Tokyo: Oreimo

That was the only thing she couldn't be sure about.

But now that things have come to this, all I can do is keep clicking the mouse. Nothing could be more cruel than that previous letter, right?

A conversation appeared on the screen.

"That was probably ten years ago."

"I received a lot of care from her, and I thought at the time that I should at least be there for her when she passed away."

"No way? Did he really commit suicide?"

Ling Nai's heart skipped a beat.

Nothing has changed? No way, the world line has clearly shifted.

"Huh? What are you talking about? He died of illness."

Mr. Brown provided the answer: a familiar object appeared in the picture.

— World line rate of change meter.

The current rate of change of the world line is clearly recorded above.

0.409431.

"Speaking of which, sending that D-mail means that the experience with Amane Reiha disappeared into thin air, and naturally this item also disappeared from my hands."

"This thing is Ms. Ling's keepsake. Do you know what number this represents?"

"Ms. Ling often stared at it even while in her hospital bed."

"Is this number before or after the change?"

"Did I succeed?" I kept thinking about it until the very end.

Ling Nai couldn't help but cover her mouth, feeling as if her heart was choked.

"Successfully, after that D-mail was sent..."

Amane Reiha returned to 1975 without experiencing amnesia, and she completed her mission.

The world line has shifted, though still less than 1%, but it has indeed changed.

She didn't have Okabe's ability to 'observe fate,' and until her death, she kept thinking about whether she had successfully changed the future.

Things have changed, Lingyu.

Your trip has successfully changed the future.

At this moment, she desperately wished she had the ability to talk to the characters in the game so she could tell the girl with chestnut hair.

Everything she did was not meaningless; the price she paid for decades of her life was worthwhile.

But Ling Nai couldn't do it.

"She must have died with regrets, staring at this worldline rate of change meter until her last breath..."

Although this ending was much better than before, Ling Nai still felt a tightness in her chest.

"That guy... he's really despicable. Did he think I'd be satisfied with this ending?"

She bit her lip and muttered a curse under her breath, as if she were a little angry.

"Stop looking down on people."

"I will definitely succeed, save Mayuri, and overcome the 1% barrier of world line change rate!"

Ling Nai gripped the mouse tightly.

"I will change the future! I will go to a timeline where everyone can find happiness, to the best timeline, I will definitely do it!"

Chapter 219 The First D-mail

"According to Ms. Amane, as long as we move from our current location within the α world line convergence zone to the β world line, Mayuri can be saved."

"Therefore, we must use IBM 5100 to delete the intelligence SERN possesses about you."

"However, the IBM 5100 that should have been kept at the shrine is still missing, even though the past of the ringtone has been changed."

Ling Nai has already confirmed this.

"What is known is that retaining Lingyu was not the direct cause of the disappearance of the IBM 5100."

"Among the D-mails sent so far, those that caused world lines to shift include Six Lottery, Ms. Kiryu, Ms. Urushihara, Ms. Ferris, and Ms. Amane."

"After the text message to persuade Ms. Amane to stay was withdrawn, the timeline shifted, causing the attack to be postponed by one day."

"So...maybe canceling the D-mails in reverse order will allow us to return to the original timeline where the IBM 5100 existed?"

Ling Nai looked at Makise Kurisu's conjecture and muttered to herself.

No, that's not right.

In that case...

The girl suddenly realized what was happening.

In other words, in order to save Mayuri, all the changes that were planned before must be destroyed?

Most importantly, it will turn Ruka Urushihara back into a man.

"No, it's too early to think about that now. Maybe after we retract the D-mail sent to Phyllis, the IBM 5100 will come right back?"

Ling Nai subconsciously comforted herself.

"Yes, that's right. Rukako is romanceable. There must be a better timeline, as long as you don't make the wrong choices..."

Regardless, all we can do now is try the method Makise Kurisu suggested.

But how can we get Phyllis to willingly cancel D-mail?

"In short, we need to meet in person before we can make a decision."

Ling called Tongzi and learned of Phyllis's whereabouts from him. She tried to persuade him, but naturally, she was not understood by him.

Changing the past leads to changes in the future, and so on.

No normal person could understand that.

In fact, the text message Phyllis sent was quite powerful.

This directly transformed Akihabara from a mecca of otaku culture back into its original form as an electronics district.

Watching Okabe Rintaro take Phyllis to the place where she used to run a maid café, trying to persuade her.

Ling Nai felt that this approach wouldn't work.

"Saying you once worked in a place like that, you don't have the ability to know fate, and you can't retain the memory, right?"

If you can't remember, then there's no way you can cooperate; in the end, the only option is to use deception.

To Ling Nai's surprise, Phyllis seemed to have actually recalled memories of another timeline due to Okabe's influence.

"I remember things before the timeline changed, but I also remember things after the change."

"The events before and after the change are intertwined, making it difficult to distinguish which side is the truth."

"These past ten years have been wonderful."

"Let's send D-mail."

"My father died in an accident ten years ago; that's the truth."

"Let's just pretend these past ten years were just a dream. Living with him made me realize how much he loves me."

"Mayu is my friend, so I can't let her throw a tantrum."

"This is too cruel. On one side is the life of her father, and on the other is the life of her best friend. Are we really going to leave this choice to Phyllis?"

Phyllis's father died before the D-mail was sent; sending the D-mail will cause Mayuri's death.

No matter what choice you make, there will always be people you love who leave.

"She's such a reasonable girl, that's wonderful..."

.....

Phyllis sent a text message.

The world line has shifted again.

To Ling Nai's disappointment, the IBM 5100 did not return.

"Are you kidding me...? In that case, we can only continue to withdraw D-mail, right?"

Ling gritted her teeth.

If we need to continue withdrawing...

What I was facing was Ruka Urushihara's D-mail.

This means that her current strategy will completely break away from the Urushihara Rukako route.

Once you withdraw and become male again, it will be impossible to enter that route again.

"Does that guy want me to choose between Mayuri and Rukako?"

"Ultimately, what does whether IBM 5100 comes back have to do with Ryuko?"

Ling Nai did not believe that there was any necessary relationship between the two.

After arriving in this timeline, Mayuri's death date was postponed by another day.

She discovered that Okabe could interact with Ruka Urushibara further, and they could even confirm their relationship.

So he began to date Ruka Urushihara extensively.

After spending four whole days alone together, my affection for him skyrocketed.

"No matter how you look at it, this character is so cute it's unfair."

Ling Nai really couldn't bear to part with Ruka Urushihara, and even considered giving up on saving Mayuri and going straight to the Ruka Urushihara END.

But just like Phyllis, under Okabe's influence, Ruka Urushihara also recalled her memories of another world line.

The disappearance of IBM5100 is indeed related to this role.