Bloody Monday 68

Chapter 68

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Kanou: Let's go!!
Fujimaru: Okay!

Title: File 68 The Demon's Smile

Kujou: Otoya.

Otoya: Grandfather.
Kujou: If the terrorist's are really within this academy, they need to be dealt with immediately.
Kujou: Could you lead a group to the place you think is their hideout?

Otoya: Yes, I can.
Kujou: How many "Third-i" members are here besides the BPT?
BPT: Sir.
BPT: The Sakaki Team came...
BPT: in a helicopter and a ground vehicle.

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Kujou: Okay.
Kujou: Since there's still a risk of us showing symptoms, we'll stay here.
Kujou: If three of the BPT stays here, my SP's can take care of the rest.

Kujou: Everyone else needs to head to the building that might be their hideout.
Kujou: My grandson will show them the way.

BPT: Y-yes, sir.
BPT: Let's go, Otoya-kun. Lead the way.
Otoya: Okay.

Mako: K...
Mako: Kujou-senpai...

Otoya: Don't worry, Anzai.

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Otoya: Everyone's...
Otoya: Fujimaru's there for you.

Sakaki: So you're Minister Kujou's grandson.
Otoya: ...Yes.
Otoya: I'm Kujou Otoya.

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Sakaki: ...Is that what you're planning on using as a weapon?
Otoya: Yes.

Otoya: I'm used to using it.

Otoya: But I'm prepared...if it comes down to it.

Sakaki: I'm Sakaki, commander of the first helicopter unit.

Sakaki: Thanks for showing us the way.
Sakaki: We'll take care of the rest.

Otoya: ...Okay.
Sakaki: Yes.

Someone: I'm surprised at Minister Kujou.
Someone: How can he put his own grandson in danger this easily...?

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Terada: This is Terada.
Terada: We have the back entrance covered!

Sakaki: Okay.
Sakaki: Go in!!

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BPT: Ee...
BPT: It's a smokescreen.
BPT: And gunfire...!! They're still here!!

Sakaki: Use your tear-gas bombs!!

BPT: Begin disinfection!!

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BPT: The disinfection is complete.
Sakaki: That was pretty easy...is it really safe?

BPT: Yes.
BPT: Our investigation of "Bloody-X" has shown that it's the type of virus that activates upon infecting people and showing symptoms.
BPT: Even if you spread it around, it can't survive long in the air before it activates.
BPT: It's ability infect at that stage is also quite weak, so taking care of it is easy.

Sakaki: I see.
Sakaki: So that's why they infected a civilian in order to infect Minister Kujou and the others.

Sakaki: ...But the tear-gas bombs didn't do much to help.
Sakaki: They must have had some sort of protection prepared.
Sakaki: We'll just have to wait for the smokescreen to clear...

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Sakaki: Hey, it's dangerous.
Sakaki: Get back...

Otoya: ...I'm not feeling anyone.

Sakaki: ...Eh?
Otoya: It doesn't feel like there's anyone in there.

Otoya: And the gunshots are odd.
Otoya: They're repeating the same rhythm over the same period of time.
Otoya: And we can hear it, but no bullets are coming our way.

Otoya: Look.

Otoya: This string...
Otoya: is connected to something inside.

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Sakaki: It was a trap!?

Sakaki: They blinded us with the smokescreen...
Sakaki: and started with real bullets...but the rest were just to buy them time...!!

Sakaki: Get back. We'll blow away the smokescreen with a blast!!

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Sakaki: Damn it.
Sakaki: They've already gotten away...!!

Otoya: This manhole was what they used to go in and out.
Sakaki: Yeah.
Sakaki: Hey!
Soldier: Yes, sir!

Otoya: No!
Otoya: You'll get infected with the virus!!

Otoya: There were people infected in the school, right?
Otoya: Apparently they vomited, so the virus will have gotten into the sewers.
Otoya: And according to what we were just told...
Otoya: that will be the brutal version of "Bloody-X" that has already infected someone.

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Otoya: No one but the terrorists who have been vaccinated...
Otoya: can go down there.

Sakaki: BPT!
Sakaki: Use this manhole to go in and...
Otoya: I think withdrawing would be better...
Otoya: I heard from Kanou-san about the explosion from the trap in that old house.

Otoya: Since they only bought themselves enough time to get a bit away...
Otoya: we should assume that they've rigged this place to be completely destroyed!

Sakaki: ...!! All hands, retreat!!
Sakaki: Get out of the building!
Soldier: Roger!
Sakaki: Damn it.
Sakaki: So they chose this hideout in order to ensure their escape route when the biohazard broke loose!

Otoya: Was that...
Otoya: the only reason?
Sakaki: What!?

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J: When you think about how this place is swarming with such a dangerous virus...
J: doesn't it just make you shiver, Michael-kun?
Michael: You got that right.
Michael: Well, from the data and experiments we've run, the vaccine seems to keep you from being infected about 100% of the time.

J: I didn't mean to actually make you worry.
J: Sorry.

J: It's just that...
J: from here on...
J: we're not going to have much time to for idle chatter.

Michael: So...
Michael: we're finally...
Michael: at the finale.

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J: Yes.
J: The "story" that K has written...
J: is at its climax.

J: Obviously, the reason we used "Bloody-X" here...
J: was to rescue our leader.
J: This genocide virus's true fearsomeness is how easily it can infect people...
J: But first it needs to infect someone and bring about its symptoms in order to activate.

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J: Using the negotiations to bring the virus into the prison and cause an outbreak...
J: wouldn't work because it's impossible to infect that many people and have them show symptoms with good timing.
J: So, first...
J: we had to take a little bit of a detour.

J: Mishiro Academy is connected to the Kantou Special Prison via the sewers...
J: and isn't that far away.

J: We had to give someone within the school the virus...
J: so that it would activate within their body.

J: Then we would have the version of "Bloody-X" that has...
J: a greater toxicity and vitality and can easily infect people.

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J: Then...in order for the virus to spread from the sewage area underneath the prison into the prison itself...
J: we had the drains in the sinks and toilets "set up".
J: That part really took time...
J: didn't it?

Terrorists: Set up...?
Michael: So that the smell of the sewage doesn't come up out of the drains...

Michael: Some of the water sent down the drain is left behind in order to cut off the air from the sewage.
Michael: The device that does this is known as a "trap"...
Michael: What we did was set it up so that the glue keeping it on would be destroyed when left at a set temperature for a certain amount of time.

J: So Michael-kun had Falcon "show him the way" when we had him hack into a system with the same firewall system as the transformer substation as the one near the prison.
J: That way we could cause a power outage at the prison.

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J: That would inevitably stop the prison's air conditioning.
J: And the temperature and humidity within the prison would go up considerably
J: Then our "set up" would come into effect.

J: And then...
J: with the rising heat and only having emergency power...
Guards: *cough*
Guards: *cough*
Guards: *cough*

Guards: *cough*
J: They would have no choice but to...
J: turn the ventilation fans on full blast to get the hot air out of there.

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J: The result being...
J: that the air pressure within the prison would drop because it was built to be airtight.
Text left of Michael: Like when you turn on the ventilation fan at home and the door is hard to open.

J: Then the only entrance for air would be the broken drains.

J: And the virus being washed through the sewer would be sucked up into the prison.

J: The outbreak at Mishiro Academy was at 7:35.
J: According to our calculations, it would take the virus about 20 minutes to reach its destination.
J: And those in the prison would start showing symptoms 2 hours after that.

J: It's just about...

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J: time.

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J: The time limit for the deal was 9:50.
J: So if that didn't work out, we could get "him" back while the outbreak occurred.
J: And even if they handed "him" over safely....
J: it wouldn't change the fact that there would be a pile of corpses in that prison 5 minutes later.

J: This really is...
J: a most selfish and cruel "story" you've written,
J: "K".
Text at bottom: (To be continued in Volume 9)