Pluto Volume 2 Act. 9 Professor Ochanomizu - Page 29 - [Tokyo City] - Page 30 - [Metropolitan Police Department] Nakamura: Have you heard? Tawashi: About what? Nakamura: The new patrol car design. They're taking input from the public. Tawashi: Bah! I'd rather see them increase funding for investigations than waste money on designing new vehicles! - Page 31 - Nakamura: But Chief Tawashi, we need to regain popularity with the citizens... Tawashi: Why do the police have to beg for affection that way?! ...so what's the design going to be? Nakamura: Well, it's still in the planning stages... Tawashi: I'd like something that puts the pressure on. A demonic design that'll frighten 'em away from committing any crimes! Something that'll even make those robots tremble... Sign: Identification Department - Page 32 - Tawashi: What about the autopsy? Nakamura: All finished, sir. Suffocation. Tawashi: Were there hand marks on the victim's throat? Or rope marks? Nakamura: We can't tell. All we know is that his air was blocked... Tawashi: No traces left? Nakamura: None. Tawashi: (heh) Let's see a recreation. Men: Yes, sir. Blocks: (vweeen) - Page 33 - Hologram: (vwum) Tawashi: (za) I think I've got a handle on the killer already. Nakamura: Really, Chief? Tawashi: You say he left no traces... Voice: How strange... - Page 34 - Act. 9 : Professor Ochanomizu Atom: A human that leaves no traces...? - Page 35 - Nakamura: You're... Tawashi: Atom...!! Atom: Good day. It's been a while, Chief Tawashi, Mr. Nakamura. Tawashi: Who gave you clearance to come in here?! Atom: I have an admission badge. You asked for assistance from Europol, didn't you? I have Agent Gesicht's memory in my banks right now. All the input on Montblanc's murder and the murder in Dusseldorf. - Page 36 - Tawashi: Hmph! Things must be so convenient for you robots! You can just copy everything inside your heads for others to see! But you're making a big mistake if you think that means you know everything! Because you still don't know what beauty and taste are! What? Atom: Nothing... Tawashi: Well, it should be easy for your kind to find out who did this one. Atom: What? - Page 37 - Tawashi: They've finally done it! A robot has committed a murder. Atom: Why do you say that...? Tawashi: No human doesn't leave any traces behind! Living beings leave things like fingerprints and loose hairs. There's nothing here! Atom: Uhh... What's this, then? Tawashi: Huh? - Page 38 - Atom: There's tea underneath this rubble. Tawashi: Tea...? Atom: Two broken teacups... And bean jelly... Tawashi: B-bean jelly? Nakamura: Pick those up! Engineer: Yes, sir. Hologram: (vwum) - Page 39 - Atom: It hadn't been long since the tea was made... Nakamura: T... that's right. The autopsy revealed tea and jelly in the victim's stomach. Atom: Would you serve tea and jelly to a robot? Tawashi: W... well, your kind likes to pretend to eat, don't they?! See? You have no answer for that! Atom: They were drinking tea while sitting near the yard... - Page 40 - Atom: Looking at the hydrangeas... Tawashi: Huh? Atom: They were sitting near the yard, and looking at the hydrangeas... Nakamura: H... hey, pick 'em up!! Hologram: (vwum) Engineer: It's true, there were hydrangeas in the garden. Atom: Robots don't understand beauty, do they? Is the killer still a robot? - Page 41 - Tawashi: So what are you trying to say?! That a HUMAN knocked this house down? Atom: Then they both went out to the yard... Tawashi: And after gazing at the pretty flowers, they just drove a bulldozer through the building?! Show us the interviews!! Engineer: Yes, sir. People: ...yes, just like a tornado. I just heard this terrible roar... And the next thing I knew, our neighbor's house was gone... Thank god ours is still here. That awful tornado just popped out of thin air... - Page 42 - Tawashi: You see?! A tornado!! An unnatural tornado that destroyed only ONE house!! How do you explain THAT?! Atom: The only footprints are Tazaki's... Excuse me... Can I see a picture of the body? Nakamura: It's not something to show to kids. Tawashi: Do it! He's not a kid, he's just a robot. Nakamura: R-right... show him. Engineer: Yes, sir. Hologram: (vwum) - Page 43 - Atom: Horns... <