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1998AD. A year earlier than Nostradamus predicted, the world collapsed.

It’s been half a century since The Collapse

but the pollution outside hasn’t gotten any better.

After The Collapse, the few remaining humans created

a colony equipped with atmospheric purification systems

to protect them from ultraviolet rays and polluted air. They called it The Trunk.

I wonder when we’ll finally be able to leave this cramped Trunk

and live outside again.

That will be possible in couple more ten thousand years.

Ten thousand, huh.

The world beyond The Trunk became known as The Outer, a wasteland untraversable

without protective suits to shield the body from the destroyed atmosphere.

Still, you can go out with a protective suit that

uses UV rays for energy while shielding radiation.

I went into The Outer for research once.

I never wanted to go back!

This stinks.

Unfortunately, you promised to go with the Outer Protectors for inspection today.

I know.

There have been an increasing number of incidents of abandoned

Duplicators infiltrating into the Trunk these past few months.

I can’t believe it!

It's theoretically impossible for anything we don't want from the Outer to get in.

The hatch to the Trunk should be heavily monitored by our security system.

Exactly. There's something wrong with the system.

And that’s where your job as the Circuit Nurse comes in, Lisa Ishihara.

A Circuit Nurse is a network nurse tasked with diagnosing and treating the

emotional and logical inconsistencies that

occur in advanced AI computer systems.

As a Circuit Nurse, Lisa Ishihara was given

exclusive control of one such AI system: Fleksoid.

From what we’ve ascertained, it seems a

foreign virus has infected the security system.

No way!

Protections around the security system are supposed to be perfect.

We believe it came from the old Earth Dynamics factory ruins.

Then that means... Zoodo?

A man from before The Collapse, Yosef Zoodo.

The head-chief of Earth Dynamics, he was considered

the greatest scientist of the 20th century.

They say his intellect alone accelerated the southern

hemisphere’s technological capabilities by ten years.

That's right.

And using a base network, he wanted to share it all through cyberspace.

But he made these radical advancements public in 1998, a year

before the Nostradamus prediction. It was too soon.

His ambition brought about The Collapse.

He perished because of it.

I guess you could call it divine punishment.

Sure, except for one problem: he lived.

Impossible! They confirmed his corpse!

He is alive.

With his consciousness outfitted in a cyberbrain, he’s

successfully infiltrated our security systems as a virus.

The increased amount of duplicators entering the Trunk is his doing.

I see...

And stopping whatever it is he's planning is my job.

But what could that goal be...

Imai Ryo!

Lisa.

You came back.

Hard to believe it's been a year!

Looks like you’ve taken basic training, but you still got a ways to go, nurse.

It's Circuit Nurse.

Be careful.

We should remove its memory.

That son-of-a—

Stop! Get back here.

But there’s just one left!

If we stop now we'll only have more to do tomorrow.

We’ve already gone on for too long.

Termigun, save today's combat logs.

I'm here to collect your excrement packs.

Honestly. Can't even take a piss out there.

So that nurse...

Not "nurse", Circuit Nurse!

She's something special, don't you think, Ryo?

Yeah.

Special?

Give me a break.

Some high and mighty elite like her...

She doesn’t even see people like us as human.

Only thing she cares about are computers.

What's his problem?

Leave him.

He's got a girl.

What?

Her name's Rei.

You really didn’t have to come see me off.

Please.

Please...

You're leaving and throwing me away.

So please, don't smile like that.

Does it make you want to cry?

Nah.

Wait, were you hoping I would?

Nope.

Really?

Adios!

It's too late.

We'll never see each other again.

Ryo!

Long time no see.

Why'd you come back?

What, did you never want to see me again?

Or maybe you're glad I finally came back to you?

Too moved for words?

If that’s the case, I’m heading back to the lab!

It's me.

Open up.

What's the password?

Forget the stupid password and let me in.

You’re never getting in unless I hear you say it.

Rei...

I love you.

What's that face for?

What's gotten into you?

What a headache.

It is quite the virus.

I'll take the highway for this one, Fleksoid.

Alright, ready to go.

The password is?

Don't drink and drive.

Seriously?

You got a corny sense of humor.

Booster on!

Where do you think we should go?

From the subdirectory, Saitama seems good.

You sure?

Who knows.

Give me a break.

Alright Fleksoid, let's try Saitama.

It really is the sticks out here.

Try scanning each of these vegetables.

We have a hit at mark 64.

Do you know what type of virus it is?

Amiga 6000.

Has it impacted the other veggies?

No, all other programs are fine.

How deep are the roots?

Nothing serious. A simple vaccine will take care of it.

Okay. Then delete it!

That went well.

Spray the rest of the veggies with the vaccine just in case.

Good work.

Lisa...

I suddenly wanted to see you.

How'd you get in?

That's a secret.

Say...

It's already past midnight.

I guess so.

You know what day that means it is?

No clue.

Liar.

I know you know.

I'm telling the truth. I really don't know.

Liar!

It's...

Your birthday.

See? I knew you remembered.

Guess I'm still pretty popular, huh!

And?

And you remembered.

Well, I mean...

Sorry!

This lady is nothing but trouble.

My grandpa...

He used to always tell me something.

He said this sound

reminded him of rain.

Rain?

Yeah, rain.

What's that?

Water used to fall

from the sky.

Water did?

Back in the 20th century.

Back then...

Before we were trapped in this damn cramped trunk.

When we still...

Lived free out there.

Rain...

You’re using the Head Belt?

It's the fastest way.

But the impact on your brain could be dangerous.

Relax, I’m only taking a peek at the virus inside this duplicator.

And if it gets dicey, I have you to save me, Flekzoid.

Let's start.

Lisa!

On the left is the virus that caused our computer systems to fail.

Okay.

On the right is the one recovered from the Duplicator’s memory.

A 6900, right?

Exactly.

To put it simply, this virus...

Acts on orders given by Zoodo.

What orders are they?

While it’s clear both viruses are operating on shared orders,

the exact nature of them remains unclear.

But...

But?

When you were wearing the Head Belt, that virus...

It slipped into your brain.

This is just conjecture but I believe the virus found an area

similar to computer memory in your brain and began to propogate.

I think that was it's goal.

Ryo!

Ryo!

You idiot! Get off me!

What are you looking at?

You look like your world just ended.

Are you angry?

"Oh, poor me. My life is so hard."

That's what you're thinking, isn't it.

Right?

I knew Ryo was seeing somebody that I couldn't.

But at least I know now that it won't work out between you two.

Because I've never seen anything in this world sadder...

than his lies or your smile.

I'm sorry.

But this isn't my fault.

Today we just have to analyze this disk.

Such a persistent virus.

Dealing with it has become quite the problem.

Don't worry so much. Let's just finish this quick so I can get some sleep.

What's happening, Fleksoid?

Fleksoid!

Lisa.

Zoodo.

It's you, isn't it.

Don't go.

I'll be right back.

Lisa!

What's up?

What's wrong?

You're shaking.

I know what Zoodo is after.

Really?

Have you reported it?

I can't!

If I do that, I'll be killed.

What do you mean?

It's all my fault. All of it.

I'm the cause of all of this!

You?

On May 11th, 1988, your mother was born. And then, ten years later...

As punishment for the northern hemisphere's obsession

with nuclear war, nearly all of humanity was wiped out.

You should have died, too.

That's right.

I died with the rest of the world.

However, realizing what was about to happen, I transferred

my conciousness into a computer, living on as a cyberbrain.

A cyberbrain?

For a long time I slept, in a place which reflects The Collapse.

Those ruins.

And in order to control the world's electronic networks again, I have reawoken.

Do you honestly think you can pull that off?

While you’ve been sleeping, humanity has advanced far beyond your time.

This world is full of things someone from before The Collapse could never imagine.

You're too late.

You're a relic from the past.

But I do know. All the answers I need about how

humanity has progressed reside in you, Lisa Ishihara.

Me?

Realizing The Collapse was imminent, I implanted a directory

linked to me within the subconcious of a woman: your mother.

This directory was inherited by her surviving child after The Collapse.

You, Lisa.

Memories in the directory are transferred through your synapses to be copied to me.

Inside of me...a directory of you...

In other words, to control what is left of humanity

I bestowed upon your mother a fertile egg. You inherited it and

kept that egg warm. And I have finally broken from its shell.

What are you gonna do?

She asked me to hold on to this.

She didn’t say anything else.

Have you already told the lab?

That's what she was most scared of!

Why's that?

That's the question.

And I don't have the answer.

I bet we can find out with this floppy disc.

You’re right.

I'll go look into it.

What happened to you?

Ryo.

Where's that girl?

Rei?

Hey...

Be quiet.

Hand.

What?

You're holding my hand too tight.

My bad.

Hey, nurse...

-Did you honestly think you'd get out in one piece? -Shut up!

This is the end of the line.

You know that. Give it up.

I said shut it!

You always were a pain.

At the end of the day, I don’t have a choice but to go up against Zoodo.

I think it’s probably fate.

Fate?

I was born under a bad star.

Never thought I'd hear you say something like that.

Ryo.

You don't have to worry about me. Go back to The Trunk.

Come on, this is the climax.

After all this...

After all we've been through...how could I do that?

I'm sorry.

It doesn't matter what road we take...

they're all the same in the end.

Yeah.

So...

I won't go back.

We'll take this road together.

Hold on.

You idiot, what're you doing?

It's fine.

For some reason, the radiation levels here are normal.

Isn't that right, Fleksoid?

You're right.

That means I can kiss you.

Fleksoid is watching, you know.

Termigun, do a scan of the ruin's interior.

There should be an in/out port to the host computer somewhere.

Alright, give me the location of the host computer's in/out port.

That way.

Fleksoid, scan the ruin's digital network.

Okay.

What the hell...

This whole structure...

is its memory?

Somewhere in these memory ruins should be

hiding the cyberbrain that's controlling it all.

But finding it in all of this...

We'll just have to comb through the whole thing.

There's an interface somewhere in here for handling all the memory.

We get into that and we can delete the entire directory piece by piece.

Assuming that doesn't delete the cyberbrain,

removing extrenuous programs will give a clean connection.

Then, when the remaining data is small enough,

we trap the cyberbrain in Fleksoid and wipe him.

Headbelt ready.

You sure about this?

If we mess up the timing on the final deletion,

then forget Fleksoid,

Lisa...

Your brain will get fried, too.

No matter what, I'll oppose this fate inherited from my mother.

Lisa.

Can you hear me?

Yeah.

All set on my side.

Where should we start?

Go with subdirectory A2.

Got it.

It's on the move! Next target: H8.

Roger.

80 megabytes have been deleted.

Fleksoid, where's it going next?

F6.

F6.

Roger.

Another 80 megabytes down.

B3.

Okay.

C7.

Roger that.

D6.

I3.

40 megabytes deleted.

L9

K8.

Roger!

There are 256 bytes remaining.

Just 256?

Normally 256 bytes is only enough

to write a functional menu screen, right?

That seems to be the case.

We're good.

Let's get this done and send it into Fleksoid.

Finally.

Almost there.

Just a little more.

It's in!

Fleksoid, render out its movements for me!

This is what we're after?

It's cuter than I thought it'd be!

How's it going, Fleksoid?

Awful.

What?

Hey,

what's happening?

Fleksoid!

Don't tell me...it was a trap?

There's no way!

Its just 256 bytes!

Lisa! What's happening over there?

What's going on?

It was a Trojan horse. We've been had.

And now it's in Fleksoid.

Lisa.

Lisa!

You can't be serious.

Serves you right, you dick.

What a shit way to go.

Come on...

What the hell is taking you so long?

Fleksoid.

If we install Zoodo into my brain instead...

I'm not done yet.

Zoodo...

Exists within me.

Fleksoid.

Can you hear me?

Thank goodness, you're still alive.

Listen, Fleksoid, this is your chance. Delete Zoodo while he's inside me.

What's wrong? You're worried you'll end up deleting my memory, too?

Don't worry. Just delete it.

Delete it!

Delete it!

Delete!

Lisa.

Lisa.

Lisa.