Monster Volume 10 : Picnic Chapter the Seventy-Eighth Grimmer - Page 5 - Kids: Heeheehee!! Heehee!! Chapter 78 : Grimmer Kids: Hey, pass!! Nice one! Over there!! I got it!! Boy: Give it back!! Give them back!! Ah... Kids: Heeheehee!! - Page 6 - Kids: Heeheehee!! [Humboldt Nursery Home, Dresden] Garbrecht: Have you found what you were looking for, Mr. Grimmer? After the unification, our structure was changed significantly, so those are the only old materials we have. Grimmer: No, no, thank you for your trouble... Director Galbrecht. It's rare to actually see so MUCH left. Most of the dangerous materials on the East side were destroyed once the Berlin Wall fell. - Page 7 - Grimmer: All one can find out... is that children were abused and oppressed in the East German kinderheims. Chapter 78 : Grimmer - Page 8 - Grimmer: Still, it's hard to prove with the data available. Garbrecht: Indeed... Grimmer: The East German orphanages were normally under the jurisdiction of the Health Ministry... The problem was the children of criminals, political prisoners, spies and failed emigrants. Those children... were sent to the orphanages of the infamous Internal Affairs Ministry. It's the horrible treatment and human rights violations at those special orphanages... that I want to expose in as much detail as possible. To find out exactly what happened. - Page 9 - Garbrecht: Exactly what happened... yes, that's quite a fierce struggle you'll have. Anyone who knows will be either gone or silenced, right? Grimmer: Yes... Including one Mr. Schnurr... Garbrecht: Dr. Schnurr...? Grimmer: He was on the staff at Kinderheim 62. I asked him for information, but he refused... One should be careful! Dr. Schnurr may have participated in the mistreatment of children in the past. Oh! May I produce copies of these files here? Garbrecht: Oh... please, go right ahead! Mr. Grimmer... you are a journalist born in West Germany, correct? - Page 10 - Grimmer: No, I'm from this side... I worked at a paper in Leipzig. (bchink) Garbrecht: Ohhhhh. To think that a human rights warrior like yourself would be from the east side. Machine: (viiiin) Grimmer: Well, ahahaha... In those days I was an international reporter, shooting all over the world for stories. (kchik viiin) Jobs for the state... Know what I'm talking about? Spying. - Page 11 - Grimmer: Hupsy-daisy!! Garbrecht: That's quite a bag. Grimmer: Yep, packed full of papers collected all over the place... Garbrecht: I'll be looking forward to your report. Where are you going now? Grimmer: Prague, in Czech. Thank you for all the help, sir. - Page 12 - Boy: Hic, hic! Sniff... Grimmer: They got you pretty bad, didn't they? Boy: Sob! Sob! Grimmer: They take your shoes, too? Hey, don't cry! Boy: Waaaaahh! - Page 13 - Grimmer: People can survive without shoes. Besides, we're all born barefoot. But the kind of guys who would take another person's shoes... are the worst! There's no use crying over something those despicable guys would do. Bye now... - Page 14 - Boy: (shlop)(shlop)(shlop) (shlop)(shlop) Grimmer: Hahaha... so big, it's harder to walk with them than without them, eh? - Page 15 - [Dresden Station] Man: Hullo! Hullo, excuse me! Grimmer: Hmm...? Man: Pardon me, do you speak English? Grimmer: Err... what's the matter? Man: Well, you see... I'm in a bit of a bind... The bag that contained my passport was just stolen, you see... Grimmer: Your passport? Oh my, that IS a real bind. - Page 16 - Man: Yes... yes, it is. I was going to see my younger sister in Vienna... Yesterday, I had word that she passed out... Grimmer: Some affliction? Then you need to see her right at once!! We should get you to the police... Man: Oh... n... no, I've already tried that... The truth is... my sister doesn't have the money to cover medical expenses... Grimmer: Oh... oh no, that's awful... Man: And... my wallet was in the bag that was stolen... Grimmer: Ohhh... Man: Even if I couldn't get to her, I could still send my sister the money to save her!! But... now I can't even do that... - Page 17 - Grimmer: How much do you need? Man: Oh... oh, no no!! Not very much at all!! All I would need is the money to allow the hospital to treat her... Grimmer: Then this is all I can really give you... Man: Oh, thank you so much. Danke schoen! I'll pay it back, I swear to you!! Please, write down your address here. Grimmer: Don't worry about it. If it means your sister will be saved... Man: Th... thank you! God bless you!! Grimmer: Take care of your sister! Man: Now why'd you go and give him that money? Grimmer: Hmm? - Page 18 - Man: He played you for a fool! Grimmer: Fool? Man: They're always prowling around the station looking for marks. You can't let them trick you like that... Grimmer: I was tricked...? PA: Express line to Prague will be leaving Platform 7 at 3:15. Grimmer: Huh? What the? Urg! - Page 19 - Bag: (scrnch) Grimmer: Oh... thanks. You saved my behind there, friend. Tenma: No problem... - Page 20 - Grimmer: Thanks again. Mind if I join you? Tenma: No... not at all. Grimmer: Whewwww. Where ya headed? Tenma: Oh... to... Prague. - Page 21 - Train: (tatap tatap)(tatap tatap)(tatap tatap) Grimmer: You're... Japanese, right? Tenma: Huh? Grimmer: Konnichiwa. Tenma: Oh... heh... Grimmer: I've been to Japan before. Tenma: I see... - Page 22 - Grimmer: How many years has it been...? That was 1982... Oh yes, I went to Akihabara. Got lots of wiretaps and other high-tech devices. Oh, and there was this popular song. Let's see now... "Kitaaaa no hakaba-dooori na waaaaa" (sounds like "near the northern cemetary") Huh? No. Kitaaaa no... Tenma: Sakaba-doori ni wa... ("on the pub street") Grimmer: Yes, that's it!! Kitaa no sakaba-doori ni waaaaaa. (Note: Lyrics from the 1982 song "Kita Sakaba" (Northern Pub) by famous Japanese folk singer Takashi Hosokawa.) - Page 23 - Grimmer: Then there were those robots... what were they called? Oh yeah... "Gundam". I bought a model for my son, he loved it. Tenma: Where is your son, now...? Grimmer: Huh...? Oh... He's dead. Train: (tatap)(tatap) Official: Border security check. I'll need to see your passports. - Page 24 - Tenma: All right... hold on. Official: Danke schoen. - Page 25 - Grimmer: The Elba River!! I wonder how the rainbow trout are this year? Official: Not too well. Grimmer: Oh, so you know! I caught one about THIS big last year. Official: You won't this year. Danke schoen. - Page 26 - Grimmer: They're onto you. They know your passport's a fake... Train: (tatap tatap)(tatap tatap)(tatap tatap) Grimmer: You should leave right away... Dr. Tenma. - Chapter 78 Owari -