Shimeji Simulation Chapter 20

Sorry for the wait, here's Shimeji Simulation's chapter 20.

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How deep does this large hole the hole-digging club has made go...?

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“How do you tell how deep the hole is...?”
we can’t even see the bottom
“Sis said...”

“that we can just throw a rock into it and see how long it takes until it makes a sound...”
“The speed of sound and gravitational acceleration are both constant, so you split it into travel and return time, t1 and t2...”

g... Gravitational acceleration
V... Speed of sound
h... Depth
T... Time length from dropping the rock until you hear it drop
= h... something like that?
“We don’t know t1, t2, and h, but we’ve got three equations that we can solve to figure the depth and all...”
“I can’t!”
“I’m telling you how you can.”

“Heard it?”
“Nope...”

“Let’s throw another one.”
“Should make a pretty loud noise if it hits the digging machine down there...”

“Hup.”

“Can’t hear it.”

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“We gotta use some crazy long rope, don’t we?”
“Do we even need to know how deep it is...?”
Let’s just go home...
“Ma’am!”

“Senpai?”
“Ms. Mogawa!”

“...”

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“Ma’am! It’s dangerous!”

“You’ll fall...”
“It’s fine...”

“Don’t mind me...”

“Ah!!”

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“Ma’am!”
“Wha?”

“Senpai!”

“Majime-chan...”

“Aaah...”

“Agghhh...”

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Apparently, not even Ms. Mogawa herself understood what sort of state she was in back then.

It seemed as if her abnormal fixation on “holes” triggered some sort of unique effect on her heart, but I can’t say for sure.

Then, as I was falling, I remembered what Sakutarou Hagiwara wrote regarding suicide.

If I remember correctly, I think it was about how he “couldn’t kill himself he was afraid of regretting it at the moment that comes after jumping from a high building and before hitting the ground.”

I don’t know how deep the hole goes, but if it goes all the way to the center of the Earth,

then it's probably a long enough fall for me to regret it, reminisce about my entire life, and make peace with death.

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>we actually got a new chapter this month
hoorah!
I'm going to bed because it's late but thank you as always for your translating work. You're a real hero.

“Nhoooo...”
“I dun wanna dhieeeee...”

“Nothing we can do about it. Give up.”
“We can’t give up already!!”

“There’s... There’s... still the possibility that it’s pierced right through”
“and that we’ll land in Brazil just fine...”

“They say it’s about 6000 degrees at the center of the Earth.”
“We’re gonna burn to death...!!”

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“I’m sorry... I dragged you into this...”
“I’m a failure of a teacher...”

“How about we make a ring first, Ma’am?”
“Ah, yes...”

“It’s fine, not like it matters now...”
sorry
“Yeah.”

“You’ve always acted like a failure of a teacher anyway.”
drinking and stuff
“Ah... Yeah...”

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“...It’s getting dark.”
“Uu... Are we gonna die...?”
“I’ve never even kissed...”

“I’m impressed you could talk about kissing when we're free-falling like this.”
“Huh? I mean, isn’t it a big deal? For girls...”

“...”
not really...
“Been there, done that...”
“I don’t really care...”

“I suppose... you're in puberty, Yamashita-san.”
“Isn’t that everyone here but you, Ma’am!?”

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“...”
“Why don’t you just do it now?”
“Oh, that’s a thought.”

“Aight! Shimeji-chan, let’s smooch!”
“Do friends kiss each other?”
“That’s the best we've got in this emergency.”

“Uu... This position...”
“It’s like in-flight refueling.”

“Don’t force it...”

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“...Anybody here has anything left in the bucket list that doesn’t involve a lot of movement?”
“Not really...”
“Ah...! Wedding... I wanna have a wedding!!”
“That’s enough out of you, Majime-chan.”
“Why!?”
“I... I...”

“...I!”
“Have something to say...!”

“That’s the first time... I’ve ever heard you talk...”
“...”
“...”

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“I... don’t really enjoy school... I go to the infirmary, go home early a lot...”
“But last year, I saw you make something behind the school building, Ma’am...”
“At first, I had no idea what you were making, but you were very serious about it.”

“Seeing you made me think I had to attend school properly...”
“I... I... I.”
“...”

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“Then you joined the club, Ma’am.”
“I... loved looking at the pottery you made...”
“but you stopped making them anymore.”

“Then I stopped attending club...”
“but...”
“I’ve always loved the shapes you make...”
“so...”

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“I’m sorry, I’m doing a poor job explaining this...”
“...”
“Sorry.”

“!”

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