- Lain Iwakura: People only have substance within the memories of other people. And that's why there were all kinds of mes. There weren't a lot of mes per se, I was just inside all sorts of people, that's all.
- Iwakura, Yasuo: Let me give you one little warning.
- Lain Iwakura: Huh?
- Iwakura, Yasuo: When it's all said and done, the Wired is just a medium of communication and the transfer of information. You mustn't confuse it with the real world. Do you understand what I'm warning you about?
- Lain Iwakura: You're wrong.
- Iwakura, Yasuo: Huh?
- Lain Iwakura: The border between the two isn't all that clear. I'll be able to enter it soon. In full range. Full motion. I'll translate myself into it.
- Iwakura, Yasuo: Even with a top of the line civilian Navi, you couldn't.
- Lain Iwakura: I can do it. I've modified mine.
- Iwakura, Yasuo: A Psyche processor, huh? But...
- Lain Iwakura: Don't worry. I'm still me.
- Iwakura, Yasuo: Sometimes I wonder.
- Chisa Yomoda: There was no reason for me to stay in the real world any longer. In the real world, it didn't matter if I was there or not. When I realized that, I was no longer afraid of losing my body.
- Lain Iwakura: [gasp]
- Miho Iwakura: The wired might actually be thought of as a highly advanced upper layer of the real world. In other words, physical reality is nothing but an illusion, a hologram of the information that flows to us through the wired.
- Lain Iwakura: But ma...
- Miho Iwakura: This is because the body, physical motion, the activity of the human brain is merely a physical phenomenon, simply caused by synapses delivering electrical impulses.
- Lain Iwakura: But mom, I...
- Miho Iwakura: The physical body exists at a less evolved plane only to verify one's existence in the universe.
- Lain Iwakura: Are you really, truly my mother?
- Miho Iwakura: [disappears]
- Lain Iwakura: Are you?