6 - Ghost Whispers, Part 2

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    A near future not quite so informatized
    that nations and races have disappeared,
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    though corporate Nets have covered the planet
    and electrons and light stream everywhere...
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    Those who obstruct my Net
    will disappear from this city.
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    Just get the module--
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    Huh?
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    The only solution is to get the module.
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    Are you an American agent?
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    My code name is "VV."
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    I only desire one thing...
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    ...access to "Pandora."
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    I'll pay you a salary.
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    Let's do this.
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    -No use!
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    You people can't stop my Net.
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    Arms, fingers, legs, nails
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    Ears, nose, mouth, hair
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    What are you?
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    You'll wake up back where you started
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    Now you're still in your usual dream
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    A touch, and this world vanishes
    and takes you with it
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    Something reveals itself
    after everything else disappears
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    Look, all the old rules have been scrapped
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    In this new world,
    something keeps you yourself
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    It's what's yours, what you're
    doing to yourself, for yourself
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    A barrier maze?
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    This processing speed...
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    In about an hour, Pandora's lid will open.
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    It's impossible to stop me before then.
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    You want revenge against
    the country that badly?
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    I'm uncovering the truth.
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    Ghost Whispers, Part 2
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    The op to move the refugees in Qhardistan
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    was the 78th Composite Unit's final mission.
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    Which was an extermination op you led?
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    No!
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    This is...
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    They were unarmed refugees.
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    Afterward, a conglomerate occupied their land.
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    Someone ordered their slaughter
    to benefit the national interest.
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    Give me water!
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    This is the first step.
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    I'll put all the nations who led the
    world into war in that same position.
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    Soga! You've been inf--
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    Soga?
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    This is... a gap in the maze, maybe?
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    How did she leave the
    barrier maze? No--she didn't.
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    Soga can't see me?
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    I did manage to land in a gap.
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    He's parallelized all the Als
    in Japan's traffic network!
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    That was close.
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    My barrier won't last long. Let's hurry.
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    Call from the Ministry of Defense.
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    A DoS attack on the Pandora
    barrier began four minutes ago.
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    We can't keep up with it.
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    Major! Are you all right? What's the situation?
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    Soga took over the traffic control
    system through the module.
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    But the threat to kill if we
    didn't release Pandora was fake.
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    He intends to use the vast
    system power he's gained
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    to break Pandora wide open.
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    I see...
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    In that case, there are steps we can take.
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    You keep working to recover the module.
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    Nice timing!
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    The deal with the government should be a bluff.
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    Colonel Soga went too far.
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    This started as a plan for the
    Vice-Minister to sell Pandora!
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    We can't survive turning
    the whole world against us!
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    If you've got cold feet, run. Nobody'll stop you.
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    Negotiate a deal or whatever.
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    I sure will!
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    If you're in this for money, run without a fight.
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    Hey! Home Affairs just gave us money!
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    Give it to someone who cares!
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    We're withdrawing. I'll buy some time.
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    The colonel didn't even wait
    to clear the 78th's name.
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    Why do you figure that is?
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    Kasuga!
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    The colonel got scapegoated...!
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    Let's go!
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    I'll meet up with you once I've stalled them.
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    Do it fast.
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    Paz, do you read me?
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    More or less.
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    Do you know an intelligence
    man named Ishikawa?
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    Sure do.
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    If you find him, use a cable
    to get him to the cyber lobby.
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    Roger!
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    I'm hanging up before they detect our line.
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    Shit. The colonel's got domination,
    but they're still roaming free!
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    Don't underestimate me. I can locate
    even a super-wizard-class hacker
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    if they make a call during domination!
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    The Major's got business with you.
    Let me connect you, and nobody gets hurt.
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    Try it, kiddo. I'll play with you.
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    Be a good boy, and you won't get hurt.
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    You mean you won't.
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    She was playing me with that call?
    Damn gorilla woman!
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    Who are you calling a gorilla?
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    Planning to stick me with a virus?
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    The opposite. I think you're already infected.
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    What?
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    It's a makeshift vaccine, so you'll
    have to put up with any bugs.
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    I've lost contact with Ishikawa.
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    I'll go.
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    I'll take the module and go on ahead.
    We rendezvous at the trap!
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    Roger!
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    Drive.
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    Shit. You, Saito?!
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    We're all pros here. No holding a grudge.
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    If you're a pro, join the side that pays best.
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    Home Affairs paid us.
    I'll give you a triple share.
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    Take it from my account!
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    Ishikawa!
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    C'mon, let's get back to guarding the module.
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    Don't move.
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    Hey! Ishikawa?!
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    Major! They all left.
    Only one car stayed behind.
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    Damn, they pulled out already?
    They've got good judgment.
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    Paz, you go in VV's car.
    I'll go with the Logicoma!
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    Charge!
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    Here already?!
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    Logicoma, the tires!
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    Cut between them. You take right!
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    Here we go, Paz.
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    He's taken over my car!
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    "Special specifications," my ass!
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    He quit everything to focus some
    crazy pressure on me! It's too much!
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    Ishikawa!
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    Damn gorilla woman's calling.
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    Ishikawa?
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    Shit. Never figured the
    colonel'd try to brain-fry me!
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    I can't believe it--did he really?!
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    We're about to find out what the truth is.
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    I have control!
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    Ishikawa's cooperating with 'em?
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    Saito!
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    Sorry lady, but they sweetened the pot.
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    You damn gambling-freak mercenary!
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    Once we get there--
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    We win!
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    Huh? I can't see them anymore.
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    This makes no sense.
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    Where are they?!
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    There's no record that I've been hacked,
    so why did they vanish?!
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    They didn't overwrite your vision.
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    Can you move?!
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    I lost my right arm, but don't worry--
    we're still in the game.
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    So what was their trick?
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    They used our own skills to
    fake us out. Slick of them.
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    It's an old type of optical
    camouflage holograph.
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    I'd have missed it if we
    weren't going so slowly.
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    I'll send you the location.
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    Securing the module is top priority.
    We're out of time.
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    They figured it out?
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    They're damn persistent!
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    Fire!
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    Aye!
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    We don't have your mobility,
    so it'll take us a bit.
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    No problem. Logicoma, you stay there.
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    Wait until we get to you!
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    Skilled as always.
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    But you're not the only one good
    at infiltrating vision, 501 Major...
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    No, just "Major" now.
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    Paz!
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    VV, get the module, fast!
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    Paz!
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    We set up 317 roadblocks, from Wards 1
    through 38. Do we keep going?
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    Mobilize all forces and
    put up as many as you can.
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    We'll tie up all vehicles' onboard computers
    with accident-avoidance processes.
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    I feel bad for the MLIT,
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    but I'm going to cause the
    worst gridlock in thirty years.
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    Public Security's stopped more than
    30% of the vehicles that were in motion.
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    Both you and Colonel Soga
    had been deliberately infected.
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    There is no "truth" about
    that refugee transport op.
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    You killed those people
    and ordered an airstrike.
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    You did it because all the "refugees"
    you were trying to safeguard
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    were armed guerillas.
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    It's the MOD's responsibility now.
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    Either do something about him,
    or destroy Pandora right now!
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    Obviously out of the question!
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    Because you want me to open Pandora?
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    What?
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    Don't!
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    You bastard!
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    Wait! Don't shoot!
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    It was the Administrative Vice-Minister
    who gave me the module.
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    That agent's objective is the same.
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    Make sure you don't use
    the de-parallelizing code.
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    What?
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    I can't stop the infiltration.
    This is the only way!
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    Stop!
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    I gave you a copy of the vaccine.
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    It's imperfect, but you'll be able
    to tell which memories are false.
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    It's unlikely we'll be able to
    eradicate them, but I'll give you a hand.
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    Not interested.
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    It's the only memory that lets me feel
    like I'm not just a dog trained to kill!
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    You're just a whiny bitch, then.
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    What happened, Major?!
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    It's over. Send a rescue squad.
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    What do you mean, "over"?!
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    Pandora's been infiltrated!
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    The data's being leaked to
    a different Net than Soga's!
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    Step away from the module!
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    Don't resist. I feel an affinity with you.
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    You, who haven't had a flesh-and-blood
    body for as long as you can remember.
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    You bitch...
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    That attack barrier is meaningless.
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    My brain has to be synchronized, like his.
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    A neurochip? You're...
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    I must find out where it came from:
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    This thing which infected me
    and gave me true self-awareness.
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    Even if I have to access the whole world's
    organizations and their secrets...
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    I shall.
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    You're an artificial intelligence
    pretending to be human...
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    What for?!
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    I just have to know.
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    My Ghost whi--spered--that--to--me--
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    Ghost...
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    Huh?
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    A certain intelligence agency admitted
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    that one of its Als was infected
    with an unknown virus on the Net
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    and began acting outside of their control.
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    And it absconded with the module,
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    then manipulated the Vice-Minister.
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    He made too many dangerous
    deals during the war.
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    He intended to sell the contents
    of Pandora and flee the country.
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    That's why he manipulated Soga
    and sent in a team of his own pawns.
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    But Soga seized control of the situation,
    so the AI planned a recovery strategy.
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    "A rogue AI did it all" --how very convenient.
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    Even if it's half true, I'm sure *they
    *let things lie to try to profit from her.
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    Though it seems they're not the
    only ones to try to profit from this.
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    You're the one who came to me.
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    With the result that you made
    your team a fait accompli
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    with the highest possible priority.
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    Want to re-register as part of Section 9?
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    They'll cancel this registration if you
    can't get enough people together.
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    No thanks.
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    I appreciate your help
    with the paperwork, though.
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    It'll close in five minutes. Decide before then.
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    Sit there and get sentenced in one
    of the speed-trials the system loves,
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    or join my squad.
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    You say that to everyone you've
    been in shooting matches with?
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    I can only get people infected
    with the memory virus released.
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    Though those three are the ones I want anyway.
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    They'll accept that after we just
    picked a fight with the government?
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    If I, Section 9, and a certain
    country's intelligence agency
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    testify about the false memories.
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    Ishikawa and Borma agreed.
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    As for Saito, when I paid him a little
    visit before he could go to ground,
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    he begged me to let him join.
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    You're some piece of work.
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    So, you're telling me to be
    Public Security's errand boy?
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    It's an independent offensive unit
    based on skill, with no ranks,
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    and it has top priority.
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    I'll give you memories of being
    more than a dog trained to kill.
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    These fake memories--
    can you really erase 'em?
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    I can try.
[23:55] ---
    Whoa! The Major has a boyfriend?!
[23:58] ---
    The squad searches for the culprit
    behind a string of bombings
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    and their connection with Scylla,
    the dead Qhardi hero.
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    The great detective Togusa!
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