Fact1: story is based on Ghost in Shell manga chapter with elements of Phantom Fund, Fact2: deaths are believed to be premeditated murders, Fact3: Batou and Togusa are sent to investigate possible terrorist or political motives, Fact4: human sentience acting as motive in murders, Fact5: Major As appears by controlling gynoid helping Batou fight gynoids and hack ship 's security Batou fights to ship 's center
Output: The story is loosely based on Ghost in the Shell manga chapter Robot Rondo with elements of Phantom Fund. Opening in 2032, Public Security Section 9 cybernetic operative Batou is teamed with Togusa, an agent with very few cybernetic upgrades, following the events of Ghost in the Shell. After a series of deaths due to malfunctioning gynoids—dolllike sex robots—Section 9 is asked to investigate. As the gynoids all malfunctioned without clear cause, the deaths are believed to be premeditated murders; Batou and Togusa are sent to investigate possible terrorist or political motives. Additionally, the most recent gynoids remains show they all contained an illegal ghost. Section 9 concludes human sentience is being artificially duplicated onto the dolls illegally, making the robots more lifelike, and possibly acting as a motive in the murders. Called to a homicide scene, information warfaretechnology specialist Ishikawa explains the victim is Jack Walkson, a consignment officer at gynoid company LOCUS SOLUS, who may have been killed by the Yakuza. A previous Yakuza boss was recently killed by a gynoid, so Ishikawa concludes Walkson was held responsible and killed in an act of revenge. Batou and Togusa enter a Yakuza bar to question the current boss, only to be threatened by the bar occupants. Batou opens fire, killing and wounding numerous gang members, including the cyborg that murdered Walkson. The current boss then admits his predecessor was somehow involved in LOCUS SOLUS, but insists he doesnt know how. Entering a store on his way home, Batou is then seemingly warned by the Major and shot in the arm by an unseen assailant. Caught in a firefight, Batou nearly kills the store owner in confusion, but is subdued when Ishikawa appears. While having his damaged arm replaced, Batou is informed by Ishikawa that his ebrain was hacked, causing him to shoot himself and attack the store occupants. Ishikawa explains that Batou was hacked to try and cause further scandal following his Yakuza assault in an attempt to stop the Section 9 investigation. Batou and Togusa then head for the mansion of Kim, a soldierturnedhacker with an obsession with dolls. Seemingly dead, Kim soon reveals he lives inside the shell of a humansized marionette, and discusses philosophy with his visitors. Kim admits ties to LOCUS SOLUS, divulging that the company has secret headquarters in international waters. Warned again by the Major, Batou realizes that Kim has secretly hacked into his and Togusas ebrains, and is currently trapping them in a false reality. Resetting Togusas brain, Batou subdues Kim, noting he knows Kim hacked his brain in the store. Resolved to gather material evidence, Batou infiltrates the LOCUS SOLUS headquarters ship while Togusa remotely hacks its security systems using an unaware Kim as a proxy. The ships security becomes aware of the hacking and retaliates with a virus that fries Kims cyberbrain. Simultaneously, a hidden virus loads a combat program into the productionline gynoids, causing them to attack everyone aboard. As Batou fights to the ships center, the Major then appears by controlling a gynoid remotely, helping Batou fight the gynoids and hack the ships security. Taking control of the ship, the Major then reveals to Batou the truth about the gynoids. Hiring the Yakuza to traffick young girls, LOCUS SOLUS duplicated their consciousnesses into the gynoids, giving them human ghosts to make them more realistic. Batou rescues a young girl from a ghost dubbing machine, and she explains that Jack Walkson, learning the truth about LOCUS SOLUS, promised to save the girls by tampering with the ghosting process; this caused the gynoids to murder their owners, allowing Walkson to attract police attention and indirectly kill the Yakuza boss. Despite Walksons actions saving the girls, Batou objects that he also victimized the gynoids as well, causing them severe distress by giving them damaged ghosts. Having solved the case, Batou asks the Major if shes happy now, and she notes that shell always be beside him on the network, before disconnecting from the gynoid.