Bloody Monday 55

Chapter 55

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Title: File 55 The Antivirus's Effect

SFX: Vvvv
SFX: Vv
SFX: Vvvv

Otoya: Hello.
Otoya: Fujimaru?

Fujimaru: Otoya!?
Fujimaru: You haven't called and I haven't been able to get a hold of you...

Fujimaru: Where are you? How's my dad...

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Otoya: I'm in a car heading to Mishiro Academy.
Otoya: I'm with Ryuunosuke-san and Asada.

Fujimaru: To school?
Fujimaru: What's going on?

Otoya: I'll tell you later.
Otoya: Right now I have a favor I want to ask you.
Fujimaru: A favor?
Otoya: Send the people from "Third-i" we can trust to the school.

Fujimaru: "People we can trust", huh...?
Fujimaru: That's a surprisingly difficult request.

Otoya: Indeed.

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Fujimaru: I don't think I'll be able to get very many people.
Otoya: I know.

Fujimaru: You said you were in a car? Is it a taxi? Or...
Otoya: Hide came to get us in a car.

Otoya: One of the employees from the water services company that Hide's family runs,
Otoya: a man named Marlo, is driving.
Fujimaru: Hmm...

Otoya: No.
Otoya: The club activities will be fine.
Otoya: We lost the game 1 to 3, though.

Fujimaru: Eh? What are you talking about?

Otoya: I'm taking tomorrow off...
Otoya: I won't be going to the game.

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Otoya: Okay.
Otoya: I'm counting on you.

Text left of Aoi: Game...?
Marlo: Is your...
Marlo: friend okay?

Otoya: Yes.
Otoya: I thought I'd have him send some people to help.

Marlo: That's good.

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First panel of text: bukatsu no hou ha daijoubu
[TN: This is Otoya's line of "The club activities will be fine."]

Second panel of text (capitalized letters are the highlighted ones): BUkatsu no HOu ha daIjouBU

Fujimaru: Buhoibu? That's not it.
Fujimaru: Then...
Minami: What are you doing?

Fujimaru: Otoya and I played around...
Fujimaru: with codes a lot when we were little.
Text: ashita ha yasumi da shiai ha ikanai
[TN: This is Otoya's line of "I'm taking tomorrow off. I won't be going to the game."]
Fujimaru: It helped out back when he was kidnapped, too.

Fujimaru: "1 to 3" indicates that for every character of the code...
Fujimaru: there's three unrelated characters.
Fujimaru: In other words...

Text (capitals=highlighted): Ashita ha YA

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Text (capitals=highlighted): Ashita ha YAsumi da SHIai ha Ikanai
[TN: "ayashii" means suspicious.]

Minami: Suspicious?
Minami: What is?
Fujimaru: Most likely...

Fujimaru: The man named Marlo that is taking them to the school.

Fujimaru: Hello, this is Fujimaru.
Kirishima: This is Kirishima.
Kirishima: What is it?

Fujimaru: I want you to check on a man who works for Tachikawa Water Services named Marlo.
Kirishima: A legal foreign worker?

Kirishima: Then he should have immigrated legally.
Kirishima: To do this quickly, we would need more personal information...
Kirishima: like his work history or resume or something...

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Fujimaru: I'm...
Fujimaru: in the process of getting it from a computer at Tachikawa Water Services.

Fujimaru: ...Okay, I got it!
Fujimaru: I'll send it to you.
Kirishima: O-okay...
Kirishima: We'll look into it right away.

Kirishima: Kudou!
Kirishima: I need you to...

Kirishima: Oh...

Sawakita: ...I'll do it.

Kirishima: Please do.
Sawakita: I should have it in 10 minutes.
Kirishima: Do it in 5.

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Text left of Sawakita: Ahh....
Kirishima: And, Fujimaru-kun...

Kirishima: The pharmaceutical company in Hokkaido that was in charge of creating the antivirus...
Kirishima: was blown up by someone.
Fujimaru: Ehh!?

Kirishima: Looking at the timing, it seems that the terrorists already had a group in Hokkaido.
Kirishima: That cult was supposed to have been destroyed...
Kirishima: but the underground organization left behind must have been bigger than we thought and they've been gathering strength.

Fujimaru: So their goal...
Fujimaru: is the same as 2 years ago...?

Kirishima: Rescuing the founder of the cult...?
Fujimaru: I'm pretty sure I heard that he was in a special prison from Houshou.

Kirishima: We had the same thought.
Kirishima: The police and the JSDF have used various sensors to thoroughly investigate the facility.
Kirishima: But they haven't found anyone or anything with any possible link to the virus terrorism.

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Fujimaru: Is that so...?
Kirishima: Of course, we're not letting down our guard.
Kirishima: We've doubled the guards and are being quite vigilant.

Fujimaru: ...Um, Kirishima-san.
Fujimaru: What's the name of...
Fujimaru: the cult founder?

Kirishima: Kamishima Simon, 52 years old.
Kirishima: Apparently he's a quarter Japanese and three quarters Russian.
Kirishima: He has an odd charisma and strange way with words that has gotten him quite a number of believers.

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Fujimaru: Kamishima...Simon...

Kirishima: At any rate, this leaves us with only a couple of ampoules of antivirus left...
Kirishima: and it'll take at least a week to produce any more.
Kirishima: And the chip was taken.
Kirishima: They certainly have done it...

Fujimaru: The data on the antivirus was deleted and information was clearly leaked.
Fujimaru: Is there really still a spy in "Third-i"...?

Otoya: Send the people from "Third-i"...
Otoya: we can trust to the school.

Kirishima: Is there anything else?
Fujimaru: No.
Fujimaru: Not at the moment.

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Fujimaru: ...Okay.
Fujimaru: Email me what you find out about this Marlo.

SFX: Beeep
SFX: Beeep

SFX: Beeep
SFX: Beeep
Kirishima: Yes.
Kirishima: This is Kirishima from the control room.

Yajima: ...It's me,
Yajima: Yajima.
Kirishima: Yajima-san!
Kirishima: How are you? Did the antivirus work...?

Yajima: It's been about two and a half hours since I was infected...
Yajima: and there are no signs of any symptoms.
Yajima: The blood test shows that the virus has disappeared from my body.

People: Thank god!
People: That means the drug worked.

Kirishima: Yajima-san?

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Yajima: Satsuki is dead.

Yajima: It looks like the antivirus...doesn't work 100% of the time.

Kirishima: That's...
Kirishima: unfortunate...

Yajima: In another 30 minutes...
Yajima: I'll be at the point where we can say I'm completely clean.
Yajima: I want to be reinstated as an analyst at that time.

Kirishima: Yajima-san...
Yajima: I only switched to being an administrative official because I was getting married to Satsuki.

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Yajima: There's...
Yajima: no need for that anymore.

Yajima: Please...let me...
Yajima: fight too...!!

Kirishima: Understood.
Kirishima: After 30 minutes...
Yajima: ...Sorry...

Kirishima: ...Houshou...

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Minami: Weren't you planning to call for reinforcements to go help Vice Chief Takagi?
Fujimaru: Yes.

Fujimaru: But I don't know who in "Third-i" I can trust right now.
Fujimaru: And Kirishima-san can't leave the control room...

Minami: And me?
Fujimaru: I trust you, of course.

Fujimaru: But...
Fujimaru: I want you to stay with Haruka.

Minami: I was told to protect you, Fujimaru-kun.
Fujimaru: But if the enemy targets Haruka again...

Haruka: Onii-chan, you're going to the school, right?
Haruka: I'll go with you, too!
Fujimaru: Huh!?
Fujimaru: Don't be ridiculous. I can't let you do something that dangerous...

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Haruka: Dad's at the school, right?
Haruka: I want to see him.
Fujimaru: Um...
Haruka: Please, onii-chan.

Fujimaru: No!!

Fujimaru: We'll handle this and then I'll bring dad here...
Fujimaru: just wait until then.
Text left of Fujimaru: Okay?

Fujimaru: ...Haruka!!
Haruka: ...Okay...

SFX: Vvv
Fujimaru: It's from Kirishima-san.

Box: Marlo Arabilia, Age 28. Came from Manila.
Box: He came to Japan on a legal visa 3 years ago with his sister Maria and nephew Raul.
Box: After that, he got a job as a plumber at Tachikawa Water Services.

Fujimaru: Nothing seems suspicious...
Fujimaru: But...
Fujimaru: I'm curious about Otoya's hunch.

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Minami: Anyway, let's go.
Minami: There are enough guards here.
Minami: Okay?

Fujimaru: Who are you calling?
SFX: Rinnng
SFX: Rinnng

Minami: People...
Minami: that you can trust.
SFX: Rinng
SFX: Rinng

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SFX: Beep

Kanou: This is Kanou.
Minami: It's Minami.
Minami: How are things over there?

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Kanou: I saw the terrorists enter an old deserted house, but, when I went in, they were gone.
Kanou: Sakaki's team is searching the area.

Minami: We seem to be short on people.
Minami: So could you come help us out?
Kanou: Huh!?

Kusunoki: Commander Sakaki! Over here.

Kusunoki: There's a manhole that was camouflaged by the tiles.
Kusunoki: They must have gone into the sewers from here...

Kusunoki: I'm opening it...!!

Sakaki: Wait, Kusunoki.
Sakaki: The camouflage was too simple.
Sakaki: We need to be careful.

Kusunoki: Eh...?
SFX: *click*

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Kanou: It's a booby trap!!

SFX: Beep beep beep beep beep
SFX: Beeeeep

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Jacob: That was...
Jacob: an explosion.

J: Did we...
J: catch someone in our mousetrap?

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Phone: Boom!
Phone: Kshhhhhhh

Minami: What was that!?
Minami: Kanou-san, what happened?

Minami: Kanou-san!!