Monster
	 Volume 17 : I'm Home
	  Chapter the Hundred-and-Forty-Second
	   I'm Home

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Johan: What is this horrible thing you speak of...?
	All the things that I saw...?

Chapter 142 : I'm Home

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Johan: All the things...
	That I told you about...?

Chapter 142 : I'm Home

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[When I was taken away from the room at the Three Frogs...]
[I was put into a pitch black room without walls...]
[A room in which I felt no up or down, left or right, no matter where I touched...]
[But I could tell that someone was observing me...]
[A room without sound...]
[No...]
[Occasionally, I could hear very faints screams, coming from somewhere...]

<<Voices: (aaaa..)(aaaa..)

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[They would bring meals into the room, I wasn't sure where...]
[I started counting the meals...]

<<Johan: 5...
	6...
	7...
	11...
	12...
	13...
	23...?
	21...?

[By the time I was having trouble keeping count...]
[The room was opened...]

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[And there...]
[stood a man...]

<<Bonaparta: Listen to me, now.
	Humans...
	can become anything.

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<<Steps: (gsh)(gsh)

<<Men: Oh...?
	Are you sure you should be walking around in a place like this?
	No...
	That's the, uh...
	Oh, I see...

<<Party: (yada yada)(mutter mutter)

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<<Party: (mutter mutter)(bla bla)(yada yada)

<<Woman: How precious.

<<Men: Ah, so this is...
	Spectacular...
	What a beautiful child.
	Look, this is the one.
	Ah, the child...!!

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<<Men: A success...
	It was a success.
	This is the child...
	This child...

<<Tray: (clink)(clink)

<<Glasses: (clink)(clink)

<<Speaker: To our...  was...  a success...
	A new...

[I only remembered bits of the speech given.]

<<Speaker: ...known to only our chosen friends...

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<<Speaker: And to the future of our nation...
	I propose a toast!!

<<All: CHEERS!!

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Johan: When the first person fell...
	All those around him rushed over to see...

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Johan: Then, the people who rushed over also started collapsing, one after the other...
	Shrieks...
	Wails...
	Screams...
	The room was filled with a palpable terror...
	The 42 people in the room died...

[All except for Franz Bonaparta...]

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Johan: I ran...

[Ran, to escape that place...]

Johan: Ran, never noticing that the thorns from the rose bushes tore my skin...
	Ran...

[When I made it back to the "Three Frogs," you welcomed me...]
[And I talked and talked...]
[For days and days...]

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Johan: About the things I had experienced...

Nina: No...
	No...
	No...

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Nina: YOU'RE WRONG!!

Tenma: (shff)

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Gun: (click)

Tenma: (shff)
	(scrape)

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Tenma: Nina...
	Can you hear me, Nina...?
	Calm down...
	Nina...
	It's me... Tenma...

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Tenma: Do you understand...?  It's me...
	Yes...
	That's right, calm down...
	There...
	Good girl...

Nina: Ah...
	Aaahhh...

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Nina: AAAAAAHH!!

Tenma: That's enough...
	It's all okay, now...

Nina: No...
	No...
	NO!!
	It wasn't me...!!

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Nina: I wasn't the one who said welcome back...
	The one who said welcome back...
	I was...
	What I said was...

<<Door: (creak)

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<<Child: I'm home.

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<<Child: Welcome back.

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Nina: Johan is mistaken...
	He only heard what I told him...
	The one they took to the Red Rose Mansion...
	WAS ME!!

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