Duo is having a memory trip about a time Isaac could still walk before the Tokyo Game started and invited him along to a research trip in an underground library. Flashback!
Isaac: The history of mankind is an endless waltz of war, peace and revolution. (walks down the library)
Duo: Is talking about that why you asked me to come with you?
Isaac: Aww come on, just listen for a sec.
Isaac: So as I was saying, mankind's history starts with war and the strong winning. Then a hierarchy forms between the weak and strong. We get peace for a bit until eventually a revolution happens. We got stone weapons out of that, then iron weapons, guns, missiles, and now viruses. The foundation of strength changes with each one, and the previous hierarchy changes. Then we get a new war and things continue into an Infinite cycle. It's a microcosm of the world, and the game will hit a stalemate like that eventually too.
Duo: Huh.
Duo (narrating): Now that I think about it, he knew this game would come to this point since back then.
Isaac: So the first plan to get a preferable ending would be my plan, Plan A, assimilation. The blunt and simple explanation is evolving humanity through an Instrumentality Project that connects everyone into an All-Knowing Super Meta Intelligence! Conquer death! Network immortality! No more individual differences! Down with the hierarchy! Perfect for solving all problems springing from it!
Duo: Yeah that's a big plan, but aside from us geniuses making everyone into intellectual lifeforms sounds impossible.
Duo (narrating): That's aiming too high. The gap between ideals and reality is too big. What normal person would agree to stop being themselves and fuse with a stranger? I can't imagine how long that'd that take and that sort of unimaginable thing causes fear. And even if you give up the joys you had until then, it's hard to see what you'd get out of it.
Duo: The distance between mankind's present state and that lofty goal is Infinite. Hmm...but ideals being in unreachable heights? It may be a problem with potential energy, but maybe it can lead to other truths. It's always easy to fall on the short side.
Isaac: Wow you got it? That's what I wanted to say!
Duo: W-what? What do you mean?
Isaac: Just reverse the concepts, like up and down. If this present reality can't get there, then I'll just work backwards from the ending. I'm gonna start a revolution!
Duo: You are galaxy braining too hard for me.
Isaac: Hahaha! You think?
And so the boy who wanted to fly kept walking down as if to flip himself back to the sky above.
Present
Duo: I get it now!
Bertro: What?
Duo: I understand now what Isaac told me way back when.
Duo (narrating): I once told Isaac the world currently won't reach his ideal, which is why he plans on flipping everything around.
Duo: Isaac is starting from his end point, trying to cross the Infinite gap between past joys and future anxieties...
Just like he's trying to divide infinity by infinity...
Rainbow Bridge
Light is flooding MC!
MC: WHAT?
Dream Kingdom flashback!
MC: WHAT??
Fashionista flashback!
MC: No really, WHAT??? / Wait I remember this!
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(A) Wakan Tanka Inf.: Oh no that happened in another loop. You just forgot.
(B) Wakan Inf.: Yes that's right. You know about this loop.
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Wakan Inf.: ...I remember the dear memories of all loops. I remember all the times I lived together with people here in happiness. I lived happily with you in these Infinite loops.
Wakan's words are filled with love, but his face looks worn out.
Wakan Inf.: No one will need to fight. If everyone remembers, then there won't be any more sadness.
World Representative Wakan Tanka's power is the ability to give what he has to all things, which he is doing here by spreading loop memories through the rain.
Wakan Inf.: Become one with me...
MC: W-wait, stop!
Wakan Inf.: Why do you resist?
MC: Because it's freaky! And all the loops ended badly! Why is that!?
Wakan Inf. cannot answer, so he continues spreading love like how he used to.
BATTLE START (more happens after)
Wakan Tanka worked as a law of nature of the world and acted accordingly against those who rebelled against its faith. Spit into the sky, and it will fall back on your face. Karmic retribution like gravity! And Wakan Tanka's retribution was thunder.
On another note, if the people of the plains created a problem, they would gather in teepees for a meeting. There they would make a decision based on their faith and belief of justice. But there would always be one person tasked on being on the minority's side and express things that differed from the majority's justice. This person was placed in that role so everyone wouldn't be monopolized and biased towards that justice. And the role was named after the one struck by Wakan Tanka's thunder, Heyoka.
As a fundamental principle of nature, Wakan Tanka originally did not have anything resembling emotions because there weren't others for him to define himself against. But when Heyoka was struck down and exiled, Wakan created a self. "Why are there people who can't or won't join the majority?" he wondered. Thinking of Heyoka made something in Wakan Tanka ache, which he had yet to understand was his heart. And so he was went to Tokyo in hopes of understanding what that pain was.
Present
Wakan Inf.: Why do you reject assimilation?
MC: Were you not listening to me!?
Wakan Inf.: What do you mea--
MC: IT'S CRAZY! (thinks about Azathoth's memory show)
Chapter 6 flashback!
Azathoth: Replay time! Akashic Records of a Slumbering God!
Touji: I'm sorry MC. I had to do it to you.
Ryouta: Nooo, it's all my fault!
Kengo: MC why
Shirou: ...what was I fighting for!?
Azathoth: LMAO
Present
MC: How did we get from happy fun times to the apocalypse!?
Roppongi
Licht: Yeah I've been thinking about it and it is WEIRD. (goes over his collected reports)
Licht: Why does it always end with one of us killing MC? Things are happy until it goes to crap, and I'd get it if that happened because the World Reps came to blow us all up. But apparently that's not what happened? That doesn't add up! We're missing the piece that connects it all, and we can't see how everything works without it. We are totally losing on the information front and can only see things in hindsight. But that doesn't mean it's pointless to try to figure out the enemy's plans from their actions. Melusine, care to give your opinion?
Melusine: Yes sir.
Licht: Let's start by examining our current situation. At present, the Invaders are raiding us while our allies the Missionaries are being interfered with by the Rule Makers. In that sense, the South and East are about the same. But if the Invaders somehow couldn't do anything now, it's reasonable to think the Rule Makers would move first.
Licht: Now that I think about it, when we first saw the Rule Makers they came to take the lead. We got out of there because the Genociders sacrificed themselves to cover our escape, but even then the big three guilds could have wiped us out if they felt like it. They didn't because their goal was capturing MC, but they succeeded in making first contact. After that, the Rule Makers got caught up fighting against the other two guilds and things fell into a stalemate. They didn't have any time to go after MC like that.
Then MC caused the scales to tip over.
Licht: We know at least three World Representatives are gone. Things have changed, and the West side has crumbled. There's no way the Rule Makers won't try to make a break for it again if the Invaders hadn't gone first. But they did with an attack using information and agitation. From my analysis of what MC said, it seems the trophy's value to the Representatives has changed significantly. This change caused huge restrictions on what the Rule Makers as a whole could do since the old premise of capturing the trophy had to change. The Invaders still took their own losses with two Reps leaving, which normally would be serious. They aren't acting like it is though.
Licht: So, back to basic facts: The Invaders are moving ahead of the Rule Makers.
Melusine: ...
Licht: What do you make of all this?
Melusine: In war it would be natural to take the initiative. In that sense what the Invaders are doing is necessary, but...
Licht: Yes, that assumes they're at full strength. But here they're still going through with it despite their losses. If they win that's good for them, but if they lose...
Melusine: The difference in strength would mean they'd inevitably be pushed back. If they're still going on with this move, they must be sure they'll win with it. Is that what you wish to say?
Licht: (nods) Now I'll state my opinion. The Invaders needed to reverse their course of action. In this loop, after the Warmongers went the Invaders had to act next instead of the Rule Makers. They're sure they'll change things with this, but I don't know where they're going with it.
The Invaders have changed MC's worth from the most valued thing in Tokyo to Wanted Dead. How very revolutionary.
Licht: Time for an unfounded deduction! If they're using their same tricks on other people, maybe they're trying to drag everyone to the same level.
If a revolution happens when people have lost everything, everything before becomes meaningless.
Licht: This plan is too perfect. Too revolutionary.
Melusine: ...
Licht: Who's plotting all this? Who's agitating everyone?
Rainbow Bridge
Wakan Inf.: ...
MC: Give Shirou and Kengo back! That on its own is enough to distrust you!
Wakan Inf.: I know who those two are. But I'm not the one who took them.
MC: What? B-but...!
Flashback
Babe Bunyan: Boss told me to tell you to come to Rainbow Bridge. We'll keep your friends safe until then!
Present
MC: Does that mean you aren't his boss!?
Tokyo Bay suddenly splits like the Red Sea!
MC: WHAT
Tangaroa Inf.: HAHAHA
MC: WHAT
Wakan Inf.: Invaders Rep Tangaroa.
Tangaroa Inf.: The heavenly happiness you showed is one-sided, Wakan Tanka. One day it all falls to the ground and gets polluted in filth like us! See our impure end of days! HAHAHAHA
Babe: (frowns)
End of Episode
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