閭｡陜ｶ荵句､｢邱ｨ Route

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

## 閭｡陜ｶ荵句､｢邱ｨ Route

### Number of Chapters

8

**閭｡陜ｶ荵句､｢邱ｨ Route** (**胡蝶之夢編 Route**), translated as **Butterfly Dreams Route** and known more commonly as **Ryuki Chapter Diverge** or simply **Diverge**, is a route featured in *AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES - nirvanA Initiative*. It is marked as a purple route on the flowchart, as opposed to the red and blue of the game's other routes.

When asked if they are a Frayer, the player gives Tokiko Shigure the nil number they obtained from six years in the future. In turn, Tokiko's true plan is revealed.

**閭｡陜ｶ荵句､｢邱ｨ END** is the sixth Normal Ending of the game, based on the order of achievements. It is one of the last that can be obtained, as it requires information that is only given at the end of  Resolution Route. Diverge is the shortest route in the game, even shorter than Destination Atami END, with only eight chapters.

## Story Overview

While investigating the half corpse of Jin Furue, Kuruto Ryuki was lead to the Horadori Institute of Genetics by the QR code embedded on the sign that had been stuck in Jin's body. The director of the institute, Chikara Horadori, lied about his knowledge of the QR code, prompting Ryuki to Psync with him. In  his Psync, Ryuki discovered that the video that the QR code lead to had been made by the secret organization Naixatloz. Ryuki headed over to their  Japan branch, where he met Tokiko Shigure.

After a brief conversation, Tokiko asked [You], the person within Ryuki, if you were a Frayer. You said that you were, and confirmed it by giving her the Nil Number that she will only give you six years in the future. This time paradox caused the world around Ryuki to deprecate into a glitchy, distorted state. Tokiko, glitching into her desk, told Ryuki to "find her" and then blinked out of existence. Ryuki moved around the office and found that he could clip outside and into the black void beyond where Tokiko awaited. She explained to the Frayer that all her actions in the future-committing suicide, ordering Amame Doi to move her corpse, and giving the nil number to Mizuki Date and Bibi-were all part of her plan to tear a seam in the universe and escape it to achieve Moksha. It is also implied that the player's distorted view of the timeline was another result of Tokiko's actions.

Tokiko then gave the Frayer an option: give Ryuki all knowledge of the timelines, including information he and Mizuki won't learn for six years, or keep that information a secret from Ryuki. Not divulging the information would loop the game back to "2/11 Ryuki Chapter 1 - Ought to Know", where the game would continue as normal. But the Frayer agreed, and all knowledge of the HB Case was given to Ryuki six years early. With this information, Ryuki caught Tearer on the first day of investigation: as a result, Andes Komeji never died, Amame was never sent to prison for murdering Tearer, Kizuna Chieda and Mizuki were not disabled by the explosion at the cathedral because the explosion never happened, which also meant that Kaname Date never went missing for six years. It was a happy ending for everyone... except for Ryuki, harbored with six years of an alternate world and with Tama unwilling to believe him. As he, Mizuki, and Bibi gathered at the Tokyo National Stadium, the two sisters faintly remembered a battle that never happened in that timeline. Tokiko then appeared on the stadium screen, offering one final message to the Frayer before ascending outside of the simulation, achieving her goal and getting away with the crimes she committed both in the past and in the future.

*"It's all like a butterfly dream. Perhaps you are that butterfly..."*
## Chapters in this Route

* 2/10 Converge Chapter 0 - A Strange Tale
* New Investigation (Branch A)
* 2/10 Ryuki Chapter 0 - Dispossessed
* 2/11 Ryuki Chapter 1 - Anyone Imagines
* Nefarious Institute
* 2/11 Ryuki Chapter 1 - Ought to Know 🔒
* 2/11 Ryuki Chapter Diverge - 遐ｴ邯ｻ逋ｾ蜃ｺ
* 2/15 Ryuki Chapter Diverge - All This Happened, More or Less

## Trivia

* The name of the ending, 閭｡陜ｶ荵句､｢邱ｨ END, is mojibake. When translated into Japanese (胡蝶之夢編 END) and then English, it reads **Butterfly Dreams END**.
* Based on the image used in the achievement, and on the color of the route, this route and ending can also potentially be unofficially referred to as the "**Tokiko Route**" and "**Tokiko END**".
* Chapter Diverge is the only branching path in the series to happen outside of a Somnium.
* While technically possible to sequence break by inputting the nil number before it is supposed to be learned, the nil number is randomly generated at the start of the save file. This means that it's a unique number that the player could only obtain early by hacking into the game or otherwise guessing out of millions of combinations.

## 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