Believers (2022) Movie Script
(No entry for non-relevant personnel)
(This island is private property.)
All day today
Let's also keep advancing our practice for our fellow practitioners.
Let's keep advancing our practice for our fellow practitioners.
Let's keep advancing our practice for our fellow practitioners.
What a refreshing morning.
All those things happening in the world
seem like they don't exist at all.
Vice Chairman, how are our food supplies?
If it doesn't arrive today,
what's left will only last until tomorrow.
Operator
Don't let your appetite get the better of you.
All day today,
let us also keep advancing our practice for our fellow practitioners.
Yes.
Then I'll go first with my report.
Last night I had that dream again.
Adventure, excitement, romance,
war and peace,
death and rebirth,
the tide of history full of love and sorrow,
chariots, dance parties, and interstellar fleets.
When I woke up,
I was moved to tears.
But when I got up to write the story down,
no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't recall it.
If I could capture even one percent of that emotion...
I would already have...
The Chairman would probably already be a bestselling novelist by now.
No, even if I had been able to do it back then,
I probably wouldn't have joined.
I would have become just an ordinary person of the mundane world.
Next, Vice Chairman, please give your report.
The Third Headquarters Chief appeared in my dream.
And then?
It was as if he was saying to me, "Long time no see."
And then...
Without reporting the contents of the dream exactly as they were.
So the island project is pointless now.
That's really all I remember.
Looks like your powers still aren't enough.
Next, the switchboard operator, please report.
The Master appeared in my dream.
This is what he said:
"Even though it's hard
keep striving in your practice for the sake of your fellow cultivators."
Do you find it hard?
What?
I don't find it hard at all.
Compared to the gloomy life
we lived in that filthy society,
this island is nothing short of paradise.
No, that's not it...
I'm just relaying what the Master said in my dream.
You just think the island project is too hard,
so you dreamed the Master said that to you, right?
This could cause problems...
Yes...
In any case, it seems the three of us
are all practitioners with shallow cultivation and insufficient spiritual power.
It appeared.
It appeared?
We're close, very close now.
Overall, the lines are all smooth.
Does that mean we succeeded?
Headquarters has sent new orders.
And a new recording from the Master.
Then please transfer it onto the cassette.
Yes.
RO-4 has 5.
-Thank you for your help.
CHI-11 has 6...
Here, this is for you... yes.
Yes.
What can be seen exists.
What cannot be seen does not exist.
What can be seen exists.
What cannot be seen does not exist.
Reflect on this as our enemy.
Reflection is our enemy
Front, back, and then above
Front, back, and then above
Counting on fingers, deliberating deeply
Counting on fingers, deliberating deeply
If you're willing to let me into your dream
then I'll let you into mine as well
If you're willing to let me into your dream
then I'll let you into mine as well
Looks like our supplies still haven't arrived
Didn't the upper echelons receive our request?
Can't be helped, let's start unloading
-Yes.
-Yes.
(Handle with care)
Fellow practitioners, fellow practitioners
For the sake of our fellow practitioners' spiritual progress
Beyond the dream lies a vast world
A horizon connecting the dream and the waking world
Fellow practitioners, let us go there together
To the place where we can dwell in peace
Now, from Babylon
Set sail
Why is there so much trash on this uninhabited island?
It drifted over from an impure land on the waves.
What on earth will become of the Earth?
The water's gone rotten.
After all, it hasn't rained lately.
Starting today, we won't be able to bathe anymore.
Ready...
How did it crawl in there?
Dawn is about to break
Amid filth and squalor
My path cannot proceed as I wish
From a life as dull as chewing wax
Babylon, worthless, sets sail and departs
Dawn toward the place of peace
Dawn is about to break...
That was a place I used to live.
It was the dormitory I lived in during high school.
I was standing on the stairs.
Who is that person?
I didn't see her face
No...
I mean, I don't remember.
Did you really only touch her legs?
Please tell us the truth.
Well...
I accidentally had a wet dream.
So you had a lewd dream.
I'm sorry.
Before the wet dream,
didn't you try to stop it by force?
I haven't figured out how to end it yet...
Let me sum up.
Operator, to purge your evil thoughts,
you must stay in the cave all day today.
That day is coming
Amid filth and vileness
My path cannot proceed smoothly
From a life as dull as chewing wax
Worthless Babylon sets sail and departs
The dawn of the place where we can rest...
The tape is damaged.
Let's request a new tape from headquarters.
Did headquarters really receive our request?
We're about to run out of food.
Vice Chairman.
Our superiors must have their reasons.
Let us continue to refine our practice with our fellow cultivators.
That must have been tough, right?
Thank you.
No, I feel great.
All my evil thoughts have been sweated out.
I actually had that kind of dream.
I'm such a failure.
I'll just have to start my practice all over again.
Operator, you're amazing.
It's very hard to honestly admit your own flaws.
Me too, um...
Vice Chairman, you had a lewd dream too?
No, it wasn't quite a lewd dream.
Please keep this a secret from the Chairman.
I made a proposal.
Chairman, an emergency proposal.
Creating secrets among the three of us
is the most unforgivable thing.
I'm sorry.
Not to mention keeping a dream a secret.
That is the lowest kind of conduct.
Have you forgotten why we came here in the first place?
I'm sorry.
I'm really sorry.
Please tell us.
What kind of dream did you have?
I don't remember...
I really don't remember much.
It was with the Third Headquarters Chief, right?
Did he hug you?
Did he touch your legs?
Or did it go even further...?
No...
You have to remember.
Try hard to recall it.
Crying won't help.
I won't let you brush this off.
I don't remember.
I really don't remember...
Remember it for me.
Don't cry.
Are you all right?
I'm fine.
I'll devote myself to my fellow practitioners and cultivate harder.
I remember now.
That dream was real.
It was something that actually happened in real life.
It was autumn of my second year of high school.
That day, my friend and I were in a room together
drinking and fooling around when we got caught.
In the end, we were kicked out of the dormitory.
Goodbye.
She was the person I had a crush on.
I haven't thought of her once all this time.
Maybe it's the effect of the Isolated Island Project.
As they say, "To live a complete life,
one must expose all the filthy secrets, right?"
Are you asleep?
Actually... in reality,
I never actually touched her legs.
I didn't dare to.
Looking back now,
even if I had touched them, she probably would have just given me
an unspoken smile, I suppose.
But... I can't even remember her face.
Strange, isn't it?
Even though I used to like her so much.
Operator.
Do you have a bit of a fever?
Maybe I was just too tired from staying in the cave yesterday.
I see.
Including that doctor and his mistress,
and everything from ordinary office workers to yin-yang people,
there were body parts everywhere, that's how it was.
Though they were all bioroids, actually.
Report complete.
Next, please, Deputy Speaker, report.
Last night...
I didn't dream.
I see.
Next, please, Operator, report.
Yes.
I...
I didn't dream either.
Really?
Yes, I couldn't sleep at all.
I see.
You've had a hard time of it.
Are you alright?
I'm holding up... thank you.
After all, we've only had water since yesterday.
No one knows when the food will arrive.
Hurry, the food's here!
Is that flour?
Just flour and water?
Since they sent flour,
they probably want us to make udon, right?
But there's no dashi or soy sauce.
Making udon wouldn't work without those.
Then it must be spaghetti.
Spaghetti's ready to eat with just salt.
What's the difference between making udon
and making spaghetti?
It's probably the amount of water.
Or do you add salt separately or something?
Do you need to add eggs for spaghetti?
I remember seeing it on TV.
Why would you need eggs?
And where would we even get eggs now?
They probably want us to make udon.
But I think spaghetti would be better.
Udon is simpler, though.
But spaghetti...
Chairman?
Chairman.
What's wrong?
I'm sure it's around here...
Found it.
(Spaghetti, ingredients, flour)
It's just flour.
Flour alone is enough to make it.
No salt or eggs needed.
Just as I thought.
But when seasoning and boiling the noodles,
we still need salt, right?
There's plenty of salt right here.
There are shells...
Should we cook it with the shellfish?
Let's make a lot.
We can dry some and save it.
Good point.
Rather than clam spaghetti,
it's more like fried udon...
I just stir-fried it a little on the side.
Alright, let's dig in...
It's delicious.
It's delicious, really delicious.
It's packed with seafood flavor, isn't it?
The original taste, untouched.
You don't get any of that seawater stench.
Instead it's a fragrant savoriness that makes your appetite roar.
It blends perfectly with the shellfish.
There are also rock shore finds like octopus and sea urchin.
Let's make a seafood pasta with them later.
There's wild herbs like mugwort up on the slope behind us too.
Grinding those up and adding them might even be healthier.
But... food that hasn't been purified by the high priest...
might contaminate our bodies...
If we're going to say that,
then even salt made by evaporating seawater...
Strictly speaking, even bathing in rainwater
would contaminate the body too.
Products of nature untouched by human contamination
should be fine, shouldn't they?
We'll ask headquarters about it later.
What a cool breeze. I'm so satisfied with this meal.
A place to dwell peacefully must be just like this.
-It's raining.
-It's raining.
It's raining...
Now we can take a bath.
How refreshing.
Don't move, don't move.
-Hold him down.
-Don't struggle.
Alright, eat up quickly.
You're the one who said it, right?
"They say if you eat a turd, you'll die."
You need to take responsibility for what you say.
You always do this, don't you?
Right? Talking like you know everything.
-Shove it into him quickly.
-Eat it...
So you dreamed about the bullying scene
that actually happened in reality, didn't you?
Pretty much, yes.
Those guys are surely still swaggering around
lording it over the mundane world
What a rotten world this is
But...
Can you really die from eating a turd?
I'm still alive...
Could it be that
we've been eating too many unpurified
shellfish and seawater lately,
and it's contaminated our bodily fluids,
which is what gave me that nightmare...
Is this food?
I suppose so.
We just ran out of flour, too.
What a pungent stench!
It's a bit like cheese.
More like an old rag used to wipe up milk.
I think it was Okinawa or Taiwan,
that they have foods like this.
No, wait, this isn't...
It's already gone bad?
The headquarters people would send spoiled food?
It's also possible there's an enemy
who infiltrated the fellow members who delivered the food
and is trying to harm us.
Food blessed by our guru could never spoil.
It only looks like it's gone bad.
It's actually meant to be eaten this way.
Are you all right?
Looking back, that dream this morning
must have been a precognitive dream warning me I'd get food poisoning.
My spiritual cultivation is still so shallow.
So it really is a traitor sent by the enemy...
You're right.
We must write to headquarters right away.
Chairman,
I'll write to headquarters.
We have to find some way to get him eating something nutritious.
Found some, there's plenty.
But food that hasn't been purified...
Will it really contaminate our bodily fluids?
Even so,
We have unfinished goals. We can't starve to death first.
We'll ask the master about it later.
Please purify our bodies.
Right.
There's octopus.
It smells so good.
The waves just now were huge.
Waves?
When?
No...
Do you want some?
It's so good.
We should hurry and bring the sea urchin to the chairman, right?
Hurry and take it to him.
Operator.
What is it?
Last time, when we buried him in the hole,
You were staring at me all night, weren't you?
You were awake?
Why is that?
Please tell me honestly.
The person in my dream...
Had your face.
Thank you for being willing to tell me the truth.
Your forehead is so hot...
Chairman, this is sea urchin.
It's freshly harvested sea urchin.
Please eat it to regain your strength...
Hang in there, Chairman.
It's you two...
This must be the master's will.
This time it's our turn to be disposed of.
Just like we disposed of the others.
What nonsense are you talking?
I think I... I'm already finished.
I know my own condition very well...
Don't say such defeatist things.
Before I die,
I have to apologize to you about something.
Although I condemned you,
I've also been hiding a secret.
This is...
It's something I found on the beach.
I knew I shouldn't,
but my desire to see it got the better of me.
According to the report...
Our fellow practitioners are being persecuted by enemies all over the place.
The organization is in chaos.
(Exclusive report: a terrifying cult)
Finances are also extremely strained.
(Misdeeds of the Smiling Life Centers)
The situation is extremely critical.
That's all just malicious manipulation by the media.
The notice from headquarters didn't mention any of that.
It seems the Third Headquarters Head has left the group.
What?
The Third Headquarters Head and a female member have left the group.
Their hideout was discovered by the police.
They're currently on the run.
I think the Third Headquarters Head...
Compared to us,
you believe those lying media more?
-Please pull yourself together, Chairman.
-Operator
You're our Chairman.
I'm disgusted by you like this.
Stop it, you'll kill him.
Looking at this kind of thing,
will contaminate your mind just like it did the Chairman's.
Is the Chairman sick because of contamination?
That's surely one of the reasons.
I've already submitted a request for medication.
But headquarters hasn't responded yet.
Fellow practitioners...
Fellow practitioners...
For the sake of our fellow practitioners...
Advancing our practice...
This is an emergency.
We have no choice but to negotiate with headquarters directly.
Will the boat come tonight?
If it doesn't come, we'll wait again tomorrow.
Excuse me
Did something happen before I came to the island?
What?
Didn't the chairman just say so?
"Just like we dealt with them."
The chairman's brain has fried.
Before I got here, you were the chairman, right?
If
If the chairman dies,
there will only be the two of us left on the island.
I'm sorry.
No, it's fine.
Coming.
Excuse me.
Wow, that's great
A river it's a river
(Processing complete.)
Thank you.
I received the mail.
We really shouldn't have direct contact like this.
It could compromise confidential security.
-I'm so sorry
-I'm very sorry.
But he really looks like he's about to die.
Also we're almost out of food.
I was only instructed to deliver the medicine.
If you have any questions, write to the First Headquarters.
-Yes.
-Sorry.
Isn't this Seirogan?
It is, isn't it.
Is that so?
I said that kind of thing?
Though I don't remember it at all,
I've never been so embarrassed in my life.
I must have been spiritually polluted by that gossip magazine.
Are you really all right now?
I feel refreshed and clear, it's simply wonderful.
My mind has never been this clear.
It feels like the walls around my heart were all torn down at once.
Looking back,
after eating that strange purple thing.
Could all this suffering also be part of the plan?
You should try some too.
Maybe you'll reach my level of enlightenment.
No...
Well... we already threw it away.
Threw it away?
You threw away the food the master gave us?
No, that's not...
Just kidding, I'm just kidding.
The master would never deliberately
make us suffer such agony.
That stuff had completely gone bad.
Disposing of it was the right thing to do.
Anyway, the dream is what matters.
Even though I've had a high fever these past few days,
it pushed me to record
every last detail of the dream.
I've learned to save text in my head,
and this is the result of my long-term dream memory project.
Chapter 19 is a futuristic sci-fi novel next.
It's set in a city floating in the sky.
The protagonist, a low-ranking citizen,
works repairing the screws
that have come loose and fallen from the bottom of the buildings.
Everyone flies around in the sky...
This must be the entirely new state of consciousness
that comes from a near-death experience.
The island project the master always has on his mind
is meant to make us remember everything.
When all the dreams and all the memories are revived,
a permanent revolution will unfold in our hearts.
Releasing all memories and dreams is the first step.
This will make us
complete humans who can correctly grasp our own selves.
So that's how it is, I suppose.
Chairman...
We're still carrying out the plan.
Sorry, my mind was racing too fast,
and I got carried away talking.
But please let me report one last thing.
I can see a river
It's the river the master mentioned in his theory about near-death experiences
The river from
-That river...
-Strange...
Looks like someone lives here
I'm done for
We've landed, it's okay
This is private land. Leave at once.
Is this your island?
No, we're just hired to look after it.
We were drinking and drinking, and then the boat drifted over here.
The battery died, and the radio can't connect either.
Could you help us contact the main island?
Sorry, we can't do that without the landowner's permission.
We can't comply with that.
You old geezer.
Stop lying, there's no way that's true.
Sorry, this guy is not only seasick,
he also drank a ton of alcohol.
Just let him rest here for a bit.
Sorry, please go back now.
You're going to let us die?
You went out to sea with only that little equipment.
You were just too reckless.
Deputy Chairman, leave this to me.
Are you... an accomplice of that murderer?
I've seen it, you know.
These guys are from the Smile Life Center.
-This symbol right here.
-No...
I don't know what you're talking about.
Anyway, please go back.
The 'smile' thing was on the news, you know.
-No...
-We're in trouble now, huh.
That's not it...
I bet these guys
are throwing an orgy on this deserted island.
Please watch your language and show some respect.
Group sex is awesome.
-I want to have an orgy.
-Deputy Chairman.
Please leave.
This is no place for people like you
Degenerate scum who think only about sex
You stupid people with no ideals whatsoever
Are poisoning this planet
And driving animals to extinction...
Sure enough, you're not wearing a bra
Stop it
Stop it
Ugh, this woman stinks so bad
Stop it
What the hell, what are you doing?
Alright, hurry up, get him to drink
This guy is filthy
What's this?
Should we pry it open?
Let me do it
Ready...
Once more
Ready...
Ready...
There seems to be something good in there
Stop it
Stop it, please don't do this
You little bitch
Want to have an orgy?
Want to have an orgy? Come on, huh?
Let go of me, let go of me...
No
Let me go...
No
No
Get your filthy hands off me
No...
It hurts...
Vice Chairman, run!
Contact headquarters
Yes
Let go... let go of me, it hurts
Bastard
It must have hit the bone
Now you're definitely going to pay my medical bills.
Pay my medical bills.
It's broken, a fracture.
It hurts so much.
It's a fracture, I said.
It's me.
I'm the operator.
I'm fine now.
Vice Chairman?
I'm sorry.
It's all my fault that things got so complicated.
No.
It's not your fault.
Those guys were just too outrageous.
Where's the electromagnetic protective suit?
Where's the Chairman?
He's at the beach cleaning up the aftermath.
Found them...
(Emergency: five worthless scum.)
(Ignoring our demands.)
(Forced to carry out final disposal.)
Those people...
Do they have guns on them?
Everything's been taken care of.
Please don't worry.
I...
Do I really smell that bad?
I can't smell it.
Anyway, we all smell the same to each other.
Please smell me again carefully.
I must smell awful.
There's a familiar scent.
I must really stink.
I haven't flushed the toilet lately.
I haven't changed my underwear either.
Those things have nothing to do with
the person's inherent worth and essence.
I have to be honest with you.
When that man was holding me tightly,
I accidentally felt that way.
What do you mean?
I... I'm wet.
Do you mean your genitals secreted fluid?
I'm so frustrated...
I almost got assaulted by that vile piece of trash.
And yet I got sexually aroused...
So I guess I'm vile trash too.
Can you confess this to the Speaker?
There can be no secrets between the two of us.
To be freed, let's confess this to the Speaker.
Let's both do it together.
What?
I have to confess too.
I'm the lowest, most vile trash too.
It's my fault, isn't it...
What? Vice Speaker?
It's all my fault...
Don't, that's disgusting.
So you really think I'm filthy?
No, that's not it...
I see.
Hearing the Vice Speaker's confession
Operator, you got aroused too.
I'm sorry.
So how did you deal with it?
About that...
The operator used sheer willpower
to suppress the arousal.
I think he was incredibly impressive.
Is that so?
Yes.
It seems the trash's intrusion
has contaminated all of us.
Let's rest for today.
Having just recovered from illness and so much happening...
I'm tired.
Are you all right?
I'm... fine... nothing serious...
Did you see anything in the moment you blacked out?
Only some blurry images...
Please really try to remember.
I told you this isn't just about removing the filth left by the waste.
Filth left by the waste.
Did you see a river?
Now that you mention it,
I do seem to have seen a river.
Sure enough.
That was the River Tongxiu.
It's the same time I had that high fever,
I must have seen the same river.
So the Supreme Master's hypothesis about near-death experiences
holds up.
Deputy Chairman,
You went to that other world just now, and came back.
So the experiment can be considered a success, for now.
Now it's your turn, operator.
What's wrong?
Why am I driving?
The two of us should go handle the seaside.
Chairman, please organize the experiment results.
How could that work?
Your body hasn't fully recovered yet, has it?
You don't remember?
You don't remember anything?
I have no memory of that part at all.
Could the near-death experiment
have caused you to black out?
Maybe it's not that simple.
I don't really understand it myself...
One side longer, one side shorter, it's strange.
So I just cut the other side off too.
It didn't leave any trace at all.
The headquarters must have done the final cleanup.
The food supplies haven't arrived.
Let's go gather something to eat.
Alright.
Ever since the Chairman got sick,
things have gotten a bit strange.
Yeah.
Did you really see any river?
What?
Even if I were choked by the neck,
I still wouldn't see any river, right?
The Chairman was being too long-winded, so I just went along with what he said.
But I...
I think I really did see it.
It was a vast river.
We were riding the same boat.
Just the two of us, you and me.
I hope we can really ride a boat together someday.
Want to go for a little swim?
We're still on duty, you know.
Let's take a little break.
Besides, the Chairman isn't here anyway.
No way.
But I'm sweaty, and I haven't bathed yet.
You still care about how you smell?
I've taken my clothes off.
Vice Chairman...
Why do you feel shy?
That means you're harboring impure thoughts.
Are you deliberately teasing me?
Come on in.
It's cool and refreshing, it feels nice.
Do I have to report this too?
This is already hard to put into words...
Regarding things that cannot be seen with the naked eye,
one must not claim to have seen them.
There...
Don't stretch it out so much...
I'm going to... cum...
No...
Not there...
Is it because I violated the teachings of the High Priest?
Or is it because of the Third Headquarters Director...
Don't bring up the Third Headquarters Director.
I can't see...
Last night, I had a lewd dream.
Vice Chairman, this is all your fault.
What?
You're unconsciously tempting me
Your unconscious temptation
also slipped unconsciously into my dreams
and drove me to have that kind of lewd dream
It's truly regrettable
I fought back with all my strength
Vice Chairman, you...
with your mouth...
But that was only your dream, Chairman
It's not that simple
because I originally had
no such lecherous feelings at all toward the Vice Chairman
So... what should we do?
At this point
the only option is a physical method
to execute the incubus invading my dreams
Just do what the Vice Chairman did in the dream...
Will that be enough?
It will
Good, I see it clearly now
This is by no means a despicable act to satisfy my private desires
but a physical execution
Vice Chairman, please take off your clothes
What?
Please undress completely and suck my cock
In the end
at the moment I ejaculate
bite off my cock
I can't do that
I could never do such a thing
Even if you can't, you have to
Besides that
there is no other way to purify the poison of the lewd dream
You will die
Rather than being burned by the karmic fire of the hell of lechery
I would rather choose death
But...
Do you think
that I have some ulterior motive driven by private desire?
Vice Chairman
Operator
Facing the two companions who are willing to die
to complete the purification
Is that the attitude you should have?
You should be more proactive, shouldn't you?
Keep it up, keep it up, Vice Chairman
Hold on to your courage and see it through
Come on, come on
Come on...
Vice Chairman
Please take out my penis yourself
Come on
Come on...
Come on...
Come on, Chairman, suck out all the poison
Come on
Come on, Vice Chairman
Come on...
Come on...
Come on...
Hurry up
Come on...
It really feels just like it did in the dream
Vice Chairman
I was right after all
But... I won't lose
Come on, Chairman
Rationally restrained pleasure
is the first step toward becoming a complete human
Vice Chairman, you too
Objectively looking at yourself engaging in lewd acts
is the very purpose of physical treatment
Come on
Come on
Chairman, Vice Chairman, come on
Come on...
Does the me who feels pleasure really exist?
This sensation looks like pleasure at first glance
but it is actually not true pleasure
True pleasure should be something different
It should be a joy that combines reason and feeling,
a delight that rises back and forth in turn, that's what it should be.
Like a sports day under a blue sky,
so refreshing and pure...
Don't give up!
How could you lose to this wretched moment of pleasure?
To suck out that lewd, obscene desire...
The deep black... poison...
Suck out all the poison...
And then bite down on the penis,
the source of all calamity, in one go.
Come on, come on...
I won't give up.
Come on!
Vice Chairman.
I caught a sea cucumber.
Well done.
I'll go help out at the warehouse.
The failure the other day,
are you still hung up on it?
No.
I'm still hung up on it.
I keep wondering why it didn't work.
And I have one question.
Why did you swallow it?
What?
You not only failed to bite my penis,
you also swallowed the poison semen, didn't you?
Did the Third Headquarters Chief make you do that?
Please, stop talking.
Between the Third Headquarters Chief and me,
there was no filthy act of that kind at all.
Please wait a moment.
After careful consideration,
I realized the failure wasn't your fault.
It was the location.
The setting of my dream was the seaside.
We should have recreated the dream in the same setting.
Let's try again.
Alright, it's now.
Bite it off.
So you still can't bring yourself to bite it?
I still can't.
Well, there's nothing to be done about it then.
Then I'll just have to keep trying every day until I succeed.
What on earth is inside these cardboard boxes?
We just need to follow the instructions
and carry the things down to the underground storage.
The Chairman dreams of the lewd dream of me giving him a blowjob.
Is it because I actually gave you a blowjob in real life?
Didn't the Master's teachings mention that too?
"If you allow me to enter your dream,
then I will let you enter mine."
No, that's not it...
Ever since that serious illness,
the Chairman has been acting really strange.
While we were doing that,
I couldn't help but think of my former husband...
Stop...
I remembered that man who used violence to restrain me...
That man...
Meeting the Third Headquarters Director,
joining this organization,
I thought I was finally saved.
Operator.
Will you take me far away from here?
Far away?
Where could we possibly escape to from an island this small?
I'm sorry.
The thing I feared most has still happened.
For the sake of my fellow practitioners... to deepen my cultivation...
For the sake of my fellow practitioners... to deepen my cultivation...
No, absolutely not.
I can't sense any sincere devotion from you to seeking purification.
Listen carefully.
I'm not asking you to reflect.
What the Master meant by "reflection is our enemy"...
you haven't grasped it at all.
You must accept purification.
Chairman.
I'll go into the hole too.
It's not fair for only the operator to go in.
It's fine.
You were just cleverly mind-controlled by the operator.
No, that's not it.
That was something we both agreed to...
Doing it without realizing it is mind control.
It was you who controlled her mind, wasn't it?
To be honest,
I think... yes, it was.
Are you all right?
The Guru just spoke to me...
In that beautiful voice of his, he said,
that I should push myself harder.
Then the Prime Minister came too.
He said the next Diet session will be handed over to me to run.
Now at last I can build the ideal nation...
Operator.
Don't worry, I'm perfectly clear-headed.
I'll see the purification through to the end.
If things go on like this,
I'll just be destroyed like my fellow practitioners.
Fellow practitioners?
They're all cowardly maggots.
Once you lose to yourself, it's over.
I'm not like them.
The wind today is so refreshing, isn't it?
The operator hasn't made a sound...
Even if there's no movement at all,
he is still working hard to grasp the truth
and trying to attain purification.
Right? Operator?
Has it appeared?
It has appeared.
What?
Just as I thought.
But the direction is different.
Mirror images are reversed left and right.
Raise your right hand,
and the reflection raises its left hand.
We become one.
That's how it should be.
What?
This morning's dream was very special.
The dream chapter is almost finished.
It's the greatest achievement of the Solitary Island Project.
It's the story of expanding my insignificant human interior
out into the universe.
Now, there's something I want to discuss with you.
What is it?
I dreamed of becoming one with you.
Don't be too surprised. Please hear me out first.
I'm honestly troubled too.
I even wondered whether it was an erotic dream.
But after thinking calmly, I realized
it wasn't a union born of sexual desire,
but an outburst of a different kind of emotion.
The proof is that in the dream
I felt an extremely pure
and beautiful, noble sentiment...
I think... maybe that's what love is.
When the two of us unite in reality,
it means the dream and reality have finally synchronized,
reaching the highest realm.
No... that...
Such a matter should be reported to headquarters...
At the very moment the dream notebook is about to be completed,
you and I should become one.
The ultimate union of dream and reality...
That is what this Solitary Island Project
must ultimately achieve.
And then we'll have children.
They are born for our fellow practitioners:
New Human Number One.
(End)
It's gone...
It's gone...
What's wrong?
The dream notebook is gone.
The one I barely finished last night.
Is this it?
How could that be?
It fell outside.
It's because you wrote too hard, Chairman.
That's why it came apart.
The wind is really strong today, isn't it?
My dream...
My dream...
My dream...
What are you doing?
I'm checking whether headquarters has issued any orders.
Let me see.
There are no orders at all.
I don't know what's going on with headquarters lately.
Never mind that. Where's your notebook?
Are you writing a letter to the Third Headquarters Director?
What are you doing?
Isn't this what it means to become one?
Don't try to get out of it...
I know exactly what you're doing.
You and the Master did the same thing too.
You two were once one as well.
That magazine spelled it all out.
I'm not saying this to criticize you.
After all, it was the Master who did it.
There must be some deeper meaning behind it.
But that Third Headquarters Director, with her shallow spiritual cultivation...
developed doubts about the organization and ran away.
I have no intention of...
accepting everything the media says wholesale.
As the Chairman, my judgment...
I, ranked twelfth,
made that call, and it is an undeniable fact.
Chairman...
You already...
I'm not like the Third Headquarters Director.
I'm not like the operator either.
Not at all.
This... is love.
You're no longer the Chairman, and you're no longer ranked twelfth.
Just a troublesome figure who forces his female companions to have sex
That's what I wrote in the letter
None of that matters anymore
Come, let us become one
Through your body, Vice Chairwoman
Let the precious essence of the master
Be injected into my body too
You... you will marry me
(Troublesome figure. Please transfer to headquarters. Written by the Vice Chairwoman)
You're awake
I...
You've been asleep for three days now
I'll go prepare something to eat right away
Did you kill him?
How could I?
But is headquarters really
Admitting the Chairman is a troublesome figure this quickly?
Check the letter they sent back
On this island...
It's just the two of us left now
Is that all right?
I'm about to come
Come inside me...
It's fine
Haven't been here since we came to the island
Come back
Please, come back
What are you saying?
Mom, thanks to you
I was able to become such a wonderful person
Thank you for recruiting me into the order
No, I got everything wrong
Please, I'm willing to apologize
Please come back
How pitiful...
Those people must have brainwashed you
No
We were the ones who were wrong
Listening to what those people said
You should have noticed it too
Are you planning to take me back to the mundane world?
Like I once tried to take you back.
It's all my fault.
I've come to understand that deeply.
That's why I came to ask you to come back with me.
I want you to come back with me.
I want you to come back with me.
Go.
What's wrong?
You were talking in your sleep just now.
It was a nightmare.
So I forcibly put an end to it.
So you've learned to forcibly put an end to things.
What kind of dream was it?
It's still wet.
Again and again, it feels better and better.
Me too...
Please, just stop.
Don't go to those creepy gatherings.
And spend so much money on them.
They say listening to the master's teachings cleanses your mind and body.
You should go and listen too, you'll definitely like it.
What's the matter?
No, it's nothing.
The boats and letters haven't come lately, have they?
Could they have found out?
Do we do nothing but this all day long?
If we get caught... I don't know what would happen.
I don't know either.
Shall we do it again?
Your name...
What?
Please tell me... your real name.
If we do that...
Sorry...
Operator.
I caught a crab.
Me too.
Looks like we're fine on food.
But we're almost out of drinking water.
Let's just figure out a way.
Let's make a tool to filter seawater.
Good idea.
Then the two of us can become self-sufficient.
Yeah.
Even if we don't get the letter,
it doesn't matter if no cargo ship comes.
The two of us can be together forever...
What's wrong?
This is...
It's nothing...
I saw something that can't be seen.
What could it mean?
It means our abilities have grown stronger.
So those three people
are the people who died on this island before?
They were pitiful ones who lost to themselves.
What's the matter now?
Nothing.
Look, the sky...
Is that a good omen or a bad one?
A letter has come from headquarters.
It seems they've decided to head to the Place of Rest.
All the fellow practitioners will come tomorrow.
Everyone will gather on this island
as a stopover on the way to the Place of Rest.
Headquarters wants us to use our experience living on the island
to guide the fellow practitioners.
The Lone Island Project is meant not only to strengthen our abilities,
but also as an experiment to see whether,
midway through the relocation plan, the island can sustain itself.
You've worked hard.
Sorry for the sudden notice.
The Master, moved by heavenly insight,
moved up the schedule on short notice.
It seems there are fewer fellow practitioners than expected.
Gathering them all at once is quite difficult.
This time, they'll be admitted in order of rank first.
In the end, everyone will set out together.
The Master will arrive very soon.
Quick, get ready to welcome him.
How could it be you... Third Headquarters Chief?
I've wanted to see you for so long, Ryoko.
Ryoko, run away with me.
The Smile Life Center is finished.
The Master's training program was too harsh.
Many members had mental breakdowns and lost control of their behavior.
They caused social problems everywhere.
It's obvious how it all ended up this way.
Shut up in cramped rooms,
they repeated meaningless words tens of thousands of times.
They were forced to sleep twelve hours a day.
For the remaining twelve hours,
they had to keep writing dream journals.
Through this process,
people gradually began to lose track of the difference between reality and dreams.
Dreams have no sense of time to begin with,
so slowly everyone started to feel that all their dreams
seemed to connect together and become one single world.
So compared to reality,
the dreams actually felt more real.
The result of sinking too deep into dreams
was that everyone was swallowed up by them.
They began seeing things they should not see,
and even tried to fight enemies that no one else could see.
Those who came to this island
were the survivors out of twenty thousand members
who had escaped the police investigation.
It's all over now.
Third Headquarters Chief...
Have you been brainwashed by the enemy too?
It's us who were brainwashed.
There was never any such thing as a place to find peace.
I returned to the organization
pretending I still trusted the Master
only because I was trying to save you.
The Master wants to lead everyone to mass suicide on this island.
Let's run away together, Ryoko.
Let's go far away,
and find a place without these people to live together.
You're...
There's an enemy
It's an enemy spy
There's a spy, over here
Run, Ryoko, quickly
Come on!
-That's him
-Grab him
Stop right there
Operator
About what just happened...
Let's go
The master has arrived
Fellow practitioners, fellow practitioners
For the sake of our fellow practitioners' spiritual training
Beyond the dream lies a vast world
Let us connect the horizon of dreams with reality
Fellow practitioners, let us go together
To the place of true refuge
Right now, from Babylon
Let us set sail
Fellow practitioners, fellow practitioners
For the sake of our fellow practitioners' spiritual training
For the sake of our fellow practitioners' spiritual training
Fellow practitioners, the day of departure is almost here
We will leave behind the filth and vulgarity
and the tasteless, dull existence of Babylon
worthless as chewed wax, and sail away
To the place of true refuge
In order to enter the place of true refuge,
we must cast off our former selves
and become a new person
If we do not elevate our spiritual dimension,
we will not be worthy of entering the place of true refuge
The master personally mixed this cup
a drink that elevates the spiritual dimension
After repeating the message the master has bestowed upon us,
drink it down in one gulp
This is...
We will all ascend to a new dimension
We will all ascend to a new dimension
Heading toward a new world without filth or suffering
Heading toward a new world without filth or suffering
All of us will walk hand in hand
and ascend to a whole new dimension
All of us will walk hand in hand
and ascend to a whole new dimension
Setting off for the Place of Peace
Setting off for the Place of Peace
No, no...
Your name... it's Ryoko, isn't it?
Well then, fellow practitioners,
let us raise our glasses and drink together
Cheers, everyone
Cheers...
No, don't drink it!
Fellow practitioners, don't drink it!
You mustn't drink it
You mustn't drink it
Don't drink it, please!
No disturbances allowed
Anyone who causes a disturbance will be treated as an enemy spy
Accept your punishment
Make another fuss and I'll have you disposed of
Forced termination...
If you drink it, you'll die
Don't be fooled
That guy is full of nonsense
Stay calm, no disturbances...
It's the enemy
The enemy has launched a poison gas attack
Everyone, follow orders and do not resist
Don't run away
Fellow practitioners, hold off the enemy forces
Do not resist
What are you waiting for? Start the music!
Yes
Fire, fire already!
Continue...
The Place... of Peace...
Run... quickly...
Vice Speaker
Vice Speaker
Vice Speaker, pull yourself together.
Vice Speaker, are you all right?
Vice Speaker
For our fellow practitioners... keep striving in your practice...
At that time, I thought you had really died.
You scared me to death.
You're exaggerating.
To survive such a serious injury...
It's a relief you were saved.
Do you remember?
Spaghetti made with seawater and shellfish.
Of course.
It was delicious, wasn't it?
After coming back here,
I tried making it once.
It was so awful I couldn't swallow it.
I don't know why,
but I just felt so sad.
After leaving that island,
I never felt that sad.
I dream about the sunset on that island.
It was so beautiful it moved me to tears.
I was so focused on my practice then that I didn't notice.
Being able to live this leisurely now
feels like a dream.
Looking back now,
life on that island feels more like a dream.
Isn't wearing that T-shirt a bit much...?
What's the problem?
I heard it's a genuine one bought at Smile Shop.
For our fellow practitioners
keep striving in your practice...
That's crazy.
Be careful, or the police will catch you.
-Then it'll be bad.
-No, it won't be.
-Then sing it again...
-Sing it again...
For our fellow practitioners
keep striving in your practice...
I'm asking you...
Where are you right now...
And what are you doing?
What a silly question...
I'm rowing a boat here...
The murderer who killed the useless trash
Why are you still here?
No... wait...
If you're willing to let me into your dream,
then I'll let you into mine.
The whole country has entered the rainy season
Kanto area: cloudy, later overcast
There may be rain tomorrow night
Tokyo: cloudy, later overcast
Scattered showers possible in some areas this afternoon
Tomorrow will also be cloudy with rain at times
Today's high temperature
Tokyo at 25 degrees...
We now interrupt our programming with a news bulletin
We have just received the latest report
Early this morning in Central Asia...
The chairman wants to see you.
The national assembly hall of a Central Asian country
has been seized by several rebel elements, including Japanese nationals.
They are holding dozens of lawmakers hostage,
demanding the release of you and more than ten others.
It's me, it's me, operator.
I'm the speaker.
You're still alive?
After that, I and several survivors escaped from the enemy camp
and made it overseas.
These people share our ideals.
We hope you'll come to this country too,
and help build a place where we can live in peace.
Let's practice and advance together with our fellow followers.
I'm no longer an operator.
You can be free.
You can go to the place of peace.
You're a murderer.
You'll be put on trial over there...
I don't need freedom.
What I need is to not be free.
What I need is not to leave, but to stay.
What are you talking about?
Have the enemy brainwashed you?
I suppose that's right.
Operator?
I'm not an operator anymore.
Right, I guess.
I should be going back.
That's not a boat house, you know.
I know.
Where are you going?
I'm going to the other shore.
Translator: Ge Tingyun
(This island is private property.)
All day today
Let's also keep advancing our practice for our fellow practitioners.
Let's keep advancing our practice for our fellow practitioners.
Let's keep advancing our practice for our fellow practitioners.
What a refreshing morning.
All those things happening in the world
seem like they don't exist at all.
Vice Chairman, how are our food supplies?
If it doesn't arrive today,
what's left will only last until tomorrow.
Operator
Don't let your appetite get the better of you.
All day today,
let us also keep advancing our practice for our fellow practitioners.
Yes.
Then I'll go first with my report.
Last night I had that dream again.
Adventure, excitement, romance,
war and peace,
death and rebirth,
the tide of history full of love and sorrow,
chariots, dance parties, and interstellar fleets.
When I woke up,
I was moved to tears.
But when I got up to write the story down,
no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't recall it.
If I could capture even one percent of that emotion...
I would already have...
The Chairman would probably already be a bestselling novelist by now.
No, even if I had been able to do it back then,
I probably wouldn't have joined.
I would have become just an ordinary person of the mundane world.
Next, Vice Chairman, please give your report.
The Third Headquarters Chief appeared in my dream.
And then?
It was as if he was saying to me, "Long time no see."
And then...
Without reporting the contents of the dream exactly as they were.
So the island project is pointless now.
That's really all I remember.
Looks like your powers still aren't enough.
Next, the switchboard operator, please report.
The Master appeared in my dream.
This is what he said:
"Even though it's hard
keep striving in your practice for the sake of your fellow cultivators."
Do you find it hard?
What?
I don't find it hard at all.
Compared to the gloomy life
we lived in that filthy society,
this island is nothing short of paradise.
No, that's not it...
I'm just relaying what the Master said in my dream.
You just think the island project is too hard,
so you dreamed the Master said that to you, right?
This could cause problems...
Yes...
In any case, it seems the three of us
are all practitioners with shallow cultivation and insufficient spiritual power.
It appeared.
It appeared?
We're close, very close now.
Overall, the lines are all smooth.
Does that mean we succeeded?
Headquarters has sent new orders.
And a new recording from the Master.
Then please transfer it onto the cassette.
Yes.
RO-4 has 5.
-Thank you for your help.
CHI-11 has 6...
Here, this is for you... yes.
Yes.
What can be seen exists.
What cannot be seen does not exist.
What can be seen exists.
What cannot be seen does not exist.
Reflect on this as our enemy.
Reflection is our enemy
Front, back, and then above
Front, back, and then above
Counting on fingers, deliberating deeply
Counting on fingers, deliberating deeply
If you're willing to let me into your dream
then I'll let you into mine as well
If you're willing to let me into your dream
then I'll let you into mine as well
Looks like our supplies still haven't arrived
Didn't the upper echelons receive our request?
Can't be helped, let's start unloading
-Yes.
-Yes.
(Handle with care)
Fellow practitioners, fellow practitioners
For the sake of our fellow practitioners' spiritual progress
Beyond the dream lies a vast world
A horizon connecting the dream and the waking world
Fellow practitioners, let us go there together
To the place where we can dwell in peace
Now, from Babylon
Set sail
Why is there so much trash on this uninhabited island?
It drifted over from an impure land on the waves.
What on earth will become of the Earth?
The water's gone rotten.
After all, it hasn't rained lately.
Starting today, we won't be able to bathe anymore.
Ready...
How did it crawl in there?
Dawn is about to break
Amid filth and squalor
My path cannot proceed as I wish
From a life as dull as chewing wax
Babylon, worthless, sets sail and departs
Dawn toward the place of peace
Dawn is about to break...
That was a place I used to live.
It was the dormitory I lived in during high school.
I was standing on the stairs.
Who is that person?
I didn't see her face
No...
I mean, I don't remember.
Did you really only touch her legs?
Please tell us the truth.
Well...
I accidentally had a wet dream.
So you had a lewd dream.
I'm sorry.
Before the wet dream,
didn't you try to stop it by force?
I haven't figured out how to end it yet...
Let me sum up.
Operator, to purge your evil thoughts,
you must stay in the cave all day today.
That day is coming
Amid filth and vileness
My path cannot proceed smoothly
From a life as dull as chewing wax
Worthless Babylon sets sail and departs
The dawn of the place where we can rest...
The tape is damaged.
Let's request a new tape from headquarters.
Did headquarters really receive our request?
We're about to run out of food.
Vice Chairman.
Our superiors must have their reasons.
Let us continue to refine our practice with our fellow cultivators.
That must have been tough, right?
Thank you.
No, I feel great.
All my evil thoughts have been sweated out.
I actually had that kind of dream.
I'm such a failure.
I'll just have to start my practice all over again.
Operator, you're amazing.
It's very hard to honestly admit your own flaws.
Me too, um...
Vice Chairman, you had a lewd dream too?
No, it wasn't quite a lewd dream.
Please keep this a secret from the Chairman.
I made a proposal.
Chairman, an emergency proposal.
Creating secrets among the three of us
is the most unforgivable thing.
I'm sorry.
Not to mention keeping a dream a secret.
That is the lowest kind of conduct.
Have you forgotten why we came here in the first place?
I'm sorry.
I'm really sorry.
Please tell us.
What kind of dream did you have?
I don't remember...
I really don't remember much.
It was with the Third Headquarters Chief, right?
Did he hug you?
Did he touch your legs?
Or did it go even further...?
No...
You have to remember.
Try hard to recall it.
Crying won't help.
I won't let you brush this off.
I don't remember.
I really don't remember...
Remember it for me.
Don't cry.
Are you all right?
I'm fine.
I'll devote myself to my fellow practitioners and cultivate harder.
I remember now.
That dream was real.
It was something that actually happened in real life.
It was autumn of my second year of high school.
That day, my friend and I were in a room together
drinking and fooling around when we got caught.
In the end, we were kicked out of the dormitory.
Goodbye.
She was the person I had a crush on.
I haven't thought of her once all this time.
Maybe it's the effect of the Isolated Island Project.
As they say, "To live a complete life,
one must expose all the filthy secrets, right?"
Are you asleep?
Actually... in reality,
I never actually touched her legs.
I didn't dare to.
Looking back now,
even if I had touched them, she probably would have just given me
an unspoken smile, I suppose.
But... I can't even remember her face.
Strange, isn't it?
Even though I used to like her so much.
Operator.
Do you have a bit of a fever?
Maybe I was just too tired from staying in the cave yesterday.
I see.
Including that doctor and his mistress,
and everything from ordinary office workers to yin-yang people,
there were body parts everywhere, that's how it was.
Though they were all bioroids, actually.
Report complete.
Next, please, Deputy Speaker, report.
Last night...
I didn't dream.
I see.
Next, please, Operator, report.
Yes.
I...
I didn't dream either.
Really?
Yes, I couldn't sleep at all.
I see.
You've had a hard time of it.
Are you alright?
I'm holding up... thank you.
After all, we've only had water since yesterday.
No one knows when the food will arrive.
Hurry, the food's here!
Is that flour?
Just flour and water?
Since they sent flour,
they probably want us to make udon, right?
But there's no dashi or soy sauce.
Making udon wouldn't work without those.
Then it must be spaghetti.
Spaghetti's ready to eat with just salt.
What's the difference between making udon
and making spaghetti?
It's probably the amount of water.
Or do you add salt separately or something?
Do you need to add eggs for spaghetti?
I remember seeing it on TV.
Why would you need eggs?
And where would we even get eggs now?
They probably want us to make udon.
But I think spaghetti would be better.
Udon is simpler, though.
But spaghetti...
Chairman?
Chairman.
What's wrong?
I'm sure it's around here...
Found it.
(Spaghetti, ingredients, flour)
It's just flour.
Flour alone is enough to make it.
No salt or eggs needed.
Just as I thought.
But when seasoning and boiling the noodles,
we still need salt, right?
There's plenty of salt right here.
There are shells...
Should we cook it with the shellfish?
Let's make a lot.
We can dry some and save it.
Good point.
Rather than clam spaghetti,
it's more like fried udon...
I just stir-fried it a little on the side.
Alright, let's dig in...
It's delicious.
It's delicious, really delicious.
It's packed with seafood flavor, isn't it?
The original taste, untouched.
You don't get any of that seawater stench.
Instead it's a fragrant savoriness that makes your appetite roar.
It blends perfectly with the shellfish.
There are also rock shore finds like octopus and sea urchin.
Let's make a seafood pasta with them later.
There's wild herbs like mugwort up on the slope behind us too.
Grinding those up and adding them might even be healthier.
But... food that hasn't been purified by the high priest...
might contaminate our bodies...
If we're going to say that,
then even salt made by evaporating seawater...
Strictly speaking, even bathing in rainwater
would contaminate the body too.
Products of nature untouched by human contamination
should be fine, shouldn't they?
We'll ask headquarters about it later.
What a cool breeze. I'm so satisfied with this meal.
A place to dwell peacefully must be just like this.
-It's raining.
-It's raining.
It's raining...
Now we can take a bath.
How refreshing.
Don't move, don't move.
-Hold him down.
-Don't struggle.
Alright, eat up quickly.
You're the one who said it, right?
"They say if you eat a turd, you'll die."
You need to take responsibility for what you say.
You always do this, don't you?
Right? Talking like you know everything.
-Shove it into him quickly.
-Eat it...
So you dreamed about the bullying scene
that actually happened in reality, didn't you?
Pretty much, yes.
Those guys are surely still swaggering around
lording it over the mundane world
What a rotten world this is
But...
Can you really die from eating a turd?
I'm still alive...
Could it be that
we've been eating too many unpurified
shellfish and seawater lately,
and it's contaminated our bodily fluids,
which is what gave me that nightmare...
Is this food?
I suppose so.
We just ran out of flour, too.
What a pungent stench!
It's a bit like cheese.
More like an old rag used to wipe up milk.
I think it was Okinawa or Taiwan,
that they have foods like this.
No, wait, this isn't...
It's already gone bad?
The headquarters people would send spoiled food?
It's also possible there's an enemy
who infiltrated the fellow members who delivered the food
and is trying to harm us.
Food blessed by our guru could never spoil.
It only looks like it's gone bad.
It's actually meant to be eaten this way.
Are you all right?
Looking back, that dream this morning
must have been a precognitive dream warning me I'd get food poisoning.
My spiritual cultivation is still so shallow.
So it really is a traitor sent by the enemy...
You're right.
We must write to headquarters right away.
Chairman,
I'll write to headquarters.
We have to find some way to get him eating something nutritious.
Found some, there's plenty.
But food that hasn't been purified...
Will it really contaminate our bodily fluids?
Even so,
We have unfinished goals. We can't starve to death first.
We'll ask the master about it later.
Please purify our bodies.
Right.
There's octopus.
It smells so good.
The waves just now were huge.
Waves?
When?
No...
Do you want some?
It's so good.
We should hurry and bring the sea urchin to the chairman, right?
Hurry and take it to him.
Operator.
What is it?
Last time, when we buried him in the hole,
You were staring at me all night, weren't you?
You were awake?
Why is that?
Please tell me honestly.
The person in my dream...
Had your face.
Thank you for being willing to tell me the truth.
Your forehead is so hot...
Chairman, this is sea urchin.
It's freshly harvested sea urchin.
Please eat it to regain your strength...
Hang in there, Chairman.
It's you two...
This must be the master's will.
This time it's our turn to be disposed of.
Just like we disposed of the others.
What nonsense are you talking?
I think I... I'm already finished.
I know my own condition very well...
Don't say such defeatist things.
Before I die,
I have to apologize to you about something.
Although I condemned you,
I've also been hiding a secret.
This is...
It's something I found on the beach.
I knew I shouldn't,
but my desire to see it got the better of me.
According to the report...
Our fellow practitioners are being persecuted by enemies all over the place.
The organization is in chaos.
(Exclusive report: a terrifying cult)
Finances are also extremely strained.
(Misdeeds of the Smiling Life Centers)
The situation is extremely critical.
That's all just malicious manipulation by the media.
The notice from headquarters didn't mention any of that.
It seems the Third Headquarters Head has left the group.
What?
The Third Headquarters Head and a female member have left the group.
Their hideout was discovered by the police.
They're currently on the run.
I think the Third Headquarters Head...
Compared to us,
you believe those lying media more?
-Please pull yourself together, Chairman.
-Operator
You're our Chairman.
I'm disgusted by you like this.
Stop it, you'll kill him.
Looking at this kind of thing,
will contaminate your mind just like it did the Chairman's.
Is the Chairman sick because of contamination?
That's surely one of the reasons.
I've already submitted a request for medication.
But headquarters hasn't responded yet.
Fellow practitioners...
Fellow practitioners...
For the sake of our fellow practitioners...
Advancing our practice...
This is an emergency.
We have no choice but to negotiate with headquarters directly.
Will the boat come tonight?
If it doesn't come, we'll wait again tomorrow.
Excuse me
Did something happen before I came to the island?
What?
Didn't the chairman just say so?
"Just like we dealt with them."
The chairman's brain has fried.
Before I got here, you were the chairman, right?
If
If the chairman dies,
there will only be the two of us left on the island.
I'm sorry.
No, it's fine.
Coming.
Excuse me.
Wow, that's great
A river it's a river
(Processing complete.)
Thank you.
I received the mail.
We really shouldn't have direct contact like this.
It could compromise confidential security.
-I'm so sorry
-I'm very sorry.
But he really looks like he's about to die.
Also we're almost out of food.
I was only instructed to deliver the medicine.
If you have any questions, write to the First Headquarters.
-Yes.
-Sorry.
Isn't this Seirogan?
It is, isn't it.
Is that so?
I said that kind of thing?
Though I don't remember it at all,
I've never been so embarrassed in my life.
I must have been spiritually polluted by that gossip magazine.
Are you really all right now?
I feel refreshed and clear, it's simply wonderful.
My mind has never been this clear.
It feels like the walls around my heart were all torn down at once.
Looking back,
after eating that strange purple thing.
Could all this suffering also be part of the plan?
You should try some too.
Maybe you'll reach my level of enlightenment.
No...
Well... we already threw it away.
Threw it away?
You threw away the food the master gave us?
No, that's not...
Just kidding, I'm just kidding.
The master would never deliberately
make us suffer such agony.
That stuff had completely gone bad.
Disposing of it was the right thing to do.
Anyway, the dream is what matters.
Even though I've had a high fever these past few days,
it pushed me to record
every last detail of the dream.
I've learned to save text in my head,
and this is the result of my long-term dream memory project.
Chapter 19 is a futuristic sci-fi novel next.
It's set in a city floating in the sky.
The protagonist, a low-ranking citizen,
works repairing the screws
that have come loose and fallen from the bottom of the buildings.
Everyone flies around in the sky...
This must be the entirely new state of consciousness
that comes from a near-death experience.
The island project the master always has on his mind
is meant to make us remember everything.
When all the dreams and all the memories are revived,
a permanent revolution will unfold in our hearts.
Releasing all memories and dreams is the first step.
This will make us
complete humans who can correctly grasp our own selves.
So that's how it is, I suppose.
Chairman...
We're still carrying out the plan.
Sorry, my mind was racing too fast,
and I got carried away talking.
But please let me report one last thing.
I can see a river
It's the river the master mentioned in his theory about near-death experiences
The river from
-That river...
-Strange...
Looks like someone lives here
I'm done for
We've landed, it's okay
This is private land. Leave at once.
Is this your island?
No, we're just hired to look after it.
We were drinking and drinking, and then the boat drifted over here.
The battery died, and the radio can't connect either.
Could you help us contact the main island?
Sorry, we can't do that without the landowner's permission.
We can't comply with that.
You old geezer.
Stop lying, there's no way that's true.
Sorry, this guy is not only seasick,
he also drank a ton of alcohol.
Just let him rest here for a bit.
Sorry, please go back now.
You're going to let us die?
You went out to sea with only that little equipment.
You were just too reckless.
Deputy Chairman, leave this to me.
Are you... an accomplice of that murderer?
I've seen it, you know.
These guys are from the Smile Life Center.
-This symbol right here.
-No...
I don't know what you're talking about.
Anyway, please go back.
The 'smile' thing was on the news, you know.
-No...
-We're in trouble now, huh.
That's not it...
I bet these guys
are throwing an orgy on this deserted island.
Please watch your language and show some respect.
Group sex is awesome.
-I want to have an orgy.
-Deputy Chairman.
Please leave.
This is no place for people like you
Degenerate scum who think only about sex
You stupid people with no ideals whatsoever
Are poisoning this planet
And driving animals to extinction...
Sure enough, you're not wearing a bra
Stop it
Stop it
Ugh, this woman stinks so bad
Stop it
What the hell, what are you doing?
Alright, hurry up, get him to drink
This guy is filthy
What's this?
Should we pry it open?
Let me do it
Ready...
Once more
Ready...
Ready...
There seems to be something good in there
Stop it
Stop it, please don't do this
You little bitch
Want to have an orgy?
Want to have an orgy? Come on, huh?
Let go of me, let go of me...
No
Let me go...
No
No
Get your filthy hands off me
No...
It hurts...
Vice Chairman, run!
Contact headquarters
Yes
Let go... let go of me, it hurts
Bastard
It must have hit the bone
Now you're definitely going to pay my medical bills.
Pay my medical bills.
It's broken, a fracture.
It hurts so much.
It's a fracture, I said.
It's me.
I'm the operator.
I'm fine now.
Vice Chairman?
I'm sorry.
It's all my fault that things got so complicated.
No.
It's not your fault.
Those guys were just too outrageous.
Where's the electromagnetic protective suit?
Where's the Chairman?
He's at the beach cleaning up the aftermath.
Found them...
(Emergency: five worthless scum.)
(Ignoring our demands.)
(Forced to carry out final disposal.)
Those people...
Do they have guns on them?
Everything's been taken care of.
Please don't worry.
I...
Do I really smell that bad?
I can't smell it.
Anyway, we all smell the same to each other.
Please smell me again carefully.
I must smell awful.
There's a familiar scent.
I must really stink.
I haven't flushed the toilet lately.
I haven't changed my underwear either.
Those things have nothing to do with
the person's inherent worth and essence.
I have to be honest with you.
When that man was holding me tightly,
I accidentally felt that way.
What do you mean?
I... I'm wet.
Do you mean your genitals secreted fluid?
I'm so frustrated...
I almost got assaulted by that vile piece of trash.
And yet I got sexually aroused...
So I guess I'm vile trash too.
Can you confess this to the Speaker?
There can be no secrets between the two of us.
To be freed, let's confess this to the Speaker.
Let's both do it together.
What?
I have to confess too.
I'm the lowest, most vile trash too.
It's my fault, isn't it...
What? Vice Speaker?
It's all my fault...
Don't, that's disgusting.
So you really think I'm filthy?
No, that's not it...
I see.
Hearing the Vice Speaker's confession
Operator, you got aroused too.
I'm sorry.
So how did you deal with it?
About that...
The operator used sheer willpower
to suppress the arousal.
I think he was incredibly impressive.
Is that so?
Yes.
It seems the trash's intrusion
has contaminated all of us.
Let's rest for today.
Having just recovered from illness and so much happening...
I'm tired.
Are you all right?
I'm... fine... nothing serious...
Did you see anything in the moment you blacked out?
Only some blurry images...
Please really try to remember.
I told you this isn't just about removing the filth left by the waste.
Filth left by the waste.
Did you see a river?
Now that you mention it,
I do seem to have seen a river.
Sure enough.
That was the River Tongxiu.
It's the same time I had that high fever,
I must have seen the same river.
So the Supreme Master's hypothesis about near-death experiences
holds up.
Deputy Chairman,
You went to that other world just now, and came back.
So the experiment can be considered a success, for now.
Now it's your turn, operator.
What's wrong?
Why am I driving?
The two of us should go handle the seaside.
Chairman, please organize the experiment results.
How could that work?
Your body hasn't fully recovered yet, has it?
You don't remember?
You don't remember anything?
I have no memory of that part at all.
Could the near-death experiment
have caused you to black out?
Maybe it's not that simple.
I don't really understand it myself...
One side longer, one side shorter, it's strange.
So I just cut the other side off too.
It didn't leave any trace at all.
The headquarters must have done the final cleanup.
The food supplies haven't arrived.
Let's go gather something to eat.
Alright.
Ever since the Chairman got sick,
things have gotten a bit strange.
Yeah.
Did you really see any river?
What?
Even if I were choked by the neck,
I still wouldn't see any river, right?
The Chairman was being too long-winded, so I just went along with what he said.
But I...
I think I really did see it.
It was a vast river.
We were riding the same boat.
Just the two of us, you and me.
I hope we can really ride a boat together someday.
Want to go for a little swim?
We're still on duty, you know.
Let's take a little break.
Besides, the Chairman isn't here anyway.
No way.
But I'm sweaty, and I haven't bathed yet.
You still care about how you smell?
I've taken my clothes off.
Vice Chairman...
Why do you feel shy?
That means you're harboring impure thoughts.
Are you deliberately teasing me?
Come on in.
It's cool and refreshing, it feels nice.
Do I have to report this too?
This is already hard to put into words...
Regarding things that cannot be seen with the naked eye,
one must not claim to have seen them.
There...
Don't stretch it out so much...
I'm going to... cum...
No...
Not there...
Is it because I violated the teachings of the High Priest?
Or is it because of the Third Headquarters Director...
Don't bring up the Third Headquarters Director.
I can't see...
Last night, I had a lewd dream.
Vice Chairman, this is all your fault.
What?
You're unconsciously tempting me
Your unconscious temptation
also slipped unconsciously into my dreams
and drove me to have that kind of lewd dream
It's truly regrettable
I fought back with all my strength
Vice Chairman, you...
with your mouth...
But that was only your dream, Chairman
It's not that simple
because I originally had
no such lecherous feelings at all toward the Vice Chairman
So... what should we do?
At this point
the only option is a physical method
to execute the incubus invading my dreams
Just do what the Vice Chairman did in the dream...
Will that be enough?
It will
Good, I see it clearly now
This is by no means a despicable act to satisfy my private desires
but a physical execution
Vice Chairman, please take off your clothes
What?
Please undress completely and suck my cock
In the end
at the moment I ejaculate
bite off my cock
I can't do that
I could never do such a thing
Even if you can't, you have to
Besides that
there is no other way to purify the poison of the lewd dream
You will die
Rather than being burned by the karmic fire of the hell of lechery
I would rather choose death
But...
Do you think
that I have some ulterior motive driven by private desire?
Vice Chairman
Operator
Facing the two companions who are willing to die
to complete the purification
Is that the attitude you should have?
You should be more proactive, shouldn't you?
Keep it up, keep it up, Vice Chairman
Hold on to your courage and see it through
Come on, come on
Come on...
Vice Chairman
Please take out my penis yourself
Come on
Come on...
Come on...
Come on, Chairman, suck out all the poison
Come on
Come on, Vice Chairman
Come on...
Come on...
Come on...
Hurry up
Come on...
It really feels just like it did in the dream
Vice Chairman
I was right after all
But... I won't lose
Come on, Chairman
Rationally restrained pleasure
is the first step toward becoming a complete human
Vice Chairman, you too
Objectively looking at yourself engaging in lewd acts
is the very purpose of physical treatment
Come on
Come on
Chairman, Vice Chairman, come on
Come on...
Does the me who feels pleasure really exist?
This sensation looks like pleasure at first glance
but it is actually not true pleasure
True pleasure should be something different
It should be a joy that combines reason and feeling,
a delight that rises back and forth in turn, that's what it should be.
Like a sports day under a blue sky,
so refreshing and pure...
Don't give up!
How could you lose to this wretched moment of pleasure?
To suck out that lewd, obscene desire...
The deep black... poison...
Suck out all the poison...
And then bite down on the penis,
the source of all calamity, in one go.
Come on, come on...
I won't give up.
Come on!
Vice Chairman.
I caught a sea cucumber.
Well done.
I'll go help out at the warehouse.
The failure the other day,
are you still hung up on it?
No.
I'm still hung up on it.
I keep wondering why it didn't work.
And I have one question.
Why did you swallow it?
What?
You not only failed to bite my penis,
you also swallowed the poison semen, didn't you?
Did the Third Headquarters Chief make you do that?
Please, stop talking.
Between the Third Headquarters Chief and me,
there was no filthy act of that kind at all.
Please wait a moment.
After careful consideration,
I realized the failure wasn't your fault.
It was the location.
The setting of my dream was the seaside.
We should have recreated the dream in the same setting.
Let's try again.
Alright, it's now.
Bite it off.
So you still can't bring yourself to bite it?
I still can't.
Well, there's nothing to be done about it then.
Then I'll just have to keep trying every day until I succeed.
What on earth is inside these cardboard boxes?
We just need to follow the instructions
and carry the things down to the underground storage.
The Chairman dreams of the lewd dream of me giving him a blowjob.
Is it because I actually gave you a blowjob in real life?
Didn't the Master's teachings mention that too?
"If you allow me to enter your dream,
then I will let you enter mine."
No, that's not it...
Ever since that serious illness,
the Chairman has been acting really strange.
While we were doing that,
I couldn't help but think of my former husband...
Stop...
I remembered that man who used violence to restrain me...
That man...
Meeting the Third Headquarters Director,
joining this organization,
I thought I was finally saved.
Operator.
Will you take me far away from here?
Far away?
Where could we possibly escape to from an island this small?
I'm sorry.
The thing I feared most has still happened.
For the sake of my fellow practitioners... to deepen my cultivation...
For the sake of my fellow practitioners... to deepen my cultivation...
No, absolutely not.
I can't sense any sincere devotion from you to seeking purification.
Listen carefully.
I'm not asking you to reflect.
What the Master meant by "reflection is our enemy"...
you haven't grasped it at all.
You must accept purification.
Chairman.
I'll go into the hole too.
It's not fair for only the operator to go in.
It's fine.
You were just cleverly mind-controlled by the operator.
No, that's not it.
That was something we both agreed to...
Doing it without realizing it is mind control.
It was you who controlled her mind, wasn't it?
To be honest,
I think... yes, it was.
Are you all right?
The Guru just spoke to me...
In that beautiful voice of his, he said,
that I should push myself harder.
Then the Prime Minister came too.
He said the next Diet session will be handed over to me to run.
Now at last I can build the ideal nation...
Operator.
Don't worry, I'm perfectly clear-headed.
I'll see the purification through to the end.
If things go on like this,
I'll just be destroyed like my fellow practitioners.
Fellow practitioners?
They're all cowardly maggots.
Once you lose to yourself, it's over.
I'm not like them.
The wind today is so refreshing, isn't it?
The operator hasn't made a sound...
Even if there's no movement at all,
he is still working hard to grasp the truth
and trying to attain purification.
Right? Operator?
Has it appeared?
It has appeared.
What?
Just as I thought.
But the direction is different.
Mirror images are reversed left and right.
Raise your right hand,
and the reflection raises its left hand.
We become one.
That's how it should be.
What?
This morning's dream was very special.
The dream chapter is almost finished.
It's the greatest achievement of the Solitary Island Project.
It's the story of expanding my insignificant human interior
out into the universe.
Now, there's something I want to discuss with you.
What is it?
I dreamed of becoming one with you.
Don't be too surprised. Please hear me out first.
I'm honestly troubled too.
I even wondered whether it was an erotic dream.
But after thinking calmly, I realized
it wasn't a union born of sexual desire,
but an outburst of a different kind of emotion.
The proof is that in the dream
I felt an extremely pure
and beautiful, noble sentiment...
I think... maybe that's what love is.
When the two of us unite in reality,
it means the dream and reality have finally synchronized,
reaching the highest realm.
No... that...
Such a matter should be reported to headquarters...
At the very moment the dream notebook is about to be completed,
you and I should become one.
The ultimate union of dream and reality...
That is what this Solitary Island Project
must ultimately achieve.
And then we'll have children.
They are born for our fellow practitioners:
New Human Number One.
(End)
It's gone...
It's gone...
What's wrong?
The dream notebook is gone.
The one I barely finished last night.
Is this it?
How could that be?
It fell outside.
It's because you wrote too hard, Chairman.
That's why it came apart.
The wind is really strong today, isn't it?
My dream...
My dream...
My dream...
What are you doing?
I'm checking whether headquarters has issued any orders.
Let me see.
There are no orders at all.
I don't know what's going on with headquarters lately.
Never mind that. Where's your notebook?
Are you writing a letter to the Third Headquarters Director?
What are you doing?
Isn't this what it means to become one?
Don't try to get out of it...
I know exactly what you're doing.
You and the Master did the same thing too.
You two were once one as well.
That magazine spelled it all out.
I'm not saying this to criticize you.
After all, it was the Master who did it.
There must be some deeper meaning behind it.
But that Third Headquarters Director, with her shallow spiritual cultivation...
developed doubts about the organization and ran away.
I have no intention of...
accepting everything the media says wholesale.
As the Chairman, my judgment...
I, ranked twelfth,
made that call, and it is an undeniable fact.
Chairman...
You already...
I'm not like the Third Headquarters Director.
I'm not like the operator either.
Not at all.
This... is love.
You're no longer the Chairman, and you're no longer ranked twelfth.
Just a troublesome figure who forces his female companions to have sex
That's what I wrote in the letter
None of that matters anymore
Come, let us become one
Through your body, Vice Chairwoman
Let the precious essence of the master
Be injected into my body too
You... you will marry me
(Troublesome figure. Please transfer to headquarters. Written by the Vice Chairwoman)
You're awake
I...
You've been asleep for three days now
I'll go prepare something to eat right away
Did you kill him?
How could I?
But is headquarters really
Admitting the Chairman is a troublesome figure this quickly?
Check the letter they sent back
On this island...
It's just the two of us left now
Is that all right?
I'm about to come
Come inside me...
It's fine
Haven't been here since we came to the island
Come back
Please, come back
What are you saying?
Mom, thanks to you
I was able to become such a wonderful person
Thank you for recruiting me into the order
No, I got everything wrong
Please, I'm willing to apologize
Please come back
How pitiful...
Those people must have brainwashed you
No
We were the ones who were wrong
Listening to what those people said
You should have noticed it too
Are you planning to take me back to the mundane world?
Like I once tried to take you back.
It's all my fault.
I've come to understand that deeply.
That's why I came to ask you to come back with me.
I want you to come back with me.
I want you to come back with me.
Go.
What's wrong?
You were talking in your sleep just now.
It was a nightmare.
So I forcibly put an end to it.
So you've learned to forcibly put an end to things.
What kind of dream was it?
It's still wet.
Again and again, it feels better and better.
Me too...
Please, just stop.
Don't go to those creepy gatherings.
And spend so much money on them.
They say listening to the master's teachings cleanses your mind and body.
You should go and listen too, you'll definitely like it.
What's the matter?
No, it's nothing.
The boats and letters haven't come lately, have they?
Could they have found out?
Do we do nothing but this all day long?
If we get caught... I don't know what would happen.
I don't know either.
Shall we do it again?
Your name...
What?
Please tell me... your real name.
If we do that...
Sorry...
Operator.
I caught a crab.
Me too.
Looks like we're fine on food.
But we're almost out of drinking water.
Let's just figure out a way.
Let's make a tool to filter seawater.
Good idea.
Then the two of us can become self-sufficient.
Yeah.
Even if we don't get the letter,
it doesn't matter if no cargo ship comes.
The two of us can be together forever...
What's wrong?
This is...
It's nothing...
I saw something that can't be seen.
What could it mean?
It means our abilities have grown stronger.
So those three people
are the people who died on this island before?
They were pitiful ones who lost to themselves.
What's the matter now?
Nothing.
Look, the sky...
Is that a good omen or a bad one?
A letter has come from headquarters.
It seems they've decided to head to the Place of Rest.
All the fellow practitioners will come tomorrow.
Everyone will gather on this island
as a stopover on the way to the Place of Rest.
Headquarters wants us to use our experience living on the island
to guide the fellow practitioners.
The Lone Island Project is meant not only to strengthen our abilities,
but also as an experiment to see whether,
midway through the relocation plan, the island can sustain itself.
You've worked hard.
Sorry for the sudden notice.
The Master, moved by heavenly insight,
moved up the schedule on short notice.
It seems there are fewer fellow practitioners than expected.
Gathering them all at once is quite difficult.
This time, they'll be admitted in order of rank first.
In the end, everyone will set out together.
The Master will arrive very soon.
Quick, get ready to welcome him.
How could it be you... Third Headquarters Chief?
I've wanted to see you for so long, Ryoko.
Ryoko, run away with me.
The Smile Life Center is finished.
The Master's training program was too harsh.
Many members had mental breakdowns and lost control of their behavior.
They caused social problems everywhere.
It's obvious how it all ended up this way.
Shut up in cramped rooms,
they repeated meaningless words tens of thousands of times.
They were forced to sleep twelve hours a day.
For the remaining twelve hours,
they had to keep writing dream journals.
Through this process,
people gradually began to lose track of the difference between reality and dreams.
Dreams have no sense of time to begin with,
so slowly everyone started to feel that all their dreams
seemed to connect together and become one single world.
So compared to reality,
the dreams actually felt more real.
The result of sinking too deep into dreams
was that everyone was swallowed up by them.
They began seeing things they should not see,
and even tried to fight enemies that no one else could see.
Those who came to this island
were the survivors out of twenty thousand members
who had escaped the police investigation.
It's all over now.
Third Headquarters Chief...
Have you been brainwashed by the enemy too?
It's us who were brainwashed.
There was never any such thing as a place to find peace.
I returned to the organization
pretending I still trusted the Master
only because I was trying to save you.
The Master wants to lead everyone to mass suicide on this island.
Let's run away together, Ryoko.
Let's go far away,
and find a place without these people to live together.
You're...
There's an enemy
It's an enemy spy
There's a spy, over here
Run, Ryoko, quickly
Come on!
-That's him
-Grab him
Stop right there
Operator
About what just happened...
Let's go
The master has arrived
Fellow practitioners, fellow practitioners
For the sake of our fellow practitioners' spiritual training
Beyond the dream lies a vast world
Let us connect the horizon of dreams with reality
Fellow practitioners, let us go together
To the place of true refuge
Right now, from Babylon
Let us set sail
Fellow practitioners, fellow practitioners
For the sake of our fellow practitioners' spiritual training
For the sake of our fellow practitioners' spiritual training
Fellow practitioners, the day of departure is almost here
We will leave behind the filth and vulgarity
and the tasteless, dull existence of Babylon
worthless as chewed wax, and sail away
To the place of true refuge
In order to enter the place of true refuge,
we must cast off our former selves
and become a new person
If we do not elevate our spiritual dimension,
we will not be worthy of entering the place of true refuge
The master personally mixed this cup
a drink that elevates the spiritual dimension
After repeating the message the master has bestowed upon us,
drink it down in one gulp
This is...
We will all ascend to a new dimension
We will all ascend to a new dimension
Heading toward a new world without filth or suffering
Heading toward a new world without filth or suffering
All of us will walk hand in hand
and ascend to a whole new dimension
All of us will walk hand in hand
and ascend to a whole new dimension
Setting off for the Place of Peace
Setting off for the Place of Peace
No, no...
Your name... it's Ryoko, isn't it?
Well then, fellow practitioners,
let us raise our glasses and drink together
Cheers, everyone
Cheers...
No, don't drink it!
Fellow practitioners, don't drink it!
You mustn't drink it
You mustn't drink it
Don't drink it, please!
No disturbances allowed
Anyone who causes a disturbance will be treated as an enemy spy
Accept your punishment
Make another fuss and I'll have you disposed of
Forced termination...
If you drink it, you'll die
Don't be fooled
That guy is full of nonsense
Stay calm, no disturbances...
It's the enemy
The enemy has launched a poison gas attack
Everyone, follow orders and do not resist
Don't run away
Fellow practitioners, hold off the enemy forces
Do not resist
What are you waiting for? Start the music!
Yes
Fire, fire already!
Continue...
The Place... of Peace...
Run... quickly...
Vice Speaker
Vice Speaker
Vice Speaker, pull yourself together.
Vice Speaker, are you all right?
Vice Speaker
For our fellow practitioners... keep striving in your practice...
At that time, I thought you had really died.
You scared me to death.
You're exaggerating.
To survive such a serious injury...
It's a relief you were saved.
Do you remember?
Spaghetti made with seawater and shellfish.
Of course.
It was delicious, wasn't it?
After coming back here,
I tried making it once.
It was so awful I couldn't swallow it.
I don't know why,
but I just felt so sad.
After leaving that island,
I never felt that sad.
I dream about the sunset on that island.
It was so beautiful it moved me to tears.
I was so focused on my practice then that I didn't notice.
Being able to live this leisurely now
feels like a dream.
Looking back now,
life on that island feels more like a dream.
Isn't wearing that T-shirt a bit much...?
What's the problem?
I heard it's a genuine one bought at Smile Shop.
For our fellow practitioners
keep striving in your practice...
That's crazy.
Be careful, or the police will catch you.
-Then it'll be bad.
-No, it won't be.
-Then sing it again...
-Sing it again...
For our fellow practitioners
keep striving in your practice...
I'm asking you...
Where are you right now...
And what are you doing?
What a silly question...
I'm rowing a boat here...
The murderer who killed the useless trash
Why are you still here?
No... wait...
If you're willing to let me into your dream,
then I'll let you into mine.
The whole country has entered the rainy season
Kanto area: cloudy, later overcast
There may be rain tomorrow night
Tokyo: cloudy, later overcast
Scattered showers possible in some areas this afternoon
Tomorrow will also be cloudy with rain at times
Today's high temperature
Tokyo at 25 degrees...
We now interrupt our programming with a news bulletin
We have just received the latest report
Early this morning in Central Asia...
The chairman wants to see you.
The national assembly hall of a Central Asian country
has been seized by several rebel elements, including Japanese nationals.
They are holding dozens of lawmakers hostage,
demanding the release of you and more than ten others.
It's me, it's me, operator.
I'm the speaker.
You're still alive?
After that, I and several survivors escaped from the enemy camp
and made it overseas.
These people share our ideals.
We hope you'll come to this country too,
and help build a place where we can live in peace.
Let's practice and advance together with our fellow followers.
I'm no longer an operator.
You can be free.
You can go to the place of peace.
You're a murderer.
You'll be put on trial over there...
I don't need freedom.
What I need is to not be free.
What I need is not to leave, but to stay.
What are you talking about?
Have the enemy brainwashed you?
I suppose that's right.
Operator?
I'm not an operator anymore.
Right, I guess.
I should be going back.
That's not a boat house, you know.
I know.
Where are you going?
I'm going to the other shore.
Translator: Ge Tingyun