Hi,
My name is Yuhao. And this is making of ''Tokyo Bar 1960''.
[[What is ''Tokyo Bar 1960''? -> Introduction for TB1]]
[[I already know what you going to say, just let me play! ->Introduction]]Great question! Let me give you a summary of this game:
(text-colour:grey)[A middle aged American in his vacation wondered into a small bar in Tokyo. He met a young college student at there who works as a part-time bartender. In June of 1960, the Anpo protests was at its peak. After hours of violence confrontations with police, students stormed into Japan’s national diet building (the top legislature building). A female student was killed at that day. The game follows a dialogue between two person. Via their lenses, a turmoil time where different political ideologies clashes gradually unveiled itself.]
[[Interesting! Why don't we start already? -> structure of the game]]Hold on a minutes. As much I'd like to start the game for you. I have to explain something for you:
You see, the previous summary made ''Tokyo Bar 1960'' sounds like a political drama.
[[So it isn't a political drama? -> Political drama]]It is a political drama ... but because I wrote the summary before I wrote the script. The summary isn't very representative after all.
When I started writing the script, I realized the game can easily turned into another horrible shouting match.
[[make a history drama then! -> history drama]]I could... unfortuante I am just not equipped. I am not familiar with Japan in 1960 enough to feel confident make a history drama.
However, I am confident enough to write a story happended in that time period.
[[But I really want to know more about Anpo protest! -> Anpo protest]]No worries! Anpo protest is still going to be a big part of this game. Here is what I am going to do:
First, I am gonnna dial down the political aspect of this story. And focus more on characters.
Second, the game is gonna be less ambitious. But it still have big implication.
[[Implication? What do you mean? -> implication]]You see, this game was never about Anpo protest. It is about the recent U.S. capitol insurrection.
[[That's what I thought -> US Capitol]]Anpo Protest was very similar to U.S. Capitol Insurrection in many aspect.
I thought if I make a game about it, maybe we could learn a thing or so from what happened in Japan.
In 1960, Japan was at a cross road. And today, U.S. is more divided then ever since the Civil War.
So what I really want to make is a game about ''reconcile in division''.
[[reconcile in division? -> reconcile]]Yes!
After realizing ''reconcile in division'' is what's the game really about, I decided political drama isn't my best option here.
Make political drama will make our audience more judgemental to the game. Creating a ''division'' between character and the audience -- the oposite thing I am trying to do here.
[[So how do you plan to address this? -> solution]]To solve this, I tried to understand why people have different opinion at first.
I realized people have different opinion because they have ''different motives''.
And ''different motives'' is often a result of ''different backstory''.
In another word, ones ''story'' (i.e. experience) often determine their ''opinion''.
What's special about human is - Even though we are terrible at digesting others ''opinion'' - we are great at digesting others ''story''.
Therefore, ''to listen to others story'' is the only way we can reconcile.
[[I am listenning... -> solution continued]]So it made more sense for me to create a story about ''character'' but not ''opinion''.
And I decided to create two character with contrasting opinion, both flawed.
And most importantly, they must both have a story.
As the story goes on. The characters will getting to know each other. And the more they learned, the closer they are.
I hope this also applied to the auidence as well, they might disagree with the character at first. But I want to made the division between the audience and character disappear as they learn about the character.
[[Okay. Can I play the game now? -> draft]]Not yet. There are few more things:
What you about see is little less than 1/3 of the final script.
This 1/3 of the script is all I got right now.
The 3 parts of the game are: the story of middle-aged man (Andy), the story of the young man, and the clash between them.
In the part I gonna show you. The young man had very little to say. That's becuase I haven't write anything about the young man. I have no idea who he is myself.
And about the gameplay. This game is very much a work in progress. And I don't have anything near the finalized gameplay.
But what I can tell you is this:
The game is gonna be very linear. Player will be able to determine the outcome of this game at very end. But in earlier stage, especially when characters tell their story, player don't get to choose what's their story.
However, I do want include some gameplay in every stage. So player don't bore to death. I will be sure to add gameplay in the final version. As right now, my priority is completing the script.
[[I jUsT WaNt tO pLAy tHE dAMn gAmE -> one more thing]]One more thing. I promise.
This is important. Making this game turned out to be very challenging and time consuming for me. I spent my better part of last week just trying to write what you see here.
During the scripting, I asked a friend of mine for help. His name is Xiaoyu Tan. Like me, he is a native mandarian speaker. But he can't write in English.
I should clarify, by no mean I asked he to create this story. I still write this story by myself, entirely.
You see, I wrote this story in a narrator perspective first. But I had a dificult time finding the proper ryhme when writing them in form of dialogues. So I told him a portion of the story. He wrote that portion in dialougues form using mandarian. And I used his dialougues as reference when I write my dialogue script.
And that's all I have to say for now. :-p
Let's dive right into it.
[[🤨->Introduction]](text-colour:#748ffc)["For the past twenty years, there’s not one single day I don't regret..."]
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(text-colour:#ff8787)[[[Regret for what?->Act II : 10]]](text-colour:#748ffc)["...join the army"]
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(text-colour:#ff8787)[[[the World War II? ->Act II : 11]]](text-colour:#748ffc)["You bet. I left my wife and daughter and joined the army.
She was one year old when I left her."]
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[[next->Act II : 12]](text-colour:#748ffc)["My father, he was really mad at my decision."
"He never intended me to join the army."
"I am his oldest son."
"He wanted me to take care his business."]
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[[next->Act II : 13 - 1]]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[[[You had siblings?->Act II : 13 - 2]]](text-colour:#748ffc)["My father knows some people: businessmen, governors, senators...
He could easily take me and my brother’s name out of the draft."]
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[[next->Act II : 14]](text-colour:#748ffc)["A little a brother and a little sister. Always took care of them."]
(set: $KaneshiroImpression to $KaneshiroImpression + 1)
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[[...->Act II : 13 - 1]]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["He wanted me to take his position, run his business.
You know, wanted me married ... take care my sister, wife and children."]
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[[next->Act II : 15]](text-colour:#748ffc)["And I listened to him. Mostly."
"I was his proudest son."
"But I never wanted to take care the business."
"Politic was more of my thing."
"Always thought I could be president, as a matter of fact."]
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[[next->Act II : 16]](text-colour:#748ffc)["My little brother, he was the one supposed to be ‘the senator’."
"My father planned his education."
"Always telling him “don't mess with girls, it’ll ruin your career."]
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[[next->Act II : 17]](text-colour:#748ffc)["My brother always looked up to me."
"And just like me, he did what he was told."]
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[[next->Act II : 18]](text-colour:#748ffc)["When I told my father I volunteered."
"He was furious."
"He never saw that coming."
"Disappointed him."]
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(text-colour:#ff8787)[[[Your father. Tell me about him.->Act II : 19]]](text-colour:#748ffc)["He was a tempered man."
"Tempered but smart."]
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[[next->Act II : 20]](text-colour:#748ffc)["And he knows how to raise a family."
"Single-handily."
"I won't say my family is powerful."
"But everyone in my town knows my family name."]
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[[next->Act II : 21]](text-colour:#748ffc)["He was a bootlegger, running Bahamas rum and moonshines to our town."
"Made some handsome profit from that."]
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[[next->Act II : 22]](text-colour:#748ffc)["After the black hand took over ‘alcohol business’."
"He put his bet in entertainment."
"Opened a theater in town."
"With the connections he made during his earlier days."
"He droves all the competitions away."]
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[[next->Act II : 23]](text-colour:#748ffc)["Within the first two years, he opened his second theater in a nearby town."
"Several years after that, he owns a dozen of theaters and a couple of bars across the state."
"Even had a contract with the MGM."]
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(text-colour:#ff8787)[[[It sounded like he is a prominent people.->Act II : 24]]](text-colour:#748ffc)["He was, before the stock market crashed at least."]
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[[next->Act II : 25]]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[[[The great depression?->Act II : 25 - 1]]](text-colour:#748ffc)["After the market crashed, people stopped watching films."
"My father’s bonds and stocks became papers."
"Hollywood took a big hit too."]
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[[next->Act II : 26]](text-colour:#748ffc)["The great depression, The stock market crash."
"Whichever you like."]
(set: $KaneshiroImpression to $KaneshiroImpression + 1)
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[[next->Act II : 25]]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["It was the clear within a year, the glorious days was no longer."
"Yet, the theater was still profitable."
"And wealth from previous years allowed us to maintain our life."]
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[[next->Act II : 27]](text-colour:#748ffc)["Had to live less luxurious and finally worried about money for once."
"But our life stayed mostly the same."]
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[[next->Act II : 28]](text-colour:#748ffc)["But something were different after the crash.
Mainly my father."
"Notably his vitality was sucked away from him."]
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[[next->Act II : 29]](text-colour:#748ffc)["I sensed his changes at the time but never understand what was happening, until one experience the process of aging themselves."
"One can never understand."]
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[[next->Act II : 30]](text-colour:#748ffc)["Alcohol did its things as well."
"He was an alcoholic for his entire life."
"Often belt us and our mother as a matter of fact."]
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[[next->Act II : 31]]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[[[Excuse me but… doesn't sound like a good father to me.->Act II : 30 - 1]]](text-colour:#748ffc)["Had to protect my brother and sister from him when I was young."
"As I said, my father had repetition because of his temper."]
(set: $KaneshiroImpression to $KaneshiroImpression + 1)
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[[next->Act II : 31]](text-colour:#748ffc)["Gradually alcohol took a turn on his health for the worse."
"He even lost the famous temper of him."]
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[[next->Act II : 32]](text-colour:#748ffc)["I wasn't aware of it back then that I wasn't witnessing him aging."
"I was witness him dying."
"And it was painful to watch."
"Every day, he would wake up a little smaller than the previous day.
Shrinking."]
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[[next->Act II : 33]](text-colour:#748ffc)["I was offically recruited in 1941."
"The day I left, my daughter, wife, brother, sister, and mother all came to the station to say farewell."
"So was my father."
"My mother made us talks to each other the previous day."]
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[[next->Act II : 34]](text-colour:#748ffc)["It wasn’t even a conversation."
"As far as I remembered, never had a meaningful conversation with him."
"Always giving me a lecture."
"And that was no exception."
"It only made the tension between us more apparent."]
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[[next->Act II : 35]](text-colour:#748ffc)["That was the last conversation I had with him."]
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[[next->Act II : 36]](text-colour:#748ffc)["I don't remember what was the lecture he gave to me."
"Only remember feeling irritated."
"When I was younger, I respect his lecture."
"Less so as I grow older."]
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(text-colour:#ff8787)[[[How about now? What do you think of his words?->Act II : 36 - 1]]]
[[next->Act II : 37]](text-colour:#748ffc)["Oddly. I found his word… to be true."
"Not correct, not wise, but true."
"Cynical but true."
"Now where was I?"]
(set: $KaneshiroImpression to $KaneshiroImpression + 1)
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[[You said you joined the army->Act II : 37]](text-colour:#748ffc)["Right."
"I am sure you have heard many war stories by now."
"Must be very familiar with them."]
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[[next->Act II : 38]](text-colour:#748ffc)["In many ways, mine are no different."
"So, I will not bore you."
"But tell me, have anyone mentioned the smell?"]
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[[The smell? Like powder and blood?->Act II : 39]](text-colour:#748ffc)["Powder and blood."
"You could put it that way."
"It sounds easy, doesn't it?"]
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[[next->Act II : 40]](text-colour:#748ffc)["I was quite disappointed when I just joined the Army."]
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(text-colour:#ff8787)[[[Is that so?->Act II : 41]]](text-colour:#748ffc)["Had nothing to do."]
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(text-colour:#ff8787)[[[I would think otherwise.->Act II : 42]]](text-colour:#748ffc)["You would, so was I."
"But by the time I arrived at Morocco, we already occupied the city."
"I ended up following the same routine for a couple of months — get up, and guard."]
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[[next->Act II : 43]](text-colour:#748ffc)["About that time I learned my brother had joined the Air Force."
"He always looked up to me."
"That must be why."]
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[[next->Act II : 44]]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[[[How did your father take it->Act II : 44 - 1]]](text-colour:#748ffc)[" couldn't have imagined how my father reacted."
"He must be furious."
"But once again, he might already accept that things wouldn't be like what he planned."]
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[[next->Act II : 45]](text-colour:#748ffc)["I couldn't have imagined how my father reacted."
"He must be furious."
"But once again, he might already accept that things wouldn't be like what he planned."]
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(set: $KaneshiroImpression to $KaneshiroImpression + 1)
[[next->Act II : 45]]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["In 1943, I was finally deployed to France on the front line."
"It isn't until then I finally witnessed the full scale of the war."
"It didn't take me long to realize I was wrong."
"Nothing I have been through before was like what I am about to go through."]
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[[next->Act II : 46]]
[[So you regretted.->Act II : 46]](text-colour:#748ffc)["The grenades, Tanks, the pile of bodies, human remains."
"Those are things you could get used to."
"Watching a dying person die, you couldn't."]
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[[next->Act II : 47]](text-colour:#748ffc)["And the smell."
"The smell of blood, flesh, and smoke."]
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[[next->Act II : 48]](text-colour:#748ffc)["People can get used to any smell given enough time."
"But the smell over a battlefield is different, it always reminds you it’s there."
"And you couldn't wash it away."]
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[[next->Act II : 49]]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[[[Had you?->Act II : 49 - 1]]](text-colour:#748ffc)["After the war, I returned home."
"Everything was different."]
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[[next->Act II : 50]](text-colour:#748ffc)[I am sorry?]
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(set: $KaneshiroImpression to $KaneshiroImpression + 1)
(text-colour:#ff8787)[[[Washed it away?->Act II : 49 - 2]]]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[''Addy smiled.'']
(text-colour:#748ffc)["You could still smell off me if you try."]
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(text-colour:#ff8787)[[[next->Act II : 49]]](text-colour:#748ffc)["My father had a stroke when I was in France. "
"Never recovered."
"Passed away after a few weeks."]
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[[next->Act II : 51]](text-colour:#748ffc)["Two months after that, a B-29 was shot down during a bombing mission over Tokyo."
"My brother was in there."]
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[[next->Act II : 52]]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[[[I am sorry to hear that.->Act II : 52]]](text-colour:#c5f6fa)[[[Andy paused. ->Act II : 53]]](text-colour:#748ffc)["You asked me if I was regretful."
"And I answered ‘every day’."]
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[[next->Act II : 54]](text-colour:#748ffc)["For a time it was true, all I could think of."]
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[[next->Act II : 55]](text-colour:#748ffc)["But I think time has done its thing."
"I really don't think about it much these days."
"I really don't."]
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(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[[[To be continued.->Act III]]]I know I know,
I wasn't that good.
But this game is very much a WIP.
You reach the bad end
[[ACTIIFinal]] You reach the Good end
[[ACTIIFinal]] (text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Summer evening at Tokyo, (text-style:"sway")[a flow of wind] slowly travel through streets and alleys.
She gently hug each pedestrian with the residual warmth of the sun she carries. Ahead of her, is a man in white shirt.
The man has a cigarette in his mouth, periodically breathe out white smoke.
The wind behind him swiftly catches him and swept away the white smoke, then she did a little barrel rolls before finally left him alone.]
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[[next->Act I : 1]](text-colour:#c5f6fa)[This sudden encounter made Andy a little unsettling.
Wind being warm didn't make him feel any better.
Quite the opposite, Andy feels like the wind steal a sniff of warmth from him.
Andy is wearing a carefully ironed white shirt tonight.
The shirt is tailored for him, so it fit his wide shoulder neatly.
Andy had this shirt for many years, so was the rest of his outfit.
Matching this shirt is a pleated pants, well sewn folds made Andy appear even taller than he already is.
At night, it’s difficult to tell if the pants is dark beige or light caramel.
But it’s contemporary nicely with his clean white shirt. And below the pant is a brown Oxford leather shoes from Church’s & Co.
Andy always shine his shoes. Years of carefully burnish give the shoes a unique patina glows.
This is Andy’s usual look, as matter of fact tan line on Andy’s chest hints he always wears like this.
It’s either the outfit is molded after him, or Andy is molded after the outfit.]
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[[next->Act I : 2]](text-colour:#748ffc)[Andy has a very well-built body.
His wide shoulder, straight posture, and tanned skin always made an impression for him.
He looks ten years younger than he supposed to be.
Whereas, his face looks half decades older than he actually is.
His facial feature can be illustrated in a few sharp strokes with the help of a ruler.
Wrinkles climbed out of his deepened eye socket all the way to his temple. His thin and drought lips decorated his heavy chain.
His nose is like a piece of Berlin Wall stuck between his two eyes.
His eyes are color of aquamarine, but long-lost the shines he used to have.
He has an almost even pair of ears that never sticks out — almost aerodynamic.
His hair is not any thinner than he is younger.
Locks of grey hairs planted next to his otherwise blonde hair. ]
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[[next->Act I : 3]](text-colour:#c5f6fa)[(text-colour:#862e9c)[//Tom-tom//]
Andy shoes had a nice beat to it every time it hit side walk.]
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[[next->Act I : 4]](text-colour:#c5f6fa)[(text-colour:#862e9c)[//Tom//]
At last, Andy came to a stop at a small bar.
Andy took one last the breath as his cigarette burned out.
Smoke swarm out of his mouth and nose.
Andy had to squeeze his eyes as he looked up to the neon sign.
(text-style:"blink")[(text-colour:#69db7c)[''John L.'']] the sign said.]
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(text-colour:#748ffc)[[[enter the bar->Act I : 5 - 1]]
[[throw the cigarette butt before enter->Act I : 5 - 2]]](text-colour:#c5f6fa)[It took Andy a few moments to adjust from (text-colour:#69db7c)[the grim neon light] to (text-colour:#ffa94d)[balmy orange light] illuminating the room.
He approached the bartender behind the bar in dizziness.
Andy took a seat. Under muddled lights, he could barely see the face of the young man.
He took another look.]
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[[next->Act I : 7]](text-colour:#ff8787)[A young and good-looking face greeted Andy with a warm smile.
The young man seems genuinely happy to meet Andy as they were old friends who happened to see each other again.
However, it can always be he’s showing off his white teeth. Andy wasn't sure which way it was.
The Young man’s face is smooth without any hint of beard. Brown eyes, black hair, and cherry red lip.
The man looks like a living greek statue.
The man must be in his early 20s, Andy thought, 21? 22? Must be under 25. Very young for a bartender.
He’s an about 5 feet 9 — almost a head shorter than Andy. The young man was wearing a double-breasted charcoal waistcoat, a rather uncommon choice.
Beneath it is a white dress shirt with a subtle black check bow tie.
Not anything fancy, but a lot of effort was certainly putted into it.
The man seems energetic and had a lot confident, maybe a little too much.
Nevertheless, he is polite and needlessly to say well-educated. ]
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(text-colour:#748ffc)[[[Andy liked the young man at start->Act I : 8 - 1]]
[['Just another snob' Andy thinks->Act I : 8 - 2]]](text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Andy throws down the cigarette butt and step on it.
He pushes the glass door open and enter the bar.]
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[[next->Act I : 6]](text-colour:#c5f6fa)[He pushes the glass door open and enter the bar.
He throws the cigarette butt in a trash can beneath the door]
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[[next->Act I : 6]](text-colour:#748ffc)[It’s fair to say Andy liked the young man at the start.
He seems a little snob for sure.
But Andy felt very comfortable with him.]
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[[next->Act I : 9]]
(set: $KaneshiroImpression to $KaneshiroImpression + 1)(text-colour:#748ffc)[He seems to Andy a little snob for sure.
Somehow Andy still felt very comfortable with him.]
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[[next->Act I : 9]](text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Before Andy opened his mouth, the young bartender speak to Andy with fluent english.]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["Sir, How can I help you?"]
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(text-colour:#748ffc)[["Bourbon is fine."->Act I : 10 - Bourbon]]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[["Gin, Please."->Act I : 10 - Gin]](set: $drink to "Bourbon")(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[The Young man turned around to get the $drink.
Andy looked around as he does that.
As Andy scanning the room.
He realized it is quieter inside than out.
(text-colour:#748ffc)[“That seldomly happened to a barâ€.] Andy thought.
It almost fell like he’s the only customer.
Then Andy laid eyes on the Television right above him.]
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[[next->Act I : 11]](set: $drink to "Gin")(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[The Young man turned around to get the $drink.
Andy looked around as he does that.
As Andy scanning the room.
He realized it is quieter inside than out.
(text-colour:#748ffc)[“That seldomly happened to a barâ€.] Andy thought.
It almost fell like he’s the only customer.
Then Andy laid eyes on the Television right above him.]
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[[next->Act I : 11]](text-colour:#c5f6fa)[The muted Television is playing some sort of entertainment news shows.
The female anchor on TV is speaking silently.
It seems some serious matters is going on.]
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(text-colour:#748ffc)[[[Andy happens to know exactly what’s on news:->Act I : 12]]
[[Andy has a guess on what's happening->Act I : 12]]](text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Couple days ago, tens of thousands left wing students surrounded ''Japan National Diet Building'' — Japan’s top legislature building — to protest ''President Eisenhower''’s upcoming trip to Japan to sign US-Japan Arm Treaty.
Many views the treaty was passed illegitimately due to conservative prime minister ''Nobusuke Kishi'' called 500 policemen into the diet chamber and physically removed most of the lawmakers from the opposition party — Japan Socialist Party.
Later that day students (text-style:"shudder")[stormed] into Japan Diet Building.
After a violence clash with police a female student leader named ''Michiko Kanba'' was killed.]
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[[next->Act I : 13]](text-colour:#c5f6fa)[The prime minister Kishi was featured on Time magazine earlier that year while a recent student protest was in headlines for Japanese Times English Edition distributed for free on Andy’s plane to Tokyo.
Andy’s happens to read both issues. ]
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(text-colour:#ff8787)[[[The young bartender brings the $drink to Andy.->Act I : 14 - drink]]
[[The young bartender brings Andy a glass cup->Act I : 14 - cup]]](text-colour:#c5f6fa)[The young bartender brings the $drink to Andy.]
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(text-colour:#748ffc)[[[Thanks->Act I : 15]]](text-colour:#c5f6fa)[The young bartender brings a glass cup to Andy and pour him a $drink.]
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(text-colour:#748ffc)[[[Thanks->Act I : 15]]](text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Andy took a slip.
The young bartender grabs a wiper and started cleaning.]
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(text-colour:#748ffc)[[[It's a lot of chaos out there. Is Tokyo always like this?->Act I : 16 - chaos]]
[[Since when has tokyo been like this?->Act I : 16 - since when]]]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["It's a lot of chaos out there."
"Is Tokyo always like this?"
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[The young bartender turner his head and looked at Andy, while putting down the shaker he was cleaning.]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["It's been like this for almost a year."
"The City has been putting in and out of curfews since then."
"Many people, mostly college students, are unhappy about what's going in on in our government."]
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[[Seems to me, wherever I go chaos follows.->Act I : 17]]]
[[next->Act I : 17 - altenative]](text-colour:#748ffc)["Since when has tokyo been like this?"
"All this protesting?"
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[The young bartender turner his head and looked at Andy, while putting down the shaker he was cleaning.]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["It's been like this for almost a year."
"The City has been putting in and out of curfews since then."
"Many people, mostly college students, are unhappy about what's going in on in our government."]
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[[Seems to me, wherever I go chaos follows.->Act I : 17]]]
[[next->Act I : 17 - altenative]](text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Andy paused briefly.]
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(text-colour:#748ffc)[[["So tell me, you look like a college student. Why don’t you went to protest?"->Act I : 18]]
[["Aren't you a college student? Why don't you go?"->Act I : 18]]](set: $AndyImpression to $AndyImpression + 1)(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Andy paused briefly.]
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(text-colour:#748ffc)[[["So tell me, you look like a college student. Why don’t you went to protest?"->Act I : 18]]
[["Aren't you a college student? Why don't you go?"->Act I : 18]]](text-colour:#ff8787)["I do go to ptotest."
"As you see -- got a job to do at night."]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Andy smiled]
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(text-colour:#748ffc)[[["What college do you go to?"->Act I : 19 - what college do you go to]]]
[[next->Act I : 19]]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["So you’re a college student."
"What school do you go?"]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["University of Tokyo."
"Have you heard of it Sir?"]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["I had as a matter of fact."
"Fine school, Good for you kid."]
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(text-colour:#748ffc)[[["So, why be a Bartender?"->Act I : 20]]]
(set: $KaneshiroImpression to $KaneshiroImpression + 1)(text-colour:#748ffc)["So you are a college student."]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["Yes, Sir."]
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(text-colour:#748ffc)[[["So, why be a Bartender?"->Act I : 20]]](text-colour:#748ffc)["So, why you working here as a Bartender?"
"Parent don't want to pay for your tuition?"]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["I was admitted with full scholarship."
"My parents offer to pay my living expense."
"I refused."
"So I find a job here at (text-style:"blink")[(text-colour:#69db7c)[''John L.'']]"]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["You are a good kid."]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Andy pauses]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["I got a daughter who's about to go to college.
A pain in the ass."]
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[[next->Act I : 21]](text-colour:#ff8787)["Because of tuition?"]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["Andy: Yeah."
"She’s also never listen to me -- Like a mule."
"Should’ve sent her to boarding school while I had a chance."]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[They both fall silence]
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[[next->Act I : 22]](text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Andy reaches his hand out and said.]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[“It’s Andy.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“Kaneshiro.â€]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[They shake hands and gently nodded to each other.
Kaneshiro’s hand is warm and surprisingly firm.]
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(text-colour:#748ffc)[[["why do you go to protest?"->Act I : 23]]](text-colour:#748ffc)["Tell me, Kaneshiro, why do you go to protest?"]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["The government is corrupt and unwilling to listen to the people."
"Sir, have you heard ‘US-Japan Arm Treaty’?"]
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(text-colour:#748ffc)[[["That is?"->Act I : 24 - small lie]]
[["No, I haven't."->Act I : 24 - lie]]](text-colour:#ff8787)["Sir, you see US have many military facilities scattered across Japan — Okinawa, Iwakuni, Shizuoka, Okinawa."
"Those are the location of some of the largest U.S. military camp."
"Kaneshiro: Many of the other military facilities are in major city like Kanagawa, Koto, and here in Tokyo."
"Let’t just say...over the years US soldiers had many 'unpleasant’ incidents with local people."
"While many people want US to withdrawal its military presence."
"Prime minister Kishi came up this US-Japan Arm Treaty with President Eisenhower which not only doubles down U.S. presence in Japan."
"But also allows Japan to obtain Arm forces once again."]
(set: $AndyImpression to $AndyImpression + 1)
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[[Isn’t that a good thing for Japan?->Act I : 25]]
[[Have your army back doesn't sound so bad.->Act I : 25]](text-colour:#ff8787)["Sir, you see US have many military facilities scattered across Japan — Okinawa, Iwakuni, Shizuoka, Okinawa."
"Those are the location of some of the largest U.S. military camp."
"Kaneshiro: Many of the other military facilities are in major city like Kanagawa, Koto, and here in Tokyo."
"Let’t just say...over the years US soldiers had many 'unpleasant’ incidents with local people."
"While many people want US to withdrawal its military presence."
"Prime minister Kishi came up this US-Japan Arm Treaty with President Eisenhower which not only doubles down U.S. presence in Japan."
"But also allows Japan to obtain Arm forces once again."]
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[[Isn’t that a good thing for Japan?->Act I : 25]]
[[Have your army back doesn't sound so bad.->Act I : 25]](text-colour:#748ffc)["Isn’t that a good thing for Japan."
"Have your army back."]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["Sir, Japan had its fair share of wars and sinister already."
"Most of the people just want to live in peace."]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["Then you shouldn’t mind the military bases."
"After all, if we withdraw all of our forces today."
"Who is there to make sure Japan won’t launch another surprise strike to US soil again?"]
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[[next->Act I : 26]](text-colour:#ff8787)["Mister. You know well it isn’t U.S. forces who prevent us from launching another war."
"It’s the aides and trade organizations. "
"And you know well Japan isn't the reason why there are so many US forces here."]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["First, Japan is the reason why US are here at the first point."
"But you had a fair point there."
"However, considering all the money we give to Japan for free despite for being a fascist nation."
"It sounds perfect fair to me that US should have few military bases here in exchange."]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["So the US could launch another world war with USSR and China?"]
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[[next->Act I : 27]](text-colour:#748ffc)["US didn't launch any war on Russia. Russia launch a war on us.
"And this time we would like to be ready."]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Kaneshiro fall in silence, but Andy continue to press.]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["US fought and won fascists once."
"I think we can won again"]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["That’s — not correct."
"That’s not what socialism is."
"socialism isn't facist."
"For a starter, socialism quite the opposite of fascism."]
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[[next->Act I : 28]](text-colour:#748ffc)[It looks all the same to me.
Hitler, Stalin, Malenkov, and Mao — dictators with their concentration camps.
What’s the difference?]
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[[next->Act I : 29]]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["Well, Hitler and his Nazi party belongs to the conservative wing of German."
"The Nazi party was openly against the socialist party — which by the way is a left wing party."
"And during the war the Nazi party prosecuted all the socialists in Germany and have them killed."
"I think they are socialism and fascism are quite different after all."
"However, what intrigue me the most is the fact that Nazis like call themselves patriots as well."
"I am sure, sir, you wouldn't want to say all the patriots are fascism, would you?]
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(text-colour:#748ffc)[[[I wouldn't->Act I : 30 - I wouldn't]]
[[I'd say I am a patriot->Act I : 30 - patriot]]](text-colour:#748ffc)["Whoa, careful there young man."
"don't have to teach me the difference between left and right."
"I ain't need any history, politic class."
"And as someone who killed Nazis himself, I don't like what you are suggesting there."]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["Then, my apology sir."]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["Apology accepted."]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["All I am saying is this — every group have their demons, that doesn't undermine what those groups are representing entirely."]
(set: $AndyImpression to $AndyImpression + 1)
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[[next->Act I : 31]](text-colour:#748ffc)["Whoa, careful there young man."
"don't have to teach me the difference between left and right."
"I ain't need any history, politic class."
"And as someone who killed Nazis himself, I don't like what you are suggesting there."]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["Then, my apology sir."]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["Apology accepted."]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["All I am saying is this — every group have their demons, that doesn't undermine what those groups are representing entirely."]
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[[next->Act I : 31]](text-colour:#ff8787)["I just don’t think Stalin, a man who stole the revolution, is a fair representation."]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["Do you mean Mao is different?"]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["I happened to think Mao is a great leader."]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["Well, considering China is starving to death. He sure did a great job."]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["I don't suppose he should take responsibility for a famine. I think the civil war should."]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["That was ten years old, I think he should take responsibility."
"You are wrong. Mark my words. Mao will end up just like Stalin. If not more brutal. "]
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[[next->Act I : 32]](text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Behind Andy. A young couple wave to Kaneshiro.]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["Pardon me Sir. A customer there needs me there."]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["That’s alright. Go do your job."]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["I’ll be right back."]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Andy looked at the TV again.
It was no longer playing the News program. Instead, a strange animation about a robot boy is playing]
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[[next->Act I : 33]](text-colour:#ff8787)["Sir. Do you want me change to another channel?"]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["Nah, that’s fine."]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["You want another one?"]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Andy emptied his drink while Kaneshiro was gone.]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["Yes, please."]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Kaneshiro fill the cup again.]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["Now where were we."]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["Dictatorship."]
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[[next->Act I : 34]](text-colour:#ff8787)["Ah right. Speaking of dictatorship -- who says US can’t have a dictatorship one day."]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[Democracy are less prone to dictatorship."
"You don’t suppose a dictator will launch a campaign and met with great success."]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["Hitler did."]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["Nah, German’s democracy were young. We had a century of great leadership as examples."
"Our founding fathers taught us what is a democracy."
"That’s a lesson we will never forget."]
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[[next->Act I : 35]](text-colour:#ff8787)["I’d like to point out your founding father meant to build a republic. -- Not a democracy."]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["See. I was hoping you don’t know that back there. Where did you learn all this? "]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["I spend a lot of time in the library. It appears you are as well."]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Andy smiled and took a slip off his drink.]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["Sir, what roman told us is this — a republic collapse within."
"If anything. It’s not Stalin or Mao that’s going to get the US."
"It is going to be another senator Joesph McCarthy, but this time siting in the White House. "
"Democracy needs people to respect precedents. And lies can undermine that easily."]
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(text-colour:#748ffc)[[[You're rigth but..->Act I : 36 - soft]]]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[[[That's nonsense.->Act I : 36 - harsh]]](text-colour:#748ffc)["McCarthy is a jockey who got into power because those fools in Wisconsin elected him, as they always do."
"McCarthy cheated a perfectly legitimate movement."
"Many people he investigated are no doubts Russia spies and should be convicted treason."
"But instead of doing it this properly, he choose the cheap way."
"Thanks to him. Murrow and his CBS blamed this to republicans."
"I love Murrow, of course. But sometimes I could really hit that man with a baseball bat."]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Andy laughed while speaking.]
(set: $AndyImpression to $AndyImpression + 1)
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[[next->Act I : 37]](text-colour:#748ffc)["McCarthy is a jockey who got into power because those fools in Wisconsin elected him, as they always do."
"McCarthy cheated a perfectly legitimate movement."
"Many people he investigated are no doubts Russia spies and should be convicted treason."
"But instead of doing it this properly, he choose the cheap way."
"Thanks to him. Murrow and his CBS blamed this to republicans."
"I love Murrow, of course. But sometimes I could really hit that man with a baseball bat."]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Andy laughed while speaking.]
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[[next->Act I : 37]](text-colour:#748ffc)["McCarthy was a joke. I never liked him. But that Un-American committee of his --"
"hat commitee have some merits in it."]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["Un-American committee, that’s a real ironic name isn’t it."]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["Is tha an Orwell reference."]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["Have you read 1984. Sir?"]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["I have indeed.
"My wife loves to listen to that book on radio."]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Andy and Kaneshiro falls onto a long silence.
Finally, Kaneshiro started speaking again.]
---
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[[[To be continued.->Act II]]]Suddenly, Kaneshiro started speaking again.
(text-colour:#ff8787)[If you don’t mind me asking. But Sir, what did your daughter do.]
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(text-colour:#748ffc)[[[That was out of nowhere.->Act II : 1]]]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[[[Why'd you ask->Act II : 1]]]Andy: That was out of nowhere.
Kaneshiro: I am asking because you said she never listens to you.
Kaneshiro: — that she was like a mule.
Andy: I would appreciate if you never address my daughter as a mule ever again.
(text-colour:#748ffc)["That was out of nowhere."]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["I am asking because you said she never listens to you.
— that she was like a mule."]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["I would appreciate if you never address my daughter as a mule ever again."]
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(text-colour:#748ffc)[[[would appreciate if you never say that ->Act II : 2 - 1]]]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[[[next ->Act II : 2 - 2]]](text-colour:#748ffc)["I would appreciate if you never address my daughter as a mule ever again."]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["I was just paraphrasing."]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["She wants to go to Georgia and protest with those southern Black student."
"Can you believe it?"]
(set: $KaneshiroImpression to $KaneshiroImpression + 1)
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[[next->Act II : 3]](text-colour:#748ffc)["Hey, dont' call her that."]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["I was just paraphrasing."]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["She wants to go to Georgia and protest with those southern Black student."
"Can you believe it?"]
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[[next->Act II : 3]](text-colour:#ff8787)["You don't like Black people?"]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["What the hell are you talking about it. I am a republican. Of course, I support Black people."
"She is 19, and she doesn’t know what the hell she’s talking about."
"Not to say she will get herself killed if she goes to Georgia."
"It's not I don’t like them. Sometimes I just don't get Black people."
"Republican pass the civil right act for them."
"I don’t hear any appreciation from them. "
"That’s fine."]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["But they couldn't just give everybody a couple of weeks of break before they want more?"]
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[[next->Act II : 4 - revise]](text-colour:#ff8787)["It's called bibical sin for our fathers. For American it's slavery. For Japan it's WWII."
"A century ago America commit a crime that's so sinister. It can't be fixed any more."]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["You tell me. But I didn’t commit such sin.
So, why are they looking at me?"]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["Because by enabling it you are by definition an accomplice."
"And because you benefit a great deal from it, and you are not willing to admit it. "]
---
[[You sound just like my daughter.->Act II : 5 - soft]]
[[Yeah. Yeah.->Act II : 5 - hard]]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["You sound just like my daughter."
"Even if she went to the south and returned safely."
"I know for a fact she will regret what she did."]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["How’s that."]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["You will understand one day"]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["That’s not good enough."
"Sir, nobody just knows something once they hit a certain age."]
(set: $AndyImpression to $AndyImpression + 1)
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[[next->Act II : 6]](text-colour:#748ffc)["Yeah Yeah."
"Even if she went to the south and returned safely."
"I know for a fact she will regret what she did."]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["How’s that."]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["You will understand one day"]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["That’s not good enough."
"Sir, nobody just knows something once they hit a certain age."]
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[[next->Act II : 6]](text-colour:#748ffc)["They really do."
"I think you will regret as well when you hit my age."]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["Maybe so."
"But it sounds to me. You are the one who regretted."]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["Yeah?"]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["Yes Sir. I almost certain you got a story to tell."]
---
[[Why are you so curious about my story? ->Act II : 7 - soft]]
[[Why do you care?->Act II : 7 - hard]](text-colour:#748ffc)["Why are you so curious about my story?"]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["I am a bartender. That’s what I do."]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Andy laughed.]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["It’s a long story; a boring one. You don't want to hear it."]
(set: $AndyImpression to $AndyImpression + 1)
---
[[next->Act II : 8]](text-colour:#748ffc)["Why do you care?"]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["I am a bartender. That’s what I do."]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Andy laughed.]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["It’s a long story; a boring one. You don't want to hear it."]
---
[[next->Act II : 8]](text-colour:#ff8787)["I do, Sir, if it’s all the same to you. I’d like to hear it."
"So, do you still regret?"]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Andy smiled and fall into silence once again.
But his smile disappear very soon.
He took another slip off his cup. But this time he finishes it.
Kaneshiro poured him another one.
Andy started speaking]
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[[next->Act II : 9]](text-colour:#ff8787)["I am the one I hate?"]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["Yeah."
"You forgive your father a long time ago."
"But you won’t meet him because you couldn’t forgive yourself."]
---
(text-colour:#ff8787)[[[Why would I hate myself?->Act IV : 1 - soft]]]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[[[That's non sense, I don't hate myself.->Act IV : 1 - hard]]](text-colour:#ff8787)["Why would I hate myself?"]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["Because you think you are a coward."]
(set: $AndyImpression to $AndyImpression + 1)
---
(text-colour:#ff8787)[[[Excuse me? Sir.->Act IV : 2 - soft]]]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[[[That's bullshit.->Act IV : 2 - hard]]](text-colour:#ff8787)["That's non sense, I don't hate myself."]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["Because you think you are a coward."]
---
(text-colour:#ff8787)[[[Excuse me? Sir.->Act IV : 2 - soft]]]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[[[That's bullshit.->Act IV : 2 - hard]]](text-colour:#ff8787)["Excuse me."
"Sorry Sir. But I don’t think you hear yourself."
"Do you even know what are you talking about?"]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["I know exactly what I am talking about?"
"You are a coward because you are not hiding from your father."
"You are hiding because you are ashamed you accepted him."
"I mean how could you? He murders thousands of people."
"But I could answer you right now —"
"It’s because he’s your father."
"And this is what family do. We forgive each other."]
(set: $AndyImpression to $AndyImpression + 1)
---
(text-colour:#ff8787)[[[That's ridiculous.->Act IV : 3 - soft]]]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[[[You are mad.->Act IV : 3 - hard]]](text-colour:#ff8787)["That's bullshit."
"Sorry Sir. But I don’t think you hear yourself."
"Do you even know what are you talking about?"]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["I know exactly what I am talking about?"
"You are a coward because you are not hiding from your father."
"You are hiding because you are ashamed you accepted him."
"I mean how could you? He murders thousands of people."
"But I could answer you right now —"
"It’s because he’s your father."
"And this is what family do. We forgive each other."]
---
(text-colour:#ff8787)[[[That's ridiculous.->Act IV : 3 - soft]]]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[[[You are mad.->Act IV : 3 - hard]]](text-colour:#ff8787)["That's ridiculous."
"That’s ridiculous."
"You are delusional."
"Just because you feel responsible for your father and brother."
"It doesn’t mean I have to."
"And I am doing this because it’s the right thing to do."
"I couldn't help my father. He can’t face himself."
"So, I come to Tokyo and cut all ties with him."
"And here, I could do some good."
"Not for him. But do some good for everyone."
"Because it’s a responsibility."]
(set: $AndyImpression to $AndyImpression + 1)
---
(text-colour:#748ffc)[[[Responsibility?->Act IV : 4 - soft]]]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[[[You are unbelieveable.->Act IV : 4 - hard]]](text-colour:#ff8787)["That's ridiculous."
"That’s ridiculous."
"You are delusional."
"Just because you feel responsible for your father and brother."
"It doesn’t mean I have to."
"And I am doing this because it’s the right thing to do."
"I couldn't help my father. He can’t face himself."
"So, I come to Tokyo and cut all ties with him."
"And here, I could do some good."
"Not for him. But do some good for everyone."
"Because it’s a responsibility."]
---
(text-colour:#748ffc)[[[Responsibility?->Act IV : 4 - soft]]]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[[[You are unbelieveable.->Act IV : 4 - hard]]](text-colour:#748ffc)["A responsibility?"]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["Yes. It’s the right thing to do; it’s a good fight "to fight.
"And I am not going to feel sorry for it."
"I am not going to regret."]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["Kid, You want me to prove it to you?"
"That you are wrong."]
(set: $KaneshiroImpression to $KaneshiroImpression + 1)
---
(text-colour:#ff8787)[[[Please, Sir, I wouldn't mind.->Act IV : 5 - soft]]]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[[[Pfft. I doubt it->Act IV : 5 - hard]]](text-colour:#748ffc)["You are unbelieveable. A responsibility?"]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["Yes. It’s the right thing to do; it’s a good fight "to fight.
"And I am not going to feel sorry for it."
"I am not going to regret."]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["Kid, You want me to prove it to you?"
"That you are wrong."]
---
(text-colour:#ff8787)[[[Please, Sir, I wouldn't mind.->Act IV : 5 - soft]]]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[[[Pfft. I doubt it->Act IV : 5 - hard]]](text-colour:#748ffc)["You still think I regret because of my father and brother don’t you."]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["Because you are!"
"And it has to be stopped."
"I don’t get why the good guy have to be sorry for what they did."
"I don’t get why the bad guy are never responsible for what they did."
"It is crazy; it is injustice; and I am going to what I can to fix it."]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Andy laughed.]
(set: $AndyImpression to $AndyImpression + 1)
---
(text-colour:#748ffc)[[[You can fix it?->Act IV : 6 - soft]]]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[[[Are yo stupid or what?->Act IV : 6 - hard]]](text-colour:#748ffc)["You still think I regret because of my father and brother don’t you."]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["Because you are!"
"And it has to be stopped."
"I don’t get why the good guy have to be sorry for what they did."
"I don’t get why the bad guy are never responsible for what they did."
"It is crazy; it is injustice; and I am going to what I can to fix it."]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Andy laughed.]
---
(text-colour:#748ffc)[[[You can fix it?->Act IV : 6 - soft]]]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[[[Are yo stupid or what?->Act IV : 6 - hard]]](text-colour:#748ffc)["You can fix it?"
"It's not a cottage. You don't fix injustice"
"It's ego, and it blinds you."]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["At least I am going to try."]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["You don’t need to try."
"And you know why?"
"Because there are no good and bad guys —"]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Kaneshiro interrupt.]
(set: $KaneshiroImpression to $KaneshiroImpression + 1)
---
[[next->Act IV : 7]](text-colour:#748ffc)["Are yo stupid or what? Yout think you can fix it?"
"It's not a cottage. You don't fix injustice"
"It's ego, and it blinds you."]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["At least I am going to try."]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["You don’t need to try."
"And you know why?"
"Because there are no good and bad guys —"]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Kaneshiro interrupt.]
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[[next->Act IV : 7]](text-colour:#748ffc)["Because there are no good and bad guys —"]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Kaneshiro interrupt.]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["There really are —"
"There is a difference between good and bad, there’s a line you draw."
"I am not saying a good guy doesn’t make a mistake."
"Everyone makes mistakes."
"The difference is when a good guy make a mistake they held themselves responsible."]
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[[Do you hold yourself responsible?->Act IV : 8 - soft]]
[[Hypocrites. That's who you are.->Act IV : 8 - hard]](text-colour:#748ffc)["So you think you held yourself responsible?"]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["I am saying… I tried to be."
"Many people tried to escape their repsponsibility"]
(set: $KaneshiroImpression to $KaneshiroImpression + 1)
---
[[next->Act IV : 9]](text-colour:#748ffc)["So you think you held yourself responsible?"]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["I am saying… I tried to be."
"And many people aren’t.
"Many people tried to escape their repsponsibility."]
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[[next->Act IV : 9]](text-colour:#748ffc)["You think I held myself responsible?"]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["I do. Sir. I do think you held yourself responsible."
"But the problem is you let it beat you."
"You should be responsible, but you shouldn't give up."]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["You want me to prove you are wrong?"]
---
[[Please->Act IV : 10 - soft]]
[[You can try.->Act IV : 10 - hard]](text-colour:#ff8787)["Please"]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["Buckle up. I am going to take you for a trip."
"Andy raised his cup and emptied his drink."
"This time Kaneshiro didn’t fill the cup."]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Andy, take a breath and calmed his voice]
(set: $AndyImpression to $AndyImpression + 1)
---
[[next->Act IV : 11]](text-colour:#ff8787)["You can try"]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["Buckle up. I am going to take you for a trip."
"Andy raised his cup and emptied his drink."
"This time Kaneshiro didn’t fill the cup."]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Andy, take a breath and calmed his voice]
(set: $AndyImpression to $AndyImpression + 1)
---
[[next->Act IV : 11]](text-colour:#748ffc)[‘Vengeance is mine.’
"Romans 12:19"
"Do you know what that mean?"
"It means. God is the only one who gets to kill people."]
---
[[next->Act IV : 12]](text-colour:#748ffc)["No. I don't regret for my brother and father’s death."
"My hands have blood on it, and for that, I have sinned."
"But my brother and father are not one of them."
"It means. God is the only one who gets to kill people."
"I blamed myself for my cowardice."]
---
(text-colour:#ff8787)[[[I don't understand->Act IV : 13]]](text-colour:#ff8787)["I don’t understand."
"You went to the war."]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["You are young. And your view of this world is simple, even naive."
"Don’t you understand? I joined the war not because it’s good flight."
"That was my excuse."
"I joined the war because I caved. — couldn't take my responsibility as a son, a father, or a husband."
"So, I flew all the way across the Atlantic. Fought a goddamn war. "]
---
[[next->Act IV : 14]](text-colour:#748ffc)["Which by the way, still can't get one night of sounded sleep to this very even day."
"I fought a war just so I don't have to face my father —— don’t have to watch him die."
"Now I returned from this war. And I couldn't face myself."]
---
[[next->Act IV : 15]](text-colour:#748ffc)["So tell me."
"Isn’t it easier for you to just say —"
‘My father is a war criminal, and he deserved to go to the hell.’
"But you know that’s not true, isn't it?"]
---
[[next->Act IV : 16]](text-colour:#748ffc)["You know he is also a normal person, a loving father."]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["Sir, that’s enough"]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["And that torn you."
"You're scared you have to live with that for the rest of your life."
"Couldn't face it, could you?â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["That’s enough"]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["Guess what you did?"
"You escaped all the way to Tokyo,"
"joined the socialist party.â€
"Not because you think you are doing the right thing.â€
"It is because you couldn't forgive your father.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["Enough!"]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Kaneshiro screams]
---
[[next->Act IV : 17]]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Room fall silent.]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["Maybe I was wrong."
"Maybe you are doing all this because you think you are doing the right thing."
"But it seems a lot to me — all this activism bullshit everyone is pulling are just excuses, so they don't have to face the real responsibility."
"I know it because I was one of them."]
---
(if:$KaneshiroImpression < 7 or $AndyImpression < 7)[(text-colour:#ff8787)[[[I guess you are right.->The Alternative End]]]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[''(LOCKED) Sir. What the hell are we talking about?'']]
(else:)[(text-colour:#ff8787)[[[Sir. What the hell are we talking about?->The End]]]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[''(LOCKED) I guess you are right.'']
](text-colour:#ff8787)["I guess you are right."]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Kaneshiro filled Andy’s cup.]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["Yes, I couldn’t forgive my father; I couldn’t face myself."
"Yes, I might not be the person I think I am."
"But at least I die trying."
"You just couldn’t see it, could you?"
"Yes, you fought a war with the wrong belief."
"And you didn’t understand the world quite that well back then."
" But how does it matter?"]
---
[[next->TAE : 1]]
I guess you are right.
Kaneshiro: Yes, I couldn’t forgive my father; I couldn’t face myself.
Kaneshiro: Yes, I might not be the person I think I am.
Kaneshiro: But at least I die trying.
Kaneshiro: You just couldn’t see it, could you?
Kaneshiro: Yes, you fought a war with the wrong belief.
Kaneshiro: And you didn’t understand the world quite that well back then.
Kaneshiro: But how does it matter?
Kaneshiro: It was a good fight to fight. And the world did become a better place.
Kaneshiro: And you return home as a better person than you left.
Kaneshiro: So how does it matter?(text-colour:#ff8787)["Sir. What the hell are we talking about?"]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["Don’t you feel better?"]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["I was supposed to feel better?"
"You just slammed me on my face. How could I feel better?"]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["Well, you are less confused about the world than you were yesterday."]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["No need to thank me."]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["Quite opposite."
"Thanks to you, I find the world more chaotic now than it was."]
---
[[next->TE : 1]][[The End->DBT-THE END]]
[[The Alternative->DBT-THE Alternative]](set: $KaneshiroImpression to 200)
(set: $AndyImpression to 200)
[[Act IV : 17]](set: $KaneshiroImpression to 0)
(set: $AndyImpression to 200)
[[Act IV : 17]](text-colour:#ff8787)["It was a good fight to fight. And the world did become a better place."
"And you return home as a better person than you left."
"So how does it matter?"]
---
[[next->TAE : 2]](text-colour:#ff8787)["Life is a journey. And that is all there is."]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Andy didn’t reply.
He sits there and finishes his drink.
For the next five minuted they remained silence.
Andy reaches his hand once again and says]
---
[[next->TAE : 3]](text-colour:#748ffc)[“Gotta go.â€]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[They shake their hand once again]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[“You are a good kid. Did you know that? You really are.â€
“I enjoyed talking with you.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["Sir. My pleasure."]
''THE END''(text-colour:#ff8787)["Now I have to live with that."
"I am starting to have an existential crsisi now."]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["You know what, Kid?"
"I went to the war with the wrong belief."
"So maybe you shouldn't give up on what you are doing yet."
"You never knows."]
[[next->TE : 2]](text-colour:#ff8787)["Ahh. I see what you did there —"
"You reversed your position."]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["I did! So were you."
"But you really should forgive your father."
"You should talk to him."]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["I don’t know…"
"I mean… Yeah, I don't really hate him that much as I thought I would."
"But I still couldn't forgive him."]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["Then you really should talk to him."
"It’s the only way to find out."]
---
[[next->TE : 3]](text-colour:#ff8787)["I just don’t think I am ready."
"I don’t think I wrapped my head around yet."]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["You will. Trust me. You will."
"You are a good kid. Did you know that? You really are."]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["You are too kind sir."]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[They both fall silent]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["I still don’t think I am wrong."]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["Still not done, aren’t you."]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["I think you are still regretting for your father and brother; I know because you told me so."
"From the way you talked about them."
"I think you are still regretting for your father and brother; I know because you told me so."]
---
[[next->TE : 4]](text-colour:#748ffc)["Well, that’s the price I paid."]
(text-colour:#ff8787)["For a thousand times. It’s not."
"Yes, you caved."
"But everyone makes a mistake, and we pick up from there."
"We are all flawed in our own way. That’s the beauty of it."]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[“Thanks again, Kid.â€
“That’s the second nicest thing someone said to me in a while."]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[They both laughed.]
''THE END''(text-colour:#ff8787)[“ Sir, it’s great you are no longer regret for
what you did.â€]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[“I am sorry?â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 2]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“Because you didn't do anything wrong.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“You left your daughter and wife.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“ You disobeyed your father.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 3]](text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Andy looks at Kaneshiro and surprised]
---
[[next->Act III : 4]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“That makes you a bad father, a bad husband,
and a disobedient son, maybe.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“It doesn’t make you a murder.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 5]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“So stop blame their death on yourself and
stop punishing yourself.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“It’s not your fault.â€]
---
(text-colour:#748ffc)[[[It's not that simple->Act III : 6 - soft]]]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[[[What the hell are you talking about?->Act III : 6 - hard]]](text-colour:#748ffc)[“It’s not that simple…â€]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Kaneshiro interrupt.]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“It is that simple.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“I am sorry to be blunt, but —â€]
(set: $KaneshiroImpression to $KaneshiroImpression + 1)
---
[[next->Act III : 7]](text-colour:#748ffc)[“What the hell are you talking about?]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Kaneshiro interrupt.]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“I am saying it's not as difficut as you thinkâ€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“I am sorry to be blunt, but —â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 7]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“ Sir, your father died because he is an
alcoholic.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“ And Your brother went to the war because he
decided to.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 8]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“You inspired him, maybe.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“ But he died because of you. That’s not true.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“Your brother was a hero.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 9]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“It is selfish to say otherwise.â€]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[“Way to kick a man while he’s down…â€]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Kaneshiro interrupts again.]
---
[[next->Act III : 10]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“ And Sir, don’t forget you are a hero as well.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“You fought the most difficult war in the
history of mankind, and probably the most there'll ever be.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 11]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“ You fought it because you know it was the
right thing to do.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“ And it is still— the right thing to do.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“ So, stop making excuses.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 12]](text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Andy went silent.]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“You got punished because the world wasn't
fair.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“It is not because you weren't good enough.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 13]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“ And the world doesn't have to be unfair.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“Your daughter did the right thing.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“ And you know it.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 14]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“ You know it because you did the right thing.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“ So you should be fair to your daughter.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 15]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“And you should be fair to yourself.â€]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Andy looked at his shirt it says.]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[“Feels good getting that off your chest?â€]
---
[[next->Act I : 16]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“ Yeah.â€]
---
(text-colour:#748ffc)[[[Thank you->Act III : 17 - soft]]]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[[[You will never understand->Act III : 17 - hard]]]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[“ Thank you.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“ Sir?"]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[“ That’s the nicest thing someone ever said to me in
a long time.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“It was nothing.â€]
(set: $AndyImpression to $AndyImpression + 1)
---
[[next->Act III : 18]](text-colour:#748ffc)[“You are too young.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“ Sir?"]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[“There are a lot of things you don't understand.â€
"And perhaps you will never understand."
"Still, those things you asid to me."
"It was nice. And I appretiate it."]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“It was nothing.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 18]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“You really are a good father.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“I can tell you care about your daughter a
lot.â€]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[“Every father does.â€]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Andy looked down as if he is thinking something.]
---
[[next->Act III : 19]](text-colour:#c5f6fa)[He turned to Kaneshiro.]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[He stared at Kaneshiro a while and says]
---
[[next->Act III : 20]](text-colour:#748ffc)[“Everyone has a problem they need to deal with.â€]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[“Mine was the war — my father, and my brother.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 21]](text-colour:#748ffc)[“ And people often choose the easy way out. Just so
they don’t have to deal with the pain.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“And make excuses at other people’s expenses?â€]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[“Yeah. That’s the way things are.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 22]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“ See, Sir. That’s the part I never understand.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“Isn’t it’s easier to just face your problem.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 23]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“Face your problem and pick it up from there.â€]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[“People like the demon they know.â€]
---
(text-colour:#ff8787)[[[I don't understand->Act III : 24 - soft]]
[[What the hell are you talking about?->Act III : 24 - hard]]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“I am sorry, I don’t understand.â€]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[“ You must be heard the phrase ‘Unknown is the
source of all fear.’â€]
(set: $AndyImpression to $AndyImpression + 1)
---
[[next->Act III : 25]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“What the hell are you talking about?â€]
(text-colour:#748ffc)["Easy there."
"You must be heard the phrase ‘Unknown is the
source of all fear.’"]
---
[[next->Act III : 25]]text-colour:#748ffc)[“ It makes sense people want to keep it unknown even
it means to live with the demon.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“Because they eventually get used to their
demon.â€]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[“That’s right. The power of time.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 26]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“ I still don’t understand.â€]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Kaneshiro paused.]
---
[[next->Act III : 27]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“Prime minister Nobusuke Kishi for example.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“ He’s a war criminal.â€]
---
(text-colour:#748ffc)[[[next->Act III : 28]]
[[I don't know that->Act III : 28 - 1]]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“He was supposed to be on trialed as a Class A
war criminal on the Military Tribunal of the Far East .â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“Then the US saw something in him; and
believed he could one day lead Japan.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 29]](text-colour:#748ffc)["I don't know that. What happend?"]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“He was supposed to be on trialed as a Class A
war criminal on the Military Tribunal of the Far East .â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“Then the US saw something in him; and
believed he could one day lead Japan.â€]
(set: $AndyImpression to $AndyImpression + 1)
---
[[next->Act III : 29]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“ And just like that. They let him go.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“ How do they do that? How can they see
something in a war criminal?â€]
---
(text-colour:#748ffc)[[[next->Act III : 30]]
[[Andy tries to answer->Act III : 30 - 1]]](text-colour:#748ffc)[“I don’t know.â€]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[“ I really don’t. But what I can tell you are this —â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 31]](text-colour:#748ffc)[“I don’t know.â€]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[“ I really don’t. But what I can tell you are this —â€]
(set: $AndyImpression to $AndyImpression + 1)
---
[[next->Act III : 31]](text-colour:#748ffc)[“Nobody is born as a war criminal.â€]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[“And nobody suddenly became a war criminal.â€]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[“They are who they are all alone. Good and bad.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 32]]Double-click this passage to edit it.(text-colour:#748ffc)[“But giving the right circumstances —â€]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[“Anyone could be a war criminal. You and me.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 33]](text-colour:#748ffc)[“And when the war ended —â€]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[“They still they. Good and bad.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 34]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“ That is ‘pessimistic’, isn’t it.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“You are saying, in some way they don’t have a
choice.â€]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[“In some sense. Yes.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 35]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“ That’s ‘pessimistic’ — suggesting things just
happens, and they don’t have a choice.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“ And I happen to disagree:â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 36]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“ I think along the way they have many chances
too not participate, to stop, to leave, and to do the right
thing.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“But they actively choose to engage. Hence,
they are guilty as charged.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 37]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“And they should be held responsible.â€]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[“ And I agree.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 38]](text-colour:#748ffc)[“That they should be held responsible.â€]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[“But that doesn’t mean they are evil by all measure
and doesn’t mean they have no traits.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 39]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“So was my father.â€]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[“ What? I didn't get that.â€]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Andy stared at Kaneshiro again.]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Kaneshiro have lost that energetic glows of his.]
---
[[next->Act III : 40]](text-colour:#c5f6fa)[Andy watch Kaneshiro as he slowly says:]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“My father was a war criminal too.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“ Class C.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“ He worked for ShirÅ Ishi during the war.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 41]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“ShirŠIshi was a Class A suspect. But he
later received immunity.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“My father got away because his commander got away.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 42]]
[[waht they did?->Act III : 42 - 1]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“ShirŠIshi was a microbiologist before the
war.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 43]](text-colour:#748ffc)[“What they did?â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“ShirŠIshi was a microbiologist before the
war.â€]
(set: $AndyImpression to $AndyImpression + 1)
---
[[next->Act III : 43]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“ He became a senior army surgeon during the
war, and was given control over Unit 731.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“Unit 731 performed thousands experiment on
live human.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 44]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“Things like: electrocuted, burned or buried
alive, gas chambers, spun to death, inject animal blood or
seawater.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“They remove their organs without anesthesia,
and they study how long they can live without them; they rape
a woman to see how disease infect infants via their mother;
they test chemical on a human to perform massive chemical
warfare. Wish me to continue?â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 45]](text-colour:#748ffc)[“No, that’s enough.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“Unit 731 ended up killing millions.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 46]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“ShirŠIshi was grant immunity because his
research was “absolutely invaluableâ€. That under no other way
US could ever obtain such information, and it was “relatively
cheapâ€.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“Relatively cheap.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 47]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“Now tell me again that they are not “evil by
all measure.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“Anyway, that’s how my father getaway.â€]
(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[The room fall silent.]
---
[[next->Act III : 48]](text-colour:#748ffc)[“How did you find out?â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“I was too young to really understand what he
was participating in.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 49]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“And he never talked about it.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“But growing up I know it all along.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 50]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“Kid in my school harass me because of my
father.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“ And they would tell me my father is a war
criminal.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 51]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“First, I defended him because I don’t know
what he did.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“Eventually, I learned how to read, and I
learned what he did.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 52]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“And growing up, no matter how I asked him
about this —â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“I always got nothing. Nothing.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“He wouldn’t say a thing.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 53]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“So I confronted him one last time before I
went to college.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“Nothing.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“That’s why I am here.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 54]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“I come to Tokyo. I didn’t ask a dime from my
father.â€]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[“So you never saw him since high school?â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 55]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“I saw him once, but we didn’t meet.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“ It was the last summer. I went back to
Nagoya.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 56]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“If I haven’t mentioned, that’s where I was
from.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“I went back there to spend a couple of days
with a friend, and I stayed at my friends house, of course.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 57]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“He was going into a grocery shop when I saw
him.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“My father is the one who go to groceries in
my family. I think always like doing that.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 58]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“He’d carry his wallet and his coin porch. The
money is all nicely fold.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“He would go to the store; say hello to the
shopkeeper; get a bucket; pick up everything we need; and
he’d check out. He’d know the exact amount, and he’d prepare
it beforehand.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 59]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“I saw him from across the street. Saw him
talking to the shopkeeper through the window.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“That’s the last time I saw him.â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 60]](text-colour:#748ffc)[“You should forgive him.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“After what he has done?â€]
---
[[next->Act III : 61]](text-colour:#748ffc)[“You don’t have to forgive him. But you should talk
to him.â€]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[“It’s clear you are not mad him anymore.â€]
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[[next->Act III : 62]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“No. I am, but I learned how to deal with it.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“Time have done its thing.â€]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[“Then you are a fool.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“I am sorry.â€]
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[[next->Act III : 63]](text-colour:#748ffc)[“Because you are going to regret.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“Ahh, Sir, we are back to this.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“Why would I regret?â€]
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[[next->Act III : 64]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“Let me guess: ‘Because eventually, I would
want to talk to him?’â€]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[“Yeah, so why not do it now.â€]
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[[next->Act III : 65]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“If it eventually gonna happens. It happens. It's not like I am rushing to see him.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“And I am not scared of ‘regret’.â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“So I don't intend letting him in my life.â€
"And I got a pretty good reason to shut him out too "]
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[[next->Act III : 66]](text-colour:#748ffc)[“You got a good reason?â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“He’s a war criminal!â€]
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[[next->Act III : 67]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“And he doesn’t want to face his past?â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“Fine by me.â€]
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[[next->Act III : 68]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“But I don’t want to face him either.â€]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[“That’s crap, and you know it.â€]
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[[next->Act III : 69]](text-colour:#748ffc)[“I think your father faces his past every day.â€]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[“And I think he’s ashamed of it.â€]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[“And I think he let you go because he thinks that’s
his punishment.â€]
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[[next->Act III : 70]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“And how did you know all that?â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“You understand him in like-- five minutes?â€]
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[[next->Act III : 71]](text-colour:#748ffc)[“I know it because you said so.â€]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[“From the way you talked about him.â€]
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[[next->Act III : 72]](text-colour:#ff8787)[“The way I talked about him?â€]
(text-colour:#ff8787)[“Sir. I hate him.â€]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[“No you don’t.â€]
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[[next->Act III : 73]](text-colour:#748ffc)[“He’s not the one you hate.â€]
(text-colour:#748ffc)[“You are.â€]
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(text-colour:#c5f6fa)[[[To be continued.->Act IV]]]