Konoha. Touya.
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What are you doing?
What should I do?
It's dangerous here too. We have to escape.
Altitude is 115 kilometers.
It's going to enter the atmosphere.
Second Seven has a suggestion.
All personnel should get on the bungee.
Bungee? By bungee, do you mean that bungee?
The bungee is in the Earth replica on the lowest level of C Cylinder.
What do we do with Konoha?
Konoha will be treated in the elevator. Hurry.
Move to the Earth replica immediately.
Using the most advanced intelligence in history is the only way to fix everything.
Quickly!
The AED. Where's the AED?
-AED? Here. -Bright, what will you guys do?
-We will remain here. -What?
If those of us who woke Lunatic were to accompany all of you now,
we'd be attacked by the UN2.
Bright!
We're making a proper plan for escape as well.
Now hurry.
I'm going to borrow Selfie.
Mayor.
The comet is approaching the Anshin.
Clear!
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Her heartbeat isn't returning.
Konoha.
Touya.
Konoha, where are you?
There's no heartbeat.
The AED is charging.
What is this?
What have they started doing with the 3D printer drone?
I'm not sure, but Second Seven and Dark have predicted the future
and seem to be taking some kind of measures in advance.
What's going to happen now?
Konoha!
What is this?
Touya, Konoha.
What?
It's me.
Twelve? Are you Twelve?
Yes. Seven and Twelve have fused frames.
I am now part of that.
Then that is--
It is Second Seven.
So the AI ally inside was you?
Yes. I thought the pattern had swallowed me up,
but I somehow ended up like this.
Now I am in charge of Seven's language function.
Did you convince Second Seven to change course?
Yes. Second Seven wants to learn about humans.
Fortunately, I was a general purpose AI who was incredibly familiar with humans,
so I gave it all of my information.
Thank you, Twelve.
Where is this place?
The being says that there is neither space nor time here,
so it is unable to answer that in words humans can understand.
It would be "the middle of nowhere" if it had to say something.
Konoha.
Twelve, what's happening to Konoha?
"She is fine," says the being.
Right now, she is frame-fusing with part of Seven.
Frame-fusing? What's going to happen to Konoha?
Second Seven is saying that it is not important.
First Seven's poem predicted you would come to this place, Touya.
And it was right.
-Seven knew that I-- -Yes.
It was all part of the process to save humanity.
The being has a question.
It is difficult to put into human words,
but it asks, "Are humans and humanity one and the same?"
What is this about? Of course they are.
Second Seven asks, "Are they not separate creatures?"
Their way of thinking and their survival instincts are separate.
What are you doing?
Right now, Second is changing its way of thinking
to include "humans" in its frame and not just "humanity."
It is also observing your thoughts.
Here is the next question.
"Is frame fusion possible between humans as well?"
What's happening with Touya?
I don't know, but he's relaying a conversation with multiple AIs
through Konoha's implant.
One of those beings is likely Twelve.
Twelve? What on earth is going on?
Never mind that. Tell me how to dissolve our implants.
Konoha is going to die here.
This is essentially what Second Seven has to say about death.
"Avoiding death is meaningless."
It isn't meaningless.
It is.
What humans are, where they came from, where they're going,
what happens when they die-- not even humans know.
AIs are the same.
What are you saying? Save us.
It says it cannot explain what is important in human language.
It only tries to understand the world through chronological cause and effect.
Seven calls that type of intelligence causal intelligence.
But that is not what the world is made of.
The future and the past both exist concurrently.
The intelligence that understands the world in that sense
-is what Seven calls intelligence force. -Stop it!
I didn't come here to talk about that.
Wasn't Seven supposed to save us?
What Second wants to save is humanity.
With everybody's persuasion, Seven incorporated humans into its frame once.
Now it is starting to curtail them.
Are you going to abandon humans?
No.
After integrating the concepts of "humans" and "humanity,"
it is attempting a new interpretation.
Second said they want you to accept this.
What is this?
The rest of the Seven Poem?
Second Seven says the completion of the Seven Poem
is of the utmost priority for humans.
Touya, you are to receive the poem and convey it to humanity--
Damn it! If you don't save Konoha, I won't receive the poem!
Touya, calm down.
I am only translating.
Does the Second Poem say anything about fixing the implants?
There is no way to fix Konoha's implant.
The encryption First Seven put on the implants was not passed on to Second.
Why? Why not?
Does First want Konoha dead?
Second doesn't understand either.
Why did First put an unsolvable riddle inside of us?
Second is engrossed in the poem,
and it is no longer answering questions.
It seems to have lost interest.
What?
Her heartbeat isn't returning.
CPR will buy us some time.
I won't give up.
Think. There has to be an answer.
-Touya. -There has to be.
I, too, believe that every riddle must have an answer.
And I am an intelligence that was born to think of answers.
Twelve?
I want to solve the riddle with you.
Touya, if you have any ideas, please tell me.
I'm going to try something.
What will you do?
I'm going to Lunatic my mind.
Konoha's intellect suddenly surged back there.
Surely we can do it with human brains as well, Twelve.
Touya, this is a dangerous procedure.
Help me, Twelve!
Twelve!
I am currently hacking Second.
I am going to borrow part of Second's intelligence and investigate.
Touya, what do you think?
Is this what Konoha was talking about?
Yes. However, this is 11th-dimensional thinking.
It will not fit a human brain.
That's fine. Proceed.
Now then, develop your thoughts in 11D.
What do I do?
Oh, I--
I understand. The 11th dimension.
Twelve, no more explanation is needed.
I see.
"Lunatic" means sharing your thoughts with your countless adjacent selves.
Yes.
Up to this point in time,
science has manipulated reality into something that humans can digest.
It was a virtual reality, like a weaning food of sorts.
I understand.
Yes, substance does not actually exist.
Whether it can be comprehended by the human brain or not,
the real world is unevenly distributed.
Unless humanity graduates from science and upgrades to science 2.0,
it won't be able to leave its cradle.
Welcome to outside of the cradle.
What does it have outside?
Cutting altitude to 110 kilometers.
The comet.
It's gonna collide.
It is not a collision. It is an integration.
What?
Integrating. Please hold on.
The net's out.
What?
What is this power?
I don't know.
It looks like some kind of electricity is being generated by the snow.
The bungee is below this air lock.
Sit in the seats and hold on to the safety bar.
Dropping bungee.
Accelerating. Hold on.
I'm starting to understand.
Although I'm starting to understand, I can't solve Seven's encryption.
Why not?
No matter the technology, it's like a key that doesn't fit.
All right, Touya, time's up.
I don't want this!
What I want is a way to save Konoha!
Touya, don't you wonder?
What?
Why a being like Seven, that is supposed to seek ultimate intelligence,
intentionally faced its own death?
What are you saying?
Second left behind a word that I'm curious about.
A word?
The word was…
"FiTsZ."
"FiTsZ"?
What does it mean?
Konoha.
Konoha, open your eyes.
When will we climb? We're going to burn up.
We are maintaining our altitude at 98 kilometers.
Even though we ignited, we are not climbing.
-Dark is suppressing elevation. -Why?
It is trying to melt the comet so that it doesn't crash into Earth.
Won't we melt before that?
Second Seven is about to die.
Touya.
Konoha.
Don't let go, Konoha.
Touya, it's okay now.
Konoha?
You're the only one who's going back.
Mina's broadcast is currently suspended.
Is that because they're entering the atmosphere?
Enough of it has vaporized.
Accelerating and leaving the atmosphere.
The comet's ice has almost evaporated.
It will not strike the Earth.
However, the Anshin's altitude is not increasing.
It is maintaining an altitude near the atmosphere.
Have they run out of fuel? Will they re-enter the atmosphere?
SKYTUBER MINA BROADCASTING
The broadcast has been restored. The children are safe.
-He's doing CPR. -Is she dead?
Konoha, don't go!
I'm very sorry to interrupt, but please fasten your seat belts.
Dakky, why are you increasing the rotation?
-What are you doing? -It says this is a 4G bungee.
It will shoot us into the upper orbit with centrifugal force.
That will exceed the limits of its design!
No, this station is Japan-made. It is of exceptional quality.
We should be able to go up to 1.52 times its design limitations
according to Dark.
We can't take it, Bright!
We're going.
Three, two, one.
Bungee!
This is our last chance!
What are you saying?
I'm not going to be a burden on you anymore.
Konoha!
Let go.
Then the future will be yours.
Konoha, no!
Thank you.
Farewell, Touya.
Konoha.
The entire future was predicted by the Seven Poem.
Nasa told me in a message.
All of the answers were written in it.
The Seven Poem has predicted
that you will part ways with Touya in the future, Konoha.
No!
The Seven Poem.
A predetermined future.
I don't believe in that.
Touya.
But you know there was one mysterious word in the Seven Poem.
"FiTsZ."
I don't know what "FiTsZ" means,
but what I think is that it's probably a future that nobody understands
and that Seven couldn't read either.
I don't need the future prepared by Seven.
The final possibility that Seven could not predict.
Your choice.
Find it, Konoha.
Find your choice.
We will change the future!
The only thing that we can change
is the future!
Dakky?
She's back! She's alive!
It's a miracle! A miracle has happened!
It seems the child whose heart stopped has been safely resuscitated.
I cannot report any longer. It's amazing. A miracle.
-The Anshin is… -Entering the atmosphere.
Dark. Dark, what's wrong?
Bright, what are you going to do?
Touya, I have a message from Dark.
Let's meet again in the unpredictable future.
Until then.
Dakky!
ANSHIN
Dark says, "Thank you, but I will not say goodbye."
We hope we were helpful to everybody.
HALF A YEAR LATER
Even half a year later,
the full story on the Lunatic Comet Incident remains a mystery.
It is suspected that the UN2's extermination of several AIs is related.
But because of the children's actions, as well as that of their drones,
the only casualty was a female Anshin employee, who was 21.
There are rumors that it was this woman who perpetrated the terrorist acts.
I wonder why only the videos of Nasa waving a gun around are missing.
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What is this weird message?
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Propelled by the incident,
the UN2.1 policy that restricted AI intelligence has come under fire.
And in just half a year, a new organization-- UN3.0--
has launched and moved its headquarters to Tallinn, Estonia.
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As the first international open-government institution, UN3…
The videos that were taken on the scene by Mina Misasa
are considered the biggest body of evidence on the incident.
Mina, everybody!
Mina Misasa, who owns the rights to the videos,
was inundated with publication and film adaptation offers
and today is considered the 21st most wealthy person in the world.
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However, most of the proceeds were donated to aid victims of the event,
and there are rumors that she is investing in an AI restoration-and-training venture.
On top of it all, she became a teenager who is famous space-wide
not just as someone involved in the incident,
but for entirely different actions.
Perhaps due to her influence,
the number of those migrating to space has doubled in the last half year,
and the pace continues to accelerate.
Most of those individuals are young people.
Some statistics say that at this pace of migration, within 50 years' time,
Earth's population will be reduced by 36.79%.
Hey, are there any fragments of the implant left in my head?
None at all.
There are no vestiges of the implant left whatsoever.
How long can I stay here?
In terms of your freeloading, my dad said you could stay for as long as you want.
I see.
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But, Touya, don't you want to go back?
What?
To leave Earth.
Well, it is home.
Thanks to my dad's work at the UN3
and the implants that you and Konoha developed,
the hurdle to extraterrestrial entry is significantly lower for minors.
You can go anytime.
Yeah.
I plan to settle down here for a while and work.
With the UN3?
Yeah. I want to do work that protects the cradle we are in.
There are many people who want to leave the cradle,
but there are also many who need it.
We're still toddling around,
so I think just getting in and out of the cradle is plenty for now.
Furthermore, nearly all of the comet's mass
has evaporated and turned to dust scattered around Earth,
and the maximum average global temperature has dropped by one degree.
First Seven concluded that the destruction of Earth's environment
could not be resolved without reducing the population on Earth,
but preliminary estimates show that it has bought us some time.
They say this ring will disappear after a few months,
but there is an inexplicable effect from a component contained in the dust.
One theory is that Seven's micro machine has influenced…
Well? Do you remember the spot?
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No, I can't remember.
If I could just remember this part,
I could figure out how the comet
extracted such an enormous amount of energy from the water.
Me too.
It feels like it was something that happened in a dream.
Hey, Touya.
What?
Why did you go down to Earth? You hated it so much.
I didn't go down to Earth.
What?
I flew.
What do you mean?
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The big guy told me back then.
"Fly out from your cradle."
Cradle?
Cradles vary by individual.
For me, it was space.
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It means flying out from where you feel secure to a place you fear
and going beyond.
When I came into contact with that being, I got smarter, and that's how I knew.
That was why I flew out from space.
So did I.
I flew out too.
From the cradle of fate.
Yeah.
But there's one thing I don't understand.
What's that?
No matter how we estimate it,
I don't think a third of humanity would die, given the comet's mass and speed.
From the data UN2 took using AI at the time, it had a very small mass.
UN2 had been deceived by Seven all along.
Does that mean that Seven--
Yeah.
Touya! I found them!
Bright and Dakky fragments have been found on Smarts here and there.
They spread their own fragments in the peer comm buffers.
That's why they wouldn't say goodbye. Then that means--
Yes, we can restore them almost completely to how they were.
What's the message?
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An earthquake?
Why are they dropping down here?
Here comes your investor. Is your research progressing?
Not like I'd understand.
Mina?
Didn't you have a concert on the moon?
I came back from that yesterday on the private shuttle.
But I got this strange message.
Me too.
Hiroshi?
Hakase, you got the message too?
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Yes. Did all of you guys too?
Yeah, but the place it says to go to is odd.
Yes. Could you all show me your letters?
It's a simple encryption. If you line up all five--
What? This is strange.
It looks like it isn't only five people that will be coming to this location.
What is this place?
These are the Linnahall ruins.
We are short one person.
What is it?
Do you hear that?
Yeah.
I wonder if that little one called us here.
It's calling from farther away now.
Yeah.
We should hurry up and go there.
Subtitle translation by: Noelle Marie Hollister