Homunculus
	 Volume 7

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Homunculus
Hideo Yamamoto

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Volume Seven

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<<Nakoshi: For example...
	Do you have a 1,000 yen bill?

<<Girl: Huh?
	Here...

<<Nakoshi: Thank you.
	Do you know what this is?

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<<Girl: Huh?
	It's money...
	No...
	Just a scrap of paper?

<<Nakoshi: I guess you Ferris Academy girls
	just don't understand...

<<Girl: Now you're making me feel dumb...

<<Nakoshi: Look closely.
	What is this?

<<Girl: It's the value,
	of 1,000 yen?

<<Nakoshi: It's a promissary note.

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<<Nakoshi: It says Bank of Japan, right here.
	It just means that the Japanese government is borrowing 1,000 yen from you.

<<Girl: A promissary note...

<<Nakoshi: Now watch THIS...

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<<Girl: Wha-!
	What are you doing?!
	Noooo!

<<Nakoshi: Ouch...

<<Girl: Aw...
	Awww...

<<Nakoshi: All this means is that one promissary note has disappeared from the world.

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<<Nakoshi: You just helped the country decrease its debt.
	You did a good deed for your country.
	Now, in apology for burning your promissary note...
	(shuffle)
	A present.

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<<Girl: Huh?!

<<Nakoshi: It's nothing special.

<<Girl: Oh my God!
	This must have been expensive!!
	Wow!
	And it's monogrammed!

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<<Girl: I can really have it?!

<<Nakoshi: Of course!

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<<Nakoshi: (stare...)

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<<Nakoshi: Can't smell anything...
	Can't feel anything...

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<<Girl: Huh?
	Ack...!

<<Nakoshi: Let your spit drool so I can see it.

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<<Nakoshi: Huff.
	Huff.
	Huff.
	Hooooohh...

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<<Nakoshi: How is it?
	Is my semen
	hot?

<<Girl: Huh?

<<Nakoshi: How does it taste?
	Bitter?
	Sweet?

<<Girl: Hmmm...

<<Nakoshi: How does it SMELL??

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<<Nakoshi: Whew.
	It's hot.

<<Girl: Honestly.
	I had to redo all of my makeup...

<<Nakoshi: Well, I didn't want to get your clothes dirty,
	or my car either, for that matter.
	That just leaves your face.

<<Girl: Pig...

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<<Waiter: Your champagne.

<<Girl: Ooh!  Dom Peri!

<<Nakoshi: I cleaned up a company worth 70 billion yen today.
	Shall we drink to that?

<<Girl: 70 billion?!

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<<Girl: Cheers!
	You always talk about how you took down this company or that.
	Is it really that easy to destroy a company?

<<Nakoshi: Whewww.

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<<Nakoshi: It's a crime to kill a man,
	but not a corporation.
	When a human being's organs are removed: liver, kidney, heart... What happens?
	You're a nurse; you should know.

<<Girl: ...you die.

<<Nakoshi: Yes, and by the same token... What if you remove a company's organs?

<<Girl: It goes under...

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<<Nakoshi: And if you sell off the company's organs, you make enormous bank.
	And it's not a crime.

<<Girl: Company's organs?

<<Nakoshi: Its assets.  Stock, land, securities, foreign exchange...
	Anything that's worth money.

<<Girl: But how can YOU sell off other companies' assets?

<<Nakoshi: Every company talks about expansion of business and all that.
	But what they WANT is MONEY.

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<<Nakoshi: In comes a bank with a huge name like ours.

<<Girl: Oh,
	I see.
	You take their "organs" as collateral and lend them money.

<<Nakoshi: Bingo!
	And then I sell the organs that we've taken.
	At a greater value than the money we lent them.

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<<Nakoshi: Then you juggle the numbers a bit,
	The company goes under...
	Kersplat.

<<Girl: And banks make money by doing this dirty business...

<<Nakoshi: Every banker is a hyena.  Including me.
	We're worse than vultures fighting over dead meat.

<<Girl: Nako Baby...

<<Nakoshi: Hmm?

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<<Girl: I know it's your job,
	but don't you ever get stressed out from doing that all the time?

<<Nakoshi: Why would I?

<<Girl: I mean, if the company goes out of business,
	it means that hundred or thousands of people lose their livelihoods.

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<<Nakoshi: What I do is like a game.
	I just fiddle with the numbers before my eyes.
	I've never even seen 100 million yen in real life.
	Whatever happens to people beyond that,
	is none of my business.
	If I don't know about it,
	I'll never see it.

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<<Girl: I wonder what happens to all the people
	in the companies you've crushed...

<<Nakoshi: Ha ha.
	I bet they're all homeless, down in that park.

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<<Nakoshi: Oh!  I forgot something.
	(shuffle)
	Here.

<<Girl: Huh?

<<Nakoshi: To "make up" for ruining your makeup.
	Open it.

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<<Girl: Oh, wow!
	I don't believe it!
	It's gorgeous!
	If you're giving out things like this every time you bust on my face, we should do it more often!!
	Ooooh!

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<<Girl: I can really have it?!

<<Nakoshi: Of course!

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<<Girl: Zzz.
	Zzz.

<<Nakoshi: Zzz.
	Zzz.
	Zzz.
	Zzz.
	Zzz.

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<<Note: Nako Baby
	Good morning!!
	I'm taking off for work.
	P.S. You did it again~
	You know what that means!
	I'll be waiting

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<<Nakoshi: Wheww.

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<<Nakoshi: Hmm?

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Nakoshi: That bench...

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Nakoshi: Say, Ken...

Ken: Hmm?

Nakoshi: You know the old guy who used to sit on that bench?

Ken: Mmmm?

Nakoshi: He'd bring his umbrella just about everyday,
	and sit there reading a book...

Ken: Aha!

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Ken: The Umbrella Guy!  The one who was always lookin' at photos!

Nakoshi: Photos?

Ken: Yeah.
	He was a weirdo.  Always pretendin' he was readin' a book, when he was actually lookin' at photos stuck inside it.
	All the way until sundown...

Nakoshi: What kind of photos?

Ken: Well, he held it so you couldn't see what they were...

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Ken: But they musta been nice photos from when he was younger.
	You knew him?

Nakoshi: No...
	I just saw him a lot.

Ken: Hmm.  Don't see him anymore.
	Guess he stopped coming just before you showed up.

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Ken: He tried puttin' up a tent here, but fer some reason he never fit in.
	Just sat alone, lookin' at his photos...
	Maybe he drifted somewhere else,
	or went back to the real world...
	Or maybe he froze when he didn't know how to pass the winter...  A man could even starve in this day and age.
	Last year, there was a godawful stench comin' from a tent, but no one ever thought to check even though it smelt so bad...
	In the end some tent-crasher ended up takin' it over.

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Nakoshi: Do you know...
	Where that guy
	might have propped his tent?

Ken: Lessee...
	I think he said near the north exit.

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Sign: North Gate

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Nakoshi: Excuse me.

Guy: 'Ey, fuck yoo!
	Yoo don't come in heer!

Nakoshi: Hi...

Guys: Oh!
	It's the Car Guy.
	Look, it's just the guy who brings us booze, man.
	Mwaah?
	Ohhhh shit.
	Yoo that guy!  Yeah!

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Nakoshi: The guy with the umbrella, who read a book everyday at the bench in front of Ken's tent...
	I heard he was around this part.

Guy: Ohhh.
	That's Tomida.

Nakoshi: Tomida...

Guy: Over there, the tent with the umbrellas.

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Guy: Wonder if he went somewhere...
	Ain't seen him in 10 days or thereabout...
	Bet the agency'll come and take it down soon as next week.

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Guy: I tried to get him a job workin' at the carts.
	But he'd just collect all the umbrellas he found, then sell 'em in the park when it rained.
	Just to make a quick buck, not that it did.
	But people don't come 'round the park so much in the winter,
	so he couldn't live off it anymore...
	Wonder where he went.

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Guys: HE DEAD!!
	Urrrp...
	He was lookin for place ta die.
	Had that look, yep.
	I seen 'um before.
	I knows it.
	Yep!
	Don't be sayin' that now,
	Yocchan.
	We don't die in the winter.
	It's the summertime we do...

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Nakoshi: (sniff sniff sniff)
	(scrape)

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Book: Classic World Movies
	Revisit the classics again...

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Nakoshi: ACHOO!

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Nakoshi: Huh...?

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Nakoshi: Ph...
	Photos...?
	Oh.

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<<Nakoshi: Take me to Tobishima Fishing Harbor in Sakata.

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<<Driver: Where you from, pal?

<<Nakoshi: Tokyo.

<<Driver: What do you want,
	all the way out in Tobishima?

<<Nakoshi: I'm in a financial institution.  I'm here to sell a product.

<<Driver: A financial institution?!
	What kind?

<<Nakoshi: A bank.

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<<Driver: Judging by your suit, I'm guessing it's not a simple local bank.

<<Nakoshi: Are you familiar with finance,
	Driver?

<<Driver: Heh.
	I worked for a securities company.

<<Nakoshi: Whereabouts?

<<Driver: Take a guess.

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<<Nakoshi: I have no idea.

<<Driver: One of the Big Five.

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<<Nakoshi: Was it...
	Yamasan Securities...?

<<Driver: How 'bout that.
	Right on the money.

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<<Nakoshi: What are you doing here?

<<Driver: Company went under, and my wife divorced me.
	So now I'm a taxi driver in my old home town in Yamagata.

<<Nakoshi: You didn't want to keep working in Tokyo?

<<Driver: Ha ha ha.
	Can't work in Tokyo.
	Too many former co-workers and people I know around there.

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<<Nakoshi: How's your income?

<<Driver: Pretty shabby, if I say so myself.
	But my son got a job around here,
	and he helps me meet ends every month.

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<<Driver: I just can't live...
	Like I used to, that's all...

<<Nakoshi: Sounds like you have a good son.

<<Driver: If I hadn't been pushed out of a job...
	I could have gotten a better one for my boy.

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<<Driver: We hardly talk at home, anymore...
	I think he's lost all respect for me...
	That's the hardest part...

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<<Car: (skree)

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<<Driver: That'll be 7,700 yen.
	Just a minute.
	I'll get your change...

<<Nakoshi: N...
	No.
	You keep the change.

<<Driver: Oh?

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<<Driver: You ain't such a bad guy.

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<<Driver: Thanks, pal.

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Pictures: (flip)
	(flip)(flip)
	(flip)
	(flip)

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Tent: (ziiiip)

Nakoshi: His kid abandons him...
	He comes back to Tokyo...
	And he lives here everyday,
	sleepin' like dis...

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Nakoshi: Zzz.
	Zzz.
	Zzz.
	Zzz.
	Zzz.
	Zzz.

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Voice: No, Chatran.
	Stay still!

Nakoshi: Aaahh...
	Man, I slept like a rock...
	Yaaawwwn.

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Nakoshi: Mm...
	Mmmm...

Men: Come on, now.  Come here.
	It's okay, Chatran.  Just don't move.

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Men: C'mon.
	Ouch!
	It's not working!  He's too scared...
	Why'd he climb all the way up there?
	He knows he can't get down!

Nakoshi: Micchan.

Micchan: Oh,
	Car Guy.

Nakoshi: Let me handle this.

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Man: Careful guy, he's real scared.

Nakoshi: A'right.
	Come on now.

Chatran: (hissss)

Nakoshi: Settle down.

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Nakoshi: Come to me.

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Nakoshi: G'boy g'boy.

Men: Chatraaan!
	There there Micchan, no need to cry.

Nakoshi: Whewww.

Man: Well, tha's good now.

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Ken: Hey guy.

Nakoshi: Oh,
	Ken.

Ken: Yer filthy!
	Gahahaha.

Nakoshi: What, really?

Ken: Here, I'll buy you a trip at the bath.
	C'mon.

Nakoshi: Oh!
	Score.

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Yasu: Hey guy!

Nakoshi: Yasu.

Yasu: The cops is markin' your tires.
	They chalkin' your car!

Nakoshi: What?!

Yasu: You wanna move it quick.

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Nakoshi: Whew.
	That was close.

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Nakoshi: I'll be fine here.
	Whooooh.
	Yep.
	This is de best spot fer me...

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Nakoshi: They're all over...

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Nakoshi: A monster.
	No...
	A part of me?
	A reflection...

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Guy: (jangle)

Nakoshi: The homunculi's distortions... are my distortions.

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Nakoshi: Well I'll take a good look, then!

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Woman: Excuse meee.

Nakoshi: Hmm...?

Woman: Pardon me!
	May I have a minute?

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Woman: Can you fill out a survey?

Nakoshi: Y... yes...
	Certainly...

Woman: Ohhh, really?!

Nakoshi: {She got a bit bigger...}

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Nakoshi: Wh...
	What kind of survey?

Woman: A drink survey.
	Just come to a building nearby, answer some simple questions, and they'll give you a gift certificate.
	Can you do that?

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Nakoshi: I'm sorry, actually...
	I don't have the time.

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Nakoshi: Ah!

Woman: But it'll be over in an instant...
	No?

Nakoshi: Hmm?
	I get it...
	{It's not that her courage is getting smaller or larger...}

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Nakoshi: {Her size...
	Is a sign of distance... It's expressing perspective.}
	I'm sorry.

Woman: Awww...

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Nakoshi: {Seven legs...
	Is that expressing pride in her legs...?
	No,
	It's not that...}

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Nakoshi: {That just means...
	The chick has six pussies.}

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Man: Oh,
	pardon me.

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Nakoshi: {He's covered with glasses...}

Man: Wh...
	What?

Nakoshi: (stare...)
	{All different glasses.
	Shapes, sizes, colors...
	I'm guessing...
	He sees people through different-colored glasses?}

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Man: Wh...
	What's the big idea?  Why are you staring at me...?

Nakoshi: {I get it...
	He's saying, don't look at ME...
	With colored glasses.}

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Nakoshi: My apologies...
	Whewwww.

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Nakoshi: {A trash woman...?}

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Nakoshi: Oh!
	{I get it...
	She makes the wind blow,
	drawing attention to herself.
	The trash is just caught in the draft.}

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Nakoshi: {A bird?
	He wants to fly?
	No...
	He wants to clutch the ground.}

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Nakoshi: {Clouds...?
	Haze?
	Gloom?}
	Oh.
	{He wants to be taller...}

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Nakoshi: {He doesn't want to listen.
	These homunculi...}

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Nakoshi: {Some are easy to figure out,
	some are much harder!!}

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Nakoshi: {A giraffe...?}

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Girl: Ewww!

Nakoshi: {His breath...
	Stinks...?
	She doesn't want to smell human breath...?}

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Nakoshi: {But...
	Why a giraffe...?}

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Nakoshi: He's pitch black...
	Huh?

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Nakoshi: Whoaaa!
	Aah,
	Aaah...

Girl: Eeek!

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Nakoshi: A...
	A tube...?

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Girl: Aaaah!
	Oh my God!
	I'm so ashamed!

Nakoshi: What the hell... was that...?
	I don't get it...
	But...

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Nakoshi: The more I don't understand the homunculus,
	the more I can smell myself.

Water: (blub)(blublub)

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Water: (blub)
	(blub)

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Nakoshi: {Water...?
	No...
	Not quite...}

Water: (blub)

Nakoshi: {Aha!
	Got it.
	She's not made of water...}

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Nakoshi: {She's IN water!
	To her,
	this place, this entire neighborhood...}

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Nakoshi: {Is like being underwater.
	Very familiar...}

Koh: Hey, Nozomi.

Nozomi: Oh, hi Koh.

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Koh: Sorry, babe.
	I got held up.

Nozomi: Oh no, you're fine.
	I just got here myself.

Nakoshi: (splat)

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Nakoshi: I see...
	To her, the water is a representation...
	Of trouble breathing.
	She reminds me a lot...

Water: (blub...)

Nakoshi: Of HIM...

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Phone: RRRRRR
	Ito
	RRRRR
	(beep)

Nakoshi: Hello...

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Ito: Hello!
	Mr. Nakoshi.

Nakoshi: Goddamnit...

Ito: Let's have some tea together, shall we?

Nakoshi: No, first you're gonna...

Ito: I'm waiting at the hotel restaurant again.

Nakoshi: Hey...!

Phone: (click)
	(beep beep)

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Car: (scree)

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Man: Tsk.
	Tsk.
	Tsk.

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Hole: (wurp)
	(wurrrr)

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Nakoshi: (gulp...)

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Egg: (bthump)(bthump)

Nakoshi: {I don't understand... and...}

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Nakoshi: {I can't even step closer...!}

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Nakoshi: Wheww...

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Porter: Good day, Mr. Nakoshi.

Nakoshi: Hello.

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Nakoshi: {That girl...}

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<<Girl: Oh my God, thank you so much!!

Guy: Risa.

Risa: Hmm?

Guy: Remember that Chanel Gardenia fragrance you wanted?
	I finally got it.

Risa: Whaaaat?!

Nakoshi: (wink)

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Risa: You really did?!
	Oh my Goddd!
	Thank youuuu.
	(squeeze)

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Elevator: (ting)

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Nakoshi: That's so strange...
	Before...
	She was like some weird cube monster...
	Wait a minute...
	Those cubes... They were kind of like the sand symbols.

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Nakoshi: They were mechanical...
	Digital...
	Which means...
	The link disappeared...
	And I can't see them anymore...?
	(shh)(fsshh)

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Ito: Mm!
	Mm!
	This montblanc is amazing!
	Why don't you try it, too?

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Nakoshi: Hey, man...
	Where were you these two whole days?

Ito: Mmm,
	delicious.

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Ito: Good work.
	That's the other 400,000.

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Nakoshi: For the experiment...?

Ito: Yes.

Nakoshi: Wasn't the experiment for ten days?
	It's only been seven.

Ito: We're finished!

Nakoshi: Huh?!

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Nakoshi: Finished...?
	When everything's still half-done and incomplete...?

Ito: I've given you the full 700,000 we agreed on, haven't I?
	There's no problem whatsoever.
	In fact, this should suit you just fine.

Nakoshi: Whewww...

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Nakoshi: So you're running away again, just like you did with that girl,
	in the karaoke box.

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Water: (blub)

Ito: Mr. Nakoshi,
	remember what I told you?

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Ito: This experiment was designed to deny the effectiveness of trepanation.
	That's why I took it so seriously.
	When I realized that all I was doing in that situation was seducing a girl... I realized how completely stupid I looked.
	So I backed out of there.

Nakoshi: So then, those monsters I saw...
	What are the homunculi, then?

Ito: Just simple illusions.

Nakoshi: What?!

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Ito: In everything I do, I have a motto.  "Believe in it from the start."
	It's just that I tend to grow bored quickly...
	I always get tired before the last bite,
	just like this delicious snack.
	Mr. Nakoshi, I want to study the "human being."
	I don't want to waste my time.
	There are plenty of other things I could be doing to further that goal.

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Ito: There.
	These last two days, I've been indulging myself in hyponosis theory.
	The homunculus experiment
	is over.

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Ito: I have some interest in the hallucinations you see,
	But the hallucination theme could stand to come a bit later...

Nakoshi: What I'm hearing right now,
	is you, spouting a bunch of irresponsible horseshit...
	So why the hell...
	Did you need to experiment by opening a hole in my skull?

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Ito: I just told you.
	To research the human being.
	Trepanning is just one facet of that research.

Nakoshi: Why did you choose me?

Ito: (blub)(blub)
	I told you that already, too.

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Ito: Your halfway state suited my purpose.
	You were stuck between the hotel and the park.

Nakoshi: Why did you need someone halfway?

Ito: Oh, come on...

Nakoshi: The fact that you "want to know the human being"
	basically means...
	You want to know "yourself."

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Nakoshi: It means you're only halfway, yourself.

Ito: (blubub)(blub)(blub)

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Nakoshi: What exactly are YOU stuck between?

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Ito: Pffft!
	Heheheheh.
	Mr. Nakoshi...
	Have you ever heard of the word "placebo"?

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Nakoshi: Yeah...

Ito: It's the same as an "assumption."
	The true theme of this experiment,
	was the "placebo effect."

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Ito: Humans can be made to believe in anything...
	I wanted to prove that.
	Trepanation...
	You gain a sixth sense by opening a hole in your skull?
	Do you really believe in something that bizarre and unscientific?  It's preposterous...
	However,
	you, Mr. Nakoshi, have gained the power...
	To see the illusions known as homunculi.

Nakoshi: Illusions...?

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Ito: What it means,
	is that you fell under my power of suggestion, that's all.
	You fell for the placebo effect,
	exactly as I had expected you would.
	What do you think?
	Wasn't it perfect?

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Ito: At any rate,
	my objective has been completed.
	When under suggestion,
	people will believe just about anything you tell them...
	That's what kind of animal we are.

Nakoshi: Placebo, huh...?

Ito: Yes...

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Ito: So this placebo...
	You wouldn't need to open a hole in the skull just to give someone the wrong impression, would you?
	You could just pretend...
	to open a hole.

Ito: Mr. Nakoshi.

Ito: Do you REALLY THINK
	there's a hole in the front of your head?

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Nakoshi: What happened to you...?
	Your forehead...

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Nakoshi: (peel)
	I've seen it for myself.
	(rip)

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Nakoshi: I've seen the hole in my skull!

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Nakoshi: I don't care if it's a placebo, or trepanation, or whatever...
	If the experiment is over...
	Then use the money
	to fill in this hole.

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Nakoshi: It's got to be easier than opening the hole.

Ito: Yes...
	True...

Nakoshi: As long they stop showing up, I don't care.

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Ito: Very well.
	One last time...
	What kind of illusion
	do I present, to you?

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Nakoshi: Give me a pen and paper.

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Paper: Human
	Robot arm
	Sand leg

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Nakoshi: Who do you think that is?

Ito: Huh?!
	It's not... me...?

Nakoshi: It's me.

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Ito: Haha...
	What is this...?
	It's just a mix of the yakuza boss's robot and the teenage girl's sand.

Nakoshi: That's right.

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Nakoshi: The instant I got involved with the robot yakuza and it disappeared from him, it appeared on my arm.

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Nakoshi: The instant the sand disappeared from the girl, it appeared on my leg.
	Technically, it's not sand, but tiny fragments of symbols.
	When I got involved with those monsters,
	a part of them...

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Nakoshi: Moved to my body...
	(shff)
	...that is the illusion I'm getting...

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Paper: Human
	Robot arm
	Sand leg

Ito: Haha.
	Involved?

Nakoshi: (wink)

Ito: How do you get involved with someone,
	so that these transfer over to you?

Coffee: (blub blub blub)

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Water: (blub blub blub)

Ito: Well,
	how did you do that??

Nakoshi: Huh?

Ito: I asked you,
	How did you get involved with them?

Nakoshi: I'm not telling you.

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Ito: Hahaha,
	this is so stupid...

Nakoshi: (wink)

Ito: (blub blub blub)

Fish: (poke)

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Nakoshi: F...
	Fish...?

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Ito: What do you mean, fish?

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Nakoshi: A...
	G...
	Guppy...?

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Ito: How did you know?

Nakoshi: Huh?

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Ito: How...?

Nakoshi: How what...?

Ito: (rustle)(rustle)

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Ito: How did you know there was a guppy in my bag?
	Did you see me buying this fish at the tropical fish store before I came here?

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Nakoshi: Y...
	Yeah...
	You could say that.

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Nakoshi: Look, I just want this hole filled in.

Ito: Y,
	Yes...

Nakoshi: If you CAN fill it.

Ito: Huh?
	What did you say?

Nakoshi: Nothing.
	Let's go.

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Homunculus Volume 7 : The End

* The "trepanation" procedure described in this story is extremely dangerous.  Whatever you do, don't try this at home.
* This is a work of fiction.  Any resemblance to existing persons, places or events is entirely coincidental.
* Serialized in Big Comic Spirits 2005, Issues 41-46; and 2006, Issues 30-34.
* Homunculus Official Homepage: http://www.yamapro.com

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When Nakoshi pretends to misread his visions...
...he sees himself changing within Ito...

Volume 8 of Homunculus scheduled for sale February 2007!!