Valentine's Day is a festival about love, romance, flowers, chocolates, and greeting cards.

Men and women exchange gifts on this day as a sign of love or friendship. Valentine's Day dinner dates often represent the key to the development of a couple's relationship.

Originally a festival in the West, it gradually spread to the East, and neon was one of the first East Asian countries to accept and popularize Valentine's Day.

Valentine's Day has a very rigorous and cumbersome process in Neon, starting with February 14th, when girls give out chocolates to their favorite boys.

Of course, there are two types of chocolate, one is called Honmei Chocolate and the other is called Righteous Chocolate.

To put it simply, [Honmei Chocolate] is to express love to boys, and Yili Chocolate is a trick used to give away Natmei Chocolate, which is the so-called expression of [gratitude]

If it's a natal chocolate, a card will be included in the delivery to explain your intentions, and of course you expect to get a response from the other party.

Or meet at the back of the school building after school, or meet on the rooftop.

Chocolate is a smoke bomb.

If the boy accepts the girl's offer, he will give him chocolate in return on March 14th.

That's why March 14 is also known as White Day.

But for single dogs, this day is the last day of the year to experience.

"By the way, did you get any natal chocolates?" Hayamigawa asked.

Several people looked at each other and lowered their heads in frustration.

Yes......

The manager was a little impressed.

What kind of collection are these?

"I have a piece of Yili chocolate, which was given to me by Ono from the marketing department." Kinoshita said, pulling out a box of chocolates from his leather bag.

"Damn, a man like Kinoshita who has been in love is really different, and you're the only one among us who has righteous chocolate, right?" Hayamigawa said dissatisfiedly.

This time, the store manager felt that the remaining two people were even more pathetic.

What kind of story is it that Yili Chocolate can actually gain a firm foothold among the three and become the best?

Look outside the store, couples walk by, full of laughter, and from time to time you can see a happy smile on the face of a girl holding flowers.

On this day, you can feel the strong romantic atmosphere wherever you go.

"Even if it's not mentioned, couples can live their own lives, so why do they have to create a romantic atmosphere in the streets?" Hayamigawa said uncomfortably, "It's as if there's always someone next to you with a loudspeaker to remind you that you're a single man, it's really annoying."

"yes, I feel the same way." Furukawa nodded earnestly.

Only Kinoshita was unmoved.

You two mothers who are single until now, and you don't understand how nice it is to have a girlfriend.

But......

Kinoshita still hasn't quite figured out how he lost his girlfriend and how he became a single man like Hayamigawa and Furukawa.

"Forget it, it's useless to think so much." Furukawa Hiroze is very accessible, anyway, he has been like this for 30 years without a girlfriend, so it probably doesn't matter if he has a girlfriend or something.

"Where are the games for girls?"

Furukawa said calmly.

The other two men glanced at each other, their eyes showing deep concern.

"Furukawa, you know, we all became like this because we were with you." Kinoshita said.

"Huh? So I lent you the cartridge or was it my fault? ”

"Of course it's your fault!" Kinoshita said shamelessly, "It's because after playing the game of P Society, people are desperate, thinking that there can't be such a good girl in reality." ”

"That's it." Hayamigawa also agreed.

The store manager couldn't help but laugh when he looked at the quarrel between these elementary school students.

"Anyway, you can do it yourself, do you want to buy it or not." Furukawa smiled, and then picked up a box of [People of Reverse Degree] from the shelf.

"P Society's latest galgame, and it is said that it is resolute not to send a knife."

"Huh? Really? ”

Kinoshita hurriedly took a copy as well.

"Valentine's Day or something, it doesn't matter, anyway, when we play galgame, it's equivalent to falling in love." Hayamigawa concluded.

Yes......

These silly kids.

The store manager couldn't help but feel more sympathetic.

Can you still marry the girls in the game?

There are some things that can't be replaced by games.

……

Hiroshi Furukawa is a staunch celibate, what Valentine's Day, what natal chocolate, what marriage, for him does not exist.

Only the game is eternal.

After purchasing "The Man of Contrarianism", Furukawa Hirozawa traveled all the way, passing by a cake shop on the way, and the boy was putting his finger in the cake inside the girl's mouth.

I also passed by a guy in a doll costume who sold balloons, and around it, a couple was taking pictures.

Then on the corner of the street, near the house, a girl was throwing flowers into the burning stab.

A gust of wind blew, and the unburned paper flew past him, rolled around the ground, and then stopped.

The girl walked away without looking back, not seeming to notice the flying card that had not yet burned out.

Furukawa Hirosawa saw this, picked it up and took a look.

In between, it reads:

【Dear,

The world is constantly blooming, flowers are ......

I want to put it in your heart......

One.

Dear Carp】

Some parts of it have been burned out and are only faintly legible.

Gee.

There's one more sad guy in this world.

……

Hiroshi Furukawa strengthened his determination not to find a girlfriend.

Let's see when you can meet a girl who actively pursues you.

It's best if you can play games.

No matter how bad it is, you can't interfere with playing the game.

Back in his apartment, Furukawa immediately closed the door and closed the curtains.

It's not that there is anything unsightly, but the main thing is that the couples outside are very noisy.

The sound insulation of the apartment where he lives is not very good, and sometimes at one or two o'clock in the morning, you can still hear the miserable screams of the girl next door.

This screaming lasted for about 5 to 10 minutes.

Fortunately, the sound didn't last very long, so I could barely sleep.

Of course, sometimes Furukawa himself will deliberately amplify the sound in the galgame game to stimulate the boy next to him.

It didn't take long for Furukawa to hear the sound of the girls arguing next to him.

……

"I'm sorry, guy next door." Hirosawa Furukawa said silently in his heart.

Although today is Valentine's Day, today is also my galgame night.

Whether it will affect you or not depends on how Pokeni's game goes.

……

Turn on the TV, connect the game console, and insert the cartridge.

Press the switch and the game will be officially launched.

Hiroshi Furukawa's movements were smooth and did not drag on at all.

In the TV -

The azure blue background is cut in half, and the left is black and white.

And on the right is the colored part.

The crowd was walking to the right.

And the hero and heroine are to the left.

Wacky graphics.

The crowd is also very distinctive, from left to right, children, young people, and middle-aged people...... All the way to the gray-haired old man.

As always, slow and lyrical, with a touch of sad music.

Needless to say, this must be the soundtrack of the guy called Tianmen again.

Pokeni seems to have only this one soundtrack.

But seriously, Furukawa quite likes his soundtrack style.

However, when he heard the soundtrack, Furukawa Hirosawa had a sense of foreboding in his heart.

Although the president of Pokeni said that he couldn't use a knife, he always felt that something was wrong.

Forget it, keep playing, and you'll find out when you clear the level.

A president would never lie to the media.

Furukawa still believed him.

……

It was as if a pebble was thrown into the lake, and the picture rippled and fluctuated.

Immediately after that, an inky line of text emerged from the center of the splash, becoming-

【People with Reverse Degree】

Below is a line of small print, which reads - [1992/Pokeni Co., Ltd. production]

After two seconds, a button menu appears.

Hirosawa Furukawa picked up the controller and pressed [New Game]

……

Entering the casting screen, two different images appeared on the screen, a man and a woman.

The boy wears a black suit and a white shirt and is a standard office worker, while the girl is dressed similarly.

Both have black hair and good-looking faces.

The following is accompanied by a text description -

【Please select your role】

[The storyline unfolded by different characters is also different]

Hey?

Is it actually a dual-protagonist mode?

Furukawa Hirosawa had a puzzled look on his face.

He had never played a galgame like this before.

It's quite common in arcade games, but those are because different characters have different abilities, what kind of character selection in galgame is to make trouble?

However, he had to admire Pokeni's imagination and creativity.

Whatever kind of games this company can make, Hiroshi Furukawa won't be surprised now.

After thinking about it for a long time, Furukawa Oza still chose the male protagonist according to his gender.

The main thing is that he really can't imagine how he will experience galgame after he becomes a girl.

……

Select your character to enter the game.

A drop of rain fell from the sky.

It fell to the ground and opened a small black dot.

This is followed by the second drop.

After a while, it began to rain heavily in the sky.

The male protagonist Yamashita glanced at the sky, quickly lifted the briefcase above his head, and then ran quickly.

It didn't take long for him to find a corner where he could take shelter from the rain.

At the same time, there was another girl with a good figure hiding under the eaves with him.

It can be seen from the casting interface at the very beginning that this girl is the heroine.

The two men looked at each other and smiled.

Then they chatted with each other.

The girl said, "You know what, in this world, there is something magical. ”

The male protagonist asked, "What?" ”

The girl craned her neck to look at the gray sky outside, stretched out one of her right hands, and gently flattened it.

A drop of rain hit her palm, followed by another.

The rain poured down into her palms.

The female protagonist smiled sweetly at the male protagonist, "Mermaid tears." ”

"Legend has it that the tears of a mermaid will grant a wish to a person, but at the cost of-

will bring a poignant love to this person. ”

"Huh? It's a really good story. ”

The male protagonist laughed, but he didn't believe it in his heart.

……

This scene is completely described through pictures and words, and with the magnetic voices of the hero and heroine, it is easy for Furukawa to substitute for it.

I don't know if it's because of the 16-bit machine, or if Pokeni has really improved, when I saw this paragraph, Furukawa Ozer only felt unusually beautiful.

Although the whole picture does not use a lot of color, it is so beautiful that it is immersive.

In the backdrop, the rain line pulls, bringing the whole city a layer of romantic foggy colors.

The two talked for a while, the rain stopped, and then they separated.

The actor thought to himself: [If there were really mermaid tears, what kind of wish would I make? 】

……

After that, the player is free to move around.

The layout of the game is a city called Yonezawa City, and players can control the arrow keys to move the male protagonist to any part of the city, where they can get information and interact with people.

But every time you enter an interactive session, it consumes an hour of your time.

When time runs out, the day will pass.

But—

When the first day passed, Hiroshi Furukawa discovered what the real theme of the game was.

【People with Reverse Degree】

It tells a story about going back in time.

After today's passing, it is not tomorrow, nor is it a repetition of today's content, but a reversal of time, back to yesterday's morning.

Each time you jump, a large alarm clock will appear in the screen, but the hands of this clock are rotating backwards and counterclockwise.

At the same time, it also indicates that the law [Reverse Degree]

So the date jumped from February 14, 1992 to February 13, 1992, and if it continues like this, it will continue to jump to February 12......

That's how the game is played.

In the early morning, the sun shines inside the house.

"I'm going to work." The actor said.

"Okay, go all the way." A girl with gentle eyes and an extremely beautiful look wearing an apron stood in front of the entrance and smiled and waved to the male protagonist.

In the setting, the male protagonist is not a bachelor, but has a beautiful girlfriend named Yu Yoshida.

If you follow the schedule, you can also go on a date with Yu Yoshida, go shopping together and play in the pool.

So Furukawa left the apartment, thinking about where to go next.

According to the established trajectory, the male protagonist should go to work in the company, and then where to interact with the company's colleagues and accept sales tasks.

But Furukawa felt that he should go somewhere else.

It doesn't matter if you look at it, during the working hours, the male protagonist returned home and saw an amazing scene-

His girlfriend Yoshida Yu is actually talking to a boy.

Even the two of them were very surprised by the sudden arrival of the male protagonist, with a confused expression, and they didn't even do a good job of preparation.

Yu Yoshida looked at Yamashita (the male lead) with surprised eyes, "Why did you come back?" ”

Yes......

It's a tragic explosion, this male protagonist.

Sure enough, the male protagonist of P Club is worse than the other, and the male protagonist of the last "Mermaid Heart" both died, but he still has such a beautiful girlfriend as Suzune.

At this time, in "The Man of Reverse Degree", the male protagonist not only died of his parents, but was also betrayed by his girlfriend.

Seeing this, even a single man like Hirosawa Furukawa couldn't help but sympathize.

But at the same time, there is another strange emotion in my heart.

Makes him want to hit someone.

After thinking for two seconds, Hirosawa Furukawa finally understood.

That's probably what it's like to be cuckolded, right?

Now that I think about it, Kinoshita's choice to break up with his girlfriend is quite right.

……

At this time, Furukawa Hirozer had two options, the first was to choose to leave silently.

That's too tragic, isn't it?

Not only was a hat being worn, but did you have to swallow your anger?

Is it tolerable or intolerable?

The second option is: beat them up.

Furukawa decisively chose the second option.

As a result, at the end of this day, the actor hung up his colors and sat silently in the park to feel sad.

……

The clock ticked, from 11:59 to 12.

It was yesterday on February 11th.

Ding dong.

The picture went black, and when it lit up again, the actor had already returned to his bed.

And lying next to him is his girlfriend Yu Yoshida.

"Why are you up?" Xiao You rubbed her sleepy eyes.

During this time period, in fact, the previous incident that broke the adultery no longer exists, and Xiaoyou is still the heroine's pitiful and extremely gentle girlfriend.

Furukawa Haoze sneered twice, interacted with his girlfriend, and decisively chose [break up]

"Why?" Yoshida Yu stared at a pair of big eyes and asked with teary eyes, "Sheng-kun, you have to give me a reason to break up, right?" ”

"What else could it be, who let you have other men outside?" Furukawa Hirosawa was so angry that his mouth turned up.

……

In the course of this game, Furukawa Ozer gradually experienced happiness.

If time could go against the clock, what would you do?

Presumably what this game conveys to players.

For example, you can go directly to the bank and withdraw all your savings, and then spend them all, and the money will come back the next morning.

You can also choose to observe other people's lives and discover some little secrets.

Time is beating.

January 10, 1986.

At the beginning, the game jumped according to the number of days, but it seemed that there was no plot in the middle, so it jumped according to the plot, and it spanned 5 years at once.

Otherwise, it would be boring if it kept going by day by day.

At the beginning of the day, the male protagonist is standing in a cemetery.

He was attending the funeral of a man.

The tombstone is inscribed with the name "Masaharu Yamashita".

Masaharu Yamashita is the father of the male protagonist who died in a car accident yesterday afternoon.

Before that, the father-son relationship between the two was not harmonious, because of the actor's work, which led to the breakdown of his relationship with his father, and he had a big quarrel.

The actor is unusually regretful.

Standing in front of the cemetery, watching all this, tears of sadness flowed from the corners of my eyes.

……

Seeing this scene, the corners of Furukawa Hirozawa's eyes were slightly wet.

He remembered his father, who also died in a car accident when he was a child.

At this moment, Furukawa Haoze's heart jumped suddenly.

By the course of this game, that is, can I prevent a car accident from happening?

……

Wow, "The Man of Contrarianism" is also fantastic, right?

……

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10,000 words task completed.

See you tomorrow

(End of chapter)