The series of incidents started on that day. The day of Asumi's memorial mass.
Hey, this past year, have you...
No, never mind.
There's nothing to "never mind" about.
We don't gather up unless we have stuff like this nowadays.
What about you, Ko? You're helping daddy Gori out while going to college?
I have my own thoughts about this, and that's why I'm interning at SARG.
Huh? Seriously? Koki, you're gonna join SARG?
No way! I want to become a politician.
But more importantly, they deal with Hazard Cast.
A lot of elements are there that I want to learn about.
Hacking into real life based on art.
Real life is operated based on a certain set of rules and principles.
And those rules were created by the powerful, so the weak get tormented.
So I plan to hack into those rules and run an update on society as a whole.
Koki was working at SARG, and Ran was the leader of an artist collective.
I haven't seen them in a while, and they grew up quite a bit unbeknownst to me.
Just then, we all got a phone call simultaneously from Asumi, who was supposedly dead.
The phone call showed us a Vision for the very first time.
The Visions were forcing us to choose futures.
So here's a question.
Will you switch the tracks to let the train derail and sacrifice all of its passengers?
Or will you let the train keep running...
and sacrifice the innocent woman?
Guide the future.
But they were always choices of two alternatives, where there's a victim in either case.
What was that vision?
Do you think the accident from that scene will really happen?
There's no way I'd know.
But it's also true that we have to go along with it.
Yeah! I don't want it to happen!
Both of them had the worst results possible!
Reach!
That's right. In the first incident, we were able to resolve it
without choosing either of the futures we were shown.
I made it!
Sh-Shu?
Since then, each time we got a phone call from Asumi, we were forced to choose a future.
You have two choices.
No matter which you choose, you cannot avoid having casualties.
In the incident at GourFes, we weren't able to cooperate with each other well.
The tornado.
What the hell are you doing!?
That's my line. Why did you do this?
The people left behind...
Damn it.
Look, over there!
Kozue?
Kozue!
Kaba! Kozue!
Go, Shu!
It's fine. They'll make it in time.
Kaba!
Shuta?
Kozue! Take Kozue!
Ka...
Kaba!
A tornado assaulted the venue.
And in the end, we couldn't change the future.
We have confirmed 21 fatalities, and over 130 seriously wounded.
Choose your future.
The one who appeared during this incident was...
My name is Carneades.
Back then, we thought that it was Carneades who was forcing us to choose a future.
For a while, I ended up chasing its shadow.
That mark...
Carneades.
So this is a challenge from Carneades?
Still got quite a flashy performance.
Next was the terrorist bombing of WINNER'S.
Will you snipe the perpetrator and kill him to stop the ship from exploding?
Or will you let the perpetrator go...
and allow many people to die from the exploding ship?
Guide the future.
But this isn't really two choices.
Are you saying this is a trick question?
The perpetrating terrorist was Ran's friend.
Kunai.
I'm sorry, Ran.
Koki and I were oblivious of that fact.
This is...
...how I do things!
Shoot.
Kunai!
For this incident, we ended up choosing one of the outcomes in the Vision.
Kunai.
There's no room for choice concerning this issue.
No matter who that is, I can't protect criminals.
Ran was now a wanted person by SARG.
- Who is that? - Open the window!
I'm sorry.
Koki!
Kaoru, don't let them get away. They went outside. After them!
S-Sure.
See ya!
Those must be his DoRed friends.
Also, Ran and Koki had some discord as a result.
SARG will definitely give one excuse or another to come after us.
And Ko knows about this location.
Are you saying that Koki will sell you out?
I forsook and killed Ran's friend.
How can I ever face him again?
Will we go back to how we were?
We can.
We have to fight against the trolley dilemma.
There's no use for us to argue with each other.
But that Asumi is no longer with us.
Come to think, Koki said that the phone calls from Asumi
and Hazard Cast may be connected somehow.
Phone calls from Asumi?
Yes. It started back around May.
Right before incidents occurred around me, I kept getting phone calls from Asumi.
I see.
Father, do you have any knowledge about this?
- Does it have something with Hazard Cas— - Koki.
You will someday follow in my footsteps and govern over the 24th Ward.
Look at reality. Don't be trapped by the past.
Step forward into the future. You can do that, right?
Yes.
Hazard Cast is a system that gathers information from surveillance cameras all over town,
and predicts the occurrence of crime or accidents.
It's a system that alerts everyone in an emergency.
They're hiding amongst the civilians, but there are several SARG members staking out.
Let me check it out.
I see. Something might happen.
- This is bad! - Call the cops!
Running a red light?
That is quite a speedy response as expected.
The victim seems to be conscious, too.
Yeah, that's good news.
But in the end, it's only a stopgap measure.
We can predict crimes, but we can't make arrests to prevent them.
No one can be charged for a crime until they commit them.
Yeah, the law hasn't caught up to reality yet.
Not yet for now.
Apparently the KANAE System is trying to create a safe city by using data from cPhones
that most residents of 24th Ward own in addition to Hazard Cast.
Therefore, for the complete prevention of crime and disasters,
even surpassing that of Hazard Cast, I propose to you the KANAE System.
The first step will be a test run to the end of this year.
Afterwards, we will hold a ward referendum to determine if this system is right for us or not.
The mayor's plan is to be able to use this to make preventive arrests.
And in reality, SARG's reputation is currently on the rise.
Mayor Suido is devoting all of his efforts to pass the Preventive Arrest Bill before incorporation.
That's the referendum at the end of the year, right?
A ward referendum?
I don't think they can do this in a forthright manner.
Here it comes already.
To assist Hazard Cast, the safety predictor of 24th Ward, will you contribute information to the KANAE System? [Agree] [Later]
I'll never update.
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Kunai said that it was dangerous.
I don't understand complicated stuff,
but is this really going to make the 24th Ward a better place?
What are you going to do, Shu? They'll be able to protect everyone's safety.
I know that.
But something about it rubs me the wrong way.
Department transfer?
Mr. Koki was selected to become the person in charge of KANAE System's research and operation.
Come to think, Mari was saying she saw something like that on the news.
Since the KANAE System went into full effect,
Koki apparently became responsible for the development and operation of Hazard Cast.
Cornucopia.
Once complete, it will become a monument symbolic of the 24th Ward, no, all of Japan.
I've been waiting for you.
Tsuzuragawa.
This is the location of Hazard Cast's roots.
As you're aware, sensors within the 24th Ward are mainly surveillance cameras.
But we gather and analyze an immense amount of data from them
to broadcast Hazard Cast that protects the people's safety, to their cPhones.
That is the KANAE System.
Did you say KANAE?
That's right. It is named after your mother, Lady Kanae.
Koki, I will show you the special BRAIN that is the root of the KANAE System.
A special BRAIN?
The KANAE System is an extraordinary quantum computer
that can store, scan, and utilize an immense amount of data.
To allow for such a vast amount of arithmetic processing possible,
there's a forbidden technology, which is what we'll show you now.
Koki.
Tragedies like that of Kanae and Asumi must be eradicated.
We need a perfect world.
And someone must be the sacrifice to pay the price.
This is the BRAIN of the KANAE System.
Th-This means...
You connected your own daughter to a machine like this?
Asumi... Is Asumi still alive?
She's dead.
Our safety is built upon Kanae's logic and Asumi's sacrifice as its foundation.
There was a terrorist statement the other day that sensors built into cPhones were dangerous.
That's right, Ran was digging around and saying the cPhones might have some sort of secret.
High-performance sensors used by the military, and a powerful security chip...
Unbelievable.
Saying this is below cost doesn't even cut it.
You have to be hiding some kind of secret, huh, Gori Suido?
Hey, are cPhones bad after all?
Did Drug D really spread because of this?
Shu, you saw Kunai's broadcast?
Yeah.
Ran's friend Kunai developed an app using cPhone's biometric sensors.
Di-VA.
A female singer?
It's an automatic music generator app that uses cPhone's biometric sensor.
The sensor reads the user's physical condition,
and creates healing music most fit for their current biorhythm.
That's amazing. I don't get it at all.
It's already available in the store.
But that Di-VA app was used for no good, and turned into Drug D.
Di-VA?
No, but before that, I think I saw something similar.
CPhones have powerful biometric sensors built-in.
Their performance is way beyond personal use.
I utilized that to create an app that will have a positive effect on the mind.
That's the music app Di-VA.
However, someone bought its rights and modified it to work directly on the human brain,
and made people act and behave strangely.
There were physical changes to us after we received Asumi's phone calls.
Does this have something to do with the cPhones' function?
My physical abilities were enhanced.
What's this? My body feels strangely light.
Stop!
Ran's hacking abilities were enhanced.
I have to operate the drone while rewriting the program I had already prepared.
The endorphins are through the roof!
But...
Right now, little ol' me can even rewrite the laws of physics.
And it seems Koki's negotiation abilities were enhanced.
As I suspected, he can't decide.
In order to save both, I have to mobilize my own father.
Wh-What's up? You don't need to bow like that.
Beating around the bush won't work with her.
If you listen to me, you can prevent that terrorist attack from the criminal threat.
- What was that? - Huh? Koki, that means...
No, it's nothing like...
Oh, that's right. After my abilities are enhanced, I always end up with terrible muscle aches.
Working out again?
And then we met this guy named 0th while we were on the chase for Carneades.
Nice to meet you, Shuta Aoi.
I am 0th.
Are you Carneades?
No, I am not. Though, I am an acquaintance.
That makes things easy. Let me meet Carneades.
Carneades is currently at the highest floor of the Cornucopia.
Why in such a...
Is he going to make us choose another future?
A storm is approaching.
What's your relationship with Carneades?
You should head over quickly, or you may miss your chance.
Damn it.
This 0th is Ran's mentor, right? Does Ran know something about all of this?
You've become good at drawing art that sends messages.
Why'd you do that to Mr. Kaba's art?
Those really were some of my masterpieces.
Indeed, I used the fame of Carneades to overwrite graffiti and stirred people's anger.
And when the artist Carneades fades out,
we can head into the referendum while the topic is really hot.
Listen up. The KANAE System is a double-edged sword.
It's highly convenient, but also filled with danger.
The KANAE System is something that can destroy the humanity that makes humans human.
There will no longer be a place for the weak? The story is on a completely different level.
Ran, you said that "your powers are enhanced" when Asumi calls you.
That technology is an adaptation of military tech at the foundation of the KANAE System.
It's called "cipher."
Cipher?
It shares its technological roots with Kunai's Di-VA and Drug D.
I have one favor to ask. It's something only you can do.
What are you going to make me do?
I want you to hack into the KANAE System database.
One thing has been resolved about Carneades.
We thought that Carneades was forcing us to choose a future, but that wasn't the case.
At the top of the Cornucopia...
control will be lost from cranes after a lightning strike and will collapse.
The only person who can stop this is the one person atop the tower.
However, right after connecting the cables...
In the fourth Vision...
that person will be struck by lightning and die.
Carneades was the victim.
Why am I seeing a future where he becomes the victim?
I don't get it.
- Like I would get any of this! - Shu!
I'll just ask him in person. That should solve everything.
I better make it in time.
Carneades!
Run for it!
The lightning!
Hey, Carneades!
The true identity of Carneades was...
Are you serious?
And how Koki reacted that time...
Koki. You too?
You want to say choose the future, and save more people, right?
No way. I'm going to be a hero who'll never give up on anything.
I promised that with Asumi.
Maybe he had caught on to something.
I will disclose it to you now.
The true identity of Carneades is me.
I'm more than slightly disturbed.
But that all makes sense now.
What is your objective?
The KANAE System has a critical bug.
I cannot allow Mr. Gori to find out about it.
That is why I played the role of Carneades.
I mislead him, saying that the bug was a result of Carneades's hacking.
Wait. Then perhaps those futures that were shown to us...
About those Visions...
Of course, they aren't limited to the two choices that Carneades created.
Those are the nightmares the KANAE System had suffered as a result.
Just as I thought.
Help me.
Asumin?
Then, Asumi is...
Yes. Miss Asumi's consciousness still remains in the KANAE System.
Asumi is still alive?
I feel like the 24th Ward is changing more and more.
Both Ran and Koki have moved on ahead, and I've been left behind.
Have I been making proper choices for my future?
Hey, Asumi.
Then Shuta, in the future you should become a hero who can bring smiles to everyone.
I-I should?
Yup. I talked about you to Mom.
You looked just like a hero, delivering the bread to everyone in Ran's place.
Asumi, I've made up my mind. I'll become a hero in the future.
I'll make everyone smile.
Oh, but I have to run the bakery as well.
Man, I can't choose!
Why not both?
You'll bake bread, and you'll be a hero.
That's really awesome, you know.
Asumi. Will I able to become a hero
who can protect everyone?
You really did come save me.
You really are a hero after all, Shuta.
Asumi.