13 Club 1

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Nothing

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This story is purely a work of fiction. It has no relations to real people, organizations, or events.

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Box: ---If you could find out a little bit about the future, what would you do?
Box: Make profit off of the stock market? Become famous through the media as a prophet? Or----
Box: Here, I shall introduce to you all such "curious stories".
Who Am I? I am the president here--- A collector of such "curious stories".
Box: Well then, let us begin the first story---

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Story 1: Stigmata
Story 2: Judgment
Story 3: Investigation (Act 1, act 2, act 3, act 4)

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Story 1: Stigmata

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Crowd: Give voting rights to the citizens!!
Crowd: Yeah!
Crowd: We oppose dictatorship!!
Man: Ah!
Box: Some country in South-east Asia, September 13th 3:25PM, in front of the People's Memorial Plaza

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Boy: Hah!
Man: Hah!
Crowd: Waaaaah
Crowd: Gyaaaa
Crowd: Cease fire!!
Guy: Sir, this way!!
Guy: Hurry!!
Man: Geh!
Man: Hah!

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Man: Hah!
Man: Hah!
Man: Hah!
SFX: Crack
Box: Freelance photographer, Mihama Takeshi
Man: ...Shit!

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Mihama: ...I'm late.
Mihama: ...
Mihama: It's...been suppressed for now I see.

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Guy: ...Sorry about that, sir.
Apparently armed troops were sent to suppress the freedom demonstration.
Guy: By the time we got the info, the violence has already started.
Mihama: ...
SFX: Snap!
Girl: Idiot! Don't take photos!!
Mihama: !

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Girl: Go away!
Girl: Don't take my father's photos!
Mihama: ...What's up with her?
Guy: It seems like she's the daughter of the victim. She doesn't like the camera I guess.
Guy: I'll go persuade her.
Mihama: Thanks...
Mihama(thought): ...Cellphone?
Mihama(thought): Why is it here...?
Mihama(thought): Did a demonstrator drop it...?

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Man: What're you doing, Mihama!?
Box: September 13th, 11:11PM, Roincier Hotel in a certain country
Man: What do you I sent you over there for!?
Mihama: ...
Man: Get over there 30...no, 20 minutes earlier from now on!!
And get rid of that useless guide!!
Man: Isn't your job to capture the crucial moments of the scene!?
Mihama: ...Understood.
Man: Alright, I'm really counting on your for next time!
Mihama: ...Sigh.

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...
*Vibrate* (You can use your own SFX, or just leave the original Japanese and leave a note)
*Vibrate*
*Vibrate*
...It's that cellphone...
...What is it?
Could it be the owner...?

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Mihama(thought): Yagratt Eastern Villa Street?
Cellphone:
September 14th
4:43PM
Yagratt
Eastern Villa Street
Mihama(thought): ...Could this be a memo for the next location for a demonstration?
Box: September 14th, 4:31PM, Yagratt Eastern Villa Street

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Mihama(thought): ---Sigh.
Just like I thought, they have increased the number of armed forces.
Mihama(thought): Soldiers...Even armed trucks are patrolling the area right now.
Mihama(thought): At this rate, even if there is a demonstration...
Mihama(thought): ...It will be here today, I guess.
Mihama(thought): I have to return this cellphone to the owner when I make contact with the sender of the message...
Mihama(thought): He should be around here...
Mihama: ...Woah!!

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Mihama: O, oi, that's dangero---
Man: Give us freedom!!

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Crowd: U...
Uwaaaaaah!!
Crowd: It's suicide bombers!!

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Screen: Send
SFX: *Snap*
Mihama: ...Alright...
The editor can't complain now.
Mihama: ...
Mihama: ...Fufu...

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Mihama: Yes...!
I've done it!
Mihama: Ha...
Mihama: Haha!
Mihama: Hahaha...!
Mihama(thought): I'll be a first-rate journalist at this rate!!
Mihama(thought): ...At any rate,
Mihama(thought): It's thanks to that cellphone that I got the scoop...
What was that message all about...
Phone: *Vibrate*
Phone: *Vibrate*
Mihama: ...
Phone: *Vibrate*
Phone: *Vibrate*

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Man: ---And then...
Mihama: Yes...
I went there.
Cellphone:
September 15th
2:11PM
Yungo Pagoda
Ritt Temple
Front Plaza
Mihima: ---What I saw was the priest's suicide.

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Mihama: While making his disciple hold up a placard demanding for democracy,
He poured gasoline on himself and was burned to death---
Mihama: ...Yes, needless to say, I caught everything on camera.
Mihama: My company was very happy that I got such scoops for two days in a row.

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Mihama: ...But I can't celebrate wholeheartedly.
Mihama: What exactly is this cellphone...
Cup: *Crack*
Mihama: Ow!!
Mihama: ...
Man: ...Is it an injury?
Mihama: Ah...I'm sorry.
...Actually---
Mihama: No...before that,

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Mihama: Do you...
Believe such a strange story...?
Man: It is not my place to decide wether a story is believable or not.
Man: I am simply collecting such "curious stories".
Man: I thought I have introduced myself as such earlier...?
Mihama: Ah...oh, that's right...Um...
Mihama: What was your name...?
Kudan: My nickname is "Kudan".

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Kudan: They call me Kudan.
Kudan: In the website I manage, "13club"...
Mihama: ...I got it, Kudan-san.
Mihama: It happened about 10 days ago.
Box: September 22nd, 9:30PM, Beku Vina Street

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Mihama(thought): ...So this is the bar that the national army troops frequent...
What's going to happen here...
Cellphone:
September 22nd
10:02PM
33 Beku Vina Street
Box: The same day, 9:58PM
Mihama(thought): ...It's almost time.
Mihama(thought): What on earth will happen today---
!!

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Girl: Are you waiting for someone?
I can carry your baggage for a dollar every 30 minutes.
Mihama(thought): ...This girl is from that time...?
Mihama: !?
Mihama(thought): ...No, it must be someone else...
Girl: Wah-- This is heavy! What's in it?
Mihama: I don't need it!
This camera is my life! No one besides me can touch it!\
Girl: Ah--!
Mihama: Go home and sleep, little girl!!
Mihama: !

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Guy: ...Hurry!
Alright, let's go!!
Mihama: ...
Girl: Don't say that, I'll take a dollar an hour-
Mihama(thought): ...What is it? They don't look like soldiers...
Cellphone: Same as two pages before
Mihama(thought): No way...!!

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Box: Car bombing---!!!
Mihama: Get down!!!

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Guh!
Uwaah!
Kyaaa!!

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*Snap*
Girl: U, um...
Girl: Thank...
Mihama: Don't get in my way!!
Go home now if you want to live!!
Girl: ...!!
*Snap*
*Snap*

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Box: I noticed that something was wrong after I got back to the hotel...
Mihama: Ouch!!
Mihama: ...Wound...?
Box: ...At first I thought it was from the explosion...
Kudan: ...But you were wrong...?
Mihama: ...

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Mihama: ...My hand started to rot from the wound...
Mihama: ...I showed it to doctors, but they didn't know the cause...
Mihama: I can't even feel my fingertips anymore...!!
Mihama: All this time...I've endured for 20 years, waiting for this big break...!!
But...what the hell is happening...!?
Mihama: Shit!!!

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Mihama: ...You said you have collected curious stories from all over the world...
Mihama: Do you happen to know anything about this wound...?
Kudan: ...It was in Soviet Union, in 1941.
Mihama: !
Kudan: During the war, in a town named Kiev, a girl was praying as she heard a warning.
So she moved her family members away from danger.
Kudan: They lived in a residential area near a waste factory, so the area accidentally became the target for the Germans bombs.
Kudan: Her parents, along with her sister, were all unharmed.
---However, after that, strange wounds began to open up, and her entire body started to rot.
Kudan: It appeared as if she was inflicted with gangrene*, but the cause was unknown. *Gangrene is a disease categorized by decay of body tissues.

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Kudan: ...When I personally met her, she was already an old woman...
She was still alive even though her wounds have not disappared.
Kudan: She told me this:
Kudan: "My fate has changed when I heard the divine message at that time."
Kudan: "But to change fate...was I allowed to choose between people's life or death?"
"Perhaps these wounds are a punishment for those who defy fate..."
Mihama: A...And what...about her?
Kudan: ...
Kudan: "If letting the condemned live would tilt the scale of fate,
Then I thought that maybe I should make the scale level again."
Kudan: "And then using the next message, I corrected the scale."
...Is what she said with a smile.

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Kudan: That is all I know. ...Well then, thank for your interesting story.
Kudan: After you return to Japan, please tell that story on my website---
Kudan: ...
Box: ---4 days later--- October 6th, 1:46PM, Vin Santo 40th Avenue

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Man #1: ...So anyway,
I said this to him:
Man #1: What you have on your head is a red wash basin---Hey, are you listening?
Man #2: ...Hey, don't you think this car is shaking in a strange way?
Man #1: Yeah...it's time to change the tire. The car has been weird lately.
Man #2: It's pretty scary...will it be ok?
Man #1: It'll be fine. Just hang on for 2 to 3 more kilometers.
*Shake*
*Shake*

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Box: The same day, 1:50PM, Vin Santo 42nd Avenue intersection
Guy: Sir, I'm glad that you decided to work with me again.
Guy: I thought you have have hated me for sure.
Mihama: Haha...no way.
Guy: ---But something really going to happen here?
I didn't get any information from my sources.
Cellphone:
October 6th
1:57PM
Vin Santo
42nd Avenue intersection
Mihama: !
Mihama: Y...yeah.
Box: ---That time, I unexpectedly saved a girl.

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Box: But if I wasn't there, the girl would have gotten involved in the incident and died as a result.
Box: I changed a person's fate...The scale has been tipped, and there is one life short on the "death" side.
Mihama: ...Nah, today I want to apologize for the other day, for neglecting you.
Mihama: Let's go drinking for a bit.
Girl: ...!
Box: ---Soon, there will be an accident here.
At that time, he will be able to once again balance out the scale of fate.
Box: It will be fine...He has been taking advantage of the situation for his work up until now.

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Box: Be useful for this one last time...
SFX: *Snap*
Man: Wh...what as that sound!?
Man: The tire is busted!!
The steering wheel's not moving...!!
SFX: *Skiiid*
Mihama(thought): Is it that!?

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Box: ---Alright.
Box: If I push him here---
Mihama: !!!
Girl: Hey again!
Sorry for running away without thanking you last time!
Girl: Thank you very much! *TL's Note: She's saying it in Japanese.

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Mihama(thought): ...!! This is the girl from that time...
Mihama(thought): Why is she here...!!
Guy: Sir, watch out!!

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*Tap*
Girl: ---I'm done.
Girl: I organized the story of the photographer you collected in southeastern Asia last week.
Girl: Should I contact him for permission to upload the story to the website?
Kudan: ...
Kudan: ...No, there is no need.
I daresay that he is unable to reply...
Girl: ...That's true.
Girl: ---But...

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Girl: What was it about?
An unknown cellphone...And then the messages that were "predictions"...
Kudan: ...As for that...
Kudan: If I must take a guess, perhaps those are leaked from the god who governs fate.
Kudan: However...
Kudan: I do not believe humans can become happy, knowing such things...
Girl: ...

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Girl: ...Well then, I'll upload it.
Kudan: Please do.
Webpage:
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