13 Sentinels: Prologues for Minami, Takamiya, and Shinonome cleared.
I guess Minami got away from the post-apocalyptic 2060s. Wonder if that's just off-screen "don't worry about it" or if it'll be revisited in a flashback. Either way, not sure why robot is obsessed with trashing the locker room, that's just rude! I appreciate the branching paths because it lets me do silly things liek see if I can talk to the MIB guys who I'm clearly supposed to be stealthing away from just to see what happens. lmao at Ogata getting wrecked when he tried to rush one of them. That unlocked Takamiya but I went back to Minami to do the section without getting caught and whoops we Back to the Future III'd ourselves and are trapped.
Next was Takamiya who is now my new favorite. Love her attitude and how her section was basically detective stuff around the school. Also working for the SIU will Sae be our partner? Got Minami's notebook and tracked her to the shrine but got a flashback with Shinonome where BJ played a record of Shinonome admitting to giving up humanity because Ida lied to her and they were the only survivors. And putting the world on loop. ...Ida and Morimura were talking about this, or something like it, when Sekigahara walked in on them back in one of his chapters. Sounded like it was Morimura's idea at the time though so idk. More on this scene later. Next time we actually went to the shrine but it was a dead end. Finally played it through again and took the detective work the other direction to the not-fire only to learn we've got ourselves an impostor situation. Takamiya hasn't worked out the obvious that Aiba is the culprit because she's just comically suspect the whole way through but oh well.
Finally over to Shinonome and whoa I don't approve of this crush. Also wow this was a short prologue and heel turn by Sekigahara. Back in 1985 and Shinonome has become my almost-favorite because her section has been pretty neat so far though I stopped pretty early. The headache effect is neat if maybe a bit too frequent. And the investigation bit became appropriately creepy when Kisaragi pulled a Get Out and was like "run away." Flashback showed that Juro piloted her Aegis when he tried and failed to save Yakushiji's timeline and she's predictably not happy about it. Stopped there but will pick up with Shinonome and seeing what other branches I can investigate.
Overall, I think the mystery of the session became 426/the saboteur and man my theories were updating in real time... or I guess my suspect list kept getting longer especially as Shinonome filled in some info in her section since she's the character most read-in on the overarching plot I've unlocked so far. I'm pretty sure it's not Sekigahara, it's too obvious a frame. My first thought was Okino because he appears to fit the bill as someone with the know-how to tamper with the gates/lock people out and Minami caught him running experiments on the Sentinels. Hell, I think he might have even said they're his now which would probably have him dead-to-rights. But for alternate theories, you've got Shinonome herself based on that recording where future her claims to have sabotaged whatever this Ark project is. And then there's Ida who in that scene where Sekigahara caught him talking to Morimura told Sekigahara to secretly reprogram the Sentinels. And then there's the undercurrent that Shinonome might be drugged into being controlled by Morimura with Gotou as her handler so who even knows.
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