Bloody Monday 44

Chapter 44

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Otoya: He's here.
Aoi: Eh?

Otoya: Ryuunosuke-san is.

Fujimaru: There's a way to stop the symptoms from appearing!!
Kirishima: What...are you talking about?

Fujimaru: The thing hidden in the "Shikimura File".
Fujimaru: The "antivirus"!
Title: File 44 The Blood of God

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Fujimaru: If we find it, we might be able to hold back the symptoms!
Kirishima: Wait a second. I don't follow.
Kirishima: You have the file that Professor Shikimura sent somewhere while on the verge of death?

Fujimaru: Yes.
Fujimaru: I got it from Munakata Hitomi who works in the biochemistry research institute.
Fujimaru: She's a common friend of my father and Professor Shikimura.

Fujimaru: The situation made me think that the file might point to the existence...
Fujimaru: of an antivirus made by Professor Shikimura.

Fujimaru: Kirishima-san.
Fujimaru: The only person from "Third-i" I spoke to about this was Houshou-san, so I doubt you've heard it.

Fujimaru: I'll summarize the information about the enemy I've gotten my hands on.
Kirishima: If you're referring to the fact that they might be the cult that committed the police headquarters gas terror attack two years ago, I've already been informed.

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Fujimaru: Eh? From who?

Kirishima: From Kujou Otoya.
Kirishima: ...What? The cult from back then?
Kirishima: What are you basing this on?
Otoya: The virus.

Otoya: Do you know about the file that the late Section Chief Okita of "Third-i" gave to Takagi Ryuunosuke-san?
Kirishima: Yes, of course.
Kirishima: And I know that Vice Chief Takagi got Professor Shikimura to analyze it...

Otoya: It was the data from the analysis of the genetic information of a genocide virus developed in the former Soviet Union.

Kirishima: So that's "Bloody-X" which was brought to Japan by the terrorists.
Kirishima: Section Chief Okita got that in Russia...
Kirishima: That's why he was killed...

Otoya: Most likely...
Otoya: And...

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Otoya: Professor Shikimura also analyzed the data on the virus seized during the poison gas incident 2 years ago.
Otoya: The two were exactly the same.

Kirishima: ...What?
Kirishima: The virus back then was "Bloody-X"!?

Otoya: If the point of departure and route are the same...
Otoya: it's safe to think that the same terrorist group is behind both incidents.

Fujimaru: That's my backup for you.
Text above Fujimaru: Does it have an automatic upload function?
Kirishima: He didn't have time to tell me anymore than that.
Kirishima: I see...

Kirishima: If Professor Shikimura assumed that the world might be threatened by that virus again...
Kirishima: there's a good chance he would have produced an antivirus even without Vice Chief Takagi asking him to.

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Kirishima: If he just barely managed to complete it...
Fujimaru: Then odds are good it's location is hidden in the "Shikimura File"!
Fujimaru: Damn it, no good!
Fujimaru: Why did he use such a difficult encryption?

Kirishima: It makes sense that he would put strong security if it's a drug to fight "Bloody-X".
Kirishima: He wouldn't want the pharmaceutical company he got to make it to know what they were making.
Kirishima: So does the file contain the antivirus's development code?

Fujimaru: Damn it! Another failure!!
Fujimaru: I understand using a military level encryption code, but this is more than I expected.

Kirishima: Don't get impatient, Fujimaru-kun.
Fujimaru: Crap.
Fujimaru: I wasn't taking this seriously.

Kirishima: Is it going to take time? With your skills, you should be able to...
Fujimaru: At this rate, no matter how hard I try...it'll take at least 4 to 5 hours.

Fujimaru: Those two sealed in the underground storage room...
Fujimaru: have been infected with "Bloody-X".
Fujimaru: Worst case scenario, they'll show symptoms in an hour and a half.

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Fujimaru: And even in the best case scenario, they only have two and a half hours!

Kirishima: We could always get the pharmaceutical companies that Professor Shikimura dealt with to give us the likely development codes...
Kudou: That'd be like a human-wave attack.
Kudou: It'd take 2 or 3 days.
Text above Kudou: The 4 or 5 hours it'll take Takagi-kun is better.

Fujimaru: Damn it...!!
Fujimaru: Think!
Fujimaru: There has to be some kind of hint...!!

Kudou: By the way...

Kudou: What's the point of leaving a file that heavily encrypted with someone?

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Fujimaru: ...That's it.
Fujimaru: The person he left it with...there might be a hint there.

Kirishima: What is it, Fujimaru-kun!?
Fujimaru: Professor Shikimura left the file with Munakata-san.

Fujimaru: I'm going to go meet her!
Fujimaru: She might know something.

Fujimaru: Hello? Munakata-san?
Fujimaru: This is Takagi Fujimaru! Where are you...?
Minami: We don't have time. We'll take the chopper.
Minami: I'll be your bodyguard.

Kirishima: We're counting on you!
Kirishima: It's possible that the other 12 were infected, too...
Kirishima: All of their lives are in your hands!!

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Fujimaru: Only...
Fujimaru: an hour and 25 minutes left...!!
Fujimaru: Okay.

Kanou: Where are they headed?
Kanou: Their base?
Kanou: Or somewhere else...?

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J: He's on the move?
J: I see...So our tactic to buy us some time is working.

J: ...Okay.
J: Bye.

J: Mikhail-kun, If Takagi Fujimaru gets his hands on the location of the antivirus...
J: could you arrange for HQ to immediately go and get it?
Mikhail: Understood.

J: How are Maria and Marlo?
Jakob: They say that their job of working their way into the Tachikawa Water Service...

Jakob: is "going well".

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J: ...Hm.

J: About 90%...
J: of this has been going according to plan...
J: It's going better than I thought it would...I guess?

J: What is it, Mikhail-kun?
Mikhail: ...Nothing...

J: Is it...
J: about Maya?

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J: "Why...
J: did you leave...
J: such an important role to her?"...is it?

Cain: Do you...
Cain: trust that woman?

Mikhail: This is...
Mikhail: because of her mistake in the first place...
J: Are you mad at her?
J: For doubting whether you actually managed to delete the file?

Mikhail: I don't...
Mikhail: care about that...!

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Mikhail: It's just that Orihara Maya...

J: I'm well aware...
J: that she isn't acting out of loyalty to "him".

Mikhail: Then why would you...?

J: Because she's no more...
J: than a sacrificial pawn
J: She' not as important as you all.

Jakob: Whatever she may be thinking...

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Jakob: If "J" agrees to it, we will obey.
Jakob: Obey "The Blood of God".

J: Now then!

J: Shall we...
J: continue, Cain?
Cain: Yes.
Cain: We received a report from Iba of the police. Everything went as predicted...

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Ryuunosuke: Uh...

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Iba: ...Heh.
Iba: Looks like the restorative is working...

Ryuunosuke: Uh...
Ryuunosuke: Ugh...
Ryuunosuke: The...
Ryuunosuke: hos...pital...?

Ryuunosuke: ...Who are you...?

Iba: Ah, you're awake.
Iba: I'm an investigator from the police headquarters.
Iba: I'm actually here to give you a message from the supervisor of "Third-i", Chief Sonoma.

Ryuunosuke: A message...
Ryuunosuke: from... the chief?
Iba: Yes.
Iba: They've received information that one of the police officers at this hospital is a terrorist spy.

Ryuunosuke: What?
Ryuunosuke: What's their objective?

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Ryuunosuke: They're most likely after you, Takagi-san...
Ryuunosuke: So you should get out of here for now.
Ryuunosuke: I was instructed to tell you that.

Ryuunosuke: ...Understood.
Ryuunosuke: I'll hurry.

Iba: Good.

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Cops: He couldn't get out with this many guards...
Cops: So he's still in the hospital...?

Ryuunosuke: ...Gh...

Cop: Don't move!!

Cop: Put down your gun, Takagi!!
Cop: Don't resist!!

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Cop: Put down your weapon!!
Cop: And slowly put your hands up!!

Iba: One of the police officers...

Iba: is a spy.

Cop: Gh.
Cop: Uh!??

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Ryuunosuke: ...O...
Ryuunosuke: Otoya-kun...!!