"irai"
"Reliance ", relying on somebody
Could also mean "request"
Iris relying on me
Even without having seen the 
other route, this feels really off
Wait, that's it? What?!
"Dakkai", "stealing back"
Taking back something
That was a really short day (Welonz chuckles)
Why Are we here, Kumakura office?
Oh!
(Welonz chuckles)
Hoh!
Hoh! (Welonz chuckles)
(Welonz chuckles) I know, Moma, I know.
Hold on, though
So last night,
You guys didn't even go back home, not to
Date's home and not to Iris' home
Date, did you even tell Iris' mom where she is?
Oh, my God
It's a toy gun
(Welonz chuckles)
Okay, well, this is good to see--
I wasn't sure why we came here but yeah,
investigating the masked men is 
something we need to do ASAP
Papers
Mhm. Oh, not this again.
(Welonz laughs hysterically)
(Welonz chuckles and inhales) 
Oh, my God, he just said it
Yeah, the Dragon Balls. Lots of ripe 
dick jokes everywhere in this office
No one's here again, it's only Moma
It's like, 11 A.M. in the morning, but no one's here
Maybe in the gang, everybody 
gets a late start. I don't know.
Okay
(Welonz chuckles)
Eh--Moma's right for once. Okay, fine, I'll buy that
What?
I don't think that's normal for parents 
to not be worried about that
"Hey, Mom, I'm spending the night at a hotel 
with a random met that we met 3 days ago,"
"He's pretty nice and all so I think 
we'll be okay--"(Welonz scoffs)
I dunno about that. I wouldn't let my daughter do it
Like text messages?
Nah, that's not my style (Welonz chuckles)
Sometimes I just leave texts on read and 
never get back to them (Welonz chuckles)
It's horrible, but hey
Ooh, wow, you guys really are clean, huh?
Entertaining the elderly
(Welonz chuckles)
She was trying to make it sound like a sneeze.
"Partition, hakushon"
Okay.
Oh.
I mean, up until now, we still don't 
know why they chose that warehouse,
because it's not really affiliated 
with Renju anymore, right?
But uh, on the point of Renju 
potentially being part of Naix,
Like I know that we're operating on the assumption 
that Naix is probably fake right now, but
on the off chance that some 
organization does exist, because right now,
we still don't know why there were masked men
I don't think Renju would be part of them, because
if Iris trusts Renju so much already,
I think it would be easy for Renju to kidnap Iris by 
saying, "Hey, I'm Renju, Iris, come with me"
as opposed to getting a bunch 
of strangers to kidnap her?
Yeah, that's a good point and I wonder what he'll tell us
"Hey, there's something called Naixatloz on the Internet."
or "No, I don't know anything about that"
which would be equally weird
Rather than everything being linked by Naix,
I think what's really linking all the victims so 
far is the possibility that they all psynced
'Cause last time in the warehouse, 
we learned about how--
you can psync via the optical nerve;
I feel like that's gotta be related been losing their eyes--
the significance of it being the left eye 
or the right eye, I'm not sure, but
I feel like it is related, especially because I think
the people lost their eyeballs, and then they die,
which would make sense if they psynced
because you can't psync with somebody who's dead
(Welonz chuckles)
(Welonz chuckles)
These two
No, maybe they'll like her too, you know, who knows?
If you like her, why can't they like her, too?
 (Welonz chuckles)
Oh, my goodness.
Handshake, high five?
Oh, my God
Ew!
(Welonz chuckles)
(Welonz chuckles)
Do you really want me to ask?
'Cause right now, she probably thinks 
you're an okay person but if I do,
that's gonna change
(Welonz chuckles)
Yeah!
(Welonz chuckles)
Date, you evil pervert.
Why would you say something like that?
(Welonz chuckles)
Well, it's good, it's good to be happy,
but I need more information
Friday night as in, the night of the murder?
Then we know about this already, right? Because...
Yeah, that was the whole thing about how "Oh, his was the only car in the highway and then he drove away"
Yeah, I think so. Hm.
Actually, now that I think more about it, psyncing
Euh, is there a possibility that for example, 
somebody psynced into Renju,
and then they made it look like Renju 
was the person who killed Shoko
and then got Renju killed, and maybe that's how--
he lost his eye? 'Cause
something went wrong with the psyncing?
I feel like I've got something here, but it's not that solid
Okay, I was thinking about the whole psyncing 
and then killing somebody thing again,
and um, maybe it doesn't work for everybody, because
I've still been trying to think about it 
as a chain thing where
maybe Renju killed Shoko, but then Iris killed Renju
But, as far as I know
Okay, let's say if Renju killed Shoko, and he was 
being psynced into, and then he got killed,
Okay, but then that doesn't really 
work for Iris' case because,
we took her in for questioning at one point, 
and clearly, she still had both eyes at that point
and no signs of having being psycned into
whereas Renju was already dead
So I guess that doesn't really work out, 
at least in the Renju-Iris case, anyway
The phone
Oops
Don't
(Welonz chuckles)
I feel like everybody in this route is 
making fun of me for falling into this
Why on earth would I believe this to be a thing?
Well, we gotta follow through; there's gotta be info here
Remember how they spoke English?
So I'm not sure why that was the case, but 
I went to look up a Japanese translation,
or I guess the original script of that scene, and notably,
one of the guys, when they were 
looking at the porno mag, they said,
"Wow, I don't have this in my country!" 
So that makes me immediately think,
"Oh, they're not from Japan" but does 
that mean they're Americans? 'Cause
Date and Aiba didn't mention that fact, either
so I'm not sure what's really going on there
(Welonz chuckles)
Oh, my God, Date's fully buying into this
Mm...If you say so
Uhh
(Welonz chuckles)
Ooh
That's actually really smart
Yeah
Eat it.
That sounds like some weird 
foreshadowing there; I don't like it
Okay, well, I guess we're spending 
more time with Iris today
and going to all these places, which I really don't 
feel like is going to be all that fruitful, because
Sejima again?
Gotta say the--the right side route, of the flowchart,
the pacing has been completely 
different to the point that it's really like,
shocking me quite a bit.
Especially because, for Mizuki and Ota's route,
well, they didn't really branch, right? 
So it's like one big thing but for Iris',
It does branch, and now we're spending 
even more time with Iris,
So it feels like, even for someone like 
me, who does normally enjoy Iris,
It might be at the point where it's
 getting to be a bit too much
Especially under our circumstances 
of knowing her condition
Okay, Matsushita Diner
Ota, I'm back
Hey
Well, everybody's here already
Good
The TV?
Did you have any more videos for me, Ota? 
(Welonz chuckles)
(Welonz chuckles) It's getting harder 
and harder to resist
It's kind of interesting that Ota 
normally really loves A-set, but
Even then, he's not willing to really 
give into all her wants and demands
if it has to do with wrecking the store
That's a good sign, he cares about his mom
They're all the same, everybody wants Iris in their lap or
back or wherever (Welonz chuckles)
That sounds really scary
Okay, so you almost got kidnapped, 
so you don't have school,
you are on leave
and you don't have school at all
Okay, fine, makes sense
Anything else around here?
Ew
(Welonz exhales)  She didn't respond
He's saying that stuff directly to her, too, come on, 
just think about it, don't say it out loud
Thinking is not a crime, but
when you say it out loud, then
it starts getting into a gray area (Welonz chuckles)
(Welonz chuckles) It's Date passing 
on his Boomer knowledge
What was that?
Yeah, these must be all old-timers
If they're here
Mhm
Where's Mayumi, in the living room?
Yes.
Ha
(Welonz chuckles)
Wait, wasn't that a plot point in 999?
Not a plot point, but it was a thing in there, right?
I vaguely remember something liek that
Who is that?Is that Ota's dad?
(Welonz chuckles)
What?
I feel like that's getting into religiously 
disrespectful territory, Mizuki (Welonz chuckles)
Okay. Hey, everybody, what's going on?
It's because we've been ignoring her the whole route
and she has no one to lean on
Yeah
And that wasn't even like,
"Oh, I know Date's not going to be home so 
I'm gonna stay at the mermaid's house"
I'm guessing it's more of a, "Oh, I don't really 
want to be home with Date anyway, because"
"he's not gonna really care about me."
This is really sad.
Especially because we're spending *all* 
of our time with her best friend,
like, come on, you gotta even it out
We make no attempt at
being nice to her or spending more time with Mizuki
It's like, we just acknowledge it and it's like, "Oh, okay."
(Welonz exhales)
Oh, God.
We don't know
I think one thing that would help us to remember is that
Renju asked for help from MIzuki via a text message,
so there's no confirmation that it's actually him
especially if he's acting out of character
Hm...
If Mizuki wants to be, she has no 
problem declaring her feelings, she's not
like that to everybody, and by "like that", I mean,
you know, being very abrasive to me
That's cute
I wonder why we can't, I don't know,
can we take Mizuki and Iris together?
She needs to be with somebody, and 
you need me to be your bodyguard,
and you guys are friends already.
Plus, neither of you guys are going to school, anyway.
Oh, the um...
temperature thing again
23 degrees celsius for normal people
and yeah, that's like, above room temperature
(Welonz chuckles)
Aww
(Welonz chuckles) That's so cute
It's rare that we see Mizuki act like a little kid
the way she really should be acting like the whole time
(Welonz chuckles)
I wonder if that would've been a bit 
different if we asked about Ota first
Yeah it's uh, it's a hint.
What's going on outside?
Oh, it's like the building next door? Okay.
Oh, my God.
(Welonz chuckles)
(Welonz gasps) I didn't even notice 
the "wife"part, did he say that?
Oh, my God. (Welonz chuckles)
How does she even deal with this? Oh, my gosh.
Seriously, I don't know how
(Welonz chuckles)
(Welonz chuckles)
Look at her face, she's cringing (Welonz chuckles)
It makes her really happy, alright.
Really?
Okay,
I think it's kinda reassuring that Ota knows 
about this too, from reading the Internet
'cause right now, mm...
I'm not a hundred thousand percent
convinced that Naix is not real
'Cause remember that conversation we had with HItomi,
it went like, "Hey, Iris talked about Naix",
"do you know anything about that?"
and she was like, "Well, she has this tumor"
but it's not like either Date or Hitomi 
were able to confirm for real that hey,
Naix for sure is not a real thing
plus we had those men chasing after her
So let's try to keep an open mind here
It might not be this exact organization, 
but somebody's out there
That's a good point.
Hm...
Stuff like the Wadjet system is classified, right?
But Iris did know that information for some reason
You have a lot of friends on your side, Iris
Moma, Mizuki, Ota
(Welonz chuckles) Two fo those are 
kinda questionable, but hey.
Mm, I don't really feel like we 
learned any new information here
about Naix.
Just that they're a secret society, that's pretty much it
Well...I don't know. We'll see.
Yup
We might think it's weird that--
something with such a low probability happened, but
if we weren't there to observe it, 
then we wouldn't have realized
Wow
I feel like he's pretty associated with 
the Myers-Briggs personality stuff, too
(da da da da)
If they can profit by working together, you know
if you can make money, 
there's no such thing as an enemy
You still cold?
Hm
Maybe we should get you a jacket or something
you've been wandering around 
in the shorts the whole time
