Monster Volume 6 : The Secret Woods Chapter the Forty-Seventh The Tuesday Boy - Page 119 - Karl: "Aah, Corinna. Why was your letter so short..." Chapter 47 : The Tuesday Boy Karl: "Like the Eupolis and its horoscopes..." "My heart is torn asunder by your words, and the gold of Idas..." "...grew faded, as the artisan Galonius takes millenia to..." Schuwald: Enough... Karl: Huh...? Schuwald: There is no need to read any further. - Page 120 - Karl: Um... is something... Schuwald: Enough! You can go now. Karl: I... I'm sorry! Did I do anything to upset... Schuwald: If you can't even pronounce Latin correctly, you have no right to read to me!! Karl: I... I'm very sorry. I'll be more careful from now on!! Schuwald: LEAVE ME!! - Page 121 - [Munich University, Friedrich Emmanuel School] Chapter 47 : The Tuesday Boy Girl: You really got chewed out at his mansion. Karl: (clack) - Page 122 - Girl: Cheer up! Mr. Karl Neuman from Management Studies! Karl: How do you know me? Who are you...? Girl: I'm Lotte Frank, Culture Anthropology major! Karl: Do you work part-time, reading him books, too? Lotte: Nuh-uh, I wash and clean and stuff like that. He only has male students read to him. You're the one for Tuesdays. He has other guys who come in on the other days to read. What do you think of him? The mysterious and wealthy juggernaut, Hans Georg Schuwald... - Page 123 - Karl: I... dunno. I only jumped at the chance to make some money... Lotte: Have you heard all the rumors about him? Karl: Huh...? [They say that from the single phone line in his mansion he manipulates the entire German stock market as he pleases...] [They call him the Howard Hughes of Bayern...] Lotte: He has no family! There's nobody he's close to! Yet his fortune simply grows and grows... what do you think he does with it? Karl: I don't... Lotte: But there's an even bigger mystery. Another name they call him is the "Vampire of Bayern"... Karl: Vampire...? Lotte: I'd heard the rumors, but once I saw it with my own eyes, it totally creeped me out! Karl: What did you see? - Page 124 - [Right after the bell rang for 2 in the morning, I saw him get out of a car that looked like a hearse, in town with his butler...] Lotte: I swear, that scene was straight out of a gothic horror film. Karl: He was just going on a walk. Lotte: I'll be able to tell whether it was a walk or not soon enough. At the time I felt too weirded out to follow him... Karl: Why do you need to tell...? Lotte: For my research paper! "Mental Activity of Medieval and Current Day Financial Figures in Bayern"... I'm sure he'll be the perfect sample. Karl: What does that have to do with me? Is that why you know so much about me? Lotte: Heheh, I only looked up your name and major. Well, you shouldn't worry about him yelling at you. He does the same thing to everyone... Karl: Yeah... I'm used to being yelled at and hit... - Page 125 - Lotte: Used to it? Karl: Y... yeah. It happened a lot with my foster parents... Lotte: That's right, you weren't from one of the local high schools, were you? Karl: You DO know about me! Lotte: So you don't have any parents. Karl: Actually... I came to school here in Munich hoping to see my mother. Lotte: Your mother's in Munich?! So did you see her? Karl: No... I don't care anymore... Lotte: What?! How come?! You're so close... you know her name, don't you? Karl: Yes... - Page 126 - Lotte: What's her name? Karl: I said I don't care anymore. Lotte: Tell me!! Now that I'm interested, I'll find out sooner or later!! Karl: Margot Langer... Lotte: If you know that much, then it'll be a snap to look her up! Go, she'll be delighted to see you!! Karl: No, I don't care anymore... [State Public Library] - Page 127 - Lotte: Margot Langer... (click click) Margot Langer... NO WAY...!! Karl: "The chestnut mare's galloping..." "Thunder collected in the blood, setting off high waves..." Schuwald: I can't bear to listen to this... - Page 128 - Karl: Huh? Schuwald: I do not love anything that is not beautiful. I can't bear to listen to that. Lotte: Why didn't you tell me about that? - Page 129 - Lotte: I found out about your mother. I don't know what to say... Karl: That's why I said I don't care anymore. Lotte: Karl... is there anything I can do to help? Karl: Thank you... I'm fine. Lotte: Karl... Karl: (tap)(tap) (tap...) Lotte... you said that someday... you'd find out where it is that Hans Schuwald goes at night... - Page 130 - Lotte: Uh... Karl: When are you going to do that? Lotte: He leaves the house every Friday... so next week... Karl: Can I go with you? Lotte: Yes, of course!! Actually, I'd feel better if you did... Guy: It's true! It's the first major news scoop from my "Occult Study Group"!! Paper Man: Oh really, now... Guy: Look at this! Anton from the History Class even made a copy of it!! Paper Man: Looks pretty shady to me. - Page 131 - Guy: Anyhow, these lines are clearly the ones written by Bishop Gropius... One of the men who founded this school in 1502! Most essential is this phrase here! "In the second to last many year"... "The Thursday boy will visit this land, the books shall be wreathed in flame"... "And the entire world shall be wreathed in sorrow"... Paper Man: So what? Guy: You don't get it?! See, this "second to last many year"... that's THIS year! Paper Man: Why? Guy: A "many year" means a leap year. The only leap years left in the century are this year and 2000! Paper Man: Hmm... Guy: "The Thursday boy will visit this land, the books shall be wreathed in flame"... The books of this land, means the school will burn!! - Page 132 - Paper Man: And because of that, the entire world shall be wreathed in sorrow...? Guy: Yes, exactly!! Paper Man: So what's the "Thursday boy" for? Guy: The origin of Donnerstag (Thursday) is Donner (thunder)... So I say it's Donnergott, the god of thunder! Paper Men: Hah! What a stretch!! The thunder god is a symbol of destruction! Guy: You shouldn't be laughing, this'll be the hit story of the next issue!! Paper Men: We don't have a problem running it, but who'll believe that? A god of destruction coming to this school... - Page 133 - Lotte: What "Vampire of Bayern"?! So this is the truth behind the mysterious night outings we came to discover? - Page 134 - Lotte: He's just an old lecher, coming here at his age! Talk about disillusionment... Karl: Shh! There he is. Lotte: This is so stupid. I'm going home! Karl: Okay, be careful! Lotte: Huh? Karl: I'm gonna go see. Lotte: Go where? - Page 135 - Lotte: Hey, cut it out!! Karl: (gsh)(gsh) Yes, this isn't a place for a girl. You go home! "I do not love anything that is not beautiful"... (gsh)(gsh) Lotte: Huh? Karl: I want to know. (gsh) I want to know how far that man will sink!! (knock knock) Woman: It's unlocked. Door: (creak...) - Page 136 - Woman: If you want a girl, this is the wrong place. I retired a long time ago. Karl: Who are you...? Woman: You're supposed to give your own name first when you barge into another person's place. (jshhh) I'm Margot Langer. - Page 137 - Langer: You look like college students... Karl: Y... yes, we also work part-time for Mr. Hans Schuwald. Langer: ...what do you want with me? Karl: Why does he... Why does Hans Schuwald come here...? Langer: For pleasure... is what I'd like to say... But that thing down there doesn't work any more, you know. He comes to give me money. - Page 138 - Karl + Lotte: Huh? Langer: Naturally. When I came to him and told him who I was, he broke down and apologized with tears in his eyes. Because he left me with a child, and then threw me out like last week's trash. Lotte: Karl, you... no! Are you Hans Schuwald's... Oh... but... Karl: That's a lie... - Page 139 - Karl: You... You are not Margot Langer! Lotte: Yeah! I looked it up!! It was in a news article a year ago! "Former prostitute"... "Former prostitute killed!! Named Margot Langer... killer unknown"... his mother is already dead!! - Page 140 - Karl: So you're using that name... The name Margot Langer, to swindle money out of Hans Schuwald!! Langer: Heh!! Hahahahaha!! He knows that. Karl: Wha... Langer: He pays me, knowing full well that I'm not the real thing. He knows that giving all his money away won't bring the real Margot Langer back into the living world. - Page 141 - Langer: That's his personal way of atoning. Money, money, money!! He lived on money, so that's all he can use. - Page 142 - Langer: It may sound presumptuous of me to say it... but humans aren't all that different. He doesn't have much time left. You could always call yourself his son... And get a piece of that fortune he's got, yourself... Lotte: What are you trying to say?! Langer: You call me a liar, but then... I think you know exactly what I'm talking about. There's another one. Another boy who calls himself his son. - Page 143 - Langer: He came and talked to me about it just like you. (chk) Karl: N... No... Langer: So am I supposed to think Margot Langer had two sons by Hans Schuwald? Heheheheh... I can certainly say... he and you aren't twins! Lotte: That's a lie!! He's lying to you!! Langer: I don't know which one of you is lying. You both look like imposters. Lotte: Who is he?! Langer: The same as you... - Page 144 - Langer: You take turns reading Schuwald books on different days, right? He was one of those kids. Yeah, that's right... The "Thursday Boy". Lotte: Why didn't you tell her you were the real thing?! Karl: I... - Page 145 - Karl: I've been sent to live with several pairs of foster parents. Some good, some bad... But my current parents, they've treated me so well. I feel like I can never thank them enough... But... inside, I've always felt the need to confront my true parents... So I wanted to try and meet them... So that I could see how low a man my father was... I love my current parents with all my heart. That's all there is... - Page 146 - Karl: Have you ever seen that "Thursday Boy" she mentioned...? Lotte: I have Thursdays off... But once I came back to pick up something I forgot... Karl: So you saw him? What did he look like? Lotte: Well... He had blond hair, and such a beautiful face... - Chapter 47 Owari -