Monster Volume 5 : After the Carnival Chapter the Fortieth Lunge's Expectations - Page 175 - Cameras: (click) (click click) (click click) (click) Chapter 40 : Lunge's Expectations - Page 176 - Police: Move it, move it!! Don't obstruct the investigation!! Chapter 40 : Lunge's Expectations Reporters: Please tell us how the police are handling this incident! Are you reasonably sure that this is also an act of this serial killer?! - Page 177 - Reporters: The victims, the Jopps, have no children, is that correct?! I've heard they had a considerable fortune!! No matter how you look at it, this perfectly fits into the pattern of the serial murders that happened 3 years ago. Police: No comment! Reporter: Please, sir! Police: There will be a press conference later!! Reporters: We've received word that a special agent from the BKA will arrive to spearhead this investigation. Then does that mean this really is part of the serial murders...? Police: No comment!! Kipper: Hmmmmmm. (scritch scritch) I suppose it would be faster to ask the BKA agent directly. [Hamburg Station, Germany] - Page 178 - Kipper: Yes... So I'll get some information out of him... Just leave it to me! We'll beat the competition to the punch! Make sure you give me plenty of space for it. Oh, there he is... talk to you later! Door: (batan) Kipper: Excuse me, my name is Kipper, from the Hamburg Talk. Lunge: (tap tap) Kipper: You would be the BKA agent, yes? Please, a word, sir. Is this incident related to the serial murders a while ag... Lunge: I'll make this a special for-your-ears-only case. - Page 179 - Lunge: You are precisely correct! This is another of the middle-aged couple serial murders. Kipper: Ah... so it IS!! Then, the suspect is the... Lunge: I just saw the report! All the clues are exactly the same. Kipper: Thanks for the scoop!! Lunge: Ah, wait a moment. Your paper has a lot of influence. Your report will spread to all the other prominent newspapers across the country, yes? Kipper: Of course. Thanks for your assistance! (dash) - Page 180 - Lunge: (za) I am the killer... I am the killer... I am becoming the killer. Do I knock...? Yes... Best not to alarm the woman living here. (knock knock) - Page 181 - Door: (creak) Lunge: Hmph! A courteous couple. I am invited into the living room with no objections. (tap) (tap) They have no idea. (tap) The master's seat... I sit on the couch for guests, of course. - Page 182 - Lunge: Minutes later, the husband dies on the floor over there. But I haven't started doing anything yet. Where is the wife? Oh yes, she still isn't here in the living room yet. She's making tea in the kitchen! The wife is stabbed in the back, in the kitchen... before the tea is prepared... - Page 183 - Lunge: That means it is time for me to begin. I take out my knife... And stab the husband with one motion as he rushes to get up! Oops, I made a mistake! The husband runs with a wound on his left hand... My next attack is on the husband's right shoulder. Oh no, another blunder! I can't believe these amateur mistakes I'm making! The man calls his wife's name! But she's in the kitchen. She can't hear him. Her ears have been getting worse lately. Yes... I already know that fact. - Page 184 - Lunge: Yell! Go on, scream all you like!! I can take out your wife at my leisure once I've killed you. I've caught up! A print of the husband's left hand... I've caught up with the husband at the sideboard here! This is the end! No... I do not end his life here... I'm 5 meters from where he dies on the floor... - Page 185 - Lunge: Why?! Why don't I stab him here...? Why... - Page 186 - Lunge: Hmm! Woman: T... this man killed the Jopps? Lunge: No... that's not it, exactly. I'm just asking a favor of all the nearby residents. - Page 187 - Lunge: What I want you to do is very simple. If he shows up, I want you to treat him very naturally... Then, contact me with all haste... that's all you have to do. Woman: I... see. Lunge: You will not be in danger. I can guarantee that. What a terrible thing to happen in a quiet neighborhood like this. Woman: Yes... the Jopps were such kind people... The wife... she always did gardenwork in the morning... When I would say hello, she was always so cheerful... Lunge: You...? Would say hello...? Woman: Yes. And now I can't see that smile anymore... Lunge: Her hearing had been getting worse the past year, hadn't it? Woman: What?! Oh... I never would have guessed... - Page 188 - Lunge: It was written in her doctor's medical reports. She probably didn't hear most of your greetings. Woman: Oh... Then I'm sure... she sensed my presence and said hello. She was that kind of person... very stout-hearted... Lunge: And no one else in your neighborhood knew about her hearing...? Woman: Probably not... Lunge: To lose such a special person... you must be very sad. - Page 189 - Lunge: My, you're running quite a fine company here. It's extraordinary for anyone to rush ahead of the competition at your young age, Mr. Giebel... Giebel: No... we've just had good luck with the auto maker contracts... So, is the investigation proceeding well? - Page 190 - Lunge: You have my deepest condolences on the loss of your aunt and uncle. Giebel: Yes... I didn't have any other relatives besides them... Lunge: Your childless aunt and uncle... They must have been quite affectionate to you. Giebel: Yes, as if I was their own... Lunge: You have my sympathy. Giebel: You'll find the killer, won't you? Lunge: Yes... I already have a good hunch. Giebel: Who is it? Is it that former Japanese doctor after all...?! - Page 191 - Lunge: Very observant... Giebel: Yes. There were other cases similar to this one. Lunge: How much... is your inheritance? Giebel: What? Lunge: Well... the Jopps were a very wealthy family... Giebel: What... does that have to do with the case? Lunge: You're the only one who's going to inherit the money, aren't you? Giebel: What are you suggesting? This isn't the time to be talking about that! Lunge: Among companies that have very grand financial success... The management is, in most cases, almost driven to poverty. - Page 192 - Giebel: Who the hell do you think you are?! You're basically accusing me of doing that to gain their inheritance!! Lunge: Don't worry. You have a perfect alibi... You took your secretary and employees out to eat after a business meeting... There are witnesses to back up your word... If any other detectives come and bother you with questions... You will contact your lawyer, of course... But I'd rather you contact me first. Giebel: Wh... what are you saying...? - Page 193 - Lunge: That you are not the killer. Isn't that right? (tap)(tap) Kipper: Inspector Lunge!! Lunge: Oh, it's you... I saw the paper. It was an excellent article... Kipper: What's going on?! - Page 194 - Lunge: With what? Kipper: Please don't play dumb with me. I've been checking up that nephew of theirs these past few days. On first glance, his special contract with the Italian auto makers looks fine... But behind the scenes, their stocks and investors have failed, and on the inside, their financial situation is pretty strung out. And then you... you've been thoroughly scouring the company here. Well? What's really going on? Lunge: (tap)(tap) Kipper: Do you really see this as one of the middle-aged couple serial murders? Every other paper has used our exclusive story! If it's not actually related, it will be terrible misinformation! Lunge: You're exactly right... - Page 195 - Lunge: It's the work of a copycat. Made to look like one of the serial murders. Kipper: T... then I have to change the information in that story!! Lunge: No, leave it the way it is. Kipper: Huh? Lunge: You will report on this as one of the middle-aged couple serial murders, as you have been doing. Kipper: That's not funny! I can't write a false article... Lunge: Just do it. Kipper: I... it would be a violation of my job as a journalist! You can't pressure me like that. Lunge: Your name is Kipper, right...? - Page 196 - Lunge: Don't you find her to be a fascinating woman? Kipper: Huh?! Lunge: You have such a caring family... a loving wife and daughter... I suppose it's no wonder a charming woman like that could make you want to be unfaithful. (tap) Continue as you have done... No, continue to push this as another one of the serial murders, even MORE than before... - Page 197 - Lunge: If you do that... He will come. Kipper: Huh...? Lunge: I'm counting on you. Tenma: (knock knock) - Page 198 - Woman: Yes? Tenma: Pardon me... I'd like to ask you about something... - Chapter 40 Owari -