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I don't need parents.
Humans are all alone.
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They're not connected
to anyone at all.
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How did it go?
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Lain's acting funny.
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It's nothing new, but still...
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No, it's perfectly normal.
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Huh? What're you talking about?
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Mika, watch your tone
with your father.
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Is she right?
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Yes.
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Shit! Shit!
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Shit!
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Shit! Shit!
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What do you want?!
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What's going on?!
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Shit!
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SHIT!
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Gotcha.
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We have homeroom next hour, right?
Is that lucky, or what?
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Don't you think it's strange that
they called a special staff meeting?
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Do you think it's true, then?
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What?
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They say a high school
senior committed suicide.
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S-Suicide?
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It's not just at our school, either.
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Somebody jumped off the roof of their
apartment building a while ago, too.
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Hey, Lain.
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Sorry. What is it?
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I guess Lain wouldn't
know anything about it...
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The suicide, you mean?
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You know about that?
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Really?
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I've just heard a little
about it, that's all.
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Where?
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The Wired.
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Right, you must've gotten the
hang of your new Navi by now.
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You'll have to show
it to me sometime.
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Sure. But I'm modifying
it a little right now.
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Modifying it? I didn't know
you were into that hacky stuff.
40
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You know, you've changed lately.
41
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Really? You think so?
42
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She has?
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Yeah. I can't put my finger on it.
44
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So, what sort of rumors have
you heard in the Wired?
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Well... That's it's
some kind of game.
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A game? A network game, you mean?
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I don't really know.
I don't play those.
48
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But they say that all the dead
kids were hooked on it.
49
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Guys sure like that stuff...
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A game, huh? But why?
51
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I...
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Hey, don't wolf down food
like that! You'll choke!
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I'm okay.
54
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You mind if I go home'?
55
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Hey, you don't need to ask
our permission or anything.
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You have plans?
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I want to get home and put
my Navi back together.
58
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It's still in bits and pieces.
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You prefer a machine
to your friends, huh?
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Cut it out, Juri!
Don't talk like that!
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I'm not accusing her of anything.
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Once you're done, you'll
have to show us, Lain.
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Sure.
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Sorry.
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She has changed.
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I'm sorry!
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Here.
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No, it was my fault.
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Sorry!
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Log in. Lain.
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Authorized.
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Mail.
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Voice mail.
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Hello, Lain.
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I couldn't figure out the answer
to your question by myself,
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so I asked a colleague
at the lab about it.
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If that really is a Psyche
processor that you have,
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then you should probably set the
oscillation to "variable" like you thought.
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Navi motherboards are designed
to work with just about anything,
80
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but you might run
into some glitches.
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Good luck.
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If you need anything
else, just ask.
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JJ!
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Yeah?
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You know anything about that net
game that all the kids are playing?
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Oh, you mean Phantoma?
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Forget about it. An adult like
you wouldn't be into that.
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Right, Lain?
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No way...
90
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Damn, are my ears playing
tricks on me already?
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I... I quit already!
92
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Leave me out of it!
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This isn't the Wired!
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Why? Why is this happening?!
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Wait, don't run.
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Who are you?!
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Are you a PK, too? Help me!
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I can't go where you are.
99
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What's going on?!
100
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Stop screwing around!
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Bullet charge! Gauge 5!
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Die!
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Die!
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Die!
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Die!
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Die!
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Die!
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Die!
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Die!
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Die!
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Die!
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Die!
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Die!
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00:14:13,536 --> 00:14:14,139
Die!
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Die!
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I was scared, that's all.
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I didn't know it was just a
little girl. It's not my fault.
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I didn't even know her.
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Phantoma is a game with a
dedicated client application...
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...that lets you fight in the Wired.
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I downloaded the app from an illegal
server to play it a little while ago.
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For us, it had a dungeon-style
action game interface,
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but I guess it had
somehow gotten linked...
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to a tag game played
by kindergartners.
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You have mail.
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Open it.
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Hey, Lain. I didn't know you
were into stuff like Phantoma.
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I checked around, but
didn't find out much.
129
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Anyway, the basic game isn't
all that unusual in the Wired,
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so my guess is that
they just modified that.
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The problem is the part that lets
the programs connect to each other.
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It looks like there's some kind
of weird hole in the protocol.
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My buddies and I think that this
may be the work of the Knights, too.
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Knights...
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Lain?
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Looks like you and the Wired are
getting along just fine now.
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Yeah.
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Let me give you one little warning.
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Huh?
140
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When it's all said and
done, the Wired...
141
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...is just a medium for communication
and the transfer of information.
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You mustn't confuse it
with the real world.
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Do you understand what
I'm warning you about?
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You're wrong.
145
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Huh?
146
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The border between the
two isn't all that clear.
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I'll be able to enter it soon.
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In full range. Full motion.
I'll translate myself into it.
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Even with a top of the line
civilian Navi, you couldn't...
150
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I can do it. I've modified mine.
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A Psyche processor, huh?
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But...
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Don't worry. I'm still me.
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Sometimes I wonder.
155
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I waited for you for hours!
156
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Why? Why didn't you come?!
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Damn you! Damn you! Damn you!
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Damn you!
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00:19:10,065 --> 00:19:12,102
This mail is a
message of happiness!
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00:19:12,467 --> 00:19:16,506
By receiving this, you'll be
happier than anyone else!
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In other words, the Knights
do not physically exist,
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but are rather thought itself
that occurs within the Wired.
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They can be thought of as a religion
that is spreading through the Wired.
164
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Would you go out with me?
165
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If you already have a
boyfriend, I apologize.
166
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If you love him, I'll
give up on you. But if...
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Please browse code
J946@5488AA97464.
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Whoever gets this mail, please
help me, whoever you are.
169
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You may not believe this,
but I'm always being followed.
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Lain, why won't you come here?
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Go away.
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Go away!
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Intruder interrupted.
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I thought I was innocent,
but I'm being punished.
175
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I didn't start this, but I
have to finish it somehow.
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I can't say I didn't know about it,
but I don't remember taking part in it.
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I get the feeling my
freedom cost me dearly,
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but I don't remember
selling my soul cheaply.
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Hey, hey!
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Until I die and say goodbye...
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Hey, hey!
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...no one will ever catch me.
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You probably don't know
the eternal outlaws...
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...who wander the distant night.