Tokyo: Oreimo

"The outcome of an event always has a cause, and usually the cause of that outcome is the phenomenon that directly caused it."

"For example, illness or an accident? Or a direct cause of death like Kiryu Moeka's?"

But that's clearly not right; Ling Nai had already verified it.

Kurisu Makise also came to the same conclusion.

"Perhaps it was Mayuri's birth that led to her death."

"fatalism?"

Ling Nai did not agree with this statement. If that were the case, then Mayuri was destined to die, with no possibility of exception.

This claim was ultimately refuted by Makise Kurisu herself, who then proposed a hypothesis.

"The reason should be something that can be used to explain the trigger for this series of events."

"The fuse? Does it refer to the time machine?"

Ling Nai subconsciously thought of this direction.

"Does this mean that if a time machine hadn't been built, Mayuri might not have met her inevitable death?"

But such a judgment is too arbitrary. If the time machine is destroyed and Mayuri still dies, then there will be no chance to change anything.

"Just as Makise Kurisu said."

Suddenly, a character portrait appeared in the screen.

"He's a migrant worker soldier! Awan Yin!"

Ling Nai hasn't seen this character for a long time; at least in the dozen or so cycles, he's only appeared on screen a very small number of times.

Recalling Mayuri's first death, this girl displayed extraordinary fighting power, defeating five burly men in an instant.

"She's definitely not an ordinary person. Just who is she?"

Ling Nai clicked the mouse, and in the dialog box, Awan Yin Lingyu continued speaking.

"Your reasoning is mostly correct; it's indeed not a simple matter that can be solved without building a time-travel machine."

"To save the world, we must..."

"Break through the 1% barrier of world line variation rate and reach the β world line."

.....

"The rate of change of the world line is a numerical value that indicates where this world line is located."

"Just like a rope, it may look like there's only one rope at first glance, but it's actually made up of countless thin threads."

Although each of these paths will not interfere with the others, the final result is the same.

Ling Nai roughly understood Awan Yin Lingyu's theory.

"In other words, as long as the world line change rate does not exceed 1%, then no matter which line you jump to, it will eventually lead to Mayuri's death."

Ling muttered to herself.

No wonder that no matter what I did in Chapter Six, although it changed the past, the result remained the same.

"So what should we do next?"

"If the world line undergoes a significant shift, moving more than 1% from the current α world line to the β world line, the outcome will be different."

"The outcomes of the alpha world line and the beta world line are very different, meaning that different future world lines would not normally allow travel between the two."

"Even if you change the past through D-mail or time travel, you can't move on."

"But when major events occur in the world, significant points of divergence arise due to changes in choices, such as the Gulf War in 91."

"At that time, it would be possible to move from the α world line to the β world line."

"A major event?"

Ling Nai muttered to herself, "To say that you can change those major historical events of the past is simply impossible, isn't it?"

Rintaro Okabe is just an ordinary person at heart. It's impossible for him to go back in time and change the course of the war.

"Speaking of which, how could a migrant worker soldier know so much advanced knowledge?"

"It wasn't revealed at all in the previous plot that she came to this city specifically to find her father, was it?"

Ling Nai was somewhat curious about the other person's identity.

Based on their current performance, they are definitely on Okabe's side, and they even brought out the 'world line rate of change meter' that Okabe researched in the future.

"This guy might have come from the future."

The girl made a bold guess.

The scene on the screen changed, and the three of them arrived at a building in Akihabara. The surrounding scenery felt somewhat familiar to Ling Nai.

"If I remember correctly, this is where the speech was held at the beginning of the game?"

Awan led the two to the top floor.

A huge machine was embedded in the wall, causing Ling Nai to slowly open her eyes wide.

She had seen this before; it was mentioned several times at the beginning of the game, saying that it was some kind of satellite crash. Why hadn't it been dealt with yet?

"This device is..."

In the dialog box, Makise Kurisu asked Amane a question.

"Time machine".

"!!!"

Ling Nai's eyes widened.

"I come from 2036"

"You want to know who I am, right? Well, it's okay to tell you now."

"I am the time traveler—John title"

......

"In 2036, the world will be dominated by SERN, a completely controlled, dystopian society."

"People were deprived of their freedom, living like zombies, and those who resisted were killed."

"I am a member of the resistance organization fighting for the liberation of people from SERN's control. In order to change this world, I boarded the time machine left by my father."

"..."

As Amanne Lingyu recounted her past, Ling Nai roughly understood the whole story.

The other party also traveled back in time with a mission to change the future.

But because of selfish desires, he remains in the present era and wants to find his father and meet him.

Actually, she was planning to leave before sending the sixth D-mail, but she stayed because Okabe persuaded her to stay.

"It matches up perfectly, and it corresponds perfectly with the previous performance in advancing the plot."

"So that's how it is."

Ling Nai got really into the game and couldn't wait to move on.

But then, the alarm I had set on my phone went off.

She glanced at the time; it was already past 11 p.m. After dinner, she had unknowingly played for more than three hours.

Should we end this here and continue tomorrow?

She glanced at the CG image on the screen that depicted a giant time machine.

"Who would stop in a place like this?"

Ling Nai turned off the alarm clock without even thinking.

Of course, we'll keep playing.

She then continued to advance the plot.

Amane Reiwa truly lives up to her reputation as someone who came from the future; although her intelligence may not necessarily be comparable to Makise Kurisu's.

However, there is a much richer theoretical knowledge about time machines.

She proposed a feasible path to jump between world lines.

"SERN uses its communication system to search the world for any clues about the time machine. In that system, Rintaro Okabe, your original D-mail should have been captured."

"If we could delete that text message from the SERN database, things would change!"

"In that case, Mayuri's inevitable death would be rewritten!"

Ling Nai realized the problem.

However, an IBM 5100 is essential for hacking into SERN's systems.

Therefore, we need to help Amane Reiwa repair the time machine.

The character's original mission was to go back to 1975, find the IBM 5100, and then hand it over to Rintaro Okabe.

Under Makise Kurisu's arrangement, Ayano performed another time jump, this time with the time adjusted to its maximum.

Going back two days, during the machine repair process.

Ling Nai is getting to know the character Awan Yin Ling Yu better and better. Her image and personality are already very likable, and after being given the identity of John title, she unexpectedly has some cute points.

The girl moved this character's priority in her strategy ranking a little higher.

On the eve of the completion of the repairs, Ling Nai unexpectedly triggered a storyline unique to Amane Ling Yu, successfully helping her find her father.

"She's actually the bucket's daughter?"

What?! How could that super fat man give birth to such a beautiful daughter?

Ling Nai simply couldn't understand it.

Just how beautiful must one marry to have a daughter with such looks?

She even had some doubts about whether Mayuri's guess was accurate.

But considering their hair colors and the naming conventions of time machines, she had no choice but to accept this reality.