Bloody Monday Season 2 - Pandora's Box 33

Chapter 33

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Box: Volume 3, dyed in light-pink blood, is on sale now!!
Text: To ensure that their time here isn't dyed black with despair...
Title: File 33 Mizusawa Hibiki
Bottom Text: Ryuumon Ryou x Megumi Kouji

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Hibiki: I...
Hibiki: have no mother or father.
Hibiki: I have no one I can call "family".

Hibiki: So when I saw your bond with your father...
Hibiki: I...
Hibiki: didn't really understand.

Fujimaru: Was she abandoned by her parents...?
Fujimaru: ...Don't worry about it.
Fujimaru: I'm sure they're out there somewhere and that they care about you.

Hibiki: You really are kind, Fujimaru.

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Hibiki: As far back as I can remember...
Hibiki: I was undergoing special training...
Hibiki: to become a superior agent.

Hibiki: Knowledge of combat needed to be an agent.
Hibiki: Knowledge of poison and other gas weapons.

Hibiki: The know-how needed to perform intelligence operations.
Hibiki: I learned the languages of every major country in order to infiltrate them and not stand out.

Hibiki: I trained day and night every day.
Hibiki: My purpose in life...
Hibiki: was to become the perfect agent.

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Hibiki: I worked to get the top results of the training facility in every area.
Hibiki: But the instructors never gave me any praise, no matter how slight.
Hibiki: When I succeeded, they acted like that was the obvious result and, when I failed, they got so very angry.

Hibiki: I didn't understand why, so I asked once.
Hibiki: Instructor.
Hibiki: Why do you praise the others when they succeed...
Hibiki: but you never praise me?

Hibiki: Instruc-
SFX: Kick
Instructor: Don't talk back to me!

Instructor: Your success...
SFX: Cough
SFX: Cough cough

Instructor: is only natural!

SFX: Cough

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Instructor: Fine.
SFX: Smile
Instructor: I suppose it's about time...
Instructor: you learned the truth!

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Hibiki: Th-
Hibiki: That's me...!?

SFX: Bang bang bang

Instructor: Exactly. That's you.
Instructor: You are but one of 8 identical humans.

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Instructor: We created you all from the sperm and ova we collected from the male and female agents with the top results over three generations of agents who have gone through this facility.

Instructor: We used an enzyme that used the process of dividing cells on the fertilized eggs to split them up and used the wombs of 8 different surrogate mothers to let them grow. That way we could have a group of agents and warriors possessing the very best genes.
Instructor: You all are the first batch of our country's ground-breaking experiment!!

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Instructor: Do you understand now?
SFX: Bang
Instructor: You have to succeed!
Instructor: You may be the top of the class in that training facility...
Instructor: But...

Instructor: you're purpose is to see if your series was a success or not!
Instructor: Don't forget that you're only one step away from being disposed of!
Instructor: Where's your response!?

Hibiki: ...Yes, sir.

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Hibiki: I'm...
Hibiki: an artificial human.
Hibiki: I truly...
Hibiki: have no parents.

SFX: Squeeze

Hibiki: Fujima-...!
Fujimaru: Abandon them.

Fujimaru: Just abandon those people!
Fujimaru: There's no point in seeing any importance in them!

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Hibiki: ...Why?
Hibiki: Why are you telling me to do that?
Hibiki: I was protecting you because of my mission for them.

Fujimaru: ...I know that.
SFX: Squeeze
Hibiki: Then why?

Fujimaru: Because I love you!

Fujimaru: I've fallen in love with you!
Fujimaru: None of that other stuff matters!
Fujimaru: That's just what falling in love means!

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Fujimaru: I'll always...
Fujimaru: be with you from now on.

SFX: Tears welling up

Hibiki: Stay with me, Fujimaru!
SFX: Cling to

Hibiki: I'll...protect you in return!

Fujimaru: ...No.
Fujimaru: You don't need to do anything in return.

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Fujimaru: That's what...
Fujimaru: it means to be in love.

SFX: Heartbeat...
Hibiki: ...Okay.

Hibiki: Can you teach me about love...bit by bit?

Fujimaru: Yeah...

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SFX: Beeeep beeeep beeep

Hibiki: What does that mean?
SFX: Beep Beep
Fujimaru: Someone's trying to use the system.
Fujimaru: Someone's directly using one of the terminals.

Fujimaru: It's the Shooter of the Magic Bullet's hacker...

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Fujimaru: "Peter Pan"!

Fujimaru: But this is my territory now.
Fujimaru: Even if he's directly accessing the system, I won't let him take it back so easily.

Hibiki: ...Who is he?
Fujimaru: He's the one who taught me how to hack.

Fujimaru: We only spoke online, so I don't know who he actually is.
Fujimaru: But it's definitely him!

Fujimaru: This is going to be on a different level than when I went up against "Hornet".

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Fujimaru: This is a battle with no room for error!

Alexei: Peter Pan.
Alexei: I leave this to you.
Alexei: Let's go, "Snow White", "Bambi".
Snow White: Where are we going, Arthur?

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Alexei: The server room.
Alexei: We'll use the acetylene cutting torch "Hansel" and the others brought to burn through the door.
Alexei: We'll take out the enemy hacker from outside and within!

SFX: Type type type

SFX: Open

SFX: Press press press

SFX: Press
On phone:
To Gretel,
Do some research on Falcon.
Find a decisive weakness of his.
Family, a lover, anything.
That should be easy from where you are, right?

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SFX: Close

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SFX: Heartbeat
SFX: Heartbeat
Text: The experienced hero can't wait to fight as the demonic hand draws near!!
Bottom text: There will be no chapter in the next issue. The next chapter will be in Issue 33!!