万人規模での新規雇用を創出する政策も必要なのです 3つ目は高等教育の問題ですインドの高等教育は完全に法的規制下にあって私立の大学を創設することは容易ではありませんし他国の大学も簡単には進出できません結果としてインドの高等教育は拡大するインドの需要に追いつけていませんかくして問題がいくつも浮上しているのですしかし「予期する必要のあるアイデア」はもっとも重要な概念です世界中で起こっている問題を観察し何がなされるべきなのかインドには見定めることができますまず幸いにも多くの国でテクノロジーが未だ発展途上にある中インドでは先進技術が整っているため統治・透明性を初めとする多種多様な分野でテクノロジーを有効活用することができます 2つ目は健康問題です世界中で見られるようにインドでも心臓病・糖尿病や肥満は深刻な健康問題となっています貧しい国の疾病を裕福な国の疾病と取り替える必要性なんてないのですつまり心機一転健康という概念を考え直す必要があります健康問題の悪化を阻止するための国民健康戦略の制定は急務です西洋諸国ではこの他に社会福祉が問題となっています増大する社会福祉・メディケアメディケードのコスト問題です人口が若い国は新しい年金システムを導入することで人口が高齢化したときに起こる社会保障制度問題を回避できるのです環境と開発の調和が叫ばれる今日インドも環境を汚染できる程余裕のある立場にはありません世界全体の年間炭素排出量は 200億トン付近でなくてはいけません世界の人口を90億人とすれば 1人当たりの理想排出量は 2トン前後となりますインドは既にこの数値に達してしまってますしかしインドが8%の成長率を維持した場合 1人当たりの年間所得は 2050年までに16倍に増加します排出量は増やさず所得は 16倍になるということですこのために環境・エネルギー使用― 新たな開発モデルの構築方法を根本から見直していかなくてはいけませんこれらが皆さんとどう関連しているのでしょう? 1万マイルも離れた国の事がなぜ大切なのでしょう? まず初めにこれらは全て10億を超える人々の問題であるからです世界人口の1/6に相当します次にインドは民主主義国家であるからです民主主義と経済成長の両立が可能であることを立証するべきなのです民主主義・透明性のある社会と経済成長は同時に実現することができるのですこれらの問題を解決することは世界の貧困問題を解決することになります世界の環境問題は解決しなくてはいけない課題です要点を一言でまとめるならば特にインドのような国において炭素排出量は制限されるべきでありエネルギー使用も削減していく必要があるのです西欧諸国のここ200年の年平均成長率は約2%でした私は年8、9%成長をする国の話をしていますここが大きな違いですインドの成長率が3、3.5%で人口増率が2%だった時代には 1人当たりの収入が2倍になるには 45年間を要しました経済成長率が8%― 人口増加率が1.5%の現在収入は9年毎に倍増していきますつまり10億人規模の繁栄をもたらすプロセスが高速で進んでいるということですそこで世界とインドの両方にとって明確な戦略を打ち出すことが必要不可欠なのですですから皆さんにも私と同じように考えて頂きたいのですどうもありがとうございました	Now I believe this is an interesting way of looking at it because in every society, especially an open democratic society, it's only when ideas take root that things change. Slowly ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions. In 1930 this country went through a Great Depression, which led to all the ideas of the state and social security, and all the other things that happened in Roosevelt's time. In the 1980s we had the Reagan revolution, which lead to deregulation. And today, after the global economic crisis, there was a whole new set of rules about how the state should intervene. So ideas change states. And I looked at India and said, really there are four kinds of ideas The first, to my mind, is what I call as "the ideas that have arrived." These ideas have brought together something which has made India happen the way it is today. The second set of ideas I call "ideas in progress." Those are ideas which have been accepted but not implemented yet. The third set of ideas are what I call as "ideas that we argue about" -- those are ideas where we have a fight, an ideological battle about how to do things. And the fourth thing, which I believe is most important, is "the ideas that we need to anticipate." Because when you are a developing country in the world where you can see the problems that other countries are having, you can actually anticipate what that did and do things very differently. Now in India's case I believe there are six ideas The first is really the notion of people. In the '60s and '70s we thought of people as a burden. We thought of people as a liability. Today we talk of people as an asset. We talk of people as human capital. of looking at people as something of a burden to human capital, has been one of the fundamental changes in the Indian mindset. And this change in thinking of human capital is linked to the fact that India is going through a demographic dividend. As healthcare improves, as infant mortality goes down, fertility rates start dropping. And India is experiencing that. India is going to have a lot of young people with a demographic dividend for the next 30 years. What is unique about this demographic dividend is that India will be the only country in the world to have this demographic dividend. In other words, it will be the only young country in an aging world. And this is very important. At the same time if you peel away the demographic dividend in India, there are actually two demographic curves. which is already going to be fully expensed by 2015, because in that part of the country, the fertility rate is almost equal to that of a West European country. Then there is the whole northern India, which is going to be the bulk of the future demographic dividend. But a demographic dividend is only as good as the investment in your human capital. Only if the people have education, they have good health, they have infrastructure, they have roads to go to work, they have lights to study at night -- only in those cases can you really get the benefit of a demographic dividend. In other words, if you don't really invest in the human capital, the same demographic dividend can be a demographic disaster. Therefore India is at a critical point where either it can leverage its demographic dividend or it can lead to a demographic disaster. The second thing in India has been the change in the role of entrepreneurs. When India got independence entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit. But today, after 60 years, because of the rise of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurs have become role models, and they are contributing hugely to the society. This change has contributed to the vitality and the whole economy. The third big thing I believe that has changed India is our attitude towards the English language. English language was seen as a language of the imperialists. But today, with globalization, with outsourcing, English has become a language of aspiration. This has made it something that everybody wants to learn. And the fact that we have English is now becoming a huge strategic asset. The next thing is technology. Forty years back, computers were seen as something which was forbidding, something which was intimidating, something that reduced jobs. Today we live in a country which sells eight million mobile phones a month, of which 90 percent of those mobile phones are prepaid phones because people don't have credit history. Forty percent of those prepaid phones are recharged at less than 20 cents at each recharge. That is the scale at which technology has liberated and made it accessible. And therefore technology has gone from being seen as something forbidding and intimidating to something that is empowering. Twenty years back, when there was a report on bank computerization, they didn't name the report as a report on computers, they call them as "ledger posting machines." They didn't want the unions to believe that they were actually computers. And when they wanted to have more advanced, more powerful computers they called them "advanced ledger posting machines." So we have come a long way from those days where the telephone has become an instrument of empowerment, and really has changed the way Indians think of technology. And then I think the other point is that Indians today are far more comfortable with globalization. Again, after having lived for more than 200 years under the East India Company and under imperial rule, Indians had a very natural reaction towards globalization believing it was a form of imperialism. But today, as Indian companies go abroad, as Indians come and work all over the world, Indians have gained a lot more confidence and have realized that globalization is something they can participate in. And the fact that the demographics are in our favor, because we are the only young country in an aging world, makes globalization all the more attractive to Indians. And finally, India has had the deepening of its democracy. When democracy came to India 60 years back it was an elite concept. It was a bunch of people who wanted to bring in democracy because they wanted to bring in the idea of universal voting and parliament and constitution and so forth. But today democracy has become a bottom-up process where everybody has realized the benefits of having a voice, the benefits of being in an open society. And therefore democracy has become embedded. I believe these six factors -- the rise of the notion of population as human capital, the rise of Indian entrepreneurs, the rise of English as a language of aspiration, technology as something empowering, globalization as a positive factor, and the deepening of democracy -- has contributed to why India is today growing at rates it has never seen before. But having said that, then we come to what I call as ideas in progress. Those are the ideas where there is no argument in a society, but you are not able to implement those things. And really there are four things here. One is the question of education. For some reason, whatever reason -- lack of money, lack of priorities, because of religion having an older culture -- primary education was never given the focus it required. But now I believe it's reached a point where it has become very important. Unfortunately the government schools don't function, so children are going to private schools today. Even in the slums of India more than 50 percent of urban kids are going into private schools. So there is a big challenge in getting the schools to work. But having said that, there is an enormous desire among everybody, including the poor, to educate their children. So I believe primary education is an idea which is arrived but not yet implemented. Similarly, infrastructure -- for a long time, infrastructure was not a priority. Those of you who have been to India have seen that. It's certainly not like China. But today I believe finally infrastructure is something which is agreed upon and which people want to implement. It is reflected in the political statements. 20 years back the political slogan was, "Roti, kapada, makaan," which meant, "Food, clothing and shelter." And today's political slogan is, "Bijli, sadak, pani," which means "Electricity, water and roads." And that is a change in the mindset where infrastructure is now accepted. So I do believe this is an idea which has arrived, but simply not implemented. The third thing is again cities. It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities, therefore Nehru thought of New Delhi as an un-Indian city. For a long time we have neglected our cities. And that is reflected in the kinds of situations that you see. But today, finally, after economic reforms, and economic growth, I think the notion that cities are engines of economic growth, cities are engines of creativity, cities are engines of innovation, have finally been accepted. And I think now you're seeing the move towards improving our cities. Again, an idea which is arrived, but not yet implemented. The final thing is the notion of India as a single market -- because when you didn't think of India as a market, you didn't really bother about a single market, because it didn't really matter. And therefore you had a situation where every state had its own market for products. Every province had its own market for agriculture. Increasingly now the policies of taxation and infrastructure and all that, are moving towards creating India as a single market. So there is a form of internal globalization which is happening, which is as important as external globalization. These four factors I believe -- the ones of primary education, infrastructure, urbanization, and single market -- in my view are ideas in India which have been accepted, but not implemented. Then we have what I believe are the ideas in conflict. The ideas that we argue about. These are the arguments we have which cause gridlock. What are those ideas? One is, I think, are ideological issues. Because of the historical Indian background, in the caste system, who have been left out in the cold, a lot of the politics is about how to make sure that we'll address that. And it leads to reservations and other techniques. It's also related to the way that we subsidize our people, and all the left and right arguments that we have. A lot of the Indian problems are related to the ideology of caste and other things. This policy is causing gridlock. This is one of the factors which needs to be resolved. The second one is the labor policies that we have, which make it so difficult for entrepreneurs to create standardized jobs in companies, that 93 percent of Indian labor is in the unorganized sector. They have no benefits: they don't have social security; they don't have pension; they don't have healthcare; none of those things. This needs to be fixed because unless you can bring these people into the formal workforce, you will end up creating a whole lot of people who are completely disenfranchised. Therefore we need to create a new set of labor laws, which are not as onerous as they are today. At the same time give a policy for a lot more people to be in the formal sector, and create the jobs for the millions of people that we need to create jobs for. The third thing is our higher education. Indian higher education is completely regulated. It's very difficult to start a private university. It's very difficult for a foreign university to come to India. As a result of that our higher education is simply not keeping pace with India's demands. That is leading to a lot of problems which we need to address. are the ideas we need to anticipate. Here India can look at what is happening in the west and elsewhere, and look at what needs to be done. The first thing is, we're very fortunate that technology is at a point where it is much more advanced than when other countries had the development. So we can use technology for governance. We can use technology for direct benefits. We can use technology for transparency, and many other things. The second thing is, the health issue. India has equally horrible health problems of the higher state of cardiac issue, the higher state of diabetes, the higher state of obesity. So there is no point in replacing a set of poor country diseases with a set of rich country diseases. Therefore we're to rethink the whole way we look at health. We really need to put in place a strategy so that we don't go to the other extreme of health. Similarly today in the West you're seeing the problem of entitlement -- the cost of social security, the cost of Medicare, the cost of Medicaid. Therefore when you are a young country, again you have a chance to put in place a modern pension system so that you don't create entitlement problems as you grow old. And then again, India does not have the luxury of making its environment dirty, because it has to marry environment and development. Just to give an idea, the world has to stabilize at something like 20 gigatons per year. On a population of nine billion our average carbon emission will have to be about two tons per year. India is already at two tons per year. But if India grows at something like eight percent, income per year per person will go to 16 times by 2050. So we're saying: income growing at 16 times and no growth in carbon. Therefore we will fundamentally rethink the way we look at the environment, the way we look at energy, the way we create whole new paradigms of development. Now why does this matter to you? Why does what's happening 10 thousand miles away matter to all of you? Number one, this matters because this represents more than a billion people. A billion people, 1/6th of the world population. It matters because this is a democracy. And it is important to prove that growth and democracy are not incompatible, that you can have a democracy, that you can have an open society, and you can have growth. It's important because if you solve these problems, you can solve the problems of poverty in the world. It's important because you need it to solve the world's environment problems. If we really want to come to a point, we really want to put a cap on our carbon emission, we want to really lower the use of energy -- it has to be solved in countries like India. in the West over 200 years, the average growth may have been about two percent. Here we are talking about countries growing at eight to nine percent. And that makes a huge difference. When India was growing at about three, 3.5 percent and the population was growing at two percent, its per capita income was doubling every 45 years. When the economic growth goes to eight percent and population growth drops to 1.5 percent, then per capita income is doubling every nine years. In other words, you're certainly fast-forwarding this whole process of a billion people going to prosperity. And you must have a clear strategy which is important for India and important for the world. That is why I think all of you should be equally concerned with it as I am. Thank you very much.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
フラウと会った翌日の朝、僕はルーノスとナルスに襲われたことを話した。何しに出かけたのか、と聞かれなかったのは気を使ってくれたのかな? 「黒装束に覆面の男たちですか」「ああ、あれは明らかにプロの集団だ。動きも連携が取れていたし、秘密を守るために命も惜しまない」「レジューム公かそれに近い者の命で動いているのは間違いないでしょうね」ナルスの言葉にルーノスもうなずく。「そうですね。カルロ様、また襲ってこないとも限りません。くれぐれもお気を付け下さい」「うん、お前たち気を付けるようにな。でルーノス、お前の方はどうだった?」「頂いたリストの中で明らかにレジューム公と仲の良くない貴族数人と連絡をとり、うがカルロ様にお会いしたいと申しております。お会いになりますか?」「出来るだけ早く会いたい。手はずを整えてくれ」「先方もそう思っているようです。今日にでもお会いになれるよう調整してみます」昼から僕はルーノスが渡りを付けてくれた反レジューム派の貴族二人に会った。二人とも弱小貴族でしかも年輩だが、気骨のありそうな爺さんたちだ。「いや~、カルロどのはお若いのになかなかしっかりしとるな」「そうじゃそうじゃ、あのレジュームの奴になびかず国王陛下のお役にたちたいとは立派な志」「大体あのレジュームなど今はああやって偉そうにしとるがわしらは鼻たれの頃から知っておる」「そうじゃそうじゃ、あいつは昔寝小便ばかり垂れておったくせに年上のワシらを軽く見おって」「カルロどの、ここはわしらが手を組んで、こしゃくなレジュームをキャンと言わせてやりましょうぞ」「そうじゃそうじゃ、国王陛下の御為にわしらが頑張らねば! そもそも先代の国王陛下の御代にはワシとて剣を取り陛下のために――」延々と長い昔話を聞かされたが、そのおかげでなんとか味方になってくれたようだ。シャロンとの婚約にも賛成してくれるそうだ。何か二人で鉄板ネタがあるらしく、結婚披露の宴では自分たちにぜひそれをやらせろと約束させられてしまったが、まあ結婚する予定はないのでいいだろう。年よりの相手は疲れるよ、同じ話ばっかり出てくるしね。でもこの話のおかげで収穫もあった。二人に昨日襲ってきた黒装束の忍びの事を聞いてみたんだ。「おお、それは闇の軍団に違いない」「そうじゃ、コウガの里の闇の軍団じゃな」「コウガの里? どこですかそれは」僕の質問に二人はペラペラ教えてくれた。年寄りは昔の話はよく覚えてるよな。「マクベル伯爵の治める領地にある里の名前じゃ。そこにはコウガと呼ばれる隠れ里があるという」「そうじゃそうじゃ、コウガの者はみな幼い頃から暗殺術を叩きこまれると聞いたぞ」マクベル伯爵――? どこかで聞いた名前だな。「マクベルの奴はレジュームや他の奴らから裏の仕事を受けては闇の奴らにやらせておると言うぞ」「そうじゃそうじゃ、それでマクベルはレジュームに取り入ったんじゃ」あ――思い出したぞ。僕が国王に謁見したときに後ろからごちゃごちゃいちゃもん付けてきたカマキリみたいな奴か。あいつやたらとカルロに反感持ってるみたいだったしね、間違いない。そのうち落とし前を付けさせてやる、今に見てろ。爺さん貴族たちとの話し合いも終わり、僕は屋敷に帰った。ナルスは今日も大臣と折衝で遅くなる、ルーノスも引き続き情報収集に動いてくれているようだ。よし、今日こそ前からの計画を実行するチャンスだ。僕は晩御飯を食べてから身なりを整える。風呂に入って下着も新しい物に着替えた、歯も磨いた、ルーノスをまねて服もちょっとおしゃれに。特に香りは重要だ。こっそりルーノスの付けている香水を拝借した。クンクン。これが女性受けのいい香りなのか、覚えておいて今度買いに行こう。よし、準備万端。あとはピカールに貰った小袋とオリハルコンの剣を持って。「ドッヂ、今から出かける。ついて来てくれ」入り口を守っていたドッヂに声を掛けて僕は屋敷を出た。昨日のフラウとの待ち合わせもドキドキしたけど、今日もやたらと緊張する。野ウサギ団から仕入れた情報をもとに、王都リュアンの裏路地を歩く。だいぶ夜も更けて静かだった町が、だんだん賑やかになってくる。あちらこちらの店の中から酔っぱらいの騒ぐ声や女たちの嬌声が聞こえてきた。そう、ここはリュアンの夜の顔を代表するエリアだ。一番華やかな飲み屋などが並ぶ通りを抜けて、一本裏の通りに入る。情報ではこの辺りから始まるはずだ。僕がバルハムントを出る前から立てていた計画、それは名付けて「DDT作戦」。 DDTとは何か。それはズバリ、「脱・童貞」だ。僕の書いていた小説「勇者転生」の中のカルロは、悪党だけど女にもてる。あちらこちらで女の子を泣かすキャラクターだ。そんなカルロ、つまり僕がいつまでもいや、よくない。思わず反語を使いたくなるほどこの問題は深刻だ。この物語を美しいエンディングへ導こうという、作者である僕の使命の為。一刻も早くこの問題を解決する必要がある。 DDT作戦の内容はこうだ。僕は元の世界で母親以外のほとんど女性と関わったことがない。デートもしたことないし、それ以上は当然皆無。この世界に来て少し話をしたりロゼアに手を握られたり、という体験はした。それだって元の世界の自分から考えたらすごい進歩だ。でもやっぱり緊張してそれ以上となるととても無理。昨日はフラウと......と思ったけど結局空振りしたし。そんな僕に必要なものは何か。それは経験と、それから来る自信ではないのか。ルーノスやFと比べればともかく、カルロだって充分イケメンのはずだ。これに経験と自信が加われば怖いものはないはず。ではそれをどうやって手に入れるか。そんなことを悩んでいる時に、野ウサギ団から有力な情報がもたらされた。それは「王都には娼館が建ち並ぶ場所があり、経験豊富で美人な女性が揃っている」ということ。それってまさに僕にうってつけの場所なんじゃないのか? そこには愛くるしい女の子からお色気満点のお姉様まで様々なタイプの女性がいると言う。またそのレベルや金額もお店によってさまざまらしい。僕はその中でも最高レベルのお姉さま方を集めているという優良店を聞き出すことに成功した。元の世界にいた時から、正直そういうお店への興味がなかったわけじゃない。でもやっぱりなんか怖いよね。どんなお姉さんが出てくるのか分からないし、ひょっとして怖いお兄さんが出てきて脅されたらどうしよう。そもそも女性と二人きりになったらどんな話をしてどう行動すればいいのか分からない。だからそんなお店に行くなんて絶対無理だった。しかし。この世界での僕はカルロで、しかも作者補正が掛かってる。そこら辺のチンピラが出てきたところで怖がる必要はない。念のためにボディーガードとしてドッヂも連れてきたし。ただ問題は、やっぱり女性と二人きりになった時にどうするのか、だ。そんなの絶対緊張するし。何をどうすればいいのかさっぱりわからないし。そこでこの「DDT作戦」だ。僕はまず情報を得た「最高の店」へ向かう。そこで、経験豊富なお姉さま方を何人も同時に指名するんだ。そうすればマンツーマンじゃないから緊張もほぐれるんじゃないだろうか。しかもそんなお姉さま方が何人もいれば僕が何もしなくても全部やってくれるに違いない。ああ、これぞまさに酒池肉林。悪役カルロのデビュー戦にふさわしい華やかな戦いだと言えるだろう。よし、これだ。ただし問題点は、そんなことをしたらとてつもない金額が掛かるだろう、という事だ。最高のお店でそんなことをして安い訳がない。でも僕の作戦は完璧、抜かりはない。この為にピカールからあらかじめお金をもらってきたんだ。もちろんピカールには王室への工作資金だと言ってあるけどね。その予算、なんと白金貨で5枚。日本円に直すと500万円という大金だ。これだけあればどんな事があっても大丈夫だろう。さらば、僕のチェリーよ。ただ今よりDDT作戦を決行する、各自粉骨砕身努力セヨ。	The morning of the next day after I met with Frau I talked about the attack with Lunos and Nals. I wonder why they didn’t ask me about why I went out. “Masked men wearing black?” “Yeah, and they were obviously part of a professional group. They executed cooperative movements and would take their own lives without a second thought to protect a secret.” “This is either Duke Rejum’s doing or someone close to him, no doubt.” Lunos also nods at Nals words. “That’s right. They might attack Carlo-sama again. Please be careful.” “Yeah, you should also be careful. How did it go on your side, Lunos?” “From the list I received I contacted several noble families on bad terms with Duke Rejum and two of them wish to meet you. Do you want to meet them?” “I want to see them as soon as possible. Make an appointment.” “The other party seems to think the same way as well. I will try to arrange a meeting as soon as today.” At noon I met the two nobles of the Anti-Rejum-group which Lunos told me about. They are both weak and old nobles but they are both old men who experienced a lot. “My~ Carlo-dono is so young and yet so very level-headed already.” “That’s right, that’s right, it’s a wonderful desire wanting to serve His Majesty the King without fearing that Rejum.” “Generally that Rejum is acting so bossy now but we know him since his snot was still dripping out of his nose.” “That’s right, that’s right, back then in the old days he was still wetting his bed and now he’s looking down on these old eagles here.” “Carlo-dono, let us join hands and give that impudent Rejum a good beating.” “That’s right, that’s right, we have to work hard for His Majesty the King’s sake! We already served the preceding King so we shall pick up our swords again for His Majesty – -” I listened to their endlessly long story but thanks to that I was able to gain their support somehow. They seemed to agree to my engagement with Sharon. It seems like those two know a sure fire joke they’d like to tell at the wedding party, well, there aren’t any plans for us marry, though. As the other party was already pretty old the same stories came up again and again. But I also gained something thanks to those stories. I heard about those black dressed shinobi which attacked me yesterday from those two people. “Ooh, it must have been the dark corps” “That’s right, it’s Kouga village’s dark corps.” “Kouga village? Where is it?” These two answer my questions without having to even think about it. Old people know a lot about old stories. “There’s a village of that name in the territory Earl McBell rules. It is said the hidden village Kouga is located there.” “That’s right, that’s right, I heard that all people from Kouga got taught in the art of assassination from an early age.” Earl McBell, is it–? I’m sure I heard that name somewhere before. “That Mcbell guy, Rejum and some other guys employ the dark corps to do some shady work for them” “That’s right, that’s right, McBell also joined Rejum.” Ah–, I remembered. It’s that mantis-like guy who messily threw those accusations at me from behind when I had my audience with the King, right? He seemed to have a lot of antipathy towards Carlo, no doubt. Sooner or later this will be settled with money but for now, let’s just wait and see. When the talks with the old nobles was over I returned to the mansion. Today Nals will come back late due to the negotiations with the Minister and Lunos seemed to continue gathering information, too. Alright, today’s my chance to make some progress with my plan. After dinner, I started to fix my appearance. I took a bath, brushed my teeth, changed into new underwear, and tried to dress more fashionably like Lunos. The fragrance is particularly important. I secretly borrowed Lunos’ perfume. Sniff-sniff. Let’s see if this fragrance is well liked by women and then buy it next time. Alright, done. Afterwards, I took my Oricalcum Sword and the small bag Pikaru gave me. “Doji, I’m going out now. Follow me.” I called out to Doji who stood guard at the door and left the mansion. Though I was excited about meeting Frau yesterday today I’m so nervous. Based on the information I purchased from the Rabbit group I walked through the back alleys of the Capital Ruan. Night fell and the quiet city gradually started to become lively. I heard the cackling of drunkards and the chuckling of women from several shops. That’s right, this area represents Ruan’s face at night. I went through a street with many gorgeous bars lined up and entered the street at the end. According to the information, it should be around here. It’s the plan I set up even before I left Braham, I called it “Operation DDT” What does DDT stand for? It fittingly means “Datsu doutei” In my novel “Yuusha Tensei” I wrote that Carlo is popular with women even though he’s a villain. He’s a character who made many girls cry. Such a Carlo, can he stay a virgin forever? No, he can’t. This problem is so serious that I unintentionally started to use rhetorical questions. For my mission as the author to lead this story to a beautiful ending, that is. It’s necessary to solve this problem as soon as possible. The contents of Operation DDT are like this. In my original world, I nearly have never associated with women other than my mother. I’ve never gone on a date and obviously didn’t do anything further than that either. When I came to this world I got some experience with talking to them and Rozea often grabbed my hand. If I think about the me from my original world that is great progress. But doing anything further is absolutely impossible as I get too nervous after all. Yesterday with Frau.......I thought, but it was all in vain after all. What’s necessary for this me? Isn’t it experience and the confidence coming with it? Even compared to Lunos and F, Carlo should also be a considerably good-looking man. If I increase my experience and confidence I shouldn’t feel that scared anymore. Then how does one obtain that? When I was worrying about those things the Rabbit group brought in some good information. It is said that “In the Capital, there are brothels with experienced women in them”. Isn’t that place just what I searched for? There were various types of women there from the lovely girl to the older sister full of sex appeal. Additionally, the quality and prices vary in each shop. I succeeded in finding an excellent shop where the highest-grade Onee-san’s were gathered. In my original world, to be honest, I wasn't really interested in these kinds of shops. But, as I thought, I was scared. I don’t know what kind of Onee-san will come out and what should I do if a scary Nii-san comes out and threatens me? I don’t even know what actions to take or what to talk about with a woman when it’s just the two of us in the first place. That’s why it was absolutely impossible for me to visit such a shop. However. In this world, I am Carlo, besides there’s the author’s correction. There’s no need to be afraid of this areas hooligans coming out either. I brought Doji with me as something like a bodyguard. But the question remains, what will I do if I’m alone with a woman? I’m completely nervous. I have no idea what to do. That’s where “Operation DDT” comes in. First, I’ll go to “the best shop” with the information I got. When I’m there I’ll be able to employ a lot of experienced Onee-sans. If I do that it won’t be a one-on-one situation so I might be able to relax. Besides, if there are so many Onee-sans even if I don’t do anything they’d probably do everything. Aah, this is complete debauchery. It could be said that this is a gorgeous battle appropriate for Villain Carlo’s debut match. Alright, that’s it. The problem, however, is that if I want to do something like that it will cost a tremendous amount of money. Something like that can’t be cheap and I want to do this in the best shop. But otherwise my strategy is perfect there’s not a single mistake in it. That’s why I asked Pikaru to prepare the money beforehand. Of course, I told Pikaru it’s a present for the Royal Family. The budget is five white gold coins. It’s a large sum of money when converted to Japanese yen it would be 500 million yen. With this amount of money, it’ll be alright no matter what might happen. Goodbye, my virginity. Right now Operation DDT will be carried out, with my utmost effort, seyo.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 1, "inserted_lines_src": 4, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
私の地元であるモロッコの街フェズには川の流域にメディナという世界でも随一の中世城壁都市がありますこの街すべてがユネスコ世界遺産地に登録されています 1950年以降人口が増えるにつれて緑地や下水道といった都市基盤設備が変わっていき大きなストレスを受けましたその中でもっとも被害を受けたのがメディナを二分するフェズ川だったのですこの川は何世紀もの間この街の魂であると考えられていました実際に公共の噴水や泉といった場所でこの川の広範囲にわたる水のネットワークの存在を街中で確認することができます残念ながら 1952年以降川の汚染のため川は少しずつコンクリートの破片で覆われていっていますこの消去プロセスに加え様々な機械をメディナの細道へ運び込むため川岸にあった家々の取り壊しが行われましたこれらの都会の空隙は急速に違法な駐車場やゴミ捨て場と化していったのです実際川がメディナに到達するまでの水質に特に問題はありませんしかし主に未処理の下水やなめしのような工芸で使用された薬品が投棄され川は汚染されてしまうのですある時私は街にとって大切な川がこれ以上冒とくされるのが許せなくなり行動を起こすことにしました助成金が市に提供されることが決まったと聞いたので尚更でした川の水が綺麗になれば川を覆うコンクリートを取り外すことができます運と根気よく交渉したことで私と同僚のタジマ・タカコ氏は技術者チームと協力し川のふたを取り外すことを市から依頼されましたしかし私たちはそれだけでは満足せず更なる提案をしました川岸を舗装し歩道に作り直しこういった歩道を市の中心地に織り込み最終的には川岸にある都会の空隙をフェズ川のメディナに欠けている公共スペースに変えていこうというものでしたこれから二つの公共スペースを簡単に紹介したいと思いますまず最初にルーシフ・プラザです点線を引いた場所に川がありプラザは川の真上に位置しています以前はごちゃごちゃとした交通の中心であり世界最大の歩道ネットワークをもつメディナの都会としての整合性を損なうようなものでした見ていただくとわかるようにプラザの隣にあるこの歴史的な橋の向こうに見える川はまるでゴミの川のようでしたそこで私たちが提案したのは歩行者天国のプラザを造り再生革の屋根で覆い川岸へと繋げるという事でした二つ目に介入した場所はこちらも川岸付近の都会の空隙で違法な駐車場として使われていました私たちはこのエリアをメディナ初の遊び場へと変身させることを提案しましたこの遊び場には再生タイヤをふんだんに使いまた人口湿地を加えることで川の水を浄化するだけでなく洪水が起きた際には保水することもできますプロジェクトが進むにつれ幾つものデザイン賞を受賞しました新しい出資者の介入もありプロジェクトの目標とデザインも変わっていきましたこのプロジェクトの一番の目的を達成するために私たちは他の建築家が考えないような独自の方法をとりましたそれは私たちのデザイナーとしてのプライドと著作者としての意識を捨て活動家としての立場を優先したのです沢山の出資者の思惑を一つにまとめプロジェクトの最も重要な目標に絞ったのです川を被っているふたを外し水を綺麗にしみんなのための公共のスペースを作ることです私たちは非常に運がよく大多数の目標はもう既に達成されているか達成に向かって動いています先ほどのルーシフ・プラザですがこれが六年前の姿ですこれが現在の姿ですまだ建設中ではありますが地元の人々に頻繁に使われていますそして最後にこれがプロジェクト完成後のルーシフ・プラザですここはゴミ捨て場として利用されていた川です何年もの活動を経てコンクリートが外され綺麗な水の流れる川になりましたそして最後にこれがプロジェクト完了後の姿ですフェズ川復興プロジェクトは街の社会政治的な環境によって変化し適応してゆくでしょうしかし建築家としての役割と取り組み方を考え直すことでこのプロジェクトの核となる概念を実行に移すことが出来たと信じていますつまりフェズ川を下水から公共スペースへ変えてフェズという街をミイラ化した遺産にしてしまわず住人にとって生きている街にすることですありがとうございました	The entire city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Since the 1950s, as the population of the medina grew, basic urban infrastructure such as green open spaces and sewage quickly changed and got highly stressed. One of the biggest casualties of the situation was the Fez River, which bisects the medina in its middle and has been considered for many centuries as the city's very soul. In fact, one can witness the presence of the river's extensive water network all throughout the city, in places such as private and public fountains. Unfortunately, because of the pollution of the river, it has been covered little by little by concrete slabs since 1952. This process of erasure was coupled with the destruction of many houses along the river banks enter the narrow pedestrian network of the medina. Those urban voids quickly became illegal parking or trash yards. Actually, the state of the river before entering the medina is pretty healthy. Then pollution takes its toll, mainly due to untreated sewage and chemical dumping from crafts such as tanning. At some point, I couldn't bear the desecration of the river, such an important part of my city, and I decided to take action, especially after I heard that the city received a grant to divert sewage water and to treat it. With clean water, suddenly the uncovering of the river became possible, and with luck and actually a lot of pushing, my partner Takako Tajima and I were commissioned by the city to work with a team of engineers to uncover the river. However, we were sneaky, and we proposed more: to convert riverbanks into pedestrian pathways, and then to connect these pathways back to the city fabric, and finally to convert the urban voids along the riverbanks into public spaces that are lacking in the Medina of Fez. I will show you briefly now two of these public spaces. The first one is the Rcif Plaza, which you can see here in dotted lines. This plaza used to be a chaotic transportation hub of the medina, that has the largest pedestrian network in the world. And right beyond the historic bridge that you can see here, right next to the plaza, you can see that the river looked like a river of trash. Instead, what we proposed is to make the plaza entirely pedestrian, to cover it with recycled leather canopies, and to connect it to the banks of the river. The second site of intervention is also an urban void along the river banks, and it used to be an illegal parking, and we proposed to transform it into the first playground in the medina. The playground is constructed using recycled tires and also is coupled with a constructed wetland that not only cleans the water of the river but also retains it when floods occur. As the project progressed and received several design awards, new stakeholders intervened and changed the project goals and design. The only way for us to be able to bring the main goals of the project ahead was for us to do something very unusual that usually architects don't do. It was for us to take our design ego and our sense of authorship and put it in the backseat and to focus mainly on being activists and on trying to coalesce all of the agendas of stakeholders and focus on the main goals of the project: that is, to uncover the river, treat its water, and provide public spaces for all. We were actually very lucky, and many of those goals happened or are in the process of happening. Like, you can see here in the Rcif Plaza. This is how it looked like about six years ago. This is how it looks like today. It's still under construction, but actually it is heavily used by the local population. And finally, this is how the Rcif Plaza will look like when the project is completed. This is the river, covered, used as a trash yard. Then after many years of work, the river with clean water, uncovered. And finally, you can see here the river when the project will be completed. So for sure, the Fez River Rehabilitation will keep on changing and adapting but we strongly believe that by reimagining the role and the agency of the architect, we have set up the core idea of the project into motion; that is, to transform the river from sewage to public space for all, thereby making sure that the city of Fez will remain a living city for its inhabitants Thank you very much.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
翌日、地下機械街マシヌシュタットから冒険を再開した俺は、まずNSOメダルを50枚消費してあるスキルを獲得した。その名も【サンダーアロー】! 単純明快な雷属性の矢を放つスキルだ。これから挑む『機神風穴』は機械属性のモンスターが出てくるダンジョンだ。弱点を突けるスキル1つあるだけで生存率はグッと上がるだろう。それに雷属性ならこれからの冒険や対人戦でも活躍してくれそうだ。電気って危険かつ便利な存在だからな。「ゲート開放!」『機神風穴』へと通じるゲートを開け放ち、その中へ足を踏み入れる。ゲートはすぐに閉じられ、あたりは真っ暗になった。松明の白い炎を頼りに歩みを進める。モンスターは......何も出てこないなぁ。それに『機神風穴』なんてカッコイイ名前なのに、今のところちょっと広い洞窟でしかない。分かれ道もない単調なダンジョンなのか......? と、思い始めた矢先、目の前に新たなゲートが現れた。なるほど、危険な兵器が封じ込められているわけだからゲートも2つくらいあるか。「もう1回ゲート開放!」開け放たれたゲートの先は......白を基調とした近代的な施設だった。 SF映画の宇宙船の中、研究施設などを思わせる未来感がある。床や壁に汚れはなく、神経質なまでに白い。ここに住み着く兵器たちが、今も施設を維持しているという設定だろう......。「なんか、静かすぎて怖いな......」時折どこからかぶぅぅぅん......という駆動音が聞こえてくるだけで敵は出てこない。でも、ここはダンジョンなんだから必ずどこかにいるはずだ。何か......監視されているような気がする。天井に監視カメラがあるし、それだろうか。「またゲートか......」今度は大型のゲートではなく、通路を封鎖する小型のゲートだ。ゲートの横にはカードキーをスラッシュするための機械が取り付けられている。探してこないと先には進めないか......。ここは部屋がいくつもあって探索するのは骨が折れる。どの部屋も同じデスクが置かれ、パソコンが置かれている。パソコンの画面は真っ暗でキーボードを触っても動かない。これがギミックになっているというわけではないか......。「......あった! やっぱりカギは机の引き出しの中だよなぁ~」探索ゲームあるあるだ。というか、リアルでも壁に引っ掛けておく派以外は大体どこかの引き出しの中にしまっているだろう。さあ、これを使って先に進もう。ビィィィィィィーーーーーーッッ!! 「うわっ!? なんだなんだっ!?」警報機がそこらじゅうで鳴っている! 重要なアイテムを回収したタイミングで敵が出てくるタイプだったか! ウィィィンと部屋のドアが勝手に開き、ガトリング砲を背負っ歩行のメカが飛び込んでくる! 「ガトリング・サンダーアロー!」ガトリングを撃たれる前に撃ってやった。雷の矢は機械に対して効果抜群だ。メカはこで消滅した。しかし、警報は鳴りやまない。「ここからはいつも通り戦闘の連続ってことだな......!」静かな地下施設を探索するより、うるさい敵と戦う方が慣れてるし落ち着くなぁ。こんなこと言うと戦闘狂みたいだけど......。 ◆ ◆ ◆ 「いやぁ、本当にサンダーアローをゲットしておいて良かった......!」メカ軍団はそれこそゾンビのように湧き出してきた。階層ごとにカードキーを見つけ、ゲートを開いた先にあるエレベーターで地下へと潜るたびに、押し寄せる敵の波は激しくなった。そんな敵の波を一瞬で壊滅させるスキルが【サンダーアロー】! そして、ガー坊の【どちらも単独では一撃必殺の威力を発揮しないが、俺は【ガトリングアロー】など他スキルとの融合で威力を底上げし、ガー坊は【黒子ガイル】で増やした自分の分身と一緒にスキルを放つことで威力を上げている。【黒子ガイル】の分身は奥義を使うことは出来ないが、スキルを使うことは出来るからな。また、メカたちは決して広くはない通路をひしめき合って向かってくるので、電気が勝手にどんどん伝っていくのだ。おかげで広範囲の敵を一掃することが出来る。ドロップアイテムもたくさん手に入ってウハウハだ。電気の力ってすごい......人類の宝だ。「この調子だとすぐに最下層に着きそうだな」階層ごとのカードキー探しとか、ちょっとしたパズル要素に頭を悩ませつつも、兵器たちの巣くう古代の施設を下へ下へと進む。エレベーターで移動中は敵が出てこないから癒しの瞬間だ。扉が開くと、待ってましたと言わんばかりにメカたちがお出迎えしてくれる。もはやそんなノリにもなれ、作業的にフロアを制圧してまたエレベーターに乗って下に向かう。何度か同じことを繰り返し、もう扉が開くと反射的に攻撃するようになったその時、メカたちの熱烈なお出迎えがないフロアへとたどり着いた。これ以上エレベーターは『下に参ります』と言わない。ここが最下層だ。「また真っ暗な洞窟だ......」松明を灯し、慎重に前に進む。奇襲を仕掛けられたら松明を敵に向かって投げ、姿を確認したのちに弓矢で射撃を行う。高速の射撃スキル【居合撃ち】がある今ならそんな動きも成立する。だが、派手に暴れまわるメカたちが姿を現すことはなかった。代わりにもう動くことのないメカたちの残骸がうず高く積み上げられた山を発見した。「ここはメカの廃棄場なのか......?」壊れたメカには美がある。ボロボロになるまで戦ったその姿には愛がある。でも、こうして捨てられ、誰にもメカに限らず、捨てられた物が集められた場所というのは心が締め付けられる......。しかし、俺をこんな感情にするために捨てられたメカの山が存在するわけではないだろう。こいつが......ボスだな。ガチャ...... ガチャガチャガチャ...... ガチャガチャガチャガチャ!! フロア全体がまばゆいライトに照らされる。捨てられたメカの山はうごめき、ある怪物の姿へと変貌していく。それは日本神話に登場する8つの頭を持つ大蛇......ヤマタノオロチ! ガギャアァァァァァァーーーーーーッ!! 古代のワニの次は神話のヘビか。それもメカの残骸に怨念が宿って生まれた神話のヘビだ。科学なのか心霊なのか......自分でも何言ってるかわからない。いろんなものが入り混じりすぎて、流石に電気でイチコロとはいかなさそうだが、不思議と不安にはならない。なんてったって、こっちには頼れるメカアニマルがいるからな......!	The next day, I recommenced my adventure in the underground machine city of Machinestatt. And I started by using NSO medals to acquire a certain skill. It was called Thunder Arrow! Simply put, it was a skill that unleashed an electric arrow. The Machine God Windhole dungeon that I was about to take on would have machine-type monsters inside. Having a skill that would take advantage of their weaknesses would help me survive. Besides, I was sure that the skill would help me on future adventures and PvP. Electricity was both useful and dangerous. “Gate Open!” And so the gate to the Machine God Windhole opened, and I stepped foot inside. The gate was immediately closed behind me, and I was surrounded in darkness. Relying on the pale light of the torch, I started to walk forward. As for the monsters...nothing came out. And in spite of the dungeon’s name, the place just seems like an ordinary cave. Was it really just a simple dungeon without any branching paths...? Just as I thought this, I saw another gate in front of me. I see. As there were dangerous weapons sealed in here, they had to have multiple gates. “Gate Open!” What was on the other side of the gate...was a mostly white, modern-looking facility. There was something about it that looked like a spaceship from a sci-fi film, or a research laboratory. The floors and walls were clean, and everything was so white. I suppose that meant the weapons that lived here were maintaining the place even now... “It’s eerily quiet...” The only thing I could hear were the occasional whirring of fans...but there were no enemies. However, this was a dungeon. So they were definitely here. I felt...like I was being monitored. Probably because there were cameras on the ceiling. “Another gate, huh...” This one wasn’t large like the others. It was a small gate that blocked the path ahead. And there was a lock that required a keycard in order to open it. So I would have to search for that if I wanted to continue... But there were so many rooms here, and searching through them all would be backbreaking work. Every room had the same desk and computers. But the screens were black, and tapping the keyboards didn’t do anything. So there were no gimmicks there... “...Ah, here it is! Of course, the key would be in a drawer...” They always were, in exploration games. Unless they were realistically hung on the wall, they were usually in some drawer. Now I could use it to go on ahead. Biiiiiiiiiiiiii!! “Whoa!? What’s that!?” Alarms were going off everywhere! Why do the enemies always come out just as you find an important item! With a loud whirring sound, the door of the room opened automatically and then a four-legged mecha with a gatling gun on its back jumped inside! “Gatling Thunder Arrow!” I shot at it before it could shoot at me. The electric arrows had the desired effect against the machine. And the mecha was destroyed after one hit. However, the alarms did not stop. “I guess we will have to continue to fight from here on out...!” However, I was more used to fighting loud enemies, rather than exploring a quiet underground facility, and so it was better this way. Though, it makes me sound like some kind of maniac... ◆ ◆ ◆ “Ah, I’m so glad that I got Thunder Arrow...!” The mecha enemies had come out like zombies. I had to find a keycard for every floor, go through the opened gate and go down an elevator to the next floor. And every time we descended, the waves of enemies grew stronger. And yet, Thunder Arrow took those waves of enemies down in a flash! And then there was Garbow’s Electric River! Neither of them were powerful enough on their own to one-shot enemies, but when fused with Gatling Arrow or Garbow’s Kurokogairu, they dealt much more damage. The clones from Kurokogairu could not use charge attacks, but they could use skills. Furthermore, the mechas were moving through narrow hallways, and so the electricity easily traveled from one enemy to the next. Thanks to this, we were able to take them down over a large area. And I was also able to collect a lot of drop items from them. The power of electricity really was amazing...it was mankind’s treasure. “At this rate, we’ll reach the bottom floor in no time.” While the puzzle elements, like searching for keys, sometimes slowed us down, we continued to make our way down through the ancient facility. Enemies did not attack us while we were in the elevator, so they were moments of respite. And then as soon as the doors opened, the mechas would come out as if they had been waiting for us. I was now used to this, and so cleaned out the floor and searched for the next floor. After repeating this many times, and I started to attack reflexively as soon as the doors opened, we reached a floor where we weren’t greeted to a warm welcome by the mechas. And the elevator did not let us go any lower. So this was the bottom floor. “It’s another dark cave...” I took out the torch and walked forward cautiously. If we were ambushed, I would throw the torch at the enemy and then shoot them. Now that I had the high speed shooting skill, Quickdraw, I could pull off such moves. However, no wild and aggressive mechas appeared in front of me. Instead, I just found piles of remains of mechas that would no longer move. “Is this a dumping ground for them...?” There was something beautiful about broken mecha. They had fought until they fell apart. And now they were discarded like this, with no reward...it was rather sad. Not just mecha, but any place that was filled with things that were thrown away made my chest tighten... However, these mountains of discarded mecha were likely not put here to make me feel sad. This was...the boss. Gacha... Gacha-gacha-gacha... Gacha-gacha-gacha-gacha!! The entire floor was filled by a blinding light. Then the mountain of mecha began to move and then it transformed into a monster. It was a great eight-headed snake from Japanese folklore...the Yamata No Orochi! Gagyaaaaaa!! First, an ancient alligator, and now a mythical snake. And one that was made from the remains and hatred of discarded machines. Was it science or supernatural... I didn’t even know what I was saying now. It was made up of so many different parts that I was sure that this time, electricity would not take it down easily. But strangely, I wasn’t worried. After all, I had a reliable mecha animal with me...!	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 1, "inserted_lines_src": 3, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
女性はこんな風に装います女性同様男性も華やかな色を身につけますが女性と異なるのは脚を見せびらかせるところです民族衣装もユニークですがブータンがユニークなのはこれだけではありません「カーボンニュートラル」 (CO2排出量ゼロ)の誓いを守っていることも然りです今日はこの— カーボンニュートラルの誓いについてお話ししますお話を続ける前に背景からご説明しますブータンについてですブータンはヒマラヤ山脈に抱かれた小さな国ですシャングリラと称えられてきました最後の秘境とまで言われていますでも言わせてください我が国はシャングリラではありませんお坊さんが幸せに暮らす大寺院の国でもありません現実を見れば人口わずか70万で世界最大の人口を有する 2つの大国— 中国とインドに囲まれていますつまり我が国は小さな開発途上国で生き延びていくのに精一杯ですそれでもなんとかやっています生き延びています事実我が国は栄えています繁栄の理由は幸いなことに— 卓越した国王たちのおかげです良識ある王室がたゆまず国の成長に尽力してきました優れたガバナンスの枠組みの中で経済成長と社会発展や環境的持続可能性文化の保護のバランスを慎重にとってきましたこの包括的な開発へのアプローチが「国民総幸福量」すなわち “GNH” です 1970年代にご存知のように第4代国王が「ブータンにとって国民総生産より国民総幸福量が重要だ」と提唱しました (拍手) それ以来― ブータンでのあらゆる開発は GNH— 国民の幸福の最大化を目的とする先駆的なビジョンを柱にしていますただし言うは易く行うは難しです世界で最も小さな経済国であればなおさらです我が国のGDPは 20億ドルにも達しませんこの会場にはもっと稼いでいる人もいて— その方個人の経済力が我が国を上回っていることでしょうそんな小さな経済国ではありますが注目すべきこともあります教育は全て無償です全国民に無償の学校教育が保障され努力した学生は無料で大学に進学できます医療も完全無償です診察、治療、薬は国が全負担するので無償ですこれができるのも国内の限られた資源を非常に慎重に扱い GNHの中心的なミッションを守り続けているからですすなわち「価値を伴う開発」ですブータンの経済力は弱く強化せねばなりません経済成長は重要ですがユニークな文化や本来の姿のままの自然を損なうことなく進めなければなりませんこんにちブータンの文化は栄え独特のアート、建築物食べ物、フェスティバル僧侶、寺院は我々の誇りですもちろん伝統衣装もですですから誇りを持って「ゴ」を身につけています面白いことを教えましょう世界一大きなポケットが付いていますここから始まって後ろまで回ってここに繋がっていますこのポケットの中にはあらゆる物が入ります電話や財布 iPadやオフィスの書類そして本など (拍手) でも時にはもっと大切な荷物も入れますこのように我々の文化は栄えこれは環境も同様です国土の72パーセントが森林で覆われています憲法では全国土の6割以上を常に森林として維持するよう定められています (拍手) 我々の憲法— この憲法が国民に森林の保全を課していますまた国王はこの憲法の中で民主主義も義務化しました我々国民はもともと民主主義を欲していませんでしたし求めもしませんでした民主主義のために戦ったわけでもなく代わりに国王が国民に民主主義を課したのです憲法に民主主義を入れることを主張したのですこれだけではありません国王は憲法の条項に国民が王室を告発する権利を含めまた全ての国王が 65歳で退任するようにも定めました (拍手) 実際すでにご隠居生活中の国王がいらっしゃいます前第4代国王陛下です 10年前にご退任されました人気絶頂の時のことです当時まだ51歳の若さでしたさてお話ししてきたようにブータンは72パーセントの国土が森林で覆われていてその全てが未開拓のままですこれがブータンに世界でも有数の多様性溢れる生態系が集中している理由でありカーボンニュートラルである理由です世界が気候変動の脅威にさらされている中でブータンはカーボンニュートラルの国ですこれが実は重要なのです世界にある2百あまりの国の中でカーボンニュートラルなのは我が国だけだからですただし厳密に言うと違いますカーボンニュートラルではなくカーボンネガティブなのですブータン全体で 22億トンの二酸化炭素を排出していますが国内の森林が除去する量はその3倍以上ですつまり我が国は年間4百万トン分以上の二酸化炭素を吸収する力がありますこれだけではありません (拍手) 国内の急流から生み出された再生可能な電力のほとんどを輸出していますつまりこんにち我が国が輸出するクリーンエネルギーは近隣国の二酸化炭素を約6百万トン相殺しているのです 2020年までには 1,700万トンの二酸化炭素を相殺するのに十分な電力を輸出する予定ですさらに潜在的な水力発電源の半分だけでも駆使すれば― まさに今取り組んでいますが― 我々が輸出するクリーンなグリーンエネルギーで 5千万トンの二酸化酸素を一年間で相殺できるようになりますこれはニューヨーク市全体が一年間で排出する二酸化炭素量を上回りますつまりブータンは国内は二酸化炭素の吸収源であり対外的には二酸化炭素を相殺する国なのですこれは大変重要です地球温暖化が進行し気候変動は現実の脅威ですブータンも影響を受けています国内の氷河が溶けて洪水や地滑りを引き起こし災害や広範囲に及ぶ破壊を引き起こしているのです最近この湖を訪れました素晴らしい光景です 10年前はこのような姿で 20年前はこんな姿でしたたった20年前この湖は存在しませんでした硬い氷河だったんです数年前ですが似たような湖が決壊して洪水を起こしふもとに大被害をもたらしました 1つの氷河湖の決壊によって起きたことですブータンにはそんな氷河湖が 2,700個もあるんですここで大事なのは我が国と我が国民は地球温暖化に一切加担していないのに既にとばっちりを食らっているのです貧しい小国しかも山の多い内陸国にとっては非常に困った状況ですそれでもただ手をこまねいているわけにはいきません気候変動には立ち向かいますだからこそカーボンニュートラルの誓いを守り続けてきたのですこの誓いは 2009年に立てられましたコペンハーゲンでの COP15 開催中でしたが誰も気づきませんでしたどの政府も議論に忙しく気候変動の責任のなすり合いに夢中だったからですそこで小さな国が手を挙げて「常にカーボンニュートラルであることを誓います」と宣言しても誰の耳にも届かず誰も気にかけませんでした昨年の12月にパリで COP21が開催されブータンはここでも再び常にカーボンニュートラルであることを誓いましたこの時になってやっと誰もが耳を傾けてくれたのですパリでは何が違ったのかというと各政府が集まって気候変動の現実を受け止め手を取り合い一致団結して取り組む意欲があったことです極小国から超大国まで全ての国が温室効果ガスの排出量を減らすことを誓いました国連気候変動枠組条約の発表によるともしこの「約束」が守られれば地球の気温上昇を摂氏2度に抑えるという目標に近づきますところで TEDのオーガナイザーに会場の温度を2度上げるようお願いしていますですからいつもより暑く感じている方誰に文句を言えばいいか分かりますね私たち全員が公約を守ることが非常に重要ですブータンについて言えばカーボンニュートラルの誓いを守り続けていきますその方法をいくつかご紹介しましょう田舎の農家には電気を無償で提供していますねらいは何かというと電気が無料なので薪を使わずに料理ができますまた持続可能な交通手段に投資し電気自動車の購入に助成金を出しています LED照明の購入費用を助成も行い政府内ではペーパーレスを目指しています国家プログラム「クリーンブータン」を通して国全体で清掃活動をし国中で植林も行っていますこちらは「グリーンブータン」という別の国家プログラムですただし保護区域こそがカーボンニュートラル戦略の中核です我々の二酸化炭素吸収源として呼吸を担う肺のようなものですこんにち国土全体の半分以上が保護地域の国立公園、自然保護区野生生物保護区ですこの地域の美しいところは全てが繋がっていることです生物回廊という動植物の移動経路を通してですこれはつまり野生動物たちが国内を自由に移動できるということです例えばこのトラ海抜250メートルで確認されました気温の高い亜熱帯のジャングルの中でです 2年後に同じトラが海抜4千メートル付近で確認されました今度は気温の低い高山地の山脈の中です素晴らしいでしょう? (拍手) これを保たねばなりませんこの素晴らしい状態を保たねばなりませんブータンでは毎年密猟や狩猟採鉱や公害から国中の保護区域を守るための予算やまた区域内に住まう人々が森林を管理し気候変動に対応し母なる自然の調和を保ちながらも生活レベルを改善できるよう支援するための予算を確保していますただ費用がかかります向こう数年の間は我々の小さな経済では国の環境を保護するのに必要な費用を全てはまかなえません実際試算してみたらこの費用を完全に工面できるようになるまで少なくとも15年はかかることがわかりましたしかしブータンもその他の国々も 15年もかけていたら手遅れになってしまいますそこで国王陛下が “Bhutan For Life” を始め我々に時間稼ぎと呼吸する余裕を与えてくれましたこれはブータンに十分な経済力がつくまでの間国内の自然区域を管理し保護するための資金調達の仕組みですねらいは個人、企業、団体から移行基金を募ることですが事前に決めた条件に達し資金が揃った段階で初めて取引成立です出資者は複数で達成時実行型ですウォール・ストリートからヒントを得ました各出資者が資金が揃わない計画を支援して取り残されるという不安を解消します Kickstarterのプロジェクトに似ていますが違いは 15年という期限と数百万トンの二酸化炭素がかかっていることくらいですねいったん取引が成立すればこの移行基金によって自然区域を守り同時に― 我が政府が徐々に資金を増やす時間ができます 15年という期間が終わるまでですその後はブータン政府が自力で資金調達をしていきますゴールは間近です今年中には成立する見込みですですから非常にワクワクしています (拍手) この企画の主要なパートナーである世界自然保護基金に大きな感謝を表明しますブータンそして世界中で素晴らしい活動をしています (拍手) いやぁ暑くなってきましたねここまで聞いていただき感謝しますカーボンニュートラルの誓いや手つかずの環境を我が国がどのように守っているかお聞きいただきました我々のため子供たちのためそして皆さんのお子さんのため世界のためですでも私たちはただ話を聞くだけではなく一緒に夢を見るためにここに集まったのですよねですから最後にもう1つ夢をお話ししますここにいる我々のリーダーシップと資源影響力と情熱を駆使して “Bhutan For Life” のアイデアを他の国でも再現すればそこでも保護区域をずっと守っていくことができますなぜなら多くの国々がブータンと同じ問題に直面していて同じく持続可能性の戦いに勝ち抜きうる— 天然資源を有しているにもかかわらず今はそれに投資する余裕がないのですですから “Earth For Life” “Bhutan For Life” を世界中で実施する世界基金です皆さんに協力をお願いしますこの夢を国境を越えた— 地球の未来を大切にする全ての人々に届けましょう一緒に夢を語り手を取り合いましょう共に気候変動に立ち向かい地球を守りましょうなぜならこれは全人類の問題だからです着るものが違っても問題は一緒なんですどうもありがとう kadrin chhe la ありがとう (拍手) どうもありがとう	That is how our women dress. Like our women, we men get to wear pretty bright colors, but unlike our women, we get to show off our legs. Our national dress is unique, but this is not the only thing that's unique about my country. Our promise to remain carbon neutral is also unique, and this is what I'd like to speak about today, our promise to remain carbon neutral. But before I proceed, I should set you the context. I should tell you our story. Bhutan is a small country in the Himalayas. We've been called Shangri-La, even the last Shangri-La. But let me tell you right off the bat, we are not Shangri-La. My country is not one big monastery populated with happy monks. The reality is that there are barely 700,000 of us sandwiched between two of the most populated countries on earth, China and India. The reality is that we are a small, underdeveloped country doing our best to survive. But we are doing OK. We are surviving. In fact, we are thriving, and the reason we are thriving is because we've been blessed with extraordinary kings. Our enlightened monarchs have worked tirelessly to develop our country, balancing economic growth carefully with social development, environmental sustainability and cultural preservation, all within the framework of good governance. We call this holistic approach to development "Gross National Happiness," or GNH. Back in the 1970s, our fourth king famously pronounced that for Bhutan, Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross National Product. Ever since, all development in Bhutan is driven by GNH, a pioneering vision that aims to improve the happiness and well-being of our people. But that's easier said than done, especially when you are one of the smallest economies in the world. Our entire GDP is less than two billion dollars. I know that some of you here are worth more -- individually than the entire economy of my country. So our economy is small, but here is where it gets interesting. Education is completely free. All citizens are guaranteed free school education, and those that work hard are given free college education. Healthcare is also completely free. Medical consultation, medical treatment, medicines: they are all provided by the state. We manage this because we use our limited resources very carefully, and because we stay faithful to the core mission of GNH, which is development with values. Our economy is small, and we must strengthen it. Economic growth is important, but that economic growth must not come from undermining our unique culture or our pristine environment. Today, our culture is flourishing. We continue to celebrate our art and architecture, food and festivals, monks and monasteries. And yes, we celebrate our national dress, too. This is why I can wear my gho with pride. Here's a fun fact: you're looking at the world's biggest pocket. It starts here, goes around the back, and comes out from inside here. In this pocket we store all manner of personal goods from phones and wallets to iPads, office files and books. But sometimes -- sometimes even precious cargo. So our culture is flourishing, but so is our environment. 72 percent of my country is under forest cover. Our constitution demands that a minimum of 60 percent of Bhutan's total land shall remain under forest cover for all time. Our constitution, this constitution, imposes forest cover on us. Incidentally, our king used this constitution to impose democracy on us. You see, we the people didn't want democracy. We didn't ask for it, we didn't demand it, and we certainly didn't fight for it. Instead, our king imposed democracy on us by insisting that he include it in the constitution. But he went further. He included provisions in the constitution that empower the people to impeach their kings, and included provisions in here that require all our kings to retire at the age of 65. Fact is, we already have a king in retirement: our previous king, the Great Fourth, retired 10 years ago at the peak of his popularity. He was all of 51 years at that time. So as I was saying, 72 percent of our country is under forest cover, and all that forest is pristine. That's why we are one of the few remaining global biodiversity hotspots in the world, and that's why we are a carbon neutral country. In a world that is threatened with climate change, we are a carbon neutral country. Turns out, it's a big deal. Of the 200-odd countries in the world today, it looks like we are the only one that's carbon neutral. Actually, that's not quite accurate. Bhutan is not carbon neutral. Bhutan is carbon negative. Our entire country generates 2.2 million tons of carbon dioxide, but our forests, they sequester more than three times that amount, so we are a net carbon sink for more than four million tons of carbon dioxide each year. But that's not all. We export most of the renewable electricity we generate from our fast-flowing rivers. So today, the clean energy that we export offsets about six million tons of carbon dioxide in our neighborhood. By 2020, we'll be exporting enough electricity to offset 17 million tons of carbon dioxide. And if we were to harness even half our hydropower potential, and that's exactly what we are working at, the clean, green energy that we export would offset something like 50 million tons of carbon dioxide a year. That is more CO2 than what the entire city of New York generates in one year. So inside our country, we are a net carbon sink. Outside, we are offsetting carbon. And this is important stuff. You see, the world is getting warmer, and climate change is a reality. Climate change is affecting my country. Our glaciers are melting, causing flash floods and landslides, which in turn are causing disaster and widespread destruction in our country. I was at that lake recently. It's stunning. That's how it looked 10 years ago, and that's how it looked 20 years ago. Just 20 years ago, that lake didn't exist. It was a solid glacier. A few years ago, a similar lake breached its dams and wreaked havoc in the valleys below. That destruction was caused by one glacier lake. We have 2,700 of them to contend with. The point is this: my country and my people have done nothing to contribute to global warming, but we are already bearing the brunt of its consequences. And for a small, poor country, one that is landlocked and mountainous, it is very difficult. But we are not going to sit on our hands doing nothing. We will fight climate change. That's why we have promised to remain carbon neutral. We first made this promise in 2009 during COP 15 in Copenhagen, but nobody noticed. Governments were so busy arguing with one another and blaming each other for causing climate change, that when a small country raised our hands and announced, "We promise to remain carbon neutral for all time," nobody heard us. Nobody cared. Last December in Paris, at COP 21, we reiterated our promise to remain carbon neutral for all time to come. This time, we were heard. We were noticed, and everybody cared. What was different in Paris was that governments came round together to accept the realities of climate change, and were willing to come together and act together and work together. All countries, from the very small to the very large, committed to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change says that if these so-called intended commitments are kept, we'd be closer to containing global warming by two degrees Celsius. By the way, I've requested the TED organizers here to turn up the heat in here by two degrees, so if some of you are feeling warmer than usual, you know who to blame. It's crucial that all of us keep our commitments. As far as Bhutan is concerned, we will keep our promise to remain carbon neutral. Here are some of the ways we are doing it. We are providing free electricity to our rural farmers. The idea is that, with free electricity, they will no longer have to use firewood to cook their food. We are investing in sustainable transport and subsidizing the purchase of electric vehicles. Similarly, we are subsidizing the cost of LED lights, and our entire government is trying to go paperless. We are cleaning up our entire country through Clean Bhutan, a national program, and we are planting trees throughout our country through Green Bhutan, another national program. But it is our protected areas that are at the core of our carbon neutral strategy. Our protected areas are our carbon sink. They are our lungs. Today, more than half our country is protected, as national parks, nature reserves and wildlife sanctuaries. But the beauty is that we've connected them all with one another through a network of biological corridors. Now, what this means is that our animals are free to roam throughout our country. Take this tiger, for example. It was spotted at 250 meters above sea level in the hot, subtropical jungles. Two years later, that same tiger was spotted near 4,000 meters in our cold alpine mountains. Isn't that awesome? We must keep it that way. We must keep our parks awesome. So every year, we set aside resources to prevent poaching, hunting, mining and pollution in our parks, and resources to help communities who live in those parks manage their forests, adapt to climate change, and lead better lives while continuing to live in harmony with Mother Nature. But that is expensive. Over the next few years, our small economy won't have the resources to cover all the costs that are required to protect our environment. In fact, when we run the numbers, it looks like it'll take us at least 15 years before we can fully finance all our conservation efforts. But neither Bhutan, nor the world can afford to spend 15 years going backwards. This is why His Majesty the King started Bhutan For Life. Bhutan For Life gives us the time we need. It gives us breathing room. It is essentially a funding mechanism to look after our parks, to protect our parks, until our government can take over on our own fully. The idea is to raise a transition fund from individual donors, corporations and institutions, but the deal is closed only after predetermined conditions are met and all funds committed. So multiparty, single closing: an idea we borrowed from Wall Street. This means that individual donors can commit without having to worry that they'll be left supporting an underfunded plan. It's something like a Kickstarter project, only with a 15-year time horizon and millions of tons of carbon dioxide at stake. Once the deal is closed, we use the transition fund to protect our parks, giving our government time to increase our own funding gradually until the end of the 15-year period. After that, our government guarantees full funding forever. We are almost there. We expect to close later this year. Naturally, I'm pretty excited. The World Wildlife Fund is our principle partner in this journey, and I want to give them a big shoutout for the excellent work they are doing in Bhutan and across the world. Whew, it is getting warm in here. I thank you for listening to our story, a story of how we are keeping our promise to remain carbon neutral, a story of how we are keeping our country pristine, for ourselves, our children, for your children and for the world. But we are not here to tell stories, are we? We are here to dream together. So in closing, I'd like to share one more dream that I have. What if we could mobilize our leadership and our resources, our influence and our passion, to replicate the Bhutan For Life idea to other countries so that they too can conserve their protected areas for all time. After all, there are many other countries who face the same issues that we face. that can help win the world's fight for sustainability, only they may not have the ability to invest in them now. So what if we set up Earth For Life, a global fund, to kickstart the Bhutan For Life throughout the world? I invite you to help me, to carry this dream beyond our borders to all those who care about our planet's future. After all, we're here to dream together, to work together, to fight climate change together, to protect our planet together. Because the reality is we are in it together. Some of us might dress differently, but we are in it together. Thank you very much, and kadrin chhe la. Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
そうだとしても、反対勢力の失敗は大規模であった。それは2002年4月、民主主義的に選ばれたチャベスを狙ったデモの失敗から、2003年初頭の国立石油会社ＰＥＤＥＶＳＡで起きたストライキの失敗に及ぶ。政治において、直接衝突の失敗ほど致命的なものは他にない。	Even so, the opposition’s mistakes have been massive, ranging from support for the failed coup against the democratically elected Chávez in April 2002 to the failed strike at PEDEVSA, Venezuela’s national oil company, in early 2003. Nothing is more lethal in politics than failure in direct confrontation.	{ "source": "news_commentary", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
翌日――。経って冷静になったので、もうメダルを渡すことを渋りはしない。ちゃんとスクショも撮ってあるし、思い出は十分さ。『はいは~い! 金メダルを確認したにょん! もう外してもらっても構わないにょん!』金メダルを渡す必要はなく、装飾枠に装備して見せればいいだけだった。最初は本当に金メダルを回収していたらしいが、持っておきたいというプレイヤーの意見が多かったので変更したらしい。しかも、すでに回収してしまったプレイヤーへの返却も済んでいるという。人間がやると相当めんどくさい作業も、AIにはサクッと出来てしまうんだなぁ。『まずはメダルをプレゼント!』表には星座、裏にはもこもこの羊が描かれている。カッコイイというより、カワイイだな。『そして、ご褒美はこちら! 『雲羊のもこもこウール』だにょん!』お世話になった雲羊の毛がご褒美だった。何度触っても、もこもこの肌触りは最高だ。それに雲関係ということはもしかしたら......? 早速ウーさんの工房に行ってみよう。 ◆ ◆ ◆ 受付の天女さんに『雲羊のもこもこウール』を見せ、使い道をウィンドウで表示してもらう。 ......やはりな。』を進化させる素材になる! 現在、風雲装備の修理と進化を依頼してから3日目の朝だ。修理の方は完了していて受取ことも出来るが、俺としてはすべての作業が完了してから一括で受け取りたいと思っている。ここでさらに『雲渡の足袋』の進化を依頼すれば、1日作業完了が遅くなるが......まあ問題ないな。「これでお願いします」これで受け取りは2日後の午後になる予定だ。「承りました! あ、こちらはたくさん依頼をして頂いた方にお渡ししている『仙桃』になります!」天女さんが思いだしたかのように光り輝く桃を取り出す。「こちらはお師匠様の大好物で、1つ渡せば1つの依頼が一瞬で終わります! 不思議な仙桃の力でやる気とパワーがみなぎるそうです!」いわゆる時間短縮系アイテムか。何かを作り出すのにリアル時間を要するゲームではよく見る。便利な分、手に入れるにはそれなりに手間がかかるのが通例だが、はたしてこの1個をここで使うべきか......。いや、温存しておこう。もしかしたら他にも戦闘要素のない試練があって、そこのクリアに何日もかかるかもしれない。そうなれば早めた意味がなくなる。残りの試練が戦闘を伴うものばかりなら、すぐに仙桃を使うとしよう。メダルを半分以上ゲットし、俺も最終決戦を意識し始めた。だが、結局のところサーペント・パレスの詳細はわからない。変に焦る必要はないが、早め早めの攻略を心掛けるのも悪くないだろう。さて、用事は済ませたし次の試練に向かうか。挑むのは白羊迷宮から一番近いおうし座の金牛迷宮だ。今回は内容を事前に把握していない。何が出るかは......行ってからのお楽しみだ。金牛迷宮のチャリンはアメリカンなカウガールか、牛柄の服のどちらかだと思っていた。しかし、実際のチャリンは金の装飾が非常に目立つ派手な衣装を着て、片手に剣、もう一方には赤い布を持っていた。この時点で俺は試練の内容を察した。『金牛迷宮にようこそ! ここでは闘牛に挑戦してもらうにょん! でも、普通の闘牛ではないにょん!』スタイルのチャリンが思っていた通りのことを口にする。『まず、対戦相手の牛さんは倒せないにょん! 無敵というわけじゃないけど倒せないんだにょん! そしてこの牛さんと戦って3分以上生き残れればメダルゲット! 5分間生き残れればご褒美ゲットだにょん!』つまり、逃げの5分間ということか。無敵じゃないということは、一部スキルの効果で足止めは可能なのだろう。しかし......もっと単純で簡単な抜け道がある。全プレイヤーに出来る芸当ではないが、俺や一部プレイヤーには可能な攻略法......。それは空中にとどまることだ。闘牛は柵に囲われたフィールドで行われるが、空中に逃げられないようにドーム状のバリアも張ってある。このバリアの天井はあまり高くないが、ろくにジャンプすら出来ない牛の突進から逃げるには十分な高さだ。天井ギリギリの位置で滞空していれば無敵になる。「雲渡の足袋だけでも貰って来れば良かったかな......」武器スキル【浮雲】は雲の足場を空中に作るスキル。 1つの雲で5分浮いてられるので、簡単に試練をクリアできてしまう。今も複数ある闘牛場の1つで、俺の考えた作戦が実行されていた。魔女っ子っぽい女の人が、ホウキに乗って滞空している。この滞空スキルが5分維持できるなら、彼女はもう待つだけでいい。ちょっと試練の作りこみが甘......くはなかった。モオォォォォォォォォォーーーーーーーーッ!!! わにした牛は、角を地面に突き刺しボコッと土を掘り返すと、その勢いのまま土を弾丸のように空中にぶん投げた。真下で待ち構えていた牛の角になすすべなく貫かれた。「がはっ......!」妙に生々しい悲鳴を残し、彼女は光となって消滅した。もちろん死んだわけでも、本当に体を貫かれた痛みがあったわけでもない。きっともうどこかで復活して、悔しさで地面を蹴っていることだろう。それにしても、『雲渡の足袋』を置いてきて良かった......! 装備していたら調子に乗ってすぐ試練に挑戦し、彼女のように角の餌食になっていた。まずは他のプレイヤーの試合を見て対策を練ろう。攻略のセオリーのようなものが見つかるかもしれない。ちょうど人だかりが出来ている闘牛場がある。きっと、上手いプレイが見られるはずだ。「あ......っ!」闘牛場のど真ん中で、牛を避けることもなく盾で受け止め、不動の姿勢を保つ男がいた。、バックラーだ......! 彼は5分間この状態を保ち、見事にメダルとご褒美を手に入れた。観客たちは拍手喝采で彼を盾も鎧も以前とは違う。より頑丈さを追求したような分厚い物になっている。しかし、忘れようのないあの顔はバックラーその人だ。「久しいなキュージィよ」バックラーがこちらに向かってくる。やはり向こうも俺のことを忘れていないようだ。「ええ、陣取り以来ですねバックラーさん。名前を憶えていただけるなんて光栄です」素直に気持ちを伝えたつもりだが、少し嫌味ったらしくなったかな......? ちょっと不安だったが、バックラーは大笑いして答えた。「それは当然のこと! このゲームの顔であり、トッププレイヤーの1人に数えられる男の名を覚えていないなら、そいつはモグリだ」「あはは......それはありがたいですね」あまり露骨に謙遜は出来ない。俺は彼を倒したことがある。自分を下げる言葉は、彼のことも一緒に下げかねない。「ほう、この試練に半端な防具は邪魔なだけと知って初心者装備で来るとはこんなに褒められると偶然と言うどころか、さっきまで装備を持ってくれば良かったと後悔していたとは言えない......。「メダルも順調に集めていると聞いている! いずれ最終決戦に挑むのだろうが、俺の方が早いかもしれんな!」いませんよ。やはり、サーペント・パレス一番乗りを目指しているんですか?」「もちろん目指してはいる! しかし、強いプレイヤーというのはいくらでもいるからな! 一番になると保証は出来んのだ! ハッハッハッ!」強いプレイヤーがいくらでも......か。今回のイベントが対人戦ではなかったことに感謝するばかりだ。まみえる時も来よう! なんだかんだ一番盛り上がる祭りは人と人との戦いなのだ! もし、お前さんと再び戦う機会があれば、俺も負けるつもりはない! そのつもりで準備をしておくことだ!」バックラーは去っていった。相変わらずいろんな意味で存在感がある人だ......。いま風雲装備があったとして、彼と戦ったら勝てるだろうか? 陣取りの時はイベントのシステムに助けられただけで、素の実力で勝ったとは言えない。もし、これから先バックラーのようなプレイヤーと対等な条件で戦うことになれば......。やはりもっと強くなる必要がある。それは喜ばしいことだ。前に進みたいという気持ちは、ゲームを遊ぶ大きなモチベーションになる。まあ、現状かなりモチベーションは高いのだが......な。むしろ最近は1日かけて1つの試練を遊んでいるのだから熱中しすぎだ。今回は牛を倒さない闘牛の試練。クールにひらりひらりと危険を回避し続けて、見事クリアしてみせよう。俺も保証は出来ないけど......。	The next day... I had calmed down after a night of sleep and would no longer begrudge having to give away the medal. I had my photos and memories anyway. ‘Yes-yes! I see you have the gold medal-nyon! You can take it off now-nyon!’ There was no need to give her the gold medal. You just needed to equip it so that it was visible. Apparently, you did have to give it to her at first, but there were so many players asking to keep it that they changed it. In fact, they even returned the medals to players who already submitted theirs. This would have been tremendous work if humans had to do it, but it was simple with an AI. ‘Here is your medal!’ It had the constellation on the front and a wooly sheep on the back. This one was more cute than cool. ‘And here is the special reward! ‘Cloud Sheep Wool’-nyon!’ So the reward was wool from the cloud sheep. No matter how many times I touched it, it felt amazingly soft. Also, since it’s related to clouds, does that mean...? I would have to go to Mr. Yu’s workshop. ◆ ◆ ◆ I showed the heavenly maiden at the front desk the wool, and its uses appeared in a window in front of me. ...I see. So this was material that allowed you to evolve the Cloudcrossing Tabi! Currently, it was the third day after I had requested that my windcloud equipment be repaired and evolved. So I would actually be able to take them now. But I prefered to get everything at once when it was all finished. If I asked them to evolve the Cloudcrossing Tabi now, I would have to wait an extra day...but that was fine. It’s not like there was any other option for me. “Please do it.” I was to come back two days later during the afternoon. “Certainly! Ah, we give this to customers who make lots of requests. The ‘Peach of Immortality’!” She pulled out the shining peach as if just remembering this. “Our master is very fond of them. If you give him one, then one of your requests will be finished in an instant! The power of the peach gives him energy and drive!” In other words, it was a time-saving item, huh? It was used in a lot in games that involved making something. While it was useful, they were usually difficult to acquire. So, should I really use it here...? No, I think that I’ll save it. There might be another trial without combat. And I might take a few days to clear it. In that case, there would be no point in having rushed. If the remaining trials were all about combat, then I would use it. Now that I had more than half of the medals, I was starting to think of the final battle. However, I still didn’t know anything about the Serpent Palace. Though there was no need to rush, it would not be a bad idea to try and do things swiftly. Now, I had finished what I needed to do, so it was time to head to the next trial. It was the closest one from the Aries labyrinth, which was the Taurus labyrinth. This was one that I didn’t know anything about. And so...I was looking forward to finding out. I expected Taurus labyrinth Charin to be dressed as an American cowgirl or in cow print clothes. However, she was wearing a flashy costume with lots of gold accessories. There was a sword in one hand and a red cloth in the other. At this point, I had an idea of what the trial would be. ‘Welcome to the Taurus labyrinth! Here, you will be bullfighting-nyon! But not ordinary bullfighting-nyon!’ Matador Charin said exactly what I was thinking. ‘First, you cannot defeat your opponent, Mister Bull! It’s not because he’s invincible, you just can’t defeat him-nyon! You will receive a medal if you can survive for three minutes battling him! Survive for five minutes and you will receive a reward-nyon!’ In other words, run around for five minutes. If it wasn’t completely invincible, maybe I could stop it with skills. However...there was a simpler method as well. It wasn’t something that all players could do. But I and some others had a way... Stay in the air. The bullfight would take place in a field surrounded by fences, but there was also a dome-shaped barrier so you couldn’t escape into the sky. The ceiling of the barrier was not too high, but high enough for a bull that could barely jump. If I stayed up high enough, then I should be safe. “If only I had my Cloudcrossing Tabi...” The weapon skill ‘Floating Cloud’ allowed you to make cloud platforms in the air. One cloud lasted for five minutes, so you would be able to clear the trial easily. Even now, my strategy was being used in one of the bullfighting rings. A woman who looked like a witch was riding on a broom that was suspended in the air. If she could also stay there for five minutes, then all she needed to do was wait. It seems like they hadn’t really thought this trial out...or not. MOooooooooo!!! The bull trampled the dirt with its front legs with fury. Then it pierced the ground with its horns before lifting them into the air. A part of the ground came out and shot through upwards like a bullet. And just like that, she fell down and was pierced by the horns of the waiting bull. “Gah...!” Came the final cry as she turned into light and disappeared. Of course, even though she died, it didn’t mean that being pierced was painful. She had probably resurrected somewhere and was stomping her foot in the dirt with frustration. Still, it was a good thing that I didn’t bring the Cloudcrossing Tabi...! If I had them, I would have been over confident and immediately started the trial, which would have resulted in me meeting the same fate as her. First, I would watch other players and put together a strategy. Perhaps I’ll find something that will give me a hint. There was one ring in particular that had a lot of players watching. Surely that meant there was something impressive going on. “Ah...” In the center of the ring, there was a man who stood steadfast and without dodging, blocked all of the bull’s charges with his shield. It was Buckler, a rd from the Straight Knights guild...! He was able to maintain this for the full five minutes, and won the medal and the reward. The spectators showered him with applause and praise. His shield and armor were different from before. They looked thicker and more durable. However, I would never forget the face. It was Buckler. “It’s been a while, Kyuji.” Buckler said as he walked towards me. So he hadn’t forgotten about me. “Yeah. I haven’t seen you since the turf war, Mister Buckler. I’m honored that you remember my name.” I just said what I felt, but perhaps it came off as sarcastic...? I was a little worried, but Buckler just laughed and replied. “Of course, I remember it! You are a top player and one of the faces of this game. If anyone doesn’t know you, they must live in a hole.” “Uhahaha... Well, uh, thank you.” I couldn’t be too modest here. After all, I had defeated him once. So to lower myself would mean to take him down as well. “Oh, I see that you knew that half-assed armor would only get in the way of this trial, and so you came in your light beginner gear! Especially since there is a risk of destroying your main set! I’d expect no less from the man who beat me!” After being praised this much, I couldn’t say that it was a coincidence or that I had been regretting not bringing my other equipment a moment ago... “And I hear that you’ve collected a lot of medals too! I’m sure you’ll reach the final battle soon, but I might get there first!” “Well, I’m really no match for a professional. Are you trying to be the first to reach the Serpent Palace?” “Of course, I am! However, there are a lot of other strong players! So there is no guarantee that I can do it! Hahaha!” A lot of other strong players...huh. It was a good thing that this event didn’t have PvP. “Well, in any case, you’ll have a chance to meet those players eventually! After all, it’s the battles between people that are the most exciting! If I ever have the opportunity of fighting you again, I will not lose! And so you better be ready!” Buckler said before leaving. As always, he had a tremendous presence... If I fought him now, could I win, even with the Windcloud set? During the turf war, I had just been helped by the event system, and could not say that I won based on my own ability. So if I were to face players like Buckler in the future, and the conditions were completely fair... Yes, I did need to become stronger. And that was a good thing. The desire to move forward becomes a great motivation to play the game. Well, not that I lacked motivation right now... If anything, recently I had spent a whole day on one trial, so perhaps I was getting too absorbed. This time, it was a bullfight where you didn’t defeat the bull. I’d keep it cool and continue to dodge the danger and clear it. Well, I too could make no guarantees...	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 4, "inserted_lines_src": 14, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
そう言って、無理やりヴィクターは話を終わらせた。まだ納得できないけれど、彼がそう言うのなら仕方がないわね。どんなに聞いても教えてくれないでしょうし......。監視ってだけで命を懸けて部下のところについてくるって、私、あまりにも信用されていないのかしら。それともただの心配? ......多分、前者よね。「分かりました。......ともに気をつけましょう!」こういう時ってなんて答えるのか分からない。「この国の頭衆に会いに行ってくるので、今から監視しなくても大丈夫です」私はそう言いながら、その場を後にした。ああ! ついに解放されたわ! ヴィクターって案外寂しがりなのかしら。というか、これからいちいち何をするにしても伝えないといけないのかしら。............めんどくさッ!! もしかしたら、私はとても厄介な王子に捕まってしまったのかもしれない。あ、それに子にいつ会えるかどうかも聞き忘れたわ。......どのみち今晩嫌でもヴィクターに会うんだからその時に聞けばいいわよね。私はピカピカに磨かれた廊下を歩きながらそんなことを考えた。「そろそろ来るかなって思っていたところだよ」私がおじい様達のいる部屋に入るなり、ケイト様はそう言って出迎えてくれた。そんなにこやかな笑顔で言われても、正直どうしてそんなことが分かったのか恐怖だわ。魔法を使ったわけでもなさそうだし、これが長年培ってきた勘の凄さなのかしら。私も見習わないと! おじい様とマーク様は私が来たにも関わらず、奥でチェスをしている。流石と思うべきなのか、もう少し私に興味を持って欲しいと思うべきなのか複雑なところだわ。「私の勝ちだな」おじい様は笑うことなく、そう呟いた。それと同時にマーク様がキングと思われる駒をカタンッと倒す。今のこの彼らの動作だけで映画のワンシーンが作れそうだわ。それぐらいオーラが半端ない。「あの、色々と私に教えて下さい」「色々って?」ケイト様が試すような目で私を見つめる。彼らは私が魔法を使えるということを知っているのかしら。いや、でも、まだ公に披露したわけじゃないし......。私はおじい様と目が合う。そう言えば、あの日、私はどうやって助かったのかしら。死到林の湖から出てきた時、おじい様のおかげで体が楽になった気がする。治癒魔法を使われた記憶はない。あの状況的に考えられるのは、魔力を与えられたということだけ......。もしそうなら、私が魔法を使えるということは知られているはず......。どうしたらいいのかしら。「どうしてそんなに悩む必要があるんだ? 私らの知識を伝授して欲しいのだろう?」あら、もしかして私が魔法を使えるってことバレていない!? まぁ、もしバレていたら彼らに魔法の授業をしてもらおうと思ったけれど、こっちの方が好都合だわ! 「ええ! そうです! よろしくお願いします!」私は勢いよくそう言って、頭を下げた。そこから日が暮れるまで彼らに沢山のことを教わった。食べることも忘れて、私はおじい様達の話に聞き入った。それぞれ違う価値観や考え方を持っているけれど、共通して言えることは全員がこの世の安泰を願っている。話を聞けば聞くほど色々と考えさせられて、色々な意見が出てきた。ウィルおじさんと初めて出会った時のことを思い出した。こんなに賢い人はいるのかと衝撃だったけれど、世界はもっと広かった。この三人を手放したデュルキス国はなんて馬鹿なのかしら。	With that, Victor forced me to end the conversation. Although I still wasn’t convinced, if that’s what he said, I had no choice. No matter how much I asked, he wouldn’t tell me.... I wondered if he distrusted me so much that he had to risk his life just to follow me, his subordinate, to keep an eye on me. Or was it just concern? Maybe it was the former. “I understand. I’ll be careful!” I wouldn’t know how to respond in a situation like this. “I’m going to meet the three brains of this country, so you don’t have to monitor me right now.” I said and left the place. Ah! I was finally free! I wondered if Victor was more lonely than I had thought. I mean, I’d have to tell him every single thing I did from now on. What a hassle! Maybe I had been captured by a very troublesome prince. Oh, and I also forgot to ask when I could meet the first prince. ...I’m going to meet Victor tonight anyway, so I should just ask him then. I thought, as I walked down the shiny, polished hallway. “I was just wondering where you were, since you should have been here by now.” As soon as I walked into the room where the old men were, Kate-sama greeted me with an inquiry. Looking at the beaming smile on her face, I was honestly terrified as to how she knew that. It didn’t seem like she used magic, and I wondered if this was the result of her great intuition that she had cultivated over the years. I should learn from her! Despite my arrival, Grandfather and Mark-sama were still playing chess in the back. I was torn between thinking it was a quirk and needing them to be more interested in me. “I guess I won.” Grandfather muttered without laughing. At the same time, Mark-sama clanks down the piece that seems to be the king. I could make a scene for a movie out of their movements right now. That’s how powerful their aura is. “Well, could you please teach me various things?” “Various what?” Kate-sama looked at me as if she were testing me. I wondered if they knew that I could use magic. Well, I have not yet shown it publicly... My eyes locked with Grandfather’s. Come to think of it, I wondered how I had survived that day. When I came out of the lake in the forest of death, it seemed that my body had felt better thanks to Grandfather. But I don’t remember any healing magic being used on me. The only thing I could think of under the circumstances was that he had given me magical power.... If so, someone must have known that I could use magic.... What should I do? “Why bother thinking about it so much? You want us to share our knowledge with you, don’t you?” Oh, maybe they didn’t know I could use magic? Well, if they did, I was going to ask them to give me a magic lesson, but this should be more convenient! “Eh! Really! Please take good care of me!” I said vigorously as I bowed my head. From there, they taught me many things until the sun went down. I forgot to eat and instead listened to their stories. They all had different values and ways of thinking, but one thing they all had in common was that they all wished for peace in this world. The more I listened to them, the more I thought about them and came up with many opinions. I remember my first meeting with Uncle Will. I was surprised to find such a wise man, but the world was much larger than that. How stupid the Duelkis Nation was to give these three people away.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 1, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
虎ドキュンは血反吐を吐き気絶した。俺みたいな少女ートルを越す大虎を倒したのだ。自慢のレアアイテムなだけある。こういう時は異世界だなと実感してしまう。レベル差を装備でカバーできるからだ。「いだと......?」「えぇ、驚愕です。でも、邪神もそうとう魔力は削られているはずです」だと辛いですが、やむをえません」竜ドキュンと炎ドキュンがまたもや呪文を唱え始める。二人の間を魔法陣が包んでいく。「ま、まさか......」「ふふ、三人じゃないとできないと誰が言いましたか? 二人でも可能ですよ」くっ、またさっきのあれか。もうティムの助けはない。次、あれを喰らうと対処のしようが無いぞ。どうする? 。中二的に言っているが、要するに体力吸収のドレインだ。ネタはわかっている。奴らは呪文の最後にロックオンするかのごとく俺を指差し、そして黒い矢から飛んでくるのだ。そして、その黒い矢が刺さるとほとんど力が出なくなる......。ん!? そういえばあの時、ドキュンにヌンチャクを振るうのを躊躇して棒立ちになっていた。ドキュンが指差しする時に照準を取れないように動いていれば防げていたのかもしれない。試してみるか! そうと決まれば、今こそ邪七十七の黒歴史の一つを解放する。蜂の字ディフェンスと言って蜂のように舞いながら移動し、舞っている反動を利用して左右の連打をペプシが弾けるかのごとく叩きこむ技である。これは前世のボクシング漫画に出てくる主人公の必殺技だ。前世、俺はこの漫画にはまって読みふけっていたのである。勉強もせず働きもせず漫喫にこもり全は読破したと思う。特に、主人公の必殺ブローである「ペプシー・ロール」は漫画を読むだけでは物足りず、自分で何度も実演し動画サイトにも載せたことがあるほどだ。まぁ、調子に乗って丸太を打ちつける荒行を行い、拳にひびを入れてしまったのは余談である。とにかく、まだあの感覚は覚えているはずだ。俺は拳をかまえ、ボクシングスタイルを取る。そして、そのまま蜂の動きを使い全速力でドキュン共に向かっていく。「な、なんだ!? あの動きは?」「くっ、動きが読めないです」ふっ、予想的中。ドキュン共はトリッキーな動きについてこられないみたいだ。奴らが狙いを定められないうちに一気に竜ドキュンの目の前まで詰めた。「覚悟しなさい!」掛け声とともに遠心力を使ってパンチの連打を浴びせる。竜ドキュンの鳩尾、顔面、こめかみとリズミカルにヒットしていく。急所にも容赦なく当てている。仕方が無い。竜ドキュンは再生能力を持っているから中途半端な攻撃をしても意味が無いのだ。「ひ、ひぃ。ぐぇ、こ、や、やめ、た、助け――ごべぇええ!」竜ドキュンは泡をふいて悶絶した。辺りに血反吐をまき散らしてはいるが、一応、生きてはいるようだ。さて、ドキュンは残り一人。ただ、女の子には暴力を振るいたくはない。このまま退散してくれればいいが......。まぁ、やる気なら男女平等パンチを喰らわせてやる。「あとはあなた一人だけよ。どうする? 降参する?」「......邪神、見事です。だけど、弱点がわかりました。あなたはどうやら近接戦闘タイプのようです。遠距離から燃やしてあげます」炎ドキュンはそう言って距離をとり、魔法を発動させようとしてくる。しまった! 俺が魔法を使えないとばれたようだ。確かに俺は今まで一度も魔法を使っていなかった。仕方が無い。ここははったりでなんとか凌ぐ。「ふふ、私がいつ遠距離が苦手だと言ったのよ。むしろ私は遠距離からの魔法攻撃が得意なのに」「嘘かどうかは試してみるといい。ただし血の一滴も残らないと覚悟しろ!」でお返しします。この地域一帯を焼け野原にしますよ」おお、こいつもなかなか吹くじゃねぇか! 負けてたまるか。こういう中二的はったりは前世から得意分野である。「はっはっはっ! それなら私はこの魔法で国そのものを滅してやろう!」「は、はったりです――い、いいでしょう。そこまで言うのならこれから地獄の業火を見せてあげます。私のとっておきですよ。あなたもこの町も終わりです」炎ドキュンは動揺している。俺のはったりを半信半疑といったところか? どうやら虎ドキュンと竜ドキュンを倒したおかげで、俺を凄腕の冒険者と勘違いしているようだ。よし、ここは何かドスが利いた呪文を使って畳み掛けてやる。ただ、俺はこの世界の魔法を知らないから前世の知識を活用するしかない。どのフレーズがいいか......。そうだ! あれがいい! 俺は某アニメであった最強呪文の台詞を使いびびらせることにする。「恐怖に慄け! 闇よりも暗きもの川の流れよりも急なもの......崇高なるダークマターの名において......余は邪神に誓わん」「な、なんですか! そんな呪文聞いたことがないです」「ふ、この国の未熟な魔法素子でできた呪文などぬるくて私には性にあわん。お前には邪神の究極魔法を見せてやる!」「続きだ。余の前に楯突く全ての愚かな者に余の全力をもって滅びを与えん!」俺はさも大呪文を発動しているかのように手をリズミカルに動かしていく。適当に右手と左手を合わせたりハートを作ったり、所謂パントマイムの要領である。「そ、そんな......し、正気ですか? そんな巨大な魔力で魔法を放ったら、この国どころかこの世界そのものが壊れます!」「見たいんだろ? 見せてやるよ。世界の終焉を!」「ま、待って......」「遊びは終わりだ。ギガスレ――」「ひ、ひぃい!」炎ドキュンは俺を化け物でも見るかのような目で見て悲鳴を上げて逃げ出していった。やった。俺のはったりに騙されやがったぞ! 予想外のハプニングはあったが、ドキュン共に力を見せつけることができた。これだけ痛い目にあえば、もうちょっかいをかけてくることはないだろう。ふぅ~終わった......。喧嘩が終わりズキッと体に痛みが走った。俺って殴り合いしたんだよな。まったく喧嘩なんて初めてやったよ。前世でも一方的に暴力を振るわれたことはあったが、ここまでひどくやられたことはない。まぁ、今回はこっちもきっちりお返ししてやったけどね。そういえば炎ドキュンの奴、仲間を置いて逃げやがった。ドキュンとはいえ、このまま放置しておくのは気が引ける。けっこう重傷ぽいし誰か呼んできて治療ぐらいはしてやるか。俺は町へ戻ろうと振り向く。「うっ!」振り向いた先にはサーベルタイガーみたいな騎獣がいてガルルと睨んでいた。奴らは危険な騎獣に乗ってきたんだった。ま、まずい。ドキュンはまだ人だからでごまかせたが、野生の動物にそんなものは通用しない。ど、どうしよう? 騎獣の眼と俺の眼が交差する。なんて獰猛な顔なんだ。友好の欠片もない。俺はレア武器を見せつけるようにファイティングポーズを取って威嚇する。できれば来ないで欲しいけど......。「キャイン、キュイン」を倒したから強者と思われたのかな? 怯えて逃げ出す騎獣を見ているとチワワみたいでちょっと可愛く思えてしまう――って、ちょっと待て、待て! 君たち俺は騎獣達に身振り手振りで数分後、俺の思いが通じたのか騎獣らはドキュン共を背中に乗せて、そのままどこかに消えていった。こ、これで本当に終わった。安心して胸をなでおろす。気が抜けるのと同時にガクッとひざをついてしまう。やはり無理をし過ぎた。全身が疲労を訴えている。ドレインを喰らったからな。に借りたレア防具のおかげだね。ただレア防具は見るも無残な姿になっていた。ヒビは入っているし、炎ドキュンの火炎魔法のせいで全体的にすすけている。の奴、この有様を見たら再度気絶するんじゃないか? あんなに自慢していたきらびやかな防具が屑鉄のような味を醸し出している。でも俺は弁償する気はさらさらないぞ。文句はドキュン共に言ってもらわないとね。の奴が開始早々気絶してリタイヤするのが悪いんだ。警備長しているくせにいい気なもんだよ。今回の騒動は俺とティムのおかげで解決したようなものだ。特にティムには頭が上がらないよ。命がけで俺を助けてくれた。今は中二病にかかっているけれど根本的なところは変わらない。本当にできた妹だね。俺は慈しむようにティムを見る。ティムはすやすやと眠っていた。「ティム」ティムのもとへ駆け寄ろうと身体を動かす。体中が痛い。明日は筋肉痛だろう。これは家に帰る前に少し休憩するか。俺はティムの隣に移動すると寄り添うように眠りについた。	Tiger gangster vomited blood and fainted. A girl like me defeated a huge tiger of over meters tall. Bracers of Burst Earth... As expected of Loser (Bizef)’s prized rare item. It’s at times like this that I really get the feeling that I’m in another world. I can cover for my low level with good gear after all. “O-, One hit...?” “Yes. I’m also surprised. However, the Evil God should have also lost a lot of mana.” “It’ll be difficult with only us two, but I suppose it can’t be helped.” Dragon gangster and Flame gangster began chanting again. A magic circle appeared between them. “I-, It can’t be...” “Huhu, did somebody say that it could only be done with three people? It’s possible even with two.” Kuh-, that thing from before again? Help from Timu won’t be coming this time. If I get hit by that again, I really won’t have any way to resist. What should I do? Triangle Hells Attack. They described it in a chuuni-esque way, but basically it’s a stamina drain. I know the trick to it now. Finishing the spell, the three of them had pointed at me as though locking on, and then black arrows came flying from every direction. And then when the arrows pierced me, I lost almost all my strength... Mn!? Speaking of which, last time I stood still because I was hesitant to attack the gangster with my nunchaku. If I move so that they miss when they point at me, I might be able to avoid it. Let’s try it out! Now that I’m set on this, it’s time to release that from my dark history; one of the Evil God Seven Hundred and Seventy Seven Skills. Killing blow, “Pepsi Roll.”While dancing through the battlefield in a figure- motion, you utilize the recoil from the movements to barrage from left and right with enough power to burst open a Pepsi can. It was the special technique of a protagonist in a boxing manga in my old life. In my previous life I had become addicted to that manga, and instead of working or studying I just holed up in a manga cafe and read the entire series five times. In particular, I was so addicted that I filmed myself numerous times, performing the protagonist’s killing blow, “Pepsi Roll” and uploading it to a video-sharing website. Well, the fact that I got carried away, practiced it on a log, and then fractured my hand is another story. Anyway, my body should still know how to do it. I pulled my fists up into a guard, and took a boxing stance. And then, with movements like a bee, I headed at full speed towards the gangsters. “T-, The hell is that!?” “Kuh-, I can’t read her movements.” Heh! Just as expected. It looks like the gangsters can’t follow tricky movements. While they were failing to get an aim on me, I closed the distance and closed in right in front of Dragon gangster. “Prepare!” Together with my shout, I used the centrifugal force and rained a barrage of punches upon him. His solar plexus, his face, his temple. I continued hitting them all rhythmically, striking mercilessly into his vitals. It can’t be helped. Dragon gangster has regeneration powers, so there wouldn’t be any point in hitting him with half-a̲s̲s̲e̲d̲ attacks. “H-, Hii. Gue-, yo-, st-, sto-, p, s-, save――GOHEHH!” Frothing at the mouth, Dragon gangster fainted in agony. He was spreading bloody vomit everywhere, but he was alive at least. Now then, there’s just one gangster left. Only, I don’t want to get violent on a girl. It’d be great if she ran away now, but... Well, if she still wants to go at it, I’ll give her a taste of gender equality. “You’re the only one left, you know. Well? Going to surrender?” “...Evil God. That was splendid. However, I know your weak point now. It seems that you’re a close combat type. I’m going to burn you from afar.” Saying that, Flame gangster took a distance, and began to activate her magic. Crap! It seems that she found out that I couldn’t use magic. It’s true that I haven’t used a single spell this whole time. It can’t be helped. I’ll get through this with a bluff somehow. “Huhu, when did I say I was bad with ranged battles? Even though I’m actually better at ranged magical attacks.” “It’s up to you if you want to test it. Only you’d better be prepared to disappear down to the last drop of blood!” “Then I will reciprocate with my Terafire. I’m going to turn this whole region into ash, you know.” Oooh, this chick can bluff too! Like I’ll lose to her. I’ve been an expert in chuuni bluffs since my last life. “HA HA HA! Then I’ll use this spell to destroy the whole damn country!” “Y-, You’re bluffing― v-, very well. If you’re going to say that much, then I’ll show you the flames of hell. It’s my most powerful move. Both you and this town are done for.” Flame gangster was shaken. Looks like she’s about half-convinced by my bluff. It seems that thanks to the defeat of Tiger gangster and Dragon gangster, she’s mistaken me for a talented adventurer. Thanks to Loser (Bizef)’s weapon, I’ve really taken her for a ride. Alright. I’ll just chant some threatening incantation to continue the pressure. Only, I don’t know the magic of this world, so my only choice is to make use of my memories of my old world. Which phrase would be best... I know! That one! I decided to use the lines from a certain anime’s strongest spell to scare her. “Tremble in fear! Thou who art darker than darkness, Thou who art faster than even a flowing river... By the lofty name of Dark Matter... We swear on the Evil God.” “W-, What is that! I’ve never heard of such a chant.” “Hmph. The lukewarm spells made from the immature magic elements of this nation are no match for me. I’ll show you the Evil God’s final technique!” “I shall continue. Those who would defy Us, All those who are fools, By Our power, Grant Destruction upon them!” I rhythmically moved my hands as though actually activating some grand spell. I randomly brought my hands together and made a heart-shape, and did other random pantomimes. “Y-, You can’t be... A-, Are you sane? If you release magic with that gargantuan mana, far from this country, even the world itself will be destroyed!” “You wanted to see it, didn’t you? I’ll show it to you. The end of the world!” “W-, Wait...” “The games end now. GIGA SLA―” “H-, Hiii!” Flame gangster looked at me as though I was some sort of monster, and after shrieking, she ran away. Yes! My bluff completely fooled her! There were some unexpected occurrences, but I managed to show them my strength. Now that they’ve had such a painful experience, they probably won’t make trouble for us again. Phew~ It’s over... Now that the fight was over, throbbing pains ran through my body. I got into a brawl, didn’t I. Honestly, this was my first time fighting. In my previous life, I was one-sidedly beaten, but I was never hurt to this extent. But well, this time I got them right back though. Speaking of which, that Flame gangster left her companions here. Although they’re gangster, I’m hesitant to just leave them here. They look pretty badly injured, so maybe I should at least call somebody to heal them. I turned towards town, “Uu!” and what faced me were the sabertooth tiger things from earlier, growling and glaring at me. They came here on some dangerous mounts. T-, This is bad. The gangsters were still people so I could fool them with my mouth, but that won’t work on wild animals. W-, What should I do? Our eyes met. What ferocious expressions. There isn’t even a little friendliness. I-, If it’s come to this, then I’ll just do whatever I can! I held the rare weapon up in a fighting pose to threaten them. I-, If you’re going to come, then come! If possible, I’d prefer that you didn’t though... “Kyain, kyuin” Ooh~ I don’t really get it, but they ran away. Did they see me as a strong warrior because I defeated their masters? Now that they’re running away scared, they kind of look like chihuahuas, and I’m starting to find them a bit cute. I’ll try gesturing at the mounts to convey the message. First I pointed at the gangsters, and then I mimed riding, and various other things... After a few minutes, perhaps they understood me, because they picked their masters up, and disappeared. W-, With this, it really has ended. I pat my chest in relief. Once the tension left me, I collapsed to my knees. I really did overdo things. My entire body is weary. I took a drain after all. But I did well in coming out fine. It’s thanks to the items that Loser (Bizef) lent me. But those items are ruined enough that they’re pitiful to look at. There were cracks in them, and because of Flame gangster’s fire, they were blackened all over. If Loser (Bizef) sees them, won’t he faint a second time? His prided and gorgeous items look like scrap now. But I don’t intend on reimbursing him, you know. If he wants to complain, then he should bring it up with the gangster. To begin with, it’s Loser (Bizef)’s fault for fainting at the very beginning and retiring from the match. He sure is easygoing for the Guard Captain. Had Loser (Bizef) tried harder, neither Timu or I would have needed to fight... Thanks to Timu and I, it looks like the trouble this time has been solved. And in particular, I really owe Timu. She risked her life to save me. She’s down with chuuni disease at the moment, but at heart she’s still the same. A really wonderful little sister. I looked at Timu lovingly. She was sleeping soundly. “Timu.” I moved my body, to try and run over to her. My insides hurt. I’m probably going to have muscle pain tomorrow. Guess I’ll have a rest before I head home. Moving to Timu’s side, and snuggling up to her, I fell asleep.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 7, "inserted_lines_src": 27, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
「なんだ? なんでも言ってみろ。俺に出来ることなら解決してやる」俺はエリックに向かってそう言った。エリックから頼まれることなら、断る理由はない。だが、エリックは少し戸惑ったような表情になる。「ありがたいが......。内容を聞いてから判断してくれ」「それはだな......」そのとき、シアが慌てたように立ち上がった。「あたしは、聞かないほうがいいでありますね?」シアはこれから機密が話されそうだと考えたのだろう。「そ、そっか。そうだよね」ルッチラも、シアの態度で気づいたようだ。慌てて立ち上がる。ガルヴまで立ち上がった。人語を話せないガルヴは、どちらにしろ聞いていていいと思う。エリックは落ち着いた口調でシアたちに言う。「いや、そなたたちにも聞いておいて欲しい」「ですが......」「がう......」「これから話す、最重要機密は神の加護を破る手段があるということだ。それと、昏き神の加護の存在である。両方ともそなたらは知っているだろう?」「はい。知っています」神の加護というのは、大都市に張られている大きな結界だ。その中であれば、強い魔物ほど体に激痛が走り、力を発揮できなくなる。ヴァンパイアたちが、王宮にレッサーヴァンパイアしか送れなかった理由でもある。しかし、ヴァンパイアとの戦いの最終局面で、アークヴァンパイアの侵入が確認された。アークヴァンパイアは強大な魔物である。本来であれば王都の中ではまともに動けない。だが、実際に戦ったセルリスとルッチラの話では強かったという。つまり、何らかの方法で、神の加護を誤魔化したのだ。昏き神の加護は、ヴァンパイアハイロードとの戦いで俺とシアが食らったものだ。非常に力をそがれて難儀させられた。「ココゥ」俺のひざの上で、ゲルベルガが鳴く。昏き神の加護を食らった時、ゲルベルガにいた。神鶏たるゲルベルガも相当つらかったに違いない。この場にいるほぼ全員が、実際に体験したことを思い浮かべて、深刻な表情になる。「がう?」ガルヴだけはきょとんとしていた。昏き神の加護が発動したとき、ガルヴもその場にいた。だが寝ていたのだ。覚えてないのだろう。レフィに頭を撫でられて、ガルヴは尻尾を振っている。全員が改めて座ったのを確認してから、エリックは語り出す。「侵入したアークヴァンパイアが所持していた魔道具を宮廷魔導士と宮廷錬金術士に調べさせたのだ」「なにか分かったのか?」それは、たっ前のことである。二日で何かわかるとは、宮廷魔導士と錬金術士たちは、とても優秀なようだ。「ミルカとの話に出てきたハムがかかわってくるのだがな......」エリックが言うには、呪いのハムは神の加護を破る魔道具の材料の一つなのだという。俺は一つ疑問に思った。「神の加護を破る方法があることがわかる前から、ハムは単純所持すら禁じられるほどのご禁制だったのだろう? なぜだ?」「元々は魔神の召喚に使われる呪具として禁止していたのだ」それならば、単純所持を禁止されるのも当然だ。魔神を召喚するということは、小さな次元の狭間への門を開くということ。とても危険だと言わざるを得ない。「そうだな。王都の内部。しかも人族に昏き者どもに通じているものがいるとは思わなかった」「それに、カビーノとやらは奴隷商という話だったがな」「そうだ」「だがな、奴隷を王都で集めたとしても、王都から連れ出すことなど至難の業だ」「それはそうかもしれないな」「ましてや、王都で売りさばくことなど不可能に近い」「うむ」「......生贄にしようとしていたのではないか?」生贄にして、呪具の材料にしたならば、王都から出す必要はない。恐ろしい話である。とてもじゃないが許せることではない。「官憲を利用し、一気に取り調べを進めたいのはやまやまなのだがな」「官憲上層部の背後にいる上流貴族の存在も気になる。どこに裏切り者がいるかわからぬ」「なるほど。それが俺に頼みたいことか」エリックは深くうなずく。「そのとおりだ。裏にいる貴族が誰か、なにが狙いか。それを調べて欲しい」「貴族か。厄介だな」「いざとなれば、大公であることを明かせばよい」「明かすと、俺が将来的に困るのだが......」「それもそうであるな。この件に関して、ロックが王の代理人であることを証明する首飾りを用意しよう」「そんなものがあるのか」そういうと、エリックは立ち上がってどこかに行った。そしてすぐに戻ってくる。「これだ。ロックに渡しておこう」「用意がいいな」その首飾りには、俺の名前がしっかりと彫ってあった。「いつかこのようなことがあると思ってな」本当に準備がいい。仮にも魔道具だ。俺が帰還した直後から動いていないと間に合わないだろう。こういう事態を想定していたのだろうか。「出来る限りのことはしよう」「頼む。シアとルッチラもロックに協力してやって欲しい」「わかりました!」シアとルッチラは力強く返事をした。	“What is it? Tell me. I will do whatever I can.” I said to Eric. I had no reason to reject any request from him. However, Eric’s expression was hesitant and troubled. “Thank you... But I beg you to listen before making any decision.” “So, what do you want me to do?” “The thing is...” Just then, Shia stood up frantically. “I am sure that it would be better if I do not listen?” Shia was expecting us to talk about top-secret matters. “Ri-right. That’s right.” Luchila realized it from Shia’s attitude and also stood up frantically. Even Grulf got up. Though Grulf could hardly understand what we would be talking about, so I didn’t think there could be any harm in him listening. Eric looked to Shia and said calmly, “No, I would like for you all to hear it as well.” “But...” “Grrr...” “The secret that I want to tell you, is that there is a way to break through the divine protective barrier. And also about the protection of the god of the dark ones. You two know about, don’t you?” “Yes. I know.” The divine protective barrier was a giant barrier that surrounded large cities. If any strong monsters tried to enter it, they would be ravaged by intense pain and not be able to show their full strength. This was why the vampires could only send lesser vampires into the palace. However, near the end of the battle with the vampires, it was discovered that arch vampires had also infiltrated the palace. Arch vampires were powerful monsters. Normally, they would not have been able to enter. And yet Serulis and Luchila, who had fought them, said that they were strong. In other words, they had somehow managed to trick the barrier. Shia and I had experienced the protective barrier of the god of the dark ones during our fight with the Vampire High Lord. It had restricted my powers greatly and made the fight difficult. “Cluck-cluck.” Gerberga clucked on my lap. Gerberga had been there when I was assaulted by the effects of the barrier. It must have been very painful, even for the God Fowl himself. Everyone present recalled what they had experienced, and their faces became dark. “Groof?” Grulf looked puzzled. Grulf had been there when the barrier had activated. However, he was sleeping. He probably didn’t remember. Refi petted his head as he wagged his tail. Eric waited for everyone to sit down again before he continued. “I had the Palace Sorcerer and Alchemist inspect the magic tools that the arch vampires were carrying.” “Did they discover something?” “Yes.” It had only been two days. The palace Sorcerer and Alchemist must be very skilled. “It has to do with the ham that you talked about earlier...” According to Eric, the cursed ham was one of the ingredients used to break through the barrier of divine protection. I had one question. “Before we knew that there was a way to break through the barrier, it was forbidden to even own the ham, wasn’t it? Why was that?” “It was originally banned as a cursed tool used to summon devils.” I could see why it had been banned then. Summoning a devil meant that you would be opening a gate into a different dimension. It was a very dangerous thing to do. “Yes. I had not thought that there would be people within the palace who were connected to the dark ones. Humans no less.’ “You also said that this Kabino had his hands in the slave trade?” “I did.” “The thing is, even if you had many slaves within the capital, it would be very difficult to take them outside.” “That might be.” “And it would be nearly impossible to sell them within the capital.” “Hmm.” “...Could he have been trying to use them as sacrifices?” There would be no need to take them outside the city if they were used for sacrifices. It was a frightful thought. It was unforgivable. “I wish I could use my officials to start an investigation immediately.” “And I wonder about these great nobles who are backing them. I do not know who the traitors are.” Eric nodded. “Exactly. Who these nobles are and what their aim is. I want you to find that out.” “Nobles, huh? Tricky.” “If it’s necessary, you can use your position as Grand Duke.” “If I told them, it would hurt me in the future...” “I suppose you are right. Then I shall give you a necklace that will prove that you are the king’s representative on this matter.” “You have such a thing?” So saying, Eric stood up and left the room. He returned quickly. “Here it is. Take it with you, Locke.” “You’re very prepared.” My name was engraved in the necklace. “I had a feeling that something like this would happen soon.” He really was well prepared. It might have been too late if he started acting only after I returned. He must have predicted this would happen. “I will do what I can. “Thank you. Shia and Luchila. I want you to help Locke as well.” “Certainly!” “I understand!” Shia and Luchila replied vigorously.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 2, "inserted_lines_src": 11, "inserted_lines_trg": 5 }
ロシアを孤立させることはナンセンスである。世界貿易機関にロシアが加盟していることにより、ロシアが法の支配を強化し、退廃を根絶し、および外側の世界とのより良好な関係に目覚める可能性がある。ロシアと欧州連合とのより密接な関係も、同様の理由により有意義である。	Russian membership in the World Trade Organization has the potential to strengthen the rule of law, combat corruption, and give Russia a stake in better relations with the outside world. Closer ties between Russia and the European Union make sense for similar reasons.	{ "source": "news_commentary", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
昨日もルシェラが訪れた、王宮庭園の東屋にて。テーブルの上には美しい青白磁の茶器が並びのワゴンには宝石のような菓子がたんと積まれている。あるいか。もしくは一人と二匹なのだろうか。諸々の話し合いが終わった後、ルシェラとカファルは『ささやかなお茶会』に招かれた。確かにささやかかも知れない。参加者の人数だけを見るのなら。「済まないね。王と言えど何もかもを勝手に決めるわけにはいかないから。客であるルシェラとカファルに対し、先程の会談の時よりも少し軽装になったラザロが、自ら茶の用意をする。この場には給仕すら居ない。警備の近衛騎士も、声を張り上げなければ届かない程度の距離を保って庭園内に散開している。私もやっと『セトゥレウ国王』ではなく『ラザロ』として話ができる。「あ、あの、お気になさらず。飲めますので」鼻歌でも歌い出しそうな調子で、ラザロは手際よく茶を注いでいく。王宮の作法に詳しくないルシェラでも、これが普通ならあり得ないような事だというのは、流石に分かる。ヘタすれば国の権威を失したとしてラザロが貴族たちから突き上げを食らいそうな振る舞いだが、ドラゴンが相手なら身分のことなど考慮しなくても大丈夫、なのだろうか。『あくまで私人としてのお茶会』などという欺瞞を頭から信じるほどルシェラは脳天気ではない。「......ところで本当に人の言葉で大丈夫なのかい?」「はい。ママはまだ喋る方は不自由ですが、聞く方は概ね」やあ、しかしドラゴンの言葉を喋るなんて貴重な体験をさせてもらったよ」既にジゼルの指輪はルシェラに返されている。言語能力を附与するマジックアイテムを使った体験を、好奇心旺盛な少年のようにラザロは喜んでいた。威厳とか貫禄はどこかに置いてきたらしい。よりによって王様自らの手で給仕された茶を、ルシェラは恐る恐る押し頂いた。カップにはミスリル銀のティースプーンが挿してある。これはおそらく毒に反応して色が変わる検毒食器だろう。上流階級の人が飲食するときはミスリル銀の検毒食器を使うのが普通だが、カップ自体は磁器なので、代わりにこんな形で供しているのだ。まあルシェラとカファルは、仮に毒を盛られたとしても消化してしまうだろうけれど...... 茶は、おそらく適温。渋みの強い大人の味だった。甘いものが進みそうだ。カファルも口を付けたのを見てラザロも茶を一口飲んだ。「るしぇら。おんど、だいじょうぶ?」「わかった」カファルは甘く細長い吐息をルシェラのティーカップに吹き付けた。いわゆるファイアブレスではないが、それはむせ返るような熱気を孕む。ルシェラの手にしていたお茶は、たちまち沸騰した。「ドラゴンの『ふーふー』って逆に熱くするの!?」「あつくない、たりない、おもった」「あ、ありがと......」「......ふふっ」堪えきれなかった様子で、ラザロが吹き出す。ルシェラは沸騰するお茶を飲んだ。常人なら喉が焼けただれそうな温度だが、ルシェラにはちょっと刺激的なだけだ。確かにこれは、平気で飲めるなら面白い味わいかも知れない。「もろもろの事情はティムからも聞いているが、君たちのことに個人的に興味があるんだ。「構いませんよ」乞われるままにルシェラは、ここ一年ほどの、あまりにも数奇な出来事についてラザロに話した。山で死にかけたこと。カファルとの出会い。そして今に至ること。おそらくラザロも大まかなところは既に承知しているのだろうが、やはり当事者から聞くと細部まで分かるし、何よりも真に迫って聞こえるのだろう。興味深そうに彼は聞いていた。「なるほど、興味深い。得てして現実というのは物語よりも数奇なものだ......おっと、この言い方は無礼だったかな」「いえいえ、わたし自身が一番信じられないくらいなんで」ラザロの感想は実際、まさしくという印象だ。いくつもの幸運と偶然、そしてルシェラ自身の選択によって、ルシェラはここに居る。少なくとも、今日のお茶とお菓子代くらいにはなるだろう。モニカを助けてくれてありがとう」唐突に、ラザロは感謝の言葉を述べる。「モニカって......あの子、ですよね?」王都への道すがら、謎のゴーレムを撃退してルシェラが助けた少女だ。その名前がラザロから出たのは意外にも思われた。彼にとってすればモニカは血の繋がりも無いし、それどころか妻の不義によって生まれた子であるわけだが。「その......彼女は」「あの子には、うん。可哀想なことをしてしまった」ラザロの目は憂いの色を帯び、庭園の向こうにある壮麗なる宮殿へと向けられる。それは、セトゥレウという国を背負う私の罪でもあるんだ。彼女らもこの国に住まう者なのだから」ロレイナ。それはモニカの母親の名前だ。ルシェラもモニカのことが気に掛かって古い新聞記事などを少し調べていたのだけれど、余計な情報の多さにうんざりした。王宮の醜聞は、のどかで平和な国を揺るがす製造当時の王家の血を色濃く引いているわけで、家格も相応のものだ。ラザロ第一王子(当時)の結婚相手としては順当で、しかしそれが醜聞に発展したとなれば、まさに国を揺るがす大事件だった。を娶るべきだった。皆が賛同して祝福し、全てが符合し、収まるはずだった...... 溜息交じりに、ラザロは語る。彼女は『に適性があった』という理由で次期国王との結婚を強いられた。本人が望んだことではなかったのだ。それをラザロは悔いている様子だった。「どうか、モニカと友だちになってあげてくれないかな。これはただのみっともない頼み事だ」王冠を脱いで茶会に臨んだ王は、ちょっと薄くなりかけている頭を、ルシェラに向かって下げた。	– Gazebo of the royal garden which Lucella visited yesterday. On the table, beautiful bluish-white porcelain tea utensils were neatly arranged, while the three-tiered wagon was stacked with an abundance of gem-like sweets. There were three individuals present. Perhaps it was two people accompanied by a single animal. Alternatively, it could have been one person with two animals. After various discussions had concluded, Lucella and Kafal were invited to a “modest tea gathering.” Indeed, it could be considered modest, at least in terms of the number of attendees. “My apologies. Being a king means that I can’t decide on things arbitrarily. I can’t even have a discussion without everyone present like that.” After the conclusion of the discussions, Lazarus, dressed in a slightly more casual attire than before, took it upon himself to prepare the tea for the guests, Lucella and Kafal. In this setting, there were no attendants to serve. The royal guards, maintaining a considerable distance, were scattered throughout the garden, ensuring security without intruding on the intimate gathering. “Please be at ease. I’m the only one here now. I can finally get to speak not as the king of Setulev but as Lazarus. ...Oh, it seems we only have dilated dayflower tea. It’s good for the throat, but it has a strong taste...” “U-Um, please don’t worry. We can drink it.” “I’m glad to hear that.” Lazarus skillfully poured the tea in such a good mood that it seemed like he’d start humming. Even Lucella, who was not familiar with the royal palace etiquette, could discern that such behavior was far from ordinary. It seemed risky for Lazarus to act in a manner that could potentially provoke the nobility and risk the loss of the kingdom’s authority. However, when facing a dragon, it appeared that social standing held little significance to him. Lucella was not naive enough to wholeheartedly believe in the deception of “merely a private tea gathering.” However, she believed that forming a connection with Lazarus at this moment would surely be advantageous. “...By the way, are you sure speaking using human language is alright?” “Yes. Mom still has some trouble speaking it, but she can understand it for the most part.” “Then I shall do that. But still, getting to speak in Dragonian was a valuable experience.” Giselle’s ring was already returned to Lucella. Lazarus reveled in delight, much like a curious and adventurous young boy, as he experienced the use of the magical item that bestowed language abilities. It seemed like he left his majesty and dignity somewhere. Lucella accepted the tea timidly, it having been served by none other than the king himself. There was a mythril-silver spoon in the cup. It was most likely poison-testing tableware that reacted to the poisons and changed color. Upper-class people normally used mythril-silver poison-testing tableware for eating and drinking, but as this cup was made of porcelain, they provided it in the form of a spoon instead. Lucella and Kafal would’ve easily digested the poison even if they were fed it, though... The tea was most likely moderately warm. It had a strong astringent taste that adults liked. It seemed like sweets would go well with it. Once Lazarus saw Kafal starting to drink, he took a sip from his own cup. “Lucella. Temperature... good?” “It’s not “Okay.” As she said so, Kafal blew a fragrant and thin breath towards Lucella’s teacup. It wasn’t the so-called fire breath, but it still brought forth a choking heat. “Wait, dragons blow on their food to heat it up?!” The tea in the teacup Lucella was holding started to boil. “Not hot... I thought... not hot enough.” “T-Thanks...” “...Hahah.” Lazarus couldn’t hold back and started chuckling. Lucella drank the boiling tea. Normal humans would get their throats burnt by its temperature, but Lucella only found it slightly stimulating. If you could drink tea at that temperature so nonchalantly, you could perhaps experience a unique flavor of it. “I have heard the rough situation from Tim, but I’m personally interested in you two as well. Could you tell me about it?” “I don’t mind.” As requested, Lucella began recounting the incredibly peculiar events of the past year to Lazarus. She shared her near-death experience on the mountain, her encounter with Kafal, and everything that had led up to the present moment. Although Lazarus likely had a rough understanding of the overall situation, hearing the story directly from the person involved allowed for a deeper understanding of the intricate details. He listened with great interest, captivated by the narrative unfolding before him. “I see, that’s very interesting. Sometimes reality can be more eventful than the stories... Ah, perhaps this was a rude way to put it.” “Not at all, even I can’t believe it was all real.” Lazarus’ impressions were quite on point. Lucella was here now due to many lucky and coincidental events as well her own choices. The story at least served as something to pay back for this tea and snacks. “...Ah yes, I forgot to thank you. Thank you for saving Monica.” Lazarus suddenly thanked her. “Monica... You mean... that girl?” It was the girl that Lucella saved from the mysterious golem attack on her road to the royal capital. She didn’t expect Lazarus to mention her name here. Monica wasn’t even related to him by blood. Not just that, she was even a child born from his wife’s adultery. “Umm... that girl...” “Yeah... I’ve done something pitiful to that girl.” Lazarus looked towards the magnificent palace beyond the garden with eyes dyed in sorrow. “The system we call a kingdom has to sacrifice many things to function. Loreina could not endure that. Both she and Monica are just victims in my eyes. And that is also my sin as someone carrying the Setulev kingdom on his back. After all, they too are the residents of this kingdom.” Loreina. That was the name of Monica’s mother. Her situation weighed on Lucella’s mind so she looked into things like old newspaper articles a bit, but she got tired of seeing so much irrelevant information. The palace scandal had become a ‘sensational’ event that rocked the serene and peaceful kingdom, feeding the public’s insatiable curiosity. It was no wonder that everyone seemed to know about Monica. A Regalia user bloodline implied that Loreina’s duke household had strongly inherited the royal blood from the time of making the Regalia, so their status was appropriately high. She was a suitable marriage partner for Lazarus, who was the first prince at the time, but when that turned into a scandal, it became a huge incident that shook the entire kingdom. “She and I had to marry for the kingdom. Everyone approved and blessed us, and everything should have fallen into place... But if as a result, the situation has taken a turn for the worse, then I must have made the wrong choice.” Lazarus spoke with sighs mixed in. She was forced to marry the next king just because of her aptitude for the Regalia. It was not something she herself wanted. Lazarus seemed to be regretting that outcome. “Could I ask you to become Monica’s friend? This is just an unworthy request of me.” The king, having removed his crown before attending this tea party, lowered his head with slightly thinning hair towards Lucella.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 22, "inserted_lines_trg": 4 }
ここ100年間だけで ―画面はスプロール現象の地図です― 私達の国の地形は、計画的に平らに均一化されています。私達は、まるで共存する動植物や足下の土壌との関係性を忘れてしまったかのようです。この関係性を再形成し物理的に再構築することが私の仕事です。この表は、建造環境について示しています。様々な情報をからめたものです。都市部の人口増加や生物の多様性の急激な減少もちろん、海面上昇や気候変動についてです。私はデザインを考えるとき、もっと生産的になるようにこの表の線を、再活用し、関係性を再構築するよう試みています。表に見える矢印は私達の居る現在です。私は、都市計画と生態学という 2つの異なる分野を興味深く新しい方法で融合させようとしています。巨大なインフラの時代は、終わりです。トップダウンで作られる単機能の、巨額のインフラは本当に効果的ではなくなります。新しいツールやアプローチが必要です。同様に、この分野に於いて状況を踏まえていない建築の概念はまったく— 失礼。露骨ですね— 必要とされるアプローチには全く見合わないものです。ですから、新しいシナリオが必要です。新しい役者や小道具も。さて、気候変動の物語での新しい主人公をご紹介します。牡蠣です。この生物は、小さくて地味ですが素晴らしいです。なぜなら、牡蠣は岩礁に付着して育ちますし、養殖も可能です。その上—申し上げたかしら?美味しいんです。つまり、牡蠣は私のマニフェストともいえる都市デザインプロジェクトの土台なのです。私がニューヨークハーバーで行ったプロジェクトは「oyster-tecture」といいますがその核となる考えは湾に住むイシガイやアマモ、牡蠣の生物としての力を利用するということそれと同時に現状を打開しようとしている地域に住んでいる人々の力を利用することです。これはニューヨーク市の地図です。赤い部分が氾濫の危険のあるエリア、そして丸で囲ってあるところは私がこれから話すゴワナス運河とガバナーズアイランドです。この地図を見てください。青い部分はすべて水中であり黄色い部分はすべて陸地です。すると直感的にこの湾は掘りとられ平らにされていることここ数年で立体から平面のつまらないものへと変ってしまったことがわかります。これは実際のゴワナス運河の別の角度からの写真です。現在、ゴワナス運河はとても臭いです―それは私も認めます。問題となっているのは下水の氾濫と汚染です。しかし重要なことは、ほとんどすべての都市がそして私達全員が全く同じ状況に直面していることです。これが現在の状況です。黄色と緑の部分が汚染されているエリアで高潮や海面上昇といった新たな原因により汚染は進んでいます。対処すべき問題は本当にたくさんあるのです。私達がこのプロジェクトを始めた時の考えの中心は歴史を見直しそこに何があったのかを知るということでした。そしてこの地図を見てわかるように湾の外に連なっていたこれらの島々は素晴らしい地形をしていて塩沼や浜といった土台が自然の波を減衰させ陸地での居住に役立っているのです。私達は同時にディナープレートほどの大きさの牡蠣をまさにゴワナス運河で食べることができるのだと知りました。つまり私達のコンセプトは過去を未来に活かすというものでその土地の生活の知恵を利用しようというものなのです。そしてこの考えには二つの核となる段階があります。まず、新しい人工的な生態系、つまり湾の中に礁をつくりだします。これにより内地とゴワナス運河の両方の新しい生活様式が保たれます。きれいな、そして緩やかに流れる水があればその水を利用して新たな生活様式を築けるということです。このプロジェクトはこれら三つの重大な問題に取り組んでいるのです。それも、私が思うに、斬新で刺激的な方法で。さて、私達のヒーロー、牡蠣に話を戻しましょう。もう一度言うと、牡蠣は信じられないほど素晴らしい生き物です。牡蠣は一方から藻や有機堆積物を取り込み美しく、また艶やかな胃でろ過して他方からきれいな水を排出します。さらに一匹の牡蠣は一日50ガロンもの水をろ過するのです。牡蠣礁はニューヨークハーバーのおよそ1⁄4を占め湾内の水を数日でろ過することができました。牡蠣は私達の文化、経済において重要な存在でした。もともと、ニューヨークは牡蠣養殖に支えられ道路は文字通り牡蠣の貝殻の上に作られました。この写真はかつての牡蠣の露店の様子の写真ですが今日のホットドッグの露店と同じようにどこでも見ることができました。なのに残ったのはホットドッグってわけです。さらに、牡蠣はお互いに引っ付き、塊になることで素晴らしい天然の礁構造を形成するのです。実際牡蠣は天然の防波堤となり、さらに湾のあらゆる生態系の基盤にもなるのです。本当に多くの生き物が牡蠣に依存しています。このことが私達を惹きつけたのですが私は牡蠣のライフサイクルにも魅力を感じました。牡蠣は受精卵から卵になり、水中を浮遊します。そして数週間の内に自分以外の、雌雄に関らず大人の牡蠣に付着するのです。私達はこのライフサイクルを人間のスケールに解釈しなおしゴワナス運河を巨大な牡蠣の生育場としました。つまり、ゴワナス運河で牡蠣は成長し卵の段階を経てベイリッジ礁で発生するのです。ここでの中心となる考えは一度リセットボタンを押して時間をかけて、自己再生する清潔な、そして生産的な生態系をもう一度作ることでした。そのメカニズムですか?それはとても単純です。ここでの大事な考えは気候変動というのはなんというか・・・月から答えが降ってくるという問題ではなく 200億ドルの値札がついた私達の直面している、すぐに取りかかるべき問題なのです。さて、この写真にあるのは一面に打たれた海洋杭で繊維状のファジーロープにつながれています。「ファジーロープって何?」ですって? そうですね・・・とても安いもので近くの工具店へ行けばすぐに買えるものです。だから私達がひそかに想像しているのは実はバザーを主催するだけで必要な資金が集まっちゃうわけです。スタジオでは製図よりも編み物を習いました。このロープを互いに編んで牡蠣が育つようにやわらかい基盤を作ったのです。図のように、時間がたつにつれて基盤だった場所が新しい都会へと成長していったのです。気候変動とともに、時がたつにつれ劇的に成長していきます。また、私はとても面白いと思うのですが、新たな水陸両用のスペースができます。ここで働いたり新しい遊びをしたりするのを想像してみてください。結局、私達が作っていたのは水であふれた次の世紀のための新たな青と緑の公園だったのです。いうなれば、水陸両用公園ですね。さあ、Teva®をはいてみましょう。ここでスキューバダイビングをしているのを想像してみてください。これは高校生の写真です。彼らは私達のチームで働いていました。水との新たな関係が築かれた新しい生活スタイルやレクリエーションとサイエンスの融合した観察プログラムを想像してみてください。来たる素晴らしい世界のために、新しい言葉を紹介します。それはflupsyです。これは「浮遊湧昇システム」の略で壮大で、すぐにでも利用できる基本的には牡蠣の生育場の真上で浮かんでいるいかだです。このいかだによって水が循環するのです。横についている8つの小部屋が牡蠣の幼生を取り込んで餌を与えます。 10匹どころではないですよ。 10,000匹もの牡蠣を育てていくのです。それから卵が生まれていきます。これがゴワナス運河の未来予想図です。海岸線に牡蠣のいかだが設置されています。まさに「ゴワナス運河のflupsy化」です。これは造語ですが。これは運河の縁にそって作られた牡蠣の庭園です。そして最後に、これはとても楽しそうですね、 flupsyのパレードです。礁へ旅立つ牡蠣の卵を祝福しているのです。私はこのプロジェクトについて二つの質問を受けました。一つは、なぜこれは現在行われていないのかもう一つは、私達はいつその牡蠣を食べることができるのか、です。答えは、まだ食べられません、彼らは仕事中です。しかし私達の計算によれば 2050年までにはゴワナス運河産の牡蠣を食べることができるかも知れません。最後に、これはとある都市のある一角の試みです。しかし私の夢は、私の望みはあなた方が自分の街へ帰った時に私達と協力して仕事を始め新しい都市の地形を再構築、再編成しより持続的な、より住みやすいより美味しい未来を作ることです。ありがとうございました。	In the last 100 years alone, our country -- and this is a sprawl map of America -- our country has systematically flattened and homogenized the landscape to the point where we've forgotten our relationship with the plants and animals that live alongside us and the dirt beneath our feet. And so, how I see my work contributing is sort of trying to literally re-imagine these connections and physically rebuild them. This graph represents what we're dealing with now in the built environment. And it's really a conflux of urban population rising, biodiversity plummeting and also, of course, sea levels rising and climate changing. So when I also think about design, trying to rework and re-engage the lines on this graph in a more productive way. And you can see from the arrow here indicating "you are here," I'm trying to sort of blend and meld these two very divergent fields of urbanism and ecology, and sort of bring them together in an exciting new way. So the era of big infrastructure is over. I mean, these sort of top-down, mono-functional, capital-intensive solutions are really not going to cut it. We need new tools and new approaches. Similarly, the idea of architecture as this sort of object in the field, devoid of context, is really not the -- excuse me, it's fairly blatant -- is really not the approach that we need to take. So we need new stories, new heroes and new tools. So now I want to introduce you to my new hero and that is the eastern oyster. So, albeit a very small creature and very modest, this creature is incredible, into these mega-reef structures. It can grow; you can grow it; and -- did I mention? -- it's quite tasty. So the oyster was the basis for a manifesto-like urban design project that I did about the New York Harbor called "oyster-tecture." And the core idea of oyster-tecture is to harness the biological power of mussels, eelgrass and oysters -- species that live in the harbor -- and, at the same time, harness the power of people who live in the community towards making change now. Here's a map of my city, New York City, showing inundation in red. And what's circled is the site that I'm going to talk about, the Gowanus Canal and Governors Island. If you look here at this map, showing everything in blue is out in the water, and everything in yellow is upland. But you can see, even just intuit, from this map, that the harbor has dredged and flattened, and went from a rich, three-dimensional mosaic to flat muck in really a matter of years. Another set of views of actually the Gowanus Canal itself. Now the Gowanus is particularly smelly -- I will admit it. There are problems of sewage overflow and contamination, but I would also argue that almost every city has this exact condition, and it's a condition that we're all facing. And here's a map of that condition, showing the contaminants in yellow and green, exacerbated by this new flow of storm-surge and sea-level rise. So we really had a lot to deal with. When we started this project, one of the core ideas was to look back in history and try to understand what was there. And you can see from this map, there's this incredible geographical signature of a series of islands that were out in the harbor and a matrix of salt marshes and beaches that served as natural wave attenuation for the upland settlement. We also learned at this time that you could eat an oyster about the size of a dinner plate in the Gowanus Canal itself. So our concept is really this back-to-the-future concept, harnessing the intelligence of that land settlement pattern. And the idea has two core stages. One is to develop a new artificial ecology, a reef out in the harbor, that would then protect new settlement patterns inland and the Gowanus. Because if you have cleaner water and slower water, you can imagine a new way of living with that water. So the project really addresses these three core issues in a new and exciting way, I think. Here we are, back to our hero, the oyster. And again, it's this incredibly exciting animal. It accepts algae and detritus in one end, and through this beautiful, glamorous set of stomach organs, out the other end comes cleaner water. And one oyster can filter up to 50 gallons of water a day. Oyster reefs also covered about a quarter of our harbor and were capable of filtering water in the harbor in a matter of days. They were key in our culture and our economy. Basically, New York was built on the backs of oystermen, and our streets were literally built over oyster shells. This image is an image of an oyster cart, which is now as ubiquitous as the hotdog cart is today. So again, we got the short end of the deal there. Finally, oysters can attenuate and agglomerate onto each other and form these amazing natural reef structures. They really become nature's wave attenuators. of any harbor ecosystem. Many, many species depend on them. So we were inspired by the oyster, but I was also inspired by the life cycle of the oyster. It can move from a fertilized egg to a spat, which is when they're floating through the water, and when they're ready to attach onto another oyster, to an adult male oyster or female oyster, in a number of weeks. We reinterpreted this life cycle on the scale of our sight and took the Gowanus as a giant oyster nursery where oysters would be grown up in the Gowanus, then paraded down in their spat stage and seeded out on the Bayridge Reef. And so the core idea here was to hit the reset button and regenerate an ecology over time that was regenerative and cleaning and productive. How does the reef work? Well, it's very, very simple. A core concept here is that climate change isn't something that -- the answers won't land down from the Moon. And with a $20 billion price tag, we should simply start and get to work with what we have now and what's in front of us. So this image is simply showing -- it's a field of marine piles interconnected with this woven fuzzy rope. What is fuzzy rope, you ask? It's just that; it's this very inexpensive thing, available practically at your hardware store, and it's very cheap. So we imagine that we would actually potentially even host a bake sale to start our new project. So in the studio, rather than drawing, we began to learn how to knit. The concept was to really knit this rope together for the oysters to grow on. You can see in the diagram how it grows over time from an infrastructural space into a new public urban space. And that grows over time dynamically with the threat of climate change. It also creates this incredibly interesting, I think, new amphibious public space, where you can imagine working, you can imagine recreating in a new way. In the end, what we realized we were making was a new blue-green watery park for the next watery century -- an amphibious park, if you will. So get your Tevas on. So you can imagine scuba diving here. This is an image of high school students, scuba divers that we worked with on our team. So you can imagine a sort of new manner of living with a new relationship with the water, and also a hybridizing of recreational and science programs in terms of monitoring. Another new vocabulary word for the brave new world: this is the word "flupsy" -- it's short for "floating upwelling system." And this glorious, readily available device is basically a floating raft with an oyster nursery below. So the water is churned through this raft. You can see the eight chambers on the side host little baby oysters and essentially force-feed them. So rather than having 10 oysters, you have 10,000 oysters. And then those spat are then seeded. Here's the Gowanus future with the oyster rafts on the shorelines -- the flupsification of the Gowanus. New word. And also showing oyster gardening for the community along its edges. And finally, how much fun it would be to watch the flupsy parade and cheer on the oyster spats as they go down to the reef. I get asked two questions about this project. One is: why isn't it happening now? And the second one is: when can we eat the oysters? And the answer is: not yet, they're working. But we imagine, with our calculations, that by 2050, you might be able to sink your teeth into a Gowanus oyster. To conclude, this is just one cross-section of one piece of city, but my dream is, my hope is, that when you all go back to your own cities that we can start to work together and collaborate on remaking and reforming a new urban landscape towards a more sustainable, a more livable and a more delicious future. Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
「う.........ん......」あれ......私? えーっと、確か有夢にお別れの言葉をスマホでうっていて、で、そこにトラックがきて............。そうだ、私、轢かれたんだ。 ......で、ここはどこ? どう見たって病院じゃないよね。だって森の中だよ? まず、考えられることはここはあの世......。うそ、うそでしょ? 私、死んじゃったの? やだ...いやだぁ...まだ、まだやりたいこと...。...でも、そのやりたいことの大半は、アイツとじゃないと...でも、アイツは死んじゃったし...。あぁっ! お母さん、お父さん、桜ぁっ......。私の頬に涙が伝う。もう枯れたと思っていたのに、まだ残ってたんだね。私の涙。しょうがないよね。私、死んであの世にいるんだもん。大泣きしたっていいよね。しばらく泣いて、少し冷静になった私は、自分の身長が縮んでいることに気がついた。そもそも、髪の色も、薄黄緑色だ。黒じゃない。死んだら身体も変化するのかな? そんなこと考えてると、頭に一枚の紙が、どこからともなく落ちてきた。なんだろう? これ。何か書いてある。私は、その紙のなようを読んだ。《君へ突然のことでビックリしたことでしょう。残念ながら貴女は地球で、車と衝突し、死んでしまいました。しかし、貴女がいつも、道端にいる私のことを気にかけてくれたのをとても感謝しております。ですから私のできる範囲内で魂だけでもすくいだしました。この世界の名前はアナズム。本当は貴女が地球で死ぬのを回避させたかったのですが私にはそこまでの力が及ばず.........。本当に申し訳ありません。こうして魂を別の世界に送ることはできました。そこの世界で人生を楽しみ、幸せになって頂けると嬉しいです。ここからはこの世界についての説明ですが、貴女に特別な力などを授けたりすることも、力及ばず、することができませんでした。ただ、この世界の言語を貴女は読み書きできるようにはなっています。また、目を閉じ[ステータスを見たい]など頭で念じると、色々な説明がみえてきます。まぁ、それはこの世界の住人全員ができることですが。最後に忠告です。貴女本来の年齢は16歳ですが、今この世界では貴女は12歳ほどになっている筈です。ちなみに、この世界でも死ぬと、今度は魂も死にます。どうぞ、お気をつけて。幻転地蔵より。》幻転地蔵......? あ、あのウチの近くにあるお地蔵様か。神様って本当にいるんだね。つまり、これはラノベやネット小説でよくある、異世界に転生ってやつよね? なるほど、だから私の髪の色が違ったりするのか。とりあえず、ステータスを見てみないことには始まらないわよね? 私は『ステータスを見たいな』そう、頭の中で念じてみた。なるほどねー、これがステータス...。まさにゲーム。ところでSKPとかって何? 説明みたいなのないのかな? そう考えると、頭の中に、説明らしき文字が浮かびあがる。【コレは貴方のステータスです。特殊なSKや印などがない限り、他人のステータスを見ることはできません。】 ... ...... ......... 私からの説明は以上です。新しい人生、幸せを掴んでください。なにか本当に困ったこと等があったら強く、私のことを念じてください。このような形でいいのでしたら、できる限り協力します。 by 幻転地蔵】やっぱり、この説明も全部、お地蔵様だったか。途中からそんな気がしてたわ。とりあえず、そうね。MPにSTPをまるっと10振っちゃって、このレベルが低い時は魔法が沢山使えるようにしといたほうがいいかも。 SKPは[火術]に6、[水術]に3振ったの。 .........この世界。アイツが居る気がする。アイツこういうの、私を置いてっちゃうくらい大好きだったし、幻転地蔵様にも、よくお供えものしてたし、この世界にいる可能性はなくないわよね? しばらくはアイツを探すことを目的にしようかしら? その前に、この森を出なくっちゃ。私は恐る恐る歩み始めた。そして、5時間くらい歩いたころかしら? 不思議な生き物に出会った。顔がついてる不気味な木。その木は私を見るや否や、蔓のような物で私を吹き飛ばす。私は意識を失った。	「Uuu.... mmm.....」 A-re... What’s happened to me? Umm, I’m sure I remember giving a farewell on my smartphone, and then, there was a truck... ... Yes, I was run over. ... so, where is this? It doesn’t appear to be a hospital. That was because this is the middle of a forest. First of all, this might be the afterlife... No way, it can’t be? Am I really dead? No... nooo... there was still so much I wanted to do... ...but, what I wanted to do the most was with him... but, he’s already dead... Ahh! Mother, Father, Sakura.... Tears flow down my cheeks. Even though I was dead, my sorrow still remains. It can’t be helped. I have already passed into the afterlife. It is alright to morn. After crying for a while and calming down, I noticed that my height had shrunk. In the first place, my hair color is light yellow green. Not black. Does one’s body change when they die? While thinking these things, a piece of paper fell on my head out of nowhere. What is this? This. Something is written. I read the paper. 《To you, You are probably surprised from how sudden things have happened. Unfortunately, you were run over by a vehicle on earth and died. But, I am very grateful for the care that you have always shown towards me on the roadside. This is why I have saved your soul to the best of my abilities. The name of this world is “Anazumu.” In truth, I wanted to prevent you from dying on Earth, but unfortunately, I do not possess that sort of power... I sincerely apologize. Thus, I have sent your soul to a different world. I hope that you will be able to enjoy your new life in the other world and attain happiness. Here is an explanation of the world. Do note that I was unable to give you any particular special powers, I unfortunately do not have that kind of ability. However, you will have the ability to read and write the language of this world. Also, if you close your eyes and think [show my status] you will be able to see all sorts of information about yourself. Well, this is something every resident of this world can do. And lastly, some advice In your original world, you were years of age, but now in this world you are about years of age. Incidentally, if you die in this world, you will really pass away. Thank you, and please take care. Genso Jizo》 Ganso Jizo...? Ah, must be that Jizo-sama in our neighborhood? So it really was a God. In other words, that means this is a reincarnation in a different world, like in a light novel or web novel, right? I see, so that’s why my hair color is different. For the time being, it would not be bad to take a look at my status, right? I said, 『Show my status』in my mind. I see, this is the status... Just like in a game. By the way, what is SKP? Is there any explanation anywhere? When I thought that question, letters appeared in my mind. 【This is your status. You cannot see the status of others without a special SK or badge.】 ... ...... ......... That is all for my explanation. Please grasp your own happiness. If you have any real problem etc., be strong and pray with me in mind. At such a time, I will cooperate as much as possible. By Genso Jizo】 As I thought, the whole explanation was from that Jizo-sama. In the middle of the explanation it began to feel that way. First of all, that’s right. I think it best to use the STP on raising MP at this level and use a lot of magic. I placed SKP in [Fire Magic] and in [Water Magic]. ...this world. It would match up with him. Concerning about him, I put my dark feelings away, we both gave offering to that Genso Jizo-sama, so it isn’t like there is no possibility that he could also be in this world, right? For now, I guess I will make my goal to look for him. Before that, I need to leave this forest. I cautiously began to walk. And then, I wonder if I have been walking for about 5 hours? I saw a strange creature. It was an eerie tree with a face. The minute the tree noticed me, it blew me away with something like a vine. I lost consciousness.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 1, "inserted_lines_src": 31, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
みんなが私の歌に耳を傾けるとき私は悟る私の口づけはかくも熱く私の手足はしなやかで柔らかいきっとこれは星の定め口づけせよ恋せよ私の足は宙を滑り瞳は輝き魅了するそして取り付かれたように踊る私の口づけはかくも熱いとわかったから私の体には踊り手の血が流れている私の美しい母は踊りの女王だったきらめくスペインの宮殿でとても美しかった母を私はよく夢に見る母がタンバリンを叩き激しく踊ると皆の目が燃えた母が私の中で再び生き私は母の運命を辿る私もまた真夜中に踊りそして深く感じる私の口づけはかくも熱く私の手足はしなやかで柔らかいきっとこれは星の定め口づけせよ恋せよそして取り付かれたように踊る私の口づけがかくも熱いとわかったから	♫ my lips give so fiery a kiss. ♫ ♫ In my veins, ♫ ♫ runs a dancer's blood, ♫ ♫ because my beautiful mother ♫ ♫ was the Queen of dance ♫ ♫ in the gilded Alcazar. ♫ ♫ She was so very beautiful, ♫ ♫ I often saw her in my dreams. ♫ ♫ If she beat the tambourine ♫ ♫ to her beguiling dance, all eyes were glowing admiringly. ♫ ♫ She reawakened in me, ♫ ♫ mine is the same lot. ♫ ♫ I dance like her at midnight ♫ ♫ and from deep within I feel: ♫ ♫ My lips, they give so fiery a kiss, ♫ ♫ my limbs, they are supple and soft. ♫ ♫ It is written for me in the stars, ♫ ♫ thou shalt kiss, thou shalt love. ♫ ♫ And I dance as if entranced, 'cause I know, ♫ ♫ my lips give so fiery a kiss. ♫	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
これからは集団戦の訓練だが、実の所近代戦の訓練の仕方なんぞ知らん。前世自衛隊員でもない会社員の知識なぞたかが知れている。ナントカブートキャンプは違うしな。サバゲーオタクの知人がいた記憶があるんで少しは話を聞いておけばよかったと思う。インドア派の俺は屋外ゲームに興味が......あれやっぱり俺引きこもりだったのか? なんだか直視したくない記憶に蓋をして漬物石まで乗っけて記憶のマリアナ海溝に沈めてから隊を指導する。と言っても以前同様編成させることからだ。本当にこの世界は個人の武芸とかが重視される世界だ。いや騎士ってのはそうなのかもしれんが。弱い騎士って格好つかないのは認める。だが魔物相手に一騎打ち挑んでも意味はないんだよ。そもそも向こうは騎士道以前に人間に対する態度が餌扱いなんだよ。格好つけて負けたら親兄弟恋人みんな餌よ。「集団で動いて集団で倒せ、と言う事だな」実際のところ個人戦ばっかりで集団戦が下火なのはこの問題もあるだろう。騎士の収入源の一つは身代金なのだ。間違っていないぞ。国家間紛争では相手の騎士や貴族を捕まえて身代金を請求する。その身代金が騎士、特に土地を持たない騎士にとっては重要な収入になる。山賊とどこが違うやら。殺さないだけましか。まあ要するに貴族や騎士は殺すより捕まえた方が金になるんだ。だから集団でタコ殴りにすると殺しちゃう危険性があるんで普通やらない。何とか捕虜にすることを考える。捕虜になっただけなら騎士号は無くならないが、借金返済のために騎士号を売りに出さざるを得ないのが必ず出る。普通の戦いなら。「魔軍との戦いでは捕虜にしたところで交渉のやりようもありませんしね」実際の所どうなんだろう。ないのか。ないだろうな。あったら苦労はしない。そういえば魔王の目的ってゲームで明かされていたっけか。まあそれはこの際どうでもいい。「で、的はこれか」「攻撃してこないので集団単位で攻撃する事を考えてください。馬を攻撃するのはやめてくださいね」「当たり前だろう」馬の尻尾に括り付けた紐につながってるのは細い枝を束ねたものだ。太さだけなら人間の胴体ぐらいになってる。これを疾走する馬に引っ張ってもらうわけだ。藁束があればよかったんだが無いものはしょうがない。木の枝で我慢してもらおう。それにしても馬の尻尾って結構太いのな。人の腕ぐらいはあるんじゃねこれ。ちなみに騎乗してるのは全員うちの伯爵家でこれを俺にやらされてた騎士たちだ。今日はやる側になるのが楽しいらしい。やりすぎなきゃいいけど。訓練を受ける軍と相対する形で二〇頭の枝束を括り付けた馬が並ぶ。向こう側から馬に引かれて向かってくる的を突き刺すだけの簡単なお仕事だ。合図の旗を振ると二〇頭の馬が走り出す。尻尾に括りつけてある枝束が予想以上に砂埃を巻き上げる。あっという間に土埃で向こう側の視界が失われた。「意外と目立ちますな」「大軍が近づいて来るみたいに見えますね」俺も想像以上の光景に少し驚いている。乾燥地だとこの偽兵は意外と有効なんだな。もしもあの後ろからついてくる兵士がいたら砂埃で目をやられそうだが。馬が訓練を受ける側の軍の横を駆け抜ける。的に向かって彼らが動き出し......大混乱になった。「危ない!」「違う、狙うのはこっちの奴だ!」「うわっ」後ろから押されて転がるやつ、手当たり次第に武器を振り回そうとして同じ組のメンバーに当ててしまう奴。あーあー、組同士で激突してるのまでいるよ。抜き身の武器でなくてよかったな。俺の隣でシャンデール伯爵たちが唖然として見ている。「思ったよりも混乱しているな」「個人戦に慣れているとああなります」集団戦の怖い所だ。どれを狙うのかはきちんと指示を出さないと組のメンバーには伝わらない。ところが個人戦に慣れているとつい「あれ」とか「あっち」とかいう聴く者によって勘違いする言い方になってしまう。部下も部下で勝手に動く癖がついていたりするともうだめだ。感性で部隊指示はできないんだがそれを理解させるのは実は難しい。自分に自信がある騎士には特に。なので一回しっちゃかめっちゃかになってもらった。この世界の騎士は個人戦に偏りすぎだ。これも本来はゲームのせいかね。あとどうでもいいが的役のうちの騎士たちは楽しそうに馬を駆っているなおい。ひとまず合図をして馬を止めさせる。翻弄されまくった伯爵の部下を含む皆さんは埃塗れで呆然自失だ。ここまで引っ掻き回されるとは思わなかったのだろう。「次はツェアフェルト隊がやり方をお見せいたしますので、的になる馬を交代させて下さい」やって見せ、言って聞かせてさせてみせ、ほめてやらねば人は動かじ、だ。ツェアフェルト隊のやり方を見る必要性は理解しただろうからここから集団戦の本格講義だな。範囲魔法の無効化と集団戦による戦闘力向上、チートのない身としてはこのぐらいはしておかないと怖くてやってられんのよ。	The plan after this is to start group battle training, but actually, I don’t know how military training is done in the modern world. I’m just an office worker, not a former Japanese Self Defense Force member. I also can’t give them the training menu of ... something I remember having a friend who is a survival game maniac. I should have listened better to that guy’s story. As an indoor person, I’m not interested in outdoor activities like survival games...Wait in the past, am I really a shut-in? Let’s just seal that dark memory, tie it to a weight stone, and sink it into the Mariana trench. I just need to focus on giving the command to the troop. Though the content of the command is the same as last time. I told them to make a -man team. Once again, I was forced to notice how much the knights of this world emphasized their strength. Maybe because they are knights? A weak knight is lame after all. This time, though, I need to let them get used to fighting as a group. Their future opponent, the demons, will only see them as food. If the knights tried to look cool by fighting alone, they, their parents, and their siblings would end up in demons’ stomachs. “So group fighting means moving as a group and defeating your opponent as a group, right?” Right here is it. One of the reasons why one-to-one battles are so prevalent in this world is because one of the knight’s main incomes is ransom money. Yeah, RANSOM MONEY. In a battle between countries, catching the opponent’s nobles or knights and asking for ransom money is one of the knights’ main incomes. Especially for the knights who have no land of their own. Really, aren’t they practically bandits that just didn’t outright kill? Since catching them is much more profitable, the knights rarely did a group battle as they feared one-against-many battles might kill their future income. They will use every means to catch their opponent. There are many cases where a knight loses their fortune and ends up in debt to pay for their own ransom money. If gambling is the number reason a knight loses their title, then paying their ransom is number . Of course, knights won’t lose their titles just because they are caught, but oftentimes their debt becomes so enormous that they have no choice but to sell their titles as a knight. This is how the usual battle between knights ends. “In a battle with demons, you have no way to negotiate your life if you get captured.” I wonder if negotiation is really impossible? It should be, right? If negotiation is possible, then the kingdom won’t have to go through this much trouble. Now that I think about it, is the demon king’s reason for invasion told in the game? For now, that’s not important. “So this is the target?” “Yes. As the targets won’t attack back, everyone can focus on learning how to cooperate in a group battle. Though I hope no one attacks the horses.” “Of course, no one will.” The ‘targets’ is a bundle of tree branches tied together to the horses’ tails. The target is as thick as a human body. The plan is to make these horses run, creating a moving target. I was hoping to create the targets with straws, but since there’s no straw, I have to be satisfied with these bundled tree branches. Anyway, I never knew that a horse’s tail alone is as thick as a human arm. By the way, the people who make these targets are the people of the Zeavert army. They will also be the ones that ride the horses. These guys look happy to be exalted as elite. I just hope when the training starts, they won’t bully the training knights too much. Twenty horses faced the training knights. The training itself is simple. The training knights only need to stab these bundled branches that are tied to the horse’s tail. After a flag was raised, the horses started to run. The bundled branches on their tails kicked up more dust than I expected. In just an instant, a cloud of dust is raised on the ‘battlefield’ and the training knights lose their vision. “It’s much more conspicuous than I expected.” “It looks like a large army running on the battlefield.” I was also surprised by the amount of dust. Unexpectedly, using those targets on dry ground is this effective. Now, if a group of soldiers chased the horses, people might go blind because of the dust. The horses ran toward the sides of the training knights and the knights started to move toward the horses, resulting in... Pure chaos. “Hey, be careful!” “You need to aim at this guy, not that guy!” “Whoa!” Some ended up rolling on the ground after being pushed by others, some swung their weapons recklessly causing them to hit their teammates. Wow. There are even people who crashed into each other. Good thing they use blunt swords for this training. Beside me Count Shandel and the others are dumbfounded. “It’s much more chaotic than I expected.” “This is what will happen if you’re used to one-to-one combat.” This is the scary side of a group battle. Chaos will happen if the team commander didn’t give clear instructions about who to attack. But the team commanders who are used to one-to-one battles will only instruct by shouting ‘attack here!’ or ‘attack there!’ causing confusion and misunderstanding among the team members. Adding to that, many team members will just do as they please. A clear recipe for disaster. To make the knights who have the most confidence in themselves understand the importance of executing the team commander’s order precisely, not just by their feeling, I set them up to mess up on purpose. After all, the knights of this world trust one-to-one fights too much. I wonder if it’s because this world is originally a game? And well, this isn’t important, but aren’t the Zeavert knights having too much fun ‘bullying’ the training knights? This much should be enough. I raised the signal to stop the horses. All of the training knights including the count’s subordinates who are covered with dust returned with dumbfounded looks. “Next. The Zeavert knights are going to show you how you should do it. Zeavert knights, give your horses to the others.” People will learn if you show them, tell them, let them try, and praise them. They must now understand the necessity of observation. From here on is the real start of the lecture about the group battle. The kingdom’s military power has grown with both the way to tackle magic and the group battle under it. I have to work at least this much because I don’t have any cheat; otherwise, I don’t dare to fight the demons.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 2, "inserted_lines_src": 2, "inserted_lines_trg": 2 }
私が11歳のとき何人かの友人が学校を去って行きました親が教科書代を支払えなかったからですこれに私は憤りを覚えました私が27歳のときある奴隷の苦境を聞きました彼の娘が売春宿に売られようとしていたのですこれに私は憤りを覚えました私が50歳のとき道ばたで血を流しながら横たわる自分の息子のそばで私は憤りを感じていました怒りはいけないものだと何世紀も言われてきました親や先生や聖職者の方々が怒りを制御して抑える方法を我々に教えてきましたでもなぜ? なぜ怒りを社会の為に使えないのでしょうか? 我々の怒りを悪に立ち向かい世の中を変える為に使えないでしょうか? 私はそうしようとして来ましたみなさん私の最善のアイデアとはその多くが自らの怒りの産物です 35歳の時小さな留置所に閉じ込められた時もそうでしたその夜私は一晩中怒りを感じていましたでもそこで新しいアイデアが生まれたのですこの話は後ほどお話しします私の名前の由来からお話しします私は子供の頃からマハトマ・ガンディーを尊敬していましたガンディーはインドの独立運動を率いて闘いましたもっと大切な事はもっとも虐げられている最下層階級の人々に対して尊厳と敬意を持って接する事を彼が教えてくれたことですインドが祝う 1969年のマハトマ・ガンディー生誕百周年の時でした —私は15歳で— ある考えが浮かびました他のやり方でこの日を祝えないだろうかと皆さん方も多分ご存知のようにインドでは多くの人が生まれながらにカースト制の最下層階級にいて不可触民として扱われていますこれらの人々は寺院に足を踏み入れる事は勿論上層階級の人の店や家に入る事さえ許されていませんそれで私は町の政治指導者達にとても感心していました彼らはカースト制と不可触民という階級に強く反対しガンディーの理想を唱えていたからですそれに勇気づけられた私は自ら行動に移そうと思いましたその方法とはこの指導者達を招待して不可触民が作る料理を食べてもらおうというものですいわゆる不可触民と呼ばれる下層階級の人々の所へ行き説得を試みましたが彼らには考えられない事でした「それはあり得ないよそんな事はあったためしがない」とでも私は言いました「この指導者たちはあなた方の味方ですきっと来ます誰も来なくても模範を示すことは出来ます」誰もが私は繊細すぎると思いましたやっと彼らを説得すると友達と一緒に自転車で回って政治指導者達を招待しましたとても興奮しましたが何よりも全員が招待を受けてくれたのに力づけられました「よかったこれで皆に模範を示し社会に変化をもたらす事が出来る」と私は思っていましたその日が来ました不可触民の女性3人と男性2人が協力してくれました今でも覚えているのは彼らは自分達の一番の衣装を身に纏い新しい食器を持参し来る前に何度も体を洗ったという事ですなぜならこういう事は彼らには身に余る事だからです変化の瞬間でした皆が集まり食事の準備ができ 7時になりました 8時まで待ち続けました政治家達が1時間ほど遅れるのはよくある事だったからです 8時を過ぎたので我々は自転車に乗り政治家達の家を回りました忘れているのだろうと思ったからです 1人の政治家の奥さんに「残念だけど頭痛で行けないみたい」と言われても次の家ではそこの奥さんから「先に行ってて後で必ず行かせるから」と言われたので「夕食会は出来そうだ人数は少ないかもしれないけど」と私は思いながら来た道を辿って完成したばかりのマハトマ・ガンディー記念公園まで戻りました 10時になりました政治家は誰一人来ませんでしたこれに私は憤りガンディー像に寄りかかっていると非常に感情的になりかなり疲れを感じていました私は料理が置いてある床に座り感情を圧し殺していたのですが食べ物を口にしたとたん泣き出してしまいましたすると不可触民の女性が母親のような優しさで労るように私の肩に手をかけこう言ったのです「カイラシュどうして泣くの? あなたは大きな事をしたのよ私たち不可触民が料理したものをあなたは食べたのだからこんな事今までなかったわあなたは勝利者よ」と皆さん彼女は正しかったのですその日真夜中を過ぎたころ家に戻ると驚いた事にそこには数人の高位カーストの長老が我が家の中庭に座っていて私の母とお年寄りの女性達が泣きながら長老達に懇願していたのです私の家族全員を追放すると脅かされていたからですカーストから家族が追放される事ほど社会的屈辱はありませんなんとか私だけが罰を受ければいい事になりその罰とは私の身を清める事でした故郷から約千キロ離れた聖なるガンジス川で沐浴しその後101人の僧侶達にごちそうを振るまい彼らの足を洗いその水を飲むというものでした全く馬鹿げた話でそんな罰は受けないと拒否しましたどうやって私は罰せられたでしょう? 我が家の台所や食卓には入る事すら許されず私の食器は家族のものとは別にされました私が憤っていたその夜長老達は私を追放しようとしましたが私の方がカースト制を完全に追放する事を決心したのです (拍手) そう出来たのは苗字を変えれば始められる事だったからですインドでは殆どの名前はカースト名なので私の苗字を捨ててしまう事にしましたその後サティーアーティという名前にしましたこの名前は「真理の探求者」という意味です (拍手) それから私の怒りは形を変え始めました皆さんの中でどなたか私が子供の人権活動家になる前何をしていたか分かる方はいますか? 知っている方はいますか? いませんねエンジニア— 電気技師でしたそこで私が学んだ事は石炭などが燃える火原子炉の中での核分裂川の激流や強風等から起きるエネルギーは何百万人の生活に使われる電気に変えられまた最も扱いにくい形のエネルギーは社会の為に末長く利用できる事を学びました私が投獄された時の話に戻りましょう奴隷労働から数十人の子供達を救い親元へ返すという事に喜びを感じていました子供を1人でも解放できた時の喜びは言葉では言い表せませんある日デリーに帰郷しようと電車を待っていた時の事です何十人もの子供が電車から降りてくるのを見ました人身売買された子供達です私は彼らを捕まえて警察に届けたのですすると警察は手を貸してくれるどころか私を小さな留置所に動物のごとく投げ込んだのです私が憤った夜のことでしたしかしここで最高のアイデアが生まれたのです「子供を10人解放し続けたなら50人になるそれがまだできていないでも消費者パワーを使えばこれが出来るんじゃないか」となんとこれは世界初の取り組みで私は世界の消費者に呼びかけ「児童労働で作られた商品を拒否しよう」というキャンペーンを始めたのですヨーロッパやアメリカでは成功し児童労働者が南アジア諸国で80%減少しました (拍手) それだけでなく前代未聞の消費者パワーを使った消費者キャンペーンは他の国々の様々な業界にも広がっていますチョコレート、服飾、靴の業界など限りなく広がっているはずです私が11歳で憤った理由は子供にとって教育がどれほど大切か身にしみた時で貧しい子供達のため古本を集めるアイデアが生まれ私は11歳で本の銀行を作りましたそれでは満足せずに後に世界最大の教育のための市民社会キャンペーンを共同設立しました Global Campaign for Educationですこれは教育に対する考え方を大きく変え慈善モードから人権モードに変容させ実質的に非就学児童を過去15年で半減させました (拍手) 私が27歳の時の憤りは売春宿へ送られようとしていた女の子を助けたいという気持ちからでしたそこから生まれたアイデアは現場を奇襲して性奴隷となっている子供達を救い出す事です我々が誇りを持って言えるのは嬉しい事に10人とか20人とかでなくこれまでに8万3千人もの子供達を児童奴隷労働から救い出し家族の元へ返す事が出来ました (拍手) 世界的な規制が必要だと知っていたので児童労働反対の世界的抗議行進を計画し最悪の状況下にいる子供達を保護するための新しい国際条約の採択に至りました最悪の状況下にいる子供達を保護するための新しい国際条約の採択に至りましたその具体的な成果として世界の児童労働者の数はこの15年で3分の1になりました (拍手) それぞれのケースで怒りから始まりそこからアイデアが生まれそれを行動に移しました怒りの次は? アイデアその次は・・・聴衆:行動! 怒り、アイデア、行動これが私がしようとした事です怒りとはパワーでエネルギーがあります自然の法則ではエネルギーは姿は変わっても決して消え去る事も破壊される事も有りませんでは怒りのエネルギーをもっと美しい公正な社会を作る為に利用できないでしょうか? 怒りは誰にでも有りますちょっとした秘密をお教えしましょうエゴと利己心の渦巻く小さな殻の中に閉じこもっているといかりは憎しみ、暴力、復讐破壊に変わって行きますでもその悪循環を断ち切る事が出来たならその怒りを偉大なパワーに変貌させられるのです誰もが持つ思いやりでその循環を断ち切りこの世界をよくする為思いやりを持って世界と繋がる事が出来ます同じ怒りをこのように一変させられるのですそこで親愛なる皆さんもう一度ノーベル平和賞受賞者として奨励します皆さん怒ってください皆さん怒ってくださいそして一番怒っている人がその怒りをアイデアそして行動へと変貌させられる人なのですありがとうございました (拍手) クリス・アンダーソン:長年多くの人々のインスピレーションとなって来られたのですが誰に何に勇気づけられて来たのですか? そしてその理由は? いい質問ですクリス実をいうと母親の元へ戻れる希望を失った子供を1人でも救って母親の元へ戻れる希望を失った子供を1人でも救ってその子が自由になった時見せる最初の笑顔とわが子をもう二度と抱きしめることができないと希望を失っていた母親が再会の時感極まって頬をつたう最初の喜びの涙再会の時感極まって頬をつたう最初の喜びの涙そこに神聖なるものを見出しこれが私の一番の原動力となっています本当に有り難い事に幾度となく子供達の顔に神聖なるものを見てきました彼らが一番私を勇気づけてくれていますありがとうございました	When I was 11, seeing some of my friends leaving the school because their parents could not afford textbooks made me angry. When I was 27, hearing the plight of a desperate slave father whose daughter was about to be sold to a brothel made me angry. At the age of 50, lying on the street, in a pool of blood, along with my own son, made me angry. Dear friends, for centuries we were taught anger is bad. Our parents, teachers, priests -- everyone taught us how to control and suppress our anger. But I ask why? Why can't we convert our anger for the larger good of society? Why can't we use our anger to challenge and change the evils of the world? That I tried to do. Friends, most of the brightest ideas came to my mind out of anger. Like when I was 35 and sat in a locked-up, tiny prison. The whole night, I was angry. But it has given birth to a new idea. But I will come to that later on. Let me begin with the story of how I got a name for myself. I had been a big admirer of Mahatma Gandhi since my childhood. Gandhi fought and lead India's freedom movement. But more importantly, he taught us how to treat the most vulnerable sections, the most deprived people, with dignity and respect. And so, when India was celebrating Mahatma Gandhi's birth centenary in 1969 -- at that time I was 15 -- an idea came to my mind. Why can't we celebrate it differently? I knew, as perhaps many of you might know, that in India, a large number of people are born in the lowest segment of caste. And they are treated as untouchables. These are the people -- forget about allowing them to go to the temples, they cannot even go into the houses and shops of high-caste people. So I was very impressed with the leaders of my town who were speaking very highly against the caste system and untouchability and talking of Gandhian ideals. So inspired by that, I thought, let us set an example by inviting these people to eat food cooked and served by the untouchable community. I went to some low-caste, so-called untouchable, people, tried to convince them, but it was unthinkable for them. They told me, "No, no. It's not possible. It never happened." I said, "Look at these leaders, they are so great, they are against untouchability. They will come. If nobody comes, we can set an example." These people thought that I was too naive. Finally, they were convinced. My friends and I took our bicycles and invited political leaders. And I was so thrilled, rather, empowered to see that each one of them agreed to come. I thought, "Great idea. We can set an example. We can bring about change in the society." The day has come. All these untouchables, three women and two men, they agreed to come. I could recall that they had used the best of their clothes. They brought new utensils. They had taken baths hundreds of times because it was unthinkable for them to do. It was the moment of change. They gathered. Food was cooked. It was 7 o'clock. By 8 o'clock, we kept on waiting, because it's not very uncommon that the leaders become late, for an hour or so. So after 8 o'clock, we took our bicycles and went to these leaders' homes, just to remind them. One of the leader's wives told me, "Sorry, he is having some headache, perhaps he cannot come." I went to another leader and his wife told me, "Okay, you go, he will definitely join." So I thought that the dinner will take place, though not at that large a scale. I went back to the venue, which was a newly built Mahatma Gandhi Park. It was 10 o'clock. None of the leaders showed up. That made me angry. I was standing, leaning against Mahatma Gandhi's statue. I was emotionally drained, rather exhausted. Then I sat down where the food was lying. I kept my emotions on hold. But then, when I took the first bite, I broke down in tears. And suddenly I felt a hand on my shoulder. And it was the healing, motherly touch of an untouchable woman. And she told me, "Kailash, why are you crying? You have done your bit. You have eaten the food cooked by untouchables, which has never happened in our memory." She said, "You won today." And my friends, she was right. I came back home, a little after midnight, shocked to see that several high-caste elderly people were sitting in my courtyard. I saw my mother and elderly women were crying and they were pleading to these elderly people because they had threatened to outcaste my whole family. And you know, outcasting the family is the biggest social punishment one can think of. Somehow they agreed to punish only me, and the punishment was purification. That means I had to go 600 miles away from my hometown to the River Ganges to take a holy dip. And after that, I should organize a feast for priests, 101 priests, wash their feet and drink that water. It was total nonsense, and I refused to accept that punishment. How did they punish me? I was barred from entering into my own kitchen and my own dining room, my utensils were separated. But the night when I was angry, they wanted to outcaste me. But I decided to outcaste the entire caste system. And that was possible because the beginning would have been to change the family name, or surname, because in India, most of the family names are caste names. So I decided to drop my name. And then, later on, I gave a new name to myself: Satyarthi, that means, "seeker of truth." And that was the beginning of my transformative anger. Friends, maybe one of you can tell me, what was I doing before becoming a children's rights activist? Does anybody know? No. I was an engineer, an electrical engineer. And then I learned how the energy of burning fire, coal, the nuclear blast inside the chambers, raging river currents, fierce winds, could be converted into the light and lives of millions. I also learned how the most uncontrollable form of energy could be harnessed for good and making society better. So I'll come back to the story of when I was caught in the prison: I was very happy freeing a dozen children from slavery, handing them over to their parents. I cannot explain my joy when I free a child. I was so happy. But when I was waiting for my train to come back to my hometown, Delhi, I saw that dozens of children were arriving; they were being trafficked by someone. I stopped them, those people. I complained to the police. So the policemen, instead of helping me, they threw me in this small, tiny shell, like an animal. And that was the night of anger when one of the brightest and biggest ideas was born. I thought that if I keep on freeing 10 children, and 50 more will join, that's not done. And I believed in the power of consumers, and let me tell you that this was the first time when a campaign was launched by me or anywhere in the world, to educate and sensitize the consumers to create a demand for child-labor-free rugs. In Europe and America, we have been successful. And it has resulted in a fall in child labor in South Asian countries by 80 percent. Not only that, but this first-ever consumer's power, or consumer's campaign has grown in other countries and other industries, maybe chocolate, maybe apparel, maybe shoes -- it has gone beyond. My anger at the age of 11, when I realized how important education is for every child, I got an idea to collect used books and help the poorest children. I created a book bank at the age of 11. But I did not stop. Later on, I cofounded the world's single largest civil society campaign for education that is the Global Campaign for Education. That has helped in changing the whole thinking towards education from the charity mode to the human rights mode, and that has concretely helped the reduction of out-of-school children by half in the last 15 years. My anger at the age of 27, to free that girl who was about to be sold to a brothel, has given me an idea to go for a new strategy of raid and rescue, freeing children from slavery. And I am so lucky and proud to say that it is not one or 10 or 20, but my colleagues and I have been able to physically liberate 83,000 child slaves and hand them over back to their families and mothers. I knew that we needed global policies. We organized the worldwide marches against child labor and that has also resulted in a new international convention to protect the children who are in the worst forms. And the concrete result was that the number of child laborers globally has gone down by one third in the last 15 years. So, in each case, it began from anger, turned into an idea, and action. So anger, what next? Idea, and -- Audience: Action Kailash Satyarthi: Anger, idea, action. Which I tried to do. Anger is a power, anger is an energy, and the law of nature is that energy can never be created and never be vanished, can never be destroyed. So why can't the energy of anger be translated and harnessed to create a better and beautiful world, a more just and equitable world? Anger is within each one of you, and I will share a secret for a few seconds: that if we are confined in the narrow shells of egos, and the circles of selfishness, then the anger will turn out to be hatred, violence, revenge, destruction. But if we are able to break the circles, then the same anger could turn into a great power. We can break the circles by using our inherent compassion and connect with the world through compassion to make this world better. That same anger could be transformed into it. So dear friends, sisters and brothers, again, as a Nobel Laureate, I am urging you to become angry. I am urging you to become angry. And the angriest among us is the one who can transform his anger into idea and action. Thank you so much. Chris Anderson: For many years, you've been an inspiration to others. Who or what inspires you and why? KS: Good question. Chris, let me tell you, and that is the truth, each time when I free a child, the child who has lost all his hope that he will ever come back to his mother, the first smile of freedom, and the mother who has lost all hope that the son or daughter can ever come back and sit in her lap, and the first tear of joy rolls down on her cheek, I see the glimpse of God in it -- this is my biggest inspiration. And I am so lucky that not once, as I said before, but thousands of times, I have been able to witness my God in the faces of those children and they are my biggest inspirations. Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
この糸で縛られていることで、コルティナには誰がこれを行ったでわかるはずだ。それと、男の身包みを剥いでいてわかったことだが、やはりこいつらは正規兵の服を着ていた。「となると、やはりどっかの貴族が黒幕になるか。マクスウェルも大変だ」とも身包みを剥いでおいたのは、一人だけだと不公平感がしただけである。服を剥ぎ取っている最中で、小さな布袋ががシャリと重々しい音を立てて落ちた。「せいぜい役人の月収程度か。それでこんな泥をかぶるとは、ドジを踏んだな」金貨は三枚もあれば、平均的家族が一か月暮らせる程度の価値はある。それだけの金で未来を棒に振るとは、なんとも度し難い話だ。「もう少し金を積んで正規に交渉でもしにくれば、まだ救いもあったろうに」もっともまだ子供のミシェルちゃんでは、金の価値を量り切れずに断ることは明白だろうが。更に袋の底には小さな紙片も入っていた。「ん、これは......念書か?」その紙片にはミシェルちゃんの身柄を確保すれば、さらに倍の金と騎士の身分を約束する旨が明記されていた。そしてその念書を書いたのは―― 「リッテンバーグ。またこいつか」マクスウェルと同じく元王族に連なる貴族で、侯爵としてはヨーウィ侯爵よりも上位に位置する。その血統の良さゆえに、あちこちに口を出しては事態を混迷に導いている。「もはや害悪だな。ティナの足を引っ張ったことも許せん」コルティナに対する嫌がらせも許せないが、ミシェルちゃんに直接害を与えに来たことも、もはや看過できない。おばさんたちを確保しようとしたのは、おそらく仮にミシェルちゃんを配下に入れても、裏切りを恐れたため、保険を用意したかった側面もあるのだろう。「リッテンバーグの屋敷は確か......王城の隣に隣接する場所にあったな」ぐしゃりと紙片を握り潰してその場に投げ捨てる。この紙もこいつらの悪事の証拠として没収されるべきだ。「血統ゆえに、こいつは大した罰を受けるわけじゃない」王家に連なる大貴族が、一般市民にちょっかい出したところで、大した罪に問われない可能性がある。マクスウェルが牽制を入れるだろうが、しょせん王族を離れ、貴族のしがらみとも離れた老人だ。雄と呼ばれるだけに発言力はあるが、一国家の重鎮に対し過剰な干渉は、やはりできない。「ならば――」こういう連中に容赦なく手を下してきたのが、前世の俺だ。小屋はそのままではいつ見つかるかわからないので、屋根の上で狼煙を上げて目印をつけておいた。を掛けておき、応急処置をしておいた。屋根の上に残してきた制服を回収し、俺はマクスウェルの元へ駆け戻っていた。俺が現れるということは、ニコルが消えるということでもある。と操糸の強化で風のように森の中を駆け抜ける。首都に向かって一直線に突っ走り、高い街壁に糸を飛ばして一息によじ登っていく。「......これは、ありえんだろ?」できるとは思っていたが、ここまで易々とこなせるとは思わなかった。ニコルの非力な身体を扱うことに慣れてしまって、強靭な前世の身体を強化するとその性能の高さに驚かされる。前世の身体は非力だと思っていたが、今世のそれに比べると、やはり比べるべくもない。元々非力だが敏捷な体質だったが、それが強化によってさらにトンデモ無い領域にまで昇華されている。「これ、ひょっとしたら糸なしでも登れたんじゃないか?」今着けている手甲には、壁登りのための鈎爪が取り付けられている。それに今の敏捷性......一瞬でも足場を得ることができれば、そのまま次の跳躍に移ることができる。「これ、俺の身体、扱いきれるのか?」この身体と能力ならば、ライエルすら手玉に取れるような気がする。今なら......と考えたところで思考を切り替える。「っと、今はそれどころじゃないな」今度は糸を壁に掛けて一気に飛び降りていく。幸いその場面を目撃された様子はない。というか、人目がないことを確認してから行動している。続いて跳躍して民家の壁を一蹴りし、反対側の民家の屋根に登る。その速度は明らかに前世の俺よりも早い。日中だというのに、俺の姿を視認できた通行人すらいない。「この能力......夜までには慣れておかねばいけないな」それだけあれば、屋敷に忍び込んでリッテンバーグに制裁を加える程度の余裕は充分にある。進化した自身の能力に、俺は知らず凶悪な笑みを口元に浮かべていた。この力をまずは、身の程知らずな貴族にぶつけてやるとしよう。	I stripped all the clothes off the men and tied them up with Mythril threads. If I bound them with these threads, Cortina would be able to tell immediately whose deed it was. Also, I realized it after stripping them but turned out that they were just wearing regular soldier’s clothes. They weren’t wearing knights’ clothes, so they were probably just underlings of some knight. “Which means, some noble is pulling the strings, after all. Maxwell will have it tough.” The reason I stripped all three was that I felt it’d be unfair if I only did it to one of them. While I was stripping them, a small bag fell down with a heavy sound. Opening it, it was filled with some gold coins. “It’s about an average government official’s monthly salary’s worth, huh. Getting into this mess for just that, what a failure on their part.” With three gold coins, an average family could live for a month. On light counting, there were around ten of them in this bag now. It was an amount that you couldn’t really say would be worth sacrificing your future for. “Maybe they would’ve had some saving grace if they tried spending more money and actually negotiated.” That said, it was obvious that Michelle would straight up refuse, failing to properly measure the monetary value. There was also a piece of paper inside the bag. “Hmm, is this... a written pledge?” On it, there was written a guarantee that if they managed to catch Michelle, they would get double the payment on top of knighthood. As for the writer of that pledge was... “Lichtenberg. This guy again?” The same noble that got in the way of Cortina’s appeal for reinforcements. He was a noble connected to former royalty just like Maxwell, and ranked higher than Yowi as a Marquis. Due to his superior lineage, he caused problems everywhere he butted in. “He’s straight-up evil at this point. I’ve not forgiven him for getting in Tina’s way, either.” I couldn’t forgive his harassment towards Cortina, sure, but now that he directly harmed Michelle, I wouldn’t be turning a blind eye. The reason he tried to secure Michelle’s parents was probably so that even if Michelle became his underling, he still needed a guarantee so she wouldn’t betray him. “If I remember correctly, Lichtenberg’s mansion was... Right next to the royal caste, huh.” I crushed the paper and threw it aside. This paper would become proof of crime on its own. However, that alone wouldn’t cut it. “Given his lineage, this wouldn’t amount to a serious punishment.” There was a possibility that a great noble like him wouldn’t be punished gravely for messing with some commoners. Rather, that possibility was the most likely one. Maxwell was keeping him in check, but in the end, he was an old man who had left the royalty and even the bonds of nobility. He had influence as one of the Six Heroes, but he still couldn’t excessively interfere in the affairs of the kingdom’s authorities. “In that case...” The me of my previous life was exactly the person who dealt with these types of people without mercy. I’ll have this one experience how scary I can be. There was no knowing when the hut would be found if I left it like that, so I launched a beacon on the roof. Maxwell who Michelle should’ve contacted should realize it when he sees it. I also cast Cure Light on Uncle as an emergency treatment. His life should no longer be in any danger now. I also retrieved my uniform that I left on the roof and rushed back to Maxwell’s mansion. The fact that I appeared also meant that Nicole would disappear. I needed his power to make my story more convincing. Strengthening myself with Enchant and the thread manipulation, I dashed through the forest like the wind. I ran to the capital in a straight line, jumping over the tall walls using the threads in one go. “...I can’t believe this.” I did think that I would be able to do it, but I didn’t expect that it would be this easy. Even my earlier speed in the forest was abnormal. I ended up getting used to Nicole’s powerless body, so strengthening my tough body of the previous life made my abilities skyrocket to a shocking degree. My old body was also relatively powerless, but compared to Nicole’s body, it was like night and day. I had a weak but noble body, but the strengthening made me reach a whole new domain. The original me would have never managed jumping over the wall that was at least ten meters tall so easily. “At this rate, I bet I could’ve climbed up even without the threads, huh?” My current gauntlets had claws for climbing the walls. With those, I could support my weight even without the threads. And with my current agility... I just needed to get a foothold for an instant to jump to the next one. If I repeated that, I could probably jump over this wall. “Can my body really handle this properly?” With this body and ability, I felt like I could even lead Lyell around by the nose. He certainly boasted of unparalleled toughness, but I feel like I could output speeds that could ignore that. As I was preoccupied with those thoughts... I decided to change my thinking. “This is no time for that.” This time, I hung the thread over the wall and dropped down. If I jumped down as is, even my current body would take damage. Thus, I used the thread to decelerate before hitting the ground, achieving a safe landing. Fortunately, no one seemed to have seen me. Or rather, I acted after confirming that there was no one around. Following that, I jumped and kicked off the wall of a house, landing on the roof of the opposite one. Then, I continued along the rooftops towards Maxwell’s mansion. I was clearly faster than I was in my previous life. Or rather, I might have already exceeded the territory of a human. It was daytime, but there weren’t even any passersby who managed to see me. Moreover, when I jumped from roof to roof, I easily leaped over meters distances. “I... Really need to get used to these abilities by nightfall.” The Polymorph spell should last until around dawn. With that much time on my hands, I should easily manage to sneak into Lichtenberg’s mansion and punish him. Without realizing it, a villainous smile appeared on my face due to the evolution of my abilities. Now, let me use this new strength against that noble who doesn’t know his place.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 26, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
誰かご存知ですか 1816年です私の予測では、2016年には医師は聴診器を持ち歩かなくなるでしょうもっと優れた技術が生まれているのですそれが医療の変化の一役を担っているのですこの社会を変えてきたものそれは無線通信機器ですでもこれからは医療用の無線通信機器ですでは、いくつか例を紹介しましょうもっと具体的に理解していただくためですまずはこちらです心電図です心臓専門医としては、リアルタイムで患者個人が世界のどこにいるかにかかわらず医師側のスマートフォンで見ることができて患者の調律が分かるのは信じがたいことですこれはもう実現していますただ、これはまだ序章にすぎません皆さんはここに座っている間にもメールを確認しますよねでも将来的には、あらゆるバイタルサインを確認するようになります全てのバイタルサインです心臓の鼓動や血圧、酸素、体温などですこれはすでに実現していますエアストリップテクノロジーズ社ですもうつながっているのですもちろん無線通信で先ほどのような信号を集約し病院や集中治療室でですが、医師のスマートフォンにそれが表示されますもうすぐ子供が生まれるならこんな計測機能はどうでしょう継続的に胎児の心拍数や子宮の収縮を計測しますそうすれば心配しすぎずに妊娠経過が良好であるとわかり出産のときを迎えるのですでは、さらに話を進めましょう今でも連続測定用のグルコース・センサーはありますが今はそれを皮膚の下に埋めていますでも将来的には埋め込む必要がなくなりますグルコースを理想的な範囲、つまり 75から200未満の間に維持するために連続計測できるグルコースセンサーで5分毎に計測しますそれを見れば糖尿病にどれくらい影響するかわかります睡眠はどうでしょうか少しこの点に注目してみましょう人生の3分の1は寝ていることになりますもし手元の電話に、これから数週間のうちに利用できるのですが、毎分の睡眠状態が表示されるとすればどうでしょうご覧のように、覚醒状態がオレンジ色です急速眼球運動するレム睡眠、つまり夢を見ている状態は、薄緑色です浅い眠りは、灰色です熟睡状態つまり最良の回復睡眠は暗い緑色ですカロリーを全て計算するのはどうでしょうこれは、リアルタイムにカロリー摂取量を実際に計測できますもちろん消費量も計測にはバンドエイドのようなものを使いますここまでは生理的な数値指標についてお話してきましたでも私がお話ししたいのは次世代の領域です手早くお話ししますが、なぜ、聴診器が消えようとしているのでしょうか腸管音や呼吸音を聞くより優れた方法があるからです最近、 G. E. が携帯型の超音波検査装置を発表したのですこれがなぜ重要なのでしょうかそれは、はるかに高感度だからですこちらは腹部超音波検査装置の一例です心臓超音波検査装置もあり、これは無線で通信しますスマートフォンで胎児を観察するものもありますここで取り上げているのは、生理的な数値指標だけではありませんしバイタルサインの主要データだけでもありません生理的なものだけではなく、スマートフォンで見ることができる種々の動画像も含んでいますこれも時代遅れな技術の一例ですそのうち使われなくなるホルター心電計です 24時間記録するもので、配線が多いですねでも今はこのようなとても小さなパッチに収まります 2週間付けておくことができますしメールで信号を送信することができますでは、どのように動作するのでしょうこちらのようなしゃれたバンドエイドや靴や手首に装着するセンサーなどがありますこれが信号を送信します体の周辺に、ゲートウェイにつながるネットワークを構成しますスマートフォンを使ったゲートウェイでもいいですし、専用のゲートウェイでもかまいません今はこの手のものは専用のゲートウェイを使いますあまりうまく統合されていないからです信号はウェブすなわちクラウドに送信され必要な処理をしたり、どこかに送信したりすることができます介護士に送信したり、医師に送信したり患者に返信したりできますまあ、これは大筋で非常に単純化した技術的な動作説明ですいま、私はこの装置を身に着けていますシャツを脱いでお見せするのはいやですが、脱がなくても説明できますこの装置は心調律を測定するだけではありませんそれはもうご覧いただきましたねそれ以上のことができますこれは私のデータです心電図が見えますねその下のは実際の心電図とトレンドですその右側は生体電気特性です体液状態を示します体液状態が非常に重要なのは心不全の人を監視するときです下は体温ですそして、呼吸作用と酸素を示していますそれから姿勢動作ですこの装置は本当にすごいんですなぜならこの装置は、 7項目を測定しそれがまさにバイタルサインであり心不全の人を監視するために使えるのですよろしいでしょうかなぜこれが重要なのでしょうかこれは最も高価なベッドです病院のベッドの需要を減らせるとしたらどうでしょうでも、できないのですまず第1にわが国の入院や再入院の理由としては心不全が一番多いのです年間370億ドルが心不全に費やされていますその80%が入院に関連しています入院後30日のうちにメディケアの対象となる場合ですが 65才以上の27%が30日以内に再入院するのですそれでなくても、6か月を超えると、56%が再入院しますでは、改善はできるのでしょうかその方法は私が身に着けているこの装置を使うことです 600人の心不全患者にこれを付けます無作為に選んだ人ですこれに対して、別の600人の患者には能動的な監視を行いませんそうして心不全による入院を減らせるか調べます面白そうですから、試してみるつもりですその時には詳細をお話できると思います無線通信機器を使った実験の一種でここ数年のうちに医療の変革をもたらす可能性があるものですなぜいまなぜこれが突然実現し、これからの医療にとって興味深い目標となるのでしょうか現在の状況は、ある意味、完全に理想的な流れといえますこれが利用者主体の健康管理を築くのですすべての始まりはここからですもしお気づきでなければ、なぜこれが大きな流れなのかご説明しましょう 120万人のアメリカ人がナイキの靴を履いたことがありますこれは体の周辺にネットワークを構築し靴や靴のかかとをiPhoneやiPodに接続するものですワイヤードマガジンの記事にはこれに関して多く記載されていますナイキの靴について多くの記述があり運動中の生理機能の監視や、エネルギー消費量の監視にいかに早くから採用されてきたか記載されていますここで、いくつかの理念を紹介します覚えておくとよい指針となる理念です「データに基づく健康管理という変革は確実に私たちをより快適で、気ままで、丈夫にする数字を指針に生きることだ」そしてこちらは実に深い言葉ですこちらは7月の表紙の記事です「個人の数値指標を使う流れは、食事療法や運動よりはるかに優れており眠りから、心的状態や痛みまで生活のあらゆる側面を追跡するものだ 24時間、7日間、365日ずっと」私はこの装置を試してみました皆さんの多くはフィリップス社のディレクトライフを持っているでしょう私はディレクトライフは持っていないのですがフィットビットなら持っていますこのようなものです無線の加速度計とか万歩計みたいなものです使ってみた結果をお話しします消費者の動向を理解したいからですでも、フィリップス社のディレクトライフのほうが良いと思いますそうだといいのですがこれは食べ物と行動を計測し、体重を記録しますでも、ほとんど自分で入力しなければなりませんこの装置が記録するのは実際は運動だけですそれさえ、十分ではないのですが運動するとこの装置が検知します身長と体重を入力するとBMIを計算してくれますそれから運動によるカロリー消費量を表示します摂取量も表示してくれますでも、食べたものをここに全部入力する必要がありますこのシステムでは自分の行動を全て入力する必要がありますそれで、私もやってみたのですが 42分の運動を検知してくれたので、もちろん満足しましたやったのは楕円軌道を描くペダリング運動ですでもこのシステムではもっと多くの情報を必要としていますこう聞かれます「性生活を記録しようどれぐらいの時間しましたか」こうも聞いています「どれくらい大変でしたか」更には「開始時間」も入力させようとしていますでも、これは...あまり役に立ちませんそう、あまり役に立たないのですでは、睡眠の場合についてお話しましょう家庭に個人用の脳波計を置くようになるなんて誰も想像していませんでしたちなみに素敵な目覚まし時計に組み込まれていますねこちらは先ほどの目覚まし時計と一体になったヘッドバンドで睡眠中に連続的に脳波を計測します私は7日間使ってみました TEDMedに備えるためです睡眠は生活にとって重要な要素です 3分の1は寝ているのですからところで睡眠に問題をお持ちの方はどれくらいいらっしゃるでしょうか? 通常は90%ぐらいなのですが、皆さんは思いのほか良く眠れているようですねでは、こちらは1週間にわたる私の睡眠生活を示しています Z.Q.値を示しています I.Q.値ではありませんよ Z.Q.値は起きる時に獲得します「それなら分かる」と言うでしょうね Z.Q.値は年齢に合わせて調整されていますできるだけ高い値を獲得したほうがよいでしょうこちらは時間を追って 1分ごとの睡眠を示していますそこに表示されたZ.Q値は80過ぎですね覚醒状態の時はオレンジ色ですこれは問題を引き起こす可能性があると気づきましたこのシステムは睡眠を定量化してくれるだけではなく起きていることを他の人に知らせてもくれるのです妻が現れて起きてるでしょうと話しかけることも出来たのです「エリック、話をしたいの話をしたいの」でも、私は狸寝入りをしているんですこれは、すごく印象的ですさて、これは最初の夜ですこの時は67ですあまり良い値ではありませんもちろん、レム睡眠時の値や深い眠りの時の値など、全ての状態について値を表示してくれますとても興味をそそられますねなぜなら、睡眠のあらゆる段階を定量化してくれるからですそれから、同世代の人たちと比べてどうなのか教えてくれます管理された睡眠コンテストのようなものです本当に面白いものですこちらを見てこう言いましょう「良く眠れているとは思っていなかったけど実際には、50から60才の平均より良いな」重要なのは、自分では気づかなかったのに実によく夢を見ていたことですでは、睡眠の話から病気の話に変えましょう 80%のアメリカ人が慢性疾患を抱えています 65才を過ぎた80%の人が 2つ以上の慢性疾患を抱えています 1億4千万人のアメリカ人が 1つ以上の慢性疾患を抱えています 1.5兆の支出の80%が慢性疾患に関連しているのです糖尿病はその中でも多い方です 2400万人近くが糖尿病ですこちらは最新の地図で 1週間ちょっと前にニューヨークタイムズに載っていたものです良いようには見えませんね男性の場合、国内で60才を過ぎた人の29%が 2型糖尿病を患っています女性の場合、男性よりは少ないですが、すごく多いですねでも、これを継続して計測する手段があるのですがそれには、血糖値を計測するセンサーを使用しますこれは重要なのですなぜなら、これまでは分からなかった高血糖を検知できるのですから低血糖も分かります赤い点で示した、同じ患者に対する手掌での採血では最大値及び最小値は測定できていませんでしたしかし、連続的に測定することによってこのような決定的な情報を全て記録することができるのですさらにこれからは、このセンサーをバンドエイド型にまでできつつあるのですしかもそれほど遠くない未来に実現しますでは、ざっと説明しますが無線通信医療の対象となる主要10項目ですこれは全て実現可能ですすぐに実現できるものもありますしお聞きになった通り、すでに何らかの方法や形で実現しているものもありますアルツハイマー病は 500万人が患っていますが、これについてはバイタルサイン、活動、情緒の安定性を確認できますぜんそく患者は多いですが、これについては花粉数、大気環境、呼吸数などを測定できます乳がんについては、あとで簡単に一例を紹介します慢性閉塞性肺疾患もあります鬱病については、気分障害の人に対する素晴らしい取り組みが存在しています糖尿病は今お話ししましたね心不全もお話ししました高血圧については 7400万人が連続的に血圧を測定可能ですからもっと優れた管理法や予防法が現れるでしょう肥満については、これに効く方法をお話ししましたそして睡眠障害もありますねこれは世界中で実現できますスマートフォンや携帯電話は、今では途方もなく使われていますこのエコノミスト誌の記事は見事に発展途上国において健康を管理する機会についてまとめています「携帯電話は従来のどんな技術よりも、たくさんの人の命に急速に影響を及ぼしている」こちらは携帯電話を利用した健康管理を広める前です高齢化の問題は非常に大きいものです毎年300,000人の大腿骨頸部骨折でも、その解決法は素晴らしいものです実に様々な方法がありますがぜひ紹介したいのがこちらです iShoseは、これもセンサーを使った例ですが高齢者の固有受容性感覚を改善して転倒を防止します無線センサーを使った様々な技術の1つです継続的に行う健康管理を変えることができます未熟児や胎児から高齢者までのあらゆる年代にわたって変えられます製薬の領域も変わりますあらゆる範囲の病気に対応できますそのイメージをお伝えできたならいいのですがそして全世界に及ぶのですこの一連の動きを加速してくれる事が2つあります 1つは専門機関の立ち上げなのですが、運よくスクリップスとクアルコム社によって始動し更に幸運にもゲアリー・ウェスト、メアリー・ウエスト夫妻と出会いワイヤレス医療研究所を後援してもらえることになりましたサンディエゴは特別な地です無線通信関連の企業が650社を超えその100社以上が無線通信による健康管理に取り組み商取引の最も中心的な地であり、面白いことに 500社を超える生命科学関連の企業と見事に連携していますこのワイヤレス研究所つまりウェストワイヤレス医療研究所は素晴らしい2人の協力で設立されたものです今日ここにこられている、ゲアリー・ウェスト、メアリー・ウェスト夫妻です後援していただいたことに感謝したいと思います (拍手) 夫妻の素晴らしい慈善の投資によりこれが実現しました完全に非営利の教育機関であり今まさに始動しようとしていますこのような外観ですこの建物全体を作っていただきましたこの研究所は、この時代を加速しようとしていますまだ解決していない医療ニーズを取り上げ、研究し、改良を加えますメヘラーン・メラガーニを技術責任者に任命したところでこれは月曜日に発表されました更に発展させ臨床試験による検証を行い、医療行為を変えるのですが最も困難なこととして債務の弁済、健康管理に関わる政策や経済に注意することがあります素晴らしい研究所でこの取り組みを結実させるそれ以外に重要なこととして手本となるということがありますもちろん医療がデジタル化することが前提ですゲノミクスやオミクスにより生態を理解し生理学的な表現型検査を全て無線通信で実行することは、素晴らしいことですこれまでなかったような情報の集約を可能にするからです 80を超える病気がゲノムに基づいて解明されていますがこれは桁はずれのことです病気の基礎についてこれまでの人類史上の成果と比較してもこの2年半ぐらいの間に分かったことの方が多いのですそれを例えば、今ならiPhoneアプリと連携させて自分の遺伝子型を入れることで薬物治療をガイドします将来、いや今でも、高頻度のバリアントを見れば誰が2型糖尿病になるかわかります将来的には低頻度のバリアントによってもっと隙間が埋まっていきますまた、様々な遺伝子を見れば誰が乳がんになるか分かります誰が心房細動を起こしやすいかも分かります最後の例は突然心臓死ですそれぞれに対応したセンサーがあります糖尿病の場合にはグルコースセンサーを使用して予防します乳がんの予防や早期発見を可能にするため超音波検査装置を患者に持たせます心房細動の場合にはiRhythmを使います突然心臓死の予防にはバイタルサイン監視装置を使います米国では毎年70万人が突然心臓死により亡くなっていますぜひ信じていただきたいのですが病院の能力に与える影響は計り知れないものでこれら全ての病気や他の病気に対し一様に素晴らしい影響を与えるものなのです個別化医療を新たな段階へと進めるものでこれは最高に革新的なことです医療界のブラックスワンといえるでしょうご清聴ありがとうございました	Any guesses? 1816. And what I can say is, in 2016, doctors aren't going to be walking around with stethoscopes. There's a whole lot better technology coming, and that's part of the change in medicine. What has changed our society has been wireless devices. But the future are digital medical wireless devices, OK? So, let me give you some examples of this to kind of make this much more concrete. This is the first one. This is an electrocardiogram. And, as a cardiologist, to think that you could see in real time a patient, an individual, anywhere in the world on your smartphone, watching your rhythm -- that's incredible, and it's with us today. But that's just the beginning. You check your email while you're sitting here. In the future you're going to be checking all your vital signs, all your vital signs: your heart rhythm, your blood pressure, your oxygen, your temperature, etc. This is already available today. This is AirStrip Technologies. It's now wired -- or I should say, wireless -- by taking the aggregate of these signals in the hospital, in the intensive care unit, and putting it on a smartphone for physicians. If you're an expectant parent, what about the ability to monitor, continuously, fetal heart rate, or intrauterine contractions, and not having to worry so much that things are fine as the pregnancy, and moving over into the time of delivery? And then as we go further, today we have continuous glucose sensors. Right now, they are under the skin, but in the future, they won't have to be implanted. And of course, the desired range -- trying to keep glucose between 75 and less than 200, checking it every five minutes in a continuous glucose sensor -- you'll see how that can impact diabetes. And what about sleep? We're going to zoom in on that a little bit. We're supposed to spend a third of our life in sleep. What if, on your phone, which will be available in the next few weeks, you had every minute of your sleep displayed? And this is, of course, as you can see, the awake is the orange. The REM sleep, rapid eye movement, dream state, is in light green; and light is gray, light sleep; and deep sleep, the best restorative sleep, is that dark green. How about counting every calorie? And this is ability, in real time, to actually take measurements of caloric intake as well as expenditure, through a Band-Aid. Now, what I've talked about are physiologic metrics. But what I want to get to, the next frontier, very quickly, and why the stethoscope is because we can transcend listening to the valve sounds, and the breath sounds, because now, introduced by G.E. is a handheld ultra-sound. Why is this important? Because this is so much more sensitive. Here is an example of an abdominal ultrasound, and also a cardiac echo, which can be sent wireless, and then there's an example of fetal monitoring on your smartphone. So, we're not just talking about physiologic metrics -- the key measurements of vital signs, and all those things in physiology -- but also all the imaging that one could look at in your smartphone. Now, this is an example of another obsolete technology, soon to be buried: the Holter Monitor. Twenty-four hour recording, lots of wires. This is now a little tiny patch. You can put it on for two weeks and send it in the mail. Now, how does this work? Well, there is these smart Band-Aids or these sensors that one would put on, on a shoe or on the wrist. And this sends a signal and it creates a body area network to a gateway. Gateway could be a smartphone or it could be a dedicated gateway, as today many of these things are dedicated gateways, because they are not so well integrated. That signal goes to the web, the cloud, and then it can be processed and sent anywhere: to a caregiver, to a physician, back to the patient, etc. So, that's basically very simplistic technology of how this works. Now, I have this device on. I didn't want to take my shirt off to show you, but I can tell you it's on. This is a device that not only measures cardiac rhythm, as you saw already, but it also goes well beyond that. This is me now. And you can see the ECG. Below that's the actual heart rate and the trend; to the right of that is a bioconductant. That's the fluid status, fluid status, that's really important if you're monitoring somebody with heart failure. And below that's temperature, and respiration, and oxygen, and then the position activity. So, this is really striking, because this device measures seven things that are very much vital signs for monitoring someone with heart failure. OK? And why is this important? Well, this is the most expensive bed. What if we could reduce the need for hospital beds? Well, we can. First of all, heart failure is the number one reason for hospital admissions and readmissions in this country. The cost of heart failure is 37 billion dollars a year, which is 80 percent related to hospitalization. And in the course of 30 days after a hospital stay for a Medicare greater than 65 years or older, is -- 27 percent are readmitted in 30 days, and by six months, over 56 percent are readmitted. So, can we improve that? Well the idea is we take this device that I'm wearing, and we put it on 600 patients with heart failure, randomly assigned, versus 600 patients who don't have active monitoring, and see whether we can reduce heart failure readmissions, and that's exciting. And we'll start that trial, and you'll hear more about how we're going to do that, but that's a type of wireless device trial that could change medicine in the years ahead. Why now? Why has this all of a sudden become a reality, an exciting direction in the future of medicine? What we have is, in a way, a perfect positive storm. This sets up consumer-driven healthcare. That's where this is all starting. Let me just give you specifics about why this is a big movement if you're not aware of it: 1.2 million Americans have gotten a Nike shoe, which is a body-area network that connects the shoe, the sole of the shoe to the iPhone, or an iPod. And this Wired Magazine cover article really captured a lot of this; it talked a lot about the Nike shoe and how quickly that's been adopted to monitor exercise physiology and energy expenditure. Here are some things, the principles that are guiding principles to keep in mind: "A data-driven health revolution promises to make us all better, faster, and stronger. Living by numbers." And this one, which is really telling, this was from July, this cover article: "The personal metrics movement goes way beyond diet and exercise. It's about tracking every facet of life, from sleep to mood to pain, 24/7/365." Well, I tried this device. A lot of you have gotten that Phillips Direct Life. I didn't have one of those, but I got the Fitbit. That looks like this. It's like a wireless accelerometer, pedometer. And I want to just give you the results of that testing, because I wanted to understand about the consumer movement. I hope the, by the way, the Phillips Direct Life works better -- I hope so. But this monitors food, it monitors activity and tracks weight. However you have to put in most of this stuff. The only thing it really tracks by itself is activity, and even then, it's not complete. So, you exercise and it picks up the exercise. You put in your height and weight, it calculates BMI, and of course it tells you how many calories you're expending from the exercise, and how many you took in, if you go in and enter all the foods. But it really wants you to enter all your activity. And so I went to this, and of course I was gratified that it picked up the 42 minutes of exercise, elliptical exercise I did, but then it wants more information. So, it says, "You want to log sexual activity. How long did you do it for?" And it says, "How hard was it?" Furthermore it says, "Start time." Now, this doesn't appear -- this just doesn't work, I mean, this just doesn't work. So, now I want to move to sleep. Who would ever have thought you could have your own EEG at your home, tagged to a very nice alarm clock, by the way? This is the headband that goes with this alarm clock. It monitors your brainwaves continuously, when you're sleeping. So, I did this thing for seven days getting ready for TEDMed. This is an important part of our life, one-third you're supposed to be sleeping. Of course how many here have any problems with sleeping? It's usually 90 percent. So, you tell me you sleep better than expected. Okay, well this was a week of my life in sleeping, and you get a Z.Q. score. Instead of an I.Q. score, you get a Z.Q. score when you wake up. You say, "Oh, OK." And a Z.Q. score is adjusted to age, and you want to get as high as you possibly can. So this is the moment-by-moment, or minute-by-minute sleep. And you see that Z.Q. there was 80-odd. And the wake time is in orange. And this can be a problem, as I learned. Because it not only helps you with quantifying your sleep, but also tells others you're awake. So, when my wife came in and she could tell you're awake. "Eric, I want to talk. I want to talk." And I'm trying to play possum. This thing is very, very impressive. OK. So, that's the first night. And this one is now 67, and that's not a good score. And this tells you, of course, how much you had in REM sleep, in deep sleep, and all this sort of thing. This was really fascinating because this gave that quantitation about all the different phases of sleep. So, it also then tells you how you do compared to your age group. It's like a managed competition of sleep. And really interesting stuff. Look at this thing and say, "Well, I didn't think I was a very good sleeper, but actually I did better than average in 50 to 60 year olds." OK? And the key thing was, what I didn't know, was that I was a really good dreamer. OK. Now let's move from sleep to diseases. Eighty percent of Americans have chronic disease, or 80 percent of age greater than 65 have two or more chronic disease, 140 million Americans have one or more chronic disease, and 80 percent of our 1.5, whatever, trillion expenditures are related to chronic disease. Now, diabetes is one of the big ones. Almost 24 million people have diabetes. And here is the latest map. It was published just a little more than a week ago in the New York Times, and it isn't looking good. That is, for men, 29 percent in the country over 60 have Type II diabetes, and women, although it's less, it's terribly high. But of course we have a way to measure that now on a continuous basis, with a sensor that detects blood glucose, and it's important because we could detect hyperglycemia that otherwise wouldn't be known, and also hypoglycemia. And you can see the red dots, in this particular patient's case, were finger sticks, which would have missed both ends. But by continuous monitoring, it captures all that vital information. The future of this though, is being able to move this to a Band-Aid type phenomenon, and that's not so far away. So, let me just give you, very quickly, 10 top targets for wireless medicine. All these things are possible -- some of them are very close, or already, as you heard, are available today, in some way or form. Alzheimer's disease: there's five million people affected, and you can check vital signs, activity, balance. Asthma: large number, we could detect things like pollen count, air quality, respiratory rate. Breast cancer, I'll show you an example of that real quickly. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Depression, there's a great approach to that in mood disorders. Diabetes I've just mentioned. Heart failure we already talked about. Hypertension: 74 million people could have continuous blood-pressure monitoring to come up with much better management and prevention. And obesity we already talked about, the ways to get to that. And sleep disorders. This is effective around the world. The access to smartphones and cell phones today is extraordinary. And this article from The Economist summed it up beautifully about the opportunities in health across the developing world: "Mobile phones made a bigger difference to the lives of more people, more quickly, than any previous technology." And that's before we got going on the m-health world. Aging: The problem is enormous, 300,000 broken hips per year; but the solutions are extraordinary, and they include so many different things. One of the ones I just wanted to mention: The iShoe is another example of a sensor that improves proprioception among the elderly to prevent falling. One of many different techniques using wireless sensors. So, we can change medicine across the continuum of care, across the ages from premies or unborn children to seniors; the pharmaceutical arena changes; the full spectrum of disease -- I hope I've given you a sense of that -- across the globe. There are two things that can really accelerate this whole process. One of them -- we're very fortunate -- is to develop a dedicated institute and that's work that started with the work that Scripps with Qualcomm ... and then the great fortune of meeting up with Gary and Mary West, to get behind this wireless health institute. San Diego is an extraordinary place for this. There's over 650 wireless companies, 100 of which or more are working in wireless health. It's the number one source of commerce, and interestingly it dovetails beautifully with over 500 life science companies. The wireless institute, the West Wireless Health Institute, is really the outgrowth of two extraordinary people who are here this evening: Gary and Mary West. And I'd like to give it up for them for getting behind this. Their fantastic philanthropic investment made this possible, and this is really a nonprofit education center which is just about to open. It looks like this, this whole building dedicated. And what it's trying to do is accelerate this era: to take unmet medical needs, to work and innovate -- and we just appointed the chief engineer, Mehran Mehregany, it was announced on Monday -- then to move up with development, clinical trial validation and then changing medical practice, the most challenging thing of all, requiring attention to reimbursement, healthcare policy, healthcare economics. The other big thing, besides having this fantastic institute to catalyze this process is guidance, and that's of course relying on the fact that medicine goes digital. If we understand biology from genomics and omics and wireless through physiologic phenotyping, that's big. Because what it does is allow a convergence like we've never had before. Over 80 major diseases have been cracked at the genomic level, but this is quite extraordinary: More has been learned about the underpinnings of disease in the last two and a half years than in the history of man. And when you put that together with, for example, now an app for the iPhone with your genotype to guide drug therapy ... but, the future -- we can now tell who's going to get Type II diabetes from all the common variants, and that's going to get filled in more with low-frequency variants in the future. We can tell who's going to get breast cancer from the various genes. We can also know who's likely to get atrial fibrillation. And finally, another example: sudden cardiac death. Each of these has a sensor. We can give glucose a sensor for diabetes to prevent it. We can prevent, or have the earliest detection possible, for breast cancer with an ultrasound device given to the patient. An iPatch, iRhythm, for atrial fibrillation. And vital-signs monitoring to prevent sudden cardiac death. We lose 700,000 people a year in the U.S. from sudden cardiac death. So, I hope I've convinced you of this, of the impact on hospital clinic resources is profound and then the impact on diseases is equally impressive across all these different diseases and more. It's really taking individualized medicine to a new height and it's hyper-innovative, and I think it represents the black swan of medicine. Thanks for your attention.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
最後の戦いは......想像以上の死闘になった。『グリーンバタフライ』は全戦力を『レッドボア』の本拠地へと差し向けていた。それも想像以上に早い段階で......。これは後からわかったことだが、俺が攻め落とした砦から飛び立ったインコ型モンスター『トリデワタリインコ』は、予想通りメッセージを他の砦に伝えることが出来るモンスターだった。『ブルーディアー』はこのインコを味方の砦だけでなく、敵である『グリーンバタフライ』の砦にも飛ばしていたのだ。インコのメッセージを聞いた『グリーンバタフライ』は、『レッドボア』がこのまま『ブルーディアー』の本拠地を落とすつもりだと考えた。この陣取り間戦い、最終的に占領している砦が多い方が勝つイベントだ。どこかの勢力が本拠地を落とされ、その砦をすべて奪い取られれば、砦の数で勝負するのは現実的ではなくなる。『グリーンバタフライ』は『ブルーディアー』の本拠地を落とそうとしている『レッドボア』の本隊を引き付けるべく、『レッドボア』の本拠地を強襲しようとした。自分たちの本拠地が攻められれば、他の本拠地を攻撃している場合ではなくなる......。しかし、『ブルーディアー』の本拠地は俺の率いるモンスター&AI戦士の軍勢とハタケさんのギルドだけで落とせてしまった。結果的に『グリーンバタフライ』はこの総攻撃で『レッドボア』の本拠地を落とさない限り、勝利はなくなってしまった。ふたつの勢力は真正面からぶつかった。最初は後手に回った『レッドボア』が劣勢だったが、本拠地へと軍勢を進める必要がある『グリーンバタフライ』と違い、防衛側には余裕がある。もはや本拠地さえ落とされなければいいのだ。少数によるゲリラ的な妨害工作で進軍を遅らせ、その隙に戦力を本拠地に集めておく。勢いを徐々に失った『グリーンバタフライ』の軍勢は、『レッドボア』本拠地での戦いで完全に壊滅した。俺もとりあえず本拠地を守っておけばいいだろうと『マッハホース』で一直線に本拠地に向かった。最終決戦時には本拠地から矢を撃ちまくり、敵の壊滅に貢献した。仲間のピンチに颯爽と現れて大活躍とはいかなかったが、強力な前衛の後ろに隠れながら堅実にキルを重ねるのはスナイパー本来の姿のようで悪くないと思った。この時、俺は特に目立つことはなかった。この時は......。その後、主力を失った『グリーンバタフライ』の本拠地を占領し、イベント『天の陣取り合戦』は赤い猪のエンブレムを持つ『レッドボア』の勝利に終わった。問題はそこからだった。イベントが終わり、キルされたプレイヤーもイベントマップに再び入ることが出来るようになった。参加者みんなで最終結果の確認や優秀なプレイヤーの発表を見守ろうというのだ。楽しそうに聞こえるだろう? イベントが終わればいろんなことに目をつぶって仲良くノーサイド......とはいかなかった。 VRMMOというのは紳士のスポーツではない。最新技術を使って人の本能を呼び覚ます獣のスポーツなのだ。まあ、俺は楽しめたんだけどね......。そうは思わなかった人もいたようで......。最終結果発表はイベントのバランスの悪さを象徴する証としてスクリーンショットがネットに貼られまくった。えるスクショは......イベントのMVPとして顔と名前と職業が大空に投影された俺のスクショだった。あ、もちろんゲーム内の顔と名前と職業だ。まあ、別に俺自身が叩かれているわけではない。 MVPが発表された時には、同じ『レッドボア』に所属していたプレイヤーが大いに祝福してくれた。しかし、第3職の活躍が予想されたイベントで第2職がMVPというのはやはり騒がれる。さらに最多キルのタイトルも第2職が獲得していたことが話題になった。こちらに関してはプレイヤーのキャラ画像が表示されなかったが、名前を見てなんとなく察した。『ネココ・ストレンジ』......猫が好きじゃなければこんな名前にはしないだろう。おそらく彼女だ。バトロワは彼女が優勝。つまり、もっとも優秀なプレイヤーで俺が最多キルだった。まあ、リベンジにはなったかな。彼女とはゲームの進行度が近いようだし、また大型イベントとなれば激突することになりそうだ。大型イベントがいつ来るのかは、わからなくなってしまったけど......。というのも、これまでNSOは短いスパンで大型イベントを行っていた。それが今回の騒動というか、今風に言うと炎上というか、話題になったことでイベントのバランスを見直して作りこむために時間を置くと発表したのだ。そもそも、NSOの次のアップデートではソロ向けの新要素が大量実装というウワサだったので、イベントの頻度が下がることは既定路線だったと思う。それでも、反省したポーズを見せておくことが大事だ。この大VR時代にゲームに関する炎上など常々5つは同時並行で起こっているといっても過言ではない。騒がれるのは人を増やすチャンスでもある。運営次第でこのピンチも乗り越えられるだろう。しかし俺としては......早く鎮火してほしい。あのスクショがあまりにも貼られすぎて、『Next Stage Online』とか『NSO』で検索すると俺のキャラの顔が出てくるようになってしまったからだ......! おかげで結構有名人。ゲーム内の街を歩いていても指をさされたり、話しかけられたり、記念スクショを求められたりする。渦中の人、話題の人、時の人......初めての体験だ。でもまあ、俺に出会って喜んでくれる人がいるのならば悪い気はしない。ギルドやプロゲーマーチームへの勧誘はちょっとお断りだがね。俺はこれからも基本的にはソロで遊んでいこうと思う。絶対に誰とも関わらないと楽しい方へと自由に流れていくだけさ。風に乗る雲のように。さて、次のアプデはこのゲームの命運を分けると思うが、いったいどんな新要素が実装されるのだろうか? まだまだ『NSO』は俺をワクワクさせてくれそうだ。	The last battle...was even more desperate than I imagined. Green Butterfly had sent their entire fighting force to go and attack Red Boar’s main base. And they had started doing this very early on... I learned about this later, but the parrot-type monsters that had flown off after we took the fortress were indeed monsters who sent messages to the other fortresses. Blue Deer had sent these parrots not to just their own fortresses, but also their enemy, Green Butterfly as well. It was easy to assume that upon hearing the messages, Green Butterfly would think that Red Boar would take down Blue Deer’s fortress. This turf war was supposed to last for a week, and the team who had the most fortresses at the end of the event would win. However, if one team took a main base and then took possession of all of that team’s fortresses, it would then become incredibly difficult for the remaining team to catch up. And so Green Butterfly attacked Red Boar’s main base in order to lure away the army that was attacking Blue Deer’s main base. If their own base was being attacked, they could not spare time to attack the other ones... However, Blue Deer’s main base was taken down by just Hatake’s guild and me and my monsters and AI warriors. Ultimately, Green Butterfly now had no way of winning unless they took down our main base. And so the two powers clashed head on. Due to a delayed reaction, Red Boar started with a disadvantage, but unlike Green Butterfly, who had to march towards the base, we just had to defend. We just had to prevent our main base from falling. And so small groups were sent to launch guerrilla attacks in order to delay the march, and in the meantime, we gathered our forces to the main base. Green Butterfly started to lose their momentum, and fell apart completely in the battle at Red Boar’s base. As I felt that the only thing I needed to do was protect the main base, I headed straight for it on the Mach Horse. And during the final battle, I spammed arrows over the enemy and contributed to their demise. While it wasn’t some dramatic appearance where I swept in and saved my comrades in the nick of time, it wasn’t bad. I was able to rack up kills while sniping from behind a powerful advance guard. This was the way I was supposed to fight. And so I didn’t stick out. At that time, anyway... After that, we attacked Green Butterfly’s main base, now that they had lost their primary fighting force. And the event ended with Red Boar’s victory. The problem was what happened after that. Once the event was finished, the players who were killed were allowed to return to the map. It was so that everyone who participated could see the final results together, and find out which players did the best. It sounded fun, right? Once it was over, no one held any grudges and we all got along... Well, that’s not what happened. VRMMOs were not a gentleman’s sport. It was a beastly sport where the latest technology was used to bring out the most base of instincts. Well, at least I had fun... But not everyone did... And so screenshots of the final results were spread everywhere online as proof of how badly balanced the event had been. And the screenshot that got the most attention, in a bad way...was a screenshot of the event MVP. A big picture of my face, name and job were projected onto the sky. Of course, it was my face, name and job within the game. Well, it wasn’t as if the backlash was directed at me personally. In fact, the players of Red Boar were very happy when they saw the announcement. However, a lot was still said about how a nd had stolen the spotlight in an event that was expected to center around rds. Furthermore, a nd had also taken the title for most kills. As for that player, no image was shown, but it wasn’t hard to guess after seeing the name. ‘Nekoko Strange.’ ...Only a cat lover would use a name like that. So it must be her. She had won during the battle royale. In other words, she had gotten the MVP, while I had the most kills. Well, I suppose that worked as a revenge? It seemed like we were advancing through the game at a similar speed, and if there was another large event, we would likely clash again. Though, I didn’t know when there would be another one... This was because NSO had done two in a short span already. And given how much backlash there was this time, management had announced that they would take more time to balance and plan the events. In the first place, there were rumors that the next NSO update would add lots of new features for solo players. And so it was already obvious that events would not be coming as regularly. Still, it was important to look like you were listening. During this great age of VR games, it was like there were at least five different controversies happening at all times. And so it was seen as a chance to increase your playerbase. Depending on how management handled things, they would overcome the danger. But as for me...I wanted things to settle down as soon as possible. This was because the screenshot was reposted so many times, that even searching for ‘Next Stage Online’ or ‘NSO’ started to bring up my character’s face...! And so I was now quite famous. People would point at me when walking around in towns in the game. And they would approach me and ask to take photos. Being the center of attention. The talk of the town... I had never experienced such a thing before. But well, I suppose that it didn’t feel bad to have people who were happy to see you. That being said, I still had to reject a lot of offers to join guilds and pro gamer teams. I intended to continue enjoying this game while staying solo. It wasn’t that I would never get involved with others. I just wanted the freedom to go in any direction that felt fun. Like a cloud in the wind. Now, the next update would have a great effect on the fate of this game. So what kind of new features would they implement? I had a feeling that NSO would continue to excite me for quite some time.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 5, "inserted_lines_src": 4, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
私はベッドの上でデューク様からもらったネックレスを眺めた。本当に美しくてうっとりしてしまうわ。デューク様って私の事を妹って扱いじゃなくてちゃんとレディーとして扱ってくれている気がするのよね。これって私だけじゃなくて皆にもしているのかしら。だって彼はヒロインと恋に落ちるのよね? そしてそのヒロインを私は虐めるのよね? ......ネックレスを返せって言われたらどうしましょ。でも悪女だったら貰ったものは絶対に返さないわよね。それにきっと宝石でも自分の身の丈にあったものでなくてもつけるわよね......。私は起き上がって鏡の前に立ち、ネックレスを首につけた。これなら剣のお稽古の時も邪魔にならない中つけていられるわね。それにしても本当に綺麗ね。微かに青く光るダイヤモンド......、なんだかデューク様が近くにいるみたいだわ。 ......ってなんて妄想しているのかしら。彼は国王様の息子で年上でヒロインと恋に落ちるのよ。余計な事を考えないように私は腹筋を始めた。次の日、ロゼッタに朝一でネックレスについて聞かれた。「それが昨日デューク様から頂いたネックレスですか!? なんてお美しい!」「......これってダイヤモンドですか?」ロゼッタが目を見開きながら私の顔を見てそう言った。「そうみたい」ロゼッタは目をさらに大きく見開いた。そうよね、そういう反応になるわよね。やっぱり外した方がいいのかしら。でも私は悪女ですもの。高価なものはやはり身につけておきたいわ。それからアランお兄様とヘンリお兄様にも質問攻めにされた。まぁ、予想はしていたんだけどね。「「これをデュークから貰ったのか!?」」「ああ、ダイヤモンドだ」「俺も渡す瞬間その場にいたかったな」私が答える前がどんどん話を進めていった。その後も、お屋敷で通り過ぎる人皆にネックレスを褒められた。お母様はとても綺麗ねってそれだけ言って微笑んでいたのだけれど、お父様は目を丸くして固まった。そりゃ自分の娘が国王様の息子からダイヤモンドのネックレスを頂いたんだもの、驚くわよね。それでもこんなに大騒ぎするようなことなのかしら。お屋敷中が一日その話題になるなんてよっぽどダイヤモンドが珍しい代物なのね。私はそんな事をぼんやりと考えながら図書室に向かった。	Instead, I headed back to my room, lay down in bed, and just continued to gaze at the necklace that Duke-Sama had given me. It’s so beautiful, I can’t help but become entranced by it. Duke-Sama certainly doesn’t seem like he’s treating me like a younger sister.... His conduct towards me feels like he’s treating me like a lady. But maybe that’s just how he treats all women? I mean, he’s destined to fall in love with the heroine... And I’m someone who’s destined to bully the heroine..... So it wouldn’t make sense for him to treat only me like that, right? ......I wonder what I should do if he demands that I return the necklace later on? A proper villainess would definitely refuse... She would never return something that she had received. She would keep even the lesser valued trinkets all to herself, so I’m sure there’s no way a villainess would return a gift of of this magnitude that is easily able to promote her high social standing...... I jump off the bed and walk over to stand in front of the mirror. Carefully, I unclasp the necklace and try putting it on. The jewel lands just at the base of my throat. With it being this short, it won’t get in the way during sword practice, so I can keep it on all day! And it truly is gorgeous. The diamond, still glittering with an almost blue light..... somehow gives off the impression that Duke-Sama is near me. ......What am I saying? I’m just being silly. Duke-Sama is older than me, the king’s son, and he’s going to fall in love with the heroine in the future. To prevent myself from overthinking things any further, I throw myself into doing some sit-ups for my nightly workout. The next day, Rosetta comes to my room bright and early and the first thing she does is ask about the necklace. “Is that the necklace that you received from Duke-Sama yesterday!? It’s so beautiful!” she cries, her eyes sparkling as she stares down at the jewel hanging from around my neck. “......Is that a diamond!?” Rosetta asks, her eyes going wide as they dart up to look at my face. “That’s what I was told.” Rosetta’s eyes widen even further. Maybe it really would be better not to wear it.... Wait, no. I’m a villainess! I ought to be wearing expensive and valuable items like this all the time. Later that day, it was Alan-Oniisama’s and Henry-Oniisama’s turn to question me. Though, I had predicted this might happen so I wasn’t surprised. ” “So you got this from Duke!?” “ “That’s a diamond, right?” “Yeah, definitely a diamond.” “Dang, I wish I would’ve been there when he was giving it to you.” Their conversation flows smoothly despite not even letting me get a word in. They just keep answering their own rapid-fire questions. And even after that, everyone that I passed by in the halls all couldn’t help but admire the necklace. When I saw Mother, she just smiled and told me that it was lovely, but Father’s eyes went wide and he stiffened a bit when he saw it. To have the king’s son give his daughter a diamond necklace is a rather surprising event after all. But even so, is this really that big of a deal? To have the whole estate in such an uproar like this.... My necklace has been the number one topic all day. I guess diamonds are even more precious and rare than I initially thought. And with that idea whirling through my mind, I absentmindedly head over to the library.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 3, "inserted_lines_trg": 1 }
「始まりがいつかは定かではないのですが。実は、カディアスマイト島周辺の海域に出るらしいのですよ。幽霊船が」そう、少しだけ前に身を乗り出して、声色低めにセロが言う。「ほぅ......ほぅほぅほぅ! 確かに定番じゃ!」カディアスマイト島。それは現在居る大陸の西に位置する小さな島の名だ。シュメゴーフェ地方最強の海軍を保有する、ヴァーリ軍港国の名の下に、現在はカディアスマイト連合国として、海上で抜き出た存在として有名である。「これは、船乗りの間で良く知られる噂話でして、十年ほど前だったでしょうか、知り合いの船長に教えて貰ったものです。なんでも、その幽霊船は、黄昏時に深い霧の中から現れるようです。目撃者は揃って、こう言うそうですよ。突然霧に包まれると、古びたガレー船が併走していた、と。その船はジョリーロジャーを掲げており、甲板には赤い服を纏った船長らしき人物を見たという者もいるとの事です。更に、この噂には色々な憶測が飛び交っていまして。幽霊船について行ければ、海賊の財宝を見つける事が出来る。海難事故者が船員となり彷徨っている。他には、船内には失われた伝説の武具が封じられているといったものもありますね。数ある憶測の中には、ヴァーリの秘密兵器という説もありますが、私としてはやはり、伝説の武具に一票でしょうか。剣士ですから」「私も、一票!」最後、冗談交じりに言うセロだったが、エメラは瞳を輝かせながら伝説の武具説に票を投じる。そう言いながら少し困ったように眉根を寄せるセロ。フリッカは呆れた様に苦笑を浮かべ、ゼフも同様に天を仰ぐ。「しかしまあ、気になる噂じゃな。現実では眉唾でしかない幽霊船の噂だが、様々な幻想が存在するこの世界では、噂ですら現実的な信憑性を持つ気さえするものだ。そんな共通認識からミラとセロは笑い合い、幽霊船に思いを馳せる。「では、次の噂話です」ハニーオレとハーブティのおかわりを頼むと、真剣に楽しむ表情を浮かべてセロが話し始めた。「海の次は空です。これは飛空船乗りの間で実しやかに囁かれる噂で──はい、ミラさん」話の途中、その中にあった単語が気になり右手を挙げたミラ。セロは、その行動の意図を即座に理解し、教師の様な風体で指名する。「飛空船というのは、初めて聞くんじゃが。それはもしや」「ええ、そうです。空を飛ぶ船の事ですよ。最先端の魔導工学により実現したみたいです。とはいえ、完成したの前くらいだったでしょうか。やはり開発費も高いらしく、現在大型は、三神国とアトランティス、ニルヴァーナに一隻ずつのがあるだけのようですね」「ほぅ......やはり大国は違うのぅ」三神国はプレイヤーのスタート地点ともされている国で、大陸最大級の戦力と規模を誇っている。そして、そんな三国と並べられの国。アトランティス王国とニルヴァーナ皇国は、常にトップを争っていたプレイヤーの建国した国の名である。「小型になると、もう少し増えるみたいですよ。ただ、今度の噂は大型の飛空船乗りから聞いた話になります。聞いた限りですとこの噂の発端は、ある重役を飛空船で送迎していた時だったようですね。その日は快晴で、絶好の航海日和だったみたいです。ですが順調に進む飛空船が航路の半分を過ぎたあたりで、突如として巨大な嵐に巻き込まれてしまったと。嵐の中は夜の様に真っ暗で、轟く稲光が時折周囲を照らすだけ。激しい風雨に曝されながら、嵐を抜け出そうと船員総出で作業をしていた時、それは姿を現したそうです」セロが、そこで一端区切ると、店主が注文したおかわりを運んでくる。「冒険者の方というのは、本当に多くの話を知っているんですね。私も、そのような話は大好きなんですよ」カップとグラスを置きながら、興味津々といった笑顔を浮かべる店主。「仕事柄、というのもありますが、やはり趣味で集めているというのが大きいかもしれません。私も好きでして」そう答えたセロは、カップを受け取り一口含むと、店主と微笑み合う。二人の間に何かが通じ合ったようだ。事実、店主もその職業柄、多くの冒険者達と出会い、話を聞いてきた。そして自然と、その夢の溢れる冒険譚にいつの間にか魅了されていたのだ。店主は、軽く一礼するとカウンターへと戻っていく。セロはもったいぶる様、もう一度優雅にカップを傾けると、ミラも、つられる様にグラスに口をつけた。エカルラートカリヨンの面々もセロの話に聞き入っていたが、フリッカだけは気付かれない程度に、ミラとの席の間を詰めるという作業を続けている。「では、続きですね。えっと、確か直前まで話したところでしたね。その嵐を抜け出そうと、船員達が必死で作業をしていた時、大きな稲光が嵐の奥で輝きました。吹き付ける風雨で視界が悪い中、黒く厚い雲が一瞬の閃光に照らされると、そこに大きな城の影が見て取れたそうです。それも一人や二人ではなく、船員のほぼ全てが見たと。遥か上空で、嵐の中に浮かぶ巨城の影。それも一度だけでなく、その後時と場所を変えて幾度と目撃されているそうです」「それはもしや......!」「ええ、天空城ですよ。ミラさん」噂その二は、空を漂う天空の城。ミラは、その王道ともいえる幻想の代表格の登場に思わず席を立つと、ほぼ同時にフリッカも立ち上がり、二人でそのまま店の外へと飛び出した。「天空に浮かぶ大きな城となると、きっと見た事も無い魔術の記された書物がありそうですね」「ほう、意外な反応じゃな。魔術士らしい事を言うではないか」フリッカの今まで見てきた振る舞いからは考えられない言葉に、ミラは意地悪い笑みを浮かべて言うと、後から続いてエメラが顔を出し、「ミラちゃんと会うとこんなだけど、いつもは真面目な魔術士なんだよ」そうフリッカのフォローをしつつ、ミラへと伸びるその手を捻り上げる。三人が見上げた空には大きな白い雲がいくつも浮かんでおり、そのどれかに城が隠れているのではと興奮を禁じえないミラ。傍らからはフリッカの悲痛の叫びが響いてくる。空の広さに思いを馳せた三人が店内へと戻る。ミラは、不自然に近づいていた椅子を大きく引き離してから座ると、隣に腰を下ろしたフリッカは、言葉も無く大きく項垂れた。「私も、この噂を聞いてから空を見上げる事が多くなりましたよ」そう言ってセロはミラに笑顔を向ける。こんな話を聞かされては、ペガサスに乗っている時は地上よりも空の方に目を向けてしまいそうだ。そんな風にこれからを想像して、ミラは僅かに口角を上げた。「目撃証言の共通点は、突然の嵐だそうです。誰もが嵐に巻き込まれ、その中で巨城の影を見たという事らしいですね。きっと、天空城は嵐に守られているのでしょう」「うむ、きっとそうじゃな。そうに違いない」二人は頷くとそれから暫く、嵐を抜けた先に広がる壮大な巨城を空想しては、きっとこうであろうという妄想を語り合う。最初は、置いていかれている状態だった他の面々も、次第に二人の話しに感化され始め、最終的には五人で勝手な理想郷を作り上げるところまで盛り上がるのだった。「少し脱線し過ぎましたね。では、次が最後です」天空の城には太古の霊獣が封じられており、その地下にはかつての英雄が振るった聖剣が眠る。書庫は古代の魔術書が本棚を埋め尽くし、宝物庫には金銀財宝が山の様に積み上げられ、中庭には命の雫が涌き続ける噴水がある。そんな天空城が五人の間で完成すると、少し照れくさそうな表情を浮かべてセロが三つめの噂を語りだす。彼は、主にアーク大陸北部を中心に活動している冒険者なんですが、その日は蜃気楼寺院に用が出来たそうでして。発掘者から運良く磁宙水晶を購入して、寺院目指してオリアト砂漠を奔走していたんですが、どうにもその磁宙水晶が不良品だったらしく、途中から反応が無くなってしまったそうです」ミラは、その話からセロの知り合いである冒険者の不運に同情する。その状況は、ミラにも経験があったからだ。アーク大陸とは、海峡を挟んだ西側に位置する広大な大陸の名で、プレイヤーの間では開拓大陸とも呼ばれる。その別称が表す様に、プレイヤーの建国した国が非常に多いのも特徴だ。そのアーク大陸の南西に、セロの言ったオリアト砂漠は広がっている。そこには、蜃気楼寺院という地図には載る事の無い聖域があり、唯一、磁宙水晶という道具がその場所を割り出す事が出来るのだ。そして、その磁宙水晶には稀に外れがあるのも、上級プレイヤーなら誰もが知るところである。「ええ。彼もまさか今ここでと、大いに嘆いたそうです。ですが随分と奥まで入り込んでいたので、既にすぐ近くなのではないかと、少しだけ周囲を探してから帰ろうとしたみたいなんですが......。「砂地獄とな......、とことんついてない奴じゃのぅ......」オリアト砂漠に点在する砂地獄。飲み込まれると地下遺跡のダンジョンに強制招待されてしまうというものだ。その冒険者は、余程運が悪いのだろうと、ミラは苦笑しながらハニーオレを口に含む。彼は最初、状況が理解できず、その光景に見蕩れていたと言ってました。そんな時、遠くに黒い人影が現れると、それが急に迫ってきたと。その瞬間に、とてつもない悪寒が全身を走り、彼はその人影から必死に逃げた結果、気付くとオアシスの湖に浸かっていたらしいのです。「黄金都市か......しかし、その黒い人影は何だったんじゃろうな......」「おや、そちらの方が気になりますか?」ミラは話を聞き終わると、その中にあった黒い人影というのに着目した。その存在は、セロの知り合いである冒険者を排除する為に現れたように思える。それはまるで、黄金都市を守っている守護者の如くだ。そして守護者といえば、実は召喚術士の出番である。「もしかしたら、契約できるかもしれんじゃろ」ミラの見開いた瞳は期待に満ち溢れており、その様からセロもミラが生粋の召喚術士であると認識して納得する。「いいな、黄金都市。そんなところ見つけられれば、一生食うに困らないだろうな」「黄金の武具店はあるのかな!?」「私は、黄金の魔術書庫がいいです」天空城の時の勢いのまま、好き勝手に希望を述べ始める面々。そしてそれを止めるものは一人もおらず、それぞれの望みを列挙しながら昼食が終わるまで続くのだった。噂話で盛り上がり、昼食を済ませたセロ達と一緒に表へ出たミラ。その腕ではピュアラビットが、気持ち良さそうに寝息を立てている。ハンターズビレッジの大通りは更に賑わいを増しており、そこかしこに人の群れが溢れ、これからが本番だという活気に満ちていた。「では、ミラさん。またいずれ」「ミラちゃん分が足りない......」「じゃあね、ミラちゃん」「うむ、久し振りに会えて良かった。道中、気をつけるんじゃぞ」休憩時間が終わったので護衛へと戻っていくセロ達と簡潔に挨拶を交わす。別れたところで、今日の様にまた偶然どこかで会える事もあるだろう。自然と別れを惜しむといった感情は沸かず、ただ次の再会にはどのような話が出来るのかと楽しみにしつつ、ミラは手を振り返した。それからミラは適当な広場でペガサスを召喚すると、その背に飛び乗りハンターズビレッジを後にする。喧騒が離れ、耳に響くのは風と翼の音だけ。眼下には草原が広がり、遥か後方には遠くからでも霞がかった御神木の存在が窺える。視界一杯に広がる青空の中、大きな雲を見つけては目を凝らしながら、ミラは帰路についた。ハンターズビレッジを出立してから数時間、視界の先まで続く草原の只中で座り込んだミラは、ペガサスに寄り掛かりながらマップを確認していた。 (報告は......、明日でもいいじゃろう) 連日に渡り、長い時間を空の移動に費やしてきたミラの身体には相応の疲労が溜まっていたようで、休憩の為に降り立ったまま既に二十分の時が経過している。傍らではピュアラビットが、心配そうにミラの指先を舐めていた。どうにも拭いきれない疲労からか、真っ直ぐ帰っても夜になる事は確実であると考えたミラは、無理せずゆっくり帰ろうと決める。ぐったりとした様子のミラに、ペガサスも労わる様に首を回し、その小さな身体を支える。ミラは、優しさを見せるペガサスの首を撫でると、より深く身を寄せて、ピュアラビットを手元に寄せた。「すまんが、暫くこうさせてくれ」そう言いながらペガサスに全身を預けると、白く大きな翼がそっとミラを覆う。脈動する温もりを感じつつ、ミラは暫しの安息を得るのだった。ペガサスはミラが目覚めた事を察すると、その翼をゆっくりと広げる。するとミラの目には、色とりどりの小鳥達が映り、それは周辺一帯に広がっていた。だが、それだけの数が集まっているにも関わらず、小鳥達は鳴き声を上げる事無く、静かにペガサスを囲んでいる。聞こえるのは只、風の囁く音のみである。「また、随分と集まったものじゃな」ペガサスの鬣を撫で付けながら、祈り子の森の湖での比ではない規模に「お主は大人気じゃのぅ」と笑うしかないミラ。ペガサスは気持ち良さそうに喉を鳴らすと、元気そうな笑顔を浮かべるミラの胸に顔を寄せ、ピュアラビットも遠慮気味ながら膝の上でミラを見上げていた。「大丈夫じゃよ。少し疲れとっただけじゃからな」ミラがそう声を掛けると、ペガサスが大きく嘶く。その直後、静寂が支配していた草原で小鳥達が一斉に奏で始めた。小さな声でも流石にこれだけの数が集まると騒がしいものだが、寝起きのミラはその音色ではっきりと覚醒していく。「お主にも心配掛けたかのぅ。もう大丈夫じゃ」そう言い、ピュアラビットを両手で持ち上げるミラ。青兎は、きゅいきゅいと嬉しそうに声を上げてミラの胸に抱かれる。「少しゆっくりし過ぎたかもしれん。そろそろ行くとしようか。また頼むぞ、ペガサスよ」疲れも眠気も吹き飛んだミラが立ち上がると同時に、ペガサスの上で寛いでいた小鳥達が飛び立つ。そしてミラがそこに腰を下ろせば、ペガサスはゆっくりとその身を起こす。周囲の小鳥達が一斉に空へと解き放たれていくように舞い上がる。広がる光景は桜吹雪の如く華やかで、その中を純白の天馬が駆け抜けていった。日が沈むと、銀の連塔の前の広場には観光客が疎らに残るのみとなる。その広場手前に着陸すると、ミラは今まで以上に顔を摺り寄せてくるペガサスを宥めながら送還した。召喚術の塔の前。ミラがふと脇を見ると、そこにワゴンは無い。 (ふむ......クレオスは留守か) とびっきりのワゴンが出来そうだと自慢しようと考えていたミラは、少しだけ眉根を下げる。だが出来てからでもいいかと思い直すと、ピュアラビットを塔へ向けて掲げる。「ここが、これからお主が住む家じゃ」ミラの言葉の意味を理解してか、ピュアラビットが嬉しそうに鳴き声を上げると、ミラは満足気に塔の最上階の私室へと向かった。で私室の扉を開け、コートをソファーへ放ると、そこへピュアラビットを降ろす。「暫く、大人しくしておれよ」そう声を掛けると、ミラはそのままトイレへと駆け込んだ。やがて水の流れる音が小さく響く。「一緒にさっぱりするとしようかのぅ」ピュアラビットを抱えたミラの手は、温もりと癒しを求めて更衣室の扉へと伸び、そして開け放った。「なっ......!?」「すまぬ!」狼狽気味に扉を閉じたミラ。だが、まったくと言っていいほど無警戒だったその目には、一瞬で下着姿のマリアナが焼き付いた。ミラが罪悪感と僅かな色に思考停止に陥っていると、「ミラ様、おかえりなさいませ」湯上り特有の上気した頬に、軽く纏められた青い髪、簡素な白いローブを纏ったマリアナは、顔を上げると嬉しそうに微笑む。「うむ、ただいま」その笑顔に自分を取り戻したミラが、そう挨拶を返すと、マリアナの目はミラに抱かれている青兎を捉える。「そちらの兎さんは、如何されたのですか」マリアナはそう言い視線を合わせると、そっと手を差し出す。最初は戸惑いを見せたピュアラビットだったが、ミラに宿っていた加護の気配をマリアナから感じると、その手に顔を摺り寄せる。「森からついて来たんじゃが......ここで飼ってもよいかのぅ?」まるで母にねだる様な面持ちで問い掛けるミラ。塔の主であるとはいえ、居ない間はマリアナに世話を頼む事になるのだ。この態度もしょうがないのかもしれない。「もちろんです。ミラ様が居ない間は私がお世話します」「そうか、ありがとう。マリアナ」何とも云えない緩い時間が流れた時、マリアナは更衣室へ戻ると徐にローブを脱ぐ。「な......何をしておる......!?」ミラは慌てて視線を外しながらも、ちらりと向けてしまいそうになる本能を制御しつつ問い掛ける。目の端には、先程見た下着姿のマリアナが涼しい顔で佇み、意欲満々に答える。「これからご入浴のご様子。お背中をお流しします」「......うむ......頼んだ......」奉仕モードとなったマリアナを止める事は不可能。前回の事で学んだミラは、無用な問答を省き即座に頷くと更衣室へ足を踏み入れる。「ミラ様、他に洗い物はございますか?」「おっと、そうじゃったな」最後に下着を籠に入れながら、マリアナがミラへと視線を向ける。その言葉で、ミラも思い出した様にカバンを取り出すと、使用済みの下着を籠へと放った。そう言い残しピュアラビットと共に浴室へと入ろうとしたミラだったが、その直前にマリアナが「ミラ様」と呼び止める。「この髪は如何したのでしょうか」そう少しだけ強い口調で言うと、マリアナは綺麗に結われたミラの銀髪に触れる。その髪は、髪を乾かす無形術を教わった時、ホワイトに整えられたままだ。「これか。これは旅先で会ったホワイトという娘に勝手に結われたんじゃよ」綺麗に結われたミラの髪を解きながら、返事に短く頷いたマリアナだったが、少しだけ不機嫌そうに唇を尖らせる。しかし、出来るだけ視線を外そうとしていたミラは、そんなマリアナの変化に気づく事は無かった。浴室に入ると、マリアナに促されるまま髪と全身を隈なく洗われるミラ。マリアナの手にしたスポンジは前回よりも滑らかで柔らかく、きめ細かい泡がミラを包み込む。ミラは旅の疲れからか、その心地良さに完全に気持ちを緩める。その様子にマリアナは表情を綻ばせると、ゆっくりと湯をかけて泡を流していく。続いてピュアラビットの番となり、今度は共同作業だ。水に慣れているのか嫌がる様子は無く、ミラが耳を抑えると、マリアナは優しくその青い毛を洗っていった。「これで完了です。ミラ様、本日夕飯はお済ですか?」ピュアラビットの毛を整えるミラの濡れた髪を纏めながら、マリアナが問い掛ける。「いや、まだじゃな。何か用意してもらっても良いか?」「もちろんです。では、夕飯の支度を致しますので、ゆっくりとなさっていて下さい」むしろ問われた事で空腹に気付いたミラがそう願い出ると、マリアナは手早くその銀髪を結い上げ、弾む様な声で了承する。意気揚々と夕飯の準備に向かうマリアナの後姿をちらりと見送ると、ミラは広い浴室の奥へと向かう。そこにあるのは、黒輝石を加工して作られた浴槽。黒輝石とは、宇宙に輝く銀河に似た模様を浮かべる石材で、幻想的な色合いは多くの者を魅了し、調度品に広く利用されている高級品だ。その浴槽には、たっぷりと湯が湛えられ、ミラがそこへと身体を沈めると僅かに溢れ出す。湯加減は少し熱めで、身体を突付く様な刺激にミラは気持ち良さそうに声を漏らす。ちょっと高めの温度が好きなようだ。浴槽はとても広く、足を伸ばして入ってもあと十人は寛げるだろう。ミラが大きを伸ばせば、黒い浴槽により白銀の少女が一層映える。「あー......極楽じゃー」その開放感に浸りつつ、アップルオレを片手に鼻歌交じりで、ミラはピュアラビットと共に極上の一時を満喫するのだった。	「I’m not sure when it started, but there are stories about it near Cadiasmite Island. Supposedly there’s a ghost ship there.」 Sero leaned his body closer to Mira as he spoke in a low voice. 「Oh...Oh oh oh! That does sound interesting!」 Cadiasmite, that was the name given to a small island near the western shore of the continent. It was an island close to the Schmägfen region, and with the naval country of Vali at its helm, it housed the Cadiasmite Allied Nations’ navy, said to be the strongest naval army of the continent. 「This is a pretty common story amongst sailors, and a captain I met around ten years ago first told it to me. Apparently, during twilight, a deep mist shrouds sailing ships and the ghost ship appears out of it. Those who have seen it all describe it the same, they were surrounded by mist and then an old galley appeared sailing alongside their ship.」「Some also said they saw a jolly roger hung on the mast, and a man, probably the captain, standing on the deck wearing red clothes.」「There have been many more stories built on top of that. Some say that if you follow the ship it’ll lead you to a pirate’s treasure, others say that the souls of those who drown at sea are trapped in the ghost ship and forced to wander aimlessly forever as crew. I also heard some believe the ghost ship houses legendary weapons and armor long lost to time.」「I also heard rumors that it’s just a secret experimental weapon of Vali, though I’d prefer to think there are legendary weapons in it. I’m a warrior after all.」「I also think that!」 The last bit was just Sero being playful, but Emera seemed to fully believe it as her eyes twinkled thinking of legendary treasures. 「It’s all just rumors though.」 Sero looked a bit troubled as he ended with that. Fricca looked somewhat bored, forcing herself to smile while looking up to the ceiling together with Zef. Legendary weapons. Emera was too excited thinking of possessing a legendary sword, losing herself in her delusions oblivious to the reaction she received. In the real world, rumors of ghost ships were always hoaxes, but in this world filled with all sorts of fantastic phenomena, a rumor like that held much more credibility. That change in common sense made Sero and Mira laugh between themselves, their imagination running wild with ghost ships. 「Now onto the next rumor.」 Ordering a second serving of honey ale and herbal tea, Sero continued talking, his face showing he was genuinely enjoying himself. 「After the sea, comes the sky. This is a story believed to be true amongst those using flying ships- Yes, what is it Mira?」 Before he was done, Mira raised her hand hearing a word she did not recognize. Sero understood her signal instantly and asked with a similar voice to a teacher. 「I never heard of flying ships before, are they really..?」「Yes, they are ships that can fly through the sky. They were created thanks to the latest advancements in magic engineering, or well, they started production around three years ago. Though the manufacturing costs are also quite expensive, so there’s only five currently in use in the Three Gods’ Countries, Atlantis, and Nirvana, each country having one.」「Ohh... large countries are always ahead like that.」 The Three Gods’ Countries were the original starting place for players, and boasted the largest number of inhabitants and military forces of the continent. Then there were two more countries that stood alongside them, the kingdom of Atlantis and the Nirvana empire. Two countries founded by the most distinguished players. 「They might be more produced once their size gets reduced. But anyway, this rumor came from one of the largest flying ships.」「Apparently it all started when they attempted to transport a very heavy load with the flying ship. The skies were clear and it was the perfect day to set sail. Everything went well until halfway through its route, when it suddenly got thrown amidst a violent storm.」「Inside the storm, the sky was black as if it was night, and the only light they had were the lightning flashes that appeared every so often. They were hit by very strong wind and rain, and as the entire crew worked their hardest to get out of the storm, Sero made a short pause then, the owner had just brought him the refills he asked for. 「You adventurers seem to know all sorts of stories, I always love hearing you talk about them.」 Leaving the mug and cup on the bar, the owner smiled with an entertained and curious smile. 「It comes with the job, I guess. Though maybe I just seek them out of fun, since I also love stories.」 Saying that, Sero took the cup to his lips and smiled back at the owner. It was like they had formed some form of connection, the owner also heard all sorts of stories thanks to his job, given that he constantly encountered adventurers that stayed in his establishment, who he would end up talking with. So as time passed, he would also be captivated by the dream-filled tales befitting of adventurers. After a light bow, the owner returned to his post. Sero held the cup in a presumptuous way, gallantly bringing it back to his lips. Mira seemed to mirror him in that action, also drinking from her glass. Everyone from Écarlate Carillon had gotten curious about Sero’s stories as they listened attentively, though only Fricca was more focused on constantly moving her seat closer to Mira while no one else noticed. 「Anyway, let’s continue where we left off. I think I told you all the backstory so let’s continue from there.」「When they were about to pierce through the storm clouds, everyone working hard on their duties, a bolt of very bright lightning went off deep inside the storm. It was hard to see from all the rain and wind, but the lightning illuminated the dark and thick clouds for an instant, and there the silhouette of a castle could be seen. It was not just one or two people who saw it, but the entire crew.」「The silhouette of a giant castle floating somewhere in the sky, shrouded in stormy clouds. It did not happen just one time either, but it was seen again multiple times throughout different places. 」「Could that be the...!」「Yes, a castle in the sky, Mira.」 The second rumor was about a floating castle. Those were very common plot devices in fantasy stories, but hearing one could exist in that world she inadvertently stood up, and Fricca followed shortly. The two quickly ran outside the inn. 「If there really exists a floating castle, then I’m sure there are magic records we’ve never seen before stored in it.」「Ohh, that’s an unexpected reaction. You’re finally starting to sound like an actual spellcaster.」 That Fricca could react that way was hard to imagine for Mira, having only seen a different side of her before, but she still took that opportunity to tease her about it. Soon after Emera also came out of the inn. 「She always acts crazy when you’re around, but Fricca is usually pretty serious about her craft.」 She also followed up on Fricca, but then she grabbed Fricca’s hand that was about to reach Mira and twisted it. The sky they saw was dotted with white clouds, and Mira got excited thinking there could be a castle hidden in one of them. Meanwhile, Fricca’s cries of pain came from her side. After imagining all sorts of things hidden in the clouds, the three returned inside the inn. Mira then took the chair that somehow appeared much closer to her own and placed it a distance away, then sat down. Fricca also sat down at her side, and Mira just dramatically hung her head in silence. 「Ever since I heard that I also tend to look at the sky all the time.」 Sero smiled as he said that to Mira. Now that she knew about that, she felt like the next time she would travel with Pegasus, she would want to go even higher than before. Imagining all that, her lips slowly formed a smile. 「The only common factor from all the eye-witnesses was the sudden storm. They were all thrown into a storm, and inside of it saw the castle. I guess that storm is there to protect it from intruders.」「Yeah, that sounds possible. That has to be it.」 The two nodded at each other, then began imagining how the castle would look past the storm, floating in all its glory. They then started exchanging ideas of how it would be up there, and at first the other members felt left out, but eventually the conversation influenced them as well, and the five of them now fervently discussed how their ideal castle in the sky would look like. 「Looks like we got a bit too carried away. Let’s talk about the last one.」 The castle in the sky had turned into a magnificent palace sealing an ancient beast, while buried below it remained the holy sword of a legendary hero. The library was lined with shelves full of magic tomes from eons ago, the treasure housing piles of gold and silver, and the garden had a fountain that regularly produced drops of life essence. The five had finished picturing a castle like that, when Sero, slightly embarrassed with himself, steered the conversation back to the rumors. 「This last story is something I heard from an adventurer I know, so more than a rumor it’s a recount of his experience. He usually works in the northern regions of the Ark continent, but one day he had some business over in the Mirage Shrine. First, he bought a gyroscopic compass crystal from a miner, and then went through the Oljato dessert on his way to the shrine, but apparently, that crystal was of bad quality and halfway through his journey it stopped working.」 Mira felt sorry for Sero’s friend adventurer. After all, she had been through a similar situation before. The Ark continent was a large chunk of land to the west, separated from the mainland by a channel. That place was called the colonial lands by players, since it was mostly occupied by countries founded purely by players. The Oljato desert was in the southwest part of that continent, and the Mirage Shrine was somewhere in it, a sacred temple that is impossible to locate with a map. The only way to get there is by using a certain tool called the gyroscopic compass crystal that can point the user in the right direction. Though high level players knew that those crystals could fail every once in a blue moon. 「I know. Apparently, he also was pretty distressed, though he had been in the desert for a while, so he figured he might be close enough to find the shrine by eye, but after wandering around for a while he decided to go back... But he stepped into sand hell, and eventually was entirely sucked into the desert.」「Sand hell... he really has the worst luck...」 Sand hell was the name given to certain places with quicksand in the Oljato desert. If an adventurer could not get out of it before getting sucked inside, they would be forcefully taken into a dungeon of ruins underground. Mira felt like the adventurer Sero was talking about had the worst luck imaginable as she continued drinking her honey ale. 「I also thought the same and tried comforting him, but he laughed it off and took a yellow chunk from a bag. When I asked what that was, he told me he picked it up after he got through the sand hell. Apparently, it didn’t take him to the underground ruins, but instead to a large city inside a huge opening underground, and everything there shone in a golden color. At first he was confused and couldn’t understand where he was, only staring at that sight. But then a black figure appeared far away and began chasing him. A cold chill ran through his body and he began running away from that shadow, and before he noticed he appeared beside a lake in an oasis. All he could bring as proof from there was that chunk, and after getting it checked it was made out of pure gold. He started calling that place the Golden City, and tried going there again but he never managed to.」「The Golden City... I really wonder what that black figure was... 」「Oh, that’s what you’re curious about?」 Hearing that story, Mira was the most curious about that mysterious black figure. It seemed like it had appeared to stop Sero’s friend from entering the Golden City and chased him out, almost like a guardian of some sort. And when it came to guardians, summoners were the best to deal with them. 「Maybe I could form a contract with it.」 Mira’s eyes sparkled at the idea, and when Sero saw them he realized Mira was truly a pure breed summoner. Guardians were a type of spirits that lived in a certain place to protect it. And all spirits were candidates to form contracts with. 「That sounds nice, a Golden City. If I found a place like that I would never have to be hungry again in my life.」「I wonder if they make golden equipment somewhere?!」「I wish I could have a golden library too.」 Just like it happened with the floating castle, everyone started talking about their wishes. There was no one stopping them this time, so they all spoke about their desires until lunch was over. Having enjoyed the rumor talk, Mira and the rest walked out of the inn. The Pure Rabbit was sound asleep in Mira’s embrace. The street in Hunters Village looked even more lively than before, showing that before, the crowd was not fully formed yet and that the real deal started now. 「Well then, Mira. Let’s meet again sometime.」「I’ll miss you so much...」「Goodbye, Mira.」「Mm, I’m glad we could meet after so long. Take care in your travels.」 Break time was over, so after a short goodbye, Sero and his group returned to the other guards. It was very possible they would randomly meet again somewhere, so the usual feeling of emptiness after someone leaves was absent in Mira as she waved at them, only wondering how they would meet again in the future. After that Mira looked for a suitable place and summoned Pegasus, mounting on its back and leaving Hunters Village. The lively noises became distant and soon she could only hear the wind and Pegasus’ wings flapping in the air. Below her grasslands stretched out into the horizon, while behind her the sacred tree stood covered in a thin mist. Her view was filled with the blue sky, her eyes drawn to any large clouds as she went on her way back. A few hours after they left Hunters Village, Mira was sitting down amidst the grasslands, her back leaned against Pegasus as she looked at the map. (It should be fine if I present my report tomorrow.) Having flown every day for long hours, her body had a lot of built-in exhaustion, and her descent to the grasslands to rest had already lasted twenty minutes. The Pure Rabbit was beside her, frantically licking her fingers out of worry. No matter what she tried, the exhaustion would not leave her, and she figured that even if she returned straight ahead she would arrive at night, so it was best if she took her time to get there. Seeing how beat up Mira was, Pegasus also moved a bit, surrounding her small frame with its neck. Mira began stroking its neck, seeing how kindly it was treating her, and reclined her body even more while holding the Pure Rabbit in her arms. 「I’m sorry but I have to spend some more time like this.」 Saying that, she completely gave her body onto Pegasus, who moved its wings to cover her. Feeling the pulsing warmth from that, Mira was able to rest easy. Almost an hour passed after that and Mira woke up from her nap, and she could see many small birds through the white feathers. Noticing Mira was awake, Pegasus spread its wings, and Mira saw birds of multiple colors all taking off at the same time and flying around them. But even with so many of them, none of them chirped, surrounding Pegasus in complete silence. All Mira could hear was the rustling of the wind. 「You gathered quite a number of them again.」 She began stroking Pegasus’ mane, thinking back to the Forest of Praying Children, even though there had been way more animals back then. 「You really are a popular one,」 she laughed. Pegasus seemed to be happy as it neighed, happily rubbing its face on Mira’s bosom. The Pure Rabbit stayed on her lap, looking at her face reservedly. 「It’s okay, I was just a bit tired.」 When Mira explained that, Pegasus replied by neighing loudly. After that, the stillness filling the plain was broken as all the birds began chirping at once. They were all small birds, but since there were so many of them together the sound was rather loud, which helped dispel the remaining lethargy in Mira. 「Everything’s alright now, you don’t have to worry anymore.」 Saying that, Mira lifted the pure rabbit into her arms. The blue rabbit let out happy squeaks as it buried itself in Mira’s bosom. 「I think I’ve spent enough time doing nothing. Let’s take off again, Pegasus.」 Her tiredness and sleepiness gone, Mira stood up, which also made all the birds perched on Pegasus to fly away. She then sat on Pegasus’ back, who slowly rose to its feet. Birds all around them took off and danced around them before vanishing into the sky. The white-winged horse ran through that mesmerizing sight similar to a rain of petals. As the sun set, the tourists swarming the plaza in front of the Silver Linked Towers diminished in volume. Mira landed near that plaza, after which Pegasus became much more clingy and Mira had to soothe him for a bit before sending him back. Crossing through the large gate, the nine towers that extended up into the sky came in sight. The Sacred Tree still had a more imposing appearance, but this was still a magnificent scene to behold. Seeing that filled her with a sense of returning home, so she proudly filled her chest with air and walked just a bit faster. When she reached the Tower of Summoning, she looked to its side and saw the wagon was gone. (Hmm... guess Creos isn’t home.) Mira could not wait to flaunt her own customized wagon when she got hers, but she also lowered her gaze a bit. It was best if she only thought about that after it was made, so instead she held the pure rabbit and held it up towards the tower. 「This will be your new home from now on.」 It seemed to understand Mira’s words as it squeaked with excitement, and then Mira carried it with her to her room up in the tower. She opened her room with the tower’s master key, threw her coat to a couch and placed the pure rabbit on top. 「Stay still for a bit.」 Saying that, Mira quickly ran to the toilet. Soon after the sound of water flowing came from there. Mira walked out of the toilet with a satisfied smile having finished her business, then turned to look at the door leading to the changing room and bathroom. 「Maybe we can relax together there for a while.」 Mira picked the pure rabbit up and seeking the warmth and comfort of a bath she extended a hand to the changing room’s door and opened it. 「Wha-?!」「Lady Mira, welcome-」「Sorry!」 Mira quickly shut the door closed out of confusion. Still, her completely unprepared eyes still had the figure of Mariana wearing only underwear imprinted on them. Feelings of guilt started to mix with more colorful ones in her mind, so she quickly put a stop to her brain. Mariana had been unable to finish her greeting earlier, so she opened the door again without much care and bowed to Mira. She smiled happily after raising her head, her cheeks slightly flushed from the bath, her blue hair slightly bunched together, and her body wrapped in a white robe. 「Mm, I’m back.」 That smile quickly brought Mira back to reality, and after returning the greeting Mariana’s eyes noticed the blue rabbit Mira was holding. 「What’s the story behind that rabbit?」 Mariana looked straight at the rabbit and slowly reached out to it. The pure rabbit seemed slightly hesitant at first, but then it noticed that the divine protection Mira had felt the same as Mariana’s presence, so it nuzzled its head against her hand. 「It followed me from the forest... is it okay if we keep it here?」 Mira’s voice sounded almost like that of a child asking something from her mom. While Mira was the master of the tower, Mariana was in charge of everything while she was gone, so treating her in that way was to be expected. 「But of course. I’ll make sure to take good care of it while you’re gone.」「I appreciate that a lot, thanks Mariana.」 Some time passed in silence, then Mariana walked into the changing room again and took her robe off. 「Wh-what are you doing..?!」 Mira hurried to look away, resisting her internal urge to peek again. Just beyond the corner of her eyes, Mariana stood in her underwear, just like Mira had seen her earlier, and replied with a highly motivated voice. 「It seemed you were about to take a bath, so I’ll wash your back.」「...Oh... um... thanks...」 Once Mariana set her mind to help with something, there was no stopping her. Mira had learned that much from her last visit, so she spared her the useless arguing and nodded submissively before walking into the changing room. Things went just like last time, Mariana assisting her with undressing before carefully folding the clothes and adding them to the laundry basket. 「Is there anything else you wish to have washed?」「Oh right, I almost forgot about that.」 As Mariana placed Mira’s underwear in the basket, the last pieces of clothing she had on, Mariana turned to Mira to ask her. That reminded Mira to take out her own basket, from which she fished out her used underwear before throwing it in the laundry basket. With that, Mira attempted to walk into the bathroom while carrying the pure rabbit, but Mariana stopped her by calling her name. 「What happened to your hair?」 Her tone sounded just a bit harsh as she walked up behind Mira and touched her hair beautifully tied. White had arranged Mira’s hair when she also taught her how to use more Concept Magic. 「Oh, that. This girl called White tied it of her own will while I was traveling.」 Mariana untied her hair, replying with a low voice as she pursed her lips in a slightly bad mood. But Mira was still doing everything she could to avoid looking directly at Mariana, so she did not notice that change. When Mira entered the bath, Mariana insisted on washing Mira’s hair and every corner of her body. The sponge she used felt softer and smoother than last time, small bubbles and foam covering Mira’s body. All the exhaustion Mira had built during her travels began to release from that comfortable touch as she fully relaxed her body. Mariana smiled delighted seeing that, slowly letting warm water run down Mira’s body to wash off the foam. Then it was the pure rabbit’s turn, which both girls took care of together. The rabbit was either used to water or simply did not mind it, so Mira protected its ears as Mariana gently washed its blue fur. 「And that’s it. Lady Mira, do you have any plans for dinner?」 Mariana asked her while arranging Mira’s hair, who combed the pure rabbit’s fur. 「Not yet. Could you make something for me?」「Of course. I’ll start preparations now, and you can stay here and relax.」 Only when Mariana asked that Mira noticed how empty her stomach felt. Mariana quickly tied Mira’s silver hair before accepting the new request with a melodic voice. Mira quickly glanced at Mariana walking away in high spirits to prepare dinner, then Mira walked to the center of the large bathroom. There was a bathtub made of black augite there. That was a particular type of stone that reflected light in curious patterns reminiscent of a starry sky, which gave it a prized appearance that attracted many, making it a very high-quality material for furnishings. She filled that bathtub with warm water before sitting in it, a bit of water overflowing from the edge. The water temperature was a bit higher than usual, which felt like small needles poking slightly at her body. Mira enjoyed that feeling the most, so she let out a satisfied sigh as she rested in the water. The bathtub was very large and could have fit ten more people even if all of them had their legs outstretched. Mira stretched her limbs as far as she could, the black bathtub increasing the contrast with her body and silver hair. 「Ahh... this is the best.」 She let that sense of freedom permeate her body, holding apple ale in one hand and humming to herself. Mira and the pure rabbit spent an hour of pure bliss there.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 9, "inserted_lines_src": 14, "inserted_lines_trg": 2 }
例の店がラクトスに出来たのも、1カ月と少し前。正確な日付はわからないが、このガラス球がランジ村に来た頃と同じ頃だ。そこから、例の店は街にある店から薬を買い占めて準備、緩やかに広がり始めた病気に対して、薬を求める街の人達相手に商売を始める。後は、人から人へうつっていく病気が広まれば、簡単に儲ける事が出来るというわけだ。予防の概念も無いんだ、マスクも当然無いわけで......風邪と同じようなものと考えると、簡単に感染する事だろう。ランジ村は少し街から離れてるから、薬を買いに行くのが遅れたのだろう。 ......俺の勝手な推測だが、隣の伯爵家が仕組んで、このガラス球を原因と考えるのであれば、全てが繋がる気がした。「ガラス球が原因......か......だとすると、病が広がった原因は......だけど待てよ......ガラスで病気を発生させられるのか......? そもそもこの村で病が流行ったにしては、ラクトスの街での広がりが早すぎる......ハンネスさん達は最近村を出たばかりだし......」周りの目も気にせず、一人で思考に没頭する。ガラス球がどういう作用をして、病を広がらせたのかがわからない。仕組みなんかは、魔法のある世界だから解明しようとしても俺には出来ないのかもしれないな......。「仕組みはともかく、どうしてランジ村にとどまっているはずの病がラクトスに広がっているのか......」ランジ村の人達は病に苦しんでいた。とてもじゃないが、村を出て移動する事は出来なかっただろう。その状態で、ラクトスまで病が広がるのか......? 「ハンネスさん、その球が置かれてから今までの間に、ラクトスの街へ行った事はありますか? 薬を買い付けに行ったハンネスさんとロザリーちゃんは除いて、です」一人でぶつぶつ言っていた俺を、訝し気に見ていたハンネスさんに話しかける。「ラクトスへですか? ラクトスはこの村から近い一番の街ですから、ワインを卸す得意先です。なので、5日に1度はワインを届けに村の者が行っています」んー、ワインを卸すだけで街全体に広がる程流行るものだろうか......? まてよ......そもそもガラス球は何でワイン蔵なんだ? ガラス球から人に作用して病を引き起こすのであれば、ワイン蔵よりももっと人の集まる場所の方が良い。それこそ、ラクトスで流行らせたいのであれば、ラクトスの広場にでも置いておけばいいはずだ。「んー......わからないな......」「......どうかされたのですか?」「いえ、ランジ村で流行った病の原因がわかりそうで、わからないんですよ......」「病の原因......ですか?」「はい。そのガラス球と、ハンネスさんが買わされそうになった粗悪な薬を売る店......ラクトスとランジ村での疫病の流行......全部同じ時期の事なんです。何かしら繋がりがあると思うのですが......」何やら推理物のように、思考を巡らせているが......これがわかれば例の店に対して何かが出来る気がするからな。証拠、とまで言えるのかはわからないが、それでも何かしらの手段としたいところだ。孤児院の子供達やライの両親等、病で苦しんでる人達を見たから尚更......。「タクミ様......迷惑を掛けました......」「ラモギのおかげで、悪くはありませんね。......少々頭痛がしますが......」ハンネスさんと話しながら色々考えてるうちに、家の中からフィリップさんが出て来た。二日酔いで顔色が悪い以外は、特に問題は無さそうだ。「......しかしフィリップさん......その手に持っているのは?」「あぁ、迎え酒ってやつですよ。二日酔いの時はこれが効くんです」よりにもよってフィリップさんの手には、ワインが並々と注がれたカップがあった。二日酔いをどうにかするために、またお酒を飲んでどうにか症状を緩和するというのは聞いた事があるが......確か、あれってアルコールで感覚が鈍って頭痛を感じにくくなるだけで、実際の効果は無いはずなんだがなぁ......。「いやぁ、ハンネスさん。ありがとうございます。奥さんのスープも体に染み渡るようでしたけど、このワインも美味しくて」フィリップさんはスープを飲んだうえで、さらにワインを飲もうとしているのか......。確かに昨日飲んだワインは美味しかったが......。村で作ってる物が褒められて悪い気はしないのか、さっきまでの会話を忘れて嬉しそうにするハンネスさん。「ワウ! ガウ!」「なんですか!?」「ひぃ!」笑いながら手にしたワインを飲もうとしたフィリップさん。その時、レオがいきなりフィリップさんに向けて吠えた。突然の事に、フィリップさんもハンネスさんも、俺も驚いている。「どうしたレオ、何があったんだ?」レオをなだめるように、体を撫でながら何故いきなり吠えたのか聞く。本来おとなしいレオは、何もないのに突然吠えたりはしないはずだからな。吠えられて驚き、手が止まっているフィリップさんの持つワインから目を離さないまま、レオが俺にどうして吠えたのかを伝えようとしている。えっと......あのワインからガラス球と同じ嫌な気配が微かにする......病のにおいと一緒......と。ワインから病の気配だって? 「あのワインから......レオ、本当なのか?」「......フィリップさん、そのワインは飲まない方が良いですね」レオが吠えた事に驚いたままのハンネスさんが、ようやく我に返ったような返事をした。 ......レオは注意をしてくれてるだけだから、怖くはないですからね、ハンネスさん。「手間をかけてすみませんが、いくつかワインの樽を蔵から持って来てもらえませんか? 確認したい事があるので」「はい。この村のワインが危ないかもしれないんです。その確認のためですね」	That store in Ractos was also started about a month ago. I didn’t know the precise date, but it was the same time as when this sphere was delivered to this village. From there, they would have prepared by buying all the medicine stock from the other stores, so they would be ready to sell once the illness began to spread. That way, they could easily make a profit. There was no concept of prevention here. Obviously, there were no masks... If it was contagious like a cold, then it would not take long for it to spread. As Range village was a short distance away, it had taken them longer to go and buy the medicine. ...My guess was that the neighboring count had planned this. And if this glass sphere was what caused it, then it would connect all of the dots. “The glass sphere is the cause...in that case...but wait... Can a single sphere really do that...? In the first place, it had spread in Ractos much too quickly for it to have started here... Mr. Hannes had only just recently left the village...” I ignored the others as I was deep in thought. I could not understand how the sphere worked, and how the illness spread. But then again, this was a world of magic, and so perhaps there was no hope of me understanding it... “In any case, it shouldn’t have spread that far if it started in Range village...” The people here had been suffering from the illness. So no one could have gone out and made the journey. And so how could it have spread to Ractos...? “Mr. Hannes. Ever since that sphere was placed here, has anyone gone to Ractos? Aside from you and Rosalie, of course.” I asked Mr. Hannes, who had been staring at me suspiciously while I muttered to myself. “To Ractos? Ractos is the town that is closest to us, and so that is where most of our wine goes. And so someone delivers it at least once every five days.” “I see...” Hmmm... But could someone who was just there to drop off some wine really be the cause of it spreading through the whole town...? Wait... But why was the sphere placed in the storage house in the first place? If it was the sphere that made people sick, why not put it somewhere where more people were likely to gather? And if you wanted it to spread in Ractos, then you should put it near the plaza. “Hmm...I don’t know...” “...What is it?” “No, it’s just the cause of the illness...I feel like I should know, but I don’t...” “The cause of the illness?” “Yes. The glass sphere and the store that you almost bought medicine from... The spread of the illness in Ractos and Range village... It all happened at the same time. And so it must be connected...” “Surely it cannot...” I tried to think of an explanation... If I could, it would mean that we might be able to do something about the store. Evidence. Well, maybe that was asking for too much. But I wanted something. Especially since I saw the suffering of the children at the orphanage, as well as Rai’s parents. “Mr. Takumi... I’m sorry to have caused you trouble...” “Ah, Phillip. How do you feel?” “Not terrible, thanks to the Ramogi... Well, I have a slight headache...” “A hangover. It’s because you drank so much wine yesterday.” As I was talking to Mr. Hannes and thinking, Phillip came out of the house. He looked a little pale, because of his hangover, but was otherwise fine. “Still...Mr. Phillip...what is that in your hand?” “Ah, hair of dog, you know? Drinking a little helps cure a hangover.” Phillip was carrying a cup that was filled with wine. Indeed, I had heard about people drinking alcohol in order to alleviate the symptoms of a hangover... But I think it was just that the alcohol numbed your senses so that your head didn’t hurt as much. That was all... “Ah, Mr. Hannes. Thank you. Your wife’s soup was excellent. But so is this wine.” “Well, it is something we are proud of. And so I am glad to see that you enjoy it.” Not only did Phillip drink the soup, but he was also starting to drink wine... Well, it really was delicious... In fact, Mr. Hannes was so pleased by this complement, that he had completely forgotten about the previous conversation. “Wou! Gau!” “What is it?!” “Ahhh!” Phillip had been laughing and was about to take a sip. Just then, Leo started to bark at him. It was so sudden that Phillip and Mr. Hannes were shocked. “What is it, Leo?” “Wuff-wuff. Wou. Wou-wou.” I petted Leo in order to calm her down, and then I asked her why she had barked. She was usually so quiet, and would not bark without reason. Phillip had frozen with the cup in his hand. Leo’s eyes remained fixed on it as she explained it to me. Uhh... You can faintly sense something in the wine that is like the glass sphere... The smell of disease... From the wine? “The wine... Leo. Are you sure?” “Wou.” “...Phillip. I don’t think that you should drink that wine.” “Mr. Takumi?” Mr. Hannes finally shook himself out of the shock of hearing Leo barking. ...Leo was just trying to help, and she isn’t actually scary at all, Mr. Hannes. “I’m sorry to trouble you, but could you have several wine barrels brought out from the storage house? There is something I need to confirm.” “Confirm?” “Yes. I think your village’s wine might be very dangerous. I need to be sure.”	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 3, "inserted_lines_src": 11, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
ドイツの収容所でこの男アーチー・コクランは軍医でしたが捕虜として捕われ問題を抱えていました患者たちが病気で苦しみながら衰弱していくというコクランに理解のできない状況でした症状はひどい水ぶくれでした感染症か栄養失調なのかわかりません治療法もわかりませんしかもそこは敵地です戦時下にはひどいことがおきますドイツの監視兵は退屈すると収容所に向けていたずらに発砲するのですあるときには捕虜たちでいっぱいのトイレに手榴弾が投げ込まれたこともありました彼は不審な笑い声を耳にしたと言います収容所の軍医であるアーチー・コクランは事態をなんとか打開しようとした人のひとりでした付け加えるとコクラン自身がその病気にかかっていましたずいぶん絶望的な状況ですただアーチー・コクランは抜け目のない男でしたすでにビタミンCを手配しておりさらにこんどは闇ルートを通してマーマイトを入手しましたマーマイトとは何だろうと思われる方もいるでしょうイギリス人はこれをパンに塗るのを好みます見た目は原油のようですがその味ときたらピリっとした味です重要なことですがマーマイトにはビタミンB12が豊富ですアーチーは患者たちをできるだけ同じ条件の二つのグループに分けました一方にはビタミンCを与えもう一方にはビタミンB12を与えました細心の注意をはらって結果をノートに記録しました数日たつと病気の理由は何であれマーマイトで治せることがはっきりしてきましたそこで収容所を運営していたドイツ兵に面会を求めますそのようすを想像してみてくださいこの写真は忘れてこの男に長い赤ひげともじゃもじゃの赤毛を付けてくださいずっとひげも剃れなくてビリー・コノリーのような風体ですコクランは熱弁をふるいますこんなスコットランド訛のー訛ってはいても流暢なドイツ語ですシラーやゲーテを生んだドイツの文化の何たるかを語りそんなドイツでこのような野蛮が許されるとは理解しがたいと訴えます彼は不満を爆発させますそれから彼は自分の兵舎に戻り絶望してすすり泣きます望みがない事態だと確信したからですしかし若いドイツ人の医師がアーチー・コクランのノートを手に取り同僚に言いますこの証拠に議論の余地はない捕虜たちにビタミンを与えないと戦争犯罪になるぞ翌朝には収容所にビタミンB12が届けられ捕虜たちは回復し始めましたさてこの話をした理由はコクランが大人物と思うからではなくーもちろんアーチー・コクランは大人物ですがー公共政策のあらゆる面において注意深く管理されたランダム化比較試験が望ましいと言うためでもありませんその訴えも実にすばらしいこととは思いますこの話をした理由はアーチー・コクランが生涯に渡って戦っていたやっかいな悩みの種だからですそれが個人を弱らせ社会を腐敗させるものだとコクランは気付いていました彼はそれをこう名付けていましたゴッド・コンプレックスゴッド・コンプレックスの症状は簡単に説明できますその固定観念の症候とは問題がどれほど複雑であってもそれを圧倒的で絶対的な信念を持って自分の解決策が間違いなく正しいと思うことですアーチーは医者でした多くの医師と交流がありました多くの医師がゴッド・コンプレックスに罹っていますまあ私は経済学者で医師ではありませんがでも身の回りで始終これを目にします経済学者の仲間や経済界のリーダー達や我々が投票する政治家達にも見られますこの驚くほど複雑化した世界を前にしてそれでもこの世の仕組みを理解できていると頭から信じている人たちですこれから 100億近い人が住もうというこの世界はあまりにも複雑すぎてそんなやり方では全然理解できません例をあげましょうしばらくの間ここにいるのはティム・ハフォードではなくてハンス・ロスリングがグラフを説明していると思ってくださいあのハンスです TED におけるミック・ジャガーですねハンスはあの素晴らしい統計とアニメーションをお目にかけます最高の内容です素晴らしいさて例のハンス・ロスリングのグラフですが示している内容ではなくてそこで示されなかったことを考えてみてくださいグラフが示しているのはひとり当たりの GDP と人口と寿命それだけです国ごとに 3 種類のデータが揃っています 3 種のデータです 3 種なんて何も無いようなものですではこちらのグラフを見てください MIT の物理学者シーザー・ヒダルゴが作ったグラフですパッと理解できるグラフではありませんがこんなふうに見えるグラフです 5000種類の様々な製品のデータベースに対してネットワーク解析の技術を適用してこのデータベースを調査しました様々な製品間の関係を表したグラフですこれは実に素晴らしい研究です全ての繋がりと相関を示しています経済が成長して行くときの様子を理解する上で大変有用なことです際立つ研究です我々はニューヨーク・タイムズ・マガジンにこの研究についての記事を書こうとしましたこのシーザーの研究は素晴らしすぎてニューヨーク・タイムズ・マガジンに収まりきらないことが判明しました 5000 品目の製品はまだどうということはありません 5000 種類ですシーザーのデータに登場するすべての項目を数え上げたとして一項目に一秒かけて読み上げていくとこのセッションほどの時間で 5000種全てを数え終わります同じことをウォールマートで売られている商品の全てに行うとすると 10万点ありますから丸一日かかるでしょうではこんどは大きな経済圏のあらゆる製品とサービスを数え上げるとしたらどうでしょう例えば東京やロンドンやニューヨークですエジンバラだと難しくなる点はウィスキーとタータンも数えなければならないことですニューヨークでの製品とサービスを全て数え上げたら 100億点になります 317年かかることになりますわれわれが作り上げた経済はこれほど複雑なのですここでは商品の数を数えただけです中東問題を解決を目指してはいないのに信じがたいほどの複雑さですこの見方で言うならー私たちの頭脳が進化してきた社会には 300 種の製品とサービスがありましたつまり5分で数え上げられますこんな複雑な世界に私たちは囲まれていますおそらくはそれゆえにゴッド・コンプレックスに誘惑されるのです押され気味になりながらも「概要がわかりなにかグラフも作れるだろうよしわかったその仕組みもわかった」と言うのですでもわかっていません決してわかりはしませんニヒリズムを唱えているのではありません複雑な世界の複雑な問題は解決できないと言いたいわけではありません明らかに可能ですからしかし課題を解決する方法は謙虚な取り組みによるものですゴッド・コンプレックスは捨てて実際に有効な課題解決の方法を適用するのですそして有効な解決手法がありますうまく機能しているー複雑なシステムがあればそれは試行錯誤の中でー進化したシステムなのです例えばこの赤ちゃんは試行錯誤から生まれましたあいまいな言い方でしたね明確にしましょうこの赤ちゃんという肉体は進化の結果です進化とは何でしょうか? 何百万年にもわたる変化と選択変化と選択試行と錯誤試行と錯誤の繰り返しですそして試行錯誤が奇跡を生み出すのは生体系に限った話ではありません産業応用にも適用できるのです例えば洗剤を作りたいとしましょうユニリーバみたいにリバプール近郊の工場で洗剤を製造しようとするときどうやりますか? こんな大きなタンク一杯に液体の洗剤を用意します高圧をかけてノズルから噴き出し洗剤を霧状にします霧はすぐに乾燥して粉になります粉は下にたまりますそれをかき集めて箱に詰めますスーパーで売ると立派な売上が得られますそのノズルをどう設計しましょうか? これが大変重要だとわかったのですゴッド・コンプレックスの考え方に従うならちょっとした神を探さなければなりません数学者や物理学者だとか液体の力学をわかる人を自分で探し出してその人にノズルの最適形状を計算してもらいますユニリーバもそうやって失敗しました複雑すぎたのですこんな問題でも複雑すぎるのですしかし遺伝学者のスティーブ・ジョーンズ教授はユニリーバがこの問題をどう解決したか説明しています試行錯誤です変化と選択ですまずノズルを用意しますランダムに 10通りの変形をさせてこの10個のノズルを試して最良の一つを選びますそれをまた10通りに変化させ全部を試して一番良いのを選びますそしてまた10通りを試しますどうやるかおわかりですねこうして 45 世代を繰り返した後でこのおどろくべきノズルができましたチェスの駒に似た感じです全くすばらしい性能を発揮しますどうしてうまく行くのか全然わかりません見当もつきませんしかしゴッド・コンプレックスを退けてあれこれ試してみようと決めて良否の判定をシステマチックに定めることにするとたちまち問題が解決するのですこの試行錯誤のプロセスというのは成功している組織においては想像する以上に普通に見うけられます経済がどう機能するかこの場で沢山聞きました米国経済は未だに世界一の経済ですどのようにして世界一の経済になったのでしょうか米国経済に関してあらゆる事実や数字を並べ上げることができますが最も際立った特徴はこれだと思いますアメリカでは毎年10パーセントの事業が消え去るのですとても大きな失敗率ですたとえば人の「失敗率」と比べてみましょう毎年10パーセントのアメリカ人が消えたりはしませんこのことからアメリカでは事業は人よりも早く消え去るので事業の進化の速度が人よりも速いことがわかりますこうして事業は進化してその完成度を高めていきいずれは我々すべてを飼いならすでしょうまだそうなっていないとしてもいずれはときどきそう考えますただこの試行錯誤の過程こそが西側諸国の多様な経済のすばらしいパフォーマンスを説明するのですすばらしく優秀な人を責任者にしたからではなく試行錯誤によって到達したのですここ数ヶ月の間あちこちでこのことを話しているとこんなことを言う人もいます「ティムそれはわかり切ったことだ確かに試行錯誤は重要だ確かに検証実験が大変重要だなんだってこんな当たり前のことを吹聴して廻ってるんだ?」なるほど当たり前だとおっしゃるのですね? 学校で子どもたちにこんなふうに教え始めたらこれが当たり前になったと認めましょう正解のない問題があるのだと教え始めることです全てに答えがあるような質問を列挙して子どもたちに与えるのはやめましょうそして教卓の後ろの偉そうな人が答えを全部知っているという方法はやめてまた答えが見つからない生徒を怠け者や愚か者だと呼ぶのはやめましょう学校のそういうやり方を全部やめるなら試行錯誤が良いことだということが当たり前になったと認めましょう立候補した候補者が選挙運動でこんなことを言うでしょうか「健康保険システムを改革しましょう教育システムを改革しましょうそれをどうするか考えはありませんがアイデアは5-6個ありますそれを試して行きます全部失敗するかもしれませんだめならさらに他のアイデアを試し見つけた方法を基に改革します失敗アイデアは使いません」こういう考え方の政治家が出てきたらさらに大事なことは私たちのような有権者がそんな政治家に投票するようになったら試行錯誤が有効なことは当たり前になったと私も認めましょうーありがとうございますそれまでは試行錯誤を語りゴッド・コンプレックスを捨てるべきである理由を語り続けるつもりです自分たちが誤りやすいと認めることはとても困難ですそれは非常に不愉快なことですアーチー・コクランはこのことを誰よりも理解していました第二次世界大戦よりも何年も後のこと彼はある治験を行いました彼が試験したかったのは心不全の患者はどこで回復させるのが良いかということでした専門的な循環器病棟でしょうかそれとも自宅でしょうか循環器科の医師たちは治験を止めさせようとしました医師達は紛れもなくゴッド・コンプレックスに罹っていました患者のためには病院がいいことは明らかでこれを治験するとか実験するなどというのは倫理に背くことだと考えましたそれでもコクランはこの治験の許可を得て治験を行いました治験が始まってしばらく経ったときのこと彼は同僚たちを集めて会議を催しました「さてみなさんここに初期的な結果があります統計的な有意性はまだありませんがちょっとした内容がありますみなさんが正しく私が間違っていたようです回復中の患者が家で過ごすのは危険です病院で回復させるべきです」大騒ぎです全ての医師が机を叩いて言います「倫理的でないとずっと言ってきただろう治験で人が死んでいくのだすぐ中止すべきだただちに中止しろ」こんな大騒ぎですコクランは皆を黙らせます「大変興味深いご意見です皆さん皆さんにお渡しした結果の表で 2つの列は入れ替えてあったのですつまり患者は病院で亡くなっており家に帰すべきなのです治験を止めた方がよろしいでしょうか? それとも結果が確実なものになるまで待ちましょうか」会議室に冷たい空気が流れますそうコクランはこういうことをする人物でした彼がそんなことをした理由はそこに立ちはだかってこんなふうに言う方がずっと楽だと理解していたからです「私の小さな世界では私は神だ全てを理解している私の意見に異議は聞きたくない私の結論を実証しなくてよい単純に頭ごなしに命令する方がずっと楽なのですコクランはわかっていました不確実性や間違えやすさや反論は人を傷つけるとだから時にショックを与える必要があるのですそれが簡単なことだと見せかけるつもりはありません簡単なことではありませんおそろしくつらいことですでもこの話を始めてからずっとこの研究を始めてからずっとある日本人の数学者が言った言葉が私の頭から離れません戦争の直後のことでした谷山豊という若い数学者は谷山・志村予想というすばらしい予想を立てました数十年が経った後でこの予想はフェルマーの最終定理を証明する上でたいへん有用だったことが示されました実際フェルマーの最終定理を証明するのと等しいものであることがわかったのでした片方を証明すればもう一方も証明されるのですしかしこれはずっと予想に留まっていました谷山はこれを解こうと何度も試みましたがそれが真であると証明することはできませんでしたそして1958年に 30歳の誕生日の少し前に谷山豊は自殺してしまいました彼の友人であった志村五郎は一緒にその課題に取り組んでいました何十年も後になって谷山の人生を振り返ってこう述べています「彼は数学者として非常に注意深いーという人ではなかった彼はたくさんの間違いを犯しただがよい方向に間違えるのだ私も彼を真似ようとしてみて良い間違いを犯すのは実は非常に難しいのだというーことを知った」ありがとうございました	A German prison camp. And this man, Archie Cochrane, is a prisoner of war and a doctor, and he has a problem. The problem is that the men under his care are suffering from an excruciating and debilitating condition that Archie doesn't really understand. The symptoms are this horrible swelling up of fluids under the skin. But he doesn't know whether it's an infection, whether it's to do with malnutrition. He doesn't know how to cure it. And he's operating in a hostile environment. And people do terrible things in wars. The German camp guards, they've got bored. They've taken to just firing into the prison camp at random for fun. On one particular occasion, one of the guards threw a grenade into the prisoners' lavatory while it was full of prisoners. He said he heard suspicious laughter. And Archie Cochrane, as the camp doctor, was one of the first men in to clear up the mess. And one more thing: Archie was suffering from this illness himself. So the situation seemed pretty desperate. But Archie Cochrane was a resourceful person. He'd already smuggled vitamin C into the camp, and now he managed to get hold of supplies of marmite on the black market. Now some of you will be wondering what marmite is. Marmite is a breakfast spread beloved of the British. It looks like crude oil. It tastes ... zesty. And importantly, it's a rich source of vitamin B12. So Archie splits the men under his care as best he can into two equal groups. He gives half of them vitamin C. He gives half of them vitamin B12. He very carefully and meticulously notes his results in an exercise book. And after just a few days, that whatever is causing this illness, marmite is the cure. So Cochrane then goes to the Germans who are running the prison camp. Now you've got to imagine at the moment -- forget this photo, imagine this guy with this long ginger beard and this shock of red hair. He hasn't been able to shave -- a sort of Billy Connolly figure. Cochrane, he starts ranting at these Germans in this Scottish accent -- in fluent German, by the way, but in a Scottish accent -- and explains to them how German culture was the culture that gave Schiller and Goethe to the world. And he can't understand how this barbarism can be tolerated, and he vents his frustrations. And then he goes back to his quarters, breaks down and weeps because he's convinced that the situation is hopeless. But a young German doctor picks up Archie Cochrane's exercise book and says to his colleagues, "This evidence is incontrovertible. If we don't supply vitamins to the prisoners, it's a war crime." And the next morning, supplies of vitamin B12 are delivered to the camp, and the prisoners begin to recover. Now I'm not telling you this story because I think Archie Cochrane is a dude, although Archie Cochrane is a dude. I'm not even telling you the story because I think we should be running more carefully controlled randomized trials in all aspects of public policy, although I think that would also be completely awesome. I'm telling you this story because Archie Cochrane, all his life, fought against a terrible affliction, and he realized it was debilitating to individuals and it was corrosive to societies. And he had a name for it. He called it the God complex. Now I can describe the symptoms of the God complex very, very easily. So the symptoms of the complex are, no matter how complicated the problem, you have an absolutely overwhelming belief that you are infallibly right in your solution. Now Archie was a doctor, so he hung around with doctors a lot. And doctors suffer from the God complex a lot. Now I'm an economist, I'm not a doctor, but I see the God complex around me all the time in my fellow economists. I see it in our business leaders. I see it in the politicians we vote for -- people who, in the face of an incredibly complicated world, that they understand the way that the world works. And you know, with the future billions that we've been hearing about, the world is simply far too complex to understand in that way. Well let me give you an example. Imagine for a moment that, instead of Tim Harford in front of you, there was Hans Rosling presenting his graphs. You know Hans: the Mick Jagger of TED. And he'd be showing you these amazing statistics, these amazing animations. And they are brilliant; it's wonderful work. But a typical Hans Rosling graph: think for a moment, not what it shows, but think instead about what it leaves out. So it'll show you GDP per capita, population, longevity, that's about it. So three pieces of data for each country -- three pieces of data. Three pieces of data is nothing. I mean, have a look at this graph. This is produced by the physicist Cesar Hidalgo. He's at MIT. Now you won't be able to understand a word of it, but this is what it looks like. Cesar has trolled the database of over 5,000 different products, and he's used techniques of network analysis to interrogate this database and to graph relationships between the different products. And it's wonderful, wonderful work. You show all these interconnections, all these interrelations. And I think it'll be profoundly useful in understanding how it is that economies grow. Brilliant work. Cesar and I tried to write a piece for The New York Times Magazine explaining how this works. And what we learned is Cesar's work is far too good to explain in The New York Times Magazine. Five thousand products -- that's still nothing. Five thousand products -- imagine counting every product category in Cesar Hidalgo's data. Imagine you had one second per product category. In about the length of this session, you would have counted all 5,000. Now imagine doing the same thing for every different type of product on sale in Walmart. There are 100,000 there. It would take you all day. Now imagine trying to count every different specific product and service on sale in a major economy such as Tokyo, London or New York. It's even more difficult in Edinburgh because you have to count all the whisky and the tartan. If you wanted to count every product and service on offer in New York -- there are 10 billion of them -- it would take you 317 years. This is how complex the economy we've created is. And I'm just counting toasters here. I'm not trying to solve the Middle East problem. The complexity here is unbelievable. And just a piece of context -- the societies in which our brains evolved had about 300 products and services. You could count them in five minutes. So this is the complexity of the world that surrounds us. This perhaps is why we find the God complex so tempting. We tend to retreat and say, "We can draw a picture, we can post some graphs, we get it, we understand how this works." And we don't. We never do. Now I'm not trying to deliver a nihilistic message here. I'm not trying to say we can't solve complicated problems in a complicated world. We clearly can. But the way we solve them is with humility -- to abandon the God complex and to actually use a problem-solving technique that works. And we have a problem-solving technique that works. Now you show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error. Here's an example. This baby was produced through trial and error. I realize that's an ambiguous statement. Maybe I should clarify it. This baby is a human body: it evolved. What is evolution? Over millions of years, variation and selection, variation and selection -- trial and error, trial and error. that produce miracles through trial and error. You could use it in an industrial context. So let's say you wanted to make detergent. Let's say you're Unilever and you want to make detergent in a factory near Liverpool. How do you do it? Well you have this great big tank full of liquid detergent. You pump it at a high pressure through a nozzle. You create a spray of detergent. Then the spray dries. It turns into powder. It falls to the floor. You scoop it up. You put it in cardboard boxes. You sell it at a supermarket. You make lots of money. How do you design that nozzle? It turns out to be very important. Now if you ascribe to the God complex, what you do is you find yourself a little God. You find yourself a mathematician; you find yourself a physicist -- somebody who understands the dynamics of this fluid. And he will, or she will, calculate the optimal design of the nozzle. Now Unilever did this and it didn't work -- too complicated. Even this problem, too complicated. But the geneticist Professor Steve Jones describes how Unilever actually did solve this problem -- trial and error, variation and selection. You take a nozzle and you create 10 random variations on the nozzle. You try out all 10; you keep the one that works best. You create 10 variations on that one. You try out all 10. You keep the one that works best. You try out 10 variations on that one. You see how this works, right? And after 45 generations, you have this incredible nozzle. It looks a bit like a chess piece -- functions absolutely brilliantly. We have no idea why it works, no idea at all. And the moment you step back from the God complex -- let's just try to have a bunch of stuff; let's have a systematic way of determining what's working and what's not -- you can solve your problem. Now this process of trial and error is actually far more common in successful institutions than we care to recognize. And we've heard a lot about how economies function. The U.S. economy is still the world's greatest economy. How did it become the world's greatest economy? I could give you all kinds of facts and figures about the U.S. economy, but I think the most salient one is this: ten percent of American businesses disappear every year. That is a huge failure rate. It's far higher than the failure rate of, say, Americans. Ten percent of Americans don't disappear every year. Which leads us to conclude American businesses fail faster than Americans, and therefore American businesses are evolving faster than Americans. And eventually, they'll have evolved to such a high peak of perfection that they will make us all their pets -- if, of course, they haven't already done so. I sometimes wonder. But it's this process of trial and error that explains this great divergence, this incredible performance of Western economies. It didn't come because you put some incredibly smart person in charge. It's come through trial and error. Now I've been sort of banging on about this for the last couple of months, and people sometimes say to me, "Well Tim, it's kind of obvious. Obviously trial and error is very important. Obviously experimentation is very important. Now why are you just wandering around saying this obvious thing?" So I say, okay, fine. You think it's obvious? I will admit it's obvious when schools start teaching children that there are some problems that don't have a correct answer. Stop giving them lists of questions every single one of which has an answer. And there's an authority figure in the corner behind the teacher's desk who knows all the answers. And if you can't find the answers, you must be lazy or stupid. When schools stop doing that all the time, it's obvious that trial and error is a good thing. When a politician stands up campaigning for elected office and says, "I want to fix our health system. I want to fix our education system. I have no idea how to do it. I have half a dozen ideas. We're going to test them out. They'll probably all fail. Then we'll test some other ideas out. We'll find some that work. We'll build on those. We'll get rid of the ones that don't." -- when a politician campaigns on that platform, and more importantly, when voters like you and me are willing to vote for that kind of politician, then I will admit that it is obvious that trial and error works, and that -- thank you. Until then, until then I'm going to keep banging on about trial and error and why we should abandon the God complex. Because it's so hard to admit our own fallibility. And Archie Cochrane understood this as well as anybody. There's this one trial he ran many years after World War II. He wanted to test out the question of, where is it that patients should recover from heart attacks? Should they recover in a specialized cardiac unit in hospital, or should they recover at home? All the cardiac doctors tried to shut him down. They had the God complex in spades. They knew that their hospitals were the right place for patients, to run any kind of trial or experiment. Nevertheless, Archie managed to get permission to do this. He ran his trial. And after the trial had been running for a little while, he gathered together all his colleagues around his table, and he said, "Well, gentlemen, we have some preliminary results. They're not statistically significant. But we have something. And it turns out that you're right and I'm wrong. It is dangerous for patients to recover from heart attacks at home. They should be in hospital." And there's this uproar, and all the doctors start pounding the table and saying, "We always said you were unethical, Archie. You're killing people with your clinical trials. You need to shut it down now. Shut it down at once." And there's this huge hubbub. Archie lets it die down. And then he says, "Well that's very interesting, gentlemen, because when I gave you the table of results, I swapped the two columns around. It turns out your hospitals are killing people, and they should be at home. Would you like to close down the trial now, or should we wait until we have robust results?" Tumbleweed rolls through the meeting room. But Cochrane would do that kind of thing. And the reason he would do that kind of thing is because he understood it feels so much better to stand there and say, "Here in my own little world, I am a god, I understand everything. I do not want to have my opinions challenged. I do not want to have my conclusions tested." It feels so much more comfortable simply to lay down the law. Cochrane understood that uncertainty, that fallibility, that being challenged, they hurt. And you sometimes need to be shocked out of that. Now I'm not going to pretend that this is easy. It isn't easy. It's incredibly painful. And since I started talking about this subject and researching this subject, I've been really haunted by something a Japanese mathematician said on the subject. So shortly after the war, this young man, Yutaka Taniyama, developed this amazing conjecture called the Taniyama-Shimura Conjecture. It turned out to be absolutely instrumental many decades later in proving Fermat's Last Theorem. In fact, it turns out it's equivalent to proving Fermat's Last Theorem. You prove one, you prove the other. But it was always a conjecture. Taniyama tried and tried and tried and he could never prove that it was true. And shortly before his 30th birthday in 1958, Yutaka Taniyama killed himself. His friend, Goro Shimura -- who worked on the mathematics with him -- many decades later, reflected on Taniyama's life. He said, "He was not a very careful person as a mathematician. He made a lot of mistakes. But he made mistakes in a good direction. I tried to emulate him, but I realized it is very difficult to make good mistakes." Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
仕事で疲れた僕は、呼び鈴を鳴らしてメイドを呼んだ。「お呼びでしょうか?」入ってきたのはメイド姿のミレアさん。もうすっかり腕の怪我も治ったようでよかったな。しかし若いレイナのメイド姿もいいけど、ミレアさんのメイド姿もなかなかいい。これだけ美人なのに未亡人で子供がいるなんて信じられないよ。「あ、あの。カルロさま、何かご用でしょうか?」 ......あ。ミレアさんが頬を赤らめて僕を見てる。僕がじっと見つめていたせいで恥ずかしがらせちゃったようだ。「ああ、ルチアはどうしてる?元気か?」「おかげ様で元気に学校に通わせていただいております。友達もできましたようで」「そうか、それは良かった。ミレア、紅茶もらえるか?」「はい、ただいまお持ちいたします」ミレアが持ってきてくれた紅茶を味わう。美味しいんだけど、砂糖が入ってないのが残念だ。砂糖はほとんど手に入らない高級品らしい。甘いものが食べたいなあ。そろそろ日も傾いて夕暮れ時だ。ちょっとお腹もすいてきた。あ、そうだ、いいことを思いついた。今日は外で晩ご飯を食べよう。小鹿亭のビーフシチューだ。つ、ついでにフェリシアちゃんにも会えるかもしれないしな。「ミレア、今日はこれから出かける」「こんな時間からお出かけですか?」「ああ、晩飯は外で食べるから不要だとメリッサに言っておいてくれ」「かしこまりました」「それと、どこかに花屋はないか?花束を作ってくれるような」僕は屋敷を出て、ミレアが教えてくれた花屋に向かった。ちょっと不思議そうな顔をされたけどミレアが知っていてよかった。僕直轄の近衛隊長になったルーノスが付いてくるといったが断った。あんな色男、絶対に連れていくもんか。花屋で花束を作ってもらった。この世界で男が花束を頼むのは珍しいらしく、怪訝な顔をされたけど手に入ったぞ。鮮やかな色の花を何種類かと、たっぷりの花言葉は何なんだろう。「これはこれはカルロ様。またのお越し、有難うございます。どうぞこちらのお部屋へ」小鹿亭の小太りの店主、ファッツが出迎えてVIPルームへ案内してくれた。「この間の子牛のシチューがまた食べたくてな。つい来てしまった」「お気に入り頂けましたようで光栄に存じます。では急いで子牛のシチューをご用意いたします。あとまたフェリシアを来させましょうか?」胸がドキンとなる。良かった、今日もフェリシアちゃんいるんだ。出来るだけなんでもなさそうなフリをして答える。「ああ、そうだな。ではフェリシアに来てもらおうか。それと料理はゆっくりでいいぞ」「かしこまりました。少々お待ちくださいませ」ニヤリと笑ってファッツが出て行った。「カルロさま、失礼いたします」しばらくしてフェリシアちゃんが入ってきた。ああ、やっぱり可愛い。吸い込まれそうな瞳に大人しげな表情がたまらない。ロゼアみたいな大人の女もいいけど、はかなげで控えめなフェリシアちゃんは最高だ。「フェリシア、これを取っておけ」買ってきた花束をフェリシアちゃんに渡す。指輪かネックレスを、とも思ったけど1回しか会ってない男からいきなりもらってもキモいだろうし。だから花束にしてみたんだけど喜んでくれるだろうか。「まあ、これを私に?!なんて綺麗なんでしょう。それにいい匂い......」フェリシアちゃんは花束に顔を近づけて香りを楽しんでいる。良かった、喜んでくれたようだ。「いや、ここへ来る途中に偶然花屋を見つけてな」僕の嘘つき。わざわざそのために遠回りしてきたくせに。でもそれを言う根性がない。「私、殿方からこのような物を頂いたのは初めてです。有り難うございます」フェリシアは丁寧に頭を下げてお礼をしてくれた。この世界では男が女の子に花束を贈る習慣はないらしい。でも僕はチェリーだけど現代の男子だ。こうすれば女子が喜ぶと言う知識は持ってる、経験はないけど。今日はこの間ほどお店も忙しくないらしく、しばらくこの部屋に居てくれた。その間にいろいろな話をした。フェリシアは今年で19歳になるそうだ。幼い頃から歌やダンスを習っていたが商売をやっていた父親が倒産。母親の実家があるバルハムントに来て、家計の助けにとここで歌っているそうだ。その苦労を考えると涙がでそうだよ、僕。ちなみにこの間の剣技大会を見たかと聞いてみたが、来てなかったそうだ。僕の雄姿を見てもらえなかったか、残念無念。今日も1曲歌ってもらい、フェリシアはホールへ戻った。その後シチューを食べて僕は帰った。ホールを横切る途中、また歌っているフェリシアちゃんと目が合った。この間よりはっきりと微笑みながら、目で僕にサヨナラを言ってくれる。今日はだいぶ親しくなれた気がするなあ。幸せな気分で店を出る。小鹿亭を出た後、僕は隠れ家に寄った。窓に明かりがついていないのを確かめ、念のため覆面をして中に入る。隠れ家の中にピックはいなかった。服を暁の服に着替え、仮面を付けて家を出る。冒険者ギルドに入ると、中は夜だというのに結構にぎわっていた。「よお暁、こっちだ」「兄貴、ご無沙汰です」仮面の傭月とピックが僕を呼ぶ。ピックは僕が「人前ではお頭ではなく兄貴と呼べ」と言った事をちゃんと覚えていたようだ。感心感心。「なんだ、夜だというのにえらく賑わってるな」「それなんだよ、暁。ちょっと大きな仕事が来てな」「兄貴、ルイードの森のそばの集落に、トロールが出たっていう話です」「そうなんだ。しかもな頭だ、っていうんだぜ」三日月が嬉しそうに言う。二つ頭のトロールか、厄介だな。まだ領主としてのカルロのもとにそんな報告は来てない。報告が上がってくるとすれば冒険者が討伐に失敗して軍の出動の要請がある時か。でもそうなった時にはすでにかなりの犠牲が出ているだろう。トロールはファンタジーでは比較的メジャーな生き物で、鈍重な巨人と言ったイメージで知られている。この世界でもそれは変わらず、トロールは身長約3メートルと背が高くて力が強い。大きな棍棒を振り回したり、岩を投げつけたりして攻撃してくることが多い。ただ知能は高くはないため討伐はそれほど難しくない。モンスタークラスではCクラス、冒険者の1パーティーで対処できるレベルだ。しかしトロールには亜種がいる。それが今回出たという「二つ頭」や「三つ頭」と呼ばれる個体だ。これは文字通りトロールに頭が複数付いているのだが、頭が複数になると同時に身体は大きくなり、知能も高くなるのが普通だ。しかも場合によっては魔法さえ使ってくることもある。こうなればモンスタークラスもB、数パーティーが合同で当たる必要が出てくる。「二つ頭とは厄介な相手だな。魔法は使うのか?」「それがまださっき入って来たばかりの依頼で、詳細は分からねえんだとよ。なあ暁、そいつをオレ達でやっちまわないか?」明らかに三日月がワクワクしているな。報酬もだいぶいいのだろう。「しかし二つ頭のトロールともなれば、モンスタークラスはBかも知れないぞ」「大丈夫だって、暁!」三日月はそういうと、いきなり僕の頭を左手で抱え込んでピックに聞こえないように耳元で言う。「アンタの試合、見たぜ。スゲエじゃねえか。アンタとオレが一緒なら楽勝だよ」この間の剣技大会の話をしてるんだな。それはいいけど、胸が僕の仮面に当たってるぞ、胸が。こういう時に仮面がものすごく邪魔だという事を今日僕は学習した。この悔しさは二度と忘れない、忘れるもんか。「分かった分かった。じゃあ明日またここに来るからやってみるか。俺の知り合いの魔法使いを連れてくるから」「やったぜ、だからアンタ好きだぜ♪」「兄貴、アタイもご一緒します」まあ、大丈夫だろ。僕には作者補正もついてるし。	I who felt tired from work rang the bell and called for a maid. “You called?” Mirea-san dressed in maid clothes entered. It was good to see that she already completely recovered from her arm injuries. It’s nice seeing young Reina in maid clothes but Mirea-san’s figure is also quite good. I can’t believe that she isn’t only a widow but also has a child even though she’s such a beautiful woman. “E, ehm. Carlo-sama, what is your order?” ......Ah. Mirea-san looks at me with reddened cheeks. Looks like she became shy after I stared at her for too long. “Aah, how’s Lucia? Is she fine?” “Thanks to you she’s able to go to school. She seemed to have been able to also make some friends.” “Is that so? That’s good. Mirea, can I have a cup of tea?” “Yes, I’ll bring it in just a moment” I tasted the tea Mirea brought. Though it’s delicious regrettably there’s no sugar in it. It seems like sugar is a luxury item and isn’t always available. I want to eat something sweet. The day slowly passed by and it was already dusk. I was slightly hungry, too. Ah, I got it, I just got a great idea. (TN: No... No, bad!) Let’s eat out today. The beef stew of the Fawn Pavilion. M, maybe I’ll meet Felicia while I’m at it. (TN: Carlo, sit and stay..... talk with Mirea about her great tea and dooon’t go to that!!!) “Mirea, I’m going out for a bit today.” “Going out at such a time?” (TN: Stop him!!!) “Yeah and tell Melissa it’s unnecessary to prepare supper because I’m going to eat outside.” “Certainly” “Also, is there a flower shop nearby? One which makes bouquets” After I left the mansion I went to the flower shop Mirea told me about. It’s good that Mirea knew about it though she looked at me slightly confused. She told me I should bring Lunos, who became the captain of the Imperial Guard under my direct control, with me but I declined. I won’t take such a lady-killer with me, absolutely not. I had them make me a bouquet at the flower shop. It seems like it was unusual for a man to order a bouquet in this world. I did get it but I got some dubious looks. There were many colourful flowers and a lot of Baby’s breath in it. What meaning does that have in flower language? (TN: Everlasting love of any kind, Innocence etc. there are some but mostly love stuff) “If it isn’t Carlo-sama. Thank you for coming again. Let us go to the room.” The plump shopkeeper of the Fawn Pavilion, Fats, greeted me at the entrance and brought me to the VIP room. “I’d like to eat the calf stew again. My legs unintentionally carried me here.” “I’m honoured that you seem to like it. Then I shall hastily prepare the calf stew. Shall I let Felicia come again?” My chest tightens. That’s good, Felicia-chan is here today. I pretended to be as indifferent as possible and answered. “Aah, I see. Then should I have Felicia come? As good as the dishes are they take long to be made.” “Certainly. Wait a minute” I grinned and Fats left. “Carlo-sama, please excuse me.” After a few minutes, Felicia-chan entered. Ahh, she’s pretty as I thought. (TN: <___< I wanna hit ya) She had a cool, irresistible look in her eyes and it felt like they could suck me in any moment. Though an adult woman such as Rozea is good but the faint and discreet Felicia-chan is the best. (TN: I give up.) "Felicia, please take this." I handed Felicia-chan the bouquet I bought. Though I thought about giving her a ring or a necklace, but even I would feel disgusted if a man I just met suddenly gave me those things.(TN: It's the same tho... doesn't matter if flowers or other stuff...) Therefore I got a bouquet, are you happy about it? "Well, this is for me?! How pretty it is. And also that fragrance......" Felicia-chan brings the bouquet close to her face to enjoy the fragrance. I'm relieved, she seemed to like it. "No, I just passed a flower shop on my way here coincidently." I'm a liar. I took the trouble and took a detour to get it. But I have no intentions to say this. "This is the first time a gentleman gave me such a thing. Thank you" (TN: I call bullshit) Felicia-chan carefully bowed to me and thanked me. There doesn't seem to be a custom of men giving girls bouquets in this world. But I'm a modern man though I'm a virgin. I do have the knowledge that women would be pleased with this I don't have any experience, though. Today it seems that the shop is not as busy as it was last time so she stayed a while longer in the room. Meanwhile, I talked about various things with her. Felicia seems to turn this year. She learned to sing and dance from her father at an early age but his business went bankrupt. She said that she came with her mother to Braham and seems to sing here to help her household. (TN: Your run-of-the-mill tragic story) When I thought about her hardships I felt tears gathering in the corners of my eyes. By the way, I asked her whether she watched the Sword Fighting Competition but it seems like she didn't come. What a shame that she wasn't able to see my majestic figure. I had her sing one piece and then Felicia-chan returned to the hall for today. I ate my stew and returned afterwards. My eyes met with Felicia-chan's again as she sang across the hall. I said my good-byes with my eyes and she smiled more clearly today. I feel like we have gotten closer today. I leave the shop while feeling happy. After having left the Fawn Pavilion I stopped by the hideout. I looked through the window but the lights were turned off then I entered wearing a mask just in case. Pick wasn't in the hideout. I changed my clothes to that of Akatsuki, wore my mask and left the house. When I entered the adventurer's guild, it was pretty busy inside even though it was night. "Yo Akatsuki, over here." "Big bro, long time no see" Pick and the masked mercenary Crescent Moon called me over Pick seemed to have properly remembered me telling her to "call me big bro when we are out in the public". Admirable, admirable. "Why is it that it's that crowded even though it's night?" "About that, Akatsuki. A slightly big job has come in." "Big bro, it's about the troll-sightings in the village close to the Reid Forest." "That's right. Besides, it's rumoured to have two heads." Crescent moon spoke joyfully. A two-headed troll, huh? That'll be troublesome. That kind of report has yet to reach the feudal lord Carlo. If I get a report that means the adventurer's guild failed and request for the military to be dispatched against the subjugation target, huh? But when that happens they would have already lost a lot of people. Trolls are relatively major creatures in the fantasy genre and are known for their image of being slow-witted giants. This doesn't change in this world either, trolls are tall at approximately three metres in height and the have considerable strength. They often attack by throwing rocks and swinging their big club. Just because their intelligence isn't high that doesn't mean subjugating them is also easy. Its monster class is C, it's on the level that it can be dealt with by one adventurer party. However, the troll has subspecies. These individuals are called "two-heads", which was mentioned just now, and "three-heads". The troll literally grows more than one head but when it grows more than one head then its body gets bigger and its intelligence also gets higher. In some cases, they are even able to use magic. If that happens, it's necessary to raise its monster class to B, a joint operation of a number of parties is needed to deal with it. "A "Two-heads" is a difficult enemy. Can it use magic?" "It's a quest that just came in a while ago so the details aren't clear yet. Hey, Akatsuki, will you take the quest with us?" Obviously, Crescent Moon is excited. The reward will also be quite good. "But when it comes to two-headed trolls, shouldn't their monster class be B?" "It'll be fine, Akatsuki!" As Crescent Moon said this she suddenly held my head with her left hand and whispered into my ear so that Pick couldn’t hear it. "I watched your match. Aren't you amazing? If I'm with you it'll be an easy victory." She was talking about the Sword Fighting Competition. That's fine and all but your chest hit my mask, your chest. Today I learned that a mask is really bothersome at times like this. I'll never forget this vexation, never. "I got it, I got it. Well then, shall we meet up here again tomorrow? Because I'll bring a magician acquaintance of mine." "I did it, that's why I like you ♪" "Big bro, I'll also come along." Oh well, it should be fine. I also have the authors' correction.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 0, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
は居住地区から街できる展望台に続く石段を上る。「ここの展望台は景色もいいけど、ちょっとした噂があってね」「どんな噂?」「展望台でカップルが告白をすると、二人の愛が成就して結ばれる」「......ロマンチックな話だが、この手の話は噂好きの女子が流したってオチだろ」前世でも似たような噂は盛り上がりを見せたが、実際に成し遂げた者を見たことがない。そのおかげで一種の観光スポットになったりして賑わうだろうが、時が過ぎれば忘れられて風花していくだろうとシェーナは思う。「そう思うだろ? 実はこの話を実体験した人物がいるんだよ」「嘘だろ?」「本当だよ。百年前にここでリィーシャさんが旦那さんに愛の告白をして成功させた」「えっ!? 嘘だろ!」シェーナが驚いたのは噂の真相より、リィーシャが既婚者だった事についてだ。全然そんな素振りや会話もなかったので、シェーナは勝手に独身だと思い込んでいた。「マジかよ......グラナの事でも驚かされたのに、まさかリィーシャさんにそんな隠し玉があったなんて」「旦那さんはプライデン領内にあるエルフの里で健在だよ」知的で神秘的な雰囲気のリィーシャから告白をする相手にシェーナは些か興味が湧いた。頂上の展望台に到着すると、そよ風が二人を迎え入れてくれた。ろうと、複数のカップルが展望台をデートコースとして利用している。キシャナはシェーナの手を繋いで展望台から街を一望できる場所に案内する。「実はシェーナと出会う前に、ここで何度も一人で景色を眺めていた時期があって、私にも素敵な人が現れないかなってね。そうしたら、いつの間にかシェーナやルトルスやグラナが現れて私の周りは賑やかになった」「きっと神様がキシャナの願いを叶えてくれたんだよ。そのおかげで、俺も素敵な仲間に出会えたことに感謝しないとな」「シェーナも意外とロマンチックなことを言うね」「リィーシャさんやキシャナの実体験を聞いたら、合理的に考えるより自然に身を任せていいかもしれないね」「じゃあ......こんな風に?」キシャナはシェーナに身を寄せて両手を繋ぐと、社交ダンスを披露するかのように踊りを始める。貴族が集まる社交界でドレスを着込んで踊った経験があるシェーナだが、ダンスのセンスは全くなかった。「元貴族なのにシェーナは踊りが全然駄目だね」「それより剣を振るっていた方が気楽だったからね。盆踊りなら付き合ってもいいよ」「全く......困った女騎士様だ」キシャナは上手にシェーナをエスコートしながらダンスを繰り広げると、周囲のカップルから拍手が飛び交って注目の的となっている。この事がきっかけで、展望台でカップルがダンスを上手く踊れたら恋が成就すると噂になったのはしばらくしてからだった。	After leaving the residential district, the two moved up stone steps leading to a viewing platform that let them see the whole city with one glance. “This place and scenery are really nice, but there’s also a certain rumor about it.” “What kind of rumor?” “That if a couple confesses here, their love will be fulfilled and they’ll be together.” “...That sounds really romantic, but that kind of story sounds like something girls would love to pass around.” In their past life, there were many stories like that that would get a lot of attention, but there was no proof it was actually true. Schenna thought it was stories like those that would make a sightseeing place popular, but with time they would be forgotten and left abandoned. “That’s what you think? There are actually people who have experienced that.” “For real?” “Really. A hundred years ago, Reesha confessed to her husband here, and they’ve been together since then.” “Huh?! Seriously?!” Schenna was not that shocked because the rumor might be true, but to find out that Reesha was married. Reesha had never behaved that way, or mentioned it, so Schenna had simply assumed she was single. “Really though?... I was pretty shocked when she told me about Grana, but I didn’t know she was hiding something like that as well.” “Her husband is currently living in the elf district in Priden.” Reesha had always seemed knowledgeable and mysterious, so Schenna slowly started to get curious as to what kind of person she would confess to. When the two of them arrived at the top, a slight breeze received the two. Probably because of the rumor, there were already many couples there using it as a dating spot. Kishana took hold of Schenna’s hand and led her to a place where they could see the entire city. “You know, before I met you I would come here countless times and gaze at the scenery alone, wondering if I would ever find a suitable person for me. But then you appeared out of nowhere, and then Luthors and Grana too, and now my surroundings are really lively.” “God probably heard your prayers. And thanks to that, I also managed to find some awesome companions, so I’m grateful too.” “Sometimes you say unexpectedly romantic things.” “After I heard yours and Reesha’s story, sometimes I feel like it’s better to just go with the flow and not worry about every little thing.” “So... Like this?” Kishana moved closer to Schenna, and taking her hands she began to dance with her as if in a ballroom. Schenna had experience wearing dresses and dancing in parties organized by nobles, but her dancing sense was really off. “You’re really bad dancing even though you used to be from the nobility.” “Because swinging a sword was always easier for me. But if you want to dance like in a lantern festival, I’ll gladly accompany you.” “I swear... You’re quite a handful for a knight.” Kishana skillfully took the lead and spread the ground her dance covered, soon the couples around them started to clap at them and they became the center of attention. And with that, not too long later, a new rumor spread that if a couple danced skillfully on that platform, they would succeed in love.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 0, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
ネココがバックラーとの会話に割って入る。「確かにあなたはおじさんをお城から引き離して、ワープアローも使わせた。でも、それで満足して良いのかしら? その間に失ってしまったものもあるわ」「ふんっ、それはいったいどういう意味で......」バックラーが言葉に詰まる。いや、詰まったというより遮られたんだ。今まさに頭の中に響いている......味方がキルされたことを告げるアナウンスに......! 「ありがとう、おじさん。おかげさまでまずは1人倒せたわ」ネココは寸前まで追い詰めていたスラッシャーを倒しきっていた! これでプレイヤーの数は4対3! 戦況が......傾き始めた! 「このまま畳みかけるわよ! サトミくん!」「ええ、頃合いです!」今、この場所には敵味方のほとんどが集まっている! ネココはスラッシャーを撃破して駆けつけ、サトミはスイーパーを追ってきた。アンヌは元から教会付近でクラッシャーと戦っていたし、俺はバックラーから逃げてきた。それでいて、敵は俺たちよりメンバーが1人少ない。ここが勝負の分かれ目だ! ミラクルエフェクトの効果によりサトミが新たに2体のユニゾンを召喚する。猿のゴチュウ、豚のブゥフィ、河童のカパパルトの3体はそれぞれ火、風、水の3属性の攻撃を得意としている。そして、彼らのスキル奥義はステータスの『魔攻』と『魔防』によってダメージ計算を行う『魔法攻撃』が多い。バックラーは物理と魔法のどちらに対しても堅牢だが、どちらかと言えば物理寄りで、これまでの試合でも魔法攻撃の方が良く効いていた。俺は物理、ネココも物理、アンヌはもちろん物理! そんな中で魔法担当のサトミたちの存在は非常に大きい。あとNSOは回復をアイテムに頼るのが一般的なゲームとはいえ、回復担当も一応サトミだ。このパーティはかなりサトミに依存している。わかったうえで、今回も頼りにしてるぞ......! 「そうは問屋が卸さない......僧だけに! 相手プレイヤーの1人、僧侶のクラッシャーがそう宣言すると、突然体が重くなった! そのままバランスを崩し、教会の屋根から地面に落下する......! 「ぐっ......! これは......!」今までの試合では使われていない技だ......! 俺の予想だとミラクルエフェクトだと思うが確証はない。しかし、仲間全員を一瞬にして地面に叩きつけられれば、それだけ特別な技だと思いたくもなる! この効果はクラッシャーの周囲数メートルの範囲にいるプレイヤーに対して平等に作用しているようだ......! それこそ、味方に対しても......。「ちょちょちょ、ハゲ! 私まで巻き込んでるんだけど!」「逃げ遅れるおぬしが悪い。事前に説明はしておいたぞ」「ぐぬぬ......! 私のミラクルエフェクトの効果はまだ終わってないのにこれじゃあ台無しよ!」「フッフッフッ! まあ、そこでおとなしく見ておれ!」やはりスイーパーの【ガンシップ・ブルーム】はミラクルエフェクトだったか。系統としてはペッタさんの合体奥義【天使降臨: 飛行能力はおまけで、本命はその飛行能力が発動している間だけ使うことが出来る技......。スイーパーの場合は極太のビーム砲がそれだろう。彼女の口ぶりからしてまだあのビームを何回かは放てるのだろうが、現状は銃口が明後日の方向に向いていて、こちらを狙えそうにもない。そして、バックラーもまたこの高重力の空間に囚われている。そもそも重い彼にさらに重くすれば、ほとんど動けなくなってしまう。しかし、それで不都合はない。こんな状態では動けなくなったバックラーすら倒せそうもない......! 何よりまずいのは、この効果を発動したクラッシャー自身が効果の影響を受けていないことだ! このままじゃ1人1人倒されるのを待つだけ......。なんとかしなければ! 「舞風!」重力を強くする効果なら、そもそもの重量を軽くしてしまえば動け......ない!? 這ってじりじり動くことは出来ても、立ち上がれない......! 「残念ながら弓使い殿、これは空間内に高い重力を生み出す効果ではないのだ」なにっ......!? いや、でも冷静に考えればそうだ。俺は教会の屋根、それも十字架の上にいたのだから、そのまま高重力に襲われれば真下に引き付けられ、十字架に刺さるなんていうパターンもあったはず......。しかし、実際は俺の意志に関係なく屋根を転がり落ち、地面に激突した。まるで地面に吸い付けられるように......。そうか......! これは対象を地面に強く吸い付ける効果なのか......! 放った矢もすべて地面に吸い付けられてしまう! 「ご理解が早いですな。やはり、貴殿は危険だ。真っ先に往生してほしい......。しかし、あの天にも昇る大技のせいで近寄るのが怖い怖い......! 後回しにさせていただく!」クラッシャーはサトミの方へと向かった! くっ、何か手はないのか......? 相手の言ってることをそのまま信じるのもアレだし、試しに矢を撃ってみるか......? 】が地面に吸い付けられ、敵に届くことなく消滅した。実体のない雷ですらあれなのに、実体のある矢がこの効果から逃れられるとは思えない......! 「ガァ......。ガァ......」「っ!? ガー坊?」どこからともなくガー坊の鳴き声が聞こえてくる。かなり小さい。だが、遠いというわけではない。声が何かに遮られているような......。「あ......!」マンホールだ......! 地面に描かれた円形のイラストはただの装飾だと思っていたが、これはマンホールなんだ! そこからガー坊の声が聞こえてくる! このフィールドはジャンボアスレチックパークよりも狭いと思っていたが、その理由は地下にも移動可能なエリアがあったからだったのか......! 地面に耳をつけるとかすかに水の音が聞こえるあたり、そこはおそらく下水道エリア! ガー坊は最初から地下スタートだったか、なにか理由があって地下に入った。そして、ユニゾンは孤立した場合、一番近い味方プレイヤーの元へと移動する。全員がここに集結しているわけだから、ガー坊がここに来るのは必然だったというわけだ。さて、こうなると選択肢は一気に増える。】は圧倒的な破壊力のほかに妨害不可能なまでの直進力がある。おそらく、この空間の中でも直進してくれるはず......。問題はそれで誰を狙うかということだ。この吸い付く空間を生み出しているクラッシャーか......。最も厄介かつ苦手で、今は動けないバックラーか......。ここが本当の勝負の分かれ目だ!	Necoco joined my conversation with Buckler. “It’s true that you got him away from the castle and made him use Warp Arrow. But why are you so satisfied? There are things that you lost in the meantime.” “Hmph. What could you be talking about...” Buckler stumbled on his words. No, he was interrupted. It was echoing in my head right now... The announcement that one of his teammates had been killed...! “Thanks, old man. I was able to defeat the first one because of you.” Necoco had been able to push Slasher to the brink and defeat him! Now it was vs ! The battle...was moving in our favor! “Let’s keep going! Satomi!” “Yes, it’s about time!” Right now, nearly all friends and foes had gathered in this area! Necoco had rushed here after defeating Slasher, and Satomi had pursued Sweeper. Anne had already been fighting Crusher near the church, and I had been chased by Buckler. Except the enemy was one person down. That could be the deciding factor! Satomi used a Miracle Effect to summon two more Unisons. Gochu the monkey, Buffi the pig, and Kapaparuto the kappa all used fire, wind, and water attacks respectively. And most of their charge attacks were ‘magic attacks’ that were calculated by the Magic Attack and Magic Defenses stats. While Buckler was strong against both physical and magic attacks, he was still more on the physical side, and magic attacks had been more effective against him in previous fights. I was physical, and so was Necoco and Anne! And so Satomi was quite important, as the sole person who mainly used magic. Also, while most people relied on items to heal in NSO, Satomi was also our healer. The party relied on him a lot. And we relied on him now as well...! “I won’t let you do that...! Forbidden Ground of Pain!” Declared an enemy player, Crusher the monk. And then my body suddenly grew heavy! And then I lost my balance and fell from the church roof and onto the ground...! “Gah...! What is...” He had not used this skill during any of the previous battles...! My guess was that it was a Miracle Effect, but I wasn’t sure. However, if it was able to throw all of us onto the ground at once, it must be something very special! Because this attack had affected all the players that were within a few meters range of Crusher. Even his own party members... “Hey, you baldy! Why are you hitting me with that!” “It’s your fault for not running away in time. I told you in advance.” “Grrr...! My Miracle Effect hadn’t worn off yet, but now it’s wasted!” “Hehehe! Well, just sit there quietly and watch!” So Sweeper’s Gunship Broom had been a Miracle Effect after all. It must be similar to Petta’s combined charge attack, Trumpetter. The flying ability was just a bonus, and the main purpose was the attacks that could be used while flight was activated... In Sweeper’s case, it would be the cannon beam. Judging by what she had said, she could have likely unleashed it a few more times. But now the barrel was pointing away, and she wouldn’t be able to target anyone. As for Buckler, he too was a prisoner of this enhanced gravity. He was already heavy to begin with, so now he could barely even move. But it hardly mattered. Cause I still couldn’t defeat him in this state...! But the worst thing of all was that Crusher himself was not affected by this! If this continued, we would just be waiting as he went around and killed us one by one... We had to do something! “Whirlwind!” If it was an effect that strengthened gravity, then maybe if I made myself lighter I could... No!? While I could crawl a little, I couldn’t stand up...! “Unfortunately for you, Archer, this isn’t an effect that increases the gravity within a certain space.” What...!? But now that I thought about it, that did make sense. I had been standing on the cross on the church roof. So if gravity was pulling me downward, then I could have been impaled by the cross... However, I just rolled down to the roof and fell onto the ground. As if the ground was sucking me towards it... I see...! So it was just an effect that pulled people towards the ground...! That means that any arrows I unleash will also be pulled down! “You are quick to understand. I knew that you were dangerous. And so I would like to snuff you out first... However, I’m too scared to get close to someone who has that great skill that stretches up to the sky...! And so I’ll leave you for last!” And then Crusher headed towards Satomi! Tsk. Wasn’t there anything that I could do...? And maybe I shouldn’t just believe everything he said, and try shooting an arrow...? No, Necoco just unleashed Thunder Sky Sever Claws, and it was pulled towards the ground and vanished before reaching anyone. If that was what happened to thunder, then there was no way that my arrows wouldn’t be affected...! “Gar... Gar...” “Huh!? Garbow?” All of a sudden, I could hear Garbow’s cry. It was very quiet. But not because it was far away. As if it was being blocked by something... “Ah...!” The manhole...! I had thought that the circle drawn on the ground was just for decoration, but it was a manhole! And I could hear Garbow’s voice coming from it! This map seemed a lot smaller than the Jumbo Athletic Park, and the reason for that was there was an underground area you could travel through...! When I put my ear to the ground, I could hear the sounds of water, so it was likely a sewer area! Either Garbow had started down there or had entered it for some reason. And when Unisons were alone, they traveled towards the player they were the closest to. And since we were all together now, it made sense that Garbow would come here. So, I had a lot more options now. Garbow’s combined charge attack, Armageddon Arrow had not only overwhelming destructive power, but a propelling force that was unstoppable. And so it should work even in this space... The problem was, who should I target with it? 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♪彼はゴルゴタの丘を超え漂うように歩み続ける♪ ♪全能の存在の速さで♪ ♪しかし娘はまだ追いつくかもしれない♪ ♪主よ教えて下さいどこへ行かれるのですか♪ ♪何故そんなに急ぐのですか?♪ ♪娘よ妨げる事なかれ♪ ♪時間が惜しいのだ♪ ♪船が明日正午に進水する♪ ♪朝日が昇る前にそこへ着かなければ♪ ♪遅れる訳にはいかぬ♪ ♪若者達が私を待っている♪ ♪これ以外の何の為に神が私を復活させるというのだ?♪ ♪何も私を妨げることはない私は辿り着かなければ♪ ♪嵐の牙をくぐり抜け♪ ♪強風の直中に♪ ♪天使達よ私を守り賜え♪ ♪他の全てが滅びようとも♪ ♪そして最後の船が旅立つ♪ ♪鎖のぶつかり合う響き♪ ♪枕木の軋む音よ♪ ♪世界の終わりの音が耳に聞こえ♪ ♪そびえ立つ鉄塊が海へと進み出し♪ ♪そして最後の船が旅立つ♪ 私が生まれ育ったのは造船所の影に隠れた英国北東の岸辺にある小さな街で子供の頃の最初の記憶では巨大な船が私の家の前の道の行き止まりに停泊し一年の大半日光さえも遮っていました子供の頃毎朝あの丘を何千と言う男達が下り造船所へ向かうのを見たものですそして同じ男達がまた夜になり家路へ付く姿が見えました造船所は隣に住むにしろそこで働くにしろ最高な場所ではないと言わざるを得ません造船所は騒々しく危険で危険な毒物に溢れ健康と安全が脅かされる場所ですそれにも関わらず造船所で働く人々は男も女も皆仕事に対して並外れた誇りを抱いていました当然の事でもあります地球上で造られた最も大きな船体の幾つかが私の家の前の通りの行き止まりで造られました祖父は造船工で子供の頃街には他に幾つかの職業しか無く少しの不安と共にそれがいつか否応無しに自分の運命になるのだろうかと思ったものです私には絶対そうはなりたくないという固い意志がありました夢もいくつかありました決して現実的なものではありませんでしたが 8才の時にギターを譲り受けたのですそれは古く傷み錆び付いた弦は5本音も外れたギターでしたが私は直ぐに弾けるようになりましたそしてギターという生涯の友を得た事に気付いたのですこの殺風景で奇妙な工業の街の景色から逃げ出すという計画の共犯者、共謀者となったのですもし強く望めば夢は叶うと言いますが果たしてそういうことだったか私が桁外れに幸運だったのか— とにかくこれが私の夢でしたこの街を出てあの船のように出航してしまえばもう二度と戻るまいと思ったのですシンガーソングライターになりたいと夢見てその歌を世界中の人々に歌い贅沢な報酬を得て有名になり美しい女性と結婚して子供を持ち家庭を築き田舎に大きな家を買い犬を飼いワインを造りグラミー賞で飾られた数々の部屋とプラチナディスクその他諸々を持つ— とりあえず上手く行ったようですね? そしてある日曲が浮かばなくなりました今までにも時々創作に行き詰まる事はありましたがそれは短い間だけのものでしたところが今回は慢性的なものでした来る日も来る日も頭の中は真っ白で何も思い浮かばず数日は数週間になりそれて数ヶ月になりまもなく数ヶ月は数年となりましたが努力も虚しく何の歌も浮かびませんでしたやがてこんな考えが浮かび始めます神々が見捨てる程のどんなひどい冒涜をしたというんだ? 作曲の才能は与えられた時のようにあっさりと奪われてしまったのだろうか? もしかしたらより深刻な精神的な問題があるのかも知れない確かに創作はいつもファウストの悪魔との契約のような行為でした内面をさらけ出しその代償として曲が完成しごく個人的な感情を歌にして人を楽しませたり人にあれこれと分析されたりして来てきっともう十分にプライバシーを出し尽くしたのかも知れないきっともう十分にプライバシーを出し尽くしたのかも知れないただ今までの作品を見てこう思いました一番出来の良い作品は自分についてのものでは無く他の誰かについての作品だったんじゃないか? ひょっとして自分の傑作たちは自分のエゴから離れて自分自身の物語を語る事を止め誰かの物語を— 声を持たない誰かのことをー親身になってその人の事を考えてみたりその人の視点で世界を見たりした時に生まれなかっただろうか? 自分の知る事を書けそう言いますね自分の事を書く事が出来なくなったら何を書けばいいんでしょう? 皮肉な事ですが必死に逃げ出した場所の景色と自ら亡命者となり見捨てた故郷は自ら亡命者となり見捨てた故郷は正に私が見失った音楽の女神を探しに戻らなければならない景色であり故郷だったのですそうして私が自分の故郷の共同体を讃えその物語を語ろうと思うと歌はすぐさま湧き出て来ました体の奥から抑えようもなく噴き出してきましたアイデアや登場人物そしてそれぞれの台詞が詩が、カプレットが、急流となって溢れ眼前に曲の全体が完全な形で出来上がって眼前に曲の全体が完全な形で出来上がってそれはまるで私の中に何年もの間閉じ込められていたものが溢れ出たかのようでした最初に書いたことは知り合いの名前のリストで彼らはやがて 3−Dのドラマのようなものの登場人物となって自分は何者で何をしているとか夢や将来への不安を語り始めましたこれはジャッキー・ホワイトの歌造船所の親方の歌です俺の名前はジャッキー・ホワイト俺は造船所の親方さこの波止場でジャッキー様に楯突く奴はいないぜ俺は鉄板のように硬い遅刻しようものならただじゃすまねえ春の潮へと船を押し出さなきゃならないって時に死んだら天国に行けると信じるといいさシフトはちゃんと勤めてくれよそして最後まで援護を頼むぞ聖ペテロに天国の門でおまえが遅れた訳を聞かれたら船を造っていたと言えばいいさ女王陛下の為に戦艦もクルーザーも造ったそれから海運王へ超大型タンカーを造るまでにあらゆる種類の船を最も巨大な船も造った世界が目にしたものの中で— ♪唯一の価値ある人生は造船所にあるのさ♪ ♪材料置き場に鉄材魂に鉄を♪ ♪それだけあれば船が出来上がるのさ♪ ♪船体だけの姿から♪ ♪もしも造船所が売られたら♪ ♪俺たちには行き場も無いさ♪ ♪唯一の価値ある人生は造船所にあるのさ♪ (拍手) 自分ではなく他の誰かについて書くと決めたら自分ではなく他の誰かについて書くと決めたら皮肉な事に思った以上に自分自身がさらけ出されることがあるのですこの曲は『死人のブーツ』といいますこの言葉は仕事に就くのがどれだけ大変な事かを表していますつまり造船所で仕事に就く時は誰かが死んだ時ですそれか父親がどうにかして 15歳の息子に見習い職を見つけたりした時でそして時折父親の愛情は抑圧的だと誤解されてしまったりそして逆に息子の夢はばかばかしい絵空事のように思われてしまったりします ♪この手に持った作業靴♪ ♪そろそろ息子のお前の足に合うだろう♪ ♪これをお前に贈ろう♪ ♪履いてみるといい♪ ♪見てみたいもんだ♪ ♪いつかお前がこのブーツを履き♪ ♪男達の仲間入りをするのを♪ ♪船台の上で働く男達の♪ ♪この死人のブーツは古びて反り返っているが♪ ♪新米が仕事とこの世での居場所が必要になったら♪ ♪男が根を下ろす時が来たのさ♪ ♪親父のブーツを履いて川へ向かうんだ♪ ♪父は言った「もう逝く時が来たが息子よ」 ♪ ♪「聞いて欲しい願いが一つある」♪ ♪「まだ若木のお前は自分が成木と思っている」♪ ♪「もし繁り栄えたければ」♪ ♪「まずは根をしっかりと降ろす事だ」♪ ♪「まず片足そしてもう片足を」♪ ♪「この死人のブーツに」♪ ♪この死人のブーツは古びて反り返っているが♪ ♪新米が仕事と居場所が必要になったら♪ ♪男が根を下ろす時が来たのさ♪ ♪親父のブーツを履いて川へ向かうんだ♪ ♪俺は言った「何故そんな事をしなきゃならない?」♪ ♪「何故頷かなきゃいけないんだ?」♪ ♪親父には殴られた記憶しかないというのに♪ ♪覚えている限り♪ ♪親父の溢れるような優しさに浸されたような事もないし♪ ♪それまでさ♪ ♪自分の人生は自分で決めてここを出て行くんだ♪ ♪9月に成人したら♪ ♪この死人のブーツはお払い箱だ♪ ♪どこへ行こうと知ったことではない♪ ♪俺には選択肢が幾らでもある道も幾らでもある♪ ♪でも死人のブーツを履いて歩く事はない♪ ♪親父は何を思って♪ ♪俺が親父と同じ人生で幸せになると思ったのか♪ ♪ようやく残ったのは半ペニーが2つ♪ ♪割れて汚れた壷♪ ♪同じ惨めな人生を俺に望むなんて♪ ♪それが最後の望みだったのか? ♪親父は言った「一体何をして生きて行こうってんだ?」♪ ♪俺は言った「これ以外なら何でもいいさ!」♪ ♪「こんな死人のブーツなど糞食らえだ」♪ ♪ひとりでに歩いて行ってしまうがいいさ♪ ♪だが俺は別の道を行くつもりだ♪ ♪もう我慢は限界だ言う事は言わせてもらおう♪ ♪親父に残されたのは壁の十字架だけだ♪ ♪親父から何ももらおうなんて思っていないさ♪ ♪退職金も僅かな金も人生が終わった親父からは♪ ♪よく聞いてくれ俺は親父とは違うのさ♪ ♪もう言い合いは懲り懲りだもう争いは止めだ♪ ♪死ぬまで待っても死人のブーツなんか俺は履かない♪ (拍手) ありがとうございます大型船が出来上がる度にロンドンから要人が汽車に乗ってスピーチをしに招かれるのです船首でシャンパンのボトルを割り船台の上を船が川へそして海へと進みます時折本当に重要な船だと王室の誰かが呼ばれ— エジンバラ公爵やアン王女や誰か— 良く知られたことですがそんなに遠く無い昔にイギリス王室は魔法の治癒力を持つと信じられていました群衆の中から病気の子供が差し出されてひどい病気が治るように王や王妃の外套に触らせようとしたものでしたそれは私の子供の頃にはもう廃れた風習でしたがそれでも街は大騒ぎになりました船の進水式の日は土曜で母は私を日曜のミサのように飾り立て私はふくれていました子供達は皆通りへ出てイギリス国旗を振り丘の上にはオートバイの一団が現れその真ん中には大きな黒いロールスロイスがいて女王陛下が乗られていますこれは大変なことです行列は私の家の前の通りを堂々とした歩き方で進み私の家の近くへ来ると私は旗を元気いっぱいに振り始め女王陛下が目に入ります私と女王陛下の目が合ったように思え陛下は私を見て手を振り微笑みます私は旗をより一層元気に振り二人は一瞬を共有します私と女王陛下女王は私に視線を向けそして行ってしまいますええ私は何の病気も治りませんでしたがその逆で私は熱にうかされるようにある考えに侵されていました自分の居場所はここじゃないあの家には住みたくないあの造船所なんかで一生を終えたくないあの車に乗りたい華やかな暮らしがしたいこの街より大きな人生を生きたい平凡でない人生が欲しいそれは私の権利だからですそれが女王の権利であるように私の権利でもありますそして今ここTEDの舞台にいますこの物語をお話するためでしょうこの当然とも言える事を語るのもまた良いでしょう共生的で本質的な繋がりが物語を語ることとコミュニティの間にコミュニティと芸術の間にコミュニティと科学技術の間にそしてコミュニティと経済学の間にあると私が信じているのは抽象的な経済学理論でコミュニティの必要性やその経済的貢献を否定するものは近視眼的で残酷で支持され得ないものだということです (拍手) 真実は—ロックスターも造船所の溶接工もアマゾン川上流の部族の男もイギリスの女王も— 結局は私達は皆同じ運命なのですから ♪召使いは動揺している♪ ♪女王は駅までタクシーを拾って行ってしまった♪ ♪ポーターは女王の荷物が無いので驚いて♪ ♪慌ただしく女王と三匹のコーギーを客車の後ろへ乗せた♪ ♪列車はあらゆるヨーロッパ貴族で一杯で♪ ♪一人も仲良くしようという客はおらず♪ ♪席の取り合いさ♪ ♪『失礼ですが猊下殿♪ ♪そこは私が座っているのですお席にお戻り下さい!』♪ ♪『一体皆どこへ行こうと言うんだろう?』♪ ♪ポーター達は議論する♪ ♪『皆ニューキャッスルへ行くので遅れられないのです♪ ♪満潮になったらタイン川で船の進水式がある♪ ♪それで皆世界のあらゆるところから来たのです』♪ ♪老ダライ・ラマもいる♪ ♪ローマ教皇も♪ ♪ヨーロッパのすべての宮殿には人っ子一人残っていない♪ ♪コーンウォール公爵夫人とウェールズの王子♪ ♪シルクハットと燕尾服が窮屈そうだ♪ ♪彼らは切符さえ買っていない♪ ♪まあまあそんなのは小さな事だ♪ ♪買っている時間等無いがただうまくやらなければ♪ ♪造船所へ着かなければ刑務所行きだ!♪ ♪最後の船が旅立つ時♪ ♪鎖のぶつかり合う響き♪ ♪枕木の軋む音よ♪ ♪世界の終わりの音が耳に聞こえ♪ ♪そびえ立つ鉄塊が海へと進み出し♪ ♪そして最後の船が旅立つ♪ ♪お前の残した約束が何であれ♪ ♪何を成し遂げていようと♪ ♪人生の途中のどの時点にいようと♪ ♪神とイエスの御名において♪ ♪例えどんな人生を織り上げて来ようと♪ ♪地上天上日の下どこにいようと♪ ♪最後の船が旅立つ時♪ ♪鎖のぶつかり合う響き♪ ♪枕木の軋む音よ♪ ♪世界の終わりの音が耳に聞こえ♪ ♪そびえ立つ鉄塊が海へと進み出し♪ ♪そして最後の船が旅立つ♪ ご清聴ありがとうございましたありがとうございます(拍手) ありがとうこの曲を知っていたら歌って下さい (拍手) ♪ただの漂流者の僕♪ ♪海にぽつりと漂う無人島で♪ ♪また孤独な1日が過ぎる♪ ♪自分だけの世界♪ ♪耐えられないほどの寂しさに♪ ♪絶望してしまう前に誰か助けてくれないか♪ ♪世界に向けてSOSを送ろう♪ ♪世界に向けてSOSを送ろう♪ ♪誰か拾ってくれないか♪ ♪誰か拾ってくれないか♪ ♪誰か拾ってくれないか♪ ♪瓶に入れたメッセージを♪ ♪瓶に入れたメッセージを♪ ♪それから1年が経った♪ ♪最初から分かっていたはずだった♪ ♪希望だけが自分らしさを保たせる♪ ♪愛だけが人生を癒してくれる♪ ♪愛に傷つけらるけれど♪ ♪世界に向けてSOSを送ろう♪ ♪世界に向けてSOSを送ろう♪ ♪誰か拾ってくれないか♪ ♪誰か拾ってくれないか♪ ♪誰か拾ってくれないか♪ ♪瓶に入れたメッセージを♪ ♪瓶に入れたメッセージを♪ ♪瓶に入れたメッセージを♪ ♪瓶に入れたメッセージを♪ ♪今朝外に出て♪ ♪信じられない光景が広がっていた♪ ♪1,000億もの瓶が♪ ♪岸辺に打ち上げられていたんだ♪ ♪孤独なのは僕だけじゃなかった♪ ♪1,000億の漂流者たちが♪ ♪帰る場所を探していた♪ ♪世界に向けてSOSを送ろう♪ ♪世界に向けてSOSを送ろう♪ ♪誰か拾ってくれないか♪ ♪誰か拾ってくれないか♪ ♪誰か拾ってくれないか♪ ♪瓶に入れたメッセージを♪ ♪瓶に入れたメッセージを♪ ♪瓶に入れたメッセージを♪ ♪瓶に入れたメッセージを♪ ここから一緒に歌って下さい次のパート簡単です一緒に歌いましょうさあ ♪SOSを送ろう♪ さあ歌って観客:♪SOSを送ろう♪ スティング:♪SOSを送ろう♪ 観客:♪SOSを送ろう♪ スティング:♪SOSを送ろう♪ 観客:♪SOSを送ろう♪ スティング:♪SOSを送ろう♪ 観客:♪SOSを送ろう♪ スティング:♪送ろう♪ ♪SOSを送ろう♪ ♪SOSを送ろう♪ ♪SOSを送ろう♪ ♪SOSを送ろう♪ ♪♪♪ ありがとうTED 良い夜を	♪ Oh I cannot be missing ♪ ♪ The lads'll expect me ♪ ♪ Why else would the Good Lord Himself resurrect me? ♪ ♪ For nothing'll stop me. I have to prevail ♪ ♪ Through the teeth of this tempest ♪ ♪ In the mouth of a gale ♪ ♪ May the angels protect me ♪ ♪ If all else should fail ♪ ♪ And the last ship sails ♪ ♪ Oh the roar of the chains ♪ ♪ And the cracking of timbers ♪ ♪ The noise at the end of the world in your ears ♪ ♪ As a mountain of steel makes its way to the sea ♪ ♪ And the last ship sails ♪ So I was born and raised in the shadow of a shipyard in a little town on the northeast coast of England. Some of my earliest memories are of giant ships blocking the end of my street, as well as the sun, for a lot of the year. Every morning as a child, I'd watch thousands of men walk down that hill to work in the shipyard. I'd watch those same men walking back home every night. It has to be said, the shipyard was not the most pleasant place to live next door to, or indeed work in. The shipyard was noisy, dangerous, highly toxic, with an appalling health and safety record. Despite that, the men and women who worked on those ships were extraordinarily proud of the work they did, and justifiably so. Some of the largest vessels ever constructed on planet Earth were built right at the end of my street. My grandfather had been a shipwright, and as a child, as there were few other jobs in the town, I would wonder with some anxiety whether that would be my destiny too. I was fairly determined that it wouldn't be. I had other dreams, not necessarily practical ones, but at the age of eight, I was bequeathed a guitar. It was a battered old thing with five rusty strings, and was out of tune, but quickly I learned to play it and realized that I'd found a friend for life, in my plan to escape from this surreal industrial landscape. Well, they say if you dream something hard enough, it will come to pass. Either that, or I was extremely lucky, but this was my dream. I dreamt I would leave this town, and just like those ships, once they were launched, I'd never come back. I dreamt I'd become a writer of songs, that I would sing those songs to vast numbers of people all over the world, that I would be paid extravagant amounts of money, that I'd become famous, that I'd marry a beautiful woman, have children, raise a family, buy a big house in the country, keep dogs, grow wine, have rooms full of Grammy Awards, platinum discs, and what have you. So far, so good, right? And then one day, the songs stopped coming, and while you've suffered from periods of writer's block before, albeit briefly, this is something chronic. Day after day, you face a blank page, and nothing's coming. And those days turned to weeks, and weeks to months, and pretty soon those months have turned into years with very little to show for your efforts. No songs. So you start asking yourself questions. What have I done to offend the gods that they would abandon me so? Is the gift of songwriting taken away as easily as it seems to have been bestowed? Or perhaps there's a more -- a deeper psychological reason. It was always a Faustian pact anyway. You're rewarded for revealing your innermost thoughts, your private emotions on the page for the entertainment of others, for the analysis, the scrutiny of others, and perhaps you've given enough of your privacy away. And yet, if you look at your work, could it be argued that your best work wasn't about you at all, it was about somebody else? Did your best work occur when you sidestepped your own ego and you stopped telling your story, but told someone else's story, someone perhaps without a voice, where empathetically, you stood in his shoes for a while or saw the world through his eyes? Well they say, write what you know. If you can't write about yourself anymore, then who do you write about? So it's ironic that the landscape I'd worked so hard to escape from, and the community that I'd more or less abandoned and exiled myself from should be the very landscape, the very community I would have to return to to find my missing muse. And as soon as I did that, as soon as I decided to honor the community I came from and tell their story, that the songs started to come thick and fast. I've described it as a kind of projectile vomiting, a torrent of ideas, of characters, of voices, of verses, couplets, entire songs almost formed whole, materialized in front of me as if they'd been bottled up inside me for many, many years. One of the first things I wrote was just a list of names of people I'd known, and they become characters in a kind of three-dimensional drama, where they explain who they are, what they do, their hopes and their fears for the future. This is Jackie White. He's the foreman of the shipyard. My name is Jackie White, and I'm foreman of the yard, and you don't mess with Jackie on this quayside. I'm as hard as iron plate, woe betide you if you're late when we have to push a boat out on the spring tide. Now you can die and hope for heaven, but you need to work your shift, and I'd expect you all to back us to the hilt, for if St. Peter at his gate were to ask you why you're late, why, you tell him that you had to get a ship built. We build battleships and cruisers for Her Majesty the Queen, supertankers for Onassis, and all the classes in between, We built the greatest ship in tonnage what the world has ever seen ♪ And the only life worth knowing is in the shipyard ♪ ♪ Steel in the stockyard, iron in the soul ♪ ♪ Would conjure up a ship ♪ ♪ Where there used to be a hull ♪ ♪ And we don't know what we'll do ♪ ♪ If this yard gets sold ♪ ♪ For the only life worth knowing is in the shipyard ♪ So having decided to write about other people instead of myself, a further irony is that sometimes you reveal more about yourself than you'd ever intended. This song is called "Dead Man's Boots," which is an expression which describes how difficult it is to get a job; in other words, you'd only get a job in the shipyard if somebody else died. Or perhaps your father could finagle you an apprenticeship at the age of 15. But sometimes a father's love can be misconstrued as controlling, and conversely, the scope of his son's ambition can seem like some pie-in-the-sky fantasy. ♪ You see these work boots in my hands ♪ ♪ They'll probably fit you now, my son ♪ ♪ Take them, they're a gift from me ♪ ♪ Why don't you try them on? ♪ ♪ It would do your old man good to see ♪ ♪ You walking in these boots one day ♪ ♪ And take your place among the men ♪ ♪ Who work upon the slipway ♪ ♪ These dead man's boots, though they're old and curled ♪ ♪ When a fellow needs a job and a place in the world ♪ ♪ And it's time for a man to put down roots ♪ ♪ And walk to the river in his old man's boots ♪ ♪ He said, "I'm dying, son, and asking ♪ ♪ That you do one final thing for me ♪ ♪ You're barely but a sapling, and you think that you're a tree ♪ ♪ If you need a seed to prosper ♪ ♪ You must first put down some roots ♪ ♪ Just one foot then the other in ♪ ♪ These dead man's boots" ♪ ♪ These dead man's boots, though they're old and curled ♪ ♪ When a fellow needs a job and a place in the world ♪ ♪ And it's time for a man to put down roots ♪ ♪ And walk to the river in his old man's boots ♪ ♪ I said, "Why in the hell would I do that? ♪ ♪ Why would I agree?" ♪ ♪ When his hand was all that I'd received ♪ ♪ As far as I remember ♪ ♪ It's not as if he'd spoiled me with his kindness ♪ ♪ Up to then, you see ♪ ♪ I'd a plan of my own and I'd quit this place ♪ ♪ When I came of age September ♪ ♪ These dead man's boots know their way down the hill ♪ ♪ They could walk there themselves, and they probably will ♪ ♪ I've plenty of choices, I've plenty other routes ♪ ♪ And you'll never see me walking in these dead man's boots ♪ ♪ What was it made him think ♪ ♪ I'd be happy ending up like him ♪ ♪ When he'd hardly got two halfpennies left ♪ ♪ Or a broken pot to piss in? ♪ ♪ He wanted this same thing for me ♪ ♪ Was that his final wish? ♪ ♪ He said, "What the hell are you gonna do?" ♪ ♪ I said, "Anything but this!" ♪ ♪ These dead man's boots know their way down the hill ♪ ♪ They can walk there themselves and they probably will ♪ ♪ But they won't walk with me ‘cause I'm off the other way ♪ ♪ I've had it up to here, I'm gonna have my say ♪ ♪ When all you've got left is that cross on the wall ♪ ♪ I want nothing from you, I want nothing at all ♪ ♪ Not a pension, nor a pittance, when your whole life is through ♪ ♪ Get this through your head, I'm nothing like you ♪ ♪ I'm done with all the arguments, there'll be no more disputes ♪ ♪ And you'll die before you see me in your dead man's boots ♪ Thank you. So whenever they'd launch a big ship, they would invite some dignitary up from London on the train to make a speech, break a bottle of champagne over the bows, launch it down the slipway into the river and out to sea. Occasionally on a really important ship, they'd get a member of the royal family to come, Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Anne or somebody. And you have to remember, it wasn't that long ago that the royal family in England were considered to have magical healing powers. Sick children were held up in crowds of the king or the queen to cure them of some terrible disease. It wasn't like that in my day, but we still got very excited. So it's a launch day, it's a Saturday, and my mother has dressed me up in my Sunday best. I'm not very happy with her. All the kids are out in the street, and we have little Union Jacks to wave, and at the top of the hill, there's a motorcycle cortege appears. In the middle of the motorcycles, there's a big, black Rolls-Royce. Inside the Rolls-Royce is the Queen Mother. This is a big deal. So the procession is moving at a stately pace down my street, and as it approaches my house, I start to wave my flag vigorously, and there is the Queen Mother. I see her, and she seems to see me. She acknowledges me. She waves, and she smiles. And I wave my flag even more vigorously. We're having a moment, me and the Queen Mother. She's acknowledged me. And then she's gone. Well, I wasn't cured of anything. It was the opposite, actually. I was infected. I was infected with an idea. I don't belong in this street. I don't want to live in that house. I don't want to end up in that shipyard. I want to be in that car. I want a bigger life. I want a life beyond this town. I want a life that's out of the ordinary. It's my right. It's my right as much as hers. And so here I am at TED, I suppose to tell that story, and I think it's appropriate to say the obvious that there's a symbiotic and intrinsic link between storytelling and community, between community and art, between community and science and technology, between community and economics. It's my belief that abstract economic theory that denies the needs of community or denies the contribution that community makes to economy is shortsighted, cruel and untenable. The fact is, whether you're a rock star or whether you're a welder in a shipyard, or a tribesman in the upper Amazon, or the queen of England, at the end of the day, we're all in the same boat. ♪ Aye, the footmen are frantic in their indignation ♪ ♪ You see the queen's took a taxi herself to the station ♪ ♪ Where the porters, surprised by her lack of royal baggage ♪ ♪ Bustle her and three corgis to the rear of the carriage ♪ ♪ For the train it is crammed with all Europe's nobility ♪ ♪ And there's none of them famous for their compatibility ♪ ♪ There's a fight over seats ♪ ♪ "I beg pardon, Your Grace ♪ ♪ But you'll find that one's mine, so get back in your place!" ♪ ♪ "Aye, but where are they going?" ♪ ♪ All the porters debate ♪ ♪ "Why they're going to Newcastle and they daren't be late ♪ ♪ For they're launching a boat on the Tyne at high tide ♪ ♪ And they've come from all over, from far and from wide" ♪ ♪ There's the old Dalai Lama ♪ ♪ And the pontiff of Rome ♪ ♪ Every palace in Europe, and there's nay bugger home ♪ ♪ There's the Duchess of Cornwall and the loyal Prince of Wales ♪ ♪ Looking crushed and uncomfortable in his top hat and tails ♪ ♪ Well, they haven't got tickets ♪ ♪ Come now, it's just a detail ♪ ♪ There was no time to purchase and one simply has to prevail ♪ ♪ For we'll get to the shipyards or we'll end up in jail! ♪ ♪ When the last ship sails ♪ ♪ Oh the roar of the chains ♪ ♪ And the cracking of timbers ♪ ♪ The noise at the end of the world in your ears ♪ ♪ As a mountain of steel makes its way to the sea ♪ ♪ And the last ship sails ♪ ♪ And whatever you'd promised ♪ ♪ Whatever you've done ♪ ♪ And whatever the station in life you've become ♪ ♪ In the name of the Father, in the name of the Son ♪ ♪ And no matter the weave of this life that you've spun ♪ ♪ On the Earth or in Heaven or under the Sun ♪ ♪ When the last ship sails ♪ ♪ Oh the roar of the chains ♪ ♪ And the cracking of timbers ♪ ♪ The noise at the end of the world in your ears ♪ ♪ As a mountain of steel makes its way to the sea ♪ ♪ And the last ship sails ♪ Thanks very much for listening to my song. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, you have to join in if you know it. ♪ Just a castaway ♪ ♪ An island lost at sea, oh ♪ ♪ Another lonely day ♪ ♪ With no one here but me, oh ♪ ♪ More loneliness than any man could bear ♪ ♪ Rescue me before I fall into despair ♪ ♪ I'll send an S.O.S. to the world ♪ ♪ I'll send an S.O.S. to the world ♪ ♪ I hope that someone gets my ♪ ♪ I hope that someone gets my ♪ ♪ I hope that someone gets my ♪ ♪ Message in a bottle ♪ ♪ Message in a bottle ♪ ♪ A year has passed since I wrote my note ♪ ♪ I should have known this right from the start ♪ ♪ Only hope can keep me together ♪ ♪ Love can mend your life ♪ ♪ but love can break your heart ♪ ♪ I'll send an S.O.S. to the world ♪ ♪ I'll send an S.O.S. to the world ♪ ♪ I hope that someone gets my ♪ ♪ I hope that someone gets my ♪ ♪ I hope that someone gets my ♪ ♪ Message in a bottle ♪ ♪ Message in a bottle ♪ ♪ Message in a bottle ♪ ♪ Message in a bottle ♪ ♪ Walked out this morning ♪ ♪ I don't believe what I saw ♪ ♪ A hundred billion bottles ♪ ♪ Washed up on the shore ♪ ♪ Seems I'm not alone in being alone ♪ ♪ A hundred billion castaways ♪ ♪ Looking for a home ♪ ♪ I'll send an S.O.S. to the world ♪ ♪ I'll send an S.O.S. to the world ♪ ♪ I hope that someone gets my ♪ ♪ I hope that someone gets my ♪ ♪ I hope that someone gets my ♪ ♪ Message in a bottle ♪ ♪ Message in a bottle ♪ ♪ Message in a bottle ♪ ♪ Message in a bottle ♪ So I'm going to ask you to sing after me, okay, the next part. It's very easy. Sing in unison. Here we go. ♪ Sending out an S.O.S. ♪ Come on now. Audience: ♪ Sending out an S.O.S. ♪ Sting: ♪ Sending out an S.O.S. ♪ Audience: ♪ Sending out an S.O.S. ♪ Sting: ♪ I'm sending out an S.O.S. ♪ Audience: ♪ Sending out an S.O.S. ♪ Sting: ♪ Sending out an S.O.S. ♪ Audience: ♪ Sending out an S.O.S. ♪ Sting: ♪ Sending out ♪ ♪ Sending out an S.O.S. ♪ ♪ Sending out an S.O.S. ♪ ♪ Sending out an S.O.S. ♪ ♪ Sending out an S.O.S. ♪ ♪ Yoooooooo ♪ Thank you, TED. Goodnight.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
「それでこの区画の名前は?」「区画に名前なんてないですよ名前は道についていて道の間にある名前のない部分が区画です」彼は頭を混乱させがっかりしながら歩き去るでしょう今度は逆に日本のどこかの道に立っていて誰か近くにいる人に聞いたとしましょう「すいませんこの道は何という名前でしょう?」「はい向こうが17番地でこっちが16番地です」「じゃなくてこの道の名前を知りたいんですが?」「道の名前なんてありませんよ名前は区画についています Google Mapsを見てくださいこれが14番 15番 16番 17番 18番 19番地です区画にはみんな名前があります区画の間の名前のない部分が道です」「それだと家の住所はどうやってわかるんですか?」と聞くと「簡単ですよここが8丁目でしょその17番地の 1号の家です」「少し歩き回ってみたけど家の番地が順番になってませんでしたよ」「そりゃそうです建てられた順に番号は付きますからこの区画で最初に建った家が1号になります 2番目に建てられたのが2号 3番目の家が3号簡単ですわかりきったことでしょう?」これだから私は時々地球の反対側を訪れるのが好きなんです自分たちが意識せずに仮定していることやその逆だって正しいものでありうることに気付かせてくれますたとえば中国の医者は人を健康に保つことが仕事と考えられていますだから健康なら医者にお金を払います病気になったらお金は取られません医者は病気でなく健康で儲けるんです私たちは音楽で「1」をダウンビート音楽の初めに使います 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 しかし西アフリカの音楽では「1」はフレーズの終わりです文章の終わりのピリオドのようなものですフレーズの中ではなく区切りとして聞くのです 2 - 3 - 4 - 1 そしてこれもまた正確な地図なのです「何であれ正しいことの逆はまた正しい」という言葉がインドにはありますだからTEDやその他の場所で素晴らしいアイデアを耳にしたら思い出してくださいその逆もまた正しいかもしれないとドウモアリガトウゴザイマシタ	He says, "OK, but what is the name of that block?" You say, "Well, blocks don't have names. Streets have names; blocks are just the unnamed spaces in between streets." He leaves, a little confused and disappointed. So, now imagine you're standing on a street, anywhere in Japan, you turn to a person next to you and say, "Excuse me, what is the name of this street?" They say, "Oh, well that's Block 17 and this is Block 16." And you say, "OK, but what is the name of this street?" And they say, "Well, streets don't have names. Blocks have names. Just look at Google Maps here. There's Block 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. All of these blocks have names, and the streets are just the unnamed spaces in between the blocks. And you say then, "OK, then how do you know your home address?" He said, "Well, easy, this is District Eight. There's Block 17, house number one." You say, "OK, but walking around the neighborhood, I noticed that the house numbers don't go in order." He says, "Of course they do. They go in the order in which they were built. The first house ever built on a block is house number one. The second house ever built is house number two. Third is house number three. It's easy. It's obvious." So, I love that sometimes we need to go to the opposite side of the world to realize assumptions we didn't even know we had, and realize that the opposite of them may also be true. So, for example, there are doctors in China who believe that it's their job to keep you healthy. So, any month you are healthy you pay them, and when you're sick you don't have to pay them because they failed at their job. They get rich when you're healthy, not sick. In most music, we think of the "one" as the downbeat, the beginning of the musical phrase: one, two, three, four. But in West African music, the "one" is thought of as the end of the phrase, like the period at the end of a sentence. So, you can hear it not just in the phrasing, but the way they count off their music: two, three, four, one. And this map is also accurate. There's a saying that whatever true thing you can say about India, the opposite is also true. So, let's never forget, whether at TED, or anywhere else, that whatever brilliant ideas you have or hear, that the opposite may also be true. Domo arigato gozaimashita.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
セリフが少ないものを選んでみましたハッピーエンドでない時もありますなぜ漫画を始めたかって? 子供の頃から落書き好きでずっと落書きばかりしているとそのうち職の選択肢が− 尽きるんですで残されたのは漫画だけ本当は少年時代に海に恋したのが− きっかけです特にサメに魅了されちゃって僕の初期の作品です母に赤いクレヨンを− 取り上げられちゃいました今日は「海」に対する観念を変え今の仕事の− 原点になった少年時代の経験を− お話しします 1日で僕の「海」の見方を変えられるなら− 皆さんや特に子供の観点を変える− きっかけになるような− 気がするんです昔はこれが僕の思う「海」でしたただの青い海面ずっとこういう風に「海」をみてきましたよね海は未知の世界で海に関した民話が− 色々ありますがほとんどネガティブそれでこんな地図が出来上がる訳です陸地は細部まできちんと描かれているのに海岸線までくると海は青色で塗りつぶされているだけ学校でもそうでしたまるで「地理も科学も海岸線までテストにはでないから」といわんばかりけれどカリブ海への家族旅行で小さな飛行機で島々の上空を飛んだ日− 僕が見たのは丘や谷森に草原洞穴に秘密の庭幼かった僕が− 海中で呼吸できたなら隠れるのにもってこいの場所ばかりそして何より生き物達マンタエイは乗っていた飛行機くらいに大きく見えたしラグーンではサメが泳いでいるのも見えましたまさにその日僕の”サメ漫画”が誕生したんですその日から陸地で暮らす− 普通の子供の僕は海中のことで頭がいっぱいでした海と出会うまでは生き物といえばこんな動物達で− 絵に描くのも 4本足の− 毛のある動物ばかりでも海に行ってみると僕の想像力なんて比べ物になりません変なキャラクターを思いついても海中にはもっと異様な生き物がいるんですそれにこの小さいタツノオトシゴとザトウ鯨の− スケールのギャップなんてもう SF映画並みです子供達にいつも言う事なんですが地球歴史上1番大きい生き物は恐竜じゃなくてクジラなんですよオフィスビルほどの大きさで今も海で泳いでいます恐竜と言えばサメは基本的に 3億年前存在した魚と変わりません仮にその頃に戻って恐竜を見たとしましょうきっとこんなのだったんです生きている恐竜も無重力で厳しい環境にも適応した− 宇宙人のような生き物も海の中にいるんです凄いですよねハリウッドのデザイナーも− これより印象深いものは思いつきませんこのオニキンメ海中の粒子を背景に− まるで宇宙を泳いでいるみたいでしょう望遠鏡をのぞいてこれが見えたらびっくりでしょ? 新宇宙種の発見ですよ代わりにカメラで深海の魚を見るんですがそれだけではそこに別の「世界」があるとは想像しづらいですよね魚をみても「フライにできるね」って思うぐらいでそこでこの場を借りて少し絵を描きたいと思いますオニキンメ君を描いてみましょうか深海魚を描くのが大好きなんですすごく不細工なんだけどどことなくかわいいんですよライトもつけてあげましょうかヘッドライトにブレーキライトついでに方向指示器もこういう生き物って形や大きさが− 色々で漫画のキャラクターに− しやすいんです本当に漫画のスーパーヒーローみたいな力を− 持ってる生き物もいるんですよ例えばウミガメスーパーマンの透視能力のような− 第六感を持っていて地磁気を感じとる事ができますそのおかげで広大な海を旅する事ができるんです手もつけてあげましょうもっと漫画のキャラクターっぽくなるでしょ次にこのナマコ普通絵に描いたりも− しませんけど海中のスパイダーマンなんですよベタベタした網を放って− 敵をからみつかせます肛門から発射するんですよスーパーヒーローよりはるかにおもしろいですよね網を放つにはまずパンツを下げないといけませんけどフグも凄いんです漫画の超人ハルクみたいなんですほんの一瞬で大きく迫力のある魚に− 変わる事ができるんですまず膨らんでいないフグを描いてそしてちょっとした動画に− トライしてみましょうかさてさて大きくなれるかな? ”僕の事?” ねいつでも− 迫力ある魚に変身できるんです次にメカジキ武器みたいな鼻で生まれてくるなんて想像できます? 朝鏡を眺めながらこんな事を言ってるかもしれませんね「今日は誰か刺しちゃうかもな」次にこのミノカサゴもし友達が毒針だらけだったらどうします? Facebookで公表するのもためらうでしょ? 僕の漫画のキャラクターといえば主人公はサメのシャーマンホホジロザメなんですが少し型を破ってみました狂暴な肉食のイメージを植え付けたく– なかったんです彼は毎日なんとなく過ごしていますひれのついたホーマー・シンプソンですね彼の相棒はウミガメのフィルモア航海のスキルを使って航海しながら彼女探しをしています出会いはあるのですが口説き文句がイマイチで運命の彼女を− なかなか見つけられそうに− ありません脚光を浴びる事がない− ヤドカリのホーソンは「自分がホホジロザメだったらなー」と思っていますもう一人紹介しますねこいつアーネスト非行少年の− 魚ですキャラクターが揃えば物語が作れます話を作るのは 2人のキャラクターを同じ部屋に入れて何が起こるか− 観察するだけで良い時もあります巨大イカとホホジロザメが同じトイレにいるのを想像してみるとか時には誰も知らない− 海中のある場所に連れて行ったり例えば大西洋中央海溝にスキーに連れて行ったり大西洋には海底山脈があるんですよ日本海にも連れて行きました巨大クラゲがいっぱいでしたねカリフォルニアの海藻の森にも連れて行きました次に海洋生物統計のために作った漫画を紹介します楽しかったです皆さんご存知のように− これは実際のプロジェクトで読者に海中のキャラクターを紹介する絶好のチャンスでしたまずアーネストが国勢調査委員としてボランティアします調査を進め有名なニシアンコウに出会いますそして毛もじゃらのイエティクラブ見つけにくいコウモリダコ漫画のキャラクターにするには− ぴったりのダンボタコ海のゴミ問題に関する物語も作りました生物保護に関わっている友人と− 話しているとき質問してみました「どの問題についてみんなに知ってほしい?」すると友人の一人が「一言で言うとプラスチック」と答えました「プラスチックだけじゃねぇもう少し注目を浴びるような− 何かがいる」と彼に伝え一緒に考える事にしました彼は”ポリビニル塩化物”なんて言葉を使いたかったみたいですでもそんなの吹き出しには書けませんよ僕はできなかったなそこで僕は冒険のシナリオを作りましたペットボトルが長い旅をします私が読者に伝えたいのはプラスチックは消えてなくならないと言う事ですただ流されていくだけほとんどが海にたどり着きますキャラクターをいれるときちんとした物語ができます特に犬猿の仲のこの2人はぴったりそこでアイダホ州のボイジに連れて行きましたそこでペットボトルを下水処理施設に落としてしまいますボイジ川に流れて行ってコロンビア川に流れて行って西海岸から太平洋へそこから太平洋ゴミベルトに乗ります北太平洋の巨大ベルトにはたくさんのゴミが運ばれてきて最後はラグーンに戻されます単純なペットボトルを交えた− 2人の話なんですがペットボトルの印象が強くたくさんの人がゴミ問題について考えてくれると思います 3つ目のお話は 1年半程前に手がけました最も難しかったですねサメのヒレ問題についてで私自身− 強い関心がありました私の主人公がサメということもあってこの問題を公に知ってもらうにはぴったりだと思いました問題になっているのはサメのヒレをだけを切り落として海に戻すという行為です残酷で無駄な行為なんです面白くもなんともありませんでもこの問題について触れたかったんですそのためサメである主人公を殺すことになりましたシャーマンが中華料理店に行きますそこで漁船に捕まると書いたおみくじをひきますその通り捕まって死んでしまいますヒレを切られて船外にすてられます表面上は死んだ事になっています 15年間も新聞に載り続けた主人公を殺してしまいました読者からたくさん反響をいただきましたその間他のキャラクターはフカヒレスープについて話していますその後も 3つ程サメのヒレに関する− 問題について漫画をかきましたシャーマンは天国にいます漫画はこれだからいいですよ読者の不信感がつのる事をそれほど心配しなくてもいいでしょだって喋るサメがどうしているかは玄関の新聞でチェックできるんですからなんだってできちゃいます九死に一生をえたシャーマンその間にアーネスはネットで彼のヒレを見つけます現実に、ヒレを扱う− 中国のサイトがあるんですその批判も交えましたアーネスは”すぐ買う”ボタンをクリックしますさっそく次の日に届けられて− 手術でつけ直してあげましたアメリカ海洋漁業局が− 他の国に対してより良いサメ管理を求めるよう要求してシリーズを終えました (拍手) ありがとうございます最後にたとえ話をさせてください海を救う”ミッションブルー”のたとえ話を考えていて思いつきましたとても大きくて真っ暗な部屋にいると想像してください部屋の中の物ならなんでも取ってかまいませんでも何も見えないんですそこでハンマーを道具として渡されました暗闇の中をさまよって何かに行き当たりましたどうやら石のようです大きくて重いので運ぶことができませんそこでハンマーで砕くことにしましたそのかけらを光の下に運び出すと美しい大理石のかけらでした「これは価値があるぞ」といってまた部屋に戻ります砕いたかけらを集めてどっさり運び出しますするとまた別の塊を見つけてそれも砕いて運び出します結果価値のあるものをたくさん集めましたそのうちほかの人も同じことをしているのに気づきますそこであなたはできるだけ早く大量の物を手に入れないと!と焦りだしますその時誰かが「そこまで!」と言って電気をつけますどこにいたのか気づくとそこはルーブル美術館でした精密な美しさの極みをあなたはバラバラにして安い商品にしてしまっていたのですこれこそ人間が海にしていることなんですミッションブルーの仕事の一つは「そこまで!」って叫ぶことなんですそして探検家科学者漫画家歌手料理人それぞれが− 自分なりに明かりをつける僕の漫画が少しでも貢献できていればと思いますだから僕はこの仕事が好きなんですありがとうございました	I tried to find one that didn't have a whole lot of words. Not all of them have happy endings. So how did I get started cartooning? I doodled a lot as a kid, and if you spend enough time doodling, sooner or later, something happens: all your career options run out. So you have to make a living cartooning. Actually, I fell in love with the ocean when I was a little boy, when I was about eight or nine. And I was particularly fascinated with sharks. This is some of my early work. Eventually, my mom took the red crayon away, so it was [unclear]. But I'd like to relay to you a childhood experience of mine that really made me see the ocean differently, and it's become the foundation of my work because, I feel like, if in a day, I can see the ocean differently, then I can evoke that same kind of change in others, especially kids. Before that day, this is how I saw the ocean. It's just a big blue surface. And this is how we've seen the ocean since the beginning of time. It's a mystery. There's been a lot of folklore developed around the ocean, mostly negative. And that prompted people to make maps like this, with all kinds of wonderful detail on the land, but when you get to the waters edge, the ocean looks like one giant puddle of blue paint. And this is the way I saw the ocean at school -- as if to say, "All geography and science lessons This part's not going to be on the test." But that day I flew low over the islands -- it was a family trip to the Caribbean, and I flew in a small plane low over the islands. This is what I saw. I saw hills and valleys. I saw forests and meadows. I saw grottoes and secret gardens and places I'd love to hide as a kid, if I could only breathe underwater. And best of all, I saw the animals. I saw a manta ray that looked as big as the plane I was flying in. And I flew over a lagoon with a shark in it, and that was the day that my comic strip about a shark was born. So from that day on, I was an ordinary kid walking around on dry land, but my head was down there, underwater. Up until that day, these were the animals that were most common in my life. These were the ones I'd like to draw -- all variations of four legs and fur. But when you got to the ocean, my imagination was no competition for nature. Every time I'd come up with a crazy cartoon character on the drawing board, I'd find a critter in the ocean that was even crazier. And the differences in scale between this tiny sea dragon and this enormous humpback whale Whenever I talk to kids, I always like to tell them, the biggest animal that ever lived is still alive. It's not a dinosaur; it's a whale, animals as big as office buildings still swimming around out there in our ocean. Speaking of dinosaurs, sharks are basically the same fish they were 300 million years ago. So if you ever fantasize about going back in time and seeing what a dinosaur looked like, that's what a dinosaur looks like. So you have living dinosaurs animals that evolved in zero gravity in harsh conditions. It's just incredible; no Hollywood designer could come up with something more interesting than that. Or this fangtooth. The particles in the water make it look like it's floating in outer space. Could you image if we looked through the Hubble Telescope and we saw that? It would start a whole new space race. But instead, we stick a camera in the deep ocean, and we see a fish, and it doesn't capture our imagination as a society. We say to ourselves, "Maybe we can make fish sticks with it or something." So, what I'd like to do now is try a little drawing. So, I'm going to try to draw this fangtooth here. I love to draw the deep sea fish, because they are so ugly, but beautiful in their own way. Maybe we can give him a little bioluminescence here -- give him a headlight, maybe a brake light, turn signals. But it's easy to see why these animals make such great cartoon characters, their shapes and sizes. like superheroes in a comic book. For instance, take these sea turtles. They kind of have a sixth sense like Superman's x-ray vision. They can sense the magnetic fields of the earth. And they can use that sense to navigate hundreds of miles of open ocean. I kind of give my turtle hands just to make them an easier cartoon character to work with. Or take this sea cucumber. It's not an animal we draw cartoons of or draw at all. He's like an underwater Spiderman. He shoots out these sticky webs to entangle his enemy. Of course, sea cucumbers shoot them out their rears, which, in my opinion, makes them much more interesting a superhero. He can't spin a web anytime; he's got to pull his pants down first. Or the blowfish. The blowfish is like the Incredible Hulk. It can change its body into a big, intimidating fish in a matter of seconds. I'm going to draw this blowfish uninflated. And then I'm going to attempt onscreen animation here. Let's see. Try and inflate it. "You talkin' to me?" See, he can inflate himself when he wants to be intimidating. Or take this swordfish. Could you imagine being born with a tool for a nose? Do you think he wakes up in the morning, looks in the mirror and says, "Somebody's getting stabbed today." Or this lionfish for instance. Imagine trying to make friends covered with razor-sharp poisonous barbs. It's not something you want to put on your Facebook page, right? My characters are -- my lead character's a shark named Sherman. He's a great white shark. And I kind of broke the mold with Sherman. I didn't want to go with this ruthless predator image. He's kind of just out there making a living. He's sort of a Homer Simpson with fins. And then his sidekick is a sea turtle, as I mentioned before, named Filmore. He uses his wonderful skills at navigation to wander the oceans, looking for a mate. And he does manage to find them, but great navigation skills, lousy pick-up lines. He never seems to settle on any particular girl. I have a hermit crab named Hawthorne, who doesn't get a lot of respect as a hermit crab, he were a great white shark. And then I'll introduce you to one more character, this guy, Ernest, who is basically a juvenile delinquent in a fish body. So with characters, you can make stories. Sometimes making a story is as easy as putting two characters in a room and seeing what happens. So, imagine a great white shark and a giant squid in the same bathroom. Or, sometimes I take them to places that people have never heard of because they're underwater. For instance, I took them skiing in the Mid-Atlantic Range, which is this range of mountains in the middle of the Atlantic. I've taken them to the Sea of Japan, where they met giant jellyfish. I've taken them camping in the kelp forests of California. This next one here, I did a story on the census of marine life. And that was a lot of fun because, as most of you know, it's a real project we've heard about. But it was a chance for me to introduce readers to a lot of crazy undersea characters. So we start off the story with Ernest, who volunteers as a census taker. He goes down and he meets this famous anglerfish. Then he meets the yeti crab, the famous vampire squid -- elusive, hard to find -- and the Dumbo octopus, which looks so much like a cartoon in real life that really didn't have to change a thing when I drew it. I did another story on marine debris. I was speaking to a lot of my friends in the conservation business, and they -- I asked them, "So what's one issue you would like everyone to know more about?" And they said -- this one friend of mine said, "I've got one word for you: plastic." And I told him, "Well, I need something a little sexier than that. Plastic just is not going to do it." We sort of worked things out. He wanted me to use words like polyvinyl chloride, which doesn't really work in voice balloons very well. I couldn't fit them in. So what I did was I made an adventure strip. Basically, this bottle travels a long way. What I'm trying to tell readers is that plastic doesn't really go away; it just continues to wash downstream. And a lot of it ends up washing into the ocean, which is a great story if you attach a couple characters to it, especially if they can't stand each other, like these two. So, I sent them to Boise, Idaho, where they dropped a plastic bottle into the Boise sewer system. And it ended up in the Boise River and then on to the Columbia River and then to the mouth of the Columbia and to the Pacific Ocean and then on to this place called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- which is this giant Pacific gyre in the North Pacific, where a lot of this plastic ends up floating around -- and then back onto the lagoon. So that was basically a buddy story with a plastic bottle following along. So a lot of people remember the plastic bottle anyway, but we really talked about marine debris and plastic in the course of that one. The third storyline I did about a year and a half ago was probably my most difficult. It was on shark finning, and I felt really strongly about this issue. And I felt like, since my main character was a shark, the comic strip was a perfect vehicle for telling the public about this. Now, finning is the act of taking a shark, cutting the valuable fins off and throwing the live animal back in the water. It's cruel, it's wasteful. There's nothing funny or entertaining about it, but I really wanted to take this issue on. I had to kill my main character, who is a shark. We start with Sherman in a Chinese restaurant, who gets a fortune that he's about to get caught by a trawler, which he does. And then he dies. He gets finned, and then he gets thrown overboard. Ostensibly, he's dead now. And so I killed a character that's been in the newspaper for 15 years. So I got a lot of reader feedback on that one. Meanwhile, the other characters are talking about shark fin soup. I do three or four strips after that where we explore the finning issue and the shark fin soup issue. Sherman's up in shark heaven. This is what I love about comic strips, you know. You really don't have to worry about the audience suspending its sense of disbelief because, if you start with a talking shark, readers pretty much check their disbelief at the door. You can kind of do anything. It becomes a near-death experience for Sherman. Meanwhile, Ernest finds his fins on the internet. There was a real website based in China that actually sold shark fins, so I kind of exposed that. And he clicks the "buy now" button. And voila, next-day air, they show up, and they surgically reattach them. that encouraged our National Marine Fishery Service, to force other countries to have a stronger stance with shark management. Thanks. I'd like to end with a little metaphor here. I've been trying to think of a metaphor to represent Mission Blue, and this is what I came up with. Imagine you're in an enormous room, and it's as dark as a cave. And you can have anything in that room, anything you want, but you can't see anything. You've been given one tool, a hammer. So you wander around in the darkness, and you bump into something, and it feels like it's made of stone. It's big, it's heavy. You can't carry it away, so you bang it with your hammer, and you break off a piece. And you take the piece out into the daylight. And you see you have a beautiful piece of white alabaster. So you say to yourself, "Well, that's worth something." So you go back into the room, and you break this thing to pieces, and you haul it away. And you find other things, and you break that up, and you haul those away. And you're getting all kinds of cool stuff. And you hear other people doing the same thing. So you get this sense of urgency, like you need to find as much stuff as possible as soon as possible. And then some yells, "Stop!" And they turn up the lights. And you realize where you are; you're in the Louvre. And you've taken all this complexity and beauty, and you've turned it into a cheap commodity. And that's what we're doing with the ocean. And part of what Mission Blue is about is yelling, "Stop!" so that each of us -- explorer, scientist, cartoonist, singer, chef -- can turn up the lights in their own way. And that's what I hope my comic strip does in a small way. That's why I like what I do. Thanks for listening.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
モノクロの城内を上へ上へと突き進む。あとはボスを倒せばいいだけだがすべての部屋や大きめの鏡はチェックしておく。たまに隠されたアイテムが見つかったりするが、微妙な性能の回復アイテムが多い。ストックが尽きた人にはありがたい救済措置だけど、俺は買い込んでるから頼ることはなさそうだ。でも、回復アイテムが多くて困ることはない。見つけたものはすべて回収しておく。「さて、いよいよだな」ダンジョン最上階の大扉を開け放つ。まず目に入ったのはチェス盤のような床だ。そして、部屋の奥で待ち構えているのは2体の石像。 1体は真っ黒な大剣を携え、王冠を被り、黒いオーラを吹き出す。 1体は真っ白な大剣を携え、王冠を被り、白いオーラを吹き出す。チェスの駒の中で最も重要なキングが今回のボスというわけだな......! 白と黒のキングは実際のチェスの駒とは違い、人型でちゃんと手足がある。自分の足で歩き、自分の手で剣を振り回しながら接近してくる。石像系モンスターの宿命か、歩みは遅い。だが、このボス部屋は手狭だ。なのに敵は無駄に大きいうえ2体いる。逃げ回って距離を取るのは難しそうだ。出来ればここから動かないまま倒してしまいたい。「レターアロー! 2体分!」手始めに情報を探る。サトミに『戦いの序盤に使う癖をつけた方が良い』と言われていたからな。俺の場合、このスキルの存在を思い出すのは戦いの終盤で、モンスターを倒す前に焦って情報を記録しているというのが現状だ。とにかく目の前の脅威は素早く排除したい小心者なんでねぇ......。なんて考えている間に2発の矢が敵に命中し、その情報がウィンドウに表示される。 ◆黒き王の駒属性:暗黒/岩石スキル:【黒き十字架の剣】【ダークオーラ】解説: 黒の駒たちを統べる王。その正体は城を守ることを命令されたゴーレムの亜種である。『白き王の駒』と同時に破壊しない限り復活し続ける。 ◆白き王の駒属性:神聖/岩石スキル:【白き十字架の剣】【ホーリーオーラ】解説: 白の駒たちを統べる王。その正体は城を守ることを命令されたゴーレムの亜種である。『黒き王の駒』と同時に破壊しない限り復活し続ける。やはり岩石属性、しかもゴーレムか。 2体同時に倒さないと復活するというのは、ふたご座の試練のボスらしい特徴だな。正攻法は『俺』と役割分担して1体ずつ倒すことなんだろうけど、AIと人間操作じゃ動きに差が出る。ここは『ミラーパズルエリア』じゃないから、動きはシンクロしていない。普通にやってたら機敏な人間側が先にボスを倒してしまうだろう。意図的に攻撃を遅らせてAIとタイミングを合わせないといけない。それは面倒だし、ここは俺らしくゴリ押させてもらう。俺と『俺』が並び立ち、2体のキングを射程に収める。命令は1つだけ、使う奥義も1つだけだ......! 「矢の嵐!」『矢の嵐!』新装備『黒風暗雲弓』の武器奥義。弓の周りに暗雲が発生し、そこから打ち付けるような雨のごとき矢が放たれていく。同時に俺の両腕も高速で矢を連射する。 1本の矢の威力は【弓時雨】の比ではない。あちらは普通の矢を連射している感じだったが、こちらは明らかに重みが違う。矢の勢いに押され、2体のキングは前に進むことすら出来ない。硬い岩石の体にも無数の矢が刺さる。刺さった矢に後から後から押し寄せる矢が当たることでさらに深く食い込み、岩石の体にはどんどん亀裂が増えていく。そして、最後には2体同時に砕け散った。「こりゃあ、すごいな......!」ソロ向けダンジョンとはいえ、ボスをこうもあっさりと撃破してしまうとは......。進化した弓の力をハッキリと実感できた。『ダンジョンクリアおめでとうだにょん! まあ、キミには簡単すぎたかなぁ?』 2体のキングの破片が光となって消え、代わりにチャリンが光の中から現れる。俺はアイテムボックスから『カストル』と『ポルクス』のメダルを取り出す。相変わらずピッカピカで直視できない。サッとチャリンにそれを渡し、懐にしまってもらう。『2枚のメダルは確かに受け取ったにょん! でもまずはメダルをプレゼントだにょん!』メダルを受け取る。表には星座、裏には肩を寄せ合う2人の少年が描かれている。少年たちの手には弓矢、琴、棍棒が握られている。『そしてこちらは頑張ってメダルをゲットしたご褒美! その名も......えっと『チャリンから手渡された物は、白と黒の矢が螺旋状に絡み合う奇妙なオブジェだった。現代アートって言葉が頭に浮かぶ。まあ、『矢』なのだから俺の力になってくれる気はするが......。『ではでは、ダンジョンの外にワープ! お疲れさまでした~、だにょん!』体が光に包まれる。『俺』とはここでお別れだな。俺は『俺』なので、一緒にいると気味の悪さがあることは否定しない。しかし、味方としては頼りになったし、自分が2人いて気味が悪いなんて体験も今の時代じゃないとできない。ある意味、貴重な時間だった。ありがとう、『俺』! ◆ ◆ ◆ フィールドに戻って来たので、早速さっき貰った現代アートのオブジェの効果を調べよう。まずは『使う』ことが......出来る! しかも、対象は俺だ。久しぶりだなぁ、こんなに早くアイテムの使い道がわかるのは。早速『使う』を選択する。奇妙な物体からどんな力を得られるのか......。弓矢融合弓矢に関係する2つのスキル(奥義)を選択し、その効果を融合させたスキル(奥義)を発動する。】と選択した2つのスキル(奥義)の分だけ消費する。一部融合できないスキル(奥義)も存在する。効果を......融合させる!? 言葉の意味はわかるが、こう......上手く想像できない。のない場所で実際に使ってみよう。】は思考だけで2つのスキルを選択できる他に、音声でも選択するスキルを選べるようだ。適当に2つのスキルを思い浮かべ、スキルを発動する......! 着弾と同時に爆発を起こす【バーニングアロー】と敵に当たるまで跳ねる【バウンドアロー】を融合させると、跳ねるたびに爆発を起こす【な、なんて面白いスキルなんだ......。戦略の幅が大きく広がるぞ! もっとこのスキルについて検証し、強力なスキルの組み合わせを考えなければ......!	I continued to climb higher and higher within the black and white castle. I just needed to defeat the boss now, but checked all of the rooms and large mirrors, just in case. Sometimes I would find hidden items, but they were mostly healing items that were not very good. They would still be a welcome relief measure for people who were out of them, but I had stocked up on healing items, so I wouldn’t need to use them. However, it wouldn’t hurt to have some extra. And so I took everything that I found. “Now, we’re almost there.” I open the great door at the top floor of the dungeon. The first thing that entered my vision was the chessboard-like floor. And there were two stone statues waiting in the back of the room. One was all black, carried a great sword, wore a crown, and was unleashing a black aura. The other was all white, carried a great sword, wore a crown, and was unleashing a white aura. So the most important piece in chess, the king, was the boss...! But unlike normal chess pieces, the black and white kings were in the shapes of humans, and had arms and legs. And so they walked on their own legs and swung their swords as they approached. But stone statue type monsters were always slow on their feet. Perhaps it was their fate. However, this boss room wasn’t very big. And in spite of that, the enemy were large, and there were two of them. It would be difficult to run around and keep my distance. If possible, I wanted to defeat them without moving around. “Letter Arrow! For two!” First, I needed information. Satomi had told me that I should make a habit of using it before a battle. In my case, I tended to remember the existence of the skill near the end, and so I would frantically record the information right before defeating the monster. Because I was the type who wanted to eliminate the threat in front of me as soon as possible... As I thought of such things, the two arrows hit their targets, and their information was displayed in a window. ◆ Black King Piece Attribute: Darkness/Rock Skill: Black Crucifix Sword, Dark Aura Explanation: King of the black chess pieces. A sub-type of Golem that was ordered to protect the castle. Must be killed at the same time as the White King Piece, or he will continue to resurrect. ◆ White King Piece Attribute: Holy/Rock Skill: White Crucifix Sword, Holy Aura Explanation: King of the white chess pieces. A sub-type of Golem that was ordered to protect the castle. Must be killed at the same time as the Black King Piece, or he will continue to resurrect. So they were rock-type Golems. Needing to kill them both at the same time to prevent them from resurrecting was about what I’d expect from a Gemini trial. I suppose the way that I was supposed to do this, was to work with the other ‘me’ and kill one enemy each. But if it’s a human and an AI, then the movements won’t match up. This wasn’t like the Mirror Puzzle Area where we were synchronized. If fought normally, the more agile human player would likely defeat the boss first. That meant I would have to slow down my attacks so that the AI could catch up. But that was too troublesome, and I would rather use brute force. And so I stood next to the other me, and then targeted both of the kings. I had just one order. And just one charge attack to use...! “Arrow Storm!” ‘Arrow Storm!’ The charge attack of my new weapon, Blackwind Dark Cloud Bow. Dark clouds appeared around the bow, and then arrows were unleashed in the area like rain. At the same time, I unleashed a chain of high speed arrows. The power of one arrow was very different from Bow Shower. That used ordinary arrows, but the weight of these were clearly different. The two kings were pushed by the force of the arrows, and could not move forward. And numerous arrows pierced into the hard stone bodies. As more and more arrows hit them, they pushed the other arrows in deeper, and cracks started to appear all over the statues. And then in the end, the two crumbled at the same time. “That was...amazing...!” While it was a solo dungeon, the boss was defeated so easily... It really showed the power of my evolved bow. ‘Congratulations on clearing the dungeon-nyon! Well, maybe it was too easy for you?’ As the two kings disappeared into light, Charin appeared as if to replace them. I took out the Castor and Pollux medals from my inventory. They were just as shiny as before, and I couldn’t look at them. I quickly handed them to Charin, who put them in her pocket. ‘So you got the two medals-nyon! Now, here is your medal-nyon!’ I accepted the Gemini medal. The constellation was on the front, and two boys were depicted on the back, shoulder to shoulder. They carried a bow, a harp, and a club. ‘And here is the reward for getting the two medals! It is the...uh, Fusion Twin Arrow!-nyon!’ She gave me a strange object that looked like a black arrow and a white arrow that had been twisted together into one. Like a piece of modern art. Well, as it was an arrow, it would probably help me in some way... ‘Now, time to warp out of the dungeon! Good work-nyon!’ My body was enveloped in light. It was goodbye for the other me. I couldn’t say that I would miss him, as it had been a little uncomfortable. However, he had been a reliable ally, and it was still a unique experience. I would say that it was time well spent. Thank you, ‘me’! ◆ ◆ ◆ As I had returned to the field, I would see what this modern art object was capable of. Could I ‘Use’ it... I could! And I could use it on myself. It’s been a while since I last figured out an item’s use so quickly. And so I quickly selected ‘Use.’ What kind of power would this strange object give me... [Arrow Fusion] Select two skills that are related to arrows and create a skill that fuses them together. MP depletion is the same if you had used the two skills. Some skills cannot be fused. Fuse...the effect!? I understood what it meant...but it was hard to imagine. And so I would have to test it in some isolated area. With Arrow Fusion, you could select the two skills with your mind, but also with your voice. And so I picked two random skills and then activated them...! I fused Burning Arrow, which exploded upon impact, and Bound Arrow, which bounded until it hit an enemy, and this created a bounding, exploding arrow. Wh-what an interesting skill... The possibilities when it came to strategy had increased immensely! I would have to test this skill more and think of powerful combinations...!	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 3, "inserted_lines_src": 11, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
「以上が彼の情報になります」部屋の中には、青い髪の眼鏡をかけた男、ザッドマンと、スカーレットの髪をした筋肉質の男、レオナルドの姿があった。ザッドマンは、レオナルドに頼まれていたセイヤの情報を調べ、レオナルドに報告しているところだ。報告を聞いたレオナルドが、座っていた椅子から立ち上がり、難しい顔になる。「ご苦労。それにしても彼がセナビアでそんなに地位が低かったとは」レオナルドは目を細めながら、窓の外を見る。レオナルドの視線の先には、決勝ブロッ戦のために準備をするセイヤの姿があった。現在、レオナルドとザッドマンがいるのは決勝ブロックが行われる、学園の敷地内にある大きなスタジアムのVIP席だ。 VIP席はスタジアムを一望できるようにと、上のほうに設置されていたので、レオナルドたちはセイヤたちを見下すような形になっていた。「信じられませんが、ろくに魔法も使えなかったそうです」「そんな男がうちに来たときは、教師陣を気絶させるほどの力をつけていると」わけのわからないことに困った顔をするレオナルド。それはレオナルドの後方で控えているザッドマンも同じだった。ザッドマンはセイヤについての資料を見ながら、レオナルドに問いかける。「ところで、なぜ彼が転校という扱いではなく、新規の生徒という扱いになっているのでしょうか?」ザッドマンの質問に困ったという顔をするレオナルド。ザッドマンの言う通り、レイリア王国の魔法学園に入学した場合、その時点で教会から学籍が発行される。その学籍は、レイリア王国内共通の学籍のため、転校の際は教会を通してその学籍を新しい学園に移動させなくてはならない。しかし、セイヤは学籍の移動はせずに、新規の学籍を作っていた。「それに関しては、ライガーが申請したことだからわからない。だが、新しい学籍取得の際、昔のあいつの学籍が無くなっていたそうだ」「それはつまり、教会内に彼の協力者が?」ザッドマンの顔が驚愕に変わる。教会の人間は、皆が王国のために働くのが当たり前といった考えを持つ人たちが採用される。そのため、採用試験はかなり過酷なものになるが、その分、職員の信頼が大きい。そんな職員が、一個人の事情に対して不正を行うとは考えられなかった。その考えはレオナルドも同じだ。「わからん。あいつの協力者なのか、またはライガーの協力者なのかは。ただ、いえることは警戒が必要ということだ」レオナルドは再びセイヤのことを見据える。「この大会で、本性を現すのか、ですね......」ザッドマンもレオナルドと同じく、セイヤのことを見据える。そんの視線に気づきながらも、セイヤは無視して目の前の相手を見ていた。セイヤの目の前には、セイヤがよく知がいる。オレンジの髪をしたアルナ、黒い短髪のグレン、黄色い髪に眼鏡をしたコニー。セイヤたちの決勝ブロック一回戦の相手は、教室でセイヤのご近所さんだった三人だ。「いや~、まさかいきなりセイヤ君のチームと当たるとは」アルナが砕けた口調で話す。その姿には試合前だというのに緊張感がまったくなく、とてもリラックスしている感じだ。そんなアルナに、警戒をするセイヤ。「俺も驚きだよ。まさか、お前らと当たるとは」「意外とすごいだろ?」セイヤの発言に、笑いながら答えるグレン。グレンもアルナ同様、緊張した様子もなく、とてもリラックスしている。しかしその手には大きな斧が握られており、戦闘準備は万端と物語っていた。コニーはというと、二人の後ろで立っているが、二人とは違い、緊張している様子だ。コニーはローブを着ており、その中には何を隠し持っているが、なにかはわからない。コニーを警戒のまなざしで見据えるセイヤ。「試合を始めます。選手は所定の位置についてください」アナウンスが流れ、セイヤたちはスタジアム後方へと下がる。それはアルナたちも同じであった。「二人ともいいな? 作戦は昨日言ったとおりだ」「うん......」「わかっている!」試合開始のアナウンスと同時に、セイヤとユアがスタジアム後方から駆け出す。目指すはアルナとグレンへの先制攻撃。「ホリンズ」「ユリエル」セイヤはホリンズを召喚し、ユアはユリエルを生成して、そのままアルナたちに駆け寄って攻撃をする。二人は駆け出すと同時に、足に光属性の魔力を流し込み、一気に加速した。それは常人なら反応できない速さだ。仮に反応できたとしても、詠唱をする時間がないため、魔法は使えず、生身で防御に徹するしかない。これがセイヤたちの考えた作戦である。決勝ブロックは予選ブロックとは違い、広大な森ではなく、大きなスタジアムだ。そのため、見つけるや見つかるといった概念は存在せず、力と力のぶつかり合いになることが多い。そうなってくると、セイヤたちは集団戦よりも個人戦のほうが戦いやすい。といっても、二人の先手に反応できるものがいない場合は開始直後に三対一となってしまうのだが。「もらった」セイヤはホリンズでアルナを、ユアはユリエルでグレンを狙う。アルナとグレンは反応こそできても、その攻撃を防ぐことはできない。よってセイヤとユアの先制攻撃が決まる、はずだった。音の盾セイヤとユアの手に衝撃が走る。何かによってホリンズとユリエルはアルナとグレンには届かず、空中ではじかれてしまった。セイヤとユアはすぐさま追加攻撃をしようとするが、攻撃しようとした瞬間、まるで頭の中をかき混ぜられるような感覚を受けて、バランスを崩す。それと同時に、アルナは刀で、グレンは斧で、二人に攻撃を加えてきた。だから二人はすぐに後方へと回避する。「今のは音か。だが二人は反応できても詠唱はできなかったはずだ」「セイヤ、あれ......」ユアが指をさした方向にはコニーがいた。しかし先ほどのローブは消えており、手には辞書のような本が開かれている。コニーの持っている本を見たセイヤの顔に汗がにじみ出た。「あの本、補助具か」補助具、本当の名前は魔法発動補助用具。名前の通り、魔法発動の際の補助具である。この補助具を使えば、詠唱無しに魔法を発動できるという代物だ。魔晶石という詠唱を保存できる石を原料に作られる道具で、詠唱を保存できる数はその補助具を使う際に使われた魔晶石の量によって決まる。単純な初級魔法なら魔晶石も少量で済むが、上級魔法になってくるとかなりの量が必要になり、保存が難しい。しかも扱いがとても難しく、詠唱を保存するまでは簡単なのだが、その魔法を無詠唱で発動するのはかなりの難易度になるため、使うものはあまりいない。「そうみたい......でもあの本だと......」「ああ、軽く中級魔法が三個は保存できるな」「うん......」「仕方ない。リリィ、コニーはお前に任せた」「わかった!」セイヤは後方で待機していたリリィにコニーを任せる。リリィは初めて参戦を許されて、やる気満々だ。「水トラ!」リリィが水を生み出して、水のトラを三体作り出す。そしてその三体の虎で、コニーに襲い掛かった。コニーを守ろうと、アルナが水トラのことを迎え撃つが、セイヤがアルナに攻撃をして、邪魔を許さない。グレンはユリエルで襲い掛かるユアの対応で動けない。そんな状況の中、コニーは魔導書のほかのページを開き、魔法を行使する。音の弾コニーの展開した魔法陣から、大量の空気砲が打ち出されて、水トラに襲い掛かる。リリィはその空気砲に対して水のレーザーを使い、弾きながら水トラを守った。水のレーザーによって弾かれた空気砲は、観客席に飛び込みそうになるが、スタジアムに貼ってある結界がそれを許さない。だから観客席に座る生徒たちは安心して試合を見られる。「無詠唱であんな強力な魔法が......」「訓練生よね!?」「でもかなり強いぞ」観客席から、魔導書を使っているコニーに対抗するリリィに注目が集まる。常識的に考えれば、訓練生が決勝ブロックに出ているのも異常だが、相手と拮抗しているのはさらに異常だ。「ウォーターキャノン!」リリィが水トラの後方から、大きな水の大砲を二発撃つ。コニーは魔導書をめくり、防御用の魔法を展開した。コニーはサウンドバリアでウォーターキャノンを防ごうとするが、バリアはリリィの攻撃受け止めきれずにひびが入る。それに気づいたコニーは驚きつつも次の手を打つ。』を四枚は破ったが、五枚目は破れず、そのまま消えた。ウォーターキャノンが消えると同時に、五枚目の『しかし、リリィの攻撃はこれで終わりではない。最初に放った水トラが、無防備なコニーに襲い掛かる。コニーは慌ててサウンドバリアを行使しようとするが、間に合わないと察する。そこでとっさにほかの魔法を行使する。共鳴震次の瞬間、リリィの放った三体の水トラが弾けて、水になり地面へと散らばった。観客は何が起きたのかわからなかった様子で固まる。リリィも何が起きたのか、理解できなかったが、新たな攻撃を繰り出す。両手を地面につき、リリィは魔法を行使した。「荒波!」地面から水が噴射して、大きな波が生み、コニーに襲い掛かった。	「That is about everything I have on them」 There were figures of a blue-haired man in the glasses, Zadman, and a muscular red-haired man, Leonardo, in the room. Zadman investigated Seiya under the request from Leonardo and came to report. When Leonardo heard the report, he stood from his chair with a difficult face. 「Good work. I never expected that his status in Senabia was so low」 Leonardo narrowed his eyes and looked outside the window. On the end of his line of sight, there was Seiya’s team that was preparing for the first match. Zadman and Leonardo were currently in the VIP seats of the stadium where the final fights will happen. The VIP seats were arranged in a way that people could overlook the stadium. Therefore, they needed to look down to see Seiya. 「You may not believe it, but it is said, that he couldn’t even use magic properly」「And this boy made the teachers faint upon his arrival here」 Lack of understanding was expressed on Leonardo’s face. The same was true for Zadman. He asked Leonardo while looking through the gathered materials. 「By the way, why is he treated as a new student and not a transfer one?」 Leonardo made a troubled face at Zadman’s question. As Zadman said, when you enroll into an academy in the Leiria Kingdom, the church will issue a corresponding student record. This record is supposed to be made only once, and when you transfer, the church will transfer the record to a new academy. However, in Seiya’s case, a new record was created. 「Regarding that, Raiga dealt with those matters, so I do not know. However, it seems that his previous record vanished at the same time as this one was made」「Does that mean that he has connections in the church? 」 Zadman’s face changed once he thought of that. Staff, accepted by the church, mostly thinks that working for the sake of the kingdom is a matter of course. The selection is harsh but the resulting trust is big. It is unthinkable for them to work around the system. And Leonardo was of the same opinion. [] 「I don’t know. It might be his connections or Raiga’s. I just want you to be vigilant」 Leonardo looked at Seiya once again. 「Will he show his true colors in this tournament.........」 Following Leonardo, Zadman looked at Seiya too. [] While being aware of their stares, Seiya ignored them and looked at his opponents. In front of Seiya, there were three people who he knew well. Orange-haired Aruna, a guy with a short black hair, Glenn, and a yellow-haired man with the glasses, Connie. Seiya’s first opponents were his three neighbors from his own class. 「Wow, for us to face Seiya-kun’s team all of a sudden」 Said Aruna with a defeated tone. Although her figure wasn’t tense in the slightest and was quite relaxed. Seiya went on guard against such Aruna. 「I’m surprised too. Never expected to bump into you in the first match」「Totally unexpected. Amazing, right? 」 Glenn answered on Seiya’s statement while laughing. Just as Aruna, he wasn’t nervous and was completely relaxed. However, there was a big ax in his hand, he was absolutely prepared for the battle. As for Connie, he stood behind the two. Opposite of the two, he looked rather nervous. Connie was wearing a robe and was hiding something inside of it, but Seiya had no idea of what it was. Seiya looked at him with vigilant eyes. 「The match is about to start. Participants are to go to the starting positions」 Following an announcement, Seiya’s team entered the stadium, the same applied to Aruna’s team. 「Are you ready? The plan stays the same」「Un.....」「I understand! 」 Together with the announcement, Seiya and Yua dashed ahead. They aimed for a preemptive strike against Aruna and Glenn. 「Hollins」「Yuriel」 Seiya summoned the Hollins and Yua created the Yuriel, then, they launched an assault. As soon as they rushed out, they used light mana to accelerate. They moved at a speed beyond the reaction of a normal human. Even if the opponents could react, they won’t have any time to chant and use magic, thus, they will be forced to block with their own power. This is a strategy that Seiya’s group came up with. Unlike the qualifying blocks, the final block’s matches weren’t in a vast forest but in a big stadium. As such, the concepts of hiding and searching didn’t exist here. The outcome is often decided through the direct clash. With this, it is easier for Seiya’s team to fight in the individual battles instead of the group ones. Although, if there is no one in the other team who can react to their assault, it will immediately become three on one. 「Got you」 Seiya aimed for Aruna with the Hollins and Yua aimed for Glenn with the Yuriel. Aruna and Glenn were able to react but weren’t able to prevent it. The outcome was supposed to be decided at this moment. 「『Sound Shield』」 A shockwave ran through the hands of Seiya and Yua. The Hollins and the Yuriel didn’t reach Aruna and Glenn, they were blocked in the air by something. Seiya and Yua tried to follow-up with an additional attack, but they suddenly felt their heads spinning and their balance broke. At the same time, Aruna with a katana and Glenn with an ax came attacking them. The two immediately distanced themselves. 「Was this the sound? But they shouldn’t be able to chant」「Seiya, this is.....」 Yua pointed with her finger at Connie. His robe had disappeared and there was an opened book, which looked like a dictionary, in his hand. Seiya started sweating once he saw that book. 「Is that book a support tool?」 Support tool, full name: magic activation support tool. As its name suggests, it helps the user activate spells. This book, this support tool, could be used as a substitute for a chant. It is made using magic stones, which can store the chant inside of them. The number of chants that the support tool is able to store depends on the quantity of the magic stones. You can easily store the elementary spells using a small number of magic stones, but when it comes to the advanced ones, the magic stone requirements are drastically increased. Besides that, its usage is difficult. It is still a hurdle to chantlessly activate a spell stored inside. That’s why it is not very popular. 「It seems so....but this book.....」「Yeah, it can easily store about three intermediate spells」「Un.....」「Can’t help it. Lily, I will leave Connie to you」「All right! 」 Seiya left Connie for Lily, who was in the back, to deal with. Participating in a fight for the first time, she was incredibly motivated. 「Water tiger!」 Lily created some water that transformed into the three tigers. Together with the tigers, she attacked Connie. To protect Connie, Aruna tried to intercept one of the tigers, but Seiya launched an attack of his own and disrupted her. Yua, on the other hand, pinned down Glenn. In such circumstances, Connie opens the next page and activates a spell. 「『Sound Bullet』」 Compressed air flew out of the magic circle like from a cannon, straight towards one of the tigers. Lily deflected it with a water laser of her own and successfully protected her tiger. Deflected by the water laser, this bullet flew toward the audience. However, the barrier around the stadium didn’t allow that. That’s why the guests and the audience were able to safely watch the matches. 「Such a powerful spell without any chant......」「She is a trainee, right!?」「But she is quite strong」 The attention was gathered around Lily, who was opposing Connie and his magic book. Usually, it was weird to see a trainee in the final block, even more, she was actually on the offensive. 「Water cannon!」 From behind, Lily shot two large water cannons. Connie turned a page and activated a defensive spell. Connie tried to deal with the water cannon using the sound barrier, but the barrier started cracking without being able to stop it. Once he noticed, although startled, he immediately played his next card. With this, the five-layered『Sound Shield』was completed. The water cannon broke through the four of them and dispersed upon hitting the fifth. Together with the disappearance of the water cannon, the last shield crumbled. However, Lily’s attack didn’t end with just this. The tiger, that was summoned in the beginning, came pouncing at the defenseless Connie. Connie thought of erecting another sound barrier but didn’t think that he had enough time. He decided on using a different spell. 「『Resonance Tremor』」 In the next moment, Lily’s water tigers burst and became puddles of the ground. The audience was silent and couldn’t figure out what happened. Lily had no idea too, but she immediately produced the next attack. She put both of her hands on the ground and activated the magic. 「Raging wave!」 The water burst from the ground, formed a wave, and moved towards Connie.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 6, "inserted_lines_src": 15, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
ジャーナリストとして本当に面白いですが私が興味あるのは記事自体の変化ではありません書く前の段階の変化つまり情報入手や ― 取材方法に関心があります力関係は新聞社から読者へと大きくシフトし取材が様変わりしたからです読み手はこれまでニュースに影響も変化も与えられませんでした接点がなかったのですでも状況は変わりました私が初めてメディアに関心をもったのは 1984年 BBCがストを実施したときですマンガまで休みになり怒っていたのですだから手紙を書きました嫌がらせの手紙に最高の結びはこうです「愛を込めてマーカム 4才」これは今でも通用しますストに与えたインパクトは不明ですただわかったのは返事に3週間もかかったこと行動を起こして結果を知りたくてもそんなに時間がかかったのですそれもすっかり変わりました誰もが瞬時にやり取りします読者が記事に反応した時代は終わり今ではジャーナリストが読者に頼っているのです読者がニュースを探してくれます取材の切り口も皆が知りたい事も読者が教えてくれます全部リアルタイムであっという間ですいつもこんな状態で追いつくのに必死ですどのくらい読者に頼っているか ― 9月5日コスタリカの地震を例に見てみましょう M7.6の大地震でした地震が起きて60秒後 ― 250km先のマナグアが揺れましたマナグアが揺れるまでに 60秒かかっているのですその30秒後第一報がツイートされます "temblor" 地震というつぶやきでした地震が到達するのに 60秒かかりましたその30秒後には地震のニュースが瞬時に世界中を駆け巡ります世界中の誰もがマナグアの地震を知り得たのですきっかけは最初の1人が状況を伝えたいと思い投稿したことですいまは誰もが投稿します最新情報や写真やビデオは絶え間なくクラウドに流れ込んでいきます常に膨大なデータがアップロードされていますデータによれば YouTubeでは毎分72時間以上のビデオが投稿されます YouTubeでは毎分72時間以上のビデオが投稿されます 1秒間に1時間分を超える投稿があるのです Instagramでは1秒に58枚の写真 ― Facebookでは 3,500枚以上の写真が投稿されますだから私がこの話を終える頃には YouTubeには864時間分のビデオ ― FacebookとInstagramには 250万枚の写真が投稿されていますあらゆる情報が入手可能な立場はジャーナリストにとって面白い状況です世界中の出来事をほぼ同時にしかもタダで知ることができますこの状況は誰にとっても同じですただ問題があって情報が大量になると価値があるものを見つけるのが難しくなりますこれを痛切に感じたのがハリケーン・サンディのときです長らく経験していなかった巨大ハリケーンが iPhoneの総本山を襲ったのですさらに多種多様なメディアをみんなが持っていますだからニセモノや再投稿された古い写真 ― 過去の写真を使った合成写真をジャーナリストは見分ける必要があります映画『デイ・アフター・トゥモロー』の写真まで混じっています中にはリアルすぎて本物かどうかわからないものも冗談はさておき Instagramからのこの写真では徹底した検証が必要でした Instagramでフィルタがかけられています光の当たり方が疑わしく見えましたでもこれは本物でした水没したマンハッタンアベニューCです本物と判明したのは情報源が特定できたからです NYのフード・ブロガーでよく知られ尊敬されていましたこの場合は本物だと証明できましたこれがジャーナリストの仕事情報の確認です外に出て情報を集めそれを読者に見せる代わりに問題になりそうな情報を止めます信頼できる情報源の発見が重要になるためジャーナリストは Twitterを頻繁に利用します大量の情報が集まるので使い方がわかればまるで記事配信サービスのように利用できます役に立つ反面難しい面もあることが 2011年のエジプト革命でわかりましたアラビア語が話せずエジプトではなくダブリンにいる私にとっては Twitterリストや質の高い情報源のリストや信頼できる人が重要でしたそんなリストを一から作るにはどうしたらよいか? 何を探すべきか知らないととても大変ですこれはイタリアの学者アンドレ・パニソンがタハリール広場での Twitter上のやり取りを視覚化したものですムバラク大統領が辞任したその日です点はリツイートで誰かがメッセージをリツイートすると 2点がつながります回数が多い程 ― つながりが増えていきますすごい方法で会話を視覚化していますただここから得られるのは誰に関心をもち誰を調べるべきかを知る手がかりだけです会話が展開するとどんどん活発になり最終的に会話は巨大なリズムを刻む点の塊になりますつながりを見てこう思うかも「彼らについて調べよう何か知ってるかもしれないどんな人間か調べてみよう」私たちジャーナリストは情報があふれる今 ― ウェブの同時性にとても興味を覚えますこの種の調査に使えるツールが今はたくさんあるからです以前よりもとても詳しく情報源を調べることができますよさそうなネタを見つけたと思っても本当に使えるかどうか ― 確信がもてない場合があります信頼できる情報源か ― 合成か再投稿かわからないからです調べる必要がありますご覧頂いているビデオは 2週間前に見つけましたビデオ「風が強くなってきたわ」「大変!」プロデューサーなら放送したくなるはずですすごい掘り出し物ですから生々しい反応です裏庭で撮影されましたでも本物かニセモノか古いものか再投稿かを知る方法は? ビデオを調べてわかったのは YouTubeのユーザー名だけでしたこのアカウントの投稿は 1件だけユーザー名は "Rita Krill" 本名か偽名かはわかりませんそこでネット上の無料ツールで調べ始めましたまずSpokeoで名前を探しました全米を調べ NY ペンシルベニア ― ネバダフロリダでこの名を見つけました次にWolfram Alphaを使ってビデオが投稿された日の気象情報をチェックしました名前が挙がった場所の内 ― その日フロリダが雷雨でしただからWhitePagesの電話帳でRita Krillをいくつか見つけ住所を洗ったところ ― Google Mapsで家を見つけましたビデオとよく似た ― プールがある家です再びビデオを見てヒントを探しましたビデオをよく見ると大きなパラソルと白いエアマットがありプールの角は曲線を描いています背景には木が2本 Google Mapsに戻りよく見るとエアマットも 2本の木もパラソルもあります写真では閉じています少し工夫するとプールの角が丸いこともわかります調査をもとにリタに電話をかけ自分で撮ったものだと確認しましたクライアントは安心して放映できました一方真実を知ることが重大な結果をともなう場合があります私達がシリアに注目するのは戦争犯罪の証拠となりうる情報の真偽を判断することが当然多くなるからですこの場合 YouTubeが世界情勢を知るために重要な情報源ですこのビデオはかなり残酷なので音声の一部をお聞きください出所はシリアのハマーです映像は血だらけの死体がピックアップトラックから降ろされて橋から投げ落とされる場面ですムスリム同胞団のメンバーがシリア軍兵士の死体を捨てる所とされていますでも男達は呪いや冒涜の言葉を言っており本当は何者なのかビデオの説明通りなのかは意見が分かれますそこでTwitterでやり取りしていた ― ハマーにいる人達にこの件を尋ねました注目したのは橋です特定できるかも知れません 3つの情報源の証言はバラバラでしたある協力者は「橋はない」別の協力者は「橋はあるがハマーではない」 3人目は「橋はあると思うでも上流のダムが閉鎖しており川に水がないはずで映像と一致しない」最後の証言がヒントになりました手がかりを探してビデオを見ると特徴のある手すりに気づきました歩道上の影が南へ伸びているので橋は東西方向にかかっています歩道は白と黒に塗られています川面を見ると西側にコンクリート護岸血の流れが見えますつまり川が南から北へ流れているのです橋から向こうを見ると土手に削られた部分があり川幅が狭まっています次にGoogle Mapsで橋を全部見ていきました先ほどのダムから下流に向かって橋がある場所をすべて確認し該当しないものを外しました探すのは東西にかかる橋ですでもダムからハマーまで見ましたが橋がありませんでも航空写真に切り替えると橋がひとつあったのです証拠がまとまり始めますこの橋は東西にかかっているようですこの橋でしょうかズームしてみましょう橋の中央に線があり 2車線だとわかります白と黒に塗られた歩道もありますさらにクリックするとアップロードされた写真がマップ上に現れます写真をクリックすると細部を見てビデオと照合できます最初に気づくのは白と黒の縁石です手がかりになりそうです特徴のある手すりも見えますここから男達が死体を投げ捨てていましたこれが探していた橋だと確信するまで検証を続けましたここから何がわかるでしょう? 思い出してほしいのは3人の情報 ― 「橋がない」という情報と「ハマーではない」という情報 ― そして「橋はあるが水位がおかしい」という情報です 3人目の情報が急に信頼できるものに見えて来ました私達はそれを無料ツールで確認する事ができましたダブリンのオフィスにいながらたった20分でですこれが作業の醍醐味ですネット上には大量の情報が行き交っているので選別はとても大変ですし日々難しくなりますでも情報を適切に使えば素晴らしい情報が手に入ります手がかりさえあれば皆さんが知られたくない情報だって探り出せるでしょう今はこれまでにない程 ― 大量の情報があり選別も難しいですが強力なツールがあります無料のツールでお話ししたような調査が可能です洗練されたアルゴリズムや高速なコンピュータもありますでもアルゴリズムは規則の集まりに過ぎず YesかNo 白か黒なのです真実はそうではありません真実には価値があります真実は感情に訴え流動的で何より人間的なものですコンピュータがどれほど速くなろうと情報がどれほど増えようと ― 真実を探すためには人間が欠かせません真実の探求は人間の特性なのですからありがとうございました (拍手)	So it's a really interesting time to be a journalist, but the upheaval that I'm interested in is not on the output side. It's on the input side. It's concern with how we get information and how we gather the news. And that's changed, because we've had a huge shift in the balance of power from the news organizations to the audience. where they didn't have any way of affecting news or making any change. They couldn't really connect. And that's changed irrevocably. My first connection with the news media was in 1984, the BBC had a one-day strike. I wasn't happy. I was angry. I couldn't see my cartoons. So I wrote a letter. And it's a very effective way of ending your hate mail: "Love Markham, Aged 4." Still works. I'm not sure if I had any impact on the one-day strike, but what I do know is that it took them three weeks to get back to me. And that was the round journey. It took that long for anyone to have any impact and get some feedback. And that's changed now because, as journalists, we interact in real time. We're not in a position where the audience is reacting to news. We're reacting to the audience, and we're actually relying on them. They're helping us find the news. They're helping us figure out what is the best angle to take and what is the stuff that they want to hear. So it's a real-time thing. It's much quicker. It's happening on a constant basis, and the journalist is always playing catch up. To give an example of how we rely on the audience, on the 5th of September in Costa Rica, an earthquake hit. It was a 7.6 magnitude. It was fairly big. And 60 seconds is the amount of time it took for it to travel 250 kilometers to Managua. So the ground shook in Managua 60 seconds after it hit the epicenter. Thirty seconds later, the first message went onto Twitter, and this was someone saying "temblor," which means earthquake. So 60 seconds was how long it took for the physical earthquake to travel. Thirty seconds later news of that earthquake had traveled all around the world, instantly. Everyone in the world, hypothetically, had the potential to know that an earthquake was happening in Managua. And that happened because this one person had a documentary instinct, which was to post a status update, which is what we all do now, so if something happens, we put our status update, or we post a photo, we post a video, and it all goes up into the cloud in a constant stream. huge volumes of data going up. It's actually staggering. When you look at the numbers, every minute there are 72 more hours of video on YouTube. So that's, every second, more than an hour of video gets uploaded. And in photos, Instagram, 58 photos are uploaded to Instagram a second. More than three and a half thousand photos go up onto Facebook. So by the time I'm finished talking here, there'll be 864 more hours of video on Youtube than there were when I started, and two and a half million more photos on Facebook and Instagram than when I started. So it's an interesting position to be in as a journalist, Any event that happens anywhere in the world, I should be able to know about it pretty much instantaneously, as it happens, for free. And that goes for every single person in this room. The only problem is, when you have that much information, you have to find the good stuff, and that can be incredibly difficult when you're dealing with those volumes. And nowhere was this brought home more than during Hurricane Sandy. So what you had in Hurricane Sandy was a superstorm, the likes of which we hadn't seen for a long time, hitting the iPhone capital of the universe -- -- and you got volumes of media like we'd never seen before. And that meant that journalists had to deal with fakes, so we had to deal with old photos that were being reposted. We had to deal with composite images that were merging photos from previous storms. We had to deal with images from films like "The Day After Tomorrow." And we had to deal with images that were so realistic it was nearly difficult to tell if they were real at all. But joking aside, there were images like this one from Instagram which was subjected to a grilling by journalists. They weren't really sure. It was filtered in Instagram. The lighting was questioned. Everything was questioned about it. And it turned out to be true. It was from Avenue C in downtown Manhattan, which was flooded. And the reason that they could tell that it was real was because they could get to the source, and in this case, these guys were New York food bloggers. They were well respected. They were known. So this one wasn't a debunk, it was actually something that they could prove. And that was the job of the journalist. It was filtering all this stuff. And you were, instead of going and finding the information and bringing it back to the reader, you were holding back the stuff that was potentially damaging. And finding the source becomes more and more important -- finding the good source -- and Twitter is where most journalists now go. It's like the de facto real-time newswire, if you know how to use it, because there is so much on Twitter. And a good example of how useful it can be but also how difficult was the Egyptian revolution in 2011. As a non-Arabic speaker, as someone who was looking from the outside, from Dublin, Twitter lists, and lists of good sources, people we could establish were credible, were really important. And how do you build a list like that from scratch? Well, it can be quite difficult, but you have to know what to look for. This visualization was done by an Italian academic. took the Twitter conversation in Tahrir Square on the day that Hosni Mubarak would eventually resign, and the dots you can see are retweets, so when someone retweets a message, a connection is made between two dots, and the more times that message is retweeted by other people, the more you get to see these nodes, these connections being made. And it's an amazing way of visualizing the conversation, but what you get is hints at who is more interesting and who is worth investigating. And as the conversation grew and grew, it became more and more lively, and eventually you were left with this huge, big, rhythmic pointer of this conversation. You could find the nodes, though, and then you went, and you go, "Right, I've got to investigate these people. These are the ones that are obviously making sense. Let's see who they are." Now in the deluge of information, this is where the real-time web gets really interesting for a journalist like myself, because we have more tools than ever to do that kind of investigation. And when you start digging into the sources, you can go further and further than you ever could before. is so compelling, you want to use it, you're dying to use it, but you're not 100 percent sure if you can because you don't know if the source is credible. You don't know if it's a scrape. You don't know if it's a re-upload. And you have to do that investigative work. And this video, which I'm going to let run through, was one we discovered a couple of weeks ago. Video: Getting real windy in just a second. Oh, shit! Markham Nolan: Okay, so now if you're a news producer, this is something you'd love to run with, because obviously, this is gold. You know? This is a fantastic reaction from someone, very genuine video that they've shot in their back garden. But how do you find if this person, if it's true, if it's faked, or if it's something that's old and that's been reposted? So we set about going to work on this video, and the only thing that we had to go on was the username on the YouTube account. There was only one video posted to that account, and the username was Rita Krill. And we didn't know if Rita existed or if it was a fake name. But we started looking, and we used free Internet tools to do so. The first one was called Spokeo, which allowed us to look for Rita Krills. So we looked all over the U.S. We found them in New York, we found them in Pennsylvania, Nevada and Florida. called Wolfram Alpha, and we checked the weather reports for the day in which this video had been uploaded, and when we went through all those various cities, we found that in Florida, there were thunderstorms and rain on the day. So we went to the white pages, and we found, we looked through the Rita Krills in the phonebook, and we looked through a couple of different addresses, and that took us to Google Maps, where we found a house. And we found a house with a swimming pool that looked remarkably like Rita's. So we went back to the video, and we had to look for clues that we could cross-reference. So if you look in the video, there's the big umbrella, there's a white lilo in the pool, there are some unusually rounded edges in the swimming pool, and there's two trees in the background. And we went back to Google Maps, and we looked a little bit closer, and sure enough, there's the white lilo, there are the two trees, there's the umbrella. It's actually folded in this photo. Little bit of trickery. And there are the rounded edges on the swimming pool. So we were able to call Rita, clear the video, make sure that it had been shot, and then our clients were delighted because they were able to run it without being worried. Sometimes the search for truth, though, is a little bit less flippant, and it has much greater consequences. Syria has been really interesting for us, because obviously potentially war crime evidence, so this is where YouTube actually becomes the most important repository of information about what's going on in the world. So this video, I'm not going to show you the whole thing, because it's quite gruesome, but you'll hear some of the sounds. This is from Hama. Video: And what this video shows, when you watch the whole thing through, is bloody bodies being taken out of a pickup truck and thrown off a bridge. The allegations were that these guys were Muslim Brotherhood and they were throwing Syrian Army officers' bodies off the bridge, and they were cursing and using blasphemous language, and there were lots of counterclaims about who they were, and whether or not they were what the video said it was. So we talked to some sources in Hama who we had been back and forth with on Twitter, and we asked them about this, and the bridge was interesting to us because it was something we could identify. Three different sources said three different things about the bridge. They said, one, the bridge doesn't exist. Another one said the bridge does exist, but it's not in Hama. It's somewhere else. And the third one said, "I think the bridge does exist, but the dam upstream of the bridge was closed, so the river should actually have been dry, so this doesn't make sense." So that was the only one that gave us a clue. We looked through the video for other clues. We saw the distinctive railings, which we could use. We looked at the curbs. The curbs were throwing shadows south, so we could tell the bridge was running east-west across the river. It had black-and-white curbs. As we looked at the river itself, you could see there's a concrete stone on the west side. There's a cloud of blood. That's blood in the river. So the river is flowing south to north. That's what that tells me. And also, as you look away from the bridge, there's a divot on the left-hand side of the bank, and the river narrows. So onto Google Maps we go, and we start looking through literally every single bridge. We go to the dam that we talked about, we start just literally going through every time that road crosses the river, crossing off the bridges that don't match. We're looking for one that crosses east-west. And we get to Hama. We get all the way from the dam to Hama and there's no bridge. So we go a bit further. We switch to the satellite view, and we find another bridge, and everything starts to line up. The bridge looks like it's crossing the river east to west. So this could be our bridge. And we zoom right in. We start to see that it's got a median, so it's a two-lane bridge. And it's got the black-and-white curbs that we saw in the video, and as we click through it, you can see someone's uploaded photos to go with the map, which is very handy, so we click into the photos. And the photos start showing us more detail that we can cross-reference with the video. The first thing that we see is we see black-and-white curbing, which is handy because we've seen that before. We see the distinctive railing that we saw the guys throwing the bodies over. And we keep going through it until we're certain that this is our bridge. So what does that tell me? I've got to go back now to my three sources and look at what they told me: the one who said the bridge didn't exist, the one who said the bridge wasn't in Hama, and the one guy who said, "Yes, the bridge does exist, but I'm not sure about the water levels." Number three is looking like the most truthful all of a sudden, and we've been able to find that out using some free Internet tools sitting in a cubicle in an office in Dublin in the space of 20 minutes. And that's part of the joy of this. Although the web is running like a torrent, there's so much information there that it's incredibly hard to sift and getting harder every day, if you use them intelligently, you can find out incredible information. Given a couple of clues, I could probably find out a lot of things about most of you in the audience that you might not like me finding out. But what it tells me is that, at a time when there's more -- there's a greater abundance of information than there ever has been, it's harder to filter, we have greater tools. We have free Internet tools that allow us, help us do this kind of investigation. We have algorithms that are smarter than ever before, and computers that are quicker than ever before. But here's the thing. Algorithms are rules. They're binary. They're yes or no, they're black or white. Truth is never binary. Truth is a value. Truth is emotional, it's fluid, and above all, it's human. No matter how quick we get with computers, no matter how much information we have, you'll never be able to remove the human from the truth-seeking exercise, because in the end, it is a uniquely human trait. Thanks very much.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
昆布茶のレシピを使っていますバクテリアと酵母菌と微生物の共生混合物でその発酵過程でセルロースが糸状になります時間の経過と共に液体の中で極細の糸が層になり表面でじゅうたんのようになります作り方ですがまず一度に30リットルほどお茶をいれて熱いうちに砂糖を数キロ加えます完全に溶けるまでかき混ぜて専用タンクに流し込みます摂氏30度以下までお茶が冷めたことを確かめます次に有機生物と酢酸を一緒に入れますこのプロセスが進めば前回使用した発酵液を再利用できます培養には最適温度を保つ必要があるので容器の下にはヒートマットを使用して温度調節に恒温装置も使います暑い日には外で培養できます素材ミニ農場です 3日もすれば液体の表面に泡が出てきます発酵がスムーズにいっているサインです液中の砂糖を栄養としてバクテリアが増殖中ですセルロースナノファイバーが紡がれているところです互いにくっついて層をつくり表面でシート状になります数週間ほど経つと数センチの厚さになります左のタンクは5日目のものです右は10日目ですこれは静置培養のため世話をする必要がありません勝手に育ちます光も要りません採取できるようになったら容器から出して冷たい石鹸水で洗いますかなり重くなっています 9割が水分なので蒸発させなくてはいけません木のシートに広げますこれも外で作業できるので自然乾燥させます乾燥しながら圧縮されるのでレシピにもよりますがとても軽い透明の紙のようなものまたはしなやかなベジタブルレザーのようなものが出来あがります従来の方法で裁断をして縫製もできますし濡れた状態の素材を立体型にくっつけて形づくることもできます水分が蒸発したら自然とくっつき縫い目のようになりますこのジャケットの色は緑茶そのものの色です人間の皮にも似ていて興味をそそられますオーガニックなので化学薬品の使用は最小限にしようとしています鉄酸化作用を利用して染料を使わずに色を変えられます果物や野菜の染料を使えば自然な模様のできあがり藍の染料を使えば微生物っぽさがなくなります綿をこの濃さにするには藍の染料に18回もつけなくてはいけませんでもこの種のセルロースは吸収がいいので 1回だけで染まってしまいますまだ防水加工はできないためこのワンピースを着て今日のような雨に当たってしまうとあっという間にかなりの水分を吸収してしまいますワンピースは重くなり縫い目からはがれてきて肌もあらわになってしまうでしょうパフォーマンスには適していても間違いなく普段着にはなりません素材が満足のいく質になるように思考錯誤中です未来の微生物にはこう言いたいです “糸を紡いで一定方向に繊維をつくり水に溶けない素材にして立体型に合わせて形づくってちょうだい” 微生物セルロースは既に傷の治療に使用されていて将来は生体適合性血管や骨細胞の代替材料としてさえ使われることが考えられますでも合成生物学の力でこのバクテリアを操作すれば私たちが望むような質と量と形を生みだす何かができることも考えられますデザイナーの私は興味をかきたてられますそれが可能になれば消耗品をつくりだすことも考えられるようになるからです微生物を扱う面白さとはその効率性にあります必要なだけ生成できるので無駄がありません廃棄物を使用することも考えられます例えばですが食品加工工場で出る砂糖の廃棄物などです最終段階では野菜くずと一緒に自然に生物分解させられます私は微生物セルロースが綿や皮やその他の繊維品の代替品になると言っているのではありませんでも自然資源がますます貴重となっている今賢明で持続可能な選択肢になり得ると思いますもしかすると最終的にはファッションなどではなくランプや椅子や車もしくは家でさえつくりだすことを思い描けます皆さんだったら将来どんなものを育てるでしょう? どうもありがとう (拍手) スザンヌさんその服もあえて着ているのですね作品の一つですか? そうですこのプロジェクトはまだ進行中です実際に今も生物分解してますから (会場: 笑い声) 汗を吸収してるので微生物が増殖中ですではこれまでにしましょうありがとう (拍手)	I'm essentially using a kombucha recipe, which is a symbiotic mix of bacteria, yeasts and other micro-organisms, which spin cellulose in a fermentation process. Over time, these tiny threads form in the liquid into layers and produce a mat on the surface. So we start by brewing the tea. I brew up to about 30 liters of tea at a time, and then while it's still hot, add a couple of kilos of sugar. We stir this in until it's completely dissolved We need to check that the temperature has cooled to below 30 degrees C. And then we're ready to add the living organism. And along with that, some acetic acid. And once you get this process going, you can actually recycle your previous fermented liquid. We need to maintain an optimum temperature for the growth. And I use a heat mat to sit the bath on and a thermostat to regulate it. And actually, in hot weather, I can just grow it outside. So this is my mini fabric farm. After about three days, the bubbles will appear on the surface of the liquid. So this is telling us that the fermentation is in full swing. And the bacteria are feeding on the sugar nutrients in the liquid. So they're spinning these tiny nano fibers of pure cellulose. And they're sticking together, forming layers and giving us a sheet on the surface. After about two to three weeks, we're looking at something which is about an inch in thickness. So the bath on the left is after five days, and on the right, after 10. And this is a static culture. You don't have to do anything to it; you just literally watch it grow. It doesn't need light. And when it's ready to harvest, you take it out of the bath and you wash it in cold, soapy water. At this point, it's really heavy. It's over 90 percent water, so we need to let that evaporate. So I spread it out onto a wooden sheet. Again, you can do that outside and just let it dry in the air. And as it's drying, it's compressing, so what you're left with, depending on the recipe, like a really light-weight, transparent paper, or something which is much more like a flexible vegetable leather. And then you can either cut that out and sew it conventionally, or you can use the wet material to form it around a three-dimensional shape. And as it evaporates, it will knit itself together, forming seams. So the color in this jacket is coming purely from green tea. I guess it also looks a little bit like human skin, which intrigues me. Since it's organic, I'm really keen to try and minimize the addition of any chemicals. I can make it change color without using dye by a process of iron oxidation. Using fruit and vegetable staining, create organic patterning. And using indigo, make it anti-microbial. And in fact, cotton would take up to 18 dips in indigo to achieve a color this dark. And because of the super-absorbency of this kind of cellulose, it just takes one, and a really short one at that. What I can't yet do is make it water-resistant. So if I was to walk outside in the rain wearing this dress today, I would immediately start to absorb huge amounts of water. The dress would get really heavy, and eventually the seams would probably fall apart -- leaving me feeling rather naked. Possibly a good performance piece, but definitely not ideal for everyday wear. What I'm looking for is a way to give the material the qualities that I need. So what I want to do is say to a future bug, "Spin me a thread. Align it in this direction. Make it hydrophobic. And while you're at it, just form it around this 3D shape." Bacterial cellulose is actually already being used for wound healing, and possibly in the future for biocompatible blood vessels, possibly even replacement bone tissue. But with synthetic biology, we can actually imagine engineering this bacterium to produce something that gives us the quality, quantity and shape of material that we desire. Obviously, as a designer, that's really exciting because then I start to think, wow, we could actually imagine growing consumable products. What excites me about using microbes is their efficiency. So we only grow what we need. There's no waste. And in fact, we could make it from a waste stream -- so for example, a waste sugar stream from a food processing plant. Finally, at the end of use, we could biodegrade it naturally along with your vegetable peelings. What I'm not suggesting is that microbial cellulose is going to be a replacement for cotton, leather or other textile materials. But I do think it could be quite a smart and sustainable addition to our increasingly precious natural resources. Ultimately, maybe it won't even be fashion where we see these microbes have their impact. growing a lamp, a chair, a car or maybe even a house. So I guess what my question to you is: in the future, what would you choose to grow? Thank you very much. Bruno Giussani: Suzanne, just a curiosity, what you're wearing is not random. This is one of the jackets you grew? SL: Yes, it is. It's probably -- part of the project's still in process because this one is actually biodegrading in front of your eyes. It's absorbing my sweat, and it's feeding on it. BG: Okay, so we'll let you go and save it, and rescue it. Suzanne Lee.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
突然の少年の申し出だったが、その余りの必死さにミラは、どうしてそこまで行きたがるのか気になった。そして、それが少年の涙の理由だったならば叶えてやりたいとも思う。「どういう事じゃ。訳を話してみよ」ミラがそう言うと、少年は顔を上げて真剣な面持ちで頷いた。「古代迷宮奥に、死んだ人と話せる鏡があると聞きました。そこに連れて行って欲しいんです!」「死んだ人と話せる......か。あの場所にその様なものあったかのぅ......」ミラがゲーム時代に古代神殿に入った事は数える程しかない者総出で冒険という名の蹂躙をしていた頃と、クエスト関連で訪れた時くらいだ。「暗丞の鏡っていうらしいのよ。私も聞いただけなんだけど、知り合いがその鏡で昔に亡くなったお母さんに会えたって喜んでたのを覚えてる」「暗丞の鏡......とな」その単語を元に記憶を辿ったミラの脳裏に、一つのクエストが浮かぶ。それは、過去に流行した死病が再び猛威を振るい始めた為、その解決を依頼されるという上級クエストの一つだ。解決方法は大陸中を巡り、再び死病が世に現れた時の為に残された薬の文献があるという情報を得るが、それがどこにあるか分からない。なので暗丞の鏡で過去の王を呼び出し、文献の在りかを聞き出すといった流れだ。そういったクエストの一貫として訪れるのが、古代神殿ネブラポリスにある暗丞の鏡だった。只のイベント用オブジェクトだった鏡だったが現実になった今、そういう風に使う事も出来るのだと知り、ミラは認識を改める。「僕のお父さんとお母さんは冒険者だったんです。でも五年前に依頼を受けて、それからずっと帰って来なくて。僕は、おじいちゃんの家で待ってました。言いながら涙ぐみ、鼻を啜る少年の話をミラは黙って聞きながら、袖でそっと拭う。しかし、話の中に腑に落ちない点もあった。ミラは、何かを知っているのであろうエメラに視線を投げかける。「えっとね、組合規則には依頼遂行中に音信不通で所在不明になった場合、依頼受付時から五年経つと遂行中に死亡として処理されるの」「それで突如、この小僧は死んだと聞かされた訳か」「古代神殿の許可証を持っているなら、古代神殿に行くんですよね。お願いします、僕も連れて行って下さい。お願いします」少年は強く瞳を閉じてから、大きく決意と共に見開き頭を下げる。ミラは少しだけ考えると、少年の下げた頭に掌を乗せて優しく撫でた。「うむ、分かった。それ程までに行きたいと言うのなら、わしが連れて行ってやろう」ミラは笑顔を浮かべて大きく頷く。突如死に別れたと言われた少年と両親を会わせたいと、心から思ったからだ。「ありがとう、お姉ちゃん! 僕、タクトっていいます」「うむ、わしはミラじゃ。任せておけ」少年は笑顔を輝かせるとミラに抱きつき、ミラはそのまま少年を抱擁する。しかし、ここに大反対する者が一人居た。「ダメダメダメ、ぜーーーったいダメー! ランクCのダンジョンよ!? 戦闘経験の無い子を連れて行けるわけないでしょ!」ミラと少年を引き剥がし、ダメダメと首を振るエメラ。ランクCといえば、上級冒険者でなければ入る事さえ許されないダンジョンだ。そんな所に何の知識も無い子供を連れて行ける訳が無い。少年が、戦士組合から泣きながら飛び出してきたのも、ランクCであるエメラに古代神殿に連れて行ってくれと何度も頼んだけれど、絶対にダメだと断られたからだった。事実、エメラの判断は間違いでは無い。それがCランクダンジョンの難易度だ。自己防衛すら出来ない者を連れて行けるような場所ではない。「別にいいじゃろう。戦わなければいいだけの話じゃ」事も無げに言い放つミラ。実際、五層までの道のりを想像した結果、子供が一人いても手はあるので問題は無いと判断できたからだ。「そんな簡単にぃー......。ミラちゃんの仲間がどれだけ強いのかは知らないけど、古代神殿はダメだよ。危ないから」エメラは諭すように、真剣な表情で言う。しかし、エメラはとんでもない事実を告げられる。訪れる沈黙。エメラは言葉の意味が理解出来ないかの様に表情を凍らせたまま、口だけは何かを発しようとぴくぴくと動く。そして、ミラの余りにも無謀で無知な言葉に、次第に怒りが込み上げていく。でも昨日今日で組合に登録したのは本当みたいね。そこまで何も知らないなんて! Cランクダンジョンは例え戦闘を出来る限り回避したところで、たっ、実質一人で行っていい所じゃないの!」エメラは声を荒げて感情のままに叱り付ける。大通りを行き交う者達は、何事かとその声の主を探すと、上級冒険者の一人として有名なエメラであると確認して目を見開く。明るく優しいお姉さんというイメージだったために、今のような姿を見た事が無かったのだ。その矢面に立っているミラは、すぐ側で大声を出されて苦悶の表情を浮かべていた。対する少年は、猛烈な反対を受けてまた涙目だ。再び、表情を曇らせた少年を目にしたミラは少しだけ顔を顰めると、またもエメラを睨みつける。ミラはそう反論すると、少年の腕を掴み抱き寄せ歩き出す。言われたエメラは反論する事が出来ない。確かに、自分では少年を守りながら古代神殿の五層目まで行くのは難しい。かといって、目の前の少女にそれが出来るのかと言われれば、エメラにはそうは見えない。あれほど言っても、ミラは何て事無さそうに言ってのけた。組合に登録したばかりなのにCランクという事がエメラの頭の隅に引っかかる。術士の実力は、見た目では計れない。この世界では常識だが、目の前の少女はどれだけの実力を秘めているのか。それとも自分の力を過信した愚者なのか。判断は出来ないが、どれだけ言ってもミラは聞きそうにない様子だ。エメラは飛び出しミラの肩を掴む。「待って」「なんじゃ。まだ何かあるのか?」「私も行くわ!」古代神殿をものともしていない風体のミラに、どれだけの実力なのか冒険者として興味を持った。だが、もしも過信ならばこのまま見捨てられない。なのでエメラは同行する事を決めた。いざとなれば、薬や道具を使い切ってでも守り逃げ切る覚悟だ。エメラが同行する事を決めてから、綿密な話し合いのためは喫茶店を訪れていた。『カフェ・ド・ショコラ』という、ココアやチョコケーキが絶品の店だ。「それで、まず聞いておきたいんだけど、ミラちゃんは術士よね。何術士なの?」エメラはまず、ミラの実力を知るために探りを入れる。向かう場所は古代神殿ネブラポリス、通称で地下墓地と呼ばれる程の不死系の魔物の巣窟だ。そんな場所の特性上、術士ならば上級の聖術士か退魔士であれば、ミラの自信もどうにかギリギリ頷けるものではあった。「召喚術士じゃ」ミラは簡潔に答えると、エメラの奢りであるカフェ・ド・ショコラの看板メニュー、ショコラティックオーバーロードを頬張る。チョコのスポンジ生地で生チョコの入ったチョコムースを挟み、チョコクリームの上にはビターなチョコレートソース。甘すぎず、かといって甘味好きを唸らせるだけのポテンシャルを秘めた、看板メニューに恥じない一品だ。ホールに近いその大きさ故、隣に座るタクトと分けながら食べていた。時折ミラはタクトの口元に付いたクリームを、備え付けの紙で拭っている。そんな姉弟の様な二人のやりとりを微笑ましく見つめながらも、召喚術士と聞いたエメラの表情は凍り付いていた。召喚術士といえば、もう絶滅危惧種ともいえる存在だ。その敷居の高さから、今はもう新しい召喚術士は出てきていないとエメラは聞いていた。そのため、エメラが冒険者稼業を始めてから今まで、召喚術士と組んだ事は無い。一度だけ見た事のある召喚術士は、銀の連塔に勤めるエリートだ。比較対象には出来ない。「えっと良く知らないんだけど......召喚術士って......強いの?」ミラの実力を探るはずが余計に分からなくなり、エメラは至極単純な質問を口にしてしまった。そして、その言葉は召喚術に傾倒するミラの矜持を刺激する。ミラは同時に、召喚術の塔エルダー代行クレオスの言葉を思い出した。そして仮にも上級であるCランクの冒険者が、召喚術士の戦闘力を見た事も無いような物言い。これ程までに召喚術は過疎化が進んでいるのかと、ミラは天を仰ぐ。そして、召喚術士の威厳を自らの手で取り戻してやろうと企んだ。「その時になれば分かるじゃろう」含みを持たせながら、ほくそ笑むミラ。対してエメラは、その時になって勝てませんでしたってなったら遅いんだけど、と内心不安を増していた。一通りの話し合いを終えて、三人はカフェ・ド・ショコラを後にする。「さて、行くとしようかのぅ。場所は知っておるじゃろう、案内してくれんか」ミラは明るい日中の光に目を細めながら、エメラを見上げる。古代神殿の場所は、組合で受け取った許可証の裏に載っているが、それをみながらよりも知っている者に案内してもらう方が早い。そう思ったミラは当たり前のようにエメラを見つめる。言われたエメラは再び表情を固めていた。そして、何度目かになるか分からない苦悶に頭を抱える。タクトも同様に驚いた表情を浮かべていた。「行くのはCランクダンジョンなんだよ!? 準備も無しに行けるわけないでしょ! 最低でも今日は準備に充てないと!」エメラの言う事は尤もだ。ダンジョンに入る時、準備に時間を掛けるのは当たり前。上級ダンジョンともなれば、準備に一週間掛ける事もある。故に、エメラはおろかタクトもまさか今日このまま行く等とは思ってもいなかった。「しょうがないのぅ。では出発は明日か」今日中に終わらせる予定だったミラは面倒だと思いながらも、別に準備をするくらいならば問題ないかと、エメラの言う通りにする事にした。そこからは上級冒険者であるエメラの本領発揮だ。各種店舗を巡り、必要な薬品や道具を買い揃えていく。エメラはもしもの時のための、高級な薬品も買っていた。ミラはというと完全に観光気分で、買った物といえば虫除けクリームくらいだ。タクトは、エメラに道具の使い方や薬品の種類を教えられていた。これももしもの時のためだ。「ミラちゃん、本当に大丈夫なの?」「大丈夫じゃ。元から古代神殿に行く予定じゃったから、必要な物はこの中じゃよ」ミラはそう言いながら、左腕の袖を捲る。そこには腕輪型の操作端末、この世界でいう操者の腕輪がある。「それならいいけど......」いまだ納得いかなそうに不安を顔に出すエメラ。念のために、薬品や道具を多めに購入している。ミラは薬を買う気もなく、気分的には付き合いとして同行していた。そのための言い訳として準備済みとしたが、実際ミラのアイテムボックスには多種多様な薬品や道具が入っているので、あながち間違いでも無い。消耗品を買い揃えた後、三人はエメラを先頭に食料を買いに市場へと向かう。大通りの一角、食料品をメインに扱う店舗が並ぶ。そこの道をエメラは一直線に進んでいった。「あーら、エメちゃん。いらっしゃい。またどっか行くのかい?」エメラが向かったのは、行きつけの冒険者用食材店だった。エメラは毎回、遠出をする時はこの店で食料を買い揃えている。恰幅の良いおばちゃんが店主を勤める店で、店先には様々な加工食品や調味料が並んでいる。商品を揃えながらおばちゃんが快活な笑顔で向かえると、エメラは思わず顔を綻ばせる。「はい、明日古代神殿へ」「ほほー。大物狙いだね。エメちゃんのギルドなら心配はなさそうだけど、注意して行くんだよ」「はい、ありがとうございます」エメラは余計な心配を掛けない様に、この二人を連れて行くとは言わない事にする。だがもちろん、おばちゃんはエメラに着いて来た二人の子供を興味深そうに交互に見る。「この子達はエメちゃんの子供かい?」「違います!」からかう様な表情のおばちゃんに、顔を赤くして否定するエメラ。そんなホームドラマの一幕の様なやりとりを横目に、ミラは並んだ商品を興味深げに眺めていた。結果としてエメラは、その店で燻製肉とフリーズドライの野菜、果物の缶詰を一通り購入してアイテムボックスに収納した。次に向かったのは武具店だ。金属製の武具が店内に並び、幾人かの客が具合を確かめる様に手に取っている。「ところで、ミラちゃんは武器を持っていないみたいだけど、召喚術士って武器は何を使うの?」エメラはミラが操者の腕輪をしていたので、もしかしたらアイテムボックスに入れてあるかもしれないと思ったが、武器というのはいざという時のため常に携帯しているのが普通だ。「特に持っておらんのぅ。召喚術が武器そのものじゃからな」「へー。そういうものなんだ」ミラの言う事は間違いではないが、ミラ自身一般的な召喚術士とはかけ離れているために全てがそうとは言えない。多くの召喚術士は杖を持ち、MPの最大値や回復速度を強化していた。エメラは、そういった事情や召喚術士の事を全く知らないので、その説明で納得する。主に武具店ではエメラが装備の点検を依頼して、タクト用の防具を見繕った。Cクラスダンジョンに行くのだ。いくら戦闘に参加しないとはいえ、普段着のままではいけないだろう。ちなみに、ここまでの料金は全てエメラが払っている。子供にお金を出させるわけにはいかないのと、このくらいはどうって事無い程、お金はあるので本人も別段気にしてはいなかった。「ふう、こんなもんかな。本当はもっと時間を掛けて準備したかったんだけど」ようやく買い物を済ませたエメラは大きな鎮魂の石碑が立つ広場で、石碑を囲む石柵に座り込む。辺りは日が沈み、街灯の明かりが仕事帰りの人々を照らしている。「明日の予定だけど、朝十時に組合前でいいかな?」「うむ」「はい! よろしくおねがいします!」言いながらミラはエメラの隣に座り、タクトは二人の前に立ったまま腰を折り頭を下げる。エメラにしてみれば、まだまだ不安は残るが、それもこの後向かう先でどうにかする予定だった。「それじゃあもう遅いし今日は終わりにしようか。ミラちゃんとタクト君はどこに住んでいるの?」「僕のおじいちゃんの家は組合の裏通りにあります」「わしは......なんて言ったかのぅ......」そういえばと、ミラはホテルの様な宿の名前を聞いていなかった事を思い出し、その流れでガレットに言われた迷子になった際の言葉を思い出す。「確か、街一番の宿。らしいが」指を顎先に当てながら、ミラはおぼろげに答える。それを聞いたエメラは驚きを通り越し、完全に呆れた表情で額に手を当てる。二人の姿を交互に見ると、タクトは両手を自分の頬に当ててむにゅぅっとした。溜息混じりにエメラが視線を送った先には、街灯で彩られた大きな建物が浮かび上がっていた。悠然と照らされた宿『夏燈篭』は、昼とはまた違う煌びやかさを演出されている。「おお、そこじゃ。こんな近くにあったとはのぅ」ミラはエメラの視線を追いかけ、雰囲気は変わっているけれど造りに覚えのある宿を見つけ頷く。「もう......私は驚かないわよ。ええ驚きませんとも」視線を彷徨わせるエメラは立ち上がり、タクトの手を取る。「それじゃあ、タクト君は私が送って行くから、ミラちゃんはすぐに帰るのよ。いいわね?」エメラは言い聞かせる様にしながら、顔を近づけてミラの目を真っ直ぐと見つめる。「う......うむ、わしも腹が減ったのですぐに帰るつもりじゃ」そう言いミラは立ち上がると、近すぎるエメラから距離を取るべく身を引く。まだ、いきなり美人に接近されると動揺を隠せない。「そう、それならよかったわ。それじゃあまた明日ね」「ああ、また明日。タクトもまた明日じゃ。今日はゆっくりと眠るんじゃぞ」「うん、お姉ちゃんありがとう。また明日、よろしくお願いします」挨拶を交わし、タクトの笑顔に頷いたミラは、その場から宿に向けて歩き出す。エメラはすぐには動かず、ミラが夏燈篭に入るまでをしっかりと見送ってから、タクトを連れて組合方面へと進み始めた。	Mira was surprised by the sudden request of the boy, he was so desperate that Mira began to wonder what drove him to go to such an extent. She thought to herself that she’d fulfill his wish if that was what brought him to tears. 「Hm, tell me your reasons.」 When Mira said that, the boy finally raised his head. His expression mixed in both anxiety and expectation, but he nodded strongly with anticipation. 「At the deepest part of the Ancient Temple, I heard that there is a mirror that allows you to speak with the dead. Please take me there!」「A mirror that allows you to speak with the dead...huh. Was there such a thing?」 In the game, Mira didn’t run through the Ancient Temple so often. During those times, the Nine Wisemen would usually lay waste to the dungeon in the name of ‘adventure’ or only visited it for certain quests. 「Looks like he’s talking about the Dark Aid’s Mirror. I heard about it too, I remember my friend gleefully told me about meeting his mother that died long ago.」「Dark Aid’s Mirror?」 As she searched through her memory, Mira recalled a quest. It was about a viral disease that was prevalent in the past beginning to surface again, and this high-level quest required them to find a cure. To finish this quest, the player had to travel around the continent to find the long-lost medicinal records. However, because nobody knew their exact location, the quest required them to call upon a king from the past and ask him for the location. In order to do that, there was a need to visit the Ancient Temple of Nevrapolis, and the Dark Aid’s Mirror was introduced there. While taking a trip down the memory lane, Mira recalled that large antique mirror. It was just an object for the event, but since the game had become a reality, it was an object that could actually be used now. Mira updated her knowledge in regards to the Dark Aid’s Mirror. 「My father and mother were adventurers. But five years ago they got a mission and still haven’t returned. I waited for them at my grandfather’s home. But last week, people from the guild said that my missing father and mother are dead.」 Mira silently listened to the story told by the boy, who had tears and snots covering half of his face. After he finished with his words, Mira proceeded to gently wipe his tears. Though there was a single point that did not make sense in his story, so Mira threw a glance at Emera to seek an explanation. 「Well, you see, according to union’s regulations, when somebody breaks contact and goes missing during a mission, they are treated as dead after five years.」 While waiting for the agitated boy to calm down, Emera supplemented. 「And that’s why they suddenly dropped this bomb on the lad that his parents died?」 Mira did not know how to comfort him and simply looked at the crying boy. 「You got the pass to the Ancient Temple, right? Please take me with you. Please.」 The boy shut his eyes for a while before opening them widely to show his determination and bowed his head. Without thinking much, Mira placed her palm on his head and gently patted it. 「Yea, alright. If you’re that desperate to go there, I will bring you with me.」 Mira nodded while beaming with a wide smile. She genuinely wanted him to meet his parents after he was suddenly told that they were dead. 「Thanks, big sis! My name is Takuto.」「Yea, I’m Mira. Leave it to me.」 The boy’s smile shone as he clung to Mira who embraced him. However, there was someone else here who was really against it. 「No no no. Noooo way! It’s a Rank C dungeon, you know!? How are you going to possibly bring an inexperienced boy inside?」 Tearing the boy away from Mira, Emera was shaking her head. Only high-ranked adventurers were allowed to enter Rank C dungeons. There was no way they could bring an unknowledgeable child there. Previously, the boy was kicked out of the Warrior’s Union because he was constantly begging the Rank C Emera to go with him into the Ancient Temple, but she firmly refused him every time. Of course, her decision was not wrong. The task had the difficulty of a Rank C dungeon. It was not a place to bring along people who were unable to defend themselves. 「Why not? As long as he doesn’t fight, he should be fine.」 Mira carelessly declared that as she imagined the path until the fifth floor. She decided that a single child wouldn’t pose a problem there. 「It’s not so sim-.... I have no idea how strong your group is, but the Ancient Temple is out of the question. It’s way too dangerous.」 Emera gave a warning with a stern face. However, an outrageous revelation awaited her. Silence descended upon them. Emera completely froze, unable to comprehend the meaning of those words. Her mouth was twitching as if she was going to say something but then, she burst into anger at Mira’s absurdly reckless and stupid remarks. 「Nonononono, there’s just no way! That’s not a place you can go alone! It looks like you just registered in the guild today, but how can you be so reckless! Even if you avoid battles as long as possible, a Rank C dungeon is not a place you can go with just two members, with only one of them combat-capable!」 Emera raised her voice and frankly scolded Mira. The bypassers looked at the source of the voice, and upon recognizing the famous high-class adventurer Emera, they opened their eyes wide. She had the image of a bright and gentle big sister and they had never seen her so angry before. While bearing the full brunt of her anger, Mira was in anguish due to the loud voice right next to her. On the other hand, faced with the violent objection, the boy started crying again. Seeing that the boy had resumed crying, Mira scowled a little and glared at Emera. With that refutation, Mira grabbed the boy’s hand, embraced him and started to walk away. Being told that, Emera couldn’t raise any more objection since it was true that it would be difficult for her to reach the fifth floor of the Ancient Temple while protecting the boy. Having said that, however, Emera still couldn’t believe it even if the girl in front of her said she could do it. Even after she warned them that much, Mira made such a declaration so casually. Emera could get it off her head about the fact that Mira had just registered in the guild and yet was granted Rank C on the fly. A magician couldn’t be judged by their appearances, that was the common sense of this world. However, Emera couldn’t tell how strong the girl before her was. She couldn’t dismiss the possibility that Mira was merely a fool overestimating her own strength. It was impossible to tell, and it seemed like Mira wasn’t going to entertain her either. Emera rushed out to Mira and grasped her shoulder. 「Wait.」「What? Do you have anything left to say?」「I’m going with you!」 As an adventurer herself, Emera couldn’t help but wonder just how much strength did Mira possess for her to be this unfazed by the ancient temple. And if it was just overconfidence on her part, she couldn’t just leave her be. That’s why Emera decided to go together with them. In the worst case scenario, she was ready to let them escape using all her medicine and tools. After Emera decided to go with them, they went to a cafe to discuss the details. The cafe was called 「Cafe de Chocolat」. This store was famous for its cocoa and chocolate cakes. 「Mira, you’re a magician right? Which class are you?」 First of all, Emera started by probing into Mira’s strength. They were going to the Ancient Temple Nevrapolis, which was filled with so many undead monsters that it was commonly known as the ‘underground cemetery’. Considering the perks of that place, if Mira was a high-class Holy Mage or an Exorcist, her compatibility would be great and it would be justified if she was confident. 「I’m a summoner.」 Mira answered promptly before stuffing her cheeks with the cafe’s special, Chocolatic Overlord, that she was treated to by Emera. The chocolate sponge cakes were interposed with chocolate mousse that had raw chocolate inside, and on top of the chocolate cream there was some bitter chocolate sauce. While not too sweet, it still hid the potential to make any sweet-tooth moan; it was not bad for a special dish. The size was close to a whole cake, so she ate it together with Takuto who was sitting next to her. From time to time Mira used the napkins that the table was equipped with to wipe the cream off Takuto’s cheek. While watching the two act like friendly siblings, Emera’s expression froze over. Speaking of Summoners, they already were considered an endangered species. Due to the high difficulty threshold, Emera heard there were not many new Summoners. That was why Emera hadn’t had a chance to form a party with any summoner since she became an adventurer until now. The only summoners she knew were the elites serving at the Silver Towers, and they weren’t a good point for comparison. 「Umm, I don’t know too well, so...are Summoners...strong?」 She was trying to get a grasp of Mira’s strength but ended up knowing even less, so she made the simplest question there is. And these words had triggered Mira’s pride and devotion to Summoning. At the same time, Mira recalled the words said by Creos, substitute elder of the Tower of Summoning. He said that Summoning was on the decline. And according to how Emera put it, even she, a high-class Rank C Adventurer had yet to see a Summoner in combat. Understanding just how much Summoning had declined, Mira looked up above her and prayed toward the heavens. However, she did not lose her spirit. She planned on reviving the dignity of Summoning with her own hands. 「You’ll see once the time comes.」 Mira chuckled meaningfully. Contrary to that however, Emera only became more uneasy as she muttered to herself, “once the time comes and you lose, it’ll be too late.” After the two finished talking for the time being, they left the Cafe de Chocolat. 「Now then, let’s go. You know the way right? I shall let you lead the way.」 Squinting her eyes in the bright daylight, Mira looked up at Emera. The location of the Ancient Temple was listed on the back side of the pass, but it was faster to ask somebody who knew the way. With that thought, Mira gazed at Emera like she was asking the most natural thing. However, Emera’s expression froze over again. Then she held her head for the nth time in anguish. Takuto was also equally surprised at Mira’s statement. 「Wait, waait! We’re going to a C-rank dungeon, right? There’s no way we can go there without any preparations. At the very least let’s spend today preparing!」 Emera told her the obvious thing. It was only natural to make sure one was fully-prepared before entering a dungeon. And preparations for a high-level dungeon could easily take up to a week. That’s why neither Emera nor Takuto ever considered that they would be going today. 「It can’t be helped then. Let us depart tomorrow in such case.」 Mira was going to finish the task today, so it was troublesome, but if Emera could be convinced with that, she agreed to put off the departing until tomorrow. From there on, Emera started to show her real skill as a high-class adventurer. They went around various stores to buy the required medicine and tools. Just in case, she bought high-class medicine. Compared to that, Mira was completely in sightseeing mode. The only item that she bought was an insect repellent. Takuto learned how to use tools and medicine from Emera. This too, was just in case something happened. 「Mira, are you really going to be fine?」「I’m fine. I was going to go there from the start so all the necessary things are already here.」 With those words, Mira rolled up her left sleeve. There on her arm was the operator terminal, which was called the operator bracelet here. 「I hope that’s the case...」 Not persuaded yet, Emera anxiously bought more medicine and tools just in case. Mira only accompanied her due to her mood. She made an excuse that she had bought everything, but in fact Mira’s item box was already full of various medicine and tools, so in a way it wasn’t wrong. Once they had all consumables prepared, led by Emera they went to buy food items this time. In the corner of the main street, there were various shops selling food lined up and from among those, Emera headed straight for one. 「Ohh, Eme? Welcome. Going off somewhere again?」 The place she headed to was a store that she had frequented. It was a store that dealt with food for adventurers run by a well-built granny. Lined up inside there were various processed foods as well as seasonings. The granny welcomed Emera with a wide smile as she put the goods on the display, making Emera burst into a smile as well. 「Yes, to the Ancient Temple tomorrow.」「Hohoh. Going after big fish this time? Considering your guild, I shouldn’t worry much but take care about yourself.」「Thank you.」 Not wanting to worry her, Emera did not say anything about bringing Mira and Takuto. However, the granny looked with curiosity at the two that came together with Emera, alternating between their faces. 「Are they your children?」「Of course not!」 While the old woman made a mischievous smile, Emera denied with her face beet red. While the two acted like in some home drama TV show, on the side Mira curiously looked at the lined up goods. In the meanwhile, Emera bought processed meat, freeze-dried vegetables, and fruits in cans. The next place they headed for was an armament store. Inside the store there were metallic armors and several customers took them in their hands to check the state they were in. 「By the way, Mira, it seems you don’t carry any weapon; what weapon do summoners use?」 Emera saw that Mira had an Operator’s Bracelet so she thought the weapon might be inside the item box. However, a weapon was something carried within hand’s reach just in case. Naturally, Emera too, had a sword by her waist at all times. 「I don’t have any. Summoning itself is a weapon, after all.」「Heeh, is that so.」 While what Mira said was not wrong, it wasn’t as though all Summoners were like that. There were many who held a staff to improve their maximum mana and speed of recovery. It was one thing that Mira’s skill as summoner was beyond ordinary, but she also had Sage as a secondary class. Sage was specialized in bare-handed combat so holding a staff would make her unable to make full use of the second class, as such she did not hold any weapon. However, Emera didn’t know anything about such circumstances or Summoners themselves, so she was convinced by what Mira said. The main reason for her coming to the armaments store was for inspecting Emera’s equipment and to prepare armor for Takuto. It was a C-rank dungeon. Even if he wasn’t going to fight, it was bad to leave him with a casual outfit. By the way, the entire sum was paid by Emera. It was one thing that she wanted to show her dependability as someone older, but at the same time she earned enough that an armor for a child was an insignificant expense for her. 「Phew, I guess this is it. Normally it takes longer to prepare, though.」 Finally done with the shopping, Emera sat down on a stone fence that surrounded a square with a large monument. The sun had already set and street lights illuminated shone on people as they returned home after work. 「About the plans for tomorrow, are you fine with gathering at AM in front of the union?」「Yes! Please take care of me!」 While responding to her, Mira sat down next to Emera, Takuto stood in front of the two and bowed deeply. Emera still couldn’t shake off her remaining anxiety, but she intended to do something about that from here on. 「Well then, it’s already late so let’s call it today. Mira, Takuto, where are you staying?」「I live in grandpa’s house in the backstreet behind the union.」「I am...what was the name again...」 After Emera mentioned that, Mira recalled that she hadn’t heard the name of her hotel-like inn. However, she did remember what Garret said to her in case she was lost. 「If I remember correctly, it’s the best inn in the city or something like that.」 Touching the chin with her finger Mira answered vaguely. Hearing that, Emera made an expression not that of surprise, but a completely astonished one as she put a hand on her cheek. Takuto looked at the two in alternation and tilted his head wondering what happened. As she sighed, Emera pointed with her gaze toward a large building brightly lit by the street light. The brightly-lit building was the inn “Summer Lantern” which looked different from how it looked during the day, being very showy now. 「Ohh, that place. To think it was this close, mm.」 Chasing after Emera’s gaze, Mira recognized the building whose atmosphere changed despite being still the same familiarly-built inn. 「Fine...I won’t be surprised anymore. Yes, nothing will surprise me.」 Letting her gaze wander, Emera slowly stood up and took Takuto’s hand. 「Well then, I’ll take Takuto home. Mira, you go back straight to the inn, understand?」 Warning Mira, Emera moved her head next to Mira’s and looked straight into her eyes. 「Ye... yea. I’ve gotten hungry after all, I’ll go back right away.」 While saying so Mira stood up and then leaned back to move away from Emera. She was unable to completely hide her perturbation from suddenly being approached so close by a beauty. 「I see, that’s great. Well then, see you tomorrow.」「Yeah, see you tomorrow. You too, Takuto, see you tomorrow. Make sure to sleep well today.」「Yup, thanks, big sis. See you tomorrow. I’m counting on you.」「Mm-hm.」 After exchanging farewells, Mira nodded in response to Takuto’s smile, then turned around to start walking towards the inn. Emera did not move right away, she waited to confirm that Mira entered the “Summer Lantern” before taking Takuto and heading in the direction of the union.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 2, "inserted_lines_src": 7, "inserted_lines_trg": 2 }
第一に携帯電話を持っていませんだから安全圏にいるわけです第二に私は政治理論家で民主主義の危機についてお話ししますあまり興味をそそる話題ではないですねそして私は解決策は提示しません代わりに今日ここで話題にする疑問をさらに掘り下げます私が問いかけたいのは透明性と開放性が民主主義への信頼を回復してくれるという最近とみに高まっている期待についてですもう一つ私がうさんくさい人間だと思える理由は TED教信者の皆さんの楽観性から来ています (笑) 皆さんは複雑性を信じますが曖昧性は信じませんご案内のように私はブルガリア人です調査によればブルガリア人は世界一悲観的な民族ですエコノミスト誌がある記事を最近掲載しました幸福に関する最新の研究を紹介するものでタイトルは「幸せ者と不幸者とブルガリア人」です大体の見当がついたと思いますので本題に入りましょうある国の投票日のことですあいにくの雨です私の国かもしれませんあなた方の国かもしれません雨のせいで午後4時になってもだれも投票所に行きません突然雨が止みました人々は投票所に向かいます得票が集計されると 4分の3の人々が白票を投じていました政府も反対勢力も麻痺状態に陥りましたというのも抗議活動ならば対処法があります誰を逮捕すべきか誰と交渉すればいいのかがわかっていますしかし白票を投じた人々をどう扱うべきでしょうか? 政府はもう一度選挙をやり直すことにしましたすると今度はさらに多くの人々 83%もの人々が白票を投じました彼らは投票箱まで行きましたが投票するに値する者がいないことを示したのですこれはジョゼ・サラマーゴのすばらしい小説『白の闇』の始まりです私にはこの小説は現在のヨーロッパが抱えている民主主義の問題をとてもよく捉えていると思えますある意味で民主主義が最良の統治形態であることは誰も疑いません民主主義が唯一の選択肢なのです問題は民主主義が価値ある選択肢だとだれも思わなくなったことです過去30年間政治学者達は投票率の漸減に気づきしかも投票にもっとも無関心な人々こそがもし投票すれば最大の利益を得ることに気づいていました失業者や社会的弱者達ですこれは大きな問題ですなぜなら現在経済危機のために政治への信頼が民主主義体制への信頼が完全に失われているからです欧州委員会の最新の調査によればヨーロッパ市民の89%が政策立案者と市民の意見がますます乖離していると答えていますイタリアでは18% ギリシアでは15%しか投票に意義を見いだしていません人々は政府は変えることができても政策は変えることができないと考えています私の疑問は以下の通りです私たちはこれまで以上に自由な社会に生きながら -- つまり権利に恵まれ楽にいろんな所へ行けたり情報に自由にアクセスできるのに -- 民主主義体制への信頼がどうして失墜してしまったのか? 言い換えれば民主主義についてこの50年間に何が成功し何が失敗したのでしょうか? 成功したことからはじめましょう成功したのはまず第一に私たちの生き方を変え民主主義を育くんだ 5つの革命です最初のものは1968年と 70年代の社会文化革命これが個人を政治の中心に据えました人権運動の時代でしたこれはまた大規模な対抗文化の噴出でそれ以前にはなかった反体制文化の爆発でしたこのような運動は私たちの大多数はその頃まだ生まれていませんでしたが 68年の落とし子だと考えますその後80年代の市場革命が起こりました左派の好むようなものではありませんでしたが市場革命は「政府に先んずる」というメッセージを送る結果になりましたそして時代は選択に支配された社会へと移行しますもちろん1989年には共産主義と冷戦が終結しグローバル世界が誕生しますそしてインターネットの登場ですこの場に集う皆さんにはインターネットがどれほど人々に力を与えたかは説く必要もないでしょうインターネットはコミュニケーションの方法を変え我々が政治を見る方法を根本的に変えました政治集団という概念がすっかり変わってしまったのですさらにもう一つ革命を挙げるならばそれは脳科学という革命でしょう脳科学は人がどのように決断を下すかについての我々の理解を変えてしまいましたこれらは正しい方向への変化です誤った方向への変化を見てみると全く同じ5つの革命を挙げることができます第一に1960、70年代の社会文化革命ですこれは集団的目的という概念を破壊しました私たちがそれまで教え込まれた集団に関しての言葉国家階級家族などの概念を破壊したのです結婚していれば離婚を望みはじめ既存の社会秩序が攻撃されたのです人々の目を政治に向けることが難しくなりました本当に大切なものは個人の立脚点だとされたからですそして1980年代の市場革命ですこれは社会に大規模な不平等をもたらしました覚えていますか 1970年代までは民主主義の広がりは常に不平等の減少を伴っていました社会が民主化すればするほど社会は平等になっていったのですところが今は逆で民主主義は不平等と共に広まっていきます近年民主主義の功罪を語るとき私にはこのことが気になってたまりません 1989年に起きたことは誰も基本的には批判しませんが多くの人々は「冷戦の終結が西ヨーロッパのエリート階級と庶民との社会契約を断ち切ったんだ」と言うでしょうソ連がまだ存在した頃力と富のある者達は大衆を必要としていました彼らを恐れていたからです現在エリート達は解放されました移動は自由になり税金を課すことはできません彼らは大衆を恐れませんその結果妙な状況が生じていますエリート達が有権者から自由になっているのですですから有権者が投票意欲を失ったとしてもそれは偶然ではありませんインターネットはと言えば確かにインターネットは人々を繋ぎましたがそのインターネットが閉ざされた空間や隔離された政治地区を作り出しその中で人々は特定の政治集団に参加して一生安住できるようになりましたそれで自分と異なる人間を理解することがますます難しくなってきているのですここにおられる方々はデジタル世界や協力の可能性について語られますがデジタル世界が米国の政治に何をしたでしょうか? これもインターネット革命の結果なのですこれが私たちが好む世界の裏側です脳科学の分野では政治の専門家が脳科学から学んだものは理想を語るな政治を語るなということです必要なのは人々の感情を操作することですこの傾向は強く出ており今日では革命を語るときですらイデオロギーや思想にちなんだ名前を付けません以前は革命にはイデオロギーの名が与えられました共産主義者自由主義者ファシストイスラム教徒など今では革命は利用されるメディアの名前で呼ばれますフェイスブック革命ツイッター革命などもはや内容は問題ではなくメディアが問題なのですなぜこれを指摘するかというと成功は失敗でもあったからです今状況を変化させようとしているとき民主主義に何ができるかを考えようとしているときにこの両義性を覚えておく必要があります我々が最も愛するものが我々を最も傷つけることになるからです今日透明性の要求行動する市民とテクノロジーの結びつきさらなる透明性を保証する立法府が政治への信頼を回復してくれると人々は信じています新しいテクノロジーが生まれそれを市民が使うようになれば政府は嘘をつけなくなるだろうと政府は盗むことなく殺すこともないだろうと信じるでしょうそうかもしれませんしかし同時に次のことを覚えるべきです透明性を政治の中心に持ち込めば「大事なのは透明性だ、愚か者め」という姿勢だけが重んじられます透明性は組織の信頼を回復することではありません透明性は政治が政治への不信を処理する方法なのです社会は不信の上に立っていると私たちは考えますもっとも不信は民主主義には大切なものです抑制と均衡により成り立っていますし選挙人と被選挙人の間には創造的不信が存在するのですからしかし政治が不信の管理に過ぎないならば -- ちょうど『1984』の話が出ていましたが -- 『1984』の真逆の状況ができあがりますビッグブラザーが我々を監視するのではなく我々がビッグブラザーとなり政治家階級をを監視するのですこれが自由な社会の姿でしょうかたとえば善良で賢明な市民が政治は不信を管理することだと信じながら公職に就こうと立候補することがあるでしょうかいろいろな技術を使って政治家の発言を一言一句追跡できるとしたら怖くありませんかこのような事態が政治家に常識よりも一貫性を重視させ彼らの立場を -- それがいくら間違ったものであれ -- 繰り返させるとすれば怖くありませんかこの場にいるアメリカ人の方々は大統領が予備選挙の公約を意識して政治を行うとしたらゾッとしませんかとても大切なことは民主主義では理の通った議論に基づき見解を変えることが許されることですしかし高貴な理想に駆られ人々に報告義務を課し政治の場における日和見主義を許さないとすれば民主主義は失われますこのことは私にとって非常に重要です今日政治を議論する際にはこのような話をよく吟味することが大切だと思うのです忘れてはなりません暴露は同時に遮蔽でもあるのです政府がいかに透明であろうとしても選択的にしか透明になれないのですこれは実話ですが -- 私の国いや皆さんの国と言ってもいい -- ある小さな国で政府のすべての決定大臣たちの議論を 24時間後にインターネットで公開すると決定しました大衆は大喜びでした首相に会う機会がありなぜそのように決めたか尋ねました彼はこう言いました「こうすれば大臣どもが誰も意見しなくなるのさ 24時間後にこの情報が公開されると知ると反論しにくくなるからね」これは確実に政治危機につながります私たちが透明性を言うとき公開性を口にするとき覚えておくべきは改善は改悪にもつながるということです次の言葉はブルガリア人でもなければ政治家でもなかったゲーテが数百年前に残した言葉です「明るい光のあるところには暗い影がある」どうもありがとうございました	First, I don't have a mobile, so I'm on the safe side. Secondly, a political theorist who's going to talk about the crisis of democracy is probably not the most exciting topic you can think about. And plus, I'm not going to give you any answers. I'm much more trying to add to some of the questions we're talking about. And one of the things that I want to question is this very popular hope these days that transparency and openness can restore the trust in democratic institutions. There is one more reason for you to be suspicious about me. You people, the Church of TED, are a very optimistic community. Basically you believe in complexity, but not in ambiguity. As you have been told, I'm Bulgarian. And according to the surveys, we are marked the most pessimistic people in the world. The Economist magazine recently wrote an article covering one of the recent studies on happiness, and the title was "The Happy, the Unhappy and the Bulgarians." So now when you know what to expect, let's give you the story. And this is a rainy election day in a small country -- that can be my country, but could be also your country. And because of the rain until four o'clock in the afternoon, nobody went to the polling stations. But then the rain stopped, people went to vote. And when the votes had been counted, three-fourths of the people have voted with a blank ballot. The government and the opposition, they have been simply paralyzed. Because you know what to do about the protests. You know who to arrest, who to negotiate with. But what to do about people who are voting with a blank ballot? So the government decided to have the elections once again. And this time even a greater number, 83 percent of the people, voted with blank ballots. Basically they went to the ballot boxes to tell that they have nobody to vote for. This is the opening of a beautiful novel by Jose Saramago called "Seeing." But in my view it very well captures part of the problem that we have with democracy in Europe these days. On one level nobody's questioning that democracy is the best form of government. Democracy is the only game in town. The problem is that many people start to believe that it is not a game worth playing. For the last 30 years, political scientists have observed that there is a constant decline in electoral turnout, and the people who are least interested to vote are the people whom you expect are going to gain most out of voting. I mean the unemployed, the under-privileged. And this is a major issue. Because especially now with the economic crisis, you can see that the trust in politics, that the trust in democratic institutions, was really destroyed. According to the latest survey being done by the European Commission, 89 percent of the citizens of Europe believe that there is a growing gap between the opinion of the policy-makers and the opinion of the public. Only 18 percent of Italians and 15 percent of Greeks believe that their vote matters. Basically people start to understand that they can change governments, but they cannot change policies. And the question which I want to ask is the following: How did it happen that we are living in societies which are much freer than ever before -- we have more rights, we can travel easier, we have access to more information -- at the same time that trust in our democratic institutions basically has collapsed? So basically I want to ask: What went right and what went wrong in these 50 years when we talk about democracy? And I'll start with what went right. And the first thing that went right was, of course, these five revolutions which, in my view, very much changed the way we're living and deepened our democratic experience. And the first was the cultural and social revolution of 1968 and 1970s, which put the individual at the center of politics. It was the human rights moment. Basically this was also a major outbreak, a culture of dissent, which was not known before. So I do believe that even things like that are very much the children of '68 -- nevertheless that most of us had been even not born then. But after that you have the market revolution of the 1980s. And nevertheless that many people on the left try to hate it, the truth is that it was very much the market revolution that sent the message: "The government does not know better." And you have more choice-driven societies. And of course, you have 1989 -- the end of Communism, the end of the Cold War. And it was the birth of the global world. And you have the Internet. And this is not the audience to which I'm going to preach to what extent the Internet empowered people. It has changed the way we are communicating and basically we are viewing politics. The very idea of political community totally has changed. And I'm going to name one more revolution, and this is the revolution in brain sciences, which totally changed the way we understand how people are making decisions. So this is what went right. But if we're going to see what went wrong, we're going to end up with the same five revolutions. Because first you have the 1960s and 1970s, cultural and social revolution, which in a certain way destroyed the idea of a collective purpose. The very idea, all these collective nouns that we have been taught about -- nation, class, family. We start to like divorcing, if we're married at all. All this was very much under attack. And it is so difficult to engage people in politics when they believe that what really matters is where they personally stand. And you have the market revolution of the 1980s and the huge increase of inequality in societies. Remember, until the 1970s, the spread of democracy has always been accompanied by the decline of inequality. The more democratic our societies have been, the more equal they have been becoming. Now we have the reverse tendency. The spread of democracy now is very much accompanied by the increase in inequality. And I find this very much disturbing with democracy these days. And if you go to 1989 -- something that basically you don't expect that anybody's going to criticize -- but many are going to tell you, "Listen, it was the end of the Cold War that tore the social contract between the elites and the people in Western Europe." When the Soviet Union was still there, the rich and the powerful, they needed the people, because they feared them. Now the elites basically have been liberated. They're very mobile. You cannot tax them. And basically they don't fear the people. So as a result of it, you have this very strange situation in which the elites basically got out of the control of the voters. that the voters are not interested to vote anymore. And when we talk about the Internet, yes, it's true, the Internet connected all of us, but we also know that the Internet created these echo chambers and political ghettos in which for all your life you can stay with the political community you belong to. And it's becoming more and more difficult to understand the people who are not like you. I know that many people here have been splendidly speaking about the digital world and the possibility for cooperation, but [have you] seen what the digital world has done to American politics these days? This is also partly a result of the Internet revolution. This is the other side of the things that we like. And when you go to the brain sciences, what political consultants learned from the brain scientists is don't talk to me about ideas anymore, don't talk to me about policy programs. What really matters is basically to manipulate the emotions of the people. And you have this very strongly to the extent that, even if you see when we talk about revolutions these days, these revolutions are not named anymore around ideologies or ideas. Before, revolutions used to have ideological names. They could be communist, they could be liberal, they could be fascist or Islamic. Now the revolutions are called under the medium which is most used. You have Facebook revolutions, Twitter revolutions. The content doesn't matter anymore, the problem is the media. I'm saying this because one of my major points is what went right is also what went wrong. And when we're now trying to see how we can change the situation, when basically we're trying to see what can be done about democracy, we should keep this ambiguity in mind. Because probably some of the things that we love most are going to be also the things that can hurt us most. that this push for transparency, this kind of a combination between active citizens, new technologies and much more transparency-friendly legislation can restore trust in politics. You believe that when you have these new technologies and people who are ready to use this, it can make it much more difficult for the governments to lie, it's going to be more difficult for them to steal and probably even going to be more difficult for them to kill. This is probably true. But I do believe that we should be also very clear that now when we put the transparency at the center of politics where the message is, "It's transparency, stupid." Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is politics' management of mistrust. We are assuming that our societies are going to be based on mistrust. And by the way, mistrust was always very important for democracy. This is why you have checks and balances. This is why basically you have all this creative mistrust But when politics is only management of mistrust, then -- I'm very glad that "1984" has been mentioned -- now we're going to have "1984" in reverse. It's not going to be the Big Brother watching you, it's going to be we being the Big Brother watching the political class. But is this the idea of a free society? For example, can you imagine that decent, civic, talented people are going to run for office if they really do believe that politics is also about managing mistrust? Are you not afraid with all these technologies that are going to track down any statement the politicians are going to make on certain issues, are you not afraid that this is going to be a very strong signal to politicians to repeat their positions, even the very wrong positions, because consistency is going to be more important than common sense? And the Americans who are in the room, are you not afraid that your presidents are going to govern on the basis of what they said in the primary elections? I find this extremely important, because democracy is about people changing their views based on rational arguments and discussions. And we can lose this with the very noble idea to keep people accountable for showing the people that we're not going to tolerate politicians the opportunism in politics. So for me this is extremely important. And I do believe that when we're discussing politics these days, probably it makes sense to look also at this type of a story. But also don't forget, any unveiling is also veiling. [Regardless of] how transparent our governments want to be, they're going to be selectively transparent. In a small country that could be my country, but could be also your country, they took a decision -- it is a real case story -- that all of the governmental decisions, discussions of the council of ministers, were going to be published on the Internet 24 hours after the council discussions took place. And the public was extremely all for it. So I had the opportunity to talk to the prime minister, why he made this decision. He said, "Listen, this is the best way to keep the mouths of my ministers closed. Because it's going to be very difficult for them to dissent knowing that 24 hours after this is going to be on the public space, and this is in a certain way going to be a political crisis." So when we talk about transparency, when we talk about openness, I really do believe that what we should keep in mind is that what went right is what went wrong. And this is Goethe, who is neither Bulgarian nor a political scientist, some centuries ago he said, "There is a big shadow where there is much light." Thank you very much.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
メキシコと米国はお互いの国の国内政治問題に敏感でなければならない。国境以北における移民政策は、警備問題を処理しない限り実行できない；国境以南においては、移民改革が、現在米国に不法滞在している約五百万のメキシコ市民を無視する限り、国境警備あるいは出稼ぎ労働者プログラムへのメキシコからの協力は考えられない。	Mexico and the US must be sensitive to domestic political concerns in both countries. No immigration deal is feasible north of the border without addressing security matters; south of the border, there is no conceivable Mexican cooperation on border security or on a Temporary Workers Program if immigration reform ignores the nearly five million Mexican citizens without papers currently living in the US.	{ "source": "news_commentary", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
私はライオンの方に目を向ける。今なら彼を殺せる。どうするのよ、私。何を迷っているの。今なら国王様に認められて、ここを抜け出すことが出来るかもしれないのよ。目的を忘れないで。自分をどんなに言い聞かせても、やはりライオンを殺そうという意欲が湧かない。「あの、国王」私は国王の方を向き、大きな声を上げる。「僕はライオンを殺せない。けど、ライオンも僕を殺せない。だから、引き分けということでもいいでしょうか?」周りがシンと静まり返る。血の気が引いた顔で衛兵が私の方へ走ってくる。「お前何言ってんだ!」と叫んでいる。彼らがあんなに怒っているということは、私は結局生き延びても支配人に半殺しにされるかもしれないわね。「国王陛下になんて口きいてんだ、このクソガキ!」「身の程知らずが!」「ああ、もう、うっさいな!」野次に対して私は声を荒げる。王様は何も言わずにただ私を見つめている。衛兵もまさか私が怒鳴ると思わなかったのだろう。その場で固まる。「このライオンを手当させて。僕が必ず従えてみせる。そして、仮にもし死なせてしまったら僕も死ぬ」どうして私ここまでこのライオンに入れ込んでいるのかしら。自分でも分からないわ。けど、ライオンを従えたら私は悪女としてさらにパワーアップするわ。そうよ、悪女がライオ従えられないでどうするのよ。「面白いな。良いぞ」あら、素敵な声ね。......って、ええ!? 今の国王様の声? まぁ、私達は見世物だものね。王族が楽しめればそれでいい。それが存在価値だもの。私がいた入り口の柵の奥から支配人がいるのが視界に入る。物凄い形相で私を睨んでいる。思わず背筋が凍る。 ......子ども相手になんて表情してるのよ。まぁ、確かに私に無茶苦茶にされているものね。「お前、名前はなんていうんだ?」「リア」「リアか、気に入った。俺の元へ来い」観衆たちが一気に色々な声を上げる。「陛下考え直してください」と部下が言った声も耳に響く。 ......やったわ。国王に近付けるチャンスがついに到来! でも、彼の元へ行くっていっても、護衛なんて絶対に就かせていただけないだろうし......。滅茶苦茶こき使われるのかしら。それに、住む場所も馬小屋なんでしょうね。「あ、っと、ライオンも一緒だよな?」「勿論だ」有難うございますって言いそうになったわ。私は今、礼儀を知らない子どもなのよ。ついつい設定を忘れそうになるわ。「今すぐ出る準備をしろ」「いつでも出れる」「持ち物はないのか?」「ここにいたガキが何か持ってるとでも?」「おい! 言葉遣いに気をつけろ!」「いや、いい。マナーはあいつらに叩き込ませる」彼の側にいた衛兵が大きな声で私に怒鳴ったのを、国王は余裕のある顔で止める。	I turn my attention back to the lion. I should kill him now. What am I supposed to do? Maybe we can get the king’s approval and get out of here. No matter how much I told myself, I still couldn’t motivate myself enough to kill the lion. “Um, King.” I turn to face the king and shout. “I can’t kill this lion. But the lion can’t kill me either. So, can we call it a draw?” All around me, there was a hush. The guards come running towards me with angry faces.” What are you talking about!” they yell. Even if I survive, the ruler might leave me half-dead if they’re that angry. “How dare you talk to His Majesty the King, you little shit!” “You have no idea what you’re getting yourself into!” “Ah, for God’s sake, shut up!” I became enraged and yelled at the spectators. The king remained silent and just stared at me. I guess the guards didn’t expect me to yell at them. They froze on the spot. “Let me take care of this lion. I’ll make sure he stays with me. And if you let it die, I’ll kill myself.” I wonder why I’m so obsessed with this lion. I really couldn’t understand it myself. But having a lion on my side would only make me look more powerful as a villainess. Yeah, because what good was a villainess if she couldn’t even control a lion? “That’s interesting. Excellent.” Oh, he had a beautiful voice. What, eeh? Was that the King’s voice? When I glanced at the king, I could see that he was smiling happily at me. Well, we’re just entertainment to them. As long as the royals are entertained, that should be enough. That was the value of our existence. I could see the manager from behind the fence at the entrance I was at. He was staring at me with a terrible expression. I felt a shiver run down my spine. ...What kind of expression were you giving to a child? He had me completely at his mercy, didn’t he? “What’s your name, boy?” “Ria.” “Ria, I like that. Come join me.” The crowd shouted various things at once, “Your Majesty, please reconsider,” a subordinate said, his voice ringing in my ears. ...I did it. I finally got a chance to get close to the king! But even if I were to go with him, I’m sure he wouldn’t let me serve as his bodyguard... I wonder if I would be worked to death. And I bet that the place where I will live will be a stable. “Oh, and the lion will be coming with me, right?” “Of course.” I almost said, “Thank you” but I’m a child who doesn’t know how to be polite at the moment. I almost forgot my setup. “Get ready to leave now.” “I can leave any time.” “Do you have any belongings?” “Do you think a kid like me, who has ended up here, has personal belongings?” “Hey! Watch your language!” “No, it’s fine. I’ll let them teach you some manners.” With a generous smile on his face, the king stopped the guards at his side from yelling at me in a loud voice.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 2, "inserted_lines_trg": 1 }
大浴場からの帰りがけに、ミトロフはカヌレの泊まる宿へ向かった。カヌレの宿は裏通りにあり、治安は良いものではない。後ろ暗いところのある人間にも寝る場所は必要で、金さえ払えば誰でも歓迎する宿屋というのはそういう場所に連なっている。カヌレの性根には何の問題もなくとも、その姿見は魔物と見紛うものである。待遇や環境が悪くとも、目立つ場所にある宿に泊まるよりは気が休まる面もあるらしかった。すでに何度も訪ねているミトロフは、慣れた態度で入り口を開けた。受付台に座る中年の男がひとり、蝋燭を頼りに小刀で爪の手入れをしていた。訪問客がミトロフだと見ると、顎をしゃくって上を示した。ろくに会話もしたことはないが、顔を覚えてくれたらしい。ミトロフは会釈をして、階段を上がる。ミトロフの体重のためにごとに悲鳴のような軋みが鳴った。の通路はさらに薄暗く、窓はあるのにすべてに鎧戸が塞がっている。隙間から漏れ出た光が細長い長方形になっており、そのささやかな明るさがかろうじて並んだ扉を照らしていた。ミトロフが行き着く前に、カヌレが部屋から出てきた。「ぐ、偶然だな」「いえ、ミトロフさまだとわかりました」「......? どうしてだ?」「足音が」「あの階段の軋みか。底が抜けやしないかと不安になる」唇を尖らせたミトロフに、カヌレはくすくすと笑う。「急に訪ねて申し訳なかった。時間は大丈夫だろうか?」「はい。なにかございましたか?」切り出してはみたものの、ミトロフは未だに悩んでいる。痛めた右腕のために大人しく節制するようにと言いつけられているのに、ひとりで迷宮に行ったとうち開ければ、怒られるに違いない......。ミトロフは何度か口を開いてはみるものの、どうしても言葉が出ないでいた。幼いころは母やばあやによく叱られたものだが、ふたりともがいなくなって以来、ミトロフは誰かに謝った記憶がない。怒られるとか、叱られるという経験があまりに少ないために、どう振舞えばいいのかが分からなかった。「......あ、ぐ、こ、これから、グラシエの様子を見に行こうと思うのだが、カヌレの予定を聞いておきたくてな」咄嗟に、話題を逸らすような言葉が出てきた。言ってすぐに、ミトロフは自分の意志の弱さを罵った。「それは良いですね。わたしも時間は空いておりますので、ぜひご一緒に」快い返事をしたカヌレに、今さらそれは違うのだとも言い出せず、二人は連れ立って階段を降りる。受付の男は目も向けず、爪の削り具合を指で確かめている。外に出て通りを進みながら、ミトロフは沈黙の気まずさを恐れてカヌレに声をかけた。「あの宿の居心地は、あまり良くないだろう?」「たしかに、良いとは言えませんね」カヌレは苦笑した。「ですが、どなたも互いに無関心と言いますか、不干渉なので、その点では気楽です」「騒音だとか、騒ぎはないのか?」「普段は全く静かなんですよ。本当に住人がいるのかもわからないほどです。ただ、時たま、夜にすごい騒動があったりもしますね。一度、官憲が扉を蹴破って乗り込んだこともあったようです」「......静かなのは羨ましいが、ぼくは安心して眠れそうにないな。きみは肝が据わっている」ミトロフは諦めたように首を振った。「ミトロフさまの宿はギルドと提携しているのでしたよね」「ああ。おかげで犯罪者はいないだろうが、入れ替わりも激しいし、とにかく騒々しい。先週は上の階で打ち上げをやっていたようでな、すごい喧しさだった。初めての探索がうまくいったのはめでたいが......他の冒険者が怒鳴り込んだらしくて、あとはもう、朝まで喧嘩騒ぎだったよ」「それは大変でございましたね」カヌレはくすくすと笑う。ミトロフは自分の話を他人に聞かせることに慣れていない。カヌレの様子を伺っては見るのだが、もちろん表情は見えない。カヌレが自分の話で笑い、楽しんでくれていることに嬉しさを感じた。同時に、彼女に隠し事をして、それを打ち明けられずにいる自分にひどく罪悪感を覚える。ふたりは裏路地から大通りに出ると、グラシエが逗留している孤児院を目指して進む。裏通りはあまりに入り組んでおり、慣れない者には迷宮に思える。ミトロフとカヌレも土地勘に乏しいために、遠回りと分かっていても、一度は大通りを経由する必要があった。見覚えのある通りから裏通りに入り、記憶を頼りに道を曲がっていく。ミトロフが道の選択に悩むたびに、カヌレが正しい道を教えてくれた。ずいぶんと物覚えの良いことだ、とミトロフは感心したほどである。ようやく孤児院が見えた。低い尖塔があり、老朽しながらも教会の威厳を保っている。近づいていくと子どもたちの歌声が聞こえてきた。調律のズレたチェンバロが伴奏を務めているが、子どもたちの楽しげな声までが乱れるわけもない。思い思いの歌声で、音階など気にした様子もなく、心のままに歌っているようである。教会を囲う塀の、壊れかけた門柱の前にひとり、男がしゃがんでいることに、ミトロフは気づいた。門柱に背を預け、口には煙草を咥えている。ミトロフとカヌレが近づいても、男はどうという反応もしなかった。たゆたう紫煙をぼんやりと眺めている。「......今日はひとりで来たのか?」昨日、この教会にやってきた男である。体格の良い獣人に「兄ィ」と呼ばれていたのを、ミトロフは覚えていた。小柄な男は気怠げにミトロフに視線を向けた。垂れた目尻に、まぶたは厚ぼったい。眠たげな印象を感じさせるのだが、見据えられると一歩下がりたくなるような威厳がある。「––––おれは、この歌が嫌いでね」ふう、とため息のように煙を吐き出して、男が言った。風に運ばれたその煙がミトロフの鼻を撫でた。木が燻るような独特の香りがする。「貧しき者も救われる、信仰すれば報われる、人には親切にしましょう、神が見守っています......聴いてると飽き飽きしてくる」「あなたは信仰を持っていないのか」「いいや、敬虔な信徒さ。金と権力に祈りを捧げてる」「それは......信仰、なのか?」ミトロフの戸惑いがちな声に、男は小さく笑った。「貧しき人々って話を読んだことはあるか? 貧相な初老の書記官と、貧しい若娘が手紙をやりとりするって話だが。明日を生きる金にも悩みながら、互いを思いやる良い話だ。けどな、段々と男は生活が荒れていく。女に入れ込んで借金してまでものを買い与え、自分の破れた靴を買い替える金もなくなり、周りから馬鹿にされ、酒に溺れ......それでも女に金を無心される」「......そうまでして、なぜ男は金を貸すんだ?」「他に何もないからさ。金がなくとも心は豊かだって? そんなものは貧者の負け惜しみだろ? 心なんぞ形には見えない、だから物をやる、金を送る。それ以外に心を伝える方法を知らねえんだよ。心が貧しいやつほど目に見えないものに頼る」「その男と女は、最後はどうなるんだ?」「男の貧しさに見かねた上司が金をくれるのさ。男は大喜び、これで生活も変わるとな。しかし女は金持ちと結婚しちまう。貧しさから逃れるために愛のない結婚を選ぶ。おしまい。それだけさ」「......そうか。そういう話もあるだろうな」救いがない、とはミトロフは思わなかった。貴族にはよくある話だ、という冷めた思考がある。愛する者がいたとしても、家のために決められた相手と共になる。貧しさを嫌うが故に結婚相手を選ぶという人間もいるだろう。「貧しくとも愛があればいい......そんな”信仰”でふたりがくっついたとしたら、どうなってたと思う? 教養もない貧しいふたりが揃ったってどうにもならない。そのうちに愛が冷めれば、残るのは貧しさだけだ。貧しい人々......金も権力もないってのは、不幸なことだよ」男は笑い方までも気怠げに、煙草を地面で揉み消した。「この教会には信仰がある。だが、貧しい。金がない。権力がない。不幸なガキを集めて、不幸な大人が世話してる。だからこうだ」と、男は座ったまま両手を広げた。「金と権力を持った奴の気まぐれで、住処を追い出されることになる」「誰が、どうしてこの教会を買い上げようとしている? そんな......むごいことを」「”ドン”さ。ドンの考えなんぞ、おれたちは知らないね。やれと言われたからやるだけだ。これも信仰かもしれねえな。ドンの言うことは絶対––––お告げみたいなもんさ」言って、男は手を胸の前で組んだ。祈りを捧げる敬虔な信徒のように。そのまま眉を上げてミトロフを見上げる。「”貧しき人々”は自由を得る。だがその自由は砂で出来てる。権力者の思いつきで容易く吹き飛ぶ。そういう歌を作るべきだと思うね」男は立ち上がると、ミトロフに向かって歩いてきた。「貧しい大人によろしく言っておいてくれ」何かを渡すように拳を突き出され、ミトロフは思わず手のひらを差し向けた。そこにぽんと置かれたのは、煙草の吸い殻だった。「捨てといてくれ」んじゃ、とすれ違う男の背中を、ミトロフは振り返る。片足を引きずるような歩き方で、男はゆっくりと去っていく。「......あの方は、何をしたかったのでしょう?」カヌレは不思議そうに言った。「文学談義と宗教論、社会への問題提起といったところか」ミトロフは手に残った吸殻をつまみあげて眺めた。眉を下げ、ミトロフは嘆息する。吸殻を懐に収めて、教会の中へ歩みを進めた。	On the way back from the large bath, Mitrof headed towards the inn Canule was staying at. Canule’s inn was located in a back alley, and the public’s safety was not great. There were also people who needed a place to sleep in dark areas, and the inn that welcomed anyone as long as they paid was part of such a place. Even if there were no issues with Canule’s character, her appearance alone could be mistaken for a monster. Despite the poor treatment and surroundings, it seemed that staying in an inconspicuous inn gave her peace of mind. Mitrof, who had already visited many times, opened the door with a familiar attitude. There was a middle-aged man sitting at the reception desk, using a candle to trim his nails with a small knife. When he saw that Mitrof was a visitor, he jerked his chin upward. They had barely talked before, but it seemed like the man had remembered his face. Mitrof nodded and went up the stairs. Because of Mitrof’s weight, there was a creaking sound like a scream with each step. The second floor corridor was even darker, and although there were windows, they were all blocked by shutters. The light leaking through the gaps formed slender rectangular shapes, and the meager brightness barely illuminated the lined up doors. Before Mitrof could react, Canule came out of the room. “W-What a coincidence.” “I knew it was Mitrof-sama.” “...? How did you know?” “By the sound of your footsteps.” “The creaking of the stairs—I always worry the bottom will fall out.” Mitrof pursed his lips, and Canule chuckled. “I’m sorry for the sudden visit—is this a good time?” “Yes—was there something you needed?” Mitrof tried to broach the subject, but he was still struggling. He had been ordered to be disciplined and rest due to his injured right arm. If he went to the labyrinth alone and opened up about it, he would surely be scolded. Mitrof tried to speak several times, but he couldn’t find the words. Since his mother and grandmother had both passed away, Mitrof couldn’t remember ever apologizing to anyone for the many times they had reprimanded him when he was a child. He didn’t know how to behave, as he had experienced so little scolding or being reprimanded, and he didn’t know what to do. “Ah, um, I was thinking of going to check on Grace, and I wanted to ask Canule about her schedule.” Mitrof instinctively tried to change the subject. As soon as he spoke, he cursed his own weakness of will. “That’s a good idea—I have free time too, so let’s go together.” Canule replied pleasantly, and without being able to say that it was not what he meant, the two of them walked down the stairs together. The receptionist didn’t even look up but examined his fingernails. As they walked down the street outside, Mitrof was afraid of the awkward silence and spoke to Canule. “The accommodations at that inn aren’t very comfortable, are they?” “Indeed, I can’t say they’re good.” Canule smiled wryly. “But, no one really cares about each other or interferes with each other, so it’s comfortable in that sense.” “Is there no noise or commotion?” “It’s usually very quiet—to the point where you might not even know if there are any residents—however, occasionally, there’s a great commotion at night—there have even been times when the authorities kicked down the door and burst in.” “...I’m envious of how quiet it is, but I don’t think I’ll sleep peacefully—you have a strong will.” Mitrof shrugged as if giving up. “Mitrof-sama’s lodging is affiliated with a guild, isn’t it?” “Yes—thanks to that, there are no criminals, but there’s a high turnover, and it’s always noisy—last week, there was a party on the floor above, and it was incredibly loud—they celebrated their successful first exploration, but some adventurers yelled at them, and the rest of the night was a brawl until the morning.” “That must have been tough.” Canule chuckled. Mitrof was not accustomed to sharing his own story with others. He watched Canule’s reaction, but, of course, couldn’t see her expression. He felt glad that Canule enjoyed his story and laughed, but at the same time, he felt deeply guilty for keeping secrets from her and not confessing. The two of them came out from the alley and headed towards the orphanage where Grace was staying. The backstreets were too complicated and could be a labyrinth for those unfamiliar with the area. Mitrof and Canule also lacked knowledge of the area, so despite knowing they would be taking a detour, they needed to go through the main street at least once. They turned onto the backstreet from a familiar street and proceeded to walk while relying on memory to navigate. Whenever Mitrof struggled with choosing a path, Canule would show him the correct way. Mitrof was impressed with how good Canule’s memory was. Finally, they saw the orphanage with its low spire, maintaining the dignity of the church despite its dilapidated condition. As they approached, they could hear the children’s singing voices. A detuned harpsichord played accompaniment, but it didn’t disturb the joyful voices of the children. They were singing freely without paying attention to things like musical scales. Mitrof noticed a man squatting in front of the half-broken gatepost surrounding the church’s fence, smoking a cigarette with his back against the pillar. Despite Mitrof and Canule approaching, the man did not react at all, staring blankly at the lavender smoke that wafted around him. “... Did you come alone today?” He was the man who had come to this church yesterday. A well-built beastman addressed him as “brother,” as Mitrof remembered. The small man lazily turned his gaze to Mitrof. His drooping eyelids and thick eyelashes gave off a sleepy impression, yet there was a sense of dignity that made one feel like taking a step back when he looked straight in the eye. “——I hate this song, you know.” The man said this, exhaling smoke like a sigh. The smoke that the wind carried tickled Mitrof’s nose. It had a unique scent, like smoking wood. “Even the poor can be saved and rewarded if one has faith; let us be kind to others, for God is watching over us... It becomes tedious just listening to it.” “Don’t you have faith?” “No, I am a pious believer—I offer prayers for money and power.” “That... is that faith?” At Mitrof’s hesitant voice, the man chuckled softly. “Have you read the story about poor people? It’s a story about a plain, middle-aged clerk and a poor young girl exchanging letters. It’s a touching story about how they care for each other while they struggle to make ends meet. But over time, the man’s life deteriorates. He falls in love with the woman and even borrows money to buy her gifts. He can’t even afford to replace his worn-out shoes, and he becomes the target of ridicule from his peers. He falls into alcoholism... But even so, the woman begs him for money.” “... Why did the man lend the money even when he didn’t have much himself?” “Because he had nothing else—is it true that even though he had no money, he had a rich heart? That’s just a loser’s excuse—hearts cannot be seen, so they give things and send money—those who are poor in spirit rely on things that cannot be seen.” “What happened to the man and woman in the end?” “The man’s boss took pity on his poverty and gave him some money—the man was overjoyed, thinking that his life would change with it—however, the woman chose to marry a rich man to escape poverty. The end. That’s how it ended.” “...I see—there are stories like that too.” Mitrof did not think there was no hope. He had a detached way of thinking that was common among nobles. For the benefit of the family, they would marry the person their family chose for them even if they already loved someone. Some people might choose a marriage partner based on their dislike of poverty. “If there is love, even if you are poor... wouldn’t it be enough? What would happen if the two of them came together with such ‘faith’? It wouldn’t make any difference even if two uneducated and poor people got together. If their love cools, they will be left with only poverty—It is unfortunate for poor people... to have neither money nor power.” The man lazily laughed and rubbed out his cigarette on the ground. “This church has faith, but it is poor—it has no money or power. Unhappy children are gathered here, and unhappy adults take care of them. That’s why it’s like this.” The man spread his arms wide while still sitting. “By the whim of someone who has money and power, they will be kicked out of their homes.” “Who is trying to buy this church, and why? It’s... horrible.” “Don. We don’t know anything about Don’s thoughts. We just do what we’re told. This may also be a matter of faith—the Don’s words are absolute, like a divine revelation.” The man spoke and crossed his hands in front of his chest, like a devout follower making an offering in prayer. He raised his eyebrows and looked up at Mitrof. “The ‘poor people’ gain freedom, but that freedom is made of sand—it is easily blown away by the whims of those in power. I think we should write a song about that.” The man stood up and walked towards Mitrof. “Give my regards to the poor adults.” He reached out his fist as if handing something over, and Mitrof instinctively held out his palm. It was a cigarette butt that was placed there. “Throw it away for me.” Mitrof turned around as the man passed by to watch him leave. With a walking style that seemed to be dragging one foot behind, the man walked away slowly. “... What did that man want?” Canule said curiously. “Literary discussion, religion, and social issues.” Mitrof picked up the remaining cigarette butt and gazed at it. Frowning, he sighed. He put the butt in his pocket and walked towards the church.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 0, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
俺を食堂まで招き入れると、コルティナはさっそく食事を振る舞ってくれた。「出来合いで悪いわね。最近はこんなのばっかりよ」「フィニアがいたら手を加えてもらえたのにね。今は護衛についてもらってるから」「護衛? 交易商人の護衛かしら?」「うん。テムルさんがフォルネウス聖樹国へ行くっていうから」「フォルネウス! それは遠いわね」最近は街道が整備されているが、昔はラウムからベリトの間だけ月かかっていた。街道のおかげで、今では二週間程度に短縮されている。見晴らしのいい街道は、盗賊にとってもモンスターにとっても、格好の餌場となるからである。都市部の近辺は安全が確保されているが、それがずっと続くわけではない。もしそうなら護衛なんて必要なくなる。ここからが本当の冒険となるといっても、過言ではない。「そっかぁ......んー」「どうかしたの?」俺の行き先を聞き、顎先に指を当てて悩むコルティナ。これは彼女独特の考える仕草だ。「いやぁ、そういえば私ってば結構休みが溜まってたなぁって。ここいらで一発長い休みを取ってもいいかもって思って?」「え、それって......」「うん、私も一緒に行こうかなとか、考えてる」「へぅ!?」コルティナの唐突な申し出に、俺は驚きを隠せなかった。「レイドが来るまで、またひと月くらい空くわけだし、それくらいならサボっちゃってもいいかなって」「教師の発言じゃないよ!」「だって心配じゃない。二週間の長旅は久しぶりなんでしょ?」二週間という旅はこれ目。いや、一度目のラウムへの旅路は守られる側だったので、実質二度目といっていい。問題はフィニアやクラウド、ミシェルちゃんはそうではない。俺もそういう意味ではコルティナと同様の心配は抱えている。「でしょでしょ?」「でも、本当にいいの?」「いいのいいの。いい加減、マクスウェルへの義理も果たしただろうし、ここいらで長期休みをもらっても悪くないでしょ」「そーかなぁ?」元々彼女の勤務は、心のリハビリめいたところもあったことだし、自分のために自由に行動してもいい頃合いではある。俺は同行してくれる感謝を、素直に彼女に告げる。こういった素直さも、転生してから学んだことだ。「まあ、コルティナが来てくれるなら、わたしもありがたいけど」「じゃあ決定ね! さっそくマクスウェルと話をつけてくるわ」その姿はとて年以上を生きてきた女性とは思えない、子供のような仕草だ。彼女はいつまでも若々しさを保ったままだ。そう思うのは、俺のひいき目だろうか? 「行ってらっしゃい。でも落ち着いてね?」「あ、ニコルちゃんはこっそりどっか行っちゃダメだからね? 私が帰ってくるまでちゃんと待ってること」「ホスト役がいなくなるとか、もうメチャクチャなんだけど?」「気にしない気にしない」相変わらず落ち着きのない彼女の様子に、俺は安堵しつつも苦笑を禁じ得なかったのである。翌日、水の補給を終えたテムルさんと合流するべく、街門前の広場へと俺は向かっていた。隣には一夜にして旅支度を整えたコルティナと...... 「なぜいる?」「いーじゃない、今さら一人増えたって変わらないでしょ?」「アンタの体力じゃ足手まといだっていったんだけどね。どうしてもって聞かなくって」彼女がこうも困惑することは珍しい。それもそのはずで彼女の隣には、トリシア女医がついてきていたのだから。「病気を治してもらったのは感謝してるけど......本当に大丈夫?」かつてノールド山を登った時、彼女はダウン寸前にまで疲労していた。「大丈夫よ。それに今回は馬車もあるんでしょ? 私はずっとそれに乗っておくから」「トリシア......あなた、完全に物見遊山気分ね?」「私もアンタ同様、長らく休みとってなかったのよね。ここいらで消化してもいい頃なのよ」「マクスウェルは承知したんでしょうね?」「朝一で押しかけて承認俺は半眼になりつつも、肩を落として同行を認めた。さいわい、食料や水は存分に備蓄がある。ミシェルちゃんやクラウド、マークたちも準備を終えて待機している。「遅れて申し訳ありません、テムルさん」「いえいえ。それよりそちらの方はひょっとして......?」「ええ、コルティナも一緒に行きたいと申しまして。大丈夫でしょうか?」「やはりコルティナ様! いやお変わりないようで、なによりです。同行していただけるのでしたら、望外の喜びですよ」コルティナとテムルさんは面識がある。快く承知してくれたようで、何よりだった。	Cotina invited me to the dining room and treated me to a quick meal. That said, it wasn’t handmade, but rather a small dish bought at the stall. She was living alone now and was also working in the academy. It was natural for her to not have time to make dinner by hand. “Sorry about offering ready-made food. It’s been like this lately.” “Finia would have worked some magic on it if she was here. But I had her stay on guard duty.” “Guard? You mean guarding a trader?” “Yeah. Temuru is heading to the Holy Tree Kingdom of Forneus.” “Forneus! That’s pretty far.” It took us two weeks to get here from Stollar, and would take about two more to reach the capital city Berith. The highway was being maintained lately, but in the past it used to take a month to get to Berith. Thanks to the highway, it has decreased to two weeks now. It led straight to Berith, and it offered a clear view around – both an advantage and disadvantage. Highways with good views were good feeding grounds both for bandits and monsters. The safety was maintained near the urban areas, but there was a point where it ended. Otherwise, there would be no need to hire guards. Vultures that could attack from above, Stalk Dogs that were proficient in hiding, and Strike Boars that had high offensive power, increased in number as you went. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that the true adventure would start from here on. “I see... Hmm...” “What’s wrong?” Hearing about my destination, Cortina started pondering with a finger to her chin. This was her characteristic pose when thinking about something. But what was to ponder in the current topic, I had no idea. “I mean, I have accumulated quite a lot of rest days. I was thinking of taking a long vacation in one go here.” “Huh, you mean...” “Yeah, I was thinking of coming along too.” ‘Hwah!?” I was shocked at her sudden idea. “I have one month free until Reid visits again, so I think I can slack off for that long.” “That’s not something a teacher should be saying!” “But I’m worried. You haven’t had two-week trips that often, right?” As Cortina said, we weren’t really used to going on long trips. This was our third time going on a two-week trip. Actually, one of them was where we were just passengers being protected, so it’s more accurately our second time. That said, I personally had a lot of experience with it, so I didn’t worry that much. Problem was Finia, Cloud and Michelle who didn’t have such experience. In that sense, I was worried about them like Cortina. “Right? Right?” “But are you really sure?” “I am, I am. I’ve already finished off my debt to Maxwell, so it wouldn’t be a bad thing to take a long vacation here.” “Really?” It seems that Cortina had become quite overprotective while I was away. From the start, her job was something to rehabilitate her heart, so it was a good time for her to start acting for herself. It was a separate issue whether I should be deciding that for her, but it certainly would be a great help if she came along. Thus I honestly conveyed my feelings about the matter. Being honest like this was also something I learned after reincarnating. “Well, I’ll be grateful if you came along.” “Then it’s settled! I’ll go tell Maxwell quickly.” Saying that, she stuffed her cheeks with the food and munched on it like a squirrel. She didn’t look like someone in their forties at all, but more like a child. She stayed youthful without an end. Or was it my bias that made me think so, I wonder? “Take care. But calm down first, okay?” “Ah, Nicole, don’t sneak out anywhere, okay? Stay and wait until I’m back.” “Being the host and going away already disqualifies you from saying that, you know?” “Ignore it, ignore it.” She dashed to the entrance while laughing. I felt relief to see her acting as unsettled as ever, but also couldn’t help but smile wryly. The next day, I headed to the square before the city gate to meet up with Temuru who had finished refilling the water. Since we were here, I wanted to meet with Letina too, but she was both a noble and lived in a dormitory. She couldn’t come outside, so I gave up on the reunion for the time being. There were many others I wanted to catch up to, but I gave up for now and headed to the meetup place. Next to me was Cotina who finished her travel preparations overnight, and... “Why are you here?” “Isn’t it fine? One more or one less doesn’t make much difference.” “I told her she’d just get in the way with her stamina. But she kept insisting.” Cortina made excuses while holding her head. It was rare for her to be this perplexed. But that was only natural, because Dr. Tricia was following her by the side. “I’m thankful that you cured my illness... But are you sure this is okay?” Back when we climbed Mount Nord, she got tired to the point she almost collapsed. She was a self-acknowledged indoor type, so I didn’t think she could keep up with this trip. But ignoring the two of our fears, Tricia casually waved her hand and denied it. “It’ll be fine. And we have carriages this time around, right? I’ll just ride one all the way.” “Tricia... You’re totally in a pleasure jaunt mode, aren’t you?” “I haven’t taken a vacation in a long time just like you. It should be fine to use it up for this opportunity.” “You let Maxwell know, right?” “I barged in early in the morning and Seizing the initiative against THAT Maxwell made this woman pretty tough, huh? I shrugged while squinting my eyes, agreeing with her coming along. Fortunately, we had more than enough food and water. There wouldn’t be any problems even if passengers increased by one or two. At the square, Temuru and Finia had already finished their preparations for departure. Michelle, Cloud and Mark’s group had done the same and were standing by. It seems that we were the last to arrive. “I’m sorry for being Late, Sir Temuru.” “Not at all. That aside, the person next could you, could it be...?” “Yes, Cortina decided to join us too. Would it be alright?” “So it really was Lady Cortina! I am delighted to see you in good health as always. It would be a pleasure beyond my expectations to travel with you.” Cortina and Temuru were acquaintances. I’m glad he accepted it quickly. That said, there was probably no merchant in this city who’d be able to turn her down. Like this, with two more people on board, we departed from Raum.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 4, "inserted_lines_src": 26, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
居住地区を整備するために大規模な工事に着手したが、そこから温泉が掘り起こされたことで人々に解放した。この異世界で温泉が掘り起こされることは珍しく、各国から温泉目当てに訪れる人もあるという。男女の脱衣所が設けられているので、キシャナはシェーナの手を引っ張って女性用の脱衣所へと入っていく。「どうやら他に先客もいないし、私達の貸し切りだな」「やっぱり俺は......」「気持ちは分かる。でも今のシェーナが男湯に入ったら、パニックになるだろ?」「それはそうだけど、何というか罪悪感が芽生えて......」「私もここに何度か温泉に入っているけど、慣れてしまうものだよ」キシャナは一糸まとわぬ姿でシェーナの前に立つと、シェーナも覚悟を決めて後に続く。幼少の頃、シェーナはと風呂に入ることはあったが、前世で男子高校生だった浩太には刺激が強かった。姉二人からは恥ずかしがり屋な妹と見られて、騎士団に入団する頃には女騎士はシェーナ一人だったので風呂は人目を気にせずに入ることができた。シェーナが想像していた以上に広い露天風呂で開放感がある外の景色にうっとりする。男湯と女湯には仕切りが立てられて、男湯からは先客が誰かいるようで話し声が聞こえてくる。掛け湯を済ませると、二人は温泉に浸かる。「なかなか気持ちがいいなぁ」「ああ、異世界で温泉は初めてだよ」シェーナは身体に溜まっていた疲労感が抜けて気分が高揚になる。しばらくすると、キシャナは空を見上げてしみじみした声でシェーナに語りかける。「本来なら修学旅行先の大浴場で浸かっていたんだよな」「......そうだな。まさか親友が女ダークエルフになって温泉に入ることになるとは思わなかったよ」「それを言ったら私もだよ。美人な女騎士とこうして並んでいるなんて思春期な前世の俺だったら羨ましい展開だな」「今は違うのか?」「さっきも言ったけど、慣れてしまったよ。も女性をやっていると前世のような感覚はだんだん薄れてくるよ。最初は毎日鏡を見れば妖艶な女ダークエルフが拝めてラッキーだと思えたけどね」そんなものなのかとシェーナは思った。シェーナは異世界転生して、しばらくは自身の身体を鏡で見る度に恥ずかしさと罪悪感で現実を直視できない時期があった。時が経つにつれて自身が女性であることはある程度受け入れることはできたが、他の女性の裸体や男性からの告白や求婚は受け付けなかった。キシャナは温泉からあがると、シェーナにアドバイスを送る。「しばらく私と温泉に通っていればシェーナも慣れるよ。経験者の私が言うのだから間違いないよ」「その辺は努力してみるけど......」シェーナはキシャナの豊満な胸を見ると、温泉に浸かって赤く火照った顔に恥ずかしさを重ねて脱衣所まで駆け足で走り去った。	Back when they were doing construction work at the residential district, they dug up hot springs which were opened to the public. Digging up hot springs in this world is quite rare, therefore people from everywhere come here to enjoy them. The hot springs were split for both men and women. Meanwhile, Kishana was pulling Schenna into the women’s dressing room against her will. “It seems like no one else is around, so it seems like we have the place all to ourselves.” “Wait Kishana, I really can’t...” “I understand how you feel. But imagine if you were to enter the men’s side, wouldn’t it turn into a panic fest?” “Well you’re not wrong but, I just can’t get rid of this sense of guilt.” “Don’t worry about it, I come here often and eventually got used to it. And so will you, I swear.” Kishana stood in front of Schenna completely naked, which somehow encouraged her to go in as well. From her younger sister’s perspective, she was just a very shy girl. Additionally, when she entered the knight corps, she was the only female so she had no problems at all when taking a bath. In front of her was the open-air hot spring, it was way bigger than she had imagined. The atmosphere gave off a very pleasant feeling and there was an amazing view to the outside. The men and women were divided into two sides, voices of men who had entered before them could be heard from the other side. They then took a quick shower and entered the hot springs right after. “So, doesn’t it feel good?” “Yeah, it’s my first time visiting hot springs in this world.” Schenna was in a really good mood as the effect was felt straight away, her weary body gradually became more relaxed. Kishana stood next to Schenna as she enjoyed immersing her beautiful brown skin and long vertical ears in the hot water. After a while, Kishana looked at the sky and spoke to Schenna with a serious tone. “Originally, we probably would be enjoying the huge bath at our school trip destination in our previous life, wouldn’t we.” “Yeah... you’re right. To think I would ever get into hot springs with my best friend who turned into a Dark Elf, things sure took a weird turn.” “I feel exactly the same as you. Being here with a beautiful female knight, that would an ultimate pleasure for the old me.” “Is it different now?” “As I told you before, I just got used to it. After being a woman for years. my old self just starts disappearing, you know. At the beginning though, I would look at myself in the mirror and thought to myself that I was lucky to have such a good body.” Schenna wondered if it really was like that. For her, it was the opposite. At first, she felt guilty for even looking at the mirror and seeing her female body. As time passed, she eventually accepted that she was indeed a woman and would be living in that body. Looking at other naked women, getting confessed to, or any sort of talk about marriage were still far from acceptable though. Kishana got out of the water and gave Schenna some advice. “If you come here with me more often, you will get used to it in no time. Believe me, I’m experienced in that.” “I’ll try my best to work on that...” Schenna took a brief look at Kishana’s voluptuous breasts and went back underwater, blushing with an extremely red face. Then she ran for the dressing room filled with embarrassment.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 1, "inserted_lines_trg": 1 }
「じゃあ、俺はそろそろ山を下りるよ」双魚迷宮は初期街から西に位置する。つまり、同じく西に存在する霧深山脈のふもとにあるダーパンの街から向かうの近い。空上郷のファストトラベルはすでに解放した......いや、解放できていた。まさか、解放の条件が『工房でレア装備に関する仕事を依頼する』だとは知らなかった。修理や進化などを依頼して、レア装備を預けた時点で後々取りに来る必要があるのだから、非常に合理的な解放条件ではある。むしろ、親切すぎてビックリするくらいだ。これでもうあの霧深く崖ばかりの山を登る必要はない。他の街からいくらでもワープできる。今度から気になる素材を手に入れたら気軽にウーさんに見せに来よう。「僕もしばらくしたらイベントに戻るつもりですんで、また何かあればお願いしますね」「ああ、お互い全部の迷宮をクリアできるように頑張ろう。それと最後の試練もあったっけな」今日は霧深山脈を覆う雲が少し薄い。遠くには初期街の上空でプレイヤーたちを今か今かと待ち構えている最終決戦の地『サーペント・パレス』が見える。あそこで最後にチャリンと戦うという話だが、いったいどんな戦いになるのか想像もつかない。「あと何日かすれば上位のプレイヤーたちがあそこに乗り込むのでしょう。そうすれば嫌でも戦いの内容が耳に入ってきますよ。まあ、僕らも十分前を走ってるプレイヤーだと思いますけどね」「だいたい1日で2枚ずつゲットしてた俺で12枚のうち5枚のメダルを持ってるから、早い人はそれこそ10枚近いかもしれないな......」「貪欲なプロゲーマーは自分が一番にサーペント・パレスの秘密を暴いてやると意気込んでいるでしょう。一番乗りが大きく話題になることは間違いないですから、自身の知名度アップに古参から新参まで必死ですよ」に合ってるかな。それにもっと鍛えないとそもそもクリアできないような......そんな予感がするんだ。試練を進めつつ、スキルも装備も十分に鍛えようと思う。あと、レベルもね。もうすぐ第2職のレベルが最大になりそうだし」「それが良いと思います。焦って装備を壊されたらまた足止めですからね。あと、「お、心が決まったのかい?」「ええ、人間は助け合って生きるのが一番楽だな......と。それはつまり自分も誰かを助けるということなのですが、まあ、ネココさんから誘ってくれるということは、僕みたいなプレイヤーでも彼女のお眼鏡にかなったということでしょう。やるだけやってみますよ」サトミはネココのゲームに対する熱意に怖気づいて俺は普通に面白そうだなと思って入ったが、ゲームを楽に楽しみたいサトミにとっては引っかかる部分もあったのだろう。「まあ、これから先パーティやギルド限定のコンテンツが出た時に集まろうってチームだし、気楽に考えればいいさ」「ふっ......そうですね。では、お達者で」「ああ、また」マップを開いて『ダーパン』を選択。俺の体は光に包まれ、次の瞬間にはパンダだらけの街に到着していた。 ◆ ◆ ◆ ダーパンの街から街道を歩き、双魚迷宮を示すマップ上のピンを目指す。そしてピンを目指している最中、ある事に気づいた。よくよく見れば、そのピンは内陸にあるのだ。海に関係していそうなかに座の迷宮は海辺にピンが刺さっているのに、魚釣りを予感させるうお座の迷宮は陸地の中にある。この疑問の答えは、たどり着いてすぐにわかった。「なるほど......そうきたか......」川だ。大きな渓流を釣り堀に改造してある......! ゴツゴツした岩を排除し、人工的な段差で区画を分けて網で仕切り、その中に魚を放流してある。プレイヤーたちはジッとその場にとどまったり、首をかしげながらやたら場所を変えていたりと様々だ。釣り堀は川に合わせてかなり長く展開している。たくさんのプレイヤーが同時に釣りをしても、まだスペースがあるな。俺も釣竿を受け取って試練を始めよう。あ、クリア条件とご褒美の条件も聞いておかないとな。『はいはーい。大声を出すとお魚がビックリしちゃうから、今回は普通の声の大きさでみんなに説明するにょん』ここのチャリンは......ファンタジー感ゼロの釣り人スタイルだった。ポケットの多いベストとか、水をよく弾きそうなズボンとか、長靴とか......。長い金髪の上には安っぽいキャップまで被っている。でも、こういう男のする服装そのままを着てる女の子ってのもなんだか悪くないかも......。『ここの試練はある意味最もシンプルだにょん。これから貸し出す釣竿を使って、この釣り堀でお魚を釣るだけだにょん。お魚は足りなくなったりしないから安心するにょん。メダル獲得の条件はお魚の中でもレア度☆4以上の物を釣り上げること。ご褒美の条件は最高レア度☆5の大物を釣り上げることだにょん』本当にシンプルだな。ちなみにこの釣り堀で連れる魚はイベント専用のものなので、たくさん釣ったからといって素材に流用出来たり、売ってお金に出来たりはしない。つまり、☆3以下は釣っても無意味ということか......。『釣り方もとってもシンプルだにょん。ウキが沈んだら素早く竿を上げる......これだけだにょん。大物がかかった時は竿がしなったり水面がバチャバチャしたり演出が入るけど、竿をぶん投げたりしない限りそのまま釣れるにょん。要するに反射神経だけが物を言う試練だにょん』 ......えっ!? いま恐ろしい言葉がチャリンから発せられた気がするが......気のせいか? まさか最新の技術を使って作られたVRゲームにおいて、昔ながらのボタンを押すタイミングだけで結果が決まる釣りゲームなんて......。南の海でやった時はリアルなガチ釣りだったはず......。『そうそう、あの超有名スローライフゲームの釣りみたいな感じだにょん。魚が食ってウキが沈んだらボタンを1回! そのタイミングで成否が決まって、後はメダカだろうがシーラカンスだろうが反応は一緒だにょん』 ......なかなか面白い試練を紹介してくれたじゃないかサトミくん。俺にとってプレイヤーとしての成長が問われる試練になりそうだ。年を取ると反射神経が鈍る......これは避けようのない事実。だがしかし、俺はゲームを始める前に比べて成長している自信がある。そしてこの体に、この世界に、馴染んでいる実感がある。ついに見せつけてしまうかもしれない。このゲームに適応した俺の本当の実力を......な。	“Well, I’m going to go down the mountain now.” The Pisces labyrinth was west of the first town. In other words, as the town of Dapan was at the foot of the Foggy Mountains, which were also in the west, it would be best to go from there. I had already unlocked fast travel to the sky town...well, it had been done before I knew it. Turns out that the requirement was just ‘make a job request that involved something rare at the workshop.’ After all, once you asked him to repair or evolve something that was rare, you would be required to return later and retrieve them. So the requirement made sense. Still, it was shockingly considerate. And so there was no need to climb up that foggy cliffside. I could just warp from other towns. From now on, if I ever found any promising materials, I would show them to Mister Yu. “I’ll also return to the event soon enough, so perhaps we’ll meet again.” “Yeah. Let’s hope we can both clear all of the labyrinths. Oh, and the final trial as well.” Today, the clouds around Foggy Mountain were on the thin side. In the distance I could see the Serpent Palace above the first town. It seemed to be waiting for players to come and fight the final battle. We were supposed to fight against Charin there. But I had no idea what kind of battle it would be. “The best players should reach it in a few days. And then I’ll be hearing all about it even if I don’t want to. Well, at least we aren’t too far behind.” “I’ve been getting about a day, and now have of the medals. But the fast players probably have at least by now...” “The pro gamers must be excited to be the first to find out the secrets of the Serpent Palace. That’s the way to get the most attention and become famous. So both the veterans and the newcomers will work hard.” “The first, huh... While I can see the appeal, I think that I prefer to go at my own pace. Besides, I don’t think I’ll even be able to finish it unless I get a little stronger... It’s just a feeling. So I’m going to work on my skills and equipment as I make progress. Also, leveling. I will probably max out my nd job soon.” “Sounds like a good idea. It’ll only slow you down if you hurry and end up breaking your equipment again. Also, about the Ghost Guild, I think that I’m going to accept Necoco’s offer.” “Oh? You are?” “Yes. I realized that there’s nothing easier than for people to live by helping each other... In other words, I also have to help others. And since she invited me, she must see something in a player like me. So I think that I’ll do what I can.” Satomi had been hesitant about joining the Ghost Guild due to being intimidated by Necoco’s passion for the game. I had just joined because it seemed interesting. But I suppose Satomi just wanted to enjoy the game and relax, and felt that it might not be for him. “Well, the idea is that we’ll come together if there is any content that is exclusive to parties and guilds. So we can think about it when the time comes.” “Heh...that’s true. Well, see you later.” “Yeah, later.” I opened the map and selected Dapan. My body was enveloped in light and in the next second, I had arrived in the town filled with pandas. ◆ ◆ ◆ From there, I walked down the main road and towards the pin on my map which indicated the location of the Pisces labyrinth. And while I was walking, I noticed something. The pin was actually located inland. All the other labyrinths that seemed to be related to the sea were near the beach. But this one that looked like it could be related to fishing was near the center. But I got the answer to my question soon enough. “I see... So that’s why...” A river. A great river had been altered into a fishing pond...! The large boulders were removed, and there were man-made differences in level and areas separated by nets. And inside, fish were swimming. Players would stand still, tilt their heads and change spots etcetera. As it was still part of a river, the fishing pond was very long. So there would be plenty of space even if there were a lot of players there at once. And so I decided to get a fishing rod and start the trial. Oh, I had to learn the requirement for winning and getting the special reward first. ‘Hey-heey! The fish will be scared if I talk too loud, so this time I will speak at a normal volume-nyon.’ This Charin...just looked like a fisher. There was nothing fantastical about her. A vest with a lot of pockets, waterproof pants, and boots... She even wore a cheap looking cap on her long blonde hair. Still, it wasn’t bad, seeing a girl put on clothes that would usually be seen on guys. ‘In a way, this trial is the most simple-nyon. You will use the fishing rods that I’m going to give to you, and catch some fish here. That’s all-nyon. The pond won’t run out of fish, so don’t worry-nyon. You will receive a medal if you catch a fish that has a rarity level of or more stars. The special reward is for players who catch something with the highest rarity level of stars-nyon.’ That really was simple. On the other hand, this fishing pond was exclusively for the event. So just because you caught a lot of fish, they could not be sold for money or used as materials. In other words, catching anything that was stars or lower was meaningless... ‘Fishing is very simple-nyon. Just raise the rod quickly if the float sinks... That’s it-nyon. You’ll know if you catch something big, because of the way the water surface will splash. But as long as you don’t drop the rod, you should be able to catch it-nyon. In other words, this trial is just about reflexes-nyon.’ ...What!? I had a feeling she had said something frightening... But was it just me? This was a VR game with the most recent technology, and yet it was just like an old fishing game with timed button presses... But the fishing I did at the southern sea was so realistic... ‘Yes, yes. Just like that certain famous relaxing game-nyon. Just one button press once the float sinks! The timing of that moment is all that matters. It could be a killifish or a coelacanth, and the result will be the same-nyon.’ ...Well, this is an interesting trial you directed me to, Satomi. It was a trial that would test how much I had grown. Your reflexes were not as fast when you aged... It was the unavoidable truth. However, I was sure that I had improved since starting the game. And I felt like I was now a part of this world. So perhaps I would show them. My true capabilities now that I have adapted to this game...	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 5, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
魔王軍襲来! からその情報を聞くや、すぐさま現地へと向かった。ティム達には後から来るように伝えてある。とりあえず、俺の口か、話をしておきたいのだ。「ティムは悪くない。俺が無理やり抜けさせた」と言うつもりである。今度、ティムに文句を言いにきたのはガルムって人らしい。この人将を担当しているみたいだ。やっぱりティムが抜け将になっちゃったから文句があるのかな? とにかく俺の役目は後から来るティムが謝りやすいように、ガルムさんの態度を少しでも軟化させておくことだ。よし、愛する妹のため、日頃の接客業で鍛えた弁舌をフルに活用してやる! 俺は意気揚々と走り、ベルガの町を抜けミシンガ山の麓まで辿り着いた。の情報だとこの辺りにいるはずだが......。周囲を見渡す。視界には生い茂った森林や小動物しか入ってこない。人の気配はしない。いないなぁ? の話だからあまり信用できない。暫くあたりを探していると、「クゥ......グクェ......グワゥ......フシュルー!」 ――ん!? 何か獣の声が聞こえてきたぞ! 振り返ると一人の男が巨大な騎獣に乗って現れたのである。その騎獣は緑色の強固な鱗と巨大な翼を持っていた。こ、これって......。「お前が邪神か? 俺は六魔将ガルム、貴様の命もらいうける!」「......」「ん、どこを見ておる? ――ふっ、俺の騎獣がそんなに珍しいか。これなるは魔竜ギャング、貴様には人竜一体の攻撃を味合わせてやる」「ど」 ...... .................. 「ドラゴンだぁああ――――っ!」脱兎のごとく来た道を戻る。え? え? 何? 何? どうしてドラゴンがいるの? 話し合いに来てみれば......なんと、そこにはゲームや小説でお馴染みの西洋ドラゴンがいました。も、文句を言いにくるのにドラゴンを連れてくる? どう考えてもやりすぎでしょ! あんた俺やティムを殺す気か! ど、ど、どうしよう? どうしよう? なんとかしないと! あんなのを連れてこられたら町が消し飛んでしまう! け、警察? いやいやいや、自衛隊からロケットランチャーでも借りないと――じゃなくて、ビ、ビセフさ〜ん、助けてぇええ! 俺はこの町で警備をしている唯一の詰所に駆け込んだ。「ビセフさん! ビセフさん! ビセフさ〜ん!」「ティレアちゃんじゃないか。血相を変えてどうしたんだい?」「と、とんでもないことが起きました。じ、事件です。大事件ですよ!」「事件?」「は、はい。ド、ドラゴンを使って襲ってきたんです。これから町を襲ってくるんですよ!」「ドラゴンだって? ......ぷっ、はっはっははは!」「ビセフさん、笑いごとではないです。早く町の皆を避難させないと!」「ティレアちゃん、落ち着いて。安心していい。この時代にドラゴンを使役できる者なんていないから」「へっ、そうなんですか?」「そうとも。普通の魔獣を使役するのもそうとうな熟練が必要なんだよ。それをドラゴンみたいな神獣を使役しようものなら途方もない魔力が必要になる」「そもそもドラゴンそのものがこの世に存在しない」「え!? ドラゴンってこの世界にいないんですか?」「古の時代にいたそうだが滅んでいる。この時代には小さな翼竜の一種か、ドラゴンの血をひいている竜人がいるぐらいだよ」「え? え? で、でも確かにドラゴンを見て......あれ?」「恐らく幻影魔法の一種だろうね」「幻影魔法?」「そう、幻影魔法を使えば人を惑わすことができる。大方、そいつはティレアちゃんに幻影魔法をかけて犬か猫をドラゴンに見せていたんだよ」「そうだったんですか!」「多分ね。幻影魔法は術者と対象者の実力差がないとかからない。冒険者でもないティレアちゃんみたいな普通の子にはうってつけだったと思うよ」確かに俺の魔法抵抗力はゼロに等しいだろう。幻影魔法なんて使われたら一発でかかってしまう。「むぅぅ、それじゃ私はまんまと騙されたというわけですね?」「ふふ、そうだね。しかし、幻影魔法を使うとはいたずらにしても度がすぎる。ちょっとそいつに注意しておこう。ティレアちゃん、その魔法をかけた人のところまで案内してくれるかい?」「わかりました」俺はビセフさんを先ほどの場所まで案内することにした。ふ〜そういうことか......。さすがはビセフさん、C級の冒険者だっただけある。的確なアドバイスをくれた。俺一人だったらパニクってたよ。でも、ガルムさんも人が悪いよね。文句を言うのにあんなイタズラをしかけてくるなんて。今頃「ドッキリ大成功!」とか思っているのだろう。何しろ俺は見事なリアクションを取ったからなぁ、悔しい! あ〜ちょっと待てよ。今の俺ってテレビでドッキリしかけられて、本気で警察呼びにいったようなものだよね。それは大人げないというか空気を読んでいない行動だ。このままビセフさんを連れていけばガルムさんにとって逆ドッキリにはなるけど、これはシャレにならないだろう。「あの〜ビセフさん、穏便にお願いしますね。たちの悪いいたずらでしたが、一応、ティムの遊び仲間みたいな人で逮捕とかそういうのはやめて欲しいです」「わかっているよ。注意するだけで逮捕はしない。ただね、魔法をこんな風に使うのは問題だよ。同じ魔法を使える者としてマナーを教えないとね」うん、注意くらいなら大丈夫だろう。というかそれぐらいはしてもらわないと騙された溜飲が下がらないよ。そして、ビセフさんを案内すること数刻、ミシンガ山の麓までまた戻ってきた。え〜と、この辺りだったはず。ガルムさん、まだいるかな? 周囲を探すと、「クゥ......グクェ......グワゥ......フシュルー!」獣の声が聞こえてきた。さっき聞いた鳴き声と同じである。これはもしや! 振り返ると......いた! そこには先ほどと同じで、ドラゴンに乗ったガルムさんがこちらを睨んでいた。それにしてもこの圧倒的な巨体、存在感、やっぱりどこからどう見てもドラゴンにしか見えない。これが本当に単なるチワワなのだろうか......。「ビ、ビセフさん、出番ですよ。ビシッと注意してやってください!」隣にいるだろうビセフさんの肩をつつく。キョロキョロ――どこに行きました? 左右を見てみる、いない。では、下を向いてみる......いた! そこには白目をむいて地面に突っ伏し気絶しているえ? 何気絶しているの? あんた元C級の冒険者でしょ。昔、どっかの有名な魔獣を倒したって自慢していたよね? あれ嘘だったの? C級って肩書だけ? それにもしかして幻影魔法にかかっちゃった? 元冒険者が幻影のドラゴンにビビッてんじゃねぇええよ! の冒険話を目を輝かせて聞いてきたが、感動を返してもらいたい。「俺の威圧で気絶したか。脆弱な人間よ」はい、そこののお前、これ見よがしなセリフを言ってんじゃない。覇気でも使ったって言いたいのか? の代わりにガルムと対峙する。「邪神、さっきは逃げ足だけは速かったな。貴様がゾルグ様と匹敵する? 総督も御眼鏡がくもったようだ。もう興味は失せた。魔竜ギャング、食い殺せ!」ガルムの指令のもとドラゴンが俺に襲いかかってきた。大きな口を開け、鋭い牙を向けてくる。ギザギザの牙が痛そうだ。人間の腕なんてあっというまに食いちぎられそうである。うへぇ! ネタはわかっているが怖い! そして、そのドラゴンが俺に喰らいつく。がぶりとその尖った牙が俺の肩に突き刺さった。ぐはっ、か、噛まれた。し、死んだぁああ! ――って痛くない!? ふっ、やはり幻影魔法か。もう見た目に騙されないぞ。視覚的にはドラゴンが俺に噛みついたり、尻尾をぶつけたり、突進してきたりしている。だが、痛みの感覚は「チワワ」みたいな小動物にじゃれつかれている感じだ。ふふ、なんか変なの。視覚的にはリアルジュラシックパークみたいなのに、ノーダメージなのだ。それも当然、現実にはチワワが俺にじゃれついてきているだけなのだから。それならば......。「ほら、ほら、ポチ。いい子、いい子♪」俺は襲ってくるドラゴンを小動物と思ってあやそうとする。う~ん、だめだ。やはりペットを飼った経験がない俺にはちょっと難しい。「な、なんだと!? ギャングの攻撃が効かないとは......」「そうだね。なかなか懐かないよ」「くっ、戯言を。ならば奥義、 ――ん、何? そして......。どひぇええ! が分身するかのごと向から大口を開けて突進してくるではないか! 某犬アニメの抜刀牙ですかい! さすがにチワワとはいえこれは怖い。俺はとっさに避ける。「バカめ、俺の奥義からは逃れられぬ! 追撃しろ、ギャング!」おぉ、避けたと思ったら不規則に軌道を変えて俺を追いかけてくるよ。追尾式なのね。追尾してきた俺は避けきれず、噛まれてしまった。「そ、そんな馬鹿な......俺の奥義を喰らって無傷だと......」いやいや無傷じゃない。手を怪我したよ。に手を噛まれたらしい。手から血が出ている。幻影魔法のせいですさまじい映像であったが、要するに俺はガルムから犬をけしかけられて噛まれたということだ。あ〜くそ、料理人の手を噛みやがって! そんなに大した傷ではないが、料理人として手に怪我を負わされるとさすがに頭にくる。もう怒った、怒ったぞ。こちらが悪いと思って下手に出ていたらつけあがりやがって! 。飼い主の命令だからといって、やたらと人を襲う癖がつくのは問題だ。子犬だからといって甘やかさないぞ。「ポチ、人を噛んじゃだめでしょ! このお座りぃいい!」は苦悶の声を上げて倒れ込んだ。天が落ちてきたような轟音が辺りに鳴り響く。すごい大振動だ。これは聴覚までもが幻影魔法にかかっているね。の押さえ込みに成功した。だが、どうしたらしつけられるのだろう......そうか! 確か犬には順位制というものがあって、その順位の上にあたる人の命令しか聞かないって話を聞いたことがある。要するに犬をけしかけた飼い主より上だと示さないといけないわけだ。うむ。人様のペットだが、ペットをけしかけるような悪い飼い主ならいいよね。俺は「ポチ、いい加減にしなさい。本気で怒るわよ!」の首の骨が折れそうな気配だ。「キューン! キューン!」俺の脅しが効いたのか。あるいは首の骨を折られるとでも思ったのかはは、やりすぎたかな? ちょっとした動物虐待をしてしまった、反省。「あ、ありえぬ。俺の騎獣が......伝説の魔竜が......」はい、はい、伝説の魔竜ね。なかなか可愛い子犬だったよ。とりあえずおしおき、おしおき、どうしようか......そうだ! 子犬とはいえ、けしかけられると怪我をする。それをガルムはわかっていない。だから平気でああいういたずらをするのだ。よし、ガルムにも同じ目に遭ってもらおう。やっぱり自分が痛い目に遭わないと反省しないもんね。「ポチ、命令よ。飼い主とじゃれてきなさい」俺が命令するやポチは勢いよく飼い主にじゃれついていく。ポチは大口を開けてガルムに噛みついたり、爪でガリガリと引っ掻いたりしている。「よ、よせ。ギャング、お、俺だ、ガルムだ。ま、待――ぐぇ!」う〜幻影魔法のせいでじゃれついているというより、ガルムがドラゴンに襲われているように見えてしまう。これは視覚的にきつい。俺が目の前の光景に苦悩していると、「お姉様!」ティムの声が聞こえてきた。そうだ、忘れてた。後からティム達も来るんだった。でも、今はティムの謝罪とかそういう状況ではなくなっている。「あ、ティム。今ね、ちょっと取り込んでて――って、げぇ! そ、それ、もしかしてガルガンなの?」「そうです、お姉様」振り向くと、ガルムのペットと種類は違うが、また見事なドラゴンをティムが連れてきているではないか。やはり俺は犬か猫をドラゴンに見せる幻影魔法にかかっているみたいだ。幻影魔法恐るべし! あぁ、なんてこと......ティムが飼っているガルガンまでドラゴンに見えちゃっているよ。これちょっとシュールすぎ。この魔法ちゃんと解けるよね? いつまでもかかっていると身がもたんぞ。「お姉様、面白い状況になっていますね」「うん――色々あってガルムに自分のペットとじゃれてもらっているんだ。それにしてもティム、ガルガンを連れてきたのね」「はい。ガルムは魔竜使い、我の騎獣も必要になるのではと思いまして」うん? そっか! ガルムはなんだかんだでペット好き。チワワを連れているくらいだからな。ティムもペットを連れて親睦をはかろうと思ったのか。ペット交流すると飼い主同士仲良くなるというからね。「ティム、えらいぞ。なかなか考えているじゃない」「お褒めにあずかり光栄です。それではガルガンも奴と遊ばせて宜しいですか?」う〜ん、大丈夫だろうか? ただでさえガルムは自分のペットを持て余している感じだが......。いや、杞憂だな。ガルムはペット好きだし、子犬が二匹になってもうまくあしらえるよね。「うん、いいよ」「お許しありがとうございます。行け、ガルガン。奴の首に喰らいつけ!」おいおい、ティム。子犬とはいえそんな命令したらガルムの奴死んじゃうよ。まぁ、ティムは中二病だ。「遊んできなさい」がそんなセリフになるのは仕方がない。それにしてもすごい光景だ。まるでガルムの奴が二匹のドラゴンにいたぶられているような感じなのである。「ウォーン、ガッ、ガガッ!」「ギャン、ギャガァアアン!」「はぁ、はぁ、む!? ガルガンまでもが。く、くそ、はぁ、はぁ、ぎゃぁああ!」 ..................。周囲に響く轟音。もくもくと出てくる土煙。そして、時折響くガルムの悲鳴。 ――なんという惨劇! こ、これ、本当にドラゴンじゃないの? なんかあまりにリアルな光景に幻影とは信じがたくなってきたよ。ちょっと誰かに確認してみよう。「テ、ティ〜ム。あ、あれってどういう風に見える?」ティムにガルムが二匹のドラゴンにいいようにいたぶられている光景を指差す。「ふ、ふ、お姉様。ガルガンめ、よっぽど奴が気にいったみたいです。あんなに楽しそうに遊んで」む、ティムがそう言うならやっぱりそうなんだ。周囲のティム親衛隊の皆さんも、にやにやしているだけだしね。やはり、イメージとしては二匹のチワワがじゃれついているんだな。俺の五感だけがおかしいのだろう。きっと実際の光景は、『ちょっとやめろ。くすぐったい、パトラッシュ!』『こら、いたずらがすぎるぞ。ラッシー』とか言っているんだな。しかし、幻影魔法にかかっている俺からするとこれはあまり見たくない光景だ。だって本当に二匹のドラゴンにガルムがいたぶられているみたいなんだもの。と、とりあえず、今日は早めに帰ろう。帰って寝れば朝には幻影魔法も解けているよね。「それじゃあ、私は帰るから。ティム、後は任せるね」「承知しました。後始末はお任せください」うんうん動物好きに芯から悪い人はいない。どうやら今回も仲直りできそうね。	An invasion by the Demon King Army! When I got the report from Pervert (Nielsen), I immediately headed to the site. I sent Timu and the others a message to come later. For now, I want to tell them this myself: “Timu isn’t at fault. I’m the one who forced her to leave.” This time, it seems the one that’s come to complain to Timu is called Garm. He’s apparently also one of the people in the Six Demon Generals. I guess it might really be to complain about Timu turning them into the Five Demon Generals. Anyway, my duty is to soften Garm’s attitude to make it easier for Timu to apologize when she comes later. Alright, for my beloved sister, it’s time to make full use of my skills in the hospitalities industry! I ran happily out of Beruga Town, and past the bottom of Mt. Mishinga. Umm~ According to Pervert (Nielsen), it should be around here, but... I looked around. There was nothing in sight but thick forest and small animals. There wasn’t any sign of anybody else. They aren’t here, are they? It’s Pervert (Nielsen), so I shouldn’t trust the information too much. After I searching around for a while, “Guu... Gkue... Gwrr... Fshrrr!” ―Mn!? I can hear some kind of beast! When I turned around, a man riding a huge beast appeared. The beast had tough green scales and giant wings. T-, This is... “Are you the Evil God? I’m one of the Six Demon Generals, Garm; I’ll be taking your life!” “...” “Mn, where are you looking? ―Hmph, is my mount that unusual? This is the demonic dragon Gyangu; I’ll have you taste an attack from a man who’s become one with his dragon.” “It-” ...... .................. “IT’S A DRAGONNNNNNNNNNNN!” I bolted back along the path that I came from. Eh? Eh? What? Eh? Why is there a dragon there? When I went to have a conversation with them... of all things, there was the thing that appeared in games or novels; a western dragon. E-, Even though he came to complain, he brought a dragon along? No matter how you think about it, isn’t that overdoing things! Did you plan on killing Timu! W-, W-, What do I do? What should I do? I have to do something! If he brings that along, the town’ll get blown to pieces! T-, The guard? Nonono, unless they borrow a rocket launcher from the Self-Defense Forces― Wai-, B-, Bizeeef, SAVE MEEEEEEE! I rushed into the only guard station in town. “Bizef! Bizef! Bizeeeef!” “Why if it isn’t Tilea. You don’t look too good. What’s wrong?” “S-, Something outrageous has happened. I-, it’s a disaster. It’s a disaster!” “Disaster?” “Y-, Yes. S-, Somebody’s using a dragon to attack. They’re going to attack the town!” “A dragon? ...Pfft, HAHAHAHAHA!” “Bizef, this isn’t a laughing matter. You have to hurry and tell everybody to evacuate!” “Tilea, calm down. Relax. There isn’t anybody in the modern age that can use a dragon.” “Eh? Really?” “Really. Even using a normal magic beast requires quite a lot of training. So using a divine beast like a dragon would need an outrageous amount of mana.” “To begin with, there aren’t any dragons in the world anymore.” “Eh!? There aren’t any dragons in the world?” “They apparently used to exist in ancient times, but they went extinct. In this age there are only small winged-drakes, or the dragonoids who inherited the blood of dragons.” “Eh? Eh? B-, But I really did see a dragon... Eh?” “It was probably a type of illusion magic.” “Illusion magic?” “Yeah, you can use illusion magic to confuse people. It’s likely that they used illusion magic on you to make you see a dog or cat as a dragon.” “Really!?” “Probably. When it comes to illusion magic, if there isn’t a gap in ability between the caster and the target, it won’t work. You aren’t even an adventurer; I think a normal girl like you would be the ideal target.” Well certainly my magic resistance is probably zero. If they used illusion magic, it’d work on me in one go. “Muuu, then I was completely fooled wasn’t I.” “Huhu, seems so. But using illusion magic for a prank really is going too far. I’ll give them a warning. Tilea, could you lead me to the person who cast it on you?” I ended up leading Bizef to the place from earlier. Phew~ So that’s how it was... As expected of Bizer. He was a C-rank adventurer wasn’t he. It was precise advice. If it was just me, I would’ve been panicking. But still, Garm is nasty, isn’t he? Even though he just came to voice his complaints, he ended up pulling a prank like that. He’s probably thinking “PUNKED!” right about now. After all, I gave such a splendid reaction, didn’t I? This is so frustrating! Ah~ Hang on. The situation I’m in is like somebody being pranked on those prank shows, and then actually going and calling the police, huh. It’s not really being an adult about it, or rather, it’s not being able to read the atmosphere. If I bring Bizef there, I might be able to shock Garm back in return, but it wouldn’t be a joke. “Umm~ Bizef, please don’t take this too seriously, okay? It was a nasty prank, but he is one of Timu’s playmates, so please don’t arrest him or anything.” “I know. I’m just going to give him a warning. I’m not going to arrest him. But you know, using magic in this way is a problem. As somebody else who can use magic, I need to teach him manners, you know?” “I understand.” Mn, just a warning should be fine. Or rather, if he doesn’t do at least that much, I won’t be able to feel better about being tricked. And so, after a few hours of guiding Bizef, I finally returned to the base of Mt. Mishinga. Um~mm, it should be around here. Garm, are you still here? As I was looking around, “Kuu... Gkue... Gwau... Fshrrr!” I heard the sound of a beast. It was the same as the growl from earlier. Could it be! I turned around and... there it was! Standing behind me was Garm riding on his dragon again, glaring my way. But still, that overwhelming size and presence – I thought this before as well, but it really does seem like a dragon no matter how you look at it. Is this really just a simple chihuahua...? “B-, Bizef, it’s your turn. Please give him a good warning!” I moved my hand to poke Bizef in the shoulder. I turned my head here and there― where did he go? I looked left and right, but he wasn’t there. Then, let’s try looking down next... There he was! There lay a loser (Bizef), eyes rolled back, sprawled across the ground. Eh? Why are you unconscious? Aren’t you a C-rank adventurer? In the past, didn’t you brag about beating some famous monster? Was that a lie? Was your C-rank just for show? Or could it be that you had illusion magic cast on you? IF YOU’RE A FORMER ADVENTURER THEN DON’T GET SCARED FROM JUST AN ILLUSIONNN! Huuu, huuu... I never imagined that he was such a loser. All this time I’ve been listening to this losers’ (Bizef’s) adventurer stories with glittering eyes, but now I want him to give me back my excitement. “Unconscious from my pressure, huh, you frail human.” Okay. Chuunibyou over there, don’t spout off pretentious lines. Are you trying to say you used your Hakior something? Honestly, I can’t rely on this loser (Bizef) anymore. I need to warn him myself. In place of Loser (Bizef), I confronted Garm. “Evil God. Earlier you showed nothing but the speed of your legs. Someone like you is comparable to Master Zorg? It seems that the Viceroy’s eyes have been clouded too. I’ve lost interest. Demonic Dragon Gyangu, devour her!” At Garm’s instruction, the dragon came and attacked me. It opened its large mouth, and pointed its sharp fangs at me. The jagged teeth looked painful. They looked like they could easily bite off something as frail as a human’s arm. Uheh! Even if I know the trick behind it, it’s still scary! And then that dragon bit into me. With a bite, those sharp teeth stabbed into my shoulder. Kuah! I-, It bit me. I-, I’M DEADDD! ―Wai-, it doesn’t hurt!? Huu, so it really is illusion magic? I won’t be deceived by looks anymore. Visually, it seems like a dragon is biting into me, swinging its tail at me, and charging at me. But my pain receptors are telling me that a “chihuahua” or some other small animal is frolicking with me. Huhu, how strange. Even though my eyes are telling me it’s like a real Jurassic Park, there’s no damage. And well, of course, since in reality it’s just a playful chihuahua. In that case... “Hey, hey, doggie. Good boy, good boy ♪” I decided to think of the attacking dragon as a small animal. I decided to give patting the chihuahua (dragon)’s head and stomach a try. But the chihuahua (dragon) just kept biting and butting into me, and wouldn’t really come to like me. Hmm~ It’s no good. For somebody who’s never had pets before like me, the hurdle is a bit high. “W-, What!? For Gyangu’s attacks to be ineffective...” “Yeah. I’m having trouble getting him to like me.” “Ku-! Speaking nonsense. In that case, take my Secret Technique, Jet Star!” ―Mn, what? And then... EEEEEEK! Of all things, the chihuahua (dragon) charged at me with its mouth wide open from three different directions, like it had suddenly spawned clones. Is this that dog anime’s Battōgaor something! Although it was a chihuahua, as you’d expect it was scary. I immediately backpedaled. “Idiot! You won’t escape from my Secret Technique! After her, Gyangu!” Oohh, just as I thought I had escaped, it unnaturally changed directions and came after me. A homing-type, huh. The pursuing chihuahua (dragon)’s big mouth came down on my arm. I was bitten defencelessly. “I-, Impossible... Taking on my Secret Technique uninjured...” Nono, I’m not uninjured. My hand is hurt, you know. Blood is dripping from it. Apparently my hand was bitten by the chihuahua (dragon). My hand is bleeding. Because of the illusion magic, it was really intense, but basically Garm sicced his dog on me. Ahhh, s̲h̲i̲t̲. Injuring a cook’s hand like this! It isn’t that serious an injury, but as you’d expect, injuring a chef’s hand would make them angry. I’m mad now. I’m mad. F̲u̲c̲k̲i̲n̲g doing something like this because I felt bad and acted modestly! First of all is this chihuahua (dragon). Although it was its owner’s orders, it’s a problem that it has a habit of casually attacking people. I’m not going to be soft on it just because it’s a puppy. “Doggie, you can’t bite people you know! SIT!” I grabbed the chihuahua (dragon) by the neck, and forced it to the floor. The chihuahua (dragon) let out a cry of anguish, and collapsed. A roar like the sky collapsing resounded through the area. What an incredible vibration. So the illusion magic affected my hearing too. Anyway, I succeeded in holding down the chihuahua (dragon). But the chihuahua (dragon) struggled in a rage to escape my hands. It isn’t really doing as it’s told. How should I train it... I know! If I remember correctly, I’ve heard that dogs have a hierarchical system, and won’t listen to anybody except those above it in the hierarchy. In other words, I need to show that I’m stronger than the owner that sicced it on me. Hmm. It’s somebody else’s pet, but he’s a bad owner that set his pets on other people, so it’s fine, right? I glared at the chihuahua (dragon). And then, threatening the chihuahua (dragon), I suddenly put power into the arm that was grabbing it. “Doggie, cut it out already. I’ll seriously get angry, you know!” I tightly applied pressure to the chihuahua (dragon)’s creaking neck. The sounds made it seem like the bones in its neck were about to break. “Kyuuu! Kyuuu!” Whether it was because my threats worked, or whether it was because it thought its neck was going to break, the chihuahua (dragon) lay belly up and showed its submission to me. Haha, did I go too far? I accidentally committed a little animal abuse. I’m reflecting on it. “It-, It can’t be. My mount... my legendary demonic dragon...” Yes, yes. A legendary demonic dragon, huh? It was a pretty cute puppy. Anyway, the dragon seems to think that I’m above its owner. I’d better give Garm his punishment now. Punishment, punishment... What should I do...? I know! Although it’s a puppy, if you sic it on people, they’ll get injured. Garm doesn’t understand this. That’s why he so casually played a prank like that. Alright, I’ll have Garm taste the same thing. People really don’t reflect unless they feel some pain themselves. “Doggie, this is an order. Play with your owner.” At my command, Doggie went and vigorously played with its owner. Opening its big mouth and biting Garm, or using its claws to scratch him up. “S-, Stop it. Gyangu, i-, it’s me, Garm. W-, Wai― GUEH-!” Uu~ Thanks to the illusion magic, it looks more like a dragon attacking Garm, rather than a puppy frolicking with him. This is really terrible to look at. While I was suffering from the scene before me, “Elder sister!” I heard Timu calling for me. Oh yeah, I forgot. Timu and the others were coming later, weren’t they. But this isn’t really a situation where Timu should apologize anymore. “Ah-, Timu. I’m a little busy at the moment and― wha-, GEH! C-, Could it be that that’s Gargan?” “Yes, elder sister.” When I turned around, I found that to my surprise, although it was a different species than Garm’s pet, Timu had brought yet another splendid dragon. It seems that I really did get hexed by an illusion magic that makes me see cats and dogs as dragons. Illusion magic, how fearsome! Aahh, what a disaster... Even Timu’s Gargan looks like a dragon now. This really is a bit too surreal. This magic isn’t going to be permanent, right? I don’t think I’ll be able to handle the stress if things stay like this forever. “Elder sister, things have taken an amusing turn, haven’t they.” “Mn― a bunch of stuff happened, so I had Garm’s pet frolic with him. But still, I see that you’ve brought Gargan, Timu.” “Yes. Garm is a demonic dragon user, so I thought that my own mount would be necessary.” Mn? I see! It seems that Garm is quite the pet lover. He brought his chihuahua along, after all. Did Timu think to help their friendship by bringing her own pet? If pets get along, then their owners would get closer too, after all. “Well done, Timu. You really gave this some thought, didn’t you.” “I am honored to receive your praise. Well then, would it be all right if I had Gargan play as well?” Hmmmm, would it? I’m getting the feeling that just his own pet is too much for him but... No, I’m sure it’s a pointless worry. Garm loves pets after all, so I’m sure even if it’s two puppies now, he’ll be able to handle them. “Mn, that’s fine.” “Thank you for your permission. Go, Gargan. Bite off his head!” Oi, oi, Timu. Even if it’s only a puppy, if you give it an order like that, Garm’s going to die, you know. But well, Timu is a chuunibyou. It can’t be helped that “go play” ends up as a line like that. But still, what an incredible sight. It’s almost like Garm is being tormented by two dragons. “UOOOOH, GAH, GAGAH!” “GYAN, GYAGAAAAAAAN!” “Haa, haa, mu!? Even Gargan is here. S-, S̲h̲i̲t̲, haa, haa, GYAAAAHHH!” .................. A roar rang through our surroundings. A cloud of dust flew into the air. And amongst it all, Garm’s occasional screams. ―what a tragedy! A-, Are they really dragons? This scene has kind of become so realistic that I’m finding it hard to believe that it’s just an illusion anymore. I’d better ask somebody else. “T-, Ti~mu. H-, How does that look to you?” I pointed my finger at the scene of the two dragons tormenting him without restraint. “Huhu, elder sister. Damned Gargan. It seems he’s really taken a liking to him. He’s playing so happily after all.” Mu, if Timu says so, then it must be true. The members of Timu’s praetorian guard that were standing around were grinning at the scene, after all. So they really were just seeing two chihuahuas frolicking about. It’s probably just my senses that are weird. I’m sure that in reality, the scene is like, 『Hey, cut it out. It tickles, Patrasche!』『Hey, you’re being too cheeky, Lassie.』 or something like that. But because I had illusion magic cast on me, I ended up seeing something I really didn’t want to. I mean, it really looks like Garm being tormented by two dragons after all. A-, Anyway, I think I’ll go home early today. I’ll go home, and after having a good sleep, the illusion magic will wear off too, right? “Anyway, I’ll be going home, okay? Timu, I’ll leave the rest to you.” “Understood. Please leave the rest to me.” Yep, yep. There’s no animal lover who’s bad at heart. It seems that things will work out amicably as well, this time.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 12, "inserted_lines_src": 45, "inserted_lines_trg": 2 }
ただその前に自分の体を今どんな風にしているか確認していただきたいと思います体を小さく縮こめている人はどれくらいいますか? 背中を丸める脚を組む足首を絡めるあるいは腕をしがみつくようにするそれから逆に体を大きく広げることもありますやっている人いますね今自分がどんな風にしているかに注意を払ってください後でその話をしますけどそれを少し変えるだけで人生を大きく変えられる可能性があるんです私たちはボディランゲージに目を引かれます特に他の人のボディランゲージに興味を引かれます私たちは何かこういうぎこちないやり取りとか笑顔とか蔑んだ視線に関心を向けますあるいはぎこちないウインクだとか握手なんかもそうです十番地に着きましたラッキーな警官がアメリカ大統領と握手を交わしますそれに英国首相とも・・・しません握手するかしないかというだけのことが何週間も話題にされ BBCやニューヨーク・タイムズまで取り上げますですからボディランゲージ — 私たち社会科学者は「非言語行動」と呼んでいますがそれもまた一種の言葉コミュニケーションなんですコミュニケーションは人と人との交流です相手のボディランゲージは自分に何を伝えているのか? 自分のボディランゲージは相手に何を伝えているのか? ボディランゲージをそのように見るのは妥当だと信ずべき理由がたくさんありますボディランゲージの効果やそれが人の判断にもたらす影響を社会科学者は多くの時間をかけて研究してきました人はボディランゲージから大まかな判断や推測をしますそしてその判断が人生において大きな意味を持つ場面 — 誰を採用し誰を昇進させ誰をデートに誘うかといったときに大きく影響するんですたとえばタフツ大学のナリニ・アンバディは医者と患者の間の実際のやり取りを撮した 30秒の無音のビデオを見ただけで医者が訴えられることになるかどうかをその医者の感じ良さから予想できることを示しました医者の能力自体はあまり関係がなくその人が好きかどうか患者との接し方がどうかの方が大きいんですもっと劇的な例ではプリンストンのアレックス・トドロフは候補者の顔を1秒見ての判断によって議員選や州知事選の結果を 70%の精度で予測できることを示しましたデジタルな世界でさえ顔文字をうまく使うことでネット上での話を有利に進められますでもまずい使い方をすると酷い結果にもなります私たちが他の人をどう判断し他の人が私たちをどう判断するかに非言語的な部分が影響するのは分かりますが私たちが忘れがちなのは自分の非言語行動に影響されるのは他人だけでなく自分もだということです私たちの考えや感情や生理は自分の非言語行動の影響を受けるのですどういった非言語行動を問題にしているのかですが私は社会心理学者で偏見の研究をしていて競争意識の強いビジネススクールで教えていますそのため人の力関係に興味を持つようになりました特に非言語的な力や支配の表現に関心があります力や支配の非言語表現がどんなものかというとこういうものです動物の世界では体を広げます自分を大きく見せ体を伸ばし広い空間を占めようとし要は広げるというのが基本ですこれは霊長類だけでなく動物の世界に広く共通しています人間もまた同じことをしますこれは力を持った人が絶えずしているという面もあれば力を感じる瞬間にするという面もありますこれの特に興味深い点はこの力の表現がいかに古くからあって普遍的かということですこの誇らしさの表現に関してはジェシカ・トレーシーによる研究があります運動競技で勝ったときには目の見える人も生まれつき盲目の人も同じようにこのポーズをするのが分かりましたゴールラインを切って勝利したとき他の人がそうするのを見たことがあるかに関係なくこんな風にするんです腕をVの字に突き上げあごをやや前に突き出します一方で無力だと感じる時はどうでしょう? ちょうど逆のことをします縮こまり体を丸め小さくなります他の人と接触すまいとしますこの場合も人と動物は同じようにしますこの写真は強い力と弱い力が一緒になった場合です力に関して人は相手の非言語行動を補完しようとしますすごく力を持った人が一緒にいるとき私たちは体を小さくします同じようにではなく逆のことをするんです教室の中でこういう行動を観察していて気付くことがあります MBAの学生の間では多岐にわたる非言語的な力の表現が見られます群れのボスを絵に描いたような人たちがいて授業の始まるずっと前に教室に来てど真ん中に陣取りますその場を支配しようとでも言うかのようですそして席に座ると体を大きく広げます手を挙げる時もこんな感じです教室に入ってくるとき萎縮しているように見える人もいます顔にも体にも表れています席に座り体を小さくします手を挙げるときもこんな感じですこれについて気付くことが 2つあります 1つは驚くことでもありませんが性別に関係があるようだということです女性は男性よりもこんな姿勢を取りがちです女性は概して男性より力がないと感じているので驚くことでもないでしょうでももう1つ気付くのはどれほど積極的に授業に参加しているかにもある程度関係しているということですこれはMBAの教室では特に重要なことで成績の半分は授業中の発言によって評価されるからですビジネススクールは男女間の成績のギャップという問題を抱えています元々同じくらいの資質があっても男女で成績に差が付いてしまうんですがこれはある部分授業への参加姿勢によるものですだから私は考えるようになりました授業に積極的に参加するこんな感じの学生がいますがそれを形だけでも真似したならもっと積極的に参加できるようになるのだろうか? バークレー校にいる共同研究者のデーナ・カーニーと私はフリをしているうちにできるようになるものなのか知りたいと思いましたしばらくの間見かけを繕っていたら実際に力強い行動をするようになるのだろうか? 他の人が自分をどう思いどう感じるかは非言語行動による部分が大きいというのは分かっていて沢山の証拠があります私たちの疑問は自分で自分のことをどう思いどう感じるかも非言語行動に大きく依存するのかということですそう思われる証拠がいくつかありますたとえば私たちは楽しいときに笑いますでも割り箸を口にこんな風に挟んで無理に笑顔を作っても楽しい気持ちになります両方向なんです力についても同じで力強く感じる時こんな風に大きく振る舞いがちですがでも力に溢れたフリをするだけでも力強くなったように感じるんですそれで2番目の疑問は心が体に変化を及ぼすのは分かりますが体もまた心に変化を及ぼすのかということですこの力強さの文脈において心と言うとき何を指しているのかというと思考や感覚それに思考や感覚を生み出すある種の生理的なもの私の場合は特にホルモンに注目しています力溢れる心と無力な心というのはどんな風のものでしょう? 力溢れる人は当然のこととしてより断定的で自信を持ち楽天的です運任せのゲームにおいてさえ勝てると感じていますそれにまた抽象的に考える傾向がありますよりリスクを取ります力溢れる人と無力な人には多くの違いがあります生理的にもある重要な2つのホルモンに違いが見られます支配性のホルモンであるテストステロンとストレスのホルモンであるコルチゾールです霊長類の群れの中で力を持つボスはテストステロンが多くコルチゾールが少ないですが力強く有能なリーダーもまたテストステロンが多くコルチゾールが少ないのですこれは何を意味するのでしょう? 力について考えるときみんなテストステロンに目を向けます何しろ支配性を司るものですからしかし力というのはストレスへの反応にも現れます支配的な力を持つテストステロン溢れるリーダーがストレスに過敏なことを期待するでしょうか? 違うでしょう力強く断定的支配的でありストレスに動じないどっしりとした人を期待するはずです霊長類の群れにおいてある個体が突然ボスの役割を引き継ぐことになったとき数日内にその個体のテストステロンの値は大きく上昇しコルチゾールの値は大きく下がりますだから少なくとも表面的なレベルで体が心を形作りうるのと同様に役割の変化も心を形作りうるという証拠があるわけですでは役割の変化があると何が起きるのか? そういうことを些細な形でやったとき何が起きるのか? 2分間この格好で立っていれば力強く感じられるようになるのか? それでやってみました研究室に人を集めてちょっとした実験をしたんですみんなにそれぞれ力強いポーズか無力なポーズを 2分間してもらいましたポーズを5種類ずつ見ていただきましょうこれが1つさらに2つメディアに「ワンダーウーマンのポーズ」と紹介されましたさらにもう2つ立ってやるのもあれば座ってやるのもありますこちらは無力なポーズです縮こまって体を小さくしますこれは特に力の弱いポーズです首に触るのは身を守ろうとしているのです実験の方法ですがみんな集まったら小瓶に唾液を取ってもらい 2分間これかこれをやってくださいと言います彼らにポーズの写真は見せません力の概念を伝えたくないからです力を感じてほしいのですそれで2分間これをやってもらいそれからいろいろな場面で「どれほど力強く感じるか」を聞きますギャンブルする機会を与えそれからまた唾液のサンプルを取りますそれで終了そういう実験です分かったのはリスク耐性— 今の場合ギャンブルですが力強いポーズをした人は 86%が賭に出ます力の弱いポーズでは 60%の人しかやらず大きな違いが出ますテストステロンについては実験前の値を基準として力強いポーズの人たちは 20%増加し力の弱いポーズの人は 10%減少しましたここでも2分間でこんな違いが出たのですコルチゾールの方は力強いポーズの人で 25%の減少力の弱いポーズでは 15%増加しました 2分間のポーズがホルモンの変化をもたらし脳の状態を変え断定的で自信を持ち落ち着いた状態やストレスに弱い落ち込んだような状態になったのですそういう感覚はみんな経験したことがありますよね? そういうわけで非言語行動は他人がどう見るかだけでなく自分で自分のことをどう思いどう感じるかも決めるのですそして体は心に影響を及ぼしますそこで次の疑問は力のポーズを数分間することが本当に人生を意味ある形で変えるのかですやったのはあくまで実験室の中でのわずか数分のタスクでしたがこれは現実にどう応用できるのでしょう? そこがみんな関心のあるところですからそれで私たちは考えてこれが使える状況は自分が値踏みされる状況社会的な脅威を感じる状況だろうと思いましたたとえば友達からの評価ランチの席でのティーンのようなある人にとってそれは教育委員会でのスピーチや売り込みをする時かもしれないしこのような講演かあるいは就職面接かもしれません多くの人が体験していて身近に感じるものとして面接を私たちは選びました私たちがこの研究結果を公表すると様々なメディアに取り上げられ「では就職面接ではこうすべきなんですよね?」と言われました私たちは驚いて違いますそういう意味じゃありませんと訂正しました面接の場ではどうかこんなことしないでください思い出してほしいのはこれは他の人へのメッセージというよりは自分へのメッセージだということです就職面接に臨む前はどんな風にしているでしょう? こんな風ですよね? 座って携帯をいじり誰かを押しのけようなんてしません手帳を見て背を丸め体を小さくしますでも本当はこんな風にしたほうがいいんですトイレにでも行って 2分間やるんですこれを実験しようと思い研究室に人を集め力強いあるいは力のないポーズをした後にストレスの強い面接を受けてもらいました 5分間の面接をし録画して後で評価をします面接官は非言語的フィードバックを与えないよう訓練されていますだからこんな感じですこんな人に面接されるのを想像してください 5分間まったく無反応ですよ詰問でもされた方がまだマシですみんなこれを嫌いますマリアンヌ・ラフランスが言うところの「社会的流砂の中に立つ」状態ですコルチゾールが急増しますそういう面接を受けるときに何が起きるのかを知りたかったのですそれからその録画テープを 4人の人に見てもらいました彼らは仮説のことも実験の条件も知りません誰がどのポーズをしたかも知りませんそして録画テープを見た後に「この人を採用したい」と彼らが言ったのはみんな力のポーズを取った人でした「あっちは採用したくない全体としてこっちの人を高く評価する」と何がそうさせているのか? 話す内容ではありませんその人が話す態度が重要なんです私たちは能力を示す条件を評価していると思っています「話はどれだけ筋道立っているか」「内容は良いか」「資質はあるか」でもそういったものに効力はなく態度こそ影響を与えるものなんです基本的に面接では本当の自分が表れます考えを述べるにしても重要なのはその人を表すものとしてであって言ったこと自体ではないのですつまり態度が効果を生み出し効果を伝えるものだということです体が心に影響を及ぼし心が行動に影響を及ぼし行動が結果に影響を及ぼすという話をするとみんな「なんかフリをしているみたいだ」と言いますだから私は「できるまでフリをしなさい」と言うんですがそんな風にしてまでやりたいとは思わないペテンみたいだニセ者みたいに感じたくはないそんな風にしても「自分はここにいるべき人間じゃない」と感じるだけだとこれには個人的にすごく共感します自分がニセ者で「ここにいるべき人間じゃない」と感じるのがどういうものか私自身体験があるからです私は19歳の時にひどい自動車事故に遭いました車から放り出され地面を何度も転がり頭部外傷リハビリ病棟で目覚めました大学も休学し IQが標準偏差2個分も下がったのを知ってショックを受けました自分のIQを知っていたのは優れた頭脳を見出されこの子は天才だと言われていたからです復学しようとずっと努力していましたがみんなに言われました「卒業は無理だよ他にできることがきっとあるよ大学に行ってもうまくいきっこない」すごく苦しみました自分の核となるアイデンティティを奪われるということ私の場合頭がいいということでしたがそれを奪われることほど無力に感じるものはありません私はまったく無力に感じました努力しては幸運を掴みさらに努力するというのを繰り返しようやく大学を卒業できました他の子たちより 4年長くかかりましたそして私の擁護者であり指導教員であるスーザン・フィスクに受け入れられプリンストンに辿り着きましたが「自分はここにいるべき人間じゃない」と感じていましたニセ者ですプリンストンでは最初の年に 20人を前に 20分のスピーチをするというのがあるんですがそこで正体を晒すことになるのを恐れ前の晩にスーザンに電話をして「辞めます」と伝えましたすると彼女は言いました「あなたは辞めない私はあなたに賭けたんだからいてもらうあなたはここにいてやるべきことをやるのできてるフリをしなさいやるように言われた講演をすべてこなしひたすらやり続け怖かろうが脚がすくもうが体外離脱を体験しようがこう思えるようになるまで続けるのよ “ああやれている! 本物になったんだ! ちゃんとやっている”」たからそうしました大学院に5年いて最初ノースウェスタンに行きそれからハーバードに行きましたハーバードにいく頃にはあまり考えなくなっていましたがそれまでずっと「自分はここにいるべき人間じゃない」と感じていたんですハーバードでの最初の年の終わりのことですがそれまで授業中に一言も発言しなかった学生がいたので私は「ねえ授業にちゃんと参加しないと落第するよ」と言ってやったら後でその子が部屋にやってきてその子のことはそんなに知らなかったんですがすっかり打ちひしがれた様子でやってくると言ったんです「私ここにいるべき人間じゃないんです」この瞬間です 2つのことに気付きました 1つはいつの間にかそんな風に感じなくなっていたことでも彼女はそう感じていてそれがどんなものか私は誰よりも知っていましたもう1つは彼女はここにいるべきだということですフリをしていれば本当にそうなれるんだとだから言いました「あんたはここにいるべき人間よ! 明日はできるフリをしなさい力に溢れるフリをそして・・・」「教室に行って最高の意見を言うの」それでどうなったかというと彼女は最高の意見を言ってみんな振り向いていました「誰だろう? あんな子がいたのに気が付かなかった」何ヶ月か経って彼女がまたやってきましたが単にフリをしてやりおおせただけではなくフリを続けて本当になったのが分かりました彼女は変わったんですだから皆さんに言いたいんですフリをしてやり過ごすのではなくフリを本物にしてくださいとそれが本当に自分のものになるまでやるんです最後にお伝えしたいのは小さな変化が大きな違いに繋がるということですたった2分間の積み重ねですがこの次ストレスを感じる評価される場面に臨むときやってみてくださいエレベーターの中でトイレの個室で自分の部屋でやってみてほしいんです脳をその状況に最適な状態にしテストステロンを上げコルチゾールを下げるんですせっかくのチャンスに「自分らしさが出せなかった」なんて事にならないように「自分がどんな人間か言ってやろう見せてやろう」という気持ちになってくださいそしてお願いしたいのは力のポーズを試しこの科学を広めてくださいすごく簡単なんですからエゴで言っているのではありませんみんなに教え共有してくださいこれが一番役立つのはリソースも技術もステータスも力もない人たちです 1人でできるんですから必要なのは自分の体と 1人になれる2分間だけですそれが彼らの人生を大きく変えることになるはずですありがとうございました	But before I give it away, I want to ask you to right now do a little audit of your body and what you're doing with your body. So how many of you are sort of making yourselves smaller? Maybe you're hunching, crossing your legs, maybe wrapping your ankles. Sometimes we hold onto our arms like this. Sometimes we spread out. I see you. So I want you to pay attention to what you're doing right now. We're going to come back to that in a few minutes, and I'm hoping that if you learn to tweak this a little bit, it could significantly change the way your life unfolds. So, we're really fascinated with body language, and we're particularly interested in other people's body language. You know, we're interested in, like, you know — — an awkward interaction, or a smile, or a contemptuous glance, or maybe a very awkward wink, or maybe even something like a handshake. Narrator: Here they are arriving at Number 10. This lucky policeman gets to shake hands with the President of the United States. Here comes the Prime Minister -- No. Amy Cuddy: So a handshake, or the lack of a handshake, can have us talking for weeks and weeks and weeks. Even the BBC and The New York Times. So obviously when we think about nonverbal behavior, or body language -- but we call it nonverbals as social scientists -- it's language, so we think about communication. When we think about communication, we think about interactions. So what is your body language communicating to me? What's mine communicating to you? And there's a lot of reason to believe that this is a valid way to look at this. So social scientists have spent a lot of time looking at the effects of our body language, or other people's body language, on judgments. And we make sweeping judgments and inferences from body language. And those judgments can predict really meaningful life outcomes like who we hire or promote, who we ask out on a date. For example, Nalini Ambady, a researcher at Tufts University, shows that when people watch 30-second soundless clips of real physician-patient interactions, their judgments of the physician's niceness predict whether or not that physician will be sued. So it doesn't have to do so much with whether or not that physician was incompetent, but do we like that person and how they interacted? Even more dramatic, Alex Todorov at Princeton has shown us that judgments of political candidates' faces in just one second predict 70 percent of U.S. Senate and gubernatorial race outcomes, and even, let's go digital, emoticons used well in online negotiations can lead you to claim more value from that negotiation. If you use them poorly, bad idea. Right? So when we think of nonverbals, we think of how we judge others, how they judge us and what the outcomes are. We tend to forget, though, the other audience that's influenced by our nonverbals, and that's ourselves. We are also influenced by our nonverbals, our thoughts and our feelings and our physiology. So what nonverbals am I talking about? I'm a social psychologist. I study prejudice, and I teach at a competitive business school, so it was inevitable that I would become interested in power dynamics. I became especially interested in nonverbal expressions of power and dominance. And what are nonverbal expressions of power and dominance? Well, this is what they are. So in the animal kingdom, they are about expanding. So you make yourself big, you stretch out, you take up space, you're basically opening up. It's about opening up. And this is true across the animal kingdom. It's not just limited to primates. And humans do the same thing. So they do this both when they have power sort of chronically, and also when they're feeling powerful in the moment. And this one is especially interesting because it really shows us how universal and old these expressions of power are. This expression, which is known as pride, Jessica Tracy has studied. She shows that people who are born with sight and people who are congenitally blind do this when they win at a physical competition. So when they cross the finish line and they've won, it doesn't matter if they've never seen anyone do it. They do this. So the arms up in the V, the chin is slightly lifted. What do we do when we feel powerless? We do exactly the opposite. We close up. We wrap ourselves up. We make ourselves small. We don't want to bump into the person next to us. So again, both animals and humans do the same thing. And this is what happens when you put together high and low power. So what we tend to do when it comes to power is that we complement the other's nonverbals. So if someone is being really powerful with us, we tend to make ourselves smaller. We don't mirror them. We do the opposite of them. So I'm watching this behavior in the classroom, and what do I notice? I notice that MBA students really exhibit the full range of power nonverbals. So you have people who are like caricatures of alphas, really coming into the room, they get right into the middle of the room before class even starts, like they really want to occupy space. When they sit down, they're sort of spread out. They raise their hands like this. You have other people who are virtually collapsing You see it on their faces and their bodies, and they sit in their chair and they make themselves tiny, and they go like this when they raise their hand. I notice a couple of things about this. One, you're not going to be surprised. It seems to be related to gender. So women are much more likely to do this kind of thing than men. Women feel chronically less powerful than men, so this is not surprising. But the other thing I noticed is that it also seemed to be related to the extent to which the students were participating, and how well they were participating. And this is really important in the MBA classroom, because participation counts for half the grade. So business schools have been struggling with this gender grade gap. You get these equally qualified women and men coming in and then you get these differences in grades, and it seems to be partly attributable to participation. So I started to wonder, you know, okay, so you have these people coming in like this, and they're participating. Is it possible that we could get people to fake it and would it lead them to participate more? So my main collaborator Dana Carney, who's at Berkeley, and I really wanted to know, can you fake it till you make it? Like, can you do this just for a little while and actually experience a behavioral outcome that makes you seem more powerful? So we know that our nonverbals govern how other people think and feel about us. There's a lot of evidence. But our question really was, do our nonverbals govern how we think and feel about ourselves? There's some evidence that they do. So, for example, we smile when we feel happy, but also, when we're forced to smile by holding a pen in our teeth like this, it makes us feel happy. When it comes to power, it also goes both ways. So when you feel powerful, you're more likely to do this, but it's also possible that when you pretend to be powerful, you are more likely to actually feel powerful. So the second question really was, you know, so we know that our minds change our bodies, but is it also true that our bodies change our minds? And when I say minds, in the case of the powerful, what am I talking about? So I'm talking about thoughts and feelings and the sort of physiological things that make up our thoughts and feelings, and in my case, that's hormones. I look at hormones. So what do the minds of the powerful versus the powerless look like? So powerful people tend to be, not surprisingly, more assertive and more confident, more optimistic. They actually feel they're going to win even at games of chance. They also tend to be able to think more abstractly. So there are a lot of differences. They take more risks. There are a lot of differences between powerful and powerless people. Physiologically, there also are differences on two key hormones: testosterone, which is the dominance hormone, and cortisol, which is the stress hormone. So what we find is that high-power alpha males in primate hierarchies have high testosterone and low cortisol, and powerful and effective leaders also have high testosterone and low cortisol. So what does that mean? When you think about power, people tended to think only about testosterone, because that was about dominance. But really, power is also about how you react to stress. So do you want the high-power leader that's dominant, high on testosterone, but really stress reactive? Probably not, right? You want the person who's powerful and assertive and dominant, but not very stress reactive, the person who's laid back. So we know that in primate hierarchies, if an alpha needs to take over, if an individual needs to take over an alpha role sort of suddenly, within a few days, that individual's testosterone has gone up significantly and his cortisol has dropped significantly. So we have this evidence, both that the body can shape the mind, at least at the facial level, and also that role changes can shape the mind. So what happens, okay, you take a role change, what happens if you do that at a really minimal level, like this tiny manipulation, this tiny intervention? "For two minutes," you say, "I want you to stand like this, and it's going to make you feel more powerful." We decided to bring people into the lab and run a little experiment, and these people adopted, for two minutes, either high-power poses or low-power poses, and I'm just going to show you five of the poses, although they took on only two. So here's one. A couple more. This one has been dubbed the "Wonder Woman" by the media. Here are a couple more. So you can be standing or you can be sitting. And here are the low-power poses. So you're folding up, you're making yourself small. This one is very low-power. When you're touching your neck, you're really protecting yourself. So this is what happens. They come in, they spit into a vial, for two minutes, we say, "You need to do this or this." They don't look at pictures of the poses. We don't want to prime them with a concept of power. We want them to be feeling power. So two minutes they do this. We then ask them, "How powerful do you feel?" on a series of items, and then we give them an opportunity to gamble, and then we take another saliva sample. That's it. That's the whole experiment. So this is what we find. Risk tolerance, which is the gambling, we find that when you are in the high-power pose condition, 86 percent of you will gamble. When you're in the low-power pose condition, only 60 percent, and that's a whopping significant difference. Here's what we find on testosterone. From their baseline when they come in, high-power people experience about a 20-percent increase, and low-power people experience about a 10-percent decrease. So again, two minutes, and you get these changes. Here's what you get on cortisol. High-power people experience about a 25-percent decrease, and the low-power people experience about a 15-percent increase. So two minutes lead to these hormonal changes that configure your brain to basically be either assertive, confident and comfortable, or really stress-reactive, and feeling sort of shut down. And we've all had the feeling, right? So it seems that our nonverbals do govern how we think and feel about ourselves, so it's not just others, but it's also ourselves. Also, our bodies change our minds. But the next question, of course, is, can power posing for a few minutes really change your life in meaningful ways? This is in the lab, it's this little task, it's just a couple of minutes. Where can you actually apply this? Which we cared about, of course. And so we think where you want to use this is evaluative situations, like social threat situations. Where are you being evaluated, either by your friends? For teenagers, it's at the lunchroom table. For some people it's speaking at a school board meeting. It might be giving a pitch or giving a talk like this or doing a job interview. We decided that the one that most people could relate to because most people had been through, was the job interview. So we published these findings, and the media are all over it, and they say, Okay, so this is what you do when you go in for the job interview, right? You know, so we were of course horrified, and said, For numerous reasons, no, don't do that. Again, this is not about you talking to other people. It's you talking to yourself. What do you do before you go into a job interview? You do this. You're sitting down. You're looking at your iPhone -- or your Android, not trying to leave anyone out. You're looking at your notes, you're hunching up, making yourself small, when really what you should be doing maybe is this, like, in the bathroom, right? Do that. Find two minutes. So that's what we want to test. Okay? So we bring people into a lab, and they do either high- or low-power poses again, they go through a very stressful job interview. It's five minutes long. They are being recorded. They're being judged also, and the judges are trained to give no nonverbal feedback, so they look like this. Imagine this is the person interviewing you. So for five minutes, nothing, and this is worse than being heckled. People hate this. It's what Marianne LaFrance calls "standing in social quicksand." So this really spikes your cortisol. So this is the job interview we put them through, because we really wanted to see what happened. We then have these coders look at these tapes, four of them. They have no idea who's been posing in what pose, and they end up looking at these sets of tapes, and they say, "We want to hire these people," all the high-power posers. "We don't want to hire these people. We also evaluate these people much more positively overall." But what's driving it? It's not about the content of the speech. It's about the presence that they're bringing to the speech. Because we rate them on all these variables related to competence, like, how well-structured is the speech? How good is it? What are their qualifications? No effect on those things. This is what's affected. These kinds of things. People are bringing their true selves, basically. They're bringing themselves. They bring their ideas, but as themselves, with no, you know, residue over them. So this is what's driving the effect, or mediating the effect. So when I tell people about this, that our bodies change our minds and our minds can change our behavior, and our behavior can change our outcomes, they say to me, "It feels fake." Right? So I said, fake it till you make it. It's not me. I don't want to get there and then still feel like a fraud. I don't want to feel like an impostor. I don't want to get there only to feel like I'm not supposed to be here. And that really resonated with me, because I want to tell you a little story about being an impostor and feeling like I'm not supposed to be here. When I was 19, I was in a really bad car accident. I was thrown out of a car, rolled several times. And I woke up in a head injury rehab ward, and I had been withdrawn from college, and I learned that my IQ had dropped by two standard deviations, which was very traumatic. I knew my IQ because I had identified with being smart, and I had been called gifted as a child. So I'm taken out of college, I keep trying to go back. They say, "You're not going to finish college. Just, you know, there are other things for you to do, but that's not going to work out for you." So I really struggled with this, and I have to say, having your identity taken from you, your core identity, and for me it was being smart, there's nothing that leaves you feeling more powerless than that. So I felt entirely powerless. and worked, and got lucky, and worked. Eventually I graduated from college. It took me four years longer than my peers, and I convinced someone, my angel advisor, Susan Fiske, to take me on, and so I ended up at Princeton, and I was like, I am not supposed to be here. I am an impostor. And the night before my first-year talk, and the first-year talk at Princeton is a 20-minute talk to 20 people. That's it. I was so afraid of being found out the next day that I called her and said, "I'm quitting." She was like, "You are not quitting, because I took a gamble on you, and you're staying. You're going to stay, and this is what you're going to do. You are going to fake it. You're going to do every talk that you ever get asked to do. You're just going to do it and do it and do it, even if you're terrified and just paralyzed and having an out-of-body experience, until you have this moment where you say, 'Oh my gosh, I'm doing it. Like, I have become this. I am actually doing this.'" So that's what I did. Five years in grad school, I moved to Harvard, I'm at Harvard, I'm not really thinking about it anymore, but for a long time I had been thinking, "Not supposed to be here." So at the end of my first year at Harvard, a student who had not talked in class the entire semester, who I had said, "Look, you've gotta participate or else you're going to fail," came into my office. I really didn't know her at all. She came in totally defeated, and she said, "I'm not supposed to be here." And that was the moment for me. Because two things happened. One was that I realized, oh my gosh, I don't feel like that anymore. I don't feel that anymore, but she does, and I get that feeling. And the second was, she is supposed to be here! Like, she can fake it, she can become it. So I was like, "Yes, you are! You are supposed to be here! And tomorrow you're going to fake it, you're going to make yourself powerful, and, you know -- And you're going to go into the classroom, and you are going to give the best comment ever." You know? And she gave the best comment ever, and people turned around and were like, oh my God, I didn't even notice her sitting there. She comes back to me months later, and I realized that she had not just faked it till she made it, she had actually faked it till she became it. So she had changed. And so I want to say to you, don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it. Do it enough until you actually become it and internalize. The last thing I'm going to leave you with is this. Tiny tweaks can lead to big changes. So, this is two minutes. Two minutes, two minutes, two minutes. Before you go into the next stressful evaluative situation, for two minutes, try doing this, in the elevator, in a bathroom stall, at your desk behind closed doors. That's what you want to do. Configure your brain to cope the best in that situation. Get your testosterone up. Get your cortisol down. Don't leave that situation feeling like, oh, I didn't show them who I am. I really feel like I got to say who I am and show who I am. So I want to ask you first, you know, both to try power posing, and also I want to ask you to share the science, because this is simple. I don't have ego involved in this. Give it away. Share it with people, because the people who can use it the most are the ones with no resources and no technology and no status and no power. Give it to them because they can do it in private. They need their bodies, privacy and two minutes, and it can significantly change the outcomes of their life. Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
『裁きの雷』『裁きの両翼』『裁きの刃』......。 3つの裁きアイテムの使い道は、やはり組み合わせることだった。ウーさんの工房でその事実を知った俺は、早速仕事を依頼した。完成までには24時間かかる。つまり、新たに生み出されるアイテムは風雲装備と同格のレアアイテムなのだ。ただ......使い道はまだわからない。『それ』は装備ではなくアイテムで、解説を表示しても使い道が記されていない。スキルを覚えるために『使う』装備なのか、装備を進化させるための素材なのか、はたまた......。わかっていることは回復アイテムではないということだけだ。回復アイテムだけは常にハッキリと効果が記載されているからな。その良い例が今さっき工房で受け取った『』を香草系素材アイテムと組み合わせることで完成したちょっと変わった回復アイテムだ。使用することで3分間毎秒HPが少量回復する。使用後5分経過でこのアイテムは復活する。いわゆる『HPリジェネ効果』をプレイヤーに付与することが出来る。ビーフジャーキーの噛んでも噛んでも味が出てくる部分を再現しているのかも。使用すると3分間回復し続けて、5分後に復活するということは、実質回復できない時間は2分間だけになるな。回復量が実際どれくらいなのかを検証しないと結論は出せないけど、まあまあ戦略の幅が広がるアイテムじゃないか? 俺のプレイスタイルだと大ダメージを食らうシーンは少ないし、カスった程度のダメージなら普通の回復アイテムを使うのがもったいないと思うことがある。でも、その微量のダメージを回復しなかったせいで負けるのはもっともったいない。』を使っておけば、3分間カスりダメージ程度は気にしなくてもよくなる。ただ、完成するのに時間がかかるアイテムでもあった。干し肉だからか、レア装備の進化よりも日数がかかっている。こういうアイテムが出てきた時のための『仙桃』なんだろうな。』がわざわざ作業時間を短縮してまで欲しいかと言われると微妙なのがまた......。さて、用事は終わったしログアウト......と言いたいところだが、最後に初期街の様子を見ておくか。街のどこらへんが天に浮かぶ『サーペント・パレス』の真下なのかもチェックしておきたいしな。 ◆ ◆ ◆ 街から街へ、ファストトラベルで移動だ。それにしても、初期街は相変わらず人が多いな。新規が増え続けているのか、人がいるから人が集まっているだけなのか、どちらにしろ活気があるのは良いことだ。とりあえず、人通りの少ない裏道を通ってサーペント・パレスの下を目指そう。今日はあくまで偵察だから目立ちたくない。ひょいひょいと細い道や隠された道を進む。初期街はなかなか細部まで作りこまれていて、プレイヤーが通れる道が数多く存在する。その中には普通に遊んでいる分には気づかないような道も多い。俺は案外そういう物を見つけるのが上手いのだ。道を進むうちにサーペント・パレスのおおよその位置がわかってきた。あれは街の中心である噴水広場の真上に浮かんでいる。噴水広場はパーティを組む際の待ち合わせ場所として利用され、日頃からプレイヤーが多く集まっている。そこをイベントで使われれば、さらにプレイヤーが集まるわけで......。「すごい人ごみだな......」広場はイベント仕様に改造され、噴水の周りには巨大なウィンドウが全方位から見えるように複数表示されている。そのウィンドウに映っているのは......戦闘だ! 誰かと誰かが戦っている......っと認識した瞬間、映像が暗転した。そして、空に浮かぶサーペント・パレスから隕石のごとく何かが降ってきた。数にして4つ......。「ひ、人だ......!」体も装備もボロボロになったプレイヤーたちが決戦の舞台から落ちてきた......! そして、その中の1人には見覚えがある! 「バックラー......!」俺が知るプレイヤーの中では一番強いと思っているバックラーが、パーティを組んでもチャリンに勝てなかったのか!? 』に所属しているんだから、仲間だって弱いはずはないのに......。「くっ! あの小娘......やりおるわ!」バックラーが立ち上がり、サーペント・パレスを見上げて笑みを浮かべる。それは余裕の笑みではなく、笑うしかないといった感じの笑みだ。パーティの仲間たちは立ち上がることもなく、体を大の字にして寝っ転がったままだ。絶望とはまではいかずとも、困惑を隠せない様子だ。 NSOの先頭を走るプレイヤーとしてのプライドが、この結果を受け入れられないのだろう。俺だってこの光景が受け入れられない。てっきり、片手で数えられるクリア者の中に彼らが入っていると思っていたからだ。「そこにいるのは......弓使いキュージィか?」バックラーがクワっと目を見開く。人ごみに隠れていたつもりなのに、よく見つけたな......。流石に名指しされると出ていかざるを得ない......。「お久しぶりです。前に会ったのはおうし座の試練でしたね」「そうだったな......。まさか、こんな情けない姿を晒すことになるとは思わんかったぞ! ハッハッハッ!」バックラーは笑う。以前ほどの覇気はない。俺がかける言葉に困っていると、彼の方から話を切り出した。「キュージィ! ソロで挑んで勝てる相手ではないぞ! 今度ばかりはな!」「そう......みたいですね」「どうやらお前さんも第3職に......いや、その少し先までたどり着いているのだろう。だが、言ってしまえばそれは前提だ! トッププレイヤーとしてはな!」特殊第3職であることは当然で、それ以上が求められるのがトッププレイヤーか......。どうやら、この戦いは俺の思っていたよりずっと困難を極めるらしい。心のどこかで思っていた。みんながクリアできなくても、俺なら出来るのではないかと......。困惑していたMVPの称号も、いつしか自信に変わっていた。それがうぬぼれかどうか......確かめたい。当然、状況はわかっている。ゲーマーとしての経験で俺を上回る特殊第3職のプレイヤーが4人集まって負けているのだ。俺とガー坊だけで勝てるはずがない。でも、俺はこのまま戦いを挑んでみたい! 貫いてきたスタイルが、どういう結果を生むのか確かめずにはいられない! 「......ハッハッハッ! 俺としたことが自分を打ち負かした男に偉そうなことを言ったな! さっき言ったことはすべて忘れてくれ! ルールの範囲でやりたいようにやる! それがゲームを楽しむということだ!」「バックラーさん......ありがとうございます。さっきの言葉、心に留めておきます」「ふっ、忘れろと言っておるのに......。まあよい! 決戦に挑む時は、天に両手を突き上げるのだ!」言われた通り両手を突き上げる。すると、アイテムボックスから勝手に12枚のメダルが飛び出し、俺の周りをぐるぐると回る。体はふわりと浮かび上がり、サーペント・パレスに向かって加速を始める。まるで天に昇る流星のようだ。今日は決戦前夜のつもりだった。工房に依頼したアイテムも完成していないしな。だが、戦いたくなった時が戦いの時だ。今から決戦が始まる!	‘Judgement Lightning,’ ‘Wings of Judgement,’ and ‘Blade of Judgement’... Just as I suspected, the way to use these three items was to combine them. Once I learned this at Yu’s workshop, I quickly requested that he do it. It would take hours to complete. In other words, the items that would be created would be just as rare as the Windcloud set. However...I still didn’t know what it would be used for. The item wasn’t equipment, and there was no description of how to use it. Was it something that allowed you to learn a skill, or a material that would evolve your equipment. Or something else... What I did know was that it wasn’t a recovery item. Such items always told you what kind of effect they had. For instance, like the ‘Aura Jerky’ I had just received at the workshop. It was an odd health recovery item that had been made through combining the special reward from the Taurus trial, the Aura Beef, with some herb-type materials. HP will recover slowly every second for minutes. Can use the item again after minutes. In other words, it added a HP regen effect to the player. Kind of like how beef jerky could be chewed many times and still be tasty. If it worked for minutes and could be used every minutes, that meant that it would only not be in effect for minutes. I didn’t know how much it actually healed you yet, but it seemed like it would allow me a broader range of strategies in battle? Though my playstyle did not involve taking a lot of damage, there were times when I thought it would be a waste to use healing items after a scratch. However, it would be even worse if I lost because I hadn’t bothered to heal after a little damage. If I used the Aura Jerky in such cases, I wouldn’t have to worry about minimal damage for at least minutes. However, it also took a long time to complete. Perhaps because it was dried meat, it took even longer than rare equipment. I suppose it was during times like these where you were supposed to use the Peaches of Immortality. However, I couldn’t say that I wanted the Aura Jerky so bad that I cared about how long it took... Anyway, I have finished my business here, so I should log out... Is what I thought, but then decided to check out the first town. I wanted to see the area right underneath the Serpent Palace that was floating in the sky. ◆ ◆ ◆ Traveling between towns was instantaneous, thanks to fast travel. Still, the town really was crowded. I wasn’t sure if it was because there were more new players recently, or it was just a popular spot, but it was great to see that it was so lively. In any case, I would use the less crowded back alleys and head towards the Serpent Palace. I was scouting today, and did not want to stick out. And so I weaved through the narrow and hidden streets. The town was brimming with details, and there were many streets that players could walk through. A lot of them would be easily missed if you were just playing normally. But I was rather good at finding such things. As I continued on my way, I got a good grasp on the general location of the Serpent Palace. It was floating above the fountain plaza near the center of the town. This place was used as a meeting point for party members, and there were a lot of players gathered there. Though, it was much more crowded now, since it was part of an event... “There are so many people...” The plaza had been modified to suit the event, and there were now large windows facing outwards from all sides of the fountain. As for what was being displayed there...it was a battle! Someone was fighting someone... But once my mind registered this, the screen went blank. And then something shot down from the Serpent Palace like a meteor. There were four of them... “T-that’s a player...!” Players who were damaged in both body and equipment were falling from the battle stage...! And one of them looked familiar! “Buckler...!” He was perhaps the strongest of the players that I knew, and yet he and his party were unable to beat Charin!? He was part of a famous guild called the Straight Knights, and so his comrades would not have been weak... “Tsk! That girl... She’s really done it now!” Buckler got to his feet and looked up at the Serpent Palace with a laugh. Not because he was confident, but because there was nothing he could do but laugh. As for his other party members, they just lay on the ground with their arms and legs spread out and did not get up. It wasn’t so much despair, but confusion that covered their faces. I suppose their pride as the top NSO players did not allow them to accept the results. Even I could hardly believe what I was seeing. I had assumed that they would be among the handful of players that had cleared it. “Is that you... Archer Kyuji?” Buckler’s eyes widened. I had thought that I was hidden in the crowd, but he still found me... And since he was pointing, I had no choice but to go out... “It’s been awhile. I think it was during the Taurus trial.” “That’s right... I didn’t think that our next meeting would be while I was thoroughly embarrassing myself! Hahaha!” Buckler laughed. He wasn’t as intimidating as before. As I wondered what to say to him, he spoke first. “Kyuji! This is not someone you can beat solo! Not this time!” “It...looks like it.” “Ah, so you’re a 3rd now... Well, I’m sure you’ve been one for a while. However, that is like the minimum requirement! If you’re a top player!” Being a special 3rd was the standard. A top player would be expected to go even higher... Apparently, this battle was a lot more harsh than I had thought. Well, I had actually been thinking about it, deep down. Even if the others couldn’t do it. I could still do it... The title of MVP had been alarming to me at first, but it had made me confident. Was I delusional then...? I wanted to find out. Of course, I understood the situation. 4 players who were special 3rds and had more experience than me, had worked together and still lost. So there was no way that Garbo and I could win. But I still wanted to challenge her! I wanted to know how far I could go with my own style! “...Hahaha! Perhaps I shouldn’t be giving you advice, seeing as you beat me! Well, forget what I said then! Do whatever you want as long as you follow the rules! That’s how you enjoy a game!” “Buckler... Thanks. I’ll remember that.” “Heh. But I told you to forget it... Ah, well! When you do fight, thrust both of your hands up towards the sky!” And so I did as he said. And just like that, the 12 medals flew out of my item box and began to spin around me. Then my body floated up and started ascending rapidly towards the Serpent Palace. Like a meteor shooting through the sky. This was supposed to be the night before the battle. My items at the workshop weren’t even complete. However, it was best to fight when you wanted to. And so now, the decisive battle would begin!	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 4, "inserted_lines_src": 11, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
ベッドの上に転がったコルティナは毛布を肩口までかぶり、逆に足は剥き出しにしてゴロゴロしていた。足は剥き出しになっており、毛布の下は全裸なのではないかと思われる。そして心の声は駄々洩れになっていて、聞いているこっちが恥ずかしくなって来るセリフが俺の耳を容赦なく攻め立てた。「あーでもでも、あの時はちょっとやりすぎちゃったかしら。はしたないとか思われたり......いやいや、あの朴念仁はあそこまで攻めないと気付いてくれないし」「あの、コルティナ?」「ああっ、じゃあじゃあ、あっちの方をあーしてあげた方が――」「えっと、コル、ティナ......?」「でもレイドって意外とがっしりしてたわね。ライエルほどじゃないけど、私としてはあれくらいの方が均整取れててよかったかも」「........................」おそらくコルティナが俺をフィニアの元に送ったのは、こういう理由もあったのだろう。この醜態を限界まで我慢していたからこそ、見られたくないと思って俺をフィニアの元に追い払ったのだ。「フィニア、コルティナはもうダメ。私たちだけで夕食を食べよう」「そ、そうですね。コルティナ様には冷めても大丈夫なモノを用意しておきましょう」俺は人生で初めて、仲間を置いて逃亡した。さすがに、これを聞き続けられる図太い神経は、俺にはない。フィニアもこれ以上の痴態を俺に見せるのは教育に悪いと思ったのか、撤退に賛成してくれている。なんとなく居心地の悪い気分のまま、俺は着替えを済まし食堂へ向かう。メインは鶏肉をヨーグルトに漬けてから焼いた物を用意するらしい。普通に焼いた物では冷めると脂が固まってしまい、味が落ちてしまうからだろう。「それ、初めて見るかも」「そうですね。匂いがきついので、あまり作ってませんでしたし」「お肉は焼くかコートレットにするのが多かった気がする」彼女の手はいつものようにリズムよく動き......いや、いつも以上に弾むような躍動感を出していた。「フィニア」「なんですか、ニコル様?」「今日、いいことあった?」「ふぇっ!?」「あ、も、申し訳ありません。でもニコル様も悪いんですよ? 驚かすようなことを聞くから」「いつもより手元が弾んでいるような気がしたから」コルティナの方のサポートは、あの様子だと成功と見ていいだろう。しかしフィニアの方はどうだろうか? 今回の機を逃すと、次は短くとも一か月先まで彼女を放置しないといけない。異性をエスコートするというのは俺も初めての経験だったので、出来を本人から直接聞きたかったのである。「そうですね。今日はとってもいいことがありました」「どんな?」「それは......言ってもいいのかな?」「言えないことなの?」俺の転生という問題は、俺個人に留まら雄全てに関わってくる。俺という部外者に伝えることは、マクスウェルの判断を仰いだ方がいいという考えに至った分、コルティナよりは正気を保っている。「レイド、さまのこと?」「どどど、ど、どうしてそれを!?」「どうしてもなにも、さっきコルティナがダダ漏らしにしてたし」正気かと思ったが、やはりやや抜けているようだ。まあ、慌てるフィニアも可愛いのでよし。冷製のクリームシチューを冷やす作業に移り、その間に漬け込んでいた肉を焼き始める。その手元はさっきと違い、ちょっと緊張していた。これは俺の質問に対して警戒してしまったからだろうか? これは少し緊張を解してやった方がいいかもしれない。「え?」「あこがれていた人に会えたんでしょ。だから」しかし今の俺はニコルであり、レイドではない。ここで聞いておかないと逆に不審に思われるかもしれない。「ええ、本当に。なによりもあの方が無事で......いえ、無事じゃなかったんですけど、また会えて本当に感激しています」「......そっか」俺が再び姿を見せたことで、ここまで喜んでくれる人たちがいる。その分、正体がバレたときのことを考えると、背筋が寒くなるのではあるが。自分のカップを取り出し、シチューに使用したミルクの残りを注ぎ込み、口に運ぶ。「と・こ・ろ・で!」「ニコル様には気になる殿方とかいらっしゃらないのですか?」「ブフォッ!?」口にした直後に妙な質問をされ、俺は思わず吹き出してしまう。俺が男を? 冗談じゃない。今日の一件で確認できた。俺はやっぱり女の子が相手の方がいい。「い、今のところは......」「そうですか? クラウドくんとか」「絶対ないから。ついでにエリオットもないから」「ま、まさかマクスウェル様とか」「フィニア、正気に戻れ?」いくら何でも、あの爺さんは問題外だ。「やはりライエル様の壁は厚いですか。あれほどの騎士様がそばにいると、理想も高くなりますよね」「む、じゃあレイドさまで」「そ、それはいけません! コルティナ様はともかく、ニコル様まで敵に回ると、私なんて勝ち目なんてなくなるじゃないですか!」「ほほぅ、まだあきらめてはいないんだ?」「うぅ......せめて側室とか、それくらいは......」別にこの国は一夫一婦制に限定されているわけではないので、複数人と結婚するのは別に問題ではない。ラウムがその傾向が強いというだけだ。現に北国連合王国では、一夫多妻制が認められている。元々戦乱が多く、とどめに邪竜に襲われてしまい、男が激減してしまったことがこの制度に輪をかけていた。そこでふと思いつく。つまり、俺も北部に拠点を置けば、コルティナとフィニアを同時に妻に迎えることができるのだろうか?	Cortina rolled around on the bed, covering herself up to the shoulders with the blanket but leaving her legs exposed. Given her bare legs, I wondered whether she was naked under the blanket. Also, her monologues were leaking out, making me hear the lines that embarrassed me. “Ahh, maybe I overdid it a little back there? What if he thinks I’m too immodest... No no, this is that unsociable guy we are talking about here. He wouldn’t realize it if I didn’t go that far.” “Um, Cortina?” “Ahh, but, but, maybe I should have done that other thing more like—” “Uhh, C-Cortina...?” “Still, Reid sure has a solid build. Sure, he’s not quite at Lyell’s level, but his build is more in-balance with me.” “.........” Unable to stand it anymore, I plugged my ears. Finia next to me was also hanging her head down with a deep blush. This might’ve been part of the reason why she sent me to Finia back then. She was probably enduring turning into this disgraceful state, and sent me off so I wouldn’t witness it. So the reason she looked reluctant was because her womanly heart still wanted us to stay together for longer. “Finia, Cortina is too far gone. Let’s have dinner by ourselves.” “R-Right. I will prepare something that will be fine to eat cold for Lady Cortina.” For the first time in my life, I abandoned my comrade and fled. As expected, I didn’t have bold enough nerves to keep listening to her ramblings. Finia probably thought hearing any more of her foolishness would be bad for my education, she readily agreed to my suggestion. While feeling really unsettled, I somehow managed to finish changing my clothes and headed to the dining room. There I saw Finia making salad and cold stew. The main dish seemed to be roasted chicken meat after being soaked in yogurt. That was probably because roasting it normally would make the fats harden and worsen the taste once it would get cold. “I’m seeing that for the first time.” “Ah, yes. It has a strong smell, so I don’t usually make it.” “Yeah, I feel like you mostly roast it or make chops.” I observed Finia as she cooked while commenting on it. She was moving rhythmically as always... No, perhaps even livelier than normal. “Finia.” “What is it, Lady Nicole?” “Did anything good happen today?” “Eeh!?” I asked because I was curious about how she would rate my escorting today. But it caused her to flinch and stiffen in place. “Ah, m-my apologies. But it’s your fault, Lady Nicole. Don’t ask me something like that all of a sudden.” “It just looked to me that your hands moved more merrily than usual.” Judging by Cortina’s current behavior, I guess we could say that I succeeded in improving her condition. But what about Finia? If I failed this time, it would mean I would be neglecting her for another month at least. Escorting an opposite sex had been first for me too, so I wanted to hear what she thought of it. “As you say, something very good did indeed happen today.” “What kind?” “Well... I wonder if I should say it?” “It’s something you can’t tell me?” That might’ve been a little mean on my part. The topic of my reincarnation wasn’t only related to me but to every one of the Six Heroes. Considering that Finia hesitated on revealing it to me, who didn’t belong to Six Heroes, without consulting Maxwell meant that she was a lot more rational than Cortina. “Is this about Lord Reid?” “W-W-W-W-, wh-why do you know that!?” “How couldn’t I? Cortina easily spilled it earlier.” Or so I thought, but she seems to be quite out of it herself. Well, she was cute when flustered too so no problems there. She moved on to cooling the cold cream stew, and in the meantime started to roast the pickled meat. Unlike before, her hand movements had some tension in them. It was probably due to my question. Perhaps it was better to relieve some of her tension. “Huh?” “I mean, you managed to meet with someone you look up to.” Referring to my own self like that made me really embarrassed. But I was Nicole now, not Reid. If I didn’t ask her now, it could come off suspiciously. “Yes, truly. Above all, I am glad that that person is alright... Well, he wasn’t entirely alright, but I am glad I could meet him again.” “...I see.” So there were people who became this happy because I appeared before them. That alone made me feel like there was a meaning in my reincarnation. On the other hand, just thinking of the moment when my identity got busted made chills run down my spine. I grabbed my cup and poured the remainder of the milk she used for the stew, and brought it to my mouth. “Incidentally!” “Do you not have anyone on your mind, Lady Nicole?” “Pffft!?” I suddenly got asked a strange question, so I spit it back right away. Me? With a guy? Not a chance. Today’s events were definite proof of that. I was still into girls, in the end. “N-Not at the moment...” “Is that so? What about Cloud?” “Definitely not. And not Elliot either.” “C-Could it be Lord Maxwell?” “Finia, check your sanity!” Come on, that old geezer was obviously unthinkable. “So the wall that is Lord Lyell is that thick, is it? With a knight of his level next to you, your ideals should be equally high.” “Mgh, then maybe I’ll go with Lord Reid.” “Y-You can’t! Lady Cortina is one thing, but if even Lady Nicole becomes my rival, I would lose all my chances!” “Hohoh, so you haven’t given up yet?” “Ugh... Maybe at least as a concubine, or something...” This kingdom wasn’t strictly limited to monogamy, so there was no problem in marrying more than one. Raum simply had a strong tendency for monogamy. In fact, in the Northern Alliance, polygyny was actually approved. It had many wars, and even the Evil Dragon on top, so the rapid decrease of the male population aggravated this system even more. Suddenly I had a thought. If I moved there, wouldn’t I be able to marry both Cortina and Finia at the same time?	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 2, "inserted_lines_src": 13, "inserted_lines_trg": 1 }
昨年それが本当にどうあるべきなのかを考え続けてきました私はテクノロジーを支持するべきか?心から歓迎するべきか? 私は用心深くいるべきか? 私も皆さんのように新しいものにはとても興味がありますしかし実は数年前に所有物のすべてに見切りをつけました自転車以外のテクノロジーをすべて売りつくしアメリカの田舎道 4800キロもの距離をほぼ菓子パンとジャンクフードだけで横断しましたその日以来私はテクノロジーから距離を置きそれに人生を支配されないよう努めてきましたしかし同時に私はcool toolsというウェブサイトを運営し日々の気に入った最新のテクノロジーを紹介してきましたですから私は未だにテクノロジーの本当の意味に悩んでいます人類とのそして自然との相互関係そして精神性との相互関係そもそもテクノロジーとは何なのか我々は知らないのかもしれません実は一番最初に記録されたテクノロジーの定義がありますこれは私が探した中で一番最初にテクノロジーという言葉が使われた例ですそれは1829年にケンブリッジ大学の応用芸術科学の授業概要に記されていましたそれ以前テクノロジーは言葉としてはない訳ですがテクノロジーそのものは実際にはあったのです私はその定義の中でアラン・ケイのものが好きです彼はテクノロジーとはあなたたちが生まれた後に発明されたものだと言いました今の話題を実にうまくまとめていますダニー・ヒリスはそれに付け加えテクノロジーとはいま一つ機能しないものだと言いましたこれも同じく私たちが考えている答えに関連していると思いますしかしその他にもう一つ気に入った定義がありますこれもまた根本的な所に戻るものですより深く理解しがたいものであったので私はある質問をすることに思いつきましたそれは私の研究にも役立ったと思いますそして今日初めてその事について話しますだからこれはとても大雑把な表明になると思います私が思いついたその質問とは「テクノロジーは何を求めているのか?」です何を求めているのかというのはチョコやバニラとかではなく本来備わっている傾向や偏りは何かという意味です時間軸で見た時どのような傾向があるか? これを理解しやすくする為に生物について考えてみますリチャード・ドーキンスの使った秘訣は生物を単なる遺伝子として捉えたことです遺伝子の担体と考えるということです彼は遺伝子は何を求めているのか? つまり「利己的な遺伝子」ということですそこで私も同様に考えてみました我々の文化にあるすべてのものをテクノロジーという視点から見たときテクノロジーは何を求めているのか?と当然これは不完全な質問であり生き物を遺伝子としか見ないことと同様に不完全な見方でありますそれでもなおとても生産的な見方ですなので言ってみます私たちがテクノロジーの立場で世界を見たとき何を求めているのか? 一旦この質問に触れることになったなら「生命」というものに戻らなくてはいけませんなぜならテクノロジーの根源をたどり続ければいずれ「生命」にたどりつくと思うからですなので私はこの小さな冒険を「生命」から始めます前の講演者たちからも聞いたように現在地球にどのような生命が存在するのか良く分かっていません全く分かっていないのです海洋微生物の遺伝子を調べるクレイグ・ヴェンターの試みは素晴らしいと思いましたブライアン・ファレルの研究もこの地球のすべての生物種を発見するという意味で関連していますそこで私たちがするべき一つの事はこの地球に格子を描きその格子の交点すべてからランダムに選んで調査に行きそこの生命の様子を見てみることですもし小さな火星探索機をこの地球でも使ったら大変珍しい生物種を発見できるはずですこれは他の惑星にあるものではなく我々の惑星に隠れているものなのですこれは仲間の作った蜜を腹部に蓄えるアリです今ご覧になった生物ジェイミーや他の人が紹介した素晴らしい生き物これらはすべて生命の常識を出し抜いているのです私はどこでもどんな生体にも例外がないような生物全体に共通する法則を一つも思いつくことができません私たちが思いつくすべての生物もしオリビアの性行動についてのトークを聞いたことがあるならすべての生命にとって真実だと言えるものなど存在しないと気付くでしょうなぜならそれらは何かしらのハッキングをしているからですこれは太陽エネルギーを使えるウミウシですエネルギーを使うために葉緑体が組織に入っていますこれは同じようなシードラゴンですそして下の青いのはまだ酸や緑茶色の藻を吸い込んでいない自分でエネルギーを発生できる以前の幼生ですこれらもハックでありこのようなハックする生物体の種類はすべてで6つの界に分けられます植物界、動物界、菌類界、原生生物界、細菌界、そして古細菌界ですこれらは基本的な生命の在り方であり地球の生命を理解する一つの方法なのですもっと興味深い見方は長い時間軸で「進化」という視点から見ることですこれは進化の図です線形時間での図ではなく中心から始まりますこの系図の中心が最も初期の進化段階であり地球のすべての生命が含まれていますすべての6つの界です代表する4千の生物種の中で人類がどこにいるのかが見られます私が面白いと思ったのは、地球上のすべての生き物は等しく進化しているということですこれらの真菌やバクテリアは人間と等しく進化しているのです人類が存在してきた期間の中同じように試行錯誤を繰り返してきたのですこれを見たら一つ一つの生物はハックしており命への取り組み方が異なる事が分かります生物の時間軸を観察して質問してみましょう「進化」は何を求めているのか? いくつかの事が言えます「進化」について言える1つ目の事は地球上どこにでも生命がないところはないということです命は必ず存在し岩の中心までドリルで穴をあけても岩の隙間には必ずバクテリアが存在しているのです生命はどこに存在しようと撤退することなく遍在し増えていくのですそして地球上の無生物の場所は生命で活発化されるのです「進化」について言える2つ目の事は多様性と特殊化があるということです例えば一般的な働きをする細胞もより特有な働きや特殊性を持つようになるのですこれら生物の複雑化は自発的であることが分かりますさらに時間とともに自然に複雑化する傾向のあることを示すデータも得られています最後にまた裸鰓類について話しを戻しますが生命にとって言える一つの事はより社交的になっているという事ですつまり一つの生命の生存環境にほかの生物が関わってくるということです例えば葉緑体は他の生物の細胞内に取り込まれているのです [注:寄生生物と考えられている] 独立性を侵さずに生物が共進化しているのです進化の長期傾向は5つにまとめられます遍在性、多様性、特殊性、複雑性と社会性です遍在性、多様性、特殊性、複雑性と社会性ですではテクノロジーの長期傾向は何なのか? そしてテクノロジーは何を求めているのか? そしたら驚く発見をしましたそれはテクノロジーにも特殊化の傾向があるという事です例えばこの一般的なハンマーも時間の経過と共に特殊になっていきます多くのものが多様になっていきますこれはある日本の家にあるすべての物です実は去年の夏娘にカウンターを渡し家じゅうにあるすべてのテクノロジーを数える課題を出しましたそしたら実に6千種もの製品が見つかりました私はその後研究で英国の国王ヘンリー8世の家には 7千種のテクノロジーしかなかった事を知りました英国の国王でしたから英国全体の財産でもあったのです今は実に多様な数のテクノロジーがある事が分かりますこれはスターウォーズの1シーンで 3POがマシーンが他のマシーンを作っている所を見た瞬間です実は私たちはこのように「マシーン世界化」をしているのではないかと思いますテクノロジーを他のテクノロジーだけが置き換えていますほとんどのマシーンは他のテクノロジー以外の物や生命との接触はなくなるのではないかと 3つ目にマシーンが生物らしく複雑になりつつあることはすでに決まり文句になったのではと思います実は私が「マシーンの生物化」を決まり文句にした一人でもありますだからテクノロジーの進化の傾向は生物の進化と同じなのですつまり遍在性、多様性、社会化、そして複雑化です実は当たり前な事なのかもしれません例えば装甲の進化を見てみると系統樹と同じようなものをたどれるのです私はテクノロジーとは 7つ目の生物界ではないかと思います他の6つの界と働きや仕組みが大変類似している為 7つ目の界であると考えてもいいと思います図にいれるとすると動物界の上あたりに在ると思いますもしそうするとテクノロジーへのかかわり方をこのようにできると思いますこれはナイルズ・エルドレッジです彼はスティーヴン・ジェイ・グールドと共に断続平衡説という進化理論を唱えました彼は趣味としてコルネットを集めていました彼は世界で一番多くのコレクションを持っており 500台も持っています彼はコルネットを三葉虫類やかたつむりのコレクションかの様に形態素解析をして進化的な分析を試みましたこれが彼が作成した図ですまだ正式には発表されていませんがこの図で面白いのは下の赤線が示している生産が終了したコルネットの親系統ですこの現象は生物学には起こりません絶滅した生物が親系統になる事はありませんしかしテクノロジーではありえるのですこれがテクノロジーの特徴で系統図を見ることによりテクノロジーのシステムと生物学のシステムを区別できるのです一旦消滅した考えを復活できるというのは大変重要な事だと思ったので古いテクノロジーはどうなるのか考えてみましたするとテクノロジーは消滅しない事が分かりました科学史家にこんな話をするとこう言いました「それじゃあ一体蒸気自動車はどうなんだ?、もう存在しないじゃないか?」とでも実は存在するのです実はスタンリーの蒸気自動車の部品を新品で購入出来るぐらいなのですこのウェブサイトではスタンリー車の新しい部品を売っています私が気に入ったところは「買い物かごに入れる」とワンクリックで蒸気弁を買えてしまうところです本当にあるんですそこで私はこのようなランダムなサンプルではなく保守的な方法で調査してみることにしました私は1895年のモンゴメリー・ワォードのカタログの中を捜索してみましたそこであるページランダムではないページを選びましたこのページに掲載されたものは他のページのように現在も生産されているようなものばかりではありませんでしたそしてそのページに掲載されているすべての商品の中でいくつが今でも生産されているか調べましたアンティークではなく現在も生産されている物がいくつあるか知りたかったのです答えは全商品でしたすべての商品が現在も生産されていました例えばコーンシェラーどういう人がコーンシェラーを必要なのか分かりませんがコーンシェラーもプラウも唐箕も全部ありました繰り返しますがアンティークではなくすべて注文出来るのですネットで現在新品を買えるのですだからある意味テクノロジーは死なないのです実は石器時代のナイフを 50ドルで買う事が出来ます 1万年前と同じ手法で作られたものです短くて骨の握りで50ドルですさらに重要な事はこの情報が消えたことがないという事実です復活したのではなくずっと存在していたのですさらにパプアニューギニアでは石の斧が 20年前まで作られていましたテクノロジーは消そうとしても大変難しい事がわかります我々はアーミッシュが車を使わない事を聞きますがそして日本人が拳銃を持たない事も聞きますあれこれ良く耳にしますそこで私は歴史上でかつて禁止されたテクノロジーがあったかを探してそれがいつ復活したのかを調べてみましたそこで発見した事は不法や禁止にされた期間が短くなっているということですテクノロジーを遅らせる事は出来ますが無くすことは出来ないのです実はこれは道理にかなっていますなぜなら文化とはアイディアの蓄積だからですアイディアが無くならない為なのですだから文化がどう変化しているのかという考えを長期の生命の進化に照らし合わせてみると - 生命に大きな変化が起こるときには - 進化が加速し進化の起こり方自体に変化が起こっている事が分かりますアイデアの生まれ方を変化させているのですなのでこれらの進化のステップは基本的に進化可能性を進化させているのですすなわち生命に時間とともに起こっている事はこれらの新しいアイデアやハックが生成される方法が増しているのですここでの秘訣は探究の仕方を探求するという事ですここから分かることはクルツワイルらが予言していますがテクノロジーが進化を加速させているという事ですそれは我々のアイデアの検索方法を加速させているのですなのでハッキングする生命を持っているとは - 生命とはハッキングなのです生存のゲームなのです- 進化とはそのゲームのルールを変更してゲームを延長させる方法なのですそしてテクノロジーというのはよりよい進化方法のことなのですこれを我々は「無限のゲーム」といいますこれが「無限のゲーム」の定義です有限のゲームは勝つためにプレーされ無限のゲームはプレーし続けられるようにプレーするのですさらにテクノロジーは「宇宙の力」であると信じていますテクノロジーの起源は 1829年ではなくビッグバンの初めであり宇宙の何十億もの星が圧縮されていた一瞬だと思います宇宙全体が小さな量子ドットに圧縮されそれはとても窮屈なため違いが入り込む余地はありませんでしたそれが定義です温度もありませんでした違いは何一つとしてありませんでしたそしてビッグバンで拡がっていったものは差異の余地でしたそして物事が拡大するにつれ違いの可能性ができました: 多様性、選択肢、選択権利機会、可能性や自由などですそれらはすべて基本的に同じものなのですそしてそれらはすべてテクノロジーがもたらすものですテクノロジーがもたらしてくれるものすなわち選択肢、可能性、自由そういうことなのです違いを作る余地を広げるということなのですだから我々がハンマーをつかんだとしたらつかんでいるものがそれなのです我々はそれらの物を求めているから我々はテクノロジーをつかみ続けるのですそれらが良いからです違い、自由、選択肢や可能性そして我々は新たな機会の場を作るたびに我々は新しいものを作るためのプラットフォームを可能にしていますそして私はそれが大変重要だと思いますなぜならもしピアノが発明される以前にモーツァルトが誕生していたら社会はどれだけ大きな損失をしたでしょうかゴッホが安いオイル絵具が発明される以前に生まれていたらフィルム技術が発明される以前のヒッチコックを想像してみてください今日生まれる何百万人もの子供には自己表現するテクノロジーがまだ発明されていません我々は地球上のすべての人が個人の違いを実現する為のテクノロジーを発明する道徳的義務を持っていると思います我々は数兆種類の個人を求めているのですテクノロジーが本当に求めているものはそれなのです私は異議のいくつかを無視するつもりですなぜなら私は森林の減少について答えを持っていませんそしてなぜ悪いテクノロジーがあるのかという問いにも私は答えられません尊厳にどう影響するのか分かりませんそれがたぶん 7つ目の界であるからという事以外になぜなら生命に非常に似ているからです私たちの命を監視するのに役立つかもしれませんもしかしたらある意味我々はテクノロジーの居場所を探そうとしているのかもしれません綿畑にDDTを散布するのはひどいことですがマラリアによる小さな村々での死者を数百万人も減らすのに使うのは良いことです我々人類は実はテクノロジーによって定義されます我々の思う人類の気に入っている所はすべてテクノロジーによって動かされているのですこれが無限のゲームなのですこれが我々が話している事なのですテクノロジーとは進化を進化させる方法ですそれは可能性や機会を探求しながらさらに作り出していく方法なのですすべてのゲームをプレイする方法なのですそれがテクノロジーが求めているものなのですだから私がテクノロジーが何を求めているのか考えるときここにいるすべての人と関係していると思いますすべての人に課題があると信じていますそれはあなたの人生で課題が何か発見しながら過ごすことなのですその再帰的な性質が無限のゲームなのですこれがうまくいけば他の人々が関与してきてそのゲームはあなたがいなくなった後でも広がり続けるのですこれが無限のゲームですそしてテクノロジーとはその無限のゲームをプレイする媒体なのですだからこそ我々はテクノロジーを歓迎するべきだと思いますなぜなら人生の行路において我々が誰であるのかを知る為に重要な役割を持つからですありがとうございます	Should I be pro-technology? Should I embrace it full arms? Should I be wary? Like you, I'm very tempted by the latest thing. But at the other hand, a couple of years ago I gave up all of my possessions, sold all my technology -- except for a bicycle -- and rode across 3,000 miles on the U.S. back roads under the power of my one body, fuelled mostly by Twinkies and junk food. And I've since then tried to keep technology at arm's length in many ways, so it doesn't master my life. At the same time, I run a website on cool tools, where I issue a daily obsession of the latest things in technology. So I'm still perplexed about what the true meaning of technology is as it relates to humanity, as it relates to nature, as it relates to the spiritual. And I'm not even sure we know what technology is. And one definition of technology is that which is first recorded. This is the first example of the modern use of technology that I can find. It was the suggested syllabus for dealing with the Applied Arts and Science at Cambridge University in 1829. Before that, obviously, technology didn't exist. But obviously it did. I like one of the definitions that Alan Kay has for technology. He says technology is anything that was invented after you were born. So it sums up a lot of what we're talking about. Danny Hillis actually has an update on that -- he says technology is anything that doesn't quite work yet. Which also, I think, gets into a little bit of our current idea. But I was interested in another definition of technology. Something, again, that went back to something more fundamental. Something that was deeper. And as I struggled to understand that, I came up with a way of framing the question that seemed to work for me in my investigations. And I'm, this morning, going to talk about this for the first time. So this is a very rough attempt to think out loud. The question that I came up with was this question: what does technology want? And by that, I don't mean, does it want chocolate or vanilla? By what it wants, I mean, what are its inherent trends and biases? What are its tendencies over time? One way to think about this is thinking about biological organisms, which we've heard a lot about. And the trick that Richard Dawkins does, which is to say, to look at them as simply as genes, as vehicles for genes. So he's saying, what do genes want? The selfish gene. And I'm applying a similar trick to say, what if we looked at the universe in our culture through the eyes of technology? What does technology want? Obviously, this in an incomplete question, just as looking at an organism as only a gene is an incomplete way of looking at it. But it's still very, very productive. So I'm attempting to say, if we take technology's view of the world, what does it want? And I think once we ask that question we have to go back, actually, to life. Because obviously, if we keep extending the origins of technology far back, I think we come back to life at some point. So that's where I want to begin my little exploration, is in life. And like you heard from the previous speakers, we don't really know what life there is on Earth right now. We have really no idea. Craig Venter's tremendous and brilliant attempt to DNA sequence things in the ocean is great. Brian Farrell's work is all part of this agenda to try and actually discover all the species on Earth. And one of the things that we should do is just make a grid of the globe and randomly go and inspect all the places that the grid intersects, just to see what's on life. And if we did that with our little Martian probe, which we have not done on Earth, we would begin to see some incredible species. This is not on another planet. These are things that are hidden away on our planet. This is an ant that stores its colleagues' honey in its abdomen. Each one of these organisms that we've described -- that you've seen from Jamie and others, these magnificent things -- what they're doing, each one of them, is they're hacking the rules of life. I can't think of a single general principle of biology that does not have an exception somewhere by some organism. Every single thing that we can think of -- and if you heard Olivia's talk about the sexual habits, you'll realize that there isn't anything we can say that's true for all life, because every single one of them is hacking something about it. This is a solar-powered sea slug. It's a nudibranch that has incorporated chloroplast inside it to drive its energy. This is another version of that. This is a sea dragon, and the one on the bottom, the blue one, is a juvenile that has not yet swallowed the acid, has not yet taken in the brown-green algae pond scum into its body to give it energy. These are hacks, and if we looked at the general shape of the approaches to hacking life there are, current consensus, six kingdoms. Six different broad approaches: the plants, the animals, the fungi, the protests -- the little things -- the bacteria and the Archaea bacteria. The Archaeas. Those are the general approaches to life. That's one way to look at life on Earth today. But a more interesting way, the current way to take the long view, is to look at it in an evolutionary perspective. And here we have a view of evolution where rather than having evolution go over the linear time, we have it coming out from the center. So in the center is the most primitive, and this is a genealogical chart of all life on earth. This is all the same six kingdoms. You see 4,000 representative species, and you can see where we are. But what I like about this is it shows that every living organism on Earth today is equally evolved. Those fungi and bacteria are as highly evolved as humans. They've been around just as long and gone through just the same kind of trial and error to get here. But we see that each one of these is actually hacking, and has a different way of finding out how to do life. And if we take the long-term trends of life, if we begin to say, what does evolution want? There's several things that we see. One of the things about evolution is that nowhere on Earth have we ever been where we don't find life. We find life at the bottom of every long-term, long-distance drilling core into the center of rock that we bring up -- and there's bacteria in the pores of that rock. And wherever life is, it never retreats. It's ubiquitous and it wants to be more. More and more of the inert matter of the globe is being touched and animated by life. The second thing is is we see diversity. We also see specialization. We see the movement from a general-purpose cell to the more specific and specialized. And we see a drift towards complexity that's very intuitive. that there is an actual drift towards complexity over time. And the last thing, I bring back this nudibranch. One of the things we see about life is that it moves from the inner to increasing sociability. And by that it means that there is more and more of life whose entire environment is other life. Like those chloroplast cells -- they're completely surrounded by other life. They never touch the inner matter. There is more and more co-evolution. And so the general, long-term trends of evolution are roughly these five: ubiquity, diversity, specialization, complexity and socialization. Now, I took that and said, OK, what are the long-term trends in technology? And again, my question is, what does technology want? And so, remarkably, I discovered that there's also a drift toward specialization. That we see there's a general hammer, and hammers become more and more specific over time. There's obviously diversity. Huge numbers of things. This is all the contents of a Japanese home. I actually had my daughter -- gave her a tally counter, and I gave her an assignment last summer to go around and count the number of species of technology in our household. And it came up with 6,000 different species of products. I did some research and found out that the King of England, Henry VIII, had only about 7,000 items in his household. And he was the King of England, and that was the entire wealth of England at the time. So we're seeing huge numbers of diversity in the kinds of things. This is a scene from Star Wars where the 3PO comes out and he sees machines making machines. How depraved! Well, this is actually what we're headed towards: world machines. And the technology is only being thrown out by other technologies. Most machines will only ever be in contact with other technology and not non-technology, or even life. And thirdly, the idea that machines are becoming biological and complex is at this point a cliche. And I'm happy to say, I was partly responsible for that cliche that machines are becoming biological, but that's pretty evident. So the major trends in technology evolution actually are the same as in biological evolution. The same drives that we see towards ubiquity, towards diversity, towards socialization, towards complexity. That is maybe not a big surprise because if we map out, say, the evolution of armor, you can actually follow a sort of an evolutionary-type cladistic tree. I suggest that, in fact, technology is the seventh kingdom of life. That its operations and how it works is so similar that we can think of it as the seventh kingdom. And so it would be sort of approximately up there, coming out of the animal kingdom. And if we were to do that, we would find out -- we could actually approach technology in this way. This is Niles Eldredge. He was the co-developer with Stephen Jay Gould of the theory of punctuated equilibrium. But as a sideline, he happens to collect cornets. He has one of the world's largest collections -- about 500 of them. And he has decided to treat them as if they were trilobites, or snails, and to do a morphological analysis, and try to derive their genealogical history over time. This is his chart, which is not quite published yet. But the most interesting aspect about this is that if you look at those red lines at the bottom, those indicate basically a parentage of a type of cornet that was no longer made. That does not happen in biology. When something is extinct, you can't have it as your parent. But that does happen in technology. And it turns out that that's so distinctive that you can actually look at this tree, and you can actually use it to determine that this is a technological system versus a biological system. In fact, this idea of resurrecting the whole idea is so important that I began to think about what happens with old technology. And it turns out that, in fact, technologies don't die. So I suggested this to an historian of science, and he said, "Well, what about, you know, come on, what about steam cars? They're not around anymore." Well actually, they are. In fact, they're so around that you can buy new parts for a Stanley steam automobile. And this is a website of a guy who's selling brand new parts for the Stanley automobile. And the thing that I liked is sort of this one-click, add-to-your-cart button -- -- for buying steam valves. I mean, it was just -- it was really there. And so, I began to think about, well, maybe that's just a random sample. Maybe I should do this sort of in a more conservative way. So I took the great big 1895 Montgomery Ward's catalog and I randomly went through it. And I took a page -- not quite a random page -- I took a page that was actually more difficult than others because lots of the pages are filled with things that are still being made. But I took this page and I said, how many of these things are still being made? And not antiques. I want to know how many of these things are still in production. And the answer is: all of them. All of them are still being produced. So you've got corn shellers. I don't know who needs a corn sheller. Be it corn shellers -- you've got ploughs; you've got fan mills; all these things -- and these are not, again, antiques. These are -- you can order these. You can go to the web and you can buy them now, brand-new made. So in a certain sense, technologies don't die. In fact, you can buy, for 50 bucks, a stone-age knife made exactly the same way that they were made 10,000 years ago. It's short, bone handle, 50 bucks. And in fact, what's important is that this information actually never died out. It's not just that it was resurrected. It's continued all along. And in Papua New Guinea, they were making stone axes until two decades ago, just as a course of practical matters. Even when we try to get rid of a technology, it's actually very hard. So we've all heard about the Amish giving up cars. We've heard about the Japanese giving up guns. We've heard about this and that. But I actually went back and took what I could find, the examples in history where there have been prohibitions against technology, and then I tried to find out when they came back in, because they always came back in. And it turns out that the time, the duration of when they were outlawed and prohibited, is decreasing over time. And that basically, you can delay technology, but you can't kill it. So this makes sense, because in a certain sense what culture is, is the accumulation of ideas. That's what it's for. It's so that ideas don't die out. And when we take that, we take this idea of what culture is doing and add it to what the long-term trajectory -- again, in life's evolution -- we find that each case -- each of the major transitions in life -- what they're really about is accelerating and changing the way in which evolution happens. They're actually changing the way in which ideas are generated. So all these steps in evolution are increasing, basically, the evolution of evolvability. So what's happening over time in life is that the ways in which you generate these new ideas, these new hacks, are increasing. And the real tricks are ways in which you kind of explore the way of exploring. And then what we see in the singularity, that prophesized by Kurzweil and others -- his idea that technology is accelerating evolution. It's accelerating the way in which we search for ideas. So if you have life hacking -- life means hacking, the game of survival -- then evolution is a way to extend the game by changing the rules of the game. And what technology is really about is better ways to evolve. That is what we call an "infinite game." That's the definition of "infinite game." A finite game is play to win, and an infinite game is played to keep playing. And I believe that technology is actually a cosmic force. The origins of technology was not in 1829, but was actually at the beginning of the Big Bang, and at that moment the entire huge billions of stars in the universe were compressed. The entire universe was compressed into a little quantum dot, and it was so tight in there, there was no room for any difference at all. That's the definition. There was no temperature. There was no difference whatsoever. And at the Big Bang, what it expanded was the potential for difference. So as it expands and as things expand what we have is the potential for differences, diversity, options, choices, opportunities, possibilities and freedoms. Those are all basically the same thing. And those are the things that technology brings us. That's what technology is bringing us: choices, possibilities, freedoms. That's what it's about. It's this expansion of room to make differences. And so a hammer, when we grab a hammer, that's what we're grabbing. And that's why we continue to grab technology -- because we want those things. Those things are good. Differences, freedom, choices, possibilities. And each time we make a new opportunity place, we're allowing a platform to make new ones. And I think it's really important. Because if you can imagine Mozart before the technology of the piano was invented -- what a loss to society there would be. Imagine Van Gogh being born before the technologies of cheap oil paints. Imagine Hitchcock before the technologies of film. Somewhere, today, there are millions of young children being born whose technology of self-expression has not yet been invented. We have a moral obligation to invent technology so that every person on the globe has the potential to realize their true difference. We want a trillion zillion species of one individuals. That's what technology really wants. I'm going to skip through some of the objections because I don't have answers to why there's deforestation. I don't have an answer to the fact that there seem to be bad technologies. I don't have an answer to how this impacts on our dignity, other than to suggest that maybe the seventh kingdom, because it's so close to what life is about, maybe we can bring it back and have it help us monitor life. Maybe in some ways the fact that what we're trying to do with technology is find a good home for it. It's a terrible thing to spray DDT on cotton fields, but it's a really good thing to use to eliminate millions of cases of death due to malaria in a small village. Our humanity is actually defined by technology. All the things that we think that we really like about humanity is being driven by technology. This is the infinite game. That's what we're talking about. You see, technology is a way to evolve the evolution. It's a way to explore possibilities and opportunities and create more. And it's actually a way of playing the game, of playing all the games. That's what technology wants. And so when I think about what technology wants, I think that it has to do with the fact that every person here -- and I really believe this -- every person here has an assignment. And your assignment is to spend your life discovering what your assignment is. That recursive nature is the infinite game. And if you play that well, you'll have other people involved, so even that game extends and continues even when you're gone. That is the infinite game. And what technology is is the medium in which we play that infinite game. And so I think that we should embrace technology because it is an essential part of our journey in finding out who we are. Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
ここでは政治については民主主義という政治のシステムに注目して考えてみましょう政治学的分類における民主主義とは主権を抑制し分配するための技法です主権は様々な方法で分配できます有名なものでは専制政治というのがありますまた無政府状態は主権を秩序を立てて分配せずバラバラに分散させたものですそして民主主義とはまず最初にできるだけ沢山の人々に主権を拡散させてから一握りの統治者たちに再び主権を集めるという一連の技法ですそしてその統治者たちには民衆が行った選択により統治する権限が与えられますさて宗教を考えてみましょうここではイスラム教ですがこの宗教が我々を戦争へと突き進ませているという単刀直入な見方もあります議論を呼ぶ発言になり得る内容ですからなぜこれが事実だと思うのかを補足します一言でいえばこういう関係です「9・11無くして戦争も無し」ブッシュ政権のはじめにー現ブッシュ大統領がまだ大統領選の候補だったときには世界情勢に大規模な介入はしないと明言していました事実他国と距離を置く方向に行っていましたですから京都議定書から身を引くということも聞いていました 9・11の後その持論は覆されましたそして大統領は側近と共に周辺国へのある種の積極的介入を実行すると決断しましたそれはアフガニスタンから始まりましたアフガニスタンではこの上なくスムーズに迅速に事が運びました民主主義的技法を通して決議がされ― 注意してください完璧な技法では無いのですが民主主義的技法を通してブッシュ政府はまたもや戦争に突き進もうと― 今回はイラクです「9・11無くして戦争も無し」から話を始めた理由はごく小規模ながら極端に過激な人たちによりイスラム教が 9・11を引き起こした原因の一ついや原因そのものだと解釈されていることを認めなければならないからですさらにその結果としてそこから一歩進めて我々が片足を突っ込んでいる戦争を招いた原因だともされていますその上ビン・ラディンと彼の支持者たちは「民主主義」少なくとも資本家にとっての民主主義と彼らが定義している「イスラム世界」の間で争いを起こそうと躍起になっていますでは概念的装置としてのイスラム教とはどんな技法でしょうか? まず救済のための技法というのが信条基盤にありますそれは世界を読み解くための手段になることを意味しそのことで信者1人1人に救済がもたらされるという考えですそれがイスラム主義者という意味です― 私はその考えを持つ信者のみを意味する言葉として使っています― 彼らはイスラム教が社会政治個人信条など様々な問題の唯一の答えであるというスローガンに従いますその様な見解を持つ人々イスラム世界にいる多くの人たちの間ではビン・ラディンの行動は否定されていますがイスラムの教えは肯定されていますイスラム教は望ましいある目標を個人で到達することで世界が良くなっていくという理屈ですまたイスラム教徒が原則的に目指すその目標とは平和と正義そして平等ですが彼らの考えに則ればイスラム教徒の伝統的な教えに一致しますさて民主主義あるいはイスラム教が提起する内容やあるいは現象の一方だけを技法として特定して間違った印象を残したくありませんどちらもこれと示せるものとしては扱いたくないのですこのことを示す良い方法は私が講演する時に後ろの壁に何を掲げるかを決める― 思考過程をお話しすることでしょうたちまち概念的な問題にぶち当たりました民主主義の画を示せないのです民主主義のスローガンやシンボルサインは出せるのですけどね国会議事堂を出すこともできます私はこれから出す本の表紙をデザインする時に同じ問題を抱えていました皆さんは民主主義を表現するために表紙に何を載せますか? 同様にイスラム教に関するものでは? モスクや礼拝者たちを載せるかもしれませんがそれはイスラム教を直接的に表現していませんですからそこには簡単に表現し難いある種の概念があるのですそれを踏まえると難しい争点になりそうですそうなるとこの世の全てのイスラム教徒を自称する人たちがイスラム教の本質について多様な解釈をしても原理的におかしくないのですそしてそれは民主主義の場合でも同様です例えば「希望」という言葉であれば辞書で調べ語源を辿り用法についてある同意に至るでしょうでもイスラムと民主主義は確実に論争となり人々が心の底から同意できないそんな概念ですその不同意の結果として誰かが「私のイスラム教が正しい」と言うことはほぼ不可能となりますご存知のように 9・11の後で私たちは素晴らしい出来事に遭遇しましたジョージ・W・ブッシュがこう言ったのです「イスラムは『平和』を意味している」ジョージ・W・ブッシュがそう言ったのですある人は他の何かを意味するというかもしれませんある人たちは「服従」の意味だと言い「神の主権を認識し認めること」だと言っている人たちもいましたイスラム教の意味は幅広く様々です表面上は民主主義にも同じことがあてはまりますある人たちは民主主義は「選挙を基盤にして成立する」と言います他の人たちは「それだけでは足りない言論の自由と平等という基本的自由権の存在が必要不可欠だ」と言いますこういった争点に「わかったこう考えればいいんだその概念の意味はこうだ」などの答は得られませんではもしイスラム教と民主主義が現在大きな争いの渦中にいるのならそれは何を意味するか? それは多様な解釈の枠組みで捉えられるかもしれませんその枠組みの1つが数日前に始まったことですそれは恐怖です戦争が近づくと怖くなるのは当たり前です軍事衝突により沢山の人が死ぬ可能性が非常に高くなるのですから非常に多くのイスラム教徒は戦争を望んでいませんアメリカの民主主義も戦争を望んでいません世界中の人々がそうですそれでも戦争への第一歩は充分支持されており少なくとも戦争に関わる場所すなわちアメリカでは― 戦争に突き進んでいますですから恐怖は当たり前ですし私にとっては実に正常な反応だと思いますここから先皆さんに提案したいのはそれに対して前向きな反応があるということですその前向きな反応はまずイスラム教も民主主義も技法であると認めることから始まります技法であることの良い所はその操り方があるのですいろいろな方法で操ってとても前向きな結果を生み出すこともできます私はどう考えているか? 全世界のイスラム教徒の中にはイスラム教を信仰や文明や深い信条の大元としてもしくはアイデンティティーの拠り所として真剣に深く信仰し思いを寄せている人たちがいます彼らはイスラム教と民主主義は実際には衝突関係に無く共存できるものであると考えその事をハッキリと主張していますそういうイスラム教徒は ―イスラム教徒の大多数がそうですが― ビン・ラディンのやり方に心底反対しています心の底から反対なのですその上彼らは圧倒的にこう考えています― 全員とは言いませんが圧倒的と分かるのはイスラム教徒の文書を誰でも読めるからですそれはインターネット上に多言語で見つかるので― 誰でもイスラム教徒の思考は理解できます彼らはそれぞれ自分の国の基本的な役割は自由に生活領域経済活動政治信条そして勿論宗教を選択する自由を与えることだと言っています宗教それ自体はイスラム世界のほとんどで律されています多くのイスラム教徒はさらにこう言います今も昔もアメリカに同意できないのはアメリカが自国の短期的利益のためならばイスラム圏で独裁者の味方になってきたという点です冷戦中のアメリカが取るべき防衛的な戦略拠点だったのかもしれません考えても役に立ちませんがそこには西側と東側との間の大きな衝突が予想されたかもしれないし共産主義に対抗する民主主義の主軸として必要だったのかもしれません互いに否定しあう中で味方が必要だったので誰とでも友人にならなければなりませんでしたしかし冷戦は終わりましたイスラム教徒の中にまとまった合意が出来つつありましたーここアメリカ国内でも似たようなものです意見を聞いてみると民主主義とイスラム教が共存できないはずがない活動家たちやイスラム実践者たちにもそのような意見が見られます例えばトルコの選挙で選ばれた民主主義政府のイスラム教議員の様にです彼らはイデオロギー的ではなく実践的に振る舞いますし彼ら自身の宗教的価値観を推進しています彼らは宗教的価値観のおかげで正直で誠実であると国民から認められ選出されたのですがイスラム教と民主主義による統治の仕組みとは基本的には対立しないと考えています多分こんな意見もあるでしょう「テレビでサウジアラビアのイスラム教徒が政治的選択の自由と基本的な自由と平等といういわゆる民主主義中心の考え方とは絶対に相容れないと言っていたのは何なんだ」ここにいる皆さんには技法には順応性があるということをお伝えしたいと思いますお伝えしたいのは多くの― 実に大多数のイスラム教徒が― 私がお話しできる限りの事実としてサウジアラビアのイスラム教徒の中心にある価値観はいわゆる神の主権を認め神よりも先に人々の基本的平等を認めることですイスラム教自体は自由と平等政治的選択の自由と両立できるのです多くのイスラム教徒たちは確かにそう言ってます彼らは許される限りどこでもそのことを主張しますしかし政府は当然ですがいくらかそのことに脅かされますそして主張をおおかた封じ込めるようにしています例えばエジプトの若い活動家たちがイスラム教と民主主義の両立を支持するセンター政党という政党を作ろうとしましたが彼らには政党を作る許可が出ませんでした実は彼らは政党を作ることさえ妨害されているのです政治システム上の都合です何故でしょうか? 彼らは大成功するに違いないからですイスラムの世界で最近の選挙― パキスタンとモロッコとトルコの中で行われたもので―それぞれ有権者に自分がイスラム民主主義者だとアピールした人々は自由に活動できる範囲内であれば突出した数の票を獲得しました例えばモロッコで彼らの得票数は三位でしたが立候補できたのは議席の半分に対してであり立候補できる議席数がもっと多ければもっと票を得ていたでしょうこんな有様ですが皆さんには前向きな見解をお話ししましょうイスラム世界は過渡期に差し掛かっているのです敬虔なイスラム教徒の中にも変化が生じているのですかなり伝統を重んじる彼らもイスラムの価値を曲げたくない彼らも民主主義という技法の順応性とイスラムという技法の順応性とこれからの可能性をとおしてふたつが一緒に交われると信じているのですその結果どうなるか? イスラム教的民主主義とはどういうことでしょうか? まず 1つ言えることは私たちがアメリカで馴染んでいる民主主義と全く同じにはならないということです今日語られる批判を踏まえるとそれは良いことかもしれません例えば規制という側面から見ると民主主義は何を生み出せるのかここにいる人たちや他の世界中のイスラム教徒いずれもが考えるイスラムの概念とも違うでしょう ―イスラム教徒がここにいないと言いたかったのではありません多分いらっしゃるでしょう― それはイスラム教を変化させるものでもありますそして民主主義とイスラム教が歩み寄り共に成立するために力を合わせる試みから現実的な可能性が生まれるのですイスラム文化と民主主義の文化が衝突するのではなく互いに密接に共存していくことが現実にありえるのです戦争から話を始めたのは触れたくない話題だからです今日の話題を語ろうという時戦争などありえないという欺瞞は通じませんお話ししているモデルに対して戦争は著しいリスクですなぜなら戦争の結果として多くのイスラム教徒がアメリカのことを政治形式に関して真似したい国ではないと結論付けるかもしれないからですさらに一方で戦争の熱気にとりつかれ多くのアメリカ人がイスラム教が敵だと― イスラム教が宿敵に違いないと言ったり感じたり考える可能性がありますそれでも大統領は政治的な戦略でイスラム教は敵でないという発言を真面目に行っていますそれでもなお戦争に向かうときは相手国を敵とみなす自然な感情ですそしてさらに敵が誰かを意味づけする際にできるだけ一般化しようという衝動がはたらきますですからリスクは大いにあります一方で戦争終結後のプラスの結果として実現できることを過小評価してはなりません特に最初は戦争に踏み切るべきかどうか疑り深かった人々でさえそういう評価をします戦争に反対している人たちも戦争が起きたら認識すべきことがあります戦争の後になってこう言うのは実質的に信念的にモラル的に正しいやり方であるはずありません「もうそのまま放っておこうやりたいようにやるがいいそもそも私たちは戦争反対なんだから」状況はそんな勝手に動きません目の前にある状況を直視し前に進むのです戦争を疑っている人たちに対して私の言いたいことは戦争の後でアメリカ政府とイスラム教徒が本当の意味で民主主義的でイスラム教的な政府のひな形を協議して作る可能性の存在を認めることが特に重要だということです ―活動家たちが実践している中で― その問題を気にしている人々が民主主義の技法内でそのシステム内で彼らの活動や選択や声明について結果に反映させるべく努めていくことは重要ですこれは明るいメッセージですしかし全員が重い義務を負っていると理解している人にだけ届く明るいメッセージです私たちにはその義務を負う能力があると思いますしかしそれに真剣に取り組んだ時だけ可能ですその取り組みが明るい展望を支える根拠になることでしょうありがとうございました	Here's what I mean. Politics and -- let's focus on the political system in particular question here, which is the system of democracy. Democracy, as a type of politics, is a technology for the control and deployment of power. You can deploy power in a wide range of ways. The famous ones -- despotism is a good one; anarchy is a way to not deploy the power in any organized way, to do it in a radically diffused fashion; and democracy is a set of technologies, which have the effect of, in principle, diffusing the power source to a large number of people and then re-concentrating it in a smaller group of people who govern, and who themselves are, in principle, authorized to govern by virtue of what the broader public has done. Now, consider religion -- in this case Islam, which is the religion that, in some direct sense, can be said to be precipitating what we're about to enter. Let me say parenthetically why I think that's the case, because I think it's a potentially controversial statement. I would put it in the following equation: no 9/11, no war. At the beginning of the Bush administration, when President Bush, now President Bush, was running for president, he made it very clear that he was not interested in intervening broadly in the world. In fact, the trend was for disengagement with the rest of the world. That's why we heard about the backing away from the Kyoto protocol, for example. After 9/11, the tables were turned. And the president decided, with his advisors, to undertake some kind of an active intervention in the world around us. That began with Afghanistan, and when Afghanistan went extremely smoothly and quickly, a decision was made through the technology of democracy -- again, notice, not a perfect technology -- but through the technology of democracy that this administration was going to push in the direction of another war -- this time, a war in Iraq. Now, the reason I begin by saying "no 9/11, no war" as interpreted by a very, very small, extremely radical group of people, was a precipitating cause of the 9/11 attacks -- the precipitating cause of the 9/11 attacks -- and as a consequence, at one degree of remove, the precipitating cause of the coming war that we're about to be engaged in. And I would add that bin Laden and his followers are consciously devoted to the goal of creating a conflict between democracy, or at least capitalist democracy, on the one hand, and the world of Islam as they see and define it. Now, how is Islam a technology in this conceptual apparatus? Well, it's a technology for, first, salvation in its most basic sense. It's meant to be a mechanism for construing the universe in a way that will bring about the salvation of the individual believer, but it's also meant by the Islamists -- and I use that term to mean people who believe that Islam -- they follow the slogan, Islam is the answer to a wide range of questions, whether they're social, or political, or personal, or spiritual. Within the sphere of people who have that view, and it's a large number of people in the Muslim world who disagree with bin Laden in his application, but agree that Islam is the answer. Islam represents a way of engaging the world through which one can achieve certain desirable goals. And the goals from the perspective of Muslims are, in principle, peace, justice and equality, but on terms that correspond to traditional Muslim teachings. Now, I don't want to leave a misimpression by identifying either of these propositions -- rather, either of these phenomena, democracy or Islam -- as technologies. I don't want to suggest that they are a single thing that you can point to. And I think a good way to prove this is simply to demonstrate to you what my thought process was when deciding what to put on the wall behind me when I spoke. And I ran immediately into a conceptual problem: you can't show a picture of democracy. You can show a slogan, or a symbol, or a sign that stands for democracy. You can show the Capitol -- I had the same problem when I was designing the cover of my forthcoming book, in fact -- what do you put on the cover to show democracy? And the same problem with respect to Islam. You can show a mosque, or you can show worshippers, but there's not a straightforward way of depicting Islam. That's because these are the kinds of concepts that are not susceptible to easy representation. Now, it follows from that, that they're deeply contestable. It follows from that that all of the people in the world who say that they are Muslims can, in principle, subscribe to a wide range of different interpretations of what Islam really is, and the same is true of democracy. In other words, unlike the word hope, which one could look up in a dictionary and derive origins for, and, perhaps, reach some kind of a consensual use analysis, these are essentially contested concepts. They're ideas about which people disagree in the deepest possible sense. And as a consequence of this disagreement, "I have the right version of Islam." You know, post-9/11, we were treated to the amazing phenomenon of George W. Bush saying, "Islam means peace." Well, so says George W. Bush. Other people would say it means something else. Some people would say that Islam means submission. Other people would say it means an acknowledgement or recognition of God's sovereignty. There are a wide range of different things that Islam can mean. And ostensibly, the same is true of democracy. Some people say that democracy consists basically in elections. Other people say no, that's not enough, there have to be basic liberal rights: free speech, free press, equality of citizens. These are contested points, and it's impossible to answer them by saying, "Ah ha, I looked in the right place, and I found out what these concepts mean." Now, if Islam and democracy are at present in a moment of great confrontation, what does that mean? Well, you could fit it into a range of different interpretative frameworks. You could begin with the one that we began with a couple of days ago, which was fear. Fear is not an implausible reaction with a war just around the corner and with a very, very high likelihood that many, many people are going to die as a consequence of this confrontation -- a confrontation which many, many people in the Muslim world do not want, many, many people in the American democracy do not want, many people elsewhere in the world do not want, but which nonetheless is favored by a large enough number of people -- at least in the relevant space, which is the United States -- to actually go forward. So fear is not a crazy response at all. And I think that that's, in fact, probably the first appropriate response. What I want to suggest to you, though, in the next couple of minutes is that there's also a hopeful response to this. And the hopeful response derives from recognizing that Islam and democracy are technologies. And by virtue of being technologies, they're manipulable. And they're manipulable in ways that can produce some extremely positive outcomes. What do I have in mind? Well, all over the Muslim world there are people who take Islam deeply seriously, people who care about Islam, for whom it's a source either of faith, or of civilization, or of deep values, or just a source of powerful personal identity, who think and are saying loudly that Islam and democracy are in fact not in conflict, but are in fact deeply compatible. And these Muslims -- and it's the vast majority of Muslims -- disagree profoundly with bin Laden's approach, profoundly. And they furthermore think overwhelmingly -- again one can't speak of every person, but overwhelmingly, and one can find this by reading any of the sources that they have produced, and they're all over the Internet and in all sorts of languages -- one can see that they're saying that their concern in their own countries is primarily to free up themselves to have choice in the spheres of personal life, in the sphere of economics, in the sphere of politics, and, yes, in the sphere of religion, which is itself closely regulated in most of the Muslim world. And many of these Muslims further say that their disagreement with the United States is that it, in the past and still in the present, has sided with autocratic rulers in the Muslim world in order to promote America's short-term interests. Now, during the Cold War, that may have been a defensible position for the United States to take. That's an academic question. It may be that there was a great war to be fought between West and East, and it was necessary on the axis of democracy against communism. And it was necessary in some way for these to contradict each other, and as a consequence you have to make friends wherever you can get them. But now that the Cold War is over, there's nearly universal consensus in the Muslim world -- and pretty close to the same here in the United States, if you talk to people and ask them -- that in principle, there's no reason that democracy and Islam cannot co-exist. And we see this among activist, practical Muslims, like the Muslims who are presently the elected, parliamentary, democratic government of Turkey, who are behaving pragmatically, not ideologically, who are promoting their own religious values, who are elected by their own people because they were perceived as honest and sincere because of their religious values, but who do not think that Islam and a democratic system of governance are fundamentally incompatible. Now, you may say, but surely, what we've seen on television about Saudi Islam namely, free political choice, basic liberty and basic equality. But I'm here to tell you that technologies are more malleable than that. I'm here to tell you that many, many Muslims believe -- the vast majority, in fact -- in fact I think I would go so far as to say that many Muslims in Saudi Arabia believe that the core values of Islam, namely acknowledgement of God's sovereignty and basic human equality before God, are themselves compatible with liberty, equality and free political choice. And there are Muslims, many Muslims out there, who are saying precisely this. And they're making this argument wherever they're permitted to make it. But their governments, needless to say, are relatively threatened by this. And for the most part try to stop them from making this argument. So, for example, a group of young activists in Egypt which advocated the compatibility of Islam and democracy. They weren't even allowed to form a party. They were actually blocked from even forming a party under the political system there. Why? Because they would have done extraordinarily well. In the most recent elections in the Muslim world -- which are those in Pakistan, those in Morocco and those in Turkey -- in each case, people who present themselves to the electorate as Islamic democrats were far and away the most successful vote-getters every place they were allowed to run freely. So in Morocco, for example, they finished third in the political race but they were only allowed to contest half the seats. So had they contested a larger number of the seats, they would have done even better. Now what I want to suggest to you is that the reason for hope in this case is that we are on the edge of a real transformation in the Muslim world. And that's a transformation in which many sincerely believing Muslims -- who care very, very deeply about their traditions, who do not want to compromise those values -- believe, through the malleability of the technology of democracy and the malleability and synthetic capability of the technology of Islam, that these two ideas can work together. Now what would that look like? What does it mean to say that there's an Islamic democracy? Well, one thing is, it's not going to look identical to democracy as we know it in the United States. That may be a good thing, in light of some of the criticisms we've heard today -- for example, in the regulatory context -- of what democracy produces. It will also not look exactly the way either the people in this room, or Muslims out in the rest of the world -- I don't mean to imply there aren't Muslims here, there probably are -- conceptualize Islam. It will be transformative of Islam as well. And as a result of this convergence, this synthetic attempt to make sense of these two ideas together, there's a real possibility that, instead of a clash of Islamic civilization -- if there is such a thing -- and democratic civilization -- if there is such a thing -- we'll in fact have close compatibility. Now, I began with the war because it's the elephant in the room, and you can't pretend that there isn't about to be a war if you're talking about these issues. The war has tremendous risks for the model that I'm describing because it's very possible that as a consequence of a war, many Muslims will conclude that the United States is not the kind of place that they want to emulate with respect to its forms of political government. On the other hand, there's a further possibility that many Americans, swept up in the fever of a war, will say, and feel, and think that Islam is the enemy somehow -- that Islam ought to be construed as the enemy. And even though, for political tactical reasons, the president has been very, very good about saying that Islam is not the enemy, nonetheless, there's a natural impulse when one enters war to think of the other side as an enemy. And one furthermore has the impulse to generalize, as much as possible, So the risks are very great. On the other hand, the capacities for positive results in the aftermath of a war are also not to be underestimated, even by, and I would say especially by, people who are deeply skeptical about whether we should go to war in the first place. Those who oppose the war ought to realize that if a war happens, it cannot be the right strategy, either pragmatically, or spiritually, or morally, to say after the war, "Well, let's let it all run itself out, and play out however it wants to play out, because we opposed the war in the first place." That's not the way human circumstances operate. You face the circumstances you have in front of you and you go forward. for people who are skeptical about the war, it's especially important to recognize that in the aftermath of the war there is a possibility for the government of the United States and the Muslim peoples with whom it interacts to create real forms of government that are truly democratic and also truly Islamic. And it is crucial -- it is crucial in a practical, activist way -- for people who care about these issues to make sure that within the technology of democracy, in this system, they exercise their preferences, their choices and their voices to encourage that outcome. That's a hopeful message, but it's a message that's hopeful only if you understand it And I think that we are capable of taking on that obligation, but only if we put what we can into it. And if we do, then I don't think that the hope will be unwarranted altogether. 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「この町はリンゴが特産品なんだ。もちろん、そのまま食べても美味しいけど、アップルパイなんかにしても格別だぜ。沢山あるから、いくらでも食べてくれ」教会に招待されたアイリスたちは、応接室でアップルパイと紅茶をご馳走になった。持ってきてくれたのは、教会のシスターさんだ。アイリスはまた「人間だぁっ!」と叫びそうになったが、流石に失礼なので、グッとこらえた。幸いにも無口なシスターさんだったらしく、話しかけられることもなく終わった。よかったよかった。「おいしー! チョコと同じくらいおいしー!」イクリプスは口の中いっぱいにアップルパイを詰め込み、頬を大きく膨らませながらモグモグと食べる。行儀が悪いと叱りたいところだが、その仕草が可愛いので、叱るに叱れない。「本当に美味しいですねぇ。私も趣味でお菓子を作りますが、これはちょっと勝てません」「カニングハム子爵領は昔からリンゴで有名じゃからなぁ。もっとも、シルバーライト男爵領も年前はリンゴの名産地じゃった」「あ、父から聞いたことがあります。でも、もうリンゴの木は残っていませんね......でも植えたら美味しいリンゴが実りそうです! なにせアイリス様とイクリプス様の魔力が染み込んだ土ですから!」シェリルは期待たっぷりに語りながら、更にアップルパイを食べる。「そうそう、その話を聞きたかったんだ。アイリスと、それから妹のイクリプスだっけ? あんたら何者なんだい?」「えっと......」この町の守護神ロシュは、微笑みながらも、探るような目を向けてきた。前に来た異端審問官は上手くごまかせた。しかし、それは彼女がアホだったからだ。適当なことを言ってはぐらかそうとしても、通用しないだろう。「アイリスとイクリプスも妾に守護神をしているのじゃー。妾を復活させてくれたのは、アイリスなのじゃー。感謝なのじゃー」「へえ、そうなんだ......確かに、二人からは神の気配を感じるな」ロシュは興味深げに言う。するとイクリプスは首を傾げ、不思議そうな顔になった。「神の気配ぃ? 私とアイリスお姉ちゃんからー?」「そう。きっとシルバーライト男爵領の人たちから、大切に信仰されているんだろうさ」そう言えば、異端審問官のケイティも、アイリスから神の気配がするとか言っていた。あのときは聞き流したが......もしかすると、神として祭られているうちに、本当に神としての性質を持ってしまったのかもしれない。「でも、神の気配とは別に、もっと濃い別のものが感じられるぜ。人間が神になる例は結構あるみたいだが......あんたらのようなのは、かなり珍しいんじゃないか?」「私たちの正体に気付いたの......?」「ああ。けど大丈夫だ。言いふらすつもりはないぜ。まあ言いふらしたところで、よほど特殊な連中じゃない限り、気にしないと思うけど。今どき魔族なんてそんなもんだよ」「ああ、流石は神様......一発でバレるとは......」アイリスは感心すると同時に、クリフォト大陸の魔族たちが哀れになった。魔族が隣の領地で守護神をやっていても、ロシュは気にしないとまで言い切っている。もはや誰も魔族に対して、敵対心も憎悪も抱いていない。心底どうでもいいのだ。下手をすれば、クリフォト大陸の魔族が全員こっちに移住しようとしても、割とすんなりいくのではないだろうか。「神にも色々いるからのぅ。元魔族の神がいてもいいじゃろ。それよりもロシュ。お主、いつの間に守護神になったのじゃ? 二百年前はまだ見習いじゃったろ?」「ミュリエルが消えてからすぐだ。オヤジが出世して天上世界の神になったから。あたしが後を継いだんだ」「そうか。ガーシュは天上世界に行ったのか。どちらの土地に美味しいリンゴが実るか、毎年勝負をしていたものじゃ。もう一度会いたいのじゃ」「何十年かに一度、あたしに会いに来てくれるぜ。そのうちまた来るんじゃないか?」「それは楽しみじゃ。シェリルよ。シルバーライト男爵領に、リンゴ畑を復活させるのじゃ。今度はロシュと勝負じゃ」「はい、かしこまりました!」「いいぜ、負けないよ」ロシュは気持ちのいい返事をしてきた。「ぷにーぷにー」えんがちょ色からアップルパイの色に染まったプニガミが、ぷにぷにしながら声を上げる。「あ、そっか。そろそろ帰らないと日が暮れちゃうわ。雪だるまも完成させないと」「ああ、なるほど。あの雪玉は雪だるまのために転がしていたのか。随分とダイナミックなことを思いつくんだなぁ」ロシュは感心した様子だった。「私が考えたんだよー」「そうか。凄い発想力だな」「えへへー」褒められたイクリプスはとても嬉しそうだ。ロシュは幼い姿なのに、とても人間ができている。いや神ができていると言うべきか。「そう言えば。ずっと南にあるワガカ村ってところで、水不足らしいぜ。この辺の雪を持って行けたら水不足も解消するんだろうけど、流石に難しいよなぁ」と、ロシュは何気なく呟いた。そしてアイリスも何気なく考え込む。あの大きな雪玉を持って行けば、南の人たちは助かるだろう。しかし南のほうは暑い。運んでいる最中に融けてしまう。だがアイリスの魔力は無尽蔵だ。魔術で何とかなるはず。「......やってみる価値はありそうね」	「Apples are this town’s specialty. Of course, you can eat them as they are, but making something like an apple pie would be much better. We have plenty here, so don’t hold yourself back」 Iris and the rest, who were invited into the church, received an apple pie and tea. It was a sister-san from the church who brought it. Iris was about to scream「Human!」but she held herself back for it would’ve been rude. Fortunately, she was the silent type and it ended up without a conversation. How fortunate. 「Tasty! As tasty as chocolate!」 Eclipse spoke with her mouth stuffed completely with the apple pie. It was time to scold her for the lack of manners, but she looked too adorable to be scolded. 「It’s delicious. I’m making sweets as a hobby but this is a bit above my level」「The Cunningham Viscounty has always been famous for its apples. That being said, the Silverlight Barony didn’t lose by too much in that regard」「Ah, I’ve heard about it from my father. But there are no apple trees anymore.......but if we do plant some, we would be able to harvest delicious apples! After all, it’s a land filled with Iris-sama and Eclipse-sama’s magical power!」 Sheryl took another piece with great expectations all over her face. 「That’s it, that’s what I wanted to talk about. Iris and your little sister, Eclipse, right? Who are you?」「Etto......」 The Guardian Deity of this town, Roshe, smiled and directed her inquisitive eyes at them. She successfully deceived the inquisitor that came some time ago. However, that’s because she’s an idiot. A casual answer won’t be able to deceive her. 「Iris and Eclipse are the Guardian Deities together with This Mistress. Iris was the one to resurrect This Mistress. She should be praised」「Oh, is that so.......I do indeed sense divine presence from them」 Said Roshe with interest. Eclipse tilted her head with a confused face. 「Divine presence? From Big Sister Iris and me?」「Yes. You are cherished by the people of the Silverlight Barony greatly 」 Come to think of it, the inquisitor, Katie, said something along those lines. She let it slide the last time........but perhaps something inside her changed because of people’s faith. 「But there is something much more powerful than divine presence present in you. There are plenty of exceptions when a human becomes a god........aren’t you a rare specimen?」「Did you recognize our identity.......?」「Yes. But it’s alright. I don’t plan to spread it. Well, even if I do spread the news, only selected few would be interested」「As expected of a goddess......defeated in one hit......」 While feeling impressed, Iris also thought of the demons back at the Kurifot continent as pitiful. If a demon becomes a Guardian Deity of a neighboring territory, no one minds it. No one hates demons anymore. No one cares enough. If the demon race suddenly migrates here in its entirety, it might actually go quite smoothly. 「There are many kinds of gods. A former demon becoming a god is not that strange. Enough about that, when did you become a Guardian Deity, Roshe?」「Right after you disappeared. Father ascended to become a god in Heaven, so I inherited his position」「I see. So Gashe went to Heaven. In the past, we competed with our apples every year. This Mistress wants to try once again」「Visit me again in a few decades. At that time, everything would be possible」「Looking forward to it. Sheryl. We are going to revive the apple gardens. Next time, This Mistress shall win」「Yes, as you wish!」「Sure, I won’t lose.」 Replied Roshe with expectation. 「Punipuni」 Punigami, colored as an apple pie, raised his voice. 「Ah, okay. It’s time we come home. We still have to finish the snowman」「I see. You were pushing those snowballs to make a snowman. What a dynamic idea」 Roshe seemed to be impressed. 「It’s my idea」「I see. What a brilliant mind you have」「Ehehe」 Eclipse was happy to receive praise. Roshe might look young but she’s a proper human. Or more like a proper god. 「Come to think of it. The village to the south of here suffers from the lack of water. If only I could bring snow there, but it’s rather difficult, as expected」 Or so Roshe casually muttered. And Iris casually thought. If we bring these snowballs there, it should solve the problem. However, the south is hot. They would melt halfway. But Iris’ magical power was immeasurable. Everything is possible with magic. 「......Might as well try」	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 1, "inserted_lines_src": 0, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
「はい、ミートソースとグラタンとパエリア前ずつね! お待ちどうさま!」「「ありがとうございます!」」イングリスとラフィニアは、にっこりと満面の笑みで料理を受け取った。既にの料理を平らげたイングリス達は、食堂のおばさんに料理の追加をお願いしに来たのだった。「ほんと、いい食べっぷりだねえ。まだまだ作れるから、どんどん食べてどんどん強くなるんだよ!」「「はい!」」また声を揃えて返事をすると、自分達の席に戻った。「あ、相変わらずとんでもなく食べるわね......こんな朝から」一緒の席に座っていたレオーネは呆れ半分にそう言った。「よ、よくそんなに入りますわね――信じられませんわ」リーゼロッテは目を丸くしている。余程驚いたようだ。「そんなに食ってよく太らねえなとも」「ある意味羨ましいですね......」ラティやプラムも目を丸くしている。「本当にね、私なんてちょっと食べ過ぎたらすぐにお肉になるのに――」「そう? あたしはむしろお肉が欲しいわよ? ここに――」と、ラフィニアは自分の胸をぽんぽんと撫でる。「ねえどうやったら大きくなるの、レオーネ?」「わ、私も知りたいです......!」リーゼロッテは双方の中間くらいなので、単に様子を眺めている。「わ、分からないわよ。気が付いたらこうなっていただけだし......」と、恥ずかしそうにするレオーネの服の胸元には、リンちゃんが埋まって寛いでいる。「いいなあ――一回替わってほしいわよ」「私の体でそんなに食べたら、あっという間に凄く太るわよ?」「つまり、太らない上にこっちも立派なクリスが最強ってことよねー?」「ひゃっ!? あ、当たり前みたいに胸を触らないで......!」「いいじゃない、羨ましいんだから!」「もう、せめてお風呂の中だけにしてってば――」「お! つまりこれからお風呂なら、クリスの胸を揉み放題ってことでよろしいと?」「よろしくない!」「あはは......でもそんなに食べて大丈夫? これからラファエル様にお会いするんでしょう?」レオーネの言う通り、今日は騎士アカデミーの休講日であり、これから街に出てラファエルに会いに行く約束をしていた。の死骸を輸送する任務は、大きな問題なく成功したそうだ。「「うん。だから腹三分目くらいにしてるよ?」」二人は当然、と言いたげに口をそろえる。「そ、それで三分目なのね――」「そんなに食うんだと、メシ代も大変だろうなぁ」「そうなのよねえ。田舎から王都に出て来る時、食べ過ぎて途中で路銀が無くなっちゃったりもしたわ」ラティの指摘にラフィニアは頷く。「ああ。そんなこともあったね」「今は校長先生のおかげで食堂は食べ放題だけど――ずっとじゃないし、食べ放題が終わったら、ラファ兄様に言って食費をもらう事にする?」「それも悪い気がするけど、ね」「あーあ。この間の事で、どかーんとご褒美とかもらえればよかったのにね」「仕方ないわ。表向きには何も無かったって事になったんでしょう?」「うん。そうらしいね」ラファエルや正規の騎士団の留守中に起きた例の事件に関しては、公式には「何もなかった」という扱いになるのだそうだ。の特使ミュンテーを討とうとしたし、ミュンテーはミュンテーで自分の研究成果の以前のラーアルの時のように、全てを血鉄鎖旅団の仕業と認定する事も今回は少々難しい。むざむざ特使を血鉄鎖旅団に討ち取られたとなると、責任者であるアールシア宰相や現場の騎士達の責任を問わねばならなくなるからだ。しかし、それえでも何も音沙汰無しというわけには行かないという事で、イングリス達は近々王城で催されるパーティに招待されることになっていた。イングリス達にそんなお金は無いので、ラファエルが買ってくれることになっていた。「よし、じゃあそろそろ行きましょクリス、レオーネ。王都のお店だから、きっとユミルより品揃えとか凄いわよ、楽しみよね?」「うん。そうだね楽しみ」相変わらず、イングリスは着飾るのは好きだった。「ちょっと意外よね。恋愛とか興味ないのにお洒落は好きなのね? イングリスって」「そこは、自分で見て満足して楽しむものだから。自己満足が大事なんだよ」「な、なるほど......」「クリスは何を着せても似合うから、着せ替えさせると楽しいわよ! さぁ行きましょ」イングリス達は騎士アカデミーの敷地を出て、門の前でラファエルの迎えを待った。「あっ! おーいみんなー!」「久しぶりね」のリップルとエリスの二人だった。	「Here are your three people’s servings of Bolognese Pasta, Gratin, and Paella! Sorry for the wait!」「「Thank you very much!」」 With smiles almost reaching their ears, Inglis and Rafinha received their food. This was the Knight Academy’s cafeteria. The both of them who had already devoured military rations waltzed to the cafeteria’s aunty to get seconds. 「Honestly, what good appetites you two have. I can make more, so eat more and get stronger!」「「Yes!」」 After they raised a cheerful reply, they walked back to their table. 「A-, as always, the amount of food you eat is ridiculous... and it’s still morning.」 Commented Leone who sat at the same table half in daze. 「I-, it’s hard to believe all of those foods going into their stomachs.」 Liselotte was as wide-eyed. She must’ve been quite surprised. 「And they don’t get fat at all even when they eat that much.」「It’s very enviable, in a sense......」 Lahti and Pullum were as amazed as the other two. 「Tell me about it. And then there’s me who’ll easily gain extra meat if I eat even for just another spoonful——」 Apparently, Leone easily got fat, and she was very envious of Inglis and Rafinha for it. 「Is that so? Rather, I’d like to have more meat myself, you know? Especially here——」 Responded Rafinha as she patted her own chest. 「Just how did you make them so big, Leone? Heey?」「I-, I wish to know that too......!」 Pullum whose body line was not all that different from Rafinha’s also bit into the topic. Liselotte’s assets rested between the two factions, so they watched from the sideline. 「H-, how would I know that. They were already like this before I realized it......」 On the bosom of the embarrassed Leone, Rene was burying herself in solemnity. 「How envious~ I wish we could swap places.」「You’ll get fat in no time if you eat like that with my body, you know?」「So, the one who won’t get fat but still has an incredible bust, Inglis, is the strongest?」「Hyau!? D-, don’t grope my chest like it’s natural......!」「I’m jealous, so isn’t it fine!」「Geez. At least limit it to only when taking bath——」「Oh! So that means it’s okay to rub Glis’ chest as much as I want during bath?」「No, it’s not!」「Ahaha...... Still, is it okay to be eating now? Aren’t we going to meet Sir Raphael after this?」 Just as Leone said, as the Academy’s classes were canceled today, they had a plan to go to the city and meet up with Raphael. A few days passed since the incident during the presentation of tributes to the Highland, and Raphael had already returned to the Royal Capital. His mission to transport the corpse of Prisma to a town bordering the neighboring country had succeeded without seeing many hitches. If they were going to meet up with him, he would surely treat them to food later. 「「Yeah. That’s why it’s only three servings, why do you ask?」」 Their speech implied that it was just common sense. 「Y-, you said it’s only three servings, huh——」「Your spending on food must be high if you eat that much.」「That is the truth. We once ran out of traveling expenses from overeating in the middle of our journey from our hometown to here.」 Rafinha nodded at Lahti’s remark. 「Aah. We did, didn’t we?」「Thanks to Principal Miliera, we can eat in the cafeteria as much as we want now, but——it’s not permanent. Once the ticket is due, do we go to big brother Rafa and ask for food expenses from him?」「That isn’t a bad idea either.」「A~ah. If only we could get some awesome reward from the incident from before.」「There’s no helping it. To the public, nothing actually happened that day, right?」「Yeah. So it seemed.」 Inglis affirmed Leone’s words. Apparently, the incident that happened during the absence of Raphael and most of the Knights was treated as though “nothing happened” in the public’s eye. Prime Minister Althea’s subordinate Knights went against the order and attempted to assassinate the Special Envoy Myynti, and Myynti himself ordered a Rune Eater to hunt innocent Knights in the capital night after night for his research purposes. Either of those could worsen the already muddled political weather, with the fear of armed conflicts rising throughout the Kingdom lest they were made public. Neither the Highland nor the Kingdom wished that to happen. It would be hard to blame everything on the Ironblood Chain Brigade like what they did in Rahal’s case this time around. With the death of the Special Envoy Myynti, Prime Minister Althea and the Knights that accompanied him would be condemned for not protecting him despite being the responsible party. Treating the incident as nothing of note would be best for all parties involved. As a result, Inglis and the others’ involvement in the whole ordeal couldn’t be made public either. However, that didn’t mean their contributions could be swept under the rag; Inglis and her group were to be invited to a ball party in the royal castle. Today they were going out to choose the dress to attend that party. Inglis and her friends didn’t have the money for that, so Raphael would pay for them. 「Okay. It’s time to go, Glis, Leone. Since it’s the Royal Capital, I’m sure they would have bigger selections in their shops. I can’t wait.」「Yeah. I look forward to it too.」 Inglis liked to dress up, as she always did. 「It sure is surprising. Inglis, you’re not interested in romance, but you really like to dress up, huh?」「It’s enjoyable to see myself and feel content. It’s nothing but self-satisfaction.」「I-, I see now......」「Glis looks good in anything, so dolling her up is fun! Now, let’s go.」 Inglis and her group left the campus grounds and waited for Raphael to pick them up in front of the gate. However, the ones who appeared were—— 「Oh! Hey girls~!」「Long time no see.」 They were Ripple and Eris, the two Hyrule Menaces.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 23, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
セバスチャンさんはほんとに喜々として説明するなぁ。「その効果の高さから、様々な人に求められる薬草ですが、群生する場所が定かでは無く、しかも数が少ないのです。つまり、希少な薬草というわけですな。希少で求める人が多いという事で高価な薬草となっております」「希少......」日本だとアロエはそこらへんに生えているくらいだ。日当たりのいい場所に行けば見つける事も多かったし、自宅で簡単に鉢植えにして栽培してる家もあるくらいだ。効果といい、希少性といい、やっぱり日本のアロエとは違うのかもしれないな。それか、この世界がアロエにとって適してない環境なのかもな。「備蓄の薬草が栽培出来ればと思っていましたが......こんな高価な薬草を栽培出来るとは......」「......どのくらいの値段になりますか?」「そうですね......タクミ様が栽培されたロエは10枚以上の葉を付けています。それだけで家が建つ程かと思われます」「......家が......」そんなに高価な物だったとは......。「これ、薬草を売って商売とか出来てしまいますかね......?」「そうですね、ロエに限らず他の薬草も栽培出来るのではないかと思います。ギフトで簡単に栽培が出来るのなら元手のかからない商売が出来ますな」「タクミさん、薬草を売って商売をするんですか?」「......いえ......まだ商売をするかは決めていませんが、この世界に来てこのままクレアさん達のお世話になるだけじゃなくて、ちゃんと働かないと......とは考えてます」厚意に甘えすぎないようにしないとな。というより、お金も稼がずお世話になり続けるとか俺の精神が持ちそうにない。前の世界にいた時は、仕事しかしていないくらいの生活だったからな......何もせずにいるのは気が咎める。こういうのも、ワーカーホリックって言うのかな? のんびりしていこうとは考えてるが、働かずに生きて行こうとは思って無い。それに、この『雑草栽培』を使って薬草を売る商売が出来たら、少ない労力で稼げるだろう。これが能力を活かす事に繋がるのかもしれないな。「......さすがにロエばかりを栽培していると価格は当然落ちて来ますし、大量にあると市場が混乱し兼ねませんな」「そうね。......タクミさん、とりあえずこのロエは我が屋敷の備蓄する薬草としても良いですか?」「え、ええ。それはもちろん構いません。元々、屋敷に備蓄出来る薬草を増やそうと思っていましたから」「ありがとうございます。それと、もしタクミさんが『雑草栽培』を使って商売をなさるなら、教えてくださいね。私が良い方法を考えておきます」ロエは価値は知らなかったが、この屋敷でお世話になってる家賃代わりにしてもらえれば良いかなと思う。それはともかく、商売に関してクレアさんには何か考えがあるようだ。俺は今まで、バイトはもちろん就職してからも接客を含めて商売とは縁遠い仕事をしていた。だからもしクレアさんが商売をするうえで良い方法というのを考え付いたならそれに任せるのも良いと思う。交渉とか苦手だしな。「先程セバスチャンが、市場が混乱するかもしれないと言っていましたが、それは『雑草栽培』で大量に作り出して売った場合の事ですよね?」「そうですね。急に希少な物が大量に出回ると混乱するというのはわかります」確かにそうだな。今まで希少で高価だった物が、大量に売り出されたら、今まで薬草を扱っていた商人達が慌てるのは間違いない。セバスチャンさんもクレアさんの横で頷いている。「そこで、です。私達リーベルト家がその薬草を売る商売を取り仕切るのです」「リーベルト家って事は公爵家って事ですよね?」「はい、そうなります」「成る程......そういう事ですか」セバスチャンさんで納得してるようだけど、公爵家で取り仕切るとどうなるんだろう? そもそも公爵の地位にある者が商売に手を出して良いのだろうか。「我がリーベルト家は領内外問わず、多少の商売をしています。領主としての税では賄えない費用や、貴族の暮らしをするうえでの費用等......税は領内を統治する事や有事に備えるための軍隊を維持するので精一杯なのです。商売で得た利益によって私達は生活をしています」「そうなんですか?」「はい。もちろん、貴族によっては商売をせず税を上げ、その税を使って生活をする貴族もいるようですな。貴族によって商売をするしないは自由ですし、税をどれだけ取り立てるかも自由なのです。とは言え、民が生活するのも困難な程の税だと、王家から処罰が下りますが」「まぁ、そこを上手く隠して民から税を搾り取って私腹を肥やしてる貴族もいるようですけどね」「......成る程」領内の税金の額は領主である貴族の自由。そして商売をするのも自由。早い話が、貴族として生活するうえでどのように費用を捻出するかは貴族次第って事だろう。行き過ぎると王家が介入するから注意は必要なんだろう。クレアさんの言うような私腹を肥やす貴族ってのはやっぱりいるみたいだけどな。「我がリーベルト家では、税を出来る限り低くして民の生活を豊かにさせようと考えています。幸いな事に、歴代の当主や現在の当主......お父様と周りの側近は商才がありましたので、リーベルト家は十分な利益を得ています」こんな大きい屋敷を建てるくらいだもんな。それなりどころかかなり儲けているんだろう。もしかして、クレアさんの父親がクレアさんやティルラちゃんにお見合いの話しを頻繁に持って来るのは、商売を円滑にするためなのかもしれない。まぁ、会った事も無い人だから本当の所はわからないけど。政略結婚ってイメージあんまり良くないよな......俺の偏見かもしれないが。	Sebastian looked so happy when he explained things to me. “Due to its high potency, it is in high demand. However, it is not known where exactly they will grow, and they never grow in great quantities. In other words, they are very rare medicinal plants. And being rare and in high demand results in them being very expensive.” “Rare...” In Japan, you could see aloe growing almost anywhere. They were usually spotted in places that got a lot of sun. And since they could be planted in simple pots, they were common in most households. However, the effect and rarity of this plant was very different. Also, perhaps the climate in this world was not very suited for aloes to grow. “I had been hoping that you would be able to make something for our storages...but I never expected something so valuable...” “...How valuable are we talking?” “Indeed... The Loe that you created has over ten leaves. You could build a house off of the profit.” “...A house...” It was that valuable... “So, do you think that I could start a business by selling medicinal plants...” “Indeed. Even if it’s not Loe, I think that it can be done. At least, if you can make them easily with your Gift, you could start a business without any funds.” “Mr. Takumi. Are you going to make a business selling medicinal plants?” “...No. I haven’t decided anything yet. But I know that now that I am in this world, I can’t just allow you and the others to help me. I need to work... That is what I think.” You could not take advantage of someone’s kindness. But more importantly, I didn’t think that I would be able to bear the thought of not even working while relying on them. Perhaps it was because I had been doing nothing but work in my old world... And so it made me uncomfortable to be idle. Was this what they called a workaholic? I did intend on taking things easy, but I didn’t want to live without working at all. Besides, if I could use Weed Cultivation to grow and sell medicinal plants, then I could make money without too much work. And it might lead to finding other ways to make the most of my ability. “...Obviously, if you sold only Loe, the price would fall greatly and it could disrupt the market.” “Yes. ...Mr. Takumi, for now, could we add this Loe to our storage for medicine?” “Oh, yes. Of course, I don’t mind. That was my intention in the first place.” “Thank you. Also, if you do decide to use your ability to start a business, then please tell me. I will think of a good way to do it.” I had not known about the value of Loe, but perhaps I could give it to them as a way of paying rent for now. In any case, it seemed like Ms. Claire had some idea when it came to starting a business. As for me, including my part time jobs and full time work, I had always been far away from anything related to customer service and trade. And so if Ms. Claire knew the best way to go about it, I would leave everything in her hands. Besides, I didn’t like the idea of negotiating. “Earlier, Sebastian said something about disrupting the market. Is this for cases where I make great quantities of them through Weed Cultivation and sell them?” “Yes. If something used to be rare, then it would cause great confusion if there is suddenly so much of it available.” Yes, that did make sense. There was no doubt that all the merchants who had been trading it would become frantic. Sebastian and Ms. Claire nodded. “And so I have an idea. We, the Liebert family, will take charge of this business of selling the medicinal plants.” “The Liebert family. The duke’s house?” “Yes, that’s right.” “I see...so that’s what you mean.” While Sebastian seemed to think this was a good idea, what did it mean to have a Duke’s house take charge? In the first place, was a duke even allowed to start a business like this? “The Liebert family already has various businesses, both in and outside of our lands. After all, there are expenses that the taxes we receive as landlords will not cover, such as maintaining the lifestyle of nobles... Most of the tax money goes to the army, which guarantees the safety of these lands. And so we are living off the profits from these businesses.” “Is that so?” “Yes. Of course, there are other nobles who do not have businesses. Instead, they raise their taxes and live off of that. It is their choice to conduct or not conduct business, just as it is their choice to raise taxes. That being said, the royal family may intervene, if taxes are raised to the point where the people can barely survive.” “Well, there are also plenty of nobles who squeeze all they can from their people and fill their coffers, while hiding it cleverly.” “...I see.” So the noble landlords could raise taxes as they pleased. And they could also start businesses. In other words, they had a choice over how they would maintain their lifestyle as nobles. As long as you weren’t so extreme that the royal family was alerted. Ms. Claire talked of greedy nobles who filled their coffers. It was hardly a surprise. “The Liebert family has always tried to keep taxes as low as possible for the benefit of our people. Thankfully, past heads of the family, as well as the current one...my father, and others around him, have had the talent for trade. And so we make more than enough in profits.” Well, they were living in this huge mansion. So they must be making a lot of money. Now that I thought about it, perhaps their father was constantly talking about having Ms. Claire and Tilura get married, because it would help with his business. However, I had never met the man, so I had no way of knowing the truth. But I had a very bad impression of strategic marriages... Perhaps it was just my prejudice.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 2, "inserted_lines_src": 0, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
あなたに当てはまるものがあったら手を挙げてくださいよろしいですか? はい? では始めましょうあなたははるか昔の子ども時代鼻くそを食べたことがありますか? OKですここは大丈夫ですよあなたは何かばつの悪いことを思い出した時小さくて変な音をたてたことはありますか? あなたはわざとメールの最初の文字を小文字にして悲しみや落胆を表したことはありますか? いいですよあなたはメールの文章をピリオドで終えて怒りを表したことはありますか? いいですねピリオドあなたは誰かからひどいことを言われた時笑ったり微笑みを返したりしてその後一日中どうして自分はあんな反応をしたんだろうと思ったことはありますか? はいあなたは空港でチェックインからゲートまで歩きながら航空券をなくしたのではないかと何度も思ったことがありますか? はいあなたはズボンをはいてだいぶたってから太ももにゆるゆるのソックスが張り付いていたのに気づいたことはありますか? いいですねあなたは他人のパスワードを推測しようと何度も試みた挙句その人のアカウントをロックしてしまったことがありますか? うーんあなたはある日自分の本性を暴かれるのではないかという思いにとらわれたことはありますか? ええここは大丈夫ですよあなたは自分ではまだ気づいていない生まれつき秀でた能力があったらと望んだことはありますか? うーんあなたは現実生活で何かを壊してしまい気がついたら現実生活で「取り消し」ボタンを探していたことはありますか? あなたはTEDバッジを置き忘れてすぐさまバンクーバーで 3日間何をして過ごそうと想像をめぐらせたことはありますか? あなたはごく平凡だと思っていた人がどうやって急にあんな美人になったのかと驚いたことはありますか? あなたは誰かとメールのやりとりをしながら馬鹿みたいにニコニコして携帯をじっと見ていたことはありますか? あなたは引き続きその人に「今馬鹿みたいにニコニコしながら携帯をじっと見てるんだよ」とメールを送ったことはありますか? あなたは他人の携帯をのぞきたい誘惑にかられたりその誘惑に負けたりしたことがありますか? あなたは自分と対話していて突然自分は本物の馬鹿だと悟ったことがありますか? けんかの最中に携帯のバッテリーが切れて携帯が二人にしびれを切らしたかのように感じたことはありますか? あなたは自分たちの間で起きた問題に向き合うことは無駄であるなぜなら何かするより今のままでいるほうが楽だからあるいはその機会は自ずと訪れるだろうからと考えたことはありますか? あなたは自ずと生じる物事など結局のところほとんどないのを実感したことはありますか? あなたはこの上なく幸せに目を覚ましたのに誰かがあなたに残したひどい思い出が突然どっと押し寄せて来る事はありますか? あなたは自分の人生から姿を消した人のために将来を思い描けなくなったことはありますか? 将来を思い描けなくなったことはありますか? あなたは秋の悲しい微笑みとともにその出来事を振り返り未来はそれでもやってくるのだということを実感したことはありますか? おめでとうございますテストは終了しましたあなたがたは全員人間です	Please raise your hand if something applies to you. Are we agreed? Yes? Then let's begin. Have you ever eaten a booger long past your childhood? It's okay, it's safe here. Have you ever made a small, weird sound when you remembered something embarrassing? Have you ever purposely lowercased the first letter of a text in order to come across as sad or disappointed? Okay. Have you ever ended a text with a period as a sign of aggression? Okay. Period. Have you ever laughed or smiled when someone said something shitty to you and then spent the rest of the day wondering why you reacted that way? Yes. Have you ever seemed to lose your airplane ticket a thousand times as you walked from the check-in to the gate? Yes. Have you ever put on a pair of pants and then much later realized that there was a loose sock smushed up against your thigh? Good. Have you ever tried to guess someone else's password so many times that it locked their account? Mmm. Have you ever had a nagging feeling that one day you will be discovered as a fraud? Yes, it's safe here. Have you ever hoped that there was some ability you hadn't discovered yet that you were just naturally great at? Mmm. Have you ever broken something in real life, and then found yourself looking for an "undo" button in real life? Have you ever misplaced your TED badge and then immediately started imagining what a three-day Vancouver vacation might look like? Have you ever marveled at how someone you thought was so ordinary could suddenly become so beautiful? Have you ever stared at your phone smiling like an idiot while texting with someone? Have you ever subsequently texted that person the phrase "I'm staring at the phone smiling like an idiot"? Have you ever been tempted to, and then gave in to the temptation, of looking through someone else's phone? Have you ever had a conversation with yourself and then suddenly realized you're a real asshole to yourself? Has your phone ever run out of battery and it sort of felt like the phone was breaking up with both of you? that working on an issue between you was futile because it should just be easier than this, or this is supposed to happen just naturally? Have you ever realized that very little, in the long run, just happens naturally? Have you ever woken up blissfully and suddenly been flooded by the awful remembrance that someone had left you? Have you ever lost the ability to imagine a future without a person that no longer was in your life? Have you ever looked back on that event with the sad smile of autumn and the realization that futures will happen regardless? Congratulations. You have now completed the test. You are all human.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
アイリスは適当に村から離れると、地上に降り立った。この辺はまだ草が生えず、荒野のままだ。つまり、いくら暴れても大丈夫。自然破壊にはならない。マリオンとジェシカもアイリスのあとを追って降りてきた。「ふふん。こんな殺風景な場所がお前の死に場所でいいのか?」とマリオンは自信たっぷりな声で言う。もっとも自信たっぷりなのは声だけではカクカク震えていた。おそらく母親の前なので見栄を張っているのだろう。何だか可愛らしい。「じゃあ、どちらかが参ったと言うか、気絶するか、死ぬかで決着にしましょう。私が立ち会うからとも頑張ってねー」相変わらずジェシカはのほほんと物騒なことを言う。アイリスは死ぬつもりはないし、こんなアホらしいことで誰かを殺すつもりもない。適当に泣かせて「参った」と言わせてやろう。「さてと。プニガミは危ないからあっちに行っててね」「え、プニガミも戦うの? 駄目よ。ほら、わがまま言わないで......えいっ!」アイリスはプニガミをぐいっと押す。体が丸いので、面白いくらいに転がっていった。「よーし。行くわよ」「ど、どこからでもかかってこいぃ!」マリオンは少し声が引きつっていた。よほど前回と前々回の敗北がトラウマになったのかもしれない。多分、本当は母親であるジェシカに泣きつき、代わりに戦ってもらう予定だったのではないか。しかし、ドラゴンの誇りを大切にしているジェシカはそんな卑怯な真似を許さず、娘を鍛え直し、再戦させようとしているのだ――とアイリスは予想する。哀れなので、お互いのために、素早く終わらせよう。アイリスは勢いよくジャンプし、マリオンの顎下に頭突きを見舞う。「ぐえぇっ!」マリオンは苦しそうな悲鳴を上げる。だがアイリスは攻撃の手を休めない。お次は彼女の頬を両手で掴んで、捻る! 「あだだだだ、いだだだだだ!」「参ったか、参ったか!?」「まだ参らないもん!」「強情な奴ね!」マリオンはもう完全に泣いていた。アイリスは弱い者いじめをしている気分になってきた。しかし、こんなに早く降参したら、ジェシカがマリオンを許さないだろう。「マリオン、がんばれー」ジェシカは尻尾をブンブンと振って娘に声援を送る。やはり、まだまだやらせるつもりだ。「うう......これでどうだ!」マリオンはゴロンと寝転がり、自分の体と地面を使って、アイリスを押し潰そうとする。だが、いくらドラゴンが重くても、その程度で潰れてしまうアイリスではない。構わずマリオンの頬をつねり続ける。「いいいいいだああああいいいいいっ! もうっ! 放せ、放せぇぇっ!」「降参するなら放すわよ」「降参したらお母さんに怒られるもん!」そう叫び、マリオンは地面をゴロンロゴンと転がり回る。アイリスの体にもの凄い遠心力が加わった。それでも放してやらない。「うわぁぁんっ、幼女のくせにしつこいのよぉぉ!」マリオンは泣き叫びながら羽ばたき、曲芸飛行をする。更に口から炎を吐く。「あちち」口のそばにいたアイリスに、強烈な熱が襲いかかる。もっとも、しょせんただの炎。防御結界を張らなくても「あちち」で済んでしまう。「あ、油断してたら服に引火した!」「あはは、ばーか、ばーか! まっぱ!」マリオンは楽しげに言う。アイリスの服は燃えてなくなってしまった。羅だったのに。あとはパジャマしかもっていない。「もう許さないんだから!」怒ったアイリスは、マリオンの頬に強烈な平手打ちをかます。バチーンッと盛大な響く。マリオンは「ほごっ!」と悲鳴を上げ、白目を向いた。そして、その巨体を地面に落下させる。地響きが起き、土煙がもうもうと立ちこめる。そんな中、アイリスはマリオンの尻尾を掴んで、思いっきり引っ張る。マリオンは海老反りになった! 「ほぎゃぁぁぁっ! だめ、やめてぇぇ、ドラゴンの体はそんなに曲がらないぃぃぃぃ!」「降参したら放してあげるわ」「ギブゥゥゥ、ギブアップ! 降参する! だからもう痛いのいやだぁぁぁっ!」それを聞き、アイリスは手を放す。自由になったマリオンは、わんわん泣きながら、ジェシカのところに走って行く。「お母さぁぁん、ごめんない、私、負けちゃったぁぁ!」「よしよし。負けたのは残念だけど、頑張ったわ。ちょっとアイリスちゃんが強すぎたわね」意外にもジェシカは敗北した娘を叱らず、翼を使って頭を撫でた。ちゃんと頑張れば評価してくれるタイプのドラゴンのようだ。「さて、と。娘がこんなに頑張ったんだから......次は私の番よ! アイリスちゃん、私と決闘して!」「うーん......面倒くさいなぁ......」あれだけドラゴンの名誉を気にしていたジェシカが、負けっぱなしで帰るはずがなかったのだ。「ま、いいけど。でも、これで本当に最後よ?」「ええ、いいわ。マリオンはちょっと離れてね......それじゃ、行くわよー」ジェシカの口の奥から、赤い魔力がほとばしる。ドラゴンブレスだ......と思いきや。彼女の周辺の空間に、魔法陣がいくつも浮かび上がる。総数、二十四個。魔法陣からも赤い魔力が溢れ出し、アイリスめがけて灼熱の光線が撃ち放たれた。マリオンのドラゴンブレスなどとは火力の桁が違う。しかも二十四個の魔法陣と、ジェシカの口を合わせて二の光線である。質も数も圧倒的。地面がえぐれるほどの大爆発が起きた。が、アイリスは防御結界で全身を覆い、完全にガードした。火の粉一つ浴びていない。「あらぁ......まさか今のを防がれちゃうなんて......」ジェシカは戸惑った声を出す。「確かに、ジェシカさんはマリオンとは格が違うわね。でも、私にとっては容易い相手であることに変わりはないわ。それじゃ、これで終わりよ」アイリスは体から虹色の魔力を放つ。そして重力制御の魔術を発動。ジェシカの足下に、重力十倍の領域を作り出す。「なっ!」ジェシカは突然襲いかかった重さに耐えきれず、地面にへたり込む。何とか起き上がろうと頑張るが、自分の重さが十倍になったのだ。そうそう立てるのもではない。「お母さん!」マリオンは母親を助け起こそうと近寄る。しかし、そのせいで重力十倍に巻き込まれ、一緒にへたり込んでしまう。「ぐぬぬ......重いぃぃ......」「マリオン! くっ......こんな重力魔術、そう長時間は保たないはずだわ......!」ジェシカは苦しげにうめきつつ、再び二十四の魔法陣を展開し、光線の砲撃をアイリスに放つ。だが、全て防御結界に阻まれ、アイリスには届かない。「そんな......重力魔術と防御結界を同時使用だなんて......しかも、この魔力の気配は......アイリスちゃん、あなた、もしかして魔族......?」「よく分かったわね。そう、私は魔族。大魔王の娘よ。それで、どうするの? まだやるの? 私の魔力にはまだまだ余裕があるけど?」アイリスは余裕を示すため、体から放つ虹色の魔力を強めた。荒野が眩しく光り輝く。自分でも眩しかったので、アイリスは目を閉じた。「いえ......降参よ......私の負け」決着が付いた。アイリスは重力十倍を解除する。するとジェシカは体を起こして......しかし再び頭を下げ、神妙な声で呟いた。「魔族アイリス。あなたに忠誠を誓います」「うん。これでもうあの村に手を出さないで......って、忠誠!?」話がまたややこしくなってきた。そういえばプニガミも最初、アイリスに忠誠を誓おうとしていた。やはりモンスターは魔族に忠誠を誓うものなのか。アイリスとしては、ただ食って寝ての生活を送りたいだけなのに。	Iris took some distance from the village and landed on the ground. There was still no grass around here, only wilderness. In other words, it was okay to rampage on a big scale. It won’t bring any harm to nature. Marion and Jessica landed too following Iris. 「Fufun. Are you okay with such a deserted place to be your grave? 」 Said Marion in a voice full of confidence. That being said, only her voice was full of confidence as her limbs kept trembling. Most likely, she tries to show off before her mother. It’s kinda cute. 「Well then, the one, who loses his consciousness or dies, loses. Since I’m going to be present, do your best, you two」 As usual, Jessica nonchalantly said something dangerous. Iris didn’t plan to die as well as she didn’t plan to kill someone for such a stupid reason. Let’s somehow make her cry and admit defeat. 「All right then. It’s going to be dangerous, so Punigami should stay away」「Eh, Punigami, you want to fight too? You can’t. Here, don’t be so persistent...ei! 」 Iris gently pushed Punigami away. Since his body was round, he rolled away in an amusing manner. 「Alright. Let’s begin」「Y-You can come at me anytime!」 Marion’s voice wavered ever so slightly. Perhaps, her trauma from the previous two times was showing itself. Most likely, she planned to have Jessica fight instead of her when she came back home in tears. However, Jessica, who deeply cherished her pride as a dragon, didn’t agree to this and put Marion through hellish training as she tried to arrange a rematch–or so Iris speculated. With her being so pitiful, let’s end this swiftly. Iris energetically jumped and headbutted Marion. 「Gueee!」 Marion let out a scream of pain. However, that wasn’t an end of Iris’ assault. She grabbed Marion by her cheeks and twisted. 「Atatatata, itatatata!」「Do you surrender, do you surrender!?」「Not yet!」「Such a stubborn fellow!」 Marion was completely in tears. Iris felt like she became a bully. However, if she were to give up so quickly, Jessica won’t forgive Marion. 「Marion, do your best」 Jessica swung her tail as she tried to encourage her daughter. It seems that she wanted for this to keep going. 「Uu......how about this! 」 Marion rolled on the ground trying to crush Iris between her and the ground. However, no matter how heavy the dragon is, it won’t be enough to cause Iris to collapse. She didn’t mind and kept twisting Marion’s cheeks. 「It huuuuurts! Mou! Let go, let go of meeee! 」「I will when you surrender」「Mother will be angry if I give up!」 Marion screamed as she rolled around. A considerable centrifugal force was applied to Iris’ body. Nevertheless, she didn’t let go. 「Uwaaaa, you are too persistent for a little girl!」 Marion flapped her wings as she screamed and made an acrobatic turn in the air. Then, she followed by spitting fire from her mouth. 「Achichi」 Iris, who was near the mouth, was hit by tremendous heat. That being said, that was nothing more than just fire. 「Achichi」would be enough even without a barrier. 「Ah, my clothes caught on fire because of my carelessness!」「Ahaha, idiot, idiot! Nudist! 」 Marion said as if she was having fun. Iris’ clothes completely vanished in the fire. That was my only pair. I only have my pajamas beside that. 「I won’t be lenient anymore!」 The angry Iris released a strong slap on Marion’s cheek. It was accompanied by a deafening sound. Marion’s screamed「Hogo! 」her eyes turned white, and her giant body fell on the ground. The ground trembled and a big cloud of dust appeared. In the middle of it, Iris grabbed Marion’s tail and pulled with all her might. Marion turned into a curved shrimp! [] 「Hogyaaa! You can’t, stooop, a dragon’s body doesn’t bend that way! 」「I will if you give up」「Give, I give up! I surrender! So stop hurting meee! 」 Once she heard that, Iris let go. Having regained her freedom, Marion ran towards her mother in tears. 「Motheeer, sorry, I lost!」「Alright, alright. Although it’s regretful, you did your best. Iris-chan is just slightly overpowered」 Surprisingly, Jessica didn’t scold her defeated daughter but instead patted her on the head with her wings. She seemed to be the type of dragon that could give her approval if you approached the matter seriously. 「All right then. My daughter did her best.......and now it’s my turn. Fight me, Iris-chan! 」「Un.....sounds troublesome.....」 With Jessica showing so much concern about dragons’ honor, she couldn’t go back defeated. 「Well. it’s okay, I guess. But would that really be the last time? 」「Yes, that’s fine. You should stay back, Marion......well then, here I go」 Red magical power gathered in Jessica’s mouth. Dragon Breath......or so Iris thought. Several magic circles materialized around her. Twenty four in total. Red magical power overflowed from the magic circles as they released scorching beams at Iris. Their power was in a different league compared to Marion’s Dragon Breath. However, in addition to the twenty four beams, there was one more coming from Jessica’s mouth. Quality and number, both were absolutely different from Marion’s. A world-shaking explosion occurred. However, Iris completely guarded against it with her barrier. Not even a single spark landed on her. 「Ara.....I must admit I didn’t expect you to guard against it......」 Jessica let out a voice of hesitation. 「Jessica-san is indeed in a different league compared to Marion. However, as an opponent, you are no different. Alright, let’s end this」 Iris unleashed rainbow-colored magical power from her body. Then, she cast a gravity manipulation spell. She increased gravity ten times below Jessica’s feet. 「Nah!」 Jessica couldn’t endure the sudden weight and collapsed on the ground. She did her best to stand up but she felt ten times heavier than usual. It wasn’t that easy to stand with these conditions. 「Mom!」 Marion approached her mother trying to save her. However, because of that she was hit by the tenfold gravity and sprawled right next to her mother. 「Gununu.....heavy......」「Marion! Kuh......this gravity magic.....isn’t supposed to last for long, I think.......! 」 Jessica, even in pain, created twenty four magic circles one again and bombarded Iris. But every single one of them was deflected by a barrier and didn’t reach her. 「I can’t be.....using gravity magic and defensive barrier at the same time.......moreover, this magical power......Iris-chan, are you a demon........?」「So you’ve found out. Yes, I’m a demon. The daughter of the Great Demon King. What are you going to do? Do you still want to fight? I still have some strength to spare」 Iris strengthened the rainbow-colored magical power radiating from her body as a display of power. The wilderness shined brightly. Even Iris considered it too bright, so she closed her eyes. 「No.....I surrender......It’s my loss」 And so it was settled. Iris returned the gravity to normal. After that, Jessica raised her body......however, she immediately lowered her head and said in a submissive voice. 「Iris of the demon race. I hereby swear loyalty to you」「Un. Don’t mess with that village anymore.....wait, loyalty!?」 The conversation became complicated once again. Come to think of it, at first, Punigami tried to pledge his allegiance too. Perhaps, it’s normal for monsters to pledge themselves to demons. Even though eating and sleeping were all Iris wished for.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 6, "inserted_lines_src": 0, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
10代の少年共和党員のリーダーでした各地の代表団の中でも最年少でしたロナルド・レーガンが共和党大統領候補の時ですええ知っています ”インターネットを探しても―” ”ウィキペディアにも書いていない” まあこれは一例なんですいかに大量の情報のゴミがネットを流れているかのねウィキペティアにはペンシルバニアの元下院議員が最年少リーダーと書かれていますがそれは間違いですイヤなので修正しましょう (拍手) これでよしうん完璧完璧だねローレンス・レッシグが発表と正しくなりますよもう少しで終わりですさあ ”...最年少共和党員” っとこれを保存してさあどうだこれで修正されましたこれはこれくらいにします (拍手) 保守主義で考えてほしいのは ’80年共和党大会ではなく次のことです人々は教会に行きます教会に行くのは保守的な人だけではありませんここで神の話をするつもりはありませんよ人々は教会に行って無償でいろいろなことをします持ち寄り夕食会をし持ち寄り夕食会の本を売る貧しい人へ食事も提供する分かちあい与えます無償で与えるのですみな似かよった人達です Wall St.firmsに導かれ日曜日ごとにやってきて分かち合う人達です食べ物に限らずね彼らの共通点は市場原理に限界があると厚く信仰していることですそして市場原理反対の現場に立ち会っていますこの場のような関係もお金を使わなければ大歓迎ですさもなければこんな感じです保守的な人々は私達を規制し市場の拡大を防ぎたいのですこうした場の市場性を知りながらもお金を払わずに交流を楽しむ場であるべきだと思っているのです有料と無料の共存が必要ですまた保守派の人々はエコロジーです 20世紀の共和党大統領でエコロジーを提唱したテディ・ルーズベルトです天然資源の利用は環境に優しいと教えましたまた経済の観点から環境を説きました彼らは経済的にはお金がかからないことが文化環境において重要だと分かっていますそこを考えて欲しいのですまあみなさんは私の話を信じないでしょうからこれを見てくださいジュリアン・サンチェス悪名高きCato研究所で働く自由主義者です彼のビデオ技術はひどいものですが内容はすごいものです始まりましたよジュリアン:リミックス文化の進化過程を観察してみましょうラリー・レッシグ:3本のビデオの説明をしています生意気なガキどものリミックスです Lisztomaniaを使っているこれが一気に広まり大流行しましたブルックリンの誰かが似たものをつくりました次にサンフランシスコで同じように考えましたジュリアンのこのビデオから学んで欲しい事の一つ目はこれです JS:これには深い意味があります彼らはオリジナルのマッシュアップの真似をしています本当に目のつけどころがいい編集も上手ですそして仲間内でのビデオが周囲を巻き込む社会的力を持つのです仲間と歌ったり踊った事がある人ならビデオに共感できます LL:ということは... JS:初期のビデオとは全く違いますリミックスは地下室で一人でやるのではなく社会的創造行為なのですそして最終的には新しいものをつくりながら互いの関係を変える行為ですこうしたマッシュアップは日常のやり取りから生まれることもある現実の社会的営みがアートへと昇華されるのです LL:彼は2つのポイントを示します JS:まずリミックスは仲間に伝える手段として個人が共通の文化を使うものソーシャルリミックスは人々の互いの関係を取り持つのに使われていますそれぞれのビデオでは一種の典型的な悪ガキが社会的現実として登場しますそしてビデオを比較する基本的枠組みを決めれば各グループ内での相違点や類似点がよく分かる土台になるのです LL:いいでしょうか一番重要なのはこの先です JS:コピーライト政策とは芸術品などの生産をどう促進するかだけでなく現実の社会への管理をどの程度まで許容するかです現代の社会で主流なのはポップカルチャーです芸術と大衆文化は二つとも守るべき公共物です片方だけをたくさん提供する方法をとるならばより優れている重要な作品が公表できない危険があります LL:そうこれがポイントです自由が保障されるには優れた商業的作品による商業的な成功と異なる文化を築く機会が必要なのですこの改革のためにフェアユースの発想が保護されるべきです彼が言うように商業文化と共有文化という 2つの創造的文化においてね彼が手にしているのがその文化ですいっぽうで民主主義者は創造的文化と縁が薄いこの有名な会社は共和党支持者が始めましたよい作品は過去のものです全てのディズニー作品は著作権フリーの作品やフリーになるのを待ってリミックスして作ったので見事に創造性が発揮されました実際にミッキーマウス "スチームボート・ウィリー"もバスター・キートンによって "スチームボート・ビル"にされ世界中で有名になった彼のリミックスの才能はこの種の文化には賞賛されるべきものですしかしディズニーは裏からこっそりと民主党に近づいたやり方が違いますこの首謀者が可決させたのが著作権期間延長法です現存する著作権の期間がさらに20年延長されましたもうディズニーがグリムにしたことはできません私達はこれに抗議し保守派の巣窟の最高裁に行き法案を阻止しようとしました私達が協力を得た人々にはノーベル賞受賞者で右派のミルトン・フリードマンがいます ”考える余地のない”訴訟だけ参加すると報告書にありました民主党が法案を通過させたときは "考えなし"に署名しました補足しておきますがソニー・ボノは共和党員だと言うかもしれませんこの男は違います次の例ですこのヒーローは有名な左派でこれの創造者ですルーカスはサイトで新しい世代を発掘するため "スター・ウォーズ"のマッシュアップを募集している許諾を読むと『リミックス作品はジョージ・ルーカスに全て帰属する』とあります作品はルーカスの物なのですマッシュアップで加わる音楽も全て権利者のルーカスがタダで利用できますクリエーターは知らずに権利を奪われるのですクリエーターは小作人です思い出してください小作人の雇い主は民主党員でしたねこの点では共和党員は所有権の必要性を理解していました所有権を尊重しクリエーターや著作権を有する者に対して敬意を払いますこの力強い作品の所有者は小作人の世代ではないのですここで学ぶべきことは寛容についてです私達の生活は分かち合いです少なくとも部分的にはゴールドマン・サックス社長も少なくとも部分的にはそして分け合うためにはフェアユースの保護が第一条件です第二の条件として創造するための自由な利用権が必要です誰の許諾も必要とせず創造できることですそして第三にクリエイターを尊重しリミックス者が直接利益を得る権利を与えることですつまりこれが右派で非営利のクリエイティブ・コモンズです実際は違いますが結びつけてくださいクリエイティブ・コモンズは作品にマークをつけることで自由に使える範囲が分かる仕組みです ”著作権保持”から ”ある権利は保有する”時代です作品の利用許諾範囲が分かれば著作権がある作品を基礎にして製作できますこのツールで許諾を明確にして分かち合いができ既に与えられた許諾によって自由に創作できますまた作者の権利が尊重され許諾不要の著作権を設定できます右派の広範な企てによってこうした許諾が浸透しクリエイティブ・コモンズ該当のデジタル作品の数は 3.5億個もありますさてこのイメージ図はバランスのとれた創造ができる環境です現在はそのような環境か? みなさんご存知のようにそうではありません現実の環境に目を向けつい先週ビデオを作りました Wiresideチャットでね YouTubeへアップしたらメールが届きましたその警告によれば『Warner Music Groupの所有する内容が含まれていて作品IDと一致した』そうです深く考えてなかったんですが Twitterで誰かが "著作権違反は故意か"と書き著作権法の欠点を明らかにする深い陰謀の存在を感じました ”いいえ”と答えましたが後で私のサイトを見ると音声が全て消えていました 45分間のビデオが無音になっていた音声の断片をつないだフェアユースのビデオで Warner の音楽も入っていました興味深いことにその無音ビデオには音楽広告が出てきて音楽を買えるのです全体に無音声で何も聞こえないのに現行の制度で YouTubeの利用を自由にしようとフェアユースを教えましたこのサイトで答えた質問は異常なほどに子供じみたものでこれらの言葉を正しく全部入力して言論の自由を主張するまるで小学3年生が教師のイスに画鋲なんて置いていませんと繰り返すようこんなのバカらしい理不尽です自由制度の乱用には勇気を持ちましょう実際に闘っている人は? 前回の大統領選でオンライン演説で規制システムへの対抗に熱心だったのはジョン・マケインです YouTubeの警告と削除に対してフェアユースに敬意を払えとたくさん手紙を書いたのです彼のキャンペーンはネットを越えて広がりました私の話に戻りましょう愚かな右派だった子供の頃現在はどうかやや左寄りですまちがいなく左利きですよでは左派の人々が自由な使用権の環境を築くでしょうかこの世界には自由な使用に反対する巨大な勢力がありこのような左派の有名人が法律を押し付けて政府の調査の開示要求を効果的に禁じてしまうのです大統領が支持しているのはミレニアム著作権法というおかしな法律で国民を規制することですこの適用で私達はアウトも同然なのですが他の国でも適用が進んでいますまだ一つの改正例も出されていないのですこの社会体制では近いうちには変化はないだから寛容さというものを私達は学ぶべきなのです別の価値観に耳を傾けるのです話し合いが必要です自由利用権という価値は規制を制限しクリエイターを尊重します右派からの影響でこうした価値を学ぶか自ら具体化すれば少しは改善されます左派から学ぶ価値観は保健医療の実施や温暖化規制法ですか私の仲間に加わってこれを教えましょうありがとうございました	I was a Young Republican, a Teenage Republican, a leader in the Teenage Republicans. Indeed, I was the youngest member of any delegation in the 1980 convention that elected Ronald Reagan to be the Republican nominee for president. Now, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, "That's not what the Internets say." You're thinking, "Wikipedia doesn't say this fact." And indeed, this is just one of the examples of the junk that flows across the tubes in these Internets here. Wikipedia reports that this guy, this former congressman from Erie, Pennsylvania was, at the age of 20, one of the youngest people at the Republican National Convention, but it's just not true. Indeed, it drives me so nuts, let me just change this little fact here. All right. Okay, so ... perfect. Perfect. Okay, speaker Lawrence Lessig, right. Okay. Finally, truth will be brought here. Okay, see? It's done. It's almost done. Here we go. "... Youngest Republican," okay, we're finished. That's it. Please save this. Great, here we go. And ... Wikipedia is fixed, finally. Okay, but no, this is really besides the point. But the thing I want you to think about when we think about conservatives -- not so much this issue of the 1980 convention -- the thing to think about is this: They go to church. Now, you know, I mean, a lot of people go to church. I'm not talking about that only conservatives go to church. And I'm not talking about the God thing. I don't want to get into that, you know; that's not my point. They go to church, by which I mean, they do lots of things for free for each other. They hold potluck dinners. Indeed, they sell books about potluck dinners. They serve food to poor people. They share, they give, they give away for free. And it's the very same people leading Wall Street firms who, on Sundays, show up and share. And not only food, right. These very same people are strong believers, in lots of contexts, in the limits on the markets. They are in many important places against markets. Indeed, they, like all of us, celebrate this kind of relationship. let money drop into that relationship, else it turns into something like this. They want to regulate us, those conservatives, to stop us from allowing the market to spread in those places. Because they understand: There are places for the market and places where the market should not exist, where we should be free to enjoy the fellowship of others. And the second great thing about conservatives: they get ecology. Right, it was the first great Republican president of the 20th century who taught us about environmental thinking -- Teddy Roosevelt. in the context of natural resources. And then they began to teach us in the context of innovation, economics. They understand, in that context, "free." They understand "free" is an important essential part of the cultural ecology as well. That's the thing I want you to think about them. Now, I know you don't believe me, really, here. So here's exhibit number one. I want to share with you my latest hero, Julian Sanchez, a libertarian who works at the, for many people, "evil" Cato Institute. Okay, so Julian made this video. He's a terrible producer of videos, but it's great content, so I'm going to give you a little bit of it. So here he is beginning. Julian Sanchez: I'm going to make an observation about the way remix culture seems to be evolving ... Larry Lessig: So what he does is he begins to tell us about these three videos. This is this fantastic Brat Pack remix set to Lisztomania. Which, of course, spread virally. Hugely successful. And then some people from Brooklyn saw it. They decided they wanted to do the same. And then, of course, people from San Fransisco saw it. And San Franciscans thought they had to do the same as well. And so they're beautiful, but this libertarian has some important lessons he wants us to learn from this. Here's lesson number one. JS: There's obviously also something really deeply great about this. They are acting in the sense that they're emulating the original mashup. And the guy who shot it obviously has a strong eye and some experience with video editing. But this is also basically just a group of friends having an authentic social moment and screwing around together. It should feel familiar and kind of resonate for anyone who's had a sing-a-long or a dance party with a group of good friends. LL: Or ... JS: So that's importantly different from the earlier videos we looked at because here, remix isn't just about an individual doing something alone in his basement; it becomes an act of social creativity. And it's not just that it yields a different kind of product at the end, it's that potentially it changes the way that we relate to each other. All of our normal social interactions become a kind of invitation to this sort of collective expression. It's our real social lives themselves that are transmuted into art. LL: And so then, what this libertarian draws from these two points ... JS: One remix is about individuals using our shared culture as a kind of language to communicate something to an audience. Stage two, social remix, is really about using it to mediate people's relationships to each other. First, within each video, the Brat Pack characters are used as a kind of template for performing the social reality of each group. But there's also a dialogue between the videos, where, once the basic structure is established, it becomes a kind of platform for articulating the similarities and differences between the groups' social and physical worlds. LL: And then, here's for me, the critical key to what Julian has to say ... JS: Copyright policy isn't just about how to incentivize the production of a certain kind of artistic commodity; it's about what level of control we're going to permit to be exercised over our social realities -- social realities that are now inevitably permeated by pop culture. I think it's important that we keep these two different kinds of public goods in mind. If we're only focused on how to maximize the supply of one, I think we risk suppressing this different and richer and, in some ways, maybe even more important one. LL: Right. Bingo. Point. Freedom needs this opportunity to both have the commercial success of the great commercial works and the opportunity to build this different kind of culture. And for that to happen, you need ideas like fair use to be central and protected, to enable this kind of innovation, as this libertarian tells us, between these two creative cultures, a commercial and a sharing culture. The point is they, he, here, gets that culture. Now, my concern is, we Dems, too often, not so much. All right, take for example this great company. In the good old days when this Republican ran that company, their greatest work was work that built on the past, right. All of the great Disney works were works that took works that were in the public domain and remixed them, or waited until they entered the public domain to remix them, to celebrate this add-on remix creativity. Indeed, Mickey Mouse himself, of course, as "Steamboat Willie," is a remix of the then, very dominant, very popular "Steamboat Bill" by Buster Keaton. This man was a remixer extraordinaire. He is the celebration and ideal of exactly this kind of creativity. But then the company passes through this dark stage to this Democrat. Wildly different. This is the mastermind behind the eventual passage of what we call the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, extending the term of existing copyrights by 20 years, so that no one could do to Disney what Disney did to the Brothers Grimm. Now, when we tried to challenge this, going to the Supreme Court, getting the Supreme Court, the bunch of conservatives there -- we had the assistance of Nobel Prize winners including this right-wing Nobel Prize winner, Milton Friedman, who said he would join our brief only if the word "no brainer" was in the brief somewhere. But apparently, no brains existed in this place when Democrats passed and signed this bill into law. Now, tiny little quibble of a footnote: Sonny Bono, you might say, was a Republican, but I don't buy it. This guy is no Republican. Okay, for a second example, think about this cultural hero, icon on the Left, creator of this character. Look at the site that he built: "Star Wars" MashUps, inviting people to come and use their creative energy to produce a new generation of attention towards this extraordinarily important cultural icon. Read the license. The license for these remixers assigns all of the rights to the remix back to Lucas. The mashup is owned by Lucas. Indeed, anything you add to the mashup, music you might add, Lucas has a worldwide perpetual right to exploit that for free. There is no creator here to be recognized. The creator doesn't have any rights. The creator is a sharecropper in this story. And we should remember who employed the sharecroppers: the Democrats, right? So the point is the Republicans here recognize that there's a certain need of ownership, a respect for ownership, the respect we should give the creator, the remixer, the owner, the property owner, the copyright owner of this extraordinarily powerful stuff, and not a generation of sharecroppers. Now, I think there are lessons we should learn here, lessons about openness. Our lives are sharing activities, at least in part. Even for the head of Goldman Sachs, at least in part. And for that sharing activity to happen, we have to have well-protected spaces of fair use. That's number one. Number two: This ecology of sharing needs freedom within which to create. Freedom, which means without permission from anyone, the ability to create. And number three: We need to respect the creator, the creator of these remixes through rights that are directly tied to them. Now, this explains the right-wing nonprofit Creative Commons. Actually, it's not a right-wing nonprofit, but of course -- let me just tie it here -- the Creative Commons, which is offering authors this simple way to mark their content with the freedoms they intended to carry. So that we go from a "all rights reserved" world to a "some rights reserved" world building and creating on the basis of this creative copyrighted work. These tools that we built enable this sharing in parts through licenses that make it clear and a freedom to create without requiring permission first because the permission has already been granted and a respect for the creator because it builds upon a copyright the creator has licensed freely. And it explains the vast right-wing conspiracy that's obviously developed around these licenses, as now more than 350 million digital objects are out there, licensed freely in this way. Now that picture of an ecology of creativity, the picture of an ecology of balanced creativity, is that the ecology of creativity we have right now? Well, as you all know, not many of us believe we do. I tripped on the reality of this ecology of creativity just last week. I created a video which was based on a Wireside Chat that I'd given, and I uploaded it to YouTube. I then got this email from YouTube weirdly notifying me that there was content in that owned by the mysterious WMG that matched their content ID. So I didn't think much about it. And then on Twitter, somebody said to me, "Your talk on YouTube was DMCA'd. Was that your purpose?" imagining that I had this deep conspiracy to reveal the obvious flaws in the DMCA. But then I went to the site and all of the audio in my site had been silenced. My whole 45-minute video had been silenced because there were snippets in that video, a video about fair use, that included Warner Music Group music. Now, interestingly, they still sold ads for that music, if you played the silent video. You could still buy the music, but you couldn't hear anything because it had been silenced. So I did what the current regime says I must do to be free to use YouTube to talk about fair use. I went to this site, and I had to answer these questions. And then in an extraordinarily Bart Simpson-like, juvenile way you've actually got to type out these words and get them right to reassert your freedom to speak. And I felt like I was in third grade again. "I will not put tacks on the teacher's chair. I will not put tacks on the teacher's chair." This is absurd. It is outrageous. It is an extraordinary perversion of the system of freedom we should be encouraging. And the question I ask you is: Who's fighting it? Well, interestingly, in the last presidential election, who was the number one, active opponent of this system of regulation in online speech? John McCain. Letter after letter attacking YouTube's refusal to be more respectful of fair use with their extraordinary notice and take down system, that led his campaign so many times to be thrown off the Internet. Now, that was the story of me then, my good old days of right-wing lunacy. Let me come back to now, now when I'm a little leftist -- I'm certainly left-handed, so at least a lefty -- And I wonder, can we on the Left expect to build this ecology of freedom, now, in a world where we know the extraordinarily powerful influences against it, where even icons of the Left like this entertain and push bills that would effectively ban the requirement of open access for government-funded research? The president, who has supported a process that secretly negotiates agreements, which effectively lock us into the insane system of DMCA that we have adopted and likely lock us down a path of three strikes, you're out that, of course, the rest of the world are increasingly adopting. Not a single example of reform has been produced yet. in this system anytime soon. So here's the lessons of openness that I think we need to learn. Openness is a commitment to a certain set of values. We need to speak of those values. The value of freedom. It's a value of community. It's a value of the limits in regulation. It's a value respecting the creator. Now, if we can learn those values if we can take them and incorporate them, maybe we could do a little trade. We learn those values on the Left, and maybe they'll do health care or global warming legislation or something in the Right. Anyway, please join me in teaching these values. Thank you very much.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
「でだ、どうして我輩たちはこんな山岳を進んでいるのだ?」王国から出発した時の賑わいか、鳥のさえずりのしか聞こえないこの静けさ。「明日の正午、平地の方で王国軍が魔王軍を誘導する手はずになっています。その間に我々はこの山岳から迂回しフィゲロアが手薄になった所を奇襲して倒します。」「奇襲とはまた卑怯な手だな」悪魔である我輩が言うのもなんだがな......。って今の言葉にベルトラの顔が歪んだ、この作戦にはあまり良くは思ってないのか? 「私だって騎士道としてどうかと思いますが仕方ありません。こうでもしないとこの人数で太刀打ちなんて出来ませし、なによりフィゲロアの固有魔法は強力すぎますので一撃で倒すしかありません」まぁそうなるか、フィゲロア相手には有効な作戦ではある。平地では固有魔法の効果が薄い、石に囲まれたこの山岳こそ奴が最も力を発揮できる場所、あやつは戦闘狂のクセに自分の有利な所でしか戦わないからな~。戦闘が大好きな腰抜け......それが我輩の感じている奴の評価だ。「ね~ね~ずっと気になってたんだけどフィゲロアってどんな奴なの? あと固有魔法って何?」のフィゲロア」、巨漢で四つ目と四本腕が特徴の奴だ。固有魔法ってのは稀に生まれて出てくるそいつしか使えない魔法の事だ。フィゲロアの固有魔法は石を粘土の様に柔らかくしたり、オリハルコン並みに硬くしたりと硬さを自由自在に変える事ができるのだ」赤石の由来は魔力の影響で石が赤く光っていたから我輩が勝手に付けたんだがな。あやつのおかげで今の魔王城が簡単に作れた、あの力がなかったら下手すればいまだ建設中だったかもしれぬな。「お~なるほど~確かにそんな魔法は知らないし使えない」納得したのかこいつポンッと手を叩いたが、今度は我輩の方に疑問が出てきたぞ。「そもそも魔力の事や魔法を使えるになぜ固定魔法のことを知らん?」エリンが不思議そうな顔で首を傾けた、考えるときのクセなのか? 「そういやそだね、なんでだろ......。う~~~ん......よくわかんない!」「よくわかんないって! それですませるなよ!」「だって考えるとなんかこう頭の中がごちゃごちゃ~になってわっしゃ~ってなって頭痛が痛くなっちゃうもん」駄目だこいつ、いろんな意味で駄目だ。「私はあなたが何故フィゲロアの事をそこまで知っているのか不思議です。それに一般人と言いながら基本以上の魔力を持ち、兵士の様に鍛えられた筋肉が付いていますし......」「うっ!」しまった、つい流れでベラベラとしゃべってしまったぁ! 何とかごまかさねば。「そっそれはだな~......え~と......そう! 我輩は悪魔四天王マニアでな、旅人が訪れた時や噂話を聞いたりして結構詳しいんだ。魔力は生まれつきなんだからしょうがないではないか! 体の方は~~~~ほっほら体が弱いって言ったろ? それを少しでも鍛えて良くしたいと思ってな! 密かに鍛えているのだ!」どうだ!? 今のでごまかせたか!? 「はぁ......なるほど......」これはごまかせて......ないな、ベルトラのあの目は疑っている。他に何かないか......何か――。「――っ!? デール! 上!」「へ? グフッ! グヘッ!!」エリンの奴が我輩に思いっきり体当たりをしてきたと同時に我輩のところが爆発した。普通は助かったと思うべき所なんだろうだが、エリンの頭が我輩のみぞおちにクリティカルヒットの上に落馬した先には石があったらしくそこで頭を打ってしまった。これでは助かったのかどうかもわからんではないか。攻撃してきたのはあの下級悪魔か!? おのれ~下級のクセに我輩に攻撃をしてくるとは何たる――そうだ、戦闘を利用して奴らに我輩の事を伝えれば! 「このあたりの見張り番か!」まずい、ベルトラの奴がしゃしゃり出てきた。「待つのだ! ここは我輩に任せろ」お前が戦えば我輩の事を伝えられないではないか! 「アタシの出番だね!」お前もかーーー!! 「いっいや、一度一人の力を試してみたいのだ、せっかく天使の剣に選ばれたのだからな」「はぁ......」「いやいや、今のデールじゃ......」二人の視線完全に我輩を弱者としか見てない。ここまでの言動や行動でそう思われていても仕方ないが、しかし今はこうするしかないのだ! 「うるさい! 行くぞおおおおお! おりゃあああ!」出来る限り鍔迫り合いで密着できるように剣の角度を調整してと......。「ギギッ!」よし、うまくこいつに貼り付けたぞ。あとはあの二人に聞こえないように小声で。「おい、我輩の話を聞け」「ハァ?」「こんな姿であるが我輩はデイルワッツだ! アルフレドかアナネットに話を聞いておらんのか!?」「ナニイッテヤガル! デイルワッツ様ハ魔王城ニオラレルワ! 人間ノクセニデイルワッツ様ノ名ヲカタルトハユルセヌ!」やはりもう一人の我輩がいるというのか。アルフレドかアナネットの奴らは何をしているのだ。「くそ!! って、うおおお予想以上に力負けをする。こうなればファイアボール!」え? 我輩の指先に小さな火が灯っているだけ? なんで? 「ファイアボール!」やっぱり小さな火が灯っているだけ......おかしい、普通ならもっと大きい火球を飛ばせるはずだぞ!? 「ヒャッハハハハ! ナンダソレハ! ファイアボールトハコウスルノダ! ――ファイアボール!」何とか避けられたが当たってたら死ぬとこだった! ってもう一人、魔法を撃つ準備をしている!? やばい、あれは避けられない! 「何遊んでいるんですか、はぁっ!」ベルトラが一瞬にして二人をぶった切った。不覚にもかっこいいと思ってしまった、人間のクセに......。それに比べて我輩は無様だ、なんて無様な姿をさらしておるのだ。「このくらいは普通です、むしろ......」うっ痛い、今受けた傷よりもベルトラの奴から放たれる視線が物凄く痛い! 「そんな目で我輩を見るな、そもそも我輩にも結構な魔力があったのだぞ!? それが今はこれだけ......」こんな火じゃ焚き火をするときに火種としか使いようがないぞ。「魔力を吸っちゃったから当たり前じゃん、アタシが魔力を送らない限りデールは普通の人間と一緒だし~」「勇者になったと言うのに何故弱体化せねばならぬのだ!?」本当にただの呪いの剣じゃないのか、これは!?	“So, why are we proceeding through the mountains?” The bustling I heard when I departed the kingdom was replaced with the silence only interrupted by the singing of birds. “Tomorrow at noon, the kingdom’s army is supposed to intercept the Demon Lord’s army on the flat lands. Meanwhile, we will take a detour through these mountains and launch a surprise attack on the place Figueroa is at, as its defence should have become lower.” “A surprise attack is rather unfair.” That’s what I, a demon, is saying...... Eh, at my present words Bertra’s expression distorted, do you also not like this crooked strategy? “As a knight, I don’t like it either, but it can’t be helped. If we don’t do this we won’t be able to fight with just this number of people and Figueroa’s unique magic is too powerful so we have to defeat him in a single blow.” Well, that certainly is an effective strategy against an opponent like Figueroa. On flat land his unique magic is rather weak, however, in the mountains surrounded by rock he can make the most use of it and that battle maniac’s habit is to only fight in advantageous places~. A coward that loves to fight...... That’s my evaluation of that guy. “Hey~ Hey~ There’s something I’ve been wondering about since forever. What kind of person is Figueroa? Also, what’s unique magic?” “You don’t even know that? One of the four Demonic Heavenly Kings, “Red Stone Figueroa”, a giant with four yes and four arms. Unique magic is something only those rarely born with it can use. Figueroa’s unique magic is that he can freely control the hardness of stone. He can make it as soft as clay or as hard as Orichalcum.” The origin of the name Red Stone comes from the fact that the stones that get influenced by his magical power shine red, so I arbitrarily called him that. Thanks to that guy, it was fairly easy to make the current Demon Lord’s Castle. If we didn’t have that power then it might still be under construction. “Oh~ I see~ Certainly, I don’t know how to use that magic“ That lass hit her hand with her fist apparently having understood something, but this time I raised a question. “How do you know how to use magic and sorcery in the first place? Why don’t you know about Unique Magic?” Erin tilted her head having a puzzled expression. Is doing that while thinking her habit? “That’s right, why is that...... Hm~~~m......I don’t really know!” “You don’t really know, you say?! Don’t end it like that!” “But, when I think about this the inside of my head gets~ all messed up~ and I’ll get a really painful headache.” It’s no use, in various ways. “I’m more curious about why you know so much about Figueroa. What’s more, compared to an average person, you have more than basic magical power and your muscles seem as tempered as a soldier’s......” “Uh!” Crap, she was talking like a river! I have to somehow deceive her. “A-about that~.....Uhm..... That’s it! I’m a Four Demonic Heavenly Kings enthusiast, I know quite a bit from rumours I heard from travellers. Since magical power is inherent, it couldn’t be helped! And about my body~~~~S-see, I told you that my body is weak, right? I thought I should train a little! I trained in secret!” How’s that?! Was I able to deceive her now?! “Haah, I see......” Can I leave it at that?...... It doesn’t look like it, Bertra’s eyes still look doubtful. Isn’t there anything else?...... Something– “–!? Dale! From above!” “He? Guka! Guhe!!” As Erin rammed my body while I was lost in thoughts the place I was previously exploded. Normally I’d think Erin saved me, but she landed a critical hit on my solar plexus, pushed me off the horse and made me hit my head on something like a stone. I don’t know if one can call that saving. “Are that humans over there?”Was it those two low-class demons who attacked us?! You~ What makes you attack me even though you are just low ranks– Right, I should use this battle to tell them about my situation! “Is it this area’s patrol?!” Crap, that Bertra seems eager. “Wait! Leave it to me!” If you fight I might not be able to tell them about me! “It’s my turn!” You, too–!! “N-no, I’d like to test out my own power once, since I was chosen by the Angel’s Sword after much hardship.” “Haah......” “No, no, if it’s the current Dale......” Those two look at me as if I’m completely weak. It can’t be helped as that’s what I conveyed with my words and actions, but I have to do this now! “Shut up! Here I goooooo! Oriyaaaa!!” I adjusted the angle of the sword so that I could get as close as possible to them....... “Gigi-!” Alright, I successfully got close to him. Now I’ll speak in a low voice so that those two won’t be able to hear. “Oi, listen to what I have to say” “Hah?” “I may look like this, but I’m Dalewatts! Didn’t you hear anything from Alfred or Annanet?!” “What are you saying?! Dalewatts-sama is in the Demon Lord’s Castle! I can’t forgive a human like you to utter Dalewatts-sama’s name!” As I thought, there’s another me, huh? What are Alfred and Annanet doing? “****!! Huh, Uoooh, I’m getting overpowered more than I expected. If it’s like this then, Fire Ball!” Eh? There’s only a small flame on my fingertip? Why? “Fire Ball!” As I thought, there’s only a small flame coming out...... Weird, normally I should be able to let out a much bigger Fire Ball!? “Hyahahahaha! What’s with this?! That’s how a Fireball is supposed to be! — Fire Ball!” Though I was able to avoid it, if it hit me I would have died! Huh, the other one is preparing to shoot magic as well!? This is bad, I can’t avoid that! “What are you playing around for? Haah!” Bertra cut down those two instantly. I unconsciously thought she was cool, even if she’s a human....... Compared to her I’m unsightly. What an unsightly form I exposed. “Oh~ Bell, amazing~”“This much is normal, rather......” Uuh, it hurts, Bertra’s gaze hurts a lot more than the scratch I received just now! “Don’t look at me like that, in the first place, didn’t I have more than enough magical power?!! Why can I only do this now......” That flame is only useful for lighting a campfire. “Isn’t it natural, because I absorbed the magical power? Unless I send you magical power Dale is just a normal human~” “Though you said I became a hero, why did you weaken me?!” Is this really not just a cursed sword?!	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 3, "inserted_lines_src": 3, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
「......おかしいのう」と、グラシエが言う。休憩室を出てか間ほど、迷宮内を回っていた。、黄土猪と出会った。冒険者ともすれ違った。「青鹿をさっぱり見かけぬ」「珍しいのか?」「いいや。青鹿のほうが多いくらいだと聞いたがのう」ミトロフとしては、黄土猪で活躍できない分、青鹿を狩るために奮闘しようと考えていた。それが見つからないとなると、単純に肩透かしである。黄土猪の戦利品はもう十分である。カヌレは紐で括った牙の束を背負っているが、あまりに荷物が増えればいざというときに動きが悪くなってしまう。青鹿と戦い、その生態を確認できれば、もう引き返して構わないという状態なのだが、その青鹿がさっぱり現れない。「......見つからぬことには仕方ないのう。戻るか」ミトロフもカヌレも異論はなかった。ミトロフはあまり疲労を感じていなかった。黄土猪はグラシエの領分であったし、コボルドやファングなどの相手には慣れている。しかし今日、初めて迷宮に潜ることになったカヌレの様子は気にかかる。平然とした振る舞いをしているように見えるが、顔はフードですっぽりと隠れているし、骸骨頭から顔色を窺う、というのも難しい。自分が迷宮に入ったときの心労や消耗を鑑みると、戦闘に参加していないとはいえ、そろそろ地上に戻るほうが良いだろうとは思う。 3人は来た道を戻っていく。相変わらず黄土猪の姿は見かけるものの、青鹿は影も形もないばかりだ。4階に上がれば、コボルドとファングの相手でミトロフが忙しくなった。つつがなく地上に戻る。カヌレがまとめていた荷物を買取査定に出し、その待ち時間にグラシエが受付嬢に話を訊いた。受付嬢は鼻からずり落ちた大きな眼鏡を押し上げながら苦笑している。「実はその件も調査中なんです。ここしばらく青鹿が減少しているという報告はあったのですが、ついにめっきり姿を見なくなってしまったという話で」「......めっきり?」とグラシエが繰り返す。「はい、めっきり」と受付嬢は笑顔で答える。「それは、異常事態じゃないのか?」ミトロフの質問に、受付嬢は「あはは」と笑った。「正直なところ、分からないんです。そもそも私たちは迷宮のことをほとんど理解していません。なぜ魔物が生息しているのか、なぜ倒しても数が戻るのか、地下に何があるのか......平常が分からない以上、どこからを異常事態と判断するべきか困るんです。それに」はっきりと言われてしまう。ミトロフは「ぶっ」と鼻を詰まらせ、それもそうか、と頷いた。ギルドとて、迷宮のあらゆることを知っているわけではないし、魔物の生態系を管理しているわけでもない。彼らの仕事は迷宮に潜る冒険者の管理であり、その探索の補助と、産出物の買取である。魔物がいなくなろうと、それをどうこうできるわけではなかった。受付嬢の元に、作業服を着た「あ、査定部から評価がきました。ご確認ください」ミトロフが受け取り、ざっと査定を眺める。当然ではあるが、これまでの探索でもっとも実入りのよい結果となった。黄土猪の角は悪くない値段だ。それをグラシエとカヌレに共有してから、サインをした。受付嬢が現金の用意をしながら、「あ、そういえば」と話題を変えた。「先日、鑑定を依頼された遺物の本ですが、魔法の「ほう、それは高そうだな」迷宮や異物には疎いミトロフですら、魔法の書については知っている。古代の叡智が記されたその本を開けば、理を越えた奇跡––––魔法を使用できるという。かといって常人がすぐに使えるわけではなく、魔術師の塔で厳しい訓練を受けた者だけに許された秘術だと言う。お宝と呼んで間違いないだろうことに、ミトロフは鼻息も荒くしたのだが、受付嬢は眼鏡をずり下げつつ苦笑した。だったそうで。魔術師の塔ではあまり求められていない「......む、そうか」遺物の魔法の書であっても、やはりピンキリはあるらしい。密かに期待していたこともあって、そこまでの価値ではないとわかると、やはりがっくりはくる。「いかがしましょう? 魔術師の塔に買取を依頼するか、ギルドのオークションに出品することもできますが」ミトロフはグラシエに振り返る。ふたりで見つけたものである以上、一存で決定することはできない。しかし、グラシエはミトロフと受付嬢のやりとりにちっとも気を払わず、わずかに俯いて何やら考え込んでいる様子だった。「グラシエ、どうする?」「......ん? なにがじゃ」「魔法の書だよ。オークションに出すこともできるぞ」「われはそうした金銭の仕組みの詳しくないでな。ミトロフが決めるほうが良かろう」と気もそぞろに答える。どうにも気にかかる、とミトロフは顎肉を揉んだ。「とりあえず、保留でいいか。しばらく預かっててもらえると助かるんだが」「分かりました。でも早めにご回答をお願いしますね。では、こちら、今回の買取金です」ミトロフは金を受け取り、グラシエとカヌレを連れてカウンターを離れた。	“... This is strange.” Grace said after wandering around the labyrinth for about an hour since leaving the break room. They encountered the ochre boar twice and passed by other adventurers. “I haven’t seen a blue deer at all.” “Is that rare?” “No, I heard there are more blue deer around here.” Mitrof had been thinking about trying to hunt blue deer since he couldn’t make much progress with the ochre boar. If they couldn’t find any, it would be a disappointment. The spoils from the ochre boars were already enough. Canule carried a bundle of tied tusks on her back, but if the load became too heavy, it would hinder their movements in case of emergency. If they could fight and confirm the ecology of the blue deer, they wouldn’t mind turning back. However, there was no sighting of the blue deer. “...If we can’t find any, then we can’t help it—let’s head back.” Mitrof and Canule had no objection. Mitrof didn’t feel particularly tired. He was used to facing opponents such as kobolds and fangs on Grace’s watchful eyes, and the ochre boar was no exception. However, he was worried about Canule, who was entering the labyrinth for the first time. Although she seemed to behave calmly, her face was completely hidden under her hood, making it difficult to read her expression from her skeletal head. Considering the mental and physical exhaustion he experienced when he first entered the labyrinth, Mitrof felt that it was time to return to the surface, even though he didn’t participate in the combat. The three of them retraced their steps. As usual, they saw ochre boars, but the blue deer were nowhere to be seen. And when they reached the fourth floor, Mitrof became busy dealing with the kobolds and fangs. Finally, they returned safely to the surface. Canule had the items they collected evaluated for sale, and while waiting, Grace approached the receptionist to ask some questions. The receptionist chuckled, pushing her oversized glasses up from her nose. “Actually, we are still investigating that matter—we have had reports of a decrease in blue deer for a while now, but it seems they have finally disappeared completely.” “...Completely?” Grace repeated. “Yes, completely,” the receptionist answered with a smile. “Isn’t that an abnormal situation?” At Mitrof’s question, the receptionist chuckled. “To be honest, we don’t know—we hardly understand anything about the labyrinth—why do monsters inhabit it?—Why do their numbers return even after we defeat them? What lies underground? —We’re stumped as to where to draw the line for an abnormal situation, given our lack of understanding—besides, “she paused for a moment, then continued, “Even if this is an abnormal situation, we don’t know how to resolve it.” It was stated clearly. Mitrof pinched his nose and nodded, “Yeah, I see.” The guild did not know everything about the labyrinth, nor did they manage the ecosystem of monsters. Their job was to manage adventurers who went into the labyrinth, to assist in their exploration, and to buy their produce. Even if monsters disappeared, there was nothing they could do about it. A dwarf hobbit(小人ホビット) in work clothes rushed over to the receptionist and handed her a document. “Oh, we received an evaluation from the appraisal department—please check it.” Mitrof took it and glanced over the evaluation, which was the most profitable result from their exploration yet. The ochre boar’s horn was worth a good price. After sharing it with Grace and Canule and signing it, the receptionist prepared the cash and changed the subject. “By the way, the ancient relic that was requested for appraisal the other day turned out to be the Magic Book.” “Oh, that sounds expensive.” Even Mitrof, who was unfamiliar with labyrinths and relics, knew about the magic book. It contained ancient wisdom and could perform miracles beyond one’s imagination through the use of magic. However, it was not something that ordinary people could easily use. It was said that only those who received rigorous training in a magician’s tower were allowed to use this secret technique. Mitrof was ecstatic at the thought of the treasure, but the receptionist lowered her glasses and smiled wryly. “It is undoubtedly rare, but apparently it contained ‘Image Projection Lycalil.’ It is considered “common life magic’ that is not highly sought after in the magician’s tower, so it may not be as valuable as you might expect.” “...Ah, I see.” Even in the case of a magical book relic, there were hits and misses. Mitrof was disappointed, as he had secretly hoped for something more valuable. “What would you like to do?—You can request the magician’s tower to buy it, or you can put it up for auction at the guild.” Mitrof turned to Grace. Since they had found it together, he couldn’t make a decision on his own. However, Grace seemed to pay little attention to the conversation between Mitrof and the receptionist and was slightly hunched over, lost in thought. “Grace, what do you think?” “...Hm? What about?” “The magic book—we could auction it off.” “I’m not familiar with the details of the financial system—it’s better if Mitrof decides.” She answered absentmindedly. Mitrof rubbed his chin in concern. “For now, can we put it on hold?—It would be helpful if you could keep it for a while.” “I understand. But please give us an answer soon—here’s the payment for this purchase.” Mitrof received the payment and left the counter with Grace and Canule.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 0, "inserted_lines_src": 8, "inserted_lines_trg": 0 }
人権の不可侵性、古来からのhabeas corpus（人身保護令状）が、新法律制度によって制限を受ける国は英国のみではない。例えば、命令なしでの拘留の許容期間の延長などである。さらに最近では、自由主義の基本権である言論の自由にさえも、圧力がかかっている。	Britain is not the only country where ancient rights of habeas corpus, of the inviolability of the person, are to be restricted by new legislation that, for example, extends the permissible length of detention without charge. Now, even the fundamental right of a liberal order, free speech, is under pressure.	{ "source": "news_commentary", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
「それは大変でしたね」「わたしは別に気にしないのになー」その日の夜、俺はフィニアとミシェルちゃんにお風呂に入って、昼間の惨劇を伝えていた。しかしこれも師匠の役目だ。クラウドのアフターケアに期待して、任せておくことにした。これも経験である。「ミシェルちゃんは、もう少し気を付けた方がいいと思うよ」「えー、でも弓を射る時とか弦が当たって痛いんだから、いいことばかりじゃないんだよ?」「お、それは皮肉かな? コルティナが聞いたら怒りに震えると思うなぁ」「やめてよぉ。コルティナ様に睨まれたら、わたしもひどい目に遭っちゃうじゃない!」「それも報告しておくね?」「やめて、本当にお願いだから!」洗い場で石鹸を豊富に使いながら、泡だらけになってそんな話をしていた。さらに浮きワカメの洗髪剤も置いてあるので、女性の冒険者にすこぶる評判が良かった。しかし今は、俺たち三人以外には人がいない。この人気宿にしては、珍しいことだ。「あの人たち、冒険者辞めちゃうかな? だとしたら、少し可哀想かも」「ミシェルちゃんは優しいね。三人が辞めるかどうかは、運次第ってところじゃない?」「でも私もミシェルちゃんと同意です。さすがにこれはヒドイかと」「フィニアもかぁ。しょうがないね、一応明日にでもみんなに警告しておくよ。あまり聞く耳持ってくれないかもしれないけど」「そうしてくださると、助かります」「うんうん。やっぱりみんな仲良くだよねぇ」ミシェルちゃんはドヤ顔のまま体を洗う作業に戻る。ツンと顔を逸らしたまま、軟らかめのスポンジで腕をこする。これはタオルだと肌が痛むとか、そんな理由かららしい。幼い頃から、フィニアやマリアから、女性の肌は優しくと散々教え込まれてきた俺の影響である。できるなら素手で洗うようにと、俺はしつこく言われていた。それをミシェルちゃんに伝えた結果、彼女もこの洗い方をするようになったのだ。左手で右腕を洗うミシェルちゃんの胸は、両腕に挟まれるようにしてムニムニと形を変えている。隣に座る俺は、その様子が手に取るように見える。「ん、なぁにぃ?」「いや、なんでも」「ミシェルちゃんもたいがいですけど、ニコル様も結構なモノですからね? いい加減自覚してください」「うぅ、最近剣を振るのに邪魔になるんだよ」さすがにミシェルちゃんやマリアほどではないが、俺もかなり大きくなっており、最近は下着だけではなく布などでしっかり固定しないと、戦闘に支障が出る状況だ。そのおかげか、野郎からの視線もさらに強くなってきている。最初は眼帯の力が効いていないのかと思ったくらいだ。その眼帯は、今も外せていない。風呂でも外せないというのは、少々不便である。だがこれをしないと、フィニアは元よりミシェルちゃんまで魅了の虜になってしまうので、やむを得ない。「それはそれとしてぇ......」溜息をつきながら体を洗う俺に向け、ミシェルちゃんが悪戯っぽい視線を向けていた。途端に背筋に悪寒が走る。こういう時の俺の感覚は、まず狂いがない。「あの人たちの依頼は終わったんだから、もう報酬もらってもいいよね?」「報酬? それはすでに分配したと思うんだけど」「そっちじゃなくって! ほら、模擬戦で」「あっ!?」確かセバスチャンたち三人とミシェルちゃんの模擬戦で、ミシェルちゃんが勝利すれば俺の胸を揉んでいいと言ったことを。「そういえば、私にもその権利がありましたよね? 大丈夫です、いつものマッサージの延長だと考えていただければ」「フィニア、なんでこんな時だけ積極的に......」「私とニコル様の間で、遠慮なんて今さらでしょう?」「そうそう、わたしも遠慮のない親友だしぃ」手をワキワキさせながら、ミシェルちゃんとフィニアが迫る。とっさに逃げ道を探そうとしたが、前は水道の通った壁で逃げ場がなく、左右は左にミシェルちゃん、右にフィニアとこれまた逃げ場がない。残る背後に逃げようかと思ったが、洗い場の低い椅子に座ったままでは、満足な機動も取れない。それにフィニアたちもそっちはすでに警戒している。「や、やめ......?」「遠慮しなくていいよー、痛くしないから」「そうですよ、最近のニコル様はなかなかお身体に触れさせてくれませんので、この機会にぜひ」「毎日のようにマッサージしてるじゃない!」「それ以外での話です」一瞬、眼帯がズレているのかと顔に手をやるが、その様子はなかった。「ど、どういうことなの!?」「うふふふ、ニコル様が悪いのですよ。お預けなんて食らわせるから」「そーそー、我慢は身体によくないよねー」「ミシェルちゃんも、冗談はそれくらいに――」「もんどうむよー!」ミシェルちゃんはついに、こちらに向かって飛び掛かって来る。それに対応すべく身体を向けた俺に、背後からフィニアが羽交い絞めにしてきた。身動き取れなくなった俺の胸元に、ミシェルちゃんが飛び込んできて、ぐにぐにと頬擦りをして来る。「んふふー、ニコルちゃんも大きくなったねぇ」「それはどこを指して言っているのか!」「え、いろんなところだよ? それより覚悟してもらおーか。わたしに模擬戦をやらせたことを!」「もう言いませんから許して!」「だぁめ」いつの間にか、羽交い絞めしていたフィニアの手も、俺の胸元へ伸びている。力尽くで抜け出そうと試みるが、足元が泡で滑ってまともに動けなかった。それに背中に感じるフィニアの柔らかさと、お腹に感じるミシェルちゃんの双丘の感触も、俺の抵抗の意思を削ぎ落としていく。これは天国か? 「フフフ、助けなら来ませんよ? 入って来る時に清掃中の看板を出しておきましたから」「な、周到な!?」この時間帯に人がいないのも納得だ。最後に風呂場に入ってきたフィニアは、すでに人払いのために手を打っていたということである。もはや、助けは期待できまい。ガドルスに至っては、男なので脱衣所に足を踏み込むことすらできない。「うぅん、ちょっとだけ気持ちよかったかも......」「ニコル様、目覚めてもいいんですよ?」俺の中身を知るフィニアは、こっそりとそんなことを耳打ちしてきたりした。	“That sounds tough.” “I don’t really mind though.” That night, I entered the bath with Finia and Michelle and told them about the tragedy that happened earlier. The trio was beaten up a step short of death and were released after Cloud’s mediation, but I worried if they would give up on being Adventurers after this experience. But this was still their master’s duty. I decided to leave it to Cloud, expecting his aftercare to do the job. This was an experience too. “Michelle, you should be more careful.” “Huh, but it hurts when the bowstring hits them, so it has its disadvantages, you know?” “Oh, is that supposed to be sarcasm? If Cortina heard it she would tremble in rage.” “Don’t tell her. If Lady Cortina put her eyes on me I’d be met with misfortune!” “I have to report that part too.” “Please don’t for real!” We talked about such things while being all foamy after overusing the soap in the bath. Gadius’ inn was quite famous, so this much soap was still reserved as an extra. There was also the Floating Wakame shampoo here, so it was famed among female Adventurers. But now, there was no one but us here. It was rare for a popular inn like this. “Will they quit being Adventurers I wonder? If so, it would be quite a pity.” “You’re too kind, Michelle. Whether they give up or not depends on their luck, doesn’t it?” “But I’m of the same opinion as Michelle. It’s a bit too cruel.” “Even you, Finia? Can’t be helped. I’ll go and warn everyone tomorrow. Doubt they will listen to me much.” “Please do that.” “Yeah. Everyone has to get along.” Michelle returned to washing her body with a smug face. She turned her face away and rubbed her arms with a soft sponge. This was apparently because using a towel would hurt the skin or something. Finia and Maria persistently taught me that a woman’s skin needed tender care, so she was influenced by me. I was constantly told to wash myself with bare hands if possible. After I told that to Michelle, she also started washing her body like this. As Michelle washed her right arm with her left hand, her chest was squished together between her arms. As I sat next to her, I could clearly see them. “Hmm, whatcha mean?” “Oh, nothing.” “Michelle is quite something, but yours aren’t anything to scoff at either, Lady Nicole. You should finally realize it already.” “Ugh, they’ve been getting in my way when I swing my sword lately.” I wasn’t quite on Michelle and Maria’s level, but my boobs grew quite a bit as of late, so the underwear could no longer cut it and I needed to bind them with a cloth so they wouldn’t get in the way during the fights. Because of that guys were giving me even more intense stares. I even wondered whether my eyepatch stopped working at first. I still wore that eyepatch even now. It was a little inconvenient that I couldn’t remove it even in the bath. But if I did it, not just Finia, even Michelle would fall for the charm, so it was unavoidable. “Setting that aside...” Michelle turned towards me with an impish gaze as I washed my body while sighing. I instantly felt chills running down my spine. I knew my intuition during times like this was on point. “We finished their commission, so isn’t it time I got my reward?” “Reward? Didn’t I already distribute it?” “That’s not it! You know, the one from the mock battle.” “Ah?!” At that, I remembered my past blunder. That I told Michelle that she could fondle my boobs if she won that mock battle against the trio. “Oh, that reminds me, I also had rights to that, didn’t I? It’s okay, please just think of it as an extension of the usual massage.” “Finia, why are you so assertive during times like this...” “We have nothing to hold back between us, don’t we, Lady Nicole?” “Right, right, I’m so your best friend who won’t hold back.” “I wish you do though!” Michelle and Finia drew near me, itching to grab my boobs. I tried to find a place to evacuate to right away, but there was a wall with the water supply in front of me, while Michelle and Finia were left and right, blocking my way. I thought I could run behind, but I couldn’t move properly while sitting on the low washing chair. Plus the two were already prepared for that. “Maybe don’t...?” “Please don’t hold back, we won’t hurt you.” “That’s right. You aren’t letting me touch you as much lately, so please let me make use of this opportunity, Lady Nicole.” “Aren’t you giving me massages practically daily?!” “I mean aside from that.” I touched my face for a moment wondering if my eyepatch had come off, but it didn’t seem to be the case. Which meant, these two were sane. They were sane but this was still the situation. “W-What’s going on?!” “Uhehehe, Lady Nicole, you’re at fault here. You kept us waiting.” “Yeah! Holding back is bad for the body.” “Michelle, let’s stop taking jokes too far—” Michelle finally jumped towards me. As I faced her to deal with that attack, Finia suddenly bound my hands from behind. Having lost my mobility, Michelle jumped into my boobs and started rubbing her cheeks on them. “Nhehe, Nicole you have grown quite big too.” “What part are you referring to exactly!” “Huh, I mean various parts? More importantly, time to resolve yourself. Time to pay for making me do that mock battle!” “I won’t say it again, so forgive me!” “Noope.” Finia’s hands also suddenly moved towards my breasts. I tried to break out with strength, but my footing was slippery from the foam, and I couldn’t move properly. Moreover, Finia’s softness on my back and Michelle’s pair of hills on my belly were shaving off my will of resistance. Was this heaven? “Hehehe, help won’t come, you know? I made sure to hang up the ‘Cleaning In Progress’ sign when we entered.” “Wha-, you’re too thorough?!” Now it makes sense why no one was around at this hour. Finia entered last, so it looks like she already made sure to keep people away. I couldn’t expect help anymore. As for Gadius, he was a guy so he wouldn’t even come to the changing room. Thus, I ended up being fondled to the two’s heart’s content. “Mmm, it may have felt a little good...” “Lady Nicole, it’s fine to awaken to this, you know?” Finia, who knew who I was, secretly whispered that into my ears.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 3, "inserted_lines_src": 6, "inserted_lines_trg": 1 }
現在の民主主義の波紋が歓迎される背景には、多くの理由がある。民主主義は不正や悪用との関係が薄く、市民と政治の自由および政府の真に市民を重視する姿勢と強い関連性がある。しかし経済的成功にとっては、民主主義はどれほど重要なのであろうか。	There are many reasons to celebrate the current democratic wave. Democracy is associated with less injustice and abuse, with basic civic and political freedoms, and with greater sensitivity by governments for the true priorities of its citizens.	{ "source": "news_commentary", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
有名な「不老の泉」が描かれていますこの水で沐浴したりこの水を呑んだりすると健康になり若くなるというものですどの文明のどの文化でも人々は永遠なる若さを求めて夢見てきましたアレキサンダー大王や探検家のポンセ・デ・レオンは「不老の泉」を生涯捜し続けましたが見つけられませんでしたでもこの話はこれで終わりでしょうか? 「不老の泉」の話には何かが隠されているのでは? 今日は加齢医学研究における驚くべき発展をお話ししますこの事は加齢に関しての私たちの考えや未来の加齢に伴う疾患の治療法に革命的貢献をするでしょう最近行われた成長に関する数々の実験研究から始まったことですが若齢マウスから得た血液を注入された老齢マウスは若返るという事が分かったのです人間では二重胎児に見られる事に似ていますがちょっとゾッとする話ですね 2007年幹細胞研究者トム・ランドが老齢マウスが若齢マウスと血液循環系を共有すると老齢マウスの筋肉が若返ったという研究発表をしその数年後ハーバードでエイミー・ウェイジャーズがこの再現実験に成功しました他の研究者達も同じような若返り効果を膵臓肝臓そして心臓に観察したと報告していますが他のラボをも含む私たち研究者達が最も関心を持っている事は脳にもこれを応用するというその可能性ですつまり老齢マウスが並体結合と呼ばれる技術で若齢マウスの影響を受けると脳が若返り機能が良くなるという事が分かりました繰り返しますが血液循環系を若齢マウスと共有する事で老齢マウスは若い血液を得て脳は若返り機能が亢進するのです私たちが歳を取るとあらゆる認知面で変化が見られますこのスライドでは論理的思考言語能力などの推移を見る事ができます 50〜60才あたりではこれらの機能損傷は見られません今こうやって見渡して見ると私たちはまだ大丈夫みたいですがこれらの線が下がって行くのを見るのは怖いですね歳を取るにつれアルツハイマーなどの病気が起きる事がありますこの様な病気ではニューロン同士を繋げるシナプス間に隙間が出来ニューロン間の通信が悪くなりニューロンの死滅脳の萎縮へと進みますこうして加齢に伴い神経変性疾患に罹り易くなる事は分かっていますがここで大きな問題が1つありますそれがどのように起きているのかを分子、機能レベルでヒトの生体を使い実験して詳しく脳内を見る事ができない事です私たちは認知テストをしたり脳画像を撮ったりあらゆる最先端のテストができますが加齢に伴い又は病気が原因でどの様に脳が変化したかを実際に見るにはその人の死を待つしかないのですこれが神経病理学者が行っていることですそれでは脳を大きな生体の一部体全体の一部として考えると脳内で起きていることが分子レベルでもっと良く理解できるのではないでしょうか? 体の老化や病気が脳に影響を与えるのでしょうか? 又その逆の視点から脳の老化は体の他の部分に影響するのでしょうか? 身体の全組織を結合しているのは循環組織です血液は酸素を運ぶ赤血球細胞や感染症と闘う免疫細胞だけでなくシグナル伝達分子すなわちホルモンのような細胞や組織間の情報伝達をする因子をも運搬します脳においても同様です加齢と病気による血液の変化を見れば脳に関して何か分かるかもしれません歳を取るにつれ血液は変化しホルモン様因子が変わる事が分かっています体組織の成長や維持に必要な因子は概して歳を取るにつれ減少し始めますと同時に怪我や炎症の修復に携わる因子が増えと同時に怪我や炎症の修復に携わる因子が増え良い因子と悪い因子のバランスが崩れて来るとも言えますこの現象を私たちの次の実験で理解して頂きたいと思います健康な20才から89才までの人々から 300近くの血液サンプルを採り組織間の情報伝達をする百以上の因子ホルモン様タンパク質を測定しましたそれでまず最初に若齢者と老齢者の間では約半分の因子が大きく違っている事が分かったのですこれらの因子の変化から見るとヒトの生体環境は加齢に伴い大きく変わるという事ですこれから統計を取り生物情報学のプログラムを用い逆算しおよその年齢推定を可能にしてくれるそんな因子を発見できるかもしれませんそれがどんなものかこのグラフで分かります横軸は被験者の実年齢を表します横軸は被験者の実年齢を表しますつまり何年前に生まれたかですそして先程のたんぱく質因子から被験者のおよその年齢を割り出しますこの様に推定年齢は実年齢にとても近いのですこうして大体の年齢を推定できるのですでも本当にすごいのはそのはずれ値なんです「変わり者」とはそんなもんですここに緑色でハイライトしてあるのは 70才位の人ですが私たちの測定が正しければこの人の生物学的年齢はほんの45才でしかないのですこの人は実年齢よりずっと若く見えるのでしょうか? それよりもっと重要な事はこの人は加齢に伴う病気に罹るリスクが低く百才までいやそれよりもっと長生きするのでしょうか? 一方赤でハイライトされたこの人は 40才にもなっていないのに生物学的年齢は65才ですこの人は加齢に伴う病気に罹るリスクが高いのでしょうか? 私たちのラボではこれらの因子の研究を更に進めています多くの研究団体が真の加齢因子を突き止めようとしていますそれらの因子から何かが分かり加齢による病の予測ができるでしょうか? このグラフはただ相関関係を示しこれら因子は加齢に伴い変化すると言えるだけで加齢に働きかけるかどうかはこれからは良く分かりません次にお見せするのは画期的な研究結果でこれらの因子が組織の老化を調節できることを示唆しています並体結合と呼ばれるモデルに戻りましょうマウスを使っての並体結合は手術で2匹のマウスを結合させ血液循環系を共有させるというものですここで「若いマウスの血液がどうして老いたマウスの脳に影響するの?」という疑問が湧くでしょうこれを明らかにする為ヒトの年齢にして20才と65才位に相当する 2匹の若齢マウスと老齢マウスを使いましたこれで私たちは実に貴重な発見をしましたニューロン新生を行う神経幹細胞が老いたマウスの脳に増えニューロンを結合するシナプスの活動が活発になり新しい記憶形成に携わる遺伝子が増え新しい記憶形成に携わる遺伝子が増えひどい炎症を起こす事が少なくなりましたでもマウスの脳への細胞混入は観察されていません循環系を共有している間このモデルでは老齢マウスの脳に細胞が混入していないので血液中の成分がその因子だと論理づけ血液内の血漿を採取し若齢又は老齢マウスの血漿をマウスに注入して調べ若返り効果を再現することができましたこれはマウスの記憶をテストして証明できましたヒトと同じ様にマウスも加齢に伴い記憶障害が起きますただそれは検知し難いのですがこのあとその方法をお見せしますそれからこれを一歩進めてヒトにも応用できる様にしたいと思いました今からお見せするのは未公開の研究結果ですここでは若いヒトの血漿とコントロールに生理食塩水を使い老いたマウスにその血漿を注入しますこれでその老齢マウスを若返らせマウスの学習能力を向上させられるでしょうか? それを調べる為に「バーンズ迷路」と呼ばれるテストをしましたこれは穴が幾つも開けられた大きなテーブルに穴を識別する為のマークが周りにつけてありこのステージのようにまぶしい光が照らされていますマウスは大嫌いなまぶしい光から逃れようと赤い矢印が示す唯一の穴を捜しますその穴の下には管が繋がれていてマウスはその暗い穴の中で安心できる様になっていますまず最初に数日間マウスにマークに従いその穴を捜す学習をさせます私たちが1日中買い物をした後駐車場で自分の車を捜すようなものですなかなか見つけられない人もたぶん多い事でしょうでは老齢マウスを見てみましょうこれは記憶障害がある老齢マウスですこれを見ると分かりますが穴毎を覗き回っていて最後に学習した場所を見つける手助けとなる場所の地理的把握ができていませんそれと全く対照的にこの同じ歳の兄弟は 3日毎に若いヒトの血漿を少量 3週間注入されたマウスですがご覧の様に「ここは何処?」とでも言うかの様に見回すと真っすぐに正解の穴へ向かいますその穴の場所を覚えていたのですこの老齢マウスは確かに若返ったみたいに脳機能は若齢マウスのそれのようですこれが示唆している事は若いマウスの血漿だけでなく若いヒトの血漿にも老いた脳を助ける可能性があるという事です要約すると老齢マウスの脳は手の施しようがないのではなく可塑性を持たせることができるという事が分かりました若返らすことが出来るのです若い血液内の因子が老化を逆行させますそれからお見せしなかったのですが並体結合で若齢マウスは老齢マウスとは逆の影響を受け老齢マウスの血液因子が若齢マウスの老化を加速化させますここで最も重要なのはヒトにも同じような因子がある可能性です若いヒトの血液でも同じような効果があるのですから老いたヒトの血液ではこの効果がなく老いたマウスは若返りませんではこの魔法をヒトに使えるでしょうか? 今スタンフォードで小さな臨床研究をやっていますそこでは軽症のアルツハイマー病患者に若い20才のボランティアからの血漿で治療を試みています週に1回の血漿注入を4週間続け MRIで画像を撮り患者の認知度をテストし患者の介護者に患者の日常生活について訊ねますこの治療でなんらかの効果が現れればと私たちは願っていますこの治療が効くなら私たちもマウスでの若返り効果はヒトにもあり得るという希望が持てるでしょう私たちは永遠の命は望めませんがこの研究で発見した事は「不老の泉」は私たち自身の中にあるという事かもしれませんそれが枯渇してしまうだけなのでそれをちょっと復活させたいなら私たちは若返りに力を貸してくれる因子を捜し出しそんな因子を人工的に生産してアルツハイマーなどの加齢に伴う病気を治す事ができるのですありがとうございました	It shows the famous Fountain of Youth. If you drink its water or you bathe in it, you will get health and youth. Every culture, every civilization has dreamed of finding eternal youth. There are people like Alexander the Great or Ponce De León, the explorer, who spent much of their life chasing the Fountain of Youth. They didn't find it. But what if there was something to it? What if there was something to this Fountain of Youth? I will share an absolutely amazing development in aging research that could revolutionize the way we think about aging and how we may treat age-related diseases in the future. It started with experiments that showed, in a recent number of studies about growing, that animals -- old mice -- that share a blood supply with young mice can get rejuvenated. This is similar to what you might see in humans, in Siamese twins, and I know this sounds a bit creepy. But what Tom Rando, a stem-cell researcher, reported in 2007, was that old muscle from a mouse can be rejuvenated if it's exposed to young blood through common circulation. This was reproduced by Amy Wagers at Harvard a few years later, and others then showed that similar rejuvenating effects could be observed in the pancreas, the liver and the heart. But what I'm most excited about, and several other labs as well, is that this may even apply to the brain. So, what we found is that an old mouse exposed to a young environment in this model called parabiosis, shows a younger brain -- and a brain that functions better. And I repeat: an old mouse that gets young blood through shared circulation looks younger and functions younger in its brain. So when we get older -- we can look at different aspects of human cognition, and you can see on this slide here, we can look at reasoning, verbal ability and so forth. And up to around age 50 or 60, these functions are all intact, and as I look at the young audience here in the room, we're all still fine. But it's scary to see how all these curves go south. And as we get older, diseases such as Alzheimer's and others may develop. We know that with age, the connections between neurons -- the way neurons talk to each other, the synapses -- they start to deteriorate; neurons die, the brain starts to shrink, and there's an increased susceptibility for these neurodegenerative diseases. One big problem we have -- to try to understand how this really works at a very molecular mechanistic level -- is that we can't study the brains in detail, in living people. We can do cognitive tests, we can do imaging -- all kinds of sophisticated testing. But we usually have to wait until the person dies to get the brain and look at how it really changed through age or in a disease. This is what neuropathologists do, for example. So, how about we think of the brain as being part of the larger organism. Could we potentially understand more about what happens in the brain at the molecular level if we see the brain as part of the entire body? So if the body ages or gets sick, does that affect the brain? And vice versa: as the brain gets older, does that influence the rest of the body? And what connects all the different tissues in the body is blood. Blood is the tissue that not only carries cells that transport oxygen, for example, the red blood cells, or fights infectious diseases, but it also carries messenger molecules, hormone-like factors that transport information from one cell to another, from one tissue to another, including the brain. So if we look at how the blood changes in disease or age, can we learn something about the brain? We know that as we get older, the blood changes as well, so these hormone-like factors change as we get older. And by and large, factors that we know are required for the development of tissues, for the maintenance of tissues -- they start to decrease as we get older, while factors involved in repair, in injury and in inflammation -- they increase as we get older. So there's this unbalance of good and bad factors, if you will. And to illustrate what we can do potentially with that, I want to talk you through an experiment that we did. We had almost 300 blood samples from healthy human beings 20 to 89 years of age, and we measured over 100 of these communication factors, these hormone-like proteins that transport information between tissues. And what we noticed first is that between the youngest and the oldest group, about half the factors changed significantly. So our body lives in a very different environment as we get older, when it comes to these factors. And using statistical or bioinformatics programs, we could try to discover those factors that best predict age -- in a way, back-calculate the relative age of a person. And the way this looks is shown in this graph. So, on the one axis you see the actual age a person lived, the chronological age. So, how many years they lived. And then we take these top factors that I showed you, and we calculate their relative age, their biological age. And what you see is that there is a pretty good correlation, so we can pretty well predict the relative age of a person. But what's really exciting are the outliers, as they so often are in life. You can see here, the person I highlighted with the green dot is about 70 years of age but seems to have a biological age, if what we're doing here is really true, of only about 45. So is this a person that actually looks much younger than their age? But more importantly: Is this a person who is maybe at a reduced risk to develop an age-related disease and will have a long life -- will live to 100 or more? On the other hand, the person here, highlighted with the red dot, is not even 40, but has a biological age of 65. Is this a person at an increased risk of developing an age-related disease? So in our lab, we're trying to understand these factors better, and many other groups are trying to understand, what are the true aging factors, and can we learn something about them to possibly predict age-related diseases? So what I've shown you so far is simply correlational, right? You can just say, "Well, these factors change with age," but you don't really know if they do something about aging. So what I'm going to show you now is very remarkable and it suggests that these factors can actually modulate the age of a tissue. And that's where we come back to this model called parabiosis. So, parabiosis is done in mice by surgically connecting the two mice together, and that leads then to a shared blood system, where we can now ask, "How does the old brain get influenced by exposure to the young blood?" And for this purpose, we use young mice that are an equivalency of 20-year-old people, and old mice that are roughly 65 years old in human years. What we found is quite remarkable. We find there are more neural stem cells that make new neurons in these old brains. There's an increased activity of the synapses, the connections between neurons. There are more genes expressed that are known to be involved in the formation of new memories. And there's less of this bad inflammation. But we observed that there are no cells entering the brains of these animals. So when we connect them, there are actually no cells going into the old brain, in this model. Instead, we've reasoned, then, that it must be the soluble factors, so we could collect simply the soluble fraction of blood which is called plasma, and inject either young plasma or old plasma into these mice, and we could reproduce these rejuvenating effects, but what we could also do now is we could do memory tests with mice. As mice get older, like us humans, they have memory problems. It's just harder to detect them, but I'll show you in a minute how we do that. But we wanted to take this one step further, one step closer to potentially being relevant to humans. What I'm showing you now are unpublished studies, where we used human plasma, young human plasma, and as a control, saline, and injected it into old mice, and asked, can we again rejuvenate these old mice? Can we make them smarter? And to do this, we used a test. It's called a Barnes maze. This is a big table that has lots of holes in it, and there are guide marks around it, and there's a bright light, as on this stage here. The mice hate this and they try to escape, and find the single hole that you see pointed at with an arrow, where a tube is mounted underneath where they can escape and feel comfortable in a dark hole. So we teach them, over several days, to find this space on these cues in the space, and you can compare this for humans, to finding your car in a parking lot after a busy day of shopping. Many of us have probably had some problems with that. So, let's look at an old mouse here. This is an old mouse that has memory problems, as you'll notice in a moment. It just looks into every hole, but it didn't form this spacial map that would remind it where it was in the previous trial or the last day. In stark contrast, this mouse here is a sibling of the same age, but it was treated with young human plasma for three weeks, with small injections every three days. And as you noticed, it almost looks around, "Where am I?" -- and then walks straight to that hole and escapes. So, it could remember where that hole was. So by all means, this old mouse seems to be rejuvenated -- it functions more like a younger mouse. And it also suggests that there is something not only in young mouse plasma, but in young human plasma that has the capacity to help this old brain. So to summarize, we find the old mouse, and its brain in particular, are malleable. They're not set in stone; we can actually change them. It can be rejuvenated. Young blood factors can reverse aging, and what I didn't show you -- in this model, the young mouse actually suffers from exposure to the old. So there are old-blood factors that can accelerate aging. And most importantly, humans may have similar factors, because we can take young human blood and have a similar effect. Old human blood, I didn't show you, does not have this effect; it does not make the mice younger. So, is this magic transferable to humans? We're running a small clinical study at Stanford, where we treat Alzheimer's patients with mild disease with a pint of plasma from young volunteers, 20-year-olds, and do this once a week for four weeks, and then we look at their brains with imaging. We test them cognitively, and we ask their caregivers for daily activities of living. What we hope is that there are some signs of improvement from this treatment. And if that's the case, that could give us hope that what I showed you works in mice might also work in humans. Now, I don't think we will live forever. But maybe we discovered that the Fountain of Youth is actually within us, and it has just dried out. And if we can turn it back on a little bit, maybe we can find the factors that are mediating these effects, we can produce these factors synthetically and we can treat diseases of aging, such as Alzheimer's disease or other dementias. 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俺たちはカビーノ邸で順調に証拠を集めた。すべての作業を終えてから、俺は官憲の地区長に言った。「被害者の少女のことよろしくお願いいたしますね」「お任せください。きちんと責任をもって、保護しましょう」「もし、何かがあれば、モートン卿にでも言ってください」「パパは国王陛下とも仲良しだから、上級貴族にも負けないわ!」そういって、セルリスは胸を張る。地区長は、カビーノを捜査しようとして上層部に妨害されたと言っていた。だが、カビーノを逮捕して悪事の証拠をそろえておいた。こうなれば、上層部も妨害しにくいものだ。特にご禁制のハムは重要だ。たとえ、上流貴族であっても、関係が明るみになればただでは済まない。家をお取り潰しになってもおかしくないほどだ。大量の武器の方は、上流貴族ほどやばい。クーデターを疑われる。お取り潰しの上、処刑されてしまうだろう。「地区長。お気をつけてくださいね?」今の状況はカビーノと仲の良い上流貴族や官憲上層部にとってまずい。捜査妨害ではなく、地区長の暗殺などに出ないとも限らない。「私の家も教えておきましょう。よくモートン卿もおいでになりますし」「それは、......ありがとうございます」地区長は少し怪訝な顔になる。このFランク冒険者何者だと考えていそうだ。「昔、モートン卿が現役冒険者だったころ、よくお手伝いをさせていただいたんですよ」嘘ではない。色々と手伝ったのは事実だ。「パパはまだ現役よ!」それから地区長に事後を任せると、俺たちは自宅へと帰ることにする。「アリオ、ジョッシュ、今日はありがとうな」「いや、気にするな。ゴブリンロードに比べたらチンピラは全然怖くねーな」アリオとジョッシュはそう言いながら笑いあっている。アリオたちは、シアと一緒のチンピラを捕縛した。五。シアがいるとはいえ、なかなかの成果と言えるだろう。「俺からの個人の依頼だから、報酬はちゃんと払うぞ」「いや、ロック。それは気にしなくていいぞ」「そうだわ。こういうことこそ、きちんとしないと。私も依頼主の一人として報酬は払わせてもらうわ」セルリスもそういって、説得してくれる。アリオたちには普通のFランク冒険者の相場料金を受け取ってもらった。「シアはBランクだから......」「いえ! 気にしないでいいであります。ギルドを通した依頼でないのでアリオたちと同額でいいでありますよ」「だがなぁ」「アリオとジョッシュと同じことしかしてないのに、あたしだけ多く貰うわけにはいかないであります」シアにはアリオたちと同じ報酬額しか受け取ってもらえなかった。その後、アリオたちはギルドへと向かった。もう一度クエストを確認してから宿に戻るのだという。シアは、俺たちと一緒に帰宅の途についた。「ただの買い物の予定だったのに、時間がかかってしまったな」「すまない。おれがトラブルに巻き込まれたせいだ」そんなことを会話していると、セルリスが言う。「ロックさん。お屋敷のお風呂って使えるのかしら?」「お湯は出たような気が......」まだ、あまりじっくり調べていなかった。そういえば、新しい家にはお風呂がついている。さすが貴族の邸宅だ。「ミルカちゃん。帰ったら真っ先にお風呂掃除お願いね」「わかった。セルリスねーさんの指示なら全力でピカピカにするぞ」そう言いながらも、ミルカは少し戸惑っていた。なぜ掃除をお願いされたのかわからないのだろう。セルリスはミルカの返事に満足そうにうなずくと、今度は俺に向けて言う。「ちょっと、用事を思い出したから、家に帰るわね。すぐ戻るから」「それはいいが、忙しいなら、戻ってこなくてもいいぞ?」これからの仕事は通路の補強だ。力の強いセルリスがいれば、助かるが、別にセルリスがいなくても作業はできる。「いいえ! すぐ戻るわ!」そう言うと、セルリスはものすごい速さで走っていった。「セルリスねーさん、足速いなー」ミルカは尊敬の目で、セルリスの後ろ姿を見つめていた。「セルリスは小さいころから戦闘訓練を続けてきたから、身体能力が高いんだよ」「小さいころからかい? すごいんだな」「セルリスは、かの有名なゴランの娘だからな」「えっと、ゴランさんって、今朝のおっちゃんだろ?」「そうだぞ」「で、ゴランのおっちゃんが、官憲さんとのお話にも出てきたモートンきょう? って人と同じ人ってことかい?」朝食の時、ミルカには、ゴランたちのことを紹介した。だが、簡単にだ。このおっさんがゴラン、こっちのお姉ちゃんがセルリスって感じだ。だから、ミルカはゴランの家名がモートンというのは知らないのだ。「そうそう。ゴランとセルリスは、モートンって家名を持っているんだ」「へー。凄そうだな!」ミルカはエリックのことも知らなかったのだ。ゴランのことも知らないに違いない。そんなことを思っていると、ルッチラが言う。「ミルカはゴラン・モートン卿がどんな人か知らないの?」「今朝紹介されたばかりだからな! でも、優しそうなおっちゃんだったな。セルリスねーさんも優しいし」ミルカはセルリスに朝ごはんを分けてもらっていた。餌付けされたのかもしれない。俺も餌付けしておくべきだろう。「少し小腹がすいたな。なにか食べるか」「ごくり」「......がう」「............コケっ」「..................」ミルカは息をのむ。同時に腹の虫がぐぅっとなった。ガルヴは尻尾を急速に振りはじめた。ゲルベルガもうずうずし始めた。シアはすましている。だが、耳がぴくぴくして尻尾がブンブン揺れている。ルッチラも目が輝いていた。「そこらの屋台で何か食べるか。みんな好きなの食べていいぞ」「やったぜ!」「ありがとうございます!」みんなとても、嬉しそうだった。	The gathering of evidence at Kabino’s mansion continued to go smoothly. After everything was finished, I said to the district manager, “Please take care of the young victim.” “Leave it to us. We will take the responsibility of protecting her.” “And if you need anything, please call Lord Morton.” “Daddy is friends with His Royal Majesty, and is just as powerful as those upper-class nobles!” Serulis said proudly. The district manager had said that the people higher up had obstructed his attempts to investigate Kabino. However, he now had evidence of Kabino’s crimes. So now they would be able to do very little to stop him. The forbidden ham was especially important. Even if you were of the upper class of nobles, any involvement in the forbidden ham coming to light would have grave consequences. It could result in the demolishing of your house. As for the immense amount of weapons, this too would look worse the higher up you were. You would be suspected of planning a coup. In this case, you would lose your house and be executed. “District manager. I hope that you will be careful?” The current situation was dire for Kabino and the powerful nobles and the district manager’s superiors. Perhaps they would try to assassinate him, as interfering with the investigation was no longer enough. “I will tell you where I live. Lord Morton visits me often as well.” “That is very...thank you so much.” The district manager looked at me a little suspiciously. He was wondering what kind of F Rank Warrior I was. “Long ago, when Lord Morton was still working as an Adventurer, I would often help him.” It wasn’t a lie. I did indeed help him a lot. “Daddy is still an Adventurer!” After that, I decided to leave the rest of the business to the district manager, and return home. “Ario and Josh. Thank you for your help today.” “No, it was nothing. These thugs aren’t intimidating at all compared to a goblin lord.” Ario and Josh said and laughed. They had been with Shia and helped her arrest five of the men. That was five against three. Even if Shia was there, it was a pretty impressive result. “As it was a personal request from me, I will not forget to pay you.” “No, Locke. You shouldn’t worry about that.” “Yes. These are the kinds of matters that must be settled properly. And as one of the people who hired you, I will also compensate you for your work.” Serulis said as she tried to persuade them. And so Ario and Josh accepted the payment that was fitting for being F Rank Adventurers. “And since Shia is a B Rank...” “No! I do not care about that. It was not a request through the guild, and so I will accept the same amount as Ario and Josh.” “But...” “I have only done what Josh and Ario also did. And so I cannot receive more than them.” Shia would not accept any more than they had. After that, Ario and Josh returned to the guild. They said that they would look at the quest board again before returning to their inn. Shia came with us as we walked back to the house. “That was quite a detour, considering we were only going to go shopping.” “I’m sorry. It’s all because I got caught in such trouble.” “No, it’s not your fault, Milka.” As we talked, Serulis said, “Mister Locke. Do the baths in the mansion work?” “I think there was hot water...” I had not really inspected everything yet. But now that I think of it, the new house did have a bath. It was a noble’s house, after all. “Milka. Can you clean the baths when we return?” “Yes. Since it was you who asked, Sister Serulis, I shall make it squeaky clean.” Even as she said this, Milka looked a little confused. She did not know why Serulis had requested this. Serulis nodded in satisfaction at Milka’s answer, then she looked towards me. “I just remembered that I had something to do, and so I will return home now. But I’ll be back soon.” “That’s fine. And you don’t have to come back if you are busy, you know?” We were going to reinforce the tunnels now. It would be rather helpful to have strong Serulis help us, but we could still do it without her. “No! I will be back soon!” After saying this, Serulis ran away at an incredible speed. “Sister Serulis sure is fast.” Milka’s eyes were full of respect as she watched her go. “Serulis has had much combat training since she was young, and so she is very capable physically.” “Since she was young? That’s amazing.” “She is the daughter of the famous Goran, after all.” “Uh...Mister Goran... Do you mean that old man from this morning?” “Yes.” “And...that old man is the same as this Lord Morton that the district manager was talking about?” I had introduced Milka to Goran and the others after breakfast. But it was very simple. This man is Goran, this girl is Serulis. Something like that. And so Milka did not know that Goran’s name was Morton. “Yes, yes. Goran and Serulis have the family name, Morton.” “Ohh. That sounds impressive!” Milka had not even known about Eric. So she likely didn’t know who Goran was either. As I thought about this, Luchila said, “You don’t know about Lord Goran Morton?” “I only just met him this morning! But he seems like a nice old man. And sister Serulis is very kind.” Serulis had shared her breakfast with Milka. Or perhaps she was just baiting her. It might be a good idea for me to do the same. “I’m getting hungry. Do you want to eat something?” “...Grrr.” ........Cluck.” “.......................” Milka gulped, and at the same time, her stomach rumbled. Grulf’s tail began to wag vigorously. Gerberga seemed to become restless. Shia was pretending to be calm. But her ears were twitching and her tail was wagging. Luchila’s eyes were shining. “Then let’s get some food at one of these food stalls. You can all pick anything that you like.” “Yes!” “Thank you so much!” “Grr.” Everyone seemed incredibly pleased.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 9, "inserted_lines_src": 2, "inserted_lines_trg": 2 }
さて手術を好む人なんていません手術を受けた事がある方はいらっしゃいますか? 望んで受けましたか? 望んで受けた方は手を挙げたままにして下さい_ いませんね望んで受けた方は手を挙げたままにして下さい_ いませんね特にいやなのは体に大きな穴をあけてこんな道具を使う手術です激痛を伴い長期欠勤や欠席を余儀なくされ大きな傷が残りますどうしても手術を避けれない状況なら傷を最小限に抑えた低侵襲手術がいいですよね今晩お話ししたいのはこの種の手術を行いその技法を教える過程で多言語翻訳機を探す事に至った経緯です多言語翻訳機を探す事に至った経緯です低侵襲手術とは難しいものです最初に患者さんを眠らせますそしてお腹に炭酸ガスを入れ風船のように膨らませます先が尖った道具をお腹の中に挿入しますこのように危ない物ですこの先に付いたカメラでモニタリング出来るようにしますこのようになりますこれは胆のうの手術ですこの手術はアメリカだけでも年間に100万件ほど行われますこの手術はアメリカだけでも年間に100万件ほど行われますこれは実映像です血は出ていませんね手術をするチームの緊張した様子どれだけ集中力を要するものか表情からも伺えます教えるのはとても難しいし習うのも簡単ではありませんおそらくアメリカ国内で500万件世界中ではおそらく2000万回ぐらい行われていますこういう事を聞いた事はありますよね「彼は生まれつきの外科医だ」ですが外科医は産み落とされるものではありません造られたわけでもありません外科医を培養するこんなタンクなんてないんです外科医は少しずつ訓練されるのものですまずは基盤つまり基礎技術を学ぶ所から始まりますそして手術室にまで連れて行けるようにしますそこでまず助手として使い外科手術を見せながら教えますそして 5年間程このように訓練されると待ちに待った免許が与えられるのです手術を受けるならきちんと免許を持つ外科医にやってもらいたいですよね免許を持つと自分で手術が行えるようになりうまく行けば難しい手術もこなせるようになるのです基盤はとても大事ですそこで我々は米国最大の外科学会である SAGESの医師達で 1990年に訓練プログラムをスタートしました低侵襲手術を行うすべての外科医がしっかりした基礎知識と技術を身につけ現場で手術ができるようにするものですこのプロプログラムの効果は科学的に立証され米国医学会は外科専門医の免許を取るためにこのプログラムの履修を義務付けました講義や単なる講座だけではなくそれらプラス資格試験です難しいものです昨年のことですがパートナーの米国外科学会と共同で低侵襲手術を行う外科医は全員 FLS の資格を収得すべきであると声明を発表しましたアメリカとカナダだけではなく世界中の外科医「全員」が対象ですこの教育とトレーニングを世界レベルで引き上げるのはとても大変なことです世界様々な国を訪れとても素晴らしい事だと実感しています SAGESは世界中で手術を行い外科医の教育をしていますしかしここで問題になるのがまずその一つが「距離」ですどこにでも行けるわけではありませんので世界を縮める必要がありますそのためのツールを開発できると思います私が特に気に入っているツールはビデオですその可能性を見せてくれたのがトロントに住む友人のアラン・オクライネックです彼が証明したのはリアルタイムビデオを使って手術を教える事ができるという事ですこれがアランです英語を話すアフリカの外科医に低侵襲手術を行うための基礎技術を教えています素晴らしいですねしかしこの非常に難しい資格試験を行うには一つ問題があります英語を一応話せるという生徒でも合格率は14%です彼らにとっては手術の知識ではなく英語のテストなのですから身近な場所でも問題があります私の勤務するケンブリッジ病院はハーバード大医学部の付属病院ですが 63ヶ国語に対応できる様 100人の通訳と提携していますこんな規模の病院ですら膨大な費用がかかりますとても人手のかかる仕事です世界レベルで考えれば患者さんと話すだけ-- 外科医の教育抜きでただ患者さんと話すだけでも通訳が何人いても足りませんこの需要を満たすためには技術の力が必要になります私たちの病院にはハーバードの教授から先週この国に来たばかりの人まで様々な患者が訪れます言葉が通じない人と話し治療をするのは予想以上に大変なんです通訳の都合がつかない場合もありますですから何かツールが必要です多言語翻訳機が必要ですここでお話している事は「こうあるべきだ」という一方的な意見ではありませんこれから「何ができるか」皆さんで考えて欲しいのですまだまだ学ぶ事が沢山ありますアメリカでは患者一人当たりの医療費が他国に比べ高いわりに医療効果が優るとは限りません他の国のやり方から学ぶ事もありそうです私は基礎腹腔鏡手術の技術を世界に広めたいと強く思っています昨年は南米と中国を訪れ FLSの基礎を紹介しました行く先々で壁を感じました「学びたいが母国語でないと難しい」ということですこうなれば良いと思いませんか? 出席者それぞれの母国語を使って様々な言語で同時に講義ができたら良いですねアジアや南米アフリカやヨーロッパ様々な地域に住む人々に技術の力を借りてスムーズで正確にコスト効率よく話をしたいのものですもちろん相手の話も理解できなければいけません何か教えてもらえることがあるはずです壮大な計画ですすでに多言語翻訳機が存在するか探してみました現在ウェブページや携帯ですら翻訳機能が使えますからでも手術を教えるのに使えるものはありませんでしたレキシコンが必要だからですつまり専門用語集のようなもの医療関係の専門用語集が必要です更に外科関係の専門用語集も必要ですでもそんなものありませんこれは作る必要がありますそれでは我々が今行っている事をお見せしましょうまだ研究段階で普及してはいませんが IBM研究所と共同でいくつかのテクノロジーを組み合わせ多言語翻訳機を制作していますまずは枠組みです外科医が講義を行っているとき画面に字幕を付けられるフレームワークを使いますそこにビデオ会議技術を付け足すわけですまだ字幕が出ていないので 3番目の技術を加えますこれで字幕が付きますここに翻訳の機能をかぶせます枠の中に字幕が出たら魔法のように言語を変えるのですこれが4つ目の技術です現在11言語が使えます世界をさらに縮めるためにもっと言語を増やしていきます試作品をお見せしましょう普段バラバラになっているこれらの技術を集結させ素晴らしいものが出来ました腹腔鏡手術の基礎第5章: 手術手技の練習言語を選んで母国語で字幕を見ることができます南米の学習者は「スペイン語で見る」のボタンをクリックしますするとリアルタイムでスペイン語の字幕が見られますもし北京で授業を受けていたらこの技術を使えば同じように中国語で字幕を見ることが出来ますロシア語でも何でも人を介せずに同時通訳が可能になりますでもそれは講義だけ冒頭で FLS(基礎腹腔鏡手術) についてお話しましたがこの手術には知識と技術が必要です手術において成功するかしないかの違いは手先の動作のほんのわずかな違いですですのでもう一歩踏み込みましたアランに再び登場してもらいます今日は縫合の練習をしますこのように針を持ってください針の先を持つのです手がブレないように黒い点をめがけてループをこちらに向けてでは切ってくださいオスカーよく出来ましたそれではまた来週多言語翻訳機の開発過程をお見せしました情報の往復交換が出来るようにしたいのです教えるのと同時に学べるものが必要ですこのツールにはたくさんの使い方があるでしょう様々な技術の統合の良い例がカメラ付きの携帯の普及ですこれは様々な分野で活用できます医療や看護エンジニアリング、法律、会議、ビデオの翻訳などどこでも使えるツールです壁をなくすために誰とも意思の疎通ができるように通訳の技術の開発を進めなければいけませんいろいろな所で必要になりますより世界を近づけるためにありがとうございました	Now, nobody wants an operation. Who here has had surgery? Did you want it? Keep your hands up if you wanted an operation. Nobody wants an operation. In particular, nobody wants an operation with tools like these through large incisions that cause a lot of pain, that cause a lot of time out of work or out of school, that leave a big scar. But if you have to have an operation, what you really want is a minimally invasive operation. That's what I want to talk to you about tonight -- how doing and teaching this type of surgery led us on a search for a better universal translator. Now, this type of surgery is hard, and it starts by putting people to sleep, putting carbon dioxide in their abdomen, blowing them up like a balloon, sticking one of these sharp pointy things into their abdomen -- it's dangerous stuff -- and taking instruments and watching it on a TV screen. So let's see what it looks like. So this is gallbladder surgery. We perform a million of these a year in the United States alone. This is the real thing. There's no blood. And you can see how focused the surgeons are, how much concentration it takes. You can see it in their faces. It's hard to teach, and it's not all that easy to learn. We do about five million of these in the United States and maybe 20 million of these worldwide. All right, you've all heard the term: "He's a born surgeon." Let me tell you, surgeons are not born. Surgeons are not made either. There are no little tanks where we're making surgeons. Surgeons are trained one step at a time. It starts with a foundation, basic skills. We build on that and we take people, hopefully, to the operating room where they learn to be an assistant. Then we teach them to be a surgeon in training. And when they do all of that for about five years, they get the coveted board certification. If you need surgery, you want to be operated on by a board-certified surgeon. You get your board certificate, and you can go out into practice. And eventually, if you're lucky, you achieve mastery. Now that foundation is so important that a number of us from the largest general surgery society in the United States, SAGES, started in the late 1990s a training program that would assure that every surgeon who practices minimally invasive surgery would have a strong foundation of knowledge and skills necessary to go on and do procedures. Now the science behind this is so potent that it became required by the American Board of Surgery in order for a young surgeon to become board certified. It's not a lecture, it's not a course, it's all of that plus a high-stakes assessment. It's hard. Now just this past year, one of our partners, the American College of Surgeons, teamed up with us to make an announcement that all surgeons should be FLS -certified before they do minimally invasive surgery. And are we talking about just people here in the U.S. and Canada? No, we just said all surgeons. So to lift this education and training worldwide is a very large task, something I'm very personally excited about as we travel around the world. SAGES does surgery all over the world, teaching and educating surgeons. So we have a problem, and one of the problems is distance. We can't travel everywhere. We need to make the world a smaller place. And I think that we can develop some tools to do so. And one of the tools I like personally is using video. So I was inspired by a friend. This is Allan Okrainec from Toronto. And he proved that you could actually teach people to do surgery So here's Allan teaching an English-speaking surgeon in Africa these basic fundamental skills necessary to do minimally invasive surgery. Very inspiring. But for this examination, which is really hard, we have a problem. Even people who say they speak English, only 14 percent pass. Because for them it's not a surgery test, it's an English test. Let me bring it to you locally. I work at the Cambridge Hospital. It's the primary Harvard Medical School teaching facility. We have more than 100 translators covering 63 languages, and we spend millions of dollars just in our little hospital. It's a big labor-intensive effort. If you think about the worldwide burden of trying to talk to your patients -- not just teaching surgeons, just trying to talk to your patients -- there aren't enough translators in the world. We need to employ technology to assist us in this quest. At our hospital we see everybody from Harvard professors to people who just got here last week. And you have no idea how hard it is to talk to somebody or take care of somebody you can't talk to. And there isn't always a translator available. So we need tools. We need a universal translator. One of the things that I want to leave you with as you think about this talk is that this talk is not just about us preaching to the world. It's really about setting up a dialogue. We have a lot to learn. Here in the United States we spend more money per person for outcomes that are not better than many countries in the world. Maybe we have something to learn as well. So I'm passionate about teaching these FLS skills all over the world. This past year I've been in Latin America, I've been in China, talking about the fundamentals of laparoscopic surgery. And everywhere I go the barrier is: "We want this, but we need it in our language." So here's what we think we want to do: Imagine giving a lecture and being able to talk to people in their own native language simultaneously. I want to talk to the people in Asia, Latin America, Africa, Europe seamlessly, accurately and in a cost-effective fashion using technology. And it has to be bi-directional. They have to be able to teach us something as well. It's a big task. So we looked for a universal translator; I thought there would be one out there. Your webpage has translation, your cellphone has translation, but nothing that's good enough to teach surgery. Because we need a lexicon. What is a lexicon? A lexicon is a body of words that describes a domain. I need to have a health care lexicon. And in that I need a surgery lexicon. That's a tall order. We have to work at it. So let me show you what we're doing. This is research -- can't buy it. We're working with the folks at IBM Research from the Accessibility Center to string together technologies to work towards the universal translator. It starts with a framework system where when the surgeon delivers the lecture using a framework of captioning technology, we then add another technology to do video conferencing. But we don't have the words yet, so we add a third technology. And now we've got the words, and we can apply the special sauce: the translation. We get the words up in a window and then apply the magic. We work with a fourth technology. And we currently have access to eleven language pairs. More to come as we think about trying to make the world a smaller place. And I'd like to show you our prototype of stringing all of these technologies that don't necessarily always talk to each other to become something useful. Narrator: Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery. Module five: manual skills practice. Students may display captions in their native language. Steven Schwaitzberg: If you're in Latin America, you click the "I want it in Spanish" button and out it comes in real time in Spanish. But if you happen to be sitting in Beijing at the same time, by using technology in a constructive fashion, you could get it in Mandarin or you could get it in Russian -- on and on and on, simultaneously without the use of human translators. But that's the lectures. If you remember what I told you about FLS at the beginning, it's knowledge and skills. The difference in an operation between doing something successfully and not may be moving your hand this much. So we're going to take it one step further; we've brought my friend Allan back. Allan Okrainec: Today we're going to practice suturing. This is how you hold the needle. Grab the needle at the tip. It's important to be accurate. Aim for the black dots. Orient your loop this way. Now go ahead and cut. Very good Oscar. I'll see you next week. in our quest for the universal translator. We want it to be bi-directional. We have a need to learn as well as to teach. I can think of a million uses for a tool like this. As we think about intersecting technologies -- everybody has a cell phone with a camera -- we could use this everywhere, whether it be health care, patient care, engineering, law, conferencing, translating videos. This is a ubiquitous tool. In order to break down our barriers, we have to learn to talk to people, to demand that people work on translation. We need it for our everyday life, in order to make the world a smaller place. Thank you very much.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
これは夢だろうか...... 「ごめんなさい。ごめんなさい。ごめんなさい......■■■」俺の前の少女が女性の頭を抱えた状態で涙を流している。名前の部分は聞き取れなかったが、とにかく彼女が悲しんでいることは分かった。『泣かないでください......』その中で突然一人の女性の声が周囲に響き渡り、俺は声がした方を向く。するとそこには半透明のメイド服姿の女性が立っていた。『泣かないでくださいお嬢様......』女性は複雑な感情を込めながら言葉を紡ぐ。『お嬢様も彼女も間違った事なんてしていません』女性の言葉に込められた思いの全てを俺が理解することは出来ない。けれどその思いの一端に触れただけでもメイド服の女性がどれだけ今泣いている少女の事を思っているかは理解できた。『貴方のおかげで私は救われたんです。貴方のおかげで私は過ちを犯さずに済んだんです。貴方のおかげで......』そこで彼女は一度呼吸を整える。『私は人のままで逝くことが出来たんです』女性の頬を一筋の涙が流れ落ちていく。『だからそんな顔をしないでくださいお嬢様......』女性が少女を背中側から抱きしめる。が、少女はそれに気づかずに泣き続けている。『安心して逝けないじゃないですか......』そして周囲一帯が光に包まれて場面が変わる。「またここか......」光が晴れるとそこには以前訪れた奇妙な世界......リーン様の声を聞いた場所。つまりは世界の外側だった。ただ、何となくだが以前よりも変化が発生するスピードが遅くなっている気もする。「そこにいらっしゃいますね。リーン様」俺は使い慣れない敬語で何となくだがリーン様の気配がする方に語りかける。「使い慣れない敬語は要らない。貴方の好きなようにして欲しい......」「なら素の口調で行かせてもらうわ。で、先ほどの光景は何ですか?」俺はリーン様の言葉にそう返答してさっきの光景が何だったのかをリーン様に問いかける。「あれは何時か何処かの世界で本当に起きた事。この時彼女の魂は大きく傷つき、アレに直接呪われたために魂の根本まで侵されその後の輪廻すら大きく狂わされることとなった。だから私は彼女の魂をこの世界に導いて長い休息を与え、いつの日か彼女にまつわる忌まわしき繰り返しを止めてくれる何かを探していた」「それが俺だと?」「貴方以外にも候補は多くいたけれど今回それを成し遂げたのは貴方。だから誇りに思っても問題ない」「ふうん」俺はリーン様の言葉にそっけなく返すが、リーン様が言う終わらせてほしい繰り返しがこれだけとは思わなかった。現に『陰落ち』などと言う現象もまだ有るわけだし。「その通り。今はやっと繰り返しが一つ終わったに過ぎない。けれど私が終わらせてほしい繰り返しの一つであったのは確か」「そうかい。ならそれは良かった」リーン様の姿は相変わらず見えない。が、リーン様が喜んでいるのは何となく分かる。「それでこれから俺にどうして欲しいと言う願い事とかはあるのか?」「......。好きに生きればそれでいいと思う。貴方の場合はそうすれば断つべき繰り返しに自然と出会う事になると思うから」「それは喜んでいいのか悲しむべきなのか......」リーン様の言葉に俺は思わず苦笑する。それはつまり俺が思うがままに生きた場合は何かとトラブルに巻き込まれると言っているような物だろう。「大丈夫。貴方にとって断つべき繰り返しもそうして他の繰り返しを断ち続けていればその内見えてくるはずだから」「......」リーン様はまるで正確に未来を見通しているかのように......いや、さっきの光景が過去の物だと言うのなら過去に見てきたかのように言う。いや、さっきから繰り返しと言う言葉を何度も使っている事や、輪廻転生を司ると言う力を考えればリーン様は本当にそう言う力を持っているのかもしれないな。ただ、丁度いい機会だし少し質問をしておくか。「一ついいか?何でリーン様は自分で動かないんだ?アンタの事を知っている奴に話を聞いたら相当の力をアンタは持っていると聞いたんだが」「だんまりか。まあいいけどな。リーン様にはリーン様の事情があるんだろうし」俺はリーン様に以前会った時の言葉を思い出す。あの時の言葉から鑑みるにリーン様にとって見つかると拙い相手が居ると俺とミズキは考えたが、どうやらその考えと実際のリーン様の事情はそこまでズレていないらしい。「貴方は貴方の思うがままに生きればいい。それが今の私から貴方に伝えられる言葉」「!?」そしてその言葉と同時に先ほどとは対照的に周囲が黒く染まっていき、俺の意識はその場から急激に遠ざかって行った。「んがっ!?」で、気が付けば宿屋の一室で俺にしては珍しく浮遊魔法の制御に失敗して頭を床に打ち付けていた。「んー......夢......じゃないよな」俺は先程のリーン様との会話を思い出してそう呟く。「まあ、夢にしろ現実にしろ神様のお告げなのは確かか」そして俺は頭の中でリーン様の言葉に整理を付けつつ部屋の外に出るのであった。	This is probably a dream... “I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry...■■■.” In front of Pumpkin was a young girl shedding tears while holding a woman’s head. He didn’t catch the part about her name, but somehow he could tell that she was grieving. [Please don’t cry...] Amidst all this, a woman’s voice abruptly resonated around Pumpkin, drawing his focus to the direction of that voice. There stood a woman in a translucent maid’s uniform. [Please don’t cry, Miss...] The woman assembled her words with complicated emotions. [Neither Miss nor she has done anything wrong.] Pumpkin can’t make out all of the thoughts that were embedded in the woman’s words. But even the slightest touch of her thoughts made it evident to him how much the woman in the maid’s outfit was concerned for the crying girl. [Thanks to you, I have been saved. Thanks to you, I didn’t commit a mistake. Thanks to you...] There, she regulated her breathing once. [I was able to pass away as a person.] A single tear trickled down the woman’s cheek. [So don’t wear that look, Miss...] The woman embraced the young girl from behind. However, the young girl did not notice it and continued weeping. [You would just make me feel like I’m not going to be able to pass away with peace of mind...] After that, the whole surrounding area was enveloped in light, and the scene changed. “Here I am again...” The strange world he had once visited—where he had heard Lean’s voice—was present for him to behold after the light had faded. In other words, it was Outer World. But somehow Pumpkin felt that the speed at which the transition was taking place was slower than before. “You are there, aren’t you? Lean-sama.” “...” Speaking with an unaccustomed honorific, he somehow addressed the direction in which he could sense Lean’s presence. “You don’t have to use an unaccustomed honorific. You can speak as you please...” “If so, I’ll speak in a straightforward manner. And what was that scene earlier?” He responded to Lean’s words and asked them about what he had just witnessed. “That was a true event that took place somewhere in another world in the past. Her soul was so damaged at that time and was cursed so directly by ‘that’ that even the very core of her soul was affected and her subsequent reincarnation was severely disrupted. That is why I have been searching for something that could lead her soul to this world, give her a long rest, and one day stops the repetition of abomination that has been haunting her.” “And you believe that would be me?” “There were many candidates besides you, but this time it was you who achieved it. So you have every right to be proud.” “Hmm.” Pumpkin replied to Lean’s words in a simple way but didn’t expect this to be the only repetition that Lean would want him to end. After all, there was still the phenomenon of “Kage-Ochi”. “That’s right. Now, only one repetition has finally ended. But it was certainly one of the repetitions that I wished would end.” “I see. I am glad to hear that.” Lean’s figure was still not visible. However, he can somehow tell that Lean was elated. “So, is there anything you want me to do for you from now on?” “...If you want to live your life the way you want to, that’s fine. In your case, I think you will spontaneously encounter repetitions that have to be severed.” “Should I be rejoicing or brooding over that...?” Pumpkin gave a bitter smile at Lean’s words. That would be equivalent to saying that if he lived his life the way he sought, he would end up landing in some sort of trouble. “Don’t worry. The repetitions that need to be severed will eventually become apparent to you if you continue to sever other repetitions.” Lean-sama speaks as if they can accurately foresee the future... no, as if they have observed that scene in the past, assuming that the scene I just described is truly from the past. No, considering your repeated use of the word “repetition” and your power to administer all things being in flux through the endless circle of birth, perhaps Lean-sama really does possess such a power. But, I have a few questions for you, just in case. “Can I ask you a question? Lean-sama, why don’t you take independent action? From what I have heard from those who are familiar with your position, you wield a substantial amount of power.” “Silence huh. Well, that’s okay. I’m sure you have your own circumstances.” Before meeting Lean, Pumpkin recalled what was told to him. He and Mizuki both believed Lean had an individual they didn’t want to be exposed to based on what Mizuki had mentioned at the time. It seemed that the reality of Lean’s predicament was not all that far off from their assumptions. “You are free to live the life you choose. That’s what I can tell you now.” “!?” At the same time as they said those words, Pumpkin’s surroundings went black in stark contrast to the previous time, and his consciousness rapidly drifted away from the place where he was. “Urgh!?” By the time he came to, he found himself in a room of an inn, where he failed to control his levitation magic, which was unusual for him, causing his head to crash to the floor. “Ngh... That... is not a dream huh.” He muttered to himself as he was reminded of the earlier conversation he had with Lean. “Well, whether it’s a dream or reality, I’m sure it’s a divine message from God.” Pumpkin subsequently left the room while sorting out Lean’s words in his head.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 3, "inserted_lines_src": 1, "inserted_lines_trg": 1 }
俺と目が合ったシアとセルリスが言う。「応援に来たであります!」「大使館に案内するわ。近道があるの」こういうとき王都育ちのセルリスは頼りになる。道案内としてだけでなく、シアとセルリスはすでに立派な戦力である。心強い限りだ。王宮の門から外に出て走りながらセルリスたちに念話の魔法をかける。互いに念話で話せるようにだ。そうしてから尋ねる。『大使館って、勝手に入ったら怒られるところだよな』『そりゃそうよ。国内にある外国なんだし。非常時だからそうも言ってられないけど』この前念話での発話法を身につけたばかりだというのに、セルリスの発話は非常に流暢だ。セルリスは魔法に関する才能もあったのだろう。『......俺は大使館の職員、それもトップに近い奴が昏き者に通じていると考えているのだが』『それは厄介ね』『確かにそれならば、狼の獣人族が、敵の尻尾をつかめなかったのも納得であります』シアはうんうんと頷いている。狼の獣人族は、エリックの直属の騎士として王宮の対ヴァンパイア防備の任についていただけではない。同じくエリック直属の枢密院の実働部隊としても動いていた。対ヴァンパイア、対昏き者に対する諜報に関して、シアたち狼の獣人族の右に出るものたちはいないのだ。だが、ずっと王宮に入り込んだ昏き者どもを見つけ出すことは出来なかった。『大使館なら、エリックおじさま直属の枢密院も簡単には入れないものね』『そうであります。ロックさんは、敵がどのくらい準備していたと考えるでありますか?』『そうだなかからなかったのならば、邪神の奇跡を信じる必要があるかも知れない』『そんなにでありますか?』『三年以上前って、ロックさんがまだ、次元の狭間で戦い続けていたころってことよね?』俺の見立てでは十年近くかかっているだろう。恐らく、俺とエリック、ゴランに魔神王の侵攻が防がれた後に動き出した計画だろう。だが、敵も計画通り進められているわけではないはずだ。計画の首謀者だと目される真祖を殺したことで、前倒しが必要になったのではなかろうか。もしかしたら次元の狭間の戦いの最後で俺が倒した魔神王はこの計画によって這い出てきたものだったかも知れない。『まあ、敵がどれだけ準備していようと、計画成就させるわけにはいかないからな』『それはそうね』『それでセルリスに聞きたいのだが、大使を殺したらどうなる? エリックは困るか?』十年近く大使館で昏き者どもの計画を進めるのは下っ端には無理だ。大使館の人員のうちどれだけの者が昏き者どもに与しているかはわからない。だが、大使が昏き者ども側なのは、ほぼまちがいないだろう。『そりゃあ、困るでしょうけど......』『神の加護に穴を空けられたままの方が困るでありますよ』『昏き者どもについた裏切り者のことなんて、殺してから考えればいいでありますよ』代々ヴァンパイア狩りを生業としている狼の獣人族の戦士のシアらしい意見だ。『そうだな。面倒なことはエリックに任せればいいか』『それに、大使を殺しても恐らくそれほど大きな問題にはならないかも』『そうなのか?』『ええ。リンゲイン王国としても大使が昏き者ども側に裏切って、他国の中で色々やってたなんて、醜聞もいいところよ』『それはそうでありますね。リンゲインの国王が土下座するレベルの問題でありますね』『そうそう。もちろん政治的ないろいろが絡まり合って、最終的にどういう落とし前をつけるかが決まるんだろうけど......。むしろ殺した方がリンゲイン王国としては助かるかも』『可能なら、リンゲインに引き渡して裁かせた方がいいかと、俺は思ってたんだが......』として国外追放しなくてはいけなくなるけど、そうなったら色々公けになってしまうし』あり得ないほどの大罪を犯した大使には死んでもらった方がリンゲイン王国としても都合がいいということだろう。『多分だけど。私も詳しくはないわ』セルリスは謙遜するが、外交についてそれなりに詳しいようだった。セルリスの母マルグリットはリンゲイン駐箚特命全権大使。母親の仕事が知りたくて、セルリスは色々と自分で調べたのかも知れない。『そういうことなら、俺は戦闘と神の加護の穴を塞ぐことを考えよう』その過程で大使がどうなろうと、それはそれ。エリックとマルグリットがなんとかしてくれるだろう。そう結論づけて、俺は大使館への道を走る。いつもであれば人通りの多い道だが、ほとんど人は歩いていなかった。『人がほとんど居ないわね』セルリスが心配そうに呟く。セルリスはほとんど独り言のようなつぶやきも念話を使う。ちょうどそのとき女性に声をかけられた。	When our eyes met, Shia and Serulis said, “We came to support you!” “We’ll guide you to the embassy. There is a short cut.” “So it’s you two. I’ll be counting on you then.” During such times, it was good to have Serulis around, as she was born and raised in the royal capital. Not only as a guide, but both Shia and Serulis were already full-fledged warriors. And so it was very comforting to have them here. As we ran from the palace gates, I cast telepathy magic on both of them. This was so we could communicate through telepathy. And then I asked them. ‘Will they be angry if we enter the embassy without permission?’ ‘Of course. After all, it is a different country within this country. But this is an emergency.’ While she had only just learned how to use telepathy recently, Serulis was able to communicate with it very smoothly. She seemed to have a gift when it came to things related to magic. ‘...It is my opinion that the workers there, especially the ones near the top, are connected to the dark ones.’ ‘That is bad.’ ‘Indeed, if it is the case, then it’s no wonder that the beastkin wolves could not catch them.’ Shia nodded in agreement. The beastkin wolves weren’t here just to defend against vampires as Eric’s knights within the palace. They were also working as a unit for the privy council. When it came to intelligence concerning vampires and the dark ones, no one matched Shia and the beastkin wolves. However, for all this time, they were not able to find the ones who had infiltrated the palace. ‘When it comes to the embassy, even uncle Eric’s privy council cannot go in easily.’ ‘That is true. Mr. Locke. How prepared do you think the enemy is?’ ‘Indeed. If it did not take three years, then it might be necessary to believe in the miracles of the evil god.’ ‘That much?’ ‘More than three years? But wouldn’t that be when you were still fighting in the place between dimensions, Mr. Locke?’ ‘That’s right.’ My guess was that it was close to ten years. Likely, it was a plan that was put into action after the Devil King’s invasion was prevented by Eric, Goran and I. However, it wasn’t as if their plan had been moving smoothly. By killing the true ancestor, who was the leader, we had forced them to act ahead of schedule. Perhaps the Devil King I had defeated at the end during my time in the place between dimensions was someone who crawled out as a part of this plan. ‘Well, it doesn’t matter how long they prepared. We will not allow them to succeed.’ ‘And now there’s something I have to ask you, Serulis. What if we kill the ambassador? Will that be bad for Eric?’ It would not be possible for the underlings to advance the plans of the dark ones within the embassy for nearly ten years. I did not know how many of the embassy personnel were involved. However, it was clear that ambasador was definitely on their side. ‘Yes, I’m sure it will be bad for him, but...’ ‘It would be worse to allow that hole to stay open within the divine protection.’ ‘This person is a traitor. We can think about it after they are dead.’ That was like Shia. She was a beastkin wolf warrior who had hunted vampires for generations, after all. ‘Indeed. Eric can handle the troublesome business later.’ ‘Besides, I don’t think it will be too big of a problem if the ambassador is killed.’ Really?’ ‘Yes. After all, the idea that an ambassador of the Ringain Kingdom was acting as a traitor for the dark ones in another country... It is quite the scandal.’ ‘That’s true. The Ringain Kingdom should be on their knees and begging for forgiveness.’ ‘Yes, yes. Of course, there will be a lot of political involvement, and they will have to decide how to deal with this... But in the end, it might actually help the Ringain Kingdom to kill the ambassador.’ ‘I did think it would be best to hand over the ambassador to Ringain alive if possible...’ ‘If the ambassador is taken alive, they will have to be exiled as a persona non grata, which will mean that a lot will become public.’ For an ambassador who had committed such an unimaginably horrible crime, it will be more convenient for the Ringain Kingdom if they are killed. ‘Well, probably. I do not know a lot about it.’ Serulis said modestly. But it was clear that she knew a decent amount about diplomacy. After all, her mother, Marguerite, was an ambassador in Ringain. Perhaps Serulis had studied such things as a way of learning more about her mother’s work. ‘In that case, I will just focus on fighting and closing the hole in the divine protection.’ Whatever happens to the ambassador, it did not matter. Eric and Marguerite would figure it out. That was my conclusion as we ran down the road to the embassy. Usually, there would have been a lot of people walking here, but there was hardly anyone now. ‘There is no one here.’ Serulis muttered worriedly. Even for these mutterings, Serulis used telepathy. Just then, a woman called out to us.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 2, "inserted_lines_src": 4, "inserted_lines_trg": 1 }
アメリカ大統領選挙の話ではありませんよ著名なジャーナリストの盗作行為がばれたり若い大人気作家が書いた本の大半がでっち上げだったために売り場から撤去されたりニューヨーク・タイムズ紙が偽の書評を暴いたり色々ありましたもちろん全ての嘘がニュースになるわけではありません嘘は日常生活にあふれています事実多くの調査によって誰もが1日に1度か2度嘘をつくことがわかっていますもう6時半ですね既にほとんどの人が嘘をついてるはずですウィニペグの皆さんはどうでしょうか皆さんの中で24時間以内に小さい嘘あるいは大きい嘘をついた方は何人いるでしょうか? そうですかあの人たちは嘘つきです皆さん気をつけてくださいね冗談です全体の3分の2ぐらいでしたね残りの皆さんは嘘をつかなかったか忘れてしまったのかもし嘘をついていないという嘘をついていればとっても悪質ですねでも調査結果には当てはまっています皆誰もが嘘をつくということですということは嘘をつくことは人間である証でありということは嘘をつくことは人間である証であり真実を話したり嘘をつけることは歴史を通して興味深い問題でした古代ギリシャのディオゲネスがランプを片手に何を探し求めていたのか知っている方はいますか? それは正直な人間ですしかし生涯1人も見つけることなく亡くなりました東洋では孔子が誠実さを非常に重んじていました有言実行はもちろんのこと正しいと信じる行動をすることそして信念を持つことを重んじました私が仕事で初めて「嘘」と対峙したのは彼らの時代よりちょっと後数千年後のことです 90年代半ば私はカナダの税関職員として働いていました僕がカナダの国境を護っていたんですよ武器を手にした姿を想像するかもしれませんが実際はスタンプでカナダの国境を護衛していましたすごくカナダ人らしいでしょ? 嘘に関するたくさんのことをそこで学びました嘘に関する思い込みの多くが間違いだったこともその一つです今夜いくつかご紹介します 1995、96年以降私たちのコミュニケーション方法はすっかり変わりました電子メール携帯メールスカイプにフェイスブックすごいですよねコミュニケーション方法のほとんどが変化しましたそしてもちろん「嘘」に影響を与えましたここでご紹介するのは我われの研究している新しいタイプの嘘「執事」「自作自演」「中国のネット水軍」と呼ぶものです変な本のタイトルのようですがこれらは全て新しいタイプの嘘です執事タイプからいきましょうまず例1 「今向かってる」使ったことある人いますか? 皆さん嘘をついてたんですよね? 「今向かってる」ではなく「向かおうと思っている」ですよね次の例です「返信遅くなってごめん」「電池が切れてた」ありましたよね? 圏内にいましたよね? その時返信したくなかっただけでしょう? では最後の例です話の途中に使う「仕事に戻らなきゃ」でも本当は会話に飽きて立ち去りたくなったのでは? これらの例は全て人間関係に関わっています今は24時間いつでも連絡がとれる世界です私の携帯番号を入手すれば文字通り24時間いつでも私に連絡をとれますですからこのタイプの嘘は相手との距離を保つ目的で使われますかつての執事がしてたように私たちと相手の間に置くクッションのようなものですこの嘘は非常に特別ですテクノロジーの曖昧さによってどこで誰と何をしているかは相手に分かりませんこの嘘は相手との関係を守るために使われます性格が悪いから嘘をついているのではなくそのタイミングで返信はしなかったけれどあなたとの関係を大事にしたいから嘘をつくのです一方「自作自演」タイプは全く異なりますこの「自作自演」は曖昧さとかではなくアイデンティティに関する嘘です最近起きた例をご紹介しますちょうど先週のことです英国にR.J. エロリーというベストセラー作家がいます彼のベストセラーの1つに対するアマゾンのオンラインレビューがこれですニコデムス・ジョーンズさんによる素晴らしいレビューです「いずれにせよきっとこの本はあなたの魂に触れるだろう」皆さんご察しのようにニコデムス・ジョーンズはR.J.エロリー本人です彼は自分の著書について非常にポジティブなレビューをしていましたこの「自作自演」タイプは実はそんなに新しくありませんかつてウォルト・ホイットマンも同じことをしましたインターネットが普及する前のことです「自作自演」タイプは規模が拡大すると興味深いことが起こります「中国ネット水軍」の部類になります「中国ネット水軍」とは何千人もの報酬を得てネットに書き込みをする人たちのことです少額で彼らをレビューや宣伝活動のために雇うことができます政府や企業など彼らを起用する人はどこにでもいます北米では「アストロターフィング」と呼ばれていて今では広く普及していますこれには多くの懸念があります特に製品レビュー本のレビューホテルからトースターの評価まであらゆる場面で目にしますこの3つの新しいタイプの嘘の話を聞いて皆さんはこう思ったかもしれません「インターネットは私たちを嘘つきにしている」「特にアストロターフィングのような嘘を拡大させている」としかし私の調査結果は全く異なるものになりました皆さんが使ったはずのない匿名の出会い系チャットは例外ですよあそこは嘘つきがいますまたナイジェリアの王子様からのメールで「4300万人を助けて」というのも論外ですこういったものは忘れて友人や家族同僚や恋人との会話に焦点を絞りましょうこれらの大事な会話に焦点を当てますそういった会話でつく嘘にテクノロジーはどう作用するのか? 我々の調査結果をいくつかご紹介します 1つめはダイアリー調査と呼ぶもので被験者に全ての会話とその中でついた嘘を7日間記録してもらいますそこから会話に使用した媒体とついた嘘の数の関係がわかります驚くことに嘘の数は電子メールの会話が 1番少なかったのですこの結果にとても驚きました声や動作が伝わらないので嘘はつきやすいはずです逆に最も嘘の数が多かったのは電話でした何度やっても電話でした恐らく「執事」タイプの嘘によるごまかしが多いせいだと思いますこの結果は私たちの予想と大きくかけ離れていますでは履歴書はどうでしょうか? 我々は求職者を対象として従来の履歴書とLinkedInを比較しましたこれはフェイスブックのような SNSでビジネス向けの履歴書と同じ情報を見ることができます調査の結果驚くことが分かりました前職での経験やスキルなど雇用者が見たい情報がより正確に記入されていたのは LinkedInだったのですフェイスブックはどうでしょうか? 私たちはついこう思いがちです「みんな良い事だけ載せて理想を見せている」と私もよくそんな風に思っていましたこんなクールで楽しい毎日なんてありえないだろうとそこで対象者の性格調査から事実を確かめましたまず親しい友人4人に対象者の性格を判定してもらいますそして面識のない人々にフェイスブックの情報のみから対象者の性格を判定してもらいましたすると性格判定は両者ともにほとんど同じ結果になったのですつまりフェイスブックのプロフィールは性格が正しく反映されているんですでは出会い系サイトはどうでしょうか? 嘘の多い空間です皆さんの「友人」は出会い系を使ったことがあるでしょう来た男性の髪が薄かったとか来た女性が写真と全然違うとかそういう事例に非常に興味があったので調査しました出会い系サイトに登録している人たちを集めて身体測定をしました彼らの身長や体重を測らせてもらったんです女性は嫌ですよねそれと運転免許証で年齢も確認させてもらいましたその結果とても面白いことが分かりましたこれは男性の身長に関するグラフです横軸がプロフィールに書いた身長で縦軸が実際の身長ですこの斜線上に点があれば記入された身長は正確だということになりますご覧のとおり点のほとんどは斜線の下です多くの男性が身長を詐称しているということです実際大体1インチはサバを読んでいました我々はこれを「強気な切り上げ」と呼んでいます 5フィート8インチちょっとを 5フィート9インチにしますでもここで注目してほしいのは点が真実のライン付近にあることです被験者の80%が身長をごまかしましたがそれは小さい嘘でしたその理由はいたって簡単ですデートで実際に会って身長が全く違っていたらそこでゲームオーバーですよね? 人は頻繁に嘘をつきますが小さい嘘に抑えていますこの調査では一体何が分かるのでしょうか? 私も含め皆さんの予想に反してテクノロジーを介したオンライン上のコミュニケーションの多くは直接顔を合わすよりも正直だということでしょうか? なんだかしっくりきませんねなぜなのか? 虚偽検出を扱った文献を見てみましょうとても古い文献で50年も前のものです何度もレビューされ何千もの実験を行い何百もの調査から説得力のある結果が出ましたまず私たちは嘘を見抜くのが非常に下手です誰かの嘘を見抜くことができる確率は平均で54%だそうです非常に低いですなぜでしょうか? ピノキオの鼻を思い出してください私が皆さんに嘘を見抜く方法を尋ねるとします嘘を見抜くために何に着目するかと聞くとほとんどの人は目と答えませんか? 目は心の窓だと言われます皆さんだけでなく世界中の多くの文化圏でも同じですしかし過去50年間の調査から嘘を見抜くポイントなど無いことがわかりこれにはびっくりしました税関職員時代の厳しい教訓の1つです目を見ても嘘は見抜けませんある状況ではその人の瞳孔が拡がったり声が上ずったり動作が少し変化するかもしれませんしかし万人に同じことは言えないためあてにできませんまた相手から見えないからといって嘘をつくとは限りませんあたりまえのことですが重要なのは嘘には理由があるという発見です自分を守るため自分の利益のためまたは他人の利益のために嘘をつきます中には病的な嘘つきもいますがその数はわずかです人は理由があって嘘をつきます他人に見えないから必ずしも嘘をつくわけではありませんしかしこれだけではなくもっと興味深く根本的な原因がありますでは次に言語の起源に遡ってみましょう言語学者によると人間が言葉を話し始めたのは 5万年から10万年前とのことです大昔ですね多くの人間が言葉のある生活の中で火や洞窟サーベルタイガーに関して話していたのでしょう実際は分かりませんが彼らはたくさん会話していたはずですそう人間は話しながら進化しましたおよそ1000億人がですそして重要なのが筆記が誕生したのがたった5000年前だということですですから筆記が登場する以前人間が話していた言葉は何1つ記録されてなかったということになります私たちは言葉が記録に残らない状態で進化してきましたさらに筆記の歴史の中で大きな転機となる印刷機の登場はたったの500年前です印刷機の歴史はまだ浅いのですそれに第2次世界大戦以前の識字率は非常に低いものでしたですからたった200年前の人々が話した言葉さえそのほとんどは記録されていませんネットワーク時代に話を戻しましょうか今日1日で何かを記録した人はいますか? 文章や文字を書いた人はどれくらいいますか? ここにいるほぼ全員が今日既に何か記録をしていますねたった今この部屋で行われている記録の量は恐らく先史時代の全記録の数を上回るのではないでしょうかすごいことです今は人間の進化の節目の時代なのです私たちは言葉が残らない状態で進化を続けて今は全てを記録している環境にいます近い将来私たちの書くことだけでなくすること全てが記録されるようになるでしょうこれはどういった意味なのでしょうか? 社会学者としては非常に驚くことべきであり喜ばしいことです今は言葉を見れます過去数千年の間は話したそばから消えていました今は嘘を調べることができます以前は考えられませんでした皆さん「アストロターフィング」を覚えていますか? 彼らの嘘のレビューは投稿される必要がありますそしてそれは記録されます 1つ私たちの調査を紹介します私たちはお金を払って嘘のレビューを書いてもらいましたどちらかがジェームズホテルに滞在したことのない人による嘘のレビューでもう一方は本物ですホテルに滞在した人が書きましたこれから皆さんにしていただきたいことはどちらが嘘のレビューかを当てることです少し時間を差し上げますので読み比べてくださいどちらかに手を挙げてくださいね私の専門は「嘘」ですから誰が手を挙げなかったかすぐ分かりますよではAが偽物だと思った方は手を挙げてくださいいいですね大体半数でしょうかではBが偽物だと思った方は? Bの方のほうが若干多いですね正解は Bです Bに手を挙げたグループの勝ちですいつもとは少し違いますね毎回この実験をすると大体半々に分かれるんです先ほどの54%と一致します恐らくウィニペグの皆さんは警戒心が強く嘘を見抜くことに長けているのかもしれません厳しく冷たい冬のせいかもしれませんねさあなぜ私をこんな実験をしたのでしょうか? コンピューターサイエンスを研究する同僚に頼んでコンピューターアルゴリズムを作成し言語による嘘の形跡を分析してもらいましたいくつかの重要な発見がありますまず嘘のレビューをする人はストーリーを作る傾向があります「誰が?」「何が起きた?」を書きますこの嘘のレビューでも誰と一緒で何をしたかを書いています本物のレビューと比べると一人称の「私」を多用する傾向がありますホテルのレビューの中に「私」の存在を挿入するのですそこにいたことを強調するように対照的に本物のレビューを書いた人は実際その場所にいたのでより空間的な情報をレビューしていますバスルームがどれくらい広かったかとか買い物の場所がホテルからどれくらいの距離だったか等の情報です皆さんは嘘を見抜くのが上手なようですね私たちのコンピューターアルゴリズムはさらに正確ですでも常にではありませんガールフレンドのメールの嘘は発見できません全てのタイプの嘘例えば偽のホテルレビュー偽の靴レビューガールフレンドの携帯メールの嘘などすべてタイプが異なりますそれら異なるタイプの嘘の言語パターンが今全てが記録されていることによって比較できますこれは社会科学者として素晴らしいことです全てが記録されることにより私たちは人間の思考と表現について愛情と言動についてより深く理解することができるようになります一般市民のつまり私たちの生活にはどういう意味を持つのでしょうか? 「嘘」から少し離れてみましょう重要なことは私たちが膨大な記録を残していることではないでしょうかわたしの送信ボックスには大量のメールがありますでもチェックしたことはありません自分の残す記録なんて確認しないのですでもそこからわかることがたくさんあるはずです何を書いたか何を話したか何をしたかそれらから自分が誰なのか考察できますここで話を「嘘」に戻すと留意点がいくつかありますまずオンラインで嘘をつくのはとても危険ですそうですよね? 自分のPCに記録されるだけでなくあなたが嘘をついている相手にもその記録が残るからですそしてわたしの研究用のデータにもなりますコンピューターアルゴリズムでねもちろんそうして頂いても構いませんでも嘘をつく場面で私たちがしたいことはディオゲネスや孔子を見習うことではないでしょうか彼らは嘘をつく行為を懸念していたわけではありませんそれよりも自分自身に正直であることを重んじていましたこれはとても重要なことだと思います皆さんが何か言おうとしたり何かしようとしたりする時自分にこう問うことができます「その行為を自分の記録として残したいか?」私たちはデジタル時代に生きていますネットワーク時代に生きる私たちの行いは全て記録として残るのです貴重なお時間をいただきありがとうございましたあなたの記録の幸運を祈っています貴重なお時間をいただきありがとうございましたあなたの記録の幸運を祈っています	And I'm not even talking about the American presidential race. We have a high-profile journalist caught for plagiarism, a young superstar writer whose book involves so many made up quotes that they've pulled it from the shelves; a New York Times exposé on fake book reviews. It's been fantastic. Now, of course, not all deception hits the news. Much of the deception is everyday. In fact, a lot of research shows that we all lie once or twice a day, as Dave suggested. So it's about 6:30 now, suggests that most of us should have lied. Let's take a look at Winnipeg. How many of you, in the last 24 hours -- think back -- have told a little fib, or a big one? How many have told a little lie out there? All right, good. These are all the liars. Make sure you pay attention to them. No, that looked good, it was about two thirds of you. The other third didn't lie, or perhaps forgot, or you're lying to me about your lying, which is very, very devious. This fits with a lot of the research, which suggests that lying is very pervasive. It's this pervasiveness, combined with the centrality to what it means to be a human, the fact that we can tell the truth or make something up, that has fascinated people throughout history. Here we have Diogenes with his lantern. Does anybody know what he was looking for? A single honest man, and he died without finding one back in Greece. And we have Confucius in the East who was really concerned with sincerity, not only that you walked the walk or talked the talk, but that you believed in what you were doing. You believed in your principles. Now my first professional encounter with deception is a little bit later than these guys, a couple thousand years. I was a customs officer for Canada back in the mid-'90s. Yeah. I was defending Canada's borders. You may think that's a weapon right there. In fact, that's a stamp. I used a stamp to defend Canada's borders. Very Canadian of me. I learned a lot about deception while doing my duty here in customs, one of which was that most of what I thought I knew about deception was wrong, and I'll tell you about some of that tonight. But even since just 1995, '96, the way we communicate has been completely transformed. We email, we text, we skype, we Facebook. It's insane. Almost every aspect of human communication's been changed, and of course that's had an impact on deception. Let me tell you a little bit about a couple of new deceptions we've been tracking and documenting. They're called the Butler, the Sock Puppet and the Chinese Water Army. It sounds a little bit like a weird book, but actually they're all new types of lies. Let's start with the Butlers. Here's an example of one: "On my way." Anybody ever written, "On my way?" Then you've also lied. We're never on our way. We're thinking about going on our way. Here's another one: "Sorry I didn't respond to you earlier. My battery was dead." Your battery wasn't dead. You weren't in a dead zone. You just didn't want to respond to that person that time. Here's the last one: You're talking to somebody, and you say, "Sorry, got work, gotta go." But really, you're just bored. You want to talk to somebody else. Each of these is about a relationship, and this is a 24/7 connected world. Once you get my cell phone number, you can literally be in touch with me 24 hours a day. And so these lies are being used by people to create a buffer, like the butler used to do, between us and the connections to everybody else. But they're very special. They use ambiguity that comes from using technology. You don't know where I am or what I'm doing or who I'm with. And they're aimed at protecting the relationships. These aren't just people being jerks. These are people that are saying, look, I don't want to talk to you now, or I didn't want to talk to you then, but I still care about you. Our relationship is still important. Now, the Sock Puppet, on the other hand, is a totally different animal. The sock puppet isn't about ambiguity, per se. It's about identity. Let me give you a very recent example, as in, like, last week. Here's R.J. Ellory, best-seller author in Britain. Here's one of his bestselling books. Here's a reviewer online, on Amazon. My favorite, by Nicodemus Jones, is, "Whatever else it might do, it will touch your soul." And of course, you might suspect that Nicodemus Jones is R.J. Ellory. He wrote very, very positive reviews about himself. Surprise, surprise. Now this Sock Puppet stuff isn't actually that new. Walt Whitman also did this back in the day, before there was Internet technology. Sock Puppet becomes interesting when we get to scale, which is the domain of the Chinese Water Army. Chinese Water Army refers to thousands of people in China that are paid small amounts of money to produce content. It could be reviews. It could be propaganda. The government hires these people, companies hire them, all over the place. In North America, we call this Astroturfing, and Astroturfing is very common now. There's a lot of concerns about it. We see this especially with product reviews, book reviews, everything from hotels to whether that toaster is a good toaster or not. Now, looking at these three reviews, or these three types of deception, you might think, wow, the Internet is really making us a deceptive species, especially when you think about the Astroturfing, where we can see deception brought up to scale. But actually, what I've been finding is very different from that. Now, let's put aside the online anonymous sex chatrooms, which I'm sure none of you have been in. I can assure you there's deception there. And let's put aside the Nigerian prince who's emailed you about getting the 43 million out of the country. Let's forget about that guy, too. Let's focus on the conversations between our friends Those are the conversations that really matter. What does technology do to deception with those folks? Here's a couple of studies. One of the studies we do are called diary studies, in which we ask people to record all of their conversations and all of their lies for seven days, and what we can do then is calculate how many lies took place per conversation within a medium, and the finding that we get that surprises people the most is that email is the most honest of those three media. And it really throws people for a loop because we think, well, there's no nonverbal cues, so why don't you lie more? The phone, in contrast, the most lies. Again and again and again we see the phone is the device that people lie on the most, and perhaps because of the Butler Lie ambiguities I was telling you about. This tends to be very different from what people expect. What about résumés? We did a study in which we had people apply for a job, and they could apply for a job either with a traditional paper résumé, or on LinkedIn, which is a social networking site like Facebook, but for professionals -- involves the same information as a résumé. And what we found, to many people's surprise, was that those LinkedIn résumés were more honest on the things that mattered to employers, like your responsibilities or your skills at your previous job. How about Facebook itself? You know, we always think that hey, there are these idealized versions, people are just showing the best things that happened in their lives. I've thought that many times. My friends, no way they can be that cool and have good of a life. Well, one study tested this by examining people's personalities. They had four good friends of a person judge their personality. Then they had strangers, many strangers, judge the person's personality just from Facebook, and what they found was those judgments of the personality were pretty much identical, highly correlated, meaning that Facebook profiles really do reflect our actual personality. All right, well, what about online dating? I mean, that's a pretty deceptive space. I'm sure you all have "friends" that have used online dating. And they would tell you about that guy that had no hair when he came, or the woman that didn't look at all like her photo. Well, we were really interested in it, and so what we did is we brought people, online daters, into the lab, and then we measured them. We got their height up against the wall, we put them on a scale, got their weight -- ladies loved that -- and then we actually got their driver's license to get their age. And what we found was very, very interesting. Here's an example of the men and the height. Along the bottom is how tall they said they were in their profile. Along the y-axis, the vertical axis, is how tall they actually were. That diagonal line is the truth line. If their dot's on it, they were telling exactly the truth. Now, as you see, most of the little dots are below the line. What it means is all the guys were lying about their height. In fact, they lied about their height about nine tenths of an inch, what we say in the lab as "strong rounding up." You get to 5'8" and one tenth, and boom! 5'9". But what's really important here is, look at all those dots. They are clustering pretty close to the truth. What we found was 80 percent of our participants did indeed lie on one of those dimensions, but they always lied by a little bit. One of the reasons is pretty simple. If you go to a date, a coffee date, and you're completely different than what you said, game over. Right? So people lied frequently, but they lied subtly, not too much. They were constrained. Well, what explains all these studies? What explains the fact that despite our intuitions, mine included, a lot of online communication, technologically-mediated communication, is more honest than face to face? That really is strange. How do we explain this? Well, to do that, one thing is we can look at the deception-detection literature. It's a very old literature by now, it's coming up on 50 years. It's been reviewed many times. There's been thousands of trials, hundreds of studies, and there's some really compelling findings. The first is, we're really bad at detecting deception, really bad. Fifty-four percent accuracy on average when you have to tell if somebody that just said a statement is lying or not. That's really bad. Why is it so bad? Well it has to do with Pinocchio's nose. If I were to ask you guys, what do you rely on when you're looking at somebody and you want to find out if they're lying? What cue do you pay attention to? Most of you would say that one of the cues you look at is the eyes. The eyes are the window to the soul. And you're not alone. Around the world, almost every culture, one of the top cues is eyes. But the research over the last 50 years says there's actually no reliable cue to deception, which blew me away, and it's one of the hard lessons that I learned when I was customs officer. The eyes do not tell us whether somebody's lying or not. Some situations, yes -- high stakes, maybe their pupils dilate, their pitch goes up, their body movements change a little bit, but not all the time, not for everybody, it's not reliable. Strange. The other thing is that just because you can't see me doesn't mean I'm going to lie. It's common sense, but one important finding is that we lie for a reason. We lie to protect ourselves or for our own gain or for somebody else's gain. So there are some pathological liars, but they make up a tiny portion of the population. We lie for a reason. Just because people can't see us doesn't mean we're going to necessarily lie. But I think there's actually something much more interesting and fundamental going on here. The next big thing for me, the next big idea, we can find by going way back in history to the origins of language. Most linguists agree that we started speaking somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 years ago. That's a long time ago. A lot of humans have lived since then. We've been talking, I guess, about fires and caves and saber-toothed tigers. I don't know what they talked about, but they were doing a lot of talking, and like I said, there's a lot of humans evolving speaking, about 100 billion people in fact. What's important though is that writing only emerged about 5,000 years ago. So what that means is that all the people before there was any writing, every word that they ever said, every utterance disappeared. No trace. Evanescent. Gone. So we've been evolving to talk in a way in which there is no record. In fact, even the next big change to writing was only 500 years ago now, with the printing press, which is very recent in our past, and literacy rates remained incredibly low right up until World War II, so even the people of the last two millennia, most of the words they ever said -- poof! -- disappeared. Let's turn to now, the networked age. How many of you have recorded something today? Anybody do any writing today? Did anybody write a word? It looks like almost every single person here recorded something. In this room, right now, we've probably recorded more than almost all of human pre-ancient history. That is crazy. We're entering this amazing period of flux in human evolution where we've evolved to speak in a way in which our words disappear, but we're in an environment where we're recording everything. In fact, I think in the very near future, it's not just what we write that will be recorded, everything we do will be recorded. What does that mean? What's the next big idea from that? Well, as a social scientist, this is the most amazing thing I have ever even dreamed of. Now, I can look at all those words that used to, for millennia, disappear. I can look at lies that before were said and then gone. You remember those Astroturfing reviews that we were talking about before? Well, when they write a fake review, they have to post it somewhere, and it's left behind for us. So one thing that we did, and I'll give you an example of looking at the language, is we paid people to write some fake reviews. One of these reviews is fake. The person never was at the James Hotel. The other review is real. The person stayed there. Now, your task now is to decide which review is fake? I'll give you a moment to read through them. But I want everybody to raise their hand at some point. Remember, I study deception. I can tell if you don't raise your hand. All right, how many of you believe that A is the fake? All right. Very good. About half. And how many of you think that B is? All right. Slightly more for B. Excellent. Here's the answer. B is a fake. Well done second group. You dominated the first group. You're actually a little bit unusual. Every time we demonstrate this, it's usually about a 50-50 split, which fits with the research, 54 percent. Maybe people here in Winnipeg are more suspicious and better at figuring it out. Those cold, hard winters, I love it. All right, so why do I care about this? Well, what I can do now with my colleagues in computer science is we can create computer algorithms that can analyze the linguistic traces of deception. Let me highlight a couple of things here in the fake review. The first is that liars tend to think about narrative. They make up a story: Who? And what happened? And that's what happened here. Our fake reviewers talked about who they were with and what they were doing. They also used the first person singular, I, way more than the people that actually stayed there. They were inserting themselves into the hotel review, kind of trying to convince you they were there. In contrast, the people that wrote the reviews that were actually there, their bodies actually entered the physical space, they talked a lot more about spatial information. They said how big the bathroom was, or they said, you know, here's how far shopping is from the hotel. Now, you guys did pretty well. Most people perform at chance at this task. Our computer algorithm is very accurate, much more accurate than humans can be, and it's not going to be accurate all the time. This isn't a deception-detection machine to tell if your girlfriend's lying to you on text messaging. We believe that every lie now, every type of lie -- fake hotel reviews, fake shoe reviews, your girlfriend cheating on you with text messaging -- those are all different lies. They're going to have different patterns of language. But because everything's recorded now, we can look at all of those kinds of lies. Now, as I said, as a social scientist, this is wonderful. It's transformational. We're going to be able to learn so much more about human thought and expression, about everything from love to attitudes, because everything is being recorded now, but what does it mean for the average citizen? What does it mean for us in our lives? Well, let's forget deception for a bit. One of the big ideas, I believe, is that we're leaving these huge traces behind. My outbox for email is massive, and I never look at it. I write all the time, but I never look at my record, at my trace. And I think we're going to see a lot more of that, where we can reflect on who we are by looking at what we wrote, what we said, what we did. Now, if we bring it back to deception, there's a couple of take-away things here. First, lying online can be very dangerous, right? Not only are you leaving a record for yourself on your machine, but you're leaving a record on the person that you were lying to, and you're also leaving them around for me to analyze with some computer algorithms. So by all means, go ahead and do that, that's good. But when it comes to lying and what we want to do with our lives, I think we can go back to Diogenes and Confucius. And they were less concerned about whether to lie or not to lie, and more concerned about being true to the self, and I think this is really important. Now, when you are about to say or do something, we can think, do I want this to be part of my legacy, part of my personal record? Because in the digital age we live in now, in the networked age, we are all leaving a record. Thank you so much for your time, and good luck with your record.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
今年中には 30億文字のヒトゲノムを今年中には 30億文字のヒトゲノムを 1日のうちに1,000ユーロ以下で解読できるようになるでしょう 1日のうちに1,000ユーロ以下で解読できるようになるでしょうおそらく生物工学は最も期待され最も急速に進歩している技術分野です化石燃料に取って代わったり医学に革命をもたらしたり日常生活のあらゆる面に影響を及ぼしたりする可能性を秘めています日常生活のあらゆる面に影響を及ぼしたりする可能性を秘めていますでは誰がするのでしょう? こんな人がしているなら我々も安心できるかと思いますがこんな人だったらどうでしょう? こんな人だったらどうでしょう? 2009年にDIY バイオのことを初めて知りました DIYバイオはバイオテクノロジーを科学者や研究機関従事者に限らずあらゆる人のものにする運動です源となるアイデアは科学の門戸を開き様々なグループが参加できるようにすればイノベーションが促進されるというものですエンドユーザーは自分が何を必要とするか最も良く分かっているので技術を彼らの手に行き渡らせることは良いアイデアでしょう素晴らしい技術が開発されつつありそれらには常に社会的・道徳的・倫理的問題がつきまとうのに対しそれらには常に社会的・道徳的・倫理的問題がつきまとうのに対し私たち科学者は世間にラボで何を行っているかきちんと説明するのが下手なんです技術を学びそれを実践できるような場が身近にあれば技術を学びそれを実践できるような場が身近にあれば素晴らしいと思いませんか? 私は素晴らしいことだと思います私は素晴らしいことだと思いますそこで3年前に私は同じ大志を抱く友人と共同でジェンスペースを設立しましたニューヨーク市ブルックリンにある非営利の市民向けバイオテクノロジー研究所ですニューヨーク市ブルックリンにある非営利の市民向けバイオテクノロジー研究所です人々がオープンかつフレンドリーな雰囲気で講義を受講したりラボ内をうろうろしたりできるようにとの思いから設立しました初の経験だったのでその後起こることは予想だにしていませんでした何だと思います? 報道機関からの電話がひっきりなしに鳴るようになったのです科学リテラシーを養うことの素晴らしさを話せば話すほど私たちが次のフランケンシュタインを造り出そうとしていると声高に叫ぶようになりその結果その後6ヶ月間に渡り私の名前をグーグルで検索すると私が執筆した科学論文の代わりにこれが出てきました「私はバイオハザードなの?」ひどく気が滅入りましたそんな辛い期間を乗り越えるときに唯一の拠り所となったのは私たちと同じことをしようとしている人が世界中にいるということでした世界中にいるということでしたバイオハッカーのための空間を作ろうとする中で私たちより大きな困難に直面している人もいました制約はより厳しく資源はより少なかったのですしかし3年経った今私たちはここまで来ましたハッカーのコミュニティは世界的に活気づいておりますがこれは始まりに過ぎませんこれら大規模なものの他にも多数ありその数は日々に増えていますおそらくモスクワにも韓国にも設立する動きがあるでしょう素晴らしいのはそれぞれのラボがその地域独特の趣向を持っているということですちょっと見てみましょうバイオハッカーは1人で活動しますが私たちはグループで活動します大都市でも小さな村でもラボの設備をリバースエンジニアリングすることもあればバクテリアの遺伝子操作をすることもありますハードウェアもソフトウェアも実験装置ももちろん生命のコードもハックの対象です私たちはものづくりが好きですものを分解するのも好きです私たちはものを育てます私たちはものを光らせますそして私たちは細胞にダンスをさせますこのラボの精神はオープンで前向きなものですが人々が私たちのことを考えた際に最も気にするのが生物的な安全性やセキュリティなどの負の側面ですそのような不安を過小評価しようというのではありません威力のある技術というものは本質的に諸刃の剣で合成生物学やナノバイオテクノロジーのような技術が利用可能になれば合成生物学やナノバイオテクノロジーのような技術が利用可能になれば素人だけでなく専門家たちにも気を配らなければいけなくなります専門家たちはより良いインフラや設備を持ち専門家たちはより良いインフラや設備を持ち病原菌を手にすることも可能だからですそこで国連は調査を行いつい最近これ全体に関する報告書を発表しこの技術の持つ力の正の側面は負のリスクを大きく上回っていると結論付けましたまた特にDIYバイオコミュニティに注目し驚くことではありませんが報道機関が一貫して私たちの能力を過大評価し倫理を過小評価する傾向にあると述べました実際のところ DIYを実践する人は昨年アメリカやヨーロッパなど世界中から集まり倫理協定を締結しました従来の科学よりもずっと先を行っています現在私たちは州や地域の規約に則っています廃棄物は適切に処理しますし安全手順にも従い病原菌は扱っていません病原菌を扱っている様な人は残念ですがバイオハッカーではなくバイオテロリストですたまに人々は私にこう質問します「事故についてはどうなの?」と私たちが通常使うような安全な生物を使って誰かが誤って超細菌を作り出してしまうといった事故がおこる可能性は事故がおこる可能性はサハラ砂漠の中心で吹雪が起こるくらいありえないことです確かに可能性は0ではありませんが確かに可能性は0ではありませんがそれを気にしてやるつもりはありません実は個人的にこれとは別のリスクを取ることを決めパーソナル・ゲノム・プロジェクトなるものに登録しましたハーバード大学での研究ですがその研究の終わりには私の全ゲノム配列や医療情報個人情報を取得し誰もが見れるようにオンラインで公開されますインフォームドコンセントで説明をうけたリスクにはいろいろありましたが一番おもしろいと思ったのは誰かが私の配列をダウンロードしラボに戻って偽のエレンのDNAを合成し犯罪現場に残すというものですしかしDIYバイオ同様このような研究の有用性や可能性などの正の側面はリスクを大きく上回ります「バイオラボなんかで何ができるんだろう」と疑問に思っておられるかもしれません「パソコンなんかで何ができるのだろう?」と疑問を抱いていたのはそう遠い昔の話ではありませんこれは始まったばかりです私たちはDNAという氷山の一角を見ているに過ぎません現在できることをお見せしましょうドイツに住む本職はジャーナリストのバイオハッカーは道路にいつもプレゼントを置いていくのは誰の犬か見つけようとしましたそうご想像の通りです彼はテニスボールで近所の全ての犬と遊び付着した唾液を分析し犯人の犬を特定し飼い主に証拠を突きつけましたうちの庭にある種の虫が大量発生しましたテントウ虫に見えるでしょう? 実は日本のマメコガネなんです同じ類の技術を使って— DNAバーコーディングという凄い技術です— キャビアが本当にチョウザメの卵なのか寿司ネタが本当にマグロなのか大金をはたいて買ったヤギのチーズが本当にヤギのものなのかといったことを調べるのに使うことができますバイオハッカーの空間では自分のゲノムに存在する変異を解析することができますバイオハッカーの空間では自分のゲノムに存在する変異を解析することができます朝食のシリアルの遺伝子組み換えを調べることも自分の先祖を辿ることもできます成層圏に気球を飛ばして微生物を集めそこに何が生息しているのかを調べることもできます酵母からバイオセンサーをつくり水中の汚染物質を検出することもできます生物燃料電池のようなものをつくることもできますいろいろな事ができるんです芸術と科学を融合させたプロジェクトも可能です中にはとても壮大なものもあり独自の視点から社会問題や環境問題に注目しています実に素晴らしいことですなぜ私がこんな事に関わるのか尋ねる人もいます正統派の科学をやってキャリアを積むことも出来たはずですでもこの様なラボは他のどこにもないものを社会に提供しているんですそこには何か神聖なるものがあります大きな利益を生む可能性や人類を救う可能性果てには実現可能性などを誰かに説いてプロジェクトの正当性を訴える必要はありません安全性のガイドラインにさえ従えばいいのですこのような空間が世界中にあれば誰がバイオテクノロジーをする権利があるのかという認識を改めることができるでしょうパソコンを普及させたのはこのような空間の存在ですパーソナル・バイオテクノロジーでもそうしませんか? この部屋にいる皆さんが参加すればすごい事ができるかもしれませんこれは全く新しい分野でありブルックリン風に言えば you ain't seen nothin' yet. (お楽しみはこれからです )	By the end of this year, we'll be able to sequence the three million bits of information in your genome in less than a day and for less than 1,000 euros. Biotech is probably the most powerful and the fastest-growing technology sector. to replace our fossil fuels, to revolutionize medicine, and to touch every aspect of our daily lives. So who gets to do it? I think we'd all be pretty comfortable with this guy doing it. But what about that guy? In 2009, I first heard about DIYbio. It's a movement that -- it advocates making biotechnology not just scientists and people in government labs. The idea is that if you open up the science and you allow diverse groups to participate, it could really stimulate innovation. Putting technology in the hands of the end user is usually a good idea because they've got the best idea of what their needs are. And here's this really sophisticated technology coming down the road, all these associated social, moral, ethical questions, and we scientists are just lousy at explaining to the public just exactly what it is we're doing in those labs. So wouldn't it be nice if there was a place in your local neighborhood where you could go and learn about this stuff, do it hands-on? I thought so. So, three years ago, I got together with some friends of mine who had similar aspirations and we founded Genspace. It's a nonprofit, a community biotech lab in Brooklyn, New York, and the idea was people could come, they could take classes and putter around in the lab in a very open, friendly atmosphere. None of my previous experience prepared me for what came next. Can you guess? The press started calling us. And the more we talked about how great it was to increase science literacy, the more they wanted to talk about us creating the next Frankenstein, and as a result, for the next six months, when you Googled my name, instead of getting my scientific papers, you got this. ["Am I a biohazard?"] It was pretty depressing. The only thing that got us through that period was that we knew that all over the world, there were other people that were trying to do the same thing that we were. They were opening biohacker spaces, and some of them were facing much greater challenges than we did, more regulations, less resources. But now, three years later, here's where we stand. It's a vibrant, global community of hackerspaces, and this is just the beginning. These are some of the biggest ones, and there are others opening every day. There's one probably going to open up in Moscow, one in South Korea, and the cool thing is they each have their own individual flavor that grew out of the community they came out of. Let me take you on a little tour. Biohackers work alone. We work in groups, in big cities — — and in small villages. We reverse engineer lab equipment. We genetically engineer bacteria. We hack hardware, software, wetware, and, of course, the code of life. We like to build things. Then we like to take things apart. We make things grow. We make things glow. And we make cells dance. The spirit of these labs, it's open, it's positive, but, you know, sometimes when people think of us, the first thing that comes to mind is bio-safety, bio-security, all the dark side stuff. I'm not going to minimize those concerns. Any powerful technology is inherently dual use, and, you know, you get something like synthetic biology, nanobiotechnology, it really compels you, you have to look at both the amateur groups but also the professional groups, because they have better infrastructure, they have better facilities, and they have access to pathogens. So the United Nations did just that, and they recently issued a report on this whole area, and what they concluded was the power of this technology for positive was much greater than the risk for negative, and they even looked specifically at the DIYbio community, and they noted, not surprisingly, that the press had a tendency to consistently overestimate our capabilities and underestimate our ethics. As a matter of fact, DIY people from all over the world, America, Europe, got together last year, and we hammered out a common code of ethics. That's a lot more than conventional science has done. Now, we follow state and local regulations. We dispose of our waste properly, we follow safety procedures, we don't work with pathogens. You know, if you're working with a pathogen, you're not part of the biohacker community, you're part of the bioterrorist community, I'm sorry. And sometimes people ask me, "Well, what about an accident?" Well, working with the safe organisms that we normally work with, the chance of an accident happening with somebody accidentally creating, like, some sort of superbug, that's literally about as probable as a snowstorm in the middle of the Sahara Desert. Now, it could happen, but I'm not going to plan my life around it. I've actually chosen to take a different kind of risk. I signed up for something called the Personal Genome Project. It's a study at Harvard where, at the end of the study, they're going to take my entire genomic sequence, all of my medical information, and my identity, and they're going to post it online for everyone to see. There were a lot of risks involved that they talked about during the informed consent portion. The one I liked the best is, someone could download my sequence, go back to the lab, synthesize some fake Ellen DNA, and plant it at a crime scene. But like DIYbio, the positive outcomes and the potential for good for a study like that far outweighs the risk. Now, you might be asking yourself, "Well, you know, what would I do in a biolab?" Well, it wasn't that long ago we were asking, "Well, So this stuff is just beginning. We're only seeing just the tip of the DNA iceberg. Let me show you what you could do right now. A biohacker in Germany, a journalist, wanted to know whose dog was leaving little presents on his street? Yep, you guessed it. He threw tennis balls to all the neighborhood dogs, analyzed the saliva, identified the dog, and confronted the dog owner. I discovered an invasive species in my own backyard. Looked like a ladybug, right? It actually is a Japanese beetle. And the same kind of technology -- it's called DNA barcoding, it's really cool -- You can use it to check if your caviar is really beluga, if that sushi is really tuna, or if that goat cheese that you paid so much for is really goat's. In a biohacker space, you can analyze your genome You can analyze your breakfast cereal for GMO's, and you can explore your ancestry. You can send weather balloons up into the stratosphere, collect microbes, see what's up there. You can make a biocensor out of yeast to detect pollutants in water. You can make some sort of a biofuel cell. You can do a lot of things. You can also do an art science project. Some of these are really spectacular, and they look at social, ecological problems from a completely different perspective. It's really cool. Some people ask me, well, why am I involved? I could have a perfectly good career in mainstream science. The thing is, there's something in these labs that they have to offer society that you can't find anywhere else. There's something sacred about a space where you can work on a project, and you don't have to justify to anyone that it's going to make a lot of money, that it's going to save mankind, or even that it's feasible. It just has to follow safety guidelines. If you had spaces like this all over the world, it could really change the perception of who's allowed to do biotech. It's spaces like these that spawned personal computing. Why not personal biotech? If everyone in this room got involved, who knows what we could do? This is such a new area, and as we say back in Brooklyn, you ain't seen nothin' yet.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
それは惑星や新しい技術の-- 発見ではなく科学的な-- 発見でもありません私は人について人の在り方と新しいリーダーシップについて発見をしました彼の名前はビンキーですアシャニンカ族の長で彼の部族はブラジルとペルーで暮らしていますビンキーはアマゾンの奥地にある村の出身ですそこにたどり着くには空路で水の上に着陸するかカヌーで何日間も旅するしかありません 3年前私はサンパウロで先住民族の-- リーダー達と各国のリーダー達が会う機会を設けた時に初めてビンキーに会いました私達は互いに学びあい状況を共有したかったのですアシャニンカ族の人々は南アメリカで彼らの威厳豊かな精神そして侵略に対する強い抵抗で知られていますインカ帝国に始まり 19世紀にはゴムの木の樹液を採取する労働者達と戦ってきました今アシャニンカ族とビンキーを最も脅かしているものは森林の違法伐採です-- 人々が美しい森林に侵入しマホガニーの古木を切り倒し川に浮かべて世界の市場へと運んでいますビンキーは彼の森と環境に起こっている異変に気がついていましたビンキーは彼の森と環境に起こっている異変に気がついていましたビンキーは2歳のとき森林と部族の生活様式を学び始めるために祖父のもとに預けられました彼がわずか10歳のときに祖父が亡くなりビンキーは10歳という若さで彼の住むコミュニティのパジェになりましたアシャニンカ族の伝統と文化においてパジェはコミュニティの中で最も重要な人物です何世紀もの間積み重ねてきた生命に関する知恵と知識の全てを内に秘めた存在なのですそれは自分達の部族のことだけではなく部族の生存に関わる全てのことを含みます: 木に鳥-- 水に土そして森ビンキーはわずか10歳でパジェに-- 部族のリーダーになり彼らと話し始めました彼らが守るべき森林についてこれから育んでいくべき生活様式についてビンキーは皆に説明したのです大事なのは適者生存の問題ではなく生き残るためにそして森林を守るために必要なものを理解することだと伝えましたそれから8年後 18歳の若者だったビンキーは初めて森を離れ 3,000マイルも離れたリオで開かれる地球サミットに参加する旅に出ました彼の小さな村で起こっている-- 事を世界に知らせるためにそして世界が耳を傾けてくれることを願って何人かは耳を傾けましたが皆ではありません想像してみてください長いローブと髪飾りを纏い英語はもちろんのことポルトガル語という新しい言語を学んでリオに出かけていく若者の姿を敵意の少なくないこの世界で初対面の人達と繋がるため架け橋を作りあげていく姿をしかし彼は落胆することなく沢山のアイディアを持って村に帰ってきました例えば新しい技術や研究結果物事に対する新しい考え方などですそれ以来彼は仲間と共に問題に取り組み続けましたアシャニンカ族だけでなくアマゾンとその向こうに住む人々を巻き込んで彼は学校を建て子供達に森林を大事にするよう教えています同時に彼は森林再生を指揮し伐採業者によって破壊された土地の25%を再生したのですそして協同組織をつくり生計を立てる手段を多様化しました彼はインターネットと衛星技術を森に持ち込みました-- そうすることで森林伐採を監視するだけでなく彼はその森林から世界へ語りかけることができるのですもしあなたがビンキーに会い「何故このようなことをするのですかどうして自ら危険を冒すのですかなぜこの敵意ある世界に自分をさらすのですか」と尋ねたら彼は私に答えてくれたようにあなたにもこう答えるでしょう「自分自身に問いかけたのです私の祖父母や曾祖父母は私のために森を守るため何をしていたのだろうかそして私は今何をしているのだろうか」とこの彼の言葉について考えると私の孫やひ孫達が自分達にその問いを尋ねた時彼らはどんな答えを見つけるのか考えてしまいます深く考えてみると私にはこの世界があまり望ましくない未来へと向かっているように思えます未来の詳細は分かりませんが未来についてのサインは出ていますビンキーが彼の周りでサインを見たように私達に必要な物が足りなくなっています新鮮な水が足りなくなり化石燃料も足りなくなり土地が足りなくなってきています気候変動が皆に影響することも明白ですどんな影響かはわかりませんが影響はします今までのどの時代よりも人が増えます-- 40年後の人口は60年前に比べて 5倍に増えるのです私達に必要な物は足りないのですまた世界が別の意味で変化していることもわかっています 1960年以降この地球上に存在する独立国家の数はそれまでの 3分の1増えましたエゴと政治システム-- 互いに模索しながら-- 本当に大きな変化ですそのことに加え 5つの新しい大国が将来発言権を持つことに私達は気付いていますまだ聞こえぬ発言権を持つのは中国インドロシア南アフリカそしてビンキーの国ブラジルです 1988年に公布された憲法によりビンキーは公民権を認められましたしかし皆さんは全てご存知ですビンキーが森を離れ 3,000マイルの旅に出る前に得ていた知識より多くを知っていますさらにわかっているのは今までと同じようなやり方を続けていては同じ結果を繰り返すということです百年以上前にソールズベリー卿がビクトリア女王に「変わってください」と詰め寄られたときに返した言葉を思い出します彼は言いました「変わる? なぜ変わるんですか? 見てのとおりすでに状況はとても悪いのです」私達は変わらなければなりません世界を見渡すと私達自身が変わることが不可欠だと私には思えるのですリーダーとしての新しい手本が必要ですリーダーとして一人の人間として新しいモデルが必要なのです私は最初銀行員として働いていましたといっても私は親しい友人以外にそのことは認めたくないのですがしかしこの過去8年間私は全く違った事に取り組んできました私は仕事で世界中を周りビンキーのようにそれぞれの-- コミュニティーで変化を起こしている人達に出会えるという光栄を賜ることが出来ました-- 世界を違う視点で見て異なる質問を投げかけ異なる答えを出し世界に出た時に自分達が持つフィルターを理解している人達なのですこれはサンガミトラの写真ですサンガミトラはバンガロールの出身です 8年前私がバンガロールで難しい社会問題に取組む NGOのリーダー達とのワークショップを開いていた時にサンガミトラと出会いましたサンガミトラは初めからNGOのリーダーだったわけではありません大学教授としてキャリアを始め英文学を教えていましたしかしその仕事は周りと繋がっていないと仕事は好きでしたが繋がりがないと気付きましたそして 1993年にずいぶん前の話になりますがサムラクシャと呼ばれる新しい団体を設立する決意をしましたその団体はインドで当時の世界で最も困難な問題に取り組むものでした-- HIV/AIDSですその時からサムラクシャは成長し影響力を強め今ではインドにおいて健康問題への取り組みをリードするNGOの一つですしかし 1993年の世界情勢と HIV/AIDSに関する知識について考えてみると-- 当時のインドでは患者が急激に増え原因が誰にもわかりませんでしたそして皆が非常に恐れていたのです今日でもインドでは 300万人のHIV感染者がいます世界で2番目に多い数ですある時サンガミトラに「どうやって英文学からHIV/AIDSにたどり着いたのか」とたずねました 2つは全く違った道のように見えます彼女はこう答えました「すべては繋がっていたのです文学は人を敏感にさせ人々や彼らの夢やアイディアに共感できるようになるのですそれから彼女のリーダーシップの下サムラクシャはHIV/AIDSに関連するあらゆる分野での先駆者になりました彼らは初の介護ホームを持ち初の治療センターを持ち初のカウンセリングサービスを提供しました都会--700万人の住むバンガロール-- だけではなくカルナタカ州にある遠く離れた村に対してもです彼女はそれだけで満足せず政府レベルで政策を変えようとしました彼女が先陣を切ったプログラムのうち 10個が現在政策として予算がついています彼らは現在カルナタカ周辺の 1,000以上の村で20,000人余りの人々を地元出身のこのムラリ・クリシュナのような人達と共に看護しています彼は2年前にエイズで奥さんを亡くし彼自身もHIV感染者です彼はサンガミトラと彼女のチームの村に対する仕事看護そして思いやりを目にしてその一員になりたいと思いましたリーダズクエストの一員であることは彼の仕事に役立っています彼らは村々への情報伝達を新しい先駆的な方法で行っていますパンフレットを配布するようなよくありがちな方法の代わりに劇団歌音楽そして踊りを提供しますそして席につきお互いの夢について語るのです先週彼女は教えてくれました-- 彼女は村に2週間滞在しそこで大きな飛躍があったことを彼らが輪になって座りながら村の夢について語っていたところ村のある女性が声をあげ「私達は夢を変えました私達の夢は私達のパートナーや私達の旦那を占いによって決めるのではなく HIVの検査結果をもって決めていくことです」と言ったのですあなたが幸運にもサンガミトラに会い何故そしてどのようにしてそのような沢山のことを成し遂げられたのかを尋ねたら彼女はあなたを見てとても静かにそしてやさしく答えるでしょう「ただそうなっただけです心の内から湧いてきたのです」この方はファン・ジェンチュアン博士です彼は中国の南西に位置する四川省の出身で 1957年に生まれました過去50年間の混乱の中で彼が幼少期に何を見て何を感じたか想像するに難くありません彼は兵士教師政治家副市長そして企業家それら全てを経験しましたでももし彼と対面し「あなたは本当は何なのですかお仕事は何ですか」と聞くと彼はこう答えるでしょう「私はコレクターで博物館を所有しています」と彼のことはよく耳にしていて幸運なことに今年の初めに成都市の彼の博物館で彼に会うことができました 60年代はじめ 4~5歳くらいだった時から彼は生涯を通してコレクターです 1960年代初期の中国を考えてみてください文化大革命やその後に起こったことすべてを乗り越えて彼は生涯を通して作品を集め続けているのですそして現在彼の博物館には中国の現代史を映し出す 800万以上の作品が保管されていますこれらは世界中他のどの博物館でも見ることは出来ません理由の一つはそれらの作品は中国の人達が忘れようとしている歴史を記録しているからです例えば彼は日中戦争を記録した作品を100万以上所有しています中国ではあまり語られない戦争で戦った英雄の名誉は認められていませんなぜ彼はこのようなことを-- しているのでしょう? それは彼の国が過去に犯した間違いを繰り返さないようにするためです日中戦争で戦った英雄達-- 互いに殺し合い敗れて中国本土を離れて-- 台湾に向かった者達も含む-- 彼らの実物大より-- 少し大きな銅像の設置から全ての無名の生き残った兵士達を称えるために彼らの手形を取ることに至るまで彼は伝えようと-- 一人の男が伝えようとしているのです-- 歴史は忘れ去られていないとそれに彼は中国の英雄だけを気にかけている-- わけではありませんこの建物には-- 長い戦争の間中国側に味方をしたアメリカ兵-- フライングタイガーを-- 称える文書や展示品の世界最大のコレクションがあります他にも9つの建物がありすでに一般公開されていますそれらの建物は現代中国史を記録した最もデリケートな2つの建物には生涯にわたり集めた文化大革命に-- 関するコレクションがありますこれは中国の人々の多くが忘れ去りたいと思っている時代ですしかし彼は自分の国にこの時代を決して忘れてほしくないと思っています彼らの様な人達は私に希望を-- 与えてくれますなぜなら彼らは私達に世界の見方を自分達が生きる-- 世界の見方を変えれば-- 何を成し遂げられるか教えてくれるからです彼らはまず外の世界に目を向けそして内側を変えていきました彼らはビジネススクールに通わず「良いリーダーのための10ヶ条」のようなマニュアルも読んでいませんしかし彼らには誰にでも分かる共通点-- やる気と情熱献身の気持ちがあるのです従来の行いから離れ知り得なかった何かへと彼らは進んでいきました存在していたことに気付いていなかった世界と繋がろうとしました彼らは架け橋をつくりその上を渡ったのです彼らには大きな時間の流れと自らの小さい存在の自覚があり自らが過去の人達を引き継ぎ自らが引き継がれることを知っています彼らは自分達が全体の一部であり他者に頼っていると気づいています自分達のためではないけれども自分達が始めなければならないそして彼らは謙虚ですそれはただ起こるのですしかしただ起こりはしませんですよね? 物事の実現には多くが必要でなおかつ今世界がどこへ向かっているか-- 私達はわかっていますなので私は-- 世界規模での後継者育成が必要だと考えます次の世代や新しく来る人達が良きリーダーになるのを待つことはできません私達から始めなければならないと思います私達も彼らのようにそれがいかに困難かわかっていますしかし私達は完全に手さぐりではなくビンキーやサンガミトラやジェンチュアンのようなモデルと模範があるという幸運に恵まれています彼らが成し遂げたことに目を向けることが出来そしてそこから学ぶことができるのです世界の中の自分の在り方について見方を変えられるのですそしてもし幸運であれば私達のひ孫がビンキーと同じ質問を尋ねた時の答えを変えることができるでしょうありがとうございました	These are not discoveries of planets or new technologies or science. They're discoveries of people and the way people are, and new leadership. This is Benki. Benki is a leader of the Ashaninka Nation. His people live in Brazil and in Peru. Benki comes from a village so remote up in the Amazon that to get there, either you have to fly and land on water, or go by canoe for several days. I met Benki three years ago in Sao Paulo when I'd brought him and other leaders from indigenous peoples to meet with me and leaders from around the world, because we wanted to learn from each other. We wanted to share our stories with each other. The Ashaninka people are known throughout South America for their dignity, their spirit and their resistance, starting with the Incas and continuing through the 19th century with the rubber tappers. Today's biggest threat to the Ashaninka people and to Benki comes from illegal logging -- the people who come into the beautiful forest and cut down ancient mahogany trees, float them down the river to world markets. Benki knew this. He could see what was happening to his forest, to his environment, because he was taken under his grandfather's wing when he was only two years old to begin to learn about the forest and the way of life of his people. His grandfather died when he was only 10. And at that young age, 10 years old, Benki became the paje of his community. Now, in the Ashaninka tradition and culture, the paje is the most important person in the community. This is the person who contains within him all the knowledge, all the wisdom of centuries and centuries of life, and not just about his people, but about everything that his people's survival depended on: the trees, the birds, the water, the soil, the forest. So when he was only 10 and he became the paje, he began to lead his people. He began to talk to them about the forest that they needed to protect, the way of life they needed to nurture. He explained to them that it was not a question of survival of the fittest; it was a question of understanding what they needed to survive and to protect that. Eight years later, when he was a young man of 18, Benki left the forest for the first time. He went 3,000 miles on an odyssey to Rio to the Earth Summit to tell the world what was happening in his tiny, little corner. And he went because he hoped the world would listen. Some did, not everybody. But if you can imagine this young man with his headdress and his flowing robe, learning a new language, Portuguese, not to mention English, going to Rio, building a bridge to reach out to people he'd never met before -- a pretty hostile world. But he wasn't dismayed. Benki came back to his village full of ideas -- new technologies, new research, new ways of understanding what was going on. Since that time, he's continued to work with his people, and not only the Ashaninka Nation, but all the peoples of the Amazon and beyond. He's built schools to teach children to care for the forest. Together, he's led the reforestation of over 25 percent of the land that had been destroyed by the loggers. He's created a cooperative to help people diversify their livelihoods. And he's brought the internet and satellite technology to the forest -- both so that people themselves could monitor the deforestation, but also that he could speak from the forest to the rest of the world. If you were to meet Benki and ask him, "Why are you doing this? Why are you putting yourself at risk? Why are you making yourself vulnerable to what is often a hostile world?" he would tell you, as he told me, "I asked myself," he said, "What did my grandparents and my great-grandparents do to protect the forest for me? And what am I doing?" So when I think of that, I wonder what our grandchildren and our great-grandchildren, when they ask themselves that question, I wonder how they will answer. For me, the world is veering towards a future we don't much want when we really think about it deep inside. It's a future we don't know the details of, but it's a future that has signs, just like Benki saw the signs around him. We know we are running out of what we need. We're running out of fresh water. We're running out of fossil fuels. We're running out of land. We know climate change is going to affect all of us. We don't know how, but we know it will. And we know that there will be more of us than ever before -- five times as many people in 40 years than 60 years ago. We are running out of what we need. And we also know that the world has changed in other ways, that since 1960 there are one-third as many new countries that exist as independent entities on the planet. Egos, systems of government -- figuring it out -- massive change. And in addition to that, we know that five other really big countries are going to have a say in the future, a say we haven't even really started to hear yet -- China, India, Russia, South Africa and Benki's own Brazil, where Benki got his civil rights only in the 1988 constitution. But you know all that. You know more than Benki knew when he left his forest and went 3,000 miles. You also know that we can't just keep doing what we've always done, because we'll get the results we've always gotten. And this reminds me of something I understand Lord Salisbury said to Queen Victoria over a hundred years ago, when she was pressing him, "Please change." He said, "Change? Why change? Things are bad enough as they are." We have to change. It's imperative to me, when I look around the world, that we need to change ourselves. We need new models of what it means to be a leader. We need new models of being a leader and a human in the world. I started life as a banker. Now I don't admit to that But for the past eight years, I've done something completely different. My work has taken me around the world, of meeting people like Benki and many others who are making change happen in their communities -- people who see the world differently, who are asking different questions, who have different answers, who understand the filters that they wear when they go out into the world. This is Sanghamitra. Sanghamitra comes from Bangalore. I met Sanghamitra eight years ago when I was in Bangalore organizing a workshop with leaders of different NGO's working in some of the hardest aspects of society. Sanghamitra didn't start life as a leader of an NGO, she started her career as university professor, teaching English literature. But she realized that she was much too detached from the world doing that. She loved it, but she was too detached. And so in 1993, a long time ago, she decided to start a new organization called Samraksha focused on one of the hardest areas, one of the hardest issues in India -- HIV/AIDS. Since that time, Samraksha has grown from strength to strength and is now one of the leading health NGO's in India. But if you just think about the state of the world and knowledge of HIV/AIDS in 1993 -- in India at that time it was skyrocketing and nobody understood why, and everyone was actually very, very afraid. Today there are still three million HIV-positive people in India. That's the second largest population in the world. When I asked Sanghamitra, "How did you get from English literature to HIV/AIDS?" not an obvious path, she said to me, "It's all connected. Literature makes one sensitive, sensitive to people, to their dreams and to their ideas." Since that time, under her leadership, Samraksha has been a pioneer in all fields related to HIV/AIDS. They have respite homes, the first, the first care centers, the first counseling services -- and not just in urban, 7-million-population Bangalore, but in the hardest to reach villages in the state of Karnataka. Even that wasn't enough. She wanted to change policy at the government level. 10 of their programs that she pioneered are now government policy and funded by the government. They take care of 20,000-odd people today in over 1,000 villages around Karnataka. She works with people like Murali Krishna. Murali Krishna comes from one of those villages. He lost his wife to AIDS a couple of years ago, and he's HIV-positive. But he saw the work, the care, that Sanghamitra and her team brought to the village, and he wanted to be part of it. He's a Leaders' Quest fellow, and that helps him with his work. They've pioneered a different approach to villages. Instead of handing out information in pamphlets, as is so often the case, they bring theater troupes, songs, music, dance. And they sit around, and they talk about dreams. Sanghamitra told me just last week -- she had just come back from two weeks in the villages, and she had a real breakthrough. They were sitting in a circle, talking about the dreams for the village. And the young women in the village spoke up and said, "We've changed our dream. Our dream is for our partners, our husbands, not to be given to us because of a horoscope, but to be given to us because they've been tested for HIV." If you are lucky enough to meet Sanghamitra and ask her why and how, how have you achieved so much? She would look at you and very quietly, very softly say, "It just happened. It's the spirit inside." This is Dr. Fan Jianchuan. Jianchuan comes from Sichuan Province He was born in 1957, and you can imagine what his childhood looked like and felt like, over the last 50 tumultuous years. He's been a soldier, a teacher, a politician, a vice-mayor and a business man. But if you sat down and asked him, "Who are you really, and what do you do?" He would tell you, "I'm a collector, and I curate a museum." I was lucky; I had heard about him for years, and I finally met him earlier this year at his museum in Chengdu. He's been a collector all of his life, starting when he was four or five in the early 1960's. Now, just think of the early 1960's in China. through the Cultural Revolution and everything afterward, he's kept collecting, so that he now has over eight million pieces in his museums documenting contemporary Chinese history. These are pieces that you won't find anywhere else in the world, in part because they document parts of history Chinese choose to forget. For example, he's got over one million pieces a war that's not talked about in China very much and whose heroes are not honored. Why did he do all this? Because he thought a nation should never repeat the mistakes of the past. So, from commissioning slightly larger than life bronze statues of the heroes of the Sino-Japanese War, including those Chinese who then fought with each other and left mainland China to go to Taiwan, to commemorating all the unknown, ordinary soldiers who survived, by asking them to take prints of their hands, he is making sure -- one man is making sure -- that history is not forgotten. But it's not just Chinese heroes he cares about. This building contains the world's largest collection of documents and artifacts commemorating the U.S. role in fighting on the Chinese side in that long war -- the Flying Tigers. He has nine other buildings -- that are already open to the public -- filled to the rafters with artifacts documenting contemporary Chinese history. Two of the most sensitive buildings include a lifetime of collection about the Cultural Revolution, a period that actually most Chinese would prefer to forget. But he doesn't want his nation ever to forget. These people inspire me, and they inspire me because they show us what is possible when you change the way you look at the world, change the way you look at your place in the world. They looked outside, and then they changed what was on the inside. They didn't go to business school. They didn't read a manual, "How to Be a Good Leader in 10 Easy Steps." But they have qualities we'd all recognize. They have drive, passion, commitment. They've gone away from what they did before, and they've gone to something they didn't know. They've tried to connect worlds they didn't know existed before. They've built bridges, and they've walked across them. They have a sense of the great arc of time and their tiny place in it. They know people have come before them and will follow them. And they know that they're part of a whole, that they depend on other people. It's not about them, they know that, but it has to start with them. And they have humility. It just happens. But we know it doesn't just happen, don't we? We know it takes a lot to make it happen, and we know the direction the world is going in. So I think we need succession planning on a global basis. We can't wait for the next generation, the new joiners, to come in and learn how to be the good leaders we need. I think it has to start with us. And we know, just like they knew, how hard it is. But the good news is that we don't have to figure it out as we go along; we have models, we have examples, like Benki and Sanghamitra and Jianchuan. We can look at what they've done, if we look. We can learn from what they've learned. We can change the way we see ourselves in the world. And if we're lucky, we can change the way our great-grandchildren will answer Benki's question. Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }
俺は港町に配置した眷属からの知らせを受けて本体は『転移部屋』に移動しつつ、意識を魔王会議のフォッグの方に向ける。『霧王よ。期日一日前じゃが準備の方はどうなんじゃ?』と、同じくログインしてきた雪翁が普段は絶対に見せないであろう焦りの色をほんの僅かに見せつつ俺に『超長距離転移陣』の準備具合を聞いてくる。『多少俺の負担は増すが、何とかいける。というかこっちの方を心配する余裕があるなら自分の所を心配しろ。』『言うてくれるのう。戦力不足なのはそちらも同じじゃろうに。』今回の蛸王の襲撃は前回の襲撃の倍の規模。最初の襲撃であり、おまけに大ダコの上位種と思しきモンスターの姿もいくらか確認されている。『まっ、何とかなるだろ。今回は前回、前々回と違ってダンジョンに居る人間も容赦なく全員徴兵して蛸王との戦いに回すそうだからな。それに......』『それに?』『イチコたちがとっとと蛸王を倒して帰ってくれば問題ねえんだよ。帰り道はイチコの長距離転移陣が使えるからな。』俺の言葉に雪翁はやれやれと言った表情を浮かべる。『蛸王を倒せることは疑っていないのじゃな。』『ふん。配下を信じられないで何が王だっての。』『ふぉふぉふぉ。なら儂も部下を信じて頑張るとしようかの。』そして、俺が『転移部屋』に着いたところで雪翁も俺も意識を本体の方に戻す。「クロキリ!」『転移部屋』には蛸王のダンジョンに突入する予定の9人が腕に耐圧術式を装備して揃っていた。「予定より一日早いが蛸王のダンジョン前にお前らを飛ばす準備はいいか?」「問題ありませんわ。むしろ私たちは早く突入して蛸王を討伐してきた方がいいのではありませんの?」リョウの答えに全員が同意の頷きを見せる。イチコたちの表情はやる気に満ち溢れていて何があっても目的を成し遂げる気概が漂っている。「分かった。なら全員所定の位置についてくれ。それと突入手順の確認だ。俺が目標地点にゲートを開いた後、目標地点と『転移部屋』の圧力差で恐らくゲートからは大量の水が噴出する。その為今回はゲート周囲に耐圧仕様にした壁を作り、その中にお前らは入ってまずは待機。一分後に壁の中が水で満ちた後に突入してくれ。」「分かっています。狐姫の耐圧術式は海中から空気を分離して、私たちの周囲に空気の膜を作るものですから、酸素の問題もありませんし、何の問題もありません。」俺の説明を受けて9人が『転移部屋』中央に置かれた球体の中に入っていく。「さて、俺も頑張らないとな。」俺もそれを見て術者席に移動する。なお、座標指定用の席にはすでに記憶を読み取る術式等々をかけた半漁人を設置済みである。そして、俺は詠唱を始めた。 ■■■■■ 球体の中は一切の光が射し込まない完全な闇が広がっていました。「火、付けるよ。」ムギが腰に付けたカンテラに≪狐火≫で火を灯して明かりにします。その明りによって球体の中の闇が拭われますが、特に何かがあるわけではありません。まあ、何かが出てくるのはこれからですから当然ですけど。「術式起動。」私は右手の手首に付けた銀色のリングに込められた術式を起動。起動と共に私の周囲に薄い空気の膜が張られます。そして、私以外のメンバーも私が術式を起動したのを見てリングを発動させます。「~~~~~......」「始まりましたか。」外からクロキリの声が僅かに聞こえてきます。『超長距離転移陣』を発動するための詠唱です。「以前聞いたものと詠唱が違いますわね。」リョウお嬢様が私の隣にやってきて、話しかけてきます。「詠唱が違うのは前回と今回で目標地点の座標や『転移部屋』周囲の環境情報が違っていて、それに合わせて詠唱を変えているからですね。」「やはり複雑ですの?」「複雑。と言うレベルではすみませんね。ずっと一緒に開発していた私でもこの部屋の意味と扱い方で理解できるのは半分以下ですし、この部屋と『超長距離転移陣』はまさにクロキリの血と汗と涙の結晶ですよ。」クロキリ本人はこの部屋を作り上げたことを誇りもしなければ、何事も無かったかのように扱いますが、実際はそんな簡単な事ではないはずです。この世界の深淵を覗きこみ、深淵に見られ返されるのも厭わずに自らに課した目標を達するための知識を探る。何が安全で何が危険なのかも分からない中で自らの身を持ってそれを一つ一つ検証し、後に続く者たちの導となる足跡を付けていく。 5年以上普通の人間なら一文で気が狂って死ぬであろう魔術の深奥に触れ続け、それを我がものとして扱う。クロキリ本人は自分の事をただの魔術師と称しますが、すでに魔導師とクロキリは名乗るべき力を持っています。そして、その領域はただの人では到達できない領域。魔術の才に恵まれ、その才を伸ばしたからこその領域。この『転移部屋』という一つの研究の集大成を見ると比較対象こそ現状居ませんが、クロキリは十分天才と呼ぶべき存在なのだと思います。尤もクロキリは今までの経験上、自分の事を天才なのだとは絶対認めないでしょうが。「詠唱が終わりましたね。」「来るよ!全員構えな!」外から聞こえてくるクロキリの詠唱が途切れると同時に、球体の中心に黒いゲートが出現し、それと同時に大量の海水がゲートから噴出して球体の中を埋め尽くしていきます。そして、球体の中が海水で満たされると同時に私たちはゲートに飛び込み、その先にある深海4000mに位置する蛸王のダンジョン『深淵の宮』へと突撃を開始しました。	Upon receiving the news from the kin I had stationed in the port city, my main body moved to the “Teleportation Room,” while I directed a portion of my consciousness towards Fog in the Demon King’s Conference. [O Mist King. We have only one day before the due date, how are your preparations coming along?] The Snow Sage, who had also logged in, questioned about the state of preparations for the “Ultra-long-distance Transportation Formation,” with a touch of impatience that he would ordinarily never reveal. [I’ll have to shoulder some more responsibilities, but I’ll be able to handle it. You should focus on your own place if you have time to worry about me.] [Right. It seems that both of us are lacking in manpower.] The scale of the Octopus King’s invasion this time was double the magnitude of the preceding one. It was six times the size of the first incursion, not to mention the presence of several monsters that were suspected to be of a higher species than the giant octopus. [Well, we’ll work it out. Unlike the last two occasions, all of the humans in my dungeon will be indiscriminately conscripted and dispatched to combat the Octopus King’s army this time. Besides...] [Besides?] [If Ichiko and the others can swiftly vanquish the Octopus King and return back, everything will turn out fine. Ichiko can utilize her Long-distance Transportation Formation on the way back.] The Snow Sage’s face lit up with amusement at my remarks. [You sure have the confidence that the Octopus King can be overthrown, huh?] [Hmph. What sort of ruler are you if you can’t trust your own subordinates?] [Hahaha. Then I shall do my utmost to put all my faith in my men.] When I arrived at the “Teleportation Room,” both the Snow Sage and I returned our consciousnesses to our main bodies. “Kurokiri!” The nine members who had been assigned to plunge into the Octopus King’s dungeon were all present in the “Teleportation Room,” with their arms equipped with pressure-resistant technology. “We’re a day ahead of plan, but are you guys ready to be transported to the Octopus King’s dungeon?” “There is no problem. Wouldn’t it be wiser for us to go in early and take out the Octopus King?” Everyone nodded in concurrence with Ryo’s answer. Ichiko and her companions’ countenances were brimming with resolve, exuding a spirit of determination to accomplish their goal at all costs. “Okay. All of you get into position, then. Also, let’s go over the entry procedure. The pressure differential between the target point and the ‘Teleportation Room’ will almost certainly result in a deluge of water bursting out of the gate once I open it to the target point. For this reason, a pressure-resistant barrier will be constructed around the gate, and you will first enter and wait inside the barrier. After one minute, when the barrier is filled with water, you will advance into the dungeon.” “I understand. The Fox Princess’ pressure-resistant technology isolates air from the sea and forms a layer of air around us, ensuring that we won’t encounter any problems with oxygen or other difficulties.” Following my explanation, the nine of them stepped into the sphere set up in the center of the “Teleportation Room”. “Now, I’d better get on with it too.” Watching them, I also moved to the operator’s seat. The seat for the coordinates had already been installed through a Hanryojin by the use of the memory-reading technique and so on. And then I started the chanting. ————– Within the sphere was pure darkness, impervious to all light. “I’ll light a fire.” Mugi lighted the cantera attached to her waist with ≪Fox Fire≫ to provide light. With the light, the darkness inside the sphere was dispelled, yet nothing in particular can be found there. That was only reasonable, given that something new will emerge from now on. “Activating the technique.” A thin layer of air was stretched around me when I activated the technique contained in the silver ring attached to my right wrist. And when the other members saw that I had activated the technique, they activated the ring as well. “~~~~~...” “Has it begun?” Kurokiri’s voice can be heard faintly from the outside. It was the chanting to activate the “Ultra-long-distance Transportation Formation”. “This chanting is different from the one I heard before.” Lady Ryo came up next to me and started conversing with me. “The reason why the chanting is not the same depends on the coordinates of the target point and the environmental information surrounding the ‘Teleportation Room,’ so the chanting has been changed according to those coordinates and information.” “Is it complicated after all?” “I’m afraid it’s more complicated than that. Even I, who has been working on the development of this room for a long time, can comprehend less than half of what this room means and how it is handled.” Kurokiri himself did not take pride in having created this room and treated it as if it were nothing, but in reality, it should not be such an easy feat. He peeked into the abyss of this world and pursued knowledge to attain the purposes he had set for himself even if it meant being observed by the abyss. While unaware of what was safe and what was dangerous, he nonetheless verified each of them with his own body and left a trail that will serve as a guide for those who will follow suit. For over five years, he had been exposed to the depths of sorceries that would drive a normal person insane and dead with a single sentence, and he had made the sorcery into his own. Kurokiri referred to himself as a mere sorcerer, but he already wielded the power to identify himself as a wizard. Furthermore, this was a domain that cannot be reached by an ordinary individual. It was a domain that can only be accessed by those who had been blessed with the gift of sorceries and had cultivated that gift. Although there was currently no comparison when looking at the culmination of his research on this “Teleportation Room,” I believed that Kurokiri deserved to be referred to as a genius. However, based on his past experience, he would never acknowledge that he was a prodigy. “The chanting is over.” “Here it comes! Everybody get ready!” Simultaneously, a black gate arose in the center of the sphere, and a vast amount of seawater burst out of the gate and filled the interior of the sphere. Then, as soon as the interior of the sphere was suffused with seawater, we jumped into the gate and commenced our onslaught into the “Palace of Abyss,” the dungeon of the Octopus King, located meters deep in the sea beyond the gate.	{ "source": "manual-fanfic", "missed_lines": 1, "inserted_lines_src": 0, "inserted_lines_trg": 4 }
上機嫌で講義やパーティに出ロードコーン泥棒をするいたずらをする学生生活に入って行きました勿論外観は時として人を欺きます講義を楽しんだりロードコーンを盗んだりする快活なイメージはうわべだけのものでしたうまく隠したので気付く人はいませんでしたが実際はひどく落ち込み不安で常に怯えていました他人や未来や失敗や空虚感に怯えていましたでも私はそれを上手に隠し傍らから見れば羨ましがれ憧れられる存在でしたその見せかけの強さは自分をも誤摩化せる完璧な物でした 1学期が終わり 2学期が始まって誰もが予測出来ない事が起きようとしていたのです私がいつもの様に鼻歌を歌いバッグの中を探りながら教室を出ようとすると突然「彼女は部屋を出ている」と声が聞こえて来たのです見回しても誰もいません明確な断固とした声は紛れも無いものでした動揺して階段に本を置いたまま急いで帰りましたすると又「彼女はドアを開けている」と聞こえたのですそれが”声”の始まりでした ”声”は何日も何週間も続き ”声”は何日も何週間も続き私の行動全てを三人称で言うのです「彼女は図書館に行く」「彼女は講義に行く」感情もなく批判的でもない”声”にしばらくすると妙に安心させられ始めたのですしかしその冷静さは時として失われ私の内の感情が映し出される事もあったのです私がよくする事で怒りを抑え上手に感情を隠していると ”声”はイライラするようでしたが ”声”は悪意がある訳でも困らせる訳でもありませんでしたしかしその時点でさえ ”声”は私の感情特に意識下の感情と ”声”は私の感情特に意識下の感情と何らかの関係がある事は明らかでしたそしてある時私は致命的な間違いを起こしたのです友に”声”の話をし彼女は気味悪がりそこから微妙な調節プロセスが始まったのです普通の人は声が聞こえないという意味私は何かとても変だという事実そんな恐怖と不信感に取り付かれてしまいました突然 ”声”は無害な物ではなくなったのです友人に医者に行く様にと勧められその通り従ったことが 2番目の過ちとなったのです不安将来への懸念など自分の問題を大学の内科医に話しました医師は無関心な態度でしたが私が”声”の事を話し出すとペンを置き私の方を向き真剣に質問し始めたのです私は藁をもつかむ思いでこの奇妙な”解説者”のことを伝えました「彼女は自分の墓穴を掘っている」とこの時 ”声”に言って欲しかった私は精神科医を紹介されここでも ”声”が問題であるという認識のもとで私の話すことは全て妄想だと解釈されました私の話すことは全て妄想だと解釈されました当時キャンパスのニュース速報を放送する学生テレビ局に属していたのですが医師の診察が長引き「すみません、6 時のニュース担当なので帰らなくては」と言うと「すみません、6 時のニュース担当なので帰らなくては」と言うとカルテにこう書かれたのです ”エレノアは自分がテレビのニュースキャスターだという妄想がある” この時点で物事が急速に一人歩きし始めたのですこの時点で物事が急速に一人歩きし始めたのです入院を皮切りに統合失調症とまず診断され次第に自分と自分の将来に対し絶望と屈辱感に蝕まれるようになりました絶望と屈辱感に蝕まれるようになりました ”声”を経験としてでなく症状と見るように言われた事で ”声”を経験としてでなく症状と見るように言われた事で ”声”に対する恐怖と抵抗が強まりましたこれは私は自分の脳に向かって心理的内戦の様な攻撃的スタンスを取るようなもので心理的内戦の様な攻撃的スタンスを取るようなものでその結果 ”声”の頻度は増え次第に敵意のある威嚇的なものになって行ったのですなすすべもなく私は悪夢の様な自分の世界に閉じこもる様になりましたそこでは”声”は私の批判者となりながらも唯一の友となったのです ”声”は私が助けるに値すると証明出来るなら私を助け元の私に戻しやると言い私を助け元の私に戻しやると言いヘラクレスの功業のようなおかしな事を命ずるようになりました初めは全く些細な事で髪の毛を3本抜くという程度でしたが次第にエスカレートし自分を傷つけるように命ずるようになったのですこんなひどい命令もありました「向こうに教師が見えるか水が入ったコップが見えるだろう生徒達の前で彼の頭にその水をかけろ」それに従った結果勿論教師達に疎まれましたそれに従った結果勿論教師達に疎まれましたこのようにして恐怖と回避不信と誤解の悪循環が出来上がったのですこの戦いに私は無力でしたどんな平和も和解もあり得なかったのです 2年後状態は劇的に悪化し常時様々な症状に悩まされるようになりました恐ろしい声グロテスクなビジョン奇妙な制御不能な妄想私の精神状態は差別や言語虐待肉体的・性的虐待の原因になり差別や言語虐待肉体的・性的虐待の原因になり精神科医がこう言いました「癌の方がまだましだね統合失調症より癌の方が治療が簡単だから」私は診断され薬漬けにされ見捨てられ ”声”に苦しめられ頭に穴をあけて ”声”を取り出そうとさえしました当時の崩れた自分と絶望状態を振り返るとそこで 1人の人間が死にそれでいてもう1人の人間が救われた様な気がします傷つき怯えた人間が旅を始めその試練を生き残り自分に課された人生を生きていくようになるのです私を傷つけた人々の事は忘れません私を傷つけた人々の事は忘れませんしかし私を助けてくれた人々と比べると記憶は色あせ薄れていきます一緒に生き抜いた”声”が聞こえる仲間共に戦う同胞や協力者いつか自分の娘が戻るのを信じどんなに時間がかかろうとも決して諦めず待ってくれた私の母短期間でも私の問題に取り組んでくれた医者回復は可能だというだけでなく必ず回復するという信念を持った医師はひどい再発が起きた時恐怖におののいた家族に言いました「諦めないで下さいエレノアは乗り越えられます 5月末に雪が降る事もあるけどそれでも夏は必ずくるんですから」とこの14分では短すぎて私の為に一緒に戦ってくれた人たちの功績を全て述べることはできません皆私が苦悩の孤独な世界から戻ってくるのを待ち受け入れてくれました皆私が苦悩の孤独な世界から戻ってくるのを待ち受け入れてくれましたその人達は勇気創造性信頼そして粉々になった私が健康になるという揺るぎない信念を集結させていましたこれらの人々が私を救ったと言いましたがそれよりもっと大切なことは私が自分で自分を救う力を与えてくれたのです私が自分で自分を救う力を与えてくれたのですそしてきわめて重要な事は私の疑惑を明らかにしてくれたのです ”声”は私の人生のトラウマ特に子供時代のものに対する有益な反応だったのですそれ自体は敵ではなく感情的な問題を解く鍵となりました当初はそう思えませんでした ”声”は敵意に満ちていたからですですから重要な第一歩は ”声”の意味することを言葉どおりにとらず理解することでした例えば”声”が「家を攻撃する」と脅迫したら今は実際に危険ではなく社会に対する自分の恐怖や不安だと理解する様になりました昔だったら”声”を信じていたことでしょう例えばこういう事がありましたある夜両親の寝室の前で両親を”声”の脅威から守るため座りこんでいました私が自分を傷つけないよう家中の刃物はほとんど隠されていたのでピクニック用のプラスチックフォークを握りしめピクニック用のプラスチックフォークを握りしめ何かが起きればすぐ行動に移れるよう構えていました「私に手を出そうとでもするならプラスチックフォークを持っているんだからね」とでも言いたげに良い戦略法ですね後で学んだ対処法の方がはるかに役に立つのです ”声”の言葉の裏にある意味を分析して ”声”が家から出ない様にと警告するなら自分の不安に気付かせてくれた”声”に感謝し自分の不安に気付かせてくれた”声”に感謝しそれを基に何かポジティブな対処をしそして自分と”声”を大丈夫だと安心させることが出来るからです私は”声”に境界を設定し私達がお互いにサポートし合う様にゆっくりとコミュニケーションと協調の過程を定着させ自己確立と相互理解で相互関係を結んで行けるようになりましたこれを通して最終的に解った事は私と親密に関係している ”声”の1つ1つは私の性的トラウマ虐待怒り恥罪悪感自信のなさなどの対処し切れなかった行き場のない感情を抱えていたのです ”声”はこれらの痛みを受けいれそれを言葉にしたのです私の悟ったおそらく一番大切なものは最も敵意のある攻撃的な”声”こそ実は一番ひどく傷ついている私の部分を表現していて実は一番ひどく傷ついている私の部分を表現していてこれらの声こそ思いやりやケアを最も必要としているという事でしたこれを理解することであらゆる声で表される粉々になった自分を一つにし次第に薬からも離れ精神医学に逆方向から戻る事になったのです ”声”が現れて10年経ち卒業しました大学創立以来初めて授与された心理学科最高学位を取得しその翌年にはトップレベルの修士号を取得しました頭のおかしい女性としては悪くないですね実は”声”の一つが試験中に答えを言ってくれたので厳密に言うとたぶんカンニングかも正直なところ私は”声”に注目され嬉しい時もありましたオスカー・ワイルドはこう言いました「噂される事より悪い事は噂されない事である」同時に2つの会話を聞けるので盗み聞きが上手でもあるんですねだから悪い事ばかりでもないんです私はヘルスケアの分野で働き講演を引き受けたり学術論文や研究論文も出版しました私がこれからも皆を説得していきたいのは次のような考えの重要性です精神医学での重要な質問は ”その人の何がおかしいか” でなく ”何がその人に起きたか” であるべきですずっと私は”声”を聞いてきましたがやっと”声”と共存して行ける様になりました ”声”も私を思いやり受け入れ私の立場を尊重するようになってきています自分の”声”に怯えている若い女性をサポートした時胸が一杯になったのを覚えていますその時初めて自分はもうこの様に感じることなく昔の私の様に苦しむ誰かを助ける事が出来るのだと気がついたのです私は「インターボイス」の一員である事を非常に誇りに思います「国際ヒアリング・ヴォイシズ運動」の組織団体でマウリス・ローム教授とサンドラ・エッシャー博士の仕事に触発されて始められた新しい取り組みですそれは幻聴を総合失調症のおかしな症状でなく異常な状況下で生きる為の正常な反応と位置づけ探索すべき複雑で重要かつ有意義な経験だとしています私達は”声”が聞こえる人達を理解し尊重しそういう人たちのニーズに対応できそういう人たちを完全な市民として受け入れる社会を目指していますそんな社会は夢ではなく既に築かれつつありますチャベスの言葉を言い換ると社会がいったん変わり始めたらそれが逆戻りする事はありません誇りを感じる人に屈辱を与えることはできませんもやは恐れない人を圧する事は出来ません「ヒアリング・ヴォイシズ運動」の功績は私にとっては言葉以上の友情正義敬意を思い出させますそれは確信であり信念です信念は世界を変えることができます過去20年間「ヒアリング・ヴォイシズ運動」は 5つの大陸の26ヶ国でヒアリング・ヴォイシズ・ネットワークを確立しました尊厳と連帯を促進し精神的苦悩を強いられている人の能力を高めるため共に取り組んでいます新しい希望や治療法で精神的な病を持った人々の力となっているのですピーター・レバイン氏曰く人間という動物はユニークな生き物ですピーター・レバイン氏曰く人間という動物はユニークな生き物です本能的な治癒能力とこの生来の能力を活用する知性に恵まれています社会のメンバーとして回復の希望を持ち苦しみを共有し証人となり手を差し伸べ人の回復過程の助けとなる程の光栄と特権はありません苦痛と逆境を生き抜いた人々へ一言私たちに与えられたダメージで一生が決められるのではないのです私たちは唯一の掛替えのない存在です私たちの中にある物は決して侵される事はありませんゆがめられる事も盗まれる事もないのです希望は決して失われる事はありませんある素晴らしい医師が私にこういった事があります「他人の意見でなくあなたの言葉であなたを語って下さい」ありがとうございました	I'd done well at school. Expectations for me were high, and I gleefully entered the student life of lectures, parties and traffic cone theft. Now appearances, of course, can be deceptive, and to an extent, this feisty, energetic persona of lecture-going and traffic cone stealing was a veneer, albeit a very well-crafted and convincing one. Underneath, I was actually deeply unhappy, insecure frightened of other people, of the future, of failure and of the emptiness that I felt was within me. But I was skilled at hiding it, and from the outside appeared to be someone with everything to hope for and aspire to. This fantasy of invulnerability was so complete that I even deceived myself, and as the first semester ended and the second began, there was no way that anyone could have predicted what was just about to happen. I was leaving a seminar when it started, humming to myself, fumbling with my bag when suddenly I heard a voice calmly observe, I looked around, and there was no one there, but the clarity and decisiveness of the comment was unmistakable. Shaken, I left my books on the stairs and hurried home, and there it was again. "She is opening the door." This was the beginning. The voice had arrived. And the voice persisted, days and then weeks of it, on and on, narrating everything I did in the third person. "She is going to the library." "She is going to a lecture." It was neutral, impassive and even, after a while, strangely companionate and reassuring, although I did notice that its calm exterior sometimes slipped and that it occasionally mirrored my own unexpressed emotion. So, for example, if I was angry and had to hide it, which I often did, being very adept at concealing how I really felt, then the voice would sound frustrated. Otherwise, it was neither sinister nor disturbing, although even at that point it was clear that it had something to communicate to me about my emotions, particularly emotions which were remote and inaccessible. Now it was then that I made a fatal mistake, in that I told a friend about the voice, and she was horrified. A subtle conditioning process had begun, the implication that normal people don't hear voices and the fact that I did meant that something was very seriously wrong. Such fear and mistrust was infectious. Suddenly the voice didn't seem quite so benign anymore, and when she insisted that I seek medical attention, I duly complied, and which proved to be mistake number two. I spent some time telling the college G.P. anxiety, low self-worth, fears about the future, and was met with bored indifference until I mentioned the voice, upon which he dropped his pen, swung round and began to question me with a show of real interest. And to be fair, I was desperate for interest and help, and I began to tell him about my strange commentator. "She is digging her own grave." I was referred to a psychiatrist, who likewise took a grim view of the voice's presence, subsequently interpreting everything I said through a lens of latent insanity. For example, I was part of a student TV station that broadcast news bulletins around the campus, and during an appointment which was running very late, I said, "I'm sorry, doctor, I've got to go. I'm reading the news at six." Now it's down on my medical records that Eleanor has delusions that she's a television news broadcaster. It was at this point that events began to rapidly overtake me. A hospital admission followed, the first of many, a diagnosis of schizophrenia came next, and then, worst of all, a toxic, tormenting sense of hopelessness, humiliation and despair about myself and my prospects. But having been encouraged to see the voice not as an experience but as a symptom, my fear and resistance towards it intensified. Now essentially, this represented taking an aggressive stance towards my own mind, a kind of psychic civil war, and in turn this caused the number of voices to increase and grow progressively hostile and menacing. Helplessly and hopelessly, I began to retreat into this nightmarish inner world in which the voices were destined to become both my persecutors and my only perceived companions. They told me, for example, that if I proved myself worthy of their help, then they could change my life back to how it had been, and a series of increasingly bizarre tasks was set, a kind of labor of Hercules. It started off quite small, for example, pull out three strands of hair, but gradually it grew more extreme, culminating in commands to harm myself, and a particularly dramatic instruction: "You see that tutor over there? You see that glass of water? Well, you have to go over and pour it over him in front of the other students." Which I actually did, and which needless to say did not endear me to the faculty. In effect, a vicious cycle of fear, avoidance, and this was a battle in which I felt powerless and incapable of establishing any kind of peace or reconciliation. Two years later, and the deterioration was dramatic. By now, I had the whole frenzied repertoire: terrifying voices, grotesque visions, bizarre, intractable delusions. My mental health status had been a catalyst for discrimination, verbal abuse, and physical and sexual assault, and I'd been told by my psychiatrist, "Eleanor, you'd be better off with cancer, because cancer is easier to cure than schizophrenia." I'd been diagnosed, drugged and discarded, and was by now so tormented by the voices that I attempted to drill a hole in my head in order to get them out. Now looking back on the wreckage and despair of those years, it seems to me now as if someone died in that place, and yet, someone else was saved. A broken and haunted person began that journey, but the person who emerged was a survivor and would ultimately grow into the person I was destined to be. Many people have harmed me in my life, and I remember them all, but the memories grow pale and faint in comparison with the people who've helped me. The fellow survivors, the fellow voice-hearers, the comrades and collaborators; the mother who never gave up on me, who knew that one day I would come back to her and was willing to wait for me for as long as it took; the doctor who only worked with me for a brief time but who reinforced his belief that recovery was not only possible but inevitable, and during a devastating period of relapse told my terrified family, "Don't give up hope. I believe that Eleanor can get through this. Sometimes, you know, it snows as late as May, Fourteen minutes is not enough time who fought with me and for me and who waited to welcome me back from that agonized, lonely place. But together, they forged a blend of courage, creativity, integrity, and an unshakeable belief that my shattered self could become healed and whole. I used to say that these people saved me, but what I now know is they did something even more important in that they empowered me to save myself, and crucially, they helped me to understand something which I'd always suspected: that my voices were a meaningful response to traumatic life events, particularly childhood events, and as such were not my enemies but a source of insight into solvable emotional problems. Now, at first, this was very difficult to believe, not least because the voices appeared so hostile and menacing, so in this respect, a vital first step was learning to separate out a metaphorical meaning from what I'd previously interpreted to be a literal truth. So for example, voices which threatened to attack my home I learned to interpret as my own sense of fear and insecurity in the world, rather than an actual, objective danger. Now at first, I would have believed them. I remember, for example, sitting up one night on guard outside my parents' room to protect them from what I thought was a genuine threat from the voices. Because I'd had such a bad problem with self-injury that most of the cutlery in the house had been hidden, so I ended up arming myself with a plastic fork, kind of like picnic ware, and sort of sat outside the room clutching it and waiting to spring into action should anything happen. It was like, "Don't mess with me. I've got a plastic fork, don't you know?" Strategic. But a later response, and much more useful, would be to try and deconstruct the message behind the words, so when the voices warned me not to leave the house, then I would thank them for drawing my attention to how unsafe I felt -- because if I was aware of it, then I could do something positive about it -- but go on to reassure both them and myself that we were safe and didn't need to feel frightened anymore. I would set boundaries for the voices, and try to interact with them in a way that was assertive yet respectful, establishing a slow process in which we could learn to work together and support one another. Throughout all of this, what I would ultimately realize was that each voice was closely related to aspects of myself, and that each of them carried overwhelming emotions that I'd never had an opportunity to process or resolve, memories of sexual trauma and abuse, of anger, shame, guilt, low self-worth. The voices took the place of this pain and gave words to it, and possibly one of the greatest revelations was when I realized that the most hostile and aggressive voices actually represented the parts of me that had been hurt most profoundly, and as such, it was these voices that needed to be shown the greatest compassion and care. It was armed with this knowledge that ultimately each fragment represented by a different voice, gradually withdraw from all my medication, and return to psychiatry, only this time from the other side. Ten years after the voice first came, I finally graduated, this time with the highest degree in psychology the university had ever given, and one year later, the highest masters, which shall we say isn't bad for a madwoman. In fact, one of the voices actually dictated the answers during the exam, which technically possibly counts as cheating. And to be honest, sometimes I quite enjoyed their attention as well. As Oscar Wilde has said, the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. It also makes you very good at eavesdropping, because you can listen to two conversations simultaneously. So it's not all bad. I worked in mental health services, I spoke at conferences, I published book chapters and academic articles, and I argued, and continue to do so, the relevance of the following concept: that an important question in psychiatry shouldn't be what's wrong with you but rather what's happened to you. And all the while, I listened to my voices, with whom I'd finally learned to live with peace and respect and which in turn reflected a growing sense of compassion, acceptance and respect towards myself. And I remember the most moving and extraordinary moment when supporting another young woman who was terrorized by her voices, and becoming fully aware, for the very first time, that I no longer felt that way myself but was finally able to help someone else who was. I'm now very proud to be a part of Intervoice, the organizational body of the International Hearing Voices Movement, an initiative inspired by the work of Professor Marius Romme and Dr. Sandra Escher, which locates voice hearing as a survival strategy, a sane reaction to insane circumstances, not as an aberrant symptom of schizophrenia to be endured, but a complex, significant and meaningful experience to be explored. Together, we envisage and enact a society that understands and respects voice hearing, supports the needs of individuals who hear voices, and which values them as full citizens. This type of society is not only possible, it's already on its way. To paraphrase Chavez, once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. For me, the achievements of the Hearing Voices Movement are a reminder that empathy, fellowship, justice and respect are more than words; they are convictions and beliefs, and that beliefs can change the world. In the last 20 years, the Hearing Voices Movement in 26 countries across five continents, working together to promote dignity, solidarity and empowerment for individuals in mental distress, to create a new language and practice of hope, which, at its very center, lies an unshakable belief in the power of the individual. As Peter Levine has said, the human animal is a unique being endowed with an instinctual capacity to heal and the intellectual spirit to harness this innate capacity. In this respect, for members of society, than facilitating that process of healing for someone, to bear witness, to reach out a hand, to share the burden of someone's suffering, and to hold the hope for their recovery. And likewise, for survivors of distress and adversity, that we remember we don't have to live our lives forever defined by the damaging things that have happened to us. We are unique. We are irreplaceable. What lies within us can never be truly colonized, contorted, or taken away. The light never goes out. As a very wonderful doctor once said to me, "Don't tell me what other people have told you about yourself. Tell me about you." Thank you.	{ "source": "iwslt2017", "missed_lines": null, "inserted_lines_src": null, "inserted_lines_trg": null }

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