PSYNCIN' IN THE VaiN/Story

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

## PSYNCIN' IN THE VaiN

### Subject

Saito Sejima
(Host: Iris Sagan)

### Psyncer

Kaname Date
Aiba

## Details

### Persons appearing

* So Sejima\*
* Blue Figure\*
* Saito Sejima\*
* Red Figure\*
* The 4 Original Cyclops Serial Killings victims\*

## Chapters

* gumAI (Annihilation Route)

**PSYNCIN' IN THE VaiN** is a dreamworld featured in *AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES*, based on the Kabasaki Chemical Plant.

It is the seventh chapter and the third Somnium of Branch A (Ota, Mizuki and Annihilation Route). It is a Somnium world created from Saito Sejima's dream by the Psync System. ABIS explored this Somnium, believing it belonged to Iris Sagan, to gain information about the murder of Renju Okiura.

## History

After Aiba entered Somnium world, she found herself in an unknown dark factory with a CRT TV in front of her. Date and Aiba are surprised that the Somnium world of "Iris" is so strange.

### Branch A: Hit the mouse.

Aiba hit the TV and found that the screen on it immediately changed into a children's drawing of a mouse, and then it quickly changed into a crumpled and bloodstained state. At this time, the factory turned pale, and the surrounding props increased.

### Branch A: Blew up a frog.

Next, Aiba was going to create an explosion in this Somnium world. She found a Medicine Shelf with a second TV set on it, as before, playing a children's drawing on it, with a frog. Aiba picked up the chemical bottle on the Medicine Shelf, but no sooner does she pick it up than it slides to the floor and explodes. The picture in the TV on the shelf changed immediately.

### Branch A: Tore the butterfly and stabbed the bird.

The explosion changed the environment again, and this time Aiba was prompted to perform the act of tearing and piercing. A third TV appeared in the corner with a butterfly painted inside the drawing. Aiba made a judgment based on the surrounding objects and performed a series of actions, causing the painting on the third TV to be torn in half, and then the fourth TV with the bird painting appeared. Aiba continued to perform actions related to the prompt, and the bird on the fourth TV became bloody from the knife stab.

### Branch A: Shot the cat.

The scene changed again, and finally the fifth TV appeared, with a painting of a cat inside. The last cue Aiba received was to shoot, so she started looking for bullets to use in a pistol she had seen before. She found six bullets in an oil drum and used them in the pistol. Aiba shot at the fifth TV, causing the screen to change.

What confused Date and Aiba was that the changed screen on the TV was a blue figure kissing So Sejima who had turned with a woman body.

### Branch B: Saw the murder video.

Aiba spin the dial on the TV and found that the screen on it changed into the scene of the first murder in Original Cyclops Serial Killings. At this time, the factory has been changed with an eerie dark blue environment, and the surrounding props increased.

### Branch B: Strangled the body.

Next, Aiba was going to create a strangling event in this Somnium world. She walked up to a mannequin torso and grabbed its neck viciously, causing Aiba and Date to lose consciousness for a brief moment. When they woke up, they found that the arrangement of props in the factory had changed again. The previous torso fell to the ground, and its head detached from it.

### Branch B: Hit the torso.

To imitate the next murder event, Aiba found a new TV and watched a video of the victim being killed with a pounding blow on it. After watching, Date was puzzled by the connection between Iris and the Original Cyclops Killings. Aiba said that they had to continue the investigation without enough clues. She found several more props nearby, as well as another mannequin torso. She and Date tried to find a way to whack it, knocked it down, leading to consciousness loss again. After waking up, the surrounding objects increased another time. The previous torso fell to the ground, and a chunk of its head went missing.

### Branch B: Shot the body.

In order to imitate the next event, Aiba turned the dial on yet a new TV and watched video of a victim getting shot dead. Date was puzzled again, saying how Iris would know so much about the details of the case. Needing clues to destroy the mirror, Aiba investigated a locker, only to find a dagger flying out. It hit a gas canister and caused an explosion, which caused three shelves to fall to the wall like dominoes, and the shelf knocked over the iron pipes at the corner, causing a series of chain reactions to occur on the ceiling. Another explosion was caused by an iron ball rolling down from the ceiling, and the impact caused another part of the machinery on the ceiling to start moving. Finally, the third explosion happened from a medicine bottle, causing objects on the ceiling to move and destroy the mirror.

After the mirror was destroyed, Aiba saw directly the fourth murder on the operating table in front of her: a blue figure kept stabbing the fourth victim on the operating table with a knife while a red figure next to the blue one was witnessing it. Among other things, she noticed that... Date's face was reflected in nearby shards of glass.

## Name

* The name "PSYNCIN' IN THE VaiN" refers to Saito Sejima's vanity, or more specifically, in how he takes pride in all his various murders, as they are displayed on TV screens to show off.
* The name of the Somnium's achievement, "VaiN: Disassociated Persona", means that the style and atmosphere of this Somnium are quite different from the impression of Iris that Date knew before. From a more truthful point of view, this also means that the personality in Iris' body is not her own, but Saito Sejima's.
* In the flashback during the later chapter Day 6: Wednesday -hakAI-, the four Original Cyclops Killings scenes from this Somnium's Branch B section appear as what Falco learned when he Psynced with Rohan Kumakura 6 years ago.

## Navigation

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