Rommel ruft Kairo

---

Change course, Direction, 120 degrees

Roger, hard to port

Hard to port

- I need navigational information

- OK

It all began one day,

without warning,

like this...

Still no answer at Taguchi's?

No

It's been a week,

he must have his reasons

It shouldn't take a whole week

to work on that disk

No...

Something's wrong

Maybe I should see if he's OK

I just got the creeps

What?

I don't know,

I just feel like something's wrong

Like something's horribly wrong

What's up with Taguchi?

I don't know

If we don't get that disk now,

we're in real trouble

The deadline's tomorrow

I know that

What am I supposed to do?

We haven't heard a thing

I think I'd better go see how he's doing

Taguchi?

KAIRO:

Hey, you are here

Hey, Michi...

I was worried about you,

you haven't called

Right, sorry

Did you finish working on that disk?

Yeah, it's somewhere in that pile

You OK? Are you sick?

No...

What have you been up to,

all on your lonesome? We're friends

Yeah...Stuff...

Help yourself to the disk

You ought to label your disks

This is it?

The one marked Work File?

Taguchi?

Michi

Oh, Junco

You OK? Was it awful?

I'm fine

I'd say it's break time

Oh, I forgot, here

Thanks

It's so upsetting

I don't know what he was

so depressed about

He never said anything,

so what could we have done?

Maybe,

he suddenly just wanted to die

I get that way sometimes

It's so easy to hang yourself

Hey! Why so gloomy?

Oh, sorry

About Taguchi?

It's just...If only I'd...

He seemed like the Taguchi I know

I never imagined he'd

do something like that

Time to put it behind us

Besides, it wasn't your fault

Yeah...

Say...Would you take a look?

At what?

Taguchi's disk

What is it?

It's Taguchi's place

Is that Taguchi?

Yeah, I think so

Look

What's going on?

Isn't that the same scene?

I can't tell

Hey, look

That's a face...

A reflection

You're right

Can you blow it up?

Let me see...

That was Taguchi, wasn't it?

Sure seems like it

What's going on?

Maybe something strange is going on

Strange?

I don't know

I don't even care anymore

Something's definitely not right

A message in a bottle

launched 10 years ago

by a boy on Tanegashima Island,

was recently discovered

on a beach in Malaysia

some 4,000km away

Hikono Koichi was

a 4th grader

when he sent off his message

Members of a local group,

cleaning up the beach,

a sea turtle habitat,

discovered the bottle by accident

I never imagined it would find its

way to some foreign country

I was shocked to get

an answer after 10 years

The group located Hikono

through his former elementary school

Next, the National Weather Service

forecasts another unseasonably

hot summer, it's the 3rd

for eastern Japan...

for western Japan...

Northern Japan...will...

''Welcome to the Internet''

No, this way. Here, OK

Next, OK

''Have Fun''...OK, I'll have fun

Done ''OK''

What's this crap?

Yes, I agree

Next...

What? I guess that's OK

Next again, huh

What?

What the...Oh well...

What the hell...

Hey...this...

Who's...what's...

Would you like to meet a ghost?

Stupid crap!

What the...

Maybe you should change

the size on this batch file

Using the variable?

Yeah

So you'll find its property, right?

On, conventional memory

Right

See

So that's how you do it

Say...

Can the internet dial you up itself?

You in computer science?

No, economics, no relation

Huh...Sounds like a hacker

A hacker...

Huh...

It said

''Do you want to meet a ghost?''

Some website like that

A ghost, huh...

Which website was that?

What?

Something about meeting ghosts?

I don't really know

It just appeared last night

Know the address?

What? Um...address?

I see...

Windows?

Yeah

Open the Explorer log...

Oh, no, no, I really don't

know anything about computers

The next time the site shows up,

click on it to bookmark it

Not so fast

Click...

Can you repeat that?

Click on it

Click on it to bookmark it

If that doesn't work,

You know the print screen key?

Yeah, this one?

Try pressing it

If it doesn't work...

Print screen key

Got it

Let me know?

Sure

See you

Don't bother with that Mom

What? Sure

Are you eating this junk again?

It's not good for you

I'm going now

Have you called your father?

Nope

I see...

but what if you get in trouble?

I can' t rush over

It's awkward for me to see him,

but you should

Forget it. He's out of the picture

He lives here in Tokyo

But Tokyo's huge

I know, but...

I'm fine. I've got my friends

You sure?

I guess you'll be alright then

You're so trusting and

get carried away...

Hello

Hello

Help...

Help...

Help...

Who's this?

Help...

What is this...

The Forbidden Room

Taguchi?

What happened, Taguchi...?

What?

What am I saying?

What happened to Yabe?

Try his house

No answer

Huh...

I hope nothing's wrong

Oh no, what's he up to?

I've got to go see him

No! Don't go!

He'll turn up He'll come if we wait!

Nothing strange has happened yet

Yeah...

Let's just act normal

Yeah, at least for today

Sorry, I'm late

Sure, sure

Where were you? Why didn't you call?

Hey!

Can you believe? He's ignoring us!

What's going on?

Who cares...

What do I do now?

Click it

And bookmark it

Doesn't work

If that doesn't work,

press the print screen key

There

Hi

You're the one...

Um...

Kawashima

Kawashima

Yeah, Kawashima

I'm Karasawa Harue

Harue san, Harue san

How'd it go?

Well, it came back again

Really?

Yeah

And,

I pressed that print screen key...

Right

Can I come over and check it out?

Yeah, sure, absolutely fine

I just need a minute

Um...

What's this?

That? Something we programmed here

If two dots get too close, they die,

but if they get too far apart,

they're drawn closer

Huh...what's it for?

A miniature model of our world...

But only the grad student

who designed it understands it

I wouldn't...

Suggest staring at it too long

Sorry, it's a mess

Thank you

There you go

- Have a drink

- Thank you

Getting the data?

Yeah, almost set

What got you started on the internet?

Nothing in particular...

You don't like computers, right?

No

Wanted to connect with other people?

Maybe...I don't really know

Everybody else is into it

People don't really connect, you know

What?

Like those dots simulating humans

We all live totally separately

That's how it seems to me

Oh...Huh...

I wonder...

Yabe...

Kudo san

Yes

Can you move these orchids

into the greenhouse?

Yes

Um, boss...

Yes?

Isn't Yabe acting strange?

You think so?

Can I go check on him?

Fine, but...

It might be a waste of time

Words said in friendship with

the best of intentions

always winding up hurting

your friends deeply

And then you wind up getting hurt

Is friendship always that way?

If that's so, what's left?

If I were you...

Who needs friends like that?

A courageous choice in itself

Are you OK?

Did something happen?

If something happened,

let's talk about it

Both Junco and I,

are really worried

I saw...

A face...

What?

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes