Ghost in the Shell Arise: Border 2 - Ghost Whisper Page #2

and take back the traffic control systems.

They made him a scapegoat

when he refused to testify in court.

I did what I could to

commute his sentence...

But I never thought he'd mobilize his unit!

His motive is clear, anyway.

To an honest soldier, a postwar

military purge is a state betrayal.

Well, have a seat.

Where did his unit get those weapons?

The lower-ranking NCOs

are on strike right now,

so it wouldn't surprise anyone

if a whole arsenal disappeared.

One last thing, then: What's he after?

He's demanding access to

a military database...

called "Pandora".

State secrets?

Does he mean to bring the details of an

Army operation before the war crimes court?

That's not all.

He wants to air the Army's and Public

Security's dirty laundry to the world

in exchange for this city's 20 million

cars and the people in them.

He wants Japan itself to be judged,

just like he was judged?

Other countries would use war crimes

as a pretext for all sorts of demands...

We might as well be under occupation again.

As the war's greatest losers, our country

would be the world's puppet state.

It doesn't even bear discussing!

We'll never give in to that demand!

Are you speaking on behalf of Home Affairs?

N-No! But...

Colonel Kazuya Soga?

He commanded an op in Qhardistan

that won him high praise.

Then he was accused of conducting

a massacre during the op

and convicted as a war criminal.

He's currently in custody.

A hero during the war, and

a criminal afterward.

And Soga's sympathizers are using

the module to seek his release?

Major...

She's an informant. I brought

her in on a provisional basis.

What exactly is this "module"?

It creates processing power on

the level of a giant nationwide system.

They must have used it to parallelize

something low-capacity in huge quantities.

Your opinion?

I agree with Major Kusanagi.

And is your objective

to retrieve the module?

Or destroy it.

The most effective method is to use

the code I evacuated into your Al

from somewhere free of enemy interference.

Why was it stolen in the first place?

The module was a model brought here for

top-secret standards sharing with Japan.

I take it your colleagues are making a

top-secret investigation of the theft?

I'll leave that to your imagination.

Along with how you pinpointed

the enemy's smuggling point?

Both issues are the purview of the

Administrative Vice-Minister of Defense,

but he didn't mention them

when I spoke to him just now.

Evidently somethings being hushed up.

Another reason I want you

to tel! the Ministry of Home Affairs

to give my squad top priority.

Since when do you have a squad?!

I'm about to form one. Based on skill,

with no ranks, and given top priority.

Bad plan! Special forces

teams aren't mercenaries!

If you take advantage of

a disaster for your own gain,

the defense world will

treat you like a vulture!

I'm not interested in teams out for money

or ministry bigwigs gunning

for postwar concessions.

Tel! me this:
How are the

Home Affairs higher-ups?

Having themselves an "elite panic"

with the Ministry of Defense.

They're afraid the public

will panic if word gets out,

so other than a few of my units,

they won't order anyone to act.

We're the only ones who can act right now.

A team formed on a fixed standard that

will be necessary everywhere in every age.

So it's finally taking off.

Whoops, survived again.

Playing Russian roulette

in a virtual reality?

Do you reproduce the sensation of the

bullet penetrating your cranium, too'?

You've got a sickness.

Kusanagi from the 501!

When did you sneak in here?!

I'm independent. The op in Qhardistan,

the American Army module, and Soga...

Tell me what you know, or take

a real-life bullet. Your choice.

Hold on! Why come to me?

You served under Soga in Qhardistan.

There's a record of lshikawa

calling you on your private line.

Hey, I turned down the job with the 78th!

The pay wasn't good enough.

The Marines' ace sniper turned into

a compulsive gambler after the war'?

Is that why your unit's leave-time

budget's been cooked to high hell?

How did you know...

If your postwar days are about

turning your life into cash,

I'll play your game.

Join my spec ops team in

the next five seconds,

or the money you embezzled gets

transferred to Maritime Command.

B*tch.

I'll pay you a salary.

The radio's still up, right?

Divert

everyone before we

lose the whole system.

So you're the MP?

What'd she threaten you

with to bring you in?

Oh, I volunteered.

I've been waiting for the

Major to start up her team.

You're a messed-up guy.

How can you control this

with the domination going on?

This antique has some

special specifications.

It's in a whole different class from

your friend's old clunker there!

Since we can't cut Soga's Net,

we'll have to physically seize the module.

This facility is the most likely

candidate for our enemy's base.

I see; you'll only give

us our target's location.

You don't want to get your own hands dirty.

I'm a neat freak.

An old communications

equipment company, eh?

Not much for a sniper to do if

they're holed up in a server room.

Don't worry, I'll smoke out

plenty of targets for you.

Bingo? Seriously?

Just one squad, and they get their

own ground support chopper...

Good grief.

We're going, Logicoma.

Huh? But I'm not done with the sensors...

What?! Really?!

- Safe...

- You're slow!

Paz, status?

Not sure whether it went

well or not, but I'm in.

So are we. Report if you find the module.

Let's do this.

NO USS!

A barrier maze?

This processing speed...

You people can't stop my Net.

In about an hour, Pandora's lid will open.

It's impossible to stop me before then.

You want revenge against

the country that badly?

I'm uncovering the truth.

The op to move the refugees in Qhardistan

was the 78th Composite

Unit's final mission.

Which was an extermination op you led?

No!

This is...

They were unarmed refugees.

Afterward, a conglomerate

occupied their land.

Someone ordered their slaughter

to benefit the national interest.

Give me water!

This is the first step.

I'll put all the nations who led the

world into war in that same position.

Soga! You've been inf...

Soga?

This is... a gap in the maze, maybe?

How did she leave the

barrier maze? No... she didn't.

Soga can't see me?

I did manage to land in a gap.

An accident-prevention Al?!

He's parallelized all the Als

in Japan's traffic network!

That was close.

My barrier won't last long. Let's hurry.

It's been three minutes since we

lost contact with Major Kusanagi.

Call from the Ministry of Defense.

A DoS attack on the Pandora

barrier began four minutes ago.

We can't keep up with it.

Sounds like it was a mistake to

give Public Security free rein!

You invited this by

carelessly stirring Soga up!

Major! Are you all right?

What's the situation?

Soga took over the traffic control

system through the module.

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