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Before the Library is opened, a man by the name of Roland mysteriously enters. Angela demands to know how he entered the Library because nobody should have been able to enter without her permission. When Roland doesn't give her the answers she wants, she tears his limbs off. She ends up restoring his limbs and forcefully recruits him to work at her library and be her guide. She intends to send out invitations and have Roland fight them turning them into books so she can find the book she desires. The first three groups, The Rats, Yun's Office, and the Brotherhood of Iron come to the Library because they need money to survive and hope that the Library can help them. The Hook Office was hired to visit the library, they also went for potential profit.

Urban Myth

An opening cutscene has two people discussing something called Distortion. The voices mention multiple groups which are categorized by notoriety naming two Urban Plagues, and one Urban Legend, before finally mentioning the Library, a recently declared an Urban Myth as the potential culprits. The next set of guests is a pair of cannibals from Perrie Bistro, they enter the Library looking for inspiration and recipes. The Streetlight Office is a group of three fixers who were given a request to investigate the Library. Two of them escape the Library after the death of their coworker Mars. Massively upset, the fixer Lulu goes back for revenge only to become a book themselves.

Urban Legend

A cutscene featuring the two previous voices from the beginning of the Urban Myth chapter is heard discussing the Fingers, a group of the five most powerful syndicates. They once again bring up the Library which had risen to Urban Legend. Roland and Angela have a heart-to-heart conversation involving her motives to find the one true book that will tell her everything about the world.

The last Streetlight Office fixer San goes to Zwei Association section 6 in hopes of getting his friends' books back. One of the two fixers he meets is Isadora who explains that one of the Zwei Association's current cases is the Distortion Phenomenon, which causes people to turn into monsters. One instance they bring up is The Pianist, an anomaly (distortions are not abnormalities) that killed 80% of a district's population. The government also known as the Hana Association sent a color fixer to kill it. The other fixer Julia goes with San because the Library is one of the suspects. When San and Julia don't come back the Zwei Association Section 6 Director Walter and Isadora enter the Library.

Left Path: The Stray Dogs, a syndicate gang find an invitation from a Zwei fixer they beat up, they go to the Library because they want the information Walter's book holds.

Right path: The Molar Office is a group of three fixers who got on board a WARP Train, a ride gets to a destination in ten seconds, only for the train to start taking hours to reach its destination leaving the passengers stranded. While on the train the passengers do not feel hunger or thirst. After thirty-one hours the Molar Office fixers sign the invitation to escape the train.

Urban Plague

Left path: The Carnival is a group of machines that feed on humans and sweepers from which they produce Nuovo Fabric, they are approached by Yan a messenger of the Index who sends them to the Library through something called a prescript. Prescripts are instructions that must be followed in return for the Index's protection. Before they leave they are seen selling fabric to some Kurokumo Clan syndicate members. Later the Kurokumo Clan members are in the middle of extorting backstreet residents for protection money when a wolf-headed woman named Tanya shows up and intimidates the group into going to the Library. Throughout the conversation, Tanya is constantly talking about making music and orchestras.

Center-left path: The Full-Stop Office is in the middle of a mission eliminating The Church of Gears. Before they can kill the leader Eileen they are interrupted by color fixer The Blue Reverberation Argalia who pressures them into signing the invitation they have. The Musicians of Bremen are a group of murderers inspired by The Pianist who make instruments out of human remains. They were asked to go to the Library by an individual known as Heehaw.

Center-right path: The Dawn Office comes to the Library to resolve their financial struggles, but only one fixer Philip escapes with his life. Philip later returns with fixers from the Wedge Office, he is the only survivor and flees again partially manifesting his own E.G.O. in the process due to his heightened emotions.

Right path: The Gaze Office is a trio of cybernetically enhanced individuals who are debating over a job given to them by the Cane Office, they planted a device inside of a WARP Train to learn about a Wing's Singularity. One says investigating is as dangerous as the Wings go to extreme lengths to keep their secrets. They find an invitation promising the Molar Office books and enter to learn what happened on the WARP Train. After the Gaze Office, there is a cutscene showing what happened to the rest of the passengers on the WARP Train. Over 724,264 days have passed only two train cars have not yet completely devolved into madness. Two of the passengers, Elena and Jae-heon have started experimenting on the passengers in their car to create Love Town. They send one of their creations Tomerry, an amalgamation of fused bodies to the Library.

Urban Nightmare

The scene begins with voices talking about the Library's part in the White Nights and Dark Days, an event that happened at the end of Lobotomy Corporation.

Left path: The Sweepers are entities that prowl the backstreets praying on people during the night, they go to the Library for answers after large amounts of other sweepers start dying. The Index finger sends Index Proselytes because of a prescript.

Center-left path: Argalia sends three Shi Association fixers to the Library, one of them complains that it is a setup. Argalia also sends the Smiling Faces after they kill one of the Shi Association branch managers. After the battle, Roland comments that Argalia is leading an Urban Nightmare class syndicate.

Center-right path: The 8 O'clock Circus is led by a clown named Oswald who lures people in and alters them into his performers. He sends his two newest thralls to the Library because he wants information on previous visitors he couldn't convert. Philip encounters the 8 O'clock Circus and after a confrontation with Oswald and a skull-faced man named Pluto, he becomes overwhelmed and distorts into The Crying Children. Pluto gives The Crying Children an invitation, and during the reception, a fragment of The Crying Children escapes. Afterward, Roland and Angela talk about E.G.O. manifestation and Distortion. Both are transformations caused by heightened emotion but Distortions happen when an individual is unable to overcome their hardships.

Right path: Back on the WARP Train Jae-heon states that it has been two thousand years and that he can stay sane thanks to allies in the ensemble. He reveals that WARP Trains are imbedded with T Corp's technology which is being used to harvest time off the passengers. He sheds his disguise becoming The Puppeteer, a member of the Reverb Ensemble. He sends a group of his puppet constructs to the Library. After The Puppeteer leaves the WARP train a WARP Corp clean-up crew shows up to reset the train. When reviewing the footage they find out about the Molar Office's escape. Getting an invitation of their own, they go to retrieve the book to avoid WARP Corp's singularity from being exposed.

Star of the City

The Library reaches the rank Star of the City. Roland and Angela have a small conversation about what they want to do once the Library has fulfilled its purpose.

Left path: During a syndicate meeting top members of the Thumb threaten the other Finger groups and lesser syndicates to stay away from the Library because they intend to handle it themselves. Three messengers of the Index tell Yan they are entering the Library because of a prescript. Meanwhile, Yan learns the true nature behind the prescript's purpose, distressed over what he learns he distorts and heads to the Library.

Center-left path: Argalia shows up at the Library looking for information on E.G.O. and the Distortion, he escapes before he can become a book. Angela uses the Library's light to make a recreation of The Red Mist, Gebura's previous identity as a color fixer so they can gain her book to bait Argalia. While this is happening Argalia speaks with The Purple Tear, his former mentor and the woman who told him to send people to the Library to help it grow in power. He then tries to kill her with his ensemble of recruited members, The Purple Tear escapes into the Library via invitation.

Center-right path: The Liu Association section 2 was on a case involving The Crying Children (Philip) who were rampaging across Nest V where the Dawn Office was from. Liu Association was hired by V Corp to find information on the Distortion. Section 2 Director Lowell and his two fixers plan to start their investigation at the Library. Section 1 Director Xiao quits her position after learning about her lover Lowell's fate and two of her fixers follow her to the Library. After one of them dies she partially manifests her E.G.O gift before escaping the reception. She later comes back with the remaining fixer and fully manifests her E.G.O.

Right path: The Cane Office is a fixer group sponsored by T Corp due to being a successful office. The Cane Office's interest is investigating singularities, they want to go to the Library for information on WARP Corps singularity and sell it. However, when Argalia and Pluto show up the leader Nemo changes his mind about going, because if he gets turned into a book the Library would gain information on WARP Corp. and T Corps. technologies. They are forced to go after Pluto reminds them of a contract they made for the secrets of WARP Corps. singularity. Pluto also directly states Argalia to be the leader of the ensemble. R Corp. sends the four team leaders of their fourth pack (division) to the Library to determine what happened to L Corp. and get WARP Corps. information back. R Corp. previously had a partnership with Lobotomy Corporation, they are responsible for protecting its nest and singularity as well as W and T Corps. R Corps. singularity revolves around cloning, because of this they send the team leaders in again.

Impuritas Civitatis

The Hana Association officially becomes in charge of handling the Library. Their purpose is to figure out the connection the Library has with the Distortion. Three members of Section 3's Southern Branch are sent, one of them is Roland's old friend Olivier. Roland explains to Angela the purpose of the Head and A Corp whose primary function is the management of The City. The Eye and The Claw are the enforcers in charge of B and C Corp, they use Arbiters and Claws to take care of threats the Head doesn't like. Angela shares familiarity with them due to Lobotomy Corporation's earlier history before it became a Wing. Olivier tries to assassinate Angela, when Roland interferes Olivier unmasks him as a previous color known as The Black Silence.

The Reverberation Ensemble breaks into the Library after the Hana Association reception wanting to attain the Library's light for themselves. Each member (some with helpers) fights a Patron Librarian and their floor. In order of floors starting with Malkuths, the opponents are; The Crying Children (Philip), The Church of Gears Eileen, The Eighth Chef Greta, The Musicians of Bremen (Heehaw fused with two others to become a chimera), The 8'Oclock Circus Oswald, L'Heure du Loup Tanya, The Puppeteer Jae-heon, The Blood-red Night Elena, Yesterday's Promise Pluto, and finally The Blue Reverberation Argalia.

Angela is able to become human. Having enough of the events in his life Roland asks her to kill him. There are three endings based on the player's choice and completion of all floor realizations. If they do not fully complete Angela's realizations she will use the Library to assimilate The City. If Roland's are not completed, he kills Angela and wanders The City in despair until he dies. In the true ending, Angela releases everyone who became a book and the light fulfilling Lobotomy Corporation's original goal. The Reverberation Ensemble comes back fully distorted and attempts to steal the light, Roland and the other librarians fight them again. By giving up the light Angela becomes a machine again.

Epilogue

After the events of Impuritas Civitatis the Head sends an Arbiter, Beholder, and Claw to inform the Library that they are being ejected into the outskirts for being an impurity of The City and to retrieve Binah who was previously an Arbiter. After a battle, the Library is teleported to the Outskirts.