>>529942743
An idea I've had for a while that I mentioned before. A route sort of similar to Exorcize Plan. Takumi and Gaku find a red river in the subway cave and fall in, then immediately get out. Suddenly the tone of the game shifts to something very lighthearted; Tsubasa wants to go on dates with Gaku, Eito is normal now, Nozomi decides to let her hair down and wants to be closer to Takumi and everyone is happy. They both notice some odd things but don't mention it to one another. Then one day they look in the room with the pods, Takumi sees there's a shadow in one of them, then he blacks out and it's the next day. No matter how hard either of them tries, trying to go in that room skips the day. They're both freaked out and try again but their friends keep stopping them on the way until in front of the door stands Karua. She acts like nothing's wrong and asks Takumi if he wants to hang out (branching choice here). Saying no, Takumi is almost having a melty now and bursts into the pod room while she grabs his arm and begs him to go back to their friends. He finally gets inside and looks in the pod and sees a younger version of himself, as does Gaku. Then the world around them fades to white and they're forced to confront the fact that they're clones with fake memories. They both actually never got out of the river; its red hue caused by the cryptoglobin of a former Commander who ran away from his responsibilities and killed himself, creating a perfect world he could escape to. The endings are either them getting out at day 95 or staying in the illusion and dying to Shions flames at day 100