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If you can hear it,
it is speaking to you.
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And if you can see it,
then it is your...
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Mankind is a creature that no
longer evolves, is it not?
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Compared to other animals, the cancer
rate in man is exceedingly small.
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One theory says that man is a neoteny,
and is no longer able to evolve.
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If this is true, then what an absurd
creature man has evolved into.
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Not knowing what it
is that drives them,
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they keep their bodies merely to
satisfy the desires of the flesh.
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They're worthless, don't you think?
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That's all mankind is.
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But it is no longer necessary
to remain a wretched human being.
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Mankind has finally created an
exit whereby he may escape.
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What do you mean?
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The network. The Wired, Lain.
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Who are you?
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I'm God.
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Wanna go get something to eat?
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Hey, aren't you hungry?
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Hey, wanna go to the pool next time?
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Oh, man...
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Tell me a story!
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Come on, please!
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Tell me a story, okay?
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What kind of story would
you like to hear, Lain?
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Let's see...
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Something I don't know about!
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There is nothing that
you don't know.
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I can't tell you a story
that doesn't exist.
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You understand, don't you?
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Well, how about this, then?
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For every event, there
is first a prophecy.
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An event first comes into existence
when there is a prophecy.
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Who? Who makes the prophecies?
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Throughout Tokyo today, the VTCZX road
traffic information transmission system...
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...sent out incorrect information.
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Especially at congested intersections,
traffic signals interfered with the...
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...auto-drive program in cars and
trucks, sending them out of control.
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There was a fatality
in Shibuya, Tokyo,
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but the Information Ministry says
that the system is already back up,
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and that such an accident
will never happen again.
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Excuse me.
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Huh?
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Uh...
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Mind if I hit on you?
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Oh, shit...
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Later!
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H-Hey!
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That little creep...
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Damn it, this is gonna stain...
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W-What the heck is this?
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Some kind of bad joke...
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What the hell...?
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What's she doing?
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Is she crazy?
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Lain?
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What's her problem?
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The prophecy is
being fulfilled, Lain.
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But then it's not a prophecy...
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No, it is a prophecy.
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History is not merely a linear
collection of points that...
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...we pass through
on a timeline.
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They are connected by a line.
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No, perhaps it is more accurate to
say that they are made to connect.
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By who? Who connects them?
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Lain!
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What did you do?
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I had no idea. I guess
you're pretty good.
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I didn't know you could pull off
a hacky stunt like that already.
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What're you talking about?
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Playing innocent again, huh?
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I really don't...
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You didn't do it, Lain?
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Do what?
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The Information Control Bureau
of the Information Ministry...
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...began investigating yesterday's
information network abnormality,
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stating that it was very
likely a deliberate act.
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With the network now a lifeline for
not only the city, but for society,
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such an act is tantamount to...
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Your total is 948 yen.
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Out of 948 yen.
Please, enjoy your meal.
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Huh? There it is again.
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Again?
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What?
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Spam. indiscriminate mail.
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I'm really getting tired of this...
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"Fulfill the prophecy," right?
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Is it a declaration of
war by some cult group?
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I asked some geeks I met on
the Wired about it a while ago.
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They said it might be the Knights.
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Knights? Who's that?
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Some kind of super-hacker group.
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But I thought hackers don't
usually work together.
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True. But maybe this Knights
group really isn't a group at all.
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They say they have a lot of power in the
Wired, and that they do a lot in secret.
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So they're a secret society.
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Geez, do they get their
kicks out of this stuff?
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I'm not sure why...
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Huh?
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...but something tells me that they're
not in it for fun or for money.
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It's reasonable to see the Wired as
an upper layer of the real world.
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In other words, physical reality
is nothing but a hologram...
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...of the information that
flows through the Wired.
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Morn?
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This is because the body -- the activity
of the human brain -- is merely...
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...a physical phenomenon caused by
synapses delivering electrical impulses.
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I...
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The body exists only to
verify one's own existence.
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Are you... Are you really my morn?
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Are you?
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Lain?
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Huh?
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Didn't I see you at Shibuya?
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Forget it. It's nothing.
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Thank you!
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Hey, don't you think
he's pretty cute?
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How did it go with him?
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Come on, you can tell us!
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W-What? What prophecy?!
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What's going on?
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I usually have dinner with
Morn and Dad about now...
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Wha--
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What's happening?
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I-Is someone there?
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Come on, I know you're there.
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Are you my real dad?
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It may be that what flows through the
Wired isn't merely electrical information.
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Huh?
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If we assume that it was the
development of electricity and phones...
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...that brought about the
formation of the Wired,
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then I have to wonder if another
world was created at that moment.
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Uh...
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Here in the real world,
God exists only as a concept.
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But in the Wired, there may be
a sort of Deus-like embodiment.
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God?
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I don't know whether or not
it should be called a god.
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But at the very least, I think
it has the same kind...
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...of power that is
written of in myths.
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I think I may have talked with God.
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It's possible that the Deus of the
Wired may already have enough power...
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...to affect the real
world in some instances.
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Yes... In the form of prophecy.
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Prophecy?
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What's wrong?
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It's nothing. Forget about it.
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Who is it today?
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I thought I was innocent,
but I'm being punished.
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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 can catch me.
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You probably don't know
the eternal outlaws...
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...who wander the distant night.