Resolution Route/NI

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## Resolution Route

### Unlock Requirement

Completed Side Ryuki
Completed Gen and Amame Route
Completed Kizuna and Lien Route

### Number of Chapters

19

**Resolution Route**, indicated by **M1**, is a route featured in *AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES - nirvanA Initiative*. Due to being on **Side Mizuki**, it is marked as a blue route on the flowchart.

The Resolution Route is a branch of the story focused on solving the mystery of the Half Body Serial Killings, exploring the fate of the cast after Explosion Route, delving deeper into Mizuki's past, and stopping the Nirvana Initiative.

**Resolution END** is considered the game's "Ultimate Ending", or True Ending. Resolution END is the third Normal Ending of the game, based on the order of achievements, but is one of the last Normal Endings that can be obtained, requiring all but one of the other Normal ENDs in order to unlock. It is the longest route both in the game and in the series, at nineteen chapters.

## Story Overview

### Re-opening the HB Case

The appearance of half a corpse at Tokyo National Stadium re-opened the Half Body Serial Killings case that had gone cold for six years. Mizuki Date, the newest ABIS recruit, was placed in charge of the case and Psynced with the previous investigator, Kuruto Ryuki, to see what she could learn from him. Ryuki's mind was full of guilt for the explosion that had happened six years ago, which had robbed Mizuki of her left eye, Kizuna Chieda of her legs, and had supposedly killed Kaname Date. However, besides learning the supposed real name of Tearer (**Dahlia Boat**), Mizuki didn't learn anything new about the case. She took to the Stadium instead to investigate the crime scene.

By using VR, Mizuki confirmed that the corpse had the same face and cause of death as the right half of Jin Furue's corpse from six years ago. She had also confirmed earlier that the body's DNA matched the samples taken from Jin's organs. While going over the scene, she discovered that Shoma Enda's one-wheeled robot had been used to move the body, which gave her a starting point for the investigation. Mizuki began to search around the city for Shoma. At Brahman she found Amame Doi, who seemed unwell. Amame claimed that it was stress from hearing about the Nirvana Initiative, an online rumor about some sort of potential terrorist attack. Gen Ishiyagane was also there, and gave a strangely inconsistent account of where he'd been the previous night, when Mizuki had stopped by to pick up Ryuki. At Matsushita Diner, Mizuki ran into Iris Sagan and Ota Matsushita, who talked to her about the Nirvana Trial, a video uploaded to ViewQube that was supposedly making people disappear. Mizuki also stopped at Central Hospital to learn more about the first victim of the case, Jin Furue. According to the nurse, Jin had a visceral disease, which put him in the hospital a lot, but was cured by the time he was killed. He was also very shy when he was a child, and seemed like a completely different person when she read about him in the present. Finally, Mizuki checked Sekiba High, where she found a mentally unwell Ryuki. He appeared to be suffering from delusions and Aiba advised Mizuki to play along with them, as rejecting them would just leave him disorientated. After failing to get information out of him, Ryuki left to find someplace else to calm down.

Afterwards, while driving, Mizuki received a call from Gen telling her that Shoma had been seen around Horadori Institute. Mizuki broke in and tried to take out the researchers, but found herself surrounded. That's when the Masked Woman made a surprise appearance and helped her knock out the guards. After they were done, Kizuna wheeled onto the scene, asking what was going on. The trio left the institute and moved to Yoyagi Park to talk. Kizuna wouldn't say why she was at the institute, but told Mizuki that Shoma was camping and would be back in town later. The Masked Woman said that the reason she was at the institute was because she was investigating the rumors of its shady practices, and implied that Horadori Institute had done "something" to her. She wouldn't talk more about it, and when Mizuki demanded to know why the Masked Woman had shot at her when the corpse first showed up at the Stadium, she pointed out that the bullets had been rubber and claimed that she wasn't Mizuki's enemy.

The Masked Woman then took her leave, and Mizuki Wink Psynced into Kizuna to learn why she was at the institute. For some reason, Kizuna knew about Chikara Horadori, the director of Horadori Institute, and that he had succeeded in an "experiment". Mizuki took Kizuna to ABIS HQ and performed a regular Psync to learn more. Kizuna's Psync focused a lot on her relationship with the woman she called "Big Sis", who had lived with her for six years before being adopted by another family. At the end of the Psync, Mizuki discovered a diary from Kizuna's father that talked about the inhumane experiments conducted at Horadori Institute. Kizuna took Mizuki to Aioen afterwards and handed over the diary, which revealed that Mizuki had been one of Chikara's genetic experiments and had been adopted by her supposed birth parents when she was three years old.

### Continuing the Investigation

Spurred by the new knowledge of her birth, Mizuki got Lien Twining to help her break in to Horadori Insitute to learn more. Instead she found a secret underground room. Investigating the room revealed a previous altercation where one figure, "X", knocked a second figure, "T", to the ground with enough force to knock out their tooth. It also revealed a mechanism that opened the floor and summoned the slicer that was used to chop the victims of the case in half... and, on top of it, the left half of Tokiko Shigure, the president of Naixatloz. Mizuki left Lien with the body and continued deeper into the extra room that was revealed by the mechanism. Inside she found the Underground Cell that was revealed to be both Tearer's room and his prison. By reading his diary from six years ago, she learned that the people who imprisoned Tearer had been stealing something from him; that Tearer had learned about Naix's teachings from his "mother", and that chopping the bodies in half was in service of the Nirvana Initiative; that the virus TC-PERGE was somehow connected to the Initiative; that "T" was Tearer's first victim, making him Jin Furue; and that a "thief" had stolen half of Jin's corpse on the 11th, leading to Tearer killing the thief on the 13th.

While going over her new info back at Boss's Office, Mizuki was told by Boss that the slicer contained the DNA of a mysterious fifth victim alongside the four that were known (Jin Furue, Chikara Horadori, Andes Komeji, and Tokiko Shigure). Mizuki went to Aioen Orphanage to check in with Lien, to see if he'd noticed anything she hadn't. Lien said something strange, so Mizuki Wink Psynced into him to see what he knew. Lien had opened a lock for someone and discovered something that was disturbing for the both of them. Mizuki kept this in mind as she left him with Kizuna and continued the investigation. She found Shoma at his house and asked him about the robot. He didn't know who took it, but the only people who knew about it were those who were close to him and also Ryuki. Shoma, in turn, asked Mizuki about why Jin's corpse had gone up in flames six years ago, with Mizuki explaining to him that it had been a thermite bomb in his stomach. At Brahman, Mizuki found an annoyed Gen and a depressed Amame. Wink Psyncing into both revealed that Amame's father had passed away six years ago, and Gen had made an oath to protect Amame after she'd told him something.

Mizuki went to the Kumakura Office next, where she learned from Moma Kumakura that a child had gone missing from Aioen decades ago, and that Chikara was rumored to be the kidnapper. Moma also revealed that Chikara had went around the country doing DNA examinations on children, and speculated that it was all part of an experiment to combine two bodies into one. Mama from Marble didn't have much new information for Mizuki, but was curious about the stadium that the corpse had been found in. Supposedly, there had been construction going on there for half a year, and its purpose had been handwaved as structural issues. Finally, Mizuki popped into Lemniscate to talk to Iris. While there she ran into Dokuta Yogano, who was acting erratically. When he overheard that Mizuki had watched the Nirvana Trial, he told her that the "rehearsal" would be happening at Misetan and left.

Afterward, Mizuki went to Ikume Shrine to collect her information and found a sinister group of Naix members there. She Wink Psynced into one and discovered that they were planning to shoot a rocket full of TC-PERGE as part of the "rehearsal". She got into a fight with them and was assisted with the sudden appearance of the Masked Woman. After the battle, the Masked Woman collapsed, and Mizuki took her to Aioen to recover. The Masked Woman talked about how she was raised at Aioen, and every so often would be taken to Horadori Institute for experimentation. After the institute temporarily shut down, she was taken in by a family who raised her from 9 to 15. The experiments left her blind in one eye and with a weak heart, but also gave her superhuman abilities, which Mizuki realized was like herself. The Masked Woman refused to talk more, not wanting Mizuki to get involved in things, but then her heart acted up and she collapsed to the ground.

This time, however, Mizuki and Aiba took advantage of the situation and brought the Woman to ABIS to Psync with her. Inside her Psync they saw first-hand how despicable Chikara's experiments had been, basically amounting to torture. They saw how the Masked Woman would do anything it took to protect one of the other experiments, who was represented in the dream as a toy rabbit. Mizuki and Aiba helped her rescue the rabbit, but were unable to find the password that would lead them deeper into Chikara's research. Instead, Chikara took the rabbit again and tried to drill a hole into its chest. The Masked Woman rushed forward, took the drill to her shoulder, then broke the mechanism and destroyed the nightmare version of Chikara. Once he was gone, Tearer took his place, announcing that the Initiative was proceeding as planned and that humanity would soon achieve Moksha.

Mizuki tried to ask the Masked Woman after the Psync about Tearer, but the Masked Woman refused to talk about when she'd met him. She did, however, say that the Initiative involved some sort of plan to make humanity experience a simultaneous "glitch", which would help them achieve Moksha. Mizuki decided to investigate by attending the rehearsal at Misetan, with the Masked Woman coming along since she couldn't be legally detained. The two of them met Ryuki on the rooftop, who had heard that something terrible was going to happen there. He also claimed to have seen Date, which Aiba dismissed as another one of his delusions. Suddenly, an angered Masked Woman beat up Ryuki, claiming she hadn't gotten him back for "six years ago". The rocket went off soon after, but Tearer's voice on the park's intercom reassured them that TC-PERGE hadn't been relased since it was only a test.

### M1: The Truth

At Marble, Mama (or rather, the entity inside her) asked you a series of questions to make sure you had collected all the information you needed from the various timelines to truly understand the case: Tearer is Uru Somezuki, who was kidnapped from Aioen as a child and had his organs and half of his face transplanted to Jin Furue; Tearer killed Jin, Chikara, and Komeji for the sake of the Nirvana Initiative, the plan to have all of humanity reach Moksha; and, last but not least, the timeline of the game was deliberately being presented to you in a false order. 2/12 and 2/14 had been switched between past and present: when you thought you were playing as Ryuki in the past, it was actually the present, and when you thought you were playing as Mizuki Date in the present, it was actually Mizuki Kuranushi in the past. This meant that both halves of each body had appeared within 24 hours of each other, and weren't split apart by six years. While the body at Studio Dvaita six years ago was Jin Furue, the half of "his" body in the present actually belonged to Uru Somezuki.

This also meant that Uru and Tokiko did not die in the past, but the present. But since Uru was Tearer, this left the question of who killed the two of them. The entity left you to ponder on it and Mama returned to her body, wondering who she was just talking to in her empty bar.

### M1: The Second Culprit

The Masked Woman, Mizuki Kuranushi, brought Mizuki Date to Aioen and explained everything: about Mizuki Date being a perfected clone of her, about both of them being raised at Aioen while being experimented on at Horadori Institute, about being adopted first by the Chiedas and then by Boss, who made her a secret member of ABIS, and about Mizuki struggling to call her "Big Sis" as a child and instead calling her **"Bibi"**. Bibi explained how, in the past, she had confronted Tearer, but had been threatened with Kizuna's life to not speak of it to anyone. For the past six years she had been disabling all of Tearer's assets so that she'd be free of his blackmail. Aiba didn't remember working with Bibi in the past because she lost her memory in the explosion six years ago. Once Bibi had caught Mizuki up on everything, she brought her to Brahman to show her something.

At Brahman, Mizuki discovered Date dressed up like Gen, a recently eloped Kizuna and Lien, and the left half of Jin Furue's corpse in the freezer. She was understandably very confused by all of this. The group explained to her what the player had learned in Gen and Amame Route, about Date being an amnesiac for six years and then disguising himself as Gen on his return so that he could conduct his own investigation, and about how he got Lien's help to open up the freezer and discover the corpse. That still didn't explain who the corpse belonged to, however, so Date and Bibi took Mizuki to the Cathedral where she read Tokiko's file and learned everything that the player had in Kizuna and Lien Route. The freezer corpse was the left half of Jin Furue's body, frozen for six years after it was stolen from Tearer. It had a different face from the Studio Dvaita corpse because of Chikara transplanting Uru's organs and face onto Jin. The corpse at the Stadium was Uru's left half, and his right half was hidden away in the Cathedral's pedestal.

Date explained that he had learned about the file from Shoma, who also told him about Chikara experimenting on his body and about his sister being Amame. Mizuki questioned whether the Nirvana Initiative was even still happening, since Tearer was dead. Bibi suggested finding the culprit who killed Tokiko and Tearer and asking them about it. To that end, Bibi used her AI-Ball, Marco, to open a secret passageway that lead into a second cathedral, identical to the first. This one was destroyed as a result of the explosion six years ago, while the first cathedral was used to lure in potential Naix recruits. Sitting at the bottom of the destroyed cathedral was Ryuki, wallowing in his guilt. Six years ago, Tama had been kidnapped by Tearer, forcing Ryuki to obey his command to bring Date to the Cathedral. This caused the explosion that disabled Mizuki and Kizuna and wiped Date's memory for six years. Ryuki had also shot Bibi on Tearer's orders, which caused her already weak heart to worsen.

Date motivated Ryuki to get back on his feet, and Bibi welcomed him to the group after saying she'd forgive him once the case was solved. The four of them exchanged all of the information they had learned during the case. This taught Mizuki when the Nirvana Initiative was being held, and that it would involve the spread of TC-PERGE, but not where it was happening. Ryuki suggested that they ask the person who most likely killed Tearer: Amame Doi. The group moved to the Enda Residence where Gen and Shoma immediately tried to stop them from taking away Amame. The ensuing confrontation explained that Amame had likely killed Tearer as revenge for him killing her dad, Komeji. Komeji had stolen Jin's corpse from Tearer, and Amame had then took it and hid it at Brahman with Gen's help. It was then discovered that Shoma had created a pile of thermite bombs that he hid in the closet, which he had been planning to use to get his own revenge on Tearer.

Eventually, Amame agreed to a Psync. While her Psync explained her motives, and also revealed that Tokiko had killed herself instead of being killed by Amame, it didn't explain where the Nirvana Initiative was happening. Mizuki wondered why the bodies had all been cut in half, which turned out to be what gave them the location: by looking at the intersection of where the four body halves were placed, it pointed to the Tokyo National Stadium. Date, Mizuki, and Bibi immediately set off.

### M1: The Nirvana Initiative

At the stadium was a ballistics missile with TC-PERGE attached to the head. If it launched and exploded in the sky, then TC-PERGE would spread and millions would fall victim to the virus. A large group of Horadori researchers, Naix members, and hired mercenaries stood between the group and the warhead, but that didn't stop them from charging forward to fight. Date started to struggle due to being blind in one eye, so Aiba left Mizuki and returned to her old partner. This leveled the playing field until the enemy activated stealth camouflage, meaning Mizuki couldn't see them without Aiba. She was overpowered and shot in the shoulder by a sniper, leaving her easy pickings for the enemy. That's when Ryuki arrived, shooting down the enemy and helping Mizuki to her feet. He had arrived at the stadium alongside Gen, Shoma, Roboji, Lien, Kizuna, Iris, Ota, and Moma, all in the Kumakura's armoured truck.

Roboji had also come equipped with the thermite bombs that Shoma had made. Ryuki explained that the heat from the bombs would burn up TC-PERGE, which was the only way to safely dispose of it. Aiba returned to Mizuki, and everyone resumed the fight. However, without Aiba, Date was a sitting duck as one of the invisible enemies took aim at him. Ryuki rushed forward and took the shot for Date, seemingly dying in the process. Mizuki reached the rocket but wasn't in time to stop it from going off. As it flew into the sky, Bibi took the thermite from Roboji, got onto her scooter, and gave chase, using the scooter's rocket propulsion to launch herself after the missile. Mizuki followed suit on her own scooter, and the two of them were able to throw the bombs up to the missile and detonate it, destroying TC-PERGE. The two sisters returned safely to earth using the scooter's parachute. On the stadium's screen, where a recorded Tearer had been gloating throughout the whole fight, the video suddenly changed to Tokiko, who simply said "Plan success..."

### M1: The End

A week later, everyone had recovered from the fight at the stadium. Boss praised Mizuki and Bibi for a job well done, and told them that she'd hidden a present somewhere for them to find. The two sisters went around town, checking up on everyone, and on the way picking up all the clues that Boss had left with their friends. Gen, Shoma, and Ota all talked about Amame going to jail for killing Tearer, and how they felt it was undeserved since she had basically helped stopped a terrorist plan. Date was back with the Sagans, enjoying his time with Hitomi. Kizuna and Lien were now able to get married without her father trying to stop them. Thanks to PERGE, there was a cure for Bibi's weak heart, and her diagnosis was no longer terminal. At Marble, the entity possessed Mama one last time to tell the girls to head to Naix Japan. When they arrived there, they found Tokiko's hologram, who gave a nil number to the Frayer. Perhaps, in another timeline, it would prove useful.

With all of the clues gathered, Mizuki and Bibi figured out that Boss wanted them to go the stadium. There they were met by Roboji, who carried a giant present onto the field. The present burst open and Ryuki was revealed, still recovering from his bullet wound but otherwise alive and well. Kizuna and Lien also arrived, telling the girls that they'd prepared a dance for Ryuki's recovery. The music began to play, the rest of the cast rushed onto the scene, and everyone celebrated the power of true humanity on the stage where the Nirvana Initiative had been thwarted.

*"We achieve our dream together, at last, we truly are whole!"*
## Chapters in this Route

* 2/10 Converge Chapter 0 - A Strange Tale
* New Investigation (Branch B) 🔒
* 2/10 Mizuki Chapter 0 - Alone
* 2/11 Mizuki Chapter 1 - Pass Mildly Away
* Nostalgic Idol
* 2/11 Mizuki Chapter 1 - End Where I Begun
* 2/12 Mizuki Chapter 2 - Traveler
* Necessary Intervention
* 2/12 Mizuki Chapter 2 - Left Behind
* 2/13 Mizuki Chapter 3 - The Expense of Spirit
* Neurotic Inception (Branch A)
* 2/13 Mizuki Chapter 3 M1 - Hell
* 2/14 Mizuki Chapter 4 M1 - Visions
* Nonentity Incognito
* 2/14 Mizuki Chapter 4 M1 - In Truth 🔒
* 2/15 Mizuki Chapter 5 M1 - Births
* Nightmare Irreconcilable
* 2/15 Mizuki Chapter 5 M1 - The End of Craving
* 2/22 Epilogue - Braver Than All Flowers

## Trivia

* It is possible to sequence break and bypass the first lock of Resolution Route if the player knows what password to enter. However, the second lock cannot be bypassed until the actual requirement of clearing the requisite Normal ENDs is achieved.
* The achievement image for Resolution END is the only one besides Explosion END that features three characters instead of two.

## Navigation

 Locations | **Tokyo**
*Chiyoda District*: Police Headquarters (Boss's Office, Psync Room, Interrogation Room) • Sunfish Pocket • Sekiba High
*Chuo District*: Horadori Institute of Genetics (Underground, Hostage Room) • Naixatloz Japan Branch (President's Office, Cathedral)
*Koto District*: Harbor Warehouse District • Date Residence
*Minato District*: Studio Dvaita • Aioen Orphanage • Ikume Shrine • Kumakura Office • Sejima Residence • Central Hospital
*Shibuya District*: Lemniscate Entertainment Offices • Yoyagi Park
*Shinagawa/Kabasaki District*: Matsushita Diner • Sagan Residence • Enda Residence • Kabasaki Chemical Plant
*Shinjuku District*: Golden Yokocho (Marble, Brahman World Cuisine) • Misetan Department Store • Tokyo National Stadium
**Side Ryuki:**
Dispossessed • Anyone Imagines • Ought to Know • Nothing to Be Done • Go • Farewell
**Komeji and Shoma Route:** Joy for Anguish • I Found Me • Past Its Ken
**Explosion Route:** Smiles for Tears • Well-Known • The Mind of God • Not All A Dream • She Was the Universe
**閭｡陜ｶ荵句､｢邱ｨ Route:** 遐ｴ邯ｻ逋ｾ蜃ｺ • All This Happened, More or Less
**Side Mizuki:**
Alone • Pass Mildly Away • End Where I Begun • Traveler • Left Behind • The Expense of Spirit
**Gen and Amame Route:** All Living Things • Of Arms and Of Man • Who's There • All That We Are
**Kizuna and Lien Route:** Bid the Soldiers Shoot • Sweet Silent Thought
****Resolution Route**:** Hell • Visions • In Truth • Births • The End of Craving • Braver Than All Flowers