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MK: [Jpn.] Then one more thing.

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Jpn.] If we had been a little later, we would have lost our land.

TY: [Jpn.] What do you mean?

MK: [Jpn.] It's because you have to pay every year that thing.

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Jpn.] Well...

TY: [Jpn.] Tax?

MK: [Jpn.] Yeah, tax.

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Jpn.] If you own land, you have to pay taxes. What will happen if you don't pay taxes for four years? But they must have thought about that.

TY: [Jpn.] I see.

MK: [Jpn.] That's why they waited for four years.

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Jpn.] After the four years passed, they advertised in a newspaper right away. Our land.

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Jpn.] They put it for sale.

TY: [Jpn.] Who?

MK: [Jpn.] The government.

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Jpn.] We barely made it because we returned right away.

TY: [Jpn.] I see. Then, if you had returned a little later...

MK: [Eng.] Yeah.

TY: [Jpn.] You would have lost your land.

MK: [Jpn.] Even so, you couldn't complain because of the war. The war was on.

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Jpn.] Uh-huh. You couldn't complain at all. Uh-huh.

TY: [Jpn.] Then, what happened to the Arakis' house?

MK: [Jpn.] Oh, it was there.

TY: [Jpn.] Somebody...

MK: [Jpn.] But I hear that they had somebody to take care of it.

TY: [Jpn.] I see.

MK: [Jpn.] The greenhouse.

TY: [Jpn.] I see.

MK: [Eng.] Uh-huh.

TY: [Jpn.] Then their greenhouse was taken care of without interruption.

MK: [Jpn.] Yeah. So they didn't have any problems. It went smoothly, I think.

TY: [Jpn.] I see.

MK: [Jpn.] Uh.

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