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I'm a soldier, znatchit ya...
I'm a soldier, and that means...
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...i otvetchik i sud'ya
...that I am both defendant and judge.
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Ya stoyu na dvuh kontsah ognya
I stand at both ends of the fire.
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Ogibaya virazhi,
Leaning into the curves,
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obgonyaya smert' i zhizn',
overtaking life and death,
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ya begu srazit'sya s ten'yu lzhi
I'm running to fight the shadow of lies.
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Skol'ko b nitej ne plyol obman,
No matter how tangled the web of deception is woven,
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pokazhet lik sveta istina...
truth will always illuminate the outline of the light...
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Save your tears for the day...
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...when the pain is far behind.
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On your feet, come with me.
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We are soldiers, stand or die.
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Save your fears, take your place.
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Save them for the Judgment Day.
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Fast and free, follow me.
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Time to make the sacrifice.
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We rise or fall...
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HQ, I just got back
from the peninsula.
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I managed to get my hands on some
interesting intel on Kuze.
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The Chief and the Major are out at the moment.
They got called in by the Prime Minister.
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They said for me to listen
to your report here.
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What could be more
important than this?
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To tell you the truth, we're looking at the
possibility of a general refugee uprising.
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That's bad news.
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Ever since the uproar caused by the Individual
Eleven suicides, I've been receiving reports...
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...of refugees from residential districts across
the country beginning to gather at Dejima...
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...in Nagasaki in response to the rapid
increase in anti-refugee demonstrations.
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The mass media have been rashly
fanning the flames,
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...claiming that this is a prelude
to an all-out uprising.
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Do you have anything to say
on the matter?
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I'll admit that I've been getting reports to the
effect that the escapee arrest rate is going up,
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but linking that with an uprising
would probably be premature.
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Any flow of refugees into Nagasaki
would be prevented by the water.
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That shows a certain lack of
understanding of the situation.
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This month alone, we of the Coast Guard
have prevented...
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...two suspicious ships, as well as
16 boats, from docking at Dejima.
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It's as clear as day that there is a flow
of refugees occurring in Nagasaki.
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So I see. Nevertheless, the police have several
other matters that require our attention.
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The individualists,
you mean?
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If that's the case, I'd like to know what
the Public Security Bureau has been doing?
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By letting the instigators run free, they're
largely responsible for this situation.
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As for those Individual Eleven
who killed themselves,
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it's unreasonable to expect that Public Security
should have known their location beforehand.
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In spite of the fact that most individualists
admire what they did,
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most of them say that the Individual
Eleven were a breed apart.
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In any case, I'm of the opinion that the Defense
Agency is responsible for this refugee issue.
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After all, they wanted an arms buildup so badly
that they held a live-fire exercise...
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...right under the noses of the refugees,
stirring up the hornet's nest.
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If you want to get into a "chicken or
the egg" argument, I'm up for it.
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It seems to me that it's you
in the Security Department...
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...who are squabbling over
jurisdiction even now.
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If we're going to bring that up, why is Maritime
Self Defense Army is turning a blind eye?
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Before you get into matters
of jurisdiction and such,
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we'd appreciate a little more cooperation from
you, since we're the ones risking our necks!
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It's my understanding that with the
matter having reached this point,
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jurisdiction over the refugee issue
has been handed over to my people.
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How can you
talk like that?
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Do I need to remind you of the disputes over
the Security Treaty in the last century?
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Meaning no disrespect to my defense lobbyist
colleague who got involved in this too late,
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but the police force is going to maintain the
country's public order during this matter, too.
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Debate over such issues
are important,
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but what we need now is a consensus among
the various government bureaus.
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Let's adjourn for the moment
and take a break.
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I see that you can't even spare
the time to clear your head.
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Part of the problem
is my lack of clout,
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but everyone is focused on their vested
interests and losing sight of problem at hand.
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The refugee issue demands cooperation
from all of them, but they...
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Prime Minister, are you aware
of the primary reason...
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...behind the weakening of any given country's
military and defense agencies?
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It's because of the very thing
that you just spoke of.
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The instant that those who are at
the top of an organization...
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...start to use it as a tool
to further their own interests,
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it begins to die
a slow death.
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I do feel bad about giving the Coast Guard
the short end of the stick, though...
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Well, there's no guarantee that my own section
won't be visited by similar misfortune.
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I suppose not...
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By the way, have you
managed to obtain...
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...any concrete information regarding
the actions of the refugees?
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Yes, ma'am. Do you know what a hub
cyberbrain is, Prime Minister?
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I'm afraid not.
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Major,
please explain.
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Prime Minister, would you mind
if I linked directly with you?
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No, go ahead.
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Originally, the concept of a hub, or core,
didn't exist in the network.
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But lately, we've been seeing
a phenomenon where a host...
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...causes isolated consciousnesses on
the network to move in a single direction,
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and creates a sort of collective entity
by inviting them into his own cyberbrain.
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Up until now, it was limited to something
on the scale of communes...
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...that were centered around small
religious sects or charismatic artists.
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But now, someone has appeared
among the refugees...
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...who has the ability to win them over
and get them to stay in his cyberbrain.
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I believe that this is the cause
of the flow of refugees to Nagasaki.
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Is this a single person?
Someone we can think of as their leader?
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From a practical standpoint, the thought of
it being a single person is hard to believe.
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I can't say it unequivocally, but I don't think
that any one person's cyberbrain is capable...
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...of winning over the consciousnesses
of 3 million people simultaneously.
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But if I were asked whether this hub
is something like their leader,
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then I would have to say
that it is.
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I see.
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The appearance of such a person is the
primary threat that is facing the government.
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Continue to stay
on your guard.
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Understood.
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When I repealed the Refugee
Special Action Policy,
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my intent was to curb profiteering
against the refugees...
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...and resolve the problem,
starting with the taxation issue.
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Which must mean that a political opponent
used it to his advantage.
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I wouldn't worry about
it unduly, ma'am.
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Actually... There is one other matter
that I would like you to look into.
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What would that be?
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It would seem that there is a defense lobbyist
assemblyman who is in collusion with...
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...the former Greater Japan Technical Research
over the matter of the Japan-US Security Treaty.
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Our country has the world's only
radiation scrubber technology,
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and the American Empire has always relied
on nuclear deterrent in the past.
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I believe this new Security Treaty
will have the effect of...
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...putting us on an equal footing
with them, if not greater.
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If this proves to be untenable, I'm willing
to postpone a new Security Treaty.
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However, there are certain
assemblymen and industries...
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...who aren't interested
in such ideology.
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With what they are doing, this country
will never be fully independent.
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Where did you get this
information, ma'am?
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From a source inside the
Foreign Affairs Ministry.
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In that case, we'll start right away
by following the money trail.
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However, if I may ask, should I consider
these orders as being given...
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...as a result of your personal interests,
or of your political ideology?
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You shouldn't need
to ask that question.
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Very well, ma'am.
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I should've noticed
it earlier.
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Prime Minister Kayabuki is exactly
your type of woman, Chief.
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What, it's taken you this long
to realize that?
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I can't hold a candle
to you, Chief.
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Do you think that the "defense lobbyist
assemblyman" she mentioned...
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...is Chief Cabinet Secretary
Takakura, do you?
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Probably.
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I can't imagine that his objective in this
is simply to score some bribes.
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Takakura was a pro-American
neo-conservative, wasn't he?
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He's an old-school member of the
military-industrial complex...
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...who has yet to get over his blind faith
in the American Empire.
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From his point of view, we can use our scrubber
technology, whose price sank after the war,
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and by teaming up with the
American Empire once again,
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we can use it as a new deterrent against
other countries and drive up its price.
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By doing that, he lays the groundwork
for his bribes...
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...and he saves face for the conservatives
without going through a needless arms buildup.
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That doesn't sound much like the
"independence and cooperation" policy...
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...that Prime Minister Kayabuki
is pushing for.
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He's also the top dog of the
Cabinet Intelligence Service, isn't he?
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Plus, Gohda's resume includes
overseeing the production...
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...of "Japan's Miracle" at the former
Greater Japan Technical Research.
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Inciting refugee terrorism, and the
Japan-US Security Treaty...
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And nukes...
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It sounds like it'll be worth helping
her get her revenge, doesn't it?
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We got tired of waiting for you,
Prime Minister Kayabuki...
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I'll be right there.
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Togusa.
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Yeah, Azuma?
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I know we weren't asked
to come to the meeting,
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but are you sure we shouldn't
sit in on it?
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What about your secret investigation
of the Individual Eleven?
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There's been less activity on their part
than from the refugees,
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so, you know, we were
kinda getting bored with it.
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You dumb bastard!
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So what if it's boring?!
It's your damn job!
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I swear, you two are so green
it's not funny!
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That was right about the time
that the pointless war...
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...for Eurasian hegemony was
finally winding down.
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I snuck my way into the peninsula
a few times around then.
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They were already pretty
modernized by that point.
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Did you guys
start already?
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Not yet. We were just warming up
while we were waiting for you.
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So, what say we
get started?
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A thousand pardons for putting you straight
to work so soon after your return.
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Oh, thanks.
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It was 2024, and nations across the world
were exhausted from a fourth world war.
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The peninsula was still in the throes of a
civil war, and now that the world war was over,
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the American Empire called
for the UN to send in troops.
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This was the direct impetus for the Self
Defense Army being dispatched there.
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But the truth of the matter was
that the American Empire...
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...was looking to get itself back on its feet and
reestablish itself as the dominant world power.
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They were using the deployment to get the
unified government to cede the mining rights...
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...to the uranium deposits that were buried
in the northern peninsula, right?
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Yeah, that, too. But even though their
ulterior motives were as plain as day,
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Japan couldn't say no to the UN, not when they
were making a bundle off of war procurements.
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Aside from the battle to recapture Nemuro,
the Self Defense Army...
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...had managed to avoid seeing
any combat through two world wars,
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...so this would be their
first trial under fire.
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But the Big Guy and the Major
were both overseas...
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...in an unofficial capacity
during the war, right?
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Pretty much.
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Unofficial, 'cause the PM who was killed
by a terrorist bomb back then...
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...was one of the few politicians
who had an international outlook.
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Anyway, because of all this stuff
going on behind the scenes,
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the government had strict press control in place
to keep domestic public opinion in check.
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And the location chosen to deploy
the PKF troops was Sinuiju,
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which was considered
relatively safe.
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I still remember the uproar
over the deployment.
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But I guess everybody eventually lost interest
when all the news reports showed...
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...was bored-looking SDA soldiers
spending time with the locals.
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I'm not surprised. The reality of the situation
was something entirely different, though.
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And the people running the press
control from the shadows...
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were the forerunners of today's CIS,
the Cabinet Press Agency.
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So, what was this "real state of affairs"
with the PKF?
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Well... Apparently, things there were
a lot more tragic than we'd heard.
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The unit that Kuze was attached to
was a mechanized unit...
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...that was the last of the main forces
to be sent into the country.
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At the time, Sinuiju was a special
administrative area as well as a trade center,
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so it was off everybody's
list of targets.
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But the place that the fleeing remnants
of the People's Army...
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...chose to make their last stand after
the unified government was set up...
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...was a rural area about 20 klicks
to the east of the city.
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Once you cross the border there,
it's a mountain area, right?
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More like a
mountain pass.
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The elevation there was
800 meters at best.
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So it was the perfect place
for guerrilla warfare.
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The cyborg infantry unit was to be deployed in
two companies as a guerrilla suppression unit,
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and almost as soon as they arrived, they began
moving into the mountains in the dead of winter.
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Although this was their first large-scale
deployment on the front lines,
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the hybrid PKF prosthetic bodies
probably weren't stressed very hard,
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not even when moving through
the snow at four below.
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Around that time, the main force was on a
heightened state of alert after receiving intel...
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...that the last elite troops of the People's Army
were planning an assault on Sinuiju.
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The plan was for the company
Kuze belonged to...
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...to circle around from the north
and launch a preemptive attack.
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But Kuze's platoon, which
had moved out ahead,
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discovered a refugee camp not in their intel
sitting on the river that flowed along the border.
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A brutal raid was underway by
soldiers of the People's Army.
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These men who were soldiers in name only
had been reduced to mountain bandits.
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Seeing this, Kuze and his platoon were spurred
into action by righteous indignation.
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It was a battle of
120 against 30,
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...but it was all over
in the blink of an eye.
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This was because Kuze's platoon
was an elite cyborg unit,
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and the people who were attacking the camp,
although they were ex-military,
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were mostly flesh and blood, and every
last one of them was starved half to death.
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Even though that they received several reports
on the People's Army afterwards,
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this incident was the only time
they saw combat.
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Even though there was stress
from the extreme cold...
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...and not knowing when or if
the guerrillas would attack,
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the main forces, which had set up camp
inside the city, didn't have it very hard.
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I remember seeing
this footage.
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Yeah. But before long, there was trouble
in the squad camp out in the rural area.
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PTSD, huh?
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You got it. Post-traumatic
stress disorder.
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The experience of going through combat for the
first time, and a one-sided slaughter at that,
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slowly began to eat away at the spirits
of the young soldiers.
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Those who still had their own lungs
and other internal organs...
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...desperately tried to escape the flashbacks
and nightmares of the massacre...
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...by turning to synthetic alcohol and hashish
that the refugees had brought them.
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Up until then, the Self Defense Army
had been known as being very disciplined.
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When it began to break down, the media
in Japan began to criticize them harshly.
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Although the facts of the massacre
at the refugee camp...
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...never reached the ears of the media
because of the press blackout,
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this made their criticism of the men's
behavior all the more severe.
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What's more, the freedoms of the soldiers
were restricted by the press blackout...
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...that was in place to keep the shameful
behavior of the soldiers out of the news.
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It eventually got to the point where they
weren't even allowed to return to Japan.
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Almost sounds like an
isolation ward...
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Yeah, and to top
it all off,
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news of the massacre at the refugee camp near
the border was leaked to certain media outlets.
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And rumors even began to circulate
that it might have...
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...been the work of Japan's
Self Defense Army.
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The residents of the rural area came down hard
on them, demanding an explanation.
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But under the news blackout,
the young soldiers,
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and even their commanding officers, weren't
able to say anything in their own defense.
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They couldn't do anything but stay silent
and hide in their tents.
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One day, after this situation
had gone on for some time,
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a local reporter apparently said
the following to one of the soldiers.
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He probably meant it as a dig against a soldier
who no longer had the lungs he was born with.
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Hey.
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Do you know where the word
"assassin" comes from?
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In Arabic, it means
"one who eats hashish."
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Muslim killers who attacked Crusaders after the
recapture of Jerusalem in the 11th Century...
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...would smoke hashish and ruthlessly
carry out the killings as if in a dream.
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They say that when the
Crusaders saw this,
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they called them "assassins"
and were terrified of them.
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Did you guys use that stuff and think
that this place was Paradise?
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You invade the place, and now you keep
hanging around like you're guests here!
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You bunch of murderers...
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W-What do you want?
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You're right.
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Maybe we did think of ourselves
as guests at first.
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Trade me. This for
one of those.
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Saying this, Kuze traded
his weapon for a camera,
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and then went into
the refugee camp.
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Then what? What did
he do in the camp?
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Apparently, he didn't do anything.
All he did was carry the camera around...
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...and look through the viewfinder at the refugees
going about their lives from time to time...
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...and fold various
origami figures.
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I don't get it.
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Yeah, I don't have the slightest idea
what his real intentions were, either.
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But a while after he went in,
a strange phenomenon began.
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First, the camp's elderly gradually
started to take an interest in Kuze,
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and eventually offered
him drinks.
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Next, the children begged him to
make paper airplanes for them,
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and made friends one by one with Kuze,
who never said a word.
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And the day after that, even the women and
grown men were taking turns talking to Kuze.
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Kuze would simply look at them happily
and snap a picture from time to time.
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Then what?
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The People's Army
surrendered,
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and Kuze kept this up until three months later,
when the SDA was relieved of its duties.
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After that, no one in the media
mentioned the massacre again.
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And the day before the SDA was scheduled
to come back to Japan,
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Kuze suddenly vanished
from the camp.
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A single photo from the
camp still exists.
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So, where did he
go after that?
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They say that he crossed the border and
headed west, but that's not reliable intel.
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As to where he drifted and how,
in the course of my investigation,
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I talked to a guy who said that he'd just
come back from a refugee area in Taiwan.
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He said that he saw a guy there
who might have been Kuze.
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The hair on his prosthetic body
had turned completely white,
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but he said he was positive
that it was Kuze.
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He said the proof
that it was Kuze...
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...was that there was always a crowd
of happy people around him.
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Are you Japanese?
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Yes.
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Well, I'll be.
You can talk?
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Oh, hey, Major.
You were here for the meeting?
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Yes. I heard everything.
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It's a fascinating story,
all right.
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Representative.
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I had a little trouble with the
hub cyberbrain's filtering array,
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but I've finally managed to do a back-trace
on the refugee's cyberbrain.
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As you thought, he appears
to be in Dejima.
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I've asked the NSA
to provide verification,
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so I expect to have visual
confirmation momentarily.
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Finding out a galaxy...
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...of planets and stars within me...
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Listening to each of them...
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...singing the same silent melody...
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I've never seen such beauty...
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In possibility...
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No speck of doubt or fear...
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Wake up!
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I hear a voice,
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hear a voice calling out to me...
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I see inside,
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see the light now ever holding me...
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All the truth, all I need...
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...to make of this reality, it's inside...
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The beauty within the shell...
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I hear a voice,
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hear a voice calling out to me...
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I see inside,
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see the light now ever holding me...
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All the truth, all I need...
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...to make of this reality, it's inside...
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Right here within the shell...