By: Shirow Masamune

How do you keep a dead man from being murdered? Business bigwig Hayasaka might be dead, but he keeps turning up walking and talking, and Section 9 agents need to find out whether he's being remotely "puppeted" and whether those pulling the strings-like the mysterious Takoaka of the Institute of Technology-are the same people trying to control access to Pandora, a vast digital treasure trove of information of the most sensitive-and dangerous-nature.