Thank you, Vince.
Driven from Romdo by a monster called a Proxy...
I escaped to the outside world.
After losing everything...
I'm left with doubts and only one option.
We travel to Mosk, my birthplace...
in the hopes of discovering something.
It's been several days since thejourney began.
Not only have our bodies grown weak.
Cloudy skies go on forever.
Frozen lands stretch to the ends of the Earth.
The bone chilling landscape closes in on us.
How is she?
Yes. It's been only 3 days...
but the adaptation rate of the bio-mimetic Amrita cells...
being administered is progressing well.
Complications from the weakened immune system due to the infection...
at this point, there's no problem.
Given her condition...
we could allow her to go home today to continue her recovery.
Well then, I'll bring her to you later.
The latest data is in.
Your ability to heal never ceases to amaze me, Re-I.
Re-I 124C41+
Chief Daedalus.
The Proxy has already vanished from Romdo and its vicinities.
It is an unshakeable fact.
If you are in possession of some concrete information, we ask that...
Don't forget.
While we are individuals, we are at the same time a single entity.
If the Research Bureau knows of a way to track the Proxy...
the Security Bureau's position is...
Each bureau's disputes...
are sensed by us.
Which means we are capable of knowing Romdo in its entirety.
The fact that our existence makes the connection is sufficient proof as to...
whether the Proxy is present or not.
The Proxy is not in Romdo. That much is true.
Then there's one thing this individual wishes to ask you, as a single entity.
Why was a citizen allowed to return from the outside world...
when none of us have attempted it before?
You are not authorized to request...
the disclosure of such information.
Your time is up.
Knowing the truth doesn't equate to being happy.
I can't believe it took me so long to accept such an obvious reality.
I realize now it was because of my own weakness.
My grandfather's lies.
There's a world outside this city.
There are people living there.
I know that now.
That's why...
there's no escape from this reality.
What's it doing here?
Daedalus, so you did know after all.
This is the artificial womb.
Daedalus!
The place where all of Romdo's citizens are born...
the womb-sys.
Daedalus, why?
I'll take my work tools back.
I can't cover up for you if I lose one.
I really give you credit for your curiosity.
Follow me.
I'll show you.
It's the most biologically and structurally efficient production line...
as a life-sustaining system within the dome.
From here we are born to become fellow citizens and...
to be raised by fellow citizens.
Everything is controlled and thus the balance is maintained.
Because population management and stability are essential...
in order for daily life to proceed in a domed city like Romdo.
Re-I?
I'm all right.
Even though mentally I know that people are controlled...
by production lines just like AutoReivs...
it's different when you actually see it.
Operational intervention in the life process.
By doing it repeatedly, we allow the human race to go on.
Is that how it really is?
Then what was that world I saw out there with my own eyes?
Tell me, Daedalus!
Do fellow citizens really need this dome anymore?
If we know for certain there's an outside world...
hasn't it long since served its purpose?
I'm an idiot.
I came very close to losing someone important to me.
I really shouldn't have let you go outside.
It's too late now.
Once you know the truth, there's no escaping it.
Right.
Do you remember our promise?
Yeah, but before that, will you help me save face?
You want me to go to my grandfather's?
He's right.
Before setting out on ajourney for the truth...
there's someone I need to face.
A world without so much as a trace of a living creature...
let alone a sign of people.
Still far from Mosk, our hopeful final destination.
And...
on every face, a look of fatigue.
I'm sorry I've given you so much trouble, Grandfather.
Are you satisfied, Re-I?
What did you see in the outside world?
You can speak freely.
Are you at a loss as to how to answer?
There were people.
People living there.
There was a world.
Is that right?
Why are you hiding it?
Re-I...
What are you afraid of?
You've said quite enough.
I'm talking to my Grandfather.
You don't have an answer, do you?
I wonder how much time has passed since we left Romdo.
The tired faces.
And another one...
Re-I.
Re-I. Re-I.
He was sent here for readjustment due to imprecisejudgment valuations.
I had him handed over to me for safekeeping.
I'll go set things up.
If it wasrt for the Prince, I'd be scrap already.
You've lost some weight, haven't you? You look pale too.
You're a mess without me, aren't you, Re-I?
Come on, Re-I. Why are you being so distant?
Because even now, you're being...
Well, then...
now it's my turn to keep my promise to you.
Wait. Before that...
Oh, I haven't told you yet, have I?
Lggy's been given the same procedure as my assistants.
You severed the connection with the surveillance structure.
Right.
Which means lggy's ears are no longer your Grandfather's.
So now we can speak freely about the Security Bureau.
All right, now let's get down to business.
I have the results from the autopsy on that thing.
That thing you found butchered in the outer block.
But before that...
I'm going to tell you what I know, from the beginning.
One age has come to an end.
Chief?
The Regent's life force is gradually starting to decline.
It's most evident in his complexion.
Such statements must be recorded by Entourage AutoReivs like myself.
I want them to hear.
Any signs of the Proxy?
Now that it's no longer in the city...
it's difficult to use remote follow-up investigation.
Let's make it simple.
We'll use those relics from the past hidden in the underground facilities.
Intelligence Release Mode. Confirmed.
You mean the long-range transfer crafts used in the Mosk invasion.
If you're going to eat the poison, you might as well eat the plate.
I'm going to teach you the meaning of those words.
We called it the Monad Proxy.
Monad?
We plundered it from the Mosk Dome.
It was already here when I was assigned to the facility.
Even I don't know the real reason it was kept locked up...
or why we were forbidden to wake it.
But there are some things I do know.
First, it's not a human...
from both a theological and biological perspective.
We could not even identify its gender.
In terms of Romdo...
I think the Proxy's existence could best be called a "life force."
So then, rather than being a monster...
Yes. It's definitely more like a god.
You could say it's the key to supporting...
the field necessary for our survival in this ruined world.
It's like something right out of the occult.
But it shows up in the actual data as well.
The specimen is composed of...
these Amrita cells which are immortal.
If we could figure out their secret...
we could...
The Proxy is the key to why we're alive.
But it's already been lost.
So then, Romdo must also have...
Yes.
But, we mustrt forget our own little secret.
There's notjust a single Proxy.
Very good.
Don't treat me like an idiot.
Well then, there's something else I want to ask you.
Where did you learn the word Proxy?
You shouldn't have left me alone in the office.
Re-I.
Honestly, I don't know why I'm so drawn to all this.
Was it the intense encounter?
It's notjust that.
Something changed then.
Until now I didn't need to question things or have answers.
If only I'djust done my job and left it at that...
I could still go back. But...
But?
I ran into it and found out about the outside world.
I can't ignore something once I know about it.
That's just like you.
But I'm the same too. I want to know the answer.
That's why I'm here.
Daedalus.
It's just the two of us now.
No, that thing's an AutoReiv.
I'm alone again.
Come on. We're going to the place you were born, right?
Yeah.
What kind of place is it?
It's, um...
you'll see when we get there.
Re-I!
Lggy!
This facility is secured! It's impossible.
Chief.
They're infected with cogito?
No way...
Don't tell me they've turned the cogito virus into a weapon!
It's me they're after.
Raul. How dare he! We don't even know its infection mechanism.
It shows how far he's willing to go to lock in power.
He's trying to find out where the Proxy is.
The man who holds the answer to that is...
Vincent Law.
Re-I, we got a response from our plant inside the Security Bureau.
I'm starting a trace on the target.
Re-I!
All alone.
The person left behind has nothing but time to think.
The memories I can't recall, even if I wanted to forget them.
The unresolved entity in my head refuses to go away.
What is it?
What is inside of me?
Even if I knew...
what good would it do me now.
Now...
when I'm completely alone.
We'll probably never meet again.
That's why I must forget.
But even so, I can't forget that face.
Good things. Coming things.
Moving things. Sad things.
Happy things. Single things.
Couple things.
Light Beam Shining things.
Light Beam