"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" "Aramaki-san, my sincere apologies for making you came all the way here." "Now that Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs Kim has received an assassination threat, the situation just falls under our jurisdiction." "Moreover, you graciously provided us with critical information in an earlier matter." "The Undersecretary has arrived in Kagoshima on schedule." "We have waited for five long years." "Undersecretary Kim is the first high-profile government official to pay a visit to honor war casualties after permission was granted to do so." "Aramaki-san, I ask that you provide the best possible protection." "Understood." "Then I will leave it in your hands." "Batou, you have temporary command here." "What?" "!" "You have a personal errand at an important time like this?" "I'll be back by nightfall." "Saitou, Pazou and Bomer, stay with Batou." "We will maintain close contact with the Major as she tries to track down who made the threat." "So, where are you going?" "To pay my respects to a friend on the seventh anniversary of his funeral." "It is a Japanese custom to honor the dead on the first, third, fifth and seventh anniversaries of their deaths." "Assassination Duet" " Lost Heritage" "You're late." "Just before you arrived, many of Tsuji's acquaintances paid their respects." "Is that so?" "I'm sorry." "Effective treatment for cyberbrain scleroses did not exist back then. *(Tsukaji clan's grave)*" "Those who will be sorely missed tend to pass away earlier." "True." "Of the three of us, Tsujisaki was the only one who had Colonel Tonoda's confidence." "I know how you feel about the Colonel." "I only did as the Colonel ordered." "That's just like you." "Ah, yes." "Understood." "I'll return immediately." "I'm sorry, but I have to go." "That's fine." "Tsujisaki Clan" "If I remember correctly, you are Tsujisaki's..." "Yes, I'm Saori." "I am sure that my father is glad to have you here, Aramaki-san." "He said that you helped him in many ways during my mother's funeral rites." "You were still a student back then." "I believe you also had a younger brother in elementary school, didn't you?" "Yes." "Ummm..." "There's something I'd like to ask you about." "And that is?" "It's about my brother, Yuu." "He has suddenly begun acting like my father." "He was raised well." "He resembles Tsujisaki, when he was young." "No, that's not what I meant." "It's not just a physical resemblance." "Both his voice and manner of speech are now quite similar to our father's." "Does that pose some kind of problem?" "He recently began to access military news sites, though he has never shown any interest before now." "In addition, I sometimes wake up in the night because I hear a noise in the living room, and I find my brother sitting there reading my father's works very intently." "I don't even know when he sleeps, since this has been occuring nightly." "Now that you mention it, I could never tell when Tsujisaki slept, either." "Yes." "When I became worried and asked him what he was doing, all he did was to look at me and ask, "Saori, you're still awake?"" "That's not all." "It seems like he is contacting a lot lately." "However, he won't tell me who, no matter how many times I ask him." "Large packages from overseas keep arriving too..." "Do you think it's possible that he might be involved in something strange?" "Please, I want you to investigate why he changed so suddenly." "I'm very sorry, but I cannot use my professional authority for private matters like this." "You may confide in me, but I cannot help you based on what you have told me so far." "That's true, isn't it?" "I'm sorry." "I heard that you were a good friend of my father's, so I thought..." "Tsujisaki was not a friend, he was just a comrade-in-arms" "I know." "Yes, I'll do it." "I'll do it right, okay?" "I know..." "Chinese Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs, Kim, arrived today." "He plans to pay homage to Kagoshima's war casualties tomorrow" "Since many Chinese who were living in Okinawa at the time were interred in the memorial monolith alongside the Japanese, the Chinese government has expressed its desire to pay an official visit." "The Japanese government issued special permission for this particular visit;" "the culmination of this is Undersecretary Kim's visit to Japan." "In addition,the police appear to have hightened security... measures in place due to increased protests by the Japanese." "The man's purposefully letting himself be seen on TV." "How easygoing of him..." "And here we are laying low, toiling away in our pursuit of the suspect..." "Any clues as to the target's identity?" "Hmm, well..." "This just came in." "This is the assassin who is targeting Undersecretary Kim?" "After analyzing the Undersecretary's schedule, we reached the conclusion that the assassin would probably be a sniper." "Using that assumption to narrow our list of suspects, we found evidence that a sophisticated sniper rifle had been carefully disassembled and shipped in as separate parts via the Ostorv route." "From there, we determined the addressee of the package," "And the individual who came to pick up the packages that had been sent to P.O. boxes at different locations, is that person there." "I'm having the system run an identity check using this image, but it will take about two more hours for the results come back." "Have you determined the identity of the suspect?" "We haven't reached a final conclusion, but judging from the circumstances, he is our best candidate." "Someone you know?" "Tsujisaki Yuu, son of the former chief of GSDF Intelligence," "Colonel Tsujisaki Hideo.." "I told you, I'll do it." "I know." "I have to do it." "*Kim, the UFA, will visit the Memorial Monument*" "It's to avenge my mother's..." "Ritsuko's death, after all." "Isn't that right, Yuu?" "Stay quiet." "Major, we missed him." "He already left." "I'm sorry to visit at this ungodly hour." "Ishikawa, he knew we were coming." "Run a check on all transportation monitors immediately" "Understood." " Y-you are...?" " I work under Aramaki." " Under Aramaki-san...?" " Yes." "Based on our evidence, we came here to detain your brother, Tsujisaki Yuu." "Detain..." "Detain Yuu?" "He already left the premises." "At last knock, will you?" "This is a room of a lady." "Sorry.." "Major, I found this on his desk." "What has Yuu done?" "You know of Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs," "Kim, who is currently visiting Japan, don't you?" "There has been a threat against his life, and your brother is the number one suspect." "That can't be..." "While we don't know his motives, we have confirmed that he has hacked into Colonel Tsujisaki's SDF data library." "The records indicate that he accessed it starting on the day after his birthday untill yesterday." "The reason why his intrusions went undetected untill now is that he opened the maintenance firewall using the proper "keys"." "Yuu did such things...?" "How long has your brother been using the portable terminal?" "Yuu received a package containing the portable terminal our father used on his sixteenth birthday." "When Yuu was little, it perplexed my father that Yuu really wanted the terminal." "At the time, my father promised Yuu that he'd give him the terminal when Yuu grew up." "The password for the maintenance firewall must have been stored in the terminal." "We are trying to access the library ourselves, but cracking the password is proving difficult and will require several hours." "At this point, only your brother knows what is in there." "He has been fascinated with it since it was delivered." "He won't tell me anything..." "In any case, I wonder where he is at this time..." "Considering that he is no longer here, we should assume that he has entered the final stages of the assassination." "Please stop my brother!" "Please don't let him become a murderer!" "That's why we're here." " Major." " Did you find something?" "There is no sign of him on the monitors at train stations and airports at present." "However, something about Colonel Tsujisaki caught my eye.." "Something about Colonel Tsujisaki-san?" "It's something I heard while I was still working with the military." "Our Chief, the current Chief of GSDF Intelligence, Kubota, and Colonel Tsujisaki used to be called "The Three Crowns of Tonoda School."" "In particular, Colonel Tsujisaki was respected by his peers, and his course for new members received special accolades." "From sharpshooting to disarming explosives, hand-to-hand combat, weapons acquisition and even covert ops..." "It's said that he thought a wide range of skills was important and cultivated many experts." "From here on, It's only speculation of my part, but consider Tsujisaki Yuu's actions thus far and the degree of cunning in his apparent in his apparent ability to predict our movements." "If you put the two together..." "His father's library was a collection of war tactics that had been accumulated over the years, and Tsujisaki Yuu succeeded in secretly obtaining that information by using the password in his father's terminal." "In other words, his mind is now that of an assassin who has been trained by an extremely capable intelligence officer?" "I do not have conclusive proof, but considering how he has continued to brilliantly circumvent all efforts on our part to capture him, the possibility is high." "Batou, don't let the fact that he is the son of my former acquaintance affect your operation." "Protecting Undersecretary Kim is our foremost priority." "Don't think about anything else." "It's not as if I didn't intend to do just that from begining, of course..." "Chief, that may be true, but I will try to spare his life anyway." "However, in the worst scenario..." "Of course." "Chief Aramaki, there is a message from the GSDF with encryption code 839-0852." "It is an old GSDF encryption code." "Decode and route it to me." "It has been a long time since we last spoke, Aramaki." "Tsujisaki...?" "What is this about?" "At first, I had no intention of doing anything." "I just wanted to tell "myself" the truth..." "The truth that I would want passed to posterity." "In order to do that, I overwrote my memories onto my son's cyberbrain." "I never thought that would make me into assassin." "What did you hide in the data library?" "The truth behind the Okinawa incident." "I just wanted that truth to be passed to posterity." "But upon learning that truth," ""I" learned the truth behind my mother's death, and that only created a desire for vengeance." "This is unexpected." "I did not even think once about assassination." "But I am no longer able to stop "my" desire for vengeance." "Vengeance, after all these years?" "That's not like you." "I agree." "But now, I am Tsujisaki Hideo and Tsujisaki Yuu at the same time." "Mingled memories now flow togheter in our consciousness and the result is me thinking with "my" thoughts." "Or, is it the opposite?" "When this is finished, it may be that I will become someone entirely different." "Do you intend to make your son into an assassin?" "If I could help it, I would prefer not to." "But you know what?" "No one can stop this." "It must be Yuu's youth that necessitates this." "Take care of Saori for me." "It seems that I must have my vengeance." "Tsujisaki...!" "I'm sorry, Aramaki." "Damn it, we can't even catch him using ID codes." "Can't we just prevent civilians from entering the hall?" "Undersecretary Kim requested permission to have as many associates with him as possible to console the deceased." "So, he's basically asking to be killed." "No matter the outcome, it'll be a great perfomance, I guess." "Saitou, can you scope out possible sniping points?" "He has a sniper rifle with an extremely long range." "Even if he has disassembled it for portability, it should still be quite obvious" "If he's planning to make the kill as a sniper, my current location is the best option." "Other locations suffer from a strong sea breeze and obstructions." "He would not be able to shoot with any accuracy." "Heh, fishing in a time like this?" "Bomer." "Yeah?" "Nothing here either." "According to the program, the presentation of flowers is next." "It's the best opportunity, since the SP will have to step away from his side." "Where is he?" "!" "Where is he targeting from?" " We've found the weapon!" " What about the sniper?" "There's no sign of him." "All we've found is one sniper rifle and a student whose uniform was taken." "So, the rifle was a ruse!" "Major, I didn't know that you were here." "We were able to determine the actual plot from Tsujisaki's data." "According to him," ""The most effective assassination method is to approach the target without regard for an escape route."" "An assassin with a one-way ticket, huh?" "What?" "!" ""Undersecretary Kim safely completed all off his planned events and departed yesterday afternoon."" "It was a risky operation, but we could see no option other hand than to implant a memory that he succeded in his quest for vengeance." "Unfortunately, he may not remember you even if he regains consciousness." "It's quite possible that he is now a stranger who is neither your brother nor your father." "It does not matter.. as long as Yuu lives and stays by my side." "If anything happens, contact this number." "Thank you." "Using the data that the father left behind, the son has reconstructed the father's memories and attempted to have the two personalities coexist." "As a result, each personality affected the other." "However, I think that the procedure erased Colonel Tsujisaki's memories." "In addition, while the possibility is remote," "It is possible that he'll return to being the boy named Tsujisaki Yuu." "True." "However, it is rather trying to lose a close friend twice in my old age." "I thought he was your comrade-in-arms." "You're right."