Also known as: A Dungeon? The Fourth Calamity Just Speedruns It / Doki-Doki Yokohama Romance
You played a holographic open-world game praised for its freedom and romance.
There was no main story, but it seemed your character had a rather complicated background...
The bedridden boss of the Port Mafia coveted your abilities.
A red-haired woman in a kimono seemed to protect you as if you were the child of an old friend.
A sharp-tongued man whose name you didn't know disliked you, feared your existence, and looked at your mother through you.
The boss's personal doctor was always giving you meaningful smiles, speaking in riddles you couldn't understand.
You: ? I don't understand any of this.
Why does it seem like everything has to do with me?
But... you seem to have skipped the opening story...
Later, you thought you were following a villain's script, only for those around you to rewrite it as a revenge story. In the end, you realized you were actually following the script of a beautiful, powerful, tragic character!
Though the game had no main story and focused on realism, large-scale DLCs based on your personal story would be released from time to time.
1. DLC: Bloodline Curse
It was raining that day, too.
From the moment you were born, I knew you were different. Later, like a curse, both your father and mother died.
Your parents shouldn't have been the ones to die that day.
“I curse you... to suffer... to regret... until you draw your last breath.”
2. DLC: Black Hole of Desire
Mashiro, what is the source of your power? Emotion, will, or desire?
Wanting to obtain something, or wanting to achieve something.
Remember, never surrender your reason to your desires, no matter what.
“Unable to control your ever-growing power, you slowly kill yourself.”
3. DLC: Overlapping Doors
“‘I’ and ‘I’ are expendable. Even if ‘I’ die, more of me will be made.”
“Indistinguishable, identical, highly replaceable individuals. Their maximum lifespan is five years, their minimum just three months. The purpose of ‘my’ existence is to be used to ensure humanity's continuation.”
“Without a self or emotions, they are merely replicas created from the doctor's longing and love for that person.”
Though he said he had no feelings or self, the boy in sacred robes pulled away the black cloth he usually wore over his eyes. Unlike the lifeless, ceramic eyes of the other artificial humans, his red eyes held a fresh light, and tears streamed down the face identical to the original's.
“This body is fake, but this heart is real.”
4. DLC: The Root of All Evil
“Every life is merely a despicable copy of those who came before.”
“Their births mean nothing in this cruel, oppressive world. I might as well send them off with my own hands.”
“But you are different. Everything about you is the root of all evil.”
At the time, the boy was still young. He spoke nonchalantly, while the world in his eyes was beyond saving: oppression, war, pain, hatred, death.
Theme: The true meaning of life
You shouldn't be cheating, right? ≥≤