Bloody Monday Season 2 - Pandora's Box 27

Chapter 27

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Text at top: Thanks for making the volumes such big hits!! The latest one, Volume 3, is out now!!
Blue text: The distance between those two is both small and great.
Title: File 27 The Hacker Who Holds the Key

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Minami: Fujimaru...
Minami: How can you ask us to take you along...?

Minami: Do you want this to be just like 2 years ago!?
Minami: What are you going to do there!?
Fujimaru: This time's different.
Fujimaru: I have to go this time!

Fujimaru: I was just hacking into that power plant...
Fujimaru: but it seems that the Shooter of the Magic Bullet's hacker has already gotten into the system and taken it over.
Kirishima: Exactly.

Kirishima: We've already tried to access it too, but haven't been able to get in.

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Tsukamoto: If they've taken over the system, this could be bad.
Tsukamoto: By burning nuclear fuel, a fast-breeder reactor creates even more nuclear fuel. It's like the ideal nuclear reactor.

Tsukamoto: If they make it go out of control, the plutonium from the atomic bomb will continue to increase, essentially creating a giant nuclear bomb.
Tsukamoto: Of course, the complex and sensitive controls are handled through a high-level computer system.
Tsukamoto: If...
Tsukamoto: they've taken that over...

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Kirishima: Fujimaru-kun, can you drive out the enemy hacker?
Fujimaru: No.

Fujimaru: I battled him once before in the gas company's system...
Fujimaru: He's an extremely skilled hacker.
Fujimaru: He isn't the kind of person I could win against in a system he's already taken over and had time to prepare various traps in.

Kirishima: Then what are you going to do...!?

Fujimaru: That's why...
Fujimaru: I want to go there directly!!

Kirishima: What?
Fujimaru: If I can directly access the power plant's system...
Fujimaru: I can easily repel a hacker coming in through the internet.

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Fujimaru: That's the only way we can...
Fujimaru: take the power plant back from the "Shooter of the Magic Bullet".

Fujimaru: Let me go.
Fujimaru: Please!!

Kirishima: Fujimaru-kun...

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Kanou: Fine, come on!!
Kanou: Stop them, "Falcon"!

Fujimaru: I will!!

Otoya: ...Are you planning on luring out the enemy hacker?
Fujimaru: If we don't get rid of that hacker, we can't defeat the "Shooter of the Magic Bullet".

Fujimaru: Once he knows I'm on the system directly, he'll have no choice but to come to the power plant himself.

Fujimaru: He'll come!
Fujimaru: This is my job.
Fujimaru: Only "Falcon" can do this...!!

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Fujimaru: I WILL stop him.
Fujimaru: I won't let him get away...!!

Otoya: Fuji...

Fujimaru: ...Otoya.

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Fujimaru: Please...
Fujimaru: stay by...
Fujimaru: Haruka's side.
SFX: Tap

Fujimaru: Please...
Fujimaru: protect her.
Fujimaru: I believe in you.
Fujimaru: So please...!!

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SFX: Grip

Otoya: ...Okay.
Otoya: I WILL protect Haruka-chan.
Otoya: So...

Otoya: Make sure...
Otoya: you come back.
Otoya: Don't make her...
Otoya: cry anymore.

Fujimaru: Yeah...
Fujimaru: I won't...!

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Minami: ...Let's go, Fujimaru!
Fujimaru: Okay.

Fujimaru: Hibiki...
Fujimaru: You're coming, aren't you?
Hibiki: Of course.

Fujimaru: Then protect me.
Fujimaru: If I die, you can't carry out your mission.
Fujimaru: Isn't that right?

Hibiki: Yup.
SFX: Jangle

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Hibiki: ...Hey, Fujimaru-kun.
SFX: Rrrrrrrrr
Fujimaru: ...What?

Hibiki: When you said you believed in him...
Hibiki: what exactly are you believing in?
Fujimaru: ...Huh?

Hibiki: You have no basis for that belief.
Hibiki: Kujou Otoya can't do anything to help with the surgery.

Hibiki: What exactly...
Hibiki: are you "believing" in?

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Fujimaru: I don't need a definite basis for it.
Fujimaru: "He's Otoya".
Fujimaru: ...That's all I need.

Hibiki: ...I don't understand.

Fujimaru: Oh, c'mon...

Fujimaru: That's all you've been saying.
Fujimaru: There's nothing wrong with it, is there?
Hibiki: I suppose.

Hibiki: I suppose...

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Kujou: Thank you for your consideration, Mr. President.
President: It's nothing.
President: The leader of my country can't exactly change his scheduled visit to Japan for something like this, Prime Minister Kujou.

President: We don't give in to terrorists.
President: This is exactly the type of situation where cooperation between our two countries is needed.

President: If you need any help, you can ask at any time.
Kujou: Thank you very much.

Kujou: He isn't going to change his plans.
Kujou: In about an hour, the president will be on his way here.
Man: No way...
Man: We can't exactly let the most important man in America get caught up in a terrorist attack in Japan.
Man: We need to increase the amount of security for this!

Kujou: This is clearly one of the reasons the terrorists chose this timing.
Kujou: I somehow managed to get him to change his destination to Kansai...
Kujou: but that means I have to leave Tokyo.

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Suou: Don't worry, Prime Minister Kujou.
SFX: Step

Kujou: Minister of Justice Suou.

Suou: Excuse me.
Suou: I truly thank you for appointing me to take your old position...
Suou: of Minister of Justice.
SFX: Stop

Suou: As the man responsible for maintaining this country's laws...
Suou: I thought I would take command of the anti-terror operations in your stead.

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SFX: Bang

Hans: ...Ha.
Hans: What a thoughtless country.
Hans: How could they think that the guards of a dangerous nuclear facility like this didn't even need a single handgun?

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Man: "Hans".
Man: Your job is over here
Man: Put the plutonium in the reactor.
Man: I'm sure you can do it. You did used to work in a nuclear power plant.

SFX: Kshh
Man: This is Beta Team.
Man: We're about to start putting the plutonium in the reactor.
Alexei: ...Alpha Team here. Roger that.

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Worker: I-it won't work.

Worker: Just because you've taken over the system, doesn't mean you'll immediately be able to send the reactor out of control.
Worker: Ee!
SFX: Aim
Ema: Quiet.

Alexei: Just watch.
Alexei: "Peter Pan"?

Alexei: We're ready.
SFX: Type
Alexei: Are you?

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Peter: I'll be done in 10 minutes.

Peter: I've returned the security camera feeds to real time.
Peter: I can do the surveillance...
Peter: at the same time as I remotely send the reactor out of control.

SFX: Bah bah bah

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SFX: Bah bah bah
SFX in bubbles: Type type type
Kanou: What are you doing, Fujimaru?
Fujimaru: I'm looking for traces of the enemy hacker who hacked in to the power plant's system.

Fujimaru: ...I knew it.
Fujimaru: This "technique" looks familiar.
Fujimaru: I know.
Fujimaru: This is...

Text: Ah

Fujimaru: O-oh my god.
Kanou: What is it?

Fujimaru: Nothing...
Fujimaru: Oh my god...

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Fujimaru: Th-this hacker is...!!
Pilot: There it is!

Pilot: It's "Future"!!
Pilot: Prepare for landing!
Text: Anything could happen! To the enemy's territory!!
Bottom Text: To be continued in Issue 26