Umbilical Cord Preparerへその緒屋

Umbilical Cord Preparer speaks 7 times in the script, in West City Road.

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Each block is one message window, with a link to the place in the script where it appears.

As you can see, the water in Lai Hung River is forever stagnant.

Its water once reflected the sky, but now... only rainbows of diesel.

The bridge that crosses the Lai Hung is formally named "Magpie Bridge",

but we all simply refer to it as "the Bridge".

麗虹（ライフン）の水は見ての通り、いつもよどんでる。

昔は、空の虹を映し出す水だったのに、今やオイルの虹しか見えないね…

麗虹に架かる橋は鵲橋（じゃくきょう）っていうんだ…

ここら辺ではたんにブリッジって呼んでるけどね。

You're crossing the Bridge too?

Don't tell me you're going after that young woman who crossed earlier... Yeah, I thought as much!

ブリッジ、渡ってもいいってか？

あんた、さっきのお姉ちゃん、追いかけてるんだろ。なあ、そうだろ？

How did it go? The malice from the connected district didn't leak in, did it?

どうだった？つながった街から邪気が吹き込んできてるんじゃないのか？

The Lai Hung is so dirty, I can't rinse out any umbilical cords in its water. The filth would damage my merchandise!

麗虹の水がこうも汚れちゃ、へその緒の洗濯もできない…商品が傷んじゃうよ。

Placing wishes on stones, placing stones on pedestals...

See, it's never a good idea to slap values onto objects on a whim.

Once upon a time, there was a man who kept his umbilical cord attached.

He treasured it so much, he even gave it a name.

Then, a time came when the cord started to absorb the man's body.

He tried to cut it off with a kitchen knife, but it was too hard to sever.

In the end, the man's cord took over his mind and body, and that's why some cords are better off as "just cords".

石に願いをなんて、どうもね…石を奉ってもなあ…

ヘタに物を大切にしない方がいいんだよ。

そういや昔、へその緒をぶら下げて生きてた男がいたな。

そいつ、自分のへその緒に名前を付けてかわいがってたんだけど、

そのうちへその緒が男の体を欲しがってな、

男は包丁でへその緒を切ろうとしたけど固くて切れない。

とうとうへその緒が男の体も心も乗っ取ってしまったんだ。へその緒は、あくまでへその緒だよ。

If you put your heart into an object, it will grow that heart like its own.

Then, if you mistreat the object, that evil will soil its heart.

物を大事にすることで物に心が生まれるのかなあ…

それとも粗末にすることで悪い心が巣くうのかなあ。

You shouldn't go around giving names to random objects, that's for sure.

調子に乗ってやたら物に名前なんてつけない方がいいってことだね。