Occultic;Nine

Narusawa...

You are...

I'll explain everything.

What I'm going to talk about right now, if you think normally, will be very occultic.

But, I'd still like you to listen.

Um, I'm sorry. Narusawa, you—

Right. There's something different about you.

Oh, um, this Ryo-tas isn't Ryo-tas and stuff...

What I'm going to talk about now is just that.

Right now, the person who is speaking at moment,

is an astral body that has possessed Ryoka Narusawa's body.

Astral body? Like the stuff in Professor Hashigami's papers...

Charged particles with memories.

In other words, something like a ghost just like us.

Exactly. My true identity is the astral body possessing Ryoka Narusawa's body...

Aveline Narusawa Tesla.

T-Tesla, you say?

Ascension! By Tesla, can it mean you're...

Nikola Tesla's daughter. I wasn't officially on the record books.

What you'd call an illegitimate child...

The one from the photograph!

So there is no mistake that this is you?

Right...

This is me.

This is me when I was a beautiful girl.

Oh, it's the first time you guys are meeting her, right?

But Zonko is always like this, so...

- Zonko? - The one you talked about?

Yeah!

I mentioned how the Sky Sensor talked, right?

That was all Zonko, or rather, Aveline here.

This photograph was in my father's laboratory.

Together with the materials concerning Ryoka and the Narusawa conglomerate.

After the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923,

Father secretly came to Japan to help with restoration and development.

The Narusawa conglomerate helped him with funding.

NARU

And he fell in love with the daughter of the conglomerate, Eiko Narusawa.

That was how I was born.

So that means you're half-Japanese?

Right.

I stayed in Japan and grew up to take over my father's work.

So you're a scientist and an engineer, too.

I didn't do much compared to the great achievements of my father, though.

However, I found an expansion in one part of my father's theory.

And that is?

Communicating with the spirit realm.

Communicating with the spirit realm?

Father was feverishly researching the communication with the spirit realm

in his late years.

I believe Edison was the same way, as well.

E-Edison?

Amazing. The interests of geniuses all head towards the spirit realm?

Well, because of that stupid Edison, Father had a really bad time!

Oh! It's irritating!

"That stupid Edison"...

My father had figured out that ghosts were astral bodies.

And later,

I was able to pinpoint the relationship between astral bodies and radio waves.

That is the theory of communication with spirits.

Radio waves... Like the ones we use to listen to the radio?

Right. A simple query would be...

"Why can't ghosts, after they die, be seen or be contacted by living humans?"

If they exist as charged particles with human memory and personality recordings,

observing them should be possible.

I see... Frequencies!

Nothing less from you!

Sarai-kyun is a genius!

I-I'm sorry. I've been living with Ryoka's character for a long time.

It's a habit now.

So, in other words,

from when you're protected by the container called your physical body,

and when you're an astral body separate from your physical body,

the frequencies of the radio waves are different.

For instance...

If my living self were to walk from here to there...

This is the living. The absolute time for the living.

And now...

in the case of the astral body after death...

Yes!

So, it's like this...

Normally, the brain gives the signal to walk,

and that electric signal gets relayed by the nerves to the muscles which move.

But after you die, there is no object called the physical body,

so the electric signals create tremendous speed.

Wh-What does that have to do with radio waves?

She is setting up a theory...

using the difference in radio wave frequency spectrum with the length of time.

If attuned to the living side, you can only communicate with the living.

On the other hand, if you tune in to the frequency of the other side,

communication with the living stops,

allowing you to communicate only with the dead.

I see.

So it's like how you can't listen to programs from two different radio stations at once.

This is so hard!

I see. So that's why they call it the spirit realm.

In the same world, right here on Earth, both of them exist.

But each of them is at a different frequency, so you can't observe the other.

There's a world that living people can communicate with each other,

and a world where only ghosts can communicate with each other.

In other words, a different world... And that is the spirit realm!

But isn't it kinda weird?

If that's the case, why can we see the people who are still alive?

You're right.

That's what connects you to this incident.

Victims of the 256 Incident are experimental ghosts

forced to attune to the same frequency as the living.

This is the sanctuary that will guide our business to success.

Correct. This is...

Odd Eye.

The ruins of an air force base...

No one will know that it communicates with the spirit realm.

Are the electromagnetic waves still radiating from here?

Of course.

We're radiating out to the 256 first generation scandium spirit bodies,

and we're adjusting them to the same frequency as us living souls.

The second generation with the scandium won't be experimental samples.

Correct. After the administration of our emperor's death and rebirth,

we'll shift to the second generation and so forth.

How is it?

Yes, I see no big problems as of yet.

Then, what about little problems?

Th-That bug factor sometimes reaches abnormal electromagnetic levels.

Bring it up on the monitor.

YUTA GAMON

This Orphan Receptor again?

What do you mean?

It seems that he has some sort of special receptor.

With the fixation of scandium,

this individual ended up having a stronger electromagnetic force than other people.

A kid like this, huh?

Are you dealing with it?

Miss Ryoka is dealing with it.

Wha...

She has the Wardenclyffe Gun just for that reason.

She's gaining the experiment sample's electromagnetic force adjustment data.

In either case, to lose that boot key...

Mr. Hatoyama, you should mind your language.

Well, it's all right if we can get that ready before our emperor's life comes to an end.

We have, what, a few more months?

Actually... our emperor's life expectancy...

is roughly one more day or so.

Kouhei Izumi, is it?

Oh, I have a customer?

Come in, I'll open up right now.

I heard this shop closed down two years ago and is currently empty.

That's right. It was such a lovely shop, so it was such a waste.

I took over, and I'm acting as the manager now.

I asked the Health Office, but in the two years since the shop closed down,

there have been no records of a foodservice operations permit request.

I see. Anyway, wanna talk inside for now?

Odd Eye...

The ruins of a U.S. air force base in Fuchu had turned into such a facility?

Tokuo Narusawa... He sure came up with some ridiculous plans!

It's horrible that they're turning people's deaths into business!

Narusawa...

No, Aveline... What's your objective?

That is...

Izumin!

Oh?

You're...

You are...

Ryoka Narusawa!

Ryo-tas! You were here, too?

Freeze! All of you!

Hold on, what's this all of a sudden? So dangerous with guns and stuff!

Izumin...

There's something I want to ask you.

You're threatening me with a gun, so I guess I can't refuse!

Wh-What's with you, too? That thing is dangerous, so put it away!

Kouhei Izumi, who do you see in this room right now?

What? Me, you, and Ryo-tas. So?

Then, do you know of a boy named Yuta Gamon?

Huh? Who's that?

Wait, Manager, what are you talking about?

I've been here like almost every day!

I've only been ordering water, but I even drank one of those pukey-horrible drinks!

You really don't know? He wears a duffel coat and slings a bag diagonally across.

Right, right! And his face is pretty hand—

Average face, slightly timid kind of boy. Not too tall.

That's not true, right?

I said I don't know—

Come on, what are you doing?

I-I'm sorry, but the gun—

You just stay quiet now!

Who did you speak to just now?

Right now, you and I are the only ones having a conversation.

Yet, you spoke with Gamon who tripped the chair over, didn't you?

I realize it's a bit unfair, but I can see Gamon, as well.

Better luck next time.

Amazing...

Each and every one of you... I can't take it!

I-Izumin?

Jeez, all you brats are so rowdy...

- All of you, begone! - You can't!

Ryo-tas?

Miss Ryoka... why are you getting in our way?

Did he say Miss Ryoka? Wh-What's the meaning of all this?

G-Gamotan... Hurry up and run!

That's a special ceremonial streamer that eradicates spirit bodies!