E1 - Say what you want; famous games are usually fun
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"Old AV Room"
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"Super Attack Families"
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"Super Attack Families"
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Popularly known as Tackfam.
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Simple yet deep, it possesses
a rare level of perfection
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and thus the biggest player base
in today's online-gaming world.
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"Super Attack Families"
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Truly a god-tier game.
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I'm playing Shuji Nakamura, who has
an overwhelmingly full offline life.
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He's tops when it comes to looks,
grades, sports, and girls--
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the eternal leader of our class.
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I, on the other hand...
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Sure, in life I might be on the losing team.
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But not here. Not in this game.
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After all, I, Fumiya Tomozaki,
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am a top-ranked Tackfam player--
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and the best in Japan.
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This character sucks.
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I picked a bad character. That would explain it.
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N-No...
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Found and Foxy are just about
identical abilities-wise.
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They're a bad match, I mean.
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These two don't play well together. Clearly.
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Well, Foxy does fall quickly,
so it's easier to string together combos.
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Right? This dumb game
is all about the match-ups.
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Now you're just making excuses.
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Am I wrong? Do you enjoy
winning a game like this?
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This garbage game?
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That's a gamer's biggest shame,
blaming the game when you lose.
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No effort, no reflection...
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I'd still win with the characters swapped!
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Want to try, then? With different characters?
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And if I win, you accept your defeat.
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Fine, fine. I'll acknowledge your mad skills.
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That's not all.
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What?
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You called Tackfam a garbage game.
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I want you to say that it's a god-tier game.
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For the second time, I claimed total victory.
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"Lv. 1: Say what you want;
famous games are usually fun"
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Hmm? You're just heading home now, Shuji?
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Yeah, well, you know.
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What's been keeping you so long?
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Whatcha up to?
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Nothing.
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Hey, you two...
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Your club meetings are over, right?
Let's stop somewhere on the way home.
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Yeah, let's!
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Oh, yeah, count me in!
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Life is a god-tier game--or so
one famous copypasta goes.
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But from where I stand, that's B.S.
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You get discriminated against
or treated poorly for your face,
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your build, your age.
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No matter how hard you try,
if your health fails you in the clutch,
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it's all for nothing.
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All these absurd rules going unchallenged.
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I'm a good example.
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I just happened to wind up playing
Tackfam with Nakamura today
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after he heard I was good at it.
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Most of the time, I don't really talk to anyone.
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Unreasonable and unbalanced.
That's what life is.
SIGN "Who's coming to Omiya?" "Takei: OK"
SIGN "Takahiro: No prob"
SIGN "Yuzu-san: Me me me! Where in Omiya?"
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"Only because you're not trying!"
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I'm sure that's what some people would say.
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Just some biased thinking from someone
born as a top-tier character.
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And some noob gamer born lucky enough
to enjoy blazing through life on easy mode
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doesn't get to talk about life.
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I should know. I've dominated
plenty of games in my day.
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The game of life is garbage.
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"Now matching..."
"Winrate: 2219"
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"Winrate: 2219"
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"Winrate: 2219" "Winrate: 2136"
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"Winrate: 2136"
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He's gotten better.
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And he hasn't just been studying me, either.
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He's refined his own counterstrategy.
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I'm still better at fighting maneuvers
and combo-building.
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But he's already got me beat at dodging combos.
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I'm not great at that.
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At my level, I rarely get caught up
in combos in the first place.
SIGN "These are the rankings for the current rating battle. When the season ends, the top 100 players will be recorded. *Restricted players are not shown."
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And it's not just me. Lots of top-tier players
are better at offense than defense.
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But this opponent, this NO NAME...
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"Winrate Rankings"
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For someone who's
nationally ranked second after me,
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he's too experienced in defense.
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Which means...
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He must purposely be eating combos
on the regular--as training.
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So he can beat me someday.
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I better watch my back.
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"NO NAME: Do you live in the Kanto region?"
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"NO NAME: Do you live in the Kanto region?"
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Um...
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"NO NAME: Do you live in the Kanto region?"
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"nanashi: Yeah...?"
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"NO NAME: If you like,"
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"NO NAME: we could meet up?"
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Anyway, the point is...
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There should already be rumors about me
taking on Nakamura in Tackfam.
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Make sure you're taking good notes.
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Yet no one's saying a thing.
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They must have guessed what happened,
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and now they're treading lightly.
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All right, let's grab some lunch.
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Okay.
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Wonder what's on the menu!
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Hey, now!
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You're on duty today, too, Shuji!
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Oh, am I?
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You're coming with me to the staff room first.
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What a pain.
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Aoi Hinami.
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The best student in our grade.
SIGN "Top 20 Midterm Scores" "Aoi Hinami" "Kengo Abe" "Minami Nanami"
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The highest-scoring girl athlete in our school.
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Track-and-field ace.
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Classic Japanese beauty with brains to match.
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With her simple innocence, a perfect heroine
beloved by men and women alike.
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For someone as bad at real life as I am,
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she doesn't inspire a sense of
likability so much as sheer awe.
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Tomozaki!
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Huh? Oh...
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Hinami?
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I heard you played Tackfam with Shuji!
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Huh? Um... well...
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I guess word got out, huh?
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Everyone's talking about it.
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So? Who won?
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Well...
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Tch. I lost.
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Wow! Really?
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Forget that guy. C'mon, Aoi.
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See you later, Tomozaki.
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Don't listen to Shuji!
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Aw, can it, dum-dum.
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It's the weekend.
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I've come to my rendezvous point
to meet NO NAME.
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I accepted his invitation because I wanted
to see just what kind of man this was:
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"Today"
"nanashi here. I've arrived"
"What are you wearing?"
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the only player who could potentially beat me.
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"NO NAME: NO NAME here.
I have a navy jacket and a beige skirt."
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"skirt."
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A girl?!
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N-NO NAME... is that you?
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Hi! I'm NO NAME!
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Huh?
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Eh?
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Hi... Hinami?
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Hang on a second. Let me gather my thoughts.
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You're Tomozaki, right?
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We're in the same class.
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You're nanashi?!
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Um... yeah.
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And you're NO NAME?
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This sucks.
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Huh?
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I don't want to believe that nanashi
is really some dead-end loser.
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I have got to stop getting so carried away
when it comes to Tackfam!
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Sorry?
[08:14] ---
It's nothing. Sorry.
[08:17] ---
Okay, so maybe I startled you.
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Still, it's not unusual to have
different personas in school and out.
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Don't you agree?
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Well...
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Oh, but now that you've seen me
like this... it doesn't matter.
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Um...
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Finding out that you're NO NAME was...
surprising, I guess?
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Well, I'm disappointed.
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To think nanashi, the one person I respected,
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is really a rock-bottom loser
who's given up on life.
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I...
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Was all that really necessary?!
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Hey, it's the truth.
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Even so... some truths can go unsaid!
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It's rude to be so blunt to
someone you hardly know.
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That's... That's all I meant.
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Yeah, it was rude, sure. I apologize for that.
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But I'd say your outfit is plenty rude.
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People can wear whatever they want!
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There's a minimum standard
when you're meeting people.
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Look at you:
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dirt-caked sneakers,
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jeans with tattered hems,
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shirt full of wrinkles...
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Did you even consider
fixing that bedhead of yours?
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Still, for me to be saying
all this is indeed rude.
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I apologize again: I'm sorry.
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I don't feel like discussing Tackfam anymore.
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Later, nanashi.
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Hang on a sec.
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What now?
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Someone like you with high initial stats
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has no idea where I'm coming from.
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Life is unbalanced. It's a garbage game!
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A bottom-tier character like me--
awkward, ridiculed for everything,
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no confidence in his communication skills...
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There's no way I can win
against top-tier characters like you!
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Life has no rules.
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You work hard, but get nowhere.
There's no right answers.
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It's a garbage game.
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I despise normies like you,
with your rich offline lives!
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You and your baseless self-confidence,
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going around in packs and pretending it's fun!
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I'm not confident at all--
even if I have reason to be.
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I feel alone even in groups.
Can't have fun like that.
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This way of life--it's in my bones.
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This is me.
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But I'm fine with that.
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I'm fine with my loner life, fun in its own way.
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So don't force your values on me!
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Sure sounds like sour grapes to me.
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What the hell?
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You hate rich offline lives?
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I mean, it'd make sense if you knew
the joys of a normie life.
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But you've never even had a taste, have you?
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Like I said: sour grapes.
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Life's a garbage game?
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You lost, and you're blaming the game.
Aren't you ashamed?
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No effort, no reflection...
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You're not fit to be called a gamer.
[11:12] ---
I get what you're trying to say, but...
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You can't...
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You can't change characters in real life.
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"Change characters"?
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If I were a top-tier character like you--
attractive, smart, athletic--
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I'd be doing a little better.
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But...
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Come with me.
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What the...?
[11:39] ---
"Super Attack Families"
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How... how did this happen?
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Oh! Um... hello.
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Are... are you Aoi's... younger sister?
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Older sister?
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Well?
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Yes...?
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Like, what, a C-plus, maybe?
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Huh?
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It's me. Aoi Hinami.
[12:04] ---
What?!
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I took my makeup off.
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You don't have to act that surprised.
[12:11] ---
You were talking about differences
in characters, right?
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Do you get it now?
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A little effort and you can do a lot
with your appearance stats.
[12:18] ---
W-Well, yeah, but still...
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I can't wear makeup--I'm a guy.
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And my face is what it is.
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That's a bottom-tier character for you.
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You don't understand anything, do you.
[12:31] ---
Listen, a person's appearance
comes down to two things:
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expression and posture.
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But your base facial structure...
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Not a big deal.
[12:43] ---
Watch this.
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Expression!
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And... posture!
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Whoa.
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You can get pretty close to normie-level looks
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just by perfecting these two elements.
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Don't assume my base stats are high.
They're not.
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I've lived my life as an ordinary person--
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heck, as someone even less than ordinary.
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At least through grade school, anyway.
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So I can say this with conviction:
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You can gain communication skills
and confidence, with effort.
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That's the thing.
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I've gotten through so much on effort alone.
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But I just couldn't reach nanashi
in Tackfam, no matter what.
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So I considered nanashi to be
more capable of effort than I was,
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and I respected him.
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And yet...
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In the game of life, this same nanashi
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wasn't just losing--he was barely even fighting.
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He was a jerk, and all he did
was keep running away.
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And that absolutely infuriates me.
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It's horrible! Unforgivable!
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If the person who's beating me
is a worthless jerk,
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doesn't that make me worthless, too?
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Life's not unreasonable or unbalanced.
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The game of life may look like it has no rules,
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but it has a beautiful structure consisting of
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many simple rules in combination.
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Life is the ultimate godly game.
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Fumiya Tomozaki--no: nanashi.
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I'll teach you the rules of this game,
one by one.
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And you will play it like you mean it!
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I consider life to be a garbage game,
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so I can't say you're especially convincing.
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I see.
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But I agree that making no effort
and blaming the game for your loss
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is a gamer's greatest shame.
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There's nothing I hate more.
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Oh? How very nanashi of you.
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And you're NO NAME--the only player I respect.
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I watch you play and I can see all
the effort and hard work you put in.
[14:51] ---
"Super Attack Families"
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But it's probably not the same.
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We can't understand one another.
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There's one thing I want to ask you.
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You said life is a god-tier game, right?
[15:06] ---
Tell me: Exactly how god-tier is it?
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Well, as far as I can tell,
it's way up there in first place.
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I knew it.
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People who say life's a god-tier game
just look down on all other games.
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Life alone gets its own special perspective.
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They only compare life to a game
after they've snubbed all the rest.
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Yeah--first place.
[15:31] ---
Life comes in first place by a mile.
Right alongside Tackfam.
[15:36] ---
I probably should have said
life is the better game,
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but it's a god-tier game tied
with Tackfam for first place.
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Disappointed?
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You're the Tackfam master, after all.
[15:47] ---
"Super Attack Families"
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Maybe there's no point in playing two games
that are equally engaging.
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It's not that--I never thought I'd say this,
but I'm moved.
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Rats. I messed up.
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I should have offered you something
with more merit than Tackfam.
[16:06] ---
I really must do something about
my habit of getting carried away
[16:08] ---
when it comes to that game...
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I'd been playing Tackfam entirely for myself.
SIGN "398 - Nameless Fighter: Fought nanashi last night and ate four straight. He's too good" "399 - Nameless Fighter: Oh, nanashi? Well, yeah"
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I was good enough to be called awesome online,
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but I got no recognition from anyone around me.
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I kept giving my time
to Tackfam and got results.
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I don't need anyone's approval IRL.
[16:27] ---
I believe Tackfam is a god-tier game--
and that's enough.
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That's what I really thought.
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But now that Aoi Hinami,
who knows life better than anyone,
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is telling me that it's a game
that's just as engaging as Tackfam,
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I feel like my efforts
have finally been recognized.
[16:48] ---
Sure, I'm being contradictory.
[16:51] ---
I mean, life is a garbage game,
and Tackfam is god-tier.
[16:53] ---
"Super Attack Families"
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And yet...
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The effort I put in solely for myself
that no one would acknowledge--
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it's found enormous affirmation here,
in Aoi Hinami's words.
[17:07] ---
Life is a god-tier game.
[17:09] ---
If what you're saying is true...
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Yes?
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Then the gamer in me wants to play.
[17:17] ---
Oh, so you believe me now?
[17:20] ---
Not entirely, no.
[17:22] ---
But you can't tell if a game is godly
or garbage without playing it.
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So I'll give it a shot and see for myself.
[17:32] ---
That's what a gamer would do.
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That's our nanashi!
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Tell me the rules of this game we call "life."
[17:39] ---
Let's see...
[17:41] ---
Life's a game with a lot of freedom.
[17:43] ---
What's the first thing that happens
in a game with that much freedom?
[17:48] ---
Um...
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Character creation?
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HEXactly!
[17:55] ---
Um, what was that-- "HEXactly"?
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The first thing you do in life
is character creation.
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No, before that.
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What are you talking about?
You're imagining things.
[18:08] ---
Those are for you.
[18:10] ---
Masks?
[18:11] ---
We'll discuss this further over lunch.
[18:18] ---
Ready? Now watch this.
[18:21] ---
This is my pretty-mode mouth.
[18:24] ---
And this is with pretty mode off.
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Oho...
[18:28] ---
Simply raising the corners of one's mouth
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can really change that at-a-glance impression.
[18:32] ---
From now on, you'll wear a mask at all times--
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mealtimes excepted.
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And under that mask...
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you will go about your life smiling ear to ear.
[18:42] ---
Train your mimic muscles and your
mouth-corners will begin to turn up naturally.
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Ah.
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Here you are.
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And starting next week,
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we'll meet in Sewing Room 2 in the old school
30 minutes before and after classes
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to go over your tasks for the day
and review your performance.
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If we're going do this,
we're going to do this right.
[19:04] ---
Going to do this right, huh...?
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She's a fellow gamer, all right.
[19:15] ---
Oh, I nearly forgot.
[19:17] ---
This was technically an offline meeting
between NO NAME and nanashi, right?
[19:22] ---
Yeah, I guess so.
[19:24] ---
What's wrong?
[19:25] ---
You know...
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Since we met offline and all...
[19:29] ---
Hmm? What about it?
[19:32] ---
Ugh, jeez!
[19:34] ---
Don't you get it?
[19:36] ---
We're supposed to exchange Tackfam friend codes!
[19:40] ---
That's what!
[19:41] ---
Oh.
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"Tomozaki"
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What are you doing, Fumiya?
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You're creepy enough as it is.
[19:56] ---
Try not to get any creepier, will you?
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I'm the one you're embarrassing at school.
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"Sewing Room 2"
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A first day to remember!
[20:17] ---
What do you think? Not a bad atmosphere, eh?
[20:19] ---
Yeah... like an abandoned building.
[20:22] ---
As of today, you are a player
in the game called "life."
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Now, every game has goals.
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Your ultimate goal:
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"Ultimate Goal
To be as satisfied with offline life as I am"
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To be as satisfied with offline life as I am.
[20:37] ---
Isn't, uh... isn't that a little too hard?
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In order to reach this ultimate goal,
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you'll need medium and small goals, too.
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This is exactly what I do
when training for Tackfam.
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There's our nanashi! That'll save us some time.
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First, a small goal:
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Get a family member or close friend
SIGN "Small Goal Get a family member or friend to ask, 'Do you have a girlfriend?'"
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to ask if you have a girlfriend.
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Sorry?
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"You're practically glowing these days"
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and "For a second, I didn't even
recognize you" are also acceptable.
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Just get a third party to notice that your
appearance and/or vibe has improved.
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Y-Yeah, all right.
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Next, a medium goal.
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As a rule, the tasks I give you
will be toward this goal.
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It's the most important one.
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Medium goal:
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"Medium Goal
Have a girlfriend before year 3"
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Have a girlfriend before starting
your third year of high school.
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What?!
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You'll be completing daily tasks
toward this goal.
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Today's task:
SIGN "Medium Goal Have a girlfriend before year 3" "Today's Task Talk to at least three girls at school"
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Talk to at least three girls at school.
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But... like...
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"Ultimate Goal
To be as satisfied with offline life as I am"
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These hurdles are starting out way too high!
SIGN "Small Goal Get a family member or friend to ask, 'Do you have a girlfriend?'"
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A bottom-tier character in the game of life
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would hardly be talking to any girls--
SIGN "Medium Goal Have a girlfriend before year 3" "Today's Task Talk to at least three girls at school"
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having a girlfriend is out of the question!
SIGN "Medium Goal Have a girlfriend before year 3" "Today's Task Talk to at least three girls at school"
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It's an unreasonable ask!
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And yet...
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Aoi Hinami--NO NAME--is asking it
of me in all seriousness.
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In which case...
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I have no choice but to go through with it.
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To be honest, I'm more uneasy than anything.
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"Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki"
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