LogFAQs > #878102891

I imagine you have a great many questions.

near simultaneously, Sigma and Phi recall Dio boasting about the #0 bomb. we have the code, but we've never found this bomb at all. four minutes remain. Sigma has relied upon his memory so far, but this time Phi pleads with Sigma to think, and he does.

where would Dio hide a bomb? I can think of a few great places (if he hid it in his favourite AB room, or beyond the 9 door before he came in, we'd all be totally fucked), but luckily he chooses a fairly mediocre one. we find the bomb between two AB rooms, where he previously hid the knife, and Sigma deactivates it successfully.

Sigma and Phi crumple into a heap, energy completely spent. but before they can even think of what to do next, the Nonary Game does it for them: the tertiary Chromatic Doors have opened, and we need to get there stat. when we arrive, we quickly split into our teams, and arguably the pivotal trio of all, Tenmyouji, Sigma and Phi, run into the middle of the three doors.

we turn left down a hallway, and find a door marked simply Q. beyond the door lies an expanse of white void, with seemingly no walls or ceiling. the only things within eyesight are the door we came in, and the locked door we must leave.

what on earth do we do now?

just as we contemplate that very thought, the room around us solidifies into a grid pattern, and a similarly-patterned cube rises from the floor to float in front of our eyes. it soon becomes clear that, just as 999 culminated in a comically simple sudoku puzzle, VLR is going to climax with a game of minesweeper. I methodically open up the room in this way, and after a few puzzles and one particularly torturous dice one, we reach the final puzzle: a Nonary Game inside the Nonary Game. I like it.

ignoring the ominous holograph projector sitting silently in the corner, we open the safe to find two bottles of Axelavir - enough for both Quark and Alice. wow, maybe no one at all will die in this ending!

as we're about to leave, the projector clicks into gear, and a previously blank monitor turns on, revealing the 9th Lion passcode entry screen. I enter Akane's username and password, and the projector shows Akane's figure, and she proceeds to explain herself in great detail.
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