Monster
	 Volume 16 : Welcome Back
	  Chapter the Hundred-and-Thirty-Third
	   A Friendly Answer

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<<Capek: What do you think's on the other side of the border?

<<Milan: We can't go there.

<<Capek: Yeah, I know we're not allowed to go there.

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<<Capek: But, do you know?

<<Milan: Know what?

<<Capek: Across the border is a wonderful place.
	A town that's always bright at night.

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<<Milan: Really, Peter...?
	Who'd you hear that from?

<<Capek: Mr. Gregor.

<<Milan: He's a drunk.  He doesn't know what he's talking about.
	Even across the border, there are things that make a human worthless, like Mr. Gregor.

<<Capek: Something that makes a human worthless...
	I'd sure like to see that...

<<Milan: Why would you want to see that?
	Yah!!

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<<Milan: It's riding the wind!!

<<Capek: Nice one, Milan!!
	Look at it go!!
	Wow!!  It really could go over the border!!

<<Milan: Go and see what it's like, for us!!

<<Capek: Hey, Milan, wanna go there someday?!

<<Milan: Really?  Are you sure we should...?

<<Capek: Don't worry.  We'll just take a peek and come back...

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<<Father: Peter!!  I can't believe this...  why are you here, instead of studying?!

<<Capek: I...  I'm sorry.

<<Father: How many times do I have to tell you, the urge to play is the top of a slippery slope!!
	Now, come here!!

<<Capek: I'm sorry!!
	I'm sorry!!

<<Father: Don't you ever play with that boy again!!

<<Capek: I'm sorry!!

[And yet, he still snuck out of his parents' house to come play with me...]

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Milan: We grew up in a town on the border between Czechoslovakia and Austria...
	My father was a laborer...
	His was a bureaucrat...
	But, we got along very well, for some reason...
	Peter Capek...
	When the communist Czechoslovakian government fell in 1989, he tried to escape the country...
	And I helped him...
	He settled down in this neighborhood and taught our children...
	My son, brainwashing them to kill themselves...
	He began persecuting the Turks and other immigrants,
	and killed the five strongest people who would stand up to him...

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Milan: And the one...
	who brought him here...
	was me.

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[Prague, 1969]

<<Men: It sure has been a long time.
	How many years?

<<Milan: I was worried for you during the Soviet invasion last year.

<<Capek: They did drag off quite a few of my friends.
	But here I am, safe and sound.
	What did you do after that?

<<Milan: Me...?
	I've been eking out an existence as a novice dentist.

<<Capek: Milan, a dentist...  you always had clever fingers.

<<Milan: If only I had clever people skills, like you.

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<<Capek: Maybe it WAS thanks to those people skills that I still have this status, after the invasion.
	After all, I did do quite a bit in the liberalization of the "Prague Spring."
	I even got to go west.

<<Milan: Wow.  I'm jealous.
	Remember how much we talked about that?
	Wondering what it was like over there...
	Did you find the answer?

<<Capek: Yes.

<<Milan: So...  what was it?

<<Capek: Nothing...
	Nothing there, nothing here...

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<<Capek: This country is wrong.
	But they aren't necessarily right on the other side, either...

<<Milan: I see...

<<Capek: You just said that I have people skills...
	But I owe a lot of my success to one man...

<<Milan: Ahh.

<<Capek: Now that I've met him, the status I hold now seems like nothing...
	He is a wonderful person...
	Just when I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing worth anything, in any country...
	He showed me a light that I never knew existed...

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<<Capek: He will bring forth something entirely new to the world.

<<Milan: Hey...
	You sure you wanna be talking about that in public?
	...well?
	What's he going to bring forth?

<<Capek: What...?
	Well...
	It could be something...  frightening.

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Milan: When I think about it now...
	He may have begun to crumble at that point in time...
	I should have been able to do something, then...  I should have told him something...
	But...
	Too late for that now...
	Give me back my gun.

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Milan: Look...  here's yours back.

Tenma: You can't, Milan...
	You musn't do this...

Milan: You can't stop me.
	I'm going to kill him.

Tenma: Please, don't do it...
	For the family that you live with, now...

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Milan: He killed their families.
	And I brought him here...
	They were killed...
	Even my son...

Tenma: Milan...

Milan: Dr. Tenma, what about the things you told the police...
	That a boy whom you saved in the emergency room has grown up to commit countless murders...
	And that you must track him down and finish him off yourself...
	It's hard to believe, but I believe it, nonetheless.

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Milan: After they tried to burn down our neighborhood...
	There has been a man the Turks talk about, even now.
	Who gave his all to treat their wounds...
	The Japanese man who risked his life to stop the fire...
	Wasn't that you, Dr. Tenma?
	I believe you...
	I understand what it is you're trying to do...
	You and I are the same.

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Milan: I'm going.  It's time.
	If I let this one go...
	I'll never have another chance.

Tenma: Milan...!!

Milan: Thank you...
	for trying to stop me...
	If I was in your position...
	I doubt...

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Milan: I could stop you, either.

[Roedelheim Convention Center, Frankfurt]

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Milan: (click)

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Tung: Yummy!!

Mustafa: Yes, this is delicious!!

Shemel: Japanese oyakodon is good!!

Minh: Is your leg all right?  Shall I help you, Dr. Tenma?

Tenma: No...  your portion will be done soon, Minh.

Minh: Milan's taking his time.  He should be home any minute...

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Tenma: Oh...  it tastes better when fresh, so I'll make his as soon as he gets home.

TV: Next in the news.
	At 11 o'clock AM today, at the Roedelheim Convention Center in Frankfurt...
	An unidentified man with a pistol opened fire...
	However, city police that were stationed at the convention for security...
	shot and killed the attacker.
	There were no other fatalities as a result of the attack...
	but due to the large number of important financial figures present, there was large cause for concern among attendees.
	As stated, the attacker's identity and motives are still unknown...

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TV: Here is footage of the incident as it happened, caught by the DNN News crew.
	(click)

Minh: Everyone says it's very good!
	I hope Milan comes home soon.

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TV: ...as it happened, caught by the DNN News crew.

Nina: (boom)(boom)(boom)

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Nina: That man...  (boom)(boom)(boom)
	(boom)(boom)
	From the Red Rose Mansion... (BOOM)(BOOM)

<<Capek: You mustn't hide anything from him.

Nina: (BOOM)

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