AR∀GO 42

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Top Text: The highly anticipated 4th chapter of the “black horseman arc”!!!
Joe: I can’t get in touch with Coco…
Arago
-City of London Police’s Special Crime Investigator-
A battle of the paranormal!! Volumes 1~3 are now on sale in stores!!
Chapter 42: Basement
Joe: She’s not answering her issued cell phone, or her wireless radio. What could have happened to her…
Officer: Assistant Inspector Sullivan!!!
Arai Takahiro
Officer: We found Officer Coco Sullivan’s patrol car on the road to this forest!!
Side Text: A precious friend, has been taken!!!

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Arago: Move!
Officer: Who are you supposed to be!?
Joe: He’s with the CID.
Let him through…
Text next to Ghari: Oh!
Arago: Old man!

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Joe: It’s true, the information on the car’s computer shows that this is Coco’s…
Some of the keys from the keyboard are missing…
Arago: What’s this feeling……
Please…please don’t let it be…!!
What kind of attack,
Is coming next…!?
Hang on, what about the dog!?
Colo should have been riding in the patrol car too!!
Officer: That’s…
Arago: !!!

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Colo…!!
Joe: What in the world…
SFX: *Growl*
*Growl*
Colo: *Bark*
*Bark*
Arago: Yeah…I got it, I got…
Okay?
Just leave…everything to me…Colo…
SFX: *Whine*

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Arago: Four horsemen!!!!
Simon: Forgive me…

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I hold no ill will towards you…
But the waves of emotion you send towards the Brionac holder were just so beautifully clear…
And things that are so beautifully clear…
Are so easy to corrupt…
The stage is now set…
All that remains now is the arrival of the knight in shining armor…

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Arago: A police officer is missing!!
Why the hell aren’t more of you out looking for her!?
Joe: Stop Arago.
Arago: Don’t stop me old man!!
Joe: Come on!
We don’t have any clues yet.
We won’t get anywhere if we send people out to search under these circumstances.
Right now, Rio and the rest of the Firearms Unit have been dispatched to continue searching for her.
But, we still don’t even know what the criminal’s after or why he went after Cooc…
Arago: What he’s after….
…..

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Joe: In any case, I’m fairly certain that Coco’s disappearance,
Is connected to the criminal who left those two strange corpses behind.
I said that there weren’t any clues,
But there is one thing that’s been bothering me.
The missing keys from the car’s computer.
They were “R” and “D”.
Arago: “R” and “D”?
Joe: I don’t know if it was Coco, or the criminal who left it behind, but it may be some kind of message…
R…D…initials?
Or maybe an abbreviation…like Research & Development, or Retinal Detachment.
Or a suffix, like in 3rd…
Maybe there’s no meaning behind them at all.
The criminal may have just taken them off by accident during a struggle.
Arago: But there weren’t any signs of a struggle…

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It’s too bad you can’t talk…
Colo.
Joe: How is he?
Arago: He wasn’t pierced anywhere vital…he should recover soon.
Joe: Just what kind of person is this criminal…
The way we found Colo, I didn’t even think that was possible…
Ghari: That looks painful…
Joe: It’s that late already…
I’m going to go see Cloteaux. Something about the bodies might give us a new lead.
The criminal might have even left behind another clue...
!!

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Arago: What’s wrong old man?
Joe: If Coco really did leave behind a message…
Then she must have known the criminal…
The missing keys…
An abbreviation…
“R” and “D”…
Dr….
Simon: I’m Dr. Simon Cloteaux
Arago: …No way…you mean…!
Joe: “There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go”
The American playwright Tennessee Williams said that.
We don’t have any other clues to go on right now…
We have to go!!

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Box: Front of the clinic run by Simon Cloteaux
Joe: Simon Cloteaux, 35 years old…
A researcher of the latest medical treatments involving nerve cells, he’s the owner of his own privately run clinic.
Most medical expenses in England are free so the cost of medical care at Cloteaux’s clinic is expensive,
But even so, he still has a good reputation among his rich colleagues.
I’ve heard rumors that he treats illegal immigrants without charging them.
Arago: Illegal immigrants…
If they died in the clinic, then you’d have an unlimited supply of dead bodies…
Joe: It’s only speculation…
I couldn’t get in touch with Dr. Cloteaux through his clinic, home, or cell phone…
Something must have happened.
!

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Arago: It’s open…
I’m going in…you stay here old man!
Joe: Don’t be stupid!! You’re not going in there alone!!
I have a bad feeling…!!
He died because of me.
A memento from my partner…from Rupert.
He left his daughter in my care.
Arago: ……
……alright,
Let’s go in…

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SFX: *Step*
*Step*
*Step*
Joe: Watch your step…
SFX: *Step*
The atmosphere in the basement is completely different…
What are these medicines and instruments!? Just what in the world, is all this for…
SFX: *Twitch*

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Simon: Well, you certainly took your time getting here, Brionac holder.
Oh, and the assistant inspector is with you as well…Welcome to my humble abode.
SFX: *Music note*
*Music note*
Arago: No way…You’re…
Joe: Cloteaux!!
!!!
The two missing keys…we were right…
Arago: What did you do with Coco…
Simon: Kukuku…

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Arago: What the hell did you do with Coco!!?
Simon: Kukuku…You’ll see her soon.
Very soon in fact.
Arago: Gr…A gremlin!? Why do you have…!!
I required a pure soul.
SFX: *Gasp*
*Pull*
For the black horseman’s creations,
So that I may grant life…

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Now, awaken my Golem.
Joe: The bear and lion are fused together…!?
Arago: !!!
Simon: Didn’t I say that you’d see her soon?

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Arago: Co…
Co…co…
Text: His opponent, has completely changed his friend…!!