Homunculus
	 Volume 8

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Homunculus
Hideo Yamamoto

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Volume Eight

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Ito: There you go! A nice big home for you!
	Aren't you a lucky widdle fishy!
	What do you think?

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Ito: Nice and pretty.
	Heheh...

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Ito: Don't you find it beautiful?
	Mr. Nakoshi.

Nakoshi: Y-Yeah...

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Ito: What's wrong?

Nakoshi: Nothing...

Door: (click)

Ito: I'll be setting up in the operating room.
	Just change into this.

Nakoshi: Sure...

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Nakoshi: His dad...
	Huh...?

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Nakoshi: Have I seen him before...?

Ito: I'm all ready to go, Mr. Nakoshi.

Nakoshi: Oh... right.

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Ito: Hmm, hmm-hmm.
	(clink clink)

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Ito: Today will be your last day with homunculi, Mr. Nakoshi.

Nakoshi: It's not just the homunculi.
	It's goodbye to illusions in general.

Ito: Ha ha ha.
	Yes, of course.
	Naturally, it's only the placebo effect that's causing the illusions,
	(blub blub)
	So I can't tell if you closing the hole will stop the illusions altogether.

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Nakoshi: It will!

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Nakoshi: Plug the hole, and the homunculi will disappear.
	I can tell.

Ito: Interesting.
	(clink)(clink)

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Ito: Here's an anaesthetic.

Nakoshi: Before I lose sight of it...
	Want me to tell you what kind of monster you are?

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Ito: Yes,
	by all means!

Nakoshi: You...

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Nakoshi: Are made of water.

Ito: (blub)

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Ito: What?
	Made of water?
	Ha ha.

Nakoshi: Perfectly clear water,
	so on first glance,
	you appear to be an invisible man.

Ito: (crack)

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Ito: Well, isn't that cool!
	(scratch)

Nakoshi: But when you get nervous or shocked,
	Bubbles appear,
	the water sloshes,

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Nakoshi: And your full shape appears.

Ito: (blub blub)(blub)
	Is that right?
	(crack)(crack)

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Nakoshi: At its worst,
	the water spills,
	or shoots out..

Ito: (pshh...)

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Nakoshi: Whoa!
	Hey!
	Ack...
	Noo!
	Nrg...

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Ito: Ha ha ha.
	Very funny.
	So...
	Am I shocked,
	at the moment?

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Nakoshi: Want me to shock you?

Ito: (shpoosh)

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Ito: Now now, stop that.
	What if you unnerve me so much
	that I fail in the surgery?
	(grab)

Nakoshi: Nnk...

Ito: There.
	All done.
	(toss)

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Ito: Are we all ready now?
	Mr. Nakoshi.

Nakoshi: Are you sure about this?

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Ito: Of course! I'm just fine.
	Now, then...

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Nakoshi: Oh.
	That's it...

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Nakoshi: It was...
	Your dad...

Ito: Huh?

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Ito: Did you say something?

Nakoshi: N-No.

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Nakoshi: Nggh...

Ito: Mr. Nakoshi.

Nakoshi: Huh?

Ito: Are you sure you want me to close it up?

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Nakoshi: And I'm sending that question
	straight back to you.

Ito: (crack)

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Nakoshi: Besides...
	How will you operate...
	With your hands like that...?

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Ito: Huh?
	What the?

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Ito: Hmmmmmm?
	What?
	That's weird...

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Ito: (blub)

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Nakoshi: You can't escape from me.

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Nakoshi: And it doesn't look like I can escape from you.

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Nakoshi: You get it, don't you?
	We carry the same baggage with us.

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Nakoshi: This little hole here...
	Is the only thing
	that connects you,
	and me.

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Nakoshi: Whether you fill it back in or not
	is up to you.

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Ito: Oh, honestly.

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Ito: Mr. Nakoshi,
	what are you getting so worked up about?
	It's kind of creepy...
	What am I to do, now...?
	Seems my bowling game ran a bit long yesterday, and my hands are still a bit shaky.

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Ito: Toss that!
	Well, filling in that hole in your skull is a precise operation,
	so we'll just focusing on disinfecting your flesh for today.
	We can fix that hole anytime.

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Ito: (click)(click)
	(shhhh)

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Ito: That should keep it from festering.
	Have no fear.

Nakoshi: One more thing...

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Nakoshi: Sew my right eye for me.

Ito: What?!

Nakoshi: Sew my eye shut
	for me.

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Ito: ...huh...

Nakoshi: Run a thread
	right through here.

Ito: But... But I told you, my hand's trembling from the bowling...

Nakoshi: You're fine.

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Ito: I'm not...
	My hand isn't steady...

Nakoshi: That's why you're fine.

Ito: Mr. Nakoshi...
	What are you thinking...?

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Ito: Have a nice trip, then.

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<<Ito: Can you roll down the window?

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<<Paper: Trepanation

<<Ito: Hmmm hmm hmm hmmm.

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<<Paper: Whole body is sand! Clothes too!
	Only number plate

<<Ito: That you yourself are a homunculus...
	(blubb)(blub)

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<<Ito: Let's go.

<<Girl: W...
	Wait...

<<Ito: (blub)(blub blub)

<<Nakoshi: It's devouring him...

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Ito: Ha ha ha. (blub)
	Mr. Nakoshiiii.

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Ito: Welcome, to the world of illusion. The world of homunculi.

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Ito: Mr. Nakoshi...

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Ito: What do you hope to accomplish,
	by diving into the world of homonculi?

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Ito: I thought you hated seeing them.
	What ARE the homunculi to you now, Mr. Nakoshi?

Nakoshi: They ain't homunculi.
	They're delusions.

Ito: Come now, Mr. Nakoshi.
	There's no use getting upset.

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Ito: Anyways...
	Out of all these "delusions,"
	What exactly happened with these two, here?
	You got involved with this robot yakuza boss,
	and your arm became robotic.
	You got involved with this sand teenager,
	and your leg turned into sand made of symbols.

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Ito: You wouldn't even see stuff like that in your dreams.
	What happened exactly, Mr. Nakoshi?
	How did you get involved with them?

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<<Yukari: (spshh...)

<<Finger: (chunk)

<<Symbols: See you later

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Ito: Oh!
	That's it, I've got it!
	Try it on me, too!!
	Go on!

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Ito: I can handle whatever it is you want.
	Besides, Mr. Nakoshi,
	now that you've sewn your right eye shut and plunged into your dreams,
	there's only one thing for you to do...
	(blub...)

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Ito: It's simply to fight
	against this product of your delusions, isn't it?

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Nakoshi: The experiment's over.

Ito: It's not an experiment.
	Just a game.

Nakoshi: You really want to know that bad?
	About these dreams,
	from just these few days...

Ito: Yes!

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Ito: I'm very interested to know.
	I've put 300,000 yen into this, after all.

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Ito: What exactly happened, Mr. Nakoshi?
	Don't hold back, you can tell me now.

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Nakoshi: The yakuza cut his finger off,
	and I fucked #1775.

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Ito: He cut off his finger...
	And you had sex...?!
	Ha... Hang on just a moment.
	What exactly am I supposed to do, then?!

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Ito: I'm going to have to decline sex with a man.
	And I'm not thrilled about losing a finger, either.

Nakoshi: Huh?
	(stare)

Ito: What?!

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Ito: W-W-Wait up just one second...

Nakoshi: (stare)

Ito: Before you do anything, Mr. Nakoshi...
	I'm sorry to bug you,
	but would you mind doing me a favor of a free "Homunculus Sketch" on the side of your 300,000 yen bill?
	In fact, I insist you do it.

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Ito: Come on,
	draw me a little sketch.
	I was,
	"Water," did you say?

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Paper: Father-shaped case (looks invisible)
	Packed full of water

Ito: Father, huh...

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Ito: True,
	that does seem to be my father...
	By the way, Mr. Nakoshi,
	please don't play with my photos.
	So what you're saying is,
	my homunculus is like that fishtank...

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Ito: And that I'm trapped within a fishtank shaped like my father...
	That's your synopsis?

Nakoshi: {Huh?}

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Ito: That would make me just like #1775.

Nakoshi: {The guppy...
	It's gone...!}

Ito: True, my father is a very strict man,
	so I might have a rebellious streak and some kind of complex regarding him.

Nakoshi: {Where is it?
	Where'd it go??}

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Ito: But that would be too simple, bland and generic... Everyone's heard that one before.
	They're going to question your imagination, Mr. Nakoshi.

Nakoshi: {The water's stopped flowing entirely...}

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Ito: Every man has issues with his father.
	It's human ego that causes them to grow that way.
	We have to find a balance between strict fathers and kind mothers.
	That's how we earn our personalities.

Nakoshi: {Is it... defense?}

Ito: By saying that only my strict father affected my upbringing...
	And that my personality is comprised solely within his influence...

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Ito: Thus making me an invisible man...
	Why, even the cheapest of soap operas wouldn't use that hackneyed stereotype these days.

Nakoshi: {Has the guppy...
	Completely disappeared...?!}

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Ito: Does that mean that you, Mr. Nakoshi,
	had that sort of cheap, generic friction with your own father?
	I'm sure you've figured it out.
	Those homunculi you see,
	Mr. Nakoshi,
	are just a mirror showing you your own reflection.

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Nakoshi: Yeah...

Ito: This means nothing except that you have your own father issues.

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Nakoshi: But...
	Your homunculus,
	isn't your father, or water, or anything... I think.

Ito: (blub blub)

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Nakoshi: Your dad and the water are a defense to hide your REAL self.

Ito: Defense...?

Nakoshi: The yakuza's robot,
	was just a boy covered in a robot body...
	The sand girl
	was all symbols disguised as sand...
	Your homunculus...
	Your "water in the shape of your dad,"

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Nakoshi: Is nothing but a front to hide your true self.
	You've got to have something else deep down!

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Ito: (blub blub)
	Wh...
	What is it...?

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Nakoshi: Where did you hide your secret?!

Ito: M-Mr. Nakoshi,
	settle down...

Nakoshi: Where?
	Where the hell is it?!

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Nakoshi: {There it is...}

Ito: (blub)

Nakoshi: {Hiding in his pocket...
	Look how small it is...}

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Nakoshi: {So it didn't just disappear.
	I see...}

Ito: (blub)(blub...)
	(blub)(blub)

Nakoshi: {The reason I couldn't see it
	was because it shrunk down so small it couldn't be found!}

Ito: (blub...)

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Nakoshi: That's where you've been all those other times.
	Get up.
	Wake up in there.
	Why are you curled up and tiny, like an embryo?

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Ito: Huh?

Nakoshi: Show me inside your pocket.

Ito: Huh?!
	No way.
	You're creeping me out. What's the big idea...?

Nakoshi: Just show me!

Ito: I don't want to...
	(rrrrrrrr)(blorp)

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Nakoshi: Oh!
	{It's back to its old size...!}

Phone: (rrrrrr)

Ito: Uhh, Mr. Nakoshi?!
	Don't stick your hand inside my pocket! (rrrrrrr)
	Stop that!

Nakoshi: Just give it me!

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Phone: RRRRRRRR
	(beep)

Nakoshi: Hello?

Ito: Hey...
	You can't just answer that!
	Mr. Nakoshiiii.

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Phone: Huh? Manabun?

Nakoshi: Who are you?

Phone: Who am I? What...
	You aren't Manabun?

Nakoshi: Who the hell is this?!

Phone: Hey, is Manabun there?

Ito: Mr. Nakoshi!

Phone: Put him on!

Nakoshi: What are you, to this guy?!

Phone: I don't know what you meaaan...
	(click...)

Screen: [Call]	4 sec
	Hiyori

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Phone: Beeep beeep

Nakoshi: Shit...!

Phone: (tick tick tick tick)

Ito: W-Wait a minute!

Phone: (tick tick tick tick)

Ito: You can't just use my phone like that!

Phone: (beep)
	12/20 16:07
	Hiyori

Nakoshi: Who was that woman,
	just now?!

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Ito: Just a lady friend from college...

Phone: 12/20
	Hiyori

Ito: Liar!
	Who is she?!

Ito: It's true... Just a totally normal college friend, nothing more.

Nakoshi: I don't believe that!
	What are you hiding from me?!

Ito: Please, knock it off,
	Mr. Nakoshi!

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Ito: Listen to you,
	you're acting like a controlling girlfriend or something...

Nakoshi: Y...
	Yeah, you're right...
	Sorry...
	Huh?

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Nakoshi: Cute phone.

Fish: (blub)(blub)

Nakoshi: Huh?
	Phone...?

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Ito: G...
	Give that back.
	Geez...

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<<Yukari: You're not letting me touch it.

<<Ito: (pyuuu)

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Ito: Wh...
	What?
	What is it now...?!

Nakoshi: Hold still.

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Nakoshi: {What is this case
	made out of?!}

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<<Fish: (crick)(crack)

Ito: M... Mr. Nakoshi?
	S...
	Stop, that tickles!

Nakoshi: {It's...
	hard...!}

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Ito: (blub)

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Nakoshi: Owww! Goddamnit...!

Ito: Ha ha ha.
	Mr. Nakoshi?
	What do you think you're doing?
	(bwoop)

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Ito: I might not look tough, but I do keep in shape.
	Ha ha ha ha.

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Nakoshi: (push)
	{It's hard...!}

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Fish: (pop)

Nakoshi: Your case...
	It's impenetrable from the outside...

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Nakoshi: It can only be altered from the inside...!
	Which means...
	The only thing...
	That can change this case is YOU!!

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Ito: Huh?

Fish: (stop...)

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<<Yukari: (squeeze)

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Nakoshi: That's cold...!

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Ito: Come onnn...
	What are you doing...?
	You're creeping me out... (drip drip drip drip drip)

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Nakoshi: Why did you run
	from that girl, #1775?

Ito: I told you,
	it just felt so stupid...

Nakoshi: I'm not asking you.

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Nakoshi: Why did you run?

Fish: (blub...)

Ito: Who are you talking to, Mr. Nakoshi? Who else is even here?

Nakoshi: To you.

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Ito: (blorp)
	(crack)(crack)(crack)(crack)

Nakoshi: {I see...
	That rash...
	It was the guppy poking out from inside...!}

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<<Yukari: Your right side...
	It's so beautiful...

Nakoshi: (splat)

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Ito: (blorp)

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Ito: Mr. Nakoshi,
	this is getting really silly now...

Nakoshi: You're the one who told me to try this.
	Why...
	Why did we...
	Choose her, of all of them...?

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Ito: Listen to you,
	you're being very strange.
	You chose 1775, remember?

Nakoshi: Don't be stupid.
	I did,
	AND you did.

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Nakoshi: 1775 and you
	must both be carrying the same "something"!
	What drew you to her?

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Ito: Mr. Nakoshi, it might be true that her homunculus and mine
	share some elements related to parental pressure.
	However...
	I only chose her because I thought she was cute, remember?

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Ito: I mean,
	she WAS beautiful, wasn't she?
	In the simplest way.

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<<Ito: #1775 is very nice.
	She's quite beautiful.
	Nice and pretty.
	Don't you find it beautiful?

Nakoshi: {Is that it...?}

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Nakoshi: {Beauty...?!
	He's...
	Just a fruit...?!}

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Nakoshi: {So...
	If he's actually gay...
	Then... that means...}

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Fish: (poke)(poke)

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Fish: (poke)(poke)(poke)

Nakoshi: H... Hey...
	Wait a second...
	No... I'M not...

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Ito: What are you muttering about now?

Nakoshi: {But...
	The homunculi I see,
	are me myself...!}

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Nakoshi: You said...

Ito: Yes?

Nakoshi: You said you'd do anything, right?
	As long as it isn't sex...

Ito: Y...
	Yes.

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<<Ito: Huh?

Nakoshi: Hmmmm...
	But...

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<<Yukari: You virgin!

Nakoshi: ...virgin...

Ito: (blub blub...)

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Nakoshi: Virgin...?

Ito: Huh?

Nakoshi: ARE you?
	A virgin...?

Ito: What?!

Nakoshi: I'm asking you, have you had sex with a woman?

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Ito: Don't make fun of me!
	You might be surprised to know
	that I have to beat them off with a stick.
	I've never gone for want of female company.

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Ito: Mr. Nakoshiiii.
	I'm not like youuuu.

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Nakoshi: Huh?

Ito: Are you sure it wasn't YOU,
	who's had bad luck with women all his life?

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Nakoshi: Hff.
	Hff.
	Hff.
	Hff.
	Hff.
	Hff.
	Hff.
	Hff.
	Hff.

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Nakoshi: If you say...
	Hff.
	Hff.
	Hff.
	Another word about that...
	Just shut up and sit back...

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Nakoshi: (rip)

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Ito: Mr. Nakoshi,
	Why have you been
	copying everything 1775 did?

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Nakoshi: The lips and the guppy are combining together...!

Ito: Could you take it easy?
	I'd rather not kiss you.

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Ito: By the way, Mr. Nakoshi,
	when WAS your first kiss?
	I'm sure it must have happened late.

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Nakoshi: You son of a...

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Ito: Or...
	Have you actually...
	Never had one?

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Nakoshi: Heh.
	Ridiculous.
	Ha ha...

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Ito: (blub blub...)

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Nakoshi: A...
	Human-faced fish...?!
	G...

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Nakoshi: Gross, dude...
	Huh?

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Nakoshi: L... Legs...?!

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Nakoshi: Oh...

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Nakoshi: N...
	No! Damn...!

Ito: (blub)

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Ito: (blub blub...)

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Water: (blub)(blub)(blub)

Ito: M...
	Mr. Nakoshi...
	What are you doing...?

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Ito: That hurts...
	This...
	This isn't funny, you know...!

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Ito: I don't like this whole water that turns me invisible thing...

Nakoshi: Then I'll suck it out!

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Nakoshi: Ack!

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Ito: Come onnnn...

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Ito: Did you think you were breaking me out of my pattern or something...?

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Ito: Mr. Nakoshi.

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Ito: Mr. Nakoshi,
	Are you under the impression that I have gender issues?
	What exactly about this homunculus is leading you to that conclusion?

Paper: Father-shaped case (looks invisible)
	Packed full of water

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Ito: Or are you saying...
	That this sketch is just a lie?
	You've been acting quite strange...

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Nakoshi: {It's... getting bigger...}

Fish: (brup...)

Nakoshi: {Bit by bit...!
	I see.
	For all the water spilling out,
	the guppy just gets bigger,}

Fish: (brup)(brup)

Nakoshi: {In order to keep the water level from dropping.}

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Ito: Plus, I bet you've noticed, then.

Fish: (brup)(brup)

Ito: That if I am what you say,
	that means YOU have gender identity disorder, as well.

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Ito: And all these imitations of 1775's actions...
	You lack class... You know that?
	If 1775 and I are linked...
	That means you're linked to us as well.

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Ito: All three of us are linked by the same issues.

Nakoshi: They're not links...

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Nakoshi: They're a chain!

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Nakoshi: The issue that links you to me...
	And the issue that links 1775 to me are completely different!
	Same with the yakuza...
	When each person links their issue with another,
	they form a chain...
	That's what I feel like.

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Nakoshi: 1775 and I are,
	symbols, knowledge.
	You and I are...

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Ito: Hang on just a minute.
	That doesn't make any sense.
	I have this fatherly shape that informs my rules, my manual.
	It's the same link of symbolism between you and 1775.

Nakoshi: The issue that links you and the girl
	isn't symbols!

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Ito: Well, what the heck links 1775 to me, then?

Nakoshi: You really can't tell?
	Why did you choose her,
	and why did you run away...?

Ito: I told you already.
	It was just,
	because she was beautiful...

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Nakoshi: Then you do know.

Ito: Huh?
	What did you say?

Nakoshi: Forget about you and 1775 already...

Ito: Huh?

Nakoshi: I'm not interested.

Ito: Huhh?!

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Nakoshi: I'm not interested in anything but YOU, right here and now!

Ito: Oh come on, hang on a minute...

Nakoshi: I'm only interested
	in my own self!

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Nakoshi: Just what issue of mine
	are you holding? What is it...?
	Out with it!

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Nakoshi: Why did you choose me?

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Nakoshi: You needed a man whose skull you could pop a hole into.
	So why,
	did you,
	choose ME?!

Fish: (blub...)

Nakoshi: Even more,
	why did you choose to do that operation in the first place?

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Nakoshi: What for?

Ito: Didn't I tell you already...?
	It's just one of the ways available for me to study the human condition...
	And look at you now!
	The effects of your trepanation have paid off so...

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Nakoshi: Look at him and answer me.

Ito: Huh?

Nakoshi: Answer my question,

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Nakoshi: While you look at this fish.

Ito: Mr. Nakoshi...
	Now you're just ripping off what I did to 1775.

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Ito: Okay, true,
	In my case, unlike 1775, my "conscious side" is my left,
	so I realize that you're trying to make me focus my attention to my right.
	But I don't see why that means you're going to get anything new or different out of my...

Nakoshi: I told you,
	don't take your eyes off of him!

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Fish: (stare...)

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Nakoshi: Yeah,
	just keep your gaze right at yourself.

Ito: Look, you've been mumbling all this time.
	I don't really understand what it's supposed to...

Nakoshi: (tap)(tap)

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Fish: (staaare)
	(blub)
	(tok tok tok tok tok)

Nakoshi: {Shaking his leg...}

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Homunculus Volume 8 : 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 2006, Issue 52; and 2007, Issues 1-11.
* Homunculus Official Homepage: http://www.yamapro.com

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Finally, the core between Ito and Nakoshi is reached...

Volume 9 of Homunculus scheduled for sale this winter!!