Bloody Monday Season 2 - Pandora's Box 23

Chapter 23

01

Man: ...It's no good.
Man: The timer won't stop!

SFX: Beep
SFX: Beep
Man: The information we got was all fake...

SFX: Beep

Fujimaru: Tokyo...
Fujimaru: will be destroyed!!

Title: File 23 A Hero's End
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02

Man: The detonation timer's program is on a ROM so we can't rewrite it.
Man: And we can't use the Key Tool.
Man: ...It's over...!!
Minami: Don't give up!!

Minami: Damn it!
Minami: HQ! We need to switch to Plan B!!
Minami: There are four minutes until detonation...
Minami: We need to bet everything on this!!

Otoya: Fujimaru!!
SFX: Brake

03

SFX: Jump off
Fujimaru: Otoya!??
Fujimaru: You...

Fujimaru: Why are you here!?
Otoya: What about the detonator...!?
Fujimaru: You might have survived if you had stayed in the hospital's shelter with my dad and everyone...
SFX: Brush past

SFX: Twitch

04

Woman: Excuse me!
Woman: This is dangerous, so stay out of the way!
SFX: Slosh slosh slosh

SFX: Slosh

Man: Hey, what're you doing!??
Man: That'll detonate from the slightest vibration...
Woman: Here I go!!

SFX: Fshoooo

05

Man2: Wh-what are you...?
Otoya: Please stay back!
SFX over entire page: Fshooooo

Man: Hey...

SFX: Crackle
SFX: Crack
SFX: Crack

06

SFX: Stop...

Woman: 1 minute 56 seconds left....
Woman: The timer has stopped!
Woman: It worked!

Man: Wh-what did you do!?
Man: What is that?
SFX: Slosh

07

Otoya: It's liquid nitrogen.

Otoya: I had Kirishima-san send me the information on the detonator.

Otoya: The micro computers in old-style Russian-made detonators were made using crystal oscillators like what you would find in quartz clocks and can buy even here in Japan.

Man2: I see... The crystal oscillator stops at extremely low temperatures!!
Man2: And that's what stopped the timer!
Otoya: Yes.
Otoya: I remembered a story about all the quartz clocks stopping at a movie shoot in Antarctica, so they could only use the one's that used springs.

Fujimaru: And...the liquid nitrogen?
Otoya: We borrowed it from the emergency ward we took Ryuunosuke-san to.

Otoya: Liquid nitrogen is minus 150 degrees Celsius, so it was enough to do the job.

08

Woman: It went well...
Woman: We saved Tokyo....!!

SFX: Don!

Woman: A large amount of liquid is being sent here to keep it at a low enough temperature.
Woman: We'll have to make do with this tank until then...
SFX: Slosh

09

Otoya: ...Fujimaru.
Otoya: It's not that I didn't trust you.
SFX: Place

Otoya: It's just that...
Otoya: I couldn't trust Orihara Maya.
Otoya: ...WE couldn't.

SFX: Nod

Man: Anyway..! Thanks!
Man: From here on, it's our job as the bomb squad.
Minami: Be careful.
Minami: Dismantling it is dangerous...

Man: We've got plenty of time now.
Man: We'll have it dismantled and 100% safe in a few hours.
Man: That's our job!

Man: Okay, let's begin!
Man: Yoshida! You take care of the nitrogen!
Yoshida: Yes, sir!
Man: Motoki! Prepare the oxygen masks!
Motoki: Yes, sir.

10

Minami: Fujimaru.
Minami: ...Don't get so down..

Minami: You...
Minami: did well.
Minami: We'll definitely capture the "Shooter of the Magic Bullet", Orihara Maya, and whoever she's working for.
Minami: Isn't that enough?

Fujimaru: ...Yes.

Fujimaru: I won't forgive...
Fujimaru: that woman...
SFX: Clench

Minami: The Maritime Self Defense Force and Third-i's helicopter units are going all out in pursuit of her.
Minami: As long as there isn't a nuclear explosion, it's only a matter of time before we capture her sub.
Fujimaru: Okay...!!
SFX: Bah bah bah bah bah bah....

Fujimaru: Ahhhh!
Fujimaru: Okay!! Let's turn this around!
SFX: Slap

Fujimaru: None of this is over yet! Let's keep at it!
Fujimaru: I don't want my dad laughing at me later!

11

Fujimaru: That's right, Otoya.
Fujimaru: How's my dad?
Fujimaru: Hopefully, he didn't force himself and rip his wounds further...

Bomb squad: Give me more light
Bomb squad: Yes, sir.
Bomb squad: This cable is next...

Fujimaru: Otoya...?

12

13

SFX: Wind

Woman: This way,
Woman: Arthur.

Alexei: Were you followed?
Woman: We've ensured a path to "that".
Woman: It seems the government isn't trying to bring back the capital's gas supply that Peter Pan took control of.
SFX: Step

Woman: According to Peter Pan, stopping the gas supply had more of an effect than we expected.
Woman: And "that" is in full operation.
SFX: Close

Alexei: ...Excellent.

Alexei: I've gotten what I needed, too.

14

Alexei: Now then...let's go.
Alexei: To our final hope...
Alexei: To "Pandora's Box"!!

15

Sign: Satou General Hospital

SFX: Engine Idling
SFX: Brake

Hibiki: Ah.
Hibiki: He's finally here!
SFX: Clink

Hibiki: How could you leave me like that!
Hibiki: Are you really okay with seeing me...
Hibiki: kill my-
Hibiki: Kyah!
SFX: Run
SFX: Hop hop

SFX: Slam

SFX: Open
SFX: Step step

16

SFX: Heart beat

SFX: Heart beat

SFX: Heart beat

17

SFX: Heart beat

SFX: Heart beat

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20

Fujimaru: Dad.
Text: All that echoes throughout the room is his voice that sounds as if it were squeezed out...
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