I'm a soldier, znatchit ya... I'm a soldier, and that means...
...i otvetchik i sud'ya ...that I am both defendant and judge.
Ya stoyu na dvuh kontsah ognya I stand at both ends of the fire.
Ogibaya virazhi, Leaning into the curves,
obgonyaya smert' i zhizn', overtaking life and death,
ya begu srazit'sya s ten'yu lzhi I'm running to fight the shadow of lies.
Skol'ko b nitej ne plyol obman, No matter how tangled the web of deception is woven,
pokazhet lik sveta istina... truth will always illuminate the outline of the light...
Save your tears for the day...
...when the pain is far behind.
On your feet, come with me.
We are soldiers, stand or die.
Save your fears, take your place.
Save them for the Judgment Day.
Fast and free, follow me.
Time to make the sacrifice.
We rise or fall...
Activating F4 decoy!
Injecting barrier-buster virus!
Okay, good work.
Once you've got all your attack barrier variants on standby along the outer perimeter,
encrypt and compress it.
Roger!
Found it.
A stealth gate that you can't get to unless you go through...
...the European satellite network via the northern hemisphere, huh?
Yeah.
Yeah, but get this. It's actually the Asian Matrix.
The Local Asian Net, huh? That wasn't very clever of him.
That's for sure.
Want me to get to work on a structural analysis right away?
We'll contact the Major first.
That bastard Gohda is just showing off now.
It's a message to us that says, "Even if you do find Kawashima's external memories,"
"you won't be able to find any evidence that leads to me."
He's sly, I'll give him that. But from what I can tell,
there's no evidence that a third party's tampered with the external memory.
Assuming that the Individual Eleven are triggered by a virus,
there's a good chance that there's evidence of it here.
Okay, I'm gonna dive it.
Ishikawa and Borma, watch my back.
Tachikoma, stand by with a virus array.
Is Set D okay?
Sure, that's fine.
Major, I'm sorry to interrupt, but get up here on the double.
This is top priority.
If it's more important than this, it must be serious.
It is. Call Batou, Saito, and Paz, too.
You heard the man.
Borma, you make the dive instead of me.
Ishikawa, see to the rest.
Okay... What say we get this over with?
Let's do it.
Say, Togusa, why don't you set your avatar file to your default shape?
Using them while chatting is one thing, but don't you think it'd be dangerous...
...to be weighed down by something like that when you're diving a barrier array?
Anyway, do you really wanna see me and ol' Ishikawa here...
...flying around in superhero costumes like in American comic books?
He has a point...
Stow the chatter. Borma's about to go through the gate.
Resuming virus injection!
Collision with enemy defensive barrier array and neutralization commencement verified.
Got anything?
I see something. There's a suspicious file down in level 6...
What's the file name?
"Individual Eleven."
What's the plan?
To find out if this file is the virus that triggers the Individual Eleven,
the fastest way is to actually dump it into somebody's cyberbrain and see what happens.
Hey! What the hell.
Wanna try sending it into my head?
Hey, isn't that risky?
I think we should write a vaccine before we...
The problem with vaccines is that you can't write one until after it manifests symptoms.
Sad but true.
Okay, I've got you fully backed up.
Just to be safe, partition off your cyberbrain's analysis sectors.
Right.
This footage was recorded by accident 22 minutes ago...
...by the IR-System along Nagasaki Coastal Sector B.
Son of a... Where the hell has he been hiding?
If he hasn't changed prosthetic bodies,
it might mean that he had shut down until his organic parts could regenerate.
We may never get a chance like this again.
I requested that the Kyushu P.D. step up their surveillance across the entire island.
Fly down to Nagasaki at once and arrest this man.
Hey... Borma? Are you okay?
Hey!
C'mon, this can't be right!
I'll do a forced program shutdown.
Hey. Borma?
Are you okay?
Yeah.
So? What was in there?
It was no big deal. The file just had a badly-written essay in it.
Nothing but an essay?
If that man is the same one who attacked the Prime Minister,
there's a good chance that the factor that triggered the Individual Eleven...
...is still saved inside his head, just like the Chief said.
Long-range sniping is an option,
but those PKF models are immortal prosthetic bodies...
...whose components operate independently.
You can't stop them unless you shoot them in the head.
In that case, we'll get in close and use good old brute force.
If it comes down to it, we can use this and bring just his head back with us.
Quite the sadist, aren't we?
Maybe it doesn't manifest just by downloading the file...
Yeah, there'd be no point if you unintentionally spread it...
...and turned everybody into the Individual Eleven.
Maybe there's some other factor involved.
How's it coming?
We're not having much luck.
The plan of Gohda's that the Major stumbled across...
...in her dive investigation is extremely credible.
It's lit the fuse on the refugee powder keg.
That guy's guilty, no two ways about it.
Plus, he's the kind of guy who's just dying to let a third party know that he's behind it.
But until this thing manifests, we can't prove one damn word of it.
I just wish we could get our hands on an original copy of the Individual Eleven essay.
Yeah, but nobody's never found a copy, not even in those earlier investigations, right?
How about trying to find a print-media copy, then?
The original text copy might still be out there somewhere.
Maybe you're right...
I think I know a likely place. Head out there and see what you can find.
Understood.
Okay, we'll leave that end of things to you.
Borma and I will try running another structural analysis...
...on Kawashima's external memories from top to bottom.
'Cause right now, this is our only lead.
All right, I'll leave you to it. Let's go.
Stop that.
Save those feelings for what we're about to do.
I agree.
It looks like the others are arriving.
There's not much time.
Right.
You lost them?
Yes, ma'am.
We were able to verify from the expressway's IR-System...
...that he was headed towards Kagoshima.
We believe there is a possibility that he left the car and snuck into a cargo truck...
...when he pulled into a rest stop, and then the car switched over to automatic drive.
It appears that surveillance center's personnel continued to track the car, instead.
What direction was his car headed in after that?
It got off at the interchange and headed towards Fukuoka.
What about hacking the cars A.I. and doing a back trace?
The instant we tried to make contact, it disengaged from the net.
So, he knows a thing or two about electronic warfare, huh?
Well, well.
I want you guys to track down all of the freight trucks in that image and locate him.
Understood, ma'am.
So, what now?
We go to Kagoshima.
What if this is a trap designed to make us think he went there?
If we play it by the odds, he's going to Kagoshima.
Is this everyone?
No one who shares in the individual will would come any later than this.
Section Chief Aramaki sent me. My name is Togusa.
Yes, he told me you were coming.
He said you were interested in seeing an original text copy of The Individual Eleven?
Yes, sir. I wasn't able to find it anywhere on the net.
I'm not surprised.
The fact of the matter is that The Individual Eleven is an extremely rare book,
of which only 20 copies were printed.
It was written just before Patrick Sylvestre's death,
at a time when he got himself involved in the Romanian revolution.
I expect that there are any number of translated editions available in reprints right now...
Yes, but it seems like the author himself put the essay under lock and key...
...because he was never able to classify Japan's May 15th Incident as a revolution.
But I've heard that his ideas, such as using Noh drama as a metaphor for revolution,
haven't lost any of their brilliance, not even today.
I see that you didn't come here out of intellectual snobbery.
All right, then.
Mr. Aramaki vouches for you, so I suppose I'll make an exception and show it to you.
I appreciate it, sir.
How's it going?
It looks like I've earned his trust.
Still, I have to say that I'm amazed you know a crotchety old college professor like this guy.
The times may change, but you can never have too many contacts.
True enough...
That's odd.
I've never taken it out of this room in all the time that I've had it...
Um, it doesn't have to be the original. A photocopy or reissue would be fine.
I don't see it anywhere for some reason...
By the way, what have you done to serve the cause?
The only thing I've done is stab and kill a traitorous assemblyman...
...who was advocating a reconciliation policy in regards to the refugee issue.
What about you?
We dove into JNN-TV's accounting net and made it look like...
...they were misappropriating refugee aid donations.
We took more a direct action in our call for refugee liberation.
The bombing of the "Return the Refugees Society" aid group.
That was our service to the cause.
The bombing of the Return the Refugees Society was all over the news,
but that only resulted in the severing of ties between refugees.
We eliminated a true enemy of the state. A traitor to our country.
I targeted an NPO that provided free prosthetic bodies to refugees.
The bombing ended in failure, though.
I'll admit that killing enemies of the state is good sport,
but the important thing is to sever the lifelines of the refugees who are to be liberated.
What have you done, then?
I took the head of a net-bank president.
You were the one who killed Chairman Ichihiro Jima,
the net-bank founder who amassed a fortune even though he started out as a refugee?!
That was you?!
My crime might not live up to yours in the sense of severing the lifelines of the refugees,
but in terms of creating a shockwave in public opinion, mine is second to none.
I'm the one who killed the popular cyber-rapper Densetsu.
And one other crime.
I was also the one who leaked the bluff that the refugees were going to launch...
...a raid on the fuel rods excavated from the government's hidden nuclear power plant.
Impressive!
That had a profound psychological impact on citizen and refugee alike, all right.
Densetsu was a psychological pillar to refugee youths.
When they lost him, it's only natural for anger to take root in their hearts.
That, and a you circulated a bluff that would trigger an uprising?
After what you've done, our own deeds pale in comparison.
I'm sad to say...
But in the sense of severing the lifelines of the refugees,
our act of taking the life of a treasonous doctor is no different.
What have you done for the cause?
I tried to assassinate Kayabuki.
I see you chose an audacious method.
But I haven't heard anything about such an attack.
They probably ignored it, just as they ignored the Individual Eleven's claims of responsibility.
It's of no importance.
Setting that aside, though, this refugee liberation that you speak of...
It seems to be nothing more than granting them despair.
Why is that?
We will sever their support from traitors to our state and from their own comrades,
and give them liberation in the form of independence.
Because that is the most effective means of forcing our citizens...
...to realize on their own the presence of these foreign bodies, the refugees.
You disagree?
Say, Ishikawa.
Have you read all of Sylvestre's essays?
Yeah, except for The Individual Eleven. Why do you ask?
How about you, Chief? To tell you the truth, I haven't read them.
I've real all of them except for The Individual Eleven, too.
Well, there probably aren't all that many people who have read them all in this day and age.
You wouldn't think so.
But it's clear that this Kawashima guy had read it.
Not only that, but he'd uploaded it to his external memory...
...and probably had every last word memorized.
What is it?
Could that be it?
That must be the factor that causes the virus to manifest!
Probably.
Tachikoma. Pull together all the files in there that deal with Sylvestre's...
...Collected Preliminary Essays on Revolution.
Roger!
Major! We found him!
This image was taken at 2:32 PM at the Kagoshima War Dead Memorial Tower.
Okay, set course for the War Dead Memorial!
Roger. Setting course for the War Dead Memorial.
Chief, I struck out over here, too.
They don't have a copy of The Individual Eleven, either.
If they don't have it there, I guess that means we don't have anywhere else to look.
Togusa, come on back for now.
If you can't find it, there's nothing more you can do out there.
Yeah...
But there's still one other place that I can think of. I'll come back after I check it out.
Understood.
We pulled all the files!
Okay. Ready to give this a try?
Yeah.
It's almost time.
By the way, who's going to make the final speech?
The one who was best able to spread our will would be the most appropriate.
Which would make it you, I suppose.
While I believe that there are many who contributed to our cause...
...among even our comrades who did not come,
if everyone nominates me, then I will gladly accept this great honor.
I assume you have no objections?
No. But I do have a favor to ask.
If it's not too much trouble, could one of you...
...show me your copy of our bible, The Individual Eleven?
Is yours a first edition?
Wait.
If it's the print number you're interested in, mine is definitely a first edition.
Are you sure?
Y-Yes...
As I set out to come here today, I had intended to come...
...with a copy of The Individual Eleven tucked in my breast pocket.
But no matter how hard I looked, I was unable to find it.
Why couldn't I?!
Please. Someone lend me your copy of The Individual...
Hey, we're almost there.
Oops!
H-Hey, you're that guy from...
Looks like you're in a big hurry. Actually, I came here to ask you about something.
Am I glad to see you!
Come with me!
Hey!
- Don't do it! Put it down! - Please, don't do it!
What are you doing?!
See anything?
Nothing that's out of the ordinary.
Maybe we really do need the original copy of the final essay.
What the...?
Ishikawa!
Borma!
Tachikoma! Shut down Borma's cyberbrain activity and keep him unconscious!
After that, flag that file just now as "Do not open" and lock it behind a defense barrier array!
Roger!
It looks like we hit the jackpot...
Chief.
You have an urgent call from the Home Affairs Ministry.
Patch it through to the Dive Room!
Roger.
What in the...
What the hell was that guy doing down here?
Major, head to the Kyushu radio tower at once! He's turned up there!
What's going on?
I don't know, but they're showing him on channel double-three!
They found him?
Hey, are you getting this? I What did they say? Get him on camera!
What the...?
Swords! They're swinging swords, and...
Their heads! They just chopped off each other's heads!
One by one, they... They're killing each other!
What an unbelievable sight!
These men who have appeared on the roof seem to have killed one another with swords!
Okay, calm down. I came here to talk, that's all.
Stay away from me.
You're familiar with an essay called The Individual Eleven, right?
There was never an essay called The Individual Eleven! It never existed!
All that exists is a manufactured ideology called the Individual Eleven.
I am the Individual Eleven! The time has come at last!
Call an ambulance! Hurry!
Finding out a galaxy...
...of planets and stars within me...
Listening to each of them...
...singing the same silent melody...
I've never seen such beauty...
In possibility...
No speck of doubt or fear...
Wake up!
I hear a voice,
hear a voice calling out to me...
I see inside,
see the light now ever holding me...
All the truth, all I need...
...to make of this reality, it's inside...
The beauty within the shell...
I hear a voice,
hear a voice calling out to me...
I see inside,
see the light now ever holding me...
All the truth, all I need...
...to make of this reality, it's inside...
Right here within the shell...