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There's a door to the center of the bomb shelter in each ward. These are the X-Doors, marked with an X. Simply obtain X-Passes to get to the elevator therein, thereby escaping the shelter. This is the only way out. Six X-Passes are needed to get out...and one X-Pass will be announced every time someone dies. The door will remain open for thirty seconds, and then it closes, never to open again. How to kill six people? Well, you can vote. Each team has one vote as to which of the other two teams to execute. If a team fails to vote, they will be penalized two votes. A team with two votes gets executed. This is the Decision Game. Ah, so that's our new gimmick...and I get to choose the team again? Well, now that we know the teams, it's back to Team C.

Preparation Room, Decontamination Room, Control, Power Room, Infirmary, Pantry...and finally, Rec Room. We get a map of Ward C. Carlos thinks this could be part of Dcom's psychological test, but Junpei figures that because the masked guy called himself Zero, that means he's for real. Akane, of course, is against the idea of voting at all. Of course she is. She's just as soft-hearted as she was during the Second Nonary Game. Though now she comes up with the obvious solution--if we could contact someone on the other two teams, we could assure that no one would have two votes. They try to contact them directly, but it doesn't work, and then Junpei just causally asks that Akane try using the morphogenetic field. So this is where we stand, huh? Just casually throwing that out there in the first few minutes of the game? Well, okay, my play time's already nearing an hour, but that's because I keep pausing to write all this s*** down. Carlos doesn't seem to know what the morphogenetic field is.

There's graffiti on the wall, similar to what happened in VLR. "Let the game end where I treat two." That actually could make sense in context, and I know that re-using gimmicks isn't in character for Uchikoshi, but screw it, I'm throwing that into an anagram machine. ...Damn, I forgot just how long that particular machine takes. Well, no sense waiting around for it. It'll probably continue working in the background. Junpei finds something called the "Force Quit Box", and they talk about the legend of Urashima Taro. Also time travel-related. Oh, choices! We get to ask...ah, that's right, we're Carlos, so we're asking questions to Junpei and Akane. Who is Zero? What is Zero's purpose? What is your relationship? Okay, yeah, anyone who knows me knows exactly what question I'm going to ask first. By the way, remember how in the post-999 Q&A, Uchikoshi said that Junpei spends the rest of his life searching for Akane and never finds her? Yeah, so much for that. 999 was originally meant to be a standalone game, though.

I can't help but snicker, however, at the fact that Carlos just addresses both of them by their full names. Even with all of the pausing, I've barely been at this for an hour and it's just casually spoiling a major surprise from VLR. Of course, given how VLR flopped and this game only was made because the fans demanded it, I guess they really don't expect many people to be coming into this game without having completed the first two, do they? Carlos at least knows some of their history..ah, Sigma told him. Akane says that the two of them joined this experiment separately, but Junpei says it was inevitable, not a coincidence. Carlos, meanwhile, just did it for the money. He's apparently a firefighter. Junpei calls him a "hero of justice", but he says he just has good instincts. Okay, I can't actually save on the choice screen, so I selected "Who is Zero" and then immediately hit save before they could start talking. That's all for tonight.
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Also known as Cyberchao X.