aoi route: all roads lead to doom

[sengokus]

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[gamerbrain]

[ at least she's not upset about the conversation because she looks! really enthralled by what he's doing here?? cooking! wild! ]

It's okay. Aoi can't be everyone's favorite character.

[sengokus]

[SHE'S LEARNING COOKING..... WELL,]

... do you just think of yourself like a character...? Not like a person?

[gamerbrain]

[ no i must clarify that she is not learning a single thing. absolutely not. ]

Aoi is a character.

[sengokus]

[aoI WHY]

....

[he's seeing what takeru was saying now but he's just

gonna]

You don't... have to be....?

[gamerbrain]

[ in a terrible twist of irony, aoi has the thought: wow this guy isn't very smart :( poor him. ]

Boop boop...

[sengokus]

[oh my god painful]

Boop.... boop?

Ah... Shiraishi-san would be way better at handling this...

[gamerbrain]

[ she is not particularly aware that she said boop at all. ]

Aoi can't change that Aoi is a character in a visual novel.

[sengokus]

[ . . . ]

You can, though.... I mean -

How is this place different from where you were before?

[gamerbrain]

The story was supposed to be a high school romance.

[ and it clearly is... not. anymore. ]

[sengokus]

[ . . . ]

Okay, and now it's about...?

[he'll toss his cut up veggies into the pot for this instant ramen concoction hell yea]

[gamerbrain]

This.

[sengokus]

Sure, but how would you describe 'this'?

[gamerbrain]

Dunno. Lots of characters with varied designs, closed setting, open-ended plot... Feels like bonus content more than a real narrative.

[sengokus]

[ . . . . yea ok,]

But the - the open-ended part! Where you get to make your own choices and not get put on the rails! That's like life, right?

[gamerbrain]

Aoi wouldn't know.

[ she's never been alive before? ]

[sengokus]

Well, you can know now. 'cause you're stuck here with the rest of us - whatever that means.

[gamerbrain]

... This will teach Aoi what 'real life' is like?

[sengokus]

Not perfectly, no. It's a weird situation - there's a lot of people who are pretty crazy here.

[not even counting aoi herself]

But at least you can get an idea that it's not like - scripted?

[gamerbrain]

[ ....... hm. bad? ]

But I don't want to.

[sengokus]

[um.]

... why not?

[gamerbrain]

Aoi doesn't need to know what real life is like. Aoi is what Aoi is.

[sengokus]

[well. the ramen's done at least so he's going to put that in two bowls - it's shrimp instant ramen but with a ton of additions like egg, scallion, ginger, onion, bell pepper, etc.

he slides it over to her]

... are you happy like this, Aoi-san?

[gamerbrain]

[ she doesn't eat any yet, still focused on answering the question. ]

Yep.

[sengokus]

[ . . . ]

Would you know if you weren't?

[gamerbrain]

[ wow it's time to eat suddenly ]