Confession
	 by Nobuyuki Fukumoto
	  and Kaiji Kawaguchi
	   Part Eleven

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Asai: {It's morning...!
	I'm saved!}

Confession

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Asai: {I'd better go down the mountain!
	No time to waste!
	If I wait around here, Ishikura will cut me off and meet with the rescue patrol...
	And I'll be left behind!}

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Asai: {The barricade's still there...
	Which means I have to take the second floor exit...}

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Asai: {W...  wait.}

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Asai: {What if he trapped ME in here...  like I was imagining earlier?
	By putting a weight on top...
	Please...!
	Open!!}

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Asai: {It opened.}

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Asai: {Ishikura's not here...!
	First floor, then...
	Oh...
	OH...}

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Asai: IT'S MORNING!!

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Asai: Huh?!

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Asai: GWAH!!

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Asai: Agah...
	Agh...

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Ishikura: HYAHAHAHA!  YOU FELL FOR IT, YOU SCUMBAG!

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Asai: Ngg...

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Asai: Cough cough!

Ishikura: Where do you think you're going in the middle of the night, Asai?
	Hahaha...  you fool!
	You're not getting away from me!!

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Ishikura: No, sir!
	I've finally got you!

Asai: Guh...

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Ishikura: Hehehe...  when I found that clock,
	in the bathroom...
	I had to laugh.
	It was set to 6 o'clock.
	Nobody else could have set it.
	A clock that we didn't hear go off already after one night, set to 6 o'clock...

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Ishikura: So I changed the time by about two hours.
	Hehehe...  which means...
	It's four in the morning.
	This is the end, scumbag!
	DIE!!

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Asai: W...
	Wa...
	Wai...  t...
	Wait...

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Ishikura: A cold-hearted man shedding tears?

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Ishikura: So you'll only cry...  for your own sake...  you'll only cry...
	OVER YOUR OWN DEATH?!

Asai: I...  won't...  tell...

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Asai: I won't tell anyone...
	about your confession...  not even my parents...

Ishikura: SCUMBAG!
	Of course you won't!
	You're going to be dead!

Asai: I'm not...  lying...
	I won't tell...

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Asai: I can't...  tell anyone...
	There's a reason...  why I can't...

Ishikura: A reason...?
	What reason?!  Out with it!

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Ishikura: What's the reason...
	you can't tell anyone?!  Hmm?!

Asai: Because...

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Asai: I...  kill...  ed...  Sayuri...

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Ishikura: Bullshit!  I'm not going to believe that...
	What a childish excuse!!

Asai: It's...
	true...
	After you choked...
	Sayuri...
	She woke...  up again...
	T...  think about it...
	The place you strangled her...
	Wasn't under any cliffs...

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Ishikura: {How does he know that...?}

Asai: Didn't...  you wonder...?
	When she was found...  at the bottom of that cliff...

Ishikura: I...  I didn't even think about it...
	But it was close to a cliff,
	and I thought maybe the snow drifts moved the body before spring...

Asai: No...
	After a little while...
	She woke up...

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Asai: She was...  such a bother to me...
	She just had...  to have that baby...
	She threatened me everyday...  I couldn't stand it...
	Just when I had gotten...
	my chance...

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Asai: You were right...
	I hoping you would attack Sayuri...  on that mountain.
	The plan went well...
	Except...
	She regained consciousness...
	And got up...!!

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Asai: Afterwards...
	The snow piled up and hid the body...
	Until the spring...
	Because of the location...
	They assumed...  it was an accident...  that she fell off the cliff...

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Ishikura: Then...  when I handed you that pen you dropped...
	The way...
	you acted...

Asai: I had thought...
	you saw me...
	kill her.

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Asai: You understand...?
	Please...  let me live...

Ishikura: {...so...  I didn't kill her...
	I'm innocent.
	Innocent!}

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Asai: Cough!
	Cough!  Cough!

Ishikura: You murderer!
	Well...  don't worry, I won't tell anyone!
	Trust me,
	I know how you feel...
	Don't worry, Asai!!

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Ishikura: I promise...
	Heh.
	Hehehe...  I didn't kill her.
	I didn't...
	Kill her!!

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Ishikura: {Hahahahaha!  I'm FREE!!}

Asai: {It's all over...}

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Asai: {My life...  is over...}

Ishikura: Cheer up, Asai!  The snow will stop!  We're gonna live!!

Asai: {I...  told him.
	The rest of my life...
	is ruined...!!}

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Rescuer: Hello!
	Can you make it out...?

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Rescuer: Hey, hang in there!
	Are you alone?

Asai: Ye...  yes.

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Rescuer: You didn't come up along, did you?

Asai: No...  with another...

Rescuer: Where is the other person, then?

Asai: Got lost...  along the way...
	Don't know what happened...
	It took all I had...  to get to the lodge...

Rescuer: I see...

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Asai: Is it going to snow again...?

Rescuer: Yep...
	This is just a lull in the storm.
	It'll be rough for another 2-3 days.

Asai: I...  see.

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Asai: {In another two hours...
	The snow will hide everything...
	Until the spring.
	They won't find the body until the spring...
	I don't care...
	It was all his fault...}

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Asai: {It's his fault...  for listening...!!}

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