Bloody Monday Season 2 - Pandora's Box 6

Chapter 06

01

Fujimaru: Wait...
Fujimaru: Minami-san...!!

Title: File 6 Demonic Power

Fujimaru: Oww...
Fujimaru: That was the same place as before...
Minami: Just be glad that's all I'm gonna do to you!!

02

Minami: How could you put on an act like that!?

Fujimaru: ...Uh...
Fujimaru: But, Minami-san.
Fujimaru: You went back to the JSDF.

Minami: Anyway...
Minami: Kujou-kun has already told me...
Minami: why you decided to do that.

Minami: But! Unfortunately for you, I've been reinstated in "Third-i".
Minami: I won't let you keep me in the dark anymore.
Fujimaru: Eh?

Fujimaru: Minami-san...
Fujimaru: You're back in "Third-i"?

03

Minami: Like I told you...
Minami: I can't just watch without doing anything.

Minami: What was that expression for?
Fujimaru: Oh.
Fujimaru: Uh, nothing...

Minami: What? Are you trying to hide something from me again!?
Otoya: No, he isn't, Minami-san.

Otoya: Fujimaru is...
Otoya: just glad...
Otoya: that you're back.

Fujimaru: You i-!
Fujimaru: Otoya! Why would you say that?
Minami: Hmmm?

Minami: Hmmmmm?
Fujimaru: What...?

04

Minami: At any rate...
Minami: I see you've made a nice "nest" here in this apartment.
Minami: You did a good job of fooling me by making it sound like you had some trauma.
Minami: But I guess "Falcon" is alive and well.

Yajima: Not just that, he's leveled up.
Yajima: He's way ahead of where he was 2 years ago.
Minami: So the one with him was you, Yajima-san.

Yajima: I'm helping him out on the orders of Section Chief Takagi.

Yajima: "Third-i" is treating me as if I'm retired.
Yajima: I've been on "Team Falcon" since half a year ago.
Minami: "Team Falcon"!?

05

Yajima: Simply put, you could call us an external part of "Third-i".
Yajima: Minami, I'm sure you know about...
Yajima: the internet transmission monitoring system that he built during the incident 2 years ago.

Yajima: "Falcon Echelon".

Yajima: The system that intercepts various transmissions being sent over the internet...
Yajima: including e-mail, VoIP, and the online exchange of money.

Yajima: It's a really useful tool for preventing any large-scale crimes or terrorist actions that are secretly being planned.
Yajima: But it's a double-edged sword, because, if used incorrectly, it could become a threat.

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Yajima: Thinking about the risk of a spy entering "Third-i"...
Yajima: we had no choice but to run it informally with only a small number of people knowing about it.
Minami: So that's it...
Yajima: Because of that...
Yajima: I'm officially just the manager of a cafe. Ha ha ha.

Yajima: Well, working there just made me remember things I'd rather not think about.
Yajima: So I'm kind of glad.

Otoya: This hijacking...
Otoya: is related to a "certain movement" picked up by the "Falcon Echelon".

Minami: Tell me the details.
Minami: And no more lying!

07

Otoya: It all started 8 years ago.
Otoya: I was 12 and in a city near the Russian border...
Otoya: when a certain terrorist attack occurred.

08

Minami: Ah...
Minami: That was the attack done by the same group as the hijacking, "The Shooter of the Magic Bullet".
Minami: The one that led to Hino Alexei's capture.

Otoya: At that time...
Otoya: The terrorists took 60 civilians and my father, who was the Minister of Foreign Affairs at the time, hostage.
Otoya: and demanded a certain object from the government.

Minami: ...A certain object?

09

Otoya: Yes.
Otoya: An object that is called...
Otoya: the "Third Emperor".

Minami: The Third...?

Otoya: It had been taken out of Moscow so that it could be secretly dismantled.
Otoya: After a month of negotiations, the government decided on pretending to agree to their demands.

Otoya: They would...
Otoya: give the terrorists "that" temporarily...
Otoya: and use a spy that had worked his way into the enemy ranks to take back the hostages.

Minami: It couldn't be...
Minami: was that spy...?
Fujimaru: Yeah, you figured it out, Minami-san.

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Fujimaru: The spy was...
Fujimaru: the person there who, at the time, was working as a bodyguard for Otoya's grandfather...that is, Minister Kujou Masamune.
Fujimaru: My dad.

Minami: So!
Minami: So that's why, this time...!?

Otoya: The enemy...
Otoya: let their guard down because I was a kid.

Otoya: When I found a chance, I sent a coded message to Fujimaru in Japan.

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Fujimaru: I used what he told me to search for the enemy's base.
Fujimaru: My dad put on a big play using the information I gave him and help from the troops there.

Fujimaru: And...
Fujimaru: he managed to become a part of the enemy's organization.

12

Otoya: The plan worked well. The hostages were released and most of the terrorists were captured...or shot.
Headline on both newspapers: Minister Kujou Returns Alive

Otoya: But...
Otoya: the all-important Hino Alexei managed to escape.

Otoya: And...

Otoya: The "Third Emperor" was gone, too.

Fujimaru: Afterwards, my dad used information sent from the enemy to capture Hino in Japan.
Fujimaru: But...
Fujimaru: the "Third Emperor" was still nowhere to be found.

13

Minami: "Third Emperor" is a code name, right? What is it?
Yajima: That's just what it's commonly called.

Minami: Then...

Yajima: Its code name is...
Pronunciation of Russian given to the right: Ivan

Minami: That's...!!!

14

Otoya: Yes.
Otoya: It's something that mankind is not meant to obtain.
Otoya: A "Demonic Power".

Fujimaru: It seems the only person who knows where it is is Hino Alexei.
Fujimaru: So, in order to find it...
Fujimaru: my dad released Alexei...

Minami: And that's why...
Minami: the hijacking happened...I see.
Fujimaru: ...Yes.

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Fujimaru: My dad apparently gained a lot of trust when he entered their organization as a spy 8 years ago.
Fujimaru: And luckily he wasn't discovered as a spy afterwards.
Fujimaru: So...my father conversely claimed to be entering "Third-i" as a spy...
Fujimaru: and occasionally went to see Alexei in the special prison he was in.

Fujimaru: While telling him he would eventually rescue him...
Fujimaru: he tried to figure out where the "Third Emperor" was...!

Minami: W-wait!
Minami: Then why was it necessary to release Hino Alexei!?
Minami: If he couldn't contact anyone outside the prison...
Minami: the "Third Emperor" wouldn't be able to be found or used...

16

Yajima: It...

Yajima: didn't work out like that.
Minami: Eh?

Otoya: If we continue to leave it alone, the "Third Emperor" will kill tens of thousands...
Otoya: No...
Otoya: Worst case scenario, it could kill tens of millions of people.

Otoya: The "Falcon Echelon" acquired that information.

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Fujimaru: Worst case, our time limit is 1 week...
Fujimaru: We have to...
Fujimaru: find it somehow before that happens...!!

18

Alexei: So there's a wizard-class hacker like you in "Third-i", Peter Pan...
Peter Pan: Yes, sir.

Alexei: ...Beast.
Alexei: Do you know anything about this wizard?

Ryuunosuke: Sorry, but...
Ryuunosuke: I don't.
Ryuunosuke: He may have been hired in secret.

Peter Pan: You were the "cap" of "Third-i" until 2 years ago...
Peter Pan: and you really don't know?

19

Alexei: There's no need to worry about it.
Alexei: It isn't a problem.
Alexei: I have faith in...
Alexei: your skills that I saw when you had just arrived. Eight years ago, when I opened "Pandora's Box".

Ryuunosuke: "Pandora's Box"...? Is he referring to the "Third Emperor"?

Peter Pan: That's right...
Peter Pan: I had just arrived.
Peter Pan: Back then...

Peter Pan: if I had been more skillful...

Alexei: I told you not to worry about it.
Alexei: As I've said before, you only have to work to the best of your ability, no more.
Alexei: It was true then...
Alexei: and it's true now.

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Ryuunosuke: I had heard that there was a remarkable hacker there 8 years ago.
Ryuunosuke: But that was him!?
Ryuunosuke: Back then he would have been about as old as Fujimaru is now...!!

Ryuunosuke: If this man's abilities as a hacker 8 years ago were at Fujimaru's level...
Ryuunosuke: Then now...
Ryuunosuke: Fujimaru will be facing off against a version of himself from 8 years in the future!??
Text on the bottom right: A hacking confrontation is inevitable!!