Bloody Monday 45

Chapter 45

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Ryuunosuke: ...O...

Ryuunosuke: Otoya-kun...!!
Title: File 45 A Gained Clue, A Lost Hope

Otoya: Ryuunosuke-san, this way!

Ryuunosuke: What are you doing!? You shouldn't have come here...
Otoya: This isn't the time to be discussing this, is it?

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Otoya: Fujimaru's waiting.
Otoya: Leave this to me.
Ryuunosuke: B-but the hospital's surrounded by the police...

Otoya: Don't worry.
Otoya: It's been taken care of.

Radio: The fleeing suspect has been spotted.

Radio: We've received word that he's headed to the residential area through the woods to the west.
Radio: Everyone is to head there immediately!
Cop: This is Group 2.
Cop: We're headed there at once.

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Otoya: C'mon.
Otoya: Let's go.
Ryuunosuke: What was that?
Ryuunosuke: What did you do, Otoya-kun?

Otoya: It was Asada.

Otoya: I asked her to go to the opposite side of the hospital and cause a disturbance.
Ryuunosuke: Wha...?

Aoi: ...Hoo...

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Aoi: Hello, Kujou-san?
Aoi: How are things over there?
Otoya: You saved us, Asada.

Otoya: Thanks to you diverting their attention, we've managed to get off the hospital grounds.

Otoya: Let's meet up somewhere.
Aoi: Okay.

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People: What's going on?
People: A helicopter's landing.
People Has something happened?

Sign: Munakata

Munakata: Yes...?

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Fujimaru: Thanks for earlier...
Fujimaru: Munakata-san.

Munakata: A hint to decrypt the email from Shikumura-kun...?
Fujimaru: Yes.
Fujimaru: You don't have any ideas?

Munakata: No, nothing.
Munakata: I received the email with the attachment and that's it.

Fujimaru: That can't be.
Munakata: Why do you say that?

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Fujimaru: Because it has a military level encryption on it.
Fujimaru: You only use that kind of encryption if the one you're leaving it with has a way to decrypt it.
Fujimaru: Otherwise, there's no point in encrypting it.
Fujimaru: Especially with military-use encryptions, there's usually "something" that's given beforehand used as a decryption key.

Fujimaru: Did you get any other emails from Professor Shikimura?
Munakata: No.
Munakata: That was the first email I'd gotten from him in years.

Fujimaru: It might have been an email disguised by the sender.
Fujimaru: There are some trick emails that don't show what they really are until time has passed and you've restarted your computer a certain number of times.
Munakata: If it's one of those, I wouldn't find out.
Munakata: Whenever I get suspicious spam emails I immediately get rid of them...

Fujimaru: Can I take a look at what's on the computer where you received the "Shikimura File"?
Munakata: Eh?
Munakata: But that's in the lab...

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Fujimaru: Okay...the wireless LAN reaches here.
Fujimaru: With an internet connection, I can look at it from here.
Fujimaru: Do you mind?

Munakata: You're going to hack in?
Munakata: That could be a problem...
Munakata: It's my private computer...
Text left of Munakata: Even though it's to be used for work.

Fujimaru: A lot of people's lives are counting on this!
Fujimaru: Please!
Minami: I'm asking you, too.

Munakata: So even if I say no, you're going to do it anyways.
Munakata: I understand.

Fujimaru: Thank you.
Munakata: But if the computer was destroyed or the power was cut off from what happened today...

Fujimaru: ...It's okay.
Fujimaru: I just woke it from sleep mode.
Munakata: Eh? Really?

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Munakata: You've already hacked in?
Fujimaru: I've already hacked into that facility's server once.

Fujimaru: Okay, I've synchronized with the desktop.
Fujimaru: I'm searching the emails.

Fujimaru: Even the deleted ones.
Fujimaru: All of them...

Minami: He might actually be able to do this...
Minami: Since it's him...

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Minami: Morimi, you're getting married?
Morimi: Yeah.
Morimi: He's a bit older than me, though...

Minami: You have to do this...
Minami: Genius Boy...!!

Fujimaru: ...No good...

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Fujimaru: It's not here.
Fujimaru: There are a bunch of spam emails with a disguised sender...
Fujimaru: but there are no files that could be the decryption key.

Minami: Damn it.
Minami: Are you just...going to let them die...!!

Fujimaru: ...No.
Fujimaru: I'm not ready to do that yet, Minami-san.
Minami: What!?

Fujimaru: As I've already said, you usually leave it with the one you send the encrypted file to.
Fujimaru: In this case, that would be Munakata-san.

Minami: But you looked, and couldn't find it, right?
Minami: Are you saying you're supposed to somehow decrypt it without the decryption key...?
Fujimaru: That's impossible.

Fujimaru: With a file that I can't decrypt after hours and hours of work, there's no way a amateur who can't hack would be able to do it.
Fujimaru: If she spent her whole life, she couldn't do it.
Munakata: That may be true, but...
Text left of Munakata: This boy needs some manners...

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Fujimaru: See?
Fujimaru: It doesn't make sense to leave something with Munakata-san that she can't decrypt.
Text left of Minami: Just get to the point.
Minami: What are you trying to say!?

Fujimaru: Did you ever make mazes as a kid?
Fujimaru: My friend and I were really into that for a while...
Fujimaru: But do you know the trick to making hard mazes?

Text right of Minami: I said get to the point...

Fujimaru: You make a lot of dummy pathways that make it almost all the way to the goal.
Fujimaru: If you do that, anyone who goes down one has to redo it from the beginning and it takes them forever to reach the goal.
Text right of Otoya: Five more minutes.
Text left of Otoya: Today's prize is this deluxe strawberry cake from a certain shop.

Minami: What are you talking about?
Minami: This isn't the time to talk about that...
Fujimaru: But...

Fujimaru: Once, I accidentally made a maze where the goal couldn't be reached.
Fujimaru: I had my friend attempt it...and he really hates losing so he kept trying for an entire night.
Text right of Otoya: I'm gonna really make you cry.
Text above Fujimaru: Just try it.
Text left of Haruka: Wahhhh
Fujimaru: And we got into a big fight when he realized that the maze was unsolvable...
Text left of last speech bubble: It made Haruka cry.

Minami: You couldn't mean...

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Fujimaru: This "Shikimura File"...
Fujimaru: might be a fake.

Munakata: Eh!?

Minami: That's impossible!!

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Minami: The "Third-i" investigation...
Minami: showed that Professor Shikimura definitely sent an encrypted file somewhere!

Fujimaru: But you couldn't tell where he sent it, could you?
Fujimaru: If you did, "Third-i" would've gone straight to Munakata-san's place to get it.

Fujimaru: The "Shikimura File" definitely exists.
Fujimaru: And if it shows the location of the antivirus...
Fujimaru: it could cause a fatal blow for the terrorists.

Fujimaru: And they would know of it's existence from Houshou-san's information, so they would do something to keep us from getting it.
Minami: You mean give us a fake one...!?

Munakata: B-but...
Munakata: Then why did that foreign man show up and try to take this file from me!?

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Fujimaru: That was the first trap.
Fujimaru: When children are fighting over toys, the one the other wants starts looking really good.

Fujimaru: Because that happened...
Fujimaru: I didn't think of it being a fake until just now.
Fujimaru: When I think about it calmly, there are a lot of unnatural aspects to this.
Fujimaru: Like the unnecessarily tough encryption and the convenient timing of that foreigner showing up...

Fujimaru: Damn it...!!

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Mikhail: It looks like he's realized that...
Mikhail: the "Shikimura File" was a dummy.

Mikhail: Everything's gone perfectly so far. Just as "J" predicted...

J: Aah!
J: I should have just told him back then.

Mikhail: ...Eh?

J: Does this look perfect to you,
J: Mikhail-kun?
J: With this...

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J: I thought it would be convenient to use it, so I kept quiet about it.
J: But I can't let anything...
J: stray from my plan.

J: I wanted us to tell him that...
J: that "Shikimura File" was a fake.
J: And yet, hmm...

J: Well...
J: I have to rethink this...
J: and go along with his "just hacker" charade.
J: I guess.

J: ...Mikhail-kun.
J: Can you get me a connection to "her" on my headset?
Mikhail: Okay!
Mikhail: Just a second...
Mikhail: Jakob, hit that switch...
Text right of Jakob: Which one?

Cain: "J".
J: Hm?

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Cain: Takagi Ryuunosuke and Kujou Otoya...
Cain: have met up.

J: Is that so?

J: ...Hey?

J: Those names don't really fit you two, do they?
J: "Cain" and "Abel", that is.
J: You seem to get along quite well.

Cain: We got these names from "K".
Cain: That's all.

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Cain: We just...
Cain: have no intention of letting...
Cain: the meaning behind those names control us.

J: ...Geez.
J: If this was your aim...
J: then that was quite ironic of you.
J: "K".

J: Those names...
J: "Cain" and "Abel", really do fit US...
J: much better...

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Mikhail: "J".
Mikhail: You're all hooked up.
Text right of Jakob: I did my best.

J: Thanks.
J: Hey, can you hear me?

J: If you can, click your back teeth twice.

J: Munakata-san.