Vital Sync, The Hidden Truth!

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**Vital Sync, The Hidden Truth!** is the fortieth episode of Cap Revolution Bottleman DX. It first aired in Japan on TV Osaka on January 08, 2023.

## Content

### Summary

Citrus's consciousness has been jacked by an AI!? "Why?" Ryo questions. The AI in the form of Citrus says it will explain in a Bottle Battle. The shots fired from accurate readings make Ryo and Machiko anxious! Although the AI was created for humanity, it denies the emotions that humans have. Ryo and the others shudder at the terrifying plan being told to them! The truth about Vital Sync is finally revealed!?

### Plot

When Io is worriedly watching Citrus' broadcast on accepting Tsubasa's challenge, he is confronted by Ryo, who suspects that Citrus has his consciousness hijacked by external interference, and that might have something to do with Vital Sync. Io confirms that Machiko and Professor Rootbeer are indeed behind the development of Vital Sync, but decides to give Ryo his own red Aquasports DX for him to lend to Machiko. Ryo then awkwardly thanks his father before departing, which makes Io smile for him.

In the hospital's aisle, Seimei informs Ryo that Roland has found Machiko and Rootbeer's current location, and both head to meet up with Roland. Rootbeer is startled and frightful towards the three teens, insisting that he won't disclose anything for them. Machiko is surprised upon seeing her brother's Bottleman, which is shown to her by Ryo, who recalls how she used to play Bottleman with him when he was a child and how she used to enjoy playing with Bottle Battling. Machiko finally relays the truth, telling Ryo that she, Io and Eri were responsible for the operations of BMA due to Suezo's obsessions with collecting caps and mostly neglecting the business. At first, the three adults were happy to cooperate with one another, but when Io and Machiko began arguing over conflicting perspectives more often, Eri decided that the Vital Sync project should be cancelled. Due to this conflict, Machiko has decided that Bottle Battling should be more battle focused, and that she has found a collaborator for the Vital Sync project.

Having listened to Machiko's ambition, Seimei calls her out for going too far and endangering Ryo. Ryo also interrogates Machiko about the collaborator, which is revealed to be Machiko's robot dog. While Seimei gets mad over the thought that Machiko is using a dog as a scapegoat, Machiko insists this to be the truth. This is further confirmed by "Citrus", who arrives at the apartment, divulging himself to be an AI that is using Citrus' body as an external device, just as how it used the robot dog to make the proposal of Vital Sync to Machiko. The AI proceeds to use a Bottle Battle against both Ryo and Machiko to illustrate its intention, which being to sublime Bottle Battling through removing emotions, by acing every shot Machiko and Ryo shoot at it. It further discloses that Vital Sync is never meant to benefit Bottlemen, instead it relies on the true nature of the Burst phenomenon, which can eliminate all human emotions entirely and can lead to the AI's own goal of evolving humanity of acting calm beyond reasoning. In fact, the AI determines that Citrus is an ideal human who has risen to the ranks, and that it has been eyeing on him far before Vital Sync was developed. Hijacking was more of a side plan, but the AI was still able to enter Citrus's brain via Dragogina DX's Vital Sync, and it is now planning on using Citrus' identity to carry out Project Reburst, which is to install the Reburst mechanism on not only Bottlemen, but all devices used by humankind, in order to wipe out all human emotions more efficiently.

However, Ryo refuses to conform to the AI's delusions, and retaliates through his own ideology, which is the "bubbling" Cota taught him. With the AI temporarily confused by the philosophy, Ryo enters the virtual space, where he finds Ponta in. Ponta apologizes for having caused such a huge mess, and tells Ryo that he cannot leave the virtual space so easily. He then asks Ryo to do him a favor, which is to work with Cota to save him, and Ryo understands immediately. Unfortunately, the AI is now alerted that Ryo disagrees with it, so it deploys more robot dogs to launch mini robots onto quarantining Ryo and the others.

As the swarm of robots assault the humans from all angles, Ryo, Roland and Seimei proceed escaping. Unluckily, Machiko and Rootbeer are captured. Before Machiko gets completely abducted, she uses Io's Aquasports to shoot out and give Ryo a cap containing a chip. Ryo then watches in horror as his aunt is engulfed by the raging swarms of robots.

## Trivia

### In the episode

* It is revealed by Io in this episode that he, Machiko and Eri used to be part of the Vital Sync development team, until their fallout.
* Starting from this episode to the finale, ResQ!! is played as the opening theme of the series.

### Characters

*Note:* All characters are listed in order of their first appearances in the episode. The time they appear is the time from the Japanese dub.

## Gallery

### Title screens

#### Title Cards

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