Rouichi Ouryou
Mr. Ouryou, your daughter is here to see you again.
Isn't that nice?
I'm sorry, but your father knows you're here and is happy to see you, too.
So please don't get discouraged.
Yes, of course.
That's a lie. Everyone here is the same.
They don't notice anything. They don't say anything.
And they don't think anything.
They are merely a shell of their former selves and soon
they will disappear like the melting snow.
This epidemic leads innocent people to their deaths...
...and yet, its pathogen will never be eradicated.
This is a disease called serenity...
...a form of death that people have wished for.
My head is overflowing with thoughts I can't allow anyone to know about
I've strayed into a world void of even mistakes
It's being rubbed in so deep it's hard to believe
This "world" that holds only what the eye can see
Can I flush out the truth?
Plastic Tac Tic, no one can go crazy anymore
You, too, are in a plastic beautiful world
In a world with too much beauty, for some reason I can't see the light
My bursting heart is an eternal reflection
Secret remains for you
Don't expose these false colors and futures
fake's plastic world keep it secret motion
#07 Symbolism of Bletilla Striata
This is...
Don't tell me...
They first dismembered and cut open the body,
and then they used plastination to turn it into a human specimen.
Then they brought it right into the middle of town and displayed it...
I'm taking you off this case, Kogami.
What?
Why... Gino?
I can't allow a detective who can't put aside his preconceived notions
to be a part of the initial investigation.
Even so...
But we still don't know if this is connected to the Specimen Case.
Ah!
So I'm on standby at my quarters, right?
That's right.
Inspector Tsunemori.
Y-Yes!
It seems that you're aware of the circumstances.
Watch Kogami at all times to make sure that he won't do anything stupid.
That's your job in this case.
I'll summarize the case.
The dismembered body found in a park in Daikanyama, Shibuya Ward,
belonged to Satsuki Kuzuhara, who was a student
at Ousou Academy, a higher education girls boarding school.
She went missing a week ago.
Hey, Ousou Academy is...
...where Kouzaburou Touma, the suspect in the Specimen Case, worked...
...right?
The body was eroded by a special kind of chemical,
and the protein was converted into plastic form.
Analysis confirmed that the chemical used in this case
was the same one that was used in the case three years ago.
It's true that these cases more than likely share the same culprit.
So after three years, the mysterious homicidal maniac has come back, huh?
Gino! Was it really okay to remove Ko from the case?
He's been investigating the Specimen Case all this time, right?
He might have been able to find some new leads on the case.
I've read his report.
It's completely delusional.
You're going too far...
Mr. Kogami.
Whoa!
You've got sparring set to the highest level!
Are you really human, Mr. Kogami?
Yeah, but I still get knocked unconscious if I get hit by a Paralyzer.
I'm just a weak human.
I bet the Property Management Division is gonna scold you for this.
It's because their system is a piece of crap.
Is there something on my face?
No, there isn't!
You get provided with a powerful weapon like the Dominator.
Do you really have to engage in this much combat training?
Yeah, I do.
Especially because the weapon is powerful and superior,
its user has to be stronger and tougher.
It's me who kills a person, not the Dominator.
In order to keep that in mind,
I have to feel the pain here.
Is that a lesson for me?
I don't wanna be in a situation where you have to fire the Dominator.
So, what do you want?
Before that, please wipe off your sweat with a towel and put a shirt on!
About the unsolved case,
MWPSB Special Case 102...
I apologize for secretly checking into it as if I was snooping.
Why do you apologize?
You aren't angry with me?
Why do I have to get angry?
About a past murder case in which one of my subordinates got killed?
About the case that hasn't been solved even after three years?
I wouldn't get angry about those things. If I did,
my anger would solely be directed at myself.
In that murder case, I wasn't even able to get close to finding the mastermind
who was pulling the strings behind Kouzaburou Touma.
Do you think that the same guy is involved in this case?
I don't know yet.
It's still possible that this is just an elaborate copycat crime.
But there's no mistake that it's worth looking into.
You've been taken off this case.
That's okay.
I don't wanna cause Gino too much trouble.
What?
I'm saying, there's a way of going about things.
We can find a good pretext to create a situation where they'd need us back.
Is there such a way?
There is. Just wait and see.
What kind of person was Enforcer Sasayama?
He was a piece of work.
Huh?
He was a womanizer.
Who knows how often Karanomori and Kunizuka
had their butts grabbed by him...
Even though he got slugged every time, he never seemed to learn his lesson.
Also, he had a short temper.
Once he got upset, there was nothing anyone could do.
One day, he went to the house of a guy who got flagged by a Hue check.
When he stepped inside, this guy was on top of a woman he had kidnapped.
Sasayama almost killed this guy.
Since I was an Inspector at the time, I stopped him,
but deep down, I thought that he was an amusing guy...
That womanizing, violent bastard was truly an amusing guy.
At the very least, I never expected he'd die that way.
Did you see the picture of his body?
Yes.
His body was placed underneath a Holographic illumination.
Yes...
Do you know what kind of illumination it was?
No, I don't.
It was an ad by a pharmaceutical company.
"Safe stress care. Taking you to a world without suffering."
Analysis showed that before Sasayama was turned into a specimen,
he was dismembered while he was still alive.
It was like the culprit was sending a message...
"Life is nothing but suffering."
I wanted the guy who did that to Sasayama to meet the same end...
Once I started feeling that way,
my career as an Inspector was over.
Do you have any regrets?
I don't regret my actions.
But the thing is... the case is still unsolved.
That's the only problem.
The accomplice who helped Kouzaburou Touma three years ago...
Are there any leads that we can still use?
Yeah.
There's a picture that Sasayama took...
...though it's pretty blurry.
It was saved on the terminal that Sasayama used.
This man... Did you find out what his name is?
The picture's filename was..."Makishima."
The body was Satsuki Kuzuhara's.
Yeah, I heard.
Yoshika has been absent from school since yesterday.
Yeah, I heard.
Hey, listen to me seriously.
I am listening.
It's not just Okubo.
I heard that Masami Yamaguchi in Class B has been absent, too.
Something bad is probably going on in this academy.
So?
"So"?
I wouldn't get near something bad from the start.
I wouldn't gossip, either.
What're you saying?
I feel like a careless action could really put us in serious danger.
We've been friends with Yoshika since we were kids, you know.
Rikako Ouryou.
What?
Okubo was really crazy about her, right?
Rikako seemed to show some interest in her as well.
If you ask her, she might know something.
Yeah...
There's this quote from Kierkegaard that my father liked.
"Because man is superior to animals,
in other words, because man is the self, and spirit,
man can be in despair."
Unless you know despair, you cannot know hope.
My father used dismembered bodies as the subject of many of his drawings.
That's because they symbolize the contradictory nature of the self.
I had great respect for my father.
He was aware of his obligation as an artist
and continued to focus intently on using his creations to enlighten people.
I think even now that he was indeed a great artist.
Especially because of that,
I really can't forgive him for abandoning that duty halfway through.
Yesterday, my father passed away.
He's been as good as dead for a while,
but finally even his heart gave in.
But I'm okay.
I'm not sad.
I, his daughter, will carry out my father's duty together with you guys.
Don't you think that's wonderful? It's exciting...
...right, Yoshika?
Eustress deficiency cerebral infarction.
Well, that's not the illness's official name.
It is said to be the real cause of most deaths that are declared as
"heart failure from unknown cause."
I've heard of it. They say that it's a side effect of excessive stress care.
For some time, it's been understood that moderate stress has beneficial effects.
For example, it stimulates the immune system.
As they say, it's a motivation in your life.
You can even call it a reason for living.
However, once Psycho-Pass checks became routine,
people's sense of stress has been numbed so much that
patients who can't even recognize stimulation itself started appearing.
Once that happens, they're the same as living corpses.
Soon their autonomic nervous system stops functioning on its own
and their vital functions shut down.
That's very sad.
So humans now care for themselves to the point that
they've actually regressed as a living being, huh?
The fact of the matter is,
as much as our medical system has advanced,
statistically, the average lifespan is actually decreasing.
Well, this data will probably never be made public, though.
That's not surprising.
In this era, everything that could be called a reason for living has died out.
No one tries to talk seriously about what life should be like anymore.
The father of Rikako Ouryou, the girl I mentioned earlier,
had eustress deficiency as well.
Rouichi Ouryou...
At some point, he was a predominant illustrator.
Haven't you heard of him?
Unfortunately, I don't have much knowledge of the art world.
He was a genius in drawing cruel, vivid nightmares using girls' bodies as motifs.
However, he himself was a man of quite strict morality.
Well, it's not uncommon for there to be a disconnect between the creator and
the impression their creations give.
But in Rouichi's case, there was a firm ideology there.
According to him,
by becoming firmly aware of the cruelty
that's hiding in the dark depths of the human heart, humans can foster
the common sense, ability to reason, and goodwill
that can control that cruelty.
He defined his creation activities as enlightening people about that.
From what you say, he sounds like quite the saint.
However, the spread of Psycho-Pass assessments
ended this role that he had decided for himself.
People don't have to control themselves anymore. Instead,
they can now maintain their mental health through machine assessments.
I heard... that Rouichi welcomed this technology.
Whatever the means was,
his ideal of humans having a healthy and sound mind has been realized.
As a result, though, his mission had ended and his life lost its meaning.
I'm surprised.
I thought all artists were the same, concerned only with fame and wealth.
Well, he too probably had inner conflicts.
But in order to solve them,
he used all sorts of state-of-the-art stress care methods.
His daughter Rikako tells me that he was so dependent on them
that you could call it an addiction.
As a result,
he became a living corpse who couldn't even sit up on the bed, huh?
Since she loved her father so much,
I bet she felt it was unforgivable.
It's as if Rouichi Ouryou was killed twice.
First his talent was killed by science and technology.
And then, his soul was killed by society.
In short, you mean this girl is committing crimes to get revenge for her father?
Well, I don't know.
I hope she finds some meaning beyond revenge, though.
Choe Gu-Sung?
That was quick.
In any case, I wonder how
Mr. Makishima knew that there was a place like this inside the academy.
It seems that this used to be a generator room for a boiler for recyclables,
but when it was closed for renovations, it also disappeared from the blueprints.
How slipshod, huh?
So where's the chemical?
It's over there.
Deliveries aren't usually my thing,
but the payment this time is quite generous.
In addition, I get to help out such a cute young lady like yourself.
So, I hardly have reason to complain.
Where does Mr. Makishima get a mysterious thing like this?
He did say that they're leftover stockpiles from past festivities.
I don't know who made it. I don't even wanna know.
The person must've thought
that entertaining Mr. Makishima would be a lot more worthwhile
than getting a patent for this weird chemical or selling it.
I guess geniuses who use their talents for the wrong purposes
always gather around him.
And you're one of them, right, Choe Gu-Sung?
I don't know what it is...
...but when I'm with him, it's like I'm reliving my childhood or something.
What mischief should we get up to in order to surprise society?
My head is filled with those thoughts.
I know the feeling.
You guys prepare toys,
and we, mischievous children, use those toys to shake up society.
It really is fun, isn't it?
Well, for us, the toy dealers,
just enjoying what you brats do is good enough.
Yeah. They might be discovering my second mischief right about now.
You should pay attention to the news.
Will do.
You always leave before the really fun stuff begins. It's a shame you miss it.
Unfortunately, I don't do too well around blood and stuff, so...
A second one...
If this is really Kouzaburou Touma's doing, this is the sixth one.
So, what is it that you wanted to ask me, Kagami Kawarazaki?
Yoshika...
It's about Okubo.
She's been absent from school for three days in a row, so... uhm...
So you're worried. You care about your friends.
We've been friends since childhood.
This is...
Friendship between girls is wonderful, isn't it?
It might be able to become a very exciting motif.
Uhm...
It might also be a good addition to my exhibition of Yoshika, don't you think?
A touching reunion with your childhood friend...
It's an emotionally stirring scene, isn't it? It really makes me cry.
I want to reenact this moving scene in a place where more and more people can see it.
Having such thoughts may indeed be the fate of an artist.
Looks like the fairy tale died a moment ago
In a hospital ward made of bricks, I found it hard to sing
Red moon, come out on this foggy night
Now look at me, don't avert your gaze
I was born behind black iron bars
Wish for payback for the evil done
As you wish, I'll give you your justice
Before you destroy and get destroyed
Pay karma's price, and let's go together
Monster without a name
A world where humans' state of mind and the tendency of their personalities can be quantified. While all sorts of inclinations are recorded and policed, these measured numbers used to judge people's souls are commonly called "Psycho-Pass." This story is fiction. The names of all individuals and organizations that appear in the show are fictitious and have no relation to those in existence in the real world.