The Dry Spell
2023

The Dry Spell

渇水 (Original Title)

The protagonist, Shunsaku Iwakiri, is a water company employee whose job is to visit households that have not paid their water bills and then stop the water supply. One day, while enforcing water supply restrictions throughout the prefecture, he meets a pair of young sisters who have been abandoned. It is easy to understand how important water is to this poor family.

2023年6月2日

EN: I just had a strange thought out of the blue. The sun is free, right? No matter how long you have to bask in the sun no one is going to charge you for it, and the air too, air that you can just inhale until you're full.
CN: 我刚才突然有个奇怪的想法,太阳是免费的吧?不管你要晒多久太阳也不会有人来收钱,还有空气也是,空气也是随便你吸到饱。

EN: I prefer candles to electric lights, it's like being in the ocean.
CN: 比起电灯,我更喜欢蜡烛,就好像在大海里一样。

EN: That kind of guy even sunbathes and breathes air, and I want to charge him for it.
CN: 那种家伙就连晒太阳跟呼吸空气,我都想跟他收钱。

EN: What do guys like you who live off the people's tax dollars know? I've slept with your kind a few times, all of them cheap and lying horny bastards, but the guy I met this time was different.
CN: 你这种靠人民税金过活的家伙懂什么?我和你们这种人睡过好几次,全都是小气又爱说谎的色鬼,但是我这次遇到的他不一样。

EN: Go with the flow. It's like tap water.
CN: 随波逐流啊,就像自来水一样呢。

EN: Waking up alone, eating alone, watering the sunflowers alone, and then going to sleep alone should fit well with my habits from childhood.
CN: 一个人醒来、一个人吃饭,一个人给向日葵浇水,然后再一个人入睡,这应该很符合我从小到大的习性。

EN: For the first time… not wanting to continue to go with the flow, please let me make this change.
CN: 这是我第一次… 不想再继续随波逐流,请让我做出这个改变。

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