Chaos;Head Noah route summaries (C;H SPOILERS!)

[Kurisu-Chan]

Eh ......... and I was so confident that it was the other way around too....... guess I should go to sleep already.

Don't worry, those kind of mistakes happens quite often to everyone here.

[Vokoca]

I'm just wondering what was the 'plan' that the committee had. I wonder if it's the SERN one from Steins;Gate.

 

Though I have to say that Sena's route seems pretty good. I would say that it's the second best route after Nanami's.

They refer to it as something like the 'Humanity livestock' plan, or something along those words. Hatano ponders the possibility that the entire humanity is already being controlled by them without even knowing, which would make the plan perfect - but he doesn't get a clear reply to that.

[FinalChaos]

They refer to it as something like the 'Humanity livestock' plan, or something along those words. Hatano ponders the possibility that the entire humanity is already being controlled by them without even knowing, which would make the plan perfect - but he doesn't get a clear reply to that.

It just makes me crave for the translation of Chaos;Child which is probably related to this plan............

[Kurisu-Chan]

It just makes me crave for the translation of Chaos;Child which is probably related to this plan............

Well, this is the same plan as Steins;Gate and Robotics;notes : reducing humanity to one billion, use something to control the world.

 

Yes, i hope for Chaos;Child TL.

[Vokoca]

Get ready for some a lot of blood.

 

Kozue's chapter - An Illness that ends in slaughter

 

To get this route, you have to trigger the positive delusion when Takumi first meets Kozue at school and answer the following questions in such a way that he is further convinced that she came to help him. The first new scene from Kozue's perspective happens a bit after that. It details at first seemingly accidental mentions and appearances of mirrors in Kozue's surroundings. She tries to keep calm and move along - but when a white car clearly starts following her, and someone from the passenger seat starts pointing a mirror at her, she can't lie to herself any more. As she runs away in desperation, followed by the car on her every step, only a single thought repeats in her mind - it is happening again.

 

The actual route splits at the exact same way as the previous two, when Takumi finds out about the DQN puzzle and realises he can't count on Rimi anymore. This time, he decides to rely on Kozue, he knows full well that there's something seriously wrong with her, but she also seems dumb enough to him to get easily talked into helping him. This plan obviously magnificently backfires the next day, since Kozue can read his thoughts - and after telling him that she was told by Sena not to kill people anymore, she wouldn't be able to help. She decides to hang out with him for the day at least though, and takes him to her favourite place in Shibuya, the staircase in the shopping centre.

 

"I have bracelets, phone straps, rings, even hairpins and charms!"

 

After having a small talk, Kozue takes out a bunch of beads. Claiming she gives all of her friends one, she gives one of the straps to Takumi. At first, he wants to refuse, considering how girly all of them were - but after he realises that he is only her second friend (the first being Sena), he accepts. Not so much out of pity, but because he sees himself in her. The only difference between them is that Kozue was broken by her problems so much that she can deal with them herself, albeit in an extreme way. Takumi, on the other hand, feels like he can't even get that far, always clinging onto someone instead. After a while, they decide to call it a day. Just as they're leaving, Kozue notices a row of mirrors in the store and suddenly gets really reserved - they don't make much of it though, and both head back their own ways.

 

On his way back, Takumi is constantly bothered by strange pranks.  He keeps hearing the sound of a shutter, but each time he turns around, no one actually looks suspicious. At first, he just assumes people are taking photos of him to make fun of him after the whole esper fiasco, but as the sounds start to intensify - and as people start blatantly watching him and taking pictures - it becomes clear that something was very off. As he runs home in panic, the constant sound of shutters - and somewhere in between, the squeaking of a wheelchair - follow him the whole way.

 

But even when he gets back to his base, the sounds continue. Not only that, they were getting unnaturally loud - even though he was locked in his container house, he could hear the shutter sounds clearly. He could hear the squeaks of the wheelchair circling around him - but worst of all, he could hear that laugh. With no way to fight back, he just covered his ears and waited the terror out. After what seemed like hours, he finally got the courage to go check outside. It was quiet. It seemed really obvious now, but no one was outside. It was over.

 

Or so he thought. When he checks one of his favourite sites where all his 'online friends' post their updates, he sees his feed spammed by posts from someone he didn't recognize. They all have strange titles, like "In front of the building", or "In the elevator" or "On the rooftop"... gathering his courage, he clicks on the first one - and sees a picture of the building he lives on. Overcoming panic with all his might, he repeats to himself that this was all just a big coincidence, and clicks on the latest post "Enter main character" just to make sure.

 

What he sees inside is a picture of himself, peeking from the container house to confirm that no one was outside.

 

The next day in school, Kozue is met by all of the girls from her class. Claiming that they need to talk, they drag her to the rooftop with them. At first, they just bully her for her constant silence. One of the girls - Misumi's girlfriend - also accuses her of flirting with him and takes the bullying even further. But none of that really matters ro Kozue - no matter how much they push her around, she just has to endure it. It was nothing new to her, and it was nothing she wouldn't be able to overcome. But things didn't end with normal bullying.

 

As a bizarre sound suddenly fills the air, every hint of an expression disappears from all the girls' faces. In perfect sync, they all reach into their pockets and take out their pocket-mirrors. All at once, they aim them at Kozue, and....

 

"Who are you?"

 

The endless chorus of words is the last thing Kozue can comprehend. Everything after that is a blur. The last thing she vaguely remembers is holding a Disword... and also the piercing screams.

 

Takumi's way to school is even worse than his return from Shibuya. The sounds of shutters follow him everywhere. The shutters, the wheelchair... it was all getting unbearable. As he runs to school, dark thoughts of murder start floating through his mind in desperation, though in the end he just falls back on relying on Kozue. He needs to convince her for sure this time. Making his way to the classroom, he notices that not only Kozue, but all of the girls are missing. Confused, he walks through the school for a while, considering leaving, before finally finding Kozue, crouching by the emergency exit - shaking, and covered in blood from head to toe.

 

"Uu... Takumi-shan..."

Grabbing hold of her, he makes sure she's okay. Ignoring her rambling, he asks her again if she'd help him. To that, a different question comes his way. "Are you my friend? Or are you my enemy?" Hurriedly, he tells her that he's her friend, agreeing on helping each other out. Just then his mind finally catches up with the situation, and he notices that none of the blood is actually Kozue's in the first place. At that moment, a horrible vision assaults his mind. Rooftop, screams, blood and limbs flying everywhere - and in the middle of it all, Kozue.

 

Horrified, he runs up the emergency stairs and reaches the rooftop. The scene he sees there could only be described as a sea of blood... with unrecognisable pieces of meat scrambled everywhere. Suddenly, Kozue walks up the stairs behind him. "You are my friend, right?"

 

With a scream, he runs past her, away from the rooftop, away from Kozue. Just as he starts considering that running away from her might've been a bad idea, he slips and falls head first from the stairs. With no strength to get back up, he just lies there, before he hears a familiar voice right next to him. It was Rimi. Helping him back on his feet, she's nice to him just like before. She walks him to the school's exit, planning on taking him to the infirmary in the other school building, but Takumi stops. Some of the blood from earlier was still on him - and the police was probably outside already, too - thinking that going outside isn't the best idea, he turns around to tell Rimi - and then he sees the two Diswords in her hands, with the edges pointed at his back.

 

She starts apologizing and saying how he needs to disappear, but Takumi doesn't listen to anything. He's furious. He was right from the start, after all. She was Shogun's underling from the very beginning, just like he thought when he saw her on the crime scene of the Staking! She betrayed him, just like Yua did! Crushed by the sadness and frustration, he starts wrestling with her, his thoughts slowly just coming to a single conclusion. I'll kill you. You deserves to die. You are my enemy after all. Everyone is,. I'll kill you!

 

With a horrible sound, Rimi is suddenly blown away by Kozue's enormous disword. Scrashing into the lockers nearby, she falls down, into a pool of blood - dead. Reconciling with Kozue, they swear friendship to each other once more, deciding that they only could trust themselves in this world full of enemies. Assuming the police was outside, they decide to retreat to the rooftop for the time being. On their way, they run into a delinquent and Misumi. Misumi is furious about his girlfriend. Seeing the blood on their clothes, he assumes they're the culprits, but he gets talked down by his friend. What could someone as weak as Kozue and Takumi do, anyway?

 

In a playful manner, the delinquent started making fun of Takumi. At first, it wasn't really anything serious - before the mentioned Darth Spider. And how that Darth Spider 'provided' him with Nanami to 'play with'. As proof, he shows Takumi his phone - on there is a photo of Nanami, all bloody, with her right hand missing,

 

Takumi snaps. Taking out the knife he had taken from home with himself in case Shogun attacked him again, he stabs the delinquent right in the chest. And then again. And again. He continues stabbing him until there's no response, losing his sanity completely. Misumi is horrified - but before he can even shake of his shock, Kozue's Disword splits him in half.

 

Kozue is clearly exhausted from all the killing, both physically and mentally. Her self seems to be slowly splitting in half, onto one that clings to the last bits of her sanity, and into one that just wants to kill everyone - the one represented by her Disword. Lending her a shoulder, Takumi takes her to the exit, coming to the conclusion there was nowhere to go anymore anyway. But just as they walk to the courtyard, they meet Sena, waiting for them, with her Disword out.

 

Sena pleads for them to stop. She explains that they were getting attacked by delusions, that killing innocents won't solve anything. She promises that she'll destroy the true source of the evil, again reminding them how dangerous it is to use a Disword too much. Using a Disword too much denies your own existence - just like it was happening to Kozue. Contrary to her happiness at seeing Sena, her only other friend, she suddenly swung her Disword at her - or rather, the Disword made her swing it. Her consciousness was splitting in half - while her inner voice apologized and cried for help, her real voice - a voice that none of them have heard yet - kept just repeating one sentence over and over. "I'll kill you."

 

Sena went around Kozupii's back.

 

After a relentless fight, Sena fools Kozue with a delusion and gets around to her back, pinning her to the ground. For a moment, everything looks resolves - before Kozue's arm suddenly bends in a completely wrong way, dislocating her own elbow, her disword sinking into Sena's own back. She jumped back, but it was too late - after some struggle, Sena was dead.

 

At this point, Kozue could barely move. Crushed by her own involuntary behaviour, she starts mourning Sena's death - but even that wasn't allowed to her. With a huge rucksack, Darth Spider mask and a gun in his hand, someone makes an appearance. Kozue attacks, but before she can hit, she gets shot in her leg, her Disword barely scraping the mask, tearing it off. It was Suwa.

 

As he gloats about finally being able to take Takumi's CODE sample, he shoots him several times, until he can't move. He takes a strange head-wear from his rucksack, but just as he's about to put it onto Takumi's head, Kozue gets up despite all her injuries and murders Suwa with a single strike. But as she does that, she loses the last bits of her strength, falling on the ground right next to Takumi. Her Disword, having fallen from her hand, starts emitting black particles - just like Rimi's and Sena's did, before they disappeared.

 

"Takumi-shan... would you mind if I... fell in love with you?"

 

As they lie dying, they watch the sky, just as vibrantly colourful as they bead phone strap they hold together.As they both confess to each other, their life comes to an end - just like the colourful sky, fading into lonely white.

 

Whev! That was... that was amazing. I had the most hopes in Kozue's route before I started these, since her character allowed for most madness (and because I have a serious weakness for cute scary murderous things don't judge me ), but I was afraid most of those would be just fanservice stuff... but damn, I have to say that this did exactly what I hoped it would, and I absolutely loved it.

 

Also a piece of trivia - I didn't include it in the summary, but Suwa makes an off-hand remark about the school actually belonging to Nozomi (and that religious cult), which is how they explain all the Gigalomaniacs in one place. They didn't flock together, they were gathered. A hint towards that is also in Ayase's route, where it is briefly mentioned that she was sent to this school after getting out of the hospital.

 

Also, just one more route to go, Rimi's!

[Kurisu-Chan]

What do they can add in the Rimi route? since it's pretty much the canon route?

 

Oh... oh i know.

 

 

Takumi won't go to his "house" and believes Rimi.

[Vokoca]

What do they can add in the Rimi route? since it's pretty much the canon route?

 

Oh... oh i know.

 

 

Takumi won't go to his "house" and believes Rimi.

[Kurisu-Chan]

Yeah, I think that'll be it. Still will be interesting to see where they take it, considering how much she knows.

[Kurisu-Chan]

WOW, and i thought that Ayase was hardcore stuff...this thing is easily the most disturbing, horror-ous and best ending ever, wow, just wow.

[FinalChaos]

I hadn't really thought much about Kozue's ending. But I have to say it is pretty amazing. 

[Vokoca]

And here it is, the last route! This time, it's a bit different in structure, being a lot more heavy on the additional common route scenes, clearing up quite some details about the main story. Enjoy!

 

Rimi's chapter - The Anima Statue

To get onto this route, you have to trigger the positive delusion in the classroom at the very beginning of the game and answer the questions that come after it in such a way that Takumi feels like he knows who Rimi is. Unlike the other routes, we get some new scenes right after that.

 

The first one takes place in the hospital, in Shogun’s room. It is revealed that he and Rimi have lived there for over a year now, without anyone knowing. Rimi tries arguing with Shogun about his plan again, trying to bear all the responsibility herself, feeling strong debt (but nothing more) towards Shogun. She also doesn’t want to treat Takumi like Nozomi does, by forcing him to awaken by fear – and she also doesn’t want Shogun to die. Despite her concerns, he just tells her that he’ll go through with the plan no matter what, that even if she erases Takumi, he’d just risk another year of a coma to make him again, just like before. As he says, he was ready for death even since the beginning, and he feels like he deserves it for pushing everything on Takumi anyway.

 

After being quiet for a moment, Rimi remembers that according to Shogun’s visions of Nozomi’s ‘delusions’, the next New Gen – the Staking – was about to occur. Determined to protect Takumi from it, she heads to the place of the crime with the intentions of keeping Takumi away. When she gets there, she hears a strange noise. After noticing that it was coming from a figure with a huge rucksack on their back, she runs after them – but the figure gets away, and the only thing she finds is the actual place of the murder. There, a man is staked to the wall with a few stakes piercing his clothes. There’s no blood to be seen – that is, until she takes a look again.

 

She was wearing a high school uniform she has never seen before.

 

Suddenly, the corpse has countless stakes driven through its body, with blood splattered everywhere. The next change she notices is the bloody stake in her own hand – and the school uniform she was suddenly wearing, as opposed to the casual attire she wore just a second ago. She was seeing someone’s delusion – the delusions were syncing. None of it felt quite real – there was no smell of blood, no cold feel of the steel in her hand… the delusion wasn’t real-booted yet, but it was clearly there. Afraid that Takumi might be getting assaulted by someone producing such a violent delusion, she starts to panic – when she suddenly hears his voice from behind. As she turns around, a smile of relief spreads across her lips. Takumi was safe. “I’m glad…” she says, “I’m glad I finally met you, Taku.” Their meeting didn’t last long, however, as Takumi ran away in fear and confusion.

After a small bit of the common route, we get yet another new scene. This time, it’s from Hazuki’s perspective. While in the hospital, she’s looking through the chat backlog where Shogun appears, while reporting to Suwa on the phone.

 

 

Just as she’s about to send it to Suwa as proof that the real Takumi has finally came out of hiding, something strange happens. The log that looked completely normal up to this point suddenly felt really strange. There was something very wrong with it – the time wasn’t adding up. It was altered; it was made to look like Takumi talking to himself, in order to hide Shogun’s – the real Takumi’s – existence. After telling Suwa, he warns her hat they were being watched – and certainly, just as he says, she feels a strange tingling on her spine.

 

After some more common route, there’s yet another new scene. It shows how Rimi came to school for the first time. At first, no one recognizes her – but using a delusion, she creates a shared cognizance that ‘Rimi is a member of this class’. After that, she heads to Misumi and alters his memories as well, to be able to get closer to Takumi more easily. Before coming to the class, she was really nervous – but everything went easier than she expected it would – which didn’t stop her from feeling bad for all of it, however.

The next new scene occurs when Takumi goes to the O-FRONT building. It shows Rimi visiting his container home, taking Nanami’s hand back to Shogun to store it in one of the hospital’s freezers. It’s also explained how she tried to go help Takumi, but couldn’t make it to the amount of people everywhere – and because Shogun asked her to go retrieve Nanami’s hand before she could even get there. When she returns to the hospital and gives Shogun the hand, she finds out Takumi is in the hospital as well, and goes to check on him while he sleeps, apologizing for not being able to help.

 

The actual route starts when Sena and Kozue visit Takumi’s house and find out about the Ir2 formula. As Rimi and Takumi come back, the fight breaks out. In the additional scene from Rimi’s perspective, it’s explained how she fights – rather than relying on her Disword too much, she uses her Gigalomaniac powers to the fullest. As the opponent (usually involuntarily) assaults with negative delusions, she recognizes it and throws it right back at the opponent. This way, she shows Sena just what she ‘wants’ to see – or perhaps, what she fears the most – leaving her thinking she had finally found her father, stumbling towards the edge of the roof.

 

 

Takumi, incredibly confused from the entire situation, yells about how Kozue and Sena were enemies after all, and that Rimi should kill them. No matter whether he means that or not, Kozue takes it seriously. Excited that she gets to kill more bad people, she assaults Rimi, overwhelming her with her massive sword. But Rimi is more experienced in the battle of delusions – using the same technique she did with Sena, she returns the negative delusion – the mirror. Just then, she remembers Sena was walking in a dangerous direction – but before she’s even able to move, it’s too late. Sena was falling.

 

Meanwhile, Kozue, crushed by her worst fear, is losing grip on her own self. Unable to understand who she even is anymore, she attacks the first person she can find – Takumi. In a moment of desperation, Rimi rushes to help – as her mind falls into panic, her other selves start to get mixed up, and so do her objectives – and before she even knows it, she finds herself behind Kozue – with her Diswords going through her back. She has killed her. Not only that, but she has killed Sena as well. Unable to bear the guild, Rimi suffers an enormous shock and falls unconscious.

 

Takumi carries Rimi to his house and locks the door, waiting for her to wake up. After a few hours pass without a change, he decides to check on the bodies, afraid of the police - but as he does, he notices that the bodies are nowhere to be found; all that's left is the blood. As he turns around, he meets face to face with Rimi, who has finally woken up. He has no idea how to treat her now, seeing her kill people - but he is also glad that she's awake, knowing that she'd protect him. His happiness soon fades though, when the first words that come from Rimi's mouth are: "Where am I? Who... am I?"

 

The Rimi in front of him was no longer the Rimi he knew. Instead, it was some who looked the same, but acted like a very young child - cheerful, but unreliable, with no previous memories whatsoever. Once again, she has 'killed' her own heart, 'killed' herself like so many times before. As they pass the day, Takumi takes care of the childlike Rimi, but his worries come back when he gets a mail from Shogun. The only thing it says is 'Wake up' in the subject. There is no text inside... instead, static and a voice start coming from Takumi's speakers. It was the real Shogun - telling him how there was no time left, that the Third Melt would hit soon - but it was too late, no longer than a minute after his message, the Third Melt happened.

 

In his unconsciousness, Takumi finds himself in a world with nothing but an endless blue sky and a water surface under his feet. By his feet, he finds Rimi - motionless, pale, cold... dead. Before he can hold her, she slips through the surface of the water, falling into the darkness underneath, and Takumi follows, determined to bring her back. As he slips into the strangely warm darkness, he finds a single spotlight - and many, many lifeless Rimis collapsed all around it. Understanding that those are all of her dead personalities, her memories start coming to him. The first one was of a car accident - Rimi, still in elementary school, was the only survivor. The next memory was of a operation room, a light and a man's voice. It was Norose, telling her how he'd use her to to research the methods of waking up a Gigalomaniac's powers, having heard reports that she apparently saw swords after the accident. The next memory was also of an operation room, a light, and a man's voice... and torture. One after another, the memories flashed by, each time starting with different kinds of torture and ending with Rimi's - or rather, one of her personalities' - death. Having seen enough, Takumi brings Rimi back above the surface - and along with her will and his delusions, all the other Rimi's slowly appear and fuse with each other, until there is only one - being one, but all, Rimi opened her eyes.

 

 

After sharing a kiss, they both wake up in the destroyed Shibuya. With her memories back and her resolve hardened, Rimi decides to end everything for sure this time, and puts Takumi to sleep. Leaving the container house, she heads for the planetarium, to destroy Noah II. Along the way, she meets Shogun. At first, he tells her that there's nothing she can do, but after seeing that she wouldn't give up - and realizing that it was too late to wake up Takumi's powers anyway - he decides to give all of his lasting power to Rimi, to help her fight.

 

When she reaches the planetarium, she finds Nanami decorated on a bizarre cross - Norose's Disword - with her hand missing. She rushes over and takes her down, but just as she's about to escape with her, fierce pain suddenly runs through her back. She was stabbed from behind, by none other than Norose. After a small skirmish, mostly involving Rimi getting slashed as she backed away with Nanami, while doing her best to defend herself, she uses a delusion to transform her Diswords into a pair of wings on Nanami's back, and sends her away to safety. Doing so, however, she also sent away her only weapon - leaving herself completely exposed to Norose's attacks.

 

As she finds herself on the verge of death, Norose finally gets fed up of playing with her and decides to get rid of her. Wanting to use the Noah II, he decides to kill her with a delusion worth of 30 years of torture.

 

"I was waiting for this..."

 

Doing that, however, he played exactly into Rimi's hands. She was waiting for this whole moment the entire time. After all, taking a negative delusion and sending it right back was her speciality. This time, though, she had Shogun's - the strongest Gigalomaniac's - delusional power on her side... she wasn't about to stick with regular defence. Suddenly, all of the feathers falling around her - the remains of her Diswords, her delusions - turned into something different completely.

 

"Whose eyes are those eyes?"

 

Constantly increasing, falling, mesmerizing----eyes. Taking the negative delusion, she sent it right back into Norose's deadspot - multiplied by every single eye filling his field of view. In pure fear and agony, he screamed. "Don't look at me!" ... and it was the last thing he ever uttered - those eyes were also the last thing he has ever seen, as the stake Rimi held from the very beginning - the very same stake from the third New Gen incident - buried deep into his chest.

 

Norose was dead - but Rimi didn't have any energy left either. As she desperately tried to find 'that blue sky' with her gaze, she spent her last moments, praying for Nanami's and Takumi's safety.

 

In the last scene, we see Takumi meeting Shogun for the last time. He tells him that he is free now. The people after him were dead - thanks to Rimi, he adds - and he himself would be dying very soon too. Nanami was safe in a nearby hospital... but Rimi wouldn't be coming back. Shogun disappears as suddenly as he had appeared, and Takumi is left watching the strange, momentary explosion in the middle of Shibuya - the Noah II - while reminiscing about his time spent with Rimi. As he once more reaffirms that the time spent with her were the best moments of his otherwise empty life, he decides. It was his time to go find Rimi. This time, it was his turn to be there for her.

 

And so, he heads towards the middle of Shibuya, towards the planetarium...

 

And that's it, the last route in Chaos;Head Noah! All that's left is the 'Whose eyes are those eyes?' ending, and the 'blue sky' ending - but I assume those are the same as on the PC version. So, what did you think? I know my bad summaries only give a small taste of what these additional chapters really were, but how did you feel about them? Did you feel like they added anything? Did they help the story overall?

 

I enjoyed them a lot myself, and this definitely is the definitive version of Chaos;Head for me. It not only clears up every small detail that was left untouched before, but it also gives us more time with the rather unusual set of heroines... and I'm a sucker for crazy heroines. A shame Noah never made it on PC... curse you 5pb.!

[Kurisu-Chan]

Wow, all these routes are extremely hard stuff, they are all hard endings.

 

 

But at the end, it changes nothing, since even if takumi dies, it's still Okabe who have to save the world.

[FinalChaos]

Another superb route. 

I'll be sure to read C;H Noah, the day when I finally learn Japanese(whichever century that will happen in).

 

Rimi's route did clear up some loose ends like that chat log.

 

And I did find your summaries to be quite good. 

Thanks a lot. 

[ImP_Gamer]

On 26/02/2015 at 3:02 PM, FinalChaos said:

Well now that you mention it, the time machine plan isn't there in the original worldline.

No, the time machine plan happened in both world lines, let's not forget that the plan were being executed since mid 1960. The differences from time lines it's that SERN could discover/capture Okabe and Kurisu, and force then to finish the SERN's time machine.

The WWIII wasn't created by SERN, it happened because Kurisu's father has taken her paper (which had a time machine blueprint) and flew to Russia making nations fight by the control of the time machine technology.