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What... is this?
What were they doing?
What were they doing here?
What were you doing, Ichisei?!
What did that mean?
She was protecting us...
Even so...
There was no choice but to shoot.
Inspector Wong requests your presence.
Understood.
Kurau.
Are you all right?
What about Christmas?
She's in another POD.
There's no need to worry.
Let me see her.
Before that, I'd like to talk with you.
It won't take that much time.
Let's begin.
A few years ago,
I received some rather strange orders from the head office.
I was to investigate the whereabouts of a girl who possessed... special abilities.
I felt that there was no way that I could possibly find such a girl,
it's just that my gaze was drawn to the beautiful scenery of this country.
The day I took up the assignment,
I took a hike to a spring in the mountains.
That was you.
I didn't report your existence, even to headquarters.
I disobeyed my orders.
Inspector Wong!
I already harbored doubts about GPO's top brass...
What they wanted to do with you...
What the head office's objectives were...
I've come all this way to find that out.
Inspector Wong!
What exactly are you talking about?
What were their objectives?
To artificially create Rynasapiens.
The GPO wanted to create people who had special abilities, like yourself,
and use them as subordinates, to increase the power of their organization.
Ridiculous!
The GPO would never create dangerous Rynasapiens by their own hand!
However, it is the truth.
That boy was a Rynasapien created by the GPO.
That boy may not be the only one...
If we could have secured him alive...
I was planning to press the GPO for answers,
and stop their plans. However...
It's already too late.
Yvon has died...
Both Rynax and human, together.
All because of that!
It is too late. Just as you said. But...
I can't just give up at this point.
I'm glad that you survived.
I won't tell headquarters.
I'm going to release both you and Christmas.
We'll probably not meet again.
Please, live on.
Why? Why did you let me hear all that too?
I felt that I'd have to tell you some day,
but it wasn't a topic I could bring up easily.
Reporting!
The girl has woken up.
Understood. I'll be there in a moment.
What caused me to start doubting the GPO were the circumstances
under which your father, Ex-Commissioner Steiger, died.
I'm so glad you made it back, Kurau.
What about the boy?
I see...
That Wong person... He also talked about my dad...
Is he safe?
Yes.
Wong said that Dad's at the lunar facility,
treating the victims of the Rynax-energy accident.
If he's inside the GPO, we can't contact him, can we...
I told him to tell Dad secretly that we're still alive.
I see...
I wonder if it's okay to trust him.
What did you think of him?
That I could trust him.
That's what I felt.
If you feel that way, I'm sure that man's determination is real too. However...
However, I'm sure his fight won't be an easy one...
I wonder if the criminal activities of an organization as large as the GPO,
are something that can be exposed by one man alone.
True...
Kurau, you survived.
You should know how happy my wife and I are.
From now on, please live here, peacefully.
That is our wish.
Thank you, Uncle.
I just had... the strangest dream.
What kind of dream?
I was dreaming of Kurau...
Of me?
I'm sleeping in a meadow. But I am Kurau.
Hmm?
I could hear a voice.
A gentle voice...
"I'll always be here", it said.
That voice, it's you.
I wonder...
Hey, Kurau...
That time... The time when Rynax poured out of me...
The Rynax rejoiced in the fact that they came to this world.
Even though they might lose their pairs, or be hunted by people...
Even though this world was fraught with danger...
...they simply came happily, even without knowing anything.
Would this world be better off if there were no Rynax here?
Christmas, winter will be here soon!
Winter?
When winter comes, snow will fall.
The mountains become all white.
It's really beautiful.
At that time, I was thinking...
...about the other Rynax I didn't yet know of,
that were wandering around this world.
Hmm?
Oh, it's you...
Just for now, imagine you're out for the afternoon.
Thanks.
Hasn't it been a long time since you've had some rest?
Well, I'll be going home soon.
Inspector Wong, please let me help out with something too.
This is my problem too.
I can handle it well enough alone.
Furthermore, it will soon end.
The matter of Inspector Wong's transfer...
It was true, then...
I heard he was uncontactable but...
What does this mean, exactly?!
What has happened?
Where has the Inspector gone?
Ms. Ayaka!
What caused me to start doubting the GPO were the circumstances
under which your father, Ex-Commissioner Steiger, died.
The men who took your family's lives,
were simply puppets controlled by someone in shadow.
I know the results of the investigation.
Those were faked.
Then... who?
GPO's Vice-Commissioner.
Currently GPO's Commissioner, Kaneyoshi Saitou.
He is the real mastermind behind the murders of your father and family members.
Papa...
What should I do?
Yes?
This is headquarters.
You are Inspector Ayaka Steiger, yes?
I'm putting you through to Commissioner Saitou.
Wait! What is -
It's been a while, hasn't it?
Commissioner...
For you to be calling me...
What's wrong?
No, no, it's not about work.
There is this pianist I like, you see.
He will be performing soon at a club I go to.
It's a small club, but the music is good.
What are you trying to say?
I'll send you a ticket, so please come.
Me? But why?
You're the last reminder of a good friend I had.
From time to time, I feel like seeing you.
I'll be looking forward to the meeting.
I'm home...
Rynasapiens...
This is...
This is...!
This is... impossible...
This is... GPO's...?
Rynasapien research experimental data?!
Inspector Wong!
What are you telling me to do?
Concerning Rynax... I...
Inspector Wong...
Rynax.
But...!
You're...?
I'm Ayaka.
I came to meet, not as a GPO officer, just as a simple human being.
To meet you.
Fine.
I'll hear what you have to say.
I see. He was transferred and then... disappeared.
Why are you telling me?
Because you are a... Rynax.
Because there was no one else I could talk to.
What do you plan to do?
I don't know.
But I don't want to go back to the GPO.
If I think about what the commissioner did...
Did such a thing to... my family...
Such a horrible thing...
On top of that, planting Rynax into humans...
The GPO had conducted experiments with putting Rynax into humans,
simply to make itself more powerful. Just because of that,
Yvon died!
He, and the Rynax, died.
He died!
I never saw anything.
Even while working in the GPO, chasing after you,
nothing at all.
I wonder what they're talking about?
Don't worry.
Eh?
Kurau is the one who wanted to talk with her.
So it's all right.
Christmas...
It's all right.
This is?
The data I received from Inspector Wong.
They look similar.
They're twins.
Both of them are members of GPO's special operations squad.
Headquarters experimented on both of them at the same time.
After receiving some orders, they headed for Earth.
That's all I could gather from Inspector Wong's information.
But, beyond that point their whereabouts are...
They are a pair.
Pair?
Yes, like Christmas and I, these two are also a pair.
That would fit the data.
Are the two of them really following orders, I wonder...
What do you mean?
These two are probably moving according to their Rynax's will.
Rynax's will?
The instinct to live in the wide world.
Wide world...
If that's the case, the GPO will chase them.
Just like that boy, they'll go after these twins.
You mustn't hunt them down.
If you don't do anything to them, Rynax won't hurt anyone.
But, the GPO will...
I will search for these two.
Yes, that would be best.
I am an agent. Hire me.
Kurau...
You collect the information,
and I'll move on it.
Why? Even though you might be found out by the GPO too...
I don't want anyone else to die any more,
Rynax or human.
One cannot keep the peace by simply holding life in high esteem.
No...
You're mistaken.
Things that must never be done,
you are doing them.