DECEMBER 21, 2021
Another error.
It's happening at the information sensor at the system's core.
Send me details of the errors immediately.
I'll organize and prepare the information and send it to Hazard Cast.
This amount can't be processed by a human.
Looking at the case, it's something that Asumi wouldn't want to make a decision for.
And I'm definitely sure that Asumi's conscience has awoken within the KANAE System.
I'm going to save Asumi?
Does that mean I can return her to the life she used to have?
I said this earlier, but Miss Asumi is already dead biologically.
The only choices you have are to eradicate Miss Asumi from the system,
or to make her enter an eternal slumber within the system.
Which do you think will be her salvation?
Another trolley dilemma.
There's no way I can choose.
However, making the choice is the only way.
Excuse me.
Chikuwa.
Hey, Satchan.
Sleeping Beauty has woken up. I feel reassured.
I'm sorry to have troubled you.
Shuta.
Excuse me a sec.
Shuta Aoi. You are under arrest for suspicion of terrorism.
What suspicion?
You know...
You've been recognized as a terrorist.
Wh-What's up with that?
Come on now, don't resist.
Mr. Chikushi, what kind of joke—
It isn't.
Okay Shindo, please take him.
- Hey Chikuwa, what the hell is going on? - Come on, let's go.
- Hey, take this off. - I'll listen to you later.
Mr. Shuta has been recognized as a terrorist? KANAE System is truly running out of control.
Mr. Chikushi, there's one item missing from my belongings when I was hospitalized.
You mean that CMD? I'm holding onto it.
I had a feeling that would be the case.
What will you do with it?
Quite a puzzling issue.
What will we do with the KANAE System?
I think we should entrust it to a hero, but what do you think?
That's not a bad idea.
Especially coming from you.
Right?
KOKI SUIDO
Seventeen people were arrested for suspicion of terrorism?
Is Hazard Cast bugging out?
With a riot going on in town, the KANAE System has gone over capacity in terms of possibilities.
The BRAIN is starting to lose its ability of accurate decision-making.
According to what you said, Gori doesn't know that Asumi is in agony inside that thing, right?
Help me.
Then we should be shoving the truth right into his face.
How will you make someone who has never seen a Vision believe all this?
Well, tell the truth as it—
He won't accept it.
No, he just can't afford to accept it.
If we can prove the existence of a conscience, we might be able to convince Gori Suido.
However, to do that, we need the CMD that Sakiko retrieved.
Though we have no idea where it is right now.
I see. So it has disappeared at some point, like I had thought.
Okay, then please work without overexerting yourself.
So Tsuzuragawa doesn't know the whereabouts of that CMD either.
I can't save Asumi like this.
- We got one over here now. - Put it out!
Nothing can replace safety and security.
- We can't even afford an unlikely event. - It's too late if someone falls victim.
It's information you can provide if you're living a just life.
Safety and security with the KANAE System!
ORDER AND STABILITY FOR THE TOWN!
If you can't synchronize with us, get out of the 24th Ward!
Don't rob us of our safety!
Rotten apples should burn in hell!
With all the protests happening in Shantytown,
Mrs. Kiriko.
Hazard Cast has shown a sudden increase in its rate of criminal predictions.
What is it, Mari?
My calls to Shu aren't going through. Have you heard from him?
Actually, not at all. He's not even answering my texts.
I hope he's not doing anything dangerous again.
That reminds me. The Nanba Seika master got asked to voluntarily head to the police station.
Huh? Why?
Apparently Hazard Cast said that he was a dangerous individual.
The Nanba boy can't even kill an aphid.
Shu, where did you go at a time like this?
A lot of weird things are happening, huh?
This is some kind of mistake so let me go already.
There's no way I'd pull off terrorism.
Yeah, yeah. I know that. This is kind of like protecting you.
You'd be in trouble if anyone else caught you, right?
I don't believe that you're a terrorist either, Little Hero.
Damn you. Don't mock me.
I'm not mocking you.
You saved Satchan.
Take pride in how you're bad at giving up.
Take pride? I'm not doing things with that as my objective.
Then what is your objective?
That's... not set...
When someone in front of you is in pain, you feel like you should rescue them, right?
You don't want to give up on anything, right?
Isn't it impossible to save everything?
It's impossible for a human to save everything.
To me, you sound like you're escaping from reality.
It's almost like an illness.
Or is there some sort of reason for you to keep acting like that?
What are you talking about? I don't get it.
TAKARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FIRE INVESTIGATION REPORT 1
This is...
The investigation report for the Takara Elementary School Fire.
From one year ago, ever since this incident, you stopped your activities as a hero.
It was announced as an arson case,
but you, someone directly involved, showed no signs of going after the culprit.
If you were an ideal hero, you would make sure to catch the arsonist.
And I just wasn't convinced from that, so I looked over all the reports from back then.
Bingo.
The fire department's report said the cause of the Takara Elementary School Fire was...
a short circuit.
Wow, this is great! This is the Kizuna Train, right?
Yup, that's right. It'll be running in the 24th Ward starting next year.
Oh, you know a lot.
When I grow up, I'm gonna be a train conductor.
You like trains, huh?
All right, then why don't we draw a huge picture of the Kizuna Train?
Okay.
Oh, is that me?
Yup. That's you, Big Sister Kozue.
What I want to be in the future...
Thank you, future conductor.
Asumi, do you have something you want to do in the future?
Mikiya, I want to ride it, too.
Me?
Okay. I'll draw you on this train car over here.
Let's see.
Hurray. Is yellow okay?
I want to be like my mom.
Like Mrs. Kanae?
Yeah. I want to do all sorts of things for everyone in the 24th Ward.
You're already doing that.
No, not at all.
How can I do it?
Maybe find someone who understands me, just like my mom did?
Hey, Shuta.
Do you like anyone?
Huh? I-I... Well, um...
I-Is it Mari?
Idiot, it's not like that with her.
- Really? - Yes, really!
Uh, I'm gonna go to the bathroom.
Shuta?
I mean, Mari is just a childhood friend.
It's not like that. And why, of all people, did Asumi...
Rats?
What's wrong?
Mari.
Huh? Where's Asumi?
A-Asumi is watching the kids in the classroom.
Oh, okay.
Oh, that's right. Ran and Koki brought a generator for us.
Shu, can you help carry it?
Oh, sure.
- Hey, Shuta. - Hurry, hurry!
Yeah, I'm coming.
That time, if I didn't let those rats go...
Shuta.
Asumi wouldn't have...
Shuta...
Shuta!
Oh... I...
Shuta, are you all right?
The Takara Elementary School Fire was caused by a short circuit.
But Gori Suido wanted the public opinion to support the KANAE System,
so he fabricated an arsonist.
And he's using Asumi,
who passed away from the incident, for the sake of safety in the 24th Ward.
You know about Asumi?
I'm an alum of the Kasuga Lab, just like Kanae.
Why do you think I joined SARG in the first place?
I have a vague idea of what you guys are trying to do right now.
Give me your hand.
What's this?
You heard from Satchan, right?
It's a CMD with the KANAE System's mapping data that she retrieved from the Cornucopia.
If you hand this to Ran and prove, then disclose, the existence of Asumi's conscience,
the KANAE System will come to a halt.
If you hand this to Koki, and run the program that Satchan provided,
Asumi will remain dormant within the KANAE System forever.
Who to hand it to? Shuta, you decide that.
How will you settle your past?
I don't get it.
I don't get any of it!
Kill Asumi?
Put her to sleep?
Everyone is thinking so selfishly.
It's strange, right? Why does Asumi have to go through so much agony?
She already died once.
Why does Asumi have to go through such horrible things?
Asumi's not alive?
Just a residual conscience?
Of course not.
Asumi is still in the 24th Ward.
She can eat the Golden Sunrise that I baked.
She can draw huge art with Ran.
She can do volunteer work with Koki.
She could've done lots of stuff like that. She would've wanted to.
But now I have to choose her future?
That's... That's....
I can't choose something like that!
AOI BAKERY
ITADAKI
Welcome back.
Mrs. Kiriko, he's back.
Shuta!
Oh. I-I'm home.
Where were you in a time like this?
On a stroll...
What if something happened to you?
Well, we're glad he came back safe and sound.
If you say so, Mari.
Shu.
This is good timing. Help out with the morning batch right now.
Looks like something happened.
So?
It's really hard to explain.
Here I was worried and sitting under the cold skies all night.
I-I feel bad about that.
Then explain.
I heard from Ms. Tsuzuragawa.
So just Asumi's conscience remains?
This is too sci-fi so it's not really sinking in.
But I do understand that Asumi still exists in this world.
I don't get it well either, but it made me a little happy.
Suddenly I'm being told that I need to erase or don't erase...
Shu, you think that it was your fault Asumi died, right?
What are you saying?
I'm sorry, Shu. I actually did notice it.
That you felt responsible for the fire.
That day, I noticed as well, but I left it alone.
Yeah, I coming.
Huh? Is something there?
Mari, can you help us out?
Oh, okay.
I've been regretting it ever since.
It's the same with me.
If we had gotten rid of those rats, that fire wouldn't have happened.
Mari, you...
Shu, you should talk it out with Asumi.
With Asumi?
Yeah. Take all of the feelings you have pent up, and tell them to her.
But, I...
What?
I'm scared.
I'm scared of meeting Asumi.
It's all right.
I'm sure Asumi will be forgiving.
I mean, we're talking about Asumi.
I can't imagine her harboring a grudge against someone.
The person who won't forgive you... is you.
Shu, you're a bit awkward.
So you don't know how to get along with your emotions.
That means you just have to act it out, right?
Mari.
I want to contact Ran and Koki, but I can't get a hold of either of them.
Oh, boys are so troublesome.
Yup. Okay. Then write them letters. I'll go deliver them.
But I don't even know where they are.
Besides, we can't spend too much time on this, either.
It's fine. Leave this to me.
Let's bomb Gori Suido with our anger!
That's quite an influence you got.
Overloading the future predictions of the KANAE System with this demo
to force it out of control.
That's the future you painted, right?
Are you dissatisfied with how my work turned out?
The scale is getting bigger and bigger.
At this rate, we won't simply end with injured people.
Are you still going to do it?
What's this?
This contains Di-VA's development data that Kunai left behind.
I heard that his PC and peripherals were all seized as evidence.
This was mailed to me. I received it after Kunai passed.
It was perhaps his act of atonement.
Hold on to it as a good luck charm.
Is this the right thing to do, Kunai?
Ran.
This is from Mari.
That's from Shu's place.
Damn it. At this rate, I won't make it in time.
Mr. Koki.
Damn it. SARG is immobilized from peacekeeping. Who else?
I have just returned. I will take over now.
At this rate, I won't be able to save Asumi.
I can't save the KANAE System, either.
What should I do? What can I do?
Tsuzuragawa?
She slapped him.
She slapped him hard.
Get a grip on yourself.
Tsuzuragawa.
Mr. Koki, you are the son of Lady Kanae who I admire so much.
I've watched you grow this whole time, right by your side.
That's why I can tell
that you're someone who can definitely guide us to the correct future.
What's this?
I've been asked by Ms. Mari Sakuragi to give this to you.
Apparently it's from Mr. Shuta.
From Shuta?
This is...
I have the data Carneades recovered. I'll be waiting at Takara Elementary. Shuta
Sheesh, Shu.
I'll leave this place to you.
Yes.
Take care on your way.
Yeah.
I'm here, Shu.
Shuta. Is it true that you have the CMD?
This thing, right?
That's it. We can save Asumi from her agony with it.
Stop. The right answer is to use it to stop the KANAE System.
Ran, do you now what you're saying?
Same for you, Ko. You want to sacrifice Asumin to create safety?
That's enough. Shuta, hurry up and hand it over.
No, it's mine.
Shuta. Are you mocking us?
You called us out here. What do you want?
I don't know.
I don't know what the right answer is, what I should choose, or what I want to do...
I don't know at all.
Ouch! What was that for?
Just stay there forever.
I'm going to move forward.
No matter what sacrifices I have to make, I can't afford to stand still right here.
Like I'd let you.
A future built upon someone's sacrifice is not progress.
I'll break down everything like that.
That's the future we should choose.
Are you seriously braced for that?
What are you...
Aren't you guys hesitating as well?
Aren't you closing away your emotions because you want Asumi to become a thing of the past?
Of course not—
That's how I was.
I had a vague idea that the fire on that day was caused by a cord the rats bit through.
I knew I was the one who killed Asumi.
But when Asumi called me,
I put a lid on all that and made myself believe that she was still alive.
Because if I didn't...
I felt like the connection with Asumi that I finally found would go away.
I felt like Asumi would really be gone, and so...
I don't know what would be good for Asumi.
You're still acting spoiled after all this time!
She...
She wished for everyone's happiness more than anyone else.
She inherited Mom's wishes, and should feel that she needs to protect our town.
So at the least, we can use that CMD to free her from—
Objection!
Ran, you've been nothing but—
And that's your ego, Ko.
Asumin is in agony from her nightmares.
The errors in Hazard Cast proves that more than anything else.
Then the best thing to do would be to destroy the entire system.
Who decided that?
We selfishly trapped Asumi inside that system.
You muscle-brain.
We forced predictions of the future on her.
And now we're talking about how she should sleep or be destroyed.
Isn't that being too selfish?
Why can't you grow up already?
I don't want to be someone like that!
That can be said for anyone.
We all get older.
We grow, we fall in love, we have families,
and we die!
Yeah, that's right. That's it.
If Asumi was still alive, I'm sure she—
Shut up!
Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up!
I'm Asumi's older brother.
When I wake up in the morning, when I'm eating meals, when I go home...
She's not there. She's gone. She's just not there.
Don't act like you're the only victim. You took Kunai's life!
Do you understand that?
I understand that more than anyone.
I didn't want to kill him at all.
I... I...
I never wanted to do something like that.
For my ideals, I even abandoned Tsuzuragawa.
Are you in agony?
That's really your ego speaking. Don't force self-sacrifice upon others!
Shut up, graffiti boy!
And what about you? You're still doing everything that 0th tells you.
You claim everything is for the weak, but you're putting their lives in danger!
Little ol' me ain't satisfied with all this.
Now is not the time to worry about the means...
I knew it!
You're hesitating!
You're being stubborn!
If you have something to say, say it!
Then let me say this.
Workout idiots shouldn't get carried away.
Who's the one who kept running from Asumi forever and got buff because of it?
Like really, you're one to talk!
Just how long are you going to mope? It irritates me to watch you.
Why don't you do that hero thing or whatever it was?
But that was for Asumi.
I became Mr. 24 for Asumi's sake.
It's meaningless if she's not here.
Asumi. Asumi, why aren't you here?
That's my line.
I want to see Asumi. I want to see her and talk to her.
I want to see her, too. I'll show her my brand new art piece if I can see her.
I'll let her eat my Golden Sunrise.
The Golden Sunrise that proves I became a qualified baker.
Damn it. I wanna see her!
I want to see her more!
I'm the one who wants to see her most!
Hey, can't we see Asumi?
See her, you say?
I can't decide like this.
I want to meet Asumi, talk to her, listen to how she feels, and tell her my feelings.
I think I can finally move on when that happens.
That's impossible, Shu.
There's no way we can contact her from this side.
If all three of us are together, nothing is impossible.
Please, lend me a hand.
Meeting a conscience that wanders the digital world...
Unless you digitized yourself...
Maybe fate really exists.
What's that?
I was able to get my hands on Di-VA's data.
The Cipher was based on the same technology, right?
So if we have ample calculation resources...
I see. The KANAE System utilizes cPhones from all over the 24th Ward
to perform calculations by dispersed computing.
With my administrative authorization...
Hey, what are you talking about?
A discussion to create a miracle.
Can we see Asumi?
The conditions are tough, but the possibility...
...is not zero, right?
Well, yeah.
You can't, Shuta.
I don't want to see you.
I beg of you, please don't come here.
This is...
Sheesh, was she aiming for this?
She might be watching.
ASUMI
- Asumi. - Asumin.