PSYNCIN' IN THE REFRaiN/Story

*WARNING!!*
*This article contains spoilers for* AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES *from this point on. Proceed with caution!*

## PSYNCIN' IN THE REFRaiN

### Subject

Saito Sejima
(Host: Boss)

### Psyncer

Kaname Date
Aiba

## Details

### Persons appearing

* Saito Sejima
* Shoko Nadami
* Renju Okiura
* Iris Sagan
* So Sejima
* Boss
* Hitomi Sagan

## Chapters

**PSYNCIN' IN THE REFRaiN**is a dreamworld featured in *AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES*.

It is the thirteenth chapter, the fifth and final Somnium of the Annihilation Route, and the twelfth reachable one in the entire game. It is a Somnium world created from Saito Sejima's dream by the Psync Machine. Kaname Date and Pewter investigated this Somnium, believing it belonged to Boss, in order to learn the truth of the New Cyclops Serial Killings.

## History

### Opened the first and second doors.

After entering the Somnium world, Aiba still performed the opening entertainment as usual, jumped out of a drum and twisted around, saying "time to loosen up!" Date chatted with her and began to observe the surrounding area environment, and found that it was an abandoned factory, and then Aiba started her moves.

First, the two tried to open the first sliding door ahead, and witnessed the scene of Shoko Nadami being stabbed to death by the murderer with an ice pick. After seeing this scene, the sliding door was quickly closed, and several keys fell nearby. Aiba chose to pick up the one with the ice pick plugged in and used it to open the nearby Door A, then found herself on the 3rd floor strangely. Then Aiba went through two doors in a similar way to the 2nd floor, where the second sliding door was, but this door was blocked by a shelf. To remove the shelf, Aiba pushed a nearby steel barrel tangled in wire downstairs, causing the shelf attached to it to be pulled over the door. Then, Aiba opened the second door and witnessed the scene of Renju Okiura being strangled to death. Just like before, the door closed after a short while, and then several keys fell at several spots on this floor.

### Opened the third and fourth doors.

The keys were indicating different times, and the duo decided that key with the hands indicating the time Renju was killed a few days earlier was the correct one. Aiba picked up the key indicated 08:00 next to Door D and used it to open the next door, and came to the 3rd floor once again. The third sliding door was frozen, in order to thaw it, Aiba kicked the pipe that released the hot air next to it, directing the hot air towards the sliding door. After a while the door was thawed, Aiba opened it and witnessed the next scene: Iris was killed by the ice cutting machine. The door was quickly closed, and this time only a single key fell aside, labeled "control panel." Aiba inserted the obtained key into the nearby Control Panel. After starting it, she found that the device could be used to operate the nearby scaffold, and the nearby screens was activated, they were monitoring the five sliding doors and the entrance of the Control Panel in the factory.

To create an entirely new path, Aiba rotated the inserted key, pressing the button once and rotating the key again causes the scaffold to shrink and shift to another location before returning to its original proportions. After completing the operation, Aiba walked through several previously visited doors to the location of Door B, then passed through the scaffold, and opened the opposite Door F, a door that the two had never visited before.

After going through this door, Aiba came to the isolated area where the fourth sliding door was located. The door was slatted shut, and there were a number of mannequins and oil drums nearby, a broken power cord hanging beside the door, and a ladder at the end of the mannequin assembly line. In order to remove the slats on the door, Aiba tackled the ladder to create a chain reaction. The falling ladder hit the mannequin assembly line, and all the mannequins fell like dominoes, knocking over the pile of oil drums at the end. Oil leaked from an overturned oil drum, the oil poured near the cord, where sparks from the wires made contact with the oil, creating an explosion. Aiba had to complain that this Somnium was awfully dangerous, and Date found that the last door could be opened, so Aiba immediately opened the sliding door. After opening the fourth door, the two saw the scene where Boss shot So.

Date realized something and asked Aiba to return to the control room on the 3rd floor immediately to check the monitoring screens. There, they discovered the surprising truth: the culprit of each murder was the victim of the next murder: Renju killed Shoko, and was killed by Iris; Iris killed Renju and then was killed by So who put on a polar bear costume; So killed Iris and was later shot by the Boss. After they looked through these images, a door that had not been investigated before, opened automatically. Inside was the scene where the Boss took Hitomi as a hostage, behind the two was a device that looked like a Psync Machine. Just when Date was hesitating about what to do, Pewter forcibly shut down the connection of Psync.

## Name

* The name "PSYNCIN' IN THE REFRaiN" refers to Saito Sejima subconsciously hiding his secrets from Kaname Date, refraining to show the truth of the investigations by hiding them behind nigh impossible doors.
* The name of the Somnium's achievement, "REFRaiN: Echoes of Murder", means that Saito showed off his killing process during the past few days in this Somnium, which brought an extremely deep and unimaginable impression to Date.

## Navigation

Hitomi Sagan • Mayumi Matsushita • Renju Okiura • Mama • Shoko Nadami • So Sejima • Moma Kumakura • Rohan Kumakura • Cyclops Serial Killer