NieR Chronicles 18 — The Burning Camp and the Voice in Ending A

The Burning Camp, Eve’s Rage, and the Voice That Returns in Ending A

Spoiler notice: this chapter covers the Resistance Camp attack, defense of Pascal’s village, the final battle with Eve, 9S’s infection, and Ending A. These events follow Adam’s death. Boku-Shi at the camp, the first Eve fight gathering machines immediately afterward, the linked-sphere enemy near the village, and the final Eve battle in the city center are distinct stages.

1. The Place to Return to Was Under Attack

After escaping the factory, 2B receives Anemone’s call for help. The Resistance Camp is under attack. It is where they obtained supplies and weapons after first reaching the surface, delivered Pascal’s gift, and acquired equipment to find the missing 9S. It is not merely a mission starting point or a convenient facility on a map. People live there with their own circumstances, people who have spoken with the two soldiers.

When 2B returns, the familiar camp has collapsed. Machines stand among flames, destroyed belongings, and fallen androids. Some damage android bodies as if eating them. Machines learning from humans no longer appear only in institutional forms like kingdoms or places of worship. Their behavior becomes violence directly reaching living residents inside the camp.

2B deals with the remaining enemies within. Anemone and the survivors are enduring the threat, but she cannot return every resident to the state before injury. People have already died or been damaged while she was coming. This is not a world in which one quick rescue preserves every relationship from earlier small requests, such as gathering parts to help a trader.

Even after stopping the enemies inside, a threat remains outside. 2B leaves the living space and faces a large machine. Protecting people does not end with cutting down intruders inside a door. She must stop the source of further attacks outside. After fighting without her companion beside her, another battle she must withstand follows.

2. Boku-Shi by the Water and Support from the Sky

Outside the camp, a large machine with multiple legs, Boku-Shi, stands by the water. It resembles the type of So-Shi fought in the factory, but is not that same enemy suddenly teleporting here. It pressures 2B with gunfire and broad attacks. The pooled water does not remain mere scenery: electricity released through its legs turns the nearby waterside into dangerous ground.

Even when trying to approach within striking distance, 2B must watch both attacks and terrain. The enemy climbs toward the wall to hinder access or tries to recover. Standing beside the large body and swinging her sword continuously will not finish it. Using Pod fire to cover distance, she must find safe footing while the enemy moves and attacks.

9S returns during that fight. Descending in a Flight Unit, he drives into the large machine. In the factory, he borrowed a small machine’s body to send his voice and help; this time he reaches 2B’s front again in his own body. Support that created a safe route from afar becomes a powerful attack directly reaching the enemy. Boku-Shi’s destruction ends the large threat before the camp.

For 2B, it is the moment the companion lost in the Flooded City physically returns to her side. But there is little time to celebrate. Machines are running out of control across a wide area, and other communities are also attacked. Their reunion first serves as the condition that lets them stop the same crisis together, rather than the beginning of a rest.

3. The First Eve Fight by the Camp and Pascal’s Village

They do not immediately leave for the village after Boku-Shi falls. Outside the camp, numerous machine bodies gather into another threat, rotating like a great sphere. Eve is at its center. 2B and 9S fire at the mass, knocking some bodies away, then face the exposed Eve’s levitation and red energy attacks. Driving him back once does not end his existence here. The engagement to defend the camp does not run straight through to the final showdown.

Pascal’s call for rescue arrives afterward. The next threat is headed toward his village. Unable to transport directly there, the two take the route from the City Ruins and stop attacking machines near the entrance barricade. They also fight the linked-sphere enemy approaching the village. Its body of connected round sections moves differently from the multi-legged Boku-Shi defeated at the camp. The long body sweeps through the space, requiring them to watch the linked sections and the flow of its attacks.

Here too, those needing protection are machines. The soldiers who stopped the camp’s attackers now defend a machine village threatened by the same frenzy. Who is attacking and who is being attacked matters to the immediate decision more than who shares their materials. A relationship built by exchanging filters and oil and returning a lost child becomes actual defensive action.

Even after the village’s threat is stopped, attacks may continue elsewhere if the cause remains. After fighting, they learn Eve’s present location from Pascal and head for the City Ruins’ center. Near him, surrounding machines and debris move abnormally. One individual’s emotion does not remain confined to a small body, but spreads through the network and surrounding matter.

This attack does not yet bring the later incident in which the whole village is lost and all the children die. The present two soldiers stop this threat and proceed toward Eve. The lives of Pascal and the children A2 meets later continue beyond this defense. Successfully protecting them now does not guarantee that every future danger has been permanently prevented.

4. What Eve Lost Was His Brother, Not a Principle of the World

Eve is consumed by anger and grief after losing Adam. Studying humans and experiencing death were goals Adam chose for himself. Eve did not agree to send his brother to death with the same aims. What he wanted was a life together. Wherever his brother went and whatever he learned, what mattered was that he returned to be beside him again.

Scenes of the brothers together reveal this difference. Adam reads books and tries to learn human knowledge and forms. Eve cares less about how much knowledge is accumulated than about spending time with his brother and receiving his attention. They first appeared as a pair of similar-faced enemies, but their conditions for accepting death are entirely different. The disconnection Adam chose to understand the end of his existence becomes an unprepared farewell for Eve.

Eve attacks the androids who killed his brother. He does not express rage through his own body alone, but drives connected machines out of control and destroys other people’s lives. Understanding the reason for his loss does not erase the damage of that violence. Those killed at the camp and residents threatened in the village were not the ones who decided Adam’s death.

Stopping Eve is already a matter of saving others for 2B and 9S. Even hearing why he is furious, they cannot simply accept his attacks. 2B also knows the danger of losing a companion and has just searched for and rescued 9S. Sharing a wish not to lose someone precious does not automatically create a reconciliation in which they abandon the people the other is trying to kill now.

5. A Body That Returns Even After the Sword Defeats It

The fight with Eve begins with direct bodily attacks and spreads over an increasingly broad area. He closes in with fists and kicks, pressing the soldiers with surrounding debris and energy. As the battle progresses, available footing and distances for close fighting change. 2B continues with her sword and Pod fire while 9S supports her.

But damaging the body before them is not enough. Eve draws strength through the network again and repairs his injuries. Adam disconnected to experience death; Eve has not made that same choice. Brotherhood and similar appearances do not make the conditions of the battles identical. For the fatal attack that defeated Adam to become a final end for Eve too, another condition is needed.

9S hacks to sever that connection. He must approach the enemy’s body and consciousness and close the route that enables regeneration. In doing so, he encounters contamination spread within Eve. This is not ordinary information gathering performed without awareness of risk. To end the frenzy on the surface, he enters a region threatening his own data and mind.

2B continues the fighting during that time. Eve’s resistance damages her body too, disrupting her vision and close-combat abilities. By the end she cannot maintain her usual running, evasion, and swordplay. Rather than watching the finish of a stylish battle from afar, the player must also move under conditions in which bodily functions are failing. Even after abilities familiar since the first descent disappear, she cannot stop fighting.

Once 9S cuts Eve’s connection, an opportunity finally comes to finish it. The two withstand the last attacks in damaged bodies, and 2B approaches Eve and ends the battle. Grief and rage demanding his brother’s return continue until his death. They have defeated the two powerful units Adam and Eve, but learned more than enemy types and weaknesses. They have seen the ends of two beings who differed in what they wanted to learn and whom they wanted beside them.

6. The Companion She Cannot Save Even After Winning

After the battle, 2B goes to 9S. The hacking that blocked regeneration succeeded, but contaminated his data in the process. His being alive in his own body at her side does not end the danger. Uploading and preserving his current state as usual in the Bunker could carry the spreading logic virus with it. Returning to a backup from before infection is not the same as preserving the memories he has now.

9S asks her to end his present self. To 2B, he is the companion she just rescued and fought beside. The body she brought back from the Copied City must now be stopped by her own hands. Within the same person overlap the one she ran everywhere to protect and the one who, if left unharmed now, could become a larger danger.

Hesitating and grieving, 2B accepts his request. She bends close and presses his neck until his body finally stops. What matters here is who asked whom for that action and who carries its weight, rather than sensational details of the method. It differs from swinging a sword at a distant enemy during combat. One body dies where the distance between two people who know each other has become closest.

2B can no longer maintain her suppression of emotion. Her grief carries the sense of facing such an ending again. To someone who has seen only Route A, it recalls the coastal factory, their shared destruction, and meeting a 9S who lost his memories. Knowing the repetition revealed later gives her words a longer, heavier span of time. This moment does not establish an exact number for a past not yet disclosed.

7. The Same Voice Returns from Enemy Bodies

As light returns to the eyes of fallen machines and they react to one another, 2B grows wary again. To someone who has just lost her companion, approaching machines may be a threat. Yet the voice coming from those bodies is 9S’s. While accessing Eve, he also left consciousness data in the machine network. Even after his damaged android body stops, the self remaining there becomes able to speak.

This is not merely a 9S returning from an old Bunker backup and greeting her without remembering their time together. A voice continuing the experiences just lived recognizes 2B. But the body producing it is a machine she learned to regard as an enemy. Relief that 9S lives arrives together with a question about the basis on which she divided herself from machines.

The voice does not remain only a response from small wreckage. A giant machine body moves and extends a hand, and 2B climbs onto it. Unlike the opening, when she broke and climbed over a huge enemy’s body, the ending has her entrust herself to an enormous hand inhabited by her companion’s consciousness. Even without a reunion that restores his familiar android face, she recognizes and accepts the one with that voice.

From judging whether machines can think and feel only through other people’s examples, she now confronts the reality that someone precious to her has survived by relying on their connections. This does not erase every distinction or immediately end hostility on the surface. But the way he has returned now cannot be explained by the old divisions alone.

Ending A leaves victory over the frenzy, death, and an unexpected reunion together. Credits announce an ending, but YoRHa’s secrets, A2’s past, and the pair’s repetitions are not all resolved. Next, the other side of the same time will be traveled again through 9S’s eyes. Enemy memories he read through hacking and information he discovered alone will change the meanings of events seen beside 2B.

Sources and Scope of Verification

This commentary covers Route A’s camp attack, Eve showdown, and Ending A, where 9S’s consciousness returns after his infected body stops. It distinguishes Boku-Shi outside the camp, the first Eve fight with a sphere of gathered machines afterward, the linked-sphere battle toward Pascal’s village, and the final Eve fight in the city center. 9S’s survival is not simplified into the same thing as an old Bunker backup, and the ending is not expanded into completion of the entire game or permanent peace. This is AI-assisted editorial material and does not reproduce original dialogue, lyrics, or novel text. Sources checked: 2026-10-18.

NieR:Automata — Steam

Boku-Shi — NieR Wiki

Eve — NieR Wiki

Flowers for m[A]chines — NieR Wiki

YoRHa No.9 Type S — NieR Wiki