The armed forces that have been shaking the world, eh?
That's quite hard to believe.
They were so misled by all the fuss that's been happening
that they lost their grasp of reality.
In the end they're nothing but snakes;
all they can do is ungracefully slither across the earth.
Secure the area!
Protect the "package"!
Go, go, go!
Go, go, go, go, go, go!
Don't you dare miss, Cummings!
Please leave it to me!
Delta 6-4,
this is Sierra 2-5!
We're being attacked by Snake!
Requesting backup from all nearby air units!
Fire!
Shoot it down—
What's going on?
Hey!
Nee-sama !
If you were to start acting out of your own desires
as opposed to a set purpose,
you would be invincible, Alphard.
Sorry.
How could I let this happen...?
Looks like my senses really are getting rusty.
Yeah.
Sorry, but I think I'll have to pull out of this one.
I have someone I need to protect now.
This is amazing.
A girl like this is a monster?
A bruise, maybe?
Here they are!
Here's the next batch of photos you've been waiting for.
What are you, a delivery girl?
I think this one's the best out of the entire roll.
Mino?
S-Sorry.
You two look so relaxed in that picture that it shocked me.
When did you take that?
I took it while we were running away from a few stupid people.
Stupid people?
And what's your relation to the girl?
We're friends.
I see.
"A pretty girl with godlike senses gets caught in a dangerous gunfight..."
This scoop could even silence the executive meetings if I play my cards right,
but my only hope of accomplishing that is...
Maria Osawa.
She's a victim of the virus attack that happened in Shibuya two years ago.
That must have been an unforgettable event for you too, I'm sure.
The Ua.
It's a weapon of mass murder that takes after its name,
which means both "flower" and "death" in Swahili.
Commonly known as the "Ua virus,"
it causes bleeding from all parts of the body
except from bone and skeletal muscle
within twelve hours of infection.
The mortality rate is said to be 100%.
Furthermore, an armed force from the Middle East
unleashed a virus attack on this town using that Ua virus.
And the person who was kidnapped
and forcefully inoculated with the Ua virus at that time was her,
Maria Osawa.
Her father is Kenji Osawa, the head researcher at Okoshi Pharmaceutical Research Center.
She was able to escape death after she was administered the antiviral drug that her father developed.
If only we had kept digging into that case—
And that Maria Osawa has come to our company
to be interviewed for a cameraman position.
So please!
Use your connections and get her into some program somewhere—
I'll take care of her.
Really? Are you sure?
You're a true man, just as I thought you were, Minorikawa.
Oh, please.
Now, if you'll excuse me...
Oh yeah,
the shock from the incident is probably one of the reasons,
but Maria Osawa is suffering from a mild case of amnesia;
she doesn't have much memory of the incident at all.
But hey, I'll leave that for you to handle.
It feels good to see the back of a true man, you know.
Me?
That's right.
You've got a good back.
Hello?
This is Toyama from Heavens Publishing.
Thank you so much, as always.
Oh yeah,
I'd say Canaan's kind of shy.
And here I was, thinking he'd left me with a handful...
I think I remember her saying that she likes sweet things,
and her shoes are size six and a half, I think.
Those aren't the kind of things I want to hear about!
Oh yeah, she gave me a stuffed animal.
Tada!
It had a hole in it, so I patched it up with wool yarn.
That's grotesque.
The corpse that we found the other day
was, unfortunately, the Unbloom that was being escorted.
And one other thing.
It seems that Alphard was rescued by her friends
and escaped from the CIA's prisoner transport.
It does seem so.
You're pretty serious today.
Guns are simple.
All they do is settle matters once you pull the trigger.
They don't have the complexities that you find in humans.
Do you have any friends?
Who knows?
I do.
Please pay close attention to your surroundings.
Snake is probably after you already.
So they are after me then?
How is Snake's nemesis,
our "Surrogate Fighter of Steel" doing?
She won't betray us even if we don't keep our eyes on her.
She doesn't seem like the type that thinks with her head.
She's just a girl, after all.
She has other things on her mind.
She probably hasn't even started her periods.
Why can't she and Alphard just shoot each other at the same time and die?
I don't like her.
That's right.
We want a million within the next week;
sell all of the stocks.
It's dangerous to have a wash sale with no valid reasons,
not to mention that the SEC will be on our backs too.
Are you calling me an insider?
Not unless you're a terrorist.
Thank goodness you're safe, Nee-sama.
Yeah.
That girl is in Shanghai, Nee-sama.
How should we take care of her?
We could just get rid of her,
but we could also keep her alive and show her hell.
We can start by ripping out her throat,
and pulling out her intestines—
Cummings,
has there been any movement in New York?
Yes.
Nee-sama !
The Anti-Terror Summit is coming up soon.
We need to do these things in order.
This is the report.
Then why did you seclude yourself in this remote location
without even telling us?
Cummings.
Yes?
How much of R&B's stock has already been sold?
According to the reports out of New York, twenty thousand shares have been...
How amusing.
Is something wrong?
Hello?
What?
Oh, that disgusting old coot's daughter?
Just kill her.
Understood.
Thank you for waiting!
Order, table two!
Coming!
Haven't I seen her somewhere before?
Those were some lovely meat buns she had on her.
More importantly,
I'm going to ask you some serious questions
about Canaan.
It's like I'm being interviewed!
I feel like an idol!
You don't get any until you answer.
That's two orders of boiled dumplings—
Don't stick our meat buns down your chest!
But I thought the customers would like it that way!
The enemy is eating inside,
while we're out in the car.
This is really good!
Yeah, we're in a good situation.
How did you become such good friends with her?
Through cat's cradle.
I taught her how to play cat's cradle.
I just happened to have some wool yarn with me at that time.
People don't normally carry wool yarn with them, you know.
It really helps out when you're traveling.
You can make friends with the locals by teaching them about Japanese culture.
You're a shady one.
I'm changing my question.
How did you meet her in the first place?
While I was traveling, she saved me when I was surrounded by strange men.
Talk about shady.
And how did she save you?
Well...
Bang!
Pow!
Smash!
Scratch!
Bang!
That's enough—
What's going on?
Y-You punks, what are you—
Where are you? Where are you?
This is bad! This is bad!
We won't let them get away.
That old man...
Got you!
O-Osawa.
Yes?
Run!
Yes!
Wait!
You need to pay for the damage!
This way!
Who the hell are they?
Stupid people.
What?
Taxi!
Damn it.
All right!
Come on, Mino!
A-Aggressive?
You can't just suddenly stop a car...
Please hurry!
I can't do that.
Mino!
Please, this is an emergency!
Look,
there's no such thing as a slow taxi in this country.
All right!
You're under arrest!
Got you!
I need more gas.
This is the song that the idol was singing at the festival, right?
You know this song?
It's not all that popular yet,
but I'm rooting for it to do well.
It's a good song, isn't it?
Yes.
You two should be a little more nervous about what's going on!
Beep, beep!
You're going the wrong way!
It's a dead end!
Don't panic.
There are times in a man's life when he needs to run...
even if it's for Nene!
You're driving straight in?!
Let's do it China style;
with high tension!
Come China back to life!
It's not over yet!
Take this and this and this!
Canaan!
Looks like the snake's got you in its sights, Maria.
I found a bad guy!
It's Canaan.
Yes.
Now play "it" with that bad guy over there.
Got you!
Wait for me!
He changed his target, huh?
Canaan!
I'm going to be here for at least a week!
I'm staying at Piao Ying Hotel in room 611.
Let's hang out!
Let's go visit the Bund when it gets sunny, okay?
You do realize we're in the middle of a crisis here, right?
I told you she's just a normal girl, didn't I?
A normal girl wouldn't jump off a building!
The real problem is to figure out how to get a normal taxi to "jump" off a building.
Hurry! Hurry!
Wait for me!
No!
Don't go by yourself!
Wait! Wait!
Wait for me!
I've got you cornered!
I'm going to go play with Maria.
Let's play...
a dangerous game!
No, I saw on TV...
I can't hit you at all!
...that girls from Japan like to drink tea, go shopping...
Got you! Got you! Got you!
Oh yeah.
They also play cat's cradle.
Onii-chan...
What?
What the hell is this?
Crap, that means my room is...
The white cat is red now.
You said you like stuffed animals because they don't have color, right Canaan?
But there are so many different emotions intermingling in this city.
Isn't it suffocating?
Isn't it, Canaan?
Damn it, they kicked us out!
It wasn't even our fault.
Why?
Why are we being targeted?
All they stole were the negatives from her camera.
A red-stained room,
and that pattern.
Wouldn't it be better if we just contacted the embassy?
We can't do that!
I smell a huge case hiding behind all this.
I can't just throw away this chance!
I see, meow.
That's right, meow.
Meow?
There, there.
You really don't have a care in the world, do you?
Now's not the time to be playing with cats—
Mino?
What's wrong...
...meow?
This cat is...
a beckoning cat?
Episode Two
Insignificant Game
Trivial words.
The permitted time of healing.
The one permitted word.
Trivial words.
The one permitted...
Don't say it.
Murderer.
Trivial words.