# E1 - An Error-ridden Prologue
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GRDQDWMWY/an-error-ridden-prologue)
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And we're down to the final spurt!
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*One spring day...*
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*I came face to face with my destiny.*
***SIGN*** #1 "An Error-ridden Prologue"
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Oops...
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See you tonight!
***SIGN*** Amber Concerto
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'Morning, mister!
**[03:08] ---**
Hm? You deliver papers now, Tomoya-kun?
**[03:12] ---**
What happened to that other job?
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I'm still working at the video store
and restaurant.
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I took on a morning job, that's all.
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You're such a go-getter.
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But isn't it hard to balance
all those jobs with school?
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I can handle it! After all,
I've got a big goal now.
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Which is why I don't have
time to dawdle! See ya!
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What anime is that boy
hooked on this time?
***SIGN*** Toyogasaki Private Academy
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Class B
Tomoya Aki
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Good morning, Sawamura-san.
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Good morning.
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Oh, how are you, Ishimaki-san?
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And you, Satomi-san?
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Sawamura-san!
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Good morning!
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Sawamura-san, good morning!
**[04:02] ---**
Sawamura-san, how have you been?
**[04:04] ---**
It's been too long, Sawamura-san!
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Hey, look at this, we're all in Class G!
***SIGN*** Class G Kiyo Ishimaki
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Oh, so we are.
***SIGN*** Azusa Satomi Eriri Spencer Sawamura
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Let's have a good year together, then.
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Sawamura-san?
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Hm? Oh, it's nothing.
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Hey, Tomoya!
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Oh, hey, Yoshihiko.
**[04:46] ---**
Looks like we're in the
same class again this year!
**[04:48] ---**
I'm kinda busy right now.
Don't bother me.
**[04:50] ---**
What's so important? Are you doing
a roundup of the winter anime?
**[04:53] ---**
Or reviewing light novels
that came out in March?
**[04:56] ---**
I finished that stuff ages ago.
**[04:58] ---**
For anime, within 24 hours
of the finale's airing.
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For light novels,
within three days of publishing.
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For games, within a week of release.
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My mission is to post useful news,
divided into spoilers
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and spoiler-free, that
anyone can see and enjoy.
**[05:10] ---**
You big-league bloggers sure talk different.
So, what are you working on?
**[05:15] ---**
What you see here is a mission
of the utmost importance.
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It's an epic project that's worthy of
the beginning of my new otaku life.
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Whoa, check that out, Tomoya!
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Hey, what kind of friend asks a question
and then ignores me while I'm answering?
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Look, it's Sawamura-san!
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Eriri Spencer Sawamura.
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Half-Japanese, wealthy,
father an English diplomat...
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Plus, she's the super ace of the
art club who got accepted into
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the municipal art exhibition
right after she enrolled here!
**[05:39] ---**
What's the point of getting so
worked up over her now?
**[05:41] ---**
Man, it's like her cuteness has been honed
even more now that she's in second year.
**[05:46] ---**
You still haven't let go of 3D girls?
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I made a point of fixating on 2D girls
all through first year, but listen to you!
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What are you saying, you idiot?
That's exactly why!
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She's got fair skin!
She's half-Japanese!
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Blonde hair! In pigtails!
And she's in knee-socks!
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She's a moe heroine with every box
on the 2D checklist ticked off!
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You're the idiot.
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3D girls are way too much trouble.
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Hey, Tomoya, aren't you going
to the opening ceremony?
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Sorry, go on ahead.
I'll catch up.
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First Press Limited Edition
Amber Concerto
**[06:28] ---**
That was careless, Eriri. It's not like you
to let a limited-edition pass you by.
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Well, online retailers stopped
taking orders quite a while ago...
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I placed orders at all the shops
that were getting exclusives
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the day they started taking pre-orders—
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I told you not to talk to me at school!
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And what do we say to the
guy who lugged five boxes
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weighing 1.8kg each
all around Akiba on release day?
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I gave you the bonus
wall scroll, didn't I?
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You should be thanking me.
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Anyway, why did you come over
to Class G? You're in Class B, aren't you?
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You know what class I'm in?
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They were only announced today.
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If you don't need anything, I'm leaving!
**[07:10] ---**
Hey, wait! I have something
important to discuss.
**[07:13] ---**
The opening ceremony
is about to start.
**[07:15] ---**
It's now or never!
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Please!
**[07:24] ---**
Well?
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It's a project proposal.
**[07:28] ---**
For what?
**[07:29] ---**
For the ultimate dating sim
that we're gonna make!
**[07:32] ---**
I'm dying to find out how
someone would arrive at
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such a nonsensical, stupid,
downright painful notion.
**[07:39] ---**
I'm glad you asked!
**[07:42] ---**
A life-changing event
happened to me last week!
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I felt the hand of something
at work that day.
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Call it fate, call it a divine revelation...
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Did you now?
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I know, isn't it amazing?!
**[07:55] ---**
Isn't it like a girls' manga,
a romantic anime,
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a moe light novel, or the prologue
to some dating sim?!
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Yeah, it sounds like an event I've seen
a million times that's been done to death.
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Winning formulas work
because people love them!
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So I just had to express what
I was feeling at that moment.
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You want to base a game around
your encounter with that girl?
**[08:15] ---**
When I saw her, game text and visuals
and music cascaded through my brain.
***SIGN*** Mystery Girl That's right. This is actually my first time in town...
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That's how I knew.
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The only way to depict
this story is in game form.
**[08:25] ---**
I didn't mean that,
**[08:27] ---**
I meant, why don't you track her
down and tell her how you feel?
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Why would I want to profess
my feelings for some 3D girl?
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And? Why are you trying to drag me into
your little masturbatory fantasy?
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It's because you're the best
illustrator I know of!
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By day, you are Eriri Spencer Sawamura,
star of the Toyogasaki Academy Art Club.
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But by night,
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your secret otaku identity is a member
of the super-popular 18+ doujinshi circle,
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"Egoistic Lily,"
**[09:02] ---**
Eri Kashiwagi!
**[09:03] ---**
Damn it, I keep telling you not to
say that name on school grounds!
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You'll do it, won't you?
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You're going to do it, right, Eriri?!
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As if, you moron!
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You promised me back when
we were in elementary school!
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I'm gonna be the president of a game
company one day, mark my words!
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When I do, I'll come hire you!
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I'll wait for you as long as it takes!
I'll be your game company's artist, Tomo-kun!
**[09:27] ---**
Eriri...
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Tomo-kun...
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As if schoolkids would make a promise
that specific and that mundane!
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We did! I know we did!
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If you're that gung-ho to do it,
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why don't you just do the illustrations
and scenario yourself?!
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That's the doujin way!
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It wouldn't work.
**[09:46] ---**
My skills couldn't depict that
girl's beauty in a million years.
**[09:51] ---**
She was really that cute?
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The scene is still
seared into my eyes.
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She wore a white one-piece dress
and a white beret.
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That fleeting glimpse of her
standing atop the hill,
**[10:01] ---**
colored by cherry blossoms
dancing on the breeze...
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That doesn't tell me
a damn thing about her face.
**[10:07] ---**
You don't remember what
she looked like, do you?
**[10:09] ---**
You're wrong!
**[10:10] ---**
My power of expression isn't up to
capturing that perfect image, that's all!
**[10:15] ---**
Even trying to would demean her.
**[10:17] ---**
That's why I need the power of
your illustrations, Eriri!
**[10:22] ---**
Anyway, Tomoya,
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your way of thinking is
warped from the get-go.
**[10:29] ---**
I never expected to hear that from
a girl who draws porno doujinshi!
**[10:33] ---**
When you say this is a passion project
but then foist off a key element,
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that tells me you aren't
serious about it at all.
**[10:40] ---**
That's exactly like a con man
who claims to be a producer
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who just wants to kick back
and enjoy the profits.
**[10:45] ---**
I'm nothing like those halfhearted types!
I have drive and passion!
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And I'm overflowing with ideas!
**[10:53] ---**
I'm the only man for the job of
bringing this project proposal to fruition!
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Wow, all those overflowing ideas can
fit on that scrap of paper, huh?
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"Boy meets mysterious girl, they flirt,
then share a joyous kiss, the end."
**[11:06] ---**
That idea that "only you can bring to
fruition" fits into one sentence.
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Stop it, stop it, stop it!
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Later.
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Wait, Eriri!
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One more time! Hear me out
just one more time!
**[11:19] ---**
There's nothing more to say.
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I'll be waiting in the
AV room after school.
**[11:28] ---**
It's too late to be saying
that now, Tomoya.
**[11:35] ---**
And now, the presentation of the top
prize in the last month's mock exam.
**[11:37] ---**
You look depressed.
**[11:39] ---**
Did you already get shot down by a girl
on the first day of the new semester?
**[11:41] ---**
It's not that...
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But I'll admit that I'm now
facing a huge crisis.
**[11:47] ---**
Utaha Kasumigaoka-san, Class 3C.
**[11:50] ---**
Between me and the epic project that's worthy
**[11:52] ---**
of the beginning of my new otaku life stands—
**[11:54] ---**
Look, Tomoya!
**[11:56] ---**
Hey, Yoshihiko, you ask a question and then don't listen...
**[11:57] ---**
Check it out, it's Kasumigaoka-senpai!
**[12:06] ---**
Utaha Kasumigaoka,
the smartest girl in school,
**[12:09] ---**
who's never lost her seat as top
in her class in her two years here.
**[12:14] ---**
Always lost in her own world...
**[12:17] ---**
She's always nodding off in class
and never does her homework,
**[12:21] ---**
but I hear the teachers
can't touch her.
**[12:24] ---**
You've never seen her do it, so don't act
like you know what you're talking about.
**[12:28] ---**
She sure is pretty, though...
**[12:31] ---**
She's one of the two top beauties
of Toyogasaki Academy.
**[12:33] ---**
It's not for nothing that they say Sawamura is
the light side to Kasumigaoka's dark side.
**[12:39] ---**
If you start comparing those two, it's
going to come back and haunt you.
**[12:43] ---**
But Kasumigaoka-senpai
has long, black hair!
**[12:47] ---**
And big boobs!
And black stockings!
**[12:51] ---**
Don't you think she's a moe heroine
who's neck and neck with Sawamura-san?
**[12:54] ---**
Look, those are two books you don't
want to judge by their covers.
**[12:58] ---**
I have to say, though, it's weird
how I never see them with guys
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even though they're so sought-after.
**[13:05] ---**
Are they just good at hiding them?
Or do they hate guys?
**[13:08] ---**
Don't ask me.
**[13:10] ---**
True, it wouldn't help to talk
to you about it, Mr. 2D-only.
***SIGN*** There is class in the afternoon too! Don't go home just yet.
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I had a feeling you'd be here.
**[13:32] ---**
You haven't had lunch yet, right?
**[13:37] ---**
Mind if I join you?
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Oh, right.
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Here.
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Bell?
**[13:57] ---**
"Bell"?
**[13:58] ---**
Oo an do azg be zumding, ite?
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Sorry, I don't follow you.
**[14:07] ---**
Well? You want to ask
me something, right?
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That's why you have the gall to
show your face to the girl
**[14:13] ---**
you cast aside
long ago, isn't it?
**[14:15] ---**
Don't say stuff that will give
people the wrong impression!
**[14:21] ---**
Well, what do you think
of my project proposal?
**[14:24] ---**
I've never written one before, so I'd
be glad if you could offer any advice.
**[14:30] ---**
Here's where I ask you for
an even bigger favor.
**[14:34] ---**
I'd be even happier if you came on
board the project, so if you...
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Trash to trash, rubbish to rubbish, ashes to ashes.
**[14:40] ---**
I poured my heart and soul into that!
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Listen, Mr. Ethical.
***SIGN*** Ethics
***SIGN*** Slacker
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It's Tomoya.
***SIGN*** Tomoya
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Your misguided passion, your
woefully ill-advised naiveté,
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and even your wildly misplaced tenacity
aren't without their charms.
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Those all say the exact same thing
in slightly different ways.
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I can offer no counsel to something
that I find undeserving.
**[15:07] ---**
It's that bad?
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I suppose I'd give it a zero
as a project proposal.
**[15:12] ---**
All I see is a mishmash
of parts I've seen elsewhere.
**[15:16] ---**
Look at any part of the story, and the
source material is easily recognizable.
**[15:19] ---**
And what's worse, the whole thing
is of such poor quality
**[15:21] ---**
that it doesn't even rise to
the level of a degraded copy.
**[15:25] ---**
The more of this I read,
all I can do is sigh.
**[15:28] ---**
It's that terrible?
**[15:30] ---**
Anyway, I'm busy right now.
**[15:34] ---**
I can't join you in your spur-of-the-moment
"production house" games.
**[15:37] ---**
It's not spur-of-the-moment!
**[15:41] ---**
I've always wanted
to make a game.
**[15:43] ---**
I've always wanted to get closer to
the creators I've admired, even if just a little.
**[15:49] ---**
Utaha-senpai, remember
what you told me once?
**[15:52] ---**
That I might, or might not, have what
it takes to be a game creator!
**[15:58] ---**
Did I say that?
**[16:01] ---**
Anyway, aren't you just trying to change
the topic with cunning pleasantries?
**[16:05] ---**
To me, those words were like the spider's
thread lowered by Buddha!
**[16:11] ---**
The smartest student in the history
of Toyogasaki Academy, Utaha Kasumigaoka...
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is actually...
**[16:17] ---**
the super-popular high-school author,
**[16:19] ---**
writer of the "Metronome in Love" series,
which has sold over 500,000 copies!
**[16:23] ---**
Utako Kasumi!
**[16:25] ---**
Given that you know that, you should
understand that I really am busy.
**[16:32] ---**
I've heard that you've started on a
new series, right? Congratulations!
**[16:36] ---**
Thank you. Goodbye, then.
**[16:38] ---**
But be that as it may!
**[16:39] ---**
One more time! Hear me out
just one more time...
**[16:44] ---**
I'll be waiting in the
AV room after school today.
**[16:57] ---**
Why did you have to
pick now, Tomoya-kun?
**[17:06] ---**
All done...
**[17:07] ---**
It's done!
**[17:11] ---**
Just you wait, Eriri!
Utaha-senpai!
**[17:34] ---**
Oh... Aki-kun.
**[17:38] ---**
Miss Hasumi says to come
to the faculty room.
**[17:41] ---**
It sounds like she wants you to take
some class materials to the AV room.
**[17:47] ---**
Sorry, but I can't go now.
**[17:49] ---**
There's something that I absolutely
have to do right now.
**[17:53] ---**
Oh, okay. I'll go tell her you said no, then.
**[17:57] ---**
Sorry, tell her I'll come in early
tomorrow and do it then.
**[18:00] ---**
All right, I will.
**[18:02] ---**
Later.
**[18:03] ---**
Oh, and one more thing.
**[18:05] ---**
What is it now?
**[18:07] ---**
Thanks for earlier.
**[18:08] ---**
For what?
**[18:10] ---**
Remember? You picked up my hat
over spring break. That white beret.
**[18:14] ---**
Did I do that? I don't remember.
**[18:17] ---**
I'm not surprised.
It was quite a few days ago.
**[18:21] ---**
See you.
**[18:22] ---**
Yeah, see you tomorrow.
***SIGN*** AV Room
**[18:42] ---**
Just because I'm here doesn't
mean I plan to sign on, got it?
**[18:45] ---**
I'm only hearing you out because
I wouldn't be able to get to sleep
**[18:48] ---**
if I thought you were
waiting here all night.
**[18:50] ---**
That's a laudable sentiment, Sawamura-san.
**[18:56] ---**
I suppose I've never begun
a conversation with you...
**[18:59] ---**
Utaha Kasumigaoka?!
**[19:01] ---**
but would you mind not
calling me by my full name,
**[19:06] ---**
Miss Eriri Spencer Sawamura?
**[19:07] ---**
What are you doing here?
**[19:10] ---**
What a coincidence, Sawamura-san.
**[19:12] ---**
I was just about to ask you
the very same question.
**[19:16] ---**
Wait, you weren't asked here
by Tomoya, were you?
**[19:18] ---**
I had a nagging suspicion when he
said he wanted to make a game,
**[19:22] ---**
but I can't believe he had his eye
on you to do the character designs.
**[19:27] ---**
What's that fool thinking, asking a gloomy
girl like you to write the scenario?
**[19:31] ---**
If you're going to play that card,
**[19:33] ---**
is it wise to entrust the illustrations
to a mega-delinquent
**[19:35] ---**
who is a sham of a proper young lady,
perfect on the outside but rotten to the core?
**[19:39] ---**
Who are you calling
a delinquent?!
**[19:41] ---**
I confess that I am gloomy, but I think
that I'm truer to myself than you are.
**[19:48] ---**
Anyway, don't get roped in by that idiot just
because he was there for you once, you loner!
**[19:54] ---**
You're not one to talk, seeing as how
you're doing exactly the same thing.
**[19:59] ---**
I only came here to stop him!
**[20:01] ---**
No way is a crazy project
like that going to work out!
**[20:05] ---**
If it were that crazy, wouldn't it implode
on its own even if you hadn't come?
**[20:13] ---**
I'm out of here.
**[20:15] ---**
Good day, then.
**[20:16] ---**
Wait, are you going to stay?
**[20:19] ---**
Do you seriously buy
that absurd tall tale of his?
**[20:22] ---**
I don't see how that is
any of your concern.
**[20:29] ---**
Wait a minute!
**[20:37] ---**
What?
**[20:39] ---**
You're...
**[20:40] ---**
You're the...
**[20:42] ---**
I'm the what?
**[20:45] ---**
That hat, it was—
**[20:47] ---**
Looks like we're in the same class again.
Let's have a good year together, Aki-kun.
**[20:52] ---**
*One spring day... I came
face to face with my destiny.*
**[20:57] ---**
Um, Megumi Kano, right?
**[21:01] ---**
It's "Kato."
**[21:02] ---**
Right, that's what I thought it was!
**[21:04] ---**
*But that was apparently a misunderstanding.*
**[22:42] ---**
We've been stood up.
**[22:45] ---**
Yeah...