, are survivors of a clandestine government experiment that they now seek to expose through a series of elaborate, high-profile riddles and bombings [11, 14]. Their path crosses with Lisa Mishima
In the end, Nine and Twelve didn't want to destroy Tokyo. They wanted Tokyo to see them. And through the resonance of Yoko Kanno's soundtrack and Watanabe's haunting frames, we finally do.
The duo, operating under the collective alias Sphinx , begins a campaign of orchestrated terror. But unlike real-world extremists, they go out of their way to avoid human casualties. Their bombs are timed, their targets are often abandoned buildings, and their goal is cryptic: to wake Japan up .
