Monster Volume 12 : The Rose Mansion Chapter the Ninety-Eighth The Most Cruel Thing - Page 51 - Anna: What's your name...? Milosh: Milosh... Anna: I'm Anna... have we met somewhere before? Chapter 98 : The Most Cruel Thing Milosh: Huh...? N, nuh-uh. Anna: What were you doing there? Milosh: N... nothing... Anna: You walk around here a lot... Are you looking for someone...? Milosh: Y... yeah! Anna: Who are you looking for? Milosh: Ummm... my... My mom... - Page 52 - Anna: Why don't you sit down instead of just standing there? I have some juice. Chapter 98 : The Most Cruel Thing - Page 53 - Milosh: (slurp) Um... are... are you moving? Anna: Why? Milosh: You have a big bag... And there's nothing in this room... (slurp) Anna: Is your mom around here? Milosh: Huh? Anna: Didn't you say you were looking for your mom? - Page 54 - Milosh: ...yeah. But I don't know if she lives around here. Anna: Then how are you going to find her? Milosh: I went to the next station over. And the next one, and the next, and the next, and even further. But I'm always late coming back to the orphanage, and the lady yells at me. You kurfyoo breaker!! You habichual runaway!! And stuff... Anna: How are you going to find your mom? Do you have any photos? Milosh: Nope. Anna: Then how do you know her face? Milosh: I do!! I'll recognize her when I see her!! Nobody else believes me, though!! They all say I wouldn't know!! - Page 55 - Milosh: But I'll know when I see her, I really will!! Besides! Anna: Besides? Milosh: Mom will know ME when she sees ME!! Anna: And what if she recognizes you, but pretends she doesn't? Milosh: Huh? Anna: Were you born because you were wanted? Why were you thrown away? - Page 56 - Anna: Didn't your mom discard you because she hated you? Milosh: N... NO!! Anna: It's not a rare thing to happen, when kids are born... Milosh: Huh? Anna: Most of this universe is "death", anyways. To this universe, most lives are just specks in a corner of the earth, gone in a flash. - Page 57 - Anna: Death is normal. Why are you alive...? Because somebody wanted you? Who wanted you? What is your reason for living? - Page 58 - Man: Pretty girl with... long blond hair...? Yeah, that would be Anna. Tenma: A... Anna!! Grimmer: Does this Anna live nearby? Man: Yes, I think her apartment is in a little blind alley two blocks down. She's such a nice girl. Always friendly, never forgets to say hello, I mean, you don't find... - Page 59 - Man: Hey... Woman: Anna...? Yes, such a splendid child she is. Always has a smile on her face. Grimmer: (hahh)(hahh) Tenma: Can you tell us which floor and what room she's in? Woman: Yes. She's on the third floor, that window... - Page 60 - Grimmer: "The lady who killed Mr. Petrov lives around here"... If those boys were telling the truth... And... If it's true she kidnapped Milosh... And if this Anna who lives here is her, then... Gun: (chk) - Page 61 - Tenma: And if she is the person I'm thinking of... It'll all end here! Grimmer: Dr. Tenma! Knob: (click) - Page 62 - Grimmer: She's gone... So where did Milosh go...? No, wait... or was he kidnapped...? He was following the "blond woman" in order to prove my innocence... What should I do... Dr. Tenma?! - Page 63 - Grimmer: What is the proper reaction in this case? Most of the boys living in Petrov's orphanage were born in the red-light district at the Czech/German border... And now they've gotten dragged into this case by trying to prove my innocence... Tenma: You know, they did say that Milosh normally walked around Prague looking for his mother... Grimmer: Wants to see... his mother... I didn't feel anything when my own son died... - Page 64 - Grimmer: One day, another woman from my workplace spoke to me. Saying that she loved me... I married her. Because I was told that being married reduced suspicion for spies... She got pregnant. And we had a baby boy. One day, my wife was out shopping nearby. When I entered my son's room, he was lying prostate, and wasn't breathing. I tried emergency respiration... And I called a doctor. I did everything I could, without hesitation... But he still died. - Page 65 - Grimmer: At the funeral, she turned on me. How can you stay so calm?! How can you not cry now? You were always, always, ALWAYS like that. To me, too. You can't love another person. There's nothing in your heart. And then she left me. - Page 66 - Grimmer: We ought to look... for Milosh... Tenma: You said Milosh was the son of a prostitute in the red-light town at the national border... Grimmer: Yes... He walks around, saying he'll recognize his mother at first glance... Tenma: If the person here... is the one I'm thinking of... "She" won't leave him alive! But "she" won't just kill him, either! - Page 67 - Tenma: If it's the person I'm thinking of... That boy will be murdered after experiencing the cruelest thing one can do. [Czech Republic, near the German border] Anna: (za) - Page 68 - Anna: Keep following this road and you'll be in Germany. Milosh: And my mom is there? Anna: There's a very lively place ahead. Milosh: I'll see Mom, won't I?! Anna: I'll wait here. Go and see her for yourself. You'll recognize her when you see her... And she'll recognize you when she sees you... But if no one calls out to you... - Page 69 - Anna: That means that nobody wanted you. And THEN what will you do...? What will you do...? Go. - Page 70 - Milosh: Mom... Driver: First time there, sirs? Want me to show you the best places? Tenma: Please, hurry! Driver: Hehehe... no need to rush! - Page 71 - Grimmer: Cruel...? - Page 72 - - Chapter 98 Owari -