Please head inside. Watch your step.
Where on earth are you taking me?
What you're about to see is the brain of this world as well as its heart.
The core of the world?
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
#20 Where Justice Lies
The food we eat every day is all thanks to this remarkable technology,
and yet, so many citizens are unaware of it, aren't they?
Indeed. These days, the world is full of people
who treat the blessings of science as things they are entitled to.
It's really rare to see a young person like yourself who takes an interest in this.
It's quite regrettable to see you,
who was at the forefront of establishing today's food situation in Japan,
retired and ignored like this.
What I'm interested in is
the Uka-no-Mitama defense virus's slipshod security system.
Hm?
Even if it's a good virus, if you are able to change the target as you please
depending on how you configure the sequencer,
it's possible to adjust it so that it can kill the oats themselves instead of pests.
Uka-no-Mitama will quickly change from a god of fertility who brings good harvest
to a devil who brings death.
W-What are you...
On top of that, they converted a lab in a closed down university
to the control center that takes care of adjustment and distribution of the virus.
The facility predates the use of cymatic scans for security.
Its security system uses numeric passwords or, at best, biometric scans.
Then, since you used to be in charge there, with your help,
I should be able to break in easily, right, Professor Kudama?
So, that is the truth about the Sibyl System, in other words, about us.
Did Kagari die here?
Did you guys kill him?
We compared and considered
the contribution Shusei Kagari would make to society throughout his life
against the risk of him revealing the secret of the Sibyl System,
and decided that the latter issue was more important.
Don't be ridiculous!
"More important," you said?!
You couldn't even judge Makishima! You're simply useless!
You are right. The appearance of criminally asymptomatic people,
whom the Sibyl System cannot analyze, is inevitable.
No matter how detailed and robust a system you build,
a certain number of irregularities that deviate from it are certain to appear.
And you call that a perfect system?!
To think that something like this is deciding people's life or death...
If we just improve the system and make it more complex,
we can never expect it to be perfect.
Then we have no choice but to resolve the contradictions
by altering the way in which we operate the system, rather than its functions.
By permitting the appearance of irregularities we cannot manage
and taking measures to coexist,
the system achieves perfection in a practical sense.
What do you mean by that?
We can entrust the management of the system
to those who deviate from the system.
That is the most logical conclusion.
When we used to have individual personalities and bodies,
we were all criminally asymptomatic persons,
who deviated from the management of the Sibyl System.
There are even many among us who acted far more cruelly than Makishima.
Then are you saying...
...that Sibyl is a monster that is a collection of wicked people's brains
and that this monster has been running the world?!
By first rejecting relative valuations such as good or evil,
an absolute system can be established.
What is needed is a perfect and infallible system.
Who manages it and how it is managed are irrelevant.
That's nonsense!
In a truly completed system, its operator's will is not questioned.
Our will itself is the system
and the universal standard of value that transcends ethics.
Don't be ridiculous! Just who do you think you are?!
It is true that every one of us here
used to have many problems with our personalities.
However, we harmonize through the act of integrating everyone's minds,
and so we have been able to achieve the goal of a universal standard.
The more prejudiced and peculiar the orientation of the individuals
who comprise the system,
the more new ideas and values it brings to our perception
and the more flexible and diversified our thinking becomes.
In that regard, Shogo Makishima's idiosyncrasy is quite valuable
and so, we have high hopes that he can become an especially useful member.
Attaining a logical society
in which various contradictions and inequalities are resolved...
That is, indeed, the ultimate happiness sought by the rational human mind.
By achieving an absolutely perfect system,
Sibyl has become an existence that embodies that ideal.
Why are you telling me about it?
You instinctively hate and emotionally detest us right now. And yet,
you still cannot deny the Sibyl System's significance and necessity.
You accept the fact that the current social order cannot hold without Sibyl.
You place the importance on its necessity rather than its justifiability.
We highly value your standards.
You killed Kagari in order to keep your secrets!
Akane Tsunemori possesses a sense of purpose
that is shared by the Sibyl System.
Hence, we decided that the possibility
that you'd reveal our secrets and endanger the system is infinitely small.
Don't treat me like a fool... You are... You are!
Let us confirm once again.
Akane Tsunemori, do you wish a world without the Sibyl System?
Right, you try to nod but then become hesitant.
The ideal you imagine isn't clear and firm enough
to deny the social order achieved at this point.
You recognize that the current peaceful society
and harmony achieved through the happiness of citizens and order
are more important than anything else.
Hence, no matter how much you hate and deny the Sibyl System,
which is the foundation of those things, you cannot reject it.
Don't talk like you know everything.
If we analyze your reaction read by the cymatic scan,
we can clearly grasp everything you're thinking.
Stop acting brave and let us have a heart-to-heart discussion.
The goal of this meeting is to establish a collaborative relationship.
Collaborative?
CID Division 1 is currently in a crisis situation.
Due to Shinya Kogami's recklessness and Nobuchika Ginoza being drained,
the team is starting to show signs of dysfunction.
Unless a new leader takes the initiative in the investigation,
we cannot expect success in tracking down Shogo Makishima.
Mr. Ginoza is... drained?
Akane Tsunemori. Because you were caught in an unnecessary inner conflict,
you have not been able to exhibit your potential capacities, either.
The lack of understanding of the situation
has been clouding your decision.
So we showed you the truth about the Sibyl System as an exception.
We decided that telling you the truth is the best way to give you motivation.
Akane Tsunemori...
You too disagree with Shinya Kogami personally punishing Shogo Makishima.
You and we share the same value
of trying to avoid a pointless death caused by unchecked emotions.
I think that Makishima's crime should be judged in a correct way, that's all.
If you guys broke the law in the past,
you should atone for your crimes in a befitting way.
Our contributions to society are more than enough compensation
for the damages we caused in the past.
How convenient, huh?
My future will be decided in three minutes.
How gloomy...
Was your score for the final exam that terrible, Yuki?
It was the worst. I wonder what kind of job I'll end up with...
If we were living in the days before Sibyl's diagnosis,
our happiness would've been up to luck.
So this is a lot better than the old days.
I envy you. You're likely to end up with multiple aptitudes, Kaori.
You can just pick and choose the employer you want.
But it's not as good as Akane's. Did you see her score for the final exam?
700 points. I can't believe it.
I've always been lucky when it comes to exams.
With your score and Psycho-Pass, Akane...
Yeah, you've got a rosy life.
I-I do?
Ah! It's here!
Whoa... My rank is "C"... I knew it but I'm still shocked.
Mine are all office jobs. It'd be tough to improve my job situation from there.
Hey, hey, how was yours, Akane?
Let me see, let me see!
Whoa! Amazing! You've got an aptitude for all the central ministries!
Hey, this score really is amazing.
You have the aptitude even for the MWPSB!
B-But, if they recommend any place and every place,
I don't know which one's good for me after all.
I wonder how I can decide...
I don't know. What makes you think that someone like me would know?
You could've become anything.
You could've chosen any kind of life.
You even agonized over it, right?
That's incredible. You're just like those old people before Sibyl was created.
Yeah, it's incredible, isn't it?
Everyone used to feel their way around and chose their own life...
To think that a world in which such things were just natural existed...
Nowadays, the Sibyl System reads your talent
and tells you the way of living that will bring you the most happiness.
And yet, you're talking about your real life? The reason you were born?
I never even thought there were people who stressed over things like that!
Yeah, it's a heavy, tough anxiety.
But... now I feel...
...that it might actually be a happy thing to be able to worry about those things.
I think that there's value in people only when they act based on their will.
So I've asked many people about their suppressed free will
and observed their actions all this time.
Yeah, now I might be able to understand how you feel a little.
How do you define crime to start with?
That Dominator you're holding...
Does the Sibyl System that governs that gun decide it?
That's wrong, isn't it? That was the mistake in the first place.
By analyzing a bio-organism's force field read by a cymatic scan,
they figure out how a person's mind works.
The intelligence of science finally uncovered the secret of souls,
and this society changed drastically.
However, people's wills are not a part of that assessment.
I wonder just what sort of criteria you use to divide people into good and evil.
I'm sure the important thing wasn't the conclusion of good or evil.
I feel it was to think about it yourself, agonize over it, and accept it.
I want to see the splendor of people's souls.
I want to check and see if it really is precious.
However, when humans base their lives around Sybil's Oracle,
without ever consulting their own wills, do they really hold any value?
There's no way they don't!
Are you saying that you decide their value?
You judge someone's family, their friends?!
You judge the value of a happiness you've never felt?!
It was fun and easy. I didn't experience any hardship at all.
Someone else always took care of things for me
and I never even asked myself what was important.
Say, Akane, do you think I was still happy that way?
You could've become happy.
You could've searched for the answer anytime...
As long as people are alive, anyone can do it.
Hello, Tsunemori speaking.
Where in the world did you wander off to in a crisis like this?
Ah, uhm...
The Chief ordered me to deliver something to the Ministry of Welfare.
There was a murder in Ichikawa.
Kogami's prints have been found at the site. Come here immediately.
Okay. I'll be right over.
Sibyl System, you can hear me, can't you?
I have a condition for doing what you want me to do.
Let us hear it.
If I bring in Shogo Makishima alive,
in return, you will guarantee Shinya Kogami's life as well.
Withdraw his execution order.
Those two things are not logically equivalent.
I don't care about your logic.
If Mr. Kogami won't be saved, then I'll let Makishima die without doing anything.
If push comes to shove, I'll kill him with my own hands.
Now... are you going to kill me as well since I don't obey you?
That's fine. Kill me just like you killed Kagari.
And go find yourself another pawn you think you can use.
Understood.
Only once Shogo Makishima is captured alive
will we make an exception for Shinya Kogami.
It's a promise, okay?
Hey.
What took you so long?
I'm sorry... So what happened?
Residents around here reported seeing someone with that helmet.
So we went around asking about it.
Then we found out that only this house's security had been busted.
So we rushed in, only to find this.
The victim is Nobuaki Kudama.
He used to work for a lab belonging to the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry,
but he retired quite a long time ago and was just an ordinary pensioner.
The house appears to have been searched and we found Kogami's prints.
But why on earth...
This wound on his neck... It might be Shogo Makishima who did it.
This old man had something to do with Makishima's next plan.
Mr. Kogami figured it out and rushed here, but he was too late...
So Kogami really is ahead of us, huh?
Even so, why on earth was this old man killed by Makishima?
It's hard to investigate a site that's been thoroughly messed up like this.
What would Mr. Kogami consider the most undesirable result?
Letting Makishima get away, right?
Then what would his second most undesirable result be?
Being found by us before he kills Makishima... perhaps.
Yes. Let's think about things in that order.
What if Mr. Kogami, who got here before us,
had hidden the body somewhere hard to be found?
While Nobuaki Kudama remained missing...
...we would've continued pursuing a misdirected investigation and...
Mr. Kogami would've had a larger lead.
It would've been the best way to buy some time.
But he didn't do it.
Mr. Kogami isn't the overconfident type.
In case he fails by some chance,
I think he would at least leave a clue so that someone can stop Makishima.
The question is, when will we notice that clue...
He's testing us...
...to see if we have the same or an even bigger tenacity than his
to pursue Makishima...
If you don't have that determination,
you'll be stranded here and get a late start.
Focus the scan on the wounds on his throat and both eyes.
Can you find something?
Something metal is detected inside the victim's airway.
Give me gloves.
H-Hey, leave it to forensics.
That will allow Mr. Kogami to buy some time.
If we want to catch up with him, we have to do it right here, right now.
Rinse it.
This is audio data.
This is Kogami, a former Enforcer.
This message is left for the MWPSB detectives who'll be here in a while.
That damn Kogami!
The victim is Nobuaki Kudama, a former Doctor of Agriculture.
He was in charge of a development team for the Uka-no-Mitama virus,
a disease countermeasure for hyper-oats.
He was considered to be the biggest contributor
to Japan's achievement of complete food self-sufficiency.
In order to totally destroy the granary in Hokuriku,
Shogo Makishima got some sort of idea from Professor Kudama and killed him.
He gouged out the eyeballs from the body
and cut all the fingers at their second joints.
They may be needed to break through some form of security.
A facility from the old days where the security equipment depended on
the old type biometric scans instead of cymatic scans...
The lab Kudama's research team was using at Izumo University is suspicious.
The lab is currently used as the control center for the Uka-no-Mitama virus.
I think that's Makishima's target.
Totally destroying a granary...
Bio-terrorism committed by a single person?!
Let's hurry. We should still be able to make it on time.
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
With you
I will stay with you
Hold me in your arms
Hold me as tight as you can
I could wish for anything
All alone with you
Well then... shall I get started?
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.