================================================================================ serial experiments lain layer:04 "RELIGION" http://lain.angelic-trust.net ================================================================================ Lain was absorbed in altering the Navi with "psyche". Outside of the room, wired and real world began to mix together. ================================================================================ Voice: I don't need parents. Voice: Every human is alone.. Voice: And is connected to nobody. Title: RELIGION Layer:04 Mother: How about her? Mika: Lain is strange. She was strange by nature, but... Father: No, she's not strange. Mika: Huh? What do you mean? Mother: Mika, be careful in your word to your father. Mother: Is it so? Father: Yes. HighSchoolBoy: What? What is it? HighSchoolBoy: Shit! Shit!... What? HighSchoolBoy: Shit! Shit! LittleGirl: Gotcha! adult female voice: Julie: We're lucky. Next class is a study hour. Reika: It's strange that it's a extraordinary staff meeting. Alice: Is it true? Reika: what's that? Alice: I've heard that somebody in high school of this school killed herself. Julie: Suicide? Lain: Sorry, What? Reika: You wouldn't know it. Lain: About suicide? Reika: Do you know it about the suicide? Really? Lain: I only heard it from someone. Alice: Where did you hear it? Lain: Wired. Alice: You got used to your new navi. Could you show us later? Lain: Sure. But now, I'm altering it a little. Julie: Altering? Did you have so much interest in hacking? Reika: You look changed a little.. Lain: Do you think so? Julie: Really? Reika: You look changed in some way. Alice: Then, what does the rumor say in the wired? Lain: I've heard that it's a game. Reika: Game? Is it a network game? Lain: I'm not certain, because I don't play it. Lain: But I've heard that all of the dead kids were hooked on it. Julie: Boys like such a thing. Alice: Game... But why? Lain: I'm not sure. But .. Reika: Don't eat so quickly. You got stuck. Lain: May I go back to home now? Reika: You don't need our permission. Julie: But why? Lain: I want to build up my navi soon. I didn't still completed it. Julie: You prefer a machine to friends. Alice: Julie! Alice: Lain, Show it to us when you complete it. Lain: Sorry, Bye. Alice: Certainly, she has been changing. Alice: Sorry. Here. LittleGirl: No, It's my fault. I'm sorry. Lain: Login. Navi: Authorize. Navi: Voice mail. Man's Voice: Hi, Lain. Man's Voice: As I can't answer your question, I asked my friend in my laboratory. Man's Voice: If you really have a psyche processor, Man's Voice: You have to set the oscillator to the "Variable" mode as you thought. Man's Voice: Almost all of the parts of the Navi around is up to the standard. Man's Voice: But, there still are a little difference. Man's Voice: I hope your success. Ask me when you need again. Bye. Lain: JJ! Do you know about the game which brats are hooked on? JJ: Yes, it's "PHANTOMa". Skip it. It's not for adult like you. JJ: Aren't you, Lain? JJ: Really? It seems that I became to mishear. Boy: I stopped it. I have nothing to do. Boy: Here is not wired. Why? Lain: Wait! Don't run! Boy: Who are you? Boy: Are you also a "PK"? Help me! Lain: I can't go to your place. Boy: What is it? Boy: Don't make fun of me! Boy: Bullet charge! Gauge 5! Boy: Die! Die! Die! Die! Boy: Die! Die! Die! Boy: I was only frightened. Boy: I didn't notice that it was just a little girl. Boy: It was not my fault. Because I knew nothing. Boy: PHANTOMa is a game to battle each other through the wired. Boy: I downloaded the client of it from an illegal server, and played. Boy: It looked like a action game in a dungeon. Boy: I wonder why, but it was connected to the tag game for little kids. Boy: It was not my fault. Navi: A mail has arrived. Lain: Open it. Man's Voice: Hi, Lain. I didn't expect that you get interest in PHANTOMa. Man's Voice: Yes, I investigated. But it is not certain. Man's Voice: It is a very common style game in the wired. Man's Voice: But the problem is the function of connecting to other programs. Man's Voice: It seems that there is a strange "hole" in the protocol. Man's Voice: We guess that it was made by "Knights". Lain: Knights... Father: Lain, you look used to communicate in the wired very much. Lain: Yes. Father: Let me give you a warning. Lain: What? Father: Wired is just for sending and receiving informations and for Father: communications. Father: You must not mix up with the real world. Father: Can you understand my warning? Lain: No, it's not. Lain: The border seems not so plain. Lain: Soon, I can enter inside. Lain: And it will "metaphorize" all of me with "full motion and full range". Father: Even by the newest model, it's impossible by a commercial navi. Lain: I can. Because I altered it. Father: Is it Psyche processor? But... Lain: Don't worry. I am myself. literal translation: Father: I doubt it. Woman's Voice: I was waiting for you for a long time. Why? Why didn't you come? Man's Voice: ... seems not Japanese.: Woman's Voice: This is a fortune ... If you get... you will get many luck. Man's Voice: As a result, Knights is not a real group. Man's Voice: But It does a thought control in the wired. Man's Voice: So to speak, Knights rules like a religion in the wired. Boy's Voice: If you love someone more than I, I'll give up you. But, if... Man's Voice: ... seems not Japanese.: Girl's Voice: ... Believe me, I was followed by someone... Girl's Voice: Lain, Why don't you come here quickly? Lain: Go away. Lain: Go away! Navi: Intruder. Interrupted.