Final Night The End of Sweet Dream

**Final Night The End of Sweet Dream** is the fifteenth and final chapter of Racing Lagoon.

As this is the final chapter of the game, there are no more free roaming. However, the player can return at any time to the previous chapter, should the player lose of any of the races in this chapter (or if the player reloads a completed save data), to return to free roaming. Additionally, none of the tracks in this chapter feature track maps (except for the bonus race at Wangan), so GPS parts are rendered ineffective.

## Synopsis

### D-Sleep

As WON-TEC kidnapped Akasaki and took him underground beneath the Bay Lagoon Tower, he saw a dream, where he found himself alone in a world without sensation or sounds, before a FMV of a man resembling him being released from a chamber is played. Akasaki then find himself in the room where the chamber is located, noting that what he saw was so vivid it could be real. Heidel Schneider, through a one-way mirror located in the same room as the chamber room, tells that what he saw was his "birth" from an experimental cryogenic freezing chamber named D-Sleep (in a fourth-wall breaking moment, Schneider will tell that the game's product code, SLPS-02038, is the chamber's serial code).

He then explains how D-Sleep works, that it uses a womb-like solution to preserve a human body in a frozen state, and that the man that was in the D-Sleep chamber release video *was* the "true" owner of Akasaki's body, because Akasaki was merely a pseudo-consciousness WON-TEC manufactured "in the upper levels of 'his' psyche" and "a temporary being that will eventually be reabsorbed into 'his' body", followed by a replay of the name entry screen from the beginning of the game (which, according to Schneider, was taken ten years ago) as Schneider explains further D-Sleep, in which the man's psyche was placed into a state of deep hypnosis that allowed false memories to be inputted into his mind, allowing them to recreate a person from a blank state. Schneider also reminds Akasaki once again that his existence was primarily to protect the necessary antibodies for the D-Project, which is the company's final key and hope to D-Project, as the company was worried about the frozen man may commit suicide in a shock from awakened ten years later otherwise.

Because of the aforementioned fear, WON-TEC built thus Akasaki as a temporary construct to hide the man's ten-year slumber to the outside world, and that Akasaki's life allows them to "smooth the process of 'his' revival". Furthermore, Schneider revealed that "he" was an unknown, dangerous Driver, to which the "his" actions on the night of the freezing was something WON-TEC does not even know, meaning it was necessary to hide "him" in Akasaki's consciousness, as well as stating that D-Project is infallible at this point to the point that Akasaki may be erased after this affair. Psychologically tortured by Schneider and Won Lee at this point, Akasaki began hearing the voice of the man (his past self) taking over his mind completely, which was the aim of the torture.

As the voice took over Akasaki, he felt that he was walking and opening doors not by his own will, with the voice allowing him to witness things through his own eyes. One of the rooms he happened to witness was a room where he saw WON-TEC Drivers (including Keisuke Ishikawa and Gamou Kusunoki) dead amongst a bloody floor, with Akasaki noting that they had been killed with an iron pipe to their heads. Walking into the next room, an underground prison, he saw an imprisoned Diablo Driver (who had been imprisoned for a decade) remarking that he is the Fastest Legend and that his driving reminded them of their days as Drivers, as the disposed Driver collapses in the cell. He noted that, if things went differently, he could have spending his entire life there.

### Escaping Bay Lagoon Tower

Akasaki, collapsing on the Tower's parking lot ground but managing to regain his own emotion and soul, heard an emergency alarm that the building is self-destructing in five minutes. Akira Tsujimoto and Yuka Suzuki promptly found him, to which they mentioned that he had saved them despite Akasaki having no memories of that. Tsujimoto noted that the alarm began as soon as the doors were unlocked, that allowed them to find him. With two minutes being lost from the conversation, the trio promptly escape, from the tower, with Yuka on the passenger seat of Tsujimoto's X1800. (The player is given one minute to escape each level, of which there are three stages the player must escape from; any failure will result in the player being required to restart from the first underground level.)

While at the second level, Akasaki wondered why his consciousness was allowed to return to his body, as well as wondering about the whereabouts of Ikki Fujisawa. Akasaki began hearing the voice inside him again, praising his speed at escaping and that he would like to witness the final moments of his other self. Tsujimoto saw this as slowing down their escape, to which Akasaki told him to escape first, however Yuka insisted that they had to escape together. In response, by the final floor, Sho asked Akira to ensure Yuka's safety, as he plans to rescue Fujisawa, promising that they will eventually meet again (to which the voice responded that promises only leads to betrayal).

### Battling Schneider

Finally escaping, he found himself in a familiar situation where he found himself holding a metal pipe across a fiery inferno, exactly what his past self did a decade ago. Across a backdrop of yet another crimson moon, Akasaki found himself attempting to kill Lee using the pipe; before he could do this, however, Schneider shot and killed Lee, saying that he no longer needs anyone "who oppose society's evolution" like him and that the rest of WON-TEC were unworthy as the stewards of D-Project. Schneider also vowed that he will return to Europe with Diablo, hoping that the project will succeed there. He also noted that Diablo was already working as intended (citing various accidents that media reported as seemingly being unrelated to it, and how Schneider already sells Diablo to world's most powerful people at a premium), and challenged Akasaki to one more race against him before the road collapses.

Before the race, Schneider explains that he enjoys it when he saw other humans in terror, and reveals that the disk, whose contents were shown after Darkness GP, contains a protected sector that contained true records of Akasaki's past: that he was an worthless driver for purposes of the D-Project, and that he did not actually have any relevant antibodies for D-Project purposes.

He also explains the encounter at Hokkaido, and reveals the identity of the man that Akasaki got the disk from (and Schneider subsequently killed): Satoru Kawashima, D-Project's chief researcher and the man who put Akasaki into the decade-long stasis. Schneider explains that he was an "hopeless idealist" to be a worthy scientist for him and that, in Satoru's final moments, he begged for Akasaki's life (saying that he was against the idea of manipulating emotions, that the man that he frozen was an innocent person, not a D-Project subject, and saving him was the only way of redeeming himself), instead of his own. He also explained that Akasaki's white-out when he and Kawashima attempted to escape, as well as voices that he heard was actually a side-effect of Diablo when at extreme mental stress, with the voice designed to suppress fear to the point the user became desperate to re-feel fear to regain their humanity.

As Akasaki witnesses the Diablo capsules Schneider has on his hand, he was reminded of the fragments of Makoto Sawaki's taillights he saw during a team meeting following his ultimately-fatal wreck - that both serve as small miracles that serves as hopes for a big future, a dream that street racers put their life on the line for (the voice, however, replies that the racers themselves, both past and present, defiled their own dreams) and, without caring for any single word Schneider said, accepted his challenge of racing to the edge of the Bay Lagoon, to which Schneider warned him that only one of them will make the finish line alive. Against a dangerous, cracking road and a Diablo-tuned opponent, Akasaki defeated Schneider as he falls into a cracking crevice that ultimately proves fatal.

### Confronting Aoi

Just as the sun barely rises after battling Schneider, Akasaki spotted a strange, but familiar looking RS2000tb, with Aoi Kawashima and Ikki Fujisawa in the car. Kawashima stepped out of the car and explained her version of things: than she was the one who initiated the Driver project ten years ago, her father founded WON-TEC (originally a simple shop, before growing into present-day conglomerate) and that her parents' death during one fateful spring road trip at Hakone (caused by a driver blinking their headlights at Kawashima's family car) was the reason the Kawashima siblings started the Diablo project that targeted street racers. The trials of the Diablo project initially began at the Yokohama Sirius Hotel, where no racer declined the Kawashima siblings' offer for it, including Akasaki (in the past), who she described as being able to outrun Diablo-Zetas with his regular Zeta3000, which reaffirmed that he *is* the Yokohama's Fastest Legend. She also noted that he declined the Diablo drug (as well as how he got the title without using it) and claimed how he was the first to care about her. She also was told that Schneider told her about the deaths of him and her brother in an accident at Yokohane (unaware that Satoru actually retreated to Hokkaido, and that Schneider had shot Satoru few chapters ago) which reawakened her hatred of street racers.

She then proceeds to explain her encounter with Fujisawa two years ago that seemingly toned down her disdain for street racers, as well that how she learned to recognize Akasaki to her surprise (and a late, futile attempt from her to expose Schneider) from a team photo Fujisawa gave to her. These statements were claimed to calm her down, but it reawakened his old memories of the encounter with her that set up The War of Yokohama (the Diablo-Zeta destruction incident), as well the whole incident itself (remarking that, during the period he was under D-Sleep, he had always relieved that night of destruction, and thus it defined him).

When Kawashima praised him for being the fastest in Yokohama without ever touching Diablo, he felt to her that everything that he had lived for had been a big lie, saying that everyone almost betrayed him. Kawashima responds that they did lie, but he remained true to his self and encouraged him to shape his life. By that point, Akasaki felt that his voice of past self were seemingly no longer there; he also noted that he was looking for a certain someone, someone that is reachable only by racing faster that anyone else, as well noting that was exactly the dream of every street racer, and that the excitement of racing never truly felt away once one starts, and that his true reason for racing was to reclaim himself and the feeling of racing itself, thus feeling that whatever happened in his dark memories was not part of his true self and that racing is what he needed to do.

However, Akasaki has one more battle: fight against Fujisawa's Diablo-tuned RS2000. Noting that Fujisawa was trying to cleanse himself from the effects of Diablo, he questioned why Aoi gave Diablo to him in the first place, feeling that her love for him could be a big lie. Just before Akasaki could chase the RS2000, the car stopped, to Akasaki's shock. He discovered Fujisawa (in which Akasaki referred him as the Yokohama's Fastest Legend, per his ceremonial title given in the the debut team battle race) in a critical condition, to which Fujisawa replied that the legend he was searching was Akasaki himself, and that he wanted to race him again. He also said that their dreams may not be significant after all and they were merely chasing a mirage, but he does not regret any single of it, and what matters is they will continue racing to the world beyond speed.

These statements reactivated the memories of Akasaki's past self once more, as well as the killings of the Drivers he did when possessed earlier while at Bay Lagoon Tower, as well as it's collapse. Now with Kawashima on the driver seat of Fujisawa's Diablo-tuned RS2000 and ready to run away with Fujisawa (possibly out of shock from her knowledge of things around her), he felt that, given Ikki's current condition and relationship with her, he was seemingly aware that she was going to give him Diablo, and thus went after her. The player must overtake her before she reaches the pier at 100 meter mark, or the player will required to restart the chase. If the player overtakes her before the 1,200 meter mark, the player must maintain the lead until that milestone; otherwise the game proceeds to the next cutscene immediately.

After he caught up with the Diablo-RS, Akasaki realized that the realm beyond speed is something that is located within himself. Knowing that he couldn't handle partings, he let himself witness Fujisawa exiting the car and Aoi giving him one more hug against a backdrop of the sunrise by the bay.

### One More Battle From Within

*Note: This part requires that the player have the Gale A Moment title by the time the player starts the chapter. If not, the game goes to the ending directly.*

After the encounter, his past self invited Akasaki for one more race, without any stakes or caring who is the winner (a hint that winning this race is optional). Akasaki felt that his past self is trying to erase him once more, but the voice allowed him to stay around together until he feels his time is up; the voice also claimed that he may still have unfinished business and had cried the race during that fateful morning against Fujisawa after the Yokohama GP. After the race at Wangan, Akasaki pondered what his next plans are, and that he has still many things to discover, as well as promises to keep, and that he will continue racing to figure that very question.

### Ending

Prior to the credits scene, the in-universe street racer's manifesto is shown, against a dawn city backdrop. Additionally, if the player wins all unofficial races before starting the chapter, Kenzo Yamada, having recovered from his injury from WON-TEC attack the night prior, will tell Akasaki that his "own sun will rise" and that he realized that racing is not just driving fast, but also allows him to grew up: he "was way off the mark" in trying to be cool and noticed that everyone were "too hot-headed" to share their own struggles, including Yamada himself as he complained about his own issues, overlooking this close to them. Yamada ends it with the reason he stopped visiting No-Name Park (because of how he felt his car's exhaust pipes were killing the park's dying weeds; he felt those weeds reminded him of himself) and a reminder to Akasaki to honor his promise to Yuka.

In the ending credits, Akasaki is seen driving in the black Zeta3000 with Yuka on the passenger seat as the sun rises, while Miharu Koguchi and Manabu Oda saw the sun rise from Hakone, while at Honmoku Wharf Tsujimoto hangs out and smokes by the bay as his X1800 now has the front fascia of a Sil-14 as a tribute to Sawaki and a Bay Lagoon Racing sticker that indicated his membership with the team. At the hospital, Kawashima visited Fujisawa as he recovers, ready for a race against Akasaki in his RS2000tb as they race towards the sunrise, with a text noting that the legend will never die.