Makishima has been arrested...
The helmet criminals have been wiped out.
The case is closed. Is it all over now?
Kagari is missing.
In Division 2, as well, an Enforcer escaped in the confusion.
Inspector... Do you think Kagari would run off?
I would like to show
Cut open my skull
Look into my head
I don't know why I'm so harsh
I could be so brash
I'm going to clash
'Cause I feel
I can always show my everything to you
If this moment was for me
I try to hear
Lend my ear
Voices inside
One link to join it all again
'Cause I feel
I can always show my everything to you
If this moment was for me
I try to hear
Lend my ear
Voices inside
One link to join it all
So it goes again
#17 Iron Heart
Can we... say that we won?
Detective work is, by nature, about treating wounds.
Our investigations start after there are victims.
In that sense, we lose before we even start.
But at least with this lost game we were able to end in a draw.
We just have to settle with that.
What was all that talk about the safety of the Sibyl System?
A safe and perfect society is just an illusion.
The society we live in now is still a dangerous society.
Dangerous?
In this society, people depend on things that are convenient but also dangerous.
Our government made us take risks.
But the risks were dispersed and distributed so cleverly
that no one was able to notice it.
No, they did notice it, but they just pretended that they hadn't.
Everyone might have been looking the other way.
Precisely because there was danger...
they had to act as if there wasn't instead, in order to keep their sanity.
Do you think the citizens of this town, including me, were that clever?
I don't like to lump people together when I speak, since everyone is different...
...but I'll generalize broadly here.
I think humans are clever.
We can involuntarily try to avoid our responsibilities.
I guess I'm rambling.
Maybe I'm nervous, too.
How they're going to judge Makishima... The problem is what happens next.
It's a far more difficult and troublesome task than shooting a Dominator.
But we can't let him get away.
It's an undeniable fact that he committed crimes.
In any case, we still have that idiot Kagari to worry about.
He split off from us and went down to the basement.
Why did the communication end there?
It's the day after the nightmarish riots.
This is like dealing with the aftermath of a pandemic.
A psycho-hazard is a mental disease.
When it spreads, this is how things turn out.
A large number of people needing mental care...
housing facilities overflowing with people...
economic losses due to crippled city functions...
Makishima was a monstrous man.
It's too early to talk in the past tense.
There's still the matter of his sentencing...
The judiciary has been abolished for a while now.
It'll probably be difficult to prosecute someone based solely on evidence.
We're counting on you, Inspector.
You're acting too friendly, Enforcer.
Okay, okay.
I've been called in by the Chief.
The cases Makishima was involved in will be investigated
by a special team formed by the Minister of Welfare.
The MWPSB has lost the authority to investigate this case.
Excuse me?
This is quite a unique case.
Medical staff always has to be there when questioning him, too.
There's also the matter of keeping the information confidential.
Shogo Makishima was very likely involved in various crimes in the past.
In order for the facts to come to light,
the MWPSB needs to be able to interrogate him!
Are there any unsolved cases in those past crimes you mentioned?
No... but...
Makishima will be disposed of as a research sample.
No, he was disposed of.
Rather than worrying about an arrested criminal,
you have a big problem at Division 1, don't you?
An Enforcer escaped...
...and he's still missing.
We still don't know if he really escaped.
The Sibyl System has already been restored.
Enforcer Kagari hasn't been caught by the surveillance network
because he's been steering clear of it as he moves about.
As it stands, you'll be held responsible.
That's... uhm...
Give me a break!
Give me an acceptable explanation!
What makes you think you can talk to me like that?! You're an Enforcer!
This is not the time to discuss our positions!
It's strange that we aren't even allowed to question him
when we were the ones who arrested him, isn't it?!
It wasn't my decision. If you want to complain...
"If you want to complain, talk to the Chief directly." Is that it?!
I'm an Enforcer. There's no way I can see the Chief, is there?!
If I actually march into her office, it's you who'll be in trouble, Inspector.
What's going to happen now?
There probably isn't anything we can do.
At any rate, we'll put everything we have into the search for Kagari.
Depending on his actions,
it could mean the end of the MWPSB for different reasons.
It's been a while, Shogo.
It's good to see you haven't changed a bit.
You are the MWPSB Chief, Ms. Kasei... was it?
I don't think we know each other.
Well, my appearance has changed quite a bit in the past three years, so...
First, I need to offer you an apology.
About that book I borrowed from you a while back...
I lost it due to the troubles that I had to go through.
Hm?
It was quite difficult to find another copy of that book.
I'm surprised.
Are you Kouzaburou Touma?
This brings back memories. It's been three years, huh?
When I heard that you fell into the hands of the MWPSB,
I felt that it was terribly unfortunate.
But... that face... plastic surgery...
No, that's not it. Considering that body structure, you're a different person.
Your friend Toyohisa Senguji achieved whole-body cyberization, too, right?
But artificial body technology that is this flawless
hasn't been made open to the public.
You can't tell the difference between this body and a human body at all, can you?
Nothing of the Kouzaburou Touma you know is left except his brain.
What's going on? The culprit of those grotesque serial killings
that seriously upset society is now the head of the MWPSB?
It's not even funny.
In a precise sense, that's not the case.
I'm not the only Joshu Kasei...
and I'm not always Joshu Kasei, either.
Our brains are unitized so that they can be swapped easily.
We always take turns using this body...
Well... it also serves as a bit of a break from our everyday work.
"We" you said?
Yeah, I am only a rep.
I was only entrusted with talking to you here since you and I are old friends.
We've never shown ourselves to people,
but when it comes to our name, we are famous in a manner of speaking.
You should know it, too.
People call us...
...the Sibyl System!
How in the hell could they say that Kagari disappeared from here?!
No matter how worked up he is, he wouldn't run off.
He can calculate how to survive in any situation.
He didn't disappear of his own free will.
Then, abduction... kidnapping...
Or he was killed in a way that wouldn't leave any traces of his body.
For example, using the Decomposer mode of the Dominator or something.
Hello, Tsunemori speaking.
A report was received from a citizen.
A broken Dominator was found abandoned.
There's at least 20 km between the Nona Tower and here.
Even considering all the chaos caused by the riots,
is it really possible that he wasn't caught even once by the cameras?
There's no mistake that this is Kagari's Dominator.
It's damaged quite a bit. Its built-in GPS isn't functioning, either.
Did he break it himself? So that he can avoid being tracked?
Or it was an attempt at deception
by someone who wants to make us think that...
As for the incident this time,
your aiming for the right target was just like you, to say the least.
In fact, your friend was able to discover the truth.
What the hell is this?!
This is... the true form of the Sibyl System!
The Sibyl System is said to use a PDP model...
an extensive network of supercomputers
performing parallel distributed processing.
It's not really a lie, but it's far from the truth.
Its ability to utilize a knowledge base and to perform inferences
was not achieved solely by speed gains in conventional computing.
By parallelizing the system that was able to do those things
and expanding it mechanically,
it was just given massive processing ability, that's all.
The fact is that a system that expands and speeds up its ability to think
by incorporating human brain activity
was already put into practical use more than fifty years ago.
Precisely because we kept this technology secret and used it carefully,
today our country is able to function as the only country on Earth ruled by law.
We don't even have to destroy this.
If we make this public, it'll be the end of this country.
And this time...
The system currently has 247 constituent members.
By having about 200 of the 247 connected in sessions at any given time,
we can continuously monitor and judge
the Psycho-Pass of every single person in this country.
After all, the ability to judge using only mechanical programs
is limited to stress measurements based on the Hue Check at best.
Specifying Crime Coefficients, which indicate a more profound human nature,
requires a higher degree of thinking ability and judgment.
And we are the ones who can make it happen.
What a joke.
Management of a fair society by machines...
A society that doesn't depend on human egos...
People accepted the Sibyl System because that's how it was presented.
And yet, it was actually done arbitrarily by you, an aggregate of human brains?
No, it is boundlessly fair.
We judge and supervise people.
We are already an existence that transcends mankind.
The first qualification to be a constituent member of the Sibyl System is to have
an irregular personality that doesn't fit in with mankind's conventional standards.
Without aimlessly empathizing with others...
...without being lost to emotion...
...you should be able to oversee human actions from an outsider's viewpoint.
Such talent is desired.
For example, like the way you and I are.
Oh?
I'm a unique human, too,
whose Crime Coefficient can't be determined from his Psycho-Pass.
Because of that, I've experienced a great deal of loneliness.
A personality that cannot be measured even by Sibyl's collective intellect
is called criminally asymptomatic.
Those with this personality are distinguished from all citizens
and have a new ideology and sense of values.
By finding such valuable people and taking them in,
the system has continued to expand its range of thinking
and gained new possibilities as an intellectual form.
I see... So after you fell into the hands of the MWPSB,
you disappeared without being executed because...
Yeah, I was added as a member of the Sibyl System.
I was puzzled at first,
but I was able to understand its splendor very quickly.
Omnipotence achieved through the expansion of both understanding
and judgment by sharing one's cognition with other brains...
I feel like I'm a prophet right out of a myth.
I understand everything.
I feel that everything in the world is under my rule.
There's a limit to the amount of pleasure a person can obtain.
But pleasure brought out by intellect is infinite.
You can understand that, can't you, Shogo?
Yeah, it's not really hard to imagine.
Both you and I have been isolated and oppressed
in this world full of contradictions.
But we don't need to grieve over it anymore.
We should be proud of the nobility of the mission given to both of us as our fate.
The time has also come for you to take your proper place!
In other words...
...you're telling me to become a member of the Sibyl System?
Your intellect and deep insight...
Those are qualities we eagerly seek out
in order to further evolve the Sibyl System.
It's not to say that we can't make you a member by force.
But..."Value exists only in the acts based on one's free will"...
Those were your words, right?
I thought that you'd understand my explanation and then agree to it.
The idea of being reduced to a cog in a machine isn't very appealing to me.
Of course, this would not impede upon your independence as an individual.
In fact, as you can see,
I'm still maintaining a sense of my self as Kouzaburou Touma.
All you have to do is say a single word, "yes."
The operation will be completed on our way to the Ministry of Welfare
using the equipment we have here.
The Shogo Makishima known to the public will disappear with your body,
but you'll become one of those who rule this world with no one being the wiser.
That sounds like the doctor in Balnibarbi.
What?
I'm talking about Gulliver's Travels by Swift. This is from Part III.
Balnibarbi is the place Gulliver travels to after the flying island of Laputa.
A doctor in Balnibarbi comes up with a way to get
politicians with conflicting opinions to reconcile with one another.
It was a surgery in which they'd cut each of their brains in half
and then have the two half brains sewed together.
Once that is done successfully, they could " produce that moderation
as well as regularity of thinking."
For the self-conceited lot who think that
"they come into the world only to watch and govern its motion,"
Swift writes that it is the most desirable approach.
You are a genius at sarcasm, Shogo.
I'm not, but Swift is.
You probably thought that I wouldn't resist until I knew where I was,
but as usual, you aren't very careful.
You said " on our way to the Ministry of Welfare" earlier.
By saying that, you hinted that we're in transit.
We're not inside the MWPSB, so I judged that I could escape.
Why?
You should've been able to understand...
...the joy of omnipotence and the pleasure of governing the world...
Just like God?
That might be pleasurable in its own way,
but unfortunately I'm not into being an umpire or a referee,
as I couldn't genuinely enjoy the game if I were one.
I love this game that people call life from the bottom of my heart.
So I'd like to continue to participate in it as a player forever and ever.
S-Stop it!
Are you afraid of dying even after gaining the perception of God?
There's no way that I could love someone
But I want someone to love me
Even if yesterday could continue unchanging into forever
You and I would never get anywhere
God... where did you go?
I don't hear any response, but that's how it always is
Are you still here?
You'll never walk alone
I'll go with you
No matter the sin, I'll bear the burden for you
I'll walk an uncharted path
All alone with you
Sorry for calling you so late.
Am I correct that this is Shinya Kogami's number?
Today, I came to know the true form of the Sibyl System.
It's not something worth putting your life on the line to protect.
I just wanted to let you know that.
Well then, I'll see you around.
Hey, Gino! What the hell happened?!
Where... did you hear about it?
So what happened?!
It hasn't been confirmed...
...but the transport aircraft Makishima was on...
...seems to have crashed.
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.