Monster Volume 11 : The Dead Angle Chapter the Eighty-Seventh Two Darknesses - Page 9 - [Mulinsky Street, Prague] Man: This signboard? Oh, it's an old one! Chapter 87 : Two Darknesses Man: It was the sign for a pub over 200 years ago... the pub is gone, but the sign still hangs there. The color's all faded, but even now it's still like the landmark of this street. It's managed to survive through all the fires and wars! Even that one fire... - Page 10 - Man: Less than twenty years ago... Chapter 87 : Two Darknesses - Page 11 - Tenma: Fire...? Man: Yeah... a woman moved into the second floor here with her kid. Real pretty, but kinda gloomy, too... She stayed inside most of the time. Even used an alias. Then one day, a black car pulls up out of the blue and takes them away... People around here were saying she might have had something to do with anti-government activies. - Page 12 - Man: Well... it happened a lot back then, believe me... That terrorizing government we had near the end of communism... those were harsh times... Wasn't odd for a person to just disappear off the face of the earth. Tenma: Her children... Man: Huh? Tenma: Was it twins the woman had? Man: No... Just one. Pretty little thing. Tenma: Was it a boy or a girl? Man: Huh...? Yeah, actually, what WAS it? When they're so young, it's hard to tell the difference, you know. People said, "It's one thing to take off the woman, but her innocent child, too?" - Page 13 - Man: And then a fire started there... A fire starts in their apartment when nobody's home... But the child was in there. The child had been seen getting into the car with the woman... They must have released the kid... Then he or she musta gotten hungry and tried to cook something. Tenma: And then? Man: After they saved the kid from the fire, it went missing... Dunno what happened to it after that... Tenma: And if that child was one of twins...? Man: Huh? Tenma: If one of the twins was taken off and the other was left in the house...? - Page 14 - Man: Oh, I see! Yeah, that could be possible... But why are you so sure they were twins? Suk: You said that I should search around for info... And I think that tall Grimmer man... isn't guilty... - Page 15 - Anna: Oh... I'm sorry, Mr. Suk... I really shouldn't be giving you suggestions. Suk: He's not a bad person. I've learned a lot of things while on his tail... At first I was eager to fight a battle of revenge for Inspector Zeman... But during the course of the investigation, I learned that my respected Inspector Zeman... Was actually extremely corrupt... And in the end, the station chief and two of my superiors were poisoned! I was dumbfounded when I heard of the poisonings... I wondered... how deep could the darkness in our world be...? Anna: Darkness...?! - Page 16 - Suk: Yes... just who are these Czechoslovakian secret police who are pulling the strings in this case?! They were under the control of the former government Internal Affairs office... Communism... Totalitarianism... The fingers of the USSR... During the democratic revolution nearly ten years ago, officers of the secret police were put on trial, and disbanded... Many of them went underground... And are still plotting to gain the immense power they once held... I know that much! But... Why do there have to be so many victims?! Is it REALLY just the former secret police who are behind this?! How much darkness is there right beside the world we live in...? I can't believe anything anymore... But... Mr. Grimmer told me. - Page 17 - Suk: That the only one I can trust in the end is myself... But even as he said that, he left something with me... Sorry... Anna: Huh...?! Suk: I just keep talking about myself... Anna: It's okay... Suk: And I don't even know your name yet! Oh... no, it's all right! You don't have to tell me. - Page 18 - Suk: Until now, I had thought you could only trust another human when you knew their name and background... But... I can tell you just about anything! Both of my parents are teachers. But my father was singled out by the authorities for democratic activism... So my mother broke up with him, for my future. She was quite against my decision to be a policeman. Anna: Why did you want to be one? - Page 19 - Suk: Didn't my friends tell you at the bar the other day? Anna: You mean... it really was because of those cop shows? Suk: Yep, always been my dream since I was a kid! I always played cops and robbers! Anna: Ahahahahahahahaha! Suk: Hey, don't laugh so hard. Anna: But it's so funny... Suk: (ahem) Anna: ...so what did he give you? Suk: Huh?! - Page 20 - Anna: You said this Grimmer man gave you something to hold on to... Suk: Oh... A key to a deposit box. Anna: Deposit box...? Suk: Apparently there's something very important inside... Remember how that Petrov man running an unlicensed orphanage was killed? Anna: Yes... Suk: There's some data from an experiment of some kind that he ran, inside the box. And it seems... It's the cause behind this latest string of events... - Page 21 - Anna: Don't tell them! Don't tell the police, or anyone else... Don't tell them about it! Suk: But... this isn't the kind of thing I can handle on my own... Anna: Your mother... Suk: Huh...? Anna: Do you know why your mother was against you becoming a cop? - Page 22 - Anna: Because she was worried... that something might happen to you... I have a very dangerous feeling about this! So don't tell anybody!! I feel the same way as your mother... - Page 23 - Suk: Oh... I'm sorry... Anna: Okay... I'll tell you my name. - Page 24 - Anna: Anna... Anna Liebert... Suk: Anna... It's a nice name... so you're German... Anna: Well... Goodbye... Suk: Ah... Anna: (click)(click) Suk: Anna... - Page 25 - Anna: (click)(click) (click)(click) Good evening, Mr. Trunka. Trunka: Ahh... a good evening indeed, Anna. - Page 26 - Jalka: Oh... goodnight, Anna. Anna: Goodnight, Mrs. Jalka! (tmp)(tmp) (crrk) - Page 27 - Anna: (click)(click)(click) - Page 28 - - Page 29 - - Page 30 - Johan: Deposit box key, eh...? - Chapter 87 Owari -