— Hey, take off your clothes!
— Huh?! Wh-What're you thinking about? Here, of all places!
— Just give them to me.
— Are you insane?! Have you totally lost it or what?!
— If you wanna survive, just do what I say!
— I can't believe a perv like you is with the Bureau! Wh-Whaddaya think you're looking at?!
— Don't you usually wear matching underwear?
— That's... What? How did this...
— Give me your underwear too.
— L-Look the other way!
— I see. The last item needed to beat the game was hidden on you. Here's the antenna for the transponder.
Today's generation isn't tolerant against stress, so they're susceptible to violent impulses and obsessive compulsions.
Let me quote a little more from Max Weber. Bureaucratic administration dominates the people through knowledge. Technical knowledge and practical knowledge. Keeping that knowledge increases their superiority.
If I were to borrow Max Weber's words, ideal bureaucrats are those who intently perform their duty without anger or fondness, without hate or zeal, and without love or personal predilection.
Perhaps it really is the fate of artists to be struck by such inspiration.
The energy that comes from the thrill of the hunt... It's a dangerous reward that goes hand in hand with death, isn't it?
Do you know the most demeaning thing you can do to the law that we should respect? Creating and administering a law that is unworthy of protection. You shouldn't underestimate humans.
In order to establish an absolute system, it is necessary to reject relative valuations such as "good" or "evil."
— Do you and Kougami want to be heroes that badly?!
— It's not about justice. It's an obsession. Even though you know there are other, wiser ways to live, you feel that if you turn your back on everything you've worked toward, it's like admitting you lived a lie. <...> This is because of our pride as men.
Is it really a "system"? Or more like a huge prison? The Panopticon... A facility that allows you to observe everyone at once. Sibyl is its worst possible form. You can control the maximum number of prisoners with the minimum number of guards.
— By the way, what would you say is the definition of anarchism?
— It's a denial of government and authority, but different from flat-out chaos and disorder.
— That's right. It's about denying an inhuman control system and building a more human system.
In this era, the System determines everyone's aptitudes and we all have no choice but to live by it and be satisfied with whatever "happiness" is forced upon us as we are unable to make our real dreams come true.
To understand Kougami means to think the way he does. To see the world through his eyes. <...> "When you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you." Kougami stared into the darkness for too long. And he's still staring into it even now. Maybe for him, the only true justice in the world exists solely in the depths of that darkness.
— Oh, there's our man. On the right, hiding behind the front column.
— But... How can you tell without even using a scanner?
— A beast can sniff out another beast's scent.
Do you think that's irrational? But you know, our line of work is full of things that don't make sense. What a person thinks or what he hopes for... We're in a time where everything in the human mind can be read by machines. And yet there are still people who would hate, fool, and try to harm others. If that's not irrational, then what is?
