Watanabe Ryo was once invited to beta-test an all-orientations dating sim, and tried to win over every character in it.
After successfully winning them all, he left this review:
"A lot of freedom, and the characters are beautiful. Maybe a little too much freedom, though. Raising everyone's affection is a real grind. I suggest lowering the difficulty and adding a save system."
The review went viral.
Every player was looking forward to this dating sim, which was rumored to be astonishingly realistic.
Now that the game has entered open beta, the company thanked Watanabe Ryo by gifting him the complete game and a deluxe bonus pack.
Watanabe Ryo, who usually only played a game once: All right, since you're all being so enthusiastic about it...
I'll graciously take a look and see how the open beta differs from the closed beta.
*
Fushiguro Toji had a new sugar daddy.
His benefactor was young, looked like a student, and would occasionally give Toji a shy smile.
At first, Fushiguro Toji thought they were each getting what they wanted: he got money, and his benefactor got sex. When the money ran out, Toji would walk away without a second thought.
Later...
The Sorcerer Killer held a knife in front of Watanabe Ryo, who was about to end their arrangement. "What, is that guy back? Are you about to throw me away like a dog?"
Watanabe Ryo, who was about to confess his feelings and make their relationship official: ?
Who are you talking about?
Could it be that he prefers this unhealthy sugar-baby arrangement to romance?
[Fushiguro Toji (bad ending):
Ill-timed love and hate
His only shred of pride made him love him, and that same shred of pride made him hate him.]
*
The new transfer student had a nasty temper. He injured sixteen students in three days and became the school's new top bully.
One day, as a bullied boy was being shoved into a trash can, he suddenly heard a clear voice.
"Hey, get up."
The lid opened, and he saw a hand reaching out to him.
Pale and slender.
Adorned with jewels and jade he had never seen before.
The gems glimmered brilliantly, too dazzling to look at. He didn't dare take the hand, and fled in a panic.
Later...
The cursed spirit's muttering became his own. Blood spattered across the room stained his boots. Now a sorcerer, the boy smiled and, as he had so many times before, bent down to kiss the jewels on his knuckles.
"Now I'm even more like him, aren't I?"
Watanabe Ryo, who had simply been passing by when a cursed spirit ambushed him: ?
Like who?
Didn't he just change his approach to winning him over?
[Okkotsu Yuta (bad ending):
Love is the most twisted curse
Fall in love with me. Fall in love with the real me.]
*
When Nakahara Chuuya first joined the Port Mafia, his guide was a surprisingly kind gentleman.
He had a pair of melancholy, sea-blue eyes. When he cried, it was like raindrops gathering in the sky: not a storm, and not a sound, just ripples spreading across a once-peaceful lake, never to cease.
Who was he crying for?
A boy who had joined the Port Mafia at the same time as Nakahara Chuuya propped up his cheek and said, "Watanabe, huh..."
"I hear that a long, long time ago, he had a good friend with red hair."
"And then?"
The boy's amber eyes flickered. Only after getting a good deal out of Nakahara Chuuya did he leisurely continue:
"Then..."
"The previous boss ordered the red-haired child to be killed."
[Nakahara Chuuya (bad ending):
A tender shoot receives the dew, then grows into a jade pavilion's grace.
The old sword lies hidden in a dark case, the new plum weeps over old scars. At last, I see the reflection in autumn waters: it is not the person in the painting.]
*
Oda Sakunosuke found someone by the river.
A child unlike Dazai, yet also searching for something in the darkness.
He was a child.
A child who saw him as salvation.
...He was only a child.
[Oda Sakunosuke (bad ending):
The words in the book are not mine, and the person in your eyes is not my soul.
Your heart sinks into a shadow a thousand fathoms deep, while I remain but frost in a mirror.]
# All the setting details are in service of the romance. Apologies for the out-of-character moments.
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