Monster
	 Volume 13 : Escape
	  Chapter the Hundred-and-Thirteenth
	   Room 402

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Bartender: Eva Heinemann...?

Chapter 113 : Room 402

Bartender: Yes, she was here.
	Even as much as she's fallen, her personality is exactly the same.
	No, I'd say it's even worse than before...

Tenma: Did she say where she was staying?

Bartender: Yes.  She said she had no money,
	so she wanted ME to pick her up from the hotel.  As if she was a princess or something.

Tenma: What hotel was it?

Bartender: She said it was the Hotel Steigent.
	Do you think she'll pay her bill?  When she's staying at that third-rate dump...
	Huh...?
	You...

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Bartender: You were...
	the guy who was engaged to her...
	W...  weren't you...?

Chapter 113 : Room 402

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Bartender: That...  WAS him...
	Ah...  hello!  Police?!
	That serial murderer...  he was just...

Man: Hey!!

Bartender: Huh?

Man: Have you seen my coat?

Bartender: What?

Man: I had it hung up on the coat rack near the door.

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Tenma: (clink)

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Tenma: Hello...?
	Yes, is there a...
	an Eva Heinemann staying at your hotel currently...?

Clerk: Yes.  Allow me to connect you to her room phone.

Tenma: Ah...  thank you.
	Hurry...

<<Roberto: I want to talk to you about your former fiancee, Eva Heinemann.
	Because, you see...
	I was thinking of killing her...

Tenma: Hurry!!

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Clerk: Thank you for waiting.

Tenma: Ah...

Clerk: I called her room, but she seems to be out at the moment.

Tenma: C...  could you tell me her room num...
	Er...  I mean...
	I'd like to send her a fax, so could you tell me her room number?
	{Please!  Tell me!!}

Clerk: She is staying in room 402.
	The fax number is 021...

Tenma: (click)
	{402...}

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Tenma: 402...

[Dusseldorf Police Station, Dusseldorf]

Fritz: (beep)
	Nope.  Mr. Baul is not at his office, nor can I reach his cell phone.

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Reichwein: Wait all you want for your fellow lawyer, Mr. Baul...
	But I'd bet I can tell you what he'll say...
	He became Tenma's lawyer in order to prove his innocence...
	But when Tenma freely admits his guilt and then escapes from prison on top of that...
	He simply cannot represent Tenma in court.
	He will step down from his position.

Fritz: (click)
	Sighh...

Reichwein: Will you step down as well, Mr. Verdeman?

Fritz: I have no such intentions.
	But it is true that Tenma escaped.

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Fritz: I would have hoped he'd put more trust in my abilities, rather than escaping from prison.

Reichwein: I assume that means you have full trust in Tenma?
	Do you trust in the events that occurred in Munich?
	Do you trust all of the things that Tenma told me?
	Are you sure...
	that you really trust anything at all?
	When I heard the news of Tenma's escape...
	I had the same feeling I received before.

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Reichwein: When he left me and disappeared in Munich,
	and tried to assassinate Johan...
	Something is about to happen again...
	That's why he escaped.
	Please, believe in him...
	The same way that you became a lawyer because you believed in your father's innocence.

Fritz: (click)

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Fritz: (click)(click)

[Verdeman Legal Office, Dusseldorf]

Klinger: Sir, the phone has been ringing nonstop since you left!!
	The media wants to know "how Mr. Verdeman feels about Tenma's escape after proving so many people innocent in the past"...
	And "if you are still planning to represent him"...

Fritz: Tell them I have no comment.

Klinger: But sir...  they're not going to settle for that.

Fritz: Then tell them that I'll give a full statement once I have reassessed the truth from the ground up, once more.
	And don't let anyone else into the agency until then...

Klinger: Ah...  but there's already someone here...

Fritz: What?!  You let him inside?!
	I don't have time to see anyone today!!

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Klinger: Y...  yes, I told him as much, but...
	He forced his way inside...

Fritz: Who is it?

Klinger: He...  seems to be from the German BKA...

Fritz: The BKA?
	(click)

Lunge: "Over the Rainbow"...
	A lovely song...
	This was the theme song of your father's radio station.

Fritz: Who are you...?

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Lunge: My name is Lunge.

Tenma: 405...
	404...
	402...
	That's the room...

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Tenma: Room 402...

Cart: (crek)

Maid: Guten tag.

Tenma: Er...
	G...  guten tag.

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Door: (click)

Tenma: {Room 402...}
	Excuse me...

Maid: Yes?

Tenma: Is the guest here...

Maid: Huh?

Tenma: Ah...  I'm here to visit the guest staying in this room...

Maid: What?
	Didn't he or she check out already, though?

Tenma: WHAT?!

Maid: Ouch!!

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Maid: See?
	Nobody here.

Tenma: Eva...!!

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Fritz: Inspector Lunge...
	In the course of my research on Dr. Tenma, I have read many of your reports.
	They were quite detailed and precise...

Lunge: And I have heard rumors of you, Mr. Verdeman.  The legal wizard who proves his defendents' innocence over and over again.

Fritz: So you have come to me, as you are now in charge of the investigation into Tenma's escape...
	But unfortunately, I have absolutely no information that could assist you.

Lunge: His...  escape.
	You see, I've been on a long vacation right until now.
	I had worked virtually nonstop ever since I joined the agency...

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Lunge: So you see, my extended vacation may have been my OWN escape...

Fritz: I'm sorry...  I really don't have time for personal stories right now...

Lunge: But because of my penchant for long periods of work, or perhaps just my innate personality...
	I simply can't manage to go on a vacation without meaning or purpose...
	So I create themes for my journeys.
	The theme of this trip was this book.

Fritz: I'm sorry, I have no time.  Please leave.

Lunge: I have more to say...

Fritz: Unless it relates to Tenma, I...

Lunge: I am not here to talk about Tenma.

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Lunge: In fact, I was already on the way here when the news of Tenma's escape came out.

Fritz: Then why are you...

Lunge: This book...
	I just had to know about the author.
	But this particular author has many pen names, and it's been very hard to find out information about him.
	And when I was looking into the fact that the only German pen name he uses is Klaus Poppe...
	The name of a certain man who knew Poppe showed up.

Fritz: A certain man...?

Lunge: Your father.

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Lunge: (tap tap)
	Your father's radio station had a program every Tuesday called "International Fairy Tales".
	(tap tap)
	According to records, it covered Poppe's "Where Am I?" in August '66.
	I also looked at your father's trial records.
	I know quite a bit about that case as well.
	After all, it was the largest spy case in West Germany after WWII...  and the charges were false.

Fritz: And what of it?

Lunge: Well.  Your father went to Czechoslovakia many times.  (tap tap tap)
	In the trial records, it says he went there to create a radio program with a storybook author in July '66.
	It was only a meeting with a storybook author, so there was no further discussion of it in the trial.
	And indeed, his work was broadcast over the air after that.

Fritz: What are you trying to say...?

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Lunge: I am simply stating that your father and that artist may have known each other well...

Fritz: My father had many business associates.  You couldn't begin to count the number of people he met regarding radio programs.

Lunge: You say they were not so well acquainted as that?
	When I looked further into it, I found that his meetings with Klaus Poppe were either at Poppe's editor's house...
	Or an old farmhouse that Poppe owned, in the Czech countryside...  as I was told by a person at the publishing company.
	But this particular meeting in question was held at a mansion.

Fritz: A mansion...?

Lunge: It was called the "Red Rose Mansion".

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Lunge: While he was at this mansion, he was never called Klaus Poppe.
	Instead, he was known by another name.
	Franz Bonaparta...
	He held an extremely powerful position.
	In the Czechslovakian secret police.

Fritz: What...
	are you trying to say...?!

 - Chapter 113 Owari -

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