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- Michi Kudo: Have you finished working on that disc?
- Taguchi: Yes, it should be somewhere in that pile.
- Michi Kudo: You okay? Are you sick?
- Taguchi: No.
- Michi Kudo: What have you been up to all on your lonesome? We're friends.
- Taguchi: Yeah... stuff... help yourself to the disc.
- Ghost: Death was... eternal loneliness.
- Junko Sasano: It's so upsetting, I don't know what he was so depressed about. He never said anything, so what could we have done?
- Toshio Yabe: Maybe he just suddenly wanted to die. I get that way sometimes. It's so easy to hang yourself.
- Ryosuke Kawashima: What's this?
- Harue Karasawa: That? Something we programmed here. If two dots get too close, they die, but if they get too far apart, they're drawn closer.
- Ryosuke Kawashima: Huh... what's it for?
- Harue Karasawa: A miniature model of our world... but only the grad student who designed it understands it.
- Harue Karasawa: I've always wondered what it was like to die, from when I was really little. I was always alone.
- Ryosuke Kawashima: Any parents or family?
- Harue Karasawa: Sure, but they're irrelevant.
- Ryosuke Kawashima: Right.
- Harue Karasawa: That after death, you live happily with everyone over there.
- Ryosuke Kawashima: Can we stop talking about this?
- Harue Karasawa: But it may be true.
- Ryosuke Kawashima: Sure, but...
- Harue Karasawa: Then in high school it dawned on me, you might be all alone after death, too.
- Ryosuke Kawashima: There's no way to know, how could you know?
- Harue Karasawa: The idea was so terrifying, I couldn't even bear it, that nothing changes with death, just right now, forever. Is that what becoming a ghost is about?
- Harue Karasawa: Ghosts won't kill people... because that would just make more ghosts. Isn't that right? Instead, they'll try to make people immortal by quietly trapping them in their own loneliness.
- Boss: Words said in friendship with the best of intentions always wind up hurting your friends and then you wind up getting hurt. Is friendship always that way? If that's so, what's left? If I were you, who needs friends like that? A courageous choice in itself.
- Ryosuke Kawashima: Just maybe in 10 years, or at least while we're still alive, they'll invent a drug that prevents death. Then, we could live forever and ever. Of course you might say I'm crazy, but I'd rather bet on *that*.
- Yoshizaki: The spirit, or consciousness, the soul, whatever you want to call it, it turns out the realm they inhabit has a finite capacity. Whether that capacity accommodates billions or trillions, eventually it will run out of space. Once it's overflowed to the brim, it's got to overflow somehow, somewhere, but where? The souls have no choices but to ooze into another realm, that is to say, our world. Maybe at first it started with something really simple, once that realm reached critical mass, any device would've sufficed, thrown together with the means and materials at hand. That's how I see it.
- Harue Karasawa: What got you started on the Internet?
- Ryosuke Kawashima: Nothing in particular.
- Harue Karasawa: You don't like computers.
- Ryosuke Kawashima: Not really.
- Harue Karasawa: Wanted to connect with other people?
- Ryosuke Kawashima: Maybe, I don't know. Everybody else is into it.
- Harue Karasawa: People don't really connect, you know?
- Ryosuke Kawashima: What?
- Harue Karasawa: Like those dots simulating humans. We all live totally separately. That's how it seems to me.
- Ryosuke Kawashima: [reading a book about phantoms] "Everyone dies; therefore, there's no logical reason for ghosts not to exist. How many ghosts have existed since prehistoric times?"
- Ryosuke Kawashima: What have ghosts to do with us? Besides, we're alive.
- Harue Karasawa: Then who are they?
- [turns on the monitors]
- Harue Karasawa: Are they really alive? How are they different from ghosts?
- [pause]
- Harue Karasawa: In fact, ghosts and people are the same, whether they're dead or alive.
- Ryosuke Kawashima: It's not right, it's wrong. They're all crazy! Nobody knows what happens when you die, all this about ghosts, but I won't believe in them, even if I see one.
- Michi Kudo: Still no answer at Taguchi's?
- Junko Sasano: No.
- Michi Kudo: It's been over a week, he must have his reasons.
- Junko Sasano: It shouldn't take a week to work on that disc.
- Michi Kudo: No, something's wrong. Maybe I should see if he's okay.
- Junko Sasano: I just got the creeps.
- Michi Kudo: What?
- Junko Sasano: I don't know, I just feel like something's wrong. Like something's horribly wrong.
- Ryosuke Kawashima: [reads an instruction manual] Welcome to the Internet.
- [gets on the computer]
- Ryosuke Kawashima: "Have fun". Okay, I'll have fun.
- Junko Sasano: It was Taguchi, wasn't it?
- Toshio Yabe: Sure seems like it.
- Junko Sasano: What's going on?
- Toshio Yabe: Maybe something strange is going on.
- Michi Kudo: Strange?
- Toshio Yabe: I don't know.
- Junko Sasano: I don't even care anymore.
- Toshio Yabe: Something's definitely not right.
- Michi's mother: Have you called your father?
- Michi Kudo: Nope.
- Michi's mother: I see, but what if you get in trouble? I can't rush over. It's awkward for me to see him, but you should.
- Michi Kudo: Forget it, he's out of the picture.
- Ryosuke Kawashima: Can a computer dial you up itself?
- Yoshizaki: Are you in computer science?
- Ryosuke Kawashima: No, economics, no relation.
- Yoshizaki: Huh, sounds like a hacker.
- Ryosuke Kawashima: A hacker, huh... it said "Do you want to meet a ghost?" Some web site like that.
- Yoshizaki: A ghost, huh?
- Toshio Yabe: Say, would you take a look?
- Junko Sasano: At what?
- Toshio Yabe: At Taguchi's disc.
- Junko Sasano: What's that?
- Michi Kudo: It's Taguchi's place.
- Junko Sasano: Is that Taguchi?
- Toshio Yabe: Yeah, I think so, look.
- Junko Sasano: [sees the same image on the monitor of Taguchi's computer in the image] What's going on? Isn't that the same scene?
- Toshio Yabe: I can't tell.
- Michi Kudo: Hold on.
- [points to the screen]
- Michi Kudo: That's a face, a reflection.
- Michi Kudo: Have you finished working on that disc?
- Taguchi: Yes, it should be somewhere in that pile.
- Michi Kudo: You okay? Are you sick?
- Taguchi: No.
- Michi Kudo: What have you been up to all on your lonesome? We're friends.
- Taguchi: Yeah... stuff... help yourself to the disc.
- Toshio Yabe: I saw a face.
- Michi Kudo: What?
- Toshio Yabe: A really horrible face. I've never seen anything like it.
- Michi Kudo: What are you saying? What did you see?
- Toshio Yabe: The Forbidden Room.
- Michi Kudo: The Forbidden Room? What's that? Is that the room with the red tape?
- Toshio Yabe: Don't you dare go in there!
- Michi Kudo: I'm fine, I got my friends.
- Yoshizaki: You sure? I guess you'll be all right then. You're so trusting and get carried away.
- Yoshizaki: But, if this really happened, there's no turning back. No matter how simple the device, once the system's complete, it'll function all on its own and become permanent. In other words, the passage is now open, that's how it looks.
- Doroningen: Tokyo: Missing - Sakai Mitsuo, Tokyo: Missing - Yamazaki Naoko, Kanagawa: Missing - Hirayama Michio, Kanagawa: Missing - Kauahara Takumi, Saitama: Missing - Tomioka Shigeki, Tokyo: Missing - Yoshida Tomoko, Tokyo: Missing - Nakajima Kumi, Kanagawa: Missing - Kitaoka Eri, Tokyo: Missing - Fukuda Tatsuya.
- Junko Sasano: Michi, am I just going to die like this?
- Michi Kudo: No.
- Junko Sasano: Of course not... I'll just go on living like this... all alone.
- Yoshizaki: Through that process, it spread around the world. But now, they're no longer the faint presence they began as. You saw one yourself.
- Ryosuke Kawashima: I don't believe your stories.
- Yoshizaki: Right, sorry, it's all hypothetical.
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