Alban Knox Confronts Tsumimi in Horror Game Red Chat Ritual and Reaches a Bad Ending

NIJISANJI — Alban Knox of Nijisanji EN’s Noctyx group finished the third session of the horror game Red Chat Ritual – Tsumimi Time with a bad ending, after the game’s title streamer, Tsumimi, was shown to be behind a string of killings and a kidnapping. In the game, the player watches Tsumimi’s investigation as a viewer and steers it by sending paid “mega chats,” and Knox spent the stream researching names and clues to name the culprit.

Early on, Knox followed a list of church affiliates and replayed a video clip to find extra hints, which turned up a figure reflected in the footage. Knox said they did not believe it could be Tsumimi, then tried the idea out: “Okay, let’s assume Tsumimi is the culprit.” After a locked door in a prayer room opened, Tsumimi’s behavior turned strange, and Knox concluded the fear she had shown earlier may have been an act. Knox reloaded several times to try different choices, and one of them led her to admit to killing several people.

“That’s a really good game. It was very creepy.” — Alban Knox, after the ending

In the final stretch, Tsumimi led viewers to a ritual stream and revealed her friend Mashiro, alive but missing her arms, eyes and legs. Knox said Tsumimi appeared to be keeping Mashiro alive to draw more viewers. With some of the case’s key points still unresolved, Knox submitted an answer that did not hold, and the game closed on a bad ending as Tsumimi’s stream was cut off by the platform’s admins. Knox then called the closing song a banger that captured Tsumimi’s image.

Knox praised the game’s art, music, voice acting and English localization, said it deserved a higher rating than it has, and learned only at the end that other endings exist. “If you’re interested in the good ending, give the game a shot yourself,” Knox told viewers, adding a hope that Mashiro is rescued in one of them and a plan to try the good ending off stream.

Chat reacted to the confession with messages such as “SHE WAS BORN FROM A CULT!?”, and nine Super Chats came in, many of them about the game. Knox said there would be no stream the next day and that streams were planned for the rest of the week.