My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? (Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?)

Too risky, no?

Not to worry This thing's not loaded

The real deal

This thing's dangerous

October 15, 2015

Now that it's cold out, there's a flu epidemic

You see lots of people in the streets, wearing masks

Our director's wearing one

Isn't that to hide his boozy breath?

Speaking of epidemics, Lemming Syndrome! Scary!

Sort of like God's own suicide bomber

A virus that makes its victims want to kill themselves

It's like, kill yourself off, damn virus!

Already 3 million Japanese dead from Lemming

That's the population of Nagoya

... Scary

And 8 million dead in the U. S? That's like Osaka

Up to 40% of the world population could get it

Couldn't they come up with a better name than Lemming Syndrome?

But no clues what causes it or how it spreads

I might already be infected

Oh, leave it on, Navi san

But this guy's an idiot

That's why we like him

You think?

Seconds, Mizui?

At this rate, the human race might be exterminated

This is a microscopic image of the virus

that reproduced itself on the patient's optic nerve

That bundle of cords is the optic nerve

Oh! At that instant the patient was exposed to a stimulating image

The brain

interprets this secretion as a command to self-destruct

We haven't yet identified the infection route

I'm aware of the "mutated mitochondria" theory,

but then, it's easy to blame every new rare disease on God's wrath

Be that as it may, Doctor, what's the source of that data?

Well, I can't

Pressure from the top?

That's not the case

Well, right

No doubt, as director of the National Laboratory, you can't afford to comment

But surely this must be some sort of bacteriological weapon

If we keep mum, the government

will attribute the recent boom in suicides to disease,

not their own failed policies

What's our unemployment rate now?

38%, was it?

There's no proof

What's that to us, we're not the media

Excuse me

The media still care about what's detrimental to the government?

Maybe a wealthy individual with a conscience would investigate

Right, Mr. President?

This it, Doctor?

Hurry up and remember

They say the human memory is boundless,

but that's a big lie

The walls thicken and rise every year

At my age, it's hopeless

"Hey, a geisha

"costs money to sleep with

"My wife, she's free

"Sleep with another man's wife

"and it's the cops again

"Sleep with a virgin, knock her right up

"Sleep with a nun"

Those officials tore the place apart the other day,

but they found nothing

Their hearts weren't in it

You're amazing, a genius, a pro

Mr. Detective, you cinched it

Someday,

I knew someone like you would show up

Someone who examined what everyone else ignored

I like you

I'll teach you a German poem Have a seat

10 million Yen!

That's garbage

Suit yourself

(A pre-war obscene poem ridiculing Fascism)

(This line means "C'mon, F**k her" in Japanese)

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