init() ULT 9: a settled card, an assist-free run

Card, field, CONNECT overlay

1. 1

   The rung, straight off the card

   init()'s pre-dive card reads 9 above DIFFICULTY ULTIMATE with ILLUST credited to そゐち — a kana spelling low resolution likes to mangle — and that 9 is repeated on the pinned HUD card and on the jacket's corner badge in the result screen. HIGH SCORE is a dash, so this account had never dived it, and the encounter line already names the pairing the run will close: STORY ⇄ TOKIO.

   

2. 2

   SPEED 7.00 over six lanes

   The highway loads at 000'000'000 with the song card pinned — init() / kamome sano, ULT 9, SPEED 7.00. Four key lanes carry A S D F, and the side rails read Umschalt and Leer on this German client. On a chart this wide, scroll speed is the first real decision: slow it down and the field beams stop being distinguishable from the taps underneath them.

   

3. 3

   CONNECT, with the deck out of reach

   The CONNECT overlay sits over the field with its card row half-hidden behind the character art — enough to see that a full deck is loaded, not enough to name the cards, so this page lists none. Two things do read clearly: the STORY ⇄ TOKIO encounter tabs, and the absence of any Assist Mode Enabled line, which the particle-filled IOTA row on the result card later corroborates.

   

The first chains and the first NEAR

1. 4

   Chain 36 inside twenty seconds

   The opening is generous: 002'799'144 with the chain already at 36 and one EXACT on the line. init() starts with room to breathe, and that is the trap — every one of the run's 19 BREAKs is collected later, while the long chains this chart is remembered for begin right here.

   

2. 5

   Two hold beams in parallel

   A violet hold beam and a cyan one run down neighbouring lanes at 015'989'131 with three EXACTs stacked on the line. Sustained notes in parallel are the chart's first real ask: one hand parked, one still moving. The community wiki puts 280 hold notes into this ULT 9, which is what those underlays add up to.

   

3. 6

   One NEAR, and where the chain went

   The chain has dropped to 16 at 036'416'096, with a NEAR sitting beside an EXACT — no direction tag on this stamp, so the frame says only that the press drifted off the window. init() finishes with 41 NEARs and 19 BREAKs, so early sloppiness like this is most of what the card will charge for.

   

Mid-chart: wide beams, long chain

1. 7

   The wide field beam

   At 045'810'389 a field beam covers nearly the whole highway and the chain is back up at 55. This is init()'s signature: full-coverage slabs that want a flat hand rather than a sprint — and the reason the chart reads as 632 field notes in the wiki's split, the largest single channel on the rung.

   

2. 8

   Chain 173 and still climbing

   A violet field beam rides the right of the highway at 059'361'319 while the counter runs to 173, a lone EXACT under it. Two-thirds of the way through, the chain has not been touched since the reset at 16 — the 374 the card eventually reports is built in stretches like this one.

   

3. 9

   Flicks at chain 281

   Yellow flick arrows arrive over the beam work at 067'671'983 with the chain at 281 — the highest reading on film before the card's 374. Flicks are where a hold-weighted run usually snaps, since the stroke has to overshoot the lane while the other hand keeps a beam held; here the chain survives them.

   

The settle, the encounter, the card

1. 10

   The HUD stops at 096'898'239

   Last note spent, field empty, counter frozen at 096'898'239 with the chain at 119. That matches the result card's SCORE and its DIFFERENCE row exactly — the corroboration this page requires before quoting any final score, and the reason init() can be cited straight where the Hanabi log cannot.

   

2. 11

   CONNECTED, the purple kind

   What crosses the emptied field in this cut is the purple CONNECTED banner, 096'898'239 still on the counter — the encounter half of the payout, closing at ENCOUNTER RESULT 000'052'436 on the card that follows. Worth naming precisely: no cyan DIVE CLEARED field banner appears in this footage, and the DIVE CLEARED line you can read is the small one printed inside the result card.

   

3. 12

   A settled card: 1,273 notes and rank AA

   Everything is counted and lit. SCORE 096'898'239, Rank AA, EXACT 1,145, a second EXACT row at 68, NEAR 41, BREAK 19 — 1,273 judged notes, the same figure the community wiki's ULT column carries. MAX LINK 374, MISS GAUGE 15, HIGH SCORE blank beside DIFFERENCE +096'898'239, and the game's own First Clear tag sitting under an IOTA row of six purple bonus drops rather than an Assist Mode banner.