Monster Volume 2 : Surprise Party Chapter 2 (10) Prince on a White Horse - Page 31 - [Hanover, Germany] Woman: A boy...? Ah, yes... There was. Chapter 2 : Prince on a White Horse - Page 32 - Tenma: What kind of boy? Gramma: Well, I don't know... Might I order a piece of cake first? Tenma: Oh, yes... Go ahead. Gramma: One piece of chocolate cake, please... Would you like one, too? Tenma: No, I'm fine, thank you. Gramma: You should try it. The chocolate cake here is just delicious. And besides... Are you eating properly? You don't look well at all. - Page 33 - Gramma: Oh, it was so awful. The Schumanns were such wonderful people. And to be murdered in such a hideous way... The Berlin Wall is gone, and the world hasn't gotten any better. Oh, how awful. Are you a police detective? Or a private eye? Tenma: Oh, no... I'm neither of those... Gramma: Well, you must find the murderer soon. You're investigating the murders of the four middle-aged couples, right? Cologne, Hamburg, Munich, and here in Hanover. Four very different places, but all the clues point to the work of a single man. Tenma: You seem to know much about this already. Gramma: Oh yes, I just LOVE this kind of news. It glues me to the television. Tenma: I... see... - Page 34 - Tenma: And when did the Schumanns take custody of the child? Gramma: Hmmmmm. Maybe five or six years ago. He only lived with them about a year, roughly. They said he was the child of a relative. Tenma: Do you remember at all what kind of child he was? Gramma: Ohhh, I don't know, he just didn't stand out at all. Oh dear, I can't even remember his face. What is it? Does he have some connection to the case? Tenma: N-no. Gramma: You can tell me. I'm really good at spotting the culprit in mystery novels. Tenma: Uh... Was there only one boy? He didn't have a sister with him? - Page 35 - Gramma: Er... sister? No, no. Just the one boy. Tenma: I see. Thank you for your help. Gramma: That's it? I feel bad, making you buy me cake. You really should try the chocolate cake here. Sheesh... What a gloomy man... Tenma: {In Cologne, Hamburg, and here in Hanover, all of the middle aged couples took care of one unnoticable little boy whose face cannot be recalled... Nine years ago, when Johan--no, HE left my hospital... He took his twin sister with him...} - Page 36 - Tenma: {Just where did that sister go?!} [Munich] Woman: Child...? Yes... there was, I remember. Seven or eight years ago. Yes, yes, I remember now. Tenma: And he lived with the Haynau family, before they were killed, right? What kind of boy was he? Woman: What kind...? That was so long ago. And besides, he didn't even live with them for a whole year. I don't remember a single thing about him. - Page 37 - Tenma: Did the boy have a sister with him? Woman: Just one boy. I want to forget everything about what happened to them. It was so bad, I thought about moving away. Tenma: Ah... Man: I know the boy. - Page 38 - Man: Come up. I was just making tea. Please, sit. Tenma: Excuse me... This... Is my card... - Page 39 - Man: Please, sit. Tenma: Uh... right. Man: Have some tea. (rattle rattle rattle) Tenma: Ah... thank you. - Page 40 - Man: You're a doctor, right? Tenma: Huh? Man: I heard from the boy. You're Dr. Tenma, right? - Page 41 - [Heidelberg College] Friends: Someone's coming to meet you, Nina? Who? Nina: I don't know. I got an anonymous e-mail on my computer. Friend: You look so happy. Do you really think it's your prince on a white horse, coming to pick you up? Nina: Hahaha, are you jealous? Friend: Oh boy, Nina's off in the clouds again. You were just having all those dreams about the monster attacking you. Nina: That was a dream!! This one is a real e-mail, right on my computer! "I was born to smother you with flowers." Friend: What kind of guy writes lines like that these days? - Page 42 - Nina: Oh come on, I can dream. Friend: You ARE in the clouds! Blonde Friend: AH! Hey, you know that new guy who's been showing up for the lectures? Friend: OH! [The guy who sat right down in seat number 12, the infamous seat that always gets the teacher to point at you for answers!] Friend: But the professor NEVER calls on him. Blonde Friend: Yeah, that's him!! Have you noticed? He ALWAYS stares at Nina. - Page 43 - Friends: It must be HIM!! Nina: What about him? Blonde: The one who sent you the e-mail!! Nina: Huh? Friend: Oooh... Maybe he's really cool... Blonde Friend: Prince Charming might not be too far from the truth!! Nina: W-wait... I don't know who that is... Blonde Friend: Leave it to us! The next time we see him, we'll set up a way for you to meet him!! Nina: WHAT?! No, wait, Clara... Wait, Beate! Friends: Just leave it to us!! - Page 44 - [Munich] Man: You're just the way he described you, Dr. Tenma... Tenma: Uhhh... Man: He feels extremely grateful to you. You saved his life... You're even more than a father to him. Tenma: What did he call himself? Man: Franz... but he said it wasn't his real name. - Page 45 - Tenma: If he told you that much... Then he must have opened his heart up to you. Man: Anyhow, Franz just showed up out of nowhere... And the childless Haynaus, who lived in the flat across the street, took him in for a year. Well, to be precise, it was from March of 1987 to April of 1988, so 13 months. And one day, he simply vanished. The boy was extraordinarily sharp. And he knew his manners well. You never would have thought he was 12 years old. Tenma: Did he come in here? Man: Yes, everyday. I live alone, so I was always glad for the company. He just sat in that chair and studied. Under my guidance, he learned English and French in the blink of an eye. - Page 46 - Man: By the time he vanished, he had just about mastered the use of both languages... Just a 12-year-old boy... Tenma: Is there anything else about him that you remember? Man: He listened to everything I had to say with great enthusiasm. And what do you think it was that most peaked his interest? Tenma: I don't know... Man: Stories of the war. Tenma: War... Man: I rode in a U-boat for the German Navy in World War II. - Page 47 - Man: His most common request was the story of how our U-boat was attacked by an Allied destroyer. [Traveling 120 meters deep, we were marked and chased by the Allied Captain Nielsen, the "Monster of the Sea." We stayed submerged, taking fatal damage...] [It was hell on earth. We escaped with our lives after spending 38 straight hours engulfed in fear, the only sound inside the sub, the creaking of its hull...] Man: Any normal boy would enjoy the story for the adventure of it all. But he was different. What he was most fascinated with... Was the ultimate terror of it all. - Page 48 - Man: How would a person respond to standing at the brink of death? That was all he was interested in... He was toying with fear. Tenma: When he... When he sat in this chair and talked, what was the expression on his face...? - Page 49 - Man: His eyes sparkled and a grin floated about on his face, I suppose... Tenma: You suppose? Man: I cannot see. I did not know his real name, nor did I know his face. You mentioned earlier that he opened his heart to me... He does not open his heart to anyone... What is it that you think you know about him? - Page 50 - Man: There was only one person that boy truly opened his heart to... His sister. Tenma: I... I'm looking for that sister!! Man: His foster parents, the Haynaus, were murdered. And I gather that the same thing happened to three other couples all around Germany. I don't know much of the details... I just got the feeling that I needed to tell you all that I knew. Tenma: And you know where his sister is now?! Man: He said that he would go get her when she turned 20. - Page 51 - Tenma: Where?! Man: Heidelberg. [Heidelberg] Nina: Bye-bye!! Mother: Drive safely on your bike!! Nina: Yes, Mother!! Bye-bye, Papa!! (peck) Father: You be careful, now. - Page 52 - Nina: The mimosa bloomed so beautifully this year. Father: Yup, I raised it up with my own sweat and blood!! Nina: And the daughter you raised with your sweat and blood is blooming beautifully as well!! Father: If you get any weird bugs stuck on you, I'll just spray 'em with some insecticide!! Nina: Thanks!! Father: I guess it's time. Mother: Yes... but... Father: We decided we'd tell her on her twentieth birthday. That she isn't really our daughter... - Page 53 - Nina: H-hey... wait!! I can't do this!! Friends: What do you mean? You WANTED to meet him, Nina!! Just wait over there and he'll come up and talk to you. Hit it off well with your Prince Charming!! Bye!! Nina: Ah... Wait, you guys!! Sheesh... Why do they go and do these things without asking me first...? Sigh... Man: (step) Friends: Oh, look!! There he is!! - Page 54 - Guy: Nina Fortner...? Uh, hi... I'm Otto Huberman. Nina: Oh... hello... - Page 55 - Nina: {Who?! Who is that?!} - Page 56 - Nina: {I've seen him before!! Who ARE you?!} Otto: Huh?! Friends: Nina!! Nina: {WHO?!} - Chapter 2 End -