Ghost in the Shell Arise: Border 2 - Ghost Whisper Page #3

would be the world's puppet state.

It doesn't even bear discussing!

We'll never give in to that demand!

Are you speaking on behalf of Home Affairs?

N-No! But...

Colonel Kazuya Soga?

He commanded an op in Qhardistan

that won him high praise.

Then he was accused of conducting

a massacre during the op

and convicted as a war criminal.

He's currently in custody.

A hero during the war, and

a criminal afterward.

And Soga's sympathizers are using

the module to seek his release?

Major...

She's an informant. I brought

her in on a provisional basis.

What exactly is this "module"?

It creates processing power on

the level of a giant nationwide system.

They must have used it to parallelize

something low-capacity in huge quantities.

Your opinion?

I agree with Major Kusanagi.

And is your objective

to retrieve the module?

Or destroy it.

The most effective method is to use

the code I evacuated into your Al

from somewhere free of enemy interference.

Why was it stolen in the first place?

The module was a model brought here for

top-secret standards sharing with Japan.

I take it your colleagues are making a

top-secret investigation of the theft?

I'll leave that to your imagination.

Along with how you pinpointed

the enemy's smuggling point?

Both issues are the purview of the

Administrative Vice-Minister of Defense,

but he didn't mention them

when I spoke to him just now.

Evidently somethings being hushed up.

Another reason I want you

to tel! the Ministry of Home Affairs

to give my squad top priority.

Since when do you have a squad?!

I'm about to form one. Based on skill,

with no ranks, and given top priority.

Bad plan! Special forces

teams aren't mercenaries!

If you take advantage of

a disaster for your own gain,

the defense world will

treat you like a vulture!

I'm not interested in teams out for money

or ministry bigwigs gunning

for postwar concessions.

Tel! me this:
How are the

Home Affairs higher-ups?

Having themselves an "elite panic"

with the Ministry of Defense.

They're afraid the public

will panic if word gets out,

so other than a few of my units,

they won't order anyone to act.

We're the only ones who can act right now.

A team formed on a fixed standard that

will be necessary everywhere in every age.

So it's finally taking off.

Whoops, survived again.

Playing Russian roulette

in a virtual reality?

Do you reproduce the sensation of the

bullet penetrating your cranium, too'?

You've got a sickness.

Kusanagi from the 501!

When did you sneak in here?!

I'm independent. The op in Qhardistan,

the American Army module, and Soga...

Tell me what you know, or take

a real-life bullet. Your choice.

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