E21 - Doppelganger
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[00:07] ---
I really haven't been getting enough sleep.
[00:09] ---
Ever since all that happened,
I've had nightmares that keep me up.
[00:12] ---
Miss Misaka!
[00:15] ---
Well, if it isn't little Kana.
[00:17] ---
Hello.
[00:18] ---
Hello!
[00:20] ---
You're not with your friends today?
[00:23] ---
Mm-mm.
[00:24] ---
I'm going to the Learning Core to study!
[00:26] ---
Oh, yeah? Good for you!
[00:30] ---
Would you walk with me to the bus terminal?
[00:33] ---
Hm? Do you not know how to get there?
[00:35] ---
Uh-huh.
[00:36] ---
Do you have to go down
an empty street, or something?
[00:39] ---
Not really.
[00:40] ---
Then do I really need to go with you?
[00:43] ---
You aren't doing anything
now anyway, so come with me!
[00:46] ---
We're off!
[00:48] ---
Um... What?
[00:51] ---
Come to think of it,
[00:52] ---
I saw you on TV during the Daihasei Festival.
[00:56] ---
Huh?
[00:57] ---
Oh, the live coverage.
[00:59] ---
You came in first in the
three-legged race and scavenger hunt.
[01:02] ---
Well, I am pretty quick on my feet.
[01:06] ---
Not that winning races means a whole lot
when you get out in the real world.
[01:09] ---
Y-You may be right about that, but still,
[01:12] ---
no matter what you do,
it still takes physical strength.
[01:14] ---
Miss Mikoto, you're such a muscle-head.
[01:18] ---
You know, Kana, you shouldn't just blurt out--
[01:21] ---
Uh-oh!
[01:22] ---
The card dealer is gone!
[01:25] ---
This is where that Trader was.
[01:27] ---
Do you know what Indian Poker is?
[01:30] ---
Huh?
[01:31] ---
There was a man who sold cards there.
He had a lot of them,
[01:35] ---
but the best one he had was called "Bust Upper,"
[01:38] ---
which was supposed to let you
dream your way to bigger boobs.
[01:42] ---
But I wonder if anyone would
actually buy something like that.
[01:45] ---
If there were, they'd have
to be awfully scrawny
[01:47] ---
and have a pretty nasty complex
about their own figure, you know?
[01:51] ---
I'm sure they would also be
short-tempered and always ready to fight,
[01:54] ---
and yet flirt with boys with
what she thinks are fancy goods--
[01:57] ---
Just a minute!
[01:58] ---
How can you put those awful words
into a little girl's mouth, Shokuho?!
[02:01] ---
Uh-oh, the jig is up.
[02:06] ---
Huh? I'm already at the bus terminal.
Oh, it's Miss Mikoto!
[02:11] ---
I'm impressed you figured it out.
[02:12] ---
Anyone could have figured it out!
[02:14] ---
Are you two friends?
[02:16] ---
--Of course we aren't.
--Of course we aren't.
[02:18] ---
Be sure to study hard,
[02:20] ---
so you don't turn into a muscle-head, okay?
[02:23] ---
Muscle-head?
[02:24] ---
See you later!
[02:28] ---
So, after this roundabout way
of getting me, what do you want?
[02:32] ---
And how did you even know about that card?!
[02:34] ---
There's something I needed to look into,
and I read the Trader's memories.
[02:40] ---
But you know...
[02:42] ---
You looked so desperate while scrambling for it,
[02:45] ---
but I don't see any change at all!
[02:47] ---
Or is it that your
flat-chestedness is so powerful
[02:49] ---
the card didn't have any effect on you?
[02:52] ---
Shut up! You think these
pudgy lumps of flesh are so special--
[02:57] ---
Miss Misaka! Have you lost your mind...?
[03:01] ---
Would you mind not assaulting people
[03:03] ---
and then going off to wallow
in despair by yourself?
[03:28] ---
"A Certain Scientific Railgun T"
[04:38] ---
We have confirmed that the
blast-proofing on the student buses,
[04:40] ---
the fact that the shower rooms are supplied
[04:43] ---
with theoretically pure water
from a solid-state plant,
[04:46] ---
and numerous other confidential,
proprietary details about Tokiwadai,
[04:50] ---
such as the layout of various campus
structures and facilities,
[04:53] ---
have been leaked.
[04:55] ---
It extends to other
Garden of Learning institutions
[04:57] ---
and some large corporations, as well.
There are even instances
[05:01] ---
of information pertaining to
security measures that have gone public.
[05:04] ---
The cause of all this is thought to be...
[05:06] ---
These cards, known as "Indian Poker."
[05:09] ---
They are devices that allow one
to share their dreams with someone else.
[05:14] ---
But through dreams that
are recorded on these cards,
[05:16] ---
--organizational information
that would normally remain secret
--Whoa! So this is the Garden of Learning!
[05:20] ---
--appears to be leaking externally.
--Whoa! So this is the Garden of Learning!
[05:23] ---
So what would be run-of-the-mill
information for anyone involved
[05:26] ---
ends up being precious data for
those outside the organization, right?
[05:29] ---
Yes. Each school has hurriedly
started taking measures...
[05:32] ---
...but these are handmade items,
not sold through commercial markets,
[05:36] ---
so we are a bit behind the curve.
[05:39] ---
Antiskill has attempted to contact the site
[05:41] ---
to which the original plans for
the card writer had been uploaded...
[05:46] ---
...but identifying the uploader of
the plans has been extremely difficult.
[05:50] ---
Kuriba Ryoko.
[05:51] ---
Shinshikimi Middle School,
in School District 20. Age 14.
[05:55] ---
The photo is from when she enrolled.
[05:58] ---
You're saying that she's the one
who came up with the plans for Indian Poker?
[06:01] ---
Took you long enough.
[06:04] ---
I asked you for this over 24 hours ago.
[06:06] ---
--I'm not one to traffic in vague,
unconfirmed information.
--Here, one stir-fried rice.
[06:11] ---
Would you mind if I asked
why you're looking into this matter?
[06:15] ---
There was something familiar about
the principle behind those cards.
[06:19] ---
Indeed. According to my investigation,
she was once involved with Clone Dolly.
[06:25] ---
Could their objective at the time
[06:26] ---
have been to use the cards for
psychological doping or brainwashing?
[06:31] ---
Those cards don't seem to
have those functions as of yet.
[06:35] ---
Whatever the intent,
[06:37] ---
I'm going to find whatever idiot would circulate
[06:41] ---
something like that out
into the world at this point.
[06:43] ---
One ramen!
[06:46] ---
So, where is this girl?
[06:48] ---
Forgive me, that is still under investigation.
[06:52] ---
That's not like you.
[06:55] ---
To be more accurate,
[06:57] ---
she is affiliated with
a certain research institute.
[07:00] ---
--I have ascertained that
she is living within the facility,
--How am I supposed to eat this?
[07:04] ---
--so I did not pursue it any further.
--How am I supposed to eat this?
[07:06] ---
As I was investigating this
research institute, something felt off.
[07:11] ---
About whether the Kuriba Ryoko
at the facility was really "Kuriba Ryoko."
[07:17] ---
What is that supposed to mean?
[07:19] ---
So, I've pinned down the creator of
these cards and the organization she's with.
[07:24] ---
The experiments they're doing there
sound a little beyond unconventional.
[07:28] ---
--They must involve--
--I had no idea they were so...
[07:30] ---
...heavy in one's hands...
So soft, even through her clothing...
[07:34] ---
Or felt so springy as
they pushed back against me...
[07:37] ---
I was the one grabbing them,
[07:39] ---
but it was as if they were clinging
to my hands, embracing--
[07:42] ---
Ow...
[07:43] ---
I don't need to hear any more
of you reviewing my boobs!
[07:46] ---
And how long are you going
to space out over there?!
[07:49] ---
For that matter, why are
you acting so shocked now?
[07:53] ---
I hate to be the one to say this, but you
can pretty well eyeball how big they are.
[07:57] ---
I was thinking that maybe the chain
on your bag emphasized your cleavage,
[07:59] ---
making them look bigger,
[08:01] ---
--when actually, they weren't
that much different than mine...
[08:04] ---
--Has Miss Misaka always been this dumb?
--when actually, they weren't
that much different than mine...
[08:08] ---
Anyhow, you heard what I was saying, right?
[08:12] ---
About how there's a budding threat
to your own brainwashing territory
[08:16] ---
and you want to nip it?
[08:18] ---
That interpretation is just
as twisted as your disposition.
[08:23] ---
Can we leave me out of this for the moment?
[08:26] ---
The experiment that Kuriba Ryoko was involved in
[08:28] ---
is not directly related to Indian Poker.
[08:32] ---
She was more of a cyborg test subject.
[08:35] ---
Cyborg?
[08:36] ---
When you hear the word cyborg,
you think of everything
[08:40] ---
from artificial organs being transplanted
to full-body mechanization, don't you?
[08:43] ---
But the experiment she was involved
with was a bit more out of the ordinary.
[08:48] ---
Kuriba Ryoko was experimentally
[08:50] ---
turned into two people.
[08:52] ---
Huh?
[08:53] ---
Her body was used as a
test subject and taken apart,
[08:56] ---
and the parts that were missing
were then replaced by machinery.
[08:58] ---
She went from having one body
to being reborn as two cyborgs.
[09:03] ---
Well, that's...
[09:05] ---
Was there some circumstance
that forced her to do so?
[09:08] ---
No, there wasn't. It was entirely
because that was the subject matter.
[09:13] ---
The two Kuribas lived separate lives,
[09:16] ---
and after a year passed, she was
put back together into her original body.
[09:20] ---
There was no particular issue with
psychological fragmentation or rejection.
[09:25] ---
Apparently, she retained both halves
of her memories from when she was split.
[09:30] ---
Sounds like quite the gruesome experiment,
[09:32] ---
but cyborg medical treatments
can help many disabled people,
[09:37] ---
and the whole affair is already over,
[09:39] ---
so I don't see that outsiders
like us have anything to say about it.
[09:42] ---
Yes. We're of the same opinion
as far as that goes. However,
[09:46] ---
this experiment had
one other objective, you see.
[09:50] ---
Kuriba's purpose
[09:52] ---
was to confirm the compatibility
of cybernetics with human bodies.
[09:56] ---
The research institute's
primary objective was the same,
[10:00] ---
and if something else came about
as a by-product, well, so much the better.
[10:07] ---
That being the generation of a soul.
[10:11] ---
Uh...
[10:13] ---
Miss Misaka, do you think the soul exists?
[10:16] ---
You mean that thing about how
the moment a person dies,
[10:19] ---
their body becomes 21 grams lighter?
[10:21] ---
This conversation has
suddenly taken an occult turn, huh?
[10:24] ---
I don't know anything about
how credible all of this is,
[10:27] ---
but supposing that the
phenomenon of a soul does exist,
[10:31] ---
what happened to Kuriba's soul
when she was split into two people?
[10:37] ---
Just supposing that one of
the split Kuribas were to lose her life,
[10:42] ---
it's hard to imagine that the other Kuriba
[10:45] ---
in a separate location would die
at the same time, right?
[10:49] ---
When she was split into two people,
did her soul also split,
[10:54] ---
and become a second soul?
And once her soul was split into two,
[10:59] ---
after being put back together,
her body became one whole.
[11:04] ---
Okay, where would the
leftover soul have gone, then?
[11:08] ---
In other words, is there a soul or whatever
[11:11] ---
dwelling inside the mechanical body
that would be put together?
[11:15] ---
Are you seriously asking that?
[11:16] ---
Wha--? I was just using the word "soul"
so that you wouldn't be lost!
[11:22] ---
For that matter, what does any of
this have to do with Indian Poker?
[11:26] ---
Also, if you found out who actually created it,
[11:28] ---
couldn't you report that to Judgment
or Antiskill and be done with it?
[11:32] ---
I could...
[11:33] ---
However, before I do, I wanted
to have you break into the institute
[11:38] ---
and verify the outcome of Kuriba's experiment.
[11:42] ---
Huh?
[11:43] ---
I could do it myself, but assuming
there's actually a mechanical person there,
[11:48] ---
and we happened to bump into each other,
that would be trouble, right?
[11:51] ---
It's not clear whether my brainwashing
would work on such a mind.
[11:56] ---
It would be safer to have a muscle-head
like you there in that eventuality.
[11:59] ---
Okay, but why should I?
[12:01] ---
Because if an application for the
soul generation experiment were found,
[12:07] ---
how many more hundreds of people
would meet a similar fate?
[12:11] ---
They would need subjects to verify
their results, such as Child Errors,
[12:15] ---
or perhaps even human clones.
[12:19] ---
Um, and... it would not be
worth the trouble and expense
[12:23] ---
of building a cloning facility
solely for this experiment.
[12:28] ---
So just take it easy.
[12:30] ---
I'm not asking you to do
this for nothing, of course.
[12:34] ---
The Project Level 6 Sisters--
[12:37] ---
didn't you want them to be able to live
in normal society someday down the road?
[12:44] ---
But the obstacles in the way
of that happening are so great.
[12:49] ---
Wouldn't my ability to win people over
[12:53] ---
and my network of contacts be
useful when the time comes?
[12:55] ---
Shokuho, why are you so intent
on involving yourself in this?
[13:00] ---
I don't want to find myself indebted to you,
[13:03] ---
so let's make a deal.
[13:06] ---
You mean it about those girls, right?
[13:09] ---
As far as this matter goes, at least,
[13:11] ---
I promise.
[13:14] ---
What was that whole charade about?
[13:17] ---
Just having a harebrained
experiment that could claim victims
[13:21] ---
would be enough to get Mikoto
to go into action on her own.
[13:25] ---
And Misaki, you don't
really care how things look
[13:27] ---
when it comes to helping
the Sisters, do you? And yet,
[13:32] ---
"Let's make a deal." "You mean it?" "I promise."
[13:36] ---
How long has that tsundere quid pro quo business
[13:38] ---
to cover your embarrassment been going on--
[13:42] ---
You know, I could just as
easily break in and investigate.
[13:45] ---
Or did you want to see how deep
Mikoto's feelings for the Sisters ran?
[13:50] ---
Buzz off, will you, Mitori?
[13:52] ---
Are you showing off your voyeurism
just to wind me up?
[13:55] ---
Oh, no.
[13:57] ---
I don't have that kind of time to waste.
I have a message from Keitz.
[14:01] ---
He says that he's tracked down
where the real Kuriba Ryoko is.
[14:05] ---
Are you sure you must go out?
[14:08] ---
At this hour?
[14:09] ---
Mm-hmm, I made a little deal
and was asked to do something.
[14:13] ---
For whom is this for, exactly?
[14:15] ---
For whom would you go out
and leave me here all alone?
[14:19] ---
This isn't even a little bit
what you're thinking.
[14:23] ---
Handle the head resident for me
if she comes around, okay?
[14:25] ---
Well, I suppose I can do that.
[14:28] ---
If anything happens,
you'll be the first person I call.
[14:33] ---
Well, what can I say to that?
[14:37] ---
"#21 Doppelganger"
[14:37] ---
Come back safely.
[14:43] ---
I haven't dressed up like this in a while.
[14:44] ---
"...eyewitness testimony from staff..."
"...teenage boy with lightning..."
[14:45] ---
Last time, they thought I was a boy at first.
[14:50] ---
Hmm, maybe I should have gone
with something more frilly.
[15:03] ---
All green. Good work.
[15:08] ---
Hey,
[15:09] ---
how long are these routine tests going to go on?
[15:12] ---
I want to leave the facility already--
[15:14] ---
Oh, no,
[15:15] ---
this experiment is something
unprecedented, you understand.
[15:19] ---
Chief...
[15:21] ---
We have to be extra cautious
when doing these follow-up exams.
[15:27] ---
I think you're worrying too much.
[15:30] ---
Good grief, this confined living
is going to go on forever.
[15:48] ---
Whoops.
[15:52] ---
Well, shoot.
[15:54] ---
I got that from my mother.
[15:59] ---
I got that mug from my mother
before coming to Academy City.
[16:04] ---
I know it. But...
[16:09] ---
I can't remember my mother.
And it's not just her--
[16:14] ---
my father, and my friends from my hometown...
[16:17] ---
I can't remember much of anything
from before I came to Academy City.
[16:21] ---
No, even after I moved to Academy City...
[16:25] ---
I can vividly remember things
that happened when I was split it two.
[16:29] ---
I just don't remember anything from before that.
[16:32] ---
Is that an aftereffect of the experiment?
[16:40] ---
Am I...
[16:42] ---
Kuriba Ryoko?
[16:45] ---
Am I...
[16:48] ---
Am I... human?
[16:55] ---
Now then...
[16:57] ---
Whoa!
[17:00] ---
Did they know I was breaking in?!
[17:07] ---
Huh?!
[17:15] ---
She's not here?
[17:17] ---
Those banners should have
been able to support 100 kilos.
[17:20] ---
But no. She must weigh a ton.
[17:24] ---
Then, could she have been...?
[17:27] ---
She ran away?!
[17:29] ---
Yes, sir. She destroyed the exterior wall,
[17:31] ---
and jumped from the upper floor
and out of the facility.
[17:34] ---
She jumped?! She's supposed
to have a sense of self-preservation!
[17:39] ---
Well, the only things that are
malfunctioning from the shock of the fall
[17:43] ---
are her GPS and fast-acting restraints.
[17:46] ---
This suggests that it was a premeditated,
carefully-calculated risk.
[17:51] ---
Additionally, most of the research data
that was caught in the blast was lost.
[17:55] ---
Reconstructing it will be very difficult.
[17:57] ---
What?! Th-The damage
is isolated to just here, right?!
[18:01] ---
Yes, sir. Nowhere else was affected.
[18:03] ---
O-Okay. Whatever, just hurry up
and recover the Doppelganger.
[18:09] ---
"Shinasame University DNA Map Analysis Lab"
[18:11] ---
Come to think of it, weren't you selling
some kind of cards before this?
[18:14] ---
Oh yeah, those?
[18:16] ---
Huh? What are you doing in here, lady?
[18:19] ---
You wouldn't happen to be a ghost
that haunts this place, would you?
[18:23] ---
Oh, but you have a body and everything.
[18:26] ---
So why don't you and I have a nice--
[18:31] ---
Bodies...
[18:33] ---
People's thoughts dwell in the brain.
Life dwells in the heart.
[18:38] ---
Emotions dwell in the face.
[18:40] ---
So...
[18:42] ---
...if you drive the soul out of a body,
do you think it can be made vacant?
[18:58] ---
What, already?! I can't concentrate!
[19:03] ---
Ah, forgive the late hour.
I'm with the management company.
[19:07] ---
We've had some trouble with the water tanks.
[19:09] ---
The repairs are done, but we're checking
if the water quality is all right--
[19:12] ---
There's no problem here, now leave me alone!
[19:15] ---
All right, can I get you
to sign your consent, please?
[19:18] ---
It's a regulation, you understand.
[19:21] ---
Forgive me, but I'm very busy,
so let's hurry and--
[19:25] ---
You weren't on the camera--
[19:28] ---
Whoops.
[19:29] ---
Sorry to be so abrupt.
I wonder if we could have a quick word.
[19:34] ---
Wh-Who are you people?!
[19:36] ---
It's not like I'm going to bite,
so I don't want you to be afraid.
[19:41] ---
The third-ranked? Railgun?!
[19:46] ---
You're not here from the research lab, right?
[19:49] ---
Not really. I was just running down
Indian Poker and came across you.
[19:53] ---
And I was just roped into doing this by her.
[19:57] ---
But after seeing what I saw,
I can't very well not ask you about it.
[20:01] ---
What you saw?
[20:02] ---
I watched as your cyborg
broke out a little while ago.
[20:07] ---
Broke out? So, it finally happened.
[20:11] ---
So then you knew about that thing.
[20:13] ---
Yeah.
[20:14] ---
The chief and other researchers
called her "Doppelganger."
[20:19] ---
I saw her on the monitor right after my surgery.
[20:22] ---
A mechanical puppet who identifies
herself as a human--as Kuriba Ryoko.
[20:28] ---
The chief and the others were terribly excited.
[20:31] ---
Soul generation--they said it
was uncharted territory.
[20:35] ---
You're saying that there's
a soul inside that machine, too?
[20:39] ---
Honestly, even after seeing it myself,
I only half believe it.
[20:43] ---
But assuming that such a
phenomenon has actually happened,
[20:47] ---
it could create some extremely serious problems.
[20:50] ---
Serious? It may be a lot tougher,
compared to flesh-and-blood people,
[20:56] ---
but it is just a
healthcare-based machine, right?
[20:58] ---
It isn't built for combat.
Is having just one of them really a threat?
[21:03] ---
I told them that someday,
she would realize that she isn't human,
[21:08] ---
but they said "Then we'll
get some more data from that,"
[21:11] ---
and "The lower levels of the building
have layer after layer of security,
[21:15] ---
plus, she has a shutdown device
implanted, so it's okay."
[21:19] ---
Everyone refused to listen to
what kind of danger that thing posed.
[21:29] ---
Artificial skin.
[21:38] ---
Well, it's important to look the part,
after all. And while I'm at it...
[21:49] ---
Found her. An abandoned
facility in School District 20.
[21:55] ---
You were in there a long time,
Yakkun. Huge dump?
[21:59] ---
--Or are we having a lady's day today?
[22:00] ---
--Huh?!
--Or are we having a lady's day today?
[22:01] ---
Knock it off, Naru. Don't you realize
the position we've been placed in?
[22:06] ---
Quite correct.
[22:09] ---
You had a big job to do.
A request straight from the governing board,
[22:13] ---
and you guys messed it up.
[22:16] ---
You may have been going up against that monster,
[22:18] ---
but you were powerless to stop him
and came running back in disgrace.
[22:21] ---
Your reputation as a dark side
subsidiary organization is in the pits.
[22:25] ---
If you make one more mistake...
[22:27] ---
We get it. If we screw up this mission,
we're as good as stray dogs.
[22:32] ---
I wish stray dogs is all we would be.
[22:34] ---
Now that we're clear, get on the stick,
you leftover-eating Scavengers.
[22:41] ---
Hmph, she talks down to us
just like a self-important teacher.
[22:46] ---
I wasn't expecting us to get the
flushed-down-to-the-dark-side treatment.
[22:50] ---
Take it easy, Leader.
[22:55] ---
Yeah, I know, Seike. Okay,
[22:59] ---
let's go, guys.
[23:01] ---
Time to start recovering
that piece of scrap metal!
[23:25] ---
"Next episode preview"
[23:25] ---
Manipulator of paper, Naru!
[23:26] ---
"Next episode preview"
"#22 Scavenger"
[23:27] ---
Controller of frictional coefficients, Seike!
[23:29] ---
Leave the chemicals to me! Yakumaru!
[23:32] ---
Master of the birds-eye view, Leader!
[23:34] ---
The four of us combined are Scavenger!
[23:37] ---
What if we introduced ourselves that way?
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--Overruled.
--Overruled.
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