Bloody Monday Season 2 - Pandora's Box 39

Chapter 39

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Text: Look for the green cover! Volume 4 is on sale now!!

Fujimaru: Hey, wait up!
Text: This is the line between life and death!!
Title: File 39 The Hunting Begins

Bottom: Ryuumon Ryou x Megumi Kouji

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Fujimaru: Kanou-san.
Fujimaru: Is everyone from "The Shooter of the Magic Bullet" except for the 3 that got away in the helicopter in this building?
Kanou: We don't really know.
Kanou: We don't know where they could be hiding, so we requested that some search dogs be dispatched.

Kanou: The dogs track people by the smell of smoke from their guns, so we'll find them even if they hide.

Fujimaru: What if they're in water? You need to search the water pipe I got in through.
Kanou: Okay, we will.

SFX: Click
SFX: Clunk

Fujimaru: According to the footage from the security cameras, a pilot, Hino, and two others got on that helicopter.
Fujimaru: It took off at...

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Fujimaru: 21:19
Fujimaru: "Peter Pan" last accessed the system at...
SFX: Type type

Fujimaru: 21:18!
Fujimaru: The rooftop heliport is pretty far from here. He couldn't have gotten away that way.
Fujimaru: And if he wasn't on the helicopter...

Fujimaru: Then...
SFX: Glance

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Fujimaru: Was Peter Pan one of them? If so...
Text: Uuh...
Minami: What is it, Fujimaru?

Fujimaru: Minami-san, was there a mobile PC here in the control room?
Fujimaru: There are some things I want to check on.
SFX: Stand
Minami: Hm? No.
Minami: I checked most of the things in here and I didn't see one.

Fujimaru: ...Eh?
Fujimaru: I see...

Fujimaru: I find it hard to believe he would come to a battlefield without his weapon of choice, a PC.
Fujimaru: Does that mean he isn't in there? Is he still in the facility somewhere?

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SFX: Heartbeat
Fujimaru: ...Huh?

Fujimaru: The bomb they used to kill themselves...
Fujimaru: was pretty powerful, wasn't it?
Minami: Huh? Oh, yeah. It blew all 4 of them to pieces.
Fujimaru: What kind of bomb was it?

Minami: A Russian F1 grenade.
Minami: It was created in the time of the former Soviet Union and it's been continually improved since. It's still in use today.

Minami: Its effective range is 20 to 30 meters.

Fujimaru: ...Eh?
Fujimaru: 20 to 30 meters?

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Fujimaru: But then...
Fujimaru: those hostages who were restrained only 10 meters away...
Fujimaru: shouldn't have been so unharmed.

Fujimaru: Kanou-san!!
Kanou: Woah!?
Kanou: What is it?
SFX: Grab

Fujimaru: Those workers were fakes!
Kanou: Eh?

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Fujimaru: These bodies are the hostages.
Fujimaru: They're the actual workers!!

Fujimaru: The workers we let out...
Fujimaru: were the terrorists in disguise!

Kanou: What!?

Fujimaru: Have them restrained now!
Fujimaru: You have to hurry!

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Man: That's the emergency medical transport.
Man: Go inside and get yourselves checked out...Hm?
SFX: Beep
SFX: Beep beep beep

Hansel: Tch

Hansel: That ring means it's an emergency signal.
Peter: That's faster than I thought.

Hansel: Let's do this.
Peter: Ok.
SFX: Rustle

SFX: Rustle rustle rustle

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Man: Eh?
Radio: They're terrorists.
Radio: Restrain them no-

SFX: Slice
SFX: Splatter

SFX: Drag

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SFX: Unhook

Peter: Okay...

Peter: I can see where they're guarding the perimeter using an American surveillance satellite.
Peter: We'll get through this way.

Hansel: Roger that.

SFX: Push aside

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SFX: Grab

SFX: Dash
Man: Hey, wai-
Man: Waah!

SFX: Press press press

Kanou: ...They got us.
Kanou: The "Third-i" member in charge of them was found dead!!

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Minami: Damn.
Minami: How could this happen!?
Kanou: And...
Kanou: Fujimaru!

Kanou: That agent left the emergency transport...
Kanou: and ran off.

Fujimaru: Eh...!?

SFX: Vvvvv
SFX: Vvvvv

SFX; Grab
Fujimaru: That's my 2nd phone I gave to Hibiki!
Fujimaru: Hello, Hibiki!?

Hibiki: Fujimaru?
Hibiki: I'm tracking two suspicious workers that killed a "Third-i" member.
SFX: Running
Fujimaru: What?

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Hibiki: One has a gun and the other has a laptop.
Hibiki: They're dressed like workers from the power plant, but they're most likely...

Fujimaru: Yeah!
Fujimaru: They're escaped terrorists!!
SFX: Glad

Fujimaru: Okay!
Fujimaru: I can use the cell phone's low-power transmission to do a search and find its location. Then we can cut them off.
Fujimaru: Hibiki! You leave the phone there and come back.
Fujimaru: Don't chase after them any further!!

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Hibiki: No.
Fujimaru: Eh?

Hibiki: Hino Alexei is still on the run, right?
Hibiki: If we let them get away too, they'll amass power again and do something else.
SFX: Step
Fujimaru: But you don't have to worry about this anymore.
Fujimaru: Just leave this to "Third-i"...

Hibiki: I do have to worry about it.

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Hibiki: This is your country, Fujimaru.

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Hibiki: And I'll be Japanese soon.
Hibiki: Then it will be my country, too.

Fujimaru: Hibiki...

Hibiki: My wound has been treated and I have a gun.
SFX: Step
Hibiki: Don't worry. I won't go down easily.
Hibiki: Trust me, Fujimaru.

Fujimaru: ...Okay, I'll trust you.
Fujimaru: Come back safe, okay?

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Fujimaru: Keep that phone out!
Fujimaru: It's set up so you can send an emergency message via email with a single button if something happens.

Fujimaru: Got it?
Hibiki: Got it.
Hibiki: See ya.
SFX: Running

SFX: Glare

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Peter: He's hiding well...
Peter: but we're being followed.
Peter: I'm detecting the low-power transmission from his cell phone.

Hansel: Then...
Hansel: should I kill him?

SFX: Grab...

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Peter: No.
Peter: We'll kill him later.
Hansel: What?
Hansel: Why?

Peter: So we can use him.

Peter: I hacked into the system at the cell tower for this area...
Peter: and set it to rewrite location data before it sends it out.

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Peter: Even if our "pursuer" contacts him...

Peter: the location data will trick him into going in the opposite direction.
Text: As soon as she learns of love, a tragic trap awaits her!!
Bottom: To be continued in Issue 40