4 - The Shadows of Shinjuku

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[01:32] Veltol
    Pardon me.
[01:33] Yakuza
    He from your family?!
[01:34] Veltol
    Takahashi, is it safe to assume that
    small box is the item we're stealing?
[01:35] Yakuza
    You sure he's not one of yours?!
[01:37] Yakuza
    No! I don't know him!
[01:39] Yakuza
    No way! For starters,
    this is a secret exchange
[01:39] Takahashi
    Hm, yeah. That cube's it...
[01:42] Yakuza
    only a handful of guys from
    each family know about!
[01:44] Takahashi
    Wait, huh?!
[01:45] Yakuza
    Did you set us all up for a trap?!
[01:46] Takahashi
    Velly, I thought you didn't have a Familia.
[01:47] Yakuza
    How many times do
     I gotta say he ain't with us?!
[01:49] Veltol
    I just reproduced the Familia's
    aether communications using magic.
[01:51] Yakuza
    Then who is this guy?!
[01:52] Yakuza
    Hell if I know!
[01:54] Veltol
    There aren't many enemies here.
[01:56] Veltol
    I'll subdue them and take it.
[01:58] Takahashi
    Don't kill them, okay?
[02:00] Veltol
    I know.
[02:02] Veltol
    I'll show them the power of a
    million subscribers' faith!
[02:08] Boss
    Hey! Who the hell are you?!
[02:13] Veltol
    Good evemortal! Hello!
[02:16] Veltol
    It is I, the Demon Lord
    Veltol Velvet Velsvalt!
[02:24] Veltol
    Hm, not a single spark of recognition...
[02:26] Veltol
    I must work harder.
[02:28] Yakuza
    Hey, you makin' fun of us?!
[02:31] Veltol
    Well, I think I'll use you to test
    how much my faith has recovered.
[02:37] Veltol
    You'll at least provide a
    good warm-up for me, yes?
[02:39] Yakuza
    What the hell are you on about,
    you crazy long-haired bitch?!
[02:42] Yakuza
    You lost all your damn marbles?!
[02:45] Veltol
    Hah, such low-level insults
[02:48] Veltol
    are nothing compared to the
    comments from my obsessive haters.
[02:50] Beastman
    Quit your damn yapping!
[02:53] Veltol
    Vestum!
[03:00] Beastman
    Impossible!
[03:02] Veltol
    Done already?
[03:04] Veltol
    Then now it's my turn.
[03:10] Beastman
    You bastard!
[03:16] Veltol
    Pathetic.
[03:18] Veltol
    The mobs in the prologue of BS
    presented me with a far greater challenge.
[03:22] Boss
    Shut up!
[03:23] Boss
    Now die!
[03:24] Takahashi
    Now look over there!
[03:29] Boss
    H-Huh? Why?
[03:37] Veltol
    It's over, Takahashi.
[03:39] Takahashi
    D-Damn...
[03:41] Takahashi
    You're a real demon lord, aren't you?
[03:44] Takahashi
    Taking out yakuza bare-handed!
[03:47] Veltol
    Were you behind him shooting
    his ally just now?
[03:51] Takahashi
    Yup!
[03:52] Takahashi
    That was an aether hack!
[03:53] Takahashi
    I hacked into the yakuza's Familia
    and overwrote his perception.
[03:59] Veltol
    Oh?
[04:00] Takahashi
    Well, looks like you didn't need the help.
[04:03] Takahashi
    Now!
[04:04] Takahashi
    Let's hurry and grab the box!
[04:06] Takahashi
    I'm heading your way.
[04:07] Veltol
    No, don't come yet.
[04:11] Pilot
    Plunder 3 to HQ.
[04:13] Pilot
    Enemy assault on point 1908 confirmed.
[04:36] Veltol
    Oh?
[04:38] Takahashi
    A Magino-Gear?!
[04:39] Takahashi
    No way!
[04:41] Takahashi
    That's a fourth-generation MG, an Ashed Dawn!
[04:44] Takahashi
    No yakuza should have something like that!
[04:46] Takahashi
    Those are for the special
    forces of the City Guard!!
[04:48] Veltol
    It's my first time seeing one in person.
[04:51] Veltol
    It's beautiful.
[04:52] Takahashi
    This isn't the time for that!
[04:54] Takahashi
    Hurry up and run!
[04:55] Takahashi
    That's impossible to fight, even for you!
[04:57] Veltol
    Sounds like it'll prove an
    excellent test of my power, then.
[05:03] Pilot
    Plunder 3, Roger.
[05:05] Pilot
    Commencing elimination of the target.
[05:34] Veltol
    Dell Ray!
[05:40] Veltol
    I doubt that will be enough to defeat it.
[05:50] Veltol
    At my full power, I would've
    easily pierced through that.
[05:55] Veltol
    I guess this is the limit of the faith
    from a measly million subscribers.
[06:01] Takahashi
    You're really working that subscriber count!
[06:03] Veltol
    Still, this isn't bad.
[06:05] Veltol
    I can have some fun.
[06:08] Veltol
    Gradschere.
[06:20] Takahashi
    This is seriously bad news, Velly!
[06:22] Veltol
    You dare challenge me to close combat?!
[06:25] Veltol
    I respect your spirit!
[06:33] Veltol
    I wrote this off as mere armor,
[06:35] Veltol
    but it's more interesting than I expected!
[06:42] Veltol
    Is that all?!
[06:44] Veltol
    Show me what you can really do!
[07:01] Veltol
    Splendid!
[07:17] Pilot
    Elimination of target confirmed.
[07:19] Pilot
    Now proceeding to retrieve the objective.
[07:21] Veltol
    Hold on.
[07:23] Veltol
    This isn't over yet.
[07:25] Pilot
    Wha?!
[07:26] Pilot
    But your head!
[07:28] Veltol
    You've shown considerable skill.
[07:30] Veltol
    I take it you've gone through
    a great deal of training.
[07:33] Veltol
    Though it appears you are
    lacking in actual combat experience.
[07:40] Veltol
    A word of advice for you.
[07:45] Veltol
    "Grip your hilt tighter in
    your moment of victory."
[07:49] Veltol
    Here's your reward for
    scoring a point on me.
[07:54] Veltol
    Engrave upon your soul the
    sight of my dark sword.
[08:00] Veltol
    Rampage in the black sky, Vernal!
[08:10] Veltol
    It pains me that I cannot show you
    its full capabilities this time,
[08:15] Veltol
    but you'll have to settle for the
    honor of basking in its glory.
[08:20] Veltol
    What's the matter?
[08:22] Veltol
    Too scared to move?
[08:25] Pilot
    You monster!
[08:46] Veltol
    That was quite an enjoyable battle.
[08:50] Veltol
    You were simply up against the wrong man.
[08:53] Veltol
    Now, it's time for you to talk.
[08:57] Pilot
    Plunder 3 to HQ!
[08:59] Pilot
    Target is alive. I've failed
    to retrieve the objective.
[09:02] Pilot
    I am unable to resume combat,
    so I shall execute Code 8090.
[09:13] Takahashi
    Velly!
[09:16] Veltol
    Takahashi, is this what you were after?
[09:18] Takahashi
    It is, but...
[09:20] Takahashi
    Velly, he cut off your head, didn't he?
[09:23] Veltol
    Indeed.
[09:24] Takahashi
    Don't "indeed" me!
[09:25] Takahashi
    That was really horrifying to watch!
[09:28] Veltol
    I'm surprised there are weapons that can
    enhance an individual's power that far.
[09:33] Veltol
    What a terrifying age we're in.
[09:35] Takahashi
    No, no, no!
[09:36] Takahashi
    You're the terrifying one here!
[09:38] Takahashi
    You just fought a Magino-Gear
    alone and rendered it inoperative!
[09:42] Takahashi
    Also, wait... This is an IHMI unit.
[09:46] Takahashi
    There's no way yakuza could
    get their hands on this,
[09:49] Takahashi
    so this deal might have been...
[09:52] Takahashi
    This is getting crazy shady, isn't it?
[09:54] Takahashi
    This job might have been
     even riskier than I thought!
[09:58] Veltol
    More importantly...
[09:59] Takahashi
    Don't just brush it off like that!
[10:02] Veltol
    What is this thing?
[10:07] Takahashi
    It's a data storage device
    made from mithril.
[10:10] Takahashi
    My client wanted the files inside of this.
[10:14] Takahashi
    Which means it's time for
    us to take a look.
[10:17] Veltol
    Are you sure?
[10:18] Takahashi
    It's fine, fine.
[10:19] Takahashi
    You're curious too, right?
[10:21] Takahashi
    My client already assumes I'm
    gonna have a peek, anyway!
[10:33] Veltol
    A blank page?
[10:47] Takahashi
    A candidate list?
[10:50] Veltol
    These are... immortals.
[10:53] Veltol
    They're my subjects.
[10:55] Takahashi
    They're all immortals?
[10:56] Veltol
    Yeah.
[10:59] Takahashi
    Machina's name...
[11:02] Takahashi
    isn't here.
[11:04] Veltol
    Good.
[11:06] Takahashi
    I'm going to ask my client
    what's going on here.
[11:09] Takahashi
    Gimme a sec!
[11:11] Takahashi
    Hm, not good. I can't reach him.
[11:15] Takahashi
    He doesn't accept calls
    from others very often,
[11:18] Takahashi
    so it looks like we'll have to go in person.
[11:20] Veltol
    Very well.
[11:22] Veltol
    This is no longer a matter
    outside of my concern as well.
[11:25] Veltol
    If something is happening to the immortals,
[11:29] Veltol
    then it is my duty as their king to stop it.
[11:34] Veltol
    This is a remarkably
     large apartment building.
[11:37] Takahashi
    My client lives on the 13th floor.
[11:40] Takahashi
    He's famous. Anyone doing this kind of
    work here in the city knows his name.
[11:45] Veltol
    Famous, huh?
[11:47] Veltol
    He should be commended for his wealth.
[12:00] Veltol
    Was that hacking, too?
[12:02] Takahashi
    Apartment security might as well
    not exist when I'm around.
[12:09] Veltol
    Takahashi.
[12:10] Takahashi
    Hm?
[12:11] Veltol
    Let me press the button.
[12:13] Takahashi
    Sure, but why?
[12:16] Veltol
    I like pushing buttons.
[12:23] Takahashi
    A demon lord who likes
    pressing elevator buttons, huh...
[12:27] Takahashi
    Oh, sorry, sorry, you can't
    go directly to 13th floor.
[12:32] Takahashi
    You have to press the 2nd floor first,
[12:38] Takahashi
    then the 17th floor,
[12:40] Takahashi
    then the 4th floor,
[12:42] Takahashi
    then the top floor,
[12:44] Takahashi
    and finally the 13th floor.
[12:48] Veltol
    Why go through all that bother?
[12:50] Takahashi
    Well, he probably considers
    it added security.
[12:56] Takahashi
    Hold on.
[12:57] Takahashi
    My client, Ejyu, is a really wary guy.
[13:03] Takahashi
    He has traps placed
    throughout the entire floor,
[13:06] Takahashi
    so if you slip up and step on one,
     you'll be Swiss cheese.
[13:09] Veltol
    I see.
[13:11] Veltol
    Hm?
[13:12] Veltol
    No, there are no traps.
[13:13] Takahashi
    Huh?
[13:14] Takahashi
    Hey! Wait, wait!
[13:17] Veltol
    To be precise, both the physical and
    magical traps have all been disarmed.
[13:22] Takahashi
    You can tell that, too?
[13:25] Veltol
    My duties as Demon Lord included the
    construction and maintenance of dungeons.
[13:29] Veltol
    Discerning the location of
    traps is a piece of cake.
[13:37] Takahashi
    That's odd. I would expect
    him to answer his doorbell.
[13:43] Veltol
    It's open.
[13:45] Takahashi
    Impossible.
[13:47] Takahashi
    Ejyu would never be this careless.
[13:51] Takahashi
    Yuck, what is this smell?!
[13:53] Veltol
    Something's wrong.
[13:54] Veltol
    Let's proceed with caution.
[13:56] Takahashi
    Yeah.
[13:59] Takahashi
    Looks like no one's home.
[14:01] Takahashi
    This way.
[14:09] Takahashi
    Oh.
[14:10] Takahashi
    Hey, Ejyu, there you are.
[14:13] Takahashi
    Are you sleeping?
[14:19] Takahashi
    H-He's dead!
[14:22] Veltol
    Hm? This face...
[14:25] Takahashi
    You recognize him?
[14:26] Veltol
    Yes, I saw him once.
[14:28] Veltol
    Though he was wearing
     shabby garments at the time.
[14:31] Takahashi
    Yeah.
[14:33] Takahashi
    He liked to disguise himself as a hobo
[14:35] Takahashi
    when he was gathering information himself.
[14:37] Veltol
    He has been stabbed in the heart
    and neck with a blade.
[14:41] Veltol
    Judging from the blood
    surrounding the wounds,
[14:43] Veltol
    it's only been a few days
    since he was killed.
[14:45] Takahashi
    Huh?
[14:47] Veltol
    Still, finding your client dead today...
[14:50] Takahashi
    Ejyu did have many enemies.
[14:53] Veltol
    No, this was not done out of malice.
[14:56] Veltol
    The wounds do not convey any emotion.
[15:00] Veltol
    This was a very business-like murder.
[15:02] Takahashi
    You mean a hired hitman?
[15:05] Veltol
    A thoroughly trained one at that.
[15:08] Takahashi
    But maybe someone with a grudge
    just sicced an assassin on him.
[15:14] Veltol
    Would they have needed to
    destroy his Familia as well?
[15:17] Takahashi
    Maybe it was just destroyed by coincidence.
[15:19] Veltol
    If murder were the only goal,
[15:21] Veltol
    then simply destroying the
    heart would kill any mortal.
[15:24] Takahashi
    You mean the real goal was destroying
    the information on his Familia?
[15:28] Takahashi
    Do you think this has something
    to do with the job I accepted?
[15:32] Veltol
    When did you accept the job from this man?
[15:34] Takahashi
    One week ago.
[15:35] Veltol
    So he was murdered
    shortly after hiring you.
[15:38] Veltol
    Then I suppose that list is our only lead.
[15:42] Takahashi
    No, we might still have another option.
[15:45] Takahashi
    Ejyu was a well-known information broker,
[15:48] Takahashi
    but he was also a skilled aether hacker.
[15:52] Takahashi
    A Familia has to be connected to the net at
    all times, so it's not suited to hiding data,
[15:57] Takahashi
    and that means he should have saved his
    intel on a separate stand-alone storage device.
[16:03] Takahashi
    The battery's still charged.
[16:06] Takahashi
    Wait, huh?
[16:07] Takahashi
    It doesn't need a password to log in?
[16:12] Takahashi
    What's this? The files are all broken.
[16:15] Veltol
    No, they're not.
[16:17] Takahashi
    Huh?
[16:17] Veltol
    Look at the arrangement of
    the files within the folder.
[16:23] Takahashi
    Oh!
[16:23] Takahashi
    I get it! A program array, huh!
[16:26] Takahashi
    Wow, I'm surprised you figured that out.
[16:28] Takahashi
    All right!
[16:31] Takahashi
    Bingo!
[16:32] Takahashi
    You were right, Velly!
[16:33] Takahashi
    Oh, hey, hey, didn't I sound like a
    hacker with that "Bingo!" just now?
[16:37] Veltol
    I have no idea what a hacker
    is supposed to sound like.
[16:41] Veltol
    "About the Immortal Furnace Project"?
[16:43] Takahashi
    I'm opening it.
[16:47] Ejyu
    Hey.
[16:48] Ejyu
    If you're watching this video,
[16:51] Ejyu
    then it means I'm already dead.
[16:54] Ejyu
    Man, I always wanted to
    say that at least once.
[16:58] Takahashi
    What a dummy.
[16:59] Ejyu
    I don't know who might be
    watching this, but...
[17:03] Ejyu
    I'll cut to the chase.
[17:05] Ejyu
    The prosperity of this city rests
    on the back of a gruesome evil.
[17:11] Ejyu
    The basic infrastructure that
    Shinjuku relies on, the aether reactor
[17:16] Ejyu
    that provides the energy to support our lives,
    is running off the lives of the innocent.
[17:22] Ejyu
    An aether reactor
[17:24] Ejyu
    draws in aether from the aether
    lines running through the ground
[17:29] Ejyu
    powered by the core of the planet.
[17:32] Ejyu
    It then converts that energy into magic
    and electricity which it then distributes.
[17:38] Ejyu
    Providing enough electricity for
    a city on the scale of Shinjuku
[17:41] Ejyu
    requires the reactor to rest atop
    roughly 10 overlaid aether lines.
[17:46] Ejyu
    However, according to the geological survey
    conducted before the first City War,
[17:50] Ejyu
    there are only two
    overlaid aether lines
[17:53] Ejyu
    directly beneath the reactor within
    the entire region of Shinjuku City.
[17:58] Ejyu
    Now,
[17:59] Ejyu
    that begs the question of how Shinjuku is
    supplying enough energy with only two lines.
[18:06] Ejyu
    As it stands, electricity is guaranteed
    anywhere within the cryotolerance zone,
[18:16] Ejyu
    so it's natural to assume there
    must be another energy source
[18:19] Ejyu
    supplementing the insufficient overlay.
[18:23] Ejyu
    That's what led to the development
    of the Immortal Furnace Project.
[18:28] Ejyu
    The furnace burns immortals like firewood.
[18:30] Ejyu
    It's a ritual magic device which burns souls
    and converts them into aether for the city.
[18:35] Ejyu
    Since they're closer to being a higher
    spiritual entity, a single immortal's soul
[18:38] Ejyu
    can be converted into vastly more aether
    than that of tens of thousands of mortals.
[18:43] Ejyu
    The more powerful the immortal,
    the more energy they can provide.
[18:47] Ejyu
    Recovered data shows
[18:49] Ejyu
    that they gathered up the
    homeless, low-income workers,
[18:52] Ejyu
    and people from outside the city to construct it.
[18:56] Ejyu
    However, once the furnace was completed,
    all the construction workers vanished.
[19:02] Ejyu
    They were likely all killed.
[19:06] Ejyu
    The people at IHMI
[19:08] Ejyu
    treat immortals as magic fuel,
    even outright calling them "firewood."
[19:14] Ejyu
    According to what I dug up, the first
    "firewood" fed to the Furnace
[19:18] Ejyu
    was apparently the Karmic Sword Zenol,
    one of the Six Dark Peers and an old immortal.
[19:23] Ejyu
    The Immortal Hunts conducted
    throughout the world
[19:25] Ejyu
    were just a good excuse prepared by IHMI
[19:28] Ejyu
    to gather up their "firewood."
[19:31] Ejyu
    Three months back,
[19:32] Ejyu
    I encountered an assassin from IHMI
    while I was gathering information,
[19:36] Ejyu
    and although I managed to escape,
[19:38] Ejyu
    they tightened up their security,
    blocking my progress.
[19:42] Ejyu
    That's why I hired out a
    hacker friend of mine.
[19:46] Ejyu
    Fortunately for me,
[19:47] Ejyu
    I got intel that the yakuza guild was going
    to be selling a list of immortals to IHMI.
[19:53] Ejyu
    Must be because they're starting
    to run out of usable "firewood"
[19:56] Ejyu
    and can see the Immortal
    Furnace is on its last legs.
[19:59] Ejyu
    Once the Immortal Furnace
    runs out of souls to burn,
[20:01] Ejyu
    that means it'll also stop
    providing aether, naturally.
[20:05] Ejyu
    It would be as if the heart of
    Shinjuku had stopped beating.
[20:10] Ejyu
    Yet even so...
[20:14] Ejyu
    I believe that the
    Immortal Furnace should not exist.
[20:17] Ejyu
    I've organized the data I gathered
    and saved it to this PC.
[20:21] Ejyu
    It's up to whoever's watching this
    to figure out what to do with it.
[20:25] Ejyu
    Please forgive me for burdening
    you with this choice.
[20:31] Ejyu
    Well, the only one who could resolve
    such a major problem of our era
[20:35] Ejyu
    would probably be the legendary Demon Lord
    who reigned high over all immortals long ago.
[20:47] Takahashi
    What the hell is this?
[20:50] Takahashi
    This is unforgivable.
[20:53] Veltol
    Then what will we do?
[20:55] Veltol
    Shall we publicize this
    information on the net?
[20:58] Takahashi
    That's...
[21:00] Veltol
    Hypothetically, what would happen
    to those living in Shinjuku
[21:03] Veltol
    if this information was revealed and
    the Immortal Furnace shut down?
[21:08] Veltol
    Before you could,
[21:09] Veltol
    it's likely you would be murdered like this man,
     and all the data would be erased.
[21:16] Veltol
    This is a problem for immortals.
[21:18] Veltol
    So, as the king of immortals, it is
    my duty to do something about it.
[21:23] Veltol
    You don't have to think about it.
[21:25] Veltol
    I will make all the decisions.
[21:29] Takahashi
    Okay.
[21:31] Takahashi
    Then...
[21:33] Takahashi
    At least let me report the
    body to the City Guard.
[21:37] Takahashi
    I'd feel bad just leaving him like this.
[21:40] Veltol
    That's true.
[21:46] Veltol
    I need to inform Machina about this as well.
[21:49] Takahashi
    Yeah.
[21:50] Veltol
    Machina, do you have a moment?
[21:56] Veltol
    Machina?
[21:58] Takahashi
    What's the matter?