- Limbus Company Bus. - Its name comes from the fact we’re on a bus. Feels like they didn’t put a lot of thought into the name, but the other departments aren’t far ahead in terms of sophistication. - The team includes people like me and the ones called… Sinners(?) who’re sitting back behind. (Still not used to this word.) The purpose is to retrieve things called “Golden Boughs” from the underground facilities of “Lobotomy” or whatever the “L” Corp. stood for. I dunno what Golden Boughs are, but from the sound of it: some physical objects shaped like tree branches. (Will make a separate note when I learn more.)

- Seems retrieving Golden Boughs isn’t the only job. We’re sent to deal with any task on the way to the company’s objective that needs capabilities unique to me or the Sinners. - I’m starting to wonder how this company came to be, and why it had to be me and the Sinners to do all this, but Faust won’t tell me. She says the security level is too low for me to access the information, but she seems to know something more. Why does a “Sinner” know more about the company when I’m the “Executive Manager”…?

- It’s our mobile office, our home, and our vehicle. The Sinners and I eat, sleep, go to work, and fight here. - It looks like a mix of a train and a bus, but everyone calls it a bus for some reason. I guess it makes sense, considering our department’s name. - Apparently, it’s powered by an engine that Faust designed. Everything special about Mephistopheles comes from its engine. Not only does it power the vehicle so that the bus can drive us to places, but it also lets us extract Identities from other worlds. We can also enter breakrooms or training rooms via its Backdoor, all thanks to the engine. - It seems that Mephistopheles can be upgraded and fitted with additional functions. I think one of the Sinners said it’s like the bus itself is growing, or something. (I don’t remember who said it, though.)

- Huh... The bus really transformed into a boat. I guess this is what the ‘additional functions’ meant… Further modifications and performance upgrades were made possible by using both the resonance tuning fork and Mephistopheles’ engine. (That Mika person was in a constant state of astonishment, now that I think about it.) Heck, it’s bigger on the inside than it is outside. I won’t be surprised if all kinds of fantastical functions get added to it in the future.

- The LCCA. The After Team doesn't seem to think so highly of me and the Sinners. They look down on pretty much the entirety of LCB. - They probably think that the company's giving us special treatment or something. They think we have it easy? Maybe they should try dying over and over again if they really think we're a bunch of spoiled babies. - ... Or feel the pain of death again, again, and again. With no end.

- Saude's alive! Now, this is a correction I'm happy to make. - Sounds like she healed up nicely after what happened and got promoted to manager. I know that what happened had been weighing heavily on Sinclair's mind. Hopefully, this will put Sinclair's heart at ease, even a little bit. - The Before Team, like Saude and Pilot, at least worked alongside us... But that woman from LCCA, Caiman, treated us and the LCCB like we were beneath them. I felt pretty awful after that.

- Limbus Company Clearance. - Its name comes from the fact they “clear” things up and out. It was formed to aid the bus team’s work. Unlike the Sinners, I can’t revive them with my powers, which explains the care put into their gear and equipment. - The department seems to be split into two teams. The Before Team (LCCB) handles scouting and preparation work, while the After Team (LCCA) handles gathering and cleaning up what we’ve done. I haven’t met them yet, but the teams seem to be divided into several sections if Vergilius’s phone calls are anything to go by. - Met with Effie and Saude from Preliminary Observation of the Before Team. - I asked them a few questions when I had the time, I’ll try to write down what I learned. - Also wanted to ask what exactly they do, but the session got interrupted by Don Quixote suddenly causing a scene. - Effie sighed that Preliminary Observation pays the least out of all Before Team’s subsections. Judging from what I heard about the department having far more staff than the others, they might be treated as expendables. - …Effie and Saude died during our operation.

- Seems to be a term that refers to the 12 people on the LCB’s bus with me. - Based on conversations I overheard, they appear to have “joined” the company similar to how I did, but they’ve been nicknamed like they’re bound here somehow. - I asked Vergilius about the term, but he didn’t give me a clear answer. Him and his “You’ll see in due time…” He’s shut down several questions with remarks like that. …Looks like I have no other option here, I’ve gotta write down whatever I learn.

- Adding a couple new discoveries about the Sinners. - First, it looks like “Sinner” is specifically used to refer to those who’ve formed a contract (that I had no choice for opting out of) with me. - And it appears they’re the only people I can bring back to life with my clock.

- The Sinners might be the ones who can resonate with the Golden Boughs we seek. - When we approach one, it seems to reveal the *fathoms of the Sinner’s ego*, making us experience their past or peer into their psyche.

- I still have no clue how these Golden Bough work. But if it really can grant people’s wishes… it’s got to be something incredible. - Thinking back on it, resonating with a Golden Bough would create a sort of dungeon of the fathoms… or fathoms of ego, which we had to battle through. - Perhaps the power of Golden Boughs is to realize the… thoughts or imaginations of people. I know it barely makes any sense… but when has anything, in this adventure? - Whichever is the case, these Golden Boughs sure are something. So what is Limbus Company trying to achieve by collecting them? Some say that the Golden Boughs have something to do with the Mirror technology, but… how? Every little thing I learn seems to lead only to more questions…

- In that mansion, Faust told me to "simply do as you will—as one seeks the stars in the night sky." I still don't fully understand the whats and hows, but by resonating with the Golden Bough, I've gained access to several unusual abilities. - I can slow down time, support the Sinners when they use E.G.O, and suppress the strength of our enemies. And now, I can even summon the Sinners' Identities from afar. Faust insists that it's not a "summoning magic," though... - Hohenheim says the Golden Boughs we've gathered are being grafted together into a single sapling. A single Bough alone can exercise immense power—what would happen if they're all combined? And what exactly do the higher-ups plan to do with it?

- Small branch-shaped objects that emit a golden glow. - Don’t really feel like tree branches. My head gets these tingling sensations whenever I get close to one… - Whatever these are, they certainly aren’t your ordinary gilded twigs that we’re made to go after.

- The Sinners seem to experience a kind of dizziness when they get near this thing. I hear it’s called “resonating”; it might be similar to how I get headaches. - Once we return with a Bough, Vergilius calls people from some other department to take care of it. When I asked him about this, he just said it’s “submitted to headquarters”.

- The most influential department in Limbus Company. - Not sure what the acronym stands for. - Maybe they work in tandem with the LCD for important Distortion or Monolith retrieval missions? - A team known as the special operations unit is a part of the LCA. Everyone in that team that we've seen were all tall, bulky, and dressed in black.

- Limbus Company Distortion. - Looks like they're the department that specializes in dealing with Distortions. - This department was made to expand Limbus Company's business within the City. - An employee from the LCD called Ezra actively helped us during the Monolith retrieval operation. - ... I imagine she's what Don Quixote would be like if her personality was a bit more... mature.

- I met Moses, LCD's On-site Investigative Reasoning Team Leader. - Unlike me, who can only tell whether an entity is a Distortion or not through a vague sense of frequency waves, so to speak... She seems to have the ability to somehow directly perceive and witness potential Distortions within other people. It's really a mysterious power, I'll give her that. - Aeng-du and Bamboo-hatted Kim have joined the LCD, too. Meaning, we'll be crossing paths with them more often than we think.

- LCD's On-site Investigative Reasoning Team resolves the Distortion phenomenon by searching for what they call "Inflection Points"—in the process of which they reason out and investigate the cause of the Distortion, the situation around it, and the nature of the power it may have gained due to those circumstances. - Meanwhile, the Bus Team's method is to open the Dungeon of the Fathoms to directly peer into the Distortion's past, or simply Suppress it using force until it turns back. And since this can't even be attempted without me, I suppose it can't be helped that Moses's team has to work in their own way. - That said, finding these "Inflection Points" is, apparently, a task that requires a huge amount of time without Moses, who can observe the progress and warning signs of the Distortion phenomena with the naked eye. I'd say that's another kind of power irreplaceable for their team, though in a completely different direction from mine. - Hmm... Now that I think about it, what would I look like through Moses's eyes? She said she saw "a glass-like sword of many edges" in Ryōshū's case. Considering the events that transpired following Moses's observation... maybe she could give me some clue about who I was before I lost my memories.

- It’s my company-issued device. I write journal entries on it like I’m doing now, and I sometimes communicate with the Sinners’ Identities, too. There probably was some of that Mirror technology involved in the making of this device. - I used this device to converse with Catherine. It must’ve been the Golden Bough’s powers that allowed me to talk directly to her. Did they stick a Golden Bough inside this device or something? Or… maybe the presence of that Golden Bough allowed me to communicate with her through some supernatural channel, even with a mundane device like this.

- Limbus Company Enkephalin - They're Limbus Company's research and energy generation department. - Under the Chief Researcher Hohenheim, this department conducts various studies and research. - They study the Abnormalities, Distortions, and even the Peccatula—isolating and studying them. Its interiors are designed somewhat similarly to those of the former L Corp., Lobotomy Corporation. - The employees were all wearing E.G.O gears extracted from Abnormalities. According to them, their gear is distinguished from Lobotomy Corporation's E.G.O gear because it exhibits more of each source Abnormalities' idiosyncrasies. - From what I could hear from the Mirror World Identities about these LCE gears, that doesn't entirely seem to be a positive thing. Apparently their minds could easily become corroded by the gear they're wearing... I feel like this technology's got some room to grow.

- Companies with the most advanced and influential technology in their Districts, practically ruling over them. Supposedly they’re corporate entities, but the more I hear about the Wings, the more they sound like governing bodies. (Come to think of it, Limbus Company doesn’t seem to fit the conventional idea of a company, either. We’re on a bus all the time, for one.) - Each Wing has trademarked technologies called “Singularities”, and uses the funds earned from them (and ridiculous taxes) to manage the high-class urban area inside its District, known as a *Nest*. - People who work for a Wing seem to be nicknamed “Feathers”.

- Full Name: Lobotomy Corporation. - Its Nest was in District 12. A fallen Wing, its spot currently vacant. It was apparently the epicenter of a City-wide event called the *White Nights and Dark Days*, which everyone seems to know. (Except for me, or would that be the amnesia…?) The facilities we search through for the Golden Boughs all once belonged to this now-defunct L Corp.

- Located in District 11’s Nest. - As evidenced by our nightmarish battle at the checkpoint… K Corp’s Singularity seems to give the user the capability to continuously heal—or regenerate, rather—their body. Faust called it “Helapoiesis”, but it seems to be more commonly referred to as HP “bullets” or “ampules” by regular denizens of the City. Thanks to that, all the Sinners died and I almost fainted bearing 12 people’s worth of pain at once… But, those HP ampules did also help restore my melted lower half to perfectly good health. - K Corp. seems to be utilizing this technology for a number of industries.

- According to Samjo, an employee we met at Eunbong’s, the Wing might also be developing food-related tech using the Singularity.

- I didn’t quite understand why they were flying a bunch of drones around the city, filming scenes of death and pain… but looks like there was a reason for all that. - I learned some things about K Corp.'s Nest while carrying out their request… But I’m not sure if it’s okay for me to leave a record of them.

- Okay. Below are some information that I’m NOT supposed to write down… But I wanted to record it anyway. Here goes nothing. - … Who knows. One day, even I might end up forgetting everything. - They explained that HP ampules were actually infinitesimally tiny nanobots helping regenerate the body. Apparently, they were so small that a collection of them just happened to look like some green fluid. But none of that was true. They weren’t anything even remotely close to nanobots. The ampules were just filled with some green fluid. - K Corp’s HP bullets, also known as Regeneration Ampules, aren’t like ointments. It uh… returns the body of the person injected with it to a form they remember as being unhurt. - Stephanette, K Corp.’s founder, went to the Outreaches of the Outskirts and brought back this organism they call the ‘Tearful Thing’, from which they extract the fluid. - I think that ‘Tearful Thing’ was once a human, from what I’ve seen through resonating with the Golden Bough. - It seems like their wish was that no one would ever suffer from pain again. And that wish was granted… in some form, anyway. Theoretically speaking, its tears can heal literally any part of a body as long as its brain is intact. - Just like its name, the Tearful Thing sheds tears when it feels sorrow. And by processing or watering down its tears are the ampules, K Corp’s Singularity, made. - At first, the founder Stephanette drew its tears by sharing sad or emotional stories. But once she passed away, those who seized power afterward buried it in a constant stream of violent, shocking imageries to produce its tears more efficiently. - That’s why the drones were filming people’s deaths. So that they could force the Tearful Thing to watch those violent and shocking tragedies. - Looks like making it watch the same tragedy over and over isn’t as efficient. They have to keep feeding it new, different scenes of violence. That’s why they’re importing similar footage from the other Nests. They were planning to use the glass window tech similar to the mirror to give it a constant supply of footage, but our involvement seems to have thwarted that. - Considering that the ‘Tearful Thing’ is, after all, an organism, it also seems to be capable of producing offsprings. Alfonso called the one we saw… a child entity. - I don’t know how… but if I were to hazard a guess, I’d say that they’re trying to improve their production rates by using the Tearful Thing’s children.

- I’m only a little curious, but I wonder what would happen if a prosthetics user were to be injected with a K Corp. Ampule? - We learned everything about their Singularity, from its origin to its production methods, but after they put us through the memory wipe procedure, I’m the only one who remembers it. I decided to lay low and pretend that the procedure worked. Even with my limited knowledge of the City, I felt like that this information was probably pretty important. - I usually don’t show these notes to the Sinners anyway, but… I'll have to be extra careful about it from now on.

- Nagel und Hammer: Located in District 14’s Nest. Nagel obviously means “nail”. - Having spoken with Meursault, apparently there are *two* factions under the names of ‘Nail’ and ‘Hammer’. According to him, the armor-clad “Inquisitors” we faced weren’t nearly as prevalent when he worked for the Wing, and they weren’t the majority faction during his time there. - Unlike the group led by Kromer, N Corp. as a whole doesn’t appear too different from other big corporations outside some rigidness.

- Not sure what its main business is, but some Sinners seem to know a couple things about the Wing. …If only they’d speak to me at all about it.

- We came to N Corp. with a lot of worries on our minds... But Butter Street, our point of arrival, wasn't particularly different from the other Backstreets we'd been to. - I'd braced myself for those fanatic Inquisitors to swarm in on us and tear my head off me... or at least to run into someone from N Corp.'s New League of Nine Littérateurs, but nothing of the sort happened. - From what I remember, Meursault did say that the Inquisitors are not a major faction of N Corp., and it's not like we ran into the Littérateurs when we arrived in this District... so that explains it. - Butter Street's residents don't seem to care much about what we do. I'm pretty sure as long as it doesn't directly involve their daily lives, they won't give us a second glance.

- Located in District 18’s Nest. - With what I’ve heard about R Corp. from its related Sinners, it seemed a little different from the other Wings I know so far. While most Wings provide many a convenience by utilizing their Singularities to improve people’s quality of life, R Corp. mainly deals in armed services like mercenaries. - R Corp’s power as a Wing comes from the quality of its military services. Outis added that as important as a troop’s size is, much of its strength in battle will come from field experience and mental fortitude. In that sense, she says R Corp’s combatants (soldiers? employees?) are like killing machines with undaunted spirits on top of being in great health. Gregor said it’s common for ordinary soldiers to lose their will to fight and then flee the battlefield or fall into panic, and those who don’t are the exceptions. I wonder if R Corp. runs wargames and simulations or something.

- Hearing what R Corp’s identities have to say, the Wing has a team called the “Fourth Pack” with three subdivisions: Rabbits, Reindeer, and Rhinos. - The Rabbits are all-rounders deployed to a wide range of missions. - The Reindeer have surgically gained antlers that convert mental strength into physical force. - While I haven’t met the Rhinos yet, I’m told their specialty is wreaking havoc.

- After I found myself plenty of W Corp. employee Identities, and learned quite a bit about WARP trains from them, I felt comfortable enough to share that information with the Sinners. Which turned out to have been a good move in hindsight. It would’ve been a disaster to have to explain WARP trains to them at that moment. - Other than letting us cryosleep through the WARP train journey, we were also given complimentary snacks as a part of the First Class package. Rodya(who took my portion as well, as I had no mouth to eat them with)’s blissful expression made it pretty clear that it was quite the delicacy. - I did find it kind of unusual that a train that, as far as the public knows, runs only for ten seconds, bothered to sell package items or in-train meals. When I asked Faust, she explained that their purposes were less practical and more thematic to give its passengers the impression of going on a trip. - Another thing: I definitely remember seeing that employee crawl into an emergency escape pod. So where’d he go? - So why don’t the WARP trains specialize in shipping cargo? If they have to go through so much trouble and manpower to transport people, wouldn’t it be much more efficient if they just transported cargo? - Wait, I think I’ve sparked a debate— - Heathcliff said that it was because transporting people was the whole point of the train. That suggestion seemed to have given Yi Sang an idea. - Yi Sang noted that, from W Corp.’s cooperation with T Corp., it is likely that they need ‘time’ to operate their trains. Moreover, the T Corp. Chief Executive Director said that emotions don’t change with time; instead, time changes with emotions. It was something to that effect, at least. - Based on what everyone has said, we came to a pretty plausible conclusion. That a state of emotionally transformative consciousness in an effective infinity of time is what moves, or powers, the WARP trains. Either that, or that state of consciousness is precisely what WARP trains are built to induce. Some Sinners and I applauded Yi Sang and Heathcliff for this hypothesis.

- Located in District 23’s Nest. - I haven’t visited their place yet, but I learned a thing or two about it from conversations with the identities from this Wing. W Corp. seems to be operating a transit service advertised as “WARP Trains” that take passengers from platform to platform in mere seconds. Tickets for WARP trains are apparently pretty costly, and I’m told the first-class ones are plain ridiculous. - …Shouldn’t you just cut costs and drive at that point?

- Writing down additional details I’ve heard. - While cars can take you anywhere, WARP trains are preferred because travel by car can get incredibly complicated. Makes sense, considering the procedures we went through just to get into K Corp’s Nest. - Speaking more, it seems the bigger problem is the roads are made inefficiently. They’re so twisted and convoluted that it takes an unreasonable amount of time to travel between Backstreets areas by car. - Even if the linear distance is short, the road to the destination will be labyrinthine. Purportedly there are wide, open roads called highways connecting the Nests, but that comes with a set of conditions and costs as well.

- Learned a shocking fact while talking with Sinners done up in W Corp’s identities. Though they didn’t tell me directly… it seems that the trips on WARP trains which take no more than a few minutes from an outsider’s perspective make their passengers perceive a terribly long amount of time, dissolving their sanity and deforming them beyond recognition once the ride is finally over. Then, it’s the job of the cleanup agents to physically sort out the mess every time. …Thank goodness we have a bus. - This is all speculation based on conversations with the identities, so I’m planning to keep this information to myself.

- Well, I do understand that I accidentally manipulated a lot of time. But I asked Yi Sang, out of pure curiosity, how we ended up saddled with more than ten-billion Ahn of Time Tax. - Yi Sang explained that each person has a different Time Tax rate, and how having more ‘time’ means that one would have more Time Tax to pay. He continued to elaborate with various mathematical formulas, but I didn’t understand even half of what… I mean, not even a quarter of what he said. - No matter how much time someone has, they can’t put it to use unless they withdraw a time balance the day before. With that withdrawn time, they can use them all at once to make their days longer… or save the time to invest them in a different occasion. Not that poor people would have the financial leeway to even think about doing the latter. - T Corp.’s Chief Executive Director was this guy called ‘Herbert’. Don’t think I’ve ever met the actual head of an entire Wing before… - Herbert helped the Sinners, pretending to be our ‘assistant’. He used to strive to make the City a better place, or so he says… Honestly, given the state T Corp. is in, I'm not sure if I buy that. - He appeared somewhat resigned, at first. Letting the League of Nine Littérateurs go, ignoring the presence of Yurodiviye in his Nest… But something about me seemed to have motivated him again. The question is… why? - He also gave me an ominous warning that… turning back time always comes with a cost. - … But how could I not turn the clock?

- Located in District 20’s Nest. - Looks like they specialize in using temporal technology. - I’ve only experienced T Corp. through resonating with the Golden Bough. I’ve never actually been to T Corp. Nest before, so I’m not sure how true to life that experience was. - They seem to value technology and inventions. - The whole Nest is literally monochromatic. I think having any color is a privilege permitted only to those with power. Black fumes constantly spewing out of numerous buildings have darkened its skies.

- Located in District 21’s Nest. - They use this Singularity called the resonance tuning fork. It can meld together two items of entirely different nature into one, as though they've always been a part of each other. - Somehow, the power of the resonance tuning fork melded guns and monstrous crabs called Trash Crabs together. They could use those melded firearms as though they were naturally born with them. - U Corp. is scattered across the Great Lake, with most of its major institutions located on its surface. - Which means that we’re in dire need of a ship if we want to go anywhere in U Corp. So we got Mephistopheles modified into a ship using the resonance tuning fork. - Seems to me that it overlaps this other region called ‘the Outskirts’… Hmm.

- Located in District 19's Nest. - Looks like they've got a... 'King'...? And this 'King', whatever that means, has 'retainers'. - Okay, according to some brief explanations, it seems to be a form of governance. Kinda like the Nests and the Wings... but not exactly the same. Don Quixote's eyes were practically twinkling as she listened, so I'm pretty sure it's far from a standard governance system. - It's really sinking in that each Nest has a distinct culture and its own way of running things. - I still have no idea what kind of Singularity they're supporting their Nest with.

- Yi Sang is from S Corp. I was told that S Corp. deals with much of the agriculture and the livestock industry. - The Blade Lineage members we recently ran into were also from S Corp. From the sound of it, they left the Nest for a reason similar to Yi Sang: internal issues and the tyranny of the corrupt. - Things seem incredibly chaotic at S Corp.... Hopefully that's not where we're headed next.

- I learned a little more about S Corp. through Bamboo-hatted Kim and Aeng-du's memories. - S Corp. is said to be a Wing run by three Court Circles: Sal, Pi, and Ppyeo. The "Pi" Circle, the faction Kim was part of, seems to have lost considerable influence, with the "Sal" and "Ppyeo" Circles colluding. - Yi Sang says most of S Corp.'s scientists and technicians belonged to the "Pi" Circle. That's probably why the old League of Nine Littérateurs had to escape to T Corp.—due to an internal power struggle. - Runaway residents are hunted down and brought back to S Corp. by Fixers called "Ch'unokkun." These refugees seem to be referred to as "Nobi," sometimes... - I don't think the term carries the same context as the miner "slaves" we saw in the underground of J Corp. casino... but I've yet to pin down what sets them apart yet.

- Their Nest is located in District 16. - It’s full of extremely tall skyscrapers and spires that I have to bend my neck to see how tall they really are. - Their specialty is… canned items of sorts. Meursault listed off all kinds of canned items, and I was able to learn that there were a lot of them. - Various flyers covered the train station walls and pillars from top to bottom. Is something awful going on here, I wonder?

- Their motto has something to do with creating a very safe home, and their Singularity can either expand or warp the space itself. - I was told that structures built using P Corp.'s Singularity are all very... <i>elastic</i>. That turned out to be surprisingly literal, as when La Manchaland began to manifest, I could see the buildings touching La Manchaland bending outward like rubber. They said that it's completely safe inside even if the building's exterior bends and twists like that, but... I can't imagine how that could be true. - Many space expansion technologies in the City allow things to be bigger on the inside, but P Corp.'s version specifically focuses on safety. - This is just my speculation, but... recalling our conversation with Cesara, it seems that La Manchaland heavily influenced P Corp.'s Singularity. I wonder if it's possible to develop a Singularity inspired by something else?

- Their Nest is located in District 24... or so I've been told. - Haven't been there, don't know if we have any plans to go there, but I remember hearing that the Indigo Elder's skiff was made from X Corp.'s alloy. - According to the Identities, you can excavate all kinds of stuff from their excavation sites like microwaves or car tires. So do they just uncover these finished products and... immediately put them to use? How's that even possible?

- Their Nest is located in District 13. - They seem to have control over a Singularity called the 'Moonlight Stones'. They're said to allow people to focus solely on a singular subject or eliminate all distracting thoughts... And given that they have this facility called 'Abyss Trauma Correctional Facility', maybe they specialize in psychological healthcare or relaxation businesses. - Hey, maybe we should buy these Moonlight Stones for the Sinners to prevent E.G.O Corrosions or help them calm down and relax when their 'turn' comes up? - I relayed this seemingly good idea to Faust, but it was summarily denied. She didn't even give me an explanation as to why—she just told me that it wasn't the time to discuss them just yet. Given that pretty much every technology of the City has these different sides to them... maybe these things also have some kind of side effects.

- Hongyuan Bioengineering Group. Their Nest is located in District 8. - It's all stuffed into one big... Actually, the word 'big' does a disservice to the sheer magnitude of the megastructure that comprises the entirety of H Corp.'s District. District 8 as a whole is called 'Hongyuan'. - Their Singularity is the creation of the 'Bolus', a type of medicine. I've been told that these things can be used not only to heal wounds but also for body modification procedures. But something about the way these medicines change your body creeps me out. - Those who took these Boluses or used them in procedures would gain body parts of specific creatures—or have parts of their own bodies replaced with them. - In District 8, depending on the amount of your net worth, the size of the room allotted to you could either grow or shrink, and the buildings themselves shift around to reflect that. So it's 'space' here, huh? Using time in T Corp. to measure one's wealth was weird enough.

- Jia Xichun ultimately won the Family Hierarch War and became H Corp.'s Hierarch, but had a slight stumble at the beginning of her reign due to Jia Yuanchun's machinations. - Thankfully, as Jia Xichun managed to win the faith of the Four Families and the board of directors, the motion of no confidence Jia Yuanchun put forth failed to garner enough votes. Jia Xichun said she wishes to make Hongyuan a place where no one needs to live in fear, a place where one does not need to project fear... Perhaps H Corp. can finally leave behind its terrible past and change for the better? - ... Speaking of which, are we ever going to leave this place? They've already held two separate farewell banquets for us, and after a few more excursions, I might need a third hand to count the number of times we'd bid our final good-byes to those guards at the gate. We're... we're not settling down here or anything, are we?

- They're "The Head." Located in... Well, I'd assume they're located in District 1. - If anyone breaks a Taboo of the City—whenever, wherever—The Head will swoop in to punish the perpetrator. - Normally, such infractions invite only the Claws, which are like enforcers from C Corp., but a Taboo violation of a sufficient scale might even end up summoning these beings called "Arbiters." - I saw them in Hong Lu's memories of the Kong Family massacre. The moment the Kong Family "violated" a Taboo, the Head swooped in and destroyed all evidence that the transgression had ever occurred.

- Wayfarer Company. - With the recent series of incidents involving Warp Corporation, this new business entity arose to supplant its place as the new W Corp... In other words, a Wing hopeful. - Faust explained that their core technology, called "Portals," resembles the properties of Backdoors. From my recent, unintended use of them (which has been quite frequent, truth be told), I find them incredibly convenient. The way Portals work, one door leads to another, without requiring a connection to Corridors as Backdoors do. - I heard that Portals still have some instabilities that may cause side effects, but I don't think I've experienced or witnessed any so far. Considering what Faust and Outis have mentioned before, it might simply be because I've only been using expensive portals... but there could be another reason for it. - Currently, it seems they are working with Limbus Company to establish forward bases throughout the Corridors at the House of Spiders and look into the Backdoors within them. - We had the chance to work with Team Leader Alan from here. He has a bit of that corporate attitude, but he's generally amiable and seems favorably disposed toward us. Though... after seeing him straight-up socking Kira out of nowhere, not to mention that unsettling, subtle coldness hiding between his words... Can't blame myself for not wanting to see him as a decent person at the end of the day. - Alan said Wayfarer's primary services include pathfinding, path security, and path maintenance. It doesn't seem like the "paths" he mentioned refer to Corridors, but I doubt I could've gotten a more detailed explanation, considering it's a closely guarded corporate technology.

- Seems to refer to the large organizations that manage Fixers. - Each Association appears to have a specific field it specializes in to account for how free and open a Fixer’s line of work can usually be. There’s a pretty wide variety… I’ve seen a few Associations through the identities of Sinners and their mirror worlds. - One major difference from freelance Fixers is that they can’t choose the jobs they want to take.

- Term that encompasses all the corporate bodies (or any place of business, really?) that’re founded by Fixers. - There seems to be some sorta rule that requires Fixers to be part of an authorized organization of any kind if they want to work, and setting up a *one-person Office* is apparently an option.

- It looks like there’s a pretty wide variety of Offices. - Thinking back on the time we were in the Backstreets of District 4 (D Corp’s territory), the Office Yuri and Aya belonged to might have been the most common type. - Anyways, I guess I can say Fixers, Offices, and Associations are all entities that handle requests for a price.

- I knew it. The Associations aren’t the only kind of organizations a Fixer might work for. Some of them also work for Offices. They all seem to specialize in different things, just like the Fixers themselves.

- They specialize in building and modifying gears used by the Fixers. - Technically, they go under the same umbrella as the Offices. Unlike the Fixer Offices with various specializations, though, people refer to these specifically as Workshops. - Primarily, they craft and sell weapons, armor, and other tools that Fixers use. Sometimes they’re contracted to build custom gear as well. At least that’s the impression I got. - Considering that they’re also run by Fixers, Workshops don’t shy away from taking contracts involving combat if they have to. Like the Rosespanner Workshop did, for example.

- Don Quixote explained that they are Fixers signed onto long-term contracts, bound by individuals, families, or estates. - Due to the wide range of their responsibilities, their pay is often decently lucrative, so a lot of high-Grade Fixers often take on Butler contracts after retirement. - … Huh. So these Fixers are retiring to… become a different brand of Fixers? - Butlers bound to families or estates sometimes even forget what their initial contracts used to be. But apparently quitting is also a risky decision, given that Taboo hunters or contract-related Offices might come after them looking for bounty. - It’s unfair, but it’s not like they have an abundance of options. It’s one of those rare, guaranteed long-term tenure jobs in the City that pays a decent wage, so most of them settle for staying as Butlers instead of risking unemployment.

- This is "every Fixer's dream" and the reason they live for, says Don Quixote. "Individuals who have attained the complete perfection of liberty and freedom as Fixers"... is what she so enthusiastically proclaimed about these people. Though, thinking back on the Fixers we've met and the Fixer Identities we've used so far... I can't help but feel that Don Quixote's statement contains a bit of her usual hyperbole. - Even Don Quixote doesn't seem all too sure why colors are used to name them in the first place. Some of the speculations attributed are that colors are easy to remember, and that colors represent the unique way of life each Color Fixer pursues. - The Red Gaze. The Indigo Elder. The Yellow Harpoon... we've fought alongside three Color Fixers already. Perhaps we'll come to encounter others in the future, but I'd <i>definitely</i> prefer not to meet them as enemies.

- A Syndicate of sword-wielding ruffians and libertines roaming the Backstreets. - Guessing from conversations with the Sinners who wore such Identities, they don’t seem to act or move in groups much despite belonging to a Syndicate. To be more precise… they do have temporary company from time to time, but there’s no strict subgroups or pecking order. - …It’s unfortunate that half of their answers were taking the piss, so I am unable to write proper answers here.

- When it was involved in a Syndicate Strife against the Kurokumo Clan, the Blade Lineage was apparently split into two groups. - One group were those who dreamed of returning to S Corp. someday—the people who had been with Bamboo-hatted Kim since back in S Corp. - The other group was made of people who sought only the liberty to live by their sword. Kim said that returning to S Corp. was not much of a priority for Salsus who earned their keep by brandishing their swords. - And Kim Distorted... in the middle of all that, losing both sides. Those who chose to remain with him were killed by their own leader, and with the Blade Lineage so diminished, the Salsus who had no clear purpose left him and drifted away. - Aeng-du's the only one who stayed by him until the end. And now, she's become an official member of the LCD. - The Mentor survives still, but calling the Blade Lineage an organized Syndicate may be a bit of a stretch now.

- A giant Syndicate spread deep and wide across the Backstreets. - They seem to be characterized by long, single-edged swords with sheaths and dark/wavy clothes. - They basically earn their keep by taking protection fees from Backstreets businesses under the pretext of offering “safety”. - From what I heard from the Identities, they seem to be in some kind of conflict with another Syndicate called the Blade Lineage. I didn’t get to hear the reason. - They follow some sort of hierarchy, and henchmen are generally forbidden from disobeying their superiors. - …There do seem to be special exceptions if Hong Lu is to be believed.

- A Syndicate founded by Sonya. Rodya once told me that they used to help the downtrodden of the Backstreets, but eventually devolved into armchair revolutionaries who did nothing but sit around talking about how they’re going to change the city. - They’ve been slowly spreading their influence through the Nests. We even ran into the Yurodiviye terrorists using various inventions to cause trouble in the T Corp. Nest. - The Yurodiviye, who venerate Sonya as their ‘Saint’, said they’re waiting for the ‘right moment’. I don’t know why they’re calling Sonya the Saint, or what moment they’re talking about… but something about it rubs me the wrong way. - From what I gathered from listening to the Dieci Identities, Sonya is not the same kind of ‘Saint’ as the Dieci Association’s.

- This must be referring to the five particularly significant Syndicates of the Backstreets. - It's been said that they're so powerful and influential that not even Wings or Associations can easily pick a fight with them. Rodya and Heathcliff told me that people in the Backstreets have to learn and abide by their rules if they want to survive. - Weirdly enough, Ryōshū seems to know a lot about them. I was given a warning about Ryōshū's 'background' when I first boarded the bus... maybe that's got something to do with it.

- An invention that overlays a person’s identity with a different possibility from numerous other worlds. - I heard Yi Sang was one of its developers, but he always blabbers things I can’t wrap my head around whenever I ask, so I don’t expect to get any useful down-to-earth info out of him. - The identities themselves are found via the engine of Mephistopheles. Not sure how it works, but it looks like you can’t just find and grab the identities you want. Trial and error can sometimes stumble upon previously unseen versions of the Sinners, too.

- Although I can’t write how exactly those identities are used in full… (Feels like attempting to makes me unsure somehow.) Synchronizing the extracted identity with my LCB-PDA and the bus window allowed me to communicate with or feel it, in a way. Calling forth the image of the identity in my mind, I get a sense of understanding as if I'm talking to the Sinner like usual… And once the Sinner and I make an unspoken agreement, the identity overrides the Sinner, accompanied by the sound of glass shattering. …Can’t think of a more suitable description. - While overlaid with an identity, the Sinner appears pretty different from usual. On top of attires and weapons, their personalities can also change pretty wildly, and sometimes make me question if they’re really the Sinners I know. Fortunately, they seem to go back to their original selves when they’re done using an identity. But, prolonged use might cause small side effects like headaches or residual traces of the identity’s personality surfacing from time to time.

- Simply put, some kind of incredible technology owned by the Wings. - I was curious how they’re different from the other technologies in the City… I guess it’s the fact that Singularities are monopolized by the Wings that own them.

- Another thing of note is that they almost seem to be outside the realm of logic or classical physics. Faust says it’s unnecessary to bother thinking about the intricacies in my current state, but… I don’t think you can brush off flesh regrowing from a severed arm or stickers that boost your luck as things that just work that way. - …Wait, is my head a Singularity, too?

- Seems to be what the glowing green fuel originally produced by Lobotomy Corporation is called. - Mephistopheles has a device converting humans into Enkephalin built into it, and the green liquid filling up the tubes seems to be just that. - Enkephalin can also be stored in containers of our choice for easier transport, boxes and modules being the two vital examples.

- The old L Corp’s logo can still be seen on the bottom of some Enkephalin boxes, which probably means the Wing used them as well. - Reading the warning on the side, ingesting it apparently has “hallucinogenic effects”… Who would think to do that?

- E.G.O Gears extracted by the LCE or N Corp. both have traits that distinguish them from Lobotomy Corporation's E.G.O. - LCE E.G.O gears use "Attunement Boost" to surge the source Abnormality's characteristics to the forefront, and the N Corp. E.G.O gear used by Jia Huan had an extra feature that generated a shield wall of sorts to protect its user in a moment of emergency.

- Shorthand for “Extermination of Geometrical Organ”. [sic] (Idk what this means?) - Seems to be a byproduct of the Enkephalin generation once done by the now-collapsed L Corp. - Reports say the Wing originally produced weapons and equipment out of the E.G.O for its employees to use, which doesn’t really seem to match what I’ve seen of it.

- From what I can tell, the E.G.O our Sinners use appears to work by the user making the emotions or self-identity of the Abnormality their own. Although I haven’t experienced it myself… - I’ve heard a few times that it feels similar to being influenced by someone else’s thoughts and reflecting it to life, walking as if in their shoes.

- However, if you don’t stop at just being convinced and get deeply engrossed in that other sense of self, you’ll be taken over by what’s carrying it. That killed the Sinners a good few times… And hurt me like hell.

- A strangely shaped object is inside, kinda like a… bulb-like thing. - I don’t know how I should describe it… It sometimes wiggles and twitches. - Staring into this glimmering “thread” makes me feel rather woozy. - Faust wouldn’t let me hold it in my hands for long, so I put it back in place and let her explain what it is.

- In summary… It’s all sorts of possibilities woven into spindles of thread… or something like that. To be frank, I can’t really call this a summary when I just wrote down what Faust said almost word for word. I couldn’t understand what she meant exactly… It gives me a similar feeling to looking up at the *star* that appears when I wind the clock. Sorta like awe.

- A process of synchronizing an *Identity* with this world using the *Thread* we’ve gathered. - It’s how one brought from a different world is tuned to the Sinner in ours. (I guess it could be likened to binding the two worlds together?) From what I can tell, a freshly extracted Identity can’t immediately transfer all of their knowledge and combat prowess to the Sinner. That’s why Thread must be used to “uptie” the Identity and make it more effective.

- I asked if the “MAX Uptie” status, as shown on the PDA, is really the highest possible tier. I wanted to know if that meant that the Sinner virtually becomes the same as the one from another world. - I’ve been told it’s theoretically the case. If an Identity brought from a certain point in time of the world from where it was extracted gains more experience (training their combat skills further, for example), a new possibility can occur that allows for additional stages of uptying. I guess that’s to mean Identities from certain points in time could grow stronger in terms of experience and technique.

- I asked if events differing from our timeline happen in the worlds from where the Identities were extracted as time passes. - I’ve been told that we can’t know for sure and that it doesn’t matter anyway. Limbus Company is only interested in enhancing the Sinners’ capabilities in battle, so they don’t care about what happens with the Identity or its world as we uptie them.

- When a Sinner tears this *Identity Training Ticket*, certain experiences seem to flow into them (or the Identity they’re wearing). These experiences can make them even stronger than how they were in their original worlds at the time of extraction. (Well, that’s what the “relevant theories” say, according to Faust). - I get that they become better fighters with the added experience, but how does it make them physically stronger too?

- I got vague but somewhat sensible answers from Faust and Yi Sang. When an Identity is “upgraded” using tickets, the Identity’s “frame” itself is enhanced. - To summarize their explanations, upgrades exclusively improve their physical traits. The improvements are made in ways that would have worked in the original worlds the Identities come from. - Additionally, when an Identity with prostheses is upgraded, the materials and components of them seem to get sturdier and whatnot. - Either way, upgrades are focused wholly on physical improvements.

- I asked if it isn’t possible to upgrade Identities beyond their current maximum level (30 as of writing) as shown on the PDA. - These values seem to be related to the Golden Boughs we’re collecting. In addition, I was told that I’d be unable to withstand further upgrades for now. Does that mean it will be possible to upgrade them more at a later point? - …Come to think of it, if these “level-ups” are only for making their physical bodies stronger, then why are these things called “training tickets”? I thought that was covered by upties?

- Similar to uptying, this is a process of making the Sinners’ E.G.O more powerful using Thread. …Though I do wonder, why *threadspinning* and not “uptying” again?

- Like Identities, the E.G.O used by the Sinners are possibilities drawn from the cores of certain Abnormalities for appropriate individuals. However, using E.G.O to its full potential requires weaving together a deep understanding and well-read interpretation of the Abnormality, which is why it’s called “threadspinning”, sorta like the idiom of spinning a yarn. - Threadspinning an E.G.O enriches the comprehension of the Abnormality’s mental imagery, enhancing its power and effectiveness. - E.G.O seems to be the manifestation of some kind of mental force. I guess it makes sense that forming thorough knowledge of the Abnormality and its E.G.O is important.

- While Thread’s role in uptying is to connect people between worlds, it seems to work like a wire to unravel the core of the Abnormality in threadspinning. - Faust says we might be able to threadspin E.G.O beyond what we’re currently capable of in the future. Similar to upgrading and uptying Identities, gathering Golden Boughs should allow us to decipher and interpret them in further detail.

- A technology used to wipe specific memories. - I recall that we took turns entering some room. The procedure ended when the Sinners walked out with all their relevant memories wiped. - Odd. I remember everything that K Corp wanted me to forget, but that room… I can’t remember a thing about the memory wipe procedure itself. - This leaves me with so many questions. Why didn’t the procedure work on me? If it didn’t work, why can’t I remember anything about the memory wipe procedure itself?

- A black stele that 'forces people to distort'. I think Limbus Company internally calls it the 'Monolith'. - I think it does something similar to the Golden Boughs: causing or amplifying Distortions. But unlike the Golden Boughs, it seems that that's all it's good for. - I've been around enough Golden Boughs to know that the Monolith and the Golden Boughs are different, despite some similarities.

- The Golden Bough amplifies and releases every feeling, from the hottest emotions to the warmest emotions. But the Monolith makes people face what's boiling in the deepest abyss of one's self. - Unlike the Golden Bough, though, it seems to have some mechanism to it. Like it's a device of sorts. The control mechanism alone was so complicated that whatever interaction I did with it felt like I was navigating through a maze puzzle.

- T Corp.’s Chief Executive Director offered to purchase the Monolith from Limbus Company. Now we’re selling artifacts that can induce Distortions? It doesn’t make sense—our main business, at least on the surface, is Distortion Management… but we’re selling items that can make Distortions? … Maybe we’re just building our reputation as Distortion experts so we can guarantee safety even with these artifacts. Well… if we’re selling artifacts that create Distortions, and take care of Distortions when it inevitably causes someone to Distort… I guess that makes a business model with a cycle of profit.

- There seems to be more than one way to get stronger in the City. Prosthetics and augmentation procedures, for example. - But a physically strong body isn't all there is to being powerful; combat experience and techniques matter, too. - Fixer Offices, Associations, Syndicates... they each have their unique way of fighting, which sometimes evolves into swordplay styles, martial arts styles, dojos, and things like that. - Heathcliff tells me that an untrained, inexperienced body enhanced by surgeries just turns you into a slightly sturdier punching bag. Ryōshū chimed in to add that the type of procedure, choice of weapon, and style of martial arts matter, too.

- I overheard some identities with a lot of combat experience chatting... and they were saying that investing money in your body will take you only so far. - Sure, it can make your body sturdier and physically stronger, but you need the right experience and training to actually use that body. - But Rodya clarified to me that while more money doesn't automatically mean more power, we should be ready to shell out some cash if we do want to get stronger.

- The bags that Butlers carry are called ‘dimensional cases’, or dimensional attache cases. It seems pretty convenient, being able to store things greater than its external appearance may suggest. Maybe it’s kinda like the Backdoor of Mephistopheles. - The size and capacity of each dimensional case depend on the make. The more expensive it is, the bigger its capacity, and smaller its external size. - We can’t stuff a person into these dimensional cases, apparently. Maybe it’s like the WARP trains where it needs to differentiate between people and items.

- The Mirror shows possibilities that may or may not have been. When Catherine, Nelly, and Heathcliff from the Mirror World gazed into the Mirror, they only saw all kinds of tragedies in their futures. If there really are worlds of infinite possibilities, then… there must be an infinity of time they have to observe, right? So, can we really say that they saw every possible future? In other words, is it even possible to do something like that? It makes me wonder if we can actively interact or something with the Mirror Worlds. - We make use of these Mirror technologies almost daily, but we know so little about it. Yi Sang also said that Mirror Worlds are like a terribly tangled knot of mysteries we must carefully unravel.

- A Singularity of a Wing capable of permanently erasing or destroying technologies. - Its potency and scope of effect depend on the price paid, but a reasonably powerful Concept Incinerator can erase every document related to the incinerated technology, photographs, and even memories—leaving behind nothing or, if something somehow does survive, a smudge and nothing more. Does the <i>Concept</i> Incinerator delete a concept like it never even existed, or does it just "smudge" our perception of it? - Faust elaborated with an example—deleting the general concept of, say, a "clock," requires literally everything even tangentially related to clocks getting chucked into the concept incinerator, but deleting only a specific model of a clock is as easy as tossing its blueprint in. In other words, a smaller scope equals easier incineration equals cheaper erasure.

- A bug that, when inserted into the human body, will share with its host the memories of the person who became its core. - Immediately after insertion via the ear, the Anamnaworm will rapidly assimilate into the host, granting them all the memories and knowledge of the source individual used to make it. Convenient, but each Anamnaworm comes with the caveat that it cannot be removed by any other means than the conditions prescribed at its creation. - Traditionally, all H Corp. Hierarchs were supposed to accept the "Xianhuang Worm," an Anamnaworm created from the founding Hierarch, into their bodies, but we managed to make it to the Tiekan Temple in time to prevent it from assimilating into Jia Xichun. - In the chaotic aftermath that followed, the New League of Nine Littérateurs snatched the Xianhuang Worm away. Wei told me that, though the knowledge that once resided within the worm may be significant, the sheer time that has passed since its extraction from the previous host's body must have eroded much of it.

- A power that strengthens the body, manifested through emotions and the mind. - ... said Vespa and Vergilius, but I'm having a bit of trouble understanding what it is from that explanation alone. That said, I don't think I can do a much better job of describing it. I just see Shin (心) users surrounding themselves with some kind of golden aura, and the next thing I know, they've suddenly become stronger. - To summarize what little I understand, Shin (心) sure seems like an incredible technique that allows people to enhance the strength and durability of their bodies without spending a single coin—and all it needs is some kind of training and meditation. - Vergilius did mention that its output varies depending on one's emotional or mental state... but, well... whatever limitations it has, I don't see why anyone would <i>not</i> use this power... Right? - I asked Team Leader Moses from LCD, who's apparently researching this power, and she said learning and using Shin (心) isn't always the best choice. Moses refused to elaborate further—she said she could explain only once she had properly formed a workable hypothesis.

- Apparently, Sinners are unable to use Shin (心) without overlaying themselves with Identities—not while their pact with me holds. - I was going to ask if I could learn how to use it too, but I missed my chance because Kira asked first... But if Sinners can't use it, I suppose it would apply to me as well. - I wonder if I could use Shin (心) before I lost my memories. Vespa said that someone who had never once reflected on their sins—like the Middle Nursefather—would be incapable of even comprehending and using such a power in the first place. Makes me wonder what kind of person I was before my head was swapped for a clock.

- I remember Lei Heng saying that "Mang (望)" is amassing Shin (心) and converting it into a ring of light around the user's body parts or weapons... But since I don't know how exactly that's done, I can only guess that the number of rings serves as a measure of how much stronger the user becomes with it. - According to the Sinners' experience with Mang and Shin wielders, performing attacks with Mang wrapped around makes the same motion or technique a lot faster and stronger than before. Ishmael speculated with some uncertainty that the ring of light itself probably doesn't contain some superpower, but rather acts like a kind of gateway through which power is channeled. - Outis added that the rings might function similarly to the rails of a railgun... - Since I don't know much about even Shin myself, I wasn't able to ask detailed questions about Mang. The most I got was Vespa complaining that each additional ring nearly doubles the mental strain... - Come to think of it, why does Mang contain emotions like resentment, dismay, and yearning? Why does Shin, the power of the heart, coalesce into Mang? - Yi Sang said perhaps it has something to do with hopes and desires being the unseen hands that stir the heart, but I don't think that can sufficiently explain this phenomenon...

- A canned product that gives the user an experience never before had, simply by eating the contents. - From what I can tell, the raw ingredient is produced in a place called "Grand Magasin Sisyphe" and the Canneries connected to it. - Apparently there's a mass-produced version of this product, made by mixing all sorts of information with the base ingredient. They give intense and stimulating experience when consumed, and in N Corp., eating these mass-produced Canned Experiences is considered a form of entertainment like going out or dining in a restaurant. - Uh... But didn't some of the Identities we use drive Nails into people to harvest something from them and make Canned Experiences with it? And if this Sisyphe place is "producing" the raw ingredient, then... - The thought gave me the creeps, if I'm being honest. I did ask Meursault about it, but he said Kromer and her Inquisitors had an outdated way of doing things... which is apparently almost never an option these days. - Meursault read my note. The way he spoke was quite insistent—he actually <i>emphasized</i> that the cans don't provide any dreams or experience. Then what do they really give? Memories? What separates a memory from an experience? - There are times when I peek into the Sinner's memories, but those memories don't come from my own experience. Still, in that precise moment I glimpse a memory, can't I say I'm experiencing it too? Or... not? - ... Maybe this isn't a question I can answer now.

- It seems to be a special period when we can extract Identities and E.G.O that we normally can’t. - Though the timelines and the worlds we can access are expanded during this period, it’s not like we’ll be extracting random Identities and E.G.O from all over the place. Faust explained that whoever we end up extracting during this period will be relevant to all of us. Relevant… to Limbus Company’s current state in some way. - Walpurgis Night seems to arrive once in a while. As usual, Faust doesn’t tell me everything, but at least I could tell that the next Walpurgis Night will be different from this one.

- I’ve only heard it mentioned in passing, but I don’t suppose they were talking about just any old library. - Fixers from Molar Boatworks mentioned it. They said that they went in there, something awful happened, and they… returned from a book? I don’t know enough about the City to connect these dots or make any meaningful guesses from them, so I’ll just write down what I heard and put a pin in it for now.

- I thought all monsters were either Abnormalities or Distortions, but it seems like the opposite is true. All Abnormalities are monsters, but not all monsters are Abnormalities… I think. - They say that the Trash Crabs are the prime example of monsters that aren’t Abnormalities. - Though they’re not so prevalent, I think they're sometimes mentioned in creepy tales or legends of the City. - Apparently, the Outskirts and the Great Lake are both brimming with these ‘monsters’… - Still, this means there are monsters within and without the City. I’m not sure how I'll categorize them yet.

- They're neither Abnormalities nor monsters. If I had to put a label on them, I'd say they're closest to Distortions, but that's a tenuous connect at best. The LCD Team Leader Moses also said they're fundamentally different beings, so... yeah, probably not. - All Bloodfiends possess red eyes. But it's not the easiest method of distinguishing them from humans, as it's also the most common color for ocular combat augmentations. And it'd be entirely useless if they replaced their entire head with a prosthetic like I did. - They have strong regenerative capabilities, so it's extremely hard to kill them if they have enough blood to consume. One way to stop them from regenerating, though, is to crush their heads... We had a hell of a time aboard the WARP train, thanks to the train's environmental uniqueness that sorta made that a non-option for us. - The head really seems to be the core element in making these 'regeneration' methods work. The head had to be intact for Life Insurance to work, K Corp.'s ampules to work, so on and so forth. ... Well, the brain, to be specific. - They all have an overpowering desire for blood. Bloodfiends of La Manchaland seemed to have tried consuming Hemobars with artificial or animal blood additives as a substitute, but... looks like only flowing blood can really sate their hunger and deprivation. - They could overcome it if the urge itself is forgotten, but... finding the waters of the river Lethe, which serves that exact function, doesn't seem to be the easiest task. Where in the world did the Fixer from Don Quixote's memories, Bari, find such a thing? - Alongside this desire for blood, they also seem to have strong feelings to propagate their 'Family' as well. Seems like... 'Sancho' was the odd one out for not creating a Family of her own. Kindred generations are distinguished by their separation from the First Kindred, and once embraced as a part of the Family, they begin to really care about and treat each other like, well... family. - Rocinante disguises Don Quixote's more obvious Bloodfiend features and partially suppresses her bloodthirst. But there's still much we don't know about Rocinante—like how it works, or if it has anything to do with the body of 'Don Quixote' still at P Corp.... - But it still can't fully suppress her natural instincts, like the desire for blood and propagation of her Family, so Don Quixote's been enduring it all with her sheer willpower. Makes me wonder, though... what's so different about our Don Quixote and the First Kindred Don Quixote that they have such strong resilience against bloodthirst compared to the other Bloodfiends? - Limbus Company headquarters has been sending Don Quixote a steady supply of high-quality blood packs. When I asked why they couldn't have just done the same thing at La Manchaland, she replied that it was simply an issue of demand vastly outweighing the supply—there were simply too many Bloodfiends to feed compared to the amount of blood they could draw from willing visitors. Which is precisely the reason they had to develop Hemobars to meet the demand with as little blood as possible. Besides... I have a feeling that it probably wouldn't have worked out anyway... even if they had enough blood packs...

- A crimson sign or a mark that I've seen on a few people, one of them being Sinclair. - It appears that Sinclair's Sign has the power to summon a version of himself from a period forward in time. Faust said it was a possibility of a certain future, or something akin to an offshoot event of an offshoot world. It certainly felt distinct from having him wear an Identity from a Mirror World. - Demian's enigmatic words were the first thing that came to my mind when Sinclair first awakened the power of his Sign—that he would return when Sinclair becomes one with beautiful stars. - Is drawing all three strokes of his Sign... not what Demian meant by "soaring into the sky, having unshakable faith in the power of the heart"? Well, what else could it be...? It hurts my head just to think about it. - If only others could see the Signs, too... I would've asked them for their input. Hmm, that reminds me. Didn't Sonya say something to Rodya about her not having the Sign or being unable to see them? - Other than myself, the Sinners are the only other people in the world who were there for that conversation, and it's clearly not a good idea to bring this up to Rodya, so... Hmm, who should I ask?

- Meursault remembered that conversation. Well, of course he did. - Anyway, I finally found the information I needed. What Sonya had said to Rodya on that day was that she didn't have what it takes to lead. - It makes me wonder if that condition goes both ways—does having "what it takes to lead" allow one to see the Sign? ... Well, I decided to table that question until the LCE's research could make some progress, since it seemed that they were having trouble making any meaningful discoveries concerning the Sign. - We sort of have a working theory at this moment, that the Sign may be of the same or similar origin as Singularities and Relics, but... given that I know precious little about those two subjects, this seems to be a case of questions begetting questions.

- They're... people, maybe? Anyways, they appear during the Night in the Backstreets. - Aboard the bus, I just saw them as a vague crowd that moved past us, but... when we faced them in person outside the bus, they were truly unrelenting and numerous. - As they sweep the streets, they melt down everything that needs to be cleansed—dead bodies in the Backstreets, unauthorized constructions, things like that. I do think it's somewhat necessary, but... I was at a loss for words when I learned that they melted down the random, unlucky people who got caught outside during the Night in the Backstreets, too. - They can even melt down and eat their own and heal from it, which gave us quite the trouble. Really, really hoping that we won't have to fight them again.

- Every 3:13 in the morning, the Sweepers emerge for eighty minutes to clean up the Backstreets of the City. - Starting from the borders of each Nest, they simultaneously emerge from the ground, march through the Backstreets, and sweep everything in their path away. Their march consists of three waves with about ten minutes of reprieve in between. I don't want to imagine what could've happened if we didn't even have that. - Lots of things are banned when the Night in the Backstreets begins. We can't take videos or audio, or break into or destroy someone else's domicile... - That reminds me—Faust told me that the Head wields the Sweepers. I can't even begin to imagine how they even cooperate with each other. Maybe it's got something to do with Taboos? Who knows. I certainly don't.

- We learned more about the new Classification codes and Risk Levels. - Until now, it was kind of difficult for us to immediately know whether WAW or HE was supposed to be the more dangerous one, and... there was an entity that was weirdly powerful for a TETH-level entity, as well... Well, now that we have the 'expected damage scale' in addition to the scale based on their energy production levels, we should be able to tell that HE-5 presents more potential dangers than WAW-4 in a fight. - Hohenheim told us not to think of this as a single numerical scale of power, but... it feels more intuitive to have these alongside the Risk Levels system previously used by Lobotomy Corporation. Anyways, this technically means that there could be ZAYIN-10 entities as well... I wonder what that would be like.

- Each Abnormality is categorized into different Risk Levels, divided into five levels. - According to the brief manual Faust gave me… the five levels seem to be ZAYIN / TETH / HE / WAW / ALEPH. - It seems that the postmortem observation logs written by the Sinners are sent to the upper echelons of Limbus Company, which then the company uses to determine their Risk Levels. - Apparently, there are times when some Abnormalities' Risk Levels were already rated even before we submitted the observation logs. (Heathcliff told me that when he finally got to write the observation log after putting it off for a long while, he noticed that it was already marked with a Risk Level.) Since these logs are probably connected directly to the Limbus Company headquarters, maybe they’re checking these pretty frequently?

- It seems pretty obvious, but the Risk Levels are rated based on the potential amount of damage that each Abnormality can cause, and the difficulty of facing it in combat. I see… I suppose that’s why they told the Sinners to focus on the details of the combat encounter and each Abnormality’s identifying characteristics when writing the logs. - Hm, but I also remember that some of the lower-risk level Abnormalities were harder and more complicated to fight than the higher-risk Abnormalities. - Maybe it’s the Golden Bough suppressing the Abnormalities’ strength (I’m gonna guess that’s what ‘Qliphoth Deterrence’ means)… but it’s probably just that there are some errors in the Risk Levels. - So I asked Faust about those possible errors, and she proceeded to clear up a few questions I had about the difference between the Abnormalities’ Risk Levels and the actual difficulty we felt when facing them. - The standards to rating each Abnormality's Risk Levels followed Lobotomy Corporation's definition of each Risk Levels, which then the LCA used to rate them. Turns out the data from Lobotomy Corporation didn't exactly match our on-field experience against the Abnormalities. - LCA is aware of this disparity. Sounds like they're going to announce some new standards to categorize them by. - I was told that they were going to use our combat data and the samples collected by Limbus Company to re-organize and re-categorize the Risk Levels.

- We encountered Peccatula, which can mimic not only the Sinners’ appearances but also their identities and E.G.O. I asked Faust how the Peccatula, which are just things that failed to even Distort, were able to use E.G.O… but Faust shut the entire discussion down by saying that it was still classified information. - How did they even mimic Sinners from Mirror Worlds if they don’t have the Identity Cards pulled through the Mirror tech?

- They give off a similar energy to the Distortions, but these entities lack much identifying characteristics between them. At least between the same types. - We have confirmed six types of Peccatulum so far. Yi Sang says that they're even closer to beasts than the Distortions are. - Yi Sang says that, when comparing the Peccatula to Distortions with what samples we've encountered so far, the Peccatula showed much higher levels of aggressiveness and antagonism than the Distortions did.

- I'm not sure if this is thanks to the Golden Bough in my head, but I can somehow tell Abnormalities and Distortions apart just by the feelings they give off. Just like how Abnormalities and Distortions are oddly similar yet different from each other, the Peccatula appear to be oddly similar yet different from Distortions. - Sinclair heard me and mused that if they feel similar yet different... then maybe they both come from the same source, and what failed to become a Distortion becomes one of the Peccatula. - Yeah, that makes sense to me. Those that fail to become Distortions become Peccatula... that seems to be the most likely guess unless anything new crops up. - Risk Level assessments and serial numbers for each Peccatulum are also getting reworked. Probably thanks to those new Peccatula we saw at Yong-jin building. - Faust added that our encounter with the new entities and the need for the company to categorize Abnormalities, Distortions, and Peccatula separately was what brought on the overhaul of the company's categorization system. Yeah, that's pretty much what I was thinking.

- We encountered an entity that seemed to be a more mature version of the Peccatula we have encountered so far. - Sounds like the higher-ups at Limbus Company are trying to categorize them by something like 'stages'. - It can't be a coincidence that, after so many encounters with these Peccatula, we've only now run into a Stage 2 Peccatula.

- The Sinners have really grown stronger through our bus journey... but the Peccatula have also grown powerful. - I've been thinking, and I've come to the conclusion that maybe these new types of Peccatula are showing up because of the Golden Bough. This probably has something to do with the fact that collecting the Golden Boughs powers up our Identities, too. - If we continue to collect the Golden Boughs... the types of Peccatula will grow as well. - Golden Boughs, Sinners, and... the Peccatula. And there's a Golden Bough in my head, too. I'm sure they're all connected to me in some way... There's no other way to look at this.

- First encountered at the Wuthering Heights manor, these are entities that have progressed past Stage 2 of their growth. - LCE categorized them into 'Classes'—Class 1, 2, and 3 respectively—and it seems that these Stage 3 Peccatula are the final stage of their evolution. But Hohenheim told us that he wasn't entirely certain of that just yet. - Hohenheim called the Peccatula 'mediocre shells'. If the Peccatula are nothing but empty shells, then... what distinguishes their stages?