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Carlos understands the benefit of double-ally. He says there's nothing to be gained by choosing to Betray, that Zero's trying to get them to kill each other off. Junpei wants to check on Akane before playing the AB Game. Flashback time. Junpei talks about how Akane's strong will made other kids not want to be friends with her, and tells Carlos about the rabbits. That's why he always wanted to protect her, and help her bear the weight she's taken on. But after last year, it's like he doesn't know her as well as he thought. Junpei says Carlos has someone important to him too, and he talks about his parents dying in a fire and Maria falling ill to an incurable disease. You know, it is suddenly occurring to me just how few live parents these characters have. Akane was confirmed an orphan all the way back in 999, and Phi's mother being dead was confirmed in VLR. Carlos and Eric both have confirmed the lack of living parents, and while it's not confirmed (and in fact she outright claims that it isn't), I kind of got the implication that "Mira's first victim" was her own mother. We don't know much about Q himself, let alone his family, but my pet theory would suggest that he doesn't have living parents, either. I'm not sure which option to pick first, though...there does tend to be plenty of info gated behind bad endings, after all. I have considered even going back to the ones where it seems pointless to intentionally get the bad ending, like the two involving the poison antidote. Mostly because those are TPKs. Actually, going for bad endings first is always the right move. Betray it is. Damn, that worked quickly. Not like in VLR. Carlos claims that he did it expecting Junpei to pick Betray to protect Akane. He says he did it to protect Diana and Sigma, but the shield that protects becomes a spear in the end. Huh, but for some reason Akane isn't killed quickly the way Junpei is...for a moment I wondered if this was what led to the Transporter Room. But no, I remember the flow of events. Akane does die, too, but not before bludgeoning Carlos to death. There are two remaining outcomes, but one has a lock on it. I pick Ally, expecting Junpei to Betray this time. I am not disappointed. And sure enough, Carlos remembers Junpei Allying "the last time", getting the same reaction as Sigma always did. Carlos admits that this should've been the first time, but for some reason, he feels it wasn't. Then he remembers that Junpei said Carlos's decision would come back to bite him in the ass, and realizes exactly what Sigma always did. There's still a lock on the third path...but I can't skip text when I go back to the decision! As I should've figured by the exclamation point. Junpei starts to give his speech, but there's a flash of light. Carlos seems confused and asks if this is before the AB Game. So now we're explicitly using a Carlos that has jumped. And Carlos interrupts Junpei and finishes his story for him. I'm cracking up here. Junpei asks how he knew that, and asks if Akane told him. He says no, but stays silent on the reasons. He stops Junpei from starting the AB Game, saying that whatever he chose, it was always the worst outcome. Akane comes to and says that Carlos has SHIFTed--Spacetime Human Internal Fluctating Transfer. A phenomenon where one's mind crosses space and time. Junpei asks if that's the same power they used a year ago, and she confirms it. Then she references Back to the Future to use it as an example. What happened to the Marty who had been living in the new timeline when the Marty who went back in time to create that history returned to 1985? In a way, the "original" Marty is committing a form of murder, by overwriting the memories of "alternate" Marty and taking his place. But in the multiverse theory, that overwriting doesn't happen, and the two merely switch places, in order to keep everything consistent. Junpei says that either way, alternate Marty gets the worse end of the deal. And Carlos is in the same situation.
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Also known as Cyberchao X.