Vital Page #4

I'll be back soon.

You'll see me soon.

No! No! Don't go!

Hello. Mr. Hlroshl Takagi?

Yes.

This Is the police station.

We have a young woman here...

She won't tell us anythlng,

not even her name.

All she gave us was your name

and phone number.

I'm sorry we had to call so late.

You are Mr. Takagi?

So, you turned up.

What's got into you?

Why are you chasing a dead woman?

What about those of us still living?

All your happy, false memories.

What chance do I have against all those?

Mr. Takagi.

Please, Mr. Takagi.

Please, step back!

Be careful!

Mr. Takagi!

Look out!

I'm confused about "time".

What is my consciousness?

Is it like the story of the

future robots?

That's it.

People programmed robots

with their memories.

After that...

...all the humans died out.

A robot was stranded on Mars.

Bef ore the end there was a huge,

electrical memory surge.

So, me being here,

and the times when I meet Ryoko...

...it's like the robot is showing me.

An electrical broadcast of

my final moments.

Hiroshi.

It's because your memory is returning.

They're memories.

As f or Ryoko.

Well, she's gone now.

No, that's wrong.

They aren't memories.

It's not as clear-cut as that.

I think...

No good to think too much about her.

And the dissection.

You should stop doing it.

No way.

You've done your best.

But it's time to give up.

No!

I don't care what you say.

I'll tell Dr. Kashiwabuchi

to take Ryoko's body away.

You do that, and I'll kill you.

I wanted to think you had killed her.

But the light had gone from her eyes

long bef ore that.

It was when she was in high school.

She was fine before then.

Why did she lose it, I wonder.

Even we didn't know.

And we'll never know now.

I only saw the light one other time.

Just after the accident.

It was after the operation

at the local hospital.

Your dad suggested she be moved

to the university hospital.

That was it.

She was fully conscious

f or 5 or 6 hours.

It was then she mentioned

leaving her body to science.

After she died...

...her body should be tak en to

the university hospital, she told.

I've never seen her so serious.

But that wasn't easy to accept f or me.

No way.

Why should she want to inflict

more wounds, even after she died?

I couldn't understand why

she wanted this.

How could I agree to that when she

was still there, alive, in front of me?

Soon after that she lost consciousness.

A vegetable, according to the doctor.

She was moved to a private room.

My wif e and I were beside her.

It f eels like a dream now.

Just when I thought "It's all over"...

I saw Ryoko sitting up in bed.

I thought she had recovered.

My wif e was asleep.

I saw the curtain at the window.

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