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Your name is Junpei Tenmyouji, and you awaken stuck in a room you know nothing about.
My name is Akane Kurashiki, and you are here for a selfish reason.
Your name is Junpei, and you’re going to have to learn a lot of names for a lot of seemingly unrelated people if you’re going to escape this.
There is one important, glaringly obvious thing that ties them all together. Only a few of them know what that is, though.
Your name is Junpei, and her name is Akane. Of course it is. How could you not recognize her sooner?
Because I’m not supposed to be here. I’m sorry I can’t accept that.
Your name is Junpei, and this is called a Nonary Game, and the captain’s name is Zero. But that can’t be their actual name.
Names have power. Mine especially. So I have to hide it.
Your name is Junpei, but your code name will be-
You don’t actually need a code name, despite everyone else claiming one. Akane, now June, has accidentally taken care of that for you.
I’m sorry for isolating you like that. It’s fitting, though. Your name doesn’t matter like everyone else’s. Only your actions do.
Your name is Junpei, and their code names are Ace, Snake, Santa, Clover, June, Seven, and Lotus.
Your name is Junpei Tenmyouji, and our names are Gentarou Hongou, Light Field, Aoi Kurashiki, Clover Field, Akane Kurashiki, kept hidden, and Hazuki Kashiwabara. You’ll learn this as you go.
Your name is Junpei, and his name is one more thing to solve now that he’s nothing but a bloodstain.
Kubota. His name was Teruaki Kubota. It demands no respect.
The name of whoever lied to him, if he was even telling the truth in his final moments, is another mystery.
All in due time.
Your name is Junpei, and you’re going through door 5, on a hunch.
Do you know about morphogenetic field theory? I do. Come with me.
Your name is Junpei, and you’re going through door 4, to be with June.
I’ve missed being with you. I’ll miss you all over again when this is done.
You’re with June now, alone for a bit, finally talking like you were always supposed to be.
Even if it works, I don’t think we’ll be able to talk like this anymore.
Your name is Junpei, and her name is June for now, since it’s the sixth month. June’s a bit weirder than you remember her being.
Do you know about the Titanic? The Olympic? The Gigantic? Building Q? I do.
She keeps talking about these random trivia facts, and you’re interested, sure, but mostly because she’s really Akane, and you miss Akane.
Do you ever think about curses? I do.
Honestly, the talk about cruise ships
I think this whole game is a curse.
and mummies
I think I’m the caster
and unmelting ice
and the victim.
goes right over your head.
I think this is all one horrible cycle of my own design.
Your name is Junpei, and his name is Santa, derived from the Japanese word for three.
Hope, Faith, Love, and Luck. We’ll need them all to make it through the night.
Santa gives you a bookmark that has associated words. He’s weird about it.
He’s lying about hating them. He wouldn’t do this for me if he didn’t trust in each and every one of those leaf words.
He talks to you though, and he doesn’t seem all that bad. He tells you about his career, at least. And asks you if you gamble.
We need Luck most of all. This whole plain is one big gamble.
Your name is Junpei, and you’re calling her June, and she’s talking about futility and conspiracy theories about predicting the future.
Is this futile? Is the future set in stone? Am I here only to burn out of existence?
You think she maybe should get her fever checked out again.
Everything means something. Please try to understand.
Your name is Junpei, and their names are Santa and June, and you’re trapped in a freezer, and all they want to do is talk about carbon dioxide.
Aoi’s a good actor. He knows how to tell you things without being too suspicious.
You don’t really care about ice-9, but June seems to. And it’s a cool topic, if you ignore the current situation.
This is my life. Do you get that? I care because I am the ice that has already begun to melt. Observe me and change that.
Your name is Junpei, and her name is Lotus, because it has eight petals, and whatever theory she was talking about earlier makes no sense to you.
Do you know about morphogenetic field theory? I do. Go with them, too.
You’re going through door 5, on a hunch.
Your name is Junpei, and his name is Seven, because his bracelet says seven, and he claims to be an amnesiac but you don’t know how much you trust him.
He’s a good man. He’ll grow on you, I’m sure.
Your name is Junpei, and his name is Snake, based on snake eyes because he’s blind, and he seems far too comfortable for being in an entirely new environment.
He’s been here before. Or, well, something close to it. Most of us have.
Your name is Junpei, and her name is June, and their names are Ace and Snake and Santa and Clover and Seven and Lotus and you’re just glad to be reunited with everyone.
I am not a cruel mastermind. You probably won’t believe that. But I want those who deserve it to be happy.
Your name is Junpei, and his name is supposed to be Snake, but he’s not here. He’s not anywhere.
I’m sorry, Clover. It has to be this way. He’s not the only one trapped in a box right now, if it helps.
Her name is Clover, and he was her older brother, and she knows exactly what this means.
Junpei will save us both in time. Help him. Please, have Faith.
Your name is Junpei, and his name is Ace, because it’s the first card in a deck, and he might not be long for this world because he’s nobly staying behind.
He makes me sick. He’s lying about everything. He’ll be back. This is the easy way out.
Your name is Junpei, and her name is June, and you’re going through door 3 because you can’t lose her again.
Junpei?
Their names are Seven and Santa, and their names were Clover and Lotus and Ace but now they are simply left behind.
This can’t be right.
Your name is Junpei, and his name was Snake. Now he is nothing but remains.
That isn’t Light. But I can’t tell anyone that yet. It’s too soon. I don’t know how to salvage this.
Your name is Junpei, and her name is June, and she’s panicking but you help her because she needs it.
Thank you.
Once, long ago, you tried to catch whoever murdered those rabbits at your old school.
They were poor, innocent things, murdered because of the whims of people mad with power. The story sounds familiar.
You spent that entire summer staking out the hutch, willing to do anything as long as it was for her.
I Hope that dedication is still within you. That it never left.
Your name is Junpei, and their names are Ace and Clover and Lotus, and they’re rightfully mad because you were willing to sacrifice them all for June’s sake.
Do you know about morphogenetic field theory? There has to be a better way out of here. I’ll be okay without you, for a time.
Your name is Junpei, and their names are Clover and Seven, and you’re going through door 7 because if you can’t go with June then it doesn’t really matter.
Your name is Junpei, and his name is Seven, and he knows something even though he’s forgotten it.
He’ll remember if you choose right.
“Do you know something about it?”
There’s no going back now.
Your name is Junpei, and her name is Clover, like a four-leaf clover, and you gave her that bookmark on a whim and now she’s talking about socks and ships.
When do we stop being ourselves?
Do you know about morphogenetic field theory? Is it starting to make sense?
Your name is Junpei, and their names are Clover and Lotus, and you’re going through door 8 because if you can’t go with June then it doesn’t really matter.
I have my brother. It’ll be okay.
Your name is Junpei, and her name is Lotus, and she’s telling you about a lot of smart-sounding things while she codes. Like how humans might have a wireless connection to their brains,
Like how I’m talking to you.
and how that might cause disorders like amnesia, aphasia, or prosopagnosia.
I’m glad she knows the term. I hope you’ll remember it well.
Your name is Junpei, and her name is Clover, and she’s telling you about her brother whose name was Snake.
He was in an accident once.
He was in an accident once. Alongside his sight, he lost his left arm in it, and now wears a prosthetic.
Now isn’t that curious?
Your name is Junpei, and her name is June, and their names are Ace and Santa and Clover and Seven and Lotus and you’re all together again. Thank God Ace was willing to stay behind.
No. He knew what would happen. He designed this before I did.
Your name is Junpei, and her name is June, and all this talk of getting wet has gotten a bit out of control.
You’re funny when you’re stupid like that. I couldn’t resist having a little fun myself. Maybe this is okay.
Your name is Junpei, and you are rigging the vote to choose which door to go into.
Except you’re doing it to be with me. I appreciate that. I don’t know if it’s correct, though.
Your name is Junpei, and her name is June, which is a fitting codename for her because it’s a summer month and her fever won’t stop flaring up.
I’m not supposed to be here. Something feels wrong.
Your name is Junpei, and his codename is Santa, which he’s taking a bit more literally than anyone else here.
He’s here to grant a wish. My wish.
You think he still has something to hide, but it seems like everyone does at this point.
My Santa Claus.
Your name is Junpei, and his name is Ace, and he can’t solve the easy matching puzzle.
How odd.
Santa says he’s the president of Cradle Pharmaceuticals.
Quite odd indeed.
I hope this is the one.
Your name is Junpei, and her name is June, and you’ve found the exit doors.
We’ve made it this far, at least.
Your name is Junpei, and her name was Lotus, and there is a knife in your back.
Not this one.
Do you know about morphogenetic field theory? Don’t let it end there.
Your name is Junpei, and you have to go through door 2 because it’s the only one available.
I understand why you wanted to go through door 3, for whatever it’s worth. You’re still in the dark. You’ll find Light in due time.
Your name is Junpei, and his name is Seven, and he says he’s been here before.
He hasn’t. But he’s been very close.
Nine years ago, there was an experiment by a company named Cradle Pharmaceuticals with sixteen children who had gone missing.
Eighteen, actually. They forgot us. Or never saw us in the first place. I’m used to it.
Some of their names were Aoi, Light, and Nona. You wonder if there’s a connection between their group and yours.
Oh Junpei. You haven’t even begun to realize how deep this all goes.
He says a girl died here, but you never heard about that.
Nine years ago, a girl died.
Your name is Junpei, and his name is still Seven but that’s fine because her last name is Kashiwabara and things are starting to finally make some sense around here.
And their names are Nona and Ennea Kashiwabara, and I thought their mother finally deserved to know what happened to us back then.
Your name is Junpei, and their names were Seven and Lotus, and Santa and Ace and Clover and Snake and who even knows before them, and her name is Akane Kurashiki. Your Kanny.
My name was Akane Kurashiki.
You promise her a future together and there is a submarine that promises escape, but it is already too late for both of those things as you fall into the water.
Not this one.
Do you know about morphogenetic field theory? Explore every option. Find what changes.
Your name is Junpei, and you are rigging the vote to choose which door to go into.
Door 1, this time. Maybe you’re starting to hear me. Maybe you can still change the past.
Your name is Junpei, and her name is Clover and you know she has more information about all of this but you just can’t get it out of her because Ace comes in.
She cares so, so much about her brother. If only I could tell you that he wasn’t dead.
You’re starting to worry about all of this. About her.
Me too.
Your name is Junpei, and he must have had a name too. But now he’s dead.
It was Kagechika Musashidou. Not that it should be remembered.
You’d say he might be Zero, but it feels too obvious.
It is.
Your name is Junpei, and his name is Ace, and he’s suggesting a crazy theory about a mummy whose name has become Alice.
It’s laughable, how easily he lies.
Your name is Junpei, and her name is June, and Clover’s being weird but that’s okay because you and her can escape together after some of them go through one more numbered door and that’s all that matters.
That’s wrong. This is all wrong.
I’m scared, Jumpy.
NOT THIS ONE-
Your name is Junpei, and hers was Clover before she became this monster, and their names were Seven, Santa, and Akane Kurashiki.
I’m sorry.
Not this one.
Please. They don’t deserve that.
I don’t want to see him die like that.
Except:
Your name is Junpei, and their names are Ace and Lotus, and they’re going off together.
Why is it always Lotus? Think, Junpei. Seek a way out.
Your name is Junpei, and you don’t know where to go from here.
I trust you, Jumpy. You can figure this out.
Do you know about morphogenetic field theory? Have you figured out who I am?
Your name is Junpei, and you went through doors 4, 3, and 2 this time, and you die next to the submarine.
No.
Your name is Junpei, and you went through doors 4, 8, and 1 this time, and you die to the axe.
NO.
Your name is Junpei, and you went through doors 4, 8, and 6 this time, and you die to the knife.
No.
Your name is Junpei, and you went through doors 5, 7, and 1 this time, and you die to the axe.
NO!
Your name is Junpei. Doors 5, 7, and 2. Submarine.
Can you hear me?
Your name is Junpei. Doors 5, 7, and 1. Axe.
STOP SHOWING ME THIS ONE!
Your name is Junpei. Doors 5, 3, and 2. Submarine.
Is this changing anything?
You’re Junpei. 4, 8, 2. Submarine.
CAN YOU HEAR ME?
Junpei. Doors 4, 7, 2, Submarine.
This can’t be it.
Her name is Akane Kurashiki. You go through doors 5, 8, and 2, and you watch her die next to the submarine.
I can’t be doomed like this.
Doors 4, 7, and 6. You don’t see her die this time, but you and Lotus Why her? You still don’t know, do you? still die to the knife, so it doesn’t matter.
I cannot burn after all this work. There is more to my life than fire.
5, 8, 2. Submarine.
You already tried this one.
Your name is Junpei, and it doesn’t matter which set of doors you go through because one of you is cursed to die no matter what.
The curse, the ice, the ship, the socks, the rabbits, they cannot be all that I am.
5, 8, 2. Submarine.
You just tried this one again! Have you given up? Maybe solved me already? Are you doing this just to hurt me, over and over again? Until I am nothing but ash and memory?
Your name is Junpei, and you went through doors 5, 8, and 2 again, and you still die next to the submarine like you always do but Kanny is here with you at least and before you die you cradle her face and you promise her you’ll have a future together and you mean it more than you’ve ever meant it before because although you haven’t been here before it sure as hell feels like you keep ending up here time and time again.
No. Of course not. Your name is Junpei. You are my Jumpy. You wouldn’t do that to me.
Your name is Junpei, and you don’t know which doors to go through.
Listen to me, then. Let’s work together.
Your name is Junpei, and you have to try again despite it all.
Stop and listen!
…
...
Your name is Junpei, and you’re listening to something.
Thank you.
This won’t work unless you can actually hear me, so that I can eventually hear you when I need to.
Do you know about morphogenetic field theory? Doors 5, 8, and 6. You haven’t tried that combination yet.
Your name is Junpei, and you went through doors 5, 8, and 6 this time.
You will come to understand the field and the Fields and everything else going on here.
You don’t understand anything.
In due time.
Your name is Junpei, and his name wasn’t Snake. Those remains aren’t Snake’s.
His name was Nagisa Nijisaki. He served his purpose.
Your name is Junpei, and everything seems to be unfolding like it was before until it suddenly isn’t.
Finally. Progress.
Unfortunately, the change is that Clover is suddenly found dead by Seven.
Everything comes at a price.
You wish it didn’t.
Your name is Junpei, and her name was Clover, and she didn’t deserve to die.
Even if you kind of remember a world where you might have thought she did.
At the very least, before she died, she opened the safe.
Decipher the note.
You decipher the note, and get the sequence 14383421 out of it.
Thank you. I’ll remember that for when you can’t.
Your name is Junpei, and his name is Ace, and he has prosopagnosia.
That solves everything, far too easily. It was meant to, though. That doesn’t fix what he did.
Your name is Junpei, and her name was Clover, and they had names too even if you don’t know them, and his name is Gentarou Hongou, and he killed them all.
He’s never had a problem with that.
Nine years ago, a girl died.
Your name is Junpei, and her name is Lotus, and his name is Hongou, and they’re leaving you and Seven and Santa and June behind because Hongou wills it and he has the gun.
This may not end well, just so you know.
You want this to end well, for once, despite the present circumstances.
In due time.
Your name is Junpei, and his name is Snake, and he’s been alive this whole time.
I wouldn’t have let him be hurt like that.
You leave out what Hongou did to Clover.
I’m so sorry. I hope this isn’t the one.
Your name is Junpei, and his name is Snake, and Hongou has just told him he killed Clover, his little sister.
That was his last mistake.
Hongou shoots Snake. And he shoots again. And again. And again and again and again.
I was just thinking about futility.
The effort proves futile, as Snake grabs onto his coat and condemns them both to fire.
A fitting end for one of them.
Your name is Junpei, and her name is Kanny before it is anything else, and you don’t understand why she’s dying when you were so close to making it out together. You promise her a future anyway.
I melt as soon as you stop observing me.
Do you know about morphogenetic field theory? Let’s do this, one more time.
Your name is Junpei, and there are too many things that don’t make sense.
There’s no way to understand everything in only the nine hours.
You don’t know where to find a better ending.
Through me. You need to start listening to me.
You don’t understand anything.
Time might finally be due.
You don’t know where to begin.
Door 4.
You’ll start with door 4.
Come with me.
Your name is Junpei, and an unnamed man has just blown up.
His name was Kubota. You know he doesn’t matter.
Your name is Junpei, and his name is Aoi, and he’s giving you a bookmark. He’s weird about it.
Because you need it. Who else might appreciate it?
Your name is Junpei, and her name is June for now but it is actually Akane, and she’s talking about cruise ships and mummies and curses and futility and an ice that is supposed to melt but isn’t.
Because you need to know all of this. Who else might care?
Your name is Junpei, and his name was Light but you aren’t supposed to know that yet, and you didn’t even know him but his death hurts because you feel like you did.
You know that’s Nijisaki. Light’s in a coffin, alive. Keep moving. Door 7.
Your name is Junpei, and his name is Seven, and he knows far more than you thought he did.
But he’s helpful. You know this. Jog his memory so he can jog yours.
“Do you know about ice-9?”
There you go.
Your name is Junpei, and her name is Clover, and she’s distraught over her brother but you reassure her with the bookmark and the leaf words.
Be there for her. For each other. She needs it. As do you.
Your name is Junpei, and you are rigging the vote to choose which door to go into.
There’s the Jumpy I know so well. Door 1, I think, this time. It’ll be okay.
Your name is Junpei, and her name is Clover, and his name is Hongou, and neither of you want to talk about anything important around him.
There is blood on his hands.
Your name is Junpei, and a man whom you don’t believe is Zero is lying freshly dead before you.
Hongou just killed Musashidou. He could have escaped without further bloodshed.
He didn’t. Do not ever trust him. Push him away.
You push him away, and Clover talks a bit more freely.
Your name is Junpei, and her name is actually Clover, and Light isn’t dead because his left arm didn’t have a bone in it, and things are starting to make sense once again.
She trusts you now. That has to be enough. We can have a happy ending.
We can?
Your name is Junpei, and his name is Aoi, and he’s taken June hostage and demanded Ace and Lotus come with him.
His hands shake as he holds the gun to my temple. This isn’t him. But he’s a good actor.
Your name is Junpei, and their names are Seven and Clover, and you are at your lowest point yet but you can’t give up.
You can’t give up.
Remember. 14383421.
Your name is Junpei, and their names are Light and Clover Field, and this reunion is the happiest thing you’ve seen in a while.
I still need your help.
Your name is Junpei, and his codename is Santa but you all think he might be Zero.
You’re not correct. But you’re not entirely wrong, either.
Your name is Junpei, and you find a picture while solving puzzles. You learn their names. Hongou, Kubota, Nijisaki, Musashidou. You learn who they are and what they did.
It doesn’t surprise you. After all, I’ve known all along.
Your name is Junpei, and his name is Seven, and long ago he was working on the Cradle Pharmaceuticals case.
And I am there with him. But we’re all still figuring out how this story ends.
Nine years ago, her name was Akane Kurashiki, but that couldn’t have been right because Akane Kurashiki is here and alive and well.
Nine years ago, a girl died.
Where did I go after elementary school, anyway?
Your name is Junpei, and Santa’s full name is Aoi Kurashiki, and he is Akane’s brother. Things make so much sense and yet no sense at all.
Time is nearly due, now.
Your name is Junpei, and his name is Aoi but it is not Zero, and her name is June and Akane and she is here and not here and you’re beginning to understand morphogenetic field theory just a bit too much.
My name is Akane Kurashiki, and you are here for a selfish reason.
Do you know about morphogenetic field theory? I do.
This whole plain is one big gamble.
He’s here to grant a wish. My wish.
Nine years ago, a girl died.
Do I die?
I don’t want to die. I’m scared.
She might not have to.
I leave myself in your hands, Jumpy.
Your name is Junpei, and their names are Aoi and Hongou, and they’re escaping and leaving you in a fiery death trap.
My name is Akane Kurashiki. I’m scared.
Your name is Junpei, and their names are Light and Clover and Seven and Hazuki, and none of you deserve to die.
I’m stuck in an incinerator.
They wouldn’t kill you like this. So how do you escape?
I don’t know what to do. Help.
Akane? Can you hear me!?
Jumpy!?
Her name is Akane Kurashiki, and you are here because of her.
My name is Akane Kurashiki. Help.
Your name is Junpei, and you are seeing a Sudoku.
Your name is Junpei, and you are seeing me. Help.
Help.
Please.
I don’t get it.
I don’t understand anything going on here.
I don’t want to die!
I’m really really scared, Jumpy.
It’ll be okay, Kanny.
Your name is Junpei. You are solving a Sudoku in the incinerator.
Your name is Jumpy. You are solving a Sudoku in the incinerator. And I am your mirror.
I am the ice that stops melting when observed, refrozen in the instant before dissolving.
I am the ship, broken and reformed. I am the sock that was patched over again and again.
I am the myth and the mummy, brought back from stasis without facing fire.
I am the animals we protected from the murderer, rather than the rabbits who they slayed.
I am I. The ninth letter of the alphabet.
I am Zero.
I am June.
I am dead.
I am not dead.
Nine years ago, a girl was saved.
I am me. My name is Akane Kurashiki.
Whoever I am, I am alive.
Your name is Junpei, and her name is Akane Kurashiki, and she is alive.
I am alive.
Your name is Junpei, and their names are Aoi and Akane Kurashiki, and they are gone for now but they are finally free from that hell.
Thank you.
Your name is Junpei, and their names were Kubota, Nijisaki, and Musashidou, and they have paid for their crimes in blood.
I Love you.
Your name is Junpei, and his name is Gentarou Hongou, and he will pay for his in due time.
I have to leave.
Your name is Junpei Tenmyouji, and their names are Light and Clover Field and Seven and Hazuki Kashiwabara, and you are all free.
Good bye.
Good bye.