Week 11: Starting June 9th
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This is being read as part of the Visual Novel Book Club.
Previous Part: Week 10
Next Part: Week 12 (starting June 16th)
Reading
This week we’re reading five scenes starting from the first square on the left side of the second branch. See further instructions for more details.
Further instructions (not spoilers if you're up to date)
The first couple of scenes immediately following the end of last week’s assignment are largely repeats, so I’m not including them in the overall count. The same goes for the scenes following the second branch. You can make whatever choices you like in those repeated sections, as long as you go through door 7 at the second branch and door 1 at the third branch. Technically there are only four entirely new scenes covered in this week’s assignment, but I decided to end it there for pacing of the next ending next week.
Note: it’s not always obvious when a section ends, so try to keep an eye on the flowchart when you think you’re getting close to the end. Below is a screenshot of how your flowchart should look and where the section ends. Screenshots are under a double spoiler so you can unblur one at a time (minimizing spoilers).
Screenshots (potential spoilers)
Current flowchart:
Stop here:
The next scene is a puzzle section so it’s more obvious when this week ends; once it flashes through a few screens and shows the following image you’re good!
General Advice
In the remastered version, novel sections have two reading modes: novel and adventure. The mode you are currently in is displayed in the top right; click on it to swap between the two. Novel mode includes both dialogue and narrative text, while adventure mode includes only dialogue. Which you read is up to you; novel mode generally gives you more information by nature of writing out descriptions of events, while adventure mode is less reading by nature of being only dialogue.
Note: the game will occasionally force you into the other mode. When this happens, you can simply click the button in the top right to swap back; however, if it forces you into novel mode, there may be a reason it does so, so proceed with caution!
Choices
The choices are under a double spoiler so you can unblur one choice at the time (minimizing spoilers). For those of you who would like to go through the game blind as to which choices matter, I am including baseline responses for all choices. However, for those of you who would like to make your own choices where it doesn’t affect story progression, whether a choice is critical or not is marked under a second spoiler below each choice.
Note: the appearance of some choices is triggered by previous choices, so if you pick different responses on ones that aren’t required for story progression don’t be concerned if you don’t see some of the choices listed below.
Choices
淳平は覚悟を決め、答えた。
【7】の扉を選ぶ
required: yes | no
「俺の希望は……」
【1】の扉だ。
required: yes | no
Guides if you want to check choices yourself (beware of spoilers!)
From what I can tell it seems like major spoilers and puzzle answers are hidden, but proceed with caution!
Puzzles
In case anyone has trouble with the puzzles or that just isn’t their thing, I’m including the relevant puzzle instructions. Of course you’re welcome to ask for help in the thread as well! If you are trying to figure it out I’d recommend asking for hints here first, as the guides are somewhat hit or miss with how much they reveal and how quickly.
Puzzle guides (beware of spoilers!)
Discussion Rules
- Please use spoiler tags for major events in the current chapter/part and any content in future chapters/parts.
- When asking for help, do your best to provide context. Pasted text, screenshots, descriptions, etc. Unlike book clubs we can’t flip to relevant pages, so we may need a little help identifying exactly what is being discussed.
- Feel totally at ease to ask questions or give your thoughts, any time! Clubs live and die by participation, and asking whatever question you have, no matter how silly it may seem, helps others who are reading it and even the answerer themselves.
- Have fun, and do your best to interpret anything said with as much good faith as possible
Participants
Mark your participation status by voting in this poll.
(Please feel free to update your status whenever you like!)
- I’m reading along
- I have finished this part
- I’m still reading but I haven’t reached this part yet
- I am not reading this VN
0 voters
I chose door 
I’m pretty sure it doesn’t matter that I played last week out of order. My flowchart still looks as it should.
