"This program is brought to you by EMI Music Japan. food provisions and cat food." "all set!" "Ocean Park Beach." "This is Ocean Park Beach." "No!" "Morning without Light - image" "I'm sorry." "I thought you were about to kill yourself." "Here it is!" "This is it." "Thank you." "Thank goodness." "Your eyes?" "I was born blind." "I had cybernetic eye surgery two mouths ago." "Can I touch you?" "Sure." "I still don't quite understand what it means to see. ...and got lost." "I know I can't actually touch it." "You smell nice." "Like sunshine." "my shopping!" "Iris?" "age and gender are all unknown." "she stopped producing new works." "I'm sure her devotees feel the loss." "But why is the Denriken on this case?" "It's a request from a wealthy stockholder." "But I've been dodging his requests diplomatically." "Does he want to be her patron?" "That depends on his situation." "My delay tactics have upset him." "What about this last minute reception function Souta was sent to today?" "I can make arrangements." "A little to the right." "too far." "Ouch." "I guess we don't have to worry about that." "she met a blind person who recently got eye implants. she finds it easier to walk with her eyes closed." "I wonder what it feels like." "You can't simulate that experience." "Eh?" "The difference between the blind and the sighted lies within the biology itself." "What do you mean?" "profound blindness the cerebral cortex is allocated during development to various other sensory organs." "smell and touch become sharper than normals." "the problem would have stopped right there. remains the final greatest hurdle." "What was that?" "I can understand your shareholder's attraction to her. and unknown sense of touch. and seeing and hearing with my senses of touch and taste." "That's the world Iris weaves." "A number of eccentrics have hired divers privately to investigate her." "At that depth?" "nothing." "Lets take on the case of Iris." "Morning!" "morning!" "Morning!" "Minamo." "Morning!" "What is everyone doing?" "An old classmate who left school before you came here is coming back." "I did mentioned about her lately." "Did you?" "Look ahead." "[Welcome back!" "Eimi]" "It's funny." "It's not like we're meeting her for the first time." "What if she says I'm fatter than she expected?" "Are you worried about that?" "Who is this Eimi?" "Good morning!" "Good morning!" "take your seats." "I shall take your ow call." "Let's go home." "I wonder why Eimi didn't show up." "I can't even connect with her." "That girl's always offline." "We hardly had any chance to talk to her while she was away." "Maybe she's so happy to be able to see that she is busy going places?" "may be." "I guess she'll be seeing everything for the first time." "I think eyes are a bit more complicated than that. blind people had to go through a lot to get surgical treatment to gain their eyesight." "Isn't it a lot simpler with cybernetic implants?" "Yes." "He's still diving." "He has yet to make any progress." "I see." "although just for a few times." "I do want results." "But do keep a close eye on him." "I do want results." "But do keep a close eye on him." "Sorry." "Actually I've been lingering at this spot." "I'm sure that was it." "Eimi!" "I thought you might be here." "I met you before." "I'm Minamo Aoi." "Artificial Island Junior High School." "Seat Number Extra-1." "So you're my classmate." "I joined your class while you were away." "I just found that out today." "I see." "Everyone wants to see you." "I'm scared." "It feels like I've come to a different world." "Only the sky and the sea remain the same as I imagined them to be." "I am glad that the color blue turns out to be the same as I thought it was." "But everything else is so complicated that I don't understand." "This is not what I want." "I never thought I was special." "I sort of get what you're saying." "People tell me that it must be inconvenient or they feel bad for me because I don't have a cyberbrain." "But I don't feel that way at all." "I thought I was normal." "I feel like a space alien." "Is this how you feel?" "Or am I wrong?" "I picked this up here a long time ago." "It seems to be just a piece of glass polished by the sea waves for a long time." "But it is a bit like..." "Like what?" "It became the mirror to all kinds of things." "it lost something." "What did it lose?" "Something..." "I can't put in words." "please take a break." "Just a bit longer." "I might have found Iris' consciousness." "It's very unstable though." "I sense that it is risky to contact her." "see you later." "I'll go to school from tomorrow." "Don't force yourself." "My grandma told me." "Don't force it if you don't feel like it." "Thanks." "Goodbye then." "See you around." "It's not in anywhere." "Eimi?" "Eimi!" "Mr. Haru!" "Dr. Kushima?" "I took up the case to search for the Metal artist." "she went brain-down right in front of me." "We checked the list of the latest cases." "And it led us to here." "Then Eimi is that person?" "The Kanji of the name Eimi means the one who casts light in the sea." "can you save Eimi?" "Dr. Kushima?" "There is hope as she was treated promptly." "but we shall do our best." "I shall now attempt to dive into her cyberbrain and salvage her concsiousness." "It will depend critically on her will power." "It was her father who implanted her with the latest artificial visual prosthesis into her sockets. yet he still wished to give his own daughter the light." "Those who lost sight are unable to adapt to the visual function gained after puberty. and loose their self-identity in the process. man made claims that he has created a world without disabilities." "many people with disabilities considered this as their individuality." "They even established their own cultures and their own worlds." "And at times they cultivated people of miraculous greatness. culture and individuality and to eliminate them from the face of Earth." "Eimi said she lost something." "can you hear me?" "Come back." "Let's find what you lost." "I'll help." "Eimi." "Minamo?" "Minamo." "Eimi!" "the Metal artist no longer exists." "That's what I put in the report." "I see." "It is the truth." "There is nothing we can do." "she might have been able to perceive even the Earth Order." "She could have been a valuable asset." "Did you realize?" "She was unconsciously using it as the source for her creativity." "She alters shapes and forms following her own sensibilities like a living prism." "The very system was only maintained miraculously by her sense of balance." "But it was disrupted by her cybernetic eye surgery." "She was forced to go through artist pain." "Is she really going to be alright? Eimi chose the latter." "she firmly covers her eyes." "Will she really make it?" "It's because she is not sure whether she will find what she lost. she will probably live on accepting her reality." "Once again she will." "I have the feeling that she might not be able to do either." "There you are." "It's time for bed." "You're right." "Kushima is going to tell me off again." "Hello?" "Mr. Haru?" "Minamo?" "What happened?" "It's so late." "I just got a call from Eimi." "So she said she decided to leave the Island with her dad as he takes up a new post abroad." "She said she wants to see that light once more." "I'm sorry to call you the last minute." "I want to see that light once more." "I am not sure whether "see" is the right word." "I might be the only one to experience this sensation. deep inside everything I sensed." "This really is for the best." "I'm sure." "I'm sure she will find it again. everyone." "playing the role of Minamo Aoi." "Finally I am here to experience the world of Metal network for the first time. came from this beautiful sea around Saipan." "I am experiencing this amazing sensation as if I am embraced by the gentleness of nature." "I think I understand a little bit more about how Mr. Haru feels when he dives into the Metal." "see you next week." "Real Drive!" "This program was brought to you by EMI Music Japan." "Real Drive" " The Office of Cyberdiving Investigation" "Cut across by invisible lines" "The world map has become a patchwork of colors" "As the nation borders are scarred by wounds of history" "I search for the medicine to cure the world" "A voice from the distance past" "Has delivered us the silent message" "Ah I shall continue to walk this planet" "Till I leave behind no footsteps" "In becoming the wind" "Till I leave behind no footsteps" "In becoming the wind" "In becoming the wind Shining upon the impregnable fortress" "Is the seductive light that stops my track" "My initial speed is dragged down by compromises" "And things are not progressing as planned" "That damned head wind" "Is blowing cowardice into my head" "The one who can truly cut through this without faltering" "Is the streamline warrior" "He gets up and takes the world" "He grinds his teeth and searches for the future" "He paints our times in blossoming colors" "He banishes slobber into darkness" "Sunrise shall carry away our bitterness" "I want to see it with you on the neverland hill" "Lets chase after tomorrow facing ahead"