Shibou End o Kaihi Shita Gyaruge no Heroine-tachi ga Ore no [Nikkichou] o Yonde Himitsu o Shittarashii - Ch. 2
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Welp, Satoshi is out here working his ass off for the 4 heroines, but Yuuto is literally just acting like a trash NPC. This right here is the turning point where the 4 heroines finally turn against Yuuto
I'll share Summary Light Novel Volume 3 here, WARNING : Please Don't Click if you Hate Spoiler. I Splitting this into 2 parts since it won't fit in 1 comment. here for part 1 =
Point: Plot twist after plot twist keeps coming in this volume. Satoshi and the four heroines turn out to still not be fully free from Love or Dead. Hibise and Sano are actually the two writers behind the game, each trying to win over the person they love. After Sano gets killed, a 5th route forces Shino, Shuna, Satsuki, and Reine to die and move on to the next world with no memories. Satoshi chooses to die alongside Hibise so he can follow them back to their high school days. But Sano also shows up with his old memories intact, determined to claim all the heroines for himself. Now Satoshi, with Hibise's help, wants to destroy Love or Dead for good.
Character:
MC: Iriya Satoshi
Heroine1: Saionji Satsuki (Pink)
Heroine2: Kitagawa Reine (Silver)
Heroine3: Nanjou Shuna (Brown)
Heroine4: Shinonome Shino (Black)
Heroine5: Harusora Hibise (Yellow)
Other: Original Protag: Sano Yuuto
Note: Game LOD (Love or Death)
★ It's summer, right as college finals wrap up. Walking out of campus with Hibise, who's already done with her exams while Satoshi still has one left, she excitedly invites him out for celebratory drinks. He turns her down, still exhausted from her showing up the night before demanding math tutoring and basically stealing his sleep. She shows zero remorse, treating "studying" as just an excuse to be near him.
★ Hibise wears glasses she doesn't actually need, more of a lucky charm than anything. Their cheerful exchange looks like a normal senior junior chat, but their relationship's just been through something huge.
★ About two weeks earlier, Satoshi got suspicious Hibise was directly tied to the Love or Dead mystery, since she knew things she shouldn't after the "world's forcing power" wiped everyone's memories. After hearing her out, though, he realized she'd been a victim of that world too.
★ Back in high school, she'd stuck by him through his fear of death, confessed her feelings, been through everything with him, but all of Satoshi's memories of her got erased. When they met again, he treated her like a stranger. He can't force those memories back, and doesn't want to push her away either, so he tells her to do whatever she wants. Hibise decides she'll chase him all over again from scratch, no matter how annoyed he gets.
★ While she's talking about plans to celebrate his recovery, Satsuki, Reine, Shuna, and Shino show up. Satsuki grabs and restrains her, reminding her she's only tolerated as Satoshi's friend, one percent pity, one percent for his sake, ninety eight percent pure generosity on their part.
★ They have good reason to keep suspecting her, she'd once challenged them for a spot by his side and failed so badly she had to apologize on her knees. Since then she's allowed to visit, just never as his girlfriend. But she shows up almost daily, eating into their time with him. Shino calls it flat out stealing someone else's partner. Satsuki warns they won't stay quiet if Hibise crosses the line.
★ Turns out none of the four actually took their exams, graduating doesn't matter to them, what they want is to just keep living with Satoshi forever, they'd honestly prefer he drop out and lock himself away with them instead.
★ They suggest a mountain inn trip to celebrate his recovery. Before he decides, Satsuki kisses him and slips sleeping pills into his mouth. The last thing he sees before blacking out is their satisfied faces.
★ He dreams himself lying on the road outside his old high school, right arm injured, all four heroines staring down at him with cold, judgmental eyes, like he's about to be thrown away. He reaches for something despite the pain, Satsuki asks what he's looking for, but he wakes up before answering, the dream fading into an uneasy feeling he can't explain.
★ He wakes up already at a traditional inn, realizing the "trip" never actually gave him a choice, they'd drugged and dragged him there. Hibise's there too, tied to a pole facing him, brought specifically so the four heroines can show her the difference in status, refusing to accept that her high school bond with Satoshi means anything more just because it came first.
★ Kidnapped and restrained, Satoshi watches Satsuki, Reine, Shuna, and Shino start having sex with him right in front of Hibise. He resists at first but eventually gives in, holding them close and enjoying it too. It goes all night into the morning, leaving him totally drained, like Hibise says, burned down to white ash. Even the girls admit they went overboard.
★ They press Hibise again to give up, promising she can still stick around if she accepts being just a friend. She refuses, vowing she'll flip the script someday and prove her bond with Satoshi runs deeper than they think. Flustered, she blurts that maybe they should keep sleeping with him so she can "learn how it's done," which makes them suspect she secretly enjoys watching. She denies it, but her reflection shows embarrassment, near tears, and excitement all at once, she can't look away either.
★ After that, the four plan to swim at the river, on Shinonome property so there's basically no other tourists. Satoshi's out cold, so Hibise fakes a stomachache to stay behind, sending the others ahead. Once alone, she leans in to kiss his sleeping face, but Reine's voice stops her, she'd come back for a forgotten book. Hibise claims she needed the bathroom, but Reine points out it's in the lobby, the others had already caught the lie and rock paper scissored who'd drag her to the river.
★ Annoyed, Hibise retaliates by mimicking clingy Reine, revealing the usually cold girl actually loves asking for kisses, refuses sleeping far from Satoshi, and talks in a baby voice around people she's closest with. Hibise also exposes that Reine secretly adores the other three, complimenting sleeping Satsuki's face and kissing her, loving Shuna's soft body, treating Shino like a cute doll. Reine turns red trying to shut her up.
★ They chase each other until Reine pins her down. Cornered, Hibise accidentally calls her "Rei-nee," a name that stops them both cold, Reine never lets anyone that close, yet weirdly it doesn't anger her, just triggers unexplainable familiarity. Reine asks about their past, Hibise backpedals claiming it was a slip. Reine doesn't fully believe her, still sees her as an enemy, but admits she can't truly hate her either, even offering friendship, though never girlfriend status. Hibise refuses, insisting she only wants Satoshi. Reine says she's cute anyway and asks to kiss her, panicking Hibise since she wants to save her first kiss for Satoshi.
★ Satoshi wakes up right as they're super close, misreads it as Reine preferring Hibise, and looking lonely, says he doesn't mind them getting close but asks Reine not to leave him. That misunderstanding triggers her possessive side, declaring she only loves Satoshi and dragging him back into sex to prove it, even though he hasn't recovered from earlier.
★ Hibise finally gets taken to the river. Satsuki, waiting in a white bikini, asks why she looks upset, and hears Reine drained Satoshi's stamina again, breaking their agreement to let him rest. Once alone with Hibise, Satsuki notices Reine's guard dropped and wants to know why, but shifts to something else entirely, that Hibise knows who wrote LoD but never told Satoshi.
★ Hibise claims the search for that "person" is just an excuse to keep spending time with him, since being forgotten, LoD's the only reason he's still willing to hang out with her. Not entirely a lie, but she's still hiding the important part. Satsuki warns she'll destroy her if she touches Satoshi, then hits her insecurity by asking where she actually ranks among his four women, Reine's prettier, Shuna's gentler, Shino's smarter, calling Satsuki just ordinary, only ahead because she knew Sano longest. It hits a nerve, Satsuki's always feared being the most unremarkable, but fires back that Hibise herself got rejected despite knowing him even longer. Their fight turns into mutual mockery.
★ Hibise accuses her of gaining weight, Satsuki dares her to check, she pinches hard but finds nothing until it actually hurts. Satsuki retaliates gripping her waist, claiming Hibise's body's actually softer. When Satsuki blows on her ear, Hibise reacts hard, flustered enough to accidentally call her "Satsuki-chan," another forgotten nickname from their past. Before Satsuki can dig further, Satoshi shows up, Hibise clings to him complaining about Satsuki, leaving another clue behind about their history.
★ Next Hibise runs into Shuna, distracted by her revealing swimsuit and gropes her chest. Shuna just smiles, giving her a few seconds before grabbing her head once the jokes get too dirty. Sitting by the river after being tossed in, their chat turns serious when Shuna says the "always kind Saint" image is just something others invented, she's done playing the personality assigned to her.
★ That reveals Shuna already suspects who Hibise is, noticing she's always known exactly how to push each heroine's buttons, when to anger them, redirect attention, or back off, wearing down their guard bit by bit. Only someone who knows their entire "profile" could do that so precisely. Shuna suspects Hibise helped create their characters, but wants to understand why she never used that knowledge to steal Satoshi from the start.
★ The talk also reveals Shuna's own change, she used to force herself to be perfectly kind, but people kept exploiting it. Living with Satoshi and the others, she chose to stop being perfect, deliberately acting spoiled and high maintenance, trusting they won't leave her over it. Hibise calls that extreme, saying Shuna's always been way too much, calling her "Captain Shuna," another slip revealing forbidden closeness. Shuna catches it and starts asking questions.
★ To escape, Hibise yells for Satoshi and rats out Shuna's massive gambling losses and in game overspending. He hears everything nearby and scolds her, letting Hibise slip away to find Shino.
★ Upstream, she finds a ten meter waterfall where Shino's meditating naked, feeling swimsuits block her from nature. Hibise's about to tell her to dress when Shino throws a knife past her face, cutting some hair, only to reveal she'd just saved her from a venomous snake behind her. Shino kills it calmly to make a stamina potion for Satoshi, treating naked snake killing in the mountains like a normal Tuesday.
★ Once dressed, their talk turns heavier. Shino asks if killing "that thing" was a mistake, and whether killing Hibise too would solve everything. Realizing she can't fool Shino, Hibise admits she and someone else, in a past life, created these characters. Shino counters there's no way to know who came first, whether they created her, or just copied the real Shino.
★ Shino also confirms she's the one who directly killed Sano, since his existence would keep threatening Satoshi and dragging them back into LoD. She chose to be the killer, believing she's the most capable of carrying that guilt without cracking, not wanting Satsuki, Reine, or Shuna to bear it since they're "too human" and might slip up when emotional. She sees herself as the least human of them all.
★ Asked if she prefers being alone, Shino says the other three matter deeply, but she still sees them as people to protect rather than true equals, even Satoshi, since his edge comes from past life knowledge while she believes her own genius stands on its own. Knowing exactly who Hibise is and how dangerous she could be, Shino doesn't plan to kill her, understanding her death wouldn't stop the world's power anyway, choosing to just watch instead. She shifts back to the potion talk and pulls Satoshi into sex the moment he and Shuna arrive, forcing Hibise to watch again.
★ The trip reveals all four heroines feel a strange connection to Hibise, no shared memories, yet their bodies and emotions react like she'd once been part of the group, while she keeps trying to play the rival role, unconsciously slipping into old nicknames anyway.
★ Afterward, Satoshi keeps investigating who created LoD, since the game mirrors their real lives too closely, same looks, personalities, events, relationships, only the names differ. He notices only Hibise stays unaffected by the world's memory wiping power, which leads him to suspect she's the writer standing outside the rules.
★ At his apartment, he asks if she still wants to find the long missing Sano. She says that's not really important, and he directly calls her the LoD writer, shocking her enough to drop her phone. He explains only someone watching them up close could write something this detailed, and only an unaffected observer could be a creator.
★ Hibise finally confesses, taking him to a park before the girls get home, and shows him a notebook written in his own handwriting. It's a full LoD walkthrough, affection triggers, event timing, and the path to the harem route, a "guidebook" he'd once given her, which she used as material for writing Love or Dead.
Character:
MC: Iriya Satoshi
Heroine1: Saionji Satsuki (Pink)
Heroine2: Kitagawa Reine (Silver)
Heroine3: Nanjou Shuna (Brown)
Heroine4: Shinonome Shino (Black)
Heroine5: Harusora Hibise (Yellow)
Other: Original Protag: Sano Yuuto
Note: Game LOD (Love or Death)
★ It's summer, right as college finals wrap up. Walking out of campus with Hibise, who's already done with her exams while Satoshi still has one left, she excitedly invites him out for celebratory drinks. He turns her down, still exhausted from her showing up the night before demanding math tutoring and basically stealing his sleep. She shows zero remorse, treating "studying" as just an excuse to be near him.
★ Hibise wears glasses she doesn't actually need, more of a lucky charm than anything. Their cheerful exchange looks like a normal senior junior chat, but their relationship's just been through something huge.
★ About two weeks earlier, Satoshi got suspicious Hibise was directly tied to the Love or Dead mystery, since she knew things she shouldn't after the "world's forcing power" wiped everyone's memories. After hearing her out, though, he realized she'd been a victim of that world too.
★ Back in high school, she'd stuck by him through his fear of death, confessed her feelings, been through everything with him, but all of Satoshi's memories of her got erased. When they met again, he treated her like a stranger. He can't force those memories back, and doesn't want to push her away either, so he tells her to do whatever she wants. Hibise decides she'll chase him all over again from scratch, no matter how annoyed he gets.
★ While she's talking about plans to celebrate his recovery, Satsuki, Reine, Shuna, and Shino show up. Satsuki grabs and restrains her, reminding her she's only tolerated as Satoshi's friend, one percent pity, one percent for his sake, ninety eight percent pure generosity on their part.
★ They have good reason to keep suspecting her, she'd once challenged them for a spot by his side and failed so badly she had to apologize on her knees. Since then she's allowed to visit, just never as his girlfriend. But she shows up almost daily, eating into their time with him. Shino calls it flat out stealing someone else's partner. Satsuki warns they won't stay quiet if Hibise crosses the line.
★ Turns out none of the four actually took their exams, graduating doesn't matter to them, what they want is to just keep living with Satoshi forever, they'd honestly prefer he drop out and lock himself away with them instead.
★ They suggest a mountain inn trip to celebrate his recovery. Before he decides, Satsuki kisses him and slips sleeping pills into his mouth. The last thing he sees before blacking out is their satisfied faces.
★ He dreams himself lying on the road outside his old high school, right arm injured, all four heroines staring down at him with cold, judgmental eyes, like he's about to be thrown away. He reaches for something despite the pain, Satsuki asks what he's looking for, but he wakes up before answering, the dream fading into an uneasy feeling he can't explain.
★ He wakes up already at a traditional inn, realizing the "trip" never actually gave him a choice, they'd drugged and dragged him there. Hibise's there too, tied to a pole facing him, brought specifically so the four heroines can show her the difference in status, refusing to accept that her high school bond with Satoshi means anything more just because it came first.
★ Kidnapped and restrained, Satoshi watches Satsuki, Reine, Shuna, and Shino start having sex with him right in front of Hibise. He resists at first but eventually gives in, holding them close and enjoying it too. It goes all night into the morning, leaving him totally drained, like Hibise says, burned down to white ash. Even the girls admit they went overboard.
★ They press Hibise again to give up, promising she can still stick around if she accepts being just a friend. She refuses, vowing she'll flip the script someday and prove her bond with Satoshi runs deeper than they think. Flustered, she blurts that maybe they should keep sleeping with him so she can "learn how it's done," which makes them suspect she secretly enjoys watching. She denies it, but her reflection shows embarrassment, near tears, and excitement all at once, she can't look away either.
★ After that, the four plan to swim at the river, on Shinonome property so there's basically no other tourists. Satoshi's out cold, so Hibise fakes a stomachache to stay behind, sending the others ahead. Once alone, she leans in to kiss his sleeping face, but Reine's voice stops her, she'd come back for a forgotten book. Hibise claims she needed the bathroom, but Reine points out it's in the lobby, the others had already caught the lie and rock paper scissored who'd drag her to the river.
★ Annoyed, Hibise retaliates by mimicking clingy Reine, revealing the usually cold girl actually loves asking for kisses, refuses sleeping far from Satoshi, and talks in a baby voice around people she's closest with. Hibise also exposes that Reine secretly adores the other three, complimenting sleeping Satsuki's face and kissing her, loving Shuna's soft body, treating Shino like a cute doll. Reine turns red trying to shut her up.
★ They chase each other until Reine pins her down. Cornered, Hibise accidentally calls her "Rei-nee," a name that stops them both cold, Reine never lets anyone that close, yet weirdly it doesn't anger her, just triggers unexplainable familiarity. Reine asks about their past, Hibise backpedals claiming it was a slip. Reine doesn't fully believe her, still sees her as an enemy, but admits she can't truly hate her either, even offering friendship, though never girlfriend status. Hibise refuses, insisting she only wants Satoshi. Reine says she's cute anyway and asks to kiss her, panicking Hibise since she wants to save her first kiss for Satoshi.
★ Satoshi wakes up right as they're super close, misreads it as Reine preferring Hibise, and looking lonely, says he doesn't mind them getting close but asks Reine not to leave him. That misunderstanding triggers her possessive side, declaring she only loves Satoshi and dragging him back into sex to prove it, even though he hasn't recovered from earlier.
★ Hibise finally gets taken to the river. Satsuki, waiting in a white bikini, asks why she looks upset, and hears Reine drained Satoshi's stamina again, breaking their agreement to let him rest. Once alone with Hibise, Satsuki notices Reine's guard dropped and wants to know why, but shifts to something else entirely, that Hibise knows who wrote LoD but never told Satoshi.
★ Hibise claims the search for that "person" is just an excuse to keep spending time with him, since being forgotten, LoD's the only reason he's still willing to hang out with her. Not entirely a lie, but she's still hiding the important part. Satsuki warns she'll destroy her if she touches Satoshi, then hits her insecurity by asking where she actually ranks among his four women, Reine's prettier, Shuna's gentler, Shino's smarter, calling Satsuki just ordinary, only ahead because she knew Sano longest. It hits a nerve, Satsuki's always feared being the most unremarkable, but fires back that Hibise herself got rejected despite knowing him even longer. Their fight turns into mutual mockery.
★ Hibise accuses her of gaining weight, Satsuki dares her to check, she pinches hard but finds nothing until it actually hurts. Satsuki retaliates gripping her waist, claiming Hibise's body's actually softer. When Satsuki blows on her ear, Hibise reacts hard, flustered enough to accidentally call her "Satsuki-chan," another forgotten nickname from their past. Before Satsuki can dig further, Satoshi shows up, Hibise clings to him complaining about Satsuki, leaving another clue behind about their history.
★ Next Hibise runs into Shuna, distracted by her revealing swimsuit and gropes her chest. Shuna just smiles, giving her a few seconds before grabbing her head once the jokes get too dirty. Sitting by the river after being tossed in, their chat turns serious when Shuna says the "always kind Saint" image is just something others invented, she's done playing the personality assigned to her.
★ That reveals Shuna already suspects who Hibise is, noticing she's always known exactly how to push each heroine's buttons, when to anger them, redirect attention, or back off, wearing down their guard bit by bit. Only someone who knows their entire "profile" could do that so precisely. Shuna suspects Hibise helped create their characters, but wants to understand why she never used that knowledge to steal Satoshi from the start.
★ The talk also reveals Shuna's own change, she used to force herself to be perfectly kind, but people kept exploiting it. Living with Satoshi and the others, she chose to stop being perfect, deliberately acting spoiled and high maintenance, trusting they won't leave her over it. Hibise calls that extreme, saying Shuna's always been way too much, calling her "Captain Shuna," another slip revealing forbidden closeness. Shuna catches it and starts asking questions.
★ To escape, Hibise yells for Satoshi and rats out Shuna's massive gambling losses and in game overspending. He hears everything nearby and scolds her, letting Hibise slip away to find Shino.
★ Upstream, she finds a ten meter waterfall where Shino's meditating naked, feeling swimsuits block her from nature. Hibise's about to tell her to dress when Shino throws a knife past her face, cutting some hair, only to reveal she'd just saved her from a venomous snake behind her. Shino kills it calmly to make a stamina potion for Satoshi, treating naked snake killing in the mountains like a normal Tuesday.
★ Once dressed, their talk turns heavier. Shino asks if killing "that thing" was a mistake, and whether killing Hibise too would solve everything. Realizing she can't fool Shino, Hibise admits she and someone else, in a past life, created these characters. Shino counters there's no way to know who came first, whether they created her, or just copied the real Shino.
★ Shino also confirms she's the one who directly killed Sano, since his existence would keep threatening Satoshi and dragging them back into LoD. She chose to be the killer, believing she's the most capable of carrying that guilt without cracking, not wanting Satsuki, Reine, or Shuna to bear it since they're "too human" and might slip up when emotional. She sees herself as the least human of them all.
★ Asked if she prefers being alone, Shino says the other three matter deeply, but she still sees them as people to protect rather than true equals, even Satoshi, since his edge comes from past life knowledge while she believes her own genius stands on its own. Knowing exactly who Hibise is and how dangerous she could be, Shino doesn't plan to kill her, understanding her death wouldn't stop the world's power anyway, choosing to just watch instead. She shifts back to the potion talk and pulls Satoshi into sex the moment he and Shuna arrive, forcing Hibise to watch again.
★ The trip reveals all four heroines feel a strange connection to Hibise, no shared memories, yet their bodies and emotions react like she'd once been part of the group, while she keeps trying to play the rival role, unconsciously slipping into old nicknames anyway.
★ Afterward, Satoshi keeps investigating who created LoD, since the game mirrors their real lives too closely, same looks, personalities, events, relationships, only the names differ. He notices only Hibise stays unaffected by the world's memory wiping power, which leads him to suspect she's the writer standing outside the rules.
★ At his apartment, he asks if she still wants to find the long missing Sano. She says that's not really important, and he directly calls her the LoD writer, shocking her enough to drop her phone. He explains only someone watching them up close could write something this detailed, and only an unaffected observer could be a creator.
★ Hibise finally confesses, taking him to a park before the girls get home, and shows him a notebook written in his own handwriting. It's a full LoD walkthrough, affection triggers, event timing, and the path to the harem route, a "guidebook" he'd once given her, which she used as material for writing Love or Dead.
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I know that you are reading and commenting on quite literally every manga here, but are you reading every novel as well?Welp, Satoshi is out here working his ass off for the 4 heroines, but Yuuto is literally just acting like a trash NPC. This right here is the turning point where the 4 heroines finally turn against Yuuto
I'll share Summary Light Novel Volume 3 here, WARNING : Please Don't Click if you Hate Spoiler. I Splitting this into 2 parts since it won't fit in 1 comment. here for part 1 =
Point: Plot twist after plot twist keeps coming in this volume. Satoshi and the four heroines turn out to still not be fully free from Love or Dead. Hibise and Sano are actually the two writers behind the game, each trying to win over the person they love. After Sano gets killed, a 5th route forces Shino, Shuna, Satsuki, and Reine to die and move on to the next world with no memories. Satoshi chooses to die alongside Hibise so he can follow them back to their high school days. But Sano also shows up with his old memories intact, determined to claim all the heroines for himself. Now Satoshi, with Hibise's help, wants to destroy Love or Dead for good.
Character:
MC: Iriya Satoshi
Heroine1: Saionji Satsuki (Pink)
Heroine2: Kitagawa Reine (Silver)
Heroine3: Nanjou Shuna (Brown)
Heroine4: Shinonome Shino (Black)
Heroine5: Harusora Hibise (Yellow)
Other: Original Protag: Sano Yuuto
Note: Game LOD (Love or Death)
★ It's summer, right as college finals wrap up. Walking out of campus with Hibise, who's already done with her exams while Satoshi still has one left, she excitedly invites him out for celebratory drinks. He turns her down, still exhausted from her showing up the night before demanding math tutoring and basically stealing his sleep. She shows zero remorse, treating "studying" as just an excuse to be near him.
★ Hibise wears glasses she doesn't actually need, more of a lucky charm than anything. Their cheerful exchange looks like a normal senior junior chat, but their relationship's just been through something huge.
★ About two weeks earlier, Satoshi got suspicious Hibise was directly tied to the Love or Dead mystery, since she knew things she shouldn't after the "world's forcing power" wiped everyone's memories. After hearing her out, though, he realized she'd been a victim of that world too.
★ Back in high school, she'd stuck by him through his fear of death, confessed her feelings, been through everything with him, but all of Satoshi's memories of her got erased. When they met again, he treated her like a stranger. He can't force those memories back, and doesn't want to push her away either, so he tells her to do whatever she wants. Hibise decides she'll chase him all over again from scratch, no matter how annoyed he gets.
★ While she's talking about plans to celebrate his recovery, Satsuki, Reine, Shuna, and Shino show up. Satsuki grabs and restrains her, reminding her she's only tolerated as Satoshi's friend, one percent pity, one percent for his sake, ninety eight percent pure generosity on their part.
★ They have good reason to keep suspecting her, she'd once challenged them for a spot by his side and failed so badly she had to apologize on her knees. Since then she's allowed to visit, just never as his girlfriend. But she shows up almost daily, eating into their time with him. Shino calls it flat out stealing someone else's partner. Satsuki warns they won't stay quiet if Hibise crosses the line.
★ Turns out none of the four actually took their exams, graduating doesn't matter to them, what they want is to just keep living with Satoshi forever, they'd honestly prefer he drop out and lock himself away with them instead.
★ They suggest a mountain inn trip to celebrate his recovery. Before he decides, Satsuki kisses him and slips sleeping pills into his mouth. The last thing he sees before blacking out is their satisfied faces.
★ He dreams himself lying on the road outside his old high school, right arm injured, all four heroines staring down at him with cold, judgmental eyes, like he's about to be thrown away. He reaches for something despite the pain, Satsuki asks what he's looking for, but he wakes up before answering, the dream fading into an uneasy feeling he can't explain.
★ He wakes up already at a traditional inn, realizing the "trip" never actually gave him a choice, they'd drugged and dragged him there. Hibise's there too, tied to a pole facing him, brought specifically so the four heroines can show her the difference in status, refusing to accept that her high school bond with Satoshi means anything more just because it came first.
★ Kidnapped and restrained, Satoshi watches Satsuki, Reine, Shuna, and Shino start having sex with him right in front of Hibise. He resists at first but eventually gives in, holding them close and enjoying it too. It goes all night into the morning, leaving him totally drained, like Hibise says, burned down to white ash. Even the girls admit they went overboard.
★ They press Hibise again to give up, promising she can still stick around if she accepts being just a friend. She refuses, vowing she'll flip the script someday and prove her bond with Satoshi runs deeper than they think. Flustered, she blurts that maybe they should keep sleeping with him so she can "learn how it's done," which makes them suspect she secretly enjoys watching. She denies it, but her reflection shows embarrassment, near tears, and excitement all at once, she can't look away either.
★ After that, the four plan to swim at the river, on Shinonome property so there's basically no other tourists. Satoshi's out cold, so Hibise fakes a stomachache to stay behind, sending the others ahead. Once alone, she leans in to kiss his sleeping face, but Reine's voice stops her, she'd come back for a forgotten book. Hibise claims she needed the bathroom, but Reine points out it's in the lobby, the others had already caught the lie and rock paper scissored who'd drag her to the river.
★ Annoyed, Hibise retaliates by mimicking clingy Reine, revealing the usually cold girl actually loves asking for kisses, refuses sleeping far from Satoshi, and talks in a baby voice around people she's closest with. Hibise also exposes that Reine secretly adores the other three, complimenting sleeping Satsuki's face and kissing her, loving Shuna's soft body, treating Shino like a cute doll. Reine turns red trying to shut her up.
★ They chase each other until Reine pins her down. Cornered, Hibise accidentally calls her "Rei-nee," a name that stops them both cold, Reine never lets anyone that close, yet weirdly it doesn't anger her, just triggers unexplainable familiarity. Reine asks about their past, Hibise backpedals claiming it was a slip. Reine doesn't fully believe her, still sees her as an enemy, but admits she can't truly hate her either, even offering friendship, though never girlfriend status. Hibise refuses, insisting she only wants Satoshi. Reine says she's cute anyway and asks to kiss her, panicking Hibise since she wants to save her first kiss for Satoshi.
★ Satoshi wakes up right as they're super close, misreads it as Reine preferring Hibise, and looking lonely, says he doesn't mind them getting close but asks Reine not to leave him. That misunderstanding triggers her possessive side, declaring she only loves Satoshi and dragging him back into sex to prove it, even though he hasn't recovered from earlier.
★ Hibise finally gets taken to the river. Satsuki, waiting in a white bikini, asks why she looks upset, and hears Reine drained Satoshi's stamina again, breaking their agreement to let him rest. Once alone with Hibise, Satsuki notices Reine's guard dropped and wants to know why, but shifts to something else entirely, that Hibise knows who wrote LoD but never told Satoshi.
★ Hibise claims the search for that "person" is just an excuse to keep spending time with him, since being forgotten, LoD's the only reason he's still willing to hang out with her. Not entirely a lie, but she's still hiding the important part. Satsuki warns she'll destroy her if she touches Satoshi, then hits her insecurity by asking where she actually ranks among his four women, Reine's prettier, Shuna's gentler, Shino's smarter, calling Satsuki just ordinary, only ahead because she knew Sano longest. It hits a nerve, Satsuki's always feared being the most unremarkable, but fires back that Hibise herself got rejected despite knowing him even longer. Their fight turns into mutual mockery.
★ Hibise accuses her of gaining weight, Satsuki dares her to check, she pinches hard but finds nothing until it actually hurts. Satsuki retaliates gripping her waist, claiming Hibise's body's actually softer. When Satsuki blows on her ear, Hibise reacts hard, flustered enough to accidentally call her "Satsuki-chan," another forgotten nickname from their past. Before Satsuki can dig further, Satoshi shows up, Hibise clings to him complaining about Satsuki, leaving another clue behind about their history.
★ Next Hibise runs into Shuna, distracted by her revealing swimsuit and gropes her chest. Shuna just smiles, giving her a few seconds before grabbing her head once the jokes get too dirty. Sitting by the river after being tossed in, their chat turns serious when Shuna says the "always kind Saint" image is just something others invented, she's done playing the personality assigned to her.
★ That reveals Shuna already suspects who Hibise is, noticing she's always known exactly how to push each heroine's buttons, when to anger them, redirect attention, or back off, wearing down their guard bit by bit. Only someone who knows their entire "profile" could do that so precisely. Shuna suspects Hibise helped create their characters, but wants to understand why she never used that knowledge to steal Satoshi from the start.
★ The talk also reveals Shuna's own change, she used to force herself to be perfectly kind, but people kept exploiting it. Living with Satoshi and the others, she chose to stop being perfect, deliberately acting spoiled and high maintenance, trusting they won't leave her over it. Hibise calls that extreme, saying Shuna's always been way too much, calling her "Captain Shuna," another slip revealing forbidden closeness. Shuna catches it and starts asking questions.
★ To escape, Hibise yells for Satoshi and rats out Shuna's massive gambling losses and in game overspending. He hears everything nearby and scolds her, letting Hibise slip away to find Shino.
★ Upstream, she finds a ten meter waterfall where Shino's meditating naked, feeling swimsuits block her from nature. Hibise's about to tell her to dress when Shino throws a knife past her face, cutting some hair, only to reveal she'd just saved her from a venomous snake behind her. Shino kills it calmly to make a stamina potion for Satoshi, treating naked snake killing in the mountains like a normal Tuesday.
★ Once dressed, their talk turns heavier. Shino asks if killing "that thing" was a mistake, and whether killing Hibise too would solve everything. Realizing she can't fool Shino, Hibise admits she and someone else, in a past life, created these characters. Shino counters there's no way to know who came first, whether they created her, or just copied the real Shino.
★ Shino also confirms she's the one who directly killed Sano, since his existence would keep threatening Satoshi and dragging them back into LoD. She chose to be the killer, believing she's the most capable of carrying that guilt without cracking, not wanting Satsuki, Reine, or Shuna to bear it since they're "too human" and might slip up when emotional. She sees herself as the least human of them all.
★ Asked if she prefers being alone, Shino says the other three matter deeply, but she still sees them as people to protect rather than true equals, even Satoshi, since his edge comes from past life knowledge while she believes her own genius stands on its own. Knowing exactly who Hibise is and how dangerous she could be, Shino doesn't plan to kill her, understanding her death wouldn't stop the world's power anyway, choosing to just watch instead. She shifts back to the potion talk and pulls Satoshi into sex the moment he and Shuna arrive, forcing Hibise to watch again.
★ The trip reveals all four heroines feel a strange connection to Hibise, no shared memories, yet their bodies and emotions react like she'd once been part of the group, while she keeps trying to play the rival role, unconsciously slipping into old nicknames anyway.
★ Afterward, Satoshi keeps investigating who created LoD, since the game mirrors their real lives too closely, same looks, personalities, events, relationships, only the names differ. He notices only Hibise stays unaffected by the world's memory wiping power, which leads him to suspect she's the writer standing outside the rules.
★ At his apartment, he asks if she still wants to find the long missing Sano. She says that's not really important, and he directly calls her the LoD writer, shocking her enough to drop her phone. He explains only someone watching them up close could write something this detailed, and only an unaffected observer could be a creator.
★ Hibise finally confesses, taking him to a park before the girls get home, and shows him a notebook written in his own handwriting. It's a full LoD walkthrough, affection triggers, event timing, and the path to the harem route, a "guidebook" he'd once given her, which she used as material for writing Love or Dead.
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★ But she wasn't just an outside creator, she'd also been the woman by his side while his memories kept getting erased, reintroducing herself every time he forgot, helping him face his fear of death, while he kept thinking of the other four. She got furious when he chose to sacrifice himself for them, and came back afterward to find him living happily, remembering none of her sacrifice, which is why she first approached him wanting revenge, wanting him dead.
★ But meeting him again, she fell for him all over again, both hatred and love still intact, hating him enough to want him gone, loving him too much to let go. Unable to win against the four normally, she decided to use her position as writer instead, showing him a manuscript titled "LoD 5th ROUTE," burning each page while naming Satsuki, Reine, Shuna, and Shino, declaring all four will die.
★ Satoshi himself won't be killed, which is exactly what makes this her revenge, forcing him to watch all four women he loves die, then having the world erase every memory of the pain and love he felt for them once the route ends. This ending's locked in with no loophole this time since the victims are named directly, and their entire conversation's already part of the scenario.
★ Once the manuscript's burned, Hibise leaves. The 5th route starts with Shino's death, hit by a truck running a red light at an intersection, her body bloodied, eyes still open, Hibise watching from a distance confirming it's begun. After she dies, the world doesn't just erase memories of her death, people slowly accept she never existed at all.
★ Shuna goes missing next. Searching, Satoshi meets a remorseful guy who admits doing something to a girl he didn't even want to do, like he'd been forced into a role. He finds Shuna under a bridge, decomposing, covered in dried blood and flies, a crushed strawberry cake beside her reading "Thanks for everything," a gift she'd prepared for him. Devastated, he eats it anyway, thanking her out loud, before finally breaking down screaming.
★ Shuna's existence gets erased too, Satsuki and Reine no longer remember having friends named Shuna or Shino, their families act like they never existed, the world reshaping reality around just Satoshi, Satsuki, and Reine.
★ Confronting Hibise with the remaining two, a bigger secret surfaces, Sano's actually already dead, killed because the four believed he'd keep threatening Satoshi. Satoshi's furious they never consulted him, feeling disconnected from the people he's always considered family despite still loving them.
★ Satsuki and Reine explain Sano's the actual writer of LoD, Hibise more of a player character within the game. Satoshi initially rejects that since Hibise already confessed to writing it, but thinking through everyone's motives, realizes LoD couldn't have been made by her alone.
★ The game's designed so all four end up belonging to Sano, whoever he picks survives, whoever's rejected or doesn't love him dies horribly, Satoshi's positioned as the "thief" stealing heroines from the protagonist who needs eliminating. Hibise finally explains she and Sano co wrote it together, she wanted Satoshi, he wanted the four heroines, their goals lining up perfectly at the time.
★ LoD follows standard gal game structure, individual routes first where only Sano's pick survives and the others die, then a harem route if all affection requirements are met, otherwise a bad end. The world they're living in now was never truly the ending, just one of the still running routes, resetting endlessly until all four belong to Sano in the harem route.
★ Hibise explains Shino and Shuna didn't just vanish, they've moved to the next world reborn as their high school selves, but with every memory of Satoshi, their friendship, and this world completely reset, back to being heroines who don't yet know Sano's true nature. That brings hope but also new fear, they could easily be steered right back to him, and dying in one route is literally how you move into the next.
★ Hibise confirms once the day changes, Satoshi forgets everything, Satsuki and Reine die and follow the others into the next world, while he stays behind, losing all memory of them, and ends up living with Hibise instead, exactly the victory she's been planning.
★ After she leaves, Reine breaks down first, repeating she doesn't want to die. Satsuki hugs her despite her own shaking hands. Satoshi tries promising he'll save them with no actual plan. Satsuki briefly considers killing Hibise, but Satoshi points out that wouldn't stop the scenario, since Sano's death didn't kill the world's power either.
★ Scared of losing each other with barely any time left, the three of them end up holding each other, kissing desperately, which turns into sex. Afterward, checking the time, Satoshi realizes there's about three hours left and opens LoD on his laptop, checking every route.
★ Inside the game, each character has a different name, but in every individual route, one heroine ends up with Sano while the other three suffer horrific fates, losing their sanity, getting sold and destroyed, handed to debt collectors, or killed by their own mother. Satoshi realizes just how deep Sano's obsession and possessiveness runs, he never actually loved them as people, their lives and pain were only tools to secure them as his, and refusal meant destruction.
★ Satsuki tries writing a final letter, hoping it survives like his old diary once did, but her shaking hands and tears ruin the writing, unsure if it's better for him to remember their love or forget everything and live free of grief.
★ Satoshi concludes the only way to ruin Hibise's plan is to die himself, since keeping him alive is her whole goal, his death would destroy it completely. Satsuki rejects the idea, warning Hibise could just write an even worse scenario in retaliation, and reminds him the heroines aren't truly gone, just resetting back to high school. She says they can accept being reset, but he can't accept them going back to belonging to Sano, refusing to hand over the women he loves to a man who sees them as objects.
★ In the end, their death scenario moves forward anyway. Satsuki grabs a kitchen knife and tries killing Satoshi, Reine lunges to stop her, so Satsuki starts choking Reine instead, saying if she's going to die anyway, she'd rather do it herself. Satoshi grabs the knife and stabs Satsuki from behind to save Reine. The moment she's hit, she stops resisting, doesn't blame him, says it was the right call, and dies in his arms.
★ Reine refuses his apology, since Satsuki will always be a friend she loved. Knowing her own time's up, she grabs the bloodied knife, tells him to live happily, and stabs herself, collapsing with a smile.
★ After laying her beside Satsuki, Satoshi confronts Hibise with the knife, having lost everyone, ready to do anything. She keeps playing the victorious villain, but he starts noticing something off, realizing that in almost every original LoD route, he himself also dies, which contradicts her supposed goal of wanting him. If she truly wanted to keep him, every route should've kept him alive, yet so many endings kill him too.
★ The bad end text only says "a high school student got hit by a truck," never confirming it's actually him, a vague loophole she'd deliberately left open. Hibise finally admits the whole truth, she'd worked with Sano and hated Satoshi deeply, but was also secretly trying to save him, pushing Sano to include a bad end where everyone could survive under the right conditions.
★ Once the four heroines moved on, Hibise planned to let Satoshi live happily with no memory of them, never truly seeing their deaths as a victory since they'd once been close to her too. Satoshi refuses to be left alone in an empty world, and won't let her carry all the guilt herself, asking her to die alongside him so he can follow the four into the next world.
★ Hibise asks for one promise first, that if they succeed, he has to acknowledge the possibility of loving her someday. He doesn't commit to being her boyfriend, but accepts the possibility. They head to a railway crossing at midnight, hand in hand, cross onto the tracks, and get hit by the last train, ending the 5th route's world and carrying them into a new beginning.
★ Satoshi wakes up in his apartment, back in his third year high school body. All the traces of the four heroines living there are gone, his school uniform's hanging neatly, math textbook's on the desk, none of the wear from college life has happened yet.
★ The doorbell rings, hoping it's one of the girls, but it's a plain looking girl with braids and glasses. He doesn't recognize her until she takes off her headphones, strikes a pose, and introduces herself as Hibise, revealing she too carries memories from the previous world.
★ The bell rings again, and standing there this time is Sano, who immediately calls him by name despite Satoshi's attempt to play dumb, grabbing his collar and declaring he'll take Satsuki, Reine, Shuna, and Shino back, insisting they all belong to him. Turns out Sano also carries memories from before, and as both writer and protagonist of LoD, fully understands what happened, determined to reach the harem route this time and refusing to let Satoshi steal his heroines again.
★ Once Sano leaves, Satoshi actually feels relieved, no longer needing to hesitate facing him, since this version isn't the kind protagonist he once admired, but a possessive man who sees the heroines as property. He decides he's done just avoiding bad ends, this time he wants to destroy Love or Dead itself.
★ But they notice something new, looking in the mirror, his bangs have grown long enough to cover his eyes, matching the typical gal game protagonist look, and Sano's own style. Hibise stares in horror asking what it means. That physical change suggests the "protagonist" role isn't the same as before, Sano's still the protagonist and writer, but the world's power is now attaching protagonist traits onto Satoshi too, the two roles now overlapping in the same world.
★ The story then flashes back to a conversation Hibise had with the four heroines before the 5th route fully played out. She'd gone to Satsuki's room crying, apologizing for failing to save them despite knowing the world better than anyone. They don't fully blame her, admitting killing Sano was their own decision. Hibise says if she'd never shown them Satoshi's diary, they might never have learned the truth or killed him, but Shino counters that without the diary, they'd also never have truly met Satoshi, every option available from the start was already a bad one.
★ Hibise explains that once the four return to the LoD world, the Satoshi waiting there won't be the one carrying past life memories, the world will provide the "original" Iriya Satoshi as designed by the writers, while the Satoshi they love stays behind here and loses all memory of them.
★ The four had discussed this repeatedly, briefly considering killing him so he'd follow them too, but ultimately chose to let him live, not wanting to force him into sacrificing himself again. They ask Hibise to take care of him after they're gone, knowing their memories of this conversation and even their own deaths will likely get erased to keep the scenario intact, choosing a painful future where he stays alive with Hibise instead.
★ Shino's the only one who tries a different way to preserve her memory, planning to follow her death scenario without resistance, theorizing that if her body, words, and actions all stay exactly on script, the world has no reason to alter her memory, wanting to experience her final moment fully conscious. That's why she never dodges the truck, already knowing it was coming, choosing to follow the script to stay aware until the end, not because she wants to die, but as a genius's way of resisting memory erasure without fighting the fate already set.
★ Satsuki asks Hibise to look after Satoshi. She's not thrilled her longtime rival will end up living with him, but chooses to trust him to her anyway. Hibise promises she'll make him happy, a promise that explains why she fought so hard playing the villain and pushing him to forget the four heroines in the first place.
Death
1. Shino > Hit by a truck
2. Shuna > Killed by someone
3. Satsuki > Stabbed by MC (since she was about to kill Reine)
4. Reine > Suicide with a knife
5. Hibise > Double suicide with MC, got hit by a train together so she could follow the others into the next route
6. MC (Satoshi) > Double suicide with Hibise
★ But meeting him again, she fell for him all over again, both hatred and love still intact, hating him enough to want him gone, loving him too much to let go. Unable to win against the four normally, she decided to use her position as writer instead, showing him a manuscript titled "LoD 5th ROUTE," burning each page while naming Satsuki, Reine, Shuna, and Shino, declaring all four will die.
★ Satoshi himself won't be killed, which is exactly what makes this her revenge, forcing him to watch all four women he loves die, then having the world erase every memory of the pain and love he felt for them once the route ends. This ending's locked in with no loophole this time since the victims are named directly, and their entire conversation's already part of the scenario.
★ Once the manuscript's burned, Hibise leaves. The 5th route starts with Shino's death, hit by a truck running a red light at an intersection, her body bloodied, eyes still open, Hibise watching from a distance confirming it's begun. After she dies, the world doesn't just erase memories of her death, people slowly accept she never existed at all.
★ Shuna goes missing next. Searching, Satoshi meets a remorseful guy who admits doing something to a girl he didn't even want to do, like he'd been forced into a role. He finds Shuna under a bridge, decomposing, covered in dried blood and flies, a crushed strawberry cake beside her reading "Thanks for everything," a gift she'd prepared for him. Devastated, he eats it anyway, thanking her out loud, before finally breaking down screaming.
★ Shuna's existence gets erased too, Satsuki and Reine no longer remember having friends named Shuna or Shino, their families act like they never existed, the world reshaping reality around just Satoshi, Satsuki, and Reine.
★ Confronting Hibise with the remaining two, a bigger secret surfaces, Sano's actually already dead, killed because the four believed he'd keep threatening Satoshi. Satoshi's furious they never consulted him, feeling disconnected from the people he's always considered family despite still loving them.
★ Satsuki and Reine explain Sano's the actual writer of LoD, Hibise more of a player character within the game. Satoshi initially rejects that since Hibise already confessed to writing it, but thinking through everyone's motives, realizes LoD couldn't have been made by her alone.
★ The game's designed so all four end up belonging to Sano, whoever he picks survives, whoever's rejected or doesn't love him dies horribly, Satoshi's positioned as the "thief" stealing heroines from the protagonist who needs eliminating. Hibise finally explains she and Sano co wrote it together, she wanted Satoshi, he wanted the four heroines, their goals lining up perfectly at the time.
★ LoD follows standard gal game structure, individual routes first where only Sano's pick survives and the others die, then a harem route if all affection requirements are met, otherwise a bad end. The world they're living in now was never truly the ending, just one of the still running routes, resetting endlessly until all four belong to Sano in the harem route.
★ Hibise explains Shino and Shuna didn't just vanish, they've moved to the next world reborn as their high school selves, but with every memory of Satoshi, their friendship, and this world completely reset, back to being heroines who don't yet know Sano's true nature. That brings hope but also new fear, they could easily be steered right back to him, and dying in one route is literally how you move into the next.
★ Hibise confirms once the day changes, Satoshi forgets everything, Satsuki and Reine die and follow the others into the next world, while he stays behind, losing all memory of them, and ends up living with Hibise instead, exactly the victory she's been planning.
★ After she leaves, Reine breaks down first, repeating she doesn't want to die. Satsuki hugs her despite her own shaking hands. Satoshi tries promising he'll save them with no actual plan. Satsuki briefly considers killing Hibise, but Satoshi points out that wouldn't stop the scenario, since Sano's death didn't kill the world's power either.
★ Scared of losing each other with barely any time left, the three of them end up holding each other, kissing desperately, which turns into sex. Afterward, checking the time, Satoshi realizes there's about three hours left and opens LoD on his laptop, checking every route.
★ Inside the game, each character has a different name, but in every individual route, one heroine ends up with Sano while the other three suffer horrific fates, losing their sanity, getting sold and destroyed, handed to debt collectors, or killed by their own mother. Satoshi realizes just how deep Sano's obsession and possessiveness runs, he never actually loved them as people, their lives and pain were only tools to secure them as his, and refusal meant destruction.
★ Satsuki tries writing a final letter, hoping it survives like his old diary once did, but her shaking hands and tears ruin the writing, unsure if it's better for him to remember their love or forget everything and live free of grief.
★ Satoshi concludes the only way to ruin Hibise's plan is to die himself, since keeping him alive is her whole goal, his death would destroy it completely. Satsuki rejects the idea, warning Hibise could just write an even worse scenario in retaliation, and reminds him the heroines aren't truly gone, just resetting back to high school. She says they can accept being reset, but he can't accept them going back to belonging to Sano, refusing to hand over the women he loves to a man who sees them as objects.
★ In the end, their death scenario moves forward anyway. Satsuki grabs a kitchen knife and tries killing Satoshi, Reine lunges to stop her, so Satsuki starts choking Reine instead, saying if she's going to die anyway, she'd rather do it herself. Satoshi grabs the knife and stabs Satsuki from behind to save Reine. The moment she's hit, she stops resisting, doesn't blame him, says it was the right call, and dies in his arms.
★ Reine refuses his apology, since Satsuki will always be a friend she loved. Knowing her own time's up, she grabs the bloodied knife, tells him to live happily, and stabs herself, collapsing with a smile.
★ After laying her beside Satsuki, Satoshi confronts Hibise with the knife, having lost everyone, ready to do anything. She keeps playing the victorious villain, but he starts noticing something off, realizing that in almost every original LoD route, he himself also dies, which contradicts her supposed goal of wanting him. If she truly wanted to keep him, every route should've kept him alive, yet so many endings kill him too.
★ The bad end text only says "a high school student got hit by a truck," never confirming it's actually him, a vague loophole she'd deliberately left open. Hibise finally admits the whole truth, she'd worked with Sano and hated Satoshi deeply, but was also secretly trying to save him, pushing Sano to include a bad end where everyone could survive under the right conditions.
★ Once the four heroines moved on, Hibise planned to let Satoshi live happily with no memory of them, never truly seeing their deaths as a victory since they'd once been close to her too. Satoshi refuses to be left alone in an empty world, and won't let her carry all the guilt herself, asking her to die alongside him so he can follow the four into the next world.
★ Hibise asks for one promise first, that if they succeed, he has to acknowledge the possibility of loving her someday. He doesn't commit to being her boyfriend, but accepts the possibility. They head to a railway crossing at midnight, hand in hand, cross onto the tracks, and get hit by the last train, ending the 5th route's world and carrying them into a new beginning.
★ Satoshi wakes up in his apartment, back in his third year high school body. All the traces of the four heroines living there are gone, his school uniform's hanging neatly, math textbook's on the desk, none of the wear from college life has happened yet.
★ The doorbell rings, hoping it's one of the girls, but it's a plain looking girl with braids and glasses. He doesn't recognize her until she takes off her headphones, strikes a pose, and introduces herself as Hibise, revealing she too carries memories from the previous world.
★ The bell rings again, and standing there this time is Sano, who immediately calls him by name despite Satoshi's attempt to play dumb, grabbing his collar and declaring he'll take Satsuki, Reine, Shuna, and Shino back, insisting they all belong to him. Turns out Sano also carries memories from before, and as both writer and protagonist of LoD, fully understands what happened, determined to reach the harem route this time and refusing to let Satoshi steal his heroines again.
★ Once Sano leaves, Satoshi actually feels relieved, no longer needing to hesitate facing him, since this version isn't the kind protagonist he once admired, but a possessive man who sees the heroines as property. He decides he's done just avoiding bad ends, this time he wants to destroy Love or Dead itself.
★ But they notice something new, looking in the mirror, his bangs have grown long enough to cover his eyes, matching the typical gal game protagonist look, and Sano's own style. Hibise stares in horror asking what it means. That physical change suggests the "protagonist" role isn't the same as before, Sano's still the protagonist and writer, but the world's power is now attaching protagonist traits onto Satoshi too, the two roles now overlapping in the same world.
★ The story then flashes back to a conversation Hibise had with the four heroines before the 5th route fully played out. She'd gone to Satsuki's room crying, apologizing for failing to save them despite knowing the world better than anyone. They don't fully blame her, admitting killing Sano was their own decision. Hibise says if she'd never shown them Satoshi's diary, they might never have learned the truth or killed him, but Shino counters that without the diary, they'd also never have truly met Satoshi, every option available from the start was already a bad one.
★ Hibise explains that once the four return to the LoD world, the Satoshi waiting there won't be the one carrying past life memories, the world will provide the "original" Iriya Satoshi as designed by the writers, while the Satoshi they love stays behind here and loses all memory of them.
★ The four had discussed this repeatedly, briefly considering killing him so he'd follow them too, but ultimately chose to let him live, not wanting to force him into sacrificing himself again. They ask Hibise to take care of him after they're gone, knowing their memories of this conversation and even their own deaths will likely get erased to keep the scenario intact, choosing a painful future where he stays alive with Hibise instead.
★ Shino's the only one who tries a different way to preserve her memory, planning to follow her death scenario without resistance, theorizing that if her body, words, and actions all stay exactly on script, the world has no reason to alter her memory, wanting to experience her final moment fully conscious. That's why she never dodges the truck, already knowing it was coming, choosing to follow the script to stay aware until the end, not because she wants to die, but as a genius's way of resisting memory erasure without fighting the fate already set.
★ Satsuki asks Hibise to look after Satoshi. She's not thrilled her longtime rival will end up living with him, but chooses to trust him to her anyway. Hibise promises she'll make him happy, a promise that explains why she fought so hard playing the villain and pushing him to forget the four heroines in the first place.
Death
1. Shino > Hit by a truck
2. Shuna > Killed by someone
3. Satsuki > Stabbed by MC (since she was about to kill Reine)
4. Reine > Suicide with a knife
5. Hibise > Double suicide with MC, got hit by a train together so she could follow the others into the next route
6. MC (Satoshi) > Double suicide with Hibise
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yeah
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Ngl this plot is so unique and new and ofc it's amazing , where to read the novel? Bcs goddamn I can't wait months for another chapter
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Yeah I'm loving how this is going. They have all the information, it's not just some trite "we're indebted to you because we don't care about the MC anymore". No they ACTUALLY know.
He's the MC. His outcome is, at worst, neutral. In this scenario, he lives on whole the 4 heroines and one random NPC dies. In a single-heroine route, he lives happily ever after with the one he saves and the rest fall to their doomed endings.
He WOULD be left miserable in the harem fail ending if he, as a player, tried his best and still fell short of completing all the capture conditions, but the dude was GIVEN the clear, and still turned it down. He barely cares for the girls aside from being walking tits and asses who fawn over him for some reason.
He's the MC. His outcome is, at worst, neutral. In this scenario, he lives on whole the 4 heroines and one random NPC dies. In a single-heroine route, he lives happily ever after with the one he saves and the rest fall to their doomed endings.
He WOULD be left miserable in the harem fail ending if he, as a player, tried his best and still fell short of completing all the capture conditions, but the dude was GIVEN the clear, and still turned it down. He barely cares for the girls aside from being walking tits and asses who fawn over him for some reason.
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Expected explanation of what's going on chapter. I look forward to the batshit crazy stuff the girls will do
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bad end for everyone but him apparently. so no he isnt a victim. but a failed hero/messiahs/savior.
there is no actual consequences for himself discounting losing a girl. but girl isnt his so he doesn't actually lose anything.
or maybe its even worse. any of the 4 he rejects gets killed. and if they dont like him, they get killed as well.
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Maybe it's his actions that pre-determined the bad end, like maybe he had full control of his own choices and the will of the world just changed everything to follow through the ending his choices lead to
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Thank you for the chapter!
Man all four in this one chapter? That's tooooooo much for me to digest..
Man all four in this one chapter? That's tooooooo much for me to digest..
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Shits going 1000 bro
Wtf?
Wtf?
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DOKI DOKI type shit
i like it, i was thinking it was gonna be another generic trap in game story but the girls learning the truth is a fresh direction and so early too, now i'm curious
i like it, i was thinking it was gonna be another generic trap in game story but the girls learning the truth is a fresh direction and so early too, now i'm curious
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