"I don't want to die." "I don't want to die." "Oeufcocque!" "I'm so sorry!" "Oeufcocque?" "Balot!" "Doctor..." "Here I am!" "Hurry to the Doctor!" "Oeufcocque?" "How is that girl any different from me?" "Why did Oeufcocque leave me?" "It was you who left him!" "We developed this place:" "Flying House Humpty." "I've been granted permission to use it for a limited time." "You're safe now." "Please!" "Let me see Oeufcocque!" "I want to apologize!" "I don't want to be here!" "Let me go to where he is!" "I want... to live." "Rune-Balot." "They say your Snark abilities have 80% passed the liminality threshold." "That's amazing." "I talk up here." "see." "It's tiring to breathe." "My name is Tweedledee." "This is Paradise." "It used to be a military research facility." "Welcome to the land where forbidden technology was given birth..." "This makes you and I brother and sister!" "Let me see Oeufcocque and the Doctor." "Do you need something?" "let me see them!" "I wonder if the other professors would get angry if someone outside their group went in the lab... right?" "I see!" "Okay!" "Are all the people from outside like you?" "What do you mean?" "who knows about everything." "I wonder if Adam felt this way when Eve handed him the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge?" "I just can't resist!" "Why are you here?" "Because of my disability." "so I became a resident of Paradise." "The Doctor worked here?" "that one of the Three Professors created." "Three Professors?" "The top members of Paradise." "and only one remains." "Dee." "Who's the girl?" "I'm showing her around." "Rune Balot." "Easter did?" "That codename hasn't been registered." "The metabolic-metallic fibrous state is quite good." "I'd like to have tea with someone of such high compatibility." "We're sort of in a hurry..." "You have to get the biorhythm stabilized." "thank you very much." "young lady." "Their "tea parties" last a long time." "They put a bunch of meds in there for their testing." "Twee?" "Dr. Easter." "What's wrong?" "Balot's here to see you." "Twee!" "Where is Oeufcocque?" "Don't worry..." "It's just that I don't think he'd want you to see him the way he is now." "I want to apologize." "Please!" "Hey!" "She's just going to say hi." "Are they talking?" "I'm sorry..." "It was my failure that caused this to happen..." "I love you." "Did Oeufcocque say that?" "she did." "can I take her to the pool?" "right?" "After you explain to Balot." "I know." "after all." "What do you think?" "Wow..." "What about those people?" "They've forgotten how to move." "The same way I've forgotten how to breathe." "Come here!" "I'll introduce you to my lover." "Lover?" "I get such a kind feeling when we're together..." "What?" "Who's that?" "It's someone I don't know!" "Rune-Balot." "She's Oeufcocque's lover." "Miss." "I'm Tweedledum." "Gonna ride on my back?" "I'll make you scream like a little baby!" "Is she a girl?" "Nope." "You're a human." "You shouldn't be trapped by such narrow preconceptions." "and his lover." "We're homosexual partners!" "We do what we can." "Do you know what you're saying?" "What's that eye?" "don't you think?" "It's an Access Organ." "Access?" "You'll understand if you go for a swim." "Take a dip." "It should be good for your muscular rehabilitation." "Understood." "You're going to swim with your clothes on?" "I'll take them off if I feel like it." "Hold on tight!" "Welcome to a totally different ocean!" "What's that?" "Those are communication nuclei." "They're connected to terminals around the world." "too?" "Yup." "let's search for it together." "There is something Oeufcocque and the Doctor are searching for." "I want to find it for them." "You do?" "What are you searching for?" "named Shell." "You're going to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge on your own accord?" "What'll you do?" "Wait a bit." "I'll introduce you to God." "God?" "One of the Three Professors." "just like God." "Are you friends with Oeufcocque?" "Yeah." "He's a good guy." "so I think he makes a pretty decent lover!" "I don't think he feels that way." "is it?" "he is an indecisive fellow." "Give him time." "Patience will persevere.{}" "I tried to use him recklessly." "he protected me." "So that's why he's here for maintenance." "It's my fault." "don't worry." "Immortal?" "He can't die?" "His body is multidimensionally constructed." "Even if he's injured he can regenerate from another dimension." "since he's an organic unit." "For so long?" "What do you mean?" "Hypertrophy." "it gains weight." "it will be crushed by its own weight and die." "He's ill?" "It's a necessity of life. knowing about his own death is what gave rise to the reason he left Paradise." "What's that supposed to mean?" "Who knows?" "after all." "Don't you ever want to?" "And how would I survive?" "and my brother." "too?" "right?" "I've made my decision." "I wonder what the real ocean is like?" "Thanks for waiting." "Rune-Balot." "I am the top manager here." "Everyone calls me Professor Faceman." "Manipulate the cage so we can talk." "Okay." "I've taken a look at your data." "My data?" "The condition for using this place was for Oeufcocque to offer the data he recorded." "Um..." "I think of myself as a test subject." "it's just a matter of prolonging my life." "Prolonging your life?" "I cut off my body which was being eaten away by cancer." "I think this form is more suited to me." "Isn't it inconvenient?" "It's delightful!" "All the functions I need are built into this cage." "as well." "Um..." "I really get a sense for Dr. Easter's amazing talent." "he and everything else was rejected." "What happened?" "Limitations were put on this facility by the government." "Each of we Three Professors who were the top managers thought up our own countermeasures." "09." "Another created the October Corp. in conflict with them." "Conflict?" "you see. and only a small bit of the brain of the other one is alive." "And what about you?" "I will remain forever locked away in this place." "chose to enter the cage myself;" "and visitors here are also placed under the same restrictions." "Understood." "you will become a suspected criminal." "the suspicion can be lifted." "Understood." "then I want to try." "So be it. we'll do nothing but sit back and watch as a spectator." "Thank you very much." "Easter." "Professor." "It's not my intention to make you a federal criminal." "use my name" "Please teach me how you fight!" "Eve became aware of her own nakedness." "she's an airhead." "but I found out their secret." "I'll use her as my bargaining chip." "The marriage registration?" "After the contract's signed." "what about that job?" "I wounded one of the ambulance chasers." "I'll continue to pursue them." "But something is odd." "Everything's odd!" "Because a dead woman in my dreams is trying to get in the way of my deals!" "The next trial will be another blank slate." "It's possible they're looking for the key behind your deals." "didn't you?" "Where are you hiding them?" "None of your fucking business!" "Shut up!" "Kill her." "Kill that bitch who's chasing after me!" "Why am I..." "Why am I afraid of that girl?" "What's scary about women?" "Again with women..." "Boss..." "Are you on drugs?" "I'm used to handling 'em." "Got some here." "This is some high quality Heroic Pill." "Want one?" "I have no need." "damn!" "When do you fucking sleep?" "I have forgotten how to sleep." "I haven't slept for nine years." "No wonder they call you Mr. Ironman." "where are we headed?" "Paradise." "Fuck yeah!" "We got a hit!" "Eggnog Blue!" "now try accessing deeper." "There are a lot of logs about memory disabilities." "Looks like there are traces that have been modified from the outside." "Data's been remotely deleted." "There are holes left where the data was deleted!" "Let's chase after them!" "Incredible..." "The communication nuclei and her ability adapted themselves to each other..." "They're dancing." "Looks like fun." "We have visitors." "An inspector has demanded an examination through the legal affairs bureau." "Boiled?" "!" "I have no need for her to be disrupted with her data yet incomplete." "Tweedledee." "You're going to use Twee?" "I've studied how to come into contact with outside humans." "I'm looking forward to it." "That's a surprising twist!" "Go in from the west." "All action is approved." "It's a fictional "twist." "Answer my question." "Where are you sheltering Oeufcocque and that girl client?" "We shelter no one." "All we do is take people in." "What are Oeufcocque and the others trying to find out about Shell?" "I will not tell one who cannot think of himself as anything more than a murderer!" "And what do you know?" "and treats people as mere objects..." "It's precisely because I know." "This is the winning battle." "People know in the bottom of their hearts that there is nothing that has actual value." "yes?" "Is that cast-off shell who you are now?" "Your pseudo-gravity was developed here." "We here do not know what Oeufcocque and the others are looking into." "Why won't your client tell you? someone who has even thrown away the feeling of trust?" "Whoa..." "This is what they call a storm!" "but this is what they call a storm!" "Why... me?" "That's right..." "The answer is in Shell's memories!" "Look at all the treasure!" "What are you doing?" "Hello." "Who are you?" "I see!" "I get it now..." "You're the one who killed my buddies!" "Inside your head is also hard..." "Stop talking inside my head!" "It's been a while since I've felt pain." "definitely unpleasant." "I'll make your body to suit my taste!" "Voice..." "It's been so long since..." "I've breathed..." "What the hell are you?" "you see." "Don't blame me for what happens." "Everyone!" "You can eat him!" "The guardian angels of Paradise use pseudo-gravity to render all violence powerless." "Boiled!" "Save me!" "I am no longer one of your test subjects." "I am a beast which escaped Paradise." "You are now just a highly curious shark seeking ever higher level methods of murder." "Go now." "Your feet will never again set foot outside of the wilderness." "You're leaving?" "Yeah." "Thanks for swimming with me." "Do your best." "I pray Lady Luck be with you." "okay?" "Balot!" "You're leaving." "I'll heal soon." "I'm sorry..." "It was my fault... as long as I made a friend." "That's right." "I'm glad you made a friend!" "Stop it!" "That's a violation of federal law..." "He shot." "Smiling..." "What?" "Smiling like you made a friend." "come again." "far out in the Pacific." "Aren't you cold?" "There's no point to continue with the trial like this." "We've got to checkmate him before he..." "Before he what?" "Gets married." "Into the October Corp. family..." "Shell's getting married?" "He's using it to shield himself from the records of his illegal dealings." "Strange..." "What do you want to do now after the incident?" "I don't really know." "When will Oeufcocque die?" "I didn't euthanize him." "Twee told me that Oeufcocque learned of his own death and left Paradise!" "His lifespan is an unknown." "The problem is how he lives." "No one knows when they are going to die." "But we all know we're going to die sometime." "I want to be beside him." "Even after the incident?" "Is your job meaningful?" "I'm satisfied with my life." "Do you think I can be like that?" "That's a tough one... right?" "he's strong." "When I faced him before I was no match." "But Boiled went on a rampage." "He just went on a killing spree." "And Oeufcocque?" "Boiled also has metallic fibers transplanted into his hand." "He used them to control Oeufcocque." "rejected Boiled." "Now they're mutual enemies." "I understand how that Boiled person must feel a little." "right?" "and I couldn't quit by myself." "You're different than him." "Will Oeufcocque forgive me?" "Yes." "You can learn." "can I ask something?" "Sure." "About the memories that Shell hid..." "Chips." "Some of the ones in Shell's casino." "Inside the million dollar chips." "Chips?" "Using the super high value chips at his associated casino as a front?" "He's hiding a treasure inside a treasure!" "How many chips are there?" "12 in total." "Recording mediums are hidden inside 4 of them." "and if they find out we're searching they'll change the hiding place..." "Special investigation...?" "pretending to be normal customers would work best." "Balot!" "What?" "Ever played around in a casino?" "I've only ever stood next to the men." "Right!" "some special lessons!" "Got it?" "Finite games can all be expressed as a standard system. choose a strategy?" "and they grope around for a method to unbalance the game." "What do you think you're doing drilling Balot in economic theory?" "Nothing good comes from making your partner feel inferior with your strengths." "Balot?" "Studying the Prisoner's Dilemma?" "Oeufcocque." "You woke up a lot faster than I thought." "Guess that upgrade Paradise's tech got really helps." "Could you please explain to me the current situation?" "When you consider Balot's criminal suspicion again..." "There's got to be another way to find out instead of winning big at a casino." "Balot?" "I'm sorry." "and all I could do was sleep." "Could I get up on your shoulder?" "I'll make some coffee." "Can I touch you?" "Sure." "Oeufcocque." "I'm fine." "Let's stay together until you fall asleep." "Thank you." "Good night." "the art of mankind." "We've thrust a grave decision upon her." "Huh?" "We don't know her latent feelings for revenge haven't affected her." "So she thirsts for revenge?" ""Just what is 'Resolution"'?" "what do YOU think about her?" "to overcome her fear of losing." "THAT is what her case is about." "but so that she may grow." "is the job I've wanted to do." "What's the problem?" "you think of me as a tool and do not understand my feelings." "I thought I'd never again entrust my life to someone else." "I'm baffled she would voluntarily take the path to becoming a 09 Project supervisor." "Do you know what "marriage blues" are?" "What does that mean?" "you talk about it over and over." "It's a means of resolution?" "I look forward to when that time comes." "It's difficult." "It's a problem as old as humanity itself." "Okay?" "Yeah." "We're fully ready." "We're gonna win this case." "How much should we win?" "000 dollars into 4 million." "How much money is that?" "but they're just chips." "getting the yolk." "Don't touch the shell or the white." "Got it?" "Yes." "I think I can." "this is our battlefield!" "we'll split up and get a sense of the atmosphere." "like surfing." "Don't underestimate the security." "an alert will be issued and you'll be followed by every camera." "That's right." "Grab the rhythm." "Perfect." "Wow... we're already being watched." "Gotten the hang of things?" "We can't win with those machines?" "None of the slot machines would let us win 2 million dollars." "customers who win too much cause a stir." "we take from those that won't hurt the casino." "right?" "too?" "I hacked the data the casino has on its customers." "but they're actually being fished in." "From now own we'll communicate with characters and wireless." "Don't misread them." "Okay." "I raise." "Call." "Fold." "Call." "Raise." "Fold!" "I call." "Fold." "I fold." "Call." "Showdown." "Two pair." "I win!" "I think I could win with these." "Fold." "I fold." "Why aren't we competing?" "They've got a scheme." "Cheating?" "The one who's winning?" "That's the mark." "He'll lose soon." "the one on the left and the dealer are conspiring." "The dealer?" "The man on the right is the role of the player and has three aces." "The Doctor has two pair with 5s and 4s." "The mark has three jacks." "And the old man next to him has two pair with 10s and 4s." "How can you tell?" "I read their smell and signs." "Things like the placement of their chips and the way they arrange the cards are the signs." "Can they manipulate the cards?" "They're marked cards." "You can tell the card by the touch of your fingertip." "That's not fair." "The player is going to win." "Let's do it." "Watch carefully how everyone breathes." "Right." "Humans are never more defenseless than when they breathe in or out." "Use that instant to call." "I call." "You've got good luck with clubs." "Raise right up to the limit." "Raise." "I raise." "Call." "but..." "That's a shame." "We won." "I win." "What the..." "A royal straight flush... a whole lot of chips change hands." "now." "Things are going to get desperate." "What should I do?" "Wipe them out." "Raise." "Call." "I win." "Raise." "I win." "have the Doctor win." "We win." "aren't they?" "It was a nice game." "magnificent." "Here's some winnings!" "Go out and have a ball!" "Yes!" "sit anywhere." "She'll let us win." "Start." "She's cool." "her name is Bell Wing." "She's the preeminent spinner in the casino world." "No more bets." "2 black." "She aimed for it?" "to draw in players." "Let's go." "We've got what we came for." "Wait." "I want to watch her." "She's not going to have you win again." "I smell something fickle." "I won't use the chips I won." "Please?" "Don't forget that we're still far off from our target average." "15 black." "That was close." "15 and 14 are on opposite sides." "You've been marked." "You still want to do this?" "so I want to beat her." "I think I can." "Is it okay?" "I'll back you up to the best of my ability." "I'm showing you data on roulette on the inside of your gloves." "now." "Right. and the softness of the cushion." "Then do data analysis on those numbers." "Figure out the average angle the ball will go until it drops." "Calculate the angle between the ball and the tableau when they make contact." "Read the movement of the ball..." "Your opponent will purposefully try to break the average pattern." "and predict the number she's aiming for." "I'll try." "You're getting close to the target average." "That's what I was trying to do." "Shouldn't I?" "go on and continue." "is this your first time playing roulette?" "Your eyes are shining." "It's like you enjoy the spinning of the ball." "I think I'm having fun because of you." "Do you have something against this casino?" "Why do you think that?" "Your chips tell me that." "We spinners can read what's on the customers' minds with just a few bets." "I don't have any intention of causing you trouble." "What was the reason you chose my table?" "Because I thought you were wonderful." "3 red." "I have a duty as a spinner." "And I have pride." "I will stop you." "Your first win was just business." "You still don't want to move to another table?" "I'll play here a little while longer." "Even if I say I'll save you?" "A game is a game." "I will learn from you." "Learn?" "I'm not sure what." "But I feel like I will learn." "Fine then." "don't blame me." "Counter-clockwise?" "I can smell conviction." "But I can't tell what she's convinced about." "I know." "She believes in the spinning of the ball." "but... 30 red." "Wow." "You could tell it would fall on the opposite side?" "17 black." "She can tell exactly where I will bet." "Yeah." "Balot." "Right." "0 red." "The chips are like splinters." "Have you figured out the tendencies of this table?" "It's a balanced table." "luck's gone unbalanced." "To think the ball falls according to probability each time..." "What's the chance of that?" "How difficult it is... and not for anyone's sake." "And yet you refuse to stop defying luck." "I'm the kind of dealer that enjoys seeing their customers being crushed in defeat." "it's a devilish one." "Why do you work here?" "so that's it." "You have something against the boss here." "I don't care what company I work for." "My husband was sick and I needed the money." "I kept feeling I was spinning counter-clockwise." "looking for a way to spin clockwise again." "Counter-clockwise?" "and clockwise to happiness." "My life calls fate to spin counter-clockwise." "It's always been that way." "And so it spins left again... 1 red." "Please spin it clockwise." "I'll win." "What's your name?" "Rune-Balot." "I am Bell Wing." "any casino will do." "Call yourself the disciple of Bell Wing." "I'll teach you all my techniques." "Okay." "I'll spin it clockwise." "Rune-Balot." "Yes?" "Don't forget the effort needed to keep luck spinning clockwise." "I won't." "It's not something difficult." "It's the same as polishing yourself as a woman." "As a woman?" "Being in the right place." "Being there at the right time." "Wearing the right clothes." "and having your hair done up correctly..." "It's all the same." "Only the women who do that have luck spin clockwise." "so be it." "2 black." "I couldn't see it." "I think it was spinning clockwise." "Go." "That's all for Bell Wing's table." "She lost repeatedly to you." "and she was let go." "She lost her job?" "Because of me?" "Yes..." "But I could smell she didn't care." "She may have been used to this situation." "you sure were the star." "I'm sorry." "it's okay." "All according to plan." "I think I might not be needed." "What do you mean?" "You have a right to fire us and hire some other people." "too." "I'd be in real trouble!" "How could you say that?" "!" "The Doctor feels responsibility for your amazing power." "Responsibility?" "he'll have to freeze them." "there's no point to this all." "I'm soured all over..." "Should we just quit now?" "What is your goal?" "like I said to Twee and the Professor." "and..." "And then you'll destroy your opponent." "It'll be cruel?" "Yes." "It's not good unless you know how cruel you are." "Like how Bell Wing said she was devilish." "I'm not trying to put that kind of burden on her." "But I think that's the game Shell's decided to play." "too." "Because I don't have any other games to play." "I want to use these chips and go as far as I can!" "Oeufcocque." "Balot's decided to challenge her own worth." "You should be a little more honest with yourself." "From my experience." "I'd have it no other way." "you'll go non-stop." "no matter what." "000 feet up?" "Are you shitting me?" "It's a floating house for military use." "But it's on the surface now." "Her dad's making me play at the casino." "I'm defenseless here." "I have to show him I can handle any situation." "I'll do it." "I'll need to know the key to your deal..." "Stop it!" "This is my deal!" "and I'll do it myself!" "do your job!" "Right now!" "Got it?" "I need RR." "6 hours is fine." "Please." "This drug will make you want to do your duty." "8 dead. 14 injured." "That's the number of comrades you blew away by accident." "It's the drug..." "I can't tell the difference between friend and foe..." "Choose!" "An operation to allow you to never sleep." "Choose!" "Have power dwell in your body!" "Choose!" "An experimental step..." "Would you try talking?" "C...old..." "W...a...rm..." "Th...ank you..." "Wh...o are y...ou?" "Dimsdale-Boiled." "Do...es it h...urt?" "Do...es it h...urt?" "Nothing hurts." "You no longer have need for rest!" "You have forgotten how to sleep!" "I feel nothing." "Your mind and body are operating flawlessly!" "I can feel nothing!" "It's already going extremely well." "But he's lost all range of emotion." "as well." "Oeufcocque... then I will eliminate you." "I will make it like you never were." "Technique and strategy are the key to winning battles." "Technique is choosing one's opponents." "Stay." "Hit." "Double down." "Split." "surrender!" "Pay the line." "Aces and 10s pay 1.5." "10 times." "In other words.." "Blackjack!" "I don't know what trick you've got but those are some nice gloves."