The Library

The Library is an important location in can't, appearing in both Version 1 and Version 2. In both versions, the library is locked and . must find the key in the surrounding houses. It houses the boss fight against Kamia.

## Version 1

When you start the game, the library is located in the top right of the map, and is locked. To progress, you must search the surrounding houses to find the key, uncovering the past of the area while doing so. Once inside the library, there are multiple rooms to go through, with some housing a note inside which contains a transcript of dialogue from E's suicide, until you reach the final room, where all that's there is a knife and one final transcript. Reading it causes a lot of text to appear, documenting E's final moments and last words, before the screen flashes, showing THEM for a brief moment in the corner of the room, before transporting . to a different room with a bookshelf in it. The bookshelf asks if you're having fun, answering no lets you progress, but answering yes, causes the bookshelf to attempt to assault the player's ears with loud and high pitch sounds. When you manage to escape from this room, you end up in The Twisted Library.

## Version 2

In Version 2, the library returns with the same purpose, the first goal in Chapter 1 is to unlock the library and enter it. Once inside, instead of reading parts of E's suicide scattered across the rooms, you instead read the whole thing once you enter the locked room downstairs. Once the text is over, . is once again flashed into The Twisted Library.

# The Twisted Library

The Twisted Library is a distorted version of the library that . enters after E's suicide is revealed. It is mazelike, and in Version 2, houses stronger enemies, Hiveling and a puzzle to get through. In both versions, it consists of two sections, and a room after containing Kamia's corpse.

## Version 1

In Version 1, The Twisted Library is made up of several similar looking rooms, making a giant maze. Interacting with some of the bookshelves echoes voices back at . relating to the deeper lore. When you reach section 2, Left can be seen walking past. Trying to follow him leads into a wall. You are also reminded to save, as death sends you to the last save. In both sections, the goal is at the bottom of the map, and you begin at the top. When you reach the end of the second section, you arrive in a long corridor that reveals a corpse nailed to the wall when you reach the end of it. . panics and attempts to leave, but the corpse wakes up, and attempts to kill .. Defeating her rewards the player with the C Key, and the player can leave the library. When the player leaves the library, . exits from a completely different building in what appears to be No Demon's Land.

## Version 2

The Twisted Library is completely redesigned in Version 2, the rooms are a lot less similar now, especially in the second section. A lot more bookshelves can now be interacted with. You can't access the second section until the player finds Hiveling and recruits her now, and there are now enemies in the Twisted Library, Hive Strays, Library Spirits, Hivelings, and an incarnation of Bloodshot D. Left is once again seen walking into a wall once section 2 is entered, and you are once again reminded to save. There is now a puzzle to solve before you can unlock the room containing Kamia. Diary logs are also placed around both sections, written by F seemingly before their death. What appears to be the last of the diary logs is in the same room as the screwdriver hidden under the carpet. Once the puzzle is complete, . expresses fear before entering Kamia's Room, which is similar to Version 1's iteration of the room. The room completely changes shape when Kamia takes control. Defeating Kamia doesn't reward the player with any item in this version, but you can now interact with Left, Right, the Hivelings and Kamia. When the player leaves in this version, they walk out of the library as usual, exiting from the room upstairs that was locked. Exiting the library triggers a chase against THEM that ends . and Hiveling up in No Demon's Land, initiating Chapter 2.

## Lore

* The library seems to be the scene of a massacre, according to interactions with The Hive in Version 2, all of The Hive consists of reanimated corpses of people killed in the library, lead by Kamia, the Hivemind, who is a phantom. It seems that the massacre was likely caused by THEM.
* Hivelings who stray too far from the hive for too long become Hive Strays, according to the first interaction with Hiveling.
* It's implied that E committed suicide in the room containing the transcript, as she left the house with the knife and the library is home to her suicide notes.
	+ D witnessed the suicide, as she has dialog in the notes.
	+ This may be why . is drawn into the library for whatever reason, since she and E were really close.

* F may have died here too, their diary logs show that they were of importance and people were looking to them during the massacre, though they were powerless.
* People in The Hive express confusion when speaking about the voices echoing from the bookshelves, implying only . can hear them.
	+ This is likely because Twisted Library is probably .'s mind twisting her surroundings, as when Twisted Library is finished, you leave Kamia's Room into the normal library.

* Kamia seems responsible for The Hive, as the Hivemind and most powerful member, she is likely the cause of the undead corpses rising.

## Trivia

* In Version 1, The Hive isn't a thing, instead different coloured zombies and skeleton patterned men take the place of Hivelings. Left and Right are still present, however.
* You can grab a knife before entering the Twisted Library in Version 1, which is later used to get the Vengeance Ending.
* In Version 2, the picture you unscrew is described as a girl in a hat. This is possibly in reference to Kamia.