Re: [PARTY HARD.]
I'm getting there. It was tough, but all nine of us made it to Door 9 safe and sound. Or so we thought, at least. There were three "Door 9" in total: two we all used to get to what we thought was the exit. Instead it lead us to an incinerator that was about to start up right after.
We couldn't all go through there, didn't know what to do and only had a bunch of minutes left to spare. Then guess what? Someone came to save us, a private detective. It was Seven. He went back to grab something to make a rope for us so we could leave from the air ducts, so me, June, Snake and Nona told the other kids to go on ahead while we waited for him.
But when we were finally, finally about to leave, I lost Akane— June. Hongou got her and threw her back in the incinerator, told her "solve this goddamn puzzle and you'll be able to go out of here". I couldn't get there on time to save her, I couldn't open that goddamn door— there was nothing I could do. But she managed to contact Junpei. He solved the puzzle for her because he was also in the same room, playing the same Nonary game, and with that same puzzle in front of him.
But that was all nine years into the future. For Junpei to save her, the Nonary Game had to happen again nine years later.