ChäoS;Child (カオスチャイルド)

Those eyes? Whose are they?

Those eyes? Whose are they? Those eyes? Whose are they?

Those eyes? Whose are they?

Takumi Nishijo, huh?

Last night, sometime after 11 PM,

five people jumped off Cornelius Tower in Shibuya.

It was later reported that all five died on impact.

They say all five of them held hands

when they jumped.

Seriously?

-- A group suicide? -- Bet it felt good.

I bet it was like base jumping.

"I can fly!"

A group dive to kill yourself?

Wow, that's a new one.

Extreme suicide!

I bet they were high on something,

like the building they jumped off!

Let's call it "The New Generation Suicide."

Another bloody incident in Shibuya!

The body they found under the bridge? Tell me more!

How gruesome.

There was a dead fetus, inside the man's stomach.

Men can get pregnant too, these days, huh?

The body was a man's. I repeat, the body was a man's.

During the autopsy, they found a dead fetus inside.

Bet they didn't see that one coming!

That's murder, right?

Does that mean the killer opened up the guy's stomach

and stuck the fetus inside?

-- I threw up. -- Extreme murder!

New Generation Murder!

It's the New Generation Madness!

Shibuya's scary!

Crazy.

If more stuff happens,

the whole country will be talking about it.

Let 'em talk! This is just the beginning!

Kinda having second thoughts

about living alone in Shibuya right now.

I don't belong here anyway.

Just a buncha normies and couples and trendy people

and they should just burn the whole place down!

Heh. That'll teach 'em.

Stop looking at me.

F-u-n? What kind of equation is that?

What's this?

That's the image from the General's link.

Oh, hello. I've been waiting for you, Taku.

She saw my face.

She looked at me and called me by my name.

Taku, what gives? Open up! It's your sister!

So you're still alive after all!

Oh, Nanami. It's just you.

How can you be so rude?

And I came all this way just to check on you!

Well, I'm busy right now. So leave me alone!

Hey! Wait!

Uh, Doctor,

can people start sleepwalking, like, all of a sudden?

When someone is under severe psychological stress,

yes, they may develop that behavior.

My recommendation is that you spend the night at the hospital

and let us monitor you.

Just relax and sleep normally.

We'll wake you up in the morning.

Mr. Nishijo?

Rise and shine, sir!

You slept like a baby for over three hours.

We saw no signs of a sleepwalking condition at all.

Who wrote that?

It must be him.

Damn it! He knows something!

That bastard! What is this?

What? No.

No! No!

What the hell am I doing there?

And how did he get this a day before the murder?

This doesn't make sense.

What'cha lookin' at?

Hey, what's wrong?

Please, I'm begging you, just let me live!

Is that a joke? Why would you say something like that to me?

B-Because I saw it. I saw you.

In that alleyway with the corpse and the crosses

and the blood and everything, and I just--

Jeez, do you accuse everyone who stops by

of murder or just me?

She knows my name. Why does she know my name?

Of course I know.

Why wouldn't I know the name of my friend?

C'mon, we've known each other forever, right?

I don't... remember.

Is she crazy or am I crazy?

Don't hurt my feelings. No way you forgot who I am.

You have to know my name.

Don't play dumb. Just say it already.

Uh. Rimi?

See? There ya go!

What a relief! You were really scaring me for a second!

It just came out.

I don't get it. I swear I've never met her before.

Who are you?

Someone who has been "gathered."

Huh?

If you want freedom,

you must doubt this world and understand its mechanisms.

Everything is an electrical device, even us.

All humans receive information from outside themselves

using a combination of their five senses,

but about 80% of that information comes from sight.

The images we pick up become pulse signals or electricity

and are sent to the brain through the optical nerve.

Nerve impulses are essentially just electronic signals.

So with the right technology,

you could send artificial image data to someone's brain

and reshape their world.

They've already found a way to do something like that

in the US, y'know.

That means that the world as we know it,

yes, even human will itself,

can be controlled using a device.

It could be happening as we speak.

"Suspicious Death of Man in Shibuya.

The 5th New Gen Incident?

On the streets of Shibuya, just before dawn on the 23rd,

a psychiatrist from AH Tokyo General Hospital was killed."

The victim's a doctor?

"Fumio Takashina, 41 years old.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department determined

that the official cause of death was malnutrition,

despite the fact that the top of Mr. Takashina's head

had been cleanly removed from his body.

Even more odd, his brain was completely missing.

Experts say that he may have been kept alive

in this state for some time,

similar to a patient who has suffered brain death."

This is a message.

He's coming for me next!

The General's gonna kill me, just like the rest!

Help me. Somebody please help me!

I don't wanna die!

Why is this happening to me? It's not fair!

What the hell is this?

I'm in Shibuya, right? Where is everyone?

No, this is a dream!