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Yellow Oaker: The Town with No Greenery or Flowers
How desolate.
All the trees are dead.
That's not true. Here, take a look.
On some part of the soil, things have settled down and are quite alive.
This is the strength of the nature.
What is it?
Are you all right, old man?
I'm not an old man.
I'm Yozakku!
How nice!
What were you doing above this tree, Mr. Yozakku?
A job.
Job?
This is a nut of a different color.
It's a nut of an oak tree. It's called acorn.
It's a food the nature has given us.
I love food!
How can you eat such terrible food so well?
So, Mr. Yozakku,
Kakeru is looking for his dad who got caught by the Emperor Gross.
Do you know anything about it?
He's a fairy-tale writer called Shiki Haruhiko.
I haven't heard anything about him.
-Is that so... -So, Kakeru, how old do you think this tree is?
-Well... -It's been here for at least 1,000 years.
1,000 years?
It has been through harsh storms and cold winter snow.
But it has survived liked this no matter how harsh it was.
These acorns might live for 1,000 years as well.
If I hear a such thing, I can't dare to eat these.
Having such heart is important.
So you are a doctor who treats sick trees?
There wasn't a single tree that didn't get healed
after getting treated by me.
Everyone calls me the green doctor.
Green
Doctor?
How about you help me?
But... I have something I have to do.
That's right.
Even so, I don't think it's possible for you to turn Yellow Oaker green.
-What? -All the trees in Yellow Oaker have withered away.
I can turn everything back!
What a confidence!
Good bye!
Mr. Yozakku!
What's wrong?
It seems like I hurt my legs when I fell off earlier.
Nitch, would he be telling the truth?
Something's weird.
He doesn't seem to have any cash.
Hey!
-What are you going to do, Kakeru? -I can't help. I have to go find my dad.
But it seems fun to see the trees get alive again!
No is a no!
Nitch, if there were a medicine that can bring the dead trees back, we could make much money.
He should be useful.
Mr. Nitch and Satch!
Kakeru, we can't leave a hurt man alone.
Let's go, Kakeru!
All right!
It seems like a poison...
Poison?!
Did you see that, Kakeru? The one that drove the truck was the same as the bike corps that took your dad.
It's keeps absorbing wastes.
It seems like a pit where the Emperor Gross throws his waste away.
How comfortable. If you have such thing, you wouldn't be worried at all to have trash.
If we stay here, we might be able to find some clues about your dad.
We'll observe around here.
Kakeru, you should follow them with the doctor and Princess Kirara.
There isn't a single tree in this town.
And somehow it's hard to breathe here.
There isn't enough oxygen.
How about some oxygen?
Oxygen?
Oxygen from the mountains, from the beach, and from the highlands! Only $10 for breathing oxygen for a minute!
You are the green doctor, Mr. Yozakku!
Who are you?
He's Sir Green, the head of this village.
No need for greetings. Since when was this town like this?
Well, that's...
-Why didn't you tell me earlier? -That's...
Well, even without the green, we could survive.
How stupid!
Hey! You are being rude!
Do you understand? All trees here are suffering from malnutrition.
Anyhow, we trust you. You should be able to do something.
This isn't just my problem. The entire town has to work with me.
What an exaggeration.
I'm not exaggerating!
Trees convert carbon dioxide into oxygen. In other words, they purify the dirty air we breathe out.
It's obvious what happens if you kill such trees.
You are trying to raise your fee since you can't fix them, right?
Hey, you are being rude.
That's right! He's here to help you.
Anyhow! We can't give you any more money or any more time.
You have two days to take care of this. All right?
Just two days?!
Two days should be enough.
Good luck!
How annoying!
Mr. Yozakku, you don't need to work for such people.
You fool! I haven't come to this town for those guys!
I've come here because the trees were asking me for help.
Amazing!
Kakeru,
I'm sorry, Mr. Yozakku.
It's all right. Now, let's work!
It's all dead like this. What are you going to do?
Poor flowers.
That's right! Let's plant the flowers we buy from the flower shop!
That's a good idea!
And we should name this park "Kirara Park".
It's no use.
No matter how many flowers you bring from outside, they will all wither away.
This is a strong rose I carefully invented
that can grow on any kind of wasteland.
Here, help me.
Okay!
What are you doing?
We are planting roses.
Beautiful flowers will bloom soon.
What happens if a flower blooms?
-Huh? -Is there anything good if a flower blooms?
It's not about getting profits or something...
Isn't it weird at all to not have flowers?
Not really.
Besides, why are you playing with flowers? You are a man!
What?
Don't mind them. They'll start to realize once flowers bloom.
All right! I'm going to turn this town green.
Nitch, it's a strange crater.
It ate a rock as well.
What is that?
It seems like something's living under this.
Anyhow, we are going to let the old man know about this.
Take care!
Hey! They ran away.
All right, then.
But Mr. Yozakku, we only have two days.
That's right. Even if we do this, isn't it too late?
Well, watch this.
Wow!
It really bloomed!
Flowers!
This is amazing!
Flowers bloomed!
What is this? It doesn't work!
Liars!
No way!
Kakeru!
Trouble!
There's a monster!
A monster lives in that crater!
It came out here as well.
It was scary.
It's ameba of a protozoan that lives in soil.
Ameba?
However, normal ameba should be small enough to not be able to be seen.
Then, this ameba must have gone large because it ate too much.
You stupid! Do you think there's a restaurant or something down there?
That's it!
Ameba has absorbed this thing and has mutated itself like this,
and has enlarged itself!
Poison?!
Do you know where this was?
I don't!
Emperor Gross' men were throwing this into the crater just outside this town! There's no way you didn't know about this!
I don't know who Gross is,
but we did allow them to throw trash away.
How dare you!
Well, this town is having its financial crisis and everything.
They are helping us a lot.
Are you saying it's all right to sacrifice the nature of this town?
Those two are separate problems.
You are making excuses since you can't get your work done, right?
Mr. Yozakku isn't someone like that!
I'm telling you for sure! Because of the poisonous matter thrown into the crater, ameba has gotten bigger!
That's foolish!
This town has lost its green-ness
because this huge ameba is absorbing all nutrients.
It seems like this "green doctor" cannot do anything, either.
We'll cancel the work we've asked you to do.
Please get out right away!
What is this? I'm not done talking!
Sir, please take a look at this.
Sir! Please grow that into a big tree!
An acorn wants to get bigger!
Haven't you ever picked up or eaten acorns when you were a kid?
What are you talking about?
Hold on. I miss those days.
This is probably from an oak tree near the dark highway.
It's a tree with different color.
I used to go there often to get this when I was a kid.
It was fun back in those days.
Now I've come to think of it, I haven't had much time to think of those days.
It's not useful at all to think of old days.
We made a right choice.
Do you really think so?
We can't do anything now. Are you going to go against the Emperor Gross in order to protect the nature?
Hey! We are not a trash!
Unless we bring that ameba to them...
They don't seem to trust us.
Let's do it, Kakeru.
But... Such monster...
All right! Let's go to catch that ameba!
Hey, we should stop here.
That sounds fun!
Let's do it!
-Hey! -If you don't want to come, I'll go by myself.
Ouch, my legs...
He began again.
-Kakeru! -All right.
Mr. Yozakku, I'm coming as well.
Really? Are you coming?
My gosh.
It doesn't seem like we can earn money this time.
Sometimes I think I'm unbelievably a good person.
You don't need to worry about that. You aren't.
You little...!
Man, it's boring to be out on watch.
Monster!
What is it?
You startled me.
You are awake now, right?
How mean.
More trash!
Mr. Yozakku!
You are acting too rashly!
I won't let you escape!
I won't let you throw more trash into it!
Hurry and get this out!
It's not that simple.
Watch out!
Kakeru!
Kakeru!
We are in the crater.
It's here!
This is that huge ameba you talked about?
You monster!
Get out!
Ouch!
Kakeru!
I can't fight such thing...
But like this, we'll get...!
Kakeru!
Kakeru!
Kakeru, courage!
Kakeru! Hurry and run away!
You'll get melted away!
Even if you say that...
That's right!
Blink!
Kakeru!
Blink!
Dang! How can I get rid of it?
Kakeru! Don't lose!
Ameba should have some kind of weak points.
If I aim that...
Exactly.
So what's its weakness?
How should I know?
That's...
Sir, is there something in that bag?
I have nothing but this kind of stuff.
It absorbs everything!
Dang! Isn't there something we can...?
There's only trash.
Kakeru!
There's nothing useful.
Whatever. Let's just throw.
No!
What did you just throw?
What do you mean?
It's this.
-Oxygen? -Sir, there wasn't much oxygen in this town.
I see. Since it grew up with poison, it's weak to clean air.
Kakeru! It's oxygen!
He's weak with oxygen!
I won't let you...!
You little!
It seems like we survived.
Look!
Kakeru, trees are coming out of the ameba's body!
How come?
It's that essence.
Since it absorbed that much stuff, it's like the essence of nutrients.
Besides, since the air cleared up, they could grow up right away.
We did it! Amazing!
I'm glad.
Good job.
All thanks to you.
But, now the ameba is gone,
you won't be able to get trusted.
I don't care. As long as the nature is back, I'm fine.
What in the world...?!
As expected, the nature is good.
I've forgotten how great the clean air tasted like for a while.
Sir!
What do you think you are doing? I'm going to make you pay for this!
Shut up! You don't need to!
He taught me.
He taught me that a heart that knows how to cherish this acorn is more important.
Without that, I can't really say that I've worked for the people.
Besides, even if the town could have earned profits, it would have been of no use if I lost the people's hearts.
I won't let them throw trash away here anymore.
How great.
In the prison of Prussian Blue, people who went against the Emperor Gross are imprisoned.
I'd like to rescue them, but I need a plane to do that.
But the ones who have a plane wouldn't cooperate.
Next on Blue Blink,
"The Plane of Love! Fly in the Prussian Blue!"
Join us for this magical adventure!