Confession
	 by Nobuyuki Fukumoto
	  and Kaiji Kawaguchi
	   Part Ten

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Ishikura: Asai...  where are you?!  Come on out!!
	This little game of tag is over!

Confession

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Ishikura: Asaaai!
	Huff...
	Huff...
	Huff...

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Ishikura: Asai...
	You can't hide from me...
	Asai...

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Ishikura: Asaaai...

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Asai: {All I can do now is fight!!}

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Asai: {If I'm going to fight in the dark with my poor eyesight...
	Then this spot,
	with its limited space, is optimal...
	Your back is against the wall and you can't be attacked from behind.
	It's easy to fight...
	And since the door opening to the rest of the floor is blocked...
	Ishikura has to come down into the room on the ladder...}

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Asai: {I'll get the first attack!!
	I'll use this...
	to repeatedly bash his headlight...}

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Asai: {What's wrong, Ishikura?!
	Why aren't you coming down?
	I'm right here!  Come and get me!!}

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Asai: {What was that...
	Why didn't he come down?}

Ishikura: Asai...
	Asai...

Asai: {Oh...
	That's it!!}

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Asai: {He thought, if I wasn't in this room...
	That while he was searching in here,
	I would put something heavy on top of the trapdoor,
	and the barricade he created
	would trap him inside the room...
	Perfect containment...!!}

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Asai: {If he comes down into this room...
	he'll remove the barricade first.
	Which means...
	Until I hear that sound...  this place is safe!!}

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Ishikura: Asaaai!
	Where are you?!
	Come on out!!
	Huff.
	Huff.
	Huff...

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Ishikura: Asaai!!

Asai: {Assuming I've snuck...}

Ishikura: Asai...

Asai: {into one of the rooms he's already checked,
	his search will be...
	and endless cycle of toil and anxiety...!}

Ishikura: Huff.
	Huff.
	Huff.

Asai: {I'VE WON...!!}

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Ishikura: Asai...  forget about it...
	Let's just forget this whole mess...
	Come out...  I'm not going to do anything...
	Let's talk...
	Let's talk this over...
	Asai...

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Ishikura: Dammit, Asai!!
	Damn you!!
	Come out, and I'll forgive you!
	Don't, and I'll cut you to pieces!!
	Did you hear that, Asai?  Did you?!
	CUT YOU TO PIECES!!
	Come out!!
	ASAI!
	...please, Asai...  just...
	just come out...  so we can talk...

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Narrator: {Unable to find Asai, Ishikura continually threatened and pleaded with him...
	Eventually, he couldn't hear Ishikura anymore...
	The time he spent without light or sound
	felt like an eternity...
	Unable to move.
	Asai waited for morning...}

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Asai: {How much time has passed...?
	I can't tell...
	If help came right now
	and Ishikura opened the door to welcome them...
	They wouldn't come into this room,
	they'd just leave...
	That scenario is a possibility.
	The rescuers are under the impression that Ishikura is the only one in the lodge...
	They'd take Ishikura down on a stretcher,
	and I'd be left here, alone...}

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Asai: {That's strange...  what about the alarm...?
	Isn't it 6 o'clock yet...?
	What if it's already 8,
	and Ishikura already left the building?
	W...  what if Ishikura...  stopped the alarm on the clock...

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Sfx: (jiriririri)  alarm clock

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Asai: {Oh...
	I...  I can hear it.}

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Asai: {6 o'clock...!!
	It's morning...!!
	I can go down the mountain!!}

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