Monster
	 Volume 9 : A Nameless Monster
	  Chapter the Sixty-Ninth
	   A Greater Monster

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<<Tenma: (TMP)(TMP)
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Chapter 69 : A Greater Monster

<<Doctors: Dr...  Tenma...

<<Tenma: Any changes in the patient's condition?

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<<Doctor: B-but...  uhh...

<<Tenma: Blood pressure, pulse?

<<Doctor: Dr. Tenma...  what about Mayor Roedecker?

<<Tenma: Let's begin!

<<Doctor: O...  okay.

<<Tenma: Oh, right...  What's the patient's name?

<<Doctor: Huh?

<<Tenma: What is this boy's name?

<<Doctor: Um, uh, I don't...

<<Tenma: Hmm...  we don't know his name.
	It's okay, just hang in there!

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<<ECG: (beep)(beep)(beep)

Chapter 69 : A Greater Monster

<<Tenma: I'll save you!!

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<<Girl: {Kill...}

<<ECG: (beep)(beep)(beep)

<<Girl: {Kill...}

<<ECG: (beep)(beep)(beep)

<<Girl: Kill...

<<Nurse: The children...
	The twin brother and sister...

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<<Nurse: They're gone!!

<<Tenma: (hahh)(hahh)

<<Doctor: Did you search the entire hospital?

<<Nurse: Yes, I did!!  I checked everywhere!!

<<Doctor: Are they playing hide-and-seek somewhere?

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Tenma: Are they playing...

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Tenma: Hide-and-seek somewhere...  heh.

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Guard: (tmp)(tmp)

Tenma: Sigh...
	{Tenma the weenie!!
	Nyah nyah, Tenma the weenie!!}

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<<Kids: You can't hide for long!  Tenma the weenie!!
	If you stay hidden, you'll pee your pants again!!
	Nyah nyah, Tenma the weenie!

<<Mother: How long are you boys going to play out here?  Look at the time!!

<<Kids: Oh, fiiiine!
	Bye bye!
	Seeya tomorrow!

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<<Tenma: Uh...  what about me...?
	Hey guys, I'm right here.
	Come and find me!
	I'M RIGHT HERE!!

Tenma: {Find me!!}

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Tenma: Tenma the weenie...  heh.

Driver: What should we do?
	The man who came this evening is still standing in front of the mansion...

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Schuwald: Who is he?

Driver: A psychologist who knew Richard Brown, the detective you once hired.
	I'll chase him off right now...

Schuwald: Karl.
	I cannot see him.  What does he look like?

Karl: A middle-aged man.

Schuwald: How does he look to you?

Karl: He doesn't seem like a bad person...
	But he seems to be quite...
	at his wit's end...

Schuwald: Ahhhh...

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Reichwein: I am grateful for this opportunity to speak with you, Herr Schuwald...

Schuwald: Halt your pleasantries.  Don't waste my time, say what you must.

Reichwein: And I don't have much time either...
	How quickly this discussion ends depends on you.

Schuwald: Is it about him?

Reichwein: What?

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Schuwald: Johan.
	It would seem I'm right.
	I knew someone like you would come to me, eventually.
	To solve his mystery!

Reichwein: Mystery...?

Schuwald: He is...
	too perfect.

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Schuwald: Those who can see probably don't notice...
	But I can feel it!  When you are near someone who is at perfect harmony with himself...
	You can feel he is not of this world.

Reichwein: He exists, I assure you!
	I have just a fraction of his past assembled here...
	I'll read it to you right now.
	Then you will see he is certainly no illusion.
	It begins in 1986, when a young boy was brought into a hospital with a near-fatal wound.

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Reichwein: ...and then, he came to you.
	My dead...  no, murdered friend Richard theorized...
	That the Fahren boy claimed he was your son because Johan told him to...
	However, no sooner than when you true son Karl showed up, Johan changed plans and attached himself to Karl.
	Then he FORCED Fahren to commit suicide.
	Why did you decide to reunite with your long-lost son?
	How many people close to you have died these past few years...?

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Reichwein: The driver you used for years...
	The maid who read to you...
	Your birdwatching partner and accountant...  All dead...
	All done by Johan to isolate you so that he could creep into your heart!!
	Please, I need your help!  We have to make everything clear.
	...if not, that Japanese doctor-!
	Dr. Tenma, will...

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Schuwald: You said Johan plays with humans the way one would disturb a line of ants.
	A line of ants...
	Do you know what they call me?
	Yes!  The "Vampire of Bayern".
	I took that name with pride.
	The more I tried to push myself, the larger it grew...
	The monster inside me.
	And what of it?
	I have such a grand nickname, and yet I am such a frail thing...

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Schuwald: Now that I think upon it, I wanted to play with that line of ants.
	To destroy it...
	But what I wanted to be...
	He has already become.
	"Who can become like this beast?"
	"Who can oppose the beast, and fight him?"

Reichwein: Johannes' Apocalypse...

Schuwald: The only thing that can defeat the monster...
	Is a greater monster, no?

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Gate: (gasha)

Karl: Father...

Schuwald: Hm?

Karl: What were you talking about?  It's morning already.

Schuwald: Yes...
	Where is Johan...?

Karl: He's coming straight to the ceremony from the Osterhoven agency.
	But you look extremely tired.  Shouldn't we cancel today's ceremony...?

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Schuwald: No.  We'll prepare to leave.

<<Girl: Kill...
	Kill...
	Kill...

<<Nina: Dr. Tenma...
	Dr. Tenma, it's not your fault!
	You only did your job as a doctor.
	It's not your fault.

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<<Nina: You must stay alive.
	And save the lives of many more people.

Tenma: Nina...

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Tenma: (paka)
	(chk)

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