Wild Adapter2 dice 09 and 10

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Wild Adapter 02
(Ballpark translation, absolutely no guarantees) The new game is a bit too hard. (?) I'm going to get sick of eating Mosburger chicken soon. On garbage pickup day this old guy, total stranger, pinches my bum. Made me sick, so I kicked the shit out of him. Was watching TV and said 'Gee that looks good' so Kubo-chan bought me a carton of ice-cream and it *was* good. Today I'm clean and righteous and wonderful, and if tomorrow never comes, well who cares?
Tokitoh Minoru

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Voice: Come here, Minoru. There's nothing to be afraid of. You've always belonged--
Tokitoh: ...no. Don't. Stay away.
Voice: --to me alone
Tokitoh: *Stop* it! I don't want to. Let me go. Let me--

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Tokitoh: ...ahh...
Kubota: You awake?

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Tokitoh: I think I was having a nightmare. But I can't remember what.
Kubota: I see.
Tokitoh: ..hey, Kubo-chan
PA: Dr. Maruyama from Internal Medicine, please go immediately to examination room 1
Kubota: Mh?
F/X Tokitoh gripping fingers

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Tokitoh: ...nothing
Kubota: Mh.
Kasai: Have some?
Tokitoh: Pops.
Kasai: Thought you two might still be here. That Saori kid- there's no saying when she'll come to
Kubota: Yes, well-

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Kubota: It's not like we aren't involved already, and *you* have to hear her story, right?
Kasai: Well, yeah. But it must have been a real shock. Seeing the body of the guy you love covered in fur... and only the top half of it left
Kasai: Hey, you alright, Toki-boy?
Tokitoh: Yeah. Fine.
Tokitoh: What about Saori-chan's family
Kasai: Well, we contacted them, but...

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Kasai: When I said it was the police, they said 'What, again?' just like that. 'You take care of it.' Honestly, the only good thing about this is that the baby's OK.
Kubota: ...I don't know if that's a good thing or not, for her- under the circumstances
Kasai: Asshole

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Kasai: It's a case of something being better than nothing at all
F/X Kasai grinds out cigarette
Araki: Kasai-san
Kasai: Mh?
Araki: Okubo Saori's awake
Nameplate: Okubo Saori

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Tokitoh: How ya doing?
F/X door open
Tokitoh: Here, ya gotta eat. You're pregnant- an intravenous won't be enough- hey!
F/X Saori strikes at the tray
F/X dishes crash

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F/X Tokitoh's glove goes flying
Saori: Uh?
Tokitoh: Shit--
Saori: What? Your... hand---

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Saori: What-- ahh!
Saori: starts screaming
Tokitoh: Hey, Saori? Sa--

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Saori: screaming
Tokitoh: Saori!
Saori: (gasping for breath)
F/X vase breaking
Araki: Call the nurse!
Kubota: Wait. It's better not to use tranquillizers

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Kubota: When you panic you start to hyperventilate
Saori: (muffled noises)
Kubota: Breathe in the air you've just let out and you'll calm down, Saori-chan
Saori: (stifling) Kubota: And regulate your breathing-- slowly--
Saori: (panting)
Kubota: --and then you're fine

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Tokitoh: Kubo-cha--
Kubota: It's OK
F/X grab
Saori: -ohhh- you guys- just who the hell are you?

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Kasai: About a year ago a new type of drug started making the rounds. Called 'Wild Adapter.' We don't know where it comes from, we don't know its effects. The police haven't even been able to get hold of a sample of it. The one thing we do know is that in people who use it often, for some reason their body hair gets longer and they grow fangs and claws- basically, they turn into animals. And then--
Kasai: The inner organs explode and they die. But as for *why* they die- it's not proven yet that everyone who uses it dies of it. After all, our only samples come from dead bodies.

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Tokitoh: Me--
Tokitoh: I met Kubo-chan a year ago. I don't remember anything before that. I don't know anything at all: why it's just my right hand that's like this, or what I was doing and where I was doing it, or why I was passed out in an alley in Yokohama.
Tokitoh: When I try to remember I get this bad feeling. I'm sure whatever it was can't have been anything good. But still-

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Tokitoh: It pisses me off somehow, like I'm running away from something. I want to know who I am.
Tokitoh: Right now the only clue I've got is this WA drug. I don't know if my right hand really has something to do with it

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Tokitoh: But if you know anything about this drug your boyfriend was using I wish you'd tell me.
Saori: I- don't know anything about it.
Saori: Talking to me like that-- what are you telling me to do!?
Kasai: Hey--
Saori: I don't know anything!! Get out, all of you-- GET OUT!!!

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Kasai: Let's go.
Kubota: Bye then, Saori-chan
F/X puts piece of paper on table
F/X door closes
Saori voiceover: What hurt more than I could stand--
Saori: (crying)

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Saori: More than that the man I loved was dead, was how sorry I felt for myself being left all alone.
Saori: I hate myself.
Sekiya: Honestly, he was useless.

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Sekiya: He said he knew where this WA was coming from and so we put him in charge of it. But he was using it himself and died of it. Really, he was nothing but a young punk in the end.
Assistant: One thing about him- apparently he had a woman. She might know what WA's distribution routes is. --Sekiya-san?
Sekiya: I suppose. Leaning on young men is one thing, but women- it's soo boring. But I suppose we must.

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Dice 10

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Note: Kubota Makoto 090-154-xxxx
Kasai's voice: Yo, Makoto. It's me. Where are you?
Sign: Kitagitasou(?) Mahjong
Kubota: Finished my work here and on my way out

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Kubota: Something happen?
Kasai: No, just something bothering me. That boyfriend of Okubo Saori's. It looks like his apartment was ransacked. The body was moved after death, and it's clear that some of the drugs he should have had are gone. And more- seems pretty likely his cell phone and address book were stolen.
Kubota: So what about Saori-chan?
Kasai: They said she'd be leaving hospital this afternoon. I was going to go see her then... If you're not close by I'll go now. I'm getting a bad feeling about this

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Kubota: I'll go too, right away.
Kasai: 'Too'?
Kubota: Tokitoh's gone to see her.
Building sign: Matsumoto General Hospital
Nameplate: Kubota Saori
F/X knock on door
F/X door opens
F/X wind blows curtains

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Tokitoh: Yo!!
F/X door bursting open
Tokitoh: Hey, you like sweet stuff? Hey-- Hunh?
Nurse: If you're looking for Okubo-san she just left
Tokitoh: Hunh?
Nurse: The police came for her.
Tokitoh: You're kidding. Kasai-san she'd be leaving this *afternoon*. Oh-
F/X cell phone ringing

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Tokitoh: Kubo-chan? Look- she's already left...
F/X Tokitoh breaks into run
Nurse: Wha-- Hey! Don't run in the corridors!
Thug: Get in

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Saori: Get... in? hey-- *You're* not the police!
Sekiya: Oh, we're not that different from them- at least when it comes to influence inside the country. I daresay he never told you about me, that mmhh 'animal' boyfriend of yours. How do you do, Saori-chan. I'm Sekiya, assistant director of the Tohjou gang

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Saori: C-cut it out! Let go of me!
Thug: C'mon, get in!
Saori: scream
F/X Tokitoh slams thug with a signpost

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F/X breaks arm with his fingers
F/X grabs Saori's hand and takes off
Tokitoh: Saori, run!!!
Thug 1: What the hell-- that effing kid!!
Saori: Wha-- Tokitoh-kun!!?

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Sekiya: What are you doing, just standing there! Go get them!!
Thug: Uh-- yeah!
Sekiya: (seeing broken off signpost) What on earth...
F/X Tokitoh and Saori gasping for breath

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Tokitoh: There's nobody else around. Not a good idea
Tokitoh: Those guys were yakuza, snooping around trying to find out where WA comes from
Saori: Why were they after me...
Tokitoh: You were his girlfriend. They must figure you'd know. Fact is we thought the same
Saori: I don't know anything!
Tokitoh: Yeah, I know. But 'I don't know' won't work on them. We gotta wait for a chance to get back to the hospital. Kasai-san and his men will be there soon.

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Tokitoh: Hey, you OK?
Saori: How come?
Tokitoh: Hm?
Saori: How come you're so nice to me? Now you know I don't know where that drug comes from, you don't have to bother with me any more. So what did you save me for? You shouldn't have been so nice if you weren't going to stay with me for good--

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F/X Tokitoh grabs Saori's arm
Tokitoh: Ya know-- if you weren't a girl I'd hit you. Would you just cut out the big tragedy routine? Before you start saying 'Stay with me' to someone, ask yourself if you've ever tried staying with anyone yourself.

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Tokitoh: You're going to have a kid. Pull yourself together, will ya?
F/X voices outside
Tokitoh: Shit. We gotta start moving. Let's go
Saori: Ah-- Ok.

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F/X Saori gags and vomits
Tokitoh: Hey, you OK?
Saori: Nh-- sorr-- AHH!
Tokitoh: Huh--

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F/X thug knocks Tokitoh down
Saori: screams
Thug: So this is where you were hiding
Tokitoh: gags
Saori: Tokito-- mph!

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Saori: muffled noises
Thug: Do what you're damn well told!
Sekiya: Honestly. Could you stop giving me so much trouble? Unlike you children, my time's worth something.
Sekiya: Your witless boyfriend used our outfit's money to buy himself drugs and died of it. Nothing but trouble, you see?

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Sekiya: How unfortunate that you have no taste in men. None at all.
Saori: I don't need some faggot talking like that
F/X Sekiya strikes Saori
Saori: screams
F/X falls
Tokitoh: You bastard!
Sekiya: --oh yes. You've a baby in there, I hear?

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Sekiya: Tell me- does the child of a man like that really matter?
F/X Saori protects herself
Sekiya: Oh dear. Women, you know-- all stupid, and the stupidest of them all
Sekiya: are the mothers. Really, it makes me quite sick.
Tokitoh: Shittt---
F/X kicks bucket at Sekiya

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F/X bucket hits him
Tokitoh: Saori, run!!
Thug: Fucking kid--!!
F/X shoves Tokitoh's head against the concrete
Tokitoh: Ungh-- (screams) OWW!
Thug: I've had enough of your jokes!

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Sekiya: Now tell me, who do you belong to, little cat?
Sekiya: Aren't you sweet?
F/X kicks Tokitoh in the face

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Sekiya: But you're not my type, dearie.
F/X Tokitoh coughing gagging
Saori: (screams) Tokitoh!
Thug: OK- now come along quietly.
Saori: Stop it!! Please stop!!

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Thug voices: (gasping and groaning)
F/X sounds of fight(?)
F/X sound of curtains flapping in the breeze in Saori's hospital room

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F/X crumpled paper is blown across floor
Paper: Kubota Makoto 090-154-XXXX
Kubota's voice: That cat--

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Kubota: --belongs to me. Can I have him back?

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Sekiya: (thinks) So this--
Tokitoh: Kubo-chan!!
Sekiya: (thinks) --is 'Kubota Makoto.'