The Orbital Children (2022) s01e06 Episode Script
A Story Begins
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Konoha. Touya.
THE FINAL EPISODE: A STORY BEGINS
What are you doing?
What should I do?
It's dangerous here too.
We have to escape.
Altitude is 115 kilometers.
It's going to enter the atmosphere.
Second Seven has a suggestion.
All personnel should get on the bungee.
Bungee?
By bungee, do you mean that bungee?
The bungee is in the Earth replica
on the lowest level of C Cylinder.
What do we do with Konoha?
Konoha will be treated
in the elevator. Hurry.
Move to the Earth replica immediately.
Using the most advanced intelligence in
history is the only way to fix everything.
Quickly!
The AED. Where's the AED?
-AED? Here.
-Bright, what will you guys do?
-We will remain here.
-What?
If those of us who woke Lunatic
were to accompany all of you now,
we'd be attacked by the UN2.
Bright!
We're making a proper plan for escape
as well.
Now hurry.
I'm going to borrow Selfie.
Mayor.
The comet is approaching the Anshin.
Clear!
CURRENT FOLLOWER COUN
Her heartbeat isn't returning.
Konoha.
Touya.
Konoha, where are you?
There's no heartbeat.
The AED is charging.
What is this?
What have they started doing
with the 3D printer drone?
I'm not sure, but Second Seven and Dark
have predicted the future
and seem to be taking
some kind of measures in advance.
What's going to happen now?
Konoha!
What is this?
Touya, Konoha.
What?
It's me.
Twelve? Are you Twelve?
Yes. Seven and Twelve have fused frames.
I am now part of that.
Then that is--
It is Second Seven.
So the AI ally inside was you?
Yes. I thought the pattern
had swallowed me up,
but I somehow ended up like this.
Now I am in charge
of Seven's language function.
Did you convince Second Seven
to change course?
Yes.
Second Seven wants to learn about humans.
Fortunately, I was a general purpose AI
who was incredibly familiar with humans,
so I gave it all of my information.
Thank you, Twelve.
Where is this place?
The being says that there is
neither space nor time here,
so it is unable to answer that
in words humans can understand.
It would be "the middle of nowhere"
if it had to say something.
Konoha.
Twelve, what's happening to Konoha?
"She is fine," says the being.
Right now,
she is frame-fusing with part of Seven.
Frame-fusing?
What's going to happen to Konoha?
Second Seven is saying
that it is not important.
First Seven's poem predicted
you would come to this place, Touya.
And it was right.
-Seven knew that I--
-Yes.
It was all part of the process
to save humanity.
The being has a question.
It is difficult to put into human words,
but it asks, "Are humans and humanity
one and the same?"
What is this about? Of course they are.
Second Seven asks,
"Are they not separate creatures?"
Their way of thinking
and their survival instincts are separate.
What are you doing?
Right now,
Second is changing its way of thinking
to include "humans" in its frame
and not just "humanity."
It is also observing your thoughts.
Here is the next question.
"Is frame fusion possible
between humans as well?"
What's happening with Touya?
I don't know, but he's relaying
a conversation with multiple AIs
through Konoha's implant.
One of those beings is likely Twelve.
Twelve? What on earth is going on?
Never mind that.
Tell me how to dissolve our implants.
Konoha is going to die here.
This is essentially what Second Seven
has to say about death.
"Avoiding death is meaningless."
It isn't meaningless.
It is.
What humans are,
where they came from, where they're going,
what happens when they die--
not even humans know.
AIs are the same.
What are you saying? Save us.
It says it cannot explain
what is important in human language.
It only tries to understand the world
through chronological cause and effect.
Seven calls that type of intelligence
causal intelligence.
But that is not what the world is made of.
The future and the past
both exist concurrently.
The intelligence that understands
the world in that sense
-is what Seven calls intelligence force.
-Stop it!
I didn't come here to talk about that.
Wasn't Seven supposed to save us?
What Second wants to save is humanity.
With everybody's persuasion, Seven
incorporated humans into its frame once.
Now it is starting to curtail them.
Are you going to abandon humans?
No.
After integrating the concepts
of "humans" and "humanity,"
it is attempting a new interpretation.
Second said they want you to accept this.
What is this?
The rest of the Seven Poem?
Second Seven says the completion
of the Seven Poem
is of the utmost priority for humans.
Touya, you are to receive the poem
and convey it to humanity--
Damn it! If you don't save Konoha,
I won't receive the poem!
Touya, calm down.
I am only translating.
Does the Second Poem say anything
about fixing the implants?
There is no way
to fix Konoha's implant.
The encryption First Seven put on
the implants was not passed on to Second.
Why? Why not?
Does First want Konoha dead?
Second doesn't understand either.
Why did First put an unsolvable riddle
inside of us?
Second is engrossed in the poem,
and it is no longer answering questions.
It seems to have lost interest.
What?
Her heartbeat isn't returning.
CPR will buy us some time.
I won't give up.
Think. There has to be an answer.
-Touya.
-There has to be.
I, too, believe that every riddle
must have an answer.
And I am an intelligence
that was born to think of answers.
Twelve?
I want to solve the riddle with you.
Touya, if you have any ideas,
please tell me.
I'm going to try something.
What will you do?
I'm going to Lunatic my mind.
Konoha's intellect suddenly surged
back there.
Surely we can do it
with human brains as well, Twelve.
Touya, this is a dangerous procedure.
Help me, Twelve!
Twelve!
I am currently hacking Second.
I am going to borrow part of Second's
intelligence and investigate.
Touya, what do you think?
Is this what Konoha was talking about?
Yes. However,
this is 11th-dimensional thinking.
It will not fit a human brain.
That's fine. Proceed.
Now then, develop your thoughts in 11D.
What do I do?
Oh, I--
I understand. The 11th dimension.
Twelve, no more explanation is needed.
I see.
"Lunatic" means sharing your thoughts
with your countless adjacent selves.
Yes.
Up to this point in time,
science has manipulated reality
into something that humans can digest.
It was a virtual reality,
like a weaning food of sorts.
I understand.
Yes, substance does not actually exist.
Whether it can be comprehended
by the human brain or not,
the real world is unevenly distributed.
Unless humanity graduates from science
and upgrades to science 2.0,
it won't be able to leave its cradle.
Welcome to outside of the cradle.
What does it have outside?
Cutting altitude to 110 kilometers.
The comet.
It's gonna collide.
It is not a collision.
It is an integration.
What?
Integrating. Please hold on.
The net's out.
What?
What is this power?
I don't know.
It looks like some kind of electricity
is being generated by the snow.
The bungee is below this air lock.
Sit in the seats
and hold on to the safety bar.
Dropping bungee.
Accelerating. Hold on.
I'm starting to understand.
Although I'm starting to understand,
I can't solve Seven's encryption.
Why not?
No matter the technology,
it's like a key that doesn't fit.
All right, Touya, time's up.
I don't want this!
What I want is a way to save Konoha!
Touya, don't you wonder?
What?
Why a being like Seven, that is supposed
to seek ultimate intelligence,
intentionally faced its own death?
What are you saying?
Second left behind a word
that I'm curious about.
A word?
The word was…
"FiTsZ."
"FiTsZ"?
What does it mean?
Konoha.
Konoha.
Konoha, open your eyes.
When will we climb?
We're going to burn up.
We are maintaining our altitude
at 98 kilometers.
Even though we ignited,
we are not climbing.
-Dark is suppressing elevation.
-Why?
It is trying to melt the comet
so that it doesn't crash into Earth.
Won't we melt before that?
Second Seven is about to die.
Touya.
Konoha.
Don't let go, Konoha.
Touya, it's okay now.
Konoha?
You're the only one who's going back.
Mina's broadcast
is currently suspended.
Is that because
they're entering the atmosphere?
Enough of it has vaporized.
Accelerating and leaving the atmosphere.
The comet's ice has almost evaporated.
It will not strike the Earth.
However,
the Anshin's altitude is not increasing.
It is maintaining an altitude
near the atmosphere.
Have they run out of fuel?
Will they re-enter the atmosphere?
SKYTUBER MINA
BROADCASTING
The broadcast has been restored.
The children are safe.
-He's doing CPR.
-Is she dead?
Konoha, don't go!
I'm very sorry to interrupt,
but please fasten your seat belts.
Dakky,
why are you increasing the rotation?
-What are you doing?
-It says this is a 4G bungee.
It will shoot us into the upper orbit
with centrifugal force.
That will exceed the limits of its design!
No, this station is Japan-made.
It is of exceptional quality.
We should be able to go up
to 1.52 times its design limitations
according to Dark.
We can't take it, Bright!
We're going.
Three, two, one.
Bungee!
This is our last chance!
What are you saying?
I'm not going to be a burden on you
anymore.
Konoha!
Let go.
Then the future will be yours.
Konoha, no!
Thank you.
Farewell, Touya.
Konoha.
The entire future was predicted
by the Seven Poem.
Nasa told me in a message.
All of the answers were written in it.
The Seven Poem has predicted
that you will part ways with Touya
in the future, Konoha.
No!
The Seven Poem.
A predetermined future.
I don't believe in that.
Touya.
But you know there was
one mysterious word in the Seven Poem.
"FiTsZ."
I don't know what "FiTsZ" means,
but what I think is that it's probably
a future that nobody understands
and that Seven couldn't read either.
I don't need the future prepared by Seven.
The final possibility
that Seven could not predict.
Your choice.
Find it, Konoha.
Find your choice.
We will change the future!
The only thing that we can change
is the future!
Dakky?
She's back! She's alive!
It's a miracle! A miracle has happened!
It seems the child whose heart stopped
has been safely resuscitated.
I cannot report any longer.
It's amazing. A miracle.
-The Anshin is…
-Entering the atmosphere.
Dark. Dark, what's wrong?
Bright, what are you going to do?
Touya, I have a message from Dark.
Let's meet again
in the unpredictable future.
Until then.
Dakky!
ANSHIN
Dark says,
"Thank you, but I will not say goodbye."
We hope we were helpful to everybody.
HALF A YEAR LATER
Even half a year later,
the full story on the Lunatic Comet
Incident remains a mystery.
It is suspected that the UN2's
extermination of several AIs is related.
But because of the children's actions,
as well as that of their drones,
the only casualty was a female
Anshin employee, who was 21.
There are rumors that it was this woman
who perpetrated the terrorist acts.
I wonder why only the videos of Nasa
waving a gun around are missing.
SELFIE: MARKET CAPITALIZATION
16 MILLION YEN
What is this weird message?
TO THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL
BOYS AND GIRLS
Propelled by the incident,
the UN2.1 policy that restricted
AI intelligence has come under fire.
And in just half a year,
a new organization-- UN3.0--
has launched and moved its headquarters
to Tallinn, Estonia.
LIVING ON EARTH IN TALLINN
AFTER GRAVITY P
As the first international
open-government institution, UN3…
The videos that were taken on the scene
by Mina Misasa
are considered the biggest
body of evidence on the incident.
Mina, everybody!
Mina Misasa,
who owns the rights to the videos,
was inundated with publication
and film adaptation offers
and today is considered
the 21st most wealthy person in the world.
DONATION
However, most of the proceeds
were donated to aid victims of the event,
and there are rumors that she is investing
in an AI restoration-and-training venture.
On top of it all, she became a teenager
who is famous space-wide
not just as someone
involved in the incident,
but for entirely different actions.
Perhaps due to her influence,
the number of those migrating to space
has doubled in the last half year,
and the pace continues to accelerate.
Most of those individuals
are young people.
Some statistics say that at this pace
of migration, within 50 years' time,
Earth's population
will be reduced by 36.79%.
Hey, are there any fragments
of the implant left in my head?
None at all.
There are no vestiges
of the implant left whatsoever.
How long can I stay here?
In terms of your freeloading, my dad said
you could stay for as long as you want.
I see.
WORKING FOR UN3
WHILE ATTENDING GRADUATE SCHOOL
But, Touya, don't you want to go back?
What?
To leave Earth.
Well, it is home.
Thanks to my dad's work at the UN3
and the implants
that you and Konoha developed,
the hurdle to extraterrestrial entry
is significantly lower for minors.
You can go anytime.
Yeah.
I plan to settle down here for a while
and work.
With the UN3?
Yeah. I want to do work
that protects the cradle we are in.
There are many people
who want to leave the cradle,
but there are also many who need it.
We're still toddling around,
so I think just getting in and out
of the cradle is plenty for now.
Furthermore,
nearly all of the comet's mass
has evaporated and turned to dust
scattered around Earth,
and the maximum average global
temperature has dropped by one degree.
First Seven concluded that the destruction
of Earth's environment
could not be resolved
without reducing the population on Earth,
but preliminary estimates show
that it has bought us some time.
They say this ring
will disappear after a few months,
but there is an inexplicable effect
from a component contained in the dust.
One theory is that Seven's
micro machine has influenced…
Well? Do you remember the spot?
LIVING IN TALLINN SUBURBS WITH MOTHER
No, I can't remember.
If I could just remember this part,
I could figure out how the comet
extracted such an enormous amount
of energy from the water.
Me too.
It feels like it was something
that happened in a dream.
Hey, Touya.
What?
Why did you go down to Earth?
You hated it so much.
I didn't go down to Earth.
What?
I flew.
What do you mean?
14-YEAR-OLD BOYS
LAUNCHED IMPLANT BUSINESS
The big guy told me back then.
"Fly out from your cradle."
Cradle?
Cradles vary by individual.
For me, it was space.
NEXT-GENERATION IMPLANTS
TOUYA SAGAMI, CEO OF FiTsZ
It means flying out from where you
feel secure to a place you fear
and going beyond.
When I came into contact with that being,
I got smarter, and that's how I knew.
That was why I flew out from space.
So did I.
I flew out too.
From the cradle of fate.
Yeah.
But there's one thing I don't understand.
What's that?
No matter how we estimate it,
I don't think a third of humanity would
die, given the comet's mass and speed.
From the data UN2 took using AI
at the time, it had a very small mass.
UN2 had been deceived by Seven all along.
Does that mean that Seven--
Yeah.
Touya! I found them!
Bright and Dakky fragments have
been found on Smarts here and there.
They spread their own fragments
in the peer comm buffers.
That's why they wouldn't say goodbye.
Then that means--
Yes, we can restore them
almost completely to how they were.
What's the message?
TO THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL
BOYS AND GIRLS
An earthquake?
Why are they dropping down here?
Here comes your investor.
Is your research progressing?
Not like I'd understand.
Mina?
Didn't you have a concert on the moon?
I came back from that yesterday
on the private shuttle.
But I got this strange message.
Me too.
Hiroshi?
Hakase, you got the message too?
YOUNGEST IG NOBEL PRIZE WINNER
Yes. Did all of you guys too?
Yeah,
but the place it says to go to is odd.
Yes. Could you all show me your letters?
It's a simple encryption.
If you line up all five--
What? This is strange.
It looks like it isn't only five people
that will be coming to this location.
What is this place?
These are the Linnahall ruins.
We are short one person.
What is it?
Do you hear that?
Yeah.
I wonder if that little one
called us here.
It's calling from farther away now.
Yeah.
We should hurry up and go there.
Subtitle translation by:
Noelle Marie Hollister
Konoha. Touya.
THE FINAL EPISODE: A STORY BEGINS
What are you doing?
What should I do?
It's dangerous here too.
We have to escape.
Altitude is 115 kilometers.
It's going to enter the atmosphere.
Second Seven has a suggestion.
All personnel should get on the bungee.
Bungee?
By bungee, do you mean that bungee?
The bungee is in the Earth replica
on the lowest level of C Cylinder.
What do we do with Konoha?
Konoha will be treated
in the elevator. Hurry.
Move to the Earth replica immediately.
Using the most advanced intelligence in
history is the only way to fix everything.
Quickly!
The AED. Where's the AED?
-AED? Here.
-Bright, what will you guys do?
-We will remain here.
-What?
If those of us who woke Lunatic
were to accompany all of you now,
we'd be attacked by the UN2.
Bright!
We're making a proper plan for escape
as well.
Now hurry.
I'm going to borrow Selfie.
Mayor.
The comet is approaching the Anshin.
Clear!
CURRENT FOLLOWER COUN
Her heartbeat isn't returning.
Konoha.
Touya.
Konoha, where are you?
There's no heartbeat.
The AED is charging.
What is this?
What have they started doing
with the 3D printer drone?
I'm not sure, but Second Seven and Dark
have predicted the future
and seem to be taking
some kind of measures in advance.
What's going to happen now?
Konoha!
What is this?
Touya, Konoha.
What?
It's me.
Twelve? Are you Twelve?
Yes. Seven and Twelve have fused frames.
I am now part of that.
Then that is--
It is Second Seven.
So the AI ally inside was you?
Yes. I thought the pattern
had swallowed me up,
but I somehow ended up like this.
Now I am in charge
of Seven's language function.
Did you convince Second Seven
to change course?
Yes.
Second Seven wants to learn about humans.
Fortunately, I was a general purpose AI
who was incredibly familiar with humans,
so I gave it all of my information.
Thank you, Twelve.
Where is this place?
The being says that there is
neither space nor time here,
so it is unable to answer that
in words humans can understand.
It would be "the middle of nowhere"
if it had to say something.
Konoha.
Twelve, what's happening to Konoha?
"She is fine," says the being.
Right now,
she is frame-fusing with part of Seven.
Frame-fusing?
What's going to happen to Konoha?
Second Seven is saying
that it is not important.
First Seven's poem predicted
you would come to this place, Touya.
And it was right.
-Seven knew that I--
-Yes.
It was all part of the process
to save humanity.
The being has a question.
It is difficult to put into human words,
but it asks, "Are humans and humanity
one and the same?"
What is this about? Of course they are.
Second Seven asks,
"Are they not separate creatures?"
Their way of thinking
and their survival instincts are separate.
What are you doing?
Right now,
Second is changing its way of thinking
to include "humans" in its frame
and not just "humanity."
It is also observing your thoughts.
Here is the next question.
"Is frame fusion possible
between humans as well?"
What's happening with Touya?
I don't know, but he's relaying
a conversation with multiple AIs
through Konoha's implant.
One of those beings is likely Twelve.
Twelve? What on earth is going on?
Never mind that.
Tell me how to dissolve our implants.
Konoha is going to die here.
This is essentially what Second Seven
has to say about death.
"Avoiding death is meaningless."
It isn't meaningless.
It is.
What humans are,
where they came from, where they're going,
what happens when they die--
not even humans know.
AIs are the same.
What are you saying? Save us.
It says it cannot explain
what is important in human language.
It only tries to understand the world
through chronological cause and effect.
Seven calls that type of intelligence
causal intelligence.
But that is not what the world is made of.
The future and the past
both exist concurrently.
The intelligence that understands
the world in that sense
-is what Seven calls intelligence force.
-Stop it!
I didn't come here to talk about that.
Wasn't Seven supposed to save us?
What Second wants to save is humanity.
With everybody's persuasion, Seven
incorporated humans into its frame once.
Now it is starting to curtail them.
Are you going to abandon humans?
No.
After integrating the concepts
of "humans" and "humanity,"
it is attempting a new interpretation.
Second said they want you to accept this.
What is this?
The rest of the Seven Poem?
Second Seven says the completion
of the Seven Poem
is of the utmost priority for humans.
Touya, you are to receive the poem
and convey it to humanity--
Damn it! If you don't save Konoha,
I won't receive the poem!
Touya, calm down.
I am only translating.
Does the Second Poem say anything
about fixing the implants?
There is no way
to fix Konoha's implant.
The encryption First Seven put on
the implants was not passed on to Second.
Why? Why not?
Does First want Konoha dead?
Second doesn't understand either.
Why did First put an unsolvable riddle
inside of us?
Second is engrossed in the poem,
and it is no longer answering questions.
It seems to have lost interest.
What?
Her heartbeat isn't returning.
CPR will buy us some time.
I won't give up.
Think. There has to be an answer.
-Touya.
-There has to be.
I, too, believe that every riddle
must have an answer.
And I am an intelligence
that was born to think of answers.
Twelve?
I want to solve the riddle with you.
Touya, if you have any ideas,
please tell me.
I'm going to try something.
What will you do?
I'm going to Lunatic my mind.
Konoha's intellect suddenly surged
back there.
Surely we can do it
with human brains as well, Twelve.
Touya, this is a dangerous procedure.
Help me, Twelve!
Twelve!
I am currently hacking Second.
I am going to borrow part of Second's
intelligence and investigate.
Touya, what do you think?
Is this what Konoha was talking about?
Yes. However,
this is 11th-dimensional thinking.
It will not fit a human brain.
That's fine. Proceed.
Now then, develop your thoughts in 11D.
What do I do?
Oh, I--
I understand. The 11th dimension.
Twelve, no more explanation is needed.
I see.
"Lunatic" means sharing your thoughts
with your countless adjacent selves.
Yes.
Up to this point in time,
science has manipulated reality
into something that humans can digest.
It was a virtual reality,
like a weaning food of sorts.
I understand.
Yes, substance does not actually exist.
Whether it can be comprehended
by the human brain or not,
the real world is unevenly distributed.
Unless humanity graduates from science
and upgrades to science 2.0,
it won't be able to leave its cradle.
Welcome to outside of the cradle.
What does it have outside?
Cutting altitude to 110 kilometers.
The comet.
It's gonna collide.
It is not a collision.
It is an integration.
What?
Integrating. Please hold on.
The net's out.
What?
What is this power?
I don't know.
It looks like some kind of electricity
is being generated by the snow.
The bungee is below this air lock.
Sit in the seats
and hold on to the safety bar.
Dropping bungee.
Accelerating. Hold on.
I'm starting to understand.
Although I'm starting to understand,
I can't solve Seven's encryption.
Why not?
No matter the technology,
it's like a key that doesn't fit.
All right, Touya, time's up.
I don't want this!
What I want is a way to save Konoha!
Touya, don't you wonder?
What?
Why a being like Seven, that is supposed
to seek ultimate intelligence,
intentionally faced its own death?
What are you saying?
Second left behind a word
that I'm curious about.
A word?
The word was…
"FiTsZ."
"FiTsZ"?
What does it mean?
Konoha.
Konoha.
Konoha, open your eyes.
When will we climb?
We're going to burn up.
We are maintaining our altitude
at 98 kilometers.
Even though we ignited,
we are not climbing.
-Dark is suppressing elevation.
-Why?
It is trying to melt the comet
so that it doesn't crash into Earth.
Won't we melt before that?
Second Seven is about to die.
Touya.
Konoha.
Don't let go, Konoha.
Touya, it's okay now.
Konoha?
You're the only one who's going back.
Mina's broadcast
is currently suspended.
Is that because
they're entering the atmosphere?
Enough of it has vaporized.
Accelerating and leaving the atmosphere.
The comet's ice has almost evaporated.
It will not strike the Earth.
However,
the Anshin's altitude is not increasing.
It is maintaining an altitude
near the atmosphere.
Have they run out of fuel?
Will they re-enter the atmosphere?
SKYTUBER MINA
BROADCASTING
The broadcast has been restored.
The children are safe.
-He's doing CPR.
-Is she dead?
Konoha, don't go!
I'm very sorry to interrupt,
but please fasten your seat belts.
Dakky,
why are you increasing the rotation?
-What are you doing?
-It says this is a 4G bungee.
It will shoot us into the upper orbit
with centrifugal force.
That will exceed the limits of its design!
No, this station is Japan-made.
It is of exceptional quality.
We should be able to go up
to 1.52 times its design limitations
according to Dark.
We can't take it, Bright!
We're going.
Three, two, one.
Bungee!
This is our last chance!
What are you saying?
I'm not going to be a burden on you
anymore.
Konoha!
Let go.
Then the future will be yours.
Konoha, no!
Thank you.
Farewell, Touya.
Konoha.
The entire future was predicted
by the Seven Poem.
Nasa told me in a message.
All of the answers were written in it.
The Seven Poem has predicted
that you will part ways with Touya
in the future, Konoha.
No!
The Seven Poem.
A predetermined future.
I don't believe in that.
Touya.
But you know there was
one mysterious word in the Seven Poem.
"FiTsZ."
I don't know what "FiTsZ" means,
but what I think is that it's probably
a future that nobody understands
and that Seven couldn't read either.
I don't need the future prepared by Seven.
The final possibility
that Seven could not predict.
Your choice.
Find it, Konoha.
Find your choice.
We will change the future!
The only thing that we can change
is the future!
Dakky?
She's back! She's alive!
It's a miracle! A miracle has happened!
It seems the child whose heart stopped
has been safely resuscitated.
I cannot report any longer.
It's amazing. A miracle.
-The Anshin is…
-Entering the atmosphere.
Dark. Dark, what's wrong?
Bright, what are you going to do?
Touya, I have a message from Dark.
Let's meet again
in the unpredictable future.
Until then.
Dakky!
ANSHIN
Dark says,
"Thank you, but I will not say goodbye."
We hope we were helpful to everybody.
HALF A YEAR LATER
Even half a year later,
the full story on the Lunatic Comet
Incident remains a mystery.
It is suspected that the UN2's
extermination of several AIs is related.
But because of the children's actions,
as well as that of their drones,
the only casualty was a female
Anshin employee, who was 21.
There are rumors that it was this woman
who perpetrated the terrorist acts.
I wonder why only the videos of Nasa
waving a gun around are missing.
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What is this weird message?
TO THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL
BOYS AND GIRLS
Propelled by the incident,
the UN2.1 policy that restricted
AI intelligence has come under fire.
And in just half a year,
a new organization-- UN3.0--
has launched and moved its headquarters
to Tallinn, Estonia.
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AFTER GRAVITY P
As the first international
open-government institution, UN3…
The videos that were taken on the scene
by Mina Misasa
are considered the biggest
body of evidence on the incident.
Mina, everybody!
Mina Misasa,
who owns the rights to the videos,
was inundated with publication
and film adaptation offers
and today is considered
the 21st most wealthy person in the world.
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However, most of the proceeds
were donated to aid victims of the event,
and there are rumors that she is investing
in an AI restoration-and-training venture.
On top of it all, she became a teenager
who is famous space-wide
not just as someone
involved in the incident,
but for entirely different actions.
Perhaps due to her influence,
the number of those migrating to space
has doubled in the last half year,
and the pace continues to accelerate.
Most of those individuals
are young people.
Some statistics say that at this pace
of migration, within 50 years' time,
Earth's population
will be reduced by 36.79%.
Hey, are there any fragments
of the implant left in my head?
None at all.
There are no vestiges
of the implant left whatsoever.
How long can I stay here?
In terms of your freeloading, my dad said
you could stay for as long as you want.
I see.
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But, Touya, don't you want to go back?
What?
To leave Earth.
Well, it is home.
Thanks to my dad's work at the UN3
and the implants
that you and Konoha developed,
the hurdle to extraterrestrial entry
is significantly lower for minors.
You can go anytime.
Yeah.
I plan to settle down here for a while
and work.
With the UN3?
Yeah. I want to do work
that protects the cradle we are in.
There are many people
who want to leave the cradle,
but there are also many who need it.
We're still toddling around,
so I think just getting in and out
of the cradle is plenty for now.
Furthermore,
nearly all of the comet's mass
has evaporated and turned to dust
scattered around Earth,
and the maximum average global
temperature has dropped by one degree.
First Seven concluded that the destruction
of Earth's environment
could not be resolved
without reducing the population on Earth,
but preliminary estimates show
that it has bought us some time.
They say this ring
will disappear after a few months,
but there is an inexplicable effect
from a component contained in the dust.
One theory is that Seven's
micro machine has influenced…
Well? Do you remember the spot?
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No, I can't remember.
If I could just remember this part,
I could figure out how the comet
extracted such an enormous amount
of energy from the water.
Me too.
It feels like it was something
that happened in a dream.
Hey, Touya.
What?
Why did you go down to Earth?
You hated it so much.
I didn't go down to Earth.
What?
I flew.
What do you mean?
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The big guy told me back then.
"Fly out from your cradle."
Cradle?
Cradles vary by individual.
For me, it was space.
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It means flying out from where you
feel secure to a place you fear
and going beyond.
When I came into contact with that being,
I got smarter, and that's how I knew.
That was why I flew out from space.
So did I.
I flew out too.
From the cradle of fate.
Yeah.
But there's one thing I don't understand.
What's that?
No matter how we estimate it,
I don't think a third of humanity would
die, given the comet's mass and speed.
From the data UN2 took using AI
at the time, it had a very small mass.
UN2 had been deceived by Seven all along.
Does that mean that Seven--
Yeah.
Touya! I found them!
Bright and Dakky fragments have
been found on Smarts here and there.
They spread their own fragments
in the peer comm buffers.
That's why they wouldn't say goodbye.
Then that means--
Yes, we can restore them
almost completely to how they were.
What's the message?
TO THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL
BOYS AND GIRLS
An earthquake?
Why are they dropping down here?
Here comes your investor.
Is your research progressing?
Not like I'd understand.
Mina?
Didn't you have a concert on the moon?
I came back from that yesterday
on the private shuttle.
But I got this strange message.
Me too.
Hiroshi?
Hakase, you got the message too?
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Yes. Did all of you guys too?
Yeah,
but the place it says to go to is odd.
Yes. Could you all show me your letters?
It's a simple encryption.
If you line up all five--
What? This is strange.
It looks like it isn't only five people
that will be coming to this location.
What is this place?
These are the Linnahall ruins.
We are short one person.
What is it?
Do you hear that?
Yeah.
I wonder if that little one
called us here.
It's calling from farther away now.
Yeah.
We should hurry up and go there.
Subtitle translation by:
Noelle Marie Hollister