Episode 16

**Engineer** (技師, *Gishi*) is the 16th episode of *No Guns Life*.

## Synopsis

Avi Kovo has once again appeared and now he's taken Mary hostage. Juzo watches as the two men clash. Each and every one of them... They all just keep getting in the way of his job. Now, he's not going to just stand back and let a girl suffer.

## Summary

Avi Kovo looks at the hole created by Juzo's gun and states its more powerful than he expected and they may need to rethink their stance against Gun Slave Units. He sees a big briefcase remembering it Victor carried it and upon inspecting it, he realizes an extend was inside and then he gets attacked by one. He realizes this is the other Victor and easily dodges his other attacks, commenting that Victor still isn't used to that new body. He takes Mary hostage commenting that Victor still cares for his little sister. Juzo arrives, stating that he though people like him preferred staying unaltered, but his movements suggest he has extension. Avi explains that he has similar sensor all over his skin as shark skin sensors that can sense weak electrical fields emitting from living creatures. Avi explains that he lacks the power to defeat neither Victor or Juzo, but even with his closed eyes, he can avoid all of their attacks. As they can't defeat each other, he asks Victor to lead him to his real body and shoots Mary in the foot.

Angry, Juzo releases his true form and tries to go against his program. He forces it to initiate, causing a smokescreen and installs new arms and Victor rushes at him. Avi comments that a smokescreen doesn't work on him and senses electrical signal, but sees its just an arm. He then sees other signal, which are just small parts. Juzo then take Mary and knows Avi. Seeing Victor's missing arm, she realizes he tore it down to confuse Avi. Victor comments that was reckless as Juzo is lucky that Victor forced the program to shut down, otherwise he could have gone berserk, however Juzo explains its the engineers job to stop that. As EMS come, he takes Avi and leaves Victor and Mary to talk.

Mary knows that the other Victor has Victor's memories and asks him what happened between him and Emmet. Victor then explains that Emmet was looking for a successor, however Victor wanted to join the military as he wanted to research extension technology. Emmet told him he will sell Mary's body if he leaves. The next thing he remembers is Emmet's dead body. Even though it wasn't something he planned, he doesn't regret doing it. Victor wanted to help people, but the extensions were changing not only their body but their soul too, causing some to become monsters and rampage. As time passed he became a monster know as the Dismantler and can't stop until the extends he created are all destroyed. Mary states that even though he shares same memories and took part of Victor, he isn't Victor. She wanted to understand Victor and tried copying him, becoming an engineer herself. But she realized it one day, even if humans lose something and fall into despair, they have the strength to support what they've lost with something else. The extension technology is only giving them a small push and listening to Lefty, she realized that Victor had also realized it.

Juzo had beaten the EMS. Olivier arrives and informs Avi that with his impatience to capture Victor, he is now under suspicion of him for working with Spitzbergen and will be interrogated back at their office. Mary fixes Victor's arm and asks him about the hostages. Victor states she doesn't need to worry about them and Tetsuro is more safe with them. Victor states he still wished she didn't become an engineer, although she is more respected than him and then leaves.

Back at the office, Mary is interested in looking inside of Lefty as its just a left arm with no sub-brain, so they can't see logs. She comments he has intelligence of a dog and won't be able to take them to Victor, but she is really interested in how he can move so independently.

Wachowski visits Tetsuro asking him how he is. Tetsuro is surprised he got his voice back, even though he was told Harmony would interfere with getting his voice back and Wachowski explains he got the best engineer he knew to take care of it. Tetsuro comments that he has no memories of Wachowski, but do know his name as he is famous Professor Wachowski, father of the extension technology, who developed extends during the great war and brought victory to the country. Wachowski comments he was just one of the researchers that developed the base theory of extensions. Tetsuro wonders why would Wachowski support Spitzbergen and he states he could asks him the same and even though he doesn't have the memory, its a fact that he supports them. Wachowski tells Tetsuro that they only want one thing from him and explains that Seven had become an obstacle for them and only a Gun Slave Unit can defeat a Gun Slave Unit. At the moment Juzo doesn't stand a chance against him. For a Gun Slave Unit to fully function, they must give up will and completely become a tool. He wants Tetsuro to use his Harmony device and pull Juzo's true form.

## Characters

* Olivier Vandeberme
* Mary Steinberg
* Avi Kovo
* Victor Steinberg
* Lefty
* Juzo Inui
* Tetsuro Arahabaki
* Wachowski
* John D. Kunugi