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[It is 1988, A.D. of the Gregorian Calendar. One year earlier than Nostradamus predicted, a great collapse struck Earth.]

Even though it's almost half a century since the Great Collapse,

The contamination situation hasn't changed at all.

[Having lost the sun and atmosphere, what remained of mankind created a colony.]

[They called it Trunk. It had devices to protect from polluted air and UV radiation]

Aaaah...

I wonder when humans will be able to leave this cramped Trunk and live outside...

Well, that's probably tens of thousands of years from now.

Tens of thousands of years, huh?

[The world outside Trunk was called the Outer.]

[Healthy humans could only step into it with gear to protect from the polluted air]

If the protector is removed, you'll go to Heaven in an instant because of the

radioactivity and strong UV rays.

Though I went out once when I was in training.

I don't ever want to go out there again.

And yet...

Unfortunately, I'm going to need you to take part in a survey of the Outer now,

along with members of the Outer Protection

I know, I know.

Over several months there have been numerous incidents of Duplicators which

were abandoned in the Outer making intrusions into Trunk.

Intrusions, you say?

Essentially, it's not passible for Duplicators or creatures from the Outer

to penetrate Trunk though.

The hatches connecting Trunk to the Outer should be strictly managed by

the security system.

That's right. There's a problem with the security system.

Investigating the cause will be your first duty as a Circuit Nurse. Ishihara Lisa.

[A Circuit nurse is a nurse for electronic networks, tasked with diagnosing and]

[treating mental defects and logical contradictions in high-logic Al systems]

[Ishihara Lisa owned a private expert computer system called Fleksoid]

Survey results so far indicate that a computer virus from an external source

has infiltrated the computer system.

No way! The computer system's protections should be perfect!

These are the remains of Earth Dynamics' factory.

Zord's?

A figure from before the Great Collapse, Josef Zord.

He was head of Earth Dynamics and the 20th Century's greatest scientist, wasn't he?

His intellect brought forward the Southern Hemisphere's advanced tech by 10 years.

That's right. Then he used eletronic networks

and tried to dominate cyberspace.

However, that same 10-year-advanced tech led to the Great Collapse in 1998,

a year earlier than the prophecies foretold.

Thus, without achieving his ambitions, he died in the Great Collapse.

That's what they call getting your just deserts.

As a matter of fact, he lived.

No way! But they even confirmed his body.

Zord is alive. He became a cyberbrain. Sneaking a virus into the computer system

and allowing Duplicators to intrude into Trunk is all his doing.

I see.

Figuring out Zord's endgame, so that's my most important mission, huh?

Zord's intentions, huh...

Ryo Imai!

Lisa! You're back?

For the first time in a year, right?

Ggh... ahh...

Ugh...

I heard you also received combat training.

you've still got a lot of room for improvement. Ms, Nurse.

That's Circuit Nurse to you.

Be careful.

I just need to remove their memory bank right?

That bastard! It's a madded one!

Stop! Come back here.

- Only one more to go. - OK.

Leaving it just means more work for tomorrow!

We're past our work hours, haven't you noticed?

Termigun, save combat data.

- Who's the nurse? - "That's Circuit Nurse to you!"

Ryo, she's a nice girl. Right?

Right.

That right, huh? I think it's disgusting.

"Elites" like her.

Having the gall to look at us as if we arent humans.

guess she's a woman fit only for computers.

- What's up with that guy? - Leave him be.

He's got a girl.

- What? - She's called Rei.

You didn't have to come see me off.

- I thought you'd... - Hm?

I thought you'd... you know, since you're leaving me and going away...

I thought you'd have a more appropriate look on your face.

Want me to have tears streaming down my face?

Not really...

Are you serious?

Just fibbing.

Really?

Goodbye!

I'll never see you again.

Ryo!

Nice to see you again.

What did you come back for?

Are you thinking that I never wanted to meet you again?

OK, then are you happily thinking "Did she come back for me"?

Are you feeling agitated?

Okay, I'm going back to the lab.

It's me. Open up.

- What's the password? - Just open it.

If you don't tell me the password properly, I won't open it.

Rei... I love you.

What's with the scary face?

Ryo...

What's the matter?

Ryo...

It's just awful.

This virus is quite malignant.

Fleksoid. I'm going to pass through the highway.

OK, all clear to start driving.

What's the password?

"Nornala Nomuna"

That's your password? Now you're just messing with me.

Boost on.

Fleksoid. Where do you think I should go?

I wonder, maybe it'd be good to jump to the Saitama subdirectory?

Really? Well, I'm not 100% sure.

Halfhearted, huh? QK Fleksoid, jump to Saitama.

Coming out this far, it's pretty rural, huh?

Try scanning each vegetable, one at a time.

Found it! Mark 64 F.

So that's it. Can you tell what kind of virus it is?

- Amiga 6000. - How's it affecting the other vegetables?

No problems. It's not affecting any other programs.

How deep are its roots?

No big deal. They can be thoroughly destroyed with an Ivalium vaccine.

OK, delete it.

That went well.

Spray the other vegetables with the vaccine too, for now.

Good work.

That's odd..

Lisa...

I wanted to meet with you, all of a sudden.

Hom did you get in?

That's a secret.

- Hey, is it past midnight yet? - Ah, at Rei's place...

It's already long past.

Do you know what day it is today?

Today?

Today...

- Beats me. - Liar, you know, don't you?

I don't know. I'm not lying.

You're lying!

Is it your... birthday?

See, you remembered! Proof that you still care about me.

So?

You remembered.

And?

It always torments me when you do that...

Just by you staring at me like that.

Sorry!

You're one nasty woman.

My grandfather used to say this all the time:

"This sound is just like the sound of rain"

The sound of rain?

The sound of rain.

"Rain"?

It's when water falls from the sky.

Huh... water?

Before the 20th century...

Back when people lived outside, and not in this... this cramped Trunk.

Rain...

Are you going to wear a head belt?

Yes, because if you wear one it's possible to process quickly.

But it'll put your brain at risk, Lisa.

If it's just for investigating the virus in the Duplicator, it should be fine.

If it gets dangerous, Fleksoid, protect me.

Here we go.

What?

Lisa!

The one on the left is the virus that got into all the faulty computers.

- Right. - And the one on the right is

one recovered yesterday from the Duplicator's memory.

Type 6900, right?

Exactly. Both are Type 6900.

This virus acted as a terminal...

And was surely receiving commands from Zord.

Commands?

They were certainly receiving some sort of shared command.

but I still don't really know in any detail.

- However... - However?

The movements of that virus when you had the head belt on...

it seemed like it mas being drawn into your head.

This is a hypothesis, but...

maybe there's something like a memory area in your brain.

and Zord's virus was aiming for that.

All me have to do today is analyze this disk, right?

Seems like it's a pretty persistent virus.

Lab 4 is at a loss with it, so they've passed it to you, Lisa.

Just leave it to me.

Fleksoid, what's the matter?

Fleksoid!

Lisa...

Zord... you're Zord, aren't you?

- One sec... - Don't go!

I'll be right back, OK?

Lisa!

What's wrong?

What's the matter? you're shaking.

I know what Zord's after.

Really? Did you inform the lab?

I can't!

If I did that...

If I did that I'd be killed.

Killed?

It's all... it's all my fault.

I'm the cause of all this.

May 12,1988. Your mother was born.

Ten years later...

The outbreak of nuclear war in the Northern Hemisphere.

Most of the human race was wiped out.

You too... You were also thought to have died.

Indeed. I died with the Great Collapse.

But l, who sensed the arrival of the Great Collapse in advance.

installed my intellect into a computer and survived as a cyberbrain.

Cyberbrain?

Thus, I slept for half a century after the Great Collapse.

In those ruins, right?

Now, I have awakened to once again control the world's electronic networks.

Never! Do you think it'll go so easily for you?

In the time you were asleep, humanity's technology has

advanced far beyond what it was like in your time.

This world is full of things unimaginable to people before the Great Collapse.

It's too late now.

You're a figure of the past.

The answers to what humanity has learned and how it's changed while I was asleep,

they're all in you, Ishihara Lisa.

In me?

I, who sensed the Great Collapse in advance,

created a certain directory in your mother's subconscious mind.

The information stored in that directory survived the Great Collapse

and was inherited by you, Lisa, her daughter.

The memories of the directory within you will, through your synapses,

be copied to me.

Your directory is inside me?

In order to take over all of humanity's changes since the Great Collapse,

I, in other words, planted an egg within your mother.

You have kept that egg warm and now its shell has been broken by me.

What are you going to do?

She wants me to hold onto this.

Beyond that, she doesn't say anything.

Have you contacted the lab yet?

About that, she said...

She said she's most afraid of the lab finding out.

- About what? - Beats me.

I don't know.

If we examine this floppy disk, we should figure it out, right?

Possibly. I'll talk to her again; I'll be right back.

What happened?

Ryo, who is that woman?

Rei?

Don't move!

Miss Nurse...

Do you really think you'll be able to get away in one piece? - Shut up!

This is the finale.

I'll turn a blind eye to you. Leave the woman and go. - Shut up!

You're a pain in the ass, you know that?

You...!

Our only choice is to face off against Zord after all.

I think that's my destiny.

Destiny?

I was born under a bad star.

Huh, that's not the sort of thing you'd usually say.

Ryo, it's OK if you leave me and go back to Trunk.

This is the climax!

At this point... At this stage...

I don't think I will.

Sorry.

In any case...

If this is the end..

Yeah...

At this point...

There's no turning back. For both of us.

Wait.

Hey, you idiot, don't do that!

It's okay. It seems that the inside of the ruins aren't affected by radiation.

Isn't that right, Fleksoid?

You're right.

Now we can kiss, huh?

Fleksoid is watching us.

Termigun, scan the interior of the ruins.

There should be an I/O port for the host computer around somewhere.

Where is the host computer I/O port?

That way.

Fleksoid, scan the electronic network inside the ruins.

OK.

Holy shit!

This whole site is a memory cluster.

Somewhere...

The cyberbrain controlling the whole ruin's memory domain must

be hiding around here somewhere.

At this rate...

If that's the situation then...

We'll just have to poke around the directories at random.

Somewhere, there should be an interface which

manages the entire memory domain.

You need to force your may in there and delete directories, one by one.

If you do that, the cyberbrain should try to escape.

sacrificing unnecessary programs to avoid being completely cleared.

Then, once it's small enough to be saved in Fleksoid's memory area,

we'll lock the cyberbrain into Fleksoid's memory and completely erase it.

A head belt?

You alright? If we get the timing of deleting the final directory wrong,

Won't Fleksoid's memory and, if anything, your brain take damage?

This is me taking responsibility for the destiny I inherited from my mother.

Lisa, can you hear me?

Ryo!

We're all set. Where should we start?

Let's see... First of all, subdirectory A2.

Copy that.

It's starting to move! Ryo, H8 is next.

Copy that.

80 megabytes deleted.

Fleksoid, try to guess its movements.

- F6. - F6.

Roger.

80 megabytes deleted.

- B3 - OK.

- C7 - Copy that.

D6.

I3.

40 megabytes deleted.

L9.

K8.

Understood!

Only 256 bytes to go?

Typically, the most you could do with 256 bytes is

draw a menu screen or something like that.

There's no doubt about it.

It's safe now. I'm going to seal off all pathways and

lure it into Fleksoid's memory all in one go.

256 bytes remaining.

Come an, just a little more, only a little maore and...

It's entered, right?

Fleksoid, render and display its movements for me.

This is it? Surprisingly docile.

Fleksoid, how are you feeling?

Terrible.

What?

What? What's wrong

Fleksoid! It can't be... a Trojan horse?

I can't believe it. With only 256 bytes?

Lisa, what's wrong? What's going on?

What happened?

It was a Trojan horse, it booted up.

The instant it got into Fleksoid...

Lisa! Lisa!

What the hell..

Serves you right...

This is the worst of the worst, huh?

Rei..

I wander what you're doing right about now...

Fleksoid, I'm going to install Zord in my brain

We're not done yet.

Zord is inside me.

Fleksoid, can you hear me?

I'm glad, you survived, didn't you?

Fleksoid. now! Delete Zord within me!

What's wrong

Are you hesitating over deleting even my memories?

Don't worry about it Fleksoid delete, delete!

Delete it!

Delete it!

Lisa, Lisa, Lisa, Lisa,

Lisa, Lisa, Lisa, Lisa, Lisa,

Lisa, Lisa. Lisa, Lisa,

Lisa, Lisa, Lisa, Lisa, Lisa,