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...
This sort of foul-up isn't like you.
I don't know what to say.
It was too early for them to be out here. It was crazy to try to train rookies in the field.
Why don't you try downloading Yano's memories into another cyberbrain?
Won't that bring him back online?
It's just like how you can't duplicate a Ghost.
Even if you copied his memories into one, his Ghost still wouldn't be there.
If our only concern were maintaining Section 9, new personnel might not be necessary.
But taking into consideration how things might play out in the near future,
this is an issue that we must face and overcome.
Maybe. Even so, I'm taking Azuma off of this op.
Very well.
Show the kid some respect, okay? Take good care of him.
This is intel that I received from an old friend.
It has been confirmed that Boris Jabrov,
a former Russian Army officer who turned mobster, and several of his men...
...have smuggled plutonium out of their country and entered Etorofu.
So, you think that Kuze is planning to buy that plutonium?
They're gonna go nuclear and declare themselves an independent country, huh?
"Ballsy" doesn't even begin to describe this.
One of his cyborg accomplices killed an intelligence operative...
...who was conducting a sting operation.
Their current whereabouts are unknown.
The spook was killed two hours ago, huh?
So what's the plan? I guess we don't have many choices left at this point, though.
I guess not.
So if he's dead, how do we get a fix on their location?
Rushing to Etorofu without a plan won't get us anywhere.
There seems to be a few hints in the intel I received from the Public Security Bureau.
Apparently, Sagawa Electronics' Etorofu branch is expanding...
...their underground facilities in the Berutarube district without permission.
Berutarube? Didn't there used to be a Russian sub pen there?
As I recall, the Russian Army blew it up and buried it when they pulled out.
That's right.
And if Sagawa's expansion construction has been proceeding smoothly since then,
they should be right on top of that old base by now.
Well, well... That's pretty fishy, all right.
A submarine base would be the perfect place to hide camouflaged ships.
Maybe, but we've got no hard evidence.
If they're planning a deal of this size,
the local snitches ought to have heard a thing or two about it.
Chief, we'll head straight up to Etorofu.
Just to be safe, ask the Maritime Self Defense Army to put up a blockade around Dejima.
If the refugees get their hands on a nuke, it'll be chaos down there.
I'll do that. But I have faith in you people.
If we miss this chance to apprehend Kuze, the CIS' misdeeds will vanish into the shadows,
and the military will step in.
We mustn't let Dejima be turned into a war zone.
How's it look?
I think we're okay. It doesn't look like there are any traps.
We have some time before the deal. Take breaks in shifts.
- Understood. - Sure.
Hey, you should eat something.
You sure you're okay?
Disgusting...
This tastes awful. I'll have to complain to the Chief.
We have some time to kill before we land. Want to run a cyberbrain function check?
I'm all right.
The scope of Kuze's delusion threw me for a loop, that's all.
That's what I don't get. What the hell kind of delusions does this guy have?
Frankly speaking, I guess you could call it world domination.
Say what?
Got himself a serious case of megalomania, huh?
It's not like you to be let something like that get to you.
Geez, you look like some teenager who's just met the man of her dreams.
Right.
But we know one thing for sure now.
And that is that although he had manifested symptoms of the Individual Eleven virus,
his current actions are driven by the personal qualities...
...and ideology that he had before he was infected.
His delusion itself might be a cliché, but the reason I can't laugh it off...
...is that he genuinely believes that he can bring peace to the world by becoming a dictator.
That's the sense that I got from him.
Plus, his adrenaline secretion levels were high enough to kill an ordinary man.
I think we can assume that Kuze is already out of touch.
What do you mean, out of touch?
I'm saying that he's becoming obsessed.
Looking back on history, men like him have wielded unbelievable power.
For instance, Che Guevara, Malcolm X, and Cassius Clay are textbook examples.
You're telling me that he's not the same as Hitler?
He's the same in a certain sense, but ideologically, he's closer to Gandhi or Martin Luther King.
The refugees who are continuously linked to him via a zoned and filtered net...
...are getting a high off of the live feed of his actions.
But the reason they don't try to influence him and share their consciousness...
...is because they know that the area beyond his Ghost Line is a kill zone.
Even I had a close call in there.
Well, that sure was a downer...
Ishikawa, Paz, Borma, stay here and remain on standby.
Be ready in case we got the location of the deal site wrong.
Roger.
Death to militarists!
This place is pretty rough, isn't it?
The island might have been handed back to Japan, but the friction between...
...people of Russian descent and Japanese mainlanders won't disappear overnight.
Wow! They're building a geofront!
I guess if we follow this towards the base, we might run into Kuze.
If we still have any luck left on our side...
And if we don't?
Then we'll just end up having a nice chat with Sagawa's construction personnel.
We can't afford to wait for word from the Major.
Yes, what?
I got onto this ship because I heard that we were going to buy weapons.
But if I'd known that you were the one who was leading the mission, I never would have come.
I see. In that case, there's no need for you to force yourself to follow me.
You're free to return home, or you can vanish into the streets of Etorofu if you like.
I won't force you to stay.
I'm all for a revolution, just like everybody else.
But the one who first taught us how to revolt was Densetsu.
Most people on Dejima now know about "Comrade Kuze."
But there aren't very many who know who you really are.
That's why I just don't buy it.
I'm still prepared to follow Densetsu's teachings and blow myself up.
Don't be foolish. Suicide bombings are nothing more than acts of self-gratification.
Revolutions are only brought about by people's Ghosts.
That's why I want to know more about you.
Give me a reason to believe in you.
Otherwise...
Well, how about it?!
The weapon that we're here to obtain today is plutonium.
I'm going to use it to force the Japanese government...
...to recognize Dejima as an independent country.
You repay people when you borrow stuff from them! That's as basic as it gets!
We clear on that?!
Looks like you're a real bigshot now.
What do you have so much of that you can lend it out?
Well, I'll be! Hi, Miss!
So, you remember me.
Are the rumors that Krolden is still working inside here true?
Of course they are! Right this way!
He's still the cautious type.
Right this way.
Togusa, wait for me here.
He's down there.
You wait here, too. In this line of work, nobody likes people who are too eager to please.
Must be rough, working with the little lady.
You get on her bad side, and she'll make you regret it something fierce.
Krolden, it's me.
I still owe you for your help during the Nemuro landing op.
An attack barrier?
He wasn't fried very long ago...
Where was he diving that got him killed?
Looks like the intruder's still in the system.
Still, if he fried a hacker of Krolden's level, he must have some serious skills.
The way that attack barrier was configured isn't sanctioned...
...by the Secrets Preservation Act, either.
Found it.
Floppies...
I can't believe he's using such antique media for his external memory storage.
Was that guy still here because he was having trouble erasing these?
Sagawa's secret ledgers, huh?
"For sale: lemon cake, 20 kilos."
Lemon cake?
"$500,000 per kilo."
'M: Au pulled out of deal."
"Broker: Sagawa K."
"B.J.: lemon cake, 20 kilos."
"K: 40% cut as severance pay."
"Buyer: introduced through B.P."
Just as I thought, he's been back-hacking the data for the plutonium deal.
Sagawa's K...
"K" is Kagazaki, Far North Special Services Chief?
He acted as broker and selling it at $500,000 a kilo...
The seller is Boris Jabrov...
The buyer is... ASIAN / B.P.
It must mean the Asian refugees... Which means that the hacker just now was...
Looks like Kagazaki's cut is in yen...
The down payment's already been deposited with Sagawa.
240 million yen?
Where did the refugees get that much money?
Did Kuze line it up for them?
If he did, how did he do it?
Still, this was a big help.
I remembered you saying that Sagawa Electronics...
...was the Japanese company that you hated most of all.
Cabinet Intelligence Service Investigation
Oh, now I get it...
You shouldn't have given up your job with the Cabinet Press Agency.
If you hadn't, the CIS might have turned out as a more legitimate agency.
Ishikawa, the deal is going down at the submarine base.
There's also a chance that the CIS is mixed up in this.
There is?!
We don't have much time. Where are Batou and Saito?
Already deep underground. Their comms are blocked.
We'll head over there ASAP.
It's almost time. We should get going.
Tell me one other thing!
I once heard that you'd need something like 250 thousand dollars to buy plutonium.
How are you going to get that much money? Con the plutonium from the Russians?
No, I will buy it from them fair and square.
The citizens live off the sweat of the refugees' brows,
so to help them understand our suffering, I've taken the liberty...
...of having them each make a small donation to us.
I suppose that doesn't clarify things very well.
This is how it works.
The populace, who as yet takes their warm clothes and full stomachs for granted...
...has a combined savings that is easily in excess of 900 trillion yen.
Of course, they also pay no attention to this sum.
Also, did you know that there are sums that don't officially exist...
...among the interest accrued by those savings?
Sums that don't exist?
Sums of less than one yen.
Fractional numbers that aren't normally displayed even in terminal data.
Simply by collecting those tiny sums from online bank accounts,
...it adds up to tens of thousands of Yen per day.
I put together a program that deposits those sums into my dummy account.
That is where I got the money.
The public has no idea that they have fractional sums of money in their bank accounts.
And bank management is all left to A.I.'s now.
In spite of the fact that refugees are taxed if they work on the mainland,
they will never be allowed to become naturalized citizens.
For the citizens' part, they don't even recognize the massive exploitation inherent in the system.
They absorb only the information that appeals to them, that is easy to accept.
Theirs is a phony society. I want to open their eyes to that fact.
How much money do you have in that account now?
Roughly 10 billion, 760 million.
This will be the war chest for our revolution.
Holy crap...
Who the hell are you?
I'm just a simple terrorist.
Although I suppose I'm a little high on heroism at the moment.
I want you to stay here.
Have the boat ready to set sail at a moment's notice.
I'm counting on you.
This is the expansion sector we heard about, huh?
More of you people? What do you have going on today?
I assume that you two have authorization to be down here?
You're in charge here?
Hey, did you just say "More of you people?" What did you mean by that?!
Two of our company's Arm Suits came through here a while ago.
And before that, a shady-looking Russian cyborg...
...went down that way carrying two huge suitcases.
Think that's them?
Maybe!
But what's the JGSDA doing here?!
Why are you here by yourself?
Jabrov and Kagazaki are both under Public Security surveillance.
That is why I came alone.
Let's hurry up and get this deal over with.
As you wish.
The deposit record for the account you designated is stored in here.
Verify it.
I'll go on ahead! The rest of you, follow when you can!
We have a deal. Neither one of us can verify the goods.
Throw down your weapons and come out!
You are under arrest on suspicion of violating the Arms Control Act...
...and illegal trafficking in nuclear materials!
C'mon, show yourself...
Huh?
Uh-oh!
Saito! Something fishy's going on here!
I'll handle things here! You go nab Koil!
Got it!
Crap!
I'm heading out! Make sure you squash that bug!
Hold it right there, Kuze!
Put the cases down on the ground!
Why didn't you shoot right away? Because you know what is in the cases?
I don't give a damn about those. What I'm after is your head!
I don't think you'll be able to do that.
Grab the cases and get back to the ship.
- But... - Go!
You think you can take me, you bastard?!
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...