Nier - Replicant Ver122474487139

“The Gestalt Project, Terminal Report. Subject Zero: Success. All other subjects: Degradation imminent. Solution: Retrieval of the Original Gestalt’s data fragment, codenamed ‘Yonah.’ Warning: The fragment is not a cure. It is a key. To use it is to unmake the distinction between human and Shade. To use it is to remember what was forgotten.”

The silver eyes glistened. “The replicant will die. Her body will become a true vessel for the original Yonah. But the girl you raised… the one who called you big brother… she will cease to exist. She was never real, Nier. She was a shadow’s dream.”

Nier’s vision swam. The hum was a word. A word he almost knew. It pressed against his skull like a memory trying to be born. NieR Replicant ver122474487139

“I’m human,” he said.

Nier read it three times. His hands began to shake. “Yonah,” he whispered. “Not Yonha. Yonah. My sister’s name… it’s spelled wrong on the village records. I always thought it was a scribe’s error.” “The Gestalt Project, Terminal Report

“Or you can take the fragment. You can remember everything. Every moment of the twelve thousand years. Every face of every Shade you killed that was once a human being. And you can use that memory to break the cycle. To restore the Gestalts. To bring back the humans.”

Nier picked it up. The text was in an old script, but he had spent years in the village’s meager library. He could read it. To use it is to remember what was forgotten

It was called the Archivist.