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STRANGE: STORIES BY JUNJI ITO FOR
SLEEP NIGHTS

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Recently there have been
strange sightings throughout Japan.

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They appeared suddenly.
They were simply there.

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In places of all kinds.

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Always stuck in the same position.

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Day and night.

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Hey, you!

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What are you doing here at this hour?

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Let me please.

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Come on, go home. Come on.

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Hey! But what does it do?

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Come on, come with me to the police station.

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No matter how many times they were kicked out,

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They always returned to the same place.

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They seemed to be linked
to those places.

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That's why
They began to be known as...

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...the Rooted Ones.

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THE ROOTED

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Curiously, the Rooted
They began to appear all over Japan.

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Soon the rumor spread
that Rooting was contagious.

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Sota! Don't get close to them!
What if it sticks to you?

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Hello.

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My name is Asano.

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I am a volunteer
of the Aozora organization.

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At Aozora we want to help people
who is in his situation.

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How do you manage to eat?

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If we can help you with anything,
You just have to say it.

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Leave me alone.

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You can't do anything.

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I understand.

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I'll be back another time.

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I leave him food and water.

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Why the Rooted
Do they cling to specific places?

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We still don't have it clear.

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- May you rest.
- And you.

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Take a rest.

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Asano, I would like to
that you would continue helping that old man.

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- Clear.
- Good.

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Good job.

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Take. How is volunteering going?
Are you getting used to it?

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- I guess. Take a rest.
- And you.

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Sorry.

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Forgive me.

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Aren't you demanding too much of yourself?

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I'm sorry. Take a rest.

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And you.

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Can I help you in any way?

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I'm home now.

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Minoru, come home, please.

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Please.
If you continue like this, you are going to die.

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Excuse me.

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I am a volunteer
of the Aozora organization.

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Can I help you with something?

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The doctors

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and the authorities
They have thrown in the towel.

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What is a volunteer going to do?

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And if you get too close,
you could get infected.

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we don't believe
That contagion thing is true.

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We think that the Arraigo
It is a psychological disorder.

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How are they going to stay like this?
for a psychological disorder?

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It's been like this for a week now.

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- Hey...
- Don't talk to him!

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Can I help you with something?

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I have nothing...

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...what to say.

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How...?

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How could it happen?

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at the beginning

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I thought I had come here
because he missed Ponta.

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The dog I had as a child.
It was here where he died.

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I adored Ponta.

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And he was devastated when he died.

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But that was many years ago.

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And I wonder why now.

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After

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I found out that there were many people
in your same situation.

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But...

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I still believe that Ponta
It has something to do with it.

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because

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Minoru has always been so good...

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A very interesting testimony.

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From what you just told me...

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That's right, boss.

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The boy is rooted
to the place where his dog died.

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Maybe they stay in one place

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especially important for them.

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I see.

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A place of special importance...

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If we can find out,
We would find the key to everything.

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Yes.

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"A place of special importance."

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It's okay to try hard,
But don't push yourself too hard, okay?

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Okay.

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Do you have any plans for later?

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What?

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If you are free, we can go to eat.

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I appreciate it very much, but...

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I understand.

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I'm going to move soon
and I have a lot of trouble.

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What? Are you moving again?

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Didn't you change apartments last year?

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Yes.

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Are you okay?

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Are you crying?

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Sorry.

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I'm fine.

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Okay.

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Good morning.

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It's not there.

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The boss hasn't come.

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And he doesn't pick up his cell phone either.

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Would you go out last night?

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Who is it?

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To...

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Asano?

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Boss?

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What are you doing here?

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This is

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my house

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Really?

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Yes.

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And you, why are you here?

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I don't know, really.

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I woke up here. I can't move.

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So that's how it is
How the Rooted feel...

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Now I am one of them.

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Boss.

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Do you have any link
with this room?

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Maybe you have lived here?

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No, I don't know.

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I don't recognize this place.

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I'm sorry.

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On your day off...

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Nothing happens.

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I sure am a nuisance.

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Not at all.

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Don't you like chocolate?

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What?

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I love it.

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What do you like to eat, boss?

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Let's go eat.

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I'm not hungry.

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But you have to eat.

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I can't

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eat like this.

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I help you.

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How delicious.

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Glad to hear it.
It's not too spicy, is it?

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No not at all.

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It's perfect.

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Are you crying?

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Sorry for the scare.

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I've had a nightmare.

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It's a dream that...

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...repeats.

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Damn.

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Damn it!

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I wish I could move.

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I would get a little closer.

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Damn.

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Please.

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Let me stay like this for a while.

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I feel safer.

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I want to stay like this forever.

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Hello, we are
of the Department of Health.

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We have orders to transfer him
and quarantine him.

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Join us.

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It's hard as a stone.

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Hey, hold on.

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Hold on!

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Hey!

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Hey!

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At that time,
the Rooted from all over Japan

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They gradually stiffened.

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The reason was unknown.

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I don't want you to die.

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Please stay like this...

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...forever.

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You once asked me...

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...if it had any link
with this room, do you remember?

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It wasn't with the room.

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The link was with you.

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All this time...

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...I've been in love with you.

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Since before arriving here.

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Me too.

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But...

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...I'm scared.

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It's just...

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...it was two years ago,

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in another apartment.

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Someone broke into my house
in the middle of the night.

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And he attacked me.

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Since then, I have gone
from apartment to apartment.

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If not...

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...I fear that the aggressor may return.

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I'm sorry.

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Minoru, don't get caught, please!

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I know, I'll give you a massage. A massage!

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Don't touch me!

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Ponta wouldn't want to see you like that either!

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Please do it for Ponta.

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Stop now!

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No, that's not why.

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Ponta would never forgive me.

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I killed him.

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That day...

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...Ponta bit me.

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And I...

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...I just wanted to teach him a lesson.

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I kicked him.

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And...

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Ponta, forgive me!

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COMMON NEXUS OF ROOTED:
GUILT FOR PAST CRIMES

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WITNESSES WANTED,
AVAILABLE JUNE 2, 2026

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A common link has been discovered
among the Rooted from all over the country.

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According to the investigations,
the places where they are

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they would be crime scenes
committed by them in the past.

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ITABASHI, TOKYO

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Until now, it was believed that the phenomenon

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of the Rooted
It had a paranormal origin...

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Boss.

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It seems that the Root
It is born from guilt.

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I insisted to the building's janitor...

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...until he told me.

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A few years ago they killed
to a woman in this apartment.

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A thief broke in in the middle of the night.

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And he killed her when she tried to resist.

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The author turned out to be a thief
and serial rapist.

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They never found him.

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He posed as a police officer

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so that their victims
They opened the door for him.

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The same thing that happened to me.

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I think it was...

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...the same person.

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Boss.

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You have nothing to do with that, do you?

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It's not true.

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Tell me it's not true.

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Ready?

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Come on.

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There we go.

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The number of Rooted
continues to increase

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with no end in sight.

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THIS WORK IS FICTIONAL.

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THE CHARACTERS
AND ENTITIES ARE FICTITIOUS.

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And your ribs. Give them to me.

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Fat!

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They say there are no bones.

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We were waiting for you.

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Lovely.

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"Synchronized and corrected by MarcusL"
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