"What do you want?" "I need to talk to that Wakabayashi guy." "Bring him here." "You said you'd try your best not to shoot." "I did... try my best." "Point man, go." "New ones are coming." "Oraa!" "An image?" "He hacked our eyes?" "Blame your second grade brains." "What's up?" "Narrow and dark stairs." "How should we do this?" "Wait for my signal." "I'll go first." "I'll go." "You're too big to back up quickly." "Un...n?" "Your little gift exploded right above my head." "Even if they had exploded with the maximum effect, there's no way you can kill an armoured cyborg with only 2 grenades." "Are you mocking me?" "Tell me." "Not just about the murder of the head shipment inspector, but also the connection with Locus Solus." "I was hoping for a good fight." "Come on, crab shit." "You don't look that tasty, but I'll give you a shot." "There's no way you could have hit me with a power move like that, idiot." "They said they would tell where the head of the shipping inspector was so we made a deal." "I just came out of prison after 3 years!" "I have no idea what my predecessor was doing with that company." "Still alive, partner?" "I had a vision of my wife and daughter's face filling my mind..." "That's not your wife or daughter." "That's "Death"." "I said you two have full jurisdiction, not that you could enforce the law without following proper procedure, let alone raid the Yakuza's den." "This is not a jungle." "And you guys are not Special Force hit men either." "Are you still angry?" "I'm not angry." "It's just..." "I hesitated to say this after you saved my life  but when I team up with you  no matter how many lives I have, it won't be enough, I'm sure." "The full responsibility of the investigation lies on just the two of us." "We'll get nowhere unless we take the initiative." "If there's any evidence against Locus Solus, it's up to us to find it." "But did you have to do it guns blazing?" "If the old man were really angry, we would have been fired by now." "Stop here." "See ya." "[Trans." "Note:" "The Kanji on the door is "Happy" written upside down." "It's traditional for Chinese stores to have their Kanjis written upside down on the entrances.]" "You stepped into a kill zone." "That right arm, don't perform any modifications to it by yourself or anything." "There have been reports of newer versions of the control software conflicting with your copy of the shooting operation software and causing it malfunction." "In that case, I'll reformat it." "Hey, where's the rest of my original?" "Don't do it." "The organic material of that arm is matched with your DNA." "If I use it in, it'll be just like my original huh?" "Ouch!" "Hold on, damnit!" "Since you brought my dog, that means..." "We broke into your love nest." "When I imagine it crying, or hungry, covered with shit, waiting for the master who doesn't come back," "I feel bad for the little fella." "I might not look it, but I like dogs." "I'm the one who kept it in my home for one night, though." "My daughter was so happy and my wife was pissed 'cause the carpet got dirty." "How long were you watching me?" "That doesn't really matter." "It does matter!" "You freaking used me as a screen!" "You're the sucker who didn't realize it." "If you blame it on someone, blame it on the old man." "Is it a clone?" "Buying an original is expensive, right?" "This clone comes from the first dog to be hybridized by artificial insemination." "It's not like you to be ghosthacked so easily." "You let your guard down because your life became routine." "That's why I told you to dry it." "That's her favourite." "In this neighbourhood, I can get it only in that store." "You were like a puppet, completely under control." "After shooting yourself in the arm five times," "You were about to kill the old man in the store." "Even with your guard down," "There aren't many guys out there who can hack a brain like yours." "Other than the Major, that is..." "Why didn't he just blow my head off right away?" "Because his purpose is not to eliminate you, but to cause a scandal." "You made a raid upon the Bouryokudan's den and you ended up sending about 10 people to either heaven or to the hospital." "In the same day you started shooting up a grocery store." "People can't help but think that you went nuts or your AI went mad." "Hey, hold on!" "You mean this attack was not just an accident?" "If we get out of this now-- The meaning of 9th section existence will be in question." "If she was here, she would have said that." "A message from the old man: "Keep investigating."" ""However, from now on, unless we find concrete evidence,"" ""there's not gonna be any official support from the team."" "We have no choice but to hit Locus Solus." ""There's no better way to keep the plan top secret than to act swiftly."" ""Fly to the far north immediately," he says." "Just the two of us?" "You two are not enough?" "No, but..." "What about the dog?" "Precisely!" "It's out of the question to have a dog with this profession." "Even worst, you are single." "Who's gonna take care of the her if you die?" "You guys take care of that damn mutt." "This used to be the biggest information integrating city in the east." "It was in full flourish." "That's Etorofu Economic Special Division." "This huge group of towers is all that remains of the ruins." "They took advantage of weak national supremacy and now it's a nest of multinational corporations and the criminal organizations they employ." "It has become lawless zone, outside of UN netpolice and ASEAN telecom jurisdiction." ""What the individual creates is an expression of the individual, just as the individual is an expression of its genes." I remember those words." "[Trans." "Note:" "Paraphrasing Richard Dawkins.]" "You mean like a beaver's dam or spider's nest?" "More like a coral reef that zoanthariae creates." "Well, it's not that beautiful, I guess." "If the essence of life is the information that spreads through genes, society and culture are also nothing but huge memory systems." "The city is a huge external memory device after all." ""How great is the sum of them!"" ""If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand."" "Old Testament, "Psalms", Chapter 139, huh?" "If you can recall words like that in an instant," "The expression form of your memory device is probably a bit biased." "You're one to talk." "Sorry for interrupting, but Locus Solus headquarter building is coming up shortly." "We are detouring just for you guys, so take a good look at it." "The sight-seeing tour is over." "Now preparing to land." ""Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks"" ""In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High over-arch'd imbower."" "Now it's Milton, huh?" "But we are not Satan." "Ba..." "Batou!" "You talk big now, huh?" "Where did you learn to talk big enough to address me without any -san or -sama?" "I haven't forgotten the favour you did for me!" ""I don't have to remember because I never forget," huh?" "[Trans." "Note:" "He's quoting Takao Dayuu.]" "Forgive me, Batou...-san!" "I'm too good to be addressed with just "-san" from you." "Please forgive me!" "I promise I'll remember this favour forever!" "You know this Kim guy, right?" "I don't know anyone like that." "No, that name is everywhere in this city." "There's only one Kim I'm looking for." "We need trust in this line of business." ""There's two kinds of trust:" "Keeping secrets, and keeping promises."" "You can't do both." "Which kind is your trust?" "They also say "without secrets, there is no promise"!" "I'll ask it again." "You know the Kim guy, right?" "No, I don't know anyone with such a name..." ""Life and death come and goes, (Like that of) A puppet in front of a stage, When the string breaks, (The puppet) falls apart." [Trans." "Note:" "He's quoting Zeami.]" "And?" "He used to be a long distance scout for the Army." ""If you can't go on top of people, or go below people, you deserve to fall on the roadside." That's him in a nutshell." "He drifted from special forces to electronic forces and so on." "Smuggled weapons and contraband, so he ended up with a bad reputation." "In the end, he settled down as hacker, as is often the case with these types." ""Amazing background", isn't it?" ""If an ass goes a-traveling, he'll not come back a horse."" "He ruined himself, as I expected from his personality." "He's just an idiot." "Let's go." "[Trans." "Note: "Aemaeth" means "Truth" in Hebrew.]" "Batou, he's in the study on the top floor." "We're too late." "He probably tried to hide underground somewhere." "He got his brain burnt out by an offensive firewall." "In any case, he wouldn't have been much help like this." ""As a testament, I rigidly ask you all not to donate any live flowers, artificial flowers, or 'White Dove Releases'," it says." "Hey!" ""When you sleep alone, you never look miserable like dead body." [Trans." "Note:" "Quoting Confucius.]" "Confucius-sama says you should not sleep like a corpse." "[Trans." "Note:" "The "-sama" is supposed to be sarcastic.]" "I don't have time to deal with your trashy joke." "Long time no see." "Last time we met was the landing operation in Nemuro." "I'm here on business." "Locus Solus huh?" "They entered the market late as a robot manufacturer, but they expanded the business rapidly after they concentrated on developing and producing high-class gynoids." "Rumour is, they have close ties with politicians, high level government official, and even criminal organizations." "They placed their production line on their multinational-registered plant ship, anchored off shore, as they were fearful of the involvement of the authorities," "Their dolls are supposed to be pretty good." "[Trans." "Note:" "He's supposed to sound sarcastic.]" "Good enough to murder and commit suicide in the end, huh?" "If that's true, it's a tactless story." "I can't understand people trying to put a soul into a doll and imitate a human." "If there were such a thing as a truly beautiful doll, it would be flesh and blood without a soul." "A corpse at the edges of collapsing, yet standing precariously at its precipice." "Is that the reason to you transformed yourself into a pure AI?" "Humans are inferior to dolls in the beauty of their appearance and movement." "No, even in their existence." "The inomniscient nature of Human's perception, causes the incompletion of reality..." "How complete this species is." "Either they don't have consciousness, or they acquire the infinite consciousness." "In other words, it can be realized only in dolls and Gods." "Why don't we talk business now?" "No..." "There's one other existence that can compare to dolls and Gods." "Animals?" "Shelley's lark is... full of deep unconscious joy." "Joy that creatures with strong self-consciousness like us can never feel." "For the offsprings of those who devour the fruit of perception," "It's more difficult than becoming God." "They have no choice but to pretend to be dead by becoming dolls." "Is that why?" ""While you do not know life, how can you know about death?" So says Confucius." "Humans that understand death are rare." ""We usually do not suffer death by choice, but rather by stupidity and custom." [Trans." "Note:" "Quoting La Rochefoucauld.]" "In other words humans die because they can't help dying,  but dolls in flesh and blood live knowing death is a given." "That's the reason Kim chose to turn himself into a robot completely." "And?" "After that, he drifted from special forces to electronic forces and so on." "Smuggled weapons and contraband, so he ended up with a bad reputation." "In the end, he settled down as hacker, as is often the case with these types." ""Amazing background", it is." "!" "This is not an error." "The first time, he asks a questions, the second time, he makes a statement." ""If an ass goes a-traveling, he'll not come back a..."" "What's wrong?" "Let's go."