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Angely i demony kruzhili nado mnoj,
Angels and demons circle above me,
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rassykhali ternii i vechnye puti.
through the thorns to the stars.
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Ne znaet shast'je tol'ko tot,
Only those unable to perceive its call...
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kto jevo zova ponjat' ne smog.
...do not know happiness.
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Naljubuites', naljubuites'.
Watch in awe, watch in awe.
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Aeria gloris, aeria gloris.
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Naljubuites', naljubuites'.
Watch in awe, watch in awe.
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Aeria gloris, aeria gloris.
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I am calling, calling now,
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spirits rise and falling.
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Soboj ostat'sja dol'she.
To remain myself longer.
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Calling, calling, in the depths of longing.
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Soboj ostat'sja dol'she.
To remain myself longer.
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Naljubuites',
Watch in awe,
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aeria gloris.
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They beefed up
the patrols, huh?
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Ishikawa, any luck getting new testimony
out of the remaining narc squad members?
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We weren't able to get much
useful intel out of them.
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Their boss was Director Niimi, who
tried to commit cyberbrain suicide,
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so that lead
is a dead end now.
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And we can't find the
Laughing Man himself, either.
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That's true.
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Following the Chief's instructions,
we're now going after this man.
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That's...
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Right.
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Assemblyman Kaoru Yakushima, standing
Secretary General of the ruling coalition.
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Yakushima, huh? He's the most
powerful man in his party right now,
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and he was Minister of Health at the
time of the Laughing Man incident.
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He's a diehard MHLW man
who built his current position...
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...by switching jurisdiction of cyberbrain tech
from METI to the Ministry of Health.
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And although it's
not widely known,
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there's a secret connection
between him and the JMSDA.
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So you're saying that's where
that Armed Suit came from?
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That's what the Chief
seems to suspect.
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The fat pipeline between the political world
and the JMSDA was laid by Yakushima,
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who was Chief of Staff
for the JMSDA,
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when he set up shop as a politician
with a huge sum of stake money.
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But where he got that money
raised questions,
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and the JMSDA's chief accountant accused
Yakushima of misappropriating secret funds.
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However, the lead prosecutor on the case
was found run over next to a railroad track,
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and the investigation
came to a stop.
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In the end, Yakushima was never charged, and
the suspicions about him remain unresolved.
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There's more.
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Superintendent General Daido,
who recently retired,
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was Yakushima's junior at the
National Defense Academy,
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and word has it that the late Imakurusu
had been a close golf buddy of Yakushima's...
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...since his days
as an army medic.
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Should you be
up and around?
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I can't be the only one
around here lying in bed.
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Which would mean that as far as
this string of incidents is concerned,
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he has more than enough clout to be
the one pulling the strings behind it all?
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Although we don't have
a shred of evidence at this point.
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So, how do you intend to go after
the serving Secretary General?
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We'll tug on the
last thread that links...
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...Chief Secretary Yakushima
and the Laughing Man incident.
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Serano Genomics.
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That's right.
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The suppression
of the Murai Vaccine,
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which we believe to be the origin
of the Laughing Man incident,
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and Serano's micromachine therapy,
which received approval at that same time.
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If we take into custody Mr. Ernest Serano,
who seems to be deeply involved in both,
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and question him immediately, the link
between the two will probably be made clear.
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In the six years since right after
the incident to this very day,
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Mr. Serano has been under house arrest
under the pretext of police protection.
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Do whatever it takes. Take him into
custody this time no matter what.
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The Laughing Man is probably
thinking the same thing.
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What do we do
if we run into him?
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Arrest him. In a sense,
he's the key witness to this case.
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Isn't it possible that Serano will be liquidated
once we go into action, just like before?
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It's possible, of course. That's why
I want you to do whatever it takes.
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Mr. Serano, you have a call
from the Holland branch.
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What would you
like me to do?
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Tell them that I'll call them back
when I get to the office.
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Understood.
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I feel terrible about having you
play secretary for me all the time.
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Even so, you're the most competent of all the
detectives that have been assigned to me.
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What do you say? How about
becoming my secretary for real?
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I'll make it worth
your while.
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Thank you,
but no.
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It looks like your car
has arrived.
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I see.
Thank you.
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I'll come up to escort you,
so please wait there a moment.
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All this heightened security
is making me a little nervous.
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It's nothing
to worry about.
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It's open.
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Ever since I saw the news about the
Sunflower Society and Imakurusu,
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I've been resigned to the fact that
you would probably come here next.
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I'm here to see to it that you make good
on the promise you made six years ago.
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Will you come
with me?
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Subject has left
his room.
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He's heading for
the entry hall.
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Good morning,
Mr. Serano.
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Good morning.
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Now opening
entry hall door.
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Be careful.
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Thanks.
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Subject is through
the entry hall.
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Roger that.
We have visual.
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It's just like last time,
isn't it?
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You're right.
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The only difference is that it was detectives
in the hall instead of your family.
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There wasn't a car
following us, either.
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So, what are you going
to do about them?
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Well, let's see...
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Driver, go left at the
next intersection.
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That's not like him...
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Don't let him
shake you.
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It'll take that unmarked police car about an hour
to reach Serano Genomics' head office now.
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Until then, I'd like you to tell me
why you haven't kept your word,
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and have kept silent
these past six years.
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I have to decide on
my next course of action.
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You're awfully
audacious.
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Hold it! Put both hands
on the hood of the car!
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Take it easy.
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We're Public Security Section 9.
We contacted you earlier.
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I was told that Mr. Serano
had already left. Is that true?
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His ride to the office left,
same as always. What about it?
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Look at your watch.
Is that the same time as always?
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Gee, that guy's a real
working man's CEO, ain't he?
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Every last one of you bozos
had your eyes hacked by him!
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Mr. Serano was alone
when I called his room, too.
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Looks like the surveillance
camera Al's been hacked...
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"Medusa"?
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Your ID.
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Huh?
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Hurry it up.
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Of all the stupid...
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You guys are such
easy marks.
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What's that?
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Interceptors. I can't believe you're
still being bugged with them.
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When Interceptors upload data, they use
the comm devices in the subject's cyberbrain.
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You probably noticed a load spike
every once in a while.
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What the hell?
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Your brains recorded Serano
walking past you by himself,
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but he's showing up just fine
on the Interceptors.
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This is what really happened
in the kidnapping six years ago.
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Major, dive into all IR-Systems inside a radius
of three kilometers from the Serano estate...
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... and look for Mr. Serano's
company car.
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The Laughing Man has kidnapped
Mr. Serano again.
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Find them, no matter
what it takes!
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Understood. But there's no guarantee
that the car will show up on the IR-System.
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Ishikawa!
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I was listening.
Beginning full-scale search.
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Bear in mind the possibility
of an A.I. overwrite.
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Roger that.
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Circle around the area
for half an hour or so.
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I have some personal
business to see to.
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Let's go.
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The view from here has changed
quite a bit, hasn't it?
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I see your hair has
gone white, Mr. Serano.
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It's been a rough
six years.
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The official story is that the police are there
to protect me against threats from you,
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but they're really there
to keep an eye on me...
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...to make sure I don't blab anything
about the truth behind the incident.
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For all intents and purposes,
I'm under house arrest.
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Compared to back then,
I see you've lost your naiveté.
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I suppose I've managed
to mature a little.
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I'll admit that
back then,
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I seriously wanted to give all the phonies
in the world a swift kick in the ass,
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Still, you were pretty wild
back then, yourself.
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For two whole days, you hung out
with a mere anonymous student...
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...who had hacked into you, in spite of the fact
that you were being brain dived.
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I had enough passion
left in me...
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...to make me want to debate a student
who spouted naive crap.
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I understand what
you're trying to say,
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but I'm a micromachine developer, not
a member of the Drug Evaluation Council.
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I don't have anything to do with
the rejection of the Murai Vaccine.
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I understand that.
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But the Drug Evaluation Council
is a bunch of crooks and phonies.
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I'll have to confront them someday, but first,
I want you to publicly disclose the data that...
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... shows that your company's micromachines
have practically no effect on cyberbrain sclerosis.
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I've told you again and again
that I can't do that!
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I'll admit that like you wrote in your
blackmail letter three years ago,
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micromachine therapy was nothing
more than a theory at that point.
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But that's how
patents work!
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There's no law against
being the first...
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...to register technology that's certain
to be practical one day!
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That's what goddamn
lawyers always say.
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For Christ's sake...
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I was well aware that our approval
request was premature.
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It was partially meant as
a bluff to our competitors.
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But I believe that the reason we got approval
from the Drug Evaluation Council...
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...after just three months,
faster than anyone expected,
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was because they realized that my company's
theories are the superior ones.
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You have no idea how much
damage would be caused...
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...by a loss of faith in the use
of medical micromachines now.
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You're trying to kill a technology
that holds more potential...
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What I'm trying to say is that this
is a matter of life or death...
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... for those people who are suffering
from cyberbrain sclerosis.
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At the very least, can't you concede
the effectiveness of the Murai Vaccine...
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... until micromachine therapy
shows clear results?
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I have nothing to say
in regards to Murai.
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Can you really
say that?
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If that sonuvabitch God gave you
cyberbrain sclerosis for kicks,
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would you choose micromachine therapy
without giving it a second thought?
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Of course. I have pride and faith
in my company's products.
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So, you'd even choose it if it was
your children who came down with CS?
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Yes. I suppose
I would.
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Look, let's drop this
hypothetical stuff.
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Pride and sentiment are two different
things, aren't they?
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That's no fair,
Mr. Serano.
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If you're really so proud
of micromachine therapy,
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you should make use of
your position to do what's right.
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The only thing Imakurusu
could think of...
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... was rejecting the vaccine that had
Dr. Murai's name on it.
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The goddamn Drug Evaluation Council,
whose only job was to rubber-stamp...
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... any new medicine that came
through the Ministry of Health,
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was chaired by Imakurusu,
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a man who had a stamp specially made
to reject the Murai Vaccine...
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... which read
"Approval Denied"!
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Your own micromachines
were used in that dirty deal!
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You can't be completely unaware
of those circumstances, Mr. Serano.
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It didn't really matter to them
if it was your micromachines.
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Any goddamn micromachine that was
up for approval back then...
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... would have worked
just as well!
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If you know how corrupt
the shitty medical industry is,
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can you honestly say that it's got
nothing to do with you?!
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All right.
Let's do this, then.
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For now, release me
and let me act on my own.
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Once I make preparations
after that,
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I'll call the press together and disclose
the current state of micromachine therapy.
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Are you being serious? There's no
advantage for you in that promise.
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I'm not such
a petty man.
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It may not be
as grand as yours,
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but I believe I have a sense of social
justice just like anyone else.
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I wonder.
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You have my word.
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At the time, I was exhausted
from your brain dive,
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and I fervently made that promise
in the hopes of escaping.
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I thought that if I could get you in front of
a TV camera, the eyes of the viewing public,
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you wouldn't do
anything crazy.
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That's right...
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But unfortunately, I had
an S&W Chief in my pocket.
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Will you disengage
your brain dive?
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Even you have to know that
what you're doing is illegal.
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If you want to hide your face
and maintain your anonymity,
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it wouldn't be a good idea
for you to be shown on TV.
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I enjoyed our debates.
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But as a man who protects his enterprises,
I might not be able to keep my promise.
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Society isn't as cut and dried
as you think it is.
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I won't try to uncover
who you really are, either.
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For now, let's go our
separate ways here.
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That's no fair!
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Then look into that camera there
and tell the truth!
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Stop that.
You won't shoot me.
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Are you so sure?
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Afterwards, when I had been taken
into protective custody by the police,
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I learned from a company director
who came to visit me...
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...that the two days
I had spent with you...
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...had developed into a major kidnapping
incident that had shaken our whole society.
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I also learned that immediately after
I left home with you,
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a demand for a huge ransom
was delivered to the company.
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But I couldn't believe that it was you
who made that demand.
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The fact that you're an ingenious hacker
didn't change the fact that you were a criminal,
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but it seemed to me that you
were only using those abilities...
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...to fight the injustices of the world
out of the righteousness of youth.
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But the police determined that you had
kidnapped me for the ransom money,
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and they questioned me again and again,
asking if I knew anything that could help them.
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But the director and I decided to maintain
that we couldn't think of a single thing.
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We couldn't cause a situation
which would lead to suspicion...
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...that our company's micromachines
were defective.
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Just like you said, we were taught
that we had a guilty conscience.
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The secret of our micromachines
was being held hostage,
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and a ransom was
being demanded.
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And then the micromachine killer
virus incident happened.
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That's right.
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Even as I was angry at myself
for being overjoyed...
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...by our micromachine
therapy being approved,
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I was cursing you from the bottom
of my heart at the same time.
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I thought, "This is corporate
terrorism, plain and simple!"
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But that wasn't you,
was it?
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The evil that lurks in this world exists on a level
that's far higher than we imagine.
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I assume you know that we blackmailed
companies that were granted an influx of...
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...public funds because we were on the verge
of bankruptcy due to the killer virus infection.
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Let me tell you what
happened afterwards.
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At the same time our stock prices were gradually
beginning to climb after their collapse,
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we were visited by a man who
introduced himself as a member...
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...of the private support association
of a certain assemblyman.
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He said that he was acquainted with someone
who could put an end to the corporate blackmail,
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so he asked if we would be willing to make
a political donation to this assemblyman...
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...in the event that a declaration was
made that the blackmail would end,
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The amount he suggested was
equal to the public funds...
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...plus the demanded
blackmail money.
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This clearly meant that Serano Genomics
had been targeted for blackmail all along...
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...because we were the latecomer
among the manufacturers.
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To them, what I did must have seemed like a
performance that came at exactly the right time.
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I suppose it did,
at that.
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By continuing to imitate
the incident you triggered,
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they created a fabricated image
called the Laughing Man.
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They manipulated stock prices by invoking
the name of a criminal that didn't exist,
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stealing money from
companies besides us.
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That, in spite of the fact that
they had probably been...
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...making a tidy sum even before then
off of short-selling the stocks.
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Was this assemblyman
Secretary General Yakushima?
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You knew, did you?
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Basically, hackers have always existed
to peek at things that others have hidden.
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But the depth of the darkness in the hotbed of
corruption I had tried to confront defeated me,
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and all I could do was become a deaf-mute
and avert my eyes from it all.
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Just as you have done
these past six years.
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The Laughing Man... That was
a good name they came up with.
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And here I'd thought that if
I failed to persuade you,
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I'd simply follow Holden's quote
and disappear...
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They followed the Salinger angle...
Good grief.
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Say, Mr. Serano, if that's what they're doing,
I have to become the original Laughing Man...
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...and drag that phony Yakushima
into the light of day.
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When you showed yourself to me,
I made up my mind, too.
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There isn't much evidence
to accuse him with,
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but I'll become your copycat
and fight him, too.
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Don't die before you
take the witness stand.
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Sure.
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Squad 2, ready.
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Squad 3, ready.
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Squad 4, ready.
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All squads
are in position.
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Building's security system
now under our control.
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Batou.
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No change
in subjects.
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Storm the place!
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Everyone, freeze!
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Hold it right there!
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Subject B secured.
He's alone.
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No sign of subject A.
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Hold position there.
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That was one hell
of a performance.
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With chops like that, you could fool
anybody with no trouble at all.
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Gee, and I was never in
a single school play, either.
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I guess this clinches the connection
between Yakushima and Serano, huh?
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Right. And what the Laughing Man
told me was the truth, too.
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This should have lit a fire
under Mr. Serano, too.
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This might work.
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She's so cold and human
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It's something humans do
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She stays so golden solo
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She's so number nine
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She's incredible math
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Just incredible math
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And is she really human?
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She's just so something new
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A waking lithium flower
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Just about to bloom
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I smell lithium now
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Smelling lithium now
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How is she when she doesn't surf?
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How is she when she doesn't surf?
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How is she when she doesn't surf?
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I wonder what she does when she wakes up?
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When she wakes up?