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Well, C-Team has the most unfinished threads, so it's up to them...wait, is that the decontamination room again?

And for some reason, it opens on them seeing their deaths from the execution. Or Carlos seeing them, anyway. Akane is chewing Junpei out about urging Carlos to vote for Q-Team, and Junpei says that Akane's one to talk. Carlos wants to know about both of them. They were friends, and they were both trapped together, so why the animosity? And Junpei says that's exactly why. He joined a detective firm after Akane disappeared, and had nothing but dirty cases. He's a mess. He'd fall asleep in the bathtub with the shower running so he could get the scent of blood off of him. You know, I think I liked it better when 999 was a standalone game and Junpei spent the rest of his life trying to find Akane again. This is disturbing, especially since even in VLR, Junpei's still pining over her. Junpei asks about Santa, then corrects himself and calls him Aoi. And then we get an update on the rest of the 999 cast. Ace is still in jail, as far as we know. Lotus is doing fine, raising her kids. He found this out from Seven, who he worked with once, destroying Free the Soul's headquarters. Akane's shocked at this. Akane brings up again that Free the Soul was behind the First Nonary Game. Er, well, I keep calling it that, but there were other Nonary Games before the one that happened in 2018 (wait, holy crap, I just realized that we're past the date that the flashback parts of 999 took place); Ace won the last of them and convinced the rich dudes to invest in him. Carlos asks if this Zero the Second has anything to do with Free the Soul. Junpei asks Akane, and she reiterates that she's not connected to this and has no idea why this person is calling themselves Zero. I love how this game keeps dancing around outright stating that Akane was the first Zero even though it seems to be the root of Junpei's sudden animosity towards Akane. Junpei asks why she joined Dcom and tries to call bullshit on Akane's claim, and Carlos stops him, saying that it looks to him like Akane's the victim. So, yeah, obviously it's still not clear to him. Akane says she's here to change the future and gives the exposition about the distant future that Free the Soul created. Carlos is confused once Junpei mentions the morphogenetic field. Then Zero interrupts with voting results and creates the decision game. Junpei's the one who goes for the button; Akane stops him. Man, his mouth is out of sync with his lines. Carlos's sister's name is Maria, because of course it is. Junpei suddenly becomes compassionate, and...Carlos has a similar reaction to Diana. That it wasn't him. Man, this part will be fun with Q-Team...but first, C-Team's denouement. Q-Team's reactions are the same as with D-Team, and D-Team has a bad feeling about this.

SELF...RIP...LAKE...BIRD...TWIN...OLD.

Okay, that's...even before they show them, OLD has to be Sigma, and BIRD Diana. So Phi's is "TWIN"? Strange... SELF is Q, RIP is Mira, and LAKE is Eric. Carlos is still freaking out about being a murder. Akane refers to Leucochloridium and Spinochordodes tellinii. Parasites that control creatures larger than themselves. The former are snail parasites; the latter control praying mantises and grasshoppers. What, no Cordyceps sinensis? Ah, but there is one, Toxoplasma gondii...ah, yes, I've heard of that. The one that not only makes rats fail to fear cats, but actually causes them to be drawn to the scent of cat urine. And it can infect humans, too, changing their personalities...and also slowing their reactions. WAIT SHIT THIS SOUNDS LIKE AN ACTUAL SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION OF RADICAL-6. Just like Diana, Carlos refuses to leave. He cites a promise he made in another history to save them. And he says to hold on; he'll go save them now.
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