Monster
	 Volume 12 : The Rose Mansion
	  Chapter the Hundredth
	   The Rose Mansion

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[Suburbs of Prague]

Woman: If you want that mansion...
	You just have to walk up this hill...

Chapter 100 : The Rose Mansion

Lunge: I see, thank you...

Woman: You're welcome...

Lunge: (tmp)(tmp)
	(tmp)

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Lunge: Roses...
	Just like Sleeping Beauty's castle...

Chapter 100 : The Rose Mansion

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<<Anna: My name is Anna...
	Anna Liebert...
	Good luck, detective!!
	Because she was worried...  that something might happen to you...
	I feel...
	I feel the same way as your mother...

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Suk: Anna...

Lunge: Were you having a dream, Agent Suk?

Suk: W...  who are you...?

Lunge: Lunge...
	An inspector from the BKA.

Suk: BKA...

Lunge: Ah...  you can lie down!  I'm not here to confine you or anything!
	This is on completely private business.
	I've been out sightseeing and I just happened to arrive here.

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Lunge: It's a nice hospital room...
	Your mother could hardly remember where they were keeping you.
	I kept trying all the hospitals connected to the Czechoslovakian secret police under the old regime until I ended up here...
	With this treatment...  they must believe you're a very important person to them...

Suk: No...  I just...

Lunge: I know all about what's happened with you.
	Inspector Zeman was beaten to death, your boss and connected to the secret police...
	Prague Station chief and two agents, killed with poisoned Whisky Bon-Bons...
	Two agents sent to tail you...  (tap)(tap)
	Were found shot dead in your apartment...
	And you are a chief suspect in all of those incidents...

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Lunge: Looking at the evidence for each case, you seem to the be perpetrator...

Suk: No!!
	I didn't do anything!!
	I...!!

Lunge: Then maybe it was Grimmer, the tall, thin man Inspector Zeman was talking with the day before his death...
	(tap)(tap tap)

Suk: It wasn't Mr. Grimmer either!!
	He wouldn't do something like that!!

Lunge: Then who did it?
	You know, don't you?

Suk: Huh?!

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Lunge: You know who did it, don't you?

Suk: W...  what are you talking about?!
	If I knew, I wouldn't be here right now!
	I was betrayed by many different people...
	Got set up to be a killer and was chased by the police force I'm a member of...
	I've had enough of this!!
	I don't want to be stabbed in the back anymore!!

Lunge: You're a detective, right?
	If you're a detective...
	You must keep a cool head and insert your scalpel into the big picture.

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Lunge: Your happiness may be crushed, but you must still peel away the skin of deception to expose the truth!
	If you don't want to be betrayed...
	Then start by doubting the person you least want to doubt!

Door: (creak...)

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Man: Who gave you permission to see him?!

Lunge: Let me see your boss.

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Lunge: Tell him I want to speak with him about the Rose Mansion!  He'll want to see me then!

Ranke: Inspector Lunge from the German BKA...
	I took a look at your background and personal history.
	An elite officer...  and a talented detective!

Lunge: I've also heard the rumors about you ever since the old regime...  Captain Ranke!

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Lunge: And even now, you are substantial leader among the former Czechoslovakian secret police...
	It must take quite a lot of work to manage that in these times.

Ranke: Thank you for your concern.
	I am jealous of your ability to take a long-term vacation as such.
	They say you "WERE" an elite of the German BKA.
	Until two years ago, when your forcible investigation caused the secretary for Dr. Boltzmann, the prime candidate for the head 
	of the German Democratic Party, to commit suicide, yes...?!
	You have to make your living a little wiser than that, sir.

Lunge: Yes...
	We both do...
	The Czech police want to take this "Black Fog" string of incidents and blame them on your secret police.

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Lunge: You're the fools here!
	You can't exist while the country is in a process of democratization...
	If you'd infiltrated the new infastructure, kept your footsteps clean and legal and continued to hide your secrets, you could be
	the real leader of this country, in the shadows...
	But...  the fear the populace feels towards you is an illusion!

Ranke: He... heheh...
	Ah, yes...
	You're a clever one.
	You found Suk's hospital immediately...
	Showed up at my door, and deduced that the people's fear is nothing but smoke and mirrors...

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Ranke: What would such a clever man want with me?

Lunge: Well...  as you know, this extended vacation is only half-enjoyment...
	I'm on a search.

Ranke: For what?

Lunge: I seek the REAL terror here...
	To see whether your illusions have given birth to a true demon or not...

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Ranke: ...so, the "Red Rose Mansion"?
	You want to know where it is?

Lunge: No, I've already been there.
	I walked around quite a bit before I arrived there...
	After all, this author has quite a few pennames.
	"The Nameless Monster"...
	By Emil Scherbe.

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Lunge: The publisher's old registers said Scherbe's address was an old apartment in Prague...
	Now it's just a rental office being used by another company.
	Klaus Poppe's address was listed as an old farmhouse outside the city...  (tap tap)
	It's already been demolished.  (tap tap)
	Jakub Farobek, another rental office...

Ranke: ...so,
	did you find him?!
	Did you get to Franz Bonaparta...?

Lunge: What is in that mansion...?

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Lunge: Who is Franz Bonaparta?!
	No searches I've made on him have turned up anything.
	Which means he must be in your realm...
	A man from the former secret police!!

Ranke: What do you want to know?!

Lunge: I want to know what you know.

Ranke: I don't know anything...  just...

Lunge: Just...?

Ranke: That there is something...
	I've been consciously trying to forget...

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Ranke: I was trying to forget about the existence of that mansion.
	So I didn't bother with it, I didn't touch it, just left it standing there...
	One day, the political prisoners kept there and all the researchers just disappeared...
	I was trying to forget about that.
	That's...  all.

Lunge: What is the wall for?

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Ranke: Wall...?

Lunge: I went inside the mansion the other day.
	The roses had grown their vines into the house, and there were no signs of any recent entry...  a completely abandoned house...
	But...  the north wall on the second floor...
	A wall had been constructed, hastily and sloppily, as if to seal something inside...

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Lunge: May I...  break down that wall?
	What are you afraid of, Captain Ranke?

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Ranke: You might die...
	If you go any closer, you and I both...
	Might be faced with TRUE terror!!

Shovel: (whack)(whack)
	(whack)(whack)

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Wall: (crumble)

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