Wh-Why, you...! Are you from the Egregori?!
Your reaction speed's pretty good.
But that's a boy equipped with Arms for you.
I've wanted this challenge.
The ultimate state of the art cyborgs, trained solely for war.
We are... The Crimson Triad! Prepare to fight!!
I-I don't believe it... My Arms
Weakling.
"Gasher"...?
He's leader of the Crimson Triad, an ultimate cyborg whose body...
is entirely covered with a complex ceramic armor.
His strength and power exceeds the level of human knowledge.
Hopeless.
Is there no more to Arms?
Gasher's a seasoned veteran with years of experience...
and definitely too much pride in himself.
Even when hunting weak prey, such as a rabbit...
he comes on like a lion.
Number two is a woman named Bee...
a flying cyborg prototype equipped with an ultra oscillating generator.
She has an accelerating device embedded in her brain...
allowing her to move at supersonic speed.
As for her uniquely frightening method of attack...
No way!
I'm impressed you thwarted me.
But it's only a matter of time.
I fly thru the air at great speed...
and with the vacuum that's created...
I can destroy my enemies without lifting a finger!
Gasher wants you taken alive...
but the fear in your face like that...
makes me want to chop you into mincemeat!
And number three...that's Face, the one I hate the most.
His body has no joints as we know them...
You slithering freak! You make me sick.
He's unbound by the physical limitations of an average human.
Transform and expand, that's his weapon.
Why, you...!
Humans are so limited.
Battle technology is restricted by the mechanisms of the body...
Please, let the futility continue.
He's a trickster. Cunning, heartless, and cruel.
When you're at the point of exhaustion...
I'll tear you to bits!
And I'm not the only one who hates them.
Even the Egregori's most powerful, top ranked generals feel the same.
Dirty, no good snake... Playing with me like that.
As for his most frightening, most evil trick...
Wh-Who's that? Takatsuki! Don't scare me.
You take care of your end?
More'r less.
I see.
I hit 'em with Arms and that's that.
Stay alert.
There's still a snake hiding closeby.
Got that right.
Even with Arms, though, if the Crimson Triad is here...
our chances aren't good. They're way too experienced in battle.
They'll find us, too, sooner or later.
Ryo...
D-Damn you...
You are still just a kid.
Even if you do have Arms, you have no experience.
If you don't want to die, activate your Arms...
and become our prisoner.
Otherwise...
you'll be crushed to death, right where you stand.
Please...Come back. Ryo!
Forget it!
If it's POWER you seek...
What?!
Katsumi is waiting...!
His Arms is activating
Like I...
would ever die...
it's power you shall have.
in a place like this!!
So it was a good idea to have brought this after all.
If I'm found with it, it's all over for me, but...
Well, then.
Guess I'll have to hunt those kids down myself.
Wh-Who are...?
Come with me. What's your name?
Katsumi Akagi. I just moved here.
Me, I'm Takatsuki. Ryo Takatsuki.
Ryo...
...that, someday, this Arms will take a human life!
My very first friend.
Always at my side... Ryo was there.
Since his Arms, though, I've had nothing but bad feelings...
As if...some day... he'd be gone from my side forever.
I-Impossible!
Can it be absorbing both the cuirass and power from my arm?!
What is this?! It's so heavy, I can't even hold it up!
Change! Change back!!
Arms... How frightening!
D-Damn you!
How could...
you see through my metamorphosis??
It was you, earlier...
who said it yourself:
Takatsuki and Takeshi and I...
were Arms implanted by some outside agency.
How could we brag about that?
I hit 'em with Arms and that's that.
It's only been two months...
but in that time, we've all been through enough...
to never be fooled by fakes like you!
Good! I can see her. Now I can counterattack.
He can see and avoid me!
Even flying at sonic speed?!
"Friend "...? Pathetic.
That crap makes me ill.
But haven't you ever...
had friends, or family, or other people you could trust...?
Course not!!
People aren't ever trustworthy!
I'll never trust any one.
Not the Egregori, not brothers... they mean nothing!
Only yourself... I'm going to depend on no one but me!!
No one but me...
You cold?
Shut up! Leave me alone!!
I'll never!
What're you?!
Don't say a word.
So warm...
Now what?!
You're not from the village...
Don't move! Police!
An eyewitness...I don't need!
Mister, run!
Wh-What the...?!
Your Arms...
It took components from my arm, then made itself into a cannon?!
Stop... Don't shoot!
Stop! Or you'll kill an innocent!!
Stop...
Stop it...
Stop it!!
Arms...what is it?!
I can't fight like this...
We'll retreat, for now.
What?!
The retreat signal...??
It can't be...!
Has Gasher been defeated?!
So it's you, from before...
So you're a cop.
I don't know what's what anymore...
What the hell are you?!
That's what we'd like to know.
...I see. So the Crimson Triad's here, after all.
I'm amazed you all made it back in one piece.
Course we did! Like we'd let those thugs beat us.
Better watch it...
They've never turned their backs to an enemy before.
Now you've hurt their pride.
They'll be back with way more power next time.
So let 'em! They'll just get more of the same.
Well, I think you'll be the first one dead.
till, whether they return or not...
we can't fight people who are being mind controlled.
Maybe we should leave town, and develop a strategy...
Don't think that's possible now.
The townspeople.
Yup. Crawling all over the place.
Don't expect they'll be letting us out.
Looks like every street is blocked...
Get a load of those weapons!
Where the hell they'd get those?
Kee-ripes...
Tailing you, I've gone from the frying pan into the fire!
Secret cyborgs? Nanomachine Arms?
A whole town, mind controlled?
Makes my head hurt.
I'm a realist, okay?
Who's that?
What th'... Aoki! Is that you?!
Friend of yours?
I busted him years ago.
Got a robbery murder conviction.
He's a murderer?
He was supposed to have died in jail, two years ago...
Unless... Wait!
I remember thinking those village faces looked familiar...
"Missing person... "
"Accident victim... "
They're all on paper down at the station!
The bell...
I can't hear the sound of the bell...!
The bell...!
He's dead!
But why?
So look behind his ear, already.
What's a barcode doing...?
No mistake about it...
Everyone in town, all implanted to make them respond like machines.
"Respond like... " I'm sorry?
An implant.
A chip is implanted between the frontal and temporal lobes...
administering behavior, auditory, and memory functions...
so that the human can be manipulated from a distance.
In other words, they're being remote controlled.
Probably, in this guy's case, his brain rejected the chip...
Brain implant surgery's not easy, after all.
I'd say what happened is, they got themselves some "disposables"...
brought 'em here and robotized them...
probably as part of some Egregori research project.
Human experimentation, you say?!
Damn!
Where're you going.
To the authorities, of course!
And then what?
They can't turn a blind eye to this... It's organized crime!!
Waste of time.
Wouldn't you think the gov't and police signed off on this already?
It can be done, you know... if you're the Egregori.
What is this "Egregori, " anyway?
Cyborgs...mind control...
As for the Egregori...
a huge military industrial complex is the source of the money...
with which they've conducted decades of research...
on illegal human reconstruction and genetic restructuring.
They've wielded their scalpels with impunity, taking apart humans...
then altering and putting them back together again.
You've witnessed their work firsthand.
Plus and Minus, the Crimson Triad...
the Arms implanted inside of you.
They've gone to the edge in testing the limits of man/machine fusion.
Get a load of the professor!
If you're so smart, figure out a way around the brainwashing, already!
That's what I've been trying to do!
Al...
You said something earlier about remote control?
Yeah. By emitting sounds that the average human can't hear...
orders can be issued to which only those with implants will respond.
Q.E.D., the source of the signals is somewhere in town.
Pretty much, yeah.
Unless you take out the source, the mind control won't stop.
Well then, we've no choice but to go there.
"There"...? You know where the source of these signals is??
Remember what he said before he died...?
I can't hear the sound of the bell!
Ah hah!
That church has stood untouched for ten years!
What's the meaning of this?!
Arms, with that kind of power... Nobody told us!!
Because of your half assed info, Gasher's arm has been...!
Enough.
We're the ones who decided to press the attack...
despite orders from Keith.
Th-That's right! Your job is guarding the Abumisawa test site!
Make no mistake! I'm reporting this to the head office, indeed I am!
...Be that as it may, still they will come.
And apprehending those three without some injury...
will be impossible.
Y-You mustn't!
Gasher, no! No one can use the
Hurry and install it.
It's been a long while since I've had a worthwhile opponent...
Nothing will compare to this!
Who knows, maybe the secret of how Arms was developed is there?
Maybe.
So, Detective...?
Look after Al and Katsumi, okay?
Sure, no problem. Didn't want to be part of that fight anyway.
Then let's go.
Ryo!
Come back...don't go anywhere else.
Please, just...come back.
Don't worry, Katsumi... I'm not going anywhere.
We're all getting out of here...
getting out of this unreal world.
Arms... I'm impressed that you've found this place.
Just as I thought.
Yeah.
But this is as far as you'll get.
You're not allowed inside.
I want to go back...
to the way it was before...
to a world which was peaceful.
And so the bell tolls...
signaling the second...no, make that final...round.