Monster Volume 15 : The Door of Memory Chapter the Hundred-and-Twenty-Ninth Memories of the Seminar - Page 141 - [Prague Police Station, Czech Republic] Fritz: Now just wait a minute, Officer!! I went through all the processes to earn myself a proper interview with them... And now I have to sit next to an agent and just LISTEN? What is the meaning of this?! Officer: We are giving you the maximum amount of help we can. Fritz: Maximum...? You've only given me 30 minutes per person!! Officer: We're working under the same time constraints. Shouldn't hearing their testimony be enough for you? Chapter 129 : Memories of the Seminar - Page 142 - Officer: For a man with no legal permit in this country, this amount of cooperation is practically unheard-of. We've finally got the victims of the Czechoslovakian Secret Police off of our backs, so it's a miracle we even have these five ready for interviews. Fritz: Which is why we must use this chance to collect as much... Officer: Hardly. Fritz: What? Officer: I very highly doubt that they are eager to discuss their pasts. Those "reading seminar" children... Now, all those bodies that they found buried under the Red Rose Mansion... Are clearly the work of the Czechoslovakian Secret Police. - Page 143 - Officer: However... The truth usually stays with the roses in these kinds of incidents. Ah... here's the agent you'll be working with. This is Mr. Verdeman, a lawyer from Germany. You've got the rest. Suk: I am Agent Suk. Fritz: Hello. Suk: I've already got the list of questions to go over. - Page 144 - Suk: Do exactly as I tell you. You are only present as an observer. Do not butt in with any questions you personally wish to ask. Now, let's begin. Chapter 129 : Memories of the Seminar - Page 145 - Suk: #3 Cerveny Street... A.K.A. the Red Rose Mansion... It has burned down. Now it looks like this... But, in 1968... You were part of a seminar, weren't you? Mr. Erno... - Page 146 - Suk: What is it? Fritz: Do you know a man named Franz Bonaparta? Suk: Please, be quiet. Fritz: You don't have time, do you? Suk: I want to be careful. Fritz: So careful that you don't get any useful information? Suk: You don't understand how hard it was for me to find these people... Erno: I don't feel sad... I'd thought that the mansion was a source of strength for me... - Page 147 - Erno: But looking at pictures of its remains... It seems... Not as sad as I would have thought... Fritz: Do you feel any kind of nostalgia? Erno: Nostalgia...? Fritz: Yes. It was like a school to you, wasn't it? Suk: Mr. Verdeman, please be quiet!! Don't ignore my... Erno: I don't really know... - Page 148 - Erno: Sadness... Nostalgia... I don't know... Man: Mental wounds...? What do you mean? Suk: I mean... that you participated in the reading seminar there, so do you feel any present effects? Man: No... Not a bit... - Page 149 - Fritz: How about your family? Suk: Stop asking questions!! Fritz: Do you get along well with other people? Man: Wellll... Suk: You have the right to not answer, if you don't want to. Fritz: Are you married? Suk: I said, stop that!! Man: I'm divorced. Actually... it wasn't really a problem with her, per se... Our kids... both our sons... Committed suicide. - Page 150 - Man: Hmmmm... there weren't really any problems... They just... decided to kill themselves, for some reason... Suk: By the book? What do you mean? Fritz: The way you ask questions, it's like you're taking it right out of a manual. Suk: I'm only doing things the way I prefer to. Fritz: So, what EXACTLY have we learned from the first two subjects? You're like a lot of kids nowadays. - Page 151 - Fritz: You probably hit on women by the book, too. Suk: You act like a father. I don't have a father, but I certainly wouldn't want one like you. Next person, come in. - Page 152 - Man: Memories of the seminar... Suk: Anything. No matter how trivial... Fritz: "The God of Peace is very busy." Suk: W... what are you... Fritz: "He has no time to look in the mirror, but blows his trumpet all day long." Klaus Poppe's "The God of Peace." Do you know this book? Man: Yes... I remember it slightly... I also liked another one... about a monster from the west and a monster from the east. Fritz: What was it that attracted you about these books? Man: Hmmmm... I guess it was that... they took you to another world... - Page 153 - Fritz: Another world? Man: Hmmm... yes... Crying... rejoicing... fear... Like those things would disappear. Fritz: Why did they make you feel that way...? Man: I don't know... But they did... You didn't feel anything... You could almost forget your own name... That was the real reason... Why it was so seductive, I think. - Page 154 - Suk: Why did it make you feel that way...? Fritz: It was Franz Bonaparta, wasn't it? Man: Hmmmm... Was that the name of the man who read to us...? Fritz: That was what you remember clearly, about the seminar, right? Man: Clearly...? I wouldn't say that... Well, one day... a man visited us at the mansion... He was from a radio station... He said he loved the song "Over the Rainbow"... And he told us about the "Wizard of Oz"... - Page 155 - Fritz: What was he like...? What did you think of him? What did he do to you?! TELL ME!! TELL ME ABOUT HIM...!! Suk: What are you THINKING?! Knock it off, right now!! Fritz: Tell me about him!! He was... he was...!! - Page 156 - Suk: What is your purpose for being here?! You seem to be questioning them for some personal reason!! You are far too emotional!! Fritz: You've got personal reasons, too... You're the young agent who was framed for several incidents because you exposed links to the former secret police... That's you, Agent Suk... You're desperate because you want to dispel the allegations around you... aren't you? Society and the law both turned their backs on you, for a time... So you can't trust anyone anymore... That's why you want to prove your own innocence, with your own skill... Am I wrong? - Page 157 - Fritz: I am the same. My father was arrested as an East German spy... I believed he was innocent... But my father really was a spy. I couldn't trust anyone anymore. Not a single thing in the entire world. But, by pursuing innocence for a certain man... - Page 158 - Fritz: I think I will be able to find trust in another person again... That radio station man he was talking about... Was my father. He may have been involved in the brainwashing experiments at the Red Rose Mansion... I mustn't look away. I must know the truth... - Page 159 - Man: May I go home, now? Fritz: Just a bit more... Man: If you want to know about that radio manager... He told me this... "Get out of here as soon as you can." "Over the rainbow is a wonderful place." "It's where your family is." "Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz made it back home in the end." "You need to get out of here, too..." - Page 160 - Man: ...and after that, I cut off all ties with the mansion. May I go? My wife and kids are waiting. Fritz: Ah... Yes... - Page 161 - Suk: We can't avert our eyes... Fritz: No... Suk: We must find the truth behind these matters... Fritz: Yes... - Page 162 - Suk: There are two interviewees left. Fritz: Okay... let's continue. Suk: Next person, come in!! - Page 163 - - Chapter 129 Owari -