ikinuku tame ni kikonda
生き抜くために着込んだ
In order to survive
kimi dake ga mieru yoroi wa
君だけが見える鎧は
I donned an armour only you could see
mie to gaibun ni obieta
見栄と外聞に怯えた
I stood in fear of appearance and reputation
oroka no hate no genjitsu
愚かの果ての現実
And the realisation of a hopeless end
karada kishimu hodo dakishimete yo
身体軋むほど抱きしめてよ
Hold me tighter until my bones begin to crack
isso kowashitekureyo
いっそ壊してくれよ
Please, just break me apart
kara no ore no naka ni wa mata
殻の俺の中にはまた
Down to my next empty layer
nan no itami mo nai
何の痛みもない
It doesn't hurt at all
And my face gets smaller and smaller
sara ni chippoke na ore no kao da
さらにちっぽけな俺の顔だ
ne
ね
Hey
nige mo kakure mo shinai kara
逃げも隠れもしないから
I won't run or hide
koko kara dashitekure matoryoushika
ここから出してくれマトリョーシカ
So get me out of this Matryoshka
Southeast Asian Financial District
How do they look... the interest rates and stocks of the Asian countries?
If things really are as bad as they look, the Southeast Asian Financial District should follow shortly.
It's going bankrupt.
Huh?
Prepare the 「C」.
Is it true that if a financial district goes bankrupt, its country disappears?
I see... I suppose you did show up in the Far East Financial District,
following the Lehman Shock.
Well, I guess you can't blame us for not realising.
When you put it that way.
Are you familiar with the Caribbean Sea incident?
Huh? Um...
You mean... Hey! Seriously?!
Until the Lehman Shock, that area was all land...
...and on that land existed a country called the Caribbean Republic.
Following the South American Financial District's bankruptcy...
...the country disappeared.
For such a lively city to become like this...
Without the usual activity, businesses like this are as good as done for.
I suppose that means that this country has finally entered its dying days.
But, you know... it may be about time to start dealing in Yen.
And after that, though it's such a bother, dollars.
Or shall I start making deals by direct trade...
The country you were born into is in a state like this,
and all you can think about is currency exchange rates.
Well... it's not like I chose to be born here, so...
Any new information...?
Just one bit...
In the Starling Guild, there seems to be someone likely to defect.
If you can convince him, I'll pay you three times the usual... in dollars or direct trade.
Ah, that's right. Are you still interested in Yoga Kimimaro?
What is it?
It's about the asset that accompanies him...
...I can't help but feel I've seen her somewhere before.
And?
It seems to have something to do with Yoga's father, who he was taking interest in.
I'm not interested.
If he was taking interest in it, why not just tell him directly?
Ooh, what's this? Did I read her wrong?
Hanabi.
Ah, Kimimaro. What is it?
Ah... uh... How did your student teaching go?
Ah. It was difficult, but a lot of fun.
I see...
What is it?
Ah, sorry. It's nothing.
That's strange.
Kakuta?
My bad...
Ever since I started researching the financial district,
various pieces of statistical data have been continuously portraying...
...the future of humanity in negative numbers.
Don't mind it. It's part of the plan.
We've only entered the next stage... this isn't the end.
I-I'm so...
...sorry.
Ebara-sensei?
Ebara-sensei!
Ah, Yoga?
What's going on? Your face is pale.
What are you doing up here?
Oh, you know my children that were taken from me as collateral by the financial district?
I was thinking of taking them back.
Huh?
I've tried so many things so far.
I tried throwing away my fortune, hoping that I could exchange it for them.
I even obliterated my research data.
But nothing changed...
I understand.
I understand, so... for now... please, come this way.
And... if I do this, I'll lose the ability to even try anything else,
so I thought I'd save this as a last resort.
You're trying to bring them back by offering yourself in exchange?
No... that's a lie.
I probably just wanted to free myself.
When I lost to you in that deal in the financial district,
I was terrified of what horrible destruction awaited me...
...and when I got home, my children were gone.
I was sorrowful, but...
...to tell you the truth, part of me was saying, "This is all?"
"If this is all it is, maybe I can win it back..."
But ever since then, I haven't been able to work up the willpower.
Even if I'm reading academic literature, nothing enters my brain.
I can't concentrate in the slightest.
If I consider it now, that man named Masakaki,
who said he was taking my future as collateral, was correct.
There's nothing that can be said about this feeling, other than that my future is lost.
There's still something you can do.
Hmm?
I'll go to the financial district and find a way... so don't...
Haha, you're quite the strange one.
I've been told that a lot lately.
Even though I've lived my whole life as an ordinary person.
It's because you made a move.
If you stand still, no one can tell if you're ordinary or strange.
What do you hope to achieve by coming here?
Starting now, I plan to use a large sum of Midas Money.
Huh?
From there, I plan to fight in a deal without any funds.
I may end up burdening you...
I don't even care any more.
You aren't angry?
You've got your own reason, as usual, right?
Then it's fine. I'm not against it.
So, what's the plan?
Masakaki!
Kimima-
Do you have business with me?
I had about three other methods I'd though about trying,
but I got a hold of you in just one.
Next time, could I ask you to try using a slightly "smaller" voice?
I get it.
Well then, how may I serve you on this fine day?
It's about Ebara Daisuke, an Entrepreneur that I caused to go bankrupt.
Yes?
I want you to return the future of his that you were holding as collateral.
In return, I'll put forth cash.
I'll pay 10 times, even 100 times the amount he had.
H-Hundred times?!
I see... you're certainly doing an interesting thing.
How much should I pay?
Unfortunately, there's no system in place for such a thing.
Why the hell not?
For the bank to make a 100 fold profit on their investment,
that's an unbelievable gain!
The reason isn't for me to understand.
Something above made that decision.
Then connect me to that something above.
That would be impossible.
Will that be all for your business today?
Hey! Let me talk to your superior!
Then, I'll be taking my leave.
A method for retrieving someone's future that was used as collateral, huh?
You'd know something about it, wouldn't you?
You're definitely right.
I've known a limitless number of people that have tried it,
though I never hear of any of them succeeding.
Ebara Daisuke.
Bankrupted by his duel with you.
Including an unborn foetus, his three children disappeared.
With things like this, isn't there a much quicker way to do it?
What is it?
Reparations!
When someone dies in a car accident, reparations are paid to the surviving family members.
Why not just give Ebara a million or two for each of his three children?
That doesn't seem right at all...
Eh?
...rather, it'd feel terrible... don't you think?
Huh? Ah...
Currency rates have risen in Singapore, and companies with business there...
...have seen their stock prices crash.
Yes. Without any relief measures planned as of yet,
looking onward, we'll see primary developed countries acting conservatively.
So the Southeast Asian Financial District is at its limit as well...
This is bad... It won't be long for this country.
Isurugi! Where's Isurugi?
Isn't he just late?
Sorry for being late. I ran into some trouble when leaving.
When that happens, contact us!
There are times when a difference of one minute messes up the whole plan.
Did Mikuni-san tell you that one?
What did you say?
At this point, I won't criticise you for being late.
I'll just ask for you to make up with it in your work.
I deeply apologise.
I will take it to heart.
The disturbance in the Southeast Asian Financial District...
...is much more severe than we expected.
We'll be shifting collections for the defence fund into the next stage.
Proceed in seizing the fortunes of all guild members,
and all Entrepreneurs outside of the guild. Take everything.
You don't care about what effect there'll be on the real world?
We're attempting a shock that will change the very thread of life of this country.
We can no longer make considerations for suffering.
These are our assignments.
Ooh! The top three strongest in the guild, aren't they?!
I want to fight with number 1!
And you?
Anyone.
Fine, then I'll take number 2.
Try not to overdo it. If you manage to make a grudge, it'll be a pain in the ass.
It's you that I'm worried about!
Uh... I'm looking for Ebara Daisuke-sensei...
Ah, he's at a funeral.
I heard it's being held in his home town in Hokkaidou.
A funeral?
Don't you know?
What is it you're talking about?
There was a death... a car accident.
Hanabi-sensei, are you well?
Thank you being our student teacher!
We all wrote you a letter together!
The week that you spent with us was so much fun!
Your method of teaching was very kind.
I wish you could have stayed longer.
By Kimura Yuuna, East Nagasaki Elementary.
Ebara-sensei was hit by a drunk driver...
...on top of that, the driver just didn't know when to let things be.
Even though Ebara-sensei said he was just standing at a red light, spacing out.
Here you go, don't lose it.
Yep!
Ah!
That's mine. Give it back.
Ah...
Thank you!
The world has been changing like this the whole time.
Little by little, out of our view.
What the hell? What the hell is going on?
Ah! If it isn't Yoga-san!
This is my first time meeting you here, isn't it.
This must be some sort of destiny.
How about it, why not buy one for the road?
You...
What is it?
Why are you working somewhere like this?
You're making plenty of money as an information gatherer, aren't you?
Do you really want money that badly?
I do! I want as much as possible!
Money... no matter how much you have...
People often misunderstand me... but what I want isn't money. It's trust.
If you have trust, you can get whatever amount of money you want.
Why is it that you buy my information?
Because it's necessary.
And the reason that you didn't doubt that information is why?
Because I was introduced to you by Mikuni-san.
That is trust.
Trust begets money.
That is why I want to attain the power to make people trust me.
The reason I'm gathering money is because people trust in money.
Then what do you think...
...about borrowing money with one's future as collateral?
To me, it is a very simple thing.
The future... money... Which is it that you can trust?
We haven't decided on a name yet.
Let's have Daddy think about it too.
I wonder what a good name is for a girl.
Mashyu.
You seem tired.
What are you doing?
Seriously?!
What a waste!
If you don't need it, give it to me!
You aren't going to complain? Putting all of this hard-earned money to waste.
You came here with the conviction to do this, didn't you?
It's fine.
I'm a bit surprised though.
I can't believe that something like this has a worth that's relative to someone's future.
It's only paper. It burns this easily.
So that's your conclusion.
More than something like this, I definitely prefer my future.
I can trust in my future more.
But even doing something like this, the financial district won't suffer any damage.
The thing giving that paper value is... trust.
Even if you incinerate the paper, the trust won't burn.
All the financial district has to do is print more Midas Money.
Trust...
If there's something you want to do, there isn't much time.
This country is already reaching its end.
Quite close, really.
What is it?
That person... What he was saying was correct, wasn't it?
That person?
Sennoza.
If all that's left is a future without possibility, there's no reason for the present to exist.
It's certainly false. Why do you ask that now?
Are you sure?
Whether it's lost, or whatever happens, the future itself is never lost.
Even if that future is miserable?
Certainly.
Then... what about everything you've been saying this whole time.
What you really meant by protecting the weak...
...was to sacrifice the people of a far-off future in order to save those in the present?
Doesn't that seem wrong to you?
Was what Sennoza said really a theory only for the strong?
Something feels a bit wrong about that to me...
If the now is lost, we will lose the future as well.
The now exists for the future!
What happened?
The area that the Southeast Asian Financial District will most likely destroy is...
...Singapore.
Huh?
It's beginning, huh?
How is the defence fund?
It seems like it'll just barely make it.
I've no more time to waste on words.
Decide... and act.
Deal with 「C」 as planned. I'll be returning now.
All right.
「C」... Southeast Asian Financial District...
Don't get it my way. Understood?
Just shut up and watch.
Southeast Asian Financial District
mado kara sotto esukeepu shite
I silently escape from my window
yoru no machi ga
and the nighttime city,
RPG ni kawaru
becomes an RPG
yajirushi ni sotte izanawareta
Following an arrow marker, I'm being led
iromeku sekai
to a world brimming with colour
hajimari no aizu hibiiteiru
A sign that something is beginning can be heard
karadajuu koikogareru
and my whole body begins to yearn
kimi ni aitakute hashirinuketeku
I break into a run, wishing to see you
yami wo tobikoete
and break through the darkness
kuraimakkusu nante
It doesn't matter
konakutatte
If we reach a climax
ichi ka bachi ka no kiken na kake datte ii sa
I'd even take a high-stakes bet
ki wo hiite
Anything to get your attention
kimi ni ima hamacchaitainda
I want to think only of you
sekaijuu wo azamuitemo ii
I'd turn my back on the entire world
ima sugu te wo hiite
Take my hand now
A or B ja nai ya
It's not a choice of A or B
rikutsu ja nai ya
It's not something to reason about
sekaijuu no subete no nazo yori
More so than all the mysteries of the world
shiritai kimi no kokoro wo
I want to know your heart