Route 20
	 Part 5
	  Vanishing Point

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Route 20
The Town With Gears
Part 5
Vanishing Point

I'm alive...  I can feel it.

Yoshiyuki Sadamoto

[I ended up crashing through a rusted, sheet metal roof into the building below.]
[I had escaped without getting myself killed.]

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[My grandfather had lived on the second block of the Yoshihama neighborhood.]
[I had to go retrieve what he had given me for my birthday.]

Sign: Akagi

Utsuo: This is it...
	Sheesh.
	I didn't need the stupid key, after all...

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[It was a mysterious silence...]
[Even though no one had lived in the house for a hundred years,]

Utsuo: (creak)(crack)

[there was a slightly familiar smell underneath all the dust.]
[The room which contained my grandfather's possession was on the second floor.]
[The veranda outside that room was where I would find the birthday present he gave me.]

Utsuo: (shunk)

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Utsuo: What...  (a cactus)
	the HELL was he thinking?
	This?
	This is what was so precious to him?
	I risked my life to get here!!
	You've gotta be kidding...
	This has got to be a joke, goddammit!!
	(pfft)
	(HAHAHAHAHAHA)
	(oh, damn)

[It had faded after all those years of exposure to pollution and battering rains, but it was still alive.]
[Talk about vitality.]

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[My scooter was now useless.]
[I took three days to repair one of the junked-up bikes I found to a workable state.]
[I also managed to scrape together all the gasoline I could find.]
[I don't know how far it will take me, but I can't stay here.]

Rope: (squeeze)

Utsuo: Okay, then.
	Let's go.

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[The light, so bright it hurt my eyes.]
[Grampa,]
[I can feel it with my whole body, now.]
[The searing, humid summer winds.]
[The sound of the engine.]
[The stink of the gas exhaust.]
[The vibration coming through the handle grips.]
[The rising clouds of sand.]

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[This rugged road that keeps going, on and on.]
[The horizon that continues to infinity.]
[It's beautiful...]
[My brown Earth.]

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