Horrible! Actually playing this kind of game!

Chapter 114 18. Reversal of life

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

Men and women give each other gifts on this day to express love or friendship. Valentine's Day dinner dates often represent the key to a couple's relationship.

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

There is a very strict and cumbersome process for Valentine's Day in Neon. First of all, on February 14th, girls have to give chocolates to the boys they like.

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

To put it simply, [Honmei Chocolate] is used to express love to boys, while Giri Chocolate is a cover-up method used to give away Honmei Chocolate, which is the so-called expression of [Gratitude].

If it is natal chocolate, a card will be included with the gift to express your feelings clearly, and of course, you will also hope to get a response from the other party.

Or make an appointment to meet behind the teaching building after school, or meet on the rooftop.

Giri chocolate is a smoke bomb.

If a boy accepts a girl's feelings, he will give her chocolate in return on March 14th.

So March 14th is also called White Day.

But for singles, this day is the day they least want to experience in the year.

"By the way, have you received the honming chocolate?" Hayamikawa asked.

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

ah……

The store manager was a little moved.

What kind of collective are these?

"I have a piece of Giri chocolate. It was given to me by Ono from the marketing department." Kinoshita said, taking out a box of chocolates from his bag.

"Damn it, men like Kinoshita who have been in love before are really different. You are the only one among us who has giri chocolate, right?" Hayamikawa said dissatisfied.

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

Giri Chocolate can actually gain a firm foothold among the three and become the leader. What kind of story is this?

Looking outside the store, couples walking by in twos and threes are full of laughter and laughter. From time to time, you can see girls holding flowers in their hands with happy smiles on their faces.

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

"Even if it's not mentioned, couples can just live their own lives. Why do they have to create a romantic atmosphere in the streets and alleys?" Hayamikawa said sadly, "It's like there's always someone holding a big ticket next to you. The loudspeaker reminds you that you are a single man, which is really annoying."

"Yes, I feel the same way." Furukawa Haoze nodded seriously.

Only Kinoshita remained unmoved.

You guys, who have been single since birth, don't understand how good it is to have a girlfriend.

but……

Kinoshita still doesn't quite understand how he lost his girlfriend and how he became a single man like Hayamikawa and Furukawa.

"Forget it, forget it, it's useless to think so much." Hirokawa Furukawa is very understanding. Anyway, he has been going through this for the past 30 years without a girlfriend. It probably doesn't matter if he has a girlfriend or something.

"Where can girls find fun games?"

Furukawa said calmly.

The other two people looked at each other, with deep worry in their eyes.

"Furukawa, you know, we are like this because we are together with you." Kinoshita said.

"Huh? So it was my fault that I lent you the game cartridge?"

"Of course it's your fault!" Kinoshita said shamelessly, "It's just because after playing P Club's games that people become desperate and feel that such a good girl cannot exist in reality."

"That's right." Hayamikawa agreed.

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

"Anyway, it's up to you whether you want to buy it or not." Furukawa smiled, then picked up a box of [Reverse Degree Man] from the shelf.

"P Club's latest galgame, and it is said that he will never shoot."

"Huh? Real or fake?"

Kinoshita quickly took one too.

"It doesn't matter what Valentine's Day is. Anyway, when we play galgame, it's equivalent to falling in love." Hayamikawa concluded.

ah……

These silly kids.

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

Can you still marry a girl in the game?

There are some things that games cannot replace.

…

Hirose Furukawa is a staunch celibate. Valentine's Day, birth chocolate, and marriage don't exist for him.

Only games are eternal.

After buying "The Man with Reverse Degrees", Furukawa Hirose was traveling all the way and passed by a cake shop. The boy was putting his cake-stained fingers into the girl's mouth.

I also passed a guy in a doll costume selling balloons, and around it, a couple were taking photos.

Then I went to the corner of the street, close to home, and a girl was throwing flowers into a burning device.

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

The girl walked away without looking back, seemingly not noticing the unburned card that flew by.

When Furukawa Haoze saw this, he picked it up and took a look.

In between it reads:

【Honey:

The world keeps blooming, flowers...

I want to put it in your heart...

One flower.

Dear Ying Li】

The writing in some parts has been burned away, and the content can only be vaguely discerned.

Tsk tsk.

There is another sad guy in this world.

…

Furukawa Hao Ze further strengthened his determination not to find a girlfriend.

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

Those who can play games would be the best.

No matter how bad it is, it can't interfere with playing games.

Returning to the apartment where he lived, Furukawa Haoze immediately closed the door and drew the curtains.

It's not that he's doing anything shameful, it's mainly that the couples outside are very noisy.

The soundproofing quality of the apartment he lives in is not very good, and sometimes at one or two o'clock in the morning, the miserable screams of the girls next door can be heard.

This scream will probably last 5 to 10 minutes.

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

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

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

…

"I'm sorry, the guy next door." Furukawa Haoze muttered silently in his heart.

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

Whether it will affect you specifically depends on how pokeni's games are.

…

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

Press the switch and the game officially starts.

Furukawa Hirose's movements are smooth and smooth, without any delay.

Among the TV sets——

The azure background is cut in half, with the left side being black and white.

And on the right is the colored part.

The crowd is walking to the right.

The hero and heroine are moving to the left.

Weird picture.

The crowd is also very distinctive. From left to right, there are children, young people and middle-aged people... all the way to the gray-haired old people.

The music is slow and lyrical as always, with a touch of sadness.

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

This seems to be the only soundtrack for pokeni.

But to be honest, Furukawa quite likes his soundtrack style.

However, when he heard the soundtrack, Furukawa Hirose felt an ominous premonition in his heart.

Although the president of pokeni said he didn't know how to cut a knife, he always felt that something was not right.

Forget it, keep playing, you will know after you clear the level.

A dignified president would never lie like this to the media.

Furukawa Haoze still believed in him.

…

As if a stone was thrown into the lake, the water rippled in the scene and fluctuated.

Then a line of ink text emerged from the center of the water splash and turned into——

【Reverse person】

Below is a line of small characters that says - [1992/Produced by Pokeni Co., Ltd.]

After two seconds, the button menu appeared on the screen.

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

…

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

The boy wore a black suit and white shirt, looking like a standard office worker, while the girls were similarly dressed.

Both of them have black hair and good-looking faces.

Below is a text description -

[Please choose the role you play]

[The story lines unfolded by different characters are also different]

Huh?

Is it actually a dual-protagonist mode?

Furukawa Haoze's face was filled with confusion.

Before this, he had never played such a galgame.

It's quite common in arcade games, but that's because different characters have different abilities. What's the point of character selection in galgame?

But he had to admire pokeni's imagination and creativity.

No matter what kind of games this company can make, Furukawa Hirosawa will not be surprised now.

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

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

…

Choose a character and enter the game.

A drop of rain falls from the sky.

It fell to the ground and fainted into a small black dot.

Then came the second drop.

Not long after, it started raining heavily.

The male protagonist Yamashita glanced at the sky, quickly raised his 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 very beginning of the casting screen 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, there is something magical in this world."

The male protagonist asked, "What?"

The girl stretched her neck to look at the gray sky outside, stretched out her right hand, and gently spread it flat.

A raindrop hit her palm, followed by another.

Raindrops poured into her palms.

The heroine smiled sweetly at the hero and said, "Mermaid Tears."

“According to legend, the tears of a mermaid will grant a person’s wish, but the price is——

It will bring a poignant love to this person. "

"Huh? It's really a good story."

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

…

This scene is completely described through pictures and words, and with the magnetic voices of the male and female protagonists, it is easy for Furukawa to be involved in it.

I don't know if it's because of the 16-bit computer or because pokeni has really improved. When he saw this paragraph, Furukawa Hirosawa just felt that it was unusually beautiful.

Although the whole picture does not use a lot of colors, it is so beautiful that you are immersed in it.

In the background, the raindrops pulled down, giving the entire city a romantic and foggy color.

The two chatted for a while, the rain stopped, and then they parted ways.

The male protagonist thought to himself: [If there are really tears of mermaids, what kind of wish will I make? 】

…

After this, players can move freely.

The layout of the entire game is a city called [Yonezawa City]. Players can control the direction keys to move the hero to any place in the city, and obtain information and interact with people there.

But each time you enter the interactive session, it takes an hour.

When time runs out, the day will pass.

But--

After the first day passed, Furukawa Hirosawa discovered what the real theme of the game was.

【Reverse person】

It tells a story about the reverse flow of time.

After today passes, it is not tomorrow or repeating today's content, but time is reversed and returned to yesterday morning.

Every time it jumps, a big alarm clock image will appear on the screen, but the hands of this clock are rotating counterclockwise.

At the same time, it also indicates the law [reverse degree]

So the date jumped from February 14, 1992 to February 13, 1992. 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 went to work." The actor said.

"Okay, have a good trip." A very beautiful girl with gentle eyes 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 go to her according to the schedule, you can go on a date with Yoshida Yu, go shopping and play in the swimming pool together.

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

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

But Furukawa Hirose felt that he should go to other places to take a look.

It doesn't matter. During working hours, the male protagonist returned home and saw an astonishing scene——

His girlfriend Yu Yoshida is actually having sex with a boy.

The two of them were even very surprised by the sudden arrival of the male protagonist, with confused expressions on their faces, and they couldn't even make preparations.

Yoshida Yu looked at Yamashita (the male protagonist) with surprised eyes, "Why are you back?"

ah……

It’s so tragic, this male protagonist.

As expected, the male protagonists of P Agency are more miserable than the last. The male protagonist of the previous "Mermaid Heart" lost both his parents, but he still had a wonderful girlfriend like Suzune.

Now in "The Inverse Man", the male protagonist not only lost his parents, but was also betrayed by his girlfriend.

Seeing this, even a single man like Furukawa Hirose can't help but sympathize.

But at the same time, there was another strange emotion in his heart.

Makes him want to hit someone.

After thinking for two seconds, Furukawa Haoze finally understood.

This is probably what it feels like to be cuckolded, right?

Now that I think about it, that guy Kinoshita made the right choice to break up with his girlfriend.

…

At this time, Furukawa Haoze had two options. The first was to leave silently.

Isn't this too tragic?

Not only was someone wearing a hat on him, but he also had to swallow his anger?

What is intolerable is unbearable.

The second option is: beat them up.

Furukawa decisively chose the second option.

As a result, at the end of the day, the male protagonist lost his temper and sat silently in the park feeling sad.

…

The time jumped from 11:59 to 12:00.

It was already yesterday, February 11th.

Ding dong.

The screen went dark, and when it lit up again, the male protagonist had already returned to his bed.

And lying next to her was her girlfriend Yu Yoshida.

"Why are you up?" Xiaoyou rubbed his sleepy eyes.

During this time period, in fact, the incident of breaking up the adultery that happened before no longer exists. Xiaoyou is still the pitiful and gentle girlfriend of the male protagonist.

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

"Why?" Yoshida Yu asked with his big eyes filled with tears, "Sheng-kun, you have to give me a reason to break up, right?"

"What else could be the reason? Who told you to have other men outside?" Furukawa Haoze was so angry that his mouth curled up.

…

During this game, Furukawa Haoze gradually realized happiness.

What would you do if time could flow backwards?

This is probably what this game conveys to players.

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

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

Time jumps.

January 10, 1986.

The game initially jumped based on the number of days, but there seemed to be no plot in the middle. It just jumped based on the plot, and it suddenly spanned five years.

Otherwise, it would be too boring to live day by day.

At the beginning of the day, the hero was standing in a cemetery.

He was attending a funeral.

The name "Yamashita Masaharu" is engraved on the tombstone.

Yamashita Masaharu, the father of the male protagonist, passed away in a car accident yesterday afternoon.

Before this, the relationship between father and son was not harmonious. Due to the actor's work, his relationship with his father broke down and they even had a big quarrel.

The male protagonist is extremely regretful.

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

…

Seeing this scene, Furukawa Haoze's eyes were slightly wet.

He thought of his father, who also died in a car accident when he was young.

At this moment, Furukawa Haoze's heart skipped a beat.

Judging from the progress of this game, in other words, I can prevent the car accident from happening, right?

…

Wow, "Reverse Degree" is also great, right?

…

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The task of 10,000 words is completed.

See you tomorrow