Bloody Monday 24

Chapter 24

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Title: File 24 Cult Founder Rescue
Fujimaru: It was 2 years ago...
Fujimaru: I don't remember where, but I was hacking into the server of some corporation.
Fujimaru: And I found a strange encrypted file.

Fujimaru: It was a way higher level of encryption than a private corporation should have...It was at the military level.
Fujimaru: So I tried to decode it as a challenge.

Fujimaru: What is this...?
Fujimaru: Is this...a joke?

Fujimaru: No...
Fujimaru: You wouldn't joke about this...!!

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Ryuunosuke: Fujimaru...
Ryuunosuke: What are you saying?
Ryuunosuke: Terrorists trying to overthrow the government...?

Ryuunosuke: Well, thinking for a second that it's true...
Ryuunosuke: How does a normal middle schooler like you know about it?
Ryuunosuke: On your computer again?

Ryuunosuke: You shouldn't believe the rumors you see going around the internet.
Fujimaru: No, dad!!

Ryuunosuke: Fujimaru...?

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Fujimaru: "Falcon".

Fujimaru: Dad, you know of him, right?
Fujimaru: The hacker who's gotten into "Third-i"'s system countless times.
Ryuunosuke: How do you know about that...?

Fujimaru: "Falcon"...
Fujimaru: is me...

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Fujimaru: I'm sorry!!
Fujimaru: But...that's how I saw what I was telling you about...

Ryuunosuke: Fujimaru.

Ryuunosuke: Do you...
Ryuunosuke: understand exactly...
Ryuunosuke: what you've done!?

Fujimaru: ...I do...

Fujimaru: But! If this terrorist plan is real...
Fujimaru: something unthinkable could happen!!

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Houshou: So...
Houshou: Cap Takagi gave the information he got from Fujimaru-kun to "Third-i"...
Houshou: and they moved to stop the plan.

Houshou: Thanks to that, the leader of the group planning the attack was restrained and the worst possible situation was stopped.
Houshou: If that plan had actually been carried out...we'd still be feeling the effects.
Houshou: In the government, in the police...and in the JSDF as well.

Houshou: Just about everything in this country would have gone to hell...

Fujimaru: But...
Fujimaru: because the plan was stopped...
Fujimaru: that incident happened...

Man: Sorry for keeping you waiting...

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Man: Kah...
Man: Ah...

Man: What!?
Man: What's this uproar about...?

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Fujimaru: The ringleader behind the terror plan I stopped...
Fujimaru: was the founder of a cult group.

Fujimaru: Fifteen believers of that group broke into the police headquarters with poison gas weapons.

Fujimaru: That terrorist attack had 87 casualties...
Fujimaru: It was all for the sake of rescuing the cult founder.

Fujimaru: It happened in August, two years ago.
Fujimaru: That was the police headquarters poison gas terrorist attack.

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Houshou: The reason they attacked the police headquarters is still publicly said to be unknown...
Houshou: but that was the real reason.

Otoya: They ended up failing in rescuing the cult founder they were there for...
Otoya: and the cult behind the attack was driven to destruction.

Otoya: So the situation was supposed to be over.
Aoi: Kujou-san...You knew about this!?

Otoya: I was...
Otoya: backup.

Otoya: I told you before, right? I learned a lot about how to use computers from him.
Aoi: ...Hmm.
Fujimaru: ...What?
Aoi: ...Nothing.
Houshou: Let's get back on topic.

Houshou: Is there a link between the resolved terrorist attack from two years ago...
Houshou: and the current Russian bioterrorism?

Fujimaru: Yes.
Fujimaru: It's this.

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Munakata: It's the data from a genetic analysis of the genocide virus.
Munakata: Alpha and...Beta Viruses?
Fujimaru: Alpha is the information on the Russian virus that Chief Okita risked his life to give to my dad.

Fujimaru: And Beta is...
Fujimaru: an extra that Shikimura-san added in.
Munakata: An extra?

Fujimaru: It's data that Shikimura-san attached to the Okita File.
Munakata: It looks like data of an analysis of the same virus to me...

Otoya: The date...?

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Otoya: The date's different...!?
Fujimaru: Yes...The time of analysis was different.

Fujimaru: The first was recent...Looking at the language used, it was analyzed in Russia.

Fujimaru: And...
Fujimaru: the other one...
Fujimaru: in Japan.

Otoya: The date is...
Otoya: August...
Otoya: of two years ago...!!

Houshou: That's right after the poison gas terrorist attack!
Aoi: So, that virus was used then, too?

Houshou: That couldn't be.
Houshou: At that time... no one said anything about symptoms like that of the Russian virus...
Houshou: And if something like that was used...
Houshou: the damage would have been much, much worse.

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Fujimaru: It was probably supposed to be used in the terror attack...
Fujimaru: But before that, their plan went bust and "Third-i" seized it.

Fujimaru: When I hacked the terrorist plan...
Fujimaru: there was a "word" I didn't know the meaning of.
Fujimaru: From the context and how often it was used, I thought it must be central to the plan...
Fujimaru: But at the same time, I couldn't figure out what it was...perhaps...

Otoya: It was a code name for the virus that caused the "Christmas Massacre"...?
Fujimaru: Probably...

Houshou: I see.
Houshou: In the document, I'm pretty sure it said that when they did a search...
Houshou: they seized a lot of dangerous things on top of the poison gas.

Aoi: ...So...this incident is being done by that cult, too...?
Fujimaru: There's a good chance there's some connection to it.
Fujimaru: If so, I get why my dad and I were wrapped up in it.

Fujimaru: To them, we would be who they hate the most.

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Munakata: But...why did Shikimura-kun have...
Munakata: the data of the Beta Virus from 2 years ago?
Houshou: He must have been asked to develop an antiviral in case another terrorist attack occurred using the same virus.

Houshou: Most likely...
Houshou: Professor Shikimura was recommended by Cap.

Aoi: Then... the other file tells how to make the antiviral!?
Munakata: No...This data is nothing that direct.
Munakata: Data that important would never be taken off the premises.

Fujimaru: The encrypted file Shikimura-san left with Munakata-san probably...
Fujimaru: contains some kind of hint related to the antiviral.
Otoya: So the Shikimura File is a "Treasure Map" to the antiviral...huh?

Houshou: Fujimaru-kun, how's the decryption going?
Fujimaru: It...can't be done by any normal means...
Fujimaru: Oh, the operation's done...

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Fujimaru: Damn. Another error...
Fujimaru: Okay...I'll do it with a different algorithm...

Houshou: Hurry, Fujimaru-kun.
Houshou: They're hurrying to get it decrypted at "Third-i"..but I'm sure you're faster.
Fujimaru: I know...

Fujimaru: But, man, Shikimura-san.
Fujimaru: This is one hell of an encryption...

SFX: Vvvv
SFX: Vvvv

Houshou: Yes, Houshou here.
Houshou: What is it, Kirishima-kun.
Kirishima: We have an urgent favor to ask.
Kirishima: Is Fujimaru-kun there?
Houshou: Yes, he is.

Houshou: ...Eh...?

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Houshou: Understood.
SFX: Beep

Houshou: Fujimaru-kun, let me interrupt you for a second.
Houshou: The thing is...
Fujimaru: Eh!?

Aoi: ...What? What is it?
Fujimaru: Sorry...It's urgent.
Fujimaru: Aoi, can you look after my dad? Otoya and I are going out for a bit.

Fujimaru: If something happens, contact us right away.
Aoi: ...Yeah.
Aoi: Will do.

Houshou: Then, we're going.
Otoya: Houshou-san.

Otoya: The ringleader of the terrorist plan from two years ago...
Otoya: Right now...
Otoya: Where is he?

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Houshou: It was decided that he was to be executed, but I never heard of it happening.
Houshou: Most likely...

Houshou: He's in a prison for criminals whose crimes make them a matter of national safety.
Sign: Kanto Special Prison

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Hide's dad: Hoo, done.
Hide's dad: Marlo! How're things over there?

Marlo: Good, Onii-san.
Marlo: I'm done.

Guard: Oh, you're done.
Guard: What a pain.
Hide's dad: But it seems like the bathroom drains were purposefully clogged up again.
Hide's dad: How many times is this now? What purpose is there behind it?

Guard: Who knows... Everyone imprisoned here are people who will never leave these walls alive.
Guard: There may be a meaning to it, there may not.

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Guard: At any rate, you have to quickly take care of all your misgivings.
Guard: Especially...
Guard: when it's related to that man...

Guy: ...Hey.
Guy: That's him, right? The guy behind the water pipes.
Other guy: Yeah...

Guy: He's from...that, right?
Guy: The group from that incident 2 years ago...

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Guard: Get in, # 52.

Guard: Don't do anything else weird!!

Fujimaru: You wanted...
Fujimaru: to talk with me?

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Fujimaru: Orihara-sensei...