During the encounter, Halua consumes Emil and their bodies fuse together, leaving Emil with not only her powers, but also her skeletal form. Traveling deeper into the facility, they encounter Experimental Weapon Number 6, revealed to be Emil’s sister Halua, and that she is the reason the facility was sealed and abandoned. The party discovers Emil was created as Experimental Weapon Number 7. Kainé asks Emil to petrify her against the basement's door before the Shade can escape, to which Emil reluctantly agrees.įive years pass and the protagonist, alongside Emil, traverse through the manor's Underground Facility to find a way to undo Kainé's petrification. The protagonist and Kainé trap the Jack of Hearts in the basement of the library, only to find that Yonah has been kidnapped by the Shadowlord, accompanied by Grimoire Noir. Almost immediately, the village is swarmed by Shades led by the Jack of Hearts. Emil's butler, Sebastian, immediately pledges to translate the cipher, and the protagonist returns to his village.Īfter he gathers vapor moss to make medicine for Yonah, a battered Emil appears at the village's southern gate to warn them of an impending Shade attack.
After defeating Grimoire Rubrum in the manor's study, they retrieve a page related to curing Emil's eyesight, which is written in an unreadable cipher.
There, he meets the manor's owner Emil, a boy that petrifies anything he looks at. Beckoned by a letter later on, the protagonist travels to a manor in the Southern Plains. The party continue searching for the Sealed Verses in such places as the Forest of Myth, the Junk Heap, and even to far-flung places as the Barren Temple. Together, they defeat the Shade Hook, and Kainé agrees to join him in his quest. The protagonist travels to The Aerie, where he meets the scantily-clad and foul-mouthed swordswoman Kainé. After presenting the white book to Devola and Popola, he learns that Weiss might be able to cure the Black Scrawl and sets off on a quest to retrieve the Sealed Verses, which they believe will help cure Yonah. The game once again begins in the summer of 2053, where a young man fending off strange monsters at a supermarket in Tokyo finds his sister suddenly suffering from a black illness, afflicted upon her as a result of touching the black book next to her.ġ,412 years later, a similar looking young man providing care for his sister Yonah, who is suffering from the Black Scrawl, encounters a powerful arcane tome named Grimoire Weiss. The story is mostly the same as NieR RepliCant, introducing a few plot elements inserted during the game's two halves.