"One day in September"
"School District 7, Bridge 3"
Patient in transport is Hitokawa Hasami, 16-year-old female.
Fell from Bridge 3 in School District 7 into the river.
--We found what appears to be a suicide note in her pocket.
--H-Huh? I'm still alive... --We found what appears to be a suicide note in her pocket.
--H-Huh? I'm still alive... --Heart and lungs have stopped; currently attempting resuscitation.
Aww, I can't even die right.
Damn. I'm a failure at everything I do.
She appears to have regained consciousness.
That explains it. She's a Level 2 pyrokinesist.
Not a half-bad subject. Her ability is suited for combat.
Best of all, she's an "evil" criminal who's guilty of suicide.
Huh?
Good. Let's go ahead and dispose of her.
Acknowledged. So then, following Hitokawa Hasami's plunge into the river,
attempts to resuscitate her proved ineffective, and she drowned.
Are you sure about the liquid? They won't figure it out at the autopsy?
We're making sure to use water from the river.
Rest easy. We will use your body to serve the cause of justice.
--By DA's dogma. --By DA's dogma.
By DA's dogma.
"A Certain Scientific Accelerator"
"Three days later"
"#02 Necromancer (Raiser of the Dead)"
Nobody told me!
Imagine, reanimating even dog corpses!
Here.
Antibiotics. Once the infection takes hold, it'll be too late. Inject yourself.
HQ calling Alpha. Report your status.
This is Alpha. One injured.
Bravo is currently pursuing target.
We've pinpointed the facility that she broke into,
but said facility has been designated off-limits.
In that area, if you're talking off-limits, you must mean the hospital.
Request confirmation of our next action. Proceed or withdraw?
If we're proceeding, will we need revised procedures?
No need. Carry out your mission.
Just make sure not to bring any harm to the patients in the hospital.
Yeah, be sure you're careful.
The target you're after
is a unique esper who can control the corpses of dead creatures.
"Morgue"
Underestimate her, and the damage will only increase.
Copy that.
Not here.
To reiterate, once you locate the target, secure them immediately.
In doing so, do not bring any harm to the patients in the hospital.
--Roger. --Roger.
Why, you!
Target spotted! Near the second floor west staircase, fleeing east!
Not what I have written here.
This is an emergency. Please listen to me.
Where is this girl?
Her life...
Antiskill. We've caught a criminal that snuck into the hospital.
We appreciate your cooperation.
Hmph, he's feigning indifference to avoid any trouble.
Huh?
You apprehended her?
Of course.
HQ, HQ, this is Alpha. Target secured.
Encountered patient inside the hospital in the process, but avoided contact.
This is HQ. Good work.
Mm-hmm, so it sounds like you didn't have to use the "coffin."
You must be the guest. No, we didn't.
Good. They're still difficult to control,
so I was hoping you wouldn't have to use them, if possible.
If things went wrong, you all would have been killed, too.
We wouldn't screw up like that.
Are you sure? Well, Esther has been secured,
and after a little research, the coffins' performance will improve.
Mm-hmm, I think they'll be weapons that even you can use.
Tch, some punk kid who's never been in the field. We're pulling out.
You really did a number on us earlier.
Ordinarily, I'd see that you got some significant payback, but I won't kill you.
You can still be of use to justice, after all.
We were told not to kill you, but if we want to correct a foolish child,
we do need to administer some kind of punishment, don't we?
Don't overdo it. This isn't like last time.
We're moving out.
Copy.
What?
What is it?
Somebody's blocking our way.
Hey, move it!
Is the girl inside there?
You're the one from earlier.
There's something I wanna ask her. Leave her here.
The girl in our custody is a criminal.
This is no business of a civilian such as yourself.
Hurry on back to your bed in the hospital.
You guys aren't Antiskill, are you?
What are you talking about? We keep the peace in this city--
Those guys are so damn serious it's laughable.
They would never suddenly aim their guns at an unarmed civilian.
Hmph. Antiskill? Those guys are fakes.
We, the members of DA, are the real justice!
We are Academy City's hunting dogs of justice,
and with our fangs, we flush out evil, chew it up, and destroy it!
DA?
Move! Or do you want to be chewed up by the fangs of justice?!
Go ahead and try.
What?
Don't. Our orders are to do no harm to the patients.
Patients? Where do you see any patients?
This guy, who stands in the way of our justice, is just vermin.
And I exterminate vermin with the fangs of justice!
By DA's dogma.
This is your last warning. Get lost, vermin!
Justice? Is that all you've got?
You're an esper?
The hell with it! Run him over!
Roger.
Don't get too full of yourself, vermin!
Disciplining monster children like yourself is part of our mission!
Hey!
Beat it, while I'm still only handing out gentle love taps.
Otherwise, I'll crush you!
Y-You little... We don't put up with vermin!
Let me show you what absolute justice looks like!
What's this? Did you beg Santa Claus to bring this?
A coffin?
Hishigata, you succeeded in affixing the soul?
That's the boy from earlier!
Pyrokinesis? Is there someone inside there?
Hmph, well deflected, vermin. But what about this one?
Your kind, who only use your abilities for yourselves, are evil!
You can't protect anything!
You can't save anyone!
Evil is to be chewed up by the fangs of justice!
I can't save anyone?
You really like playing at being a force for right?
Then go ahead and try chewing up the evil that I am, standing before you!
And if you can't, go ahead and bite into your own arms!
It's all the same flavor anyway,
though compared to me, yours is a whole lot weaker!
Screw that! Don't you compare us to a villain like yourself!
Limiter released!
Incredible.
I realize this is your prize toy,
but it's time to turn it into scrap!
You think you can get away?!
What's the meaning of this--sticking a dead body inside there?
It's necromancy, all right.
Don't move.
Hold on, hold on. Appearances to the contrary, he's probably a victim.
Huh?
Yo. You've had a rough time of it, Accelerator.
Have we met somewhere before?
Now that's mean.
We just saw each other yesterday.
What happened here?
If you don't know, then you really weren't involved in this.
What are you talking about?
You've got some counterfeits roaming around.
Huh?
DA? Never heard of them before.
And what's with the body?
She was inside that pile of junk. She's been dead for two days.
Huh? What's going on?
Her vectors are all different from somebody alive.
She's been preserved, and looks clean enough, but she's not freshly dead.
He's right. This body belongs to Hitokawa Hasami.
1st-year at Ninoude High School.
She committed suicide by jumping into a river three days ago,
and she was pronounced dead during transport by the rescue team.
But you said the robot was using esper abilities, didn't you?
The guys posing as you stole the body, stuffed it inside this junk,
and must have drawn her ability out of her dead brain.
Assuming that's all true, she's a Level 2.
Any way you look at it, it would take a Level 4 to create a scene like this.
Heh, so they didn't just draw it out, they raised its level, too.
I've never heard of that happening before.
What does it mean?
It's your job to look into that, isn't it?
Did you come into contact with the patients?
Contact with the patients was prohibited.
The way things played out, it was unavoidable. But more importantly,
that coffin was all but useless!
We can't fight against espers with those things!
Yeah, I don't know what to tell you.
I did warn you that it was just an experimental prototype.
You're the one who insisted on taking it with you, right?
But you said the thing had Level 4-class power, didn't you?!
That's right. Mm-hmm, the boost is based on the level of the subject.
What you saw was the result of the ability being elevated that much.
For that to get beaten must mean that you got pretty unlucky, or, mm-hmm,
you were taking on a Level 5-class opponent.
A certain someone who proposed
that you not come into contact with the patients would probably know.
Oh, now, it doesn't really matter, does it? We did secure the objective.
First order of business is to get her delivered to Dachshund.
Without her, we can't move the Waste Recycle Experiment to the next step.
Mm-hmm, that's right.
What's the matter? Hurry and get her over here.
The thing is, while we did have her in custody, she got away.
Huh? Seriously?
Nobody could have anticipated what happened! This isn't on me!
No, it is.
You clearly failed. My client will be disappointed.
Justice that cannot correct evil has no value to us.
DA is supposed to be an organization
that brings about perfect justice in Academy City, isn't it?
I have no intention of keeping dogs that are all bark.
W-Wait!
Dachshund, can we leave this up to you to deal with?
Yeah, I guess. Mm-hmm.
All right.
The Qiong Qi alone should get it done, right?
W-Wait a minute. I can still bring about justice.
Nah. Your body is useless to me, so maybe I'll dissolve you.
D-Don't... Stay away... Stay away! Stop! Stay away!
"Hold on...
Where have you been?"
asks Misaka Misaka, worrying about you having a night life...
I just went to buy a can of coffee.
"I told you, you shouldn't drink coffee at this hour,"
says Misaka Misaka, concerned about your health...
Little kids shouldn't be awake at this hour.
Hurry on back to your room and go to sleep.
"Hmm, you shouldn't talk to me like that,"
says Misaka Misaka...
Tch!
"What?" asks Misaka Misaka, regarding your attitude suspiciously.
You're not going anywhere, right?
Huh? What are you talking about?
No, I'm not going anywhere.
Now, go back to bed.
Mm-hmm.
Huh?
You...
My name is Esther Rosenthal.
Thank you for saving me.
I need a favor. It may sound brazen, after you already saved me once,
but I can't stand against them all by myself.
I need your help--
Don't get the wrong idea. I'm no champion of justice.
For you to intentionally come back in here,
the inside of your head must be a pretty happy place.
No, you aren't a bad person.
Huh?
From the look in your eyes when that body came out of the coffin prototype...
Those weren't the eyes of a bad person.
That's quite the entertaining story, isn't it?
Here, let me prove how bad a person I am by wringing your neck.
Then so be it!
Huh?
But in return, please do something with your power!
The way things are headed, this city--no, the whole world is at risk!
That body--the reason she ended up like that is because of me.
I was the one who taught them how to control dead bodies like that.
It's because of me that so many more people are going to die.
I was trying to salvage this by myself.
They're trying to use Last Order and shift the world into a new level.
After you tear me to pieces, make sure you do something about it!
Please!
I tell you I'm a bad person, and you decide to dump your work on me?
What are you, touched in the head?
How rude. I'm right as rain.
Tell me where they are.
Huh?
The location of those phony Antiskill guys.
Whatever it is they're after, all I have to do is go there and smash it.
A-All I know is the warehouse where they kept me locked up.
I think it's just one of several hideouts they have.
Lead the way.
R-Right.
You say I don't look like a bad person?
No. You don't.
Hmph. I'll show you the style of a villain.
"Next time"
"Numbers"