Monster Volume 16 : Welcome Back Chapter the Hundred-and-Thirty-Fourth Taxi Driver - Page 53 - Men: Did you get the reception attendee list? Yes, it's right here. Chapter 134 : Taxi Driver - Page 54 - [Frankfurt Police Station] Men: And we've got a good handle on who was where at that point in time. So, is it likely that he was after the governor? The guests were all important men. I'd bet all of them have enemies. Well, keep checking around for any connections he has. Yes, sir!! Weisbach: Frankfurt Station's all in a buzz over this convention center shooting. Man: Yes. Even now that we've identified the attacker, we don't know who he was aiming for. Weisbach: Oh, you've got his identity? Man: Yes. A dentist in the redevelopment area. Weisbach: A dentist... damn... Man: What is it? Weisbach: Well... I was thinking of going to a dentist as soon as I retire. I've been too busy every damn day to go see one. - Page 55 - Weisbach: A gun-toting dentist gives me the creeps. Man: This way, Inspector. Weisbach: Hmm... ah. I'm Inspector Weisbach, Northrhein-Westfalen Police. Chapter 134 : Taxi Driver - Page 56 - Weisbach: Reinhart Dinger, age 42. Taxi driver by profession. Arrested in Frankfurt... Suspected of killing a passenger in Gunther Forest Park, as well as... the '97 murder of a Bilker Investment bank employee, the '96 Hofgarten murder, the '95 Rhine riverside murder... the '94 Hilden Station murder... wanted as a suspect for these murders, all occurring around the DEseldorf area... I now sign that the suspect is to be transferred to the state of Northrhein-Westfalen... (scritch) Hey, are they ready? Man: Yes, sir. Cell: (clink) Guard: Come on. - Page 57 - Dinger: (click)(click)(click) Weisbach: Let's go. [Frankfurt Center Station] Weisbach: Want a drink? - Page 58 - Dinger: No... Weisbach: Hmph... Dinger: No smoking. The sign said this is a no smoking car. Weisbach: Mmm... right... If only you'd always stuck to your morals that well. How many people have you killed with those hands? - Page 59 - Weisbach: The idea of you counting irreplaceable lives on your fingers is frankly, rather disgusting. Train: (gatan)(goton) Weisbach: This is my last assignment. I'm retiring tomorrow. It wasn't an impressive career. Pretty boring, but not bad, if I say so myself. - Page 60 - Weisbach: Now I can tend the yard with my wife, and relax. That's what life is like. I want you to realize what a wonderful thing all those lives that you crushed were... and regret it. Train: (tatan tatan) Dinger: Even a man who spits on me...? A man who I picked up on Adler Street spit on me when he got off. Weisbach: You mean... That's why you... Dinger: Isn't spitting on another human... just the lowest you can get? - Page 61 - Dinger: The couple I picked up at Gerresheim Station were even worse. They started having sex in the back of my car. In the back of my car. So I killed them both. A young drunk kid who had the foulest mouth. A prostitute who tried to pay her fare with her body. An old lady smeared with cosmetics, insulting everyone she saw. Many people have ridden in my taxi... They were all scum. So I killed them. - Page 62 - Weisbach: Then, let me ask a question... What about that Bilker Investment bank employee you killed? How was he scum? An upstanding citizen who worked hard, never smoke or drank... and loved his family with all his heart... Because you killed him... A certain corporate finance scandal that he was going to uncover remains a mystery. Dinger: That one... - Page 63 - Dinger: Had a bad aftertaste. Yes... Weisbach: See? You talk as if you're delivering holy retribution, but you're really just trying to justify yourself. Dinger: That time... I didn't have a choice... Weisbach: Did someone... ask you to do it...? Dinger: Hehe... I can't tell you that... Train: (tatan tatan) (tatan tatan) Dinger: I told you, no smoking in here. - Page 64 - Dinger: Don't ever smoke in front of me again. Or I'll kill you. Weisbach: Tell me... What made you turn out this way...? Dinger: I've always been correct in my thinking. I just got a little push on the back, that's all. That morning... A man was walking his dog in the park... - Page 65 - [The man was kicking the dog for taking a crap...] [The dog was whining as he kicked it. All it had done was heed the call of nature...] [I stopped the man.] - Page 66 - [The next thing I knew...] [The police were pulling me off of him.] [Right then, a little boy appeared.] Dinger: ...and he said to the police... It's not his fault... The man with the dog attacked him first... - Page 67 - Dinger: So the police let me go. I thanked the boy, and offered to drive him home... But he said he had no home to go to. Then he brought out his sister from the corner of the park. His twin sister... So I said, whatever... And took them both to my apartment... The strange thing was, when we arrived, they took off their jackets, and both were wearing pajamas. As if they'd just escaped from the hospital. That's right, and the boy had a bandage around his head... After we ate dinner that night, we watched the news... - Page 68 - Dinger: I started muttering to myself, as I usually do. What depraved people... what a depraved world... The scum should all die. And what do you think the little boy said to that? He said, you're right. And then he said... <