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. We've got
an intruder?Copy !req
19. Virus intrusion in defensive barrier.
Infection spreading.Copy !req
20. Conflict with antibodies.
Enemy probes have breached outer wall.Copy !req
21. Reinforce allocations
to peripheral defenses.Copy !req
22. Cut the infected sectors loose
and use them as decoys!Copy !req
23. Virus analysis status.
Mutual destruction in progress.Copy !req
24. Fourteen variants neutralized.
Two variants active. One variant unidentified.Copy !req
25. What do you mean, unidentified?
Get me verification!Copy !req
26. Preliminary scans show it as inert
and unresponsive. It seems to be a decoy.Copy !req
27. Change the version of the
antibodies and analyze it.Copy !req
28. Don't let the intruder spot
our response protocols.Copy !req
29. Intruder has begun to
gain control of proxies.Copy !req
30. Unable to physically
disconnect circuits.Copy !req
31. - Viruses that have gained access are propagating.
- Damn it... Who the hell are these cyber bandits?Copy !req
32. Request backup from
Poseidon's Decatoncheir!Copy !req
33. Damn, too late!Copy !req
34. Call an ambulance!
Helping the wounded takes top priority.Copy !req
35. Get some ambulances
over here!Copy !req
36. We're at the shopping mall in Niihama ward 3!
We're gonna need five!Copy !req
37. It's the same, all right.
No doubt about it.Copy !req
38. A suicide bomber, huh?Copy !req
39. Yeah, using plastic explosives with
nails and screws shoved into it.Copy !req
40. Crap! Indiscriminate terrorism where they
issue a warning? What's up with that?Copy !req
41. Looks like what they were after was
getting the maximum fear out of it.Copy !req
42. Maximum fear?Copy !req
43. Yeah.Copy !req
44. Just like the Individual Eleven,
they issue a warning ahead of time,Copy !req
45. but then they end up attacking indiscriminately,
bombing after bombing.Copy !req
46. It's clear that they're a particularly nasty type
that sees meaning in the terrorist act itself.Copy !req
47. So you're saying that there's going to be
at least one more suicide bombing?Copy !req
48. If we believe their warning,
then yeah.Copy !req
49. Son of a bitch... What the hell
is happening to this country?Copy !req
50. Is something starting
to go wrong somewhere?Copy !req
51. Yeah, I guess.Copy !req
52. At this rate, we're never gonna have
enough manpower to keep up.Copy !req
53. Chief, we're never gonna be able
to catch up to the bombers like this.Copy !req
54. Haven't you found any hints about
times or places in the warning?Copy !req
55. At this point, all we have is an e-mail
sent in to the Prefectural Police that reads,Copy !req
56. "We will set off five suicide bombings
inside Niihama today."Copy !req
57. If it follows the same pattern as
the ones in Fukuoka last week,Copy !req
58. the last blast also will most definitely
happen here in Niihama.Copy !req
59. Hand over the scene to the
Prefectural Police...Copy !req
60. and do whatever it takes
to stop the next bombing.Copy !req
61. And do what? Arrest everybody
in Niihama with a prosthetic body?Copy !req
62. These may be acts of indiscriminate terrorism,
but there ought to be some sort of method to it.Copy !req
63. Roger...Copy !req
64. By the way, where's the Major
at a time like this?Copy !req
65. She says she's conducting a
top-secret dive investigation.Copy !req
66. Top-secret?Copy !req
67. Leave this to the prefectural cops
and the old-timer. We're on the move.Copy !req
68. Borma, if you find anything,
give us a holler.Copy !req
69. What's the deal with this
"human bomb" crap, anyway?Copy !req
70. This isn't some anarchist state
that's under foreign rule.Copy !req
71. It just means that this country isn't so peaceful
that you can say stuff like that anymore.Copy !req
72. Just like everybody else.Copy !req
73. I'll admit that the refugee issue is a powder keg
that's probably gonna blow someday,Copy !req
74. and the fact that the individualists are
resorting to such extreme measures...Copy !req
75. might be because the future
political situation here is so uncertain.Copy !req
76. Oh, damn! It might be refugees!
I forgot about that!Copy !req
77. Chief!Copy !req
78. Do some digging on the suspects in both
last week's bombings in Fukuoka...Copy !req
79. and the suicide bombings
over the past few hours.Copy !req
80. The bodies are damaged
beyond recognition.Copy !req
81. About all we know is that they had relatively
high percentage of prosthetics,Copy !req
82. No, that's not
what I mean.Copy !req
83. They probably showed up on the IR-System
or security cameras while they were still alive.Copy !req
84. I want you to pull all
those records for me.Copy !req
85. Understood.
I'll see what I can do.Copy !req
86. What's all this about?Copy !req
87. Bombings like this aren't large-scale events
that are carried out by people...Copy !req
88. who are coerced into it or ordered
to do it by their superiors.Copy !req
89. Suicide bombings are something that you resort
to when you've lost all hope in going on living.Copy !req
90. Chief, are things okay
over there?Copy !req
91. It looks like we're playing
catch-up and losing.Copy !req
92. We'll catch the next one in time.
How are things going on your end?Copy !req
93. The agent Tachikomas
are working out fine.Copy !req
94. I don't really need to worry about
range-related signal loss.Copy !req
95. We don't stand a chance of winning,
but it doesn't look like we'll lose, either.Copy !req
96. Too true, too true!Copy !req
97. Don't do anything flashy.Copy !req
98. I'll try. I'll exercise
self-restraint, anyway.Copy !req
99. Tachikoma! Is my
sensorium mask working?Copy !req
100. I'm done with planning out
the shortest route!Copy !req
101. Mask array
activation complete!Copy !req
102. I've disengaged the emergency lock
on the security room, ma'am!Copy !req
103. Intruder is utilizing 512 attack barrier variants.
Deploying in level 1.Copy !req
104. Chimera virus still progressing.
Current rate of progression, 52%.Copy !req
105. Defense line back up to 70%.
22% engaging intruder, 8% corroded.Copy !req
106. 403 are destruct/mobile types. 82 are chimera
components. 27 are explosives and decoys.Copy !req
107. Of the enemy's 512 attack barrier variants,
7 have infiltrated up to level 2. Request decoys.Copy !req
108. Activity level of the supplemental barrier
from Decatoncheir is maxing out at 97%.Copy !req
109. - 108 of the enemy's 403 offensive barriers have been eliminated.
- We fought our way back, huh?Copy !req
110. Functionality down 30%
due to enemy incursion.Copy !req
111. Incursion line still undetermined. Security line,
40% eliminated. Attack barriers, 28% eliminated.Copy !req
112. If you let A.I.s handle everything,
even cats and mice will outsmart you.Copy !req
113. We've received a report
from the Cyber Police.Copy !req
114. "People believed to be the suicide
bombers have been identified..."Copy !req
115. "... on footage collected from
the locations of the incidents."Copy !req
116. "See images
attached below."Copy !req
117. I see...Copy !req
118. Borma, how's your analysis
of the explosives coming?Copy !req
119. Judging from the residue,
it looks like C-4 was used in all four.Copy !req
120. Can you profile where they got it
or the manufacturing method?Copy !req
121. I could tell you more if I could
get this stuff over to Spring-8.Copy !req
122. I see.Copy !req
123. Chief, I found some interesting data
from the shops that were blown up.Copy !req
124. The first two were buildings used as salons
where individualists would meet,Copy !req
125. and the next two also belonged to
groups that were making money...Copy !req
126. operating under the cover
of the Refugee Action Policy.Copy !req
127. This restaurant has an
identical background, too.Copy !req
128. Batou's take on this
might be on the money.Copy !req
129. Was the Prefectural Police's Public Security
Bureau aware of that information?Copy !req
130. There's no matching data
on the public net.Copy !req
131. I see.Copy !req
132. Contact the Prefectural Police
at once.Copy !req
133. Have them send patrols to individualist meeting
places, mob-affiliated offices and restaurants...Copy !req
134. where individualists meet or where money
is made off of the Refugee Action Policy.Copy !req
135. If they see anyone around 20 years of age who
appears to have come from a refugee camp,Copy !req
136. question them at once,
regardless of gender.Copy !req
137. And tell them to exercise extreme caution around
anyone with a high prosthetics percentage!Copy !req
138. Understood.Copy !req
139. So, it really is
the refugees, huh?Copy !req
140. I'm surprised.Copy !req
141. You'd figure that it would be the citizens
who would have a problem with them...Copy !req
142. That's exactly why individualist groups
like the Individual Eleven...Copy !req
143. have come onto
the scene, right?Copy !req
144. Maybe this is a backlash
against them.Copy !req
145. Well, now that you mention it,
that's probably true,Copy !req
146. so it's probably safe to assume that the
refugee powder keg has now been lit.Copy !req
147. Killing yourself to try to make
a point... That's screwed up.Copy !req
148. What were the intervals between the bombings,
going from the first to this fourth one?Copy !req
149. The warning was issued
at noon exactly.Copy !req
150. The first one happened
13 minutes later.Copy !req
151. The second one happened
38 minutes after that.Copy !req
152. For the third one, the interval increased a little,
happening about two hours later at 3:23.Copy !req
153. The gap was even wider for the
fourth one, which was at 7:11.Copy !req
154. It should be even wider
for this next one.Copy !req
155. In terrorism by serial suicide bombings,
they're set off in order of willingness to die.Copy !req
156. Let's hope that we have a little more time
before the next bombing.Copy !req
157. Big Man, you know way too much
about this sort of scary shit.Copy !req
158. Mind if I ask you
one more thing?Copy !req
159. What?Copy !req
160. If their objective is the
greatest amount of fear,Copy !req
161. you'd think that it'd be more effective if they'd
carried them out without issuing a warning.Copy !req
162. Why do you suppose
they issued a warning first?Copy !req
163. Beats me. Maybe they wanted
somebody to know...Copy !req
164. To know what their last act
on this earth was.Copy !req
165. So, just as I expected...Copy !req
166. We'd confirmed from Gohda's history
that he had a fat pipeline to Poseidon,Copy !req
167. but I had no idea it was
manualized to this extent.Copy !req
168. Is this a trap?
Or is it a...Copy !req
169. Deploy root array along all three axes.
Have all attack barrier variants standing by.Copy !req
170. Deployment complete,
ma'am!Copy !req
171. Back me up with all your functions on full.
Watch out for chimera viruses.Copy !req
172. Yes, ma'am!Copy !req
173. Okay, do a sensorium projection
into the heaviest barrier.Copy !req
174. Upload my Chroma file into the system
before their security shows up.Copy !req
175. Go to high combat alert
using eight arrays.Copy !req
176. All tracker mines equipped with
virus arrays have gone active!Copy !req
177. We've taken over the cyberbrains of
12 people on the Security Alert Team.Copy !req
178. Okay, do a final security check
of the perimeter.Copy !req
179. The activity control viruses we uploaded into
45 security personnel are functioning!Copy !req
180. All attack barrier variants active!
No conflicts detected!Copy !req
181. Okay, we should have until somebody notices
the freeze we put on their security people.Copy !req
182. You three monitor the 45 cyberbrains.
If we're discovered, notify me immediately.Copy !req
183. Understood, ma'am!Copy !req
184. Something wrong, sir?Copy !req
185. No. It's nothing.Copy !req
186. So, this is the Decatoncheir
I've heard so much about.Copy !req
187. Is it running a simulation,
using a virtual personality...Copy !req
188. it constructed out of
vast amounts of data?Copy !req
189. Who are you?Copy !req
190. I'm Kazundo Gohda.Copy !req
191. Among other things, I was once involved in
the molecular engineering robot project...Copy !req
192. at Greater Japan Research and Technology
that created radioactive fallout scrubbers.Copy !req
193. Radioactive fallout scrubbers?
You must mean the Japanese Miracle.Copy !req
194. As an engineer?Copy !req
195. No, not at all. My brain
specializes in linguistic functions.Copy !req
196. After two great wars, this country has risen to
prominence as an economic superpower again...Copy !req
197. thanks to the radioactivity scrubber technology
that I acted as a producer for.Copy !req
198. At the time, I thought that I would rise
to the upper ranks of men, as well.Copy !req
199. But just as this country was unable to garner a
prominent position in the international community,Copy !req
200. I was unable to hold a significant
position within the system.Copy !req
201. So are you saying that society didn't place any
concrete value on a man who was all talk?Copy !req
202. I noticed a long, long time ago that our current
social system has a fatal structural flaw.Copy !req
203. Which is?Copy !req
204. The degradation of information, which by
all rights should not be degradable...Copy !req
205. and the illusory originality
known as "individuality"...Copy !req
206. trigger synchronization all too easily
within our current social system.Copy !req
207. I call it, "acts of creation
by the name of consumption."Copy !req
208. That's a conclusion that an individual who's
barricaded himself in the net would come up with.Copy !req
209. A standalone complex,
you mean?Copy !req
210. As luck would have it, I had a rather
strong tolerance for solitude.Copy !req
211. However, it was quite some time before
I realized that the reason why...Copy !req
212. the system hadn't given my contributions
to society the recognition they deserved...Copy !req
213. was because the mental disposition
that I had been born with...Copy !req
214. had prevented them
from doing so.Copy !req
215. In other words, you had
an inferiority complex.Copy !req
216. No, the problem lay
in my very existence.Copy !req
217. In a society, there exist personalities
that the system itself longs for.Copy !req
218. People lust after them.Copy !req
219. But in spite of that, they are so unaware
of that longing that it's funny.Copy !req
220. And you're satisfied with
the man you are now?Copy !req
221. More so than
I ever expected.Copy !req
222. Were you aware of the fact that
the Ghost, whose existence...Copy !req
223. is paradoxically proven
by the physical body,Copy !req
224. changes its appearance to match
that of the physical body?Copy !req
225. Not really.Copy !req
226. There was once a thinker who saw in revolutions
his own reason for being,Copy !req
227. and tried to practice what
he preached, though.Copy !req
228. You mean
Patrick Sylvestre?Copy !req
229. I, too, idolized
his thinking once.Copy !req
230. I looked up to my hero and truly
hoped to gain his charisma.Copy !req
231. "I am a man who stands
above other men."Copy !req
232. That notion has filled my head
for as long as I can remember.Copy !req
233. In the end, my physical form stood
in my way, but fate was on my side.Copy !req
234. Caught in an accident that left me
wandering between life and death,Copy !req
235. my body underwent a transformation,
and my Ghost unexpectedly changed, as well.Copy !req
236. Just as the author you mentioned
who stumbled upon a revolution did,Copy !req
237. I, too, was given
a mission.Copy !req
238. A mission to rebuild the system
known as the State.Copy !req
239. Are you a state reform advocate?
Or a man with delusions of grandeur?Copy !req
240. What this country is searching for
right now is the return...Copy !req
241. to a Shangri-la that is built entirely
on the backs of outsiders.Copy !req
242. There was a period in this country's history when
this had come to pass, although by accident.Copy !req
243. Even now, those without motive
long for it without realizing it.Copy !req
244. All I am doing is giving them
what they want.Copy !req
245. And making yourself a hero
in the process?Copy !req
246. I am not interested
in such things now.Copy !req
247. My role is to be that
hero's producer.Copy !req
248. To create an activist who will represent the
unmotivated and carry out what they long for,Copy !req
249. but are unable
to put a voice to.Copy !req
250. Is this "Shangri-la as a result of consumption"
Japan as it was organized in the cold war?Copy !req
251. So, who is this hero that
you say you're producing?Copy !req
252. Is it the
Individual Eleven?Copy !req
253. Oh, no!Copy !req
254. Hey, what's the matter?Copy !req
255. Hey, contact security.
We've got a cyber bandit incursion.Copy !req
256. It took them longer
than I expected.Copy !req
257. Major! They've spotted
our break-in!Copy !req
258. Understood.Copy !req
259. So, is the enemy of this "hero"
of yours the refugees?Copy !req
260. You're directing the thinking of the citizens by
setting up refugees as an imaginary enemy.Copy !req
261. Am I right?Copy !req
262. Guiding their thinking is necessary.
As is bending the law in order to do that.Copy !req
263. The ends justify
the means.Copy !req
264. This is a theory that applies equally
to terrorists and democratic nations.Copy !req
265. You're telling me that the consensus opinion
of our citizens is to get rid of the refugees?Copy !req
266. Humility is the chief virtue
of our populace.Copy !req
267. - Major!
- I heard you.Copy !req
268. One last thing. What about
Public Security Section 9?Copy !req
269. Section 9?
That's a good question.Copy !req
270. The cycle of hatred based on absence
can't be stopped now.Copy !req
271. I expect that they'll straddle the line between the
will of the people and their own sense of justice,Copy !req
272. gnashing their teeth
all the while.Copy !req
273. Major, you'll be in trouble if
you don't log out right now!Copy !req
274. Out of time, huh?Copy !req
275. We just arrived
at Gate 6!Copy !req
276. When the Prefectural Police
tried to question some girl,Copy !req
277. she fled into the subway,
threatening to blow herself up.Copy !req
278. I've had them stop
the trains,Copy !req
279. but most have entered the station building
with all their passengers aboard.Copy !req
280. Do whatever it takes
to stop her!Copy !req
281. You go that way!Copy !req
282. Where's the perp?Copy !req
283. I've found her.
She's a refugee, all right.Copy !req
284. Everybody stay put!Copy !req
285. Okay, now... Put your hands
behind your head.Copy !req
286. That's right.
We're not gonna hurt you.Copy !req
287. Nice and slow.
Stay calm.Copy !req
288. Move it!Copy !req
289. Why'd you shoot?Copy !req
290. You dumb-ass!Copy !req
291. This is the detonator!Copy !req
292. Call an ambulance.Copy !req
293. She's got a bomb in her stomach,
so keep her totally isolated.Copy !req
294. Y-Yes, sir.Copy !req
295. Where's the security department?
I want the building checked top to bottom.Copy !req
296. It looks like the cyber bandit used decoys
to infiltrate the building in person.Copy !req
297. What were the security people doing?
Reactivate the SAT team!Copy !req
298. Check for viruses.Copy !req
299. Once the defense array is rebooted, have
the rest of the work done at Poseidon.Copy !req
300. The bandit won't show up
here again.Copy !req
301. So, you managed to stop
the last one, did you?Copy !req
302. Just barely. This is gonna
have repercussions, though.Copy !req
303. This is a declaration of war
from the refugees.Copy !req
304. I hate to say it, Batou,
but your take on this is right.Copy !req
305. The Individual Eleven are probably
individualists produced by Gohda.Copy !req
306. Their objective is
a refugee uprising.Copy !req
307. Their main goal is is probably to create
an autonomous region for them inside Japan.Copy !req
308. We have zero in the wins
column so far.Copy !req
309. The cycle of hatred that Gohda
has in mind is definitely starting.Copy !req
310. Finding out a galaxy...Copy !req
311. of planets and stars within me...Copy !req
312. Listening to each of them...Copy !req
313. singing the same silent melody...Copy !req
314. I've never seen such beauty...Copy !req
315. In possibility...Copy !req
316. No speck of doubt or fear...Copy !req
317. Wake up!Copy !req
318. I hear a voice,Copy !req
319. hear a voice calling out to me...Copy !req
320. I see inside,Copy !req
321. see the light now ever holding me...Copy !req
322. All the truth, all I need...Copy !req
323. to make of this reality, it's inside...Copy !req
324. The beauty within the shell...Copy !req
325. I hear a voice,Copy !req
326. hear a voice calling out to me...Copy !req
327. I see inside,Copy !req
328. see the light now ever holding me...Copy !req
329. All the truth, all I need...Copy !req
330. to make of this reality, it's inside...Copy !req
331. Right here within the shell...Copy !req