Monster
	 Volume 16 : Welcome Back
	  Chapter the Hundred-and-Thirty-Sixth
	   The Baby's Depression

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Stripper: First, it was so many flowers I could barely get in the dressing room...
	Then, brand-name clothes and bags...
	And finally, jewelry with larger gemstones than I'd ever seen before...

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Stripper: I had no idea who was sending them to me...
	It was you, wasn't it?

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Baby: I could feel there was something special about you the first time I saw your show.

Stripper: Special...?  My boobs?  Or my butt?

Baby: Something you can't see.

Stripper: You could have just come backstage to see me.

Baby: Even someone like me?

Stripper: Huh?
	What do you mean?

Baby: ...you seemed like...

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Baby: You would hear me out.

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Stripper: Delicious!!
	I've never eaten anything so good before!!

Baby: Go ahead, eat all you wish.

Stripper: Do you always eat like this, "Baby"?

Baby: Yes.
	But the person you're eating with can make the food taste better or worse.

Stripper: I'm used to always eating alone...
	Do you usually eat in a group?

Baby: Yes.  I pay several people at a time to come eat with me.

Stripper: Huh?!  Why do you do that?

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Baby: I'm not sure...
	When I think back on it, even with all those people having a good time, I still felt like I was eating alone.

Stripper: How about now?

Baby: I'm enjoying myself.

Stripper: Great!

Baby: I'd like it if you ate with me like this more often.

Stripper: Sure.
	But I'd get tired of the same food all the time.

Baby: I've been feeling strange lately.

Stripper: How so?

Baby: I've never felt this way before...
	I created my own kingdom, here in Frankfurt...
	I fought to set up my own rules...

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Baby: It was my dream to be a leader like Hitler...

Stripper: It was my dream to be a dancer...
	Which is a bit different than what I'm ACTUALLY doing, but...
	when I dance, everyone stares at me.
	I just feels good when I'm dancing...

Baby: I'm scared.

Stripper: Huh?

Baby: I've never felt like this before.
	I'm scared...

<<Capek: What are you trying to say?

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<<Baby: Well, sir...
	I'm discussing these three murders that have happened in the last few months...

<<Capek: They are according to Johan's will.

<<Baby: Y-yes.
	That's right, sir.
	I understand the meaning behind the murders of Fritz Oberth, the bank employee...
	and Frida Schelling, the daughter of the general store.
	Hiding scandals...
	I can understand those two.
	But the third...
	the foreign trader, Erich Klemperer...
	Do you know about him?

<<Capek: No, I do not.
	That was probably unrelated to Johan.

<<Baby: Is that true, sir?

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<<Baby: Are we really controlling what Johan does?
	Or are you hiding something from me?

<<Capek: There is no need to worry.
	More importantly, have you found Nina?

<<Baby: She left that psychologist's house in Munich...
	And she seems to be in Frankfurt now...

<<Capek: The most important thing right now is for us to contain Nina.

<<Baby: I doubt it has escaped your grasp, sir...
	But do not forget that she is Johan's sister.

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[Her eyes, that night...]

<<Baby: On the night of the Turkish Quarter burning...
	Her eyes, as she pointed the gun at me...
	It gives me the creeps, just thinking about them.

<<Capek: Splendid.

<<Baby: Are you speaking...
	of your program?

<<Capek: I was only assisting it.
	It was actually my master's...

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<<Capek: It is all proceeding according...
	to his program...

Baby: Is it really proceeding...
	according to plan...?

Stripper: There it is!!  That's my favorite!!
	I'm buying, this time.

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Stripper: Isn't it good?  This is the best ice cream in Frankfurt!!

Baby: Yes...
	I actually feel relieved, for once.
	I've been on edge for quite a while.

Stripper: Why?

Baby: Yes...  why indeed?

<<Man: You don't have to guard me so tightly.

<<Baby: But it's on Mr. Capek's orders, you see...

<<Man: Don't worry about it.
	Even if I go walking around outside, hardly anyone actually knows who I am.

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<<Baby: I'm afraid that if we let you go off on your joyrides again, it could cause problems.

<<Man: Joyrides?  Me?

<<Baby: Three people have died now, to hide your scandals.

<<Man: I wonder how many I can kill until they find out.
	Heheheh...

<<Baby: Who do you think gave you the power you hold now?
	The four founders...  Professor Geidlitz, General Wolf, Mr. Capek...
	And your late father...

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<<Baby: You seem to consider yourself your father's successor...
	But it won't happen that easily.
	We don't know whether you're cut out for the job or not.

<<Man: Are you saying that you think you're the one meant to take that position?

<<Baby: I know...  all about your scandals...

<<Man: Then you also know what happens to people who know about them.

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<<Baby: Don't think that you can threaten me.

<<Man: I don't want to make an enemy out of you.
	Not a leader of the extreme right-wingers in Frankfurt...
	Heheh...

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<<Man: Hahaha...

Baby: I had fun.

Stripper: Me too.

Baby: I'm glad I called you, today.

Stripper: You can call me anytime.

Baby: It's been a long time since I walked around town without a bodyguard, like this.

Stripper: Will you be okay?  Should I escort you?

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Baby: You?
	Escort me?  As in, protect me?
	Ahahaha...
	I'll be fine.  My hotel's just over there.

Stripper: Wow!  You live in a hotel.

Baby: Here, it's not much...

Stripper: I don't want it.

Baby: Huh...

Stripper: Goodbye.

Baby: Ah...
	I-I'm sorry...
	It's always been a bad habit of mine...  I apologize!

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Baby: I've always...
	Bought people with money...

Stripper: Can I come...
	and see your hotel room?
	Everyone calls you the "Baby"...
	What's your real name?

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Baby: My name is...

Bodyguard: ...yes.  We know where the twin sister is located.
	I just called the "Baby's" number, but he didn't pick up...
	I'm going to his room right now.
	Yes...  goodbye...

Elevator: (ding)
	(vweeen)

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Elevator: (vweeen)

Bodyguard: (knock knock)

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Card: (chk)

Door: (creak)

Faucet: (sssshh)
	(sssshh)

Door: (creak)

Faucet: (sssshh)

Drain: (blub)(blub)(blub)

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Drain: (blub)(blub)(blub)

Capek: Hello...
	Yes, it's me...

Bodyguard: Sir... the Baby...

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Needle: (pop)

Bodyguard: The Baby...
	H...

Needle: (pop)(pop)

Bodyguard: Has been murdered...!!

Needle: (pop)(pop)(pop)

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