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Eric asks Delta if he killed Gab, and he confirms it and gives the shotgun Eric now holds as the murder weapon. He says there wasn't much life left in Gab anyway. Sean calls him a monster, and Delta says he never expected that from him. And the other thing? He can Mind Hack. They say he already told them that, but he says he didn't explain it fully, and explains the bit about controlling others' bodies. And he gives an example...and forces Eric to shoot him! Phi understands. Delta says it's time for the Final Decision Game. They have two choices. One. To stay here and wait to die. The other is... The other is... And Delta dies. Junpei tries to revive him to learn what the other option is. Scene cut. Five minutes to explosion. Eric asks about the X-Door, and Mira reminds him that the door will stay closed until six people die. Akane says she has an idea. All of them will SHIFT, together. Mira and Eric point out that they can't SHIFT. Sean reminds them of what he told them about quantum mind. With certain conditions, anyone can do it. They need danger...and they need to be in the vicinity of a group of SHIFTers. Carlos gets it. They'll resonate, and Mira and Eric will be able to join them. Sigma asks where they'll go, and Phi says none of the similar histories will work, as one of the teams will be dead after the vote.

...But there's one other history where all nine of them are still alive. I don't even have to wait for the game to reveal it to me. It's the one where Carlos called "red".

Diana continues that they can't SHIFT if there's no body to jump to, and Akane says they need to jump to when they're all alive. Diana realizes it. So does Carlos. The history where they won the coin toss. Mira's not sure what's going on, but it sounds like a good idea. Sigma says there's no way they could do that. Phi explains that SHIFTing isn't just jumping into new bodies, and Carlos adds the bit about swapping. Junpei says they'd be dooming their other selves, and they'd have no idea why they died. Mira, of course, doesn't understand what the problem with that is. They got to do the coin toss one time and win, and they're off living without a care. Isn't that unfair? Sigma says that she's saying "they", but they're talking about themselves here. Phi isn't so sure. Junpei agrees. If they here are their true versions, then the them in the other history are essentially strangers. Sigma says that's even more reason not to. Carlos agrees with Sigma, as does Diana. Those people did nothing wrong. They won at a coin toss. Junpei says the only thing they did was lose a coin toss, and they had to go through so much shit. Eric says that the bodies in those histories are theirs anyway. Mira agrees, and says they shouldn't second-guess themselves. One minute left. Akane sums things up, and Phi realizes that's what Delta meant. The Final Decision Game.

Bad endings first, always. Don't SHIFT. The base blows up. But it says...all fragments complete? I return to the Final Decision and opt to SHIFT. And it immediately takes me to the Fragment Select screen, full complement. Ah, but there's a new exclamation point below the first ending. You know, the one we got all the way back in post 1? "Payoff 2". Right, the first ending was called "Payoff."

Nevada Desert--DCom. December 31, 2028, 12:06 PM. They can't remember anything. Akane feels like she made a bet with someone. Everyone's confused. Phi wonders if they all forgot what happened. Mira asks if she could ask all of them something. Who is this kid? ...Oh, this was before they shifted in. That's why it seemed so familiar.We see the lights come in. They come to, and Sigma asks if they did it. Diana says they're not wearing the bracelets, so she doesn't know the time, but...Phi says based on the position of the sun, it's probably noonish. Sigma asks about the date, and Phi asks how she should know.
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