Bloody Monday Season 2 - Pandora's Box 32

Chapter 32

01

Kirishima: This is our final chance...
Kirishima: left for us by Section Chief Takagi.

Kirishima: That threat was a bluff!
Kirishima: They're panicking!
Kirishima: We can't waste this.
Kirishima: We have to force our way in!!
Top text: Ryuumon Ryou x Megumi Kouji
Text: For their fallen comrade!!
Manga title: Bloody Monday Season 2 Pandora's Box
Title: File 32 Connected Points

SFX: Thrust out hand
Box: Volume 3 is on sale now!!
Suou: Wait just a second!

02

Suou: What are you thinking!?
Suou: The capital could be contaminated with nuclear materials. How can you risk that?
SFX: Strong entrance

Hagiwara: Minister of Justice...
Hagiwara: Suou Tokimaro...!
SFX: Chatter

Kirishima: The bombs in the core are a bluff.
Kirishima: And even if they were actually there, they'll still use them if they fail to cause a meltdown.
Kirishima: We don't gain anything by giving them more time!

Suou: Have the armed team withdraw immediately.
Suou: Don't provoke the terrorists.

Suou: That's an order.
Suou: Got that!?

03

Kirishima: Understood.
Kirishima: ...Minister Suou.

SFX: Smirk

Hansel: Hey, "Peter Pan".
SFX: Bah bah bah
Hansel: Do you, a hacker, really have to go to the actual place?

04

Peter: I do, "Hansel".
Peter: Unfortunately.
SFX: Bah bah bah

Peter: Now that the enemy hacker, "Falcon", has barricaded himself in the server room...
Peter: he'll have stopped the reactor from going out of control before too long.
Peter: And someone hacking in from the outside can't stand up to someone directly operating the system.

Peter: I don't like having to do this, but...
Hansel: Yeah.
Hansel: You need to get there as soon as possible to take it back.

SFX: Bah bah

05

Hansel: ...Hey.
Hansel: Who is this "Falcon" guy?
Hansel: Do you know him?

Peter: ..I don't know who he is.
Peter: I think he's younger than me...
Peter: But...

Fujimaru: Okay. I've removed the lockdown Peter Pan put on the system!
Fujimaru: Now...

SFX: Press

06-07

Fujimaru: The main system...
Fujimaru: is mine!

Peter: The person...
Peter: that gave him the know-how for his hacking techniques...
Peter: was me.

08

Man: This is Beta Team.
Man: Third-i's armed team has withdrawn.

Man: It's just...we can't contact "Hans" who headed for the Server Room on his own.
Man: He may have already been taken out by the intruders...

Alexei: I see. Hopefully the bomb bluff worked.
Alexei: Now that their attack has ended, our only obstacle is the hacker in the Server Room.

Alexei: Peter and our reinforcements arrived sooner than expected.

09

Alexei: That obstacle will soon be gone.
Alexei: And then all that remains...
Alexei: will be our victory!!

Kanou: Damn it.
SFX: Wham

Kanou: Damn that dumbass Suou!! You've gotta be kidding me!!
SFX: Walking
Sakaki: I can't believe he's the new Minister of Justice...

Minami: What kind of person is he?

10

Sakaki: During the terrorist incident 8 years ago...The one caused by Hino Alexei and the "Shooter of the Magic Bullet"...
Sakaki: He's the man who made a fatal error of judgment as the foreign affairs bureaucrat.

Minami: Wha-?
Minami: How did he get to be Minister of Justice then!?
Minami: That's crazy!

Sakaki: Suou stopped the team about to go in from beginning their attack. And it was reported that that decision led to the minimal number of casualties.
Minami: Hah?
Minami: "It was reported"!?

Sakaki: In reality it was quite the opposite. The attack should have been carried out even though it would have led to a few casualties.
Sakaki: That way the Tsar Bomba wouldn't have fallen into enemy hands.
Sakaki: The "Shooter of the Magic Bullet" should have been annihilated then and there, but they weren't. And, as a result, they've gone on creating even more victims.

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Sakaki: If it weren't for Takagi's secret infiltration, the Tsar Bomba would have been detonated 8 years ago and Tokyo would have been nothing but a crater.
Sakaki: But all of that was done in secret. Nothing we do will be recorded in history.
Sakaki: Even if we save Japan...or even the world.

Kanou: Well, I like this kind of thing more than public jobs.
Sakaki: Ha ha ha.

Minami: But then Prime Minister Kujou should know that Suou is incompetent. He was there!
Minami: Why did he make him Minister of Justice?
Sakaki: In his party, Suou is popular. The Prime Minister had to add him to his cabinet in order to balance the different factions.

Sakaki: Otherwise, I'm sure he would have put someone more reliable in his old position.
Sakaki: The timing just happened to be really bad...

12

Minami: So it was just a coincidence?
Sakaki: What do you mean, Minami?

Minami: Even if it was inevitable that he became Minister of Justice under Prime Minister Kujou...
Minami: is it possible the terrorists chose this timing because they have a spy in the cabinet...?

Sakaki: ...Watch what you say.
Sakaki: Don't think that kind of thing about the cabinet.

Minami: That's...right.
Minami: I'm sorry.

Kanou: Anyway, I need to tell Fujimaru that we've temporarily withdrawn!

13

Fujimaru: I see...
Kanou: ...Sorry.

Kanou: But if push comes to shove, we're prepared to go in against orders.
Kanou: The problem is whether you can last in the server room until then.

Fujimaru: Looking at the data you sent me, I should be fine.
Fujimaru: The enemy bringing in tools to burn through the door would change that though.

Makimura: Kanou-san.
SFX: Running
Kanou: What is it, Makimura?

Makimura: I just got word that an unidentified helicopter landed somewhere around here!
Makimura: It's most likely reinforcements for the terrorists...

Kanou: What!?
Kanou: Hey, Fujimaru! The enemy has reinforcements!

14

Fujimaru: Yes. He's here!
SFX: Clench
Kanou: Fujimaru?

Fujimaru: Since I came in here, I've taken over the power plant's system from the inside and put a difficult to break lock on it.

Fujimaru: It would be next to impossible to break it from outside the system.
Fujimaru: And with me at the controls here, it truly is impossible.
Fujimaru: So in order to overcome it...
Fujimaru: the enemy hacker, Peter Pan, had no choice but to come here!!

15

Fujimaru: Kanou-san!! Capture him!
Fujimaru: As long as they have him, we can't stop the "Shooter of the Magic Bullet"!
Kanou: ...Understood.
Kanou: But what about you?

Fujimaru: Either way...
SFX: Grab
SFX: Glance
Fujimaru: if you don't stop them, we have nowhere to run.

Fujimaru: We'll do our best. Both of us.

16

Fujimaru: Hibiki...
Fujimaru: Does it hurt?
SFX: Walk over
SFX: Lean
Hibiki: I'm fine with pain. I've been trained to control it.
Fujimaru: But...you look pale. Really pale...

Hibiki: I've lost a lot of blood, so the pressure...
Fujimaru: is too low...

Fujimaru: Wh-what should I do!?

Hibiki: Hold it...
Hibiki: tight.
[TN: The Japanese could mean "hold it tight" or "hold me tight".]

Fujimaru: Eh?
Fujimaru: L-like this!?
SFX: Hug

Hibiki: Phh...
Hibiki: Hee hee...
Fujimaru: Wh-what?

17

Hibiki: I meant tighten the cables round my wound.
Fujimaru: Ah...

Hibiki: ...But this is fine too.
Fujimaru: It is...?

Hibiki: See.
Hibiki: If you press on the wound like this...
Fujimaru: I-I see...

Hibiki: Fujimaru...could you...
Hibiki: hold me even tighter?

SFX: Hug
Fujimaru: ...Sure.

18

SFX: Heartbeat heartbeat heartbeat heartbeat
Hibiki: ...You're warm.
SFX: Heartbeat
Fujimaru: I am..?

Hibiki: Humans...really are warm...

Fujimaru: Of course they are.
SFX: Hug

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SFX: Heartbeat heartbeat heartbeat
Fujimaru: You're warm too.
Fujimaru: You're not a machine.
Fujimaru: You...
Fujimaru: have blood flowing through your veins.

Hibiki: ...Is that really true?
Hibiki: I'm not sure.
Hibiki: I've never really...thought about it before.

Fujimaru: Hibiki...

Hibiki: ...Fujimaru...

20

Hibiki: Could you show me,
Hibiki: Fujimaru?

SFX: Heartbeat

Fujimaru: ...Yes!

Text: The distance between them has become 0. A brief rest..
Bottom Text: To be continued in Issue 31