She's Not Your Childhood Friend, She's Mine

Jingguang and Rei stumbled upon a damaged GalGame console by chance.

After finally repairing it, they went to great lengths to improve the heroine's attributes, which had plunged to rock bottom in the save file.

As the two of them played games late into the night, half asleep, they faintly heard a timid girl's voice:

[Will you abandon me?]

No.

[Can I come see you?]

Sure.

Thinking they were dreaming, they answered casually. But the next day, the game console vanished without a trace.

Some time later, the two of them spotted a familiar girl on the street.

She was wearing the cat-ear hoodie they had bought for her, and her perpetually rosy little face was as familiar as ever.

But she was standing on tiptoe, smiling sweetly at an unfamiliar boy with curly hair.

Jingguang/Rei: !!

Good news: Their 2D childhood friend has come to life.

Bad news: Some impostor they don't even know has stolen her away!

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As an ordinary high school boy, Matsuda's peaceful life was recently disrupted by a touch of the supernatural:

He somehow acquired a childhood friend who didn't exist, yet not a single person around him thought there was anything strange about it.

Forced to spend time with this girl of unknown origins, he finally learned the truth one day.

It turned out she was the heroine of a game he'd played before.

At the same time, one, two, three... several people suddenly appeared around him, obsessed with the game and insisting they were the true childhood friends who had grown up with the 2D girl.

Matsuda: ?

You people, this is ridiculous!

Don't you have childhood friends of your own?

Why are you trying to steal his?

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"Dokidoki: Growing Up with Your Childhood Friend" is a high-freedom GalGame featuring a brand-new character creation system, a wealth of branching storylines, and a blend of relationship-building and romance. Marketed as "Customize your very own childhood friend," it became an instant hit.

Matsuda's childhood friend recommended the game to him, but after getting the console, he lost interest within a couple of days and returned it.

Hagiwara took the console and spent a while playing seriously with Matsuda's old save file. But his good fortune didn't last: His family suddenly went bankrupt, and he sold the console to help make ends meet.

No one cared what the 2D girl thought.

Even when the girl inside the game console did everything she could to plead, "Don't leave me..."

She was still just a string of data.

After her save file was reset for the third time, Ise Komachi looked at the two boys peering curiously at her from outside the screen and decided she couldn't go on like this.

No one would ever truly cherish a 2D girl.

She decided to become human.

Theme: Sincerity deserves sincerity.