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Angelui i demonui kruzhili na duh minoi
Angels and demons were circling over me,
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rassekali terni-i mlechuie puti
Breaking apart shadows and milky ways.
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me znayet shastya ottovo
Not knowing happiness is the only one.
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shto evo zova ponyat ne s-mog
The one who could not understand its call.
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mana du vortes, mana du vortes
The flow may swallow you. The flow may swallow you
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aeria gloris, aeria gloris
Flying in glory, Flying in glory
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mana du vortes, mana du vortes
The flow may swallow you. The flow may swallow you
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aeria gloris, aeria gloris
Flying in glory, Flying in glory
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I am calling, calling now.
I am calling, calling now.
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Spirits rise and falling.
Spirits rise and falling.
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s-toboi ostatsya dalshe
To be with you longer...
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Calling, calling...
Calling, calling...
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In the depth of longing
In the depth of longing
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s-toboi ostatsya dalshe
To be with you longer...
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mana du vortes, aeria gloris
The flow may swallow you, flying in glory
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Hello everyone!
Welcome to the Laughing Man Room!
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Well well, it's been six years since we last
had this chat.. It's pretty surprising, eh?
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I cenrtainly was surprised.
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Though it might be inappropriate, considering the
circumstances, as the net master, Onba, I felt my blood stir.
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Those here right now are diehard Laughing Man "freaks".
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But they also have no intention of entering the debate.
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Stop talking like that.
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You'll get... attacked... in the commentary...
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I heard that there'll be people here in this chatroom
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who'll be discussing interesting things about the Laughing Man.
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Who among you would that be?
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I think all of us here would fit the description.
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Although there are those who don't quite meet the criteria.
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What is that supposed to mean?
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Just what I said.
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File 09
The Man Who Lives in
the Net's Dark Depths
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In any case, what's this about the
Laughing Man dying right after he reappeared?
File 09
The Man Who Lives in
the Net's Dark Depths
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In any case, what's this about the
Laughing Man dying right after he reappeared?
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I was just starting to hope that I
could become one of the real-time freaks, too.
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What are you getting worked up about?
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No one's complaining about things like that anymore.
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How idiotic.
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Speaking of "idiotic", I think that your
appearance qualifies in that category.
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Well, hurry up and give us a topic worth discussing.
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All right then, why don't we discuss why the Laughing
Man suddenly reappeared and made an assassination threat?
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Allow me, teacher.
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I think it's because the world
continues to be boring and full of crap.
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We know that already.
Whats I'm trying to get at is,
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could it be that this incident and the incident
six years ago were perpetrated by different men?
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"Men"?
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You don't even know if the Laughing Man is actually male.
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The Laughing Man is a he.
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According to information from
a particular source, he has to be a man.
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Besides, if the person was female,
would she call herself the "Laughing MAN"?
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Wait, please.
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I think you'd realize this if
you'd look closely at the available data.
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The person has not referred to
himself as the Laughing Man even once.
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Even so, he's a man!
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Remember that broadcast when
he kidnapped that company's president?
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He definitely looked like a guy.
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That's easy to explain. He could
have been wearing a male cyborg body.
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Wait a second, you're going off topic here.
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Don't any of you have opinions regarding the fact
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that this incident is too different from this
past "style",which was limited to corporate terrorism?
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Although this incident also started
from suspicions over a micromachine company,
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don't you think that it was too crude of him to plunge
headlong into an assassination attempt on the Commissioner?
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Well, as the story goes, it's true that he started off six years ago
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by hacking into cyberbrains of the president's
secretary and family members and sending emails.
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Then, are you saying that this
recent incident was perpetrated by a fake?
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Isn't that a strong possibility?
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It's been a full six years since he last disappeared.
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Isn't this incident just a farce that rode on the waves
generated by the Laughing Man's surging popularity on the net?
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But what is the basis behind the belief
that corporate terrorism IS the Laughing Man's style?
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Wasn't his first kidnapping also "crude"?
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Well, I don't think he did anything
on impulse after kidnapping the president.
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That's right...
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After all, it wasn't cool at all to
manipulate someone else to assassinate others.
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Well, the Laughing Man is thought to be
a Grade A+ hacker, but he's never killed anyone.
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Heh, it was fun to see, but I guess it was all a fake.
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I guess it's better that way...
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So much for being a real-time Laughing Man freak...
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Poor you.
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Then... what are your reasons for
thinking that the Laughing Man is "cool"?
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Well, of course he's cool!
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How can you say that he isn't after all the things he's done?
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I'm not saying that he's NOT cool.
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If someone is "cool" for being a good hacker,
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then it's true that the time-delayed
virus used in this incident was certainly a marvel.
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After all, it was made so well
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that not even the police could create a vaccine
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until after it became active in the Security Police's cyberbrains.
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That's true enough.
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After all, it's even rumored that the police couldn't
even find a trace of the virus itself after the incident.
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I see. Still, the perpertrator ended up dead.
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Yeah! Since the guy that made
the virus was killed by someone else,
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it has to be that the guy was fake and he ended up being killed.
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By whom, and for what reasons?
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Allow me, teacher.
It was because of some conspiracy by a secret society!
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Come to think of it,
Allow me, teacher.
It was because of some conspiracy by a secret society!
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Come to think of it,
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according to information I got from this particular source,
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the victimized corporations had
hired assassins even before this incident.
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Note: he's making a pun out of "source" and "sauce",
which have identical pronunciation in Japanese.
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Which "sauce" did you get it from?
Pork cutlet? Oyster?
Note: he's making a pun out of "source" and "sauce",
which have identical pronunciation in Japanese.
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Which "sauce" did you get it from?
Pork cutlet? Oyster?
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Why would the corporations get rid of him?
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Well, they've been waiting for a chance all this time!
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They had cause to go after him
after all the threats and ransom demands.
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They finally tracked him down
when he made that assassination threat, that's all.
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Even so, what's the point in getting rid of an imposter?
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That's right.
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Even if he was the real thing,
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there's no way that they could've first
found someone that not even the police could identify.
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Well, so that's the thing...
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It's not very "cool" to be tracked down so easily like that.
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Then, how about this: he was killed by the real Laughing Man.
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Of course that can't be.
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Just as the police say, the reasonable
conclusion is that the Lauging Man was a complex entity
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that had some internal squabbling.
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If so, then can it be said that we're back to our first conclusion?
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That is, that the recent incident
was instigated by a different "person".
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I'll ask this again,
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what is the basis behind the belief that
corporate terrorism is the Laughing Man's "style"?
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You're too obsessed with this!
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It's because he wouldn't be "cool" otherwise, okay?!
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But... please try to remember.
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Was that first incident all that "cool"?
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I see. We have to go back to the
beginning if we are to properly discuss this!
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All right then, let's look back on the Laughing Man Case
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as a little break from the current debate.
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It is now 7:20 AM on February 3rd,
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Travler's Weather Forecast
It is now 7:20 AM on February 3rd,
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time for the traveler's weather forecast!
Travler's Weather Forecast
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Travler's Weather Forecast
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To all of you who're commuting
to work this morning, my best wishes.
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Today's Weather
To all of you who're commuting
to work this morning, my best wishes.
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Today's Weather
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Today, February 3rd, is just 100 days from
the opening of the International Exposition.
Today's Weather
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Today, February 3rd, is just 100 days from
the opening of the International Exposition.
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So, for todays poll, we've thought of this question:
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2024 International Exposition in Japan
100 days until opening of the Awaji Expo
So, for todays poll, we've thought of this question:
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2024 International Exposition in Japan
100 days until opening of the Awaji Expo
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- Expo...
- That's unfair!
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If so, then please tell the truth in front of the camera!
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Stop this. You can't shoot.
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Do you really think so?
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Watching this is probably a bit boring now,
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but we can't really help that,
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since this was the only time someone who
might have been the man himself was seen.
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If that promise you made a while
ago is true, then right here and now...
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Have you noticed?
If that promise you made a while
ago is true, then right here and now...
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If that promise you made a while
ago is true, then right here and now...
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I can't do that right now.
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The program's logo got written over
- pretty detailed stuff, don't you think?
I can't do that right now.
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The program's logo got written over
- pretty detailed stuff, don't you think?
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Why don't you tell them?
The program's logo got written over
- pretty detailed stuff, don't you think?
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Why don't you tell them?
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That won't have any meaning!
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Yeah, not to mention the regional weather forecast symbols.
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Serano-san, unless you speak the truth yourself...
Yeah, not to mention the regional weather forecast symbols.
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Serano-san, unless you speak the truth yourself...
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Although, there are rumors that that stuff
changed only after they started broadcasting replays.
Serano-san, unless you speak the truth yourself...
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Although, there are rumors that that stuff
changed only after they started broadcasting replays.
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That, I cannot do.
Although, there are rumors that that stuff
changed only after they started broadcasting replays.
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Although, there are rumors that that stuff
changed only after they started broadcasting replays.
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Whatever the details were,
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Why?!
Whatever the details were,
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Whatever the details were,
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this is the origin of the Laughing Man Case,
that shook the nation six years ago.
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But he's not cool at all in that footage.
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His hands were trembling when he was holding the gun, too.
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You simpleton!
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That's what's cool about him!
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Still, if you compare this with the
subsequent corporate terrorism incidents,
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his actions were really rash.
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That's not it.
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It's because he put himself in danger in the beginning,
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even though he was a Grade A+ hacker,
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We felt that he was trying to lay
bare the falsity of scheming corporations...
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that we felt sympathetic.
We felt that he was trying to lay
bare the falsity of scheming corporations...
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We felt that he was trying to lay
bare the falsity of scheming corporations...
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I don't get it.
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Nah, that's what it is.
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While seemingly instigating an overly-simple crime.
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the cunning indicated by hacking all the media sources...
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That's where his charisma lies.
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You guys are so passionate.
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It's like, "I love the Laughingh Man" you know?
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It's not like he actually sent out
that message himself,even once.
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In addition to Serano Corporation,
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it now seems that Japan Micromachine
Corporation has been threatend.
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Special Emergency Report
The Laughing Man Strikes Again!
it now seems that Japan Micromachine
Corporation has been threatend.
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Special Emergency Report
The Laughing Man Strikes Again!
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This is most alarming news!
Special Emergency Report
The Laughing Man Strikes Again!
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Could those be an unknown number of office desks?
Special Emergency Report
The Laughing Man Strikes Again!
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This time, it is a threat made against Sagawa
Cybernetics Corporation's main division!
Special Emergency Report
The Laughing Man Strikes Again!
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Special Emergency Report
The Laughing Man Strikes Again!
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How in the world did he manage to move
all those desks in a single night?!
Special Emergency Report
The Laughing Man Strikes Again!
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Special Emergency Report
The Laughing Man Strikes Again!
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It can surely be said that this is
an unprecedented case of corporate terrorism!
Special Emergency Report
The Laughing Man Strikes Again!
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Special Emergency Report
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The Cybernetic Man: Part Two
Is he real?!
He has to be real, right?
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Is he real?!
He has to be real, right?
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Please call the Nanoplant Corporation.
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I mean, Satsuma Meditech is the largest
corporation of its kind in Kyuushuu, right?!
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Why would you send a killer virus into a place like that?!
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I have no idea! He probably hacked
into the gardener bot last night and did it.
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Take the helicopter out!
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Hey, look!
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Oh, I have a t-shirt with Mytel
Corporation's mystery circle printed on it.
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After this, when it was decided to invest public funds
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in order to offset public fear over
the devaluation of the victimized corporations' stocks,
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tha Laughing Man annouced that he would cease his
attacks and disappeared into the dark depths of the net.
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I remember that Kadoya once temporarily raised its stocks price
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by saying that there was a
Laughing Man symbol in its snack products.
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What do you think about the rumors
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that individuals in every industry made huge profits
in the stock market as a result of these actions?
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If we were to base our judgement solely on that,
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then it's quite possible that the
Satsuma Meditech case was a fake.
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Is that a cute girl's intuition?
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Well, why don't you try comparing the shift in
stock values for other victimized companies
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with that of Satsuma's?
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Well, come to think of it, Satsuma was the only
one that didn't receive government assistance.
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I see.
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No one noticed, because all six corporations
profited by about the same amount,
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after the ceasefire was announced.
222
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Well, it's true that it seemed pretty lame after
all the speculation in the talk shows.
223
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Well then, it's decided. It was all staged by the media.
224
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Now that we're reflecting on this anew,
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the incident of six years ago seems to
have a lot of inconsistencies as well.
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I guess it would be a little too forced to think
that these attacks were all by a single person.
227
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So, in the end, it means that it was carried out by a group, right?
228
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There are quite a few critics out there
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who think that the mindset behind the first
and second bout of incidents differs.
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I want to push for a "single perpetrator" theory.
231
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That's a bit difficult to stomach, don't you think?
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There's no point in trying to figure out whether the
two incidents were perpetrated by the same person.
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I feel that the key to unlocking this case
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actually lies in the factors that lead to a chain of events
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after both the kidnapping six years ago,
and the recent assassination threat.
236
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Oh, that's pretty sharp, lady!
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I think so, too.
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All right then!
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Let's think it over, while looking over
the visual files we have in stock here.
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However, before we proceed, we'll delete
the backup files cached on the server,
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so let's take a short break.
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Hey, do you remember how the
alleged designer of this mark, Paul,
243
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got taken in for questioning by the task
force at the time of the attacks?
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The one who kept saying that his design database
got hacked, and that the particular design was stolen?
245
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Yeah, although it's true that he consequently
was able to become a famous designer.
246
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I respect his abilities as well.
247
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In any case, I wonder what the reason was
behind the huge popularity of this case at the time.
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The mystery that was seemingly easy to understand, yet was not, and sensational events kept happening, with excellent timing.
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You do say intelligent things sometimes.
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The fact that Serano's president wasn't exactly
cooperative also fell into that area, didn't it?
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It's still suspected that he made a
deal with the Laughing Man, too.
252
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Still, what spoke to me the most
253
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was the heroic mentality and solitary
image presented in the first incident.
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Yeah, for me too.
255
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This recent incident started during the press
conference over the interceptor's illegal use,
256
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but was that also an indicatio of a "heroic mentality"?
257
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And, it was none other than Serano Genmix Corporation
itself that developped the interceptors in question.
258
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Don't you feel that there are some
connections to those in power?
259
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Just as I thought, this is very interesting!
260
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How should I say it? A ten-million-individual-strong
collective entity acting as a detective?
261
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It's no wonder that the spectators all unite!
262
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How about this: everything was a self-scripted and
self-acted farce by the micromachine industry,
263
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and the Laughing Man was a "program" designed
to manipulate stock values from the beginning.
264
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That's too boring!
265
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The Laughing Man does exist!
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Maybe you just want him to exist.
267
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But according to information I obtained from my source...
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Heh, "source" again.
But according to information I obtained from my source...
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This incident generated two
hundred billion dollars in the economy overall.
Heh, "source" again.
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This incident generated two
hundred billion dollars in the economy overall.
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That's a pretty good raison d'etre, wouldn't you say?
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Everyone, since you all don't seem to want
to join in on my discussion very much,
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I'll now present a special tidbit of
information I got from my own "source".
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The police's official report that the simultaneous
multiple faild assassination attempts
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were all due to the virus that Nanao A unleashed is a lie.
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On what basis?
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Yeah, identify the source of that information!
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"Source" yet again.
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By the way, how many times has JD used the
term "source" since he arrived in this chatroom?
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I'm curious myself.
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To tell you the truth... At the time,
I"d hacked my way into the scene of the incident.
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Are you seriuos?!
283
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Then, are you saying that you were also
thinking of attempting an assassination?
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N, no, that's not it. I was just peeking in
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because I wanted to know what would happen.
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So, I think that the other 39 people who were
caught were not being manipulated by the virus
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and were just there of their own free will.
288
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There were other hackers just like me.
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I think that there may be those in the
audience who tried to crack in as well.
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Although... everyone else seemed to be
failing in their attempts for some reason.
291
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Did you... see it?
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If that were true, it would be a huge scandal.
293
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We wouldn't be able to trust anything.
294
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So that's it?!
295
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I'd also thought of going to the ceremony hall that day! Dammit...
296
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Hey, wait a minute. Then, isn't it possible that the
Laughing Man was among the 39 who were arrested?
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I don't think so.
298
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Those who were caught were either
passionate fans like us or mimics.
299
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Then, you're saying that those people went there
in response to Nanao A's assassination threat?
300
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It's not exactly that...
301
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I actually have another piece of special information...
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I was net-diving after the incident occurred
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and I found a server registred under Nanao's
name that had been overwritten by him.
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That is the one.
305
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You're right!
306
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Please be careful. It is guarded by
firewalls with offensive capabilities.
307
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If you dive in there at Level Six, you'll see
that there are many simulations of plans left in there.
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Renewed threats to micromachine heavyweights...
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There is also a plan to target the cyborg food industry, as well.
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All programs have a common point:
their success hinges on a delayed fragmented virus.
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But after that, there was one question left.
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Nanao's commissioner assassination plan
doesn't actually exist among the simulations.
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While having so many meticulous plans on hand,
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why did he suddenly move to assassinate the commissioner?
315
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You've done good research.
316
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It's all I do, so...
317
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But, why?
318
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Are you trying to say that Nanao A was yet another mimic
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who was affected by the assassination threat?
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There is no other way to explain why he
threw out the rest of his carefully constructed plans
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and used his ace-in-the-hole on a careless assassination plan.
322
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Who was the one who made the assassinaion threat, then?
323
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You're trying to read too much into this.
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Let's try to decipher something more substantive.
325
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Still, doesn't his story seem pretty plausible,
after being shown something like that?
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00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:05,340
Well, let me ask you this, then.
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Why was it that there were no other
cybernetic attacks aside from Nanao's
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despite the fact that many others were
caught trying to assassinate the commissioner?
329
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It could be that only Nanao was supposed to attack that day.
330
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And, it was already predetermined
that he would fail and be caught,
331
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thus also making him the perpetrator behind
the Laughing Man Case, six years ago.
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Who would benefit by creating such a scenario?
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That would be, of course, the pol...
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H, hey...
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You've been creating some pretty roundabout explanations,
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but you've got it figured out to a good degree.
337
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Did you see my sacrificial firewall?
338
00:19:01,230 --> 00:19:05,920
W, were you by any chance that lady
who was keeping the Security Police in control?
339
00:19:06,310 --> 00:19:07,790
Well?
340
00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:09,820
Yes, I was watching.
341
00:19:09,820 --> 00:19:12,510
That firewall was quite dangerous.
342
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Do you have a fragment of it?
343
00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:16,700
Yes...
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This is it.
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Thank you.
346
00:19:23,810 --> 00:19:26,490
You're welcome...
347
00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:32,040
May I ask you a question, too? I thought
at first that the Police were behind it all.
348
00:19:32,330 --> 00:19:38,210
But that offensive firewall was clearly different from the police's
firewall that was set up through out the ceremony hall.
349
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I've never seen such a firewall...
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Then, it WAS the Laughing Man, after all...!
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As a sign of my thanks for giving me
that fragment, let me warn you:
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if you know too much, you'll end
up getting wiped out in real life.
353
00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:55,990
Hey, did you get disconnected or something?
354
00:19:57,330 --> 00:19:59,220
No, I'm all right.
355
00:19:59,220 --> 00:20:02,920
I'm sorry but I think I'll excuse myself for the day.
356
00:20:03,350 --> 00:20:05,790
What are you saying? You haven't
finished what you were saying.
357
00:20:05,860 --> 00:20:07,670
I'm sorry about all that.
358
00:20:12,450 --> 00:20:15,460
Geez, what was that about?
It all feels lame all of a sudden.
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00:20:16,140 --> 00:20:21,140
Well, not that getting worked up in a place like this
would let us get any closer to the heart of the matter.
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00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:22,720
Who knows?
361
00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:26,100
The real Laughing Man could be watching us right now!
362
00:20:26,260 --> 00:20:29,240
You're already too far gone if you're thinking that.
363
00:20:29,820 --> 00:20:33,020
Nonetheless, this case is just all too difficult.
364
00:20:33,290 --> 00:20:34,620
We're all going to get tired of it eventually.
365
00:20:34,750 --> 00:20:38,220
I think that the Laughing Man is a
phenomenon that was created as some symbol
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by something random that was given
birth to by this corrupted world.
367
00:20:43,850 --> 00:20:47,920
Even this group, which is being
lead around in circles, is already a mimic.
368
00:20:48,090 --> 00:20:50,880
Still, even if all of this was nothing but a random phenomeon,
369
00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:57,690
just as that "Babe Ruth" guy said, I do
feel that there are some commonalities
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between the first kidnapping incident and
the assassination threat six years later.
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I feel that only those two specific incidents were
executed by perpetrators possessing the same ability.
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With regard to the scope, goal, and mentality,
the others were but copies created in the hero's absence.
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Although it is quite doubtful that the perpetrator
behind the two incidents is the "original".
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00:21:22,070 --> 00:21:24,840
Lady, you're a sharp one!
375
00:21:30,910 --> 00:21:32,870
Is this a forced transfer?
376
00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:36,590
What is that?
377
00:21:42,290 --> 00:21:44,850
Hey, why?
378
00:21:44,850 --> 00:21:46,370
We're at a good point right now.
379
00:21:46,580 --> 00:21:48,290
Can't we stay connected a bit longer?
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00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:49,910
You miser!
381
00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:08,830
So, yeah. What do you think?
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00:22:09,010 --> 00:22:11,120
Dammit... I couldn't trace him.
383
00:22:11,500 --> 00:22:12,500
Hey.
384
00:22:13,220 --> 00:22:14,750
What, did you say something?
385
00:22:15,190 --> 00:22:18,320
Were you actually net-diving all this time?
386
00:22:19,950 --> 00:22:21,750
God, you're so dangerous.
387
00:22:22,050 --> 00:22:26,040
Eh, I can drive in my sleep around here.
388
00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:27,090
Well, what was it?
389
00:22:28,070 --> 00:22:29,280
Forget it.
390
00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:30,840
I'm not going to say it again!
391
00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:35,940
A phenomenon created by mimics without the original...
392
00:22:36,820 --> 00:22:39,480
Two pieces that don't fit into that picture...
393
00:22:40,910 --> 00:22:42,540
What are you talking about?
394
00:22:43,060 --> 00:22:44,950
Nothing.
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- Ending Theme - 'Lithium Flower'
Compose : Kanno Yoko
Song : Scott Matthew
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she's so cold and human
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it's something humans do
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she stays so golden solo
399
00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:28,440
she's so number nine
400
00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:32,460
she's incredible math
401
00:23:32,460 --> 00:23:34,610
just incredible math
402
00:23:35,740 --> 00:23:40,190
and is she really human?
403
00:23:40,190 --> 00:23:43,230
she's just so something new
404
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a waking lithium flower
405
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just about to bloom
406
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I smell lithium now
407
00:23:52,460 --> 00:23:56,460
smelling lithium now
408
00:23:56,460 --> 00:24:07,210
how is she when she doesn't surf?
409
00:24:07,210 --> 00:24:08,630
I wonder what she does
410
00:24:08,630 --> 00:24:12,720
when she wakes up?
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when she wakes up
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