1 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,240 I'm a soldier, znatchit ya... I'm a soldier, and that means... 2 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:14,510 ...i otvetchik i sud'ya ...that I am both defendant and judge. 3 00:00:14,510 --> 00:00:19,910 Ya stoyu na dvuh kontsah ognya I stand at both ends of the fire. 4 00:00:21,110 --> 00:00:24,310 Ogibaya virazhi, Leaning into the curves, 5 00:00:24,310 --> 00:00:27,650 obgonyaya smert' i zhizn', overtaking life and death, 6 00:00:27,650 --> 00:00:33,180 ya begu srazit'sya s ten'yu lzhi I'm running to fight the shadow of lies. 7 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:39,790 Skol'ko b nitej ne plyol obman, No matter how tangled the web of deception is woven, 8 00:00:39,930 --> 00:00:47,300 pokazhet lik sveta istina... truth will always illuminate the outline of the light... 9 00:00:48,170 --> 00:00:51,380 Save your tears for the day... 10 00:00:51,380 --> 00:00:54,680 ...when the pain is far behind. 11 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:57,870 On your feet, come with me. 12 00:00:57,870 --> 00:01:01,320 We are soldiers, stand or die. 13 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:04,490 Save your fears, take your place. 14 00:01:04,490 --> 00:01:07,590 Save them for the Judgment Day. 15 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:11,020 Fast and free, follow me. 16 00:01:11,020 --> 00:01:15,730 Time to make the sacrifice. 17 00:01:15,730 --> 00:01:22,790 We rise or fall... 18 00:01:47,230 --> 00:01:49,720 HQ, I just got back from the peninsula. 19 00:01:50,470 --> 00:01:53,660 I managed to get my hands on some interesting intel on Kuze. 20 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:57,400 The Chief and the Major are out at the moment. They got called in by the Prime Minister. 21 00:01:57,810 --> 00:01:59,770 They said for me to listen to your report here. 22 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:02,070 What could be more important than this? 23 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:06,610 To tell you the truth, we're looking at the possibility of a general refugee uprising. 24 00:02:07,250 --> 00:02:09,510 That's bad news. 25 00:02:17,460 --> 00:02:20,390 Ever since the uproar caused by the Individual Eleven suicides, I've been receiving reports... 26 00:02:20,390 --> 00:02:24,690 ...of refugees from residential districts across the country beginning to gather at Dejima... 27 00:02:24,770 --> 00:02:29,400 ...in Nagasaki in response to the rapid increase in anti-refugee demonstrations. 28 00:02:29,640 --> 00:02:32,660 The mass media have been rashly fanning the flames, 29 00:02:32,740 --> 00:02:35,140 ...claiming that this is a prelude to an all-out uprising. 30 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:37,380 Do you have anything to say on the matter? 31 00:02:37,650 --> 00:02:43,680 I'll admit that I've been getting reports to the effect that the escapee arrest rate is going up, 32 00:02:43,990 --> 00:02:47,150 but linking that with an uprising would probably be premature. 33 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:50,120 Any flow of refugees into Nagasaki would be prevented by the water. 34 00:02:50,630 --> 00:02:53,150 That shows a certain lack of understanding of the situation. 35 00:02:53,790 --> 00:02:57,530 This month alone, we of the Coast Guard have prevented... 36 00:02:57,730 --> 00:03:01,630 ...two suspicious ships, as well as 16 boats, from docking at Dejima. 37 00:03:01,900 --> 00:03:05,430 It's as clear as day that there is a flow of refugees occurring in Nagasaki. 38 00:03:05,570 --> 00:03:11,530 So I see. Nevertheless, the police have several other matters that require our attention. 39 00:03:11,810 --> 00:03:13,370 The individualists, you mean? 40 00:03:13,710 --> 00:03:16,580 If that's the case, I'd like to know what the Public Security Bureau has been doing? 41 00:03:16,980 --> 00:03:21,350 By letting the instigators run free, they're largely responsible for this situation. 42 00:03:22,020 --> 00:03:25,460 As for those Individual Eleven who killed themselves, 43 00:03:25,530 --> 00:03:29,620 it's unreasonable to expect that Public Security should have known their location beforehand. 44 00:03:30,100 --> 00:03:34,430 In spite of the fact that most individualists admire what they did, 45 00:03:34,640 --> 00:03:39,160 most of them say that the Individual Eleven were a breed apart. 46 00:03:39,670 --> 00:03:45,310 In any case, I'm of the opinion that the Defense Agency is responsible for this refugee issue. 47 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:49,440 After all, they wanted an arms buildup so badly that they held a live-fire exercise... 48 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:53,210 ...right under the noses of the refugees, stirring up the hornet's nest. 49 00:03:53,290 --> 00:03:57,050 If you want to get into a "chicken or the egg" argument, I'm up for it. 50 00:03:57,120 --> 00:03:59,750 It seems to me that it's you in the Security Department... 51 00:03:59,830 --> 00:04:02,630 ...who are squabbling over jurisdiction even now. 52 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:06,760 If we're going to bring that up, why is Maritime Self Defense Army is turning a blind eye? 53 00:04:07,130 --> 00:04:09,130 Before you get into matters of jurisdiction and such, 54 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:12,540 we'd appreciate a little more cooperation from you, since we're the ones risking our necks! 55 00:04:12,970 --> 00:04:15,530 It's my understanding that with the matter having reached this point, 56 00:04:15,610 --> 00:04:18,880 jurisdiction over the refugee issue has been handed over to my people. 57 00:04:19,050 --> 00:04:20,240 How can you talk like that? 58 00:04:20,310 --> 00:04:23,280 Do I need to remind you of the disputes over the Security Treaty in the last century? 59 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:26,480 Meaning no disrespect to my defense lobbyist colleague who got involved in this too late, 60 00:04:26,690 --> 00:04:30,920 but the police force is going to maintain the country's public order during this matter, too. 61 00:04:31,930 --> 00:04:33,830 Debate over such issues are important, 62 00:04:33,890 --> 00:04:37,260 but what we need now is a consensus among the various government bureaus. 63 00:04:37,830 --> 00:04:39,600 Let's adjourn for the moment and take a break. 64 00:04:56,820 --> 00:04:59,840 I see that you can't even spare the time to clear your head. 65 00:04:59,950 --> 00:05:02,250 Part of the problem is my lack of clout, 66 00:05:02,390 --> 00:05:06,090 but everyone is focused on their vested interests and losing sight of problem at hand. 67 00:05:06,690 --> 00:05:11,320 The refugee issue demands cooperation from all of them, but they... 68 00:05:12,100 --> 00:05:15,360 Prime Minister, are you aware of the primary reason... 69 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:19,130 ...behind the weakening of any given country's military and defense agencies? 70 00:05:20,110 --> 00:05:23,270 It's because of the very thing that you just spoke of. 71 00:05:23,410 --> 00:05:26,940 The instant that those who are at the top of an organization... 72 00:05:27,010 --> 00:05:30,180 ...start to use it as a tool to further their own interests, 73 00:05:30,280 --> 00:05:32,250 it begins to die a slow death. 74 00:05:32,890 --> 00:05:38,590 I do feel bad about giving the Coast Guard the short end of the stick, though... 75 00:05:39,090 --> 00:05:44,000 Well, there's no guarantee that my own section won't be visited by similar misfortune. 76 00:05:44,070 --> 00:05:45,330 I suppose not... 77 00:05:46,430 --> 00:05:49,730 By the way, have you managed to obtain... 78 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:52,500 ...any concrete information regarding the actions of the refugees? 79 00:05:52,770 --> 00:05:56,830 Yes, ma'am. Do you know what a hub cyberbrain is, Prime Minister? 80 00:05:58,250 --> 00:05:59,230 I'm afraid not. 81 00:05:59,580 --> 00:06:01,450 Major, please explain. 82 00:06:04,650 --> 00:06:07,180 Prime Minister, would you mind if I linked directly with you? 83 00:06:07,860 --> 00:06:08,840 No, go ahead. 84 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:23,500 Originally, the concept of a hub, or core, didn't exist in the network. 85 00:06:24,140 --> 00:06:27,470 But lately, we've been seeing a phenomenon where a host... 86 00:06:27,540 --> 00:06:32,170 ...causes isolated consciousnesses on the network to move in a single direction, 87 00:06:32,450 --> 00:06:36,080 and creates a sort of collective entity by inviting them into his own cyberbrain. 88 00:06:36,850 --> 00:06:40,650 Up until now, it was limited to something on the scale of communes... 89 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:44,520 ...that were centered around small religious sects or charismatic artists. 90 00:06:44,590 --> 00:06:47,430 But now, someone has appeared among the refugees... 91 00:06:47,500 --> 00:06:50,860 ...who has the ability to win them over and get them to stay in his cyberbrain. 92 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:54,200 I believe that this is the cause of the flow of refugees to Nagasaki. 93 00:06:54,500 --> 00:06:58,170 Is this a single person? Someone we can think of as their leader? 94 00:06:58,570 --> 00:07:01,230 From a practical standpoint, the thought of it being a single person is hard to believe. 95 00:07:01,810 --> 00:07:05,750 I can't say it unequivocally, but I don't think that any one person's cyberbrain is capable... 96 00:07:05,950 --> 00:07:09,210 ...of winning over the consciousnesses of 3 million people simultaneously. 97 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:12,610 But if I were asked whether this hub is something like their leader, 98 00:07:12,690 --> 00:07:14,680 then I would have to say that it is. 99 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:16,750 I see. 100 00:07:20,860 --> 00:07:25,230 The appearance of such a person is the primary threat that is facing the government. 101 00:07:26,030 --> 00:07:27,800 Continue to stay on your guard. 102 00:07:28,270 --> 00:07:29,360 Understood. 103 00:07:29,900 --> 00:07:33,400 When I repealed the Refugee Special Action Policy, 104 00:07:33,710 --> 00:07:36,300 my intent was to curb profiteering against the refugees... 105 00:07:36,380 --> 00:07:38,850 ...and resolve the problem, starting with the taxation issue. 106 00:07:39,250 --> 00:07:42,810 Which must mean that a political opponent used it to his advantage. 107 00:07:43,020 --> 00:07:44,950 I wouldn't worry about it unduly, ma'am. 108 00:07:47,820 --> 00:07:51,780 Actually... There is one other matter that I would like you to look into. 109 00:07:52,590 --> 00:07:53,750 What would that be? 110 00:07:54,430 --> 00:07:58,090 It would seem that there is a defense lobbyist assemblyman who is in collusion with... 111 00:07:58,170 --> 00:08:01,730 ...the former Greater Japan Technical Research over the matter of the Japan-US Security Treaty. 112 00:08:03,570 --> 00:08:08,910 Our country has the world's only radiation scrubber technology, 113 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:12,610 and the American Empire has always relied on nuclear deterrent in the past. 114 00:08:12,710 --> 00:08:14,740 I believe this new Security Treaty will have the effect of... 115 00:08:14,820 --> 00:08:16,910 ...putting us on an equal footing with them, if not greater. 116 00:08:17,220 --> 00:08:21,920 If this proves to be untenable, I'm willing to postpone a new Security Treaty. 117 00:08:22,690 --> 00:08:25,590 However, there are certain assemblymen and industries... 118 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:27,890 ...who aren't interested in such ideology. 119 00:08:28,260 --> 00:08:32,360 With what they are doing, this country will never be fully independent. 120 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:35,130 Where did you get this information, ma'am? 121 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:37,740 From a source inside the Foreign Affairs Ministry. 122 00:08:37,940 --> 00:08:41,370 In that case, we'll start right away by following the money trail. 123 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:46,910 However, if I may ask, should I consider these orders as being given... 124 00:08:47,410 --> 00:08:50,820 ...as a result of your personal interests, or of your political ideology? 125 00:08:52,190 --> 00:08:54,020 You shouldn't need to ask that question. 126 00:08:55,390 --> 00:08:56,820 Very well, ma'am. 127 00:09:13,010 --> 00:09:15,340 I should've noticed it earlier. 128 00:09:16,540 --> 00:09:20,340 Prime Minister Kayabuki is exactly your type of woman, Chief. 129 00:09:20,450 --> 00:09:22,970 What, it's taken you this long to realize that? 130 00:09:24,820 --> 00:09:26,790 I can't hold a candle to you, Chief. 131 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:32,190 Do you think that the "defense lobbyist assemblyman" she mentioned... 132 00:09:32,260 --> 00:09:34,230 ...is Chief Cabinet Secretary Takakura, do you? 133 00:09:34,630 --> 00:09:35,890 Probably. 134 00:09:37,260 --> 00:09:41,390 I can't imagine that his objective in this is simply to score some bribes. 135 00:09:42,100 --> 00:09:45,270 Takakura was a pro-American neo-conservative, wasn't he? 136 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:49,340 He's an old-school member of the military-industrial complex... 137 00:09:49,410 --> 00:09:51,900 ...who has yet to get over his blind faith in the American Empire. 138 00:09:52,350 --> 00:09:59,120 From his point of view, we can use our scrubber technology, whose price sank after the war, 139 00:09:59,190 --> 00:10:01,090 and by teaming up with the American Empire once again, 140 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:05,390 we can use it as a new deterrent against other countries and drive up its price. 141 00:10:05,490 --> 00:10:07,720 By doing that, he lays the groundwork for his bribes... 142 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:12,820 ...and he saves face for the conservatives without going through a needless arms buildup. 143 00:10:12,970 --> 00:10:16,370 That doesn't sound much like the "independence and cooperation" policy... 144 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:18,700 ...that Prime Minister Kayabuki is pushing for. 145 00:10:19,410 --> 00:10:22,640 He's also the top dog of the Cabinet Intelligence Service, isn't he? 146 00:10:22,710 --> 00:10:25,340 Plus, Gohda's resume includes overseeing the production... 147 00:10:25,410 --> 00:10:29,180 ...of "Japan's Miracle" at the former Greater Japan Technical Research. 148 00:10:30,580 --> 00:10:33,280 Inciting refugee terrorism, and the Japan-US Security Treaty... 149 00:10:33,350 --> 00:10:35,150 And nukes... 150 00:10:36,890 --> 00:10:40,330 It sounds like it'll be worth helping her get her revenge, doesn't it? 151 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:02,510 We got tired of waiting for you, Prime Minister Kayabuki... 152 00:11:05,990 --> 00:11:07,580 I'll be right there. 153 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:21,590 Togusa. 154 00:11:22,470 --> 00:11:23,460 Yeah, Azuma? 155 00:11:24,070 --> 00:11:26,510 I know we weren't asked to come to the meeting, 156 00:11:26,910 --> 00:11:29,030 but are you sure we shouldn't sit in on it? 157 00:11:29,140 --> 00:11:31,510 What about your secret investigation of the Individual Eleven? 158 00:11:32,050 --> 00:11:34,380 There's been less activity on their part than from the refugees, 159 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:37,110 so, you know, we were kinda getting bored with it. 160 00:11:38,020 --> 00:11:39,280 You dumb bastard! 161 00:11:39,350 --> 00:11:42,080 So what if it's boring?! It's your damn job! 162 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:44,420 I swear, you two are so green it's not funny! 163 00:11:46,730 --> 00:11:50,190 That was right about the time that the pointless war... 164 00:11:50,260 --> 00:11:52,660 ...for Eurasian hegemony was finally winding down. 165 00:11:53,070 --> 00:11:55,830 I snuck my way into the peninsula a few times around then. 166 00:11:55,900 --> 00:11:58,030 They were already pretty modernized by that point. 167 00:11:58,770 --> 00:11:59,970 Did you guys start already? 168 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:03,800 Not yet. We were just warming up while we were waiting for you. 169 00:12:05,350 --> 00:12:06,940 So, what say we get started? 170 00:12:07,750 --> 00:12:11,340 A thousand pardons for putting you straight to work so soon after your return. 171 00:12:12,350 --> 00:12:13,910 Oh, thanks. 172 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:32,860 It was 2024, and nations across the world were exhausted from a fourth world war. 173 00:12:33,410 --> 00:12:36,840 The peninsula was still in the throes of a civil war, and now that the world war was over, 174 00:12:36,910 --> 00:12:39,280 the American Empire called for the UN to send in troops. 175 00:12:39,350 --> 00:12:42,840 This was the direct impetus for the Self Defense Army being dispatched there. 176 00:12:43,450 --> 00:12:45,780 But the truth of the matter was that the American Empire... 177 00:12:45,850 --> 00:12:49,020 ...was looking to get itself back on its feet and reestablish itself as the dominant world power. 178 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:51,890 They were using the deployment to get the unified government to cede the mining rights... 179 00:12:52,190 --> 00:12:56,220 ...to the uranium deposits that were buried in the northern peninsula, right? 180 00:12:56,430 --> 00:13:01,130 Yeah, that, too. But even though their ulterior motives were as plain as day, 181 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:06,100 Japan couldn't say no to the UN, not when they were making a bundle off of war procurements. 182 00:13:06,370 --> 00:13:10,240 Aside from the battle to recapture Nemuro, the Self Defense Army... 183 00:13:10,310 --> 00:13:12,900 ...had managed to avoid seeing any combat through two world wars, 184 00:13:13,250 --> 00:13:15,510 ...so this would be their first trial under fire. 185 00:13:17,380 --> 00:13:19,940 But the Big Guy and the Major were both overseas... 186 00:13:20,050 --> 00:13:22,280 ...in an unofficial capacity during the war, right? 187 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:23,820 Pretty much. 188 00:13:24,290 --> 00:13:27,230 Unofficial, 'cause the PM who was killed by a terrorist bomb back then... 189 00:13:27,290 --> 00:13:30,990 ...was one of the few politicians who had an international outlook. 190 00:13:31,270 --> 00:13:33,200 Anyway, because of all this stuff going on behind the scenes, 191 00:13:33,270 --> 00:13:37,860 the government had strict press control in place to keep domestic public opinion in check. 192 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:41,500 And the location chosen to deploy the PKF troops was Sinuiju, 193 00:13:41,580 --> 00:13:43,480 which was considered relatively safe. 194 00:13:43,780 --> 00:13:46,300 I still remember the uproar over the deployment. 195 00:13:46,910 --> 00:13:51,510 But I guess everybody eventually lost interest when all the news reports showed... 196 00:13:51,990 --> 00:13:54,650 ...was bored-looking SDA soldiers spending time with the locals. 197 00:13:54,890 --> 00:13:58,690 I'm not surprised. The reality of the situation was something entirely different, though. 198 00:13:59,490 --> 00:14:03,400 And the people running the press control from the shadows... 199 00:14:03,500 --> 00:14:07,760 were the forerunners of today's CIS, the Cabinet Press Agency. 200 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:11,100 So, what was this "real state of affairs" with the PKF? 201 00:14:11,210 --> 00:14:15,510 Well... Apparently, things there were a lot more tragic than we'd heard. 202 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:20,510 The unit that Kuze was attached to was a mechanized unit... 203 00:14:20,780 --> 00:14:23,480 ...that was the last of the main forces to be sent into the country. 204 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:28,380 At the time, Sinuiju was a special administrative area as well as a trade center, 205 00:14:28,820 --> 00:14:31,260 so it was off everybody's list of targets. 206 00:14:31,460 --> 00:14:34,290 But the place that the fleeing remnants of the People's Army... 207 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:37,130 ...chose to make their last stand after the unified government was set up... 208 00:14:37,230 --> 00:14:40,830 ...was a rural area about 20 klicks to the east of the city. 209 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:43,570 Once you cross the border there, it's a mountain area, right? 210 00:14:43,940 --> 00:14:46,740 More like a mountain pass. 211 00:14:46,940 --> 00:14:48,810 The elevation there was 800 meters at best. 212 00:14:49,140 --> 00:14:53,080 So it was the perfect place for guerrilla warfare. 213 00:14:54,150 --> 00:14:58,880 The cyborg infantry unit was to be deployed in two companies as a guerrilla suppression unit, 214 00:14:58,950 --> 00:15:03,480 and almost as soon as they arrived, they began moving into the mountains in the dead of winter. 215 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:07,390 Although this was their first large-scale deployment on the front lines, 216 00:15:07,590 --> 00:15:12,530 the hybrid PKF prosthetic bodies probably weren't stressed very hard, 217 00:15:12,730 --> 00:15:15,730 not even when moving through the snow at four below. 218 00:15:17,300 --> 00:15:21,830 Around that time, the main force was on a heightened state of alert after receiving intel... 219 00:15:21,910 --> 00:15:26,400 ...that the last elite troops of the People's Army were planning an assault on Sinuiju. 220 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:29,640 The plan was for the company Kuze belonged to... 221 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:32,880 ...to circle around from the north and launch a preemptive attack. 222 00:15:33,150 --> 00:15:36,050 But Kuze's platoon, which had moved out ahead, 223 00:15:36,460 --> 00:15:41,830 discovered a refugee camp not in their intel sitting on the river that flowed along the border. 224 00:15:43,060 --> 00:15:48,300 A brutal raid was underway by soldiers of the People's Army. 225 00:15:48,700 --> 00:15:52,700 These men who were soldiers in name only had been reduced to mountain bandits. 226 00:15:57,010 --> 00:16:01,670 Seeing this, Kuze and his platoon were spurred into action by righteous indignation. 227 00:16:02,620 --> 00:16:05,350 It was a battle of 120 against 30, 228 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:11,290 ...but it was all over in the blink of an eye. 229 00:16:11,890 --> 00:16:15,350 This was because Kuze's platoon was an elite cyborg unit, 230 00:16:15,660 --> 00:16:19,290 and the people who were attacking the camp, although they were ex-military, 231 00:16:19,370 --> 00:16:24,030 were mostly flesh and blood, and every last one of them was starved half to death. 232 00:16:34,010 --> 00:16:38,080 Even though that they received several reports on the People's Army afterwards, 233 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:40,750 this incident was the only time they saw combat. 234 00:16:40,950 --> 00:16:43,890 Even though there was stress from the extreme cold... 235 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:47,020 ...and not knowing when or if the guerrillas would attack, 236 00:16:47,290 --> 00:16:52,250 the main forces, which had set up camp inside the city, didn't have it very hard. 237 00:16:52,670 --> 00:16:54,360 I remember seeing this footage. 238 00:16:54,570 --> 00:17:00,560 Yeah. But before long, there was trouble in the squad camp out in the rural area. 239 00:17:00,940 --> 00:17:02,200 PTSD, huh? 240 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:06,270 You got it. Post-traumatic stress disorder. 241 00:17:06,650 --> 00:17:10,980 The experience of going through combat for the first time, and a one-sided slaughter at that, 242 00:17:11,450 --> 00:17:14,910 slowly began to eat away at the spirits of the young soldiers. 243 00:17:15,620 --> 00:17:18,220 Those who still had their own lungs and other internal organs... 244 00:17:18,330 --> 00:17:21,890 ...desperately tried to escape the flashbacks and nightmares of the massacre... 245 00:17:22,330 --> 00:17:27,320 ...by turning to synthetic alcohol and hashish that the refugees had brought them. 246 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:34,840 Up until then, the Self Defense Army had been known as being very disciplined. 247 00:17:35,310 --> 00:17:38,570 When it began to break down, the media in Japan began to criticize them harshly. 248 00:17:41,550 --> 00:17:44,240 Although the facts of the massacre at the refugee camp... 249 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:48,310 ...never reached the ears of the media because of the press blackout, 250 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:52,050 this made their criticism of the men's behavior all the more severe. 251 00:17:52,930 --> 00:17:57,190 What's more, the freedoms of the soldiers were restricted by the press blackout... 252 00:17:57,500 --> 00:18:00,560 ...that was in place to keep the shameful behavior of the soldiers out of the news. 253 00:18:00,630 --> 00:18:03,730 It eventually got to the point where they weren't even allowed to return to Japan. 254 00:18:04,370 --> 00:18:06,170 Almost sounds like an isolation ward... 255 00:18:06,470 --> 00:18:07,960 Yeah, and to top it all off, 256 00:18:08,510 --> 00:18:12,500 news of the massacre at the refugee camp near the border was leaked to certain media outlets. 257 00:18:12,910 --> 00:18:15,540 And rumors even began to circulate that it might have... 258 00:18:15,620 --> 00:18:17,980 ...been the work of Japan's Self Defense Army. 259 00:18:18,420 --> 00:18:23,010 The residents of the rural area came down hard on them, demanding an explanation. 260 00:18:23,360 --> 00:18:27,520 But under the news blackout, the young soldiers, 261 00:18:27,930 --> 00:18:31,890 and even their commanding officers, weren't able to say anything in their own defense. 262 00:18:32,130 --> 00:18:36,360 They couldn't do anything but stay silent and hide in their tents. 263 00:18:37,870 --> 00:18:39,960 One day, after this situation had gone on for some time, 264 00:18:40,270 --> 00:18:43,940 a local reporter apparently said the following to one of the soldiers. 265 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:51,080 He probably meant it as a dig against a soldier who no longer had the lungs he was born with. 266 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:54,880 Hey. 267 00:18:56,120 --> 00:18:59,920 Do you know where the word "assassin" comes from? 268 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:04,420 In Arabic, it means "one who eats hashish." 269 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:10,390 Muslim killers who attacked Crusaders after the recapture of Jerusalem in the 11th Century... 270 00:19:10,870 --> 00:19:14,360 ...would smoke hashish and ruthlessly carry out the killings as if in a dream. 271 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:18,340 They say that when the Crusaders saw this, 272 00:19:18,410 --> 00:19:21,070 they called them "assassins" and were terrified of them. 273 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:25,120 Did you guys use that stuff and think that this place was Paradise? 274 00:19:25,350 --> 00:19:29,290 You invade the place, and now you keep hanging around like you're guests here! 275 00:19:29,620 --> 00:19:31,320 You bunch of murderers... 276 00:19:34,230 --> 00:19:35,690 W-What do you want? 277 00:19:36,130 --> 00:19:37,460 You're right. 278 00:19:38,630 --> 00:19:41,120 Maybe we did think of ourselves as guests at first. 279 00:19:49,780 --> 00:19:52,900 Trade me. This for one of those. 280 00:19:56,250 --> 00:19:59,690 Saying this, Kuze traded his weapon for a camera, 281 00:19:59,750 --> 00:20:02,380 and then went into the refugee camp. 282 00:20:04,620 --> 00:20:06,890 Then what? What did he do in the camp? 283 00:20:07,260 --> 00:20:10,660 Apparently, he didn't do anything. All he did was carry the camera around... 284 00:20:10,730 --> 00:20:13,820 ...and look through the viewfinder at the refugees going about their lives from time to time... 285 00:20:14,070 --> 00:20:16,730 ...and fold various origami figures. 286 00:20:16,900 --> 00:20:18,060 I don't get it. 287 00:20:18,140 --> 00:20:21,730 Yeah, I don't have the slightest idea what his real intentions were, either. 288 00:20:22,140 --> 00:20:25,340 But a while after he went in, a strange phenomenon began. 289 00:20:26,250 --> 00:20:29,340 First, the camp's elderly gradually started to take an interest in Kuze, 290 00:20:29,420 --> 00:20:31,110 and eventually offered him drinks. 291 00:20:31,550 --> 00:20:34,580 Next, the children begged him to make paper airplanes for them, 292 00:20:35,060 --> 00:20:38,350 and made friends one by one with Kuze, who never said a word. 293 00:20:39,330 --> 00:20:44,960 And the day after that, even the women and grown men were taking turns talking to Kuze. 294 00:20:45,370 --> 00:20:50,270 Kuze would simply look at them happily and snap a picture from time to time. 295 00:20:52,370 --> 00:20:53,270 Then what? 296 00:20:53,370 --> 00:20:55,000 The People's Army surrendered, 297 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:59,270 and Kuze kept this up until three months later, when the SDA was relieved of its duties. 298 00:20:59,580 --> 00:21:03,780 After that, no one in the media mentioned the massacre again. 299 00:21:04,580 --> 00:21:07,250 And the day before the SDA was scheduled to come back to Japan, 300 00:21:07,390 --> 00:21:10,220 Kuze suddenly vanished from the camp. 301 00:21:11,120 --> 00:21:14,150 A single photo from the camp still exists. 302 00:21:16,430 --> 00:21:17,950 So, where did he go after that? 303 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:22,600 They say that he crossed the border and headed west, but that's not reliable intel. 304 00:21:23,140 --> 00:21:26,700 As to where he drifted and how, in the course of my investigation, 305 00:21:26,810 --> 00:21:30,610 I talked to a guy who said that he'd just come back from a refugee area in Taiwan. 306 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:34,610 He said that he saw a guy there who might have been Kuze. 307 00:21:35,380 --> 00:21:38,180 The hair on his prosthetic body had turned completely white, 308 00:21:38,590 --> 00:21:41,080 but he said he was positive that it was Kuze. 309 00:21:41,620 --> 00:21:44,590 He said the proof that it was Kuze... 310 00:21:44,790 --> 00:21:48,120 ...was that there was always a crowd of happy people around him. 311 00:21:50,900 --> 00:21:52,490 Are you Japanese? 312 00:21:52,870 --> 00:21:53,660 Yes. 313 00:21:53,700 --> 00:21:56,290 Well, I'll be. You can talk? 314 00:22:06,250 --> 00:22:08,710 Oh, hey, Major. You were here for the meeting? 315 00:22:08,780 --> 00:22:10,550 Yes. I heard everything. 316 00:22:12,020 --> 00:22:14,710 It's a fascinating story, all right. 317 00:22:20,060 --> 00:22:21,150 Representative. 318 00:22:21,490 --> 00:22:24,190 I had a little trouble with the hub cyberbrain's filtering array, 319 00:22:24,630 --> 00:22:27,660 but I've finally managed to do a back-trace on the refugee's cyberbrain. 320 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:29,830 As you thought, he appears to be in Dejima. 321 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:33,400 I've asked the NSA to provide verification, 322 00:22:34,010 --> 00:22:36,770 so I expect to have visual confirmation momentarily. 323 00:22:36,770 --> 00:22:38,770 324 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:12,100 Finding out a galaxy... 325 00:23:12,100 --> 00:23:16,060 ...of planets and stars within me... 326 00:23:16,250 --> 00:23:18,720 Listening to each of them... 327 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:22,710 ...singing the same silent melody... 328 00:23:22,710 --> 00:23:26,720 I've never seen such beauty... 329 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:30,010 In possibility... 330 00:23:30,010 --> 00:23:34,520 No speck of doubt or fear... 331 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:36,010 Wake up! 332 00:23:36,010 --> 00:23:38,710 I hear a voice, 333 00:23:38,710 --> 00:23:42,650 hear a voice calling out to me... 334 00:23:42,650 --> 00:23:45,160 I see inside, 335 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:48,690 see the light now ever holding me... 336 00:23:48,690 --> 00:23:52,030 All the truth, all I need... 337 00:23:52,030 --> 00:23:56,830 ...to make of this reality, it's inside... 338 00:23:56,830 --> 00:24:02,640 The beauty within the shell... 339 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:05,340 I hear a voice, 340 00:24:05,340 --> 00:24:09,280 hear a voice calling out to me... 341 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:11,790 I see inside, 342 00:24:11,790 --> 00:24:15,320 see the light now ever holding me... 343 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:18,660 All the truth, all I need... 344 00:24:18,660 --> 00:24:23,460 ...to make of this reality, it's inside... 345 00:24:23,460 --> 00:24:28,120 Right here within the shell...