Oh, no
I can't calm down.
The other one!
Oh, thank God for Moma, and freaking' go call him 
right now; go call Ota, call everybody, okay?
I thought it was a bad premonition that everybody was saying, "Hey,"
"We're gonna come help Iris, okay? We're gonna 
do it, okay?" Now we really need their help
Get your lackies over here
Later!
The storage warehouse
Augh
Thank you though, Moma; that was really fast
Well--the more, the merrier
Mm, this is really bad because we 
can't rely on the police, now
We don't know how many connections Pewter's got
Boss, I'm still not too sure about, so now we 
gotta rely on external things like Moma, and
maybe even Ota
9:30 P.M.
Augh
That's a lot of people
"Something"
People with guns
They're not kidding; everybody has a gun
What do we do, then?
How long has it been?
About two hours, I think?
We got back to ABIS at around 
7, right? And now it's 9:30
Whoa, it's thundering
Do you think maybe we can use that 
to our advantage, again?
But Aiba, the fact that Aiba's made by Pewter,
now I'm pretty worried because, all he has to do is activate that thing again and I'll be knocked out again
How's that gonna work out?
But on the other hand, without Aiba,
I can't really do anything
Why does it keep telling me to look at that?
Oh, it's something else, okay.
You want me to look at it again? 
Everything's green, nothing's turning gray
It seems like that's it
A van
Okay
X-ray
Mm
Is she tied up, is she knocked out? I can't tell
Oh, you're here
Plenty
I don't think you should be that cocky 
about it though, because,
as we saw with Pewter just now, he can 
just turn that off with the snap of a finger
I don't know how we can win this
Okay.
No, you can't kill him.
Hey, forget about that
I really feel like if Renju wanted to kidnap 
Iris, it would be it would be much easier
by just coming up to her directly as opposed 
to getting a bunch of armed men,
but maybe it's because I was around?
(Welonz sighs)
I don't know, the whole thing is just so mysterious, and 
I don't even know where to start thinking about this,
Sejima's in on it, 89's in on it, Pewter's in on it,
Renju's in on it, Boss is on it and I--(Welonz scoffs)
I'm so defeated, I don't feel like I have any friends
except Moma of all people
Oh, my God.
Wow
(Welonz chuckles) What are you holding in your hand right now?
I'm glad we have it, though.
Can we just ram all the way across to the van?
Oh, my gosh, it's like, thundering so
hard today, or uh, lightning
I don't know
I guess there's the implication that if we don't 
stop this, then she'll die, but then it's like,
why do they wanna kill a teenage girl?
Why is she so important, and 
why would Renju wanna kill her?
Because Renju's supposed to be like her 
father figure, right? Why would he do that?
Hold on. Let me just--
Let me just really quickly look at it again
Yeah.
Water, alright.
(Welonz chuckles)
Yeah, we gotta go save A-set right now, 
we gotta forget about this for now
Ota!
Wow, Moma's really small
(Welonz gasps) Mizuki, right.
And he wasn't gonna do it, until Aiba did it for him.
Wow, we're really relying on a lot 
of non-police people here today
(Welonz chuckles)
(Welonz chuckles)
That's true
That's also true
(Welonz chuckles) I don't think he'd mind
Uh, it's my roommate on the rate, and on 
the left, it's A-set's admirer, your fellow fan.
Moma, why didn't you bring your 
lackies? And Ota, actually,
you're shorter than him, so, I wouldn't be
 talking if I were you (Welonz chuckles)
(Welonz snickers)
Oh, my God.
This is so cheesy.
(Welonz chuckles)
Roll with it, alright? Don't fight it
Yeah!
Yeah!
Yeah!!
Truly
Is he even a good shot?
And let's hope it doesn't come to that,okay?
Let's not forget she's actually 
just an elementary schooler
Let's go
Oh!
With a cop off-duty,
a NEET,
an elementary schooler,
and a Yakuza boss. (Welonz chuckles) 
Quite a combination we have here
Oh! Right off the bat
There's porno mags in the crates at the harbor, remember?
Or like, dolls or something?
'Cause we already know that worked 
last time (Welonz chuckles)
(Welonz chuckles)
Oh, my God.
She's your eyeball!
(Welonz chuckles)
I'm still a little bit worried about 
overly relying on Aiba, though
What, what was that?we had a little bit of 
a flashback again. Don't really like that
(Welonz chuckles)
Uh--
(Welonz chuckles)
I thought there were more in the crates.
Do we really need to use this one?
I feel bad for Date (Welonz chuckles)
"What?"
(Welonz chuckles)
"No one back home" They don't belong here
Although I do feel like it's a little bit weird 
why they don't talk about the English
(Welonz chuckles)
That feels a little bit overkill too, like we're actually 
gonna be murdering those people, is that okay?
I mean, yeah, they're killing Iris, or--that's what we assume they're gonna do, so okay.
Is the heart thumping just a generic
"Oh, I'm gonna use my gun now" kind of thumping?
Oh, my lord.
Nobody has qualms about killing anybody
For A-set, our goddess
As an ancient proverb once said,
"A-set, you bet" (Welonz chuckles)
iI think these action sequences potentially 
put off a lot of people because
they're not really all that serious,
I don't know, like, I can roll with it because I feel like 
it's not supposed to be serious anyway,
but I can see how it can put off people
(Welonz scoffs) Haha
Ew, they're not even new
Yeah!
(Welonz chuckles)
Alright, let's go boys and girls
I guess all this immersion breaking doesn't
 really bother me, because at the end of the day,
I expect to win these engagements. So 
how we get there is not really important to me
Oh, my God.
(Welonz chuckles)
That's a really thin little wire
Oh, my God.
Oh, damn.
The second barricade
Oh, God.
There's still more
Oh, my God.
Kid!
You're supposed to be our 
secret weapon, don't just run out there
Oh, my God, now we gotta be
careful about hitting her, too
Ooh
Nice moves, but everybody's got a gun; I'm so worried
Ooh
Ota
Oh, no!
Thanks, man
What do you know, ragtag team of 
4 beating an entire gang
Just like a princess
Wow (Welonz chuckles)
Hm
Pewter didn't seem too unpleased about it
but he's not really a person that 
normally shows a lot of emotion, anyway
So I don't know, is he unpleased about it?
Maybe not on a personal level, because he's not sure--
supposedly, he's not sure why he's doing this, anyway
Okay, I'm trying to think about the 
aftermath of this and how's it gonna go because
Pewter's part of ABIS
We can't even go back there now, 
and Boss--do we still suspect her?
On a meta level, probably but 
within this route, no, I don't think
And we can't even go back home 
because we'll be hunted down
Wow.
What about Hitomi?
What does she think about all this?
"Good news and hope", huh? I got you, girl
They were gonna take you, but somehow 
we managed to get you back
in one piece, too--with your eye intact 
and all and you don't seem hurt
So I guess I'm pretty happy about that
I think if we think about it a little bit more, then
it's kinda weird why Pewter didn't 
activate the Aiba thing again on me
He kinda let me go, although we 
have 3 other people with us,
so chances are we probably could've 
gotten away anyway, but still,
the whole situation really feels more like
they let us go rather than we really won
Well, I'm happy if you're okay
But um, (Welonz scoffs)
I feel like we really shouldn't be  that worried 
about your motion sickness right now,
we need to work on getting you to some place safe
Seriously
You didn't get to see Renju at all, then.
It was just Pewter.
And they brought you here. (Welonz sighs)
I'm trying to, like--
I guess, think about this info in 
the context of the other routes, too,
and, remember in the other route--
before Iris died,
sh--we think that she drove herself to the warehouse,
but before that, she went to Sejima's place,
but then this time, she's getting taken here by Pewter,
forcibly, with a bunch of mercenaries 
that speak foreign languages
Very different situation, but in every route,
she ends up at the storage warehouse
Mm
Mm...
Okay, I'm kinda glad to see that there's an actual 
in-game reason for why Date's acting like this, because
he's acting very, very differently 
than we've ever seen him,
and you're telling me now that it's because
 Iris has been subconsciously affecting him
Okay, I can buy that
and I do feel like I'm getting called out a lot
by the game itself about how, "Oh, this route is 
really, really illogical, do you really wanna down it?"
Of course we do, but it's like--
everybody can see how illogical 
Date's being right now besides himself
Yeah. We associate events, objects 
with the people we like
(Welonz chuckles)
Yeah, your mom (Welonz chuckles)
If you look at mizuki, Ota, and Iris,
they all come from completely 
different family upbringings,
and completely different family makeups too
Ota lives with his mother, who is aging and
is having trouble taking of herself and Ota
 and their store, which is now closed down,
Whereas Mizuki, has both her parents biologically 
but they don't really care about her--
Oh, I'm sorry, she doesn't have her parents 
anymore, whoops (Welonz chuckles)
but you know what I mean
She does have Date, but in this route, he's
 not really caring about her all that much,
but um, yeah she does have a guardian
and that's not really like a complete 
family either, whereas Iris--
Iris has a mother, who loves her a lot,
and this uncle, who used to love her 
a lot too, but he's disappeared
and just little things about this family,
like how they decided to frame her drawing on the wall,
I feel like you can feel a lot of love from that.
Even though technically, this 
family is not that complete either;
it's really just her and her mother now
That's the thing we did in the memory, right?
In our memory of little Iris?
So the fact that we saw that flashback just now,
you can interpret it to be like a visualization 
of what Iris is trying to tell us, or--
you could also say that, "Hey, we're seeing 
this because these are Date's memories",
and that would make a lot of 
sense with the whole body-swap thing
Good question
Mm
Right, they keep bringing this up,
that he might not be ethnically Japanese,
I'm not sure if that has a meaning,
but yeah, if we didn't already have a theory
 about Date and Falco being swapped,
I feel like this would be really alarming, 'cause 
she's telling you that her uncle is a freakin'
serial killer in prison.
But she doesn't seem to know
Right, Falco--
is me, though; Falco is the codename 
that he used or--that I used,
89 is the thing that identifies the 
person in prison right now,
Falco and 89 are not the same, even tho I keep calling him "Falco" because we don't know his name
(Welonz chuckles)
See, this is a really big hint; we have a memory of this
I don't know if it's because I initially saw 
89 in the context of being a serial killer,
but his face seems very, like--
unkind and serial killer-y to me,
whereas Date's face is something
 I've been staring at the whole time, so
it's kinda hard to wrap my head around this whole thing
Ohh, that's right--you didn't tell me 
about who visited you that night
I don't really like her tone of voice 
here; she sounds really serious
Am I not gonna like what I'm gonna hear?
Hm.
Yeah.
Yeah, okay, I think I went back and forth on this, I thought, "Oh, maybe he can't be the person because"
"we already learned from the maid cafe 
that he was looking for her" but then--
because that's the case, then it would make 
sense that he was the one who came by
Hm.
That would probably explain how in the other route 
that we got a lock for, where Iris was like,
"I'm gonna go find the person I trust the most now"
how she was able to find him to begin with
Maybe he left contact information for her?
She's worried because, by saying that,
she might've compromised him, 
and made me think he's the killer
Oh--ah, that's right, timing wise,
the maid cafe person, the maid, told me that 
Renju was looking for Iris on Friday, right?
When was the livestream?
On the same day?
Did he go to her house before he 
went to the maid cafe or after?
I'm guess after, because by the time 
of the maid cafe, eh didn't find her yet
And that's how you were able to get away
Okay.
Okay, you know how earlier, we were talking about um,
why Pewter did this for Renju,
and it was out of love, right?
And I'm thinking about it a little bit more now,
That's right, this game is 
"AI: The Somnium Files",  "ai", "love"
"Ai" also means a whole bunch 
of other stuff like "sorrow"
in Japanese, but um, let's just look at "love" for now,
I feel like right off the bat, instinctively,
if you tell me that a man came to 
take away a little girl, I'm like
"Oh, my God, he must be a serial
killer trying to murder her,"
"and kidnap her, and cut her into pieces."
But at the same time, we've heard 
so much about how Renju...
loves Iris
Yeah, I don't think that's an exaggeration;
he practically helped raise her.
So from that standpoint,
I wonder if whatever he's doing, 
might actually be trying to help her
Especially because we know that 
she has a disease right now, and
Hitomi did mention that there's 
one way that she can be saved by
which we never got to hear about
I just feel like, people doing things out of love,
mistakenly or not, should be a big theme in this
Oh, my God.
Okay, so this explains why Renju didn't just go up to Iris
at Golden yokocho being like 
"Hey, Iris, it's me, Renju; come with me",
because he's already tried that and Iris ran away
So that's why he decided  to hire four 
mercenaries to kidnap her forcefully?
That seems kind of extreme, too
Mm...
Renju wouldn't be so low to use 
Mizuki to get to Iris though, right?
Yeah, nothing happened that night, so I hope not. Okay.
So we're getting a confirmation 
here that during that day,
Iris walked around, and didn't go home
But then what about that frozen corpse?
'Cause I'm pretty sure the 
"parallel world" thing is not real
What the heck's that, then?
She loves him
See, that doesn't sound like 
somebody who would hurt Iris
Somebody who's taken care of her 
since she was a little baby
But it's still scary when a man suddenly
drags you to a warehouse,
I'm assuming that's where he took her
She didn't recognize it because 
she's never been there before
I don't blame you
I--(Welonz exhales) I want to believe 
that Renju does not want to kill Iris
Especially because in the other route,
we had more evidence that Iris 
was the one who killed Renju instead
Oh.
Ohh. Oh--oh, my God.
Is it Iris' Somnium?
That warehouse location that we've 
also seen in Falco's memories
That place?
(Welonz gasps)
You're gonna go now...?
She just got kidnapped, you're 
gonna take her there now?
(Welonz exhales) Okay let's do it
