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This is video from the news one year from now.

"QUARTER NOTE - THE BEGINNING OF THE ONE HUNDRED YEAR JOURNEY"

This is video from the news one year from now.

"QUARTER NOTE - THE BEGINNING OF THE ONE HUNDRED YEAR JOURNEY"

Assemblyman Aikawa's death captured the public's attention,

"QUARTER NOTE - THE BEGINNING OF THE ONE HUNDRED YEAR JOURNEY"

and every year on this date,

"QUARTER NOTE - THE BEGINNING OF THE ONE HUNDRED YEAR JOURNEY"

humans would gather to lay flowers for him, with AIs in tow.

humans would gather to lay flowers for him, with AIs in tow.

So flesh and titanium alloy bonded,

and humans and AIs openly joined hands

to march down the path of prosperity together.

As that is so not a good thing, so come on--hurry up! Hurry up!

It won't do for you to get your cover blown.

A guard AI?

"WARNING"

How utterly weak!

A guard AI?

So we missed killing one?

Kakitani. I'll be heading up.

You take command of your unit as planned,

and finish the job.

Will you have enough manpower? My unit can--

We're up against a guard AI.

You don't have that kind of experience yet.

I'm leaving this side to you.

Let's go!

Toak?

"ANTI-AI ORGANIZATION 'TOAK' CLASHES WITH THE PEACEKEEPING UNIT AGAIN"

Toak?

"ANTI-AI ORGANIZATION 'TOAK' CLASHES WITH THE PEACEKEEPING UNIT AGAIN"

Broadly speaking, they're terrorists.

Broadly speaking, they're terrorists.

A group of AI-haters harboring anti-AI ideology.

"TOAK ATTACKS AI PRODUCTION FACILITY"

A group of AI-haters harboring anti-AI ideology.

"WANTED: SUSPECTS KUWANA, KAKITANI"

A group of AI-haters harboring anti-AI ideology.

Seriously, what a workload at this late hour!

Are you... a guard AI?

Can you converse?

Yes. I came to rescue you.

Assemblyman Aikawa.

Did you sustain any injuries?

Which department are you with?

I've never seen you before.

Any reinforcements?

Only myself.

The other AIs...

had all been destroyed.

I believe they were the ones behind all this.

Have you contacted the authorities?

You can't possibly handle this on your own.

Hold up! Can we save that for later?

We're running out of time, you see.

Please do not emerge. It will complicate matters.

Also, please climb down from there.

Don't be so cold!

Don't you understand the concept of leaving someone out?

I do understand. Please do not mock me.

Well, all joking aside, the fact is that we really are out of time, Diva.

"BOMBING BY TERRORISTS AT AI INDUSTRY BLDG"

"BOMBING BY TERRORISTS AT AI INDUSTRY BLDG"

In the future that I know,

"BOMBING BY TERRORISTS AT AI INDUSTRY BLDG"

Assemblyman Aikawa's body was found in this rubble.

"ASSEMBLYMAN AIKAWA PERISHES"

Assemblyman Aikawa's body was found in this rubble.

"ASSEMBLYMAN AIKAWA PERISHES"

And with very little of his original form remaining.

And with very little of his original form remaining.

Hey, you...

What do you mean?

Toak blew it up.

Take a look around you.

This happens to be the building for the AI company

where Assemblyman Aikawa used to work.

For Toak, it was like killing two birds with one stone.

Being able to kill Assemblyman Aikawa and attack this AI company simultaneously.

Well, the ironic thing is that Assemblyman Aikawa's death...

ended up serving as the springboard that got the Naming Law passed.

This is our mission.

To help Assemblyman Aikawa escape from this building safely...

before Toak finishes blowing it up.

That's all. Towards the exit on the first floor, let's go!

Hey, what's the matter? Is that an error?

Is that a device?

Please excuse me. We will now head to the first floor.

Before this building collapses.

Collapses?

Hold on a second, what are you...

Damn you!

You're spending too much time on one!

Are you sure we're okay?

You don't seem experienced...

Yes. Thank you for your concern.

No, that's not what I--

If you would excuse me...

Please do not take such liberties with me.

What was that for?

Are you worried about the effects on your singing function, maybe?

Of couse I am. After all, I--

But this would help you rescue him, can't you even compute that?

What are you doing? Didn't you come here to help me?

Are you really a guard AI?

Involving me without giving me a choice,

attempting to tamper with the system...

In the first place, Toak... and the collapse of this building...

Why would you only offer a drip feed of the future like that?

If you had told me everything from the start--

It's because I don't trust you.

Someone of your specs, who can be rendered immobile...

by the force of a mere .38 caliber gun?

I am loathe to call such a person my partner,

and disclose all of my information.

Please leave the information calculations to me.

It was you who forced me to--

A logical bullet?

I guess I was being overly cautious.

Who knew you didn't even have a decent wall up.

What is it that you want?

Why are you coming after me?

What do I want, you ask?

We've sent you our demands time and time again.

We definitely sounded the alarm.

The risks and humiliation of co-existing with AIs.

If that's not something you can grasp,

then there's nothing that I can teach you.

Die... and become the foundation!

Huh!

Mission complete. Send me the status.

In progress, sir.

Deployment on each floor, complete.

All that's left is to set the detonation time.

All right. Withdraw as soon as that's done.

Copy that.

Mr. Kuwana!

What?

Leader!

No way...

This isn't going to buy us that much time.

The virus will be eliminated in another three seconds.

Huh?

What exactly did you do?

I tampered with their goggles,

serving up some violent images and sound with a splatter film feel.

Seriously, I need a massage!

Have you considered going on a diet?

I am not capable of losing weight.

Listen, you...

Can you compute the anguish of getting a straight face in response to your joke?

I've locked the entrance to the emergency exit stairs

and the area where the bombs have been set, Toak and all.

Now if you can find a way to get past the people out front...

Using explosives to blast the door along with yourself?

I mean, who does that?

Remove your mask! Or you'll be taken over!

Aikawa!

And now we go boom.

Diva!

What just--

I set off some of the bombs.

Head outside now, while you have the chance.

Are you... out of your mind? You trying to kill me?

Come on!

Damn it!

Hurry!

God damn you...

What are you doing?

Our goal is to rescue Assemblyman Aikawa.

I told you before.

That my mission is to make everyone happy by singing.

So how can I let someone before my eyes--

Do you actually think he's going to come see you sing someday?

That's beyond irrational!

Huh?

It's all over!

It was a mistake from the start,

using the Naming Law to go after those votes!

Please shut up. I am calculating--

I couldn't care less about the AIs...

The truth is, I couldn't care less about the AIs!

Hmm.

Huh!

This was a mistake.

The professor was wrong to stake everything on you.

Remember what you asked me on stage?

Why you were chosen to be the one I was transferred to?

It's because after 100 years,

you were the only one whose body still existed in complete form.

You see, of all the AIs who exist now,

you were the only one who made it into the future, 100 years from now.

With other AIs it was highly likely that

they'd been destroyed at some point in history.

That was the only reason.

As the first-ever autonomous humanoid AI,

you were stashed way at the back of a museum, gathering dust,

so you were spared from the future AI rampage.

Do you understand?

In the near future, you'll be removed from the stage, and sent to a museum.

Apparently, that's where your mission will end.

Making everyone happy by singing...

For such a thing, you've sabotaged our project.

I can't tell you how disappointed I am.

Why are you AIs from a century ago so--

Please take that back.

Excuse me?

You called my mission "such a thing"-- please take that back.

Museum-bound in the near future? What if I am?

It does not matter when my mission ends.

For us AIs, it is not a matter of how long we operate.

It is how we continue to operate, is it not?

Purely for... our missions!

You are an AI from a century from now.

Are you incapable of grasping even that?

Please stand up.

I am going to need you to stay alive.

I need you to live, and listen to me sing.

You're...

"BOMBING BY TERRORISTS AT AI INDUSTRY BLDG"

Matsumoto?

Yes.

I am going to collapse this building.

Are you out of your mind? Have you broken down at last?

Before that happens, we need to escape--

"NO CASUALTIES IN THE NEXT-DOOR RENDERING CENTER"

That was this building's rendering center.

It is unmanned.

You are capable of controlling the scale of the explosion, are you not?

Well, yes, I can do that! But what you're trying to do is madness!

You--

I am fulfilling the mission.

Huh?

Yours... and mine.

Get the hell out of here!

It's gonna go off!

Mr. Kuwana... they're--

Stop talking.

Right now, we're getting out of here.

The timer's been turned on by force.

It's going to go off any minute now.

It saved me.

Huh?

I was saved... by an AI!

Hurry! Get as far away as you can!

What about them?

Once I started the countdown and disabled the locks on the door, they fled.

Why wouldn't they?

Never mind that, don't hold me like that!

Oh...

Come on.

Did you sustain any injuries?

Thank you. You saved my life.

Assemblyman Aikawa, now that won't do.

I thought you couldn't care less about AIs?

That was--

This isn't sarcasm.

You couldn't care less about AIs, now what a splendid, futuristic concept.

Now please stay that way.

Oh, and try not to get yourself killed, all right?

Please take care.

It's not a matter of how long you live...

but how you continue to live, huh?

This is a traffic system called a crosswalk.

When the light turns blue--

I know.

Please do not mock me.

Says the one who stood baffled the first time she saw it.

In the end, we were able to save him,

and we were also able to swear him to secrecy about us.

I suppose your true identity should be safe, too.

After all, he had his glasses on the whole time,

and though it was lame, you did disguise yourself.

Can we really prevent the AI Naming Law from being passed now?

He is attempting to get that law passed, is he not?

Oh, he's not a man of that caliber.

You saw how weak he was when push came to shove, didn't you?

He's merely a third-rate assemblyman who tried to rack up popularity

by using the Naming Law.

According to my calculations, in the event that he lived,

he'd have fallen from power along with the Naming Law.

What a rude way to put it.

It's a factual and historical, definitive prediction.

In comparison...

What you did was haphazard.

Far too many variables!

Listen to me, for us AIs it's never all or nothing,

but ones and zeroes that we crunch...

to determine how we can complete every task in a rational way.

Your antics make me shudder to think what's ahead for us...

Do you know what that is?

It is the Arayashiki, is it not? It is visible from NiaLand as well.

That's correct.

The radio tower for the wireless communications that we AIs use,

built by the AI industrial giant, OCG...

a.k.a. The Arayashiki.

It's only this tall right now,

but in 100 years, you won't be able to see its top from here.

Those are indices.

You could say that the more that that tower grows,

the more that AIs in that society are evolving.

I am going to trust you, Diva.

To prevent that tower from growing, to keep the future war from breaking out,

I want you to lend me a hand.

As long as it is not in violation of my mission.

Would you mind kneeling down?

What about the damage to the buildings?

Well, they should be fine.

As you can see, according to official history--that is to say, true history,

aside from Assemblyman Aikawa,

the building's collapse caused no other deaths.

Although it is strictly forbidden to unnecessarily alter history,

this was within an acceptable range.

Is that right?

Let's not do this, Diva.

You and I just shook hands.

Didn't I tell you only a moment ago?

It's strictly forbidden to unnecessarily alter history.

You did say, "purely for our missions," didn't you?

I couldn't agree more.

I can't allow these personal calculations of yours.

"ACCIDENT CAUSED BY FUEL LEAK FROM THE ENGINE"

"ALL CREW MEMBERS AND PASSENGERS DEAD"

"EXPLOSION, CRASH IMMEDIATELY AFTER TAKEOFF"

Starting now, this is the type of journey we'll be taking, Diva.

We don't have time to tend to every single accident in history.

"MOMOKA KIRISHIMA (12)"

We don't have time to tend to every single accident in history.

We don't have time to tend to every single accident in history.

It is all for the sake of preventing the excessive evolution of the AIs,

and to keep the war of the future from breaking out.

This is where your hundred-year journey begins.

Because our next opponent is...

space!

Welcome to Sunrise.

All our staff are like family here.

I understand. Estella.

"NEXT TIME" "EPISODE 3: A TENDER MOON TEMPO - A PLESANT CHAT WITH THE STARS"

You have such a beautiful voice.

"NEXT TIME" "EPISODE 3: A TENDER MOON TEMPO - A PLESANT CHAT WITH THE STARS"

My sister.