Monster
	 Volume 12 : The Rose Mansion
	  Chapter the Hundred-and-First
	   An Unopened Door

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Chapter 101 : An Unopened Door

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Chapter 101 : An Unopened Door

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Zobak: Franz Bonaparta...?
	Now that's a familiar name...
	You like milk or sugar in your coffee?

Tenma: No...  black will be fine.

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Tenma: Is something wrong...?

Zobak: No...
	Just surprised to meet a fan of Franz Bonaparta at a time like this...

Tenma: I asked around at Moravia's office.
	They said that you were Mr. Bonaparta's editor when he was writing...  is that right, Mr. Zobak?

Zobak: Yes...
	But I was his editor only when he used the penname Klaus Poppe.

Tenma: I'd like to know what he was like in person...

Zobak: Well...  that was quite a while ago...
	As you can see, I am no longer in the business...
	I read newspapers all over the world, and make a living writing columns and editorials in detail.
	I haven't been in the world of picture books for a long time now.

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Zobak: Franz...  Bonaparta...
	He would come all the way here to do our work meetings.
	With his sketchbook of ideas in hand...
	Yes...  Sitting in that chair, just like that.
	He played in the yard with my daughter rather often...
	But then she told me something rather odd...

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Zobak: She said, "That man is scary"...
	Although my daughter's old enough that she probably doesn't remember any of that...

Tenma: He was...
	connected to a government agency at the time, wasn't he?!

Zobak: ...probably.
	That's what I was lead to believe.
	However, his manner and speech...  even the clothes he wore, had a gentleness and refinement that was unlike the government
	officials under the old regime...
	But...

Tenma: But...?

Zobak: The government wouldn't have left a man like that alone anyways.
	Bonaparta had a Ph.D. in psychiatry and was a psychologist...  he was also...  a medical doctor.

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Zobak: His specialty was brain surgery.

Tenma: Oh...
	Hmm...

Zobak: (sip)
	Let's see, when was the last time I met Franz Bonaparta...
	It was the summer of '81 or '82...
	Yes...  he just showed up at my house one day...
	With a new story...
	...yes, he looked oddly refreshed.

Tenma: So...  what was his new story about?

Zobak: Haha...

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Zobak: It was "The Monster Who Fell in Love".
	But it was basically a cross between "Sleeping Beauty" and "Beauty and the Beast"...
	So I rejected it.
	And in the doorway as he was leaving...
	He turned to me and said...  "How about this one?"
	"The Door That Must Not Be Opened"...

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Zobak: So I asked him.
	Is it paradise behind it?  Does a monster come out?  And he said...
	"No...  You can't open the door, so there's no point"...
	And he laughed, and left...
	That was the last time I saw him...

Tenma: (tmp)

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Grimmer: Find out anything crucial about this Bonaparta fellow?

Tenma: No, not really...
	What are you doing here, Mr. Grimmer?

Grimmer: Oh...
	Just thinkin' about how nice the weather is...

Tenma: Yes, it is...

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Zobak: I knew it...
	Hello, is this the police?
	This is Zobak, I live on Schweig Court!!
	A man just came to my door to talk... and...
	I believe that he's wanted for suspected serial murder in Germany!!
	Yes...  a Japanese!  Dr. Tenma, the brain surgeon!!

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Lunge: (tmp)(tmp)

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Lunge: Ethanol...  it smells of disinfectant...
	(gsh)(gsh)

Boards: (crunch)(crack)
	(garan)(garan)

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Lunge: (gsh)(gsh)
	(gsh)
	Dead...?
	How many...?

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Lunge: How many people died here...?
	Ten...
	Twenty...
	No...  more...

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Boards: (crack crack)
	(garan)(garan)

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Lunge: (gsh)(gsh)
	That woman...
	From the sketchbook...

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Lunge: The mother of the twins...?

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