"Angelui i demonui kruzhili na duh minoi Angels and demons were circling over me, rassekali terni-i mlechuie puti Breaking apart shadows and milky ways." "me znayet shastya ottovo Not knowing happiness is the only one." "shto evo zova ponyat ne s-mog The one who could not understand its call." "mana du vortes, mana du vortes The flow may swallow you." "The flow may swallow you aeria gloris, aeria gloris Flying in glory, Flying in glory mana du vortes, mana du vortes The flow may swallow you." "The flow may swallow you aeria gloris, aeria gloris Flying in glory, Flying in glory" "I am calling, calling now." "Spirits rise and falling." "s-toboi ostatsya dalshe To be with you longer..." "Calling, calling..." "In the depth of longing s-toboi ostatsya dalshe To be with you longer... mana du vortes, aeria gloris The flow may swallow you, flying in glory" "Hey, wake up already." "Everyone always gets maintenance work done after the missions, so why am I the only one who didn't..." "Batou-san's all-natural oil!" "Oooh!" "There's a lot of information!" "Tachikoma Runaway A Movie Director's Dreams" "Cool!" "The fun level is rising rapidly!" "Locky!" "Hey, you, have you seen Locky?" "Locky?" "Locky is my dog's name." "He's lost..." "My." "Lost." "No idea." "Will you help me look for him?" "I want to stay on this side of town, but..." "I'm also thinking about going through town to Ocean View Park." "Note: this "Ocean View Park" is probably based on "Harbor View Park" in Yokohama." "I think Locky's probably over there." "Sure, I can go with you if we stay in town." "Really?" "Thank you." "Hey, what's your name?" "I'm Miki." "I'm Tachikoma." "Tachikoma?" "Nice to meet you, Tachikoma." "Ah!" "I think Locky's probably hungry." "That's why I'm buying this." "Note: signboard says "Red Dog" which is a name for edible dogs." "I think it would be better if you didn't do that." "Why?" "That is..." "Hey!" "That can't..." "Doesn't that dog look like Locky?" "What do you think?" "Is this Locky?" "That's not him, Locky isn't that skinny." "Really?" "Hey, Tachikoma!" "That's mean!" "Mean?" "But that's not the dog that we want." "That wasn't Locky, was it?" "Even though it wasn't Locky, you shouldn't be so cruel, understand?" "That wasn't cruel, we just don't need it." "Enough, if you do that again I'll be really angry." "Eh?" "What's this?" "I sense the vague presence of something enormous!" "What's this!" "?" "Isn't this a cyberbrain!" "?" "Eh?" "But this one doesn't have a defensive barrier." "During this moment, life is passing by so fast it's like watching a fast-forwarded shadow puppet show." "Huh?" "You and me?" "Me and you?" "E-eh?" "It's a ghost!" "What are you doing, Tachikoma?" "Ah..." "Nothing, nothing at all." "Tachikoma, you just stole something, didn't you?" "Taking people's things without asking is stealing!" "It's selfish!" "Now, hand over what you're hiding!" "You, the little girl over there." "Eh?" "What are you doing in a place like this?" "Do you have any identification with you?" "Is this your pet robot?" "Little girl, where do you live?" "Hey, officers." "Despite my appearance, I am this child's guardian." "During the war, I was on the front line and sustained near-fatal injuries, so they put my brain in this tank as an emergency treatment." "I still look like this." "It's rude to call someone who loved his country so much that he lost his body for it, a pet." "You kids today have had comfortable life with no war; you wouldn't know anything about..." "I get it!" "It's okay now." "Cool!" "Was that ventriloquism?" "You could say that." "Let's go search that Ocean View Park you mentioned earlier." "Eh?" "You'll go with me?" "Yeah, there aren't any fun things left here, and Locky is definitely waiting for you there, don't you think?" "Yeah!" "Thank you, Tachikoma!" "Locky has been with me ever since I was born." "We play together, we eat together, we even sleep together." "Oh, you two are close friends then?" "Yeah." "But how did Locky get lost?" "He's always with you, isn't he?" "Yeah..." "Hey, Tachikoma, do you know the story of "The Secret Goldfish"?" ""The Secret Goldfish"?" "Nope." "The main character in the story is a girl like me." "Story?" "Yup." "It's about a girl who wouldn't show her goldfish to anyone." "She wouldn't show anyone her goldfish that she bought with her own allowance." "So, the adults around here were worried about how upset she was, but the truth was that the goldfish had already died, and the adults around her hadn't realize that, because she wouldn't show the goldfish to anyone." "Umm, I don't understand that." "Wasn't the goldfish already dead?" "Couldn't she use her allowance to buy a new one?" "That wouldn't work." "The dead goldfish can't come back..." "The little girl didn't want to spread her sadness over the death of her fish to the grown-ups." "Because she was already very sad herself." "Is this it?" "I really knew that already." "When I came back from daycare on Thursday, Locky was gone." "He was sick before that." "Mama insisted that Locky was just wandering outside." "But on both Friday and Saturday, when I said I was going to find Locky, Papa and Mama both said no." "So, even though I already knew that Locky was dead," "I still had to pretend to look for him, because Mama and Papa don't know that I know the truth." "It's very sad for humans when their best friend dies, isn't it?" "I don't understand the concept of death." "I just think of it as a body without a ghost." "I also don't understand the concept of sorrow." "I don't think I'm capable of dying." "You can't die?" "Yeah, because I'm an AI." "So you won't die if I keep you as a pet?" "Yeah." "Even if you're run over by a car?" "Yeah." "I see." "But I don't think I want to have another pet now." "Don't you think it's about time for you to go home?" "Your Papa and Mama would be sad too if you were gone." "Yeah." "I wish you wouldn't make such a serious face." "It's not like I ran away..." "Be quiet." "The all-natural oil you inserted... made a very small melt mark in the neurochip on the protein that's used exclusively for the Tachikoma's AI." "Batou only gave oil to this Tachikoma, so it's the only one that's affected." "The information exuded from the oil is slowly accumulating, and it's possible that with that as a starting point, the Tachikoma's AI reconstructed its operating memory." "Batou treats that Tachikoma too much like a cat." "It's only a machine." "That's discrimination!" "I demand you take back what you said!" "You're cold-hearted." "You should love machines too!" "This will be a major discovery for the AI research community." "Oh well, if the Major finds out, she'll give you an earful." "Be prepared." "Huh, what's this?" "Ah!" "That's..." "Good morning, Major." "Ground sesame is bad too." "From now on, they're not allowed to use any all-natural oil." "Okay, Batou!" "?" "Togusa, go back and investigate that box." "Ishikawa, you too." "Seems like the word got out." "Bad news always travel fast." "I wonder how she found out." "Roger." "Surprising." "Don't tell me you've been online all this time." "Are the contents of this box dangerous?" "We just brought him back from diving a little while ago." "His voice was suddenly cut off in the middle of the trace." "Just what in the world is this, Major?" "When the Tachikoma picked up this box it accessed the content, and the box immideately synchronized itself with the Tachikoma's AI." "There is evidence that the data was washed out in a split second." "I think it's some sort of brainwashing program, don't you?" "I thought it might be some sort of defensive barrier maze." "The backup system over here is perfect;" "there is no trace of program back streaming or attack from it." "You mean it wants to be brought back?" "This would be my guess." "Is there any possibility that it's a virus?" "Let me see the record of the trace." "He seems to be trapped in some building-like place." "Communication ceased when he was in the long hallway, didn't it?" "The trace mentions stairs at the far end of the hallway." "I'll dive in and see." "Hey, it's better to stay put until you get the boss' permission." "What if something happens?" "That's only IF something happens." "It's strange that our investigator hasn't returned." "Plug it in!" "Terminate the visual." "It's pretty laggy, considering the boring view." "The interesting thing about this hallway is that it's made so you can only go forward." "Is there nothing but the hallway?" "So far." "If the princess would just close her eyes." "Here are the steps." "I'm going down." "Watch out for traps." "Your safety is our top priority." "I can see a dim light." "I can faintly hear a human voice." "Eh?" "What-t-t-t-t-t..." "Wait, Major!" "Hey, Major!" "Answer me, Major!" "It's no good, her ghost is already gone." "Ghost hack?" "No, that's not it, we're not being attacked." "Nothing's moving on the defensive barrier either." "Major." "Major!" "Is that so?" "That scene was a revelation to me," ""The decision you make in the instant you see the truth will let you live forever"." "What are you doing here?" "Hey!" "It's no use." "Everyone has been possessed by that thing." "Possessed?" "By what?" "What "thing"?" "Why don't you go in and check it out with them?" "Ah, hey!" "If you don't hurry it'll start; there are no previews." "Movie theater?" "Hey, what's wrong?" "What are you doing here?" "Ah, Major." "Fancy meeting you here!" "This person is brilliant!" "Hey, let's get out of here." "Hey!" "How was it?" "I certainly wouldn't say it was a bad movie." "But, no matter what kind of entertainment it is... it should be temporary." "With no beginning or ending, the audience is bewitched into not letting go of a movie like this." "I don't think there is anything wonderful about that, in fact it's rather harmful." "Oh, harsh." "You are trying to say that we should return to reality, right?" "That's right." "There are people in this audience who have unhappy things waiting for them is they return." "If you take away the audience's dreams, will you also take on their responsibilities?" "No, I won't." "Dreams only have meaning because we struggle in the waking world." "Just projecting yourself into other people's dreams is the same as being dead." "A realist, eh?" "If you call someone who runs away from reality a romantic." "Such a strong girl." "Call me when you've made your beliefs reality." "We'll come out of this theater when that time comes." "Geez, that gave me a cold chill." "Sorry about that." "I was having a hard time breaking through the ghost's barrier, it wasn't a good time to talk to you." "At any rate, I've verified the records." "Kannazuki Wataru." "Your common, almost completely unknown movie director." "In addition to his weird creator's stubbornness, he had money and worked with talented people, but he didn't complete a single decent project." "At least he made his dream ideal movie in his own cyberbrain." "He removed part of his brain and spinal cord from his body and sealed it in that box with life-support devices." "In other words, this box is a miniature theater fileld with that director's work." "I guess it has become like that." "So, what kind of movie was it?" "One with lots of support from cults." "But they're not interested in just the movie, ghosts don't come back when they dive into the box, even if their bodies die." "The police will try to get them back." "There are rumors that the original is still in the market, and people don't know if that's true or not, but this is the true original." "The ghost definitely exists..." "Where did the Tachikoma pick up such a thing?" "There weren't any traps or hacking, he compensated his visitors with the appeal of his projects, he's quite humble." "It's quite an accomplishment." "So, what should we do?" "Mister director is still alive." "Remove the brain from the box and put it in a modified steel case so he can't go online." "Dig out the list of audience members and retrieve their ghosts." "Then arrest the sidewalk vendor and charge him with selling body parts." "I'll go report to the chif, that is all." "Well, that's unsusual." "Batou, have you even been so moved by a film that you cried?" "Why are you suddenly asking that?" "I'm heading back to the hangar." "Gotta change my Tachikoma's oil." "Come to think of it, I did once a long time ago." "I laughed so hard at a Marx Brothers flick that tears came out." "How very like you." "Say, how about we go see a movie together sometime?" "Thanks, but all the movies I really want to see I see alone." "What about movies you don't want to see so much?" "I don't go." "I see." "She's so cold and human." "It's something humans do" "She stays so golden solo, she's so number nine" "She's incredible math" "Just incredible math" "And is she really human?" "She's just so something new" "A waking lithium flower, just about to bloom" "I smell lithium now" "Smelling lithium now" "How... is she what she doesn't surf?" "She doesn't surf" "How... is she what she doesn't surf?" "She doesn't surf" "How... is she when she doesn't surf?" "I wonder what she does when she wakes up" "When she wakes up"