Ghost in the Shell Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain Page #2

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Yes, that's perfect.

Just don't forget the job I gave you.

List the names of everyone working on the case.

What do you mean I shouldn't be involved? This is clearly related to the LTC's mugging!

We know he met with her before he died. We just need a warrant for the prostitute...

For the last time, damn it, this is military jurisdiction!

You shut up and forget about this case, you hear me? That's an order!

What the hell is a special investigator even for then?

"Mamuro was being followed."

What the...?

--Hey, wait!

--Stop right there!

There you are!

Well, if it isn't the little tomboy from the lab.

The person in that car is the one who infiltrated me...

If you spill any information, I will kill you!

Stop it now, Raizo!

Are you all right, Kusanagi?

Instructor Ibachi...

Mamaro is gone now. You can't do whatever you want just because you were his favorite!

Everytime you make a selfish decision like this, you put the whole unit in danger!

That's enough! I'll lecture her. Thank you.

If you weren't a test subject, you wouldn't even be alive right now.

Number's a fake. He's slippery.

We've proven that there was an infiltrator, at least.

What did Kurutsu say?

Just forget about him.

Mmmm... Your body still acting up?

I'm not sure.

Goodness, another visitor.

I have a feeling you'd want to see this one.

What is this?

It uses signal lights? How old is this damn thing?

Come with me.

That should help. Now construct the learning base yourself, okay?

Hello, nice to meet you!

I'm an autonomous-follower logistics system -- a "Logistics Conveyer Machine."

You are Section 9's "liaison who will double as a bodyguard"?

Chief Aramaki calls me a "Logicoma" for short!

All of the information you need for your job will be relayed through me, Major Kusanagi.

Fine but no sync-ing. Data or explanations only.

Um... Any Army case information on the missing arms dealers will be very useful to the Chief...

in tracking down a mobile land mine, and not just the one you saw in the cemetery!

Arms dealers? So that's our target, huh?

Yes, sir!

Stay out of sight. I can handle things for now.

Yes, sir! Order acknowledged.

Optical camouflage?

Stay here and guard the bike.

Okay!

At lease try to walk straight! Come on, we're almost there.

Guess who's back?

Hello! Come on in, please.

It's not even dinner time, and this guy's three sheets to the wind!

Get him something cold. It doesn't matter what.

Sit up straight, will you? Hold it together!

I fold.

Gonna go hit the can.

Hey!

But you had such a great hand!

There.

Warning! Warning!

Someone is approaching, and they're super close!

Don't move an inch. Who sent you here?

Were you the ones who killed Lt. Col. Mamuro?

Are you Public Security?

Answer me!

First check the Army database! Code 24, Ops H2976...

... see my code name is Paz!

You're undercover?

You got me. The group I'm with was hired for a hit.

They said the target was a full cyborg

and his cyberbrain had to be destroyed. That's why we use mobile land mines...

... military-grade.

But who committed the actual murder?

Who knows? It was a disaster. Someone beat us to him,

and we lost all the mines in the process.

Where did the mines come from?

It's Maneuver Area 6.

They got foxes guarding the henhouse over there. That place is a complete mess.

Why don't you come with me so we can prove it then?

Mmmm... This ain't the best job, but I can't drop it.

Not only would it put me in danger, it would cause trouble for my CO.

Is this CO of yours trustworthy?

Well, he used to be.

I see.

Thanks for your cooperation.

That freedom you've got must be nice.

You can't read the virus?

It looks like it's just noise.

So what if you're good with cyber warfare. A full body cyborg can't go independent from us.

Face it! What happened to the Lt. Col. was inevitable.

He isn't here to protect you now.

If you step out of line, I will end you without a second thought.

Kurutsu and Ibachi don't have the power to stop me.

Protect me?

"Maneuver Area 6"

He wasn't kidding about the security here.

Now all that's left is to connect the dots...

Look, I've got authorization! All I'm gonna do is ask a few questions!

Take your complaints to the station.

Where does he get off? Like I've never been deployed here or something, little prick.

This is bullshit! They're not even here.

Ugh... ah... you startled me! I'm an investigator with the Niihama police.

I was told I could find these two somewhere here.

First Lieutenant Moto Seta

and Captain Amuri Noto. I have some questions for them.

Well, that's handy. You've connected some dots for me.

And now it's time to solve the rest of the mystery. So why don't you show yourself already?

Why is Batou the Ranger here?

Long time no see, huh? I gotta say I didn't figure you for this one.

What does that mean?

Don't play dumb. The man you killed a week ago was a comrade of mine!

Some accomplishments since I've only been in Japan three days.

Oh, is that so?

If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times - your sleepless eyes too easy to infiltrate, Batou.

Still afraid of taking friendly fire out in the jungle?

I can't believe you infiltrated me in the middle of a fight!

I'm an electronic warfare specialist!

Well, I had to pay you back for before that was a real nuisance.

So, we even or what?

Are you kidding me?

You're the one who took the mobile land mines from this place!

What is going on?

Wait!

Don't shoot! Just move!

Stop it!

I thought those two were with you! What's the deal?

Would you give that nonsense up already?

Hey, look!

They found us!

They're trying pretty hard to wipe us out.

What are they gonna say? That it was a field test accident?

I can't do anything with this crappy gun!

Screw it! Lets run away!

Start climbing!

Looks kind of high!

Shut up and do it!

We'll hold them off but you've got to hurry!

--Okay, fine.

--Hello!

What's the hell?

We're surrounded.

I told you to hurry!

Yeah, I know, I know!

Move it!

I thought you said you couldn't drop your job?

I needed a change of pace.

You asked the military police to help me on the case?

No, to escort a suspect.

Wait, what are you saying?

This doesn't make any sense.

Firstly:
Major Kusanagi, the missing money went to your account. That's suspicious enough in itself.

And second:
the bullet you fired at the mobile land mine inside the coffin

matches the one that was used to kill Lt. Col. Mamuro.

Seven days ago, a prostitute here in town was shot to death.

Incidentally, that bullet matched the one that killed Mamuro as well.

And according to the other working girls, the Lt. Col. had met with her

to ask questions about one of her clients.

Seven days ago, one of my fellow Rangers got hit too.

A mobile land mine killed him and his family.

He'd been in contact with Mamuro before his death as well.

And when I traced the land mine to its source, it led me straight to the Major here.

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