Monster
	 Volume 14 : That Night
	  Chapter the Hundred-and-Sixteenth
	   Puppeteer

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Chapter 116 : Puppeteer

Hero: YOU DEMON!!
	DEMON!!
	DEMON!!

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Demon: (flop)

Hero: The demon...
	is dead...

People: (clap clap clap clap clap)
	(clap clap clap clap clap)

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People: (clap clap clap)
	(clap clap clap)
	(clap clap clap clap clap)
	(clap clap clap clap clap)

Hero: (slump)

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[Czech Republic, Prague, Karel Bridge]

People: (clap clap clap clap clap)

Chapter 116 : Puppeteer

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Door: (creak)

Lipsky: (click)(click)

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Doctor: I had a look at her while you were out, Mr. Lipsky.

Lipsky: Doctor...

Doctor: She's started to regain a bit of appetite, and she's been talking as well.
	I couldn't have said this when you brought her in here three months ago...
	But it looks like she's going to be all right.

Lipsky: Ah...  thank you.

Doctor: You said she was a relative...  well, I think it's best to send her back home...

Lipsky: Oh...  don't worry...  I'll watch her for a little longer...

Doctor: ...to be with her close family...
	But she says she's still afraid of going outside.

Lipsky: Err...  I see...

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Doctor: What in the world happened to her?

Lipsky: I...  don't know...

Doctor: It had to be something serious, to cause a shock that severe.

Lipsky: Well...  I'll take care of her for a bit more...

Doctor: Yes...  I'll be back again, as well.

Lipsky: Uh...  Doctor...
	It's okay.

Doctor: Don't be silly.  What if she relapses, or...

Lipsky: Now that she's this fine...  I think we'll be all right...

Doctor: But, Mr. Lipsky...

Lipsky: Thank you for all your help.

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Lipsky: (gsh)
	(knock knock)
	(creak)
	How do you feel...?
	Nina...

Nina: Oh...  welcome back, Mr. Lipsky.
	Did you attract a crowd for your puppet show?

Lipsky: No...  as little luck as ever...

Nina: But your puppets are so wonderful...

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Lipsky: The one I'm working on now is so much more wonderful.

Nina: I'd like to see it...

Lipsky: Ah...  well...
	I have to go to work.  Puppets won't put food on the table.

Nina: I'm so sorry for using your money for this long...

Lipsky: Oh...  please, don't worry about it...
	And Dieter's playing outside, I think he'll be fine.

Ball: (bam)

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Nina: Mr. Lipsky, I want to ask you something...

Lipsky: W... what is it?

Nina: When you found me passed out and took me to the hospital...

Lipsky: Y...  yes...?

Nina: What were you doing at that mansion...?

<<Dieter: NINA!!
	NINA!!

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<<Dieter: Oh...  oh my gosh!!
	S...
	SOMEBODY!!

<<Lipsky: What's wrong?

Lipsky: When I go there...
	I don't know...
	I just like the image of the architecture...
	But now...
	More important than that mansion...

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Lipsky: No...  never mind...
	Just...  take it easy, feel free to stay here.
	You can... stay forever...  if you wish to.
	(clink clink)(clink)
	(clink)(clink)

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Man: Hurry up with those plates and help out over here!!

Lipsky: O...  okay.
	(clink)(clink)

Landlady: This is a problem...

Lipsky: Huh...?

Landlady: I'm charging you for your apartment as a one-person room.

Lipsky: And...  what's wrong...?

Landlady: Don't play coy with me.  Who's that young girl?!

Lipsky: She...  she's a relative...

Landlady: That's a lie...
	I heard odd voices at night.

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Lipsky: Oh...  well, you see...  she has nightmares.
	Terribly frightening ones, she says...

Landlady: Disgusting.

Lipsky: No...  it's not THAT!!

Landlady: You'll pack up and leave, if you want to live with a woman.

Lipsky: B...  but...

Landlady: I know that you watch me changing from your window.

Lipsky: I do NOT do that!!

Landlady: Then kick the girl out.
	I should be more than enough for you.

Lipsky: Please, leave!!

Landlady: If you keep her here any longer, I WILL kick you out.

Lipsky: PLEASE, LEAVE!!

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Lipsky: (hahh)(hahh)
	(gsh)
	(creak)
	(batam)
	Nina...

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Door: (knock knock)

Nina: May I come in...?

Lipsky: Of...  of course, Nina...
	(shuffle)
	But...  are you sure you should be walking about?

Nina: Well...  I have to be able to leave soon...
	Wow...  so this is where your puppets are born.

Lipsky: But...
	Nobody watches my puppet show...

Nina: What kind of show is it?
	Tell me...

Lipsky: It's about...  a demon.

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Lipsky: Is something wrong, Nina...?

Nina: No...  go on...

Lipsky: Well...  the story goes...
	A demon goes on a journey to find a dragon that is destroying the world, and along the way he lies dying by the road.
	A passing young man finds the demon and saves his life...
	When he realizes that he saved a demon, he chases after it...
	When he finds it, the young man takes a knife in hand...
	And kills the demon...
	I think it's pretty good...
	But people just don't like it...

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Lipsky: A...  are you okay, Nina...?

Nina: I think...
	I would do the same...

Lipsky: Huh?

Nina: I would do the same thing...
	But...
	I can't let HIM do it!

Lipsky: Nina...?

Nina: People...
	A human...
	could save that demon...

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Lipsky: I wonder...
	I'm pretty sure that "he" would like this story...

Nina: Who's "he"...?

Lipsky: Look at these shelves.

Nina: So many storybooks...

Lipsky: Yes...
	Jakub Farobek...
	Klaus Poppe...

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Lipsky: Emil Scherbe...

Nina: The Nameless...  Monster...

Lipsky: You already know it...
	He drew many storybooks...
	Jakub Farobek, Klaus Poppe, Emil Scherbe...  all pennames of the same person.
	The man named Franz Bonaparta...

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Nina: Franz...

<<Man: Humans...

Nina: Bonaparta...

<<Man: Can become ANYTHING.

Lipsky: I was not a "superior child".
	I understand why he kicked me out of the seminar...

Nina: Seminar...?

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Lipsky: He held a book-reading seminar for children, at the "Red Rose Mansion"...
	And I was one of the pupils...
	I wasn't a "superior child"...
	But I knew...
	What Bonaparta was trying to do...

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