Brilliant Summer - An Expedition With Anne and Mary -

Fouu!?

This...is a big one!

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Wow! What's this? ...Oh! Oh! What do I do?

Fou! Mnnnf?

I-It's finally stopped. That was a really huge tremor. We've never had one like it before...

...I-I'm perfectly fine!

...No problem. I'm perfectly fine. Absolutely all right.

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...But, Mary, you had your cutlass stabbed into that tree. You were holding on for dear life.

And Anne, you had Fou's face squeezed so close to your chest that he almost suffocated...

I-I thought we were going to capsize. So I just...

I'm very used to the pitch and roll of a ship. But pitching and rolling while on land? That's just unfair...

Oh, I see... You're great pirates who have spent most of your lives at sea, so you're not used to the ground shaking like this...

Oh! Another one! A big aftershock!

All hands! Grab onto something!

... (Aha! That's it!)

Eek! Earthquakes frighten me, Master! Eek!

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This time she's not stuffing Fou's face into her chest, but Master's...

Oh, dear! I'm sorry, Master. I'm so frightened by earthquakes, I don't know what to do...

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What are you talking about? Hehehe.

...Mary? What are you doing, throwing yourself on the ground and grabbing Fou's legs like that?

...What, me? I was only trying to keep him from running away in a panic...

You may be fine, Mary, but Anne is so afraid of earthquakes, I'm beginning to wonder if she's going to be all right

At any rate, that tremor just now was quite large. Let's go see if there's been any damage or anything.

What? The earth split open in that last earthquake?

Yes, right here. There's a large diagonal crack. And

It continues way down deep into the earth.

It looks like it connects to a cavitya cave of some sort.

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Yes. A cave means treasure.

I don't plan on letting this chance escape us!

Um, are you going in right this instant? Don't you think we should prepare a little

They've already gone inside!

Leave it to pirates to make quick decisions... Oh well. We may as well join them, Master.

Yes, I have a good feeling about this. The longer the cave, the better. The chances of finding treasure are increasing.

Fouuu?

There's basically only one way to go, so there's no worry of getting lost. The problem is

Oh! It appears there are still some light earthquakes. I don't think the cave will collapse, but

Eek! I'm scared! (Squeeeeeze!)

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Now that she's had a taste of it... Anne has found a legitimate way to hug Master's head...

You're unusually aggressive, Anne...

I think I'll get up close too. But unlike Anne, I'll try to latch on when Master begins to stagger...

We've gone pretty deep.

The frequency of the earthquakes has really increased.

Yes, yes.

(It's like it's too much trouble for them to let go... They've been clinging to Master this whole time. What's with these two?)

Fou, foou!

Look, Master! There's a wide open area ahead!

Have we finally reached the finish line? Tee hee hee! I wonder what the treasure is

Welcome! (Rage)

...Blackbeard!? I thought you were eliminated!

That's not the real thing. That's a clingy, avaricious ghost!

What's wrong with you? ...Are you stupid? Do you want to die! You're stupid and gonna die!

This must mean... These earthquakes, could they be because of Blackbeard?

What a joke! This is driving me nuts! Gahrrr! Imma go loco on your kokoro!

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No, no, nooooo! I had nothing to do with those tremors! ...At least not directly! Indirectly, well... Maybe yes!

I am so incredibly bitter... Or, should I say, envious...!

All I wanted to do on this deserted island... was have some huggy-huggy, kissy-kissy, squeezy-squeezy...!

I knew it was...something like that...

Well, he was like that in his final moments too Those are the only regrets this guy has...

Yes, that's all! Especially since you entered this cave! I saw you, you know! I saw you!

What's with this classic "lucky pervert" stuff? Just a little swaying back and forth, and you're all squishy-squishy?

Oh, uh, I meant the earth was swaying, not your...! No, don't get me wrong! And besides, only one of you would sway anyway, right?

Kill. Him. Now.

But she doesn't understand that I love her for that! How sad I am. How truly sad I am...

So I have no choice but to kill you! I know you'll forgive a grudge.

I will huggy-huggy, kissy-kissy, squeezy-squeezy here with you for all eternity!

...And now that I think about it, that one-touch-only agreement we had is still unfulfilled.

Gyuh huh huh huh huh... Mary, be prepared! Wash your armpits and bellybutton and wait for me!

Ah. That's not right. No, that's not right, Blackbeard. Dear me, has becoming a ghost made me senile?

I take back my last statement. You don't need to wash at all.

I can't stand this guy any longer!

We have no choice: for the peace of this island, we must destroy this grudge!

How...unfortunate...

But as long as you don't reform your HHKKSS desert island life, Blackbeard will be back a second and a third time...

I couldn't stand to see you again! (Stab)

Yaaay.

Elimination confirmed. It seems the earthquakes have stopped as well.

That Blackbeard... Why would he smile at the very end? Yech. That is so creepy.

...Well, if I loved Master or Mary so much that a jealous grudge kept me lingering on in this world after death...

...then a final killing blow from either of you...

...might very well make me smile too, you know!

...Quit saying such crazy things. And I mean that in more ways than one.

Hehe, I'm sorry.

...Well then. Shall we go home?

Yes. We didn't find any treasure, but it was still an enjoyable little expedition with Master.

That's reward enough for us!