Niyan, wake up!

**Niyan, wake up!** (目ぇ覚ませ！にぃやん編, *Mē samase! Nīyan hen*) is a stage in *World's End Club*. It follows What next? if the player chose Kyoto.

## Summary

On August 18th, the Go-Getters Club reached Kyoto. They had been unable to find anyone, and wondered if going to Kyoto would have been a better choice. Suddenly, they heard a loud sound in the distance, and ran to check it out. They arrived at a pair of large metal doors inside the entrance to a cave. They wondered if the sound was someone entering or leaving from the doors, and decided to investigate inside.

A short ways inside, Chuko, Jennu, and Kansai recognized someone in the darkness. As he got closer, he suddenly stopped and ran back further into the cave. The Go-Getters Club ran after him and found themselves inside a huge underground space where people were living in tents. Everyone decided to split up and talk to the people to gather information.

Jennu and Tattsun talked to someone who explained that they were in an underground space underneath Kyoto's old imperial palace. The people had been told not to go outside because of poisonous chemical rain that could kill them within minutes. Aniki and Pai questioned someone about the flyers, who said they had no idea what they meant. Kansai and Chuko talked to someone about what happened to mankind, who said that there could be other underground facilities with people living in them. Nyoro and Mowchan asked someone about the people in Tokyo, who thought that people might be alive underground in Tokyo.

After an hour of questioning, Jennu talked to Kansai as he practiced his batting with Reycho. They had been unable to make sense of what everyone had told them, so Kansai picked up a bat to clear his head. Kansai asked Reycho to go all out on his next throw, and Kansai hit the ball high into the air, where it knocked something down. Everyone gathered around to look at the broken drone that had crashed onto the ground. No one had seen the drone in the air beforehand, and a voice explained that they were normally unable to see it.

Everyone turned to the source of the voice and saw Niyan, Kansai's old coach. Chuko and Kansai were excited to see him again, while Jennu seemed bothered by something. Niyan explained that the drone was meant to monitor and protect people, and they were normally camouflaged. After the Go-Getters Club explained that they were asleep for a whole year, Niyan told them that during that year, the world became a paradise. The drones allowed everyone to live peacefully, and they were all controlled by the Panopticon floating in the sky. Niyan said he was unable to see it, but Pochi, Pai, and Reycho realized it was the floating X shape only they could see. Niyan explained that while the drones used visual cloaking technology, people could see the Panopticon with their eyes, but their brains were unable to process the visual data. The Panopticon was created by MAIK, an artificial intelligence created by a brilliant Japanese scientist. The Go-Getters Club was confused about why humanity was not resisting MAIK, but Niyan explained that it created paradise for them, and mankind had lost all emotions. MAIK had sent out nanomachines from the Panopticon that removed emotions from everyone's brains to stop them from starting wars. When Niyan said he felt nothing at his reunion with Kansai and Chuko, they began to get upset, but Chuko trailed off and collapsed.

Jennu found that Chuko had a fever, and thought she may have rat-bite disease from the rat that bit her in Kobe. Everyone turned to Niyan and asked if he had antibiotics that could save her, but he was apathetic and unhelpful. Everyone agreed to find the medicine for Chuko themselves at a nearby hospital aboveground. Jennu stayed behind to talk to Niyan, and Reycho and Yuki waited for her. Jennu said she remembered Niyan, and blamed him for her sister's death. Suddenly, an earthquake struck, and a rift opened in the ground below Niyan. As he clung to the edge, Jennu thought to herself that he deserved it for what happened to her sister, and awakened to her power. She pulled him from the hole in the ground and floated upwards to safety, then set him down on the ground. Niyan asked why she saved him, knowing that she blamed him. Niyan suddenly began yelling in pain, much to Jennu's confusion.

After a moment, Niyan calmed down and explained that his emotions had returned. He ran off and brought back a syringe gun loaded with antibiotics they would use to save Chuko. Jennu, Yuki, and Reycho set out aboveground, while Niyan went to lead everyone else somewhere safe. Earthquakes made the path outside dangerous, and rubble fell into the path. Jennu was able to use her new ability to reverse gravity and float over fallen rubble and avoid patrolling drones and security robots. With Jennu scouting ahead, Yuki and Reycho were able to safely climb over obstacles behind her. Eventually, they made it safely aboveground.