The Dating Sim Gets a Bad Ending If You Don't Pay

One day, an app called Meet Your Guy appeared on Kanda Sawa's phone.

She thought it was some kind of virus and was about to uninstall it, but then she saw the character art.

White hair and blue eyes!

Oh yeah, she's going for it!

Once she opened the app, she found all kinds of handsome guys inside. Every last one of them was gorgeous.

She put on her full-dive headset and entered the game, full of anticipation.

First playthrough:

[The strongest sorcerer in the jujutsu world, the Six Eyes prodigy born to be heaven's favorite: Gojo Satoru.]

Kanda Sawa chose the white-haired guy who caught her eye as her target without hesitation.

She ignored the stats that required in-game purchases to improve at the start, so she began as a beautiful but useless girl, and Gojo Satoru treated her with cold indifference.

Every day, he either mocked her or ran her in circles. Watching how little he cared, Sawa gradually clenched her fists.

But since his affection was steadily increasing, she ultimately decided to forgive him.

Then, during a mission, she was attacked by a cursed spirit and died on the spot.

Gojo Satoru was nowhere to be seen at her grave. Only her two classmates were there to mourn her.

Bad ending unlocked: [Weakness Is a Sin]

...Is it really okay for a romance game to be this deadly?

Second playthrough:

[One of the jujutsu world's strongest, a special-grade sorcerer with Cursed Spirit Manipulation: Geto Suguru.]

Heartbroken by the white-haired guy, Sawa chose Geto Suguru, the one who had mourned her, as her second target.

This time, Sawa tentatively bought the introductory offer and raised most of her stats to a reasonable level. Seeing her rating as a Grade 2 sorcerer, she nodded in satisfaction.

This time, it should go fine!

Just as she was brimming with confidence and getting ready to confess...

[Geto slaughtered a village and has defected.] Her previous target said, his face dark with anger.

Kanda Sawa: ?

Not only had she become an enemy of her target overnight, but, still reeling from the news, she was nearly killed by a special-grade cursed spirit that suddenly appeared on a mission.

With her last glimpse, she seemed to see Geto Suguru running toward her.

Sawa quietly shed a tear, then died all over again.

Bad ending unlocked: [Two Who Passed Each Other By]

Third playthrough:

Hardheaded Sawa ignored the in-game purchase pop-ups without a word and set all her stats to average.

Worn out from being put through the wringer by the two strongest sorcerers, Sawa turned her attention to the Yokohama route.

[An apparently flighty and unreliable suicide maniac, but in truth a deep thinker who knows the whole script: Dazai Osamu.]

Dazai Osamu was even harder to win over than Gojo Satoru. His smile never reached his eyes, making him impossible to read, and Sawa's pursuit of him was an emotional ordeal.

Just as hope seemed within reach, disaster struck.

“That bastard Dazai defected. We can't find him anywhere. Are you... all right?” Her friend Nakahara Chuuya, who was always frustrated with her for not getting her act together, came to comfort her.

Sawa: ? This feels strangely familiar.

Sure enough, she was ultimately caught up in the conspiracy of the scriptwriters. How could a human body withstand every injury?

She lay in a pool of blood, barely clinging to life. A frantic figure appeared through her blurred vision.

She must have been seeing things. How could that heartless bastard Dazai Osamu grieve over her death?

Bad ending unlocked: [Feelings Left Unspoken]

Fourth playthrough:

Fine, so that's how you want to play it? She refused to believe she couldn't get through the game without paying!

In a fit of despair, Sawa ignored the options to purchase all sorts of skills and entered the game again.

[The incarnation of Arahabaki who descended upon Suribachi City, seemingly fierce but actually gentle and dependable, the gravity manipulator: Nakahara Chuuya.]

With her previous experience, Sawa decided to stay away from dangerous places. Just as their feelings were heating up and they were on the verge of a happy ending, Chuuya went on a business trip, and an enemy faction captured her.

Sawa: Not again?

They used her to threaten him into handing over the organization's secrets, but Nakahara Chuuya met their eyes and said nothing.

Sawa's eyes went dead. She'd had enough. She couldn't play this awful game anymore!

To everyone's shock, she snatched the gun from her captor's hand and chose to take her own life.

Just before her consciousness faded, she saw Nakahara Chuuya reaching out to her.

Maybe she was seeing things. How could the person most loyal to the organization and its leader shed tears for her?

Bad ending unlocked: [Happiness Is the Most Precious Thing]

After exiting the game, Sawa angrily splurged on in-game purchases and bought everything she could.

Stats of 99 and higher, cards like [Resurrection of the Dead] and [Breath of the Great Angel], and all kinds of skills: she got the lot.

And then... she quit the game.

Bet you didn't see that coming. I refuse to play!

Exhausted, Sawa closed her eyes, ready to get some proper rest. But when she opened them again, she was stunned.

The strange creatures wandering the streets and the news report about a massive shootout in Yokohama were all eerily familiar.

Sawa: No way. Was it not enough for the game to torture me? Now reality wants me dead too?

Luckily, everything she had bought in the game had become real, but Sawa had no time to pay attention to that.

The men she'd pursued in the game had come to the real world too, and every one of them remembered her dying.

[Help! All my targets claim they're her boyfriend. What do I do?]

Theme: Break out of your cocoon and become a butterfly