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TIP: Evacuation Mode & Case N
Category: Fiction

Emergency commands in LABO declared in case of unforeseen circumstances.

Evacuation mode is declared when prompt evacuation becomes necessary due to the outbreak of fires or other disasters. Evacuation mode unlocks the doors to all rooms as well as the security gates that usually automatically relock after a certain period of time. However, the retina authentication for the elevator from Area N to Area Zero remains locked.

A Case N is declared when Subject N is improperly taken outside of Area N or Area 5. The security gates lock and the bulkheads to the surface shut, preventing Subject N's escape. Researchers and staff members promptly administer AD and are generally instructed to remain on standby until outside help arrives.

Nine years ago, during the ''Subject N escape incident'', a fire-triggered evacuation mode and a Case N were declared one after the other, causing the security gates to temporarily open for only a short period of time before relocking. Furthermore, the bulkheads shut, preventing escape to the surface. But since at that time, there was a way to open the bulkheads from the outside, Miyoko managed to narrowly escape the flames and bring Natsuhiko and Yuuri to safety.

That event was fortunate in itself, but one person saw the security feature Miyoko used to be dangerous. This person was Ryoken Kashiwagi, then senior fellow. Kashiwagi hypothesized that the ability to open the bulkheads from the outside meant that had the Case N happened during not a simple evacuation mode, but a ''meltdown'' instead, that is, had a malfunction caused the WX amplifier to go haywire, then Subject N could have utilized the amplified WX particles to invoke Senses Sympathy on someone outside to manipulate them to open the bulkheads and allow her to escape. Fearing this worst-case scenario, Kashiwagi amended the security measures so that in the event of a simultaneous meltdown and Case N, nobody on the inside (or obviously the outside for that matter) could open the bulkheads until ''Brain Cell'' confirmed the neutralization of the ''meltdown'' and opened up the bulkheads automatically. Thus, Subject N's escape would be prevented, though at the potential sacrifice of the researchers and staff members who didn't escape in time.

Was the motivation for enacting such a drastic security measure the cowardly fear of exposing the truth behind LABO, or was it a modest sense of justice to protect the general public from potential danger...? Nobody will ever know.