Bloody Monday 56

Chapter 56

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SFX: Beep beep beep beep

Kanou: It's a booby trap!!

Title: File 56 Time for Farewell

Minami: Kanou-san, what happened?
Minami: Kanou-san!!

Minami: Please respond!!

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Kanou: Shut up, Minami.
Kanou: Quit shouting like that.

Fujimaru: Put him on speaker phone!

Kanou: Damn it, they got us.

Kanou: It was a trap.
Kanou: It looks like the terrorists escaped into the sewers from that old house.
Kanou: And when a member of Sakaki's team opened the manhole, "boom".

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Minami: Captain Sakaki!!?
Minami: Is everyone okay?

Kanou: Sakaki's fine.
Kanou: So are the others. I realized it right before the explosion and we took cover.
Kanou: There were only 2 people injured.

Kanou: And thanks to me, there were no major injuries!

Fujimaru: Kanou-san, this is Fujimaru!
Kanou: Oh.

Kanou: How's Minami doing?
Kanou: That lack of sex appeal must make things pretty boring.

Kanou: She looks like a man.
Fujimaru: Ha ha...

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Fujimaru: So you've been chasing after J and the others ever since the incident at that cafe?
Kanou: Yeah.

Kanou: But in the end...
Kanou: they got away so I can't avenge Houshou.

Fujimaru: Did "J" run because he realized you were there?
Kanou: ...I'm not sure about that.
Kanou: In the instant I saw the booby trap, I saw that its fuse had a delay timer.

Fujimaru: A delay timer?
Kanou: Yeah.
Kanou: It was set so that when that idiot set off the trap, its lights started blinking in warning and gave us 3 to 5 seconds to run away.

Kanou: Thanks to that, no one died.
Kanou: If they knew we were tailing them, there wouldn't have been a delay and it would've blown up the second we opened the manhole.

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Fujimaru: I see.
Fujimaru: Then the terrorist's base can't be too far from there.

Kanou: What?

Minami: What do you mean?
Fujimaru: If they were just going into the sewers to get away from Kanou-san...
Fujimaru: they might just come out of a nearby manhole and head to their base from there.

Fujimaru: But, if they didn't know they were being followed, why would they go into the sewers?

Minami: To enter their base without anyone seeing them...
Minami: Which means their base isn't far from where Kanou-san is.

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Kanou: Nice work, Fujimaru-kun.
Kanou: We'll use the police and satellite images to find anywhere likely to be their base within a 2 kilometer...no 1 kilometer radius of here!
Fujimaru: You can use the map of the sewers, too!!

Kanou: Got it.
Text left of Kanou: He's doing this like the vice chief does.
Kanou: ...by the way, Minami.

Kanou: Didn't you have something for me to do?
Minami: Ah.
Minami: That's right.
Text left of Minami: Tah ha...

Minami: I'm going with Fujimaru-kun to meet up with Vice Chief Takagi.
Minami: Kujou Otoya-kun...
Minami: and Asada Aoi and Tachikawa Hide from their newspaper club are there, too.

Kanou: I see.
Kanou: So...why do you need me?
Fujimaru: Otoya said that Hide's family's employee who's driving them...
Fujimaru: is suspicious.

Kanou: ...That kid, huh?

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Fujimaru: I had Kirishima-san investigate that Marlo person, but it didn't turn anything up.
Fujimaru: But Otoya...
Fujimaru: has had experience with matters of life and death since he was a little kid.

Fujimaru: I can't ignore his intuition.
Fujimaru: So...

Kanou: So you think you might need my help?

Fujimaru: Will you come, Kanou-san?
Kanou: Where to?

Fujimaru: The school I attend...
Fujimaru: Mishiro Academy.
Kanou: Got it.
Kanou: I'll head there once I figure out where I am now.

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Minami: I'm gonna have to give a written explanation as to why I decided to do this without telling anyone, but oh well.

Minami: Let's go!!

Fujimaru: Okay.

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Sign: Newspaper Club

Mako: It's Anzai.
Mako: I'm back.

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Aoi: Mako-chan, did you find...
Aoi: the medicines Ryuunosuke-sensei asked for?
Mako: Yup...
Mako: Painkiller and antibiotics!!
Text in the left of Mako's bubble: Exactly as ordered.

Ryuunosuke: Thanks.

Ryuunosuke: Okay, now...
Ryuunosuke: if I just wrap up the area with the stitches so it won't move, I should be able to move around properly.

Aoi: I should have said this earlier, but I'm really glad you're okay, sensei.
Ryuunosuke: That's my line, Aoi-kun.

Ryuunosuke: You...and the other two from the newspaper club aren't part of this.
Ryuunosuke: I truly am sorry for getting you wrapped up in it.
Hide: D-don't worry about it.

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Hide: I'm sorry, too.
Hide: The truth is...for a second I actually doubted you and thought you might have killed someone.

Ryuunosuke: Oh...don't worry about that. That's normal.
Ryuunosuke: Tachikawa-kun and Anzai-san, you two should go home now.

Ryuunosuke: Aoi-kun, you too.
Ryuunosuke: Marlo-kun, thanks for this.
Ryuunosuke: Can you take those three home?
Marlo: Yes.
Marlo: Let's go home, Hide.
Marlo: Everyone's worried about you.

Aoi: I'm staying!!
Aoi: I can't leave you while you're in this condition.
Ryuunosuke: No, you need to go...

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Ryuunosuke: Uh!!
Aoi: See.
Aoi: You two leave.
Mako: Ehh?
Mako: Then, I'll stay, too.

Hide: Just go with me, okay, Mako-chan?
Hide: We'd just be in the way if we stayed.
Mako: That's not true...!!

Otoya: Hide's right,
Otoya: Anzai.
Otoya: You two should go home.

Mako: Uuuuh.
Mako: Fine.

Marlo: Let's go, Hide.
Hide: Okay.

Hide: Well...
Hide: we're going.

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Otoya: Okay.
Otoya: Now I've got a weapon.
Aoi: You took a bow from the archery club?

Otoya: I have a gun too, of course.
Otoya: But I'm more confident with this.
Otoya: You should carry a gun, too, okay, Asada?

Aoi: I-I...
Aoi: can't really shoot.

Aoi: And...

Aoi: I'm more confident doing it this way.

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Otoya: They have guns.
Otoya: And they're terrorists.
Otoya: If you have a weapon, you should use it.
Aoi: But so far...

Otoya: You don't understand yet, do you?
Otoya: You don't understand how fearsome a group that doesn't hesitate to kill their enemies is.

Aoi: Fine.
Aoi: If they make any suspicious movements, I won't hesitate to shoot.
Otoya: If you aim for the center of the body, even a beginner can hit.

Aoi: Kujou-san, where are you going?

Otoya: If I'm not back in 10 minutes...
Otoya: take Ryuunosuke-san and get out of here.

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Ryuunosuke: Aoi-kun.
Ryuunosuke: You should leave.
Aoi: No...

Aoi: I don't want to...
Aoi: leave you behind!

Ryuunosuke: I know your strength.
Ryuunosuke: But from here on, your life is truly in danger.
Ryuunosuke: If you don't leave now...

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Aoi: I won't leave!

Ryuunosuke: Aoi-kun...?

Aoi: Please...
Aoi: let me stay with you.

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Hide: Hey, Mako-chan.
Mako: Yeah?
Hide: Didn't I tell you to...

Hide: not get involved in this any further?
Mako: This again, Tachikawa-senpai?
Mako: But our fellow newspaper club members are in trouble.

Hide: Mako-chan, I know you have a strong sense of unity within the club even though you only joined 2 months ago...
Hide: but we're up against terrorists who have no problem with killing people with guns or with that virus.

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Hide: M...
Hide: Marlo!!

Otoya: Hide!
Otoya: Stay away from him!!

Hide: Club President Kujou.
Hide: What are you...?

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Hide: ...Eh...?

Marlo: I'm sorry, Hide.
Marlo: But this is farewell.

Otoya: He's an enemy,
Otoya: Hide!
Otoya: Run!!

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