1. I'm a soldier, znatchit ya...
I'm a soldier, and that means...Copy !req
2. I otvetchik I sud'ya
that I am both defendant and judge.Copy !req
3. Ya stoyu na dvuh kontsah ognya
I stand at both ends of the fire.Copy !req
4. Ogibaya virazhi,
Leaning into the curves,Copy !req
5. obgonyaya smert' I zhizn',
overtaking life and death,Copy !req
6. ya begu srazit'sya s ten'yu lzhi
I'm running to fight the shadow of lies.Copy !req
7. Skol'ko b nitej ne plyol obman,
No matter how tangled the web of deception is woven,Copy !req
8. pokazhet lik sveta istina...
truth will always illuminate the outline of the light...Copy !req
9. Save your tears for the day...Copy !req
10. when the pain is far behind.Copy !req
11. On your feet, come with me.Copy !req
12. We are soldiers, stand or die.Copy !req
13. Save your fears, take your place.Copy !req
14. Save them for the Judgment Day.Copy !req
15. Fast and free, follow me.Copy !req
16. Time to make the sacrifice.Copy !req
17. We rise or fall...Copy !req
18. HQ, I just got back
from the peninsula.Copy !req
19. I managed to get my hands on some
interesting intel on Kuze.Copy !req
20. The Chief and the Major are out at the moment.
They got called in by the Prime Minister.Copy !req
21. They said for me to listen
to your report here.Copy !req
22. What could be more
important than this?Copy !req
23. To tell you the truth, we're looking at the
possibility of a general refugee uprising.Copy !req
24. That's bad news.Copy !req
25. Ever since the uproar caused by the Individual
Eleven suicides, I've been receiving reports...Copy !req
26. of refugees from residential districts across
the country beginning to gather at Dejima...Copy !req
27. in Nagasaki in response to the rapid
increase in anti-refugee demonstrations.Copy !req
28. The mass media have been rashly
fanning the flames,Copy !req
29. claiming that this is a prelude
to an all-out uprising.Copy !req
30. Do you have anything to say
on the matter?Copy !req
31. I'll admit that I've been getting reports to the
effect that the escapee arrest rate is going up,Copy !req
32. but linking that with an uprising
would probably be premature.Copy !req
33. Any flow of refugees into Nagasaki
would be prevented by the water.Copy !req
34. That shows a certain lack of
understanding of the situation.Copy !req
35. This month alone, we of the Coast Guard
have prevented...Copy !req
36. two suspicious ships, as well as
16 boats, from docking at Dejima.Copy !req
37. It's as clear as day that there is a flow
of refugees occurring in Nagasaki.Copy !req
38. So I see. Nevertheless, the police have several
other matters that require our attention.Copy !req
39. The individualists,
you mean?Copy !req
40. If that's the case, I'd like to know what
the Public Security Bureau has been doing?Copy !req
41. By letting the instigators run free, they're
largely responsible for this situation.Copy !req
42. As for those Individual Eleven
who killed themselves,Copy !req
43. it's unreasonable to expect that Public Security
should have known their location beforehand.Copy !req
44. In spite of the fact that most individualists
admire what they did,Copy !req
45. most of them say that the Individual
Eleven were a breed apart.Copy !req
46. In any case, I'm of the opinion that the Defense
Agency is responsible for this refugee issue.Copy !req
47. After all, they wanted an arms buildup so badly
that they held a live-fire exercise...Copy !req
48. right under the noses of the refugees,
stirring up the hornet's nest.Copy !req
49. If you want to get into a "chicken or
the egg" argument, I'm up for it.Copy !req
50. It seems to me that it's you
in the Security Department...Copy !req
51. who are squabbling over
jurisdiction even now.Copy !req
52. If we're going to bring that up, why is Maritime
Self Defense Army is turning a blind eye?Copy !req
53. Before you get into matters
of jurisdiction and such,Copy !req
54. we'd appreciate a little more cooperation from
you, since we're the ones risking our necks!Copy !req
55. It's my understanding that with the
matter having reached this point,Copy !req
56. jurisdiction over the refugee issue
has been handed over to my people.Copy !req
57. How can you
talk like that?Copy !req
58. Do I need to remind you of the disputes over
the Security Treaty in the last century?Copy !req
59. Meaning no disrespect to my defense lobbyist
colleague who got involved in this too late,Copy !req
60. but the police force is going to maintain the
country's public order during this matter, too.Copy !req
61. Debate over such issues
are important,Copy !req
62. but what we need now is a consensus among
the various government bureaus.Copy !req
63. Let's adjourn for the moment
and take a break.Copy !req
64. I see that you can't even spare
the time to clear your head.Copy !req
65. Part of the problem
is my lack of clout,Copy !req
66. but everyone is focused on their vested
interests and losing sight of problem at hand.Copy !req
67. The refugee issue demands cooperation
from all of them, but they...Copy !req
68. Prime Minister, are you aware
of the primary reason...Copy !req
69. behind the weakening of any given country's
military and defense agencies?Copy !req
70. It's because of the very thing
that you just spoke of.Copy !req
71. The instant that those who are at
the top of an organization...Copy !req
72. start to use it as a tool
to further their own interests,Copy !req
73. it begins to die
a slow death.Copy !req
74. I do feel bad about giving the Coast Guard
the short end of the stick, though...Copy !req
75. Well, there's no guarantee that my own section
won't be visited by similar misfortune.Copy !req
76. I suppose not...Copy !req
77. By the way, have you
managed to obtain...Copy !req
78. any concrete information regarding
the actions of the refugees?Copy !req
79. Yes, ma'am. Do you know what a hub
cyberbrain is, Prime Minister?Copy !req
80. I'm afraid not.Copy !req
81. Major,
please explain.Copy !req
82. Prime Minister, would you mind
if I linked directly with you?Copy !req
83. No, go ahead.Copy !req
84. Originally, the concept of a hub, or core,
didn't exist in the network.Copy !req
85. But lately, we've been seeing
a phenomenon where a host...Copy !req
86. causes isolated consciousnesses on
the network to move in a single direction,Copy !req
87. and creates a sort of collective entity
by inviting them into his own cyberbrain.Copy !req
88. Up until now, it was limited to something
on the scale of communes...Copy !req
89. that were centered around small
religious sects or charismatic artists.Copy !req
90. But now, someone has appeared
among the refugees...Copy !req
91. who has the ability to win them over
and get them to stay in his cyberbrain.Copy !req
92. I believe that this is the cause
of the flow of refugees to Nagasaki.Copy !req
93. Is this a single person?
Someone we can think of as their leader?Copy !req
94. From a practical standpoint, the thought of
it being a single person is hard to believe.Copy !req
95. I can't say it unequivocally, but I don't think
that any one person's cyberbrain is capable...Copy !req
96. of winning over the consciousnesses
of 3 million people simultaneously.Copy !req
97. But if I were asked whether this hub
is something like their leader,Copy !req
98. then I would have to say
that it is.Copy !req
99. I see.Copy !req
100. The appearance of such a person is the
primary threat that is facing the government.Copy !req
101. Continue to stay
on your guard.Copy !req
102. Understood.Copy !req
103. When I repealed the Refugee
Special Action Policy,Copy !req
104. my intent was to curb profiteering
against the refugees...Copy !req
105. and resolve the problem,
starting with the taxation issue.Copy !req
106. Which must mean that a political opponent
used it to his advantage.Copy !req
107. I wouldn't worry about
it unduly, ma'am.Copy !req
108. Actually... There is one other matter
that I would like you to look into.Copy !req
109. What would that be?Copy !req
110. It would seem that there is a defense lobbyist
assemblyman who is in collusion with...Copy !req
111. the former Greater Japan Technical Research
over the matter of the Japan-US Security Treaty.Copy !req
112. Our country has the world's only
radiation scrubber technology,Copy !req
113. and the American Empire has always relied
on nuclear deterrent in the past.Copy !req
114. I believe this new Security Treaty
will have the effect of...Copy !req
115. putting us on an equal footing
with them, if not greater.Copy !req
116. If this proves to be untenable, I'm willing
to postpone a new Security Treaty.Copy !req
117. However, there are certain
assemblymen and industries...Copy !req
118. who aren't interested
in such ideology.Copy !req
119. With what they are doing, this country
will never be fully independent.Copy !req
120. Where did you get this
information, ma'am?Copy !req
121. From a source inside the
Foreign Affairs Ministry.Copy !req
122. In that case, we'll start right away
by following the money trail.Copy !req
123. However, if I may ask, should I consider
these orders as being given...Copy !req
124. as a result of your personal interests,
or of your political ideology?Copy !req
125. You shouldn't need
to ask that question.Copy !req
126. Very well, ma'am.Copy !req
127. I should've noticed
it earlier.Copy !req
128. Prime Minister Kayabuki is exactly
your type of woman, Chief.Copy !req
129. What, it's taken you this long
to realize that?Copy !req
130. I can't hold a candle
to you, Chief.Copy !req
131. Do you think that the "defense lobbyist
assemblyman" she mentioned...Copy !req
132. is Chief Cabinet Secretary
Takakura, do you?Copy !req
133. Probably.Copy !req
134. I can't imagine that his objective in this
is simply to score some bribes.Copy !req
135. Takakura was a pro-American
neo-conservative, wasn't he?Copy !req
136. He's an old-school member of the
military-industrial complex...Copy !req
137. who has yet to get over his blind faith
in the American Empire.Copy !req
138. From his point of view, we can use our scrubber
technology, whose price sank after the war,Copy !req
139. and by teaming up with the
American Empire once again,Copy !req
140. we can use it as a new deterrent against
other countries and drive up its price.Copy !req
141. By doing that, he lays the groundwork
for his bribes...Copy !req
142. and he saves face for the conservatives
without going through a needless arms buildup.Copy !req
143. That doesn't sound much like the
"independence and cooperation" policy...Copy !req
144. that Prime Minister Kayabuki
is pushing for.Copy !req
145. He's also the top dog of the
Cabinet Intelligence Service, isn't he?Copy !req
146. Plus, Gohda's resume includes
overseeing the production...Copy !req
147. of "Japan's Miracle" at the former
Greater Japan Technical Research.Copy !req
148. Inciting refugee terrorism, and the
Japan-US Security Treaty...Copy !req
149. And nukes...Copy !req
150. It sounds like it'll be worth helping
her get her revenge, doesn't it?Copy !req
151. We got tired of waiting for you,
Prime Minister Kayabuki...Copy !req
152. I'll be right there.Copy !req
153. Togusa.Copy !req
154. Yeah, Azuma?Copy !req
155. I know we weren't asked
to come to the meeting,Copy !req
156. but are you sure we shouldn't
sit in on it?Copy !req
157. What about your secret investigation
of the Individual Eleven?Copy !req
158. There's been less activity on their part
than from the refugees,Copy !req
159. so, you know, we were
kinda getting bored with it.Copy !req
160. You dumb bastard!Copy !req
161. So what if it's boring?
It's your damn job!Copy !req
162. I swear, you two are so green
it's not funny!Copy !req
163. That was right about the time
that the pointless war...Copy !req
164. for Eurasian hegemony was
finally winding down.Copy !req
165. I snuck my way into the peninsula
a few times around then.Copy !req
166. They were already pretty
modernized by that point.Copy !req
167. Did you guys
start already?Copy !req
168. Not yet. We were just warming up
while we were waiting for you.Copy !req
169. So, what say we
get started?Copy !req
170. A thousand pardons for putting you straight
to work so soon after your return.Copy !req
171. Oh, thanks.Copy !req
172. It was 2024, and nations across the world
were exhausted from a fourth world war.Copy !req
173. The peninsula was still in the throes of a
civil war, and now that the world war was over,Copy !req
174. the American Empire called
for the UN to send in troops.Copy !req
175. This was the direct impetus for the Self
Defense Army being dispatched there.Copy !req
176. But the truth of the matter was
that the American Empire...Copy !req
177. was looking to get itself back on its feet and
reestablish itself as the dominant world power.Copy !req
178. They were using the deployment to get the
unified government to cede the mining rights...Copy !req
179. to the uranium deposits that were buried
in the northern peninsula, right?Copy !req
180. Yeah, that, too. But even though their
ulterior motives were as plain as day,Copy !req
181. Japan couldn't say no to the UN, not when they
were making a bundle off of war procurements.Copy !req
182. Aside from the battle to recapture Nemuro,
the Self Defense Army...Copy !req
183. had managed to avoid seeing
any combat through two world wars,Copy !req
184. so this would be their
first trial under fire.Copy !req
185. But the Big Guy and the Major
were both overseas...Copy !req
186. in an unofficial capacity
during the war, right?Copy !req
187. Pretty much.Copy !req
188. Unofficial, 'cause the PM who was killed
by a terrorist bomb back then...Copy !req
189. was one of the few politicians
who had an international outlook.Copy !req
190. Anyway, because of all this stuff
going on behind the scenes,Copy !req
191. the government had strict press control in place
to keep domestic public opinion in check.Copy !req
192. And the location chosen to deploy
the PKF troops was Sinuiju,Copy !req
193. which was considered
relatively safe.Copy !req
194. I still remember the uproar
over the deployment.Copy !req
195. But I guess everybody eventually lost interest
when all the news reports showed...Copy !req
196. was bored-looking SDA soldiers
spending time with the locals.Copy !req
197. I'm not surprised. The reality of the situation
was something entirely different, though.Copy !req
198. And the people running the press
control from the shadows...Copy !req
199. were the forerunners of today's CIS,
the Cabinet Press Agency.Copy !req
200. So, what was this "real state of affairs"
with the PKF?Copy !req
201. Well... Apparently, things there were
a lot more tragic than we'd heard.Copy !req
202. The unit that Kuze was attached to
was a mechanized unit...Copy !req
203. that was the last of the main forces
to be sent into the country.Copy !req
204. At the time, Sinuiju was a special
administrative area as well as a trade center,Copy !req
205. so it was off everybody's
list of targets.Copy !req
206. But the place that the fleeing remnants
of the People's Army...Copy !req
207. chose to make their last stand after
the unified government was set up...Copy !req
208. was a rural area about 20 klicks
to the east of the city.Copy !req
209. Once you cross the border there,
it's a mountain area, right?Copy !req
210. More like a
mountain pass.Copy !req
211. The elevation there was
800 meters at best.Copy !req
212. So it was the perfect place
for guerrilla warfare.Copy !req
213. The cyborg infantry unit was to be deployed in
two companies as a guerrilla suppression unit,Copy !req
214. and almost as soon as they arrived, they began
moving into the mountains in the dead of winter.Copy !req
215. Although this was their first large-scale
deployment on the front lines,Copy !req
216. the hybrid PKF prosthetic bodies
probably weren't stressed very hard,Copy !req
217. not even when moving through
the snow at four below.Copy !req
218. Around that time, the main force was on a
heightened state of alert after receiving intel...Copy !req
219. that the last elite troops of the People's Army
were planning an assault on Sinuiju.Copy !req
220. The plan was for the company
Kuze belonged to...Copy !req
221. to circle around from the north
and launch a preemptive attack.Copy !req
222. But Kuze's platoon, which
had moved out ahead,Copy !req
223. discovered a refugee camp not in their intel
sitting on the river that flowed along the border.Copy !req
224. A brutal raid was underway by
soldiers of the People's Army.Copy !req
225. These men who were soldiers in name only
had been reduced to mountain bandits.Copy !req
226. Seeing this, Kuze and his platoon were spurred
into action by righteous indignation.Copy !req
227. It was a battle of
120 against 30,Copy !req
228. but it was all over
in the blink of an eye.Copy !req
229. This was because Kuze's platoon
was an elite cyborg unit,Copy !req
230. and the people who were attacking the camp,
although they were ex-military,Copy !req
231. were mostly flesh and blood, and every
last one of them was starved half to death.Copy !req
232. Even though that they received several reports
on the People's Army afterwards,Copy !req
233. this incident was the only time
they saw combat.Copy !req
234. Even though there was stress
from the extreme cold...Copy !req
235. and not knowing when or if
the guerrillas would attack,Copy !req
236. the main forces, which had set up camp
inside the city, didn't have it very hard.Copy !req
237. I remember seeing
this footage.Copy !req
238. Yeah. But before long, there was trouble
in the squad camp out in the rural area.Copy !req
239. PTSD, huh?Copy !req
240. You got it. Post-traumatic
stress disorder.Copy !req
241. The experience of going through combat for the
first time, and a one-sided slaughter at that,Copy !req
242. slowly began to eat away at the spirits
of the young soldiers.Copy !req
243. Those who still had their own lungs
and other internal organs...Copy !req
244. desperately tried to escape the flashbacks
and nightmares of the massacre...Copy !req
245. by turning to synthetic alcohol and hashish
that the refugees had brought them.Copy !req
246. Up until then, the Self Defense Army
had been known as being very disciplined.Copy !req
247. When it began to break down, the media
in Japan began to criticize them harshly.Copy !req
248. Although the facts of the massacre
at the refugee camp...Copy !req
249. never reached the ears of the media
because of the press blackout,Copy !req
250. this made their criticism of the men's
behavior all the more severe.Copy !req
251. What's more, the freedoms of the soldiers
were restricted by the press blackout...Copy !req
252. that was in place to keep the shameful
behavior of the soldiers out of the news.Copy !req
253. It eventually got to the point where they
weren't even allowed to return to Japan.Copy !req
254. Almost sounds like an
isolation ward...Copy !req
255. Yeah, and to top
it all off,Copy !req
256. news of the massacre at the refugee camp near
the border was leaked to certain media outlets.Copy !req
257. And rumors even began to circulate
that it might have...Copy !req
258. been the work of Japan's
Self Defense Army.Copy !req
259. The residents of the rural area came down hard
on them, demanding an explanation.Copy !req
260. But under the news blackout,
the young soldiers,Copy !req
261. and even their commanding officers, weren't
able to say anything in their own defense.Copy !req
262. They couldn't do anything but stay silent
and hide in their tents.Copy !req
263. One day, after this situation
had gone on for some time,Copy !req
264. a local reporter apparently said
the following to one of the soldiers.Copy !req
265. He probably meant it as a dig against a soldier
who no longer had the lungs he was born with.Copy !req
266. Hey.Copy !req
267. Do you know where the word
"assassin" comes from?Copy !req
268. In Arabic, it means
"one who eats hashish."Copy !req
269. Muslim killers who attacked Crusaders after the
recapture of Jerusalem in the 11th Century...Copy !req
270. would smoke hashish and ruthlessly
carry out the killings as if in a dream.Copy !req
271. They say that when the
Crusaders saw this,Copy !req
272. they called them "assassins"
and were terrified of them.Copy !req
273. Did you guys use that stuff and think
that this place was Paradise?Copy !req
274. You invade the place, and now you keep
hanging around like you're guests here!Copy !req
275. You bunch of murderers...Copy !req
276. W-What do you want?Copy !req
277. You're right.Copy !req
278. Maybe we did think of ourselves
as guests at first.Copy !req
279. Trade me. This for
one of those.Copy !req
280. Saying this, Kuze traded
his weapon for a camera,Copy !req
281. and then went into
the refugee camp.Copy !req
282. Then what? What did
he do in the camp?Copy !req
283. Apparently, he didn't do anything.
All he did was carry the camera around...Copy !req
284. and look through the viewfinder at the refugees
going about their lives from time to time...Copy !req
285. and fold various
origami figures.Copy !req
286. I don't get it.Copy !req
287. Yeah, I don't have the slightest idea
what his real intentions were, either.Copy !req
288. But a while after he went in,
a strange phenomenon began.Copy !req
289. First, the camp's elderly gradually
started to take an interest in Kuze,Copy !req
290. and eventually offered
him drinks.Copy !req
291. Next, the children begged him to
make paper airplanes for them,Copy !req
292. and made friends one by one with Kuze,
who never said a word.Copy !req
293. And the day after that, even the women and
grown men were taking turns talking to Kuze.Copy !req
294. Kuze would simply look at them happily
and snap a picture from time to time.Copy !req
295. Then what?Copy !req
296. The People's Army
surrendered,Copy !req
297. and Kuze kept this up until three months later,
when the SDA was relieved of its duties.Copy !req
298. After that, no one in the media
mentioned the massacre again.Copy !req
299. And the day before the SDA was scheduled
to come back to Japan,Copy !req
300. Kuze suddenly vanished
from the camp.Copy !req
301. A single photo from the
camp still exists.Copy !req
302. So, where did he
go after that?Copy !req
303. They say that he crossed the border and
headed west, but that's not reliable intel.Copy !req
304. As to where he drifted and how,
in the course of my investigation,Copy !req
305. I talked to a guy who said that he'd just
come back from a refugee area in Taiwan.Copy !req
306. He said that he saw a guy there
who might have been Kuze.Copy !req
307. The hair on his prosthetic body
had turned completely white,Copy !req
308. but he said he was positive
that it was Kuze.Copy !req
309. He said the proof
that it was Kuze...Copy !req
310. was that there was always a crowd
of happy people around him.Copy !req
311. Are you Japanese?Copy !req
312. Yes.Copy !req
313. Well, I'll be.
You can talk?Copy !req
314. Oh, hey, Major.
You were here for the meeting?Copy !req
315. Yes. I heard everything.Copy !req
316. It's a fascinating story,
all right.Copy !req
317. Representative.Copy !req
318. I had a little trouble with the
hub cyberbrain's filtering array,Copy !req
319. but I've finally managed to do a back-trace
on the refugee's cyberbrain.Copy !req
320. As you thought, he appears
to be in Dejima.Copy !req
321. I've asked the NSA
to provide verification,Copy !req
322. so I expect to have visual
confirmation momentarily.Copy !req
323. Finding out a galaxy...Copy !req
324. of planets and stars within me...Copy !req
325. Listening to each of them...Copy !req
326. singing the same silent melody...Copy !req
327. I've never seen such beauty...Copy !req
328. In possibility...Copy !req
329. No speck of doubt or fear...Copy !req
330. Wake up!Copy !req
331. I hear a voice,Copy !req
332. hear a voice calling out to me...Copy !req
333. I see inside,Copy !req
334. see the light now ever holding me...Copy !req
335. All the truth, all I need...Copy !req
336. to make of this reality, it's inside...Copy !req
337. The beauty within the shell...Copy !req
338. I hear a voice,Copy !req
339. hear a voice calling out to me...Copy !req
340. I see inside,Copy !req
341. see the light now ever holding me...Copy !req
342. All the truth, all I need...Copy !req
343. to make of this reality, it's inside...Copy !req
344. Right here within the shell...Copy !req