Haneda International Airport
Heisei 2
7/25/2017
I can't wait, can you, Shindo-san?
Why, Hanamori?
It's been forever since we got to leave the country!
Hanamori Shun
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy Bureau United Nations Policy Division Officer
It's an international conference!
Hey!
Sir!
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy Bureau United Nations Policy Division Officer
Shindo Kojiro
Aw, jeez... wait, Shindo-san!
What is this?
Oh, this is from that thing...
Osakabe Plating
But that's Shindo-san for you, isn't it?
I never thought a land-buying job would end up like that.
Don't get the wrong idea,
I wasn't asked to buy anything.
What was it, then?
A negotiation.
Negotiation?
Getting what's in your interest is the goal of negotiations.
But defeating your opponent and temporarily gaining what you want
will always come back to bite you in the long term.
What's best for you is giving both parties something in their interest.
It's easy to say,
but it's really hard to do, isn't it?
There isn't just one answer, for one thing.
We aren't God.
We'll never know what was right—and what was the right answer—for our whole lives.
But, even if we don't know, we just have to keep looking.
Shindo-san?
What is that?
Sir, please remain in your seat.
Sir!
What is that?
It's getting bigger!
Captain, the passengers are starting to panic.
Isn't it dangerous to take off?
Cancel the takeoff.
We're going to temporarily move to runway A.
Control,
this is flight 256.
Repeat.
Cancel the takeoff.
We're temporarily moving to runway A.
Sir, please get back to your seat!
What is this, Shindo-san?
Get back, Hanamori!
What? What?
Shindo-san!
I can't get it off! I can't get it off!
Calm down, Hanamori!
Captain!
Help me! Help me, Shindo-san!
Hanamori!
Flight 256, this is control.
Can you hear me? Come in!
Flight 256, this is control.
Can you hear me? Come in!
Come in!
Kasumigaseki
Cabinet Secretariat National Security Agency
A cube?
Cabinet Secretariat National Security Agency Information Team Natsume Ritsu
Supposedly, but it's hard to say for sure.
Any images of it?
There's several of them going around online.
Haneda Cube
It's a cube, yeah.
An incredibly big one.
Haneda's going to be out of commission for a while.
If we're too slow in dealing with this, it'll be the end of us.
I'll gather information.
Councilor, one of the planes on the runway has gone missing.
Missing?
Yes.
It's believed to be where the huge object appeared.
So both it and the passengers were crushed?
I'll draw up a passenger list for now.
I'll help.
Thanks.
I'll send you the files.
You have mail.
Kikuchi Daiki Kojiro Shindo Shun Hanamori
Shindo-kun?
The first news broadcasts are starting!
Breaking news.
Around 10:00 AM this morning,
Breaking News:
Huge Building Appears At Haneda International
something that appears to be a huge building
appeared on the runways of Haneda Airport.
Gonno-san?
What is that?
We're going to film it and find out.
Is it dangerous?
We're going to find that out, too!
NNK Broadcasting Director Gonno Takumi
We'll have to do this before they censor it.
Gonno-san.
Hey, we're too close!
It's just that big.
We're still a distance away.
What next?
Go up. Get us higher.
First I want a shot of the whole thing.
Up, huh?
Read out our height in meters.
Is the camera ready?
Yup.
Okay, patch us in.
We're above the scene.
We are presently
flying alongside the mysterious, massive object that appeared out of nowhere.
What's our present altitude?
1700 meters.
1700 meters!
It's huge!
But we still can't see the top.
1800 meters.
What a strange wall.
It's not clear if it's artificial or natural.
1900 meters.
The helicopter keeps going up.
The mysterious wall just keeps going.
2000 meters!
We've come out on top of the wall.
It's a perfect square...
A cube!
It's a massive cube, two kilometers per side!
Nagata-cho, Prime Minister's Residence
I'd like to begin our conference on how to
Chief Cabinet Secretary Ubuka Kiyotaka
deal with the mysterious, large object that has appeared at Haneda Airport.
First, let's have a report on the present situation from all ministries.
Transportation has been affected,
but the people of the city are remaining calm.
We aren't planning on any censorship at the present stage.
We'll tell them to avoid panicking the citizens,
but we're leaving the media to report the facts as they are,
and sharing information with them as necessary.
At the present, we have very little information.
What we need first is accurate information gathering.
I'll go over what we know now.
First, the object is a perfect cube, approximately two kilometers a side.
Appeared at 10:05 2 Km per side
In addition, at the Haneda Terminal Building approximately 500 meters away,
no radiation, nor anything similar, has been detected.
So, we can get closer?
It's dangerous to act without all the facts.
First, we should have the police and fire department confirm its safety—
Have there been any causalities so far?
We haven't seen any major damage near the object.
However, we have information that one passenger plane
was crushed by the object when it appeared.
How many people were aboard?
252 people.
We still don't know.
Play this.
Here, let me.
Who are you?
Sorry, Ubuka-san.
My assistant is...
Mifune-sensei.
Professor of Physics Mifune Tetsuto
I was here for a conference,
but I was asked for my opinion on that.
It makes contact with the plane here.
But, the plane doesn't seem to feel any impact
and doesn't slow down.
It doesn't seem to cling to it, really.
It's like water, but even if it were gelatinous, there would be more resistance.
We still don't know, so we can come back to that later.
But basically, it's not that hard.
Anyway, at this point, the whole thing is absorbed.
At this time, the plane's going about 22 meters per second,
and there's about 800 meters to go until this edge.
If nothing happened, it should have popped out really quick.
But, it doesn't.
Something happened.
What's going on inside?
Well, we can investigate that later.
Anyway, what's important here is that this plane might not be that damaged.
So they...
Theoretical Physicist Shinawa Kanata
might still be alive.
What?
Prime Minister.
Prime Minister Inuzuka Kozo
Our primary objective is rescuing the passengers.
National Police Agency Commissioner's Secretariat National Public Safety Commission Assistant Executive Aide
Asano Shuhei
What's the situation?
The airport's been successfully sealed off.
It's an emergency situation, so we were able to get enough people.
The problem is...
Whether or not the police and fire departments can actually do anything about that.
A response HQ will be established here by nightfall.
The JSDF's Intelligence and Security divisions
have been sent messages,
but no official order has been given to them.
If we waste too much time, the passengers...
I'm aware.
Shindo...
Let's go!
Dr. Shinawa!
What?
Send drones first, please.
Oh, right.
No EM radiation. No particle radiation.
What about Doppler?
Not coming back.
Thermal?
I don't know.
What is this?
Is it cold?
Is it absolute zero?
I don't think that's right, but...
It's giving off no infrared radiation at all?
That's amazing on its own.
So, what are we looking at?
Is it really visible light?
If it wasn't, we couldn't see it.
It's important to confirm the obvious, right?
It's getting close, but nothing's happening, huh?
I could go right until I hit it...
Okay, do it!
I'm sorry. It's expensive.
Can we make contact with this?
I can destroy this one, right?
No, this one isn't cheap, either...
Can we get closer?
Yes.
Is it like a ferrofluid?
Is it applying some force to a liquid to make it transform?
Also the boundaries are oddly clear.
Is there some kind of membrane over it?
Should I take a sample?
Yeah.
This is...
"Fregonics."
This is the name we came up with for now!
What is that?
Incredible isolation!
We tried a lot of things, but nothing goes through.
Construction Vehicle
First Contact
Disaster Monitoring Robot
Perfect isolation and separation.
Heat From Lighting Truck
It's awful!
Water
We still don't know what principle the isolation is using,
Bucket Shovel
Circular Saw
so we need to keep investigating.
Dry Ice
It may have entirely different physical properties.
Construction Vehicle
In other words, breaking that wall is impossible?
I wouldn't go that far.
We might be able to do it if we try harder.
But, I can tell you that at this point, everything we've tried has failed.
Seems like overtechnology, huh?
Well, we don't know if it's even technology at all.
If we can't break that wall,
what happens to the passengers?
If we assume they're all alive,
the passenger plane contains two days worth of food and 1200 liters of water.
If they all share it,
they might not last two weeks.
Some of the passengers are children. They may not last as long...
Excuse me.
Message from the response HQ.
Send it through.
Hello? This is the risk management center.
This is the local response...
Give us your orders!
Dr. Shinawa!
We'll work even harder!
Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Camp Asaka
I never thought we'd ever use our guns in Tokyo.
JGSDF Sergeant Agata Atsuhiko
For now, we're going to try using as much kinetic energy as we possibly can.
And so, I'd like to try using the... AP rounds?
Which have the most penetrating power of all tank rounds.
At a distance of two kilometers, they can penetrate 600 millimeters of metal armor.
We're going to assume this squishy stuff is more powerful than metal armor
Repair Factory Station
Domestic Terminal 1
and get close...
We don't know whether it's solid or empty inside,
but either way, we're going to aim at the thinnest point,
the corner.
If the tank shell works in the slightest,
it'll give us a hint as to how to save the people inside,
and if we can chip off a bit of the surface,
we'll be able to analyze it.
Plus, it's an experiment we can do quick
as long as we've got a tank, a shell, and permission!
It's a win-win-win of a wonderful operation, right?
However, if even this amount of kinetic energy fails to do anything...
If it does?
It may be impossible for humanity for a while.
Shindo-kun...
The shell weighs 7800 grams,
and leaves the barrel at 6000 kilometers an hour,
so the energy amount is over 1000 megajoules.
If it survives this unharmed it's really gotta be a god! A god!
Preparations are complete.
Go ahead and fire.
Target, cube to the front!
Type: AP shell!
Fire!
What was the result?
Hit...
It's a god!
No...
What's that?
What?
What is it?
What is this?
Shindo-kun!
That asshole.
Is that...
Fregonics...
Mankind...
I am Yaha-kui zaShunina.
Yaha-kui zaShunina
We'll appoint a government delegation and select a negotiator.
What am I looking at?
Something supernatural?
Shindo-san!
Novo