Ginji knocks out Masaki and then Masaki confesses that this whole plot has been a desperate strategy to save Makubex, whom the Brain Trust wanted to delete from existence. Ginji, Ban, and Masaki make it to the Archive in time to see Makubex do this deletion for himself but the project Gen and Paul have been working on is completed in time, and all of the VR data for Makubex and Lower Town is stored on a supercomputer in the basement of the Honky Tonk.   …