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Virtue's Last Reward

Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward, often abbreviated as VLR and known in Japan as Extreme Escape Adventure: Good People Die, is the sequel to the game Zero Escape: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors and it precedes Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma. It is the second entry of the Zero Escape series. The game was developed by Chunsoft.

The first versions of the game for Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation Vita / PlayStation TV were published in Japan by Spike on February 16, It was published in North America by Aksys Games on October 23, , and on the Nintendo eShop on August 22, It was published in Europe by Rising Star Games on November 23,

On March 24, , Virtue's Last Reward was ported alongside a remaster of into Zero Escape: The Nonary Games for PS4, Vita and PC. More details on this port is on The Nonary Games article.

Unlike its predecessor, Virtue's Last Reward features 3D character models and environments, with 22 endings total.

The game's genre is a mix of psychological horror, mystery, suspense, thriller, and science fiction, with slight elements of humor and comedy to fill in the gaps when the atmosphere isn't so dark. The gameplay is a mix of visual novel, escape-the-room and puzzle. The atmosphere of the game, in response to criticisms, is less darker compared to .

The story follows Sigma Klim, who is abducted and placed in an empty facility along with eight others, his main partner being a mysterious girl named Phi. They are forced to participate in the Nonary Game: Ambidex Edition, a deadly game which involves needled bracelets filled with lethal poison, allying and betraying players, exploring the facility and solving escape-the-room puzzles in order to survive and escape, as well as figuring out why they were kidnapped and who Zero is.

Plot

"Why do people betray each other? If you can't trust anyone then everyone should DIE."

"You thought you'd defeated the Nonary Game, but now it's back, and more deadly than ever. It'll take cunning, skill, and more than a little luck to escape alive, but do you really have a choice?"

The Nonary Game: Ambidex Edition begins

On December 25th, , a Californian college student, Sigma Klim, is kidnapped and awakens in an elevator with a girl named Phi, who seems to know him. Zero III, a sadistic talking rabbit AI (artificial intelligence), appears on a computer monitor in front of them and tells them they must escape the elevator or it will crash, killing them.

Upon doing so, the pair find themselves in an abandoned facility called Rhizome 9 alongside seven other people. Because all rooms contain cameras, the players are always under Zero III's constant surveillance. Zero also tells the group that one of them is Zero, adding to the player's distrust of each other.

The group is enrolled in a game known as the Nonary Game: Ambidex Edition, which relies on a system called "Bracelet Points" commonly referred to as BP, which are won or lost by cooperating with or betraying other players in a voting game called the AB Game. A player is allowed to leave the warehouse through the Number 9 Door only if they possess 9 or more BP; however, if a player's BP drops to 0, they are killed by a lethal injection via a bracelet containing tubocurarine chloride. In addition, if a player slips through the Number 9 Door without 9 BP, they will be penalized and killed via their bracelet. The players must explore the facility by passing through Chromatic Doors which correspond to the color of their bracelets in order to find key cards to activate the next AB Game. Once someone escapes through the Number 9 Door, it is shut forever.

Branching timelines

Main article: Virtue's Last Reward endings

As the story goes on, Sigma discovers the ability to jump backwards and forwards in time to live out different timelines to the one he originally chose. He uses this to gain codes and secrets from other timelines in an attempt to find an outcome where everyone can survive. Several revelations appear about the other players and even Sigma himself:

• Sigma discovers he has somehow obtained cybernetic arms which ooze white "blood", made of titanium alloy "bones", artificial biological tissue and artificial nerves.
• Tenmyouji is searching for Akane Kurashiki. It is revealed near the end that Tenmyouji is Junpei from Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors but 46 years older.
• Quark is Tenmyouji's adopted grandson.
• Luna is a GAULEM, a type of robot, programmed by Zero to monitor the game.
• Alice and Clover Field are both Special Office of Internal Security agents who have been searching for a cult named Free the Soul since the end of the Second Nonary Game. Alice was also the hitchhiker in the Nevada Desert at the end of and she claims she was dressed in her clothing that day as part of as disguise, and claims she isn't All-ice.

• Dio is a member of Free the Soul and the Myrmidons, their military. Dio is a clone of Left, the brother of Brother, the cult's leader. Dio is on a mission to kill Akane Kurashiki and has planted four antimatter bombs in Rhizome 9. In some timelines, they explode and kill everyone.
• K has Sigma's face and hair beneath his mask.

Brother, Free the Soul and the Myrmidons

Brother was born into a poor family sometime in the 20th century. In Virtue's Last Reward, very little is known about his background, but supposedly, he didn't know his father and he lost his mother at a young age. The only family he had was his younger brother named Left.

Brother had a special power, described as being able to "touch the thoughts of other people and see into them" - mind resonance and the ability to see into the hearts of humans. These were esper abilities. Unfortunately, it left him constantly exposed to the negative corrupt side of humanity and all of humanity's worst aspects, such as thoughts of anger, greed, blame, hate, selfishness, inferiority complexes, superiority complexes, vanity, narcissism, superficiality, jealousy, envy, lust, materialism, attachment and enslavement to a monetary system, stupidity, blind adherence to authority instead of truth, humans constantly comparing themselves to others, herd mentality, lack of bravery and courage (cowardliness), racism, sexism, and so on. This fueled Brother's misanthropy and disgust of humanity.

Brother realized humanity was being severely brainwashed and these contagious toxic thoughts were poisoning the morphogenetic field, like a cancerous consciousness. Human consciousness was literally trapped in hell. Brother realized this leads to sadness, sorrow, pain, suffering, chaos, war, bloodshed, death, violence, etc (impure thoughts lead to impure manifestations in reality, and impure manifestations in reality lead to impure thoughts, like a vicious cycle). He also realized this brainwashing dated back a long, long time - more than hundreds and thousands of years - since time immemorial, explaining the poor current state of humanity in his lifetime - all of the genocides, conflicts and World Wars and the like.

When Brother was 16, his beloved younger brother Left was found dead, his corpse covered in bruises. The police did a rushed and poor job of investigating, and quickly ruled that Left killed himself. Later, Brother found out that the killer paid the police a massive bribe to keep the truth hidden from the public, which made him unable to trust the corrupt police or any type of man-made "authority" after this such as police, law or government. Brother also realized that man-made authority is not synonymous to "truth" since the police did the opposite in regards to hiding Left's murder: hiding the truth.

Enraged from the revelation of another act of mankind being greedy and self-centered, especially at the loss of his brother Left, Brother soon found himself immersed in cold despair. Anger, hatred, rage and despair filled Brother, and for nine days and nine nights, he was consumed by his own pain, misery and sorrow.

On the morning of the tenth day, however, he had a divine revelation: Mankind was rife with base, carnal, animalistic, primitive desires, and needed to be purified so that a new world could come into being. Mankind was completely corrupted by greed and Brother was tasked to purify the human race, bringing a higher level of purer consciousness, and to create a new world without corruption. God had spoken to Brother and given him a mission, as well as gave Brother his esper abilities to fulfill this mission and change the world. Brother decided to dedicate his life to fulfill this mission.

When Brother was 26, he created Free the Soul to teach humanity the truth and show humanity the way to salvation. Free the Soul eventually amassed over 1,, followers. His teachings were considered too profound for ordinary people to understand, but the core ideas of his doctrine were to separate one's self from worldliness, to destroy greed, and divorce the soul from the body in order to cleanse it.

Those who followed Brother's teachings with discipline and devotion would be reborn as a "new race", in an equal world with no war, conflict, poverty or starvation. They aim to do what they thought was needed to be done to bring them closer to the new world that Free the Soul promises. There were some people that might call them terrorists.

Once Free the Soul was established, Brother devoted his resources on researching human cloning, so that he could create the new species he foretold. He abducted a team of scientists that included Alice's father from a research facility in the United States and, a year later, managed to have them create the first ten human clones from Left's DNA. Those ten clones were the first generation of Myrmidons, and were all given the same name as Left to keep with his ideas for a perfect world.

Radical-6

Radical-6, a virus intended to kill all of humanity, has leaked into Rhizome 9. Radical-6 was a virus created by Free the Soul and unleashed by Brother in his grief at the death of the original Left. Several players in Rhizome 9 contract Radical-6 and kill themselves in several endings.

Sigma also shows symptoms of Radical-6 in the Security room on Luna's route when Phi appears to speak faster than Sigma can comprehend, however he feels no suicidal urges and seemingly recovers after resting for a bit.

Everyone possibly shows the suicide symptoms in Clover END, including Phi and ultimately Sigma. All participants except for Quark and possibly K (whose fate is unknown) die from suicide, using a scalpel in the infirmary to slash their throats and bodies open in order to free their souls from their fleshy bodies in order to purify their consciousnesses from this material world. Each player passes the scalpel from one player to another, slashing their throats and bodies open. Sigma eventually slashes his throat open and bleeds to death on the floor to free his soul in order to end this nightmarish hell.

Phi END

Eventually, Sigma finds a timeline in which he uses his timeline-jumping ability to prevent any bombs from being detonated, as well as preventing any players from killing themselves. Sigma, Phi and Tenmyouji enter room Q.

Sigma sees a recorded hologram of Akane Kurashiki, who reveals the truth behind the Nonary Game: Ambidex Edition. The point of the Nonary Game, which was set up by Akane and Zero Sr., is for Sigma and Phi to transport their consciousnesses to the past. This is the AB Project: the Anima (soul/consciousness) Body Project.

AB Room: Past

Phi and Sigma jump back into the past, one hour before the start of the Nonary Game, to prevent Dio from killing Akane. By saving her, they altered the past, bringing a new future. Akane ties a key to Sigma around his ankle and tells him "tu fui, ego eris", just before he is forcibly pushed back into the future.

Phi END continued

Sigma and the group successfully escape through the Number Nine Door, leaving Dio handcuffed to a sink in the Infirmary. Upon leaving the facility, they find out from Tenmyouji that they were on the Moon and that the current date is January 25th, He also explains that Radical-6 caused 18 antimatter reactors to explode, which caused a nuclear winter. In other words,

• The date is actually January 25, and Rhizome 9 is a post-apocalyptic base on the Moon, one of 54 Rhizomes.
• On December 31, , Radical-6 spread across Earth from Nevada, becoming a global pandemic. Bodies began to pile up in the millions and then billions as people mass suicided by any means, creating an extremely nauseating stench from all of the mountains of rotting corpses. The humans who were immune to the disease were locked in underground shelters. 2 billion people died directly from Radical

"Pretty soon the bodies started to pile up. Some people would take a dive off a building or shoot themselves in the head. You know, the classics. But for some it was poison, or fire, or asphyxiation, or the noose Plenty of people jumped in front of trains or cars. One pilot on a passenger airline drove his plane into the ground. Most forms of transportation ground to a halt pretty fast. That meant food couldn't get distributed, and thousands of people who weren't even infected died from starvation. Everywhere you went there were just piles of corpses, covered in flies and rats and crows. I don't know what Hell's like, but I imagine it's a lot like that."

&#; Tenmyouji on the Radical-6 outbreak

• On April 13, , humanity planned to eradicate the virus by blowing up 18 antimatter plants simultaneously, an event known as the Antimatter Plant Explosions. The explosion was about , times as powerful as the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima. However, in doing so, the dust fallout blotted out the sun, killing millions of lives including plants and animals. The human population on Earth severely decreased, ending the Radical-6 pandemic. Eventually, life on Earth recovered around , with plants growing back and livestock, which weren't already killed repopulating once again. There are still visible after effects though, such as the Earth appearing red from space, due to the ash preventing blue and green light from escaping, since their wavelengths are too short, allowing only red light to pass through. This makes Earth look red from outer space. The Earth also became a wasteland. After the pandemic and plant explosions, 6 billion died from the total disaster.

"You ever heard of a nuclear winter? Well, that's basically what we got. The explosion threw a ton of crap up into the stratosphere, where it joined up with smoke and ash from all the fires. It blotted out the sun for seven years. Plants withered, and animals died by the millions. The few humans who were left banded together to survive. They were rough times."

&#; Tenmyouji on the Antimatter Plant Explosions

Sigma leads everyone to the B. Garden, where he unlocks the grave after remember the key tied to his ankle and seeing "tu fui, ego eris" on it. A treatment pod appears, presumably holding Akane. However, it must defrost for a while before it can be opened. While they wait, K explains about everyone's importance in the Nonary Game. When K finishes, the pod opens, revealing a Sigma clone. Everyone is confused who he is, saying that they've never seen anyone like him before. Sigma tries to get everyone to stop playing around, but no one seems to be joking. Panicking, Sigma finds a small pond in the garden and looks at his reflection. Shocked, Sigma discovers his year old mind in an older version of himself.

Suddenly, K sheds his armor showing that, in this timeline, K was actually Akane. Akane explains that this was all a part of the AB Plan and that his current young mind switched places with his older mind. Akane explains that Sigma was there to develop his time jumping abilities along with Phi. From this, it is revealed:

• Zero Sr., the old man who appeared to Sigma in a hologram to give him instructions, is actually Sigma's future self.
• Sigma is actually in the body of Zero Sr., as the time-jumping allows two different versions of a person to swap their consciousnesses across time and alternate dimensions.
• The point of the Nonary Game, which was set up by Akane and Zero Sr., is for the older Sigma to go back before the outbreak of Radical-6 in (the point Sigma was captured from), and try to prevent Free the Soul and the Myrmidons from causing the outbreak at the Mars Mission Test Site in Nevada. This is the AB Project: the Anima (soul/consciousness) Body Project.
• K, whose true name is Kyle Klim, is Sigma's cloned son, who Sigma can jump into if his body is destroyed, but Akane has been borrowing his armor and posing as him during the Nonary Game during the cyan door routes (the armor was used to prevent his bones from developing weakly, due to him growing up on the Moon and the weak gravity, where the game actually takes place).

With his training complete, Akane tells Sigma that it is his time to return to his past body. Akane then proceeds to attack Phi with the knife she recovered earlier from Dio. Sigma throws himself in front of Phi to protect her and is seemingly stabbed, but Akane merely hits him with the handle of the blade. Regardless, Sigma's and Phi's minds return to the past to April 13th, , the day of the antimatter plant explosions.

End or Beginning?

Sigma arrives in the past in Akane's headquarters on April 13, The building also contains three treatment pods, containing the frozen bodies of Clover, Alice, and Phi. Outside, Sigma hears terrified screaming and the wailing of sirens.

A TV turns on, a news report is running on it. A distressed and suicidal news reporter talks about the destruction caused by Radical-6, hopes for a day when the virus will disappear from Earth, and shoots herself in the head with a gun.

A year-old Akane walks in, wearing her Zero mask and a Free the Soul robe. She tells Sigma that they are in her headquarters on April 13, , and are about to leave to go to Rhizome 9 tomorrow and that a Moon shuttle has already been prepared for him, Alice, Clover, and Phi.

Akane tells Sigma that the Nonary Game: Ambidex Edition is about to be set up, and that she attacked him in order to stress him out and cause him to time jump; she knows this because her own esper powers allow her to see the future. She also explains the purpose of the game and how Sigma has to spend the next 45 years mastering genetic engineering and AI programming to make the AB Project work. She also tells him that he will create Kyle, Luna, Lagomorph, the Chromatic Doors, the bracelets, and all aspects of the Nonary Game: Ambidex Edition in order to succeed.

After that, his consciousness would go back to December 25, , so he and Phi can help her investigate the Mars Mission Test Site and stop Radical-6 from ever spreading out. She says that it is up to Sigma and Phi to prevent the outbreak of Radical-6, which originated at the Mars Mission Test Site, and save humanity.

Sigma also discovers that between Christmas and New Year's Eve, he lost his arms and his right eye in order to save a woman from the facility where Radical-6 first was reported, which was apparently full of traps. As a result, his arms were replaced by bionic ones and he is currently missing his right eye. Sigma looks at his arms with no ABT (artificial biological tissue) and realizes he's wearing an eyepatch.

As Akane's explanation concludes, a slow rumble shakes Akane's headquarters. The nuclear reactors explode, killing millions of humans and animals. Outside, Sigma sees a huge mushroom cloud enveloping the city and wonders if he can prevent the outbreak of Radical-6 and vows to himself that he will stop Radical-6, no matter what.

Another Time END

This extra epilogue is obtained by getting all Secret Archives. Every escape room has a blue file password that when entered into the safe, gives a gold file (on HARD difficulty) or a silver file (on EASY difficulty). Obtaining a gold file gives you all the secret archives for that room, while the silver file only gives you half of them.

It has been revealed that this ending is non-canon.[1][2] Uchikoshi originally ended the story just with "End or Beginning", but due to an earthquake that happened during the Japanese voice recording sessions, he was opposed to the idea of ending the story just there. So he wrote and added in Another Time, which was not voiced in Japan, and is not canonical to the storyline. Another Time is considered metafiction.

Sometime after Kyle Klim's body was thawed out from about 36 hours of cold sleep, ?'s consciousness wakes up in his body in the Infirmary. In the same room is Luna, who refers to him as Kyle. Unsure why he was being called Kyle, Luna tells&#;? that because he only just woke up in that timeline, it's natural that some of his memories would be missing.&#;? gets up from the bed, and goes over to the mirror in the Infirmary. After cleaning it, he sees his reflection, and recognizes the face he's looking at as that of Kyle Klim.

? then asks if he is Kyle Klim, or Doctor Sigma Klim's clone. Luna, shocked that he isn't suffering from amnesia, asks&#;? how he even knows who he is.&#;? then begins to reflect on Kyle's life, from growing up in Rhizome 9, and participating in the Nonary Game, where he was known as "K".&#;? states that while he knows everything about Kyle, he didn't feel that he really was Kyle. He then asks Luna what day it is, who tells him that it's currently January 27, , about five hours after he thawed out (which to the participants of the game, would have only seemed like just over two hours).&#;? asks Luna why he's in the Infirmary. She says that the 67 year old Sigma carried him there from the Treatment Pod he was asleep in.&#;? then turns to look at Dio, who is still unconscious and handcuffed to the sink. Luna says that she has been giving Dio more Soporil every time he looks like he's about to wake up.&#;? goes to check on the other participants.

He heads off to the Pressure Exchange Chamber to see Tenmyouji and Quark, who were about to head back to Earth.&#;? asks them why they would return to a devastated planet when they could stay in Rhizome 9. Tenmyouji tells him that it's because they can't wait for Sigma to change the past, since it won't change the timeline they're currently in, only create another one. Tenmyouji tells him a story about bikers heading on a 10, mile journey, and that when they hit a junction, they can turn northeast or northwest, and a man Tenmyouji calls "S", decides to head northwest, after a mile, a semi truck hits them, killing 90 of them, but 10 survive and head down the highway. Then "S", has his consciousness travel through time back to the junction, and remembering everything, he decides to head northeast saving the bikers. Tenmyouji states that that is what&#;? is thinking, but he states that while it is a good outcome for the bikers, the timeline in which 10 bikers survive remains, which Quark elaborates as being 9, due to "S" having his consciousness transferred. Tenmyouji states that not all things that happened were bad. He states that they lived full lives, referencing the current timeline in which most people died.&#;? finishes his conversation with Tenmyouji and Quark and heads for the Treatment Center.

At the Treatment Center,&#;? talks with Clover and Alice. Alice says that, in the end, the two of them were just pawns in the AB Project. The two of them then point out that while Sigma and Phi can jump back to December 25, after changing history, they cannot, and are stuck in , and that just like Tenmyouji, will remain there even if Sigma changes history. Clover states that they will never see their families again. Upset with the fact that their only option was to either remain in Rhizome 9, or return to a devastated Earth 45 years after their own time, they talked to Akane, who told them that there is one way they can get back to their own time.&#;? theorizes, based on how Sigma and Phi's jumps worked, that even if they do go back, that their minds still get thrown back to Alice says that, while he's right, Akane's method would involve sending their bodies back, not just their minds.&#;? is baffled, saying that doing so would cause a paradox, and asks how they could have two Clovers and two Alices in the same time period. The girls tell him that Akane also said there was a way around the outcome that&#;? mentioned.&#;? asks how Akane plans to do that, to which Clover and Alice respond "Schrödinger's Cat".