Tokyo: Oreimo

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After transforming into a woman, she broke a computer while cleaning the warehouse. Fearing her father's scolding, she hid it in an outside storage cabinet.

It had been sitting there for a year and a half, and as expected, the management company took it away as scrap.

"The butterfly effect... Because of the change in Ruka's gender, the IBM 5100 will definitely not reach Okabe's hands."

"As expected, turning back into a man is the only way..."

"This time, it's really over..."

"Being able to train with Okabe-san...that's wonderful."

"Please save Mayuri, she's... a very important friend to me."

"Haha, well, you'd better leave quickly, otherwise, I...I'm going to cry."

"So...please...thank you so much for everything you've done for me so far."

"By the way, shouldn't we say that code word at a time like this?"

"EL PSY Kongroo"

Ruka Urushihara was willing to give up her female identity in order to change Mayuri's fate.

However, Ling Nai herself fell into hesitation.

The scene on the screen is taking place inside a shrine.

She noticed the flashing red radio wave icon in the dialog box; the telephone microwave had been turned on.

"Sending a D-mail at this time would be effective. Should we send it...?"

If I don't post it, Masahiro will die; if I do post it...

Will you remember anything about me?

"Will you remember... me, someone you were only lovers with for four days?"

Looking at what Ruka Urushihara said on the screen, the girl wavered.

"Now, as long as you make a call to the microwave oven (tentative name), the information will be sent to the pager of Rukako's mother, who has not yet given birth."

She wanted to continue the conversation, but she knew she couldn't.

In that case...

If that happens, Mayuri will die.

"Damn it!!!"

Ling Nai pressed the button to send the D-mail while crying.

......

For the next two hours, Ling Nai continued to advance the game's storyline with a blank expression.

IBM5100 has not responded after withdrawing the text message from Ruka Urushihara.

She guessed that it must be related to the D-mail sent by Kiryu Moeka.

Ling Nai's favorability towards this woman had dropped to negative numbers, but after watching her storyline, her opinion changed somewhat.

Although they became annoying, I also felt a little sorry for them.

After all, he was the one being used.

"But I never expected it to be related to Mr. Brown. This uncle actually pretended to be a confidante and deceived people online. Although he had no choice, it's still disgusting."

At this point, all five D-mails have been successfully retracted.

Ling Nai finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Does this count as entering the Mayuri route, or the Assistant route?"

She was a little confused. She was being pushed along by the plot, making choices, and returning to the original timeline. Who would she end up with?

Along the way, we unlocked quite a few CGs related to Makise Kurisu.

To be honest, this genius young female scientist is really quite reliable, and Ling Nai sees some similarities between herself and her in her.

For example, a personality that is not frank.

"Could it be that he slipped some personal agenda into the creative process?"

Thinking of this, a slight blush appeared on the girl's face.

Sometimes, reading Makise Kurisu's lines gives her the illusion of looking in a mirror.

You can tell what the other person is going to say just by hearing them open their mouth.

"What a jerk, you bad guy."

Ling Nai spat, clearing her mind of the random thoughts, and glanced at the clock; it was already midnight.

"After finishing this part, let's go to bed early tonight."

She made up her mind.

After all, I haven't slept more than four hours a night for three consecutive days. Anyway, things should proceed smoothly until the end, right?

D-mail has been completely withdrawn, and the IBM 5100 has been returned to us.

Next, all that's needed is to delete the first captured message from the SERN database, and then it should be safe...

"Huh?"

Is it safe?

"The first D-mail? You mean that one, right? The one that said I'd been stabbed or something?"

“…”

Upon seeing Makise Kurisu deliver her lines on the screen, Ayano's hand holding the mouse froze.

She realized she had forgotten something very important.

"All D-mail services up to this point have been cancelled, restoring the world line to its original state..."

"That's a dystopian world where SERN rules, a world where Mayuri wouldn't exist..."

"But...on that world line..."

The original world line.

At the start of the game.

Rintaro Okabe will witness the death of Kurisu Makise.

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Chapter 220 Transparent Stardust (Combined Chapter)

The initial D-mail message read, "Makase Kurisu has been stabbed."

That text message was sent to the past, altering the timeline and allowing Makise Kurisu, who should have died, to live.

If you delete that text message.

"Makise Kurisu will die."

When Ling Nai said those words, her voice was so low that it was almost inaudible.

On the screen, Rintaro Okabe and Kurisu Makise are standing in the Lab's development room.

A flickering computer screen, a workbench piled high with parts, and in the corner, a futuristic device they call "telephone microwave oven (tentative)" Unit 8.

Everything was exactly the same as the game experience I had over the past few dozen hours.

But Ling Nai knew that this place would soon be different.

She clicked the mouse.

"What's wrong, Okabe? You look terrible."

Makise Kurisu's voice came from the speakers, with that unique tone of hers, where she was clearly worried but pretended not to care.

"....nothing."

Rintaro Okabe's answer was brief.

Ling Nai could see the expression on the face of the chuunibyou (middle school syndrome) man in the chat box.

In the character illustration, he has a furrowed brow, his white coat collar is turned up in a mess, and there are obvious dark circles under his eyes.

Having experienced Mayuri's death countless times and time jumps countless times, the exaggerated and comical madness that appeared at the beginning of the game was no longer visible on this man's face.

"Why does that guy have to torture people like this?"

From the moment Mayuri died for the first time, Ling Nai felt as if an invisible hand was controlling her, constantly forcing her to make choices.

Every choice you make will inevitably hurt other characters.

She has already paid too high a price to save Mayuri.

And now, it's just one step away from success.

But this is precisely the hurdle that is most unacceptable.

"The idea that in order to save Mayuri from her inevitable death, one must travel to the world line where Makise Kurisu dies..."

Ling had no choice.

She spent another hour trying.

The delay until Mayuri died again forced her to perform another time jump.

If you don't delete that text message, you'll fall into the same loop again.

The game deliberately forces players to face the cruel choice of "deleting D-mail will mean losing her" after they fall in love with the character.