Original subtitles

This place is Hatsunejima.

The island’s precise location is unknown…

The island’s population: unknown.

A mysterious island with no detailed information available.

Some say the island is Atlantis, which had sunk deep into the ocean.

Some say it’s like the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, floating in the sky…

An island that spawns no shortage of stories in the imagination.

While its actual properties are unknown, let’s just say it’s a strange island.

This story is the crystallization

of the blood and sweat of the girls living on Hatsunejima.

The Nabe Kingdom

Onee-chan, keep pushing!

Ah, Mako-chan! It’s caught on something, pull some more!

I’ll just have to…

Huh? What? I’ve hit a snag.

Huh? Is that you, Mako? What’re you doing?

Well, if it isn’t Aishia! You showed up at the right time.

Help us out a bit.

Sure, okay.

Heave-ho!

Oh no~! I can’t stop spinning!

That’s another big nabe.

Yeah, we’re searching for ingredients for it.

But it’s stuck.

Then, shall we start gathering ingredients?

Do you mind if I come too?

I don’t mind. Do you, Onee-chan?

That’s a great idea. It’ll be more fun if we’re all together.

Let’s go.

By the way, why do you two like making nabe so much?

Why, you ask? Because it tastes good.

There are so many types of it. Japan alone has 600 million.

There’s not that many.

What’s the big deal about nabe, anyway?

What? You don’t know about nabe??

No, I know what it is.

I just don’t know why it’s such a big deal to you two.

Once you’ve added the ingredients, it doesn’t take that much time.

It works best when cooked in an earthenware pot.

You can even transport it in a lunch box.

What made you girls so hardcore into nabe?

Originally, the dish called nabe…

…was developed by NASA to withstand the heat of atmospheric re-entry.

It’s been noted in research journals as the culmination of high technology.

It turns out great no matter who cooks it, or where.

Some theorize that clay nabe pots came from space.

And now we’re in space?! I’m afraid of where this conversation might be going.

But what I’m most scared of is my own curiosity!

Rumor has it that the aliens who crashed in Roswell in 1949

were trying to reclaim their nabe pot.

No, even I’m not going to go there, Onee-chan.

Ever since the year 1950, there have been many UFO sightings.

Onee-chan, you’re just making this up, aren’t you!?

She brought up outer space herself, and now she’s busting on Moe for doing the same?

I’ll never understand these sisters.

The legends of clay nabe pots don’t only concern outer space.

They’re told throughout the entire world.

Um, I never asked about the legends of clay nabe.

And come on, “legend”? What do you mean, “legend”?

A long, long time a go, in a place far away…

And she’s already dived right in. I feel like there should’ve been a title here.

An old man and an old woman lived together.

And that’s when a giant meteorite fell–

Nothing like that came down!

I was just getting to the good part. Don’t interrupt me.

What? There’s a “good part”?

Let’s try that again.

In the peaceful kingdom, there was a beautiful princess.

And that’s when a giant meteorite came down–

I keep telling you, nothing like that ever happened!

But it did in the story I heard…

Forget about the meteorites and let me handle this.

Okay…

And then, the Demon Lord of Nabe suddenly appeared!

That sure did come out of nowhere.

If you want your princess back, hand over the kingdom’s legendary nabe pot!

Oh no~! Please do help me!!

If you don’t surrender the nabe right away, the princess’s life is forfeit.

Oh no~! Please do help me!

Come on. It’s your turn, Aishia!

Huh? What? I have a role in this?

H-Here? I’m supposed to read this?

Umm…

…the nabe is still being prepared, so…

Put a little more feeling into it! You need to sound more “royal.”

Um, okay. Why do I have to–

Isn’t it ready yet?

Come on, Aishia, quit stalling!

The nabe is still being prepared!

If anything happens to the princess in the meantime, there will be consequences!

Father! Please help me!

As I have foretold, the nabe is prepared.

Now return the princess!

Very well, I’ll just give back the princess…

Hmm? What’s in this nabe?

Our cook put his heart and soul into this nabe.

Please eat it, if you would.

Then I’ll wait no longer.

What? What’s this? It’s so hot it’s burning this one place in my mouth!

Let’s have a look. It seems you have a canker sore.

Wha?

Right. Guards, attack!

Curses! You got me!

And so, the peace of the world was defended.

Isn’t it a fabulous story?

Especially the part where the meteorite came crashing down…

That was so romantic…

That’s so wrong I don’t even know where to start.

Ever since, hot nabe was said to have the power to drive out evil.

Now do you understand why nabe is cooked so hot?

Oh great,

next they’re going to say, “The whole world’s made of nabe!”

Wow, you’re really catching on now!

I am not!

THE END

THE END

Translated by: Zalis