Golgo 13 7

Golgo 13, Special Edition Volume 2, Chapter 7 (pp. 92~134)


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=The River Seine...


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Booby Trap

=—Paris, Place de la Concorde—Avenue des Champs-Élysées


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Part 1: Paris Was Dead That Day (1)


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=Bonjour Monsieur!!

=I don't know where you are headed... But there are no cars or trains running today.
=Merci!!

=Au revoir!!

[x2]BANG
WUSH


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BAA—NG

=A policeman!?


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[x2]ZWUCK

TWII—NG
BZZT
DASH

WHUSH


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DA—SH

BZZ//BZZT

TAP TAP TAP...

[x5]CLANK


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Part 2: La Marseillaise


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=20 million in Francs... Plus a little here and there...

TSSS...


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=The name and address are on the back. Do it within three days...

=Let's hear...
=Your reason...

=W-What! You're a hitman! I paid you to do your job and...
=The reason I've survived up until now...

=Is because I've always enforced an equal basis with my employer!!

=I can forget about this if you wish...

=Well—Y-You see...

=Are you saying he's too important?

="Arise, children of the Fatherland, the day of glory has arrived..."

="Let's march, let's march! May a tainted blood drench our furrows..."


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=La Marseillaise, huh...

=You must be a bureaucrat...
=And a very high-ranking one at that!!

=How did you know...
=These anthems that we've known since childhood...

=A strange phenomenon...
=The Americans hear theirs and grow fierce. The Japanese and British grow solemn. And the French grow courageous. However...

=It unsettles the French officials!! They can't help it, when everything they do is going so wrong...

=You understood everything the moment you saw the picture... And you're still ordering me to explain myself...?


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=Andre Tsegy, age 44... He is the secretary of the CGT...
[note]CGT; Confédération générale du travail

=France's three largest labor unions, the CGT, CFDT, and FO are currently planning a strike of unprecedented proportions.
=And their objective isn't to improve working conditions!! They want an upheaval of the system, the resignation of the prime minister!!
[note]CFDT; Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail//FO; Force Ouvrière

=Andre Tsegy is the sole force uniting these three groups!!

=That's the reason...


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Part 3: Paris Was Dead That Day (2)

=Pardon Monsieur...!!


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=Uh...

=It's useless...

=Don't think I've forgotten what you looked like...

=Good eye...

SWUP

GWA—NG//BA—NG
WUSH


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=Hello...
TING...

=It's me... Let's just say this whole thing never happened!!

=What do you mean?
=Do I still need to explain myself!!

=Think of the 20 million as hush money... Goodbye...


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GACHINK...

=It seems the 20 million is the price for taking my life...

=How do you escape from a dead city!?

=Without even knowing how many are out hunting...

=How will you escape!?
=Golgo 13!!


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Part 4: The Scattered Mourning Bands

=The National Security Agency discovered the CRS's plans to assassinate the secretary of the CGT and forcefully terminate the strike. The agency gave immediate orders to cease these operations...
=And in order to cover up this "national disgrace," they decided to silence anyone who had known about the top secret operation.
[note]CRS; Compagnie républicaine de sécurité

=The CRS has shut down, and the monumental strike has begun...
=Paris is dead!!


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[x3]CLACK

CLACK//CLICK CLICK

CLICK CLACK//CLACK CLACK!

=I must find a place to hide until the city recovers...

=I won't live long if this continues!!
=Someplace where I can sit tight and wait it out...


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[x3]CLICK

[x3]CLACK

DASH

TAP TAP TAP—


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[x5]CLANG

DAASH

DASH

TAP
=AAA—CK!!

VROOOM

=Wh-What are you doing!!


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DAAASH

BAROO—M

VROO—M

Part 5: Safe Zone

CRIII—CK

I have no intention of harming you... As long as you don't try anything funny...


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CHUK

=Charlotte Linet, age 24... Unmarried

=EAMAC industries electronic calculator programming division... Address is...

=32 Orleans Riverbank...

=Wh-Where should I drive!?
=32 Orleans Riverbank!!

Orleans riverbank...


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CHUK

=What are you hiding for...?

GACHUK...
WUSH


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=I-I was just going to make some tea...

=Remove your clothes, Mademoiselle!!

=Huh!?

=Your clothes...

=W-Wait!!

=I won't try to run, I promise!!
=Just not my clothes, okay!?

=Take them off...


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=Have a seat...

=Can I make some tea?
=I can make some here, I don't need to go downstairs...

*rattle rattle*

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=Here...

=I need to take my medication... Okay?

RUCK RUCK...


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SWUSH

BAA—NG

=H-How...?

=There's only one thing an ordinary woman would imagine... If a man tells her to remove her clothing...

=T-That's true... I-I was trying to make sure I wouldn't...
=L-Let you get away... If I'd just thought like a woman... I'd...


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=B-But... You'll never able to escape... F-From the booby traps...
=...N-Never...

=Booby traps!?

HUCK...

=Booby traps just to get rid of one target, huh... Not a pleasant idea in the slightest...

=During World War II, the Nazis distributed miniature explosives in the guise of pens and wristwatches throughout Europe using their spy network. This was known as operation Booby Trap (Traps for Fools).

=What a safe zone this turned out to be!

[x2]BEEP—


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[x2]BEEP—

BEEP—

[x2]BEEP—

CHUK
=Linet, do you copy!!

=Did you finish?
=Not yet... It seems.

=I think it's about time we introduced ourselves.

=You live up to your rumors... Golgo 13!!

=I never imagined our three booby traps would be disposed of so easily...

=It wasn't too easy...
=By the way, your German accent,

=And the policeman, the second man, and Linet, all German faces, but...
=We are known as the Rosenkreuzer.

=Huh!!

=Hmm... So you've heard of us.
=We disbanded in 1952, but we've returned as Western Europe's sole group of special assassins!!

=Well then, I wish you luck!! Auf Wiedersehen (Farewell)!!

CHUK


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Part 6: Traps for Fools

TAP

DAA—SH

BABABA—NG
BAGOO—M

BZZT/BAP/TWII—NG

SWIP

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GAWU—NG
GABAA—NG

DAA—SH

BA—NG
BABA—NG


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DASH

TAP

RATATAT...

SWIP

TSS...


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BAA—NG

BIP

=Four more...

=Be patient... Even if you get out alive, the situation in Paris won't allow you to escape...

=Tomorrow...
=Until Paris comes back to life!!


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=Be patient...

=That's the only entrance... He'll have to come out of there some time...

=Do you want to try throwing in a pineapple (grenade)?

=No...

=There's a good chance of him escaping if the explosion doesn't kill him!!

=Just be patient and wait!! He must also be waiting for us to make our move!!


<127>
Part 7: Tomorrow Comes to Life


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=He'll make his move soon...

=Huh!

BA—NG//BANG//BANG

CHUK

SWIP


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=He's coming out!!
=Watch out!!

DAASH

=Whoa!!


<130>
BABABA—NG

BAGOO—M//RATATATATA....//BA—NG//ZWII—NG
GWA—NG


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BAM

VRRR—

SCREE—CH


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Paris is Alive, and...

=U-Unbelievable!!
=Absolutely un...

DROP...

SPLASH


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VROOO—M


<134>
=There is no further record of the Rosenkreuzer's activities in Europe beyond June 11, 1968...

=And France's labor unions prepares its second wave of strikes. To turn Paris into a dead city, once again.

Published May, 1969