 Togusa tracks down one of the missing children , now assigned to an elderly man in the Noble Rot program . As Togusa tries to take the child , the man awakens and demands the child be left with him as he had named the child as his sole heir . He would rather give his assets to a child off the street and to protect them from abuse than have his assets turned over to the government upon his death . The man immediately dies after warning Togusa not to interfere with the will of the Solid State . Late , Togusa receives a call from the Puppeteer who hacks his brain and forces him to drive to a cyberbrain implant hospital with his daughter . The Puppeteer and Togusa converse , and Togusa is given the option to lose his daughter to the Solid State or commit suicide . He chooses suicide but is saved by Kusanagi who then identifies the Puppeteer as a rhizome formed by the collective consciousness of the Noble Rot Senior Citizens located in a welfare center . 
 Togusa <a href='uninflect' title='1'><mark>tracks</mark></a> down one of the missing children , now assigned to an elderly man in the Noble Rot program . As Togusa <a href='uninflect' title='2'><mark>tries</mark></a> to take the child , the man <a href='uninflect' title='3'><mark>awakens</mark></a> and <a href='uninflect' title='4'><mark>demands</mark></a> the child be left with him as he <a href='been_done' title='5'><mark>had</mark></a> named the child as his sole heir . He would rather give his assets to a child off the street and to protect them from abuse than have his assets turned over to the government upon his death . The man immediately <a href='uninflect' title='6'><mark>dies</mark></a> after warning Togusa not to interfere with <a href='None' title='7'><mark>the</mark></a><a href='negative_concord' title='8'><mark>will</mark></a> of the Solid State . Late , Togusa <a href='uninflect' title='9'><mark>receives</mark></a> a call from the Puppeteer <a href='null_relcl' title='10'><mark>who</mark></a><a href='uninflect' title='11'><mark>hacks</mark></a> his brain and <a href='uninflect' title='12'><mark>forces</mark></a> him to drive to a cyberbrain implant hospital with his daughter . The Puppeteer and Togusa converse , and Togusa is given the option to lose his daughter to the Solid State or commit suicide . He <a href='uninflect' title='13'><mark>chooses</mark></a> suicide but is saved by Kusanagi <a href='null_relcl' title='14'><mark>who</mark></a>then <a href='uninflect' title='15'><mark>identifies</mark></a> the Puppeteer as a rhizome formed by the collective consciousness of the Noble Rot Senior Citizens located in a welfare center . 
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