Tokyo: Oreimo

Ryosuke, at the very very end, still manages to stab the player in the back.

Let Okabe kill the one he loves with his own hands...

"I'm sorry for dragging you into this."

In the end, Makise Kurisu never blamed Okabe Rintaro.

"I...don't want to die yet."

"I don't want to die yet..."

Ling Nai looked like a wilted eggplant, her eyes misty.

She watched as Rintaro Okabe was taken away by Rei Amane and returned to his era. Seeing his utterly despondent expression, she felt a pang of sadness.

"I... killed Kurisu..."

"I killed Kurisu... I killed Kurisu... I killed Kurisu..."

"Uncle, I know you're in pain, but you can't give up yet. There's still enough fuel left to go back in time once."

"Would going back in time really change things? According to the theory of world line convergence, even if we went back, the result would still be the same, right?"

Ling Naicai didn't want to experience what had just happened again.

If they go back again like this, they might unlock a new way for Makise Kurisu to die.

Just like Mayuri's death back then.

"I can't do it..."

"No matter how much she resists and struggles, the outcome will not change; Kurisu is destined to die."

"How could this be? Why did you give up after just one try..."

"Don't talk nonsense. Do you think I failed a few times, or dozens of times?"

Ling Nai was starting to not want to continue playing.

What she wants to do most right now is to run into Ryosuke's room and bite him hard as punishment for toying with her feelings.

"That guy, whether in reality or in a game, always likes to torture people like this. If I had known this would happen, I wouldn't have wasted so much energy searching for this final ending."

Ultimately, that arrogant guy wanted to close the loop in the β world line, right?

Is this to highlight the rigor of its own story logic?

Whether it was the arrival of the time machine, the scream that came out when she was holding Kurisu, or the metal whistle in the file folder.

These things all prove that Ryosuke, as the author, had already conceived of the ending at the beginning of the game, thus completing a perfect logical loop.

But Ling Nai continued playing because she still held onto a sliver of hope.

When faced with the choice of whether to continue, she simply couldn't bring herself to click the 'give up' option.

"What if, what if that guy has a change of heart and there's an Easter egg hidden in the end? We finally managed to get to this final route, so even if it's a bad ending, we have to watch it to the end."

"The more brutal the ending I foresee, the more ruthless I'll be when I bite that guy!"

Ling cursed and then clicked the "Continue Trying" button.

Immediately afterward, Amane Reiha interjected.

"You should have received an email with an attached video on July 28th, right? It should be playable now."

"Now that the operation to save Makise Kurisu has failed once..."

"What do you mean?"

Ling Nai stared blankly at the dialogue that appeared after she made her choice.

If there's anything that doesn't match up with my memories of the very beginning of the game, it's that email.

The purpose of that video filled with static has not yet been clearly explained.

"I'm sorry, Rintaro Okabe, I lied to you. Actually, failing once was part of the plan."

"Because this is the only way for my uncle to see this video."

"?"

Ling Nai was somewhat confused, but she still opened the email on her phone and clicked on the video as the other party instructed.

The video is no longer as blurry as before; a human figure can now be vaguely discerned.

The blonde girl paused for a moment.

She felt that the figure in the video looked very familiar.

and many more!and many more!

Could this be...?

A voice came through the video, a voice so familiar it was almost unmistakable.

"This is the first time we've met, me 15 years ago."

Chapter 224 Go Deceive

"The fact that you were able to open this letter means... the operation to save Kurisu has failed, hasn't it?"

Seeing this, Ling Nai felt like her scalp was about to explode.

The girl got goosebumps all over her body.

Was it all expected? Was everything planned?

In the β world line, 15 years later, does Rintaro Okabe foresee the failure of this operation?

Do not!

wrong!

This is not the case.

"I understand!"

After an extremely long game, Ling Nai realized almost instantly who was on the other side.

And why is it only now that we can see this video?

Because on the other side of the video is Rintaro Okabe, who has lived for 15 years after experiencing the pain of killing Makise Kurisu with his own hands.

It was precisely because of the first failed experience that the video sent by the other party conformed to the theory of spacetime and was able to be seen.

"That's why I said everything is going according to plan, the first time travel was destined to fail, and now it's just the beginning?"

"You must be in a lot of pain right now, but that pain is what gives me the motivation to keep going."

These words confirmed Ling Nai's guess.

"So this pain is the key to saving Makise Kurisu. Without this pain, the best ending wouldn't be possible?"

Yes, that's right, that's exactly it!

Ling Nai's eyes widened, and she trembled with excitement.

Saving Makise Kurisu will not be a simple matter; the price to pay for fighting against the convergence of world lines will be extremely heavy.

In order to overcome the barrier of the world line and save Mayuri, he paid the price of his assistant's death.

Saving his assistant now will certainly not be easy, no matter what.

But how do we do it?

I have absolutely no clue.

According to Awanyin, the time machine only has enough fuel for one round trip, which means they only have one chance left.

If you fail, there will be no second chance.

"This is like the preparation phase of a battle; now we can finally move into the core phase of the plan."

"It's a plan to save Makise Kurisu and enter Steins Gate."

Listen carefully, I'm only going to say this once.

"There are two conditions: one is that the paper on the time machine that Dr. Nakabachi took to Russia must disappear from this world."

"The other is successfully saving Makise Kurisu."

"But because the world lines are converging, it's impossible to avoid Makise Kurisu's death and change the past, right?"

"This guy is just being mysterious."

Ling Nai was almost cursing out loud.

Rather than saying that Okabe Rintaro 15 years from now will resemble this guy, it would be more accurate to say that he's just as wicked as Ryosuke.

Several lines of dialogue were just rambling nonsense.

The theory of world line convergence is something that no one needs to remind them of again; both Okabe Rintaro and Ayano are well aware of it.

Theoretically, it's impossible to save Makise Kurisu.

That's why young girls have expectations.

I hope this guy on the screen can come up with a completely new theory to overturn it; only that can do it.

But they insist on keeping people in suspense, which is really annoying.

"Let me be blunt, Kurisu can be saved, you're just using the wrong methods."

"Listen carefully, you must never change the established facts of what happened in the past, and you cannot erase what you saw at the beginning."

"Once you do that, the past will change, and you will lose everything."

"What do you mean?"

Ling Nai paused for a moment.

"Does not changing the established facts of the past mean doing nothing at all?"

"Wait, he said it's not possible to erase what I see...?"

What I saw...