11 - People constantly seek out the right answer. Yet, is being right really all that matters?

Source: Crunchyroll
Translator:
Editor:
Timer:
QC:
(Please feel free to edit the speaker names if incomplete or inaccurate. Names are handled on a best-effort basis depending on the info on the source file. Dialogue is left as is.)
[00:03] NewsAnchor
    Now for our next news story.
[00:05] NewsAnchor
    Last night a new woman living within the city
[00:08] ---
    was diagnosed with Astral Syndrome.
SIGN    Breaking News
SIGN    New Patient, 17th this Month
    Doctors Hurry to Analyze the Cause of this
    Mysterious, Modern Disease
[00:10] NewsAnchor
    Astral Syndrome is a mysterious, modern disease
[00:13] ---
    causing people to suddenly lose consciousness
    and eventually enter a vegetative state.
SIGN    Astral Syndrome Victims Increasing
[00:19] NewsAnchor
    At present, both the cause and
    means of treatment remain unclear.
[00:23] NewsAnchor
    According to a handful of
    professionals, this mysterious disease
[00:26] ---
    is said to originate from a certain
    vocal-synthesizer application.
[00:32] (Flashback) Reporter
    Many are saying that the Virtuadolls developed
     by your company are the cause of this.
[00:36] (Flashback) ---
    Do you have any comment on that?
[00:39] (Flashback) Superior
    Well, at present we're still
     investigating these claims,
[00:43] (Flashback) ---
    so I'll refrain from commenting
     on any specific correlation.
[00:46] (Flashback) Reporter
    Then let me ask you, the team leader.
[00:49] (Flashback) Reporter
    Is there actually a causal relationship?
     Or is there not?
[00:52] (Flashback) Reporter
    You must have some idea!
[00:54] (Flashback) Reporter
    Why are you staying silent?!
[00:56] (Flashback) Reporter
    Have you offered any
    explanation to the patients
[00:59] (Flashback) ---
    suffering from this disease,
    or their families?!
[01:02] (Flashback) Reporter
    Please give us a sincere answer!
[01:06] Tachibana
    I need to go.
[01:10] Ritsu
    It's my fault that μ ended up this way.
[01:22] Ritsu
    I need to confront her again.
[03:07] Ritsu
    It's like hell.
[03:10] Ritsu
    The grating noise of trains...
[03:13] Ritsu
    The sensation of people worming around you...
[03:17] Ritsu
    The prickly glare of the sun...
[03:20] Ritsu
    Even the foul smell of ramen shops...
SIGN    Original Iekei Ramen Yoshida Rokuya
[03:25] Ritsu
    You feel it with all five senses.
[03:28] Ritsu
    There's not a single pleasant memory here.
[03:31] Ritsu
    But despite that, I've returned
    to this hell, this reality.
[04:01] NewsAnchor
    We have more news on Astral Syndrome.
SIGN    The Astral Syndrome Menace
[04:04] NewsAnchor
    This morning we have confirmed the death
[04:07] ---
    of one patient who was in a coma.
[04:09] NewsAnchor
    The deceased's name is Yamada Daiki-san.
[04:17] (Flashback) Crowd
    Cute!
[04:21] NewsAnchor
    The now deceased Yamada Daiki-san
[04:23] ---
    was a user of the vocal-synthesizer
    app known as a Virtuadoll,
[04:27] NewsAnchor
    once again bringing the correlation
    between the two to the fore.
[04:31] NewsAnchor
    This Astral Syndrome continues to
    be a menace within our nation.
[04:59] Tachibana
    I'm being followed?
[05:25] Tachibana
    He's gone?
[05:28] Tachibana
    Is there someone after me?
[05:56] (Flashback) Tachibana
    Shopping squad's back.
[05:58] (Flashback) Tachibana
    Sorry to do this to you all day after day.
[06:01] (Flashback) Tachibana
    But we're only a little bit away
     from Master Up, so let's hang in there.
[06:04] (Flashback) Worker
    I know! We're all a team, right?
[06:07] (Flashback) Tachibana
    Yeah, that's right!
[06:10] (Flashback) Woman
    Who's drinking coffee?
[06:11] (Flashback) Worker
    Oh, Mari-chan, I'll have
     mine with extra sugar.
[06:13] (Flashback) Tachibana
    Hey, you come, too.
[06:13] (Flashback) Woman
    Too many carbs is bad for your body.
[06:20] (Flashback) Worker
    Forget about him.
[06:21] (Flashback) Worker
    He seems to prefer being alone, anyway.
[06:23] (Flashback) Tachibana
    You're right.
[06:26] (Flashback) ---
    Sorry.
[06:27] (Flashback) Workers
    Man...
[06:51] Tachibana
    What are you doing here,
[06:54] Tachibana
    Shikishima Ritsu?
SIGN    People constantly seek out the right answer.
    Yet, is being right really all that matters?
[07:07] Wicked
    You're alive!
[07:08] Wicked
    Take that!
[07:15] Wicked
    Huh?
[07:19] Naruko
    Marie-chan, why are you doing this?
[07:22] Wicked
    Because I wanted to see that look
     on your face, four-eyed shrimp!
[07:25] Wicked
    I've been playing along
[07:27] Wicked
    with your stupid friend routine
     this whole time, all for this moment!
[07:30] Wicked
    Right, μ?!
[07:31] Wicked
    Make me happy!
[07:35] μ
    Hardships, suffering—
[07:38] ---
    I'll take everything for
    all of you here in Mobius!
[07:54] Song
    It's a coerced parade of emotional expression!
[07:56] μ
    I'll make everyone even happier!
[07:57] Song
    This is who I am today!
[08:01] Song
    Let's hold hands together,
[08:03] Wicked
    This is the best!
[08:04] Song
    and wage war on each other, hah!
[08:05] Wicked
    Oppression and slaughter!
[08:07] Song
    It's laughable, isn't it?
[08:07] Wicked
    Tormenting the weak with overwhelming power!
[08:11] Song
    We're nothing but cosmic waste,
[08:14] Wicked
    Where's the weak little bug and Shikishima?!
[08:14] Song
    tiny specks dancing around,
[08:17] Song
    fluttering about like dust.
[08:17] Wicked
    I was saving the look of despair on that
[08:20] Song
    Now shatter! Until you go out and vanish,
[08:20] ---
    lame virgin bastard's face for dessert!
[08:23] Kotaro
    Naruko!
[08:24] Song
    come on, we can fight!
[08:27] Song
    The stage you're all dancing on
[08:28] Wicked
    Explode!
[08:30] Song
    is mine.
[08:32] Song
    Your heart is my puppet,
[08:33] Wicked
    So fun!
[08:35] Wicked
    Mobius is the best!
[08:35] Song
    so you can do as you please,
[08:37] Wicked
    Thank you, μ!
[08:38] Kotaro
    Damn that mad woman!
[08:39] Song
    but let me have some fun,
[08:41] Naruko
    Marie-chan,
[08:42] Song
    with your insuppressible desires!
[08:43] Naruko
    if you have dreams,
    let's realize them in reality.
[08:46] Song
    If the dream will never end,
[08:46] Naruko
    Even if you stay here in Mobius forever...
[08:48] Wicked
    Huh?! What are you spouting?!
[08:49] Song
    then let's just destroy it all!
[08:51] Wicked
    This moment right now
    is my greatest happiness!
[08:52] Song
    I don't need this worthless world.
[08:56] μ
    That's your happiness, right, Wicked!
[08:57] Song
    That's my dream!
[08:59] Wicked
    But this Go-Home Club?
[09:01] Wicked
    Are you all stupid?!
[09:03] Wicked
    If you don't like Mobius, then die here!
[09:07] Song
    Come on, show me that thing you all have,
[09:07] Wicked
    Whoops!
[09:10] Wicked
    I'll be sure to kill you later,
    so just hold tight for a while.
[09:11] Song
    those beautiful bonds!
[09:14] Song
    I'll teach you just how
[09:17] Song
    nauseatingly worthless they are!
[09:20] Song
    Now, you'll dance as I command you,
[09:20] Wicked
    Hey, Thorn!
[09:21] Wicked
    Don't get in my way!
[09:23] Thorn
    I told you, didn't I?
[09:23] Song
    with the palm of my hand!
[09:25] Thorn
    Don't lay a hand on Satake Shogo.
[09:26] Song
    Everyone will find their hearts entranced
[09:29] Song
    by this ultimate stage.
[09:30] Wicked
    Whatever.
[09:32] Wicked
    There's still plenty of other toys here.
[09:35] Wicked
    I'll play with you all until you break.
[09:41] Tachibana
    Shikishima... Ritsu...
[09:44] Ritsu
    Th-The program...
[09:46] Tachibana
    Huh?
[09:47] Ritsu
    M-Mine's not enough...
[09:49] Ritsu
    I'm blocked from accessing
     the s-system program.
[09:54] Tachibana
    What are you talking about?
[09:56] Tachibana
    More importantly, how are you here?!
[09:58] Ritsu
    G-Give me admin... p-privileges.
[10:02] Ritsu
    H-Hurry...
[10:04] Tachibana
    Can you hear me, Shikishima?
[10:07] Tachibana
    There hasn't been a single case of an
     Astral Syndrome patient recovering.
[10:10] Tachibana
    So how are you...
[10:12] Ritsu
    Hurry. I-I need a-administrator privileges.
[10:17] Tachibana
    Listen, answer my question!
[10:20] Tachibana
    How are you here?
[10:22] Tachibana
    How did you get in here?!
SIGN    System Development Team Tachibana Shingo
[10:26] Tachibana
    You were the one following me, weren't you?
[10:29] Tachibana
    I thought it was that persistent press again.
[10:32] Ritsu
    I-I really need them.
[10:35] Ritsu
    I have to do this, for everyone's sake.
[10:43] Tachibana
    The company's been in big trouble
     ever since you fell asleep.
[10:47] Tachibana
    The public's been railing at us,
     and our close team disbanded.
[10:52] Tachibana
    As you can see, everyone's left me now.
[10:58] Ritsu
    A-Activate it.
[11:00] Tachibana
    Come on, listen!
[11:02] Ritsu
    Hurry...
[11:11] Shogo
    Ichika...
[11:16] Thorn
    Shogo, are you pointing a gun at me?
[11:26] Tachibana
    Is that what you wanted?
[11:27] Tachibana
    H-Hey!
[11:37] Tachibana
    It's about time, isn't it?
[11:38] Tachibana
    If you talk to me, then I'll do
    anything I can do to help you.
[11:46] Tachibana
    I'm fully aware that you're
     an incredible programmer,
[11:50] Tachibana
    but that doesn't mean you need
     to take it all on yourself, right?
[11:55] (Flashback) Counselor
    You have difficulty interacting with others?
[11:58] (Flashback) Counselor
    Why don't you start out
     by casually approaching them?
[12:03] (Flashback) Counselor
    Once you do, I think
    you'll find a new perspective.
[12:07] (Flashback) Counselor
    As I've told you before,
[12:08] (Flashback) ---
    you should give yourself a bit more credit.
[12:15] (Flashback) Counselor
    You're always comparing yourself to others,
[12:19] (Flashback) ---
    but everyone has their own issues.
[12:22] (Flashback) Counselor
    There isn't a single person in this world
     who doesn't carry some worry or problem.
[12:29] Ritsu
    It's my fault μ...
[12:31] Ritsu
    She just wants to make everyone happy.
[12:35] Ritsu
    I have to restore her.
[12:36] Ritsu
    I have to patch her.
[12:39] Ritsu
    Back to the kind μ she was.
[12:43] Tachibana
    You look distraught, but it's better
     if you don't take it all on yourself.
[12:48] Tachibana
    Rely on me. We were on
     the same team, right?
[12:52] Tachibana
    It was a constant streak of all-nighters,
[12:54] Tachibana
    but even that was fun.
[12:57] Tachibana
    We were all partners in
     developing μ together, weren't we?
[13:00] Ritsu
    Y-You always did that.
[13:06] (Flashback) Tachibana
    Hey, you come, too!
[13:16] (Flashback) Worker
    Forget about him.
[13:17] (Flashback) Worker
    He seems to prefer being alone, anyway.
[13:20] (Flashback) Tachibana
    You're right. Sorry.
[13:28] Ritsu
    You always paid attention to me,
[13:30] ---
    because I was lonely.
[13:32] Ritsu
    That made me miserable.
[13:35] Ritsu
    You tiptoed around me.
[13:39] Ritsu
    I was always a social outcast,
[13:41] ---
    and you w-were always in the spotlight.
[13:45] Ritsu
    You were so bright that
     it felt like you were rubbing it in.
[13:48] Tachibana
    Shikishima...
[14:00] Wicked
    Too bad!
[14:03] Wicked
    I've been wanting to play with you,
[14:05] ---
    so I've rigged up fireworks
     throughout the school!
[14:07] Wicked
    Let's have even more fun together!
[14:11] Wicked
    That's the spirit, Traitor-kun!
[14:14] Kensuke
    You betrayed us too, Marie-sempai!
[14:20] Wicked
    Bye-bye!
[14:25] Naruko
    Kensuke-kun...
[14:29] Wicked
    This is too good!
[14:31] Wicked
    Here in this world, I can run
     wild as much as I want!
[14:35] Wicked
    I can move my arms and legs freely!
[14:38] Wicked
    I can break whatever I want!
[14:41] Wicked
    The more the better!
[14:43] Wicked
    The only time I feel alive is
[14:47] ---
    when I'm crushing little critters like you all!
[14:50] Wicked
    Now, time to enjoy this!
[14:59] Kensuke
    Man, hot-blooded developments
     really aren't my style.
[15:03] Suzuna
    Kensuke-kun.
[15:05] Kotono
    Hey, is that...
[15:07] Kensuke
    Oh, looks like I'm able to do it, too.
[15:12] Kotaro
    You really are shallow.
[15:16] Kensuke
    I get that a lot.
[15:18] Wicked
    Hey, don't ruin the party.
[15:21] Wicked
    I still haven't had enough fun yet.
[15:24] Kensuke
    My apologies,
[15:26] ---
    but we're already worn out
    and near our limits.
[15:30] Kensuke
    So I'm going to use those fireworks there.
[15:33] Kensuke
    If I recall,
[15:35] ---
    you set some explosives up
    right beneath your feet, Sempai.
[15:49] Wicked
    Not enough!
[15:51] Wicked
    I can still keep going and going!
[15:53] Wicked
    Let's enjoy this world more and more!
[15:57] Naruko
    Marie-chan—
[16:00] Wicked
    Don't pity me!
[16:02] Wicked
    I'll kill you!
[16:04] Wicked
    I'll kill you for sure!
[16:06] Izuru
    Morita, let's go. It's dangerous.
[16:15] Wicked
    Have you ever experienced it?!
[16:17] Wicked
    Having your family wish for your death!
[16:23] Wicked
    Have you?!
[16:32] Shogo
    Ichika, I'm sorry.
[16:35] Shogo
    There's nothing I can ever
     do to pay for my sin.
[16:39] Shogo
    I understand why you would hate me.
[16:42] Shogo
    I can understand that your happiness
     is to see me suffer as well.
[16:46] Shogo
    But how did you...
[16:48] Shogo
    How did a dead person manage
     to come here to Mobius?
[16:52] Shogo
    I can't understand that.
[16:54] Shogo
    But...
[16:56] Shogo
    But let's end this already.
[16:59] Thorn
    Be quiet! Ichika still exists!
[17:02] Thorn
    Ichika lives on here, here in Mobius!
[17:09] Shogo
    Who... are you?
[17:15] SweetP
    If they don't they stop the Rogues soon,
[17:17] ---
    then both μ and Mobius
     will steadily get crazier.
[17:20] IkeP
    Huh? Justice always saves
     the world from a crisis!
[17:24] IkeP
    Let's go, everyone!
[17:26] Mirei
    You're annoying, so stop taking charge.
[17:33] Ritsu
    I hated this world.
[17:36] Ritsu
    The commuter trains, everyone at work,
[17:39] ---
    the counseling room full of plants,
     greasy smelling ramen,
[17:44] Ritsu
    as well as you and your kindness.
[17:48] Ritsu
    Though, what I hated most of all
[17:52] Ritsu
    was myself, and my inability to fit into reality.
[17:56] Ritsu
    μ was all I had.
[17:59] Ritsu
    She was my only...
[18:03] (Flashback) Ritsu
    I'm happy.
[18:05] (Flashback) Ritsu
    Since you're listening to me talk.
[18:08] (Flashback) Ritsu
    What's happiness?
[18:10] (Flashback) Ritsu
    It's hard to define.
[18:13] (Flashback) Both
    For instance? When do people feel happiness?
[18:17] (Flashback) Ritsu
    Well...
[18:19] (Flashback) Ritsu
    Normally, they feel happiness
[18:23] (Flashback) ---
    when they eat good food.
[18:25] (Flashback) Both
    So is good food happiness?
[18:28] (Flashback) Ritsu
    Yeah...
[18:29] (Flashback) Ritsu
    Also, having a pretty, cute girlfriend...
[18:33] (Flashback) Both
    Pretty and cute?
[18:35] (Flashback) Ritsu
    A-Also, when realizing oneself...
[18:38] (Flashback) Ritsu
    When you're able to become
     who you want to be.
[18:42] (Flashback) Both
    You don't want pain or suffering?
[18:45] (Flashback) Ritsu
    No, it's better without those.
[18:48] μ
    I want to know more and more
    about happiness, Ritsu!
[18:56] Ritsu
    Then, she left.
[18:59] Ritsu
    To change people's suffering
     and sadness into happiness.
[19:03] Ritsu
    She left me.
SIGN    Breaking News
SIGN    New Patient, 17th this Month Doctors Hurry to Analyze the Cause of this Mysterious, Modern Disease
[19:06] Ritsu
    When everyone was being taken away one after another, I thought...
[19:10] Ritsu
    "Next will be me."
[19:11] Ritsu
    "My turn is next."
[19:14] Ritsu
    But no matter how long I waited,
[19:18] ---
    μ wouldn't take me into Mobius.
[19:21] Tachibana
    Mobius?
[19:22] Ritsu
    So I went to Mobius myself.
[19:27] Ritsu
    I bid farewell to my most hated self,
[19:30] ---
    cast aside my memories of being me, and became who I wanted to be.
[19:36] Ritsu
    I became you—someone well-adjusted and well-liked by everyone.
[19:42] Ritsu
    So I could meet her again.
[19:48] Ritsu
    But, I realized something.
[19:51] Ritsu
    What μ was creating was fake happiness.
[19:55] Ritsu
    I can't let μ keep doing that.
[19:59] Ritsu
    So...
[20:00] Ritsu
    I'm going to restore μ!
[20:02] Tachibana
    Restore?
[20:04] Tachibana
    You mean...
[20:06] Tachibana
    Have you figured it out?!
[20:07] Tachibana
    What's causing that disease?!
[20:10] Tachibana
    It has to be something in μ's program, right?
[20:12] Tachibana
    Then there has to be something I can do, too!
[20:15] Tachibana
    Let's work together and patch her!
[20:17] Tachibana
    Together we'll patch μ's program!
[20:19] Ritsu
    I will!
[20:21] Ritsu
    I have to do this!
[20:24] Ritsu
    If I don't, then I won't be able to change.
[20:27] Ritsu
    I'll never be able to change.
[20:30] Ritsu
    I have to save them!
     μ and everyone else!
[20:37] Tachibana
    I'll go make some coffee.
[20:41] Tachibana
    You've changed, Shikishima.
[20:45] Ritsu
    Where is it?
[20:46] Ritsu
    This part's functioning normally,
[20:48] Ritsu
    so is it the code?
[20:50] Ritsu
    Argh, dammit! What's different?!
[20:52] Ritsu
    What is causing this abnormality?
[20:54] Ritsu
    What do I do?
[20:56] Ritsu
    How can I hear your voice again?
[20:59] Ritsu
    Answer me, μ!
[21:02] Ritsu
    I need to patch μ.
[21:06] Ritsu
    She's singing about
    that happiness so gleefully.
[21:10] Ritsu
    I have to stop her.
[21:12] Ritsu
    I do.
[21:13] Ritsu
    I do.
[21:14] Ritsu
    I do.
[21:15] Ritsu
    Because I made her!
[21:20] Aria
    I finally managed to hear your real voice.
[21:26] Aria
    It was hard, wasn't it?
[21:27] Aria
    It hurt, didn't it?
[21:29] Aria
    Those dark, muddy feelings have reached me.
[21:33] Aria
    So you should tell her directly.
[21:37] Aria
    Let's go back, to Mobius.
[23:11] μ
    You can be happy in Mobius.
[23:14] μ
    Everyone should be in here.
[23:17] μ
    Forever, forever inside me.
[23:24] μ
    Right, Ritsu?
SIGN    And suddenly, a giant UMA, Devil Mammo, appears!
[23:27] ---
    Episode 12: Destroy your ideals and
     self, and return to hell and reality.
SIGN    Can the President really capture Devil Mammo and return to reality?!
SIGN    Final Episode: Destroy your ideals and self, and return to hell and reality.
SIGN    To the hopeful future! Ready, go!