Pluto Volume 4 Act. 30 The Three Professors at Kimberly - Page 147 - Gesicht: Dr. Hoffman's... In danger...!! Hoffman: W... Who are... Nng...!! Waah!! Act. 30 : The Three Professors at Kimberly - Page 148 - Glass: (crash) Hoffman: Eek... Epsilon: Here it comes...!! Hoffman: Huh... GYAAAAAAAA!! - Page 149 - Hoffman: My laboratory...!! Aaah!! (hahh)(hahh)(hahh) I... Isn't this... (hahh)(hahh)(hahh) A floating radio tower...? - Page 150 - Hoffman: (hahh)(hahh) Epsilon: From here, we can fight him off, no matter which way he comes from. Hoffman: Him...? What do you mean? You're Epsilon, aren't you? Epsilon: If I used my photon energy in the middle of town... The entire neighborhood would be destroyed. Dr. Hoffman, you are being targeted. We have to get further away... Hoffman: N... Now, just a moment! I heard you were a pacifist! But this is pretty rough treatment for a... Epsilon: My creator was murdered. Hoffman: Professor Newton-Howard... - Page 151 - Epsilon: I feel like... I could lose control of myself at any moment...!! Act. 30 : The Three Professors at Kimberly - Page 152 - Adolf: Well? Did you get in contact with Dr. Hoffman? Gesicht: No, I still haven't found him. I've requested an emergency search at the station. Adolf: Why don't YOU go, then? One of your creators is in danger. Gesicht: What's more important is the data you have. There's a good chance the former commander-in-chief of the Kingdom of Persia, Darius XIV could be involved with these murders. I will need to submit this as evidence. - Page 153 - Adolf: B... But... Gesicht: Could this be connected to the fact that your life is in danger...? Am I wrong? Glass: (crack) - Page 154 - Gesicht: Get down!! Adolf: Aah... Aaaahh!! - Page 155 - Gesicht: A guided photothermal grenade... (fizz)(fizzz) Adolf: I... I've seen those before... They melted a man in an instant, in the Central Asian War... Gesicht: But where... Adolf: Y... You gotta save me!! I... I'll tell you everything...!! I'll tell you everything, just place me under the Witness Protection Act!! - Page 156 - Adolf: I... I'm... I'm... Part of an anti-robot cult... My life is being targeted because I betrayed the group. Gesicht: Anti-robot cult... Adolf: Remember when the robot judge was killed in a Berlin hotel blast? That was the work of my group...!! Gesicht: And how did it come to be that they want to kill you? - Page 157 - Adolf: I'll testify... Just keep me safe under the Witness Protection Act... Or else... Or else they'll kill my wife and son...!! Gesicht: Mr. Haas, you need to be calm. I don't believe you are lying. I'll make sure someone is sent for them. We'll keep your wife and little Hans safe. Relax. For now... We need to get out of here... - Page 158 - Man: Gesicht is currently guarding Adolf Haas. Elder: Haha... What an ironic turn of events. Man: It is only a matter of time, sir, before Adolf makes our existence public. Elder: (chk) Use this. - Page 159 - Man: What is that...? Elder: The same model of weapon that Adolf bought to kill Gesicht. Adolf actually bought two of these guns. And... While trying to kill Gesicht, he misfired... and killed them both. That will be how this sordid story ends. - Page 160 - Gesicht: There is a safehouse up ahead. You will be secure there. Adolf: What about my wife and Hans...?! Gesicht: We've got them in our custody. They're on their way as well. Adolf: Sigh... And Dr. Hoffman...? Gesicht: We haven't found him yet. - Page 161 - [Greece] Heracles: That's not a distance that flesh-and-blood humans should be flying. Have some water, Professor... Hoffman: F... Fank yoo... (cough cough) - Page 162 - Epsilon: This is the only place we could bring you to keep you safe. Hoffman: (cough cough) Heracles: You're leaving him with me, because you detest fighting. Very well... This is just what I want. With enough of his targets in one place, our little friend is bound to come right to me. Although I don't know if I can count on much help from someone who keeps running, even after his own creator was killed. - Page 163 - Epsilon: Dr. Hoffman, there's something I want to ask. Hoffman: Huh...? Epsilon: It's about the secret meeting of the three professors at Kimberley. Hoffman: Kimberley... Epsilon: Seven years ago... You met Dr. Ronald Newton-Howard there. Hoffman: Yes... I had always wanted to have a discussion with Dr. Howard, the inventor of photon energy... Epsilon: There was another scientist at that meeting. Hoffman: Yes, the inventor of the world's greatest electronic brain, a Japanese man... Epsilon: And he was? - Page 164 - Hoffman: Dr. Tenma... Epsilon: Why did you three get together? Hoffman: To disclose our work to each other... Heracles: Disclose...? Hoffman: Well... We wanted to stop the world's worst problems, like global warming, increasing desertification, re-equilibriation of the environment, dissolving the growing gap between rich and poor... Maybe even stamping out war... Heracles: So you showed each other what you were researching... Hoffman: We wanted to create robots that would save the world... - Page 165 - Epsilon: A gathering of the inventor of Zeronium, Dr. Hoffman, the inventor of photon energy, Dr. Newton-Howard, and the authority in computerized brains, Dr. Tenma... What happened at that meeting? Hoffman: Dr. Newton-Howard and I laid all of our cards bare. Everything we had... But... Heracles: But...? Hoffman: Dr. Tenma did not do the same. - Page 166 - Hoffman: He said this... <