Pluto Volume 2 Act. 10 Heracles - Page 55 - [Central Asia, Persian Kingdom] - Page 56 - [Its people were suppressed under a dictatorship system,] [and robots mistreated in ways that fell far from the standards of the United Nations' Robotic Rights Treaty...] [Ruled by a man who claimed to be the legitimate successor to the ancient Persian Dynasty...] [An absolute monarch who controlled all matters political, economic and military...] - Page 57 - [King Darius XIV.] [He used overwhelming military power to invade the neighboring countries...] - Page 58 - [In an attempt to seize all of Central Asia...] [Meanwhile, President Alexander of the United States of Thracia, assuming control of the other world leaders,] [expressed his concerns over the Kingdom of Persia's formidable robot army...] [And appealed for the UN to create a ban on manufacturing robots of mass destruction.] - Page 59 - [Once the treaty was forged,] [President Alexander accused Persia of secretly developing mass-destructive robots.] [The UN sent a group of inspectors to the Kingdom of Persia.] [It was called the "Bora Investigation Squad"...] Machine: (pshhhh) (vwiiin) Ochanomizu: Bora... I had no idea... what Bora stood for... if it was a nickname or something else entirely... - Page 60 - Ochanomizu: And yet I was included... among the members of the squad... Act. 10 : Heracles - Page 61 - [Ministry of Science, Tokyo City] Atom: It was a marsh... By the time we entered as peacekeepers, the country had been leveled to ashes... Children who had lost their parents... Horribly wounded children, screaming... Ochanomizu: Oh, Atom... Atom: Professor Ochanomizu... Ochanomizu: Yes? - Page 62 - Atom: And this "Bora"...? Ochanomizu: Nope... Never found it. We never found the robots of mass destruction the United States of Thracia talked about... Atom: Then what was the proof that the UST cited...? Ochanomizu: There was a genius... Atom: Genius...? Ochanomizu: The reason why Persia had such a powerful robotic military... was the genius scientist they had working for them... - Page 63 - Ochanomizu: Nicknamed "Professor Goji"... We don't know his name... and his face hasn't been made public... It was impossible to say whether such a man really existed or not... That's all we could say after investigating... However... There was the one place we found... Atom: What place...? Ochanomizu: Deep underneath an old mosque... What did it mean...? - Pages 64 & 65 - Ochanomizu: That endless number of robot corpses... - Page 66 - Ochanomizu: Persia claimed it was simply a dumping ground for non-functional robots... And then... The war began... - Page 67 - - Page 68 - Announcer: A double wrist-lock! Is this the end?! Robots: (gshhh) Audience: Break it, Heracles!! Rip its whole arm off!! Break it!! Rip it off!! Robots: (bzzt)(bzzt) (bzzzt)(snap) - Page 69 - Announcer: Our champion wins again!! The world title-holder defends his crown with another perfect match!! Bell: (clang clang clang clang) Announcer: Heracles' moves are like art in motion! The audience can't get enough!! Audience: Heracles!! Heracles!! Heracles!! - Page 70 - Announcer: Next month is his match with the European Champion, Brando!! All four of their past fights were no-contests!! Will we find out who the real world champion is this time?! Ahhh!! There's the God of War pose!! [Greece] - Page 71 - Gesicht: It's a spectacular monument, Heracles. Heracles: I told them I didn't want them to build it because it would ruin the view of these ancient treasures. (shu)(shu) In the end, they still made a statue of me in my Pancratium suit... Humans like that sort of thing. Gesicht: I watched your fight last night. You're so overwhelming! Heracles: Plato said... - Page 72 - Heracles: The throw is more beautiful than the pin... Gesicht: That's not true. What they say is right; you are a creator of wrestling techniques. Heracles: Creator...? In ancient Egypt and Greece, they had already created all the techniques there could ever be. Gesicht: Shall we sit down over there and have some tea? Heracles: I don't pretend to be human. - Page 73 - Heracles: I'm a robot, a killing machine who destroys all opponents... Gesicht: But in your later fights... Heracles: I've been growing soft, right? I went easy on it at the climax of last night's fight. So will my match-up with Brando be too much...? Brando... I've fought him a couple times. He's good. You said you just met him, didn't you? Gesicht: He's in top condition. - Page 74 - Heracles: There was nobody as tough as him during the 39th Central Asian Conflict... Waves: (fshhh) Heracles: Do you know why humans like to put up monuments like this? Because they forget. They build those things to keep the memories from fading away... - Page 75 - Heracles: But what about us? As long as our memory isn't erased, it stays forever... I can still remember that war, fresh and clear... The mountains of robot bodies... And then I learned... - Page 76 - Heracles: Bloodlust... But ever since then, I haven't been able to destroy my opponents... What would humans call this? Gesicht: Pity...? Waves: (fshhh) Heracles: Hey... Do you think... - Page 77 - Heracles: We're evolving...? [Ministry of Science, Tokyo City] Atom: Professor Ochanomizu... Ochanomizu: Yes? Atom: Do you think the person who's behind these events is a human, or... - Page 78 - Ochanomizu: Or a robot... Or robot and human both... The only precedent for a robot killing a human... is the case of Brau-1589. Atom: Really? Ochanomizu: Why do you ask that? Atom: Err... What was the defect in Brau-1589's AI? - Page 79 - Ochanomizu: There was none... It was perfect... Atom: Perfect...? A perfection that kills people... What does that mean? - Page 80 - Atom: Is that... what we call a "human"? [Turkish Airspace] - Act. 10 End -