Butterfly

**Butterfly** is Uki Yamazoe's character route in Chaos;Child.

## Plot

The route diverges from the common route in chapter 8, after Takuru finds out what happened to Yui Tachibana and Shinji Itou. In this route, Uki attacks Itou, but Takuru jumps in between them, seemingly taking the attack instead, and all goes black.

Takuru wakes up inside Aoba Dorm to see that both Yui and Shinji are alright and that everything is normal. In fact, everything seems to be perfect in Takuru's life. The murders have stopped, his family (now including Uki) is safe and happy, he's been offered a position as a commentator at Niconiya News, and the prettiest girl in school has asked him out. But he keeps seeing inexplicable things, like messages that no one else seems to notice urging him to wake up, or a serious-looking Uki brandishing her Di-Sword. He ignores these until, on his first date with Yume Aozaki, he notices Uki watching him from outside the window, and Aozaki inexplicably disappears.

Wanting answers, he chases after Uki and aggressively demands an explanation. The authorities notice and start chasing *him*. Panicked, he runs home, where he spends the rest of the day calling Aozaki's number and listening to the phone endlessly ring. Eventually he goes to bed, still waiting for Aozaki to pick up.

He's woken by the sounds of voices on the phone, but it's Nono and Serika begging him to wake up from the delusion he's trapped in. He suddenly remembers what happened at the scene of Yui's murder: in his effort to defend Itou, *Takuru* attacked *Uki*, not the other way around.

Uki appears in his room to explain that Takuru was trapped in a delusion that she'd created to make him happy. However, Uki is dying, and if Takuru doesn't escape soon, he'll be lost, too. She tries to convince him to stay in this perfect world, rather than return to a real world where his best friend had murdered his sister.

## Uki Yamazoe BAD END 1

Rather than being pulled into Uki's delusion, Takuru dies from her attack.

## Uki Yamazoe BAD END 2

On his date with Aozaki, Riko Haida enters and promptly burns Takuru to death.

## Uki Yamazoe BAD END 3

On his date with Aozaki, an unseen assailant throws Takuru down the cafe steps, breaking his neck.

## Uki Yamazoe BAD END 4

Despite learning that he is trapped in Uki's delusion as she dies, Takuru chooses not to fight it, surrendering to oblivion.

## Another sky end

Uki explains to Takuru that she trapped him in the delusion of a happy life. A second Uki appears, urging Takuru to wake up before the delusion dies with her. The two Ukis fight while the real-world Uki's condition deteriorates, sending the delusory world into the Dirac sea. Uki tells Takuru that his Di-Sword will guide him back to reality.

Soon after he wakes up, Uki dies. Later, Kunosato tells him that the way Uki died made no sense unless it was a delusion, which could only be possible if they were still in her delusory world. He looks up and sees Uki's shadow.

## Dream sky end

Same as "Another sky end" until Takuru wakes up. Uki survives, albeit in a vegetative state. Some time later, as Takuru is walking her around in her wheelchair, they pass by a shop selling potted plants like the one that Uki had had in her delusory room. She reacts to it, crying a single tear.