LogFAQs > #917168269

A flashback to everyone being moved into the facility. They're told they'll all be living together, and someone, I think it's Junpei, asks if that includes the old man in the wheelchair. The old man is identified as "Q", and the others are told that he can't walk, see, or hear. Hah, that explains everything. All of them just disregarded his presence, because they believed that he couldn't see or hear them anyway. He could be present with any group, off-camera, and they'd never address him, never acknowledge him. They ask why he's there, then. A flashback to Mira explaining the purpose of Dcom, but with a twist. They were supposed to figure out how strangers would deal with a problem...only this time, Eric replies, "Like the chair-bound old man... They put us in a difficult position on purpose, to observe how we'd get out." But it was all a lie. He removes his glasses, and Sigma realizes that they're a screen. He was viewing all security footage of them, spying on them...but only in histories where he is alive. ...Because he's the real Q. Not Seanbot. Q isn't listed on the casualty list in the apocalypse timeline because Delta isn't dead. That's why "Sean" didn't work. It's not Q's real name--Delta is! Eric demands Sigma take off his clothes, but Delta says there's no need. "This is what you wanted to see, correct?" And he lowers his turtleneck, revealing scratches. Hm...yes, he has exactly the right build to be the cloaked figure, too, the one that killed D-Team after their escape from the Healing Room. Sigma tells Eric not to shoot. They won't be able to ask him anything if Eric shoots him. They ask him if he was the one who killed Junpei, too, and he says Mira did that. She was, in a sense, a collaborator. She was a necessary element of his plan, but it wasn't as though he gave her a specific set of orders. He simply let her roam free and do as she pleased. Though she was exempted from the drug injections. She's a serial killer, "The Heart Ripper". Many innocent people lost their lives because of what she's done. He only gave her her due punishment. As usual, Eric doesn't believe it. Hm, yes, it's all coming together. Mira's first victim was the woman from 17 years ago; the wrongly accused man was Akane's father. I'm still sticking with the child who was unable to receive life-saving surgery as a result of the taxi accident being Sean. Delta says that in another history, Eric, Sigma, and Diana were all murdered by her. Eric refuses to believe it. He wants to shoot Delta now. Sean stops him. Eric says the X-Door will never open again, but Sean says it will. Sigma asks Delta how. Delta says that Sean needs to get direct access to the central computer. But he needs to extend a cable from his neck to the console. But the cover is shut. Eric demands the code. Delta gives it. 3808-0832. Sean connects the cable and starts to open the X-Door. Then the shotgun fires. Sigma and Sean have both been shot. Eric claims his hand just... Delta says he has no more use for this history. God damn it. We learned about this in 999! With enough control over the morphogenetic field, you can outright make other people do things. The examples they used there were all goofy, but...Delta's been doing that all game. That's why Diana and Carlos occasionally made physical decisions that disagreed with their mental desires. By playing Zero Time Dilemma, you are, in fact, letting Delta control Diana, Carlos, and Sean. And Eric's pleading with Delta not to do this, as he's forcibly made to put the barrel of the gun beneath his own chin and blow his head off. Delta speaks a single word to Diana: "Mom." Roll credits yet again. I'll grab the bad ends to this path before continuing on. For the helmet code, putting in a wrong answer just clears it, and you have to exit out to get the unknown, but you can accuse anyone of being Zero (I went with Mira for the lulz.)
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