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- out of agitation?) Forgive me, my captain and other gentlemen! I am mumbling incoherently like this because of the custom of my mother country that I've left. My country that I love, my country that I hate, there everyone says two things at the same time because that's the only way to survive. (A, B, and D who climbed out of the boxes and barrels burst out laughing at the ridiculous sight of c. E just keeps on looking at c.) It was a strange country where if I were to say something definitely like, it can be done today or cannot be done, I couldn't make a living even on the mouse-tail-like meager salary of a fifth-level bureaucrat. I got on this ship because I wanted to leave that place where I was born, grew up, and later wanted to bury my bones. My dear captain and the gentlemen, can you understand how I felt? For example, when a beautiful woman that I'd known less than five hours was sucking my lips and telling me how much she loved me, I would tremble in fear that she might mistake me for the sworn enemy who beat her father to death. My respected captain and other shipmates, what good would it do to kill someone like me? Please spare my life!
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B: (He kicks his ass.) Wake up! Good-for-nothing fifth-level bureaucrat asshole!
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C: (He screams and falls. He swims as if he is in water.)
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A, B, & D: (Looking at C, they burst out laughing.)
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C: (Because of their laughter, he looks around.) Were you also kicked in your ass? We seem to be in the water together …
- A: Yes. We were all kicked in the ass.
(A, B, C, and D are silent. E tries flipping her hands but stops.)
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B: (To D.) Do you know when our ship will land at New Land of Desire?
- D: Did you get on this ship without asking the captain that question?