1. I'm a soldier, znatchit ya...
I'm a soldier, and that means...
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2. I otvetchik I sud'ya
that I am both defendant and judge.
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3. Ya stoyu na dvuh kontsah ognya
I stand at both ends of the fire.
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4. Ogibaya virazhi,
Leaning into the curves,
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5. obgonyaya smert' I zhizn',
overtaking life and death,
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6. ya begu srazit'sya s ten'yu lzhi
I'm running to fight the shadow of lies.
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7. Skol'ko b nitej ne plyol obman,
No matter how tangled the web of deception is woven,
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8. pokazhet lik sveta istina...
truth will always illuminate the outline of the light...
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9. Save your tears for the day...
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10. when the pain is far behind.
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11. On your feet, come with me.
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12. We are soldiers, stand or die.
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13. Save your fears, take your place.
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14. Save them for the Judgment Day.
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15. Fast and free, follow me.
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16. Time to make the sacrifice.
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17. We rise or fall...
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18. A homicide staged to look
like an accident?
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19. From what the investigators tell me,
there's a strong possibility...
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20. that he was hit hard enough to be certain
to critically damage his braincase.
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21. But the truck driver says he doesn't remember
anything because he was asleep at the wheel?
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22. We're checking the driver's cyberbrain just to
be safe, but I doubt we'll turn up anything.
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23. I guess our investigation into the blackmail
against the Energy Ministry has hit a dead end.
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24. Assuming that this man
was working alone.
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25. The victim's prosthetic body was
a Toyoda Chemicals model 2902.
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26. The braincase is a
Dermo 2706 Mark 2.
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27. Neither one is cutting-edge,
but they're new, domestically-made units.
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28. The exterior is also a market model
with no options added,
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29. but the face is the one thing
that's haute couture.
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30. Judging from the cellular
deterioration, though,
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31. I'd say that it's a holdover from
when he was first prostheticized.
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32. That sort of piecemeal swap pattern
is unusual for a criminal.
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33. Right. And his blackmail M.O.
Was apparently rather crude, too.
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34. It's entirely possible that the information of
an Energy Ministry scandal was just a bluff.
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35. But in spite of that, he was assassinated with
the death made to look like an accident...
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36. right before we were going
to take him into custody.
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37. What's this carved
symbol here?
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38. I think it's the logo for the Shinjuku
ward of the old capital.
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39. The one that was sunk
in the war?
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40. Right. For some reason, his braincase
has a coating of glass and lead.
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41. It must have been engraved
when he had that done.
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42. These are the items
that the man had on him.
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43. The contact information for a reporter
is written on here.
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44. It should provide clues as you're trying
to determine the man's identity.
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45. This is a wedding ring,
isn't it?
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46. He left a message at my office saying that
he wanted to meet with me, all right.
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47. Offices of Fumiya Dobashi
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48. - Reporter
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49. I see.
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50. The tip smelled fairly
bogus to me,
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51. but he had apparently called from
a public terminal in Tokyo.
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52. From Tokyo? So, what was the tip
he wanted to give you?
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53. Some scandal involving
the Energy Ministry.
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54. You'd never get any work done
if you checked out every little tip.
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55. Well, we don't usually meet
our sources in person,
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56. but he said that he'd send me something
that would prove his story.
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57. Just two?
Smoking or nonsmoking?
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58. Right this way, please.
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59. It's completely black...
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60. Right. I thought it would be some
kind of photographic evidence,
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61. but it's been
completely exposed.
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62. He must've thought that digital data
wouldn't prove anything.
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63. Not many people know how
to handle film these days.
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64. Would you mind if I kept
this for now?
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65. Sure, if you want. There really
isn't anything on it, though.
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66. Chief.
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67. It looks like the man was in Tokyo
up until a few days before he was killed,
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68. and he sent a frame of exposed film
to the reporter from there.
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69. All right, you head
to Tokyo on your own.
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70. While you're en route, I'll find
out what terminal he used.
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71. On my own, sir?
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72. Everyone else is still providing
security for the Prime Minister.
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73. I'll assign a Tachikoma
to you.
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74. Is the radiation
gonna be a problem?
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75. How many years do you think
it's been since the war?
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76. No residual radiation has ever been detected
since the dispersal of the "Japanese Miracle."
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77. Roger that.
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78. New Tokyo... New Tokyo.
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79. Announcing the arrival of the
Etorufu #3, bound for Berutarube.
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80. If you're worried about residual radiation,
I'd recommend getting a prosthetic body.
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81. No, it's not that.
It's just a gut reaction.
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82. Do you feel sick?
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83. In that case, I can let you
ride in my pod if you want!
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84. That'd make me feel even worse.
Just pipe down and follow me.
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85. T-That makes me
so mad!
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86. This is where he made
the call from, huh?
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87. Have you seen
this man?
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88. Sorry, never seen him.
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89. I think he got a new prosthetic body
somewhere around here.
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90. I wouldn't know
'bout that.
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91. Everybody around here makes do
with the lowest performance parts around.
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92. Let me take
a look.
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93. There's been lots of missing people lately.
Maybe I know who he is.
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94. This is the man.
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95. Let me see...
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96. Oh, I had a feeling that
you meant this guy.
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97. Do you know him?
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98. I don't know who he is or anything,
but four or five days ago,
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99. a man wearing a black suit in this damn
blast furnace asked me about him.
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100. Guy had a face that would give you
a heart attack, too.
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101. And just a while ago, a young lady was asking
about him down at the flophouse district.
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102. What kind of stunt
did this ladies' man pull?
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103. Nothing major.
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104. Thanks, buddy.
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105. Excuse me.
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106. Do you know someone
named Kanji Kotan?
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107. Sure, we know him.
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108. You do?
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109. Sure. Come on.
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110. I knew it... That last one was
a once in a lifetime find.
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111. Huh? Togusa?
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112. The string...
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113. I think it broke.
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114. If you don't wanna get hurt,
beat it!
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115. Are you all right?
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116. About the man who
contacted the reporter,
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117. I managed to verify that a man by the name of
Kanji Kotan was in the Kanto Refugee District.
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118. Oh, you did?
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119. Just to be sure, I showed the ring and the dead
man's photo to the woman I took into custody,
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120. and she said that they were
definitely both Kotan's.
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121. Who is she?
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122. Ruriko Asagi. She says she worked for
a refugee support NGO two years ago,
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123. and that's when
she met Kotan.
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124. She says that they stayed in touch even after
she left and eventually even got engaged,
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125. but she lost contact with him
three months ago.
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126. Apparently, she came to Tokyo
from Akita to look for him...
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127. after she suddenly got an e-mail
from him a week ago saying goodbye.
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128. Understood. Keep questioning
the woman.
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129. Roger.
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130. Feeling better?
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131. Kotan's dead,
isn't he?
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132. Kotan gave this to me.
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133. He said it was because he'd be able
to leave Refugee Town soon.
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134. But when he tried
to get his I.D.,
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135. Kotan's prosthetic body got flagged
during his inspections.
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136. It didn't meet the minimum
performance requirements.
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137. When he learned that,
Kotan started to avoid me.
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138. Maybe he thought that I had been hiding
the standards requirement from him.
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139. You weren't able to get
in touch with him?
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140. I called him again and again. I said I'd
help him get a new prosthetic body.
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141. But he turned down
the offer.
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142. When he was found in Niihama, Kotan had
already swapped into a domestic body.
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143. He never said anything
about that to you?
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144. No, he never
told me.
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145. I see...
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146. The thing is, before he died, he was
under suspicion of trying...
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147. to blackmail a government
agency for money.
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148. Your story made me think that maybe
Kotan came up with the blackmail idea...
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149. to get a new prosthetic body, but he'd
already changed bodies before then.
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150. Why did he blackmail them after
he'd gotten a prosthetic body?
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151. Kotan may have been dealt a bad hand in life,
but he'd never stoop to doing anything illegal.
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152. Maybe so.
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153. But there's a possibility that Kotan's
death wasn't an accident.
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154. That he was killed
by someone.
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155. Something happened to him during the three
months that you two were out of contact.
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156. What say we check out the
flophouse district tomorrow?
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157. It was about a month ago,
I guess.
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158. A rumor was going around that somebody was
hiring lots of workers with full prosthetic bodies.
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159. And they said that people willing
to go all the way inside Uchikan Seven...
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160. would get a good prosthetic
body for free.
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161. For free?
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162. Yeah.
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163. Uchikan Seven?
What's that?
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164. That's one of the
sunken areas.
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165. But I never heard of anybody actually
getting a prosthetic body,
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166. so maybe that's just
another rumor.
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167. This man apparently
did get a new body.
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168. Hey! Does anybody here know that story
where you could get a free prosthetic body?
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169. These two say that this guy really
did get a full prosthetic body!
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170. Hey!
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171. I wouldn't be alive today
if it weren't for the Prof.
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172. Professor?
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173. Yeah...
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174. He taught me all sorts
of things at Uchikan Seven.
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175. What happened there?
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176. I'm not really sure, myself. I just worked
and did what they told me to do.
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177. Do you remember
who hired you?
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178. An outfit called Kuromatsu Electric
or something like that.
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179. They told us that they were excavating an
installation that was buried during the war,
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180. And we'd be diving a long way down, so we were
told to report after we'd went full prosthetic.
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181. You had to be at least 98% prosthetic,
so I'd given up on the idea,
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182. but I snuck in after I had a back-alley doctor
dummy up my prosthetic percentage.
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183. Was this logo on the
prosthetic bodies?
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184. Yeah. It was on
all of 'em.
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185. The Prof was really happy about getting
to swap into a new prosthetic body.
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186. But you can never be sure that
you really got a new one,
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187. 'cause you can't see
your own braincase.
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188. So in the end, they got about 40 of us workers
together, and we went deep underground.
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189. There were probably other guys besides me
who had spoofed their percentage.
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190. So anyway, I teamed up with the Prof,
and we started working.
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191. "De-scaling," I think
it was called.
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192. We were wearing dust masks, but we still
turned pitch black, even inside our noses.
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193. The Prof said I'd be okay
if I cut my sense receptors,
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194. but I told him I couldn't do that
'cause I wasn't full prosthetic.
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195. When I said that, he got this
scary look on his face...
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196. and told me that if I didn't
get out of there fast, I'd die.
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197. But I wanted the money real bad,
so I didn't listen to him.
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198. So the Prof gave me this and said that if it
turned black, I should get the hell out of there.
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199. And then, four days into the job,
all hell broke loose.
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200. Sirens started blaring all of a sudden, and just
as I was wondering what was going on,
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201. some guys who looked like technicians were
carried out on stretchers from the inner work site.
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202. That's when it finally sank in
that the job was really dangerous.
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203. And that's when
you ran away?
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204. Yeah.
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205. The next thing I knew,
these guys in black came in.
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206. The Prof and I made it
outside okay,
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207. but when I glanced back
as we were running,
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208. the guys we were with had been sealed in
by some huge steel doors.
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209. What happened to Kotan
after that?
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210. He said something about having to tell the world
what he saw down in the tunnels,
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211. and then disappeared
somewhere.
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212. Can you take us
to this Uchikan Seven place?
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213. Get serious! I wouldn't go back there
even if you paid me!
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214. Just partway is fine.
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215. Please. I want to find out
what Kotan saw there.
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216. The JGSDA is down there...
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217. That fence wasn't there
when I ran away.
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218. If you go in through here, you'll should
be able to reach the same place.
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219. Sorry, but this is as far
as I'm going.
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220. That's okay.
Thanks.
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221. This place is...
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222. Armored suits!
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223. Crap!
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224. Jump! Hurry!
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225. Come on!
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226. Are you okay, Togusa?
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227. Tachikoma?
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228. Boo-yah!
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229. Announcing the arrival of the Mirai 52,
bound for New Fukuoka.
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230. Kotan knew the risks, but he must've gone
there so that he could be with you.
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231. But by some fluke, he had the knowledge to
figure out what kind of installation that was,
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232. and he was killed
for it.
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233. I'll make a quick stop back home,
and then go to pick up his body.
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234. Sure. If you run into any trouble,
call me right away.
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235. I will.
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236. Kotan came across an accident at a nuclear
plant hidden in that underground installation...
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237. and used that information
to threaten the Energy Ministry.
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238. It may be that he really did try to expose
the scandal to the public, though.
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239. I see.
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240. My guess is that they had an accident with
the reactor while they were working,
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241. and then they hastily started
to bury everything,
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242. but the military doesn't seem
to be aware of the situation.
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243. The real question is, under whose authority
was that prewar installation excavated,
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244. and for what purpose?
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245. Those men
in black suits...
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246. It sounds like there's still more to this story.
Once you get back, put together your report.
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247. Yes, sir.
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248. Finding out a galaxy...
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249. of planets and stars within me...
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250. Listening to each of them...
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251. singing the same silent melody...
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252. I've never seen such beauty...
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253. In possibility...
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254. No speck of doubt or fear...
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255. Wake up!
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256. I hear a voice,
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257. hear a voice calling out to me...
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258. I see inside,
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259. see the light now ever holding me...
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260. All the truth, all I need...
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261. to make of this reality, it's inside...
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262. The beauty within the shell...
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263. I hear a voice,
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264. hear a voice calling out to me...
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265. I see inside,
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266. see the light now ever holding me...
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267. All the truth, all I need...
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268. to make of this reality, it's inside...
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269. Right here within the shell...
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