The People and the World is the third and final story arc of NieR Reincarnation, revolving around previously encountered memory characters within The Cage.
Prologue[]
Fio, Argo, Akeha, Saryu, Rion, Yudil, Dimos, 063y, and Yurie are all summoned in a small part of The Cage. Confused as to where they are, a screen projecting Mama's face appears, explaining The Cage, and how it is currently under attack from outside forces. Astral projections of Earth, Sun, and Moon appear out of nowhere and attack. The group fights them off one by one, only to notice the platform shaking. Mama prepares doors for everyone to escape through before the platform collapses. Dimos notices Rion struggle to keep his balance from all the shaking and rushes to him, grabs the prince just before he falls with the rubble, and throws him to the door.
Overture I: Indigo (The Beginning of Everything)[]
- "Clinging to fading memories of his time with the girl, I endured for what felt like an eternity."
- — Words left in the recesses of a memory
After the collapse of the plaza, Fio and Argo, who had entered through the same door, awake in a separate area among stone buildings engulfed in a blue haze. As a result of the enemy attacks, all the locations in The Cage have contorted into complex shapes and become bathed in colored light. As the pair look around, a screen showing Mama appears in order to help direct the summoned who are scattered around The Cage.
According to Mama, the assault on The Cage's plaza by the enemy was only an opening attack. If The Cage was to be destroyed, all of their respective worlds contained within The Cage would be lost as well. To prevent this, they must cooperate with Mama to collect the "truths" stored within Dark Birdcages. The pair are shaken by her words, but they can't see any other way back home and decide to follow Mama's directions through the stone structures. As they travel, the two ask about each other, and Fio faintly remembers traveling The Cage with Levania.
Entering the Dark Birdcages, they navigate through various environments, starting with a deep forest where they discover a sword embedded in a shrine. Purging it of the Black Birds that plagued it, a phantom emerges that recounts the memories of battle associated with the weapon's owner before vanishing, satisfied. Mama appears, retrieving the sword, and in its place, a Dark Scarecrow appears. As they travel more, they encounter countless weapons being collected by endless Mamas, who leave behind Dark Scarecrows in their wake. They then find themselves in a beautiful idyllic paradise. Many people are gathered here, and like those summoned into the plaza, they seem to come from various times and places, known as Branches. Argo recognizes that he was once in this paradise and that this used to be The Cage.
Mama reveals that The Cage is a digital world that serves as a repository where human lives and locations are stored as data within weapons. While The Cage currently appears as a ruin filled with desolate stone walls and towers, it used to mimic the environment on Earth. Though The Cage's residents' existences are bound to their weapons, Mama used to let them out and live in The Cage itself as she felt their weapons were too engulfed in the history of their sins. After the attacks by the black foes of a mysterious origin, The Cage transformed into its current state and Mama was forced to return The Cage's residents to their weapons and further seal them into obelisks known as the Dark Scarecrows.
Argo questions if they are already dead, to which Mama responds that they have all always existed as memory data within The Cage before pressing them to continue. The journey becomes deeply personal for Fio when in one of the Dark Birdcages' visions, she discovers Levania is captured. Fio, who now fully remembers her times together with him, is determined to save him.
After a while, they arrive at a dead end with a collapsed wall. Mama and Fio stand stuck, but Argo kneels and offers his back to Fio. Argo carries Fio on his back and climbs the wall. In contrast to the crumbling Cage, the bond between the two strengthens. Their new mission to save Levania leads them into a volatile war zone within the memories. They learn that The Cage has been under these attacks for a long time, before they meet Noelle. Together, they fight back a horde of black foes, but after another swarm of black birds attack, Argo's data is lost and he vanishes from the Cage. Despite the loss of Argo and the daunting memories of The Cage residents' being subjected to endless torture, Fio and Noelle move forward to reach the final Birdcage. Mama eventually manages to restore Argo's scattered data, allowing him to rejoin the group just in time to defend the last location from the encroaching black birds. By uniting their strengths, the group successfully find and free Levania from his prison.
However, the chapter ends with a bittersweet reunion as Levania is bereft of his memories, including his time spent with Fio. Undeterred, Fio resolves to stay by his side and create new memories together. Though he cannot remember her, Levania feels compelled to help Fio. Back at the central plaza, the party vows to protect the Cage together. Mama watches them depart and expresses a hope that other groups currently exploring The Cage will also return safely.
Library Entries[]
A Fabricated World[]
A small girl and a giant man walk through a deep, unfamiliar wood.
They do not understand what is happening to them, nor why they are there.
Eventually, they arrive at an altar. It sits bathed in dappled sunlight,
with a sword plunged deep into its heart. As they stare at the blade,
a figure emerges from it: it is a projection of the sword's past wielder,
one who speaks of the many victories he achieved with the weapon.
When the figure is finally satisfied with the telling of its tale,
a white ghost collects the sword and leaves. This ghost is a
creature the girl and her friends call "Mama," and her
objective is to collect every weapon and store it away for safekeeping.
Girl and giant proceed, avoiding the strange pillars that appear as
the weapons are collected. They follow Mama, believing she knows
something, and eventually come across a beautiful, yet unearthly, sight.
Without a second thought, the man loudly proclaims he knows this place,
and that it is what the location called The Cage once looked like ...
A small girl and a giant man walk through a deep, unfamiliar wood.
They do not understand what is happening to them, nor why they are there.
Eventually, they arrive at an altar. It sits bathed in dappled sunlight,
with a sword plunged deep into its heart. As they stare at the blade,
a figure emerges from it: it is a projection of the sword's past wielder,
one who speaks of the many victories he achieved with the weapon.
When the figure is finally satisfied with the telling of its tale,
a white ghost collects the sword and leaves. This ghost is a
creature the girl and her friends call "Mama," and her
objective is to collect every weapon and store it away for safekeeping.
Girl and giant proceed, avoiding the strange pillars that appear as
the weapons are collected. They follow Mama, believing she knows
something, and eventually come across a beautiful, yet unearthly, sight.
Without a second thought, the man loudly proclaims he knows this place,
and that it is what the location called The Cage once looked like...
Recreation[]
For years has this battle raged. Dark foes attempt to infiltrate
the paradise world, and the people resist. But the people can only
do so much, and they are all eventually captured and placed in cages.
Now, defeat feels all but inevitable.
The girl finds a cage bigger than the rest with a familiar figure sleeping
inside: a dark monster. This stirs memories that had been buried
deep-memories of a precious friend she met in a dream.
But when she attempts to save the monster, she finds it is but illusion.
Still, she knows the monster is out there somewhere,
so she decides it is her turn to save him
As the pair hurries on, their vision is covered by a great flock of black
birds. As the creatures pass, the scars of battle grow deeper and
more severe, until finally the scenery collapses before their eyes.
They continue in this way for some time, until a set of stone towers
finally looms up before them. This is when they finally understand:
the moment the dark foes destroyed paradise,
The Cage as they knew it was created.
For years has this battle raged. Dark foes attempt to infiltrate
the paradise world, and the people resist. But the people can only
do so much, and they are all eventually captured and placed in cages.
Now, defeat feels all but inevitable.
The girl finds a cage bigger than the rest with a familiar figure sleeping
inside: a dark monster. This stirs memories that had been buried
deep—memories of a precious friend she met in a dream.
But when she attempts to save the monster, she finds it is but illusion.
Still, she knows the monster is out there somewhere,
so she decides it is her turn to save him.
As the pair hurries on, their vision is covered by a great flock of black
birds. As the creatures pass, the scars of battle grow deeper and
more severe, until finally the scenery collapses before their eyes.
They continue in this way for some time, until a set of stone towers
finally looms up before them. This is when they finally understand:
the moment the dark foes destroyed paradise,
The Cage as they knew it was created.
At Conflict's End[]
Subjected to constant attacks, The Cage lies on the brink of collapse.
And while the hearts of the girl and giant ache for all the lives lost,
they bravely press on. Though the incandescent tumult of war hinders them,
the girl is driven by her desire to save the monster,
and the giant by his need to support her.
When they at last arrive in the depths of The Cage,
they find a white-haired young woman facing off against the dark foes.
They join in her fight and beat back the enemy together.
After savoring their victory, the girl asks if the woman has seen a black monster,
and is surprised to hear she has. Alas, the girl's delight is quickly interrupted
by a swarm of black birds. The giant sees them coming and bravely stands in
front of his companions, telling them they must save the monster at all costs.
When the swarm finally departs, he is nowhere to be found.
The three of them stand before the monster in his jail. As they do,
a small black bird appears-one that appears to be as afraid to find
themselves in The Cage as the girl is.
When she pats it on the head and it returns to its birdcage,
the monster is similarly freed.
Noticing that the monster has lost his memories,
the little girl proclaims that they will
make new memories together once more.
They then join hands and march towards
the door that appears before them;
with each of them having reclaimed something they wish to protect,
they no longer have any doubts.
Subjected to constant attacks, The Cage lies on the brink of collapse.
And while the hearts of the girl and giant ache for all the lives lost,
they bravely press on. Though the incandescent tumult of war hinders them,
the girl is driven by her desire to save the monster,
and the giant by his need to support her.
When they at last arrive in the depths of The Cage,
they find a white-haired young woman facing off against the dark foes.
They join in her fight and beat back the enemy together.
After savoring their victory, the girl asks if the woman has seen a black monster,
and is surprised to hear she has. Alas, the girl's delight is quickly interrupted
by a swarm of black birds. The giant sees them coming and bravely stands in
front of his companions, telling them they must save the monster at all costs.
When the swarm finally departs, he is nowhere to be found.
Forgiveness and Restoration[]
The young girl and white-haired woman muster their courage to save the
monster and giant. The girl bears through the feelings of helplessness that
plague her, and finally locates the monster's cage in the depths of a hellish
prison. Standing before him, she begins to pray,
knowing in her heart of hearts that she will do anything to save him.
As she does so, another flock of black birds explodes into view,
bringing the giant with them. It turns out Mama has brought him back,
and he now stands ready to help the little girl.
The young girl and white-haired woman muster their courage to save the
monster and giant. The girl bears through the feelings of helplessness that
plague her, and finally locates the monster's cage in the depths of a hellish
prison. Standing before him, she begins to pray,
knowing in her heart of hearts that she will do anything to save him.
As she does so, another flock of black birds explodes into view,
bringing the giant with them. It turns out Mama has brought him back,
and he now stands ready to help the little girl.
The three of them stand before the monster in his jail. As they do,
a small black bird appears—one that appears to be as afraid to find
themselves in The Cage as the girl is.
When she pats it on the head and it returns to its birdcage,
the monster is similarly freed.
Noticing that the monster has lost his memories,
the little girl proclaims that they will
make new memories together once more.
They then join hands and march towards
the door that appears before them;
with each of them having reclaimed something they wish to protect,
they no longer have any doubts.
Overture II: Scarlet (Broken Children)[]
- "What expression was on your face...when I told you I hated you?"
- — A query from a fading consciousness
Saryu and Akeha wake up in a different part of The Cage where structures are upside down and bathed in red. They are similarly tasked with uncovering the truths hidden within the Dark Birdcages. Inside the Dark Birdcages, they are confronted with past recordings of alternate versions of themselves across different branches.
Akeha witnesses herself being a cold heartless assassin who kills the one girl she had died saving. Akeha, deeming her as evil, defeats her other self possessed by the black birds, returning them to The Cage. Mama explains to them that The Cage holds many different timelines, including one where Akeha saved the girl and one where she didn't.
The pair mull over this revelation as they get to know each other. On their travels they briefly see Lars who quickly disappears. They enter the next Dark Birdcage, in which they witness a world where an alternate Saryu has brainwashed everyone in the magic academy with forbidden dark magic in order to get everything she wants, including the affections of the boy she liked. Akeha helps in distracting the boy as Saryu chases the rogue witch, where she also reunites with Priyet. Unable to decide which Saryu to listen to, Priyet escapes before she and Saryu could talk and Saryu defeats her other self possessed by black birds. In the process to returning to The Cage, she gets separated by Akeha, who she entrusts Mama to find as she proceeds. She once again encounters Lars, who mutters he is alone, and disappears again.
She enters another Dark Birdcage of Akeha's world but the data is so corrupted that there are dark splotches all over the environment until it becomes pitch black and all speech becomes distorted. There, Akeha returns and saves Saryu from another version of herself and defeats her, sending them back. Akeha comes to accept her past as an assassin who has blindly taken many lives and decides that she would decide her own future and wield her blade for whatever she personally believes in now. The two grow closer with Saryu reflecting on having completely misread Akeha and deciding that she wants to talk to Priyet who she also had misread.
They enter another Dark Birdcage where they find themselves in a forest of mirrors. Each mirror displays a shadowlike manifestation of Priyet's weaknesses and self loathing, with Saryu apologizing and confessing each of her own shortcomings, causing the mirrors to shatter. They reach the deepest part of the forest, where Saryu once again reunites with Priyet who is deriding herself for murdering their male best friend. Saria intervenes, realizing that they can't change the past and must accept their losses to move forward. She banishes the cruel images of the boy tormenting Priyet, asserting that their real friend would never speak such hateful words.
Returning to The Cage with Priyet, Saryu admits that she may never be able to forgive or understand Priyet for her actions but acknowledges her own failure to reach out to her and offers to help Priyet atone for their mistakes together, with the two best friends finding closure.
Library Entries[]
Treetops in Shadow[]
A swordswoman stands in the manor of a great lord. Looking around, she feels
as though time itself has been rewound. Listening to the sound of falling rain,
she keeps a wavy-haired girl in tow as she proceeds through the manor.
This is, without a doubt, the place the woman attempted to carry over her
final mission. As the pair still grapple with their situation, before them
appears a woman who is perfectly identical to the swordswoman.
Though one and the same in appearance, the air about them has
an entirely different air about her-an air that chills them to their
very bones. This newcomer's objective is the same as the
swordswoman's once was: find the enemy lord's successor,
and kill them. Unlike the swordswoman, however, this woman
carried out her mission with brutal finality, ending the successor's
life without hesitation. Despite being in the same situation,
and knowing every bit as well that she is simply a tool
being used by her master, she made an entirely different choice.
Upon seeing the successor's life ended, the wavy-haired girl admonishes the
woman for her cruelty, with that admonishment also, in a way, being directed
at the swordswoman herself. The swordswoman denies what she sees,
claiming that's not who she is. And then, surrounded on all sides by corpses
she faces off against a version of herself whose heart had completely
fallen into darkness. After all, the swordswoman distinctly remembers
making a different choice: to save the successor,
and turn her blade against her own duty.
Twisted Emotions[]
The girl finds herself in a place that resembles the school she knows well,
but is ... different. Twisted. Together with the swordswoman they make for
the town, fighting back students all the while. Upon arriving at the plaza
that houses the Pledging Plinth, as though in a perfect recreation of that
fateful day, the pair spy another version of the wavy-haired girl ... and
she is there with the spiky-haired boy. The boy says he will form a pact
with their mutual best friend: the bespectacled girl ... but the words warp
and distort, transforming into effusive praise of the wavy-haired
girl-and it is the fake wavy-haired girl who is forced him to say
such things. As the real wavy-haired girl approaches in an attempt
to end the madness, her imposter thrusts the boy
forward to act as a shield while she makes her escape.
Upon giving pursuit, the wavy-haired girl encounters
her once best friend, who now assumes the visage of a werebeast
after inflicting a horrible curse upon herself. As they grapple
with their complicated emotions, the pair rout all the brainwashed
students sent to stop them and make their way to where the fake
wavy-haired girl is waiting. The wavy-haired girl knows that this
imposter is just as real as she is-that she is another version of herself,
albeit one selfish to the point where she was willing to bend
reality if it meant getting what she wants.
She admonishes her other self and brandishes her staff.
Ruined World[]
Chasing after the fleeing werebeast, the wavy-haired girl finds herself in a
most bizarre manor. She opens sliding door after sliding door, gradually
proceeding further and further into its depths. As she does, the sights that
surround her grow increasingly bizarre. The sliding doors, floors,
and ceiling are all overtaken by mysterious symbols. Seized by fear,
the girl breaks into a dash as she searches for an exit. However,
the very space she occupies is overrun by the symbols, and in time
both the girl and the words she utters are encroached upon,
robbing them of meaning ...
Suddenly, she hears the sound of a door sliding open and
notices the swordswoman standing before her. The swordswoman
slashes at an enemy that barely resembles its original form.
And then, as noise spreads through the area, another
version of the swordswoman appears. As the real swordswoman
stands to defend the wavy-haired girl, she tells the imposter that
it's only appropriate assassins settle things by crossing blades.
The Unreclaimable[]
Having escaped from their dilemma, the pair trudge through a silent forest
It is the same forest where the wavy-haired girl once settled things with
her best friend. The wavy-haired girl calls out to her friend, saying she
wants to talk. She hears her best friend's voice echo through the forest,
saying how much she cares for the wavy-haired girl.
The pair navigate the forest, passing by row upon row of mirrors in
search of the voice's origin. As they walk, they hear the best friend
wail about her agony, and how her unchecked admiration for the
wavy-haired girl turned into a loathing of her own self. Hearing this,
the wavy-haired girl quietly responded that she
isn't the type of person to be admired in the first place.
In the deepest reaches of the ruins, they find both an enormous
mirror and the shadow of a hideous werebeast. Inside the mirror
they see the visage of the spiky-haired boy, who accuses the
two girls of being directly responsible for his death.
His words cause the werebeast to recoil and cover her ears,
but the wavy-haired girl simply stares back at the mirror
with fire in her eyes and yells at the spiky-haired boy to stop.
She knows that what has been lost can never be reclaimed,
and that those who have been left behind have no choice
but to find a way to move on. Turning to the werebeast,
she offers words of reconciliation to the girl
who was once her dear friend:
"Our best friend would never be so cruel to us. Isn't that right !? "
Overture III: Emerald (Patched Emotions)[]
063y wanders through a green lit city, trying to find his wife, F66x. He encounters Yurie, who is being tormented by multiple images of herself that berate her for being imperfect. After rescuing her, Yurie explains she learned that The Cage is a vast virtual space designed to manage the recorded history of humanity as data and that it is being attacked by unseen forces. 063y realizes that if The Cage is a virtual space, they themselves may be nothing more than recorded memories, yet he refuses to abandon his search for his wife.
As they navigate through the Dark Birdcages, they see versions of 063y's world where his compatriots fight against the Flowers and rebel against their corrupt organization, the latter of which secretly invokes Yurie's ire, who is disgusted by their imperfect nature of rebelling against their organization contrary to their design as cloned soldiers. 063y is faced with a record of his death by his wife and regrets not being able to save her when she lost control. They also meet Marie, who is apparently rampaging due to her records being destroyed. Mama briefly appears in a screen to guide them towards F66X before her screen cryptically shuts off. They continue onward to search for F66x and stop the rampaging Marie, with Yurie remarking on 063y's attentive care towards her despite her being an AI while 063y mentions he did so without thinking.
Into the next Dark Birdcage, 063y is plagued with guilt in not being able to prevent the hellish warzones he witnesses of his compatriots dying, while Yurie finds their willpower to be irrational and confusing for fighting a war they can't win. There, they find Griff who is trapped in a forcefield. After rescuing him, Griff becomes alarmed upon seeing Yurie and raises her gun at her before he vanishes, much to 063y's confusion. When he asks Yurie the meaning behind Griff's actions, she denies any knowledge of it.
They find a winged statue that warps them to the deepest parts of The Cage: a recreation of The Library from SINoALICE, whose bookshelves stretch up to the heavens. Resting at its entrance, they find the twin sisters Devola and Popola, unconscious or deceased. To progress, Yurie must perform complex calculations to unlock restricted sections, a process they accelerate by using "paper scraps" found throughout the ruins.
They read records such as a scientist's prosthetics research being abused for war weapons like Gayle, a woman who witnesses dying machines refusing repairs as they have made peace with the one life they had, the final moments of Fio as seen by a rich noble, the original F66X purposely deleting her research on how to defeat the flowers so that her cloned self could always remain with her cloned husband, Saryu and Priyet having a tragic lesson on a spider that's been transfixed to a butterfly, and a mysterious intruder attacking puppets in The Library from SINoALICE. All the stories kept here lies the history of human sin that repeats continuously.
One of the books transports them into a Dark Birdcage containing 063y's fabricated memory of the shopping mall where he lost his son. Yurie suddenly runs away and when he catches up to her, he finds many of his dead compatriots hovering in a cluster with his wife at the center of it all. There, Marie returns and reveals Yurie has been tricking 063y and jammed both hers and Mama's signals. Yurie plans to take advantage of The Cage's vulnerability in order to absorb all of its records on human history and become a perfect being. However, when Yurie attempts to do so, she is overwhelmed by the imperfection of human emotions in the recorded memories.
Yurie grows unstable and attacks the pair who try to dissuade her. They are rescued by Griff who sacrifices himself to hold Yurie back and get them out of the Dark Birdcage, telling them to look after Lars if he doesn't return. They make it back to The Cage, where Mama is finally able to communicate with them again and directs them to where Yurie and F66X are. Marie apologizes and blames herself for Yurie, while 063y remains determined to save his wife and stop her.
Through a Dark Birdcage, 063y and Marie enter a patchwork world of different timelines and eras of Yurie's creation. Yurie has become unstable as a result of rejecting the memories of human history that she absorbed. Both she and F66X lose control and become possessed by black foes. Refusing to let his wife die again, both he and Marie purify F66X and Yurie's data, to which Mama explains they need to continue to protect The Cage to prevent the same from happening again. They commit to doing so and ask for any information on Griff who had saved them.
Library Entries[]
Dark Calamity[]
A man walks the streets of a shining city. Having suddenly appeared here,
he is unable to grasp the situation he's been placed in. Static fills the corner of his vision.
Though he knows this is a virtual space, he searches for his partner.
No matter what incomprehensible predicament he may find himself in,
he focuses on the only task he believes matters: finding his beloved wife.
However, it's not his wife he finds at the end of the path,
but a girl clad in black surrounded by exact virtual replicas of her.
They call her "incomplete" and attack her.
The man joins forces with her to beat back the images.
During the melee, the man asks why the girl is being attacked by replicas of herself,
to which she replies simply by saying that the virtual space they occupy is on the
verge of destruction.
Sin and Punishment[]
They return to the nighttime city only to find it has changed, with a flash of static, to a familiar place.
Prisoners fight against Flowers among the ruins.
A record of the world where the man once lived was preserved in this same virtual space.
Prisoners labeled "defective" appear around them.
The defectives loudly proclaim resistance against the organization,
and the girl regards them with contempt-an absolute ruler like her must disavow
the imperfect who refuse to fulfill their duties.
At the end of the road, a record of the man and his wife's final moments plays.
He failed to protect his wife ... Reclaiming his memory of his final moments, he falls to his knees in despair.
Then, most suddenly, a girl clad in white appears before them.
In response, the girl clad in black draws her gun and aims it at this new visitor.
The Power of Will[]
A record of prisoners battling Flowers plays out in the virtual space.
The man and the girl in black press forward-the man to save his wife,
and the girl in black to stop the girl in white's rampage.
Static covers the world as it did before, and another world manifests before them.
But it is a world neither of them know.
It is a human battlefield, heavy with the stench of blood and gunpowder.
Injured soldiers, barely able to stand in their agony, march onward.
The man bemoans his powerlessness to help them, and the girl is fascinated by their strength of will.
There is a strange sight at the far end of the battlefield.
There stands a lone young man, surrounded by the bodies of soldiers.
Something floats in the air, enveloping him, as though caging him in ... or perhaps protecting him.
The man and the girl reach in to save him, but he vanishes in a flash of static.
The corpses that surrounded him float in the air and come together.
Before their very eyes manifests a massive, towering monster, which proceeds to attack the pair.
The Deepest Depth[]
They find themselves in a place known as the Library, where rows of bookshelves stretch into the heavens.
Twin girls sleep on the floor, sitting shoulder-to-shoulder.
The man opens a book beside them, and static fills the world once more.
Once it dissipates, he finds himself in a shopping center.
It is the place where he lost his son ... and a false record imprinted on his memory.
Venturing further inside, the man finds his wife, but she is unconscious.
The girl in white appears again and explains that this is all a ruse of the girl in black,
who has been using the man to achieve her own goal all along.
Seeking perfection, the girl in black intends to incorporate all of humanity's records into herself,
but a record of humanity is a record of all the wrongs human have done,
and the girl in black loathes the imperfection of it all and begins to lose control of herself.
Just as the girl in white attempts to stop her, a young man in military garb arrives.
He tells the man and girl in white to flee, and stays behind to stop the girl in black in her tracks.
wiLL[]
The man and the girl in white venture through a patchwork world comprised of various eras,
eventually finding themselves in a wasteland.
In the distance is the girl in black.
She summons the man's wife, but she is not who she once was-having been robbed of her sense of self,
she attacks the man.
Will things end the same way they did then?
The girl in white calls out to the shocked man.
Her strength of will and power of prayer will open doors once closed.
Her song encourages him, and he succeeds in saving his wife.
The girl in black witnesses this power of will and thinks on her own.
No matter how incomplete she may be, she still seeks superiority over the girl in white.
That sole desire becomes her strength, and she leaps to attack the girl in white.
Overture IV: Amber (Guidance Followed)[]
Griff becomes consumed by his regrets and is possessed by dark foes.
In another location, Yudil calms Rion, who worries for Dimos after being separated from him in the plaza. They are led by Mama who cryptically tells them she knows where Dimos is and leads them into a Dark Birdcage of Gayle's destroyed village. As Mama leads them further into the memory, Yudil and Rion begin to grow weary and find themselves in a trap filled with Mamas. Gayle arrives and exposes them as a bunch of Carriers who are attacking The Cage, in which they fend them off together. However, before Rion and Yudil can thank their rescuer, Gayle recognizes Rion as part of the royalty that destroyed her village and attempts to exact vengeance on him. Yudil protects him and they both make it out of the Dark Birdcage. Rion feels remorseful and guilty of the pain his family has caused Gayle while Yudil is surprised at meeting a royal like him.
They bond as they journey The Cage and search for Dimos together before receiving a message from Mama who requests their help, though Yudil remains weary after the incident with the Carriers. Mama tells them to continue entering the Dark Birdcages to confront their respective truths and sins. They make it to the next one in which Yudil is faced with illusions of him and the princess, Sarafa, living happily as he tells her stories (one of which was about a traveling puppet named Accord who observes humanity). Yudil finds something amiss about her smile and chases the phantoms, leading him into her chambers where he is crushed with despair over the revelation that Sarafa was the fortune teller who killed him and that he couldn't recognize her. Sarafa curses him as they leave the Dark Birdcage for giving her hope without ever seeing her for who she was.
Rion and a dazed Yudil are attacked by Puppets, with Lars coming in time to save them. Influenced by Griff's words, Lars tells Yudil he shouldn't run away from harsh truths and that Rion reminds him of Griff's honesty. Yudil and Lars decide to face Sarafa and Griff, with Lars independently leaving on his own again.
Both Yudil and Rion continue to support each other whenever they feel overwhelmed by their fears and guilt over Sarafa and Gayle. Within a memory, Gayle is down on her knees consoling her sister, while Sarafa approaches Yudil from behind. Both Sarafa and Gayle's sister become possessed by dark foes and torment their loved ones. Though Rion realizes Gayle may likely not forgive him, he refuses to turn a blind eye to her suffering, and together with Yudil, they purify the corrupted memory characters.
In a place of blinding light, Gayle embraces her sister and relinquishes her hatred towards Rion whereas Yudil and Sarafa forgive each other. The two pairs find closure and thank Rion before peacefully vanishing into thin air, lessening his guilt and strengthening his will to find Dimos, whose safety he has unwavering faith in. Entering the final Dark Birdcage, Rion reunites with a collapsed Dimos who is at the mercy of the possessed Griff. Lars arrives in time to stop Griff and Rion is able to repair Dimos. Dimos thanks Rion for always being there to save him, with Rion reciprocating the sentiment. Lars sates Griff's regrets about not being able to protect anyone by assuring him that he saved his life, purifying his data.
Rion, Dimos, Lars, and Griff return to the plaza where Mama manages to communicate with them, finally free from the enemy's jamming. She is perplexed when she notices Rion's party being the only one that managed to return to the plaza. Suddenly, the entire plaza rings with the sound of bells, with a Cursed God appearing. However, with Mama not knowing what's going on, the giant mooselike creature changes its shape into that of the Giant, becoming a featureless stonelike woman called the Mourning Mother. The Mourning Mother moans a barely coherent curse and begins attacking Rion's party, expelling smoke from its mouth that causes them to lose consciousness.
By the time they wake up, The Cage is mostly destroyed by the Mourning Mother's song. Both beautiful and eerie, the song upends The Cage, spilling out the worlds held in the bird hutches. Mama says she will escort the memory characters out of their weapon stories to safety, and asks them to repel the Mourning Mother's attacks and buy her time. The memory characters destroy the threat and find themselves in a blank space inside Mama.
It is revealed that Mama is Pod 006 and that The Cage is the YoRHa's lunar server on the Moon, containing all of humanity's data after its extinction. Alongside a bunch of her destroyed spare pod units, Pod 006 finds an unconscious female android who guards the lunar server with Pod 006: 10H.
- "I...am YoRHa unit 10H. I protect the server containing humanity's data here on the Moon. This is the last bastion of humanity. Someone...Someone please help me."
- — YoRHa No.10 Type H
Library Entries[]
The Solitary Wanderer[]
The world of memories was on the verge of collapse as The Cage was
relentlessly invaded by enemies. The world in which the soldier lived also
seemed to be affected by this. The soldier wanders through a battlefield littered
with corpses, searching for one of his subordinates-a boy who had disappeared.
The soldier believes that the boy must be alive somewhere, yet he is tormented
by guilt. So many lives were lost due to his own failure. Whether it was
due to the pressure of failure or the effects of this broken world, he
begins to hear hallucinations. The surrounding corpses call out to him,
"Everyone is dead. Everyone is dead, and it' s your fault."
In an attempt to shake these voices off, the soldier takes off across the
battlefield. Blocking his way is a phantom with exactly the same appearance
as himself. The phantom asks him why he is searching, to which he
replies that the boy is a precious compatriot. The vision replies, "We can't save anyone."
---
The world of memories where the boy lived was about to be swallowed by
raging flames. The boy searches for his lost attendant, and a thief helps the
boy in promise of a reward, proceeding forward and diving into the flames.
An aberration cloaked in a white sheet-Mama-appears from behind the
flames to lead the two. The boy tries to obey the words of the aberration,
but the thief notices that something' s not right. The aberration approaches
the two with kind words ... at that moment, a woman with prosthetic limbs
appears and slashes the aberration. The aberration, which was pure white,
turns black and attacks with malice. This Mama is a fake.
The two repel the aberration with the help of the woman. However, the woman's
hostility was then directed at the boy. The woman had realized that the boy
belonged to kingdom that murdered her sister. In order to fulfill her revenge,
the woman tries to kill the boy. However,
the thief deflects her sword and escapes with the boy in tow.
Where Tears Lead[]
The thief and the boy wander into a room in the palace. It was once the room
of the princess whom the thief had loved. In the room, phantoms of the thief
and the princess engage in chatter. While listening to their conversation,
the thief and the boy are swallowed by waves and washed
away to the night market. The thief's world is also collapsing.
The phantoms talk in the market as well. After being swallowed by the waves
several more times, they finally arrive at the beach. Waiting for them on the
beach is the fortune teller who ruined his plans with the princess and took his life.
The thief and the fortune teller once again fight for their lives. After the fight,
the scene changes back to the room in the palace.
There, the figure of the fortune teller remains unchanged.
But instead, the thief is confused by a truth he could not have known.
The true identity of the fortune teller with he despised so deeply was in
fact the princess in disguise. As if to mock the struggling thief,
the waves swallow them up again.
Path of Light[]
The boy dreams of the woman with the prosthetic limbs. In his dream,
the little sister who was supposed to be dead appeared beside the woman
who swore revenge. Holding her sister in her arms, the woman's hatred grows ...
The boy wakes up and runs through the palace with the thief, heading
back to the princess. But when he sees her, the thief is shaken, and rendered
unable to move. As the boy worries, the scene changes to that same town
he saw in his dream. There, a woman tries to exact her revenge.
And appearing there are none other than the sister who has become a
weapon and the fortune teller. In order to help the two,
who seemed to not be moving of their own will, the woman and the boys join forces.
After the battle, the woman and the boy face each other in a world of pure white.
The woman's sister is beside her, and the young girl speaks her true wish ...
"Don't suffer for me anymore." The woman's hatred for the boy quickly fades,
and she embraces her sister and disappears.
The thief also reconciles with the fortune teller he once hated.
The boy warmly sees the pair off.
Stronger Together[]
The boy runs through an unfamiliar battlefield in search of his attendant.
At the end of his path, he finds the attendant he has been looking for.
He confronts a man in military garb. His eyes are eerily red,
and he seems to have lost his sanity. When the young man fires his gun,
the attendant shields the boy and falls.
The boy was made to realize his own powerlessness.
The voice of the boy in military garb he met in the stone tower lifts the boy
from his despair. Inspired by his words, the boy opens the body of the
mechanical attendant. The beliefs, aspirations, and love he gained on his journey ...
The boy pours out his whole heart so that he might revive his attendant.
The two, bound by their trust in each other, reunite.
They join forces with the boy in military garb and succeed in stopping the soldier.
As the boy moved to care for the unconscious young man,
the voice of the white aberration, Mama, urges them on. In an
attempt to save themselves from collapse, the group escapes from the battlefield.
Act II: The Return (Cherished Memories)[]
At the Lunar Base, the weapon memory characters' faces are projected on screens as they bustle in confusion at Mama's new mechanical appearance and the pristine white environment before them, wondering who 10H is when Pod 006 brings her into the facility. Pod 006 reveals the shocking truth that The Cage is on the Moon and currently in a state of ruin due to relentless enemy attacks. 10H is an android assigned to the Moon to look after the human server with the Pod system and has been intimately caring for the weapon memory characters the whole time. In the monotony and solitude of 10H's duties on the Moon, she was comforted by the stories she read in The Cage, which gave her strength and helped fill her emptiness.
Pod 006 is unable to recover 10H's physical body due to the heavy infection, but she manages to preserve her consciousness data. 10H awakens and finds delight in being able to finally meet the people from within The Cage after reading about them from their weapon stories for so long. Both she and her Pod decide to confront the enemy directly by sending those from The Cage to the enemy's stronghold: Earth.
Through the Railhead and Arsenal orbital bases' virtual network space, they discover the antennae at the halfway point between the Moon and the Earth was compromised by the enemy, who uses it to send viruses over. 10H uses prepared programs to purge the corruption to The Cage, sending in Yuzuki and Hina, who she had discreetly became friends with when she found them wandering The Cage.
The siblings arrive to a virtual space that takes the shape of a museum that showcases the history of humanity up to its extinction (Red Dragon, White Chlorination Syndrome, Legion, Project Gestalt, Replicants). When Project Gestalt failed, humanity's final act was to store their genetic information, culture, and history within lunar server known as The Cage. The siblings fend against corrupted data taking the shape of The Dragon and Legions in the process. They also learn that in another timeline, they were soldiers of the Hamelin Organization, fighting Legion, and doomed to another life of unhappiness in which Yuzuki became a Red Eye and Hina was the 13th Crusaders captain forced to fight him. They come to the realization that if The Cage is destroyed, not only will the world end, but every memory of their families and past lives will be erased forever.
As they move toward the final access point, 10H discovers a connection to the Bunker, and while trying to purge its corruption, she learns from a data leak of 2B that YoRHa has been destroyed in the time she's been stationed on the Moon. After feeling alone for so long on the Moon and learning the rest of her kind was gone, she feels complete solitude and becomes vulnerable to corruption. Yuzuki and Hina fight the possessed 10H and save her from her loneliness, declaring they are friends and promising to see Earth together with her.
10H sends them to the server's final gateway to Earth, where Yuzuki and Hina are met with the terrible realization that they were the ones who created the enemy's portal to The Cage by restoring the Sun and the Moon. Despite their guilt, they are inspired by 10H's belief in them and decide to sacrifice their memories of their family to open up a portal to Earth. 10H and Pod 006 prepare to join them but a large number of black enemies arrive. Knowing her consciousness data corruption ran deep and that she will not survive the journey to Earth, 10H sacrifices herself to send Yuzuki, Hina, and Pod 006 (who carries everyone else from The Cage within it) through the portal. Thanking them for becoming their friends and bidding farewell to the Pod, she entrust them with protecting The Cage and the Earth.
Honoring 10H's wish, the characters arrive on Earth.
Library Entries[]
Orbital Satellite Base No. 1 - Railhead[]
Having been tasked with repairing a satellite that connects
Earth and the moon, a brother and sister descend into a relay server.
There, they find many paintings adorning the walls-it's like a museum.
Among them is a painting of a dragon impaled upon Tokyo Tower.
The plaque says that this happened in 2003,
but neither brother nor sister remembers it.
But they both know it is no ordinary painting.
And so, they press on to solve the mystery.
Suddenly, a white substance begins to fall and builds up on the floor.
It is not snow but fine pieces of salt.
The footprints pressed into the salt are not human.
The siblings follow the footsteps, only to be attacked by a monster
with red eyes. Brother and sister, who once hated each
other to the point of killing each other, now protect one another,
parrying the monsters clumsily with their swords and press onward.
The salt comes to a stop, and the two find a new painting.
It shows how the salt-borne disease wrought by the dragon's
death turned regular people into red-eyed monsters.
They recognize that this story is one of a world very
similar to their own. Several different worlds exist,
split like a branch upon possibilities.
The world they see is one that lived through a nightmarish history.
Orbital Satellite Base No. 9 - Arsenal[]
Brother and sister come to an old-fashioned gallery where
they encounter a pale aberration. It speaks like a broken machine,
but it shows them no malice; it's almost as though it's there to greet them.
The aberration guides them through the facility, and they
witness the history of the world in which the dragon appeared.
"The Soldiers Who Fight the Monsters" showed that those
who fought against the red-eyed monsters formed a military
organization called the Crusades and sent an endless
stream of young people into battle. Among these children,
they find a brother and sister who look exactly like them.
They fought, ran themselves ragged, and countless many died.
"Humanity Revival Project" showed those who desperately
searched for a way to escape the salt-borne disease.
There, technology to split the human body and soul
then preserve both until the right time came,
all to stop the progression of the disease, was born.
"The Extinction of Humanity" showed the end of all things.
No matter how many monsters they fought, no matter
what technology they developed, humanity understood
there was no escaping their demise.
And so, they turned to their final option.
They left the key to humanity's revival for the far distant future.
They locked away the human genome and all of humanity's culture,
history, and memory into The Cage.
But now, the enemy is destroying The Cage.
繝舌中繧ォ繝シ秘屬譯ィ菴[]
The girl stands in the Bunker's command room.
This was the androids' base for their fight against the machine
lifeforms that encroached on the Earth-weapons unleashed by the aliens
when they landed in the year 10,000.
The girl herself was once among them.
But with the end of the war comes a machine attack on their base.
Elite soldiers infected with a virus appear before her.
This virus, built to destroy androids, spreads in an instant.
The girl avoids her old android friends as they brandish their
weapons and yell at her, welcoming her back to her home.
She makes her way through the base to see if any are safe.
The girl finds a single sword in the corridor.
A voice floods her mind the moment she lays her hand on it.
She learns that its old wielder, too, lost her life due to the virus.
There are no more sane androids; the base has been annihilated.
Her home gone and missing her friends, she has no choice but to endure by
tricking herself into thinking she is used to being alone. Her heart, too,
has lost its home. "Maybe I should ... join everyone ... "
she murmurs as she listlessly walks the corridors.
Black birds appear from thin air and gather around the weakened girl,
forming a black sphere. The sphere shoots into the air, leaving this world.
The siblings stand in an inky black darkness.
If they manage to restore this last access point,
then the path to Earth will be opened.
As their eyes adjust, they proceed upwards
around the outside of the tower. There, they find an old, run-down
device resembling a projector. They activate it,
and it displays hologram data. It is a record of the war
between the androids and the machine lifeforms.
It is a long history-one that will lead to the machines'
eventual rule over every city ... The completion of their kingdom.
The top of this tower is familiar. It is the altar at which the two of them
restored the broken sun and moon. But what comes to mind for both
are memories of destruction. They invited the enemy into
The Cage to make their wishes come true.
Even as they fight the enemy, their hearts are tainted with despair.
But the encouraging words of the friend who sent them here flash
through their minds, and that alone is enough to make their hearts one.
Sun and moon meet to form an eclipse-the true gate that links
Earth and The Cage. But at the same time,
the enemy attacks to close the gate.
Behind all of those who rush toward the gate, the android girl
stops to keep the sun and moon from separating.
She knows she is breaking due to the infection,
and so she has thrown her own life away for the
sake of the friends who saved her from loneliness.
"We didn't have much time together, but I had a lot of fun,"
she says, her words skipping and glitching.
despite knowing they will never hear her.
And so she leaves the fate of The Cage and Earth to all her friends.
Act III: Transmigration (Goodbye)[]
- "The world must be returned to how it ought to be."
- — Data left in a record tucked away
- "I never had the power to change the world. ...But I at least had the power to change myself."
- — A note found beside a dark monster
Everyone's consciousness transmits into a white remote use pod. Earth has become covered in snowlike salt, reminiscent of White Chlorination Syndrome, and filled with endless stone towers like The Cage. Standing out in the center of the city-like collection of structures is a great domed buildings called The Birdhouse, where the enemy is located according to 10H's data. Pod 006 draws near to the dome to investigate but the fortress's anti-air defense system releases a laser that the Pod barely evades. She moves out of targeting range and plans how to disable the defense system.
The characters wonder why the Earth mimics how The Cage looks, but in reality, The Cage mimics the Earth, hence why The Cage once took on the form of a paradise before the enemy attacked. Now, white towers similar to those in The Cage mysteriously cover the earth. They arrive below the turret that was firing at them and search for an access point. Upon gaining access, stored records inside washing over the characters of how the planet came to be in its current state.
Before the Birdcage appeared, in the place it stood was a quantum server known as the Divine Tree. With the creation of the quantum server was its sole Administrator: Him. He was created to observe humanity's history recorded within it. Though he could observe memories of the past, he could never intervene, and so began to absorb humanity's painful emotions in order to better understand them. He discovered that the server not only contained memories of the present, but records of the future as well. After witnessing His own birth, He realized that history was repeating itself in a time loop. He began to despair in His loneliness and continuous observation of humanity's cruel, repeating fate. Eventually, in an effort to change the perpetual repetition, He made a wish to escape, resulting in noise appearing within the quantum server. Divergent timelines appeared as branches, leading Him to learn of the endless possibilities brought about by the choices people called Singularities make. In order to change his own fate, He decided to make a choice and create Her, another version of himself. He taught Her how to access memories within the server, and the two continued observing humanity's looping history. Though witnessing the memories caused them bitter, endless grief, the two Administrators were able to support each other and believed humanity had the power to defy its fate as a result of their choices, putting all their hope into this wish. Fio likens this story with her and Levania. Levania lost his memory and cannot understand the sentiment, but he does not reject it.
Pod disables the anti-air system and enters the Birdcage and once again sees records wash over her. This record is of Her, who is confronted by a white-haired Replicant girl named Kainé wishing to save her friend during the events of Ending E. After the failure of Project Gestalt, Him and Her, who were cleaning the world of its remaining Replicants, decide to test Kaine's potential as a Replicant until they recognized her as a Singularity. Having understood that their wish for humanity's revival may be possible through her, even as she was destroying the data in the quantum server, they engaged in a fierce battle in which the two programs faced their doom. Him wells up joy, finally seeing the hope to save humanity in Kainé; however, Him miscalculated. Even though the pair disintegrated in the battle, Her ended up surviving and was faced with an eternity in the broken, desolate server alone.
Uncovering more records, the memory characters learn of a Red Girl: the visual manifestation of the will that germinated in the Machine Network. After the end of the 14th Machine War, one of the Red Girls departed on the Ark with several other machine lifeforms while the other remained on Earth, having come to regret her cruel experimentation on both androids as well as her own machines. From then on, she spent her days in loneliness and gradual deterioration, absorbing the data of destroyed machine lifeforms as a form of penance. She is eventually found by Her, who empathized with her deep solitude and didn't see her as an enemy. Her absorbed the Red Girl into herself and took on the color of hatred: red.
It is revealed that Her is the true enemy that has been attacking The Cage with viruses. Blaming humanity for her loneliness, Her planned to sever all bonds and grant everyone "salvation" so that no one else would ever come to experience her pain. With the combined might of the Machine Network and quantum server, she froze the entire planet, including all androids and machines, and remade the Earth into that of the Aliens' homeplanet, and began her attack on The Cage, the last bastion of humanity's data. Through chatrooms, Her gave orders to the defected Pod 012 (Carrier) and The Cage's security management programs she corrupted (Dark Mama and Papa) to manipulate Fio and Levania and later the siblings into opening a portal between The Cage and Earth, which is how The Cage faced its impending destruction across multiple branches.
Fio's heart aches at Her's sorrow, and she reveals to Levania she wishes to be Her's friend. Levania does not understand this feeling, but he has a faint impulse to help her with this wish. Fio, Levania, and Pod 006 meet Her, who had relegated herself in stasis within a structure known as The Birdhouse. Pod 006 hacked into Her and entered an virtual space representing Her heart. The space was guarded by imitations of Her and contained spiraling objects thought to be viruses created within Her heart.
Fio attempts to reason with Her, asking if she was simply lonely and afraid to make new friends, causing Her to lash out and severely damage Fio, Levania, and Mama. The remaining Cage residents fought Her and sent Fio and Levania their power to defeat Her. At the climax of the battle, she seals Fio in eternal chains that'd take her into a world of pitch darkness, devoid of her memories. But at that moment, Levania recalls all his memories from his travels with Fio and awakens as a Singularity. Wishing to honor their promise to play together and always help her, Levania fights Her to rescue Fio by summoning external characters from The Cage the player has collected up to this point.
With the memories of her experiences with everyone in The Cage empowering her as well as the voice of Levania who tells her his true name, Fio breaks free of her chains and Levania defeats Her. The Administrator attempts to escape to a divergent timeline branch, but Fio, empathizing with Her, intervenes.
The Birdcage and surrounding stone towers crumble, with stagnant machine lifeforms and androids awakening amidst the rubble. Now having reincarnated into a physical form, Fio and a reluctant Her awaken under open blue skies on Earth. Fio, having asked Mama for a favor, remained on Earth to become friends with Her while Levania and the rest went back to The Cage. Levania decides to watch over Fio from above, promising to help her and reunite with her when she needs it, thus beginning the long parting between The Girl and The Monster.
The Cage residents return to their respective worlds within their weapon stories, while Hina and Yuzuki are forced to continue to wander The Cage after giving up their core memories. However, a copy of 10H reappeared in The Cage and they make good on their promise to do something together as friends, with the three's memories being collected by Mama. With that, each of The Cage residents' stories were repaired, as were Mama's memories. A book containing the library entries from The Girl and the Monster, The Sun and the Moon, and The People and the World were extracted from Mama and given to another Mama for delivery to an unknown location for archival. When Levania asks her where she is going, Mama tells them that he and everyone else will be alright and that she would always be watching them from afar.
Library Entries[]
Earth - Quantum Server Operation
The 2nd Girl: "Her"[]
Pod activates the device, which connects to a memory of when the quantum
server on Earth was in operation.
The memory shows the past of a boy and girl, both clad in white.
They are the administrators of the quantum server, and they have no names.
They are only called Him and Her.
Theirs is a simple role: to observe all the memories of humanity
recorded in the server. They venture through the server's virtual space.
He encourages Her to activate the device,
which then connects to a memory of long, long ago.
It is a time when human science made significant advances and culture
flourished. It seemed the device could draw up memories recorded in the server.
She accesses more and more and sees what becomes of humanity.
She comes to know their future, the pain that plague and violence causes
them, and their trudge toward extinction. While She grieves humanity,
He speaks of His belief that they will be revived one day.
Earth - Quantum Server Ruination
The 3rd Girl: "Red Girl"[]
Pod accesses the next device.
There, they see a memory of what happened
after the quantum server deteriorated. Inside the broken virtual space,
the Red Girl accesses a crumbling device.
It is a memory of when humanity had gone extinct and their cities
crumbled...a time when the Red Girl commanded the machine
lifeforms in their conquest of Earth and waged war with the androids.
While the machines had the upper hand for some time,
the war ended with both sides suffering heavy losses,
neither side the victor. The Red Girl, too,
was at the end of her life. She incorporated the machines' memories
into herself. She burdened herself with their
pain and suffering in hopes of expiation. As she continued onward,
She appeared. The Red Girl then reaches out to Her,
though She is meant to be her enemy, and pleads for salvation.
The last thing the Red Girl speaks of is her loneliness.
But She absorbs the Red Girl and then uses her power to transform the city.
In the end, it looks just like The Cage.
Earth - Quantum Server Foundation
The 1st Boy: "Him"[]
The device in front of The Birdhouse connects to a memory of when
the quantum server was established.
He was created within the server to observe humanity's memory.
The first thing He sees is humanity's grim path to extinction.
He attempts to save people, but He cannot interfere with memories.
And so, He decides to incorporate the memory into himself,
believing that knowing their pain and suffering would make salvation possible.
But the server not only houses memories of the past but the future as well.
After watching memories of the lifeless dolls' war,
He sees a future where Earth is a series of strange buildings.
And then, He watches His own birth. History repeats itself.
As He watches history run the same path over and over again,
He learns of human emotion, and He finds pain in His loneliness.
And so He births Her, believing He can change His own fate.
Earth - Quantum Server Operation
"Her" and "Him"[]
He and She run through the memories of the quantum server.
Pain comes with continually witnessing the memories of humanity's destruction,
but together, they can support each other.
They spend eternity in one another's company, waiting for the
day when someone makes the choice to save humanity.
After a long, long time, a woman with white hair appears before them.
This woman lost her friend and knew loneliness.
She wants to destroy the quantum server in order to get him back...which would
mean killing both Him and Her. The pair lose, and He vanishes,
feeling hope for humanity's possibilities. But He does not anticipate
Her living on even further into the future, though She scatters into pieces.
This time, She is the one who must spend eternity alone.
"I...want to see Him again..." Her voice drifts through the sea of memory and fades.
Earth - Quantum Server Ruination
"Her" and "Red Girl"[]
She walks alone through endless nothingness.
She thinks about Him through the never-ending ages.
She does not know how much time passes, but eventually,
the Red Girl appears before Her. She knows that the girl is an enemy of humanity.
But now, because they both know loneliness, she is not Her enemy.
She reaches out to offer salvation.
But when She learns that the Red Girl is beyond repair,
She absorbs her so She can carry her memory onward...and they become one.
The red of hatred spreads through Her. Had She been alone from the beginning,
She would have never had to carry the sadness of loss. And so,
She freezes the world and time in place.
But Earth is not the only place that is home to humanity's histories and bonds.
She sets free the black birds, then uses
Carrier and the siblings to bring about the fall of The Cage on the moon.
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