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Nintendo Switch Indie Game Recommendation List

Writ­ten 4/27/2025, updat­ed 4/27/25

I’ve invest­ed in and played sooo many indie games for the Nin­ten­do Switch since I first got the con­sole (and con­tin­ue to scour the Recent­ly Released page in the eShop for any­thing else fun), that I’m afraid to see exact­ly how much mon­ey I’ve spent on games in total. While many of them have been well worth it, many of them have been total busts that I wish I nev­er wast­ed my mon­ey on. Here, I will list my rec­om­men­da­tions and non-rec­om­men­da­tions along­side those that are just kind of meh, in the hopes that maybe it will help some­one else. Some of them will have a mini review attached

Games I enjoy are:

  • Point-and-click
  • Farm­ing sims
  • Puzzle/mystery adven­tures
  • Par­o­dy
  • Action

I don’t like:

  • First-per­son view (makes me very ill)
  • Frus­trat­ing game­play
  • If game­play is good, I can for­give bad graph­ics, but not if it’s espe­cial­ly nasty
  • Poor trans­la­tions
  • PvP

I also like Visu­al Nov­els and Kairosoft games, but they will be in dif­fer­ent posts. I won’t add first-par­ty games because the vast major­i­ty of the time there’s a rea­son that they are first-par­ty. They’re GOOD. Almost like a breath of fresh air after play­ing lots of indie games.

** denotes Favorite games in the Yes col­umn and ABSOLUTE WASTE OF MONEY in the No col­umn

Yes

  • Arcane Arts Acad­e­my
  • Artifex Mun­di games
  • **Bar­barous: Tav­ern of Emyr
  • Brok the Inves­ti­Ga­tor
  • **Big Farm Sto­ry — a lit­tle short, but great
  • Break­fast Bar Tycoon
  • Bro­ken Sword 5 — The Ser­pen­t’s Curse
  • Cape’s Escape Game series
  • Cook­ing Fes­ti­val
  • **Crowns and Pawns: King­doms of Deceit
  • Dark­estville Cas­tle
  • **Demetrios — The BIG Cyn­i­cal Adven­ture — absolute­ly hilar­i­ous even if the graph­ics are unat­trac­tive. Not bad, just unat­trac­tive, though I think it adds to the silli­ness
  • Dis­ease ~Hid­den Object~
  • Escape Trick: 35 Fate­ful Enig­mas — though it made me hor­ri­bly ill, this game launched my love of puz­zle games. Walk­through
  • **Ever­dream Val­ley — My Walk­through
  • **Fae Farm — Great, sol­id game. A lit­tle short.
  • Fish­ing Par­adiso
  • FiveBN games
  • **Gar­den Sto­ry — VERY cute, awe­some game. Too short!
  • Goe­tia
  • **Irony Cur­tain: From Matryosh­ka with Love — Pos­i­tive­ly hilar­i­ous, awe­some point-and-click
  • **Kitaris Fables — Sim­i­lar to Rag­narok Online
  • Leisure Suit Lar­ry Wet Dreams Don’t Dry -NSFW though most­ly innu­en­do and lewd art. On the low­er end of the rec­om­men­da­tions, but fun over­all
  • **Lost Hori­zon 1 & 2- good point-and-click puz­zle adven­ture
  • Lost Phone game series
  • Mahjong Sto­ries: Vam­pire Romance — Short, enjoy­able
  • Metrop­o­lis: Lux Obscu­ra — a lit­tle bit of NSFW, intense, short game
  • Mom Hid My Game!
  • **My Time at Por­tia — Play this before San­drock
  • **My Time at San­drock
  • One Night Stand
  • Pantsu Hunter — weird yet fun game
  • Pock­et Quest — Not bad, a lit­tle dull
  • **Potion Per­mit
  • Prison Princess — lots of fan ser­vice
  • **Puz­zle Bat­tler! Mirai — Sur­pris­ing­ly awe­some game
  • **Puz­zle Quest: The Leg­end Returns — Fan­tas­tic just like the orig­i­nal
  • **Root Let­ter: Last Answer — NEATO game. Very much enjoyed it. You can play with either ani­mat­ed or live graph­ics. Insight into Japan­ese life
  • Secret Files games series
  • Sen­ti­men­tal Death Loop — dis­turb­ing yet inter­est­ing. My Walk­through
  • Sher­lock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles
  • **The Tes­ta­ment of Sher­lock Holmes — My Walk­through
  • **Song­bird Sym­pho­ny — My Walk­through (incom­plete)
  • **Spir­it of the Island — Good. Short and repet­i­tive, but fun
  • **Strand­ed Sails: Explor­ers of the Cursed Islands — thought I would­n’t like it at first, but it grew on me, and I had a good time play­ing
  • **Sum­mer in Mara — Good game, a lit­tle slow to start. All oth­er games in the series are not near­ly as good
  • **Tell Me Your Sto­ry — Real­ly nice game. My Walk­through
  • The House of Davin­ci Series — Nice puz­zle games. My Walk­through
  • The Mahjong Huntress
  • **The Raven Remas­tered — Very much enjoyed this game and the music
  • Time on Frog Island — short
  • **True Fear: For­sak­en Souls Series — Final­ly releas­ing the 3rd game this year 2025! My Review
  • **Turnip Boy Com­mits Tax Eva­sion — AMAZING game!
  • Turnip Boy Robs a Bank — Good, just not as good as the first game. My Walk­through
  • **Voez — great music/stepmania type of game
  • **Wel­come to Prim­rose Lake
  • **Yon­der: The Cloud Catch­er Chron­i­cles — REALLY liked this game despite some the short­com­ings

Ehh

  • Car Mechan­ic Sim­u­la­tor
  • Cast­away Par­adise — Review
  • Chex Quest HD — I played the holy heck out of the orig­i­nal and for some rea­son the remake does­n’t hit right. It’s some­how bet­ter yet clunky and while it’s cool to have remade such an old game, did­n’t like it much
  • Com­man­der Keen in Keen Dreams — does­n’t hit like it did in the 90s
  • Elec­tri­cian Sim­u­la­tor
  • Enchant­i­ng Mahjong Match — great if you like speed mahjong games and unlock­ing illus­tra­tions of females
  • Fable­dom - Ehh. The con­trols aren’t clear and seem to be made for PC. Could be a good game
  • Fall of the New Age: Col­lec­tor’s Edi­tion — I real­ly enjoy this type of game, but this was very unin­tu­itive. I’ll still buy these types of games, though because I have an insa­tiable appetite for them. My Walk­through
  • Gems of War — made by cre­ators of Puz­zle Quest. I just dis­like things you have to play online PvP
  • Half Past Fate — Good sto­ry, just put me to sleep at least 10 times while play­ing it. Bor­ing… or relax­ing…
  • Horse Tales: Emer­ald Val­ley Ranch — Could be good. Made me hor­ri­bly ill
  • Hun­gry Shark World — fun for about 30 min­utes
  • Japan­ese Nekosama Escape: The Local Train
  • Jew­el Fight: Heroes of Leg­end: Sim­i­lar to Puz­zle Quest, not near­ly as good
  • Lego Worlds — nau­sea!!
  • Long Ago: A Puz­zle Tale — Mis­lead­ing cov­er art. Repet­i­tive and bor­ing puz­zle game
  • Love on Leave — Inter­ac­tive visu­al nov­el game. Played halfway and then stopped
  • Mon­ster Prom: XXL — Ehhh…
  • Nelke & The Leg­endary Alchemists “Ate­liers of the New World” — Put me to sleep a few times, but over­all fun. Ate­lier series crossover
  • Ocean­horn — Sol­id game­play, just could­n’t get over how it’s a shame­less Zel­da knock­off
  • Par­adise Lost — kind of creepy, just an ehh game. Great graph­ics
  • Rem­i­nis­cence in the Night — it’s okay…
  • Rune Lord
  • Sher­lock Purr 2 - Made me ill instant­ly
  • Storm Tale 2 — match‑3 and hid­den object. Just eh.
  • Sun­seed Island — Game con­tent behind pay­wall. Unable to zoom in and out of map, slow. Could be good
  • The Book of Unwrit­ten Tales 2 — It’s actu­al­ly a sol­id game. I just stopped play­ing halfway because I lost inter­est
  • The Future You’ve Been Dream­ing of — It’s good. Dif­fer­ent. Fan-ser­vicey. Just repet­i­tive to unlock every­thing. My Walk­through
  • Lega­cy Games games — They’re okaaaay. Game­play not the best. At least voice act­ing is bet­ter than oth­ers and graph­ics are good
  • Yes­ter­day Ori­gins — It seemed good at first, and then some­thing both­ered me about it, gave me a headache, and then I stopped play­ing it about halfway through
  • Yooka-Laylee — Want­ed to enjoy it. Just kind of fell flat

No

  • Alba - premise seemed cute, but game is insane­ly bor­ing
  • Buried Alive: Breath­less Res­cue — made me ill imme­di­ate­ly
  • **Cop Car Police Sim­u­la­tor Chase — Ter­ri­ble, ter­ri­ble game all around
  • Deponia series — As much as I love point and click par­o­dy games, I dis­liked this whole series. I found it to unin­tu­itive and tremen­dous­ly dis­liked the char­ac­ters
  • Detec­tive Di: The Silk Rose Mur­ders
  • Doo­dle Hunt — I dun­no, I thought I’d enjoy some­thing so sim­ple more, but I hat­ed it.
  • Erob­last — I loved HuniePop and thought this would sim­i­lar. I real­ly hat­ed the char­ac­ters and the whole tex­ting thing
  • **Fred­er­ic game series — I just real­ly real­ly hat­ed these games. Wish I’d nev­er wast­ed mon­ey on them
  • Gal*Gun 2 — Way too annoy­ing
  • **Grow: Song of the Evertree — very dis­ap­point­ed by this game espe­cial­ly hav­ing loved a dif­fer­ent game they made
  • Half Past Fate: Roman­tic Dis­tanc­ing — gave it a try, very bor­ing
  • **Har­vest Life — Quit with­in 5 min­utes of try­ing it. UGLY graph­ics, just awful game
  • Hokko Life — Ani­mal Cross­ing knock­off, bor­ing. My Review
  • **Koa and the Five Pirates of Mara — utter dis­ap­point­ment after play­ing the oth­er games in the series
  • Leisure Suit Lar­ry Wet Dreams Dry Twice — Too much back and forth, los­es the spir­it of the first game, not fun­ny. Unin­tu­itive, over­all repul­sive. Does offer the explic­it, raunchy stuff miss­ing from the first game.
  • Let’s School — Con­trols bet­ter suit­ed to PC
  • Life in Wil­low­dale: Farm Adven­tures — Looks like it should be good. Did­n’t make it past 10 min­utes. Char­ac­ter very unat­trac­tive
  • Lit­tle Friends: Dogs & Cats — Hav­ing played Nin­ten­dogs way back when, this does­n’t even come close. Cute, but bor­ing
  • Nora: The Wannabe Alchemist — don’t both­er
  • Ocean Media games — They’re ugly, puz­zles are bad, and over­all, not rec­om­mend­ed despite being one my favorite gen­res. All I do is spam the hint but­tons
  • OmegaL­abyrinth Life — Nope. Thought it would be good. Lots of boobs.
  • **Orange Sea­son — Tried real­ly hard to like this game, but it’s been out for so long and still unpol­ished. Fell asleep sev­er­al times play­ing it. NOT rec­om­mend­ed.
  • Reg­u­lar Fac­to­ry Escape Room — nau­sea
  • Schem­ing Through the Zom­bie Apoc­a­lypse Ep 2: Caged — Eh. Played 15 min­utes.
  • Sprout Val­ley — looked cute, but extreme­ly con­fus­ing with no direc­tion. Tried to like it.
  • Sword & Fairy Inn 2 — Clunky, not fun
  • Sybe­ria 1 & 2
  • **Tardy — just nope
  • VTM Coter­ies of New York
  • **What Comes After — SUPER short game, all you do is talk to dead things. Tries too hard to be deep. Just bor­ing
  • **Wind­bound — Uggghh! I get frus­trat­ed just look­ing at the name. My Review
  • Yeah! You want “Those Games,” Right? So Here You Go! — Yes, I want­ed the pin pulling game. Yes, I played a few lev­els. No, I do NOT rec­om­mend.

Sentimental Death Loop: 100% Side Story Full Dialogue

writ­ten 8/11/2024, updat­ed 8/19/2024

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Memo 1

No! I’ll be killed by Nemu-chan again if I stay here!

Side Sto­ries: 0

Memo 2 — Akane Part 1

Nemu for sure isn’t her­self right now. We prob­a­bly can’t get through to her so let’s make our way out of here

Side Sto­ries: 5

#1 - 5 Inspec­tions

#2 — 15 inspec­tions

#3 - 30 Inspec­tions

#4 - 65 Inspec­tions

#5 — 100 Inspec­tions

Memo 3 — Akane Part 2

Let’s find a way out, alive. It’ll be fine. We’ll def­i­nite­ly find a way.

Side Sto­ries: 4

Extra: 1

#1 — 5 Inspec­tions

Akane: “Right. I guess I’ll say it now. I don’t know what’s going to hap­pen next, and I don’t want to have any regrets.

Noa: “Don’t be so neg­a­tive. We’ll both get out of here in one piece, alright?”

Akane: “Aha­ha. That’s true, but regard­less, lis­ten. When we first met… Remem­ber when you offered to help me when I was busy with my assign­ments? Hon­est­ly, I thought you had an ulte­ri­or motive and I was sus­pi­cious of you.”

Noa: “Hee­hee. Real­ly?”

Akane: “I thought you’d solic­it me into some strange busi­ness or some­thing after help­ing me out a lit­tle.”

Noa: “Th-that’s pret­ty mean of you to think of me that way…”

Akane: “I know. That’s why I have to apol­o­gize now. I’m sor­ry for doubt­ing you at that time. But I soon real­ized that you’re gen­tle and pure-heart­ed. You were only help­ing me out of kind­ness. Which is why I vowed to help you if you were ever in trou­ble. But you don’t seem to run into trou­ble that often. I was at a loss ’cause I did­n’t have a chance to return the favor.”

Noa: “You don’t have to wor­ry about that, you know.”

Akane: “So, although it may sound a lit­tle inap­pro­pri­ate, it’s good to final­ly be able to help you. I’m actu­al­ly a lit­tle hap­py.”

Noa: “Akane-chan… Thank you.”

Akane: “Oh, but you know what? There was one time where I won­dered if you were in trou­ble! Not too long ago, there was a time when you did­n’t come to uni­ver­si­ty for a month, right? I could­n’t find you, no mat­ter how much I tried, nor could I con­tact you. I was real­ly wor­ried, then.”

Noa: “I’m sor­ry, I took some time off for my health.”

Akane: “Even then, you could have at least con­tact­ed me. Do let me know if some­thing like that hap­pens again, okay?”

Noa: “Hee­hee. I will.”

#2 — 15 Inspec­tions

Akane: “Nemu real­ly does­n’t social­ize much, does she? I’ve nev­er seen her talk­ing to any­one oth­er than us.”

Noa: “Yeah… It seems she real­ly can’t get close to oth­ers.”

Akane: “More like she gives the impres­sion that she might be reject­ing inter­act­ing with peo­ple. I won­der if she was always like that?”

Noa: “Oh, but she said she’d had some­one oth­er than me in her room before. So I think there was at least one per­son she could call friend.”

Akane: “I see. But you’ve nev­er met them, right? Maybe it’s some­one from her high school, or from anoth­er uni­ver­si­ty.”

Noa: “Hmm. I won­der. Today was my first time hear­ing about it, too.”

#3 — 30 Inspec­tions

Noa: “I’ve always admired you, Akane-chan. I want to become more socia­ble like you.”

Akane: ““Real­ly? I think you’re socia­ble enough, though.”

Noa: “I’m try­ing my best, but I think I’m still pret­ty shy. I hard­ly used to talk to oth­ers. I’d always wait for some­one else to make the first move.”

Akane: “Oh? That’s sur­pris­ing.”

Noa: “It’s fine once I’m friends with some­one, but it’s pret­ty tough for me to get to that stage. Even in Uni­ver­si­ty, the only peope I can call friends are you, Suzu­ka-chan and… Nemu-chan…”

Noa: “…”

Akane: “It isn’t your fault, Noa. It was Nemu who ruined the friend­ship.”

Noa: “…Nemu-chan does­n’t think so, though. I won­der what I did to Nemu-chan…”

Post-Chase Event — 60 Inves­ti­ga­tions

This does­n’t count towards Side Sto­ries and trig­gers right after the Chase Event

Akane: “You met Nemu just before you met me and Suzu­ka, right?”

Noa: “Yeah. It was when we just became sec­onds years. I noticed that Nemu-chan was always alone, so I plucked up the courage and talked to her. It felt like there was always dis­tance between us, but it dis­ap­peared after we talked a bunch.”

Akane: “You can’t leave a per­son stew­ing in their wor­ries all alone, can you?”

Noa: “That’s not true… I was.. the same as Nemu-chan. I was very iso­lat­ed when I first start­ed uni­ver­si­ty.”

Akane: “Huh? Real­ly?”

Noa: “Yeah. I could­n’t fit in with my new envi­ron­ment. I did­n’t know [sic] to make friends, either. But one per­son reached out to me back then, and it made me extreme­ly hap­py. We became quick friends, and my life at uni­ver­si­ty was­n’t lone­ly any­more. I was hop­ing I could become like her. That’s why I reached out to Nemu-chan.”

Akane: “I see. And who’s the one who reached out to you?”

Noa: “Ah, she’s–”

*NOISE*

Akane: “Shh. Nemu might be near.”

Noa: “Right…”

Akane: *Sigh* “Seri­ous­ly, I won­der why Nemu is doing this. All you did was be her friends. You did absolute­ly noth­ing wrong.”

Noa: “…To be hon­est… Since we became friends, there have been times when her feel­ings towards me felt like a bur­den. Her expres­sion would turn real­ly scary when I talked to you… She always want­ed to be alone with me and would get impa­tient when oth­ers were around us.”

Akane: “I see. So you were aware of that too. Sure, Nemu may be pos­ses­sive, but she’s def­i­nite­ly tak­ing it way too far. The Nemu now is not nor­mal.”

Noa: “…Yeah.”

#4 — 120 Inves­ti­ga­tions

Noa: ” You and Suzu­ka-chan are child­hood friends, aren’t you?

Akane: “It’d be more accu­rate to say we haven’t been able to get rid of each oth­er since high school. We have com­plete­ly oppo­site per­son­al­i­ties, but some­how we’re always on the same page. Suzuka’s seri­ous and super detail-ori­ent­ed. On the oth­er hand, I’m care­less and always go with the flow. I some­times won­der why we’re always togeth­er.”

Noa: “Hee­hee. But I think I get it. Some­times you get along bet­ter when you have dif­fer­ent hob­bies and per­son­al­i­ties.”

Akane: “Right? No mat­ter how much she com­plained when we stud­ied for entrance exams, she’d always help me any­way. I don’t know if I’d even be in uni­ver­si­ty now if it weren’t for Suzu­ka. Which is why I was wor­ried about her. It seems there’s some­thing on her mind recent­ly. I’d talk her through any prob­lems as much as need­ed, but she won’t tell me, no mat­ter how many times I ask. Suzuka’s strange­ly stub­born when it comes to cer­tain things…”

Noa: “I’m sure that’s because she does­n’t want you to wor­ry.”

Akane: “You might be right, but I hope she can at least rely on me a lit­tle… We’re friends, after all.”

Con­ver­sa­tion When Inspect­ing Nemu’s Phone

Akane: By the way, Suzu­ka seems to be think­ing a lot about Nemu lately.It’s not like I noticed a par­tic­u­lar incident–she just seemed to be brood­ing over some­thing.

Noa: You might be right. Suzu­ka-chan is usu­al­ly qui­et, but she’s been espe­cial­ly qui­et recent­ly.

Akane: I won­der if some­thing hap­pened between her and Nemu-chan?

Noa: Those two are real­ly close friends, aren’t they?

Akane: Yeah, Suzu­ka rarely takes the ini­tia­tive like she does with Nemu. She gen­er­al­ly does­n’t want to get involved with oth­ers. I don’t think it’s because they have sim­i­lar inter­ests or any­thing. Maybe they’re jsut on the same wave­length. …*Sii­i­igh*

Noa: What’s wrong?

Akane: I won­der how this all hap­pened…? The four of us always got along so well and hung out nor­mal­ly until all this…

Noa: Yeah… But I’m sure it’ll return to how it used to be. The four of us togeth­er, just like old times.

Akane: …Yeah

Memo 4 — Akane Part 3

…Any­way, let’s focus on get­ting out of this house for now

Side Sto­ries: 2

#1 - 10 Inves­ti­ga­tions

Noa: Akane-chan, why are you help­ing me?

Akane: Huh?! You’re ask­ing me that now?! You’ve helped me lots in the past, so I just wan­na return the favor. Besides, we’re friends, so of course I’d lend a hand.

Noa: No, it’s not as easy as you make is sound. Like… There’s a chance you might die too… So why… would you risk your life to help me?

Akane: I’d always thought of myself as hav­ing many friends. Peo­ple usu­al­ly say yes if I ask to hang out. I think I have more phone con­tacts than most peo­ple. But I real­ized that friends who’d lend a help­ing hand in times of need are very far and few between. Suzu­ka and you are about the only peo­ple who’d go that far with­out expect­ing any­thing in return. I could nev­er aban­don friends like that…

Noa: …Thank you, Akane-chan.

Akane: There’s no need to thank me. Besides, you’re help­ing me now too, aren’t you? Or rather, we’re help­ing each oth­er get through this cri­sis.

Noa: Yeah. We’re def­i­nite­ly gonna get out of here togeth­er.

#2 - 35 Inves­ti­ga­tions

Noa: Nemu-chan did­n’t real­ly open her heart to me when I first reached out. But I can relate to that pain. I’ve expe­ri­enced lone­li­ness before. It’s tough to offer peo­ple that trust when you’re lone­ly for a long time… I’d be too afraid to deep­en my rela­tion­ships with any­one.

Akane: Yeah. I think I can under­stand that feel­ing.

Noa: I could­n’t leave Nemu-chan alone. I could­n’t think of what she felt as irrel­e­vant to me. But some­how, I could­n’t close the dis­tance between us… And then, I talked to a trust­ed friend about Nemu-chan. About how I could get clos­er to her. It was thanks to that advice that I got to become good friends with Nemu-chan.

Akane: I see. Was that the same friend who first reached out to you?

Noa: Yep. She was the friend who res­cued me from lone­li­ness.

Akane: She’s your sav­ior, isn’t she? By that log­ic, then you’re my sav­ior. You need to intro­duce me to that friend of yours once we get out of here. I’m sure we’ll become good friends, too.

Noa: Yeah, I’d be hap­py to intro­duce you. She’s a great cook too. The recipe for the lasagna I made today is also– … …Huh?

Akane: What’s wrong?

Noa: …Nah. It’s noth­ing. Noth­ing at all. (…) (.…..) (Who… was she again…? Why can’t I remem­ber her name or face?)

Memo 5 — Enter Suzuka

There’s some­thing here that can dis­arm the trap at the entrance. Fol­low me.

Side Sto­ries: 4

Extra: 1

#1 - 10 Inves­ti­ga­tions

Noa: You’re so good with your hands. The way you com­bine things and turn them into some­thing com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent is amaz­ing. I could nev­er do that.

Suzu­ka: I’ve always been like this.My mom was good at sewing and things. I start­ed out by copy­ing her and before I knew it… I’ve… even giv­en Nemu a hand­made doll as a gift before.

Noa: Oh, are you talk­ing about the lit­tle cat plushie on her bag?

Suzu­ka: Hee­hee. That’s right. She said she likes cats. It was­n’t meant to be any­thing spe­cial, but Nemu seemed to real­ly like it. She said she’s trea­sure it for­ev­er and it’s been on her bag ever since. See­ing her smile like that made me so hap­py. I’d like to see that smile on Nemu’s face again…

Noa: Yeah…

Post-Chase Event - 30 Inves­ti­ga­tions

This does­n’t count towards Side Sto­ries and trig­gers right after the Chase Event

Suzu­ka: I still can’t believe that Nemu is seri­ous­ly try­ing to kill you.

Noa: Yeah…

Suzu­ka: You know, she real­ly liked you

Noa: I used to like her, too. No, wait… Even now, I think we can still go back to being friends.

Suzu­ka: Impos­si­ble. There’s no way things can go back to nor­mal after some­thing like this.

Noa: You might be right…

Suzu­ka: …I can’t. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to for­give you, Noa.

Noa: Huh…?

Suzu­ka: If you like Nemu, then why would you do some­thing to hurt her?

Noa: I did­n’t mean to hurt her.

Suzu­ka: Stop it. We’ve come this far. Don’t lie to me now.

Noa: I’m not lying. I’d nev­er try to hurt her…

Suzu­ka: …

Noa: Wait. Do you know some­thing I don’t?

Suzu­ka: …

Noa: Please tell me if you do! What did I do to Nemu-chan?! What did I do to dri­ve Nemu-chan to this point…?

Suzu­ka: …Either way, I won’t let Nemu kill any­one. That’s why I’ll get you out of this house, what­ev­er it takes. Let’s talk about this again… when we get out of here.

Noa: …

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Suzu­ka: I remem­ber first meet­ing you when Akane intro­duced us right at the begin­ning of sec­ond year. She said she knew straight away that you were a kind per­son. She said that you were gen­uine, straight­for­ward, and always think­ing about oth­ers. And she was right.

Noa: R‑really? I don’t know about that.

Suzu­ka: Have more con­fi­dence. You’re def­i­nite­ly a kind per­son (this is after accus­ing her of pur­pose­ful­ly hurt­ing Nemu…). Espe­cial­ly com­pared to me.

Noa: I think you’re kind too, like how you’re always help­ing Akane-chan with her stud­ies.

Suzu­ka: Hee­hee. Well, I don’t have much choice. Akane might have to repeat the year if I don’t help her. But I don’t get it, Noa. Why would you…

Noa: Huh?

Suzu­ka: The kinder you are, the more it hurts when you betray her. I… want­ed to trust you, but I can’t. Not any­more.

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Suzu­ka: I remem­ber when you intro­duced me to Nemu like it was yes­ter­day. She could­n’t look peo­ple in the eye. It was like she was always afraid of some­thing… She seemed to avoid con­tact with oth­ers. that was my impres­sion at first. That’s why I start­ed out by keep­ing my dis­tance. I fig­ured that it’d be best not to get involved.

Noa: I see…

Suzu­ka: But one day, she sud­den­ly called out to me. Her face was so pale. She said she’d found an injured cat. She want­ed to help it, but she did­n’t know what to do. I hap­pened to be near­by, so she end­ed up ask­ing for my help. I did­n’t know what to do either, but we checked if there were any shel­ters near­by and took the cat there togeth­er. She looked… so relieved when the cat was final­ly tak­en in. And that’s when I real­ized that Nemu is a nice per­son, she’d just a lit­tle awk­ward.

Noa: Yeah, I think so too.

Suzu­ka: I took things into my own hands after that and start­ed talk­ing to Nemu more fre­quent­ly. And as we got clos­er, I start­ed to like her more and more. I found out about her good sides. That’s why I can’t bring myself to hate her, despite every­thing.

Noa: I… get it…

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Suzu­ka: What do you think about Nemu?

Noa: I know how things are now, but… She was a dear friend. If there’s been a mis­un­der­stand­ing, I want to clear it up.

Suzu­ka: A dear friend, huh? I don’t know how you can even say that.

Noa: Huh?

Suzu­ka: Nemu got bul­lied relent­less­ly in the past. Do you know about that?

Noa: I had a feel­ing she went through some­thing dif­fi­cult in the past, but I don’t know the specifics.

Suzu­ka: Even though she’s your dear friend?

Noa: Just because you’re friends with some­one does­n’t mean you know ever­thing about them

Suzu­ka: You don’t know enough about her. Even I know more than you do. …No. You’re just pre­tend­ing not to know, aren’t you?

Noa: What do you mean?

Suzu­ka: I’ll tell you only this. I’m on Nemu’s side, so I’ll nev­er betray her. …But she nev­er…

Memo 6

Let’s talk about this again… when we get out of here.

Side Sto­ries: 0

Memo 7 — Just Noa

(Suzu­ka has been act­ing strange since the start… But I did­n’t expect for her to do this.)

Side Sto­ries: 2

Extra: 1

Suzu­ka Pro­fess­es to Nemu

Suzu­ka: …Yes. I was the one who sent Nemu that pho­to.

Noa: (What?! Suzu­ka-chan did?)

Nemu: …

Suzu­ka: You an Rina­mi were friends. You and the one who betrayed and hurt Nemu in High School

Nemu: …How do you know about this?

Suzu­ka: That’s because… I like you. I want­ed to know more about you, so I did a lot of research. I talked to peo­ple who used to know you, took a trip to your old school… I stud­ied every­thing about you. I even col­lect­ed old pho­tos of you and your class­mates. I worked real­ly hard to find out every­thing about you, you know? All so I could stay the one who under­stands you best.

Nemu: …

Suzu­ka: You were best friends with Rina­mi in high school, weren’t you?

Nemu: …Yeah. I real­ly liked Rina­mi-chan. She was the only one who stood by me when I was being bul­lied… But it was all a lie.

Suzu­ka: Yeah. It was all a lie. Rina­mi pro­tect­ed you and sup­port­ed you when you were get­ting severe­ly bul­lied. At least, that’s what it looked like.

Nemu: … One day, I came into the class­room to find Rina­mi-chan laugh­ing with the girls who used to bul­ly me. I nev­er knew she was friends with them up until that point… I did­n’t under­stand what was going on. The only thing I could do was stand there. And then Rina­mi-chan came up to me and said… … “Did you real­ly think we were friends? It was all for show. All for today. Just look at her, she’s trem­bling. Are you sad? Aha­ha. You guys want­ed to see her like this, right? It was sure hard act­ing like your friend, but I guess this pathet­ic face makes it all worth­while.”

Suzu­ka: She became your friend just to betrayy­ou? That’s awful. That’s not even human.

Nemu: …

Suzu­ka: You trans­ferred to a dif­fer­ent school adter that but did­n’t know she went to the same uni­ver­si­ty as you.

Nemu: When did you find out about that?

Suzu­ka: About three months ago when I was tak­ing pho­tos of Noa and Rina­mi in secret. I was real­ly shocked too. I did­n’t expect Noa to be friends with Rina­mi. But then, every­thing began to make sense. Noa told me about how she first got to know you. She said she approached you because of her friend. And that friend was Rina­mi. That’s why… I thought the same thing might hap­pen again.

Nemu: Noa-chan, she… She became friends with some­one like me. It was all so strange at first. How could she care about me of all peo­ple? She said it was because she’d gone through the same thing in the past, but I could­n’t real­ly believe her. But she nev­er gave up and kept talk­ing to me… And before I knew it, I start­ed to open up to her too. Hah… Aha­ha­ha­ha­ha­ha! I’m such an idiot. I can’t believe I fell for the same trick twice. And due to the same per­son, no less…

Suzu­ka: Noa got close to you jsut to betray you. Just like Rina­mi did… They get you to trust them, time and time again… only to laugh at you when you find out about their betray­al.

Nemu: …I knew it. I’ve know ever since I saw that pho­to.

Suzu­ka: It’s not your fault. Rina­mi is the worst for work­ing Noa behind your back. But don’t wor­ry. I’m here for you. I’ll always be the only one on your side, no mat­ter what. I’m all you need, Nemu. And you’re the only one for me.

Nemu: …

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Noa: Nemu-chan… I can’t blame her for jump­ing to con­clu­sions. After all, I’m friends with the per­son who betrayed her… I did­n’t know, but I must have hurt her an awful lot… I’m sor­ry, Nemu-chan. …But I can’t just let you kill me like this. Now that I know it’s all a mis­un­der­stand­ing, I’ve got to stay alive and clear it up. If I don’t, you’ll just con­tin­ue to suf­fer.

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Noa: I can’t believe that about Rina­mi-chan. Did she real­ly do such ter­ri­ble things to Nemu-chan? She’s the one who saved me from my lone­li­ness at uni­ver­si­ty. She said that she want­ed to meet Nemu-chan when I talked about her. She want­ed to work togeth­er to get Nemu-chan to smile again. …Ah. But when we went to actu­al­ly meet Nemu-chan in per­son… her face turned pale the moment she caught a glimpse of her. And when I told her Nemu-chan’s name, she said that some­thing had come up and went home. …I want to talk to you, Rina­mi-chan…

Memo 8 — Suzuka, GET!

This diary has mag­ic pow­ers, so there might be some­thing in the base­ment.

Side Sto­ries: 0

Extras: 2

Con­vinc­ing Suzu­ka

Suzu­ka: Noa?!

Noa: Wait, Suzu­ka-chan! Lis­ten to me! I nev­er intend­ed to hurt Nemu-chan by team­ing up with Rina­mi-chan! I gen­uine­ly want­ed to be friends with her! You should know, right?@ If you real­ly do know Nemu-chan bet­ter than any­one!

Suzu­ka: …

Noa: Nemu-chan is def­i­nite­ly shy, stuck in her own head, and her feel­ings may be a bit too intense some­times. But she’s got plen­ty of good points, too. She mes­saged me every sin­gle day when I was sick and had to take a month off uni­ver­si­ty. She’d ask me how I was feel­ing and tell me about what had been going on. I could­n’t real­ly prop­er­ly reply, but she still con­tact­ed me every day with­out fail. You have no idea how much those mes­sages helped me… I don’t think I would’ve been able to leave that room if it was­n’t for Nemu-chan. What’s weird about want­i­ng to be friends with a per­son like that?

Suzu­ka: …

Noa: Suzu­ka-chan. You said that you want­ed to save Nemu-chan, did­n’t you? If that’s what you want, then let’s work togeth­er. We have to clear up this mis­un­der­stand­ing. Oth­er­wise, Nemu-chan will keep hurt­ing.

Suzu­ka: … You know, Nemy nev­er paid any atten­tion to me. I like her so much, but it did­n’t mat­ter how much I did for her. She nev­er rec­i­p­ro­cat­ed my feel­ings. But no won­der. I turned out to be the one tor­ment­ing Nemu the most.

Noa: Suzu­ka-chan…

Suzu­ka: I always knew. I knew that you had no inten­tion of betray­ing her. You’re a kind per­son… But I want­ed to make Nemu mine, so I blamed every­thing on you. Even though you’re my friend too…

Noa: …

Suzu­ka: I’m the worst. I want­ed to save Nemu, but I’m the one caus­ing her the worst pain/ I’m sor­ry… I’m so sor­ry, Noa.

Noa: I for­give you, so let’s work togeth­er. For Nemu’s sake too. We can clear all of this up if we work togeth­er. And then we’ll go back to being friends, just like before.

Suzu­ka: I’m not sure if I can go back to how things were, know­ing what I did.

Noa: I’m sure we can. It’s not like we real­ly hate each oth­er. I mean, I still think of you as my friend.

Suzu­ka: Noa… All right. Let’s work togeth­er this time.

Noa: The diary is lead­ing us to the base­ment…

Suzu­ka: What is this?

Noa: The diary has mag­ic pow­ers, so there might be some­thing in the base­ment.

Base­ment Con­fronta­tion with Nemu

Noa: Nemu-chan!

Suzu­ka: Nemu, please lis­ten to what we have to say!

Nemu: Aha­ha­ha­ha­ha­ha. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Act­ing like my friend just to betray me. Who knew you’d be one of them, Suzu­ka-chan. I’m so stu­pid. Stu­pid, stu­pid, stu­pid, stu­pid, stu­pid, stu­pid, stu­pid, stu­pid. I thought you were dif­fer­ent, Suzu­ka-chan. But I guess not.

Suzu­ka: Nemu, lis­ten! Noa did­n’t betray you! Noa and Rina­mi are friends, but she’s not try­ing to trick you! I was the one who sent that pho­to and tried to make you think that way… I was the one who betrayed you. Noa did­n’t do any­thing wrong.

Nemu: …you should die, then.

Suzu­ka: *Gets stabbed* Argh…

Noa: Suzu­ka-chan!

Suzu­ka: I’m sor­ry, Noa… Nemu… Sor­ry…

Nemu: … Rina­mi-chan was my best friend. She lied to me and betrayed me… And now my heart is com­plete­ly dead. Light, col­or, sound… Every­thing fad­ed away from my world on that day. The only thing I could do was breathe… I had to kill my own emo­tions just so I did­n’t feel any pain. Noa-chan… You were the one who brought my dead heart back to life.

Noa: Nemu-chan…

Nemu: But then, my heart died again when I found out about you and Rina­mi-chan.

Noa: I’m sor­ry, Nemu-chan. I did­n’t know about what she did to you. That must have real­ly hurt you. I know it’s already too late, but I’m real­ly sor­ry. I just want to clear up this mis­un­der­stand­ing. I did­n’t get close to you to betray you. I real­ly want­ed to be friends…

Nemu: Then why did­n’t you me intro­duce [sic] to Rina­mi-chan? You intro­duced me to Akane-chan and Suzu­ka-chan, after all. But you nev­er men­tioned Rina­mi-chan. She nev­er came up in any of our con­ver­sa­tions.

Noa: I‑it was­n’t like that. I did try to intro­duce you to her, once.

Nemu: You did say that there was some­one who save you from lone­li­ness. Thought you would bring her along. But we nev­er end­ed up meet­ing. And you nev­er men­tioned her name. Why did­n’t you tell me her name?

Noa: I did tell Rina­mi-chan about you, but it did­n’t seem to mat­ter if she knew your name or not. So I nev­er told Rina­mi-chan your name the day you we [sic] were sup­posed to meet, either.

Nemu: On the day we were sup­posed to meet… That was when you were going to tell me, was­n’t it? You were gonna laugh at how stu­pid I was just like Rina­mi-chan did before.

Noa: N‑no way! I’d nev­er do some­thing like that!

Nemu: …I’m sick of this. I’m sick of get­ting betrayed by my friends. Even Suzu­ka-chan… Ugh…I’m sick of this. Sick of hat­ing my friends. Resent­ing them. Loathing them. Sus­pect­ing them.

Noa: Nemu-chan…

Nemu: Just you watch, Noa-chan. I’ll my own wish come true. *Stabs her­self in the neck*

Noa: Nemu-chan?! Wh-why are you doing this?!

Nemu: I don’t care any­more… Ugh… If only… I did­n’t have friends… *Slits her own throat* …

Noa: Nemu…chan… How… How did things turn out like this? …There’s no point in stay­ing alive if Nemu-chan and Suzu­ka-chan are dead… Leav­ing this house now would mean leav­ing every­thing unsolved. I don’t want to lose my friends again. So. So… This is what I’m sup­posed to do…!! *Stabs her­self*

Memo 9 — Return of Akane

All right. Hon­est­ly, I can’t wrap my head around what you’re say­ing, but how can I say no when you help, Noa?

Side Sto­ries: 3

Extra: 1

Post-Chase Event - 30ish Inspec­tions

Akane: Nemu is act­ing a lit­tle weird. She’s not her nor­mal self. I don’t want to think of her as some­one who’d kill her friends… but I’m begin­ning to believe what you said.

Noa: Oh yeah. Akane-chan, don’t have [sic] some par­ty pop­pers on you? The ones with the weird mon­key design on them.

Akane: …Are you for real? I lit­er­al­ly just bought them ear­li­er as a sur­prise. I can’t doubt you any­more if you got that right. I believe you. You real­ly are repeat­ing the same thing over and over.

Noa: Hee­hee. Thank you, Akane-chan.

Akane: You real­ly are strong, huh, Noa? You’re not try­ing to escape– you’re try­ing to clear up the mis­un­der­stand­ing with Nemu.

Noa: I just don’t want to lose a friend.

Akane: But wait. Even if you reach an under­stand­ing, the curse won’t be bro­ken until Nemu gets her wish, right? Isn’t that kin­da bad? If we don’t break the curse, the loop will nev­er end…

Noa: I’ll prob­a­bly be fine. I’ve got an idea. So you just focus on mak­ing things right with Nemu-chan.

Akane: Ah, okay. Got it. I’ll give it my all, too.

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Akane: Hey, tell me.

Noa: No way.

Akane: But I’m curi­ous.

Noa: Don’t wor­ry about it.

Akane: You say that, but–

Noa: Stop it, I’ll get mad.

Akane: Don’t say that. Look, I’m beg­ging you! Please tell me! How many times have I died? How did it hap­pen?

Noa: … I told you stop that even if you’re jok­ing. You’ve got no idea how painful it is just remem­ber­ing…

Akane: S‑Sorry. I total­ly got car­ried away

#2 — 70 Inves­ti­ga­tions

#3 - 215 Inves­ti­ga­tions

Akane: Erm, this might sound a lit­tle weird, but I want to apol­o­gize to you on behalf of Suzu­ka. I’m sor­ry that she tied to trap you with the pho­to that she sent Nemu. I’m real­ly sor­ry.

Noa: It’s okay. I don’t real­ly mind any more.

Akane: Suzuka’s earnest and straight­for­ward, but when she gets into some­thing, it becomes all she can think about. Her feel­ings for Nemu are the real deal. That’s why I don’t think she could stop her­self.

Noa: You sure do know Suzu­ka-chan well.

Akane: Aha­ha. ‘Cause I’m stuck with her, real­ly. I know almost exact­ly what she’s think­ing. I can feel it in my core. So, I know Suzu­ka must feel awful now after real­iz­ing what she did was wrong. Noa, I hope you can for­give her. This might sound a lit­tle self-cen­tered, but she does­n’t real­ly hate yo–

Noa: Yeah, she’s my friend too. That has­n’t changed, even now.

Akane: …Thank you, Noa.

Memo 10 — END GAME

Yeah, Suzu­ka-chan’s my friend too. That has­n’t changed, even now.

Side Sto­ries: 0

Extra: 4

Secret Room Scene with Suzu­ka

Suzu­ka: Noa. And Akane…

Akane: Suzu­ka, stay calm. Please lis­ten to what we have to say.

Suzu­ka: It’s too late now. I can’t turn back.

Noa: That’s not true. We can still start over if you want to.

Suzu­ka: You’re only say­ing that because you don’t know what I did.

Noa: I do know. I know every­thing.

Suzu­ka: You…?

Noa: And even know­ing that, I still believe in you. We can be friends again.

Suzu­ka: Noa… I tried to trap you. I even sent a pho­to to Nemu to mis­lead her. All because I could­n’t con­trol my feel­ings.

Akane: I knew you’d regret it. I was right.

Noa: Suzu­ka-chan, you don’t have to wor­ry about what you did to me. I just want you to help save Nemu-chan.

Suzu­ka: Huh…

Noa: I need every­one to help clear up what Nemu’s mis­un­der­stand­ing. So please. Please help us help Nemu-chan.

Suzu­ka: Noa… Help Nemu, huh. There’s no way I could do that on my own. But if we work togeth­er… If we have Noa…

Akane: You don’t have to apol­o­gize. I already did it for you ear­li­er.

Suzu­ka: …I see. Then I’ll thank you. Thank you, Noa. Thank you, Akane. I’ll go with you. I’ll make up for what I’ve done and… become friends with Noa again. And I’ll save Nemu.

Noa: Yeah. We’re final­ly all togeth­er, so it’ll def­i­nite­ly work out this time.

Suzu­ka: So what are we going to do now?

Noa: Wait a minute. I want to clear up every­thing that Nemu-chan’s mis­tun­der­stand­ing, but how do we do that? There must be some­thing in the base­ment that can help us. Let’s go check it out.

Akane: I don’t like play­ing along with that cursed diary, but I guess we don’t have a choice.

Bad End­ing: Acts with Akane and Suzu­ka

Nemu: Every­one’s here. Run­ning to help a friend in need… What a beau­ti­ful bond you all have.

Noa: Yeah. I think of both Akane-chan and Suzu­ka-chan as my friends, too. But this isn’t for me. It’s for you, Nemu-chan. You’re our friend too.

Nemu: …

Akane: We’re here to clear any­thing up with you.

Suzu­ka: And then we can go back to being friends.

Nemu: …There’s no way we can do that.

Noa: Nemu-chan, lis­ten. I did­n’t become friends with you to lie and betray you. …

Nemu: …And? Is that it?

Noa: …No. (This is no good. It’ll just end the same way as always. I’ve tried to con­vince her so many times, but it nev­er works… It does­n’t mat­ter how much I try and explain myself. it’ll nev­er reach Nemu-chan’s heart.)

Nemu: …

Noa: That’s why I should… No. That’s why what we should do is… …Nemu-chan, let’s eat lasagna togeth­er some time soon.

Nemu: …Huh?

Noa: We nev­er end­ed up eat­ing that lasagna I made. I’ll look for a nice place to get some. What do you think?

Nemu: What… What are you talk­ing about?

Akane: I see. If that’s how it is… I saw those ear­rings you said you want­ed at a store by the sta­tion. Do you remem­ber? You want­ed to buy them, but hey end­ed up sell­ing out before you could. They got some new stock recent­ly, so let’s make time to get them togeth­er. I’m sure I saw them. I have a good mem­o­ry, after all.

Nemu: …

Suzu­ka: Even if they sell out again, I’ll just make a sim­i­lar pair. I’ve made ear­rings before. Plus, i can copy the design from what Akane remem­bers.

Noa: Then let’s get match­ing pairs!

Akane: Oh, that sounds good!

Nemu: … …What’s this about? What are you guys try­ing to do? Don’t you under­stand the sit­u­a­tion you’re in? I’m try­ing to kill you!

Noa: Oh, okay. But we were just talk­ing about mak­ing plans with you

Nemu: E‑exactly. But why can you…

Noa: Because we want to stay friends with you.

Nemu: …

Noa: Instead of try­ing to con­vince you with just words, I want you to know how much I wan­na spend time with you. I thought our feel­ings might reach you bet­ter if we do this. So tell us about what you wan­na do, too. It’s fun to make plans, espe­cial­ly when they’re to spend time with your friends. What do you want to do with us?

Nemu: Even if you say that, I… I‑I’m.. I… …This is the only way.

Suzu­ka: Look out! Duck! *Trap door opens under Noa but she leaps aside*

Akane: Ah! That was close… We would’ve been done for if it was­n’t for Suzu­ka.

Noa: Nemu-chan…

Suzu­ka: Can our voic­es no longer reach her?

Noa: No way. There’s no way that’s true. Because despite every­thing, I can still pic­ture us four get­ting along togeth­er…

Akane: Yeah… Me too.

Noa: I’m sure that Nemu-chan has­n’t for­got­ten the fun times we spent togeth­er either. We’re still friends, so our voic­es will sure­ly reach her…

Suzu­ka: …Yeah.

Nemu: … You guys would… still say such nice things…? But it does­n’t mat­ter. Go home. I don’t care any­more… It’s too late now. It’s already too late. I’m… Go home… and for­get about me. I’m going to dis­ap­pear here.

Noa: We can’t do that.

Suzu­ka: We’re here to help you

Akane: There’s no way we could aban­don you.

Noa: Please, Nemu-chan. Some­where inside of you. I know you know how we feel. So please, don’t give up!

Nemu: Noa-chan… … You guys… Will you for­give me? Yes! I’m so sor­ry every­one… I’m so sor­ry…

Noa: Me too. I’m sor­ry for hurt­ing you, Nemu-chan.

Akane: Seri­ous­ly, Nemu. You’re such a hand­ful.

Suzu­ka: But I’m so glad that you came back to us, Nemu…

Noa: Yeah. The four of us are togeth­er again. I’m so hap­py. This might be the best birth­day I’ve ever had.

Nemu: Noa-chan…

Akane: Haha­ha. A lot of stuff hap­pened, but alls well that ends well. Got­ta love a hap­py end­ing.

Suzu­ka: Yeah. It took a while, but we’re final­ly all friends again.

Noa: Yup. Isn’t that right, Nemu-chan?

Nemu: Yes, Noa-chan.

Akane: Shall we head back then? We’ve got some cake to eat.

Noa: Hee­hee. We must­n’t for­get that.

Nemu: … *creepy eyes flash*

Noa: What– *Anoth­er trap door opens under Noa swal­low­ing her this time*

Akane: Noa?!

Suzu­ka: Noa!!

Nemu: …Aha. Aha­ha­hah­haah­ha­ha­ha­ha­ha­ha­hah­ha­ha.

Noa: (No way… Nemu-chan, why?)

Nemu: Go back to being friends? I don’t want that. Don’t you get it ? I was betrayed by my best friend, Rina­mi. So I don’t need any friends. I can’t be scared if I don’t have any friends to begin with.

Suzu­ka: N‑now way. Why are you…

Akane: Noa! NOAAAA!

Noa: (Our voic­es… did­n’t reach her. Ahh… Akane-chan, Suzu­ka-chan… Help…)

Suzu­ka: NOOOOOOO!

Akane: Ahh, ah…Noa…

Nemu: Aha­ha­ha­ha­ha­ha­ha­ha­ha­ha­ha­ha­ha­ha­ha­ha­ha­ha­ha­ha­ha­ha­ha.

Good End­ing: Acts Sep­a­rate­ly from Akane and Suzu­ka

Nemu: All alone, Noa-chan? So brave.

Noa: Nemu-chan, did Rina­mi-chan real­ly lie to you?

Nemu: Why are you bring­ing that up now?

Noa: The Rina­mi-chan I know would nev­er hurt or decieve oth­ers.

Nemu: That’s how she gets you. Rina­mi-chan is real­ly good at lying.

Noa: …I don’t believe you. We should meet up with her togeth­er.

Nemu: …

Noa: We might learn a thing or two if we do. Includ­ing all of the things we haven’t under­stood until now.

Nemu: …No need. I don’t want to know. It’s her fault that my life became a mess… To be hon­est, I’d rather have her here right now than you so I can kill her. But I could­n’t find her, no mat­ter how hard I tried. It seems like she has­n’t been com­ing uni­ver­si­ty, either. Hee­hee. I won’t let her escape, thought. It’s her turn after I kill you, Noa-chan.

Noa: Nemu-chan… *Akane and Suzu­ka descend into base­ment* Akane-chan! Suzu­ka-chan!

Akane: Noa, we found it! At least, I think this is it. A strange light showed us the way. But… brace your­self.

Nemu: Brace myself? Why?

Akane: No, not your, Nemu. The one who needs to brace her­self… is Noa.

Noa: Huh?

Suzu­ka: To be hon­est, we don’t know what this means exact­ly, but… Noa can prob­a­bly fig­ure it out.

Akane: Check out this sec­tion of the news­pa­per *shows them the full news­pa­per that the small scrap came from*

Noa: Uni­ver­si­ty stu­dent com­mits sui­cide. Name… Aichi Rina­mi. Rina­mi… … Ah…

Nemu: Rina­mi-chan’s… dead? She’s already dead?

Noa: I see… I remem­ber every­thing now. The day I tried to intro­duce Rina­mi-chan to Nemu-chan… Rina­mi-chan saw Nemu-chan’s face and went home straight away. I could­n’t con­tact her for days after that. One day, I decid­ed to go to Rina­mi-chan’s apart­ment. The door was unlocked, so I went in…

Suzu­ka: Shhe’d com­mit­ed sui­cide, had­n’t she?

Noa: …Yeah.

Suzu­ka: So that was also the rea­son you took a month of uni­ver­si­ty around then, Noa?

Noa: Yes. She left a sui­cide note. It was addressed to me… It was filled with words of regrets and apolo­gies. She said she had made a ter­ri­ble mis­take and betrayed her best friend when she was in high school…

Nemu: …What?

Noa: Rina­mi-chan had a younger sis­ter, did­n’t she? She was pres­sured into betray­ing you. If she did­n’t, she was told her sis­ter would get bul­lied.

Nemu: Liar. She did have a sis­ter, but… But if that’s true, does that mean that she only betrayed me in that one moment?

Noa: She wrote in her sui­cide note that she had always regret­ted what she’d done to you, Nemu-chan. That’s why she could­n’t not help when she saw me all by myself. She said it was her way of aton­ing for what she did to you.

Nemu: But that’s… That’s…

Noa: There’s more. She knew I was talk­ing about you when I said you were iso­lat­ed and deeply hurt. She blamed it all on her­self. She knew that no mat­ter how many years passed or how much she tried to atone, your life would nev­er be the same. You were the same you were a few years back. Your wounds had­n’t healed. You were still suf­fer­ing. She did­n’t think it was fair that only she got to rebuild her life and start over. So she said she would take respon­si­bil­i­ty by tak­ing her own life.

Nemu: N‑no way…

Noa: Rina­mi-chan did so much for me, but I could­n’t do any­thing for her. If only I did­n’t talk to her about you… If only I had relied on my own strength and faced you on my own. It’s because I was weak that Rina­mi-chan…

Suzu­ka: Noa…

Noa: Her death was too much of a shock for me. That’s why all of my mem­o­ries of her dis­ap­peared. I want­ed to escape from real­i­ty. I did­n’t want to relieve those painful mem­o­ries…

Nemu: What the hell? I don’t get it. So what? So she went off and died on her own? That does­n’t make me feel any bet­ter. How come Rina­mi-chan gets to feel bet­ter? That’s not fair. Not fair. Not fair! Not fair! I can’t say any­thing to her now. What am I sup­posed to do with all of these unad­dressed feel­ings? Why? Why did it have to be this way? How could she just dis­ap­pear like that? Ah, but that’s why I need to kill you. Oth­er­wise, you’ll just go off and die on your own. That’ll also make me feel a lot bet­ter. So please die, Noa-chan.

Noa: …

Akane: Noa? What are you going to do with that cursed diary?

Noa: I get it now. This is not a cursed diary. This is a diary of sal­va­tion to help make my wish come true.

Akane: Huh?

Noa: Look­ing back, this diary has always respond­ed to what I want. Like how I wished for Akane-chan and Suzu­ka-chan to come. Every­thing. The con­tract was formed when Nemu-chan first killed me. That’s when my blood got on the diary. And the diary has been send­ing me back in time to help grant my wish.

Suzu­ka: Your wish?

Noa: Yeah. My wish was to save my friend… To save Nemu-chan.

Nemu: Wha–?!

Akane: So you’ve has been [sic] dyring over and over again to save Nemu…

Noa: Yeah. And since I can’t save Nemu-chan if I die, the diary would­n’t let me.

Nemu: Impos­si­ble. It does­n’t mat­ter how hard you wish, it’s impos­si­ble… Noa-chan, you can’t save me. I won’t trust any­one any­more.

Noa: Yeah, I know. I know it’s not easy to earn your trust. Which is why I’ll do this *rips up the diary* I knew it! I knew I could destroy it because it’s what I need to get my wish.

Suzu­ka: What do you mean?

Noa: I believe in Nemu-chan, so I don’t need the pow­er of a mag­ic diary.

Akane: Wait a minute! If you destroy the diary, you can’t come back the next time you get killed!

Suzu­ka: What?!

Noa: Nemu-chan, this is the end. If I die this time, it’s all over. But I believe in you. I believe that we’ll go back to nor­mal life togeth­er, hand in hand.

Nemu: …

Noa: You’ve point­ed your knife at me so many times. It always made me so scared that I’d start trem­bling… But I’m not scared any­more.

Nemu: … Noa-chan!

Noa: Nemu-chan!

Nemu: *cries* I’m sor­ry… I’m real­ly sor­ry. I’ve done some real­ly unfor­give­able things to you guys.

Noa: It’s fine. Every­thing’s fine now, Nemu-chan.

Akane: Well, you did do some pret­ty crazy stuff. Nor­mal­ly, no one would be able to for­give you for all of that…

Nemu: That… makes sense.

Akane: But I for­give you. It’s also on me for not real­iz­ing what was going on until it got to this point. Sor­ry, Nemu. I should’ve been more sen­si­tive to your feel­ings.

Nemu: Akane-chan…

Akane: Nemu, don’t keep your wor­ries inside. Y’know, if you had time to make traps, you could’ve just talked to us instead.

Nemu: Yeah. I’m sor­ry.

Suzu­ka: Nemu, I’ve got to apol­o­gize, too. You’ve start­ed doubt­ing Noa because of me…

Nemu: It’s not your fault. I jumped to con­clu­sions, too. I guess both of us might belive what we want to too strong­ly, huh?

Suzu­ka: Yeah, it’s a prob­lem. Hee­hee.

Akane: Any­way, let’s get out of this base­ment. I’m starv­ing.

Noa: Hee­hee. Me too, actu­al­ly.

Nemu: Then let’s head back to the liv­ing room. I’d also like to con­tin­ue the birth­day cel­e­bra­tions, if that’s okay with every­one.

Noa: Real­ly?! That’d be great!

Akane: No objec­tions from me!

Suzu­ka: Hehe­he. I guess we’re hav­ing a sleep­over tonight.

Nemu: Oh, before that though… I might need you to help put away all the traps. Oth­er­wise, this house is gonna get cov­ered in blood when my par­ents return.

Noa: Ah… Aha­ha… All right, let’s be care­ful and clean up. Nemu-chan. If it’s pos­si­ble, then I want you to try and for­give Rina­mi-chan. She real­ly regret­ted what she did. She tried to apol­o­gize many times. But she was afraid that just see­ing her again would be enough to hurt you.

Nemu: …Okay. Noa-chan, Akane-chan, Suzu­ka-chan, too. You guys are will­ing to for­give me despite the ter­ri­ble things I’ve done. So I’ll for­give Rina­mi-chan, too.

Noa: Thank you, Nemu-chan.

Nemu: Hey, Noa-chan… I want to talk to Rina­mi-chan. I want to meet her one last time… *Teardrop falls on the remains of the diary*

Epi­logue (after cred­it roll)

Noa: Rina­mi-chan, look. This is the girl I’ve been talk­ing to you about.

Rina­mi: …!

Noa: Wh-where are you going, Rina­mi-cha–

Nemu: Rina­mi-chan!!

Rina­mi: …

Nemu: I know, I know. You were suf­fer­ing too, weren’t you, Rina­mi-chan? I know every­thing now.