Endings

Through the events of ***sweet pool***, you will be confronted to choices - but not with traditional text answers.

Instead, two distinct elements will appear on the screen at the very moment of the choice:

* A **red pulsing beat** on the top right, representing your Instinct;
* and  a **blue calming breeze** on the bottom left, representing your Reason.

By combining the two through the story, you will obtain different endings.

There is a total of **six endings**​, each connected to an **ending theme song** of the same name: **one** for Makoto, **one** for Zenya, and **four** for Tetsuo, the very last one being considered as the True Ending.

*Will you trust your*
*Instinct*
*,*

*or rather make use of your*
*Reason*
*?*

## Endings

### Zenya Okinaga

#### ***VLG***

VLG, Zenya's ending, is chronologically the first ending you can bump into. It branches when Youji and Tetsuo are captured and brought to Zenya's basement.

* Story
* Requirements
 In this ending, Zenya tricks Youji into coming into the Okinaga car after school, being baited by Zenya's promise of information. Zenya takes Youji to a secluded part of Zenya's house, and promises to turn him into his own "Female" and tells Youji to "give him lots of babies." Due to Zenya not being a "True Male" the babies are actually just larger versions of the flesh lumps Youji previously excreted. Youji is then essentially turned into Zenya's sex slave forever, too numb to eat anything, slowly waiting for death.

 Use only your Instinct through the game.

### Makoto Mita

#### ***The Hunger***

The Hunger, Makoto's ending, is chronologically the second ending you can get. It branches when Youji is threatened by Makoto in the chemistry room.

* Story
* Requirements
 Noticing that Youji's behavior is way stranger than usual, and that he started missing school again even though he hasn't been back for long, Makoto starts worrying more and more about his friend. Makoto also notices that he slowly is becoming more and more interested into Youji, without being able to explain it, and that his smell is somehow enticing him and making him crave for his presence.

But Youji doesn't want to tell him what's wrong even though it is clear he is getting weaker and weaker, to the point of driving Makoto mad with worry and anxiety. His craving for the presence of Youji grows stronger and stronger in the meantime, slowly torturing and changing his whole mindset - thinking he is not good enough, and not understanding why Youji negle. His fury grows more and more as he sees Youji growing closer to Tetsuo, while he doesn't make an effort to take care of his friend.

   In the end, having turned completely insane and not being able to hold himself back anymore, he goes to Youji's home, and (specifically in his ending) rapes him, then kills him and starts eating his body.
When he has ran out of his friend's flesh, his inextinguishable hunger leads to start eating himself - wishing he could see Youji one last time even though he is the cause of his disappearance. Use only your Reason through the game.

### Tetsuo Shironuma

#### ***the red road***

* Story
* Requirements
 Chronologically the fourth ending of the game. After the confrontation at the school rooftop, the pair escape to Youji's apartment. There, they find solace as they reflect and agree that there is no "forever" between them, and that the moments currently being spent will be their last. Youhi and Tetsuo begin to procreate to complete their time together.
Reaching the apartment, Kitani opens the bedroom door and stumbles upon the lifeless bodies of Youji and Tetsui. Upon them laid the body of a child in a fetal position. Kitani attempts to shoot the child, but ultimately gives up due to his reservations of harming children. He picks the child up and carries it in his arms to safety. He looks at the child as it begins to move. His eyes meet with the child's—glistening scarlet.

#### ***diving deep***

Diving Deep is chronologically the third ending in the game.

* Story
* Requirements
 In Diving Deep, Youji is in the middle on the decision of letting the parasites over take them or refusing them. Because they take too long to choose, Kitani finds them inside of the house and shoots and kills both Tetsuo and Youji.
In the ending scene you see Kitani years in the future inside of the bar talking to Kamiya, contemplating about his decision to do so and the Okinaga family. Kamiya tells Kitani a little bit more about the cult and why Zenya kept calling himself a "failure." In this ending, we learn a bit more about Tetsuo's past.

Reason x 4

Instinct

Reason x 9

Instinct

Reason x 2

Instinct

Reason

Reason

Instinct

Reason

#### ***Miracles may* (violin ver.)**

This ending is chronologically the fifth ending in the game.

* Story
* Requirements
 In Miracles may (violin ver.), Youji decides to not accept the parasites. Thinking that the only solution would be death, him and Tetsuo dive into the pool below them. While he's in the pool, he decides to give up his life for Tetsuo, just like his father once did. The next scene we get is Youji and Tetsuo in their shared apartment. Youji is resting his feeble body on a bed, watching Tetsuo leave for his part time job. He thinks about how dear Tetsuo was to him as he leaves through the door, looking out the window and reminiscing on the time they got to spend together as he slowly closes his eyes.

 Choose Reason everytime **EXCEPT** when cornered by Makoto in the **IN THE CLASSROOM.** Pick Instinct  then.

#### ***Miracles may*: True Ending**

The Miracles may ending is the True Ending of the game, and can only be unlocked after having cleared all the other endings.

* Story
* Requirements
 In the Miracles May true ending, Youji and Tetsuo survived, however Tetsuo experiences amnesia and doesn't remember anything about Youji, the parasites, Males and Females, etc. We now see him as a college student. He feels a nostalgic feeling passing Youji's station, but still can't quite put his finger on why. The memories won't come back to him. In the next scene, just as the train passes, we see Youji--still wearing his high school uniform. And in the next scene, no more.

 Choose Reason everytime **EXCEPT** when cornered by Makoto in the **IN THE CLASSROOM.** Pick Instinct  then. Then, at the scene where they dive into the pool, a new option is unlocked. Choose Reason.