Dr. Reichwein had convinced Eva to face Tenma and confess her role in framing him (she lied to the police years ago). But instead, she is kidnapped and brought to the same basement complex. She is tied to a chair in a room with a single light bulb. A man in a ski mask (one of Johan’s followers) tells her: “Dr. Tenma is in the next room. One of you will be allowed to live. Choose who.”
Tenma, hearing Eva’s screams through the wall, begins to break down. He whispers: “I’m not a killer… I’m not Johan…” But the intercom plays the child’s drawing again, and he recalls the picture book’s final page: “The monster did not need a name, because he was in everyone’s heart.” monster anime 49
Inside, he finds a child’s drawing on the wall—identical to one from the picture book. Suddenly, the lights go out. A voice speaks through an intercom. It’s not Johan directly, but a recording of Johan reading a story: “The cruelest thing… is to make someone remember happiness in a place where there is none.” She is tied to a chair in a room with a single light bulb
A: No—that’s episode 73. But he comes close here (the “sad smile” moment). One of you will be allowed to live
Tenma receives an anonymous tip that a child is being held in the basement of an abandoned wing of the Munich University Hospital (a reference to the Kinderheim 511 experiments). He goes alone.
A: No—only his voice and ideology. That makes him scarier. He’s a ghost orchestrating pain.